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r &TJ VOL. IY. NO. 15. Lore's Glasses. WHAT HE SAID. He said: " How beautiful, my lore, From earth beneath to heavens above! There's not & rook with lichens browned, And not a held with sunshine crowned, And not a note all nature through, From whispering pines to ooean blueNot oven a mote which swings in air Up toward the bending heavens there, Th&t ia not beautiful! what she said. There's not a thiDg the landscape through, From sauds we beat Beneath our feet To where the mountains heave in view, That is not beautiful; Aud all for you ! what l saw. A soene almost ma e up of blanks ; Nothing but rocks and sand ; A dull brown waste, O'er which the crow himself makes haste! And yet, I mused : " Perhaps 'tis wise To look avroad through lovers' eyes, If thoy may shew that round us lies Beauty like that of Paradise." ?Myron Reynard. \ % HE TELLS A STORY. Arseue IlonudTe Gives as a Characteristic Sketch of Parisian Life. And now, my dear readers, says Arsene Houssaye in a letter to the New York Tribune, let me tell you a story of another friend of mine, wh*> was an ass, but not a savant. His name was Pierrot. I The frost was silvering the trees of the i park Monoeau with dull white powder, like the head of a marquis of the old regime. It was in front of the rotunda, and nine o'clock in the morning. The sun hung in the fog like a globe of fire, but cast forth no beams. The wind was cruel to the poor world. People walked rapidly along the Boulevard de Couroellea; women veiled theirfaoes and men drew their heads inside their collars. It 1 V.n lnna.'o cinll wnnld WB8 9 Utl^ Wlil'U th 1U?U1 O Pigu n Vt^vt I Lav? frozen in the air. I was harrying by like everybody else. A female ragpicker, pale and famished, led by the bridle a poor little donkey, which seemed a hundred years old, and which dragged a poor little cart, full of the rubbish of the street: rags, broken i bottles, torn papers, worn out skillets, crusts of bread, the thousand nothings which are the fortune of ragpickers. The woman had done good work since midnight, but the ass was ready to drop. Ho stopped short, as if he had made up his mind to go no further. His legs trembled and threatened a fall. He hung his head with resignation, as if awaiting the stroke of death. The sight touched and arrested me. A man would have cursed and beaten the poor beast to rouse him; the woman looked at him with an eye of motherly pity. The donkey returned her look, as if saying:. " You see it is all over. I have done my best for you night after night, because I saw your misery was greater than mine. You have treated me well, sharing your bread with me, and your neighbor's oats, when you could*steal any; but I am dying at last." The woman looked at him and said gently: "Come, come, dear Pierrot, * ' ?? CIL. ~ J3 do not leave me nere. one uguwueu the load by taking out a basket of broken bottles. "Come, now." she said, as if talking to a child. * You can get along nicely now." She put he# shoulder to the wheel, but the donkey did not move. He knew he had not the strength to walk to St. Ouen, his wretched home. She still ooax3d him. " How do you think we can get on this way, Pierrot ? To be sure, I could drag the cart. But I can't put you in it, and you would be ashamed to be dragged after it." The donkey raised his ears, but no move. I was going to speak to her, when she ran to the nearest wiue shop. The ass followed h r with anxious eyes; he seemed fearful that he would die without his mistress. He was so little you would have taken him at a distance for a Pyrenean dog. He had grown gray in the harness. A few tufts of gray hair remained here and there on his emaciated 1 1?' 1 1*1ta o mAnnfoin Vin rn DOU}'. XLtJ iUU&UU nmj a uiuuuwu ed bare in many places. His resigned air showed a mind free from worldly vanities. He was far past the age where one strikes attitudes. Ho was almost transparent in his leanness. Bnt his face was all the more expressive. It had something almost human in its intelligence and goodness. Why had be been condemned to such suffering; was it the evoiation of a former life passed in luxurious orgies ? The ragpicker soon returned, bringing a piece of bread and a piece of sugKr. The ass turned and showed his S teeth, like old piano keys. But although \ it was his breakfast time, he had no more strength in his mouth than in bis legs. She gave him the sugar. He took it as if to oblige her, but dropped it again, and the same with the bread. "What shall I do?" said the ragpicker. She thought no more of her cart. She was full of anxiety for her friend Pierrot. "Pierrot!" she cried again. Two great tears came to her eyes. She took his head in her arms and kissed him like a child. The caress did what nothing else could do. The ass roused himself and brayed as in his best days. I feared it was only his swan song. I approached and said to the woman: " You seem to be in trouble." "Oh," she said, crying, "if you knew how I love this beast. I saved him from the butchers four years ago. In those days I had only a hod. I hav i ? *? 5 ? n-ii Vl rr>V Vinok. raiseu twvtu wuiuvu ....... ?j The father is gone and one other, and my eldest daughter was taken away s fortnight ago. My worst grief was thai I had to take one to the foundlings?] had eleven in all?four of them died al the breast. It's no use; you can't hav< good milk when you work in the streeti all night. This little donkey has beei my consolation. He was better com pany than my husband. He never goi drunk, and never beat me, and I neve] beat him. Did I, Pierrot?" . The poor little beast Appeared t< share in the conversation. He In J praised bis ?are and assented. One e INDA my friends passed by and asked me what I was doing. " I am making a new friend." " He may be witty, but he is not handsome." "I find him admirable, and I would like to see you in his place. He has been out since midnight. Here, you want to help me in a work of charity?" "With all my heart." " Very welL Let us buy this ass and put him on the retired list. This good woman will take care of him." The ragpicker looked at us severely, fearing we were laughing at her. But when she saw the shine of the Louis d'or, she smiled. " How much did Pierrot cost ?" " Ten francs." " Well, you go back to the abattoir and buy another ass, and take good care of this one." I gave my card to the woman and said good-bye to her and the donkey. The miracle was complete. The ass started off in high spirits, the woman pushing the cart from behind. That evening the poor woman came to me in tears. I understood at once. "Ah, sir, he is gonel" "Poor Pierrot." "Yes, sir, we got to St. Ouen one way or another. But when he came in eight of our hut he fell on his knees. I tried to raise him, but this time it was all over. My children came running ! and orying. They talked to him and kissed him. He looked at them so sadly as to break our hearts. I tell you, there are lots of people in the world not worth hair" so much as poor Pierrot. Think of it, he wanted to die at home after finishing his day's work." Like a soldier who dies after firing his last cartridge. The ragpicker opened her hand, and I saw the money I had given her in the morning. " Here are your hundred francs, I sir," I do not know whether X most admired her or the donkey?the ass who did his duty to death, or the woman more delicate than our charity. The Law of Murder in England. The law relating to murder being still considered unsatisfactory in England, Sir John E. Wilmot has submitted a bill to Parliament which provides as follows : 1. The crime of murder shall be divided into offenses of the first and second degrees. 2. Auy person convicted of murder in the first degree shall suffer death. 3. Any person convicted of murder in the second degree shall be punished with penal servitud for life, or for any period not less than seven years, or with imprisonment with hard labor for any period not exceeding two years. (This clause has in view certain esses of infanticide.) 4. The degree of murder shall be found by jury upon the facts submitted. 5. Murder in the first degree is the killing, with deliberate malice aforethought, a human being in the peace of the king or queen regnant. 6. It is murder in the first degree when death has been caused by the wilful act of any person committing or attempting to commit a felony, or when assaulting any government officer in the execution of bis duty. 7. It is murder in the second degree where a verdict of murder is found by the jury, but not in the first tlecn-ee. 8. Infanticide is murder of o : the seoond degree in all cases where the death of a child is cansed by the wilfnl, unlawful and malicious act of the mother, provided such act has b^en committed at the time of birth or within seven clays. 9. In trials for infanticide the jury may return a verdict of concealment of birth. 10. In any trial for infanticide it must be proved that the child was living. Buying a Farm. When business is depressed and times :*re hard, city people are apt to wish themselves settled in the country, and seriously think of buying a farm. It is the universal panacea for pinched pockets and metropolitan misfortunes. Let a merchant fail, and the first thing he proposes is to save money enough out of the wreck to buy a farm. If a broker suspends, if a financier's pretty bubbles break or float away in the air, if a lawyer's olients withdraw their patronage and leave him without briefs?in short, if anybody experiences a business collapse, he immediately turns his thoughts country ward, and as the last and unfailing resource proposes to buy a farm. It is assumed that anybody can run a i farm, as anybody can edit a newspaper, 1 and it is also taken for granted that a ) farm is a sort of horse tliat not only takes care of himself but feeds and | clothes his rider. It does not seem to ! occur to any of these men that farming (is a business requiring special knowli edge, experience, and skill for successful management, and that the average ; city man is quite as much out of place j and at his wits' ends on a farm, after he j has bought it, as he would be at the head ! of a manufactory or in command of a i man-of-war. tsury in rraucr. I A man who was tried in Paris the j other diy for usury combined the ocI cnpations of shoemaker .and money lender. He bought up vast quantities of shoes delivered to the French armies during the war, and these ho assigned [ at fictitious prices in auy numbers he chose to designate among his young clients. To one unhappy youth he lent 3,000 francs, and he compelled him to give a note for 45,000 francs' worth oi ; goods supplied. Among the goods sup, plied were about two hundred pairs ol . shoes. "I do not know what to do,' the victim piteously observed, "with I that veritable magazine of shoes." Thej were put down by the money lending shoemaker at twenty-five francs a pair, II and the debtor got some one to dispos< ( of them for fiim at six or seven francs t [ pair. Another young man of family de k clared that for 20,000 francs lent in smal ^ sums, he had to sign acknowledgment [ for money and goods amounting to 325, t 000 francs. The shoemaker was sen ^ tenced to six months' imprisonment am , a large fine. l The population of Ireland is set dowj t at 5,412,397, showing a falling off o r nearly 3,000,000 in less than twenty-fiv years. Tiie .Roman Catholics hav 5 slightly decreased in numbers, and th f Episcopalians and Presbyterians slight f ly inoreased since 1861. PORr RD A BEAUFOKT, S. < A New Way to Fatten a Turkey. Gatb writes: One of tne most agreeable entertainments of an epicurean kind which is given at Washington is that of Dr. Ninian Pinckney, who stands second on the list of medical directors, and is the nephew of William Pinckney and brother of Bishop Pinckney. Dr. Pinckney's quarters are at the Washington navy yard, and he is celebrated for feeding turkeys on English walnuts?administered whole, shell and all, without cracking. A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of attending a dinner given by this hospitable Epicurus. A turkey reposed in the center of the table, of remarkable size, and of flavor not equaled by the most delicate capon. Before we put the knives into this dish for Dives, another turkey was brought up to the door, and the process of feeding him was achieved. Fourteen full, large walnuts, whole, were put in the wonderful fowl's bill, and slipped down the gullet by the fingers outside. As the first walnut went down, the turkey looked up with one eye in a baffled sort of way, as if wondering whether he was assisting a comedy or going to execution. At the third walnut he turned up both his eyes, as if now assured that it was not the intention to kill him by starvation. At the fifth walnut, his inquisitiveness was unbounded, and he wore the look of a man who had been reading a thrilling story, and had suddenly bumped upon the words: "To be continued in our next." Continued it was; and, after the seventh walnut, Sir Turkey gave up the conundrum, closed his eyes resignedly, and when the fourteenth walnut had slipped down his gullet, and they were all rattled by the hand, so as to produce from the bird's interior a sound as of a macadamizing job going on there, his expression was plainly to be read: "Ctentlemen, you know what this is for and I presume that your consideration for myself will enable me to reflect upon the performance with the eye of faith?" It takes about three weeks to fatten a turkey in this way, for the animal, unlike the mills of the gods, grinds exceedingly small, but very fast. He undergoes considerable digestive wakefulness, but the secretions come to his rescue; the shells are melted down, and the walnuts are assimilated, so that he matures in a fractional part of the life he has been destined to. It seems that this trick has been discovered on the way aroucd Cape Horn, on a certain Daval vessel which contained a great many turkeys, and nothing for them to ea'. A humorous officer said that sooner than see his turkeys starve he would feed them on the table dessert. A few of the animals died, but the majority survived and p.oved to be palatable beyond all previous experience. I mention this matter for the edification of gourmands, who want to know what a turkey is capable of. Senator Anthony was delighted both with the docility and delicacy of the respective birds of freedom which had been brought before us. The experiments made with turkeys are said to demonstrate the fact that fourteen walnuts is the limit which a bird can stand, and that less than eight will not produce the flavor attainable. Insect Statistics. In 1782, says the London Times, the caterpillars of the brown tail moth were so numerous as to defoliate the trees of a very large part of the south of England. The alarm was so great that public prayers were offered in the churches that the calamity might be stayed. The poor were paid one shilling per busnel for collecting caterpillars' webs, to be burned under the inspection of the overseer of the parish; and four score bushels were collected daily in some parishes. But, on the other hand, the benefits derived from the labor of some insects should not be overlooked; some species feed only on noxious weeds, and others prey on still more noxious insects. One of the greatest friends of the agriculturists is the family ot ichneumon flies, which lay their eggs in the bodies of living caterpillars, in which they are hatched, thus destroying them; although the caterpillar, after being " ichneumoned," has still a vorocious appetite. The caterpillars which feed on the cabbage eat twice their weight in a day; the lavas of some of the flesh flies i eat a much larger proportion than this. The productive powers of insects vary very much. Some lay only two eggs; others, such as the white ant, 40,000,000, laying them at the rate of sixty a minute. The queen of the hive bee is j capable of layiDg 50,000 in a season; the I female wasp, 30,000. The majority ot I insects, however, lay bnt about 100; in j general, the larger the insects the fewer j eggs it lays. Most insects have two generations in a year; some have ! twenty; others tako seven years from the ! time the egg is laid until their death in j a perfect state. But probably not above 1 five per cent, of tho eggs laid become perfect insects. Our insectivorous birds are diligent in destroying the larvae of insects, but they will not do all that is required; hand labor is also needed. i Injury to Wheat. 1 ? The present season is exceptionally ; mild, and although those who dwell in > towns and cities may congratulate them|. selves upon what they may term a favor i able winter, yet the farmer views it with | apprehension. The usual protecting f! covering which shields the wheat from : chances of temperature, so 1 j detrimental to the tender plant, is enr "j tirely wanting. A succession of frosts > i and thaws in place of a steady moderate j cold may result in the destruction of oui 5 i most important crop, and one which can1 ! not be replaced or replanted as a spring - crop j&u. While the farmer is power1 less to avert the evil, he may at least 3 moderate its effects to some extent. The | greatest injury may be feared upon un i drained and wet lands. Standing watei J j is utterly fatal to the wheat orop, while : upon dry soil it will resist much un j favorable weather with impunity. The i! farmer should therefore see to it thai f J surface draiDs are kept open, and the e J fields relieved of any accumulations o] e water. A top dressing of coarse manure e | or even coarse litter, marsh hay or straw j will afford much protection to the j plants* r ro" lND ( 0., THURSDAY. M THREE-CARD MONTE. a \ntnd Player Tells a Reporter nil Aboot the Game nod the Hauer In Which Itle Played. "So you don't know anything about three-card monte, eh ? Now, just wait a minute and I'll show you something. Here are three business cards, all alike. I'll take the plain side of them, and on this one I'll mark a large round spot with a pen. Now, watch close. I take this card so, and place it on the table. This is the one with the mark on it. I put the two others on either side of it, and you can turn it up now and look for yourself." The reporter did so. Sure enough, the middle card had tho spot. "Now, again, I take up this card slowly, and throw it over in the place of the other, and transfer the one on the left to the place of the one on the right, and the marked one is now on the left instead of being in the middle, isn't it ?" The reporter thought that such was the case, and remarked that there was no doubt about it. "Pick it up and see," said Slippery Ned. The reporter turned over the card. It was a blank. He also turned the middle, with a like result, aid found the marked spot on the last card to the right " There," said Ned, "you see if you'd had $1,000 bet on that, you'd been left, wouldn't you ? "I'll show you," said he. "I take this card with the spot on it, and bending it like tho others, put it in my fingers. I make a motion as though I were ' 51 ~T mnvnltr oVinuA if. tnrowmg u uui, uuu .& UUVIV quickly dowii, and throw out the next card to it. You keep your eye on the one thrown out, thinking it is the one which is marked, or in a regular way, the ace, and there you get left again. Now let me show you." And in a few moments it was so well explained that the reporter had hardly any trouble in picking up the proper card. Then the operator smutted the corner of a card a little and gave an illustration of that proceeding. When all this was fully explained the reporter proceeded to get some information concerning the mode of living by these operators. "You see," said Ned, "I used to be pretty well up in the business, although I was young in years. Red John first got hold of me in New York, where I wee playiDg marbles on the street, and he, thinking I would make a good subject, started out with me. I suppose I've attended nearly every county fair in the country with that fellow. He first had me into business as a capper, and I worked into his hands well, I can tell you. He always whacked up, too, you bet Always honor among thieves, you know, and honor among the chaps we were, too. Had to be, or we couldn't have run the business. But finally I concluded to go in on my own hook; so one season I left New York in July, to work up the farmer fairs from that time on. I had two cappers, and right good | fellows they were. They would drive me in hundreds of greenies, and then I I nsAd tn soak 'em. Tell you how we used to do it. We'd go into a fair ground, and get license from the officers to run a jewelry case. Receiving permission, we'd set up a jewelry case with a little brass jewelry in it, and under pretense of shouting for sales brought up the crowd. Soon as we got them together, out came a board, and down I went on the ground, pretending to have a little fun all to myself. Pretty soon a country fellow would sit down near me and ask: " ' What you got thar ?' " Of course I answered him in a way to lead him on. *" Oh, just a little game with some fun in it.' " His curiosity being excited, his next request was to see a little of it, and as that was just what I wanted, I drove my opening wedge by throwing the cards a little, letting him pick out the ace every time. When convinced that I had him on my string, I remarked: "'Boss, I'll bet you a quarter you can't pick out the ace.' "' Done,' says he, and he threw down a twenty-five oent shinplaster. " He wins, of course; I allow him to win again, and again. Then he feels elated ; puts down $10, and wins again ; $20, and still wins. If I think he has any more down goes $50. This time I win, and the man is busted. Two years ago I got hold of an old preacher, who had just married a couple, and got $5 for it. I got his money, and he went about through the grounds all day looking at the watermelon stands and lemonade booths so long ngly that towards evening I returned him his money and told him to pray more and gamble less in the future." " I suppose you have had adventures in your time," suggested the reporter. " I just have. About as lively a time as I can recollect was on the Chattanooga and Nashville railroad. Two or three of us were together and were working a train out to a littls place from Chattanooga. We struck a greeny, and soon fleeced him out of a thousand dollars. When the train came to the first station after this we jumped off, and thought we'd run back to Nashville on the next train. Unfortunately for us, the man we had skinned lived there, and he made such a fuss that the citizens got after us and ran us into the mountains. We staid up there waiting for the next train, and at last got so cold and hun? gry that we ventured to go to a cabin in the hills. When we got to the door we lipnrd voices. Finally ve knocked and ? went in. By Jerusalem ! There sat the very fellow we had confldenced in the morning, his gun across his knee. He ; had been out hunting for us and was determined to find us if possible. He ; leveled hie gun and threatened to > shoot us dead if we moved ; and we didn't move, but stood there while he made us fork over every cent we had > got in the morning. I hen he kicked us out in the open air." j "Pleasant J" remarked the reporter. 5 "Yes, pleasant, if one looks at it in ) that light, but that wasn't what made f me quit the business. There's too much f of a fellow getting beaten at his own , game. There are men so old at the 3 business that you'll think that you've got a guy, but when it oomes to guesaat yjl:l JoMlV 1RCH 16. 1876. / tltfi rtftrrl ho nicks it ud every time. He can ran on in this way and burst the bank. I know a man who is now a merchant in Middlebury, who had his bank broken in this way, and went into a more certain business." " Where did you make your last venture, Ned!" asked the reporter. " It was on the Ohio and Mississippi road, near Olnev. I used to work that road back and forth pretty thoroughly. One day I got an old fellow's watch and ohain, all his money, and even his plug hat, and he squealed. The passengers went crazy. They locked the doors, jerked down a section of the bell rope, and were going to hang me, whether or no. They had the cord around my neck, but I begged so that they changed their mind, and, stopping the train, took me out, tied me to a sapling, and let me { remain there. If it hadh't been for some hunters passing that way, I don't know how I ever would have got out. Since that time I've been out of the business, and mean to stay out." A Point of Order. Diogenes Shute lived in one of the mountain towns. At town meetings he made big speeches, and in the village lyceum he argued right lustily. At length Diogenes reached tne summit of his great ambition. He was elected to the State legislature, and went down and took his seat. It was a stupendous advance. Only one thing remained : He must exhibit his powers of oratory. He believed he should surprise the august assembly when he did so. By-and-bye the occasion came. A bill was before the house for changing, or amending, the pauper laws. Diogenes thought he knew something about paupers. He had been himself reared in poverty, and had fought his way out. Let others do as he had done. It so happened that the bill had been offered by a political opponent. Diogenes had been elected on strictly party lines, and he could not properly support a measure originating with the opposite party. Finally Diogenes gained the floor. He spoke grandiloquently. He seemed a huge pair of bellows, from which high sounding words were puffed in spreading terms, while his long arms gyrated like the sail yards of a windmill. In the midst of one of his most tempestuous outbursts he stopped to take a drink of water. As he raised tbe glass to his lips a friend of the bill?a tall, lank, elderly member?started to his feet: " Mr. Speaker, I rise to a point of order !" The members wondered what the point could be. "The gentleman will state his point of order," said tho speaker. " I think, sir," returned the member, pointing his long, bony finger toward our orator, " that it is entirely out of order, in a deliberative body, for a windmill to run itself by water !" A Vammi An CaIatii An A iiui luau kjvAvmvu? A commercial traveler journeying through Normandy halts at a village inn and ordeis an omelette, to be made with six eggs, for his breakfast. He is suddenly called away on business and departs without eating the omelette or paying for it. Twenty years elapsed before joarneying through Normandy again he reappeared at this particular inn. The landlord is still alive. "I owe you something for an omelette," begins the commis voyageur. 44 Made with six egg8," adds the landlord; 44 vou do, and with a vengeance !" 44 Well," pursues the commercial traveler, 44 here are sixteen francs; that will be pretty good interest on the prime oost of the omelette." 44Sixteen francs!" repeats the aubergiste, disdainfully; 441 want 1,600,000 francs, twelve sous and two liards." 44 How so ?" asked the debtor, aghast at the demand. 44 Just in this wise," answers mine host. 44 Those six eggs would have produced so many chickens; by selling those chickens I should have been enabled to buy two pigs; by selling so many pigs I should have been able to buy so many cows, thence so many carts, horses, farms, houses and so forth. And I intend to sue you for 1,600,000 francs before the tribunal at Caen." The case is duly tried and for a while matters look dismally for the commercial traveler, when the judge?he is a Norman judge and a very wary one?intervenes. 441 wish," he says, 44 to ask the plaintiff one question. Were those six eggs broken in order to make them into an omelette ?" 4 4 They were," says the plaintiff. 44Then," adds the judge, 44 there is an end of the case. The remunerative career of the eggs ceased as soon as they were put in the frying pan. Verdict for the defendant." . J?#-i n.u QWa A it onuenui run ui hwioi While sitting around a good warm fire at a hotel, a few evenings since, a social party amused themselves by cracking jokes and telling stories. One gentleman of the party, whose silver locks had seen the frosts ef eighty winters, related the following: His father bought a pair of boots, and wore them on Sundays, holidays, and once a week | to prayer me' tings, and on genera] training days for forty years. Then ,j gave them to his eldest son, who wore I them ali* one winter; they then deI scended to hipiself, and he wore them ; i constantly for two years. The represenj tative of the press who was present j thought he would reduce the actual weai J j of that pair of boots to days, which he i has done with the following result: , j Dayt . ! Worn by the father fifty-two 8andays forty , years 2,0# 1 Worn by the father fifty-two days each 1 J year to prayer meeting for forty years. 2,08( i | Worn by the father five holidays a year , for forty years 20( Worn one winter by eldest son (say five months) 15( 1 Worn constantly by the other eon two i years 73C Total 5 24( i Makiug fourteen years, four months i and ten days of constant wear for one i pair of boots. The reporter left. He t has not been seen in that part of the i town since, while his ancient friend still i sticks to his original statement, and says ! that he finally gave the boots to a colore*! i man to finish* IERCI $2.00 per A BATTLING WITH THE OCEAN. A Village of Heroes?Men and Women Having Lives?Bravery of a Little Ulrl. The following account is quoted by the London Times from the Stockholn) paper, the Dogens Nyheter, of a courageous act performed by the people of the fishing hamlet of Cresswell, on the coast of Northumberland, in rescuing the orew of the Gustave, Swedish 8 tea me r: On the fifth of January last, at five in the morning, the steamer Gustave, Oapt A. O. Anderson, went ashore, in consequents of the fog and the set of the current, at the little fishing village of Cresswell, on the coast of Northumberland, five English miles north of the town of Newbiggin. The sea was breaking heavily, and the vessel struck violently at every wave. The discharge pipe burst very shortly, and the vessel drifted helplessly among the breakers, which now broke over her. Two of the boats were stove at the outset, and the third, which it was contrived to launch, and in which three men were lowered, j was injured, and carried away by a sea ! ind cast ashore in the midst of the f breakers. Every one in this little village?men, women, children?hastened, on witnessing the misfortune, down to the lifeboat station, and at three o'clock the lifeboat was got afloat, and manned ?a - * Afinnn malfl in Dy imrteen out oi uuo un>wU ? ? habitants of the village. Only two old fishermen were now left on shore, and the women, who had to wade well into the water to get the lifeboat afloat. After an hour's fruitless endeavor to get on board, the lifeboat had to oome on shore again, and a message was sent to the nearest lifeboat station, Newbiggin, to fetch a rocket apparatus, with which to attempt the rescue of the crew. The tide was rising, and at half-past four the lifeboat was launched once more, and at last succeeded in getting alongside of the steamer and saving the crew. Several of the men had by this time been more or less injured by the breakers, but all were able to get into the lifeboat, and the last of all the master, who left his fine and hitherto fortunate steamer with deep emotion. On shore the shipwrecked men were received in the most friendly manner; whatever the poor people had they placed at their disposal; the crew were sheltered in the fishermen's huts, and the owner of a neighboring estate, Cresswell Hall, invited all the crew to dinner. Later in the dav the crew's things were also saved, but much injured by the water. A touching incident of the shipwreck deserves especial mention. The writer of this heard of it on the following day, and was attracted to the spot by cries for help and of pain. On hurrying to the place whence the cries proceeded, he was received by a venerable couple?the steersman of the lifeboat and his wife. "It is poor Bella," said he; " she was not satisfied with being in the water like the others; at night she was wet through for six hours, and has now got one of her attacks of cramp on returning from Newbiggin." It was this little pale fisher girl who, wet through on a cold night in January, had rushed along the beach, wading through several bays by the way, and at length had reached the next lifeboat station to obtain assistance for the shipwrecked people, and to accomplish this feat she had been compelled to go ten English miles. Who those shipwrecked people were was unknown to her; to what country they belonged was all the same to her; it was a question of human life that might be rescued by her mflnns. I oDened the family Bible, the sole ornament of that unassuming room, and there read the name "Isabella Brown, born 1853." On .the wall hangs a silver medal, awarded to the father for saving life. Everything in that little hamlet bore witness to a long struggle against the ocean. Fortunate the country which possesses men and women like those who on that icy January night flew to the rescue of the Swedish steamer Gustave and its crew. A Lawyer's Rejoinder." The San Francisco Alia says some time ago a novel rejoinder was made by a distinguished attorney in that city to a suit brought to recover money, and for which he had given three notes. Like many others in those days, he at times had a passion to "buck the tiger" in the old "El Dorado." One night he made a large winning at the game and had stacked up bef? re him large piles of twenty-dollar pieces. Among those who were present in the room was the party to whom the attorney had given his promissory notes. " You have got more money there than you owe me, so , pay me," said the holder of the notes. The attorney, without saying a word, placed all the money before him on one card and lost, then torniDg around to the man he said: "I'll never pay you a cent." On the following day suit was commenced against the attorney, to , which he made the following answer, l filed on March 9,1858: In the District Court of the Fourth . Judicial District of the State of Cali, fornia.?John Doe, defendant, John { Roe, plaintiff: The said defendant, for . plea and answer to the complaint of the [ said plaintiff in this behalf, says that he never intends to pay the said plaintiff ( "a red " of the sum of money claimed . in 5aid complaint or of two other notes t held by 6aid plaintiff unless and until . (should such unlooked for event ever . happen) the said defendant shall have 1 more money than he knows what to do , with or how to dispose of otherwise; and should the said plaintiff succeed in , getting said money otherwise or sooner the said defendant will be glad to be ) advised thereof. Therefore the said defendant (in lieu of the usual prayer for 1 judgment in such cases) says "fat her ? ft ) np? / John Dob (in proper person). ) A few years after the attorney left San Francisco for a trip to the East, and ) met his death on the ill-fated steamer j Central America. i i > Tne North Carolina conference of the ) Methodist Protestant Church has re> fused to concur in the proposed convenI tion for a union between the Methodist j Protestant and the Methodist (non 1 Episcopal) churches which were separated by the war. ^ K AT, ibm. SiBile Copy 5 Cents. " -*>* ?*. < ?? ? Items of Interest There are nearly 80,000 Europeans in Egypt. Practiced coasters in Nevada are using a sled with but one runner. Two hundred and fifty thousand gallons of beer are sold in London daily.. There are now more French workmen in Berlin than there were before the war. A Pittsburgh man has sued a dentist for $2,500 for palling out the wrong x tooth. " :j l'I J/ i >!*; c A wife at Xenia, Ohio, ofiered her husband a divorce if he would boy her a | sealskin cloak. The Swiss federal oounoil has decided that the civil marriage law does not forbid marriage with a deceased wife's sister. A Boston journal, in announcing that an actress would play "Nell" in the drama of ? Nell Owynne," put an H in the wrong place. If you have any friends or relatives in Philadelphia, now is the time to drop them a lme, faying you'll be 011 to see 'em next summer. t A great revival has been in progree in Fairfax, Yt It suddenly collapsed, however, when the minister forbade the boys going home with the girls. " Hard Times?Forty-eight Hearts that Beat as Twenty-four t" That's the way the Lancaster (Pa.) Gazette heads a list of two dozen marriage licenses. A report of an Illinois hanging mfe : The sheriff did not wish to conduct the execution, as he was drain's cousin, but Grain insisted that no one else should bang him. Some unknown parties placed a piece of poisoned meat in the yard of nearly every dog owner in Fort Valley, Ga., and thirty-seven dogs were afterward found dead. ... Tl * vrvinw laditfi in It IB tDUkKUl mux ?nv J N,.. w . Maryeville, California, presented their clergyman with a turkey stuffed with dollars. His wife will take the staffing out of that turkey. c - ;j : { According to the ninth semi-annual report of the Massachusetts Catholic Total Abstinence Union, just issued, there are now seyenty-fonr societies, with 6,820 members, in the State. A New Bedford woman cheated a junk dealer recently by putting about thirty pounds of lead pipe in a bag of, n^s, not knowing that the lead was worth three times the value of the rags. " Young man," said the jadge, "did you steal that piece of hardware?" " No sir," replied the prisoner, "I don't steal hardware. That isn't in my line of business; chickens and coal is my line." The Erie oar shops at Elmira, N. Y., are crowded to their utmost capacity, in turning out passenger cars to meet the extra demand during the centennial year. The men are working nine hours a day. Don't wax your walnut staircase when you give a party. Too many people forget the waxing process and oome down via the back of their ueck and spinal column, and they don't like such whacks as that. Turkey has fifteen immense ships of war, which cost nearly 82,?00,000 apiece. They lie idle in the Boephorua all summer, their only use being to fire salutes every Friday when the stman goes to mosqne. \ Prof. Edward A. Freeman' was Ibid when at Ragusa that "every pretty ?irl - ? " *? " is carried on aa a matter ui uuuaoo, asserts that it was a specially fool outrage of this kind which led to the Herxegovinian insurrection. A Frenchman, who has lived ill America for some years, says : 41 Whew they bnild a railroad, the first thing they do is to break ground. This is done with great ceremony. Then they break the stockholders. This is done without ceremony.". ?'>*t The bill introduced into the Penaljlvania Legislature, making it a penal offense to point a gun at a person in fan is all right; but we would prefer to rte a law enacted making the crime of whistling in an editor's sanctum punishable with death?some pleasant, easy defth. A young printer having occasion the other day to set up the well known line: "Slave, I have set my life upon a castlj" astonished the proof reader with the following version: " Slave, I have set my wife upon a caek,!" ' i' f| An old detective says that if he desired to train his son for a detective he would first make him a newspaper reporter. That beyond any1 any other business, says this detective, is the business that makes stupid men mart, ordinary men able, and capably men brilliant; and, he adds, that what? an experienced reporter cannot detest is not worth detecting. The Chinese watch the pearl mussel closely, and when it opens its shell insert pieoes of wood, hard earth, or little images of their gods. These irritate' the fish and oanse it to oover the substance with a pearly deposit, which hardens ; and forms an artificial pearl. This, sort of pearl making is earned on to a great extent at Ning-po, and the articles thus > obtained are considered very little inferior in value to the reaL - a j i A school of wfcales reoenuy enverea the Dowry Voe of Shetland in pursuit of ' herring; they were numerous and i large, and caused great commotion 1 among the fishermen, a number of whom ; set out in boats to try and capture one i or more. But the whales showed fight, ' and drove the fishermen back to. , the i whore, capsizing one boat, the crew of L which were saved with difficulty. After ' disporting themselves triumphantly in the bay for a while the Victorian whales moved off majestically. A New Bedford man and his wife went ' to a neighboring town to get the body ?f , their dead daughter. They put the coffined corpse in their wagon apd started for home, where a funeral was to be held, but stopped at the first tavern anddrank. > Their subsequent stops and drinks ex actly equalled the number of other tav eras on the route, and five miles from i home they were so drunk that they did not notice the fall of the coffin from the wagon. The body was found lying face downward in the road. ^