Plymouth Weekly Democrat, Volume 14, Number 34, Plymouth, Marshall County, 29 April 1869 — Page 1

PLYMOUTH WEEKLY DEMOCRAT.

VOLUME XIV PLYMOUTH, INDIANA, THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 1869. NUMBER 34.

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TEE ?OXG OF THMAKY1L. BY N. MtEIHERD. Within the. vülace unithy Ripht merrily I ring. And under the stroke of the hammer A tuneful pong I einp. Red glows the wile-mouthed furnace The heaving billows roarYon can hear their huge lungs panting Outside the open door. The smith is stalwart and mightyHe lifts his sledge on high. Then lets it fall on the iron. And the spark all round hiji fly. With a ready voice I answer. And cheer him with my song ; I sing to him while he labors I sing to him all day long. His arm is brawny and powerful. Its streng'h full well t know; He trikes with an earnest purpose. And heavily falls his blow. Tbc children stand in the dOOTWIJ, For they love to ?ee him !wing His sledge across his shoulder, While cheerily I eing. Mv voice cocs out to the village ; You can hear it far away. As I cheer the smith in his labor Through all the live-long day. With every blow from his hammer An answering note I sound, That over again is repeated Whenever an echo is found. Oh, ye who are sorely smitten By the iron hand of fate. Abide your time in patience. Ye have not long to wait. Oh. young man, eager and hopeful, Oh. young man. valiant and strong. When the blows fall f-tst and thickest Make answer with a sonsr I Ift H'ird' Monthly for Mir. Sdcctcb ittisccllanri. Npeevh of Mr. Joan Whittle Id Squawkboro Town Meeting", on the Subject of Building a School-house. Mr. Moderator I wanttosay a word about this 'ere new school-'us. Most everybody has had their Ray, and now I'd like to have mine. I can't set, as I have sot for the rast tew hours, and see the people's money flung away on a new school-'us without saying a word agm it. If I understand the matter right, t is proposed to spend tew thousand dollars And what fur, Mr. Moderator? To set up a high school-'us, and teach the boys and girls of Squawkboro a lot of highblutir. stuff that will only make them imperdent and sassy. When I went to scuool and got my lamin', all I studied was the three Rl rmd in ritiiC and Arithmetic; and that is plenty enough for anybody tolarn, and two much for a gal. It is easy enough for men to get up a town meetin' and vote away iete thousitntl at a lick ; but how long would it take them to am that money themselves ? In my opinion, Mr. Moderator, there is too much money locked up in public buildings already. Look at the meetin' 'uses in Squawkboro' ! Four, and any one on 'em is big enough to hold all the people that goes to the hull rn 'em. How can a town ever get ahead that ha? so much capital locked up in meetin' 'uses? And every one on 'em callin' the other names ! Suppose this vote passes whar are ye agom' to put your new school-'us ! There'll be a puzzler for ye ! I 'spose Squire Snukes will try his pootiest to have it ouilt on his five acre lot ; and somehow the people of this town think they must dew jist as the 'squire tells 'em, because he was sent to Gineral Court one term. But I can tell you, Mr. Moderator, that if the school 'us is put on that lot, it will be play in' a mean thing on the children that live ud ovar by Stunner's Pond, and them that live up by Silas Doozenberry's. They can't eoowto school only when the sun shines. And 1 don't want the thing built anywhere near my place. I know what it is to live war the school-'us. I don't want my apples and peaches hooked, or my fences hacked uo by boys, to say nothin' about the winders broken by base balls and sich. Mr. Moderator, we've got along all these years without this school 'us"; why can't we ge- along fifty years more ? Why agitate this peaceful town of Squawkboro' from one eend to t'other about edieatin' a parcel of boys and gals that know a sight more than their pavrents do already? - tfovMMi dollars i My gracious, Mr. Moderator! Jest think of tew thou said dollars all to wonst ! Jest think of the town debt , and then picter to yourselves what it will be with tew thousand more piled onto it. Look forrard a huidred and fifty years, and see our childrt n's children a groanin' under the taxes this 'ere school'u' will bring upon 'em. Why, sir I got our minister to tirger up what tew thousand dollars would be if divided ekally among the inhabitants of Squawkboro', and it come to-,-ninepence apiece ! Yes, Mr. Moderator, three and ninepenre apiece ! Why, sir, it is only a year since the town went to the expense of two hundred and fifty dollars to build a mtu ktmst, and not a livin' person in Squawkborc' needed it. But there it ia built, and stands there unopened week after week, hardly any use for it As I said before, I can't set still and see the L .rd-earned money of the people flung away on hearse-houses and school houses without gittin' up and utterin' my voice agin it. Mr. Moderator, I shall vote agin this appropriation, and I hope every liberalminded, whole-souled man will do the same. Wm. L. William, in Oliver Optic's Magazine. Velociped h t ionary . One of the peculiarities of velocipedestrianism in this country is the large inveative talent displayed in framinc names for it. Velociped estrianism, velociprdestrian, velocipedist, velocipeder, veioripedism, velocipedian. velocipeddler, velociped iana, are soiie of the names applied to riding, riders, and items on the velocipede. People who want to establish a velocipede rink can call it by any of the following names: Amphicyclotheatron, gym nacyciidium, velocipedrome, M bjeyclocurriculum. Monocycle, bicycle, tricycle, quadncyle, are terms used to indicate the number of wheels, But we havfrfieen one name, that, in classical beauty and rich ness of conception, eems to us to MÜBM all competitors. The machine whi'-h rejoices in this appellation is a water velocipede, and it is called' Tachypodow ,tph." Greek scholars will understand this to mean "a swift loot boat," or, as Artemus Ward would have said, " words to that effet" In view of th s amazing fertility of language would it not be well for some enterprising publisher to print a veloci pedictionary. fruntific American.

FORTY SHILLINGS AXI COSTS. I had been all day trying to get from Aveminster to Chelchester by a country line, a London line, and a branch line of railway. In the first place, as the country line only ran three trains a day, passenger and goods together, necessitating weary shuutings at every station, we could hardly be said to have made a good start. In the next place, the strategic arrangement whereby the London line managed invariably to start its trains live minutes before the arrival of the " up "-country train, making us wait for two hours at Marlbury Junction, to spite the country comf anv, scarcely tended to rapid progress, n the third place as it always happens to be the aim of a traffic-manager to endeavor to drive passengers on to the main line, and to visit with all possible retributive delays the hostile British public when it will travel on a branch, we could not be considered to have made up for the lost time on the branch. In the fourth place, it didn't help us forward to be compelled to travel one hundred and twenty-seven miles round about in a parabola, in order to reach Chelchester, which, at starting, was only fifty-eight niiics from Aveminster. In the fifth and last place, we were not got to Chelchestei yet ; and it would have been money in my pocket if I never had. "Swinbro' Swinbro'. Change here for Murchmont and Nutchley. Change here." Almost time for a change, I reflected, considering I had been nine hours out on a journey of tifty-eight miles, and was still far off from my destination. Looking out from my window of a first class compartment, I saw it was a chetrless, drizzling night, and the railway porters were streaming in the misty air as they hurried to and tro past the gleam of the anps. Remonstrating with the guard respecting our train being an hour late, and the time past eleven at night, he soothed uv irritation by telling me grullly I had no business on a branch line If 1 wanted to go anywhere ; and if I would go to out-of-the-way places like Chelchester, I must be very thankfcil if the company put themselves to the expense of taking me then at all, considering branches didn't pay to work as a rule A solitary passenger then entered my carriage, or rather was banged into it by I he guard. Another minufe, and the :';ird had banged himself into his van, emitting the growl; "Change here!" ur fiery and restive iron stead, no doubt weary with its headlong career of full twelve miles an hour, gave a heroic neigh of triumph, resembling a feeble crow, in emulation of past exploits, in days long before it was condemned to transportation on a branch, and dragged us off into the bleak night. My companion was a tall, thin, middleaged man, with a face lean and withered like a shrivelled apple, concluded below the chin by a stiff satin cravat. In a dress, tight fitting, and of ancient and faded black, be looked altogether like a man who had run very much to seed, which perhaps accounted for the luxuriant rrow th of his arms and legs. Observing hi clothes steaming with the damp air, I began to realize it was very chilly. It certainly was. " Quite a change in the weather," I remarked, "Very cold to-night, is it not?" " Don't Teel the coUl myself. Perhaps you would like to change places icith me Tr ore is no draught here." I replied I should be very pie tsed to do so, if not to his inconvenience : and accordingly we changed seats. It MM cold, and no mistake. I must have taken a chili, foi I felt the cold creeping over me in a most unaccountable manner. Liking at my companion on the opposite seat, on whom the lamp-light now shone full, I saw that his rce v.-as not so 'bin, nor his features so withered, as I had it first supposed ; and I m ist have made a mistake as to hi.- age, for he was by no means so old as I had previously judged. II w cold it was to be sure! As I continued too look at him, I noticed his aspect changed momently that he was growing younger; that the wrinkles in his face were rilling out and smoothing down ; and that he was gradually becoming like some one I had seen before. As his cheeks grew round and ruddy, and his hair changed from gray to brown, before my very eyes, I became in such a state of nervous agitation, I endeavored to cry out, but could not. I was paralyzed with 'he cold, cold that seemed to make my limbs rigid, and numb my vitals ; for I saw the man sitting before me was no longer a stranger no more friend or iCipiaintance : he had become ME ! I held up my hands to try and snut out the sight, and as I did so, saw that they were withered, and thin, and old. I pressed them on my brow, to see if I were dreaming ; but I found it shrivelled, and seamed, aid puckered. And I knew that this man, this tieml, had stolen my body, and given me his. Maddened with the discovery, I rose to my feet, Ai'feet, which swayed 1" neath me, and I struck wildly at the vision of myself on the other seat. But I fo ind my arms light as vapor, for they passed over his body, which went through th' tn, giving me the impression of pain. It was a body of shade that had been given me for my own body cf flesh and blood, which this wretch had stolen. By some sorcery or other, we had indeed changed places. Sorcerer demon !" I cried out, only to hear myself speaking with his sharp, Picked voice. When I faw myself sitting opposite to me coolly addressing me in ray own voice, I could no longer credit my senses, if indeed I had any of them at all left of my own. M Dare say you think you are speaking loud now," he said. I answered by calling the guard as loudly as I could halloo. " Ah, you might call a good deal louder than that, if the carriage were lull of pn scngcrs, and they eou'd no more hear you Iii m they could see you," he continued, chuckling, and screwing up my features into a hideously knowing grin, such as I uld never have made them assume. " You see, ray friend, yours is a bfdy of air, of ßhadow. Insensible, impalpable to all but nsyaetf, just as it was to all but you when I entered the carriage. You wish, er haps, to know who I am? Well, two years ago to-night, I was a passenirer by this very up mail. There was a collision with a stupid down-goods, you see, and the result was that Mm ral passenger were injured One ol them was well, its no nr.r mincing matters killed on the spot. Quite eo : it was I. Yes, I am what you all a ghost, though we consider the word rmtfMT infra din. amongst ourselves, and have a better term for it. Now I have told you what I am, you will like to know what I want? Very good. You shall fee. The ghost in my body then began to tc l iu my pockets, from which he drew

out my meerschaum, loaded it from my pouch, and lighted it with one of my Vesuvians. " Ah," he proceeded, whiffing the weed rapidly, " you smoke very good stuff, Golden Leaf and Returns ; not a bad mixture, though I prefer a little Latakia with it myself. Not at all a bad body yours, either," he went on, eying the form in which he was sitting," not at all a bad body ; and it fits me to a T, only a little short in the arms. By the way, I find one of your front teeth a little loose, so don't say I did that, when you come to yourself again ; and your nose is a little long for me, but I dare say it blows none the worse for that." I shuddered as I eaw him take out my handkerchief, and use it on that cherished organ of mine. " Yes, I dare say now you feel the cold a little ; I did at frst; but it's nothing when you are used to it. I find your body very hot, being heavier than I am ac customed to wear ; but it won't be for long. I require it 1 positively for this night only,' as you say in your playbills, and will return it uninjured by the time we get to Chelchester. By the by, let me beg you to be a little careful how you throw your arms about so much as you did just now, for my body is of a more delicate construction than yours ; and, being so thin in substance, I am afraid you will scag it under the armpits. You will observe, ladies and gentlemen," he went on in lecturer's style, M that if I take a lighted Vesuvian and insert it in the cornea of the patient's eye, he will feel no pain." Saying this, my dreadful companion proceeded to illustrate his remark by making a dive at my shadowy eye with a burning match. I felt no pain as the match burned in mv head, certainly. " You will allow, after all you see, that my shape has its advantages," the ghost proceeded ; " but it also has its disadvantages. Try the pipe now." I tried to take the pipe ; it dropped through my vapory fingers. He placed it in my mouth ; I could not hold it, nor get a whiff from it. " Precisely so," said the ghost. " Now, this is just what has brought me heretonight. A great smoker all my life, doing my six pipes a day regularly, I have been d'-funct these two years and during all hat time I haven't had a smoke ! not a blessed draw ! I miss my 'bacco dreadful. There is provision made for smokers, down with us, you will understand; but we are governed by a Board of Directors, whoe incapacity quite equals that of most of your City Boards. There is a stock of bodies kept on purpose for smokers, so that, if you want a pipe, you must go into one of the bodies to enjoy it. But, if you will believe me, the supply is so notoriously insufficient to meet the demand, that there is no c.iance whatever for a new ghost to get a smoke. When 1 entered the Society, all the bodies were out in use, and booked for three years in advance. My name has been down on the books for two years, and there is no likelihood of my getting a body allotted me undej another twelvemonth. Fancy two years without a smoke ! Why, sir, the incomfetence of our Board is positively wooden, can only explain the reason wny we put up with such gross mismanagement in the other world, because we have become so used to it in this. Our constitutions, how ever, are being undermined to that extent that the Board has at last been coerced by popular feeling into passing a measure empowering ghosts to render themselves visible to single individuals at a time in order that they may effect an exchange of bodies for short periods, always with the consent of the person in question, for the purpose of indulging in a habit which the directors ' cannot, however, but characterize as pernicious and injurious.' Under this new act I obtained your body." " You never had my consent, fiend I" I cried. " It is vulgar to call names, my friend," the ghost replied, smoothing my mustache with my fingers ; " but you are trifling. I asked you to ehtmfM places with me, and you agreed, r.s you must be well aware. But, dear me, here we are at Chelchester; however, I must finish "my pipe think of two years, and not a blessed draw, my friend f The train was pulling up. My companion leaned out of window, putting fast and furious. " Plenty of time to change bodies," he said ; " it shall be done in an instant as soon as the train stops." And he continued leaning out, and whiffing away great clouds of smoke, till we came to the platform. He hurriedly knocked out the ashes of the tobacco on the door-rail, as the guard cried : " Change here--change here ; all change here, if you please." A sudden glow of warmth seemed to pass over me as I rubbed my eyes, and found, to my great delight, my own smooth hands against my very own unwrinkled cheeks. I looked up for ray companion he was gone I wasj alone in the carriage. I was greatly surprised, when I got on the platform, at being asked for my card by a very officious person ; still more so, on receiving a magistrate's summons in the morning. The officious person deposed that he was the (Secretary of the Anti-tobacco Alliance, and applied for a conviction against the undersigned, under one of the by-laws of the company, for smoking in a railway carriage, the property of the D. E. F. G. Company, contrary to their regulations. He declared to have seen me (only think !) me leaning out of the carriage as it came into the Chelchester Station, smoking a meerschaum pipe ' The gu-ird gave evidence that the carriage certainly smelled very strongly of tobacco on arriving at Chelchester, and tha', I was the only first class passenger. A meerschaum pipe, answering the officious person's description, was found on my person. Case was clear. Fined forty shillings and eosts. Nay, more: the case of smoking in a railway carriage has b en gibbeted at all the stations on the line where I am hung up as a union and warning to the British public, in a solemn black frame, with my name and address, and the amount of the penalty enforced, at lull length ! It would have been useless to attempt to dispute the case before the magistrates. It is something to have set one's self right with the public. Chamfters' Journal. A'swarm of bees and a bountiful store of wild honey were recently found in a trt by woxlchopper8 on the west side ol the Sierra Nevada mountains. The inci dent is recorded as the first discovery ot th" kind on the Pacific slope. There were no wild bees beyond the Hierras when that portion of the country was first occupied by emigrants from the Atlantic seaboard ; but it was soon discovered that bees imported from the States thrived well, and several persons who engaged early in this business acquired large fortunes from the production of honey for the markets. Thk best substitute for silver Gold.

Corry O'Lanus on the Velocipede Managing the velocipede is just as easy as skating, when you know how to do it. It takes you a little time to learn how. All you have got to do is to keep the velocipede up and keep it going. You can't do either of these separately, and have to do them both at once. Which makes it difficult. Because if the velocipede stops it falls down. At the same time if it falls down it will stop. The first law of velocipedestrianism is motion. On the beautiful philosophical principle tha' necessitates the perpetual motion of the planetary bodies, comets, eclipses, meteors, aurora borealises, and things which are continually going on. Or like a man s credit, the moment it stops running he goes up. Only in the case of the velocipede he goes down. First, you must start the velocipede before you mount, then jump on while it is running. If you have had any practice as a circus rider this comes easy enough. All you have to do then is to catch the pedals with your feet, and keep the wheel revolving. Steering is very easy, when you get ac customed to it ; all you have to do is to turn the wheel the way you want to go, and you'll go it. You must not, however, go upon the principle that one good turn deserves another, because too many turns may wind up with an overturn. Any speed may be attained by increasing the velocity of the velocipede, which is done by a lively agitation of the driving wheel. The more revolutions you make the faster you will go. The next thing after driving and steering is to learn to manage the brake. The brake is very useful, and must be looked after. It is necessary in order to keep the hind whee1 from running faster than the front whee!, and putting the machine out. A painful accident happened recently at Chicago through a neglect of the brake. A man was running a race on time, and was going at the rate of three miles a minute. The hind wheel kept gaining on the front wheel and in the attempt to pass it made the velocipede turn a somerset. The rider was thrown ahead, the velocipede went over him I would advise you not to buy a velocipede till you have learned to ride. You can get lessons with the use of a velocipede for twenty dollars a quarter. A robust and daring rider can knock twenty dollars' worth of damage out of a velocipede in a week. To say nothing of personal damage to his own anatomy, which is at his own risk. But don't be discourag;d by such trifles as a bruised ankle or a dislocated shoulder. If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again. m m MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. Gross behaviour Q et ting fat. The oldest woman's club The broomstick. The Boston Post calls a pillow a soothing nap-sack. FRENcn Democrats call the Prince Imperial " Velocipede IV." It is thought the wheat crop of Calinia will be unusually large this year. Why is a room full of married people empty ? Because there is not a single person in it. A Cincinnati lady .'indorsed on her tax return, M taxation without regresentation is tyranny." A Young lady in California broke her neck while resisting the attempt of a young man to kiss her. The strongest kind of a hint A young lady asking a gentleman to see if one of her rings would go on his little finger. A clergyman who had been accused of preaching long sermons, excused himself on the ground that the church was a large one. A writer, describing one of the engagements in the late war, gives the following interesting item. "In this battle we lost the brave Captain Smith. A cannon-ball took off his head. His last words were, 1 Bury me on the spot where I fell.' " Meyerbeer left several compositions sealed, which, by his will, are never to be opened unless his family has need of further resources. In spite of his great wealth, he was always haunted by the fear that his fauiily would some day come to want. In one of Cooper's novels occurs the following passage .- " He dismounted in front of the house and tied his horM to a large locust" A French author, in translating this passage, renders it thus : " He descended from his horse in front of the chateau and tied him to a large grasshopper. A man in Brooklyn was thrown from his wagon recently, and seemingly died. He was laid in his coffin, and when his friend were about to bury him, he awoke with a shudder, and walked about the room. He said he was conscious of all that was passing but was unable to make a sign of life. Men often lose opportunies by want of self confidence. Doubts and fears in the minds of some rise up over every event, and they fear to attempt what most probably will be successful, through mere timorousnes8, while a brave, active man will, with perhaps half the ability, carry the enterprise to a prosperous termination. The afternoon New York service usual at Christ Church was on a recent Sunday the scene of a novel feature. The organ suddenly stopped in the midst of a hymn, and not another note was heard from it during the entire exercises. Upon inquiry it was ascertained that the organist had taken offense at something done by one of the officiating clergymen during the service, and abruptly left the church. In Greenfield, N. H., a few days ago, a man and his son, aged respectively about 70 and 18, were called upon by about tbiity men and boys, and treated to a ride upon a rail, a distance of about one and one-half mile, for the offence of abusing the wife and mother. They were made to take turns ; while one rode the other carried one end of the rail, and vice versa. They were accompanied in their march by music from fife and drum, tin paas, &c. The Vienna Medical Time tells the following : " Last week, at the clinic, in the presence of a class of students, an opera

tion of the st-mach was performed by Professor Billroth. The operation was gone through with and the stomach was properly sewed up. On the next day the patient died. A post mortem examination showed in the re-opened stomach a large sponge, which had been used in the operation, and which the operators had forgotten to remove." It may be important for some people to know that where a widow re-marries before the issue of a pension certificate, the children, if any are living, are alone entilled to the back pension. If a widow re-marries during the pendency of her claim for pension, she is entitled to the pension to the date of her re-marriage, unless the soldier left minor children surviving him. Hemlock, to which Socrates and Phocion were said to owe their death, is now pronounced by eminent toxicologists, to be no poison at all. Sixty grains of tinc-

! lure of hemlock were recently adminis tered to a young woman without any apparent effect, and a person, after a dose of 24 grains of the pure juice of the leaves of hemlock, only experienced a slight muscular numbness, which passed off after an hour. Molded bread, meat, cheese, or any other eatable, is an actual poison, whether inhaled or eaten. One kind of mold causes the fatal ship-fever. The mold in damp cellars causes various grades of typhoid fever, diarrhea, dysentery, etc. Recent chemical researches and microscopic observation seem to show that miasm is nothing more or less than a mold, and that this mold is, in reality, a cloud of living things, each too small to be seen by the naked eye, and are drawn into the lungs, swallowed with the saliva, incorporated with the food eaten, and by being absorbed into the blood, are sufficient to cause all grades of deadly fevers; elevated or dry localities are wholly exempt. Exchange. Educated Fleas. Some years ago a strange little man, with a quaint-looking box, used to take his stand in various parts of London as soon as it was dusk, during the winter months, and silently invite the passing crowd to stay and take a peep into this quaint-looking box, which was lighted by a candle placed inside of it, the light of which shone through various colored papers, and exhibited a transparent description of the object for which he hoped to gather halfpence " A flea chained up by the neck, alive." The fee for viewing the flea undergoing this strange imprisonment was " one halfpenny," and a convenient magnifying glass was let into the side of the quaint box, in order that the object exhibited might be the better viewed. The writer of the present article has paid more than once to see this unusual sight, until he became to be regarded by the proprietor of the imprisoned pulex a regular customer, and was treated to a sight of " sucking " fleas undergoing the process of training. Some were very quick, according to his account, and "others he could make nothing of." The chains, cars and locks which these little beasties drew were of silver, and, as the strange little man said, all constructed by himself. He had one flea who had been with him 26 months, and declared that he knew of still older ones, and he was accustomed to feed his fleas twice a day, bv allowing then to suck from the back of his hand. He declared that he was the last man who possessed the secret of educating these lively insects. 17e World of Wonder. A Mathematical Story. Lefebyre de Feheray, who died recently in Paris, was one of the most dis tinguimed mathematicians of the age. The mountains of algebra did not dismay him. He loved figures for themselves, as others do flowers or poetry. One day, while leaving 'he Sorbonne, where he had done less calculating than suited him, he noticed a carriage which had stopped at the door, the rear of which was magnificently black, large and sbiuicg. It was a perfect algebraic black-board. Lefebyre stopped. To show arms to Archilles or a blackboard to a mathematician, is to tempt human flesh beyond its powers of resistance. One's soul needs much virtue to resist the thing it loves. Lefebyre did not resist. He took a bit of chalk from his pocket, for every person with mathematical sympathies is as sure to have some about him as a billiard player. Then he began to figure on the- back of the carriage. It went well. His symbols multiplied, but suddenly, oh human misery ! bis blackboard went off on a gentle trot. The savant followed, still ciphering, not even thinking to call to the driver to stop. He followed, panting and cursing, until, at last, wearied of racing after these pitiless horses, be stopped, saying: ,4That cursed board ! and I was on the point of getting the answer." Incidents of the M White Pine" Fever. Wit have heard of several instances lately of the first use made of the good fortune which has attended some of the White Pine adventurers that show the better side of human nature. One man, who bad lost his 'grip,' and had become worthless by drink was accosted, one day, by a friend, and told that he could do nothing here ; he had no credit and no influence, and few friends ; he had better go to White Pine. His adviser offered to furnish money enough out of his own moderate earnings to take him there, and would look after his family in the meantime. The man went.undera promise not. to spend a dime of the money so furnished for drink After a while he got hold of some claims, began to make small remittances to his friend, enough in all to liquidate the indebtedness for his outfit. At a still later day he returned to the city, paid all arrearages for family expenses, met his old friend, and told him that from the hour he had been taken by the hand he had never spent a cent for liquor. If he had not done much he had become a sober man. The friends parted at the steamboat landing ; the White Pine man returning. In the hurry of the moment, he recollected that he bad a small package for his wife's friend, which he had nearly forgotten The package contained a deed for the house and lot occupied by his benefactor. The property was worth about eight thousand dollars. Another " dead broke " man recently returned from While Pine, and, meeting one of his creditors, began to talk about the old indebtedness. The creditor said that the account was long ago outlawed, and he had quite forgotten the particular White fine said that made no dlf fereuce. He had to come down with flf.,000in hand to pay his debts. His nm business was to hunt up every creditor, paying him principal and interest, declaring that he had no right to count a

dollar as his own until he had paid all his debts. We have heard of many other instances quite as notable. Now. if White

i Pine is going not only to develop mil lions ot treasure, but is really going to help develop what is best in human nature, there will be no estimating the value of these new discoveries. It may yet fall to the lot of some ingenious moralist to consider of White Pine as a "means of grace." Sin Franci-o Bu7lc(in. A Genuine Snake Story. Snake stories, as a rule, are so universally incredible, that anyone who is bold enough to relate a marvelous one, not only subjects himself to the imputation of untruth, but even to public ridicule. The one that we now present comes so well attested that its credibility cannot be successfully questioned. On last Sunday night, Dr. Duffield, of Hannibal, in this State, was summoned to the bedside of a patient, upon whom he had been in attendance for several days, for measles, and upon his arrival the lady, who was a slender and delicate female, and who had been in ill health for several years, complained ot a " choking in her throat," and that she felt something moving, and also said that the throat felt very sore. The drug store being closed, the doctor ordered a strong pepper tea made, and sum alum put in, with which to gargle. She used this, and the choking increased. He directed her to swallow some, thinking it was a worm, and having nothing at hand better, supposed this would relieve her, by causing it to withdraw downward Into the stomach. The feeling yet increased, and as a placebo, until something better could be obtained, she was directed to eat sugar. In a moment or so, she said something was crawling upward, and she looked as though she would suffocate. She coughed violently, and immediately a squirming, live reptile was ejected from the mouth, which, on examination, proved to be a water snake, about twelve or fourteen inches in length, and about or of an inch in diameter about the centre of the body. It was a yellow, mottled snake, with dark or black eyes, and its tongue darted out in a fearfully disgusting manner. It is supposed that at some time, when drinking from some branch or brook in Michigan, whence she had lately come, she unconsciously swallowed the hideous reptile, whilst it was very small. The woman, as stated, had suffered from ill health for a year or more, and is now rapidly recovering. Wi".miri Republican. A Brave and Noble Boy. The New York .Sm giveä a brief chapter on the " Heroism of Humble Life," and appends the following touching illustration : Perhaps the finest of these mo lern instances occurred two weeks ago on board an English steamer. A little ragged boy, aged about nine years, was discovered on the fourth day of the outward voyage from Liverpool to New York, and carried before the first mate, whose duty was to deal with such cases. When questioned as to the object of his being stowed away, and who brought him on board, the boy, who had a beautiful sunny face, and eyes that looked like the very mirrors of truth, replied that his step-father did it, because he could not afford to keep him, nor to pay his passage out to Halifax, where he had an aunt who was well off, and to whose house he was going. The mate did not believe the story, in spite of the winning face and truthful accents of the boy. He had seen too much of stowaways to be easily deceived by them, he said,; and it was his firm conviction that the boy had been brought on board, and provided with food by the sailors. The little fellow was very roughly handled in consequence. Day by day he was questioned and requestioned, but always with the same result. He did not know a sailor on board, and his father alone had secreted him and given him the food which he ate. At last the mate, wearied by the boy's persistence in the same story ,and perhaps a little anxious to inculpate the sailors, seized him one day by the collar, and dragging him to the fore, told him that unless he confessed the truth in ten minutes from that time he would hang him on the yard arm. He then made him sit down under it on the deck. All around him were the passengers and sailors of the mid-day watch, and in front of him stood the inexorable mate, with his chronometer in his hand, and the other officers of the ship by his side. It was the finest sight, said our informant, that we ever beheld, to see the pale, proud, sorrowful face of that noble boy his head erect, his beautiful eyes bright through the tears that suffused them. When eight minutes had tied, the mate told him be had but two minutes to live, and advised him to speak the truth and save his life, but he replied with the utmost simplicity and sincerity, by asking the mate if he might pray. The mate said nothing, but nodded bis head, and turned as pale as a ghost, and shook with trembling like a reed with the wind. And there, all eyes turned on him, this brave and noble little fellow, this poor waif whom society owned not, and whose own step-father could not care for him there he knelt with clasped hands and eyes uplifted to heaven, while he repeated audibly the Lord's Prayer, and prayed the dear Lord Jesus to take him to heaven. Our informant adds that there then occurred a scene as of Pentecost. Sobs broke from strong, hard hearts, as the mate sprang forward to the boy and clasped nim to his bosom, and kissed 1 im and blessed him, and told him how tin cerely he believed his story, and how glad he was that he had been brave enougn to face death and be willing to sacrifice his own life for the truth of his own word. An Easy Drinker. The teetotalers toll of harrt driuWen, but the man of whom the Omaha ZfcrW- toll the following mutbe a decidortly "eay" drinker, notwithstanding hit two Miartii at a draught - " a Cockney, rtje from old London, wagered yesrerday that he would drink half a gallon of heer without taking the measure from his head or drawing breath. More for the fun of the thing thai i for anything else hin bet whp arcepted, and adjournment was had to the Wyoming House, whore th urbane Oliver stood ready to meet thi-ir demands. Alarme water pitcher was had, into which were carefully decanted two quart of of ale; a bright idea suggested Itself, that tobacco and MM always go touc-t tier. The other party to the bet took a handfulcl Oliver' capital cigars, and dropped them unnoticed into Cockney's beverage. "All ready," saya the chap, and "hall right " saya Cockney, aud into it he pitrh d. " Uur.isln, purgle, swash 1 Down went the beer, and in about the fraction of a minute h eetdown the pitcher empty ' Didn't yon meet anything T aks a grinning bystander. ' No,' saya Cockney, ' III didn't. Old hon though; come to tktnk, hi don't know but what hi did meet a few 'ope. A roar or laughter followed, and as the winner folded up his net, everyone was satisfied that tha fun more than compensated for th los of the wager." A Protestant Jubilee is to be held next sutumu at Boston

FACTS AND FIGURES. Sc r anton, Penn., has four postoffices. Female barbers arc coming into fashion in London. There is an editor in Paris who has fought 50 duels. Seven Americans are on the Russian railroad staff. The Abyssinin Expedition cost fully ten million pounds sterling. The great German oculist, Von Graefe, has a professional income of f 150,000 a year. The emigration to Kansas this spring is said to be without precedent in the history of the State. In Toulumne county, Cal., there has been laid an iron water pipe, 8,800 feet long and 11 inches in diameter. A Bridgeport (Conn.) cartridge company has received an order from Spain for ten millions of cartridges. Jcakez, the Mexican President, is 63 years old, but does not iook to be over 40. lie has one son and six daughters. The Empress of Austria kiased over 100 babies while journeying through Croatia, and smiled upon their mothers. In Ha gland clergymen may be transported for fourteen years for marrying people alter 12 m. without special license. Texas has now within her borders m re than 3.000,000 head of cattle, and can . xport annually 1,000,000 beeves. A COMPACT for the manufacture of artifir d limbs has been farmed at Pittsburgh, and every member of the organization has lost a leg. It is said that the trees planted by one Iowa farmer have raised the value of adjoining lands from five to ten dollars per acre. A New York miller compelled his son, aged 14 years, to make the pre iminary arrangements to his suicide, and then deliberately killed himself. Thirty-two thousand five hundred and eighty-six emigrants arrived at New York, from Jan. 1 to Aoril T. Last year for the same time the number was 29,889. The value of Canadian cattle imported into the United Swtes during the first three months of 1869 was $2:,252 nearly double the value of those imported during the same period of 1ÖC8. An English chemist, after a careful an alysis of " golden-hair fluids," asserts that they are composed of diluted nitric and muriatic acids, with traces, in some instances, of sulphuric acid. TnE Commissioner of Internal Revenue has decided that firmers who have their grain manu! act u red into ft our, and then sell the flour in any manner, must pay a license to the Government. TnE Planter' Banner says that the planters of Louisiana will make as much atrain rice in 1H69 as they made last year. The crop last year was 321,911,314 cks. A sack contains 100 pound1:. The oldest house in the United States retaining its original form is to be found in Neponset, Mass. It was built by John Minot about the year 1040, and is still in good repair. The family still hold possession of it. At Cornwall, Vt., recently, William Hurlbut starved himself to death. He was seventy years of ace, a bachelor, and worth some $8,000; but having Jest $130 through robbery, he became despondent afraid of co ning to poverty. Mrs Bkechkr Stowe gives up her Florida plantation, as she bought it at a military tax sale, which holds not good, and the former owner makes successful claim paying Mrs. Stowe the price she paid for the estate. The Clinton (La.) Democrat states that a resident of that place ithers a sufficient quantity of tea leaves from the Chinese tea plant grown in his garden to more than suflice for the requirement of his household. In Maine, during the past season,fmice have done great damage. Millions of young fruit trees have been killed, young forest trees injured, and grass ruined. In a Dixfield orchard containing 1,600 grafted trees, only about five hundred can be saved. A $250 diamond UM was lost from a lady's trunk, broken in handlin, at the Cleveland depot, a few days since. n going to look for it, she found a party sweeping the floor, who had swept the rim; some fifty feet without discovering it. One of the Philadelphia papers sold 95,000 copies of the edition containing an account of the suicide of Titchell and the hanging of Eaton, and the demand for a morning journal was so great that it was reprinted on the following morning. Rt m valley, in Nevada, is so-called on account of the immense number of rubies found in the sands of the mountain streams flowing through it. These gems, though very beautiful and perfect, are too small to be merchantable, the largest only being of the size of a 'in head. Mardler, the German astronomer, has measured the heighth of 1 ,093 mountains in the moon. Twenty-two of these are higher than Mount Blanc, which is within a few feet of being throe miles high, and six are above 19,000 feet. The highest observed mountain in the moon is 24,944 feet. The number of bankruptcies in England last year was 9,195, an increase of 201 over the year previous. During the year dividends were paid in 1,714, but in 6,489 there were no dividends. The gross proceeds realized from bankrupt estates was $4,250,000, and the expenses of the bankruptcy courts amounted to $"t70,000. A Fi uk near the Cape of Good Hope, caused by the long continued heat and drouth, devastated a tract of country 400 miles long, and varying in breadth from 15 to 150 miles. The fire broke out on the 9lh of February, when the heat throughout the colony was moro intense than ever previously known. Several persons lost their lives. In Portsmouth, N. H., a scientific individual, whose wife used tea pretty freely, and who for the last few years had suf fered much from a nervous affection, re cently made an analysis of the tea she used, and found that the coloring material was gypsum and Prussian blue, and that the amount in a pound of tea, if administered at once, would produce instant death. A t hum v cage was before the New York courts the other day. In 1 S34, .1 ohn and Winnifred Ward were unit d in mar riage, and immediately after the oeremo ny, Ward deserted his wife, and up to his death in 1864, refused to recognize the relationship existing between them. The wile, after thirty years of self support, has now recovered $0,000 from the estate of her husband.