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hongfollow’i no* poem; _
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The reply of Mr. Plentice,"of lhft LouiV
ville (Kentucky) Journal, sdtoe months since;
to a person who had challenged him while
on a business Visit #f Little, ftock, .Arkansas,
has been much commented upon by’ihp pub
lic press North and South. Ih that' reply
Mr. Prentice said:
“Presuming that your note is Written to
me with a view to a duel; 1 may as well say
here, that I have not the least thought of ac
centing a challenge from you. * * *
There are many persons to whom my life is
valuable; and however little qr much value
1 may attach to, on my ' own acpouni, tdo
not see fit at present to. pul it voluntarily
against yours. * f 1 don’t wa.nl your
blood upon my hands, and I don’t want mine
upon any body\
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* I have not the least desire to kill you,
or to harm a hair of your head, and I am
not conscious of having done any thing to
make you wishto kill me, ’‘ etc., etc.
When we first saw this correspondence in
the daily newspapers, we called to mind a
very laughable circumstance said to have oc
curred in Albany, during a session of the
Legislature at the Capitol, several years ago
—' ol course bafpra the prohibition o t duelling
by statute in this Stale.
li was an exciting political lime, and ow
mg to some “words spoKen in debate” by a
healed member, during the “healed term, ”
touching somewhat upon the private charac
ter of a brother member, a challenge was
forthwith dispatched to the, offending mem
ber by “a friend,” as such a messenger is
called in the language of the code of honor.
The challenge was at once accepted.
Pleased with ibis promptness, the second
•si.
“When can we expect your friend ’”
“Don't i pant any-friend,” said the chal
lenged part). "1 waive all such advanta
ges.. He can have a dozen if he wishes.”
“This is magnanimous, but it is not accor
ding to the ‘code’ Well. Sir—if lam to
confer with you directlv—what weapons
"Broad-swords ”
“The time
“Day after to-morrow, at twelve o’clock
at noon, precisely
"At what place
"At 0 , on the Saint Lawrence.—
lour principal shall stand on one side of the
river, and I will stand on the other, and we
will fight it ot:‘
The second frowned’ “This is no jesting
malter.su. >ou are not serious "*
“Why, yes, I am. loo' 'Hasn't the chal
lenged parly a right to the choice of weap
ons and olaoe 7 "
•■Well—ve» Sir; bui not to unusual
weapons in unusual places ”
"Verv well; pistols will not be objected
to, o I course 1 "
“Assuredly not: the gentleman’s weapon.”
“Very pood, then. We will meet to-mor
row m the little village of B , and at
twelve o'clock precisely, we will fight on the
lop o r “Sugar-loaf Hill —standing back
to back, marching ten paces, then turning
and firing Will that arrangement bo satis
factory r ’
li will W# shall be there ’’
And the parties separated. Now "Sugar
loaf Hill.” at the place aforesaid, was exact-
Iv what its name imports: a sharp, conical
pillar of ground, remarkable all the imme
diate county round for its peculiar forma
tter
The lime arrived, a'nd "the parties” ap
peared on the ground ; but the slate of the
case -‘leaked out" very quick
“Sir said the second, as he arrived
wnn nia almost breathless “principal” at ihe
apet of the Sugar-loaf, and surveyed the
prouno—“Sir! this is another subterfuge!
Whai kind of a place is this fur a duel with
onion, back to back, and a forward march
o; len paces ? Why, sir, both parlies would
tie out of nght at etjfkt paces, let alone ten ;
»no in turning to hre you must fire into the
not hi<‘ ‘
f>o much ihe better for both of us !” an
•wered the “parly of the second part“we
are on terms of perfect equality, then, which
u not always the case tn modern duels.”
Outspoke the challenging “ principal ”
then, m words ■ too plate to be misunder-
stooc
" Sir-h l ” he said, to the second “princi
pal.’ at me same time looking daggers at
him; “fsiH.R.g! y OU are a coward /”
“ Wei) s’posin’ lam 7- You knew 1
was, or vou would not have challenged me I”
“Ttiev do say” that the two parties that
went down the steep sides of Sugar loaf hill,
on that memorable occasion, were as difficult
of reconciliation as when they ascended its
sides; »nd, moreover, that they were as dif
ferent Id temper ns possible. One party was
laughing, and the other breathing out
threatening and slaughter ■» but nothing
came of it after all. Thia w M the | u t of
that duel.
And, thoughtfully regarded, U seems to us
that there is realty something of a lesson in
11 “ indifferently Well ” as we have set the.
actual occurrence before‘our readers.
A due) between two colored gemmen—
«y» 'be New Orleans Picayune, a regular
built affair, conducted according to the most
etrici and punctilious provisions of’ the code
of honor—came ofT'|ag( week. The fight
•ook place with pistole'of the most improved
«shion, at sunrTse, on a small.bralich of the
Metairie road. We do not know what the
®t'gin of the difficulty was, except that dme
JJ parlies, to use the • phrase of one of
b» spectators, “ wSs crested 1 in lub by fie
PMer, and dat him hona 'mtlsl hah saiisfac
10n - We ha«-e learned, from one who was
Prescnl at the combat, the particulars as they
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tram spiked; ~Tbey aro substantially as fol
lows :t
. Al\pr. baying taken - their stands, ; ,one of
the, second* noticed that, pwjn to their po
sitions,, (he, sunbepms eel bis principal >0
winking and. fitting, his eyes. Tbi* was stif
f's”l : groqqq for. interfering, and.be calls
out to the other, second with. - <,
“I say, I pots my welo on dal posishum
—il’a agin.dfi-tulea pb all de codes ob hona
dal I spe. Db traction .ob dp sun shines
rader 100 aewere, and . makes my principal
roll him eyes aUogedder too much.”
“ VVy, my, look ha-ar, didn’t we chuck
up a dollar for dp choice of 'ground, and
didn't I get him, myself?”
“ Yes, ,1 know you did; but den fair play
is a jule, and I’se no notion of seein’ ,my
friend composed upon, and lose all the ’van
tage,”
“ Well, I’se no notion as you is, and
'sisls on settling the matter just as we is—
and ” ■
At this juncture a.friendly cloud settled
the matter at once, by stepping in between
the sun and the belligerents. The two first
causes took their position, and all the little
preliminaries being settled, each one took
his pistol, ready cocked, from his second,-
Both manifested a terrible degree of spunk,
although a sort of blueish paleness spread it
self over their black -cheeks. The second
who was to, give- out the fatal order which
might send them out of- this world now
look his ground. .Raising his voice, he be
gan :
“Gemmen, your lime am cum.”
"Both signified their assent.”
“Is you ready 1 Fiah! one two —
phree. ”
Bang, pop, went both pistols at once, one
ball raising the, dust, in the middle of the
road, while thp other took a ' slamindicular’
course among the bystanders, fortunately
without hitting any one. It was now time to
interpose, and one of the seconds set himself
about it. After a little conversation, the chal
lenged darkey stepped forward and said to
his antagonist:
" Niggar, is you satisfied ?”
“ 1 is.”
“ So is I, and I’se glad to get off so.—
Next time dey catches dis child out on such
a foolish exhibition as this, dey will fotch
me, dat dey will do, for sartain.”
“ Dem’s my sentiments edzactly,” retor
tedihe other. “ Whet) your onmorlal instru
ment of nef went' off, I JjcclareT thought I
was a gon’ child but I’se so happy now—
gosh, let’s, shake hands, and go back to our
avopaiions." 1 •
In five minutes lime, all hands—enemies,
black friends, white, and all— were on the
road home to work, perfectly satisfied with
the sport of the morning.
The Man that wished for Death.
The habit of avoiding personal danger, or
the instinct that lends to the preservation of
life, is so strong, that 1 persons who are re
solved on suicide sometimes conduct in a very
ludicrous manner, under the fear of that death
which they are desirous of procuring.
We bave r hearda slbry of a countryman
who had made up his mind to “styovel up this
mortal coal,” and only waited until he had set
tled in’his mind the most comfortable way of
dying. Not being able readily to agree with
himself on this important point, he informed
a neighbor of his whom he met’with an axe
on his shoulder, that he was resolved upon
death, and would lake it ns a great favor if
he would assist him in the accomplishment of
his purpose. His neighbor, being willing to
humor the candidate for a change of worlds,
told him he was just going into the woods a
chopping, and that if he would accompany
him, he would fell a tree upon him, and put
an end to his life with very little trouble.
"I’m very much obliged to you,” said the
weary of-the-world, “and shall consider my
self bound to you for life. I’ll go and be
killed directly.”
Accordingly he followed the axe-man to
the woods. A tall tree was chosen, and he
was directed where to stand, so as to receive
the full force of the fall. He fixed himself
on the spot folded his arms and prepared to
wait the event. Tho chopper began to lay
about him withvigotous blows, while the can
didate kept his eye upon the lop of the tree,
to see when it would fall. He stood very
composedly for a while—hut at length began
to appear uneasy, and not perfectly satisfied
with his prospect. —And while the axe-man
seethed to him to redouble his blows, he kept
winking and winking,bethought ho perceived
the tree to nod, and the next moment would
be his last. The cold sweat began to issue
from his skin, his r lfmbs trembled —he could
stand it no longer! He took to flight and
never looked behind him until he had got at
least forty rods, when he ventured to stop.
He was pursued by the axeman, who on com
ing up asked him Why he ran away t
“Oh,” said he, “I was afeared if I staid
there I should be killed I”
\ “I thought,” returned the chopper, “you
came-on purpose! to bo kilted.”
“Ah, true,” replied the man- with great sim
plicity, “but 1 forgot that. 0 how 1 tremble!
If I'd staid' there B' minute longer, I should
have been a dead man. What a orash it
made when it fell 1”
“Crash * why the tree is standing yet. I
merely chopped -with the head of ihe axe 1°
■ “With the head of the axel ■ Dtf -you say
so 1 O you cheating rascal 1 I’ll never trust
you to Kill me again, I’ll be hanged if i do.”
Her who goes tobed in anger has, the devil
Sbr his bad.ifcllow, A wag desires us to say
te knows a married man who though he goes
to bed meek and gentle .as a lamb is .in the
same predicament.
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First *Prlp of tie First LodotoHrtlvfr Da
America. ; -r ’: ;
i. William) WtiH«» Esq.,'ofCarbondale,' Pa.,
communicates the following paragrkphclipped
(¥ojn an ' old newspaper, tothe Cdrbohdale
Tfamcripl. Tlpa, paragraph confirm? ihp
statement, qf R., P. published .in
the Port Jervis Union, a.few weeks since, and
apparently settles the question'as to whom
belongs the credit Of having run the first Id
comotive steam epgiqe oh the American pon
tinent:
Major Horatio,Allen, the Engineer of the
Ne.w York and Brie Railroad, jn a speech
made during the recent festival occasion, gave
the following account of the first trip made
by a locomotive on this continent:
“When was.it? Who was it? And who
awakened its energies and directed its move
ments 1 It was in the year 1828, on the
banks of the Lackawaxen, at the commence
ment of the railroad connecting the capal of
(he Delaware and Hudson Canal Company
with their coal mines—and he who addresses
you was the only person on the locomotive.
The circumstances which led to my being
alone on the engine were these: The road
had been built in the summer, the structure
was of hemlock timber, and rails of large di
mensions notched on caps placed, far apart.
The Umber had ’cracked and vvdrped from
exposure to the sun. After about 300 feel of
straight line the road crossed the Lackawaxen
Creek, on trestle work about 300 feet high
•with a curve of 350 to 40,0 feel radius. The
impression was very general that this iron
monster would either break down the road or
it would leave the track at a curve and plunge
into the creek. My reply to such apprehen
sions wt|s that it was too late to consider the
probability of such occurrences, there was
no other course but to have a trial mode of
the strange animal which had been brought
here nt great expense; but that it was unneces
sary that more than one should be involved
in its fate; that I would lake the first ride
alone, and the lime would'come when I should
look back to the incident with great interest.
As I placed my hand on the throttle-valve
handle, I was undecided whether I would
move slowly or with a fair degiee of speed,
but believing that the road would prove sale,
and preferring, if wfe did go down, to go
handsomely, and without any evidence of.ti
midity, I started with considerable
passed the curve over the creek safely, ahd
was soon out of Rearing of the cheers of the
vast assembly. At the end of two or three
miles I reversed the valve, and returned with
out accident to l|ie place of starling, having
thus made the first railroad trip by locomotive
on the Western Hemisphere.’’
A writer in Blacktuotd't Magazine thus
discourses on the practice of trying to stick
"book lamin’ 1 in the heads of children while
they are yet babies:
“How 1 have heard you Eusefctus, pity the
poor children I I remember your looking at
a group of them, and reflectjjpg, .‘For of such
is the kingdom of heavenand turning
away thoughtfully and saying, ‘.Of such is
the kingdom of trade.’ A child of three
years of age with''a bopk in its infant hands'
is a fearful sight! It is top often the death
warrant, such as the condemned stupidity
looks at-fatal, yet beyond his comprehension.
What should a child three years old—nay,
even five or six years old—bepught I Strong
meats for the weak digestion make not bodily
strength. Let there be nursery tales and
nursery rhymes. I would say to every pa
rent, especially every mother, sing to ynur
children ; tell them pleasant stories j if in the
country, he not 100 careful lest they gel a lit
tle dirt upon their hands and clothes ; earth
is very much akin to us all, and in children's
out-of-door play soils them not inwardly.
‘‘There is in it a kind of consanguinity be
tween all creatures; by it we touch uyton the
common sympnihy of our first substance,! and
beget a kindness for our poor relations, the
brutes. Let children have a free, opeh-nir
sport, and fear not though they make ac
quaintance with t.he pigs, the donkeys, and
the chickens—they may form worse friend
ships with wiser looking ones; encourage
familiarity with all that love to court them ;
dumb animals love children, and children
love them. There is a language among them
which the world's language obliterates in the
elders. I{ i» of more importance that you
should make your children loving, than that
you should moke them wise—that is book
wise. Above all things, make them-loving;
then will they be gentle and obedient; and
then also, parents, if you become tld and
pope, these will be' belief, than, friends, that
will never neglect you. ..Children brought up
lovingly at your knees, will never shut their
doors upon Von, and point, where they would
have you go.”
A, Long Name.—-A Spaniard, who re
jqiced in several baptismal names, lik» most
of hU countrymen, and who was mounted on
0 miserable hack, came to an inn about mid
night, and asked for admission. Boniface
got out of bed, and asked who was there.—
The Spaniard replied: “Dob Sancho Al
phonso Ramirez Juan Sedro Carlos .Francis
co DomiogOi de Rosas de Slnuiga do les
Puentes.” ”Go to thunder!’’ the inn-keeper
1 said.. “ How can I lodge such an army, with
only one spare bed!” and. he went to . sleep
again; without troubling his head.- about the
poop traveler.' • a;'
He who would acquire fame must ndlshow
himself afraid of censure. - The dread/of
censure in the death genius.
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' "tri." c’ ' ■CT’it.Tl’ln T-nln'.,, , ;,:.i ji'
■i ne nrst .newspaper rrfs : issued : mombiy,jn
MS, form, in the Republic of Venice, -and
was the Garsptta. probably frotn.a faxth
' J|B' ,peop|ia£. Ipl.',
l{te. common price at whichjjLws .sold. Thifr
ly volumes of it are still preserved in a-librov
ry at Florence/. It was- long’ supposed (hat
the first newspaper published in England >kas
at the epoph of the Spanish Armada, but' ii
has been discovered, .that.the. copies-. of loat
bearing date of 1538, in ihe-British. Museum,
were forgeries. "There-was no doubt t haft he
puny anepstpra ofthe myriads 'orHrppd’sh'eets
was not jublished. In London
hundred ond fifty years.after the orTof'prim
ing had been discovered; add' itwajj hedfly
one years mote'befofep daljy paper
was ventured upon,.. Periodical .popersseem
first to have been used by the English during
the times sf the' Commonwealth, and were
then called “weekly' npws-books.” gome of
them had most whimsical titles. It was com
mon with the early papers to have a.blank
page, which was sometimes filled up, in the
scarcity of news, by selections from the
Scriptures.
The first newspaper printed 'in North
America was printed iu Boston, hi 1899.
Only one copy of that paper was known to
be in existence. It was deposited in the State
"Paper Office in London, and was about the
size of on ordinary sheet of letter-paper. It
was stopped by the Government. The Bos
ton News-Letter was the first regular paper
It was first issued in 1704',"Und was printed
by John Allen, in Pudding lane. The con
tents of some of the early numbers were very
peculiar. It had a speech of Queen Anne to
Parliament, delivered one hundred and twenty
days previously, and this was the latest news
from England. In one of the early numbers
there was an announcement that by order
of the Postmaster General of North America,
the post between Boston and New York sets
dot once a fortnight. Negro men, women,
and Children were advertised to be sold ; and
a call was made upon a woman who had sio
left a piece of fine lace worth fourteen shil
lings a yard, and upon another, who hadiOort 1 -
veyed a piece 'of fine calico under her riding
hood, to return the Same or be exposed in the
newspapers. T •
American Pboobess. — A century*since.
Benjamin Franklin, the Postmaster General
of,the colonies, set nut in his old gig to, make
an official inspection of the different routes.
It is supposed that he accomplished the object
of his journey ; but if he were to undertake
to travel in his gig all over the routes al : pres
ent existing, he would arrive at the cod of
his journey when ha Was about an hundred
years old. About eighty yearn since, Con
gress appointed Df. Franklin Post Master
General to the then independent colonies j he
sliHi.wont in his old gig, and a.small folio,
containing about three quires of paper lasted
as bis account book for 2 years. .Now the
railroad train gqes sixty miles an hour, and
the Post Office accounts consume every two
years three thousand of the largest sized led
gers, keeping po less than one hundred clerks
constantly employed in recording.)ransaplions
with thirty -thousand, contractors and other
persons. • There are now paid, annually, Cor
mail, Jocks, and stamps' nearly thirty
.jwo thousand dollars—a,sum equal to the
entire outlay in (he,year, 179(j, The stamped
envelopes.apd postage stamps cost oyer, four
teen thousand dollars; the mailbags fifty
thousand; the blanks', seventy-one thousand..;
the wrapping paper, forty-one . thousand.
Franklin would be slightly astonished if he
could rise from his grave, travel to Washing
ton in his old gig, see the three thousand led
gers, the one hundred clerks, and hea the
railroad train thundering past him at the rate
of sixty miles an hour. And yet what would
be his emotions when he reflected that this
was but an evidence of the rapid advance of
the great Republic of which' he was one of
the founders.
Interest. —H. W, Beecher, in his last
letter to the New York Independent, thus
gives his opinion upon farming upon bor
rowed capital, and on 6 of the best definitions
of Interest that we have ever read.
‘‘No blister draws sharper than Interest
does. Of all industeirs none is comparable
to that of interest. It works day and night,
in fair weather and in foul. It has no sound
in its footsteps, bu> travels fast. It gnaws a
man’s substance with invisible teeth. It binds
industry with its film, as ally is bound to a
spider’s web. Debt rolls a onan. over and i
over, binding him hand ajid foot, and letting
him hang upon the fatal mesh until- the long
legged interest, devours him. There is no
crop that can afford to pay interest money on
n farm. .There is but one thing raised on a
farm like it, end that is the Canada thistle,
which swarms new plants every.time you
break its roots, whose blossom* are prolific,
and every leaf isaty a w|, every branch.a spear,
and every plant is liken platoon of bayonets,
and a field full of them in like aq armed
The whole plant a torment and a vegetable
curse—and ye.l a farmer had better make his
bed of Canada thistles, than attempt to lie bi
ease upon interest, ,
During the “search . instituted” by .the
Editor of the Newark Times for female com
.positors,'it is renorted. that the {following
short dialogue took place t. - -v.::
' Briefer—“ Good morning, Mr, Henpeck,
have you got any daughters that -would make
good type-setters.}’ 1 . ‘.l-■ . ,
' Henpfeck*rt>«No; butTue.got a! wife that
. would'make • -very fine “Devil.V,,!
• vj> 7tt rjTj'nnjj.r TnnrvTT ! *>«;>,
A couoiry f .iiieyspapsr. .says, . V.Spypral
deaths are unavoidably.' pflslpond.” Vyish
any quantity, might be s«rv«d thp (nme wo^'.
ciolJnulis oimm oJ>>ubsl otlJ oJ b'justbbr. if’
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4 yomrg'JoUathon onceCboitM’the dawgfa
tar of; an oldmanthat liveddowoEost, who
professed to be, deficientun..hearing {.. .but,
forsooth, was more capacious than limited
in hearing, as the sequel wit] sljqw, .. . .
,'l{ was it stormy night to (he id^.^t!ireh t
if f mistake not, when lightning and loud
peals of thunder answered thunder, and Jon
athan sat by the old man’s fireside, discuss
ing With the old 'lady (his intended mother
iri-laW) on the expedience of asking' the old
man’s'permission to marry “Sal.” Jonathan
resolved to “pop it” to the old matt next day'.
Night' passed, and on the dawn of another
dsy lhe old man was found in his bardlet
feeding his pigS, ond Jonathan rOsOlved to
ask him for Sal.- ■ • ■
Scarce Had a minute qjapied, after Jona
than made hjs resolution, ere he bid thd'Sld
man "good morning.” sow Jonathan's
heart'' beat; now he scratched his head, and
ever and hnon gave birth to a pensive yawn.
Jonathan declared that he’d as lief take "thir
ty-nine stripes” as to ask the "old man
but, said he aloud tp himself, "however, here
goes it,( a faint heart never won a fair girl,”
and addressed the old man thus «.
, “f say, olfi mao, J want to marry your
daughter;”-
"You vyant to borrow my halter. 1 would
leap it lo you, Jonathan, but my son has ta
ken il and.gone, off to the mill.”
-.Jonathan, putting, his mouth dose to the
old mao's ear, and speaking-in a. deafening
lode, "I've golfivo hundred pounds of mon
ey !” -
;Old mhn;-stepping back as if greatly
alarmed, and exclaimed in a voice of sur
prise, t'Ypu. have, got five, hundred ;pound»
of honey, Jonathan ! Why ii is more than
afl.ths.neighborhood has use for!”
, Jonathan, not .yet the victim of despair,
.and pulling bis- mouth to the old man’s ear,
bawled out “I’ve got gold!”
"So have I, Jonathan, and il is the worst
cold [ ever had in my life.” So saying he
sneezed a "wash-up.”
By this time thb old lady cams up; and
observing Jonathan's unfortunate luck, she
puv her mouth to the old man’s ear and
screamed like a wounded Ya.hoo.
“ Daddy, I say daddy—you don’t under
stand ; he wants to marry your daughter.”
“I told him our halter was gone.” - •
“Why, daddy, you don’t understand—-he’s
got gold—-heV rich.” ‘
“He’s got cold and the itch, eh I' What’s
.he doing here with ihe itch eh !” So saying
the old man airbed a blow at Jonaihan’s.jtead
with his cans, but happily for Jonathan he
dodged it. Nor did the rage of the old than
slop at this, but with angry countenance he
made after Jonathan, Who took lb his heels ;
nor did Jonathan’s luck stop here,' he had
ppi got far. from the old man, who.rumhim
a tight race, before Jonathan stumped, his toe
and fell to the ground,, and before the old'
man could "take up” he stumbled over Jon
othanland fell sprawling in a mud hole.—
Jonathan sprung to his heels, and jv.ith* the
speedJof John Gilpin cleared himself. And
poor Sail, ,she died a nun, and never bad a
husband.
Reason iN.BnuTEa.—The tourang-oulang'j
without being taught,:* ill-do what a dog can-1
not be taught to do and untaught, can not think ]
of doing; he will twist or unravel his chain or
cord. If the dog is chained, and the chain be
comes in any way jammed , between things
lying-about,or twisted.upon itself, the animal
drags bard at.it,.away from the point of entan
glement, perhaps increasing the evil--becomes
alarmed—cries out, and never thinks of slack
ening the chain, and returning back to see,
what the cause of tlje inconvenience is. Not
so with theourang-oulong;. the momenlsuch an,
accident occurs, he deliberately sets about
putting, matters to rights. Ha does not drag
away from the point of resistance—does not
insist on running forcibly counter, but instant
ly slackens his chain, as a human being
would do under the like circumstances, and
goes back to see what occasions the obstruc
tion. If the chain has got entangled with a
box or any other' article of furniture, ho
disengages it;"if Jit has became twfstod, he
considers the matter, and untwists it.
Wo had in our possession a dog of the
shepherd breed, which hnppned to be tied up
one day, when a friend called upon us who
was eating a bun, a piece of whict he threw
to the animal. It on the fl or before him,
a few inches beyond the reach of his out
stretched fore-paw. After several in effectual
efforts to' get at' it, the dog, to our surprise,
turned "found, and scraped the bread within
his reach by his hind paws. This was a
pocess of reasoning, an adaptation of means
to an end, like that exibited by .the pu'rang.put
ang mentioned ,m the preceding paragraph.
Stoptu at Boy. —Stop that boy ! A cigar
fn his’rriouth a swagger in his walk, impu
dence in his face n'core-for-nolhingneas |n his
. manner. -Judging,from.,hia demeanor, ho is
older than his father, wiser than his teacher,
mbre honored than the mayorof the town
higher than the preseidnt., Stop hi ml he is
going to fast. He don’t .see himself as .oth
ers see him. He don’t his speed. Stop him
ere tobaceo shattefshis netve9;-ere pride rm
ins his character; ere the loafer master,(he
man ;>. etegood.ambition and manly strength
give wayto lowpdrsuitaand brutishi aims.—
Stop all such boyi h They are legion, the
shtfiirte Oftheir fariiiliCh, thd" disgrkce of their
lowni thh sad'and solhfnh Irebrohch of thfeto
selves." ';-' "" : •“ ’ • ; " ;■
.There are mapy .that ta'piee. ha|f; the
..fpMt.bW /(.'biff, tty
jvhp(o.,pf,jUv because Ihe.Qfher, he)fjdgspjsrt
tba tp.—Mccn, , ,
SLB, Wdk and
ftl'.’-'Thik tnftf. cWttefclhgWdJy
!;: &Why : ii‘it'thfll' you krb ab poplar as a
preacher, and so,few come tobetfr nje, When
eftMf MAtt ftWfhe Htfrertity I
■ ;•
.“Why,” said Mr. Jones, “ihe’iMuoi ) a
1 "The'gospelf’ i pfeid’tKb other; "so doTjf
is frbm.Mw.
thew, Mark, or John,”
c Said ■ Mf? JdheS;" Yoii ipay : do that,'and
ret neverjreath'Jesiis Christ.”
1 * Wbn,”lMid (he other, fend me one of your
sermons,- ana see tyfmi effect it will have,” ’
A HUT
MO,> r !..!•£
I; Korajua.iiiS
He actually, did' lend him one, find'ha
preach^if'lt,'as he'had engaged to do, and as
he was coming out of the church at the close
of the service; he was accosted by'a' yoong
mart, who, in listening to the borrowed dit,
course, had beenthroifm. idio a state of anxie*
fy in respect to his salvation.
Says' the minister,'somewhat 1 confused' by
the strange'result'pf His preaching—“ Wait,
wait, say nothing about iuill the people hare
gone but. ’* ’
After the congregalibn had retired, tneanx.
ious inquirer beganfurlher to explain himself,
when the clergyman interrupted him by gay*
ing—
“But what is the matter with you f I see
no occasion for making yourself so unhappy.”
“Matter,” replied he-; “why, your preach*
ing has made me feel like a Condemned orim
inal, and i fear there is no mercy for me.”
"Well, realty,’,” said the minister, “ 1 am
reky sorry that I'have wounded your feelings,
I had'noihientitjn of doing it; but, since you
have got into this uncomfortable State, I ad*
vise you to gd and see Mr. Jones.”
Faxon, of the'Buffklo Republic,' indulges
in the following rythmical prose, which, be
ing very odd and appropriate, will perhaps
bring a smile (q some one's lips :
From daybreak now lo tavory noon, from
noon ufitil the . night,' when-pours the efful
gence of the moon on streets of ghastly
white; from-night until the gray of dawn,
the tide of pleasure whirls, and all things
now.but tend to this—the sleighing of the
girls. Now, Alice at the mirror looks, and
Mary lies her bonnet, a miracle of lull and
lace, with mar-abouts upou'it ; and hearing
bells loud jingling near (hey noth arrange
their curls—there’s Bqbby',driving ujn, he’s
coma, a sleighing of the girls. Aim now
beneath the wolf-robe they luck their pretty
feet, while o'er (he reins with wondrous pains
Bobby reigns so neat—the horses all so gaily
dresi,the harness-all complete—my gracious
what a swell |hey cm, a driving up the street;
and Bobby also cuts a swell and culs the
horses, loo—and,culs his poor acquaintances,
as crowds he pqpsqs through, and now be
hind the horses' hoofs a clouded snow-wreath
whirls ; my, gpqqious, .what ,a luxury 'this
sleighing of thq girls 1 f , v Aod Bobby,,jlnen, to
show hie skill, drives : faster and still faster,
and whip m hand presides o,’qr all—of all
korte kind the. master. Around the corner
likea lop the sleigh lilfe; lightning whirls—
the sleigh goes on—but in a bank lie Bobby
and the girls.
-Moral.—Don’t put on airs when with the,
fairs, Dqn't try to cut a swell —or we'll be
bound you may be found where Bobby was
—pe|l-rael|—all mixed up with embroideries,
with rosy lips and curls,; oh J what a bliss
to,end Ijkoithjs, the tlayinga{ the girls.
Wearing thin' shoes on damp night* in
rainy whather. '■
Building on the “air tight" principle.
Leading a fifeol enfeebling stupid lariness,
and keeping the mind in a round of unnatu*
rat’excitement by reading trashy novels.
Going to balls in all aorta of- weather in
the thinnest possible dress. Dancing till in
a complete perspiration, and then going home
through the damp air.
Preaching the Gospel
“ Sleighing o/ tie Crlrle”
"frays df Cotofflfittlag Snlclde.
Sleeping on feather beds in seven by nine
bed ro mis.
Surfeiting on hot -and very highly stimu*
lating dinners.
Beginning in childhood on lea, and going
on from one step to another, through coffee,
chewing tobacco, smoking, and drinking.
Marrying In hastp, getting an uncongenial
companion, and living the rest of life in men
tat dissatisfaction.
Keeping children quiet by teaching them
to suck candy.
Ealing without lime to masticate (he food.
Allowing love of gain to so absorb our
minds as to leave no time to attend to our
health.
Following an unhealthy occupation became
money can be made by it,
'Tempting the appetite with niceties when
the stomach say* no. i
Contriving to keep in a continual worry
about something or nothing.
Retiring at midnight and rising at noon.
Gormandising between meals.
Giving way to fits of anger. •<
Neglect to take proper care of ourselves
when a simple disease first appears.
A Sensible Hobse.—A correspondent
sends us an account of an occurrence to wpich
he was an.eye witness. On Saturday,roorp*
,ing Ipsljn which,two lives at lea*!, were
saved by a-horse being . blessed with (teller
sense than his driver. As the mocnipg train
of the Central Railroad was approaching at
full speed and on, a, down grade, a cross-road
near Bloomsbury, a map with a lady In his
company in a slqigit, attempted (o drjveacross
the track jpsl ip frqn|/pf the 'lucqmofivq. ..If
bq had succeeded tn getting on the irack, no
.parihly poujqr, pqpld. ha ve saved the lives of
hitnselfand his companion, ffro Jiprsp, re*
/used to obey his driver and, turning suddenly,
t,hre'v ,|hp man on, th».track,hu,l a.
,frppl.pl the engine., Ha fortunately,lrq|d fast
,tp, the reins and was dragged, off t|p.(r,acH
hy .the frightened, animal, but Ji rootnptjt. ije
fore, "the, wheels passed over'the whqro
jlii bai still remained.— Tet? Jcrte\) Journal,