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Select fJocttji,
The l' nbrok.cn dumber.
Yes, I shall rest some coming day,
Then blossoms in the wind are dancing,
lz& children in their mirthful play
Heed not the mournful crowxl advancing.
I'p through the long and busy street
Thejli bear me to my last retreat,
Cr e!ie it matters nzt may rave
The storms and blasts of wintry weather,
Abcve the narrow, new-mada grave,
VI ere care and I lie down tcgitler,
Enough that I should know it not,
Within that Jr.tk and narrow spot.
For I shall sleep! As sweet a sleep
As ever graced a child reposing.
Awaits me in the cell so deep,
Where I my weary ey:lid3 closing,
At length bhall lay me down to rest,
Heedlcs of cbda bove Tny breast.
Anlcepl IIow deep will be the rest,
I'ree from life'd turmoil wildly,
Thai when the past is earth's unrest; .
Its bosoiu shall receive me mildly;
Tur not on dream of earth may come
i traka the slumber of that home:
it, deep repose? Oh, tl umber blest!
Oh, sight of peace! K storm, no sorrow,
heavy stirring in my rest,
To meet another weary morrow!
It shall heed neither night nor dawn,
Eu still with fulded arms sleep on!
Avl yet, metuinks. if steps of those
I'd known and loved on earth were round me
Vi break the riht of my repose.
Shiver the ice cords that bound me
Sre that 1 know this cannot be,
Lr death disowns all sympathy.
Thf.r. mourn not, friends, when ye shall lay
The clods of earth above my ashes;
TLink what a rest awaits my clay,
AlJ smooth the mound with tearless lashes
that the resting form within
&a dune with sorrow, care and sin.
Thiiik tht with me tire strife is ocr,
Life's stormy, struling battle ended;
Uejoire that I have gained that shore
To which my faltering footsteps tended.
Breathe the blest hope above the sod,
And have me to my rest with God.
miscellaneous.
BftOTUCR JACK. A A XI I.
A TORXSUIRK TRAGEDY.
Ee had always been harsh with ns, and wc
W Vim
I don't know whv my father appointed him
cy guardian. No two men could have been
tore unlike, nor had they associated much
vther. One, a high-spirited, open-heart-'i.
improvident squire ; tho other a hard.
vMcoate, sullen nan, whose dogged eeii-
'J seldom deferred to the opinions or feei-
of o'.hers. Little sympathy could have
utei between them, I believe, too, that
Y1S ftvorca in mv foflior'a nninn with ills
r. trronhMtinrr that she would live to
ltmarryinff mad Jack Holderness. That
la ..J . .. ...
-vuriamuv name. It is a neht xorknire
wd has been known in those parts any
taew five hundred vear3. Only the
ter day found it in Chaucer.
"
m did not repent, however. My father
'?at ride and drink hard, as most Yorkshire
fibres did in his day, but he was always
i to her and her children. And if the
turned inside out bv a partv of boozy
Hunters, its ordinarv aspect presented a
ordinary aspect presented
rful
contrast to tbe crcat, sum, cold
Jri in the dull country town, wherein her
M'J jears had been passed.
that house I if. she could but have
. -a what would occur within it I
1 GiT" riPxrH V Att. ft am cnAalr.
6 aow Cf my ulcIc with whom I set out,)
4 IttOrnev BhA hsnomo
'ttorney, who became rich by tho
. i. " yruietsMoo, ana mat ue uro v
r son in fKo i,....: rM
-toiev Rvlnnlm iia I, :
!j ? brnes8 leaving his money to be equal-
betwixt his flon and daughter. He
ob5l De to do, and was of too sullen,
Uco U overb4ring a disposition ever
I v me Popular.
'orVT at my grandfather, who died
ii M born, bequeathed his money in
fportWDB to hve ms and daughter,
He did this literally ; in the latter case tying
it upon my mother and her issue, exclusive
of her husband' control. Not that he enter
tained any ill-will towards my father-; but,
being a shrewd, sharp man, he thought that
his son-in-law might have made ducks and
drakes of it. I never beard of toy fathei re
seTrtroff this : Probablv he -acknowledged ita
prudence, wmcu -was abundantly manliest
. . . . -
- ,
wo, nucu my mumer uieu.
Her death bad a great and disastrous effect
upon him, Arwavs a careless man. and
i- ii ,
rather a free liver, ha rode harder and drank
deeper, kept open house for very promiscuous
guet-ta, squandered Ms meney, nd, in short,
let things go to rack and ruin . He might
have got married asain perhaps it would
have been better for ts if be had 'for he was j
still young and handsome : bet, I belioVe bis
affection for bis dead wife restrained bim from
giving "s a stepmother. Meantime, we ran
wild about tho house, sad were brought up
anyhow,
I have remarked in Kfe that men who bave
never known a mother's care are often harder
n&tured than their bappier fellows ; deficient
in tenderness, pity, forbearance. Perhaps it
is not unnatural that they should be so. Jack
and I, in our boy days, promised to bo no
exception to this rale if I may so call it.
We were, I fancy, as hot-tempered, wrong
headed, ill-disciplined, and to use a word
which ought not to have become antiquated,
as masterfnl a couple of lads as any in York
shire, which is a pretty bold assertion, teo.
We often quarrelled, and sometimes fought
savagely. Our father never interfered with
as, and nobody else dared to do so.
Stop, though, I am wrong there. One
uncle did. He never came to the house (not
that he came often since bis eister's death, or
imleea, cetera, J without saying souictmng
harsb to, oi' of tis soiiietbing that set boys'
breasts rankling against bim. We were no
cowards, and often gave him as good as
he
brought. Our father would laugh at such
altercations. I fancy I see him now, with
his handsome flushed face, red coat, and top
boots, as he came in one day, all splashed,
from hunting, and found Jack shaking with
passion at a speech of my uncle's. My broth
er hai just been fished out of the mill-stream
and my uncle had applied an equivocal pro
verb iu bis favor.
Let the lads bide, Miles,' be 5d, laugh
ing, or they'll be too uracil fur 'ee someday.
Do thou look after thy own little wench at
home '
That reminds me that I have nut yet spo
ken of her. My uncle bad got married, very
unexpected! j, about two years after bis sis
ter's death, to a handsome widow with one
child, a little girl His choico surprised ev
erybody, for she waa a gay, pleasure-looking
woman, without fortune, and had lived in
i'ork and London. I believe she -carae of
Irish lineage. Anything more contrary to
his sullen, self-willed, local Yorkshire nature
could scarcely be iinagiwd. They did not
live happily together, and be would have
puitred him if his passionate temper had not
beaten down all opposition My aunt was
rather a favorite with us, being a cooJ -humored,
though frivolous woman. Her little
girl was one of the most beautiful creatures
in the world, I do believe.
We were shy of her : conscious, wuen in
her presence, of a boyhh awkwardness and
want of breeding that never troubled us else
where. She knew this .veil enough, for.baby
coquette as she was, all her mother's nature
promioed to re-appear in her. I bave looked
covertly into her eyes, woodtring at their
exceeding beauty and fascination, bciug dim
ly and uneasily cognizant at the same time
that it would be unsafe to trust them, and
apprehensive that she might lo"k up and at
once divine my thoughts, as she always could.
Jack cared more about her than I at that
time, and she knew it, and treated him worse.
I don't think he was jealous of me in those
days.
My father liked to have ber at tbe Hall,
and would bave kept her permanently, if my
uncle had permitted. He used to call her
bis little sweetheart, humored
all hor little
whims, and did his best to spoil her, as he
did us and all children. When tho cholera
came mto our part of the country, (it ravaged
ail Xjugianu mai year,j aim sue auu ner
mother were attacked by it, he dro'te over to
town every day to inquire about them, lvaty
that was her name recovered, but her
sunt died. Her daughter had not then at
tained her twelfth birthday.
Just a year afterwards, almost to a day,
my father got a bad fall while hunting, uis
spine sustaining such severe injury that he
only lived long enough to appoint my Uncle
our guardian, and to take Ins leave of us,
I ., 1 If J M. .1.-1.
wnn many woras oi anecuon sou rerei mat
he had not proved a more prudent he could
not nave oeen a Kinaer parent, ins anairs
j t j a i a .tL :
were so et&oarrassea, mat auwiuer ma
months must bave produced bankruptcy.
He had mortgaged the estate in itself much
deteriorated in value to the fullest extent ;
and, in abort, when all his debts were paid,
nothing remained to us but our mother's leg-
acy, of which we should come into possession
at tbe ages of one-and-twenty
I was then
ten Jack thirteen
We went home with our
uncle to the great, grim, cold boiuse in the
dull country town.
Katy was sorry on our account, glad on
her own, for since her mother's death her life
had been monotonous. I don't think ruy
uncle was harsh to her. though he cevor
showed much kindness or consideration to
i waras anyooay. xei, cnua an sue was, sub
. t . i : .i:.l.
I i. t u l. uJ l,or
had she been his own daughter. But what-
ever expectations of company and immature
coquetries our arrival excited to Katy's bo-
gom, were doomed to disappointment at I bat
time, for our uncle Boon announced hia inteu-
tion of sending us to boarding-school. Our
ignorance justified him iu this, if his dislike
did no. I iay hii dislike, for I knew ho
always hated "fas, sad, from the day he became
our guardian, had promised himself the grat
ification of subduing as, breaking us into hhr
humors, and, as he once said, flogging the
rebellions devfl out "of ns How be succeeded
in this will be Been.
Hitherto we had had. literally, no educa-
tion. I or when oar father sent ttsto ectjooJ, p
as bs once did, epon the first atttnfpt at the
iutliction of punishment we had made a fight
for it, subsequently escaping and returning
home to be half laughed at, half commended
not ordered back. Bat now there was no
disputing the will of my uncle, even if we
bad been- inclined to attempt it. - To boarding-school
we went accordingly.
Yorkshire schools have, of late years, ob-
laiocd a mo6t unenviable notoriety. In my
dav all schooling was conducted on severer
principles than the more fortunate youth of
this generation bave any idea of. Punish
ment by blows and starvation formed an or
dinary part of it. I do not know that tbe
school selected by my uncle had a savager
master or a crueller disciple than many oth
ers, but I am sure that a more direct method
for the perversion of every honest and manly
quality could not have been devised than tbe
grinding tyranny whicn, fender the name of
an education, wc endured for two years.
Strong boys it transformed into bullies ; weak
boys into "cowards and liars.
We experienced enough of it and to spare.
I am not going into detail suffice it to say,
that we were not conquered easily. One thiag
war school discipline taught us to bear, per
haps to inflict, pain.
We never went home for the holidays, or
saw our uncle's face, until the expiration of
two years. He paid the schoolmaster's bills
regularly, nd received reports of U3 from
birn The word came for us to return. We
had had all the schooling considered necessa
ry. All we were destined to have, a3 it
proved.
Katy was more beautiful, and more con
scious of it, taau ever, when we taw her
again. Often as w had talked of her Jack
w3 especially prone this, and once tried his
hand at a schoolboy letter to her, which the
schoolmaster confiscated, flogging him for
writing it wo had never pictured to ourselves
such loveliness as two years had developed in
her whom we always regarded as our cousin.
I am not good at description, or I would
attempt to convey some idea of Katy's fasc.
Though I don't think words alone could do
it. I eee it in my dreams sometimes dreams
that it id dreadful to wake from but shall
never meet its similitude again" unless iu
Heaven.
The struggle between us and our uncle
commenced immediately. He never made
any pretence of liking us. always addressing
us rather as dogs than human beings. I
think the spirit with which we nret and re
sented this treatment presented some sort of
infernal satisfaction to bim. The day after
our return, enraged at a defiint answer of
Jack's, hs took a horsewhip, and, in spite of
a furious resistance, flogged him mercilessly.
My turn came soon enough, and after that it
wjs all oaths, curses and blows on one side,
and desperate but ineffectual struggles on the
other. We should not have remained in the
bonse three days bat for one reason Katy.
Ve were both m love with ber.
You may smile at the idea of tbe passions
entertained by boys of twelve and fifteen for
girl of thirteen, lint I am sure that nothing
I have since experienced was more real or all
engrossing. The trivial incidents conpected
with it reuiaiu indellibly impressed upon Jiiy
memory, while thousauds of more important
events which bave transpired since, are for
gotten. I recollect tbe color of ribons iu her
hair, the look and scent of flowers she wore,
the precise aspect of the rooms in which she
sat and worked or moved about, even in the
iiiiuutcst detail. Sometimes this retrospec
tion is misery to me.
I lovvd be r with my whole boyish soul
Tha sound of her girlish voice, lha very rus
tle of her dres, aifectcd me with a delicious
pleasure which was half pain. I have woke
np at night from a delirious dream to sob out
her name and call passionitly u;-on her. I
knew, at the same tint?, that my passion was
irrational and absurd, and that she was not
worthy of it. Belief in the object is not
necessary to love. A man shall bts wull con
vinced in his heart that no good can come of
his success, that peace and happiness do not
lie there -nay. shall he sure of the moral
perversity of her he worships yet shall bo
ready to risk life and bouI to get her.
My brother's passion was equally Vehement
and he became savagely jealous of me. 1
think he had greater faith in her than I
showed his feelings with less disguise, and
was therefore more cruelly sported with. In
woiog a coquette aud Katy was born a co
quette be who feels or betrays least euiotioa
will have most chance of success, for be could
avoid UDpleasing manifestations while hia ri
val is morbidly sensitive to every look, word
and action, at once axactiug, slavish and re
belious. Katy car-id for neither of us, but her fickle
favors were sometimes bestowed upon me I
was considered the handsomest, though ab
ways with an air seniority 'which in her one
year's difference in ago rendered equally la
dicrious and exaggerating. Tormented by
her caprice I found a cruel pleasure in
augmenting Jack's sufferings. Very soon he
hated me with all the strength of his fierce,
ungovernable nature. 5be knew it, aud un
concious of the depth aud danger of the feel
ings excited triumph in it.
Of course we made no confidents. I can
not tell how my uuele became enlightened as
to the existing state oi affairs. When that
happened his scorn of what he considered our
juvinue louy seemed to intensity uis uruiau
ty. Coarse jibes aud stinging jeers, alterna
ted with blows and. ill-usage, were stiil har
der to bear, for boys are always sensitive in
the extreme to ridicule, especially on that
tonio. He taunted us to our fewi before
strangers, coupled every reproach addressed
to us with some sneering allusion to Katy,
grinding at our presumed. jealousy of onean
other and, in a word, made our lives unen
durable. He Was a strong man, or he might
have come off with mortal injury in some of
the furious struggles i which ensued. After
one ot tuese, lvaty, weeping with rase and
vexation, vowed that she would never
ppeaK
to us again.
That pleased him for a time. I think the
devil put it into his bead to ill-uso her, as he
did afterwards. Or it might have been mere
ly to spite us, I bave said that ho was more
considfirattTtorards her than, others r Now
he began to cbido, to strike her. -"Shall I
ever forget witnessing the first blow? I did
not wait for the Eecod.
I remember going to her that evening with
some wild project of flight which my brother
was to share. (He manifested such frenzied
rage daring her chastisement that my uncle
locked bim in an empty room, imprisoning
him for some days.) She cried, but seemed
to think much lighter of the matter than I
its influence had already faded from her vari
able temperament. Henceforth, however,
t i.i t i . -
sue suareu uer uncles Drutaaty witn us.
What would have come of this how far we
should have been able to endure it do uot
t I J 1. . 1 t -r
Know, naa ne rcir&iueu rrotn one act. in a
lit of sheer malignancy, he one day, took a
pair of scissors and cut off a quantity of Kates
hair It was long, and beautiful, and bhe
had been excessively proud of it.
That night when we had been ordered off
to bed, there wad an expression in Jack's face
which frightened me. lie had been unusu
ally taciturn all day we never talked much
together of late, but this day fewer words
than ever passed between us I tried to draw
bim into conversation, but without success.
And I noticed that he trembled very much
when he lay dawn beside me. It was my un
cle's custom to lock us in, but this night, of
aU nights ia the year, he omitted to do so.
Unable to sleep for a long time, I lay list
ening to the wind without. It was a wild
blusterous night, such a one as had always
exerted an cuquict influence upon me; such a
one as I shall now never coutemplate but
with horror, to my dying day. (Sometimes
I faucy that day will be its counterpart.) No
moon was visable as I looked out of our cur
taiuloss casement, and a rack of heavy clouds
moved rapidly and continuously athwart, the
face of the heaven.. The wind made a dis
mal clamor among tho chimney pots, and now
and then a herce uash of ram drov6 against
the" wiridow panes. ' Fearing to speak to my
brothcrj and I was as sacred and troubled iu
miud as though some evil influence were
abroad. Was there not? I lay listening,
until, from shear weariness, I tumbled, as
from a precipice, into the arms of deep.
That brought no relief My dreacja par
took of my mental disquiet. At first t:iey
were contused, formless, chaotically horrible.
I was harrassed by an overpowering, name
less -dresd, hauuted by an ever-changing
phantasm, which nothing could 'Xorci?c, and
the presence of which iiiflicted unimagiuable
misery and apprehension. This horror grew
like oue of the evil geni in Arnbrian Nights,
until it filled up my entire imagination, and
then abrsbtly ended. I still lept, laborious
ly, painfully, as oppressed byNa heavy night
mare; yet, by a strange clairvoyance, 1 be
came conscious of the existence of the exter
nal objects I saw the black shadows on the
floor, tha impenetrable darkness brooding in
the cirners of the room, and heard 1'ue wind
raging without. More tbau that, thoujh my
brother lay with his back towards mo, and
bis face to the wall, saw his face distinctly
as if it were fronting mine in nooivlay And
(I do not protend to explain these phenome
na, and cau hardly expect to obtain credence
though it was so.) I knew his thoughts. Oh
tho mortal agony that it was to know them
and be unable to stir hand or foot to prevent
their execution.
Gently and cautiously bo' put the bed
clothes aside; gently and cautiously he step
pod over me, I lay watching him through
an awful medium, which dispensed light with
ordinary means. One long look at the troub
led midnight ky, another at tbe mirror
what dreadful attraction was there in his iwn
face, then, 1 wonder: and he stole across
tho darkened fb.or and out of the room. My
preternatural vision followed bun.
Up tn e Diac etaircasev lo my uncles
room.
I he blood surged and throbbed in my
brain. Thre was a dazzling flash aof pol
ished steel before my eyes, and then a creat
darkness. With a cry of horror I awoke.
my hair bristiliog. My brother's place was
vacant.
I slipped from the bed, and stole afterhitn;
a mortal terror in my neart, my Mood cou-
gealirg to ice, my knees knocking toother .
In the midnight blackness, his outstretched
hands met mine wet with what I knew
U:ust bo blood!
Why should write more? Boy as he was
be died on tbe gallows, myself barely esca
ping tbe same fate. Katy, waking up to
that night of horror, never closed her eyes
in the sweet sleep of health or sanity again
My life his been passed in gelf-banishmcnt
from my ntive land, I am a lonely obi man
the last of my rac. Aid my story is told.
WfiF- A cabin boy cn board a ship, the
captain of which was a religious mau, was
called up to be whipped for some misdemean
or.' Little Jack went crying and trembling,
and said to the captain "Pray, sir, will you
wait till I say my prayers?" "Yes." waa
the stern reply Well, then," rep'ied Jack
looking up, and smiling tnumphautly. "1 11
say them whn I get ashore."
XiF" ' Will you have it rare or well done?"
said a landlord to au Irishman, a few days
aro, as he was cutting a piece of roast beef.
't love it 'ell dona ever since I am in this
country for it wo tire enough we uped
to ate it in Ireland.
The Fate of a Bachelor Wlio1?reit j
Skatlngr with Mary.
WUO MAUY IS. -
Mary is as pretty a piece of bun anity in
the shape of a womtn a's you coeld fiud this
side of Heaven. Such eyes! such hair I pucb
tertb ! And ber hand 1 Well now, there !
I think it was just the smallest, tbe whitest
why, ivory is slow to it. Aud &er foot was
like a little rose bud, its snowy leaves, just
showing enough to set ofT tbe treat covering
that concealed tbe rest from profane eyes
It did not iseem a foot, as one saw it reposing
in its tiny kid slipper, like a Canary bird in
its nest,
- MART HAS THE SEATING JETES.
Well sir. this Mary caught the skating
fever, which is now raging so fearfully. x I
heard her express a wish for a pair of skates,
and the next day she had the best pair that
could be found iu the city, and nobody knew
who seut them to her but, bless me, bow
my blood boils at tkc tboaght of the conse
quences. HARY rCTS DER TOOT ISIT.
We went down to tha ice, and there that
little witch of a Mary, just sat quietely down,
and ordered me on my knees, and quietly
placed that foot, the foot, the poetic myth, in
my lap, and oid me put on uer sKate. oir,
had Venus dropped down from Heaven, nd
bid me rub her down with rottoo stoue and
oil, it could uot . have astonished me more
than when that daviae foot was placed in my
unworthy lap. I felt very faint out lbucs
tied on the skates, and stood up, with Mary
by my side.
THE BACHELOR' IIKAD SWIMS.
Have you ever taught a woman to fckate?
No, well., let me tellyna. You've been in a
room lined with mirrors, havevt you? You
have -seen a kaleidoscope, with a fow old bits
of glass. &c, in a tin tube, and turning it
have seen aH sorts of figures. Just imagine
a kaleidoscope, and in place of beads and
uioucn gias9. please substitute blua eyes,
curving eyelashes, lips, ivory, wavy hair,
crinoline, gaiter boots, zephyr worsted Cu
pids, hearts, darts, a clap of thunder, a flash
of ligtniog, and 'auli Nick." Irnagiue
yourself the center of a system with all these
things revolving rouud you, and a violet
bauk breathing sighs on you all the while,
and you have Mary and her victim in thr
Grst skating lesson.
But let me try to describe ourpTformao-
ces .Mary and A start sue on ci7 le:t rm.
U sqare , . Jord have mercy cn my poor
puzzfied brain white I try to unravel tat
stirred and mixed raiubjw of friths and tcn-
tiuieiit. r iftt, Alsrv s dear iiiim gaiter
boots present tbcnu-clves to my astonished
vission. and cctore I have tt.tso to wondoi
how th'jy came up before me, feel them p;es-
ing their Hissed beauty, with emphasi
into the pit cf my stomach.
MAUY riTCULS INTO IIIM GENERALLY.
Next scene wavy hair, with thirty dollar
bor.U'-t and a divine head, comes pitching
tit inv wli.v with Knrr (nrci? that I .v.
the button against my spine. Next Man
gazes up Irom between my jack boots, ami
anon her blessed httle nose is thrust into un
bosom of my shirt. Ah ! my friend, all rc-
my
search and study on the mysterious surjeei
of woman has been comparatively iu vain, tiil
this eventful year of lso'J, the fashion i f
skating has opjued new varied soarces of in
formation
MARY trBDCES IIIM. ..
Dear Mary I I offered mvself to her every
time the turned or came rouud. I am hers;
but I wish to enter my solemn protest before
the world that she alone could have conquer
ed me. But who could hold out. wheu sur
rounded me. But who could hold out, when
surrounded bv an armv of Marys on skates?
L aai hers ! but I'm awful s?re ! Ah I I have
learned something. Cupid makes bchelors
tender, as cook a do touih stakes, by hammer
ing and pounding.
A Hearty Laugh. After all what a capi
tal, honest, jolly, glorious thine a good laugh
is I What a tonic ! What a digester ! What
a febrifuge ! What an exoreiser of evil pir-
its 1 Better than a
walu before brcaxla?t or
a nap a tier dinner
iiuuei. nun ii oiriu wit hjouvu
he brow of kindness I Whether
How it shuts the mouth
and opens
it discovers the gums of age, or the grinders j
of folly, cr the beauty whether it rack the j
sids and deforms the countenances of vnl-!
garity, or dimples the visage, or moistens the
rye of refinement ; in all phases, and on all
faces, contorting, relaxing, over whs! miog,
convulsing, throwing the human counren'aue
into womethiug appropriate to Billy Burtou's
transformation ; under every circumstance,
aud everywhere a glorious thing. Lik "a
thing of beauty," "a joy forevur." Thore.
is no remorse iu it. It leaves no sting, ex
cept in the ide, and that goas ofF. L'ven a
einglo unparticipated laugh is a great adair
to witness. But it is seldom single. It is
more infectious than scarlet fever You can
not gravely contemplate a Iangh. If there
is one laughter, and one witness, thtre are
forthwith, twn laugiit'.rs AU'i soon. i lie
convulsion is prooa?et-d l.ke s"u?ni. What
a thiog it is when it become an epidemic '
3T An exchange published two lines
the great epio upon General Jackson, written
-I 1 T.
by a est em bard :
"When yon see tho eyes glisten, then, my
men fire !"
Were the lat dying words of A. Jackson,
Esquire."
. "Bubby, why dou't you go home and
have your mother sew up that hole id your
trowsere?" "dh, g i along, old woman; our
folks are economising, and a hele will last
lonrer than a patch !"
Why are your lips always at variance?
Because words are frequently panirg between
th'ta.
X Cood Reproof".
A late reverend clergyman, who was as
well kuown for eccentricity as his talents, ona
day sent bis son, a lazy bid, about twelve
.- . , i rrL - i
years ol age-; to catch nts norse. a no ooy
went saunterin sr alone, with an ear of corn.
in one band, and tbe bridle in another, draw
ing the reins alonz tbe ground.
"Thomas'." said hia lather, calling alter
him in a very solemn manner "come here,
Thomas, I want to aay a word to you before
you co."
The lad returned, and the parson prooeed-ed-----.
- -.
'You know, Thomas, that I bave gives
you a-great deal of censsel. . You Jcoow that
I have taught y&fc befcrre clcrleg yeur cya,
to say
"Now I lay me down to sleep," fce
Besides a good many other things a tha
way of explanation aud advice. But this is
the last opportunity I may bave of speaking
to you. 1 could Uot let it pass without giy- t
ing my parting charge Be a good bey,
Thomas, and always say that pretty prayer
before going lo sleep. I fear I shall ncvr
see you again."
As be said this in a very sad and solemn
manner, the pfeor boy bogao to be frightened
and burst into tears with the exclamation:
"You'll never see mo again, pa?"
"No for I shall probably dit lefore you
he Lach tcitk ihtt !terscT"
That quickened lazy Thomas iJeas; and
gathering up tbe lridi reins, be ran and
caught the horse quicker than he ever hai
done before.
The I-ast Iloop Story.
A Newcastle tEuglisb) paper states thai a
fashionable -conversation tecettlv held at tha
Music Ilali So that icrty, a mischievous wag.
shortly after the opening of the entertainment
put in circulation a story to too enect that an
experienced electrician had managed to con
ceal a powerful magnet in each of the six
beautiful chandalics by means of which tha
hr 11 is lighted, and that the effect of this ar
rangement would be such that any lady with
steel spring skirts passing them, would bay
the said skirts instantly inverted by the pow
erful attraction. Tbere Was a great many
ladies present, and tho consternation created
by this mischievous story can more readily
be imagined than expressed- There was of
course, for a time, a considerable shyness ia
approaching the chandaliers. and some of tha
fair ones became so alarmed they immediate
ly scooted. The fellow ought to have btsn.
ducked in the Tree.
Frightful Seer:. At Wheeling, a yoUnf
man who was woikii:g at acbituLoy on a roof
lost his bold oii the wet roof and slid slowly
down towards the eaves. The two cr three
persons who witnessed tho accidrl turned
away sit-k with terror. Although the man
made every effort to get a bold.whkh the fear
of certain dcfth would naturally prompt, he
moved slowly down, and was only checked
from failing to the pavement below by a water
spout, against which his feet came in contact.
lut for this frail obstruction fee must have
been dashed into a thapeles man. Without
utt-riug a cry for hdp. the young man kicked
oil his fhoes and proceeded to ascend, which
he succeded in doing, aud went to work at
the chimney again, apparently taking little
account of an accident which had made thd
eye-witnesses heart-sick and dumb with ter
ror. Wonder what he would sell his set cf
ntrves for7
7?utsitr in Jcssestutn nf tUe Garden of
Eden. Biblical geographers poiut to the
Lake Ian, iu northern Armenia, and now a
Busman possession, as the spot where once
wa3 situated the paradise lost by the fault of
A Jam and Kv. I.i Jo European theorists lo
cate the primitive Eden in northern Asia.
It occupied all the present western and part
of the eastern Siberia, exten ling from 40
ties, to 53 deg latitude, and troui 60 dcg. to
1 00 dec. longitul;. Th Arctic ocean, at
that time a pleasant as tha Mediterranean,
wih the Ural mountains as inlands, waa tha
Ciiiuese Blue or OtL'stial mountain ; on tha
south of ParopamiftU. or Hindoo Koosh ; oa
the west ihi Caucasus and Anrat.
Boih the Eiens are cw ll isian posses
sions Besides, Russian inflasuco is preoon-
, r , 1.1
derattair m Jerusalem ;anj thesaot in Roma
nssiirned by archaiologists aS the one where
was liars! by a she-woif, is ilus
sian property, caving r-.een Dougnt oy .mc no-
las for the sake ot excavations. By s curious
coincidence, Russia owns in this way the
placts most sacred in the hislcry of our race.
Young men. Ju.-t starting for Piko Peik
may be interested ia ka iwing the mo Jot oper
audi of obtaining the pure gold. An ex
change, whose editor has been thar, gtvei
it as follows: - T'uo method, however is con
fined exclusively to tho Peak.
"A man takes a frama-work of heavy tim
bers, built like a toce boat, the bottom of
which is cmnpiscd of heavy iron ra?ps. This
frame work is hoisted up to the top of tha
Peak, and tho man gets on and silica down
the side of the mountain. As he gcs swiftly
down, the rasp n bottom ofthe frama
work scraps off the jpli in immense shivins
curl upon the machine, and by tha
tirue the man 2ets lo the bot tom, neatly a ton
an gets lo the bottom, neatly
;fj cf ol 1 is folfowiaz him. This is tk corn-
' ..t
luoa manner ef gathering it.
X-iT" The iu st it)usa ug instance of a
mau's regard for his word, was recautly given
by a mau wh- killed his vfe. whom ha did
uot like. When he was asked why he did
not
leave uer, ae repueu. vvsostiy. mat "na
t i t-i i .i ...
laa promissu. wu t wa iuiog uay, to lira
, -1 11? 1- . 1 -
w;h her u itil death sh u l piut th-im, aai
that he was no, th ? mm b h:3 wrd.
W "You w Jul I be vrv pretty in las!.
nd a goutleman patrooixln to a yon is Uiy
"if your eyes were only a little larger." My
eyeB may b very ioaall, sir, but rjoi pjcpS
you don't 11 t'ofm"
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