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* ' ... - ~ THE CAMDEN JOURNAL. an NDEPENDENT FAMILY PAPEB, published by JOHN KERSHAW. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year, in advance $2 50 Six months... 1 50 Three months 75 0^* Transient Advertisements muBt be paid 0r] in advance. ' > CLASS IO BUSTS. the mystery of fine busts explained to a bashful reporter?a great cal1 ifornia invention. . [Prom the San Francisco Chronicle.] In this modern aud artificial age, when . ladies; so love to stuff, pad. lace and twist tho ~ ' human form divine as to make it graceful, ok- i dMnite ativ little short-comings of n&tnrc in ; VOL. YYVtT. '^AMDEW. S. O , THTOSP^ NOVEMBER 211872. NO. Iti, way of an imperfect figure, we are not natoni|hed to bear doily of new patents and aiding the dressmaker in her worts to' improve nature's . hand*Believing that something new was needed to give additional prominence?contour, dedelopwent, embonpointment, or what you ' will?to the female fortnr a modiste of this city has lately invented and patented a tin bust. A Chronicle reporter sought the inventress at her manufacturing rooms.? ^ Climbing a flight of stairs, he rapped timidly at her door, for what man does not feel a 4 little shaky when about to explore the mysteries of the feminine toilet? A plump, bright looking little woman, with rosy cheeks and a smile that bespoke good humored cuteness, opened the door and said : "well, sir v Reporter?Madam, I am a?I heard?excuse me?I understand that you are the inventress of a tiu?a tin b-b-b?that is a tin model for ladies, madam. 1 r '"Modiste?1*08, sirj; patent tin. busts. Bo 'you wish to purchase one ? . The reporter explained his occupation, and informed the lady that he had merely called, thinking that some inijjrmation con : rrrnnf i n iron f inn would nrOVe Of CCI U HIq lllC glVUV IU(VUV?^M .. ? , interest to the lady readers of the Chroniclp. ^Oh, dear, so you are a ^reporter ? .Well I, declare I don't knot? whether I ou?ht to show yea uiy patent bust or not. You newspaper men?and especially the Chronicle mer*?aye so saucy; land then you are so cruelly sarcastic sometimes that I really am afraid of the Chronicle, though I would not do without it for the world. Now, I know you oame up here to make fun of this bust of mine; diarist you ?" Reporter?No, Madam. I assure you I * came to write something in the cause of science and improvement. Modi9te?Well, then, I suppose I must show it to you. So walk right in. IN THE LION'S DEtf. . >s. v >The reporter turned as red as a beet as he VVentoxed a room where -some comely girls dp busy catting and sewing something.? j He\took 8 neat, yearly missing the chair, ventress retired into anotherroom to getthe" * wonderful bust. gThe girls cast mischeivous glances at him that made him feel like a cat "-4 * in a strange garret. Presently the invent* ? * , ress returned, bearing in ber bands a tin thing that resembled John McCullongh's breastplate when he does "Richard III." She piaeed itio the reporter's lap,--which started the girls to-giggling again, and made him feel like two strange oats in a garret. Modiste?You see this is just like the b6dy of a lady. It is made of tin, and wo mafce them to any size. A HORRIBLE BLUNDER. Reporter?How in the world ?an a lady wear one of these stiff, uncomfortable^ things? "--v. Modiste?Why, dear me, they do not wear them at all. They are dummies?models on which to fit dresses. v At this point the girls screeched, and the inventress had to quiet them by a reprimand. Reporter?Oh! I see; you only adjust tho pattern on this?this bust. Modiste?Yes; its just like fitting a dress on a live'woman, you seo, only it does not fidget like some of them. It's convenient. You can take it in your lap while you are fitting on the dress, and you can't do that with a live w.omau, you know. The reporter blushed, and said he rather thought not. . j . . Modiste?Of course not; it's not a bit inconvenient to carry around, though it is so large! See here, I ymt my hat in it. It makes- a splendid hat-box to put in your trunks while you are traveling?a hat can't get inashed a bit. We make them of all sizes and furnish patterns, wire-stand and everything complete, so that a lady can ad? just her bust to the hoighth of her figure, and make a dress fit-exactly. Oh, it if extremely convenient, I assure you. If you are rich, and don't want to bother with running to your dress-maker so.oftcn to get your dress tried on to see how it's being made, why all you need to do is to get a bnst and leave it at the dress-maker's with your order. 3 JfiQH ''' Raporter?I see, madam. Very nice ar-. rangement. THE ECONOMY OP THE THING. Modiste?Yes, and if you are only respectable, and like to wear neat-fitting dresses, and can't afford to pay a dress-maker twenty-five dollars for making one, why you can get one of my patent tin busts and cut and fit your own dresses. Then, too, if you are a professional dress-makeir and wish to make a favorable display of your goods, these arc the best things you can get* See there (laying her hand on two very visible proturberancptou the model) thatjupsets off a bodice Or* fcact chattfingly.- * Reporter?Suppose that those who order these?ur-ah?these inventions?are not? ur-ah?well developed, tall and-straight ? Modiste?Oh, that's the beauty of these busts. W the purchaser is not well-formed, we make Ihe bust so ahyhow-; and'wheh the dress is fitted to it and padded, it's l^eal graceful, I assure you. We never have any trouble about that. A SUPrOSABLE CAS?. Reporter?If a young lady should purchase oue of these, would she not outgrow it and the dresses fitted to it become too small ? Modiste?All that they have to do is to send ' ft back add get it enlarged. If it's a very fa? womaiaa&d she growsfean, we can * make her "tin b'ust smaller. .* -? ; 9 Here the reporter rose to go, expressing I the belief that the madam's great invention would prove a success. He was politely bowed out, and passed dow'n the stairs.? When he reached the bottom he stood for a moment pondering on the deceits of the world, and of the fickle fiairin particular. Just as he stepped into the street he felt, something strike him on the head, and heard a peal of silvery laughter from tie window above. He picked up the soft missile with which he had been struck. It was a lot of Cotton rolled in paper. And this the parting salute that the tin bust girls gave the bashful Chronicle man.- % A Railroad Raoe ( SINGULAR COLLISION AND A LIGHTNING ' ' RAQE. Onrt nf the most sineular accidents in the annals of the railway occured in this city yesterday morning?startling the staid old town out of its propriety and furnishing material for conversation during the succeeding twenty-four hours. THE COLLI8ION. Yesterday morning, between the hours of seven and eight o'clock, as the engine M. P. Stovall?belonging to the Georgia Railroad Company?was coming down the railroad track, near the Augusta Factory; the engineer attempted to slacken speed and the throttle valve broke. This accident caused the engineer to Ipse all control over the locomotive, and both Himself and the fireman jumped from the train, as to have remained on board would have been to needlessly endanger their lives. The engine kept the track, and came rapidly along the track into the Georgia Rail road yard. In the. meantime the Ashley?a shifting engine belonging to the South Carolina Railroad Company?had left the yard of that company, and was pushing several freight cars to the Union Depot. When the engine and cars reached Jackson street the engineer and fireman saw the M. P. Stovall coming rapidly towards them. As they leaned out of the side of the cab the Georgia Railroad engine struck the freight /iom front nf the Ashlev. The shock threw both the engineer and the fireman to the groud. The freight ears were badly crushed, and the M. P! Stovall was thrown from the track with great violence, together with the tender. The tendor fell very near the spot whore the engineer of the Ashley lay, and the latter only escaped death by a few, inches. IWfore the Engineer jumped,, however, he reversed his.engine ; the shock broke tbe draw bar, the. engine and tender were loosed from the cars and began to move rapidly b*ckwarda,dam> Washington street. and towar<fi chfe SaVannahrriverr " THE BACK. ,.V The engine and tender were now free? the engine reversed, the throttle valve open, and the engineer and fireman lying on the ground. The Arther it j^ent Jhe faster was the rate of speed. It went down "Washingstreet like Deiter or the American Girl on the home-stretch. The early risers were astonished and .alarmed, while afew sanguine Greeley men, who Jiad^ot lost all hope, im agined that the Liberal Republicans bad earried Dade county and the Ashley was. carrying the returns to Washington City. Near Reynolds street, a hand car; belonging to the Caroling Road, came around the corner. In the car were seyeral workmen, a quantity of boards and carpenter's material, and a longancfe^erv heavy stick of timber placed lengthway, and hanging over a little in front. When the men saw the locomotive coming they smelt danger, and after attempting unsuccesslhlly to get th^car off the track, they made a most .rapid" and masterly retreat. The tender struck the beam, which ran under it, wedged itself firmly to the car, and carried the latter on with it. The Ashley and its new attachment went through the railroad yard like the comet. Fortunately the track was clear and the switches all right, and it dashed over the bridge and across the river without let or hindrance. The runaway machine did not stop until nearly three miles from the bridge, when the steam gave out and it came to a halt. When the engine had passed the bridge, Col. Meredith, manifesting his usual energy and vigi.ance, dispatched a hand car after it, and the fugitive locomotive was brought back to the city in safety. No damage was done except to the M. P. Stovall, which fell from the track, and the freight cars, which were crushed by the collision. It was the most novel runaway accident on record.?Augusta Chronicle. / j : : , ' \ ?* Classification of Fashionable Women.?A lively correspondent, writing from New York upon the subject of fashionable women in that city, sub divides thorn into sir well-defined varieties. First we have the woman who wishes to combine fashion with godliness, and who is always uncertain which of the two should be paramount. Grace Church and Fifth avenue arc the termini of the littl? of this class. - "In one she worships, and in the other she is worshipped," ne>atly observes the dissecting letter-writer. The next type is the literary woman of fashion, who makes books?the rarer and the more ancient the better?her hobby, and who discourses learnedly on authors of whom she knows nothing about, or else knows only through newspapers and maga zine criticism. "She is sure she would have adored Dante or Shakspearc," says our social anatomist; "and yet it will be revealed some morning that she is engaged to Mr. Simpson Sugarhouse, the wholesale grocer, and as Mrs. Sugarhouse she will drop her affectations and become the mother of matter-of-fact- children." Another variety of these charming enthusiasts is the musical wonder of the salons?the young lady who from the ago of six, has had Becthoven'f sontse, Mozart's masses, and Gluck's figure! drummed into- her, and who renders then mechanically, and without in the least com prehending their spirit; who plays pieces o) her "composition," which are believed tc have beep the work of her old^German mu sid master^ and who frighte'ns away suitor! by dwelling too persistently upon octaves staffs and counter points when she well knows that the young m&n have more taste for negro uiinistrelsy than for symphonies. Other types are the art belle, who has caught the infection of the pre-Rephaclite school, and who passes her time in chatting about . the Old Master and in painting poor pictures; the benevolent wotuen of fashiou, with whom benevolence means to drive about in the poor districts?to the House of Industry, the Five Poiuts Mission, the Newsboy's Home?and although without any genuinq ?' generosity in her comjttsitiQn, to make ureat j ado over her pQrfoinm*ices; and finally,^ thg. ' wiss^thro^io.. he^^ret^n^y^l, ^w|| ^ if ?B .?? 5 ? Lady Pillula.' * RY TI1E AUTHOR OP "OINX's BABY." 1 Lady Pillula was nearly eighty years of J age, with the withering marks of time deep - . ly written on her features and mittened ' hands. Yet no small vitality remained in her frame. She had nothing to do. so she 1 took medicine. With little interest in those ^ who were about her to attract attention, she 1 fixed it on herself, and that part of the body ' which be came the sole and specific object J of her regard was her intestines. It is J affirmed by physicians that one may, by ' nervous concentration of thought npou one 1 spot of the body, induce or aggravate a local 1 morbid action. This was Lady Pillula's 1 peculiarity. Her passion was pills.., Of ' these she was at onco an artist, a connoisseur, * and a miser. Vast collections of empty pill- ' boxes lumbered her room. She took pills ( ?1 m mrp In the moraine, before break- ; fast, at eleven in the forenoon, at one.* She ] took Holloway's as an appetizer for lunch, J and counteracted the effects of that untime- ( ly meal with the oelebratef^nti-bilious pills 1 of Cockle. Her dinner was inaugurated by { three boluses of rhubarb, and concluded with * aloe. Tier nocturnal podophyllin was never * omitted. She scanned the newspaper every * morning for one purpose, the discovery of < new pills; while her sister. Lady, W.,songht the columns of fashonablc intelligence, and 1 Lord W. perused the stock lists, she was { busy registering the latest novelty in pillular 1 invention. On the first occasion of her 1 reading the advertisement of the notorious 1 Rcvulcnta Arabica, headed, "No more fulls ] or anv other medicine," the announcement 1 proved too much for her, and she fainted. 1 She only recovered on the exhibition of a ( whole box of "Brandreth's." One form of ^ pill she abhorred, namely, the minute glob- ' ules of the Jiomaepatlustfl. These ^ Bho c^n^ 1 adnlt interior. The most agreeable surprise you could ( pass upon her was to present her wi^i a box ' of new pills. She w?uld take them the 1 ???? auAiiii>? nml nrnnonnce on their nuali- * v.-liun.g r._ , tics the next day with the precision and 1 gusto of a connoisseur. Indeed, the mania 1 affected her morality. She became morbid 1 in pursuit of her fancy; invading her sister's boudoir, or even Lord W.'s dressing-room, in the hope of finding some stray box of her 1 condiments. If a visitor happened to carry ' such specifies about with him, or left tbem ' in his room, Lady Pillula took tithe of them. < She had several times been u&rly p oisoned. J Once she swallowed a num$r\of .Buckshot ' which an incautious sports&an^had turned 1 into an empty pill-box on unloading hisgnn. * In anothor instance some glass beads met * with a similar accident. \ One item of comfort to be extracted from 1 this strange but authentic case, should not 1 pass unmarked. Notwithstanding the vast 1 numbers of portentous patents, fr^m the exhi- J bition of winch innumerable consequonceB 1 were pledged to ensue, Lady Pillula's organs seemed contrived to resist them all. It was ' onlv affected by the blue pill in unusual 1 quantities, or prescriptions administered by 1 her physicians; the harmlcssness of most patent pills was a source of vexation to her though it proved the simplicity of materials with which people are gammoned. Lord W. used to amuse himself occasionally at his sister-in-law's expense. He asked Savory of Corbyn for their latest inventions, and brought home boxes of them. He himself slily mixed some, rare and monstrous compositions, ranging from pitch to beeswax or broad, and was entertained to find that the old lady placed some of these higher in her standard of excellence. When, however, he twitted her with her credulity, and with the perils to which sho was exposing herself by her unreasonable addiction to such fraudulent devices, she replied upon him vathcT. sharply: 'Everybody takes pills of some some sort," she said. "Some swallow opinions wholesale without knowing much of what is in them. Some people take their priest's prescription as if it were certain to contain a specifio for their souls.r?Others take their political ideas from political quacks, and gulp them ' with the most credulous simpllcty. I have soen you take for granted any pill the editbr of the Chimes makes up for you of a morning, and having known you to be the worse fof /~4*1 ?1-" !.?? nta IflAlrnil vifllrMl. ir. uincr pcupic ?ucig ouv iw^w^ ?* ?? ?. ly at her brother-in-law?"are not so simple." A newspaper man in Boston, a member i iu good standing of the Bachelor Club, who, from the nature of his business, never attempts to effect a capture of the early worm, was a few mornings since, awakened by a i diligent rapping upon the door of his suit of | rooms, and after rubbing his eyes for a mo mentj went to the door and asked what was wanted. The applicant for admission proved [ to be a person engaged in gathering certain , census statistics, and the following dialogue i ensued: j Census Man?"Have you any children i that have been born within a year ?" Newspaper Man?"No!" f C. M.?" How old is your youngest child?" > N. M.?" Seventy-eight years." . . ' C. SL?"?Want tabuy any soothing syrup j. for him?" . ' , N. M. (fojuiVor)?" (3old, by Jove!" - 4b'0|M Uftd of CholeraThe latfcji|^ort3 by the cable of cholera in Hangaw^Ui Prusasia, and in Ireland lend a speciwSgTOt to the evident earnestness with whi(ffift?e English public have begun to press more direct commtuica* tion witKqfndia. A Parliamentary Committee latljysat to investigate the various plans prbVKd -for rnrining rails from the shores of ffieHa to the head of the Persiad Gnlf, andji report favoring two out of the many prelected routes is the twin offspring of its labors^.'. As it is notposible for bot^b tbd plaowwammended to develop into iealthjr raztid&Sh- Darwin will be gratified' witq anctKermrtancc to illlustrate his theory that 6nly the,:?test arc destined to survive. But whethefj|e route by Scandaroon to Basaora be nltimtfely adopted, of the alternative! Bcheihewbidh will travel direct to Koweyt,] It appeaweertain that the lapse of a very few yeafi trill see the Porsian Fmpire and British Ifidia brought into direct railway; commupiS&oli with the West. The mercantile world in Europe, will feel; a just satisfaction when this result shall have" beon attained. But there is one point of rital importance to the great mass of the in-: habitants wEurope, and for that matter to! this country as well, which a money-loving] Railway tympany may be inclined to over look. Cqoljtfa, like a pale spectre,- will step uninvited feto the car, and descend with the returning^travelers to explore every city ilong thb'^mte. * This is no imaginary (evil. Six times sine? the year 1823 has thef. destroying angel breathed on the face of Europe, ind in eMK oUe science has distinctly framed the In deduction of the epidemic to the Pilgrim Cfdwds carrying back.the prophet's blessing and Cholera's curse to their homes in T?flotM)nuPti*Arvo ' TTin linmo nf Aft A jaae in l&dostnn, and thence it waa conreyed by Mussulinen to Mecca! , and other dirines iwthe East. Mohommedan devotees fronjffinrope catch the infection from heir Indian fellow idol-worshippers, .and, | has the pestilence is carried to the homes )f the Wp.. When # has once established itself in 'a- j ?rticnlar locality the seeds of .the malady ure diffoaed by water. It is found impossible o preventllight infiltration from.the drain-, ige 8yste?6fa town into its wells. Even in riaoes WMl ao drains exist there are e^ll :>eoj>le whoWbe and wash . their garments vhen a sArer from Cholera has bathed bat )tioe in a^hroiMi whole community has bronghraoTmn^^BOpfcdj hMllny plains" >f Colorado.Wherever those soldiers haltad they left the seeds of the dlser^e behind, ind every paving caravan suffered from an fltoAaiiA nrt/3 a mon f\V tVft J UVUIOAK. VI OUQ UUTVBO^) UIJU w uu*u v* vmw route along which the regiment had marched night have been drawn by simply noting die spots in which cholera had appeared. Curious Trlqraphic Facts.?In the working of the telgraph some curious facts save been observed. A message sent through land lines and under sea cables, travels quicker to the place whichhas the longer land line than to the shorter. From Amsterdam to London with greater speed than in the reverso direction; the reason being that on the English side is a wire oi one hundred ind', thirty ifailes; then a cable of one hundred jmd twenty, and on the Dutch side a cable of thirty mi'es. This difference howver, can be rectified by a scientific contrivance. Another fact arrived at by observation is, that on wires stretched east and west, the speed is decreased every day about noon. The cause we are informed is not clear; but it is supposed to be due to the diurnal variation inearth currents. It is a fact that gut ta percha decays rapidly, and becomes brittle and porou* when exposed to the light, but under water appear^ to undergo no change whatever. Gotta percha when it is sunk into the sea for twenty years, shows no sign of decay, which must be regarded as a condition in which nature comes to the aid of mechanical and electrical science. Many attempts have been made to devise a tell-tale to show whether a watcher has gone his rotmd faithfully during the night; but not many have succeeded". Among the latest and best is the one now in use in the Penitentiary, Lousanne, invented by Mr. Cauderoy, which effects its object by electricity. A disk of paper divided into twelve hours, ip set in movement by clock work. A number of electric magnets are fixed in front of the disk, and these are connected in the usual way with buttons or keys placed in different parts of the building. These buttons indicate the stations on the watchman's round, and he is expected to push at each one as he passes it. The push excites the electro-magnet and releases a pricker, which starts forward and makes "a hole in the pa per disk. This disk may be placed id any part of the building?m the Inspector's office or Governor's room; conaequently, auy neglect or evasion on the part of the watchman is immediately detected. "Waiter 1"?A European correspondent of the Syracuse Journal relates the following touching experience: I have just had an experience which leads me to a subject on which I have thought deeply, vie: "Foreign waiters." A volume might be written on the subject. These waiters are fearfully and wonderfully made. I would like to anatomise several of them and choose my own subjects. They know no such word as "haste." No matter 1 ? > loowno fkn a?ma firaoainp UUW DUUU tuo U?1U reaivoj, vuu umu.w vWVH.v formality moat be passed through before one can satisfy the cra7ings of the appetite.? After ordering food in seven different languages and waiting some time, a fork will be placed before yon. Yon have ample time to examine the fork minutely?also to clean it. .A,t the proper time a knife is brought; and you begin-to dbaer up/ Then the waiters assemble in convention, hold sevoreh prize debates and disease various topics, social and political, after which it may oceur to them that you have ordered food; if so; and you understand the order, you may get.it in the course of time. Any traveler wiH oo> dorse that description. Sometimes it is even worse than this. If any one is regardless of his reputation, the best way is to act like the so called nobility?look fierce aod make all | the noise you can. We tried this plan once and it worked well, As soon as we saw thrf hotel we stood up in the carriage and shouted at the top of our voices: "Food, food, the fanquet food prepare." When we reached the hotel we found tlie hotel in arms ready to receive us. They probably mistook us for "queen dowagers," or members of the royal family. Entering the house we took each; waiter aside and told him confidentially we were suffering for rood on a plate. Then looked more fierce and made noise, no servant1 escaped us, and4fceplan was successful. I rather poded . frsolf on this device. Bj speaking Jto each one confidentially, yon will; observe that we led him to think he was the favored one and would receive the fee where-; as they were all victims of misplaoed confi-' dence. I It is said the following letter was wiitten to a lady in Pittsburg by a bereaved and stricken widow in Cincinnati: Dearest Louisa:?Darling John died last night* Congestion of the Inftgs. Our loss is hisgain. I will join him on the other shore I have ordered the loveliest mohair for the funeral?made wiph polonaise and trimnUfcl with real point lace. Loss covered by insurance on the ten year plan; wiH be paid in sixty days.-. I know you sorrow with me We lutf four doctors at two dollars A visit. Aunt Maria will hot go into pnournjng, bertvrrBA bPip Iibb insf. hnucht licr wintflr th intra. Her bonnet?is a gtrav?. There is a balm in Gilead; but my heart is .almost broken.? Send tae a <mt'patter pattern of that sacque ofyoore. Yonrirderotedly. - Sah^jt If We may be permitted to say.a word respecting the afflicted widow, it would. be to, the effect that she will probably sope in*5 fresh man within twelve months, and pay Ibr her wedding, garments ont of the cash provided by darling John upori" the ten-year plan.. v. - j: - ' ' r V - \nrpsj . U? ' ; "Please, Lend Me Ten Cents.'?We were very much surprised the other day to w tbo yohng man when be was.a. bright, promising yontli ^t school; and we remember, too/when hfi! made a good- attempt at business. .. His father left him- something, and he had. what was quite as vaToable as money, the confldenco of the public. Tbe old story is interwoven with his misfortunes. He was convivial, and company and the flowing bowl bad greater fascinations than either tbe substantial friends or the claims of bosinessEven bis mother, who bad been left a widow for some years, kind and tender as she was, forbearing in regard to his growing vioe, even' to a fault?covering many times his ninlifW anraiaa wifVi fVio manfla nf fthftrif.w And forgiveness, had no power to awaken him to his danger. Indeed, it was a long time before she saw any. The delicate hints of friends on the subject were not kindly received. "It ain't so," was the frequent abrupt reply, until it was found that a suggestion on the subject was always followed by the loss of friendship. "I will say no more," was the resolution of many a warm friend who had found that even a hint was followed by a frown. But the truth is now sadly apparent. The hopeful mother doubts no more; friends who were all the time hoping for the best, have given up all hope. The object of solicitude is a mere street loafer, importuning every passer by for the loan of ' ten cents." His business long ago broken up, public confidence withdrawn, his mother broken-spirited, his friends covered with shame, he wanders about, the poor victim of a social habit, which- to-day is held up as respectable, and even sanctioned by law. That manly step and fine personal form, which only a few years ago, was the admiration of ail, baa been changed into tne repulsive mendicant asking for the pitiful sum of "ten cents," and when offered a bowl of soup or a cup of coffee and a sandwich instead, he trembliugly says, "They will do me no good?I must have something to strengthen my nerves, or die." It is only necessary, by way of admonition, to say that there is hot a young man to-day in the city of Trenton, who is in the habit of indulging in the convivial practices to which we have referred, who can say that he is less liable to fall into the same degration, or who has stronger motives, or more respectable friends, to shield him from the sad fate of the "ten cent beggar. Trenton Gazette. Strange Instance of Presentiment. ?A gentleman who is temporarily absent from home and stopping in the city,, relates to us that after retiring to bed night before last, and before going to Bleep, he seemed all at once to be in a room at home. Everything about the room seemed as real and tangible as if he were that moment in it. It could not be a dream, because he had never for a moment Tost his consciousness. Upon a bed in the room lay his brother, and leaning over the bed stood his mother in great seemiug distress. All day yesterday he coald not banish the incident from his mind, and last night came the sequel. He received a letter from home saying that his brother had fallen from a high wiudow, and ever since had lain in an unconscious state in the room which he had so plainly sden the night betore, find that his mother had scarcely left his bedside. We have this information from a geptleman of intelligence and a dia b?liever -iir&tt'spiritual "manifestations. # a=s^BS^^^^sTaB" Spaoi. 1M. 2 M. 8M. 6 M. IT. / ' : J - f 1! ? > u 1 square r 1 8 OO' 6 00 8 00 12 00 16 00 .' , 2 squares 6 00 9 00 12 00-18 00 26 00 8 Bquares ; 9/00 18 00 16<tJ0 24' 00 >86 00 . 4 squares . 12.00 .16 00 J2Q.00 .80 QQ 48 Of I column 15 00 19 00 24 00 84 00 oJoO-' column 20 00 80 00 40'tX) 56 00 80 00 column 80 00) W OOj 60 00 90 00)160 ? AUTfaafieat Advertisements will to charged # OxiDollax per Square fbx the first and SivxvTT-rnr* Cxxtc per aqtare fdr each subsequent insertion Uingle'insertionill^O per square/ olfilohipbasket. * ' ' ??.?' * ? . - . / ' ; " 1 1 . '.C . . 1 - A man of letters?the postmaster. # * Painter's epitaph: "He died anif made no sign." f ' A Burlington, Iowa, firm advertises Bibles "superior to say other." -Y :* jt. ? Punch has found a m&n too laxj,to labor nnder ttimpwoo,.,, A school board that isrpever elected?A blackboard. l? Who ia the ftqst boy mentioned fa fifoe . Bible?-chep.i r(. Iowa infants are curtailing their preoiogs mniw livaa (nA Tndi't rnnluir cmTVfl vVIM,? ~TT/r? i-'l White law Keid says that on the koine stretch "we were stretched very much top thin" .* ' . . . 0:- . .J When does a man look like a cannon ball? Whdl he looks iwuid.! JS&,4a mh # fH }?&i w lfs in a hogshead. ' J' b 11 The jouthwho wooldhsre a will of hiaown has been' struck' etf df tGt of hufiftirl7 f Brilliant ideas are; like shirt buttons, jtli^ ?e When ? fromA.WWfl^hf Tlin Usf ofinV^ fnr KicrllAf Vft^nui NlVWWtiJ. . 'V "*!< ,*wtt "Darr mrr. ^ vr t if that of the prize fighters. r ? .04 Jituaar* !.. / The. blegraph wire not pphr-epiide* .the earth, bat extends it from, pole to pole. kiuV? *. i>:*77.r^u.ita*,'.?t OWi Aa. ??St surprised, astonished, taken all aback, bat never dumbfounded. A fssbiomble Chicago girl,C4mes'?*tIie i rag on buttoned glovss.. tsbe^jaa 63 buttons ! ' .1" nJ j The proof-reader-at-J. R. Osgood k Co.'s 'is a great traveler; he goastttf tfetfAIMrfio montblyi' ' >" ' ' >!? i* -n^A. I' An. .undertaker's. office reoedfly/Jams the.' 'following J inscription "Griff for a dead man--^Sck sbon.' 1 | ' ) *.?.> ' ! c. '.<?.*'? i .?!' .;> * n . -v .5? The. following is the proposal. bent of a Western tailpr: Wanbi-r^fp; or three steady girls to puton pants " - An editor who received* letter .in which . feather was written "wothalr^' sap lb was' pe worst speu of weatfcerriio had,oversee*o "A.'witonce asked a peasant whit part he , - Mlt ^jjll do you use for your wld ?" "Five handkefdriefiaday,aa<km* ? .. * : ;/ ?..r s x . : r A watering-place correapondent writes that "very, few bathers bathe at the West End," , whereupon Mrs. Partington says she "hadan, idea that they bathed all over." A knowing one aays it may beset down as a rule that the sentimental young ladies > y rho scratch off poems about.death, and the { rave have holes in their stocking* ; "Bobby, why don't your mother sew your trowsersf" " 'Cause she's at the votary sewing for the heathen!" Clarion, Ky., can boast of the champion gormandizer, in the person of a youth, who, after despatching a hearty Bupper, put away ?atAtra nn^AP Uiu vroof in an lirttlW aiA ujOMJi flvgna uuwa UU IWV^ ?U ?H MVM* and a half, at a ladies' fair, and he still' lives. Here is a good business-like epitaph: . , "Here Has Jane Smith, wife of Thomas Smith, marble-cutter. This monument ~ was erected by her husband as a tribute to her memory and a specimen of his work. Monuments of the same style $250." ! I talked with a minion from her Majesty's dominions. Says I, Where are you goiig?" Says he, "To hide a.hpe^j.,Says I, "What ; are you going to hide t hoe for V' Says he, . "I didn't say hide a hoe, I said hide a hoe." SaysT, "Spell. it."' Says he, ?I-4-a,hb." . "Oh I" says I, "Idaho." "Yes," say he, "Hide a hoe," " . j-r i-.rv.-.- ' i I The editor of the Alabama State Journal mildly rebukes the heartless compositors for setting up, "apples and oranges" Jfcr, "Alpha , and Omega." The Cincinnati Enquirer has reduced 1 itemizing to a scienoe. Here is a late ex- - > ample: Henry Layman, shoemaker, Terre ? Haute?bed-cord. Jadousy. -.:\i n .; I ,v..f The trnth is unconsciously told in the foL lowine line from an advertisement: "Babies, -1 after having taken one bottle of my soothing f syrup, will never cry any more/'-'" a ? , Annio Campbell, a Canadian dairy-maid, lately died, aged one hundred and thirty-one ' years. She had' pulled the juice out of fifteen generations of cows in her time. ' - "Boy," said an ill-tempered old man to a noisy lad, "what are you holleriri'' for when I am going by?" "Humph!" returned the boy, "what are you going by for when I ata , hollerin' ?" ' . 'rr .1 ' ? f,i A Chicago merchant advertised recently f "a boy wanted," and before he got dowjj town his clerk met him, breathless, and told- , him that his wife had twin boys. It pays to ? . advertise! A Pennsylvania farmer at an auction bought an old hearse because he'd "been wanting a rig of some kind to take Mariar . . and the children to circusses and fairs, and haul taturs in." It requires, more delicacy ot couco, a Dec* - t ter acquaintance with the inner emotions o? r a the heart, and grander pathos of sentiment ? to make a declaration of love than it does to . .."or ,'u-' .: ) z.- -run put up a stove. ; * 14 'I'U.ih * 7(f t una Indian affairs are becoming more and more ' ~t , complicated. A perfidious chief has elpped., * with a Detroit #