h , i . ?. HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Publisher. NIL DESPERANDUM. Two Dollars per Annum. VOL.111. ' IlIDGAVAY, ELK COUNTY, PA., THU11SDAY, JANUARY 22, "1874. NO. 47. Tho Sufi and tho Hart J p. " Tho flying of the arrow In the air ( The shifting of tl o shuttle In tho loom ; The sinking of the water In the sand The passing from the cranio To the tomb j Toll mo, Sufl, tell me. is it all ? " What the bow that shootH us Into life ? Where the loom that throws lis To and fro ? Whose the hand Hint spills ub Into death ? What in the malting mars ns Here below ? 0 tell nio, toll me, Hull, what it is '. " I see the arrow tlyii'K, Not what sends it ; The bo it that shoots it hither, And who bends it ; 1 see tho shuttle shifting, X.t what throws it ; The weaver who begun it, And will close it ! I see the water sinking, Not what spilis it ; The emptied pitcher filling, And w ho fills it ; But where the arrow flieth, And what the loom is weaving, And whore tho water sinkoth I do not see at all. What in tho cradle lioth, And what is it that thinketb, And what it iB that dicth The living and tho leaving I do not know it all. TeiliBps it is not, Hadje ; Ferhaps it docs but seem The shadow of a vanished cloud On a troubled stream ; What some Tower remembers tho phantom of its Dream." A DAY'S INCIDENTS. by. a lady. August 7, 183--: Past 10 p. m. I utu very weary, but I must write out tlufcincidents of this day while fresh upon ltty memory. What a pleasant ouo, wlSt a memorable tiny it has been to me 1 4'he boys deserved it well ; how beautifully they ncquitted themselves at the examination of tho Grammar School, anil how admirably they spoke in the evening. Fred so calm, self possessed and gentlemanly ; Charley so bright and bunyant so full of fun ; how his ejes sparkled and told the hu mor in his speech long before he pro nounced the words ! But let mo begin nt the beginning. We rose at the break of day. Honney nnd I washed and dresst'd them nicely. Everything, even to the little linen gloves that Charley hates so much, was complete. Then we sent them to break fast while I made my toilet. I had just finished my cup of coffee when the omnibus came for us, and we left the cottage as quiet as if no one had risen ; for every member of the house hold would slumber long after we came away except Honney. She, I believe, never sleejis ; always ready, always prompt bless you, Honney ! We reached the cars in ample tiaio ; quite sufficient to enable Charley to get the genealogy of a fine brown pup a pleasai-looking farmer was taking along with him. Theman was so pleased with the little fellow that they chat ted away the whole distance to Newark, nnd it was quite pathetic to see the farewell between them. We soon found ourselves at the hotel in New York. There we found friends. They wel comed me to the city once more ; ad mired my boys greatly. Wasn't I hap py ? Iiut, poor rustic that I am, I could not enjoy their conversation, the noise was so great, the confusion so intolera ble. Who would believe one could be come so truly uncitified iu eighteen short months t I absolutely trembled when I found myself once more in Broadway, but I noon got into the vortex, and whirled cn like the rest. Such shopping ! That Charley ! how he bobbed in ami bobbed out stopping now at this window then in the middle of the pavement to admire " a noble span of horses " then to be jostled, pushed here, then there, while they laughed till they cried at a monkey which on organ-grinder was carrying fcbout ! And 1, as bad as they, was equally amused at the cunning creature, till on looking up, I saw two gentlemen apparently enjoying our ver dancy as much as we did the wonderful tricks of the monkey. At last we tore ourselves away. Poor rustics, we do not see a monkey every day 1 Who should I see coming out of the Btoro but Mrs. W , as usual, charm ingly dressed. She looked me full in the face, and her eyes fell, while I was on the point of rushing up to her with open arms. Simpleton that I am, to forget we have lost so much money in these commercial boulcverscments as to be obliged to retire to tho country to economize. Besides, how could she speak to mo at that time of day in Broadway ? me, little rustic, in my black silk dress, plain bonnet, and sim ple black scarf. To be sure, I had neat gloves and boots on : more than she had with all her finery. Ske never was complete in the fullest dress ; always something wanting. Fool that I was, to feel such a heartache because I was not remembered by a fashionable woman. How could I expect her to re member that my house had been open to her at all hours ; how she had walked in and out, drinking and eating, and using my carriage as if it had been her own. To be sura, she wrote me a long note after we went to the country to ask how large a house wo had ; what sort of company, rides, walks, and all that. But when I answered that our house was a cottage, pleasant and v roomy, but with no spare bedrooms ; t&st I had too much to do at home to be able to judge of the society about me ; that I was busy preparing my hennery, I never heard from her again. Heigh-ho, it is sad to be forgotten thus ! One's vanity is not gratified at finding we were valued for our money and clothes. Thus I moralized as we w ent np Broadway. We were going to a toy-shop. Who should be there but Mrs. C . She was busy selecting some fancy article. I had just received one lesson, nnd I am a very npt scholar. So she looked at me as 'if she had never Been me be fore in all her life ; and I looked ns calmly nt her. Could sho have for gotten that dreary night when her sav age, drunken husband turned her into the street, nud she took refnge wiih me; and how 1 wept for her mortification, and took her down to the boat at early dawn, loaning her money to get off to her friends at Philadelphia, before the Uppertendom could get hold of the circumstance ? As we anticipated, we mystified them nil until a peace was patched up. Well, perhaps she does right not to remember such disagreeable contretemps; but I could never have overlooked such acts of kindness. Happy those who enn wipe off their memories as a schoolboy docs his slate I I wonder if their consciences aro as tractable! She was looking at a box of games the very thing we had come after, and the last one in the store. However, I said nothing, while Charley selected his marbles those many-colored alleys ; Fred took a top, and his share of "these beauties ;" and I chose a light carriage whip which I shall want for use when wo drive into town. Charley "could carry it finely," he said. Then we must get a small china tea set for Dolly's " tea fights," the commission from the little girls. All this while Mrs. C lingered over the box, but in truth watching me. At last sho said in her deprecating tone of voice " Oh, Mr. Boufanti, yon ask too much for this box, I positively cannot take it ;" and she pushed the box away. "I'll take it, if you please, Mr. Bon fanti," said I, laying the full price down. ne wrapped it up, and ns we left the store Fred whispered, " Oh, mamma, how very angry that lady looked I" It seemed that I was doomed to bo "cut'' on all sides this day. Rose Y passed by just as we left the store ; but her vail required fixing when she saw me. I do not wonder nt that, for her father caused my husband to lose ten thousand dollars. He failed ; so did we. He etill lives in great style in his up-town house, and we in a cottage in the country, having given up everything to pay our debts. I wonder how she would net if I reminded her that she never paid me the advance I made to enable her to settle her bill nt Newport summer before last. I'll write to her to-morrow just for the fun of the thing. Goldsmith says, " If you can con fess your poverty tho severity of the sting is partly removed," I'll try the prescription. I was rich then, and had money to loan ; now it is supposed, and rightly too, that tnere is nothing more to be got out of us. "N'importc," said I ; money never gave me hnppiness. Adversity, like the venomous tond, has a jewel in her head," and I have learned many excellent lessons by its light, for which I am very thankful, so I will not look ngain at any one as I walk this day, and I shall prevent them from com promising themselves. Wo then went into a book-store, bought the "Arabian Nights," and a book of fairy tales for the long winter evenings ; then to the dry goods store for tapes, needles, cotton, etc. See Ex pense Book. We then returned to tho hotel and lunched. How could we leave tho cily without going down to the Bat tery ?" Loug we walked, and looked, nud took in the benutiful scene for memory to paint ; at least for me, for many a day when probably I may be making bread or feeding chickens. Well, sup pose it does intrude, what then ? It would be more beautiful from the con trast to the employment. What a fool I nm to think so repiningly of matters and tilings. When I lived in the city I thought it vulgar to be seen on the Bat tery ; nnd now, because my eyes are open to the exquisite charms of nature, I hate to confess to myself that I am wiser and happier for it. Heigh-ho! we are strangely made. We walked down leisurely to the boat for Jersey City. What a number of bundles we had, to be sure. I never could have believed it till they were collected ; but by filling my pocket, the boys' pockets and their hats, and dividing the parcels between u, we got along nicely. I really would have pardoned any of the upper ten for not acknowledging me as we went down to the boat. I looked very liko a " hewer of wood and a drawer of water " with my arms full but they were all paid for ; that wis something. Early as it was, the boat was nearly full. However, we got seats. At the end of the bench nearest to Charley sat a very fine-looking really handsome gentleman, reading a newspaper. I thought I had time to take a peep at Jane's letter. If I had had it on tho Battery, what a nice place It would have been to have read about the Tulleries and Paris ; but I received it after our return to the hotel. I thought, "Now I'll just take a peep." It was fivo minutes to the starting-time. I had reached the bottom of the page. She was telling me of the annoyances sho had with the crabbed old man, her husband. "That's for marrying for money." . I looked up, and Master Charley was off. "Fred, where's your brother?" said I. How could Fred know ? He was deep in one of the " Nights " he was far away in Araby the Blest. ' Now," said I, " you must mind the bundles while I go and hunt him up." After pushing and "please ma'am-ing," and " thank you, siring " through the crowd, I found the chap perched up on somebody's carriage that was going over in the boat, and trying the efficiency of the new carriage-whip. I coaxed him down, and got him safely back, and placed myself between him and Fred, and resumed my letter. Jane gets the value of the postage in writing, if nothing else. Jane was telling me in the letter of a cruel piece of scandal about a poor girl, and begging me to contradict it. Ah, Jane, those days are gone when a lie, if I could condescend to tell one, was as holy as truth; but now holy truth would have to be substantiated by the money-bag. A man's veraoity is in ratio to the money he has in bank. When I got to the bottom ef the page, Charley was off whip and all. " Fred," said I, " do give np your book, nnd attend to these bundles, while I hunt up that tiresome brother ngain." By this time we were half across tho riyer. There h was, cracking the whip ond " gee-ing " at the horses. I had a stout battle to get him off, and if it had not been for fear ef losing the bundle of mixed candy we were carrying home, he would have remained in spite of me. Master Charley becomes a sort of a tyrant under such circumstances, par ticularly when a horse is concerned. However, we got back to our seats. "Now, Charley," said I, "if you leave me ngnin I shall not bring you to the city for many months. Keep still, that's a dear child. Suppose I should have to hunt you up when we get ashore, wo shall lose the cars, nnd how frightened they will be about us at home." " Oh, do let me go back and see tho horses again ! I'll wnit for you there," he pleaded. " You could not wait for mo ; the crowd would probably push you over board, my child. Now be a good boy 1" The fine-looking gentleman was fold ing up his newspaper. " Madam," he said, " if yon will al low me, I'll take charge of our little friend to see the horses, nnd I will meet you as you leave tho boat. I'll take care of him." Before I could answer, Chnrlcy had him by the hand, and I saw them push ing through the crowd, as if they had known each other all their lives. On stepping ashore they were waiting for us. " Thank you, sir," said I, " for your great kindness. Now, Charley, tako your parcels, and let us get into tho cars. " Permit me," he snid ; I can relieve you of a few of them." And he calmly took two of the larg est, and walked on before us. We fol lowed. " Well," thought I, "if you are so polite, it will, indeed, assist me ;" so we got into the cars. "Madam," he said, "have you bought your tickets ?" " I always buy the tickets 1" answered Charley. " Come, mamma, come 1" "No, no," he replied; "you and I will go, then, and get the tickets." I watched them to the ticket-office. How many bows he received many gentlemen shaking him by the hand so respectfully Who could he be? They returned slowly. Two boys were finish ing a game of marbles. Charley could not pass them without trying one of his bright "alleys." So there he stood, looking down tipon the three boys, as deeply concerned in the game as they were, his thumbs in his armholes. What a very noble-looking man he is 1 " All aboard 1" and they entered the cars. " Who beat ?" asked Fred. "I did," said Charley; "but I gave the boy a green alley ; he asked me for it." I had kept two seats, for we were not very crowded. He gave me the tickets. " Thank you, sir !" I exclaimed. " I scarcely know how to express to you my gratitude for your kind assistance." " None is necessary," he answered. " It is quite refreshing to have such a bright, manly little companion as this. How old is he ?" " He will soon bo seven," I replied. " He is a noble little fellow !" he said. " It is a long while since I have watched a game of marbles with so much interest. We do, indeed, put away childish things as we grow old." " Just so," said I. "What a blessing it wuold be to us if, when we reached our second childhood, we could carry the zest for its pleasure along with its helplessness." 1 could not avoid looking at a very old man whom a grandchild, apparent ly, was trying to amuse just in front of us. " How hard the lesson is to learn to know how to grow old wisely and grace fully," he said, and seemed to muse for a few moments. " You have your boys at school somewhere out here, have you not ? Charley tells me he got his trip to the city to-day because he had learned his speech so well.' " Yes, sir," I replied ; " they are at Grammar school. It is an excellent one, being kept by a well-educated and able man from Edinburgh. Happy for me he is a Scotchman, or I fear I should be separated from my boys, my husband seems so desirous of sending them abroad." " Why should you object to that ?" he asked. " I navo my own ideas about educa tion," said I ; "I think it is as much obtained at tho domestic; fireside as in the school-room ; there is nothing like the memcry of homo influences for a man." We continued the topic for a short time Charley, in the meanwhile, was emptying his pocket into my lap. " Mamma," he said, " do yon believe I have only one penny left ! "How many had you, Chnrlcy?" asked the gentleman. "I had fifty-nine, sir." " How did you get them ?" he asked. "I worked for them," answered Charley, " hoeing potatoes and pulling up weeds. Mamma pays us six cents an hour ; but I never could work very long ; and then, you know, we must have luncheon, and I spend most of my pennies for cake 1" " Stop, Charley,' said Fred, " you meant to say molasses candy. We take cake always from home." "That's right, my son," said the stranger, " be ever exact and particular in all your statements. Love truth next to your mother." "Mamma says," answered Charley, " we must love it before father and mother and all." " She is right," he said, "You should love her the more for her teaehing you such an exoellent lesson. Now, what are you going to do with that one penny, Charley?" " Spend it as soon as I get a chance," replied Charley. How he laughed ! After a few moments he said : " Suppose I tell you what I did with a penny once, how long I kept it, and what it did for me. Shall I tell you ?" " Oh, do !" cried both boys. " We do love tales so much. Mamma tells us one every evening." " Mamma must have a fertilo brain, I'm thinking, to find sufficient novelty to nmuso the minds of two such active fellows ns you are," he replied. "Oh I" said Charley, "she tells us she has ft wind-mill in her head, nnd can grind a new one every time wo want one." Then he laughed merrily. " But let me go on with my story," said he. " I wns very small then younger than you are, Charley. I was on my way to school one morning when I had to pass a field in which a rich farmer who owned it was trying to catch a horse. I stood looking over the fence, nnd laugh ing at the tricks of the horse. " Boy,' said he, 'if yoa will catch thnt horse I'll pay you.' " So I put my books down nnd went to work. Bound I ran, down there, np here, shook the corn, crept up softly, .went behind, then before, chased him into a corner, and the old man and I were then sure we had him ; but nwny he went over the fence, and 1 after him. About a mile from where we started two men caught him for me, lent me a halter, and I rode him home. By this time the morning was gone and I had not been to school. " ' Come bacit,' said the farmer, 'and I'll pay you in the afternoon.' " I went on to school. The master asked where I had been playing hookey, nnd I told him about tho horse. Then didn't I ' catch it,' Do you ever catch it,' Charley?" " I guess I do 1 answered Charley ; "but Fred don't often." "Well, I caught it. 'But never mind,' snid I to myself, ' I shall have some money to buy a book. I wanted it very much. I loved books as much as Fred does. So I dried my eyes. We carried our dinners to school, my brother nnd I ; but I had no appetite after I ' caught it.' " " Oh 1" said Charley, with snch an air, " I don't mind it so much as that." The gentleman positively shouted, he was so much amused. "Well," he continued, wiping his eyes, " the school was out, and we all went our different paths home. My brother went with me to the old farm er's ; and what do you think he gave me? Mind you, I had run all the morning till I was almost sick, and had ' caught it ' besides, Charley ; and ho .gave me how much, Fred ?" "A shilling an hour," answered Fred, in his business way. "Five dollars," said Charley. " He gave me one penny, with a hole in it!" " Oh, the mean old scamp! Didn't you slap it into his face ?" asked Char ley. " No, indeed ; pennies were not so very plentiful in my youthful days as to allow that. I tooklt home nnd put it away carefully. How long do you suppose I was getting pennies together to buy that book ?" " About a month," said Charley. "I could mako two dollars a month if mamma did not count so strictly ; but she will have the whole hour. " Certainly," he answered ; she is right to keep to her bargain. I was just ten years saving up penny after penny before I could get my book. But I got it at last, and you don't know how much I valued it ; much more than if I had exercised less self-discipline. Many a time I would count my pennies and say, ' I never shall have enough to buy my book. I might as well spend this now ;' but my good angel would say 'No!' and I would withstand the temptation, and so add soon another penny. What book do you suppose it was ?" " A bible," said Fred. " No. There were always plenty of bibles iu our house, thank God!" " Robinson Crusoe," said Charley. " No," he answered, "I never had a chance of reading Nobinson Crusoe till my son and I read it together. Books were very scarce when I was young. It was a Horace. Do you know who Horace was ?" "Yes, sir,' said Fred. He was a poet, protected by Augustus ; he had for friends Mrecenas, Tibullus, Yirgil and others. He was a great man. His satires are the best of his works." " Well done, my little man," nn sweied the gentleman. " Pshaw," said Charley, " he did not learn that at school. Mamma teaches him all such things. That ain't book learning 1" now the gentleman laughed. " Madam," he said, " I congratulate you upon the great probability of your pre-eminent success in making two good men. Why should our men not be great and good with such mothers ? Borne could not boast of such women as ours ; a few isolated acts do indeed show somo bright characters. Ono thing we know ; when her decline be gan, tho fiast exhibition of it to the world was in the loss of dignity in her women. But we we must be a great nation with such women as we have even now in this our youth. My mo ther was a great and a good woman. Continue, madam, and reap your re ward." "I accept your compliment," said I, " for the rest of my sex ; but for my self, I feel that I cannot yet deserve it, for my experience is young ; but as 1 advance I shall grow wiser." A l. , DVD1UGU no i pcaaiuJ IU himself), " my mother was not highly eaucateu, Dut sne had strong excellent sense she was a good woman.", " Looking at you," I answered, " I should think she was something of a Madame Mere." " You have hit it. And fche loved pennies as well as the lady you men tion, because she had early been taught their value by experience. But she cannot boast of a Bonaparte for a son except iu the lovo I bear for her as great as was his for Madame Letitia." " Perhaps not. But she has a Chris tian and a good man, I am sure, for a son," said I ; " and tkat is better than all the glory and renown." " Oh," suid Charley, " I've been go ing several times to ask your name." "Why, Charley I" exclaimed Fred. " How very rude i" , " True, he answered, " bmt very honest. My name is my name is Tom Thumb." More likely," said Charley, "Jack the Giant Killer. I shall call you Jack." " Do," he replied, and laughed most heartily. " I like the name of Jack it is so innocent." And thus we chatted away till nt last we reached our station. John with the carriage was waiting for us. I delivered to him all our numerous parcels, nnd then turned to our kind gentleman, saying : "You must not allow me to depart without knowing to whom I owe so much pleasure for such a very pleas ant ride, nnd such great kindness as you have shown me." I then gave him my card. " We reside," I continued, "on the room above, in a neat, roomy and comfortable cottngo ; and if at any time you are passing this way, I need not say I should be so very happy to offer you some little civility all we have in our power in return for your exceeding kindness to ns. Fred nnd Charley, you will thank this kind gen tleman, I am sure." " That we will !" they cried. "Thank yon, sir 1 thank you, sir I" And Charley stepped up and touched his rosy lips to his hand. He looked around, and placing it on tho boy's head, said: " Heaven bless you, my boy ! Love your mother I Madam, you are very kind. I am a bettor and happier man for this little episode in my life. It has done me good. Here is my card ; and if nt a future day I can serve you, or either of your boys, call freely upon me. This afternoon's ride will not be forgotten, I assure you." He assisted me into the carriage ; the boys were there before me. I looked out as we started ; he smiled and kissed his hand. I turned up the card and there I read Daniel Webster. A Handy Dream. Our readers.says the Evansville (Ind.) Journal, will remember the case of the recovery of a watch and tho arrrst of the thief, who stole it from a Union township farmer some months ago, through a dream of the farmer's wife. Strange as the case appears a lady who lives in Warwick county, near the Spen cer county line, on the Evansvillo and Kockport stage road, has more than matched it by a dream through which she defeated a thief in an attempt to rob her house. Several weeks ngo tho lady, who has numerous relatives in this city and Bockport, dreamed that a man came to the house and sought lodging ; that he was taken in and put up-stairs to sleep, but before he went up stripped off his shoes and put them outside the door ; during tho night he came down stairs, robbed the house of all its valuables, and left. The inci dents of the dream were so vivid that the lady was awakened, awoke her hus band, and told him the dream, but ho only laughed and returned to sleep. This singular dream was repeated twice during the same night, and each time she awoke her husband and was laughed at. After several days the lady thought perhaps she deserved to be laughed at, and in a couple of weeks forgot all about her dream. One evening after the husband had been to town and re ceived a considerable sum of money a man came to the house opplying for lodging, was received, and after a good supper was shown a room, without a thought of the dream recurring to the lady until she was startled by discover ing tho shoes of the stranger in exactly the position she had seen the shoes in her dream, and then she remembered that he was in almost every particular the man of the dream. Again she sought her husband, and reckless of his deri sive laughter, told him her fears. This time she was not laughed at. The hus band mounted guard, and at a late hour the strange mau came creeping down stairs, fulfilling the dream in his man ner, and with a dark lantern in his baud, was making an examination of the lower rooms. One of the first things he saw was the husband with a gun iu his hand, and the first thing he heard was a de mand to " git." His prompt obedience spoiled the perfect fulfillment of tho dream, but it elevated the wife to a place in her husband's estimation even higher than that she had previously oc cupied, and it is pretty certain that she will never bo laughed at for another dream. An Earnest raster. " Burleigh," speaking of the personal and pecuniary attractiveness of the pas torship of .the Madison Square Presby terian Church, says of Dr. Duryea, who has declined the call : " He is greatly attached to his people, and considers his enterprise a sort of experiment that he is quite unwilling to abandon. His Brooklyn church is not rich. Still he has a salary of 87,000. He is a pastor of all work. He conducts the music, often leaves the pulpit to play the or gan, and has really been the chief en gineer of his sooiety from the start. To leave it will greatly endanger its pros- Eerity. But he is not rich ; large as is salary is, it does not support him, and a call to the foremost church of New York is not only honorable, but very seductive." A Pleasant Game. One of the barbaric games handed down to the Romans from time imme morial has just been forbidden by the authorities. It was too provocative of an appeal to the knife. The game was called Fassatella. The party chose a King and entered a wine-shop. Jacu man was obliged to call and pay for a certain quantity of wine, but no one might drink without permission of the King. II lie Happened to be a tvranni eal fellow, or had a secret grudge against ene of the party, he would ret ona or more of them furious, especially us me resi exuited always in the dis comfiture of their less lortuaate com. panions. Most of the serious quarrels at tho wine-cellars were traced to this game, but hosts and customers are alike indignant at its suppression, Complimentary. He " Don't you think, now, these are vewydweawy par ties, where the only parties one meets are parties one never knows ?" She " Not more dweawy than other nawties. where the only ones one knows are no ones. Giants. Tho body of Orestes, according to tie Greeks, was eleven feet and a half ; the giant Galbara, brought from Arabia to liome under Claudius Crcsar, was near ten feet : and tho bones of Secondilla and Pufio, keepers of the gardens of Sallnst, were but six inches shorter. Funnam, a Scotchman, who lived in tho time of Eugene the Second, King of Scotland, measured eleven feet and a half; and Jacob le Mcire, iu his voy age to the Straits of Magellan, reports that on the 17th of December, 1G15, they found at Port Desire several graves covered with stones ; and hav ing the curiosity to remove the stones, they discovered human skeletons of ten and eleven feet long. The Chevalier Scory in his voyage to tho peak of Xeneriffe, says that they found in one of the sepulchral caverns of that mountain, the head of a Gaun- t he, which had eighty teeth, and that tho body was not less than ntteen teet The giant l erragus, slam by Urianuo, nephew of Charlemagne, was eighteen feet high. ltoland, a celebrated anatomist, who wrote iu 1G11, Bays that, some years before, there was to be seen in the suburbs of St. Germain, tho tomb of the giant Isoret, who was twenty feet high. In llouen, m lu09, in digging in the ditches near the Dominicans, they found a stone tomb containing a skele ton, whose skull held a bushel of corn, and whose shin bone reached up to tho girdle of tho tallest man there, being about four feet long, and consequently the body must have been seventeen or eighteen feet high. Upon the tomb was a plate of copper, whereon was en graved, "In this tomb lies tne nobie and puissant lord, tho Chevalier Eicon de Yallemont, and his bones." Plate rus, a famous physician, declares that he saw at .Lucerne the true human bones of a subject which must have been at least nineteen feet high. Valence in Dauphine boasts of pos sessing the bones of the giant Bucart, tyrant of the Vivarais, who was slain by an arrow by the Count de Cabillon, his vassal. The Dominicans had a part of the shin-bone, with the articula tion of the knee, nnd his figure painted in fresco, with an inscription showing thnt this giant was twenty-two feet and a half high, and that his bones were found in 1705 near the bauks of the Morderi, a little river at the foot of the mouatain of Crussolupon which, tradi tion says, the giant dwelt. January 11, 1G13. some masons dig ging near the ruins of a castlo in Dauphine, in a field which by tradition had long been called tho Giant's Field, at the depth of eighteen feet discovered a brick tomb thirty feet long, twelve feet wide, and eight feet high, on which was a gray stone, with the words Thentobochus Bex cut thereon. When the tomb was opened they found a human skeleton entire twenty-five feet and a half long, ten feet wide across the shoulders, and five feet deep from tie breast-bone to the back. His teeth were about the size each of an ox's foot, and his shin-bone measured four feet. Near Mezarino. in Sicily, in 1510, was found a giant thirty feet high ; his head was the size of a hogshead, and each of his teeth weighed five ouncps. Near Palermo, in the valley of Maz- ara, in Sicily, a skeleton of a giant thirty feet loug was found in the year 1518, and another of thirty-three feet high in 1550 ; and many curious per sons have preserved several of these gigantio bones. The Athenians found near their city two famous skeletons, ono of thirty- four and the other of thirty-six feet high. At lotu, in Bohemia, in 7o8, was found a skeleton, the head of which could scarce be encompassed by tho arms of two men together, and whose legs, which they still keep in the caetlo of that city, were twenty-six feet long. The skull of the giant found in Mace donia, September, 1(591, held 210 pounds of corn. The celebrated Sir Hans Sloane, who treated this matter very learnedly, does not doubt these facts, but thinks the bones were those of elephants, whales, or other enormous animals. Elephants' bones may be shown for those of giants, but they never can lm pose on connoisseurs. Whales, which by their immenso bulk aro more proper to be substituted for the largest giants, have neither arms or legs ; and the head of that animal has not the least resemblance to that of a nn. If it be true, that a great num. berof the gigantio bones which wo have mentioned nave keen seen by anato mists, and have by them been reputed real human bones, tne existence of giants is proved. The Corn and Potato Crop. The Xational Crop Reporter pub lishes a final summary of the corn and potato crops of laid, iu Illinois, In diana. Iowa, Kansas, Wisconsin, Min nesota. Missouri, Ohio and Tennessee, compared with the crop of 1872. Tho i i,..l.l : 4i. csii- 1UDS 111 UUDUC1D Ul W1U 111 blieatS QlttlCB is in round numbers as follows: Illinois 114.200,000 Iudiana 12.000,000 Iowa 30.800,000 Kansas 14.500,000 Minnesota 1.600,000 Missouri 20,600.000 Ohio 20,000,000 Wisconsin 1,600,000 Tennessee 0.600,000 Total 241,200,000 The aggregate yield for 1873 in the States named is 514,000,000 bushels ncrdinst 756.000.000 in 1872. The potato crop in the States named shows a loss in rouna numoers in dusu els as. follows: Illinois 6,000.000 Iowa 4.000,000 Kinxas 2,300,000 Minnesota ,000 Misiouri . l,400,00o Ohio 1,400,000 Wisconsin 1.100,000 Indian l,30O,0U0 A total of 18,100,000 Tha Dororecata cron in these States was, for 1872, 47,000,000 bushels, and for 10Y3, 23,UUU,WU DUBUeiB. The Steamer Vlrglnlus, Menage of President Grant to the t'ntted State Congress. Washington. January 6. The Presi dent to-day sent the following message to the Senate and House of Represen tatives: In my annual message of December last I gave reason to expect that when the full and accurate text of the corres pondence relative to the Bteamer Vir ginius, which had been telegraphed in cipher, should be received, the papers concerning the capture of the vessel, the execution of a part of its passengers nnd crew, and the restoration of the ship and the survivors would be trans mitted to Congress in compliance with the expectations then held out. I now transmit the papers and correspondence on that subject. Un the twenty-sixth day of Septem ber, 1870, the Virginius was registered in tne Custom-house at JNew lork as the property of a citizen of the United States, he having first made oath ns re quired by law that he was the true nnd only owner of the said vessel, and that there was no subject or citizen of any foreign prince or state, directly or iadi rectly, by way of trust, confidence, or otherwise, interested therein. Having complied with the requisites of the statute in that behalf, she cleared in the usual way for the port of Curacoa, and ou or about the fourth day of Octo ber, 1870, sailed for that port. It is not disputed that she made the voyage according to her clearance, nor that from that day to this she has not re turned within the territorial jurisdic tion of tho United States. It is also understood that she preserved her American papers, and that when within foreign ports sho made the practice of putting forth claim to American nation ality, which was recognized by the authorities at such ports. When, therefore, sue lelt tne port of KiuSston in October laBt under the flag of the United States, she would appear to have had, as against all powers ex cept the United States, the right to fly that flag and to claim its protection as enjoyed by all regularly documented vessels, registered as part of our com mercial marine. No state of war ex isted conferring upon a maritime power the right to molest and detain upon the high seas a documented vessel, and it cannot be pretended that the Virginius had placed herself without the pale of all law by acts of piracy against the human race. If. her papers were irreg ular or fraudulent the offense was ono against the laws of tho United States, justifiable only in their tribunals. When, tlierelore, it became known that tho Virginius had been captured on the high seas by a Spanish man-of-war, that tho American flag had been hauled down by the captors, that tho vessel had been carried to a Spanish port, and that Spanish tribunals were taking jurisdiction over the persons of those found on her and exercising that -juris diction upon American citizens, not only in violatian of internatioual law but in contravention of the provisions of the treaty of 1795, I directed a de mand to be made upon Spain for the restoration of the vessel and for the re turn of the survivors to the protection of the United States, for a salute to the Bag, and for the punishment of the offending parties. The principles upon which these de mands rested could not be seriously questioned ; but it was suggested by the Spanish Government that there were grave doubts whether the Virginius was entitled to the character given her by her papers, and that therefore it might be proper for the United States after the surrender of the vessel and the sur vivors to dispense with the salute to the flag, should such facts bo established to their satisfaction. This seemed to bo reasonable and just. I therefore as sented to it, on the assurance that Spaiu would then declare that no insult to the flag of the United States had been in tended. I also authorized an agree ment to be made that should it be shown to the satisfaction of this Government that the Virginius was improperly bear ing the flag proceedings should be in stituted in our courts for tho punish ment of the ollense committed against the United States. On her part, Spain undertook to proceed against those who had offended the sovereignty of the United States or who had violated their treaty rights. The surrendering of the vessel and the survivors to the jurisdic tion of the tribunals of the United States was an admission of the princi ples upon which our demand has been founded. 1 therefore had no hesitation in agreeing to the arrangements finally made between the two governments. an arrangement which was moderate and just, and calculated to cement the good relations which have so long ex isted between Spain and the United States. Under this agreement the Virginius, with the American flag flying, was de livered to the Navy of the United States at lsahia Honda, in the island of Cuba, on the 16th ult. She was in an unseaworthy condition in the passage to New York. She en countered one of the most tempestuous of our winter storms. At the risk of their lives the officers and crew placed in charge of her attempted to keep her afloat. Their efforts were unavailing and she sunk off Cape Fear. The pris oners who survived the massacres were surrendered at Santiago de Cuba on the 18th ult., and reached the port of New York in safety. The evidenco sub mitted on the part of Spaiu to establish the fact that the Virginius at the time of her capture was improperly bearing the flag of the United States is trans mitted herewith, together with the opinion of the Attorney-General thereon and a copy of the note of the Spanish Minister, expressing on behalf of his Government a disclaimer of any intent of indignity to the flag of the United States. (Signed) U. S. Grant. A little daughter of E. P. Terhuue died in Newark in consequence of hav ing had her nervous system shocked a year ago by a fright. While rambling through the woods at the country resi dence of her father, a little friend jumped suddenly, upon her from a clump of bushes and frightened her so badly that she never recovered from it. r
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