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ha, Nebraska.
WHIT HAS BEEN DOM,. AND WEIZX IT
WILL BE FINISHED.
No great enterprise was .-ever begun
about which so little has been said and so
much has been done. The pitblie .have a
vague idea that a railroad is being built
from somewhere in the Eivit to some
where in a farther West than a rail track
has ever i before been laid ; but where it
begins, br what route it follows, or where
it is to end, we venture to assert, not one
in a thousarid can tell.
For a dozen years we have heard that a
great Pacific railroad was to be built, and
a dozen names and a dozen companies,
and a dozen routes—from the southern
boundary of Texas to the Northern boun
dary ofLake Superior—have been urged
upon Congress as the greatest and best
means for uniting the Atlantic and Pacific
shores. Bubble after babble was blown,
and each burst in turn when touched by
the sharp point of practical experience.
The absolute necessity for a Pacific
railroad to -retain and bind more closely
together the eastern and western extremes
of the continent in one great United and
Pacific country, the immense cost at' gov
ernment transportation to its frontier and
Rocky Mountaiii posts, and the even
greater cost of Indian ,:wars, in a region
that nothing but a railroad could civilize,
and nothing but civilization could pacify,
the great importance of opening a road to
the rich gold and silver mines of the rocky
and Sierra Nevada Mountains, so that the
way tb the resumption of specie payments
might be made shorter and easier,—all
these prudential reasons finally pressed
with such weight upon Congress, that it
determined that the road should be made.
There were, indeed, many others ; two
thousand miles of additional territory
would be opened for settlement; vast bod
ies of 1 and now valueless would be made
productive; the tide of business and trav
el that no winds a tedious and danger
ous way al3ug the borders of two oceans,
would be increased ten fold; and bow
would the fathers in the east strike hands
with their sons and daughters at. the Gol
den Gate, if they could only be borne on
the wings of the locomotive!
The imperative need of the work was
admitted, but it was too vast for individ
ual enterprise to attempt. No combina•
tion of private capitalists was willing to
risk a . hundrqd million dollars in the con
struction of 2,000 miles of railroad throt
a wilderness. As the undertaking was
strictly national, so no Tower less than
that of the nation was sufficient to accom
plish it; and large as the cost necessarily
would. be, the expenditure would save a
mach greater cost to the country.* But
the Government did not wish to enter
upon any new system of internal improve
ments on its own account; and its only al
ternative was to grant its :lid in the most
careful manner to such responsible indi
viduals of suitable character and energy
as might be willing to risk a portion, of
their private means in the construction of
the road.
THE COMPANY'S CFIAIITEn AM) UOUTE
This charter was granted and perfec
ted' by various acts of Congress, and the
Company cornprises men of the highest
reputation for' integrity, wealth, and bn
sines,s experience. Among the officers
are General . ..Tohn A. Dix, President,
Thet*C. Durant, vice : President,, and
Hon. John J. Cisco, late Assistant. Trea
surer of the U. S. Treasurer.
The capital authorized by the Charter
is one hundred million dollars, of which it
is estimated that not exceeding twenty
five million will be required, and of which
five millions have already been paid in.
Surveying parties were at once pushed
out in various directions across the con-
tiuentlo find and locate the best availa
ble line between the Missouri River and ;
the Pacific Ocean. This was established
at Omaha, in Nebraska, on the east, and I
will finally-be at San Francisco, in Cali-
fornia, on the west—a distance of nearly
1,900 miles. The Chicago . and North
western railroad is now completed from
Chicago to Ornaha, - a distance of 492
miles; and several other roads are rapidly
building to unite with the Union Pacific
in the same point; so that its eastern con
nections will be numerous and complete.
The general line of the road from Oma
ha is west up the valley of the Great
Platte, and thence across the plains -a dis
tance of 517 miles, to the Black hills, or
easterly spur of the rocky mountains
Seymour, the cosulting engineer, reports
that the ' grade is much more favorable
than was anticipated—the maximum to
the rocky Mountains not exceeding 30
feet
.tio n the mile, and froirrthltpr4l:l6
the istnninit, or divide of the continent,'
it will , not exceed 80 :feet to the; mile.
From the Rocky Mountains, the best
practicable routs 'rill be :taken to Great
Salt Lake city and thence by the valley of
the Humboldt river.to tire eastern Vase of
the Sierra Nevada Mciantaitis. T4f
tral Pacific - relined its,-.now bcing'7o llll 7
built east from Sacramento, Cal., Fid is
ai!eadY completed- 'about 100' miles,'and l
will cement with the Union Pacificl. ;
Iva-AT sitar - 3Oots'ilii)•'us COST'. .
As Nyexemarked beforectheri'hai' been
very little talk, and a great:deal of ;writ'
Altitost before th‘l . public were aware, it
bad been.beigon. On the first of Janua
ry, 1867ithis union Pacific railroad was
finished f0r30.5 miles west from Omaha,
and fully elinipped with locomotives, roll
ing stock, repair shops, depots, stations,
.&c., and the company have on hand Iron
ties, and other materials, sufficient to fin
ish the road to the rocky mountains, or
517 miles frotn Omaha, by the first of
September,:lB67. It is expected that the
whole line through to California will be
completed ip 1870.
The first 305 miles were graded,bridg
ed and ironed, with a heav T-rail, and
supplied with suitable depots, repair
shops, stations, locomotives, cars, and all
the necessary appurtenances of a rst class
road, for $40,000 per mile, and it is be
lieved that the remaining portion will not
increase the average cost to more' than
$66,000 per mile, exclusive of equipments.
MELigt3 FOIL tONSTRUCTION.
When the government determined that
the road must be built, it also determined
to make the most ample provision to ren
der its speedy construction beyond a
doubt.
St. —TRE GRANT OF MONEY.—The
Government issues to the company its six
per cent. thirty year bonds at the rate of
$16,000 per mile for the whole road, and
in addition, for 150 miles across the rocky
mountains this grant is trebled, making
it $48,000 per mile; and from the termina
tion of this section to the California line
(about 89 miles) the grant is doubled,
making $52,000 per mile,—the whole
amoulit, being $44,208;000. These bonds
are issued I:iy the Government only on the
completion of each section of twenty miles
and atter the commissioners appointed by
the president of the United States have
certified that it is thoroughly built and
supplied with all the machinery;"4-m, of a
first class railroad. The interest on these - ]
bonds is paid by the U. S. Treasury, and
the government retains, as a sinking fund
to be applied to repayment, of principal
and interest, one half .the regnlar charges
made for transportation by the Company
agaiust,it. " These bonds, which are a sec
ond mortgage, are not due for thirty
years, and it is not improbable that the
value of the services to be rendered to the
government during that period will' con- 1
stitute a sinking fund sufficient for their
redemption at maturity.
2d.—TEE FIRST MORTGAGE BONDS.—
Tfre government permits the company to
issue its own Mortgage bonds at the same
time, and on just the same terms, and
for the same amount, and by special act of
Congress these bonds of the company are
made a first mortgage on the entire line
and property of the road,-the" government
bonds being subordinate. The amount
of these bonds to be issued by the com
pany is limited to an amount equal to
those issued by the government to aid in
the construction of the road.
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3d.—THE LAND GILINT.— Whi I e tDIS is
certainly munificent, at the same time it
is most advantageous to the government,
for without it, all its own laupli, would re
main almost worthless. It is a donation
of every alternate section for 20 miles on
each side of the road, or 12,800 acres per
mile, and amounts to 20,032,000 acres,
assuming the distance from Omaha to the
California state line to be 1,565 miles.
Much of this land, especially in the valley
: of the great Platte, is a rich alluvium, and
is considered' equal to any in the world
for agricultural purposes. Hon. E. D.
Mansfield, : the 'learned commissioner of
statistics for the state of Ohio, estimates
that at least 9,400,000 acres will be avail
able to the company within a moderate
length ofstime, and that it is fat within
bounds to estimate this entire grant at
$1,50 an acre, or $30,00,000. The Illinois
central has realized more than four times
this"sum from a similar grant. •
RECAPITULATION OP BIEANS POP. 1,565
U. S. Bonds, equal to money, 844,208,000
First Mortgage Bonds, 44,208,000
'Land grant, 20,032 1 000 say 30,000,000
$118,416,000
--equal to a cost of nearly 81'6,000 per
mile, which is believed to be a liberal es
timate. This does not take into the ac
count ;he value of the right of •way and
material, the stock subscription already
paid in or to be paid in the future, or the
present discount at which the bonds are
-offered, as they are expected soon to be at
par.
Theinterest on the bonds is more than
provided for: by the net earnings of the
various section 6 of the road, as they ar
eomilfeted. On • the 305 miles on which
the -cue are now running West from
Omahi, the receipts for the- first 2- weeks
in May were $113,000; and as the road is
extended towards, the great mining *en
, ters; tliebbilnesi in freight and:passen
gers constantly increase--and as there
e.an,be no Competition from rival roads the
CoMp . any has fall power to charge remu
nerative prkes:*
PROSPECTS FOB FOTITRE BUSIINTEBS
It needs , to argument to 'show that the
tratSo;of the only rallioid connecting the
Atlantic and the Pacific, and passing thro'
the great .lnining region, mast? x hn
lnense.
MONTROSE, PA., TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 1867.
Although our annual product of the pre
cious metals is now officially estimated at
8100,000,000 per annum, a vastly greater
sum will be obtained as soon as the Un
ion Pacific railroad opens the way.to the
golden region of the rocky Mountains.
Now, the difficulties and cost of commu
nication are so great, that none but the
very richest veins cab be worked; but with
cheap transportation, hundreds of thou
sands of hardy miners will successfully
develop other mines, that, with less cost
ly working, will be even more profitable
than the average of those now in opera
tion; and the business of this constantly
increasing mining interest must pass over
the road.
/ The records of our shipping offices show
that not less than 50,000 passengers now
annually travel by sea between the Atlan
tic ports and San Francisco; and these
re4koned at $l5O each (about one half the
steamer price) would produce a revenue
of $7,500,000.
The . overland travel is oven greater.
In a single year, twenty seven thousand
teams, comprising a vast number of emi
grants and travelers, departed from two
points only on the Missouri river on their
westward joutney. If the truth of this
statement was not familiar to all fron
tier's men, it might well be questioned.
But, estimating the overland through
travel at the same figures as that by
steamer, and we have $15,000,000, as the
minimum estimate on the same number
of passengers. But the facilities for cheap
and rapid transit furnished by railroad al
' ways vastly increases the amount of tray
'el with the same population. The differ
ence between the numbers who would
take an ocean steamer or a prairie wagon
and a modern palace car, with its luxari
rious state rooms, where the traveler eats
and sleeps. almost as comfortably as at
'home, may be as great as the difference
between the numbers who were jolted
over the mountains in an old fashioned
stage coach and those in an Express train
between any two great cities. Then, is
it not safe to say that this through trav
el will be at once doubled on the comple
tion ofthe road in 1870,
.and, with the
rapid increase of pacific coast population
in the next few years, more than quadiu
pled Is it at all extravagant to assert
that the through passenger business du
ring the first year after the first train of
cars runs from Omaha in Nebraska to
Sacramento, will be worth twenty five
million dollars? When to this we add
half as much more for its way passenger
business, and more• than as much more
than both for its freights, expresses and
mails, etc., are there not the best reasons
in the world for believing that the Union
Pacific railroad will be one of the most
profitable as well as one of the grandest
. works of modern times ?
THE SECURITY AND VALUE OF ITS BONDS
We-have made these calculations that
the public may have some brief data of
facts from which to form their estimate of
the value of the union Pacific railroad
company's first mortgage bonds. Be
sides, men of the greatest railroad expe
rience in the country have shown their
confidence in the stock by liberal spbscrip
tions, and this stock must be subordinate
to all other claims. There are stronger
proofs of the security and value of the first
mortgage bonds than any we have named :
1. That for the safety of the country as
well as national economy the read is in
dispensable.
2. That by an investment of about fifty
millions in a second Mortgage on the
road, the Government, practically guaran
tees the principal and interest on the first
Mortgage.
The company now offer alimited amount
of its first mortgage bonds, bearing six
per cent. interest-, payable semi annually
in coin, at ninety per cent. This interest
at the current rate of premium on gold is
equal to nine per cent. per annum on the
price for which they are now offered. The
company expects to sell but a small am't
at this rate, when the price will be raised,
and like all similar bonds they will finally
rise to a premium above their par value.
The subscribers to this loan will not only
have the advantages of very liberal , in
terest and very safe security, but will also
have the satisfaction of having asistsed in
the construction of the greatest national
work of the country.
wit has been proved, already, that the entire Int e rest
on the fifty millions in bonds advanced by the govern-
ment will be saved more than twice over is the conse
quent diminution ht Government expenses in the re
gions through which the road passes.
The prise of freight byteints from the Missouri riv
er was lortnexly twenty dye cents per pound, or $5OO
per ton.
In a certain school in Springfield
Mass., the lady teacher, a few days since, I
had occasion to punish one of the little
boys for using profane language. There
lAing a knot hole in the floor, she con
ceived
the idea to make' him think he had
got to stand near by with a pair of tongs
and watch until he caught a rat that
should come up from below. Stationing
him, she gave him, strict injunctions ,
to remain until be accomplish the feat;
calculating, of course, after he, bad
stOod there a couple , of hours, to send him
to his seat. Judge of her surprise, when
two-minutes after he fastened the tongs
to a' getmineliVe fellow of the rat kind,
with enormous whiskes and tail, 'arid .
holding Mtn up exclaimed, " By jinks
caught him !"
I Coal Oil to
•• Trottel Stearnehips and
, LoMotives.
The great, important 'and calustanq in
creasing part which' steam P'ONVer tal
king in the world'S progress has awa
kened the attention of thOughtful, econo
mists to the fact that the-Material neces
sary to evolve the vapory but untiring
giant from the simple eleipent:of water is
constantly decreasing in quantity .and' in
creasing in value. Coal is now 'se univer
sally employed as domestic pael that the
immense supply needed for •ho genera
tion of steam in the various industriab
pursuits, and the 'steam tuapie of the
world's commerce, and the navies of the•
nations, is taxing the means of almost ev
ery individual in the community. The
present rapid consumption;lof 'coal is
therefore a question of profound interest,
and much care• and attention has been
given to maturing plans foi.sja less rapid
and more economical consumption of the
valuable fuel.
The latest discovery in this direction
promises to be of the utmost importance,
and its ultimate and complete success
seems certain. The now method propos
es to abolish mai altogether from be
neath steam boilers, and put in its place
petroleum.
The mode •of effecting this desirable
enange was originated by Colanel Henry
R. Foote, of Tennessee, and his process
has been patented. The attention of the
United States Navy departnient has al
ready been called to this new steam gen
erator, and a Board of three Chief Engi
neers have examined it, and rendered a
favorable report, -Chief Engineer Isher
wood ordered the fourth class United
States steamship Palos to be fluted up for
a full and complete trial of the now inven
tion. And on board of this vessel the ex
periment ie now in progress, in Boston
harbor.
The new apparatus is simple and inex
pensive, consisting of a small iron box or
retort located in the grate bars, and hav
ing burners all around it. Its bottom is
kept hot by burners beneath. The oil is
carried into it by a small iron pipe, and
vaporises as soon as it enters. Steam
then introduced through a coil of iron
pipe filled with filings and' located over
the burners, where it is intensely heated
and decomposed, and its gases enter thn
retort, into which air is at the same time
forced, and the whole farms a gas which
escapes from nine hundred burners,where
it burns with a clear, intense blue flame,
completely filling the furnace and extend
ing into and through the flues. The heat
is very great. It emits no smoke, can be
increased or diminished in a moment, or
be entirely diminished by turning a stop
cock.
The apparatus is very simple, and any
part of it, if broken, can be repaired or
made new by any mechanic. No altera
tion of boilers is required. It will burn
whatever coal will, and the fire can be run
by any man of ordinary intelligence after
an hour's instruction.
It dispenses with all coal beavers, and
requires but one inan to every two or
three fires, to keep them in perfect order.
It is clean and convenient, and saves the
time and trouble of taking in coal and
disposing of ashes, and, there being no
sulphur in the oil, as there always is in
coal, the boilers and flues will he more du
rable, notwithstanding the ,greater inten
sity of the,fire.
But the great Value of this invention in
steamers is the gain in spaCeand,tonnage.
The amount of fuel required is only about
one-seventh of the weight and bulk re
quired of anthracite coal, and the invent
or is satisfied that after perfecting his ap
paratus, it will take less than one tenth,
leaving all the rest for freight or passage
room. If this fire rest_
will enable
ships to steam from sixty to one hundred
days, and to visit ports in all parts of the
world from which they are sow excluded,
while the direct gain in the saving of the
fuel of the civilized world will be almost
beyond computation.
The best petroleum for the purpose of
fuel for steam boilers is that which is
tained from wells in West Virginia, on
account of its gravity, which renders it
non-explosive, and it is claimed that it,
can be handled and stored with the same
safety as lard oil or coal; thus avoiding all
the objections to the light oils of Penn
sylvania. The quality-of the oil used in
the experimental test should receive par
ticular attention, in order to make the
success complete, which is sure to be in
the hands Of practical men.
-One. Of the meanest men in New
England is said to reside at Northampton,
Mass. Ile sued his brother, the other
day, for twenty dollars, foe the board of
himself and wife during a visit which=
they paid him three years ago when first
married.
—To leave church before it is out, whis
pering, gazing at strangers, loud laughter,
climbing barber poles when " seas over,"
and kicking the dog under tho table when
at"bredkfaist, is impolite.
Ali APT ANS*ER:-It Was an apt an
swer of a,yonng lady ' .WIK4 being asked
Where wns her native pl,acp, replied, "'I
have none; lam' the'daughter bt a' Meth
odist minister."
An Original Income Tax.
The following is a copy of a return fore
warded to an ASsistant Assesitor in the
Seventh United-States Interns' Revenue
District of Massachusetts :
" Dear Sir acknowledging the tb
ceipt of the blanks wfiich you ' were so
kind as to leave at my residence, I have
to say that, however much I may regret
the fact, it is nevertheless true, that' my
financial standing 'does not; and from all
appearances will not allaw me to assist in
lubricating the wheels of the government.
I cannot refrain, however, from filling'the
blanks as rsgnested.
" I 'have some little property, and altho'
not enumerated in the printed sheet, will
you allow me, if for nothing else than my
own gratification, to place them in my as
sets:
One little bay mare named
(sound and kind in all harness, stands
without tying, eats anything,) and of but
little value.
"A buggy not paid for, though good
for several years. It is now repairing.
" I have also a dog, five cats, and two
pigs, and the sexes of the latter are equal.,
ly represented.
"Judging from the past I am free to
say that if I keep the pigs through the
summer, I shall be obliged to call upon
the United States to assist me. Ido not
know how in the world I can get along,
and am happy only when I know that a
rich Man cannot enter the kingdom of
Heaven.
" My clothes are all second-hand, and
my bouts are about gone. No tailor has
made me a suit for years; and since the
publishing of Income Returns was com
menced, my credit Las been sadly sha
ken. But, being poor, I get hope and
strive and work, and wish, and better
than all, lam happy. Find the man who
pays his twenty thousand income, then
come and visit me, and judge yourself of
`life among the lowly,' and which is the
happier.
" - When my boy grows np, I hope he
may excel his father in financial ability, of
which no one who knows me doubts, and
that you, Mr. -, may live long en
ough to visit him for many years to col
lect his income tax.
" Yours, &c.
(fiignp,l)
Bill Simpson's Legal. Experience.
Many years ago the Legislature of Ten
nessee passed an act to organize the Co.
of McNairy, alias Snake. At that time
the country embraced in the limits of
Snake was occupied by a set of back
woodsmen, totally unacquainted with
courts, jails, &c. The county assembled
at the appointed site for the purpose of
cutting logs, making boards, &c.,to build
a court house and jail. The only theme
of daily conversation, when the men were
assembled, was the court, &c. Noneof
thein had ever seen a court in session, as
yet developed. Each . one would give
what his idea was of court, &c. None,
however, were entirely satisfactory, until
Bill Simpson was called on to give his
ideas. Ho said he knew all about a court;
that ho had had a law suit in North Car
olina. One of his neighbor's hogs kept
coming when he Ted his bogs until it mat
fat. One'morning be got so mad that he
shot the hog. He thought it would not
do to throw.iV away, so he cleaned and
salted it.
_Shortly after his neighbor and
a man.camerto .his house, examined the
smoke house, and took him to town and
put him in a little office. About three
months after a that his man came and took
him up to a large room. A large man, sat
upon a high bench—a man was sitting at
a desk—about a dozen fine dressed men
sat in apiece that was pale&around.• The
men put him in, a pen that was just behind
them. He then called in twelve men;
they took their seats in a box in front of
the fine dressed men. The man that was
writing gave the twelve man a•book, and
said something about Bill Simpson and
the State. Then one of the fine men read
something about Bill Simpson and the hog,
and he and another of the fine dressed
men .had the biggest quarrel you over
hoard. I thought they would fight every
'minute, but they didn't. It was Bill
Simpson and the bog, and the hog and
Bill Simpson, and sombtimesMr..Simpson
but very seldem. After they quit quar
relling, the big man talked awhile to the
twelve men, and they went out and staid
a .short- _time, and mite . back and said
something to the men at the desk. Then
the men at the bench said, something to
the man that put me in , the office, and he
took me out and tied rue to a, persimmon
tree, and commenced cowhiding me with
a cowhide, and it made me so mad that I
shook all the persimmons off the tree.
Honesty.
The followingabecdoto of an Indian,
teaches a good lesson to some people that
ore more enlightened.
An Indian, being among his white I
geig,hbors, asked far a . little tobacco to
smoke ; and one of them, having some
loose is his pocket, gave
. him a handful.
The dayfollo*ing the IndiOn came bick,
inquiring for-the donor, saying he had
found a quarter
_of a dollar among the
tobacco. Being told that it, wati,givert to .
biar, 1,1 :9 ,mig4 Aa_w#4 . 4,loep answered
pointing to his breast, "I got a good,
IVOLU*E X.XIV, NUMBER 24.
man - and a bad man here;= and the good
man say,, "it is not mine—l must return
Tit to the owner." The bad man , say,
"Wby hogive it to you, and it is your
own now , The good man say, "_That's
not right ;'. the tobacco is yonrs; not the
money." The bad inn say, i'never mind,
you got ii;-go buy some rum." The good
man say, "No, no you must not do so."
So I don't know what to do, and think to
go to sleep ; but the good and the bad man
keep talking all night, and , ' trouble me;
and now I bring the money . back I feel
good."
It is a good thing for ajoung man to
be knocked about in the world, though
his soft-hearted parents may not think So.
All youths,' or if not all, nineteen-twenti
eths of the sum total, enter life with a
stirplussage of self-conceit. The sooner
they are relieved of it the better. If, in
tneasnring themselves with wiser and old
er men, they discover that it is unwarran
ted, and get rid of it gracefully, of their
own accord, well and good; if not, it is
desirable, for their own sakes, that it be
knocked out of them.
-A boy who is sent to a large,school
soon finds his level. His wilt may have
been parathount .at home ; but school
boys are democratic in their ideas, and if
arrogant, is sure to be thrashed into a re
cognition of the golden rule.
The world is a great public school, and
it soon teaches a pupil his proper place.
If ho has the attributes that belong to a
leader, he will be installed into the posi
tion of a leader ; if not, whatever his own
opinion of his abilities may be, he will be
compelled to fall back with the rank and
file. If not destined to greatness, the next
best thing which he can aspire to is re
spectability; but no man can be either
truly great or respectable, who is vain,
pompous, overbearing.
By the time the novice has found his
legitimate social position, be
. the same
high or low, the probability is that the
disagreeable traits of his character will be
softened down or worn away. Most like
ly the process of abrasion will be rough,
very rough ; bat when it is all over, and
he begins to see himself as others see
him, and not as reflected in the mirror of
self-conceit, he will be very thankful
Luai. lie 222115 1 LIU LII C gauntlet, sou arriveu
though by a rough road at self-know',
edge.
Upon the whole, whatever loving mo
thers may think to the contrary, it is a
good thing for youth to be knocked about,
in the .world ; it makes men of them.
cc * Og . ******.”
Knocked About.
Black Angels.
A short time before the French Revolu
tion the mania for liberty was manifested
many times by the excessive protection
given to the negroes.
Among the favorites of this color was
one young fellow who enjoyed tbo repu
tation of being a good artist. Bonaparte
being Prat Consul, the negro came one
dhy to ask his protection in regard to a
picture which ho wished to place before
the public, but it had betin criticised so
much that he dare not show it without the
favor and sanction of the Consul. Bona
yarte manifested a desire to see it, and it
was accordingly brought into his pres
ence.
The painting represented the Eternal
Father, the Virgin and the Son of• God,
surrounded by angels, but, all were black !
At seeing it Bonaparte was unable to con
laity himself, arid burst into a loud laugh.
The artiat vindicated himself, saying:
"The whites believe that a black akin
is a mark of infamy by which the descen
dants of Cain are condemned ; we on the
contrary believe that the white skin was
given to , men as a curse. Yon• believe that
God and the angels, aro white, and why
should we not believe that. they are
black ?"
" You have an indisputable right to
make them so, and to paint as many
black angels as you choose," replied the
Consul ; " but Nhen they are completed,
the best use you can make of them is to
send them to the Island of St. Domingo."
tar One evening a parent was hearing
his little eon recite his Sunday school les
son. It was in the 13th chapter of Mat
thew, wherein it relates of the malicious
individual who went about sowing tares,
&c.
" What is a tare ?" the parent interrup
ted ,to inquire.
.Johnny hesitated. • •
"Tell me niy son, what • a tare is."
"You have had 'em,"saki Johnny, cast
ing down his eye and wriggling his foot.
"Had 'em !" said the astonished parent
opening his eyes rather wide, "why, what
do you mean Johnny?"
" When you didn't 4ome home for three
days lait week," said Johnny, "1 beard
mother tell Aunt Susan you was off on a
tare." The 'Sunday school lesson was
brought th an abrupt close, and Johnny,
who knew , too much altogbether to sit up
any later, was sent to bed.
—A would.bs.bride in Dayton, Ohio,
aged 60, has sued .a. gentleman of 70
for breach of bromine. She shows One of
his letters. In which be 'said he "existed
only in her ignites, and that the 'happiest
'days of his' life would' he that on *hush he
should call her his own."