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A Defence.
Oh I they tell me, Mr. Printer,
There's a rumor now afloat,
That the JOURN a.L'Et yearling poet
Certain verses never wrote ;
So a consciencious public
On my "Poems" darkly frown,
And a hundred brainless voices
Loudly bellow, "kick him down,
Yes, they say the pearly glimmer
That illumes the classic mind,
Never did the dark recesses
Of joy stupid nature find;
Consequently, "An ImrosToi,"
They have branded me full soon,
Ard presented me a ticket
To oblivion's land of gloom.
Now, let calumny's foul leader
Come from out his loathsome cave.
And in, truth's benignant waters
His inhuman spirit late;
In the columns of the JOURNAL
We will fight the battle through,
And perhaps his education
Can my untaught pen subdue.
Oh 1 the light of education
Is most potent I admit,
And I would its golden flashes
O'er my darkened mind did flit;
And I know the real scholar,
Who possesses common sense,
Would not dare to stain his manhood
By denouncing my defence.
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But the person I'm describicg
Is the self-important fool;
He who thinks all useful knowledge
Is obtained at Normal School;
Oh I my paper-collar'd stripling,
With your lasting gaiters shod,
Don't compare your education
With the priceless gift of God.
When I wrote those humble poems
No pretentious did I make,
On the wings of parenziel fancy
My depariure far to take ;
I but wrote the modest effort
Of a mind unskilled in art ;
'Teas dictated by the impulse
Of a warm and guileless heart.
Vhe ttirg-(7"rlier.
Doctor Vathek
-Oil -
AMY MOORE'S ROMANCE.
Office rc
-Ig, Hill areal
[jan.4,'7l.
1 Y CAPT. CHARLES UOWAIt D.
CHAPTER I.
THE ACCIDENT.
It was a sunny day in the midst of the
'.fiowery month, 'and merry picnic people
of Swansdown were enjoying themselves
in a cool grove, in sight of Oak Hill, Amy
Moore's picturesque home.
Amy had driven the spirited little bays
to the picnic ground:, quite early in the
ti.renoon, to show her golden-haired little
brother the sights, andipend several hours
among her own friends from the town.
She was the accepted belle of the coun
try five miles around Swansdown 'and ev
erybody courted the smiles she had; to be
stow—smiles such as had never fallen to
the lot of beauteous woman.
The day passed pleasantly to Amy. She
encountered handsome and dashing Doctor
Vathek, who, she knew, would some day
ask for the prettiest hand in all the dis
trict—hers.
I cannot Ray that the artless girl loved
.the doctor, who was fully five years her
senior.
He was the only suitor she 'IA ever
bad.
tutelliient, refined, the master of his
honorable profession, and, to all outward
manifestations, a true gentleman, there
was much about the doctor to captivate
the fairer sex.
Amy thought she could love bitri, but,
to tell the truth, reader, she had never
tried.
If it were in accordance with the pa
rents' wisiles that she should become Mrs.
Vathek, she would willingly relinquish
him her hand, and try to love him for his
make.
The golden god of day was yet far from
the western horizon, when a professional
call took Otho Vathek from
. Amy's side,
and a few minutes later, to oblige her boy
ish brother, the pretty heiress of Oak
Hill entered the phreton, and set out for
home.
Not far from the grove rushed a turbu
lent stream, whose steep banks were cov
ered with May grasses and flowers to the
very edge.
The precipices were lined with little
groups of picnicers; whom Amy could dis•
anguish with the superb glass which she
hod accepted at the hands of Doctor
Vathek.
"Amy, du stop the horses, and let me
get that pretty flower for mamma," beg.
ged Harry, depositing his already large
bunch of flowers in his sister's lap.
"Harry, you have gathered flowers
enough alread ," said Amy. "You were
quite anxious to go home 'a few moments
since, and now you will never get there, if
you stop to pluck every gaudy flower yon.,.
see."
"But just this once," pleaded the boy,
bestowing a look upon his sister which she
could not resist. "Amy; I'm the only
little brother you have, and I'll love you
more than ever, it' you leave me pluck the
flower."
A tear glittered beyond Amy's smile,
and she gently drew rein.
Barry sprang from the phroton, and
ran, with a childish shout, to the group of
kndelions. He quickly broke several
from their stems, and was returning when
a pistol shot smote the mild spring air.
Down the cliff some person was amusing
himself with target shooting.
The unexpected report startled the
bays, and, suddenly wheeling, for Amy's
hands rested lightly upon the lines, they
dashed towards the cliff.
The phaeton barely missed little Harry!
With pallid face, but still self possessed,
Amy tried to recover the lines,• but they
were jerked over the dasher bofore she
could touch them, and she settled back
into the vehicle, waiting, with a terrible
calmness, fur the dreadful fate seemingly
in store fur her.
Rapidly the steeds,
blind with fright,
neared the cliffs, a hundred feet below
which roared the muddy stream over its
rocky bed.
Groups of merry people stilled their
laughter at her peril, and many bulled
their faces in their hands, that they might
not witness her impending doom.
To attempt to arrest the speed of the in
furiated animals seemed death as horrible
as a leap from the cliff, but there was one
who possessed the nerve requisite for the
attempt.
He was a young man, who had quitted
the busy city for a few days' real pleasure
and quietude in the country, and was com
partitively a stranger to the neighborhood.
When he saw Amy's peril, be ran to
wards the phaeton; and intercepted the
horses scarce thirty yards from the preci
pice.
lie fearlessly threw himself before them.
He grasped the bits, and tugged at them
with all his strength. He was knocked
beneath the iron hoofs, and murderously
trampled, but the horses were brought to
bay long enough to permit Amy to spring
from the phaeton, and seize the lines.
Then they were speedily subdued.
Her daring preserver, rendered uncon
scious by his manifold injuries, was borne
to Oak Hill, and a messenger despatched
for a surgeon.
Amy paced the eastern veranda of the
mansion, than she might not hear the
heart rending groans the sufferer sent
heavenward, and watching, oh, how anx
iously ! for Doctor Vath A's face.
At last he came up the lawn, and exe
cuted a ceremonious bow when he stepped
upon the veranda. He would have said
something foreign to his visit, had not
Amy pointed to the door beyond which
her deliverer lay between life and death.
"He needs your immediate attention,
doctor," she said, with emphasis, and, as
he passed her, she added, with clasped
hands, "He saved my life, at the risk of
his own, and for the love of Heaven, Otho,
cave his !"
He said nothing, but passed on, leaving
Amy upon the porch waiting his report.
When Otho Vathek bent over the
wounded.man, he was struck with the
handsome face, which, through some un
seen Providence, had escaped unmarred.
He felt that Amy Moore would love that
face to the entire exclusion of his, and he
resolved that such things should not be.
The stranger's wounds were dangerous,
but amputation was not necessary.
"She will love him!" murmured the
doctor, whilst making his examination.
"If I were a woman, I would worship—l
would die fol. such a fice And he saved
her life, too. He shall not wed her. I
will maim hint for life, and then, if she
wants to wed a man with both legs in the
grave, she may do it. Amputation is not
necessary, but curse him, it shall be per
formed. .
Thus he informed the young man
"Doctor Vatbek." he said, "amputation
is not essential to the preservation of my
life. lam a surgeon myself, and can easily
sec that I need no such operation. I will
not submit to it—there ! I place myself
under your medicine, but not your knives "
%flied, Otho Irathek walked from the
room, promising to return soon with the
proper medicines.
A dark cloud sat enthroned upon his
face, aucl'he walked p:st Amy without
speaking.
A terrible determination ruled his heart.
Oscar Goldsmith—his new arrival—
should die !
CHAPTER 11.
TIIE _DRAUGHT OP POISON.
The reaction of nature brought to Os
car Goldsmith - the weakness of a babe.
Amy Moore watched untiringly at his
couch through the long hours of the
nights, and often felt that she loved that
pale and emaciated face. He had gained
a place in her heart which man had never
filled before—which none other than he
would ever fill.
One night, as Amy occupied her post of
duty, Doctor Vathek called with a bottle
of wine, which he said would greatly
strengthen his patient.
Amy had discovered the doctor's jeal
ousy, and watched him, as the Indian
watches a traitor, for many days.
She knew that some da - rk plot was deep
buried in his heart, and bided her time to
defeat it.
When the revengeful phinician placed
the wine upon the table, she felt that the
fearful hour had' come.
"Amy," he said, handing her a goblet
filled to the brim with the ruby fluid, to
allay all suspicion, "while Mr. Goldsmith
sleeps, let us drink to his speedy restora
tion to health."
She took the goblet with a smile, and
drank, with a zest that made him frown,
the health he proposed.
"Now," said he,' "do you, Amy, brit'' ,
a cloth, and we will moisten the lips of the
young man with wine. It will be for his
good."
Without replying, the girl rose, and
glided fzom the chamber.
She went no farther than across the
thresbhold, and applied her eyes to the key
hole.
Doctor Vathek stepped to the table, and
drew a tiny phial from an inner pocket.
Ho bent over the goblet, which he had
refilled with wine prior to Amy's depart
ure, and permitted three drops of the con
tents of the phial to mingle with the ruddy
liquor. •
A moment later Amy rejoined him.
'Nothing better that; my kerchief is at
my immediate disposal at this hour," she
said, extending her handkerchief, which
he acoepted.
He quickly saturated a portion of the
fabric with the poison, and moved toward
the sleeper. .
"Otho," said Amy, seizing the goblet,
"I am going to take a sip of Oscar's wine .
He'll never know it; look ?"
An icy chill flitted to Doctor Vathek's
heart, and burrowed therein.
He turned, as though pieiced by an
Asoestian arrow, and with a cry of', "Don't,
for God's sake, Amy rushed towards
the girl.
He reached for the goblet, but the rim
bad touched Amy's lips, and she dashed
it to the floor.
"How strangely it tasted, Otho," she
said, staggering towards her arm chair.
qt stings my heart ! Can this be death—
death ?"
Thoroughly frightened, Otho Vathek
dropped the handkerchief, and sprang to
the girl's side.
"Rouse father," she said in whispers;
"but tell him not of my condition."
The prisoner rushed from the room.
The door had scarcely closed upon his
form, when Amy sprang from the chair,
and hid the handkerchief in her bosom.
"Saved !" she murmured; glancing at
Oscar Goldsn.ith, who slumbered uncon
scious of the tragic scene enacted at. his
aide. " 'Tis well, Otbo Vathek, that I
suspected you. To-morrow, sir, you shall
obtain a permanent leave of absence. But
hark ! they come."
She threw herself upon the chair again,
and admirably counterfeited a deathly ill
ness-. She'li•eely took the restoratives the
hated hands administere•l, and 'slowly re
covered
Baffled the second time, Doctor Vathek
took his leave, planning another attempt
upon his rival's life. fle believed that
Amy suspected nothing; bat yet he cauld
not quite satisfactorily account for the ab
sence of the poisoned handkerchief when
he re-entered the sick chamber.
HUNTINGDON, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1874
When he called the following morning,
he found a physician from a neighboring
town in attendance upon his patient, and
Amy gently informed him that his further
services could be dispensed with.
He beer me furious, and demanded of
the young girl the cause of his abrupt dis
missal.
"Miss Moore ;" he said, hoarse with
smothered passion, "I have been the family
physician for years. Why, therefore, I
demand, am I dismissed, and a stranger
called in my stead? I consider the action
an insult, not oLly to myself, but to the
profession. _ _
"Doctor Vatheli, by myself was your
dismissal brought about," returned Amy.
calmly. "And does not this kerchief tell
you why ?" and she drew the poisoned
handkerchief from her bosom, and held it
before his vision.
He shrank from the sight. aghast.
'•I saw you poison the wine," she con
tinued. "I never tasted the liquor; and,
Doctor Otho Vathek, villain and poisoner,
you are wanted in the prisoner's dock.
Ungrateful man ! you have attempted the
life of one who saved mine—aye, the life
of my betrothed; for yesterday I promised
to become his bride, as soon as health and
strength return to him again. Had he
never crossed my path. or had your dia
bolical plot succeeded, I would have become
yours; but Heaven has interposed. Otho
Vathek--"
Amy suddenly paused, for Doctor
Vathek was gone.
He threw a scowl at her from his gig,
and rode away at a terrible speed.
That night Swansdown was minus a
physician.
Oscar Goldsmith recovered under the
new doctor's hands, and when the leaves
of autumn were falling from the hoary
trees, he wedded the brave little creature
whose fate lie had saved, mid who, in re
turn, had preserved his.
Doctor Vathek never returned to Swans
down, but should lie happen there, he
will 6nd his office occupied by Doctor Os
car Goldsmith, and often Oak Hill's phar•
ton is driven up to his door, and two little
children, sweet images of Amy, our he
roine, spring from the vehicle to greet
"papa."
giendiug .or the pillion.
[From the "All-Day City Item:'?
The Siamese Twins
The Autopsy Completed at Last—Dr.
Pancoast and Profes:or Allen Explain
Things—Full Report on the Important
Sul?fict.
We are at last. able to :ay the result of
the autopsy of the Siamese Twins before
our readers.
The following official report of the spe
dial meeting of the College of Physicians
of Philadelphia, held on Wednesday even
ing, appears in the Philadelphia Medical
Times of to day.
A special meeting of the College of
Physicians of Philadelphia was held at the
ball Wednesday evening, February 18, for
the purpose of hearing the report of the
Commission on the Siamese Twins, Dr. W.
S. W. Ilusehenberger, United States Navy,
in the chair.
The bodies of the Siamese Twins being
upsn the table, the meeting proceeded to
hear the report of Drs. Pancoastand Allen.
On behalf of the commission,
DS. PANCOAST STATED
the t, the dPssection not having been en
tirely completed their report would be a
verbal one, to be followed at some later
date by a memoir upon the subject.
Dr. William H. Pancoast said :
Mr. Chairman, and Fellows of the Col
lege. Having been requested, as n mem
ber of the Commission, to open the discus-
Men this evening, I will sly briefly, in
reference to this monster, of a symmetrical
duplex development, joined as many of the
Fellows now know, at the ensitbrm appen
dix, and also here at the omphalos or. nay
el, that at the investigation which we made
on the first occasion at Mount Airy I
made the opening incision of the body on
the line for the ligation of the primitive
iliac, on the right side; Dr. Allen made
the incision on the left. The object was to
reach the great vsels,—
THE AORTA AND TWO PRIMITIVE ILIAS,
and to force the injecting material which
we use fur embalming (chloride of zinc)
up the aorta and down the iliacs until it
ran from the incisions made in the fingers
and toes. It flowed freely through the
blood-vessels of Eng, owing to the ossified
condition of his arteries; the injection in
Chang woe, however, not so successful,
owing to decomposition in the tissues and
blood-vessels. It was necessary to repeat
the injecting process several times in order
top reserve the body. The arteries of
Chong, were found to be very much de
composed—quite rotten, in fact.
In Dunglison's Medical Dictionary we
find the scientific name given for the Siam
ese Twins, in the classification of teratology
to be "Xiphopages," and by referring to
the admirable article on "Diploteratology,"
of Dr. G. J. Fisher (published in the
Transactions of the Medical Society of the
State of New York for the year 1866,) it
will be found that the twins belong to the
class of Anacatadidyma. In his classifica
tion of double monsters he makes three
orders: Order first—Teratacatadidyma ;
derived from teras, tcratos, a "monster,"
rata. "down," and didunms, "a twin."—
Definition—Duplicity, with more or less
separation of the cerebro-spinal axis.
FROM ABOVE DOWNWARD.
Order second—Terata-anaditlyma, deriv
ed from ana, "up" or "above" and didu-
Inns, a "twin." Definition—duplicity, with
more or less separation, of the cerebro-spinal
axis, from below upward, or from the cau
dal toward the cephalic extremity of the
neutral axis. Order third—Terata-an ae
atadidyma, derived from ana, "above,"
rata, "down." and didumos, a "twin."—
Definition—duplicity. with more or less
separation, of both the oephalio and the
caudal extremity of the cerebro spinal axis,
existing contemporaneously. In this order
the monster now befilre us might be called
an Omphelopagns Xi pbodidym us.
Thu; we hive thiseientifie notnencia
tore of this monster. Of course, the con
sideration of greatest interest to the pro
fession, and one of the main reasons
why the c-mmission made such exertions
to obtain this post mortem, was that the
American profession. might not be charged
with having neglected an effort to obtain
an autopsy, which would solve the myste
ry of their union. The feature of greatest
interest is connected with this band—about
four inches long, and eight inches in cir
cumference. In addition to this, there
are other points of importance in teratolo
gy, in regard to the fulfillment of
THE LAW OF HOMOLOGOUS UNION,
in relation to the juncture of the recti•
muscles, and the Ease m of the obliquns
and transversails at their point of meeting
in the centre of the band. In regard to
the position of the hearts, we think their
apices preeent toward each; but we have
not opened the thorax. The livers we
have found to approximate to each other
and to push through the respective peri
toneal openings into the band. We ex
tended our incisions to the margin of the
band in front . By placing my hand in
THE PERITONEAL CAVITY
of Eng, and my colleague placing his hand
in the peritoneal cavity of Chang, we push
ed befbre us processes of peritoneutn,
which ran on to the median line of the
band; and we could feel our fingers in the
lower portion of the hand, behind the me
dian line, with a distinct layer of perito
neum between .demonstrating at
once the prolongation of the peritoneum
into the band, and the complete separa
tion of one peritoneal cavity flow the oth
er at this median line. Above that we
felt some
TRACES OF VASCULAR CONNECTION
apparently running from one liver to the
other. But this we will examine into
when we have a better opportunity of care
fully dissecting and examining what vas
cular structures may exist. We also no
ticed that in turning off the flaps consist
ing of the anterior walls of the abdomen,
the hypogastric arteries, as illustrated by
the diagram on the black-board, ran up
wards in each body into the band. We
lost them in this way, as we think, to
wards the common umbilicus in the inte
rior inferior surface of the middle of the
band.
It is probable that the two hypogastric
arteries on each side passed this umbilicus
Whether or not there were two umbilical
veins, we have not yet been able to decide,
nor to answer the question whether the
umbilical cord was double or single and
composed - of the four hypogastric arteries
and two umbilical veins, or whether the
placenta was single, double, or twin.
We also recognized that the ensiform ap
pendix, as shown in the diagram of each
side, was prolonged and united in the mid
dle line. On our later examination we
find that there is complete continuity of
structure of the cartilages, but
NO TRUE JOINT AT THE MIDDLE LINT,
although it is possible there may be
some small synovial sacs further up. The
motion is mainly due, as I here demon
strate to you by moving these bodies one
upon the other, to the elasticity of the con
nected ensiform appendices and the inter
vening fiber-cartilages.
In regard to the vascular connection of
the band, we have not yet been able to
make so thorough and careful examination
as we wished; but still, in throwing color
ed plaster into the portal circulation of
Chang, it has been found to flow through
the vessel of the upper part of the band
into the portal vessel of Enz. So that the
surgical anatomy of the band consists in
the skin and fascia which cover it, the
,two separate peritoneal pouches which
meet in the middle,
THE LARGE PERITONEA!, POUCH,
the vascular connection, to whatever ex•
tent they may exist between the two por
tal circulations, and the remains of the
hypogastric arteries in the lower portion of
the band. Thus the main difficulty in
any operation for section of the band
would seem to be in regard to the perito
neal processes and the portal circulation.
The anastomesis which may exist between
the iuternal mammary arteries and the in
terenstals in the integument in the upper
portion of the band, of c4urse would pre
sent no difficulty. ' .
I will not venture upon any further
remark's as to the surgery of the case,
while there are so many distinguished gen
tlemen pre=ent more competent than my
self to give an opinion. At the same
time. operations on the peritoneum may
not be considered so hazardous in this day,
when ovariotomy, gastrotomy, and even
Clesarian section are so often performed.
The peritoneum pouches themselves would
,NOT PRESENT SO GREAT A DIFFICULTY
as might be anticipated, under pressure
and acupuncture, by which the sensitive
ness of the structure might be so altered
as to permit of a section. I was informed
at Mount Airy that in Paris a surgeon
had made the experiment of applying
pressure upon the band, and it was report
ed the twins had fainted in consequence
I could not ascertain, however, whether
this was from fright, design, or actual
pain.
As Dr. Hollingsworth is present, itmay
be proper for me to mention a fact which
that gentleman can corroborate, that Eng
was the stronger physically and Chang
was the stronger mentally. The same dif
ference was observed in their characters.
Chang was more irritable than Eng, es
pecially since an attack of paralysis with
which he had been afflicted—this beingin
the side next to Eng. The latter bad not
only to bear with the irritability of his
associate, but also to support one-half his
weight. Among other peculiarities, Chang
would sometimes break useful articles, or
throw them in the fire.
IN CONCLUSION,
let me say that when I turned up the skin
and superficial fascia of the H incision on
the posterior part of the band, I was struck
with the development and the strength of
the abdominal nponeuroses. The fibers
arched, interlaced, and developed into a
strong fibrous hand about a quarter of an
inch wide, running around the median
line, although there was no actual joint in
the cartilage.
Prof. Harrison Allen then trade a few
remarks, agreeing in the the main with
Dr. Pancoast.
[The bodies were then inspected by the
audience, and afterward turned so as to
expose the p-sterior part of the band.
Further remarks apply to this posterior
aspect.)
Dr. Panconst—While the bodies arebe
ing turned, I will take the opportunity of
replying to one or two questions which
have been asked me. First in regard to
the common sensibility of these individ
uals.
According to the statements we reoeiv
ed at Mount Airy, there was a line of com
mon sensibility corresponding to the me
dium line of the band. Dr. liollinsworth
says that if a pin was stuck into the band
at the medium line, both of the twins
would feel it distinctly; but that, even at
a slight distance to either side, the point
of the pin produced an effect only on the
twin of that side.
Another question has been asked me as
to whether either of them was ever put
separately under the influence of an aims
thetic. I answer it by saying that so far
as we know it never was attempted, but
that when, upon the final occasion. Chang
was anmsthctized by death, Eng was for a
time unaffected. •
The story as told at Mount Airy WRS
that Eng waked up and asked his son,
"How is your uncle Chang?" The boy
said, "Uncle Chang is cold. Uncle Chang
is dead." Then
GREAT EXCITEMENT TOOK PLACE.
Eng commenced crying out immediately,
saying to his wife, whom they called in,
"My last hour is come," and finally sank
away. He was in perfect health when they
went to bed.
They had been sitting up in a large
double chair made for thir accommoda
tion. Eng was smoking his pipe until he
became sleepy, and finally said to Chang.
"We must retire." Chang said that he
could not lie down comfortably. I under
stand that when they went from Chang's
house to Eng's house, where they died, it
was against the directiqn of Dr. Hollings
worth ; but, with their usual stubbornness,
they persisted in riding the distance in an
open buggy. _ _ _
To return to the narartice of the night
of their death, after Chang had refused to
lie down, they walked about the house for
some tithe, and even went out to the porch
and washed their hands and drank some
water. It was about one o'clock when they
went to bed. Thou
CHANG DIED,
sometime between that and morning; his
death not producing any immediate im
pression on Eng. It was only when the
latter woke up and inquired about the
condition of his brother, that he was at
all affected.
As to the question, "What caused
Eng's death ?" I am not able to tell. The
post mortem which has been made does
not show the condition of the lungs. Prob
ably the valves of his heart were in a dis
organized condition, and probably also the
shock upon that weekend organ caused
death.
Dr. Allen—ln my opinion, Chang died
of a cerebral clot. From inquiry at his
home, I was led to believe that the lung
symptoms were not due to pneumonia; in
deed, were not severe enough to have been
so caused. The suddenness of the death, the
general atheroma of the arteries, and the
fact that there had been previously an at
tack of cerebral paralysis, all indicated
that the death was of eerebral origin.
Eng probably died of fright, as the dis•
tended bladder seemed to point to a pro
found emotional disturbance of the ner
vous system, the mind remaining clear un
til stupor canoe
. on—a stupor which was
probably syncopal. One thing to be set
tled in the making of our examination
was to get the bodies iu the best possible
position, so that we could judge of the
true nature of the band.
Prof. Harrison Allen concluded his re
marks as follows :
"As far as the origin of the twin mon
sters is concerned, I am certainly of those
who are not of the opinion that two indi
viduals could get into such an intimate
connection by growing together. Certain
ly the c.nnection is an original one. I
believe that the general opinion is now
that one Graafian vessicle may have two
ova, or one ovum have two nuclei; and
these finally may, like the two vitelli of
an egg, be closed together, surrounded by
the same material, forming a single com•
plete ovum ; and thus it may be that the
two are included in the same ovum. I
think that this will explain also why the
sex i always the same—why they are al
ways both male of both female. They are
male in twenty or twenty-five per cent. of
the cases."
What will be done with the bodies of
the Siamese Twins is not yet known. Cer
tainly casts of them ought to be added to
the principal Museums of the country.
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A Waiting Wife.
A widow of seventy years died in Ports
mouth, Mass., the other day, the truth of
whose life Was stranger than many a fic
tion. At the age of eighteen she married
the choice of her heart, a young se.i cap
tain, and after a brief and happy honey
moon he left her for a foreign voyage.—
But hie ship was never heard from, and
doubtless foundered at sea with all on
board. The young husband, as he was
dressed for sea, on the morning he left
home, playfully threw a pair of stockings
backward over his head, to test some sail
or's charm or other, and they chancing to
laud on the top of a canopy bedstead, he
remarked, "Sarah, let them stay there till
I come bdck." And many and many a
long year they have laid there, but, alas!
he never returned. But neither love, nor
'hope, nor expectations ever died out in
her faithful heart during all the many
years of her lonely pilgrimage. To the
last, whenever a door opened, or a step was
heard approaching. she turned to see if it
might not be he whom she mourned and
sought. But be never came again to her ;
let us hope and trust that she has gone to
him. By her desire she was buried in her
wedding dress, with white gloves,and wed
ding ring.
Fancy and Reality.
In the morning of life we paint with the
brush of fancy our beautiful idea of the
future lying out before us—a picture of
cloudless skies and brilliant sunshine, of
flower-strewn paths and tropic blooms—a
picture where joy and love, and friendship
and fame stand holding out their bea•tiful
offering, as the central flgureof the whole.
But how different the pictures painted
each day of life by the brush of pitiless
reality. Not one picture, but many, for
the scenes are ever shifting. The skies
arc clouded, and the sunshine faded. The
flowers are withered, and bide the thorns
no longer. Sorrow steps in where joy
bad stood; hatred takes the place of love;
friendship, that we had painted with a
beautiful face, takes on the hideous look
of treachery. At the eventide of life we
gaze at the pictures in the gallery of mem
ory, and comparing the ones that fancy
painted with those stamped upon our
hearts by the stein realities of life we
wonder where fancy got its beautiful false
coloring.
A DRY goods merchant of Hartford was
asked how he spent his evenings. His
reply was, "At night I store my mind.
and during the day I mind my store."
He was alive at last accounts.
A FASHIONABLE young lady dropped
one of her false eyebrows in a church pew
and badly frightened a young man who
sat next her who thought it was his mous
tache.
AN attorney observed to his brother in
court that he thought. whiskers were un
professional. "You are right," replied his
friend; a lawyer cannot be too barefaced."
.
IT is singuler that there should be no
way of putting a stop to the '.girl of the
period.
Tit-Bits Taken on the Fly
Ex-President Baez, of San Domingo,
has gone to Washington.
History does not show a parallel to the
efforts now making in the West to suppress
dram drinking.
A fire in Bryon, Texas, a few days ago,
resulted in the destruction of property val
ued at 8130,000; insurance $60,000.
Two German laborers in Slatter's stone
quarry, Piqua, Ohio, were instantly killed
en Tuesday, by a bank caving in upon
thew.
The .Pension Office is the only one, so
far, in which the saute number of Flecks
is allowad as before the new estimates were
wade.
If Congress was a little more practical
and much less experimental in imbusiness,
the result would be more satisfactory to
the people.
Oysters weighing three pounds and
measuring ten inches in length are among
the curiosities found at Point Pinallis, near
Tampa, Florida.
In Kansas hotels, it' you call for a plate
of Indian cakes, the waiter puts his hand
to the side of his mouth, and sings out :
"Modocs for one."
A general hetacomb of mayors is taking
place in France. They are changed for
merely political considerations, and for
electoral pnrp 3SCS.
There is a degree of fine fitness in the
name "Warmouth," given to a pet alliga
tar, just received at Stamford, Connecticut,
from New Orleans.
Rhode Island, in spite of its small size,
does a good divorce business. Seventeen
applications were recently made in one
court in a single day.
If the anti-rum crusaders invade . New
York the ladies are seriously advised to
make their first visits to the clubs: That
would create a sensation.
Rubinstein. the fiwous pianist, has just
adopted a poor Boston girl, paid her ex
penses to Europe, and undertaken to se
cure her niu•ical education.
Members of the Catholic Union of New
York are preparing for a pilgrimage to
Rome and elsewhere. It is proposed to
leave not later than the middle of May.
In Germany great complaints are being
made as to the constant emigration, which
dains the country of its valuable hands,
and leaves behind socialists and agitators.
Now we know all about it! The Siamese
Twins were Xiphopages of the class of
Terata-anacatadidyma, and may be called,
for short, Omphelophagus Xiphodidymus.
The preseut staffof the British Museum
embraces about four hundred persons. This
patronage, heretofore under the charge of
trustees, is to be transferred to the govern
ment.
A Georgia girl aided a noble charity at
Macon by allowing 300 men to kiss her at
twenty fire cents a head. When she got
home and washed off the enamel she felt
better.
The Banking House of Harshman &
Harshman, at Dayton, Ohio, suspendedon
Tuesday. Their average nionth!y deposits
were about one hundred and fifty thousand
dollars.
Hot alum water is a recent suggestion
as au insecticide. It will destroy red and
black ants, cockroaches, spiders, chintz
bugs, and all crawling pests which invest
our houses.
The managers of the Grand Trunk Rail
way of Canada have increased the pay of
their brakemen twenty-five per cent. the
increase to take effect from the first of the
present month.
An Indiana man, with a turn for statis
tics, calculates that his faithful deg, ten
years of age, has cost him 5234.25 for hash
and $25 for license. The dog - is now for
sale. Price, ten cents.
Red Wing, Minnesota, says it wants an
agricultural implement manufactory, cabi
net and furniture manufactory, marble
works, glass works, soap factory, cheese
factory, and carriage works.
The expenditures of the government
for some time past have been so heavy that
the Secretary of the Treasury has antici
pated the quarterly funds of the Patent
Office, and from other sourc es .
A number of racing caps and much jew
elry stored in the Pantechnicon, London,
which was burned last Friday, has been
recovered from the ruins. One insurance
company is said to be crippled.
Wm. E. Sturtevant has been arrested
for the murder, at Halifax, MOSF., of his
uncle and Miss Buckley, and committed
to jail. His overciat, which he said was
lost, was found in the dwelling of the mur
dered family.
An English writer thinks the Ameri
can early potatoes will come to an end ere
long, for as each new variety is claimed
to ripen about ten days earlier than any
other, the time between planting and dig
ging will soon be used up.
A distinguished New York actor pro
tests against actressess putting so much
paint on their faces and arms, because
whenever in the progress of the play he
has to go through a love scene, or rescue
a forlorn damsel, his dress is nearly ru
inej.
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A farmer sent to an Orphan Asylum for
a boy that was smart, active, brave, tract
able, prompt, industrious, elean,pious, in
telligent, goottlooking, reserved and mod
est. The Superintendent wrote back that
unfortunately they had only human boys
in that institution.
The barque Rate Williams, of Boston,
which recently arrived at that pirt, was
attacked by a large whale during her voy
age across the Atlantic. The whale struck
the vessel on her quarter, damaging her
mizzen channels, and proba9y raising a
good sized lump on its own back.
The Archbishop of Canterbury has eon
ferred tha degree of Dxtor of Divinity on
the Rev. John Shaw Burdon, who is short
ly to be consecrated to be a bishop fur
North China; and on the Rev. Edward
Sargent, on the griund of tie eminent ser
vice in the mission field in India, and of
his contributions to the literature of that
country.
Seabrook, N. H , has 396 names on its
pall list, and 79 different names. The
tpwn is chiefly composed of a very few
families. The Batons come first, number
ing 54; Dows, 31 ; Choses and Browns,
each 22; Waltons, 18 ; Smiths 15; Lockes,
14 ; Felches 13 ; Boyds, 11; Southers,
Knowleses and Bowes, 11 each ; and Beck
mans, 10. These 14 families have 272 out
of 396 votes.
NO. 9.
Zia •udgtt.
yot I Like, Und Ton't Like
BY CHARLES F. ADAMS
I ton't dick mooch of dose fine shaps
Vot lofe aboudt der sehtreet,
Und nefer pays der landlady
For rot dey haf to eat;
Who gifes der tailor notings,
Und make.; der laundress vait,
Und haf deir trinks off lager bier
All "put upon der sehlate."
I tout dink mooch off vintwin,
Who tink it deir "schpeer"'
To keep out vine abbearances,
t'nd live in -Grundy's" fear;
Who dress detuselves mit vine array,
To flirt upon der schtreet,
Und leaf deir modern at der tub,
To earn der bread dey eat.
I ton't like men dat feel so pig
Yen dey haf plenty gelt,
Who nefer knew an hour of vent,
Nor hunger efer felt ;
Who dinks more off deir horse und dog
As off a man dat's poor,
Und lets der schtarving und der sick
Go hungry vrom der door.
I ton't disk mooch off dem dat holdt
So tight nbon a tollar,
Dat if 'twas only schust alife,
'Twould make it shcream und holler.
Vy ton't dey keep it on der more,
Not hide avay und lock it ?
Dey gannot dake it yen dey die :
Der shroud ton't haf a pocket.
I like to see a hand dat's brown,
Und not avraid off cork ;
Dat gives to dose cot air in need,
Und nefer tries to schirk;
A man dat meets you mit a schmile,
Und dakes you py der hand,
Schust like dey do vere I vas born.
In mine own vaterland.
Vere bier saloons ton't keep a sehlate.
Vere tailors g.t deir
Und vashervimmin get der schtamps
For cork dey dike avay ;
Vere frauleins schtick righdt to der vork
So schteady as a Block ;
Und not go sehtrutting droo der schtreets
Schust like a durkey-cock ;
Vero blenty and brosperity
Schmile übon efery hand :
Dat ish de Deutscher's paradise,
Dat ist das Vaterland.
—Oliver Optic's Magazine.
A little darkey was recently found set
ting on the steps of a fashionable house in
New York, crying pitifully.
"What's de matter wid you," asked a
colored woman.
"Matter null—double trouble all ober
de house—fadder am drunk—mudder bob
gone home wid cloze—sis broke de lookin'
glass wid de broom-stick—de baby got her
eyes full of kyan-pepper, and little Ned
Anthony put de mustard on de hair for
goose-grease. I put salt in my tea for
white sugar, and it makes me sea sick.—
De dog licked Ned's face, and got his
month full of mustard, and lies under de
bed a howlin. De kitten got her head in
de milk-pot, and I cut her head off to
sabe de pitcher, and then I hab to break
de pitcher to get the head out, and de way
I'll get licked when madder comes home
for setting de bed afire, will be a sin."
"HEAD Us "—A clerk in a rural town
had a pet c.ilf which he was training up in
in the ways of the ox. The calf walked
around very peaceably under one end of
the yoke while Mr. Clerk held up the oth
er end, but in an unfortunate moment the
man conceived the idea of putting his owu
neck in the yoke, to let the calf see how it
would seem to work with a partner. This
frightened mister calf, and elevating his
tail and his voice he struck a "dead run"
for the village, and Mr. Clerk went along
to keep up, and crying out at the top of
his voice: "Here we come, dung our fool
souls; head us, somebody !"
Peter Van Dyke, an old chap who died
in New Hampshire the other day. worth
$140,000 in cash, requested in his will
that no one "should sniffle and shed eras- -
odile tears at his funeral, but cover him
over, and then hurry home to fight over
his money." .
A long suffering county superintendent,
driven to desperation, fired at an importu
nate book agent yesterday, but no serious
injury was done, the ball strikingthe book
agent fairly' on the cheek, chipped off a
piece of metal and passed on.
A school inspector in Alsace, a short
time ago, asked a well-known urchin if
he knew the Saviour's name. The boy
answered correctly. "How did he die r'
"They killed him." "Who ?" "The
Prussians."
"There is one good thing about babies,"
says a late traveler; "they never change."
We have girls of the period, men of the
world, but the baby is the same self-posess
ed, fearless, laughing, voracious little
heathen in all ages and in all countries.
Commercial Morality.—"l say, John,
Stokes has received twelve months for
stealing a horse." 'Served him right,"
said John; "Why did he not like an hon
est man buy it and forget to pay for it."
St. Louis had him this time. Name,
Hotchin ; occupation, physician ; age, one
hundred and forty ; cause of death, small
pox. Oldest Freemason ; no spectacles ;
constant voter from his youth upward.
Bricks can't understand why so many
gentlemen on the street ours are interested
in the architectural beauties of the build
ings along the street when the cars are
full and a number of ladies are standing.
A gentleman asked, "What is woman ?"
when a happy married man replied, "She
is an essay on grace, in one volumeLele
gently bound. Although it may be dear,
every man should have a copy of it."
A little girl went into a drug store the
other day, and said to the proprietor, in a.
half whisper, "If a little girl hain't got no
money, how much chewing gum do you
give her fur nothing ?"
Benevolent Louisville people scatter
nuts in the park for the squirrel s, . end
diabolical *mall boys follow around and fill
their pockets before the squirrels know
anything about it.
A lawyer, on leaving his office, told his
clerk to say, if any one called, that he was
engaged in a case. As he had simply
gone to his dinner. it must have been a
"cases heili
It occurred to a Danbury scholar, while
writing a composition, to make the re
markable statement that "an ox does not
taste as good as an oyster, but it can run
faster."