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> STi VOL. IV. NO. 4C Lovers' Quarrel. i. Yon will find, inclosed with this note of mine, Your letters and gifts in their order set; I have kept, as you see, not a single line To recall what I now would fain forget. Your picture?I never liked the p^se? The ring and chain, and the lest, you know, I have placed with care, for, indeed, who knows But another will prize? Well, let it go ! Bo snaps in a moment the chain that bound. Oh, better, no doubt, to end it thus Than find, too late, as we must have found, That chance alone had united us. You can throw, if you choose, the blame on me, As it always comforts a man to do : No matter ; enough if I can see That the fault of our quarrel rests with you. Let us never meet?it is better so; For, after all, being only human, I feel to the heart?not angry, no, Not angry, but still?an injured woman. P. 8.?On the whole, as our letters might Stray to some other than you and me, For just this once I will meet you to-night, At the usual time, by the sycamore tree. ' II. I send you here, together with this, Your letters you asked for back again, And pardon it if a luckless kits lias blotted the pages now and then. The curl of your hair, the glove you wore, The mignonette?take back the whole, Aud with them the faith that once I bore, Tne L>ve aud trust of a man's whole soul. The pist?is there aught remains behind ? The future?what hope have you left me there ? If I go to the deuce? Bnt never mind ! I scom to threat .n, to rave and swear. No, no, be happy, as womou will Before the kiss on their lips is cold That p'edges them to another, still * In the new love lightly forgetting the old. Yes, all is over between us now? I never thai! luok on yonr face again ; So go your way with your broken vow, Aud think do more of?a desperate man. P. 8.?Id order that you may cee I have kept back nothing, not even a flower, On second thoughts, to the sycamore tree I will bring them myself at the usual hour. ni. They have met to utter thoir last good-byes ; And there by the sycamore tree they stand, Gazing each in the other's eyes, Holding each to the other's hand. The lettei s he on the mossy seatRing and picture, curl and glove ; While the doubly perjured lips repeat The oft-told tale cf changeless love ; Aud over their heads the star of even l'wii kles down through the sycamore boughs, Laughing, perchance, as the hosts of heaven ? May laugh, to listen to lovers' vows. ?Kate Putnam Osgood. ADVENTURE WITH A MADMAN. i Well, Tom, you don't mean to say yon funk it ? 1 thought yon had more plnok than to stick at a little thing like *thai. Suppose the spire is a hundred and fifty feet high; why, there are lad ders all the way tip, and isn't it just as easy to mount the hundredth step as . the first f" urged my adventurous comrade, as he looked wistfully up at the tall, tapering steeple which the work men were then l ewly painting. ' 1 tell you what, Willie, 1 don't see the use of running the risk of breaking iii tlia affiant nt. Fnr Tftn. who I'UI UUVrvo 1U KMV A v- ^ ? ?J have so lately recovered from brain fever, it would be the height of folly." " If so, Tom, it's folly's height itself I'm goiDg to climb to, and within ten minuses I'll be astride of the weathercock. Good-bye, my boy; I'm sorry you haven't the courage to followand, whistling a lively tune, Willie Bradney walked toward the church porch. I was now ashamed to hang back; I know that the next day Willie's adventure would make Jpm the hero of the school?a position which we were ever struggling for in jealous rivalry; so, ere he reached the ohurch porch, I overtook him and signified my intention of sharing the adventure. "That's right, old fellow," was the retort; "but come, be quick, before the workmen return from dinner," and, passing into the belfry, he ascended the . steep winding steps of the tower, and soon gained the battlements. So far all was well. We had already ascended one hundred feet from the ground ; but above us rose the tall, taperiug spire to a height of a hundred and fifty feet more?its Corinthian pinnacle surmounted by the glittering weathercock, which had been newly gilded. The asoent had to be made by ladders, which were bound to each other and secured tightly to the stonework. I glanced at Bradney. He seemed cool and determined. His right foot was already on the ladder. "Go on," I said; "if yon are resolved, I'm with yon," and away he went, and I after him. s There is nothing much easier than getting np a ladder. I took care to grasp my way tightly with both hands, and neither to look np nor down. Willie, however, climled much faster than I, though unaccustomed to the work. We both often paused to rest. At last I heard him shout: " Here's a pretty go, Martin I this confounded pinnacle projects a matter of two feet alxive the top bar of the ladder. I don't see how to clamber over it" "Come down, then, like a sensible fellow," I cried, for I heartily wished the adventure over. " Oh, go to Bath I" was the courteous retort, and looking up I peroeived Bradney's legs dangling in the air, as he endeavored to clamber over the projecting stonework to reach the iron vane. In this he sncceeded. I was equally lucky. A moment later, aided by the crossbars which marked the points of the oompass, we ascended the huge weathercock and sat astride of it facing each other. It was then that the horror of our situation seemed first to burst upon each of us. I looked down, and two hundred and fifty feet below lay the town, ana the great space, tilled with people, evidently intently gazing up at us, ana looking no bigger than dolls. 'ILeo, gtaicwgftt the churchyard beneath, it VNDA 1 ?" , ? ? ). i presented the appearance of a small, level grass plot, with white mice running over it, for to my bewildered vision the Nvery gravestones seemed to move. I felt that I was becoming dizzy; the flaky clouds above appeared to flish by with sickening rapidity, and I threw ray arms back war ground the tail of the cock for support At this moment a hollow, harsh laugh broke from my companion; for the first time I glanced in his face, and the terrible expression depicted there I shall never forget. His eyes flashed lurid and wild, his face was pale as a corpse, and a light foam stood upon his lips. ' Isn't this glorious ?" he screamed, with another maniacal laugh; " right to the blazing sun, I tell you, we are soaring fast. Look at the gaping crowd below. Ah 1 ah! they can't stay us. There's the old church tower, too, I should say a mile down; but where is the spire?the tall spire we climbe I up once ? 'tis gone, never mind ! Oh, brave bird !" and he struck the cock with the flat of his hand, as if to encourage its flight. A terrible thought struck me. My friend's reason, so lately prostrated with brain fever, had left him. I was alone with a madman. This idea was soon confirmed. Again rung forth the shrill hollow laugh, and again Bradney shouted with the accents of delirium : "Ah! ah! faster and faster! Seethe blood-red clouds above and below us ! the world is gone ! There is the sun, a ball of fire, and we are sailing into its very vortex. I say, MartiD, let us throw ourselves off this stupid bird's back; we shall get along faster without him." "No, no, Bradney; I'm tired, and like riding?let us stop where we are," I replied, for I knew it was the best way to humor a madman, but my words >ftd no effect. With an unnatural chuckle he answered me : "No, no, my boy; yon promised to follow me, and you shall come off with me, or I'll pull you off by main force. We fly so fast that if we don't take the leap at the same moment, one will be dropped twenty, eh, thirty miles behind." He crept toward me as he spoke, still clutching and mouthing. I saw his inrob-ntion. I again glanoed below; more fearful than ever seemed the fearful depth at my feefc. Tighter, with the tenacity of despair, [ grasped the tail of the gilded bird, but what would that avail against the strength of a mauiac ? At this moment a gust of wind caused the vane to spin round from east to north ; the sudden blast saved my life. Poor Bradney lost his balance and fell from the giddy height. I saw him sink through the air, stiike Hgein^t a pinnacle of the tower and rebound like a ball. I remember nothing more until I recovered consciousness, many hours afterward, and found myself in bed. In the Wrong Place. It was reported to one of the chief physicians in the hospital in the Philadelphia almshouse that there was a man lying in one of the wards in a comatose condition. The nurse declared that he had been insensible for twenty-four hours, and that she had tried in vain to ronse him. The doctor said it was probable that the pa tit-nt was under the influence of some powerful narcotic; perhaps he had taken a large dose of laudanum. He said that it was imperatively necessary that the unfortunate man should be resuscitated at once by some powerful stimulant. Accordingly he directed two of his assistants to take a strong galvanic battery and apply it to the patient until ho recovered. The assistants went into the hospital with the battery, while the nurse stopped for a few moments in the laundry. When they reached the man's bedside they placed the battery on the floor, and baring the patient's ankle they wrapped the wire around it. When everything was ready they turned on the current full head. A second later the prostrate form of the patient bounded about four feet into the air, and as it came down upon the bed a second shock sent it up again, the patient meanwhile exclaiming: " Yow-wow-wow! Oh, murder! murder-r-r-r-r! Oh! Oh ! Thunder and lightning! Murder-r-r-r! Yow-wow-wow! Grashus! let up on that! Ow-wow-wow! Another one of them will kill me! Oh, don't do that again." When he came down the fourth time the doctors turned off the current, with the remark that they guessed that would be about enough. Then one of them asked the patient how ho felt, and attempted to feel his pul e. But the pa tieDt, furious with rage, said: " You diabolical scoundrel, what d'you mean by hitching that thing to me in that manner, say?" "Now be calm," said the doctor, " it't all right; you'll be better directly." " But it isn't all right. I've a mine to kno.k your head off for blowing me up with that infernal machine. Whai d'you do it for, anyway?" " My friend, don't excite yourself,' said the doctor. "You've been in i very bad way, and we ran the curreni throngh you to bring you back to life.' " Bring me back to life ? Why, yoi must be crazy. Back to lite ? I was nc more dead than you were!" "Now, keep cool. You have been un conscious for twenty-four hours. Mar cctic poisoning, no doubt. We save< you from an early grave. It was thi closest shave I ever saw. It was, upor my honor." " Well, well, if this don't beat all You took me for the man in war* forty nine. Why, I'm one of the keep ers of the asylum, and I lay down oi this bed for a nap. The fellow you'r after is over yonder. An early grave Well, now, I have heard of foolishnes in my life, but this takes the rag righ off. And I givo you warnin' that if yoi come around here with that apparatu again tryin' your experiments on me I'] wrench your brainpan for you." Then the doctors moved off in scare, of the right man, while the keeper wen out to hunt a dog to kick in order to rc lievehis feelings. When a Turkish woman does wtod she is sewed up in a bag and droppe , into the Bosphorus. POB' RD A BEAUFORT, S. C. THE PIUTE FANDANGO. Annual Dance of the Indlanii?Nrrttnire Cob(udm and (Jatfr I?ove Making. The Vincennes (Nov.) Chronicle says : Once a year, usually during the first half of July, the Piute Indians come in from all parts of the State, and have a grand tribe dance. * Whether there is ihe element of religious worship in the fandango nobody knows, but it is natural to suppose that pious motives are uppermost; for the white mind, a less enjoyable assemblage than one of these yearly gatherings could hardly be pictured. It is certainly funny, however. Unlike most Indians, the Piutes are not at all dignified or grave in their demeanor, being very like children in the naturalness of their manner. They are especially unconstrained in their ways just about this time of the year. In winter a Piute, male or female, is a cadaverous individual. Short commons and the shelter of a leaky and comfortless tout of gunny sacks and skius do not conduce to heavy weight. At present, however, all is changed. The bucks look comfortable and happy, while the squaws, especially the young ones, revel in fatness. Piute youth waxeth gallant. It is likely that the yearly fandango is got up in part in the interest of matrimony, for it i& at this season that the Piutes pair. All the youngsters aro just about one year older than their younger brethren. Every healthly squaw has a papoose, and her baby is just about the size and age of every other baby. The annual fandango may perhaps have something to do with this chronological symmetry. Last year tlie dance was held on American flat, but we had the fun nearer home this year. A little valley in the hills to the north of the homestead, between Gold Hill and Virginia, was chosen, and proceedings begun on Wednesday and wound up on Saturday night. About two hundred Piutes gathered and proceeded to build their camps. The aboriginal home on these occasions consists of a breastwork of sage brush, behind which the family crouch and wann their heels at a fire of the same beautiful shrub. The brush is polled op lrom a space auout twice the size of an ordinary circus ring, in the center of the camp, and there the dance takes place. The Piote doesn't shine with a dazzling luster as a heel and toe artist. The "dance " is really no dance at all. The bucks form a ring standing side by side; then the squaws take up position, not mingling with the men, but forming part of the circle. The ring being made, a few gifted bucks start up a guttural chant of Hoo. hoo, hoo, hi-hi! Hi yah, hi-yah. hi-yi! Ho,* hoo, hi-yah, hi-yi! To this inspiring air the ring begins to move, all hands going around with short hops, just as soldiers do when making "right dress" or "left dress." This sort of thing is kept up for hours, the monotonous drone of " Hoo. hoo, hi-yah," going on always. When a dancer tires of the fun he drops out, and some one else takes his place. To the white mind there is a certain lack of variety about three days of one kind of a dauce, but " Jim " never wearies of it. A more grotesque and absurd crowd of human beings could not be imagined. Out of 150 of the ring which happened about on Saturday afternoon, there were three or four braves who were arrayed in a savage costume of bearskin or" buckskin, but all the rest looked as if they had made a raid on a rag shop. Tattered dress coats, filthy linen dusters, frayed and shocking trousers, battered plug hats and hopeless brogans made up the dress of the sons of the soil. One old gentleman had on an ancient swallowtail coat and a bell crown silk hat, while his nether limbs were tightly clothed in fringed buckskin breeches. A pair of boots that might have belonged to a farmer in Revolutionary days graced the rickety feet of the ancient warfior. An nnnsu&l amount of red and white paint is smeared upon the broad countenances of the bucks and squaws at fandango time. During Friday afternoon and evening there were more whites present on the ground than there were Piutes, and it must bo said that the Indians were better behaved than their visitors. Rheumatism, The Journal des Connaissances Medicates contains a review of certain curious observations made by Dr. Q. Esbach on tho conformation of the fingers in various diseases. In persons that perspire easily, or in the case of disorders that induce profuse perspiration, such l as rheumatism, typhus fever, etc., the i transversal curvature of the nail is increased to exaggeration. This symp> torn, which scarcely ever fails to present itself in rheumatic subjects, has led Dr. I Esbach to establish, by a statistical i method, the sudoral etiology of that aft fection, and in the immense majority of cases he has found the following result: ' A man who perspires easily, and who i inhabits a ground floor, becomes, sooner t or later, rheumatic; if, on the contrary, ' he lives in a dry apartment, he is never 1 troubled with that malady. On the > other hand, a man who is not subject to perspiration may live in a damp room - with impunity. Rheumatism appears l\/\ ?rvl rtA/1 /\1-J 1 Afl t AaI tutu? tu w ^lotru uu 1 to jcci giuuutt) i dampness may be the cause of it, but 3 only in such habits as perspire freely. ) A Damper. I A vain and loquacious young man, - who fills a clerkship in a gas company, a visited a witty young lady the other e ovening, with whom he had but a slight ! acquaintance, and, upon entering the ? parlor, commenced a stream of talk, t which he kept up for about fifteen mina utes, without affording her an oppors. tunity to get in a word. He finally II rested for lack of breath, and then the disgusted damsel quietly asked : "Mr. b T., what are you charging for gas now i it By the thousand feet I mean." Mr. T. >- gave the subject some moments' silenl consideration, and then, rising slowlj from his ch i: , cart upon his fair com g panion a look of the deepest reproach, d an I passed softly out " where tlie start were shining." r no" lND < , THURSDAY, SEP CENTENNIAL CORRESPONDENCE. Increased Attendance?Rifle Presentation to Mrs. Maxwell?Speech el Thanks or the Colorado Huntress?A New Cook Stove?The Argentine Republic. The cooler weather has increased the attendance of visitors very greatly, and it is expected that daring the months of September and October the number of Centennial sightseers will equal one hundred thousand a day. There was a rifle presentation by the commissioners and friends of the Kansas and Colorado exposition, in the spacious Colorado reception-room, to Mrs. M. A. Maxwell, the Colorado huntress, who has such a magnificent exhibition of stuffed animals and birds, of her own killing, in the Colorado department. Dr. K. W. Wright, the Kansas commissioner, made the presentation, gracefully acknowledging how much she had done for the success of the Kansas and Colorado exhibition, and in presenting the lady with an elegant Evans' magazine breech loading rifle, capable of being loaded with thirty-four cartridges in forty-five seconds, and discharged in twenty seoonds without removing the hand from the lock, he said: " We trust you will ever keep it as bright as the eye that directs it, and that, in years to oome, you may be able to collect, from the hills and dales of your mountain home, many choice specimens in addition to your already very large collection." To which Mrs. Maxwell replied: (tAIy Kind Friends?To express my thanks for this valuable present, and for your words of kind appreciation, is quite impossible. I can only assure you that both shall be treasured while life and memory eudure. The use of this rare gift shall be directed by a love for science, aud, in the pursuit of objects for the study of natural history, it shall be my trusted companion and assistant. Please accept my warmest thanks and my best wishes, not only for this expres* sion of esteem, but also for tho brotherly consideration and tho numerous words of encouragement and deeds of kindness that I have, at all times, received from von." A Mrs. Evard, of Virginia, has a model cook stove, of her own invention, in the women's department, which I will try to describe for the benefit of my lady readers. Its peculiarities ore: The fire box is divided vertically, so that wood can be burned in one side and coal in the other, or a fire can be made in one aide only. The oven is also divided in the same way into two compartments, so that dry hot air can be used in one side for baking and cooking, and steam in the other, and the flavor of different articles of food cooking at the same time will not intermingle. But the partitions in the tire box and also in the oven can bo removed and each two made one. The bottom of the rear two-thirds of the tiro box is solid, to retain the coals, especially of wood, and the front third of the bottom, and all the front part of the fire box to the top is grating, which gives a good draft, and throws the heat out in front of the stove. To the front of this stove is attached ?removable at pleasure?a sheet iron roasting and broiling oven, regulated by a lever so that meats can be adjusted near or remote from the fire, and held in any position desired. By means of flues and dampers the heat can bo sent ovc-r the top, or under the bottom of one or both compartments of the oven, or all around it, at pleasure. The top is like any other stove, except a fifth cap, equidistant from the ordinary four caps, with graduated heater in form of an hour glass for coffeepot or various uses. The chief merits claimed for this stove are economy of fuel, convenience, and ease and rapidity of working, relieving to a great extent the burden cf labor in cooking. The Argentine Republic ha9 a tine display in the Main building of ores, tin, copper, silver and gold, coal, building stones and building materials, geological collections, artificial stone, clays, kaolin, silex, lithographic stones, whetstones, precious metals, mineral waters, chemicals, pharmaceutical preparations, oils, soaps, candles, paints, dyes, medical compounds, bricks, tiles, fireclay goods, glassware, furniture, kitchen utensils, laundry appliancee, cotton yarns, linen and other vegetable fabrics, woolen good3, robes, shawls, hats, caps, boots and shoes, clothing, laces, embroideries, trimmiDgs, jewelry, ornaments, artificial flowers, fancy leatner work, fancy articles of various kinds, blank books, and enough articles of the materia medica to cure or kill a nation of people, surgical and dental instruments, carriage and horse furniture, harness, saddles, leather and dressed skins. In the educational and scientific department there are school and text books, and books of general literature, telegraphio instruments, musical instruments, typographical and geological maps, marine and coast charts, works on government and law, military organization, legislative forms, prisons, reform schools, religious organizations and systems. In the art department she has a creditable exhibit of sculpture, figures and groups in stone and metal, carvings in wood, ivory and metal, medals pressed and engraved, paintings in oil and water /mlftro dronrinffq lifhocranhs. mosaic wiyio, .. o?tr ? and inlaid work. In Machinery hall are looms, type setting machinery, boats and sailing vessels. In Agricultural hall her collection of woods is magnificently large and beautiful, as is also her display of roots and barks for dyeing and tanning, gums, resins, lichens, mosses, seeds, nuts, cereals, grasses, roots and tubers, tobacco, - tea, coffee and spices, and especially ; dressed skins, leather, hides and wool. , A fleece of the finest wool, grown in eleven months and eighteen days, weighs . thirty-one pounds. She has also a good . show of wild animals, reptiles, insects, - nets, hooks, sponges, furs, butter, eggs, , honey, preserved meats, fruits, corn, starch, sugar, wines, bread, cotton, silk, \ hair, fertilizers, etc. This display of j our sister republic is very remarkable ; I and excites much surprise, as well as - interest. S. M. B. i " Loafing around saloons with intent ? t"> sponge," was the oharge made by a Cincinnati policeman against a prisoner. OOMfy TEMBER 7, 1876. Cormorant Fishing. The London News says: A very curious sport is gaining ground in this 1: country. The use of cormorants for t Ashing purposes has been practiced for t (centuries by the Chinese, who carefully 1 train these birds to deliver their prey t: uninjured to their master instead of ap- C propriating it to their own use, and from C China and other Oriental countries it e has been brought to England. Cormo- t: rant fishing recalls, in a measure, the * old days of falconry, with the exoeption b that while the feats of the trained hawks ii and falcons were performed in mid-air, ( the performances of the "sea crow," as 1; the French call it, take place in the wa- t ter. With a ring placed round their I necks to prevent them from swallowing a their booty, though well trained birds p will dispense with this restraint, the t cormorants plunge at a given signal into r the water, and hardly ever fail to bring a up a finny prize. Their broad webbed 1 feet and their thin, keel shaped body, i admirably adapt them for swimming and t diving, and they will often use their short, stiff wings as an additional means ^ of propulsion. So swift are they and so c sudden their descent, that the nimblest i fish cannot escape them. If they seize \ their prey otherwise than by the head < they ascend to the surface, and, quickly jerking it into the air, will adroitly 1 catch it as it falls headforemost. * The ] appearance of a number of cormorants ? thus engaged, and regularly bringing i their booty to their owner's hand, is a 1 very pleasing sight. Thus employed i they will continue fishing, with but little 1 intermission, and with the occasional < encouragement of a handful of the small i fry, for several hours together. Otters, i indeed, can be trained to act in a similar f manner, and if this mode of fishing is < likely to become at all general it will necessitate a new reading of certain acts ] of Parliament. Under the salmon 1 fishery acts, for instance, a duty is pay- I nKln / ?? " incfrnmontn " TlttPfJ fnr thfi i ai/lO VU U10V4UAUVMWW capture of salmon, and it may become a < question for the lawyers whether a I 44 cormorant" can properly be called an | 44 instrument" engaged in pursuit ol I salmon, whiie it is only an 44 aquatic to- 1 tipalmate " at other times. There are, ] at any rate, few kinds of sport which are i not open to objections from which cor- i morant fishing is free. Cormorants must : have fish to eat, and it is no more cruel 1 to let them feed themselves in the pres- i ence of admiring spectators than to 1 catch the fish first of all in a net. It is ] even superior to the ancient falconry, since the winged prey of the hawk is' a ' more sensitive animal than the finny i pre y of the cormorant, and the fish do < not probably feel any pain in their igno- ] minions descent, headforemost, into the i capacious beak of their captsr. All About Snuff. It takes one year and a half to convert tobacco into good snuff. The tobacco, . after being 44 broken outof the huge hogsheads in which it is bought, is < stemmed, broken by a machine into , pieces about four inches in length, and j is soaked for twenty-four hours in strong brine. It is then hoisted up to great i bins in the upper part of the factory, and there is left to ferment and cure at i least six months. Then it is dried in a steam heated room at a temperature of 240 degrees. For coarse Rapgeo the tobacco is not thoroughly dried. For Scotch and Irish Blackguard, it is mode thoroughly dry, and for the latter is also toasted, or parched, on a wire net close in front of a wide grate of glowing coals, where the heat is so intense that the leaves must be constantly 6tirred to prevent tueir bursting into flame. Grinding in cast iron nulls of peculiar construction follows, and the resultant powder, fine or coarse, is at leDgth recognizable as snuff. In this condition it must lie in bins for months, then be packed into bladders or jars which aro hermeticallv sealed and varnished, and in this form is again packed away to lie I for at least six months before it is deemed perfect and fit to be pnt on the market. All these processes are open to public knowledge, but there is one which is a secret and is zealously kept as such. Tnat is the manner in which snufi is perfumed. Attar of roses is known to be the material employed, but how it is applied is only known to tho tobacco men. The Effect, As a Detroit saloon keeper stood behind his bar, says "M. Quad," in walked a stranger, who inquired : " Can you inform me what effect lemonade has upon the mental system ?" " It has a good effect, where you pay for it," was the reply. "And where you don't?" " Tho effect is then transferred from the mental to the physical system, and you go out of here with something kicking you forty times per minute." ' Thanks, sir," bowed the stranger, backing out. "I am not thirsty, and I never did believe in summer drinks." He went down the street, stole two harvest apples, and found the effect to be just the same as if he had taken lemonade. When the " machine" ceased kicking, the stranger remarked: " Between being kicked for three nAnin if ia mx7 /Inf.U fn UCUbO UL 1U1 lA^JLL 1W u uu.j ? be kicked for ten cents, and that shall be my motto hereafter." Captain Kidd. The famous pirate, Capt. Kidd, frequented Narragansett in the old days, when distillers, 6lave traders and pirates were numerous. His landing was at the bar on which the south pier Was, built. His places of resort are still shown, and numerors iioles in the ground, made by credulous seekers after his hidden treasure, can be seen in Peacedale and other places. A few years ago a sword hilt was dug up in a field near the pier, on which was en graved the name of Artemas Gonld, who was one of Kidd's lieutenants. Twentyeight of this crew were hanged on one gallows in Newport. Nothing will undermine one's faith in I the sincerity of friendship more com] plotely than to have a friend ask you to "take something," and, after theglasse hare been emptied to hear him exclaim, as he runs his hands deep into his pockets : " I've got my other pants*" IERCI $2.00 per J i A Stage Secret. Many of our readers have been not a ittle surprised at the intelligence of dogs rained for the circus ring and the stage. l correspondent of the Illustrated Weekly lets us into the secret of this raining. It says that when LiDgard aDd Jeorge Fox separated, and Fox.took the )ld Bowery, the New Bowery had a celbrated dog star, who with a couple of rained dogs for a whole month played ' ihe Dog of Montargis " to a very good tusiness. This roused a wild ambition n Fox's breast to do dogs also. Tom lorny, the best trained dog, had reoent7 died, and the man at the Bowery had he only educated beasts in the business, lowever, ignorance attempts and chieves a great deal sometimes. The >resent historian proposed what should >ecalled "The Beefsteak Drama." A lew play should he written, in itself an attraction, called "Jack Shepard and his Dog." "Jack " was a tower of strength n the Bowery without a dog; with one, he new theater stood no chance. Two splendid black Newfoundlands vere secured. One, belonging to a fire company, had a fair canine education? vould fetch and carry; but dog No. 2 vas an ignoramus, and used only as a ! louble. The eventful evening came. The fire addie had had neither dinner nor supper, but was peculiarly susoeptible to the seductions of raw steak. It seemed as I a young meat market was started on v.? aM Uaitott BtaorA "Rita of steak * LX.XJ VlU i^/nv*T ? were wired on all articles designed to at:raot the artist's attention. It was required that the dog should fly from the wings, up a flight of steps, ring a bell, seize a lantern from the hand of the person answering the door, and then bound off, followed by the actor. Csssar was held in awing while George Pox at the door up the steps frantically craved a porterhouse steak. Cassar's attention being called, he promptly rushed bo his friend, who as promptly shut the ioor in his face, Csssar got a smell of the chunk wired upon the bell pull, and jave a savage snap at that, which rung bhe bell violently. Some one appeared with the lantern, showing Caesar a mouthful of beef conspicuously wired upon its handle. He went for it then md there. Meanwhile George had got round to the opposite side with a sirloin; which he danced and shook as a matartore does his red rag in the face of a bull. Caesar straightway rushed for this promising lonch. In this way he seized papers which the villain of the play was boasting possession of; lie took the whole seat of a pair of pants off Fox, who had a sirloin neatly sewed upon them; and finally, as the minister of vengeance, he was grappled with by the villain; rolled over and over to the wings, where the green dog, who was a match in size and looks, was muzzled to a padded neckcloth. Here an instantaneous change was made. C? jar retired to private life and - ? _l.il. Li- ? w6il earned do lies, wuue um suusutuic was quickly harnessed to the man by the padded collar, which was clasped around the actor's neck. Thus apparently clinging to the villain's throat, the two in a death struggle writhed and twisted about the stage, and, amid victorious hurrahs, the curtain dropped on the successful " Beefsteak Drama." President Washington's Levee. At three o'clock the visitor was introduced to the dining-room, from which all seats had been removed for the time. On entering he saw the tall, manly figure of Washington, clad in black silk velvet, his hair in full dress, powdered and gathered behind in a large silk bag, yellow gloves on his hands, holding a cocked hat with a black cockade in it, and the edges adorned with a black feather about an inch deep. He wore knee and shoe buckles and a long sword. He stood always in front of the fireplace, with his face toward the door of entrance. The visitor was conducted to him, and his name distinctly announced. He received his visitor with a dignified bow in a manner avoiding to shake hands, even with best friends. As visitors came, they formed a circle round the room ; and at a quarter past three the door closed, and the circlo was formed for that day. He then began on the right, and spoke to each visitor, calling him by name and exchanging a few words. When he had completed his circuit he resumed his first position, and the visitors, approaching him in succession, bowed and retired. By four o'clock this ceremony was over. These facts have been learned in general from the reminiscences of General Sullivan. Mrs. Washington's levees were every Friday evening, at which occasion the general was always present. It was an occasion for emulous and aspiring belles to essay to win his attention. But he ?? familiar hifi ronntenance Y(HO liU f Ol A?mniW? | mm mm, ? ... uniformly, even there, preserved its habitual gravity. A lady of his family said it was his habit, also, when without company, and that she only remembered him once to have made a hearty laugh in a narrative and incident in which she was a party. The truth was his deportment was ur avoidably grave; it was sobriety, stopping short of sadness. His presence inspired a veneration and a feeliDg of awe rarely experienced in the presence of any man. His mode of speaking was slow and deliberate, not as though he was in search of fine words, but that he v might utter those only adapted to his purpose. A Spanish Trophy. The Spaniards in Puerto Principe have a carious cannon captured from the Cubans. It is about three feet long, three inches in dameter at the month, and abont an inch thick, and appears to have been made by binding and twisting bands of raw leather hide around the center-piece, which seemed to be ohe entire piece, smooth throughout its bore, into a sort of basket twist, and then a few bands of plain hoop iron added to fix it to a small wooden carriage? not a very formidable looking pieoe in appearanco, bnt capable, with a small charge of powder, of throwing a shell or grenade some distance. The insurgents make and use a number of such pieces, but they quickly become useless. The rector ot Mold, Flintshire, England, has been mulcted iu $4,000 damages for breach of promise to marry hu ! sexton's daughter. AL. ' linn. Single Copy 5 Cents. Hems of inters*. The Connecticut tobacco crop is reported to be excellent this year. Blind men are employed as attendants in Japanese bathing establishments for women. it is estimated that there is about $10,000,000 in gold coin in circulation in California no*, against half tha' amount at the time of the panic. A man is supposed to be wandering somewhere in Pennsylvania with two live alligators in his possession. He took them from Philadelphia. The coefficient of friction of leathe belts over wooden drums is 0.47 of the pressure, and overturned oast iron pulleys 0.28 of the pressure. The Western dairymen met in convention the other day, and the toasts were all darnk in milk. What a disgusting sight it must have been far a brewer. A person who was sent to prison for marrying two wives excuse? himself by saying that when ho had one she fought him, but when he got two they fought with each other. A Massachusetts clergyman received thirty cents for a marriage fee the other day. The groom offered him twenty -* **-??* Kyi* dnallv fan. 811; UiOV| i/uv t w# " though times is hard." " Wasn' it rough ou Ella, just &s she was telling Fredrick at lunelihowethereal her appetite was, to have the cook bawl out: " Say, will ye have yer pork a:id greens now, or wait till yer feller's gone I" The high winds in San Francisco blow dust into latent grease spots on clothing, and make them visible. Bootblacks carry little bottles of ammonia villi which to obliterate the spots, and in that way increase their income. Children reduced to almost the last stages of cholera infantum, when they are unable to hold any other food on their stomachs, will greedily take strong beef tea, salted and made palatable? and will often recover on that treatment. A traveler staying over night with a Texan farmer, whose estate was miles in extent, said to bim: "You must have begun life very early to aocamulate such an estate as this." "Yes," replied the farmer, "I began life when I was a mere baby." A ragged boy was, years ago, cared * for by a benevolent young man in Baltimore, who has just married. The boy grew up intelligent, educated, and enterprising. Mark the power of gratitude. A few days ago be eloped with his benefactor's wife. A natural curiosity called "Indian Well," in the t>wn of Huntingdon, Coud., is much visited by picnic parties. This well is about twenty feet deep and almost perfectly round, and it has been hollowed ont from solid granite by water \ L irom a urou*.. An artificial chicken hatcher is exhibited in Cincinnati. It oonsiste of a large glass box, holding four hundred eggs, on wire trays. The temperature is regulated so accurately that it never varies half a degree from one hundred. The machine works well. " King John " was announced for production in r. Western theater, and the manager posted the cast in the green room. He noticed one of his actresses examining it closely, after which she turned to him and asked who wrote the pieoe. He said Shakespeare. "Goodness I" she exclaimed ; " has that man written another play 1" The Chinese woodchoppers who went np in the waterspout at Eurka, Nov., escaped unharmed. They were encamped in the bed of the canyon; seven of the thirteen got of the range of the flood; five tumbled down into the .valley below, and one was washed two miles. The miners aver that nothing short of an earthquake will kill a Chinaman. "This, dear girl," said a wise little lady, tappiog with her parasol one of the big torpedoes in the Centennial Government building, "this is a wonderful invention for rescuing people. They put them in a ad close it up, dragging them ashore through the surf where ordinary boats could not go." Uninqoisitive ignorance is the proper frame of mind for the fall enjoyment of the Centennial Exhibition. A wealthy resident of Holland died in 1691 leaving large estates but no heirs of his own body. The property was appropriated by William of Orange. These estates arc said to amount to $116,000,000, and have been withheld from the proper heirs, whose descendants +otor> stflrs tn recover the U0?0 UV?T same. Several of these heirs are in this country, one of them being Christian Metzger, a stone mason, of Buffalo. A gentleman passing by the gaol of a country town heard one of the prisoners through the grating in his cell1 singing, in the softest and moat melodious r'tone, that favorite song: " Home, sweet home." His sympathies being0 very much excited in favor of the unfortunate tenant of the dungeon, he inquired the cause of his incarceration, when, to his disgust, he was informed that the fellow was put in ggol for wife beating. East Kingston, B. I., has a modified Enoch Arden case. Charles A. Osgood went to Canada eleven years agj, leaving a wife and two children, ahd, not returning, the wife married again, bore two children and died. Osgood appeared Snnday and claimed his daughter, now fifteeD, but paid no attention to the son. Tho girl refused to leave her stepfather, and, after giving her new clothes and kissing an? being kissed, the disconsolate father wandered off again. At the Paris conservatory of mnaic is a young man with an almost phenomenal tenor voice. He can siug the highest notes with marvelous ease, and his compass is extraordinary, He might become the most famous singer iu the world, doubtless, were it not for the singular i. fact that he has "no ear for music." Assiduous study only enables him to master very rimple tunes, and intricate pieces aro utterly beyond hw compre> henaion. He used to be a cook, and bis ' wonderfnl voioo induced a teacher i opera to tak? him in hand, but the itfeuU is a failure.