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TOTICE is_ hereby .given to, the • Stock-
holders of the G.ETTYSDURG, RAILROAD
,COMPANY, that, - by a resolution of the Board
of Directors, the first' Instalmenton each .
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C4,ELLAN, Treasurer of the Company, at his
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-ough of Gettysburg, on Manday, the 11Th day.
of February, a. D.,1856. The -Aet of As
sembly relating to Railroads requires that
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lie not complied with; the Company can re
cover. one per cent. per month interest on the
amount due and unpaid.
ROBERT McCURDY, Free/.
Attest—D. WILLS, Sec'ty:
Gettysburg,' Jan. 28, 185 G. •
StarP. S.—The undersigned, Treasurer of
the Gettysburg Railroad Company, in order
to make it more convenient- for Stockholders
41 the country, has appointed the following
persons to receive the Instalments on their
§tock s and receipt for the same, in his mit,
as his agents. Payments' can he' . flicide to
them, oreither of them, or to-the'Treasurer, at
his, office;--Messrs. Wet. D.- New
Oxford ; JAMES J. WILLS, Beridersville;
FREDERICK DIEHL, Franklin township ; JACOB.
BRINKERHOFF, Fairfield; and ABRAHAM KRUSE,
'freedom township.
INO. H. McCLELLAN, Treas.
A Small Farm,
AT PRIVATE SALE.
kHE subscriber offers at private sale, - a
• TRACT OF LAND, situate in Straban
,township, Adams county, about 2 miles from
Getveburg, on the east side of the State Road
to Harrisburg., adjotnittgr lands of the subscri
ber, Wm. Wible, Henry Munforr, and others,
containin,g 45 Acres, more or less, about 7
acres of which are Woodland, and 10 acres
first rate Meadow. The improvements are a
One and a half story BRICK • -v.v.i-'..
jilt
HOUSE, a good Barn, a never-,,
never
failing well of water, With a pump 1 , 4,: - l'?:
in it, and an Orchard of choice -_. - - , :q:T'
fruit.
.Sar Persons wishing to view the property,
are requested to call on the subscriber, resiti
tog in Gettysburg.
GEORGE w ALTER, Sr.
January 14-, 1856. tf
VALUABLE PROPERTY AT
Private. Sale.
THE undersigned will sell at Private Sale
that desirable property', in McSherrys
totvn. Conowago township. Adams county,
Pa., lying on the public toad running. through
maid place. It contains Ten Acres, more
or less, of first.rate land, adjoining lands 'of
Dr. H. N. Lilly, gatutte! and Joseph Stam
baugh, and others, and is finely •improved.—
'fhere is a large' Two-story BRICK s .,„„ e .
D W ELLI NG, with a Two-story Brick
Back-bUilding, fronting on the street, -
and nearly opposite the public house of John
Busby, Esq., a good Log Barn, an Orchard
'a:choice fruit, a good well of Water, and
other improvements. Possession given on or
before the Ist day of April next, as may be
desired. If- not sold, the property will be
FOR TENT.
Persons wishing to-view- li the premises will
call on John Busby, Esq.
MICHAEL HERRING.
Nov. 26,1855. tf
New Establishment.
GR./111 7 1TE STONE-Y.RRD.
THE undersigned respectfully inform the
citizens of Gettysburg and the public
generally, that they have opened a GRANITE
STON E , YA D, on South Baltimore Street,
opposite the residence of Geo. Shryock, where
they are prepared to furnish Granite Stone,
dressed in every style, for Monuments, Door
Sills and Steps, and every kind of building
and_ ornamental use. Also, Cemetery Blocks
always on hand,and a general variety of Dress.
ed Granite. • -
The undersigned having had considerable
gxperience in their' business, reepectfully in
vite persons wishing anything in their line to
give us a call—as we are prepared to furnish
the same article CHEAPER than it has ever
been heretofore offered in Gettysburg.
HENRY S. BENNER,
PETER BEITLER.
Jan. 7,1856. 3m
Notice.
THE first account. of JOHN LEHMAN. As
signee under a voluntary deed of assign
ment for the benefit of creditors, of JAMES
B. JAMESON, of Tyrone township, Adams
eounty, has been filed in the Court of Com•
mon Pleas of Adams county, and will be con
firmed by the said Court on the •MGth day of
February next, unless cause he shown to the
contrtry. JOHN PICKING, Pruth . .y.
Prothonotary's Office. Gettys- ?
Jan. 21,1 8 5 5 . td* 5
Administrator's Notice.
JAeOB AR NSBERGER„ SR'S., ES•
'PATE.—Letters of administration on the
estate of Jacob Arnsberger, late of Huntington
township, Adams county, dec., having been
granted to the undersigned, residing, in Tv.
tone township, he hereby gives notice to all
persons indebted to said estate to ma d ke im
mediate payment, and those having claims
against the same to present them properly
authenticated for sPit:ement.
JACOB ARNSBERGEB, Jr.,
Jan. 4 21, 1856:
Idnzest atid haritkowest
wor Lon;.i. and Sqrmie-STIA-11-I,l4—er-e-t
-brought to tins town Call be seen at
SCHICK'S.
,fantilq ecuniaprr---- iruutr to tutitiro, .3griralturr, litrraturr, 3rts nub ;flit - ars, Zljr 3}larkrb, Orland Vointstir au ,fortio Sutflligeort,
.ddin'r
'Voice Pcietrn.
DUST:
A QUAINT COMPOSITION
Dust we were, and dust to be,
Dust upon us, dust about us,
Dust on everything we see,
Dust within us, dust without us ;
Saith the preacher, "Dust to dust !"
Let them mingle, for they must.
Dust we raise upon the road,
Dust we breathe in dancing hall;
Dust infests our home abode,
..Dust, a pall, is aver all ;
'Tis the heusewife's daily bread,
Dust, the emblem of the dead !
When the sky above is fair,
And the sun upon the streams,
Floats the dust throughout th e air,
Gleaming:in its fallen beams;
Every mote is like a man;
Dancing gaily 'w bile he can.
Ere the tempest gather strong,
Flows at times the warning gust,
O'er the plain it sweeps along,
-. Tempest's thrall, a cloud of dust,
Every mote, is like a man
Flying from oppression's van.
Now the swollen clumls - grow dark,
Comes the Jon expected flood,
Falling deluge-like and stark ;
Dust is beaten down to mud ;
So are times when men must grovel,
In the paladeos the hovel..
Thus we are but motes of dust,
On the ground and in the air,
BlOwn by pleasure, fear and lust,
Beaten down to low despair;
Born of dust, to come to dust,
Let us mingle, for we must.
9elect
DR. KANE.
A SKETCH, 13Y DR• WILLIAM' ELDER.
When a man's life is heroic, and his name
has passed into history, the world wants ao
know him personally, intimately. The "grave
and reverend chronicler," passing over his be
ginnings, presents him abruptly in hie' full
groWn greatness ; men render the admiration
earned, but the sympathetic emulation awaken
ed is concerned to know how he grew into his
Maturity of excellence. This curiosity is not
an idleness of the fancy, but a personal interest
in the facts that springs out of those aspirations
which put. every man upon the fulfilment of
.his own destiny.- How came this man to excel
—what was held in—what happened to deeelop
it ? "Some men are, born great ; some achiev
greatness ; some have greatness thrust upot
them." How ca me this moan by it.? Is it
within my reach also ? and, by what means
History provokes us with such queries as these:
Biography answers the in
Doctor Elisha Kent Kane is not quite thirty
four years old. yet he has done more than cit.-
cuinnavigate the globe ; he has visited and tra
versed India, Africa, Europe, South America,
the islands of the Pacific . , and twice penetrated
the Arctic region to the highest latitude -at
tained by civilized man. He has encountered
the extremest perils of sea and land. in every
climate of the globe ; he h is discharged in turn
the severest duties of the soldier and the sea
man ; - attached to the United States Navy as a
surgeon, he is, nevertheless, engaged at one
time in the coast survey of the tropical ocean,-
end in a month or two, we find hint exploring
the frigid zone ; and all the while that his per
sonal experiences had the character of romantic
adventure, he was pushing them in the spirit,
of scientific and plilanthropic enterprise.
As a boy, his instinctive bent impelled him '
to the indulgence and enjoyment . of such ad
ventures as were best.fitted to train him for
the work before him.. His collegiate studies
suffered some postponement while his physical
qualities pressed for their necessary training
and discipline. It. was almost in the spirit of
truancy that he explored the Blue , Mountains
of Virginia, as a student of geology, under the
guidance of Professor Rodgers, and cultivated,
at once, his hardihood of vital energy and those
elements of natural science - which Were to quali
fy him for his after services in the field of phy
sical geography. But, in due time he returned
to, the pursuit of literature, and achieved the
usual honors, as well as though his college
studies had suffixed no diversion—his muscles
and nerves were educated, and his brain lost
nothing by the indirectness of its development,
but was rather corroborated for all the uses
which it has served since. He graduated at
the University of Pennsylvania—first, in its
collegiate, and afterwards, in its medical, de
partment.
His special relishes in study indi
cated his natural drift chemistry and surgery ;
natural science in its most intimate converse
with substance, and the remedial art in its
most heroic function. •He went out from his
.13/ma Mater a good classical scholar, a good
chemist, mineralogist, astronomer, and surgeon.
But he lacked, or thought he lacked, robust
ness of frame and soundness of health. Ile so
licited an appointment in the navy, and upon
his admission.demanded active service. Ile was
appointed upon the diplomatic staff' as surgeon
to the first American Embassy to China. This
position gave Kin opportunity to explore the
Philippine Islands, which he effected mainly
on foot. Ile was the first man who descended
into the crater of Teel ; lowered• more than a
hundred feet by-a bambob rope from the over
hanging cliff, and clambering down some seven
hundred more through the scoriae, be made a
topographical sketch ofthe interior of this great
volcano, collected a bottle of surpherous acid
from the very mouth of the crater ; and, al
though he was drawn up almost senseless, he
brought with him his portrait of this hideous
cavern, amid the.specithens which it afforded.
Before he returned from this trip, he had as
cended then' tnalay as. and triangulated Greece,
on foot ; he had visited Ceylon, the Upper Nile,
and all the mythologic region of Egypt tra
versing the route, and making the acquaintance
of the learned Lepsius, who was then prose
cuting his archae;logical researches.
At home again, when the Mexican war broke
out, he asked to be removed from the Phila
delphia Navy Yard to the field of a more con
genial service ; but the government sent him
to the coast of Africa. Here he visited the
slave factories, from Cape Mount to the river
Bonny, -- and- -- t hrou&it the — infa - mou s - Da -Souza, .
got access to the haracoons of Dahomey, and;
,
con‘racted, besids, the Coast Fever, from the
GETTYSBURG, PA.: MONDAY, FEB. n, 1856.
effects of which he has never entirely recov
ered.
From Africa he returned before the close of
the Mexican war', and believing that his consti
tution was broken, and his health rapidly',go•
ing, he called upon President Polk, and de•
mended an opportunity for service that might
crowd the 'little remnant of his life with
achievements in keeping with his ambition ;
the President. just then embarrassed by a tetn
poTaiT non•interconrso with General Scott,
charged ' the Doctor with' despatches'to the
General, of great moment and urgency, .which
must be carried through a region occupied, by
the enemy. This embassy was marked by an
adventure so romantic, and so illustrative of
the character of the man, that we are tempted
to detail it.
On his way to the Gulf he secured a horse in
Kentucky, such as a knight errant would have
Chosen for his companion and sharer of his ad
ventures. Landed at Vera Cruz, he'aslced for
an escort to convey him to the capital, but the
officer in command had no troopers to spare--
he list wait, or he must accept, instead, a
band of ruffian Mexicans, called the Spy Com
pany, who.had„ taken to the business of treason
and trickery for a livelihoOd. He accepted
them, and went forward. Near Puebla his
troop encountered a body ofMexicans escorting
a number of distinguished officer's to Orizaba,'
among whom were Major General Gaona, Gov
ernorof Puebla. ; his-son, Maximilian, and Gen
eral Torejon, who commanded the brilliant
charge of horse at Buena Vista. The surprise
was mutual, but the Spy Company had the ad
vantage of the ground. At the . first instant of
the discovery, and before the rascals fully com
prehended their involvement, the Doctor shout
ed in Spanish, "“Bravo ! a capital adventure!
Colonel, form' your line for the charge !" And
down they went upon the enemy ; Kane and
his gallant Kentucky charger ahead. Under
standing the principle that sends a tallow-can
dle through a plank, and that the momentum
of a body is its weight multiplied by its veloci•
ty, he dashed through the by Posing force, and
turning to engage after breaking their line, he
found himself fairly surrounded, two of the
enemy giving him their special attention. One
of these was disposed of in an instant hy'rear
ing his horse, who, with a blow of his time foot,
floored his man ; and wheeling suddenly, the
Doctor gave the other a sword wound, which '
opened the external iliac artery, and put him
/sirs de cum/et. This subject of the Doctor's
military surgery was:the — young Maximilian.
The brief melee terminated with a cry from the
Mexicans, 4 sWe surrender." Two of the offi-
Cers made a dash for an escape, the Doctor
ptirsued them, but soon gave up the chase.—
When he returned, he found the ruffians pre
paring to massacre the prisoners. As he gal
loped past the young officer whom he had
wounded, he heard him cry, "Senor, save my
father." A group of the guerrilla guards were
dashing upon the Mexicans, huddled together,
, with their lances in rest. He threw 'himself
before them—one of them transfixed his horse,
another gave him a severe wound in the groin.
He killed the first-lieutenant, wounded the
second-lieutenant, and blew a part of the colo
nel's beard off with the last charge of his six
shooter ; then grappling with him. and using
his fists, he brought the party to terms. The
lives of the prisoners were saved, and the Doc
tor received their swords. As soon as General
Grimm could reach his son, who lay at a little
distance from the scene of the last struggle, the
Doctor found him sitting by him, receiving his
last adieus. Shifting the soldier and resuming
the surgeon, be secured the artery, and put the
wounded man in condition to travel. . The am
bulance get up for the occasion, contained at
once the wounded Maximilian, the wounded
second-lieutenant, and the man that had pre - - -
pared them for slow traveling. himself on his
litter, from the lance wound received in defence
of his prisoners ! When they reached Puebla,
the Doctor's wound proved the worst in the
party. He was takt).3ato the government
house, but the old General, in gratitude for his
eenerous services, had him conveyed to his
h ruse. General Childs, American commander
at Puebla. hearing of the generosity of his
prisoner, discharged him without making any
terms, and the old general became the principal
nurse of his captor and ben daetor, dividing his
attentions between- him and his son, who fay
wounded in an adjoining room. This illness
of our hero was long and doubtful. and he was
reported dead to his friends at In
When he recovered and returned, he was
employed in the Coast Sum vey. While engag
ed in this service, the government by its cor•
respondence with Lady Franklin larcarne com
mitted for an attempt at the rescue of Sir John
and his
_ill-starred companions in Arctic dis
covery. Nothing could be better addressed to
the Doctor's governing sentiments than this
adventure. The enterprise 'of Sir John ran
exactly in the current of one of his own enthusi
asms—the service of natural science combined
with heroic personal effort ; and, added to this,
that sort of patriotism which charges itself
with its own full share in the execution of na
tional engagements of honor; and besides this
cordial assumption of his country's debts and
duties, there was no little force in the appeal of
a nobly brave spirited woman to the chivalry
of the American navy.
He was —bathing in the tepid waters of the
Gulf of Mexico, on the I:2th of
.May, !850,"
when he received his telegraphic order to pro
ceed forthwith to New York, for duty upon the
Arctic expedition. In nine days from that date
he was beyond the limits of the United States
on his dismal voyage to the North Pole. Of
this first American expedition, as is well known
to the public, he was the surgeon, the natural
ist, and the historian. It returned disappoint
ed of its main object. after a winter in the
regions of eternal ice and a fifteen months' ab
sence.
Scarcely allowing hirnself_a—day to recover
from the hardships of this crui,e, he set or, foot
the second attempt, from which he has return
ed. after verifying by actual obseaation the
long questioned existence of an open sea be
yond the latitude of and beyond the tem
perature. also, of 100° below the freezing
point.- Ills "Personal Narrative," published
early in 1853, recounts the adventures of the
first voyage, and discovers his diversified quali
ft:Atkin.; for such an enterprise.
The last voyage occupied two Winters in the
highest latitudes, arid two years and a half of
unintertnitted labor, with the risk and respon
sibilities attendant. Ile is now preparing the
'history for publication.. But that part - . of it
which . best reports his own personal agency,
-and would most j'istly present the mar, to the
reader, will of course be suppressed. We
would gladly supply it, but as yet this is im
possible to as.. His journal is private Kopec
tiy, the extnicts which we may expect will be
"TRUTH IS NIGEITT, AND WILL P 1 AIL."
' The secret spring of all this energy is in his
religious enthusiasm—discovered alike in the
generous spirit of-his adventures in pursuit of
science; in his enthusiastic fidelity to duty,
and in his - heroic maintenance of the point of
honor in all his intercourse with men.
In his deportment there is that mixinre of
shyness and frankness, simplicity and fastidi•
ousness, sandwiched rather than blended,
which marks the ;nun oigenius, and the monk
of industry. lie- seems confident tin himself'
but not of ttitureif. His manner is remarka
ble for celerity of movement, alert attentive- -
ness, quickness of comprehension, rapidity of
utterance and sententious eompactncss of dic
tion, which arise from a habitual watchfulness
against the betrayal of his. own enthusisms.
Ile seems to fear that he is horifig you, and is
always discovering his unwillingness "to sit"
for your admiration. It' you . question him
about 'the handsome official acknowledgments.
o f his services by the British and American
governments, or in any way endeavor to turn
him upon his own gallant achievements.. he
hurries you away from the subject to some
point of scientific interest which he presumes
will more concern and c'ngsgo yourself ; or he
says or does something that makes put think
he itioccupied with his own inkriority in sonic
matter wh:ei your conversation presents to
him. One is obliged to struggle with him An
maintain . the tone of respect which his charac
ter and achievements deserve ; and when the
interview is over, a feeling of
.disappointment
remains for the failure in your etforts to ran
sack the man as you wished. and to render the
tribute which you owed
We wish we could besure that.he will not,
in his forthcoming work, give us' the drama
without its hero ; or we wish 'the expedition
and its hero"had a chronicler as worthy as he
would be were he not the prineipaleharaeter
in the story.
— l3r. — Bane's Narrative of the Expedition,
now preparing, and in process of publication
by Messrs. Childs & Peterson, of Philadelphia.
will embrace the important discoveries made
in the frozen regions far beyond the teach of
all the predecessors of the American exploring
party, and their - perilous adventures, crowded
with romantic incidents, which, in Lho tan-'
guage of the Secretary of the Navy, "nut only
excite our wonder, • but borrow a novel,g,ran
deur from the truly benevolent considerations
which animated and nerved him to his task."
—Graham'i Magazine, Feu., 1856.
trees are said to be us profitable
as peach or, pear. They are cultivated with
little cost, and the twigs sell at high prices.
The Germans who work in willow, have crea
ted a great demand for it, in the last few year's.
Lately they have .been constructing so many
thing, from the willow twig, that the amount
Used is astonishing. Froth five to six million
dollars worth is annually brought into the
'United States from France and Germany. In
this country, it can be purchased at !$2O a ton,
peeled, for Use,
CumstlNG.—The Rev. Dr. Cumm;ng. of Lon
don, has heralded the end of the world in 1805,
yet his publisher's arrangements for the copy
right of his books extend far beyond that peri
od—and he has just entered upon a nineteen
years' lease of his summer-house !
, RE\E•amr. tits Yount —The Memphis Eagle
and Enquirer says there is now living in Har
deman county a man aged ninety-eight years,
who has recently cut eight new teeth. such
is his vigor that he can walk to mile with the
ease of a young man. -
ri'lt was remarked by Archdeacon Ray
mond, at the meeting of the Syro-Egyptiun
Society, that we in the nineteenth century,
had succeeded in decyphering that which had
already, in the time - of Homer, been given up
as a lost language. Truly, this is a marvel
lous age !
A JrsT Mr. —A 'few Sundays since, a stran
ger clergyman, who was officiating in a church
in Providence, R. 1., after reading newly a
dozen notices, seeing some half dozen wore
before him, remarked that he supposed he must
read them, as he was not in his own desk, but
he thought it. really wicked to adopt that
method of cheating the printer.
TnE Num. QvAns.—Under this caption the
Albany (N. Y.) Journal states that thousands
of these plump pretty birds arc daily perishing
in that section from cold and hunger, the frozen
snow preventing poor."liob White" from pro
curing his accustomed food. The Journal ca!is
upon every . body to feed the quail,-and retrain
from feeding on him.
7.A chandler having had some candles
stolen, one bid him be of good cheer, “for in a
skirt time„_" said he . am confidant : they will
=ma to light."
only too shy , . of egotism, and his companions
have not spaken.yet, as some day .they 'will
speak; of his Conduct throughout - the terrible
strugglesi'which together theyendured. •
' 'To form anything like an adequate estimate.of
this last achievement, is is to he recollected _ that
his whole company atiMunied to but 20 men,
and that of this corps Or crew he was the Com
mander, in naval phrase ; and when we are tip
prised, that .his
,portfolio of -scenery, sketched
'on the spot-in-pen..il, and in water colors kept
fluid over a spirit-lamp, amounts to over three'
hundred sketches; we have a hint, of the ex
tent and variety of-the offices he tilled ,on this
voyage._ He was in fact the surgeon, sailing
master, astronomer and naturalist, as well as
captain and leader of the expedition.
This man of all work, and desperate daring
and successful doing. is' in height about- five
feet seven, inches ; in weight, say one hundred
mid thirty pounds - or' so, if health and rest
would but give him leave to fill up his natu
ral measure. His complexion' is fair; his hair
brown, and his eyes dark gray, with a hawk
look. He is it hunter by every gift and grace
and instinct 'that makes up the character; an
excellent shot, "and a brilliant 'horseman. He
hai escaped with;whole bones from- all his ad
ventures, but he has several wounds which
are troublesome ;an& with such general health
as his, most men would call themselves inva
lids, and live on furlough from all the active
duties of life ; yet he has won the distinction
of being the first civilized man to stand in lat
itude 82° 30. and gaze upon the open Polar
Sea—to reach the northernmost point of laud
on the globe—to report the lowest temperature
ever endured—the heaviest sledge journeys
ever performed—and the wildest life that civ
ilized man has successfully undergone and
to return after 'all to tell- the story of his . ad 7
ventures. ,
OM
The Great. City in Central Africa.
Mr. Bowen. a Baptist Missionary. sent out
from, Florida. in his journal mentions a visit
made last April Ato Horrin; the capitol of
Kingdom of Yoruba. 1k speaks ()fit "abou t'
the largest town,with-the-exceptiort--4) -• •
don." that he has_ ever, seen.,. He describes
- the inhabinintii as 'a Peculiai,,peOple, with'
whom be was much pleaSed—mostly
and some pearly white; hair between that of
a negro *WA white man's , beard ; goodrEuro
pean features—sown of their noses would even
be considered sharp in Ainerica. Again, he'
speaks &them ns "that . superior class or race
of men who have jet black skins with European
features and large beard." -They are sometimes'
called while black men."
Bowen adds: -' '
I ittVer saw an honerable min, nor ..tt Mod.
est • woman in, Africa . till I reached •'Horrin.
The,number of people who can read and write
surprised 'we. 41.1auy of them have no idols.
They are gerietfilly 'serious; Solid, Sensible peo
ple, and profess to believe in God. They have
no tincture of Malunnetlanism.
-The existence of such a people in• a region
hitherto unknown, but supposed to be the_
abode of utter barbarism, is a fact of nd little
interest.: It would - seem, from Mr. Baleen's
stateittems—(unforturately his journal is too
brief to be satisfactory)--that they are ,willing,
listeners to the preaching of the gospel. ' True,
he was, on - arriving; at ilorrin, subjected to a
nonnnaleoptinement for a_ few days i• but very
soon was 'received with honor by the, King,
who gave him a valuable horse,, presents for
his wife - , land to build On; and cilia for a house
of worship. •
We' note it as not 'a little curious: that Swe
denborg, in one of his ; strange, publications,
written between 'eighty and ninety years Since,
speaks-of meeting - in the world of - spirits,l6-
v ideals from the interior of Africa, whom he,
describes s -being in, moral-, characteristics
mach tolvatiee of other heathens. Ile speaks,
thtiii, readiness to yeeeive, the
truth when couimunicated to them—Savannah
Couricr. • •
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RI.:11th , :1) EDITION OP Titre Bllll.l4:.=The,
Edin
b Review has an 'article"on the inconveni
ence of the common editions- of the Bible,, - not
one of which, it says, can be rend with ati,ninch
cam) and comfort as any ordinary book.. The
writer recommends' that the 'Bible. should be
printed in, several, volumes ; that t r im chapters
be aboliNhed, and the divisions be made' as the,
subject changes : that `inverted coliiriatts Minuld
indicate passages spoken or' quoted, that the
double column and,-that there- be
one edition of the Bible ip which:the writings
of each author should form a diitinct 'volume
.by itself.• •
fl 'Ebony wood is extremely -hard. and, in.
susceptible of a very tine-polish. Its .coloris
black, red, or green. The black is most .
teemed, and is imported principally fiom Mad
agascar and the Isle of Prance. Red ebony, so
called. though its color is, brown, striped with
black, iN compact, and is also brought from
Madagascar. The green is softer than either
of the other kinds. yields a fine green astatine,
which is employed in dyeing; and is brought
from the West ladies, The- best-kind is jet
black, and free ft ur - knot or reddish veins.--
Ebony is imitated by Subjecting the' pear tree
to a hot &diction of galls, and; when thiti
dry, applying with a stiff brush. It is used
fur various mechanical - and other purpose.,
OILIKNTAI, n woman was walking,
a tuna looked at and followed her.-44 Why,"
mid she, "do you folk& we 3"--"Becnuse I
have Wien in love with you." •••Why so ?
my sister, who is coming after, is much hand
somer than I —to and make love to her." The
man turned his back and, saw a woman with
an ugly face, and being really displeased, re
turned and said. "Why,did you tell me sto
ry .?" The woman an , :wered, "Neither did
you tell the truth, for if von were in love with
me, why did you look for another woulauj"
EPTITTS Or TOO RUSSIAN WAn.—Moman—
,.A three !anion candle, ifyou please." Chittid•
ler—'.They're a peony apiece now !"- Woufan
haw's that.'' Chandler—"it's on
account- of the Russian war." Wotnan 7 -
..Don't mean to tell me they're B ,, htin' by can
die li . .qht 7"
CU - Vim Loudon Vews .asks: •If the war
were to be brought to a conclusion to-morrow,
would England retain the - credit, the prestige,
and the glory that she possessed before it broke
out ? We doubt it." Nobody, out of Eng
land, bad any duabi about it.
ONE or TITS BOYS.-A lady passing along
the street one morning last, week, noticed a
little boy scattering salt upon the side walk,
for the purpose of clearing off the ice. •'Well,
I'm sure..' said the lady, •this is real benevo
lence." ‘.No it ain't, ma'am," replied the boy,
"rr 's SALT ."
A: STIA Ri; it EP i.Y.—A beautiful woman once
said to General Shields, who by the by is an
Irishman— 'flow is it, that having obtained so
much glory you will seek for more ?"
madam," he replied. "how is it that-you who
have so much beauty, should still put ou the
paint."
ITARD SLEPTING.—An advertisement lately
appeared in the Dublin (Ireland) Evening Post.
headed, ••lron bedsteads and beddi-hg." A por
tion of the latter alma be abed iron.
ISM
"•11y Dear," said an .aflbetionate spouse
to her husband, “atn I not your only treasure !"
••Uh, yes," was the cool reply, "and I would
willing:y lay you up in heaven."
STONE VS. IttoN.—Tho town of Akron, Ohio,
is lighted with gas, by means of stone pipe,
which is said to answer quite as well as iron.
('Jenny Lind receives five hundred pounds
sterling for each concert in which she sings in
the series now in progress in London.
ri --- There's one thing a drunken man can't
do—drive a sulky without getting his Jegs
mii - ed up with the..wheels.
-
A TRUK SAYISG.--Somebotly - s4ys, "He is a
brace man who is riot afraid to wear old clothes
until 'he is able to pay for new.'.'
is a married man like
Because he often goes out at nig
ought nut to.
Keity. waa killed
near San Juan de Nicaragua on the 2514 of
December.
111
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Thp Deaf. Aunt and 'Deaf
had an aunt. coming. to visit me , for:thetrst,
time since my marriage, and t don't ,know.
What evil gen i us prompted the 'wteliedtiess„
which i perpetrated 'toward' my wife adds I*.
_4!lly dear," said I to my, wite.,on the4Y7
before my aunt's :4you know, Aunt
Airy iFt coming to = morrow ' ; well; 1 flitgot" to
Mention a - rather annoying' , citeumstancertvitti*'
regard. to her. Sheets-very deaf ;.and-although'
she --von hear .my yoice, to-which.slie is awn*.
tonied,,in its ordinary tone's. yet ",Y . onlnt,
obligtA to speak extremely load la 'Oidei to'
beheard,- It will be rather ificonvenietit,'hut.- --
I -know you.-.will do cverythintia-your,power. ,
toJnike her stay agreeable." ,
Mrs . ". announced her 'detertdliation
malie herself heard,ifinssitte.•,'
thew went to John-T-4;Wlitiloreualoke'
a.b,out, as well:, as , anv_ , . persou *now .af,„and:
told, luin toho at the house'At onAh•-
ro[tovi , iiig 'e
ven ing, and Tel I..ctini pa rat i
py.
I 'Went to-thorailroad - depot witha carrntgal
next night, and wber. Ifwasah toy - w.oy,ltotoe - ,
with-my .aunt., I, said . ,_ -
"My deaf' aunt; there is oneone`rather Orin - eying
infirmity that' Anus - (his - wife) has, `-tpliich
forgot taiiientiOn. -Slues; very 'deaf, ,:andiitl-F
though she can hear my yolce, la, woo sho,is,
accustomed, in its ordinary, tones, set yotl i vail
be obliged to Speak extreilielY lond'in °Mes i ta'
be heard: lam very sortyfor It?
Aunt the-,•goodnean , of .her , :,:beasty:
protested that she rather likeitvettkinx-10t4,T,
and-to do' so 'would ,a Weida bor . , grea t pleasure '
~
The carriage . drove UP—on
'
my wife—in the window was John
with a face as - utterly solemn asiithahad bur
icd all .his relaiiitiathat afterno o n.
I' handed :out" aunt-salts , aidendedi4o
steps. , -", 14 *lt.-:•;; J
• "/ alp , delighted, to See, you , .',', shriek ,
wife,. and the policeman 'on the Oppopile
walk staitbitund nit aunt
stops,. , , , e, •
a. Kiss ma. gay, dear ; myauut, 014:
1441,p,cla,ttered and,tbe.w,indow,s,shoOr.
as With the fever and 'agile. t %rooked' tietho
witidow—Vohn had disappettied.- 7 11itnittn111.,
tutu"could stand it no ionger.l poki3dnrylead;
pito the carritiger4n4Ne!lC iuto 1aY4141=99 1 K 0 4 - ,-,=
lions. r ,
When' entered the parlsiitny
ing Aunt Mary to take: oil' her hattsanid cap.;
and there sat John , with,liis- sober face.'
Suddenly... Did you hare, a r Pleasant .3 0 , 11 **-
noy Went off rny wife like
. ts and -jefin
nearlkjuinped' to his feet.' Q.
ftitather dusty.',' was therrasponselin.a Wart
whoop, and so theconveratiti94 90,441414,,.:
The e neighbors for blocks fit9undnto,,okha”,,
heard it When I was in 'the third iitbryOf the
bUilding I hard eirery'word.''"- , ,'"
In the course of tiro -etieninsi toy 'aunetkook;
occasion to say;to rne 7 ,-
"now loud your, wife speaks,
her"
• I told her all deaf persons talked. loiidly° snit
that my, wife, being mem& to iti was not affect=:
ed by, the exertion, and that .guar- Miry pr y,,
getting along ver y i nicely
Presently my wife
"Alf. how . very Iciud your
"Yes, said 1, "all deaf.personsi -J , :fiitiore;
getting alongivith, her finely she bears
worrt you say.". And, rather think she, did.
Elated by their sficcesti at being' iinderatead,, -
they 'Went at it bonnier and' tongs; sill tiverq~ 3
thing on the tnantle , piece: clattered tigalm-and 4
I Wit* seriously afraid of a crowd Ci)4pOrg jtk i
front of the house.
But the end 'wtis near.. 111 y-aunt; beliqrar .
an investigating turn , of mind, was desirtiiiitol)
finding-out- whether, the exertion., of ! talking #0
loud was not injurious to any. wife.
"Doeisn't talking.so !Mitt strainyoUrttingai 4
said she,' in 'an unearthly - who*-fote-het'vbiets'
was not as musical as, it was when .84 was
young.
'"lt is an exertion," shrieked
"Then why do you do.it 3"Vittil; the,auswer..,
ing scream;
• - 4•Because—biicause.yot caul , `'hear if I
don't," , squealed my wife. 1 3
_ _ _
"I•Vhatl7, said illy aunt, fairly rivaling a
railroad vvbistle this time.,
~
I began to think it time to - eVaciate'the
premises, and looking .round and seelog:ilohn
gone, I stepped.into the:back ,parloracei
he lay, flat on his back. with his feet- at right
angles to his hod", rolling frotn 'sideAOTside.
with his face poked into his,ribs and. a
agonizing, expression of countenance, latolicog
uttering a sound. I Immediately and involt4i
bully assumed a' similarittitade, and
that, from the relative position - of our feet and
head, and our attempts to restrain our,laugh-.4
ter, apoplexy must have inevitably ensued, if
a horrible groan, which John gave vent to in '
his endeavor to suppress his risability,.had not
betrayed hiding place.
In rushes My wife and aunt; who,, by this
time, comprehended the joke, and sucha scold.
ing as I then got I never got before, and Lhope.
never to 'get again.
I know not what the end would have been if
John, in his endeavors to appear respectful and
sympathetic, had not -given vent to such
groan and a horse langh . that all gravity was
upset, and we screamed in concert.
I know it was very wrong. and all that, to •
tell such falsehoods; but I think that Mrs. ()pie ;;
herself would have laughed if she_ had, seen
Aunt Mary's expression when she was inform
ed that her hearing was defective.
--- ag-There-is---wistknu - in - 7.tlm - adviree - nrtbe --
Rev.,, Sydney Smith :—“Never meek': falte
morality. Bow exquisitely absurd, to, , tell
girls that beauty is of no value, and dress 'Of':
no use. Beauty is of value-her winile' •
pects and happiness in life'may often depeint;!
upon a new gown or becoming bonnet ;'...anaif.,;
she has a grain of common sense ,she
this out. The greatest thing is to teitOb.iheir
just value ; and that there must be - m:64664'
better under.the bonnet than a pretty, face fgr
real=happiness.---lut-nevernaorifice-truil-
[l::7The Lynn News tells a good atoriT . : 4l-
two boys, one of whom was boasting,of t
beauties of his father's house. "It's rot a ,
cupola," said he, ..and it's going to have some: r
thing else." "What is it r, asked his* inter- -
ested companion. "Why. I heard father-tell -
mother this morning, that it's going to have
mortgage OD it." .
candle ?
13Lusursc.—An Irish drummer, who, now „
and then indulged in a noggin of right good
parson,-was.aemited_by_themio_winggenertil,:___
What makes your nose .so -
yer- - honor," replied Pat. "I storeys iekaale„
when,l spoke to the general ofilimi." , "r 7
t when he
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