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; The Coming: Man.
( A. pair of very chubby Iprh,
Encased in scarlet hone t
' A pntr of little stubby boolH,
, With rat W doubtful toes f
A little kilt ; a little coat,
! Out a mother can
And lo 1 before n utrldoit, in i'U,
Tho FiiUhu'h "coming man."
i lKa ych, perchance, will read the Uin,
i And smirch their unknown ways ;
i lVrohanca the human heart and soul
Will open to their gate j
Perchance their keen and flaahiug glance
Will be a nation' light
Those eyea that now are wintful bent
On aprae " big fellow'i " kite,
That brow, where mighty thought will dwell
( In aolumn, necrot atate ; ,
; Where fierce Ambition' regions Btrength
; Sliall war with future fate j
. Where Hclence from now bidden cave
; Now treanaros shall outpour
i Tin knit now, with a troubled doubt, 1
' Are two, or three, oeuta more?
! Those llpa that, lu the coming yeai a,
j Will plead, or pray, r teach ;
i Whoe whinpored wordu, on lightning fl(th,
!Frora world to world may reach
That atornly grave, may apeak command,
ji Or, arailing, wiu control
si Are coaxing now for ginger bread
With all a baby' eoul I
. Those hand those little bun band
( Ha ntlcky, small and brown ;
Thoae handa, whose only mlasioa seem
' To tear all order down
i Who know whut hidden atrength may lie
Within their future grasp,
' Though now tin but a Uffy-itick
i In atnrdy bold tbey claHp?
& Ah, blosingn on thoae littlo hand,
' '" Whose work 1 yet uudoue I
j And blum-lngs on thoae little feet,
, : Whoae race in yet nurun I
And blunging ou the bttle brain
That baa not learned to plan t
' ft'Uto'tr the Future hold lu store,
Ood bleM the "comhig man !"
THE JANDIDIER MYSTERY.
A FRfcNCU BTOHT.
1 A very abort time a?o. that is vaster.
't day, about four o'clock in the afternoon,
, at me imuuer an Marais was in an up-
. roar. It whs said that one of the re-
-j ; sectuMj merchants iu the Roi de4diuil
lw disappeared, and all the efforts U
v" ' discover him had proved fruit
tafcB. llie strange event was discussed
in all tae shops in the neighborhood ;
mere were groups around tho doors of
all the green-grocers, and every moment
, noma terrmea noiiBewiie arrived, bring
nig new Uelailn. The grocer at tli
kruer had the beat, freshest and most
onejt intelligence, having received it
from the lip3 of tlie oook who lived ir
j a . tho hoiiHp.
"So," said he. " yesterday, after din
te our neighbor, Jdonsieur Jandidier,
weut to his cellar and was never seen
. s m ainnppoarou, vanished, evapo-
r ea i
It occasionally happens that mysteri
Qua diMapnoarances are heard of. the
publio get exoi ed, aud prudent people
bay sword canes, policemen hear these
Hbsurdrtimors aud shrug their shoulders.
Ihoy ai-e familiar with the other aide of
theso closely embroidered canvasses
i Thfty search into tho matter and find,
instead of aitl&sa falsehoods, the truth;
insieaa oi romances, sad stories. Yet,
up to a certain point, the grooer in the
Kue Saint Louis told tho truth.
Monsieur Jandidier, manufacturer of
imitation jewelry, had really not been
h nne for twenty-four hours. Monsieur
Taeodore Jandidier was a very tall, very
b ild, niuu, about fifty-eight years old",
j K with sufficiently good manners, who had
amssed a considerable fortune in trade.
He had an income from stocks of twenty
thousand livres, and his business brought
him iu about fifty thousand francs, lie
was beloved and esteemed by his neigh
bors, and justly so, for his honesty was
aoove suspicion, his morality austere.
Married late in lift) to a poor relative, he
hal made her perfectly happy. He had
an only daughter, a pretty graceful girl,
named Terese, whom he adored. Bhe
had been engaged to the oldest son of
the banker Schmidt of the firm of
Bohmidt, O nbenheim & Worb Monsieur
Gustave ; but the match had been
broken off. no one knew why, for the
I young people were desperately in love
with each other. It waa 'said in the
who, as waa well 'known, would
kin a flint, had" reauired a dowry far
beyond the merchant's means.
ft Warned by publio rumor, which eon'
I utantly increased, the commissary of
police went to the home of the man who
was already called the victim, though no
exact information had been received
He found Madame and Mademoiselle
Jandidier in such transports of grief that
it was with theitmost difficulty that he
conld gather the truth. At last he learned
the following particulars :
The evening before. Haturdav. Mon
sieur Jandidier" bad dined with "his fam
ily as usual, but did not eat with much
appetite, having, ho said, a violent head
ache. After dinner he went to his ware
houses, gave some orders, and then en'
tered his office. Returning home at
half-past six, he told his wife he waa
going to walk. And he never appeared
asain. Ilavinflr carefully noted these
ft particulars, the commissary of police
requested -permission to tee Madame
Jandidier a few minutes alone. Bhe
made a sign of assent, and Mademoiselle
T hereee left the room.
Pardon, madaine." said the oommis-
i,iu-y of polioe, "the question I am about
to address to you. Do you know whether
your husband had I again ask your
Eardou any connection outside of the
ouse ?"
Madame Jandidier tdnvtod m : anger
dried her toars.
"I have been married twenty-three
years, monsieur ; my husband lms never
returned home later thuu ten oclocK.
Was your husbnnd in the habit of
going to any club or cafe f ho con
tinued.
Never; I wouldn't have allowed it."
" Did he usually carry valuable pnpers
about with him ?
" I don't know: I attend to r.y house
keeping, and don't trouble myself about
business matters.
It was impossible to get any further
information from the poor wife, who was
bewildered by grief.
Having accomplished his business, tho
commissary of police thought it his duty
to say a few words of commonplace con
solation to the poor woman. JJut when
he went away, after making inquiries in
the household, lie felt very anxious, and
began to suspect tho existence of a
crime. That very evening one of the
most skillful detectives, Ketiveau bet
ter known in the Rue de Jernsalem as
Maitre Magloire was put on the track
of Monsieur Jandidier, provided with
an excellent photograph of the mer
chant. The very morning after Monsieur
Jandidier had disappeared Maitre Mag
loire presented himself at the l'aluis de
Justice to report to the magistrate who
had charge of the matter.
" Well, Monsieur Magloire, siua the
magistrate, "so" you have discovered
something ?"
1 m on the track, monsieur.
"Speak !"
" To begin with, monsieur. Monsieur
Jandidier didn't leave his house ut half
past six, but at seven precisely,
" I'recisely
" Yes. I got my information from a
clock-maker in the Rue Saint Denis, who
is sure of the fact, because Monsieur
Jandidier, while passing his shop, took
out bis watch to compare it with the
clock over the door. He had an un-
ighted cigar in his mouth. On learning
this circumstance I said to myself. 'I
have him I he'll light his cigar some
where.' My reasoning waa correct; he
entered a shop in the Rue de Temple,
whero he is well known. The woman
remembered the cirnmslance because,
though he always smoked sou cigars, he
bought Loudon ones. "
How did he appear ?
He seemed very thoughtful, the
shopkeeper told me. It was through
her I learned he often went to the Cafe
rure. I went in aud was told he had
been there on Saturday evening. He
appeared depressed. The gentleman,
the waiter told me, talked all the time
about life insurance. At half-past eight
o'clock our man left the cafe with one
of his friends, Monsieur Blandureau. I
instantly went to tins gentleman, who
told me that he walked up the boulevard
with Monsieur Jandidier, who left him
on the corner of the Ruo Richelieu,
pleading a business engagement. He
was out of sorts, and seemed troubled
with the darkest presentiment."
"Very well, so far, murmured the
magistrate.
" On leaving Monsieur Blandureau 1
went to Rue du Roi-de-Sioile, to ascer
tain from somebody in the house wheth
er Monsieur Jandidier had any custom
ers or friends : there was only his tailor
in
the Rue Richelieu. I went to this
tailor. He saw our man on Saturday.
Monsieur Jandidier went to his shop
after nine o'clock to order a pair of pan
taloons. While his measure was being
taken he noticed that one of the buttons
on his vest was ready to fall off, and asked
to have it sewed on. He was obliged to
take off his overcoat to permit the little
repair to made, and as at the same time he
took out the contents of the side-pocket,
the tailor noticed several hundred-f rano
bank notes. "
Ah 1 that is a clew t Ho had a large
sum of money with him?"
" Not large, but considerable. The
tailor estimated it at twelve or fourteen
hundred francs."
' Go on," said the examining magis
trate.
"While his vest was being repaired
Monsieur Jandidier complained of sud
den illness, and sent a little boy out t
look for a carriage. He had to go to see
one of his workmen who lived a long dis
tance off, he said. Unfortunately, the
little fellow had forgotten the number of
the carriage. Ho only remembered that
it had yellow wheels and was drawn by
a large blaclt horse. This auorued a
clew. A circular seut to all the livery-
Btable keepers put me on the track. I
learned this morning that the number of
the carnage was 6,007. The driver, on
being questioned, distinctly remember
ed having been stopped about nine
o'clock on Saturday evening in the Rue
Richelieu, by a little boy, and having
waited ten minutes in front of the Maison
Gouin. The description of his face
suited our man, and he recognized the
photograph among five others I showed
him."
Maitre Magloire stopped ; he wanted
to enjoy the approval he read in the
magistrate's face,
"Monsieur Jandidier," he continued,
" was really driven to No. 48 Rue
d'Arras Saint Viotor, where one of
his workmen lives, a man named Jules
Tarot."
The manner in whioh Maitre Magloire
pronounced this name was intended to
arouse, and did arouse, the attention of
the magistrate.
" Ycu have suspicions V" ha asked.
" Not exactly ; but these are the facts
Monsieur Jandidier dismissed his car
riage at the Ruo d'Arras and went to
Tarot's room abjut tea o'clock. At
trleven the employe aud woikniun wen
out together. The workman did not re
turn till midnight, aud here I lose track
of my man. Of course I didn't ques
tion Tarot, lest I should put him on his
guard."
' Who is this Jules Tarot ?"
" A worker iu mother-'of pearl ; that
is, a man who polishes shells on a grind
stone, to give them a perfect lnstre. He
is a skillful fellow, and helped by his
wife, to whom he has taught his trade,
can make a hundred francs a week."
" They are in easy circumstances,
then."
" Oh ! no, they are both young ; they
have no children, they are Parisians ;
and, zounds, they amuse themselves.
Monday always squanders all the other
days bring."
Two hours after Maitre Magloire's re
port, several police-officers went to Jules
Tarot's lodgings to make a search. At
the sight of them the worker in mother-
of-pearl and his wife turned paler than
corpses and were seized with an attack of
nervous trembling thnt could not escape
the practiced eye of Maitre Magloire.
Yet, the most careful search having
failed to discover anything suspicious,
they were about to withdraw, when the
detective saw Tarot's wife anxiously
watching a cage that hung near the win
dow. This was a ray of light In an
instant Magloire had taken down the
cage. Twelve hundred-franc notes were
found between the boards of the floor.
This discovery seemed to crush the
workman, while his wife began- to utter
terrible shrieks, protesting that she and
her husband were innocent. On being
arrested and taken to the police-station
they were questioned by the examining
magistrate that very day. Their answers
were precisely the same. They ac
knowledged that they had had a vis'it
from their employer on Saturday even
ing. He seemed so ill that they had
off ered him something to take, which he
refused. He had come, he said, onac
count of an important order which he
proposed that Tarot should undertake,
hiring his own workmen. Tarot and his
wife replied that they could not do it
for want of means. Then their em
ployer said : " Never mind, I'll furnish
the money." and instantly put twelve
hundred-franc notes ou the table.
At eleven o'clock Monsieur Jandidier
a-ked his workman to show him out of
the house ; he was going to the Fau
bourg Saint Antoine. And, in fact,
Tarot accompanied him to the Place de
ia Bostile, crossing the Oonstantine
Bridge and walking along by the river.
The magistrate asked both husband
aud wife the very natural question :
" Why did you hide the money ?"
They made the same answer. Hearing
on Monday morning of Monsieur Jau
didier's disappearance, they were seized
with terror. Tarot had said to his wife :
"If it is known that our employer
came here, that I crossed the bridge and
walked along by the river with him, I
shall be compromised. If this money
were ever found in our possession we
should be lost." '
Tho wife then wanted to bum the
notes, bnt Tarot prevented it, intending
to return them to the family. This ex
planation was reasonable and plausible.
if not probable, but it was only an ex
planation. Tarot and his wife were still
detained iu custody.
A week after the magistrate was in the
utmost perplexity. Three new examina
tions had not enabled him to form an
opinion. Were Tarot and his wife inno
cent ? Or were they simply marvelously
clever m maintaining a probable Table i
The magistrate knew not what to do,
when one morning a strange rumor
reached his ears. The house of Jandidier
had just stopped payment. A detective
who was set to work brought back the
most startling news.
Monsieur Jandidier, who had been
considered so wealthy, was ruined,
utterly ruined, and for three years he
had sustained his credit only by means
of various expedients. He had not a
thousand francs, and notes falling due
at the end of the month amounted to
sixty-seven thousand, five hundred francs,
The cautious merchant speculated in
stocks. The magistrate had just learned
these particulars when Maitre Magloire
appeared, pale and panting lor breath
"You know, monsieur V" he cried,
from the threshold.
" All 1"
" Tarot is innocent."
"I believe him so; and yet that visit
how do you explain that visit ?
Magloire shook his head sorrowfully,
"I am only a fool," suid he, "and
Lecoq has just proved it Monsieur Jan-
didier spoke ot his life insurance at the
Cafe Ture. This was the key to the
affair. Jandidier was insured for two
hundred thousand francs, aud French
companies don't pay in case of suicide
Do you understand ?
Thanks to Monsieur unstaveoenmidt,
who will marry Mademoiselle ThereBe
Jandidier next month, the house of
Jandidier has not gone into bankruptcy
Tarot and his wife, restored to Uberty,
have been established in busiuess by
this Bunie Monsieur Gnstave, and no
longer go pleasuring on Mondays. Bat
what became of Monsieur Jandidier
thousand francs reward to whoever will
give news of him.
Men are generally more honest m
their private than in their publio capac
ity, and will go greater length to serve
party than wheu their own private inter
ett is alone concerned. Honor is a great
check upon mankind, but where a con
siderabfe bodv of men act together thi
check is in a great measure removed
since a man is bure to be approved of by
his own party for what promotes the
common interest, and he soon learna to
despise the clamors of adversaries.
Fortear to jud;
ntrs.
je, fur we are all bin
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
.lledlrnl Uinta.
Brcihk Swelling. To cure a swell
ing from a bruise, foment it for half an
hour, morning and evening, with hot
cloths dipped in vinegar and water as
hot as you can bear it.
Ccke for Warts. Worts may be re
moved, says a celebrated physioian, by
rubbing them, night and morning, with
a moistened piece of muriate of ammo
nia. They soften and dwindle away,
leaving no snob mark as follows their
dispersion with lunar caustic.
To Purify the Blood. Strictly diet
on oat-meal porridge, lean beei, plain
vegetables, fruit and Graham bread.
Eat no wheat bread or pastry or pud
dings ; no butter or grease whatever.
Butter and cheese secretly poison many
systems. Drink weak lemonade. Eat
regularly, and the dryer the food the
better. Food floating in greaso ref useB
to digest Substitute clear water not
ice water for tea or coffee. On retir
ing, apply cold cream or beef fat to the
complexion. Take the oils externally
instead of internally.
A Remedy for Catarrh. A farmer's
daughter Bays : Dry and powder mulleu
leaves as fine as you would powder sago ;
then smoke as you would tobacco, let
ting the smoke escape through the nos
trils instead of the mouth. This is one
of the best of remedies for catarrh in
the head. It has entirely cured a case
of over twenty years' standing, when
every other remedy heard of has failed
to do so. It may require a uttie prac
tice to let the smoke escape through the
nostrils. Mullen will be stronger gath
ered before the frost injures it, but will
answer even if dug from under the snow.
It will also be found an excellent reme
dy for cold in the head.
Plowing and .Hanurlua;.
A correspondent of the American
Farmer says ; The above constitutes
two first essentials in the production of
good crops, and should receive special
attention at the hands of every one who
would cultivate and produce a good
crop, let it be corn, tobacco, cotton or
potatoes, etc.
Thorongh plowing I consider the more
important of the two. for unless the
ground is well plowed, the best manur
ing will have comparatively little enect,
whereas land well and thoroughlypiowed
with light fertilizing will produce fairly,
but with better manuring will produce
a profit: still there is a limit beyond
which profit ceases, and just where this
limit is the cultivator must be the judge,
after experiment; but generally there is
littlo danger of exceeding it
Flowing, to be thorongh, should be bo
performed that the soil shall be broken
aud made as nne as possible; you cannot
pulverize too much.
1'low deep is a relative term, and may
mean very differently on different soilB,
for while four inches may be deep for
one soil, ten or twelve may be less so ou
others, bo that here we must be governed
by the natnre of the soil plowed. Sub
soil ploughing is a distinctive ditlerence
from the common acceptation of the
term plowing, yet is often used with the
same meaning. bub-soiling on most
soils, iu connection with good plowing,
is one of the essentials of certainty of a
good product; the deeper and more
thoroughly the sub-soil is broken the
better, as no crop will bo likely to snffer
the effects of drought or wet where the
ground is sub-soiled, as whera only sur
face plowed.
In plowing under manure it should
not be turned dowu to the bottom of the
turned soil, if we wish the benefit of
any portion of it in the present crop.
The nearer the surface, and have it
covered in the soil, we keep manure, the
greater benefit the crop will receive from
it. Heroin lies one benefit of plowing
under the manure shallow, and again
plowing the Bame ground a trifle deeper;
which, while it mixes the manure with
the soil, still keeps the greatest portion
near the purface, just where the roots of
the young plant will be benefited by it;
and as the water of rains dissolve and
wash down the portions of the salts,
etc., the later roots of the same plants
find and appropriate what they most re
quire, and thus the manure is equalized
tiirough the soil.
Southern men have informed me that
it would not answer to plow deep, as
with their sudden powerful showers the
land would go seaward, from washing, I
suppose; however thnt may be 1 am un
able to say, as I have no experience
there; but from what I read of the ex
perience of tho most successful South
ern planters, I think I should venture a
trial and see the result 1 know here at
the North the more shallow plowed
ground washes worse than that which is
deeply worked, and also crops grown on
shallow worked soil are less certain and
more subject to tho vioissitudes of the
season, wet or drought, than where the
ground is deeply worked.
A Cane of Elephantiasis.
A man with his legs almost petrified
died at New Haven, recently, iu James
Featherstone, aged 71, who for many
years buffered from elephantiasis ara
bum. He had a "crick" in his back
U.n years ago and took to his bed, and
has never since been out of it About
a year later the soles of his feet began
to harden and look like stone, and his
legs swelled and were covered with
scabs, ulcers and homy excrescences,
sometimes two inches long, presenting a
sickening eight, until at his death they
measured some thirty-five inches around
the calf and weighed about eighty
pounds. The case has attracted wide
attention from physicians, aud is thought
to be the first of the kind in New Eng
land. SjjriijUld (Man.) Jirpubliv&t.
. Lynch LawIts Origin.
James Lynch was mayor of Galway,
Ireland, in 1473. He had made several
voyages to Spain, and on one occasion
brought home with him the bou of a re
spectable Spanish merchant, named
Gomez. Walter Lynch, the only pon of
the mayor of Galway, was engaged to a
beautiful young lady of good family and
fortune, rieparatory to the nuptials
tho mayor gave n splendid
entertain-1
ment, at which young Lynch fancied his
intended bride viewed his Spanish friend
with too much regard. He accused his
beloved Agnes of unfaithfulness to him,
and she, irritated at his injustice, dis
daintkl to deny the charge, and they
parted in anger. On the following
night, while Walter Lynch slowly passed
the residence of Agnes, he observed
young Gomez to leave the house, he
having been invited by her father to
spend that evening with him. In the
madness of 'jealously Lynch rushed on
his unsuspecting friend, who fled to a
solitary quarter of the town near the
shore. Lynch maintained the pursuit
till his victim had nearly reached the
water's edge, when he overtook him,
and stabbed him to the heart, and threw
the body into the sea, which cast it back
ngain on tho shore, where it was found
and recognized the following morning.
The wretched murderer surrendered him
self; and his father, being chief magis
trate of the town, entrusted with the
power of life and death, found liimBelf
obliged to condemn his son to death.
On the night preceding his execution,
his mother went to the heads oi her
family and prevailed on them to attempt
a rescue. The morning of the execution
an immense crowd hail assembled, who
cried loudly for mercy to the culprit.
The'mayor exhorted them to submit to
the laws; but, finding them determined
ou a rescue, he, by a desperate victory,
overcame parental feelings, and finding
that his efforts to accomplish the ends of
justice in tho usual plflcel and by the
usual hands, were fruitless, he became
executioner himself, and, from the win
dows of his own house, launched his un
fortunate son into eternity.
Power of Example.
Speaking of a recent, suicide in New
York, a correspondent adds : The natu
ral inclination to follow an evil example
was illustrated by the monumeut sui
cides in London. The monument is 200
feet high, and its summit once was open
to the public, with but a small protective
railing. More than seventy years ago,
however,, a man leaped over the rail and
was picked up dead. Hib example was
soon afterward followed by another, and
the monument suicides became so f re
fluent that a tall railing was built,
which effectually prevented any further
attempt.
Similar instances of the power of ex
ample have occurred in this city. A man,
for instance, leaped from the wheelhouse
of a steam ferryboat some years ago and
was drowned, immediately mere was a
run of "fltenmboat suicide." Another
striking case was that of Dr. Wells, the
once noted Hartford dentist, and (as it is
claimed) the discoyerer of chloroform
He came from Hartford to this city to
attend to his discovery, and iu the even
ing walked out to see New York by gas
light He became, no doubt, slightly
intoxicated and was included in a number
of arrests made that night When he
came to, he found himself the inmate of
a cell, and he knew that as soon as this
dreadful fact becamo known .his reputa
tion would be destroyed. Uuablo to
contemplate such a result the unfortu
nate man oueuod a vein and then dosed
himself with chloroform, and was found
iu the morning dead. That season
large number of thloroform suicides took
nlacea. Hotel Biueidei have also been
much in vogue since they were at first
stirted. Paris green suicides also had
an extensive run. One finds that there
is a fashion in frlo de e just as there is
in everything else.
A Heroic Nurse.
One of the nursing sisters of the
Order of Troyes succumbed recently at
Paris to an attack of hydrophobia, con
tracted under circumstances of no ordi
nary heroism. A month ago she was
taking a walk with live convalescent
children, the eldest of which was only
eight years of age. wheu they were sud
denly assailed by a Bheep dog, whose
iaws were running with foam, uud who
uttacked them with fury. She instantly
taw the danger of her charges, and.
ivsoluUily interposing between the ter
lided children and the furious animal,
bravely withstood lU attack. She was
beverelv bitten, and the dog. excited by
the cries of the children, endeavored to
rush noon them. Ihen followed
snleudid act of devotion. Protecting
them with her body the children, who
lninc on to her petticoats shrieking with
tenor, this brave girl threw herself
courageously ujon the dog, aud for ten
minutes grasped it, rolling over with it,
and thrusting her fist into its mouth to
urevent its biting the children. Some
peasants, who came up at last, beat off
and killed the dog. rue bisr was
found to have fifteen deep wonnas ou her
hands, aud lacerated arms ; an import
ant artery was wounded. Skillful care
was given to her wounds, ligatures were
anmied. the parts torn were cauterized
aud for a short time after her return to
Pains some hope existed that ehe might
escape tho ultimate fate which there was
bo much reawn to rear, uiier, now
ever, the pharyngeal bpaem, vomiting,
and hydrophobia in all its characteribtio
pympton s appeared ; and the nurse died
from this fatal uud leariul disease, find
ing oontolatiou in the certitude of hav
ing saved, at the price of her life, the
tlvo childivn who had ben ooufided to
her.
Items of Interest.
is made up ov sunshine and
" Life
shaddo,"
Bays Josh Billings
-" about
five shaddos to one Bnnshine."
More than 100, 000, 000 lemons, oranges,
nnd citrons are consumed or exported by
the inhabitants of various parts of Asia
Minor.
Professor " la one evening I counted
twenty - seven meteors sitting on my
piazza. t'lass expresses great aston
ishment at the sociable characterof the
heavenly bodies.
In Cincinnati, on a recent Sunday
evening, fonr publio balls, three" musical
entertainments, three .variety theatres,
nnd "Sardanopalns" in the Grand
Opera House, were all numerously at
tended. The ancestry of Senator Voorhees, of
Indiana, on his father's side, was Dutch y
on his mother's side, Irish. He bad
Indian fighters and Revolutionary sol
diers for his grandfathers and great
grandfathers, and he is fifty years old.
A young man who left home in Con
necticut aorne years ago to seek his for
tune, recently wrote from Texas, saying:
" I've settled here. " It has since trans
pired that he was right. He had settled
at twenty cents on the dollar.
(One of the Kentucky minstrels is sit
ting for his picture in character.)
Operator: "Now, sir, look pleasant
simile a little." (Minstrel smiles.) " Oh 1
that will never do. It's too wide for the
instrument."
The Anti-Horso Thief Association is
an institution in northwestern Missouri,
southeastern Iowa and northwestern
Hlinoia, whoso object is pretty clearly
indicated in its name.
The loss of human life during the
great flood in Bengal, following the cy
clone of 1870, has lately been ascertained
to have amounted to 165,000. It was
estimated at the time at near 300,000.
Bucks county, Pa., has a smoker who
claims to have averaged seven cigars per
day during the last fifty-seven years,
which would aggregate i40,uuv cigars,
worth, at five cents each, $7,'iT0.
In Breslau, Germany, a successful at
tempt has been made to erect a paper
chimuey about fifty feet high. By a
cliemical preparation the paper is ren-
Wed impervious to the action of fire
or water.
A little five-year old fellow came up to
his mother the other morning, and with
great earnestness said : " Mother, I saw
something ran across the kitchen floor
this morning, and it liadn t any legs
either; what do you suppose it was?"
The mother's curiosity was excited at
the apparent strangeness of the supposed
animal, and, not knowing what else to
say, she said she supposed it was a
worm, or Bometnmg oi tnai son, sue am
not know whnt. Having for some time
enjoyed his mother's inability to solve
the problem, he said: "It was Borne
water."
Rome Uujinsr Back Converts.
A ereut sensation has been caused at
Geneva by the sudden departnre of two
priests wlio had become converts to the
Old Catholic doctrine, but who appear .
to have repented of their conversion, for
they left Geneva, addressing to the Prefl-
ideut ot the Uhnrcii uouncu me ionow- .
ing letter: "Having found that at
tempts to establish a national Cathoiio
Church at Geneva lmvo only a political
end, we declare our iutention of separat
ing from them, of returning to ihe
bosom of tho only Catholic Church, and
of making submission to her authority as
tho sole guardian of the Christian faith."
The Ultramontane party exunea very
much over this declaration, but it now
appears, according to Swiss papers, that
those two priests, before leaving Geneva,
went to eeo Monsiguor Mermuiou, me
exiled bishop, who is living on the French
frontier, and received from him the sum
of 80,000 each to recant This acensa- t
tiou was first inado in an anti-Catholic '
journal, and would, it was supposed, be
at once repelled as a caiumuy. iut,
ujwn the contrary, the Courrier de
U, new, which is Mousignor Mermillod's
own orgau frankly admits that money
passed, aud adds that a Cathoiio associa
tion had been formed for the purpose of
buying l)ck the perverts.
Siamese Twlus In au Oyster Bed.
The clerk of the steamer Maggie, of
the Eastern Shore Steamboat Company,
has brought to the city a remarkable
oyster that hod been caught in the Ches
apeake. The oyster is, apparently, two
ovfters fastened together, as is often the
etUa. The peculiarity, however, is that
while there were two distinct oysters,
they were fastened together O- a ligature "
running from heart to heait, the shell
that divided them being very thin, and
showing that there was really but one
oyster contained in tk3 three shells. The
same gentleman has also an old liottle
into which an oyster had become imbed
ed, remaining until it was too large to
get out lialtimore Bulletin.
An Idol Shop.
Au Anglo-Indian journal contains an
advertisement, of which the following is
a free translation " Yamen, the god of
day, oast in pure copper and tastefully
executed. Nirondi, the prince of de
mons, a great number to choose from ;
the giant upon which he is niourted is
boldly designed, and his sabre is fash
ioned in the latest style of art. Baron
uia, the god of the sun, is lively jepre
sontod ; his crocodile is of copper, with
tail of silver. Ikmaberen, the god 1
riches: this god is of the flnctwoi
Little demi-gods and tt'
inferior gods in the greatest abun
to selcdroni. NocrtJit is fm
diuiw allowed fur ready -
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