Ls . ; ."!;,,!"ri,'". t!,rao i'3 .TVIKklA Hit ,'! . . . . ....... i . HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Publish. . JiLKOOttNTY-TJlS REPUBLICAN PAliTY. i , Two Dollar rm Atinm. . VOL. I. RIDGWAY, PA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1871. NO. 34. ft ! V J- PROSODY. The following rhymed rebuke of common errors of pronunciation will be found uscf nl to many people: Tbero was a girl, and Bhe was fnir to sec, Whose classic nomm was Eurvdice: As full of mischief, like to most vounir Indies, Sometimes raising Cnln, and sometimes Iladcs, TI.U I . . L t. -1 . 1 1- . uio diiiiiiu ueauiy, luuugu sue gnineu ecim, io use nyperooio, concealed a claw. A flirt she was and thought no sin to be Though drivlnp lovers Into svneone. Bhe flattered some, though always "sine di-e, Until thev all were crowned with misery. Bhe danced and waltzed, until quite sick was she, (Her Goddess was Terpsichore); But soon got well, and ate her hominy, With all the tragic airs of great Melpomene, Her mind, sometimes on Jupiter and Io. Would dwell mixed np with Virgo and with i,eo ; Her favorite book was Don Quixote. Although prone to think him rough and naugmy, Still from her Hps, to henr a diatribe. Was worth the world, and all the rcBt beside. A maid she bad; fat, fair, and fancy free, Rejoicing in the name Eupbrosyne; This demoiselle thought herself a Phrvne. Though her mistress called her " stupK uiuuy. Iter favorite author was Dumas Fils (Each well-thumbed work was spotted o'er wnu grease;, And then she owned a small epitome, Of Ancient Rome, which was a sight to see. 8he knew but little of Professor Blot, Her cooking was Indiffcrentlv slow. But her chief care wiu nn tho hmi.ni.ni.i T ...... a Round which she bustled like a hundred iuiries. In short, take her in nil, 'twas plain to see Bhe favored Juno more than NIobe. Eurydicc, nt length, was, strange to say, Enchanted with a man, and brought to bay ; Henceforth her constant study was to be, How best to imitate Calliope. While her fair maid, we scarce need indicate, Brought her Penates to the Syndicate ; And helneri their ttnlthnlamlum -t.w Though not the least connected with "the Eurydice, farewell 1 and you too, fair Eu nhrnRVnn f Forgive ns that we use your names, to air our Henry C. Cooper. Strasbnrg Cathedral and Clock. A correspondent of the New York Evening J'ost writes: At the time of the siege of Strasburg exaggerated reports were circulated as to the damage done to the cathedral and subsequently it was said that it was not injured at all. Strike an average and the truth is obtained. The cathedral was damaged so much that a week's fur ther continuance of the bombardment might havq reduced it to ruins, and the world of art might have had occasion to deplore the mutilation of Erwin von Steinbach's exquisite facade, or the fall ot the noblest tower and spire in exist ence. The shells from the besieging rorces nit the cathedral very often, and the damage actually done includes the burning away of the outer roof, the des truction of the high stone-work balus. trade on the north side of the tower, the breaking away of several steps, bo as to render impassable two of the winding Btaircases in the great tower, the break, ing of several of the windows, and vari ous nicks in the walls which are not ap parent at first sight, and which can be easily repaired. I could not see that any harm was done to the ornamentation of the facade, while the story published in the New York papers that a shell had dashed through the roof and destroyed the famous astronomical clock is utterly untrue. THE STRASBURG CLOCK. This ingenious piece of horological mechanism is in excellent condition, and attracts as much attention as ever, At mid-day a crowd of some two hundred people fills the transept of the cathedral which contains this curious work, the assemblage including peasants in quaint costumes, priests, school-boys and a great proportion of English and Ameri can tourists. At 12 o'clock the usual performance begins by a procession of the twelve Apostles before Christ, who raises bis bandit, bestowing a blessing on each apostle as he passes by. At the same time a skeleton in a lower compart ment strikes the hour with a human bone on a metallio disc. The cock on the summit of the clock ruffles his feath ers, stretches out his neck, and gives a good, sonorous crow, repeating his ef forts three separate times. The nocn display is thus terminated, but many of the spectators leave with an evident ex. pression of disappointment, as if they had expected to see the whole front of the clock in motion, and a display of fireworks tor a hnale. AN ASCENSION. Everybody who knows anything about Strasburg cathedral knows that but on of the intended towers was built. The top of the unfinished tower, which is of the tame height as the top of the facade, is, in fact, a level platform, surrounded by an open-work balustrade with a good-sized one-story dwelling house at one end, the magnificent fin ished tower, capped by its spire, at the other, and an open space in the middle. The house is occupied by several men who have charge of the clock and bells, and who were up here during the entire iiege, exposed at every moment to the falling shells, which have broken the pavement in several places. They des cribe the period thus spent as one of fearful horror. During the daytime the view of the besiegers' batteries was much obscured by smoke, but at - night the scene was terrific. Then, particularly, was it feared that the spire might be overthrown, and when fragments of its outer decorations were knocked off, and fell with a crash to the pavement below, the men living up on the church top thought the dreaded moment had ar rived. " But," observed one of them, shrugging his shoulders, " what was to be done f Que route tout t It was our duty to stay up here, and we stayed." To this platform hundreds of persons come daily, the fee being but fifteen centimes. To go to the top of the other tower itself costs half frano more, while another frano must be paid if you wish to ascend to the top of the spire, or rath er to the little baloony just below the topmost finiaL My vaulted ambition took me to the very top,' and came near leaving me up there. The journey up the staircase, through the square part of the tower, was only fatiguing without being in the least degree dangerous, and it afforded an excellent opportunity for observing the apparently frail character of the structure, through whose openwork in terstices the wind blew fiercely. The exquisite carving and decoration up here is seen by but very tew, yet is elab orate and is as beautiful as any in the lower part of the church. At last I came to the baloony where two nags the black and white ot Tus sia, and the tri-color of Germany had been flung to the breeze immediately after the Prussian- occupation of the city, xne Dreeze naa not received luese banners very kindly, but had reduced them to long stringy tatters, so that from below they looked like bunches of preposterous shoe-strings, very uncom. fortable and very much out of place. At this point begins the inclination of the spire, which appears from the platform below to be a series of steps leading to the top of an elongated pyra mid, while from the street it looks like a number of tiny projections ornament ing a rather shoit steeple. These ap. parent steps or projections are, however, each as large as an ordinary man, and the little staircase winds in and about them in a manner which, however in genious, is by no meaus reassuring to the nervous. By a felicitous architec tural arrangement, a person in mount ing this staircase is at one step inside the spire and at the next step outside of it, with tha great round globe itself seem. ingly several miles below. A fly would probably sot be perturbed in this posi tion ; and creatures like uaasimodo,wuo had had long practice on the precipitous towers of Notre Dame, might even feel at ease. I have heard it said that individuals in such an elevated sphere of duty as this have often felt almost irresistible yearn ings to let go their hold, launch out into space, and ning themselves down to earth. Such, I can conscientiously say, was not my experience. On the contra ry, I felt an utterly irresistible inclina tion to cling to the steeple itself, and to avoid, as tar as possible, any topograph! cal observations of the earth beneath what time my blood was frozen in my veins by the horrible antics ot the guide, who hopped up the spire from projection to projection, like an agile fowl, without any apparent appreciation of the awful possibilities contained in the law of gravitation. To get upon the final narrow balcony which encircles the steeple just below its top (and from the street looks only like a graceful little ornament), one has to take a step which requires the faith pf Abraham himself. The spire up here has grown so small that you can almost put your arms around it, while it seems absolutely certain that it must blow over in the very next blast of wind. ' Yet, at such a momont, you are asked to stick out one foot in the direction ot the Rhine, and then land it on a point of stone about on a level with your forehead ; to bring the other foot somewhere else, and to clutch bold with both bands of some. thing which the guide says is just above you ; and all this on the outside of the h'ghest spire in existence, with the wind blowing like mad, the whole world many miles below your feet, and com fortable people on safe sidewalks looking at you through opera-glasses I when it is all done, according to Hoyle, you find yourself on a narrow ledge protected by a low stone balus trade. The houses of the city of Stras burg lie clustered about the base of the cathedral, with their roofs dotted with innumerable dormer windows, the burnt district presenting a hideous gap in the fair symmetry of the town, and the ruins of the theatre, museum, prefecture, and library conspicuous for their extent and desolation. On three sides stretches the vast, flat Alsatian plain, and on the fourth lies the Duchy of Baden. Quite near are the two villages between which the Prussians planted their most des tructive batteries, and far beyond lies that France which a year ago claimed Strasburg as her own. in descending the spire there is a va riety in the nature of the sensations aroused. Climbing up you can cling to the stonework. Coming down you seem at every step to be about launching yourself into space. You feel as if in your own person you were exemplifying by some inconceivably uncomfortable process the theory of centrifugal force, and once down to earth again the thought how sweet it is to grovel here below suffuses your countenance with a grateful glow of loving appreciation. w. F. w. The Bear Crop in Wisconsin. ' ' -The Wisconsin papers teem with ac counts of the doings of and contests with bears, which are unusually numer ous in that region. The Neillsville lie publican says they are so plenty in the woods that hunters are killing them every day, and that a young man living about a mile east of the town recently caught three in a trap in less than a week. In the town of Loyal, two boys, while hunting for cows, came across an old she bear and two or three oubs. Bruin showed fight, and the boys were obliged to climb a tree for safety. The cries of the children brought assistance, and the bears scampered off. The Eau Claire Free Prent says Jake Stumm had quite a fight with a bear, and finally managed to kill him. Bruin weighed 350 pounds. . The Hudson, Star states that a Norwegian, same not learned, was killed a few days ago by a bear out in the big woods. He had snot the bear and then got into a struggle with him, and was torn to pieces. xne iviioourn City Mirror, reports that Mr. Burke, of Plainville, a renowned bear-shooter, killed a bear on the premises of Mr. James McClatohie, about ft mile and ft half east of that place. - It was three years old and weighed 800 pounds. Sev eral other bears have been eeen in that vicinity within ft few days. Hardly ft day passes without one or more bears being shot. The Engineering Feats of the Time. X It is amusing (says the London Spec tator) to witness the oheerful alacrity with which engineers are ever propos ing grand schemes to bridge over the distance on our globe, and tne willing ness with which the publio give ear to them. Whether it be to tunnel through the Alps, or under the Straits of Dover, or cut canals through the Isthmuses which connect the northern and south era halves of the Old and New World, or lay telegraph cables under the Atlan tio and Pacific, there is apparently no limit to the fertility of the engineering mind, or the mingled awe and delight with which the majority of the people read of the successive schemes which are ventilated. At the present moment the run is upon railroads to India, for which the fullness ot time seems to have come. The cutting of the Suez Canal lately stirred the popular imagination on the subject of Eastern communications, and now the opening of the Mont Cenis tun nel has not only had a similar influence, but it has actually completed in the nioBt effective manner a through rail way communication with an extreme southeastern point in Europe, on the direct road to India. It is natural,there fore, that engineers and the publio should be alike provoked by the long interval interposed between Western Europe and the East by the scantily- peopled regions of the Turkish and Per sian empires, which misgovernment end incapacity of race have prevented from being filled up. The missing link is perhaps greater than that which was lately filled up between the Missouri and the Pacific ; but the result, as these matters are judged, with all the East on one side, and all Europe on the other, will be proportionally greater, and ac cordingly the schemes produced are in unexampled abundance. To begin with, there are the old pro posals for a Euphrates Valley Bail way, to connect the Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf, and shorten by a week the present overland journey between Lon don and India. But these are the most moderate proposals. Constantinople in a year or two will be connected with the European system, and there are about bait a dozen schemes to join Uon stantinople with India, some of them to make a Euphrates Valley line a section of the highway to India, and others to run through tho north of Asia Minor and Persia, passing through the Persian cup. ital of Teheran, and through Herat and Candahar, on the line by which we have been taught to expect the future mva sion of India by Kussia, in which so many people believe. There is even a third class of schemes by which India is to be reached through Kussia, the Kua sians pushing a branch from their south ern railways across the UaucaBus, and so giving us a road to Teheran by which we may get to India as already des cribed. And as if all these were not enough, we have a grand scheme for a railway starting eastward from Trieste, skirting the Turkish coast of the Adriatic, and finally crossing the Salonica, from which there would be a short tea passage across the Levant, and then a railway to India on the route ot the Euphrates Valley line, to be continued along the coast to Kurracb.ee. Mrs. Burton has also come forward with a proposal this week, to vary the ordinary routes suggested for the Euphrates Valley line by a devia- tion which would " develop Syria, and restore Baalbek and Palmyra to their old importance. buch is a meagre list of the competing projects which are offered, tho very cheapest to cost between eight and ten millions, the most ambitious, forty mil lions, and the average, which are strictly limited to the construction of a complete railway between Constantinople and In dia, between twenty and thirty millions. A Startling Railroad Adventure. Parties who arrived at Terre Haute last week on the Evansville and Craw fordsville liailroad, had quite an adven turous ride. . When the train was mid way between Decker's and Purcell's Stations it was met by the most tremen dous bail storm. Such was its force that the engineer was obliged to stop the train. Hail stones three inches in di ameter rattled down upon the coaches, knocked the window lights from the cab, and demolished the head-light of the engine. The engineer and fireman wereobligea to seek refuge by hugging close to the machinery. The storm, though severe, was of brief duration, and when it had stopped, the train moved on. When neoring Sullivan, the engineer discovered a brilliant light ahead, which was caused by the burning of thirty cords of wood, which was lying close to the track. The train backed down to a station three miles away, and then returned to the scene of the confla gration with a gang of section men who at once set to work to extinguish the flames. The engineer then backed his train away from the scene some distance, and after the doors and blinds of the windows had been carefully closed, he let on a full bead of steam and went past the fire at a speed of fifty miles an hour, the heat being so intense as to scorch the sides of the coaches as they passed, even at that high rate of speed. . . , How Wild Beasts Eat Men In India. The return of the number of persons killed by wild beasts during the past year in the Madras Presidency has lately been made up; loJ persons were killed by tigers, twenty-one by cheetahs and panthers, seven by bears, ten by bisons, five by wild hogs, four by elephants, and three by alligators. Tigers are most destructive in Ganjam, Vizagapatam, Jeypore, Kurnoof, and Coimbatore. Seven persons were killed by tigers in Canara in 1669, eleven in 1868, and eleven, were killed by cheetahs. All this slaughter by wild beasts sounds very horrible (sari the Pall Mall Oa tette), but it is really far more horrible to reflect that more people are killed an nually in the streets of London ' by norses than are killed Dy ugen in the Presidency of Madras. Cab horseB are far more destructive than Cheetahs. A Wonderful Invention. 1 A MACniNB TIIAT CAN TALK, L AUG II AND BINO. A persevering Frenchman once con structed ft machine, in the form of a duck, which could walk, flap its wings, pick up grains ot corn, and more won derful 6till. digest them, but a machine capable of talking was supposed to be beyond the power t uumau ingenuity to construct. Kempelen, a German, made a number of puppets, that uttered the words " papa" and mamma," but after devoting his lite to perfecting them, he asserted that a machine which oould utter all the words in use in Eu ropean languages was an impossibility. After his death his puppets became dumb, no one understanding the mech anism by which they were made to speak. Kempelen's impossibility has been at last overcome, in lail Prof. Faber exhibited a machine which could utter a great number of sounds and words, but it was by no means perfect. His nephew took up the machine that his uncle failed in perfecting, and com pleted it. After exhibiting it before all the crowned heads and scientific socie ties of Europe, he has brought it to this country. The machine, wmch stands on a small table, consists of a complicated arrangement of rubber tubes, reeds, keys. pedals, strings and wires. The lungs are represented by a small pair of bel lows, the glottis by reeds and pipes of different sizes, the lips and tongue by pieces of india-rubber. Beneath the table is a pedal by which the bellows are worked, and on the right hand side a series of keys, on which are marked the letters O, U, I, E, L, R, W, F, S, B, D and G. With these and some supple mentary arrangements, all sounds used in the European languages can be enun ciated. There is also an arrangement resembling the key-board ot a piano, by which the machine can be made to Bing. Every portion of it is open to view, so that no deception is possible. Yester day the machine, under the deft hands of Mme. Faber, enunciated distinctly all the letters of the English and German alphabets, numerous long and difficult words, such as " Constantinople," " Po litzka," " Mississippi," " Kadetzky," " hurrah," and then darted off into long sentences in English, German, and French, winding up with a laugh of the most natural kind, followed by hisses, groans and murmurs. Eery word pro nounced was pronounced at. once with out the slightest hesitation. Of course some words were more clearly enuncia ted than others, but the majority were given far more clearly than the majority of human beings pronounce them, and even the nasal twang which French people often adopt was closely imitated. In Prof. Faber's machine the motions of the mouth and tongue imitate precisely those of human beings. Different keys or tones can by given by proper manip ulation of the pedals. Taken altogether, the " talking machine" is a wonderful specimen of man's ingenuity. Whether it can ever be anything more is doubtful. It cannot be applied to any practical purpose, unless, indeed, dumb or weak nerved and feeble-voiced individuals should choose to purchase them and use them as mediums through which to ad dress the public. Prof. Faber, wo believe, intends to exhibit his machine in publio as soon as arrangements can be made for that pur pose. The singing portion of the ma chine not being in order yesterday, we were unable to determine what merit the invention possesses a vocalist. N. Y. Times, Oct. 6. Strange Case of Imprisonment. The story of a young man of good family being incarcerated for a long time in a lunatio asylum by his relatives in order to prevent his contracting a marriage in opposition to their wishes, as described in Charles Beade's novel of " Hard Cash," seems very improbable to American readers ; yet cases quitd as ex traordinary are frequently reported in the British newspapers, and, if all the secrets of our own lunatic asylums could be brought to light, it is possible that some equally startling revelations would be made. A late London paper gives the details of a case which one would scarcely suppose could occur in the nine teenth century and in ft civilized coun try. An Irish gentleman, named Mr. Alfred Manders, who is possessed of a property of $20,000 a year, and who is a partner of the well-known firm of Man ders & Co., brewers, at the iustance of his brother and his own wife, was placed in a private lunatic asylum at Finglass in April, 1869, and still re mained in confinement there on the 16th of August last, although there is every reason to believe that he is quite sane. During the whole period of his incarcer ation, extending tbrongh twenty-seven months, be was not viBited either by his brother or his wife. After a long time he contrived to communicate with his solicitor, a Mr. Lewis, who went to the asylum and demanded an interview with him, but was refused by Dr. Duncan, the proprietor. A clerk of Mr. Lewis having succeeded in obtaining an inter view with Mr. Manders, the latter was thereafter debarred from taking exercise in the pleasure grounds. Finally, on the loth of August, a writ of Ua0ea cor pus was taken out directing Dr. Duncan to produce bis prisoner so that the necessary steps might be taken for de termining his mental condition and testing the legality of his confinement. At the time of the application for the writ letters from Mr Manders that were sensibly and intelligently written were read, and also the affidavits of two keep ers who had attended the unfortunate man for several months, and both of whom testified that he was perfectly sane. Robert C Winthrop, of Boston, has lately got possesssion of an old English clock made in London about 1630 ex pressly for Governor John Winthrop, and sent to him while he was Colonial Governor of Massachusetts. It is still in- running order, and has been placed among many other valued relics, includ ing family portraits which date back to 1400. ; Shark-Fishing. Everybody at all connected with the sea is always delighted when ft shark is killed. A shark is the great water enemy of mankind ; the delightful bathe is either impossible or bereft of half its pleasure when sharks are known to be near. A boat that-is upset causes a fatal accident in shark-frequented waters, whereas it might produce only ft dncking under other circumstances. Thus a sailor believes that he who kills ft shark deserves well of his country and companions. The shark dies a craven ; he affords very little of that sport which renders trout and salmon-fishing so at tractive; his first rush as he feels him self hooked is usually powerful enough, but after that he exhibits little but sul lenness. A young shark is usually more vigorous and determined in his resis tance than is one of larger growth, and with these we have had good sport. In most rivers of tropical countries shark will be found near the mouths, especially at high tide, and those who are disposed for sport only will find ample in such localities. The plan we adopted was to procure two pieces of copper wire, twist these firmly together, and lash a hook on to the end. A stout piece of cord was then made fast to the wire, and a bladder attached to the cord. About a hundred and fifty yards of cord were coiled up on the bank in order to play the hooked fish, a piece of meat was then fastened on the hook, and the bait flung out seaward. The hands for this work ought to be protected by a stout pair of leather or India-rubber gloves, so that a check may be given to the cord ai the fish runs out with it. Having made our preparations in this way, we cast our line, and had scarcely secured the end than we saw the bladder that indicated the position of our hook and bait travel rapidly up stream, bob under water, and again appear. A rapid tug at tho cord was resisted, and im mediately afterward the line flew through our hands, nearly a hundred yards being paid eut without ft check. Then we, however, obtained a pull at our captive, and brought him near the shore, sighted him, and saw he was a shark about four feet long. When tho young cannibal saw us, he struggled hard to escape, but his ravenous appetite had been his ruin, as the hook was deep ly buried in his throat, and in ten min utes from the time of his being hooked, he was dragged snupping and wriggling on to dry land. On more than one occasion, however, the fish we thus hooked was oo much for ua, and carried out and off the whole of our line, and had we not resigned the end, we ourselves would have been dragged into the sea, our efforts being feeble in comparison to the power of the monster who had swallowed our bait, and was equally capable, apparent ly, of swallowing us. Numerous are the tragedies that have taken place with the shark. One or two we will refer to : A party of soldiers were bathing near the shore on one of the Mediterranean stations, where Bhaiks are usually con sidered harmless. Above a hundred men were in the water together, some far out, others close in shore, when the alarm was given that a shark was ap proaching. Scarcely had the note of warning been given, than the shark, passing by a Buore or more of men, seized one who was quite near the Bhore, dragged him under water, and disap peared with him ; the shouts, frantic beatings of the water, eta, of the men being of no avail to make the monster give up his prey. A shark had for several days been seen following a ship, but no attempt had been made to capture it. A ship's boy, however, determined to have a trial, and having prepared his hook and line, clambered into the ship's chains, in order to throw out his bait. Un fortunately, the jerk caused by throwing overbalanced the boy, who fell into the sea. A rush was mode aft, and a rope cast toward the lad, who was, as is usual with sailors, able to swim. The effort failed to save him, and in another second he was approached by the sea monster, which, slightly turning its head, seized the boy and dragged him under water, disappearing lrom the sight of those on deck, and of those who entered the boat in order to revenge bis death. We ourselves were once in a very un pleasant proximity to ft shark. We were in the habit of bathing every morning soon after sunrise, and had ar ranged a long plank on piles, as a sort of spring-board. Having started along this plank, as usual, and reached nearly the end, our balance having been lost. we cast our eyes down, and there be neath us, not five feet under water, was a shark double our own length. With that instinct which comes to all of us in times of danger, we at once felt that the safest plan was to jump at the sharic rather than try to avoid him, and thus we directed our plunge at him. We bad to swim some forty yards to regain the shore, and this was indeed trying work ; but the shark had made off, and we lived to tell the tale he probably being alarmed at the attack threatened by our plunge at him. , The Wood Rawing Club. The Lock port Journal contains the following practical suggestion ; , Now that the croquet and base ball season will ere long bo over, we would suggest, in order that the muscle devel oping process may not stop, or that the amount developed by the summer's exer cise may not lie dormant during the long winter months, that the base ball ath letics turn their attention to sawing up the wood piles of widows and sick folks during the winter. " The exeroise is fully as healthful, is not so violent, dangerous nor tiresome as base ball, and we are sure the results will gratify ft curious publio fully as much, and we would pre fer to give the " score " of ft wood sawing class to that of a base ball club, in our columns. What say yon, gents f Phy sicians recommend young ladies to form walking clubs. This is ft matter in which steps should be taken. Moving In Circles. It is astonishing how some people move in ft circle, and run round and round in the well-worn ruts, without at tempting to widen the one or step out of the other. They do things in a cer tain way because some friend or neigh bor does so, without ft question as to the propriety or fitness of their doing the same thing in the same way, whether the circumstances admit of it or not. We were forcibly impressed with this, not long since, while stopping a few hours in a flourishing town in one of the finest counties in central Ohio. On a fine broad street, there was no less than five or six residences, mostly on contiguous lots, built as nearly alike as possible, with the front door in each, in some unaccountable way, set obliquely into a corner at the end of a baloony running along the side of the main building, making a row of singularly awkward looking dwellings, and sadly marring the beauty of tho street archi tecture. Another cose in point is that of a man now building a two story and basement house on ft twenty foot lot. His heart is set on a " swell front," not because he admires the style, or that it is at all adapted to so narrow a house, but be cause his friends have built on that plan, and he does not wish to be singu lar. It is in vain the architect has as sured him that a swell front which we never see on a house too narrow for it without calling to mind a character in " Little Dorrit" who, as Dickens tells us, " was not so much a man as a sort of swelled boy" will give to a house of that width a cramped look, and make it seem even narrower than it is, that a front of this style for a building not wide enough to accomodate it, savors of affectation, and is in bad taste. It is all in vain ; the foundation is laid and the work goes on. The precedent has been established by one of his neighbors, and will be followed in more than this single instance by others who cannot be pre vailed on to give up the cherished am bition of an " imposing swell front." Building Netes. Andrew Jackson and his Doctor. Colonel Forney relates this anecdote: There is a well-known physician in Washington, Dr. J C. Hall, who relates many incidents of the public men he has attended in his long and brilliant exper ience. At tho head of his profession, he has attained old age almost without an enemy. 1 know no man more univer sally beloved. It is one of the Doctor's peculiarities that he does not trouble himself with money matters, and is care less about collecting his fees. Once, however, during a temporary absenoe, his clerk made out some bills, and, among others, sent one to the President. On his return, tho Doctor found a note from General Jackson inclosing a check for the amount, deducting an old charge which had been called for and settled, and for which he held a receipt. The fact that the bill had been sent was not less a mortification to Dr. Hall than the error in the account itself. But on looking at the President's check, he found that the General had forgotten to sign itl He therefore returned it, with the expression of his regret that tho bill had been sent, and pointed out the General's omission. The check was duly Bigned and sent back inclosed in a note, with this remark : Sear Doctor the bent of men l liable to mistakes. anuukw Jackson. Dr. Hall testifies to the old hero's kindness to all his people, especially to his servants. Once when the smallpox broke out among them, and aearly everybody else fled, the President re mained in the White House, and waited on black and white with unremitting attention. A Ute Indian who would a-Wooing Go. A correspondent of the Chicago Tri bune, writing from the camp ef Powell's expedition, on Green River, Utah, tells this story of a Ute Indian's wooing : We again met at this camp the dusky bride and groom with whom we had made acquaintance further up the val ley. Ou learning more of their history it proved rather romantic The Ute that would a-wooing go belongs to the Uintah Indians, while his young squaw is a member of the White River tribe. The hand of the lady was promised to ft brave of her own band, but her heart was won by the stranger. Travelling expenses to Indiana, the State of di vorces, being high, an elopement was de cided upon and successfully carried out. The jilted " copperhead" thereupon put on his feathers and his war paint, and started on the trail of the fugitives, breathing threats of vengeance dire. The honey-moon of the true-loving pair is now somewhat obscured by shadows of danger, as a party of White River Utes are in hot pursuit. The hero of the Btory expressed ft desire to " heap swap" for one of the repeating rifles with which we are armed. He offered his pony in exchange for mine an elephant would be as convenient and portable in one of our heavily-laden little crafts. We gave him " shug" and flour in ex change for venison, and soon depart in our " Water Ponies," which, as he re marked, " leave no trail." I trust the matrimonial course of our aboriginal friend will run smoother than the Green, and that his cranium will escape the carving of the avenger's scalping knife, The fence is ft costly fixture. Illinois is said to have ten times as much fence as Germany, and Duchess county, New York, more than all France. A narrow path divides farms in France, Germany and Holland. In South Carolina the improved land is estimated to be worth 120,000,000 ; the fences have cost $16, 000,000. The annual repair is ft tenth of this. A recent calculation places the cost of fences in the United States at $1,300,000,000. Nicholas Biddle, thirty years ago, said the Pennsylvania fences bad cost $100,000,000. In Ohio they are put at $115,000,000, and in New York at $144,900,000. Some day fences will probably disappear, and boundaries will be marked with fruit and shade trees, or neat hedge-row. . MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. Miss Thurston, the young lady bal loonist, is at present teaching school in Albany. She is the niece of La Moun tain, the celebrated roronaut, now de ceased. She is but nineteen years of age, handsome, daring, and ft capital balloon- Mis) Lucy' Ames, of Washington Ter ritory, has arrived in San Francisoo. She is ft fragile creature, only seventeen years old. Her height is four feet three inches, and Bhe weighs but 417 pounds. The distance around her shoulders is sixty-four inches. " A Vermont girl Of seventeen, trans planted to Iowa, plays the cabinet or gan and sings in ohuroh, drives two and sometimes four horses on the reaper du ring the week, and reoently oarried off the first prize for equestrianism at the La Crosse County Fair. " You never saw such a happy lot of people as we had yesterday," said a land lady in Indiana to ft newly arrived guest ; M there were thirteen couples of them." " What, thirteen couples' just married V " Oh no, no, sir ; thirteen couples just divorced." . 1 '.' The natural desire of one feminine to take down another is thus illustrated in the New Bedford Mercury : "A young woman, gaily dressed in a handsome skirt and bright-colored shawl, was com ing out of Liberty Hall lately, when a malignant female raised the shawl show ing the crowd that the upper portion of the skirt was composed of as may colors as an old-fashioned bed quilt. Frequent instances of the cure of can cers by means of a tea made from the common red clover have been published of late ; and as the remedy is certainly a harmless and inexpensive one, the qualities claimed for it should be gener ally known. . The Boston Herald says that a well-known sea captain of New bury port feels certain that he has been cured of a cancer on his nose by drink ing tea made from red clover tops, and using the same preparation as an exter nal application. What was considered a fully developed cancer two years and a half ago, has now almost disappeared under this treatment. Various paragraphs relating to longe vity are just now journeying through the newspapers. Notably, we have the Rev. George Cotton of Yarmouth, Me., who, being three score and ton, had just led to the altar hymeneal a virgin aged io. What was curious was that tha said altar was set up in an orchard, but the ceremony had one advantage over the open-air nuptials of Adam and Eye, for 500 friends assisted at it. Secondly, we are told that Mrs. Jere Boede ot Water ford, Conn., age 90, having been con sidered dead for a week, has so come to life that she has eaten a hearty dinner of cabbage and pork ! Then Mrs. Han nah Andrews of Lovell, Me., age 102 years, is really dead and mourned by five generations of descendants 200 of them in all! She had a pension from the Government, and deserved it It is announced that a " Montreal and Newfoundland Sealing Company" has been formed in Montreal. Sir Hugh Allan, of Ravenscrag, the head of the great shipping firm of Allan & Co., is director, and several of the wealthiest capitalists of Montreal have taken Bhares in the new company. They have al ready ordered two large and powerful steamers to be built at the Clyde, and to be ready for next spring's seal fishery. A Montreal steamship company has commenced running a steamer monthly to St. John. She is named the Alham bra and has made two trips and ob tained full cargoes. A good many Ca nadian manufactures are finding their way into the St. John market, such as boots and shoes, tweeds, blanketings, etc. ; and a large quantity of flour, pork, butter, meal, etc., is received there from Canada. The London News says: It appears from returns just issued that smuggling has largely decreased throughout the country. There was during last year scarcely enough tobacco taken to fill the great bowl of Quen Victoria's pipe. The list of seizures proves that defraud ing the revenue, as a branoh of distinct business, has been fairly given up. Out of the one hundred and ninety-eight cases of capture reported, there were twenty-eight only in which the quanti ty of tobacco and cigars exceeded ten pounds. In ft few instances the efforts to escape were picturesque, but not un familiar. Two ladies travelling from Ostend to : London were discovered wearing tobacco and cigars as articles of dress; and the steward of the ship Libra, from Hamburg, was found to have ingeniously lined his pantry with contraband goods. The only plao where the old fashion of smuggling seems to have been kept up witu uy degree of energy is in the Isle of Wight, a spot famous for deeds of daring of this kind. Paul B. Da Chaillu writes home from Trondhjem, under date of September 13. Of his late travels he says: "I have twice crossed Norway and Sweden, once within the Arctio circle, and through one of the most desolate and grandest countries of the , world. I have just come from Sweden. While in the moun tainous country of the far north I came near starving. Crossing from Norway and Sweden has been the hardest trav elling on foot I have ever known. ' The sides of the mountains were ' covered with bowlders ; no shelter at night ; no people, and the mountains covered with now. One glacier contained thirty square miles of ice. J made observations on the temperature of this glacier and of the atmosphere. I have been. among the Laps, the Finns, the Grains, and the poorest people of the land. . I have been received kindly everywhere. " ' In each province of Sweden the governor gave me ft dinner and reception. 1 The Swede and Norwegian are ft good and honest people, I leave to-morrow for the in-) terior of 'Norway, but will be back in America to attend my lecture engage ment in November. I am in splendid health, though for week I have lived on thick sour milk, the food of the country."
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