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■jWital.
GOOD NIGHT, MY CHILD.
Good night my ohlld—good nightl
May angels bright, - -
"With golden wings outspread,
Surround thy bod,
And gently scan my closed oyos
Till morn arise,
With its re freshing beams of light
Good night, my child!—good nightl
Good night, my child ! —good night 1
May -Ho whoso sight °
Extends from polo to polo,
IVatch-o’or thy soul, .
And keep thoo guileless all thy days
.From evil way?, ■ o.
And leara to walk his holy ways upright—
Good night, my child ! —good night!
Good night, my child ! —goodnight!
Ijot thy delight
-Bo in the constant lovo
Of Him above!
And always in my daily prayer,-
"Implore Him there.
That Ho would still uphold thco in His might.
Good.night,lay child ! —good night!
fttolliinmis. .
EVERYDAY SKETCH.
I 'At* the batMo of , George Ross, aged
/2 0. If the body ia recoyored, due notice will
%, bo given of the funeral. ;
‘Don’t read any more, Astor 1’ exclaimed
Mary Ooyn, ‘il makes my blond run cold ;
this is the third death you have read of in
the newspapers where the body has. not been
recovered. Tell me, how can those who hive
i this George Rosa ever feel certain Hint ho is
dead V ,
4 Morally‘certain they can hover positively
bo, for until the body is laid in the grave by
■gontleloving hands;.the tears of affection rain
ing on it, it ia imppossible to be certain/
Glow dreadful must such uncertainty bo.
Oh! Astor Rums, you are going away from
mo, going to danger, and wheu-I think that
one day I may he as uncertain ‘cf your fate
as there poor people, it makes mo shudder
and grow desperate. Think of day after day
passing by without any tidings of you; sor
row destroying'all the joy of life; yet hope
*•>’murmuring a, low, sweet song within your
heart; for hone have come to tell they sbw
you dead, and from the grave none return/
/Mary/ said Colonel -Astor Burns, ‘you,
spoke these lust words merely from habit, for
they are not in accordance with our new creed.
Do wo not both believe that the spirit once
freed has powers which it never had before ;
and do you not think that the soul, having
.conquered matter, can. soar above all the ter
restrial obstacles.that bound it down ? -.
4 Yes, yqn, and I am convinced, dearest As
ter, though I borrow a poet's language to toll
you, that lloavon would hot. bo Heaven with
out you, and .1, hero promise— I, your a'fiiau
cert wife —that if, whilst you arc away, I
should die, my Bpirifr-sha'U come to you and
tell you whether death destroys love or’per
■fects it.*
‘ My own sweet Mary, love such as youra
must partake of the love thafr'angels feel. I
have ho fears fnr-’you, hone oven for myself.
T know Tehall return safe and unharmed ;
,yet, if my presentiments should deceive mo,
‘if I should die as so many have died for my
'country, I:promise you, should our belief bo
the true one that I wHI come to-you in the
-spirit. Once more I will bo near you, mice
'more will I hear your dohr : voico;that voice
‘that will so often pray for me.'
4 That voice, doaroot ixstor, that promises
-to you eternal fidelity in this world, and in
-the next: but tliatTs.-a vain promise. What
would the world bo to me without yo,u?'
4 1 have faith in you, my Mary; I believe
in you ; I tfustyou.'
. Slary Coyn had then leaned on his shoul
der and ’burst ill to tears, and for* the first time
since hediad joined the Bederal army, Colo
nel Barns felt that it was bard to leave bonie
and a’ll lio loved.
But Mary was full of confidence; ohe lov
ed as she could love but once
in her lifo, and was sure she'could-novcr luvo
another. Comg from spirit.land would he to
tell her that he had gono before; carrying
his faith to Heaven; it would bo vain-; she
dblfc that her own spirit would communicate,
with his in the -very hour of bis .peril,and
■dfca^h.
So Colonel Astor Burns departed for his
•regiment, which he joined in Tennessee, and
'for several months Mary was made happy by
regular letters from her lover,, and joyous and
•confident she entered with as much spirit as
into all the social gayeties.around her.
It happened that among the gentlemen
who courted her society was. one who had
"boen a kind of boyish lover, and who delight
fed to recall the time—treating her, however,
With the’ deepest respect, and talking often to
hornf her engagement. He knew a great
deal, too, about Tennessee, and delighted to
describe the country to her, and to tell her
&U that could interest her in regard to her
loves.
At last there oamo a:time when Mary was.
Many weeks without hearing from her lover,
then Harry Outran) was her greatest comfort,
patiently showing her how many accidents
Might have delayed his letters, and how Cul.
•“Urns might bo perfectly safe and unable to
Communicate with her. Still no letters came,
hilt at last there eamo news of a great battle,
“ gredt_ victory, in which all rejoiced; but
over which Mary wept, for the One hundred
dand-ninth had been engaged in it.
; Bilgently she searched the list of killed
dnd wounded, Harry bringing her every pa
per, and nil the news ho could find ; but no
■ lesord of Col. Burns could be found. , -
tht Mary set about lamenting, and Harry
sat about consoling hcrfwhh all tho consider
ation and tenderness of a brother—Marv’s'
mother encouraging her in all her attempts
at forgetfulness, and resignation, for Colonel
Astor Burns, though he had a great deal of
his and bis pay, had not as ranch*money, or
na good a pocial position, as llarryOutram ;
and after all, no grief was eternal, it was
wicked to think it, and tho dead-wore hnppi
er /rone from evil to citne.
‘Tea/ interrupted Mary, “ fho dead—if I.
could be convinced that hem dead, but I know
he tb pot, and I fancy him a prisoner, or slow
dying of Ins Wounds in some dreadful for
saken place. 'Oh. it is horrible V
'One evening, Mary had been unwillingly
compelled to go to a social 'party at Harry’s
married Bister’*, where there were only about
a hundred nnopliwiU intimate friends, and
where they had tableau* and charades and
music,‘but no‘dancing. Mary bad sung most
charmingly, and made the most beautiful and
artistic picture of Faith in blue tarlatan, with
and India shawl thrown over her shoulders
and diamond .cross in her light
-beautifully thrown on,her all ..through Hur
ry's contrivance—and, escorted by Harry she
returned homo-elated, joyful and contented.
At the-door Harry had pressed her hand; all
the way homo he" had been complimentary
and tender, and Mary began to think with
her mother that it was a eia to mourn,.eter
nally. , “ ■
‘lf Astor were only dead foi certain,lf I
knew that the spiritual doctrine was true'or
untrue . ,
At this moment, Mary, who was entering
her hod room.-where the gas burned dimly,
stood suddenly .still on the threshold ; all
[ were asleep in the bougo, which she had- en-.
j tored with a latch-key. Mary heard no
sound, she saw nothing, but a strange feeling
came over her that seemed to chill her very
heart, making its pulsations stand still until
she trembled and,,gasped for breath ; the at
mosphere of her room she knew was warm,
but she felt as if suddenly some chill, heaV-y
damp fog had closed around her. With heavy
step at last she advanced, still moving
through this thickened atmosphere, but as
shermoved, something seemed to. walk beside’
her, until, cold as she was, she felt a warm
breath up her neck and cheek.
She had no inclination to scream or to cry;,
from the first moment she felt she was in a
supernatural presence, and she attempted no
resistance. .Presently the cloud cleared from
her,senses, and the thought flushed" through
Jmr mind that Aster's spirit had come to her ;
then-she bOnt on her knees, and, hiding her
face in her hands, she prayed, not as she had
once prayed, that he would come to her, but
that ho would spare her further manifesta
tions, lest she should go mad. Then bury
ing her face on the pillow of the sofa near
which she "knelt, she fell into a dfiep swoon. ••
The morning was far advanced when again
she opened her eyes, and the sounds of the
living world and the bright sun dispelled her
fears. She trembled no longer, but she was
convinced that that night Aster had visited
her in the spirit.
She was bravo all day, but night found
■her courage abandoning her, and she contri-
ved not to sleep alone’. Gayly tho two girls,
her cousin apd herself, talked, Mary laughing
at almost everything, yet secretly looking
around her in fear and dread. Soon her
cousin slept, then the same, strange manifes
tations again took, place. Tins time she saw
clearly long blue flames flit across her room,
but they convoyed not tho idea of fire but of
brightness, looking more like liquid diamonds
.than living .flames. . Again Mary fainted.—
Still sho said nothing, for hermothorlthought
amtunUsni sinful, and in the bright day
ght Mary herself reasoned with herself as
io whether all had not been a dream.
‘ Night after night the same manifestations
took place, until Mary began to grow pale
-tnd careworn, and ut last, urged by his en
treaties, she confided her secret to Harry
Smith. Ho did not meet the revelation with
sneers, but- appeared to share Mary's awe,
routing various similar wieUatioiis, and-cbc
feasing to her his belief in spiritualism.
‘ Mary, dear, Astor is dead; of course after
this we cannot doubt it. but by his coming
more than once ho desires to communicate,
with you. .You must speak to him to-night.' 1
*• 4 1 shall not dare.** .
* Nay, why fear ? spirits are free from all.
mortal passions, they come not for themselves,
hut for you. Speak to him to-night.'
That night; when Mary felt the-atmosr
phoro grow thick and chill, announcing the
visitation, she closed her eyes, and after
struggling fov some minutes with her fears at
last'exolaimed 4 Astor.' , .• ■ . I
A low wail, as of an iEolian harp, passed
through the roofn, but Mary had grown cour
ageous now, and-blurting up in her bod
opened her eyes, when there, oh, horror I
reflected in the long mirror.of the wardrobe,
she beheld the-figure of Astor as he had
lived. -For a few minutes shogav:od, fascina
ted by terror; thou she moved her distonted
eyes round the room, seeking the reality of
that figure of, which eho saw {be reflection,
but there was none—this was all—the spirit
had appeared in the not else
where.
Night -after night Mary behold the same
spirit, heard the same noise, until-a dread of
it made her shrink from sight, and as' dark
ness came on she would fall into opasms and
hysterics. • ,
Mary,' at last said Harry, ‘ do you think
that Alter, who loved you so-deeply, docs
not desire'to eco you happy ? That long wail
•is -one of sorrow. You know how I loved
him, how IX honor him. Mary, had he*
dived 1 never would have spoken, the words
I now speak to you, Mary, I. love you—bo
my wife.
love you—be my wife.
At first Mary shrunk from tho proposition
but at last, urged on by the thousand trifling
circmnstansos that are move powerful than
tyranny itself, she consented, and the mar
ruirtgo day was fixed. »
Harry was to take her to Europe ; -ho felt
she needed change of scene, and all was to be
happiness. A gentle calm gradually took
possession of Mary; the visits of the spirit
were less frequent, and at -last ceased alto
gether.
Mary gradually ceased to think of Astor,.
looking forward to her bright new prospects.
It was the eve of her wedding day ; she was
alone in the parlor, and. stood before the long
pier glass, trying on the orange wreath she
was to wear.
All at onoo the thought of Astor flashed
across her mind; the flowers had suggested
■it; often had she in other days fancied her
self standing beside him in her bridal days,
and a chill of horror oamo over her.
‘ Who knows through what sufferings ho
passed away, and now-.I am forgetting hiln !
I, almost his wife, nm-faitliloss to him ! Oh 1
Astor, if I knew you wore-happy—if I know
you did not reproach rap!’
At this moment, though it was broad day
light, Mary 'beheld the form of Astor sud
denly appear on the glass, and at the same
" OUR COUNTRY—MAY IT RiqUT—BUT RIGHT OR WRONG OUR COUNTRY. 1 *
moment her own name was uttered ‘in his
voice.
She clasped her hands in horror, gazing
on the form which Rccmed drawing nearer
and nearer, until when it seemed’about to
touch her, with a scream she fell forward,
Jicr head coming in contact with tho marble
pier table, and then her form falling heavily
to the ground. ’*
Her mother, Harry, who wnsjußt entering
the house, and tho servants, all at tho dull
heavy sound rushed into the room ; but Ma
ry had already boon raised from the Hour
and now lay pale and still in the arms of As
tor Burns—Astor Burns, much changed,-but
living and breathing.
Harry rushes up to him - !
'■ 4 Living 1’ exclaimed he. ’
1 Yes/ said Astor, 4 but she is dead/ and
reverently and gently ho laid Mary on tho
sofa.
V/hat bad been Mary's visions, delusions
of the mind, o** spiritual revelations? None
could solve the mystery, save, perhaps, Mary
herself when she was in spirit land, but she
gave-no sign.
Beau Hunting nv a Woman.— One day a
Lapp woman went out to fish on a laker ac
companied by her son, who was fourteen
years old. When theyhad caught a suffi
cient supply, they.landed on a part of the
shore which was thickly overgrown with fir
ahd underwood. Presently the . woman's
•Quick eye fell on a largo heap of boughs,
reeds, moss, &c., anti, oh nearer inspection,
she found a largo hole underneath the mass
of rubbish, and felt convinced it was the en
trance to a bear’s * Hi/ or cave. She was a
•courageous ami respluto little body and noth
ing daunted by the discovery, nor reflecting
that sho was alone hastened back to the boat
to fetch her axe and rifle, (for a'Lapp wom
an generally goes armed, .and is Usually an
expert shot.) Now her distora in other parts
of the civilized world would most probably
have been frightened out of their wits, and
have beat a speedy .retreat under such cir
cumstances. Her uiily anxiety was lest the
boar should get off.
On returning,- she proceeded to cut down a
small fir sappiing which sho pointed at one
end, n,ud gayc it to the,boy to br'addlo about
in the hole to ascertain whether it was occu
pied or nut, while she. stood with uplifted nxo
a little on one side. No sooner was the polo
inserted than out came the head of a mon
strous she bear, and down came the axo on
her skull with such force- that it remained
sticking fast iii the wound, and accompanied
Bruin as she retreated to tho farthest end of
the cave. Time being up for.round number
two and her opponent not putting in an ap
pearance, sho determined to try the effect of.
a shot.
No sooner had she fired down tho holo than
out bolted a cub, about tho size of a dog,
which her son cleverly managed to catch hold
of by the hind leg. But it was too strong for
tho little fellow, and, after dragging him for
some distance, managed to get away. De
termined, however, not to luso him, mother
and son wont in pursuit and speedily over
took tho animal, which had taken to tho wa
ter. A few well administered taps with rho
end of tjie oar seen reud-ered him hors do
combat, ' '
Having secured him, tho courageous.little
woman wont back again to the 4 Hi/ and
gave it another stirring up. But all was
still. Next site tired a-second-shot, but noth
ing moved. Concluding that the bear must
bo dead,"or-else have escaped during her ab
sence, she determined to dig her out, a work
of no-email labor. Success, however, attend
her exertions, for at length she found tho bear
lying quite dead, with the axe still sticking
in her loft skull, and by tier side another
cub as big as the first, with a bullet wound
through his' neck, also dead. No mean
achievement for a woman and her boy.
Singular Occurrences. —A correspondent’
of the Rebel , wilting from .East Point, 6a.,
relates the following:
44 Among other lroight"for shipment, wo
noticed at-tho tiast'Point depot, yesterday, a
coffin,.'under the immediate charge of a lady,
with whom there is connected a-strange his
tory. : I give it us related by thedadyhercolh
In 18G2, Mr.II volunteered in a Geor
gia regiment, then, as now, ifl tlio-nrmy of
Virginia. About a year ago the wife of Mr.
II - hearing that her husband was kill
ed in aa engagement with the'enemy, pro
ceeded to’Virginia and brought homo his re
mains and interred thom'in her garden. Af
ter a widowhood of seven or eight months, ,
Mrs. R- —■ was wedded to another, with 1
whom she lias lived happily until recently,
when their happiness was broken in uponby :
the arrival of her husband, who had been ta
ken prisoner at the time he was. supposed to
have been killed.
But the strangest part of the story is yet
to omno. A few* days .after the singular re
appearance of Mr.. 11— ■■ , a lady arrived
from Virginia, and claimed the corpse buried
in the garden as that of her .husband, who
boro the same name aa our resurrected h«ro.
/I’his was the lady whom wo saw ’at East.
Point, on the eve of accompanying the corpse
back to Virginia for interment there. It
scorns that both were members of the same
regiment, and instead of the Georgia lady's
husband being killed, and the other taken
prisoner as was supposed, it was just tbo-rc
verse,” ’
Don't Have Any Confidantes, Lacies.—
Beware of entrusting any individual whatev
er with small annoyance, or misunderstand*
dugs between your husdand and yourself, if
they unhappily occur. --Oonfidu.itca tiro dan
gerous /persons ; and many seek to gain an
-ascendancy in families by winning the good
opinion of young married women. Should
any one presume to oiler your advice with
regard to your husband, or seek to lessen him
by insinuation,shun that person cs you would
a serpent. Many a happy home has been
rondord desolate by exciting coplness, or by
endeavors to gain importance in an artful
and insidious manner.
Didn't Want .to Go. — A Jerseyman was
very sick, and was not expected to vo.oovor.
His friends got around his bed and one of
them said—
44 John, do you feel willing to die?"
John “ made an effort" to give his views
on the subject, and answered, with hie feeble
■voice—'
‘•■l—think—l’d rather stay—whore—l’m
hotter acquainted.’
1C7 3 Matches, like everything else, have
‘ gqno up.’ Young ladies and parsons great
ly fear that the upward tendency will be det
rimental to match making.
(Cr’.The clownish shoemaker who was told
to “mend his manners," said that was out
of his lino of business.
jjgy There ore a few preachers who recant
but agreat many who cant.
CARLISLE, PA., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8,1864.
. WAR. •
I’liou iccdcst, 'War,”
On human gorel
A monster sure—
A fiend thou art I
Tho orphan’s cry,
The widow’s sigh,
The tear dimmed eye, •
Touch not thy heart 1
Of evils rife, *
That poison life,
And stirs up strife,
Thou m the fount I
Thou soucftseeds
/Of deadly wuedsl m
,ff^i: hy Jfonid deeds,
Rise lite a mount I
11l
Thy path is traoke’d,
' By. cities saoko’d,
The hellish act,'' 1 7
And ravine vilol
The fertile land,
Caunot'withstand, - .
Thy blighting hand,
And droops the while I
IV
Earth's deadliest hanoi
Tliou ono insane 1
'Within'thy train,
Stalk ain and crime 1
Who eon relate ;
'L'hy mischief great,
In Church and State,
In every Clime I
Erom agedo-ngd.
Thy sanguine page,
The saint and sago,
Have read with palp 1
And hearts have hied,
Eor thousands dead, ,
Whoso blood was shod,
By thoo in vain 1
■ ' .VI
Thou art a ghoul,
And man a 100.,
To bo thy tool,
To kill himself!..
And this, 0, shame,
lie death for Fame,
A deathless name.
Or may bo pelf I.
VJI
0, that it could,
Bo understood,
That to be good,
Alone is Glnrg.l
’Tia only those.
Who strike thoir'blows,
At moral foes,
Should live in story 1 ■
Y ifl
Truth's blade they wield,
God is their shield.
The, World their field,
'Their CiuiSc the Might
No blood they spill,
No'graves they fill;
In all their fight!
EC
But, thou, 0, War,
What a*t thou more,
Than scenes of gore,
On land and main!
Thou gorgen fell!
Thou imp of Hell!
0, who can tell,
Or count thy sl&in.l
In all the zones,
Like common stones/
Their blenching bonea,
Du meet the eye !
■No coifm-bed,
For them was spread!
Just where they bled,
Their ashes Jio 1
\ XI
Thou pitiest none,
Beneath the sun,
■Remorseless ono’l
Mankind’s dread foe!
Thy battle boom,
’Liko tho simoom,
Around spreads.gloom,
Ami death.and woei
‘SIX
0, blessed spot, . ’
That knows thee not!
0, happy lot, ;
V/heu- thou shalt. Coas ;1
.Thou thro’ all Time';
Tn overv Clime,
'Shall reign sublime;
Angelic Peace.
. The .Sun at'Tiib North Pole.—To a per
son standing at tbo north polo the sun ap
pears to sweep horizontally around tho sky
every twenty four hours, without any prepop
fciWo variation during its circuit in its dis
tance from the human, On the of June
it is 23 dog. 2S min. above tho horizon,- a
little more than one fourth of tho distance to
tho zenith, the highest point that it over,
; roaches. From this latitude it slowly de
scends, Us track being represented hyp. sni
ml or screw with a vtfry fine thread,- and
in the course of-throe inomhc it worms its
way down tho horizon, which it reaches on.
tho 23d of September. On this day it slovr :
ly sweeps around tho sky, with its face half
hidden below tho icy sea. :It still continues
todecond, and after it has entirely disappear
ed, it is still bo near tlib horizon that it car-,
vies a bright twilight around the honlvCns in
ita daily circuit. As the sun sinks lower,-this
twilight gradually grows.fainter ■till.it fades-,
away. On the 20th of December the sands
23 dcg,‘2B.-min,‘below the horizon, and this
is the midnight of thb dark winter of tho polo.
From this date the sun begins to ascend, and
.after a time his return is heralded by a faint
dawn which circles slowly around tho hori
zon, completing its circuit every
hours. This dawn grows gradually brighter,
and on the 25th of March the peaks of ice
are gilded with the first level rays of thp sis
months’, day. The bringer of this long day
continues to wind llis spiral way. upward, till
ho reaches, ita highest place on the ,31st pf
Juno and his annual course is completed.
O* An Irishman being naked Why he left
his country for America, replied, “It vrasu’t
for want ; I had plenty of that at homo.”
It appears from published statistics in
Ireland, that longevity is greatest among the
poorest .paqplo.
M ADVENTURE.
’I never attended but one temperance lec
ture, ’ said our friend B, with a peculiar smile
•‘and I don’t think I shall ever attend anoth-
OP *
‘You probably found it dry?’
‘Well, yea, hut isn’t it. The lecture was
well enough, hut I got into such au awful
scrape after it waa over, that I never think
of temperate meetings without a qudden shud
der. I'll tell you about it. It wes in Jersey
City where I was something of a stranger, and
the nigliUwas one of the worst of tho season.
Boreas 1 how it blow I It was enough to take
your breath away. Well the lecture was
over and making up my way through tho
crowd I lingered in tho doorway, contompla-'
ting the awlulscone, when somebody took'niy
arm.’
‘Where have you hden !’ said the sweetest
voice in the world. ‘1 have been looking for
you everywhere’
‘Very much, surprised, I turned my head
and saw : but I-cant describe hor.it makes
mo mad to think how prodigious pretty she
was.’
.. ‘Vv ith her left hand she leaned on my arm";
and she was arranging her veil with her right,
and did not notice my surprise.'
‘You hayo boon looking for me,’ I falter
ed .’
‘Como lot ua ho going,’ was the reply, press
ing my arm.’
‘A thrill wont to ray heart. What to make
of my lady’s address I did not know but she
was-too charming a creature forme to accom
pany her. Wo started off in the midst ol the
tompa.st, the noise of which prevented any
conversation. At length she said with a
scream—
‘Put your arm around mo or! shall blow
away.’
I need not describe to you my sensation ns
I pressed her to my side and hurried on. 'lt
was very dark, nobody saw us ; and allow
ing her to guide my steps, I followed her mo
tions through two or three short streets, un
til *he stopped before an elegant mansion,’
‘Have you your key V she asked.
*My key 1 I stammered ; there must bo
some mistake.’
. ‘As she opened the door I stood wailing to
bid her good-night, or to have some explana
tion when turning quickly she said :
‘How queer you act to-night; ain’t you
coming-in?’ .
‘ There was something very tempting in
this suggestion. Was I going in? A warm
- house and- pretty woman was certainly ob
jects of consideration, and it was dreary to
think of facing the -storm and seeing her" no
more.’ . >
‘ It took threo quarters of asccond to make,
up my mind, and id i wont. There was a
dim light in the hall, and as my guide ran
rapidly up stairs, I thought it could do noth
ing better than run up too. " I followed her
into a very dark room.
‘ Lock the door, John,’ she said.
‘ Now, as -if ; I had been the only John in
tilo world;-i thought she* know mo. I felt
for the key and-turned it in the lock without
hesitation wondering all the time what was
coming neat. Then an awful suspicion of
nemo horrid trick'flashed up on my mind, for
I had often heard of infatuated men being
led to their destruction by pretty women, and
I was on the point of re-opening the door
when my lady struck a light. ■ Then being
au excessively modest man—l discovered to
ray dismay that f was in "a bed room, alone
with a woman, I cannot describe my
sensation. I said something, I don’t know
wlmt it was but the lady lighted her.lamp,
looked, stared at mo an instant turned as
white ns a pillow'case, and screamed-.
■ ‘ Who are you? How came you here?—
Go ((nick ; leave the room I’ and covering her
llice with her hands, she sobbed hysterically.
“I -was petrified. Gf course, I was quite
anxiotts’-tohis she waa to have moi But in
my confusion, instead of going out the door
that X c.uiio in, I unlocked the door and
wnlkod intrt a-closet.’
‘Before 1 could rectify my error there
came a terrible thundering at the door. Tho
lady screamed-; the nclse Increased and I felt
peculiar; knowing very-well that now tho
lady’s real husband was coming, and that I
was in rather a bad fis/
‘Well aware that it would not'doTo-remain
in tho depot, and convinced’of tho danger of
mooting a man who might fall into vulgar
weakness of being jealous, I was trying to
collect my scattered senses in* tho darkness,
which the lady whispered to mo in a wild
manner.'
‘ What shall Ido ? If you do not go ho'
will kill me.’
‘ Oh ! but consider '
f The thundering of the door drowned ray
Voice. She flew to the open door. As the
wrathful husband burst into the room, I
thought I felt a little cold, and crept s undor
some garments hanging in tho closet.'
- ‘ The gruff voice roared and stormed. 0*
thcllo was jealous and revengeful; Deadcmo
nia innocent and distressed—then I heard
ominous sounds, ns of some one looking un
der tho bed/
‘ I know he is hero. I saw him come info
the house with you. You locked tho door.—
I'll have Ins heart out!’ “ ■ . „ ’
‘ Hear mo I T will explain I’
‘As I was listening very attentively for
' the explannntion,>‘the garments under which
I was concealed very quietly lifted, and fan
cy my feeling, discovered, in such actuation
by such a husband. 1 .
* Well, B—■ —/ we cried, deeply interested,
for we knew every word of -his otory was
true,* ‘ how did you get out of the scrape/,
‘•I-usfed a violent remedy for so violent a
complaint. in a corner—liiyTifo in
danger—perceiving at. a glance 'that.‘Othello'
was not bo strong, as-1 was,X threw myself
upon him and hold him there until l' had
given a lull osplanhation of the error, made
him hear reason, and tamed him to bo as
gentle ns a lamb. ,-Then I left, rather uncor
moniously, and havo_ never seen Othello and
Deodembnia since.'
(C?*A gentleman traveling stopped at a
country tavern to got to say all night, he was
met at the gate by a servant boy, and he thus
accosted him:. * ■ ’
“Boy extricate that quadruped from the
vehicle, stabulateand denote him wlth an ad
equate supply of nutritious ailment, andw hen
the morn again shall arise I will reward you
a peculiar compensation for your amicable
hospitality/' : .
The boy ran into the house and said, “ mas
sey, a dutohman out here wants to see you/'
ID” Teacher— Come righthera, you young
scamp, and got n sound spanking.”
Scholar— ‘ You ain't got no right to spank
mo, the copy you just sot mo says so.’
Teacher—“ 1 should like to hoar you read
that copy over to me.’
Sohollar— ‘ You shall. [He reads.,] ,'Lot
all the ends thou aims’t at he thy country’s,
and so forth, and when you're spanking me,
you ain’t aiming at no auoh end.'
3! nrried llte Wrong Lady.
Love ia a very unsertain thing, and it is
not safe to bo too certain of tlio symptoms
until they nro unmistakable. The following
jvid explain our meaning:
Vienna has beon stirred up, lately, by the
comical result of a strange love story. It
Seems that in the house of one Herr Kuhns,
a teacher of language,* Dr, Kant, a. young
lawyer, happened to make the acquaintance
of u lady, burdened with some property and
thirty years. The lady, being unmarried,
evinced particular interest in tho yonng. shy,
and rathpr abashed man of luw.-. She made
love to him, in fact,’very-etrongly, and per
suaded him to visit her ut her house.,. But,
alas I he loved another lady. One evening
while conversing with the doctor, she-said?
V/ith your favorable idea of matrhiiuny,
may I ask if you ever thought of marrying
yourself?" Dr. Kant sighed, and his eye'
’restingpn.the ground, hesitatingly muttered,
in-roply I-have already-thought of marry
ing, and made my choice, but " “ But I"
tho lady hastily interposed. “But," he con
-tinned,-*-the lady-is rich y Very .rich, and I
am poor. lam afraid J could hardly aspire
to her hand, and rather-than allow myself to
be taxed-wilii sordid designs, I will bury my
passion in my breast, and leave it uuavowed
ibi'ovcr." At an early hour of the following
day she, however, betook herself to a solici
tor, anil, in legal form declared her wish to
present and blind over as his soloprnperty
the sum of “ 150,000 guilders—(§ls,ooo)*—to
Dr. Kant. When tho document had been
signed, countersigned, and duly completed,
she sat down in tho office, and, enclosing it
in an elegant envelope, added a note tc the
following effect:
"Dear sir—l have much pleasure in en-.
closing a paper, which I hope -will rcmdVo
the pbsta.de in the way of your marriage.—
Believe me, lcc., Alice .Martini." Dr. Kant,
fur ho and no other was tho addrosed, was
thoMmppiest man in thp world on receiving
this generous epistle. . d'epairing at once to
the parents of .frraulein dfischcl; the lady of
his love, ho proposed fer and received the
hand of a girl who hud been fluttered' by his
delicate though unavowed attentions. Her
reply to Fraulcin Martini, bcsidesconvcylng
hissincarost thanks, contained two carles do
visile, linked together by tho. significant roce.
colored libbon. Miss Martini forthwith sued
the happy bridegroom for restitution, hut, as 1
no promise of marriage had been made, tho
case was, by two successive courts, decided
against her.
How ■ to be llateeu/j. There are sdmo
,peraons who to treasure up thinga-'fhat
are disagreeable, on purpose. X can under
stand how a boy that never had boon taught
better mighty carry torpedoes in his pocket,
and delight Co throw them down at the feet
.of passers-by and see them bound; but I
cannot understand how an instructed and
well meaning person could do such a thing.
Ami yet there are men that carry torpedoes
all their life, and take pleasure in tossing
them at people. -“Oh," they say,.“'l have
something now,.and w|ienT meet that man I
.will give it to him!" And they wiiit'forthe
right company, and the right circumstances,
and then, they out with the most disagreea
ble things. And if they are •remonstrated
with, they say, “ It is true," as if that was a
justification of their conduct. -.-.'lf God should
take all the things that are true of you, and
make a scourge of, them, and whip ybu with
it, you would be the most miserable of men.
But he does nob use all the truth on you.—
And io there no law of kindness? 'ls there
•no desire to please and profit men? Have;
you ft right to take any little story that you
can pick up about a man, aud uso it in such
a way as to injure him, or to give him pilin’/
And yet, how many men there are that seem’
to enjoy nothing-op much as inflicting exqui
site auifering upon a man in this way, when
he panuotjholp himself I "Well, you know
jusfhow.tho dovil feels. "Whenever he. has
done anything wicked, and has made some
body very unhappy, and laughs, he*feels just
as, for the time being, you ieel, when you
liM'o (lone a cruel thing, and somebody la hurt
and it dues you good.
Custom, is not only a Second nature, but it
is continually mistaken for the first.
When Gas was Introduced.— The gas us
ed.for ordinary purposes is .one of thopro*
ducts of the destructive .distillations of pit
coal-, submitted to a great heat in cast-iron
retorts. Certain permanent'gases arc given
off, and are collected in a largo pipe half fill
-cd with tar, after, which they pass through a.
series of iron pipes, cooled on the outside by
streams of. water. The,tar and aupuoniacul
liquid generated are thus condensed, and the
gases proceed to another part of the apparat
us, called the purifier. After being submit
ed to the purifying process, it is collected in
to largo reservoirs, called gasometers-—more
comedy gas-holders—from which it is con
veyed by largo pipee,. afterwards branching
off into leaser ones, to dll parts of the .town.
Tim artificial production of a inflammable
air from coal is first mentioned by the Key.
Mr. Clayton, in a lotteraddicased to thelioy*
al Society, May 12, 1GS8; he state* ttyit lie
distilled coal in a close vessel, collecting the.
gas in bladders, and afterwards burning it
for the amusement Of his friends. In the
year 1797 ho erected a similar apparatus in
Ayreshiro, where ho then resided, and in »17
98 he was engaged to put up bis' apparatus
at the manufactory of Messrs, Boulton, Watts
& Co., Soho, near Birmingham. The illumi
nation of the Soho Works by gas in 1808, on
the occasion of peace, brought it into general
notice, and it was soon adopted by many in
dividuals, who, acting upon their own ideas,
introduced various modes of collecting and
purifying it. A public exhibition of it in
London.took place in 1800. Golden Lane,
was.lighted with it in 1897, Pall Mall in 18-
09, and all the streets generally in 1814..
A Settler.— A toucher in a western coun
ty in Canada, while tnakinghis first visit to
bis “constituents,” came into conversation
with an ancient “ Varmount” lady, who had
taken up her residence in the “ back woods."
Of course, the school and former teacher came
in-for the criticism; and the old lady, in
speaking of his predecessor, asked :
“ 'iYa’al,” says she, “ if the airth is round,
and goes around; what holds it up?”. : “Oh,
these learned men say that it goes around the.
sun, and that the sun holds it up by virtue
of the law of attraction.” The old. lady low
ered her “specs,” and, by way ot climax re
sponded: “Wa’al, if these high larn’t men
soz the sun holds up the airth, I should like
tu know what holds the airtli up : when the
sun gdos down 1”
[CP" That face is'the noblest that beams
brightest with benevolence. That hand is
:the most beautiful from whioh benefits are
continually falling.
Temperature of tlie Sexes.
i Kecently at a meeting of one of tho sections
of thu British Association, Dr, Dayyf in a
short paper, gave the results of
ments ho had made as to tho relative tamper*
aluro of the two sexes. Tho theory of Aris
totle, that a man possessed more warmth than
a woman, had boon disputed; and it had been
held by some, as tho result of modern, re
search, that tho temperature of women was
slightly superior to that of men. Nfttwlth*
■ standing this, however, from • such observa
tions as, ho had been able to make, ho con
sidered the early .opinion, the more correct.—
Taking the average it appeared that the tem
perature of males and fcinalcs.was 10.58 to -
i0.1.J, lie had more recently made some ad
ditional observations, using.a thermometer
of great delicacy, and taking fqr tho purpose
Of bis experiments six persons, three men
and three women, all in good health.
The result,was, that tho temperature, in
the case of thciii, , .varied_botwcon 00‘and 99};*
-that-of a-womau was-betweeu 97:] apd 98.—i
An examination of other animals gave a still
somewhat higher temperature" for tho maid
ilian-the female, six-fowls showing tho'-pro
portion of 103-33 fur tlio’former, to 107-70 !
ior tlio latter, Tho President 'thought that
whatever-difference of opinion there might
be with respect to the accuracy of the author's
conclusion, all t would agree ho was sure,
that men were more warm-hearted.,—
.[Hocr, hoar, and. cheers.] Dr. Hansom,'asked
whether Dr.- Davy had made any experiments
an to the power of resisting variation of thd
temperature in ‘ tho sexes, and
hud noticed any connection between that,and
•tho usual aVorago'temperature;if malescon
sumed more carbonic aoid,.wero they able,to
: rcaist alterations of tempbrature better than 5
females •
Ko doubt men- are * move .exposed to -influ
ence of weather in their various avocations;
but, oa the other hand, ho believed it was a
matter of observation that females did not
clothe themselvqs so warmly as men. Dr,
Davy.said tlio probability was, that women
did-not resist cold so well as men, and .that .
the greater the strength and .energy, the lar- .
gcr the quantity of blood flowing, tho great***
cr would bo tho power of resistance. Gener
ally speaking, 'ho* believed that women suf
fered more from cold than -men, and really
required a' warmer dress than men. Dr.
Ifuyqpn remarked that the conclusion to
’which tho lecturer arrived was only a verifi
cation of what a priori reasoning wouldhavo
led to, from, tho larger quantity of carbonio
acid-taken hymen’, and their, probable larger
consumption of -sugar. The President said
it was a matter of fact, and v nota theory, that
they.were dealing with;-.end if it was truo
that the amount of fbeat -vgonorated in the s
case of a man was greatersthan with a worn- f
an, there was a greater expenditure of heat
with tho male than the female, •
"Striking Oil"—A simple bumpkin
came into a grocer's shop in Oil City, where
lip was well known for his simplicity, just as
the shopkeeper wifs measuring a pint of olive
oil for v. customer, who immediately went*
away with it.
‘What, sort of stuff is that you-’have jus'b
been measuring" there, Mr.'G —'-V asked
ho. : . • - ; ; -
1 What I-Johnny, don’t you know? Why,
you foolish fellow, that is Champagne wine/
‘Ah! is it?--1 didn’t think Champagne
was so/
‘Do you like Champagne, Jonny?'
•• * I’m sure I don’t know, sir; .1 never drank
any in my life/
‘ Will you have a glass of it ?'
! thank you ; you. are very kind/ .
The grocer filled a large.tumbler with ail
and gave it to him. Ho,drank it.
* Well, how do you like -it, Uohnny ?'■
‘Why, I believe it-is very.good ; indeed i
do ; but I think it is a little too rich for poor
people only used to plain living/ , , *•
The Five GradEes. — A man whohaB,rd
cently become a votary to Bacchus, returned'
home one night in an intermediate- state of
booziness. That is to say ,*ho was comfortably
druflU, but perfectly conscious of his unfortu
nate situation. -Knowing that his wife was
asleep,, he decided to attempt gaining his bod
without disturbing her, nndj-by sleeping off
his inebriation, conceal -the fact from her al
together.-' Tie.reached the door of. his room
without dlscurbing-ber, and, after ruminating
a few moments on the matteivhe' thought if
he could reach the bedpost und hold oh to it.
while ‘he his npparal, the feat
would bo easily accomplished.; Unfortunate
ly for hisf scheme, a cradle stood in a direct
Unt? whli the bed post, about the middle of
the Hour. Of course, when his shins come in
contact with the aforesaid piece of furniture
ho pitched over, it withjjporfeetloosenoss, and
upon gaining an erect position', ere an equil
ibrium was established, ho wont over back
wards, in nn equally summary manner. ’ A
gaiii he struggled to his fobt,,-and bent fore
most over the 'bower of infant happinees. At
length, with the fifth fall, his patience bscaqio
exhausted, and the obstacle was,yet to be.
overcome. In ho cried out to hie
sJoopfiig partner;
“#ilb! wife 1 how many cradles-hdveyou
got in the house ? fl’vo fallen over iWo.'cuiii •
here's r.nothor'befurc mo !”
Tt seems now to be well tinddrfctooti
that the whole of the British provinces are
pretty certain to form a confederation which,
while m.mily attached to the British crown,
will have a constitution very much like our
own, and that this pivjoct, while originating
among tho Provincials themselves, is favor
ably regarded and certain to be promoted by
the .English Government.
Ei3f* A young Indy roooatly eloped from
London, and would have got clear of England
and her guaruiuns if she had riot been so ans
ious about the welfare of her pet eanury,
which she would take along with her. As a
countrywoman would say, “Oau any bird bs
so vexatious as this ?” '
DU?” On going homo last night we came
across Samuel. K—-, standing well braced
against a lamp-pest, soliloquizing thus:—
‘ What will the poor (bio) do this hard (bio)
winter. Gin is'(hio) ton cents a (bio) glass,
and brandy (luc) twenty cents a glass 1 Lord
(hie) help the poor (hie) 1’
JC7” When you see a man on a moonlight
night trying to convince his shadow that it
is improper to follow n gentleman, you may
ho sure that is high time for him to join a
temperance society. , ,
BSy A gentleman id Kent, England; late
ly ate a plum in which a wasp was hid,
whioh stuug him so severely id the throat
that ho died. ‘ : ' : :
S&" The Atlantic cable about to be laid
will bear four times its own weight.
no m.