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, The Coming: Man.
A pair of very chubby lfgs,
EncMed in scat-lot hone ;
A pair of little hI ubby boot,
With rather doubtful toes
A little kilt t a little coat,
Out a a mother can
Aud lo t before m stride, in s'ate,
The Future's "coming man."
eye, perchance, will read the stars,
And search thoir unknown ways ',
rorohanca the human heart and soul j
Will open to their gaze t '
I'orchance their keen and flashing glance
Will be a nation's light
Those eyes that now are wistful bent
On aprae " big fullow'a " kite,
That brow, where mighty thoughts will dwell
In solemn, secret state ; .
Where fierce Ambition's restless strength
Shall war with future fate j
Whore Heienoe from now hidden cares 1
New tressnres shall outpour
Tis knit now, with a troubled doubt, 1
Are two, or three, cents more?
Those lips that, in the coming years,
Will pload, or prayer teach ;
Whose whispered words, on lightning flash.
From world to world may reach j
That sternly grave, may sieak command.
Or, smiling, win control
Are coaxing now for ginger-bread
With aU a baby's soul I
. Those handsthose little busy bands
So sticky, small aqd brown ;
Those hands, whose only mission seema
To tear all order down
Who "knows what hidden streugth may lie
' Within their futuro grasp,
Though now tis but a taffy-stick
la sturdy bold they clasp?
, '. ' i aj ' "
Ah, blessings on those little hands,
. Whose work is yet undone I .
An J blessings on those little feet,
' ( Whose race is yet unrun 1 . ;
' And blessings on the little brain
That has not learnod to plan i
Wtsto'er the Future hold in store,
God bluss the coming man !" ,
THE JANDiDIER MYSTERY.
- , A FRKNCH 8TORY.
' A VCrV ttllOft. tima o rrn
: day, about four- o'clock in the afternoon,
i a I the QiiAit-ier'du Marais was In as up
; r jar. It waa said that one o( the re
a lecta'dj merchants in the Roi do-Sicili
1 is disappeared, ami all the efforts k
disover him had proved fruit-
leas, 'fho straug event was discussed
iu all the shops in the neighborhood ;
there we re groups around the doors ol
all the greeu-grocers, and every moment
some terrified housewife arrived, bring
ing new details. The grocer at the
corner had the beet, freshest and most
c n eot intelligence, having received it
from the lips of the iwok who lived ' in
the house. r.
"So," said he, "yebterday, after din-ne-,
our neighbor, Monsieur Jandidier,
went to his cellar and was never seen
. ag .in disappeared, vanished, evapo
ra ed !" .. r .
It occasionally happens that mysteri
OU3 disappearances are heard of, the
public get exci ed, aud prudent people
buy sword canes. Policemen hear theBe
absurd rumors aud shrug their shoulders.
They are familiar with the other Bide of
theeo closely embroidered canvasses.
They search into the matter and find,
instead of artless falsehoods, the truth;
instead of romances, sad Btories. Yet,
up to a certain point, the grocer in tlie
Hue Saint Louis told tho truth.
. Monsieur Jandidier, manufacturer of
imitation jewelry, had really not been
n tine for twenty-four hours. . Monsieur
Taeodore Jandidier waa a very tall, very
b dd, man, about fif ty-eight years old.
With sufficiently good manners, who had
amissed a considerable fortune in trade.
He had an income from stocks of twenty
thousand livros, and his business brought
" him in about fifty thousand francs, lie
was beloved and esteemed by his neigh
bors, and justly so, for his honesty was
above suspicion, his morality austere.
Married late in life to a poor relative, he
had made her perfectly happy. lie Lad
an only daughter, a pretty graceful girl,
named Terese, whom he adored.. (She
"had been engaged to the oldest son of
the banker Schmidt of the flrtn of
Schmidt, Gubenheim t Worb Monsieur
Oustave ; but the match had been
broken off, no one knew why, for the
young people were desperately in love
with each other. It was said in the
Jandidier circle that Schmidt, senior,
who, as was well '.known, would
skin a flint, had "required a dowry far
beyond the merchant's means,
t Warned by public rumor, which con
stantly increased, the commissary of
police went to the home of the man who
was already called the victim, though no
exact information hod been received,
lie found Madame and Mademoiselle
Jandidier in such transports of grief that
it was with the utmost difficulty that he
could gather the truth. At last he learned
the following particulars :
The evening before, Saturday, Mon
sieur Jandidier" had dined with his fam
ily as usual, but did not eat with much
appetite, having, he said, a violent head
ache. After dinner he went to bis ware
houses, gave some orders, and then en
tered his office. Ret timing home at
half-past six, he told his wife he waa
going to walk. And he never appeared
again. Ilaving carefully noted these
particulars, the commissary of polioe
requested -permission to Bee Madame
Jandidier a few minutes alone. She
made a sign of assent, and Mademoiselle
Tbereee left the room.
' Pardon, inadaine," said the commis
sary of polioe, "the question I am about
to addrewj to you. Do you know wLfcther
your husband had I again ask your
Eardou any connection outside of the
ouse?" , . -Madame
Jandidier started np ; anger
dried her tears.
"I have been married twenty-three
years, monsieur ; my husband bws never
returned home later than ten o'clock."
" Was your husband in the habit of
going to any club or cafe t" ho con
tinual. "Never; I wouldn't have allowed it."
" Did he usually carry valuable pnpers
about with him ?'f ,
" I don't know; I attend to my hous'J
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.
Ilaving accomplished his business, the
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 folt very anxious, and
began to suspect tho existence of a
crime. That very evening one of the
most skillful detectives, lietivean bet
ter known in the Rue de Jerusalem aa
Maitre Magloire was put on the track
of Monsieur Jandidier, provided with
an excellent photograph of the mer
chant. The very morning after Monsieur
jandialer had disappeared Maitre Mag
loire presented himself at the Palais de
Justice to report to the magistrate who
had charge of the matter.
"Well, Monsieur Magloire," said the
magistrate, "bo" you have discovered
something?"
" I'm on the track, monsieur."
L "Speak!"
lo begin with, monsieur, Monsieur
Jandidier didn't leave his house at half
past six, but at seven precisely.
"Precisely?"
" Yes. I got my information from a
clock-maker in the Hue Saint Denis, who
ia sure of the fact, because Monsieur
Jandidier, while passing his Bhop, took
out his watch to compare it with the
clock ovef the door. He had an un
lighted 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 was correct; he
entered a shop in the Rue de Temple,
where he is well known. 1 The woman
remembered the cirumstance because,
though he always smoked sou cigars, he
bought London ones." .. ..
" How did he appear?" i '" " '
"Ho seemed very thoughtful, the
shopkeeper told mo. It waa through
her I learned he often went to the Cafe
lure. I went in and 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 Bhuidureau. I
instantly went to this gentleman, who
told ma that he walked up the boulevard
with Monsieur Jandidier, who left him
on the corner of the Rue Richelieu,
pleading a buainesa engagement. He
was out of sorts, and seemed troubled
with the darkest presentiment."
"Very well, so far," murmured the
magistrate. "k ,i .,".--;.
" On leaving Monsieur Blandureau I
went to Rue du Roi-de-Sioile, to ascer
tain from somebody iu the house wheth
er Monsieur Jandidier had any custom
ers or friends ; there was only his tailor
in the Rue Richelieu.' ,1 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 aide-pocket,
the tailor noticed several hondred-f rano
banknotes."
" Ah ! that is a clew 1 He had a large
sum of money with him ?"
"Not large, but considerable. The
tailor estimated it at twelve or fourteen
hundred francs."
" Qo 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 te
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. He only remembered that
it had yellow wheels and was drawn by
a large black horse. This afforded a
clew. A circular sent to ail the livery
stable keepers put me on the track. I
learned this morning that the number of
the carriage 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
Maitre Magloire stopped be 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 Victor, where one of
his workmen lived, a man named J ules
Tarot."
The manner in which Maitre Magloire
pronounced this name was intended to
arouse, and did arouse, the attention of
the magistrate.
" You have suspicions?" ha asked.
" Not exactly ; but these are the facts.
Monsieur Jandidier dismissed his car
riage at tho Rue d'Arras and went to
Tarot'B room abjut ten o'clock. At
eleven the employer and woiknum went
out together. The workman did not re
turn till midnight, and 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 lustre. Ho
is a skillful fellow, and helped by his
wife, to whom he has taught his trade,
can moke a hundred francs a week."
" They are in easy circumstances,
then."
" Oh ! no, they are both young ; they
have no children, they are Parisians ;
ana, zounas, tney 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 that 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 token 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 visit
from their employer on Saturday even
ing. He seemed so ill that they had
offered him something to take, which he
refused. He had come, he said, on ac
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 : " Nevermind, I'll furnish
the money," and instantly put twelve
hundred-franc notes on the table.
At eleven o'clock Monsieur Jandidier
tt'ked his workman to show him out of
the house ; he waa going to the Fau
bourg Saint Antoine. And, in fact,
Tarot accompanied him to the Place de
ia Hostile, crossing the Constantine
Bridge and walking along by the river.
The magistrate asked both husband
and wife the very natural question :
." Why did you hide the money ?"
They mode the same answer. Hearing
on Monday morning of Monsieur Jou
didier's disappearance, they were seized
with terror. Tarot had Raid to bis wife :
"If it is known that our employer
came here, that I crossed the bridge and
walked along by tho river with him, I
shall be compromised. If this money
were ever found in cur possession we
should be lost." "
Tho wife then wanted to bum the
notes, but 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 in 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 Biinply marvelously
clever in maintaining a probable fable ?
The magistrate knew not what to do,
when one morning a strange rumor
reached his ears. The house of Jandidier
bad 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 thousond.five hundred francs.
The cautious merchant speculated in
stocks. The magistrate bad just learned
these particulars when Maitre Magloire
appeared, pale and panting for breath.
"You know, monsieur?" he cried,
from the threshold.
" All !"
" Tarot ia 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," said he, "and
Lecoq has just proved it. Monsieur Jan
didier spoke of 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 Gastave Schmidt,
who will marry Mademoiselle Therese
Jandidier next month, the house of
Jandidier has not gone into bankruptcy.
Tarot and his wife, restored to liberty,
have been established in business by
this same Monsieur Gustave, and no
longer go pleasuring on Mondays. But
what became of Monsieur Jandidier ? A
thousand francs reward to whoever will
give news of him.
Men are generally more honest in
their private than in their publio capac
ity, and will go greater length to serve a
party than wheu their own private inter
est is alone concerned. Honor is a great
cheek upon mankind, but where a con
siderable body of men act together this
check is in a great measure removed,
since a man is sure to be approved of by
his own warty for what promotes the
common interest, and he soon learns to
despise the clamors of adversaries.
Forbear to jude, Utr we Are all biu-nera.
farm, garden and household.
.Mrdlrnl Hint.
BnfiHK-SwEi.LiNO. To cure a swell
irg from a bruise, foment it for half an
hour, morning and evening, witli hot
cloths dipped in vinegar and water as
hot as you can bear it.
CcitK fob Warts. Warts may be re
moved, says a celebrated physician, by
rubbing them, night and morning, with
a moistened piece of muriate of ammo
nia. They soften and dwindle away,
leaving no such mark as follows their
dispersion with lunar caustic.
To Pcbift the Blood. Strictly diet
on oat-mcal porridge, lean- beef, 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, aud the dryer the food the
better. Food floating in grease refuses
to digest Substitute clear water not
ioe waterfor tea or coffee. On retir
fofff 8Pply cold cream or beef fit to the
complexion. Take the oils externally
instead of internally.
A Remedy for Catarrh. A farmer's
daughter says : Dry and powder mullen
leaves as fine as you would powder sage ;
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 little 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.
riewlnc mui Manuring.
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. , .
Thorough plowing I consider the more
important of the two. for unless the
ground is well plowed, the best manur
ing will have comparatively little effect,
whereas land well and thoroughly plowed
with light fertilizing will produce fairly,
but with better manuring will produce
at 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
little danger of exceeding it
Plowing, to be thorough, should be so
performed that the soil shall be broken
and made as fine as possible; you cannot
pulverize too much. .
Plow deep is a relative term, and may
mean very differently on different soils,
for while four inches may be deep for
one soil, ten or twelve may be less so on
others, so that here we must be governed
by the nature of the soil plowed. Sub
soil ploughing is a distinctive difference
from the common .acceptation of the
term plowing, yet is often used with the
same meaning. Sub-soiling on most
soils, in connection with good plowing,
is one of the essentials of certainty of a
good product; the deeper and more
thoroughly , the sub-Boil . is broken the
better, as no crop will be likely to suffer
the effects of drought or wet where the
ground is sub-soiled, as where only sur
face plowed.
Iu' plowing under manure it should
not be turned down 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 nave it
covered in the soil, we keep manure, the
greater benefit the crop will receive from
it. ' Herein lies one benefit of plowing
under the manure shallow, and again
plowing the some ground a trifle deeper;
which, while it mixes the manure with
the soil, still keeps the greatest portion
near the purface, just whew the roots of
the young plant will be benefited by it;
aud 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-
2 uire, and thus the manure is equalized
irough the Boil.
Southern men have informed me that
it would not answer to plow deep, as
with their sudden powerful showers the
land wonld go seaward, from washing, I
suppose; however that may be I am un
able to say, as I have no experience
there; but from what I read of the ex
perience of the most successful South
ern planters, I think I should venture a
trial and see the result I 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 the vicissitudes of the
season, wet or drought, than where the
ground ia deeply worked.
A Case of Elephantiasis.
A man with his legs almost petrified
died at New Haven, recently, in James
Featherstone, aged 71, who for many
years fcuffttrud from elephantiasis ara
bum. He had a "crick" iu his back
ten 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, nloers and homy excrescences,
sometimes two inches long, presentiug a
sickening eight, until at bis death they
measured some thirty-five inches around
the calf and weighed about eighty
pounds. The case hoe attracted wide
attention from physicians, aud isthonKbt
to be the first of the kind in New Eug
Wud.-jjfi,i(jlt,ld (Mann.) Jltpulliwi.
. Lynch LawIts Origin.
James Lynch waa mayor of Galway,
Ireland, in 1473. He had mode several :
voyages to Spain, and on one occasion
brought home with him the son 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. Preparatory to tho nuptials
tho mayor gave a splendid entertain
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
dains! to deny the charge, and they
parted in anger. On the following
night, while Wralter Lynch slowly passed
the residence of Agnes, he observed
yonng 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
again 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 himself
obliged to condemn his son to death.
On the night preceding his execution,
his mother went to the heads ot her
family and preyailed 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
on a rescue, he, by a desperate victory,
overcame parental feelings, and finding
that his efforts to accomplish the ends of
justice in the usual place and by the
usual hands, were fruitless, he became
executioner himself, aud, from the win
dows of his own bouse, launched his un
fortunate son into eternity.
; Power of Example.
Speaking of a recent, suicide in New
York, a correspondent adds : Tho natu
rcl incnnation to follow an evil example
was illustrated by the monument 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. His example was
soon afterward followed by another, and
the monument suicides became bo fre
quent that a toll 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 there waa a
run of "steamboat suicide." Another
striking case was that of Dr. Wells, the
onoe 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 in the even
ing walked out to see New York by gas
light He became, no doubt, slightly
intoxicated and waa included in a number
of arrests made that night. When he
fame to, he found himself the inmate of
a cell, and he knew that as soon as this
dreadful fact became known .his reputa
tion would be destroyed. " Unable to
contemplate such a result the unfortu
nate man opened a vein and then dosed
himself with chloroform, and was found
iu the morning dead. That season a
large number of ihlorofonn suicides took
places. Hotel suicides have also been
much in vogue since they were at first
started. Paris green suicides also had
an extensive run. One finds that there
is a fashion inf lo de e just as there is
iu 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. X month ago she was
taking a walk with live convalescent
children, the eldest of which was only
eight years of age, when they were sud
denly assailed by a sheep dog, whoso
jaws were running with foam, and who
uttacked them with fury. She instantly
baw the danger of her charges, and,
resolutely interposing between the ter
rified children and the furious animal,
bravely withstood its attack. She was
teverely bitten, and the dog, excited by
the cries of the children, endeavored to
rush upon them. Then followed a
splendid act of devotion. Protecting
them with her body the children, who
hung on to her petticoats shrieking with
tenor, this brave girl threw herself
courageously uj)on the dog, and for ten
minutes grasped it, rolling over with it,
and thrusting her fist into its mouth to
prevent its biting the children. Some
peasants, who cume up at last, beat off
and killed the dog. The sister was
found to have fifteen deep wounds on her
hands, and lacerated arma ; au import
ant artery was wounded. Skillful care
was given to her wounds, ligatures were
applied, the parts torn wore cauterized,
aud for a short time after her return to
Paris some hope existed that she might
escape tho ultimate fate which there was
bo much reaon to fear. Later, how
ever, the pharyngeal spasm, vomiting,
and hydrophobia in all iU characteristic
sympton s appeared ; and the nurse died
from this fatal and tearful disease, find
ing oontolatiou in the certitude of tav.
ings-ived, at the price of ber life, the
five children who had len confided t
her.
Items of Interest.
"Life is made up ov sunshine and
shaddo," says Josh Billings "about
five shaddos to one sunshine." x
More than 100,000, 000 lemons, orang'es,
and citrons are consumed or exported by
the inhabitants of various parts of Asia
Minor.
Professor " Ia one evening I counted
twenty-seven meteors sitting on my
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piuz2.it. V'lass expresses great aston
ishment at the sociable characterof the
heavenly bodies.
In Cincinnati, on a recent Sunday
evening, four publio balln, three' musioal
entertainments, three .variety theatres,
and " Hardnnopalns " in the Grand
Opera House, were all numerously at-
i i -
leuueu.
The ancestry of Senator Voorhees, of
Indiana, on his father's side, was Dutch x
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 some years ago to seek his for
tune, recently wrote from Texas, saying:
" I've settled here." It has since trans- -pired
that be was right. lie bad 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
smile 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
Hlinois, whoso object ia pretty clearly
indicated in its name.
The loss of human life during the
great flood in Bengal, following the cy-"
clone of 1876, has lately been ascertained
to have amounted to 165,000. It waa
estimated at the time at near 300,000.
Bncks county, Pa., has a smoker who
claims to have averaged seven cigars per
day during the last fifty-seven years,
which would aggregate 145,000 cigars,
worth, at five centa each, $7,250.
In Breslau, Germany, a successful at
tempt boa been made to erect a paper
chimuey about fifty feet high. By a
chemical preparation the paper is ren
dered 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 run across the kitchen floor
this morning, and it hadn'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 something of that sort, she did
not know what. Having for some time
" enjoyed his mother's inability to solve
the problem,' he Raid: "It was Borne
water."
Rome Bujinr Back Converts.
A great sensation has becu caused at
Geneva by the sudden depnrtnre of two
priests who had become converts to the
Old Catholic doctrine, but who appear
to have repented of their conversion, for
they left Geneva, addressing to the Pres
ident of the Chnrclt Council the iollow- .
ing letter: "Having found that at
tempts to establish a national Catholic
Church at Geneva have only a political
end, we declare our iutention of separat
ing from them, of returning to ihe
bosom of the only Catholic Church, and
of making submission to her authority as
tho sole guardian of the Christian faith."
The Ultramontane party exulted very
ranch over this declaration, but it now
appears, according to Swiss papers, that
those two priests, before leaving Geneva,
went to see Monsiguor Merniillod, tbe
exiled bishop, who is living on the French
frontier, and received from him the sum
of $6,000 each to recant This accusa
tion was first niade in on anti-Catholic .'
journal, and would, it was supposed, be
at once repelled as a calumny. But,
upon the contrary, the Courrier de
(itneve, which ie Mousignor Mermillod'a
owu organ frankly admits that money
passod, and adds that a Catholic associa
tion had been formed for the purpose of
buying back the perverts.
Siamese Twins 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 had been cuught in the Chea
aneake. The ovster is. annarentlv. two
oysters fastened together, aa is often the
easa. The peculiarity, however, is that
wlulo there were two Uistiuct oysters,
they were fastened together O' a bgature
running from heart to heart, the shell
that divided them being very thin, and
showing that there was really but one
oyster contained in the three shells. The
same gentleman has also an oia txiuo
into which an oyster hud become imbed-
1, remaining until it waa too large to
get out lialtunore liuUettn.
An Idol Shop.
An Anglo-Iudian journal contains an
advertisement, of which the followiug i
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 fssh
ionediu the latest style of art. Baron
uia, the god of the sun, is lively lepre
eentod ; bis crocodile is of copper, w "
tail of silver. Bouaberen, the gw!
riches : this god is of the flaett
maubhip. Little derai-gods and
inferior gods in the greatest tb i
to selcLfrom. No mht is f
diixnuU n allowed for retul v