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THE FATE OF THE FAST YOUSCL %^3mAX : Avitrmit n*rrt »■*•<>». I**s curioa.Jsn’t It, Billy, The eusaoeStUst twelve month* m*y bring. L*styearlwa*atS*rsU». h* happy and rich a* a Ala* mdxtag&rJt: 3?c *« What led MM to do Itr* Whet always load* men to destruction end crime? The prodigal eon. whom yoe*ve rea>t of Ha* altered *o me what In hi* time. He epend* BteaahMobee a* freely 4s the biblical fellow of old Bnt when it I* gone he fancies The bask* will tarn into gold. Champagne, a box at the opera High step* with fortune is nosh. The passionate kisses of woman Whose cheeks have forgotten to Wash. The old, old story, Billy, of pleasure* that end in tears. The froth that foam* for an hoar. The dregs that are tasted tor year*. Last night as'l sat here and pondered. <>n the ends of my evil weys. There arose tike a phantom before me. The vision* of my boyhood day*. I thought of my old home, BUly’ . Of the school house that stood on the htU, *if the brook that flowed through the meadow, < T can e’en hear It* music still. Again I thought of my mother, Of the mother who tought me to pray. Whose love was a precions treasure. That I heedlessly cast away. I saw again in my visions. Ill* fresh-lipped, careless hoy,■_ To whom the future was boundless. And the world but a mighty toy. 1 thought of all this as. I sat here. Of my r lned and wasted life, And the pangs of remorse were bitter, They pierced my heart like a knife. . ■ It taken some conragif, Billy, To laugh In the face of fate, , When the yearning ambitions of manhood Are blasted at twenty-eight. .■-{Joliet (III.) Republican.

BURGLAROUSLY AND FELONIOUSLY.

We had lust locked up the safe, and L had put the kev in my pocket—l am the accountant of the North and South of England Hank, at its Padsey branch, W. It. Yorks. I had got my hat on and had tak«-n up my umbrella, when a man came running into the hank with a lug of money in his hand. “Am lin time?” he cried. .1 shook my head. “Deuce take it!” he said; “and I’m off to Liverpool by the next train, and then to America.” “Sorry for'tt,” I said; “but we can’t take the money.” “Well, then,-what is to he done? Here’s £22,000 in this bag, and thos? drafts of mine ».ome due in a couple of days. Well, you’ll have to take’em tip,” he said; “I can’t unless you take the money in to-night.” I knew' that those drafts were com mg due, and that our manager was a little anxious about them, for they were rather and the other names on them were not very good. Black, too —that was the man with the money hag—Black was a capital customer; and not only a good customer himself, but he brought good accounts with him, and we were ayouug branch and on our mettle. Well, herfc was the money to meet the drafts, anyhow, and I should have been a great fool to send it away because it was after hours. So I counted It all over; there was about £IO,OOO in checks and notes and £3,000 iu gold. “Come and have a glass of beer with me,” said Black, “ou the way to the

station.” I'put the bag of money in my desk and lock*# it up. I would comeback presently and have it placed In the safe. I walked to the station with Black: we had some beer together, and then he went off Americawarda. and I ori my way to Nemophillar Villas. You see I was rather in the habit of calling for a gla->s of beer as I went home, and then going on, and consequently, from the force of habit, I’d w l most got home before I remembered the bag of money. It was vexing, too because we had a tea-party that night, , the first since our marriage, and it beEu at 6 o’clock, and I'd promised to home ai: hour earlier to draw the *»rks aud help to get things ready. And here it was ft o'clock, and I had to go all the way back to the bank. All the way back 1 weut as hard as I could pelt. However, the money • was all right in iny desk, and now I'd put it in the safe. “Tell Mr. Cousins” our manager, you kuow —I said to the servant who’d let me in, “that I want the key of the safe.” But you had it in your pocket, you sky, which shows that you are Dot acquainted with therules and regulations of the North aud tiouth of England Bank, which say that tho accountant or chief cashier shall be responsible for the due custody of the cash while it is iu his possession in the daytime, and ; that at night all moneys and securities shall be carefully secured wiihin the office safe, which shall be secured by two keys, one Of which shall l»e iu . the custody of the manager, and tbe

second in that of the accountant or cashier. But, you say again, as long as you had one kev, what did you want with two? There, I own, the regulations are obscure. Thev were drawn up by somebodv without any literary *ksl!; if they’d consulted me about ’t *. I could nave suggested a good ma ■ improvements. \Vhat they meaut to say was that the safe was to be secured b. two locks, and that a key of each, u t interchangeable the one with the o'.h-sr, was to in the custody, etc. Now you understand why I wanted Mr. .Cousin’s key. ••Eh, my!" said the servant, opening her mouth wide, “and what might you want Mr. Cousins’ key for?" Just as stupid as you, you see I was mad with the girl. I own I always get out of temper with those Yorkshire people. If you ask ’em the simplest question, first they opeu their mouths and gape at you. Wheu you’ve repeated the question twice they shut their ‘ mouth-* and think for a bit. Then the idea seems to reach the thing that does 'duty with ’em for brains, and excites a sort of reflex action, for, by jengo! instead of answering your question the go and ask you one. And that makes | me so mad. Oh, they’re a very dense race, those Yorkshire people. “Why to open the safe, you stupid" said I “Where is he?" “Don’t you know?" sjiyß she. “Know!" I cried in a rage: “what should I ask you for, if I did know?" “Didn’t thou know that he were at hat boose??’ Ah! so he was. I’d nearly forgotten that he was one of the guests at my wife’s parsy. Clearly, I.ciuldn’t get the safe open, and I flidu’t like to leave the monjy in my desk, so I put It in

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mw and took it home, thinking pj five It to Cousins with my put it in the safe when he returned. A nice men I have got when I reached home; for you see it had been arranged the* I was t# go *nd drees before anybody came; and that then our room waa to be made ready for the ladies to take their bonne to off —for they were not all carriage people. Well you never saw such a thing! When I got home and crept up-stairs to dress —the people had all come, so the servant said —there were six mum and four bonnets a d five pork-pie hats and half a dozen shaws on the bed,and one lady had left her every-day ourla hanging over the looking-glash l Upon myword, I really didn’t like to perform my toilet among all these feminine gear; and there was no lock to the door; and my dress clothes were all smothered up among- these mutts, and things. But I got through pretty well, and had just got one of my legs into my trousers, when bang atrop dopdop! such a rattle at the knocker, and heard my wife scutting away into the hall. There were the Markbys, our tramp card, who kept their own carriages, aud everything grand. ‘•.So kiud of vou, my dear!” said my wife, kissing Mrs. Markby most affectionately. 1 could hear the reports where I stood. 1 , “8o delighted! Really, how nicely, how beautifully you arrange everything! I can’t have things so nice, with my servant®, sud—” “Ruu up-stairs, dear, do!” said my wife. “You know the room—my room, right hand, at the top of the stairs ”

I heard the flutter of female wiugs on the stairs. What was I to do? If I could have managed the other leg, I wouldn’t have minded, but I couldn’t. I hadn’t worn these drees things for a good while, and I don’t get any thinner as I grow Older. No, for the life of me I couldn’t dispose of that other leg at such short notice. What could 1 do? I could only rush to the door, and set my back against it. Did I tell you this was our house warming party? I think not. Did I tell you our landlord had altered the ■ house foi us, making our bedroom larger by adding a slip that had formed a separate room? I think not. And yet I ought to have told you all these circumstauces, to enable'yoo to understand the catastrophe that followed. Jn a word, opened outward. I’d forgotten that peculiarity, never having had a room so constituted before, and never will again. The door went open with a crash, and I bounded backward into Mrs. Mark by’a arms. Smelling salts aud sal volatile, was there ever such an untoward affair? The music struck up for the dßiiees as I implied back into my room. I hid my head among the bolsters and muffs and almost cried; for lam such a delicate minded mau. Yes, it hurt me a great deal more than it did Mrs. Markby, for, would you believe it? she told the story down below to the whole compauy, with pantomimic action, sud, when I showed myself at the door of, the drawing room, was received with shouts of inextinguUhable laughter. I think I called the Yorkshire people dense just now, didn’t 1? Well, I’ll add another epithet—coarse—dense and coarse, I told ’em so; but they only lauglsed the more.

The guests were gone,the lights were out, slumber had just visited my eyes, when right into my brain, starting me up as if I’d been shot, came a noise, a sort of dull bursting noise. I wasn’t really certain at first whether I had heard a noise or only dreamed of it. I sat up in bed and listened intently. Was it only my pulse thumping into my ears, or were those regular beats the tramp of somebody’s muffled feet? Then I heard an unmistakable sound —creak, creak, creak—a door opened slowly and cautiously. All in a moment the idea flashed into my head — £22,000. You see, all this dancing and junketing, and laughing and chaffing, had ioompletely driven out of my mind all thoughts of tbe large sum I had in my possession. I had left it in a great coat pocket, which was hanging up in the hall downstairs. Pun! a gust of wind came through the house, rattling the doors and windows and then I heard a door slam, and a footstep outside of some one cautiously stealing away. Away downstairs I weut like a madman, my one thought to put my baud on that great ooat. It was a brown great coat, with long tails, and two pockets behind, and a little cash pocket, on the left band side in front, and rids reast pocket in which I bar! put the ag of money. This pocket wasn’t as usual on the left-hand side, but on the right. There was no other coat hanging on the rails, only my wife’s waterKroof. What a swoop I made to get old of that coat! Great heavens! it was srone!

1 had carefully barred and chained the front door before I went to bednow it was unfastened. I ran out into, the street, and looked up and down, hopeless and bewildered. It was a dark, damp light; the lamp at the corner threw a long, sickly ray down the streaming pavement, but there wasn’t a soul to be seen. Everything was still and cold and dark. The money was clean gone—yes, it •was gone. I repeated those words mechanically to myself as I crawled up stairs. All the result* of this loss pictured themselves clearly before me — dismissal from the bauk, ruin of all my prospects, utter ruin, In fact! What could I do? To what turn? The blow that had fallen upon me was so heavy and sudden that it had benumbed my faculties My chief desire was to crawl into bed and fall a sleep, hoping never to wake. But morning would come surely enough—morning and its attendant miseries.

Then the thought came to me: Should I go to bed and say nothing at all about ft? No one kuew of my having received that money, not asoulbut Black, the man who had deposited it. I bad given him no receipt for it, no acknowledgement. Black had gone to America—a hundred things might happen—he might never return; at all events there was respite, Immediate relief. I could go to the bank next morning, hang up my hat as usual, everything would go on as before. If Buck returned, my word was as good as his. The notes and checks would never be traced home. But I don’t think I retained this thought long. Did you ever consider how much resolution and force of will it takes to Imitate a course of crime and deception? I’d neither tbeoue or the other. I should have broken down at onoe. I,

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•ouldn’t have that fellows eye on me and tell him I had never bad his money. I woke my wife, she’d slept through all the trouble; “Mary,” I said, “we’re ruined; there’s beeqa robbery.” “A robbery crieashe clasping her hands; “and are the men gone?” “Yes,” I said. “Oh, thank heaven!” she said, “then were safe. Never mind the rest, Jack, as long as our lives are safe. But there’s my waterproof, Jack —oh -do run and see if they’ve taken that ?” Then I told he* the story of the£22,000. She wouldn’t believe me at first, but, when she heprd the w hole, story she was frightened enpugh. Yet she had wits about her more than I h id. “You must run off to the town hall, Jack,’* she said, “and set the police to work. They must telegraph to all the stations—to London, and everywhere! Oh, do go at once, Jack—this very moment! Every second lost may be ruin to us.”

Away I went to the town hall. This was a big classic edifice, with an Immense portico and a huge flight of steps; but you didn’t go into the portico to get into the police office, but to the side which wasu’t classical at all, but of the rudimeutary style of architecture, and you went along a number of echoing stone passages before you reached the superintendent’s office. When Itold the superintendent your story—“Ah,” he said, ‘‘l think I know who difl that job.” “Oh,” said I, “how thankful I am! Then you can put your hands on him and get back the money. I want the the money hack, Mr. Superintendent —never mind him. I wouldn’t inind, Indeed, rewarding him for his trouble, If I could only get the money bock.” “Sir,” said the superintendent severely. “the police ain’t sent into the world to get people’s money back—nothing of the sort; we aren’t going to encourage composition of felony; and our putting our hands on Flash} Joe—for he did the job, mark you—well, what do >ou thiuk the liberty of the subject Is for? Where’s your evidence?”

I was obliged to confess I hadn’t any, whet eat the Superintendent looked at me contemptuously. “Now. let’s see into* the matter,” said he, aftei he’d made some notes on a bit of paper. “How came they to know you’d got the money in your coat?” I said I didn’t know. “Ah, but I know,” said the superintendent. ‘‘You went to get a glass of ale after you left the bank, young man?” I was obliged to confess I did so. “That’s how property gets stolen,” said he, tooking at me severely. “And what’s more, you had a glass with a friend. Ah! L knew you had. And perhaps you got talking to this friend of yours?” “Yes, indeed, I had.” “Very well; and mention .id about the money you’d just took?” “Very likely.” “Then this Joe, depend upon it, was in the crib at the time, and he heard you, aud he fallowed you back to the uank; and you haven’t got blinds but a wire netting over the window, and anybody outs.'de can see you oounting out tne gold aud silver.” “That’s true’” I said. “Yes, I see it all,” said the superintendant, “just as Joe saw it. He follows you up here to yonder, and he sees you put your money in your coat pocket, and then he follows you home, and when all’s quite he cracks the crib. Oh. it’s all in a nutshell, and that’s how property goes. And then you come to the police.” “But, if you know it’s Joe, why don’t you send after him and catch him?” • “Oh, we kuow our own business, sir; you leave it all to us: we shall have Joe tight enough, if not for this job, anyhow for the next - We’ll give him a bit of rope, like.” 1 couldn’t put any fire into the man, do what I could; he was civil, that is for a York-shireman - impassive; he’d do what was right. I’d given the information ; very well; all the rest was his business. So I came home miserable, dlspairing. It was just daylight by this time, uud as I opened tbe shutters the debris of our feast was revealed: the lees of the lobster salad, the picked bones es the chickens, the melted residuum of the jellies: while about everything hung the faint smile of tour wine. I sat down amid all this wretchedness and leaned ray head on my arms in dull, miserable lethargy. Then I sprang up, and as I did so 1 Caught sight of myselt in the looking-glass. Good heavens! was this wretched, hang-dog looking fellow myself? Did a few bourn’ misery change a man like this? Why, I was a very felon in appearance, and so I should be thought to be. Who would believe this story of a robbery ? Why. the police didn’believe in it, else they'd have taken a different tone. No; 1 should be looked upon as a thief by oil the world. •Then my wife came down stairs, and with a few touches restored a little order and sanity, both to outward matters and my miDd. She brought me some coflee and au egg and some bread aud butter, and after I had eaten and drunk I didn’t feel quite so bad.

“Jack," she said, “you must go to London at once and see the doctors. Have the first word and tell them all about it —all the particulars. It was only a little bit of carelessness after all, and perhaps they’ll look over it.’’ “Yes, that’s all very well,” I said. “But how am Ito get there? I’ve got no money. This wretched party has cleared us right out." “Borrow some of Cousins." “He asked me to.lend him a sovereign last night, and I couldn’t.’’ Now, you’ll say, “Here’s a man without resource. Why didn’t te ]«wn his watch?" To tell the truth, that’s what I did the week before, and the money was all gone. “Then, under these circumstances, ’’ you’ll add, “it was immoral to give a party. But, you’ll bear in mind the invitations had been out for a fortnight, and we were then in funds. “Well, Jack," said ray wife, “you must get the man—the P. B, —to give vou some more money on the watch. Bell it to him right out It must be worth at least ten pounds, for it cost thirty, and you’ve only had five upon it. Bell the ticket.’* Yes; hut where was the ticket? Why, in the little cash pocket of my brown greatcoat. Still. I had heard that if you’d lost a ticket you could make the man give you another, and Brooks, the pawnbroker, was a respectable fellow, who, perhaps, would help

me out of my difficulty. X- went to him, anyhow, on my way to the station. I felt like a ticket-of-leave man as I went into his shop, but I put ji good face upon it “Brooks,” I said, “sbat watch—you know the ticket—it’s stolen.” Hrooks gave a most profen tious i wink. He was a slow-speeched man, with a red fisoe, and a tremendous corporation. “Nay,” he says, “my lad, thou’rt wrong there.” “What do you mean?” I said, coloring up furiously. Etery one suspected me, it seemed. “Whol, it might ha’ been stolen once, but it aren’t no; ’ave got it here. This is bow it were. A cadging sort o’ chap come in, and he says, ‘Master, what’ll you give me for tnis ticket!’ Now, you know the hect don’t allow us to give nought in that kind of way, but I says to the chap: ‘Let’s have a look at it:’ and then 1 saw it was yours, and I said to the man: 'My lad, you aren’t come honest by this.’ ” “And you gave him into custody, he’s In prison? Old Brooks, what a capital fellow you are!” “Nay,” he said; “I knowed better nor that. Do you thins I’d hexpose a customer? I know you gents don’t care about these little matters getting abroad; and so I slaps my fist on the oounter, and I says; ‘Hook it!’ just like that. And away he went like a lamplighter.” I sank down on the counter, overpowered with emotion. “And what’s more,” wenton Brooks, “he never took up the money I’d lent him for the coat.” “What coat?” I cried. “A very nice brown coat he put up with me. About fit Vou, I should think. See, here it is.” It was my identical brown great coat, wrapped up in a bundle, and tied round with my own handkerchief. I made a dart at it, opened it, plunged my hand into the breast pocket—there was the roll of money, there were the £22,000. How did I go to the bank that morning, on legs or wings? And how did T get home, as soon as I ha<i put the money safe away ? Mary knew by my face that it was all nght; and didn’t we have a dance of Joy all round the house! My bursrlar had been only a sort of sneak, after all, who had got in at an open window, and bolted with the siioils of the hall, but, if he had taken tiie pains to look into the pockets of tin; coat, he’d have been a rich—though perhaps miserable and insecure—man, aud I should have been utterly and deservedly ruined.

Curious Divorce Suit.

The notorious Hill divorce case has been resumed at Bridgeport, Charles E. Hill, the respondent, having arrived from China. Mrs. Hill sues for divorce on gEounds of cruelty, intemperance and adultery, although as regards intemperance *the husband says he never drank a glass of liquo)*, wine or beer in his life, aud denies that he ever had improper relations with any woman. He had not introduced one A. H. Ladd to her, declaring he uever saw Ladd until he found Mrs. Hill sitting iu his lap at a Boston hotel. Mrs. Hill, the daughter of the late General Adams, of Bridgeport, sayS she rau away to China to marry Hill contrary to her parents wishes; but becoming estranged from her husband after -even years of married life, she returned to America, living most of the lime at Bridgeport, on a $4,000 yearly income from property settled on her by her husband. Mr. Hill says that, after becoming settled in a highly profitable business at Shanghai he offered to release Miss Adams, as he could not come east to marry her, but she wrote she would follow him to the ends of the earth. She spent tbe SI,OOO he sent to her for her wardrobe and used up $1,600 more in furniture and traveling expenses, of which things her parents were ignorant. Hill then furnished a house at Shanghai for her in gorgeous style, one biklstead with its appurtenances selling for sl,- ' 600 three years afterward, when Mrs. Hill visited America against her husband’s wishes. She did not return at the agreed time, aud came home again in two years against the wishes of her husband after no had fitted up another luxurious home for her, and refused to return when he subsequently made two trips to this country to bring her back. Hill Btates he has spent on his wife nearly $300,000, muen of. which he gave her to invest, which she failed to do. He had loaned her father $26,000, for $20,000 of which the General had given notes; these with other private papers had been taken forcibly from bis trunks during his temporary absence from the hotel, after being served with the divorce papers.

Rothschild’s Maxims.

Accordiug to George Francis Train, the late Baron Rothschild had the following maxims framed on his bank walls: Attend carefully to details of your business. Be prompt in all things. Consider well, then decide positively. Dare to do right. Fear to do wrong. Eudure trials patiently. Fight life’s battles bravely, manfully. Go not in the society of the vicious. Hold integrity sacred. Injure not another’s reputation er business. Join hands only with the virtuous. Keep yeur mind from evil thoughts. Lie uot for any consideration. Make few acquaintances. Never try to appear what you are not.

- Observe good manners. J Pay your debts promptly. Question not the veracity of a friend. Respect the counsel of your parents. - ‘Baeriflee money rather than principle. Touch not, taste hot, handle not intoxicating drinks. Use your leisure time for improvement. ! Venture not upon the thresohold wrong . Watch carefully over your passions ’Xtend to every one a kindly salutation. Yield not to discouragements. Zealously labor for the right. A success is certain. • The will of ' Gen. Las Noble has been admitted to probate. It names Samuel B Judah, of Vincennes, and John M. Judah, of - Indianapolis, trustees to execute the same. All the property to be held in trust until the youngest child is twenty-five years of ][• ,

PUTTING ON AIRS.

What Took the JFrills Oat of One Man. Ban Francisco Post. He was a shrewd, white-headed old gentleman tourist who sat sippiag a lemonade in a Baldwin bar-room the other day, and who remarked, as a self-important looking individual came in and haughtily ordered a whiky •straight: “Now, T ’sposd the gentleman is one of your bonanza fellows, and owns about two thirds of the real estate round here?” i “No,” he replied; “he's a much greater personsage. He is one of the successful candidates of the late election.” “I might have known it!” exclaimed the old gentleman emphatically. “He acts just as I did when I was elected to Congress.” “How was that?” “Well, vou see, I was elected M. C. from the Fourth District just after the war. We had a pretty lively campaign of it, and, as I never had been in politics afore, I somehow got the idea that the whole country had quit work and was watching my contest with Quivering; anxiety Every time the other side accused me of being a chicken-thief or a bigamist, or something, and I’d get back at them with a card in the Redville Warhoop, headed,'Another Lie Nailed!’ I’d send a marked copy to every leading paper iu the oountry.” "Did, eh?” “Yes, and I was disgusted to find they never paid the slightest attention to me neither. What surprised me more was that, although I kept the President and cabinet advised of everything that occurred, I never got the slightest sympathy from any of them. I was an Administration man. too, and 1 thought that it was blamed singular.” “Didn’t notice you at all?” “Not all, sir, and when I vas elected, and the boys lighted a bonfire in the main streets and serenaded me, and 1 spoke six hours in the open air as to my future course on the tariff and the finances, the N£w York papers merely said that ‘a Mr. Gunn had been elected by a small majority,’ my name being Gonley, as you know.” “That was hard.”

“Well, I put that all down to envy and malice, and I started for Washington. I expected that at least.the Speaker of the House and a Committee appointed by the Senate would be down at the depot to welcome me to the Capital. “Did they do so?” “The only person who met me were a committee of hackmen, who tore my overcoat half off, raamicd me into a hack aiui robbed me, with the aid and assistance of the hotel clerk, who then gave m 3 a dark room on the top floor, and asked the first week’s board in advance; skid it was the rule of the house wi.b Arkansas members,” “The impudent rascal.”* “That’s what I thohght. Well, the next morning 1 got away from the bed bugs as well as I could, aud went up to the White House to see if the President would like to stroll down to the House to introduce me aud see me sworn in. I sent up my card, and in an hour or two some Secretary or other sent back word that the President was at breakfast and couldn’t be bothered.”

“That was i retty short, wasn’t it?” “Well I was just dumbfounded. However,!: Iwent down to the Capital and told the Bergeant-at-Arms to go in and announce to the members that I have arrived. He grinned and said, ‘That’s devilish good, that is;’ and rushed of. I expected that, of course, the members would come crowding up to congratulate me, and say something ‘magnificent speech of yours, that last one, Gonley. Beat’em by forty-eight votes, too, old fellow.’ And then maybe they’ give me three cheers, and ail that sort of thing.” “And did they?” “No. sir; I hope I may never stir if they didn’t give me a back seat in .the cloak room until my name was called, and adoorkeeper fired me ofit into tne corridor.t wice under the Impression that I was a lobbyist. Well, after I had been put on the Joint Committee on Spittoons and Window Washing, and spent a couple of months trying to wedge in my great four-hour speech on the Match Tax, something occu: red that let down my check rein, and took all the frills out of me for good.” “What was that?”

“Well, I was taking a drive out to the Soldiers’ Home one afternoon with three other members, when a light buggy went by like a streak of greased lightning, the trotter driven by a solemr looking man in a rusty plug hat, who was smoking a cigar and steadying a small terrier on the seat with his elbow-” “ ‘That’s Butcher,’ said one of my companions, with great interest; ‘trots in twenty. He’s a rattling >d stepper, bet your life.’ *• ‘Did you notice that dog? said another. ‘Best bred pup in town; tail no bigger than a rat’s; infernal fine dog, that.’ “As I had nothing else u> say, I casually inquired who the driver was.’ “ ‘ Why, tuat’s the President,’ said one of them with a yawn. ‘By Jove! how I’d like to have one of those pups!’ “That settles it. I’ve been as meek and sad as a car-horse pulling a picnic ever since.”

A Leaf from History.

An exchange publishes the following letter, dated Raleigh, N. C., April 24, 1865: Bitting around a blazing camp fire, a few evenings since, several Illinois officers related their experiences of General Grant in civil life. Here is, as nearly as I can recollect it, what General John E. Smith said on the subject: “I don’t-believe any man In Illinois knew Grant better than I did, and I think I had quite as much to do as any other man in bringing him into the war. I lived in Galena at the time. Grant’s place* of business was near mine. He kept a hardware and sadlery store. I used to drop in to see him very often, on my way home, and he and I would generally smoke our pipes together in his office, adjoining his store. He was a very poor business man, and never liked to wait on customers. If a customer called in the absence of the clerks, he would tell him to wait a few minutes till one of tiieclerks returned; and if he couldn’t wait, the General would go behind the counter, very reluctantly, and drag down whatever was wanted; bat he

hardly ever knew the price of it, an in nine cases out of ten he charged either too much or too little. He would rather talk about the Mexioan war thau wait on the best customer in the world, When the war broke out I told him one day that I was going down to Springfield to see Gov. Yates, who had sent for me. Grant merely remarked, in a quiet way: “You can say to the Governor that if I can be of any use to him in the organization of these regiments, I will be glad to do What I can.’ I went to Springfield and made arrangements for Grant to be sent for. He came right down and went to work to organize ten regiments called out as a sort of home-guard, fo 1 * thirty days at first, but afterwards enlisted for three years. When hefhadjdone this,and was ready to go home, Gov. Yates offered him the Colonelcy of the 21st Regiment, one of the ten. 'He accepted it, and immediately went to camp. I went with him, and I shall never forget the scene that occurred when his men first saw him. It was very laughable. Graut was dressed very clumsily, in a suit of citizens’ clothes—an old coat, worn out at the elbows, and a badly-dinged plug hat. His* men, thohgh ragged and barefooted themselves, had formed a high estimate of what a Colonel ought to be, and when Grant walked in among them they began making fun of him. They cried out in derision, ‘Look at our Colonel!’ ‘What a Colonel!’. ‘D—n such a Colonel;’ and made all sorts of fun out of him. A few of them, to‘show off’ to the others, got behind his back and began sparring at him, and while one was doing this another gave him such a push that made him hit Grant a terrible blow between the shouldere. The General soon stiowed them that they must not Judge the officer by the uniform,.and before he got through the unruly fellows felt very much mortified. One of them generously confessed that It was all in fun, aud hoped the new Colonel wouldn’t get mad about it. Grant went to work immediately, and in a very short time had his men clothed and fixed up iu good style.”

A Bandit at Bay.

The Italian journals mention the recapture of the formidable bandit, Sebastian Bani, who, afler his arrest by a body of carbineers, managed to escape from the hands of justice at the moment when he was being carried off to the railway station at Fabriano, in the Province of Ancona, by leaping from the bridge of Molinaccio. One of the carbineers broke biff leg in his endeavors to prevent the escape. After several unsuccessful atj&mpts, the pursuers at length discovered the, brigand’s new hiding-place. It was a lonely house in the country, not far from Fabriano. A Lieutenant of carbineers was directed to conduct tbe operations for his recapture, and to secure the culprit. The 13th instant, when a violent storm was raging, which enabled tbe carbineers to surround the house with out giving an alarm, was chosen for the execution of the enterprise. The Lieutenant, having posted his men around the bandit’s lair, entered the house. Bani, as soon as he caught sight of him, made a hurried retreat to the roof by a secret staircase, when he took in at a glance the full meauing of the situation. Beeing be was besieged, he resolved to defend himself to the last. Having no fire-arms, he turned the tiles of tne house into weapons of defense, and replied to every summons to surrender bv an uninterrupted shower of tiles and pebbles. Such was his skill that his projectiles hardly ever failed to hit some assailant. Three or four of the carbineers were already wounded, and, one of them rather seriously, when o mnianding officer, to avoid needless risks to the lives of his men, ordered them to fire. Bani was hit in the breast and stomach, but none the less continued to make a desperate defense. At length a Corporal, having discovered the stairs by which Bani had reached the roof, revolver in hand, grappled with the brigand, whom, although violently resisting in spite of his wounds and loss of blood, his adversary mastered at last. Bani was removed to the hospital at Fabriano, where his’wounds were pronounced very serious. A sum of money, amounting to about £3 12 shillings, \frhß found upon him, probably what was left of the produce of the robbery for which he had been arrested in the first instance.

The Rattlesnake.

i | Scientific New*. It has been observed by some naturalists that if we withhold water from snakes when about to shed to epidermis, they are thereby prevented from divesting themselves entirely of the old skin. I always kept a small bird’e bathing-cup, filled with clean water once a day, in a case containing my crotalus. The first skin he cast off, in July, was entire and without a blemish. At the second change, however, the last of September, I removed the cup one night, intending to replace it shortly afterwards, but I forgot to do so. The next morning I found portions of loose skin all over the floor of the case, and much more hanging in shreds from various parts of the body of the snake. Other parts seemed not to be detached yet. I had not supposed that the phidian was quite ready for a change. He was over two months in divesting himself of his torn trousers. Was it due to the fact that water had been withheld at the last

time? I failed toobserve the interesting process of divestment. To test the question of so called blindness occurring during the time when the pupil is covered by i a whitish flliii or thin membrane becoming detached, and occluding the sight of the eye, I placed some very active mice repeatedly in the case, during the period of change of epidermis. The ophidian attacked the mice in quick turn, without ever missing his first victim. On other occasions, however, when his sight was unobstructed, I have seen him strike at and miss the mark repeatedly. After making a few misses he would then strike about' with intensified fury. The snake never ate without first striking his victim. He did not eat more than two mice at a meal, and sometimes an hour elapsed before eating the seoond one. He never killed Lis prey wantonly; on the contrary, he permitted mice to keep his company so long as his appetite was appeased. An lowa woman gave her husband morphine to cure him of chewing tobacco. It cored him, but she is doing her own fell ploughing. |

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NO. 24.

Tigerskin muffs are a recent novelty. The new greenish-blue is known m Juponals. Walking dresses are short enough to show the shoes. Fichus will be more worn this winter than ever before. Hie hair is generally worn low, whether it is becoming or not. Fancy feathers are the leading feature in bonnet trimmings. Mrs. Harriet E. Stanton promises to excel her mother in oratory. Bits of tinsel, jet and many jet beads are added to feather ornaments. The latest contrast Jn suits imported from Paris is that of brown and green. New muffs to match costumes are in reticule shape, trimmed with laoe or fringe. The new amaranth red has a purplish tinge which makes it beooming to blondes. Bridesmaids at English weddings carry baskets of flowers instead of bouquets. More than twenty uew books by women'are announced lor immediate publication. T The broad belts now in favor Indicate a return to the short Waists oi twenty years ago. Miss Aoue Whitney’s model tor a statute of Samuel Adams has been accepted by the ciiy of Boston. She will receive SI,BOO for it. Miss Ada Cavendish, the actress, Is said to have originated the female fashion Of wearing a bunch of field daisies in the waistband. A lady dentist in Berlin has charge of the teeth of the children of the Crown Prince and a nuinner of lady physicians rank high in European circles. r," *

Overskirts grow in popularity, and they incline perceptibly toward the panier effects. The disposal of the trimming is a matter of individual taste. Flush jackets of various shapes are to be worn with street suits during the winter. The trimming on the hat or bonnet will be of the same material and color. Neck ruchings cf lace have four rows, sewed to a narrow j&nd or a row of narrow lace insertion. Two Diallings stand around the neck, and two fall outside the dress. New house sacks are made of pale blue, cream or white cloth of smooth surface, and are trimmed with a row of wide galloon in the richest Oriental colors and designs. « •: Bourette goods, which were so fashionable last season, are old style now. The demand is for goods with smooth surfaces, no matter how veriegated the coioriugs may be. New jet buttons for- coats of satin or velvet are of smooth, polished jet the size of a silver half dollar, and are sewed on through two gold-rimmed eyes that ornament the center. The Queen of the Belgians will present to the future Queen of Spain a wedding veil of Flemish lace of the choicest workmanship, which is being inade at the Girl’s Orphanage at Ghent. Invisible plaids and half-inch even checks in dark colors and black are popular materials for school dresses. Black and whita shepherd’s plaid merino goods are also used for the same purpose. The Genoa velvets, the designs o which are like the finest will be the most costly of the materials designed for the winter. This velvet comes in changeable tints as well as in solid colors. - Some of the imported French wraps are long, loqse with a dolman cape superimposed and trimmed with richest fringes, passementeries, cloak ornaments, and buttons and cords, beaded with cut jet. , Panier effects are still admired upon basques, and these are either included with the design itself being formed by extending the side bodies, or else they are supplementary pieces whiqh are placed under the pointed front, and carried over thwhips in plaits or folds.

Black cashmere costumes for common wear will be trimmed with colored cashmere this winter, or else with* black embroidery in open work designs. The trimming appears on the polonaise, and the underskirt is composed of cashmere only. Frosted flowers are eoming tnto fashion for evening dresses. An easy way of frosting those which have lost their treshness is to touch them lightly with white of egg, and then scatter frosting powder, which is merely powdered glass, over them. An English School Board has expelled an eight-year-old pupil who came to school with ornamental beads in her ears, and a Philadelphia private school teacher has refused to readmit a girl who has been playing in the juvenile Pifore Company during the summer. The principal trouble with the majority of goods and patterns lies in the fact that they are easily imitated In cheaper and more salable materials. As soon as a cloth becomes common it > looses its style, for it is no longer novel, and then women who call themselves fashionable ignore it.

A Story About Victor Emmamuel.

Temple Bar. One day a peasant woman took a basket of eggs to the house where the royal party was lodged. At the door she met an individual who greeted her politely, and on finding out her errand carried the basket to the kitchen, which done, he returned with a handful of small coins. Emboldened by so much condescension, the good woman mustered up courage to mention her great desire to set eyes on the King, Victor Emmanual. “Why, that’s me!" said the person with whom she was speaking. She looked at him scrutinizingly; then, after some seconds of mute contemplation, she exclaimed: “Oh, never/ You won’t get me to believe that. Buch a sweet and beautiful woman as the Queen would never have marrried a man si beurt." The King (for it was he) dismissed her with an extra piece of money, and proceeded in all haste to ask some peasants what was the meaning of si beurt “Bo ugly," was the reply. Victor Emmanuel related this small Incident with the greatest gusto.

FOR THE LADIES