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Treason's Last Device
BY EZIKUND C. ISTEDMAIT
"Who deserves greatness,
Deserves your hate, • • •
ion common cry occurs, whose breath I loathe
As reek o' the rotten fens."
"Hark! hark! the dogs do bark..
—Nursery Rhyme
Sons of New England, in the fray,
Do you hear the clamor behind your back?
Do you hour the yelping of Blanche and Tray,
Sweetheart and all the mongrel pack?
Girded well with her ocean crags,
Little our mother heeds their noise;
Her eyes arc fixed on crimson flap;
But you—do you hear It, Yankee boys?
Do you hear them say that the patriot fire
Barns on her altars too pure and bright;
To the datlened heavens leaping higher,
Though drenched with the blood of every fight;
That in the light of its searching flame
Treason and tyrants stand revea!ed,
And the y fielding craven is put to shame
Ott capitol floor or foughten field?
Do you hear the hi ueing voice which aulth
That the—w•ho bore through all the land
The lyre of freedom, the torch of Faith,
And young Invention'a ray‘tic wand—
should gather her ekirvi and dwell apart,
%VW' not one of her ishters to shato her fate
A flaw, wandering sick at heart;
A nu, iali, bearing the nation'4 hate?
!km., who have peopled the gorgeous West,
And planted the pilgrim vine anew,
Where, by n richer coin cereal,
I grows us ever its parent grew,
Sap, do you henr—while the very bells
Of your i hurdle.. nag with her ancient voice,
And the song of your children sweetly tells
How true wit- the land of pour father's eboieet—
Do lot] hear the trailers W:10 bid you speak
The word that shall •ever the sacred tie?
And ye, viho dwell by the golden Peak,
Has the subtle whisper glided by?
Hun it crossed the immemorial plain.,
To coasts where the gray Pacific tenni,
And the Pilgrim blood in the people's veins
Id pure as the wealth of their mountain ores?
Spirits of sous whn. side by side,
In a hundred battles fought and fell,
Whom now no East and West divide,
In the isles where the shadows of heroes dwell;
Say, has h reached your glorious rest,
And ruffled the calm which crowns you there—
The shame that recreants have confect,
The plot that floats in the troubled sit?
Sons of New• England, here and there,
Wherever men are still holding by
rho honer our fathers left us 'o
Say, do you hear the cow•urdn' Cr)?
Crouching among her grand old crags,
Lightly our mother heed: their noise,
With her fond eyes fixed on distant flag.;
liut you—do you hear it, Yankee boys?
gitsttitorss'.
Marvels of Man.
While the gastric juice has a mild, bland,
sweetish taste, it possesses the power of die
solving the hardest food that can be swal
lowed. It has no influence whatever on the
soft and delicate fibres of the living hand ;
but at the moment of death, it begins to eat
them away with the power of the strongest
acids.
There is dust on sea and land, in the val
ley and on the mountain top :—there is duet
always and everywhere. The atmosphere
is full of it. It penetrates the noisome dun
geon, and visits the deepest, darkest caves
of the earth. N palace door can shut it
out; no drawer so secret as to escape its
presence. Every breath of wind dashes it
upon the open eye; and yet that eye is not
blinded, because there is a fountain of the
blandest fluid in nature incessantly empty
ing itself under the eyelid, which spreads it
over the surface of the ball at every winking,
and washes every atom of dust away. But
this liquid, so well adapted to the eye itself,
has some acidity, which, under certain cir
cumstances, becomes so decided as to be
scalding to the skin, and would rot away the
eyelids, were it not that along the edges of
them,there are little oil manufactories, which
spread over their surface a coating as im
pervious to the liquids necessary for keeping
the eyeball washed clean as the beet varnish
ie impervious to water.
The breath which leaves the lungs has
been so perfectly divested of its life giving
properties, that to re-breathe it, unmixed
with other air, the moment it escapes from
mouth, would cause immediate death by suf
recede') ; while, if it hovered about us, a
more or less destructive influence over health
and life would be occasioned. But it is
made of o nature so much lighter than the
common air, that the instant it escapes the
lips and nostrils, it ascends to the higher
regions, above the breathing point, there to
be rectified, renovated and sent back again,
replete with purity and life. How rapidly
it ascends, is beautifully exhibited any fros
ty morning.
But, foul and deadly.as the expired air it.
nature, wisely economical in all her works
and -ways, turns it to good account in its out
ward passage through the organ of voice,
stud makes of it the whisper of love, the soft
words of affection, the tender tones of human
sympathy, the sweetest strains or ravishing
music, the persuasive eloquence of the fin
ished orator,
If a well made men ha extended on the
g round, bin arms at 'right angles with the
body a circle, making the navel he center,
will just take in' the head, the finger ends
and feet. The distance from top to toe"
as precisely the same as that between the tips
of the fluor. when Ake wino: arc extended.
The length of the body just doles that
the foot-, whill the dii uoe timit'thetedge
v(thi eiir Ili the fidel4sit to
chin, is one tenth of the length of the whole
stature.
Of the sixty-two primary elements known
in nature, only eighteen are found in the
human body, and of these, seven are metal.
lie—lron is found in the blood, phosphorous
in the brain, limestone in the bile, lime in
the bones, dust and ashes in all. Not only
these eighteen human elements, but the
whole sixty-two, of which the universe is
made hare their essential basis in the four
substances— oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen,
carbon— representing the more familiar
names of fire, water, saltpeter, and charcoal.
And such is man, the lord of earth—a spark
of fire, a drop of water, a grain of gunpuw
der, and an atom of charcoal.
But, looking at him in another direction,
these elements shadow forth the higher qual
ities of a divine nature, of an immortal ex
istence. In that spark is the caloric which
speaks of irrepressible activity; in that drop
is the water which speaks of purity, in that
grain is the force by which he subdues all
things himself, makes the wide creation the
supplier of his wants, and the servitor of his
pleasures ; while in that atom of charcoal
there is diamond, which speaks at once of
light and purity, of indestructibility, and of
resistless progress. For there is nothing
which out shines it. It is purer than the
dew-drop. " Moth and rust" corrupt itnot,
nor can ordinary fires destroy it; while it
cuts its way alike through brass, and ada
mant, and hardest steel. In that light we
see an eternal progression toward omnisci
ence; in that purity, the goodness of divine
nature; in that indestructibility an immor
tal existence; in that progress, a steady ac
cession toward the home and bosom of God.
—Hall, Journal of Health. •
—Coriotanus
" Remain firm, and do not depress us and
discourage us with your fears, but cheer us
with your hopes." Thus writes an officer of
the United States army. It is bard, when
our noble sons are in the field, defending us,
our homes and interests, from those who
would make us their slaves, to dishearten
them by expressions of fear, or to echo the
prophecies of the subjects of "Doubting
Castle."
" Why art thou cast &Own, 0 my soul? and
why art thou disquieted within me ?" Very
few of those who are "east down" can tell
why they are diequioted. Independent of
the hope every man should have in him who
always proposes what will ultimately benefit
the race, we have every reason to cheer our
noble and self sacrificing army. We never
had more or better men in the field, never
had so ninny guns mounted and afloat, never
had so many or such powerful ships, navel
so much real power in hand as at this mo
ment, and, per contra, the rebels were never
so distressed and never so near a complete
collapse as now. They brag in print and
cry aloud and spare not in public speeches,
while the secret dispatches to their foreign
friends speak of misery and suffering, which
cannot long escape death pangs.
We are in plenty—they aro in extreme I
want; and while they are desperate, wo
need only to be true and in earnest to eon-
[Triltne
quer.
Croakers tell us that our Government is
bankrupt—facts tell us that the income tax
and duties on imports will yield us 5350,000,
000 per annum; that the circulating medi
um of the country, without detriment to its
interest . , will give the Government a credit
of $300,000.000. and that the people will
take at or near par several hundred millions
of interest bonds.
Croakers tell us that our Government is
imbecile. Facts tell us it is strong, and on
the whole equal to the unprecedented and
monstrous load suddenly laid upon it; that
it has selected generals and officers from
every party and sect, endeavoring to get the
right men in the right place.
Croakers tell us the army is incongruous;
facts speak of unity and daring—of heroic
deeds, that will live while the memory of
croakers will not.
It is true we have arch foes—traitors in
front and croakers in rear: and of the two
the former are inure to be admired. Of the
latter there are a great variety. There are
hard-shelled croakers and soft•sltelled croak
ers. The former do nothing but pay what
the law compels; the latter growl, skulk,
and pay nothing. Then *here are the
"Outs." who have been so long accustomed
to eat frail their master's crib that they,
less intelligent than the ox, think it their
own, and having Practiced at the game, cry
"Plunder !" So cries the incendiary after
he has fired a dwelling. "Stop thief!" is
the covert cry of the real thief.
Then there are some of the contractors,
who have aided. with their shoddy, bad
shoes and bad supplies, to lesson the effi
ciency and increase the sufferings of the
honest soldier. They cry. "It looks dark!"
"The Quartermasters don't pay!" when to
pay such would rah the people and reward
heartless scamps.
Then there are the Pi lates, who sit on set
tees in 'Change hours as judges, "wash
their hands before the multitude, saying,
we are innocent;" and while their country
is being falsely accused and its life threat.
ened, they wish the army would march on
Washington, demand their pay, return home,
land let Jeff. Davis Co.* enter the Capital.
Lastly. The faint-hearted. They should
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be pitted, 'not blamed, if they are women;
borif men, they are beneath pity.
'Who that has a heart will not stand up
bid defend Its flan? "My
"NO ENTERTAINMENT SO CHEAP AS READING, NOR ANY PLEASURE SO LASTING."
COLUMBIA, PENNSYLVANIA, SATURDAY MORNING. APRIL '25, 1863.
To the Croakers
country, my whole country!" is the cry of
every true man. Mistakes, blunders and
reverses will come; rogues will plunder; true
rebels will fight; hypocrites will skulk; but
real men will come and defend their coun
try in spite of all things, and, like the bur
gamester of old Leiden, say, "You may kill
and devour this body, but my country I will
never surrender!"
We have wealth,_ men, guns, courage,
right, upon our side, and we only want ear
nest purpose to end this war. To bring out
all our strength—and especially that of ear
nestness—we may have forced upon us the
misery of burned cities and defeated armies;
but come what mny,conquer we can, we
must, and—Deo Volenle—we will!
Courage boys of the armyl You shall be
cheered, fed, clothed and supported; and,
should your ranks be thinned and our coun
try call, she shall not ask, "Where are the
fathers?"
A Word about Dress
One of the gravest. mistakes in our dress
is the very thin covering of our arms
and legs. No physiologist can doubt that
the extremities require as much covering as
the body. A fruitful source of disease, of
congestion in the head, chest and abdomen,
is found in,the nakedness of the arire and
legs, which prevents a fair distribution of
the blood.
A young lady has just asked me what she
can do for her very thin arms. She says
she is ashamed of them. I felt of them
through the thin lace covering, and found
them. freezing cold. I asked her what she
supposed would make muscles grow. "Ex
ercise," she replied. ''Certainly, but exer
cise makes them grow only by giving them
more blood. Six months of vigoroUs exer
cise would do less to give those naked, cold
arms circulation, than would a single month
were they warmly clad."
The value of exercise depends upon the
temperature of the muscles. A. cold gym.
nasium is unprofitable. Its temperature
should be between sixty and seventy, or the
limbs should be warmly clothed. I know
that our servant girls and blacksmiths, by
constant and vigorous exercise, acquire
large, fine arms, in spite of their nakedness.
And if young ladies will labor as hard from
morning till night as do these useful classes,
they may have as fine arms; but even then
it is doubtful if they would get rid of their
congestions in the head, lungs and stomach
without more dress upon the arms and legs.
Perfect health depends upbn perfect cir
culation. Every living thing that has the
latter has the former. I'm your hand under
your dress upon your body. Now put your
hand upon your arm. If you find the body
is warmer than the arm, you have lost the
equilibrium of circulation. The head has
too much blood, producing headache or
sense of fullness; or the chest has too much
blood, producing cough, rapid breathing,
pain in the side, or palpitation of the heart;
or the stomach has too much blood, produ
cing indigestion; or the liver has too much
blood, producing constipation or diarrhea.
Any or all of these difficulties are tempora
rily relieved by immersion of the feet or
hands in bot water, and they are perma
nently relieved by such dress and exercise
of the extremities as will make the deriva
tion permanent.
Again I say the extremities require as
much clothing as the body. Women should
dress their arms and legs with one or two
thicknesses of knit woolen garments which
fit them. The absurdity of loose flowing
sleeves and wide-spreading skirts I will not
discuss. -
Do you ask why the arms and legs may
not become accustomed to exposure like the
f.ce? I answer, God has provided the face
with an immense circulation because it must
be exposed.
A distinguished physician of Paris de
clared, just befae his death: "I believe that
during the twenty-six years I have prac
ticed my profession in this city, twenty
thousand children have been borne to the
cemeteries, a sacrifice to the absurd custom
of naked arms."
When in Harvard, many years ago, I
heard the ,distinguished Dr. J. C. Warren
say: "Boston sacrifices five hundred babies
every year, by not clothing their arms."—
Those little arms should have thick, knit,
woolen, warm sleeves, extending from the
shoulder to the band.—Dto Lewis, .Af. D.
The Wonder of the Atmosphere.
The atmosphere rises above us with its
cathedral dome arching towards heaven, of
which it is the most perfect synonym and
symbol. It floats around us like that Gbject
which the Apostle John Paw in his vision,
'a sea of glass like unto crystal.' SO mas
sive is it that when it begins to stir, it tosses
about great ships like playthings, and sweeps
city and forest like snowflakes to destruction
before it.
And yet it is so mobile that we have lived
for years in it before we can be persuaded
that it exists at all, and the great bulk of
mankind never realize the truth that they
are bathed in an ocean of air. Its weight
is so enr,rmous that iron shivers before it
like glass, yet a soap ball sail+ through it
with impunity, and the tiniest insect waves
aside with his wing. It ministers lavishly
to all our senses. We touch it not, but it
touches ue. Its warm south wind brings
back color to the pale face of the invalid :
its cool west winds refresh the fevered brow
and make the blood mantle to our cheeks ;
scree its north blasts brace into new vigor
the hardened children of our rugged clim
ate.
The eye is indebted to it for all the mag
nificence of surprise, the brightness of mid
day, the chastened radiance of this morning
and the clouds that cradle near the setting
sun. But for it, the rainbow would want
ita 'triumphant arch,' and the w inds would
not send the fleecy messengers on errands
around the heavens; the cold either would
not shed snow feathers on the earth, nor
would drops of dew gather on the flowers.
The kindly rain would never fall, - nor hail
storm nor fog diversify the face of the sky ;
our naked globe would turn its tanned and
unshadowed forehead to the sun and one
dreary, monotonous blaze of light and heat
dazzle and burn up all things.
Vera there no atmosphere, tho evening
sun would in a moment set, and, without
warning, plunge the earth into darkness.—
But the air keeps in her hand a shield of her
rays, and lets them slip but slowly through
her fingers, so that the shadows of evening
are gathered by degrees, and the flowers
have time to bow their heads, and each crea
ture space to find a place of rest, and to
nestle to repose. In the morning, the gar
ish sun would at one bound burst from the
bosom of the night, and b'aze above the hori
zon; but the air watches for his .coming, and
sends first but one little ray to announce his
approach, and then another, and then a
handful; and so gently draws aside the cur
tain of night, and slowly lets the light fall
on the face of the sleeping earth, till her
eyelids open, and like man, she goes forth
again to labor until evening.
A Scrupulous Assassin
In the two cities of Palestrina and Galli
cam) there were two rival families, and two
men of rank who could not boar ono anoth
er ; these were, the Cirulli (who were sprung
from a cupbearer of the Constable Pompey
Colonna, Prince of Palestrina) and the Ser
ra d'Ognano, who were descended from an
•ncense-bearer of Pope Martin V. (Othe
Colonna.) The Count Cirulli sent for Do
minique, and afforded him 500 sequins if he
would assassinate the Marquis d'Ognano.—
The worthy armorer undertook to do it, but
said he must have time, because he knew the
Marquis was on guard. Two days after
wards the Marquis himself sent for Domin
ique Marto, to a very unfrequented and re•
tired spot. "My friend," said he to him :
"here is n purse of 500 sequins for the figure
of St. Mare of Venice; it is yours—but
promise to 'tab Cirulli. D oninique took
the purse and replied: "Sir Marquis I give
you my word of honor that I will kill Don
Pablo Cirulli, never wind by what means :
but I must toll you of otte thing—l have
already pledged my wutd to him that I woul.l
kill your excellency."
• "I hope you will do
no such thing now," replied the Marqui.
smiling; but Marta answered him seriouel):
"Pardon me, your excellency—l have prom
ised, and I am going to du it immediately."
The Marquis d'Ognano would have drawn
his sword, but the armorer took a pistol
from his belt and blew out the Marquis',
brains; he then, without lose of time, pre
sented himself before the Count, to whom he
announced that his enemy had ceased to
breathe. The honorable gentleman was
greatly pleased; he saluted Marto on both
cheeks, made him drink some of his Syrneu
san wines and some Luchrymn-Christi of the
best year. presented him with a beautiful
blade of Damascus steel, and lastly fulfilled
his obligation of the 500 sequins. Domini- '
quo then began to inform him, his manner
evincing some little confusion, that the Mar
quis d'Ognano, likewise, had offered him
500 sequins (which be paid before ho died,)
to assassinate the Count. The Cirulli said
to the armorer, be was delighted to have
been beforehand with his enemy. " Sir
Count," replied the conscientious cut-throat,l
"that will not avail you, fur I gave my word
of honor I" and saying this, he stabbed him
twice to the heart with his atilletto. The
Count's servants rushed in at the cries which
he uttered in falling, but Marco got rid of
them, thanks to his poignard, and fled to
the Mountains of Benevento whither all thei
Brigands of Italy came and flocked around
him.
For the Curious
The greyhound runs by sight only, and
this we observe as a fact. The carrier pi
geon flies two hundred and fifty miles home
ward by eyesight. viz: from point to point
of objects which ho has marked, but this is
our only conjecture. The fierce dragon-fly,
with two thousand lenses in his eyes, darts
from angle to angle with the rapidity of n
flashing sword, and as rapidly dolts back—
not turning in the air, but with a clash re
versing the action of his four wings, and
instantaneously calculating the distance of
the objects or he would dash himself to
pieces. But in what conformation of his
does this consist? No one can answer.
A cloud of ten thousanl gnats dance up
and down in the sun—the minutes interval
between them—yet no one knocks another
headlong on the grass, or breaks a head, or
a wing, long and delicate ns they arc. Sod
denly—amidst your admiration of this
matchless .dance—a peculiar high-shoulder
ed, vicious gnat. with a long, pendant nose,
darts out of the rising and falling cloud, and
settling on your cheek, inserts a poisonous
sting. What possessed the little wretch to
do this? No one knows.
A • horse coach comes soddenly upon a
Book of geese on a narrow road, and drires
$1,50 PER YEAR _IN ADVANE; $2,00 IF NOIN ADVAN E
straight through the middle of them. A
goose was never yet fairly run over, nor a
duck. They are under the very wheels and
hoofs, and yet they contrive somehow to flap
and waddle safely off. Habitually stupid,
heavy, and indolent, they are, nevertheles',
equal to any emergency. Why does the
lonely woodpecker, whew he descends his
tree and goes to drink, stop several times on
his way—listen and look around—before he
takes his draught? No one kuows.
Power of the Will
Children often rise in the morning in any
thing but an amiable fratne of mind. Petu•
lant, impatient, quarrelsome, they cannot
be spoken to or touched without producing
an explosion of illmature. Sleep seems to
hare been a bath of vinegar to them, - and
one would think the fluid had invaded their
mouth and nose, and eyes and ears, and had
been absorbed by every pore of their sensi
tire skins. In a condition like tbis, I have
seen them bent over the parentul knee and
their persons subjected to blows from the
parental palm ; and they have emerged from
the infliction with the vinegar all expelled,
and their faces shining like the morning—
the transition complete and satisfactory to
all the parties. Three-quarters of the moods
that men and women find themselves in are
just as much under the control of the will
as this. The man who rises in the morning
with his feelings all bristling like the quills
of a hedgehog, simply needs to be knocked
down. Like a solution of certain salts, he
requires a rup to make him crystalize. A
great many mean things are done in the fa
mily for which moods are put forward as
the excuse, when the moods themselves are
the most inexcusable things of all. A man
or a woman in tolerable health has no right
to indulge in an unpleasant mood, or to de
pend upon moods for the porfortuance of the
duties of life. If a bad mood come to such
persons as these, it is to be shaken off by a
direct effort of the will, under all circum
stances.—Lessons in Life.
Chinese Funeral
At the funeral of a mandarin, iu Canton,
the procession was led by coolies. carrying
a miniature temple tenanted by Tion-flows
(Queen of [leaven.) Then came coolies
bearing a light stage, on which reposed a
huge roasted pig, adorned with colored pa
pers. Neat followed a priest mid Is friend
of the deceased, bearing a large bundle of
white pieces of paper which were cut into
squares, each with u gilded spot iu the coo.
tre. These were funeral favors, and were
scattered right and left as the procession
went on. The body-guard of the dead man
darin came next, each person carrying his
implement or sign of office. The gardener
had a hoe, the butcher a long knife, the ex
ecutioner a list of victims. A party of mu
:icians succeeded, and then came the coffin
eery like an English packing ease. Mourn
ers and mandarins brought up the rear; and
eery little sorrow was exhibited. The son
of the deceased, so long as the procession
was moving, appeared unable to support his
grief; but at any temporary halting place
Ire laughed and chatted and became as live
ly as his neighbors.
A DUTCCI WAR SERMON.—"Micte frients,",
said a Dutch chaplain to a company start
ing for the war, "von virst yuu owned here
you vas poor and humble, and new, mine
frionts, you lob prone and sassy; and you
has gotten on your unicorns and dem Eh you
like dongo upon a hog's pack. Now, mine
frients, let mo tell you dis—a man ish a
man if he is no pigger as my dumb. Yen
Tavid vent out to vita mit (.IJlith, he took
noting mit him but one sling. Nun., don't
mistake me, mine frientS, it was not a rum
sling; no, nor a gin sling; nu, nor a mint ca
ter sling; no, it you a sling made mit von hick
ory stick. Now, yen dis ()Wirth seed Tavid
coming, he said: 'Yon von little scoundrel,
does you come to vita me? I rill Fife you
to de birds of de fiehlts and de peasts of do
air.' Tavid says, 'Goliab; °Ash, de race
kb not always nit de shwift, nor ikh do
battle mit de strong; and a man ish a man
if he isb no pigger as my dumb.' So Tavid
fixed a slitone in his sling, and drown it at
tioliab, and knocks him rite in de furoheat,
and Tavit takes Goliah's sword and cutte
MT his heat; and den all de putty cabs of de
•biddy comes out, and strewed flowers in
his way, and sung, "Saul ish a groat man,
for be has kilt his tousants; but Tavid ish
greater as he, for ho has kilt Guliah."
MICAATION or EELS..—A close observer
states that the following interesting evolu
tion occur when eels come in from the sea.
The aggregate shoal, about to ascend the
inland streams, moves up the shore of the
river, in the form of a long, dark, rope-like
body, in shape not unlike an enormous
specimen of the animal which composes it.
On reaching the first tributary, a portion,
consisting of the number of eels adequate
for peopling this stream, detach themselves
from the main body, and pass up; and in
the subsequent onward passage of the shoal,
this marvelous system of detaching, 00
reaching the mouths cf the brooks, a pro.
portionate quantity cf she great advancing
swarm, is repeated, until the entire number
has been suitably provided with rivulets to
revel in—each being the wonderful instinct
by which nature ordains that each stream
shall be provided with a competent number
of these migratory creatures.
[WHOLE NUMBERI,7OI.
PErnts or .1 PEAnt, Divmt.--A pearl di
ver had plunged into eleven fathoms, in the
expectation of finding some peculiarly floe
pearls : lie was pursuing his search, when
seeing the water suddenly darken, he looked
up, and to his horror beheld at some dis
tance above him a huge shark, leisurely sur
veying all his movemeuts, and evidently in
tended to make a prize of him. The diver
made a dart forward towards a rock, where
be thought he might elude the eye of the
monster, and then spring on the surface;
but the shark shook his tail, and followed:
quietly, but with the same evident deter-.
mination to eat hint the moment he rose.---
A 9 under water time is everything, and the
diver had only to choose between being eat
er. alive and being suffocated, the thought
suddenly came into his mind to ptizzle his
pursuer by a contrivance in which, whether
be remembered it then or not, the cuttle-fish
has the merit ef originlility. lie threw him
self upon the ground, and with the stick
which all divers carry, began to muddy the
the water. A cloud of mire rose between
him and the shark ; be instantly struck out
under cover of the chud, and. when ho
thought that he had cleared his enemy, shot
up to the surface. By great luck he rose
in the midst of the fishing boats. The Pen
ple, accustomed to perils of this kind, saw
that he must Imre been in danger, and com;
tnenced splashing with their oars and shout
ing, to drive the bliark away ; they succeed
ed 60 far as to save their companion; and
the diver was taken on board, almost dying
from the dreadful exertion of remaining so
lung under water.
StroA also Af.f)NE.—A gentleman once
heard a laboring man swearing dreadfully
in the presence of campanions. Ho told him
that it was a cowardly thing to swear in
company with others, when ho dared not do
it by himself. The man said he was not
afraid to swear at any limo or in any place.
give you ten dollars,' said the gentle
man, 'if you will go to the village graveyard
at twelve o'clock to night, and swear the
oaths you rave uttered hero, when you are
alone with God.'
' Agreed,' said the man, 'it's an easy way
of earning ten dollars.'
'Well, you come to me to-morrow and
say you hare done it, and the money is
yours.' .
The time passed on; midnight came.—
The man went to the graveyard. It was a
night of pitchy darkness. As ho entered
the graveyard nut a sound was heard; all
was still as death. Then the gentleman's
words, 'Alone with God,' came over him
with wonderful power. The thought of the
wickedness of what he had been doing and
what he had come to do, darted across his
mind like a flash of lightning. Ue trembled
at his fully. Afraid to take another step,
he fell upon his knees, and instead of the
dreadful oaths he came to utter, the earnest
cry went up.—' God be merciful to me a sin:.
ner.'
The nest day he went to the gentleman
and thanked him fur what he had done, and
said ho had resolved nut Cu swear another
oath as long as he lived.
Ax Lusa Sotonex.—ln Cincinnati, Pat
rick Lyon and Hans Liebielheek occupy tho
same house,-and ono night each family re
ceived an augmentation of its numerical
force. In fact, three 'well-springs of plek
Euro' appeared, of which Patrick claimed
the mt , jority. Bat the foolish old curse
wished to contemplate the relative beauty
of the cherubs and the three became hope
lessly mixed. There was a muddle as com
plete and itnponotrable as political affairs
at two o'clock on the day of nine conven
tions. But the mother wit of the Irishman
solved the difficulty. lie was entitled to
two of the children anyhow, and two he
would ttiko, and if either of them when
grown up should talk Dutch he would re
pudiate its paternity and lay claim to the
third. The Dutchman coincided with the
idea, and clasped to his bosom the remain
ing chili, rezolvod to watch for tho first in
dication of the brogue that was to change
his paternal love to tintniigated disgust.—
In this tuanni r the etrang,e question was
settled, and well settled, toe, the Irishman
thinks.
A SIN Earrn.—ln the secluded mountain
vales of Carmathenshire, thin was the cus
tom not many years ago :—When a person
led, his friends sent for the sin-eater of the
district, who. for the small sum of half*.
crown, actually took upon himself the lane
of the deceased, by a simple process of eats
ing them. The plan of operation van this:
—A bar of bread was provided, which the
sin-eater first placed upon the dead person's
chest, then muttering some incantationsprer
it, finally eating it. Will it he credited that
be was believed to bare taken from the de.
funct the heavy weight of Lis ains and to
appropriate them to himself, for which act
of kil.doess he Ivas regarded by everybody
as a tabeced outcast. Indeed, immediately
after the ceremony was finished, and he had
revolve I his poy, he vanished in double quick
time, it being the custom frr the friends to
belabor him with a:lel:a, if they could catch .
him.
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"An unmannerly wag being asked by
the landlady of Ids booarding•uouse Irby.
being so tall a man be ate so little. replied.
" Madame, a little goes a great way.,with
me:"
seir Perseus often leek couregettei given
ar good tie they , roally are. :
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