Sere* Tear*.
Beven rwi since w* mad* up oar qusmi I
I rmmlw ihr little low room.
And the gwdrn out of the window,
And the second rose* tn bloom.
Ton hod suftevd, it may tin been bravely,
Bat never pone passed without twee;
And if any atonement wore needed.
It wm there, (n the look of roar face.
The dark eyea too wet to be lifted,
The ewev t hps which quivered with pain,
Hotted ell out: foryitvwcw t Oh, darting,
What need, whan I here you again f
Beven year*! and life rieae against na.
And drift* na a till farther apart,
And the old timid anguish of silence
Bete e eeel on the Itpe and the heart.
• Bat I think of the teere that were hidden
That day in the htUe low room,
And the garden out of the window,
And the eecood roses in hloora.
Fair Helen.
Deep-set and darkly glowing eyea
Look out from Helen'* youthful face,
A chal engw to the ertnd Atea :
HhV-orphamd by the tVxttiie*.
That heart of Are, that girt of grace.
She aland* on warning'* ahining brink,
And wist* not what tho day may bring .
1 hireling Air li e, her pulse*drink
The promise of the hi.nie which Unk
The pa*t onto her flowering spring.
She fesr* not alt the itumi that throng.
Hhe laughs when tightuui; cute the cloud ;
Strong in heraolf, in nature alrong.
She fccts her energiee belong
To storms, aa they a* wildly proud.
lewa of the ma.deu than of Are;
lee* of the woman than of wind :
Hew lb >ughl in brilliant jet* elpirv,
Or mrer nan and ekvud aspire,
" n nML and leave the world behind.
la nothing nark and trail.
She comes spoil as an when June
Sends o'£ w> some health-giving gale.
Freshening the heart, while all the rale
Forgets the languor of its moon.
A HIGH CALIJ Mi.
It waa done away with low? aco. Gov
cmoMnit took it up. raid it was daugcrous,
■ad put a top to it. Perhaps it as dau
gervut, and perhaps govottin.rut was right
♦to put a atop to it. Bat I didn't like it
then, tor it was my bread, and moat t>\e
pouuds a work to we; and wbm it teas
topped, ni> profession was rtntwd.
* I don't look like it now,tor you *ee I've
made flesh, and am clow on titty;
teen or twenty yeais ago, when 1 was in
my tk&hiuc*- f could bare shown you such
a figure and such muscles as >ou wouldn't
see erety day. Mc and my brother were
a regular pair, just the same height, and
woodcrfully alike. It was a bit oi gam
mon ; but it took wonderfully iu the bills:
and our manager raid it would lie utter
madness to announce ourselves as Benja
min and Thocua> Ilutclunes; so a* used
ta bo in bhie letters all over London, " Les
f teres Pnmncaux ;" and the people came
to see as from all parts.
We acre enp.ed, you see, at the Royal
Conduit Gardens, and did the tnpeze
Work. Now, I dare say you'll find plenty
of people who will sy it was known V'ug
hef re; but don't you belie re Vm. I'm
tbe man who invented the trapeze—at least,
I'm the bey; that is, I invented it wbm
1 wa> a bov. on the swing in our bark gar
den, the one we made und< r the old apple
tape, out HiefbrrV clothes-lice, and
rubbed till it broke all to bits, and let Tom
flow? that heavy that be put out his shoul
der
Too ace it was from experimenting on
that serine, hanging bv my Vgs, by one
hand, bv two bands, and upsidedown that
1 sowcu rts gf all those wonderful
trapeze exploits that haespm-ja* sav in
the bilk " thrilled expectant audiences in
every nerve and fibre of tbeir lorms."
Tom turned very sulky after he put bis
♦boulder out, and he would't try any
more trick*, till he grew jealous of "seeing
me get handy at them, (he was a queei
fellow, was Torn, and never could bear tor
me to be ahead of him.) aud then be set
to when I was'nt by, and worked ,au lard
that ne go: to shorten the rope, and to
bng by one toot, quite clever. I hau'nt
known anything a'siut it, he'd been so sly ;
so tnat t was quite took aback one day
when, afterfiguiine about uiy bovish fash
icn upon the tope, be aiiKkered at me a
bit, and then, to my great astonishment:
"Get down." he aays; and" be set* to, does
atl I have done before, and a great deai
more too, till be ends by banging by one'
ley. when, crash! tbe rope snapped* and
down came poor Tom on his Lead ami
ah"a]de<- with a roo-t terrible bung.
Up got Tom, aud tiew at mc like a tiger,
because I was laughing—and I put it to
you, cqald 1 help it I—and then we bail a
• WgUlar ftmd up fight, which was not end
ed uutrl our Mvry charged do-am ou us
• with a clothes-p i op. and caught Torn by
tbe throat with Lbs big preng, so as she
held him against the wail till be promised !
He wouldn't fight any mote. Tom didn't
, keep bis promise, tor h" was a terrible boy .
fa* fighting, and many'a the up and rtow n '
aet to we have had together. Wee betide
■ any boy, though, who touched me! It
didn't matter how big he was, Tom al
ways took my part, and thrashed him.
From doing things on the rope, we took
to tumbling a little on tbe ground, tryinz
ou mires in knota, walking on our lytaiis .
and t shall never forget tbe day that 1 Cut
threw a aumeisault without touching the
gruad with my hands. That day was.
a masked one for roe; first because nf tbij
pride I felt a I nn in tbe field and vpunit
over; second, because Tom was so jealous
that he took a run and a jump, and camc
dewn on bis back, tnak ng it ao stiff an<ti
bad that he couldn't move hardiv tor a
week.
At last, baring done all this for our
own amusement s.- boyz. w btd to give it!
up, lor times get very bad at borne. Poor
fhtber who hat! Ally been a journeyman
painter, fall ill and died; and mother
moved to London. Alter a deal of trying,
we buys got a job tore and a job there at
• rough painting, tor, from helping lather at
botn , we were both pretty bandy with tbe
brush.
Timet, however, were very hard with
us, when one day we heard of a chance.
Tbe Rcyal Conduit Garden* were being
done up in a hurry, the lessee baring ta
ken tf-em, as it were at tbe eleventh hour:
and being at a high rent, of course he
wanted to get them open as soon as possi
ble. Redecorat IOU was the order o tbe
day, and every man who could handle a
brush was taken on, painters being scarce
in tbe spring.
Well, we went, and were soon busy at
work, painting arbors, and arches, and
tocohing up orchestra and artificial sky till
the garden* were Ojiened, when the mana
ger who was a very civil fellow, gave Tom
and your tumble servant a ticket for the
opening day. ,
1 bat was a treat for as, for we were in
good spirit*, having a few shillings in our
pocket*. Wo saw the theatricals, heard
the music, looked at tbi, looked at that,
and were thoroughly enjoying ourselves,
until we joined the circle about to witness
the pcrfermanccs of the Tantipulpiti fam
ily J ami I berg we stood for some time see
it J them walk on their hands, tie them
selves .1: knots, and do a few clumsy somer
saults. Th?n Tom looked at me, and I
looked at him, sod went away laughing to
gether at what wc bad seen.
Why," raid Tom at last stopping hort.
and giving himself a tremendous slap on
the thigh *• if ! couldn't do that fly-over
better than any one there I'd rat my
hoots.
" It was poor, wasn't it?" I said,
••Poor r* echoed Tom; "it waa shameful."
We walked lio/iie that night in silence;
but no a--oner were we in our room than
Torn w'npt affetflr coat mod wgistopat, and
kicksaway his boot**ana tlreh gaferthrough
halt a dozen of our old tricks —rather stiff
ly, but better than any thing frehad s*n."
" Have a try, old I bey, he said; and I
had a sry ; .and the newt day we nearly
frighlkned our landlady to death, and sent
her off searching for help to cut Tom down,
because he had hung himself from a hook
in the ceiling. They got used to our an
tics at last, and took, DO notice of us, as
we tried h#nl to get otf that stiffns, for
tbe tame idea had struck us both—that we
bad better lake to tumbling, than paint
and starve.
" It strikes me," said Tom, "that if we
got a rope or two and some cross-ban
fixed, we can rather astonish some of tVm;
anyhow, WU tee."
FREU. KURTZ, Editor .ml Proprietor.
VOL. V.
1 quite agreed with Tmu; and a short
tin* alter, a* hold as bras*, we applied to
the manager of the (iatdem for *U eivgigv
incnt. Uf course he a at; tml to sec what
we could do; so a couple ol rope* wrre fit
ted oyer the stag* of the little hall, a bar
was tied across like a swing ; awl on it we
set to, turuiu? over, hanging bv hands and
I toe* and the back* of iwr heads, and play
ing auch dariug pranks, that ire brought
down the bouse—that is to Mr, the Imw
and his triced* applauded loudly; and I
believe 1 Deter felt *o happy in nyr life as
w Leu he cugaged u mi the spot at a salary.
Fr the whole of that season we were
aa auceesslul as could tie; aud through cou
atant practice we got to be very handy;
and did our tricks in away which the
uewapeprtv called graceful; but as a roat
l tr ot ciHitse, there was coon a boat ol nn
; it*tor; and at tLc beginning of neat sea-;
son, people wanted s-mietbing new, and the
manager asked us if we void iu't iiiinsjiue
some hiaagr—"'it must Sfcei
tiug, you know," he said, "or else it won't j
take. 1 ou'd think that was strung enough
'or thetu," he continued, pointing to a baJ
h-on; "out. I-r blew you, they don't ea r e >
now tor Uilgoga lift and think it over.
For mv part 1 thou? In id propoainc a tia
pste at the top of die two highest scaffold
poles we can get."
| 1 started a bit as he *aid that; and )u*t 1
then tho lialljou rosebud went away swift
>lt and lightly over the trees, while 1
watched it thougbttully, lor I had got au
hdi-a Info injr kefd,
r Tlfcxiext moiuftig t talked it over with
. Tom, w ho agreed tit in a minute; aud we
shook hands over it slowly; for our utindv
were made up.
When the manager engagtd us first, he 1
said our nauic wouldn't do a bit. The
lantipulfiii-.' name, be aaid, was bi
right* Hodge. The consequence was, (as 1
have wiid), we went in for French; *o the
announcement of the "Grand Trapeze Aet"
id "Lev Fteres Provencaux "was adver-I
tiwed all over London.
How well 1 ictuember that bright Junei
day, when, going forwanl in our grand i
drewses, all tubus, satin, ruff, and spangles,'
we wvrv gri-eted with a ruar of applause,
and saw that the (lanlcn* were crammed '
with people, in the middle ot whom was
the great tialloon ready filled, and swinging
anout as H jugged at its ropms.
"How do you feel, Tom V 1 said looking
at him.
" Brave as a lion, my boy," he says
stoutly. "It's no more than doing it
twenty feet high."
" Tiue," 1 said ; "and it is a* easy- to be
drowned in sixty as in x hundred feet of
water."
The next minute we were holding the.
trat-cze bars clo*e to tbe balloon, waiting
the signal for it to rise; and now, for the
first time, I felt a sensation, and 111 tell j
you what gave it to me— tbe people, in- :
stead of cheering us as soon as we
to rise, kept perfectly silent; and* th*'
seemed to go right through uie; for you
must know that what we had been adrtr
t'sed to do wis to perform our rope and bar
trick* tight under the balloon, twenty Icet
below the car, and that without aurthing
„ ... ;r .L i.i i. i-
to rave us if we should tnak - a slip.
There was no time lor fear though; and
i the next ni<nute we were doing it all a*
cooly as could fie, as we rose iilly. a hun
dred, a tuourand feet in the air, aud floated
away out of sight.
I don't recall that I was o very glad to
get up into the car, for the excitement
kept uie from feeling afrai I: I remember
thinkine, though, that Tom Inoktd rather,
pale, ifern we wrapped up well, and en
■ jcved our first bout's ride till we came
j down right away in Kent.
We kept that on time after time, and
the people came to see us in mobs. The
manager said it was the greatest take he
i had ever had; and f must say he behaved
to us handsomely, what with rawing our
wages and making as pt events. But I d:d
not feel easy in tuv own mind, for the idea.
was my own invention, and I thought I
ought not to have exposed poor Tom to
canger likewise; but all the sarne—l
dared not say a word, for if I bad, I knew
how jealous be would have turned directly,
j' >hpijt| think rep had done t tjfce about
'"ambntn; and all tbrv ugh that month there I
was ringing in my ear* the words of a wo- ]
man who said out loud on the second ume
we went up; PAb! they'll do that tc# to
' mv* Suppose 1 thought to myself, we
do it once too often! But then came the
thought of the money, and that drove'
away a great dcaLbf the timidity, as I
U lil ttyacH that a man unglrt pikefiich an
tics for his wfiole life and never tall.
W ell, as I said, we bad been doing it about
a month, when one evening wc took our
place* as usual. It was an extra nfgbt. aud
the largest balloon was to a>rend; our rope
. was to lie lengthened to thirty fret, af at
j tl.at distance ULsr the car'te were to,
? -Mlag • *. itasMiai.
You may tae ire oug'.f ta Hfejbeei,
if ta it by tha lime; litre art tilings
i ttia-jgk Hfld i Vlu never aefr utu# re, try
bow you will; and this was one of tbero.
Tbe bands were playing away their best;
the people were eagerly looking at the
half a dozen aeronauts u lio were to ascend;
tl* signal w as giveu, agd ifcs got in.
Then the balloon was allowed to rise to
high that our trapeze swung clear, when f
bung from it oy my legs, holding a crw*-
bar in my hands, over which Tom threw
i his legs, and huog downwards; and then
away we went, op through the soft evening
air, so slowly tL.it Tom's bauds touuiied
thcioppfi®-'>i the l iia-treo, as he, wa*ed
< about a couple flags.
OHr custom was to ban; quits still till we
were up four or five hundred feet, and then
i to begin our twining and twisting; and so
we did u<>w. whan Torn pitched away the
and we went through oQr tdrks, ris
ing higher and higher, with the fares ol
| the dense crowd getting mixed Into a eon
fused mai>, and the strains of the band
growing fainter and feinicr, till all be
j low was quite tntu&lcd in a hum.
We had only one more trick to do, and
that wan to cart loose the bar, and each
man awing by lit* own rope. I had loosened
my eni, the per* pint ion -.learning me the
while, and Tom had done the wrac, when
swinging round idsards me with a boiri
ble white lace, he"exclaimed, "Ben old
roan, I'm going to tail."
It"* no UM? ; ] couldn't tell vou what I
felt then, II L. tried ever k> hard, only that
in half -ecoml I it Toip lying a horri
ble crushed corpse far below; and I (elt an
paralysed that I thought I should hare to
let go uiy own and (alien myself, i could
act, though, and did, tbr in a flash I had
given myself a jerk forward, and thrown
myself against Tom. flinging my leg* round
him and holding him tightly; hod then
tired s* I was, I felt that I bad double
weight to sustain, for Tom's rope was
swinging to and fro, and as my legs clung
round b.s body, his bead hung down, trot
I knew be must hare tainted.
How I managed to bold cm I can't tell
now, for though weak with all I had done.
I manage-i to give a horse cry for help, and
the next moment I heard a cry ot horror
from the basket work car-
Then I (elt the tope begin to jerk as
they began to haul us up, and I managed
to ahrick out, " No! nofur if they hanled
any longer tbey must have jerked poor
Tom from my hold.
I have often asked myself whether it
was half an hour or only a few seconds be
fore 1 saw a big rope lowered with a big
running noose, and then I've a misty no
tion of having set my teeth fast on the
rope, as I felt a dreadful weight, as ot lead,
dragging at me. Then I felt that it was all
over, and I knew that I had been the death
of poor Tom, for lie bad seemed to fall, as
I felt the rope by which I hung jerk again
violently. 1 saw the earth below like a
nup, and the golden clouds np above the
groat not covered ball, and then mist
THE CENTRE REPORTER.
• warn before my eves, and all see turd black
' and thick as night.
j When I eatue to, I was lying on my
luiok in the car. with a man pouring brandy
le! ween luT lips. My first words were
grasped out in a hu?ky tone, for 1 did not
1 know where I was; and thru 1 remember
bursting out into quite n shriek, as I er.ed:
" W hrrvHi Tom f"
"Here old wan," he aaid, for they had
• managed to drae u* both into the car ; and
lot the next hour we at there shivering,
saturated with cold persniratiou; ercii the
turn in the car being silent, unnerved, as
I aupfioee, bv out warmer escape.
Tom wanted to go again, but I would'nt
let him. "I did not tremble," he said ;
"it was only a sudden fit of gidiues*
through being untvell.
1 went up, though, many time* after
ward* .ih-ne on horses and on bulla; aud
' I meant to have had a car of Hying swans
for a grand bit, when government stepped
in, and put a stop to it: and a* 1 said be
fore, very sorry I was, for it was my Be
ing.
- A Knowing Hr*e.
Philip Astlev, of London, was un
doubtedly the bct horse tumor of bis
day, and as a judge of what may lie
called "trick hoMP-flesti," be baa never
jwr'iatxs been eqtilled. Ho generally
obbiiuetl his stu-l from Suiithffehl. cor
ing, as ho aaid, "little fo- ahaue, make,
or color ; " temper was tho only consid
eration. He rarely gave more than five
ponuils for each. For this price ho ol>-
t toinrd his accomplished liorne " Billy,"
a groat twpnlar favorite, playful ivh a kit
fen with those ha knew, and deeply
verged in all Iho learning of the circus.
, "Billy" could tiro off pistols, take a tea- '
kettle off a blazing Are, lay tho cloth, '
wrrange enps nnil saneer*. and invito the
clown to ton. All agreed that bo con Id
do everything but talk. Bit one day
i "Billy" W:*s arrwtel by tho Sheriff, nt
i on account of any extravagnom of his
own, but owing to the mi-conduct of a
i groom one Sanuder*, to whom ho had
been Jeut Sanndera had la'n many
j years in A "tint's employ, aid had l>or
f rowed "Billy" to exhibit him by war
of private *|wvuUtion. This terminated
in the impriaonimmt of 8-iunders in the
Flci-t, ami the sale of "Billy" to the,
highest bidder. For three years the
favorite was lost eight of. Accidentallv
one day tw > of Astliv'* "ridera"
discovered "Bill*" drawing a curt in
Wlntechapel. There could 1> no que*
tion of the fact, for npon bearing a pe
culiar clicking together of the nails ot
the forefinger and thumb—one of the
l aigna or aonnds A*tley had alwiva em- i
ployed in traiuing his stud—"Btllv" had i
prickeil up hi* ears, p tun ceil and danced
,in a very remarkable ntann r. The re
; cognition was mntml. "Billy's" present
proprietor was well content to fart with
him at a moderate price, "for, as he
explained, "though toe's the liewt-tem
fn n*l creature breathing, yet sometime*
he d<ves cut stieh very ruui cancm thnt'
we calls lHm the mounteliank." Forth
with "Billy" was restored to hia friend*; J
all was forgiven, mid he reap]>e*re<l iu
the cireu* as though he had never boeu
absent from it. m i<l tew and went
rhruntrh nil liis " business," and so con
tinued too for many yours, dying at loaf
from sheer old age, universally respected
, and regretted.
An lowa Marriage.
' A divorce case with some new features
was brought iuto a Chicago Court.
Stephen P. Hicks a*ks that he be care
fully relieved from the 1 Hinds of matri
mony now existing, as he says, proforma,
between himself and one Anna. The
oumpl.uuflHt says tluat iqxui the llfltli
daj of KovevliOr lasv, bobi-inga resident
of and a farmer in the couuty of litnck
hawk, in the. state ofjluwa. vjst'.ol the
t.wii o| Wut-tlOo, harjng In hi* custody
! a wagon load of wheat for delivery, on
commission, to n warehouse man in the
town. As a return load lie hsd to take
tuck a quantify of stone, awaiting the
i loading of which hostcxyd upon the street
gnmtr.j where M met Xn4 Alfred Alline,
who was in n buggy drawn by a team of
horses. Alhne stbpirad and invited com
plainant to rble i:tli hitn. • lie rode, as
he supposed, rtprtn tns frfendly invito
tion, when he wis curried to' Alline'a
i house. During the ride there was some
| friendly converse. When the tide wa*
completed, Alline invited complainant
iu. He objected, by reason oj some
thing lie saw in the invitation which in
dicated danger, but being ip<luc<l there
to by the proffer iff a j>it<4 n<b the
threat of "'shoot," lie did alight and en
tered the house. Having entered the
, house ha ivue eucounfensl by one Anna
' Hcvenvnee (the defendant) nnd her aunt.
Clara Severance. Being in custody of
these females, the man Alline left shortly
to return with some persou who was
represented to lw a Justice of the Peace,
whereupon Alline produced lawful au
thority for complainant's marriage with
the woman Severn ice. Having procured
this, Alliue deiuaude.l that the mmriagc
shonH fake phlce Torthw-itb, and bccauw"
if he did not, then there would lie a kill
ing. Under these threats the cercmouy
was gone through with, but under
duress and without consent, and there
upon complainant left defendurt, where
fore, under all these circumstances, lie
claims that the marriage is void.
A HAP HTORT. —The other day, in New
Orleans, a small hearse, bearing a plain
coffin, and followed by two lady mourn
ers, was seen proceeding to one of tbe
city cemeteries. The coffin contained the
remains of a woman who bad sold candy
at oua of the streat corners for over tliir
tv-five yen is. She invnrinbly wore a
dark br .wn dress, and her eves were
downcast or entirely shut. Her biatorv
„ u,..l U'.... .1 l_ .1 L
tor of n wealthy Mississippi planter, and
developed frotn girlhood into woman
hood with all the grace and beaut*" that
it foud father's heart could Wisli, At the
height of lu-r youthful beupty she con
tracted a marriage which jinwd very
unfortanate, and under its Withering in
fluences she sank into promatnre sad
ness and decay. Her father ttie 11 died,
and his rant property descending to her,
wag soon squandered. Finally she wn
left a widow, and afterwards married
again, but atill more unfortunate tbau
before, her second hwbund deserting
her and committing suicide, fc'he then
commenced the solitary, mournful life
which alie lias led ever since.
A Brr or BcKLßsgrE.—ln a clever
burlesque of the Jenkins style of de
scribing weddings, recently published iu
the Indianapolis A T eirs, the bride's drees
is descriliea as n white megatherium
silk trimmed with nrnssic acid, blue
pompnded front and lambrequins of the
same, looped up with nulla lilies flecked
by i originated potaaaito and mellaced
trivere—imported expressly for her.
Her veil was n biased poloduise, trimmed
with donhle fluted rncbings, surmounted
with the wreath of the snowy trichinallls.
Some of the presents were a set of teeth
and an oyat r freezer— from tho bride's
mother ; a gol.l-lined hash receiver and
a ret of chaste and elegant tcrra-coti a
jewelry from the groom ; a quilt pieced
by the donor when eleven years of age,
and a package of cabbage seed, from the
bride's grandmother, aged ninety, who
can rend fine print without glosses, and
who cracked all the nuts for the banquet
with lier own teeth.
•
TBE Supreme Court of Nebraska has
declared' that the extra session of tbe
Legislature was illegal.
CENTRE HALL. CENTRE CO., PA., FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 1872.
Publishing I'aUer H.lli, utiles.
The publication of the Ihimlt* HWJWp
it* lUtnois luta been dtiiuntimiisl Thu
i* the aixth time that the HVA°/y, under
siiiveasive proprietor*, lias aouie to an
untimely end ; atul in its final issue the
rules are turned and the resources of the
office in the way of ghxdly cut* of cof
titis and toin'ontonoa ore exhutisted in the
effort lo render suitable mortuary honor*
to the expiring journal. And as the
editor had many g tpitig columns at his
ili-lm.-tal which should have Uevu filled
with paying advertisement*, but which
' owing to tlie peunriouauoaa of the non
adrortisiug populutiou of l>uude were
not (o occupied, he took ocoaniou to till,
the vacant space with earaost and uu
eqnivooal exorewituus of hi* candid opiu
ion m rejfant to the place aud it* in
habitants. His dc-eriptiou of l>ttudeti
is lusrdly calculated to attract iiumigrs
, tiou to that particular tuirt of Kiruc
, county, lie calls it a Chicago burned |
into a cru*t by tbe firoa of misery ; a San
Frunciaco shock'-d bv the earthquakes
of me:inns>s into grabbing after |H-pnie*
and cold vietuals; and declares that if i
(tbhriel's horn is ever beard within it*'
precincts it* touud will be drowned out 1
by tlie clamor* of its hungry taroplei
thinking it an invitation to n free lunch, j
He iiathetically alludes U> his own trials i
while emh-avoriug to ew-ape starvation,
and recites the melancholy eiperteucc
of some of his |tredcccaor* who had
la-en deluded by fair promise* into the
dh-astroua experiment of publishing a -
u<-w-|>ajH'r "in the foul graveyard," * •
n warmug to printers who may hereafter
be enticed to hurv their talent in so tin- j
promising s field. And finally, with!
sardonic gle he directs the attention of
his readers to a cat which he tells thrui
represent* the ideuticsl traiu of ears in j
which he intends to leave for nuy place i
on the known earth which will bike him
ut of sight of the dead thiug* that walk
the streets of Daudce. If the editor's
prudence was equal to his disgust, he did
not wait to olisrve the effect of his val
edictory upon tin minds of hia fiatrons.
Bird Track* in Stone.
A oorrespoudent of the Providence
Journal, in au r jele on foasil bird tracks
iu the l ouuecUcut Biver Valley, aays:
We liuve only to go to the Connectietit
valley, iu (lie northern part of M is-achu
setbt, to find in the slab* of aamlatone
frcqntntly qnarried there, the imptiutn
of more than fifty specie* of birds with
some quadruped*,''which trod the shores
or waded the shallow* of that ancient
estuarv, the head of which was probably
near Tttruer'a Fail*, filling what is now
the Couiictiticut valley to that point. ud
opening into tho ocean. These birds, j
long since extinct us living being*, did
indeed leave their
" Fi-Sprl&u la ISt MOds ot Usu."
and so well iloea a part indicate the
whole th.it thise may also be photo
graphed from their tracks, as Agassi*
draw* a flub, he has neTer seeu,
From a scale.
Some of those bird* were small, their
stops being uot more than three or four
inchua long, while oilier* were six feet.
Think of the bird* which took such
strides! The footprint of one ia seven-'
teen inches long, and another makes a
trick, if tiie iiuprusoion tuude by what ia
thought to have been a kind of heel be
included, two feet in length aud a step
of six feet.
'These tracks wore flrst brought to the
notice of the world in 1836, by the 1;U
President Hitchcock, although they had ]
lieen observed a year before. Although
hia statements were at first received with
acopUcism, they ore uow as well verified
as anything in geology. Specimen* of
track* from the locality named are to be
seen in the large geological cabinet* of
the world, ami are found in many small
private collection*.
A Strange Case.
The Fulton (N. ¥.) Time# is reapon*i
bki for a statement which goes to prove
that, iu some in.ianc.-s, a transfer of
property to a wife in order to owaj*-
payment of emliU-ni, may be no better
than "piuipiuf, from the frying-pan into
fire." Four years ago a certain gentle- (
man, now n reddent of Uticn, according
to his own stat-m-nt, was made the
victim of a conspiracy to auch an extent
that lie w.tß obliged to tryna experiment
of this kind. Forged rliccks and notes
were so freely circulated throughout the
.State, that it would have taken the pro
ceeds of his entire estate to have paid
them off. In this emergency, he aasiga
cd all he |*xs<ss*-d to hi* wife, and
appointed n nephew, as trustee. From
that time he erased to lie master in hi*
own hoase ; the wife became icy in her
Coldness to him, and he was deprived of
comforts which were eweiilial to a man 1
verging on hi* eighty-eight year. A
uehpa|>er correspondent finally hesnl
of hi* distress, and visited him. The |
result was un elaborate article, descrip
tive of a chamber that for sqiudidncv.
was only equaled by that of the iiixanc
recluse who existed iu a single apartment
for twenty-two years, without ever hav
ing allowed the light of day to penetrate
it The nephew of the unfortunate j
gentleman has since brought nn action
for libel again*! the editor who published
iho account, not for nn obvious reason,'
the Grand Jury refns"d to indict. Con
sidering that the gentleman aud his wife
hud enjoyed forty year* of almo t unin
terrupted hspptners In-fore tin- deed ot
asaigniiH-nt was perfected, the subsequent
conduct of the latter seems all the more .
ankinu.
TAME CODFIHH.—Mr. Buck land, in n
recent number of Laud and Wetter, give*
an interesting account of a visit |>ai<l l>v
liim to a poml containing tnrre cislflsh
'at Port Ivognn, Wigtouabhx*. Thcprop
< rty in question IN longs to a gentleman
by the name of McDougall, and cousists
of nn auipithcatre aUmt one hundred
feet in cliumeter, hollowed ont of the
solid rock by the sea. All egress from
this is prevented by n barrier of loose
atone*, through which water passer,
freely. On approaching the shore of
the pond codfish of great sire were
seen ; and when a servant woman who
had charge of the fish approached with
tome mussels, the surface of the water
won perfectly alive with struggling flub.
They came to the edge, and after a
little while permitted Mr. Buflklaml to
scratch them on tho hack, and play
with thein in various wnya. Among
other experiments tried by iiirn was that
of holding a mussel in nil hand, and
allowing the fish to awullow his hand iu
the efhvrt made to obtain the mussel.
These fish furnish the proprietor an am
ple supply of excellent food, the finvor
being considered much superior to that
of the cod taken iu the open sea. When
ever needed for the tuide, n selection
can readily be made from the most prom
ising of those at hand, and the fish se
cured without any difficulty.
YAKITT.—At length it is proved that
man has more vanity than woman. This
is the way it cause to jinas. A curious
investigator waMwd *hile A thousand
men passed a looking-glass use I as a sign
on the sidewalk in Broadway. The re
sult of his observation showed that nine
hundred and ninety-nine men glanced
complacently at their imago as they past
ed. The other msn was blind. Four
hundred and fifty-two women tiassed
during the some hour and a half, and
none of them looked in the mirror—all
of them being engaged intently examin
ing each other's appearance and drees.
The Two trlriili.
I have two friend# two gluriotia fuonJa iwu
braver could uoibe,
Aud tit) light when iuMuifLHo.lv Uj<7 mel
to laugh with lux.
„ „ |
1 he Ural waa ahot l>jr Culiai tbiavwe, two year*
ago, la Bpein i
Ilia aeeuo I drowbed In AHcante - while 1 alivw
remain.
1 lore lu kc their dim-white foriua oome float-.
iug through the uigbt,
, And gnrna I>< xoc ihvm lull away tit early mum- |
lug Ught.
The flrat with gßMitira in the I'u Jar land il-ad |
lug a lordly life, •
Aud the evcond haa married a iuermaid<a -a .
beautiful water-wife.
Audainee f bare frienda on the earth and aea,
with a few, 1 trnat on high,
Tia matter el email acoouui to mo, the way
that I rnuat die.
j For whether I aiok uu the foaming lleud, or
eaiug en the trip'e tree,
Or die on ray bad, aa a ChrtaUan ahould, la ail
the aame to me.
—.——--
TUB UABLET STB AW.
A young married couple were walking
down a country Una. 11 waa a peaceful,
sunn W morning in autumn, and the laat wt
i their honey uioou.
" Why are you eo aileot and thought
Cut f aaked the young, beautiful wife
' " IKj you already fung for the city and ii
lurmuilt Are you weary of uiy love f
You regret, 1 fear, that you have re
nounced your huay life yonder, and con
sented to live only for ine and our happi
new."
He kiased her forehead, which ahe ten
! derly raited U> him. She rwoeived no an
i ewer.
" What can you iniaa here I" ahe contin
ued. " Can all the othere together love
you more than Imy aingle aelft lio I
not auiflce f We are rich enough, eo that
you Htt i cot work ; but if you absolutely
uiual do aoiiiethiiig—well, then, write {
romancea and read them to me alone."
The young man again replied with a
kiaa. iie tlieu atepprd arrow a ditch into '
a etubble field and picket! up a alraw, left
by the gleancra. It waa aa unueualiy
fine and large at raw, yet attached to iiw
root, and entwined by lite withered ata'.ka
of a paraaitical plant, npon which a eiiigle i
little liower might be diacerned.
"Waa that a very rare flower you 1
found ?" aaked ihe little lady. (
"No; it WMtcoiuuua biud-weed."
" A binJ-weed V'
" Yee, that ia ita vulgar nam a. Tha , j
botaniata call it Cowro/refar arrtttt. The
peasantry name it foi-vinea; in aotnelo-!j
calitiea it ia called tangle-weed." He j j
pauaed and gated thoughtfully oa the
atraw.
"Cray what interesting thing ie it, then, l'
that you have discovered f"
" It ie a romance." J
" A romance f"
•'Ye*—or a parable, if you like."
" Is it in ths fiower t"
"Yes; the flower and—the straw."
" Pl*a- tell nie the story about it."
" Hut it i* a aadono."
"No matter for that; 1 should like to
hear it very much.*'
She seated herself on the edge of ths
grassy bank; her husband did lbs same,
I close at bar aide, and told the story of the
straw :
At the outer edga of the hurley field,
near the ditch of the highway, grew a
j young, vigorous barley sh>>ot. It was
taller, stronger, and darker than tb*
other*: it ooutd look ov, r the whole field.
The first thing it notioed was a little
violet. It stood beyond, over the other
edge of ths ditch, and peered through the
grass with ita innocent aturg eye*. The
jsun shone, and the balmy wind breathed
over toward the field from the road, where
the violet grew. The young straw rock
ed itself in spring air and spring dreamt.
. To reach one soother was out of the ques
tion ; they did not even thiuk about iu
The violet we* a pretty little flower, but
j it clung to the earth, and soon disappeared
among the growing grass. The barlev,
ou the contrary, shot up higher and higii
' er each day, hut the dark green shoot still
above all the rest. It rejoiced already in
a long, full ear before any of the others
bad nommenced to ahow their beards.
All the surrounding flowers looked up
to the gallant ear of barley. The ecarlet
;toppy blu-hed a deeper red whenever it
swung over it. The corn-flower made its
aroma stilt more piquant than usual, aud
the flaunting yellow field-cabbage expand
ed ita own bold flower. By-and by the
barley atraw blossomed in lit manner, k
swayed about, now here, now there, in
the baliny atmosphere ; sometime* bend
ing over the corn flower, st times over the
poppy, and then over the tare and wild
' field-cabbage; but when it had peered
' down in their chalice# it swung back
again, straightened np, and thought,
"yon are hut a lot of weeds after all."
But in the gr*s* t the ditch flourished
a hind-weed, with it*small leafy vine*; it
bore delicate snowy and rose-eolored
dowers, and emitted a delicate fragrance.
To that the barley straw bent longingly
| down.
" You gallant straw," it smiled; "bend
I yet low er. that I may embrace you with
my leaves and flower*,"
The straw essayed to do it with its best
will, but in vain.
"I can not," it sighed; " but come to me,
| lean on tne and cling to me. and I will
raise yon above all the proud poppies and
conceited corn-flower*.''
" I have never hail any ambition to rise
lin the world, but yon have been iny run
stunt dr-am ever since I was budding,
and for your sake I will leave the green
sward and all the little flowers in whose
company I grew. Wa will twine our
selves together and flower alo*tfar M ch
other."
Thns said the hind-weed, and stretched
its tendrils into the field. It clung ten
derly to the straw, and covered it with
its green leaves and modest flowers ap to
its topmost blade.
It wss a heautifnl sight. The two
seemed to suit each other to perfection.
The *trnw felt now really prond, and sliot
np higher and higher.
" Do you wish to leave fflt* f sighed the
weed.
* Are you diary already P* smiled the
straw.
"Stay with im*—cling to me. Why do
yon rite higher?"
" Because I mutt. Hia my nature."
" But it is not mine."
"Follow me, if you love me."
" Yoo won't stay f i know now that
you do not love inu any more."
And the weed loosened rts tender arms
and sank to the earth ; but the straw con
tinued to shoot ever upward.
The bind weed began to witbar. Its
flowers grew more and more pale. "I
have but lived and flowered for you. For
your sake have I sacrificed my spring and
iny summer. But you do not notice my
flowers—you leave my little buds to wither
in the air: you think upon any thing else
but me and the beautiful summer— my
time!"
" 1 think *jm the hornet: my Unit hat
alto ite claim."
Presently the rain came. Great drops
fell upon the delicate leaves. "My time
is soon over," wept the weed, and closed
its little flowers to hide the cold tears. .
Tears are heavy. The straw came near
•inking under its burden, hut it felt the
importance of keeping itself npright; it
straightened up, gallantly facing the storm.
It grew stiffer in the body—harder in the
Joint*
It was on* of tha dark days. Th#
heavens were grqy ami th* earth dark ; it
had been raining for a long time. The
waed lied grow u downward into the earth,
a* if it would hid* itself front tbe storm.
" lieud down eee utors as yo did in
day* of jury, when my lo# was all and
sll to you," Lugged the w e-i,iug flow or.
"1 cuti hot, ( da: v not,' groaned the
straw.
" And I, who have beot a thousand
tiras* be voer sake—l, who now bend
uiysalf to tli* verv dust before juor feet,"
w ailed th at ad, groveling en tha earth.
Thau full a ooupia of large rain-drops
upon tho blsdes, tho weight was too
nineh. the Lrsvo straw yielded, the weed
pulled it down, and both straw and weed
sank down on the wet tarth, never more
to rise sgsin.
The harvest came. All tlie golden corn
was boond in sheaves, and brought to the
barn with song and joy. Hut that which
once ►> gallantly had reared iu head abov*
all the other* remained prostrate on the
stubble field. The grain was mouldy and
the straw withered. Of the beautiful vine,
whose lev-tug embrace had been so fetal,
only the dry, blackened stalks remained
Thus ended tbe romance of th* barley
straw.
Tbe young wife bad tears in Iter beauti
ful eyes. but they were th* balmy tsar*
which strengthen, not the scolding ones
which crash the soul to the earth. She
wound her srtns around her husband's
neok, end whispered a single word in hi*
ear. it was, "Thanks."
Tfien she plucked th* last, half-withered
blossom from the bind-Weed.
"It is a flower of memory that 1 will
take with ma, when I to morrow return
with you to the city sgaln," she aaid. softly,
ss she hid it in her bosom. "Love is
good, but labor end love dVw better.
Pleasure is perfect only when it harmon
ims Willi our |teruiauetrt interest*, a* It ia
also true that no delight ceo be ondurieg
which interferes with duty."
Beck an Flepetneßt.
Botn# months ago a comely hat Imperii
utou* youth, hiag in the rural districta,
not more than a doten leagues from tlie
southeast quarter of the northeast quarter
of section lflo. town 340, sou tli of range 42
east, fell deeply and iuextricabiy in love
with a fair maiden whom he met at a
spelling school, a paring bee, or a candy
pull, or some of those intense gathering*
where impressionable young people so of
ten meet liieir destiny.
Tie passion of tha voting man waa re
ciprocated by maiden af<>r said, but the
• obdurate parent who waa ambitioua fur
hia daughter, and had a fair quantity of
men*, did not reciprocate worth a cent,
I and caused aach a degree of caloric about
, the houac when the young rasa called that
it waa aitremely uncomfortable for tho
lutereated parties, and reaulted in a partial
j discontinuance of the viaita, except when
• he paternal obstacle waa away from home.
This, aa usual, increased the intensity of
, the young ]rtiea* lading*. and there got
to be bo much muchness about the matter
that the yontsg lady waa seat into an ad
joining county to "hoard out "a hill of
thirteen dollar* due the obstacle f-w a
twelve-year old steer sold tha year before.
The young man dioovered thi movement,
but refused to be bereaved, mentioning to
Ids confidant that he kaew a trick worth
two of that, which original remark show*
that he had genius if uot stamp*.
There Was an elopement brew ing right
off. tha bore idea of which thrilled him
with excitement to a degree that caused i
hi# friends to regard him with alarm for (
the safety of his reason. He pursued hia i
inamorata, however, to her hiding-place. ]
Her father also repaired to the same neigh
borhood. unknown to the ardent Romeo.'
Vou will obaarve that the plot ha* eon-1
Aderabl* thickening introduced into K.) I
Tha lovers had a meeting and reaolvwl i
upon flight tha first dark night, for which |
Utsy had not long to wait—just forty-sight,
boars. At tb# given signal the trembling,
youth was beneath a deeignated window,
with his paper collar and a clean handker
chief carefully packed for a long journey.
The window opened and a head appeared.
Jiiat around the comer ot tha house there ,
also appeared two head*, one of a man .
and the other of a dog—a abort-nosed,
brindle dog—no poodle.
"Are you all ready, lovs I" asked the
lpver in a stage- whisper.
If# jiwt heart! " Bite "etn Pick! " a rn#h j
through Ike rear-hush, and suddenly deci <
ded to postpone the elopement until after
the holidays *nd, disdaiuing to glance at |
tha obstacle, departed, conscious that bis
girl and a portion of his trow sera had beeu i
ruthlessly torn from him.
A Bad HpHb
In Hi. Louis n order hoc l>een passod
by the Board of Director* requiring that
.til the pupils of the public schools shall
be vacciualnd. Below will be fern ml
i copies ot a few of the vote* which (be
chiidreu c irriei to their t-acher* io rela
tion to the matter. They are literal
eopie*, with the exception that the
mnn are deft out.
Bridget H baa bad the amall pooks
last year no eke doaa not iiead to be
TAXI mated.
Minn bad the email Box.
Charles ha* Now need of being faxe
nated for he Had the email pox all rady.
Louim Nf ust net Waxenaigh She got
Wnxinergboti About Tree fan ago.
I testify that tuy son Willie ia wax
ainnatcd already.
i Do Not Pnrfnr to Have My Children
Ynxiuab-d Now.
Mr*. G. Excuse Mr*. sebert she does
not want virgiena waxon* 4 ed.
My Daughter waa spcakiug about vaxi
nuting I thought it w.is no use ahe ia
been vaxinating three timea already.
Please let him lie vexanatad.
Mr. Teacher you may get Stephen
B vaccinated.
A. B. B. haa had the small-pox ;fo
further information call at No.—
Sir : I hereby certify that Emile T
is twice vuxeinnted.
A list embracing thirty-eight differ
ent wuys ia which the word " vaccinate"
waa apellcd in these notes from the
parent* haa been prepared, and there
are sixty schools to near from yet.
" Gorao WEST"—AND GIVING IT UP
—-The Baltimore Amrr ein makes thi<
statement : Those who have a hankering
after the cheap lathi* of the far West,
should give attention to a fact reported
by a gentleman who says he haa lcen in
the United States Land Office for five
years, that about one baif tho homestead
entries made are abandoned, aud the laud
entered by others ; in many cases tlie en
try is abandoned three or four times be
fore coming into the possession of per
sons who bold it permanently. Proof of
six months' abandonment ia sufficient to
have the entry eanceffed. Thia alone,
and there is no reason to donbt the fact
stated, should eonvince those who have
but small means how poor are their chance
of success in regions where, if there are
neighbors to be found, every one has as
much as ho can struggle uuder in his ef
forts to effect a clearing, and hence if
alokness aiul accidents of any kind should
overtake the settler, what an amount of
sorrow and trouble, sod finally a loss of
nil the labor that may have been per
formed, mast finally attack those who
seek their fortuues in those desolate re
ghotu. v
Most of New York society men have
now adopted the plan of going to tied
as soon as business is over, rising and
dining at ten iu the evening, and tbon
going to cntertoiumenta in condition for
dancing all niglrt.
Ilemriy (iirls.
"How did that houmly woman con
trive to get married ?" ia not unfre
•pumtiy rvemrkod of some good douea
tic creature whom her husband regards
m> tbe apple of his eye, and its wboaa
| plain face lie seea some hing better than
tHMsnty. Pretty (iris who ore vsiu of
, their charms are rather prune to make
I observations of this kind { and con
acioustmaa of the fact that flowers of lov#-
Hucss are often left to pine oo the etem
while weeds of homvlinew go off readi
ly, is no doubt in many oases et the
bottom of the sneering question. The
truth is, that most men prefer homeli
ness and amiability to beauty sndea
price, Handsome women r apt to
ovar-ralue tLemoclvaa, ami in waiting
for an immense bid occasionally over
step the market Their plain sisterw, on
the oontrary, a ware of their personal de
flcieuciea, generally lay them wives cut
to produce an agrno*bis imprewnoo, ami,
in most lustanoes succeed. They don't.
j aspire to capture paragon* with prince-
II v fortunes, but are willing to take eny
tiling respectable and love-worthy that
Providence m*v .throw iu their way. j
I The rock ahead ot your haughty Juno* >
I and eoquettish Ifehes—is fastidkms.
! They n-ject and reject, until nolrwly
cures to woo them. Men don't like to
lie snubbed or to be tnflud with—a les
sou that thousands of pretty woman do
learn too late. Mr* Hannah Moore, a
very excellent and pious person, who
knnr wh rcof she wrote, recommends
every unmarried sister to if-oept the offer
of the first good sensible Christian lover
who falls iu her way. But ladies wboae
mirror, ad.-d by the glamour of vanity,
unsure* them ibey were born (or con
quest, pey no heed tostmh advice. It is
a noteworthy fact that homely girls gen
erally get better husbands than fall to
tlie lot of their falsa sister*. Men who
are oaugbt merely by a pretty faoe and
figure do not, as a general rale, ausoun'. .
to much. The practical, useful, thought-:
ful portion ol mankind is wisely conumt
with unpretending excellency. ]
BbiIon and the Pyramids.
Rome remain* (thongh very alight onas)
are still to b found. Even the "bang
ing gardens" of Babylon, u onoe de
scribed by Diodomt, have been racog
nised in tne mound nailed El Kaar. To
1835 Hu Henry liawlinson oarried with
htm to England many relio* of ancient
Babylon, all of which are now in the
Bri'ub Museum. The town of Zitlah,
with 7,000 inhabitants, ia now ooasider
<xl the modern representative of aneient
Babylon. At for Thebes, tba ruins com
prise nine townships. itecnrt excara
tion* hare brought to light these con-
I atructioua of tha eleventh dynasty, el
j though the moat flourishing period of
the Fmtory of Thebes was under the
eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth
dynastic*. The Nile flow# through the
midst of the ancient city. It ia now in
habited only bye few Arab familiaa or
Fellaheen, who make e living by guiding
Uwyek re over the rutna Tyre existed,
amid all ita destructive experience#, un
til A- 1>- 151G, when Uw conquest of
Seltm, together with the newly diaeev
-1 ered route to Asia by the Cape of Good
Hope, jt an end to ita wealth and com
merce. Among ita ruina from 3,000 to
14.0U) inhabitant* now dwell and earn a
| Livelihood by exporting t< baron, cotton,
wool and wood. Nineveh waa daatroyed
by Are about GOS B. C., and the alalia
and statue* found there ahow the effect
of iutenae heat. The etcsvutioa* ex
| labit ia say baa-reliefs representing war
and hunting. The duoovenea of Lay
ard and other* in the neurhlmrbocd ot
Mosul,the auppoaed site of Nin4veh.aince
1839, have in a manner diaiutened and
repeopk-d a city which, for eeutnxfe*,
had seemed to be blotted fr*m the map
of the earth. In 18*7, Layard published
ni* "Nineveh and it* Remain*," and iu
1H53 vwve an account of hia aeooad visit
The tliree principal pyramid* are situa
ted on a rock at the luot of some btghi
mountain* which bound the Nile. Tbe
first building of them van commenced,
it ia ani>poaed. slxnt 1500 B. C. The
im-eteat i* avid to hare been erected by
Cheojia, 1082 B. C.
Ccm ton HronorsußU..—Franklin
Dyro, a highly respactible and intelli
gent farmer of Galena, Maryland, (riven
the following aa a aure cure'for theute
of a mad dog. As will be seen, be fans
Wwted it with tbe mow gratifying results:
Elecampane ia a plant well known to
most person *, and i* to be found in most
of ooj gardens. Immediately after be
iug bitten, take one nod a half ounce*
of the root of the plant- the green root
ia perhaps preferable, bnt tli* dry will
answer, and may be found in the drug
store*, and waa na>d by me—slice or
bruise, pot it into a pint of milk, boil
down to half pint, strain, and when cool
drink it, fasting at least six hours after
ward. The next morning repeat the
doac, prepared as the lust, and this wilt
be sufficient. It ia recommended that
after each doae nothing be eaten for at
lm*t six hours. I have a son that was
bitten by a mad dog eighteen yean* ago,
and four other children in the neighbor
hood were also bitten; they took the
above dose, and are alive and well to
this day. And I have known a number
of others who were bitten and applied
the aame remedy. It is supposed the
root contain* s principle which, being
taken up by the blood in ita eirmlation,
counteracts or nentrslises the deadly ef
fects of tlie virus of hydrophobia. I *eel
so much confidence in this rimplc
remedy, tfaat I am willing you should
give my name in connection with this
statement.
United states Preside its.
The following is a list of persons who
have filled the )maition of President of
the United State# with the yean they
were elected for.
George Werfangten ... a |
Joh Adams ITVT-lfkO
Tlionise Jefihreon j lftM lOTT
Jsme.Uadi.on
Jsnve Men roe J ; tm-lttM
John (Julncv A iinu 1V1828
Andrew Jackson j pot!!!*
Martin Tan Barea IKS7-U44
Mstnson and Tyler. IMI-IM4
Jsines JX. Polk UMS-IMB
Taylor and Pillmore mtM32
Franklin Piere.
Jsuea Buchanan 1857-IHOD
Lincoln and Johnson., ]
riyitcs B. Grant lh9-W7J
AIOTBCK DEFEAT row JUARK*.—JUS
govornaicnt troopa of Mexico, uuder
General Pesqniera, Governor of Sinaloa,
were roobti in that Htate by (ieu?iul
Marque*, with Uie loss of four pieces of
artillery and many prisoners. General
Guerre and General Naranjo, with eight
thousand revolutionists, attacked the
city of San Luis Potosi, driving the
government forces within their barri
cades, cutting of! reinforcement* and
supplies. A conducts with a million and
a naif of dollars reached the frontier
near Cainargo, guarded by 500 revolu
tionist*. This ia the first specie which
has arrived ont sinoe the commencement
of the revolution four months ago.
CONVOCATION OF THE ECUMENICAL
COUNCIL.—It is reported that the Pope
signed a degree convoking the Ecumeni
cal Council, the place of meeting to be
either on the Island of Malta or in the
Tyrol, as ahull be hereafter determined ;
and that when the oonjydl meets the
Pope wiU leave Borne.
TERMS : Two Dollars a Year, in Advance.
Upcealatirs Bar-gates.
• | Iu oi< of lbs Urge oily thoroughfares
- j of Loudou, where several fine r.kl wrecks
■ of mansions testify to the pristi JO spUo
-11 dor of the scene, not mtnr years ago •
11 block of those ancient seats of gmnJenr
i u to I* sold. A psrobsacr wtMfti)
r b : ms-!f ;w< will cmll hhn Alph*. ilia
) | offer of tea thousand pounds wsa takes,
• laud the money vu to be pa:' sit his s
■ joirtaiu number of dys, Ou his way
11 hnms Alpha meets lieu, and informs
-1 him of what he had bought, bat sot n#
•! the jmoc paid. "Do you mean to hasp
tha proitorty, or sail it V asked Beta.
• j '• I don't mind parting with it lor twenty
- thousand pounds," answered Alpha
> Beta triad a little fend tig ; but b knew
r tha vnlee of tlta property, and he ulti
tiiately gars the aois demanded for it.
11 A day or two after, Gamma receives a
• note from Beta, to state t'wt ba ha*
: certain booeea and knd is hia pass**
I, ai m, which he is half incLosd to pari
i with ; will Gamma go and look at it for
' himself, and make as oiler if ha it in
clissd to purehass t Gema went; kb
practised eye saw the raise of what wa
for sale, and tha future profit that ooald
11 ha made of R. Gamma and Beta hoc
toogbduetMMos over the matter; ba<
result >M tliat tha former agreed to girt
thirty-fire thousand pounds for Beta'*
property, whieh ha was half radioed U
> part with ! Thsa far all west on is a
ouainaaa-lika way. Alpha gare bis eheel
to tha original seller for tan thooaaoc
i punnda, sod took Beta's for doable tin
money ; while Beta received Gamma i
check for thirty- fire thou mod pounds,
and pocketed tha difference. All timer
ttanaseUona were accomplished in shoot
a week or ten dart. After a little fur
ther lapse of time Bete meets Gamma
and sympathetically sake, "What an
yon going to do with that property V
"Well." replies Gamma, in a cool, ie
difft-rvnt sort of amy, "no aaeone
thought I didn't care about keeping it - <
and so I hare let it go at a aacnfic F
I '' Would it l>a impertinent to ask whs'
yon call a sacrifice f" " Not at all," wa
the frank reply of Madid Gamma. "1
, let it go dirt cheap. oooaiderißf its ran'
value I I was aattefled with obtaining
fifty thousand pounds for it !*" •• Oh *
were yon really F" gasped Beta ; "de
lighted to hear it 1 1 told jouyon would
i make your money oat of the 'pure Use*
j when you bought the property of ate.'
| "Bare you any more to sell V asked
Gamma. The last was, in fact, well con
tent with the way ba tamed his bargain
. BeU laughed, and eiptoaaed himself
satisfied too. He harried off to Alpha, and
said to bio, " Now that the beinneaa u
• cloead and dona betweaa y<>a and ssa
will yon tell me what was the original
! price paid for the property TOO sold In
;me t" " With all the plnasnra in life,"
answered Alpha. " I gave ten thonaand
pounds for it." "Now 111 tell roe
something in return. Yon know I gave
! you doable that sum. I sold at a profit
of fifteen thousand pound* to Gaatflss,
•if whom Delta has purchased it for fifty
thousand I" Alpha had rasped cent pe>
oent., but his heart sank within htm.
Be calculated the b are est he might hare
gathered, and became depressed and al
top, tiicr oat of tone. A fixed bat set J
a pleasing melancholy seemed to eo
ihrond htm ; and when he is naked for
< a subscription that amy help to alleviate
, some wide-spreading devastation, b
; smiles a sad smile, shakes hia head slow
ly : and apologetically remark*. " Htv<
yon forgotten that I lost forty thousand
I round* in a (peculation some Uma ago f
He is positive to this day, that if he
liad met Delta first, instead of only
doubling hia Uay, as be had done by,
en oooa ten ng Beta, he would hre muf
tiplied it by fire. Be forgot hia roal
gam in hia hypothetical loss, and ever
since he hma refused to be oomfortea
-1 em pit Bar.
■ ■
A Lh4m Newspaper.
The London Time* was started in 1785,
under the name of. ib* Da*h Uuirwtai
R'yuttr, bat changed iU title to the
7im/( ia 1788, " because being • not
usyllabie no of U*t<- can corrupt
it* meaning." Mr. John Walt#*, grand
father of the present proprietor, who
bean the tame name, was sole founder
and proprietor of the pane*. He via
succeeded by hie eon John Waiter in
laua. who at onoe l*egaa to display that
sagacity and liberality in oonduoting the
> Times which hat since given it a power
unparalleled in the records of journalism.
Steam was first applied to the printing
of the paper in 1814. the first number so
printed appearing in Nov. 29 of that
year. The machinery baa since been
greatly improved, and at the present dsy
i the 7W is printed at the rata o! 18.-
UUO to 22j0iXi copies per hour. The
praeent editor is Mr. Thomas DeUne,
whose father was also a manager of the
1 paoer. Hi writes nothing himself, but
oonflnes himself, so it is said, to correct
ing the compositions of bis snbordinetea
| which he often altera and interliaea to
sack an extent that the authors can
scarcely recognise their article# when
they appear in print Dr. Daseni, now
editor of Frater's Mtgatine, was for
many years assistant editor of the Time*;
bnt Mr. Mowbray Morris is really the
con trotting spirit" of the establishment.
He engages its writers, correspondents,
and reporters, and is believed to shape
the entire policy of the j..:raaL It is
rejioited that Mr. Delaae gets "8 salary
of 825,000 a v or. The income of the
Times from advertisements alone is
about £290,000 annually. Its daily cir
culation in 1834 was 10,000 ; 23,000 in
1844 ; 51,000 in 1854 ; considerably over
60,000 in 1860; and is now about 66,000.
All ExcutrnojiAi, PLACE. Certainly
Kxalianon mast be an exception to th<
retl of Bolivia, if w# m believe a Ift
tor-writer, wbo MTI a robbery or a theft
it of eery rtrt occurrence. So perfectly
safe are the mailt in the wildcat part o!
tbc country that arm* are quite nunece*
•are. In one of my journey* across tin
Bofivisn Ande*. I got ao tired of carrying
a revolver in my belt that I put it in un
of my aeddle-bsg*, and on. my arrival at
lite Pacific coast I found the chamber!
and barrel* full of bread and oheete. In
Southern Bolivia I once met a train ol
mulct and attes, tome twenty-five in num
ber. They were In one of the wildcat
part* of the country, and a hundred inilei
from theirdestination. Every ooe of them
carried two tilver bar*, of about £l5O
value each. The*# bar* were simply
thing in hide thong*, and rented uncovered
on the back* of the animalt. Naturally 1
expected to see an escort, but what wai
nv surprise to tee only an inofleusivi
Old Tudian and a small boy alowly walking
on foot and driving the train!
A MONO TEN Pancreas—Among othei
incident* of temperance reformation
now unusually active in different parti
of the country, we hear that in Cam
bridge, Mass.," the printer* employed by
one of the largest book -manufacturing
establishments In that dty bare formed
a temperance society among themselves,
and it ia intimated that those employed
in some other establishments will follow
this good example. There isn't s kinder
hearted, mora beucvok-nt, more indus
trious class of mechanics in the country
than that which journeymen printer*
constitute ; nor is there any which has
found a bitterer foe to permanent pros
perity in strong drink. To this we mo&l
cheerfully add our firm belief that nc
men, when onoe they get started in tb
right direction, can do better eerrice oi
more of it in the battle fox total absti
nence. —2f. 7. paper. ,
A 1.1 tils Mease.
ttmaHutemsasa.
• On iy that—
Chsaal slew* the home
By aii <a A *
Bat ems!) M I aw, i
Wak and sky,
t hare aharp Hills teste
And bright ry*.
I saa ess wksu the graat
Am ta pate,
1 mo gnaw for a hWd
At a chain. I
Daar tarn. yen am ktefi,
Trmsm strong;
But the day amy arrtra,
Bator* tang.
rhsn (a rata yoa shall rant
la a net;
Then year amaW meusi* fitaafi
Wont tor***-
NO. 11.
Pacta and Fnaetee,
Colorado i" oftao called the Bwittwe
, taod of America.
I A Clereknd ooroaror has adopted aa a
. badge e miniature kcrpeeoe can.
i Then were 194 marriage*. WIT birth*
r and Ml doaths in New York last week
• A matt marhare roonnbof tha world
to sink htm, bat ens trover hare eooogb
> to satisfy him.
1 The railroad men down Earl we qaia
siaga new station agent, who made e
requisition for "red oiT for rignal lamps.
led from Adrian, MMrig*n< i.*** ,w
I ponnda of batter, and M.2 77 pounds ot
A young lady gf Philsdelphi* went ot
deign-riding wearing a fashionable boa
tot, and froee her wskwi
nasnity. * *
A cynical lady, nfibw inclined to flirt,
ti mass men we like a cold—very
• -1* caught, bat rery difficult to get
rid of.
A gnng of burglar* in Tadiaoa worked
dl night at a eooaty tntaanrer'a safe, and
sere rejoiced to find ffl.lo in it* roomy
A man died suddenly from iotcmpar-
UMC, and a Wastmm hwy iotuH that
• deoeaaed omne to bin death by drinking
between drink*."
A tree which was cat dawn last wm*
n " contained two huahela of beets
ind three bnodrsd pounds of braitiful
ranaparaot honey.
An undertaker's office in IndiaaapoUs
reecottr bore this cheering inscription
*u the front door: " Gene for s deed
naa—bank noon."
Four Isdiea and one gentleman ween
•wferom lately in a Plymouth County
Kwmtt—the first instance of tha kind
a Usssacbnsetta.
New Hampabow has 79 82 mikw of
railroait. built at aa cxpoeaeof fM.TM,-
117. Vermont has 711 J, built at aa
•xpeose of |8&,493j13.
California U going into the tree buai
icos in earaeet Bho has hired a State
Tee-plan te* at a coal of fifteen thousand
lollsrs a year and qpsnaag
A little bey in Minnesota, has
men scalded to death fay an explovion
wodnecd in a hot saiaee-pk which threw
(he ooatents over hia laoc sad amok.
A California statute, after passing
through tha hands of a rrriwog com
niaaion, dedans • aO marriages of white
xwwonaanJ negroes or -malsttocs vwd.
A child in Buffalo, the other day. tied
i crape on the cb-or knob to tee If tha
nu would come to take them out
-dine, as it did the family acton tha
rna editor of tha OatritlO Bmmmwr
has received the following: "Yon an
respectfully invited to a Spriee oa Wed
uaaday area, meet at , Bring
*oae neadebeeae and car >ly." •
A man in A Kansas City hotel a abort
time ago blew out the gas oa retiring,
uid soon after be ntriied down stairs
full of indignation, to ascertain if the
rasa "ghat factory next door."
An lowa msn fingfod his wife tanner
rifullv heosnae she took en old coat on
vhidk a dog was sleeping, to protect her %
uara feet fsom the eold floor while she
good by the atove to drew herself.
A Liverpool magistrate roaays to eura
the draakaids hroaght before him. not
fin. o.
each, but bv collecting the names and
•Ureases of the emptoycrl of each and
threatening to pablwh Use Bel
At BewecrttOwu, Ohio, a deaoemte
voting man named Oww dark, hv-.ng
at that pbw* wbot hia aiatee With a rifia
hecanae aba threw anowas him. The
ball passed throngb the girl's right thigh
l oat below the top joint, thence nearly
through the tefttoigh. Clark was ar
rested.
A soldier was sentenced, for deserting,
to have hia ear cot off. After undergo
ing the brutal ordeal, be was ordered out
•f the eoort-yaid to the tone of the
"Rogue's March." He then turn**!,
and. is mock dignity, thns wldr*<cd
!be mnticiane : "Gentlemen, I thank
yon ; bat I have no ear for music."
A man recently come to lonia, Mich.,
who claimed to have lain four dart and
three nighta apparently dead. He was
-truck down in the snow by a falling
tree. His comrades Mhed him after a
w scorch, and atthtmgh he was pro
nuunerd dead by a phymcmo. hia broth
er pamiated in kaepiag lam. The re
al! was that oa the fourth day he began
to isnra
A Southern paper advertises as fol
lows : Waotcu. at this office, an able
bodied, hard-featured, bad-tempered,
not-to-be-put-of! and andto-be-hacked
dosrn. freckle-faced young man tocoOeet
for this tee* furnish his own
horse, mddto bags, pwtok. whisky,
bowie-kaife and cowhidia Ike will fur
nish th- accounts. To such we promise
onnstent and laborious employment.
The Albany Jomrmdl says the New
York State Fish Commissioners have
made a mistake in assuming trout to
have become scarce in the waters of the
Northern Wilderness, and to stocking
them with bees and pickerel, saying that
the* have "by this single bit of pis
catorial cannibalism done more linrm
than they have done good by all their
other useful labors since their organi
sation.
A* Ood PeorosmoK.—An odd wager
til very recently mede i# Wturtad
between'two minister*, one of whom wae
a visitor to the parish of the oilier. The
perish clergyman complained that he tai
unable to prevent members of his congre
gation from leaving the church during the
'services, when the other replied that he
oonld stop the nuisance, a proposition
which reunited in a wager. The stranger
minister on the following Sunday mount?a
his clerical brother's pulpit, and, in the
tefinoing of hit sermon stated that his
remarks were particularly addressed,
first to the godless, and second to the
righteous. He theo proceeded In the fol
lowing manner:— - Now, ye stapid sin
ners, ye who blaspheme Uhrist ai.d make
a mockerv of His holy teaohings; ye who
are fall of all vice, and far from repent
ance, 1 have done with yon. Ansa and
take yourselves off from the Lord's house,
for the second part of my discourse de
voted to those among yoa who ere of a
clear heart." Not a person stirred, and
his sermon wts attentively listened to un
til its does. Of course, he won the wager.
,• • '
H A wkotoiw Wmnmom.—La wy who
badger witoease# upon the stand often
get sharply cut, 4 among the nume
rous atoriea told at the expense of the
members of the bar, there is none better
than one that occurred at the session of
a court recently held in a Western city.
A prominent lawyer had an old fanner
upon Hie stand whom he undertook to
browbeat, and for an hour labored hard
to confuse and frighten him by his mer
ciless style of cross-questioning. The
lawyer has a large bald bead that by a
stretch of imagination might be thought
to resemble a pumpkin, and wore a bags
standing shirt collar. During his labo
rious badgering of the old termer one
side of the collar wilted and lay down
on the lawyer's coat As the witness
waa released, be stepped toward his tor
mentor and said, loud enough for the
court mfd juiy to Lear: " See here,
Squire, if you don't put up yom side
boards you'll lose that pumpkin off the
top of your load." Rmileafere audible
about that time.
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