Plymouth Democrat, Volume 15, Number 20, Plymouth, Marshall County, 20 January 1870 — Page 1

POETRY.

HER LETTER. I'm Atting alone dt the flr. Dfcwec j9l fcinw from the dance, In .i immm even ytu would admire !t i'o-r a cir thousand in France ; I'm be diamoudud out of ail reason. My hair la done np iu a cue ; In -iort. air. the belle of the icasou" I- waatin; an hour ou jou. A no;' r. lapfMMMi rve broken : I mm in the midar of a et ; Likewi- a nr.irx! hif vm-7on.heat-ir!frf(irin rk" Wb b. both upAn.l then ho adorei in indred An l yon. ir-aru taming row bom np, irer thuiuand mit,. ..-.. Th me yet. Ad h v.v dr, I Bk mv Do.U'on?" AHO wha: d I think of Now York m IBM lU mT higher ambition, Ik "hOBi do I waltz, flirt or talk" A"..t in t it nice to havoriebvs. An t d amoiids. and cilks. and all thai ?" ''An I .r:f t it a change to the ditchea And tunn-jla of lNverty Flat?" Well, re -If toii saw ne out driving feel day in the park, four-in-hand If wu !a- j)or. tear mamma I iwililllag To look upernatnrally grand If m aw papa's pictafv, aa taken By Brady, aud tinted t that -IM't never upect he aold bacon Ami flour at Poverty Fiat. And yet. just this moment, vhor. sitting In the j;lare of the chandelier In fh.- bii-.'.!e and K'htcr tx-flttini; The " Baasl soiree or the year " In the mi if a tinuz dt i'-iatithrrry, Ahl the r-, of the einn lest of talk Souii-ho. I thought or the M Ferrv." An t.e dance that we had on "Tha tfork;" -f Viarrison'a barn, with Its muiter Of flags festooned over the wall ; Of the candies th.it sh.-d their soft lustre A rnl tall. w on head dress and ahawl ; r tl)? stew that mm took to one fiddle, Of the dreas of ray queer vis nrif, And how I occe went down tho middle With ihj mau tbt shot SanJy Mcliee ; Of the m on that was Quietly aleeping On tho MB, when th time came to go; ttiü few babv rmaks that were peep-.ng From under .he hed clorhei or snow ; Ot I hat r i d that to mo was the rarest ; Of th umethiuK you said i.t the fate ; Ah. Jw : theu 1 wasn't an heiress I'- " the best-paying lead in the State." Wen, wo!l, it's all pay yet it's runny To tMak, as I tooa' in t'.e glare Of fashion and beaury ana unwy. That i BhaaJi h.j thinking right there. Of MM oe who breasted high water. And ewam the North Fork, and all that, Ju"t to dance with old Folinbee's daughter, The Lily oi Poverty Flat. But gooiaeeel what nonsense I n writing M nun -ays my taste still is low) I Had of my triumph" reciting I'm spooning on Joseph heigh ho! Ami I m to be finished " by travel SYhstevai s th meaning of that U, why ii;d papa strike psv gravel In Mittag iui Poverty Flat! '''Hl-n1ght here' the end of my paper; G mi-night -il the longimde please - mir bo. vrhile wasting my pap-r. Tour m'i climbing over the trees. But know, if yew haven't got riches. And ar a poor, dearest Joe, and all that, Tha' tmy heart1! sosBewhera therein the ditches, A'k! you'vw struck it -on Poverty Flat. cerlar"d Monthly. MISCELLANEOUS. Ii;'.: (iüMSTMs m;htof a fisherman. A TALE OF TIIK PACIFIC COAST. I r was near the Eve of Christmas. Dark fantastic clouds enveloped the western horizon. Darker and darker t hey became as the northwestern breeze arose, aud soon the veil of nigdit enveloped land and -ra, and nothing could be ecu except the phosphorescent heea of the Ibam-Grested mWN, over which shone the beacon light of Point St. Isabelle. BonetfaMM the wind drove the clouds asunder, and the moon became visible, bedding a flood t gorgeous light over the dashing waves, and seeming to bathe the h' ire and lighthouse in a halo of glory, and lighting up the hull, spars and sails of a Brigantine that tosdeJ upon the wives, not many miles from shore. The next moment another darker bank of clouds advanced and again nothing would be finSUf but the sheen of the waves and tho otoadjF bcaron of the lighthouse. Hark: Distinctly the boom of a gnn could be heard above the roar of waters. A minute b'vim came after another and another over the waves. It was the ill for help of a veaod in distress. Two men stood before the door of the lighthouse. They were gazing towards a dickering light that was ascending the ' Ills, borne in the hands of a woman. ' It's Dora Drayton. Poor woman ! she Is looking for her husband. What shall we tell her ?" asked the lighthouse keeper, t üring his r. i?ht glass from his eyes. " TeD her," aniwered the other, a rough, wi-ith'-r-bfaten fisherman, "tell her he's gone down, boat and ail '." M You can't tell her that. Besides you are not sure that his boat hasn't weathered the gale. You did well to make for the bore b-fore night, but Gray ton was i'ur'ber out than you. The Inst I mm before it got loo dark was bus bout near the brigantine !" " P'raps he got aboard of her ; p'raps not, for is. boo! can't live ten minutes in MM h I MS '" cried t he fisherman, pointing with his hand towards the huge w ives that thundered against the shore Tet which they broke, throwing the spray far inland. " My husbf.nd my husband ! have yon seen bim?1 panted the woman, as -he rushed passed the two men into the belter of the arched doorway. A howling gust of wind sweeping in in i tbe corners of the lighthouse drowned the answt r of the fisherman. She gTapnl his arm and again demanded the r hereabouts of bear husband. " H hasn't come in. I guess he's bond the brigantine!" answered the man. " What vessel fired the guns?" inquired Dra. " Well, I guess it was the brigantine," cried the lighthouse keeper. " Bee! she's sn liuLT up signal rockets !" he shouted a moment after. Again a lurid light illuminated the wild scene ; it was the second rocket another call for help from the vessel. " If she's firing another rocket sh's on the b mk or on the rocks. It matters littlo which way she goes down !" shouted the fisherman. The next moment he rushed down the path to the shore, for a third rocket had been fired. " Take my child take my child I must save my husband f screamed Dora, pushing a bundle into tho hands of the lighthouse keeper. "Stop ! stop !" cried he, but she had already vanished from his sig it. With a doubtful shake of his head the InajMf entered the kitchen where he found his wife, into whose charge he gave the MSskDst l'(xr ljabe, only six months old and already fatherless!" exclaimed the kind WOSMUi unrolling the large shawl in which was wrapped a sleeping child. " It's a pity, sure enough," sympathized the kind hearted keeper. " If," added he after a short pause, "the old man had relented ;ind taken the couple to his house, Charlie irayton would never have become a fisherman." " Don loved him and told the old man that she'd rather drown herself than mar ry the rich fdlow. And the old man said : ' Do so, you c;tn do as you like. If you marry the poor boatman you will nerer receive a cent of my w alfh. If you ever get tired of living in a hut then come to in. but don't bring your husband. My door will never bt (.pen for him,'" " Yes, that's so. And I remember when Dor:i received a letter from her father in which he bepged her to return and leave her husband and baby. That he had money enough to pay for a thousand divorces if she wanted to free herself from the bonds of matrimony," said the lighthouse keeper, who had put on his coat and hat. " Now," he continued, " I'm off for Jtbe caye. Look out for the liirht and take care of the balie !" With these words the lighthouse keeper left the room. Let as follow him. The sea was now in a perfect swirl, tossing its white-capped waves, high into the murky r.ir, and the putfs of the gale eemed to hare increased in strength. The waves leaped madly over the rocks that lined the shore and the salt spray flew in feathery showers over a group of tour men and one woman who were standing near the white cne of the surf. They all gazed seaward. Again the reil of driving clouds rent

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volume xv asunder, and the light of the moon revealed a brigantine nearing a roam-crested line of rocks about a mile away from the shore. Soon a dull crash, which sounded above the roar of the waters, proclaimed the doom of the vessel. " My husband ! my husband I shrieked Dofn, throwing her arms upward. A white, gle:iming speck was daneing a moment upon the crest of a huge wave that came rolling towards the breakers. It was the lisherboat of Dora's husband. By the aid of his night glass the lighthouse keeper saw that as the loat named the stern of the vessel a man leaned over board and was picked up by the occupant of the boat. " Your huslnnd has saved a man, but they never will reach the shore ; there's too much undertow along the eape, and the" shouted the keeper, but he could not finish the sentence, tor at that moment a large wave thundered against the shore and threw its blinding spray over the group. After the wave had subsided, the party saw naught of the brigantine. But between them and the reef of rocks danced the little boat of the fisherman. "If we could get a line to them, they'll be saved. Hut we can't get a boat over the surf, and it would be risking one's life to swim out there," remarked a fisherman who stood near Dora. " Give me a line, for God's sake, give aic a line I I have learned to swim ; he has tae lit me ! ' screamed Dora, pointing towa the little boat which was now only i w hundred yards from the shore. Ilea me no nearer despite the visible efforts f Charles Grayton who was rowing. "Stuff and nonsense!" shouted the risherm in taking hold of I) ra, who had taken a thin but stout fishing line from the locker of one of the boats lying upon the beach. ( "Let me go, let me go! I will save him!" screamed Dora, biting hbn.fat.thfl arm. With a muttered curse the man loosened his hohl, and Dora sprang to the edge of the roaring sea. " Keep hold of the end of the line ! " were the last words she uttered. The next moment a retreating wave had carried her from the shcre. Charles saw a form run to the shore and plunge into the dark waves. He stopped rowing and half rose from his seat as he snouted to his companion in the boat. "Someone is coming out. I also see the men on shore acting as if uncoiling a line. It the fellow reach thi3 boat, then we are saved; if not, then God have mercy upon our souls, for we will surely drift towards the hog-back reef. I have used the oars since the storm began, and now I can scarcely lift them up." "And I dislocated my wriflt when I j looped orerboord and tried to lift myself I into your boat, cried the oilier. "Husband! Charles!" came faintly from over the waters. Grayton had sprung to his feet, and holding on to a piece of the little mast which was still sticking in a hole of one of the boards, he gazed over the waves. Far, far below him, in the trough of the sea, he saw the white, upturned face of his wife, aud again heard her pronounce his name. Instantly he fastened a line to one of the oars and threw it towards the apparently exhausted woman ; at the same time he shouted, "Take hold, Dora; your life de pends on it ! " Twice she missed the floating oar ; the third time it was in her grasp. A minute after, Charles drew the fainting form of his wife over the gunvale of his boat. Dora's first sense of returning life was a dim consciousness of the odor of water lilies. She opened her eyes and raised her hands to her brow. A genial warmth surrounded her, diffused from the cheerful fire that blazed in the large tire-place: and through the window panes came the warm rays of sunshine whieh alighted upon the head of an old man that was bending over her. " Father, dear father ! " murmured she, lifting tin her arms. "My child, our savior!" sobbed the old man, holding h r in a close embrace and kissing her teardimmed eyes. " Yes, our savior!" echoed her husband, holding up to her gaze their little babe, which was dancing with its little feet as if conscious of the joy that reigned at this moment within the room of Charles' abode. "I have but a dim recollection of taking hold of the edge of the boat, then I remembered no more,'' said Dora, drawing her bain; upon her bosom and kissing its rosy cheeks. 44 1 found the line around my waist, and after tying it to the ringbolt in the bow I signalled to the man on shore to pull. A short time after we were high and dry. It was an awful Christmas nJjght, Dora, but God in Iiis mercy has spared our lives," said Charles, kissing her pale brow. The old man lifted his bands as it in prayer. 44 Glory to (Jod on high Peace and good will on earth ! " he said, in a solemn tone. 44 Yes, children, torgive what I, in my vain pride, uttered against you when both begged me to ive my consent to your union. An all-wise Providence had ordained that you should become Ike savior of my life. That vessel, of which I am the only survivor, belonged to me. I was on my way to Cape St. Lucas, where I intended to stay the rest of my life. When the brigantine struck the rocks I saw the bo it of Charles and I sprang to wards it. He drew me in the boat. Children, this is the last day youVemain in this wretched abode. I have already bought houses, and to-morrow we will be on our way to San Francisco. You shall never toil again. Charles. I care not lor the loss of my brigantine ; I still enjoy a princely income, and we will live henceforth together." The bright, golden rays of the Christmas sun shone upon the happy group, and the glistening dust that danced in the sunbeams seemed to rejoice at the reconciliation of father, daughter and son in-law. Golden Era. A Dangerous Symptom. George B., of this city, is a most inveterate smoker in fact, Ceorge has been known to go to sleep smoking, and have his pipe biken from his mouth without waking him. One day last week Uncle C. found a pipe, which he supposed to be George's; and the old gentleman having known him from the time when the mem ory of that much respected individual, "the oldest inhabitant, runneth not back to, made :i straight break for Oeorge's house, and seeing Mrs. IJ., asked : 44 Is George dead f 41 George dead!" exclaimed Mrs. It. 44 Why no. What in the world made you think so. Mr. C. fn 44 Why, I found his pipe, and it was Uncle C. dodged the broomstiek, and wid not be seen in that section again for some time. Racine Journal. An examination of some old letter that remained in a Confederate post-offlee, brought to light this unique love letter. The writer had evidently been taunted by her lover with being 44 cold," and she Vindicated herself very triumphantly in tiie following BOdflSt but sunVient intimation of h-r desire: SJ UUIIKI). MtDkar: You mjt I Mi fold toward you. Well, now let's prove who's th lde-t. Let's von snd me get h. I hnte to write it : look st the top of the letter and you II find it Yer. that's It -Jet's roe anrl you fit lOn. you understand tn AftstloQAtely ir.-, cCr.

Plymouth Democrat.

Some of the Uses of Children. Cntt.OREN keep ourfeelines fresh. The heart often grows old before the bodv: and the heart's growing old has often a good deal to say to the body's growing old betöre its time. I vc seen men old at thirty, and men voungat sixtv. Children bring a man back to his carlv days; they make a man to be a boy and a woman to be a girl once acain. I saw our doctor the other dav plaving cricket with his lit tle boy, six years old ; he had five stones set one atop of another for wickets, and his crooked walking-stick for a bat; and the young chap was working all hi3 might to bowl him out. The doctor's whole heart was in the game, and he laughed fit to split his sides: and all this while there was a grand cricket mab h worth seeing going on in the next field. Why wasn't the doctor there for he had been a great cricketer when he was young? Because youth is our fresh time, and what brings us back to youth brings us back to the old fresh thoughts and feeling! ; and this was just the Way the doctor used to play with his brother when t tey were children long, long before he t nought of giving any body physic, and when he took precious little of it himself. The child was drawing away the doctor's mind from his cares and, poor man ! he had plenty of them at the time and stirrinir up his spirits. Depend upon it, his blood coursed more quicklv through hh veins after that game of cricket than it did before. Children give us healthy springs and motives for work. A child makes the parents feel that they are looked foiward to as providers of course, under God for He is the great provider for all. It makes a man feel himself to be somebody when he gathers the children round him and looks at them, and says to himself, 44 They're all looking to their mother and me; I'll buckle to like a man, and they shan't want if I can get." Is it not something to feel one's self valued and loved; to i fee , "Well, however little I maybe made i in the world, I know a place'where I'm put at a high figure ?" No man should be ticketed up a bargain in his own house ; bargains don't pay anywhere, least of all at home. There was a Sirs. White, a neighbor of mine in former times, and she used often to say, 4 I like my husband alw ,ys to come to a rising market the price of him is always going up. I am always iaisingit; and I'm teaching the children to raise it; and the good man's feeling himself more precious to us all every day. 'Tis a fine thing, and better than any drink in the world to cheer a man up, to have the testimony of one's conscience as to having done one's duty ; and when Joseph sees the children all decent and dressed in his earnings, and fat npon them, depend upo i it he's happy; if he weren't happy he wouldn't call me 4 mother' in the way he does." 44 But," says Mr. Jakes, " hold on a moment; the young ones will grow up, and then they'll care no more for their parents than a calf does for a cow." I was coming to that point. Who ithat old lady living with you, Mr. Jakes? I think I heard the saddler saying he was Staffing a cushion for your spring cart, to take her to church on Sundays. "Oh ! my old mother you mean ; and a good old creature she is. She was a good mother to me. I only wh I had my father along with her." Exactly so exactly so ; you were their calf, Mr. Jakes ; and I'm saved any further dwelling upon this point, for you're as good an instance as I desire for the use of a child after it's grown up. Many a parent owes all her comfort and happiness in after life to the care and provision of her children; and it is God's will that children should help th ir poor, helpless parents. If children don't put themselves to the uses God intended them for, then that's their fault, but the use remains the same for all that. And even a dead child has its uses. There is nothing lost in this great creation. There are in God's providences uses for the dead as well as lor the livimr. We may not see them, or we may mistake them, but they no less truly exist. Dead children have their own deep ose lor us. We have seen that there is a blessing In having a nursery in the house ; is there to be no blessing iu having a nursery in the heart ? When the little body i taken out of the nursery of the house the bright life gone, the warm flesh cold, the laugh ai! stilled then it is taken into the nursery of the heart, to be bright and warm there as long as that heart beats to laugh and sing in the secret sunny chambers where death cannot reach it where it can live on just as it used to do in nursery days of old. There are nurseries in which there is no nurse; and happy is that parent who, when a child is takt n, furnisher a nursery instead of setting apart a graveyard in her heart. There are some, perhaps, who will look on this as a sentiment, and nothing more; but L for one, know that it has its living use. I have a nursery in my own heart ; and there are six little ones there, and I find their use to me. As the world would say, 41 1 have no child now ;" but I myself Bay that I have six six here, far in here in my heirt. And this is why I go from time to time to the neighboring town, and bring home a sick child with me to nurse until it is well again. Those children cannot recover without change of air and scene, and without good nursing. The hospital can do something for them, but not all ; and I enjoy finishing what it begins. The little ones would not let me rest, even if,I were inclined so to do. They are ever talking to me and saying, 44 Father, be kind to all little children, for His sake who is always kind to us; and for our sakes too " Sometimes they say, "who icta kind;" and then I remember the many blessings they had when they were alive ; and sometimes they say, 44 who i.v kind ;" and then I see them all so bright and joyous, and think how well they are taken care of ; and how can I but bless others, for His sake who blessed and blesses mine ? We have many happy days in our house which no one knows anything of. When the sick ones come, I talk to the little ones within, and they seem to say, 44 Father, let them have our bed and our playthings." And when hey go away, they seem to say, 44 Father, give them flowers to take back to the crowded town, and give them a kiss, for we children love kisses;" and I do all that the little ones within ask; and a great deal more too. Isn't a dead child of use when it can th is make a man a blessing to others ? JJritiufi Workman. Almost Burled Alive. We to-day met with Mr. William Pay, a resident of Springheld, III , who is re turning from the California and Idaho mining country, where he has been for the nnit few yean seeking his fortune Amid the many trials and adventures in cident to that wild country, be related to us an account of some of his hair breadth cseapes from death at the hands of the Indian, lie ienrs the marks of four wounds received from the "red skins." The fract ure of one leg leaves it about one and one-half inches shorter I ban the other It was while suffering from this last named mishnp that Mr. Day carne near being buried alive. Hfl was wounded by an ounce ball from an Indian gun on the 1 Ith of Anjrttflt, 199k and was confined to hibed for about one year, a irreat porliov of j t r the time just at the point of death. At one time he had irraduallv grown weaker and weaker, until all hopes of his recove ry were abandoned by hin friends, and

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the physician watched, as he thought, to note the last vital spark take its flight. His limbs became stiff and cold; all pulsation seemed to cease, and the breath appeared to have left the body. Mr. Day was duly laid out and dressed in the habiliments of the grave; his eyes closed by the aid of coins, and all necessary preparation made for his burial. Of all these arrangements he was quite conscious, but had not the strength to make it known. Before the time arrived for his burial, his old physician, who bad attended him during the earlier stages of his suffering, happening to have business in the vicinity, and hearing of the decease of Mr. Day, called to see him, and while looking with pity upon the cold form of his former friend and patient, he imagined that he could discover signs of respiration. Cpon closer examination he ascertained that he was correct, and he at once set to work to restore to life the supposed dead man. He succeeded so well that Mr. Day passed through Omaha yesterday, apparently well and hearty, and able to tell his own story. He says this occurred in Silver Citv, Idaho Territory. Omaha Re publican, Jan. 6. A Disagreement among Doctors. A paragraph from the Boston Journal of Chemistry has been going the rounds of the secular press, in which the writer opposes the practice of evaporating water upon stoves and furnaces, on the ground that the air cannot be "dried up or burned up," and that none of its natural moisture is expelled from it by heat. Truly, 44 a little learning is a dangerous thing," and we have here just enough knowledge dis played to cover a deal of mischievous ig norance. In the first place, it may be news to the chemical gentleman in question to learn that there are certain physiological phenomena connected with excessive or de fective humidity of the atmosphere; that under the latter condition, owing to the affinity of air for moisture, the respiratory surfaceg will be refrigerated and dried by unusual evaporation from them; and that the same process, to a less degree, affects the whole surface of the body. JS ow, granting that, in a literal sense, none of the existing moisture is expelled from air by raising its temperature, an Immense relative re duction of its humidity is thereby effected. Suppose, for instance, that the at mosphere of a room of two thousand cubic feet contents have its hygromctxic capacity for moisture satisfied on a freezing morning. We build a good fire in a stove and warm this room to, say, 75 Fahren heit ; aLd in doing this we so reduce the rdaUn amount of moisture, that at least a pound of water is required to bring the air to tne same conaiiion in wuicn we found it, And, what is more, the thirsty air will have this water in some way, and, we do not supply it by evaporation, from external sources, will, to use a vul gar but appropriate slang phrase, 44 take it out of our hides, t or our own part, w prefer the former alternative. America? Medical Oam tte. mu-o m Chinese Pronu nein lion of English. It is one of the most curious things lo observe how foreigners pronounce and syntactically treat our language. Though it is very easy to discover that there are differences in pronunciation, it requires at least some learning and some observation to find out the exact points ot diversity and their causes. The Chinese, for in stance, say 44 Too ool-lah," instead of 44 two illars ; " 44fote," for "forty;" - twa-te," for 44 twenty ; ' 44 hun-tah, " lor 44 hundred.' They speak in a manner as if they swidlowed something between every two syllables, and even those among them who speak English the best can only be understood when the car o! the hearer is somewhat accustomed to the peculiar manner of their pronunciation. The uneducated classes of Germars sav 44 hi?ncley" for 44 chimney." They have not the sound 44 ch," pronounced as 44 tsh," as in chimney or chalk in their own. language, and the two consonants "inn" (as in damn, chimney, o?nni omnit,) do not occur in the German in words which are often used by uneducated people. They, therefore, pronounce the word 44 chim ney as near as they can come to it by their own German sounds, without much troubling themselves whether they doit correctly or not; whilst any clas sically educated German very soon pro nounces the word correctly, because he has found the two consonants 44wt" in many Latin and Frencl words. Just so will every American, who does not understand tier man correctly, imitate the German Nir kommt 'rauf, (correct high German, Nirht kommt htrauH), by saying 2135 komm rave, leaving out the 44 C in 44 bimmt" because in English the two consonants 44 ?nt " seldom or never occur at the end of a word. In a similar manner the peculiarities of the Chinese language appear in their pronunciation and selfmade syntax of the English. Before every other, the Chinese is a monosyllable language, having no phonetic alphabet at all. Every Chinese character is a word ; it has both sound and meaning. It is ufitte'd, therefore, for the adequate representation of foreign words. In modern times the Chinese have invented some new characters, by which they Indicate the names of Lord Paimerston, and some of the foreign sovereigns with whom they have been in com munication, lhey, moreover, liave not such common sounds as those of g, r, b, d, in their language, and the short a never occurs in p.ny ot their words. In pronouncing a polysyllable, therefore, they first separate it ;nto monosylables, and leave a hiutus, as ii were, between every two syllables. It is precisely, as we have said, as if they swallowed something between every two syllables. If an English word contains one of the letters which they do have, or if two consonants follow each other in English words, such as seldom follow each other in Chinese, they try to translate these sounds by such sounds of their own language ss seem to them to come nearest to the loreign sound. This they also did in translating the Holy Scriptures of the Buddhists. They, for instance, translated the name "Buddha" into 44Fo to," and afterwards, abbreviated it in the monosyllable Fo, which now means "the Enlightened," or "Buddha." This was the nearest they could come in writing the name Buddha. The "b" they had not, nor had they any eoaSJOSMtntl to rt present the "ddh." In the same manner they wrote the Sanscrit word 44 Anadana ' (parables) "Po to,"and they write; 44 Ho kialo"lbr the Sanscrit word 44 Vyakar anza" which means 44 sermon." It re quired twenty years of uninterrupted siudy for a man of the learning of H Stanislaus .Julien to find tho ant hod nf deciphering the Chinese translation of Sanscrit names. During the few hours' stay of the Chinese who have just passed through this city, there was, of course, little time for the study of the characteristics of their pronouin iation of Kriglitdi in all its features. Hut the remarks we have made may serve as a key to those who take an interest in the process of the unification of languages, and in the transformation which our own must undergo in the minds and on the tongues of the Chinese. Those who may recollect other English words spoken by them, will in our remarks find at least some of the causes for thvir peculiar pronunciation. St. lAui RepuUira n. At a funeral in a Brooklyn church, the other day, six ladies had their pockets flicked One of the victims was robbed while looking at the corpse.

Altogether Remarkable Somnambulism.

Turc following interesting history of a case of somnambulism, lrom the Chicago Medical Journal, was furnished by Dr. J. A. Allen, formerly a professor in the Med ical Department of the Michigan University. The event narrated occurred while he was employed in the I'niversity, and furnishes one of the most remarkable cases on record : It was my fortune, during a series of years, to have under direct observation a case of somnambulism, in some respects more remarkable than any upon record. The subject was a family relative and private medical student of my own. The first time he was evr known to walk in his sleep was in the spring of 1847, and the first attempt was an unfortunate one, as he fell from a stairway unprotected by balusters, injuring himself considerably, although fracturing no bones. He had risen and dressed himself, but when awakuned by his fall was utterly ignorant of his whereabouts. I saw him a few moments afterward and found nothing unusual about him, but he remarked that he had not felt quite well when he went to bed. For some months subsequently he would now and then get up, dress himself and go about the house without any apparent object, and, usually, after awhile return to his bed voluntarily, awakening in the morning with not the slightest recollection even of a dream. My young friend was an enthusiast in music, and a very respectable amateur. About the summer of 1S47, a somewhat dilapidated bass-viol, which was a kind of heirloom in the family, was brought into the house, and he devoted spare moments to learning how to play upon it. Unfortunately, the antiquity of the instrument had told upon its keys, and unless they were wetted at each time of use it would not remain in tune. He was determined, however, to command its notes, and succeeded, nis somnambulic walks, thereafter, led him from his chamber to the parlor, and to the bass-viol, and the family would be awakened in the small hours by the inevitable tuning up prelude, mingled with slipping of the old keys, and quiet objurgations on his part. Sometimes the bridge would lall down when the keys slipped, and sometimes a string would snap or escape from the keys; nevertheless he would persevere, repair damages, tune up, and then execute all varieties of music of which tho machine was capable, not unfrequently accompanying it with his voice. All this would be done in total darkness. When any one entered the room with a light, he took not the least notice, alt hough when spoken to he would reply in monosyllables or with considerable asperity. His face was unusually Hushed, although sometimes pale the features immobile and passive, the eye open, pupil dilated ; the surface glazed, and the lids apparently motionless; the extremities warm and the pulse lull, frequent and soft. Very often the skin would be bathed with free perspiration. Remarkably sensitive to titillations when awake, there seemed a total absence of rellex movements from this eause, while in the somnambulistic state. As he cxteneed his acquaintance with music and musical instruments, his feats became wonderful. While in attendance upon the Medical College at Laporte, the household looked forward with high anticipations to the hours when his skillful touch of the melodeon would wake them. He had a voice of the purest tone and very considerable compass, in fact, of rare sweetness. I am enabled to say from a multitude of observations that he played with a precision and skill while asleep that he could not approximate while awake. Besides this, he would executemusic which he had heard, perhaps but once, the evening previous or after a long inter val no note of which he could recall in his waking moments. His memory here seemed wonderfully exalted. If interrupted, he was irritable in the extreme, but would go ou with his music exactly from the point of interruption. Whilst attending lectures at Ann Arbor, where I was then lecturing on physiology, I requested his assistance in enlarging some of the drawings illustrative of minute anatomy and histology, for use in class demonstrations. He entered into the work with great zeal, and proved very expert and rapid of execution. One evening, previois to the day on which I was about to lecture on the kidney, I wished the cuts in " Carpenter's Physiology," illustrating the tubular arrangement, etc., made ready. He had an engagement for the evening, nut add he would try and prepare them in the morning. During the night he rose, dressed himself, played a few tunes on the guitar, part of the time singing (and, by the way, the guitar was about as dilapidated as the bass-viol before noticed, and he hod to knot one or two of the strings first), and then arranged the drawing paper, prepared his India ink and brushes, took the parallels and pencils and laid ott the spaces, and worked for half an hour or more, rapidly and perfectly, nearly completing the figures on pp. 590 and 51) T of Carpenter's Principles, in the edition C 185:1. His were taken from a previous edition not now in my possession. These drawings are now in the series used for illustration in Hush Medical College. Although we had a light iu the room while watching him, he went on with his work entirely regardless of it. Before completing the work, he went to bed and slept until tho usual hour in the morning. When at the breakfast he asked if he had been up in the night, as he hail dreamed that ie had. This was the only time he ever remembered even dreaming about being up or occupied in anything. He had by this time become so fully aware of his habits, that nothing of the "sort astonished him. Shortly after this he went to spend the night with a fellow student, but a little after midnight he rose, dressed himself, and went out, followed by the other gentleman, walked down to the Ex change Hotel, where there were a number of his acquaintances and others waiting for a train of cars due at that time. Some one rallied him on his being out so late, but, being cautioned by bis companion, they did not attempt to awake him, but watched his movements. On being in vited, he took a glass of ale, and then said he would only have time to go home and get du ainner betöre the afternoon lecture hour He walked with his friend to our door, and was indignant to find it locked Ills room-mate (a cousin) admitted him, and awakened myself and wife. He asked if dinner was ready, and seemed aston ished that it was not ; then said he would get a drink of water and lie off, 44 for old IJ. (one ot the faculty) would be mad il he was late." I told him he had plenty of lime, and he need not Ik in a hurry. He then walked into the kitchen, drank a tumblerful of water, and, looking up to tne clock, although it was totally dark, n marked the time and started for the front door. I then told him that I was not feel ing well, was pretty blue, and wished he would sit down and OUT euchre with us This seemed to please hlin, and he took off his overcoat and said he would ahcf plav until 44 old D." was through lecturing, as to go. His cousin sat down it thfl tablfl with us, and we played 44 three handed (cut throat) euchre." He dealt the cards in his turn correctly, and 44 played according to Hoyle. In one linn. I, spal s v r trumps, he held the jack id clubs. Clubs being led, he first threw down the jack, then luiekly picked it up, sayim- " 1 forgot the left bower." It is somewhat humiliating to record that. Dot Withstand our trioks and devices, he lwat us in the game. On Us conclusion, he got up hastily and

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insisted upon going to the college. We only prevented him this time by throwing water in his face the only method, by the way, in which we could awake him without great violence. Pungent odors, ammonia, camphor, etc., he seemed to disregnrd, or merely pushed away the object. On regaining conciousness, he always appeared like one stunned or suffering from a severe shock. The influence upon the pulse or nervous system was also so severe that we never awaked him at these times if we could avoid it. Whenever out of health, as from trifling attacks of indigestion, or after watching with the sick, or fatigue, he would be pure to be up and doing something notable in the somnambulic state One of the most remarkable of his exploits occurred several years after the incident just given. I think it was in 1S00 or 18GI. He gave me the particulars himself, and I have had the necessary concurrent evidence from other!. The circumstances were so extraordinary that they almost caused him to determine never to practice medicine again. In the rounds of his practice he had a pitient about whom he was very anxious. It was in the coldest winter weather, and the residence of the patient was about two miles distant. Visiting him early in the evening, he found him in a state so unsatisfactory that he informed the family that if be did not find him better the next visit he should change the medicine entirely. On rising next morning, he went to the barn to put his horse to the cutter for an early start. He was a little puzzled at finding things somewhat misplaced, but supposed some person had been in the stable in search of a missing article. On visiting the patient he was gratified to find a marked improvement. Ho inquired when the improvement commenced, and was answered, 44 Immediately after he had taken the powder which was given in the The truth fltshed upon him at once, but concealing his emotion he inquired with as careless an air as he could assume, 4 About what time was it when I was here? They replied: 44 Between two and three o'clock." This proved to be the case, as he was afterward told by the family where he boarded. He had been giving the patieat some fluid medicine, which he ordered discontinued, and then put up several powders, such as he had concluded on the night previous, com bining them as usual and administering the fluid one himself. The alarm of my poor friend at the possible consequences of a similar aet in the future may well be conceived. The Value of Knowledge. Knowlkdoe, like virtue, is not good be cause it is usetul, but uselul because rt is good. It is useful contingently, and good essentially. The joy of it is simple ; and not only needs not to be supplemented by accessory advantages, but it is well worth the forfeit of many advantages to obtain. The most miserable wretch we can imagine is the ignorant convict locked up in a soli tary cell, with nothing to employ his thoughts but unattainable vice and frus trated crime, whereon his stupid judges leave him to ruminate, as if such poison were moral medicine likely to cure the disease of his soul. And, on the other hand, one of the happiest beings we can imagine is the man at the opposite end of the intellectual scale, who lives in the free acquirement of noble knowledge. What is an 44 increase of sorrow" incurred thereby, compared to the joy of it?" To look on the fields of earth and air not as the dull boor regards them, as mere patches of brown and green and blue, with promises of food or shelter, sun shine or shower but as the gcologiet, the Imtanist, the astronomer regards them, each as an infinite world of interest, wherein order and law ind beauty are ' traced by his rapid thought, even as the swallow traces the msec on the wing! lo be able to tase surveys such as these, is to be admitted to a spectacle for which angels might envy the sons of men. liut to do yet more, to make memory like a gallery hung round with all the loveliest scenes of nature, ami all the masterpieces of art ; to make the divine chorus ot the poets sing tor us their choicest strains, whenever we beckon them from the cells where they lie hidden deep in our souls ; to talk familiarly, as if thev were our living friends, with the best and wisest men who have ever lived on earth, and link our arms in theirs in the never-withering groves ot an eternal icademe this is to be happy indeed. This . 1 i , C . is to nursi tne oonus oi nuacc, nnu su bring the ages together, and lift ourselves out of the sordid dust to sit at the banquet of heroes and of gods. trances rower Coljbe. A Murderous Sea Flower. One of the exquisite wonders of the sea is called the opelet, and is about as large as the German aster, looking, indeed, very much like one. Imagine a very large l f 1 - .! i K , . . a . . . . . . , , I.t, tiiJitla doUUie aster wun evei duuhsuj iuuk ucwo of a liirht green, glossy as satin, and each one tipped with rose color. These lovely petals do not lie quietly in their places, like those of the aster in your garden, but wave about in the water, while the opelet generally clings to a rock. How innocent and lovely it looks on its rocky bed. Who would suspect that it woulU eat anytiung grosser than dew or sunlight f Hut those beautifUl waving arms, as you can mem, have another use besides looking pretty. Thev have to provide tor a large open mouth which is hidden deep down among them so well hidden that one can scarce ly lind it. Will do they perform their duty, for the instant a foolish little fiahlet touches one of the rosy tips he is struck with poison as fatal to him as lightning. He immediately becomes nnmo, ana in a moment stops struggling, and then the other beautiful arms wrap themsehes around him and he isdrawn into the huge, greedy mouth ami is seen no more. Then the lovely arms unclose, and wave again in the water, looking as inuocem ana harmless as though they had never touched a fish. mm -m m How to Make Molasses ( ami). Kamt that these long winter nights sbaddow more than half of the time, 44 candy pulling "is in vogue. As the candy is usual Iv made, it is a long teuton process, requiring from one to three hours. These long hours of wait ing are longer by having to endure the heat while stirring the molasses. The waste of fuel is another objection to the old method. By follow niLr tins recipe, an Ol uns ieuiouHne-ta suu .. . c- , - . 1 .1 vexation will be avoided : For a small number, say four persons, these quantities will answer, ror a larger, increase proportionally. One teaeuptul ot molasses. Half a.teacupful of any kind ot sugar A teaspoontul of vinegar. A piece of butter the si.e of half a nut men. Put the whole in a skillet, on a hot fire, and boil exactly ten minutes, stirring it all the time, then wt it to cool. Pull it a noon as it is hard enough. Roiling it twelve minute will make it hard enough. Rieht minutes will not be enough. Ten minutes by the clock Is the exact time. Follow these directions, and we'll pay for all t he candy that won't pull provided we are invited to test it. Exchange. As an indication of the great arcity of employment tor women in San Fran cisco, it may be stated that an advertise mi ni for a girl to attend a store in that city resulted in ninety six applications for the situation.

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Punch's Rules for Young Tradesmen. 1. Never be idle. If yon have nothing to do, go through your books and turn the oughts, in your debtors' accounts, into sixes and nines. You may thus make a wet day as profitable as a fine one. If you only add a half penny to each of twenty-four accounts, you have done something. 2. If your customer be solvent, never make up the so-called weekly lnvk until you are compelled to do so. Remember, Um older a bill, the more difficult it is to detect an over-charge. O A.'-. A. 1 1 1 1 S . w. a o. l ou inusi nave nau uents. It is j due to your family that vou should not incur losses. Iherelore, judiciously dis tribute the amount you expect to lose. over ne bills ot those who pay. but take long credit, society is bound to be selfsupporting. 4. It a customer leave vou for one who deals on easier lerms, vou should take every opportunity of saying, with a com passionate expression, to other customers, mat you arc very sorrv to believe that ' -- 1 r r mi i - m it le.ts'ui ior jur. a. s going to a cheaper market, and that you earnestly hope he is not in much difficult-. 5. If Paterfamilias is ever worked un by his wife to call and remonstrate as to your charges, be rejoiced to see him, and show him books and invoices, and say that his business head will at once enable him to see how the truth is, which the ladies cannot be expected to perceive. He will be flattered, and tell his wife that she accuses vou unjustly. G. If Materfamilias declares that she is resolved to try elsewhere, beg her, most respectfully, to do so, and say that, though proud of her custom, vou would very much rather lose it than be sup posed to act unfairly but ask her where she means to go, and then say that vou are certain you will have the honor of seeing her again, for the character of that house is pretty well known. Do not hang these Rules up in your shop, but paste them inside your desk" and read them every Sunday morning, before going into your accounts. Comfortable Koom4, The idea that becoming hardened to cold is beoeficial to the human body or good for the soul, is thoroughly exploded "ui uesi pnysicians now advise that suffieient clothing to keep the body warm I should be worn. If two flannel shirts are not enough, put on three. If one pair of hose will not protect the feet sufficiently, put on another pair. It is well understood among farmers that if thev would have their cows g!Ve the greatest quantity of ...un. in w mu-i,oraecumuiate latin sa rapidly, the animals must be kept warm. Other wise the body uses up what would go fa 1 1 he production of milk or fat in maintaining its own temperature. Just so with the human body. The force employed in keeping the body at 98 degrees, unless as sisted by food and clothing and artificial heat, will consume the energies of the svstem, h a ving bulc power to be exerted in any other way. So as a mutter of economy, it pays to keep warm. Another idea that the character is benefited by the endurance of unnecessarv hardship, is erroneous. If one cannot ime loou enough they may increase their virtue by patience under privation, or by uncomplaining submission to Inevitable suffering. Iiut we all pronounce that man a fool who thinks to starve himself into virtue when abundance of food is provided to satisfy his hunger, or From false idea of pride refuses to dress with taste and comfort when he has ample means for doing so. The fhet is, the more perfectly our physical wan la ut swppli. .1 th.. more force and energy and diet i fulness we can bring to the performance of our daily tasks. Comfortable rooms, sufticiont food and proper clothing are essentials, and by no false idea of the excellence of stoical philosophy, to be lightly esteemed. It is well understood by those Whfl have tested it by careful and repeated experiment that comfort and economy alike require the keeping up of a lire in the household all night. Then there is one room where the family may le assembled in the morning, and escape the Inevitable chills they must suffer from shivering over a new lighted fire. There is also a saving of kindling wood and the tus.s ot building am sh lire, beside the increased heat necessary to overcome the cold oft he furniture and walls of the apartment. We by no means ree Warnend warm sleeping rooms. On the contrary, our experience is that rooms without fires, but open to sun and air all day and naed only at night, afford the most healthful and refreshing sleep. Hut for the sake of the little ones and of the advanced in lite let there be one r m where the lire never goes out, and to which, on these shivery winter mornings, they may go from a Wins bed. and tin 1 he temperature all that the bodv requires. No light degree of resolution is required to spring from a warm bed, dress oner's self in the cold and descend to a room at the freezing point, perhaps several degrees below it, aud all the time feel sunny and warm iuid JoUf in ones heart, when the finger s nre numb and the feet like lumps t ice, and the cold making goose ll- sh and playing hide and seek up and down one s spine. We housekeepers know how long it takes to start things on these cold winter mornings, ami it you have cv.T tried it, my rural friend, just m ike the experiment at the cost of an armful of oak wm 1 or a Rcuttleful of coal, and sec how much bet - er ol a frosty morning things w ill go oil", how vour good temper will diffusa cheer and brightness over the family circle, how itiickly the breakfast will arrange it -it', and how of a sudden summer will seem to spring from the arms of December. N. Y. tribune. The f inagination. Dr. Favkr. an English nhvsician in India, communicates to the Indian .)... ' Cid Gazdte an extraordinary otae of Um etlect ot imagination on the physical sys tern, lie says : " Some time ago, on visiting the hos pital one morning, I was told that a man had been admited during the night suf f ring lrom a snake bite, and that he was very low. I found him in a state of great prostration, he was hardly able to speak, and seemed to he in a state of irreat dt preseton. He and his friends mid that during the bight, In going into his hut, a snake bit him in the foot; that hfl was much ttlnrmcd, and rapidly passed into a state ol insensibility when they brought him to the hospital, lhey and he con sidered he was living, and evidently re aided his condition as hopeless. On br ing asked for a description oi the snake thev replied they had caught it and brought it with them in a bottle. Tin bottle was produced, and the snake turned out to be a small, innocent lycedon. It was alive, though somewhat injured by the treatment it had rteeived. (n ex plaining SO the man and his friends that il was harmless, and with some difficulty making them twlicve it, the svruptom of poisoning rapidly disappeared, and he left the nospiiai as well as ever life in a few hours. r - i it he was in his At a Sunday School concert at Metro ae s Miie time since, as wa the custom, all present were invited to recite some passag from scripture. A young fellow, who wished to create some merriment, re sponded by rising and saying, "Judas went out and hunt himwff." A young ladv immediately Wwe and recited the selection, "Uo thou and do likewise.'

FACTS AM) nMUfti Wyoming has 700 women voters. Lafayette. Ind., has a six-foot girl.

aged 10. California has five peach trees to every voter. Boston now has a dominion over !'.' I acres of land. Springfiki.d, Ohio, did not lose I dollar by fire last year. Foi r prominent English magainusara edited by women. Only four deaths from small-pox at -COflfld in Boston last year. Horace Qnui mtft he ro- mt 4 lrank a drop of liquor since lJ-L A fortv-onf. poi nd turkey was lately brought to a Philadelphia maiket. Is less than two year- the Coroaei Memphis, Tenn., has held 3K) haf pats Nkart.y a million acres of publie lands were taken up in Dakota llflt year. A St. Loon woman ha taken a l '2.000 mm s m . contract ior macaaamijuny a street in inai city. The people of Saratoga Springs send away SflyOOO tons of mineral waters msk year. It is said that there arc now four times as many cattle in T x as as there wt r 1 fore the war. It is reported that the English guage is to be universally adopted by tele graph companies. A quarter of a million of dollar- u at expended in Sacramento in the purchase. f Christmas gifts. In San Francisco there were V. -. ot real estate made in li'J, of the total value of fcvJU.OiiT.TlT. The thirtv-seven savings banks in Maine had. last year, 311,527 üepo-; and $10,839,995 of deposits. DvuiNO lt'.'.t, the amount of intense! revenue collected in New York citv 129,900,6623. Thieves broke into a church at Auburn one night recently, and carried away the empty coatribution boxes. The prettiest girl in Calilorna ris s . mt mt m im every morning at oejocK, ana iu.iks three cows before breakfast. McDonald Clark, the "Mad Poet." once said that 44 any expression of thought, so arranged as to make a man fight or cry, is poetry. It is computed that 100.000 men in i w York city receive wages for labor and pend$ 6,720,0001 a year fr rum tad tobacco. St. At. cans, Vt., has shipped in the A a a S. . . " .a . . . way ot ireignt tne pasi year z,?,ouu pounds of butter, .u'VJ.'o pouuus cheese, and 4,9:J-j lxxes of mineral water. The number of failures in the l nit d States during were a,w, wun iiaonities amounting to 75,094,000; while in I8f8 there were g,W, with liaL-m: amounting to $0.77 1,000. There are a great number of workmen out of employment at Montreal. I he houses of industry ana refuge are lull. ami there arc numerous applicants fi r charity. Since 130 one hundred and sixty-one vessels have tieen lost from the Gloucester (Mass.) fishing fleet, and ninety-right lives, Lnst year sixty-seven lives and sixteen vessels were lost. Fot R hundred letters were recently dis covered by an agent Of the Postoffice I partment at a hotel in Boston, addres-cd to gucts, but never delivered. He sent them to the dead-letter office. Tiik Pittsburgh Commercial proposes the division oi I en us v ltaina imo i .'tau-, , - C 11. -.1 ... ...... .,. Wtnti.c with Philadelphia as the capital of the State of Pennsylvania, and Pittsburgh the capit il of the Slate of Alleghany. Tns convicts at the Bagne of Ton ion nre no longer flogged for infractions of thfl rules, bat deprived of food for two or three days. They are said to dread that mode of punishment by far more than the lash. There war a painful scene in the court room at Hartford, a few days ago. A girl, only 1J years of aue, was brought up aaa common drunkard. r-nora nave nc u made to save her, but the taste for liquor has got such hold of the child that BM cannot Ik kept lrom the use oi strong drinks. The Judge sent her to the reform school for girls, at Middletown. Tiik lanre Court House of Navarro county, Texas, is said to have been cov ered with shingles made from a single rriar tree. The oaks, pecans and cedars of that section of tne ot...y -oiain an immense size. A pecan tree in avarro county, on the MUUCB oi tne inaity, measured twenty-three feet in circumfer- ... , ä 1AA ence. 1 lie ceuars are oiteu moic umu iw feet high. AcconniNo to the vcrv accurate ob servations of M. Marie Davy, just an nounced, the heat derived from the caloric ravs of the moon is not sumcient to raise the temperature of an exceedingly a dsitive thermometer the one millionth of a degree. This result, it may be a ided, is in direct variance with that dedflflad by Lord Posse, in his investigation of the same subject. TnE greatest storm on record in England occurred on November J6 and J7, 17o:, when $,000 people were drowned in the rivers and on the coasts. Tw- he men-of-war were lost, beside an imtm : number of smaller vessels, and 1,700 trees were torn up in Kent alone. It during this gale that the DddjSflOSM light house and its architect wt re iwept away together. Tiik total cost of maintaining the Sing Sing prison tor the last year was 3m,1 W. 53, and the total receipts were (264,153 ,,v leaving a deficiency ot f iw,raf.4 i"' nrovided for bv the State. The average cost of keeping each mnle convict per day 73 3 10 cents; banales, m wn " the5thinst. there were in prison a ioisi of 1,208 convicts 1,170 males, and M females. A new exnlosive. of asserted en power, if announced by Cngfiah Joornala, under the name of ammonia powder. Analysis shows merely a substitution ot nitrate of ammonia for nitrate of poSjUSS in ordinary gunpowder : the change add ing immensely to the expiosie loree. i nsalt being quite deuqw -cent, tne on adage, "keen your powder dry,' would lose its significance, bhouiu the powder come into general use. A uFMMiKAiii.K caae of suicide Is re mitted from Hanover. On the SSth ol . j- m 1 1 . ( November the wiieoiaoay laoorci o, Linden, near Ebsdorf. Pi vers old, and the mother of live cluidren, sentea n i self in a cauldron of boilimr waw r, a aica had been prepared for scalding a pig killed. She had been reading the pre vious evening alnuit the msriyrdom M lluss, and had said that burninc wa not so fearful after all. She la supposed to have been insane. FiM Ai.asare in a decided minority in the JVeat aad the new täte, while it arc in a majority in the Ne Eng' and States. Tana in Ohio there is an exec-s of 40.0W nu n . in Michigan 40,000, end California 143,000. In Massachusetts, on the contrary, th rcare3ü,0 Omore womi n than men; in New Hampshire ti o in Rhode Island .000. and in Com cui 7,800. The total excess in New Kurland of females over males ; lv"00 The shifting of a bog i reported from Ballvloneford. County Kerry, Ireland. mm . .vv. v Tin1 hog, which coverea over voo mo red to a distance ot nearly hall a mile inland, creating great const nut lion in tin neighlHirhood. Several cabin w thrown down, and cattle and horses w. re lost, A lake took the place of the 1 I The inhabitant on the skirts of toe morass barely escaped, the motion ol the log being sudden and unexpect. Years ago, a deficit of W ,000 was fou I in the at -counts of a bank Cashier in Foi mouth, N H. He disclaim I I ki ,..1 of it. resigned, and his bondsmen I to,, possession of his propertv to iuo iu njfv themselvr- It was supposed, ai U I ; that the Cashier had circulated mi uronerl V ml H to t amount oi um im h - - 4-;t The per-ona connected Willi tne aiinn died, Ihe business of the bank was WOl up, but the missing f2.oöt never cam. ia for redemption, and il i si pi Hud that amount of bills was defltroyed by the directors. The Cashier properu is finally restored to his heirs, but he and his family had lived in poverty and sorrow fbr years, and died without vindu aMam r- . ... .