The Marquis' Shot.
There Is a Rood story told of the j
Marquis of Waterford (Lord Charles
UV Beresfgrd'a uncle) and the way he
M erved a young fellow whose Indlffer
effre to the lives and limbs of other
people when out shooting with them
' had gained for him somewhat of a
reputation. The young man, though
!fce ought to have been deprived of his
gun license by special net of purlin- I
nient, was the son of a duke of such
high standing in the political world j
that nobody ventured more than a mild I
remonstrance with him for his care- !
lessness, and while few cared to join a |
* shooting party of which ho made one,
his position got him invited where j
men of more caution but less blood
( Would have been excluded. It. so
happened that one October both
tho marquis and Lord Jocelino
Clinton—the young man in qiies- i
tion—found themselves staying for the
shooting at Wolterton park. Lord <)r
ford's place in Norfolk. There was a
large party staying at the house, and
more than one fortunate escape from
Lord Joceline's reckless gun was the
nightly topic in the smoking room.
Several of the men had already been
grazed on one or two occasions by shots
tired at close quarters, and one who
had been his nearest neighbor one
morning had one of his whiskers and
eyebrows singed off by a tkish from a
muzzle hecdles-lv placed within an inch
of his cheek. Lord .Jocelino paid small
heed to the remarks he heard, and
laughingly treated all that was said as
a joke. But Lord Waterford smoked
his pipe in silence, only joining
in the talk so far as to contide to a
friend, who sat near, his determination
to put an end to the young man's ex- |
ploits should it come in his wav to do
so. It is said that Lord Jocelino over
heard the remark but said nothing.
At all events, next day the party
went out as usual, and, as chance would
have it, when shooting an outlying
cover, Lord Waterford and Lord .loco
line stood ten fe t apart. In tho midst
of an exciting battue a rabbit started
out of the bushes and ran between the
two. Lord Joceline, disregarding all
orders to the contrary, leveled and
fired at it. '1 he rabbit got safely away,
but about a dozen of the shot intended
for it lodged in Lord Waterford's legs.
His back happened to lie turned at
the moment, but wheeling around
without a sign of pain, ere the rever
beration had died away, he called out
in a loud tone: "Whoever lired that
last shot hold up his hand!" Lord
Joceline, in the bravado of the moment,
held up his hand with a laugh. Hardly
had he done so when Lord Waterford
raised His gun an 1 let him have the
contents of one bam l in his palm.
Fortunately it was a defective cart
ridge, from which rivst of the shot had
fallen, else it would have been a bad
day for Lord Jocelino. As it was, he
carried away enough leaden pellets
among his linger-joints to make a sadder
and a wiser man of him, and cure him
efiectively of the peculiarity that had
made him a terror in the shooting field.
No one after that had ever cause
complaint against him.
Quickly Settled.
In Geneva and some other parts of
Switzerland a v ry practical custom
exists for the rapid punishment of cer
tain petty offenders, A policeman
who sees a publican keep his house
open after closing hours, a cabman
driving after dark without his lanterns
lit, or a servant shaking a carpet out
of a window overlooking the street,
not summon the transgressor be-
a magistrate, but serves him with
which, setting forth Vie nature
is offense, adds: "If you acknowl
■dg' yourself to have committed the
Kf .resaid breach of police regulations,
Hum: are to pay a fine of five francs at
4 ■the c ' Mice on • U'-h a day. If you
guilt, von are hereby siiin
i/jmwd to appear on such a day at the
S Tribunal of Police, where you will
have to answer to my charge." By
'this -ystem the i .pense, waste of time
Inn 1 worry involved in attending at a
,police-court to meet a trivial charge!
are avoided, and no injustice is done,
since the accused, has I lie right of
ap|a'.al to a magistrate if he thinks he
has lusen improperly fined.
A Braie Engineer.
Joseph A. v eg. :iti engineer on the
Pennsylvania ltailr >a l, saved.the lives
of six hundred pa Mongers by bis pres
ence of mind and heroic daring. The
v call of the engine had caught fire, and
Y forced the engineer and his fireman
from their post*. The train at the,
time was going at the rate of thirty
five miles an hour. Great consterna
tion prevailed among the passengers, j
As a last resort Sicg, tho engineer,
climbed back Into his engine through
flames and smoke, and succeeded* in
stopping tho train. Ho was horribly
burned, bis face licing disfigured and
his clothing, completely burned from
him. Ho is In a very serious con- >
ditioii
Industrial Accidents In Germany.
A recent German paper contains an
Interesting census of accidents that oc
curred in the factories anu manufactur
ing establishments throughout Germa
ny during August, September, October,
and November last year. The inqui
ries extended over 93,554 shops and
faetorios, employing 1,015,253 work
men and 342,295 women—in all, 1,957,-
548 individuals. Of these, during the
four months, 002 were killed, eleven of
them being women. In addition, there
were 121 rendered completely, though
not permanently, incapacitated. Tem
porary loss of work through accident
happened to 27,'i1l men arid 708
women, the total number of those who
had suffered bcing29,574. 'faking this
calculation for the year (although it
should not be forgotten that accidents
fluctuate according to the time of year)
the total would bo 88,732, or about 45
per 1,000.
Among the list of industries that
figure in these accidents, the greatest
number of fatalities was experienced
in coal-mines, which employ (not in
cluding women) H7.522 work people,
in which the number of mortal or tie
tally incapacitating accidents was 292 ;
iron and steel works, employing 115,-
I2s. showing eighty-six accidents ; ma
chine shops, employing 101,"09, with
ev euty-soven accidents ; quarries, em
ploying 17."d7, with sixty-four acci
dents : building works, employing 11.-
221, accidents fifty-seven ; mills of va
rious kinds, employing 7",1"d, acci
dents fifty-seven ; sugar mills, employ
ing 44,41*2, accidents fifty-six, etc.
t'l.issifying the occupations according
to their degrees of danger and the
number of fatal accidents, we find thai
mines are the worst, and t<> thcin suc
ceed building works, chemical works,
distilleries and sugar-beet mills, quar
ries, works nf lighting and heating
(gas), saw-mills and wood-workers,
machine works metal works, paper
mills and tanneries, textile factories,
printing ami photographic establish
ments.
The Squirrel's Winter Habit*.
John Burroughs, in an article in the
''• ntury, speaks as follows of the cun
ning of the risi squirrel:
"I have said the red squirrel docs not
lay by a store of food for winter use,
like the chipmunk and wood-mice; vet
in the fall Ik* sometimes lioards in a
tentative, temporary kind of way. I
have seen hi.s savings -butternuts and
black walnuts—stuck here and there in
saplings and trees, near his nest, some
times carefully inserted in the upright
fork of a limb or twig. One day, late
November, I counted a dozen or more
black walnuts put away in this manner
in a little grove of locusts, chestnuts
and maples by the road-side, and could
not but smile at the wise forethought
of the rascally squirrel. His supplies
were probably safer that way than if
more elaliorately hidden. They were
well distributed ; his eggs were not all
in one basket, and lie could go nw.iv
from home without any fear that his
store-house would lie broken into in his
absence. The next week, w hen I passed
that way, the nuts were all gon but
two. I saw the squirrel that doubtlc
laid claim to them on each occasion.
These is one tiling the red squirn!
knows unerringly that I do not (there
are probably several other things),
that is, on which side of the butternut
the meat lies. He always gnaws
through the shell so as to strike thi
kernel broadside and thus easily ex
tract it, while to my eyes there is no
• xternal mark or indication in the form
or appearance of tho nut, as there is in
the hickory-nut, by which I can tell
whether the edge or the side i,r the
meat is toward inc. But examine an
number of nuts that the squirrels have
rifled, and you will find that they
always drill through the shell at the
one sjKit where the meet will lie most
exposed. It stands them in hand to
know, and they do know. Doubtless,
if butternuts were a main mrce of mv
fiswl and 1 were compelled to gnaw in
to them. I should learn, too, on which
side my bread was buttered.
f orillal Iteintions Broken.
Mrs. Ilezumliee, a tall, elderly lady,
who always dresses in deep blaek, and
is very much given to making calls,
will from now on make no more
friendly visits to the mansion of Col
onel Bailey Dayton. She was sitting
on the gallery surrounded by the family,
when a large turkey buzzard alighted
on a tree near the house.
"What a large buzzard P remarked
Mrs. Bczumhec.
"Is that a buzzard?" asked little
Emily, very much amazed.
"Yes. my child, that's a buzzard."
"But it don't look much like you?"
"Of course it don't look like me.
Who says a buzzard looks like me?"
asked Mrs. Bczuinbee, indignantly.
"Why, ina does. Every day when
she apes you coming, she says, 'there
comes that old buzzard again,'"
Tableau.— l'cam
C'LIPPIM.'S FOR THE CTHIOPH.
Tlx l tomb of A.h'iii! is still shown to
travelers, iilKitit ten miles from Dam
; a ell*.
The ground upon which Cincinnati
stands win purchased by J. C. S\ mines,
i about ninety years ago, for sixty-seven
j cents p.-r acre.
A French paper records the case of a
! ladv whose hair turned from black to
! may between thehoiirs of'J and 7A. M.,
| .mring a v.-ry severe attack of neu
; ralgia.
I'll, tirst washing machine wua
patent.din England in 1(591, by John
Tynin l.c ; it was called "an engine to
In- worked by one or more men for the
well and more easy oyling and dressing
of lent Iter. and cloatli."
Why is it that a young man and a
young woman will sit for hours and
hour-, together in a parlor without
saying a word; and then, when it is
time 1..r him to leave, stand ail hour
talking . arm stly on the front st.sip in
the still pneumatic air?
The lirst trial of transfusion of blood
on man was made in Paris in 10*3(5.
Some of a sheep's blood was conveyed
into t lx- veins of a maniac, w ho seemed
to heroine more sensible, but who died
during a repetition of tlx- experiment.
A Nova Scotia lady has a canary
which one day found tlx- water in its
glass too low to rcadi, and, alter -evi rai
unsuccessful attempts to drink, hopped
, on its p. r.-h, and -.it quietly for a f.-w
minutes. Su.ld.-nlv it turix-.l around,
pulled II liM.se feather out of its tail,
and dipp.d tlx- tip into tlx- water, put
ting its claw crosswise on the tenth. .-.
and wetting its beak in the moisture
The canary repeated the tri. k several
tiiix-s, till its thirst was quenched.
The eiderdown duck feeds chiefly it:
Iceland on th<- refuse of fi-h thrown
out from the houses. In Spring tlx
female duck plucks h.-r br.-.tst to liix
h-r n<-st, and. instinctively known that
Summer is coming, lin-s it lavishly
wix-n it is stolen s!x- phicks !x-r brea t
again, and <m it* lieing stolen a so <>: x!
time assesses the drake for .-> mo dowi.
from his breast, and the n.-st is built
for a third time. The quantity . I
genuine down obtained is but atxiiit
7,jMiunds a year.
The value of mesmerism was illus
trated in Louisville, Ky., r-<>ntly. in
the following mantx-r: A man nanxsl
William I'cll, was afT.-ctol with a turn- r
of the throat and fa< e, and had a difli
cult operation p< rf .rincd on him by
Dr. F. W. Koehler. 11.-f.ire using t'x
knife the patient was nx-nx-ri/.sl 1 y
one of the students, and while in that
condition the tumor was r.-inov.sl. Th<-
pati.-nt never felt the slight.-st pain
during <>r after the operation, and
doing well,
I he Tomb of Jakon.
Tlx* "Hermitage," writes a Nash
ville (Tenn.,) eorn-sjM.ndent, is a;>
pr.a. he.l through a long r -w of c.slar
on either hand. Hen', in this qui.fl
old build ng. main rooms and slx-d
rooms of brick, with w.. |.-n . - lumn
and wiolm coping in front, r--id-
Colonel Andrew Jack-on, ailopt.-.l
grandson of the Ix-r.., with his wif.
and mother and two old negro.*, man
and wife, alxuit sixteen years old when
purchased by Jackson, nearly sixty
years ago. (i- ix ral .Lx kson and hi
wife >l. < j. side bv sld<- in tlx- little gar
den near the residence, e.-r h 1" rx ath a
broad griuiite slab. Ir.s< rilwsl in old
fashion.*.! Itoman letters are the words
on the slab which covers Mrs. Jarkson
eom|xisc<l by h-r deVovttxl lmsband:
"Here lie the remains of Mrs. Rachel
Jarkson, wife of President Jackson, j
who died the 2_M I >•■< ciuber. DJs." | in
old hero had been elected President his
tirst term, but did not take his scat til
March-Ith following. The Inscriptir-i
recounts her virtues in words fumble
and tender, and closes:
"A Iw-ing so gentle and yet so virtu
ous. vile slander might wound, but
••ould not dishonor. Even Death, when
he t- re her from the arms of her hus
band, r old but transport her to the
tiossoni of Hod."
The day of the funeral Jarkson.
feeble and heart-broken, walked slowh
In-hind the coffin, boning upon n long
cane he was arcustirtr.'sl at the time to
carry almut his farm. As the friends
of the dead gathered about to look for
the last time upon her fare. General
Jackson lifted his cane as if appealing i
to heaven, and by a look commanding i
I
silence, said slowly and painfully and
with a voice full of bitter tears:
"In the presence of this dear saint I
•an and do forgive all my enemies!
lint those x ile wretches who have
slandered lx-r must look to God for
mercy."
One of the most beautiful and re
deeming traits in nil this ruggod and
heroic nature was the unalterable mvo
and devotion he bore his wife. For
seventeen years after her death toe
memory of this noble woman was
cherished, until the summer of 1845,
when he was laid to rest beside the
only woman he ever loved—lover! with
a romantic tenderness and strength
.*urp.| k ' i:ig the dream of .iet'.or.
BI.AIX BY HIH WIFE'H LOVER.
A l.oulxlnnn (urpriit.-r II ol.br <1 ut III* t\irr
■ n<l Ki11..1.
The excitement <•hh*<junt on the
murder of the old rarpenter, W. F.
Fackler, is unallaycd, i.iul rumors as to
thi) true cause are as many as leaves in
full. There is now hut little doubt iis
to the events which occurred before
I the murder and which led to the tragic
deed.
Fackler knew, or at any rate pro.
■ fcHtied to know, who the man was that
| had alienated his wife from him, and
that man he said was I'. L. McClum.
i Fackler, who was bo years of age, was
married to a young and beautiful bru
nette. Sometime ago lie obtained em
ployment on Medina's plantation, in
! St. Bernard Parish, some distance be
low the Slaugntor-House, and removes!
thither with his young wife.
She was as coquettish as she was
beautiful, and being without very
pleasant company, McClum, Fa< kler's
1 employer, became acquainted with her
and frequently paid visits to Fackler's
house, lie became deeply interested
with the young woman, but did not
permit bis feelings toward lx-r to b
tray him to the husband. Fackler
could not help notice with alarm the
frequency of his employer's visits, hut
lie concealed his jealousy from the
world, and from his wife also, and
scarcely dared admit to himself th<
terrible suspicion of In • wife's infidelity
that would force themselves on his
mind.
Fa'db-r. inn-tithe city and returm !
to lind that Ins wife had lld. She had
iHianbsi the stage at tie- plantation, and
Mr. McClum had sent a hoi eto the
house for lor t< ride as .far as the road.
Fackler wheeled around, and with
rapid strides retraced his footsteps to
to the car. During the long ride he
revolved in his mind what had best l
done in the premises ; should he accuse
MeClum to Ins face and < barge him
wit h betraying him,or should he throw
a cloak over his bitterness and conceal
tbc'drcadfnl struggle that was going
on in his inmost soul.
The latter he d<-enx-d the bestcoiirsi
to pursue. Ilis cup of bitterness was
full toovertlow ing. Ilclovcd his wife
de j ite th> di i arity in tlu ir age.. It w as
a union of June ami !• ■< ember, y.t he
cherished the idol of Ins ln art. and lav
ished all on her, and such was the re
turn she made. This was In r grati
tude; so had she fulfill.*! the vows she
had taken to love, honor and obey him.
Yet he had conquered, and that same
day he stood in the presence of the man
whom he had every reason to believe
had rubles! loin of all lie held dear, and
greeted him w it fi a smile. Tim betrayed
and betrayer walked together and
start xl out in search of the woman.
In this city they entered a 1 ar-rHim
on St. Louis street, and after a few
glasses together the old man ;i' omi|
McClum of stealing Ins wife. Th
latter drew a p stol and shot his com
panion dead. As I'.c kb r was armed
McClum surr. n-b-rod himself, and
stated that hea'-t.*l in sclf-defcn -e. as
it was only a question of who could
shoot the quickest. McClum gax.-bail
to await the action of the grand jury,
and has gone North, pre-cinahly ae
companied by Mrs. Fackler.—.V. o.
I'vxtyn nr.
Chlromanrjr.
M. Alexandre Luiii.ls is preparing an
important work treating of the science
of chiromancy, in which he is an ar
dcht lielievcr. According to him the
hand is the indication of the character;
past, present ami future are written in
the lines of the palm. Whem Lambert,
who w asorganizir g hisl'olar • v p*lit ion
calbsl on M.de Saiilcv ami told him that
everything was r adv, and that he was
starting under auspices which guaran
teed his success, he met Di-sbarolb-s.
who told M. de Sauley, when Lambert
had gone, that the cx|>cdition would
prove a failure. In sbarolles was
laugher] at, but b< fore the enthusiastic
Lambert could start, the war hrokeout,
and he joined a fr>*' corps to meet his
fate—a Prussian bullet under the
walls of Paris.
In 18<50, when the empire was at its
7.enith, the same man read in the hand
of the Empress the en a*troph<-s which
were to liefall her after soiuueh happi
ness. He saw the reverse of the medal,
and grief choked his utterance. He
could not tell w hat he had seen, but the
empress told him that when she was
quite a child a git ana had read her fate,
predicting her marriage to an etnjieror,
her splendor and then her fall, with a
long period of suffering, and' then the
scaffold. Deal>arollD* admitted that
much of what had lteen predicted would
lie fulfilled. hut that the lines of the
palm denhsl thnt the ladv would meet
the same fate as Marie Antoinette, al
though her life would probably be
ended in exile.
It was statcsl before the American
Medical association thnt only nine of
the States nre now without a State
twiard of health. Then .hre Florida. J
Ham as, Maine, Mi*<ttti, Nehrliska,'
Nevada, Ohio, IViuisflvania and Ver
mwr.t. I
THE OSTRICH WALTZ.
An 0.1.1 Hlgbl lit Ihi* Central f'nrk llrrr Pad*
(iM'beellovr lo I'lurL mm 4Pmtrirh.
Mr. J. Protheroe, a young English
niaii who has in Central Park, New
York, a herd of twentv-three ostriches
recently imported from liuenos Ayr.*
lor breeding in America, went one
morning with bis herdsman, an elwn
Cape Towner, named Johnson, and a
reporter, to the deer but in which the
birds are confined. When Johnson
ojiened tin- door he was greetrxl by a
series of sounds suggestive of the noise
made by a fog horn,
"That's what the Hutch natives of
Cape Town call 'bronuning,'" said Mr.
Protheroe. 'it cxprcss.-s the same
feeling with an ostriieh that cooing
does with a dove. I'll show you how
we pluck au ostrich. Johnson, bring
the stocking."
The dark herder, whom the birds re
gard id with mild-.-y.sl affection, pro
duced a long, white stocking. JI
• aught one of the birds by its nek,
and insert.*! the head and neck in the
stocking. The blinded bird exhibit.-d
•one- ncrvoii-ncss.
"This lx-rd have been so long iri con
finement," said Mr. Profiler.*', "that
they are comparatively gentle when tlx
stocking is ]in 1 !•-• 1 ov r their necks.
They fight and kick vigorously aoimt
tilll.-S when tliey h l\ <- been aeeiistolned
to the liberty of a large farm."
Johnson h-d the bird up to a side of
the hut, again-t wbieh, wit b one band,
be held it s neck. He held up aw ing
with the other band, while Mr. Proth
eroe held the other wing, and with a
pair of shears < lipped off a white
feath.-r i <• imh from the 11.-sh under
the w ing, "it would not do," contin
ued Mr. Protheroe, "to pull these
featle rs.nit. Inflamination might set
in. We pull out the tail feathers and
those on the out.-ide of the wing*. One
month aft. r we .-ut "fr the large feath
ers under the w ing, new feather* push
out the old quills."
While Mr. J'p.ther ■ was speaking
the b rig-n.' k.sl bird- were making
friends with th- reporter. One ..f
them sei/.-d his shirt <■<-liar, but was
frustrated by Johnson in his attempt
to swallow it. Another tri.-l to gulp
down the r- port, r's < .me, but finding a
!;ff In < k th> re-ult, ib-.stcd.
"If you will stand la-hind me,"said
the young Englishman, "w.-will >.p. n
the door ..-! t Ft th<-birds ..ut f..r their
in- rning airing. Tlx-y are danger.-as
when let .it hi ■• rt \."
Johnson pushed bark the sliding
door of the hut. "Now-." continued
Mr. Protheroe. "y-ii will go something
that you have not had the privilege of
seeing in America before. Johnson
gave a low, pc-uliar w hist le, r. -.ml ling
somewhat the "brounuing" of the birds
as he walk.d ■ ut f the d<K>r intothe
grassy inch,sure. The ungainly biped*
rushed after him |>el!-m<ll. Their
necks w.-re • raned .sit and tln-ir
mouths were wide open. They* ran
alsmt the indosuro in a break-neck
fashion for several minuter, occasion
ally bumping int.. one another. Then
they ls-gan ;'.i] ping their wings and
waltzing. It was a veritable waltz,
and is so formed by ostrich farmers.
The birds turn rapidly round and round,
dipping their n<- k- and sway ing their
lbes attach turn. A rhythm that
could lie s.-t to music pervades their
motions.
"It would be unsafe t-> go among
them now. unless. like Johnson, you
were familiar with them," said Mr.
Protheroe. Two of the male ostriches
liegan to fight at this j>in(. They
fae.sl each other with distended
mouths, flapping wings and glaring
•y. s. Then they began ape. king
match, whi<li was followed by some
high kicking, forward, backward and
sidewi.se. "\Vfii]e they are t-s. tough
to lie much hurt by tln-ir own kiks.
they hav Nrti Known to break thr
amis and legs of men by them," said
Mr. Protheroe. The birds are destine)
for Californi.i. Mr. Protheroe thinks
his ostrich farming in America w ill be
: entirely successful.
THE Ft.HILT HOC TOR.
Don't start the day's work without
a good breakfast, is advice given by i
Or. Fontt'n /fmllh Monthly.
To relieve toothache apply to the
troublesome tooth a tiny piece of cot- j
ton saturated with ammonia.
A delicate child sutlers most from i
neglect of its lower extremities. Tlx
worst result may follow imin chilling
the legs.
By a law of transmission, a feeble
mother enfeebles her child In tending
and fondling it, even if she does not
nurse it.
Do not cat in a hurry. Masticate
your food well, and do not make the
stomach perform work that tlx* teeth
were intended to do.
A bit of cotton batting sprinkled
with black pepper and wet with sweet
oil and insert.".! in the ear will iinme
diatelv cute earache,
A teaspoonful of the white of an
egg, well beaten and mixed w Ith lemon
Juice and sugar, taken occasionally will
relieve hoarseness.
Compensation.
Chan KMl that are wmitig I'JUMJ,
All with recompense are blent,
For the ifoml to I letter urn with,
Awl the tielter Into best.
When the hj rjiiyV frail fl'iwr' ln wither.
Hummer rumn take their plane,
And when btooiiiJiiu Hummer leaven as,
Autumn'a rn/liant i;ntoe
1 >fek* the wiaxl" ami held* with fflory,
l.'util Winter Btri| them hare;
" hen the white miu* flowers bIuMOID
In the garden of tlieair.
He*! lie Irf-iiiiiy i,f the morning
Turns to glowing gold at main J
Itojal hue* ill njn- t yield them
'Jo the radiaiH-e of the main.
Though th ihtrkrc following daylight
Heeiiiingly it~ hnghlnc rnara,
Act th' nignt, rrowm I witli beauty
Jn the grandeur of the "tar*.
Ho we hmi full comja nnation
hir all changes life dolii liear;
Hun and ahade alike are pleaaaut,
And the world in ever fair.
I*l Vt.KM I' tit AGICAPIIH.
Omal-for-notliifig; (i.
On thels-at Your heart.
'I li<• crow in a shy 1 >irl, hut ha gr-neT
lalJy has t awn for alarm.
The easie. t way to "put up" a stOTt
is townd it to Die pawnbroker's
\A heu a powder magazine blows Off
it run, W. stlpp .-e, l,e. allml flash litC
ature
It in dangerous to ask a woman idle
quest ions when she is adding up a
grocery 1011.
Earth bus nothing softer than a
woman's heart, unh . j.erhajis, it bca
tomato in the prime of life.
"What inadd"] me," said the man,
"was m t that tin goat chased me, but
that th'' sympathies of the folks look
ing on were all against me."
The largest bar of gold ever east in
the I'nit'il States weighed 4.V.) pounds.
An itivitation to walk up to the bar
would have ben a< <. ptel by aim cad
any man.
Mr. J. ,J. 11. Grig rv says thfJt an
acre of land may contain six tons of
worms. So it may : but if Mr. Gregory
ever tried to dig U IM>X of bait on ten
,
minute- notice of an invitation to go
fishing in a dry time, he knows it
don't.
A (' w yeaTs ago a fat fjl<>w vked
old Sir I ran- - Hurdett, while in Par
liament, for some position, saving;
"Don't you retneiiilier me? I used to
lie a ] age." "Well," n-p nded Sir
Francis, y• >u have grown into a
volume."
"I thought I'd call round.** as the
ball s;iid when it came through the
window pane. "I'll get square with
yon," soliloquized the housemaid, hid
ing it in the ou pi mar <L Then the lioyu
(ailed r<>und, hut the housemaid made
them pay f< r the broken square
The London I.un it says that people
who sn t-ze often are the healthiest. A
nieeze s ts th" lil hbl circulating and
throw - off a cold which is trying to
S'ttie. This medical opinion is evi
dently made in the interest of snuff,
and the public is not yet up to it,
fine of Curran's friends, a notorious
and lucky gambler, getting entangled
in leaver *t;• .n with him. gradually
lost hi- temper, ami at last said, with
great vehemence : -No man, sir, shall
triile with me with impunity." ("urran
corrected hiin by saying. "Ilay with
ymi. you mean."
A gentleman in India, putting on
his I-mts. f. It a horrid prickly object,
like a centipede, in one of thein. AVith
great present mind, instead of
withdraw ing his fiwt he forcsl it vio
lently down and stamped furiously,
though enduring exquisite agony in
the process. Hut it was not .icentijKsle
—only a small blacking brush left
there bv a careless si rv ant.
( hinesc filial Piety.
The mother of a young gentleman
Icing ill, he secretly prayed that his
own life might redeem hers. His
prayer w as, however, unsuccessful, for
the ladv died. Thereupon her son,
unable to take up his aliude at her
tomb, owing to the duties he owed his
father, visited it three times a day
regardless of wind and ram : and when
his father died he built himself a rush
hut at the grave of his parents, wit
; only sufficient room in it to allow him
to crmich in a most uneasy attitude,
and continued the last sail rites long
after his three years' mourning had
expired. He was found one day in
this wretched dwelling by the local
magistrate, engagixl in punctuating the
Yi king for the Icnefit of the neighbor
ing students. His example has hail a
most ennobling effect upon the people,
and he is now* rewarded by the le
--stowal of imperial honor. — PenA-t
(China) Hostile.
There is hnt little originality of
character in the world. Most men are
imitators. They do that they have
seen others do. and they say things
they have heard said. Few have the
genius or courage to strike out a new
path in thought or action. The general
mode of education tends greatly to this
I result. Everything is lowed on Lxik*.
youth are hardly allowed to think for
ihemselves; they arc not taught to look
i within, and draw upon the rmmrrea
w hick u.iturc :;u pluoed there.