Bad Behuvior of a Corpse. Several days ago Mr. J. McCloud of Faulkener county, died of rheumatism. A large party volunteered to sit up with the corpse, and when night came many sad faces were seen, sallowed by the mellow ing light of tallow candles. The minister came, and entering the room remarked : '•Earth to earth and ashes to ashes." The corpse lay on a table covered with a sheet. "I thought I saw the sheet move," said one of the watchers. "See if there is a i cat under it?" The company sat still. "I am confident thatthe sheet moved," said the mau. The minister arose and lifted the sheet, and, standing, he looked at the palid face of the dead man. The corpse's head left the table. The minister fell back. Still', Stark and terrible the corpse slowly arose from the table and attained a sitting pos ture. The legs remained stretched out and the arms remained folded. The wo men shrieked and ran from the room, and the minister reprimanding them for their weakness and want of confidence, climbed a fence and stood in a turnip patch. When the frightened people saw that the corpse did not intend to follow, they went back into the house. The corpse | retained the upright posture, still' as the attitude struck by the amateur on the' stage. With fears somewhat allayed the min ister advanced, and placing a hand on the dead man's breast pressed him backward. Proportionately as h£i head went down his heels came tip, and when his head touched the the board, his heels were high in the air. The cause of the dead man's l'reak was then discovered. The muscles of the stomach, distorted by rheumatism, were contracting. It required the efforts of two men to straighten the corpse.— Little Hock, (Ark.) Gazette. Marriage* The foundation of every good govern ment is the family. The best and most country is that welch has the greatest number of happy fire-sides. The holiest institution among men is marriage. It has taken the race of countless ages to to come up to the condition of marriage. Without it there would be no civilization, no human advancement, no life worth liv ing. Life is a failure to any woman who has not secured the love and adoration of grand and magnificent man. Life is a mockery to any man, no matter whether lie be a mendicant or monarch, who has not won the heart of some worthy woman. Without love and marriage all the price less joys of this life would be as ashes on the lips of the children of men. "You had better be the emperor of one loving and tender heart, and she empress of yours than to be the king of the world, The man who has really won the love of one good woman in this world, it matters not though he die in the ditch a beggar, his life has been a success." There is a heathen book which says: mau is strength, woman is beauty; man is courage, womau is love. When the one man loves the one woman and the one wo man loves the one man, the very angles leave heaven and coine and sit in that house and sing for joy."— The Physiolo gist. The Last Words of the I>y>ng* It is propabty natural that at the last the scenes which have made the strongest impressions in life should be recalled by memory. The old mountaineer when he comes to die, with his last whisper says his snow shoes are lost; with the stage driver, he says "on a down grade and cannot reach the brake; the miner can not reach the air pipe; and the gambler plays his last trump. A little girl died a few years ago, and as her mother held her wrist and noted the fainting aud flickering pulse, a smile came to the wau face and the child whispered, "There's no desert here, mama, but ail the world in full of beautiful flowers." A moment later, the smile became transfixed. 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