Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1882 — Page 3

THE NEWS.

Heme Items. Hulburt, the Peruvian Minister, has been granted leave of absence, to return home. . ■ Mrs. Garfield lias paid n b attention whatever to the proceedings of the Guiteau trial. A woman living near LaHarpe, 111., Saturated her clothing with kerosene, and suicided by applying a lighted match. = * The bill of exceptions filed by Scoville in the Giiiteau case, recites twelve reasons why a new trial should be »jPTmted. A poor woman, with two sons, living in Greensburg, Pa., has fallen heir to $500,000 by the death of a brother[.teM&Wlh Sweden. wo Chicago saloonists were fined in, justice courts Tuesday for selling liquor to drunkards. The Citizens’ .League were the prosecutors. Heavy snow storms are reported throughout the Eastern States, which began Tuesday morning, and are blocking horse and steam railroads. r Captain Eads belieyes that his ship canal scheme is not receiving fair treatment in Congress, the trans-continen-tal railroads working against it. A bill has been introduced into the .Senate asking that vaccine virus be supplied by the National Board of "Health to all applicants at cost The House Postoffice Committee will shortly introduce a bill for postal savipgs banks It is believed that the . minimum of deposits will be made 50 cents. Congressman Boswell P. Flower, a well known merchant of New York, is mentioned as a probable candidate for the Governorship of New York next election. “At Louisville, Ky., * a man named Owens was beating his wife, when her brother, Oyler, came to the rescue. Owens raised a club to him, but was fatally shot by Oyler. A petition was presented in the Senate by the residents of, and visitors to, Hot Springs, Ark., for its improvement, and asking $500,000 for an appropriation therefor. Dr. Tolman Wheeler, a well known resident of Chicago, has presented the sum of $20,000 to the Bight Rev. Bishop McLaren for the benefit of the Protestant Episcopal Cathedral fund. A noted female thief named Mollie Hoey, or Holbrook, who recently escaped in Canada from the custody of Illinois detectives, has been again arrested in New York.J The jurors in the Guiteau case indignantly deny the assertion made by Mr. Scoville in his bill of exceptions, that they had read newspapers duiing the time they were empaneled. The physicians who attended the late Piesident Garfield have decided not to ask a stated sum for their services, but, stating what they did, leave the sum to the generosity of Congress. In 1881 there were 822 deaths from smallpox in Chicago; 1,319 in Philadelphia; 454 in New York, and 444 in Pittsburg, which had the greatest mortality in proportion to population. A lady sued the Continental Passenger Railway Company, Philadelphia, for injuries sustained by falling in a crowded car in which she was obliged to stand, and received a verdict.of $12,000 damages. In the case of the Rev. Mr. Hoffman, of Bloomington, 111., on trial before a church court for immorality, evidence was produced to show that the alleged confession of the parentage of ;the child was a forgery. &An artist named .Gabler, who rendered valuable assistance to the government during the rebellion, committed suicide at the Alexia n Brothers’ Hospital in Chicago Staturday. Despondency, caused by a broken limb and poverty, was the cause. It is believed that at the next trial of the Malley Boys for the murder of Jennie Cramer, their accomplice, Blanche Douglas, will disclose the whole affair, fixing the murder of the unfortunate girl on the Malleys. The Committee on the District of Columbia, has presented a report to the House asking an appropriation of $1,000,000 for the reclamation of the Washington and Georgetown marshes. It is to be considered in committee of the whole.

The Bloomington, 111., church trial ended by the clerical jury returned a verdict of guilty against the Rev. Mr. Hoffman. The aocused solemnly aseeverarted his innooence, but the public generally coincided with the verdict. Mayor Harrison has ordered that gambling-houses in Chicago shall here- . after be closed at 7 p. m. on Saturday evenings, so as to keep employes from the temptation of staking their wages. s He also forbids them supplying refreshments, solid or liquid. The disturbed condition of affairs in Ireland is making itself felt on the Dublin Stock Exchange, were one large failure occurred Saturday and several others are expected this week. Tradesmen and manufactures are experiencing a panic on »ooi unt ofthe difficulty es making collections from landluids.

The question of oonviot labor is before the Connecticut Legislature, and bill to limit the employment es criminals in any institution at one kind of work to fifty, Quds favor. The idea is to make convicts self-supporting without competing injuriously with honest workmen.The Presbyterian Synod, composed • of delegates from presbyteries in the adjoining parts of Tennessee, Ala Laima and Mississippi, admitted a negro for, several years, but jn the present session the question of excluding hiffi Was' raised, and a majority voted to turn him out. This action was based solely on hte color. A Philadelphian who builds refriger-

ator cars has made an offer to the family -of Guiteau, the assasin. to exhibit Guiteau’s body, after death, in this country and Europe, for the benefit of the family. He offers to spend $25,000 in fixiugtbe remains. Scoville thinks favorably of the proposal. The Pennsylvania Revenue Commission at Philadelphia has agreed to a report recommending taxing money at interest and personal property at 2 mills on the dollar, and that foreign corporations should be taxed upon the ratio of business done in the State, on the same basis as home institutions. Callaghan, an ex-policeman, who has been running a private nightwatch and detective bureau in Chicago for some time, is alleged to have committed a number of burglaries in order to further his own business. He is also accused of blackmailing and other villainies, for which he will be brought to account.

Foreign.

The Czar’s coronation at Moscow will be almost private. There are said to be plenty of informers again in Ireland. In Astrakhan 600 fishermen have been drowned by a severe gale. A slight shock of earthquake was felt at Ottawa, Canada, Sunday. Ten of the Austrian police were massacred by the Herzgovinian rebels. A dispatch from Havana, Cuba, states the tobacco crop is small and poor. Prince Bismark has been thanked by his Imperial master for his defense of the rescript.

The Nihilists of the Terrorist faction are to be tried on the 21st of February, with closed doors. More troops, including a battalion of the Coldstream Guards, have been ordered to Ireland. The Russian authorities are assisting Melville; of the Jeannette crew, in his search for the missing men. The open winter is causing much injury to the logging interests of Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota. Heavy failures have occurred on the Geneva (Switzerland) bourse in connection with the French financial crisis. The Hindoo pilgrims returning to their own cities from Allahabad, are carrying the cholera epidemic with them. To cover the expenses of her war with Peru, Chili has annexed the district of Tarapaca, said to be worth $1,000,000,000. Vera Sassulitch, the female Nihilist, is one of a committee forming in Switzerland, to relieve the victims of Russian tyranny. Cholera has made its appearance among the pilgrims in Allahabad, oDe of the Hindoo sacred cities of Northern India. A London dispatch states that $5,000,000 are needed to enable the Russian -Jews to emigrate to the United States and Canada. An old man, sged 80 years, steward on the estate of Mrs. Morony, at Milltown, County Clare, Ireland, was shot dead Thursday night. A Madrid dispatch states that the Spanish pilgrims bound for Rome are largely composed of the adherents of the pretender Don Carlos. The Bank of France nas placed 100,000,000 franc 3 to help the merchants and manufacturers of Lyons, through the financial crisis. A Moscow dispatch states that of 650 political exiles implicated in Nihilism 328 have been liberated, and the sentences of the others modified. Austrian gens d’armes (police) have been deserting on account of the atrocities committed by .the Herzegovinian rebels on their Austrian prisoners.

An informer has revealed to the authorities the existence of a widespread and dangerous conspiracy in Clare, Limerick, and Cork counties, Ireland. The Lord Mayor of London has been conferring recently with eminent British Israelites with a view of furthering the immigration of Bussian "Jews America. The rebellion of the Herzegovinians is assuming threatening proportions. The press of Vienna is under official supervision for fear bad news may create a panic. | iThe route of the Emperor to the cathedral at Moscow, for his coronation, will be lined with troops, and he will also be separated from the crowd by barriers and trenches. English merchants are agitating for cheaper telegraphic facilities. The government controls the telegraphic system in Great Britain in conection with the Post-office Department. Mr. John Dillon, writing tojthe Bt. Hon. W. E. Forster, declines the offer of leaving Kilmainham jail for tho Continent, and asks that the Secretary address him no more communications.

THE STATE.

Mrs. Henry Kirk, of Bryantsburg, Jefferson county, has gone insane through infatuation for a traveling jewelry mender, and will be sent to the asylum. Two young children of Hon. Wm. Fleming, of Fort Wayne, got at the family medicine chest and ate enough morphine pills to kill them, but were discovered in the act and pumped out. Owing to the falling of one of the furnaces of theDePauw glass works at New Albany, the firm wiiihave to run their plate department on half time for some months, which will largely decrease their product. It is now believed that Mary French, who was reported burned to death at (he late residence of the murdered John M. Walton, at St. Omer, was first murdered by Mrs. Walton, or with her knowledge, and then burned.

George W. Booker, of Sparksville, hung his pants on the bed-poet with $488.55 in the pockets when he retired at night A burglar entered about half past 10 o’clock and to< k all the cash. Booker pursued, but as yet has been unable to overtake the thief. Gaar, Scott & Co., of Richmond, took the first premium for traction engines at the Atlanta,' Cotton Exposition, over six of the inost popular engines made in the United States. Mrs. A. Steen, aged sixty years, was burned to death in Harrison township, Daviess county, Friday afternoon. She was subject to spasms, and, being left alone, it is supposed she fell into the fire-place during a fit, and being unable to extricate herself was roasted alive. While Mr. Charles \rgus was descending the Whitmore hill, near Madison, after dark, he ran against a stake, which struck him in the mouth,forcing open his jaws and penetrating to the root of the tongue. It make a fearful wound and severed the small arteries, also cutting the muscles. About four years |ago the body Albert Munson was found near the Star mills, in Shelbyville, on the C., 1., St. L. C. railroad, mangled almost beyond recognition. It was supposed be was killed by accident. Now two men are suspected of the murder and robbery of the body, and will be arrested. John C. Russell instituted a suit in the Washington circuit court for $lO,000’damages for injuries received at the hands of a gang of “regulators” last August, who beat, bruised and hung him up by the neck on a malicious and libelous charge of stealing a silver watch. The suit will be tried in Floyd county on a change of venue. The residence of Thomas Witherspoon, at Princeton, was burned a few days since. He had insurance to the amount of $875, which covers half the loss. Mr. Witherspoon had collected about $2,500 during the day, and deposited it in his safe, which consisted of an old rubber boot, thrown into a closet near where the fire originated, and was the first thing the fire destroyed. A gang of three roughs, who were supposed to be white men blacked up for the occasion, went to the toll gate at the south end of Rising Bun, knocked Mr. Baily, the gate keeper, down, bucked and gagged him, and stole about $lO. When found at an early hour next morning. Baily was almost frozen and entirely speechless. No clew.

Miss Mamie Cole, of New Albany, aged fourteen years, has become heiress to half of an estate worth $250,000 at Columbia. Tenn. The estate is left to Miss Mamie and a grandchild of the deceased, by J. W. Brown, who died recently. The income of the property goes to the widow of Brown during her life. Miss Mamie is the daughter of Mr. C. P. Cole, traveling salesman for a leading Chicago firm. According to the figures of the Bureau of Statistics the average yield of leaf tobacco in this State for the last three years has been 6,987,049 pounds, and the average home value or the crop.on the basis of prices in 1880, is $5,958,964. Southern Indiana produces nearly the entire crop. Warrick County leading with 2,268,815 pounds in 1880. The yield in Spencer County, which stands second, the same year, was 1,913,823 pounds. On Sunday night last Elisha Sublett was killed by a freight train on the Vandalia road, near Harnick’s station, five miles south of Greencastle. Mrs. Mullenex, a daughter of Sublett, was killed by her husband in 1856, and be was banged for it. George Sublett. a brother, William Sublett, a son, and Hooten, a son-in-law, have been killed by the cars. Wesley Watson, another son-in-law, was shot dead in a quarrel over his wife’s infidelity. Whisky was at the bottom of it all. One hundred an i eighty-five Indianians are employed,in the several government departments at Washington. In coal production last year, Indiana stood sixth among the States of the Union, showing a product of 1,449,493 tons. In a leading Indianapolis church, last Sunday, the regular, advertised musical programme started off with a “march.”

Nearly 300 persons have been brought into the church by the religious revival gt Eikhait,'which has been conducted by Dr. L. W. Munhall. The Supreme Court in a recent decision holds that the common-labor-on Sunday act of April 14th, 1881, is the law on that subject now in force, and that the act is constitutional. Returns to the State Bureau of Statistics for the years ended May Ist, 1880, show a satisfactory increase of laudowners in this State, and refute the general idea that the lands are gradually absorbed by capitalists. The Bureau of Statistics reports mine and quarry products in this State for the year ended April 30th, 1881, as follows: Sandstone quarriefi 946,047 cubic feet; limestone quarried 2,743,450 cubic feet; lime burned, 1,128,289 bushels; cement manufactured, 144,599 bushels; coal mined, 2,128,977 tons; fire clay, 202,838 tons. The Bereau of Statistic* is authority for the statement, that during the year 1881, there were 246,368 volumes in the township libraries in the State, the circulation of which amounted to 862,455. The number of volumes added was 4,036. During the year 606 private schools were taught in the public school houses. In these schools 233 male and 435 female teachers were employed. The number of pupils admitted was 14,207, the average dally attendance, 6,569, and the average tuition per pupil per month, $1.26. The amount of summon school, congressional and township funds held by the counties, was $5,133,501.88?

' DOJ?T SLOP OVEX. » ‘Don’t slop over,’’ tne oid man said. As be placed his hand on the young mac’s head; “Go it, by all means, gO it fast, Go while leather and horseshoes lasl, Ge it while hide and hair oiiTTorse Will hold together; go it, oi course, Go it as fast as ever > on can, Hut don’t slop over, my dear young man, “Don’t slop over, you’ll find some day That keeping an eye to the wlnward will r«y; . > A horse may run a little too long, A preacher preach just a fraction too strong, And a poet, who piensetli the world with rhymes, May write and regret in after times, Keep the end ol the efiort ttlwavs in View But don’t slop over, whatever you do. “Don’t slop over; the wisest of men Are bound to slop over now and then, And yet the wisest/at work or feast, Are the veixjiaes who blunder the least. Those whOTor spiltmilk never wall, Are the ones who carry' the steadlast pall. Wherever you go, go in for-tfie fat, But don’t slop over, and stick to that. “Don’t slop over, distrust yourself, Nor always reach to the highest shelf. The next to the highest will generally do, And answer the needs of such as you,, Climb, of course, but always stop, And take breath, a little this side oi the top. And so you will reach it,in wind and strong, Without slopping over—so ends my song.’’

A BASHFUL MAN.

Mv father was a farmer of no small property, with no o:her learning than what he had acquired at a charity school, but my mother being dead, and I an only child, he determined to give me that advantage whioh he fancied would have made bin! happy—a learned education. I was therefore sent to a grammar school at G——, and from thence to Cambridge, with a view of qualifying me for holy orders. Here, having but a small allowance from my father and being naturally of a timid and bashful disposition, I had no opportunity of rubbing oft that native awkwardness which was destined to came me so much misery. In my person lam tall and thin, with a fair complexion and light flaxenhair, but of suen extreme susceptibility to shame that on the slightest subject of confusion, my blood all rushes into my cheeks and‘l appear a perfect “full blown rose.”

The consciousness of this failing made me avoid society, and I became enamored of a College life. I had determined on living at the University and taking pupils, when two unexpected events grehtly altered the posture of my affairs, namely, my father’s death and the arrival of an uncle from the East Indies. This uncle I had seldom heard my father mention; and it was generally believed that be was long since dead; when he arrived only a week too late to close his brother’s eyes. I confess (what I believe has been often experienced by those whose education has been better than that of their parents) that my father’s ignorance and vulgar manners had often made me blush to think I was bis son; and at his death I was not inconsolable for the loss of that which I was not unfrequently ashamed to own. My uncle, too, was but little affected, tor he had been separated from his brother. for more than thirty years, and in that time he had acquired a fortune of £80,000; and upon this be built his hopes of neverending happiness. But while he was planning schemes of greatness and delight, whether the change of the climate affected him, or what other cause I know not, be was snatched from all his dreams of joy by a short illness, of which‘.he died, leaving me heir to all his property. Tiius was I, at the age of twenty-live, possessed of an ample fortune, and well stocked with Latin, Greek and mathematics. But these advantages were more than counterbalanced by my awkward habits and by my total ignorance of the usages of refined society. I now purchased a fine estate in a fashionable district, and my company was much courted by those of my neighnors who possessed marriageable daughters. From these gentlemen I received familiar calls and the most pressing invitations, and, though I wished to except their poffered friendship, I repeatedly excused myself under pretense of not being quite settled; for the truth is that, when I have sallied out, either on horseback or on foot, with lull intention of returning their several visits, my heart failed me as I approached their gates, and I have frequently returned homeward, resolved to try it again to-morrow.

However, I at length determined to conquer my timidity, and accept an invitation to dine on a certain day with one whose open, easy manner left me no room tofaoubta“cordial,welcome.Sir Thomas Burton, who resides about two miles di-ttaut, is a Barouet, with an estate of about two thousand a year joining to that I hud purchased. He had two sons and five daughters, all grown upand livinar with their mother and a maiden sister ot Sir Thomas, at Burton Hall, dependent cm the father. Conscious of my unpolished gait, I had been for some time past taking private lessons from a Professor who teaches “grown gentlemen to dance;” and, although 1 at first found wondrous difficulty in the art he taught, mv knowledge -of mathematics was of prodigious me in teaching me the equilibrium of rn.\ body, and the due adjustment of 11ib center of gravity to the five positions. Having now acquired the art of walk tug without tottering, and learned to make a bow, I boldly ventured to accept the Baronet’s kind invitation to a family dinner, not doubting that my new acquirements w< old enable me 'to see the ladies with loiu'aWe ity.

As I approached the h -se, the dinner bell alarmed my fen r i lost I bad spoiled the dinner hy ; ■ w-ms of punctuality. Impress ' iis idea, I blushed the deepest ciiumon, as my name was rejieatedly announced by the servants who ushered me into the library, scarcely knowing woat or who I saw. At my enterance I summoned all my fortitude, and made my new learned bow to Lady Burton, but unfortunately bringing back my left foot to the third position I trod upon the gouty toe of poor Sir Thomas, who had followed closely at my heels to be the noraeuclator of the family. The confusion this occasioned to ine is hardly to be conceived, since none but bashful men can judge of my distress; and of that description, the number. I believe, is very small, indeed. The Baronet’s politness bys degree dissipated my concern ;and the cheerfulness of her ladyship, joined to the familiar chat of the young ladies and their

brothers, insensibly led me to throw off my resetve and sheepishness; till at length 1 ventured to join the conversation and even to start fresh subjects. The libary in which we were seated being richlv furnished with books in elega’nt bindings, I conceived that Sir Tnomas was a man devoted to literature, and ventured to give my opinion recpectihg the several editions of the Greek classics, in which Sir Thomas’ ideas entirely coueided with my own. While talking on the subject my attention was directed to an edition of X enophon, in sixteen volumes, which, as I had never heard of such a thing, greatly excited my curiousity, and 1 rose up to see what it could be.

The barnonet saw.whatl was about, apd, as I supposed,willing to save me trouble, rose to take down, the volrmee, which made me more eager to prevent him, and hastily laying my baud on the first volume, I pulled it forcibly;, but lo! instead of books a beard, which the book-binder’s art had b»en made to look like sixteen volumes, came tumbling down, and unluckily pitched upon an ink-stand on the table under it. In vain did Sir Thomas assure me there was no harm; I saw the Ink streaming from a beautiful inlaid table on the splendid Turkey carpet, and, scarce knowing what I did, attemptedto stop its progress with my white pocket-hankerobief. In the height of this confusion we were informed that dinner was served up; and I, with, joy then understood that the bell which at first had bo alarmed my fears was only the half-hour dinner-bell. In walking through the ball and suite of apartments to the dining room, I had time partially to collect my scattered senses and desired to take my seat between Lady Burton and, her eldest daughter at the table. Since the fall of the wooden Xenophon, my face had been oontlnurally burning like a fire-brand; and I was just beginning to recover myself, and to t feel comforts bly cool, when.an unlooked-for aoc dmt rekindlecfall my blushes. Having set my plate of soup too near the edge of the table, in bowing to M ins Diuab, who politely complimented me od the pattern of my waist-coat, [discharged the whole scalding contents into my lap.ln spite of an immediate-supply of napkins to wipe the surface of my “clothes, my trousers were not strong enough to save me from the painful effects of this sudd an fomentation, and for some minutes my legs and thighs seemed in a boiling ealdrouv At last,wheoJtbepaiu brgan to abate I managed to bear it in silence, and sat with my lower extremities parboiled, amid the stifled giggles of the servants. I will not inflict upon my reader a relation of aU the blunders which I made during the first course, by spilling a sauce-boat, upsetting a salt celler, etc.; rather let me hasten the second course, when fresh disasters quite overwhelmed me. I had a piece of rich sweet pudding on my fora, when Miss Louise Button begged to trouble me for a pigeon that stood near me. In my haste, I wbip?ed the hot pudding into my mouth, t was impossible to conceal my agony, my eyes were startling from their sockets. At last, in spite of shame and resolution, I was compelled to drop the cause of torment on my plate. Bir Thomas, his sons and the ladies all compassionated my misfortune,and each advised a different application. One recommended oil, another water, but ail agreed that wine was the beat for drawing out the beat, and a glass of sherry was ordered me; hut ohlhow shall I tell the sequel? Whether the butler by accident mistook, or purposely designed, to drive me mad, be gave me pale brandy with which I

filled my mei^th, “already, flayed and blistered. Totally unused to every bind of ardent spirit, with my tongue, throat and’palate as rawas beef, what could I do? I could not swallow, aud, clapping my bands upon my mouth, the liqlior squirted through tny nose and fingers like a fountain over all the dishes, aud I was crushed by bursts of laughter frem all quarters. • ’ Iu vain did Sir Thomas reprimand bis sods and the servants; in vain did Lady Burton ohide her daughters; for the measure of my shame and their diversion Was not yet completed. To relieve me from the intolerable state of prespiration which this accident had Caused, without consideration I wiped my face with the ill-fated handkerchief which was still wet from the conser quences of the fall of Xenophon, and covered my features toitn inky streaks in all directions. The Baronet himself could not support this shock, butjoined with bis lady in the general laugh, while I, springing from the table in despair, rushed out of the house in an agony of confusion: and disgrace which the most poignant sense of guilt could not have excited.

New Hints for Table Etiquette.

Nye's Boomerang. There are a great many people who behave well otherwise, but at the table they do things that if not absolutely outre and ensemble, are at least pianissimo and sine die. It is with a view to elevating the popular taste and etberiallziug, so to speak, the manners and Customs of our readers, that we give below a few hints upon table etiquette. On seating yourself at the table draw off your gloves and put them ui your lap under yonr napkin. If you have just cleaned your gloves with benzine, you might leave them in the front yard. When you are at a dinner do not take up a raw oyster on your and playfully ask your host il it is dead. Remarks about death at dinner are in very poor.taste. Pears should be held by the stems and peeled gently but firmly, not as though you were skinning a dean horse. It is not bon ton.

Oranges are beld on a fork while being-peeled, and the facetious style of squirting the juice into the eyes of your hostess is now au revoir. .Stones in cherries or other fruit should not be placed upon the tablecloth, but slid quietly and unostentatiously into the pocket of your neighbor or noiselessly tossed under the table. If you strike a worm in your fruit do not call attention to it by mashing it in the nut cracker. This is not only uncouth, but 1* regarded in the best society as blase ana exceedingly vice versa. Macaroni should be cut into shor pieces and eaten with an even.graceiu motion, not absorbed by the yard. In drinking wine, when you get to

the. bottom of your glass do not throw your bead back and draw in your breath like the exhaust of a batl.-tttb n order to get the last dro Pi aH it engenders a feeling of the most depressing melancholy among the guests. After eating a considerable amount do not arise and unbuckle your ve*t strap in order to get more room, as it is exceedingly au fait and dishablflk'' If by mistakeyou di-iuk out of your finger bowl, laugh heartily and make some facetious remark which wid change the course of conversation stpd renew the friendly feeling among trta members of the party. . >• j •m ' ♦

Railroad Sociability.

LiurimJe Boojnerang. “Speaking about the sociability of travelers,” said the man .with the crutehes and a watch pocket over his eye, -“l never got so well acquainted .with passengers on a train, as I did the other day on the Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad. We were going at the rate of about thirty miles an hb'ur, and another train from the other direction, telesooped us. We were all thrown Into each others society, and brought into immediate social contact, so to speak. “1 went over and sat in the lap (if a corpulent lady from Manitoba, and a girl Aram Chicago jumped over nine seats and sat down oq the plug hat pf a preacher from La Crosse, with so much, tlifiid girlish enthusiasm, that it shoved nis hat clear down over l hih shoulders, i “Everybody seemed to lay aside the usual 000 l reserve of strangers, and we made oufselv'es entirety at home. “A shy young man with an emailelated oil doth valise, left bis own sat down iu a lunch basket where a bridal couple seemed to‘bo wrestling with their first picnic. Do you suppose that reticent young man would have done such a thing on ordinary occasions? Do you think if he had been at a celebration at home, that he would have risen impetuously, and gone where those people wereeatiugby themselves, and sat down in the cranoerry jeiiy ol a total stranger? “1 snould rather think uot. “ Whv, one old man who probably at htmie Jed the class meeting, and who was as dignified as Roscoe Conkling’s fatner, was eating a piece of custard pie when we met the other train, and be left bis pwn seat and went over to the front end of the car and stabbed that piece of custard pie into the ear of a beautiful widow from lowa. MPsople. traveling somehow forget of their borne lives, and form acquaintances that sometimes last through life.”

A Presumptuous Wretch.

Th» Judge. Charles Augustus fell in love with tho daughter Of a wealthy dry goods merchant, and when be propounded the vital question he was referred to papa. Papa was a stern, gold-spectacled man, and Charles Augustus would rather have faced a stuffed lion in his lalr;but remembering the old adage. "Faint heart never won fair. lady’’--uor a homely one, either—he called at the store to see her father. And when he saw that gentleman his heart failed him, and he was about to ask for a spool of old gold colored cotton and exit, when the girl’s father gave a significant cough and made the lovers pericardium flop by asking. "Well, Charles, what’ll you have?" Here was a splendid opportunity to boldly say, "Your daughter," and have done with it, but the youth merely stammered, while he glanced furtively around :"I I don’t see wh—what I want. "You don’t?" said the old gentleman. "Well,"he added, "don’t you see that?” pointing to a placard on which was printed the legend, "If you don’t see what you want, ask for it." “But," hesitated Charles Augustus, "I—don’t think she is here—your daughter Mamie. I mean." A thunder cloud, followed by a.whirlwind, gathered on the old man’s brow, as he seized a yardstick and and angrily exclaimed Why you presumptuous wretch! how dare you " Blit Charles Augustus didn’t linger to bear the remainder of the thrilling narrative. He lit out—went away from there—departed suddenly hence. And be feelingly says that it is a, mean swindle to have the sign, “It you don’t see What you want, asa for it,” posted in a store,and then when a young man asks for it to be unceremoniously bounced. And we think so, too. ——> I Bound to Have Satisfaction. As a Northern man who was lookiug up land in Alabama was riding along the highway he met a father and sou riding at a furious gallop and both armed with shot guns. They drew up as they,reached him, and the old man called but: "Bay, stranger, hev ye met a young man and a gal riding the same mule and humping along as if Satan was after them?" "No." “Well, my darter has eloped with Bijl Gordon, and Sam and me are trying to get within shooting distance before the knot is tied." "Ah! Why, that couple were being married in Blankville as I came through there an hour ago.’’, "Did the gal hev on a blue waist?" "Yes." "And was it a tali iellpw with & skeered look?" "It was." ■' « "That was them, stranger, and I’m much obleeged. Sam, we’re too late to stop ’em, but we kin let our bosses jog along into town and shoot the preacher after we git. ihar! That’ll be some satisfaction."

A Wild Beauty.

Amena, the daughter of the chief of the Algerian revolt, is the great beauty of the Arab tribes. She appears to be distinguished above all her rivals, uot only for loveliness, but for her accomplishments likewise, being a poetess of no mean order, aDd for her courage in the field, where she takes her place by her father’s side and gallops fearlessly on her Arab courser, as fleet and powerful as his own/ The picture is worthy pf Horace Vernet, the Frenchmen say who have pursued the flying host under Bou Amena’s command—-the chief with his white bournous flying behind him and the red and purple tassels of his horse gear dancing in the wind, while the dark blue and white striped veil of the girl, with Its gold border, flashes In the suu ils It floats out behind the long streaming tall of her flying ‘steed. It is unlawful to hunt deer with dogs In Maine. • * . * ”