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VOL. XXIX. 7 MIFFLINT0A7N JUNIATA COUMT; PENNA!. OCTOBER 6. 1875. ; NO. 10.
THE CHILDREN OF TIE POOR.
BT CHARLES MACKAT.
Pity the children of the poor, , '
VVb Te sever placked the daisies. -Wbo'w
never watched the skylark soar, '
Or beard it sinKinfc praises ;
Who've never trod the fresh green (ward,
Or rambled by the river
They need a holiday, ye rich.
And Heaven reward the giver.
rUy the little pattering feet
That swarm in fetid alleys.
And grimy band that might be sweet
'Mid cowslija of the valleys ! .
I 'le lips that may grow rosy red
Where fresh free breezes quiver
Provide a holiday, ye rich.
And Heaven reward the giver !
l ily the little bright bine eye
Tliat never saw the ocean.
Or gazed with innocent surprise
At wild waves in commotion.
Send send them forth one happy day
To hill or sea or river ;
la great to them, bnt small to you.
And Heaven reward the giver !
From healthy joy comes wholesome thought
And sense of nature's beauty.
And mid instruction, wisdom-fraught.
Of pity and of duty ;
All withered in the noisome slums !
Deliver them, deliver !
Twill coHt ye little, oh, ye rich !
And God reward the giver.
The Serpent Bracelet-
Stoiiclcigh Hull lifted itself a huge
pile of gray, compromising masonry
against a dull sky. On the right, bare
hills arn, their ruggeduess scarcely
mellowed by distance; and ou the left
a wide stretch of marshy Hats, with tlte
river crawling sluggishly through. For
the rest, there was only the broad turn
pike road, narrowing in gray jierspeiv
tive, and a smoky cloud with a tongue
!' tlame visible here and there where
the tallest chimueys pierced it, to indi
cate the jiosition of the town.
Henry Lawrence, riding slowly along
the roail, gazed wistfully towards tlte
Hall, and half checked his horse as he
came op)osite the avenue gates. .Re
turning a few hours later, through the
iliir-kiuess of early night, he found the
Hall all aglow w ith ruddy light. There
was no hesitation in his njanner now,
as he rode immediately to the stables,
and himself attended to the comfort of
his horse. Kvidently he was perlectly
at home with the place and its sur
roundings. Having aceoniplisliieiT this task, he
turned towards the bouse, but stopped
midway up the path. 'A ttlij red spark
gleamed at him from the midst of the
dead leaves strewn in sodden heaps;
and, stooping, he assured himself of the
actuality of the tiling which strnck him
w ith a s'udden chill. Only a cigar, yet
holding its heart of fire, which told that
it had but a moment before left the lips
of the smoker. In an instant he had
received the evidence of this mute wit
ness, and shut his heart against the
reasonings and palpitations a less jeal
ous nature, plight have eutertained.
Captain Stotieleigh never smoked.
Therefore an intruder had been upon
the grounds; and who so likely as the
man on w hom he lavished all the bit-temer-s
of his hate, George St. Mark?
Into a spacious room, with a great
fire blading on the hearth, cumbered
w ith heavy old furniture, and occupied
by two persons Captain Stoneleigh
dozing in his great chair, and Louise,
his youngest daughter, crouched upon
an ottoman, building up air-castles and
fancying their outlines pictured in the
glow:in embers. They both started as
Henry Law rence entered, and gave him
a cordial welcome.
'Where is Eliza?' he asked.
At the instant she appeared upon the
threshhold, reudering a reply superflu
ous. 'Henry' I scarcely expected you to
night. The wind his risen almost to a
gale, papa. I pity any poor creature
oMiged to be out.
'Necessity, which knows no law, can
not be exacted to flinch where inclina
tion delight to venture. Even this
searching blast does not preclude the
IHi-sihilily of clandestine amours, I
lind.'
You are tired and chilled, and con
sequently cross,' Louise announced.
'You shall have mulled Vine and
s.onge cake, to put you in a good hu
mor.' And on hospitable thoughts in
tent, she flitted awayi
Captain Stoneleigh was dozing again
and Henry drew Eliza iuiiwratively
a-ide. . j
Are you deceiving me again He
has Iteeu here to-night, I know.'
'Who has been here, Mr. Lawrence?
and in what manner have I ever de
rived vou ?' !
Micorge St. Mark,' lie said, ignoring
the latter part of her query. 'You
will not deny it?'
1 never dchv the truth,' she said,
coldlv.
'And this is woman's faith!' he said.
Man's injustice, rather,' she re
torted. 'Henry, will you never trust
me! Must you always imagine moun
tains of intrigue where not a shadow of
actual intercourse exists?' .
'What can ! think?' be demanded.
'You assured me yesterday that you
were scarcely acquainted with that
man, and I lielieved you in the face of
direct evidence. This: evening I have
discovered w hat 'a credulous niiuiy 1
have been.' . .1 i. . .. . ' - '
Louise coming in with the wine and
cake put an end to this uncomfortable
tftK-n-trte. Almost simultaneously Miss
Gresham entered, and, after passing
salutations with Henry ,took a seat near
Eliza. They were cousins, and, in
iut of general resemblance, enough
alike to have been mistaken for twin
sisters. Their forms and features were
almost identieai, and both "rkossessed
abundant blonde hair; but Eliza'a
waved and glinted, while Miss Gre
sham's w as straight and of a dead,
changeless hue. -j
Bv-and-by, Henry rose to depart,
and'the captain came out of his nap to
see him drawing on hU gloves. C
'You are not going away to-night?
he cried out In astonishment. ' 'Don't
think of it!'
'I regret the necessity which will not
erruit of my encroaching upon your
hospitality this time.'
Louise followed him to the door.
'Have you been .. quarreling with
Eliza?' she asked. ' '
'And if I have, little Lou?'
'She is so sensitive, she will not brook
complaint- Don't toll the death-knell
to vour own happiness.' ',..
Eliza looked into the hall undecidedly
and then caine swiftly toward them. .1
'Let us part friends,' she said, ex
tending her hand. 'I could not sleep
to-night if I thought you had gone away
angry.'
'Forgive me if I judged you rashly,
Eliza.'
'This once, yes. But you must trust
me fully.'
He stooped over the hand he held,
and, doing so, noted the bracelet on her
wrist. A coiled serpent, with quivering
golden scales, and emerald eyes. lie
had seen her wear it a hundred timed
before, but to-night it impressed him
unpleasantly.
'What an ugly ornament, Eliza! I
don't like it."
Then, in token of future submission,
I will not wear it again.'
The holidays were celebrated with all
manner of festivities at Stoneleigh UalL
Henry Lawrence had been urged to
take up his abode there for the time.
but declined, preferring to ride to and
fro from his own place, situated in tne
vicinity.
They had been having a tableaux at
the Hall, and Henry's part in the per
formance ending, he made preparations
for a quiet withdrawal. The next night
was to witness the conclusion of these
gayeties, which were to culminate in a
masquerade ball, and he wisely resolved
to preserve all surplus animation for
that occasion. He looked about him
for Eliza to utter a parting word, but
not seeing ner ne went disappointed
out into the moonlit night. There was
a light snow on the ground, and be
tween the interstices of the shrtibtierv
he caught the flutter of a lady's gar
'r a 1 1
1 1 1 1 1. urines nmi icivw Ills
view to ana iro along the hair-obscured
path. He drew back into the denser.
shadow. A moment more, and the two
parted, the lady coming hurriedly to
wards the house. There was no mis
taking that figure; the blonde hair
Moating loosely about her neck as he
hail seen her a few minutes ago in the
tableaux. At if to dispel any lingering
doubt he might entertain, she paused a
second to make sure she was not ob
served from the windows; a gust of
wind tore at her mantle, and on the
bare arm disclosed he caught the glint
of the golden scales and the gleam Of
the green eyes Dclonging to the serpent
bracelet.
This, then, was the. regard of a wo
man for her voluntarily given promise?
He strode fiercely down the garden
path, hoping to overtake hereoiupaniou
and make sure of his identity also. In
this he was disappointed, but by the
gate picked up a scrap of paer, twisted
and half burned, and smoothing it out
read in the moonlight ' rge St.
Mark.' There was little rest for Henry
Lawrence that night. The jealous fiend
held possession over him again, and
every nerve and sinew quivered beucath
his acute torture.
With the early dawning he went out
upon the downs, at first walking with
all the impetus given by his restless
spirit, and afterwards more steadily as
he brought himself to calmly survey
his position. , Out of the chaos of his
tumultuous impulses he deduced but
one decision. He would never suc
cumb, the crushed victim of a designing
coquette. "''''.rtHT"
, I jtwrenee was late' at the "ball that
night; "Passing up the avenue, he fan
cied that , a shadow flitted across his
path ; but a close, investigation of sur
rounding shrubbery revealed nothing.
The moon, just rising, threw an uncer
tain light as he stood gazing at the hall,
from which the sounds of merrimeut
were distinctly wafted to him. Below,
every window gave forth a volume of
reflected light;, aud above, a single
rushlight burned steadily behind a
gable pane. Suddenly this last was
removed, but after a moment replaced ;
this was repeated three successive timet,
and then disappeared.
Henry's, jealous, intuitions, received
the phenomenon as a token intended
for other eyes than his, and remember
ing his resolution, he passed in. The
ante-room was quite dark, and as he
entered lie heard the rustle of gam tents
aud felt some one brush swiftly past
him. A second later, I-ouise appeared
in the doorway with a light, and carry
ing her domino in her hand.
'Ah, little Lou,' he said, sorrowfully,
'are yon, too, leagued in this deceit?'
You know, then? Be generous do
not expose them !'
'Do not fear,' he answered bitterly.
'If a word could change the fact, I
would not utter it.' :,
He drew her hand through his arm,
and went below, where the crowd in its
mingling of grotesque costumes carried
him forcibly on its tide as it ebbed and
flowed through the wide drawing
rooms. He was surprised at his own
fortitude in hearing the blow, and phi
losophically calculated his chance of
dealing a counter-thrust. Why not use
the same weapon as a foil?
Louise had lett him, but he sought
her out again.
'Were you ever in love, Lou !'
'Xot seriously,' she laughed. "
How much do you care for me?' . .
More than for any other man I know
except papa. She had caught his drift
already. 'You are not plotting another
elopement for to-night?'
Yen have ready wit, littJeTnonae.yi
'But the necessity does not exist in
your case. It will never do.''
'Listen to me, Lou. I cannot hear
that Eliza shall trlnmph overthe wound
she will suppose her faithlessness has
inflicted. 1 will be true and tender
toward you, if you will trust your
future w'ith me. Think of my humilia
tion otherwise, and consent.'
'It is eleven nowi Give me an'; hoirr
to think of it.'
Midnight came, and with it a general
rush for the supper rooms. lxuUc
Stoneleigh and Henry Lawrence were
alone in the deserted saloon.
'Well?' he asked.
If you do not retract within five
minutes, I shall comply with your re-.
quest. . '
lie had it on nis lips 10 assure uei
his inflexible resolve, -but the expres
sion was checked unuttered. .-,
T There was the slight bustle or an
arrival, and a second later he faced his
enemy, George St.. Mark. Clinging to
his arm, his new made bride, was not
Eliza, but Miss Gresham.
The news flew through the house
with electric speed, and instant confu
sion reigned.
. 'Do you wish your answer now?
whispered Louise,, mischievously, in
Henry's ear.
For Heaven's sake, don't betray my
follv.' It was all owing to the bracelet.'
The bracelets, you mean. They were
facsimile.' Z.lir..
Henry s mistane was pruu
least one good result. It cured him of
his groundless jealousy, and moreover
proved the contested point that a woman
can keep .1 sere", for Louise did Jiot
divulge her knowledge until his own
and Eliza's wedding-day.
DrMfceaaewa rrwssi La-
The report on the material and'eco-
, 1 1 : . : .ftlia Uhorinff c.ijui
Domical wuuiuuu - -f--
ses which, baa recently been present
to the rrench Assemoiy gacn i v .""
stroy the belief ior the superiority, as
regards sobriety and thnfuness, of the
French over the Englia poo-: " w
mentioned the other day that, while
the sanitary condition of the EdkIisu
. - L I v amnrtflvMI Of 1AX44
lactones uas ttic-oi-ij
years, there has been no corresponuing
improvement in iuo iuj" " -"
of those who work in tltem, and a .sim
ilar discouraging statement is made by
the committee of the Assembly. .At the
beginning of the century, itissaia,
employers had bdt little capital. nd
consequently no mover tB"d,
brickVand mortar. A factory j
often little more than an overcrowded
shop. The increase of wealth haa fa
cilitated and necessitated the construc
tion of new and larger buildimra. and
the workman is no longer sensibly the
worse eituer in health or longevity by
reason of the labor which he has to un
dergo. Yet French, equally with En
frlish, observers speak of the prema
ture decay which they observe in man
ufacturing districts, and which is ev
idently due to causes that have no
connection . with the necessary condi
tions of the occupations pursued there.
The French committee are disposed
to trace this decay to premature excess
in alcholic honors. The merry work
man who refreshes himself after his
day's labor with a glass of sugar and
water, varied on holidays by a little
light wine, is apparently nnknown to
to these authorities. If he has ever
existed, he has disappeared before the
growing tendency to overindulgence
in nn wholesome stimulants. We be
lieve that tne spirits ordinarily sold in a
French cabaret are immeasurably more
poisonous than those which make the
stock-in-trade of an English publican,
and in that the ettects which the com
mittee mourn over cannnt be said to
outrun the cause. It would be inter
esting to know to what this increase of
drunkenness in t ranee is to be attri
buted. The explanation often given
of the same fact in this country can
scarcely hold good in France. We Lave
been accustomed to preach that sobri
ety and access to reasonable opportu
nities of amusement go hand in hand,
and to Doiut to the French workinginan
as a striking example of this. It now
turns out that iu a country which has
beon supposed to be especially rich in
opportunities of amusemeut, the taste
for driuking is also increasing. The
French artisan, especially in the south,
breathes a lighter air, and lives, or is
supposed to live, a more enjoyable life
than the English ; but he is not free
from the drinking habits which do
more than anything else to degrade
the English workman. Sittunhty Jie
rieir. lassless's Ufa of Csrawr.
A Paris correspondent has some in
teresting gossip about the law suit con
cerning the "Life of Cajsar," which the
imperial magnate, Xaoleon III. amused
himself with writing in his Ca-sarian
days. This work was never finished,
and some three years ago Plon, its pub
lisher, sued for a dissolution of contract.
The case was postponed for along time,
and death in the interim took both l'lon
and Xaioleon before a higher court.
But the matter lately came again before
the Civil Tribunal, the heirs of l'lon
demanding not only that the contract
be annulled, but also that the imperial
family should take back from the pub
lishing firm 22,000 unsold copies of the
book, paying therefore 107,000 francs.or
about $.'M,400 in gold. The case, which
was decided against the plain tin's,
brought out some curious facts. , It was
shown that Napoleon grew dreadfully
tired of his work before he had half
completed it, and that, eveu in lsOO, he
had practically decided not to complete
it. Toward the close of his career he
could scarcely, as the lawyers said in
court, f'extol either- authoritative doc
trines or the -thoory-'of providential
men." He received from the' sale1 of
the . published yolumes, at different
times, as author's rights, 200,000 franw.
or $40,000, which he gave to the crowd
of literary men who aided him in his
researches,' and to the officers of the
army employed in tracing out the foot
steps of Osar in-Europe. From 18G7
until 180 the unfinished work remained
almost entirely forgotten. During that
period scarcely 2IH) copies were sold,
and occasional mention of it in the
Salon or the public assembly provoked
only a good-natured smile. The defence
of Xapolcou's heirs was that the Em
peror had never hound himself to finish
the work, and that, therefore, the pub
lisher had no right to demand au in
demnity, either by forcing the heirs to
buy up the unsold edition, or by any
other means. As I'lon's heirs have lost
their case, it is thought that thev would
do well te pile the 22,000 volumes to
gether and light a bonfire, whose Dea
con shall serve as a warning to em
perors who have no literary genius not
to play at author.
' Madera Dress asid Maaaters.
It is a bad sign when men cease to
respect women ol their own or. Indeed,
of any clas, but the women themselves
are to blame for the Intolerably flippant
and impertinent tone pervading young
society. We do not want to go back to
the formalities of Sir Charles Grandison,
and there is a winning charm in natur
alness not to be had from the most per
fected artificiality. - nevertheless, a
slight return to Old World forms of
courtesy, a little dash of that stately re
verence of speech and demeanor which
our forefathers exaggerated into pedan
try, would be a gain In times when the
young men give, as their greatest praise
of a girl. "There is no nonsense about
her," meaning no bashfulness, no re
serve, no girlish shrinking modesty;
while the girls justify tne compumem
by calling the young men "dear boys;','
and sometimes when they have less non
sense even than tisunl, and. desire a
closer assimilation of style, "old men."
This is the "form" whti-n is taugnt
and held np for admiration In the ladle's
. . . , 1 : c -Ml..
novels 01 tne oay, anu 11 is iiiq!os.-ioic
to exaggerate the degree in which these
writings have tended to corrupt and de
grade the sex who chiefly write and read
them. All these things are patent.
Parent, too. Is the Inference that when
a woman, from no fault of her own.
tills Info trouble, sue sutlers ior uie
mistakes and follies of her class aud the
time. Personally , she may be wholly
blameless; but w;ith all these lines of
demarcation blurred, these distinctive
characteristics confused, it is almost in
evitable that there should be mistakes.
Until we come to a more ethereal condi
tion of existence the burden of self
protection must, we fear, lie- on the
women themselves. That burden is not
very heavy, and the penance it includes
not very bitter. It is only that modest
women must show what they are by a
series of negatives, and take care not to
expose themselves to misconstruction
by an attractiveness of out-oi-door dress,
a' doubtful manner of speech, and a
Bohemian bunhommis of behavior to
strangers which shift the labels, mis
lead their comnaiuons. and end in the
confusion of a mistaken affinity, by
which they themselves are the greatest
sufferers in the end. Saturday Bariete.
Mrs. Harvey writes : It Is perhaps a
dangerous topic to touch upon, because
every nation has iu own standard on
such points, but It would be difficult to
find auywhere more charming wemen
than Spanish ladies.. The average of
beauty is exceedingly great, but even
when the features are uot strictly
pretty, the fine eyes have such a depth
of tender expression, the slender figure
is so graceful in every movement, the
low, sweet voice speaks In such tones of
earnest persuasion, that critical indeed
must be the judgment that is not pleased.
And these charms are not those of mere
appearance, for Spanish women are true
and kind and gentle, and singularly
free from affectation of either mind or
manners.. Many are very accomplished,
though perhaps the education usually
riven to women is not very profound.
Of course there are admirable excep
tions, and these ladies naturally take
the lead in society.-
Am Iaswlted Bat.
I once had a hat adventure myself.
It was in 1350. 1 was at a ball in the
Hotel de Ville, escorting Mme. Victor
Hugo, while M. Hugo gave his arm to
Madame Houssave. There was a chair
empty and the one next to it contained
a hat. I took up the hat and gave the
chair to At me. Hugo, or course I did
not propose to hold the hat all night,
so put it on the floor. Its owner soon
arrived. It wa a celebrated dnelist,
M. Sherbette, a Deputy from Soissons.
He came straight to "the chair which
had had the honor of holding his hat.
He was about to attack Madame Victor
Hugo, but as I was talking with her, he
turned upoii me.
"Is it vou. Sir, who have displaced
my hat?" "Yes, Sir." "Did you put
it "on the floor?" "Yes. Do you think
I ought to have put it on my head?"
"But, Sir, you have insulted me. Here
is my card."
I took out a card aud threw- it in his
hat.
' "Monsieur!" said the Deputy, furi
ously, "do you supjxwe I aia going to
pick up my hat?"
"Do you suppose," 1 said, "that I am
going to put it 011 your head?"
Victor Hugo laughed, Madame Hugo
tmiled, but Madame lloussaye was not
at all amused.
"I require, Sir," said the Deputy of
Soissons, "that you replace my hat on
the chair where it was." I began to
laugh. A little circle had gathered.
M. Sherbette finally picked up his hat
under pretext of taking my card.
"Monsieur Arsene lloussaye," he
said. "We are from the same place, a
reason more for our meeting." . ,
"I await your seconds, Mr. Sher
bette," I replied.
"At what hour?" "At this hour.
We cau fight as soon as we leave the
ball." .. . ,
M. Sherbette bowed to the two ladies,
and went off in search of two seconds. I
asked Victor Hugo and the Marquis de
B"lloy to act as my witnesses in this ri
diculous itlair. M. Mierbette's seconds
soon apiicared. It was decided that we
should light with pistols at 20 paces at
the Bois de Boulogne at daybreak. It
was then hardly midnight, but we re
solved to pass the rest of the night at
the ball. At that time I was very fond
of waltzing. They told Madame Hous
save that the affair wasamieably settled,
so that we amused ourselves pleasantly
until nearly dawn.
As ill-lnck would have it, we all met
in the cloakroom, principals and sec
onds. "It is a nuisance," said one of
Sherbette s seconds, "to go to the Bois
in this Snow storm. ' "Come," said the
other, laughingly, to M. Sherbette, "as
you are the injured party, you can
apologize.'. "Never!" said Mr. Sher
bette. The two seconds' came to me. "Say
one word to free us from this task. We
want to go to bed." "Never!" I cried
in my turu. M. Sherbette put on his
hat with a slant over the right ear. I
put on mine with a slant over the left.
The four seconds Itesieged us, aud said
they would not accompany us unless
we were more good-natured about it.
"After all,", said Victor Hugo, "I
think that Arsene Houssave. having in
sulted only M. Sherbetu's hat, uiight
make his apologies to it "
At this moment word from M. Sher
bette changed the face of things. "If
M. Arsene Houssave declares that iu
offending my hat he did not mean to
oll'eud in I w ill hold myself satisfied
with this declaration."
I declared that I had not aimed at M.
Sherbette under hU hat and the duel
was at au end. It was agreed in the
verbal proces-verbal, that whenever we
met thereafter we were to salute each
other bv a touch of the hat. .
The re Hlryrie Jowraey.
Apart from the artificiaUexcitement
of a w ager there is some amount of ro
mantic interest attaching to the an
nouncement that Mr. Nairus set out on
Thursday morning upon his bicycle on
his long journey from Vienna to 1'arls.
The distance is (170 miles, and the route
following that of the Hungarian Lieu
tenant who performed the same feat
last year upon a single horse in fifteen
days, will lie through Ems, Munich,
Stuttgart, Strasbourg, and Nancy. Mr.
Aairns hopes to accomplish his under
taking in at least one-third less time:
and looking to what has already been
achieved by skilrul bicyclists, we see
little reason to think him over san
guine. It is an established maxim that
even human power would beat that of
a horse in the long run. Dr. Kitcumer
in his "Traveller's Oracle," a work of
authority in pre-railway . days, lavs
down the rule of 20 miles a day for a
horse tor the first two days; and then,
if he is a good one, 30 or 40, with a rest
on the fourth day, to give him time to
recover his spirits. 1 ice Mien an
amount of work in the same period
would certainly not tire a skilful veloc
ipede-rider very much. The Hungarian
officer rode 46 miles ' a day; but his
horse must have arrived greatly dis
tressed. Mr. Xairns proposes to ride
continuously about 00 miles a day. He
starts, moreover, in the heatsof August
no small consideration in Southern
Europe, whereas the Hntigirian trav
eled in Xovemler. Of course Mr:
Xairne will ride only in early morning
and in the cool of the evening; he will
he troubled neither to find stabling nor
fodder for his steed ; and, with ' a few
handy tools, will be ready for most ac
cidents. Altogether the bicycle may
now claim to have risen from the posi
tion of a toy to that of a useful supple
ment to man's miserably defective
means of locomotion. It Is true that a
seat on a bicycle is, in some people's
eyes, a little undignified; but infra dia.,
as Hood says, depends very much upon
where a man "plants his dig." Since
an ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer has
shown that he can preserve a balance
on a vehicle of this kind, there U no
reason why the bicycle should not be
gin to gather even dignified associations
tnougn our norses unioruuiaieiy sun
regard these machines with distrust,
and a whole population of bicycle-riders
would be rather au alarming spectacle.
Ismdon Xetr.
The tilrls af Basilisk
Promptly at 8 o'clock we drove into
the widow's basement; we ascended the
stone stair-way, and a scene of splendor,
brilliant colors and black eyes burst
upon our view. The Mestiza girls were
sitting in a row on one side of the room
about forty of them ; some decked ia
gay plumage, yellow, pink and green
IKlUg prUUllUCUl 1.VIU19, VIUCIB uiccacu
in somber hues ; they were mostly very
prett-, with lithe, graceful figures, and
eyes as black as coal. The gentlemen
hovered near the doors of the grand
sala, jike hawks eying chickeus ; at the
first note of the music they all . made a
pounce for partners. As I saw that
pouncing was the go, I made a dive for
a pretty yellow and jrreen, rattled off a
sentence from the fifteenth lesson in
Ollendorf, "Will you do me the favor
to bailar conmigo?". and started off on
a dance I had never . seen before, but
which was easy to learn ; it was tne
Habanera, a sort of walking embrace to
slow music; you make a step to the
right, rise on your toes, step to the left,
rise, swing round, step to the right,
and so on ; then, when you wish to bal
ance, you wink at some fellow, stop in
front of him and go through the ladies'
chain, then clasp your partner's waist
and take the other lady's right hand;
tfie other fellow does the same, and now
with the 'music you sway up to the
center, sway back, and revolve in an
elliptic at the same time, after the man
ner of the planets. After swaying six
times you drop the other lady's hand
and gradually sail off again with the
step and turn. The girls cling quite
closely and gaze up occasionally,
Spanish fashion. Whenever the couples
ran against each other Hie girls sang out
with a sharp little "Hi !'7 which was
very amusing. They have a great way
of kissing each other all the evening.
and the fanciest kisses I ever saw; first,
both kiss to starboard, and then to port.
The first time I noticed It, ' a young
damsel kissed my partner good-by as
sne started to dance with me. 1 was as
tonished, and said we were not going
far, which made them laugh. I found
that the girls in contiguous seats kissed
good-by before every dance, as if to say
"lou will elope this tune, sure." When
the time for supper came, I fell into
the line, and escorted a blooming Phil
ippina to the table. I asked a resident
American what I should help her to,
aud be said, emphatically, "Ham and
turkey ! Give her plenty of ham and
turkey !" I gave her a full plate which
she soon dispatched and called Tor more.
Everybody ate ham and turkey. The
gentlemen acted as waiters, and after
wards s:it down together. Spaniards are
terrible caters. And no wonder,
on this occasion, for they came
to the ball at 8 o'clock and danced until
4 a. iu.
The action of light on the human
skin is manifest. It browns and tans
the teguments by calling out the pro
ductions of the coloring matter they
contain. The parts of the body usually
bare, as the skiu of the face and hands.
are darker than others. In the same
region, country people are more tanned
thou town residents. In latitudes not
far apart the inhabitants of the same
country vary in complexion in a meas
ure iierceptibly related to the intensity
of solar light. In Europe three varie
ties of color in the skin are distinctly
marked olive brown, with black hair,
beard and eyes; chestnut, with tawny
beard and bluish eyes; blonde, with
fair beard and sky-blue eyes. White
skins show more readily alterations oc
casioned by light and heat; but, though
less striking, facts of variation in color
are observable in others. The Scvtho-
Arabic race has but half its representa
tives in Europe and Central Asia, while
the remainder passes down to the In
dian Ocean, continuing to show the
gradual raising of climate by deepening
Drown complexions, the Himalayan
Hindoos are almost white; those of the
Deecan of Coromandel, Malabar and
Ceylon are darker than some negro
tribes. The Arabs, olive anil almost
fair in Armenia and Syria, ' are deep
brown in Muscat.
The Egyptians, as we go from the
mouth of the. .Nile up stream to it'
source, present an ascending chromatic
scale, from white to black, and. the
same is true of the Tuariks, 011 the
southern side of the Atlas, who are only
light olive, while their brethern in the
interior of Africa are black. The an
cient monuments of Egypt show 11s a
fact equally significant. The men are
always depicted af a reddish brown
they live in the 0eii air, while the
women, kept shut up. have a pale el-low-
complexion. Barrow asserts that
the Mautchoo Tartars have grown
whiter during their abode in China.
Remuset, Pallas and Gutziaff seak of
the Chinese women as remarkable for
European fairness. The Jewesses of
Cairo or Syria,' always hidden under
veils in their houses, have a pallid
color. In the yellow races of the
Sumatra Sound and the Maldives, the
women, always covered up, are pale
like wax. We know, too, that the Es
quimaux bleach during the long winter.
1 hese phenomena, no doubt, are the re
sults of several influences arising at
ouce, and light does not play the sole
part in them. Heat and other condi
tions of the medium probably have a
share iu these operations of color. Still
the peculiar and powerful enect or lu
minous radiation as a part of them is
beyond dispute.
' Laraanatlaa ia Madeira.
The universal mode of getting about
is either to ride on horseback or in a
bullock-sledge on runners, or to be car
ried In a hammock. There is, however
a fourth mode of descending from the
mountains for tnree or ! our intics on a
few raids, and this Is by sledges. A
car, to hold either two or three persons
is placed on-wooden runners and de
scends the steep, wall-inclosed reads
principally by its own weigbt. At
starting, and where the inclination is
not great, it is dragged down by two of
the wonderfully active Madeira ea
ants, w ho run by its side at the rate of
eight or nine miles an honr, each guid
ing it by a leather thopg attached to its
fronton either side, ft requires but
little or no exertion to draw it along,
for the road Is everywhere steep, and
always smoothly paved with pebbles or
long stones, to which additional smooth
ness and even polish, beyond that pro
duced by mere friction, is given by the
eonstant application of grease to the
runners of the bullock cars. When,
however, the road becomes very steep,
the men stand on the framework of the
car with one foot, while with the other
they guide or check it, and the car then
shoots down by its own weight with a
velocity that is not a little exciting, and
after the first dash off, extremely agree
able. The speed is often more than
twenty miles an hour. It is wonderful
how the angular corners are turned,
the car lurching up first toward one
wall and then toward the other; with
what ease speed is slackened or arrested
and how seldom any serious accident
happens. Merchants living in their
quintas often make use of these sledges
to go to their counting-houses In the
morning, returning in the afternoon,
usually ou horseback. Frruer't Maga
zine.. . ni
"' Caallllaa- Bride.
. If there is a person on earth entitled
to sincere oommiseration.it is an un
willing bride a girl who has given her
band, without her heart, in marriage.
and more especially is she to be pitied
if her heart- unhappily, haa beeu pre
possessed by another. Can any pro
spect be more dreary than that which
lies before such a bride ! What has
she to look forward to, what to expect,
what to hopet Linked, not for a day,
bnt for life, to one with whom she has
no sympathy who is no more than a
stranger, save that in law and in fact,
but not in soul, he is her husband ! Is
it not dreadful to contemplate T How
much "more so to experience! It is
natural and it is proper that parents
should desire that their daughters
should marry well, and it is reasonable
that they should prefer for them hus
bands in comfortable circumstances.
But when it comes to the exercise of
compulsion in the selection of a husband
to commanding a daughter to relin
quish an engagement or an attachment
on which her whole soul is fixed, and
to marry a man towards whom she feels
indifference or dislike that ia a very
different matter.
Blse la tac Eye. -
Size with the eye, as with the brain.
is generally conceded to be a measure of
capacity. A large eye has a wider range
of vision, as it unquestionably has of
expression, thsn a small one. A large
eye will take in more at a glauce, though
perhaps with less attention to detail,
than a small one. Generally speaking,
large eyes see things in general, and
small eyes things iu particular. The
one sees many things as a w hole, con
sidering them iu a philosophical or
speculative way, often seeing through
and beyond them ; the other sees fewer
things, but usually looks keenly into
them, and is appreciative of detail.
Some eyes, however, look at every thing
and yet see nothing. Fullness of the
eye, causing a bulging of the lower eye
lid, is a well-known sign of language.
Persons with this sign large have not
only a speaking eye but also a speaking
tongue, whereof their fellows do not
long remain in ignorance. A general
projection or fullness of the eye alove
and below, which brings the 'eye-hall
forward on a line with the face and eye
brow, denotes the quality of . physical
perception, or the capacity to see quickly
whatever appears upon the surface of
things. A person with such an eye on
entering a room for the first time, would
note rapidly the shape, size, arrange
ment, and general appearance of the
different articles of furniture in it, the
color of the walls, curtains, etc. ; take
in with equal facility the feariires, the
color of eyes and hair, size and appear
ance of any person who might be pres
ent. In looking at a picture such a
person would at once incline toexamlne
the details of color, number, grouping.
attitude, and costume of the figures
composing it. Anunat of PJtrfohgy and
rhysinijnnmu.
Caaeeraiaa Marriages.
. "Young men of refined tastes lint
small incomes," says the Saturday Re
view, "are supposed to decline mar
riage at praseut, because they-caunot
find wives who shall beatthesame time
Miner vas and good cooks." The pres
ent age seems to demand too much.
Wives are expected to couibiue all the
housewifely talentsof our great-grandmothers,
with the intellectual advance
ment which comes of Cambridge exam
inations. Josephine, spirtnal relict of
the deceased Bonaparte, at a receut
seance in Cincinnati, informed her
friends and the public generally, that
until our present marriage relations
were altered there could be no spiritu
al advancement npon earth. Josephine
was badly treated herself duriug her
wedded lifcand it is not pcrhapsunna
tnral that she shoulddesire to see mar
riage a la mode alxilished. We cannot
agree with the excellent widow of Na
poleon, believing marriage, even npon
1200 a year, to be an excellent and
iudespensable institution. '
But there is, in addition to the com
plaint Biade by yonng men upon the
extravagant ideas of the young woman
of the period, just the slightest chance
that they may expert toomnrh.- All
young men are not poets, nor scholars,
nor musicians because they happen to
keep books, dispense medicines, or sell
dry goods. Just as little can they ex
pect the average girl to eouuentrate all
the virtues and accomplishments in one
little person, if she is extra smart,
can cook a diuner, rock a cradle, fix
np a dress, superintend the housework,
and then come up smiling, talk litera
ture and science, and dash off a fuue
of Bach's to entertain her hasbaud's
friends in the eveniug, what has he got
to show upon his side of the house 1 A
twelve hundred -dollar ; man 1 has no
riifht to expect anything more than a
twelve hundred dollar wile. If she
can cook and keep the house in order,
let him do the talking, play the piano
and attend to the fiucuating emotions
of the baby. Fair play is a jewel. If
begets the jewel, let him not forget
that his wife is fairly entitled to the
play. Ckieayo Inter-Oeean.
The I'akaawa Klrhea at" the Earla.
Why should we assume the Peruvian
traditions of the lost mines of the Incas
to be so untrue or smile because we are
told that the Ashantees know where to
find gold in quantities? Why not! The
California gold was known a century
before it was found, and unless geology
i all wrong, the lankees have not got
bold of the richest section, which is in
lower California, yet. The Turks must
Own and neglect endless mines some of
them, if tradition is not all sclf-liegotten,
mines of gold and there is all Southern
Asia to be ransacked by the curious.
Where, before maritime enterprise be
gan, did all the silver and copper and
lead in those vast countries come from ?
The people of India were two hundred
millions before the fifteenth, century,
and used and hoarded sliver and copper
In several forms, and lead; and where
did they get them ! There are no silver
mines open now In India. . Thev are
working gold diggings 111 n yna.nl on a
aystem w hich indicates, if not with cer
tainty, at least with a high degree of
probability, that they have not reached
reefs" ami nave only found some an
cient deposits washed down from them.
There are all maimer of minerals in the
Malayan Peninsula, and indeed through
out the Eastern Archtpelago, which, for
want of civilized methods of working.
return nobody anything worth having.
v ould not copper Be worth seeking for
in these regions, by men who remember
that if they can ttnly find any metal
worth working, there Is the boundless
reservoir of China ctre at hand to draw
their labor from ? Discoveries of tin in
the Archipelago have half ruined Corn
wall, and there may be much more than
tin, the existence w which geologists
could predicate with certainty. Even
leaving aside gold, as a tempting and
Illusive metal, which rouses local cur
piditv too much, where are the places
in Southern Asia, and especially in
India, where copper ought to exist ?
Eaat ladiaa fredallfy.
Rob't II. Elliott writes to the London
Times to siiggeHt that the routes by
which the Prince of Wales will travel
should at once be notified as widely
as possible throughout every part of
India. Mr. Elliott says: "If this will
not wholly prevent, it will at least les
sen the exactions of the - petty native
officials. It is difficult tor any one here
or, indeed, even for many officials in
India, to realize the ettroutery of these
gentlemen in taking advantage of even
the reported arrival of any dignitary to
levy blackmail in the shape of supplies
of all kinds, and of this nnruerou il
lustrations nhht be given. But the fol
lowintf instance of thelielplesscredulity
of her people in the rural districts will
Frobably be as good an illustration as
could select. This is given in Jacob's
'Western India;', where we are told
how an impostor levied a war tax in
the ont-of the-way villages in the au
thor s name and on accooDt of her Ma
jesty the Qneen. Hta credentials were'
simple but effective, and consisted of
an empty Crosse and Blackwell pickle
jar, with the the royal arms on the la
bel, and a paper scrawled over in imi
tation of English writing, to which
was affixed a seal, which was simply
the impression of the bungof the mus
tard jar. And yet, with these creden
tials, he succeeded in levying a good
deal of money till he veotnrtd into
some village where the people were
more advanced .and was thus detected.
He was convicted, and the above men
tioned facta were brought out at the
trial."
' rorruie cnLrx.
The Little Culprit. School had le
gun. The boys and girls were in their
S laces, and the master was hearing
lem spell ; when all at once there was
a soft, low knock at the door. '
tome in ! said the master; and a
little, cleanly dressed girl, about six
years old. stood upon the threshold,
with downcast eves.
She held out before her, as if trying
to hide behind it. a satchel so large
that it seemed hard to decide whether
the child had brought it, or it had
brought the child : and the drops on
her cheeks showed how she had been
tunning.
V by, Katie cried the schoolmas
ter, "why do you come so late I Come
here to nie.httle culprit. It is the first
time yon have lieen late. What does
it mean ?"'
Little Katie slowlv approached him.
while her chnbbv face grew scarlet.
"I I had to. pick berries,-' she falter
ed, biting her berry-stained lips.
" ), Katie !" said the master, raising
his forefinger, "that is very strange.
You hail to f Who then, told vou to!"
Katie still looked down: and her face
grew redder still.
"Look me iu the face, my child,"
said the master, gravely.. Are you
telling the truth V
Kane tried to raise her brown rogmsh
eyes to his fare ; but. ah ! the consci
ousness of guilt weighed down her
eyelids like lead. She could not look
at her teacher ; she only shook her cur
ly head.
"Katie." said the master kindly.
"you were not sent to nick berries; Yi
ran into the woods to pick them for
yourself. Perhaps this is your first
falsehood, as it is tLe first time you
have been late at school. Pray God
that it mav lie your last."
"Oh. oh T broke forth the little cul
prit, "the neighbor's boy, Fritz, took
me with him ; and the berries tasted so
good that I staid too long."
The other children laughed : bnt a
motion of the master's hand restored
silence, and, turning to Katie, be said.
"Now, my child, for your tardiness
you will have a black mark and go
down one in your class ; but Katie, tor
the falsehood, you will lose your place
in my heart, aud I cannot love you so
much. But I will forgive yon if you
will go staud np iu the corner of your
own accord. Which will vou do lose
your place in try heart, or go stand in
the corner tor a quarter of an hour f
The child burst into a flood of tears,
and sobbing out, "I'd rather go and
stand in the corner.'' went there in
stantly, and turned her dear little face
to the wait
In a few miuutcs the master called
her, and as she came running to him.
he said : - . 1
"Will yon promise me, Katie, never
to say again what is not true V
'Oh. yes, I will try I will try never
to do it again," was the contrite au
swer. ' Sieijfi Hell. How m my boys and
girls know how Hleisrd bells are
made T How do ynn think the little
iron ball gets inside the bell t It M too
IviiT to be put through the holes iu the
bell, and yet it is inside. How did it
get there I j. : .
This little iron ball is called the jing-.
let." When von sh.ike the Ih-IIs it
jingles. When the horse trots, the bells
jinicle, jingle, jingle. In making the
hell, this jmlct is put inside a little
ball of mud. just the shape of the in
side of the bell. Then a mould is made
just tne shape of the outside of the
bell.- this mud ball, with the jinglet
inside, is placed in the mould of the
outside, and the nietn-d metal is poured
in. which fills up the space . between
the mud ball and the mould.
. When the mould is taken olT.yon see
a sleigh iell ; but it w ill not ring, as it
is full of dirt. The hot metal dries
the mnd that the ball is made of, so
that it can all he shaken out. After
the dirt is all shaken out of the holes
in the liell llie little iron jinglet will
stilt be iu the bell and it will ring all
right. It took a good many years to
think out how to make a sleigh bell.
RraxoH i uvisoa, ThouyA Xot Seem.
"Why shouldn't we go abroad for the
winter, like the swallows, and lota lie
sides P asked the House Sparrow.
"Can't sy, indeed," replied his
friend.
"We are as numerous," said the
Sparrow. "See what flocks we make."
"Quite," said his lriend.
"And we have good wings, and we
don't like cold wearher and starvation
any more than they do," said the
Sparrow.
. "True, said his friend.
"Then why liou't we go abroad T" said
the Sparrow.
"That's beyond me to explain," said
the other: "but indeeid, brother, though
not very old. I have lived lung enough
in the world to see there are manv
things I can't account for; and when I
meet with one like this I make up mv
mind that the fault doesn't lie in its
unreasonableness, but in my incapabil
ity of understanding it. l!y this rule,
nodonbt. the swallows satisfy them
selves that it ia right they should have
to go abroad while we stop at home."
1 5i?i' fViif. Little Sadie was very
food of her minister, and paid great
attention to his preaching. One Salt
bath morning his snbject was "Elijah's
Faith." and how the rain came in an
swer to his prayer. There h:nl been
a great drought in that region, and
he exbormd his cougrega'.ion to pray
for rain. When starting to the after
noon service she w as observed taking
fo r little umbrella. Her father said.
"What are you taking your umbrella
for!'' She quietly aaid, "Hecana Mr.
T said we must pray for rain."The
father smiled at the child's simplicity
(as tlte sun was shining brightly), but
allowed her to have her way. During
the service a brisk shower snprised
the audience, and no one had an um
brella except little Sadie not eveu the
pastor. Christian IutelU'jenrer.
Manifest Affinitis.TUe curio-ity of
a little 10-year-old had been greatly
excited by a bat that was found one
morning 10 her bed-room hanging by
iU heels to the nail supiMtrtiug a pic
ture. The odd and unbidden visitor
was permitted to occupy through the
day the lodging it had seized without
considering the question of rights and
properties, aud was. of course, the sub
ject of a great deal of searching yet
distant examination by the inquisi
tive child.- Finally she broke out iu a
thoughtful tone of voice : "Mamma,
does the bat belong to the asa family f"
"Why, no ; what in the world made
you ask tint f was the resMnsive
query. "Oh, nothing, only it has such
big ears." . . . : -
' AalarhafRaia. '
Rain is canghtand measnred in such
a way as to give what would have been
. the actnal di urh of w ater on the surface
it it had not soaked m or run on. An
' inch t rain is of more consequence
j than would be generally snpponed. e
an acre cf ground it amonnts to 6.372,
;r40 cubic inches. 1 This gives 29 822,5
gallons of water, which would till a
cistern capable of holding 3M hogs
heads, lettering it tn weight, it would
! amount to over 1 W tons.. . A trough 121
feet long, 10 feet high, and 3 feet wide.
I inside measurement would just contain
an inch of rain from aifcacre of ground.
The extra sleep obtained by the use
of a mosquito canopy is net gain
mws nr brut
Bears are numerous about Xewbern -X.
C, and very destructive to corn.
Edwin Booth is booked for fifty
two performances ia the South the
coming season.
A Central Xevv York cheese manu
facturer figures up his profits, for tlte
yearatfll.' '
During the mouth of July a single
tobacco coiiqiaiiv in California manu
facture.! l,:xi0,m'Kl cigar.
It is enid that eonTmIiiinr is aoont
to be undertaken near the! lsf iee moun
tain. New Hampshire.
A new enterprise in Charleston s
he shipping ef flour to the north' frvun'
he new crop of wheat.
Clara Morris has untterguee the ter
rible surgical oTatiou of nioxa at
Paris, for a spinal affection.
Woodhu II and Cliflin are lecturing
In Vermont, to intensely interested au
dience of baldhcaded men.
Senator Jones' . income front a
single source, his Kernville mine, last
month, is said to have beeu f lti.1,000.
The Government receives an average
income of $4.0H) Irom the sale of waste
pajer from the dead letter office alone.
There has not been found among
the late Andrew Johnson's papers
either a w ill or a life iiiaiiraiicer policy.
August Belmont was the heaviest
winner of purses at Saratoga, durlug the
second meeting, the amount being 4 -
0o0.
The Baltimore shot tower is 2M
feet high and has a capacity of about a
million bags of twenty-five pounds each
per annum.
Xebraska has an election Monday.
Oct. 11, to choose three Justices of the
Supreme Court and six Regents of the
State Uuiversitv.
Mrs. Mvra Clarke Gaiues' next law
suit in Washington is her answer to
Caleb Ciishing's bill for services through
her long litigation.
A lobster measuring three feet four "
inches in length and weighing nine
teen puiiinl was caught at Eistporf,
Mass., and sent to Ibwton.
Yale coliege has had but-10 presi
dents during the 173 rears of its exis- .
tence, ex-1 resident oolsey occupying .
the chair a quarter of a century.
A special train for fast freight, mak
ing the distance between San Francisco
and Xew York in twelve days, is to be
put 011 the I'nion Pacific road.
Vermont w ill be oiie hundred years
old on the l.th of January, 1S77. This- '
the Concord (. II.) Patriot thinks, -will
be a cold time for a centennial. ...
' Springfield, 111., has a base hall club
coiiqxMed entirely of ymmg ladie. After
siiMicicnt practice, this club proposes to -r
issue challenges for the championship. '
A denc column of flic, which took
20 minutes to pass a given spot, jour
neyed through the village of Mechauics
ville. X. Y., the other day, southward
bound.
The Albany JuHrtuil says Mr. John
Anderson, the founder of the Scientific ,
School at Penikese Island, is so ill at
Tarrytown. X. Y., that he is not ex-'
peeted to recover. .
An Ottawa girl is unable to eat ami
derives sustenance from the wetting of
her tongue wit 11 wine and nutritive :
liquids. She has been in this couditiou ..
since February hist:
' The Christian Intelligencer is ask
ing (ten. Haw lev if the Centennial ex-
hibitiou is to be kept open 011 Sundays,
and threatens him with the wrath of the
religious press if it is.
The first campnieetings in America
were held in 17ti7, by two Baptist min
ister, w ho preached ill that part of of
Virginia lying between the Kappahan
uock aud James rivers.
The iniquities of the Kentucky lot
tery scheme have at last been so thor
oughly exiiosed that the Lmiisville
('"MMfriW confidently predicts that the
next Legislature w ill alxdish tiiem.
Boston has 47 public schools, CI
bank. l'!. hotels, l!Mi churches and re
ligious associations, U courts, 1-Stf coir- ;
stable, lietween '.)0 and 1000 lawyers,
and 1XJ newspajters and periodicals.
The city court of Iuisville, Ky.,
recently divided that .newspaiter men
nave a right to carry deadly weapons,
if deemed neees-ary for self-defense
while in the discharge of their journal
istic duties.4 , .
If these Western county societies
really want instruction in agriculture.
jocosely observes the Hartford Times v
let them send to Long Branch and pro
cure an exert who can tell them all
about the right time for Hitting in
"rye." .... . .
The Boston Herald tells of a farmer
who I rising a four-horse w agon which
is 101 years old. The date 1774 is in
scribed on the shaft. This wagon w as ,
bis great grandfather's first wagon,
aud has been used on the s-'une firm '
ever since. t
--The annual import of Bath bricks
Into the IT. S. is about 2I0,(H. These'
bricks are manufactured from the dt- ;
oits of the Kiver llarrett, Bridgewa
ter. F.ng., wher." millions are made an
nually. This is the only known de-a
posit of the kind.
A specie of fi-h called clam crack
ers have madetheir appearance in Skid
away river, at Isle of Hoe, Ga., being
attracted by cl-.ins which are planted
on the beach'. These fi-h are from four
to six feet wide across the back, and are
spotted like leopards.
Jesse Pomeroy owes bis life thus
far to a deadlock. The Governor urges
commutation, but the Council refuses to
commute, and the Governor refuses to
sign the death warrant. So Jesse can
neither be hanged nor lot off till they
g'.-t a new administration.
The St. Louis G!oie-Iemocrat esti
mates that a small tax on each dog In1
Missouri would soon pay off the national
debt. This is true enough, but the .
probability is that the people of Mis
souri would a thousand times rather '
take, their money and buy more dogs.
Mi"s Ada Luck of Carthage. O.,
won a cook stove at the Cincinnati fair
as ''the best and most expeditious cook."
In 30 minutes she cooked, and cooked
well, potatoes, chicken, porter-house
steak, tomatoes and corn, and made cof
fee, tea, pie aud biscuit, and set the
bible in the neatest style.
' The amount of money now in cir
culation iu tlte I'nited Stales would give -$1'.I.12
to every man, woman and child ,
if equally divided. Englishmen woul I
get only $15 50- and Frenchmen only '
i 18 31. We have thus more money iu
circulation than either France or Eng
land, while we do vastly less business. ; .
Lanra De Force Gordon tried to
! horsewhip Davidson, a secretary of the
: Cincinnati Convention Irt 1S72. She
i failed, aud went to California, where
! she lecaine editress of a newspaper. A ,
' few day since au actress underto ok to
horsew hip her, when the whirligig of
i Time came alon; and euabled Laura to
reduce her assailant to a state of bald
ness that would excite envy in the hear
of a turnip.
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