Plymouth Weekly Democrat, Volume 14, Number 31, Plymouth, Marshall County, 8 April 1869 — Page 1

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PLYMOUTH WEEKLY DEMOCRAT VOLUME XIV. PLYMOUTH, INDIANA, THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 1869. NUMBER 31.

Poetry.

LET ME WHIP HIM FOR HIS MOTHER. Let me whip him for his mother, He is such a naughty boy, He the baby tried to smother, And he's broken Emma's toy. Of the doll I gave to Ellen. He has melted off the nose. And there really is no telling To what length his mischief goes. Last night he put a cracker 'Neath Aunt Jemima's chair. And he told me such a whacker When asked how it came there. Then when told poor old Mrs. Toodles Was just starting off by rail, He tied her two fat poodles Fast together by the tail. It really is quite shocking How one's nerves he daily jars: He puts pins into one's stockings, And Cayenne in one's cigars. You may guess that many other Boyish trick he's daily at. So I'll whip him for his mother, As a tiresome little brat. TO THE FLOWERS. Ml M. AN'.LER Al.DF.N. W mle! little wild (lowers under the ?uow, Lytag .ill winter, waiMujr to b'ow. Wake, for the storm clouds of winter are past Vf ike, now, nor fear the cold, chilling blast. Up throneh the mosv-gro'vn meadows now peep Op ning dewy eyes, trosh iron your sleep. Nestled in ftrmty bed, close in the fold of your leatiaesi! wrapped from the cold. Sweet blue violets, pets yellow -eyed, Meek not from onr glad sarchlngs to hide ; Hurtor 11 jut to gather a few Hjantit'al blossoms steeped in the dew. Miv-hnd"! iMMMBVpS I wake, and unfold leaves iMfetaf red, or yellow M goltl. V ;lte for the bird- sre -"nein? on hitrh ; Warmer the sun burn-' : soft is the sky ; T-eee ere th? woodland la'e'y 90 drear : Ifake, then, my darling ! 'tis i-pring-time of year. IZimtruid. THE SKELETON 'iUXD. TttLM8 to a miserable habit had ruined me. It had blasted my prospects, destroyed my business, alienated my friends, and brought me down to the lowest point of existence. The habit had altogether overcome me. In rain I struggled against, it. The imploring looks and words 0 my wife ; the siedit of my wanlaccd and emaciated children turning their eyes to me. the author at once of their being and of their misery ; the spec'acle of the proud home and broad lands, once mine, but now in the hands of strangers all these, which might well have stung to madness or driven to despair a les decraded being, reached me not, nor ad'ected me in the depth of my degradation. I had reacted a point at which no m Hfl that might be urged couid any longer affect me. One evening I was pitting in my miserable home. The children were asleep in bed. They had cried themselves to sleep in hunger. My wife sat opposite to me on the other side of the wretched firep.ace stitching some rags of clothing. I was sullen and silent. At last I felt a craving for the stimulus that now was necessary to my life. Rising, I walked to the cupboard where it was kept. My wife knew well my intention. 8he followed me with her eyes. I went there desperate and careless only eager for the gratification of my appetite. I reacted forth my hands, tremblingly m .zed the bottle, and was about raising it to my lips. But at that very instant, iust as the bottle touched my lips, I felt a terrible sensation. It was as though some one had irrasped my throat. M Wife r I cried, in a deep, fierce voice. "Hag! do you d trey" and turning, witn clenched fist, I struck at what I supposed H M my wife. For I thought that she was trying in this violent way in desperation to keep me fromdriak. But to my surprise I saw my wife sitting y the tire place with her work in her baad, looting at me m wonder. It could not have been her evidently. A terrible feeling passed through me. Shudderingly I raised my hand to feel what it was that was at my throat, or if thin was anything there at all, which m oared to be gra3ping me so tightly. I !rror of horrors! As I raised my hand I felt the unmistakable outline of a bony thumb and bony ringers pressed aeainst my lesh. It was a dtton Juind that clutched me by the throat. My hand fell down power' ess by my side ; the bottle crashed on the floor My childen awoke at the noise, aid wife and children all stared at me with white faces. There I, trembling in every limb, stood transfixed with terror, the awful feeling of the supernatural now fully possessing me. I nable to speak, I gapped with fear. I drew away my bjy, hut my head was iil held hy the WM dread and invisible power. I qobM not move that Unspeakable horror tilled me. None but those who have experienced eomething like this know what it is to have such feelings. The body seems paralyzed, while the mind seems to be endowod with traordinary activity, and thus poa-esses new capacities for suffering. IJiit at last I felt the grasp relax. I staggered back, the grasp ceased altoiTfther, and I drew off to another corner of the room, endeavoring to go as far as possible from the place where thh mysterious thing had seized me. ijoon my wife and children turned away, the former to work, the latter to sleep. They knew not what it was that had affected me, but concluded that it was some pain arising from sickness or sudden fr.mtnesa. I did not speak a word, dm resumed my former seat. And now, gradually, my craving returned. Yet how could I satisfy it? My de was broken. It lay in fragmentam the floor. All my liquor was gone. What was I to do I The craving became ;r-A;tible. I had to yield. So I took mj hat. fumbled in my pockets and found a te mmmm and taking an Id bottle that lay in a corner, I went forth in the darkness. It was not without some feeling of trep'dation that I entered the dark passage way. Fear lest the same Thing of Horror might return agitafd me. But I passed on unharmed, ani reached my old resort, where I laiJ my bottle on the counter. The clerk soon Oiled it. Wlta an irresistible impulse I clutched the bottle and rushed frth to drink the liquor. I hurried off for a little distance and ue to the head of a wharf Here, unable any longer to resist my cravinsr, I pulled nt the cork so as to drink. It wi.- vt ry dark. No one was nc.r me. In the distance aroee the low hum of the city; out in the iiarlnir might hi heard he noise of sailors and Ix-ttiuen. I had

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a general idea of this as 1 stood there, though all my thoughts were concentrated on the bottle. At last I raised it to my mouth. Scarce had the bottle touched my lips when again I experienced that terrible feeling. My throat was seised ; this time more violently, more fiercely, as if by some power which had already warned me, and was enraged at having to repeat the warning. My throat was compressed painfully in that fierce gripe ; there was anger in it. A thrill of horror aain shot through me. Again the bottle fell from my trembiing hands and was crushed to lragments upon the stone pavement. Again I raised my hands to my throat, though in deadly fear ; but the motion was mechanical a natural and involuntary effort to tear away the thing that had seized my throat to free myself from the pain and horror of that mysterious grasp. Again then I raised my hands, and again I felt there under my touch, plainly and unmistakably, the long, hard, bony band which I had felt before. One touch was enough. My hands fell down, I tried to shriek, but in vain. I gasped for breath, and thought that I would be suffocated. But at length the grasp slowly and unwillingly relaxed. I breathed more freely. At length the touch was no longer felt. I paced the streets for a long time. At first every vestige of my appetite had been driven away by the horror of that moment As time passed it begin to return. Once more I felt the craving. True, the fear of another attack was strong, and for a long time deterred me: but at last the craving grew too strong for the fear. Nerving myself up to a desperate pitch of resolution, I rushea back to the shop where I had last purchased the liquor. 4i Sec here ! " I cried ; " I'm crazy for a drink : I broke that bottle ! Give me a glass, for God's sake only one glass F Something in my face seemed to excite the man's commiseration. He poured out a glass for me in silence. With trembling eagerness I reached ant my hand to seize" it. !"With trembling hand I raised it toward my lips. The grateful fumes already entered my nostrils. My lips already touched the edge of the glass. Suddenly my throat was seized with a tremendous grasp. It was as though the Power which was tormenting me had become enraged by my repeated acta of opposition, and wished now by this final act to reduce me to subjection forever. It was as if this Power was using with me the means of coercion which one uses with a dog, viz : beat him for each offense, and each time harder till he is cured. This time the grasp was terrible, it was fiercer than ever, quick, impetuous. In that dread grasp my breath ceased. I struggled. My senses reeled. I raised my hands in my despair. I felt again the bony fingers. I moved my hands along bony arms. In my madness I struggled. I struck out my fists wildly. They struck against what seemed like bony ribs. The time during which I thus struggled seemed endless. The horror that was on me cannot be told. At last all sense left me. When I revived I found myae'f lying on a rude bench in the bar. It was early dawn. No one was near. All my bones ached. I rose up confusedly, not knowing at first where I was, but soon the terrific event which had overpowered me came to my memory. I rose to my feet, and tried to get out. The noise that I made awaked some one inside. He called out to me. " Hallo there ! Aae you off?" "Yes," I said. " Wait, I'll let you out." ne appeared in a short time. " You had a bad turn," said he not unkindly. " You'd better take care of yourself, and not be out at nights." I thanked him and left. When I reached the house my wife waked up and looked half fearfully at me. Amazement came over her face as she saw that I was sober. I kissed her and sat down in silence. She looked at me in wonder. Tears fell from her eyes. She said nothing, but I saw that she was praying. As soon as the shops were opened I went out and managed to procure some food which I brought to the room. I then left to go to my employment. Through the day I felt an incessant craving, but my horror was so great that I would far rather have cut my throat than risked having that hand there again. As the days passed the horror remained undiminished. It was simply impossible for me to seek for intoxicating drink. I dared not. My wife said nothing. I saw, however, by her soft eyes, the gentle joy of her face, and the sweet, loving smile with which she welcomed me home, how deeply this change in me had affeCred her. Weeks passed and gradually the craving lessened. Yet so vivid was the remembrance of that dread experience of mine that my horror remained fresh and unabated. To relapse was impossible. I dared not Thus forced to be sober, my circumstances improved rapidly. There was no longer any danger f want Comfort came, and peace, and hope, and pure domestic joy. Remorse for the sufferings which I had caused to my sweet wife made me more eager to make amends for the past, that so I might efface bitter memories from her mind. The revulsion of feeling was so great for her that she forgot that I had ever been other than kind. I made no parade of reform. I made no promises, and no vow. Nor did she ever allude to the change. She showed her Joy in her face ana manner. She accepted the change when it came and rejoiced in it I still felt an anxious desire to get to the bottom of this mystery, and once I told the whole story to my medical man. He was not at all surprised. Doctors never are. Nor are doctors ever at a lose to account for any thing. " Pooh," said he, Indifferently. " That's pommon enousrh. It was mania a pMu.

The brain, you know, becomes congested, and you se and feel devils and skeletons. Cases like yours are common enough." To me, however, my case seemed ?ery uncommon, but, whether it be so or not, my case has resulted in my salvation. And never will I ceaae, even amidst my horror, !j be grate fill to that Power which came down clothed in terror to snatch me from ruin with that Bkdeton Hand. The shipowners of Thomastowm, Me , intend to build this year ten thousand tons more of shinning than last year. The I largest ship ever built in the State (two : thousand two hundred nna ianowon the 1 stocks )n th '

Indian Trailers Their Astonishing Powers, (Correspondence of the Hudson Star.) U. S. A., Post Hospital., ) Fort R vndall, Dacota Ter,, JFeb. 12, 1809. ) Tn most extraordinary skill that Is exhibited in this part of the country, either by the white man or red native, is in the practise ot trailing. Here it may be accounted an art as much as music, painting or sculpture is in the East. The Indian or trapper that is a shrewd trailer is a man of close observation, quick perception and prompt action. As he goes along, nothing escapes his observation, and what he sees and hears he accounts for immediately. Often not another step is taken until a mystery that may present itself in this line is fairly solved. The Indian trailer will stand still for hours in succession, to account for certain traces or effects in tracks, and sometimes give to the matter unremitting attention for days and weeks. The trailer is not a graceful man. He carries his head much inclined, his eye is quick and restless, always on the watch, and he is practising his art unconsciously, hardly ever crossing the track of man or ani.'iial without seeing it When he enters a house, he brings the habits he contracted in the practise of his art with him. I know a trailer as soon as he enters my room. He comes in through the door softly, and with an air oi exceeding caution. Before he is fairly in, or at least has sat down, he has taken note of every article and person, though there may be a dozen vacant chairs in the room. He is not used to chairs, and, like the Indian, prefers a more humble seat. When I was employed by General Harney last summer to take charge temporarily ot the Indians that were gathered here to form a new reservation, one day a guide and trailer came into the General's headquarters. I told him to be seated. He sat down on the fioor, bracing his back against the wall. The General saw this, and in vexation cried out, " My God, why don't you take a chair, when there are plenty here not 0 ccupied f The man arose and seated himself in a chair, but in so awkward and uncomfortable a manner that he looked as if he might slip from it at any moment. But when this uncouth person came to transact his business with the General he turned out to be a man of no ordinary abilities. His description of a route as guide and trailer for the Ogallahs in bringing them from the Platte to this place was minute, and to me exceedingly interesting. Every war party that for the season had crossed his trail, he described with minuteness as to their number, the kind of arms they had, ar.d stated the tribes they belonged to. In these strange revelations that he made there was neither impostion nor supposition, for he gave satisfactory reasons for every assertion he made. I have ridden several hundred miles with 411 experienced guide and trailer, Hack whom I interrogated on many points in the practise of this art. Nearly all the tracks I saw, eithei old or new, as a nov m the art, I questioned him about. In going to the Niobrara river we crossed tne track of an Indian pony. My guide followed the track a few miles and then said " It is a stray, black horse, with a long, bushy tail, nearly starved to death, has a split hoof of the left fore foot, and gor8 very lame, and he passed here early this morning." Astonished and incredulous, I asked him the reasons for knowing these particulars by the tracks of the animal, when he replied : " It was a stray hore, because it did not go in a direct line : his tail was long, for he dragged it over the snow j in brushing against a bush he left some of his hair, which shows its color. He was very hungry, for, in going along he has nipped at those high, dry weeds, which horses seldom eat. The fissure of the left fore foot left, also, it? track, and the depth of the indentation shows the degree of his lameness ; and his tracks show he was here this morning, when the snow was hard with frost." At another place we came across an Indian track, and he said, " It is an old Yankton, who came across the Missouri last evening to look at his traps. In coming over he carried in hi right hand a trap, and in his left a lasso to catch a pony with he had lost. He returned without finding the horse, but had caught in the trap he had out a prairie wolf, which he carried home on his back and a bundle of kinikinic wood in his right hand." Then, he eave his reasons, "I know he is old by the impression his gait has made, and a Yankton by that of his moccasin. He is from the other side of the river, as there are no Yanktons on this side. The trap he carried struck the snow now and then, and in the same manner as when he came, shows that he did not find his pony. A drop of blood in the centre of his tracks shows that he carried the wolf on his back, and the bundle of kinikinic wood he used for a staff" for support, and, catching a wolf, shows that he had trap out" "But," I asked, " how do you know it is a wolf, wbv not a fox, or covotte, or even a deer?" Said he, 44 If it had been a fox, or coyotte, or any other small game, he would have, slipped the head of the animal in his waist belt, and so carried it by his side, and not on his shoulders. Deer are not caught by traps, but if it had been a deer, he would not have crossed this high hill, but would have gone back by way of the ravine, and the load would have made his steps still more tottering." Another Indian track we saw twenty miles west of this he put this serious construction upon: 41 He is an upper Indian a prowling horse thief carried a double shot gun, and is a rascal that killed some white man latelv, and pawed here one week ago j for," said he, 44 a lone Indian in these parts is on mischief, and generally on the look out for horses. He had on the shoes of a white man whom he had in all probabilitv killed, but his steps are those of an Indian. Going through the ravine, the end of his gun hit into the deep snow. A week ago we had a very warm day, and the snow being soft, he made these deep tracks ; ever since it has been intensely cold weather, which makes very shallow tracks," I suggested that perhaps he bought those shoes. 44 Indians don't buy shoes, and If they did they would not buy them as large as these were, for Indians have very small feet" The most noted trailer of this country was Paul Daloria, a half breed, who died under my hands, of Indian consumption, last summer. At one time I rode with him, and trailing was naturallv the subject of our conversation. I beggsd. to trail with him an old track over the prairie in order to learn its history. I had hardly made the proposition, when he drew up his

horse, wnicn was ai a ravine, anu saia, " Well, here is an old elk track. Let us get off our horses and follow it" We follower, it Idltafew roWSfP

was exactly a month old, and made at two o'clock in the afternoon. This he know, as then we had our last rain, and at the hour named the ground was softer than at any other time. The track before us was then made. He broke up here and there clusters of grass that lay in the path of the track, and showed me the dry ends of some, the stumps of others, and by numerovs other similar items, accounted for many circumstances that astonished me. We followed the trail over a mile. Now and then we saw that a wolf, a fox, and other animals had practised their trailing instincts on the elk'o tracks. Here and there he would show me where a snake, a rat, and a prairie dog had crossed the track. Nothing had followed or crossed the track that the quick eye of Daloria did not detect. He gave an account of the habits of all the animals that had left their footprints on the track, also of the state of the weather since the elk passed, and the effect of sunshine, winds, aridity, sand, storms and other influence that had a bearing on these tracks. The old man, like all trailers, was reticent but on this occasion, seeing that I was interested, became especially com municative. Dr. H vcnEXBEuo.

Fleas by Josh Billings. The smallest animal of the brute creation, and the most pesk, iz the fleas. They are about tne bigness uv an onion seed, and shine like a bran new shot They spring from low places, and can spring further and faster than enny of the bug brutes. They bite wus than the muskectoze, for they bite on a run, one flea will go aul over a man's suburbs in 2 minutes, and leave him as frekled as the meazles. It is impossible to do anything with a flea on you except twin, and fleas ain't afraid of that ; the only way is to quit bizness ov aul kinds and hunt for the flea, and when you have found him he ain't there. This is one of the flea mysteries, the fakulty they have of being entirely lost just as you have found them. I don't suppose there is ever killed, on an average, during enny one year, more than 1G fleas in the whole ov the United States ov America, unles3 there is a casualty of some kind once in a while thare is a dog gits drowned sudden, and then thare may be a few fleas lost They are about az hard to kill az a flax seed iz, and if you don't mash them as fine as ground pepper they will start hiznesson a smaller kapital jist as pestiverous js ever. There iz lots ov people who have never seen a flea, and it takes a pretty smart man to see one enny how ; they don't stay long in a place, If you ever ketch a flea, kill him before you flu ennything else ; for if you put it off 2 minutes ; it may be too late. Menny a flea has passed away forever in less than two minutes. The Marriage of a Royal Prince to a Merchant's Daughter. The New York Tribune s&ys : One of those events which occasionally transpire to assert, in the most emphatic manner, the leveling spirit of the age, occurred on 8aturday in this city. This was no less than the marriage of a Prince of the ancient and conservative house of Bourbon to the daughter of a Cuban merchant. The story a most romantic one is as follows Some three or four years ago Mrs. Harail, the wife of a wellknown merchant in Ibvana, left that city to place her daughter in a school in Paris They stopped for some time in this city, having rooms at Delmonico's, and made many warm friends wherever they were know. The daughter, possessed of more than ordinary accomplishments and personal charms, attracted much attention among the best society of the gay French capital. She was received in the most exclusive circles, and it is said was a frequent guest at the Imperial Court. Among the many distinguished gentlemen who paid her their court was Prince Louis de Ilourbon, son of Louia, Count d'Aquilla, one of the chief members of the Bourbon family. The Prince proposed to her and was accepted, under the mother's sanction, but when Count d'Aquilla learned the intention of his son, his pride revolted at what he and others of royal blood c msidcred a mesalliance, and he not only forbade the match, but used his influence with the Emperor to induce the latter to discountenance it should the Prince seek his support. The lovers, in company with the lady's mother, then determined to go to England and there fulfill the marriage, but the father interfered, and succeeded in preventiL g them from carrying it out After niore than one disappointment from the refusal of the Catholic clergy to perform the ceremony, the persecuted ones determined to proceed to the United States, where they hoped to find no difficulty in fulfilling their contract ; but even in this free country the influence of conservatism prevailed so far that the Catholic clergy still declined to have anything to do in the matter. However, a marriage according to the civil rights of the country was consummated on Saturday evening last, and thus all opposition and persecution was overcome. This marriage, although perhaps it would not be acknowledge amongtOCCTOWned heads of Europe, is perfectly legal in the United States and all Protestant cduntries, and as such it will never be disputed. The Prince, it is understood, should his family prove obdurate, is prepared to renounce his rights as one of the royal house of Bourbon, and will content himself with the possession of his beautiful wife. The Number Nine. Thi uuniber nine possesses some remarkable properties. If the nine digits, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, be added together, the sum will be 45, which is equal to 5 times 9, and the sum of the digits of their sum, 4 and 5, is 9. If any number is subtracted from another having the same digits in a different order, the remainder will be divisible by nine, and the sum of the digits of the remainder will also be divisible by 9. Subtracting 2967634 from 7364429, there remains 4416795, which is equal to 9 times 490955, the sum of the digits, 4, 4, 1, 6, 7, 9, 5, is 36, whieh is divisible by 9. If any number be multiplied by 9, the sum of the digits, or figures, of the product will be divisible by 9. Nine times 43780135 is 394021215 ; the sum of the digits of this product is 7, a multiple of 9. The solutions of a number of interesting arithmetical puzzles depend upon the above properties of 9. If a number be substracted from another having the same digits in a diff erent order, and one of the digits of the remainder erased, it can le found in the following roil? BP' 41 ' ' "4icr Ur figures of the

remainder that arc left, divide the sum by 9, subtract the figure that remains after dividing by 9 from 9, and this last remainder will be the digit, or figure, sought. If there is no remainder, 0 or 9 was erased. Ask some one to write down a number and substract from it another, composed of the same digits in a different order without letting you see either of them. Tell him you want all the figures of the remainder but one. 3y the above rule you can soon find the figure you have not seen. The feat will appear quite mysterious to the unintiatcd. Here is an example : Subtracting 150321 from 231456, "the remainder is 7513& The sum of the figures 7, 5, 1, 3, is 10. Divide 10 by 9, we have a remainder of 7. Seven from 9 leaves 2, the other figure. I could tell you about a great many more of these " tricks with numbers," but I must stop writing, or my "piece" will be too long. The Little Chief. m m MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. Louisville bas a velocipede military company. Erik boasts of being the most moral city of its size in the Union. A lock of hair from a young woman's head is often a key to a young man's heart. A lady of New Orleans, whose husband was a defaulter, sold all her jewels and other private property to save him from exposure. The cashier of a bank in San Francisco with an income of a thousand dollars a day, was formerly the clerk of a steamboat plying between Keokuk and St. Louis. A gentle swain, enamored of a Miss Bread, perpetrates the following: While belles their lovely graces spread. And fops around them flutter, I'll be content with Anna Bread, And won't have any but her. A gentle m n being asked by a clergyman why he could not attend the evening prayer meeting, said he could not leave the children. What, have you no servants ?" " Yes," he replied, " we have two servants, who keep the house, and board us, but we are allowed few privileges." A Mrs. Welt, of St. George, Me., while riding home in the stage from Rockland, recently, on a cold day, thought that her infant, which she held in her arms, was strangely silent; and, on examination, foundthat the poor little thing was frozen to death. CriAM represents an anxious mother pleading with the director of a gymnasium to give her son one of the prizes. " Your son, madame, persists in doing nothing," says the director. "Then," replies the mamma, by no means disconserted, "you should give him the prize for perseverance." A little girl was very fond of preaching to her dolls. Her mother one day heard her reproving one of them for being so wicked. " Oh, yon naughty, sinful child," she said, shaking the waxen limbs, "you'll go to the lake of brimstone, and you won't burn up you'll just sizzle." Onk day, when Napoleon was on a visit to a female school he had founded at Hauen, he playfully asked a bright young girl, " How many needlefuls of thread does it take to make a shirt ?" " One, 8ire, If it were sufficiently long." Napoleon was so pleased with the reply that he gave the young lady a gold chain. It is related in the Churchman' Magth tine that a gamekeeper and his wife consulted I he doctor of the parish as to the choice of a " bible name " for their son and heir. The doctor selected " Nimrod," and the suggestion was acted upon. Some time afterward another son was born. This time the parents chose for themselves, and as a match for " Nimrcd " actually selected P Ramrod J" Daniel Wkustkr, in a discussion on the influences of the press, spoke as follows : " Every parent whose son is away from home at school should supply him with a newspaper. I well remember what a marked didVrence there was between those of my schoolmates who had and those who had not newspapers. The first were always superior to the last iu debate, composition and general intelligence. Tiik Chinese merchant Hong Kee. who escaped in the steamer Japan from San Francisco, defrauding his creditors out of about $18.000, is paid to hive proceeded with a m7 froid quite ainusimr, and worthy of a civilized rascal. On his way to the steamer he dropped into the store of one of his victims, bought three gallons of wine and ordered it " charged " in his regular account. Tue New York AprvM thinks that nine-tenths of our people eat too much flesh. " It is a positive in jury instead of a benefit, when eaten twice a day, even to the hard physical worker. This community could live on at least one-half the flesh it d vours, and be all the better for the change. We are not sure that if we all ate one-third only of what is now consumed in the form of steaks, joints, cutlets, etc, we would not be the gainers in health and strength, as we would certainly' In pocket." An undertaker in Brooklyn, New York, has sent the following circular to several physicians. The style is peculiar : " Dear Friend : I have no dubt that it occasionally happens among your extended practice, a patient will sink beyond the aid of medical skill, and I have no doubt that the physician is appealed to by the deceased's friends as to who is a good and competent undertaker ; if such should happen in your practice, and you feel as though you could assist me, the favor will be highly Tciprocated by me. Yours, truly." Quint Isabella, who, upon her arrival in Paria, seemed to care very little for the French theatres, has now become a passionate play-goer. It costs her nothing to gratify that passion. Most of the Spanish Absolutists now living at Paris have boxes at one or more of the theatres ; and when Queen Isabella wants to go to one of them she writes to the boxholder as follows : " I, the Queen, command you to let me have your box for to night. I shall be pleased to reserve two seats In it for you and your wife." Old Dicky 6. is a very wealthy but very illiterate East India merchant, and a member of the Oriental Club of London. One day Dicky took a pair of compasses and Bet about examining a large map of India, the margin of which was Illustrated with drawings of the wild and domestic animals of the country. Suddenly Dicky dropped the compasses in amazement. "It can t be ! it haint in the horder of natur that it should be ! impossible! ridiculous!" " Why, Dicky, what's the matter?" "Wot's the matter? Vy, this llengal tiger is ninety miles long !" Dieky had measured tho tiger by the scale on the map.

FACTS AND FIGURES. Cincinnati has 8,081 registered dogs. Boston has about a dozen good female velocipedists. One hundred and sixty-eight twins were born in Philadelphia last year. There are 500,000 Norwegians in the Northwestern States. Fifteen members of the new Spanish Cortes were saloon-keepers. TnE memorandum book of Frederick the Great has recently been sold for 240. There are over $2,000,000 invested in circuses and menageries in this country. Therk are only 8,000 Gentiles in Salt Lak City, out of a population of 44,000. It is stated that there are alvays about five thousand well-to-do Americans in Paris. There are 1,610 Indians in Massachusetts, comprising representatives of more than twenty tribes. The average length of the session of the Massachusetts Legislature for forty years has been 117 days. Nevada is becoming deeply interested in silk culture. There are 1,250,000 mulberry trees in the State. A retired wealthy New York merchant lately paid $15,000 for a landscape painting at a private sale. Henry Ward Beecher is to be sent abroad by his congregation, $10,000 being raised for that purpose. The Pacific mills, Lawrence, Mass., with a capital of $2,650,000, paid twentyfour per cent, dividend in 1868. In 1868 the ten Southern States produced 222,000,000 bushels of corn, being 40,000,000 more than in 1867. Pat Murphy, aged 110, and his wife aged 80, of Westmoreland county, are the oldest married couple in Pennsylvania. The product of the fisheries of Cape Cod toe past year, it is said, amount to about a million and a half of dollars. TnE Iowa Agricultural College is five stories high, and contains over one hundred rooms ; the farm is 648 acres. According to the report of the Secretary of State, the total valuation of Massachusetts at the present time is $1,230.498,939. TniRTY years' ago, A. T. Stewart was rated on the mercantile reports : " Said to be worth $30,000 ; credit A 1, cautious and safe." TnE Buffalo Elevator Association, during the season of 1868, handled 41,333,965 bushels of grain, being 240,980 bushels more than was handled in 1867. A farmer in Dooly county, Ga., last season, made 272 gallons of " good thick syrup " from half an acre of sugar cane. Six hundred and seventy-four persons were tried and convicted in the criminal courts of New York city during 1868, and ninety-eiyht were acquitted during the same period. A merchant of Bangor, Me., has had to pay $150 damages to a couple of ladies who were knocked down and their fine clothes spoiled by a snow-slide off his store roof. TnE Cincinnati Gazette estimates that the popilation of Ohio in 1870 will number 2,900,000. It bases its opinion on the vote of 1868, when 519,254 votes were cast. St. Petersrc-ro is frequently called Pianopolis because even the humblest families possess instruments, while 800 men and 3,000 women live by teaching the use of the piano.

During the year 1868, nearly 150,000 bushels of apples were used in Orange county, New York, in manufacturing 32,870 gallons of apple whisky, valued at about $115,000. A boy 17 years old was recently fined $15 or t wenty days imprisonment, for pitching two quids of tobacco at the clergyman during a revival meeting at West Berne, N. Y. In the Michigan State Prison, at Jackson, during 18i8, twenty-seven convicts were punished with whips, thirty-four with the paddle, forty-eight by being put into a dark cell, and six by being placed on a bread and water diet. Subhtkaction. " from cix take Dine, From nine take U-n, From forty take flfty. And six will remain." m From SIX, IX, XL, Take- IX, X, L, Remain SIX. It is said that the twenty-three remaining veterans of the war of 1812, re siding in New York, the youngest of whom is seventy two yean old, live in garrets, alms houses, and one in the cabin of an old canal boat, in abject want. Two Lancaster (Mass.) ladies started petitions, the one ashing the Legislature to grant woman suffrage, and the other praying for the continuance of the present order. The latter got twenty-six signatures to her petition and the former one only. At a recent sale of autographs, in New York, among the prices realized were: John Hancock, $2 ; General Joseph Warren, $12 25; George Washington, $8 50 ; ,4Mad" Anthony Wayne, $9; William Penn, $6 ; General Kurgoyne, $9.50 ; and Fred the Great, $8.50. There are seventy-five last manufactories in the United States, turning out annually from 1, 300,000 to 1,500,000 lasts. One pair of lasts will, on an average, make sixty pairs of boots or shoes. The best wood for making them is persimmon ; the next best, rock maple. One hundred and fifty-five thousand four hundred and ninety barrels of beer were sold in the city of Buffalo in the year 1868 and the whole amount was manufactured in that city. The amount of rev enue paid the Government on this beer was $147,132,87. Kansas has a population of about 400,000. It has six hundred miles of railroad in active operation. There are published in the State ten daily and fifly weekly newspapers. The State has a debt of $1 . OOO.OOC, and under the Constitution this debt cannot be increased beyond that amount v ithout a direct vote of the people. A city physician of Providence asserts that 10 per cent of the 5,475,000 quarts of milk used in that city during the year is merely water. He thinks that the Uvea of a considerable number of children are sacrificed every year by the use of adulterated milk, they being actually starved to death, because the milk they use has so much water in it that it will not nourish them, nor even support life. OrT of sixty six senators whose occupation" are stated in the Congressional direc

tory, forty -five are lawftia, five arc merchants, five editors, four farmers or planters, three bankers, two teachers, one a manufacturer and one a railroad owner. In the House there are of lawyers one hundred and nineteen, merchants nineteen, editors sixteen, f irmers seven, manufacturers six, railroad men five, b inkers five, ministers two, doctors two, painter one. At a fair in Syracuse there was a lottery. In the lottery there was a willow basket of large proportions, and the lady who drew it was to take its contents as well as the basket itself. When the arrangement was drawn, out popped the he d of a sweet boon in the shape of a grout, ugly man. The fair creature who drew the prize did ot make her appearance, however, and the sweet boon is still single and disconsolate. A Great Inventor and His Work. There is nothing whioh m rc illustrates the civilization and progress of the time in which we live, than the immense variety of labor-saving machinery which the inventive genius of our mechanics is continually devising, and which is continually being applied in alj departments of human industry. We are all familiar with the proverb which clacses among the benefactors of his kind, him who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before. That the maxim is a sound one in political economy, there is no doubt, and equally sound is the proposition corollary thereto, that he who creates an appliance by means of which one man may do the work of two unaided thus, is a practical philanthropist, The name of thoso who, in Agricultural implements alone, have so earned the title to the gratitude of the world is legion. Among the great, names which have become honored the world over, by being connected with the invention of one or another of the leading appliances of modem husbandry, there is none greater nor more worthy than that oüthe originator of the Pitts' Thuhom Maciunk, Mr. Hiram A Pitta. It is a matter of laudable pride to every citizen of Illinois that, although this gentleman was a native ot Maine, and in that State made his first crude machine, yet in our own State his plans and experiments reached their full maturity, and resulted in the production of the celebrated implement whih bears his name. Upon his sons setmsto have fallen the mantle of their father's inventive genius, and, fince their coming to the proprietorship of the machine, they have been constantly improving and perfecting it, so as to make it keep pace with the demands of the time, and maintain its position in the front rank ot implements of its class. These gentlemen, now associated together under the firm name of II. A. Pitts' Sons of Chicago, have been engaged for the last eighteen years, in this cily, in the manufacture aud nk of the Thresher. They commenced operations here in 1961, starting, as seems to be the common fate of all inverters, with very little capital save their own genfafl and ritiH, and by the aid of the reputation already acquired for the implement, and their own energy and enterprise, they have succeeded in firmly establishing, upon a broad and enduring basis, a large and nourishing busiMl Their invested capital amounts to $200,000, $100,000 of which constitutes the working capital. Their main Factory fronts upon three principal streets, in the heart of one of our manufacturing localities, as follows: M bet on West Randolph, IT") on Jefferson, and 75 on Washington. It is su! -tantially built, four stones in height, and is thoroughly fitted up and imaged with a view to the successful conduct of an extensive manufacture. One hundred men including some of the best and most experienced woring mechanics in the country are employed constantly. Three hundred of the Threshers are turned out annually, and the yearly receipts amount to $200, 000. 500 tons of iron and 350,000 feet of the best seasoned har 1 and soft woods are used each year in the manufacture. It would le a work of the sheerest supereroeation to laud the 1'itts' Threshing Machines. Their praises find the best practical f ipniUin upon the thousands of farms where, after each harvest time, their hum and whirr are beard. There is no farming implement to which the spirit of the old saw "Good wine needs no bush," is more applicable than this; the best advertisement of which it is capable is the manner of work which it doe. That its proprietors feel an assured faith in its excellence, is apparent in the written warranty which they give with every machine they sell, and which is to the effect that the machine is made of good material, finished in a durable and work manlike manner, and is capable of performing thoroughly every function for which it is intended, as we'.! as, if not better than, any in use. This seems to state the case about as emphatically and completely as any legal gentleman, amhitious of bringing an action for breach of warranty agamst U. A. Pitta' Sons, could fairly desire. . I r i n Chronic Philosophical Uses of the Heard. Th inhaling of metallic particles to which certain workmen arc expoeod is replete with serious and lasting effects. In autopsies of persons who have dierl from pulmonary consumption, the lungs are frequently found filled with the substance belonging to the peculiar business which they have pvaaed during hte. Cotton, in the form of dust, metal filings, chemical vapors, fumes of copper, arsenic, etc., are but a small number ot the many substances whie'i enter the lungs and finally destroy the lives of those engaged in such occupations. The lace weavers of Germany, and tkOM occupied in the papci staining factories are part cularly exposed to these pernicious rllects. Mauy temporary means have been tri- d to protect the artisans from such fatal c mrcpicnce, but none have been found as efiVctual as the wearing of a board and moustache. Tbesc and the hair which grows in the nostrils are found to be the bes protection. All who have perm it teil their growth can testifiy to their efficacy in preventing the entrance of particles of dust, etc , and by a nroper attention to cleanliness they will ve their purpose. Srwntifir American. The Department of Agrü uhure publishes reports trcm South Carolina and Georgia, stating that there U a good demand for labr there, and a need for Northern men with capital. MvrnoT.oGY tells us that Io died because of her intense love for Jupitr ; but it. charm of the romantic story has lately been destroyed by a chemist discovering Iodide of potasium. m m Bums' only surviving son is living in Cheltenham, aged Tfj