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Dlisctllanms.
A LIVE YAhT^EE ON HIS TRAVELS.
I conld not ont precisely what the
man was whosatby u^erd'nuer. smck.
log, in the balcony of l lic * 1 . ule ‘" D dt
DuiumercAelstein, on the i'.htne. t>u 1
was sure that he was a Yankee. He seem
ed well ‘ posted up” in all the history and
antiquities of Rhineland. Our conversa
tion turning on the strange talcs that at
tach to the many castles on the riverside
heights Jto Lcibcnsteinand Stcrnstel, and
thetoworsof the Cat of the Mouse. “And
of that ruin yonder,” I said, as I pointed
>with the end of my cigar to Teufelfeis,
then just catching the first sight of the
rising moon. “Of that ruin yonder, down
the stream, 1 know no legend at all; Mur
ray docs not mention it.”
“Don’t you, indeed? Wal, now, I do;
a tale th it licks any of your old legends
all to im't’aereens. And it is true, too,
sir; and that's what cannot he said of most
tales.”
Had I a mind so to do, I could not re
peat the story in the words of the trans
atlantic narrator; and could I remember
tl» wards and terms of o-xoression tout
gave it, in a literary pom: vfyw, a to-
thotly Columbian character, it would be
impossible to convey OB.papcr any idea ol
While ;he storm was at its height, and
the Yankee was congratulating himself
upon being safe and dry in the coffee-room
of the inn, he saw the little old French
man-and the young Englishman approach
the same welcome asylum, both dripping
wet and half drowned in the pelting rain.
“You must of course stay here with
me,” he heard the latter say. “.dadem-
oisclle is douhtlciw .
You must not think of returning io-night.
Madame will understand how it is, and rest
Hollenbadcn. The two supp< “edlstudeuts
started for Switzerland. 1 he Yankee’s
. pleasure, or business, called him away
j from Dummereselstein, and on the very
’ morning of his embarking on the Dussel-
party wall had met it, and the ground was thence, perhaps piqued at the English- Removal of Government Restriction* on
littered by the fallen blocks of stone. The
a (venturers were bent on exploring the
u.dden interior of the tower.
“I remember,” said the Englishman,
assured that you are here. I can supply
you’ with dry clothes.”
So the old gentleman supped at the ta
ble d'hote and retired early to rest as peace
ful as possible during a tempory divorce a
menm cl thoro. And the rain rattled and
splashed, and the thunder pealed, and it
was clear enough that he had done very
wisely not to attempt the three nuics walk,
along the road to the Schwachkopf helm
Ferry.
The morning was cloudless and bright.
The Englishman and Frenchman appeared legend,
together at break fust, and were talking; Some five yearn after the events just re-
over the storm and the probable anxieties counted, my friend, it wou’d seem, was at
of Madame and Mademoiselle, when a Dummereselstein again, and, of course, at
waiter entered with a note, which he put in the Hotel do 'lEuropo. lie saw one moru-
the hanti'j of the Frenchman. As the ing at breakfast au Englishman, whose face
broken down figures of Monsieur and
Madame Niboyet helped into the coupe of
the diligence, their faces the very uittiue
«nu oesoianon—me litEe group
of loungers round the starting vehicle
standing respectfully silent.
“Well,” said I. “this is a very melan
choly story but what has it to do with
Teufelfeis ? You promised me a legend
of the ruin,—and beyond the fact of your
having seen it in a thunderstorm you have
said nothing about it. Rut was anything
ever heard of Mademoiselle ?”
“Guess you’ll hear it all in time, sir, if
you’ll wait till I’ve done. Rut my throat
is just eatawampously dried up with talk
ing. Let us have a buttle of tichw. ch
kopfheimer, and then I’ll get on with the
dorf boat, he saw, he said, the bent and “inspecting this about a week after Ade
laide Niboyet’* disappearance, and think
ing tf it had been less difiLult of access, ■
.'il'il 2,Uti1 UuM/t <*r % * A*-* ***f|^tn j
havestiwrded her shelter from the storm.” '
At last the Yankee and h's comrade hit
on an experiment for making an entry.— i
They ..conveyed with some exertion two *
long-felled pine trunks, that were lying j
not tittny yards otf, to the fool of the tow-;
er, aniS sueweded in prying them in such !
a way*guinst the masonry, that a skillful '
gymuut niigat reach the aperture in the
wall. Somehow or other they both sue-1
eeede|itu mamaeringup ta the ledge form
litile geutlgmin glanced at thesuperserip- j
tion, he turned white, and his face fell.—
He tore open the envelope, read hurriedly !
through the letter, and led his young com
panion out of the room. And what did j
it mean ? And what could be more nat
ural than that the Yankee should pick up j
o '--(j
he thought was familiar to him, seated by
the side of a charming young lady, ob
viously an i manifestly his bride.
“Adelaide Niboyet!”
“Out there, stranger: that wouldn’t be
a legend, would it?”
No. Adelaide was dark. The present
man’s unpunctuality. She had mounted
the stops made by the ruined walls, proba
bly with little difficulty, and had set her
self to work at her sketch. The storm had
come on. The tower was struck soon after
its commencement. She saw her hope of
return cut off. While endeavoring toget
cover worn tne-nun em> naa been danger
ously hurt by a falling stone. If she had
cried, no one had been near to hear. She
lay. probably unable to crawl up to the
opening in the wall, knowing that now
the stones by which she ascended were
thrown down, no one would dream of
seeking for her in a place almost inacces
sible to two strong men. So she died.—
What ag nies she had endured would nev
er he revealed in detail Ruk it might
fairly be hoped that the injury and expos-
cd in Ibc thiinc wall of the tower. 1 be ' u rc she had sustained had so far accelerat-
fioor m ade they found to be nearly ou a I
level auth the clefi through which they
hatj catered. They turned round on a-
Trade.
By the Presihknt of the United
States—A Proclamation.
Whereas, it has been the desire of the
General Government of the United States
to restore unrestricted commercial inter
course between and in Wic several States
as soon as the same could be safely done,
in view of the resistance to the authority
of the United States by combinations of
armed insurgents, and whereas that desire
has been shown in my proclamation* of
the 2lkh of April, 18(55, the 13th of June,
1SG5, and the 23d of June, 1865; and
whereas it now seems expedient and pro
per to remove the restrictions upon inter
nal, domestic and coastwise trade and com
mercial intercourse between and within
the States and territories west of the Mi*-
the fallen envelope and read the address i young woman was fair. Rut it was Adc-
—written thereon in a trembling female , laidc’a young Englishman, traveling on his
hand—“Mademoiselle Niboyet. Hoiel dc wedding tour. And he seemed to be a
1'Kuropc, DummereseDtoin!” Why should
tii’a rouse marks of trepidation and alarm
iu the old father’s face ? In five minutes
a Noachiau vehicle belonging to the inn
was brought out—the Englishman and the
person in .prosperous circumstance*, for
there was a carriage, and a courier, and a
maid. After brc.ikii.st -.he lady retried,
the Yankee accosted her ;> rl. i,e recal
led the circumstances w!\ eh had occurred
Frenchman jumped in, urging the driver when they were last journing
to all possible spiced, and clattered out of i or under the same roof. He
‘ di •
sight in the
togc f h-
begged
irection of Schwachkopf- to inquire whether the ; uglishman had
helm.
What had happened was, as vras after-
ifimace
chievitg the ascent, to survey the glorious
prospect before them. Then they both
stepped iowu on the heaps of stones that
for me da floor.
Why ^d the Englishmen start back
with a Hidden gesture of horror as they
the cavernous exterior of the
what did he point in such hor-
silcnce ? Can there Lo a
duu . tj
li f oncealed by a fragment of moss-
covet-d stone, half sheltered by an arched
recess ii the wall, lay a whitened skeleton
Hound rcre util! some cruiutding frag
ments t (clothing. Long black hair trail
ed fr iiUiie staring skull.
RollfBisduverers gazed sometime witli
ng a word. The Yankee was
break the spell, and to observe
ne mystery was a mystery no
(Adelaide Niboyet had evidently
(tenth in the tower of Teufelfeis.
w had she got there ? A ad by
wuat bird case was it that none h id heard
the vri*j< by which doubtless she sought
t uttrapt attention? 'ibe Englishman
made n^ reply, hut still gazed moodily on
the corpse; and ibe Yankee thought he
locked most earnestly where on the small
Louc of, what was once an agile finger,
ed her dissolution as to spare her the worst j sissippi river,
pangs of famine. Now, therefore, be it known that T, An*
The travellers returned too pensive and ^ Jenson, President of the United
awed to make the necessary communica- ‘ vtu te s 'do norehy declare all restrictions
tions to the authorities, of Dunnncresel- IT 011 internal, domestic and eoas f
intercourse and trade and upon the pur
chase* and removal of products of the
States and pails of Stales and Territories
heretofore declared in insurrection lying
Westol the Mississippi River, excepting
those relating to property heretofore pu»-
cuai ed by Sgenurp! Vaj’rrrrrrr i'j -—
rendered to the forces of the United States,
vind to the transportation thereto or there
in on private account of arms, ammuni
tion, all articles from which ammunition
is made, gray uniforms and gray cloth, are
annulled. And l do hereby direct that
stein. The Englishman started on the
very night of the discovery for Coblcntz.
and the Yankee had never seen him
since.
“And that,” said my friend, “is the Le
gend of Teufelfeis, mid if you know a..r
sadder or stranger in your poetry books or
gtfide books, Em whipped—and that’s
what no citizen of the great United States
of America ever was or ever will be, if he
authority, were both dead. The old geu- -feaktftvUtahaua a little hoop of gold. The P^ in
e for” a thing that might give some clue to the un- Y* 8
heard anything of the lout girl, or of her
unfortunate parents. With regard to
wards discovered as follows: At three o’-j Mademoiselle Adelaide, the EnglLhm.n
clock on the previous afternoon, Modem- i was ju. t goinrr to put the aatue. question t
oiselle Niboyet had taken leave of her ; him. Monsieur and Madame Niboyaf, the
mother Schwachkopfheim, and started to Englishman had heard cn unimpeachable
meet her father at Dummereselstein, and
U m^S 1 l^ye?Ven‘;“s", L rec(
that her daagluer was detained with Mon
sieur and that thev preferred spend os the i»«i« iuo • - •r,- - — , , ,
m ..:u at Minibeicse'iSicin. to unn.irti.king i master, and re red. Th. onac, it appear* 11 rcsAdy ‘ >’
an”hour’s unpleasant journey in wind and ' cd, was tire i w ith her journey, and pro-1 »ng m a narrow cleft of .ho wall, close by
net. Adelaide, she surmised, if she had posed to rest ,n her apmnieut for that J the uted gul s right han .. Ihisw.^tLc
sniTpireJ from the drenching Twiia. vr »uld be I morning. The \ ankce vrris pr(»jecting. t hc t ekct
and substance of them. I ut to*bed and tended by the kindly host- 1 said, a wa k to Schwa i ropi hc.m,
d i c-s of the Hotel dc TEurop*. So in the pronosed that the En; hman should a
can help it. Good night, stranger!” II
mused in the night watches over the wild i
story of the hapite* Adelaide. I could a ^ iort Lwith rcuioved.'and also that
not drive her from my thoughts, hut / U ._.L „..j
iw her un lcr the cold wall dying in
$ar“;nla Witb Imforca in soliliule
few months longe , and'th ,i died too.—
Ileve the maid h ought a message to her
raveling of the further mystery of the ex
istence of the skeleton in such a place —
the tricks jf pronunciation ana _
wnich gave zest to the reaital.
The iiicts, however, in themselves, arc
sufficiently remarkable. Hero is the sum
and
Home fiftceu year* ago the Y aukec ba-i
been sojourning as now, at Dumeresel-
morning she wrote
roposed liiat the Kn;-
little note to her j company him. Th:
stein. Rusiiicss, or pleasure, or whatever
his vocation in life might he, kept him
there for some days. Of all the clouds of ] note that
travelers of all nations who passed up and dread. Adelaide had loft
down the river, ono party attracted more heim the previous evening,
of his notice than the rest from the sim
ple fact of his seeing them again and a-
Thesc consisted of an old 1 rench
latter, it apperod,
daughter, and dispatched with it a packet, bad already been once to the scene (>• the
of clothes. It was at the sight of this j mysterious disappearance, in the interval
Niboyet p^c trembled
gam
ge&tleuuo, his wife and daughter. [Scarce
ly a day passed but they were to be seen
walking through the street of Dummeres-
clstein From inqninei made of a man
who let donkeys, it was discovered that
Monsieur, Madame aud Mademoiselle oc
cupied a dimiuutive cottage at Schwaeh-
koptheim, aud that Mademoiselle was much
addicted to sketching. Hour after hour
she would sit in a boat moored in the riv
er, or on a point of vantage on the hills,
and transfer to her book by no means con
temptible representations of the fair land
scape round about. At this time there
was at Dummereselstein a young English
man, who had come with a friend lo spend
the vacation iu ‘ reading.” Left by his
comp miuo alone in the little inn, he be
came by some favoring chance acquainted
with the French family of the neighbor
ing village, lie fished Madamc’s poodle
put of the river, or picked up Monsieur s
spectacles on the road, or somehow or oth
er, never mind how, acquired the privi
lege of saluting not only Monsieur and
Madame, but Mademoiselle into the bar
gain. And than all four made a loiig.ex-
curs on together. And then the English
man might be seen more than once walk
ing home late in the evening to Dummc-
reselstein by the Schwachkopf heim road,
and it was alleged that he had dined with
the old Frenchman.
On a certain afternoon the fair weather
was broken by a very violent storm. It
was all very well as appearances went f. in
within. The river and the rocks aud the
woods looked sublime enough as the rain
Iiissed over them, and the lightning lit up
their recesses. But it was very uncomfor.
able to endure without. “As I lookec
'out of this self-same balcony,’ said the
narrator. “I just thought I’d a long sigh
rather be in than out. I could fancy som'
folks being nigh seemed skeored by the
glare aud the noise. One flash came right
over that tumble-down Teufeltels over
there, and I reckoned it must have been
pretty nigh blown in or blown up—whai
there was of it to blow. It was amaiin
grand; and one of the finest advertise
ments of the power of Providencb I’vi
«Y*r seen. If you oould turn on a good
thunderstorm here now, stranger, you’d
esy it was worth looking at. rather.
with
Schwachkopf
She hud nev
er arrived at Dummereselstein. \\ hat had
become of her ?
Her disappearance caused, of courpo,
tcrriblecxcitemeut. At first it was th u .ht
that she might have sought shelter lYom
the tempest in one of the cottages that
stand by the roadside. But inquiry 'Im
pelled this h'ipe. On the morning bet 3
the storm she had made an agreement with
«.h book Stoutly bound in stout leath
er. no on cited from the weather by the
shelter of the stone, it was but littlcinjur-
cd. At sight ol it, the Englishman look
ed up, and with a white face and tremb
ling lip turned to aid in its examination.
It wits of a large size, and contained many
sheets of drawmg paper—some of them
showing signs vt the more than common
between his departure with his fellow-stu
dent and his return wi*h his bride. Au
irresistible impul'-o attracted him to the „ _ ,
fatal spot, and though he was tenderly at- j taste and ability ol the owner. One ot
tached to his new wife, he could not pass these latter fixed the attrition ot the uis-
the place in which -were enshrined the
memories of an early and unfortunate at
tachment, without having to make new
inquiries touching the unknown lata of
its hapless object. He was glad th-i his
wife was indisposed to walk out on that
particular morning, for he had aid noth-
her father to walk to meet him in Dum- 1 ing to her about the old love, and her.p:es-
mcreseistein late iu the afternoon. At
about 3 o'clock, according to Madame Ni-
boyct, she had donned her hat and mantle,
had said, “My little mctlier, I shall be in
delay for my father if I do not hasten my
self,” and had set out with a very joyous
face and gait. Mads me remarked that she
had her sketch book under her arm, and
wondered at this, because she would have
probably no opportunity to use it This
was the last that had been seen of bei*—
The cottagers along the road declared that
they had nut seen the missing girl go by,
but that they hid not watched the path—
the storm kept them close in-doors. Mes
sengers were sent down the river almost
as tar as the Seven Mountains, to sec if
any corpse had been washed on shore, or
any scraps of clothing been found that
might give indications of poor Adelaide’s
late. Even had no rewards been offered,
the search would have been hearty aud
careful, for everybody had been more or
ess captivated by the young Frenchwo
man's winning ways. But iu spite of mon
ey, and in spite of love, nothing was
achieved except the failure. Nothing
could be discovered. The old father trud-
sred backwards and forwards, aud offarei . , ,
sums that would have been alittle fortune ry bit of this ground, tor the slightest trace
to any of the Rhineland peasantry. The ot her having been here, audtound noth-
The Yankee then proposed that, for the
sake of the view, they should clamber up
the height of Teufetlels. Half an hour’s
scramble brought them over the gully, and
up to the very base of the ruined tower.
'* masses of masonry were lying a-
o verers in a moment. It was the outline
o: a drawing of the scene from the open
ing in the tower. Bchwachkoptheim lay
below iu the foreground. Duinnicresel
stein was just dashed in in the backgroun
The colsruig had not yet been begun.—
T oe Englishman took it out of his com-
, lion’s hand, and gazed at it with a sor
rowful interest. The American then saw
that llurc was writing on the other side,
j Y'es; on the back or the drawing the poor
j girl, whrse bones were bleaching there,
i bad written her last will and wishes, and
the wet. and the wi: 1, and the anguish
I pictured to myself the slow grief of the
poor n d parents, and hoped that no un
is i v consequences resulted to the En
glishman and his bride.
1 r e early in the morning, bent on a
visit to the Bcholoss von Teufelfeis intend
ing to visit the ruin, and breakfast at
Schwuchkoplhoim. I surmouuied the
crag on which the tower stands, aud was
amply repaid for my . trouble by the glo
rious view. It is even better Irom this
point than from the river. But, after all,
—Tii6 sccrre rt pnnr ATrminc :Muuyt;tT
death. A thrill of romantic interest ehot
through me as I turned to inspect the
hallowed stones The tower is round and
about forty feet high; but so much is ev
ident from below. I looked for the
aperture through which Adelaide and her
di covercrs had entered the building.—
Strange to say, no such opening was visi
ble. Rut some years had elapsed since
the finding of the hones, and time haa no
doubt wrought more changes upon the
crumbling edifice.
Tne breakfast at Schwachkopf heim was
the perfection of a breakfast. The milk
the richest—the butter the freshest—the
bread the whitest—the Rtrawberries th
sweetest—the Schwachof heim the rar-
est.
It was ! ite in the afternoon when I
the commerce of each Ftates and parts of
States shall be conducted under the super
vision of regularly appointed officers of the
customs, wiio shall receive any captured
or abandoned property that may be turned
over to them under the law by the milita
ry and naval forces of the United States,
aud dispose ot the same in accordance
with the instructions on the subject issued
by the Secretary of the Treasury.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and caused the seal of the
United States to he affixed.
Done at the city of Washington this 24th
^1—1 .'I .Jiuia' Li. (lin ■!»»■ I 1’ III* T —J
United States the eighty-ninth.
ANDREW JOHNSON.
Ry the President,
W. IIlntlu, Act. Sec. of State
cnee would only embarrass his move-
meuts.
Tne Yrimkec now learned what he had
not known before,—that on the day of the
storm, it had been arranged between Ado , . , . , . , ,
laide and the Englishman, that she should : the br«f recital ef how it was that she
start, as though going to meet her father lay there dying. The Yankee declared he
in Dummereselstein, but sh >uid betake could remember almost
herself to the wooded knoll behind Schw-
achhopfheim, and there meet him, who
had now declared him.-eif her lover. 'Ihe
other party to this contract had been un- j
able to keep his promise, for he had fallen
iu by chance with Monsieur Niboyet, and
that gentleman had held him last, and in
sisted on his “walking home with Ade
laide” todinner. Then canieon the storm.
Adelaide, the Englishman had thought,
as her father had thought, must be safe
wnh Madame. The letter of the morn
ing dispeitei the illusion. It was at least
clear why the Englishman had searched
more diligently througii the copses behind
Schwachkopf helm than ou the high road
to Dummereselstein.
The Yankee and his companion wan
dered over the old ground, aud talked over
the old story.
“I searched,” the Englishmen said, “eve-
walked nte the Hotel dc 1’Europe at Dum-
mcrese! ein.
“Where,” I said, “is the. gentleman
who was with me lac 1 evening?”
“The English gentleman, sir?”
“Yes,” I said. (There was no use in
explaining that all who talk English arc
not English.) “The gentleman who has
been here so often before.
“Been here so often before ?”
“Yes.”
“If mein herr means the English gen
tleman who was sitting in the balcony last
night, he left this morning by the ten
o’clock boat. Rut he has never been here
before.”
“Never been here before ?”
“Never, mem herr—not in my time;
and I’ve been here—boy and waiter—for
eighteen years.”
‘•H’m.—Indeed. The gentleman was
tewing me the strange legend of Tcufel-
fels." , „ , .
Ah ! yes—about the ghost of the monk
who was murdered by the baron.'' ’ ^ .
“Not at all;—about the young French
lady who was lost.”
••The young French lady who was
lost?” „ l l '“
“Yes. Don’t you know the ster'- ?— I
Madeui i-eile Niboyet ? ’
Where auk you Going.—An anec
dote is told of Finney, the “revivalist,”
and a canal boatman to the following ef
fect :
lie was “holding forth” in Rochester,
and in walking along the canal one day,
came across a boatman who was swearing
furiously. Marching up he confronted
him. and abruptly asked :
“Sir, do you know where you arc go-
ing ?”
Trie unsuspecting replied that ho was
going up the canal on the “Johnny Sands.”
“No, sir, you arc not,” continued Fin
ney, “you are going to hell faster than a
canal boat can carry you.” <
The boatman looked at him iff astonisn-
ment for a minute, and then returned the
sorrowing mother was not seen, but every-
body felt for her woe, and everybody
would have given much to bring back the
lost girl, and with her the lost happiness
And it was now remarked that he did not
lid, though lie said much to discourage the
careful examination of the ground between i Many n
l:. —. ~-.a iLn French folks’ dwelling. I round-—:
his own and the French folks’ dwelling. | round—showing that once the castle had
Behind Schwachkopf h«ini there is a little been as capacious as it was strong. ->ow
hill or knoll, separated by a ravine and j only one tower reuia.ne 1. and into h it
mining stream from the more precipitous there seemed no mean of access. 1 ne.e
hight of Teufelfeis. It was hero that he | was a great rift in the wi^fome twelve oi
was most often to be seen, looking tho- fifteen feet above the gro
seen
roughly miserable.
A fortnight went quickly by. No news
was hoard of Mademoiselle Adelaide. The
Englishman’s eoinj>snion returned from
d, but nothing
whereby to reach it. Part of a wall seem
ed once to have lod up to the base of this
opening, but that was thrown down.
Marks in the tower indicated where the
the exact words,
but gave tee the sense in lus own transla
tion. (
“I have climbed up here to sketch,”
the dead girl said. “A storm has come
on. The lightning had struck the tower.
The wall which made a sort of staircase
for my ascent is broken down. I could
not get out. When I saw what had hap
pened, I came back into the tower, and
sat down close under the wall to seek shel
ter from the rain. A stone upon the top
of the wall fell on me, and struck me down.
Then I must have been insensible fur
some time. When I awoke again it was
dark. I was very wet and cold. 1 could
not move for pa n. I must have been in
sensible. AY hen I opened my eyes again
it was light. I have just strength to
write this. I think I am going to die.—
God and the Holy Mary have pity on me. u .
A leu! my father and my mother. Aden, - •
M a (ear—(here there was no name.)— 1 ' \lr „ 7
The v 7 unhappy A. N. I uNumber ” 7 ”
Re.uw this was written again, ‘ I suuer i . , ni
much-night is coming again. A.” | Tt "^trangc that there should be no
Near the bones were lying the tin-box in | oPLntr.g m the wall of Teufe.fel* tower—
wbieli Mademoiselle Nihoyct’s colors had . strange that a waiter who had hved-in
been packed—her watch, some tricots , Duiumerescktein eighteen tears shou.d
and a lew coins. On clo*cr cx^niination ncv ^ r have heard ot . ( •
it was discovered that the left thigh bone md never have seen my Yankee menu
of the skeleton was broken. Did this il-1 beloic.
luatrate Adelaide’s being struck down by , One thing at least wax clear enough.-
the fallen stone? Or h d it been fractur- . He was a ».mkee
ed since death? Probably the Yankee’ “™
surmised the former, llis theory was The Southern lawyer who offered amil-
that Mademoiselle Niboyet bad gono to lion dollars for tho head ol Lincoln, and
meet her lover on the wooded hill; that who is now in a V\ ashington prison, cl rims
question—
“Sir. do you know where you are go
ing?”
“I expect to go to Heaven.”
“No, sir, you arc going info the canal I”
And suiting :he action to tho word, he
took Finney in his arms and tossed him
into the murky waters, where he would
have drowned had not the boatman relent
ed and fished him out.
Controversy.—This very good reason
for avoiding controversy is taken from
Dr. Holmes’ “Autocrat of the Breakfast
Table:”
“If a fellow attacked my opinion in
print would I reply? Not I. Do yott
thiuk that I don’t understand wbat my
friend, |thc Professor, long ago called
the hydrostatic paradox of contr('* f-rg „ j
1 >on’t know wb.'at that means* Well I’ll
tell you. You know F • ] iaJ a ’ bent
tube, or.o of wh’^jj was tbo 0 f a pipe
rtcri, and *’ ae other big enough to hold
the oo^. au v a f Cr would stand in the same
ght in the one ns the other ? Contro
versy equalizes fools and wise men
in
the
“No, mein herr, uever hce.vd a 0 f, same way. and the fools know it.
it.” 1 — • —
kfeep r,y place at the 1
•Once a Wecl
,*ta
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Borne years ago M. Quetelct, of Brus-
&els. in the cource of researches for the
material of a scientific work on man,
weighed everybody he could get hold of.
The result of* M. Quotelet’s investigation
showed that a full grown man or woman
should weigh about twenty times as much
as they did on the day of their birth—in
oilier words, if you know how much you
weighed when you wore born, you have
to multiply that sum by twenty, and you
have what s/u>u!d be your weight when
full grown.
finding be did not come, she had wander- that ho offered the reward lor a joke. Rut
c l on to Teufelfeis, pei hau: allured by the jokes have played oui they arc too prac-
manifest beauty oi the riew to be -een tical. this year, by half
It is said that M. Thiers is about towrite
a history of the Restoration from 1814 to
1880. For many years past he haa bean
making many collections for such a Work,
and next year it is thought ?. portion mty
I be published
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