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foci's Corner.
WHO WILL CASE t
Wh- will we?
When we He beneath the daisies
Underneath the church-yard mold ;
And the long grass o'er onr faces
Lays its fingers damp and cold ;
When w sleep from earn and sorrow,
And the ills of earthly life.
Sleep to Know no sad to morrow,
With it bitterness and strife
Who will care ?
Who will cars
Who will come to weep aboTe us,
Lying, O, so white and still.
Underneath the skies of summer.
When all nature's pulses thrill
To a new life, glad and tender.
Full of beauty, rich and sweet.
And all the world is clad in splendor.
That the world shall e'er repeat
Who will care T
Who will care ?
When Queen Autumd's flowers blossom,
And she steops ia pity down.
With a white flower for her bosom,
Taken from her royal crown !
Who will come to kneel in pity
By our long and narrow bed.
When the wild winds sing their ditty
In the grasses o'er onr heap
Who will care ?
Who will cats !
When the Spring time's glad smile lingers
On the meadows far and wide.
And she.drops with rosy fingers.
Bloom and leaf on every side.
Who will come with tender yearning.
To the graves of those they miss?
Who will sigh for our returning
To their presence and their iiss
Who will cars ?
Who will care?
Who wili think of white hands lying
On a still and silent breast.
Nevermore to dream of sighing.
Evermore to know of lest ?
Who will care? No one can tell us,
But if rest and peace befall,
Will it niattir if they miss ns.
Or they miss us not at all?
Who will care ?
Ulisctllantous JUabing.
SISttlLAB OBXAMEXT.
; A brooch worn by th Countess of
K has recently been the subject of
conversation in an eminent company ot
polished nobility who arc now exiles in
Paris. Encircled by twenty brillants
npon a dark blue ground lapislazult ; and
protected by a glass in front, may be
seen what 1 A portrait ! A lock of
hair ? No, neither the one nor the other,
but only four bent pint, which are
wrought together in ' form of a stare.
The history of this singular ornament is
contained in the following communica
tion :
The Count was some years ago,
in his own country, suspected of being
too much inclined to politics, and was
consequently one night, without examina
tion or further inquiry torn from the bo
,. som of his family by police officers, con
. veyed to a fortress in a distant part of
the country, and thrown into a damp,
I dark dungeon. Days, weeks, and months
passed away without his being brought
to trial. The unhappy man saw himself
. robbed of ever succor. In the stillness
of death and darkness of the grave, he
felt not only . strength failing him, but
I also his mind wandering. And onepeaka-
ble anguish took hold upon him. He
- who feared not to appear before his judg
f es, now trembled before himself. Con-
scions of his danger, he endeavored to
find something to relieve himself from
' the double misery idleness and loneliness
and thus preserve him from a terrible in
: sanity.
?...: Four pins, which accidently happen
ed to be in his coat, and fortuately es
l caped the notice of hit jailor. : Those
' were to be the means of deliverance to
: his spirit. He threw the pins upon the
earth, which alone was the floor of his
gloomy dungeon, and then employed
' himself in seeking for them in the dark
' ness. When after a tiresome search, he
; succeeded ia finding them be threw tbett.
'down anew ; and so, agalft afla' again ;diti
he renew bis voluntary task. All the
daylong, sitting tymg, or kneeling, be
' groped about with, inand until be fount.
pins wbtcb k bad intentioDan'
ia
scattered. This fearful, yet beneficial
recreation continued for six years. Then
, 1. . 1
at last, a great political event openeu
suddenly the doors of his prison. The
! Count had just scattered his pins, but he
I would not leave his cell without taking
with him his little instruments of his own
j preservation from despair and madness.
; He' soon found them, for now the clear
; bright light of day beamed in through
the doorway of his dungeon. As the
( Count related . this sad story to the
j Countess ; she seized the pins with holy
j eagerness. These crooked yellow brass
; pins, which during six fearful years, had
j been scattered and gathered alternately,
j were become to her as precious relics ;
and uow set in a frame of brilliants,
'400, as a treasure of much greater
vnliw. .lw. wiMira tlism fin f-.Ar KnaAfn
THE BEAVEB.
A stroll along the banks of the small
rivers revealed many fresh beaver tracks.
1 be beaver, when forced to leave bis
house by the Spring freshets,' which fill
it with water, seeks his living along the
banks of the small river, until the waters
subside. He is a gregarious and playful
auimal, fond of gymnastics for their own
sake. When he finds a steep, smooth
mud-bank, he usually amuses himself by
crawling up and then sliding off into the
water, repeating the process cany times,
apparently enjoying the fun as much as
boye do coasting. He is nocturnal in his
habits, and very timid. Taking the small
catioe, Kurilla paddled patiently up and
down, making as little noise as possible,
and scanning the water near the banks
for the bearer's nose This is the only
part visible, the rest being bnltw the sur
face. A crack, followed by a shout, told
me that my Scotch rifle had done its work,
and Knrilla soon appeared in triumph,
I bearing a small beaver. The flesh of
this animal is to most persons disagree
able. A slight odor and flavor which ac
company it frequently produces nausea
with those unaccustomed to it, I never
j ate the meat, but the the paws and tail I
j found very good. The former are cov-
ered with black skin, with only a hair
near the junction with the arm or leg ;
when thoroughly boiled they resemble
pig's feet. The tail is composed of mus
cular fibre containing a large amount of
peculiarly sweet fat in interstices. The
skin which covers the tail has the appear
ance of scales, but there are no real scales.
The skin readily peels off if scorched in
the fire, and the tail when boiled is a de
licious morsel. 1 be muscles and inner
skin are reduced by boiling, to a kind of j
'
jelly, and the whole is so rich that one
cannot eat much of it. Tbe castoreum
which is U9ed in medicine, is contained
in two glands that open near the tail.
Their use is not clearly understood, but
is probably similar to that of musk glands
iu tbe musk-rat aud the musk-deer. A
favorite amusement among the Kntchin
Indians consist in taking the humerus in
the hands aud endeavoring to break it ;
as it is very short and strong, this re
quires considerable strength. After skin
ning the beaver, and stretching the skin
on a hoop of green willow, we pushed off.
BaWtAlathu
A Fourteen Feet Fall from the Scaffold
The Criminal's Head Jerked Off.
From the London News.
Dublin, Thursday Night. Andrew
Carr, convicted of murdering bis para
mour, was executed this morning within
Richmond Bridewell. The drop allowed
was fourteen feet from the trap, and when
the bolt was withdrawn the jerk was so
great that the bead was instantly served
from the body, and the rope recoiled with
force to the trap. At the inquest which
followed the Governor of the prison de
posed that the Surgeon of the prison was
responsible for the length of the rope
used. It was used against the Governor's
own opinion.
A witness, after the drop fell, observ
ed the recoil of the rope, and believing
some accident bad oceured went and look
ed into tbe trap and saw the body lying
in the yard beneath decapitated. The
head was lying several feet from it, and
the blood was pouring iu torrents from
the bead and trunk. The surgeon. Dr.
Minchen, deposed that he feared that the
rope was fastend too tight around tbe
neck, and this gave greater force to the
fall. ' He would not attribute the accident
to the thinness of the rope, although the
head was as i leanly severed as if by a knife,
but be rather attributed it to the tightness
of the fastenings. . There was no disease
of the neck. The machinery was in per
fect working order.
The chaplin deposed that the prisoner
complained of the tightness' of the rope,
saying, "Will you strangle or choke me
before my time ?" The jury returned' a
verdict that tbe mishap was tbe result of
accident. .
George Brown, of Hollidaysburg, had
the little, finger torn from his right hant
and the back of the band much injured,
by being caught in the cog wheel of an
ice cream freezer..
A batchelor, a man who neglects
bis opportunity, to make some woman
mi
eerable. . .J
I " EXTINCTION OF RACES.
BY H. DANMNli.
"Su flourishes and fades majestic man.
That races rise np, reach the height
of power, and gradually decay, all his
tory bears testimony. The mightiest
races of autiquity arose to the highest
attainment in civilization, and to the vast
acquisitions of territory ; but their annals
record no exception to this decree of lim
itation. In the animal kingdom we see
this law in full exercise. In the geologic
periods the simplest forms of the animal
and vegetable world were gradually re
placed by other and higher organizations
until the lofty types which exist iu the
present age were formed, lu mauy parts
of the world are found evidences of civ
ilization which has run its course to ex
tinction, and in whose remains the prac-
ticed eye of the antiquary fails to detect
the date of its origin or decay. Prehis-
toric research gives evidence of an ex-
tinct civilization in countries occupied
now by nations iu the savage and senai-
barbarous states. Thus, on the American,
continent, the Mississippi valley bears
evidence of a civilicatiou long since dead,,
and in the british Isles we see Druidical
remains, monuments reared by that semi
barbarbous nation, the Celts ; and in
many parts of Europe exist the works o
their neighbors, the Teutons. That the
nations of antiquity had attained a highii
degree of civilization thousands of yea
before the Christian era, their monuments j
yet standing attest. The massive archi-'
tecture of Egyptian temples was followed j
by the graceful structures of the refined j
and philosophic Greeks ; and each pos -
sessed an artistic merit that attracts the
art stndents ot the present day. Ube
influence of the works oi the ancients
enters largely into the formation of mod
ern creations of art and literature, while
science continues more independly pro
gressive, owing to its dependence upon
the constant obervation oS man in its
slow accretions of truth. Thus the man
of literature or art of our day, not only
endeavors to excel men of his own age
in the production of his works, bat takes
for his model some genius of antiquity
whose thoughts and words have come
down through all the ages.
The Celtic race compose a modern peo
ple which the present age brings under
observation. Classic writers of two thous
sand years ago inform us that they were
masters of all Europe at that time. They
were a warlike, nomadic race, and were
peculiarly bold and daring:, for Aristotle
describe, them "as dreading neither
a.)liniintras warn lnnniliit -!- a. u i. pncli -nlr '
earthquakes nor inundations; arnsb:ng.
1 armed into the waves ; as plunging their
! newborn infants into cold water or cloth
ing in scanty garments. isUt tuey were
necessarily compelled to bend to the tide
of civilization ; the Roman powor, though
long finding them formidable adversaries,
became at length their conquerors, and
with their snbjugation their individuality
as a nation was forever lost. The Celtic -j
race never having possessed the enter
prise of the Anglo-Saxon, must bo suc
ceeded by tbe latter, whose progress in
the arts of civilization has gained for it
the ascendency over every other race upi
on the globe. The Hibernian having
lost his nationality, like othes-peoples be
fore, is destined to become- mixed with
his successors and eventually extiuct.
The Indo-American race is perhaps.
most familiar to us, as inhabiting ocr.
own continent. Brave, vigilant and daa-
ing. fond of war and hunting, averse tb,
agricultural pursuits and all the W&e
restrictions of civilized life, they are,
thought cruel and revengeful towards
their enemies, capable of noble and gen
erous feelings. The Indian rasa- aepre
sents the Stoic school of modesn times,
being capable of wonderful eadfesoce
and suffering.
Says a writer : "The Mexitans and
Peruvians at the time of the Spanish
conquest bad attained a high state of
civilization ; and the arts and agriculture
flourished, and astronomy was so suc
cessfully studied that their mode- ef de
termining the length of the year was
then more accurate than that of the
European nations. But they are fast
disappearing before the superior race,
and of the thirty millions population
wben Columbus first set foot upon the
New World, only one million now ex
ists. At this rate of decrease' there win
not a centary hence be a single Indian''
upon the cootinent."
And so the Creator deals" with man'
whom he has made "a little lower than
the angels and crowned with' glory and
honor," and demonstrates the fact that
nations, no less than individuals, are
subject to tbe vicissitudes of life and
deatli: Euucatieiwl Gazette.
COURTSHIP.
Two or three dears aad two or Ihree sweets
Two or three balls and two or urea treats ;'
Two or' three serenades given as lure ;
Two Or' three oaths' how much they endure ;
Two oe" three msssa'ges aaat in one day ;
Two or three soft speeches made by the way ;
Two er three tioltet's for two or three times" ;
Twd'or three loel'eUers WrittW in rhjmts ;
Two or three months' lUejSVnj striot to lb
- rules ;
: Can oeTer fail ihi making a eouple of foc'.i
ECGEXIFS ROMANCE.
WHAT SBC HISSED A WOS. .
A correspondent of the Iiyiichburrj;
Virgmia closes a recent letter"
in reli-r-
ence to the Imperial family of Franca
with the following very roreAntic titoivr
of the Empress, hitbcito unpsblleked, bitfe
for the exact trolk of which LA can voucht
and the curiosity of which is' snub itiut
ho relates it even at the risk of some iiu"
putation of egotism x ;,
In 1S51 the ancle of the- writer resided
as American - 3linitee at 1'arisv.wUli a
large family axand hinu Aii litis tSa'e
appeared in society there Hbgpnie Marie
de Gasman, Countess-nf Montijb ;'a'love
ly person and an ariwtocratic name secur
ing her brilliant conojiests in that society,
and constituting ker ode of the most
famous ladies- in P&ris! It' was tl.uijrut.
! indeed freely remarked tbnt her mother
was more ambitious than herself; that
the fbcmsr designed fir.' her soum greal
' alliance, while Kugenie herself Hjn-.ire.l
a model of simple sincerity it girt who,
woiald choose to consul her heart iii r.y.
matiirooniitl nfiair.. 1 jt sistiir hail j !:..
married 'Jie luke-uf Allot ami Berwick,
a liueaJ desanndant of JWes II of Klig
lanJ ; cii Ji titai wortliy uciber, iVmua'
Maria, no-doubf dvsiguetL'at leastan equal
matrimonial destiny fna' Jie morsi be'nuti
ful cS her daittliters. 'Jul the hVart is
not a!w23-to )L. controlled, even in tliu Q
most aristocratic life, or to yiu'fi'. to its'
exactionsof convenience. Ku;iiie lust
hers to a fine-looking blonde Virgiuiau, ,
young Villain C' liive, sti:' of the
American, mtiiister. 'I'hey. wjer-i engaged ,
! to be married ;' but AiiioJVid; liSres, n
Virginia matron, very dHcidrtl ctid angu-
lur in her solruplcs, ia'.i-rferred'atiu broke
off the matoh ; the Conntcss was too'
"fast"'' for her old Virginia vie-s of social'
sobriety. 'Jlie woman lor vtirim futurii
had reserved hi much escaped tlio com
paratlnaly buuMu t-iatcli ili.it, "itr Leaii
had decided upit t'ie destiny of a nniel
Virginia bouscwlli: to ascend tile throiw
of France. Alas, wiiat other contrasts
may yet remain for her ' If an event
had been ordrtid differently;' if a pro
spective motheV-:i:!W hail proved corn
placenV '! Empress, the woman' who
has adorned the throne of France, and
has pirad. ' 'Jl world' she channsf of
another Cleopatra, might at this moment
bo a' ijaiet country mirtroa living in a
farm-house 111-11 Ciibuam depot, coiititj
of Albemarie and !ato of Virginia !-
AS ISVI2.1TI05 f TO DINNER.'
A good ,iory lV jbld of a couple of
t ' il .1 .
farmers who' lived a- few mile' aVart
One day out called iih tho other, hap
pening'aroiibd at dinr.er time. Thb pur
son called upon, by tile way, v.t&V a' rath
er penuriou3 old fellow, lie w! seated
at the tab!, enjoyinj Iwe dinner. Tho
v'witor drevj to the stove. looking very
ishfully thWards J;b t:ible, expifting
oW fa-rmiir jllV;te Kim to di:V. ho.
M flirmj.j ien. ctinc.
t - (j
"WhatS the ne-3- up
neighbor !" Still eittirg1.
ehl"
yonr way,.
No i&w
"No, I be'ieve noi.'' ,; . Presently a
tbougbt siriick the viVitor. "Well yes.
friends, l! did bear one it4ni of news' that's'
worth mentioning." . ... . .
"Ha ! what is that."
"Neighbor Jones has a cw that has
five calves." . ,
"Is iilni Eb ? flood gracious ! what in
thunder does tbe fifth' calf do when iiu
others are sucking V'
"Why be star.!' am? looks on. jji art
I do. Eke a dura too!"' : '
"Mary, put ou Miotic plate."
m 4
Ar'XC'ife the a:tany curious phenhnvm
whtdh presented, their.tlvr id' me in
the course of my travels, say ilnmbult
I confess there were - few by which
imagination was so powerfully aileetetJ
as &y the cow Jree. On the'parebe'l
sids' of a rob?, on the monrYSiAi of Ven
ezuela, grows a tree with dry and leath
ry foliage, its large, woody roors scarce
ly penetrating1 into the' ground For sev
eslal months fto the yc& its leaves are not
ribistened Vy a shewt-r ; its branche
ioblff aa 3" tiey were dead and wi2i4'rei?j
Bit when the trunk is bored, a bland aud
nihrisbing milk ftvai fioiif it- It ia at
sunrise thai the v'e jetalle rt.untain flo
ij'ost freely. At ifeit tirr the blacVe
and uativis are n comftig from- all
parts provided wib largi' bowls to' re-
eive tbe milk, wiich grows ; yellow and
I thickens ai its surface. Some empty
j ikeir vessels ot the spo, while other
j carry them to their children. One iuv
agicafl lie sees tfte family 61 a sbepheii
who is distribcting the mi!k to bis fLak.
A FKW days since a fnttune-teVwr wss
Standing in iront of St. Joseph's market,
Kue Montmartre.aod driving a geetl busi
ness with tbe cooks. ' W ktie bo was deal
ing with the cards which' we reveal
1 destiny, a man asked bTra for & grand
; 'Jen. The fortune-feller promised bim.
for twelve sons, honor fortune. loBg lite,
good Fealtb, a faithful loving, good hu
mored Wife.-. He asked the fortune-teller
: "Can't you tell your own fortune I"
"Ob r . I never read my own fortune,
T vjatbmer said : "Then I'll tell it.
han va;-V ates yoi :
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