Plymouth Weekly Democrat, Volume 14, Number 40, Plymouth, Marshall County, 10 June 1869 — Page 1

YMOUTH WEEKLY DEMOCRAT. VOLUME XIV. PLYMOUTH, INDIANA, THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1869. NT MB ER 40.

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NKEDLKS AND Ye sra trivial ttdsf , With invisible v. lags, K diet ard pine; OmhM at( menu, (iood pointed mid keen, lueful alike to th-: eook or h i qs -en, Bright needles aid pins. Men have waxed wro'h Kor t&e want or ye both. . -edles and pin ; Wo uen have railed, Reddened and paled, ilnn ted and r-colded til! Managt has failed. For needle and Sias, Head ronnded and bright. Et- sdnsr'e an 1 ''irrtt, Needle tad pin-; Ye h ive wiT.eed strains c ne. Sharp. h!un' and hetweenn ; Working for a'.r :i and woiSJag for fiend, Brillit needle and pins. The re- of that frill I due to yonr skill. Need!et'and pin: The droop and Mi fSCS Of yon -at.n and iace. And the look of content on that younir husband" fae. Oh ! needle? and Dins. Ye have asSatal the rent In the bgj uri nnMit, Net'd tea and pin ; A ye've mer.d-d hi tears. So ve've rifirhtened hi- cares. Ti 1 airain h SSf mm of your ltd for repair, Batgai needle- ahd pin. ' But when- do you go When yoar work's done," we'd know. Needle-tud pmr Wh at nook do yon find. So secret and kind. That a mortal no truce of j our brightness can find. I.o-t neci!''- find pins? Selected fllisceUauD. A N TORY 1 ARU Ii. JrsT at four oYl C one dftXlHlig after HealMl February , two voun persor.r, oppite fwidcra, I ok sodden pnMenioi of a Mai sleigh, m (Bed themselves to gether in a WUint r intended to secure as far as possible the. donbk advantage f comfort pfeSe tion ud engaging Hp pearance, and :l'er j'l lici BS settlement t skirts and robi?s ou Iii one hand, ar hat.- av..l laws oa the Other, darted bri-kV, off, alon the sm tii ami shining roads nt Winston. Clear and still, and not at all chilling. ws the atmosphere. The sun shed il its Matador from a dmkUaai sk, and ÜatapoUWl earth rv!iaiitly relL-ctt' its glittering b: mm Tie- two sh gn r witn whom we bare to do agreed aitavmi debate th it rn otht r day to favorable fta their excursion could hare been selected and in turn weal into spasms of rhetorical excitement over the dories of winter in its present cheering aspect Not having aeeu-tomed themselves to the asaWnoas study of Nature, thej failed to ex ad ly iaterprel aartaia omens "which anight oiBerwisc have interfered with thetr innocent ewthaalSim ot course nether ha I Botieed, tae niirht ie for' the BffOad cifclc ot IttOlinoCH h .z that surround d the mooa firing ararainii of approacto g disorder abora Ofeoarac neither considered, a they aVaaaad alont heediueonl th. ir v i pleasant fancies, the liut cl odi wfi. h rapidly ri-dng no n. overspread the kkiiheru heaven, an-, gradually threatened to obaaarc th; d clining sun. What Ded ha ! they to aB ticipate the poaaibk intern jp: ion of their sp rt ! None, eertaioly. Their aim was pleat ure. Lucy Bfandon, nineteen, daintily b -au-tifal, and erqn t i h by unrorq n rabl feminine iaatiad, rilled the hearts of the youth of Wiaatoa, nnl above all, thoa hearts gathered wi hin the institution for the aholeaale BMaafactara of alargjaara for whieb Wiaatoa is aalabratad, arita finri freuxies. The secular youth swore she was an anel Toe students, h e deatiay . ttaoiogieal, dad n -t swear, but after In aajthjallBg the lobject, and rinding tiiat angeis were ?:mt times imperfect and fallible, proclaimed her divine, ati'I in theii orisoBA rtBMBiberc i her. Iu this way thev s I i--rii-l all the eontli tions of their Collen life. Inside the walls they were divinity student ; outside, th y were stodca s-i' divinity. hi c uifi ienee it nmy be revealed tha1 Miss Lucy's nights, attributes were, in fact, of a mor al order. She was not a bit of an v.ng'ji ; bat slit; was what is much hetttf I r tl:e purp eel rf this wrld a charmiuLr gfat, with beauty enough to wind golden chains aroaad suscep'ible young heart", and wit enough to fasten them arith gtttterfBg el tape, whenever sht ehoae. At the sime tinr- eiie was n- unitMa aaeoold atiiij be expected of a spirited young woaaaa who rule! a Bobeerricat seminary with a rot.l more ri'itl tnau any the professors coul 1 wiel 1 ; she was, wit h all her frolicsome coqaetry, as discreet as a dowaer, and the wal n t de-tltute ot gfKxl sense, a powerful proof of which w k3 that she never wrote her name lAicie Nevertheless, it is a me'aneholy jct thai many of the maidens of Winston persist ently refused to rec '?ii.; those lnlaluat ini? qualities wii'ch by the ruder creatures were aaavaiaaoaaly eoadad her. After a consid. r tbk period of lllprf IBil sway, Miss lir.ind u at leogth ihrhed, Ai exanderwise, for coaietbing new to conquer. BIM fell in with Mr. Henry (ao chris'end but po .ulai iy denominated tUtiTTj) LaBgford, a fine VOBBg fellow with no in. ological aspiration-, who bad come up to Winston to lo k after some lonp neprlected relatins. Clever and well droned, ami with a heavenlv c:iri t Iiis htir, he interested Mis Brandon, who forthwith smiled upon him, 1B0 batted her flirtaU(n hooks with mo-t. :.;lirate fascinations With a shade ot urorise, she observed that her int.-nle! vctiru succeeded in reaping the full ben. ti of the baits, and yet refused to be caBghl L'pon this, 9h MBBBBl shy, ami he oommi need a promiscuous asf-anlt upon the aflectlons of every availab'te yooag woman ha aaeonntered. A" soon as it a as evident tht tiity uu !erstol eacH other, they bean to laogh. Consul'a'ion folio . From bMghiag at one another they tamed to laoghingat Miss BrandhrTf troop of snpplbvnt a.lmirfrn. I nrn I0ff 10 My that the young iH'ly betr-iy.-d eonfidence. Bhntold him how one apaciaily devoot adorer wis continually nooUng Seriptoral puffs to her; and how saiiihoT, of eatnanologiuj turn ot miml, would ins--t OB comparing her to new and eiqajafta specimens of bugs. Then he told her, quite- maliciously, how precri- us her rule was, anil cruelly likened her DO i ion to that of a keeper in a lunatic asylum, whose strength lies in his confidence that h:s -ulxinli nates, hav ing IflBt their wits, possess no power of comhinnion amon tlawawalTca to defeat bis plans OeCBM -nally M ss Mrand'n was a little tart ; sometimes Mr. Laagfcrd -was a little rude; but they usually kept

within amiable bounds, and were under Stood to be excellent friends nothing m re! Not one of Mits Lucy's devotees ever thought it worth while to look upon Henry Langford with eyes of green iadignation. Tie was in no degree rapturous about her ; she often snubbed hini. An iufiuif sanal qnarrai between them htd once been detected. Besides, he was not a resiVnt, only a visitor, whose opportunities ere thus limited Moreover, it is a fact that no two persons were more pr .foundly convinced of their sbso'ate indifference to one another than Miss Brandon and Mr. Langford themselves. They had iven much private thought to the suhjt ct (there was the danger), and had satisfied themselves that they were, i3 every b dy understood, excellent friends nothing more ! Nevertheless it happened that Mr. Langt rd was suddenly overcome by a sense of tiame at his want of family feeling in so long neglecting his Winston relations So he endeavored to repair old errors by Irejiient viss, and established an extensive a quainta.ice in the neighborhood. Bt grew fond of social gayeties Hecuitivatad all Winston. At everv important '.theririg he was made welcome. At last the winter came, and everybody knows how delightful the winter is in a

Nf .v England country town, where the " herinoiueter never by any eXOBM of ex ItatioB gets more than an occaakMaal de ree or so above the 0; where frozen BOBM .re to be met at every corner, and are leerued neither uncommon nor unoma nental, while fronen toes are accepted al moat in the light of a luxury; where icecream is irdisso'ubly ass elated with break fast, and where for many months life is but a perpetual shiver Mr. Langloro, inxioofl to experience all these jovs, came up to Winston In the middle of February o remain two days, bringing with him baggage sufficient for three weeks, to I viip n term, after mach Interchanjreof en- ; rcaty and ipoatBjatknii he was induced ' 0 extend his visit. Tue first time he met Miss Brandon, he , ipted her with the SBggcstioa of leighride Stii he, "A sleigh-ride in viuter is -eldoni amiss," and was thereipOB sharpely criticised for adaBitting the i lOSaibilily of such a thing at any other j I on. However Miss Brandon consent- j d S ie would ride with him the BtXt j kfternooat. Iu the morning Mr. Henry Langford 'gravely Inspected the familv stable, bat nid nothing ther.-in equal to his own dea of the magnitode of the oocaaioa. ! At the public stable he was more successill At first he contemplated the luxuri ii magnificence ot a span, bat aa irresistible impulse subsnptentiy induced him .o settle upon a single courstr. (Oac bone may be driven with one hand ! It j lsdifnc dtto imagine what hapelled him to seek with such pertinacity as be did ' r the narrowest sleigh in the collection. At four o'clock p. m the light-hearted roBi pair das tied away, as full of irood- , latured tdee as he sleigh was full of them and thev titled very compactly Hiss I Urandon, knowing the country more inti j 'uately than her companion, undertook to point their way, a manner of proceeding quite agreeable, in view of the male crea ture's total ignorance of localites. They j glided on, turning hither and thither, uu , ul ere org the left the clustering cot- j taget of Winston quite a distance behind. For a while both chattered andlaugfnd with a vigor that put them into a preehlOS WJ but by-and by Mr. Henry stopped .-hört, in SB unaccountable manner, and Vit II ai L.ucy to do the declamation, conicutiu bimself with watehuag the sparkle f her eye, or the pretly curve of her lip, ts she threw out incessant little smart sprinkles of leminine wif. Fresently he ) erve-d with wonder a faiut suspicion of 1 flatter trembling through bint, and attributed it to their rapid motion, recollect- : lag iiiiil ir aensailoas in earlier youth, kUse i by swinging. He BtBSt have expressed somethiug odd i ids countenance, for, of a sudden, Mis Lacy eöt short her fun, and subsided into dim, oblivious tranquility. Just one mu j ate aft.-r, it tla-shed upon Mr Henry Laugtord, that he had for the past six mouths been steadily and uninterruptedly occupied in making a muff of himself; that the notion of "excellent friendship," no fir a.i ue and Lucy Brandon were coo- i earned, was utterly ab-urd and degrading to think upon; that the truth was he lored her dearly, and that he ought to tave known it long ago, and should, If he had ever before been ahme with her, as be now fou d bimse t Having settled all this to his own s itisi tctiou, he took cour- j age and a bold step : " alias Lucy " (rather shakily) "are you j ant ortable 1 "O i, perfectly." 'Not c .ld?" " No, indeed." Now what he wanted was, that she should say she was cold; and he considered bilBSClf a little ill-used because she did BOt Hut he Would Bot be bereft ot ni i h a ; s gathering reins in OBM hand, he cautiously disemharres-icd the other, and, sweeping his arm around the back of the sh igh, caused the vagrant member to encircle t!ie big bundle of buff vlo ban 1 agei which confined the gentle form heal le him Not a word of r monstrance, tiut a silence dangerously ominous, if he had known it. Incoherently mumbling a repetition of the inquiry concerning com fort, etc . he permitted the arm to venture up mit t tint suggestion of a sqaeeaa This time the little lace, now sadly (lushed, came round sqmre upon hi n, and discOBeerted hiai horribly. Bat with desperate anpodence, he remarked quite earelesaly, aad looking earneatly al a point iu the r. .id at a dlSlsnrci of a half a mile aln ad " Pleaas shut your eyes a minute." Down wi at the lids. The ealai was over. First came a torr. nt of reproaches, very limited as to duration, but of crushing weight; then an intrusive little tear, whic hail better bars s'ayedawiy; then a dead dienen. Mr Hears Langl rd was aorely aiu (red. " If Bai did not want K to kit her," thought he' tin u why did she shut her eye- f As he eon Id make nothing of it, he endeavored to ttfect a quiet paeiflcatioa. but all encouraging reap uise was withheld ll rlly a WOffd Was vouchsafed him, and the few he got were by no means of a character t fill him with rapture. In the midst of his anxi-us argument, there came a cry from the side of IBS road. Harry pulled up, and saw a melancholy looking woman.'iiot well dad, notHtrongly framed, standiug wih a child in her anus, by the sleigh. She asked how far it was to Linvilie. " Ho far to Linvilie, Miss Brandon v " inquired Harry, in blissful ignorance. ' Four miles" (rather pettishly). The woman of melancholy mien further more desired to know the direction. Was it straight on F

"Is it straight on, Miss Brandon?1 " Yes" (stiff and short). The lug .brious lemale murmured a thank and the sleigh moved off' In about a minute Mr. Langford clutched the rein? savagely, and uttered an exclamation which would have satisfied any listener of his innocence of theological tendencies. Miss Lucy emitted ahigh I), head register, staccato. "1 think I am a brute," quietly re marked Mr. Henry Langford. Miss Brandon now assumed an air of resignation, as if expecting an apologetic explanation of the recent rudeness. She was disappointed, and when the sleigh began to turn ab ut, became perplexed. 'The woman is going to Linvilie. wherever that is," continued Harry. u Of course she is. She inun't walk four miles through the snow this weather. And loaded down with a big baby, too !" Miss Brandon gave out symptoms of uneasiness " You are not going all the way ?o Linvilie," said she. "Certainly I ass, Miss Brandon" and he drew up beside the pedestrian of dolorous aspeet. " I do not see that there is room," said Miss Brandon, ungraciously; and thepo I w. man shrunk back at the words.

Harry's eyes tiVhed in a very uncivil manner. I am afraid, as he sid rather roughly, " We will make room," spring ing out af the moment, and horridly lift ing 'he lachrymose traveler atul her child into bis place Thea, without a word, he quartered himself upon a section of the sleigh's floor, and drove ahead. In a little whi'e Miss Brandon said, softly 44 1 think th. re is room up here, Mr Langford." " 1 am very well down here,' he an swered ; and then, in a low voice, leaning over towaid her 'I could not b thought, Miss Brandon, that yon would transfer any parr of i he resentment you telt toward me to this unoffending and unfortunate person." Lucy began to cry, but this new phenoaiettOB escaped Id-notice. The w -man of woeful conn e nance who beard nothing, lint -aw everything, sat on thorns. If ow here was a mosl unhappy misun derataadiag, for Lucy really deserved bet ter of this good natured, but t hasty voung knight-errant. The lad whs, thai just at the moment when the p destrian episode beiran to Interfere, -lie had discovered that she was not Irreconcilably offended, a tter all, and whs longing for an opportunity to give a fraeti n of a hint to that IE ct Having, after mach wavering, heroically resolved t do thi unfeminine thing, she wal naturally disturbed by the interruption. Sol he cause of her pique was not at all unflattering to b r cavalier. Presently she bent forward, and laid timidly, but with inexpicssible sweetness : " Won't you forgive me, Mr. Langford v" Harry looke 1 quickly up, and BW 0 tear glisten:ng on th- end of In r nose, and another threatening to freeze upon her cheek. He pushed back something that came uninvited into h;s throat, and sang out lustily : " CoBBS no a', it is eo I he and I asnsl have a share ol the bnffa Ions!1 and he clambered in, without much disturbing the solemn v.saged passenger. Lucy got up a small laugh. Betöre they reached Linvilie it was six O'clock, and growing dark. A few snowflakes, scarcely noticed, rested upon the horse's back. Five minutes more, and they had deposited their passenger at her destination. She flung out a prolusion of thanks, flavored by a 'ear. The reconciled twain started homeward, each a little doubtful as to the exact condition of the other's temper. Preliminarily, they conversed upon very remote topics agreed that as Linvilie was eight miles from Winston, they had now about eight miles to overcome; and that as it was already late, it would probably be later before they reached home. The increasing snow famished a new subject, and t hin very soon acquired a positive interest, as ii iteadily gained strength. In a little while gusta ol wind came surging along, keen anil icy, and impudently Whirling the light snow in the faces of the bomewvd-bi nnd With any other companion, Mr. H -rry Langford would have said disagreeable ill n.s. Miss Brandon achnowledged to herself that if she were now ander the guidance of any of her professed devotees there might be words as bitter as the wi d. When they were four miles from Win ston they came to a sudden iurn in the rod. The new snow had drifted here ; and the way w-ts difficult to pass At a touch ot the whip, the boras plunged torward and a trace snapped! This was serious. Langford sprang out, and discovered that the difficulty might be temporarily arranged by splicing. For this he needed twine. Together they searced the sleigh but found no consolation there. Ten cheerless minuU s passed. Harry tried a dozen expedients, all unsuccessful. What should be dooe? Th. re was no house near. It was becoming very dark. At last he proposed, not without hesitation, to draw the sleigh to the side of the road, to wrap his fair charge in unpens trabte folds, and start oil on Hoot in search of twine. At this point all trouble vanished in an instan . In a faint voice, Miss Lu v mi ezpectedly chirped forth from her pde of Buffalo robes "Will this do y" and instantly hid herself from human view. She had let something fall upon the snow that lay like a half c died blue snake In answer to her frightened questioB, she was informed that it did. Harry, laughing himself to pieces internaMv, hut sujierticially solemn and calm, repaired damages, r. s nned his place, and drove cautiously onward After a while, he said "Think now Miss Lucy, of a woman walking to Linvilie in this tempest." Lucy looked appealingly into his lace, and nave siguals of gr at distress Vnii sn cold " he sai) ; and as she was w is i cut, he took it tor granted that she Was ! As they passed through the long avenue to Mr Brandon's h an el. ctrical . xpnrlaaeat took place, without the sause explosive result as b f rc. The Bex ev. ning tlure was a sewingcircle in Winston. A sewing -circle is a popular net die ami -thread aSseniblage, at which fl innels and teputatioi s are pit dessly panctured ; at which under garments for infants aud SCaodal-cloahfl for a u ts are manufactured, and all made to lit. The duties of the occasion having I on worried through early in the en ning, the masculine elcmentjwas suffered to mingle socially, and the sport began. Mr. Henry Langfoid was admitted with the rest of the'hitherto excluded. He looked ihisc ie vously at the centre of attraction. The DBBtre of attract km availed at him, and folded its front upper teeth over its l wer lip.

I Did you ever notice- what a depth and i variety of meaning is conveyed by that ' very curious contortion of the female face? It siirniih s amazement, amusement, grief, anger, reflection -almost any thing accord inj to the will ot the exhibitor. This time it meant remonstrance and ex

hortation. A divinity student was talking very loudly about the Atlantic cable, and desCanting on the ingenuity of man. Mr Langford asserted that the ingenuity of man bore no comparison to the ingenuity of woman : and proposed to substantiate his position by a slight narra tion ami a simple apparatus he had in his pocket. From the centre of attraction there came aain a high D, head register, this time Itsccatiasimo. Miss Brandon broke reckle.-sly from her circle, spilling all sorts of work box treasures as she ran spools, needles, pins, bodkins, scissors, hooks were scattered around in inextrica ble confusion. "Hary, give it t me," she pleaded, very softly M please do, dear Harry." The li dear " was of at least ten seconds' duratioB. Long before the prominent adjective was exhausted, Harry Langford iU at man. " There it is," he said, " and what shall I have in return ?" (All this very softly.) " Everything "(more softly still, but with a smile that was worth a dozen orations.) In the course of a week, the youth of Winston heard omething that took away its appetite. It considered that its confidence had been abused. It regarded Mr. Henry Langford aa an intruder who had exceeded the privileges of hospitality. A little while aft r all this, iu the course of a retrospective conversation, Miss Brandon made the following msterious rem irk. with all the extravagant emphasis peculiar to young ladies : "Nothing ot the j-ort, Harry. It was horribly old-fashioned, and it was the uu real accident in the world!" Ii seems there are ever so many morals in this story, notwithstanding it is so short, and so 'rue for it is true, every word, excepting only the names of persons and places. There is a moral of you'htul society, moral of feminine ap pure), aad some more, all of which it is verj pleasant to reflect upon, since none ol them Ai re intended. But I shall not take the trouble in point then out. Di You Take Hie MCBpf liMlffl I Tiik morai of the following anecdote is n t bounded by its temperance application. Who cares to take the responsibility of leading any one into any wrong doing ? A young man had been sadly intemperate. He was a man of great capacity, fascination and power, but he had a passion for brandy which nothing could con trol. Often iu his walks, a friend remoutted with him, but in vain ; as often, in tum, would he iu vaiu urge his friend to take a social gla-s. On one occasion the latter agreed to yield to him, and as they walked up to the bar together, the barkeeper said, (gentlemen, what will you have?" " Wine, sir," was the reply. Tiie gla-ses were tilled, and the two friends stood ready to pledge each other iu renewed and eternal friendship, when he paused and said to his intemperate triend, " Nw, if I drink this glass of wine and become a drunkard, will you take the reponsibtlity ?" The drunkard looked at him with seventy and said, " Set down that glass." It was set down, and the two walked away without Saying a word. O, the drunkard knows the avful const quences of the tirst glass ! Evtn in his madness for liquor, he is not willing to assume the responsibility of another becoming a drunkard. The Last of Nelson's Captains. Hi last command was in his old ship the Active, to which he was appointed In 1819; and in l-W he was made superintendent of Plymouth Victualling yard, at which time, so far as we know, his work as a tight ing man ceased. Stop we are wrong; on one occasion the old sea-lion Was brout;! to bav. He attended the coronation ot William IV., like a loyal messmate, in full admiral's uniform, with his orders, and the gold medal which had been awarded 1 im after Lissa, on Ids breast. He walked away from the ceremony, ami at a narrow street corner in Westminster wa-j hailed by a leading rough in the crowd withi " Uy O-d' that's Jem Gordon. He Hogged me in the Active, and now, mates, let's settle him." The admiral put his back to the wall, and looked the lellow in the face. " I don't remember you," said he, ' but if I flogged you in the Active, you d d rascal, you deserved it. Come on ! " Wtnreupon the crowd cheered and suppressed his antagonist, and the admiral t tumped back to Ins hotel in peace. Even wit o a wooden leg, he must have been a very formidable man in tho-e days; for he stood all feet three inches, and had 'ecu all Iiis life famous for f-ats of strength and activity. He could heave the lead farther than any iu his best crews, and h. tore his accident had been known to leap iu and out of six empty water hogs heads placed in line on the deck. For the ! lawt sixteen years he has been living, full of years and honors, at the (Jreenwich, and no he lies buried amongst his com- j rades, and has left the erand h'-ritage of j an unsullied same to ats aanseroBi grandchildren. MatmiUan Afnawstae. Daniel Web -ter 's Fright. No sm i ion more p rfcetly paves the wu for a hearty laugh at the end, than t hat i if two stransers ibliged t be together andinmnioal terror of each other Nothing can be more comically uncooafortablc ihan a couple of honest men eyeing each other askance an boar or tw , when all the time "one is afraid and the other dareaa! Upon one occasion, Mr. Webster was on his way to attend to hisdutiesat Washingon He was compelled to proceed Bt Bight by stage from Baltimore. He had no traveling companions, and the driver had a sort of felon-look which produced no inconsiderable alarm with the Senator. " 1 endeavored to trarquilize myself," said Mr Websir, "and had partially sueoeeded, whea we reached the woods between PJladtiasbnrg and Washington (a proper scene for murder or outrage), and here I confess, my courage again deserted me " M .1 'ist then the driver, turning to me, with a l lull teiea asked my name. I gave it to him.

" Where are you going ?" sai I he. The reply was M to Washington. I am a Senator." Upon this, the driver seized me fervently by the hand, and exclaimed, "How glad I am! I have been tretnbiintr in my seat for the last hour, for when 1 looked, at you I took you to be a highwayman." Ot course, both parties were relieved. Love at Seventy. A Boston correspondent tells the following : Here is a touching little romance Half a century ago, two young peopleyouth and maiden in a country village leved each other. Unkind fate persecuted and dented the legitimate reward of mutual affection. Both married and lived in widely separated towns, children grew up about each, and the cares of life came upon them; but the spark of that early love burned in both bosoms. Once in a great while they exchanged letters. At last his wile died ; his children grev up and went to the bad, and he was left a lonely old man, poor and comfortless This summer her husband died. Soon as the blessed defunct was put comfortably u der the sod, the widow packed up her goods aud started for the home of her tirst love. She arrivid one afternoon, and was directed to his house, but its master was absent. Nothing daunted, she went in and sat alone till he returned. Imagine the meeting of the tender old creatures ol 70, who had been faithful to each other through 50 years. She remained in his house a few days; then they were married ; and the neighbors say that never did humanity afford such a similitude of two very sentimental turtle doves as in the wedding bliss of these absurd old people. They are living now, steeped in happiness, it would seem, and, no doubt, tuUy believing in the maxim, " Better late than never."

Bachelors and Flirts. BY JOSH HILUN o. Some old bachelors git after a flirt, and can't travel so fast SS she doz and then concludes awl the female group arc hard to ketch, and good for nothing when they are ketched. A flirt is a rough thing to overhaul unless the right dog gets alter her, and then they are the easiest ov awl to ketch, a; often make the very best of wives When a flirt really falls in love she io as powerless aa a mown daizy. Her impudence then changes into modesty, her cuuning into fear, her spurs into a halter, her pruning hook in'o a cradle. The best way to ketch a flirt iz k w travel the other way from which they are going, or sit down on the ground and whistle some lively tune till the flirt cornea round. Old bachelors make the flirts, and then the flirts get more thau ever, by making the old bachelors. A majority of flirts git married finally, for they have agreat quantity of the most dainty titbits of woman's nature, and al wu8 hav shrewdness to back up th- ir sweet ness. Flirts don't deal in poetry and water grewel ; they hev trot tew hav bra ns, or else somebody would trade them out of their capital at the fust sweap. Disappointed luv must ov course be all on one side, and this aiut any more excusefur being an old bachelor than it iz fur a man to quit all kinds of manuai labor, jist out of spite, and jiue a poorhouse bekase he kan't lift a tun at one pop. An old bachelor will brag ab mt hiz freedom to you, hiz relief from anxiety, hiz indipendence. This iz a dead beat past resurrection, for every body knows their ain't a more anxious dupe than he iz. All hiz dreams are charcoal sketches of boarding-school misses; he dresses, greases his hair, paints his grizzly mustache, cultivates buuyons and corns tew please his captains, the wimmen, and only gets laffed at for hiz pains. I tried being an old bachelor till I wuz about twenty years old, and came very near dicing a dozen times. I had more sharp pain in one year than 1 put it all in a heap. I fever all the time. have nad was in a since, lively Protect the Hirds. The birds have returned to 08, and every one should extend them a heart welcome, and encourage them to build among his trees and shrubbery. Nearly the whole class of birds that spend the summer in our midst is vastly useiui and beneficial to the farmer, tr irdener, and fru't grower. Robins, catbirds peewee?, orioles, blue birds, wiens, wood peckers and numerous OtbeTS destrO) immense numbers of caterpillars and other noxious insects so detrimental to our fruit crops, and but for the warfare they make upon them it would be well nigh impose! ble to raise ft uit at all. We should look on birds as friends, and our sworn allies against the insects, worms and bugv which destroy fruit aud vegetables. It is not true, as many suppose, that much fruit is consumed by birds, and tie bravely earn all they consume, for without them we would perhaps have none at all. Let us try to increase their numbers each year, instead of waging war against them with shot guns and snares. Reperimental Funn Jour md. Nkw Styi.k of DaAWmo Room ('hau itiE - A novel plan of cirnwins; room casrsdea la ttiop described iy s coritepoaesat: Tas curtain of the hack drawin-ronui was drawn neide, and we were rather eurprieed to see nwthin lnt a wooden rockirp bona on the temporary Mage. We were told to fasts an inland in th Oroek Ar rhipelairo. After pi SM U tnur. one individual hrnrh'er than the rec , excauned " Dtfloa aba hört"." Kiicht the cartain Icll, and alcr a psoas ro-e aain, di-playinr to the asUwtafeed looker on tasverf identical, irrepreN-iale rot k n. horte wnh hi head in the contrary itraetioa. Wc were told to jr,1,,l", another inland in ISC i k Archipelago. There wii- a de.-.d ttsnes. SOSM one vainly aansstsd "rino-."' ausproBoaoced nfiif horn? but the would not do, for the hnrtt waa a eteady ae old time At lengf'tl a Kmnll boy, late frotnchool: eiclatwod "HsatOS," and it WM the taSM his. 'Ihe CSltSlB ft 1 aslSal roira of lau'iter. 'Ihe next acSM m a nortly eentlemm f m ddle hlv, who w i nsel ay s yeaafj trtri, waassid: " Doctor Ian to meel von.1' A word of five ayllablea. .iveit up. Metaphysician-met a phyaician " Tbs rurtain lei', ami wan again .trawn up ontj to ex hi hi t the -aine portly gentk'BUMI and the girl meet i vi if aaali A word of ihr e apliaUaa. " Metaphormel afore " wae ihe t-olurion. A New Orleans widow of a wet k wa wooed by an impulbive suitor, who. at;er obtaining her consent to a marriage in a fortnight, borrowed $10 and deserted her. 8he 'old her tale to the Recorder 41 Well P exclaimed the surprised official, "this is a little ahead of anything 1 ever heard of." "Yes, sir," replied the lady, " it does so beat all ; not that I care about the money, but I don't like being fooled." Coal ashes are found to have a use in addition to their adaptability for the construction of walks and road was. T.iey are found to be excellent disinfectants, uned in connection with dried earth.

Theories of the Aurora B.irealis.

The Polar Light is a lkdit which is fre quently seen near Ihe horiz n, bearing some resemblance to the morning twilight, whence it has received the name of Aurora. In the northern hemisphere i' is usually termei "Aurora Birealis"be cause it :s chh fly seen in the north A similar phenomenon is also eeefl in the southern hemisphere, where it is called "Aurora Australis." Ech of them may, with greater propriety, be called "Aurora Polaris," or Polar Liyht, They exhibit an endle-s variety of appearance In the United States an aurora is uniformly preceded by a hizyor slaty app-aranceof the say, particularly in the neighborhood of the northern horiz n. When the aurora! display commences, this hazy portion of the skv assumes the form of a dark bank or segment of a circle in the north, rising ordinarily to the height of from five to ten degrees. This dark segment is not a ( loud, for the stars are seen through it as through a smoky atmosphere, with little diminution of t.rilliancy. This dark baah is simply a dense haze, and it appears darker from the contrast u.ith the luminous arc which rests upon it. In hich northern latitudes, when the aurora COVeBJ the entire heavens, the whole sky eems tilled with a dense haze ; and in still higher latitudes, where the aurora is sometimes seen in the south, this dark segment is observed resting on the southern horizon aud bordered by the auroral light. Auroras are sometimes observed simultaneously-over large portions of the globe. The aurora of August 2, 1859, was seen throughout more thau 140 degrees of longitude, from Eastern Europe to California; and from Janiaict OB the south to an unknown distance in British America on the north. The imr ra of September 2. 18Ö0, was seen at the Sandwich Island-; it nnm seen throughout the hole f North America and Europe ; and the disturbance of the magnetic ueedle indicated its presence throughout all Northern Asia, al thcogh the sky was overcast so that at many places it could not be seen. An aurora was st n at the lame time in South Ann rica and few Hollan !. The auroraof September 25, 1841, and Nov. mber 17, 1848, were almost qnallj extensive. The heigh! of large number of auroras has been computed, and the average retub ior the upper limit of the streamers & 450 miles. From a mu titude of observation--it is concluded that the aurora seldom appears at an elevation less thaD about forty rive miles above the earth's surface, aud that it frequently extends upward to au elevali' n ol ö()0 miles Auroral arches having a well-defined borderare generally less than 100 milts in height Auroras are very uuequally distiibuted over the earth's surface. They occur most frequently in the high r latitudes aud are almost unknown within the tropics. A l Havana, in latitude 2-i degrees, but six auroras have been rec cded withiu a hummd years, and south of Havana auroras are still more un frequent As we travel northward fom Cuba, auroras in crease m freuueucv and brilhancv : thev ri-e higher in the heavens, aud oftener ascend to the zenith Near the parallel of 40 degrees we nud on an average onl tea Mir.. ras annually. Near the parallel of 42 decrees the average number is twentj tnnuaily : near 4" degrees the number is f rty ; and ue r the paralk 1 of 50 degree it amounts to eighty annually. Between litis point an.i the parallel of 02 degreeanroraa, during the winter, are seen almost every night. They appear hih in the heavens, and a often to llie south the north In regions further north they are Sehl mi seen except in the s uth, and from this point the diminish iu frequency and brilliancy as we advance toward the pole Beyond latttn le '2 degri es tin average number of ai.rura is t educed to forty annually. Beyond latitude 07 degrees it reduced to twenty; and near latitude 78 degrees it is reduced to Leu annually. Auroral exhibitions take place in the upper regions of the atmosphere, since they partake of the earth s rotation. All the celestial bodies have an appareat bm ti n (roan east to west, hi Ising from the rotati n at the earth; but bodies belonaringto llie earth, including the atmosphere and t he clouds which Hont iu it, part.ke of tlneafth's rotetion, ao that their relative poet tion is not allected by it. The same is true of auroral exhibitions Whenever the auroral corona in formed, it maintains n sibly the same position in the beavei i during t he whole period . iff its continuance-, tlthouifh the star- meanwhile revolve at the taie of 1Ö degrees per hour The grosser part ot the earths atmosphere is limited t- a moderate distance from the earth. At the height of a little over four miles, the density of the air is oidy one half what it is at the earth's sur tu e. At the height ol fifty indes the at mosphere is wed-nih inappreciable in its effect upon twilight. The phenomena of lunar eclipses indicate an appreciable at. mosphere at the height of sixty six miles, flu- phenomena of snooting stars indicate an atmosphere at tue height of 900 OT :500 miles, while the aurora Indicates that the atmosphere does not tntiiely cease at the height of 500 miles Aur ral exhibitions tike place, therefore, la aa atmosphere of extreme rarity; SO rare, indeed, that it, in ezperimi ats with an sir-pump, we couhl xhaust the air ay completely, we should say that we had obtained a perfect vacuum. The auroral beams are simply spaces which are illuminated by the How of electricity thlOOgh the upper regions of the atmosphere. During the aarviras of 1850 these beams were Dearly 500 miles in length, and their lower extremities were elevated about 45 miles above the earth's surface. Their tops inclined toward the outh about 17 degrees In the neigahor ho d oi New Ed k, ti'i bei ig t he position m hich the d ippiog needle there asciim' '. fVtasssr Liomix, in Jirjr' M ja: n for June A Saw days ago, w hile JodgS Barker w is presiding over the Supreme Cowl at Ejocapoft, N. V.. a jury man was a' sen I from hi seat, all the others hetttg OOCB pud. A dog, lookiag tor the BHtth r, n r i liet'v took i in-va ..in place. The Judge, addi essinbi Hon. a. P Lea aing, of llntla o, stid: "You see, Mr. Lanuing, that the jurymen's aests are all c inpied. Are yon ready to proceed?" The distinguished pleach r raise I Lis glaasei to his ey s, and, alter a triel survey of the .j'iry box, made the reply : " Your Honor, that fellow might do for a Judge; but I should hate to trust him for a juryman." The Judge joined heartily in the langh that toiiowed. A man was tried some time back, for stealing several clocks. The detenseset up for him bv the learned gentlemen who appeared for him wi ihis "That after the prisoner had tahen the clocks to ail own house, Is pal 'SSS all back ." Tüe j iry dl I n't see it

Facts am fiulres. California has raised a sun flower Weigh ii tr 57 pounds. About 12.000 dead letters are openec and disposed of dily. Tiik Leipsig publishers sold, in 1868, $10 000,000 worth of hooks The ew Preach twenty five franc gold pieces will be called Empereurs. The fastest bicycle tme has been ade in Jersey City a mile in two minutes. One of the Austrian Arehduke is sa'i to be a kleptomaniac in plain English a thief. The French Post ffice confiscates cine outot ten newspapers sent from thiscountry. Btntt Babbibok, Private Secretary to Jeff. Davis during the war, is practising law in N- w York. A New Y'ork thief has accomplished the neat trick of stealing the boots off a sleeping man's feet. There are said to be 15,000 communicaats to the various reliulous churches on the western coast of Africa Tiikkk are BSQ Protestant Sunday Schools in France, 150 in Germany, 250 in Switzerland and 250 in Holland. A widower went to Manchester, N. H , one day recently, bitnd his wife; and left t ivo with a new made bride on the day following. The C taadiao Hi de Association will distribute $4.500 worth of prizes at the ananal tournament, at Halafax, in August. A servant girl at Newberg, N Y , was I neatly too much for a burglar. She poured a gallon of hot water over him, and he left the premises in a hurry. A )HDOH clergy ansa advenit8 that he will M lend his weekly sermons for half acrown Apiece, or four for 10-, warranted "original, earnest and evangelical " Six churches have been organized i& Me- :co on the bisis of the Bible as the WO: of God a spon'aneous movemen, without an foreign interventi n, the 8cramentt administered wnhout any orUüiDed miuis-ter. A Buffalo lady was annoyed by a man named ThPBlpBSB. She pulled out a pistol and mapped it at him He moved off in Kuod order and had her arrested. She w t diecharned on the ground that an unloaded pistol is not a deadly weapon. George Peadody has written to the town of Georgetown, M , stating that it is his intention to supoiy all the funds needed to sust tin the public library which he has giv n t the town, and also present im,' 4,000 toward the permanent

fund. The New York Express has heard of o'-e American woman in Europe, who turned up her aristocratic nose at a pocket handkerchief costing 2,000 IraDCS, demanding one which had to be fabricated, a d which was not to cost less than 10,000." According to an estimate made by a weh-iut i med traveler. tha Chinese expend annually over 20 tnXfoo0 to appease and propitiate the souls of thed ad. About $3'J.0r-0 000 are annually expended in a ' ship ot the F hi irods ami $100,000,000 in th worship of family ancestors. A vol th of 18 iu New Bedford, who determined to marry aai-.st his fat he i s will, was recently complained of as a disobedient child, and the cs-- continued for asataace, so that, he could be shut up for want of bail till his father tets readv to take him on a whalin-: vvage. It was -tated at the National Surd y Scho .l Convention that ih-sunda Sch- ol Union has established 6 -UG schiol-, into which 393 "': children have en gt'h- red, and -1",(i7o teachers are employed. The union hat also sided 25 000 other schools, stid over 4tK) churches have been eetabliied as the results of its efforts. TnK report of Rapti-t pr gress in Qrent Britain for the last year shows that f rty nine churches have been organised, maRing au aggregate of 2 447. The increase in inemb rshlp has been il 1S2, a larger accession than anv since t8BO, and bringirg up the to'al to 251 500 members. There are Jt.7 :?06 scholars in the Sabbatn Schocds, and no doubt, over a million of the British population dependent on the Baptists for religious instruction. At Rutland, Vt., which has been scantily supplied with water for many years, the discover? has just been made that an ohntruetion in a j -int in the main supply reduced the calibre fr m three inches to nc and a half Inches dissaelei. The obstruction ooBsisted of lc id, which was run into a joint whi n the pipe was laid, tif een yean ago It cost them $8,000 to mke the discovery, besides the lo-s of many buildings by fire, which wou'd have been saved but for the lack ot water. Fr M an old advertisement published in the (itorqia Journal, Ifilledgev l'e, in 1!U, it is found that the Hon. Wm EL Be ward, late Secretary of State, was at that time a QcOTgia schoolmaster He is therein announced ss " late trom Union (' i lege, H. Y., fr un which institu ion he ooases highly recommended as a young eeotfeman off good moral character and distinguished industry and literary acquirements." He taught Latin, Greek, theoretical and practical mathematics, logic, chemistry, geography, English grammar, and other branches too numerous to mention. The pews of the Centre Church, New Haven, Conn , lately rented for $18,000. tu a abarqaent Babbath the pastor. Rev. G. L Walkt r, look occasion to express, in decided terms, his rer-t t the result. The pric. s paid, he sai i, could not but lie regtrocd as extravagant, and the gr M amount received whs burger than the exigencies of the ehareh deaBaadad. If the aebt off the chur b w alleged as an ex case, the speaker thoeghl that in a church embrac ng so much wealth, many of whose members were individually able to pay it wit' out embarrassment, and who, unitedly, could ezpsnaea it at once without a! winge, the debt oonld not but be considered as in a measure, a disgraaa, Tiik BUnawastW off the Treasury is so much annoyed ay thaeesaaaaM reeetpt of letters from persons who have lost by burning or otherwise bonds off tue U ited 8 ates and who wish new bonds, that he has found it necessiry to request the pub l caiionof the fact that it is not the policy of the Government to issue bonds in such OBI ( s. The only remedy is au application to t'ongress, and that i- not a very hopeful remedy, as the Congressional Committee on Claims refused to report bills lor the relief of several persons who had lost bonds at the last session. In two cases the Department issued new bonds for others alleged to hnve been loet, and, in both cases, it was obliged to pay twice, aa the bonds declared to have Yu en lost were afterwards presented for payment.