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* m x?v?v?x w i x x?v 'x" x?^ x? " x? !,; x . '? - * s i h t f k t THE TRIBUNE. ^ , ji . , . ... ;> -i > j? '* - * Vt V ffl fi ft ' I ft 3 ? ' " * -rrt?"Vt 3trr *mi+ t 1?F*?P3 ? " --- ? -z== .7?7- , , = ' *v.kv* i j Jr??r$ae??? VOX. I.?NO. 49. BEAUFORT. 8. C., OCTOBER 27. 1875. 1 $1.50 PER ANNUM. ,t i V- A"k^' Ho etole from my bodice a rose ; My cheek was its color the while ; Bat, all, the sly rogue! be well knows, Had he ask'd it, I must have said no. Ho enaboh'd from my lipe a soft kiss : I tried at a frown?'twas a smile ; For. ah, the fly rogue! he knows this, . , llad he asked it, I must have said no. That "asking" in lore's a mistake; ^ It puts one in mind to refuse; ? ? Tie best not to ask, but to talcs^ i For it eaves ono the need to ifay no. Yet, stay?tbis is folly I've said; Borne things should be ask'd if desired : My rogue hopes my promise to wed ; When he asks me I will not say no. THE COMEDY OF ERRORS. Mbowlnc How An Old Halt Found a Vvift1 When He I.eaat Expected One. One of tlio puzzlinest things I knows uu iu[ u Hiruugur in me way iney DAB in England of namiu' their streets. You gets into the street yon wants, and afore you've gone a dozen blocks you find it's changed its name and you're in an entirely different street. Thus one and the same street will sometimes have three or four different names afore you've gone the whole length of it. I mind a funny blunder I made once in consequence of this, though, arter all, it turaed out all right, jist as if I'd a kept my right reckonin'. When I used for to be goin' reglar into the Liverpool packets, out of one ship and into another, it so happened that I come for to be. shipmates with a ohap as wore called Dick Ostrom, three or four v'yages one arter another, and we got for to be ehums like. f Dick were one of those steady chaps ; didn't never go onto no sprees, always boarded to the Sailor's Home when he were in New York, and went -to church Sundays. Dick wero a pretty good sort of a chap and a tiptop sailorman as well, and so we got to be chummies, turnin' in and out together at sea, and weariu' each other's dunnage. The both of- us come in the Johu It. Skiddy, and then both shipped agin in the New World. I expect Diok were the bashfullest chap along of wimmin that ever stood on two legs. Sailors ain't given much tnat way, air, and it were a wonder, eeeiu' as he'd been so lonfj in that trade, that he hadn't a got'aver it, bvtjrou soe he never went round like the rest of ns, and would turn the color of ted buntin' if any of the gals at the boardin' honse said anythin' to him, and that was the way they come for to call him " Bashful Dick." Soon as snpper were over Diok wonld top his boom and sail barge And nono of us know'd where lfe went to, and we supposed he either went aboard or else to some gospel shop to hear a bit of preachin', anyway his way wer'n t our way,-, and weC didn't- trouble ourselves about it. While we was in Liverpool that time in the New World, we sot the riggin' up fore and aft, and mo and Dick was up in the foretop one day?Saturday it were? < a seizin' off the- topmast riggin*, when all of a sudden Dick says to me: "Tom, * I've au idee of gittin' spliced." 1 t Well, if he'd a told ine he'd &n idee of i junipiu' out of that top, I wouldn't have i been more astonished. " All -right, my lad," pays I, "if so be as von aits the right kind of a lass. You'd better be i sure she's seaworthy afore you ships." " She's too good for mo, I'm af ared," says Diok. , . t f ? < That rm sure she ain't," says I. J " "Where does she Hail from and how on arth did yon ever come athwart her hawset"- ' "I . "She lives herft," says Diok, "and | I've been cruiun' off and on in her wake ( * for a couple of years or so, and I've been a s.ivin ?up till I've got $500 in the bank * at home, and that's enough I think for , to git spliced on." , / . T 'EfyeVhtradred dollars," Bays I; ( " why, it's a fortin, it's more than ever I . - had, iu my life at Que time, and I've been spHoed for years. When is it to c6meofft if it'll ne any help to you, I ; can giv yon the mark and number of the t clifip as spliced me, and he's a man as will do,the job neat and cheap." "Well, as to that," says Dick, "I i ain't said nothin' to her about it as yet. { I thought I would lost v'yage in the Skiddy, but every time I went there BooiotjiiQ' turned nf>, anA.I oouldn'tjist git to it, aud since I'vo been here this time I've gone there lots of times detar? mtiiect to say aorncthin' nbout it, jbut the fact is, Tom, I can't do it, and there's the truth abpnt it., .You've. seen me in many a gale of wind, and you know that where any man can go I oan go, and that I ain't last at any thin' them times ; hat Alongside of a woman, Tom, I'm nothia' but abnhy*. Not bnt what I can take care of one, Tom, if I'm once spliced to her, and she needn't be afeared of wantiu' Upr anythin' bo long as 1 have my health put it'B jist as I tell you, Tom, when HE eomes to the p'int of speakin' about^it, ^always think I'll wait till next Well, I thought the thing over a while, and thm I says; " l>iok, my flower ; it's olBar that yorl can't do this thing by yourself, and as you and I has been shipmates lor so long, I don't mind lendin' yon a hand in this here business, provided when I sees the craft, I judges her all right. To-morrow is a Sunday, and to-morrow arternoon I'll rig up, and you shall giv me her mark and number and I'll go np and see her and Ax this thing for yon in a jiffey. You see havin been one v'yage to lam, myself, I can do it as easy as jnmpin' overboard." "Tom," says Dick, "this here were jist what I wore a-goin' for to ask yon to do for me."' ' 1 .1 Well, sir, next mornin' artei we'd washed the decks and had breakfast, I went over in.Waterloo road, and paid threepence for a shore-shave, and then I puts on a pair of blue cloth pants and a white Bhirt, and I borrowed'a red plush vest from a chap named Billy Small, and put Dick's frock coat over that, and with a high hat which I borrowed from the third mate, I jtst looked equal to uuythin*. The sailin' directions 1 got from Dick were to stand tip Mortimer street to the head of it, where it is crossed by Kin con street, turn round Rincon street, g* about three blocks to No. 65, und ask for Mrs. Dee. Well, I kept my reckonin' all straight till I come to Rincon street, and then it struck me that Diok hadn't said which way to turn ; but remember in' that the rule of the road were always for to port your helm, I sheers around to the right at a venture, thinkiu' I'd soon git a true departure by the numbers. For the first block there weren't no numbers ; there were a vacant place, and a factory, and what not, but when I come to No. 25 on the next block, I were glad I had made a lucky land-fall, and were sure I were right. Of course then all I had for to do wore to follow along till I got to No. 65. It were a nice little two-Btory brick bouse, and as I ringed the bell I couldn't help wonderin* however Diok had fotehed up in sich moorin's an those. There were a nice little lass opened the door, and when I asked her if Mrs. Lee were at home, she said she were, and asked me to walk in. " What name shall I say?" says she, as I went into a snug little parlor on the right of the hall. "Well, miss," say si, "as she don't know me, the name don't matter; tell her it's a friend from a porticlar friend, as would like to see her on important business." * " Yes, sir," sajs she, and I thought to myself if the mistress is as nice as the maid, I don't wonder at Dick, and then I thought of what I'd promised old neptune tho first time J crossed the line, " never to kiss the maid if I could kiss the mistress, unless I liked tue maid the best," and wondered if I should like the mistress as well as I did the maid. Presently there come into the roam as neat a little craft as one would wish to meet in a day's sail. Fine figurehead, good smooth bow, able body, and clean run, all Bhipshape and Bristol fashion fore and aft. " Did you wish to see me ?" she said, and I didn't wonder at Dick gittin' in the doldrums, for I wor'n't much better myself. You seo I thought it would be a easy thing for to do, but now that it had got to be done I didn't hardly know what to say. " The fact is, marm" says I, a standiu' up before her, and I wished I were a hundred miles away, " Dick Ostium, whom I B'pose you know well, is a chum of mine, me and him havin' now been snipmntos off and on for over a year, and put Dick, marm, to a weather earin' iu a gale of wind, and there ain't none better, as anybody'll say as has ever been shipmates with him, but alongside of a woman, marm, as no doubt you have obsarved, Dick are as skecrv as a oolt, and so you see, inarm, Uavfti' long e'en a'moat worshipped the groftnd you stand on, he never oouldn't git his oourage up to the stickin' p'int for to toll you so, and so I bein' his chum, volunteered for to come and let you know how the land lay, and that Dick, havin' saved up a good bit of money, were willin' for to be spliced, if so be as how it wore agreeable to you, marm;" aud I wiped the sweat off.my brow and wero glad it wer& qrver. rJ Well, she looked kind of confused, but I seen th^t she weren't displeased, And she says: " I suppose I know the gentleman you ppeak of, havin' noticed him in meetin'. Oh?-} thinks I, there's were Dick come norona thin nmft. '' Bnt " rlie, " this is bo sudden, ho entirely unexpected, that really I am not preparod to ?ay any thin*." " He'll never oome near you agin, marm,*' Bays I, "unless he thiuks he has some little sight; may I tell him that he may oome up and see you tomorrow night?" " I shall be homo to-morrow night," Bays she, "and of course I'm always glad for to see my friends." "Talk enough, marm," Bays I, for I considered the business as good as settled, oud I bid her good arternoon, she letting me out of the door herself. Well, I goes down and sees Dick, and I says : " It's all right, old chap, and you re a mighty lucky fellow; all you've got to do is to haul alongside as soon as ever yon like, and the widder's yours, and Hbe'll be expectin' you to morrow night." But Dick were too much in a hurry to wait for the next night, and away he goes that same ev^nin' as happy as a young porpus. I turned in mayhap about ten o'clock that night, and were jist droppin' off to sleep when I wero woke up by Dick. "x aon t want to strike you in your bunk," says he, " but git up and put on your pants, and come out on deck, and we'll have this out here and now." " Avast," says I, " there's some mistake here, and I ain't a going to fight till I knows what it's for, and anyhow I ain't a-goin' out on de"k for to fight, 'oause the watchman will call a policeman and we'll both be looked up in less than no time; so wbatever's the trouble, it'll keep till mornin' and then H I've done anytliin' agin you, we'll cm down to the no ih shore, and fight it out pleasant." Home of tho rest of the chaps had got waked up, and they took my part, and jist tohl Dick there mus'n't be no fightin' there, and them and he agreed for to put it off till mornin', " and then," Bays ho, "I'll larn you how to fool a ship- j mate." Well, he goes out on deck and I heerd A him a walkin' there aud waited a spell, and then I went out and I says : " Now, ohummie, what's this all about?" Says he : " You never went near that ii woman, and have made a fool of me." tt " Avast!" says I, "who says so ?" tl " She says so," says he. ; m "Then," says I, "with all due re- aj spect, and I'm sorry to say it of sich a ^ i nioe creeter as she appeared to be, she -w i tells a thunderin' lie. 'Taint no use, y ! Dick, for me and you to tight ovor this Hf i thing, I'll go tip with you to-morrow, h I and if I don't convince you that she lies, ^ | don't never call me shipmate agin. She tl Hint worth stoppin' out of bod for ; go p turn in and take your rest like a man." h Well, air, next night we goesuptogeth- d er, and when we gits to the top of Mor- a timer street, instead of portin', Dick B] starboarded. c< " Hold hard, old fellow ; right your n helm says I, " that aiutthe way." h "Yes it is," says ho, "this here is h. Rinoon street, t'other way is Douglass n street." o " I don't care what you call it," says p I, "this here's the way I went, and at h No. 65 I found Mrs. Lee, aud a mighty C1 nise body she is." si "That's Douglass street," says he, l? " and you went all wrong." "I found Mrs. Lee, and so I went all y right," says I. " And now we must go f< and explain to her how this mistake oe- h curred." o! Well, it were a long time afore I could c< git Dick to go, but at last he did, and gj we w^p let in by the same tidy little lass ci that had opened the door the day before. <?< We didn't have to wait long afore the tl widder come down, and if I thought her d charmin' the day before, you may jist a believe me, sir, she were perfectly be- si wilderin' this evenin', with all her kites ij aloft, and every one of 'em pullin*. I seen at once that she'd never sot eyes on tc Dick afore, so 'twos clear she hod thought d< I come from somebody else, so there ts were a blunder all round. fn Of course, I had to be tho spokesman, h and I ups and I tells her the whole story, tl poor Dick sittin' there lookin' as sheep- t< isli as you please, and the comical side vi of it btruck her so that she burst into w laughter. cl Well, she insisted on our havin' a hi gloss of wine, and Rhe told us she kind w of cottoned to us, 'cause her first hus- si baud had been a sailor, havin' been u mate of a ship out to Liverpool, and she d said we must always come and see her g whenever we come to Liverpool, tl " Mind, now," says she to Dick as we j was goin' away, "when yon come up the j it street don't always turn to the left; come e' and see ine sometimes." n. Well, sir, the other Mrs. Leo kept a Eublic house, but weren't it odd that h oth numbers should be 65 ? I went in b the California trade artor I got back, h and I weren't in Liverpool agin for near I cl two years, but one day a-goin' along lod ir Hall street who should I meet but Dick w Ostrora. Well, ho wore delighted to It see me and insisted that I should go si home with him and see his wife. hi "I managed it artor all, old chap," m I says he, "aud thanks to you." But w when I got to his house and found that in | his wifo was my Mrs. Lee, I thought ho j ol had much to thankful for. te . j 0i The Emblematic Eagle, ! w I in The Etruscans, says Appletons' " American Cyclopaedia," revised edition, ! I were the first who adopted the eagle as " the symbol of royal power, and bore its image as a standard at the head of their . , armies. From the time of Marius it . was the principnl emblem of the Roman republic, and the only standard of the legions. It was represented with outspread wings, and was usually of silver, till the time of Hadrian, who made it of gold. The double-headed eagle was in ^ use among the Byzantine emperors, to indie&te, it was said, their claim to the * empire both of the East and the West ; gT it was adopted in the fourteenth contury (j( by the German emperors, and after- u ward appeared on the urms of Russia. ^ The arms of Prussia are distinguished je by the black eagle, and those of Poland bore the white. The white-headed eagle is the emblematio devioe of the United cfl States of America, is the badge of the ^ order of the Cincinnati, and is figured fa on coins. Napoleon adopted the eagle for the emblem of imperial France ; it [ was not, however, represented in heraldic style, but in its natural form, with the thunderbolts of Jupiter. It was disused under the Bourbons, but was restored by a decree of Louis Napoleoa (January 1, 1852). . . 1U Macaulay's Tribnte to the Mother. P1 m Children, look in those eyes, listen to ^ that dear voice, notice the feeling of even a single touch that is bestowed on you by that gentle hand. Make much ; of it while yet you have that most precious of all good gifts, a loviug mother, la Read the unfathomable love iu those AVAA fl)A k 111/1 atiriAfv r\9 fhof L\r*n on/1 Am J ~ I WMW "*"*** ****** "W "if W41WW VV/UU itUl* *W look, however slight your pain. In after lil life yon may have friends, and lond, dear, kind friends ; but never will yon in have again the inexpressible love 'and cr gentleness lavished upon yon which a mother bestows. Often do I sigh, in bj my struggles with the hard, uncaring at' world, for the sweet, deep security I felt when, of an evening, nestling in lo her bosom, I listened to some quiet t le, so suitable to my ago, read in her nntirin^ voice. Never can I forget her sweet hi glances cast upon me when I appeared fo asleep : never her kiss of peace at night, wl Years have passed since we laid her besido my father in the old churchyard ; wl yet still her voice whispers from the yc grave and her eye watches over me as I yr visit spots long since hallowed to the pf memory of my mother. en A FRENCH EPISODE. Cbemlal'becomea Fanaoaa through a vain, able .11 acorery and hla wife a Karlni Maniac. A Paris correspondent tells the follow Lg touching story : The sad case oi le insanity of Mme. Lo Due, wife ol re well known chemist who has achieved ich a wonderful thing in diamonds, ie -trading mueli attention. Tho story is 3 follows : M. Le Due is n chemist hose hobby has been diamonds for ems. He was in moderate circum;ances, yot with n fair] prospect before mi wubu ue married me aaugiiter ol o ell known Bilk dealer. Shortly nltei le marringo M. Lie Due commenced exerimenting on charcoal, believing that e could discover the secret of creating iamonds from it. He worked night ad day on this hobby, uud, of course, pent all tho means he lnid and all he uuld borrow to carry on his expedients. His family more than once was 1 very straightened circumstances, and is father-in-law discovering that all the loney he gave his daughter was handed ver to her husband to continue the ex eriments, endeavored to induce her tc save him and return to her home. The liemist had imbued his wife with hit Grange infatuation and she would not ave. M. Le Due discovered after several ears, what others had discovered be>re, tho fallacy of his attempts, ut he also made a discovorj f 110 slight importance, that he mid harden crystal to about the oon Btency of diamonds and plate these rystals with real diamonds. His pro2ss was similar to that of electrotyping, le battery being used, and the diamond ust or diamond chippings from dia luuun iwuig uhou us copper is, iue relit being that the crystal was diamond;ed, if I may use the term. He made >me of these mock diamonds, ami iking them to a broker the chemist wae eliglited to find that his work waf iken for the real jewel. M. Le Duo'i ither -in-law died a few years ago and is wife inherited some two hundred lousand francs. This she turned ovei > her husband willingly, and it was dejted to the laboratory. The pool oman was as fnlly carried away as the bemist, and her desire that ho should lcceed, with her fear of failure, and ith failure that her children should lffer from poverty, worked seriouslj pon her mind. Of late Bhe has evi ently suffered much, but she kept he: rief from her husband, and hoped foi le best. When the chemist finally succeeded 1 his scheme and turned out stones thai een the brokers believed to be real dialonds, he rushed with the glad tidings ?his wife. She partook of his joy, yel er mind*had boeu so strained that the low, joyous as it was, was too much foi er, and she, after listening to the ox amations of her husband, broke oul ito an unnatural peal of laughter, hich was followed by tears and cries. ? was evident that she was insane ; that le had suffered too much, and reasor id deserted its throue. At times hoi lania was of a quiet kind, but often il .... ..f il... A A 1 ? ? Ui IX uuni! VIURIUI ueSCnptlOU, ursting forth into terriblo expressions f rage. On sovornl occasions she at impted to take the life of her yonngesl lild, declaring that all their property as gone and only poverty stared then i the face, and it became necessary tc imovo her to a private madhouse, whore le is now confined, subject to the mosl irrible ravings. Poor M. Le Luc ! On the very daj iat he became famous in Paris has thif rrible affliction befallen him. She Knew the Women. At one of the railroad depots in De oit, the other day, a lady walked up tc le ticket window and smilingly said : " I know j ust how women are, and 1 m't propose to bother any one. An rer me a few questions, and I'll si! >wn and^say nothing to no one till trait me. How far is it to Grand Rapids 1 rhat's the faro ? When does the trait ave? When do we arrive there \ rliere do they oheck baggage ? Whict aok will toe train start from ? How in I get to Mnskogon from Grand apids? How far is it? What's the re ? Do I change cars ? Is there t dace coach on the road ? Shall I get e y-over ticket ? Can I chock my bag' ige clear through ? Is there a conduo r on this road named Smith ? Do yon low dogs in the passenger cars ? and n a child ten years old go for nothHuving been answered, she kept her 'omise to sit still, and the depot policean never had the least bit of trouble in eing her off.?Free Pre.**. Thoughts for Saturday Night. If yon always live with those who are me yon will yourself learn to limp. He is alone wise who can accommotte himself to all the contingencies oi re. Men resemble the gods in nothing so nch as in doing good to their fellow eaiures. We are never rendered no ridiculous f qualities we possess as by thoee wo Feet we have. The superiority of some inen is merely cal. Tney are great because their aseiations are little. To know a man, observe how ho wins s object, rather than how he loses it ; r when we fail our pride supports us ; lien we sucoeed it liotravs us. Don't bother your hoaA about people lio are going about trying to take uway >ur character. Very likely it will do m good. Men are very often like a lir of boots?the more t hey are blackled the more they shine. A Sepoy Sarratire. One doy, in one of the inclosed b\ inga near Luckmnw, a great numbe r prisoners were taken, nearly all Sep After the fight they were all brough ' to the officer commanding my regim f and in the morning the order came ' they Bhoold all be shot. It chanced ' it was my turn to command the fl 1 party. I asked tho prisoners their ni and regiment. After hearing some 1 or six, one Sepoy said he belonge tho regiment, which was that ' son had been in. I of course asked ) if ho hud known my son, Ann 1 llum. Ho answered that that was own name ; but this being a very < mon name, and having always imag ' that my son, as I had never heard i ! him, must have died of the Scinde ft 1 it did not at first strike me ; but v he informed me he came from Tillo' 1 my heart leaped in my mouth. O ' ho be my son ? There was no doul 1 it, for he gave my name as his fat L and he fell down at my feet, implo > my pardon. He, with all the other 1 in the regiment, had mutinied, and yuuu iu uuukuuw. uucb me aeeu done, -what was be to do i Where > he to go, if he had ever been incline 1 escape ? At four o'clock in the' daj ' prisoners were all to be shot, and 11 be my soil's executioner I Such is f L I wont to tho Major Salieb, and reqi ' ed I might be relieved from this dul i a very great favor; bnt he was ' angry, and said lie should bring me ' court-martial for trying to Bhirk " duty ; he would not bolieve I w ' faithful servant of the English go\ ' ment?he was sure my heart wa j reality with the mutineers?he w 1 hear me no longer. At last my feel ' as a father got the better of me, a ' buret into a flood of tears. I told h ' would shoot ovcry one of the prise 1 with my own hands if ho ordered I bnt I confessed that one of therh wai 1 son. The major declared what .1 u 1 wns only an excuse to get off shoo | my own. brotherhood. But at las | heart seemed touched, and he ord L my unhappy son to be brought b? ' hi in, and questioned hiin very stri I shall never forget this terrible sc ' for one moment I never thought of j ing his life to l>e spared?that he not deserve. He became convince the truth of my statement, and ord I me to be relieved from tliis duty. ' went to my tent, bowed down with g ' mode worse by tho gibes and te r! noured on mo bv the Hi Mir wh< r clared I was a renogado. In a short I heard the deadly volley. My son received the reward of "mutiny, showed no fear, but I had rather he been killed in fight. Through the 1 ness of the major I was allowed te form the funeral rite over my misgu son?the only one of the prisoners whom it was performed, for the ren ing bodies were all thrown to the ja< and vultures. I had hot heard fron son since jnst after my return I slavery. 1 hod not seen him sin ' went to Cabool, and thus I met 1 again, untrue to liis salt, in open r< r lion against the master who lind fe< " father and himself.. But enough?l < is unnecessary. He was not the 1 one who mutiniedr (Literally he ' not alone when he mutinied.) ' major told me afterward that he ' much blamed by the other officer 1 allowing the funeral rite to be perfoi ' on a rebel. But if good deeds ' ' away sins, which I have heard f Sahibs believe as well as we do, his will bo very white. Bad fortune n ' attends on the merciful- Mav m? n 1 Boon become a general. Tbej Hill Dress. No one whose knowledge of socio > at all varied, says a correspondent, have failed to notice the deepen [ with which the American girl of . middle classes sets out to be well di t ed. Nor can he have failed to obs [ how easy it is to accomplish her pur I when it becomes a ruling passion. L have myself heard remarks made f young ladies in reputable circles ! mode me shudder, although thqy , inuooently uttered. "As for a husba said one of these sprightly creati , "I don't care ; but dress I will k anyhow !" k 1 can at this moment recall a sooi . more of otherwise amiable and dis< . young ladies, whose fathers are iu 1 t are called comfortable circumstanc [ that is, the fathers are clerks and . countants, and have to work very to support their families in a style . gether uncomfortable. If the oon . of these young ladies could be put l the frankest and plainest kind of ] lish, it would run thus : " My dear pa, I must be more exti gantly dressed. The people that 11 ciato with outshine me in the splei i of their costumes. Yon must, there! toil harder and later in order that I attract more attention. To fascinafc ' man who can supi>ort mo in my extc [ gance it is necessary that I should | dress my associates and rivals." i Ilia Meal. Ail Englishman dining in a Ohii village wan greatly enjoying a wr dish, and would have expressed pleasure to the waiter, who, howe understood nothing of English, could oiu- friend utter a word of Ohin The smacking of lips indicated satii tion ; and then came the question, gcniously put. Pointing at the por at meat in the dish, and which ho i posed to be duck, the Englishman, i an inquiring look, said: " Qnaek, qui quack I" The waiter, gravely slial his head, as muoh as to say ''No,' I plied : " Bow, wow, wow 1" :?;?: :?> The Baby Show. o'tcin . <fT7ri rr. a lild- The Pictou (Oaijadaperper of tratee'th? followiDg On the lake baby show: ?J?- Twenty-four bebiee all in a roV, t mk Twenty-four mammae'aleo on ahow; w Twenty-four daddietf Wqfry aa blame, rr~ > A ahow of lire bablwn none of your shams, r-^ Arising of angala, fleer little Jamba. imes ' r== five Items of Interest. ^ 10 Harrowing to the sole?pege. iK Board wages?Directors' fee", nteo To be great is to be misunderstood, i his What men going down want?checks. :om- Headache is the name of a post-office "?ed in Michigan. " "" -. ver1 A bftrber'8 epitaph : He' dyed and rhen mad? no "ign. ' ' weCf Contentment is said'to be better than atUd riches, but the latter is good enough for >t of writer. her, Ham is the name of, a boyarrested in ring Hudson for stealing eggs. They usually men go together. bed If young ladies wish to 'get stout, they was should eat their food slowly. Haste w*? does not make waist in suoh. oanow. .. First-claas Chinese hotels harre raised nnst the prio? board to twrnotrdght cents ate 1 P61 ftnt* tourists should muVa their ](st; arrangements accordingly. tv ag Many a woman who is too {feeble' to vorv P^el ? dozen potatoes for'dinner will J -.oik ? ~.:i ... _ i?_ i x ? waw iVU& MMM pMV i UTB1 ? UUUOU W my ? W d^-Mdnmnpe back ^ g home like a three-year-old filly, 'era- A shopkeeper in England calls hims in self "boxing fcgktte' maker to her oald majesty." It is only a few years since ings an old Edinburgh sign was'taken down ; nd I " Breeakes-mahar to her. majesty." im I Two antique chairs, one formerly in ners the possession of Eopio "XVT., and the me, other brought from Venice in the sqyen? my- teenth century, were Bold at Boston a rgod few days ago,,the fqna?rfor #18,60 and tuig the latter for $1,7,60.^.... L A panther rushed into ^ bedroom in a ?r?d house a few miles from "Willis, Tex., ,f?re and carried off a baby inTrfs month, but cUy. the. twelve-year- old' sister followed and ien?5 screamed so lustily that the -. brute dropped the youngster only slightly inI j ' A slab of quartz rock .' vTas 'Vebently j shipped from tne Greene tame, Ndvada, _luj containing more thail two square feet, aut^ through which there .*aa a streak about ' j four inches wide that was nearly or .quite ? one-half gold. The piece was estimated to be worth at least $1,600. Ho A serious case of poisoning has ocImd ourred in Sheffield, Canada. A tin of ;ind- Nova Scotia lobsters was opened on per- Saturday night, bnt they were not eaten ided until Monday night. The persons who over ate of it?Joseph Butler, % cutler, and lain- si* members of his family all1 shortly kals afterward became very ill, and three of i mv them are in a critical oondition. . .. . from The Sturgeon Bay (Wis.) Expositor ce I says: A. J. Bibley nas riggC4 mm a him boat with sails, it Offer forward, ibel- with comfortable quartern forhis family, 1 his and is about to start for Florida, pr pome nore other plaoe. He is going to Green Bey only np the Fox river ahd the oanal to the was Wisconsin river, down the Mississippi The river, and through the Gulf of Mexico to was Florida. low j " foJ A St Louis doctor wrote a proacrip nied tion for a lady who was slightly ill, callW1P? ing for " a syphon of carbolic acid," tome meaning a large syphon bottlAof soda sins water. The intelligent druggist con eTer strned " carbolic acid,," to mean " oarlajor )K)lic acid," and took " syphon tp be the Latin for "two ounoes. aifd, noting on his conviction, burned a bote in the j patient's stomach. ? The smallest Bible in tha world, just ty is produced by the Oxford University can Press, is printed on a tough India paper ition of extreme thinness and opacity, ifieasthe ures four and one-half in one* by two and ress- one-fourth inches, is one and one-half erve inches thick, and weighs, bound in limp pose morocco, less than three ami one-half I onnoes. It cm be sent through the i by British post for a penny, that The editor of the Alabama State. Journal is now Bam Bard, and he wants it ?d> understood that his paper will admit no "eB? long contribution whatever, and " perlmve sonully abusive artioles will be charged at the rate of $100 per line." He states t re or that he "has been oOnneOted with journalism, directly and indirectly, ainoe alia. i845> and has learned at last what pot to 168? put in the columns of a newspaper. hard Th? girl who sold wax flowers at ?*>ng ,T~ Branch, and was ever searching for her " long lost father, "like the unfortunate . / female in the play, has found him at-last p through the kindness of a gentleman at one of the hotels, who esqorte'd her to the depot, where the " long lost rather " stood waiting to reoeivo " hor stamps." , ' The game, although very transparent, porc deceived a great many charitable,people. cm^ A new swindle in being played in the s the ! oentral part of the Htate. A well dressed uva. man stops at a farmhouse and engages out- aooommodation for a drove of sheep and a man who drives them. The sheep and ; drivers are to come along the nbtCday. | The pretendfni agent stops over night, I has the best the house affords, and slips aese | off the next morning without paying his ,ory | bill. The sheep and drivers never ap H|H pw>i 9 ui uuuxiw. ver. It is olaimed for the Dominion of nov Canada that it ranks third?at lowest, ese. fourth?in importance among tha ship if so- owning oountriee of the wprld. The in- | list of vessels exhibit a total of 6,980, tion* measuring 1,968,363 tons. Of these 684 rap- are steamers, 336 ships, 546 Jbarka, vith twenty-five harkentinee, sixty-two brigs, nek, 643 brigan tines, 3,786 schooners, and ring 1,100 smaller vessels. Pour hundred ' re- and ninety-six new vessel*, measuring i 190,766 tons, were built in 1874. ? ? ' a