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ECOSSIDCKATIOS OF THE
tacompton uonsutuuon j
InHB UM)KUSIGNKn HAS LATELY RE
1 1 from the East, after making a pur-
t mil selected stock of GOODS, in his
11 "i bu-'icss ' xvwcU lC as since received, and
JtbUMly tugged iu opening and marking,
'"" l.c t'fft'r ilt 811,0 at verv sna11 prof
" Vlkiu'l i f country produce will be taken
V.mefir ?''. a"d CASH will never be
Vw'd tUhard times.
,. cCistliiv-kW tlie pationage lie lias re
WnhU business, ami hopes for a continu
e! ft'-esaiae, ami he. pledges his word that
'1 not Vave anvthmg undone that may lie
IjS'po, pneral satisfaction.
LVI1M1 111 paii m iuc iiuiun nig na-
Also, Spices .
of all kinds.
Also, Pro-
visions,
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crocenes.
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Juca as jcaa,
Coffee, Sugars,
Molasses and
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r T"fc . 1 I A 1 1 dT t T
(ru 3leai. uucuwueai r lour, uac xueai
ISuttcr. CiiccsJ ami 1' ish of all kinds.
it SO A S'od assortment o Mara ware. Iron,
: I and Nails. Also Di ngs, Paints and Oils.
new Fk k of Wall paper, contesting of
( patterns anil styles, which arc very desirable
jijifon of the ye;ir. Also Foreign and Do
.lic Fruit and Confectionarics, well assorted
jjLt tlio various other kinds of goods he keeps
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, ( k) numerous to luciiuuii. i lent.- L-iiti iu uuu
;3iii:i! liis sttcK lor yourtci ves, txiore purcna-
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yf&n la a lHion to tVe above, be wishes
to ntify the public that he has a new
iiml I r.i proved LAMP for sale, for bur
j.a'.irbi)ii Oil. (sometimes called Hock Oil.)
iMtainiy tlu bet improvement now known,
:I 'r coomnny and safety f it can not explode
.in lie regulatutl so as to gi-e much or little
:!. hanijis made on this plan to suit all pur
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Just then the fog cleared off a little, and
exhibited to both fare and driver the curious
fact that they bad been going back, ' the
horse's head being turned towards ITolbom.
The true state of affairs, however, being thus
ascertained, cabby wheeled about, and was
going along at a spanking pace to make up
for lost time, when another dense mass of
fog loomed over, and all was again in total
obscurity. This was most provoking, for
both together wei holding it tightly down t
the ground like a bedside carpet.
With this luxurious assistance, which gave
the fore-feet a secure bearing, a plunge and
a struggle brought the poor beast on his legs
again ; but ho was so irritated by his . previ
ous failures, aid so startled by. his sudden
success, that bofore cabby could seize the
reins he was off, sliding and scrambling over
the slippery road like an awkward lad con-
the time ras getting on ; yet to advance be- tending with his first pair of skates, but yet
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yond a walk was impossible.
Pi ay, push on, cabby," said Thompson,
again popping out his head, "or wo 6hall be
too late for the train, after all; push on, and
I'll see if I can't find an extra half-crown for
you."
at a 6pced that soon left both driver and fare
far behind. Cabby darted after his horse ;
and in an instant nothing could be heard or
seen of cab or driver but a dull runiblo of
wheels and a voice, as if wrapt up in a blan
ket, shouting, "Wo-ho, wo-ho !" which grew
Thompson had a strong conviction that half j fainter and fainter rcry moment.
SclccroTalr.
From Sharpens Magazine.
THF PARTY OF A BUSINESS MAN.
THE STl'RY OK A LONuON KOO.
w-nv' c;m set one re;iiv trnnmea ana nue;i
;b Oil. t.iku it home and u it for forty-eight
r free of charge, provided it is returned in
:sl order as when taken awn v. Call and see
k KOKKUT DAVIS.
E'rlnrg. April 14, l858:22.tf
MltltlFF-.S NAI.12.
YVIRTl'l OF SUXDIIY WHITS OF YEN
J ii ; 1 1 : . t hxpoiiiis. issueU out ol the Ivoiirt ol
m l'leas of Cambria County, and to me di
"cu.il, there will lie exposed to sale by public
i!Tv. ;ii th Mansion Huii.m?. in the Iiorough of
liiist.iii, Cambria county, on FlilDAi, the
Mi'n hiy A .iil. 1858, at one o'clock,- V. M. ,
' t''iV, tillf" ami interest of William
Howard ami tinr'i- W. II nlges, of, in and to 1
t "( vrmim! s.tn.tUi in the lioroitgh of Johns
town, Cuhhru cnuntv, adjoining te Canal Ba
in, lot c' John iWmes. 1). B. Wakefield's heirs
nJ oifnTs, hxvin-' thereon erected a two storv
iri.e warehouse, not now occupied; . ALSO
1 tfie ri,ht, title and interest of said defend
is, of. in and t a lot i-f ground lying iu the
r.'iigii nl Johnstown aforesaid, aiijoining tne
vf mentioned lot and the old Allegheny Por
y. Jiai! Hoad, unimpiovl. AIS() All the
:', title and interest t William Howard, one
the defendants, o I, i and to a piece or parcel
Ian 1, situate iu Coucmaugh township, Cambria
uiity. adjoining lands of Henry Gotighuour,
.lol.nstown Iron Company and others, con-
-liiiiiir nltv acres more or less, aixiitt twenty
Ttsof which Are cleared, having thereon crcc
la liewed lo,4 hou-io Taken iu execution and
!"C11 at the suit tt Fiticld and Smith, for the
f Chester Granger. ALSO All the right,
'k ;ind interest of licrze W. Hodcres. one of
'lefeiid.uits, of, in and to a lot tif ground situ
?;n the borough of Johnstown, Cambria eouu
adjoiiiing the Canal Basin, lots of John
rues, I). 15, Wakel'i-ld's heirs and others, hav
z tlieicon erected it two-story frame ware house
t now occupied. AIjSO All the right, title
i-l iuterct of said defendant, of. iu and to a lot
"kve of ground lying iu the Borough of John
wwi afirsaid adjoining the above mentioned lot
wiUU.lJ Allegheny Portage Uail Hoad, unim-
dLS()AU the linht. title and iutercfct of
As the evenings became long and the coun
try dull, my friend Thompson yielded to the
entreaties of his wifo and daughter that they
should give an evening party ; and once en
listed in the undertaking, he determined that
it should be done well, for, in pleasure, as in
business, ho liked to do the right thiog. He
therefore willingly undertook the execution of
a number of commissions iu town from a co
pious list furnished by Mrs T. Thompson
U a London merchant, head of the great in
digo house of Thompson, Son & Co., of lilue
Lane, and too sensible a man to live in the
smoke and dirt of the great city ; bis neat
and well appointed villa,, about twele miles
down the North Western line, and within a
short drive of a convenient etaticn, is the
very Icau ideal of what the residence of a
well-to-do city gentleman ought to be.
On leaving home in the morning of the
day of the party, Thompson, of course, recei
ved strict injunctions from his wife, backed
by the rest of the fenialo portion of his family
to be sure to come home early, which he read
ily promised to do, if possible ; and after ma
king some remarks about the claims of bust
ness, laughingly bade them not to forget the
standing direction to despatch the vehicle (he
would not allow cither himselt. or his wife or
daughters, to call bis handsome equipage 'the
carriage) by the turnpike road to meet him,
if by any chance he should not return by the
last train, lie fully intended, however, to
be home an hour or two earlier than usual, 60
as to take down with him the ices, game, ex
tra wines, and other requisites for a first-rate
"sit-dowu" feuppcr, Dd to be able to decant
the wiue himself, and generally assist Mrs
T. in Oic final arrangemvnts before his guests
should arrive. But it so happened that, on
crowns, in number suited to the occasion,
could do anything; and cabby, by his increas
cd efforts, proved the influcece of the stimu
lus. But it would uot do ; the old difficul
ties recurred, and finally, while Thompson
getting desperate, was alternately pursuadicg,
threatening, and hinting at even additional
half-crowns, St. Pancras' clock struck sine.
It was all over;- the last train was starting.
What icoit?2Mrs. Thompson say? what wo'd
his visitors think ? and what was to be done?
But Thompson was never long in a dilemma;
he was a man of business ; he was not an in
dividual to be beaten by a fog ; and so rely
ing that bis "vehicle" would come to meet
him, when it was found that he did not ar
rive by the nine o'clock train, he agreed with
cabby to drive him toward Harrow-ou-the-
Ilill as fast as he could. Between the cab
and the "vehicle," the distance might bo
managed, he reckoned, In about an hour and
a quarter, or say an hour and twenty min
utes, (busincsa men, especially those who
travel' by railways, always calculate to a ni-
ci ty.) so that he would, still get home before
supper; and the bargain for two shillings a
mile, and a glass of brandy-and-water by way
of an extra fillip, was at once concluded-
The Harrow Road w'as- reached in less
Thompson's first impulse was to follow at
once, as last as the tog and his thirteen stone
of soild flesh would allow ; but he could not.
in the darkness, lay his hand upon his great
coat. He had started back to some little dis
tance when the horse struggled up and plun
ged forward, and he could not, for the life of
him, find the place again ; nothing but the
frozen snow met and benumbed bis fingers.
Quick decision of purpose was becoming nec
sary ; if he pursued his seemingly hopeless
hunt after the coat, it was clear that he could
never overtake tho cab. His, decision was
instantly made; it would not pay to continue
tho search, and buttoning up his body-coat,
he started in pursuit at a good round pace,
but puffing and blowing as though he had not
"trained" sufficiently for a pedestrian feat of
that nature.
He could still hear faintly the rumbling of
the wheels, and oabby's useless "Wo-ho I"
and if he had not walked into the hedge so
often, and not found such difficulty in extri
cating himself from the tho thorns and bram
bles, he must soon have overtaken the object
of his pursuit. But one provoking impedi
ment or other always prevented his consum
mating his hopes just as ho deemed himself
upon the point of doing so. Yet on and on
time than could have been hoped ; and Thomp I he went ; and on and an again, after conquer-
son now susreested to cabby the probability of I ioz each fresh obstacle. It seemed to him
W " 1
even a second glass of brandy-and-water,
that pace were kept up. But as they came
upon the open eountry road, it was so extre
mely 6lippcry that such a pace was dangerous
and at the foot of the hill at Kensal Green
they were once more reduced to a walk. Up
that he had thus strugg'ed along for miles in
the thick darkness, with the Will-o'-the-wisp
"Wo-ho" only just ahead of him.
In vain he shouted; he could hear no ans
wer but the distant, "Wo-ho.. wo-ho I" He
got irritated, and,- as a natural consequence,
that steep bit of roau, glazed with a layer of was (exactly, in the ratio of his increasing
frozen sbow, there was no hold for the horse's irritation) just so much the oftener in 'the
r . .r.i )t,a frr driven bv a keen east hedcre or the ditch, and each time just so
. aINA kUW Vfl.l - w -w j I C3 '
wind, was rapidly enveloping the north-wes- I much the longergetting out again.
Ho ac-
tern suburbs, and even the country beyond.
where, mingliDg with a thick white mist,
caused by the sudden frost in a moist atmos
phere, it became even more dense than it was
in London. . This greatly increased the dit-
ficulty of getting up the hill ; and the horse
at last, after slipping, straining , and plung
ing, lost his footing, and fell.
Whip him up," cried Thompson, who
though not a cruel man, looked upon the mat-
tually began to disbelieve in many of his most
strongly rooted convictions connected with
half-crowns and other matters, and his good
solid common-sense was beginning to waver
and wonder. Could it bo really himself
Thompson, the eminent indigo merchant of
Blue Lane who was thus allowing himself
to be lured after'a strange, dull sound of "Wo-
ho," wo-ho !" in a thick, fog, for miles and
miles alone a dark slippery road, till he was
w w
v l!i.ua Howard, que of the defendants, of, in reaching the city, Mr. Thompson found an
"I to a piece or parcel of . land situate ih Cone- unusua mas3 Gf things demanding his attcn-
iiii
'otgh township. Cambria county, aujoinaig
" Is of Henry Goughnour, the. Johnstown Iron
'mpanv and others, containing f.fty acres more
r less, about twenty acres of vhich arc cleared,
.ivmcr thereon erected a hewed log house.
taken in execution and to be sold, at tne suit
f Arnold. Martin & Potter, fer the use cf Ches-
r Granger.
ALSO All the right, title and interest of
liarlos Merriman and Susannah his wife of, in
Q'l to a lot of ground containing about one fourth
fun acre more or less, situate in Concmaugh
uwiiship. Cambria county, adjoining lands of
Imw .latoby, Samuel J. Horner, Peter Jacoby
and other, having thereon erected a oi.e and a
he Charles and Susanna Merriman Taker.
a execution and to to sold at th suit of Peter
JacoLj nnd Margaret Jacoby hu wife.J
JOHN' ROBERTS,
tion. lie soon gave up an iuea oi
away early, but managed to execute his com
missions, which he sent off by the train he
had hoped to go by
lint even the hour of what he called his
t-wtiihurr-.
Sheriff" OA
April
nice. 1
7, '58.
Sheriff.
OIirilAXS' COURT .SALE.
BY VIRTUE CF A TLURIL'S ORDER OF
the Orphans" Court of Cambria county,
will be exposed to public sale at the housj
JWiii G. Given, in the village of .Jefferson, on
the 1st day of June next, at one o'clock
P l-, ail the risht. title and iutcrcst of William
nim, iu tho following described tracts of laud,
AH that piece r,r parcel of lai;d, with its ap-
ienances, commencing at a spruce, corner ou
- of Araut Soninan. thence ncrth 75 west 81
frdes to a post, thence South 5 west 20 pcr-
tea post, thencu South 75 east C2i perches
jMtSar on lino of John M'Coy, thence north
jt-tt 32 perches to a line, thence uorth 5 east
J'8 Perches to the place of beginning contain
;lS W acres and 128 perches, the same being al
'td to William and Jienson Crur, and situate
mStimmcrhill township, Cambria county.
"EIIMS : One third of the purchase mon-
tobe paid on confirmation of sale, and the rc
"?uin two equal annual payments thereafter
interest, to be secured by the judgmeui
'toh and mortgages of the purchaser.
EPJIRAlM CRUM, Adm'r.
March 24,1 858: 19 .
ter from a purely business point of view, iu ready to drop with fatigue ? He was begin
which the fall appeared a kind of breach of ning to doubt his own identity, and might
have decided against it, but that just then he
thought he perceived the glimmer of a light.
He was not mistaken, andT immediately scram
bled toward it, but evidently not by the pro
per road, aa he passed through a deep ditch
and up a steep bank, breaking bis way throu
gh some rotten garden palings. At last he
arrived at a lighted candle, apparently held
close to a woman's face, in which he rccog
nised indistinctly tho features of tho Kenton
carrier's wife, who lived at the road-side, not
more than five miles from bis own residence
That was encouraging ; and whatever became
, , I . - j A;-ar whom bo omilrl of the cab. he should at all events soon meot
This was nnoyiog, and the waiting wouiu n.s w-y w , ... .
v... i. 1.?m not see in the foe. put the searching quesuon. an owu veUiv. Wu, uvr
liaVC tenjruscme, Lunua. vw-.v . . " Un T.rld . f.r Mr. P.nrefila informed
self in fetching up some arrears i coriefpon- nu .c
dence and in other business matters ; and hnal "i ncre s on,yu uS . -
sendie-fora Hansom cab, be started in boss up again tms uicssca n.gnr, o-
by.
own train passed before he could get through sloping sheet of ice ; after each effert
tho uuexpected pressure of business, and
there was nothing for it but to wait for the
last the last, that is, that stopped at his sta-
itnnichieh left London at nine o'clock.
rnnlrnrt that, ntlfht to be dealt With W a
summary manner. Without deigning a re
ply, cabby jumped down, and proceeded tg
loosen, by a hole or two, some of the harness,
to lift the shafts a little', so as to take the
weight from the shoulder, and in other ways
to assist the fallen horse. But nownng would
avail ; there was no hold for bis feet on .taat
the
animal fell again, and at last
gave up the attempt, and Jay perfectly still.
Thompson, who was not a man to stand by
and do nothing, let himself out ; and groping
struggling
SOKS OF TEHPaAKCK,
Highland Division-, No. 84, Sons olTem
perancemcet At their Hall "Cvary
capital time for Kuston Square, not so much
.i .i t.;. ilrtontinn .as those who are not
'business men" mir.bt imagine.
Tt- -to., l.orl lrn dark and snowy, and
Ailu viujr -
with the night came a sharp frost and fog,
which latter got thicker and thicker as they
drove up Holburn. At length, just as they
entered one of the squares, tho "London pe-
liar" became so dense that it was difficult for
j: 4 ol-o ldi barinfs even by the
iu ei x 1 1 c i i.v v o - -
aid of the lamps, which had dwindled into
mere specks of light, vsible occasionally here
and there. The Jehu of tho high-wheeled
cab was reduced to a walk, and even at-that
cautious pafie, made some very unfortunate
speculations as to his course, now grating
against the railiugs of the enclosure in" the
centro of tho square, and now getting on the
foot pavement.
"Push 03, cabby," said Thompson, coax
ingly, during one of the numerous stoppages
that occurred
"Easy said, sir," replied cabby; "but
while uiy wheel is locked iu these here rail-
ipg?, I W t sec where I can puih to, unless
"And what's that ?"
"Why, something as we haven't got."
"Well, what is it?" repeated Thompson.
"Wby, a boss-cloth," replied cabby, "or
a blanket ; or any ways, if it wasen't a blan
ket, just a great-coat ; you haven't a great
coat to spare, have you sir ?"
'Well, it's not exactly the night to lend a
horse a great-coat," said Thompson. "But
what is it for?" ' .
"Wby, you see, if I could put summtt of
that sort down under his fore-feet, he'd get a
hold, don't you see ho'd get a hold, and be
up in a twinkling."
Now, Thompson's great-coat was a good
one ; but the affair with him was merely a
matter of business. Was the result worth
the damage likely to be done ? was the pithy
question put to himself. By a rapid -process
of mental arithmetic he assessed tho probable
injury, estimated the dvantag to bo derived
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per contra, and with his usual Dusmcss iie
celerity, decided that it toes, in anotucr
mirxute cabby was spreading Thompson's great
wilder tha feet oi his ppcatrato steed, and
his own "vehicle
dily dispelled ; for
him that his coachman had been there about
two hours before, and as the fog was so thick,
he thought it dangerous to goon, and so,
feeling sure that hia master would not attempt
to come through it, he had turned back
again.:
And tho cab? -
Mrs. Parcels had heard something rumble
by about ten minutes before, and heard some
body crying, "Wo-ho ? but had seen noth
ing-
Tbis was rathtr depressing, but Thompson
had identifie himself again ; the conversa
tion with Mrs, Parcels had brought his wau-
dcring imagination back from the dreams of
that sea of fog which had seemed peopled
with hoarsevoiced sirens singing "Wo-ho,
bn !" tr lure him on to destruction. He felt
again that he was Thompson the Thompson
of Blue Court; and, being guided by Mrs.
Tarcels into the road, by way of tho garden
gato instead of through the fearful gap he had
just made in the old palings, he resumed
the ehase. He had got his second wind, and
was getting up to his work ; so away he went
at a paco worthy of the "Barclay-match"
for ho had no end of pluck and, after a long
run, he' was evidently gaining upon cabby.
He heard "Wo-ho, wo-ho I" more distinctly,
and oould even catch the rumbling of wskeels
once more.
At that moment, however, a dull, grating
sound seemed suddenly to extinguish the rum
bling, and then all was perfectly Btill, and he
experienced the oppressive suffocating sensa
tion produced by total darkness undisturbed
by the slightest sound. He stepped more
slowly and cautiously, and, in spite of him
self and his strong common sense, felt vaguo
and ridiculous fears creeping over him. A
sound as of breathing seemed close to him,
though unseen, and in another- instant some
thing like an arm flung itself across Thomp
son's throat.
"Garrote, garrote !" cried the strong min
ded man of business, for a moment taken off
his guard. ,
"What, sir?"
"What, cabman I"
"Well, I'm glad you'vo come up, sir ;
was beginning to get frightened like."
'And where's your cab ?"
"O, it's all right now it's in the ditch ;
one wheel locked in the ice and mud ; I heard
it grind iu."
"Which ditch T
"Ah, that's what I want to come at. I've
been groping about on t'other side ; and now
I'm going to try this.
"Which side i this side?" asked Thomp
son, and, as he spoke, ho heard, by tie brea
thing, that cabby was moving on. lie en
deavored to catch hold of him, but he was
gone, and there was a silence and stillness
"or some seconds, when the voice of cabby
was again calling out triumphantly.
All right, all right, sir! here you are
all right I"
"Not quite," cried Thompson, struggling
to get out of the ditch into which he had wal
ked in his hasty endeavors to follow up the
track of cabby "not quite," he eaid. "But
where are you ?" . :
"Heie, sir." -"Where's
that?"
"Here."
"I can't tell where 'here' ia."
"Well, sir, I'll drive, towards you, and you
follow the sound' of the wheels "
But as Thompson advanced accordingly,
he thought the 60und of the wheels; and cab
by's voice too, grew fainter and fainter. He
must have walked the wrong way after h
got out of the ditch ; so, like a skilful tacti
cian.' he turned in the opposite direction im
mediately ; and feeling that he was on the
crisp frozen turf by the side of tho road,
where it was less slippery, he began to run
again, rejoicing that he was not encumbered
with his great-coat, and quite proud in the
midst of all drawbacks, of the powers of nat
ural locomotion which the stimulus of passing
events had shown him to be so uneapectedly
mastet of.
He was making4was famously in recovery
of lost ground, when suddenly what seemed
a hillock, rose into the air beneath his feet,
carrying him with it, and projecting him
through the fog to a considerable distance.
As he again reached the earth giddy, be
wildcred and stunned he had an indistinct
idea of hearing a dull, rushing sound, as he
afterwards said, in his forcible way, like
charge of cavalry ; and then hia senses and
consciousness abandoned him altogether, and
the great Thompson lay senseless and spraw
ling on the snow-covered turf, .where he re
niained for a term of which, though not" very
long, he never knew the exact duration.
The explanation of the mystery is very
simDle. He had trodden ou an old cart-
horse that had been turned out to pick a lit
tie of the long winter grass at the road-side
during tho day, and to find abed under shel-
not the" cab but the cottage of the Kenton
carrier, from the window of which winkled
the light he had seen . A
- This was a terrible blow;. but, as I have
said, Thompson was pluck to the backbone
there was no shirking in him. Tho fog was
evidently beginuingto clear, the hedges on
each side had become sufficiently visibly te
enable him to steer his course safely along the
middle of the road, and he at once, still un
daunted, proccedod to retrace his 6teps. A
epanking walk of an hour'and.a half brought
him to his own. gates, thro which ha could
clearly distinguish the exit of two carriage
carriages that ho well knew the beaded pha
eton of the Jenkinses and the char-a-banc of
the Tallmeg3. They were the last of the de
parting guests z it was two o'clock in the mor
ning.
He met Mrs. Thompson in the hall, who
neither screamed with joy, nor threw herself
upon his neck, nor did any of those things
which a weaker-minded woman would have
done. She merely said :
."My dearest Thompson, how excessively
late you are ! And there is your man with
his cab and horse in the stable-yard, who
wants twenty-four shillings, as his charge for
twelve miles, at two shillings per mile, and
two half-crowns extra ; and he has had three
glasses of brandy-and wine, which he says
you promised him in addition."
At that moment the Misses Jemima and
Janette Thompson came running out of the
now empty ball-room, and begged their dear
papa not to be vexed at his delay ; they had
had a delightful evening, and a beautiful sup
per, as the ices, and pheasants, and game
pies, and trifles and champagne- came down
all safely. The contretemps had not been o
the slightest consequence.
And Thompson, though for a moment rath
er taken aback by this extremely cool view of
the case, perceived the next moment that it
was the true "business" view, after all.
jCZTOne of our cotemporaries disposes of
the virtue of early rising as follows : "We
have watched those fellows wbo are the early
risers, and as a general thing they are the
first chaps who go to theTgroceries of a mor
ning. It is all moonshine about tho smart
est and greatest men being the early risers.
It might have been so in old times, but now-
a-days when you see a chap moving about
very early you may be certain that he is af
ter a drink."
ter-of the hedge at nighty Ihe poor crea
ture, in its fright at being jumped upon du
ring its peaceful slumbers, had suddenly
sprung to its feet, and so projected Thompson
into the air as described.
When he recovered from the shock, he
found himself sound in wind and limb, but
somewhat bewildered and confused ; and was
much annoyed to feel such sensations for he
had the greatest antiphathy to anything like
confusion. He spent some time in trying to
decide which way he should go ; for though
it seemed to him that the fog was less dense,
it was still too thick for him to discover any
landmarks for guidance. Everything was
perfectly still; no sound of any kind broke
the intense silence. At last, shivering with
cold, he started off rather from tho necessity
of exercise to clear his brain and circulate his
blood, than from any definite choice of dircc-
tion. After walking some time, no gradu
ally recovered his self-possession, as warmth
eTept over his numbed limbs ; and his persis
tent efforts were rewarded by the appearance
of a light dimly glimmering through tho fog,
which he hailed at once aa that of his harbor
of refuge the lamp of his cab. Pushing on
with a proud sense of eventual conquest over
!inhr:ird-of d i Hi c id t.i os . he soou reached
t
'John,' quoth the gentle Julia to her
sleepy load one warm morning at a lite hour,
I wish you'd take pattern by tho thermome
ter
As hew?' murmured her woreer half,
blecpily opening his optics,
Why by rising.'
Il'm, I wish you'd imitate the other fixa
magig that hangs up by it the barometer.'
Wby so !'
Cause, then, you'd let me know when the
storm's coming.'
SrHall'a Journal of Health mentions
what it calls an "instructive and alarming
fact" in reference to the Wall St. forger, -Huntingdon,
recently sent to the Penitenti
ary. ' It was proven on the trial that he was
never seen down town without a cigar in his
mouth, and that he was never well. On en
tering the prison, smoking was absolutely
and at once forbidden by an inflexible rufc.
In three months he gained fifteen pounds in
flesh, and his general health was improved in
proportion.
Nohsesse Sense that happens to differ
from your own
Sense A sensible wife loeks for her
employment at home silly ones abroad.
Bap What extraordinary animal pro
duction may be procured in tho Isle of
Wight ? Mutton from Cutces.
Worse What is worse than raining
cats and dogs ? Hailing cabs and omnibusscs.
Worst What is the difference between
a cat and a document ? One has claicM at the
end of its paves, and the other has pauses at
the end of its clautes ill
"What was the uso of the eclipse V
asked a young lady. "Oh. it gave the sun
time for reflection," replied a wag.
Why is it easy to break into an old
man's house ? Bw cause his gait is broken
and his lockt aro few. .
3f A down east editor advises readers if
they wish to get teeth inserted gratis, to go
and steal fruit where his watch-dog is on
guard.
Somebody says there is a decided differ
ence between perseverance and obstinacy.
One is a strong will and the other a &Uong
won't.
A new mode of dispersing a mob has
been discovered said to superscdo the ne
cessity of military force. It is to pass round
a contributor box.
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