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' "I keep tqelf cooij ' , ' nietl I'm boid,, Atkl it' bL4m I'm not ; , Sot goBooo fool , , .-,- WiiMi be Eoe iiita hjm . -Hem mj aid Cad Dan A -i-e one. and stiddr -Wbat the world to mm ' When ius wife u a wiady ? tVhen theaolJier atroWby With the sword at hia aids, -Aod the rattle, rattle drama Beat the roll and the call. He mar go or may fly t I auy here nil death corn.. And ticd ma ol aii . . . i Tiu ui Laitia bar diJ: I am iike Cocla D.n, For be aaut troth aod di j U 'Wliat' the world to a man VVheu his wife in a widdy?" When the sailor bouts aaiL And stand out ou the deep. : Laving seettieart orwife ' And the cbilJir bthiud. ' " He UDpte The wild ;ale. . Aua tie txJle mith life. , AiJtl La ii.a. d'ye muid. Where the meruaideus aleepl -Fat,' m old Cocle Dan. 'Utrny st home with roar Biddy ; Wbst'e tlie world to a man ffijen hia W.fo is a middy ?" Let toe scholar alt np Ao4 write late and long. ' To ineure him a uaue lie may it no fur me : G.re me hut a fall cup. Ho mar have ail hia Tame 4 For it a t iff, d'ye see, . And uot worth an old song! Itt ua live. Cucle Dau, It na livedo d love. Biddy ; What's the world to a man WBen hia wife in a widdy "t The Stolen Curl. t"iou the flinrei of Luke Puuti'liitr triii, ami 011 the southern lrd-r of the Siai of Misi--i)pi, a long row of I'lfitut villus, x 1 1 uiip of an'hou-eii, :i:id her uml there a iuhlic ImiMinor private iii-tiuttioii. form the lovely and .iiiei touii of I'a-"4 Chrirtiaii noted for its Ijaluiy t'limatf, the Iw-rtuty ol'itsi-itua-tion, ilj- liatnlnoiiie tei-iileiiw, ami the uealih and the refinement of in eiti- ell. I'o the yonnr ladies' academies and military Institutions of Tasv Christian, many of the wealthy planter were wont to wild their daughters and sons to Ih? eduratel ; ami as the pupils of the representative institutions would meet. in their daily promenades, many ad-1 miring glan-ea wonM lie exehanjred 1 u-tweeu them, and loniu felt tone-' f-me auaint'l. Anions the fair pupil of the Lake Academy none were more beautiful iiian Eoki Vernor. the sole heiress to nil of lier doling father's cotton estates, -iuiated non the Mississippi river. A shower of polden curls fell upon lier shoulder. Ulue.dreamyeyes.a bright, smiling face, and a graceful form, added to a dioMlion of the truest womanly sweetnew, made the romig girl 01 h!ten particularly attractive to! all who knew her. - Many a handsome cadet from the military- academy '""I fallen lit love with the bewitching beauty at the firt glance from her heaven-lit eyes; but t none did fh: show a preference, when meeting at the ''wand the re ceptions given by the different schnnl. tme of Kosa'. greatest, though ailent nlmirer, was Kdward Orillith. the aoti -f a Mississippi planter, whose estate lay adjchiing that of Mr. Vernor, but between Mr. Vernor and Col. Griffith there existed great bitterne.s, and for y:nt the families had not spoken, though meeting constantly in social Intercourse at the neighboring planters. The feud commenced long years be fore when Mr. Vernon and Colonel firiftith were rivals for the hand of Edw ard's mother. Colonel Griffith had wou her heart and hand, and married her; and his sin-cess so enraged Mr. Vernor that he challenged his success tul rival; a duel followed,. and in this encouutcr Colonel Giiflilh came off vio torious, severely injuring his adversary. Since that day neither liad spokeu to the other, and all interchange of frieudly inlercourse between eveu the negroes iiioii the plantations w as forbidden. Meelingoiiceat Ias Christian, though Rosa could uot but See that Kdward "iritlilh admired her, and that he felt that she was not iudiffereut to his gaze, both were governed by the remembrance of the leud existing betweeu their parent, aud gave uo sign of the recog nition of the ot'ier'a feelings. Towards theclose of a lovely summer's day. In the year that this story opens, the fair pupil? of the Lake Institute had goue down the long pier leading out into the lake, to the bath house of the institution. Sooti a merry party of damsels were splashing about in the water, riding the breakers, and chasing each other about in glee. It was a pretty sight, dressed as they were in their various colored bathing suits; and a handsome youth oftweuty uiie, claii lu the tU lUh uniform of the Pass Christian. Military Academy, paused and gazed upon the lovely scene. Suddenly a shriek was heard, and a dark form'was borne away by the tide, out of the reach of aid Iroui her com panion. With the speed of a deer the voting cadet sped down the long pier, reached the bath house, and regardless of the cries of the frighteued girls, bounded headlong intothe water. Vi-orou-.lT did he breast the wavea, and soon overtook the fair girl, who was uohlv ; singling t sustain herself above, the waters, for' she was a lair swimmer. boou he came nearer; and seeing that help was at hand her courage fo-sook her. and she sank beneath the waters, w hile shrieks of distress from the shore showed her that her companions be lieved her forever lost. With a deep dive the youth succeeded in catching hold of the drowning girl, and with re newed strength started shoreward. Bravelv did lie struggle, and at last he felt that he would reach the shore,' for w hcu almost at the bath house two of the professors of the Institution, alarmed at'the cries of distress, had ruu down to the sceue, aud s iuiiuing out a few yards, hail relieved the tired youth of his precious burden. Without a word, the young man turned once more away, and, to the surprise of all, couiraeuoed to swim j low n the coast. In vain did they oalli : him from the shore; on he awam.J :iu.i uight coming rapidly ou, he was no looker visible. . After continuing slowly, and with -trvug aud steady stroke down the oa-U the cadet sw am towards s pier that, projected some distance into the lake, aud drewliiiiuelf. greatly fatigued from the water.' Looking around him w see ikat he was sot watched, he walked rarrVrfV np the nler: and struck off across, the fields for the Academy. Arriving there, he sought, big room, and reached it unperceived, where- he nastily tnangetl nu clothln ' Before eWsoending to. the study hall to join his fellow Mudeuts. he drew from the pocket of the saturated jacket ne nan just turow n aside a lour, eolden Vfurl, dampened by the water. . . "l could not resist the temptation to sever 111 1 oeautuul curl Irom lu golden mates; a lie jtiU miss it, and yet she will never kuow who it was that saved her life,' And carefully drying the trese of nair, me ea.iet -placed it seen rely away. A great excitement wa- created at Pass Christian- by the saving from a watery grave of the beautiful Koea Vernor, and of the strange conduct ef ner no we preserver, whoever he might be; tor it was impossible to discover Lis name, and all that could be ascertained was, that he was a cadet from the Mili tary Academy.. 1 This much the yonng girls had no nce!, as n sprang irom me pier; and Kosa having become unconscious, could not describe his features. The missing curl was - 'commented upon, and the faces of all the cadets were eagerly scanned by the pupils of me i.ake institute, and the citizens, w ho evinced a deep interest in the mys terious affair; but still au expression of innocence rested upon every student a face, ami gave 110 clue. Mr. Vernor came to the Pass, and in vaiu did he visit the acadeuiv and en deavor to find out the brave youth who had rescued his daughter from death ; it was usule-s, and alter a time ii was thought over 011IV as a thing of the pst. Three years have passed since the in cidents lneutioued above, and from the shores of the sunny gulf the scene changes to the banks of the Mississippi river. Riding slowly along the road are two persons, a lady and a gentleman upon horseback. Karuestly they are con versing togi-tlier; and then "the maiden draw s reiu. and rests her gloved, hand upon ner companion s arm. "Kdward, here yoa must leave me, and forever. It i hard to give you up, but my father will never forgive me and forgot the past not even for my sake, dearly as he loves me. I cannot again meet you. This morning he dis coeredour secret interviews, and for bade me eer to see you ; and upon your return home, you will find a bitter letter from him, demanding my letters. You know how dearly I love you, and yet you know we must part. Good-bye, Kdward. and that Heaven may protect you w 111 ever tie my praver. ' And bright diamond tears rolled dow n the beautiful face of Kosa Vernor, and fell uion the roadside. 'I will not urge you to disobey your latner, i.osa. 1 iiavc ever loved you since, a little girl, I ued to see you dashing aliont on your little pony. M lim at the Pass at school, I loved you more dearlv : and how I blessed kind fate that tlirew us together, untram- meled by the presence of our parents, wheii you came up the river a year ago on board the steamer. Then I felt that yon controlled my life's happiness, aud dearly have 1 enjoyed onr stolen inter views. Now all is over, and w e must part. I w ill do as your father asks me in his letter return all you have sent me. Uosa, myow u darling, good-bye 1"' Thus the lover parted; and while P'sa returned to her father's planta tion, a mile down the river, Kdward Griffith Ieaed his horse Into a cotton field that bordered the river bank, and darted away lu the direction of his own home; lor death had lain his father in the graved aud he was master and owner of the large estate. Arriving at his own door, a negro messenger Irom the Vernor plantation awaitod his arrival, and presented him with a letter. Kiitering his library, he broke the seal, and his brow darkened as ue rca'i uie content.. rur hit saKe 1 win lurueur, auu lor her sake I will return her letters every little memento of her love; yes, all !" A few minutes after, the ebony mes senger rode away, bearing iu Ids hands a small package addressed to. "William Vernor, Kstjuire, iiuny Side Planta tion." - Mr. Vernor was pacing the broad verandah that encircled his handsome residence. A stern, haughty man, his brow was darkly clouded, aud his eyes wore au angry expression as ever and anon he glanced dowu the avenue, as if lu expccU'iicy. . "Ua! at last! I hope be has not dared to refuse my demand; if so" And he grasped the Dockage held out to him by the negro boy. Breaking the seal, he glanced over the contents. The - frown darkened, when his face suddenly paled. The letters aud love trinkets tell to the floor, as he exclaimed: "What does this mean ?" lu his hand he held a silken curl, flashing like gokleu strands iu the light of the setting sun. .. Ciion the card attached, he read : "Kescued from the waves. Pass Christian June 16th. 1H50.". - One moment he glanced at the card, his face changing with th emotions that swept over him, and then be called out to the retreating messenger, "Rob ert, come here !" The negro again advanced. ' ' ' " "Mount your horse, and return at once, and quickly, to Griffith Manor. Present ray best w ishes to Mr. Griffiths, aud say that 1 request the pleasure of seeing hlin immediately at .Suuuy Side Plantation." "Yes, sir." And while the messeiiger started away at full speed,' Mr. Vernor con tinued his w ajk uji aud down the veran dah. .... An hour had not passed when'Edr ward Gritlith rode np to the door, dis mounted, and ascended the broad steps, w earing upon his face a puzzled expres sion at his strange and unexpected sum mons to Sunny Side. Advancing towards him, Mr. Vernor extended Ills hand, while he said, lu a firm voice, "Edward Griffith, I never believed that you, or one of your race, would ever "be invited across' my threshold. Your package sent me this evening, told me who it was that saved uiv daughter's life three years ago; hence I bury the hatchet, and offer my hand. You are a noble young man, aud I Jielieve will accept it." Thus the lend was settled, all ani mosities buried, and the two families uuited by t lie strongest ties; for Kdward aud Kosa were married soon after, and all this happiness came about through the xnuiauce of the stolen curl. During the twelve months ending May 31st, l-75, Great Brilian exported 1.47S,4S.( yards of cotton goods . in , The Woonsocket Patriot brings out as its candidate for President in 1876, General Amhrose E. Burnside,of Rhode Island. " ' A movement has "been started ' in Pittsburg for the organlzatfon of an antl-treating society. ' r ,,..; j, ' ,. rJmiS. i?.tfT' ..f-! W,DU for summer travelert, m the CArwa f JT jf ChaP - mauacureforsea-eickness: Considering the immense number travelers by aca. and the lartre Drowr- portion affected painfully by it, surely it is remarkable that physicians have not. paid more .attention to its pheno mena and cure. Indeed i: has so long been accepted as au inevitable aud in curable disease, that I scarcely hope to obtain much credence when I state that Dr. Chapman, of Ixmdon, has within the last two years pointed out iu causes and its natural cure; and that 1 have personal knowledge of iu efficacy in a number of cases. .. II is theory docs not auiuu 01 any lair condensation in my short space ; bat its maiu points are thai sea-sickues id all cases arises either from one or all of the following causes : 1st. From cerebral movements. 2d. From spiual movements. 3-1. From vis ceral movements; and that these pro ducing an uudue flow of blood to the spinal axis greatly increase its func tional activity ; hence the segments of the spiual cord con uected with the stomach and abdominal muscles origi nate morbid influence quite sufficient to induce vomiting. The cure is simple enough ; a narrow bag containing ice, broken into pieces the size of a walnut, is to be laid along the spine, from the lower angles of the shoulder-blade to the lower part of the hollow of the back) care being taken to preveut the bag , slipping any higher than the aqgles uamed. . The effect is to counteract the accumulation of blood in the nervous centers, aud In diminishing their functional activity, as well a their excito-motory power ihat is, their mo tion without volition. In long voyages the bag should be made of India rubber, and may easily be kept in place by the dress. Ir. Chap man advises those who are naturally liable to sea-sick ness to put on the ice before the vessel begins her vovage. 1 was told by a lady who had made fre quent trial of this cure in the rough, tumbling seas between Campbelton and Glasgow, and Glasgow and Liverpool, that when once sea-sickness had begun, application of the ice was accompanied by a delightrnl sensation, and tnat as long as she lay still in her berth and kept it on she was not only free from bausea, but comfortably hungry for her meals. Ir. Chapman is candid enongh to warn people with weak lungs to be verv careful of its use, as, he says, it might produce congestion if applied tcAea M' trere mot fsi-ttrl: Also, to suggest that whenever the forehead becomes unna turally- warm, or there is anv headache. to place a folded handkerchief between the top of the ice-bag and the skin. The truth or falsity of Dr. Chapman's theory can be solved so easily by all in terested in it that it needs no further argument, except to notice that it is very likely the great nervous centres are the cause of trouble, because it is always the most finely organized and sensitive natures that suffer most. However, those who have been accus tomed on going on board immediately to lie down in a helpless manner, or at once arm themselves with abasin, might try for once the potency rather of the little bag of ice Iyia; Words. "It is well." Washington. "I must sleep now.'' Byron. "Kiss me. Hardy.' Nelson. "Head of the army." Napoleon. "Don't giv op tue ship." Lawrence. "Let the light entel." Goethe. "Info the hands, O Lord." Tasso. "Independence forever.' Adams. "The artery ceased to beat.' Hal ler. "Is this your fidelity." Nero. "God preserve the Emperor." Haydn. "Tbia is the last of earth." J. Q. Adams. "Give Dayrole a chair." Lord Ches terfield. r "A dying man dors nothing well." Frankfio. - ' Let not poor Nelly starve." Charles "What! is there no bribing death V Cardinal Bean fort. "All my rxuBessions for a moment of time." Queen Elizabeth. "It matters little bow the bead licth." Sir Walter Raleigh. "CImsd hit baud, my dear friend. I die." Al fieri. "I feel as if I were to myself airain." Sir Walter SouU. - . "Let me die to the sound of uWichius music." Mirabeau. The Veieea er Awlaawls. Aquatic animals are mute,.-' Aj world of radiates, mollusks, and fishes, there fore, would be silent. - Insects are about the only invertebrates capable of pro duciiiirsound. Their organs are usually external, while those of higher animals are internal, insect 01 rapid nignt irenerallv make the most noise. In some the noise is produced by friction (stridtilation) ; in others by the passage of air through the spiracles (humming). ..! t - 1" . .J ,. ....1 V. S. 1 ane uuutui vt uice iu w tuu iu part by Uie vibrations of the wings; but it comes mainly from the spiracles of the thorax. - Suakes and lizards have no vocal chords, and ran only hiss. Frogs croak, and crocodiles roar by the vibrations of the glottis. The huge tor toise of Uie Galapagos islands utters a hoarse, bellowing noise. The vocal ap paratus in birds is situated at the lower end of the' trachea,' where it divides into the two bronchi. It consists mainly of a long drum with a cross bone, hav ing a vertical membrane attached to its upper edge. : Five pair of muscles (in the songster) adjust the length of the windpipe to the pitch of the glottis. The various note are produced by differen ces in the blast of air, as well as by changes In the tension ofthe membrane. The range of notes Is commonly within an octave. Birds of the same family have a similar voice-. ' All the parrots have a harsh utterance; geeeand ducks quack, crows, magpies and Jays caw; w hlle the warblers differ in the quality rather than the kind of note. Some species possess great compass of voice. The bell bird can be neard nearly three miles; and Livingstone said he could distinguish the voices ofthe ostrich and lion onlv .by, knowing that the former roar by "day and the latter by night. The vocal organ of mammals, unlike that of birds, is iuthe upper part ofthe larynx It consists of four carriages, of w liich the largest (the thyroid) produces the prominence in the hitman throat known as Adam's apple, and two elastic bauds, called vocal ehcrd. . Just below the glot tis or upjier opcuing of the windpipe. The various tones are determined by the tension of these chords, which is ef fected by the raising or lowering ofthe thyroid prominence. The will cannot influence the contraction of Uie vocal izing muscles, except iu the very act of vocalization, The vocal sounds produced by mammals may be distinguislied into the ordinary voice, the cry and the song. The second'is the sound inaile by brutes. The whale, porpoise,armadillo,auteater, porcupine, and giraffe are generally si lent. The bat's voice is probably the shrillest sound audible to nutnan ears. There is little modulation iu brute ut terance. The opossum purs, the sloth and kangaroo moan, the hog grunts or squala,-tbe tapir whistles, the stag bel lows, and the elephant gives a hoarse, trumpet sound from its trunk and a I deep groan from its throat. All sheep have a guttural voice; all the cows low, from the bison to the musk ox; all the h and donkeys neigh ; all the cats ,miew, from the domestic animal to the 1 1 ' .w j ,1. -.i .11 .k. .67 , , , '. .'. howl, and whine. - The howling mon keys and gorillas have a large cavity or sac in the throat for resonance, enabling them to titter a powerful voice; and one of the gibbous has the remarkable power of emitting a complete octave of mu sical notes. . The human voice, taking the male and female together, have a range of -nearly four octaves. Man's power of speech, or the utterance of ar ticulate sounds, Is due to his Intellectual development rather than to any struc tural difference between him and the apes. Son' is produced by the glottis, speech by the month. Hcientiilc Ameri ca. - Tar fa tola Vmttm. Imagine a saloon of a dozen ' feet square, arched aud whitewashed, encir cled by a wainscot about six feet high. and a species or tsivan, covered witn straw matUng. Iu Uie middle and this is the most elegant point of detail a fountain of white marble throws up a stream of water which falls again In various streams-and clouds of spray. In a corner' burns a furnace, over which the coffee is made, cup by cup, as re quired, in little brass couee-pota, capa ble of holding but a single cup each. To the walls are attached shelves laden with razors, near which hang several lit tle pearl-mounted mirrors in wmcn tne customers can see whether their beards are arranged to their taste; for. In Tur key every cat; is. also a barber's shop; aud. while 1 smoke my chibouque and sip my coffee, in conies a fat Turk with a parrot's nose, and a lean Persian with au eagle's beak, to have their beards dressed; while a young Greek In front of me is pomading his moustache and paiuting his eyebrows, which he has first equalized by means of a small pair of pincers. The idea is prevalent that, according to the rule of the Koran, the Turks absolutely proscribe all "images," and regard the" products of the plastic arts as works of idolatry; but although this is true in principle, it is not rigor ously sustained, and the cafes are deco rated, with all sorts of prints of the oddest choice and taste w ithout appear ing at all to scandalize the orthodox Mussulman. The Cafe of the Foun tain, among ot liars, has quite a gallery of prints; and so grotesquely character istic that I cannot forbear to name a few of them : The Turban of a Dervish ; A San ton Taming a Red Lion; Animals, by Victor Adam ; Warriors of Khorassan, with ferocious moustaches and cimiters, and mounted upon horses who seemed to have six legs each ; Napoleon at the Battle of Rat is bon ; Tne Young Spanish (iirl; Turkish Ships and Caiques; Com bat between twenty-two Frenchmen and two hundred Arabs; Emperor of Russia and his august Family; Bat tle of Austerlitz; President of the United States; Old Tarr; Daniel Lam bert; The Balloou orTomaskl; A Lion; A Goat; A View of the Arsenal and Mosques, Ac. All these in frames, worth about a penuy each! This extra ordinary nUhinoe occurs in all the cafes with slight variations of subject. Turk ish taste takes the . i rencn prints, and forms these grotesque combinations. Sirens swim at the side of steamboats, and the heroes of Schah-ameh bran dish their battle axes above the old sol diers of the Empire. It is delightful to take, in these cafes, after a laliguing walk through the streets, a Uny cup of t del r dark and turbid conee, orougnt to vou bv a black-eved vounzster. ou the tips of his fingers, in a salver of silver filigree; aud it proves more truly te- freslung thau any Iced drink w hich you could obtain. To the cup of coffee is usually added a cup of pure water, which the Turks drink before, and the Franks after; and there is a character istic anecdote current on this very sub ject. A buropean, who Ske the East ern language perfectly, wore the Mus sulman costume like a native, and had acquired the bronzed complexion of the climate, was, nevertheless, recognized as a Frank in a little obscure Syrian cafe, by a ragged Bedouin incapable, certainly, of discovering a fault in the pure Arabic dialect of the detected for eigner.- "Bv what have vou discovered me to be a Frank?" said the European, m much annoyed as Iheophrastus, when called "stranger," by a green grocer in the market at Athens, because he had misplaced an accent. "You drank your water after your coffee," replied the Bedouin. Every one carries his own tobacco in a box, the cafe supply ing only the chibouque the amber mouth-piece of which is Incapable of retaining any Impurity from use and the narghile, a complicated apparatus w hich it would be rather difficult to lug about with you. The price of the cup of coffee is twenty paras, or one penny farthing; and If you give a piastre, or twopem-e halfpenny, you are quite a magiiificeut person The money is drop ped Into a box pierced with a hole, (a regular child's money-box,) which Is placed near the door. Although in Turkey, the first beggar In rags who comes in seats himself 011 the divan be side the most sumptuously-dressed Turk without eliciUng auy sign of aversion or displeasure from the latter, certain classes have, nevertheless, their habi tual places of resort, and the "Cafe of the Marble Fountain." situated between Serai-Boumou and the mosque of Yeni Djami, is one of the most frequented in ail the town. A charming little cir cumstance, purely local aud Oriental, gives a poetic tinge to this cafe in the eyes of aEuropeau. The swallows have uiade their nests in the arch of the ceil ing; aud, as the frout is always open, they dash in aud out again with that peculiar "swoop" which characterizes them, bringing food to their young and chirping as they pass, without showing the least fear "of Uie inmates, whose spiral columns of smoke they often dis turb, and eveu against whose fez or tnr bau they often graze their wings. The younglings,' with their heads peeping over the Drink of the uesis, gaze curi ously, but tranquilly, upon the custom ers who come and go. or are lulled to sleep by the gush of the fountain, or the bubbling of the narghiles. It is a very pretty sight to witness this fearless con 2t!nce in man, ou the part of the birds, and to see these nests actually within this crowded cafe; but it is known that the Orientals, however cruel, sometimes, to man, are exceedingly gentle to ani mals, and have the faculty of winning the!r affection and inducing them to ap proach, habitually and voluntarily. But, then, they never disturb the animals, as the Europeans do, by their noisy rest lessness and liirlr uproarious laughter. The Turks, governed bv the principle of fatalism, have much of the passive im mobility of the animals themselves. Tk"yhilr Gaulier's Constat) Unnf-U. - s t iiy aweej . All nations have added their-quantnm of supersUUon to Uie institution of mar riage. "That this particular even tin man's life should be' thus favored above the rest may be accounted for by iu Im mense importance, and by the fact that all other events ia the life of man are more or less connected with it. In the middle ages it was firmly believed in England that there were lucky and an lucky days for a wedding. Ue who married on Wednesday ran the risk of being deceived by hi wife, while be woo married on rrlday would be certain plaintively lugubrious toneot grievance, to die a poor man. A Journal in Paris as though be were protesting against 111 actually published the dates of these un- usage, and Imploring an impossibility: lucky days, which were forty-two in . "May the Lord make me thankful for number. . - ' '' I what I have received ! On hearingthis Many old country folk will to this' day tell you that when two betrothed give each other their hands before Uie altar, the one whose hand is the coldest will die first especially if the same one should be the first to fall asleep on the bridal nighL - Another curious belief is that often expressed at English wed dings: "Ah : the bride shall weep. Tor the rain doth fall." In the Vosges it ia sUll believed that when two marriage take place on the same day, and in the same church, the bride who first steps out of the church porch will have a boy for her first born child. So strong does that belief exist that It gives rise to terrible: quarrels,' and even fights the friends of the respective parties doing all in their power to aid their own bride to leave the church first, to the detriment of the other. ( ... Only a few yean ago, a mayor of a certain village In the Vosges had the following luminous idea, and thus pre vented a most serious riot on the occa sion of a double marriage. He offered his two hands to the rival brides, and thus triumph an tly led them out of the church door at the same moment, ir, while going to church, the bridal party should meet a fuueral, it Is supposed that, according to the sex of the dead, either the bride or her husband will die Uie first. Should two persons of the family intermarry with two members of another family, one of the four is cer tain to die within the year. In Brittany ir one or the contracting parties would not have their children born mutes, they must fast during the ceremony; while In the provinces of Arrazon a couple become man and wife by simply driuklng together from the same glass. In another province the newly-wedded pair must be struck sharply between the shoulders to preserve them from the Evil Eye; or, again, with the same idea, some ornament of their dress is stolen from them the moment after the nuptial blessing has been given. Another man ner 01 securing tne happiness or tne bride was to cause her to pass over naked swords arranged in the form of a cross, and called the cross of St. Andrew. In the Province -of Arragon, in order to insure a large family, the bride, on en tering her house for the first time, was bound either to break an egg by kicking it, or to have some wheat thrown over her. These are but a few of the super stitions still believed in some parts of Europe. TwiliHI 1 i-eliela It was to see- the novel tent-perdng that most of us had faced the cold wind and the frowning sky. So a buzz of expectation rises from the drags and carriages thickly surrounding the ground when tbe sergeants are seen to drive the targets ordinary tent-pegs lightly inserted into the soil and to drop the flag, which Is the signal for the first rider to make his effort. On he comes, urging his steed with voice and heel to attain the necessary spend, giving his lance a flourish or two, and finally, as be uears the peg, balaucing It for his aim as lie w hiz7.es oy. ue fails, and so do eight of his immediate successors, some striking the ground wide of the mark, and others steering so unsuccessfully that It 1 scarcely worth while for them to make en passant the critical effort. Then starts a lancer favored by both skill and fortune; as be approaches the mark protuding, be it remembered, but a few inches above the turf be steadies Uie lance in bis firm right hand, he draws his arm back for the instantaneous lunge, and as bis spear flies round, over bis head, there is seen transfixed upon it the tent-peg which was Uie immediate object of all these furious gallops. As men and horses warm to their work the practice improves, until at last about one peg in three charges becomes the average of tne game, mere is on mis occasion no competition between chosen sides, for if may fairly be assumed that these twelve Royal Irish horsemen could safely hold their own against all comers at any rate in England. Before we hail fin ished admiring not only the skill of the horsemanship, but Uie pace aud e'-i of the horses a legacy, by the by, or the departed Ninth Lancers a new exhibi tion was promptly prepared, and very amusing were the speculations of the drag occupants concerning the use to which the baskets- of oranges now in troduced were to be put by riders who must so clearly be athlrst after their labors. The guesses, however, were soon set at rest, when three oranges were placed on as many three-leet sticks, plauted in a straight line several yards apart from each other, and, the glitter of a . dozen swords was seen against the inkv horizon at the far end or Uie Held. The signal is given, and from out the line there breaks a horse man at full gallop, with his sabre flour ishing brightly iu the dark distance. One by one, though as it seems almost instantaneously, the golden oranges fall to Uie ground, sliced in two by the dex terous blade, as Uie soldier whirls past us toward the clump of trees at the end ofthe course; and before we have time to lully appreciate bis perfect execution of the feat be is trotting leisurely back. to take bis turn at the pastime, ao one of his comrades fully emulates the skill of their leader, but all do fairly well, and in few instances is the tearing gal lop accomplished wttnout one at least 01 the oranges dropping before the swords man, though the blow often rails to do more than dislodge the fruit from its resting-place. Once a Wetk. Tsaaki After steal Thanks ' after meat are usually far more emphatic and cordial than graces before it. ' Hunger is an enemy to pious emotion. The ravenous Christian is too much occupied with sharp desire aud painful craving to have a devout regard for the mercies he Is only on the point of receiving. But full of wine and veni son, the satisfied feaster speaks from the plenitude of a grateful heart. On the other haqd, it must be acknowledged that the tone aud words of the later grace are sometimes expressive of dis appointment and critir-al censure. Every one remembers the story of the clerical humorist, who, on being pressed to say an after-dinner grace at a table where ne naa been too frequently regaiea wtin rabbits, observed significanUy : "Of rabbits Toang sod rabbits old, Of rabbits hot sad laMnta cold, - Of rsbbita leader sad rabbits toagh. . Thank the Lord. I have had enough The memory, also, comes to me of Dr. Clement, courtliest and kindliest of phy sicians, who had a series of after-dinner graces that nicely expressed the degrees of his thankfulness. . When be Bad pax taken of a faultless repast, he would re ward Mrs. Clement with a radiant smile, and then, turning bis eyes npward, say emphatically, "Thank "God for an ex cellent dinner." A dinner of merit, though of Inferior excellence, was ac knowledged devouUy with, "Thank God for a good dinner." An ordinary regalement, that would justiry neither special praise nor Dositiv reproof, eli cited no heartier grace than, "Well I I am thankful for my dinner." But when the repast consisted of cold meats, and unpalatable reproductions of yesterday fare, the worthy man used to pray in a dolorous entreaty, Mrs. Clement seldom failed to deliver some equally appropri ate and edifying remarks on the sin of daintiness. Bnt to her honor it mnt be recorded that the offensive hint was not thrown away upon her.' To the last the doctor's graces were instructions to his wife, as w ell as thanks to Heaven. Appleton i Journal. rreklssortc lrmia ssd fral - Carbonized vegetable remains have been preserved in great abundance aud variety, to assist, as it were, lu el ni di a-t in ir the mode wf life of ancient lak villagers. They undoubtedly r.iiM-d barley, wheat, and millet, several kiud of each of these cereals having been found in the lacustrine deposit. Some of theex SDccies of grain were cultiva ted in Egypt, and tliererefore are lt lieved to have found their way from that country to Ssitzeilaud. Rye was not known to the colonists, aud oats not before bronze had come lufo use. Barley and wheat appear either iu grains. sometimes in considerable a tun titles, or, more rarely, still retain the shape or ears; ami even caruouizeil wheat bread, in w hich the bran am the imperfectly crashed grains can be distinctly seen, has been found at Ro- beobaosen aod Wangen. 1 Ins nnlea vened prehistoric bread, which is very coarse and coroDact. occurs nvntlv in fragiuent,bat sometimes in the form of small, roundish cakes abont an inch or an inch and a half thick, and was doubt less baked by placing the dough on hot stones, andcovenug it over with glow ing ashes. Millet was employed in a similar manner for makiug bread. It is probable, however, that the lake people consumed their fariuaceous food chiefly in the shape of porridge. Car bonized apples of small :ze, identical with those growing wild iu the woods of switzrrlaug.bave beeufouud abuud antly,and iu a tolerable state of preser vat ioo. Mr. Messikouir r il irco vered ou one occasion more than 300 of them ly ing close together. They air often cut in halves, nioie rarely iu three or four pat te. and wereevideudy dried for con sumption during the winter. Whether a Ui ger kiud of apple, found at Kobeu hansen, was cultivated, or a wild-gi ow ing species, remains undecided. Prof. Oswald Heer, of Zurich, who lias pub lished an i itel eating work ou lacust riue vegetable remains, inclines to the for mer view. Wild pears were treated in the same manner ; but they were far less common than apples, which mu.-t have formed a much -sought article of diet. Among other vegetable remains accumulated in the lake mud may be mentioned hazel-nuts, and beech-nuts, both in great plenty ; also water-cliest-nuts, which d mot less were collected and eaten by t!ie lake-men, an they are in Upper Italy at this day. Their pres ent occurrence in Switzeiland appears to be restricted to a tarn in the Can tou of Lncrene. There have farther been fonnd abundantly the stones of sloes, bird-cherriesjind wild plnnisjiiid seeds of the raspberry .black Gerry, aud straw berry, bowing that these finite of the forest were used as fowl. According to Dr. Keller, the lake colonists of ilie Stone Agedrew their sustenance clueny from the vegetable kingdom. Tin ir animal food evideutly was acquired by bunting ratbei than by breeding ot cat tie, cousidei mg that in the acini illa tions around the Diles the bones id wild animals outnumber those of the domes tic species. Milk, we may assume, formed an imtxmaut article of their di et. Ua rper't Jlagazin.. ... Diaeeverjafa Jllnear A saber. A large deposit of amber has been dis covered in the Kurische Haff, near the Village of Schwarzort, Germany, about twelve miles south of Memel. Il hail been known for many years that amber existed In the soil of the Knrische Haff. from the fact that the dredgers employed by the government for the purpose of clearing away the shallow ku near senwarzort that impede. I navigation had brought up pieces of amber; these, how ever, were appropriated by the lalKirers, and no particular attention was paid to the matter till recently. Some simula tive persons nave made an oner to the German Government, not only to do the dredging required at their own expense. out also to pay a daily rent, provided the amber they might find should be come their own property. The propo sal was accepted aud the rent fixed at twcntv-tlve thalers for each working day.; The dredging was begun by four machines, worked by horses; eighteen other dredges and two tug boats, with about 1,UUU laborers, are now engaged in the Industry. The ground covers au area of several miles, and a yearly rent of 73,2J0 thalers is paid by the company to the government. It has puzzled many people to decide wbv the dark wood so highly valued for furniture should be called rosewood. Its color certainly does uot look like a rose, so we must look for some other reason. ' Upon asking we are told that when the tree is fresh cut the fresh wood possesses a very strong, rose-like fragrance, hence the name. There are a half a dozen or more kinds of rose wood trees. The varieties are found in South America and the East Indies and neighboring islands. Sometimes the trees grow so large that planks four feet broad and ten in length can be cut from one of tbem. - These broad planks are principally used to make the tops of pianofortes. When growing in the for est, Uie rosewood tree is remarkable for its beauty, but such I its value 111 manu factures as an ornamental wood, that some of the forests where it once grew abundantly now have scarcely a single specimen. In Madras the government has prudently had great plantations of this tree set out In order to keep up tue supply. ; 1 Bard aad Haft Water. There Is a notion quite prevalent in the minds of the people that Ihe drink ing of bard water is injurious to health, and most physicians have wanted peo ple to so far as possible avoid the prac tice. But Dr. Letherby, an English physician, who has devoted much time to investigating the subject, finds as the result of his observations that hard wa ter is not only clearer, cooler, and more free from air and more agreeable to the taste than soft, but that It Is less liable to Uie absorption of organic matter and to the sustenance of the life of symotic organisms, or to exert solvent properties upon salts of Iron or upon leadeu con ducting pipes. And he claims that the lime salt exert a beneficial influence. It ia asserted that a practical test of the truth of this new theory is to be had in the case of the residents of mountainous districts, w here the water is almost in variably hard, and where the inhabi tants exhiK. the best physical develop ment. Ue claims that water contain ing six grains of carbonate of lime to the gallon is suitable for use iu all house hold purposes, for such water offers the necessary am on nt of carbouate of li me for the support of life In Uie simplest and most digestible form. Jfoora'j Muni .Vw J"orikr. torraw coL-rax. lldkt &9 On Happy Tr-Darf. As M ibel was siartiuglur school giaadma sa d. "Gm-d-bve, dear, make some one haiipr to da', ami leaviug a kiss on the rosy che k, she went bark to her km tiuir The wootl-fi-e crackled away and blitzed, while it sung out. "Good-bye M -tbel : make some one happy to-dav "GiMul-hv. pmnrfnin!- miMi-hve. old fire f And Msiel threw another Viss to each ami hounded ou to school, drag ging her sled after her. J 11st ahead of her was her dear friend, Maud Eatlake. Mabel ran faster than ever to overtake her. lint around the corner, between her and lcr frieud. came i'Uilio Saunders and liis little si-f.-r Dora. A good mile they had come thl-t cold morumr. and ilorti w as ciying because she was cold and tired. Mabel ran by and left them ; but some ecliiH voire said. "Make some one happy. SIh looked on a her friend, sighed a little su'li. then timed smwht around ami ran back to Philio and Dora. "Tni horse is too gav," she said to Phiiiu. "Put Dora on. then take hold. and well lie a span." 1 011 re real good. Mabel; Dora is real lired. I have helued derail lean." Ann Philip lifted his little sister on. "Don't cry. Dura. We'll have yoa there in tWe'miuuteV be said, as they started. But the tears had already been driven back by the prospects of a ride. And lieu at last fhiliD drew up in grand s vie, it was a pretty, happy girl they lifted from the sled : Philip, too. had lieen made happy. "Ihaufc you. said r'bilip, again, as they stopped. "You've made us both happy.' "Ah." said Mabel, "that s what 1 did it for." Then she told what ber grand mother h id said t.i her al starling. "rtell. s;iid Phiiiu. "vou can count two you have made happv already. It's a good rule. I believe I'll trv it, loo." And rrandiiirt-" Hid Msbel. as she told wf tins and some other thiugs at night, "we ouglic to count it three, for it uiade me happy, too." The Cat ami the Fur. One day a fox met a wild til in the midst of a wood. Ah! how do you do. puss I' said the fox. 'I am glad to see rod. I h jpo you are well.' on are kind, sir." said the cat. I am quite well, and hope yon are the same. Yes. Dtiss. I am in good he.ilth. hut I owu that I feel ill at ease. 1 fear that you my friend will not long be free from harm 1 wish that I could see my way to help. But in these times 'Sir, what do yon mean T said the poor cat in great fright. "What great harm do yon d re ail !' 'Well, as to tnat.' said the fox. nt might lie harm to uie, loo. Tne plain truth is; there is a piek of h nil nils not far troiu this wood. Now 1 have ten or twelve tricks nay. I may count on at least a score of tricks by which I can get out of reach of the hounds, whilst you, poor puss 0I1 ! wii.tt can you do Ih it you may be out of their way I u lint tricks U i yon know I I know no tucks at all. s lid the car: 'I have but one plau, and if that fails tue 1 shall be lust. . 'Poor miss! poorpnssr said the fox. 'tine, does not. like to see a friend in such a strait. 1 might teach you a fewoi my tiicks. but these are hard 1 lines, and one must not trust too much. It is but right t think of seif hark 1 I'lm houiids 111 fill cry! You area lost rut! 1 have no tune to spare to le-ll ymi what to do I must be off at oner. - The words) were scarce out of bis mouth wlieu be aod the cat saw the hounds. 1 tie cat at once rau np a tree that was her plan. 1 lie tot could not climb a tree and could uot get out of sight. The cat saw the hounds kill him. Ah f said nuss. '1 dud that one good plau is of mote use than a score of sharp tricks. A Dit for the i?iy But. Iwys, what hul1 1 say to ymi f I hear tb.it yoa think vhii selves too old to go Sunday- school. uow tiiat von are going oil to fif teen or more. Welt, there's sotn -thing 11 that ! Of emir-e yon do not want to earn the same elementary things as when you were quite children : you al most fcclyiiur wluekt-rscoiiiingtiiro'igh. and iheieloie vou are conscious of lie- coming voting men. and then-fore do not want 10 be treated like babies! 1 say again, there Is something lu that : lint I do uot think there is very much. 1 think many buys make great donkeys it themselves by trying to lie men be- ore they are so. 1 aave smiled althein myself, and wondered how they could ie so absurd. I lieu little stn k-uu col lars, and oilier silly mimicries of older folks, make litem look like manikin. and uot all like lueu : I hey might Have uadi) uret-class boys, lint as men they are veiy thud late indeed. Loesar ihoitylit he would rather lie first man u a village th in second 111 Koine; aud 1 tliiuk 1 would rather be first aiuoug mivs than be the last Joint in the tail if 1 lie iioliliedeuoys, who are ueitner men nor boys. A word to the wise is sulbcieut- Sina When tht Vatlle liaaes. At the time of the battle of Gettysburg, the eiuetery had grow lug 111 11 sarnie peach- trees, and iu them sparrows, or other little singliig-birils, had made their nests. On the third day. when thai charge of ali charges the most hideous and terrible was to be made, it was preceded by an hour of such bombard ment as was never known before, nor since, on this coutinent. There was a nail of iiou on both sides : and the hills and valley were searched away lievond lliiee or four hundred guns opened their throats at a time. But the mo ment there was a lull, where some men had laid down and hid themselves, up sprang the birds into the trees where their nests were.snd iwgan to sing, in neof thep lusesiliesweetcarol of birds was heard. They, could sing in the midst of the rush of battle aud a horri ble liewililerniriit such as never befell their 'ittle lives In-fore. How is it with yon f Are von not even a much as a bird f Can not you do what these least endowed creatures could do f Are yoa one that when the battle rages ruus away, abandons the Desr, aud w ill not stug f Do Sot Wait. "I wish I was a big womau to help you, mother," said a uric gin. Bring mother her thimble, that will help me," said the mother smiling. Just as if God meant for little chil dren to wait until they grew up before helping their dear parents! No, no! God gave them twouiiuble feet on pur pose to tak steps for mother, and eight lingers and two tl.umlis on purpose to biiug aod carry for her. Without decision of character no man or woman is ever worth a button, or ever can be. Without it, a man be comes at once a good natured nobody, the poverty strkaeii possessor of but one solitary principle that of obliging everybody uuder the suu, merely foi the askiug. Pickles in glazed pans, cross dogs, and delay are dangerous. Ci'rtl Eights Obliging answers. siws n Bam The aggregate amount of life in surance policies held la Illinois is $121. Eight Clerks In the Boston Post Of fice department have been arrested during the past year for dishonest prac tices. -;'.' CoUon-mills. when well managed, are highly profitable in the Southern States, and they are springing up on all sides. . . ' The national debt was reduced by $1 l.&W.iU durtug the fiscal year ending June 30 The total of Uie debt now is 2,2,2S4.531. . . William Morris, who had the good luck to live in 1070, bought the ground upon which Long Branch Is built for a barrel of spoiled cider. Xcwspapep publishing is getting to lie a hazardous business. Sinoa the first of Jauuary uo less than 317 news papers have suspended. ' , Beecher Is going to the White Mountains again this year, and the landlords there are counting on him as their priucipal attraction. Since President Grant sacrificed hi cliiu whiskers, retaining only the sides, the Long Branch people say he looks al most twenty years younger. The latest "corner" la In canary seed. The price has been run up frou? 'S to $16 per bushel, and next year's crop is said to be already sold. Prof. Mulr, State Geologist of Cal ifornia, was badly frozen ou April 9. lie ascended Mount Shasta w ith a frieud and fouud the cold unpleasant. The people of New Bedford. Mass.. are fitting out a large whaling expedi tion, numbering ill vessels, for a regu lar old-fashioned whaling cruise. Mrs Eva Joyce, of Osweiro. has sued Mr. Albert (Juonce for $1,000 for attempting to kiss her. Joyce that are rarest are Eva the most expensive. The first female graduate of Michi gan L'uiverslty has been offered $3,000 a year, and her expenses to tell what she knows In a Japan schoolbouse. A Granville (Wis. millionaire of fers $.V),00O to l lie first incorporated town in the State which will pledge it self never again to tolerate a brass asnd. Journalistic statistics recently pub lished show that during Uie past vear the sum of $$,tHj0,000 were expended In newspaper . enterprise, in the Culted States. An Oregon town of 40 bouses lias nine organs, three pianos, one melo ilcou, a cornet band of fourteen perfor mers, and several guitars, flutes and banjos. At the salmon-breeding establish ment at Sebec Lake, Me., there have been batched this season 106,000 sea sal mon, w hich have been distributed in the State. The general reception of articles into the Centennial buildings at Phila delphia will begin January 1. 1S76, and no articles will be admitted after March 31. And now an American has just been awarded the first premium for a harvest ing machine by the National Agricultu ral Society of Switzerland. Yankee in vention beats the world. Senator Bayard, of Delaware, and Senator Thuruian, of Ohio, have both consented to be present at , the Georgia State fair, which commences at Macon nr. tlK- .8;h day of October. Tv. colored citizens of Panola wintv. Miss., in convention, passed a resolution that "hereafter the colored L-itiz.Mis must have at least one half the otlees f f trust and profit." A'Teveland woman who has cut out all the newspaper account of the Beecher trial she could get hold of. says that when pasted together It makes a string three miles iu length. Tlo Vuw l i,liii,l kwl an.l Kv trade is getting ou a better fouling. The shipments from Boston since Jan. I ex- coil tiiose or last year oy over cases, or nearly 10 per cent. A Savannah (Ga.) paper In speak ing of the melon crop of Florida, says that it w ill be exi'eedingly large this year, aud that the growers are pui zli.il to know how to dispose of them. lire iiuwiil a 11 n xraouaiiuK class of the literary Deparuneutin Yale 1 'ollcge is smaller than it has been tjt twenty ye ars, but the class in the Scien tific School is larger than ever before. War continues on the Mexican bonier. The Texan troops have had a decided advantages in late skirmishes, aud recovered much stolen cattle; but the Mexican bandits are vowing ven geance. . Since the fish commission was or ganized in Iowa there have been planted 111 that state, Stri-I, 100,000; lows varie ties, aO.000; California salmon, 27 J.0JJ ; IVuolxscot aaluiou, 5.UU0; other varieties 100,000. Among the curious institutions of Stowe, Mass., is a "Three Score and Ten Society," composed of eighty-seven ' members over seventy years old. One of the members, a lady, is 100, one 93 sod another 01. They have a good, old-fashlonsd Jacksouian Democratic government iu. franklin count v, Uhlo. the commis sioners' report reads: "Whisky for the oor farm, I-V5.W; bread for the poor farm l.3o." We are astonished to learn from the Brooklyn Post, that there are in thls world only eight more missionaries' than heathen. There must have beea another fight, and the heathen must have got the best of it- A writer in a Presbyterian paper calls upon every honorable man to hang his head in shame, because America pay $23,200,0110 for liquor, $10,000,000 for dogs, aud barely s lueeze out $,'Uu0 JOO for preachers of the Gospel. The New Haven Register ssys the Wiusted Din factory tarn out nearly six million pins a day thirty-six millions per week, or about a pin for each woman . ,i..l ..Kll.l it. Ih, 1'iiila.l Slalw 'a then "what becomes of all the pins?" The wives and children of sixty of the Kiowas and Camanches who sur rendered at Staked Plains and are to be L-ouliiieil at St. Augustine. Fla., are to lie transported there at the expense of the government. They number about three buudred. The Supreme court of Iowa has de- . cideil that witnesses cannot be held in .-onlineinent, and that they must be re leased on their own recognizance. This looks like simple justice, but it will render the conviction of criminals ex tremely difficult. It Isn't often that a man Is married by his own son, but such an occurrence took place the other day In New York. I'he bridegroom was Captain James Lit .le a shipmaster, and bride Mrs. Mary Atwood. The clergymen was Rev. lames A- Little, of Pennsylvania. Vice President Wilson. In his re mit trip to the South "visited the rraves of Jackson and Clav: of Tarlor unl Polk, of Crittenden, Bell and Ben on' the graves. In (act of men who ad been President, men who should rave beet: President,' an I men who wanted to bs President.
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