General Crook's Woo- Ing. oy [New Vork Evening Post.) Now that Gen. Crook is so consnicts ously before the publie, it is with pecul ir inter romantic diately promote, the m officer with ins y 1 recalls the ere hi Preceding { they did no » of that placed them min & pe There is no doul sonal popula she was, did : and peighbors sm the inevitable loss and suffering upon their well-known southern proclivitios. A little anecdote in which she played a part went th unds of the newapa pers while she was still in hor school days. On his w vy to Wheeling, inn private cur, President Buchanan made the usual wait at Oakland station, where any persons assembled to ba presented to the chief magistrate. When Mary's turn the bachelor put the question to her that had served him throughout the inter- view: “And what you from, miss? “From the same state as your excellency,” she quickly replied, “the state of single Llessednoss!” Another story my friend had from ker own lips as they were walking through a new wing of the hotel, which before comuvlotion had beeg taken for a fem POrary DArrackKs and pospital by thn IASG Uen CHRINO, state are to the window. Oneyoung fellow, pale Home sick soldiers were and encamped at this point. and wounded Union brought in one day. across from her window into the op- ad been tresses, laid on blankets making a large caldron of chicken broth for them. When it was doneshe carried a smoking bowllul in each hand | “Hold on, lob,” sang out a comrade on the floor beside him, “may be that stuff is pois: The sick man hesitated for one moment, looked at Mary, whose eyes, frank as the day, doubtless flashed their indignant protest, “Oh, for shame.” said he, “I'll trust that girl's face for my life Here's thank 0 to yor, miss,” and down went the soup. In the rapidly varying phases of the war on this border land th 3 TO ul government, now now miles in a night, by Stonew 11 brizade the por- the hotel SAY em in wsion of the torn up, thirty Jackson's f the 1 socal 1 nt y the veranda A y i an bods led out o whe town, 1 harrie to Libby pr friend were me party, con their Persona erals was probably the only amn dark f off t won wognition by ing feature of the spirited affai man who had held tions with General summer at Oakland, ing a position in the secret service war department at Richmond Through his advice, pressed upon Sec retary Benjamin, Ge Kelley and Crook released, as their reinstate- ment in command of the road sortant to the interests of Pe. py southerners whose lives and pro- perty lay at the mercy and foe, on thia critical line of soc demas Later on hello 1 was the SOY of ie nerals were was im- those une + ional reation, another rumor of a to the hotel in the mountains; of his nurse, a little rebel maiden; and finally conditions: a capture by the sister as well as by the brother—an altar and a ring. In the recent redoubtable ex- ploits of Gen. Crook among the Apaches, may we not perhaps discover tho same stratogy so successful in the tenderer engagements of his youth, when, penetrating into the enemy's country, he conecilisted and captured the charming hostile, the subject of this sketch. hr Sir W. Templo: To make others wit appear more than one's own, isa 1 rule in conversation; a Neccssary one, to let others take notice of your wit, and never do it yourself, BEAUTY IN HOMESPUN. the War...Curious Makeshifts ployed in Contriving Costumes. {Ma v W Several Early in Philadelphia Times.) histories and gketehios have been w ton descr the military straits to brought durir i do ot k depi ded the sti the AY ( onfederacy ibing which om ho lat men bnt were OW women block ade, had a p HA opening of thie o 1 ad on rotty oo supply we Pi cet on with ol 1n3¢ ier of the wi i it to an ele inmment un vchmoad she of the wa What Thomas Hughes Nays. Ms from Band 3 little bouta Is, and = Your i, and I noticed thai turned to column of I was talking to a fellow wd I did not want to bre veraantion. But 1 noticed in glancing ov the shoulder that the column every ted in was ‘proaperons that but new ay rai tos one Pd 32 ie one rag intere I thon to mv own con i : this referred I found after referred to your doings on Langhitor Hol ind riean people regard as first importance what takes place Mr. Hughes said that America was the only country the world In mney, but Engiand was ountry to gpend money in. aht of course niry, Cie ch 10 makes mid Looking at the Brighter Nido. {Cincinnati Enquirer. } Human life is full of ils strange ups to remember the ups the downs we should be the happier for it, We are seldom as mis- erablo as we think wo are. When a single hornet stings us we need not swear that we ran against a hornet’s nest and that the whole swarm came ont and stung us until swelled to the size of Jumbe. lesson from the Irishman, Two broth. ers were rolling a huge log down a hill. One end rolled faster than the other, it. The log rolled on, hawever, und one minute Pat was under the log groaning, and the next mindte he was on tov of the log roaring for help. brother, with a true Irishman's wit, wok in the situation at » fiance, and eried out: ‘Hold on tight, Fat, for you are oa top ball the time any way.” LIERARIES FOR SHOW, The Purchase of Hooks by Ignesunt | Parvenuns. A New York Sun reporter interviewed a book with regard to the pur chinae books for the mere of their bindings by ignorant parvenns, *1 have been sent for several times this year,” said the sales i “i Her 0! anke man, "to meastre in nuniber tho sie to ho 18608, re libraries now of Monks fun sitting the books the forn books ' 100 kesd ont 8 hand for a eustomer about to He had books; b re The Church Bell rue we $. 4 4 sew ork Lotte nate pom chureh New interested rman red of Jac) has heard of . {a " who + enoagh of me still y have Mr. He He i will lod on albu wi h evOry morn. bell annovs wwe away from the bell, Int he io that R prope LO 1ppress the bell And not only that bell, but all of ehinreh bells, This fight will po on gave, till every chureh bell in Now York is stopped. Church bells mast go They are a nnisance, and grits unneces- sary, and their sinled Schultz has been joined mm his crnsada by another man, who makes compliant against another bell connected with an {ent el nro, i that is rung earl EFT the doom = ters for the Poor. That bell must be sap pressed, too, the other man says, It up, snd makes him nancomfortable in varions wavs. Jackson Schultz, and the other mun, are determined to oarry on the fight at all hazards, and “arouse a public sentiment that will sweep every church bell out of existence.” “By Foslery Thrive” {Inter Oconn.) Peck, of Peck's Sun, and anthor of * The Bad Boy,” to an interviewer of I'he Boston Traveler said that his mother often asked him why he made such a fool of himmelf. His reply was, of conrse, ** because it is the most prof | table thing a wise men ean do.” HIGH-PRICED CIGARS. Bo — i Tho Weeds That Bring Faney Prices | and the Men Who Buy Them. (New York Sun.) A young man with neatly brushed hair and & light-blue necktis stood be hind & cigar stand in a fashionable and well-known cafe ap town the othe It was very dull, as the Wall stree had not begun to drop in on their way had ‘ In the Cues the and y rdaay L mer UN EErs wandered Ware oral POW @ King t hap rend Queer Device wl nded i hollow yor EI TOR nec ‘ BON UGE space. Many among the what purpose this new- ight The plausible explanation of the muti- lated coins seemed fo be that they were intend d to sls al five dollar Meco ID Tam This was upset, however, by one of the boys, who was familiar with all the tri of the kn. According to his knowledge, these mutilated in nse a great deal by the tin-horn gamblers hiroug t. They re in throughout the tended to conocal within this hollow a ving un 1 n device n oped we * “ EID coins were Wes 1 small mirror, snd thns while detected upon the table st forty-five degrees, behind gimailar coin, in front of the dealer, latter could, by a Little easily ekill, know by moans of a 1 to a | certainty every card held by any one or | ail of his opporents. A man who | should chance to play in any ga where this little racket” was bes worked by a successful “greek” would MONOY AWAY without even the excitement of a pons. ble chance for winning. The game i not nnknown to professional gamblers, htt probably is to the general pubis IPTG UIrroer The Multicharge Gun {Texas Biftings} The Lyman-Haskell multicharge gun. | is almost completed, and experiments | will be began at Bandy Hook in a short | time. It is proposed to fire a ball through iron thet icknese of three feel, which is from thirty to fifty per cent, heavier than any ship ean oarry. Mr. Haskell claims that his gun will project a ball at least fifteen miles, which is six miles further than any other cannon has been able to send a missile, OLD LETTERS (Earl of Roslyn} Jt seems but yesterday she died, but years Tinve paused sinos then ; the wondrous cheng of time Makes great things little, little things soy Hine, And sanctifies the dew of da y temrs, BO LEAs anpeers fave in my pour i, as all must Bho died In hi page, nor £3380, tory ” rhvine, Of her, whons prime sadly where fear £, It seers A fe And do life was love, whose lovely F risen ne EOrrrows are, nox to-day 1 read bstss Booms ra dead } thie +1 the hand, i I Kind ber Th og Thu fy ALN 2 Frite's Dog Story. Texas oe ngs} for a {« w minrrhes, ntage of to re American nust ge wre day toga vel i one of wid to the REY BOTTS A Spall “Dipping” Party. on 8 sensational Inter. WOW of the New York deme monde, pu hod recently in a Phila delphia paper, M. Labouchore says 11d seem that 40 per cent. of the cigarettes sold in the United States kod by ladies. In Russia, 1 glioald imagine that the peroentage Is even greater : whilst in France, Germany and Italy the perceniage oon sumed Dy the fair sex must be considerable. And why not? it find pleasure tobacoo, why shoald women be arbitrarily excluded from the enjoyment of the same pleasure? When, many years ago, 1 was living in the United States, the young ladies at Washington were given to what they termed “dipping,” a prac tice far more objectionable than smok- ing. A dipping party consisted of a number of girls squatting on the ground round a bowl in which thera was a thick mixture of snuff and water. This they used to put into their mouths with sticks and rab i on their teeth, the theory being that whitened them; mt this, of course, wis & mere exonse for what was equiva lent to chewing. th some 14 Na 1 BO are Emo in 1aen