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. In an
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charity wes dyiug, and at last from a
stnpor, she opened her eyes and said : "It
is strange; every kind word that I have
spoken in my life, every tear that I have
shed, have become a living flower around
me, and they bring to my senses an in
cense ineffable."
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