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BY S. B. ROW.
CLEARFIELD, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1857.
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IVE WOT.
Lots not, love not, ye hapless eons of clay,
Hope' gayest wreaths are made of earthy flowers,
Things that are made to fade, and fall away,
Ere they have blossomed for a few ehort hours.
Love not, love not the one you love may die.
May perish from the gay and gladsome earth ;
The silent stars, the blue and smiling eky.
Bloom on their grave, as once upon their birth.
Lore not, love not the one you love may change,
The rosy lips may cease to smile on you,
The kindly-beaming eye grow cold and chill
The heart still warmly beat, yet not be true.
Love not, love not oh ! warning vainly said,
In present hours, as in years gone by
Love throws a halo round the dear oue"s head,
faultless, immortal till they change or die !
From the Ran Francisco Golden Era.
THE TAJIBOURISE GIKL,
. . A TALE OF SAX FRANCISCO.
The rain was falling in torrents, and the wind
drove past the light structures as though it
would root them from their foundations, and
end t:e slight board tenements a wreck into
the streets, deep with mud. Every spot that
c j'j'-I shelter a jerson was occupied ; every
drinking saloon, sleeping house and gambling
table that was available was crowded to excess,
and those that found a dry spot to sleep ou in
tbeir sterns, considered themselves fortunate,
for the unexpected rains of 1819 found many
with elated hopes but to plunge into the slough
f despondency at the dismal prospects before
them, held cut by the winter weather. Mer
cantile business, however, did not flag on ac
count of the rain ; but when the weather was
fair, the goods needed no shelter ; when it was
foul, repairing could hardly be done, for no one
seemed to care about earning a few ounces by
a job in the rain.
Midway between Montgomery and Kearny
street!, on Clay,was a large store full of goods,
owned by an Italian, and every effort to secure
the aid of a mechanic to roof over the tene
ment proved ineffectual, and if not repaired
very soon, it seemed as if the heavy rains
would wash store, goods and all from their lo
cation. On the morning in question, the pro
prietor, his two clerks and portei went at the
job in good earnest, and when night threw its
veil over the heavy atmosphere, the roof was
finished, and a dry. store was insured against
the weather's inclemency. The store wa3 clos
ed for the night, and a warm stove sent out its
genial heat, while a savory smell tingled the
nostrils and awoke the appetite, although the
repast had disappeared. The proprietor lean
ed back upon a box, his feet raised in an ele
vated position to keep them from off the damp
. floor, while huge volumes of smoke came rol
ling from his mouth, a3 he dreamily smoked
' on. Tho clerks, the salesmen and the porter
were also making themselves comfortable as
the best they could.
"Well, boys," said the proprietor, "we can
kcp dry after this, let it rain as it may ; and I
think we have done a good day's work, inde
pendent of the sales we have made."
To describe the speaker, would be to have
him too readily recognized, and to be the hero
of this sKetch would not, perhaps, meet with
his approbation, as he has not been consulted
in regard to it.
"Yes," replied the porter, "I will bet that
eomc of our neighbors wish they were as well
protected as we are ; a board house with a
tight roof is poor enough, Lnt a canvass house
oh, how delightfully miserable!" and the
thought of wet blankets and a wet bed made
his teeth chatter, and the idea was so ludic
rously conveyed, that all joined in a laugh.
"Walter, what about that tambourine girl V
inquired one of tho clerks; "they say you
played quita the gallant with her on two occa
sions." "What is that Walt, has been doing J" in
quired the proprietor.
"Ob, nothing serious only making love to
a tambourine girl," he replied. "An old wo
man came to town a few days ago, bearing on
her back an old-fashioned, gothic haud-organ,
accompanied by a tambourine girl. It seems
that Walt was at the Tontine,' or passing, and
a big, luberly fellow tried to kiss the girl, and
he knocked him down ; again, the old woman
got stuck in the mud, and Walt helped her
out, and then returns, lifts the tambourine girl
in his arms and carries her across the street,
losing one of his boots for his pains. Dear
work, that! boots are worth ono hundred
dollars."
"Yes, rather d-e-a-r, I should think," said
the salesman. "Is she pretty 7"
"Walt is a very good judge, I should say,
for when I was of bis'age I was equally as gal
lant to the ladies," said the proprietor.
"Pretty ! by tho gods, I know she is !" said
Walter, enthusiastically. "She is not more
Lan sixteen or seventeen, rather delicate in
fenr., yot h?r limbs are full and round, and she
3 of the medium height that so well becomes
a woman ; her hair is dark as jet, and the two
sparkling eyos that are so finely shaded be
neath heavy eyelashes, equal her hair in their
ebony light, and "
"Stop!" interrupted the clerk, "or I will
swear you have a whole chapter of love non
sense by heart. Let us see if we can find the
beauty that Walt has been so Iavishingly prais
ing," he continued, turnh.g to the others ; "we
will find them about some of the saloons, and
if we do, we will have them come here, and
then wo can all judge for onrselves."
So saying, they sallied forth into 'be storm,
rushing thir way tcion- muo to Kear-
ue j street, and then from one saloon to the o
ther, until at last they found them at the "Bel
la Union," surronnded by a crowd of persons,
eagerly listening to the song the tambourine
girl was singing.
"Mother, I am fatigued to-night, let us go to
our room," said the girl.
'My good woman," interposed one of he
clerks, addressing her, "there are a few gen
tlemen at a store close by, who would like to
hear your music ; if you will accompany us,
wo will pay you well for your trouble."
"Not to-night, mother," said the girl.
"Yes, to-night," replied the old woman ;
"nothing like the present. We will go with
you."
She followed them to the store. The warm
fire contrasted rather favorably with the chil
ling atmosphere without, and the old woman
and girl laid off their heavy, wet cloaks and ap
proached the stove. As they did so, they re
cognized their friend, Walter, who had assist
ed them upon the two occasions spoken of, and
bid him a good evening, which he polite
ly returned ; by the dim light the rising blush
of rich blood that mounted to the girl's very
temple's was faintly seen. Warming them
selves for a few mouients, they resumed their
instruments and commenced their music. Af
ter a few tunes had been played upon the organ,
accompanied by the tambourine,the girl struck
up a wild Spanish air, that thrilled to the
hearts of her listeners. At times the song was
wild and full of eagerness, and then it would
fall to a low cadence, drawing sighs from her
hearers, as though some peril that beset them
had passed, while the singer's face would light
up with an enthusiasm, plainly telling how
well she kept pace with the song, and partook
of its spirit.
"Is she not pretty ?" whispered Walter. "I
never saw a sweeter face."
"By jovc ! she is beautiful," said a compan
ion who sat near him ; "and what a delightful
expression there is upon her features."
The song was finished, and Walter politely
offered them a seat near the stove.
"You are Germans ?" he said'inquiringly as
he resumed his seat.
"Yes, I am German," replied the woman, in
broken English.
"Have you travelled much ?" he again in
quired. "Ob, yes, all over," she replied ; "fromGer
many I went to France, from France to South
America, and I have been in every city there."
"Has your daughter been with you all the
time V
Xo, sir," the girl replied, "I was born far
from where mother lived."
"Why how came that ?"
"My story is easily told. I was born beneath
the beautiful skies of Italy, not far from the
village of Lansanne, and as I have often tho't
of that spot since I left it, I will describe it.
My uncle's house stood within, a very pretty
valley at the foot of the Alpine range ; there
my mother took refuge after the death of my
father, and there I was born. It is a lovely
spot; the luxuriant flowers bloom the year
round, and the luscious fruits ripen at all sea
sons, while its scenery is unsurpassed ; and as
I gazed upon tho towering Alps from my win
dow, I can bring back every feature to memo
ry ; their outline of snow, as one giant raised
above another until all were crowned by Mount
Blanc's frozen peak ; the clear sky, the genial
sun, the moonlight nights, and starry canopy
above "
"You talk too much," interrupted the wo
man. "Oh, no ; go on," said Walter, as her story
interes ted him.
"My mother died in ltaly,and my uncle took
passage for Callao, aud I accompanied him ;
but shortly after our arrival he died, and I was
left among strangers, in a strange land. A
woman who kept a boarding house employed
me to help about the table. I sang, occasion
ally, and th2 borders praised me, and some
times rewarded me with a rial. This so much
encouraged me that at last I took it up as a
vocation, and shortly after met mother, and wo
have been journeying together ever since."
"Why, where did you learn to speak English
so well V inquired one of the clerks.
"At Callao," she replied.
"You said your father died before you was
born," said her interrogator, inquisitively.
"Yes, my mother always believed so," she
replied and at the memory of her parent a tear
hung drooping npon her eye-lashes.
'A somewhat eventful history," said the
clerk ; "and as tho subject has had so serious
a turn, sing us one of your lively airs to put
us in a good humor again."
She commenced an Italian song, and ere the
first verse was finished, the proprietor come
forward, eager to catch every sound that fell
from her lips. When the soug was concluded,
he looked into her face with a long stare, as
though he would fixjndellibly her features up
on his memory. Each contributed liberally
none more so than the proprietor andihe mu
sicians were about departing, when the girl
turned and said :
"As you have been so kind to us, I will sing
you my favorite song before we go."
The song was of a wifo welcoming her re
turned lord. Her anxiety at his absence her
prayer for his safe return the scene at meet
ingwere faithfully represented. The pro
prietor of the store sat route with. 8urprise;and
the tear-drops fell unheeded upon his folded
hands, and all within the store seemed to take
part in the scene, and none felt ashamed to
acknowledge their emotion. At length he
stepped forward, seized the girl by the wrist,
and leading her to where the light fell upon
her countenance, gazed into her face with a
wild look, while the ashy paleness that over
spread his features betrayed his emotion.
"Girl," said he, in a hoarse whisper, "as
you value your life, tell me who learned you
that song "
The girl was frightened, and tremblingly re
plied, "My mother."
"By all you hold dear, dead and alive, an
swer mo truly," he continued ; "did your mo
ther learn you those notes leara you to sing
in that strain V
"Yes, sir," she timidly replied, "and I nev
er heard any one else sing -it in that way."
"My God !" he exclaimed, as his hands fell
by his side, "it is impossible ! Girl, what is
your name ?"
"llelenid," shejreplied.
He staggered as if struck with a blow, and a
deadly pallor spread with a renewed whiteness
over his face. "Answer me this last question,'
he said, and the words came chokingly from
his throat; "Had your mother any" peculiar
mark about her face 1"
''Yes, sir, a large mole upon her left cheek.'
The words had not left her lips ere he caught
her in his anus, sobbing as if his heart would
break, and exclaiming, frantically :
"My child J my child! MyHcIenid! Oh,
God! my Helonid!"
All joined in the ovation of tears except the
old hag, who balanced her loss with a father's
gain.
The spring following a neat cottage was e
rected and tenanted by the father and daught
er ; and now Walter, a wealthy merchant, dan
dles two sons and a daughter upon his knee
when grand-pa is absent for, merchant-like,
the old man asserts his right to that monopoly.
How Fci. and Peter Looked. It is al
lowable to mention the general notion of the
forms and features of the two apostles which
has been handed down in tradition, and as rep
resented by early artists. Paul is set down
before us as having the strongly marked and
prominent features of a Jew, yet not without
some of the finer lines indicative of Greek
thought. His stature was diminutive and his
body disfigured by some lameness or distor
tion, which may have provoked the contemp
tuous expression of his enemies. His beard
was long and thin. His head was bald. The
characteristics of his face wero a transparent
complexion, which visibly betrayed the quick
changes of his feelings ; a bright grey eye,
under thickly overhanging and united eye
brows : a Cheerful and winning expression of
countenance, which invited the approach and
inspired the confidence of strangers. It would
be natural to inter from his continual journeys
and manual labor, that he was possessed of
great strength of constitution. But men of
delicate health have often gone through the
greatest exertions ; and his own words on
more than one occasion show that he suffered
much from the lack of bodily strength. Pe
ter is represented as a man of large and strong
form, as his character was harsher and more
abrupt. The quick impulses of a soul reveal
ed themselves in the flashes of a dark eye.
The complexion of his face was full and shal
low ; and the short hair, which is described as
entirely grey at the time of his death, curled
black and thick around his temples and chin,
when the apostles stood together atAntioch,
twenty years before their martyrdom. Believ
ing as we do that these traditionary pictures
have probably some foundation in truth, we
take them as helps to the imagination.
What Makes a Bishel. The following ta
ble of the number of pounds of various arti
cles to a bushel, may be of interest.
Wheat, sixty pounds.
Corn, shelled, fifty-six pounds.
Corn, on the cob, seventy pounds'
I'ye, fifty-six pounds.
Oats, thirty-six pounds.
Barley, forty-six pounds.
Buckwheat, fifty-two pounds.
Irish potatoes, sixty pounds.
Sweet potatoes, fifty pounds.
Onions, fifty-seven pounds.
Beans, sixty pounds.
Bran, twenty pounds.
Clover seed, sixty pounds.
Timothy seed, forty-five pounds.
Flax seed, forty-five pounds.
Hemp seed, forty-five pounds.
Blue grass seed, fourteen pounds.
Dried peaches, thirty-three pounds
Among the inventions patented last month,
wag a juvenile bellows for the use of snuff ta
kers. The bellows is loaded orico a week at
the bung hole, after which all that's necessary
when you want to sneeze is to pnt the spout to
your nose and blow away as if you were kind
ling a fire. What an interesting sight it would
be to see a parcel of snuffers thus engaged !
Horse flesh, as food for human beings, is be
coming very popular in Paris, so that Fre
mont's 'mule soup' was not greatly in advance
of the age. American gentlemen are also cul
tivating juud-holes for the purpose of raising
bullfrogs, aUo highly prized by the French..
NEW YORK AS IT IS.
The Scalpel, edited by Edward II. Dixon, M.
D., i3 the most truly independent and free spo
ken journal in tho United States. When the
editor has anything to say, he speaks out plain
ly aud fearlessly. In the last No. we find an
article, headed "Lynch Law," which presents
morality in New York as being in a rather de
plorable condition. Iniquity must, indeed,
bo bold and wide-spread, when such advice as
is contained in th' article alluded to, is un
hesitatingly given. We subjoin the article.
LYNCH LAW.
It is now some three years since one of our
valued professional friends, Dr. II. P. Dewees.
in an effort to secure a villain who attempted
to pass upon him a twenty-dollar counterfeit
note, was so severely wounded in his ofiice,
that his lifo was for some time in jeopardy.
The villain left him weltering in his bio id ; but
mortified at his escape, the Doctor managed to
reach his ofiice-window and alarm the police,
who succeeded in arresting and lodging the
scoundrel in prison. No less than four physi
cians testified to this miscreant's attempt to
pass a bill of similar amount and character up
on them on the same night yet he was liber
ated on straw-bail of a thousand dollars, and
that was the last that was heard of him, until
we saw him within a few months, elegantly
dressed, in Broadway, in company with a de
tachment of the swell-gang ! We bad the cu
riosity to visit the prison where this man was
detained till he could manage to get money
enough to get out, and examined his hands and
his countenance : he had alleged that he had
been at work in an oil factor-, but his hands
were as delicate as a woman's, and hi? face had
been severely hacked in some desperate en
counter; he bore, in short, tho physiognomy
of a most determined villain.
This individual has been lately again at
work, trying his operations on some of the
brethren ; but our exposition of the affair at
that time, seems to have spoiled his sport, and
he has not been able to give further practical
assurance to "his Honor," of the act of good
citizenship he performed when he let loose his
ingenious friend.
The papers arc now filled with accounts of
successful efforts to rob our fellow-citizens by
partial strangulation ; no less than three hav
ing been thus treated in one night, and that on
the public highway of a thronged city ! We
perceive that these highway robbers- are com
mitted "in default of bail"! Will this bo cred
ited in California 1 What will they say of it
in London ? What in heaven's name is going
to become of us in this city, where the bench
has long been in league with crime, and where
the adroit swindler can secure the services of
some cf the members of our profession, to
shield them from the puuishment of their
crimes 1 A peaceful country village is frozen
with horror at the discovery of one of tbeir cit
izens, a young man, a father and a husband,
with his brains dashed out, and his pockets ri
fled, on a public highway ! Every night cr
two, soino wretched woman is beaten and kick
ed to death, by a beastly Irishman, the victim
of as accursed a system of mental degradation
as humanity ever groaned under the Iioman
Catholic Church.
Our markets aro occupied with swindling
butchers and theiving hucksters. Our coal
is sold to us by a set of sharpers, who absolute
ly are unwatched by a single inspector, and
there is not a public scale within reach of nine
tentbs of our citizens. The bread that we eat
is made up of a miserable mixture, in a coun
try which could supply half the world with
flour of tho finest kind. Half of our grocers
and butchers use false weights. Our light is
furnished by a couple of unwatched corpora
tions at three times the price of other cities.
Our rail-cars are no better than pig-pens, in
-which we aro allowed to stand up like the cat
tle brought to market, and be smothered with
the filthy breath of a multitude. We have for
more than a half century had no national cur
rency, using coin clipped by swindlers, w ho
stole half crfnts and cents, and insolently refu
sed the just change ; almost every mechanic
is a systematic swindler, every lawyer a thief,
and every doctor a wretched trader in tho
blood of his fellow-man ; criminals may have
their best efforts, and an oath is no more bind
ing than a straw. Half of our clergy are busy
in apologizing for and flattering their hypo
critical hearers, who glitter in their vulgar
finery as though they were at a ball and not in
a church. All this is undeniably true, and
our condition is becoming worse every day.
Highway robbery and murder in tho streets of
the metropolis of the Union, is the proof of it;
it is the culminating point, and the remedy
must be found.
The diversified abominations and abuses we
have enumerated, have so enervated society,
that it has allowed the most responsible offices
to fall into the hands of men who only view
them as the means of procuring money ; they
have given no hostages to the state for the ful
fillment of their duties ; they have no charac
ter as good citizens, and being unwatched by
the silly and stupid of their constituents, they
find the best source of revenue in black-mailing
the robber who may get into their crib,
and by levying contributions on the police
men, for supporting their re-elections. Con
tracts for the public works are given to those
who will pay the highest bribe for the favor,
until our city taxes have become enoxmons,
and every necessary of life is raised to the
very maximum of endurance by the middle
classes and the poor. All this is hard enough
to bear ; God knows, it is sufficiently trying
to see the ignorant and hard-hearted specula
tor on the misfortunes of bis fellows, pass a
long in his gilded equipage, while virtue and
honest industry go on foot : but crime has
gone so far that something must be done ; our
lives are unsafe.
The garotte, the brain-club, and the slung- i
shot, fellow citizens, what say you to them 1
Are you content, especially do I address you,
my medical brethern, to leave your evening
and midnight patients to their late, for very
fear of leaving your homes to seek them?
Are you willing that any summons to the bed
side of suffering may be your own to eternity T
Will you consent to leave your wife aud
your children palpitating with terror all night
long, because you return not, and perhaps
your body, be exposed in the morning for re
cognition, at a station-house, before your clo
ven skull shall be dcCently covered, and your
dead body brought to your desolate home ?
What avails the law ? Juries are in league
with tobbers and murderers ; there is proof e
nough of it; quite enough; the impossibility
of punishing the murderer of Poole proves it.
Huntington was imprisoned te the surprise of
every one who had studied the usnal course of
such events ; it was a subject of universal con
gratulation from its rarity ; our own profession
did the best it could to shield him ; but the
jury happened to be honest, and it was only a
failure, once. What then is the remedy ?
We answer: first, the pistol, for personal de
fence, and then, lyuch-law, if that will not
answer.
It was a grand triumph of justice over law,
when the committee of vigilance in California
took the affairs of their community in hand.
Averse as we are to any administration of pun
ishment as such, without special reference to
the reformation of the criminal, we yet believe
that we are on the very verge of the necessity
for just such a committee ; we expect to see
one in this city ; nay, wc advise ' it now ; not
yet, not quite yet for the execution of the mur
derer, but to watch the court, the jury, and the
Judge, and see that justice is done ; -if that
fails, we must go the whole extent. "In ex
treme diseases extreme remedies" 3re indica
ted ; whilst society protects the horde of li
censed commercial, religious, legal, and med
ical swindlers and hypocrites, that foster tho
more palpable crimes of murder and robbery
on the highway, there is no probability that
full justice will be done to those who commit
crime ; therefore, until we can turn the cur
rent of villainy, till enough of public spirit is
awakened to give us some hope of an uncor
mpt bench and unbiased juries, we fear that
the great questions of instant trial aud punish
ment, either by death or the lash, is only de
ferred for awhile, and we shall yet see the
melancholy exhibition in onr public streets.
So far as regards sdf-protection, we earnestly
hope our iellow-citizen3 will not be deterred
from arming themselves and using the pistol
should their safety require it. Let all who be
lieve themselves dogged at night, give the
supposed foot-pad a wide berth and a clear
and distinct challenge ; cross the street if nec
essary ; then, if he persist in approaching, fire,
before his associate may attack you from a
nothcr quarter. We give this advice unhesi
tatingly, and intend fully to carry it out to
the letter.
A few examples, and we are quite sure the
wretches will abandon their practices and
take up the safer ones of pocket-picking and
thimble-rigging, and our judges find their
trade of straw-bail at a discount ; their game
will be too poor to pay for their release.
The slimy pools when flooded by the moun
tain torrents swollen by the descending clouds,
seek the ocean burdened with the accumula
ted filth of the plains. Received in its vast
and surging depth, it is tossed and agitated
till it subsides to its bed of rest ; and the an
gry wave as it dashes the feathery foura and
sounds its awfnl music on the rocky shore, is
like the note of exultation that will arise to
heaven when the law shall return fcr purifica
tion to the heart of the People who made it.
Tile polluted ermine must be torn from the
shoulders of the scoundrels who have so long
disgraced the bench in this city, and purified
by the surging billows of popular indignation.
Nobody seems to have heard of that chap in
Aberdeen, Miss., who just came home from a
year's absence in Nicaragua. On his way up
from the landing he met'quitc a number of la
dies. After kissing his .sister, &c, "Pray,"
said he, "are all tho girls in Aberdeen married ?
I met Miss A " "Why, brother, Miss A.
isn't'married." "Not mairied ! nor MissBf
nor Miss C 1 nor Miss" "Oh, pshaw ! broth
er," said Sis, just beginning to catch the idea,
'that's nothing but hoops."
There was a magazine article onco publish
ed, in which the clause "woman is the sharer
of man's joy and happiness," was made by the
misprint of a single letter to read, "woman is
the shaver of man's joy and happiness."
A man named Forner, living near MiKons
burg, Ohio, onthe 15th ult. bet a dollar that
he could walk home, a distance of five miles,
Mrefootcd. He won bis bet and lost both bis
feet, which were so badly frczan as to require
amputation.- " . ..
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Mr. Errroa : I send yon the following, to
show the effect of a comma in changing the
meaning of a sentence, A benevolent, and
generous prior, in the priory of Kamessa, had
the following lines written over his door
'Be open evermore, 0 thou my door.
To nono be shut, to honest or to poor."
But after his death, a miserly man, named
Raynhard, greedy and covetous as the other
was liberal, succeeded him, and retaining the
same lines over tho door, altered the punctua
tion so as to make them read :
open evermore. O thou my door,
To none ; be shut to honest or to poor."
This man was afterwards driven thence, on
account of his niggardliness, and it grew into
a proverb, "That for one point, Raynhard lost
his priory."
I copy for your young readers the following
rules, to guide them when to use tho termina
tions "ize," and "ise," in their authograpby.
They aro taken from the Student's Miscellany.
Kule first. When a" complete word would
remain after leaving off the termination, ize
should be used ; as real, real-ise, modern, mod-ern-i'cf,
civil, civil-ise.
Rule second. When the word would be in
complete without the termination, tie should
be used ; as demise, advise, enterprise, &c.
Criticise and recognize are the principal ex
ceptions to these rules.
Now let me copy lor your young readers, a
few lines on the use of the word that, which so
olten puzzles.thc brain of th young gramma
rian, because it has so many offices, and bears
'so many titles in our language.
"Xow that is a word that may often be joined,
For m.VT that may be doubled, is clear to the mind ;
And that that that is right, i as plain to the view,
As that th-ul that that we use, is rightly used too ;
And that that that that that line has in, is right
In accordance with grammar, U plain in our sight.
By the time your young readers shall have
parsed understanding all the tbats in the six
lines above, they may properly be left to tha
study of other words.
Yours truly, J. J. H.
The Sky-Hockex Beanq. A man traveling,
entered a tavern, and seeing no one present
but the landlord aud a negro, seated himself
and entered into conversation with the negro.
Shortly, he asked Sambo if he was dry ? Sam
bo said ho w as. Stranger told, him to go to
the bar and take something ut Lis expense.
Negro did so; and shortly left. Landlord says
to stranger :
"Are you acquainted with that nigger V
"No, never saw him before ; but why do
you ask?"
"I supposed so from your conversation with,
him and asking him to drink."
"Oh," sai l the sttanger, "I was only exper
imenting. The fact is, I was dry myself, and
I thought that if your liquor didn't kill tho
negro in fifteen minutes, I woull venture to
taLe a drink myself."
Landlord's curiosity fully satisfied.
Getting 'em Mixed. We once heard of &it
old fellow, famous all over the country for
tough yarns, tell the following. lie was. ie!
ling what heavy w heat he had s --en in the Statto
of New York. "My father," said he, "once
had a field of wheat, the heads of which were
so close together, that the w ild turkeys, when
they came to eat it, could walk around on tho
top of it anywhere." We suggested that the
turkeys might have been small ones. "No.
sir," continued he, "they were very largo
ones. I shot one of theu, one day,. and when.
I took hold of his legs to carry hira, his head
dragged in the snow behind mo!" "A cu
rious country you must have had, to h&vosnow
in Laivest!" "Well, I declare," said he,,
looking a little foolish ; "I have got parts qI
two stories mixed !"
A school of white perch was discovered, a.
few days ago, frozen in the ice near Swaa.
Point, in Chesipeake Bay. Nearly forty
bushels were cut out, the ice being about IS.
inches thick.
A foppish fellow advised a friend not to
marry a poor girl, as he would find matrimony
with poverty "up-hill work." "Good," said
his friend, "I would rather go up bill than
down hill any time."
C7Lewis Baker, the murderer of Bill Toole,,
is at his old haunts in New York City. So the
world wags. Five years hence, the very fact
of the "murder will be almost, if not quite,
lost to memory. .
CA woman was lately found in the streets
of Philadelphia in a state of mania potu, who
was at one time the wife of one of the most
distingiushed citizens of New York.
A bluff' son of the sea calls th navigation
of the streets by the ladies "great circle sailing-"
He deserves to have his ears terred as,
he does his compass.
Pennsylvania, owns 14.S31 miles of canals,
which cost $10,000,000. '. There nre also in tho
State 2,164 miles of railroad, "which cost
$08,000,000 '
If you would rise In the world, you taust
not stop to kick at every cur who barks at yoa
as you pas along. ' '
- It is stated that the dwelling of a Mr. Rob
erts in New York cost $2oO,000.