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A FRIEND of mine, who once lived in Lwa, used (0 tell a story of a wedding that ho witnessed, whero the ceremony was performed on the Bamo couplo three times in ono night. Ho was wandering through northern Iowa, and southern Minnesota, on a search for tim ber lands, and was accompanied by a back-woods adventurer named Preston. Xcar tho line between Iowa and Min nesota, they stopped a few weeks at tho house of a settler named Jenkins. The latttcr had a buxom daughter, And was well off fur a backwoodsman, and tho sit uation appeared decidedly favorablo to Preston. So lie courted tho daughter, and was pulito to (he parents ; tho result was that a wedding was arranged and all tho ncighors for ten miles around were invited. Jenkins was a liberal provider, and weddings wore not frequent in his fam ily, lie laid in half a barrel of whiskey, and his wife and daughter cooked enough fur a small army, so that nobody should go away hungry. There was a preacher in tho neighborhood, who had arrived there recently, and he was invited to unito tho pair. No tied the knot, and was rewarded by Preston, who uiado a mess of the affair by dropping a couple of silver dollars into the puueh-bowl while trying to hand them to the parson. The bride's arm was called into requsition to lift out the cash, which she did with all the skill of a native of long Island fishing for "Blue Points" with a pair of oyster tonus. For tho iuvitcd guests, tho serious business of the evening began with tho supper that followed tho wedding cere mony. Preston took his full sharo of punch and straight whiskey before re tiring to the bridal chamber which was reached by a ladder through tho floor of the garret. Mrs. Preston had been taken there by tho budesniaids half an hour earlier, and when tho couplo had disap peared tlicro was a fresh assault upon the whiskey. It leaked out in tho eourso of the evening that tho parson was not an or dained preacher, but only one of those ministerial fledgiugs who have been " li censed to exhort." When old Jenkins heard tho rumor ho went for tho exhortcr and extracted from him the hor rible fact that ho was not really authorized to unito couples in holy matrimony, but he had officiated on this occasion because ho thought it was all right, and nobody would know the difference. Jenkins flew around liko a boy with a bumble bco in his coat sleeve : he kicked the unhuppy exhortcr out of doors, and went up the ladder like a monkey climbing a window blind. " Hero you, git up, on UP t " he shout ed; "you ain't married at all. Git up this ininuto. Got up and come down, quick." The voico of Preston wns heard to drawl out that ho wouldn't get up, and that if his rcspcoted father-in-law did not clear out and mind his business he would get his nose busted. . Jenkins explalaied the situation, and tho couple arose. In a few minutes they came down the ladder, looking very sheep ish, and the bride blushing like a red wagon. There was a justice of the peace iu the party, and he porformed the cere mony, which, unfortunately for Preston, took his only remaining silver dollar. There were more drinks, and then the couple again ascended the ladder to their bridal apartments. Preston muttered, as he climbed the ladder, that if he ever found that parson he would hurt his face so that his friends could not identify him without a magnifying glass. Of course the party down stairs, who were making a night of it, talked over the peculiarities of the wedding, and their talk developed the fact that, the justice of the peace lived in Iowa, while the house of Jenkins was in Minnesota. Jenkins was informed of the situation, and away ho went onee more for the lad der. He was louder in his tones than before, and his first words met a prompt answer from Preston. "Now, look here, old man," said Pres ton, as he bounded out of bed. " there has been fooling enough around this ycre ladder to-night, and if you don't git I'll bustyer head. He picked up a cow-hide boot, as ho spoke, and advanced menacingly. A shrill voice Irom tho bed, urged him not to hurt "pa." " Don't shoot, don't," said Jenkius, as ho retreated down the ladder, till his head was level with the garret .floor. J here he paused and explained the new state of affairs to the enraged bridegroom, who stood over him with the boot uplift ed, ana ready lor a blow. Preston accepted the explanation and tho result was that the couple roso and dressed and deseended the ladder. Then with Mr. and Mrs. Jenkins, and all of the guest! who wore sober enough to stand, they walked half a lnilo down the road to the Iowa lino, and entered the Budgcr Stuto. There tho justice again united them. "And this time." said he. as he eoncluded the ceremony, " you are marrica, sartain, sure. tejf-Tho first writer who used altrobraio signs was a Nuremlorger, named Stife- Uus, iu 1544. A Good Joke. TIIIE following story is old, but it is so I good that it will bear reading again : I had an aunt coming to visit 1110 for tho first timo sinco my marriage, and I don't know what evil genius prompted tho wickedness which I perpetrated to ward my wiso and ancient rclution. " My dear," said I to my wife on tho day beforo my aunt's arrival, "you know Aunt Mary is coming to-morrow; well, I forgot to mention a rather annoying cir cumstance with regard to her. Sho is very deltf; nnd although sho can hear my voice, to which she is accustomed, in its ordinary tones, yet you will be obliged to speak extremely loud in order to bo heard. It will bo rather inconvenient, but I know you will do everything in your power to inako her stay agreeable. Mrs. announced her determina tion to make herself heard if in her power. I then went to Johu N , who loves a joko about as well as any person I know of, and told him to bo at the liuuso at G p. in., the following evening, nnd felt comparatively happy. 1 went to tho railroad depot with a carriago next night nnd when I was on my way home with my aunt, I said: "Aunt, there is "one rather annoy ing infirmity that Annie, (my wife) has, which I forgot to mention beforo. Sho is very deaf, and although sho can hear my voice, to which sho is accustomed, in its ordinary tones, yet you will bo obliged to speak extremely loud in order to be heard, I am very sorry lor it." Aunt Mary, in tho goodness ol her heart, protested that sho rather liked to speak loud, aud to do so would afford her great pleasure. 1 ho carriago drove up on tho steps was my wife in the window was John N , with his face as solemn as if he had buried his relatives that afternoon. " I am delighted to see you," shrieked my wife and tho policeman on tho op posite sidewalk started, aud my aunt nearly fell down the steps. " Kiss me, my dear, bawled my aunt, and the windows shook as with the fever and ague. I looked at tho window, John had disappeared. Human nature could endure it no longer. I poked my head into the carriage and went into strong convulsions. When I entered tho parlor, my wifo was helping Aunt Mary to take off her hat and cap; and there sat John with his face buried in his handkerchief. Suddenly " Did you havo a pleasant journey ?" went off my wifo like a pistol, and John nearly jumped to his leet. " Kather dusty, was tho responso, in a war whoop, and the conversation con tinued. The neighbors for blocks around must have heard it ; when I was in the third story of tho building I heard every word. In the course of the evening my aunt took occasion to say to me : " How loud your wifo talks 1" I told her deaf persons talked loudly, and that my wife, Doing used to it, was not effected by the exertion, and that she was getting along very nicely with her. Presently my wife said softly : " Alf, how very loud your aunt talks." " Yes' said I, " all deaf persons do. You are getting along with her finely ; she hears every word you say." And I rather think, she did. Elated at thoir success at being under stood, they went at it hammer and tongs, till everything upon the mantlepieco clat tered again, aud I was seriously afraid of a crowd collecting in trout ot the bouse. But my end was near. My aunt being of an investigating turn of mind, was de sirous of finding out whether the exer tion of talking was injurious to my wifo. So: " Doesn't talking so loud strain your lungs ?" said she, in an unearthly whoop, for her voice was not so musical as it was when she was young. " It is an exertion," shrieked my wife. " Then why do you do it 1" was tho ausweriug scream, " Becauso because you can't hoar if 1 don t, squealed my wile. " What!" said my aunt, fairly rivaling a ruuruuu wuisiiu bi me uuie. I began to think it time to evacuate the promises 5 and looking around and seeing John gone, I Btepped into the back parlor, and there he lay flat on his back, with his foct at right angles with his body, rolling from side to side, with his fist poked into his ribs, and a most agouizing expression 01 countenance, but not ut' teriug a sound. I immediately and in voluntarily assumed a similar attitude, and 1 think irom the rolutive position of feet and heads, and our attouipts to restrain our laughter, apoplexy must in cvitably have ensued, if a horrible groan which John gave vent to his endeavor to suppress his risibility had not betrayed our muing-piaco. In rushed my wifo and aunt, who bv this timo comprehended the joke, and such a scolding as I then got I uover cot Dciorc, ana 1 nope never 10 got again. Bf3u One Robert Clcncay wus recently arretted near Albany City, N. Y.. on charge of having married a widow while he had uve other wives liviug. He con fessed he had had tho wives, but suid he thought Ihey had all died of broken hearts when he ran away from them. Manufacture of Hnlr Cloth. OUR readers havo no doubt, often wondered where all tho hair is ob tained for the manufacture of hair cloth, and how tho manufacture is conducted. There is a hair cloth factory in Central Falls, R. I. Tho hair UHcd is that of horses' tails, and is imported from South America and Russia; mostly from tho latter country. It is purchased at ' tho groat annuul fairs of Isbilt and Nijni Novogood. That purchased in June, at tho latter place, will bo received in about sixty days; and that bought at Isbilt, in February, in about six months. As it comes of various colors, it is, for tho pur pose of this manufacture, all dyed black. A certain proportion, however, is pur chased in England and France, already prepared for tho loom. It is worth from fifty cents to four dollars per pound, ac cording to length, tho price increasing in rapid ratio after tho length attains 24 inches. Tho " rough hair," or that which is imported in its natural state, is hackled, and the shortest sold to tho manufacturers of mattresses, it being first curled. After being hackled, the different lengths are combed out, assorted, tied in bunches, and mado ready for coloring. After this process, the bunches are carefully in spected, measured, and put nway for tho loom. The cloth is made in widths of from fourteen to thirty-two inches. Contrary to the popular idea, tho hair is not, as a rule, round. A section under tho microscope shows a form as though a third of a circle had been cut off, and tho flat portion slightly indented. This conformation causes some difficulties in the manipulation, which require great skill and the most delicate machinery to overcome. A bunch ol hair winch has been soaked in water is placed a position, and tho individual hairs aro picked np, to bo, by tho shuttle, laid carefully in tho weft. If the machino fails to take a hair, which occasionally happens in practice, it continues its effort until it succeeds, the other portions of tho machinery stand ing still in tho mean time. The shuttlo is an awkward looking, but most delicate ly operating implement. Tho hair must not bo bruised, and it must not bo stretch ed ; tho necessity for such gentle manipu lation has led to tho idea that no ma chinery could be constructed capable of performing the operation with sufficient exactitude and regularity ; but this, as we have seen, is uow shown to be a fallacy. How's This for High. Ono day I was out huntin' in the Rock ies, an'fgettin' a lcetle out 0' the regular course, I at last fotched up at the foot 0' the tarnelcst, highest mountaiu I ever seed. I thought I'd crawl to the ton an' take a look to see whar I war. Well, I continued on fur about a week, an' I at lost got to the top. But couldn't see no wheres an' nothin'; fur I wur up too high. All on a sua dent, a notion took me to fire off old Roarer this gun an' see if I couldn't skeer up somothin'. But not scein' anything arter the fire, I concluded to load up. Well it jest so happened it war about tho time of the new moon, an she war a sailin majesti cally by me, an' having nowheres else to put the powder-flask ye see there war no trees'up so high, I jes' flung the string 0 the flask round the pint o her horn, and perceded with the rest o the job. But by eraoky 1 when I'd rammed the ball an reached for the flask it warn t there the moon had been goin' all the time, and war a good way off. "Hal ha!" laughed one of the lis teners, thinking be bad the old fellow in a tight place, " what did you do then without your powder r " Why," said Dick, " I jest waited till she kini round the next night, an' tuk it off," and then I concluded that was all right for high." A Grammatical Decision. The Now York Tribune decides that the plural of titmouse is titmouses, an not titmice. " On the same principle," says another paper, " the plural of a tailor's goose is gooses," as, indeed, we hold that It IB. This reminds us of an anecdote in re gard to a country merchant who wanted two of these tailors' irons, several years ago, and ordered thorn of Messrs. D. & S., hardware merchants, then doing buisincss in 1'hila. Jle first wrote this order : " Pleaso send me two tailors' eooses." Thinking that this was bad grammar, l.- J 1 ' 110 uesiroyeu it, uuu wrote mis one : " Please send me two tailors' creese." Upon reflection, he destroyed this ono also, for fear he would receive live troose. Ho thought over the matter till ho was vory much worried, and at last, in a moment of desperation, he seized his pen and wrote the following, which was duly mailed: " Messrs. D & S. : Please send me one tailor's goose, and, d n it, sond me an other." This was the only way he know of to order two of thorn ; but of course he had not read the above wise decision then. 4&T A stranger in Albany offered $10 to any man who would got him a wifo. The offer was immediately taken up, and iu a few minutes a blooming damsel ap peared. In less than thirty minutes the two were coupled. The stranger is re puted to bo wealthy and eccentric. SUNDAY READING. The Stolen Hides. "T7-1T'LIAM SAVERY, on eminent T t preacher among tho Quakers, was a tanner by trade, and known by ull as "ono who walked humbly with his God." Ono night a quantity of hides were stolen from his tannery, and he had reason to believe that tho thief was a quarrelsome drunken neighbor, whom I shall call John Smith. Tho next woek the follow ing advertisement appeared in the county newspaper : " N hocver stolo a quantity of hides on the 5th of the present mouth, is here by informed that tho owner has a sincere wish to be bis friend. If poverty tempted him to this false step, the owner will keep the wholo affair a secret, and will gladly put him in the way of obtaining money by means more likely to bring him peace of mind." This singular advertisement attracted considerable attention; but tho culprit alone know who had mado tho kind of fer. When he read it, his heart melted within him, and ho was filled with sor row ior what he had done. A few nights afterward, as tho tanner's family were about retiring to rest, they heard a timid knock, and when the door was opened, there stood John Smith, with a load of hides on his shoulder. Without looking up, he said, " I have brought theso back, Mr. Savcry ; where shall I put thein .' " Wait till I can get a lantern, and I will go to the barn with thee," he re plied : " Then perhaps thou wilt como in and till mo how this happened. We will seo what can bo done tor thee. As soon as they were gone out, his wile prepared some hot coffee, and placed pics aud meat on the table. When they returned from the barn, she said, "Neighbor Smith, I thought some hot supper would bo good for theo." Ho turned his back toward her, and did not speak. After leaning against the fire place in silence a few moments, he said in a choked voice, " It is the first time 1 ever stolo anything, and I huvo felt very bad about it. 1 am sure 1 didn t ouco think that I should ever come to what I i. But I took to drinking, and then to quarreling. Since I began to go down hill, everybody gives me a kick. You are the first man that has ever offered me a helping hand. My wifo is sickly, and my children are starving, louhave sent them many a meal ; God bless you ; and yet I stole tho hides. But I tell you the truth, when I say it is the first time I was ever a thief." "Let it be the last my friend," re plied William Savery. " The secret still remains between ourselves. Thou art still young, and it is in thy power to make up tor lost time. X'rouuse me that thou wilt not drink any intoxicating liquor for a year, and I will employ thee to-morrow on good wages. Thy little boy can pick up stones. But eat a bit and drink somo hot coffee. Perhaps it will keep thee from craving anything stronger to-night. Doubtless thou wilt find it hard to abstain at first ; but keep up a brave heart, for the sake of thy wife and children, and it will soon become easy. When thou hnst need of coffee, tell Mary, and she will always give it thee." The poor follow tried to eat and drink, but the food seemed to choke him. Af ter vainly trying to compose his feelings hobowed his head on the table, and wept like a little child. After awhile he ate and drank, and his host parted with him for the night, with the friendly words, " Try to do well, John, and thou wilt always find a friend in me." He entered into his employment the next day, and remained with him many years, a sober, honest, and faithful man. ; The seeret of the thoft was kept between them; but after John's death, William Savory sometimes told the story to show the power of that love for God and man which the gospel of Christ inspires. Would to God that all men were as wise,as patient, as eager to do good, as much like Christ, as ho was. ' God's Ways and Ours. We are apt to believe in Provideiuco so long as we have our own way ; but if things goawry, then we think, if there is a God, h e is in heaven, and not on earth. Tho cricket iu the Spring builds his littlo house in the meadow, and chirps for joy, because all is going so well with him. But when ho hears the sounds of the plough a few furrows off, and the thunder of tho oxen's tread, then the skies began to look dark, and his heart fails him. The plough comes craunohing along, and turns his dwelling bottom side up, and as he goos rolling over and over without a home he says, "Oh tho foundations of the world are destroyed, and everything is going to ruin !" - But the farmer who walks behind the plough, singing and whistling as he goes, does he think the foundations of the world are breaking up f Why, he does not so much as know there was any house or cricket there. He thinks of tho har vost which is to follow the track of the plough; and the cricket, too, if he will but wait, will find a thousand blades of grass where there was but one before. We are like the crickets. If anythiug happens to overthrow our plans, we think all is going to ruin. lieecher.
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