Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1869 — Page 1

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Selected Miscellany.

'RABBI baßchi^sV^;4 S^rtfWieif’tEopfcJ^' Among the moat learned and 4 pious Jews oT the twelfth century, next to the great IfouUnoua or Maimonides of European fame, stands Raschi, or as be was more properly called, Bchlonao ben Isaac. He Wrote, a commentary on Thora and on several of the boohs of the Prophets, and also one on the Talmud. He was a great mathematician, and among his own people was reverenced for his sanctity and Asceticism. His parents lived in Toulon, but Raschi was born in Troyes, and this is the reason Why Ills father Isaac and his mother left Trillion. Shortly before the birth of the child the good’ woman walked down a riafrow street. A cumbrous wagon w&s being "drawn along iu by four stout horses, and the wagon filled the street, so as to mfkhtfß impossible to pass. Seeing this, t§q woijian turned to. seek a side street, but at that moment the car of a young nobleman drove up the lane toward her. The timid ,woman ran from, side to side iu quest of a corner into which she might retreat from the <ff feeing crushed by onb of the vehicles; “JjOQkral the-Jtewqss V? .exclaimed the -driver of the nobleman's par,; how frlglrtenddishe is l” ; '■ <"> *" ’■'? >• - - •• Whip the horses and run hep-down,” ■aid his master. The "two vehicles approached, and the poor creature, find}, g no place of retreat, with a piteous cry shrank against the wall. At tuat moment the huge wheel of the wagon rolled toward, her almost grazing the house wall. Then; suddenly, the wall bowed inward and formed a little recess, In which the Jewess stoqd secure. “ Softer and ms4s yielding are these atones than your hearts, ye Christians! ” n'inexclaiihed. - tiuJ Koyv this mi rad e wag known,, it was at once concluded that it was wrought by magic, and Isanc, fekrlng lest it khtmld be the cause of their being both brought to the stake, fled precipitately to Troyes, And there Rrf**f Wtofbtet When Raschi was an old man, and was renowned everywhere for his vast learn ingandi profound wisdom, and above gll for hi* great hffflness, the school wherein he ttugbt was crowded with pupils; ‘ahd his aiy rngt were treasured as though they were firecious like gold. He fasted continuously, only eating what was just suftl cient to keep life in, and what he ate was of poor quality, and was mingled with ashes. He_ drank nbthlsg save water, and of that only a little, once a day. He remained whole nights in prayer, and when -not esgagqij in teaching during the ,day, lie Stood rapt in meditation. As ho Stood at his window one oveniig, two Jows passed, and they were speaking .of him. One said to the other, “ Wae-there ever In the days of the prophets* greater saint than is this Rabbi Raschi ? ” To which the other replied, “Surely for him there must be' prepared one of the most exalted stations in Paradise." Then the Rabbi fell to musing on the place that was to be his in the kingdom of God, and he wondered who would be his companion in the Land of Light, and sit at his ,*(de in Paradiso. With his thoughts fixed ou this theme, hp stood long at. his window gating but over the vlnoclad hills, toward the herizou where the sun had set, and where its rays shot upward, kindling this fineljrattenuated vapor whiiib Hung'in the air, and making the blue of heaven green as gras*. Level bars of cloud burned like gold in a furnace, and small, misty fragments flowed eflafrlet, like fiery lilies growing* in'a field or minlit grass beiwqSß strips.,>f yellow crocus*sj -• o .. As'the olfi man stood with hie eyes fised bti the west, and bis mlfcri revblvkig tUfu thoughtssuggested.by the speakers,,h» saw the. western *ky undergo a sudden transformation {the golden clouds became steal of light jn a pavement of amethyst, ana.oh these platforms were placed pairs of golden thronto with «*gootfo robes of ruoydistlM) cast, yver them, and in these robot diamonds were set, and as the light cWrtfced they twihkied like-sparks 'that wander about the ashes of, complied paper. Upon each tiirone a name was written with lightning brilliancy.' And the Rabbi saw on two of the highest—two that stood side by side qa the same stage —Raschi ben la*sA Of 'Regensburg, and Abraham b?n Gerson, of Barcelona. As thou as the old mid had ■ made out ’these nafpOi dje light apfi he fount), that the sky kfas,dark, that only & faint amber glow remained above the HbrttnM, find that the stars wore shining in the dark vault. So he shut his window, and he bnsied himself through the night ih gathering together a few necessaries for a jour- * ney, for he was resolved ere break of day to start for Barcelona, and to make the acquaintance of Abraham ben Gerson, who was to be his companion In Paradise - After a tedious Journey, Raschi arrived in Barcelona, his feet sore with walking, and'his palm fretted with the staff he held, apd hia shoulders galled with the strap* of the little knapsack which held his clothes and provisions. As he entered -the town he thought to himself “I will not mention tho holy man by name, but wilt see whether the Hebrews here know of his high merit and future exaltation.” Then, meeting s Jewish wood cutter, he stopped iSirsbd raid:

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“ Pricnd Jvkp' k tka .most j plena of the faithful in this city ?” .. ■ The wood-cutter replied, Rabbi Jonathan.” . n,-. i . “Who is the neirl greatest Mint in the City f" * | l;lf 1 111 » “Levi Imn-Natha*." "Have yen.ether wise,just and holy men h/erp r* “Certainly; there is lym&el Zadik, there is Jehoshua ben Amnon, Samuel the Learned, Mordecai Cohen—” ~ “ But stay," interrvpUu RaspW; ” the one I mean, I suppose be * very old man, with pale fapfe. bowed khdes, a long, white beard, eyes tea with tears from much weeping, for the transgressions of l&kel; A ’malt engaged in prayer, who maberateV hls body and trains his soul” ' “ There le bo kiich a man in Bareelona,” him; “ can you tell me aught of Abraham man, a delicate liver, keeps much company, and is in high favor with the Gentiles” i.l : "!• “ Where does be live, friend T” “ Foßdw me, and I will show you.” The Rabbi Raschi was brought by fhb wbOd'cfatter before 1 hr ihafble palace. Gayly caparisoned horses stood at the door, held by pages llw hall, trad'paved with colored iparbles; the walls weie with alabaster richly sculptured, and sflk curtains’bung before the dpqrs. Noblemen waited there, lounging bn velvef soflts All the master of the house should attend to them. Servants glittering with gold lace hurried about, Fearing talkers of the mo#t,precious metal, on, which were goblets rati of tried wines, and plates with delicious confec i ions, which thpy,handed to the illustrious

Travel-Milked Stod ing on his rude staff, his gabenßKnltt,tors, his long, white beard unUtfIHHMH the white hair of bis head ih’foipfled locks, unattendwfto.the wonderinoßaschi seemed entranced. -A servant approached him With a golden solver, on which were Wine*. 1 rhewld min-raised his staff, and with flashing eyes indignantly signed him UeH tinkled. Instantly, all the nobles rose, the servants started 3 tains that screened the asrient, and ranged themselves in a liuq between the stairs and the entrance door., • n i ) Jn, another ftomeht S uobledoeking Jew, 4n-|k crimson velvet dresa, wdl*.gold chains about nis neck, appeared, accompanying a Spanish prince of royal blooth conversing with hist familiarly as they deseW! ““ s servaols, / r *n«ke,way for me." r. The master of the house Mped still and looked at him; then made a sign to the iameattafrinM felkbadf kunf sOtowed ■ his old man to pass. . .*. -•* —,+ Itaschl’s’ cheeks grew crimson. His tiahd trembly as he thrust it forth and laid. lUon the arm of the wealthy Jew. Are>you Abraham, son of Gerson?” be talked In faltering tone*. * “ I am. .What do you want with me, father?” » «s » must speak with you. Lead on to a private chngibw, ,,K TRe mcrdhib* Obeyed, and 4 brought the Rabbi lUtb'kiittle room ’ hyihg wlto, blue silk, tiefM ' “ I am, Rasehi ben imae,*’ said the old man, “ and ?£ qame*duire to- seek you. I hoped to kasre faund*>-pious Jew; I find one living,. *1 potao'wnd worldliness. I hoped to have, ftmfca one'fkMlttg and praying; I find (flkCleadth'imd.Ynflicking, I thought tb hkte fodud one the favorite of God. and I find yn.q tbejpeurted of princes and nobles. Is this a house for -a Jew—a child of a despised and outcast race ? The temple lieth waste,.and shall we live in luxury and splendor T” “ I feel honored in being visited by the illustrious Raschi,” said Abraham. “ Shamed, shamed!” exclaimed the Rabbi. “ Are you not ashamed before me to exhibit all this profusion ?” “ God’s blessing has been on my bus! nesst" said the merchant. ing the Giver, bv squandering the gift. Do you fitoEMag? Do you wear the stones witflHKnees?” ...." My biumiratPcupies my Arne and demands my energies. I pray, hat cannot pray for long. Tcannbt fast, or my business would not be attended to.” YtßOdtMMKmeilk; the flesh of beasts not slain by a Jewish butcher ?” flesh of the ewine ?*' . “ My attendant hL been irregular.” “ Alas, alas I” cried Raschi, throwing down hia staff and raising his hands to heaven. *' Surely there is injustice in Paradise as well as on earth. Here lives a wicked Jew. a breaker of the law, in splendor,as a king; in another place is a pious man, fearing God, macerating his body, in wank and nakedness, crushed by. poverty, and .the kingdom of Heaven receives both, and sets both on a level. Woe is me!" and he would have, rushed froih thh chamber had not the merchant stayed him. “ Rabbi," he raid, t‘ I know my dnty to God and man, and I practice it as best 1 can.” . i ■ “ Profane one!” exclaimed the old man. “Trust ndt your Own strength. When the ungodly are green as the grass, and when all the workers of wickedness do flourish; then shall they he destroyed—” But just then there ’ flashed before the Rabbi’s eyes that golden throne beside bis own, on which (was written the name of the merchant _ „ ,

“Come With me, Mid Abraham, taking the ota man’* hajid; “to-morrow my daughter li to be married, and to-day I am going to make preeenta to the poor of onr tribq. They are now aiaembled to receive my alma. “ And to whom ia your daughter to be married»” asked RaaohL “To a rich Gentile, may beT” . "No, answered the merchant, mildly. “To my dark. He is not wealthy, but he la upright and uaefal, and on his marriage I shall make him my partner.” They descended the stairs to the hall, ia which the poor were assembled. The rich Jew gave them. abundant alnb, and as each reoeiveabb gift he left One old woman remained. She pressed forward,

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and Abraham extended to her a little purse. "No!” she exclaimed, thrusting the monejtasidef “I have not come here to beg, but for advice.” • "Speak, wherein can I advise you? Draw nearer to me.” ' The woman approached him, ind began: “I am a poor widow, hardly tup-j porting four children. All my hppes Was fixed on the marriage of my eldest danghter to him to whom my dear husband, now no more, had betrothed her. He was. an orphan; brought up in par house, and when he left us he gained ah honest and.res pec table livelihood; and I hoped, when ho married my Miriam, that We should have been raised from our penury. But, alas! his eyes have been blinded by proeperity, and he is about to marry a rich wife and desert my daughter.”, “Woman! why do you come about this matter to me r asked the merchant: “how can I give yonr Miriam back her betrothed?” ■•. .<£ “You can do so,” replied the widow, “ for that young man will be to-morrow your son-ta-law/’ . > ' Don Abraham started back dismayed. For some moments he did not speak.' After a bhile, however, he broke silence, and said to the old woman, i “ Did the young mau.love your Miriam?” “lam sure, very sure, he did. “I will inquire into the manor,” said the merchant, turning away, “ Well now," Spoke Raschi, m they ascended the stairs together, this is a bad business. However, I see what must be done. Be generous, give the young woman, Miriam, a decent sum of money »» “Come here to-morrow” Interrupted Abraham; he present at the Wedding. By that time I shall have dooMed Cor myself what is best to be done,” On the morrow, at the appointed hour, having finished his morning prayers, the Rabbi Raschi betook himself to the palace of him who was to be his comrade in Paradise. There he found a throng of guests, of all ranks, filling the rooms. Music played, and tobies groaned under viands of the richest and most rare descriptions. Raschi with difficulty pushed his way through the crowd to the chamber of the master. Don Abraham was dressed in a magnificent blue velvet robe, breidered with gold pomegranates, of which the seeds were rubies. Around him were clustered the grandees of the town. On seeing Raschi he, however, advanced toward him and extended to him hi*hand. u. t The wedding ceremony soon began; in thexonrt all was prepared; an awning was spread; the bride, veiled in white, was led forward by two ladies. Then came the) bridegroom accompanied by two gentlemen, and the guests followed, each with a lighted toper in the hand. From a baled- 1 ny a band played, and'chotnwmg. A Rabbi read alcua and distinctly the oontcaat,, and the acceptance of the bridegroom into l partnership with himself; as Abraham’s dotation of the bride. Then the bridegroom took a gold ring and placed it on the bride’s finger, with the words: *Be to me wed by means of this ring, according to the law of Moses and of Israel,” The Rabbi than gave the pair, hia bless--2r jt asftsaa weaf ISa&FafifeF'?i Mtr -Don Abraham, when thig ceremony-was concluded, stepped up to the bridei Sad, gently raised the veil from her face. V] “ God of our fathers 1” pried the bride mom,: staggering backward, “Tt«s The crowd regained silent as th&fl&h turned to stone, for the bride wps not Ahraham’s daughter, but the child of the Jfcttl the merchant, smiling on the company. “ This girl was betrothed to this youth by her father on his deathbed. They were brought up together add loved one another, I knew nothing of this; and when I bond that the young man was worthy and usefhl in the business, I proposed to hiq» that he should become my son-in-law. Out of gratitude for past favors, and in the hope of being able, as my partner, to assist his poor relatives, he yielded to my persuasion, and promised to marry my daughter. Only yesterday did t ascertain the circumstances of his previous engagement; I knew then the reason of his frequent fits of depression. His heart was elsewhere. Through me, however, shall two hearts never be saddened. I have made him my partner and given him the widow’s daughter to wife”’ The uswly-married couple fell at, hisfeet, thanking him with tears, and the people gave a great shout of applause. Then Raschi, laying about him with his staff, beat himself a Way through the multitude, acd pressing up to the merchant, lie buiHt into tears, and throwing himself on his neck embraced him, and raising his hands, cried; “Yes! you are' worthy to reach Gan Eden (Paradise) I Glory be to God, who has given me such a man as thou, to be my companion for eternity ! Glory be to God, whoshaa ndt made one rough rpad aloue to Paradise, hut ba* made many roads besides; who lias prepared a throne, not for the fasting ascetic aud contemplative alone, bat also for him who can do what is right and just freely 1 One* a Week.

Wrong Certificate at the Bank.

In the midst of one of the wont of our business panics, and at the moment when everybody thought all the banks were going to the dogs together, Jones—the inevitable Jones—rushed into the*bank of which he was a stockholder, and thrusting the certificate Into the face of the transfer clerk, he raid, in great haste, “ Here, please transfer half or that to Jsmea P. Smith t” Tho clerk looked at It, and asked, “ Which halt Mr. Jones ?” “ I don’t care which half,” replied Jones, puzzled at the inquiry, “You had better go to the courts; 1 can’t make the transfer without a legal decision. If you really wish to transfer your other hair to Mr. Smitb, we can’t do It here.” Jones was confounded. He knew the banks were all in a muddle, but tbii was too deep for him. Be took his certificate from the hand of the smiling clerk, and, on looking at it, lo! Jt was his marriage certificate! Being a printed form, on fine paper, and put away among his private papers, it was the first thing that Mr. Jones laid hands on when he went to hia secretary for his bank stock scrip. He went home,, kissed his wifeglad to find she hadu’t been transferred to fir. Smith—and, taking the right papers this time, hastened down town, in season to get the matter ali straight.— Jtoehange. Th* lady Who knit her brows is now devoting her attention to a pair of. socks.

OUR (»}pNT»V AND OUR UNION.

Freedmen’s Bureau Facts.

Th* seventh semi-annual report’ on sohoois for freed men, ending with Jan. 1, 1809, presented by J. W. Arvord, General Superintendent, in hia official capacity, is before us. ! We are struck with the immensity of the work which has been accomplished among the er-slaves, in the matter of education, since the overthrow of the rebellion. It is wonder (hi to note the avidity with which the blacks, AoomeAhff thw Tkws to Ignorance, kite availed themselves of the advantages of education proffered by a benign government, and benevolent and compassionate effort. According to the stotutics presented, abont one In every twenty of the benighted negroes is a pupil at one of the schools Instituted by national or private enterprise tot their education. As the work of instruction has proceeded, many of the colored population, impressed with the advantages resulting from schools, and prosperous enough for the purpose, have combined to institute educational facilities of their own, entirely independent at eleemosynary assistance. Bnt not only in these but in all other cases of colored instruction, intolerance has been fall of venomous opposition. In various parts of the ground oocupied, school-houses and churcheis have been, reduced to ashes by the remorseless hand of the incendiary; teachers have been driven Off by compulsory warnings, or by inflammatory threats fulminated by local meetings, or by actual violence impending atthe hands or Infuriated mob*. Amid all these disturbances, the cause of education has made steady and netoble progress*; notwithstanding the various drawbacks of out-door and home influence. The attendance for the year 1868 was considerably ln advance of the attendance for the year 1867, and the number of schools for the former twehremonth proved, contrary to expectation, to be largely in excess of what had been looked for. There is a hungering and thirsting for knowledge among the ex-slaves which is not to be found anywhere among the body of the Southern whites. They seise the advantanmrauraented as persons might be expeqUadPTo ifckeh food from which imperathfip circoamances had excluded them to the very verge of starvation. In almost evtiry the freedmen, impecHmai they are generally, are inquiring how schools for thcar children cap be carried On successfully. 1 Fortunately, in discontinuing the Freedmen’s Bureau such discontinuance taking place on the lty of January last—the questjoh of education was left untouched. . Appropriations will stilt be made for'tire pitfpOMi of maintaining schpdlSt * Be ylctim rape. Money could not, ire spent i with more utilitarian effect. .*'&!» ii >• ft j The ecdhpmical hondition Qf the emancipated staves is approximated by-the fact that the FreedmenW Savings Bank, with twenty-four bfrahehes, distributed throughout thirteen, States and the District of Columbia, aggregate deposits for the year 1868, to the extent, in round numbers, of about $1,000,000; on which, daring the same period, interest was paid to depositors, amounting to $34,897.89. When supha fund can be collected within such a circumscribed number of localities, the general economy, industry and productiveness of the ex-slaves can be easily imagined. Take the whole race, and probably $20,000,000 wouid be an under rather than an over estimate of the surplfig earnings of the negroes of the oncefelave holding States for the year 1868. Considering how utterly destitute this class of laborers was, ana how ignorant, inexperienced and helpless, when turned adrift from their masters, by the A people capable of such accumulation, amid tmeh complications, defragment snd repression, certainly must possess some of the most desirable qualities of human nature, such as patience, self-denial, perseverance, fixed determination, and preparation against probably contingencies. Certainly there is nothing in this eagerness for education, even among thoee past adult ages; nothing in this capacity for accumulation, which.indicates incapacity for freedom or for participation in the right of the elective franchise. We think we may say truly that history does not make mention of so much moral, intellectual aud material progress achieved in so. short time, by a people starting from a condition of snen utter poverty, ignorance, superstition'and dependency, surrounded by so muchhate, persecution and fraud.— Chicago Republican, June 24tA.

A Prompt Witness.

Psuhafs one of the most “enjoyable” things a modern court of Justice — where not unfrequently innocent witnesses, who are losing patience, time and money, in their compulsory occupancy of the witness stand (whtoh fin a pilory,) are ‘baliytsgged" and b the torturing in return of some impudent unfeeling advocate. A good case in point is tiUS : In a court not more than about five thousand miles away from the city of Gotham a legal gentleman had gone through the various stages of bar pleading, and had coaxed, threatened, and bullied witnesses to his heart's content, when it chanced that a very stupid fellow, an hoatier was called upon the stand. He was, in fact simplicity personified. The counsel, it should be premised, had made a great rase about the previous witnesses speaking so low that he could not hear them. “Mow, >ir," said the burned counsel, “I hope we shall have no difficulty In making yaw speak vp. n (He himself spoke rudely loud:) ” *‘l hope not, Sir 1” shouted out the witness In such bellowing tones that they fairly shook the building. “How dare you speak In that way; Birr" demanded the counsel. *7 can't tptdk no louder I”—shouting louder than befbre, as If to atone for hb fault ;tn speaking too low I “Hive you been drinking this morning?” asked the lasryer, who bad now entirely loet the command of hb temper at the roars of laughter which burst forth from autrowded audience. “Tftar," Mid th ©-witness, frankly. “And what have you been drinking, Sir t Look at the jury—don't look at me, Sir, in that way 1" “ Corfu, Sir.’ ’ “Did you have any thing ia yout coffee, Sir ?" * •• Tar, Sir.” “ i thought so,” Mid the oooaMl, with a glance at the jury.*' “Well, Sir," continued the “learned counsel," “you My Sou "hod something in your cofiee. Bute. ’ you please, to the Jury what that ‘something’ saw.” -Tr ■ e. i. - .

“ Sugar, Bir,” answered the wHhets, without the movement of a muscle. : There was another bunt of “furtive laughter ” throughout the court-room. “This man it no fool, your Honor* (addressing the Court), “ but he is something teoree. Now, witness, you must come to tho point. Had yon anything s lei in yonr ooffec besides sugar ? ” * Tee, Birr “Yea ?—you had t (Well, we are likely to get at the troth after all, hia turning and twitting to the contrary notwithstanding.) Well, Sir, what else mu it you had ih your coffee? ” “A ipune, Sir!” shouted the witness; “Do I make you hear me Square?—* ipune / /” That was the last witness, snd the last of him on the stand. Here the trial was adjourned until the next day Harper't Mageuine. .

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

A wooden wedding—Marrying a blockhead. The ties that connect business men with the public—Adver-tts*. Dentist—One who finds work for his own teeth by faking ont thora of other people. A sufferer adviws persons going over the Union Pacific Railroad to take their cold victuals with them. It is proposed to get up a grand Mir in Cincinnati to exhibit the manufactures of the Mississippi Valley. On his deathbed a distinguished humorist requested that no one be invited to hip funeral; “Because,” sighed the dying wag, “ it’s a civility I can never repey.” A party of Germans were Ashing near Lafayette, Ind, when one of them caught a large pike. The hook being fastened down its throat, one of them put in his thumb to get it out, when the fish bit the thumb off A New Bedford juror, who left his horse tied to s tree on going to court on a recent Tuesday morning, suddenly recollected the fact on the next Thursday afternoon, and hastily applied to the Court for nermisaion to go and look after his welfare. Sib Henry Rowlinkon, the distinguished arcbnologist, maintains that Babylon is the site of the Garden of Eden, and that the Bahylonion documents now extant give exact geographical description of the scene of “ man’s first disobedience.”

Henry Ward Brkcher invites Bonner to come ont and take an interest in his form. He says he has thirty-six acres of fend, which is too much for himself alone. “We will carry it on jointly," he tellp Bonner; “I wifi lay ont and superintend Uu work, and yon shall pay the bills.” A French duellist coming home from hip last meeting gave two Napoleons to the .coachman ‘ Many thanks; -it is a pleas?, are to drive you ont I" “ I beg yonr pardon, it is Bot for driving me ont that I give yon thora two 100k,.1t is for driving me home Once a Week reminds the worid that this is the centenary of the steam engine. A patent was granted to Watt in April, 1769. It is also the centenary of Humboldt, Cuvier, the first Brunei, Wellington, Bonlt and Ney, and the hundredth year since a patent was granted to the spinning jenny. Dr Turner, in one of the reports of the Inebriate Asylum, speaks of three children which were born to habitually inebriate parents, and were all three idiots. Afterwards these parents reformed, and lived temperately; several years, during which period of temperance two more children were born, and were active and intelligent. Finally, the parents again fell into inebriety, and had two more children, both idiots. A New Hampshire farmer, who had an invariably good-natured wife, longed to hear her scold for a change, and was advised that a load of crotchety firewood would make her very desirably cross. HWfrled it When the pile was gone he nHSI if he shonid get such another supply. “ Oh! yes,” said she, “ for that crooked wood you brought before does lie around the pot so nicely.” A clever old dame, who resides a short distance from New Ycrk city, was recently astonished by her husband, who came in hurriedly with the remark: “ I have got a present for you 1” “A present for me,” rays she ; “ what is ii?” “ A tooth-brush,” responded the old gent “ What good will that do me—you know I have not got a tooth in my head 1” retorted his spouse. “ Just the thing,” replied the venerable joker, “ there ain’t a bristib in Ul”

Thb New Orleans Jhicaytme relates this book anction scene: “Gentlemen,” cried an auctioneer at a book anction, last evening, “I offer you**—scanning the title very closely—“ Shakspeara’a works; how much to start them?'’ “Who are they by ?" inquired a wag in the crowd. “ I’fi tell yon in a moment,” was the reply, but before he could refer, a shout of laughter from th* bystanders convinced him of his blander. A German chemist has discovered that if morphia, which is sometimes used effectually to allay vomiting, be heated with hydro-chloric acid, it will become the most powerful emetic known. The effect is produced by introducing a small quantity under, the skin, and sometimes by spilling it on the skin, bnt the vomiting soon subsides, and leaves no nausea. The discoverer calls the new agent ememorphia. A correspondent of the London 7 el* graph thinks nobody knows how to cook coffee but the natives of Ceylon, and tqfis us how they do it He says: “ They take the quantity of coffee beans required, roast them in an earthen chasty or saocersha pod pot, pound them in a pestle Ind mortar, or* braise them between two stones; then pass through a sieve com posed of ooarre muslin; Boiling water is added, and the coffee in made.” A bankrupt merchant, returning home one night, said to his noble wife; “My dear, lam ruined; everything we have is in the hands of the sheriff." After a few memento of silence, the wife looked calmly into his face and said: “Will the sheriff sell yoo?" “Oh no.” -Will the sheriff sell me?” “Oh no” “Wfilhe sell our onr children?" “ Oh, no.” “ Then do not say that we have loet everything. All that is most valuable remains to osmanhood, womanhood, and childhood. We have loot bnt the remits of skill and industry. We canlnake another fortune, if our hearts and hands are left us.” Can we wonder that, encouraged by such a noble wife; he 1s sow on the road to fqrtune? * Jt A curious discovery ha* recently bran made at Pompeii. In a house in courraof

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excavation an oven wu (bond, doted with an Iron door,, on openisg which a batch of elghty-one loaves, pat In neatly eighteen hundred yean ago, and now tomewhat overdone, waa discovered; and even the large iron shovel with whlah they had been neatly laid in rows. (Die loaves were bat alightly overbaked by the lava heat, having been protected by a quantity of ashes covering, the door. There la no baiter's marks oh the loaves; they are circular, about nine Inches in diameter, rather flat, and Indented (evidently with the baker’s elbow) in the oenter. and are ■lightly raised at the sides, and divided by eight lines radiating from the center into eight segments. They are now of a deep brown color, and hard, but very light. Itt the same shop wore found SAI bronze and 68 silver coins. A mill, with a great quantity of corn in excellent preservation, has also been discovered.

Punch during the Rebellion.

' If any one wishes to obtain a comet idea or the state of public feeling in Great Britain during onr late civil war, let him turn to the contemporaneous pages Of Punch. The speeches of prominent statesmen and the editorials of the leading newspapers may to day be disclaimed as the utterances of party prejudice or the efftttions of an exasperated and privileged class. But Punch is nothing if not the mirror held np to public opinion—on all questions of foreign policy especially. No one can torn the pages over Which presides the grinning hunchback of fleet street without seeing therein displayed the state of popular feeling ffegpt'oting Poland, Italy, Denmark, Russia, and, above all, the United State*. From the first cartoon of theteeriee minting to ths war in America, wherein “ Miss Carolina” (depicted as a raw-boned virago) “asserts her right te wajlop her nigger * down to the isit, wherein the Northern ghdiator, equipped « a ntiarivs, throws Ms net over his adversary and cries “Habet!" there is ao real sympathy or kindly feeling for either side expressed therein. The Northerners am fratricides, cowards, 'liars, braggarts, naughty boys, whom Mother Britannia intends to whip some day—impertinent blusterers whom John Bull will shortly feel called upon to Chastise soundly; while the Southerners are negro-whippers and ruffians: and both ■ides are madmen and fools fighting about the universal nigger, la one picture the American gladiators stud equipped far combat before a negro emperor and a grinning circle of negro spectators; in another, entitled the “American Juggernaut’s Car,” the American# are depicted aa flinging themselves umter.tk* mighty wheels of S monster cannot. * ®en* John BuUcnUs to tie two bad boy* .the; North-and the Souths 4 ‘ Ido® *t cdNi fegopsnso for your noise, but if you throw atones at. my wiidows'l must thrash you ; deity" and there Columbia gazes mourn fully o# & amp pf the United States rent hoprieeeiytotwaia, White Britannia remarks: “ You jM And it’very hard to join that neatly.” The att*' wee father, England, to that thought! Occasionally, as the varying fortune of War ; bide victory incline to one or the other ht the combatants, a gentle pat is given to the more suoeeeuftu of the two, but a vicious dig is pretty sure to follow immediately thereafter. Late in the summer of 1864, Lord Palmerston is represented as looking smilingly on Jefferson Davis, while Punch logs his afeoisr and says significantly, “ Don’t you mean to recognize him?” Yet before the spring 1806 is over Punch calls on Britannia to weep with Columbia over the corpse of Lincoln, and becomes highly sympathetic when sympathy is no longer either useful or welcome.— Lippineotfs Mogosinefor July.

Sad Accident.

Ten Russian papers record a distressing accident which recently took place near Dorpat Wolves had appeared in unusual numbers. A hunter determined to kill tome of them, hoping to frighten away the band. A horee died during the day. He purchased the body and placed It in the edge of the woods, to draw the wolves. The night was dark. Armed with several rifles, he took his stand under a covert at nightfall. He had not been long at his post when he saw something black mov ing actively on the horn’s carcass. Sure it was a wolf, he aimed and fired. I®* staotly he heard a despairing shriek, evidently from a human being, which save him the greatest uneasiness. He went up and found a poor woman mortally wounoed and in death’s agony. She told him she was the mother of three' children dying of hunger; she bad observed the carcass during the day, but was ashamed to be seen taking a portion of it, so she waited till nightfall to cut a piece of it for her starving children. dShe had a kitchen knife and lying by her was a stew pan she had brought to receive the meat • ' Her story was investigated, and found to be true In every particular. The investigation led, moreover, to the discovery of the existence of great distress among the peasants of the neighborhood.- The neighboring authorities at once took measures for the support of the three orphans. One of them was given to the hunter, the involuntary cause of their mother's death. He undertook to bring it up, and launch it well ip life. The village undertook the care of another. The authorities ordered the head of the village to take charge of the third, “ because He should have ascertained the distress of the victim and her family, and have prevented her, by bis charity, from being driven to the cruel extremity which caused her death.”

A General Benefit.

IlltjßTra,tivk of the love of seam of our citizens for titles, we have the following, which ended happily. A weO-knswh business man here had a bookkeeper who had been taken on trial, and was receiving 9100 per month. A “young .man from the country ” called on the bookkeeper, and in th* bearing of his employer broke out, u Halloa t how are you, General ?“ as he shook him cordially by the hand. When the granger left, the employer, .who is known for his eccentricity, wheeled round and looked his clerk In the free. The latter thought his hoar had come. “ General I Gumma. I GENERAL! ” broke oat the employer. "So, young man—l beg your pardon. General —you have been promoted T How much do you get in this establishment’ ” The young man, trmMlß* In hit boots, answered that he received 1100 a month, bntlf his employer thought M too much, -—. “That Is enough,” broke in the elder gentleman.; “pleasedo me the fevor to consider your salary raised |BS a month. I cant afford to run a General on SIOO a month; the dignity of the doth most be maintained.” And he now boasts that althivugh of no account hlinedf he has a General in his employ.— Jjjan Jhmeise* letter. Pr » ;* V *» . . ,1;

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FACTS AND FIGURES

Whalen! th* Domlnk» S6,MBu octet ComroDonn NuTT’sother name la Lewis Dinger. •*» Ig Salt Lake City |lB U the price paid for a cord of pirns wood. >, A HAtt-rronn lady has jret had a watch sent bar by enpiusn” Bv a new law in Italy thb cMrgi become liable to conscriptwn; ' •»* 'ro- t pjassswE*"?* - Axnw Irish paper, Th* Irish made Ha appearance in Clnriraetl, -u. Ttra Catholic Publication society has ■printed 617,000 tracts during the* past year. ..TW-ri On hundred and seventjr-nlOsrthotteand dollars have been raisoj sos the ffhttman College at Rome. Six woasen were recently simMteii to the University of Lawton, hawing -phased satisfactory examinational v? SvmiHUVD has about 9OosOff battle, s^stjsr^^T.. SocM, Pre.;«Uo» otfjiwl ty to Animals in New York average two arrests of cruel teamster* per day., Tons bare bean three Papas, besides Pius IX., whofrave oelebratsd the Attieth anniversary of their first mass, -i A Boston lettor-carrier 'yvis-'iweatifty made the recipient of ftlSO from the well pleased citizens whose maills entrusted to builder,tedreid! fi is said thajfuikre aot a portion of the world whan “Hsus dippers ” are not known. In one of toe French departments n poster adorned the walla, mvtting.the voters to oast their ballots for “Jutes X. —the drunkards’ candidate.” ' ,* A fatai. quarrel In Jersey City aose front the refusal of a barkeeper to allow a teamster to water his horses from thetcepitcher. ~

A lady ty Rhode Island snbscrtbiW for a Newport paper, the other day, tobeaent to a neighbor who worried her, by bortpwinghar own. %- .... A Tsxaa papa cistern that theca are more new spa?** published in that State, in proportion to the white population, than in any other State ia the Unto*. 1-SSSSSi M m ** 7 1 ‘ -»l lc*t« t»rjff. y »#( IwjtL-j now an inmate of Asylum at Milwaukee. He waft PWteut at Byron’s death. : : , Dtmme the yea%lß6B, there were 45,848 male persons, charged With crime, treh’ftn before the ooUoe ifccgiitimtCß of the taetro**lit*n disSof London. Of this nambwvMwoeticket-ofleiveme*, and 5,544 had h«ri PSCjionriy convicted. • A company has heap formed in New York to-bring fresh meat to thatmarirat from Texas The snore. .Wd veeeels li lined with a non-conducting (bit; and by chemical means a oolTbeW the freezing point will be kept up. A WHim baby was picked op a few days ago on the Dan river, MMT gtirith P®**®®* Va. It was in a metallic oa£a, wiu>» bottle of milk at ns mouth, andnmQof greenbacks under lte bred, white newlyplucked roses decorated its strange cngle. Inside of a railroad car, ana has never slept in any house except the one in which he. was born, has never been courting and never kissed a gill -i_3 >' ><• •* M - tx is recorded of a Catholic ludy, of husband bring a Quaker, her second a Church of England man, and ha third* CathoUa; ami what Is more eurious still, on eatmoccasion she married * man twice ha own age; a* ItwjteHWikrteiff a man of 60; atri at 4& a ma» of * • ’ Mdsevea pennyweights It was rafred t/a cross bet wash the-Wilson and the Seedling.” L Tun report of the Inspectors of Continkers, gipsies, vagrants, wild otiiri soaa Who have no sppaent tmat > thuS^jr^ 13,684 children. , h .| , A TArnn was recently read ibefosw the Academy of Srireees, at Trelorea. France. axk from sate to west bring kmgar thaa that from north to aeutteWte tottete of right dy obaarva* .tim. the fact mentioasd. . , n*., •« Tan other day * team iaths writ cutting on the RMffriMl* Branch rail of nltro-giycertos. this wfrnto eeriteff4»w. The exploriow shook the window»fo«yg^ the usual eeuire would have-east,ikOW. A cnmtnrr la roan ed y e . j. du. recently celebrated She wu the first Deacon Kbeoeasr Hartshorn, built the first frame house in Henniker. and It now stands in good oaadwaii. It was in thla boose tha Senator Patterson was horn. Ha fetha, James olwtioaary war. »is the saaghof or tea 0 “ore sixth generation.