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November `29.155G.
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11. SUYDASI & SON'S
ut
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M 53.10, 1656
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May 10,1650
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Pll/ Ir by R. WILLIAMS.
Itlaylo,lS:A. Front Street, Columbia. Pa.
111STreceived, PRESII CAMPHRNF , and for sale
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/0 0 otierCity Cured flame and Shoulders,
stud reestved.and for sale by
Feb.2.l, 1657. B. SUYDAM di SON.
aEll
Cray, gray ut Abbey Eusaror, by Ballyahannon town;
It bus neither door nor window; the walls are broken
down;
The cavem stones lie scattered in briar and nettle-bed;
The only feet are those that come nt the burial of the
dead.
1 little rocky rivulet runs murmuring to the tide,
Singing a song of ancient days. in sorrow—not in pride;
The. boor-tree and the lightsonic ash neros, the portal
grow,
And heaven itself is now the roof of Abbey Eusaroc
it looks beyond the harbor stream to Gulban Mountain
blue;
It bear, the voice of Erna' , fall—Atlantic breaker,. too'
Ilinh Alps go sailing pu.l it; the ...tardy clank of oars
firings in a salmon boat to haul a art upon the .bore;
And thi, way to Ins 110111 e creek, when the summer day
I. done,
Tile weary fisher sculls Lis punt across the satins FUll,
While green V , . itii corn is Shotgun 11111, his cottage white
below;
But gray at every season is Abbey Easaroe.
There stood one day a poor old man above its broken
bridge;
lle board to running rivulet, he saw no mountain ridge,
Ile turned lusi back Oil Shotgun 11111, and viewed with
misty night
The Abbey-walls, the burial-ground, and crosses ghostly
white;
I"nder a heavy weight of years he bowed upon his staff
Perusing in the present time the former's epitaph;
For. gray mid WIIStCIi like the walk, a figure full of woe
This man wo ,- of the blood of them who roweled Eusaroc.
Front Derry Gales to Drowns tower, Tyrommal broad
lona their.:;
Horsemen and footmen, bards and mead. and mitered
übbott's pru)cr4,
Walt eh:muting' in the holy house which they had 'matted
high,
To God and to St. 'Bernard—whereunto they canto to the;
No work-house grave for lion, at least: the rums of his
race
Shall rest among the ruined ,tows of their saintly
Mime,
The fond old man was weeping; and tremulous and slow
Along the rough and croaked lane lie crept from ru-nroe.
The Young Widow
She i, mode.l, but not baqhful,
Irr,•e and ea.y, but not bold,
Like all apple, red and mellow,
Sot too young and not too old;
ma inviting, half reptiktve,
Now• mit imentg. and now shy,
There bt tne.elnel in her dimple;
There i. danger in her eye.
She has studied human nature;
Site is schooled ot all her arts;
Site lots taken her diploma,
A , the mibiress of all hearts.
She call tell the Very moment
When to sigh and hen to 'Mild;
0, a maid Is sometimes charming,
liul the widow all the while.
Are you sad! how very scrimp:
NV ill her handsome face become;
Are you angry! she is wretched,
Lonely, friendless, tearful, dumb;
Are you Iniriliful? how her laughter,
stiver•souudmg, to dl tug out,
She can lore and catch turd play yen,
As the angler does the coot.
You old bachelors of foi ty,
\Vito have grown bald and wi'e,
Young Americans of twenty,
NValt the love locks in your eye=.
You may practice all the le son=,
Taught by Cupid since the full,
But I know it bilk widow,
Who could win and foul you all.
gthrtigno.
The Milky and Watery Way.
lIIMMSME
When the eastern sky flushed, on a cer
tain Autumn morning of last year, and the
white caps of the farm women looked very
cold in the grey light, little did the surly
farmers think, as they rubbed the lingering
sleep from their heavy eyelids, that they
might be wide awake to see the donkeys and
horses loaded—little did they think that in
the little town six miles off, certain angry
men had laid a plot against them. The
broad pans of rich milk sweetened the air,
as the white fluid passed through it, into the
shining buckets strapped to the sheepskin
saddles of the patient donkeys. The milk
women counted the eggs, and folded the
chrome butter in damp cloths. And we
thought that, amid the gabble of the ser
vants, the shrill cries for Cesar, Antoine,
Louis, Josephine, (who wore boots that
were a reasonable load for any donkey,) and
Clementine who was warding off the ama
tory advances of Cesar with a pitch-fork,
we certainly heard the well-known creak of
the well-pulley. The farmer, who by the
time the farm-servants were fairly on the
move, had fully resumed his daily remarka
ble wide-awake appearance, seemed too, to
have very curious business in hand. It had
appeared to us that the Sieur Moineau made,
as forcible ladies express it, 'more fuss than
enough' over the milk: and so it appeared
to his enemies as we shall presently show.
Those sturdy legs of his would have failed
him, even in those stiff leather gaiters, could
he have peered, with those little grey eyes
of his, into the future that lay but two
' hours ahead of the present. But as our
friend Paleyanwater (a very old family) re-'.
minds us, at least twice in every twenty-four
hours, it is a blessing that we cannot tell
what the next five minutes may bring forth.
The Sieur Moineau, on the morning when
we first made his acquaintance, went through
his regular number of oaths at his men and
women servants, rolled his potent rs up and
down the dairy with his accustomed vigor,
and, at last, saw his milk off for the market
just as the sun had fairly left the horizon;
with the firm conviction that Cesar, Joseph
ine,
Antoine and Clementine would return
to their mid-day meal, loaded with that
strange jumble of bell-metal and copper,
that, in France, even last year, in country
districts, represented the humbler currency
of the imperial dominions. Round about, in
P)ntris.
Abbey Eusaroe.
I=
From the Mobile Tribune
Fa out I louschold Words
"NO ENTERTAINMENT IS SO CHEAP AS READING, NOR ANY PLEASURE •SO LASTING."
COLUMBIA, PENNSYLVANIA, SATUIMAY MORNING, AUGUST 22, 1857.
the hamlets dotted over the swell and fall of
the land near the little town to which we
I have already alluded, and for which the
Sicur Moinean's milk procession was bound,
similar preparations to those we have faintly
indicated, had taken place. A bird's-eye
1 . view of five or six miles around the town—
]et us call it Romanville—would have dis
covered a series of roads running into it,
like needles into a circular pincushion. And
upon one and all of these roads would have
appeared sundry dark grey spots, relieved,
as they neared the town, every moment by
flashing light. These spots were milk
equipages: the flashing lights the bright
brass hoops of the milk pails, the chirp of
the birds—birds that were evidently sharp
searchers for the early worm—was occasion
ally drowned by the shriller music of the
milk women, who were indulging in retai
-1
l niscences of Normandy, and taking, to mu
sical ears, a very unpleasant means of com
municating to any person who might be at
hand their ardent desire to see it again; it
being their deliberate opinion, after a com
prehensive tour that there was nothing like
it. Barricaded in their seats by baskets of
eggs and butter, their heads and caps pro
tected front the breeze by ample handker
chiefs, their substantial ankles cased in deep
blue stockings, these parties of milk venders
were jolted on their way to Romoinville.—
, Occasionally their animals would loiter to
gather a more than usually attractive this
tle—a giving way to temptation which these
rough Amazons punished by the prompt in
cision of a very substantial pin near the cul
prit's hind quarters. Merrily enough many
of these ladies gossiped along the road about
Baptiste, the ploughman who had jilted
Jeannette, and had married Elise instead,
to his cost, as lie found out, and serve hint
right. About the prodigious number
of litres yielded by the black cow; about the
garde ehampetre, who had spied a hare's
foot peeping out of Adolphe's capacious
pocket; in short, about the scandals in gen
eral of the villages from which they were
being jolted. And why not, pray? My la
dy, who spends her mornings reviewing her
long list of friends—who yawns when they
are praised, and exhibits animation only
when something may be heard of to their
disadvantage, is allowed her malignant
pleasure by all the world, and is permitted
as the subject of sharp reviews by all the
world also. Why, then, should Virginie,
the ruddy-checked dairy woman, as she
rides to market, be condemned to love her
neighbors, or be forced to be good natured
always, even to her bosom friends. Simple
people, tied to the dust and smoke of towns,
grow sentimental over rural life. They be
lieve that there can be no heart-burnings be
hind the ivy of a roadside cottage. They
imagine tint t cottag,ers are necessarily- better
people than the spare fellows who throw
the shuttle in the gloomy lanes of great
MEI
The authorities of Romanville had given
it as their decided opinion that the rural
entourage of their ancient city, was in no
respect better, but in every respect worse,
than it should be. This had been the con
viction of the inhabitants a long time, before
the eventful morning on which we enjoyed
the honor of an introduction to the Sieur
Moineau. The cooks who met twice a day
on the Grande Place, to bu - vegetables, gos
sip about their mistresses, and realise their
fair per centages on their purchases, had
one and all declared that, in the long course
of their protracted experience, they had
never seen cheats so audacious as the vil
lagers round about Romanville. Opinions
travel rapidly in a provincial town; but, then
this rapid travelling finds, perhaps, a whole
! some check, in the proverbial slowness of
the sous-prefet and his subordinates. The
half-dozen policemen who sauntered about
the triumphantly ill-paved streets, and
bronzed themselves valiantly under the
fierce rays of the sun at some curiously low
salary, could not reasonably be expected to
do more than this. They were only mortals
after all, though they wore the cocked hats
so reverenced by Frenchmen generally. and
insisted on, in Paris, when the new police
was established. The new corps wore caps
for a short time; but, we are assured, the
people would pay no respect whatever to the
kepis. The cocked hat is something to rev
erence, or at any rate to fear.
It was on the eve of the day when we
first entrusted our hand to the awful grasp
of the Sicur Moineau, that a meeting
took place at llomanville, in a little, close
bureau, originally forming one of the door
keeper's residences, under the archway of
the local museum and college. In this lit
tie bureau, were those long green books;
that coarse, brown tea paper upon which
French underlings write; that ample pan of I
sand for letter drying; that curious inkstand
with a lump of wool in the ink; that square,
red earthenware receptacle in a corner,
which proves that the expectorators who
paid their attentions to it, were not artillery
officers; and, finally, that series of green
card-board piled to the ceiling which gener
ally make up a French bureau of modest
pretensions. The pens, sharp as needles,
and the blue green ink should not be for
gotten. Everything looked greasy, of course.
First, the men who were in the bureau, then
the stools, then the broad black space
around the door handle. A not very acute
olfactory nerve might have gathered from
the atmosphere a distinct odor of garlic.
In this delightful retreat from the turmoil
of the town, the entire body of Romanville
police was gathered on the eve of that 1
eventful morning, which gave a shock to the
nerves of the Sieur Minoan, under which
he is laboring at the present moment. The
cocked hats of the six policemen were piled
upon the desk; and the shiny, cloiely-erop
ped heads of the men were packed together
pressing around their chief. This chief was
a very serious man indeed, a man, you saw
it at a glance, with a curious story. He
wore the silver star of the legion, for ser-
I vices performed far away from Romanville.
Gossips said that his present position as
chief of the Romanville constabulary, was
given to him when he was disgraced. But,
nobody knew what his antecedents were.---
He did his duty strictly, but not harshly;
still, although a kind, he was not a compas
sionble man. You never met him walking
in the streets with a fellow townsman. His
right arm held behind his back in his left;
his eyes wandering coldly over the prospect,
he would take his solitary walk round the
ramparts; read the Contitutionnel after
wards (it was always reserved for him at
the cafe, on its arrival from Paris;) and re
tire to rest punctually at ten o'clock. He
was a man reduced to the unvarying precis
ion of a time piece. Ile walked round the
ramparts the same number of times every
evening. It was at eight o'clock precisely I
every evening that he opened the door of the
Cafe de la Grande Place, and ordered a
choppe of Strasbourg beer.
At the meeting of his forces, in his greasy
little bureau, he gave his orders in the calm
methodical speech we expected to hear from
him. A sergeant of the local gendamerie,
was also at the meeting; and to him the
Chief more particularly addressed himself.
He told him to place a mounted patrol at
every octroi gate around the city, as early
as four o'clock the following morning, and
to prevent every market man or woman,
who carried a pail of any kind, from enter
, ing the town. The patrol would detain all
pail hearers who might present themselves
til he arrived. The orders were to be com
municated to the mounted patrols, on their
arrival at the scene of action. The police
men were enjoined to keep the matter secret,
on pain of dismissal.
We left the milkmaids merrily singing
and gossiping on their way to Romanville.
`This is a droll affair,' said the gendarme
posted at the Octroi gates towards which
the Sieur Moineau's procession was ad
vancing, addressing a very peppery speci
men of the time, whose bayonet towered over
his glazed shako.
'Very droll,' replied the little warrior, as
he planted himself firmly in the middle of
the road, and prepared, if necessary, to
charge the entire column of milkmaids and
donkeys
'You cannot pass,' cried the gendarme to
the women as they reaohed the gate, 'and
you are detained. till the authoritie; have
dealt with you. Get down, and enter the
octroi ffice.'
The reader who has not seen the French
authorities deal with the French people; will
he unable to realize the consternation this
order created among the Mohican servants.
The women grew ashy pale; and shrieked,
and ela,ped their hands, and called upon
their favorite saints, and begged for explan
ation from the peppery little man, who
looked his sternest, and was possibly disap
pointed because he had not had an opportu
nity of poking his bayonet, at least, into a
donkey. They went chattering into the
dark, greasy octroi room, where they sat
upon the forms and wrung their hands, and
implored the octroi official to give them some
clue to the mystery. But the official was
silent. Other milk parties arrived in rapid
succession: and was treated, as the Moineau
cavalcade had been. On each occasion, the
screams, and prayers. and violent gestures
peculiar to French excitement, were repeated.
In an hour the little bureau was full of ruddy
women, and bronzed countrymen in their
blue blouses, who vented their indignation
in a series of oaths, in which the letter r
seemed to predominate.
I Presently the chief of the police, accom
panied by two of the officials, and two po
licemen, were seen !approaching the barriere.
The excitement in the octroi bcaureau be
came intense. The white caps of the women
could be seen, in stage=, one above the other,
as they raised themsch es on tip-toe to catch
a glimpse of the awful , procession. The
chief looked more than usually serious; hut,
on arriving before the bureau, he took no
notice of the crowd of country-people gather.
ed within it. It was evident that his business
was not with them. They were not, how
ever, left in a state of suspense; since the
officials proceeded, with remarkable vigor,
to drag the donkeys from the roadside, the
I animals' heads and necks stretching to a
wonderful length, before their bodies yielded
to the tugs of the authorities. In a few
minutes the pails were, untied, and arranged
in a row against the hedge. It was now
obvious that the Sieur Moineau's milk was
about to undergo, in company with that of
his neighbors, the severe test that was hence
forth to be applied to it from time to time
by the representatives of the law. A very
serious-looking gentleman proceeded with
the chemical analysis. It must have been
unsati-.factory. Had the Sieur Moi
neau mixed flour, or emulsion of almonds,
or the brown extract of chicory with his
milk that he might, without fear of detection
by his customers, add gallons of water?—
The babble of tongues under which the anal
ysis was conducted, prevented us from learn
ing the precise reason why, basketful after
basketful of the farmer's milk was sent wan-
dering in a broad white line along the open
sewer of the road. There was hardly a pail
ful that escaped. The Sieur Moil - Imes
neighbors were not less culpable; and their
milk, too, flowed in a broad white way
through the streets of the town. In vain
the women appealed to the policemen: in
vain they assured the chief that the milk
was as it came from the cows; the official
chemist knew better, and tipped their pails
over, one ofter the other, without appearing
to take the least notice of their protestations.
In half-an-hour the 3loineau servants were
on their way back to: their master, their
empty pails jingling at their sides, and their
tongues doing their utmost to drown this
jingling.
From the barriere, where the Moineau
procession was stopped and relieved of its
burden, the chief and his officials repaired
in succession to the remaining barrieres
around Rumanville. At each barriere the
scene already described was faithfully copied.
The women chattered, and prayed, and ges
ticulated; the pails were arrayed in rows,
and the milk was sent bubbling along the
sewer. Before seven o'clock the rich fluid—
rich even with its admixture of water, and
flour, and chicory—wbitened the long line
of open sewerage across the city; a milky
and watery way drawn by the authorities
as a prompt and very impressive lesson to
the farmers round about.
And then, when the servants with jugs,
and pans, and pitchers, darted into the
streets to the accustomed gateway, under
which their milk-vender usually sat, sur
rounded by the snow-white pails, and found
that she was not there; when the rubbish
carts were in the streets, and the chiffoniers
were investigating the worth of thtcastaway
vegetables, and rags and dirt piled in neat
heaps before every house; when the shutters
were being taken down from the tobacco
shops and the grocers; and when the air
was scented with the morning rolls; the ex
citement among the townsfolk became really
dangerous. The six policemen walked up
and down the street looking appropriately
fierce and uncompromising. They gave no
heed to the storks of the nurses who were
bringing up their babies by hand, and who
were consequently in despair. They were
unmoved by the fact that a certain old lady .
would be dead if she didn't get her milk
soup before ten o'clock. They disregarded the
sorrows of the children who would have to
go without puddings; and the restaurateurs
who were in despair about their day's sauces.
They had done their duty, they said; even
their chief had been compelled to drink
black coffee, and there would be pure mi]k
for everybody to-morrow! Pure - milk for
everybody at the cost one day's milk for
none. A day of fast was to procure a year
of festival. Could London milkmen only
live in dread of galactorneters, as now Paris
milkmen do! For some day Paris will be
in like manner taken by surprise; and the .
produce of the forty-eight thousand three!
hundred and seventy cows, whose milk she+
consumes, will flow in curls, like wedding ;
favors, along the Boulevards!
Corre,poodence of for Bomon NSA.
Letter from John Phcenix.
Dinner at Nakant House—lrruption of the
Tooth Doctors—Grand Dental Chorus—
Fearful Dental Ecereises—Hop, ce.e.
NAnANr Ifotu.t, Aug. 6, 1.657.
While deeply interested in the discussion
of the luxurious repast provided for the hap
-Ipy guests of this mansion yesterday after
noon, my attention was diverted by the
sound of music of a wild and Saracenic de
scription, resounding from the exterior of
the building. The melody appeared to be
that portion of the "Battle of Prague" which
represents the "cries of the wounded," ac
comp/inlet' by an unlimited amount of exer
tion on the part of the operator on the bass
drum. Hastily rushing to the window,
bearing elevated on the fork the large pota
to from which I had partly removed the cu
ticle, (Stevens gives us enormous potatoes,
it takes twenty minutes to skin one proper
ly,) I beheld a procession numbering some
three or four hundred, all in their Sunday
clothes, every man with a cigar in his mouth
slowly and solemnly moving past the hotel.
They bore a-banner at their head, on which
was depicted an enormous cork screw, or
some instrument of that description, with
the motto 'A long pull, a strong:pull, and a
pull altogether.' Judge of my astonishment
and delight in recognizing in the bearer of
this banner, my old friend, the philanthro
pic Tushmaker, of wide-spread dental re
nown. As the procession reached the front
of the hotel, each man threw away his cigar
and having replaced it by a large quid of
tobacco, defiled upon the piazza, in a tolera
bly straight line, and then gazing intently
at the windows, opened his mouth, from one
auricular orifice to the other, and showed
his teeth. Never have I seen so glittering
a display. Filled with curiosity, I was
about to ask an explanation, when my friend
Doolittle from Androscoggin, who had rush.
ed to the window at the same time with
myself, saved me the trouble, by demanding
with an incoherent and exceedingly nasal
pronunciation, 'Why what on airth is this
'ere?' 'This,' replied the courteous Hiram,
whose suavity of manner is only equalled
by the beauty of his person, 'this, sir, is the
American Dental Association, composed of '
members from all parts of both continents,
and the British West India- Islands.' ./e
-retcsalent." said Doolittle, 'threchundred kWh
carpenters!'
It was indeed a thrilling spectacle. To
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think of the amount of agony that body of
men had produced, and were capable of yet
producing, to think of the blood they had
shed, and of their daring and impetuous
charges after the gory action was over:—
The immortal charge at Bal:tklava was not
a circumstance to the charges made daily
I by this three hundred. As Hiram had truly
said, these were dentists from all parts of the
civilized world and elsewhere. There was
the elegant city practitioner, with shiny hat
and straw colored gloves, side by side with
the gentleman from the country, who hauls
a man all over the floor for two hours, for a
quarter of a dollar, and gives him the worth
of his money. I observed that forty-seven
of them wore white hats, and two hundred
and sixty eight used tobacco in some form.
There can be no que,tion that this , übstance
is a preservative for the teeth. I observed
in the rear rank, the ingenious gentleman
who invented the sudden, though painful
method of extracting a tooth by climbing a
tree, and connecting by a catgut string the
offending member with a stout limb, and I
then jumping down; a highly successful op- i
eration, but not calculated to become norm-
lar in the community. He wore buckskin
moccasins, and did not appear to be enjoying
a successful practice.
But while I gazed with deep intere , t upon
the assembly, the band struck np 'Tom Mg,'
and away they went. Three times they en
circled the hotel, then 'with their wing ,
aslant, like the fierce cormorant' swooped
down upon the bar, registered their names,
and took a grand Federal drink, (each man
paying for himself.) Here toasts and sent
iments were the order of the day. 'The
American Dental Association, like water
men, we pull one way and look another.'—
'A three dollar cavity, very tilling at the
the price.' The woodcock, emblem of den
tistry—he picks up his living from the holes,
and passes in a precious long bill.' The
memory of Dr. Beale, drank standing.—
These, with other sentiments of a similar
meritorious character were given, and re
ceived with great applause.
Having all drank from the flowing bowl,
the association again formed in line in front
of the piazzas, which were now crowded
with a curious and admiring throng, and
sang with surprising harmony the following
beautiful, plaintive, and appropriate chant:
''Oh, Jonathan Gibbs he broke his tewth,
A °Mill' plithill, a entni pothIiW—
JOIUMIUTI thbbs be broke his tewth.
A eatin' puddin% u eutin" pudihn".
“Grent lump of suer, they stuck Inv., if,
lotew it, novav n, uotety it. totem” it—
Great lamps of suer, they stuck item" it,
As log as my two thumbs.-
The chaunt finished, and the applause
sudsiding, an' air of gravity came over the
association, and the president, Dr. 'rash
maker, stepping forward, announced that a
few pleasing and wonderful performances
would now be gone through with, with the
object of exhibiting the dexterity acquired
by the members of the society. Then
turning to the line he gave the command,
'Draw!' In an instant every one of the
association was armed with a brilliant turn
screw. 'Fix!' shouted Dr. Tu.hmaker. and
each member opened his mouth and attached
his fearful instrument to a back tooth.—
'Haul!' screamed the doctor. 'Hold, for
God's sake,' shouted I, hut it was too late;
three hundred double fanged back teeth,
dripping with blood, were held exultant in
the air. The assoeir.tion looked cool and
collected; there might have been pain, but,
like the Spartan boy, they repressed it; the
ladies with a cry of horror fled from the
piazza. 'Replace!' shouted Dr. Tushmaker,
and in an instant every tooth returned to the
mouth whence it came. I under,tood it at
once; it was ball practice with blank car
tridge—they were all false teeth. Several
other interesting exercises were gone through I
with. A hackman passing by in his carriage
was placed under the influence of chloroform, !
all his teeth extracted without pain, and an
entire new and elegant set put in their
place, all in forty-two seconds. His appear
ance was wonderfully improved; he had been
known for years as 'snaggle toothed Bill,'
but a new and more complimentary title
will have to be devised fur him. Wonderful
are the improvenents of science. At five
o'clock the procession was reformed, and
the band playing 'Pall Brothers, Pall,' the
association moved off, returning by the Nclly
Baker to Boston.
I have never seen three hundred dentists
together before, and I dont believe anybody
else ever did, but I consider it a pleasing
and improving spectacle, and would suggest
that the next time they meet they make an
excursion which shall conbine business with
pleasure, and all go down together and re
move the snags from the mouth of the Mis
sissippi.
We had a hop here last night; Belle, a
young lady from Boston. Good bye. Re
member mo to the Tewth Doctor.
Yours respectfully,
terScott says that 'every man that lives
has his light and shades.' We are not so
certain about the shades, but presume there
is no liver without lights.
llox is it tTC...sq can put on a new
dress, without opening their trunks? Be
cause they lcarc oul their summer clothing.
ger-Should trowsers procured on credit
be considered 'breeches of trust.'
war-It is said that no fort suffered so
much from a single battle, as has the piano
forte, from the battle of Prague.
{WHOLE NUMBER, 1,412,.
From the Brooklyn Evening Scar.
The Bloody Dagger,
OR, TIIE CRIMSON WARRIOR'S SINCCIYARr
REVENGE.
A' TALE OF TOAD mu,
Pr BRAIN - LESS 808, JR.
Aathor of the •Phaotom Tooth•Ptckl
'Ha! ha!' shrieked the Crimson Warrior
,f ILb.ken, a; with rapid steps he paced the
hall where hung the shilling ambrotypes of
his anceslors. •To night I'll be revenged
upon the haughty Lady Adriana Seraphim
D' Eu Mardeone, and that base Sucker Don
Edmund E'Quackenbust. 01.! revenge! thou
art sweeter than the nectar of the G0t1 , .. or
Stewart's syrup, which in my dayi cf
.youti.•
ful innocence I poured in lavish streams 'To.%
the smoking buckwheat cakes!'
With a demoniac smile he drew from him
pocket a large—handkerchief, and carefully
wiped his luminous nose.
CIIAPTErt 11.
—•Thnndrr a 11411.11111 g Chr,myn.
The fa'einating Adarina sat in her boudoir
eating a round heart, which her faithful
maid, Bridget O'Sullivan, had just purchased
for her at the Dutch baker's.
'I cannot imagine what detains Don Ed
mund' she exclaimed as she cast an anxious
glance at the clock, 'by the thunder's roar
and lightning's vivid flash, I think we'll have
a spell of weather before soon if not sooner.
However, there's no such thinking as know
ing anything about the weather since Mer
riam left us to pedestrianize around the
country in a muslin shirt, minus unexcep
tionables—the indecent old fellow!'
Some one enters the room--'tis Don Ed
mund.
`Adarinn!'
'Edmund!
And they clasped in a fond embrace.—ln
a voice of exquisite sweetness, like a bull-
frog on a summer's night she sang—
'ON' Eddy. is it you dear, r thoucht you would not come,
thouuhtyou'd stopped at Pookin's to take a glass of
rum,
But I heard your welcome foot.tep and I knew that you
wrre tieur.
Ik. Eddy, you ore sweeter to me than Lager Beer!'
'But dearest,' she said 'we must part, my
cruel father says I must wed Dun Greasy D'
'Say no more love,' he exclaimed, 'but Sy
with me to Coney Island, and there, in a
cottage made a heaven by love, we'll sell
clams and all other delicacies of that lovely
spot to the hungry Gothamites.'
'I cannot leave my pa,' she said in a voico
choked with emotion and a piece of the
round heart.
'0! Calcium light of my existence, fly with
me, for if ye wed Don Greene, drivo a
tooth pick through this faithful heart and
Conn cry shall hold an inquest on my body!'
'Simmer down, Edmund,' she exclaimed,
will go with you; let us depart at once;
there's danger in delay.'
'Ave, vile woman, there ist' The Crim
son Warrior was before them! Adarina
‘—Re venge"— Webster's Dictionary
'Edmund D'Quaeltenbust thy hour has
conic!' said the Crimson Warrior. 'I am the
avenger of am Greene, whom you're wrong
ed. Prepare for kingdom come.'
'l'll call the police, gaped D'Quacken
bust.
'Fool, there is 110 police. Between the
11"ayor and the new Commissioners the
police are what they never were before, an
honest (non est) body.'
With a single stroke of his huge dagger,
be cut Don Edmund in two pieces!
rrrren eyed lobster, jealonsy:—Slicrksprare
The Crimson Warrior basing annihilated
Don Edmund, turned his attention to Ada
rina and after some effort restored her to
13=1
'You are not Don Edmund—ho bad not
such a nose!' she ejaculated, hysterically.
'No, lady, I am net. Behold your Ed-
mund:'
Site gazed upon the lifeless body for a mo
ment, arid in a voice of intense emotion, she
asked—
'Who art thou that thus spills Wood?'
'I am the avenger of a wronged man, 6.
man Sea promised to love and marry'—and
with a smile of hatred he rowavoxi from his
face a M.:a moustache--
'Do you know me?'
Good heavens! You are Don Greeny."
'Aye, Ada! Don Greeny in whose presence
you formerly appeared so happy; to 'whom
your words were words of love, but whom
you ridiculed when absent, while your smile
was given to that I,a.e thing who lies there,
dead as the Wooly Horse
'Oh! may heaven shower red hot peanuts
on your devoted bead, may your children
grow up and become Alderman or Members
of Congress!'
'Spare them such disgracer be muttered!
then picking up the gory dagger, he plunged
it into—
J. P-
[We shall publish no more of this interest
ing story in our columns. The continuation
may be found in this week's Naga-. For
sale in all parts of the United States and
New Jersey.]
[For the edification of our readers, we
have tocertained at an immense expense the
fate of the lady Adarina and the conclusion
of the tale.
The Crimson Warrior merely plunged the
dagger into its sheath. and left the bilge
..idarina in dieguet. Ire Ful.Feguently at,
CITA PTEZt I
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