Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 14, Number 23, Jasper, Dubois County, 12 July 1872 — Page 6

A Poem. lVm the tlcrman. When I wa nih and tender, too. 1 had to ailnd tii hu. I to mo Whatever mother bade in. She ued to have a ut tick M I ich kept in on the .louhlo ouick--Aud that in where i)e had me. hen older urown. and unite a beau Anion the irl. I UN to kuow A Min PriM-ella Otduiy ; And with te help of smile aJ nods I tell in love at forty rode And that i where he Mi tue. When I was older, ay sixteen. 1 thought it time to hare u Queen. An 1 .i-ked her if ehe'd wed me, She aid he did not much object. Or word oomelhing to that enect--And that in where she bad we. And when, to make the matter straight, I went down to negotiate Affair with Colonel Cadtuy. He said he did not care to sell. He told tue I might go to wellThat was where he had inc. I drowned my sorrow in the cup. Until I got my dander up I could not nae been madder. When ahe proposed that we be one. In spite of Pa. the thing was done And that is where I had her. Two lovely children on my knee. I'm proud to say. belong to me--fhat is. to me and mad tin : For whun we left our native sod y e 1MB) a year or two abroad And that's where we had 'em.

At the Meuagerie. I like the anna lill, I respect the kangaroo, I'm nut. upon the monkeys, and adore the cockatoo: I believe their's latent talent in the wombat and the stoat. And I think the hippopotamus entitled to a Tot. I know not why or wherefore, but, however it may be. The beaver Wmatr ßber) has a nameless charm for me; I've met with true politeness from the lynx ; and 'pon my soul, I cannot speak too highly of the common Yankee mole. I love to watch the creatures, and to learn their little games; I call them from my fancy all the prettiest pet names: There's the camel, Humpty-Dumpty : Neck-or-Nothing. the giraffe : Jolly Gnash, the old hyena, with his idiotic laugh. I mark the restless motions of tue more ferocious lotsHow the tigers shift their places, and tLe leopards change their -pots: I visit, too, the burly bear, and give my wonted dole. IN. B. -the polar bear is not the bear that chimbs the pole. Then let us be M every beast a patron ind a friend ; Each tells his tale, each has his aim, as sure as his end. A lesson's to be learned from them, and man himself may steal Some new light from the tapir, some impression from the seal. AGE OF ANIMALS. In lt9 there was a chimpanzee in the Jardin des i'iiints. at Paris, which was twenty-tour years old. He probably starved to death, in common with most of the animal, during the seige. I was in Londou in 164, when, having land ed in Plymouth. Chim stopped for two days at the Zoological Gardens in Regent's Park, on big way to Paris. He was then nearly ten. There were two female Chims there, and he was allowed to lodge in a separate compartment of their cage for a couple of nights. On his appearance, both of these young ladies Uttered cries of recognition. He had scarcely felt the rloor under his feet when he legan to pay .-Mention to his countrywomen thus unexpectedly found. Their eurprine and apparent tear gradually subsided, and they stood watching him attentively, when he broke out in a characteristic pas seul, which he kept up a considerable time, uttering cries scarcely more hideous than the notes of a Chinese singer, and not far out of unison with his loudly beating feet. The Chim maidens gradually relaxed their reserve as the vivacity of the dance increased until at last, when it was over, each stealthily put a hand through the grillo, and welcomed their friend and brother. Chim thenceforth, during his btay, made himself as agreeable as possible ; and, when the time for his departure came, the maidens exhibited the liveliest regret, even to tears, at losing him. The climate and diet of Paris agreed with him. He had his daily walks, ate the choicest dishes, drank his pint of Bordeaux every day, used a fork and spoon at his meals, enjoyed excellent health, and, though somewhat sobered and slightly gray at his advanced age two years ago, showed no symptoms of decay. It is to be hoped that he escaped the distress of the siege, if for no other reason than to settle the long disputed point of the age to which monkeys may attain. Before proceeding to my subject, let me tell an anecdote of Chim. The last time I saw him he had came out to taste the morning air in the large circular incloaure in front of the Palais des Singes, which was built for " our poor relations'' by M. Thiers. Here Chim began his day by a leisurely promenade, casting pleased and thankful fiances towar 1 the early summer sun. Ie had three coatimundis attending him : and while miking all manner of eyes at a young person who was supplying him with cakes and pastry, one of the former dealt him from behind a stealthy bite. Chim looked round with astonishment at this audacious outrage on his person, exhibited no anger, but walked deliberately to the other side of the circle, and seized a cane. He returned, with majestic wrath upon his .brow, and, taking coati by the tail, applied the cane sharply to the offender's ribs, always in a direction parallel to the ?pine. When he thought sufficient punishment had been administered, he disposed of him, without moving a muscle of his countenance, by a iefthanded jerk, which threw coati high in the air, head over heels. He came down sadder and better coati, and retired with shame to a distant corner. I him then betook himself to his own tree. A large baboon followed him, and seated himself upon the next branch below. This was an unpardonable attempt at familiarity. Chim slowly turned bis head, measured the distance, raised his hind foot, and com

(osedlv kioketl the intruder in the arena below. To what perfection of devoloptnaal of thought Cfctan Might have tne at last is loubtful; but it he still lives, one will doubtless ask of aim, ms an African Prince asked ot lu ChttUlu, after long looking ut an orang outang, " Master, docs he speak Bnflwli et ?" There are instances of lions having reached the age of 70 years. Pompey, who died in the tower of London, in 1700, was neariy an octogenarian. He was forest-born. But of the 319 whelps that have been born during the last thirty years, in Regent's Park, full onehalf have come into the world with cleft palates and have died in infancy, because they could not suck. The keepers tilled their nostrils with tow, and tried various other devices, but it did no good. They could get no sustenance, and pi rished in consequence. The average age of the lion is probably about thirty years. There is this, however, to be rtiid about him : In the domesticated state he never has a chance. He pace backward and forward in the nuishell of a cage. In Paris and London the bear has his pole, the deer his paddock i and the otter h s pool, where each has liberty enough to preserve his health, but the lion is stalled like an ox, till he grows puffy and lethargic. Of all the terrestrial mammalia, the elephant seems to be the longest liver, sometimes exceeding a century. One historical individual is reported to have attained a much greater age. When Alexander the Great invaded the dominions of Porus, one of the Rajahs of Upper India, he took a great elephant from the conquered Prince, named him Ajax, dedicated him to the inn, and let him go with this inscription. " Alexander, the son of .Tupiter, hath dedicated Ajax to the sun." The animal is said to have been found with

the inscription 350 years afterward. It need Hardly be remarked, to prevent full credence being given to this relation, that it rests upon the very dubious authority of ancient times. However, the elephant, beyond doubt, often rounds the century ; and, if not the kitit, is entitled to be considered the patriarch of beasts. The hute, rabbit, and squirrel, if they escape the i.un of the sportsman, seldom outlive the seventh year. The average age or the fox is from twelve to fifteen years : of the cat about fifteen, and of the wolf from eighteen to twenty years. The horse, in a domestic state, does not often live longer than twenty-five years, and the ass ranges to about the same period. Old age pros trated M Copenhagen,'' the famous steed of the Duke of Wellington, at the age of twenty-seven. But the wild horse is supposed to attain a much greater age ; and there is a case on record, well authenticated, of a pony, imported into Berkshire, England, from Shetland, in 176, living till 184S. Swine have been known to live through thirty years, deer eighteen, and camels fifty, though the average ages of all these are much less. The dog loses his sprichtlineas in his sixth or seventh year, and has evidently passed the bounds of youth. Gray hairs are nere ana there upon him at the close of his eighth year, chiefly around the eyes and at the corners of his mouth. Such appearances become more conspicuous to the ek venthor twelfth year, when actual decrepitude usually commences, and increases so rapidly that by the fourteenth year the animal is a burden to himself and a nuisance to others. But dogs have lingered to twenty years. Hexior, a shaggy spaniel of German breed, of unusual life and intelligence, was received at four years old by a lady in London, in 1854, and did not die until Christmas day of 1870. It was Hexior's good fortune to live in a mansion full of dogs and empty of children. Her history could be woven into a story. From being the equal of her canine associates, she became the preferred, and from that the associate of her mistress. As her years increased she grew to be que' n of the household. She had a language for every need of her life, and it was heard, understood, and obeyed. No one of her associates they were seven in number ever entered her luxurious kennel, or touched her dainty repast, or followed her to her intimacies with her niistrcsa,or passed the threshold in her company when she went to take her daily airing. By force of character she held her own to the last, and in her dying hour, on a pillow in a boudoir, her eyes following her mistress while life was was panting toward its goal, subdued all frolic among the usually noisy tribe, every member of which was present, and passed away with the dignity of the patriarch Jacob, when " he gathered up his feet in his bed and yielded up the ghost." The average age of the sheep does not exceed ten years. To that period they live, breed, and thrive well. There are instances, however, of a much more protracted age. Somervilles speaks of a Spanish ram that maintained his virile power twenty-three years, and survived two years longer ; Bnd a ewe, in Denvonshire, yeaned a pair of lambs when a shearling produced two pairs annually for seventeen years, and a single lamb for each of three years more. InScotland the guide-sheep old wethers who are kept on purpose to lead the flocks across themountainsand through the unfrequented wilds average full twenty years of life. Cows and oxen generally reach the age of 17, without diminution of their powers. Rings around their horns tell the number ot their days. At four years old a ring is formed at the roots of the horns, and every succeeding year another is added. Thus, by adding three to the number of rings upon the horns, the age of the animal is arrived at. Among the feathered creation the eagle and raven, the swan and parrot, are each centenarians. An eagle kept in Vienna died after a confinement of Wit hundred and fourteen years, and on

an ancient oak in Nclborne, still known as the "raven tree,' tile same p.u. of ravens are lu lievr-d to hsve fixed their residence for a series ol tunic than ninety years. Swans upon the River Thames, about whose nge there can be no tnis-t.-.ke, since they are annually nicked by the Vinters' Company, under whose keeping they have beon for rive centuries, have been known to survive 150 years and more. The melody of the dying swan ia entirely mythical. I' pon approach of death the bird quits the water, sits down upon the banks, lays its head upon tue ground, expands its wings a tulle, and expires, uttering no sound. The extreme longevity of the parrot is equally authentic, in the Zoological Gardens of London, thwte is a macaw that wasadiuilted to the Towerin tin-year 1764. At Versailles, during the reigu of Charles X., there wiu always hanging a cage in the LEddebazuJ, which contained a parrot purchased by the Regent Orleans for the itnohn tie Herri. There is not a collection in the royal aviaiies of Europe that has not its ancient parrot. The writer pure ha eu gray African parrot in 1856, whose residence in Wales was authenticated lor aeventy-.-eveu years. The bird, more wonderful for variety of speech than for her age, learning everything and forgetting nothing, accomplished alike in iie Welsh tongue and the English, Lorn in Alrica, living more than t 'nee-quarters of a century in Europe, anddying in America, might have been alive now but for heedlessness. In 1 867, she had certainly approached, if she had not reached and passed, her one hundredth ye r. Upon a severely cold night in l)e. ember of that year, she was sent from N'-w York to Washington, and peri-hed by the way. She was in perfect health, had never known a day of sickness, showed no decrepitude, enjoyed life to the uttermost, demanded no allowances or concessions on the score of advanced years, and might, but for an exposure to the rigor to an unaccustomed climate, have been alive to-day. Among fishes, the carp is notorious for the remarkable tenacity with which it clings to life. In the canals of Chantilly carps have been kej.it formorethan a bundled years. They become hoary

j through old age, and so tame that they come at tue call ot the keeper to be ted. From remote antiquity the pike has been considered a long liver. Pliny in ancient times, Pennant and Uesut r in modern, dwell emphatically upon the longevity of this fish. In 14U7 a pike wa taken from the waters of Thailburn, m Swabia, with a golden ring attached to it, on which oral engraved in Greek characters : ' I am the fish that was put into this lake by Frederick II., Oct. 5, 1250." The fish was, therefore, 247 years old. The great longevity of the tortoise is, perhaps, best established of all. One in the gardens of Lambeth Palace lived 120 years. Another at Peterborough attained the age of 223 years. Bishop Marsh's predecessor in the See had remembered it above sixty years, and he was the seventh prelate who had worn the miter duiing its sojourn ii. the close. When this totoise died, it body weighed fourteen pounds, and its shell two hundred and fifty-two pounds. N. S. Dodge, in Appleton's Journal. Personal. Brich am Yocng says he isn't going to marry any more. Ql'ebn Victoria has caused an immense amount of scandal in England by her laxity of Sabbath observance of late. Sir Edward Landsen, the eminent painter, has become insane. It has been discovered that Patrick Henry was as dramatic as a Kean or a Siddons. Boutwell and Butler play billiards together when they sre in Washington of evenings. It is said that C4en. Sickles received 20,000 from the English stockholders in Erie for his services. Brigham Voi no's sermons are now reEorted verbatim, and published for the enefit of those members of his family who can't get into church when any other people go. Toe Herald Aid not printany account of its own of Mr. Bennett's funeral, but published, from advance proof sheet', the reports of the Tribune, Times, World, Sun, and Journal of Commerce. Moses and Aaron Wilcox were born the same day, married sister?, were partners in business at Twinsburg, O., which is called after them, died on the same day1, and are buried in one grave. Paor. Wise is going across the Atlantic in a balloon. " Caper Sauce " is the title of Fanny Fern's new novel. No doubt Fanny is " saucy " enough, but she is getting too old to " caper." Julia Vallet, of Providence, aged twenty-three, in a breach of promise case, recovered a verdict of $16,000 against Thomas Grace, aged sixty-nine. The pretended correspondence between Miss Nellie Grant and Queen Victoria, going the rounds of the press, was the invention of a San Francisco Bohemian. " Oris," the " Fat Contributor," is going to start a paper in Cincinnati. Isham Henderson, of the Louisville Courier-Journal who is described as "fat, fifty, and immensely wealthy " has just captured a $50,000 bride. The happy couple left at once for Europe. James Gordon Bennett's coffin cost $3.000. A Boston woman of 90 got a mercenary youth of a quarter that age to marry her the other day, on promise of an income of 5,OO0 a year while she lived, and a life interest in her estate after her death.

A Vlruirooii the Knniage. The New Orleans pipers of the ISttl tilt, give the particulars of a furious and determined attempt upon the life of Mrs. llolbrook (wife of A. M. Hol brook, for a quartet of a eentury one ol the editors ard proprietors of the New Orleans I'irmune) by I woman named Jennie Bronson, the former wife ol Mr. II., from whom he has been divorced. Mrs. llolbrook was standing in front of a mirror, in her room, making her toilet, totally unconscious of impending danger. The woman Bronson, who had clandestinely gained access to the premises through a rear gate, stealthily crept uy close behind her victim and covered her Lead with a pistol. Mrs. llolbrook turned nnd saw the woman with the pbtol leveled, the sight burst ing upon her vision like an apparition. The crack of the pistol and the sudden turning of Mrs. II. were simultaneous, and one two three shots were fired in an instant at her unfortunate head, the asailant looking like a demon in her hate, all three shots taking rtl'ect. Mrs. Holbrook, small and fragile as she is, rushed toward the murderess and urappled with her, large and powerful as she was, wresting the pistol from her grasp, while its barrels Were yet heated an J smoking. Then the rage and fuiy of the assassin new no bounds. In a frenzy, and while the powers of the assailed young lady were gndunlly departing from her, the woman seized the ornamental vases and bottles on the bureau, and crushed them, one after the other, upon her head, raining blow after blow, cutting a deep gash in the forehead, another over the ear, a third on the "crown, from all of which the blood poured, mingling with that from the pistol-shot Hounds previously given, and Mrs. llolbrook would undoubtedly have been killed but for the arrival of I third party. This was a good, strong Irish woman, who, hearing the noie of contention, lushed up the stairs and pinioned back the arms of the virago, rendering her powerless for more harm, while she ground her teeth in impotent rage. While she was struggling with the servant, Mrs. Holbrook darted down the stairs and out of the house like a Hash, and ir io the house of Mr. liatnev, calling upon the family, for Ood's sake, to protect her. Jennie Bronson turned to wreak her venuence on inanimate

things. Her dress and hair were covered with Mrs. Holbrook's blood. She tore the young wife' dresses out from the armoir and strutted in them Mat a masqu rade ; she broke mirrors and toilet sets she descended into the yard, and, seizing an ax that lay in the woodshed, rushed with it into the house, and, making for the grand piano, hewed the tine work of it into b:ts ; she da.-hed open the cover, and with several stuidy and vigorous blows with an ax, cut the delicate chords of the sounding board, and rendered the beautiful instrument worthless ; she attacked the plate-glass mirrors and smashed them into splinters. Turning round and seeing the table just laid out for luncheon, with the crockery and table-ware upon it, she destroyed that in blow after blow, strewing their broken fragments about the floor in every direction. From the storeroom she seized the champagne, and, opening a bottle, drank itx entire contents almost at a gulp; destroying everything upon which she could lay her bauds, and sparing nothing beautiful or artistic with which the mantels were covered, and ruining the interior of one of the most tasteful and welidecorated houses in the city, including the oil paintings which hung upon the wall, and the chandelier pendent from the ceiling, aa well as the carpets under foot. The police arrived to find the interior of the house in ruins, the whole neighborhood aroused, and the woman only at rest from sheer exhaustion of 11 her powers. She was afterward taken to the police station in a cab. Mrs. llolbrook is a poetefi well known in the South as "Pearl Rivers," and was but recently married to Mr. Hoolbrook. She will probably recover from her injuries. Shops of Constantinople. I have spoken of the shops. They are funny little boxes, with one half of the cover turned up, the other half laid down as a counter. The purchaser stands outside, and the merchant within. No goods are made a show of; there seems to be no anxiety to sell; no anger. .at having everything turned topsy-turvy ; no offense at an offer of just half the asking price. The bazaars are collections of shopkeepers in some particular branch gloomy sheds, often odorous, generally dingy, crowded and stupid. The number of tobacco-pipe merchants and manufacturers amazes one at Constantinople as at Damascus. An amber mouthpiece often costs hundreds of dollars ; the long cherry tube is beautifully wrought in gay silks, and jewels often glitter along the sides, because the pasha expects to pass his pipe round among his visitors, and has no better means of displaying his wealth. His wife cannot receive strangers and make her parlor a museum, because the harem is forbidden ground ; her sliptiers outside the door prevent even her lusband's entrance ; and most of his leisure he is glad to spend anywhere else than in such monotonous stupor. A genuine Turk sees hardly any Turkish ladies ; he nevor beholds his wife till after marriage, and does not commonly marry more than one, unless he is some grand official who is expected to live in style. He never alludes to his family in public, or expects it to be ; to ask after madame's health would be the worst irsult. The French ambassador's wife succeeded when she pre sented somt silks to Mrs. ftedchild Pasha thron, ch the prime minister, by saying " Please accept these, sir i you will know how to use them. LippincotCt Mmgazine.

The Worn-out Foul or Type. I'm siitinir by mv ito-k. QsMt ; lieliir in on th flunr ThfN Km a worn ut fi.nt ..f mm Full tw. nty tliuiuumt ,.'..r i Am mm unnt hiiTi.;,,'! flsom Sine thiv wer. I.nirtit m l ,. ' An l many ur tin- tale thev'v t..'il The Matt the mraiiice. the tru. WhM ule ..f horror they havo tld Of teui-t ami of wrp.-k : Ot murlrr in Ihn mulnight hour. Ol war full many a " riek !" Of hi thai lost away at sen Want im before the blust, Of Rtiflril pria of agony A life's I Hilt moment. BMMi Of earthquiilcM and of xuic'uie, Of hank .Ida u It er, broken hankr. Ami hankinir nyatama rotten, Of boilers burotmic. teniuboatü -nugnin Of notn luelii foucbt: f robhers with their prev cacaiiej. Of thiev.-c, their booty e night. Of flooil. nnil Are. and accident. TMM worn-nut types have told. And how the penitence has swept The youthful and the old : OCjMRfiacw. of birth, aad deaths. Of thing to nleiiae or vex us: Of one inanV Jumping overboard, Another none to Texas. They've told us how sweet iumtner diys Have faded from our view. How autumn's chilting- winds hive swept The leaf-crowned forest throuirh; How winter's snow hath cotnv and Kone--Dark reign of storm and ftrife--And how the smiling sprint hath warmed Tho pale flowers hack to life. I can't pretend to mention half The inky friends have told. Since shining, bright and deautiful They issued from the mold--How unto soine they Joy have brought, To others grief and tears. Yet faithfully 'he record kept Of fat receding ycat?.

Varieties. For whitening the hands Honesty. A Serious turn The twist of one's neck. They have Dolly Vardn hops in England. Somebody wishes to know if a pig-pen is u-ed to write hog-latin. The King of the Belgians is the best crowned-head speaker in Europe. Inckeiiiki.e as it may seem, many ot the richest planters of Jamaica live on coffee grounds. A.v exchange describes a sable-clad missionary as locking M if he had been vaccinated for 'daek clothes and had broken out all over. "Punch" says it is very natural for a man to feel girlish when he makes his maiden speech. A Cincinnati paper describes the pattern of a 'oily Varden as '' red floss rhinoceroses rooting up a blick satin morass." " Thev tired two diots at him," wrote an Iris reporter; the first shot killed him, but the second whs not fatal." Germany has already seven statues of (ioethe, and will erect a msirnitieent monument to him in Berlin this epring. Mrs. Partington says that since the invention of the needle-gun there is no reason why women shouldn't fight as well as men. The Plymouth Sentinel gently alludes to one of its townsmen as" the fly-blown otlice seeker; the worn-eaten land-shark, and avaricious mortgage-scalper." "Six feet in his boots!-' exclaimed Mrs. Beeswax ; 1 what will the impudence of this world come to, I wonder? Why, they might a well tell me that the; man had six heads in his hat." Tut following knotty question claims the attention of one or all of our debating societies : "If a man has a tiger by the tail, which would be the best for his personal safety to hold on or let go?" At an infant Sunday school the teacher gave the Bible story of the " Prodigal .Son." When he came to the place where the poor, ragged son reached his former home, and his father saw him a " great way off," he inquired what his father probably did. One of the smallest boys, with fist clenched, aid : " I dunno, but I dessay he set the dog on him." Josh Billings says that the difference between a blunder and a mistake is this : When a man puts down a bad umbrella and tak- s up a good one, he makes a mistake ; but when he put down a good one and takes up a bad one, he makes a blunder. A noted wag in a Western allege one morning read a theme of unusual merit. The President being suspicions, asked pointedly if it was originial. Why, yes, sir," was the reply, " it had original over it in the paper I took it from. ' This is from the Danbury News, of course: "A Connecticut boy swallowed three marbles at.d four bullets recently, and, being somewhat of a bony structure, is now utilized by the neighbors, who borrow him as a rattle-box to amuse their babes and sucklings." In the Wyoming Legislature, the other day, when a man insisted he was not outof order, his opponent jerked oft his coat, shouting, " Mr. Speaker, if some reliabl man will hold these duds, I'll teach him he is out of order;" and the point was carried. A New England advertiser wants "a woman who fears the Lord and weighs 20) pounds, and tho editor of the sheet in which the advertisement appears remarks that "the experience of most men is that a woman who weighs 2(10 pounds rarely fears the Lord or anybody else." Tna Danbury Newt aays : We presume many of the owners of lot in the cemetery have no objection to the people helping themselves to the flowers on the graves, or digging up hedges, but they unanimously unite in requesting visitors lo remove their boots and shoes before climbing tombstones." Tbe omnibuses of Paris arearegulated by a treaty made in 1861, which gives a company exclusive privileges for fiftysix years. In return the com pan v pay the city $700 per year for each vehicle, and all profits over I per cent, on the capital stock.