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Yil APiK ',XVIII*.
Thy 113rother Has Fallen.
TILT brother has fallen
Oh, go to hint now,
With love iu thy bosom,
And smiles on thy brow.
Speak words of true kindness,
And bid him arise
From error to virtue,
And press to the skies.
Thy brother has fallen!
Assist him to stand ;
Throw around him thy mantle;
Extend him tby hand;
Be gentle,, be tender,
Persuagive and kind ;
And to his heart's centre
A way thou wilt find.
Though sunk and degraded
By error and vice,
Till early affections
Are cold ar the ice.
Compassion and kindness
Once felt in the heart,
Will melt to contrition
By the warmth they impart.
Thy brother btu fallen!
Oh ! hasten to give
The help that is needed,
And bid him to live.
Wait n• t for the tunrrow;
Today is the time;
Before he is hardened
In error and crime.
Ask not for the reason
That brought him so low;
That he is disgraced is
Sufficient to know,
Wben virtue has triumphed,
Joy beams in his eye,
•With tears he will bless thee,
With hands to the sky.
To save a lot brother
What honor en great?
Yet thou-ands neglected
Are left to their fate.
When a word a look eren,
Would virtue restore;
And keep the lo.•t brother
From wandering more.
TUE LOST MAN.
A PRAIRIE SICSTVH.
Ast unfortunate trader once strayed from
his companions, and was lost four or fiat.
days, suffering the toenetst pangs of starva
tion. It as+ years ago, yet the story
only been told in oral repetition anwpg th,
old traders, and has never before, to our
knowledge, fallen in the way oft. -.ribs.
The man wander2d away upon a sultry
mid-envoi:ler aftereon, oppressed to despot
ration with th:, .t, in -eureh of water, while
the caravan, v.a., dragging slowly along the
dreary and tie.ted prairie. Making his way
to a cluster of titutter that appeared at it
very mat distance, ho wait fortunate enough
to find a small cool spring gushing and rip
pling at the bottom of a deep rocky hollow.
The Avila water, the cool shade of the steep
rock and trees above, together with the
knowledge that the wagons were still mov
ing along in eight, induced the poor fellow
to yield to his weatiness and suffer hi, eye.
to close. Wnen he awilte, the grey of the
evening was deeputaing around the pi aai,
and rushing up tom the •hof.div, his ey,
wan d ere d t og n i! in vain 'sots:6 ui his et ! iii•
paniuns. lie we, a raw adventurer, upon
his first travel, lnoocing r.otiriag of how to
advance his step, in toe wilderness, 'add
trusting entirely to the guidance and experi
ence of than with whom he traveled. ties
ty, impulsive, and rash us ho was careless.
and without possessing a single quality of
character to assist him in such an emergen
cy, confused terror at once took possession
of him, and started as he thought in the
direotion whore he had last seen the wagons,
be MO with headlong speed, shouting wildly
hopes of being hoard and
companions.
wan, bereft of all thought by
ire of his predicament, could
iber to fire the rifle he held.
:caring his lungs with wild
!ries fur assi.,tance. While
forward in this manner, the
, ning around him, the man
'Wield fall and was stunned into
'lrsoule hours. Wean giving
tee of the poor fellow's own
e back to consciousness some
night, in the midst of a
wolves, and found himsell
Ade of a buffalo's skeleton, not
'ripped by the prowling dogs
11, A situation more appalling
nerve, may not be imagined.—
bted not but that he was =il
ly fr itn bid state of torpor by
eatures assaulting his own
thee were mauled and torn
f a claw was on his leg,
seems had not touubed
.4d upon the skeleton,
' on a limn or some
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other part, La he diaeoveri.d a large lump
upon his head, which alp.° ed distressingly
when he num to his;sen.c ;
The poor fellow in the bout of his terror,
made out to scare away the twelves from
himself, and escape from the spot, leaving
t'te famished ati'm fls to return again to the
buffalo's bones, and give them u oloaser
polishing. Just escaping from ono fright f fil
danger, perhaps took smnething from the
keen horrors of his desolate and wrett hod
condition, but the unhappy man's Fellstlion+
were harrowing end fearful in the extreme.
Ile still pressed onward, his strength failing
at every step, calling in harsh and broken
shrieks to his friends, and changing his
course again and again in utter and misera
ble uncertainty of which way to turn.
Daylight came, the sue arose, noon ap
proached and passed, and the lost man was
alone in the desert, famished and faint, and
without a solitary hope of regaining his
companions or finding the track they were
pursuing.
That night the unhappy wretch sank ex
hausted upon the grass and slept, to awaken
in a state of fear and danger more appaling
even than the night before. A compact and
intrumerable hand of buffaloes came moving
slowly across the region of the prairie on
which he lay, and he started from sleep in
in immanent peril of being trodden to death
by the huge monarets of the plain. As
these dense masses of buffaloes move, they
emit sounds that rise in the air like sea surge
and as the black herd came towards him in
deep midnight, the poor trader declared
that rolling ocean seemed about to over
whelm him. Utterly parented with his
danger, the unfortunate man could but start
to his feet, and stand confounded, fearing
either to fire or use other means to alarm
the buffaloes, lest by exciting their terror,
be should but increase his own peril. From
this critical position, however, he likewise
escaped unhurt, for the animals separated,
as their custom, when a strange scent is de
tected, and passed on in two divisions, keep
ing, keeping some two hundred yards clear
of the mysterious intruder in the middle.
Daylight was again appeering, as the last of
the innutuerablo herd of creatures passed
him, and the man was starving.
He took aim at a retreating buffalo, and
missed fire, for his percussion cap was damp
with the night dew. Still he was famishing
and his only hope seemed in the slaughter
ing of a buffalo. fie followed, crawling,
on his hands and knees, and, after hours of
weary watching and labor, wounded a cow at
last with a suoccssful shot, and the whole ,
band disappeared, while the poor trader fell
prostrate, too exhausted and faint to make
another effort in the pursuit.
This unhappy wretch lay gmanine aloud. '
alone in the midst of an interininabh. wa. t..
abandoned to desperation and de pair, when
the thin bark of a small prairie dog of meted
his attention. Once more ho charged hi,
Hie, for the little creature was in night. with
its nose lifted just al ove the mound sur
rounding its bole. The starving Man lay
prostrate upon the earth, took slow and
cautious aim at the dog, and was fortunate
enough to knock it out, of its hole with a
uroken back ; but before he could reach the
spot, the dying creature had wriggled hack
into its hiding place and di-appearcd.—
With his ten fingers, the de -iterate man
raked up the earth, and sueeetsiod in drag
ging the dying dog out upon the grass, where
without waiting to finish his agony, he tote
•ts warm flesh with his teeth, like a wolf
while the expiring creature was -till Ifititio
at his fingers. This unnatural su.tenatic
estored the drooping man, and he was en•
'bled to resuuae. his wanderings, which he
continued for three more days and nights.
*lone desolate and miserable, until he en
sountered a hunting party of Catuanchea.
whom, so far from avoiding, he rushed to
•mbrace, as though they were kindred near
Ind dear, and the beat friends, MI could
meet on earth. They were friends as it
t if ned out, for they set him upon the track
ot regain his comrades, with instructions to
;inert hint, and buffalo meat to support him.
Hying themselves by stripping him of his
• die and everything else of the slightest value
hat had about him.
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After fi,ur days travel the poor trader
reached his friends again, and was welcom
ed as one from the grave. Upon the eve
ring of his loss, search was made in all di
rections and signal guns fired which hi
would have heard, had ho not have been la)-
ing insensible by the buffalo's skeleton.—
Search was also continued upon the sne•
seeding days, as the caravan moved alone.
but Ms wandering had been to irregular.
tending in a far and opposite direction, the
it was impossible to truce him, The flys
lays suffering of this unfortunate man may
1,0 but faintly imagined.
A YANK EZ IN PAIS'S.— A story is told it,
private circles about a wealthy but ill-it
formed American who went to Pari4 and up
plied for lodgings at one of the aristocratic
'old family" mansions of the city, when
ho read the words "Hotel de Crillion" ovo:
the door. Haughtily dismissed there, hi
neat applies at another of too Fame sort, tht
'Hotel de Boling," unaware that the cus
tom of placing the name over the door it
one of the old observances of the French
aristocracy. At this juncture some one in
fanned him of his blunder, and great was his
chagrin. Subsequently he met a friend who
recommended him to go to the "Hotel de
Louvre," which is really a house of public
entertainment. But ignorance had suc
cumbed to wisdom. "No, hang it," was
the erudite reply, "I'm up to that, you
know, you don't get me to apply for board
at Leas Napoleon's palace."
Letter to Mr. A. T. Stewart of
Slew York.
Geneorrowm, D. C., Feb. 5. 1858.
My Dear Afr. A le.enntler T Stewart,'• Chair.
man Grant Committee, Cooper Institute
N. Y."
Your very handsome printed letter of Jan.
uary the Ist did not reach me until today,
and I hasten to assure you that its tenor is
!ouch more congenial to my feelings than
any of the printed papers you have ever had
the kindnes.. to seno tne, printed:
Dams: PROMPT CASH, mix, per cent.
off, C. 0. D.
To be frank with you, I always thought of
croton oil when I saw those papers. They
suggested haste, and made the nervous. But
this State paper is heavy, and makes me
fool inclined to sleep and think. I never
know any of your partners before ; but it
a ppears,sinceyou added a' new Onsn t depart
ment to your trade, you have put the part
ners' names an the "bill heads."
Is Mr. Astor a son of the old gentleman
that was in the fur and skinning business?
And does he propose to renew the trade on
the "political varmints" that can't be
"melted out?" Mr. Peter Cooper, that
was in the paint, glue, and isinglass trade.
is he a special or general partner to furnish
all the paint and putty and glue that will be
required to cover up and hold up the Grant
plottform? If so, it is a big thing. Isin
glass and all other transparent substances
will be useless. The people see their way
through it now. Mr. Chittenden is a lovely
character, and I suppose he is to be the head
of the "religious department." Ah! I
learned to know and appreciate him during
the war in dealing in tracts, blankets, con
tracts, and all other kinds of tracts towards
loyalty and the Treasury.
The combination grows on me as I read
the name of Mr. Vanderbuilt ; it denotes
pluck, speed, and bottom. The very thought
of him and Grant hitched double on the
great national track makes a fellow feel
horseish, and be willing to het that they
would make the faste-t time over poo peo
ple's children. and their written and other
constitutions, that we ever had in this coun
try ; they would shower down the oats, and
no patriot would dare utter neigh as long as
we had a "stable government." With Mr.
Bonner's influence. the thing would present
a completeness doubtless even never contem
plated by Washington hitnself. The very
sight of Mr. Harper's name was refreshing
to my eyes, as my memory was even full of
the sound law, morals, and pictures of their
publications—the "Magazine," "Weekly,"
and "Bazar-and often regretted that Con
gress had not made an appropriation for
their introduction into the colored universi
ties. The absence of the name ot Mr. Be
nnett, of the fienthl, is to be regretted. as
its hare use would have added an element of
public regard not always attainable. Would
it not have been well to have added the
names of the proprietors of "Zozodont,"
••Night Blooming Ceres," "Balm of a
Thousand Flowers," Barnum, and the sew
ing machine men? I merely mike the sug
gestion. It seemi unkind to touch the ar
tistic pile that you have all created with a
labor of love and faith. derived either from
the Bible or the Treasury Department, a
kind of millenium faith, where all nations.
kindreds, and tongued dwell together and
gather in harmony. When one scans the
list of lean Democrats, tat loyalists, and
stock fossils, his mind can but revert to the
Prairie scenes, where none but Providence.
he Indians, and nature rules, and he thinks
th e P ra i r i e dogs and their holes, and all
•he varmints and reptiles that therein dwell
in a peace as profound as lovely, a scene
truly edifying to one of large Christian
faith.
You will, I trust, pardon the liberty
take here, and now, in expressing a personal
regret that the name of that august vegeta
narian squash philosopher, Mr. Greeley,
does not appear on the list. iVe shall need
blood out of turnips and other green things
in the canvass. By the way, Speaking ol
blood, brings to mind our old fricud, the re
doubtable Rynders. You have neglected
him, a game, good fellow, who never struck
.'out of time," or "below the belt." 1 quote
the personal port of your appeal, and regard
it as addressed to myself: "Your position in
the community wll. , re you reside will enable
sou to sh.tne, if' nit lead, public opinion."—
Yet farth-r, "Y will ut once issue a col;
tilt' a pulite., Inc- , init.' . So, after an early
oealch-4 I ao a! once to -ec my brother, Is
rael Funk, the tobacemii,t, and, to my sur
prise, find him in a great rage, reading you'
printed letter, a duplicate of mine addressed
lc him. He won't budge a peg—swears that
he is badly bitten now with the "Grant
grand" in tobacco and segars. All of that
iirand have plenty of grit ;Ind smoke, but no
flavor. Greenhorns and boys buy once and
hen drop that brand. Ile was down on it—
real savage. What could a man do, then.
when his own brother was against him, in
:totting up a public meeting, but go and
4eo 31r. Washburne, and lay my plans before
him? He listened with both eyes until I
named about the public meeting. with th.
"Grand Grant Head Centre" to talk ahem,
in publk; says "it won't do at all for aim
public man to talk all his wind out before
lung race, but he must keep it in him to
make time coming down the 'quarter stretch .
in the last heat on the four mile day; say•
"Grant acts, don't talk; Johnson talks.
don't sot, and has got down from a thor
ough-bred to running quarter noes, with
Mr. Seward for his rider and Pokey, and
takes the spurs like a Conestoga wagon
horse." I do not see what I can do but await
Your instructions You know I ate disposed
to .hlige you. You are so very kind, atfoe•
donate, and liberal to all your friends. em
ployees, and servants, that your will is their
law and they would never dream of diso
beying at the prevent high price of board
"Trusts: PROMPT CASH, gaper cent•
off. C. 0. D."
I neglected to men.ion a very small, trivi
al eircunmanve that !illy be in the way of
our new "Grant th.t u! fluent" in the dry
goods trade, We did not kill all the Demo.
crat4 and rehelA, and they say a tuillinen•,
vegetarian, shoe, and Grant department, or
anything of that kind, added to the trade,
may do; but when it comes to selecting
their offieerF, the descendents of the old
stock intend to select and name their man,
not yours.
Mrs. Funk desires you to Rend her some cal
keel' or other prints for drapery nt the public
meeting, (if ordered,) representing the scene
at the War office when Gen. Grant Rurren
dered to Mr. Stanton. Ple,ce don't mark
the bill for the calieoem
"Twos : PROMPT CASH, RIX p,r cent.
of, C. O. D•"
As I said before, k makes me feel
Patriotically—well, yes,
Pana FUNK.
P. S. mr. F. directs me to present her
compliments, and says that she always
thought you were the handsomest man of
your age in New York, and she regrets to
learn that you are getting round-shouldered,
and desires to know whether it arises from
having the weight of the nation to bear, or
is it occasioned from a habit of putting your
hands down deep into your breeches-pockets
to pull up money for the poor ; or will it not
make a man stoop—just a little—in trying'
to pass from the tail of the Radical party to
the bead of the Conseratives and Demo
oats? She further directs, that it is proper
that an answer to a printed letter should be
printed. P. F.
A Tower. e - is. SlWl.lB.—Lamertine in his
"Pilgrimage to the holy Land," writes as
follows : —'•W hen I was about* league from
Niel. the last Turkish villaer. almost on the
•entier of Servia. I sate a large towerrisinr
I. '1 the inid-t of the plain. 1 VI white as
Par, • marble. I hat down under the
shade ' the tower to enjoy a few moment's
repose. So sooner was 1 seated than rais
ing my eyes to the monument, I discovered
the walls which I supposed to be built of
marble, or of regular rows of white atone,
were composed of regular rows of human
skulls. Bleached by rain and sun, and ce
mented by a little sand and lime, formed
entirely the triumphal arch which now slid
toyed me from the rays of the burning sun;
there might be from fifteen to twenty thou
sand. In some places, pordons of hair were
still hanging, and waved like lichen or moss,
with every breath of wind. The mountain
breeze was then blowing fresh, penetretiug
the innumerable eavalties of the skull, and
sounded like a mournful and plaintive sigh.
These were skulls of fifteen thousand Servi
ens who had been put to death by the Pa
ella, in the late insurreution in Sunda. How
ever, Servis. is now free, and this tunnitmont
will teach their children the value of hide
dependence, by showing them the price at
which their forefathers purchased it.
FIDDLINO TO A :Caw Tune.—The New
York Tribune in a late article upon the fi
nances said :
"Legal tenders are a forced loan—a sort or
legal robbery. They have no self regulating.
expansive. and cowl:, t,ve power. adapted
to the hminess want- (.1' he eonmiunity.--
I.ny papereurreney to deserve the nan!r
tnu-t be: First security. Second, redeem
able. Greenbacks arc neither. They are a
standing advertisement that the United
States are insolvent. They are depreciated
Government lies."
This is very different talk from what we
heard during the war. Then greenbacks
were declared to be as good as gold, and th
best currency that had ever been discovered.
Had any one used such language as we guilty
from the Tribune then, he would have had
a short trip to Fort Lafayette. It is Axton
ishing what a difference there is in
greenbacks when it is !imposed that ti
bondholders as well as the people hall talc'
them. Then, instead of being the hest.
'hey become the must miserable currency iti
the world.
WILD CATS AT WORK.—Never in the
lii,tory of this region were the forays of
wild cats so numerous or serious as during
the present winter. We learn that some
twenty sheep were destroyed by them last
week on some farms in the vicinity of Green
ville. Grown persons have been chased by
them, and it is considered absolutely dan•
gerous for children to be any distance from
the farm houses. If the bounty had not
been taken off their scalps, large numbers
of them would have been killed. We hope
our member will attend to having restored.
If not. for a large amount, at least suffieien•
to induce people to engage in their destrue
tion.—Cktrim► Banner.
The lawrcnee (Kama.) Rept', limp
'Parisi that the late-sowed wheat is more
rrronii-ing than that which was put in (rain.
rr. The dry weather of the full was injuri•
sue to early-sowed wheat, and it same up it
regularly. That which was rowed later chrt
better. Some fanners kept on sowing in
wheat during the warm weather of Deem.
her and early in January. A farmer writing
from Miami county to the Farmers' Club of
the American Institute, under date of Jan
uary 5, said that he could see from his
window twelve teams engaged in plowing.
- A Lively Hear Story.
The Chippewa Ilines boot's good story of
a party of hunters in !Ouch of wildcat!,
who found instead three lit* bears- The
party had Just separated to scour the locali•
ty, when Sheriff Bond was suddenly eon•
fronted by an enormous black bear, coming
right out of the ground, and not six feet
distant.. The per.l was imminent, and only
Ill• , !• • (I,)—"fight it out on that line,"
and o,lolcoly. Ho shouted to warn hi•
pai , y, awl fled, striking the bear in the
center of the head. Doubling up like a knot
he appeared in the ground as suddenly as
he came out. The firing brought tha ratio
of the party, and it we- resolved to go into
the hole. Mr. Buzzell prepared for thi.
job, and was lowered into the ground about
eight feet before he came ta the bear, which
was lying quartering hind part toward him
lie undertook to tie a rope around one bind
leg when a tension of the muscle, a move
body, and at the canto time a
•;,dogane ray of light revealed two other
bears and his own awful situation I Busse%
eight feet in the ground, head foremost,
without a single weapon, with three wild
bears, and the only means of getting out to
be hauled out by ropes attached to his feet,
was very unuoinfortable. How he escaped
from the situation is a wonder to all who
know anything about it; but he got off with
a blow on the head and a scratch extending
front the jaw to the temple. But the old
bear got the worst of it, for he fol
lowed his man out. and on showing his head
received a ball under the jaws coining out at
the top of the head. So to get hint out
was the next consideration, and Bashfield
was slowly and cautiously lowered into the
den, revolver in hand. A survey showed
that the old bear was dead, and but one
other in sight, and that not all pugnacious.
He attached a rope to the old bear's leg,
whanged'his 'evolver at the remaining one,
save signal anti was jerked out. When
h e 01,1 bear was draw u out, the ot!ters seem
ca bound to come too, and as fast as the
showed thetwelves, they were fired at.
Forty one shots were filed, and their heads
were riddled with the holes before he suc
cumbed. The old bear dressed 400 pounds,
the others about 150 each.
AN ASTOUNDtNO AND CONIPOUNDINO
lIISCOVERY IN ALASKA.--We have an en.
chanted world in Alaska. Here is what a
Russian guide told a Californian who asked
about a range of mountains near Sitka :
"They are mighty in size and cause much
cold. Wonderful things are told of them.
It is said that in some places there are deep
pools and lakes in which dwell monsters—
serpents as long as a 6r tree, which, were
they in the open sea, would commit niiebty
damage. One thing the Indiana tell us fir
certain—that yonder, far away to the Nortb
in the heart of those hills there is a won
derful valley, so narrow th atl only at midda y
is the face of the sun to be seen. That val.
lay, lay undiscovered and unknown fir:
thousands of years.; no person dreamed of
its existence ; but at last, a long time aim
two Indian hunters entered it by chanty.
soul then what do yin think they found
They found a small tribe of unknown pci'
pie, speaking an unknown tonge, who had
lived there since the creation of the world.
and without knowing that other beings ez•
isted."
THE ONIALASICA CANOL—There ie it,
the audience room of' the Department of
State, Washington. an interesting specimen
the tntnne ..I by the Onialaska Indian •
to Ito. , is Atet•ric:i The canoe appears
-kilts of some anima?,
sewed with tondiunt and totretehti cm.;
woodcut frame. It is &Ant eightitim
in length. pointed' at the end , nod it,'
enough to hold, in a •itling , ortt. the ;in
ale occupant fear which it is inter; fed Hi•
toe i• in the middle, and a web, apparent
k made of fi.h skin, is intended to be
tretched over the hole where he sits to
keep out the water • there. The double
paddle by which the canoe lb
:,r ,1.0;1141 i. itlytut eight feet in length
held in the middle by both hands.—
Vmoiret to the region inhabited by the In.
•linns referred to say that the skill whb
which they manage these canoes, and their
.touruge in iiithing enterprbes in them, fa,
from land on a stormy sea, are wonderful.
flue mime is understood to bare been sera
to Washington by Capt. W. A. Howard, of
the revenue service.
Mormay.—There was once to be a meet
ing of the flowers, and the judge was tr
award the prize to the ono pronounced the
moat beautiful. "Who shall have the prize?"
said the rose, stalking forth in all the eon
sciousnese of beauty. "Who shall have
the prize?" said the other flowers advan
sing, each with conscious pride, and each
imagining it would be herself. "I will take
a peep at those beauties," thought the vio
let, not presuming to attend the meeting ;
"I will see them as they pus." But am slit
rai•ed her lowly head to peep out of het
rititug plate. she was observed by thojwitn
.vbn hnnie.liatelv pronounced her the most
neautiful, because the nose modest.
A California correspondent writes that
the mixture of rams in that State is be•
fond ell precedent in the history of man.
kind. He reports rnarriages between Yin•
keel and Digger Indians, Irish and Clittieis,
Mexican and Msylry, Portages. and Sand
wich Islanders, English Canadian and Ne
gro, French and Apache, to my nothing of
the more common intergars to be own
in all parts at Anifill
A Marsachuseils !Standar*
Mr. Anson Burlingame, of NIP 4aohuipeeti l / 2
our minister to Chinsythe gentleman wbo,
in UM, declared in a public :.spots h. that
this country required an. antislavery Con
stitution, en antislavery Bible and an and.
slavery God, has decided to desert his post
as American minister, and become a Chinese
ambassador to the western powers of
Europe, to represent there the interests of
hip. Celestial majesty, the "brother of the
sun," etc., for forty thousand do/fare a
par / Whether Mr. B. has been "natural
istsr a, a video' of China, or, if be has,
what sort of a course of sprouts he was put
through, is not stated; ,but they do say
that he has accepted the Emperors appoint
ment. and ie now on his way to Europe, via
San Francisco awl New_York, accompanied
by a suit of thirty Celestine of rank, who
are to be attaches of the embassy, and who
are decorated with the insigne, of their rcs
pective positions at home. • It is not known
whether Air. Burlingame was required to
adopt the Chinese costume and cultivate a
tail before receiving the honor conferred up
on him by his new employer and, sovereign.
and there will be much curiosity to sec him
when he lands in this country, to determine
this point. A Massachusetts man will do a
great deal for money, and if Anson could
not otherwise secure the forty thousand dol
lars per annum, his friends may expect to
see him pass through this country in the
garb and gear of a genuine mandurian. A
man who would desert his post of duty to
his own country to take service under a semi-
barbarian for money would, if necessary to
complete the sale, don the clothes of a clown
or "hung a ealf-skin (with a tail to it) on
his recreant limbs !"—Paily I'Veter.
PROFESSOR FARADAY.— Profeasor Fara
day sought to reach the mind of every hear
er through more senves than one. He new
er told his listeners of an experiment ; he
always showed it to them, however simple
~ n d well known it might be. "If," said
Farady, once to a young lecturer, "I said
to my audience, "Ibis stone will fall to the
ground if I open my hand,' I should not
be eontent with saying the words , I should
pen my hand and let it fail. Take noth
ing for granted as know. Inform the eye
at the saute time you address the car.
was the great secret of Faraday's success.—
Every one left the theatre of the institution
in Albemarle street satisfied that he had re
ally acquired some useful knowledge, and
iwt lie 6,1 gained it pleasantly, and with
out toil or labor.
DOMINO HORSX SOLD By TIM POUND.
—The eel. brated trotting staliion Dasbaw.
jr., who ha, a record throughout the Wes;
us a - rooter and stayer," was pnrchaaed by
Mr. A. F. Faweett, the former owner u;
Dexter, in Chicago a few days Aire. It
'hated by a Chicago paper that Mr. Fawcett
requested Mr. David Kelly, the owner of
he horse, to name his price, when the lat
er wpied jocularly that he would sell hin.
~ i r liiurteen dollars and My cents per pound
,fier the manner of selling cattle. Mr. Few
,ett immediately accepted the proposition.
rhe horse was aceordinely eir upon the
males, and weighed one thousand and titrt,
! mends, making the amount to I
teen thousand and eighty dollar-.
QUEEN Vic-matA has ordered !.;,.
Governor of Jamaica , o fill all the resp,a,
ible offices hereafter only with white men
!ion' England. The negro has effcctuall
p!ayed him-elf out with the Ittitish Govern
nt by his fantastic, tricks of murderous
and mar-aeres. That Government
.1i the leiri in the attempt to emancipate
0 1 .. :evil! , IP! bliwit nee. It is now the
chat the negro is unfit fin
ut of to live harmoniously on
,u Go %oil) white people upon the same
I. This vountry, following in England'•
puke. will pass through the same experi
ence.
A enterprising and ingenious Illinoisian
of the romantic name of Wiggins. had seven
young women under promise of marriage to
him in the village at the tame time, two of
them being sisters, and in each case had an
ticipated his marital privileges. He depar
ted between two days, and at present there
are seven young Japhet Wigginses in search
of a fugitive father.
Ur is stated that two of the Benoit.
huff robbers have been put under arrest at
Memphis Tennessee, by a Cleveland detec
tive, who followed them there ; that $150,-
000 of the stolen property has been secured
in a Metnphis hank, and that the detective
has Immured Bennighoffs promise of a re
ward of $65,009 for his eervioes.
A man in Boston has got nearly one
ihousand photographs of ladies who re
spondel to an advertisement, "Wife wanted
by a man of weans"—whieh in this ease rig
nified a very mean man. In this case the
man wanted no wife—only a lot of pictures
of simpletons—and he got bushels of them.
Quint A FAMILY. —The Downingtown
./oitranisays the wife of Jacob Spotts, of
ipringfield, Chester County, Pa., on Sunday
night limit gave birth to four children, each
weighig eight pounds. The mother and
children are all doing well.
A new Masonic Hat is to be erected
on Broad street, corner of Filbert, Phila•
delphia, which will take live years to build
and will Goat when finished nearly a million
of dollar,.
"Watah withe lilonVet hew they tan
mad a latter theat itiM without tearing
on 'ton all to bite." 'in, me they
don't seed the paper, bae shut need the wri
slag 1e e ihdol stiMmea
Odds sod Sad&
Ws are alt Adams's children bet silk mskM
the diffuses..
Nlsto? odor, produces moniaire?
Fa.cination.
Row sweet to recline in Ile tepee doges
—say about eighteen.
A warm of raw material—two young Is.
dies kissing each other.
Wart was Noah in America? When ha
was on the Ark-and-saw.
RT are young ladies gives to blushing?
Because it is a becoming rod.
"You are quite woleome," as the runpky
pocket said to tbo greenback.
WRY, is your nose in the middle of your
face ? Because it is the seentre.
Ate exchange calla Anna Dickinson Mimi
Jaw, and Grant, General Lockjaw.
GENERALLY observed— Tilting skirts, we.
ter.fallii, and other people's bulimia.
Way cannot a cook eat her own apron?
Because it goes against her stomach.
Alto. Partington says, one is obliged to
walk very circumscrumptionaly these slip.
per) , times.
WHAT'S the difference between 6 boot
black and a Freedman's Bureau Agent
Ono blacks the boots, the other boots the
blacks.
AN Irish absentee is said to have sent this
comforting message to his steward : Tell the
tenants that no threats to shoot you will
terrify me."
Tuz wan who wrote 'Badly round the Flag,'
has gone into the flag atone business. In
stead of rallying around the flag he flags
around, the alley.
AN Irishman being asked in court for his
cenificate of marriage, showed a big scar on
his head about the shape 42f a shovel, which
was satisfactory.
WHAT nose is wore brilliant than a tope?.
nose? W hy, vole-no's, to be aura. Pat
remarks that the chief glow of each comes
from the crater.
AN apothecary asserted in a large cow
pany "that all bitter thincs were hot."
"No," replied a physician, "a bitter cold
day is an exception."
Wuxi. is the difference between editors
in.l matrimonial experience? In the former
the devil cries for "copy." In the latter the
"copy cries like the devil."
Tux passing years drink a portion of tb
light from our eyes, and leave their traces
on our cheeks, as birds, that drink at lakes,
leave their tliotprints on the margin."
THE most effedin: imtance of the power
,t music, is that presented by the trouble
lour tuaitioned in the song. He sang so
'weedy that he actually "touched his gni.
A YOUNO man by the name of Johnson
has been arrested in Pittsburgh for perpe
trating a new "dodge." He fastened kit
ties on the tail of a rat and sold him for
A RURAL philosopher avers that subfeets
me all children to the same system of instruct.
ion is like boiling large and small potatoes
in one pot for a like number of minutes.
Some of them get done and some don't.
IN ancient days the precept was "Know
by self." In utodsrn times it has been
upplanted by the far more fashionable
maxim, "Know thy neighbor, and every.
thing about him."
TENDER HeAnTED.—Mrs. Jones a farm.
itr's wife in Connecticut says "I believe
I've.got the tenderest hearted boys in tho
world. I can't tell one of them to fetch a
pail of water but he'll burst out a cryin'."
romUTIC DlLl,lA.—Mather in the oellar
•plitting wood—Daughter in the parlor sing.
inu to Clarence Fits Noodle the plaintiff air
•'Who will care for wother now."
To obtain a fat dce—become a 111:41p
boiler.
Ax awkward man attempting to cure a
goose, dropped it on the floor.
"There now I" ezeleimed his wife "we've
lost our dinner."
"0 no, my door!" answered ho, "it's
safe; No got my foot upon it !"
Ad Irishman a short time in this country,
was eating boiled green corn. After eating
off all the oorn, he passed the cob back to
the lady who sat at the heod of the table
saying: "would you please be so kind as to
put some more beans on the *thick."
A LADY having accidentally broken a
smelling bottle, her husband, who was very
petulant, said to her: deolair, my dear,
every thing that belongs to you are more or
km, broken." "True," replied the the limb's
"for even you are a little cracked."
"My sort," said an affectionate moth*, to
her son—who resided at a short distance
and expected to be married very soon —"you
are getting very thin." "Yee, mother," he
replied, "when I come again you will be
able to see my rib."
"Doze pa kisayou because he loves you?"
inquired a snobby nosed urchin of his ma•
ternal ancestor, the other day. "To be sure,
sonny, why?" "Well, I think he loves the
cook too, for be kissed her more than forty
times last Sunday, wheat you was gone to
meeting,"
A 'roux° lady ftom the Seminary at
M--, being asked at the table if she
would have some more cabbage, replied :
"By no means, gantromical satiety atinsone'
idles me that I have arrived at the shim*
culinary *Wade° consistent with the Cdr .
of Emulations." She meant, "ea, but
Wen as much se be' stoussit mia„
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