jTcT EnoTiroR ' A LOCAL AND FAMILY JOURNAL. , , Terms f 2.00 a Tear, is Adtakcx "V0E-il. RIDGWAY, PA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 1871. T ! NO. 11. I1) j1 V THK FVTI'HK I.IFK. BY WILLIAM t t l.l.P.N mtTANT. filnw ahull 1 know thee, in the Hjilii'iv which Keeps The dicm1mdied siiirlts of the dead. When nil of thee that limn could willuT sloops Auil jieilahes niiioni? Hip iIiiki wp Head ? For 1 Miull feel the Miug of ceaseless pain, If tberg I meet thy jrcntle presence not ; .Mor hear tliu voice 01 love, nor read ngam In thy pcrcnest eyes the tendt thought. Will not thy own meek heart demand me - .at r - . .. That heart whose fondest throbs to me were piven. My name on earth was ever In thy prayer, And wilt thou never titter It in Heaven 1 I In UK-allows fanned by Heaven'? lifc-brcnthing inn, In tl resruVmlcncp of that trlorions (inhere And ltger movements of the unfettered ntnd, Wilt Ihou forget ihc love thai joined lis 11 That lo l that lived through all the stormy And mctkly with my harsher nature bore, And deep grew, and tenderer to the last, Shall it eVpirc with life and be no more ? V A tiuppler lit than mine, and larirer lle-hl. Await the there; for thou bast bowed I by I lu cheerful homage to the rule of rljrht, And loveet all, and renderest goud for ill win - Yet though Ihou wear'st the glory of the sky, Wilt thou not keep the same beloved name, The same fair thonijhtfnl brow, unci gentle eve. Lovelier. In Heaven's sweet climate, yet the ;uue Saalt thon not teach me, in that calmer borne, Tha .-t.,.1 . .1. v . ' . ....... ' iuo mauuui iuut x icarnca so ill in tnis 7he wisdom which is love till 1 become " i .:v lit companion In that land of bliss! THE d'AME FOR LIFE. An Adventure In the Far trl, It was a terrible Btorniy night : dark as pitch, and blowing a hurricane. My overcoat was wet through, and my jack boots completely filled with water. The lightning kept up one constant succes- mon oi vivia nasties, ana the deep thun der rolled in every direction. Under the most favorable circumstances such a night would not be considered pleasant ; but when you are alone in a country yon don't know, have lost your way, and can't see afoot beyond your horse's nose, I don't think any ono can imagine any- vumg mure unpleasant,, xnis, however, was ray case. Iwasin 'the far, far West, In f i'Jat a gfeHTt'r distance from the At. hi Ho seaboard than I had ever at- ;'..'-id before. Business had called me thi ',e, and for certain reasons I had had to tiavel toward the backwoods, taking wit'i me a considerable sum of monev. fslii ih it was of the utmost importance x s Juia ueliver Bately at its destination , as on as possible. i 1 1 my anxiety to perform my mission well I had foolishly passed the place where I ought to have rested for the night, fondly hoping to reach another station before the close of evening ; but the storm coming on, I lost my way, and there I was, stumbling about ver stumps of trees, my horse knee-deep in the mud, and I without the slightest idea which way to turn. Down came the rain in torrents, beat ing the muddy earth as if it wished to wash it clean. I was wet through to the skin, and my horse at every step seemed sinking deeper and deeper into the mud, till at last he refused to move a step further. In vain I plunged my jipurs into his sides, and used my whip, ' not another foot would he move, but stood with trembling flanks and extended nostrils, the picture of agonized fear ; so I was forced to dismount and lead him. But you may judge my surprise when I reached his head to find that he was nearly touching a wall. I stretched forth my hand, and, to my delight, found it was a log -hut. " Here is shelter, at all events," said I to myself, " though I scarcely deserve it for my foolhardiness in riding past the station. Well, I suppose I shall have to go supperless to sleep, and heaven knows that is Dad enough, m my present con tusion. Drawing: the bridle over mv arm. I led my horse round the building, feel ing careiuiiy so as not to miss the door way. I passed down one side and turned tne corner, when, to my delight, I per ceived a light shining through some chinks in the logs. Without pausing a moment to consider what guests might uo uOToiuuicu liisiuo, x Hastened to toe door, and beating loudly upon it, de manded admittance. I had not long to wait The door opened slowly, and a tall, thin man stood before me. The fellow was roughly dressed, and wore a large broad-brimmed hat thrown carelessly on his head j a cloak, much the worse for wear, hung from his shoul ders, and nearly reached the ground; his figure was spare, but very powerful. With his left hand he held the door, so as to be ready to close it in an instant and in his right a Colt's revolver Young America's constant companion. Having glanced at his toilet, I turned mj attention to bis face, and 1 must say, a nore disagreeable one I never wit nessed. It was long and thin, but very sallowy high cheek-bones, sharp, evil looking yes, a nose like an eagle's beak, low, receding forehead, and a huge mouth filled with horrible tusks. A long tuft of hair hung from his chin, and his upper lip and cheeks had not felt tho touch of a razor for gome days. Having fixed his evil little eyes on me, and taken a good inventory of my personal appearance and effects, he pocketed his pibtol,' and drawled out : " Wal, what's the matter?" " Matter P I exclaimed; matter enough, I should think.' I have lost my way, and am wet to the skin." .. ' Wal, I can't help that," he replied, n drew back as if to shut the door. ' "Jut I need shelter," I cried; "my Kdfellow, j am nflariy droned " You du look at if you'd been making wet goodg of yourself,'1 be drawled, open fuf tusks!nOUth' Hai nowinS fright- " Don't koep me hero, my good fel low," I exclaimed, looking nnxiously at the fire ; " I only want a feed for my horse and shelter for myself; for both of which you shall be well paid." " There s a bam Bt the end of the hut for the 'oss," said he, jerking his hond in the direction. " You had better go and put him up, stranger, and then come here." As I saw there was no help for it, I led my horso to the barn, made him as comfortable as I could, and then taking my saddle-bags over my arm, entered the hut. . - It was a wretched hoveL composed of rough-hewn logs, rudely put together, and plastered mud, great masses of which had tallen away, leaving the logs exposed to view, and tho sharp wind whistled through the chinks in a misera ble manner. The hearth was composed of stones beaten into the earth, and upon this blazed a large fire, which, al though it filled the room with smoke, was, in my condition, most acceptable. Jlv newly made acquaintance np. pearud to have fallen fast asleep before the fire ; so giving one look to his disa greeable countenance, I took off my coat and waistcoat, laid them out to dry, and placing the saddle-bags lor a pillow, prepared to go to sleep. " Wal, stranger," said my host, start. ing up with a snarl, " I du think you might be more perlite, and just hand over the news. 1 guess it isn't often we get any down in these parts, and there. fore we don't lose a chance of rising any when we can. " I must beg your pardon," I replied " I thought you were asleep, and there. fore was quiet in case I might disturb you. . " Air you hungry '" he demanded. "Asa hunter," was my emphatic re ply. " I guess you won't object to this bit of corned" beef then," said he, pushing some coarse bread and salt meat toward me. " On the contrary,' I replied, noth ing could be more acceptable." " I guess you're thirsty," he said, after watching me devour the meat. ' Sahara is nothing to me," I avowed. " I don't know anything about your btrah, he replied, " but 1 du know girl named Polly, who does drink, she ait : a patent double-pressure engine is nothing to her, that it am t ; she takes in more liquid than a Mississippi steam boat, and when she s at high pressure guess she's as dangerous." I expressed my sorrow at Miss Polly's failing, and asked him if he had any thing to drink. ' w al, yes ; hero s some iioui-bon whis ky; put yourselt outside that,-and you won t teel your soaking. X needed no second invitation, tor, in spite of the huge tire, I was shivering with cold ; and as I had most important business to execute, was most anxious at any risks to keep up my strength, so as to accomplish my journey'. As 1 drank the whiskey my compan ion lapsed into silence, and 1 began to ionder upon the weakness oi human judgment, and the unfairness of what people call " impressions in particular, Here is a man," thought I, " that everybody would proclaim a scoundrel from his diabolical countenance ; judging from that, you would siy that ho was mean, cruel and unprincipled ; yet, al though I have not seen him before, he not only gives me the shelter of his roof, but also shares his supper and whiskey with me. I will never trust to appear ances again. Whilst I had been making these re- flections, I again prepared for sleep ; but my doing so evidently displeased my companion, for Btretching out his long legs to their full length ovidontly to kick mine he gave a terrible yawn. " Darned if vou ain't the slowest cuss x ve met on this siae ot creation, he growled. " Ain't you got no news'f" Halt angry and halt amused at his strange manner, I replied : " i am extremely sorry that x have no news to give you, and unfortunately I nave not the imagination ot some ot our JNew lork papers, or I would invent some for your amusement." " Now, look here, stranger, none of your impertinence. I guess you are a Bostoner, which accounts for your infer nai slowness. v hat s the good.ot a pa per, if there isn't something new in it '( bpose there s a murder or a robbery, and it's a real one, wal, you read it and enjoy it. But s'pose it's a false one, 'bout people you know nothing about, wal, you enjoys it, and thore isn't half the darned sight injury done. You luff or cry as much over one as the other, and you don't know the people ; there fore, what can it matter to you whether it is true or false ? it does just the same." ITot feeling inclined to argue with my friend over the matter, especially as I could see that ho was a man who would not take contradiction quietly, I readily owned that I was wrong and he was right. " S'pose you don't want to sleep di rectly, stranger ?' " Indeed I do, for I am very tired." " I guess it's not safe to steep in these parts, unless you can manage to keep one eye open." "Why'r' Surely we ure safe never" " I don't know that. I calc'late you air a stranger in these parts '(" "lam." " But I guess you've heard of Silas Cass he dwells hereabouts." Silas Cass! I had indefd heard of him as one of tho most desperate and depraved characters that haunted the out-settlements of America. He was suspected nay, it was morally certain that he had committed -more murders and robberies than any man in the world; but he had contrived to evadu the law, for although suspicion was great, there was no proof, and the wretch had always escaped the punish ment he so richly deserved. As I looked at the diabolical face b- fore me, I was convinced that my host was o. other than the notorious Silas Cass. I folt a cold sweat burst out on my forehead, and a terrible" dryness seized my throat. A fiend-like expres sion of delight spread over the wretch's face as he noticed these symptoms of terror; his thin lips wore drawn back in a . devilish grin ; his greenish eyes were fixed on me with the malicious gaze of a cat watohing a caged bird. Gathering all the resolution I could muster, I replied : " I have hoard of Silas Cass, but really can't believe the stories they tell about him. Some people are born unlucky, and it has been the misfortune of Cass to be placed in suspicious circumstan. ces; but there has never been any proof ot his guilt, and therefore I preter giv ing him tho benefit of the doubt in fact, I think he is more sinned against than sinning." The monster threw himself back and roared with laughter at what he thought my credulity, and pushing the whisky-bottlo toward me, ordered me to drink. I placed the bottle to my. lips, and pretended to tke a hearty draught, but very little ot the hery liquid entered my mouth. " Wal, you air a queer cuss," said the ruthan. "JSow, 1 sbouldn t be sur prised if those saddle-bags of yours held a good amount ot dollars r " A few," I replied ; " and there is a tale belonging to them. "Just so," said Silas, pushing the whisky-bottle toward me. " S'po3ing you take another pull." I took hold of the bottle, and kept it glued to my lips for such a length of time that Silas s eyes seemed ready to start out of their sockets. "Guess you're a tall drinker, stran ger, he said. " Yes," I replied, in as drunken a voice as I could assume; "that's how I came by those dollars." " Bully for you," grinned Silas. " I've heard of many a boy drinking himself out ot a tortune, but ne or a one that drunk himself rich." " Oh," sighed I, with drunken earnest ness, " I onc was honest." " Once '" said he, opening his eyes. " Yes," 1 replied. " I held a place in the Broadway Bank as one of the chief tellers ; but I took to gaming and drink, ing, and lost all my money." " Wal, that didn't make vou rich V" "No; but in a fit of desperation I emptied my till, and the dollars are there. "Whew!" whistled Silas. "I guess you did it up pretty spry'?" " You haven't any cards about you ':" I asked. " I guess I have, though," he replied ; " s'posing we have a game of poker ' " My heart beat with delight as he drew a pacK irom Jiis pocket, and, grasping tho cards, I commenced dealing them with the assumed eagerness of a regular gamester. 1 saw the wretch cheat me everv time. I lost and lost; stil!, I continued play ing, only repenting my losses in a maud lin drunken way, that made, my com panion roar with laughter. He com menced to thoroughly enjoy himsolf di rectly he saw my misery ; he lighted his pipe, and began smoking. He did not puff out the smoke as an ordinary man would have done, but opened his mouth and let the denso clouds roll round his horrible tusks and long, thin tongue. Each time he won, he seized the bottle and drank heavily of the whisky. When the bottle was finished, he pro duced another from a small cupboard at the back of the hut. This soon disap peared, and was replaced by another; but the more he took tho better he seemed. As he swept up my dollars he roared with delight, Hinging his huge legs about in the most grotesaue man ner. He began chanting bits of songs, certainly not fit for respectable society. To make the scene more horrible, the storm without had become so violent that tho hut shook beneath the heavv claps of thunder, and the blue lightning flashed through the cracks between the logs that composed the walls, perfectly paling the red light of our tire, and nearly blinding me. ' ".Lost again! shouted Silas, as he swept up my last few dollars. "Hear how the boys are playing skittles up above! I guess that bowling saloon pays, they play pretty constant. What's your next stake '(" " I haven t a cent, I groaned. "I'll play you five dollars against your saddle-bags." x knew they would be his anvwav. and therefore staked them. Need I say I lost Y As Silas rose to procure some more whisky, I took the opportunity of scrib bling a few lines upon the back of n envelope, which I slipped into a slit in my coat-lining. lie made me stake mv horse, mv coat and waistcoat; in fact, everything I possessed. I lost all, and then threw myself back as if in despair, bewailing my bad fortune and rashness in having trusted to cards. Silas seemed highly delighted with my melancholy, consol ing ui4 with the assurance that there were plenty nioro banks in the world. and I might regain my fortune. After uoariiig ins taunts ior some time 1 pre tended to cry myself asleep, but took care to place my lace in such a position that I could see all that Silas did with out appearing to watch him. No sooner had my first snore sounded than Silas rose from the ground, and. drawing his revolver, advanced toward me. " Of all the darned fools I ever did meet, this one beats them all. He a thief! Bah! he is a disgrace to the name. I s'pose it's no use potting him : be can't bring anything against me 'if lie lost all his money in play. Besides, he won't cure about kicking up a noise in case of the bank finding him. And yet he would be safer." As he spoke, he leveled the pistol straight at my head. I shall never for get that terrible moment. 1 knew that the slightest movement would be the signal for my death, and so remained perfectly motionless; but the strange, horrid, cold calm that stole over me will never pass from my memory. " Bah 1'' he said, putting up the pistol, " let him live ; I've got the other one to attend to." i He turned away and left the hut care fully closing the door behind him. I listened to his retreating footsteps, and when they sounded distant I sprang to my feet. My first idea was flight, but a moment's consideration told me that that would be certain death. I crept to the door and peeped through the chinks in the wall. Tho storm still raged, and by the constant flashing of the light ning I ww enabled to see for some dis tance. Silas was coming toward tho hut, carrying a heavy burden on his shoulders. He stopped by the side of a pond about ten yards from the build ing, and threw down his load it was the body of a man. Silas then took some cords from his pocket, and with them bound a huge stone to the body. When this was done b& picked up the ghastly object, and with more than hu man strength hurled it into the pond. The lightning gleamed out brightly ; the pale, ghastly face seemed turning one appealing look to heaven for revenge ; the cold, dull waters closed over it, and all was still again. Struck with horror, I could scarcely move, and with difficulty regained my position by the fire before Silas returned. Quietly taking off his own coat and waistcoat, which were as bad as they could be, he threw them into one corner of the room, and then, with all the cool ness imaginable, dressed himself in my garments. He again left the hut with my saddle-bags, and a few minutes af terward I heard tho ring of my horse's feet as he galloped away. In a moment I had seized his coat, and putting it on, dashed from the hut in pursuit. I ran until almost reoiy to drop. Still I pressed on ; the spirit of revenge had entered my soul, and bore mo up. At last I saw a horseman crossing tho hill. I knew the figure but too well it was Silas Cass. Till morning I dodged from bush to bush, keeping as close to him as I dared. Had I had a pistol with mo I fear Silas would have stood a very poor chance. At last I perceived a party of horsemen riding toward us, and in a' minute I burst from my hiding-place and com menced shouting as loudly as I could. "Stop him, stop him! he is a mur derer !" Silas looked quietly behind him, and, seeing me running, drew his revolver, presented and fired. The bullet whistled close to my head, but did no damage.' By this time the horsemen had heard my cries and were close upon Silas, who hesitited for a moment whether to at tack me or not, but seeing the party of horsemen were armed, he turned his horse's head as if to galop across country; but the leader of the horsemen swung his rifle round, and presenting it at Silas, called upon him Ui stop. " I guess this is a pretty shindy," said Silas, coolly, " all about a fellow who has lost his money at poker." "Stop that man," I cried; "he has robbed me of my money, horse and clothes." " Why, you darned viper." said Silas, "didn't you lose them to me fairly at poker, in the block-hut ?" "No," I cried; "he robbed me there, and I call upon you all to help me arrest him for having committed murdor. I saw him throw the body into a pond by the log-hut last night. Expecting the same fate, I wrote on an envelope these words: I have been robbed and mur dered by Silas Cass James Ansel.' You will find it in a slit in the lining of my coat, which that man now wears, for he is Silas Cass." Scarcely had the words escaped my lips when Silas again presc-nted his pis tol, and this time with better effect, for the bullet pierced my arm, but at the same instant one of the horsemen dealt Cass a heavy blow with his rifle, and laid him senseless on the ground. Silas was handed over to the authori ties and searched ; my envelope was found upon him. The body was found in the pond as I described. My story was told and proved true, and in a few days I had the satisfaction of knowing that Silas Cass was no more. Tho Absurdity of Tight Luciiigr. Thera would be no tight lacing if girls could be made to understand this simple fact that men dread the fact of marrying a woman who is subject to fits of irritable temper; to bad headaches, and other ailments we need not men tion, all ot which everybody knows, are the direct and inevitable product of the compression of the waist. Men like to see a small waist, certainly ; but there is a very great difference between the waist that is well formed and in pro portion to tho rest of the figure, and a waist which is obviously and artificially compressed, to the destruction of that easy and graceful carriage which is one of the chief charms of a woman's ap pearance. An unnaturally compressed waibt is far more certain of detection than a mass of false hair or a faint dust ing of violet powder. The rawest youth who enters a ball-room can pick out the women who have straishtuned them selves artificially ; and there is no more ready handle for his harmless jokes. If the young ludy who, to obtain the ap pearance of a dragon-fly, has been sub jecting herself to considerable pain, and who has been laying up lor hcrselt a pretty store of ailments which only want time to pronounce themselves, could only gee the Btare of scarcely-disguised contempt and understand the scornful pity which greet the result of her labor, we should have a change of fashion and it is merely fashion. There is nothing intrinsically beautiful hi an un naturally small waist, and if it were the fashion to go into the opposite extreme, women would see beauty in padded waists. It is a great misfortune that pouular taste never alters in this as it alters in ether matters. Observers may notice with what a regular ebb and flow wide skirts and narrow skirts alternate ; how we have the peg-top garment of men, followed by the sailor's wide auklod attire ; how square-pointed boots give place to peak-toed boots, and how the peak-toes go out again for the square points." Through all changes women remain true to only one fanhion. Whether her clothing is as long and lank as that of a Grecian virgin, or wneuicr sue Duuas around the lower half of her figure a rotund and capacious structure of steel, she is forever faithful to the tradition of a small waist ; and she will weaken her spine, she will make her hands red, she will incur headache, she will crock her voice, and she will ruin her digestion, all to procure a mal formation which wise men regard with pity and fools with derision. Soluble Glass. Among what are called the " lost arts " of the ancients is that of making mal leable glass, to which we find numerous references in the old writings. But we have, in place of malleable glass, a more remarkable product that is to say, water glass ; in other words, soluble glass, which may be utilized in a variety of ways, It has all the constituents of ordinary glass, but combined in dif ferent proportions, soda and potash pre dominating. It may be a limpid fluid, a syrup, or jelly, or a pasto, according to tho objects sought. What renders this compound especially useful is its quality of drying and hardening by heat or exposure to the air, thereby re gaining its glassy qualities, and a hard ness such that one kind assumes a vitre ous and conchoidal fracture, and a hard ness such as to give sparks on steel, with out the brittleness of flint. Its fluid form allows of its being applied as a paint or varnish for numberless pur poses of use or beauty. It is employed instead of ordinary paint for covering the guns and other iron objects at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Wood, having absorbed a sufficient amount of the stuff, becomes harder and more durable, and interesting experiments have been made in railroads with prepared wooden rails instead of iron ; while for fence-posts, railroad sleepers, wharf, piles, and end less other purposes where wood is ex posed to decay, the use of wood satu rated with glass is of immense advan tage. It is known that silica is to be treated as an acid, and a peculiarity of alkalies is-that the more potent and bit ing of them take acids from their weaker brethren when the three are brought together. Thus when we mix the sili cate of potassa or soda with lime, the lime takes up a quantity of silica and forms a silicate of lime, which is nearly or quite insoluble. Thus with sand, lime, and water glass, we get a hard, durable stone, proof against weather and atmosphere, firo and water. The mass is of course pasty when first manu factured, and may be molded and worked like so much putty. So here wo have a splendid future in the fabrication of tiles, building-blocks, architectural moldings and ornaments, statues, ves sels, linings of cisterns, and a thousand other matters of use and of beauty. By using an admixture of alumina or clay, we get a so-called hydraulic cement, or one which hardens under water. Mcutiil Overwork. In an article on " Physical Diseases from Mental strain," in the American Journal of Insan ity, Dr. ltichardson gives the following interesting examplo of the overtaxing of tho faculty of memory : I knew an instance in which a child was "blessed" with a marvelous gift of verbal memory. This being his "forte," his teacher, who wished every scholar to be remarkable for something beyond other scholars, played on this "lorte" powerfully, and with wonderful effect. By constant cultivation of the one fac ulty, this marvellous boy could learn off fifty lines of "Paradise Lost," or any other English book, at a single reading, and could repeat his lesson on the spot, without missing a word or omitting a comma. But the result was this, that when this remarkable boy was sent to a university to learn a profession, he was beaten in the learning of detailed and det itched facts by every fellow-student. Seeing slowly but surely wherehis weak ness lay, this student ceased at last to call into play his remarkable talent. It was a terrible task ; he accomplished it at last, to a considerable degree, but never effectually. Eor a long time he made mistakes that were most annoying; he was unable, for instance, to cast up accurately any column of figures, he for got dates, he ran over or under impor tant appointments, misnamed authors in speaking of works of art or letters, and in reisoning he would mix up two or three bubjecta. It took him full ten long years to unlearn his wonderful technical art. We cannot be too care ful of the mental and physical training of the young. Upon it depends a hardy and vigorous maturity. The Jlisei les of a Comic Writer. Eepeatedly being called upon, in the midst of a btrange party, " to say some thing funny." Having half a dozen scrap-books put into your hand, "for an impromptu." Being expected, wherever you go, to sing a comic song. Never boing allowed to be in the least unwell, or to look serious, without a dozen people asking, " Why, what's the matter with you r"' Being the especial confidant of every body's bad jokes, aud being made the favorite victim for the " capital thing " some one is sure to have ' heard yester day." Asking for " some potatoes," or some commonplace thing, and finding the whole room roar at it incessantly for ten minutes. Making desperate love to a pretty girl, who only laughs, and says, " La, Mr. Smith! you're ul ways joking." Having people labor under the notion that it is not cubtomary for a comic wri ter ever to pay anybody, that he gener ally goes to bed tipsy, and that he can not write unless he has a bottle of gin by his side. Being saluted, as you go into a room, with " Bravo I here's Smith. Now we shall have something good." Being introduced as " the young gen tleman who does all the funny things iu the Stunning Magazine.' " Being suspected of turning everything you see into ridicule, and putting every body you meet into print. . t Sixteen Iowacounties are trying liquor prohibition. Trials of a Witness. Mr. Pcxcuixello : As all people seem to come to you with their troubles and grievances, 1 hope yon will not re fuse to listen to my woes, And whether they are my woes or not I leave you to judge yourself. At the beginning of last week I made my first appearance in the court room in the case of Valentine against Orson, in which the point in dispute was the own ership of a tract of land in Wyoming ter ritory. I knew something in regard to the sale of these lands, and was fully prepared to testify to the extent of my knowledge in the premises; but judge of my utter surprise and horror on being obliged to go through such an ordeal as the following extracts from my examina tion will indicate : The counsel for the plaintiff com menced by asking me if I was a mar ried man, and when I had answered that. I was, he Baid : Is your wife a believer in the princi ples of the Woman's Rights party ' I could not for the life of me Bee what this had to do with the land in Wyom ing, but I answered that I was happy to say she was not. The examination then proceeded as follows : Q. You are happy, then, in you mat rimonial relations ' A. Yes (and re membering the oath) reasonably BO. Q. Is your wife pretty ' A. (Witness remembering at once his oath and his wife's presence in court) She is pretty pretty. Q. What are her defects? A. (Wit ness remcmboring only his wife's pre sence) I have never been able to dis cover them. Q. Do you wear flannel V A. Yes, in winter. Q. Can you testify upon ypur oath that you do not wear flannel in sum mer ? A. I can. Q. Now be careful in your answers. What do you wear in the spring and fall ? A. I I wear my common clothes. Q . With flannel, or without flannel ? A. Sometimes with, and sometimes with out. Q. No evasion ; you must tell the court exactly when you wear flannel, anb when you do not. A series of questions on this sub ject brought out the fact that I wore flannel when the weather was cold, or cool; and did not wear it when it was mild, or warm. Q. Have yon a lightning rod on your house 'i A. I have. Q. How much did it cost you to have it put up ? A. It has not cost me any thing yet I owe for it. Q. Is that nil you owe fori A. No. I have other debts. Q. Have you any money with you now ' A. I have. Q. now much? A. (Counting con tents of porte-monnaie.) Sixty-two cents. Q. Where did you get that? A. (With embarrassment). I borrowed it Q. Were you present when defendant first offered his land for sale to the plain tiff?, A. (Brightening up.1 1 was. Q. Have you ever been vaccinated ? A. I have. Q. On which arm ? A. The left. Q. At the time of the first mention of this land to tho plaintiff, who were pro sent? A. (Witness speaking with hope ful vivacity, as if he hoped they were now coming to the merits of the case.) The plaintiff, defendant and myself. Q. Do you use the Old Dominion coffee-pot in your house ? A. (Dejectedly.) No, sir. Q. What kind of coffee-pot do you use ? A. A common tin one. Q. Are you willing to swear it is tin ? A. I am. Q. Has your wife any sisters ? ' A. She has two ; Anna and Jane. Q. Are they married ? A. They are. Q. Are either of them as pretty as your wife ? A. (Quickly.) No, sir. Q. Have you any children? A. Two. Q. Have they had the measles ? A. They have. Q. His any other person in your bouse had the measles ? A. I have had them, aud my wife has had them. Q. now do you know your wife has had them ? A. She told me so. Q. Then you did not see her have them ? A. No, sir. Q. Wo want no hearsay evidence here ; how can you swear that she has had them when you did not see her have them? A. She told me so, and I be lieved her. Q. Did bhe take an oath that she had them ? A. No, sir. Q. Then, sir, you are trifling with the court. Do you understand the obliga tions of an oath ? A. I do. Q. Beware, then, that you are not committed for perjury. Is your gas metro ever frozen ? A. Yes sir. Q. What do you use when the gas will not burn ? A. Candles. Q. How many to the pound? A. Nine. Q. How do you know there nine to the pound ? They are sold as nines. Q. Then you never weighed them yourself. A. No, sir. Counsel to the court : May it please your Honor, this is the second time that this wituoss hag positively testified un der solemn oath, to important points of which he hag no certain knowledge. I atk the court for protection for myself and my client. Here a long discussion took pldbe be tween the lawyers and judge, and at the end of it the case was postponed for four months. I suppose it is expected that I will then reascend the witness stand ; but I have determined that when I enter a court room again I shall appear as a criminal. These fellows have much the easiest times, and they run so little risk, nowadays, that their position is far preferable to that of the unfortunate witness. Dr. Boetger has found a "German beer bouquet," and that it conusU of a solution of the essential oil of lemons in light petroleum oil, and a coarse fusel oil containing spirits colored by tumeric. Petroleum aud lusel oil should make a charming beverage for educated stomachs. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. A Pittsburgh paper brought thirty- , five dollars at auction. j , A now daily journal at Fort Dodge is called The Cardiff Giant. ' ' ' A New Orleans fortune-teller netted ' '' fl,200 in twenty days. . . A Chicago saloon bears the modest . name of " Lamb's Rest." California promises twenty million bushels of Wheat next year. Tour and furs are coming eastward ' across the continent in large quantities. A nugget of gold weighing 888 ounces has been found in Berlin, South Aus tralia. A big squash raised ia Vermont has been sold for the big price of twenty-five dollars. Hector and Plato are among the floor ' managers of a negro ball to be given in Hartford. Linen can be glazed by putting a tea- spoonful of salt and one of finely-scraped white soap into a pint of starch. - ' Female pickpockets wear the oouveu- ' ient Arab shawls. They fold their shawls r like the Arabs, aud silently steal away. A thirty-two months' girl thus accost- k ed her father a day or two ago : ' Papa, will you buy me some holes to put in my ears, so I can have some ear-rings?" ' A physician said of a quack that " he was such an ignoramus that, if he could take a lantern and go down inside his pa tient, he couldn't find out what the matter was." ! The report is current in tho clubs of London that John Bright is to be Bent to Washington as a special envoy to negoti- ate a settlement of the Alabama and . , fishery questions. Several of the California Judges have decided that murder is a bailable offence, 1 and have a'cted in accordance with that decision. The press has taken the sub- r ject in hand, and is making an excite ment over it. The Shah of Persia, who is performing a pilgrimage to the holy shrine of Ker- . bela, lately passed through Bagdad, ac companied by a suit of 10,000 persons. The horses and other beasts of burden -composing this caravan number upward of 15,000. The big grape-vine at Santa Barbara, Cal., is five feet two inches in circumfer ence where the main trunk branches, and the arbor whioh it covers is G9 feeby 63. At these limits, the branches are three inches in diameter, and are kept trimmed to prevent its spreading over more ground. Into the city'ofKe'fv York there flow " five great streams of milk each day. One over the Harlem road, another over the ' Erie, another over the New Haven, another by the Hudson, and yet another by the Long Island, umouuting to $250, 000 worth daily, besides that which comes in by numerous small rivulets. Last year of income tax Mr. A. T. Stewart paid more than either of twenty- -seven States, including territories, more . than Arizona, Colorado, Dakota, Florida, Washington, New Mexico, Utah, Idaho, and Montana combined, more thau either of the districts of Massachusetts, . and 53,000 more than the Ninth and Tenth Districts paid. Mr. W. B. Aster ppid more than the whole State of Ver-. wont. Here is the son's story in a Wisconsin divorce case : Am thirteen years old : remember talk about a pencil one morn-; ing ; mother was behind the stove mak ing pancakes ; father took her by the ' back of the neck and put her head over, the wood-box; she took a stick of wood from the box and struck at him over her shoulder ; then father put her head un der tho pump and pumped water on her face. A bill has been introduced in the House by Mr. Hill, of New Jersey, which provides that the Postmaster General " be and is hereby directed to furnish and issue to the public, with postage stamps impressed upon them, ' correspondence ' or post cards,' manu- ' factured of good stiff paper, of such form and size as he shall . deem best adapted for general use, which cards shall be used under regulations to be prescribed by the Postmaster General, and shall be transmitted through the mails at a postage charge of one cent, including the cost of their manufacture, to be issued immediately after the pas sage of this act." At the leveling of an ancient Indian mound near St. Louis, Mo., a few days ago, a very interesting spectacle was presented. Among those who witnessed it were Professor Marsh, of Yale Col lege, Dr. Briggs, of St Louis, and Gen. A. J. Smith. The mound was originally . forty feet in height, oval in shape, and about 300 feet in length. About twenty years ago there was a house on top of it and a graveyard on the side. During the progress of the work the laborers have dug up the bones of three races, first thobe of the whites, second of the Indians, and last of the ancient mound builders. Professor Marsh secured thirty skulls of the mound builders, one alone being perfect. These were found in two vaults, one a square structure, the other of cresoent torm, and both about fifty feet across. The N. Y. State Fish Commissioners announce that they are prepared to fur nish spawn and Bmall fish to any per sons residing near any of the lakes in the State who may desire to engage, in Eisciculture. It is stated that the State atching house' at Caledonia is filled with white fish and Salmon trout nearly or quite ready to be deposited in any waters. There are also thousands of more common, perhaps, but not less valuable fish, of larger sizes, ready for distribution uch as black bass, white bass, and bull-heads. The latter, a fish once despised, has now beoome go scare that it can only be obtained occasionally in the markets. They will multiply rapidly in any water it' protected from wautou destruction. Persoug desiring to procure any of these fish should ap ply to Seth Green, Buperinttadett at Rochester. t i !
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