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Nobody's Darling.
f Little and pallid, and poor and shy,
With a downcast look in her soft gray e
No scornful toss of her queenly head,
But a drooping bend of the neck instea<
No ringing laugh, and no dancing feet,
> No subtle wiles, and abandon sweet,
No jewels costly, no diamonds fine?
She is Nobody's Darling?but mine!
No ' Dolly Vardon" ooquettish airs ;
No high-heekd boots to throw her dc
# stairs;
No yachting jacket and nautical style,
With a sailor's hat that she calls her "ti
But ''Lady" is stamped on her quiet brow ;
And she crept in my heart I can't tell how ;
Not made to dazzle?nor born to shineNobody's?nobody's
Darling but mine!
No saucy, ravishing, girlish grace,
Eut a settled calm on the sweet, pale fa
No sparkling chatter and repartee;
Very silent and still is she.
White and still is ray pearl of pearls,
Yet to me she seemeth the queen of girls I
Why I love her I can't define,
For she's Nobody's?nobody's Darling?
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THE FALSE DEMETRIUS.
On the afternoon ot a summer daj
1591, the young Prince Demetrius, a b
of ten years of age, brother of t&e rei|
ing Czar, was playing in the court vj
in the palace of Uglitch, with four otl
bovs, his attendants. He had a knife
one hand, with which, according to <
account, he was cutting a piece of woe
according to another, he was endeavori
to stick the knife in the ground. 1
governess, his nur=e, and a female serv;
were close at hand. The attention of i
women were drawn from him for a f
moments, and then he was seen lying up
the ground, bathed in blood, which v
flowing from a large wound in his thro
The shrieks of the terrified women
discovering this appalling tragedy,brouj
into the courtyard the Czaritza, who wi
oat waiting to hear a word of explanati
accused the governess of conniving at i
Prince's murder, struck her a violi
blow on the head with a piece of wo<
and denounced as the assassin Mich
Bitiagotski, the controller of the pala
Michael, the brother of the Czarit
reefed into the court yard in a state of
toxication, struck and abused the gove
ess and ordered the tocsin to be sound
The court yard was immediately crowd
with people. Bitiagoiski appearing, a
declaring that the Prince must have be
attacked by a fit, and falling upon i
knife, was set upon by the by stande
and fled for his life. The house in whi
he sought refuge was attacked by t
mob, and he and his son were dragp
out, and slain in the street. Everyo
who <iispl?ved the least sympathy wi
the suspected persons met with the sa:
fate.
Demetrius had died without havi
nttPTvd a word. IIis eorose wa* carri
to a church, and an inquiry into the c
cumstauces of his death was ordered
Boris Godenoy, a noble, whose sis
Theodore the reigning Czar had marri<
and who had taken advantage of his i
perial brother-in-law's drunken habits a
mental incapacity for the duties of g(
eminent to exercise the chief authority
the State. The investigation was cc
ducted in secret, and this circutnstam
coupled by the facts that it was made
two nobles who were entirely under t
influence of Boris, that Bitiagotski w
also one of his creatures, and that sub
quent events supported the suspicion tl
he was aiming at the throne, lias cau<
hiin to be regarded by most historians
the author of a conspiracy of which T
metrius was the first victim. Withr
having made any examination of t
corpse, or con paring the wound with t
knife which th? Prince had in his ha
when he fell, the commissioners of Boi
arrived at the conclusion that the det
of Demetrius was the result of an ac
dent.
In 1597, Theodore was tr.ken ill a
die'1, not without great suspicion of 1
having been poisoned by Boris Goden<
of which the Czarina was so well C(
vinoed that she would never speak to I
brother afterward. As Theodore left
children, the dynasty of Rurik, which li
ruled Russia upward of seven centuri
catne to an end at his death. Goden*
who already exercised all the power
the Crown, and would probably have s
fered nobody else to reign, pretended
be unwilling to accept the crown, ui
urged to do ?o by the entreaties ot 1
people; and even then be made his ;
?eptance of it conditional on the suec
of an expedition which he declared
was about to undertake against the T
tars.
But, in truth, there was no Tartar ari
ii> the field, and Boris had no intention
attacking either Ivasan or Ast akhi
The pretended expedition was merely
excuse for assembling an anny of ti
thousand men. as the most etiectua) met
od of securing himself on the throne.
About the middle of 1603, Prince Ad;
"Wisniowiecki. a Polish noble, being ;
noyed by some negligence on the part
one of his servants, abused and stri
him.
"Y?>n would not treat me thns if y
know whom I atn,v said the man.
44 Who are you, then?" demanded 1
prince, with a look oi surprise.
44 I am Demetrius Ivanovitch!" was 1
reply.
The prince declared that, this was i
possible, as the person mentioned 1
died, or been murdered a d<*en years
fore, and probably thought at tirst tl
the young man mnst be either a luna
or an impudent iinposter. But the lat
maintained so confidently that he v
really the person he represented hiius
to !> -. and answered the prince's questi*
with so much readiness and plausibili
tli.it Wiszniowiceki was at first staggei
and then convinced.
According to tie st(*ry told by 1
young man who had so suddenly assurr
r ]>rincely rank, like a butterfly emerg;
I from its chrysaline case. Simon, the pin
I cian attached to the court of Theodo
had been tampered with by Boris, j
ft had pretended tofall in with t)ieu?urpt
; schemes, in order that he might be a
V to avert from the young prince the <h
fate with which he was threatened. 1
this purpose lie procured a boy, the ?or
1 a serf, w bo retail]bled Demetrius in 2>ei,
and features, and substituted him for the
prince on the night appointed for the latye;
ier's assassination. Demetrius Avas withdrawn
from observation, and the decepj.
tion was not discovered. The boy substituted
for him was murdered, in the belief
that he was the prince, and the physician
and Demetrius fled. The latter
was committed to the care of a loyal gentleman,
who, for his greater security,
placed him in a monastery.
?wn Both the physician and the gentleman
to whose care Demetrius was alleged to
have been committed were now dead, and
le." the only corroborative evidence which the
young man could produce consisted of a
seal, bearing the name and arms of Demetrius,
and a jeweled cross of gold, said
to have been a baptismal gift of his godfather,
Prince Ivan Matislauski. The
production of these articles satisfied
ce? Wiszniowiecki that his servant was really
,nd truthfully the rightful Czar, and he
at once lodged him in the best apartments
of his castle, and provided him with
clothing, carriages, horses, and a retinue
of attendants suitable to his supposed
but rank.
The pretensions of the young man were
immediately made known to many of the
leading Polish nobility, who warmly supported
them. Confirmatory evidence on
in his behalf was obtained from one Piet?oy
rovski, a servant of the Chancellor of
Tn- Lithuania, who stated that he had formerir(]
ly been one of the attendants of Demetrius
and described the marks by which the
prince, if really living, might be identified.
,n Demetrius, he said, had one of his arms
>ne snorter than tne orner, a ware ou iue
)(j. forehead, and another under the right
I ' eye. These sufficiently remarkable evidence9
of his identity the ex-servant of
*19 Prince Adam Wiszniowiechi was able to
ant show.
the The apparent age of the pretender to
ew th? crown of Russia agreed with that
which Demetrius would have attained had
,on he been still living. But, if there was a
fas serfs son who bo much resembled Deat.
metrius as to be mistaken for him, not
on only by the attendants about his person,
but even by his mother and his uucle,
the evidence of identity cannot be adth
mitted to be of much value. According
iou to the pretender's story, this boy had 1
been murdered ; but the story is strongly i
suggestive of the hypothesis that it was
?nt the prince who wss murdered, as geuerally
believed, and that it was the serf's son
ael who was afterward received a9 the Dece
rnetrius who bad been supposed to have
been murdered.
fa' Against this supposition there was set ,
the fact that the pretender had evidently
rn- received what was for the times, an edue(]
cation befitting a prince. lie spoke Po- ]
|e(] lish as well as Russian?rather better, ,
n(] indeed; he knew a little Latin, wrote j
,en well, was conversant with Russian history '
f,js and politics, and with the genealogies of 1
rs the Russian nobility; and, which went as
0], far as anything else to satisfy the Polish i
)ie nobles that be was the rightful Czar, he |
r0(] rode and fenced as well as themselves. ,
,ne But if he was an imposter, as historians
jth have agreed To consider him, these qualiti- '
me would have been given him, as a <
matter of necessity, by the iutriguers by \
Dfr whom the fraud was concocted.
,e(] His story was not long in reaching the !
jr. ears ot Boris, who at once committed the (
bv unpardonable folly ot endeavoring to buy i
te'r the pretender off, and thus strengthening |
a,j the conviction of the Poles that they had j
m'. the rightful Czar among them, and furn(]
nishing his enemies with a formidable '
)V weapon against himself. The pretender
jn strong in the support of the Poles, soon
,n_ became very troublesome; but, as long as
Boris lived, all the efforts of his partisans i
bv to place him on the throne was unavail- 1
.he W as
On the death of Boris, tie pretended ,
;5e. Demetrius and his adherents renewed
iat their efforts, and with so much success 1
:e(j that the reign of Theodore Borisovitch I
a8 was a short one. The pretender entered .
>e_ Russia once more at the head of a force .
)U{ which gained strength as it inarched,
}ie overcame all opposition, and entering <
)re Moscow, deposed Theodore and assumed i
n(] the government. The mother of Demet- j
.jsj rins, who hud. till then been prevented ,
ttj, from seeiiig him, now declared her con;Cj.
viction that, he was her son, and his claim 1
was generally acknowledged.
* morriai) a "P, ilicll nrin(>i>M' hilt. ,
,lfJ . .W ?. ^ , , 7 ,
,ij, though his position seemed secure, his i
)v tenure of the Empire proved to he pre- '
>n] carious. A powerful nohle named Zuski
ier denounced him a-; an irnposter, and raised
no against liirn an insurrection which became 1
,l() more formidable every day. Attacked in (
es !iis palace by the iusurgents, he defended 1
>v it with great intrepidity, until, overpow
J,} ered by numbers lie was killed fighting, 1
nf_ and died with bis sword in bis band. 1
p, The Czarina was sent a prisoner to Jar- ,
itil is,\v : a,i'' Znski w ,s proclaimed Emper}u%
or, but deposed after a brief reign, bar
Rr_ rass.d by continual tumults and rebel,
lions. i
be
nr. How IIf. Ri lf.s His Wife.?A nmn
named laddies, in Virginia, has got his
117 wife in proper subjection, and means to
keep her so. "O," he savs, in telling
in.
an about it, "there ain't many who know
fty how to rule a wife properly. Now my
rti '.U ?It. /\na /if lioet.imhirnd
UlU MUUitlU in V/l l?l\, I'VOV
women in the world, but she's got a
devil of R temper. Whenever I see she's
of got b"r mud up, if it's ? dozen times a
ick day, I just quietly say nothing, but
kinder humor her, and she comes around
all right after a while. Even when she
throws things at me, or gives a wild
slash for me with the broom or rollin'
r'ie pin. I just dodge a little, and she never
hits me a third time before I get my eye
in- J J
la(] on her and let her know I disapprove of
be- sncli actions on her part. Perhaps I
hftt 1'iave to leave the house to show her
ltK this, but *he sees the point. Then by
k,.ls being carerul not to irritate her, and letself
ting her have her own way, I manage to
>ns m ike her do as I please. And you bet
hv> I make her understand and appreciate
PeCJ ^
my discipline. O, I keep her under
:he perfeet control! A man has, you kuow,
led got to boss his own house, or the first
thing you know your wife will ride you
down like you wasn't nobody. My wife's
a perfect angel in her natural disposition,
u* but any other man but me would spoil
It ?-'
?rk ' A Chmago reporter announces that
For | "the*ieeeipt of another'ship load of
i of blackberries from St. Joe, created a
gbt i peeeeytihle ripple in the toothpick tetde." i
The Cattle Pest.
Mr. G. N. Hammond writes to the I
Albany Express, from Syracuse : "While ; 1
passing along the Mohawk Valley, I:J
learned with regret thai a contageous j
disease of a very serious nature exists (
among the cattle there, and that farmers 1
and others interested in the raising of '
cattle had endeavored to keep the matter *
secret, lest it should depreciate the 1
cattle macket in that and other sections 1
of the country." '
Of the re-appearance of the Texas 1
cattle plague in Ohio, the Cincinnati ]
Commercial of Wednesday snvs :
"We have another Texas cattle sensation
on hand at the same time of year, J
and in the same locality, where, three J
years ago, the consumers of milk were
alarmed at the loss of scores of cows on '
dairies out on the Colerain Pike beyond
Cumminsville. The principal loser then 1
was Mr. McCracken, who lost every cow 1
in his possession fr:>m the disease, ac- !
companied by ticks or cow-lice, that
Prof. Ganges designates as the splenic
-TV* TKo rrcnnf ir?QtnnPP?
UI Opv. lUilV IVTtll AUV |/4VWVU?.
of the re-appearance of this fatal malady 1
are in the dairies of G. W. Tallant and 1
J. W. West, both contiguous to each
other on the Colerain Pike, about two
miles beyond Cumminsville, or in the
immediate vicinage of Mt. Airy. A 1
lot of Texas or Cherokee cattle were '
pastured on Mr. West's place. Last
week thirteen of Mr. Tallant's cattle
died, as he thought, from the feeding
on green corn ; this week the remainder
of bis stock of twenty-nine took ill and '
have also died. The matter coming to '
the knowledge of Mr. Owens, the City 1
Milk Inspector, and Mr. Snyder, Inspector
of Meat and Cattle, they repaired to
the place and found all of Mr. West's
I
cattle ill, twenty-four in number, and all
exhibiting the symptoms of the splenic !
fever?the drying up of the milk, the .
dull, stupid look of the animal, the '
glassy eye and drooping head, and the 1
hide covered with Texas cattle-ticks or
lice?and scf pronounced it. Further
inquiry discovered that a lot of poor, j
meagre, bruised and lousy Texas cattle
had been pastured on Mr. West's place,
and also that large numbers of the Cherokee
and Texas cattle were being sent 1
liere from St. Louis and Chicago. Mr.
Snyder, in the exercise of his duty as
Cattle Inspector, seized a lot of 144
head, and condemned them as unfit for
human food. They were lean, scabby,
lousy, bruised and generally bad. The
Cattle Inspector ordered the immediate 1
burial of the dead cows, in order, if '
possible, to prevent any farther spread '
of the contagion, and the most prompt '
md efficient measures will be adopted 1
by the authorities to check the evil, at '
least so far as this community is con- *
;erned."
Waste of Infant Life.
Ail interesting and curious exhibit of |
infant mortality statistics has recently T
been made by a distinguished Washing- *
ton physician. The author, Dr. J. M. r
lover, deduces from the earlier census t
the fact that nearly forty per cent, of
the total deaths of all ages is found
imong infants under five years of age. i
The mortality in the great, cities of the 1
country has risen to a much higher rate, t
:ho liigliest being in Chicago, where it <
increased from a percentage of .28 in 1843 1
to .62 in 1869. In St. Louis, iu 1871, s
'lie percentage cf deaths under five years f
was over .51. the number of deaths uu- s
Jer five being 3,409 to 6,670 above. In f
Philadelphia the percentage varies from 1
1853 to 1870 between the figures .51 and 1
44. In the year 1811 the infant mor- i
' ? ' IT 1- <71 _ i
canrj in 10m was over .<< pn
:cnt. and ^1 1809 only 51. From 1835 <
to 1859 it ranged from .51 to 57 ; in 18GG t
it was only 47 ; and the inference is that *
the death rate is diminishing instead of 1
advancing. Cincinnati has a \ ercentage '
near that of Philadelphia; New Orleans *
less than cither of the two. and Provi- 1
ilence, R. I., enjoy* the minimum rate (
of only .3G. (
These figures are, however, startling, ^
and justify the excellent plan of the gen- 1
tlernan who collects them to establish in '
the rural or mountain districts,free pai ks, 1
where hundreds of lives might be sa\ed '
from the auuual ravages of cholera infantum
and the more than decimating
? I
power of the heated term. Scattered all
along the Atlantic seaboard, within easy
reach by steamboat or rail, are the beau- .
tiful and verdant spurs and valleys of ,
the Blue Ridge and Alleghany Mountains,
which offer just such retreats as
are needed. No expense is spared to
preserve the shattered constitutions of
adult invalids and to secure them every
comfort of art; and, certainly, in a merely
economic point of view, the interests
of humanity and civilization demand
equal provision for the infant classes of
society. Every effort should he made to
reduce the waste of life to which they
are subject, as. in the lowest view of the
case, it is a loss which no society can afford
to sustain.?Next York Paper.
Legal.?A lawyer bavin* some lega
business to transact with a widow lady,
took occasion to inquire her age. Tbe
matron, who had not long since doffed the
" widow's deed*," attempted to look prim
and much )Ounger than she really was. as
?be replied : "Thirty-five, sir." Tbeu
turning to tbe daughter, be said: "May
I be so bold, Miss, as toinquire your age?"
" Certainly j 1 am little past thirty-two?
moat three veer* younger than mother.'*
A Western Hermit.
There is a shade of romance connected
with a lend cave which I visited at j
Dubuque, Iowa, a correspondent, says :,
There poor old Tom Kelly lived and
lied ; poor, though rich. Tom was an
uneducated Irishman, and when he had
liscovered his cave kept the fact to himself.
He smelted his own ore and carried
liis lead down to the river bank, secretly,
antil he had hidden in the bank about
S12,000 worth of lead. This he shipped
md went with it down the river, resbipping
it at New Orleans and going with
it to New York, where he sold it, taking
[lis pay in gold. Perhaps the gold was
heavier than the lead. At all events
poor Tom sat down with his vioney-bags
to rest, and as he was a dirty-looking
old fellow, some bo-^ collected around
bim and began pokiug fun at him. A
great fear seized Tom?a fear for his
money-bags. He snatched them up and
started to run for the dock "where his
boat was lyiug. The boys followed,
hooting. Tom stumbled and fell. One
of the boys, ahead of the rest, came
upon him. Tom drew a knife and stabbed
11 * " 1 ^ 1 i. A L it. . i^f.t
cue Doy tnrougu me Heart. At me iriai
which ensued it was shown that Tom
Kelly was more than half crazed, and he
was acquitted, but kept in confinement
as a lunatic. Here his instincts as a
miner stood him in good stead ; he burrowed
out and escaped. Before long,
Tom was at work in his mine again, but
lie was now more secretive than ever.
He built himself a stone house, where
each window was an embrasure pointing
out of which was fixed a loaded musket,
ind the only man who ever got enough
into Tom's confidence to examine the
house, says that there was also a fixed
musket enfilading the doorway. He
told this person that he was having an
iron house made for himself that he
thought would be much more secure.
[q general it was but little, and only to
mere children, that Tom ever spoke.
And there came a day, some two years
igo, when Tom found it necessary to
prepare to go to a house where he is
ikely to be permanently safe. Two
brothers, almost as uncouth as Tom himtelf,
came hovering about the dying
nan. He asked the priest to bring a
awyer ; and when this was affected said:
'If you will send them out," pointing
;o his brothers, "I will tell all." But
lie brothers would not go out of the
louse, ard Tom died as mute as he had
ived. Application to the proper authorities
in New York recovered Tom's
old which he had been too much frightened
to apply for after his escape. The
arothers left not one stcne of the house
ipon another, and they found about
$20,000 in gold hidden in and around it.
i)ut of Tom's cave they took, in addi:iou,
it is believed, ore to a value of not
ess than $100,000. They divided their
:reasures as they found gold or sold ore,
\y dealing out coin or bills as if they
vero cards at poker, one to each alternitely.
What there is left of Tom Kelly's
cal estate looks like the debris of an
iartliquake.
At West Point.?Among the peculiar
nstitutious at West Point are two maiden
adies named Thompson, who enjoy cer;aiu
privileges not possessed by any
)ther ladies in the land?namely, the
ight to board twelve students of the
senior class of cadets. Their father,
3ol. Thompson, performed some special
service during the Revolutionary War,
or wliich a novel pension was settled on
lis widow?viz., the use of a house at
lYest Point during her lile at au annual
ent of six cents, to which was added
lie above boarding privilege. On the
leath of the widow the pension was coninued
to her three daughters, and for
?ixty years the family have held the
privilege, and maintained themselves
landsomeiy from it. One of the daugli;<
rs is dead, and the remaining two are
kory aged, one seventy-two, tile other
uglity. They are very aristocratic and
liguified, and if the cadets "carry on "
:oo much, they bud a polite note under
heir plates intimating that they can
" i rni i il < _ _ l .
leparr. iney nave uitiv pics oi caucus,
mil it is considered a great favor to get
ibere.
Looks. ?Men and women make their
own beaut}* or their own ugliuess. Lord
Luton speaks in one of his novels of a
man* " who was uglier than he had any
business to be and if he could but
read it, every human beiDg carries his
life iu his face, and is good looking or
the reverse, as that life has been good or
evil. On our features the fine chisel of
thought and emotion are eternally at
work- Beauty is not the monopoly' of
blooming young men and of white and
pink maidens. There is a slow-growing
beauty, which only comas to perfection
in old age. Grace belongs to no period
?-T/? "1 - - 1 * i.1, . 1
1)1 Jilt', nuu guuuueas liupruves lUfMuiigui"
it exists.
Lynch Law. ? C. J. DiefFeubacher shot
aud killed a man named Melsted at Virginia,
Cass Count}*, 111. A mob attacked
the jail in Beardstown, where Dieffenbacher
was contined, with the avowed
purpose ol hanging him. The jail was
well guarded, and the mob were repulsed.
In revenge, the outlaws set fire to the
town, and before the flames could be
extinguished, an entire block of the best
buildings in the place was destroyed.
The excitement in the tillage was intense.
J
Steamboat Stowaways.
A correspondent on a European steamer
interviewed a boy who had " stowed
away," or hidden himself until the
steamer was at sea, so as to steal a
passage across the ocean. The boy said
" I'lease, Sir, I've been over four times,
and I always come on these boats, cos I
gets so well treated, I generally helps to
swab the decks at night, and looks after
the ladies and gentlemen during the day.
When they plays skovelboard I runs
after the boards, and " looking meaningly
at .me, " the ladies and gents alius
gives me something for my trouble."
" And where do you get your food ?"
" I goes down in the pantry at mealtimes
and helps the stewards to clean
the dishes, and alius gets plenty to eat."
" And have you never been flogged
on any of your stowaway expeditions ?"
" Oli, no, Sir. The captains are all
kind men, and this here one wouldn't
hurt a fly. But I wasn't so lucky, though,
when I crossed with hiin the lust time,
'cos there was a great big man who was
stowing away as well, and they shoved
us down in the fire room, and made
us shovel coals. Oh, my ! wasn t it hotOne
time he got a regular fit, and had to
be carried up on deck ; that was the
time when we used to take the red-hot
coals out of the furnace and play the
hose on 'em. Then we couldn't see
each other's faces for the smoke. Oh
lor', it was awful. The fireman treated
me well enough, 'cos I used to make
'em laugh, and sing songs to 'em, but
they used to 6wear at the big fellow and
thiow things at him, 'cos they thoght he
was making believe to faint. But he
wasn't. He told me he had been starving
iu Liverpool, and we was more than
twenty-four hours hiding before we
showed ourselves, and the big fellow
nearly dropped from hunger and weakness,
and if you'd only seen him tuck in
the victuals the first chance he got you'd
a believed that he'd been starving.
However, I seen him in New York not
long ago, and he looks quite respectable,
and guv me a quarter, and told me I
ought to give up stowing away."
" And have your travels always been
confined to crossing the Atlantic, Jimmy
?"
" No, Sir ; I once went down from
New York to New Orleans in a paddleboat."
" And did you secrete yourself iu the
coal-bunkers as usual ?
" No, Sir ; I was afraid. I didn't
know the ropes on them boats, so I hid
myself away in the paddle-box. You
know there's room for three or four
men in the boxes, but I didn't calkilute
on what I'd have to go through. 1 got
myself up in a corner, to keep clear of
the paddles, when she started ; but when
she did start, oh my ! I was nearly
knocked into the side of the ship with
the force of the water wot was thrown at
me, and 1 might just as well a' been
dragged after the ship by a rope, and
better too, for the force of the water
took all my breath away. I had to hold
on for four hours though, and then I
tried to scream, but the noise of the
paddles drowned my voice, and I might
have stopped there until we got to Now
Orleans only a passenger came out of
curiosity to look into the paddle-box,
and saw me there. I was screaming and
roaring for my life, but nobody had
heard me ; and then I had got iuto the
Jar corner of the paddle-box. and they
had to stopped the engines to get me
out. That made the captain and
unifinor.i- xvil,T nnil Hi??v kiidcni] me and
* "b1""1 * " * "> j swore
awful, but they didn't hurt me. I
had a jolly trip that time ; the passengers
gave me a bran new suit ot clothes, and
the captain made mo \>ait 011 him at
table."
<k And how did you get back to New
York V
" I was afraid to go back the same
way sol stowed away on another boat to
Galveston, and then stowed on the
regular Galveston steamer back to New
York."
" And who is your friend Mickey."
" 1 picked him ui> in New Y'oik. lie's
a respectable boy ;} leastways, he got a
father and mother, and that's more than
L have. Oir, Mickey's all light ; he told
me his father's a merchant, and lives in
Baxter avenue. He wants to see life, he
?\ bon lio (rote fn Tliviiv.
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pool he'll write home and ruake his
father send him money to pay his fart
back."
Subsequent inquiries proved Jimmy's
account of himself to be correct in the
main, and his anticipations of the jolliness
of his passage were more than
realized. Both boys, by their alaciity
and willingness, made themselves extremcly
useful to the passengers, particularly
to the sick ones, and at the end ol
the journey a handsome little subscription
was got up for their joint benefit.
Jimmy's knowledge of life has proved ol
goor service to him, as he now arrives in
New York regularly, dressed in a neat
uniform, ns captain's boy to the captain
of the E , and Mickey has been
restored to the bosom of his family, who
maintain a grocery store in the classic
neighborhood of Baxter street.
It is reported that there has been
a fight between two J actions of the Creel)
Indians, in which seven were killed and
several wounded. The quarrel is said tc
have grown out of tue election of a negrc
to the chieftaincy of the Greek Nation.
Brought to Terms.
Phipps found it in his way, one day, to
' drop into the office of the Rockville
! Weekly Clarion and insert an advertise:
ment to the effect that a young man pos!
sessing a knowledge of bookkeepeng could
find a good situation by calling at Phipps'
office.
The advertisement duly appeared, and
in answer to the appeal a crowd of applii
c$nts immediately appeared at the advertiser's
door. Now, Phipps chanced to
find the young man he was in search of a
few hours before the advertisement was
given to the public, and consequently the
thousand and one young men, possessing
good references, etc., were forced to depart
with blighted hopes.
In the course of time the printer sent in
his bill for advertising. Phipps did not
settle the bill with his accnstomed
alacrity. On the contrary he demurred.
He said the advertising had been of no
real value to him, and he most emphatically
declined to pay it. The patient
printer waited for some time for him to
relent, but as no sign of such an event
appeared, and his conscience told him
that right was on his side, he determined
*to try the etfect of a little strategy upon
his obdurate debtor.
In the next issue of the Clarion, in a
/innjninnnitj nAoitinn aniiuuratl PViinno'
OUli jpiV/UVUO ^/VOiVIVU) V\A ?
original advertisement, in all the glory of
large capitals and display lines. As before
a crowd of applicants thronged Phipps'
office. It occupied an hour to dismiss
them, as each was eager to convince
Phipps that he was the very yonng man
wanted and all he asked was a fair trial.
After it was over, Phipps sat down, and
wiped his brow, and cursed the stupidity
of the blundering printer for allowing
that notice to appcir again. Another
week slipped away, and again the advertisement
appeared conspicuously in the
Clarion, aod again the eager throng mustered
at Phipps1 office door. Another hour
of superhuman effort, interspersed with
no small amount of cursing, and then
Phipps rushed down to the Clarion office
breathless with rage. What, in the name
of Satan, did the publisher mean? Would
he take that confounded advertisement
out of his paper, or wouldn^ he? Most
certainly he would, and would Mr. Phipps
be so kind as to settle that little bill ?
.No, most emphatically; he'd see tne paper
hanged first. The publisher answered
nothing, but suavely bowed Phipps out.
Monday morning came around and with
it the Clarion, and in it appeared Phipps'
advertisement in more conspicuous type
than ever. Two o'clock saw a regiment
of book-keepers surrounding Phipps'
door. By three o'clcfck all had been
cursed out of sight, and again Phipps
wended his way to the Clarion office.
This time he threatened to prosecute
for libel, for tresspass, for anything and
everything, and swore he'd shoot somebody
if that infernal notice was published
again. But appear again it did, more resplendent
than ever, and not once only,
but regularly with every issue of the
Clarion. Phipps spent his Monday afternoons
in answering numberless inquiries
as to whether he had all the book keepers
j lie was in need cf, and alternately swearing
and threatening summary ejectment
upon the toe of his boot, to every questioner.
One meek eyed young student, whose
first words were interrupted by very vio;
lent actions adverse to his personal safety
I was so terrified that he immediately calleil
noon a noliceinan tor nrotection. The
; valient guardian of the peace administra
ted a scatliing rebuke to the prosecuter.
i and allowed the persecuted to go in safety.
This was the last straw. Phipps once
more appeared at the door of the Clarion
office with less of anger in his face than
ever before.
" I have concluded to withdraw that
little advertisement of mine," he said, urbanely.
" How much is my bill f" *
"Twenty-seven, fifty," was the cool response.
Phipps sighed, but counted out that
sum.
"Thank you," the publisher said court
eously. " 1 shall be pleased if 1 can serve
you at any tuture time."
Phipps is secretly determined not to
advertise in the columns of the Clarion
, again.
Computing Interest.?Here is a new
rule for computing interest. It is so
I ? ? 1 ^Hti a ilwif nrnvr KonL'Or
| MLUpiC aim ovj uuc iuai uuuuvi,
merchant, or clerk should post it for
reference. By no other arithmetical
process can the desired information be
obtained by so few figures :
Six per cent.?Multiply any given
number of dollars by the number of days
of interest desired, separate the right
. hand figures and divide by six ; the result
is the true interest on such number
of days at six per cent.
Eight per cent.?Multiply any given
amount by the number of days upon
which it is desired to ascertain the interest,
and divide by fourty-five, and the
result will be the true interest for the
' time required.
Ten per cent,?Multiply the same as
above and divide by thirty-six, and the
result will show the interest at ten per
cent.
i
i A correspondent, writing from White
I Sulphur Springs to the Washington Pa>
triot, describes the German, which lasted
) two hours, as " hugging, set to music"
?and ho hit, nicely, in his expression.
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Brevities. '
In the United States Navy there is^one
officer to every four men.
It is reported in Paris that the trial-of
Marshal Bazaine has brcmght to light
facts of ereat gravity.
Iowa thinks the milleniam is coming.
A farmer refused 8125 for wheat becaose
he had promised it for 81.
Ants belonging to the specie* Aplienogaster,
in storing seeds for food, bite off
the radical to prevent the germination
of the seed.
A new boiler in a Cincinnati foundry
burst with terrible force, killing Three
men and wounding nine others, some of
them fatally.
A one-armed man in Salem, Mass.,
lately applied for a divorce on the gtound
that the band he had given to his wife
in marriasre was lost, and that the contract
was therefore void.
The rattle of the rattlesnake is for the
purpose of imitating the sound of the
Cicola and other insects that form the
food of birds, and so attract the latter
within the reach of the serpent. '
A coal-pit near Heristal, on the Mense,
was accidentally flooded while the men
were at work. The inundation was so
sudden that twenty-live miners were
drowned in the bottom of the pit.
A terrible mortality, whose canse is as
yet unexplained, is reported on the Norwegian
bark, Byfoget Christianson, from
Pernambuco for the Baltic. Nearly all
the crew have died on the voyage.
A Swedish girl in Minneapolis was
badly burned a few days since by kerosene.
The niggard for whom she worked
charged her for the oil, flour, etc., .used
to ease her sufferings, and sent her away.
Mrs. Winters has proceeded to sue the
city of Leavenworth because a fellowprisoner,
who was insane, killed her
husband in the calaboose, whither he
had been taken in a state of intoxication.
By way of Honolulu, particulars are
received of the massacre of the crew of
the schooner Lavinia by the natives of
the Solomon Islands, in revenge for the
kidnapping of natives by whites. It
was a terrible affair.
A despatch received by the aeent of
the Pacific Mail Steamship Company
fully confirms the report of the loss of
the steamship America. It adds that
three of the European crew and thirty
Chinese passengers were lost.
Salt water, being heavier than fresh
water, has more sustaining power. Fill
a sloop to the water's edge with flagstones
up the Hudson, and when she
nets down to New York harbor she will
float a foot or two out of water.
The band of an American circus travelling
in France went into the streets in
the Prussian military uniform they had
borrowed. Although they played the
Marseillaise, they were compelled to fold
their tents like the Arab and steal away
in front of a whole infuriated town.
Alaska appears to be in a very wretched
condition indeed. Reports from that
delightful land of seals and snow indicate
that the province, accession, or whatever
it be called, is lamentably destitute of
anything like government, except in the
immediate vicinity of Sitka. Elsewhere
life and property are at the me?cy of the
Indians.
44 Give Thy IIorse His Head."?A
few weeks ago, two horses were drawing
each a load of coal up a rising ground in
the suburbs of the city. The hinder
horse had the bearing rein swung loosely
on his neck, and the animal was hanging
his head forwards, and by throwing his
weight into the collar, was dragging his
load steadily and without undue strain on
his muscles and joints. The foremost
horse, with his ton of coals, was braced
up with a tight beiring rein, his head
on/1 r-nc^/l Viiu mmith fretted.
Viaaj^/vu uuu au?wvv?) *#*w - j
and every joint and muscle starting and
straining at each step he took. The two
men were talking to each other, and the
carter of the hinder horse was heard by
the writer to say, " Bill, go and give thy
horse his head ; he'U pull that load
easier." Bill went and gave him all he
wanted. The horse immediately did his
work in a way which conveyed the relief
he felt as clearly as if he had said,
" There, thank you ; I'm all right now."
We would commend to every one who
has charge of a draught horse when he
is at work, the advice Bill received and
followed, "Bill, give thy horse his head ;
he'll pull that load easier."
Light Without Matches.?Take an
oblong vial of the whitest and clearest
glass, put in it a piece of phosphorus,
about the size of a pea, upon which
pour some olive oil, heated to the boiling
point, tilling the vial about one-third
full and then seal the vial hermetically.
To use it, remove the cork and allow the
air to enter the vial, and then recork it.
The whole empty space in the bottle will
then become luminous, and the light
obtained will be equal to that of u lamp.
As soon as the light grows weak, its
power can be increased by opening the
vial, and allowing a fresh supply of air
to enter. In winter it is sometimes ne
cessary to beat the vial between the
hands to increase the fluidity of the oil.
Thus prepared, the vial may be nsed six
months. This contrivance is now used
by the watchmen of Taris.?Rural Horns
Short.?A lady who had received a
severe bite on her arm from a dog went
to Dr. Abernethy, but hearing "of his
aversion to hear the statement of partie- ^
ulars, she merely uncoveicd the injured
part and held it before him in silence.
After examining it he said, in an inquiring
tone, u Scratch ?" " Bite, says the
lady. 44 Cat ?" inquired the doctor.
44 Dog," replied the lady. So delighted
was the doctor with the brevity and
1 promptness of the lady's answers that ha
exclaimed, " Zounds, madam, yon are
; the most sensible woman I have 4net
I with in all my life 1"
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