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VOL. III.
UIDGWAY, ELK COUNTY, 1A., THU11SDAY, NOVEMBER1" 20, 1873.
NO. 38.
November Dawn.
Oil, charming eiplit !
Oh, lovely light I
Orange to amber graded,
On gray cloud-foldings slded.
Air pure, Bereue,
Aye, frosty, keen,
November dawn !
Oh. bannered stars!
Oh, floating bars
Of white, with star-dust gleaming!
O'er Luna, paloly beaming.
Thy gauzy lands
By spirit hands
Are lightly drawn.
The beeches Bob,
They feol the throb
Of Nature's pulse Tibrating.
Its lessening beat translating
Prepared they staud,
Majestic, grand,
Upon the lawn.
The aspens quiver,
The larcheB shiver,
The birds fly low,
In flocks thoy gather.
Winter is coming ! the shrinking land
Awaits the grasp of its death-cold hand
Its cold, gray dawn.
AX UNHAPPY WIFE.
Isabel walked tho riarler of her suite,
It was far past midnight, and the great
hotel was nearly silent. Up and down,
with a supple, leonine motien peculiar
to her, and a footfall of velvet, turning
her black eyes lestlessly, and whirling
about if the air stirred in the passage ;
thus she had moved for hours.
Was she a heroine in distress ? Was
she a woman of gifts, evolving some
creauon irom ner sleepless brain y
am sorry to bring her down to earth
she was a fit subject for romance. But
it must bo confessed Isabel was only
waiting for her husband, who was out
late. Had she been a sensible, prac
tical woman, she had wrapped the
drapery of her couch round her and
laid down to sweet dreams long ago.
But she had only been a wife a year.
Her liusbaud was her single tie ; she
lived her life in him.
Isabel was beautiful. Her flesh was
like marble lighted by fire ; her hands.
her eyes, her lips, the poise of her
head, her undulating motion, had an
elegance of their own. But when God
lent her the gift of loveliness, He added
thereto the gift of supersensitiveness.
through which so many are graded to
melancholy ana madness. She had
been the ward of a bachelor uncle, who
felt he did his whole duty if he visited
her twice a year at her convent, and
answered her sorrowful black eyes with
uods and winks of approval. When
Hhe was ready to enter the world, the
oharge of a young lady niece so taxed
his freedom, aud, by consequence, his
spirits, that he laid him down and died.
lie hadn't meddled inmatrimonv. Whv
should his autumnal youth be spoiled
oy a loster daughter y
Then Burnhain appeared to Isabel.
Jtiis lamiiy and hers had been on friend
!y terms whole generations. He had
just returned from a long tour, and
nau me air 01 ocner continents around
him, which fascinated her senson
Afterwards his best grew upon her ;
his generous nature, his pure intention,
his mellow thought, the whole flue
structure of his manhood. She knew
little of the world ; she made him her
standard. So that when Burnkain crime
wooing and made her sure that all his
happiness was in her, she staked her
self, and was blessed in proportion to
her intense sensibility.
When Isabel became a wife, she did
not degrade her hero. Her very esti
mate kept him up to her. Proud and
tender of her, he walked tc rectitude,
and softly before her, many moons and
never meant to deviate.
But
But Burnham was a society man ; he
had such jovial friends, who formed
such a jovial and select club. The
" Pickwick Club " ran over with money
and leisure and graceful gayetv. To
be a "Pickwickian," was to be "recog
nized as a tip-top globule of the eity
cream. Youngsters of family looked
forward to rising into this club much
ns the young Boman anticipated the
toga -of manhood. It wielded an ab
surdly strong influence. The " Pick
wickians" met in elegant apartments,
drank imported wine, attended by per
fect and silent service, and railed nt
the hard-worked, sad-visaged world.
Young husbands were considered great
conquests among them, and they im
portuned Burnham so much to join
them that lie good-naturedly took to
" running in." From taking a friendly
cigar and glass, he went on to extend
ing his 6tays till the fascination of the
club ran through all his veins.
Isabel knew nothing of clubs. She
supposed they might be assemblages of
gentlemen with something of a literary
character, such as Addison pictures.
She saw in her mind's eye sober citi
zens grouped about tables, reading,
perhaps smoking, and disoussing wis
dom. She waited for her husband be
cause she was restless when he was
away, not because she had any right
eous tongue in pickle for him.
Feet shuffled in the hall. She bent
her neck ; her whole body crouched to
listen. They drew nearer, zig-zagging;
they paused at her door; and the being
outside, evidently an animal without
hands, began to rub and fumble and
growl for entrance.
Isabel threw the door open, when a
person in a very bad hat, with his whole
apparel somewhat on one side, fell at
her feet. It was a stage scene, but ter
ribly real with one actor. Isabel start
ed back, raising and wringing her
hands, and staring at her husband like
a maniac. Mr. Burnham gathered him
self up and took observations. Some
drunken men are abusive; others maud
lin; others jolly; but Burnham was
pompous. He found a sofa, and mount
ed it tremulously to harangue his wife
on her duty as " gen'lmen to o'nduct
'self like genl'men -drivedullcare'way!"
and made a consummate and disgust
ing a fool of himself as it is possible fer
a man's body to do when that fine spirit
which governs is drowned.
Isabel stood watching without mov
ing a muscle. The stare drew his at
tention, and he requested leave to ask
if she wo flrntik, and it she meant to
" suit him ? Then, overwrought, by
his own eloquence, he relaxed and
dropped along tho nofa. She saw a
face swollen and seusual; a frame nerve
less and heavy; a man turned to u
beast.
Her maid tapped at an inner door
to ask if Mrs. Burnham wanted her
now.
" Go to inv oreaHinfl'-room " replied
Isabel, towering between the damsel's
eyes and that locomotive-laboring-up-a-
stcep-grnde upon the sofa. " Wait for
me there."
She closed the door and went back.
Not being addicted to harangues and
handkerchiefs, she merely clasped her
hands aud looked at him, thinking, I
suppose, that no woe like hers had ever
come upon the world since the deluge.
Yet Mis. Smith, down by the wharves,
could have shown her deeper depths;
and thousands of wretches within few
square miles, might have smiled at her
butterfly misery. Yet, after all, every
ne suffers according to his capaoity
rather than according to his Btroke.
Isabel considered wine as belonging to
gentle breeding. That Mrs. Smith's
"man" should come to the gutter
through rum, was a thing to be expect
ed; " that sort of people you know,
etc.;" Jbnt that Mrs. Burnham's lord
could bo touched with the same infirm
ity, was a revelation of human nature
for which she was not prepared. Like
all natures of her cast, ske stood in
fiercest judgment over what she loved
best,
Burnham slept till a late sun thrust
bright daggers through his hair, and
heated his eyelids.
Dissipation treated him kindly. He
came down to luneheon after bath and
toilet and a little philosophy, as fresh
and sii avo as your father confessor.
Isabel did not trouble him for the time.
She had taken her maid and gone out,
he supposed, and he was glad of having
more time to recover himself before he
attempted to pass muster under those
black eyes again. He came home to
dinner, invigorated by business, with
his winning, repentant guise on his
arm, ready for use, as you may say.
But Isabel had not yet returned. No
one had seen her that day.
He rushed to her room and plowed
among her belongings. She had taken
little ; and that little had evident
ly been packed hastily.
Pinned to a frame containing his
portrait, Burham found her last testa
ment ; he opened it with a face like the
dead. She said to him :
" Do not search for me. We can
never be anything to each other again.
You have killed me ; you taught me to
lean on and adore the best of men ; and
then you unmasked and showed me
what you were. The world is black ;
I have no faith in anything."
Mr. Burnham. in rending this scrap,
forgot the repose of good breeding. He
fell upon his knees as if Hercules had
planted a blow between his eves : he
rung for the police ; aud whirled up the
great hotel like a madman. But those
much buttoned gentlemen, with clubs
and ornamental caps, have a soothing
euect on the most harrowed mind,
Burnhftm dropped down iu his parlor,
with his head between his hands, and
explained himself in fragments to one
of them, who stood reading him like a
book.
" Did she have money ?" asked the
immovable.
" She has a large bank account, her
own property, which 1 never touch
Perhaps she has cashed that."
On investigation it was found that
she had.
"And with eighteen hours start,"
pursued the immovable, " she'll be well
away from the city bv this time. De
scription of ludy, am' lady's woman,
sir y
So they took notes, examined, put
their hand to the wires, and flew about
surely and silently. While Burnham
measured his rooms or the streets, or
set in polnje stations, looking like an
old man.
Once, when a juvenile, I seized
stone, with an impulse of disgust, and
hit a rat which crept from under the
barn. It screamed and tottered, lifting
siuicrmg eyes. The poor thing had
been poisoned ; great ulcers were on its
back ; it was crawling from death, and
L hurt it ! x sat down on the grass,
crying and wringfhg my hands, the
veriest wretch alive ; I had struck a
suffering, defenceless oreature 1 If
could only have gathered the rat on my
lap and soothed its dying moments !
But he dragged out of sight and left
me everlasting remorse. Since cruelty
is a two-edged sword that falls back
painfully if you use it even against
vermin, how it must cut if we have lift
ed it against our best beloved !
The rhyme of Burnham, his wander
ings, his remorse, his sack-cloth and
fastings, are they not written in the
book of his experience ?
His police force traced Isabel out of
the city, but they were long discover
ing her. They sent him oontinued
messages of their progress ; he left his
affairs to follow every elue. And dis
mal hours he spent in her dressing-room
poring over a glove or a ribbon, eniov
ing the sweetness of freedom and
widowhood, The "Piokwick Club" was
no stay to his care. He hated the sight
pi their iiacchanaliuu faces.
It seemed that years instead of
months had passed, when the chief man
of buttons and clubs waited on him one
day, with the joyful assurance that in
a certain Northern village, in a certain
house, he would find his wife. Was it
joyful assurance after all ? At the end
of his long, sickening journey, he stood
at the gate of her house, about dusk,
more depressed than he had ever felt
before. She had commanded him not to
search for her ; ke was minded to turn
and go back, satisfying himself with
the knowledge that all was well with
with her. Such floods of change had
rolled between them. He knew not
how to approach her.
But, like a call to him, a little cooing
cry came from the house ; it stirred
him like a sea. Then Isabel! came to
the window, looking out and up. Her
beautiful face was softened and sweet
ened, for she had been in the hard land
of maternity, under discipline, which
brings out the angel-side of woman ; in
her arms she held his little child.
Her eyes falling ou her husband, thin
most consistent woman readied toward
him, bursting into a low, glad cry of,
Oh, I knew you d cornel
After supper, when the room was
cospy, and the good maid s steps
had ceased, and the blessed child had
boon admired till both parents were in
a state of imbecility, Isabel hung to a
button of her husband's coat and falter
ingly confessed her sins ; her days of
darkness ; her ignorance oi patient
love, till the baby came to teach her.
Then Burnham took up the parody,
and shrived himself and made promi
ses in a way which would have afforded
the " Pickwick Club " infinite amuse
ment. And, in his turn, the remark
able infant raised his voice. So that
they were very cosey.
And it was not fatal after all, like
some other Club affairs.
(Jen, Butler in Court,
The long, pending suit of William A.
Brittou against Benj. F. Butler was
tried in the Unitod States Circuit Court
at New York. The plaintiff is the sen
ior member of the banking house of
Britton k Kountz, Natchez, Miss. While
Natchez was under the dominion of the
Confederates, Mr. Britton's bank gave
customer two draft3 upon their New
Orleans correspondents for$15,000 gold.
The holder of the drafts was captured
while attempting to pass the Confeder
ate lines and put himself under the pro
tection of the Union flag, which was
then floating in New Orleans; On the
person of the refugee were found the
two drafts, and they were taken from
him and payment forced by Gen. But
ler. -
On the part of the defence it was
urged that the defendant had the au
tkority of the general Government for
his seizure of the drafts and for com
pelling the payment ; that thoy were
contraband of war, and were turned
over by the General in fact if not iu
proper form.
(ien. liutler, testifying in his own be
half, swore that he seized the drafts as
confiscated property, and had made
proper return of the facts of the seizure
to the (iovernment through his subor
dinates. He C enied that he had used
the money fer his own purposes, assert
ing that he had expended the amount
in feeding the poor of ew Orleans,
strengthening the Mississippi levees,
and defraying the expenses of his secret
service force. Decision is reserved.
Murdered In his Garden.
Mr. Philip B. Howard, of Jamaica
South, Long Island, was shot and in
stantly killed by a person, as yet un
known, while near his house, it being
Mr. Howard's birthday, he had invited
his father and mother to spend the day
with him. About 11 o clock ne went to
his cabbage bed, which is but a short
distance from his house, to get a head
for dinner. Noticing two men gunning
on his land he turned and was seen tc
speak to them. It is supposed that he
erdered them from his grounds. From
the house Jus wile was attracted by
them, and she stepped te the kitchen
door and watched the three. After they
had talked a few minutes Mrs. Howard
saw one of the men raise his gun, take
deliberate aim at her husband, and fire
twice in rapid succession. Then the
mon turned and spoke to his compan
ion, and tho two hastily jumped into a
wagon that was near and drove away at
lull speed. Mr. Howard fell. Mrs.
Howard rau to him, but he was dead
before Bhe reached hiin.
Dr. Wood and Coroner Allen were
sent for. They examined the body and
found that Mr. Howard's left side and
a portion of his breast had been shot
away. Both charges had taken effect.
Mr. Howard was a well-to-do farmer,
aged 40 years. Ho was well known and
respected, as is hi3 venerable father,
aged 90, who so narrowly escaped being
an eye-witness to the tragedy.
An Opera Singer (Jone Mad.
Theodore Formes, the German tenor,
well-known to opera-goers, has gone
mad in Germany, and lias has been sent
to a lunatio asylum near Bonn. Formes,
it is said, was attached to a young lady,
the daughter of a wealthy banker from
Indiana. He insisted upon Miss Rey
nolds becoming his wife without delay,
but her mother was opposed to the
marriage, and she ordered Formes from
her house. He made several attempts
to meet his beloved, but always without
success. He finally wrote Mrs. Rey
nolds a letter, in which he threatened
to kill herself and her daughter.
Frightened, the ladies left Bonn. He
vainly tried to discover their wherea
bouts, and the fruitlessness of his long
search threw him into a paroxysm of ex
citement, which finally resulted in in
sanity. For days he wandered about
the mountainous environs of Boun,
without taking any food, and sleeping
in the woods. Some children saw him
lately walking with unkempt hair, rag
ged clothes, and wildly declaiming to
himself. They told some peasants
about the apparition, and the peasants
arrested him. Thrust into a narrow
cell there, Formes became a raving ma
niac. Afterward he was sent in the
strait-jacket to the asylum.
'ot So Rich as They Supposed.
A few years ago a well-known pub
lisher in Boston died and left a will be
queathing, if we ieoollect rightly, about
a quarter of a million dollars. The last
we heard of the administration of his
estate, it was thought that it would pay
the creditors about 6 cents on a dollar !
The late good-natured Ueneral Hiram
Walbridge, in his last will and testa
ment, made bequests of very large sums,
evincing a generous heart and disposi
tion to give liberally ; but, unfortu
nately, his assets were not sufficient to
meet but a very small part of them.
And now it is said that the estate of
the Hon. Horace F. Clark, who died
only a few weeks since, supposed to be
worth seven millions of dollars, if not
positively insolvent, will amount to
very little. This is owing in a great
measure to the extraordinary shrinkage
in values which have taken place since
Mr. Clark's death. Still the case fur
nishes a striking illustration how differ
ently estates may settle up from what
is anticipated. jV. Y, Ledger,
America Previous to IU Discovery
by
Christopher. Columbus.
Hon. George S. Bontwell.'of Mass.,
in a lecture, began ny stating that
America must have been known to the
ancients, but that, on acoount of the
difficulties which then existed of inter
changing Ideas ail preserving them, a
link had evidently been dropped in the
greot chain of evidence which has been
since taken up, without, however, ef
fecting a satisfactory connection. From
evidencps which have been collated and
examined by scientific men, we can
safely affirm that all parts of the world
were populated as soon as they becamo
inhabitable.
After giving some theories about tho
divisions of the human family based on
the color of the complexion, the forma
tion of the body and the growth of the
hair, the speaker proceeded to prove
that from the specimens of architecture
and mining which have been discovered
on this continent we can naturally infer
that the civilization of the old countries
was transplanted here at an early date.
In the vicinity of Vera Cruz, in Mexico,
there are to be found the ruins of cities
and towns buried beneath the earth
which give evidences of (in enlightened
civilization and which silently wait for
an interpreter to chronicle their history.
In California there are extensive mines,
at the bottom of which have been found
specimens of human bones and altars
for worship, whose formation plainly
indicate that they were erected by
Europeans. In the Lake Superior re
gions, too, mines have been discovered
which show unmistakably signs of
European skill, equal if not superior to
that which now exists.
Mr. Boutwell gave three reasons for
the belief that the population of
America was not indigenous, and that
this continent was visited by Eastern
mariners at an early age of the world's
history. The sphericity of the earth
was known in the time of Herodotus,
and was taught by his disciples ; it was
handed down from generation to genera
tion, so that Columbus made it the
basis of his theory. The mariner's
compass is not a new invention, but
belongs also to the aucients. Herodo
tus, in his history, alludes to an instru
ment in the possession of the Indians,
which always pointed due north, and it
is a matter of history that in the fourth
century of our era ie Chinese mariners
used the maguetio needle. Then, again,
the enterprise of tie ancient mariners
was equal to a pas.nge over the Atlantic
or Pacific Ocean . la the sixth century,
the Phamicians bad so far progressed
in the knowledge of navigation that
they occupied the Black Sea, the Medi
terranean, and evai as far as the Baltic
Sea ; they had become familiar with the
passages into the Indian Ocean, had ob
tained possession cf ports along the
coast, and were familiar with the tides
and changes of the sea.'' Their ships
were known to be away for three years
at a time, and ns they had so far per
fected navigatioi as to be able to sail
150 miles per div, the distance which
they could trawl in a three-years'
cruise must hay- been considerable.
Their great sueces was in voyages after
silver and gold, ind as the mines of
Spain aud Englanl could not possibly
yield the large simply which they con
stantly exhibited Ye can easily infer
that another and amore prolific land
had been discovered whose existence
they were unwilling to disclose, lest its
treasures should bo utilized by their
neighbors. It is wel known that they
made their ordinary drinking-vessels,
and even the anchors tf their ships from
silver, and this furthik proves that they
had more extensive lines than those
which existed in Spaiiand Africa.
He further proved fie possibility of
these hardy mariners haviug readied
the American coast, fm tho fact that
various instances cf I sea-faring men
having been carrief by the currents
and deposited on islinds in the Pacific
Ocean existed. Wqxre also led to be
lieve that tho OldjTorld contributed
the inhabitants of if le western hemi
sphere, from tho fyt that there is a
striking similarity ijitween the Asiatio
and the American aborigines. The
southern portion 0: Asia is thickly
populated by an lidustrious people,
while the north is Werrun by savage
hordes, who live li a nomadic life,
which would indiciti- that emigration
prevailed in that sotfion ; aud, as the
distance to the nortlern shores of the
American continent's but short, it is
clear that the exodus was in that direc
tion. The inhabitant of the same de
grees of latitude in both continents
have the same custpas and manners,
and are consequently of the same ex
traction, i
Egyptian Vorn,
Among the many luvelties embraced'
in me wiue range oil jgricuiiurai pro
ducts of the State, of which bids fair
to assume prominenoi is the "Egyptian
com," which has alreidy been raised in
considerable quantiti'S in the vicinity
cf gutter, and is now being introduced
extensively about Vdlejo. Its capa
bilities are not yet filly understood, tut
as far as its growers have got acquainted
with it, it is found ut least to be an et
cellent food for poultry and all kinds of
stock even preferable for these uses
to either wheat or barley. It yklds as
much as seventy buthels to the aore,
and, it is believed, can be relied upon
for two crops per annum. The manner
of planting it is similar to that employ
ed with broom-corn, which the stock
somewhat resembles, while tlie head in
shape is more like that of the sorghum
or Asiatio sugar-cane. InsUad of grow
ing straight up, as that does, the Egyp
tian corn always crooks at the head and
turns di n when maturing. The grains
in shape and size h;ar some re
semblance to broom-cor seed, but on
crushing a grain it is fonnd to be more
of the nature of India corn than any
thing else. The seedf from which this
corn is grown wer taken Irom the
wrappings of Egypt' an mummi ; and
that thev grew aftor being thus laid
away for two thfusand years shews that
this variety of fereal possesses Wonder-
lui power oi reprouucnon. ii is vena
suggested that it might be fouifc to ad
vantageously replace barley fotke use
of maltsters and brewers. Diubtless
tho experiment will soon be kade.
Han jtanatao (jhromclt,
A western paper speaks of a 1
Moiety
for the "elevation" of horse tliii'ys.
Early Day Journalists.
The journalists in the reign of Louis
XV, were queer souls, who lived in
garrets, and dined chiefly off fried pota
toes, served in a paper by the stove
woman round the corner. Almost every
big street had its journalist, and an own
particular print, which indefatigable
being published on candle paper once a
week. The man was known down the
thoroughfare. He chronicled the mar
riages, births, or connubial woes of his
neighbors ; he was welcome to a dinner
now and then, and it was always re
membered that ho ate much. It wae no
great matter to him, if he were paid for
the copies of his journal, which he per
sonally hawked about, in cash or kind,
and a pound of sausages for three
copies, two rusk-dips for a single num
ber, or a pair of breeches for a half
year's subscription, were remunerations
he could not afford to despise. People
confided to hira their grievances, and
besought him to libel their neighbors,
which he did obligingly enough, if he
had no special reason for refusing; and,
as a natural consequence, he had always
a few grudges stalking after him, though
these desisted in time, for tho journal
ist had a soothing tongue. Some morn
ing the whole street would be thrown
into a state of commotion, and the in
habitants would troop outof their doors
to see their domestic chronicler marched
away solemnly between two tipstaffs,
and in a somewhat hang-dog mood, to
tho Bastile. Perhaps it was debt ;
perhaps a too bold shot at some one
in place clerk, beadle, recruiting
sergeant, or what not. Then there
would be much cackling in the street
and cries of compassion, and the rancor
for past libel, it any nurvived, would
inealt away ; and the apple-womau, the
stove-women, the tailor s wife, and the
cobbler's neice would take turns at go
ing to the prison aud passing tho poor
journalist a few delicacies through the
iron bars. But he was not au impor
tant bird enough to be caged for any
length of time, and it was never very
long beforo the sun Bhone again upon
him, as he was released from durance
and cautioned not to come thero again.
Then he would find a bouquet on his
garret sill when he returned home; and
the neighbors would treat him to roast
veal, and broach a cheap bottle of
vin d'Argenteuil in his honor. Sadness
Had reigned while he was away, mirth
and joy had attended the resumption of
his duties as a censor of State polity
and a purchaser of fried potatoes. Tiie
journalist was u6ver rich, for money
melted in his fingers, and he seldom
married, because marriage was incom
patible with the pursuit of literature
and gallantry, which should go hand in
hand. The customary end of tho jour
nalist was the hospital and a deal
coffin.
The Pettifogger.
The Hon. E. G. Ryan gave the fol
lowing vivid portraiture of a pettifog
ger, in an address delivered to the law
class of the University of Wisconsin :
Behold tli pettifogger, the black
leg of the law. He is, os tho name im
ports, a stirrer-up of trifling grievances
and quarrels. He sometimes emerges
from professional obscurity, and is
charged with business which is disrepu
table only through his own tortuous do
vices, for the vermin caunot forego his
instincts even among his betters. He
is generally found, however, and he al
ways begins in the lowest professional
grade. Indeed, he is the troglodyte of
the law. He has great cunning. He
mistakes it for intelligence. lie is a
fellow of infinite pretense. He pushes
himself everywhere, and is self-important
wherever he goes. You will often
fiud him in tho legislative bodies, iu po
litical assemblies, iu boards of supervis
ors, in common councils. He is some
times there for specific villainy ; some
times on general principles of corrup
tion, waiting on Providence for any
fraudulent job. He is always there for
evil. The temper of his mind, the hab
its of his life; make him essentially mis
chievous. In all places he is always
dishonest. When he cannot cheat for
gain, ho cheats for love. He haunts
low places and herds with the ignorant.
It is his kindly office to set them by the
ears, and to feed his vanity and his
pockets from tke quarrels he incites or
foments. He is in everybody's way,
and pries intoeverybody's'business. He
meddles in all things, and is indefatig
able in mischief. He is just lawyer
enough to be mischievous. Ho is a liv
ing example of Pope's truth, that a lit
tle learning is a dangerous thing.
Among his ignorant companions he is
infallible. Sometimes he is reserved
and sly, with knowing look which gains
credit for wisdom and character, for
thinking all he does not utter. Gener
ally he is loquacious, demonstrative of
his small eloquence. Then his tongue
is too big for his mouth, and his mouth
is too loose for truth.
A Dog Story.
It is related of Sir Edwin Landseer
that when once visiting Scotland he
stopped at a little village which was
plentifully supplied with dogs. Land
seer, as was his custom, amused him
self by making rapid sketches of such
ts pleased his fancy. The next day, as
ie resumed his journey, he was dis
ttysBed to see dogs ruspended iu all di
rections from the trees, or drowning in
tharivers with stones round their necks.
HeWopped a weeping urchin who was
hurling off with a pet pup in his arms,
and learned, to his dismay, that he was
supplsed to be an excise officer who
was toeing notes of all the dogs he saw
in ordir to prosecute the owners for un
paid ttes, so the people had hastened
to aispose or their pets to escape taxa
tion.
BostonGlctted with Labor. Mr.
W. H. Faj, Superintendent of the Bos
ton Young Men's Christian Association
and Free Employment Bureau, sends
the following note to the Associated
Press: "I wish to check a wasteful
expense of thne and money by the poor
and laboring classes, by having the
word go forth that Boston does not af
ford remunerative employment for one
out of fifty of its idle thousands. It is
worse than useless for others to come
here for work."
Thou jhts for Saturday Night.
Noble discontent is the path to heav
ii. Where there is'much light the shadow
is deep.
That is true plenty, not to have, but
not to want riches.
Almost the best rule of life is to be
worthy of one's self.
If the staff be crooked, the shadow
cannot be straight.
A book is a letter to the unknown
friends one has in the world.
Defect in manners is usually tho de
ficiency of fine perceptions.
Partial culture mns to the ornate; ex
treme culture to simplicity.
Solitude shows us what we should be;
society shows what we are.
Do not speak of your happiness to a
man less fortunate than yourself.
Cities force growth and make men
talkative and entertaining, but they
make them artificial.
If we judge from history, of what is
the book of glory composed 1 Are not
its leaves dead men's skin, its letters
stamped in human blood, its golden
clasps the pillage of nations ? It is illu
minated with tears and broken hearts.
In sculpture and architecture forms
are rendered visible by exterior light.
In painting, on the contrary, matter, ob
scure in itself, has within its natural
element, its ideal light; it draws from
itself both clearness and obscurity.
Now unity, tho combination of light
and dork, is color.
The instincts of the ant are very un
important, considered as the ant's ; but
the moment a ray of relation is seen to
extend from it to man, and the little
drudge is seen to be a monitor, a little
body with a mighty heart, then all its
habits, even that said to be recently ob
served, that it never bleeps, becomes
sublime.
Two persons who hove chosen each
other out of all tho species, with the de
sign to be each other's mutual comfort
and entertainment, have, in that action,
bound themselves to be good humored,
affable, discreet, forgiving, patient and
joyful, with respect to each other's frail
ties and perfections, to the end of their
lives.
A Disagreeable Position.
In a divorce case in Nashville the
Judge said : "The position of a step
mother was not to be envied. She
went into a family to take the trying
part of acting as the mother of the
children of another, whose placo it was
impossible to supply. The children
considered her an intruder, and enter
tained a hate for her which was alto
gether unnatural. In the present case,
a high-minded young woman had at
tempted to fill that difficult position,
and was tormented almost to death. The
husband had grown cold to her, they
had both, perhaps, been somewhat mis
taken in their affections, and it was not
difficult to seo that when a husband aud
wife got as cold towards eaeh other as
two frogs, they could no longer live
happily together. The husband had
put out an advertisement saying to the
world that she had left him without
cause and that she was not to be trust
ed. This was itself sullicieut to prevent
reconciliation with a high-toned woman.
The man who could advertise his own
wife as he would a stray horse, could
neither have respect nor love for her.
It was in the very nature of woman to
love, and that love should always be
cherished by the husband. No man
had a right to treat the affection of a
wife with coldness. It was to the indif
ference ; to her finer sensibilities that
might be traceable numberless separa
tions, which might have easily been
avoided. In the present case the hus
band had Bent mediators, and she had
said that if he desired to bring about a
reconciliation, it was his duty to Bee
her, and not to act through other
parties.
A Thankful Professor.
Professor Sedgwick was geologizing
in a quarry near high-road m .England,
dressed iu a rough suit for the purpose,
and striking vigorous blows with his
hammer upon the rock, when a travel
ing carriage coming up stopped at the
place, and a gentleman within, beckoned
to the professor to come up to the door,
as ho wanted to know the way to the
residence of a nobleman in that locality.
Professor Sedgwick having answered
this and various other questions put to
him very readily, the gentleman, pleas
ed with what he deemed the intelligence
and civility of the quarryman, offered
him a shilling, which was received with
thanks. The carriage drove on, taking
its occupant to the nobleman's house,
where he was an invited guest. Soon
after Professor Sedgwick followed him,
fer he was staying there at that time
himself. At dinner they happened to
be seated near each other, and soon fell
into conversation. After a while the
gentleman, looking earnestly at Profes
sor Sedgwick, observed,
" I think I must have had the pleas
ure of seeing you before, and that not
very long ago ?"
" un yes r was tne reply; you saw
me this morning, and gave me a shilling
for answering a whole string of ques
tions, and I was much obliged to you for
it."
Children's Furs.
Seal furs will be preferred for child
ren this winter. The set consists of a
sacque, muff, and boa; the sacques cost
from 850 to $75, muffs from $8 to $12,
and boas are about the price of muff's.
A turban to be worn with these sets
costs from $7 to $10. There are also
warm, and durable sets of the curly gray
krimmer and of gray Persiani at much
lower prices. White cony sacques,
muffs, and turbans are pretty for tiny
little girls, and are very reasonable in
price. The best and most durable cony
fur sacques cost from $7 to $10, muffs
are $1.50 only, and the turban the same
price.
Reduction of Wages. The builders
association of New York have reduced
the wages of their employees. Masons
and bricklayers are to be paid at the
rate of $3.50 instead of $4 for the day's
work of eight hours, and laborers are to
have $2 instead of $2.60 per day. There
is but a small amount of building going
on at present,
Items of Interest.
Des Moines has restored corporal
punishment in its schools.
California is successful in raising
tobacco, as in everything else.
President Grant is in favor of adding
$44,000,000 legal-tender reserve to the
permanent circulation.
Many Southern and Western towns
are crying out for sparrows to keep
down the caterpillar crop.
It is unkind to ridicule t hose items
in the papers about centenarians. It is
no easv thing to become a centenarian
several have failed.
Five hundred miuers at Leith, who
struck againBt the employment of ono
man, have gained their end by the sacri
fice of 2,500 in wages.
Tho Governor of Turkestan is a
miserable tyrant, and makes people sell
their children, to pay tho heavy and
unnecessary fines he imposes,
A Vermont man went over to an island
to live as Robinson Crusoe did, but his
wife followed with a club, and his soli
tary life, lasted only three hours.
A letter from St. John, N. F., says
that merchants, fishermen, and all
traders are jubilant over the splendid
success of the fisheries this season.
A Western editor has placed over his
marriage heading a cut representing a
largo trap sprung, with the motto, "The
trap down; another ninny caught 1"
A new style of collar, said to be in
tended for gentlemen, is the nearest ap
proach to the kind worn by "end men"
in minstrel companies we have seen.
The eight new sloops of war author
ized at the last session of the U. S
Congress, will probably be ready before
the close of next year, and sent abroad.
An emigrant on his way to Kansas
with his wife and seven barefooted
children was lately swindled out of S230
by a confidence operator at Indianapo
lis. The farmers in some parts of the
country are hoarding greenbacks to
such an extent in their houses that it is
thought the enterprise of bank burglars
will be turned in that direction.
A Vermont woman who recently fol
lowed the remains of her rather irregu
lar husband to the grave, afterwards re
marked that she had one consolation
sho knew now where he slept nights.
In Keene, N. H., a toadstool was
lately observed to have grown up be
neath a concrete walk, breaking and
pushing awny a crust that bore a heavi
ly loaded team without perceptibly
yielding.
The Rangoon (India) Gazette fur
nishes the following item of news:
" Four troopers have been scnteuced at
Cabul to be blown from guns for the
murder of Mallik Abdul Kadir, a Lugh
man chief."
Workmen have been discharged from
the iron-works in Baugor, Me., and
other places, wages have been reduced
at Alexandria, Va., and Louisville, Ky.,
and mills in many of the States are to
work on half time.
The vote by which a resolution au
thorizing ft loan of 2,500,000 to the In
dustrial Exhibition Company was re
cently adopted by the Board of Alder
men of New York, has been reconsider
ed and the resolution tabled.
Probably the oldest timber in tho
world winch has been subjected to tho
use of man is found in tho ancient tem
ples of Egypt. It is found in connec
tion with stone work which is known to
bo at least four thousand years old.
A correspondent of the Scientific
American says a certain cure for nose
bleeding is to extend the arm perpen
dicularly against a wall or post, or any
convenient object for a support. The
arm on the side from which the blood
proceeds is the one to elevate.
An English veterinarian adduces
facts to show that rabies or canine mad
ness is very rare in extreme tempera
tures, while it is of frequent occuvrenee
in the temperate zone. The disease is
less frequent in Spain and Southern
Italy than in other European countries.
First reveller (on being turned out of
the "Caledonian Club): "Come and
take a glass at my rooms." Second rev
eller : " Na, nn, ah've had mair than
eneueh!" First reveller: "Hoots!
Tak' anither, mnn ! D'ye no see ye're
lettin' yer judgment get the better o
ye?"
" What is it, Katy ?" said tho teaoh
er. "I want to know how to spell tun
kan," said the little girl. " Explain,"
said tho teacher. "Why, I want to
write, I love my teacher more than
tunkan (tongue can) tell," said the
child. That child understood phonog
raphy.
"Oh, what is the panio?"the little
boy said, as his mamma was tucking
him snugly in bed. "The panic, my
love," was the mother's reply, while a
tear all unnoted distilled from her eye,
and she Btifled a sob, at the risk of her
stays, "Is a beast that has cost ma a
new polonaise!"
An exchange pertinently asks : How
can any person with common sense
(mother or servant girl) push the baby
carriage towards the rays of the sun
along the whole street ? It seems iu
oredible; yet we see it every sunny day.
When the baby will be twenty years old,
it will have weak eyes and wonder
why."
A correspondent of the London News
writes: I was struck by the genuine
politeness of the audience at the Mos
cow opera. The Czar entered in the
middlo ot the first act. At his entering
there was no demonstration. But after
the act was over the whole audience rose
and made a simultaneous bow, which
the Emperor returned quite formally.
A confidence operator literally cap
tured the town of Gilman, 111., the
other day. In one day he succeeded in
buying up all the live stock in the town,
and making large contracts ahead, and
on the strength of these operations
borrowed nearly all the money in the
town. Before night he borrowed a
horse and buggy and left. A short time
after 'his departure there 'was a lively
f armers'movement in Gilman, which re
sulted in the capture ol the operator.
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