* Yf .u *4. ' >
The world want* nut—large-hearted, manly
Men who shall loin Ha chorus, andprolong
The psajm of labor and Uio song efwve.
The times want SCBOLABS— edbolan who shall
shape
The doubtful destinies of dubious Tears.
And land the ark that bears our country's good,
Sale on some peaceful Ararat at last.
The age wants uiuoas—hcrwea who shall dare
To struggle in the solid rants of troth ;
To clutch the monster Error by the throat;
To bear opinion to a loftier scat; ,
To blot the era of oppresaion out.
Ami lead a universal freedom in.
And Heaven wants sorts—frtalt and capacious
Nth,
To teste its raptures, and expand like flowers,
Beneath the glory of its central aun.
It wants frtsli soula—not lean aud shriveled
ont * • ...
It wants frosh souls, my brother-—<JIV; IT THiNr.
If thou, indeed, will set as man should art;
If thou, indeed, will bo what scholars should ;
If thou wilt be a hero, and Wilt strive
To help thy fellow and exalt thyself.
Thy root, at last, shall stand on jasper floors,
Thv heart, at last, shall seem a thousand hearts.
Each single heart with myriad raptures tilled -
While thou shalt sit with princes and with kings,
Rich in the jewel of a ransomed soul.
Open Your Henri to Me, Ihvar.
Open tliy hea.. to me. dearest aud fairest;
XKmbly my child and my stater thou *rt.
Since of all the pure gsint that are brightest
and rarest.
True motherhood shines like a pearl in the
heart.
Smile through those tsar-drops of happiness—
be using
"Neath the ckieed lashes—l sec on thy cheek ;
Trust in nie, Lilybud ; tell me thy dreanfing ;
Open thine heart to thy mother, and speak.
Now the quick tear-drops fall faster and fvy>i :
Ssv, hits dc come who all men is above I* ] i
Has IUV queen found her king? haa herhsnfr
round its master ?
Lily, my sweat, is it dawning of lave ?
There ! O, I gussaVMit, I kuew it. Ny dearest,
80 it is he—it is just as 1 pray'a.
One to thine innermost bosom is nearest
Nearer than she at whose feet than hast
play'd 1
Well, be it so, love; 'tis Nature's decreeing :
Think not that aho who held thee t lr
breast
Prom the all-blessed hour of thine earliest
being
Owns not that God ever orders the bust.
See 1 the red sunlight grows palo ' i the gloam
ing'
Tis the last day of the quick-dying year:
Gold the horison, unerring the omen
Morn shall dawn smiling, unclouded, and
clear.
Ton aportive birds, row the summer hath
ended,
Tcarn not for warmth of the mother s soft
breast:
When spring brings her green, with her flower
buds blended, J j
In turn they will build 'neath the t v their
neet.
Darling. I love thee I What though lam weep
ing
A few tender tears ? there is jov in civ heart; j
For I give my sweet blossom with pride to the
keeping
Of one who will guard her 'till death do them
part.
There! I have done, love: what ts the meetest. j
Baring 4 him' to me, he shall see not a tear; '
A dear gift will I give hiin, my best and my
sweetest,—
A bride, and a wtah far 4 a happy new year 1'
The Heart Bowed Down. I
The heart bowed down by weight of woe
To weakest hopes will cling.
To thonght and impulse while they flow
That can no comfort bring ;
With those exciting acenea will blend
"O'er pleasure's pathway thrown,
But memory is the only friend
That grief can call its own!
The mind will, in its worst despair,
Still ponder o'er the past.
On moments of delight that wets
Too beautiful to last;
To long, departed rears extend
Its visions with them flown.
For memory is the onVy friend
That grief can call its sera.
A LEGEND OF ALEXANDER THE
GP.EAT.
No hero except Solomon, perhaps, has
so many wonder nil adventures credited to
h;ni by the story-teller of the
E&t a< Alexander the Qreari One of
these, which I am told is also to be ionm! 1
in the literature of the Hebrews, is not
onlv entertaining but possesses some deep
ant! gtacvful morals. , 1\ 1
Luring the unprofitable march of Alex
aiider in India he cam* to a lovely oasis
watered by a clear running stream. The
great king stretched bis weary limbs on
its banks and ordered from the scanty !
stock of provisions a few dried salted fishes :
for his repast. Clear water, served in at
golden goblet, replaced the choice Lesbian
in which the great king so often indulged.
But how astonished was the conqueror
when an accountably delicious odor and
taste jervaded the water firon this running "
stream! 44 Surely,' 1 said Alexander. u a
river so full of rich properties must take
its rise in a happy land. Let us explore j
its sources." After a fatiguing journey on
foot in quest of the head-waters of the
stream, the king at last came to what
seemed an immense enclosure, the walls of
which were cf great height. He was re
assured by fiudiug a pair of colossal gates
right before him. Knocking loudly at the
postern he demanded entrance. A voice
from the interior answered, 44 Thou cans'!
not enter here; this is Paradise, and the
gates are the gates of the Lord."
'■ I am," answered Alexander proudly, !
u the conqueror of the earth: whv do you
hesitate to open the gates for me ?"
" Here," said the voire, l * no conquefbf
is acknowledged except he who can cdtn *!
quer his own desire*. Art thou fit Alex- 1
ander, to enter V
The great conqueror felt that if admit- : 1
tancc to Paradise depended upon this law
he had no chance to effect an entrance.
•'Give me," said Alexander to the voice j
which spoke to him, " some token at least,
so that I may show the world that I have 1
been to the very gates of Paradise, where j
until now no mortal was." !'
A small pert-hole was opened, and from
it Alexander received a portion of a
human skull. "Take this," said the voice
within; " a single look upon it may teach
thee more wisdom than thou hast received 1 1
from all thy masters and philosophers."
Alexander contemptously took the gift, 1
and wended his way to his tent. Throw- j
ing it down in disgust, he said", "And this <
is the present that is given to the conque- 1
ror of the world ; truly, a paltry present <
from such a source as Paradise." * 1
" Great king," sa'd a sage who was pres- i
ent, "to me this gift ponsesses a secret i
meaning. Pray, put it iuto one scale, and j 1
fill the other with the finest gold." 1
The king ordered it to be done, and le !<
the piece of human bone outweighed the t
filled up scale of gold. ji
il This is a wender," said the king.
Larger scales were brought, heaps of gold t
were placed in one, and the human frag- t
ment of the skull in the other, yet the s
bone outweighed them all. e
The sage then ordered the skull to le j*
covered with earth, and behold it only p
weighed its own specific gravity. j c
" How remarkable is this," said Alex&n- c
der, " can you give me a solution V a
" Great king," answered the sage, " this
fragment of a human skull is that part i
which in life encased the eye. The human s
eye, although hemmed in, is nevertheless c
insatiable and unlimited in vision. The
more it possesses the more does it desire, j I
The treasures of the earth fail to satisfy its 1
continual longings. But when once de- : 1
sccnded to the grave, and covered with its 1 f
mother earth, rt finds a limit for all its 1
once boundless wishes. Learn, O great j <
king, wisdom! Of what avail will thy <
conquests and riches be when thine eyes 1
are covered with dust and thou sleepest ]
the sleep of death ? 1
" What!" cried Alexander, "is fame 1
nothing, that thousands of years hence 1
people should speak my name—nay, be as 1 1
familiar with it as are my own legions? 1
Thoa art a grovelling philosopher, and hast I
not the soul of a conqueror in thee."
Heedless of the warning he had received j 1
at the gates of Paradise, Alexander march- j 1
ed on from kingdom to kingdom, leaving
destruction, famine, misery, and death be- :
hind him. At last h came to the country I <
governed by the Amazons, where women
govern and fight and men do the household 1
work. Alexander summoned their chief 1
city, which was walled in, to surrender. 1
The Amazons sent him a deputation, who 1
thus spoke to the great king: " Great con- | <
queror, if thou intendest war with us thy <
arms prevail, thou wilt not add a jot to <
thy fame by having oonquered a kingdom '
of women. But as all war is doubtful, and 1
battles are not always to the strong, thou 1 i
mayest be beaten; and then behold the 1
ignominy with which thy name will be
branded forever: The conqueror of the 1
world was beaten by women ! 1
Alexander felt the force of this argument, 1
and abandoned his undertaking, ordaining 1
an obelisk to be erected, with the follow- ( 1
ing inscription: i
I, Alexander, aptU now foottah end vain, have <
leaned wisdom irdm women. ! 1
Somewhat subdued in his desires, he : ]
marched on' a northerly direction and!]
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reached the small but haiipy kingdom of
Rurinapoor. The native kirk: knowing his
own weakness against the might*.host* uf
Alexander, received him and>hi* army huv
' pit ably. He sent BwaaMigera to unite
Alexander to his modest. palace, end pre
parcd a banquet. When the conqueror
wa* seated, he beheld a must singular spee
ttacle. Instead of the wual fish and neah
and fowl and bread, all that wa* placed
before him wis either of gold, silver, or
precious atones. Yka.*. instead of the soup
there was a plate of emeralds. The goblet
lof wine was represented bv a goblet of
were there to represent the wheateu
loaf.
44 Dayou eat, gold, and sjlwjand drink
Ifitjlx In yoyr Tagd jajktd JAl*xan<lr
"Can I believe," said the native king,
"that you, the great conqueror of the
~ world, w|o has left yydr Awn taiil to xub
idvfo the ijJipfoA of tljt iarth—
can I think that you can feel satisfied to
lie fed from the usual productions of the
land like other men 1 Surely, of grain,
meat, and wine you have plenty in your
country, Your reaming and conquests can
have no other object but riches and power.
Here there is gold, silver, and precious
stones. Eat and drink them, and show us
that you are mote than a common mortal."
Alexander who could at times appreci
ate sreni truths, kwriJy answered, '*Mv
friend, I have not come to conquer nor to
and your laws," . ,
f AllvfgelL eonqufbo( !f Anil the native
prince, "if inquisitive princes thirsting for
knowledge should nil adopt your plan, by
bringing an armed host along with them
to learn the customs and laws of distant
lauds, there would bo Utile of either left
body of phi
losophic traveflers. However, I will gra
tify the curiosity of my great guest." Ciap
piug his bauds he demauded of the attend
ants whether anv causw or lawsuits were
lat that moment Woe* the great gate of
, the palace; and, finding that there were,
H Let the switors come befod? me." said the
native king.
1 Two villager* theu appeared before the
, king. The first ona addressed him thus:
I •* I have bought a small piece of ground
from this my neighbor. Digging upou it
I I suddenly discovered a hidden treasure,
which I forthwith took to my neighbor,
telling him that although I Insight laud 1
did not buy gold and silver from him ; j
therefore the treasure belongs tjO.him."
The second villager said, ''May it pkftse
the king, when I sold uiv neighbor the J
land 1 frh tlmt f h*l tiofCirt her right nor
title to it; ndw*th£n bkn Tttcrept the treas-,
ure which no longer belongs to me ?"
The king, stroking bis long beard, asked
whether the cootendiug parties had
children. " Yes," was the reply, •* We hav*
| both of us sons and daughters."
j " Well, then," said the kiuu, "my juilg- \
ment is tl'.qt the daughit cof iixa|One liti
gant many the son ?>:' the
' treasure be given as a dowry. 1
The villagers thanked the lung ana left f
rejoicing.
Alexander, who had listened to this'
strange suit and to the kings decision,
i could not conceal his astonislmmnt.
i '* itaß my derision faij<rt*<iit>tain yr
approbation, 1 ' demanded the native king of
Alexander. " llow would you, in your,
own country, in a case like this, have!
derided r !/*'•" .4i
1 "In my country," said Alexander, the !
autocrat aud conqueror speaking in every '
word, "a treasure found in the bowels of
the earth, no matter who the owner of the
surface may be, belongs to the kins; and I
would put to instant my* sAject of
mine who, finding a \hcasfire, iould dare
to conceal or fill to deliver it to the
authorities within the day."
The native king, much astonished, and
looking fctl Alexander attentively, at last i
said > ♦' Fray toll roe, great conqueror, does '
the sun shine in your country f 1
" Certainly,"<*aid Alexander.
'• How strange T 1 said the native Jtiug, j
musingly. " Does it rain in your conntrj I" 1
he asked again.
" Certainly," replied Alexander. f |
•vWoirftßljl| mifiuured the nativkj"
priact. -Iltvfl vbu any domestic arqamU L
in your land T 1
"Of course we have," answered Alex
ander."
" Ha!" cried the native prince, relieved, i
"it is for the sakeof these poor animal* that J
a good and wise Providence allows the
blessed son to shine and the rain to fall
upon your fields; for surely you and year ;
people, O great king, do not deserve these <
blessings."
FIFTEEN KIXITEN TOO SOON.
The sun had almost left the eastern
window of Mrs. Grov 1 * kitchen, as she set
on a low seat, with a willow basket 011 the
floor beside her, patiently assorting a huge
pile of carpet rags, aud putting the pieces j
of red, yellow, blue and black in separate j
heaps, ready to be tied up into bundles, j
On the floor aat the two-year-old baby, 1
watching the proceedings with great inte
rest, and sometimes working away as busily !
as mamma herself, but whose tiny fingers
were, unfortunately, more of a hindrance '
than a help. Over the fire the kettle and j :
dinner-pot were boiling briskly, while from
the oven a savory odor issued forth of the
good things within. |
Aa the forenoon waned, Mr. Grey
glanced anxiously at thh clock, from time
to time, but kept steadily at work, over
seeing the cooking of the dinner at the
fc*ne"t}ne£ "A Idfik <>f rested
oil her coiAilenmoe d lliesgtcafpife of rags
gradually diminished in size and finally ; 1
disappeared, and the pieces of different ,
colore were ail ready to be thd up and put j j
away.
" Just a quarter to twelve," ahe said to 1
herself. " I shall have tine to put these 1
away, set the table, and have dinner pre- j 1
cisely at twelve.'? 1
This had been a busy forenoon with . 1
Mrs. Grey. She bad. ri*n_earlier thin'*
usual, had performed her household duties 1 ]
with more than usual dispatch, and by a j
good deal of close calculation bad gaiattd 1
an hour for this work. Aa,erery moment ]
counts where the wofy of a fkmiJy is te-be ; (
done by one pair of ha uds, she thought j
that a little extra effort in making a ,J
pet would save a vist deal of. time aow< ]
spent in scrubbing and clmnmg, and t hen, )
100, the room would look so much mere H
tasteful and pleasant. 00 it was wit h' 1
much satisfaction that she locked upon
her morning's work, as being the first Ktep •
toward such a desirable end.
But just as she rose from her teat ahe, *
looked out of the window and saw her; *
husband coming up the path to the house.! ]
"0, dear," aaid she, " Heiliy has come,' J
and dinner is not ready. What shall I '
do?" II j ;i 17 wr
Now, to meat wives the coming of the [
husband a few before dinner is
not a matter of such fearful importance as 1'
to cause a disarrangement of the wlryl* I i
household economy, bat Mr. Gary always 1
expected dinner to bo ready at the moment '
of nis coming, whether before or alter the • 1
usual hour, aurl his wife, who' Wat a timid i'
woman, stood greatly in awe of her bus-, 1
band, and deemed it the most awful thing ''
in the world in any way to cross bis \ 1
wishes and thus offend him. , ,1 J
So she hurried to the stove, Hfted the
heavy dinner-pots, aomewbat changed
their places that they might boil faster,
and gave the fire a vigorous stirring, which, 1
b I unycessary, for Ue
fiieWas buAilg before jjast as brightly as
itpould, and the flinnef was already cook
ed; thenJwrntilybrushing thecarpeb-rags
all up together, she crajpm©4 'hto the bas
ket, and rushed with it into the bed-room.
Little Annie playfully oaoght hold of her |
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f 1 divas as the (iass 4 d, and her mother being
• In too great a hurry to notice lior she was
f dragged along a atep Mid fell over back
• j ward, hitting her head a, xiust a chair.
• t Now followed a acene of coafusiou.
• Rabv'a loud acreani* mingleii with the
M mot her's exalamation* of pity and regret,
-' & he vainly tried to soothe her. aud in
i the midat of it all Mr. Grey came in. with
1 a ft\>wu on his brow, aud iu a stern tone
r said, " What ia all th'a I Why isn't dinner
> i reedv ?"
•' It is all ready. Heart; you shall have
fl it joai as soon a* 1 can take it up. But see
I how Aanie has hurt herself"
• •' Never mind her; she'll aoou get over
1 erring, i am in a hurry. Seem* to uie
it never have my mU when I want
. them."
u O. yes. Henry, sometimes you do, for
veaterday I waitei a ftdl hour for you; but
,' it isn't quite twelve yet; 1 dididt expect
■ | you before twelve."
■| •' The clock is too alow, I know." aaid
■ the, going to it and moving the hands.
1 ( 44 There, now it ia twelve."
i Mrs. Grey made no reply, but resolutely
putting Annie, who waa still sobbing and
' cryiug down 111 a chair, turued away .and
1 Atußveltoed taking up the dinner. In a
lew moments she called her husband to the
> table, and, with the child again in her
' arms, sat down to pour the colfee.
Mr. tlrqy'sstem feature*relaxed a little
1 M he looked over the table. Every thing
was just right, and had evidently
1 been cooked with a view to pleasing his
town particular appetite. The roost beef
was juicy and tender, the potatoes white
1 and mealy, the fragrant coffee, light, apongy
bread and gulden butter could not well be
improved, while his favorite apple pudding
had turned out a perfect success. A good
dinner naturally puts one in good hntnor
with one's self and the world generally;
thus it was with Mr. Grey. He was dis
posed to be quite social and communica
tive, and to chat about the little affairs
that had taken pl.ee dining the forenoon.
But not *0 with the wearv wife. The
consciousne>s that fear of her'kusband had
caused her to undo in a moment the toil
some work of the last hour, the uncomfort
able reflection that one idea was upper
most iu all her domestic arrangement*, and
that idea the grmtificatiou of all his wbima
at the expense of every thing besides,
roused up rather rebellious feelings for the
time, while the nervous excitemout ahe
had felt for the last half hour caused a vio
lent headache, which disinclined her to
talk much.
Henry, being uuablo to sustain the con
versation alone, hastily finished his meal
and harried off to work, thinking all the
way how duli and commonplace Mary had
become, ami wondering what had changed
, the bright-eyed, light-hearted girl he had
f wooed aud wo" three years before, into
such a sober, mopish woman. Then be
retried it in his mind tbat it was the wsy
with all married people. Of course their
cares would make them grave and sedate.
, But just then hi* memory served to remind
him of Mrs. Morris, an intimate friend of
his wife, who was married about the same
> time they were. She looked not a whit 1
older or sadder than on her wedding-day, j
_ and, so med to enjoy life just as well as iu
her girlhood. It was strange ; did he not ]
provide bountifully for hi* family ? Wa*
no! their every need supplied ? He could
obii understand why it waa, and it not
being a very pleasant subject on which to
1 reflect, lie put it out of his mind.
Mrs. Grey still *at by the table with a
1 weart, despondine look on her countenance
that would pain you to witness. The tide
of angry feelings had rolled away, and now
the poor, tired heart ached for sympathy;
for a word, a look of tenderness ana love;
aud unbidden tears streamed down her
cheeks. Long, long she sobbed, but grid- (
ually the intensity of her lecling* wore 1
away, and she became calmer. Then her '
woman'* heart pleaded for her husband.'
and she said. 44 Itenrv ia not so considerate
as some, but he doesn't mean to be unkind,"
1 and she tried to forget self in the alieorb- j
ing interest in what she felt to lie her life
work ; but still the little incident of the
day. trilling though it seemed, was helping,
1 with many others, to steal the bloom from
her cheek, the lustre from her eye, and the
1 joy from her heart.
Afc.Yiusband, it is not the great, heart
i crushing sorrows that imbitter life so much
as (fid little, selfish exactions, the petty
unkindnenses, the thoughtless neglect;and
i the •' small, sweet courtesies" of life arc far
more potent in their power to smooth the
roughness of the way, than all the wealth
of the Indies unacompenied by them.
A N AVBCDOTK ia told of Chief-Justice
Marshall, evincing his ready humor.
The old gentleman like Miles Stnndish,
was very fond always of doing every
thing for himself, anil objected strongly
to any asaiatanco being rendered him.
One day, wishing to consult some work
of referonee. he entered the law library
and proceeded to mount the steps and
draw out a l>ook from an upper shelf.
The books being tightly packed together
refused to leave one without the other,
and the Chief-Justice, not noticing this,
in withdrawing the one he wished dis
lodged the entire row, which come down
upon him, felling him to the floor. The
librarian instantly ran to the r<*cue,
inquiring if the venerable gentleman was
hurt, and offering him assistance in
rising. *' Let me alone," said the Cliief-
Justiee; "let me alone, I'm a little
stunned for the moment; that's all . I
have laid down the law often, but this ip
the firat time the law has laid me down."
INSAIOTV AJCD MRRDER. —At a murder
trial in Memphis, wherein an attempt to
establish insanity was made on the part
of the defence, Dr. J. R. Allen wo* called
as an expert, and testified as follows :
I have been a practising physician for
nearly thirty years; I have" had some
experience in coses of insanity, having
been for ten years medical superintendent
of the Kentucky Lunatic Asylum, and
during that time had over two thousand
crazy people under my charge ; I have
heard the hypothetical case read by Mr.
Phehm ; I am here as an expert, and
before aaswering this question, would
like to say that the more I studied the 1
question of insanity the less I understood
it; and if ynu ask me where it begins
and where it ends, neither I nor any
pUysioian in the world could tell you ; in
fact, on occasions like this, lawyers make ;
fools of themselves in trying to make
asses of doctors.
P l '
TORPEDOES ADBUT —There is some
thing extremely disagreeable says a
Loftdou paper in the story that during
the lab; experiments carried on with
iu_ the Elbe some of these
unpleasspt machines broke loose and
figutaj away into the ocean. The possi-
Irimijrof yacht, steamer, or peaceful
trading ship comiug in contact with one
of mem IB a very uncomfortable idea, as
we fear they would not respect, neutral
bottoms. It is earnestly to be hoped
that if any of those torpedoes have wan
dered from their proper paths, they will
sink by their own weight without loss of
time, or become the prey of some sea
monster, who will not be a little surpris
ed at the effect produced by such a
peculiar pilL
PESNSTLVANIA lia3 2,002 school dis
tricts, 11,212 schools, 2,892 graded
schools, 13,100 directors, 79 country and
other superintendents, 17,612 teachers,
828,891 pupils, 5 normal schools with
2,675 students, 66 professors and stu
dents, 8,135 volumes in the libraries of
the normal schools, 13 colleges with 157
i professors and teachers, 2,805 students
I and 75,000 volumes in their libraries.
g Immigrant* from Europe,
111 During the year 187U there arrived
at New York alotiu, 211,110 immigrant*
from the old world. During the year
'• 18t>9 the number was '268,989, showing a
* falling off the year just cloned of 47,75*9.
• This result is prohably due in a great
J' measure to the European war. but it
j must i>e taken into eonsiderntifn t at
c the year 1869 wm an exceptional year,
' the mimker of uimiigrauts being largely
iu sices* of any year previous; sill,
lookkg at the tuldes, it n ill be seen that
i the greatest decrease i* 'rou tlmse
eouutries affected by the war. Tims,
r Uermany in 1808 mmt to thi* country
" 99,1'06 soul*, and during the last year
1 ! only 7'J,3t58, a ilntrasss of 27.287.
France seuds only 555 less than the year
r j previous, lrcliuul 1,936 lea*; England j
1 2,600 less; while Sweden cornea 11,902
1 short of the number of 1869. But tlmt
! year the immigration from Sweden was
; exceptionally large, having been 23,453
'• ' against 14,520 for 1868, and 4,843 for
j 1867. Norway is 787, and Denmark 159
'j liehind the previous year. The countries
J from which tlie immigration lias increas
ed aro Kcotlaud 88, Italy 533, Russia 57,
1 and China 5, more than eauio from those
countries iu 1869. The largest imrui
r gration last year wus in the months of ;
April, May, and June, the total in May
5! footing up to 52,105, or 15,416 mor than
; arrived iu any other month. During the j
r j rear the immigration from Germany 1
' j kept in excess of that from Ireland until
| April, when the number of Irish was
1 j 2,243 greater than the Germans. Then
ogaiu in August, September, and Oc
! tolier, the numbt>r of Irish was in excess
■ of the Germans, but for the last two
' months the number of Germaus have ex- 1
" j needed the Irish by 3,319, and for the
- whole year 7.200. The countries which
'; send the fewest immigrants to this j
' i country are Japan and Turkey, which
1 have sent one apiece. China sent hut
I 20 during the last year against 15 the
' year before. The total numlier of aliens
who have lauded in New York since Mav
11847 is 4,509,170.
Stie of I'sited State* Senator*.
1 A Washington correspondent writes :
One cannot nelp recalling the phreno
logical dictum—"that other things he
j ing equal, size it the measure of power," ,
when looking on tho Senate assembled.
1 There is a good deal of head here, aud
proportionately a larger amount of belly
also. Small men are bv contrast at a
j great disadvantage. Look over the
outer circle to the left of the Vice-Presi-1
dent, as an illustration. Thore are no j
small men in it, though some are not fat
ones, yet the lean meu, however large of
> brain, are made to look small by contrast.
There is Hamilton and Flannagrui, of :
Texas, "lean aud hungry kine," tall and
lank men of the Cassias stripe. Next
comes vour goodly proportioned Senator,
loth physically and mentally, Matthew
' H. Carpenh-r, one of the strongest men 1
in the Chamber. Scott, of Pennsylva
nia, sits next to him—a man of moderate
i statue and weight Rice, of Arkansas,
| long-headed aud loug-limbdd, follows ;
; his colleague is by his side, young, but'
weighty ioaverdupois and sagacity ; then 1
Ramsay, handsome und stout, flanks
i Chandler, homely, coarse, und large of 1
j frame, and heavy in flesh. Howard, j
{ Nye, Sumner, sit side by aide, sustained t
I by Kellogg and Yates, who complete the ,
■ row. Of the fifteen Senators named,
there is not one weighing less tliau 16" I
p*nnds, and all but three or four will
acknowledge 200 and upwards. So size
i in body and head docs really give evi
i deuce of power. In the House there is
| not so marked a distinction. The rep
1 resentatives will average better, and
1 there arc some little men who hold large
! places ; ability, not experience, jierhnps,
is us great.
The Battle of the Pigs.
The following story was related to us
i by a gentleman of undoubted veracity,
; who vouches for its tru'h : In the vil
lage of Brewer, opposite this city, two }
men cairy on the bverv business—occu
pying stables situated about a quarter
of a mile apart—and each owms a huge
Chester hog weighing nearly 400 pounds.
The other day Mr. A's hog broke out of
his pen and strayed down c>n Mr. H's I
premises, and the latter, mistaking the 1
animal for his own, drove him into the j
pen under his stable. Presently he heard
a terrible rumpus, and fonnd that his
own porcine had resented the intrusion,
and WHS giving the hog he hud turned in
a terrible thrashing. Separating the
combatants, Mr. B drove Mr. A's hog'
home and he was secured in his owu do
main. The next morning Mr. B upon
going to feed his hog, found him lying
upon the liottora of the j>en utterly ex
hausted, nud his adversary of the previ
ous dnv industriously engaged in knarw- >
ing a bole in his back. It appears that
after Mr. A's liog had been driven home
he meditated upon the drubbing he had
received until he hail got mad all over,
and breaking out in the niglit, he had
made his way through the darkness to
his sdveraary's sty, smashed his way in,
aud proceeded to avenge his wrongs by
nearly killing his antagonist— Bangor I
(Jfr.) Whig.
What a Battle is Like.
As a matter of fact, says a correspond-1
ent, unless one is riding with the staff of j
a general who commands, one cannot
form on idea of wliat is going on by
hanging about, and it is a horrible sight
to look with an opera glass at men and
horses bring massacred. When knights
charged each other with lances there was
a certain chivalry in war; but there
is nothing either ennobling or inspiring 1
in watching a quantity of Breton peas-;
ants who cannot even speak French,
and an equal number of Berlin gioeers, ,
who probably ask for nothing better
than te be back in thoir shojw, destroy-1 1
ing each other at a distance of two or '!
three miles with balls of lend and iron,
many of them filled with explosive uiu- j i
ternus. I confess that 1 pity the hors< s j
i almost as much as Ido the men. It 1 \
. ecms a monstrous thing in order that
the Alsatians should be forced into lie- 1
coming subjects of Prussia, an omni-, *
bus horse, who lias honestly done his 1
work in the streets of Paris, should be j'
i taken outside the Wulls 0J the lown to '!
have his head blown off or to stump '
ibout on three lege until he dies of cold !!
uwl hunger. Horses hare away when 1J
they are wounded of making desperate
efforts to get on their feet, and then lot- j '
ting their heads fall with a bang on the 1
soil, which is horrible to witness.
LCTMBGB AT ALBAKT.— The official state
ment places the receipts for 1870 at
452,363,9 ft!? feet, which aro the highest .
figures Albany has ever reported by
8,000,000 feet. The stock of lumber on 1
hand at the close of the year i*estimated
at 90,000,000 feet, which is about 20,000, - ,
000 feet less than the stock a year ago, ;
and tho receipts are about 8,000,000 feet
greater than those of 1869.
A girl writes a composition as follows:
SEOW. —I Love To see snow I Love to !
get up in the morning and see a Deep |
Snow I love to see the trees and the
ground all Covered with snow some girls
do not like to come to school for thev I
say it tis to eokl and they watch till
school is in and then they g* then on
the hill to slid*
• ■ ■ ■ ■* 1
THE mayor of San Franciseo has given
his entire official inoome for the present
{ear, amounting to the sum of 94,200,
3 the public oharities of thq raty.
Intermittent Brlxsndagc.
I The brigrnds in Greece are uot, as
( in other eouutries still cursed with
i brigands, a class completely cut off from
1 society. Kiu-'b troop hud iu olden time,
mid probably lias still, its director, its
. iinprcHMsrio, in a fowu, sometimes in the
: enpitol, sometimes at court. The subal
terns often return to civil life ; often also
i the peasant turns brigand for a few weeks,
' when lie know* that H good liaul is to !H>
made. The job finished, he returns to
. his tillage. Gf all the countries iu the
world, Greece is the country in whieh
opportunity has aalh d forth Uie greatest
number of highwaymen.
A Fl ouch man, residing in Athena, has
told how liia servant one dsy timidly ac
costed him, twisting his cap*between his
fingers.
1 " You have something to ask me ?"
j '• Yes, effeudi, but I dare not."
" Dare, nevertheless."
, " l-'.ffcudi, I want to speud a month on
I the mountain."
44 On the mountain ! What for."
"To stretch mv limbs, saving yonr
resjiect, effeudi, 1 get rusty here. In
Athens, you are a heap at civilises, (1
have no iuteution of offending you,) aud
I am afraid of catching your oouiplainL"
Tho master, touched by such valid rea
sons, allowed his valet to take a month's
man-shooting. He returned at the
expiration of his leave of abcenoe, and
never touched so much as a pin of his
1 muster's property.
j Thore was a poor gondii rme who, for
long, long years, aspired after tiis rank of
< corporal. He was a good soldier, brave
enough, aud the least refractory in his
eompanv ; but bit only patron was him
' self. 80lie deserted, and turned brigand. .
Here lie was stile to display his talents.
He wa* soon well known to all the heotL>
lof the geudermerie. They tried to catch
him, aud miseed cau hiug him five or six
times.
Giving up tlmt game, they seut a friend
to treat with him. 44 You shall have
your pardon, and, to make up for your 1
trouble, you shall tie matte a corporal to-1
morrow, and a sergeant in the oourse of
the veer."
Hi* ambition was satisfied. He con-1
*i-iitod to be made a corporal, awaiting
iiatieutly his sergeant's stripe*. He bad
long to wait for tnrnn. One day, his jia-!
tienee was worn out, and he returned to
the mountain. He hud not killed three 1
men, before they made haste to make him
a sergeant. He afterwards rose to au of
ficer, with no other liatroua than the i
persons he bad put underground.
Sain Houston's Love.
The most singular incident in the life 1
•if Ham Houston, and one never hitherto :
explained, was liia abandonment of the 1
Goveruorahip of Tennessee only three,
•lays after marrying a voting wife. Ho.
became a voluntary exile lunong the In- j
dians of the plains for years thereafter,
wsa made a great chief, and only reap
peared in public life when Texas was 1
struggling lor independence. The Gal- 1
veston Anri lifts the voil from this se-1
cret cliamlier of Houston's heart by this 1
strange narration ; 44 What wo know i
J about this matter is so honorable to him .
that we shall, for the first time, put it,
in print We may premise that our in- j
formation wa* indirectiy derived from .
, one now deceased, who. during her life, J
had a right to know what caused this!
strange episode in the Ufo of a great'
! man. Governor Houston's first bride I
was a Tennessee belle of surprising |
beauty and considerable social standing, j
She wit.*, if not the aflianoed bride, at i
lou>t the tweetiieart of a neigh'joring
geutleuuui when Governor Houston |
sought her hand. Her family being |
very ambitious, forced the match and
she was married. After retiring to ber
bridal chamber her deportment was sncli
, as to cause him to suspect that she did
not love him ; that while her hand was
| liis, her heart waa another's. She con
fessed the truth when interrogated, and.
while promising fidelity and wifelr dutv, j
declared he reel f unable to love him. lie j
at once retired from the house, leaving ;
his bride as pure and sjiotleas as ever, j
He than resigned his position and went
among the Comanche*. In due course 1
of time the lady sought and obtained a
| divorce.
A Bill's Wendcrfttl Adventure.
If antiquarians divide the periods cf
primeval man into the stone, bone and
iron eras, we stand a good chance of gov
ing down to posterity as l>clonging to the
advertising age. 4 Ah !" said a traveled
j fneud of ours, "when 1 was in Soudan,
news came to us that a great chief some
days' journey from us had a treasure, a
picture of untold beauty. We mounted
our camels and went through the burn
ing sands for three mortal days. At hurt,
just a* our water-skins were dry. we ar
rived at the .Sheik's tents. He was a su
. perb old man, and after a sheep was
; killed nnd eaten, with a traveler's curi
osity, I broached the delicate subject. (
From the bottom of a cedar chest, be
neath iMiurnessea and caftans, he disen
tonibed something done np in a shawl.
4 See ! behold 1' he cried ; 4 this came to
me from a strange land. It traveled here
from the Nile, in boats. From even fur
ther thnn that.' I wm quite excited.
Was it some old papyrus, some grand
! relic of the Pharaohs ? I trembled with
emotion. With shaky fingers the old
maD undid the coverings, and exhibited
to me a show bill of Dan. Bryant's—the
flaring picture of a regular nigger break
down. 4 1 cannot sell it to you,' went on
the old man, 4 it ha* preserved our stock
from murrain this year, and in ouses of
fever nnd blindness it works marvelous
curse. Blessed be the Prophet' "
Sickening Scenes.
The country lietween Orleans nnd
Tonry, and in front of it, is beyond
conception, terrible to contemplate,
now since the storm of war and oattlc
has passed over it The villages and
farm-houses arc burnt; the towns gutted.
They ure, nevertheless, full of wounded 1
miii. Every house, almost is crammed 1
with them—Prussiaua, Hessians, Bava
rians, Hunncatius, Mecklenburgliera and
French. The fields and roads are cov
ered with dead men and dead horses,
frozen and stiffoncd in hideous multipli
cntion of fantastic contortions. Or
leans has not suffered except in the sub
url*, but those are shell-blackened and
in ruins. Tlio Catholic cathedral ia flUed
with irreverent prisoners, who swarm in
the sacred places, play Offenbach on the
organ, and mistake recklessness for
gaiU (U ra-ur in their captivity.
A FIUBIITFUL ACXUDLVT. —Details are
given of a frightful railroad accident on
the Mississippi and Tenncseee Road.
The accident was caused by the breaking
of au axle of one of the passenger cars.
This car was overturned by the shock
and oaught fire from the stove. Several
persons were burned to death, one wo
man being literally jammed head fore
most into the stove and reduced to a
cinder. The terror of the unfortunate
negroes who occupied the car was indes
cribable. 44 Packed upon one another,
thrown violently from seats that were
broken from their fastenings, the car on
fire from tho overturned stove, they
crushed one another; children were
Buftocatod and crushed under foot, and
many met horrible deaths."
44 Call that a kind man," said an aetor,
spoeking of an absent acquaintance, 44 a
man who is away from his family, and
never sends them a farthing ? Call that
kindness ?" 44 Yes, .unremitting kind
ness," Jerrold replied.
What u Woman Did. . ,
■ A Buffalo pop* tells how a votuw
i • put to flight n mob of twenty drunk* u
i men, in the village of Holland as fot
, low* : Tim mob was on a geormi
n "apree,** aud the disposition to do inisf
i chief wit* manifest. Entering tlio tavern
j of a Mr. Paul, the landlord was speedily !
i driven froin the scene, hia two yuUOg t
, i aona, one eighteen and the oilier twenty
<*yeem of age, coming fortrord to deal'
> with the riotous visitor*. The boy*, who |
s vainly eudeavured to pacify the drunken,
i ' navnge gang, and to iuducv them to.
t leave the premise*, were tiually et upon '
! and badly beaten, a* were also a couple
11 of men boarding in the house, who name j
-1 to their rescue. Up to thia tin** Mrs.
i' Paul hail not appeared. It was not
until one of her aona, covered with blood ,
and bruiaea, retreated to her, in the rear j
apartment of the house, that ahe felt her
self summoned to action. Her first 1
i instincta wore altogether womanly. She 1
thought that she could persuade the
ruffians, by an appeal to the ordinary
■ 1 respect of man for woman, to deaiol from
i ! their violence, and ahe loldly went into
their midst, drunken and armed with
clulw aa they were. Her appearance 1
and her appeals had no eflect upon them, j
They threatened her own peraon with !
i violence, aud swore that they would burn
the house and kill the inmates. Thee
this strong-hearted woman MM to anna,
i tuid declared for buttle with the savage
mob which would not be conciliated by r
* peaceful persuasions. Escaping from
' a aide door, ahe attempted to rally
the neighbors, of whom there were'
enough near at hand, to the defence of I
her threatened bouse and family. Pat i
j the neighbora would not rally ; the mob i
looked too formidable to them. She j
could gather no force to aasist her ; and
I perhaps it is not singular that the j
villagers atood timidly aloof, because,
without some resolute leader to givcj
them confidence in each other, tneu are
apt to appear cowgrds in such an eta erg
! ency, through every one's fear that he ,
• may expose himself without good back
ing from hia fellows. At all events, the
neighbors of Mrs. Fsul declined to'
, assume the defence of her premises, so
•be was left to bur own resources. '
Nothing daunted she borrowed two re
volvers, disjmtolied s messenger to the
village store to purchase s hundred <
rounds of cartridges, and returned to;
her beleaguered home. The rioters j
were in full possession of its front rooms, j
and engaged in indiscriminate smashing
of windows and furniture, helping them
selves to liquor and appropriating pro-
I perty. She loaded tue revolvers that
she nod borrowed, placed them in the ;
hands of her two sons, stationed tbeiu at j
the two door* leading into the liar-room, j
1 where the mob was mostly congregated, j
and directed them to fire* several shots,
first into the ceiling of the room, above '
the heads of the crowd, hi the hope that
that ought suffice to alarm the marauder* i
, and drive them off. That the shots wen-'
.so fired is i.Umtod, we are told, by the |
( bullet marks in the culling. They had
| no effect ; the rioters were too mad with
| liquor and with their passion to be ao
' berrd by the warning. Some of them,
on the contrary, made a rush toward on**
i of the bora, and then his brother fired a'
i shot which struck the foremast of the
; ojemihuits in the abdomen, and then, too.
under the directions of the courageous >
, mother, who BekwcUd the re vulvar* as
they were emptied, the finug waa kept'
up,*straight into tlie mob, until it broke
' iuto panic and fled. One man was killed
outright, or dropped dead a few paces 1
1 from the door, and was found lying as 1
he fell, with a bottle of whiakv under
one arm and a piece of clothing plunder-,
ied from the tavern under the other.
Two others are likely to die from the
wounds that they received.
(>:inpouder Tactics.
On the last third of July wc witnessed '
a singular dispute between two young
sters of the gamin sort One held an open j
park of firecrackers defiantly in air, and i
the other a bigger boy, 'flourished n
lighted bit of punk.
" Hand that pack over!" shouted the j
punk-boy, fiercely. " One uv them 1
crackers is iniue 1 You promised I
sh'u'd have it"
"Shan't do it!" roared the cracker
boy. "Ta'n'ttime to break the pack
till to-morrcr. *
" I tel] you, I want to fire off mv .
cracker ;so hand it over. Y'ou lu'n r t
got no right ter hinder me—"
" Y'ea I hare, too !"
Whereupon the punk-boy ruahed upon *
his adversary, and, after a moment's)
fierce struggle, secured the pack.
" You just tike out a single one of l
them crackers if you dare !' panted the ;
vanquished boy, now very red in the
face, bnt retreating before the other's j
threatening gestures.
" I ha'n't agoin' to," sneered the punk-1
boy, "if you're so torn el mean about it. 1
But I'll do what no Idler on earth can j
, hinder me from doin'— l'll Jure of my '
cracker /"
Suiting the action to the word, he 1
ble#upon the end of his punk, at the'
same time applying it at the fine red
specimen in the very heart of the pack. '
Off it went! And with it—
Do you see the moral dauaing about j
in that exploded chain ?
In the affairs of life, in our pet enthusi
asms, our schemes of reform, our enter
prises, our pleasures, it is very trying to
nave our single cracker in the Com
munity's pack, esjieciallv when said
Community has lus own notions con
cerning the proper time for letting ns
Are oar own. On the other hand, it i*
equally trying to have a Community's j
single cracker in our pack, when that ,
Community is determined to set off its ,
oae little firework regardless of oouse- j
queuccs. But is it not often so ? j<
As society stands, are not half its (
members holding open pocks aloft ont of
harm's war, waiting the appointed hour j (
of explosion ; and the other half as I)
earnestly flourishing their lighted punk? \
j And are" not the men who kwqi their eye j |
i on Uieir own cracker as apt to har*their t j
own wav a* those who own the rest of j j
the pack ? j <
And, all things considered, when a ( |
cracker-boy is smaller than a punk-boy., -
isn't it sometimes wi?r for the formet j j
to quietly allow the latter to enjoy his 1 (
own single cracker at will ? (
BALLOON Prjsonhbb TO b OOURX-MAB
TIALHD. —Bismarck sent word to the i
French Government that several balloons
have fallen into the hands of the Prus
sians, and that the persons thus captured >|
would be tried according to the tows of ]
war. However, the French refuse to 1
believe that the Prussian Government ■
has any serious intention of taking the |
responsibility of such a barbarity as the )
trial by court-martial and execution of |
balloon travelers. It is believed that ■
the object is simply to strike terror and 1
discourage resistance.
A HATTY vonth in Connecticut has i!
three living grandfathers and six living ,
grand mothers, making nine grand- 1
parents. His grandfather, grandmother, :
greatgrandmother and great-great- (
grendmother are living in the same j
family. Next door live his grandfather. ,
grandmother and great-graDdmother,
and within a mile live his great-grand
father and a third great-grandmother. ,
i
In English, the Merouriout Politique in
J652 advertised an heroic poem,' the
" Irmadia Oraiuloria," and this was the i
aire of the whole progeny of advertise
ments.
j fj „ The Winter Fsaktena. " 1
j , Evmuno Dnnseaa -Hoßd colored
'■ gr<>s groin, poult do aqic, and faiHe,
henvTly repped anrt of the ).afet huon,
•am tire materiel* fai evening
lircMiuw this syaaon, Bfinll pink, del
j blue, ]irl, chrysoliruae green, guano
! gtv, and tire definiteFrou FrrtuUnto of,
I butt are tire ouk>rw shown. These choice
colore in flue quatitia* yfrvpptnl *Hk onto
8R to 87 50 a yard. Yety hamlsom*
i corded silk* ate whk# reld for 91 a yard,
but the rage *hauas row ill vogue are not
, found among tln iu. Bull lower prised
1 than tla line of silks, costing from
K 5G a yard to W W, of thin, uneven
• •lusiitv, dflwitel lt-ediiy by heldhig
the fumrie before the tight.
FXSUT Biuia.— Ot Are fancy silk*
, shown the reversible tripod gros grain*
are the ouly novelty, There nave satin
stripes two inches wide of r v-color,
alternating with white oh one vide of the
1 fabric, while <he reveree aide haa black
stripes on white, or oliw two studies of
violet or of purple one naed with white, i
There are 87,60 a yard. Other striped
silks are shown at varum* price*, begjp
nmg as ln as 81,75 a yard. AU figured
' silk*, excei* the novelty just mentioned
! and the rich satin brocade*, are reduced
1 in price. 82 a yard buy* veyy pretty
white aiik with "blue, mauve, rose, or
green stripes half an iueb wide. Solid
colored silks are still eapetuive,
, and will beeoins mure so, ,
MXWKVU or 51 AElKU.— L'wntmiy to
prediction, low corsages arc again in
favor. Tiiey are straight around the
' neck, falling low off the sljtraldenb to- 6
' stead, of die three-quarter square neck
i with all older-straps worn teat year.
I Hound waist* are entirely superseded by
j pointa beck aud fitmt So- itnos bnly
one dart and a sort of side U a are seen
in the/root of pointing but for,
tleuliy figures there are two and even
three darts. The jioiuta ore very sharp, i
slender, and three or fonr inches long,
A double cord is the prettiest finish for
them. Lace or fringe is often attached
to the points, to initiate basques, or
the flounces of the skirt, but this has a
, poor effect. A silk lacing fastens the
are** behind. Byway of variety the
Irnck of low corsage* has sometimes a
postillion basque instead of a point,
bnt the pointed front ui te rigutr. The
sloeve for suoh waist is the merest puff
!or baud. The ornament is * beHh of
, folds of tulle, or of the material of the
trimming. These ore called Grecian
folds, and give beautiful round ndteeas
to the bust. H I i t 1 w
Tmxxxs.—Of the immoderate length
worn two years ago have disappeared.
Ladies who refused to give them hp last
winter are now having donii-tsaine about i
; sixty inches long. Tim newest fancy is
I to cut the three straight back widths of
' the skirt hall a yard lunger than theride i
widths next them, giving a square train,
and trimming the long widths with a
I jdewtvd flemwee. which, extending up
' the sides to the waist, has the efisal of
| a court train. A skirt of this kind, with
a corsage pointed in front, the back in
a long, aieudar basque, is very becom
ing to a, stout jK-raon. a i;< >
TmioiTKO#.—Telvet niffiee an eighth of
a ysxd wide, put on in scanty gathers,
: trim the handoomewt ailks of the season.
The velvet is exactly the shade of the,
dress. Pink, blue, pearl-color, and clear
green velvet flounces are exoedlßKly
j admired ; but the shadowy grey silks
and the undefined pale tea-rose, apricot,
, eclu tints are not effective in velvet. For
the letter there is, nothing so pretty a.- 4
1 ruffles of the material of the drvas, al- j
'tcrnating with lace or pleated muslin:
flouncw.
lux Drowms POINT LACK and the I
stronger Brugre are gi-noraUv nsed for j
trimming colored ailks aud white muslin
, dresses. Thcv lisve think Honiton fig
| ures wrought "on tin- lightest nwuhes.
Cm*l CBAPB is so frail that it is no 4
longer in first favor for tunica, but is
! retained as garniture ip the way of
festooned ibapery ami flonnoes with
fringed edges. i
TAUUATAN. TIXUK. AJTO GAVZK.— ID
\ thin fabrics fur ball drosses white re
mains in favor and t rlaton is the popu
'far material The prettiest white tar
latans, copied from an imjmrted model,
hare deini-treined akritii of coarse white
net, trimmed with tea tsrtotan flounces.
Tin) flounced mode double of the tarla
tan are nearly two fingers deep when
double, and have a white silk oord, or
feathered braid, or satin ribbon near the
odjje, to suggest a hem. They have one-
I third extra fullness, are gathered in a;
■ plain seam, and i=ach flounce laps half
way over the oua below it. A gathered I
ruche of tarlnten howls the upper)
flounce, and a similar one edges the ,
| skirt. The long, simply shaped ovtr-,
skirt is draped behind, and reaches to j
j the upper flounces. The low pointed i
| contsge is of white silk plainly covered j
I with tsriatan.
Wwrra CUAHBKBT Garza. —-Triremsd I
I with blaak lace and decorated with crmi
| MIU rosea, deaorilaw a liandfome design .
' ball drees. Some white gauzes eighteen ;
inches wide and sold for 81 * vard;
1 wider goods coat from $1,75 to $2,30.
The striped Chambarya sold last year
1 for SBS are now offered for $45.
DOUBLE TUNICS or MUHON.—Thtoi
i double tunics described last week are
> made of white muslin, and trimmed with
insertion of duchess point, separated'by
clusters of tucks, aud edged with dura
ess lace. They ore worn over blse or
rose-eoloved satiu dresses, bordered with
wide flounces of pirated muslin and Lice,
with lengthwise strips of l>ows ot satin
between the pleats. A flower pariffe
worn with mien dresses is of blue and
pink oonvtdvitli. forming breteUre,
chatelaine, and sash. On a garnet satin ■ c
the edge of the train is cut in square '
blocks to disclose a pleated muslin
flounce below. v
THE KANSAS COT Journal,ho • lively 1
(leecription of tlie "lunch fi.md," the
individunl|who travels from' one svtoon
to another at lunch hours and iqflicte
much eomjiany Upon other pwrtLis, aud
leaves uo money behind the bar. This
is hia picture:'" He indulges in Yifjpid
oonvoresUon, ineauwhite doing fall jus
tice to the lunch, ojactiag to* sentences
while buvily engaged in iujecilng his
food, all the time sut]>iciously,.yet gra
ciously eyeing the lar tender, wlto u
anxiouslv awaiting liis order for drinks.'
After eating as much as policy will MDow,
thefleud wipes hi* mouth, draws oht' k
toothpick, and if there is no person
present whom he can bore with a con
versation previous to making an iuwo
tieadexit, he t uddemly becomes vaatiy.
interested in the pictures or handbills on
the walls. These he studies Until ah op-,
portunity present* itself, whereby the
barkeeper's attention being dißtrnrted, 1
the fiend escapee JUid makes his way has
tily to the next saloon, where the sun*
performance is gone through with.
CoNViNciNa.—An attorney brought
on immense bill to & lady for some busi
ness he had done for her. The lady, to
whom he at once paid his addresses,
murmured at the charges. "Madam,"
replied the limb of the law, "I wanted
to convince you that my profession is
lucrative, ana thai I should not have
been a bad match." n* -1
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has
decided that, if a man put his head or
arm through a car window and is injured
by coming in contaot with something
which reaches dose to the window, he
cannot recover damages for the injury,
the act being considered as negligence;
on the part of the passenger.
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•slWm ><s Iwv >ii fail !'• .!♦**}• ituci
' "" MO _j i* i
TERMS"; Two DblUrt a Yew, in Advance.
N ' ">/ "#j Jmtli oh o I • JmT * it *9t, rii
" M l- * t*< cffbc satf***.'
1 New* hu bMi ritecNwd' at Man F*w
oi*oo of th* totat km of the United
§STa2rTfc"3ial&%
I the mbrtringW Botarihrr. October 29,
IMOkAa Ocean IMaudeaFbto* Imwf
Hasdwtati Jallredw ftw 4he time tb*
rewpl weut ou antri she wt*to
piece* ft heart rail., prevailed,; andin
Httfc <*wM b6~apd
from the wneek. itepaciaUy waa ft diffi
cult to obudo Uie urvvifuoipi on board,
and b : < suae of (Jig nieiuffe quantity
raved the officer* and diet* were placed
on (fuwterraiuMi aa the ishuid oft whiflb
Uof wrecked furnudwd nothing ia
j the shape of food. On the lfitft of Novem
ber the executive officer of the "Hagi
<nw," Ideal IWhat, wfthhoma of the
, sab-cfficrra, started .jin the gig f<*
the fiupdwiisb lalanda, •#, OD the
Wtk at Dumber; one month *fte; wi.rti,
efttne ra eight <U Kanri, ono of the H*nd
wieh Wand gww, but ftU were *> thor
oughly exhausted beceeee of their eon
tinned privation* ftfld suffering* that
while \ti' m*lie ftUnding,liient
Talbot, the executive officer. Fetor Fran
oift, quartermaster, Mil Jsm<w Muhr
and John Andrew*, sailors, were drowned
in the aurf. Thajr. bodies were subse
quently found on the beach, and inter
red. The stttrivora immediately took j
tmmmtm to lurwanl Urn new*of their r- j
rival to Honolulu, and. the tore of the '
" Saginaw at Ocean Taland, and on M
leetpt of the information the Catted
I State* Minister chartered ,# .%na
j packet, placed a supply of pionwm
1 and water on board and dinjwn-bed her
11 the relief of the foipwracked waune**.
t Two days afterwfnL theSaodwich Wand .
Government plarod the steamer "Ella-'
ned 1 * at the service of the United Stated
t Man tater, and h* ueinedinteij dispatched j
; her to the aeene of the disaster, %nd
where ft wm hoped ahe would arrrvw in j
! ca*on to rescue the officers and men,
from death by starvation and exposure.
The " Bagina# wae a fourth-rate vi wfel
' of the pwlffie wheel dam, rrk two
gone, and km tonnage JHd Montgom- •
cry fcbcar.i, of >fw York, waa th* lieu-!
tenant commanding.
" Lihd —dt ' !
Tie Yaragua j Affair.
The U S. House of Bmnrewfhtativee 1
have had the Paraguay affair under* coo-!
aide ration , < An additional reaninuoa IM.
ioftmed onawing Fleet Cut Bnmxer.
and Lieut.-Commander Kirtland, for]
going to the camp of Lopex, and acting •
with inquisitors who esicrtad false coti
j faaaiona from Blim and. Mfl|tamaa; and
another, reqhesting the Secretary of the '
* Navy t institute proceedings; bf Court j
t of laoairy t Court-BWirUah Jqr the ( trial ,
ot ddnurala Gordon and lor the
offeaaes *-t forth in the re|>ort. Mr. Wil
■ land. • member of toe Committee on
and Navy DerMtttnemebad ootopUnwct.
d Admiral* 4tordon and ltoyu forth*,
, manner in which thfV had performed
their dutiiM as Admirals of the South'
1 Atkntfc ftqtiadrtn. At 41m doaa of the <
debate Mr. Wood movwdAo lay the whole
1 if i
! di*wring a Court of inquiry wm agreed i
to by f to 26, while that censoring,
Capt liamsev. and Ueut-Cmin*ndfer'
1 Kirtland vra*'rejected fey 66 to 69. -The
* r,wolntjon duapprovmg the conduct of
. 4k*-Admiral Davis, in delaying to prp- j
' ceed to the rescue of Messrs. BHm and ]
! Maatcrmunc in accepting the rdmee in i
the ifnauoor anduotiar the eircomatenaw
J detailed in the testimony ; in receiving,
' holding and treating them as priaotieiA |
was by JOO to 62. Tne rweH- i
j tion deeuurtng that Admiral Gordon, in (
i uqglecting to akl Mr. Waebhurn in reach- .
ing the Government to which he wm!
; accredited, failed to tliacliargn his du^r 1
!as commander of the South Atlantic
Squadron, wsa ailopted "by 86 to 39. The'
' other majority resohition wae agreed to •
without division. Permiaaion waa asked
, to offer a resolution iustruering the Sec- 1
retary uf the Navy to publish in general'
order* the reeolntiona of censure juat,
' adopt .-d. but objeotiun waa made.
i
DOT GOOD*. —The dry goods trade of
! Boston is thus reported by-the Skipping j
! Lwf of that city: ,v j
j Very krile bounem has been transact
ed the past week in the vrnj at bales*,
and the rear closes on a quiet market in
all departments. We noticed a tonM®" j
: tone, however, and symptom* of an im-1
proved trade the coming month. Stocks
jin agents' and jobber* hand* are un f
■ unudtv email, and with the curtailed
; production inhneed by the scarcity of
water we would not be anrprised to see
ian upward tendency iinmodiafcaly after
. tine op.-ning of the new rear. It is
' generally conceded that prices are at
their loweat point, end somo targe
! Western buyer* have already commenc
ed to order cotton supplies in advance
of their wants. The jobbere hve beeh
engaged in nsttUng topounts, and Ami
but small bgluuccs lu their favor. Still, j
! the iiastyear's buajneaa has been more
oae,' and*'
I toe trade generally ain better con
ditiou than it wna this time last year.
Very few fail urea are ( p>yorVd, jaa ottr
houses are all in a sound conkrioi'f
The results of the year have di*appoiul-,
1 cd those oulv who looked for aa active
1 Rpeculktivfe trade and large profit* Ignt <
the aooner our merchant* pet those ex
travagant ideas out of their hkeds the
bettor,H :. - ,i i *d|!
lßWj'tntw* then a thousand preater Uwrn
was ever reported before The deftlw
jF/ew whicb if. oae in nyory T5 m
habiiAuta.. The death rate thus boctgtoee
IMTWUW id Maerfchunettv it i K-ut
W } And'4b Rhode Mand rimrly
There wore 2,661 •oonplcs mariied. tire j
laipsat numberireporteddb anyytore
oept iB6O. The number uffbvorcua
167 —17.7 per cent, of all the mamiUftfl
performed- Ip 1867 it ttas 159 ; hi,
vvtpulation than th<' nariie, aa caee
fall oarer Now England.' The dlwoeto,
however, are ohaedy among tbtf native*
■ Iha Itttaw Novbltx in job printing
hap juat bere evented, ly Loudcu.
grin tor, who had n order ffoip uafcer,
> print h number of blll-heada or three
different ccdored paper*; vki. rw, 'green
and white. The objuct if ri* it ap
i pear*, waa to avikt givitig iimtnu'tion*
man who.delivered the bread,
flour,, &, to the cuskuaaru . Tgi I rcvent
miaUAes, whe : the bUI ww xwde out
Sa!" ™ae
out .' Ac rash ; if on green it idsnoted
"Oaftioto,'*i i theeiHtoHHH'was doubt
ful, land the man *m to tot ha money
if be could'; if-on whita, it wto> ttle to
leav< o*y quantity. .
•j '4 .t -■ il< nl u'.'i'i >Mi u
Atoto in Beee* c*Be<| on one of the
that town a few^days^ago
pose of rasping off the. peg*, bait the
purchaser Objected. becOusr esad he, if
the peg* are'nut off the boy would run
all oter town, and thay would not lm*
him three week*
4 j '6 1
< The Indian Territory wants to be pro
moted the to " State of Ocmulgea. "
: ':L*
Xatthi. Bream. ...
As |ba brirhwtt dreanw nai ia<to away.
Ad tmsit 'Besllx AttwnMii# x%j,
Aad >ei I tope reu 'w vrltt think,
tardea .irhi. ditok.
-1 Aa ciooda mm a aotamar's day
8o atowly lane, aad pare away, <
' ! Pvfova has paled aud waned |
And yet I tain would kava you know
That In my heart there atilt doth tore
.it Aleve whichOiceyougatoed. y
8 1 Ton wooed mid woo my treating heart;
Aad. oh! 4did auefc tulaaiapart
(Into my very oul .
,i
- And through three log and dremfer yaast, 1
.. WMl* waiting km 'thee, eft tar teara
. . .. Arnold eham away eaoh "ki,i
' Xetl have airuggled.wlth y toaft.
And tret* ih* & trota me
I Wad thre alltbe while
Where'er thou atrayad, whtre'*# tolat ream,
? Tar o'er th'- land 'mm* oecan'a ftwha.
I yet to the* mm tree X '
' And whan flret came ante my auto
Tkli tala, ! errehed uiy dotota sad fear*
j ' And etfll did trret in you. '
But now? alaa! th* tale to told;,
> Y 7.5 • • H
j And erek that " endlaw Uourtif"
v—rewreueomuums *
• !,* - Facta sad Faneitau
j Everybody Mdown on slippery Jrid^
l Delaware has. a debt of 11.113,000 less
i' invcetmentt amounting u 65W.850.
n *>lt la a criminal oflknee in. dllinoi* to
- U nun a *' mutton-ln*!4j>Agan."
The Norwegian Lotherausju the Uni
; tod SUtre. now number iSff oongrcga
ITI 4 , Hi |
1 Uia retimatod that there are 220 la
rabble oongregfttionft in the United
! Stole* V--
The Chitotmna in DmntoWftire ftgain
suffering pcreecutioD and • general maa
aerrc is feared.
A wrestling match between a butcher
and a brer U to be a Sunday feature
ill B*u Francisco. ,
PgUteaeaa ia like an' air cwahion—
there may be nothing in it bit ft ease*
1 our jolts wonderfWly.
i A woman in Detroit the other day
went to church, kwving four kttie chti
{dreu with only a box of motofcre to play
WifiL
WSJ rets are ao pleaty in Alabama
that dogs come home without any hide
to aptittli of
An Ruglisb biahop cmce aaid"Our
! giris are -poorly educated and our boys
nover Una it oat" I
♦ At Kiagrtoa, Mo., there is* boy who •
luu no ere*, and hi* mother baa to ' 'box
the top of his lead.
' Somebody pasted lOOthreewdnt stamps
an •rendu Wtot ami dropped it into tbs
Chicago poatrotooc.
The receipts of a minstrel show it
< Michigan one evening were otely aigbt
(cents, whereupon the loader killed hun-
M£ <
t A man who stole another man a hat.
. even when hi* name was written on it,
was tot off on the ground that b*.waa
! coßecting aatograpy.
! 1 A Mtrntosippi Judge annoonoed that
i he would not hold u.c December Term
of his Court, aa be had important private
business to attend to.
1 The Chicago papcra say there are mora
P t>w out of eaiuovinent in that section
. now than there We been at any time
during the last eight year*.
' The Kentucky Supreme Court has
Mttfedth* fart that a dwg mnaining on
a neighbor's pretniaaa may b* killed with
impunity or suitable moan*
' In an obituary notice of aa elderly
cirixrti of a village in Maine, it is stated
, that he had killed forty-seven bears with
- in the limits of the town.
] The V. S. Treasurer has received a
' note from New York, irigusd " Honesty, "
< indoreng 878 to an emission in
I the payment of internal revtmua taxes.
Bull fighting ia an amusement of soma
' parts of China, aa wefl as of Srern, but
lin the former country they match bull ,
against bull, instead of man against
brute. . ,
1 A man who been Governor of Maine
< *' aeroiamodatoil" a rtmnger on the rem
, with $250 the other day, "until he oould
g,:t a check fors3.!><o cashed. That
' Ex-Governor has lost his faith in human
: nature.
A Quaker Indian agent who has re
cently visited the Cherokeea, Choctaw*
and other triW, gives it aa his opinion
; that the Indian fvmalee can be elevated,
and adds that "hoop-skirts are more
j useful in a family than war-whoop* M
California, looking back over to 1876,
f rejoice* that it has seen during the year
, rite shipment of the first bale of bome
. raised silk; tire raising ot the first suc
cessful crop of cotton, and the first sno
' ce m the manufacture of beet sugar.
A Chicago boy, being asked if he had
;s mother, aaid be didn't know, aa he
hadn't been home since morning, and
when he left his father and mother wore
i quarrelling, with odds in favor of Lis
aa ha had the hatchet in his
hand.
At a wedding recently, when the offi-
J eistingpriert asked thetoiy, " Wilt thou
s have this man to ba thy w.-d.led hus
band ?" she dropped the prettiest cour
> tesv. and. with a modesty which lent her
hcaatv and addiriamri grace, replied, "If
you please."
A lady in Bath, Me., has just had re
turned to her bv the Post-office Depart
ment a totter which rie nailed eight
yews nud six months ago. It gas cover
ed with post-marks, but it was difficult
to trace ont its journeying*.
An eifft* mila ride through the heart
of Aha Alps, in uttor darknea* t or dark
ness so nearly utter that it will be dark
ness riMMe, wffl be rather a gloomy and
disagreeable journey, hat thousand* of
people from all parts of the worjd will go
and caperience it, just so soon aa it will
be available.
f An Indiana man was sent to the peni
jtowtiary about a year ago, and his wife
got* decree of divorce, for which she
t o*rd the cbst* On Friday the husband
made his appearance to* hia ex-wife,
: maAa up "ij*her, and went to get a
marriage license. He couldn't get it
litdrtenh pJJd ibe cost of the old
ditcree. H - ■#
i The clipper-ships FroHe and GHory qf
tkt Stm toft Ban Francisco on the same
r day; rare for Liverpool and the other for
nQork, were in each other's oompeny for .
sig wrekf, tlu'ii Separated, and reached
their destinations on the some day, the
' HbUv Arriving but x hours before her
competitor ' 7 . ;
Topers throughout the Eastern States
Arc cdtmdaing of the drouth, and the
' -Norwich Adtevririe explains that the dif
feri nce between lost Winter aad this is,
. that ttere waa plenty of water then but
j BO.fcelil weather to freeze it, and now
therutt plenty of cold weather but no
j#sW.Tor it to freeze.
. 4 G(tt>L Travera, of Rochester, V M mads
a wager of 525 that he wffl, at the dia
. fahec tlf ibrrty-six feet, with a pistol,
''ahoot from the top cA a winc-bottle a
ee+\ on which is plito?a a bnliet, drop
* pmg the. bnltot in the bottle and not
breaking the b jttl* He has twalve,shot,
and engages to perform the feat four
Th* Income Tax. —An examination of
the incoifie-tal returns of the United
States wr Hie lost yeAr develops many
curioas facts. A hew York paper gives
a resume of these, among which it is
elated that the whole amount of income
tax, exclusive of the tax from oorr •:ra
tions, was $25,025,068.86. Of this
amount Seven States paid the sum of
818,887,828.99, and nearly of
1 the wholp amount was paid by New
1 York. In nineteen States the amount
' collected Was less than $75,000.
1 A Lost Chtld. —A child about four
■ yeoretT age, who waa abandoned by a
' wondering party of gypsies, last Summer,
> m Ottawa County, Ohio, has rinee been
in the family of a farmer rasidmg in Ot
tawa, and he, thinking the lijttis girl may
- haws been stolen from her parents, has
now advertised the fact
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