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CASTLES IN THE AIR.
-o
'llls world Is but a bubble,
Them is nothing here but woe,
Hardship, toil and trouble,
No matter where you go.
Go where you may, do what you will,
You're never free from care,
For nt the best this world is but
A castle in the air.
We're tossed upon the sat of life
Just like n little boat,
Where some get cast upon the rocks
And never get afloat,
But come what may, we'll do our best,
And never more despair,
Usurp the place between us and
Our castles In the air.
There is a name known over the world,
To Englishmen most dear,
And well they do to honor him—
Their nature bard Shakespeare,
Yet when his plays tame on the stage
They made the whole world stare,
For they were all composed while building
Castles In the air.
If you take the work of Shakespeare,
And study them well through,
You'll find each saying so wise,
Each sentiment so true.
It will make you feel, while reading them,
As it you had been there;
Yet the immortal Shalespeare built
Ills castles in the air.
The Irish had their poet, too,
They loved him well, I'm sure,
He was a true.born Irishman,
His name was Thomas Moore.
And of this world's sorrows
We know he had his share
Yet Moore was always happy building
Castles in the air.
He sang the rights of Ireland,
Hu sang against her wrongs,
And many a true-hearted Irishman
Still cherishes his song.
He bade the Irish heart rejoice,
And never more despair,
And tor Ireland in the future built
Bright castles in the air.
And yet there is another name
To Scotchmen dearer mill,
And turough each &WWI heart
'Twill (wise the blood to thrill
The name of Robert Burns,
Yet he had his care.
When but a simple shepherd,
Building castles in the air.
His home a lonely plowman's rot,
Where attire was never seen,
nappy and contented
Bid he saunter with his Jean
Down by the banks of Bonny Avon,
Nntr to the town of Are,
Nature poet, Roble Bunts,
Built castles in the air.
And yet there is another name
Americans adore,
A stalminan when in time o r pence,
A lion when in war.
Whether stunning Bunker Hill;
Or on the Delaware,
His genius make his soldiers build
Bright castles in the sir.
In Ida country's darkest hour,
Hr wilily Ind the ran.
And filmy,: to make America
The best of any land,
Though he was not a poet horn,
lie planned AVith skill nil care,
It was our Immortal %Vaaliington
Built bright castles in the air.
Zhe ffitorg Ellin..
_ TUE SMARPER'S PERIL.
r -a-
No wonder you an• ast,mished—said
Dick— to sec such an ariele as that in
my possession, but if it is a strange this g
for me to have a the way I cams
by it is a st'runger. I have hail it for
three years; and I shall keep it as long
as I live.
Three years ago I was living by my wits
in the city of St. Paul. Peirhaps I gambl
ed some ; perhaps you will call it swind
ling. At all events there was a chap out
tl el!, a rich young scapegrace, who lov.
ed to fleece hun better than Dick. One
day he mine to me looking very misera
ble.
“Dick,” said he, "I've lost my watch. a
poor old turnip; but the old woman gave
it to me just before she died, and I
wouldn't lose it for a farm."
I made inquiries and soon found wit
that the watch had gone into the Virginia
backwoods settlement. How I found out
is nothing to you. I told Tom about
it. •
"Well," he said, as tickled as a child,
"all we have to do is to put an officer on
the track—"
" 17 ... m must be a sweet traby," I Inter•
rent, " .. %1 uy, up there they shout an
otticer ou si.ht."
"I would give five hundred dollars,"
said Tom passionately, "rather than loose
that watch.
"Done," I said, and the nest morning
I started fur Like Howard, forty-seven
miles in the dreary woods, dressed like a
backwoodsman, with a couple of Derrin
gers in my pockets, and mounted on an
animal that was once a horse, which was
bought for $25. A dreary ride it was.—
To say nothing of the awful roads, the .
backbone of my noble steed was a source
of constant misery, for I had no saddle;
that Would have excited suspicion at once.
So I was glad, at the end of the second
day, when five miles from the lake, to
stop at a log hovel by the roadside. The
family were just preparing their evening
meal—making it into mush—when I,en
tered and I Will abut to take a seat at
the table when the old man looked at me
sadly.
" Young man," said lie, "I see by your
looks that you don't know the Lord."
"You are right there, old man," I said.
"Ile's a stranger to me."
At that the old fellow groaned, and
immediately produced the identical Bible
you see before you.
-"Hear the words of wrath," he said, be
ginning to read, and queer work he made
of it, kicking his mental shins against all
of the big words. I paid little attention
to him, but I got somehow a vague im
pression that his mind was not on his'
reading. Still I did not set him down as
a hyprocrite, as I should instantly, had lie
been anywhere else but there, where
hypocrisy seemed so superfluous. Wicked
as I was, I was rather pleaselfthan other
wise to find symptoms of piety to that
God-forsaken place. The reading and
the supper over, the old man said in
. quiringly.
" Naybe re rinil
I=l
MONTROSE, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 1873.
settlement ?"
" That's just where lam going," I re
plied.
"Then if you take that ring with you,
violence will be done you. Them people
don't know the Lord."
Sure enough, like a confounded fool. as
the wisest of ns may be at times, I had
worn my emerald ring all the way.
"Young man," said the old fellow again,
"what are you driving at ? Never be a
hppocrite ; yon are deceiving the people ;
you are no laborite man. The Lord be
merciful to you." •
"Right again, old stick-in-the•mud,"
said I, "I am no laboring man ; I never
did work for a living, and I never will. I
don't mind telling you on the account o`f
your remarkable piety, that I am here on
a Tittle business for a friend. Perhaps you
can help me, in which case you can earn a
dollar or two. Perhaps you don't know
such a fellow as Merriman—Austin Mer
riman."
"A desperate fellow," said the of I man
with a shudder, "who knows not the
Lonl."
"Perhaps," I said, "he's a sport, a gny
and festive sort of a wood-chopper. May
be he traded a little once in a while in
jewelry."
-Ile hes been a trying to trade a watch
for a pair of steers," and us this,of course,
was what I wanted to know, I pulled out
my wallet and gave the old manktwo
HOW sharp he looked at the other
"The Lord does provide," he said turn
ing to his wife ; "why sir would you be
lieve, we haven't a morsel of pork in the
house !"
Little did I think how that old boy,
with his piety had pumped me. I am
ashamed to this day, jo think how he
came it over me.
"I hope the Lord will bless you," he
said, as I started next morning. "Ile sure
you stop here when you come back."
I told him I would—l rather liked his
mush and Milk for a change. I had
hardly got out of sight of die hovel,when
a deer smutted across the road ; I fired one
of my pistols ut il, and I neglected to
Iwnl it again. Very foolish, but I was a
little reckless.
I suppose I was about five miles front
time old man'eplace, when all at once I
came in sight of the very man I teals after ;
he was spitting rails by the roadside. I
knew he %vas the num t was after, because
dangling from the pocket of his plush
.vest was Tpm Vincent's watch ebain ,• but
what was my astonishment to lied, on
second look, that 1 knew him. Why, sir.
he was one of the worst horse thieves that
inverted lit? "big wooek" hill Strahl
' was the name I knew hint by. Ile knew
me at once.
“Ita'o," he saifl, "what 1 you do here ?-
As he suid this he picked up his rifle; he
and I were necer. friends.
"What do you think ?" said I, putting
me hand in my pocket.
No psol," he said, "yon infernal bent. -
asd with this he made a mutton to raise
his nil,.
In an instant I whipped nut my Der
ringer, and gave loin an excellent up
p , dtunity to look square down the tnuz
"Von arc covered," I said, "drop your
gun.
Ile dropped it and began to tremble. If
lie had knout' how I trembled inside, he
would not have been so seared. The
sense of deatly pain is not easy to get
its,tl to. I dismounted. tired Ilia gun into
the ground. broke the stock against a tree
pod threw it into tl.e brush, and tied my
horse to a stamp.
"Now, my friend," 1 said to Merriman,
"be kind enough to march,"
•Where ?" Radii Ir.
"Into the woods," I replied.
"You bean't going to kill me?" he said.
"No,"I responded."though.you deserve
it; I am going to tie you to a tree, gag
you, and leave you there."
"That will be ten times woes!" he said
piteously.
How pleasant it is to be cruel! It is
a temptation that kw men, one way and
another, can resist. As my victim and
myself penetrated the forest, I begged
him, sarcastically, to seh•ct the tree he
world like; and when I hid secured and
gaged him, I marched off a dozen yards
or so and aimed my Derringer at him ; it
was a jolly eight to see him writhe and
squirm and ma 4.! th ,:tz,h; for mercy ;
finally I fired the weapon over his head
and ho fainted. My pistols were now
both empty. I 'blazed the tree," so that
his friends would find him before night,
and made the best of my way back to
the road. What was my astonishment to
find my horse gone—stolen without a
doubt.
"Whew!" I soliloquized. "this is a mor
al neighborhood," and immediately
thought about loading up. • What was
my further astonishment to find that I
had lost my box of catridges! So mach
fur carlessuess. And there I was, sir in
the midst of a township of notorious
'thieves, without a weapon, without a
horse, and with over a hundred dollars in
money in my possession. The thing dik
look a little dubious.
"Thank my stars," I though to my
self, "there's oue highly conscientious
Christain in these"—referring to the old
man, of course ; and at his house, a lit
tle after sundown. I arrived, pretty well
tired out. The old fellow was on the look
ono for me.
"Ah " said he, as I entered, "I knew
the Lori would blet you. I have been
praying fur you all day.
'Thanks," I said, 'but never mipd,
about the blessing; all I want is some
mush and a blanket, and your horse iu
the morning to take me to Watertown.
"You shall have 'em," he said, "but
I read a chapter?
a llo. o
"The Lord has blessed von ?" said the
old devil inquiringly.
"Yes," I said, "lie has: I have done
whatl wanted and got rid of my horse
besides," and these were the last words I
said to the old man until about two
o'clock in the morning. About that
time, sir, I was dreaming of having gay
old times, I was awaken by a sharp pain
in my cheek, and a load "thud" on the
floor besides me. I clapped my hand to
my cheek and felt blood; between me
widow rogi go osi WAllll_ O.IUI.
Why, sir, a streak of lightening is noth
ing to a man's nerves at such a time?—
Before you could say "Jack Robinson ;
before there was time to form a single co-'
herant thought, I found myself doing the
best thing I conkt—clutching the old
man by the throat, and pressing the muz
zle of my empty pistol to his temple—he
shaking like an aspen leaf.
" Oh, don't shoot !" he screamed, "Jesus
was always merciful I"
"Was he ?" said I, giving his throat an
awful squeeze.
" Oh, don't kill him," wailed the old
woman; "the Lord will bless you if
you don't."
Get, up you Jezebel, and strike a light,
or I will send him and you, too, to the
l'rii.ce of Darkness," I growled.
The light was struck. What did I see?
Oh, nothing in particular—only the floor
torn up and a grave dug to put me in,
where the wolves would not disturb me.
I had noticed that the boards were loose
when I first mime in. As I saw this I
could not help knocking the old man
down with the barrel of my pistol, and
pitching him into the hole, I put his Bi
ble in my pocket as a memento; and in
three minutes was mounted on his horse
and on the road to Watertown.
N'A quite unmolested, though, for as I
turned the Corner of the fence a bullet
whizzed spitefully by me. I turned a
round. The old she-devil was standing
in the door way, with a smoking rifle in
her hands.
"You dareat come back," she scream
"You're right, old gal, I darsen't,"
thought I, plunging into the darkness.
A weary midnight ride was that to
Watertown. Not that the pain of my
wound was so much, fur the ax had but
scraped the skin. But the unutterable
melancholy of a night in the almost vir
gin forest, the indescribable sounds, the
coyote's yell, the sad wailings and the
rustling of the leaves, filled me with a
blueness that was awful blue—set me to
thinking of things almost forgotten, and
that were sad to think of thou—of days
that were different from these days—
well—
When Tom Vincent, like a man, paid
me the live hundred dollars, I went into
the picture agency business, and have not
touched a card since.
130:11 C3ll a Man a Liar
_o_
Never tell a m in that he is a liar unless
you are certain that you can lick him,
for, as a general rule, when you say that,
it means tight-
I have arrived at this conclusion through
sad evperience. I know that is not safe
to give the lie to a tun:eular Christian.
1 dal once. lam sorry fur it now, as I
never grieved for anything c'se in the
whole course of my life.
- We WerestandiU,l on the sidewalk in
taint of She club, when I made the state
ment. We had been talking politics, and
men who talk politics and get hot over it
are—to put it mildly—lunatics, or else
want otliee, or have some friend who
wants •ui onii:e. This man made an as
sertion, touching the fair fame of my fa
vorite e indidate, which I believed to be
untrue. It is probable that if it had been
trite as it was false, I should have taken
the mine tours , ., because, you understand
a man has no sense who talks politics,
anyhow I think 1 sad that before, but it
is all the same. I want to make it strong,
and get you to understand how I got my
oroamental eve.
- .
I mildly suggested that a man who
would make such a statement as that was
lot to all sense of shame, and would be
guilty of any base crime.
lie disagreed with me upon that point.
As for himself, be never made a state
ment except upon the most simple proof.
My candidate was the meanest villian yet
mlting.
I told him he lied!
I have been kicked by a mule! have
fallen out of a second story window on a
hard pavement; eaten green persimmons;
heard Miss Blow read poetry for two
hours and a half; skated; hunted; rode
a sharp-backed horse of mustang paren
tage, an adapt in the art of "bucking;'
sulfe•red grief of various kinds, and still
clung to life—but all these are feathers in
the balance as compared with the result
of that little word, liar I
fintrice.iutely after saying it I sat down
—not in the way people usually sit down.
I sat on the rim of my right ear, about I
ten feet from the spot where I had been
standing when I made use of the expres
sion quoted above. lam not used to sit
ting in that position and do nut think it
agrees with me.
I have heard of people who "got upon
their ear" and walked Mt Wish I knew
how to do it, and would have propelled
myself away from the spot immediately if
I had possessed this happy faculty. I pro
c•-eded to bring myself to a perpendicu
lar, fully intending to use the means of
locomotion which nature has given me;
but when I came right side up, some
thing heavy ran against my nose, and as
I fslt very tired I sat down upon my oth
er ear. I like a change; it is too mono
tonous doing the same thing over and
over again.
Somebody took my large friend away,
and I was quite pleased when he wasgone.
I have concluded to look twice at a man
before I give him the lie again. My eye
is in mourning, my nose swelled to the
size of a citron with the color of a blush
rose, and my store clothes look as if they
had been run through a patent sausage
machine. I Would not have that man's
temper for anything in tho world.
Penis is nearly as bad off as London as
far as the price of coal is, e.oncerried.—
Parisians are paying at ttnintatO of forty
four shillings a ton, and the'-'progress of
the strike of the colliers in Wales is watch
ed with great interest.
Tire Deena is a new India shawl. It
is made of a single piece of caihmere, in
stead of many small pieces joined togeth
er, and Is not so expensive as the real
camel's hair.
A yourrn of seventeen W 413 married to
a woman of 50, at Bagdad, Kentucky, re.
Gently, •
Lost and Found.
—_o—
In searching outside of books for
strange romances no more interesting is
ever found than the following vicissitudes
of real life extending over various widely
separated parts of the globe. Twenty
years ago an English merchant at Rio
Janeiro, Brazil,who though going to that
place a poor boy, had acquired a fortune,
went home on a visit. While there he
met a beautiful orphan girl whom he
wooed, won and married, and the two re
turned to Brazil,where two children were
horn to them, and for years they lived in
the relations of trust and affection, which
should always exist iu the best assorted
' marriages. They occasiNially made visits
to England, and on one of their tripe,
the merchant heard rumors prejudicial to
his wife's fidelity, which by degrees fann
ed the flame of jealously within him, and
he directly and openly accused her of
what report had whispered to him. Al
though the lady denied the fault and
challenged him to his proof, which he
was unable to produce, coldness and dis
trust so grew upon them out of the rup
ture, that by mutual consent they separa
ted, he fixing an annuity upon her.
Weary on his part of old associations he
made his way to North America; did con
siderable trading in the West, and had
his herdquarters at St. Paul, Mimi,
where though grave and taciturn in the
extreme and avoiding close intimacies lie
made many friends by his consideration
for other people and strict honor in all
his business transactions. By the laws
of Brazil his wife was allowed to marry
again, and this she did after a few years,
although by such step she forfeited her
annuity. Her husband, and educated,but
poor gentleman in feeble health, soon
died, and she with the two children by
her first husband, was left in destitue cir
cumstances. Knowing nothing of her
husband's whereabouts, she following
some mysterious impulse, came to the
United States, and in the fall of 1869
found herself in St. Paul. There the
long separated met once more, and in
spite of the crosses that had been borne,
and the suspicions that had been excited,
the old love was renewed;aud a new wed
ding was the result. Since then they
have lived more happily than ever at the
\Vest until the other day, when they left
New York fur England to end their days
in their old home.
A Penitentiary Romance
—o—
The following story, furnished by a
correspondent of the Chicago (Illinois)
Journal is hard to believe. If true, it is
a disgrace to the state of lowa that such
gross injustice should have been done to
die old couple, who manifestly erred only
through ignorance:
There are now in the State penitenti
ary at Fort Madison an aged couple who
are serving out a term for the crime of
merest, they being brother and sister.
The story is this, which is true: At the
urn, of twelve years the male lelt his father's
house to seek his fortune and no more
return. He,
in time, came west, grew to
manhood and married, raised a family of
children, and finally his wife died. His
sister grew to womanhood, was married,
and with her husband came west, and to
lowa. Her hunsband died, and in time
she received an offer of marriage from
man who was a widower. She accepted
the offer and they were married.
Her husband was wealthy, and after a
time one of his sons wished to have the
father give him some property, but the
father refused to accede to his demands.
I The son, one day, while looking over the
family record of the stepmother, which
had been laid aside and forgotten, dis
covered that there was a kiuthip between
the families, and a further investigation
roved that his father and stepmother
were own brother and sister. To avenge
himself for his father's refusal to give
I him the bulk of his property, lie brought
snit against them both for incest. They
I were tried and convicted, and sent to the
penitentiary fur one year. They are both
I over sixty years of age, and as innocent
I of intent to commit crime as the new
born babe.
As exceedinglji eccentric man has just
died at Hinesburg, Vermont, in the per
son of Augustus McEwen, aged eighty
four. He hail his grave dug twenty years
ago, and stoned up and filled with earth
that it might be in perfect condition
whenever needed. Last fall he had the
earth dug out of it, saying he expected to
be laid out there before the winter was
over. His coffin was in readiness seven
years ago, and so arranged that he could
he on his side with his knees up, as he
said ho slept in that condition in life and
wanted to sleep so in death. All his plans
for the funeral were made in advance, and
among the rest he selected lour colored
boys who had worked.for him more or less,
as had their fathers before them. as pall
bearers. They were to carry the body to the
grave, which was on his own farm, lower
it to its last resting-place, till the grave
with earth, and then walk hack to the
house, where they' were to find a letter
sealed and. directed to them iu which was
the money to pay for the last service
which he had required of them. His
friends took good care to carry out his pe
culiar wishes.
A DANGEROUS maniac, says the Paris
Soir, ente:ed the house of a Madame
Bonnean, who-lives in the Rue Descartes,
a few days ago, and announced himself
ns a great doctor, able to cure headache's.
He produced a razor and told the terri
fied lady that he intended to cut her head
off, and then replace it on her shoulders
With great presence of mind she express
ed herself willing to sibmit to the opera
tion, but asked him to wait till she went
in search of a towel, to prevent the blood
from staining her dress. The madman
allowed her to leave the room. She quick
ly locked him in and summoned assis
tance.
THE only man in Troy who didn't get
a gold-headed cane as a ehristmas present
explains it on the ground that ho refused
to contribute nine-tenths of the am
ount.
Curawa bellee—the rectoeslauillters.
VOLUME XXX, NUMBER 12.
•'To See Our.elves as Others See Us."
Bill Baker owned a fighting dog, A
d brindle coarse-haired brute,
Whose chief delight was 1,0 cngao
n canine dispute.
A n tll.eonditiuned, vicious, crass,
Stub tailed, bare-liped, crop-canal
And red-eywl, canine nuisance,
By the neighboring ermines feared.
Bill's dog came down the street on a
Diagonal dog trot,
A looking for some other dog,
For whom to make it hot; .
When, on a scrubby-looking brute,
Ills vision chanced to fall,
/haring fmm out a looking.gloss
That leaned against a wall.
Bill's dog surveyed that strange canine
With sinister regard,
And doubted if h&c ever seen
A dog look quite so hard.
The more he gazed, the Tess respect
He felt within him stir,
For that demoralized, rows-grained
And hang-dog looking cur.
TLat stranger dog returned Bill's dog's
Insulting stare, in kind,
Which tended to still more disturb
Bill's canine's peace of mind ;
With every bristling hair along
Ills back he fiercely frowned,
And curled his tail until it raised
His hind feet from the ground.
And showed his teeth and cocked Lis ears
And otherwise behaved
Impertinently, as dogs do
Whose iicstinets are depraved;
But all his hostile signs were met
By signs as hostile, quite,
Anti Bill's dog felt himself compelled
To slink away or fight.
He flew into that looking glass
With all his might and main—
Filled with chagrin, and broken glass,
Hu soon flew out again.
Reflection showed Bill's dog that ha
Had gut into a scrimmage,
Through indignation at the sight '
Of his owrodious image.
The knowledge of his aspect quite,
Destroyed his self-esteem;
For the hideous reality
Surpassed his wildest dream.
Life lost, at once all charm for him,
So mournfully he steacd,
Into a neighboring sausage-shop,
And never re-appeared.
The &oral of this doggerel
Is obvious, I trust;
(For there Is a moral lesson in
Bill Baker's dog's disgust.)
If some men knew how they appear
To others, they would hide -
Themselves within a sausage-shop—
That is, they'd suicide.
Bewitched.
——o—
For some time past we have been in
possession of the fact of the occurrence
of strange incornprehensiole doings—
called, commonly,spiritnal manifestations
—at the house of one of the most respec
table families of the conntv.
The family of which we speak consists
of some tire or six members, all well re-
spected. The mystery, witnessed by many
of the neighbors, consists of an indescrib
able• and unaccountable noise, as of some
one knocking, slapping, scratching and
scraping upon the sides, ceiling, floor,
windows, etc., of the room. The ghost,.
goblin, spirit, or ghoul—call it what you
will—seems to have connected itself with
a young lady member of the family, aged
about eighteen years, an'd who strange to
sav, knows nothing of its presence, or of
its coining and going. At night, when
she seeks repose, and just as her eyelids
are closing in slumber,three distinct raps,
as a person striking soniethingsoldid with
their lingers, may be heard, she seems to
be thrown into a trance, Or sleep, from
which nothing can aronse her, as repeated
attempts have been made to do so, but
proved unsuccessful. During the trance,
or fit, her limbs contract, her body,
writhes, and groans escape her lips, as
though she were undergoing some great
bodily pain, and during the trance the
rapping continues by loud knoking upon
some part of the house, and on the fur
niture, lifting the bed clothes, rattling
the bail of the water-bncset, and even
upon the water, making a noise similar
to a cat lapping water, answering ques
tions, etc., the eame as any other well - reg- !
'dated spirit would ; and, stranger still,
this mysterious power follows the person
of the young lady, even when she passes
a night away fruin home—wherever she
sleeps at night there is heard the knock
ing, which, however, is never heard only
when she is in an unconscious state. The
young lady, when awake says she has felt
no pain, saw nothing in her dream—in
fact, had no dream—and complains only
of a feeling of weariness and lassitude.
In all other respects she seems in perfect
health. These manifestations are as mys
terious to her as to any one else, and a
great source of mortification. A number
of neighbors have spent frequent nights
at the house endeavoring to ascertain the
cause of the mystery, but as yet no satis
factory conclusion has been arired •at.—•
Benton county (Mo.) Democrat. •
A sixotaan and exciteini incident
occurred recently on the Cayuga Lake
RailrOad. Engineer Ricks Hiker, was
hauling a load of iron from Ithaca to
Ludlowville. When near Mc Kinney's,
where perpendicular rocks begin to rise
from the water, a fine fox leaped on the
track some distance ahead of thelocoMo-
tive and stetted ahead northward. A few
leaps took him beyond the point where
it was impossible for him to leave the
track and escape, except by climbing the
high wall of rocks or tumble Into the lake.
The engineer 830 i ng the situation pulled
out the throttle anti gave chase. The
locomotive took advantage of the smooth
rails, and soon made considerable advance
on the poor fox. Finally becoming dis
gusted with the rough way between the
rails, the fugitive sprang on ono of the
rails and made off at a wonderful speed,
never tottering or missing a step for over
ten rods. At than movement the engineer,
who had become wrought up at a high
state of excitement, opined his throttle
wider, determined tO.overhaul tharfox or
tear every tire off froni his drivers. -Soon
the fleet animal left the rail again.
and went stmnbleng over the ties for some
distance, when hejumped clear off the
road on the lake side. At 'this, the en
gineer let,go inceession of otttrageons
screams from the *whistle, which fright
ened* the panting fox out of his wits, for.
hemped back on the track just in time
to ha struck by the cowcatcher and crash-
ed beneath the nsercilejui wlieels.—Syra
, •
cusel Staidars,••
13rtenets. '
—o—
la., makes soap of frozen
hogs.
Hs who talks. sows; be who listens,
reaps.
THE Qneen of Denmark wears calico
in public.
FLIEi have a use. It is found that they
spread small-pox. . .
IN Germany, when the jury is a tie the
prsioner is acquitted.
TROY, N. Y., has 40 paper collar'fac
tories, employing 5,000 girls.
BENI:Err, Jr., has an idea of starting e
live daily in London.
lu 75 years 70 theatres have been burn
ed in this country. Curious ?
MILWAUKEE has a small pox patient
with a pit on the sight of his eye.
THE wolves are "resurrecting" the
bodies in Kansas graveyards.
SIIALL-PDX is an essentiall pustulate in
half the premises of Boston.
Curucti fairs in 111, are now, supresed
by mush and milk festivals.
LOUISVILLE justice exacts $2O if you
bite man's ear off.
THE milk in an English child's stom
ach turned to speese, fatally.
lx 1860 the Reading road owned $20,-
000,000. In 1872 it owned $110,000,000.
THE next Episcopal bishop in. this
country will be the 100th. y
FIFTEEN lIDDISIDId buffaloes are yearly
slaughtered in Kansas.
A DEER tried to swim a Wisconsin
er and froze in the'ice.
Tun muskrat crop is said to be winter
killed in the far northwest.
Tun Vermont baby was so heavy thit
out came the bottom of the scales.
Tue fashionable overcoat of Gotham
extends from the ear to the heels. ,
Faeeroffr, 111., turns sixty-five tons of
beets into sugar daily.
A COLORED woman in Georgia has been
blessed with 33 children.
Morro for the coal men : "Free trade
and seller's rights!"
Tus Bey of Tunis punishes dishonest
tax collectors by impaling them. •
Ix costs $2OO to whistles for, your dog
in the Mobile Court room.
THE glass eye factory in Paris turns
out four hundred eyes a week. •
A mare squirrel and a white opposimm
are among the wonders of Texas.
THE Courts in Ohio granted 1026 di
vorces last year.
A Pm-ammo magistrate kicked a law ?
yer out of the conrt-room.
A New YORK undertaker advertises
"Get your holiday coffins of J. Grimstone."
FRANcIo. has lost Mc, millions of ,her
population during the last six years.
Iv is stated that 80 divorces were
plied for in Allegheny county, Pa., last
year.
OVER 23,000 white children in Sonth
Carolina do not att;nid any school.
TH E Qnarker village of New - Sharon,
lowa, charges $l,OOO fora license to sell
liq nor.
A DEPOSIT of eps nu salts has been dis
covered at Mineral Lake, iu Gnat coun
ty; Minn. •-•
THE Emperor of China is, about to
make a a bridal tour over his domin
ions. •
lowa has ninety woolen Mills, hun
dreds of flour Illiiid, and gin mills with.
out witubvt.
. .
IN Buffalo, recently, avrvant girl held
a burglar by the leg until ttio police
came.
THE nainrall in England last year was'
an over-supply, estimated at 22,000,000,
000 ton&
TUE Cushier of the New Haven Bank
has hid his, position for forty-seven,
years.
EMI] r thonsatul emigrants left'Bremen
and 56,000 left Hamburg last year for the
United States.
A tocxt, journal complains that in
Brownsville, Texas, the- street lamps are
stolen with aggrivatedl regularity. •-•
BILK-nest jokers in London find
amusement in sending wooden turkeys
in hampers to clergymen.
AN inmate of the Pennsylvania peni
tentiary has occupied a solit&ry call for
thirty-four years without seeing the sun.
l'uc patients in the Alabama Insane
Asylum issue a weekly piper.
Ithilmasx rats by the hundreds are
said to cross Lake Superior-on the ice. • •
A pgruorr youth has 'no forehead • at
all, and the hair grows close around his
eyes.
If s chespektrilress warmly than to buy
throat gogles.
THE Boston Transeiipi tells of mos
quitoes still flying about them ,in well
warmed houses.
EunorEAN diamond merchants now
look upon the United States as the best
market in the, world for their gems.
A Rtcuuoma Woman hos . had tine
teeth draw by a stomach pomp; .She
swallowed them in moment. of pomp.
A t lIICAGO man I:as invented - a trunk
which can be converted into -a life-boat
or a coffin
'rug Scino inundation destrojed 12,-
000 rats, and there is now •a corner fa the
market.
ATILENS, prosperously begini the
new year with itsurplus of one cent in;
treasury.
A Istrrcnca's shop for the the man of
hone-flesh has twen opened , at Gentle,
Switzerlaud. - . .
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At; Albany N. Y. man is in jail on the
charge of stealing a canal' boat. When ar
rested, it was net found on his, person.
A Tex/vs boy, 10, years old, is six feet
high, and weighs 300 ponds. There are
g i ants in these dap; - - -
THE Danbury Yews safe that ehumami
mother in . that place chloroformst her boy
befoio shipping hits. - -1. -..