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p UUMIUUJI. . I WM. B. I’AXtKKII.
■jiliUCH & PAXIKJ3R f
attorneys at LA Jfc
on Milln Street, ill itfarlou Hull, c
.W, Jk,,
UJSS U. GKii
attorney at law,
Nil. JI SOTUU HANOVEU ST.,
C.VIILISIjK, PA.
ICE-Ailjolnlngr .TuUgo Graham V.
Ml, i:i7u-tf ' •
L. SHHVOUK, Justice ol‘ the
Uilio»* li'Vln’s Row, Ci'.rllsie.
HJiAIUUHT, Den-
Uonvrt (Jvfieyc of De/il'U
siclonoo of hia’motUer
Minors foe low jinrl'Vuxl*
OS, M. U,
aMKIUCAIj COL-
it., at residence of his
Loiue.opaliiic JPliy
i Carlisle, Ullieo next
•i..l , u«l*h lvvant,ilicul Uluiiun, West
Mreei. l-’uliyula irom a dibluauo please
,c lurcnoon.
!?, IfcTU—DUl*
i'ard :\r."x>.
u-V.-'K.'iAN AND SURGEON,
.Vo. Uti J’J'SySf Pomfrct i Street,
liiß tusbociuted with D>\ ZUzt r, ia
1 u’ L jv-r im .so, a'.ul imd bcuL. jjraaLto
:«.• ,1 Mi-iii]•, i jr'um:e youth. All
' 1 tv iitluuilcd to.
j>. :n
AT ..--ill 7 ,
i:ru ijviti-.cr, below cucstnut,
Cor. Library.
Pjni/ADKLWIIA
uu-ly
EBT OWENS, ,
iiATSS ROOFER.. 1
I dealer in hi a in
' LANCASTER, PA.
-HI Work. Guaranteed.
r-k-fij L-jfi at thus Uillue will receive
-ikiutim. October IJ. RfjU—ly. ’
data'llitii iffajia;
sii SIX M MER AR R 1 VA I,
OF ALL Tin:
■VA’ir (STILUS
UFIS AND'gap 8.
filler lias just opened at JHo. 15 A’onVt
‘ rw, t« lew doors North of tho Carlisle
■‘■‘it, olio of the largest uml Ucsirtiocks
ii;dUAP* over ottered in Carlisle. • •
'Aiissliiibro ol ail styles ami qualities,
k uuiereni colors, and every desenp-
Hiau, now made.
'kiiril and Old Fashioned 'Brush, cou-
J-'itnl imd mudo to order, all warrant-.
MiiMuciiun.
Mull ussoi traent of
[l-..VS,
BOY’H, and
CHILDREN'S,’
, HATH.
jautiotl tomySlociC, notions ol dlfier
wwaiMlng Of
.'.N'D UKNTLEMBN’a STOCKINGS.
tiuxpcndcro,
, Cilovcs,
K’nc./j, - / Thread , '
Hewing Silk, Umbrella*, tfro
: SJSBABS ANt) TOBACCO.
AUVAi’d ON lIANH.
wall, and examine my stock as I feel
‘Pleasing all, besides buying youiuo
JOHN A. KELLER, Afjen/.,
No. 15 North Hanover titreut,
and CAPS I
WANT A NICE HAT OU CAT ?
'so. Don't fail to Call on
■f- G. .0 A L L I O ,
K IP£ISZ MAIX STIIhKT,
bo seen the driest assortment/ of
AND OA. PS
S.»° Carlisle. Ho takes great pleas
, u s» his old friomla mid customers,
w>«Mo lus splendid .-imdr-Jnst re-
J'Uniii° lU antl con-
VAM D-eAS.S IM EH E HATS,
variety °f Hats and Caps of
tt, nil 01 which he will cell ut the
‘-Alsu, hla own mtimifuclnio
J JBuu huud, uud
MAMUI'’ACTUUED TO ; ORDER.
,1 i e f S u? ,,rttn Bolnout for colortnu ITata
F J * Woolen Goods,, Overcoat.*, mo., ui
■•olora every week; uurl
' Alau, u tine lot- oJ
CICfAES
nil thofttttutlou
mis
ash prices for lio
number, Ills >ld
'lug entire Ka jis*
ijoea.
:r lib-cel.
extended ' them
' iolr usual lurao
aoEs
.ivD.OaiLTJ.S',
►rt and Loauty
xiasEs,
hats,
ill profit*. r»nll
ulema, tori yo ,ir
OF BOOK
expeditiously
BY BRATTON A KENNEDY,
r^/arjiZe.
'(J.hkap dry woods'
NEW S.TOEB,
o r,i
D. A. SAWYER,
ioiu.
mmy
)mpMy
Jr vine* a Corner
UWXB, I, “ rt ' n,as lu
OUENADINE-S,
HEIINANIS.
BRRKOES,
LACE POINTS,
' .'-iUMMER SHAWLS,
~,,,, „ LAC!.: CURTAIMS.
I’ARASOLa, EAMS, Ac.-
Piques,
Marsaides,
LOOK AT 'THE PRICE*.
calico lh, (i' lt b' jo pa.
MU-LINB. . (X-} . s j ’ loir' ■
GINGHAMS, 12U, I j |.o‘ 17 '*
tickings, n; J ’ i»;* i-;
Cheapest Pants Sluir ’ ’ in'ih-fowu
Cheapest Clot hs and Cassimers • in 'I e town
Cheapest Hosiery in ip 0 town
Cheapest Gloves mid Handle's, in th'town
Cheapest Notions, all hinds ’ .in tiie town:
DUE S'a GOOIKS,'
Cheapest DoLalncs . ’ hi 11:-'town*
C loupe,-t Poplins •i„ f,".:
Cheapest Alpuccus black ,t col'd ui (ho town
Cheapest Black .t Fancy Silks in ;in- town*
Cheapest Japanese i n i,j u . fowa
WHITE GOODS,
UlK'aposl-Hhiucs Klg.stvlpcii ■ln u.o town,
t r f 1,1 town,
nil! KI ' Ii ' in I tin town.
. Chuipcst.Chmtzes Jn tlu* town
Cheapest Embroideries u. Li.ors in the town!
Cheapest collars* Cults in tiio town
•Cheapest, in bio Wnou . in ttio town
Napkins, Arc. la town.
A splendid artlclo Pique lAc is. All other
f£ s fl “ proportion. Oomo ami examine lor
3 ourselves. No trouble to show eotuN Our
motto isßtimll profits ami quirk sales! 1
Mayo boon purchas; cl for cash, at
piesen - gold prices, ami we cun. sell you now
goods twenty-five po cent. ldi»H th-ui iijmv wilt
charge you tor old goods at other stores
Juno 2, IS7O. ■.
Q.REAT COMMOTION
DRY GOODS,
On account of the redaction in Gold, the Dry
u-oncls Merchants who understand t lie Jr business
yud Lite certain signs oi the times, have reduced
nin utlceoi their goods correspondingly, Thesub
scriiters have just received Irom the 'cities ft
■ aigo and full assortment of all muds of
FOREIGN & STAPLE GOODS,
which they will soil lower than they have done
siatulsui.
Wool Ha Lullies, Alpacas, Poplim. o-nvou, Uoui
tuv.lne.s, I'lUniSQ Uioth, Grenadines,
FL VNNELB OP ALL NXNDc
■|*V a M>
1-luin and Fancy, Linen Table Diapers, Cotton
no., Checks, Tic icings, Giagn mu,, ;o.i nturp aues
EMBROIDERIE
a full Hue; White Goods in great variety;
HOSIERY,.GLOVES, TRIkMfNUS
ami a fall stock ol
. DOMESTIC GOO'itn, -
Oj!'ff oeSr Mu-dui:!, by tho piece or yard; Gral
. • CDO'IJtIS, GAWSLU’EUA-.&c.,
of all kinds and ut the lowest prices.-
CARPETS, 01 Jj CROTHS,
I)rus.i'L< Window Slmil,». .MaUhlL."
MX-LINERYAOODS
of all .kinds, including Ladle; and Childrens
Hals h“d Sundowns, ami (no best a mirliuent
and la- t qiirllily uf line ttibbons in i ho enmity.—
Kid Gi-.iVc--, (best make,) Jeiyolry, 1 j ’.nicy-Goods
and Nuuons m giuut variety. Tins
Mammoth shock of goods
(ue !a f -gest. in this section of country. Is olfcrcd
a. jiriei •> tn»t deiy eiimpctition, and all wo ask
is a la Jr i-xamlimthm by good Judges uf goods lo
SulMy tlie pulihc that inis is the place to huv
and save ‘ •
LADIES’ UNDER WEAK, ■
A nice assortment of Ladies’ Under Clothing
Very handsomely stitched • and irh.nuod at
reasonable prices.
WOOL taken in exchange I‘irgnods.
LENTZ ii CO.
At the old Dry Goods stand o.stabll.sliod Fel
mary Ist, l&lk
.March y,—TO >
O.UAND OPENING s OF .SPRING
Ur AND HU.MiMEU UUOD •’
Toil MEN, VOUI’II, AN’iJ BOYS’ MMIAII,
nt the old and well known 1 store of
ISAAC LIVINGSTON,
iVo. 22, North Hanover street ,
CARLISLE.
Now opening tho latest novelties In Jnrgo va
riolic.-* of the L>esl makes known to the trade.
Fine J'Wnch, tiaxoon, English find DomrsfUt
CLOTH, CASSIMEUH. VESTING^,
ft ATI N ETS, T W E EDS. LINEN,
COTTONaDES, MARSEILLES, Ac.,
made up In a superior style; or sold Ivy ihc yard,
at the lowest prices. If sold by .the yard, no
charge feir'cuuing.
A splendid lino of
G UNXLEM EN ’S • K UIINIS IIING COO DS.
Largo variety ot.
TRUNKS, VALISES, CARPETBAGS,
. UMBRELLAS, BUTTONS, BINDINGS,
BUCKLES, Ac.,
A General Lol of. 'Tailor’s Goods,
( The host style Clothing In town I )
■I Tho host made Clothing In town I >
, (. Thu best assortment in town S )
(■ Our stock of J'ieco Goods for )
-J ' cuniomer Trade, S
t Superior to any In town! J
f 'i he lowest prices In town for the ‘i
-{ fame qualltv of goods. Ca'lln.No >
( t i-uublo to fchow our assortment. )
ISAAC LIVINGSTON,
No. 22, North liu'uuvei hired, Carlisle.
Established IS 17.
May 12,70—1 y
QaRRIaGE BUILOIEC
IN ALL ITS BRANCHES AND iIEPAIIUNG
Done promptly and at reasonable rales.
CARRIAGES,
BUGGII S, AND
SPRING WAGONS,
ways on luiml or made to order,
■xclmngo CARRIAGES, JJUQOIES, or
WAGONS for Good HOUSES,
id Hand Wagons o/ all Kinds
Taken In exchange for work,
will 1‘
sinuN'u
OCCO/K
A. SENSEMAN,
Still ut work, find Invites all his old customers
and the public in general.to give him a cull.
Reim-mbor the old established place, on I’ltt
street, north of the Ilallroad Depot. Carlisle.
A FIRST CLASS
.LIVERY
In connection with the above establishment.
’ H, K. REEFER.
May 12, 70— ly
TTtOR SALK. —A new ono-horso spring
C wagon, with lop,well finished. Cal hit Com
piishlouer’s Office, JpIJN HARRIS,
/'iff A
3 Sr -il;i p 0
ve;
CHEAP UHY GOODS,
AT TUB
D, A. SAWYER,
Jrrine’s Corner
SILKS,
and what a picture of a life ho, hail
drawn! There was something In the
letter which compelled attention. It
was impossible to throw it, halt read,
into the waste paper basket,‘amt to think
of it not at ail. , VVo did read it, probably
twice, and then put our.-elvea to work to
consult r how much of it might bo true
and how much false. Had the man been
a boy at , and then a schol tr of his
college? VVo coneludnd that so far, tho
narrative was true. Had ho abandoned
his dependence on wealthy friends from
conscientious scruples, as he pretended;.
or had other and Isss creditable reasons
caused the severance? On that point we
did not quite believe him. And then, as
to,those assertions made by himself In
regard to his own capabilities, how far
did ihey gain credence with us? We
thhik that we believed them all, making
some small discount, wiih the exception
of that one in which ne proclaimed him
self to be a poet. A man may know
whether lie understands French, and be
qiltfe ignorantwhether the rhymed lines
wlfieji lie produces are or are not poetry.
When he told us that he was an infidel,
and that his character would not bear in-
vestigution, we went with Mm ultogeth
er. His allusion to suicide was regarded
as a foolish boast. Wo gave him credit
Jhr the four children, but were not cer
tain about the wife. Wo quite believed
Li.o general assertion of his impecunloal
ly. That siiifl* about ‘conventional
thraldom’ we hope wo look at its worth.
When he told ns tliatJkia.liffl-haiLbeaii-a.
mistake he spoke to us Gospel truth.
01 the ‘Penny Dreadfuls,’ and of ‘blood
and nastiness/ so called, we had never
before heard, but wo did not think'it re
markable that a man so rifted as our cor-
respondent, shouldNearn forty-five shill
ings a week by writing for the cheaper
periodicals. It did not, however, appear
to us probable that any one so remunerat-
ed, would be willing to leave that engage
ment for another which should give him
only thiiry shillings. When he spoke
of Lho ‘filth of his present position,’our
heart begun to bleed lor him. -We know
what it Is so well, and can fathom so ac-
curately the depredation of lho educated
ammrfln Bolnntfcr
Pidtte,M.
IN SCIIofrL-DAYSi
nv .r. O. WHITTIER.
Still nits the school house by the road,
■ A ragged beggar sunning;
Around it still tho sumachs grow,
And blackberry vinos are running.
Within, tho master’s desk Is'sccn,
Deep Scarred by nips'official; -
Tho warping floor, tho battered seals,
Tho Jack-knife's carved Initials.
The charcoal frescoes on its wall;
Its door’s worn sill, betraying •
Tho feet that, creeping slow to school,
Went storming out to playing I
Long ye.ars ago a winter sun
Shone over it at setting;
Lit up Us western window panes
And low eaves’ Icy Trotting.
It touched the tangled golden <#riB,
And brown eyes full of grieving.
Of one who still her stops delayed
When all tho school were leaving.
For near her stood tho little boy
Her childish favor singled ;
His cap pulled low upon a face
Where prido amt shame were mingled.
Pushing with restless foot thosnow
To right and left, ho lingered;
And restlessly her liny hands
The bluo checked apron fingered.
Ho saw her lift her eyes; ho felt
. Tho soft hand s light caressing,
And heard tho tremble of Her voice,
As If a fault confessing.
“ I’m sorry that I spelt the werd;
I hale to go above you,
Because,”—tho brown eyes lower fell,—
"Because, you see, T iovo you !”
Still memory to a gray haired man
That sweet child-face is showing.
Dear girl! tho grasses on her grave
Have forty years been growing.
Ho lives to learn In life’s hard school,
How few who pass above him
Lament thblr triumph and hislosa/
Like her—because they love him.
An igt,lettii wililim.
THE SPOTTED DOG.
BY ANTHONY TROLLOPE
PART f.—THE ATTEMPT.
Some years since wo received the’fol
-1 lowing.letter:
‘Dea.ii Bik,
‘I write to you for, literary employ
ment, and I implore you to provide nie
with it if it be within your power to do
so. My capacity for such \n>rk is not
small, and my acquirements are consid
erable. My need is very great, and my
views in regard to remuneration are mod
est.- I was educated at , and was
afterwards a scholar of *—College,
Cambridge. T loft the university with
out a degree, in’ consequence of a quarrel
with the college tutor. I wib rusticated,
and not allowed to return. After that I
became for a while a student for the
■Chancery, Bar: I then lived for some
years in Paris, aiid I understand and
speak French as though it were my
own language. ■ Forall purposes oflitera
tnre I am equally conversant with Ger
man. 1 read ituliuu. I urn, of course,
familiar witli Latin. In regard to Greek
T will only any 'that I am Jess ignorant
of it than nineteen twentieths of our na
tional scholars.. l am well read in mod
ern and ancient liistoiy. I have especi
ally.studied political economy. I have
not neglected other matter's necessary to
the education of an enlightened
man, unless it be, natural philoso
phy. T can’ wrile English, ami can
write it with rapidity. I am a poet;, at
least, Ist esteem myself. lam not a be
liever. .yiy character will not bear in
vestigation ; in sayingI’’which, 1 ’’which, I mean
you to understand, not that 1 steal or
cheat, but that I live in a dirty lodging,
of my hours in a public
house, and cannot pay tradesmen’s bills
where tradesmen have been, found to
trust me. X have a wife and Jour child
ren, which burden forbids mo to Jree’my
seif from uli cafe by a Imre bodkin. I
uni just past forty, and since I quarrelled
with my family, biCJiisc I could not un
(lerstunll the Trinity, 1 have never been
the owner of a tea-pound note. My
wife was not a lady. I married her be
cause I was determined to lake refuge ;
from tho conventional thraldom of* so- i
called ‘gentlemen’ amidst tho liberty- of
the lower orders. My life, of course, has ;
been.a mistake. Indeed, lo live at ail,
is it not a folly ? • • 1
‘J am at present employed on the staff I
of two or three of the 'Peuny Dreadfuls,’*
Your august highness in literature has
perhaps never heard of a ‘Penny Dread
iul.* I writ© for them matter, which we
among ourselves call ‘blood and nasti
ness,’ and which is copied from one to
another, For this lam paid forty-five
shillings a week. For thirty shillings a
week I will do any work time you may
impose upon mo for the term of six
mouths. 1 write this letter as a last ef
fort to rescue myself from tho tilth of ray
present position, but I entertain no hope
of any success. If you ask it I will come
and see you ; but do not semi for me un
less you mean to employ me, as l am
ashamed of myself. I live at wSo. 8, Cu
cumber Couit, Gray’s inn Lane; but if
you write, uddiess to the care of Mr.
Grimes, the Spotted ‘Dog, Liquorpoud
Street. .-.Now I have told you my whole
life, and you may help me if you will.—
Ido not expect an answer. . «
‘Yours truly,
'Julius Mackenzie.’ 1
Indeed he had told us his whole life,
CARLISLE, PA, THURSDAY, JUNK 9MWO.
tarni, who Imviag been ambitious in the
career ot literature, falls irito the slnujrh
of despond, by which the profession of
literature is almost surrounded. There
we were wilh him, as brothers together.
When wo came to Mr. Grimes
Spotted Dog, in LiqnorpuUd Street, wo
thought that we had better refrain from
answering the letter, by which decision
on our part ho Would not, according to
his own statement, be much disappoint
ed Mr. Julius Mackenzie! Perhaps at
this very time rich uncles and aunts were
buttoning up their pockets against the
sinner, because of his devotion to tue
Spotted Dog.. There are well-to-do peo
ple among the Mackenzies. It might be
the case thntthat heterodox want of com
prehension in regard to the trinity, was
the cause of it; but we had observed that
in most families, grievous ns are our
doubts upon such sacred subjects, they
are not.held to bo cause of hostility so in
vincible as is a thorough going devotion
to a Spotted Dog. If the Spotted Dog
had brought about these troubles, any
interposition from ourselves would bo
useless.
For twenty-four hours we had given
up all idea of answering the letter; but
it then occurred to us that men who have
become disreputable us drunkards, do
Unt put forth their own abominations
when making appeals for aid. If-this
man were really given to drink he would
hardly (have told us of his associations
with the public house. Probably lie was
much at the Spotted Dog, and haled him
self for being there. ' The more’ wo
thought of it the more we fancied that
the gist of hi&letter might be true.* It
seemed that the man hud desired to fell
tiie truth us he himself had believed it.
It so happened that at that time wo had
been asked to provide an-index to a cer
tain learned manuscript in three
volumes. The intended publisher of the
work had already procured an index
f.om a professional compiler of such mat
ters; but the' thing had been so badly
done that it cculd not he used. Some
knowledge of the classics was required, ,
though it was not much more than a
familiarity with the names of Latin and 1
Greek.authors, to which perhaps should I
be-Rdded some 'acquaintance, with the
names also, of the hotter known editors
and commentators. The gentleman who
had the task in baud had failed conspicu
ously, and I had been told by my enter
prising friend Mr. X , the publish
er, that pounds would be i-iccij
on the proper accomplishment of the un
dertaking. The work, apparently so
trilling in its nature, demanded a sohol- i
ar’s acquirements, arid could hardly bo 1
completed in less than two months. Wo
had snubbed the otter, saying’ that we*
should bo ashamed to ask ah educated
man to give his time and labor* for so
small a remuneration ; but to Mr. Julius
Mackenz'o, £23 for two months’ work
would munilestly bo a .godsend. If Mr.
Julius Mackenzie did in truth possess
the kuowleilgejor which he gave him
self credit.; if he was, as he said, .‘famil
iar wirf, Latin,* and was ‘Jess ignorant
of Greek than nineteen twentieths of our
national scholars,* he might perhans be
able to earn this £23.. We therefore
wrote Co Mr. Julius Mackenzie, and re
quested bis presence. ' Our note was
short, cautious, and also coupcous. Wo
regretted that a man so gifted should bo
driven by stress of circumstances to such
heed. Wo could undertukenothing, but
.it it would not put him to ipo much trou
ble to call upon us, we might perhaps be
able to suggest sornetliihg to him. Pre
cisely at the hour '.named, Mr. Julius
Mackenzie came to us.
We well remember his appearance,
w!ii'*h was one unutterably painful to. be
hold. He was a tall man, very thin,
thin we might say as-a whipping post,
,were it not that one’s idea of a whip
ping post conveys eroctnoss and rigidity,
whereas tins man, as he stood before us,
was lull of bends and curves and crook
.eejness. His big-head seemed to Jean for
ward over bis miserably narrow chest. —
His back was bowed, and his.legs were
crooked and tottering. He had told ns
that he was over forty, hut we doubted,
and doubt now, whether ho had not add
ed something to his years, in order par
tially to excuse the wan, worn weariness
of his countenance* Ho an-ied an in
finity of thick, ragged, wild, dirty hair,
dark in color', though not black, which
age had not yet begun to grizzle. He
wore a miserab'e attempt at a beard,
stubby, uneven, and half shorn, ns though
it had been cut down within an Inch of'
his cbm with blunt scissors. Ho, had
two ugly projecting teeth, and hie cheeks
were hollow. His eyes-were deep, sot,
blit very bright, illuminating his whole
face; so that it was impossible to look at
him and to think him to be one wholly
Insignificant. His eyebrows were large
and shaggy, but well formed, not meet
ing across the brow, with single, stiflly
projecting hairs, —a, pair of eyebrows,
which added much strength to his coun
tenance. His nose was long and well
shaped, but red as a huge carbuncle. —‘
The moment we saw him we connected
that nose with the. Spotted Dog. It was
not a blotched nose, not a, nose covered
with many carbuncles,' but a brightly
red, smooth, well-lormed nose, one glow
ing carbuncle in itself. He was. dressed
in a long brown great coat, which but
toned up round ids throat, and which
came nearly to his feet. The binding of
the coat was frayed, the button-holes
wore tattered, the velvet collar had be
come party colored with dirt and usage.
It was in the mouth of December, and a
great .coat was deeded; but this, groat
coat looked as though it were worn be
cause other garments were not at his
command. Not an inch of linen.or even
of flannel, shirt was visible. Below his
coat we could only see his broken hoots
and the soiled legs of his trousers, which
bad rebelled (hat ago which in trousers
defies description. When we looked at
him wo could not but ask ourselves
whether tills man had been born a gen
tleman and was still a scholar. And yet
there was that in his face which prompt
ed us to believe the account he had given
of himself. As we looked at him wo
felt sure that he possessed keen Intellect,
and that he was too much of a man to
boast of acquirements which ho'did not
believe himself to possess. We shook
hands will) him, asked him to sit down,
and murmured something of.our sorrow
that he should be In distress.
‘I am pretty well used to it,* said he.—
There was nothing mean in his voice
there was indeed a touch of humor in it,
nml iu hla manner 'here was nothing of
the abjectness of supplication. We inul
his letter in our hands, and wo read u
portion of it again as hesut opposite to
us. Wo thou remarked that wo did not
understand how ho, having a wife and
family dependent on him, could oiler to
give up a third of hisincomo with tho
mere object of changing the nature of ids
work. ‘You don’t know what it is,’ said
h«-, ‘to write for the‘Penny Dreadfuls.’—
I'm at it seven hours a day, and hate tho
very words that 1 write. I cursed .my
self afterwards for sending that letter.—
I know that to hope is to bean ass. But
[ did send it, and hero I am.'
Wo looked at his nose and feU that we
must bo careful before wo suggested to
on?; learned friend, Dr. — ; —, to put his
manuscript into the hands of Mr. Julius
Mackenzie. If it had been a printed
book tho attempt might have been made
without' much hazard, but our friend's
work, which was elaborate, ami very,
learned, had not yet reached tho honors
of tho printing.house. Wo,had had our
tbo form of a real book ; but our friend,
who was a .wealthy as well us a learhod
man, was, as yet, very determined. Ho
desired, at any rate, that the thlngshould
be perfected, and hia publisher hud come
to us oliering £25 for the codification and
index. Were anything other than good
to befall ids manuscript, his lamentations
would bo loud, noton his own score; but
on behalf of learning in general. It be
hoved ua therefore to be cautious. We
pretended to read the letter again, in or
der that we might gain time lor a decis
ion, for wo were greatly frightened by
that gleaming nose.
Let Uw reader understand that the
| nose was by no means Bardolphlan. If
wo have read Shakespeare aright, Bar*
uolph’s nose was a thing of terror from
I its size as well as Its hue. It was a mighty
vat, into which had ascended aii°the
divmest panicles distilled from the cel
lars of the holsteric iu Eastcheap. Such
at least is the idea which stage represen
talions have left upon all our minds.—
But the uose now before us was a well
formed nose, would have been a com
manding nose, for tbepowerof command
shows Itself much in the nasal organ, had
It not been for its color. While wo were
thinking of Ibis, and doubting much ns
to our friend's manuscript, Mr. Macken
zie interrupted' us. 'You think I am a
drunkard,’ said lie. The man’s mother
wit had enabled him to read our inmost
thoughts.
As we looked up the man bad risen
from bis chair, ami was standing over us.
He loomed upon us very tall, although
hla logs were, .crooked, and his back bent
Those piercing eyes, and tiiut nose which
almost assumed au air of authority as he
carried it, were a great way above us.—
i here seemed to bean inliuity of that old
brown greatcoat. lie had divined our
thoughts, and we did not dare to contra
dict him. Wo feltthat a weak, unmanly
smile was creeping over our face. We
were smiling as a mau smiles who in
tends some contemptuous assent with
the self-depreciating comment of his com
pnmon. Such a mode of expression is In
our estimation must cowardly, and most
odious. We had not Intended it', but we
knew that the smile pervaded us. ‘Of
course you do/ said bo. ! I was a drunk
ark, but lam not one now. It doesn’t
.matter; puly I wish you hadn't sent for
me. I’ll go away at once.'
So saying, he.was about to depart, but
we.stopped him. Wo assured him with
much eiH-rgy that we did not mean lo
orloiid him. He protested that there was
no offence. Ho was too well used to that
kind of. thing to be made ‘more than
wretched by it.’ Such was his heart
breaking phrase. ‘As for anger, I've
lost all that long ago. . Of course you take
me lor a drunkard, and X should still bo
a drunkard, only »
‘Only what?' I asked. .
‘■lt don’t matter,’ said he. 1 1 need hot
trouble you with more than 1 hare said
already. You haven’t got anything for
mo to do, I .suppose?’ Thou I explained,
to him that I had something no might
go, if X could venture to entrust him with
Hio-ttuil,, - Witli uuuuii; r yut Jiliu
to sit down again, and to listen .while I
explained to him the circumstances,' I
hud been grievously afflicted when be
alluded to his former habit of drinking,—
a former habit, as lie hfmso!f no stated, —
but I entertained no hesitation in raising
questions ns to' his erudition. I felt al
most assured that his.answers would bo
satisfactory, and that no discomfiture
would arise from such questioning. We
were quickly able to perceive that we at
any rate could,not examine him in clas
sical literature. As soon as we mention
ed the ihune .and nature of the‘work he
wem off at score, and satisfied us amply
that ho was familiar at least with the
tiUe-pagesofeditions. Webegan, indeed,
to fear whether he might not he too caus
tic a critic on our owu friend's perform
ance. ,‘Dr.—; — is only an amateur
himself,' said wo, deprecating in ad
vance any such exercise or the red-uosed
man's too severe erudition. ‘We never
get much beyond, ddettauteism here,’
said he, ‘as far as Gicek and Latin are
concerned.’ What a terrible'man ho
would have been could ho'have got upon
the stafi’of the Saturday'Review instead
of the Spoiled .Dog !
We endeavored to bring the interview
loan end by .telling him that we would
consult the learned Doctor fro hi whom
the manuscript 1 had emanated; and wo
hinted that a reference would of course
bo acceptable, J-Jis impudence, or, per
haps we should iatnercall ft Ills straight
forward sineereamlaeilv, was unbounded
•Mr Grimes.ol the Spotted Dog knows
mo belter than any one else,’ said he—
We blew the breath out of our mouth
with astonishment. ‘l’m not askihg
yon to go to him to find out whether I
know Latin or Greek,’ said Mr. Macken
zie. •* You must find that out for your
self.’ We assured him that we thought
we had found that out. ‘But he cun tell
ymj that I won't pawn your manuscript.’
Ihe man was so grim and brave* that he
almost frightened us. We hinted, how
ever, that literary reference should be
The cciuleman who paid him
forty-five shillings a week, the manager,
in short, of Urn « Pennv Dreadful.’ might
tell us something of him.. Then ho
wrote for .us a name on a scrap of paper,
anil added in it an address iii the close
vicinity of -Fleet Street, at which we re--
membtTvamShavo scan ihn title of a
periodical which we knew to bo a ‘ I'eunv
D/eadxul.' V ' "
ho tuok'his leave he made.. ns,
specchj again .stun(ling up over us,t lough
we also were on our legs. Jt was that
bend in Ins neck,. combined with his
natural height, which gave him such an
ulr of superiority in conversation. He
seemed to overshadow us, and to have
his own way with us, because tic was en
abled to looic down upon us. Theh*..wes
a foot-stool on our hearth-rug, and were
member to have attempted to stand upon
that, in order that wo might escape this
supervision ; bu,t we stumbled and had
to kick it from us, anti something was
added to our sense of inferiority by this
little failure. 1 1 don’t expect much from
this/ lie said, ‘I never do expect much.
And I have misfortunes' independent of
my poverty, which makes it impossible,
that I should bo other than a miserable
wretch.’
‘‘Bad health V we asked.
‘No ; nothingabaolutoly personal; but
never mind, . I must not trouble you
.with more of my history. But iTyou can
do this thing forme, it may he the means
of redeeming mo from utter degradation.’
Wo then assured, him that we would do
our best, ami he lelt us with a promise
that be would call again on that day
week.
The first step we took in his behalf,
was on tbo very idea of which had at lirat
almost moved nli to ridicule. Wp made
inquiry respecting Mr. Julius Mackenzie,
of Mr. Grimes the landlord of the Spotted
Do#, Though Mr. Grimes did keep tho
Spotted Dog, ho might ho a man of sense
And, possibly,of conscience. Atuny rule
ho would tell us something, or confirm
onr doubts by refusing to tell us anything.
We found Air. Grimes-seated in a very
neat little back parlor,and were peculiar
ly taken by the appearance of a !ady y !n a
little cap ami black silk gown, wlio wo
soon found to be Airs. Grimes. Had we
ventured to employ our intellect in per
sonifylng loroursHvea an Imaginary Mrs,
Grimes as the landlady of a Spotted Dog.
public h- use In Liquorpond fcltrcct, the
figure we should have built up would
have been tho very opposite of that which
this lady presented to us. Sho was-slim,
and young, and pretty, and had pleasant
little tricks of words, in spite of occasion-
al slips in her grammar, which made us
almost think that it might be our duty to
pome very often to the Spotted Dog to
inquireahout Mi. Julius Mackenzie. Mr.
Grimes was a man about forty, fully lon
years the senior of his wife, with a clear
grey eye, and a mouth and chin from
which we surmised that he would bo
competent to clear the Spotted Dog of un
ruly visitors after twelve o’clock, when
ever it might ho ids wish to do so. We
seen madeknown'our request. Mr. Mac
kenzie had come to ua for literary em
ploymentT-~Could~lhey toll"ns-anytiling
about Mr. Mackenzie.
‘ He’s as clever an author in the way of
writing and that kind of thing, as there
Js in all London,' said Mrs. Grimes witli
energy. Perhaps boropinion ought not
to have been taken for much, but it hud
its weight. We explained, however,
that at the present moment we were es
pecially anxious, to know something of
the gentleman’s character and mode of
life. Mr. Grimes, whoso manner to us
was quite courteous, sat silent, thinking
how to answer us. His more impulsive
and friendly wife was again-ready with
her assurance. ' There ain’t an honester
gentleman breathing; and Isay hols tv
gentleman, though he’s that poor he
hasn't sometimes a shirt to his back.'
1 1 don't think he’s ever very well off
for shirts,’'Said Mr. Grimes.
’l* wouldoit’ bo slow to give him one of
yours, John, only I know he* wouldn’t
take it,’ said Mrs. Grimes, * Well, now,
look here* sir; we’ve that feeling for him
that our young woman there would draw
anything for him he'd ask, —money or
no money. She’d never venture to name
money to him if ho wanted a glass of
anything, hot or cold* beer or spirits.—
Isn't that so, John V’
‘She’s fool enough for anything as far
ns I know’ said, Mr, Grimes.
‘She ain’t no fool at all, and I’d do the
same if I was there : and su’d you, Job n.
There is nothing Mackenzie’d ask as he
wouldn’t give him,’ said Mrs. Grimes,
pointing her thumb over her shoulder- to
her husband, who was standing on the
hearth-rug; ‘that is, In the way of draw- 1
ing liquor, and refreshments, and snob 1
ike. But he never raised a glass to his i
lips in this house as he didn’t pay for,
nor yet took a biscuit out of that basket.
He’s n gentleman all over, is Mackenzie.’
It was strong testimony; but still we
had not quite got at the bottom of the mat
ter.' 'Doesn't lie raise a great many
glasses to his lips?-’ wo asked.
. ‘-No I>« dpn’t,’ said Mrs. Grimes, 'only
in reason.’ * * \
‘He’s had misfortunes,’ said Mr. Grimes.
‘lndeed and he has,’ said the lady,
what I call the. very trou'hlesomest of
troubles. If you was troubled like him,
John, where’d you be?’.*
‘I know where you’d bo,’said John,
He’s got a bad wife, sir; Dio worst
ever was,’ continued Mrs. Grimes. ‘Talk
of drink ; there is nothing that woman
wouldn tdo for it. She’d pawn the very
clothes off her children’s back in the
mid-winter to get it. She’d rob the food
out of her husband’s mouth for a drop of
gin. Ah for herself, she ain’t no wo
rnan’e notions left of keeping herself any i
way. She’d os soon be picked out of the
gutter as not; as for the word** out of her
mouth or clothes on her back, she hasn’t
got, sir, not an item of a female feeling
.loft about her.’
bad been very eloquent,
and had painted the ‘tronblesomest of all
troubles,’ with glowing words. This
was what the wretched man bad come to
by marrying a woman who was not a la- i
dy, m order that he might escape.the
•conventional thraldrom’ of gentility !
Out bin j me urunKeu wire whs not an.—
I hero was the evidence of his own nose I
against himself, and the additional fact
that’.bo hud acknowledged himself to
nave been formerly a drunkard. ‘I sup
pose he has drank himself?’ we said
‘Ho has drunk, in course,’ said Mrs.
Grimes. .
‘But he don’t drink now,’ continued
the lady. ‘At least, if he do, wo don’t
see it. As for her, she 'wouldn't show
heraelfiuside ourdnbr.’
• ‘lt ain't often that man and wife draws
their milk from the same cow,’ said Mr.
Grimes.
But Mackenzie Is hero every day of
his life,’said Mrs. Grimes. ‘When he’s
got a sixpence to pay for It, he’ll come in
bero and have a glass ol beer and a bit of
something to oat. Wo does make him a
little extra welcome, and that’s the truth
of it. Wo knows what bo is, and we
knows what he was. As for book learn
ing, sir; it don’t matter what language
|t is, its all ns one .to him. He knows
otn all around just as- I know l mv cate
chism.’
- ‘Can’t you say fairer thanhbat for him,
Polly;?’asked Mr. Grimes.
‘Don’t yon talk of catechisms, John ;
nor yet as nothing else as a man ought
to set hiH mind to; unless it is In-keeping
the Spotted Dog. But as for Mackenzie;
lie knows off by heart, whole hooks full
ol learning. There was some furretiers
heic as came from, —I don’t know wheie
it was they came from, only it wasn’t
I ranee, nor yrt Germany, and he talked
to, thorn just as-though ho hadn’t been
horn In England at all. I don’t think
there ever was such a man for knowing
things. He’ll go on with poetry out of his
head till you think it comes* from. him
like web from a spider.’ We could not
help thinking of the wonderful compan-.
lonship which there must have been in
that parlor while the reduced marr was
spinning his web/and Mrs, Grhnos, with
her needle-work lying Idle In her lan,
was sluing 1 -by, listening wllh rapt, adm'i
mlion. In passing hy the Spoiled Dog
one would mo imagine such a scene to
have Us existence within. But then so
many tilings do have existence of which
wo imagine nothing. ‘
Mr. Grimes.ended tf)e'interview. ‘The |
fact is sir, if you can give him employ- I
ment belter than what he has now, you'll 1
he helping a man wuo has seen bettor
days, and who only wants help to see’em,
again. He’s got‘it all there,’ and Mr.'
Giimes put his Huger up to his head.
\Hi*’h got it. ail here, too,’ said Mrs.
Grimes, laying .her hand upon her heart.
Hereupon we took our leave, suggesting
to these‘excellent friends, that if it should
come to puss that we had further dealings.,
with Mr. Mackenzie wo might perhaps
trouble them again. They .assured us
that wo'should be always welcome, and
Mr. Grimes himself saw us to the door,
having made profuse oilers of such good
cheer- as the house afforded. We were
upon the whole much taken with the i
Spotted Dog. , 1
From thence we went to the office of
the ‘Penny Dreadful,’ in the vicinity of
Fleet street. As we walked thither we
could not but think of -Mrs. Grimes’
words. The tronblesomest of troubles !
We acknowledged to ourselves that they
were true words. Cun there beany trou
ble more troublesome than that ol suffer
ing from the shame indicted by a degrad
ed wife? We hud just parted from Mr.
Grimes, not, indeed, having seen very
much of hlni/irTtho course of pur Inter
view, but little as we had seen, we were
sure that he was assisted in his position
by a buoyant pride in that he called him
self the master, and owner, and husband
of Mrs. Grimes. In the very step with
which he passed in and out of his own
door, you oould see that there noth
ing he was ashamed of about his house
hold. When abroad he could talk of his
‘ missus,’ with .i conviction that the pic
ture which the word would convey toall
who heard him would redound to his
honor. But what must have been the
reflections of Julius Mackenzie when his
mind dwelt upon his wife? Wo remem
bered the words of ids letter. ‘X have a
w4fo and four children, which burden
forbids me to free myself from all care
witha baro bodkin.’ As we thought of
them, ami of the story which had been
told to us at the Spotted Dog, they lost
that tone of rhodomoiitado-wUh which
they Tiad invested themselves when we
first road them. A wife who la indiffer
ent to-being picked out of the gutter, ami
who will pawn her childien’a clothes for
gin, must ho a trouble than which none
can bo more troublesome.
Wo did not find that we ingratiated
ourselves with the people at the ollleo of
the periodical for which Mr. Mackenzie
worked; and yet we endeavored to do so,
assuming in our manner and tone some*
thing of the familiarity of a common
pursuit. After much delay weeame upon
a gentleman sitting in a dark cupboard,
who twisted rouun- hty"stool to face us
while he spoke to us. Wo bslievo that
he was the editor of more than one ‘Pen*,
ny Dreadlul,’ and that as many as a dozen
novels were being Issued to the
t the same time,
_lol)l—said"lTe*," T ao you’re at that
wnrlc
vialoj
Kamo, uve you?' -Wo assured him that
we were at noymuo at all, hut were simp
ly influenced by a desire to assist a dis
tressed scholar. ‘ That he blower!,’ said'
our brother. ‘Mackenzie’s doing as well
hero na he’ll do anywhere. He’s a drun
ken blackguard, when all’s said and done.
80 you’re going lo buy him up, are you ?
You won't keep him long, and then he’ll
have to starve.' Wo assured the gentle
man that wo had no desire to buy up Mr.
Mackenzie j we explained our ideas as to
the freedom of the literary profession, In
accordance with widely Mr, Mackeuizo*
could not he wrong in applying to us for
work; and wo especially deprecated any
severity on our brother’s part towards
70MTHW). 3,
the man, more especially bogging tbaf
nothing might bo clodded, ns we were far
from thinking it certain that wo could
provide Mr* Mackenzie with any literary
employment. ‘That’s all right,’ said our.
brother, twisting back his stool. ‘He
can’t work for both of us; that's all. He
has his bread hero regular, week niter
week ; and I don’t suppose you’ll do ns
much lor him as that.’ Then we went
away, shaking tho dust oOT our feet, and
wondering much at tho great develop
ment of literature which latter years have
produced. We had not even known of
tho existence of these-papers ; and yet
there they were, going forth into the
hands of hundreds of thousands of rea
ders, all of whom were being, more dr
less, instructed in their modes of life and
manner of thinking, by the stories which
were thus brought before them.
But there niitrht bo truth in what our
brother had said to us. Should Mr, Mac*
kenkie abandon his present engagement
for the sake of the job which we proposed
to putin his hands, migho he not thereby
injure rather than improve his prospects?
Wo wore acquainted with only one learn
ed doctor desirous of having* his manu
scripts codified and indexed at his owu
expense. As for writing for the periodical
with which wo.were connected, we knew
enough of the business to bo aware that
Mr. Mackenzie’s gift of erudition would
very probably not so much assist him in
attempting such work ns would his Jato
'trailing act against him. A man might
be able to read and even talk a dozen
languages—‘justns though he hadn’tbeen
born in England at all,’—and yet not
“‘write the language with which we dealt
after the fashion 'which suited our read*
era. It might ho that he would fiy much
| above our heads, and do work infinitely
! too big for us. We did not regard our
own heads as being very high. But, for
such altitude as they held, a certain class
of writing was adapted. „The gentleman
whom we had just loft would require, no
doubt, altogether another style. It was
probable that Mr. Mackenzie had already
fitted himself lo his present audience.
And, even were it not so, w© could, not
promise him forty-live shillings a week,
or even that thirty shillings for which he
asked. There is nothing more dangerous
than the attempt to befriend a man in
middle life by transplanting, him- from'
one soil to another.
When Mr,. Mackenzie camo to u.-. again,
we emlnavni'fliMo •attain all tills to him.
We had in the meantime seen our friend
the Doctor, whose beneficence nfspirlt In
regard to the unfortunate man of letters
was extreme... He was charmed with our
account of tho man, and saw with Ids
mind’s eye tho work, for the performance
:of which'ho was pining, perfected In a
manner that would bo a blessing to the
scholars or all future ages. Ho was at
first anxious to ask Julius Mackenzie
down lo his reclbry, and, even after we
nad explained to him that this would not
at prosent .be expedient, was full of a
dream of future friendship with a man
who would be able to discuss the digamma
with him, who would havestudled Greek
metres, and have an opinion ot his own
us to Person’s canon. We were in pos
session of tho manuscript, and had our
friend’s authority for handing it over to
Mri Mackenzie.
! ‘ Ho camo to ua according to appoint
ment, and bis noso. seemed to bo redder
than ever, we thought that we dlscov
eied a discouraging flavor nf spirts In bis,
breath. Mrs. Grimes had declared that'
be uranic,only in reason; but the ideas
of the wife of a publlcan t ..evcn' though
that wife were Mrs. Gnm£s;;<Uhigbt be
very different from our own as to what
was reasonable in that matter. And as
we looked at liim he seemed more rough,
more ragged, almost more* wretched Ihan
before. It might ho that, in taking his
part with my brother of the ‘Penny
Dreadfnl/avith theDocfor. and oven with
mysoiMn Ihinkingovor ills claims, I en
dowed him with higher qualities than I
had been Justified in giving to him. As
1 considered him and Ills appearance, I
certainly could not assure myself that he
looked like a man worthy, to be trusted.
A policeman, seeing him’at a street cor
ner. would liavebad an eye upon him in
a moment. He rubbed himself together .
within his old coat, as me n do when they
come out of gin shops. His eye was
bright as before, hut wc thought that his
mouth was meaner, and his nose redder,
We were almost, disenchanted with him.
u: e said nothing to him at first about t he
Spotted Dog, but suggested to him our. 1
fears that if ho undertook work at our
hands he would lose the much more per
manent, employment which he got from
the gentleman whom wc hud seen in the i
cupboard. Wo then explained lo him ,
that we could promise to him no contin
uation of employment.
I Conclusion next wed:-) ' !
-I.IONS ATI'AttIUNU AS ACIUESS,
A frightful soono, morp'exciting in its
details than Iho very strongest blood and
thunder tragedy (hat a Boweryaudience
ever witnessed, occurred at flu* Bowery*
.Theatre, on Saturday night. The per
formances wore drawing to a close, ex
pectation was on tiptoe to witness the
brave ami daring acts of Miss Minnie
Wells with the Puma lions. - Thatyming
lady entered upon the stage, made her
courtesy to the andkmce, and immedi
ately went into the cage containing the
lions—the crowded audience meantime
watching the exhlbitioi/i with breathless
Interest. Suddenly, wiuju the young
actress was going through her perfor
mances with the animals, piercing
screams broke the awestruck- silence of
the theatre, and the audience were horri
fied at the sight, of a huge lion seizing
the young Judy by the throat and lacer
ating her in-such a frightful manner
that the blood poured in streams, upon
her dress, ‘ The actors and attendants
upon the stage rushed forward and struck
at. the enraged brute, and finally suc
ceeded In causing him to relinquish his
hold upon Miss Wells, who was dragged
from the cage in a fainting condition,
ftho was carried-home by her parents and
received prompt attendance. The scene
among the audience bullies description.
Several women fainted, ami menshouted.
with agony at witnessing a danger which
they were powerless to prevent. Infor
mation of the event was brought to the
Franklin street police-station, and Capt.
Kennedy, of the Sixth Precinct, with-a
large force of police, was promptly on
hand, and succeeded in restoring order,
so that the theatre was cleared without
further accident.— Wor/d.
A iiujiorous old man foil in with an
ignorant and rather' impertinent young
convert, who proceeded to informtheold
gentleman, in rather positive terms, that
lie could never reach heaven unless ho
was horn again, and added ; * I have ex
perienced that change, and now I tool
no anxiety.’ ‘And have juu been born
again?’ said his companion, musingly.
‘Yea, I trust I have. ‘Well,’ said the old
gentleman, eyeing him attentively, ‘ I
don’t think it would hurtyou to bo born
onco more!’
Old Nick —When Nick Biddle was
connected with (lie United States Bank,
"there was an .old negro named Harry,
who used to be ioallmraround the pre
mises. One day, In a social mood,.Mr.
Biddle said to the darkey—
—‘Widlrwh'jirnryour name, old friend? 1
‘Hurry., sir, oo Hurry, sir,’ said the
other, touching his sleepy hut. >
•Old Harry.’ said Biddle, ‘why that is
the name they glvoto too devil, Is it not?’
‘Yes, sir,’ said the colored gentleman.
‘Sometimes 010 Hurry, and 6011101411103 ole
Nick, too.’
A young lady, having ‘set her cap’ for
a rutber largo specimen of the opposite
sex, and having failed to win him, was
telling her sorrow to a couple other fe
male friends, when one of them comfort -
ed her with these words: ‘Never mind,
Mollle; there are ns good lisli in Ufa sea
as weie ever caught.’ ‘ Mollle knows
that,’ repl'.od her little brother; .‘ but she
wants a*whalo.’
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fivn ado itAiiv.
A young wife stood at a lattice pane,
lu a study eud and brown,
Watching the tiroary ceaseless rain,
•Steadily pouring down— /
Drlp t drip, drip,
• It kept ou its tiresome play;
And tho poor litllo woman sighed, ** Ah, met
What a wretched, weary day?"
; An eager hand at the door,
A stop as of ono in haste,
A kiss upon her lips once more,
An arm around her waist;
Throb, throb, throb,
Went her little heart, grateful and gay,
As she thought, with a smile, “Well, after'all*
It isn’t so dull n day!"
Forgot was tho splashing rain,
And tho lowering skies above,
For tho sombre rdbm wnslighted again
15y I he blessed sun of lovo;
Love, lovo, love ?
Ilau the llttlo wife's murmur’d lay;
“ Without, it may threaten and frown If it will,
Within, what a glorious day ?”
Thjj oldest lunatic oii record—Time
out of mind.
‘Mud, with the Juice squeezed out,’ ia
what ii little girl calls dust.
Tire young lady who is unable to sport
riding habit, should get futo a walking
tbit. • .
Wiry is a policeman like a bee? Be
cause bo fills ihouells.
What is the greatest want of tho ago ?
Want of funds. 1 ■
A man ever ready to eernpe an ac
.uuutrtueo-rTtiG barber.
Oho men are mowed down, but babies
are crudlod. n .
Scuui’hKS are called the ‘gloves of con*
science.’ ~
A i*Ai*Eit asks why it ia that butcher's
meat has fallen ? Does It not go down
every clay V .
One way of giving a man a chance of
I'jlng in the world. Knock him down.
Countkh 'it:( motions—rlondsomelady
clerks.
iiow can the ladies ever be called dull,
wlicn they have so many points about,
them —points of pins,
A ked cheek -la uii ornament, but a red
nosu ih hardly so. Society will have ila
little prejudices.
Wiry should a rooster’s feathers al
ways bo smooth ? Hecauso he always
has a comb with-him.
Wiry are a pinaud a poker like a blind
mm -? Hecauso they have a head and no
eyes,
‘I ivr sitting on the ‘style/ Mary/ as the
iLdlow f-ald when he ruthlessly sat down
on his sweetheart's new bonnet.
When does a bonnet cease to.becomea.
bonnet? When it becomes you, my
dear. ’
Tire last iantanco of originality in
marringo announcements is tho follow
ing: *2To cards, no cakes, no fuss.’
To kbici* warm of a. cold day, women
double the cape and men double tbehorn.
‘Hk told me/ says Artomas Ward. ‘to
get out of the office. I pitied him, and
(Jo*ft7NDuusi for the heated term—
Why is a perspiring person' unlike a
chiropodist? Tho one feels the' heat,
while the other heals the feet.
So.wb spnart savan has discussed that a
bed-bug after having bitten three -hun
dred times begins to droop and fadeaway.
Tub latest new thing among the ladies
is (o cultivate freckles. If tho world
keeps on progressing, a boil on the nose
will some day be a fashionable necessity.
It is said Unit tho reason there are so
many muitonheuds in existence, is to be'
found in the fact that such,a number of
children are k perfoct littlo lambs/
A lady, who was a strict observer of
etiquette, being enable to attend church
one Sunday, sent her card.
Wiibx a married man becomes ‘corn
ed/ it ls-perfeutly proper for his wife to
pull his cars..
Tt is with 11 arrow-souled -people as
with narrow-necked bottles—The less
they have in them, the more noise they
make about pouring It out.
An exchange says : . Trying to do bus
iness without advertising, is like winlr
hjg through a pair of green goggles. Yoa
may know that you are doing but no
body else dues.’
Mullon’EV says that the only way to
succeed in the grocery business, la to seii
cheap and give light weight. The-for
mer will bring your customers, while the
latter will enable you to skin them.
We are told to have hope and trust •
but what can a poor fellow do when he
no longer can get any trust?
A frenchman intending to compli
ment a young ludy. by calling her a gen
tle lamb, said * ‘She Is one mutton as is
small.’
How many wives are you allowed by
the prayer book? Sixteen, via: fo(u)r
bettor, 4 worse, 4 richer, 4 poorer—total
sixteen.
The five great evils of life are said to
bo standing collars, stovepipe hats, tight
boots, bad whiskey and cross women.—
Tile last not the least.
A Yankee, describing the lean oppo
nent,, said •‘I-tell you what, air,’ that'
man don't amount to a sum in
tic—add liim up ami there's diothing to
curry.'
A lady asked her gardener why the
weeds always outgrow the llowcrs. ‘Ma
dam,' answered he, ‘lho soil is mother to
the weeds, but only tftcp.mothcr to the
llowcrs.
*1 say Jim,’ said a plow’hoy one day ‘
hU* companion, H know of a new
fashion way to keep out of the wet.’—. '
‘What is it?' ‘Why if you cat U red
herring for breakfast you’ll be dry all- •
Vjuy.’
A UTTIe. four year old. child told his
father He. was a foot. On being repri
manded by his mother, and lequired to
say he was sorry, he toddled up to the*
insulted parent and exclaimed, ‘Papa,
I’m sorry you’re a fool.’
Dentist—' ‘My dour woman, if you
;opt your tooth cleau yon would have
less toothache.
Lady—‘But Doctor, they say washing
teeth wears them out.’
Doctor—'Good Gracious, Madam! I
hope you think that way when anything
nils your feet!’
A tavern boaster the other day, vaunt
ing his knowledge of the world was ’
asked by a wag at his elbow If "he had
bodh in Algebra.
‘Oh yes,’ said ho: ‘I onco passed
through it on top of a stage.’
A neuuo woman in Sardis, Miss., who
JasLAtcek-got-u{)-t)uUof-a
would go ‘to the show,’ despite every e$
fort made to prevent her doing so became
so much alarmed at the elephant that
she fain toil away, and actually died from ' ‘ •
the ellecls of fright before she could bo
removed.
A learned young lady, iho other day,
astonished the company by asking for the
loan of a diminutive uigenteous, truncat
ed cone, convex on its summit, and seml
perJoruled with symmetrical Indenta
tions. Bho wanted,a, thimble I
A couple of fellows, who were pretty
thoroughly soaked with bad rum, got
Into a gutter. After floundering about
lor a few minuted, one of them said to the
other: ‘ Jim, let’s go to another house!
this hotel leaks!’