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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. \
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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*
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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
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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
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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.
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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,!"
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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. ^