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H. DI. NORTH,
A TTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW
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ColUitibill,Mny 4,1950.
J. W. FISHER,
Attorney and Counsellor at Law,
Columazbia.,
Volumbitt :September 13 1b3U.11
S. Atlee Bockius, D. D. S,
1111 A fT ICRB the Operalive, Sorg ical and Meehan
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(writ's Loeu.lsi reel, between be FrapiLlia Ilou.e
awl I'o.it Office, Columbia, Pa
2.lny leffi9.
Harrison's Conmbian Ink
tA rnion auperior bermancittic black.
7► and not corro ling Mc pelt, run be haid iii nny
ontii y. al the l'amily Medicom More, and blacker
get t+thnt Engliolt Boot Polieh.
Columbia. Julie 9. 1559
W:3 Have Just Received
R. CUTTER'S Improved Chest Expanding
Suppenderliler Hruees for (ientlemen,
and Patent Skirt Supporter and Brace for /.mile.,
jnal the article that is wanted at this time. Come
and see them at Family Medicine Store, Odd re:lows ,
Hall. l'April 9. 1559
Prof. Gardner's Soap.
VF, have the New Sup,laud Snap tor thoge who die
I 1101 °Wahl it from the 4 osip pli•ii , illll
to the 4k in, and rola take greii.te .pot= from
(hood+, it w ilierciore no hominid'. for you gel the
worth of your motley nt the Family Medicine Store.
Columbia, June 11,11359.
a BARAN, or, Bond's Boston Crackers, for
$lllll A rrOW HOW Cqu•Arr for to.
valicl 4 and rioltleeo—oew artJcics /is Coluinbita, at
The Vomily Medicine Slum,
April Iti. 1659.
c',4PALDINti'S PREPARED CLUE—The want of
-uch air urine Is felt in every family, until now
im eon be supplied; for mending furiiiture,
wure.ornuturlitill work, my.. Ate , (here is nothing
I , llperinr. We halve found in u-erul in repairing man)
uriethea whirl. huve been tv , eless for months. You
Jon 21iu it um line
In omit: PAULY AII:DICINE sTonn.
IRON AND STEEL!
' , r un Subst:riber- hove renewed a New 'Lad Large
of all karl. and 4 1,,E of
BAR IRON AND STEEL!
They are roottituitly stippiett with -owl: in thin broneh
of 111 A Idl•drn•Srl. and can 11.1.1%.11 11 10 etetiotourtt iii large
or small quuntwrs, Ld the lowest rule.
J It & SON.
Loenst toreet below second, eoll.ollldd. I'd.
A pill 1:.-1;11
Rl ‘ T ‘ T n E d it o 'S „ Comruud onh,.. Stm i p tc. of
(rollca Aloriar Drug Store. From M. lulyt?
TER'S Compound Commanded gstract
Star.ttototilla toe the Mire of Serpi' thc 1 li;rig*4
Evil oral ail seriifulou• affection.. a Ire tilt ju
ieeeLved and for 'oil? lay
K. WILLIAMS, Front st , Columbia,
1,59.
FOR SALE.
2
00 (moss Friction Mulches, very low for cnvh.
.N.te R. %VILLA +01:.
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Dutch Herring!
A Ny one fund ut gond II et rt r :ttr i, .11 ; t i t ti l r e t
i n i t. ; trzl 4 d at
Nov M. 19:59. Gtonery Stott.. No 71. Locunlni.
.L.4SON'S PURE 01110 CATAIVBX BRAIN
and 1•1UI. WI \E erpertally for Alectinotes
nd r 4 steramen tab purro-ett, nt the
dun tht , I.UILY EDteI tiF.STOITE.
MICE RAISINS for S els. per pound, are to
be bud Only ni
EIIERI.II:IN'S Grocery Store,
1 ?owl' 10. 1 -fn. No 7l Locum fti ret
GLU .-
MEN SEEDS-Fresh Garden Seeds, war
rattled pule, ot all k.a.cs. ju.l teceivaat at
btocery• store,
ilTnreb 10. 1Sal). No 71 Lora-t .irret
POCKET BOOKS AND PURSES.
A lot or tine toad COMMITS% Pocket Book.
and Purses, at from I& cents io two dolliirt each
lit idquurters and ewe Depot.
Columbia. April 14.1 +GU, • '
EEW more of those beautiful Prints
.. tell, which will lie cold cheap, nt
SAYLOR & AlcD4l,Val,D'S
Colombia, Pa.
April 14
Just Received and For Sale.
r m 'Cifi SACKS Ground Alum Salt, in large
UV or stoat; rionoM.:e*, ut
A PrOl.A'S
oya,'6o. IVareltoti.c. Cuoui Basin.
FOLD CREAM OF GLYCERINE.—For the cure
( odd previewed. in chopped hood.. tee, For Pole
at lIIC GOLIMS; 111ORTA It 'DRUG 'STORK
I: , c 3,18:19. Front sheet. Coltonlnn
Turkish Prunes!
~ a lta first rate artteieui Prunes you moo qo to
6 I'. EHERL LIN'S
Nov. It), 130. Grocery' Store, No 711..0eu.1 at
GOLD PENS, GOLD PENS.
If7` T•seeeived a large and fine uu,ortment of Gold
.r.J Penn. of Newton and Griuurold`m manufneurre, DI
SA VLOR & MeDON MAY'S look Store.
ot dal 14 Vront Pure* . Wawa,. Lnrii4.
,FRESH GIWCERI ES.
NvL. ;71.4 n w u n e 112. Ireat .. t keer d Sy l ruft ,. . White
to be had in Coluinrilaai' ooe
the C N n e;e r 4 C a o l r ' ne e r "! ...lto c re. op:
pnalte OJ 4 Fellow& 111111, and at the old aloud nAtotn,
tog the nk. 11. C. FONDEIL3MITII.
Segars, Tobacco, &c.
AI.OT of firsbeate Segars.Tiibacco and Seed' will
be foci dat the store of Ike esib.criber. lle keep.
only a firrt rate article. Coll it.
S. F. EBEITI.1:11'S Grocery Store.
Locust at., Columbia, la.
Oct 6;61
CRAIN BERRIES,
wr Er: Crop Trvue New Caron. ni
.L Om," lona. A. Ar n Nr torYF
SARDINES,
Worrepierslaire Sauce. Reaned (!ocon. jtm re-
VT aerved and for !We by tt. P. GUE:BI•GIS•
Oct.**, la6o, No. 71 1.0 , “-I St.
CRANBERRIES.
jt 737 received r ficolt tot of Crattle.voce and Nen
Currant.. at No. 71 Le. a-t Street.
ort
$I 50
Listen, my children, and you shall hear,
Of the nildnlghtside of Paul Revert,
On the Eighteenth of April, in Scventy-Five;
Hardly a mug is sow alive
Who remembers that famous day and year.
He said to his friend—"lf the British march
By land or sea from the town to•night,
Bang a lantern abaft in the belfry...itch
Oldie North Church tower, as it signal light—
One if by land, and two if by sea,
.And I on the opposite shore will he,
Ready to ride and spread the alarm
Through every Middlesex village and farm,
For the country folk to be up and to ann.
Then he said good night, and with muffled oar
Silently rowed to the Lharlestown shore,
Ju•t as the moon rose over the bay,
Where swinging wide at her moorings lay
The 'Sumer:mu, British man of war:
A plimituin ship, with each 11.1.1 and spur
Across the mums, like u pri-on bar,
And a huge Mark hulk, that was magnified
By its OWII reflection ni the tale.
Meanwhile, his friend, through alley and street
%Vanders and watches with eager cars,
Till in the silence around bun tie hears
The 'lniter of rnen at the barrack door,
The sound of arm: and the tramp of feel,
Anil Ilie 'immured tread of the greilainerr,
Marching down to their boats on the shore.
EIEI
Then Igoe:imbed to the tower of tho church.
Up the wooden stairs, with stealthy tread,
To the belle -chamber overhead,
And tirilcil thertigeons fruin their perch
On the sondire robins, that round him rondo
Musses and moving shafts of shade—
Up the light ladder, slender and Intl,
To the highest window in the null,
1% here he paused to listen and look down
A moment on the roofs of the town.
And the moonlight flowing over all.
Ilene:ol,in the churchyard, lay the deal
la their night encampment on the hill,
Wrapped in silence no deep and st4II,
Multi cou'd hear like a sentiiiers tread,
The watchful night wind, as it went
Creeping along from tent to tent,
And seeming to will:l3yr -all in Welt"
A moment only lie feels the :pelt
Of the place nod the hour, and the secret dread
Of the lonely belfry and the dead;
For suddenly all his thoughts are beat
On n shadowy something fur away,
Where the river widens to meet the bay—
A line of black that bends and gout.;
On the el-jug tide, like a brid,le of boats.
Aleunwhile, impudent to mount and ride,
Booted and spurred with a heavy stride,
On the opposite shore walked Paul Revere,
Now he putted his horsete side,
Now he gazed on the fandse tpe Mr and near,
Then impetuous stamped the moth,
Ard turned anti tightened his saddle-girth,
But mostly he Wi11010(1%14 1 1111 roger search
The belfrey lower of the old North Church,
As it rose above the graves 011 th hill,
Lonely and 'pectin!, sombre and stilt.
And lot as he looks, ent the belfrey'a height,
A glimmer and then it gleam of light!
Ile springs to the saddle. the bridle he turn.,
But Imgers and g, lees, till full oil Ins eight
A second lamp Mt the belfry limas!
A hurry ofhoofs in a eillage street,
A shape iO the moonlight. a bulk in the dark.
F•trunk out by a steed that flies hurl• , + and fleet:
Tom Wit all And yet. through the gloom and the
The fate of n nation ivivt riding that night;
And die spark struck out by that stee•l. in his flight,
Kind ed the land Otto flame with it- heat.
It was twelve by the vi.lage clock,
When he crossed the bridge into Medford town
lie heard the crowing, t f the cock,
And the harking of the (Armee. dog,
And telt thedamp of the river fog,
That ti-es when the sun goes down.
IL on: one by the village clock,
\Viten he rode into Lexing
Ile saw the gilded weathercock
Swim in the moonlight as he parsed,
And the meeting-house window e, blank and b are,
Gaze at him with a spectral glare,
A- if they already atood nglias
At the bloody work they would look upon.
it we- two by the village clock,
%Thee he came to the bridge in Concord town.
lie heard the blewing of the flock,
And the twitter of birds among the trees,
And felt the breath of the mooting breeze
Blowing over the meadow. brown.
And one ten' •rife and asleep in his bed
Who at the Midge would be first to fall,
Who Iliad day would be Iy tug dead,
Pierced by the mu-ket ball.
You know the reel. In the hooks you have read
How the Oritt-li regular• fired and fled—
How the Nrmers gave V.em hall Inc hall,
From behind each fence and firmyard wail,
Chasing the red coats dowa die lane,
Then cros-tug the fields to emerge noire
Under the trees at tlie turn of the rind,
And only pouting to fire and load.
e'to through the night rode Void Revere;
And tto through the nib ti went Inset y or alarm
To every Middlesex village and farm—
A cry of defiance and not of tear,—
A voice in the darkne,s; a knock at the door,
And a word that shall echo forevermOrei
For, borne on the night wind of . thc Past,
Through al; r ur history. to the last,
In the hour of darkness, nod peril and need,
The people will waken and listen to hear
The hurrying hoer-brat of that steed,
And the midnight message of Paul Revere.
One bright warm winter day I turned into
Livada's for luncheon. Livada's is in the
colonade which flanks ono side of the Es
planade separating the town from the cita
del of Corfu. and is not!' pastrycook's shop
because it is a wine merchant's, nor a. wine
merchant's because it is a grocer's, nor a
grocer's because it is a baker's, nur a baker's
because it is a tobacconist's, nor a tobacco
nist's because it is a restaurant.. And
yet pastry, wine, tea. bread, cigars, and
cutlets are remarkably good at Livada's.
What shall I bard Some light pastry or
a biscuit that will cause me no remorse
when I sit down to dinner at seven, with a
.lass of lemonade; for it is ,economical to
have a glass of lemonade at Livada's, inns
much as, in addition to a most refreshing
kink, you get a teat of legerdemain - into
tour bargain. For nothing short of con
;uring is the manner in which the artist
i• 111.111:1.13N
Irtrtry.
from the Atimie Monthly
Paul Revere's Ride.
A NEW POE.IX DV LONG EMLOM
grintiono.
Tomboli.
"NO ENTERTAINMENT IS SO CHEAP AS READING, NOR ANY PLEASURE SO LASTING."
COLUMBIA, PENNSYLVANIA, SATURDAY MORNING-, JANUARY 26, 1861.
'pours the fragrance of the fresh plucked
lemons from one tumbler into another with
a rapidity and from a height which keeps
the beverage as continually suspended in
the air as ever were the knives or balls of a
peripatetic wiiard.
Having taken in goods to the amount of
one shilling, I should, if in England, tender
that sum in payment, but such a dull, com
monplace proceeding would not find favor
with lonian tradesmen, who like a dash of
excitement thrown into every transaction of
life, just as a tippler enjoys a teaspoonful of
brandy in his tea; so Livada produces three
dice and a box, and the goddess Fortune is
invoked to settle the important point whether
I shall pay two shillings or nothing at all.
As she rules it in my favor, I consider it my
duty to have another throw for a glass of
gin-sling and a cigar, and, provided with
these creature comforts, I -settle myself
upon two chairs, and contemplate the vari
ous little amusing scenes goin,g on and pass
ing
by. There is a regiment at drill upon
the Esplanade; it is marching past in slow
time; very inspiriting the music is—r-rum
turn-ti-tum, tum,rrrrrum-ti-tam—surely no
man could get out of step to that! Could'nt
he? Look at poor old Faris, who has about
as much ear for music as a cow; he is just
approaching the saluting point, and has to
open his ranks and mare:[ on alone in front
of his company. See making those
wonderful evolutions with his sword—seem
ingly a series of menacing gesticulations ad
dressed to his own nose—dancing along on 1
the points of his toes, jerking out the right
leg at the moment his company behind pro-
trude the left. That a study for Leech!
Look at those swells who are beginning I
to gather on the broad path before uv, ob
serve the cock of their hats, the delicate
texture of their shirt fronts, dune out with
embroidery, lace frills, brooches, and spark
ling studs; the brillts.ney of their waistcoats,
the elaborate patterns of their trousers, the
brightness of their sticking, plaster boots or ,
small-toed pumps, the fit of their yellow
gloves. Some of them have ladies on their
arms, but the majority saunter along paired
off in dreary bachelorhood, eye-glassed and i
cigaretted. These are worth looking at just I
now, for they are the lonian aristocracy—
members of parliament mostly, owners of
the olive-trees, orange groves, and currant
hushes one sees in these parts—living in a
humid° way in poor lodgings about the I
slums (streets they are nut) of Corfu, from
which they emerge mysteriously in butter
fly splendor to decorate the palace balls, the
Opera, or the Esplanade. Their language
is Prench•ltalian with a dash of E.omaie,
their faces are sallow, their hair and eyes
black; their bodies puny; they want to be.
joined to Greece, and more fuss has been
made about them lately than they appear
to be worth.
What a jolly burst of laughter! what a
Babel of chattering? And presently a largo
body of rosy midshipmen, of all ages and
sizes, burst into the shop. They belong to
the Blazer line•of-battle ship, that came in
yesterday morning, and this is the first day
on shore they have had fur the last two
months. Look at them, they positively cor
roseate with good humor, as they commence
a terrific onslaught on the pastry. Pres
ently is heard the clutter of hoofs and rum_
ble of wheels, and another middy rushes in
breathless.
"Well?" says an oldster, who seems to
have authority.
"Only four saddle horses to be had in all
the town, so I've brought a carriage fur
those who don't ride."
"And we are how many? Six, seven,
eight, nine, We must toss who has first
ride, and the losers must go in the carriage,
tossing who drives."
Which is done with much eager laughter,
and then bread, sausages, champagne, and
claret being stowed away in the carriage, off
they gn as hard as they can gallop, on an
exploring expedition into the interior of the
island. Let us admire the good nature of
the oldsters who gave the youngsters an
equal chance of the joys of equitation with
themselves; let us also bestow a small
amount of pity on the Albanian ponies who
are doomed to keep pace with those boister
ous spirits for the entire day. A little pity,
not 'much, for they are not virtuous, those
ponies. My observation of these things had
been now and then partially disturbed by
the entrance of some sallow lonians, who
transacted mysterious business in an un
known tongue with Livada over a big book
in a corner, and then retired with a piece of
paper in hand—indifferent customers
should say.
When the midshipmen had cleared off, I
took more note of these individuals, and ob
served thnt they uttered single words to Li
vada, who repeated them after them, enter
ing what they said in a register.
What could it all mean? Perhaps a plot
fur the massacre of the British, and conse
quent junction of Corfu with Greece! I be
gan to grow quite uneasy, when who should
come in but Tom Polyglot, who can talk
anything, from Sanscrit to Bargee; dress in
anything, from furs to blue paint; eat any
thing, from a dindon aux truffes to raw buf
falo; and beat anybody at any game known;
and how it happens that he is only captain
and A. D. C.; instead of prime minister, or
Governor of India, is to me a most inexpli
cable circumstance.
"Polyglot," I whispered to this Admira
ble Crichton, "what is that Spero with Li-
dada, mattering words which the latter re
pents after him? Hist:"
"Deaitshy," said the Spero.
"Deaitehy," repeated Lirada, writing in
the book.
"That is Italian for ten," said Tom, laugh
ing. "It is the Tomboli. Won't you go in
for it? You pay a franc or so, and get some
thousands of dollars."
"Tha very investment I have been on the
look-out for I don't 'know how long. Some•
thing like the Suez Canal, I suprose?"
"No, not so bad as that. This is a lot
tery, where you have a decided chance of
winning, thoufh a small one. I shall have
a shy. Igivada, a Tomb°li ticket."
"Bet," I asked, "is this thing objected td
by the authorities? I mean, can one get
into n row at all?"
"What are Sou talking about? Why, my
dear fellow, this is a most respectable and
highly moral affair, fur it is got up by gov
ernment."
`•Tile lonian, I suppose?"
"No, the English."
"Why, I thought we disapproved of all
that sort of thing."
"So we do, for ourselves, because we have
arrived at such a pitch of civilization and
habitual honesty, that gambling, however
fairly conducted, is beneath our standard of
morals, which would be lowered if we en
couraged it; whereas these Greek, Turk, and
Spero chaps are such habitual rogues, that
gaming, without cheating is, fui them, posi
tive morality."
"I will encourage lonian morality: may
my virtue be rewarded. Livada, a ticket!"
I then had given to me a square bit of
paper, mapped out by cross lines into sev
eral compartments, like the frame work of
the :nultiplication table, or a chess board, or
a game of ought and cross. Each square I
was to fill up with a number, any I liked,
and the figures were carefully noted down in
the big book. Fur this square bit of paper
I paid, I think, a franc; I was to go to the
Opera House on the Wednesday evening
following, with it, and see a great many
numbers drawn out of an urn, and if mine
came up before any one else's, I was to re
ceive a fabulous sum of money, suggestive
of immediate return to England, a seat in
Parliament, landed property, dinners, sub
soil draining, a wife, the gout, and all man
ner of pleasing respectubilitics. And yet
my brain reeled not, fur I have no faith in
my star, never having won anything in my
life but once, when I cleared one hundred
pounds on the Derby; only as I did not get
paid, as I had laid out a considerable sum
in hedging, and as I gave a dinner at the
Star and Garter, at Richmond, on the
strength of my luck, I found s myself about
eightylpounds out of pocket, and am not,
consequently, accustomed to reckon that for
much.
Several members of the lonian aristocracy
then lounged in for tickets, and they set
about the matter in a business-like manner,
purchasing, not one merely, but half a dozen
square bits of paper, and choosing their
numbers on a certain system, the mysteries
of which were kindly revealed to me by a
hook-nosed Greek, but its he made use of an
unknown tongue, I am unfortunately unable
to transmit the secret to you. However,
the shop was suddenly flooded with officers,
among whom was Hazard, and I can tell
you his plan, if that will do. Hazard is a
small, whiskerless young man, with a wan
dering, restless eye, a thin, trembling hand,
and a general appearance of nervous irrita
bility. His great passion is gambling; I
never knew a fellow so fond of all games of
chance; trente-et-qunrente, lansquenet, and
pharo, at the club, with the Greeks; vingt
et an, lon, and blind hookey, at the quarters
of his brother officers; it is all ono to him,
ho will play at anything except whist, a
game he does not like, which is fortunate,
as he would never get any one to be his
partner if he did. I had that misfortune
one evening, before I knew him so well, and
was driven almost wild thereby, for be had
a congenial adversary on his right, with
whom, besides giving and taking all possible
odds dependent on the fluctuations of the
game, betting on the odd trick, and other
lawful though distracting stakes, he bet,
during the deal, on the color of the turn-up
card, on its being of a higher or lower -value
than the seven, and laid other eccentric
wagers, having no reference to the scientific
and noble pastime we were engaged in.
Ile had a serious, busincss•liko expression
on his face as he opened his betting.book,
and read out the numbers ho bad fixed on.
"Have you a regular system, then?" I
ask ed.
"Of course I hare," he replied; "every
body has."
"Well, but how is ono to set about dis
covering such a thing?"
"Oh, you cannot do that; it must come
naturally. For instance suppose a series of
circumstances were to show you that the
number seven was particularly lucky, you
should fill your paper with multiplies of
that number, as 7, 14, 21, 28, 35, &e., &c."
"Now, Hazard, come and play pool,"
said Deputy-Assistant-Commissary-General
Starr; and our conversation was inter
rupted.
Determined, however, to slake my thirst
for knowledge, I invited myself to breakfast
with llszard next morning, when I was
pretty sure to got a quiet chat with him,
and betook myself to his quarters at the
hour appointed..
During the meal and subsequent pipe, I
led the conversation to the "Tomboli," and
learned his rr..or, wbidb he shall impart to
you himself.
"For the first number I took 6, because I
went out shooting last llonday and bagged
so many woodcock; then 3, the number of
bares killed on the same occasion; 4, the
hour I ‘ started in the morning; 8, when I
came home at night; 33, the number who
sat down to dinner last guest night, 21, the
guns fired when the Blazer came in the
I other morning; -42, adding the reply from
the citadel; 22, my ago; II), the ago—oh,
never mind; 11, the jerk which brought the
stranger off my band, &c., &c. You see the
sort of thing?"
"Partially; but what do you mean by the
jerk which brought the stranger off your
hand?"
"You know those bits of stalk—'birch,'
say the censorious—which float about in
your tea-cap? Well, they are called 'stran
gers,' and you put one on the back of your
left hand, and slap the fingers with the
right; the number of the blow at which the
stranger flies 01F is pre eminently lucky."
"Nonsense:"
"Oh, it is vary easy to say 'nonsense;'
that is the refuge to which the ignorant and
prejudiced always fly. When I was stay
ing at homburg Once, I was very unlucky
at roulette, till one morning at breakfast a
bit of this stuff floating in my tea gave me
the idea of trying the plan I have just men
tinned, and the sixth time it jumped off, so
when I went down to the Kursaal, I stuck a
five franc piece on the figure six, and sure
enough six turned up, and I won thirty-six
times my stake. Well, I was so busy pock
eting the money the croupier gave me, that
I forgot to take away my original ecu,
which was consequentlyleft for another spin,
and I'm hanged if it did not win a second
time. Now, I am not superstitious, but
after that what is one to thinky'
"A curious coincidence, certainly," I
owned.
On the morning of the day fixed for the
Tumboli, swarthy picturesque figures, some
mounted on ponies or donkies, some afoot,
began to dribble into the town; at noon they
streamed, by sunset they poured; you would
not have imagined there were so many
grown men in the whole of Corfu, and, in
deed, their ranks may have been swelled by
visitors from the Miler islands ur mainland.
Wherever they came from, they filled the
town and thronged the streets converging
on the theatre by the time the drawing com
menced, and it was with difficulty a party
of us could force our way through the
mass.
The little theatre presented its usual bril
liant appearance, all the accustomed com
piny being in their boxes, the officers in
uniform, the ladies in full dress, just the
same as on an opera night; but there the
likeness stopped; for the pit, whose custo
mary occupants were a sergeant and two or
three of the guard who were off sentry, a
couple of guardianus, or native:police, (not
Bobbies, but fellows in green, with double
-1 barrelled carbines,) and perhaps a stray
' Albanian dragoman, wns crammed to over
flowing; everybody in the house had a bit
of paper in one hand and a pencil in the
other; and on the stage, instead of the
haughty Norma, the interesting Travittta.
the punctilious Ernani, or the melodious
Trovatoro, there was but a lanky man,
dumpy boy, a long revolving box with a
handle to it, and a large frame, somewhat
similar to those on which the numbers cf
starting horses and winners are displayed
on race courses.
The lanky man turned the handle of the
long box smartly round two or three times,
so as to mix the lots well up together, and
then the dumpy boy put in his thumb and
drew ont, nc.t a plum, but a piece of paper,
which the lanky man took from him and un
folded with the solemnity befitting a high
priest of the goddess Fortune. It was curi
ous to gaze down upon that wild swarthy
crowd in the pit, as with rigid faces and
covetous eyes they stared up at him with_
the intensity of shipwrecked men catching
the first glimpse of a sail.
A whisper might have been hoard over
the whole house, so deep was the silence,
which was at last broken by a click in the
frame, ono of the compartments of which
turned round, revealing the figure 5.
"Five! cinq! cinquel" cried the lanky
man, lb I don't know how many languages
and the cry ran along the lobbies, down the
staircase, out into the streets, where it
spread echoing through the town for the
next fire minutes, until it had permeated
the entire crowd, causing every heart in
that vast multitude to throb with hope or
thrill with disappointment, according as the
No. 5 was down on his paper or not; for if it
was, lie scratched it out, and be who first
got all his figures thus obliterated would
win the highest prize. Nor was there less
excitement inside the theatre, though as the
educated were better able to appreciate the
immensity of the odds ngninst each individ
ual, it was of a less earnest and more jocose
character; fur the moment the high priest
had done translating the number, folks be
gan chattering and laughing, and rushing
about frorn.box to box; till the urn began
once more to revolve, and they relapsed into
pin-drop silence till the many tongued proc
lamation of another number set them all
going ae in.
So little sanguine was I personally, that
I forgot to watch the fluctuations of uty
own fortune, and allowed the bit of pager
bearing my numbers to repose in n corner
of my waistcoat-pocket, while I wandered
about the lobbies, now lookirig into some
$1,50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE; $2,00 IF NOT IN,ADVANCE
box and sympathizing with the feelings of
its Tair occupants, now poking try head out
of an open window commanding the street,
and watching the dark masses which sway
ed to and fro in the moonlight.
At last I disinterred my paper. On corn
paring my numbers with those masked upon
the board, I found they hnd all been drawn
but three. With the prospect of a. chance
of winning came hope, and v. ith hope a vi
bration of the nerves, a rapid throbbing of
the heart, a feeling of tension about the
brain, increasing almost to vertigo as the
man unfolded the neat paper:
"44."
Another of my numbers. I had but two
left! And in about seven draws I got rid of
one of these, and if the remaining one should
be drawn, the fabulous amount of dollars
would be mine!
I could not sit still fur an instant, but
ran about the house in a most excited state
unfolding my prospects to everybody. Haz
ard offered me five pounds fur my chance,
but I wonid not take it. An hour seemed
to elapse between each drawing, and on
each occasion of the lot being taken from
the urn I had two throbs of intense excite
ment, one when the number first appeared
on the board, and again, after seeing that it
was not mine, listening for the cry which
would show that some one else was out and
my_chance at an end. Still it went on
time after time, and the figure I wanted
would not make its appearance, At last
after the drawing of a number came a cry
from ono of the boxes.
"gumboil!"
"Tomboli! Tomball!" shouted everybody.
The high priest bowed, and motioned the
fortunate one to come forward.
There was some confusion, and at last a
voice cried, "No, it was a mistake."
My pulse, which had nearly stopped, be
gan to throb away harder than eve?, and the
proceedings were resumed.
Once, twice, thrice, the dumpy boy drew
numbers, not mine, form the urn, and again,
but this time from the extremity of the
crowd outside: ..
"To moLt!"
A feeble distant cry nt first, gathering
breadth and strength as it approached, until
it swelled up into a roar.
After about a quarter of an hour's turbu
lence and wonderment what was to come
nest, a•ragged young man, Spero from the
tassel of his greasy cap to the soles of his
shoes, was formally ushered on the stage.—
iris face was white; his knees shook, his
mouth wide open. Tic looked like ono in a
dream when the high priest took his bit of
paper from him and compared it with cer
tain books.
Excess of emotion made him quite inter
esting as he stood there in en agony, bewil
dered, dazzled by the light,
All was correct, he was the winner!
The man fell back at the word as if shot.
"Happy fellow!" said Hazard, in my ear.
"Fancy being able to coach up so much es
citement as to faint under it!"
They carried him off, and went on with
the drawing, fur there was a second prize,
which some one won.
Not I—worso luck!
Love and the Doctors
The following extracts are taken from "A
Book about Doctors," recently published in
bmdon:
'Love has not unfrequently smiled on
doctors, and elevated them to positions at
which they would never have arrived by
their professional labors. Sir Lucas Pepys,
who married the Countess de nothes, and
Sir Henry Halfod, whose wife was a daugh
ter of the eleventh Lord St. John, of Bletsoe,
are conspicuous among the more modern in
stances of medical practitioners advancing
their social positions by aristocratic alli
ances. Not less fortunate was tho farcical
Sir John Hill, who gained fur a bride the
lion. Mrs. Jones, a daughter of lewd Ranc
leigh—a nobleman whose eccentric opinion,
that the welfare of the country required a
continual intermixture of the upper and
lower classes of society, was a frequent ob.
ject of, ridicule with the caricaturists and
lampoon writers of his time.
But the greatest prize ever mado by an
fEsculapius in the marriage market was
that acquired by Sir Hugh Smithson, who
won the hand of Percy's proud heiress, and
was created the Duke of Northumberland.
The eon of a Yorkshire baronet's younger
son, Hugh Smithson was educated for an
apothecary—a vocation about the same time
followed for several years by Sir Thomas
Geery Cullum, before lie succeeded to the
family estate and dignity. Hugh Smith
son's place of business was Hatton Garden;
but the length of time that he there presided
over a pestle and mortar is uncertain. In
1736 he became n Fellow of the Society of
Antiquaries, but he withdrew from that
learned body, on the books of which his
signature may be found, in the year 1740.
A few months after thi4 secession, Sir Hugh
led to the sitar the only child and heiress of
Algernon 'Seymour, Duke of Somerset.—
There still lives a tradition that the lady
made the offer to Sir Hugh immediately
after his rejection by a famous belle of pri
vat. rank and modest wealth.
Another version or the story is, that when
she heard of his disappointment, she oh•
served publicly "that the disdainful beauty
was a fool, and that no other women in
England would be guilty of like fully." On
hearing this, the Baronet, a singularly
handsome man, took courage to sue for tha t
[WHOLE NUMBER 1,558.
to whiah men of fur higher rank would not
have presumed to aspire. The success that
followed his during, of course, brought upon
him the arrows of 43D7. 7 He had won s.,
much, however, that he could, without ill
humor bear being laughed at. On being
created Duke of Northumberland in 1766,
he could afford to smile eta proposition that
his coronet should be surrounded with serna
instead of strawberry leaves; for, however
much obscuro jealousy might affect to con
temn him, ho was no fit object for disdain—
but a gentleman of good intellect and a
lordly presence. and (though he had mixed
drugs behind the counter) closcended front
an old and honorable family.
How- some of the wooers looked when
wedded, the annexed passages will show:
"Dr. Cudogan, of Charles tlio Second's
time, was, like Sir John Eliot, a favorit.:
with the ladies. Ills wont was to spend hi.
days in shooting and his evenings in tlirta
tien. To the former•of these tastes the fol
lowing lines refer:
Doctor. all game you either 0117,1i110 Flinn.
Or , port no long.•r will, tlin g, ii;
Dot, like pliy-leian 4 of tinitoutitru :}l.
Gladly nlltinin when never ied , 10 kill.
Not itad's uncertain droit.t, but ph) deadilp i . l .
Whether he was a good shot we cannot soy:
but he was sufficiently adroit as a squire of
dames, for be scoured as his :rife a wealthy
lady, over whose property he had unfcttcr ea
control. Against the money, however, there
were two itnportrnt points figuring under
the head of 'set-off'.—the bride was old an7l
querulous. Of coursn such a woman
unfitted to live with an eminent physicia,..
on whom bevies of court ladies smiled, when
ever ho went west of Charing Cross.
After spending. a few months in alternn.;:
fits of jealous hate and jealous fondness,
poor creature conceived the terrible fane•,
that her husband was destroying her ,•
poison, and so ridding his life of her execr.
ble temper. Ono day, when surrounded by
her (mails, and in the presence of her lor.i
and master, she fell on her back in a state .
of hysterical spasms, exclaiming: "Ah! he
has killed me at last. I am pomoned!"—
"Poisoned!" cried the lady friends. turn,
up the whites of their eyes. Oh! • gra , •
goodness! you have done it, doctor!" "
do you accuse me oft" asked the d. •
with surprise. "I accuse you—or—L.:
me—ee," responded the wife,- doing he: • •
to imitate a death struggle
answered the doctor, with admirable n,.1
chalanee, bowing to Mrs. Cadogan's boson.
associates, "it is perfectly false. You :tr.,•
quite welcome to open her at once, and then
you'll discover the calumny."
•
Here is John hunter at home:
John Hunter had no srupathy with I , '
wife's poetical aspirations. still less Wl , '
the society which those aspirations led I. •
to cultivate. Grudging the time which 0 •
labors of practice prevented him from .' •
voting to the pursuits of his museum .• •
laboratory, he could not restrain his t
ritable temper when Mrs. Hunter's f, iv
lous amusements deprived him of the
requisite fur study. Even the fee of a -
tient who called hint from his disseetit, ; ••
instruments could not reconcile him to Ow
interruption. "I must go," he would say.
reluctantly, to his friend Lynn, when t'•••
living summoned him from his in vesti7
dons am,ng the dead, 'and earn this d— I
guinea, or I shall be sure to want it
morrow. '
Immagiue the wrath of such a man, f
in,g, on his return borne from a long J
work, his house full of musical prollt--
connoisseurs and fashionable idlers—in f •
all the confusion, and hubbub, and heat
a grand party, which his lady had fare Ott ,
to inform him was that evening to Corn
Walking. straight into the 'middle of t:
principal reception room, ho faced rent
and surveyed his unwelcome guests, 1-1
were not a little surprised to see him
dusty, toil-worn and grim—so unlike w!.
"the man of the house" ought to be on ,u
an occasion. "I knew nothing," was I
brief address to the astounded crowd—
knew nothing of this kick-up, and I on
to hare been informed of it beforehand:
as I have now returned home to utu•l%
hope the present company will retir , ..
Mrs. Hunter's drawing rooms were spec
empty. What would Sir Cressirell'4 jr
think of such ferocious conduct ou tue
of a marital respondent?
The Dignity of Dullness.
Cardinal 'Wiseman tells us very fre.t . >,
that the trout principal of the dignity
dullness is always recognized and nit. , I
by the gentlemen who elect that Pi.r.
Gravity, approaching to stolidity; sib , :
of motion, approaching to. en tire tqa ,
still, are (as a general rule) requis,t, :I. -
human beings who succeed to tho
St. Peter. It has been insinuated C.. , 1
the Church of England similar ela.?:.
tics are (or at least were) held ess.
those who arc rondo bishops, and, a!,
archbishops. You can never be sure •
man will not do - wrong who is
any thing at all. But if it be perfc.
curtained that a man will do nothing,
may be satisfied that ho will do
wrong. This is one consideration; .
further one is the pure and simple dignity
dullness. A clergyman may look furs
to a bishopric if he write books whi.•. , .
unreadable, but nut if he write boo'.
are readable. The chance of Dr. L
filitely better than that of :Mr. Kin 4-
Aud nothing can be more certain +inn
the principle of the dignity of duline:.,
the mitre from the held of Spluvr :
"Lad ii