Stlje Qtimco, Htm Bloomftcfo, fla.
She returned home, ami novcr again loft
her house alive; her sorrow turned to mel
uncholy, then to depressed languor, then
name illness, doctors, nnd lastly death. She
lived in her love that dead, alio .' died too.
Que coulez-cous? lint she had not forgot
ten her promises. Oiiron received secretly
a large sum of money; the servant, Inde
pendent for life, now lives at Villovorde on
property of her own; nor was 1 overlooked
this splendid diamond , wan my reward,
and I would not part with it for millions
no, nor ten of million it is riveted to
my finger.
The Count left Paris, and, alter years of
travel in all parts of the world, ho retired
to Dalmatia, where he had large estates,
and settled at last , in . Trieste. Lonely,
melancholy visiting no one, he had only
ono pleasure tho opera; music Alone seem
ed to have tho power of lightening tho bur
den of sorrow he bore with him wherover
ho went.
One evening hu heard his wife's name
mentioned by a French tourist, who was in
tho adjoining box; tho gentleman was de
scribing to his companions tho extraordi
nary likeness between the prima donna and
tho Countess of II , a lady formerly
well-known in Paris, who, suspected by
her husband of being faithless, was poison
ed by hiin, although it was given out that
that she had died of consumption. IIo
further entered into other details of tho
most painful description to tho Count,
who at the end of the net knocked at
tho door of tho adjoining loge, formally
handed his card to the talkative tourist,
and, bowing low, returned to his own place
where he quietly remained till tho end of
the opera. On tho card both time and
place were fixed for tho morrow, swords
being the weapons chosen by the- Count,
whose reputation as a fencer was known
both far and wide.
After wounding his adversary slightly
and disarming him two or thrco times, tho
Count suddunly threw himself, perfectly
uncovered, on his opponents's sword, which
transfixed his heart. IIo had wished to
commit suicide by another man's hand.
After a slight pause, Balzac spoke; "I
do not like that finish; it is not equal to
the rest; there is something wanting. I
should have desired in fact, if tho Count
knew nothing of tho death of M. do Kails,
in his house, on his sofa, at tho feet of his
wife, and he could not know that unless
the Prefet, yon, or Ilonorine had been in
discreet enough to "
"No, no," protested Vidocq interrupt
ing; no ono hns spoken a word no one. I
tell you to-day b ccaui-e I have a l ight to do
so, Miice tho only person who could com
plain aro both dead."
"Then," continued Balzac, "this duel,
this suicide by tho hand of another, as you
call it, is not sufficiently justified. Were
I to take this domestic drama as a ground
woik, and relate it after my own fashion,
I would seek, invent, imagine a better con
elusion one more logical and complete.
Not that I disagree with the kind of death
chosen by tho Count, which is not only
possible, but true nay, very true in its
riginality; but still I como back again to
tho old fault the Count knew too little to
justify his great dispair. So you sec, after
all, tlmt your story is not completo, as you
thought it wants something and something
very important.
"Damo!" answered Vidocq, somewhat
staggered by Balzac's triumphant manner,
" if it is not complete it Is not far from it.
1 did not intend it as a lesson of literature
for you ; no, my idea was a mora modest
. one than that, and originated in this man
ner: on my way here I took a cab, and, as
I was stepping in, I recognized in tho
coachman tho cabman of the Pout Nouf."
"Strange?"
"Not at all; cabmen don't generally get
promoted to colonelcies they die cabmen.
The sight of him called forth the old recol
lections, and I determined to amuso myself
by telling you this portion of my life, think
ing tlmt perhaps you would lie ablo to turn
it to account."
"You say this cabman brought you
here?" asked Balzac, who had not heard a
single word of Vidocq's explanation; "did
you take his number."
"Why should I?"
"You you great "
" Great what?"
"Anything you like."
"But why should I take his number?
He's at your door waiting for me." ! !
Tho man was tout for immediately, - and
Balzac, in great glee, lillod all tho glasses
within roach. Soon the clatter of sabots
was heard on the stairs, and in another
moment the cabman entered. When he
had tossed off the drink prepared for him,
with the remark that ho could not refuse
as the day was so thirsty, Vidocq com
menced: "If I'm not mistaken, I engaged you
the other evening on tho Pont Neuf '("
"What other evening?" . . .
"Don't you remember?. There were
three of us singing." . , ., ,
"Ah 1 1 take up so many of tint kind.
When was it?"
" About ten or twelve years ago." ans
wered Vidocq. ,
"You call that the other evening?" ; ,,
Well, more or less we were just op
posite the statue of Henry IV., about four
o'clock in the morning. Can you remem
ber now?" .',
" No, that does not tell mo anything ;
that has happened to me a hundred thous
and times."
" I gave you five francs for your fare."
" Ah Ithat doesn't happen so often. Still,
I can't think ten years ago !"
" The person who got in went to Rue
St. Florentine."
The man started. "Hue St. Florentine!"
he cried.
" Yes, continued Vidocq; a large house
and when yon got there you had a surprise.
What did you find?"
"A dead man ! said the driver," with an
other start; ' is that what you .wanted me
to say ? But was it you that made ino that
present?"
Vidocq laughed, and the cabman getting
angry quieted him with ono of those looks
that Martine used to quell his lions with.
" Then," said the coachmen, "if it was
you, you owe me two fiances."
" How's that? I gavo you five extra."
" I don't deny it, but look at tho trouble.
Besides, it took mo more than an hour,
and I was engaged by tho distance, not by
tho hour."
"But why did you not get your money
at tho house," asked Vidocq.
"Ah t servants aro such thieves; they
would not givo mo a farthing. . However,
I went to Rue Bellechasse."
"Rue Bellechasse 1" cried tho astonished
listeners, whoso turn it now was to be
startled.
" Yes, to a Countess or Duchess of con
found it, I forget tho name."
" And why did you go thero ! Who told
you ?"
" Well, you see, I found a littlo pocket
book in my cab next morning, nnd it could
only have belonged to the dead man."
Vidocq and Balzac exchanged a meaning
glance at this revelation.
' What did you find in tho pocket-book ?'
asked Balzac, his eyes sparkling with ex
citement. "A letter addressed to the Countess, or
Duchess, Ruo Bellechasse that was all.
Oh ! no bank notes, no, no I or I should
have returned them. But I wanted my
two francs, as I told you so I went to the
hotel nnd gave tho letter to a gentleman
and lady who was just getting into tho car
rago. "Two francs," I said. The gen
tleman with white hair, whose breast was
covered with crosses and orders, took tho
letter and read it. No turned as white as
the paper itself, but told the foot
man to pay me, and so I got the two
francs."
"There," cried Balzac, triumphantly,
"tho history is completo now. Tho letter
tells tho husband all that M. do Karls was
tho wlfes lover. Tho sceno in the theatro
at Trieste proved to him that tho world
knew it also, and then ho determined to
kill himself. Yes, tho history is complete
now."
An Anecdote of Rich.
Of Rich, tho managor and famous harle
quin, a story is told probably tho original
of several almost similar onus, with the ad
vantage of being true. One night returning
from the Portugal Street Theatre in a hackney-coach,
he ordered the man to drive to
tho Sun Tavern, Claro Market. Passing
one of tho parlor windows that was invi
tingly open, Rich sprang out of the coach
into tho room. Tho coachman just then
halting and finding the vehicle empty,
slammed the steps, cursed the choat who
had balked him, and mounted tho box to
drive off. At this moment Rich jumped
back, and, putting out his head, told the
man to turn the coach and set him down.
After he got out Rich sworo at tho stupid
fellow, and ollofed him his fare. Jarvcy
declined. He did not liko the looks of
things, and said stoutly his master told
him not to take any money at all that night.
Rich replied : " Your master Is a fool !
Hero is a shilling for yourself." But the
man was resolvcd.regalncd his box, and, as
he drove off, shouted : "No, no, Mr. Devil,
I know you in spite of your shoos; and so
you're made a fool of for once." This story
is usually told of an actor who, on being
set down at his destination in tho dark,
kept getting out at ono door of tho vehicle
and going in at the other, till tho coach
man, astonished nt such an endless pio
ccssion, fled in tenor.
. " I'm his Man."
The death of the Rev. Robert J. Breckin
ridge reminds us of an amusing incident in
his life, which we believe has never been
printed. Some mcmlwr of a presbytery
a county brother complained that the city
clorgymcn dressed too well, and thus made
an undue distinction between thorn and
their country brethren. Dr. Breckinridge,
always ready for debate, straightened his
tall, lithe form up, and "indignantly de
nied the charge.". In a burst of eloquent
anger he declared that ho was ready to
clothes with any brother on that floor. In
au instant a short, fat brother-as broad as
he was long, dressed in clothes considerably
worse for the wear waddled into the
aisles and called out weazily : " Moderator,
I'm his man I", The vision of Dr. Breckln
ridgo'i arms and legs protruding from the
baggy clothes of the other, upset the digni
ty of the pieshytury and spoiled the elo
quence of tho orator. . . i
Effects of an Earthquake.
T
THE details of the California earth
quake, writes a correspondent, seems
to havo little variation. They are all sick
ening tuul horrifying. I wish I had never
talked with one of these "cyc-witnesses."
A young husband had been sitting at his
fircsido with his wife. , . Ho intended to
depart in tho morning for this city, aud
the two wore making tho most of tho last
time they 'could be together for' several
months; the candlo had burned out and
they were both seated close to tho open
fireplace, the wife holding in her arms A
child of a fow months. After tho shock tho
husband was found lying on his face dead,
and a beam across his neck, which in fall
ing, had nearly severed tho neck from tho
trunk; and the mother was bo frightfully
burned by tho firebrands that sho could
not havo lived many minutes, and ' tho
infant was discovered lifeless nearly a rod
distant. A family of seven persons on the
outskirts of Visalliv who wcro sound asleep,
wero sunk, some two or thrco feet below
tho surface of tho earth. All were rescued,
however, alive, except a baby which was
burned to death by coming in contact witli
a stove. A mother was nursing a sick
child, a girl of 14 or 15, who had been
taken with chills and fevor. After tho
shock neither could bo found, tho ruins of
tho houso itself even being swallowed up
in tho enormous ilssuro which had been
made in tho earth. This fissure ran across
the ground of a farmer, who feeling somo
presentiment of disaster, in what form he
know not, went out about one o'clock to see
his stock. An unruly colt had broken
loose from his tether, and tho owner was
chasing him about the lot when tho shock
came. The colt disappeared, but tho farm
er has a first-class drain across his forty
aero farm. These incidents of the catas
trophe aro but a few examples to many
others. Had the district been densely pop
ulated they would have been multiplied by
hundreds. As it is there is enough of them.
To hear those who witnessed them rclato
their experience is liko reading a romance,
but they are facts, but such facts are rarely
met with. The rumors of volcanic erup
tions havo proved groundless, nil of them.
The people throughout the distrits so vi
olently convulsed have most of them rela
tives or intimato acquaintances here, and
tho desolation that hast visited tho country
is indicated by the grief stamped on many
faces when any question in relation to tho
subject is Asked them or any allusion made
to tho subject. San Franehco Paper.
; i
An Astronomical Fact.
Two persons wcro born at the same
place, at tho sumo moment of time. After
an ngo of fifty years they both died, also at
tho same place and at the samo instant, yet
one had lived ono hundred days moro than
the other. How was this possible ? Not to
keep our friends in Nuspense, the solution
turns on a curious, but with a little re
flection, a very obvious point in circum
navigation. A person going around the
world toward the west loses a day, and
toward the east, he gains ono. Supposing,
then, two persons born together at tho
Capo of Good Hope, whence a voyage
round tho world may bo performed in a
year ; if one performs this constantly to
wards tho west, in fifty years he will be
fifty days behind tho stationary inhabitants,
and if the other sail equally toward tho east
ho will be fifty days in advance of them.
Ono, therefore, will havo seen ono hundred
days more than tho other, though they were
born nnd died in the samo place and at the
same moment, and oven lived continually
in tho same latitude, and reckoned time by
the same calendar.
I3f A gentleman from Illinois, who
thought himself peculiarly fitted to repre
sent the country abroad, followed Mr.
Lincoln with great pertinacity, button-ho-ling.him
at all times and in every place
without tho slightest mercy. Finally the
President with a pleasant smile, asked if
he could speak Spanish. "No," "Well,
learn Spanish, and I'll tell you of a good
thing you can get." After three months
of hard study tho would-be diplomat re
turned to tho uharge reminding tho Pres
ident of his promise, and assuring him that
he hud thoroughly mastered the Spanish
language. "Woll,"suid Mr. Lincoln, " I
promised to tell you of a good thing you
could get. Get Don Quixoto and read it;
aud it will make you laugh."
tW During ono of tho wars of India,
many Frenchmen had an opportunity of ob
serving one of the elephants that had re
ceived a flesh wound from a cannon ball.
After being once or twico conducted to the
hospital, where ho extended himself to be
dressed, ho afterward went alone. Tho sur
geon did what ho thought was necessary,
applying even fire to tho wound, and though
the pain made the animal utter the most
plaintive groans, he never expressed any
other token than that of gratitude to this
person who, by momentary torments, en
deavored to relieve him, nnd in tho end ef
fected the cure.'
tW Happiness U less frequently found
in 'Conspicuous than humble stations.
When David said, "Oh, that I had wings
like a dovo, for then would I fly away and
be at rest," bo was a king of Israel and
Juda not a shepherd In Bethlehem.
SUNDAY READING.'
Continent Covered tilth Ice. ;
Prof, Agassiz comes to the conclusion
that the continent of North America was
once covered with ice for a mile in thickness
thereby agreeing with Prof. Hitchcock and
and other eminent geological writers con
corning the glavial poriod. In proof of this
conclusion, he says that tho slopes of tho
Alleghany range of mountains are glacier
worn to tho very top, except a few points
which were above tho level of the icy mass.
Mount Washington, for -instance, is over
six thousand feet high, and tho rough, un
polished surface, of its summit, covered
with loose fragments, just below the level
of which glncier-markscomo to an end, tells
that it lifted its head alono above tho
desolate wasto of ice and snow.
In this region, then, tho thickness of the
ice cannot havo been much less than six
thousand feet, and this is in keeping with
the samo kind of evidence in other parts of
tho country ; for when the mountains aro
much below six thousand feet, tho ice seems
to havo passed directly over them, while
tho few peaks rising to that height aro left
untouched. Tho glacier, ho argues, was
God's great plough nnd when the ice van
ished from the faco of the land, it left it
prepared for tho hand of tho husbandman.
Tho hard surface of the rocks were ground
to powder, tho elements of tho soil were
mingled in fair proportions, granite was
carried into limo regions, lime was mingled
with tho moro arid nnd unproductive gran
ite district, and a soil was prepared fit for
tho agricultural uses of man. There aro
evidences all over tho polar regions to
show that at ono period tho heat of tho
tropics extended all over tho globe.
Tho ico period is supposed to he long
subsequent to this nnd 'next to the last
before the advent of man.
tW God very often afllicts good men for
this reason, that they mny tho moro trust
Him; that they may seethe vnnity of all
earthly things, and exercise a more lively
faith and dependence upon His Providence ;
which being so it cannot be doubted but
that this is a certain means to get their
afflictions removed ; for, take away the
cause, and tho effect ceases. If their not
trusting in God was tho cause of their
affliction their hearty nfllnnco in Him will
be tho means to set thein free from it. It
is true, indeed, tho deliverances that God
works for His children aro not always
such as they desire or pray for ; He is often
not pleased to remove His hand in that
instanco they wish Ho would. But still,
He doth deliver them. If Ho docs not an
swer their prayers in kind, yot, if Ho gives
them grace and strength to undergo what
He lays upon them, is not this as great
mercy to them ? O, therefore whatever the
event bo, whatever flesh and blood suggests
to us, let us fix this principle in our hearts,
that to trust in God, and depend on Him,
in constant adherence to our duty, is the
most effectual course wo can take, both to
support us under affliction and to deliver
us from it. Arehbhhop Hharpe.
A Godless House.
A little boy three years old, whose father
was irreligious, spent many months in a
dwelling of a good family, where hu was
taught tho simple elements of Divine truth.
The good seed fell into good nnd tender
soil, and the child learned to seo a difference
between a praycrless and a Christian dwel
ling. One day, as some one wasconversing
with tho little fellow about tho great God,
tho boy said; "We haven't got any God
at my papa's houso." Alas how many
such houses there aro In our world and even
houses where thero is no prayer or praise,
no worship, no God I And what homes aro
they for children, ayo, and for men and
women, too ! How much better is the pure
atmosphere of Christian love, than the cold
selfish worldliness of a Godless homo?"
Hold On.
Hold on to your tongue when you aro
just ready to swear or spoa.lt harshly, or
uso any improper word.
Hold on to your hand when yon are about
to strike or do any wrong.
Hold on to your feet when you are on the
point of kicking, or running away from
study, or pursuing the path of error, shame
or crime.
Hold on to your temper when you aio
angry, excited or imposed upon, or others
angry about yon.
Hold on to your good name at all times,
for it is much more valuahlo to yon than
gold, high places, or fashionable attire.
Hold on to truth, for it will serve you
well, nnd do you good throughout eternity.
Act Well Yonr Part. i
Mr. Spurgeou, the well-known English
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" There is not a spider hanging on tho
king's wall but hath its errand; there is not
a nettle growing in tho corner of the church,
yard, but hath its purpose; tlieia Is not an
insect fluttering in tho breeze, but accom
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have it that God created any man, especial
ly any Christian man, to be a blank and be
uothlng. ' He made you for an end. Find
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