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PUNISHMENT AND PREVENTION.
From the Chtpvhman.
Some minds seem constituted to hold bu
one idea at a time. The acceptance of ain
truth i> tu them the denial, apparently, o*
every thin*;. They cannot have too mucli
of a good thing, and but one thing at onc<
ever is good in their eyes. Because quinine
is good in chills and fevers, they would ad
minister it for a broken limb, or to a babt
in the first trouble* of dentition. It is mind.'
of this class which have fallen into sucli
manifest error in the matter of criminal lo
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gislation. in attempting u? uim^?
evils of all inflictions of legal penalty, they
have lo>t sight of the object of inflicting the
penalty. There is no question that there
are serious difficulties in all forms of punishment,
if the purpose is taken to be merely
the rofl>rni of the criminal. Thus, if a man
is hung, he is useless to the community,
save so far as lie furnishes the anatomist
with a subject. If he is imprisoned for life,
ho is available only for such labor as may be
done in a prison; and his labor must not be
allowed to compete injuriously, with that ol
those who have done nothuig to deserve imprisonment
If solitary confinement is tried,
it reduces most subjects of it to imbecility
? r something very like if. If associated labor.
it is almost impossible to prevent the
corrupting effects of prison companionship
If the prison is made too comfortable, jt
loses its terrors. If it it is made too uncomfortable,
it brutalizes. If criminals are
reformed successfully, this involves the giving
of them a fresh start in life when the
prison doors are opened, and the removal of
every disability. The thief, the burglar,
the man-slayer are to be placed at the end
of their term precisely where the honest and
peaceable are. Otherwise, the reform will
not be lasting.
This seems to us a serious consideration
m those schemes of prison discipline which
provide for a diminution of sentence to be
^ earned by good conduct in prison. Push
0 this to its full development, and it amounts
PI? ? -nn orinui !
to something very use a picuuuu vn uma,
It would certainly operate as a discourageinent
to honest endeavor. If the State is
too severely let alone its citizens so long as
they behave themselves, leaving theui to
struggle on against all trials and depressing
influence, but takes up the criminal, gives
him healthy treatment, instruction, a good i
trade, and a remission of half his sentence;
and if with this advantage he is to step forth
into certainty of employment and active befriending.
because he has broken the law of
hod and man, the average mind will be verylikely
to reason in favor of law-breaking.?
To do otherwise will require a <rreater degree
of moral fortitude, than is, we fear, the
characteristic of the greater part of the community.
What now deters men from crime!' First,
the inward sense of right and wrong.?imperfect,
confused, and weak, as we all know
it to be in general. To reinforce this couies
the dread of penalty in the shape of loss of
liberty and comfort. Furthermore, there is
the sense of disgrace attending these inflictions.
The question then is, how far will it
do to balance the first named effect of penalty
by other advantages, and to remove the
last named' altogether. The last is by far
the most powerful preventive. Take the
case of political offences under an arbitrary
government. The higher a man's sense of
honor and love of virtue, the more surely he
will disregard the mere perils of imprison
lii.'iit.or even death when these only exalt
him to the plaee of the martyr and the hero
in the eyes of his fellow men. The degradation
of the criminal is an idea inseparable
from the true idea of penalty. Remove that
and punishment is nothing more than the
simple risk which more or less attaches to
every undertaking.
Many a man undertakes a business which
he is surely w ill shorten his life by a term of
years, because it is profitable and attractive.
I>r. .Johnson said, No man would go to sea j
wh ' had the wit to get into jail;" and if go- i
ing to jail were no more disreputable than J
going to sea. w e should find many agreeing
with the doctor Rut if the di-reputo is to
... n _ i i
erase wit li the imprisonment, u wju mui
fail to eover the imprisonment Ami we
rotifers that we do not sec how tin e plan- ol
prison reformat ion are to succeed, unless
the disrepnte is to cease when the prisoner is
distdiarged. He is either a marked man. because
he hits been in prison, or lie is n >t
It' lie is, then lias riot tlie chance of future
SMcee-- If lie is n<>t. then crime is no di?
?ri;?? ?? I In re was a time in Scotland when
it was held that ante-nuptial frailty waatoned
for by marriage. The consequence
was that yielding to teinptation wa> very common.
Nothing but the stri.-t rule ofecclesiastieal
discipline kept license within bounds.
The advocates of pri-on reform, it seems
to us. are often overlooking the fact that
legal penalty is the outward and visible sign
<>t the moral sense i the publie against
crime. In the case of the young it is different
There is the natural ami. on the whole,
salutary feeling fh it the very young may be
lc<l into the outward firms of crime without
a corruption of the n.oral -nature ; in other
words, that the; do not commit the offence.
? that is. commit it in hotly and soul, but
only in body ; ami, again, that very often,
by reason of iinmaturitv, assisted by vicious
training, they are not wholly responsible. A
child may kill another child without being
guilty of murder. u-?? it is too voting to
kii"\v what it has '1 inc In sueh eases tlie
iiiflietion of life Ion j.' sorrow and shame woiiM
l?e not only unwise, but wrong.
Hut with tho responsible a<lult the ease is
different The law of the laud is the expression
of God's law. It impartial, imperfeet
became limited by the opportunity of
human judgment; hut. in the state of faets
t.i which it applies, it does. and ought to,
rpt forth the displeasure of find against sin
^t is not mere restraint of the criminal from
doing further injury. Here is where the
error of our friends seems to be found,
t Now. it is often argued with great plaus,
ihility that punishment does not prevent
f crime. We hold this argument fallacious,
i for this reason : The causes which lead to
? crime operate often in spite of punishment,
> but not of necessity. * One of these is the
- low moral sense which makes the disgrace of
; the penalty unfelt. Another is, the want
of opportunity in the classes which furnish
i criminals of being any better. Hut to make
the argument good, all laws ought to be rci
pealed. Men who know better often commit
acts of dishonesty; but this is not because
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tney ao not iear pumsnment, dui uecausc
they hope, not without reasou, to escape
detection. But no mercantile community
would ever, in its senses, think of repealing
all statutes against forgery and swindling.
The fact is, that all this discussion arises
out of partial consideration of classes of
crime and the study of individual criminals.
Whether in certain kinds of offences discrimination
might not be allowed is a question
pen to debate. But we do not believe in
throwing down all barriers, and treating the
criminal only as a sul^cct for philanthropic
experiment. That good behavior in prison
should inevitably shorten terms of imprisonment?and
we can sec how a rule should be
made not universal and inevitable, save by
discriminating among offences?would, wthold,
fatally increase the temptation to crime.
The acute rascal would bo the one quickest
to take advantage of it. t^ood behavior under
the forced abstinence of a prison is not
good behavior in the world, and the effect of
this system would be that men would calculate
upon it beforehand. The cerlanty of
penalty is half its force; and the worst effect
of all is that this reduction of imprisonment
carries with it the idea that the
AMitnitift) hna A^AnA/1 ^ah 1% I a /ii-rnn T f tliu
lIILIJllliU 1JU3 illUIIVU AVI 11IO 11UIV. X* HMO
idea is to prevail, let all prisons be levelled,
and let thcr5 be revived the old Saxon sysof
compounding every offence by the payment
of a fine.
The Washington Republican of 12th ult. repeats
its recouimcudation that the Government
shall acquire a valid title to Arlington,
by making a proper remuneration to
Mrs. Lee. A reporter of the 11 >publican in an
interview with Mrs. Lee, has gathered some
facts which will be of public interest. The
Arlington estate was bequeathed by her father
to Mrs. Lee only during her lifetime. Gen. ,
Lee has not the slightest share or lot in it.
and always invariably refused to exercise the
least control over it, except in the performance
of his duties as executor by the will of
Mr. Custis Mr. G. provided that five years
after his death his laves should be sot free.
The time arrived in 1SG3. in the midst of ,
the war, and Gen. Lee summoned all the ,
slaves together and gave them their free papers,
and passes through the Confederate ,
lines to go whither they would. ,
At the time of the nominal purchase by ,
the I nited States of Arlington. Mrs. Lee's (
mends ottered to pay trie taxes ior ner, ior ,
the payment of which it was put up; but ,
they were not allowed the opportunity.
The Republican reporter says Mrs. Lee (
has no odea of asking that the estate be ,
restored to her. but does expect a reasonable
remuneration for it. She sooke of the Pros- |
ideut and of his administration with the
highest respeet. and recognises the necessity
for no other state of affairs between the
North and South than that of profound '
peace, amity and concord. Mrs. Lee is '
now advanced in years, and has been for a 1
long time a sufferer from inflauiatory rhcuma- !
tisin. She is a lady of noble appearance. 1
and her conversation is most interesting. }
The Republican says : "No one can see her 1
and hear her talk without being convinced 1
.that the government will add to its honor 1
for just and honorable dealing by making a
ju^t and legal settlement with her." 1
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Mr. Jefferson I>avis is said to he writing 1
a history of the war. Such a hook from such '
i a man would be valuable, lie is reported
as >a\ing that lie feared tin untry was be- i ^
V'ond " the r< deeming clliea< y of moral worth i
<>r elevutad intelligence." and the memories j
of the t'rodit Mobillicrand the V ienna scan- I
dais give a painful point to the observation. ,
As this demoralization has been entirely 1 1
' brought about by the party that has control!
led the governmeut since war, it is well that ]
the most capable and cunning band is to j
write a history <>i tne pivotal pcrmu wnerc j
the decade ??1* honesty and virtue ended and
the decade of corruption and dishonor com- 1
inenccd. If Mr. Davis will prepare his work !
with - kill and judgment, as well as with the J
ability any acknowledge lie possesses, he may '
walk down to posterity with it in his hand
('ourii r Jo it ma f.
I
'I'llK NF.W1*IKI. ANI? 1 I.I.I MINATOH.?
Applied science has recently added to the '
i great inventions of the day a process for extracting
fuel from water. The author of this i
process*, Mr ltuck.au Knglish practical chcini
sit has realized the old dream uf scientists
that the exhaustles.s heating power stored in i
water may be actually employed for median- '
ieal and domestic purposes. This brilliant j
I nica, wiitcn, it is ciaitiH'U. enawcsine invent- ,
or to set Ilie Thames on fire, has been sue- |
: eessf'ully tested and developed in a largo
work on the bnnksofthc river near liutter!
sea 1'ark, and the process which it originated
is extremely simple and easily put intopraetice.
Ordinary steam is brought through a
pipe from one of the boilers of an. engine,
and is allowed to pass through a red-hot horseshoe-shaped
tube, reposing in a fiercely burning
furnace. While in this tube the steam
is superheated. so that its oxygen and hydrogen
are ready to dissolve their alliance,
and after-wards it is forced into a retort till,
od with incandescent coke and iron fmgments
The oxygen i< left behind and forms j
with the iron scales of black rust, the hydrogen
passes through tho red retort, and
when certain sulphurous vapors have been
disengaged from the residual gas there comes
forth the '-heating gassupereminently suited
for all calorific purposes, where heat without
light is demanded. It is admirably
adapted for all kind of stores and steam engine
boilers. The cost of the gas at the
works is found to be only seven pence for a
thousand cubic feet, and this quantity would
boil about fifty gal.ons of col i water. This cost,
it is'said, caube reduced by using the waste
heat of the retort furnace to supply the
steam, which is now supplied by an independent
boiler.
'I'lirt <lictinptiv/> nf flip Hllfk >iroe0.v<
AUVUWV.MV??fV ~ ^ I
for making the new fuel gas is in the decomposition
of the supherhcatcd flame by means |
of eoke and iron, which remain for long periods
in the retort without requiring change.
Combined with this is also an arrangement
for earoonizing the heating gas for purposes
of illumination. This is done by making it
pass through oil, from which its carbon isrccicvcd,
and whence it issues an excellent gas,
equal'in illuminating power to sixteen ca?-~
dles for a consumption of five cubic feet per
hour in an Argand burner. The cost of the
gas, as used for liih., is a trifle los than fifty |
cents per thousand cubic feet.
This invention, if fully developed, will
set at rest the uneasiness on the coal question
and work a world-wide revolution in the
cost of fuel and light for all purposes.
What is a Graxok.?It is an organization
of farmers. It has for its object improvement.
ltd design is to elevate and enlighten
the farmer. It would better qualify
him lbr his God given profession. It aitn.to
bring about these objects by association.
It unites those of the same calling into one :
rr.mil l?roflinrlioml for tlirs lirotf'PIion of all. !
It establishes in every neighborhood a Iceture
room?which is the grange itself?in
which the most important truths arc unfolded.
It disseminates valuable information
that all may be benefited. It collects as
well its disseminates. It receives knowledge
as well as dispenses it. It is an intellectual
institution. It calls fir an exer- j
eisc of the mind. It brings mind in con-j
tact with mind, and. by the contact, other !
minds arc illuminated by the friction. It
draws out latent talent. It makes active j
and tangible what has been before dormant
and unseen. It shows the importance of:
cultivating brains a.? well as soil. It demon-1
stratcs the fact that as rich harvests arc developed
by brain culture as by soil culture? j
that a great erop of weeds has grown up ana i
smothered out the useful plants, by the i
neglect of brain'culturc The grange is a
social institution. It makes a grand brother .
and sisterhood. It unites by strong ties ;
those that have before been strangers. It !
makes each feel an interest in all. and all in
each. It heals up the wounds of the unfortu- j
nate. It administers comforts to the sick j
md alleviates the sufferings of the distress- ,
,'d. It is a husband to the widow and aj
father to the orphan. It makes every (
neighborhood one kind, affectionate family, j
It is a financial institution. It seeks toob- j
tain for its members the highest price for
their products. It looks to tuc goou 01 an. 1
It learns how ami when the best prices can !
be obtained. |,
Trouble is anticipated in Administration
lirclos between the I nited States and Spain,
iii the (juestion of the emancipation ui slaves
in the Spanish colonies. It appears that the
Wrongest party in t'nha. because the wealth- 1!
iest, is opposed to emancipation, while in
ryuipathy it is against the republic of Spain, i:
jr making Cuba a dependent State. This j
makes emancipation in Cuba a far distant 1
reality, unless the I nited States intervenes. ,
ivhieh it has pledged itself to do, not only in I
published correspondence, but in what has j (
passed between the Secretary of State audi
jur Minister at Madrid. The preleuded
imancipat ioii of slaves in Porto Kieo served
>n!y t<i intensify the President's disgust with
Spanish rule and Spanish diplomacy. It will
be remembered that our Minister at Madrid
heralded this concession as a great diploma
I if triumph for the Cnitcd States, it now
i|i]iear> that bo lure the edict of oinaiicipa- |
lion in I'orto Kico went into effect. every i
slave bad been sold and sent t<> Cuba.?
Cajitain-tiuneral detain finds himself seriously
embarrassed, and has of late complained
to the Spanish Minister in Washington
of tlie difficulties that beset him in his ,
efforts to represent the new Ibrin of uovorii- j
iiiont of Spain in Havana, lie is coinpara-j
lively powerless to enforce the republican
sentiments, for be finds the situation Jar dif
ferent to-day than when his predecessors had !
the support of the monarchist and was in accord
with the Casino. Those who claim to
speak advisedly say that the 1'resident's I
policy towards Spain, or as far as her Aincri- '
can possessions arc concerned, is as definitely
ajfgrc.-sivc as that towards Mexico, and
lie only awaits a favorable opportunity to
| rove it.
Sinui i.Alt Cai sf.shk Dkatii ?A yoiiujr
man named Turner, living near Ihmlmrv.
died on last Saturday, after a lew day-' ill
tiess. and it is supposed from the followmp
singular cause: Sonic days previous to his
attack In; assisted in the disinterment of a
corpse, for the purpose of removal to ain.ili
i e 1 ?!.. i tl. 11. i |. .
IT "I mirii'll III*- ii.im in? n mi*
ric<l Mime months, ami was exceedingly ..fli 11sive
when the ^rave was opened. Youne
Turner heiran to eomplain of headache ami
other symptoms soon after the removal, ami
in a few days heeaino -eiioii-|\ ill. ami ?|i?-.l
on Saturday lie complained during hi-entire
sickness of smelling and even fa-tin the
horrildc eftluvia from the corpse It isupposed
that this eftluvia or e\ ha la t ion pen
etrated and saturated hi- entires\-teni thuI
t poisoning his blood and causing death. \\*c
f hoar that a brother of his is also extremely
ili from the same cause, though we do not
1 know that the report is authentic.
Ho.>7/ II) f/ti>)l ( (in. ) da'.rth*
IIarit.?The reason why uicn never feel
like work in the morning is cither that they
have formed other habits or that they have
spent the evening improperly. They have
only to go to their work every morning and
do the best they can, for a dozen mornings
. in succession, to find that the disposition
[ and power to work will come. It wiil cost
: a severe effort < f the will. but. it will pay.
; Then the satisfaction of the task performed
will sweeten all the other hours. There is
; ik darker or deadlier shadow than that cast
upon a man by a deferred and waiting task.
It#aunt.s him, chases, him. harries him,
sprinkles bitterness in his every cup, plants
thorns in his pillow, and renders him every
hour uiore unfit for its performance. The
difference between driving literary work
and being driven by it is tho difference between
heaven and hell. It is the difference J
between working with the will and working 1
again-t it. It is the difference between
being a master and being a slave.
flood linbit i- a relief, too, from all temptation
to the use of stimulants. Hy it man's j
brain may become just as reliable a producer
as his hand, and the cheerfulness and i
hcalthfulness which it will bring to the
mind will show themselves in all the issues
of the mind. The writings of those contemporary
geniuses Scott and Hymn, illustrate
this point sufficiently. < >nc h all robust
health, the result of sound habit-; the other
all fever, and irregularity. What could Hoc,
not have done with Mr. Longfellow's habit? i
Xu: there i.- but one best way in which t<> >
do literary work, and that is the way in
which any other work is done?after the
period dev ted to n-l. and with the regularity
of the sun.
WinmNil A Wifk.?The people of Hay \
Bridge, near Brooklyn, X. ^ ., are greatly ;
agitated, not to say perhaps a trifle soandali/.-!
ed. by a wedding thai has ju.-t taken place
under tlie lullowing circumstances: The
parties belong tu aristocratic households, and
their aires are eighteen and seventeen. The
bridegroom is an undersized lad. green and
retiring. He walks regularly to school with
his books under one arm and his luncheon
under the other in a tin box. lie bears as little
the appcaran o ol'a young uian matrimonially
inclined as a ? < --el grazingoa tlie tillard.
The intimacy between the two was not pleasautTTie
young lad;.- family, and she was
forbidden to hup eimipuny with her adorer
This only inten.-ilied Uiattcrs, and led to
clandestine meeting-. The young lady was
scut to Kurope Tlic father of the young r
man. who favored the match, sent his boy 1
aboard the steamer that sailed the day after.
When the young lady ami her family reach- ,
cd the dock at Liwip "1 the first sight they
saw was the form of the young man awaiting
the arrival of the party, llis vessel was
the swifter and reached Liverpool first.
He quietly but persistently followed the
company through their continental wanderings.
lie was always honml to the same
place?was ready at the exact time?never
mis-cd a train, but. when he could bribe the
guard, got into the -amc compartment?
lodged at the same hotel, had a seat at the |
same tainhle. and. by an adroit feeling of
the steward, had his tea and toast >n fnhiifir.
He was ignored and snubbed, and treated
with disdaiu. l>ut all to no purpose. Jlc ;
stood against the ear-door when the party
gel out. and was in sight when the train
stopped. The family hastened back, and
the young man, nothing loth, f dlowed. The I
clandestine interviews were renewed, and i
tin lain iy gave ;i( last meir reiueiuin rim-,
-t ut tn tlie tnnrriauo. The announcement
contained the 111i11 11> word. ".Ni" eards "
The child-wife liilluwi.il the boy-husband to
his home. The youngster has h it school
mul eiven tiji Mii>\v-lialliiiir, anil the [>artios
will si m.i i i settle ! n t the sober business of)
liiiiisekee]iiii . 'I lie iui-cliirl is that tiie ex- [
ample is e.jnta:1 hi . and rutnor has it that
halt'a duaMi voiin^ Iadio> are locked tip in (
their ehainhers t kt-> p them iVom an elopement.
9
- Wdmti.ET\n. W\tku in Tkvas.?: \\"e
have a un.it deal of this wijrele fail water in
tliis'erc Texas. ' I .v.i- told b\ an old settler
on Trinit\ river, iinl that makes aj.du our
Slate lniutliilv am mr the new-comers.'"
What do you rail wiir.Lfle-tai 1 water '-'
I a-ked, detcetiie. a \ in which, well worked,
111iv.!11 lead to iniii h valuable knowledge.
' ()h. water with v. 1?* I ail- in it. Witt
i ?.'it
Je-tails is : lit(i?* - j iirinv annum. so mh.ui
that \"it can liar* 1!\ <*i- "cm. utiles* you look
<lu'-c. They don't hurt water much when
\"ii are real tlmr-ty. Of a tlarL nijit y 11
would never know the difference. I've
drunk a many a one and they never had any
iii?effect than taking a chew of tobacco.
In a new country, you know, a man mnsn't he
too i-unfounded parlie'lar. 1 le has to put nj.
with a f<*w thine* which wouldn't be exactly
regular in an old cuiintry. Tiio.se fellows
that conic here f rom Kentucky and Tennessee
beat the world bcin^ patio'lar. They slim:
on enough sl\|c f< do cm in New \ ork city
Thcv turn uj> tin ir n? -? > about water, and
make mere fuss ahout a few litte harmless i
w ir'Jc tails than I would about I'riv :dlij;a j
l o - I will tell you a fa< t Karh la-t sumit.cr
a in ui and hi- laiiiih come out oii Tritii j
t\ river from Old Kentinky lie came in
an o\ w iiron, and I III bet lie didn't have j
-evctitv live dollars''wcen thi* w>rld and tlie
next lint le- 11111 ; ii style powerful lie
said he'd been lai-cl on w a I < i without ?i;- ,
.Jo-tails 111 it. and li?- was oniim clear hack
t.? i |e Iv iifm k*\ t" ci ii it' he couldn't in
f \.is Win. the -<|Uc:inii-h follow wis,
't -ie I I d in .n on ,i tin 11 iiuiv fur ! in
dullard and fifty fonts aa acre. IJut lie
wouldn't have it because the water had wiggle-tails
in it. I told liiiu if ho was so confounded
partie'lar that lie could strain the
water through a rag. but ho said he didn't
want any of that in his'n. and he moved on.
j looking for a better country. That kind of
. foolishness lias been the ruin of many a man
, wlu? might have done well in Texas "
I asked the old gentlemen what people
wore the best sat: tied in Texas, as a general
thing.
"Mississippians. sir. 3lississippians every
| time. They liavc'nt got any extra airs.
They think what's good enough for us is
! Iivirid CtlnlHrli fm- tlinni fliiM* ilnn't iiiin.t
wiggletails in water, 110 any such little matters.
It's the Kentnekians that curse the
I country the most. Nothing suits them, be- j
cause it ain't done as it is in Kentucky. 1
have a way of drying the Kentucky spreads
up when they get in a high way of talking.
I say to them if they don't like our country
t<? go out of it."
1 asked then what they did when given
such advice. The old man laughed, ami said |
some of 'em went."
Very likely "some of'cm went." I meet j
dissatisfied people every day. and who swear !
they will leave the State the first opportunity,
but the number is not larger than is to he '
expected, considering the crowds who flock
in. It is safe to say that they do not find |
Texas what they hoped or what they had
been led t<> believe. t>n every hand you
hear men abusing the State, and other men
praising if just as loud.
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A Smai.l I'oi.ak 13ear.?A small polar
bear i> having rjuitc a series of adventures
in New York, lie was presented to Mr.
llo.-s. i f Wallaek's as a "'little pet bear."?
Mr. Moss gave his coachman the order, and j
the coachman supplied himself \fcith a small |
soap box, and went to IS JJarclay street. Ar- !
living there, he found the animal weighing 1
three hundred pounds. When Mr. Moss
reached home, he found the little pet boar
destroying his flower garden, and. instead of j
tarrying to play with it. he hurried to the I
Sliakspeare Tavern in Twelfth street, and.
meeting his iriend. Mr. .Joe Flynn, said.'
Joe I have a present for you?a little pet j
hoar." Mr. Flynn replied: " Theodore, my
b y. uiis is so kind or you ; tno very tuingol
nil others I most desire is a little pet bear, i
so that my customers may feed it from the ,
lunch bn-.vl."
lie ordered al> ttle of Moot and Chaiidon. ^
Mr. Flynu got his hear. Somewhat astonished
at the size, lie ordered it put in the !
store-loom. Five minutes later Mr. Fly tin '
was aroused'troiii his reverie by a scuffle in
the front of the bar. where stood the little j
pet bear on bis haunches, battling with two
old customers lor possession of the chops.
His bearship gotf.hc best of it. the two old
customers flying in the street, pursued by
Mr. Flvnn. Mr. Flvnn sent the bear to the
factor, Southern, who is either one of the
most remarkable of practical jokers, or one of
the most extraordinary victims of practical ,
joking?a? all jokes arc sure, sooner or later,
to be laid at bis door. Sothcrn saw the joke
at once, and >cnt the bear over to the Englishman
that New York makes snt-h fun of?Mr.
I'hilip Lev. the husband of Miss Noilsson.tlie
actress. There at present he has found rest,
and our story closes. What his further
wanderings from post to pillar" may be. is
a mystery.-Tlr. Leo. probably, is meditating
what will lie do with it
A Hk< Ki.t:? I'okt.?One of our poetasters
oilers tbe.sc observations:
iiivt- mo kisses?do not stop
Measuring nectar 1 >y ihe ilrop:
Though to millions tliev amount,
Tliey will never 'train tin1 fount.
Ki>> me then,
livery moment ami again.
If .-lie kissed liiin every moment she would
ki-. Iti in half a mill ion times a year, ami she
would have to kiss hint every minute for two
years before 'to millions they amount." This
would not allow time lor mc.ds. and it i> probable
the poet and woman would starve. Afar
a- the poet is e meerned. we do not know
that it makes much difference. Perhaps the
world will he happier if he docs die.?
We think, upon reflection, that we may possibly
be able to spare him; but it w ill be
hardly lair to kill the woman at I lie same
time. I pon the whole, it "will be better to
have intervals of repose Suppose we say.
ki--; hi in for an hour, and then pause to let
him lill up with beef and cabbage.
/V,IV,
llo\- ami '.Pi!-, if *?'" wish t > astonish
an\ member < I' the family or any coming
quests by >ome da\ allowing them to discovet
their initial-, neatly print.d on a pear,
peach or apple, as i: hangs ?.n its braneh. \
thi> is the way to earn out your plan: >f 11-t
before the fruit ripens, cut the desired letters
from a sheet of thin tough paper; then
paste them on the side of the fruit most ex
posed to the sun. and in the eout'se ut' time
you remove tin' paper iVoin the ripe surface,
ami you will tin.I the letters distinctly mark-.
ed up it
\ jury in tleur^ia, in a cas.^u:aiti^( a Mr.
Knott lor horse sttaliiiir. bmuuht in a v? i
di. t as follows: M e tind the defendant
K If.tr amity." ami the Hudue don't know
whether the \erdiet means uuilty or ti"t
Me should - u he was Knott.
t M a Memphis belle it is said that words
i-Mie from her lips each instant 'with a separate
life and expression of their own. and
tniaht almost be likened to bees leaving the
ealyx ot a (lower, e o h charged wit1 it* loir*
den of pollen and honey- sense ami -u.it-j
ne-s." The reporter wlm wrote this i* to be
e\eit-e 1. t r t hex have a cholera scare ill
M. tnnhi*
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I OUR CHIP-BASSET.
Ilelativc beauty?A pretty cousiu.
Prude* are coquettes srone to seed.
(rravc subjects?Tomb-stones,
brogue %tnus cotfle from Ireland.
The present da\>?birXh dav. .
belle mettle?A young.Iady's temper:.
To gfofcct the chest?Put a lock on it.
Church belles?The rector's daughters.
The groat art of life is to play for much
1 and take little.
Kvery nuc blames in his neighbor what
! the world blames in himself.
In all thy quarrels leave open the door of
conciliation .
The hornet is beautifully defined to be the
red hot child of nature.
''hove." says an amorous writer," is an internal
transport." The same might be said
of a canal boat
A coal black negro in Georgia has one
white hand and arm. which he is very murti
ashamed of.
He is happy whose circumstances suit his
temper ; but he is more excellent who can
suit his temper to any circumstances.
a (toy pressed the muzzle 01 a pistol against
his body in cocking it. and tlio- bullet :*amc
out at his back.
Very few horses eat corned beef, hut wc
saw one standing the other day before a store
with a bit in his mouth.
If you saw a woman trying to pick your
pockets, what Roman general's name would
you call out ? Caesar (seize her.)
Why may carpenters believe there is no
such a thing as st??ne ??Because they never
saw it.
"Patrick, what makes you start after that
rabbit when your gun has no lock on it?"
' Hush! hush! my darlin', the rabbit don't
know that."
"Bridget, has that blockhead cleaned off
the snow from the pavement ?" "Vis, inarm."
Hid he do it with alacrity?" "No, marm?
wid a shovel."
A female contributor to one of the literary
weeklies declares that "grayhaircd bachelors
are such simply because they have never
known what is to love." *
A blessed old lady being asked if she
over had her ears pierced by the wail of
distress, said she couldn't very well remember.
but she believed it was done with a
fork.
An exchange paper gives the following
"advice for the times l.ivc temperately?
go to church?love all the pretty girls?
marry one of them?live like a man, and die
like a christian.
It is declared by an Indiana editor, who
"can't stand it any longer," that the only
difference between the entrance to a barn and
a lounger around a newspaper office, is that
the first is a barn door, and the latter a
ilarIT bore.
An Irishman who had just landed, said:
" The first bit of mate I ever ate in this
countrvjwas a roasted potato boiled yesterday.
And if you don't believe it. I can show
it to you. for 1 have it in my pocket."
| have just met your old acquaintance,
Daly" said and Irishman to his friend, "and
was sorry t" see he has almost shrunk away
to nothing. Von are thin, and I am thin,
but lie is thinner than both of us together."
An Irishman telling another who bad just
arrived, of a severe spell of sickness lie bad
had, said. " <Mi. me friend. I was flat of me
hack and spachlcss for six weeks and fourteen
days in the long month of August, and
all in v cry was for wathcr. wather."
A on are the dullest hoy I oversaw."
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his nephew. "Well, uncle." replied the
youth. with :i glance at the old gentleman's
bald head, - von can't expect me to understand
things as quick as you do. because you
don't have the trouble of getting 'em through
your hair."
IhtEAMs.? \it Iowa man. a few days ?
since, dreamed that he saw his brother's
head severed from hi> bodv without the loss
of a.drop of blood. Ncxi day lie learned of
his brother's removal from a snug p??stmastership.
\ ii . ro in <' liunbus. tin . dreamed
th a he I mild live dollars in a certain
place in a sir, it lie went t.> the -p.-t next
morning, found one dollar, and is blaming
the ghost who told hin) of it. for taking the
other lour.
Have von noticed an icicle as it is formed?
Vou have noticed how it froze one drop at a
time until it wa.?ji foot long or more. It the
wallt was clean. Ilu* icicle sparkled brightly
in the miii; hut it I lit* water was -liulitly
inttddv. Ilio icicle looked I'oiil and it> beauty
was ?iH)ilfd. .Iti-t > * our characters are
formini: hie lillle thought or feeliltu al a
lime adds ils iutliiciice 11'each thought he
pure and riirlit. I lie soul '.t ill he lovely and
will sparkle with happiness; hut if impure
and wrote;, there will he a final deformit\
and misery
The reputation of the members of the Legislature
for sohriet\ seems to be rather had
in Kentucky Two of them were rather mosily
drunk on a rail roa<i train the other day.
and alien the e..iidu. i- r remonstrated. one
ot them pompously asked; \oii not
know. sir. that I am a member ot llie Legislature!'
I lie i 'iiditctoi ijuietlv replied '
\ on \e oot the sympt"tii<