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7 v ft) i t M ..ft PLYMOUTH WEEKLY DEMOCRAT. VOLUME XIV. PLYMOUTH, INDIANA, TUX RSDAY, MARCH L i860. NUMBER 26.

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Poetry.

TUT ft PRINTER A T HOME. BT PHOT. O. HOWE aaUUUU, eo. A printer and hi wife Wcre.-ittini: at their T. Without dome-tir strife. In vddod X T C; " Deal Km." the pnnt'T -aid, Th p:ined. .'ire i :irned his I. Snatched n sHea " ol bread. And k des tdaway" some pii "ebon srt a r altlag - ( ur ivi space for mo : m I lvc yrvi tvtter far - TL.ici T " cwttal black tea. Th'-n tVcr hi aettaree form" .-a beul her sweat "Scotch face," ' " " c !" "'trm, i.c wbllatthey jiwo embrace. GONE BEFORE. Tibb'i a beautiful taca in the .-ilea: air. Which follows WH er t 'in n-ir, With rrnili'i eves anti answer hair. With 'olre!eKi"l!r, yet with breath of prayer That I fed, but Cannot hear. '."he dimpled hind, an-l ringlet of old, Me low in a marble !eep : I fftfetcS my arm-1 for the clu-p of old. But Lhe emptr nir 1? ?traiircly cold, Aui! my v'ijil aloue I keep. ' r - i -In. est bro-.v with a radiaut crowu And a err. laid down in the dnt : TUere's a smile wean r.'-ver ashnde come now. An ) tear no mor from the-e dear eye? flow, o tweet in their innocent trut. V,. v -I' ' ar.d simmer iSini'ir -j 1it -.-riie oh! son1.'; Bat, u'i ' it mmadfl liko a sob of pain, A it float in the -unshine and the rain. er hearts of the world" great throau'. r'...ve" a beau iful rerTon above the ekics. And I lor- to lead it- shore. Wm I know I -hall find my treasure there, n hmgMag eyes and amber hair Of the loTd one fO before. Sdectcb .fttisccllann. TIIF. ALCHEMIST. bt abby SAGE. At one end f a lai'ue room, so old and dusty that it h ked a- if agea hal paesed -inee the ponderous brown rafters in the t-ilins were nrat fixed in their places, a huge 'ire roared with a hollow sound in a brick furnace. Over this furnace sat a deep 1 : izen cauldron, tilled with boiling liquor, which looked like molten gold, on whose ssniace and brira danced bluish, ' unbent tl a mea An old man. with 'dreaming white hair?, bent oyer the cauldron. His figure va crooked and deformed with age :iU'i continued stooping, and his hair and long, silvery beard v.-tre dry and crisp, as if they were ringed in the fierce hat in which he worked. This old man a is Petal fllthausffll, who was working night and day, an 1 had been working r.ight and day for fifty years, to find the Elixir of Iue, thai wonderful liquor which would make youth immortal and keep the boly always vigorous and (t4hl Oa th: r. .y thfl okj Ale.brmi.-t was wondmnsly bapr y. Never had the fire in the lama e roart-1 to deeply. Never had the mixture in th-: cauldron borne such bright, chanceful Vtbbles on its surface. feter watched it with lac nerce glow lrom the fire reflected in his eyes. At h mrth he cried, "Tnere is only one thing wanting now. The Elixir is nearly perfect. It needs only a portion of life blood from young vcmes. As he sii l tb he bv-ked wistfully at his bared arms, but the sieht of the flaccid1 tlesh and wasted veins made him shake Ids bead deapondingly. After a moment's pause, he weit to a staircase which ascended frun one corner of the room, and called in a shrill, tremulous voice, "Madelaine ! Madelaine f A ' was heard upon the stairs in in wer to his call, and Peter Althausen's youngest daughter, the only remaining el lid of hh old age, came slowly down into the laboratory. M Didst call m", father ?" she asked rally. Aii Petal Auhauseu's family wore the traces of subdued grief on their faces. Thv had waited sö long tor the liquid whi i a . ' . give them immortal youth that tin ir youth and .rime had wasted in e c1. w fever of anxious expectancy. Fheii n ices were low and mournful, tbey stepped slowly and irresolutely, as if all the frechnec? ar.d buoyancy of life were deferred tat them, and they were waiting in a patient quiet till it came. Sfa d daine paused am! repeated, "Did-t thou cali me, lather y" "Ay, my chil L" said the old man, look Bg up from his tak cf stirring the mixtnre in the cauldron; "the potent liquor is t. ir y c ,mpleted. It lacks only a little ' ' ' fir di younger and fresher veins : . Hast courage to bare thine . ' Think child, the Elixir that i- to make us al! immortal." Toe yoamg girl smiled a little a sort of . I, weary smile, and a.-k-d, "Is it well t live alw iv", father? 1 feel sometimes' tired tii M Perhaps we might sometimes be flfod to die." youaunae, hi!d i sM ho, impatiently. ' I am f nrao re and five year-, and I am eager to live. To the young death is far of! : thev do not f ar it. ut decide (oiiekly. bee! the liqu'f fbsaUS higher and higher." The ";r! ban d fc'-r white, thin arm, and Peter piereed a vein with a sharp lancet The I od trh kled in a tiny stream into a .vrr bow which he held close to the 11 nusnf When it was half full he bound has arm up hurriedly and d d not notice i it she ha ' fainted in the chair where s jc TV; mirtnre fn the furnace engrueneel an nil ismaea. It area grnwj a? ;;c ' . ,r..'.ttt,and the glow- . . ... . . . 1 X I -i mm ; ar. ti cjMrons brim andwre': v- flamea I ben i': V mty dop after drop, tue ' mal ing mas"i. Then, U un circlimr i. a v it j A to vaoof which rew U rp-r i " nlh it V,'. h d ? hy till 4 colored ' loud. I ot e , . to change Lb form and U i,i., w hile the old man looked, the 4oud tun pat on thf Vmblac( e of a gigautie . imu.u lorm. Though it was like the y fit I 1 1 the color 'f tot 1 1.. streaming hair and board w e lia Mati ing tonguei of flame. Th'; ey I 'vet , glowing c.h!s. and the robe wfileh swept aboul this urondvous Image frora the h and trr:', and fanWfMeft, to Un rsHiMana'a '.rim - i-ir u i' L.ftt w?re at, fell iu quivering fokia iAo sJ4e( u ol adliterjun;, . Peter eowered liefere the pre.-t nee, but did not ipeak. The spirit did wait for him, but spoke In deep, n.uUaring

tones, like the distant roar of a fierce fire: "Peter Althausen, thy life-work is iinishcti. In the bottom of this cauldron , are some precious drops of the Elixir of ! Life enough to make thee and thine immortal. It is thine the reward of thy whole life's labor. Drink, if thou wishest it ; but pause ere it is at thy lips. Once having quaffed it, thy life is no longer subject to the laws which govern the liv s of other men. Thou art forever shut out from sympathy with them. Thou canst never again know any tender emotion, for if thou shonldst weep from any cause, from iove, pity, or sympathy, the spell is broken, and thou art once more a poor, infirm old man with only a few hours of life remaining. Count the cost, then, before drinking the strange draught." Peter Althausen heard as if he were in a dream. The human shape turned back to cloud again, the cloud melted into thin vapor, rolled away from the cauldron, and dissipated itself among the brown rafters of the ceiling. Peter looked into the v(?8el. At the bottom were a few drops, not more than a small vial full, of a liquid ar rlear as crystal and yellow as molten gold. He dipped into it a small lpdle of silver, and quickly collected every drop into a crystal drinking-glass which he had ready. "When he had taken up the last drop, the huge cavldron, with a loud crash, fell to pieces, and its broken fragments fed the tlimes which had so long nourished it. Peter heM up the glas3 and looked for a moment at its bright contents. "I will drink a few drops," he said ; " a drop will suface to make ine immortal. The rest I will share with Madelaine and her mother." Then he put the brim of the tiny goblet to his lips. As he tast c! the first drop, the mixture seemed to circulate through

his withered frame like liquid fire. His veins began to expand, as if fresh blood swelled out the dried channels ; his nerves thrilled with the pain of a sudden wakening to life ; and the worn muscles on his arms filled out into the firm, hard roundness of youth. Still Peter held tho glass to hi3 lips The memory of Ins wife and daughter farkd from his mind. He forgot that he was to share with them the magic potion. When he turned the glass over on the table, only one or two drops trickled down its sides, and were lost in the thick dust which covered everything. As he finished, a trembling foot wan heard on the threshold, and looking out, ter beheld his wife. She was a feeble, white-haired woman, with a worn, wrinkled face, yet not so old by many years as her husband. A patient, loving wife, in spite of many trials, had Dame AHhausen been all the d iys of their wed ded life. She paused at the door, bu4 did not come in. M Is my baubaud not here, good youth?" she asked, somewhat wonderingly. " Are yon mad, or are you growing old so fast, " Hertha ?" he s'aid, impatiently. " Do von not see it is I"'" aane spoke he started in wonder. His shrill, q ierulou9 voice had changed in a m war at into the deep, ringing tore of inanhood. " It is true ; I must be much changed," he said to himself. M She does not k ow me. I have been at last succ essful, Bertha," he said aloud ; 44 the Elixir is mine. I have drank of it." As he spoke the old dame saw Madeue, where she had sunk into the chair, r head bowed forward on her breast, ill unconscious. 44 And you have killed EHW child, Peter J? hausen : you have given her life as the rice of your blind selfishness," said the poor mother wildly. She ran to Madelaine, and kneeling beside her, tried to call her back to life. As she chafed her hands and called upon her by name, the girl siehed faintly and lifted her head. Dame Althausen uttered a cry of joy, and the mother and child were clasped in each other's arms. Peter looked at them without emotion. He was not even conscious of any regret that he had not reserved a few drops of the r:.re liquor for his wife and child. He felt r. desire to esrape from a Mena in which he had no sympathy, and turning away he went int I an adjoining room, which was the DOOf lutie siuing-room where the dame and Madelaine were accustomed to sit at their work. There was an antique mirror, with a qnainlly carved frame, hangiug on the wall. He went cagerlv to look in it, and on beholding, recoiled in amazement. The figure which he saw was tall and elegant : the head was crowned with thick curls of black haift the eyes glowed with , youthful fire, and the skin was unwrinkied and fair, rosy with the nusn oi youin ana health. The face and figure of the old m in had instantly been changed into a shapely, h .ndsome youth of twenty sum mers. The contrast between this young man, and the bowed, aged figure of the woman . ;u U Could still hear weeping over aer child, filled him with repugnance. 44 1 w ill lly instantly," he said. " My knowle Ige oi science will keep me from lacking bread. I w ill go to some strange city and take an other name. That withered grandame shall never call me husband." Ar.d without glancing back to where the tpro weinen still remained, clasping each other fast, without regret for those who hid been the victims of his selfish devotion to his woik, he went out and left them forever. Twenty years had gone by since the fire had died out in the Alchemist's furnac. The oH bouse had fallen Into decay and had nearly all disappeared. Rising out of the portion of the ruins where the ah r .tor had stood, was a newer house, witta Oresh briek walls and bright little pointed window I looking out into the - p i The Street itself was much bright1 et than of old. There was some sound of traffic In the hhops, and 4 n xij w .- which disturbed the stilbness . . m a a 11 fT ,. rl , let which had prevailed when Peter A . i . ten aw I mere i. hi nam house, wfa cb looked asailing ... . bomel - lived Madelaine Althausen, :i happy wile nd ruotb' r. She was .-, . uyt t pale aid thin, but bad grown . and red cheeked and comely. A i,.. .' e:iel hef r"lhr, ni.d a y;tAy tiity of ji'la aad beyaflHad up the interval between him ud Ua toddling ur bin nut. '.. .rv to ier mple hkirts as the ... rtd fcve.t her household. U';r nuavoriad fn a famous workshop, O.t-y i;.) wmderful clocka. II . . I . . ..A . L. II ...rlu bl-d vry .'! I , nli'i iJUl'i nun', bo n'Hin ,A tii - sees, with little birds flying in ., i out i iu in t H honw ol the day, a,1(j , . . i will' Iflthj men and womeq ,. . nasi not to ring hellfOT play t.n tnf ling i lU.o mUim, v ry t!:- the hMMM w'iit round i.v. i y l0W u',; boüB had uch a strange time keeper, and at rtfikW, aci ,,uf:k.M,in(?;, that with the AW'.rt l.i dir Ihi.rii wnn sae-h a tinging, aim

noise of them, and the shouts and laueh ter of the children, one might almost lose his senses. But Madelaine and her husband minded it not. They were happy and contented, and the roses bloomed on the dame's

cheeks a they had never bloomed there when she was a maiden. All these years Peter Alfhausen had been wandering over the earth. There was a restless spirit in him which did not permit him to remain quietly in one place. He had great skill in medicine, and wherever he stopped for any length of time was much esteemed as a youth of great knowledge, but he could never stop to gain either money or reputation. He could make no ties to bind him, for his heart seemed quite dead in his breast, and he had no sympathy with the pursuit! of his fellow-beings. ; After twenty years, on the ann.y stmxj of the d M on which he had drank the youth-givir.g Klixir, he had returned to his native town, led by a iw. curiosity which he could not understand, and which was more like human emotion than anything be had ft It in aj these vteatt. lie sought out the hoine where his daughter live 1, and coing softly up, he looked in through the diamond pan ed window which jutted out upon the street. It was after dusk, and nil the children were in bed, evcept tho tall el Wst, who st at the table fashioning gome wonderful piece of mechanism out of bit- of steel, and wire, and wood. Ifadt (aiMPatftl her low chair by the fire; wich burned brightly on the hearth, holding hor youngest baby to lnr breast. Her husband was seated lv her side, s;uoking his pipe and curling slow wreaths ot smoke up from his mouth, as he looked thoughtfully in the fire. All thi Peter could see as he looked through the window. Ty and by Madelaine spoke. He could hear ner voice. "It is jii3t twenty years ago to-day," she said, " since my father went away, never to b.- heard from any more; and two years later, on the same day were we married, my Gottlieb." 'Yes," said Gottlieb, rousing himself frem his reverie as he commenced speaking, "and thou hast been a good wife all these year3, Mndelaine." "What became of my grandfather?" asked tho youth, looking Up from his work. "I cannot tell," answered bit mother sadly. " My poor mother, who died shortly alter he disappeared, said the Elixir of Life he had o loni worked for, came at last, and that she saw him changed into a yonth of twenty cummers. But her wits wandered, poor' soul, from the day he went away. I only know he was gone one day and never returned again. I think he was crazed because his cauldron went to pieced and spilled the liquor for which he had worked so long, and he went awry and died in his grief and madness." "How strange it would be," said, her husband, " and how fad to live always; to see all our friends die. and be left to live alone. If. m should I live without thee, dearest?" he added, taking her hand tenderly, while thhead of the matron leaned over and rested m his sioulder. 44 Ah, ves," she sighed, "what would life be worth if ne lived without sympathy and without love? It pains me to think of it." And two tears which had stood in her eyes, fell over her cheeks upon the shining head f the babe which nestled in her fair, white bosom. All this Peter Aithausensaw and heard. A strange feeling stirred within him as ru looked on the peaceful group: a mingling of emotions which bad slept for many years, arose in his heart "When the tears fell on the goldeu hair of the babe, the ice. about his heart seemed suddenly to bo broken up. A flood of t?ars coursed over his cheeks, and falling ftewfErdJ he emote upon the window. In a moment Gottlieb amc out, followed by h'3 w ile. There lay Peter Anhausen, fainting and speechless u,on the pavement, no longer a youth with raven curls, but an old man.wr'ukled and whitehaired. The spirit had told him truly. At the touch of the tears upon hi ; cheeks, the power of the Elixir was fvever destroyed. They placed him in the arm-chair by the fire, and he smiled faintly. He could not speak, but placing one hand on the head of his daughter, he pointed upward with the other, aud raised hiseyesas if in nrayer. Then hi is head dropped lorwar i, .they saw that the last and raising him nark of life was quite out The old Alchemist was dead. ti Magazine for March. Tlie History of I Dog That Has Saved Four Lives. QlOBOI Ana is the owner of a large white, black spotted dog spotted a la coach dog weighing somewhere in the neighborhood Of a big Newfoundland or St. Bernard He is about 12 years old, and answers to the cognomen of Carlo. Carlo has performed deeds of heroism that even you, dear reader, nucnt ne prouu ot. . a. . ar reader, might be proud or. 1 . 1 1 AT Who would not deem it an lionoraU'e (listinction to have it said of him that he had saved four valuable lives V Carlo has done this, and more to make him worth honorable mention. Do you recollect, about Ihree years ago, the papers itemized a dog that rescued a small boy from the . horns of an infuriated cow, on Stuff Street, and carried him to apiace of BaJskyf The dog was Carlo. Nearly two years ago, Mr. Ade had a very spirited colt in his stable, and, by accident one day the stable door was left open. A little son ef his, scarce two years of age, Feeing the door lr, crept into the stable, and had dLrCely entered before the colt had him under his feet pawing him. Carlo, hi ariug the child's cry, rushed into the stable, caught and dragged the boy into the stable-yard for safety, while the mother, attracted by the alarm, met him. Carlo, by tbis act, came near falling into disgrace, for the mother's first thoughts were that he was eating up , the child, and met him w ith reproofs ac- ( ordingly. During the spring freshet of 'CO two little girls got Into a skiff on the bank of Lake rohU, aud somehow, in their play, fell overboard. Carlo was nigh at hand, , and, seelns their predicament, ho rushed

into the flood, first rescueo ot, and then i 7,721 assaults, and the remainder rbtha Other, and thus CUt short a mournful . beries and thefts. The pollc i force nuratragedy. ben 2,200 men ; there ara eight police jus Another instance, of Carlo's sagacity i tices, with 17 aldermen and 21 clerks to and we are done : assist them daily ; one district attorney, It was in the spring of istlf, on a -Hrk, with 18 assistants; a recorder, city judge, rainy bnturdav night, when Lhe Hood- , and a judge of oyer and Unniner. liegates of the heavens eoncd to liaye sides, there arc m -ffl WIS of the 'ourt been tofa awa and the entire world - 00 ' 1 Owni raj Sessious and fi ofttcers of Sfiedeluged with water, that Mr. Ade, In a -rial Session, besides 4 uoronera and 10 one Bon wagon, was driving slowly Jahu, station houses, c , vhh b rerpnre hone i the Couler bottom. Carlo '41 keepers. The ci pense ot then; I , was wading in the water a little ahead of this number of officials :s $3,21 0 per

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where the Couler stream crosses the avenue, Carlo caught the horse by the fore1 ck and attempted to stop him. Appreciating something must be done, Mr. Ade stopped the horse, got ont and started forward to make a reconnoissance. As he

stepped passed the horse, Carlo caught the sKirt ot bis coat ana tnea to prevent his proceeding. He made the dog let go his hold, and in a moment ati er wards discerned the whole trouble. Three or four yards in front of him was the stream roaring and pouring in a wild freuzy of pleu ty. In the dark, nothing but the nctual touch could have told thf.t It was bank lull, and that the bridge that crossed it was swept away. It was this that Carlo discovered with tho keener vision, and it vu3 from, perhaps, a fatal plunge he was bound to save lii-3 master. Having said our say of Carlo, do you wonder that the marshals give him the freedom of the city in the Kg days, ex empt him irom the mustfie. and forbid his being shot or destroyed '! Tim, s. -huh' jue, Iowa) FACTS A! FIGURES. Tue ages of the Freshmen at Yale range from .'0 to lis, Cheyenne has three church organizations and two church buildings. A son of Theodore, of Alvsinia, is traveling with a menagerie in England. Last year the American Rible Society printed 1 ,'.200,000 copies of the Scriptures. DmsOM January, Pennsylvania yielded a daily average of 10,102 barrels t i e'.rol?um. 1 he hr.it niano sent to .Janan was re eenthf shipped thither by a New llaycn manufacturer. It is supposed that the annual losses by cattle di eases inthia country amount to $so:ooo,ooo. A Büddhtst monastery ru Thibet, t8 -117 feet above the sea, is lhe highest known human habitation. One New York car-drir r is worih $125,000. He lately sohl Central Park property th it brought him $10,0-00. ANi;w ITaven merchant has insured his life for $.-.000 for the benefit of the New Haven Orphan Asylum. Yale has graduated 30 College Presi dents, 10 Cabinet Ministers, 40 Senators. 00 Governors, and more tha i 100 Judges. Ohk-THTRD of the 60,000 women and giils who have to earn their own living io New York, do not average over $5 a week. Mil. Bubabwamk's credentials to the French court were five feet long and covered all over with five-clawed dragons. A NUMBBitof young women iu a MsJfta chusetts manufacturing establishment recontly kept scent, on a wages', tot fixty long minutes. A cvroo of wheat from California, which recently arrived at Boston and was sold, returns a net loss to the parties latere -ted of over $20,000. HEW Yohk is more densely populated tb?n any otiior city. Ir on" portion 11)2,u peraona r ido within a square mile. London cannot famish a parallel. 11le a mile in 2:50 carried off a silver cup for the fastest of nine velocipedista in Nashua, N. II., the other day, the victor being Walter Harriman, nephew of the Governor. Ot t of 100,17,381 passengers conveyed on Massachusetts railroads, in 1 68, seventy-five lost their Uvea During the ime neriod loS railroad employes were killed.' I On the cast side of the highway leading from Puckland, Mr-., to the Conirrega- ' tioual Church in Sumner, every tree is i rock maple, and on the west tide every tr-e la beech. It is a curious fact that although the rain keeps thousands away lrom church on Sunday, it does not deter a single man from attending to his buaUtOai on week I days. PnpnaBltT the oldest, tree on record is a cyptess at Hem-na, in Losnberdy, that was known to bj standing when .Tubus Cesar I lived, l.'.ioo years ro It is 100 feet high and 20 feet in circumference. Tre largest man on record in modern times was Miles Harden, a native of North ( laTofina, born in 1798, lb4 was even feet and six inche igh. At his death. in 1857, h wehrhed a little over one thousand pounds Hii.;. K( Kono contains ld.",000 inhabi tants, of whom ..",000 are Europeans and Americans. Its annual export and import trade is valued at $200,000,000, The Chinese exclusively occupy a portion of the city. The Maxwell House, erected in Na hviile, Tenn , on a lot that was bought for $11, in lH', is nearly completed at a cost of $400,000. It will be one of the largest h (els in Americs. During the war it was used as a hospital. It seems that a veritable black diamond was found by a Federal soldier back of Atlanta, Ga. It is seven-eighths of an a a Ä Ä l u 1 i f ' O ' ! I W i 1 r ! UK. II 1 Till M r - J I MlfifliiG 111 IM T w - ä . . w i i'e n j Into nlitii.'j rw1 to I "a worth several thousand dol am. Tara number of newspapers iu the Southern States is as follows : Texas, 1 1 ; Louisiana, 04; Alabama, 87; Arkansas, Florida,?:?; Georgia, 00; North Carolina, 5; South Carolina, 67: Kentucky, 7! ; Mississippi, 7d ; Tennessee, 93, A lad in New Hampshire recently determined to exchange for currency a sil ver dollar which she had carefully kept for thirty-five years, lhe moneychanger actoundeJ her with the Information that it was counterfeit. A niuai- MAN iu E utters Pennsylvania who leaped from some carj that had be come uncoupled, and whieh ran back into a passenger train, caus.ng the loss of several liven, hns been sentenced to tier teen months' hard labor for egtsct ot duty. Ladifs of New Orlean3 construct their panniers of old newspapers which was demonstrated the other day by a polite youth, who endeavored to remove a trailing incumbrance from a lady's skirt and brought down the whole edifice. Dliu.no the twelve months ending Oct. 1, 1N07, 7S,4"1 crimes wi re committed in New York. Of thtfse 7b were murders, A n M H .. . . n. n ... tu tükl . 1.p : mm , .it it c juv-v"

Failing Eyes. Persons suffering from dyspesia, or any other malady, must take care of their eyes. Aay disease impairs the strength, and the nervous system is depressed ; and when laboring under this form of depression the eye is particularly liable to become weak. The reason of this is, that of the ten nerves which go off from the brain, six ate distributed wholly, and the other four partially, to the eye. Through the great sympathetic nerve, the disturbed stomach, or jiyer, or intestine?, communicate with telegraphic speed with the i brain, and so with the eye. Tie- first advice to be given with reference to the comfortable use of the eyes undoubtedly Ki to keep the intestines and liver and stomach in a healthy condition ; in other words, do ever3thing to confirm the general health. It this be impaired, do not read, and, especially d J net Write long, without giving the eve rest. The great remedy for an eye whose disease depends upou the nerve, and not the muscle, is rest ! rest ! rest ! Montpclicr ( Vi.) Joum-il. m m Beauty on Skates.

A cuktty eirl on skates, if any girl c B bo otherwise than pretty, clad in one of those j-.unty, fur trimmed pdi that Cupid himself mint have fashioned, the little form bending to and fro in undulous and rhythmic motion, the glowing cheeks and rabflut eves kissed by kindly winter into tenfold beauty, is such a sight as the holiest and hardest of anchorites might be pardoned for falling in love with. And if she be, on the contrary, a pa r skater, the charm is, if anything, hightened, at least to her cavalier. There is such an irresistible fascination in her absolute di pendence on his protecting arm; there i.s such a charm in her pretty terrors, her delicious helplessness, her graceful bunMe8;8ucha nrusic in her little .-hrickc 0i dread and her self ac -using laughter ; and then it is so delightful to pick her up after each comical upset, and she is throughout so good-natured, and so grateful, and so provokingly pretty, that she is, if anything, more adorable than if she skated like a championess. An ice-pond, too, on a bright, still night, with the moon and stars all in their places to apaile an encouraging approval, is no bad place to make love in. When the most adored of her sex asks you, for example, as you go gliding like the wind over the glassy surface, ' If th's isn't heavenly," and says 44 she c mid go on so forever, what is easier or more natural than to press a little tighter the tiny band that r estlos in your own, and suggest that it is heavenly, and that it will lienor fault if yx u don't go on forever. Round TiMe. A Winter Fooeral Te i.L'itv a friend in winter is a kind of trial that connects strange inward emotions of feeling0 which it is difficult to master. We have cleared away the snow, and hewn a passage down through the solid pavement of the frnst, hnd then ir. that Inhospitable place we come to bury our departed; be It child, or wdfc, or mother, or much-loved friend, our heart shudder;; in convulsive ebill at the forlorn last offices we are come to perform. While our feeling Is protesting, the solemnity, so-called, gos on, and before we have gotten our own consent the 4" tribute of respect" is ended. The fronen chips of earth, loosened again by blows, are piled on the loved one's rest, and we turn to go. N Will it storm to-night! The wind, alas : is howling even now in the trees, and the sleeting has already begun. O God, it shall not be! We were going to he fools, we see, but now the spell is broken. Our departed is not in that grave and we leera to lay our farewell over it. Lot the snows fall heavy, if they will, and the winds rage pitiless and wild above, ours it shall be Co thank thee, Father, Lord of th B warmer clime, that our dead one Urea with thee." Practically, almost nothing will more surely compel a faith in lrum 'Tla iluy, even it oue chances to be untie nevin'r, tnn to oury a iriena in wini,. i ter. And, as a matter of fact, it is not in the fresh in any that we tension ask it instinctively, as we the col l. Dr. Btshndl. do A Jii rgler's Trick. KKV. Normal Macxeod, in an acc mat of a visit to B mbuy, gives an account of a juggling feat, known as the "bamboo trick." HetaH 41 While the tom-tom was beating, and the pipe playing, the juggler, singing all the time in low accents, smoothed a place on the gravel, three or f '.ir yards before us. Ilaying.thus prepared a bed for the plant to grow In, he t "k a basket and placed it over tnu prepard place, covering it with a thin blanket. The man himself did not wear a thread of clothing, except a strip around the loins. The time Seemed to have come for the detective's eye! So jus as he was becoming more earnest In his son:r, and while the tomtom Iwat and the nine' shrilled more loudi ly, I stepped forward wi'h b coming dig nity, and lagged him to bring the basket and its coyer to me. The juggler cheer fully complied. I examined the basket it was made of open wicker-work. 1 then examined the covering. It was thin, almost transparent, and certainly there was nothing concealed in it. I then li.xed my ej'cs on his strip of clothing with such nten tness that it was not possible it could have been toiictu 1 without dis c 'very, and bade him go on. I felt perfectly Mire that the trick c uld not succeed. Silting down, he stretched his naked arras ander the basket, tinging and smiling as he did so; he then lifted the ha? ket off the grouud, and behold a green phmt. about a toot high! Satisfied with our applause hi went on with Ids incantations. After having ait a little, to give his plant time to grow, he again lifted the basket, and the plant was now two feet high. He asked us to wait a little longer that we migLt taste the fruit ! But on being assured by those who hsd seen the trick performed h fore, that this result would be obtained. I confessed myself " done" without the slightest notion of how. I examined the ground, aud found it w as smooth and upturned. Apparently delighted with my surprise, the juggler stood up, landing One of his companions lust th- n akesaked a pebble to him, winch he put into his mouth. Imtwdia'ely the "a me cotopsni walkiug back whi d, drew forth a curd ol (Ilk, twenty yards or so iu length. J'.nt this was not all the di vinrco, for the ttft eler, wi'li his hands behind his back, threw forth from his mouth two. deeanter stoppers, two shtlls, a spinnink: fnp, a9tone ana several other things, fulowed 5long et of flret "

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her .-after season of the year, 10 sKaie wuen Bnoaewy we ice think ef immortality with half the broke, and ell fell into the water and u ,i . .:. e. i., nerishe !. The vouuer man who so mirac

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A rnvsiciAN of Meriden, Ct., makes his professional visits on a velocipede. Tue Raleigh Sentinel claims the telegraph as a North Carolina invention. A XT A Ioto rrio lTa ol rtflW ol'ff hmn . . 1,1A.I1U1 lit ? CI . I .TUMI. Ul f , IV . '..''i.v- , the kr.ee cap of a customer whose titrht 1 boot he was removing. A WlLIi recently proved in the Probate Oottrt of Middlesex county, Mass., was 1 signed Michael J. O'Connor, tlerca&cd. A gentleman, on taking a volume to be bound, was asked if he would have it ' bound in Itossia. 44 Ob, no." he replied, " Russia is too far off. I will have it done here." Ttte meanest man yet heard from lives in Philadelphia He was rescued from drowning, the other dav, bv a policeman, and has ?ued the man for daimge to bis coat collar, in drawing him out. . Not having hajd fr-.m the debating sooWirs in relation to the conundrum. "Why do hens always lay eggs in the day time V" a cotemporarv answers, Because at night they are 4 roosters.'" M Where was Bishop Latimer burned to deafh ?" asked a teacher fn a commanding voice, 44 Joshuay knows," said a lit tic girl at the bottom" of the class KWeD.M said the teacher, Mlf Joshuay knows, hrmav tell." 41 In th fire." replied tabus v. looking very grave and wise. A ourcTLKMAN in Aoburn recently dropped his wallet and several hundred dollars in tho morning, while goincr out of his yard. His dog saw it drop in the snow, and stayed bv it all dav, until the msster's return home, when the faithful animal attracted his attention, and pawed it from under the snow. Tttt: late James T. Beady was the author of 44 Pat Malloy," in the " Irish Emigrant.'1 Mf,etinrr Tlarnrv Williams one day, he composed it, and Barney hs sung it many times; but, says the Philadelphia Pr.i, " when he came to ping the vrr.-e on Friday evening, he thought of the day when hio friend wrote it, laughing as he did po, uron an old serap of paper upon the top of his hit. He could not go on, but apologized to the audience, and t":ie plav proceeded without the song." A vorxo gentleman, in a certain business house, having tarried; much longer at his boarding-house than wa. thought neee? iry for the morning meal, was asked, on his return, in a joking wav, what, he had for breakfast f He replied candidly: 44 A cup of coffee, a mutton ebon, and some mysterv." 44 Mystery said the employer. "What's that?" not. having been thoroughly enlightened in all the u mysteries" of boarding-boose fare M Whv," answered the other, " that's hash.n A ttnnv Incident happened to the der rvmnn who pleaches in the Ohio S te Penitentiary. He met a female InmV who i paid to be very crazy, wdio sharnlv acked : " Well, chaplnm, how do von likto presch to us ?" "Very well, indeed." was nis reply, "ion oehave well, are (jniet and attentive. I like prcaohinf- to yon v.ry well, indeed." "In that case, chaplain," replied the girl, with a sigh, 44 go ahead. Preach as von have a mind to. TtuoDOM ou are tlu k it wiona ftnrd nor m A Yorxo scapegrace in Cincinnati called at each of the newspaner office the other night, leaving a notice of the suicide of himself which wa- to come off that night. Reporters were pent to his father's residence to learn the Bad particulars, but the 41 Covernor" expressed his oninion to the effect that his hopeful had taken this par- 1 ticular way to scare the old rentieman, j thinking he would come down with Pometiling handsome. Tim youth did not suicide, and the suspicious parent didn't scare worth a cent. On the 5th of January, 1701, several young pupils from the Kcole Militaire were akatine on the deep naoat that run along by the Fort of Auxonre. As it IrillA fiwn nn of tl,o nortir MMMilJ trv I J I take off his skates. " Don't go ne more I I HO M 'O. e'llli Wl ti l 1 . t h 1 l il'V'WWl" round !" cried hi-- companions. "No, no; t havo hn,i mwrnrmmh r w hbUm i om hungry, and want my dinner." After tl a

;l ßrt, foT ; uiousiy escjipeo nyjjomgeii a lew mmuMl before was no other than Napoleon Bona- ( parte. BvifnoLTtT.whowttncSsed several e rtht onakea. said that no one ever cets used to i

-.1 1 li : il f . j fhem, but, on the contrary, his feeling ol dread are intenrifVd at each successive 1 I one which he' experiences. All beasts and birds partake of man's fear, and seem panic-stricken. Humboldt accounts fr man's inability to become accustomed to, and consequently not to dread, earthquake s by saying1 that, whatevet we have r. sny time or under any circumstances considered shaky, the earth has always stood firm, and when we find that tossing beneath our feet, it seems as though the very b ttom of thing's had been knocked out. Every time the shock is repeated, the unreliability of our only support is forced upon our attention with augmented force. Ouile Romantic The follow big story, as was told to ist, happened near Lake city, Ind., where there lived, at the breaking out of the war, a wealthy farmer wh m we will call Blank Th's man hi nth large number of servants: among them was a good and rettgious young girl, possessing pnusna personal attractions. She wascourted by an officer of some raek in the Federal army, while at home recruiting for his regiment, When 'he day of his departure came, he made know to the servant girl how deep ly she had Interested him. and begged to know if there was any hope. Sue ronfesscd that hi3 attachment was reciprocated, and tiny were at once aflaaoed. MSbdUld Mr. Blank," said Jennie, " nones to know of this, I should at once be discharged. He I lieves that d w i his daughter for whom your viidt were int. aded." "Should this be su," returned the fund lover, 44 only write aud let me know, and you shall not f uffer." With aa a&cthmata kics, and :t promise that both would be punctual in their htter writing, they separated, he to join his regiment among the buys of the Potomac. He waited long and anxiously for tidI ioas of his loved cne, but not one word w vs received t i bis troubled mind Finally, his own letters were returned, rVhal could il all meauV Was du oa false'' He iidd n -t belitve it. After th saloti - - .lerartnrc, Mi r.'ank took .l.iurieititoa room, fiteoed ti cdor, and, with a raw bide m .Ma band, com' manded her to tell him Si she was bttrothed to Colonel -. Whi r: ine poor girl had told him all, he had rer bMn Uolded.

taken to the great city of Chicago, and there left, without friends or money. He reported that she had died of chol era, and, to make the deception complete, built a false grave. When the war was over, and Colonel returned home he made his way at

, , - ?,nc.c S graveyard and soueht out that of hi - lo-t Jennie After bathing the little mound w ih tears, he made his way to the house of Mr. Blank to learn the particulars. While he was there the guilty man ordered the tombstones for the false grave. In due time they came, and were placi d ut the Bupposed grave with some evergreens and flowera, Col. had been a mourner from two years before the war close 1 until December, 1808, when busitteaa called 1 im to Chicago. There, in a street car, with a bundle of soiled clothes which she was bikinrr home to h washed, be found his buried Jent ie. lie Hew across the car, taking her in nil arms and almost screaming w ith y. He could scarcely believe his eyes, but it w as Jennie, and bo mistake. He bad found her at last JKiutai 0 (.V' ") Journal of C tnmeret. Rates of Travel In a siri le second a five thous indth of a foo snail travels one t ; a lly, li re feel ; a peueSV an, at ordinary gut, hve and three tenths feet ; a camel six feet; an ordtnary breeze, ten feet; a running stream, twelve feet ; a trotting horse, twelve feet ; a whale, twelve and thiue-f mtus feat ; a fast sailing ship, fourteen feet; a reindeer wi:h sledgd, twenty live ß d ; a steam rnj'.ur twenty-nine feet; a skater, thirtysia feet; an English race h rse, forty-one feet ; a tempest, fifty feet : aawiMy-thrown stone, ff. feet ; an eagle, ninety-five feet , a carrier-pi geon, four hundred and eleven feet; a mu ket ball, one thousand five hundred and ninety-five feet ; a twenty five pound cannon nail, two th auand two hundred and ninety nine feet ; a point of earth on the equator, two thousand four hundred and fifty-one feel ; the center of the earth around th 3 sti, four mile ; a ray of sunlight, forty-one thousand feet. E rJtrn i . Cure for Hydrophobia. Postm urrnn Thomas, of Cincinnati, has received the following letter: JAaaaifuwa Pew orn k, Moatgom iy Ctfunty, Pcnn., To th-j Postanster f GbwhsnsU : "Rkspkctbo Pnnon: I see by the papers that you are having an announcement of hydrophobia in your city. As I can give a sure rem" Iy i r thh an ful disease, .feel it By duty to do Bo. I hoT: thee ariQ h tve I tua roe ip m t la ar public as possible thro'icrh your pap re. I had aecasfot 1 I M ir. on my son and myself thirteen car.; ago, an-l c mid naaae many otiier.- who have osed it with succeaa, 4 Hr. Noble, of Philadelphia, has known it to be used upward of forty years, on an aril beast, without fall. This iknown as the Grodman ifsnedy : "Receipt for Hydrophobia Take i'the root of elecampane ;reen or dry one and ;'f ounces bruise it weW add one pint .f new DSQktSSsi mix aud boil until r ; duced onc-bali". T--ke this r.t . ne do?e.in the saorning, fasting until 4 o'clock in the afternoon, or, at l ast, take but a light diet at noon. M's.s one morninL', and repeat aa before, except take tv.'o ounces of the root. the f turth m ruini and re peat on the f.rth, as before. This bl th laßt. ' After this, i oue need f ar the bite of a rabid dog. Very truly, thy fHead, 41 K ' n a ao C. BaociiaKEn.' m m m A KeniMiv ior .iaiie iif- . ( 1 A Sfuxn i KSOt tralla) newspaper --ays that Professor lalford his rhacovt md aaantosüa to be a perfect antidote tor the l,ilc of pohwnoos i aak s, and that sev ral ct have been wrought with it. Oncol these is deacribed. A railway labc re ' wasbitt-m by a brown anake. Be oa ' beCOHlC drOWSV hT)A 1 lid U HVn. COHlradea becoming alarmed sent firm ica assistance, out oy mc tune n arnveo im I man was comatose, and his lower extrem assistance, Uies pirauze ". o dvan.sm and other ' usual remedies were appli d, bnt w i1 h' effect, the poison having nhtnhsfd too strong a hold on the system to yield to any treatmt nt employe L In thi extreaa- : its the medical man lirst nailed in caused Prufeasor Haiford tobe telegraphed for. The Professor bumedlately repaired to the place and made an opnratasn as fojaows : An Incision v.as made through the skin, i S oslng the su per Hetal radial vein, and the point ol the s ringe being intr- iiuced iuto the Vein, the inject ion (of ammonia wacompleted. The beneueial effect Was mar velOttS and imnudiate. Frctn an aim . '. pulaelcsa state, nd lrom a stupor verging or. ilea' h, the patient sp- e iily bec-une consciouö. lie has bee n Steaduy recov hag since, and, nt the date of the Utter, was reported to be marly we'l. Medical men are said t be enthusiastic believers in the new remedy. Cheated imasarl IfVk. A rood bti ry used to be ild at c hoste 1 ov Air. Mm;:0, v, , ho wus a student i:i his . office. One day the former came into the office, and seated himself before the lire, began scratching his head with unusual vi d ro ByHtnd-by he said in bis nv M lranatie tones : "I wonder what bee 1 all my , money, Mr. UhraS? " Minns slopped his writing and looked I up at h:m. but i enough. Finally, suggestion. face looked comical he ventured to make a 4 why d n't ou buy a r. Choatc, and enter in it sma;l 0(roR, Mr. Cho&te, and enter in It what you receive ami what you pay out? and then v. u will know where your m m y goes." "thipital i 'o a, Mr. Minrs, capital iiss Won't yau be go'nl enough to g out and bnv me one f Minns bought him thelook, and Choatc lat djwn and made two or three aaUk in it. A few months afterward Minns had the curiosity see ing the bo k lying npofl Mr. Choat desk to look into if to cn how he got along with his accounts, when lo! there were the same entrits he had made oo the day of bds purchase, and all the res' was blank. Mr. Clioate might hive been a rich man if he hnd had any method In the keeping of bis a counts After h; association with Irs son In law, Major Bell, lately deceased, his affair -re'-nic'i Improved. flavuerf f"j"zite. Kant aVasHnavOasas.'-Take aagfa separate theru, a pound o uranotateJ su I gar. had" i und . t ri tir, tue et gar, hall round oi n.mr, mc n eio i of two ii-nicms, ainlth- iui v of one; be the vtdka with tho suicav, at d the wLdi ahiij; then add thett, ind 6i0. in Um flour by degrees : beat weih and nasi with a quick heat.

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