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A WOMAN'S IDEAS.
' BT JOSHUA ALLEN'S WIPE.
PROF. THERON GUSHER has been a
locturin' on Free love to Joncsville and
tho noxt mornin' Betsey Bobbet came here,
and scz she.
" Josiah Allen's wife you can't imagine
what new and glorious and soarin' ideas
that man has got into his head."
" Lot him soar," says I coolly, "it don't
hurt me none."
Sez she " He is too soarin' a sole to be
into this cold uusympatbizen' earth, he
ought, by good right, to be in a warmer
spear."
Sez I coldly, and almost frigidly, " From
what I have heard of his lecture, I think so
too, a good tloal w armor." ,
Before I could free my mind any further
about Prof. Gusher aud his doctrine, I hod
a whole houseful of company came, and
Betsey departed.
The noxt day Prof Theron Gusher came.
Josiah was to the barn a thrashln, beans,
but I recoived him with a kam dignity. He
was a harmless lookin' littlo man with his
hair parted right in the middle, and he sez
to me most the first thing aftor lie sat down.
" You believe in wimmin's bavin' a right
don't you?"
' Yes sir," says I keenly lookin' up from
myknittin,' "Just as many rights as she
can get hold of, rights never hurt nobody
yet."
" Worthy sentiments," sez he, " and you
boliove in free love don't you ?"
" How free?" scz I cooly.
" Free to marry anybody you waut to and
as long as you want to, from J a day, up to
5 years or so."
"No sir," sozlstornly, "Ibolievein
rights, but I don't boliove in wrongs, and
of all the miserable doctrines that was ever
let loose on the world, tho doctrine of free
love is the miserablist. Free love 1" I re
peated iu indignant tones, " it ought to be
called free deviltry, that is the right name
for it," sez I.
Ho sunk back on his chair, put his hand
to his brow and exclaimed wildly
" My soul aches, I thought I had found a
congenial spirit, but I am deceived my
breast aches, and sighs, and pants." He
looked so awful distressed, that I didn't
know what ailed him and I looked pity in'
on him from over my spektakles anc I
says to him just as I would to our Thomas
Jefferson :
"Mebby your vest is too tight."
" Vest 1" he-, repeated in wild Hones.
" Would I had no ' worse trammels than
store clothes, but it is the fate of reformers
to be misunderstood. Woman the pain is
deeper, and it is a gnawin mo."
His eyes wuz kinder rooled up, and he
looked so wilted and uncomfortable, that I
says to him, iu still more pity in' accent.
" Haint you got wind on your stum
muck, for it you have, pepperment ossonco
is tho best stuff you can take, and I will got
you some."
" Wind I" he almost shouted, "Wind,
no it i not wind." Ho spoke bo delerious
ly that he almost skairt me, but I kep up
my placcid demeanor aud kep on kuittin?
"Woman" sez ho " I would right the
wrongs of your sect if I could. ' I bear iu
my heart tho woes and pains of all tho
aching female hearts of tho 19 ccnturys."
My knittin' dropped into my lap, and I
looked up at him in surprise and I says to
bimjrospectfully.
" No wonder you groan aud lithe, it must
hurt awfully."
"It docs hurt," sez he "but it hurts a
sonsative spirit worse, to have it mistook
for wind."
He see my softened face, and and he
took advantago of it and went on,
" Woman you have beon married you say
25 years, haint you never felt slavish in
that tiino, and felt that you would gladly
unbind yourself."
" Never !" soz I firmly, "I don't want to
be unbound."
" Haint you never had yearnings, and
longings to bo froe?"
. "Not a yearn," sez I kanily, "not a
yearn. If I had wanted to remain free, I
shouldn't have give my heart and hand to
Josiah Allen. I didu't do it dclortously, I
had my senses." Says I " You can't sit
down and stand up at the same time, each
situation has its advantages, but you can't
be in both places at once, and this tryin'
to, is what makes so much trouble amongst
men and women. They want the lights
and advantages of both stations to ouoo
they want to sit down, aud stand up at the'
same time, and it can't be did. Men and
wimmin haint married at tho pint of tho
bayonet, they go Into it with both their
eyes open. , If anybody thinks they are
happier and frceer from care without bein'
married, nobody kompels em to bo married
but if they are, they hadn't ought to want
to bo married and singlo at the same timo,
it is onreasouablo. .
lie looked soma convinced, and I. went
on in softer tone. ji v. . ,
" I baint a goin' to say that Josiah haint
beon tryin' a good many times. He has
raved round some, when dinner wasn't
ready, and gone in his stockin' foot consid
erable, and been slack about klndlin' wood
I haint a goin' to deny it. like wise, I
have my faillus. , I persume I haint done
always exactly as I should about shirt but
tons, mebby I have sooldod roore'n T ort to
about his not keepin geese. But if men
and wimmin think they are marryin' an
gles they'l find they'l have to settle down,
and keep house with human kritters. I
never see a year yet that didn't have more
or less winter in it, but what does it say
for better, , for worse, and if it turns out
more worse than better why that don't
part us, for what else does it say 1 Till
death does us part,' and what is your little
slip of paper that you call a bill to that ? is
that death," sez I.
He sot quailin' silently, and I proceed
ed on. ,
" I Wouldn't give a cent for your bills, I
hod jest as leves walk up and marry any
married man, as to marry a man with ablll.
I had jest as loves," sez I warmin' with my
subject' "I had jest as levos join a Mor
mon at onco. How should I feel to know
there was another women loose in tho world
liable to walk in here any minute and look
at Josiah, and to know that all that sepa
rated em was a little slip of paper about an
inch wide?"
. My voice was loud and excited, for I felt
deeply what I said, and sez he in soothin'
tones,
. " I persume that you and your husband
are congonial spirits, but what do you
think of soarin' soles, that find out when it
was too late, that they are wedded to more
lumps of clay?"
I hadn't yet fully recovered from my ex
cited state of mind, and I replied warmly,
" I never see a man yet, that wasn't more
or less clay, and to toll you the truth I
think jest as much of these clay men, as I
do of these soarers, I never had any opin
ion of soarers at all ?"
He sunk back in his chair and sighed, for
I had touched him in a tender place but
still clingin' to his free love doctorine, he
murmured faintly,
" Some women are knocked down by
some men, and dragged out."
His meek tones touched my feeling, and
I continued in more reasonable accents.
"Mobby if I was married to a man that
knocked me down, and dragged me out
frequently, I would leave him a spell, but
not one cent would I ever invest in another
man, not a cent. I would live alone till ho
came to his senses if be ever did, and if he
didn't, why when the great roll is called
over above, I would answer to his name I
took when I loved him, and married him,
hopin' his old come back again there, and
we would have all eternity to keep house
in." '
Ho looked so dopressted, as ho sat loan in'
back in his chair, that I thought like as not
I had convinced him and he was sick of his
business, and asked him in a helpful way,
" Haint there no other busines you can
got into, bosides preaching . up free love ?
Hain't thoro no better busines ? Haint
there no cornfields whore you could hire out
for a scarecrow, haint there no sheop you
could steal, can't you get to be United
States Sonat or? Haint there no other mean
job not quite so mean .as this you could got
into?"
Ho didn't seem to take it friendly in mo,
you know friendly advico makes some
folks mad. Ho spoke out kinder surly and
scz ho,
, "I haint dono no hurt, I only waut
everybody to find their affinity."
That riled up the old Smith blood iu mo,
and scz I with spirit,
, "Say that word to me again, if you
dare." Says I, " of all tho moan words a
married woman ever listened to that is ttie
meanest." Sez I, " If you ' afiinlty' here
in my houso, again, young man, I will hol-
lor to Josiah."
Ho see I was iu earnest, and deeply in
dignant, and he ketched up his hat and
cauo, and started off, and glad enough was
I to see him go.
Kcceulrlcllj.
The following singular instance of eccen-
tiicity, illustrating tho close connection of
this condition of tho mind with insanity, is
related by Professor Hammond in his work
on diBoasos of tho nervous system. A lady
had since her childhood shown a singularity
of conduct as rogarded her tablo furniture
which si io would have of uo other material
than copper. She carried this fancy to
such an extent that even the knives wore
made of copper. People laughed at her
and tried to reason hor out of her whim,
but iu vain. In no other respect was there
any evidence of mental aberration. She
was intelligent, by no means excitable, and
in tho enjoyment of excellent health. An
uncle had, however, died insane, A trifling
circumstance started her in a new train of
thought, and excited emotions which she
could not control. She read in the morning
paper that a Mr. Kopper-man had arrived
at one of the botols, and site announced her
determination to call on him. Her friends
oiideavorod to dissuade her but without
avail. She went to the hotel and was told
he had just left for Chicago. Without re
turning to her home she bought a ticket for
Chicago, and started on tho noxt train for
that city. Tho telegraph, however, over
took her, aud she was brought back from
Rochester raving of her , love for a man
whom she bad never seen, and whose name
alone had been associated in her mind with
her fancy for copper table furniture. She
died of acute mania within a month.
A Bird Drover.'
rTUIE first time I was In New Orleans I
JL strolled down the streetlone day, and
as I went on observed a man before me who
threw out first one hand and then the oth
er, raising them both above his head some
times, and bringing them down again as if
he were going throngh a gymnastic exer
cise, or practicing gestures out of a school
speaker with pictures of boys in it, and
dotted lines to show where their hands are
to move. He was not walking straight for
ward, but went first to one side and then to
the other; so that I thought he most be
either drunk or crazy. When I came up
to him, however, I found that he was per
fectly sober, very far from crazy, and as
busy as the most industrious person could
wish. Ho was, in fact, a bird merchant,
and he was driving three hundred canaries
before him, just as people drive hogs or
cattle, or anything else. They were not
trained birds that have been taught tricks,
like those in shows, but just ordinary ca
nary birds, hopping along the ground in
a drove like a flock of sheop. They seem
ed to know their mastor, and had been
practiced at this driving until they knew
the meaning of every gesture he made, so
that he could drive them whorever he
ploased without fear of losing a single one,
and when a customer wanted to see a par
ticular bird, tho man had no difficulty in
picking it up out of the flock.
The whole thing was so odd that I talked
to the man, and got permission to go to his
shop, which was a queer placo certainly.
There were cages hanging all over the
ceiling, and setting every where that cag
es could set, and every cago was full of
birds. Birds of every kind of color were
there, some eating, some chattering, some
screaming, and the place, I thought, was
the noisest one I ever saw. A great owl
hopped about the floor, and an eagle sat on
the table, looking like a judge half asleep.
Two birds of paradise in a cage wore
smoothing their gaudy feathers, like ladies
getting ready for concert. Like birds of
every color were crowded together in one
cago, ready to be sent away to a bird dealer
in another city. In the back -yard the ca
naries, hundreds of them, wero twittering,
while peacocks and turkey gobblers stood
about among their neighbors. The old
man also kept some snakes in boxes, and
one or two young alligators, together with
monkeys, and, rabbits, and everything else
that anybody could possibly make pets of.
I learned that the man raises all his ca
naries and many of his other birds, and
buys tho rest from sailors, who bring them
from Mexico and South America. He has
boys and girls wandering all over tho city
with littlo cages of birds for sale, and he
drives the canaries himself, while his wife
attends to the shop. He commonod driv
ing canaries many years ago, and hod a
good deal of troublo to teach his first flock
to obey. Hut birds and animals seem to
loam more rapidly from each othor than
from men; so whenever young canaries get
largo enough to be sold, the man puts them
with his flock, and they do as tho rest do.
They are like boys and girls in doing as
their comrades do, learning good things or
bad things, according to the company thoy
keep.
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The Slur Slrlus.
Many things combino to render this bril
liant star an object of profound interest.
We can gaze on its pure silvery radiance,
and reflect how many ages it has adorned
tho heavenly dome with its peerless lustro,
and how many generations of mankind
have rejoiced in it; and among them all
the wise and tho good and the great of h is
tory, with awe and admiration. In ancient
Egypt it was an objoct of Idolatrous inter
est. It was tlfen of a brilliant red color,
but is now a lustrous white; and the cause
of this change of color, as well as the na
ture and period of the revolution it denotes
in the star itself, is wholly unknown. Its
distance from our earth is not loss than one
million three hundred thousand times our
distance from the sun; and its light must
travel twenty-two years to reach us. Anoth
er circumstance of doep interost connoctod
with it is, that it has changed its position,
during tho life of the human family, by
about tho apparent diameter of the moon;
and that astronomers, dutocting some irrcg.
ularities in its motion, have been convinced
that it had a companion star which they
thought must be non-luminous, since their
telescopes could not detect it. But Mr.
Clark with his new and poworful acromatio
tolescopo, has found this neighbor of Sirius,
Hitherto invisible, aud verified the oonclu
sions to which astronomers had beon led by
reasoning on the facts they had ascertained,
EST Here is a quostlon tho merits of
which are now on trial before a French
court which might well puzzle a Congress
of lawyers and casuists. A butcher at a
country fair iu France had just paid a fann
er the purchase money for an ox, which he
had bought of tho latter. While the farm
er held the money in his hand, the ox put
out bis tongue, liokod up the bank notes,
and swallowed them. Of course a law
suit has resulted, each party to the ourious
transaction claiming that the ox belongs to
him, and that tho other must lose the bank
notos. To the ordinary mind it would
seem that the butcher has the best of the
quanel ; but the court most decide who
lost the money and who owns the ox.
Kissing Day In Russia.
'" A correspondent writing from St Peters-
burgh at the beginingof the month, allu
ding to the festivities always observed in
Russia on Easter day; says: Of all the Rus
sians perhaps the only one who does not
look forward to the prospect of an Easter
morning with any degree of pleasure is the
emperor himself, for it must be remember
ed that this is the great kissing season.
Among real unsophisticated Russians at
Easter, the practice is universal between
mastor and servants. It still holds good at
court ; and on Sunday from about half past
one till three, the emperor might have been
seen in the chapel of the winter palace go
ing through an ordeal, which in spite of his
perseverance and good humor, must have
sorely tried his patience. . Think of the
number of kisses he has bestowed during
that hour and a half 1 There were, first, all
the officiating priests, then the members of
the council of stato, next the senators; then
then all the general officers in Petersburg
whose name is legion ; then the officers of
the imperial guard above the rank of ma
jor. Of the officers of lower rank only a
certain number are Bent by each regiment.
These are followed by those of the fleet the
same distinction being made between the
superior and inferior ranks as in the army,
while lastly come the. officers of the impe
rial household. To each individual of this
multitude the emperor gives two kisses,
one on each cheek three being the cano
nical number according to Russian etiquette
but that would take too much time in the
present instance.
In ordinary Russian society the custom
is to present an egg to a friend the first
time you meet him or her most general
ly her after 12 o'clock on Easter night.
The one who presents tho egg exclaims
"Christ has risen 1" the other answers,
" Is He iudeed ?" and three kisses follow.
Of course the second one has generally .an
egg to present in return. Timid swains
eagerly take advantage of this custom to
obtain the privilege of embracing some '
fond object whom otherwise they would
be too bashful to approach. These eggs
are of all kinds some simple hen eggs gilt
or silvered, or colored, red blue or violet ;
some sugar eggs, embellished with all kinds
offancifuI designs. There are also diminu
tive gold, marble, or simple wooden eggs ;
others are large enough to serve as ladies
traveling bags ; or they may be placed on
stands to servo as a useful ornament, hens
may sit upon a nest of bon-bon-eggs ; and
some may be fitted up inside with a sot of
childrens toys. There are eggs in fact,
arranged in every imaginable material.
On this day hundreds of thousands of these
chango hands in Petersburg alone and the
sum spent in their purchase must be pro
digious. A Remarkable Telegraphic Improvement.
The Western Union Tolographio Com
pany has acquired the exclusive ownorship
of the patents of 1808 of Joseph B. Stearns,
of Boston, Mass., for instruments by which
telegraph mossagos are transmitted in op
posite directions at tho same time by the
use of a single wire. This improvement is
one of tho most important that has been
mado in connection with telegraphy since
the introduction of Honry's inventions by
Prof. Morse.
Many ot the Stearns instruments are now
in uso, and the Western Union Company is
now introducing them upon its lines as
fast as they can be manufactured. The
importance of the invention "will be under
stood when we state that it practically
doubles the transmitting capacity of evory
telegraph wire owned by the Company.
tSFTho Chinese carto de visite is a curi
osity. It consists of a bright scarlet paper,
with tho owner's name inscribed in largo
letters tho bigger tho more exquisite. For
extra grand Occasions this card is folded
ten times ; tho namo is written on the right
hnnd lowor comor, with a humiliating pre
fix, like "your very stupid brothor," "your
unworthy friend who bows his head and
pays his respect," tfcc, &c, tho words'
" your stupid" taking the place of "yours
respectfully." It is etiquette to return
those cards to the visitors, it being presu
mable that the expense is too great for gon
erablo distribution.
Newspaper Errors.
"Every column of a nowspapor contains
from twelve to fifteen thousand distinct
pieces of metal, tho displacement of any
one of which would cause a blunder or ty
pographical error. And ' yet some poople
lay claim to romaikablo smartness if thoy
can discover an error iu a newspaper.
Whon such people find a word with a wrong
letter in it, they are sure they could spell
that single word right, that they are happy
for a whole day.' ,
2T A miniature Dead Sea has been dis
covered in Nevada. It lies iu an oval ba
sin, 150 feet below the surface of the plain,
the banks shelving down with as much
symmetry as if fashioned by art. , The
water of this lake is impregnated with sol
uble substances, mostly borax, soda and
salt, to a dogreo that renders it almost
ropy with slime, and so douse that a per
son oan float on it without effort. This
lake has uo visiblo outlet or ialer, but being
of great depth is probably fed by spring
far down in the earth.