Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 1, Number 2, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 9 July 1870 — Page 6

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'BIRTH-DA REFLECTIONS.

BY KCROS S. TEICHEA.

•My age is now a score—ah, me! The years of life, how fast they flee! Yes, soon will come eternity,

With all its grand reality.

This life—it's labors and its toils.— In struggling for a mastery 80 hard amid disease and broils—

We hope will end in victory.

With marble lwart.s and iron hands We in this life do often meet Arid while in weakness here we stand

The lowering tempests on us beat.

Through flery trials we must go, And breast the storms which sweep the earth, And dwell in tears and blood and woe,

To te.st our merit and our worth.

Here raging seas in fury boil. And thunders roll amid tm: clouds We see the powers of Heaven toil

To wrap the world in sable shrouds!

But why should thoughts of gloom and deatli Brood harshly 011 this aching heart, While angels stand with golden wreath

And saintly honors to impart

Desponding heart, no more repine! I-'or He who rules is love and light— The brightest laurels will be thine

Where ages pass without a night.

Ko here we lift our thoughts above And banish eare and grief away Espouse the theme that God is love,

The night departs—behold the day!

Tlirough azure spacc of ether blue, Kee rays of light are falling now. To paint the earth a brilliant hut*

As reverent fields and forests bow.

See jeweled splendors of the sky, The ponderous world that rolls along, Salute eaeh other as they fly.

And blend their heavenly light and song.

1 'IIESEN TIM EN TS.

You call me sweet and tender names. And sul'tly smooth my tresses, And all the while my happy heart

Meats time to your caresses. You love me in'your master way, I answer—as you let me But-ah! there comes another day,

The day you will forget me.

I know that every fleeting hour Is marked by thoughts I bring you, I know there dwells a subtle power

In the old songs I sing you, I di» not fear lie darkest "way

With those dear arms about me Ah! 110—1 only dread the day When you can live without me.

And si ill you call me fender names. And softly smooth my tresses And still in.v happy answering heart ^fji-ats time to your caresses. ri'jsh!—let me put that touch away

Alld elasii your hands above me, S—while I ask to die that day, TJie day you do not love me.

You .need not check the thoughts that list' With darkness wrapped about them. For muring in your earnest f.yes

My Jimrt aiu»':nostdoubtthem: fret hush *11V whispers us you may, ".eh chidings do not fret me, Ah no! I nnlv tear that day,

The dav vou will forget me.

Bet's Match-Making.

The only time I ever tried match-mak-ing in inv'life was when I wns seventeen, mill

then so burned my fingers

over the business that 1 took eare never lo meddle with it again. I "was living at the time with my step-mother on her farm near Ballymena. My father was dead, and my step-mother did not like inc. She hail placed me for a time with a milliner in the town, but iinding it expensive supporting mo apart from her, had taken me away again. .She was thinking of a second marriage, though I did not know it at the time. Hut this I did know—that she had written to some distant friends of my father in America, who had unwillingly consented to take me off her hands. don't think it would have been halt •us hard for me to have made up my mind to die for 1

was a

hear explfc rest OQ ber eu

step

out

shy little tiling,

without a bit of courage to deal with st rangers, and my heart was tit to burst the thought of leaving the very lew friends whom I had to love.and my own little corner, of the world, where the trees and tin* roads knew me. Hut 1 felt it would have to be done, and I lav awake all night after the letter arrived, -Irving to think how I should ever be brave enough to say good-bv to my dear friend Gracie Byrne, and to tirade's lover, ]onnell"M'l)onnell. (r yeio was the eicverest ol all Miss

Doran's apprentices She was an orphan without a friend to look alter In1, •ind she was the loveliest girl 111 the count rv. IV'M'l''

sh".

finely

Hon very

I"'1'"1,!

and vain, but I never could think she, was either. She and 1 loved

one

anoth

er dourly. though I can not think what attracted her to poor little plain me She'had plenty 'of admirers, and she tiueened it

Donnell audi weri great friends, and 1 li.ul promised to do all I eonld to help him with Gracie.

-mother w.is always crying

that Gracie would come to a sorrowful end, which made me wild and a.s 1 lav awake that wretched night I iiiought a great deal about what might happen to her if

she

don

when the

went away to Lon

bv herself, and she so handsome, and not hiving a friend at all. And I wished with all my strength that she would marry Donnell M'Donnell before 1 went away to America, which would ease niv mind about her, and also about

allowed me to go into iTallymcna to see mv

friend

(Jracie. So toward sundown,

snow

was getting ml upon

the fences, I wrapped my shawl alout the town: sobbing loudlv to case my heart, all along the

me and set

lonelv road, where there was no one to hear ine but tho robbing. The brown trees airainst the dusky red sky. the white swelling lines of the holds, the dark chimnevs of the town on liefori me, were all blent in a dismal maw\ when who should leap over a stile and stand lteside me but (Jracie's great lover, Donnell. I told him

eves were

onlv watering with the cold, and he

turned and walked alongside of me for a good way, while we talked of Gracie of course. He was very angry at her, and said she was playing fast and loose with him, and making him the sport of the town and country. I took Gracie's part, and so we went on till we came to the last white gate on the road, and began to meet the townspeople. Then I told him I was going away, and he looked so vexed that I nearly cried again. I felt so glad to see him sorry.

Well, little Bet," said he, "we must give you a good dance over in yon big farm-house of ours before you go. And, in the mean time—"

I'll see to your business, Donnell." said I, smiling. "Never fear but I'll do your business to the last."

Then he shook my two hands till ho nearly squeezed them into jelly, and left me.

When I went into Miss Doran's it was past the work hour, and the girls were putting on their bonnets to go away Gracie only was sitting close to the candle, putting the flowers on a ball-dress for one of the county ladies. She having the nicest taste, had always the honor of giving the finishing touches to the most particular work. She looked very tired, but oh, so handsome, with her pale cheek against the yellow light, ana her dark head bending over a mass of white and rose-color tulle.

A bud here," said she, "and a spray there, and then I have done. You'll come homo with me and sleep. That cross step-mother of yours won't see you again to-night."

Don't talk that way, Gracie," said I "but I came intending to stay." And the work being finished we went home to her lodgings.

A lovely bunch of flowers was lying 011 her table, and she laughed and blushed, and looked beautiful when she sawit. "Who is that from, Gracie said I. "Donnell?"

No indeed," said she, tossing her head. But I was sure that was a fib, for she looked as happy as possible, lying resting herself in her arm-chair beside the lire while I set out the teathings. She

looking

so glad, and the

shabby room looking so snug, and our little tea-(lriniiing being so cozy, I could not bear to tell her the bad news now*, nd bagan to set about DonnoU's business. "Gracie," saiil I, "I wish you would marry Donnell soon." "Soon?" said she, opening her eyes and looking at me angrily, "I'll never marry him!" "Hut you know, Gracie," s'nld I, getting hot" about it, "that you ought to marry him. He says—that is, I know —you have made 'him the laughingstock of the country, and—" "Very fine!" cried she. "And so be I has l)00n complaining to you, has lie?"'

I did not say that," said I "but oh, (Jracie, I know you like some 0110. I saw vou smiling over a letter the other day," just the way you are smiling now." "And what if I do?'' said she, laughing and tossing her head "that does not prove that it must be Donnell." "There is 110 one else so good," said I, eagerly. "It could not- 1*5 any one else." 'P011 mv word," said she, staring at me, "1 think you had better go and niarrv him vourself." "I? Oh Gracie!" said I, starting up and sitting down again, and beginning to cry, "I wanted to tell you that I am going to America."

You may be sure wo talked no mere about Donnell that night. Donnell did not fail to keep his word about giving me a feast before I left the country. He invited three pipers to play, and half the country-side to dance. Gracie and I met at the crossroads, and walked over to the farm together, she bringing a troop of beaux with her from the town. The farm is a dear old place, with orchard trees growins? up round tlic house, and it looked so homely that frosty night. Donnell's mother met us at the door, and unpinned our shawls in her own room. Gracie looked beautiful, in a pretty new dress and bright ribbon. Donnell's mother stroked mv hair with her hand, and stuck a bit of holly in the front of mv black frock. She kept 1110 with her after Gracie had gone down stairs, holding my hand, and asking mo about my going to America. And the place felt "so safe and warm, and she was so kind and motherly, after what I was accustomed to at home, that mv heart got so sore 1 could scarcely hear it.

We had a great tea-drinking 111 the parlor, and then we went out to the kitchen, and the pipers fell to work, and (Jracie was as amiable as possible to Donnell. But just in the middle of our dancing the latch ot the back-door was lifted, and Squire Hannan walked in in his top-boots. "I wanted to speak to you 011 business, M'Donnell," he said, "but I will

"Will vou do us the honor of joining 11s, Sir?'"' said Donnell. Squire llannan needed 110 second invitation. was soon making his bow before Gracie and Donnell saw 110 more of her smiles that night. She danced with the squire till it was time to go home,

and

among them but the uild have given

onlv one to whom 1 wo her with all niv heart was Donnell nell. And, oh dear! he was the whom 5li'J would not look

was young and

stron- and as bonnv a man as could be seen.' "lb" had a tine farm, all his own, some three miles across country from my step-mother's place. If Gracie would but marry him she should live like a ladv. and drive into Ballyniena on' her own jaunting-car. But she was always saving that she would go awav to I,ondon.au I be a great "\N est-Knd milliner. This terrified me ully, seeing that London is such a wicked place.

then, after she had set out for the town,

escorted

by him and her othei

beaux, Oonnell's mother kissed met» and Donnell drew mv arm through his, and walked home with me across the snowv fields to my

lie was

step-mother'shouse,

abusing

Gracie all the way, and

I was, as usual, taking her part. He came to see nie one day soon after and brought me a basket of lovely .v lx-nwvl airainst the

winter pears, lie leaned against wall and watched me making the butter He was disgusted with Grncic, lie

said .she

was a'llirt, and he did not

cuv a pin about hor, only ho woulu not be made a fool of. She had refused to let him walk with her across the hills next Sundav to the consecration of the new church' and if he did not get some token that she had changed her mind between that and this he would never, he swore, look h#r way

look so mad.

'""thought a great deal about how he

him," I thought "she can not help it. She must have seen how mean even Squire Hannan looked lieside him the other night. And it would be a most dreadful thing if he was married to some one he did not care about, and if -,he went srt* to London, with a broken heart, to lie a est-end* millinor. I thought about it, and thought about it. There was 110 use going to Gracie, for

-f%6 •*., a

WSSSM:.

she would onlv laugh and mock at me. All at once a "bright idoa came in my head.

I was afraid to think of what I was going to do but that night, when my step-niQther had gone to bed, leaving me to finish spinning some wool, I got out a sheet of paper and a little note of Gracie's which I had in my work-box, and began to imitate Gracie's handwriting. I had not much trouble, for we wrote nearlv alke and afterward I composed a little letter:

DEAR MK. M'DONXBLI."—it is «aitl—"I have changed my mind, and will be very glad if you will join me on the road to the consecration on Sunday.

Yours sincerely, ACK BYHNK.

"What harm can it do to send it?'' thought I, trembling all the while. I folded it up and put it in an envelope directed to Mr. Donnell M'Donnell,,The Buckeye Farm. "And it may do such a great deal of goOd! In the first place, it will prevent his marrying for spite before Sunday, and then she will be so glad to see him coming, in spite of her crossness, that she will be quite kind to him. He is always so stiff and proud when she treats him badly that I am sure it makes her worse. She will never find out that he got any letter—not, at least, till they are quite good friends —married, perhaps—and then they will both thank me."

So the next evening, about flttsk, I slipped quietly into the town and posted my letter, I was dreadfully alraia of meeting Donnell or Gracie bflft I saw no one I knew. I dropped the n-ote in the letter-box and rushed off toward home again at full speed, I r.rn nearly all the way the snowy roads were slip--pery in the evening frosty and near oivr' house I fell and hurt fwy foot. A nefjfh*bor found me leaniisg against the stile and brought me homev was to have' sailed for America the Tory next week, but now I was laid up -with a sprainedankle, and 1113' departure was* put ott".

On Sunday evening a neighbor woman who had been at the (row&eeration came in to tell us the news:: This one had been there of course, anrP that one had been there for a wonder Gracie Byrne had been there in a fine new bonnet (the girl was going to the mischief with dress), and Squire JIann&n had been there, and given her the flower out of his button-hole.

And Donnell M'Donnell was* with her, of course?" said I. "Ay, 'deed yon may swear it,"' said the woman. "That'll" be a mate! before long. Ho walked home with her to the town, and her smilin' at him !ike the first of June!" "They'll be married before I away," said I to myself and I leaned bacli into my corner, for the pain of ei.y foot sickened me.

Donnell's mother brought me a cUNtard and some appfes the next day. Dtofinell's gone to' the Glens, nrf dent'," said she, "or fie -would ha' bee?!' oref t-Ms momin'fo see yon. He went' befov'e Wo heard «f your loot, and lis* won't be home for a week,'"'

What's he d'oin* there asked my stcp-nTother.

Ia"^r tJ1^'

How do you know it ?'"said affix?. Donnell's motHer told me."_ Donnell's mother? ITothifi^* but Don noil and Donnell's moticrfrwni you forever! How should she feiowT "Oh, Gracie, his own—" "Why," she burst in, "y^uulbrat imagine that he's the- man?" Wlsy, it's Scjirire Hannan! 0tily thiaili, ®et, of yonr Gracie being the Sijuire'S^Ia'cty!"

I was ffuite co/ifoundccR. "'Cftv oh, GracieI stanimcrefl. "Wefl,'fsaid sin? sulking. '"Win? you not ulad?" fWiyos," I said "vervr, om ypxror accoiTjit what will! becume- vff K*otine!tr''bnt

Donnell again. Now fstcnt® me, Bet. I know wliem a mam likes me, artel wlien he doesn't likt meT.fiaat as well as any other girl azcdl Pvte seen this many a day,, that ItoticlS didn't care a pin about ime. Not He.. He only wanted me to manrv him that She people might not say jilted him. I told him that, the other day, when he asked me to have liinx. 'NO nasitter what I want vou for,' said lie *11

again,

but go

ami niarrv some one else for spite. Oh no", Donnell," said I "promise me vou won't do that." For I was sure I that (Jracie liked liini all the while.

I'.ut I will," said he, smiling^ at 1 least if other people will have me.'' "Oh, don't, don't!" said I. But lie I would not promise. "It's mv mind." said my step-moth-or after lie had gone, "that you lads more like a lover of yours than hers.

011 needn't

ijirl lie glad of

A\rant

"Thank yon,' said I. Aa«i" then what had lie 'the impudence to- say! If I

said,'MJracie wemt 0m, "that whotever morrung he got up and saw black snow 011 the ground, that day he might look for a message tWm me. And vet he had the meanness to walk with, "me 011 Sunday after all. And the best tun of it is, that they say he's gone to the Glens." "Oh, oh!" said I, beginning to*grOan again, and pretending it was all my foot. After that Gracie talked about herself and Squire llaunan until she went away. And somehow I never had felt as little sorry to part with her before. She seemed not to be my

44Somebody

own

Gracie any longer. Aiul now I was nearlv out of my senses, thinking what ifiischief might come of my meddling. I was sure that Donnell and Squire Iiannan would fight and kill one another, and all through me. I thought I would give all I had in the world to see Donnell before any one else had told him the news, and confess to him what I had done. O11 Tuesday, about mid-day, a countryman from the Glens came in to light lus pipe, and he said he had passed M'Donnell, of Buckey Farm, on the way. "An' I think things must lie goin badly with him," said he, "for he lias a look 011 his face as black as tho potato blight."

has told him, maybe!'

said I to myself. And I put on my

tnysolf. A"d

shawl, and, borrowing a stick from an iNot

tired ami dreadfullv cold, as I

not walk fast, and I sat down a bit 01

an old gray bridge to watch for Donnell time.

TKRRE-HAUTK SATURDAY EVENING MAIL JULY j, 1870,

DonneE s-mother, smd he goe'S whiles peculiarities-fertwo or three hours' to settle lbs' affairs with, thent that has •,

charge oi" it. I doiV't lnwrw lightly what lie'*' gone abottt now. Something has went again him laCeVy, f?r he's not like himself those few days Ewek. He said something about goih' t» be married when he' came liolJic, bat if he is, it's not after Hi's heart /or I never siuv a bride-grooTni so glum OTT the head of it. Bet, dear I thought it was yon he liked." "So he doe*,. Mrs. ]Nf'Obnin?Tr,r'_said I, "but not that* way—not for Ms wife." "Well, welt,, my dear!"' snSeC Donnell's mother, wiping her eyes:.

Every body was comrag'' to»see me now 011 account of my foot.. Gracie came the next day or so, and swrely I was amazed at the glory ^f Her dress! Mv step-mother, who did' not like her, left us alone together, send Ufracie's news came out. &he was grtihig few be manned 011 next Utiesday

I know that,"1said I.

coming past. At last he came thundering along, and although it was getting dusk I could setf that he had his hmd down, and looked dreadfully dark unhappy.

Donnell 1" said I, calling out to him. Who's that he said. "Why, it's never little Bet J"

But indeed it is," said I. "Oh, Donnell, did you hear? I came to tell you. Gracie was married this morning to Squire Hannan." ''Whew!" He gave a long whistle.

The jilt!" said ho, and he snapped his fingers. But his whole face brightened up.

She's not so much a jilt as you think, Donnell," said I, "for—0I1, how can I ever tell you!—it was I who wrote you the note you got last week, and she had nothing to do with it. I did it for the best, I did indeed, for I thought that Gracie liked you I did indeed! And oh, Donnell, sure you won't go and kill Squire Hannan

Won't I," said he, looking awfull/ savage, "I cut a great blackthorn this morning in the Glens for no ortfcer purpose but to beat out his brains,"

I gave a great scream, and, dropping my stisk, fell along with it but Donnell picked me up, and set me wife on his horse behind him.

Now,." said he, "I'll tell you what it is, little Bet. I'll make a* bargain. You'll matry me, and I won't t«mch Squire Han.»an."

I many you cried I,

wn("

that

suEri. he, put

ting- me into his mother's arms. "I wiuit her to marry rae, and she says she-wOn't,"'

I did my best to keep sulCfey for a proj^er' length of time., Hot it was the harcPest thing I ever tried to do-, and they both so kind, and- the glace so bright and cozy, and I being s»/happy 011 the.'sly all the time! So tli«' ernl of it

was

th'at I did not go to AmeBk:a, and

that I ani'M-rsv M'Donnetl, of tl»e Buckev Fartn. Buit I never tried ui.atd.i-making-agaiiv,

TRubNSFUSION 0IrBLOMh. A- memoir- reeently published, upon the transfusion blood Sroni owe li.ving suble«t toanother mentions* as the-principal-ppints. reached irk the iKLwesti\tions of the ainithor,

with oxygeivare tlie aetu at reriviiyiu^, principle, tlie ii-bcia not being (in.essBivtialpart.- tlas- account, to insuxe •mtety, and to^event the iatrodractioH. of'©lots into 'the eLrpulation* blood'dogriived of its fibrin is. to be preferred t® that in its no^jaal condition^. Third,, the' defibrillator! bLoxxl of any speaies^, transfused sih aiai indivi-ifaal DfVthe ss:iue species., wt* .icTivify tMt indiwid^ ra ilT compenwtiHg: lor los«-of Mood, fisJfilliiig all tlie l'lsmctions-of tlte-nor-juaJ, and jWpnitiTe blood„ and Being. to oil it» pfaysiolegical. laws* Iia.the same pay we ean combat an: alteration of tja blood, by e^a-hanjjiig it fwtbjit Avhyfei is hffijiltliy. Fourth, the1 bbood of aiipals oifone species «taniKeviwf\r„ if CA«a. in a transitory 11mnne«„ ani nulls of Jiv»theTs«pecies.. S«ch»bloodl is readily paomippsed, a-3d. if it. ho® 1 K'Kruinjecttdiai siftiall quantitiesit maty Ix-'eJiui-inanKt-if i-nj(ffi«ted in.largciqjiaattiisies. it larr p^rewduce (Heath.. Kifthv fi-auHfixsioil vvellfitxe«uted is- not a.daargeurwia. oparatiioiu.. The cacti will daragc^s signaiizetL-by the author liein tho iiitrod.netiin ©f foreign bodies w\ith.tliu? M»od,. th«f fio«mofciion of olots even in iiijpcting Ae defiitarinatetL blood, theua-ti-sdiaictioaof air into tlio -circulati©si, a ind.tlie lAecyjitaJrion of the iniectwom, aaulJinanj-, pialel!ntis, or ihflaiautlom ©f tlie inner^iicieijfinine of the jjMJictrar'Bd voiu.^ '.

toiBKHTVpar: Ftux i'JN(h—W-« liav^ alraidy.given art account of t'ao geoieral iwwess ^ahifih. the beautiful reprocluetionsj'of pkotographic ijictnrcsk are iHiide by tJja method of Albert^ the litlix»«oraphic itone being, roijjUicad by a ?l 1

Wiieh the pumts (Uiilsof this. "Albertyijing"* wcw for a tin* kept so that it was difTicult

kept so t..j

you.'

changed mv mind before-• Sunday I wa* jure, that as-many as. from tivo bund red. to send him word that bue might come|Jtia thousand impr-tssionsfccan be takeix to the consecration withiiinc. Then heij fj-oni asii^le jilate so that tlvc ordinary

would set otf for the Giens. on Monday., anil settle some busines» there, and behome for the wedding in.a week!"

I screamed out, seeing what I 1UM2 done. The poor foot!" cricd Gracie, thinking 1 was in pain. "Is it bad?"

Never mind it!." said I. "And whit did you say?"

lithographic stonos-oivinctal plates can be dispenitfxl with, and *raiuch cheaper plate of mirror glass .used in their stead, from which one picture ean bo removed and another readily, substituted. The impressions obtained aire of incomparable purity, witliout aay grain, and of a softness 111 the-middle tones, and with a freedom from spotfunidirrogulariiies, leaving nothing,to be desired.

TiU'K FIN AY .VNU RKAC11.—The following it an anctdote of Thackeray- and a lamented Seiitish literary maiv whoso earlv death eut short a brilliant career: "Tfciekerv and Angus B. Reaclfc met at a dinner pajtv, when, much ts tho dislike of the latter, Thackeray persisted i* pronouncing his name Mteetch,' instead of Ite-ack, as he was wont to IK called, that lxung the nearest approach to the guttural that English throats could f«une. At length Ueacli summoned up courage to state that his name was not Reetch but Re-ack. Thackerav made 110 observation for the moment, "but, watching a favorable opportunity, lie held a peach to the owner of the orthern name, and said. "Mr. Re-ack, mav I offer vou a pe-ack."

LA7.INF.SS.- Tliere was, many years

ago,

a Lazv Man's Society. One of the articles required that no man lielonging to the society should ever be in a hurry. Should "lie violate this article he mtuU stand treat to the other members. Now it happened on a time that the viBage doctor was seen driving post haste through the streets to visit a patient. The members of the society saw him and chuckled over the idea of a treat, and on his return reminded

!hini of his fast riding, and violation cf

jU all

old neighbor, I hobbled off secretly "The truth is, 111 horse was deterthe road toward the Glens. I soon go.

THE JUDGE'S "SPIRITED WO•mm man," 1 ^iM°,?S1,Pondent quotes an incident

aWr

Vf^ Bonaparte trial ss "an

ttnu8uai imtanee of spirit in a woman" »nd gentle woman, nnaccn»-

ISL'*S

i»,Umti»te mmlts, obtauied by Al- !^^nc( |f

nertbut receTitly tftll«n- account of 'r

the doc

fek too lazv to

hlni/, Tfe,'. (iid

stop

not catch him that

ttnnultuous assemblages of

mewr

»nd therefore likely to' be of spirited in a plaee Conrt at Toar»^ Sbede-

U10. scene between herself and *r

ant*

his betrothed, when

u{=« *was Putting on and buttoning ins neat new Jottvins. Then, say»t lie correspondent: "She described how in two hcrtBrs-they Drought him back dead. In the eve-' ning she asked those about her bow the trouble came abo*t„ and they toW her that the Prince suid Victor had given nini a blow I went to his body," said she, "J looked at his gloves, and wlien I saw them uwbroten, unstaimd,

"after—after

Gracie. Indeed-1 will not, Donnell McDonnell." I've behaved badly," said he, "b'tt I'm very sonry.. It's long since I likedyou better than Gracie,. but the devil oC pride was in nwe, and the- people were saying she would jilt me. When I gotr.

.. .were tedious. None»f us tocfa»aii.y inyour bit of a note I-felt a»it I was gom-

t'ghtly fitting, buttoned

J® had seen them in* the morninsi^ I Knew the Prince had lied!' As sho said this, she pointed her finger at 11» FViroee and looked hina ini the face but he made no sign.?'

In»a moment this littSe'feminine outburst reminded! me of the instance wMohi an old Nevada Judge the early tinnergjive me as* being -what he sparklin«J5* called "the most nigty-iip and' snujjy ebullition? of womanly git-up-andf-git" that had': over failed iiauler his notifee.. "I was-sitting he*e," said'.the Judge, "in this-oid pu^)it holding? eouat, and we were trying a Hig, wicked-looking Spanish'desperado 0r killing- the husband of a bright, poeitty Mexie-an woman, It was a lazy *uminer day, and an awfully long one„ and the witnesses

t^rest in* the trial ex *r-pt that nervous

to' be hung. God-bless Sqjraire Hannan! I Uneasy devil of a Mexican wonuua— Now will you marry- me. Lit tie Bet? -ibecause wuJtno\v how tliev low and J»o, said I. .fcndwitlithat he whip- howthey hate, and tULs-one lwul-lo'ved ped up his horse,,and dashed off with me at the speed c-f a hunt. He never drew rain till the ftorse stopped at the dear- Etackeye Farm house door, when he carried me straight into the bright wawn kitchen where his- mother had itlie tea set out, and the cake» smoking ready for his return."'Talk- her into rea

her husband- with all her mi$ht,. iuad low she had boiled vt all dow-n-into lisite, and stood here spitting,it at tlwufe ^^Aniard with her eyescand I tell-yom she would stir mc up, k», with a litt leof her suimner light nin^ occasionully.

set

collected and,-kopt in you'd", might have scam how she air at a medium teinpeiattire lemaim

itsSdien!i-

the- red filobul«»,.satiaated

I had- miy coat off and my lieel»

on,, liangins^, that Sptmiard and

wou

iri.giarc on liim a minute, and then

look upi at me isviier pleading way, and then tujm and lor it he next live minutes, searc&.the jury's faces—and. by and by. drop her face in. her hands, for just a little while as if site was most ready a give but out she'd come again dir rectly and be an-live and. ajixious as. ever." But when!, the jury.- announced the verdict, Not Guilty, and.I told the prisoa&er.that he was acquitted mid free to gcx,, that woi?ian rose uQ till she appeared .to be as tall and grand as a sew cnty-ft)'iar-gun ship, and savs she: "Judge, do I understand you to sav that this man is not guilty^ that murdered. nay liusbatkl without any cause before- my own eves and my, little cb.ildren'% and that all has been dono to him that ever jii®fcice and the law «ian. do?' I "4 ^She same,' says I.

And then what do you.reckon she did Why, she turned on that smirkr ing Sj^anish fool .like a wildcat, ancLont with a

navy' and shot him dead in

open, court!" "That was spirited, I am willing to admit," "Wjisn't it though?" s-aid the Judge, admiringly. "I wouldaTt have missed it for. anything.. I adjourned court riglct on the spot and avd put 01: our coats.and went out and.took up a collection for her. and her-cubs, and.sent tlieoi over the mountains to their friends. Ah, she was a spirited weaelrt !"—Mark Twaiv.%.

some ttme sinm* tlio Drawr. has. lvid a MiuichauseTiiv.nl. To. the ttroughtfulness of a li-Jiyton, Ohio., (correspondent we are indebted for the following

An old English gentleman, iv schoolrtiKicher, wlxo some years ago resided iu of tho small tovjoas of Ohi a^ was an .'vgreeable, teller of ftories, but deemed It bcneatKhis reputsition as a mconteur to. tell 0111 that did aot surjiassany tluit had preceded it., A farmer having

id ^ui.ncu 1, reniarlicd, in the

his

fiends, that he bad

tho

'ce,t

wit

four

been plcwing horse, breaking am new ground,, and dwelt lispon it as being a very "big thin"." "Pshaw.!" said the old Englishman, "that's.uothing. I have seen in Kn^iandyoko of oxen hitched to one plow!" Tli- rpinnrlvHooiut'd to occasiongeiHM-allsurpri.sc^

tinned ho,

44And,,

4tthc

funniest part ol the

whole thing mas, that while the plow was '-MI tho top. of one hill, tho leading voke of oxen, was on. top of another hill and tlie forty-nine between the plow and the leaders were suspended between the two hills,! And there was another matter connected with it rat her s^\ange. In the course of the day the plowman,, becoming rather careless about driving his team, rau into and sailit a big oak stump! The plow passed safcly'tlirough the split, nut before the plowman got entirely through it closed up and (taught him by the coattail "Did it tear his coat asked a person of inquiring turn. "Not a bit of itl" replied our verocioiis narrator "he hung on to the plow-handles and pulled, out the stump!" Ifxrper Drrarer. ,,,,

INTKIIKHTINO FACTS.—A legal stone is 141b. in lingland and in Holland. A fathom, li feet, derived from the height of a full-grown man. A hand, in horse measure, is four inches. An Irish mile is 2,240 yards a Scotch mile is 1,JW4 a German, l.WXi a Turkish, l,i2rt. An acre is 1,840

square

yards, 1 foot and

inches each way. A square mile, l,7f0 yards each way, containsGtOacres. The human bodv contains 240 bones, kinds of articulations or joinings, 100 cartilages or ligaments, 400 muselcs or tendons, and 100 nerves, besides blood, arteries, veins, Ac. Potatoes planted below three feet do not vegetate at one foot thev grow thickest, and at two feet they are retarded two or three months. There are no solid rocks in the Arctic regions, owing to the severe frosts. The surface of the sea is estimated at 150,000,000 square miles, taking the whole surface of the globe at 190,000,000 square miles. Its greatest depth is supposed to be equal to tho height of of the highest mountain, or four miles.

RENDERING WOOD F1RE-PROF, Among tl»© various methods recently suggested for rendering wood practically Incoinbnetible, those most val* ue appear to be common salt and soluble glass-, or the so-called water-glass.-By using, the latter substance in- filling the pores of tl*» wood, and conting itssurface witlv a thin layer of «ement, the danger from tire ean be rednoed al--most to the mimum-nt. For this- purpose the wood- is first well dried1 and then allowed to remain for twenty-four hours in a solution of one part of wateiv glii«j in three parts- of water, after which it is to' be removed, dried for soiue days in the air, and then againimmersed in the above mentioned solution for tweuty-four hours. After a second drying it is to lie coated with amixture of one part of fresh cementa»d- four parts ot- wiiter-ghiss solution, the liath previously used- lieing available for this lattftr mixture. No more cement should be mixed- at one time tliau is to be applied immediately, as it becomes hard and oaii not again be dissolved. After the first coat has dried-thoroughly another layer is to bo put ou^ and finally a coating of waterglass by itself, wliieh results iu giving the w»od a smooth, glassy appearance.

Sliotld the timber be too Large for 'immersion. Ln the bath, it should be uioistened by succewive applications %f the solution from :v liose..c-iro being taken t»-save the exc«ss whieli-runs otf, s-n as to use it again. TJie ceuieut may bft applied.by means of. a coarse whitewash brush!. Tlio timber sAiowld not be- planol- siuooth, but should lie left with the vough saw cuts-upon it, so as to tueilitaUviiuv absorption-of tlie liq-uid-k. The final application of the celneut will -give a smoothapptfarauee, and the natural roughness of the wood will aid iu. its adhesion,. Any cracks in lite timl^n should be tilled up thxiroughiv with-t.he «einent.

Timber-tluis prepared acquires a very solid., eoiniviut character the or.igiual niato'dal is OF coiuparatively little C.MIsequence. Indeed, the more porous the WHKI, the more readily does it become permeated by the preservative solution..Experiments have been tnied

up4,lolling and sweating and smoking| ivith timber oCgreatcror lewthickncss, one of those cabbage cigars-- the* San 5 prepared in this way, and. the result Francisco people used to think wcro 'j lias gone to show that it was practically goc«dcnough.f6rns in thase times?ami incombustible^ a degree of lieat wbiith the lawyers tliey all had their coatsiofl' andJjwcro snstwkan^ and -whittling^ and tlio witnesses'-ithe saine, and. so was-the prisoner. Wiell, the tiurt is,' there wiinl any L-itervst in a murder trral. tliery bccaujw th.« fellov was almaysbrowgjitin liot'-guilty, the jvvrv expefti ing him to do as much f««:theni some tinie and although the evidence wasstraight and H^iare against this Sj»u\iardr we knew, we could not comrict him without seeming to he rather lvig^u bandied and scwit of refleet.iag, 011 every. gentleiaoan in the community. for tliere wam't any carriages and li\?eries tl\enr, and the oady 'style' there wasf to keep-your pcivate graveyard. But that weaman seemed to ham: her heart

incombustible,, a degree of lieat whutl would otherwise have consumed it 111. a very short time having 110 cll'ect whatever. The anther, of this process, therefore, confidently. recovnuieiuLslus inetliod as a complete safeguard against fire and says.the cost of the application.is so trilling, in. (comparison iinththo results to be obtained, that uo expects before long to see it in vesy, geneiail UKC. He suggests a similar treatment of sleepe',-8 for railways, guaranteeing a. durability at least ten tiiiu^s .as great that of wood in. its natural gondii ion.

METAIIXE. OR. DRY nSLililNQ]From the Boston Commercial Bulletin.] Our attention has liecn called to an article in the Londoni Eiif/inrcr of Febnniary 25, headed "lry Bea«riigs,'"in which an account is given of a visit to the rooniH- of the Foreign Metalino Company, No,. I.Uigh Hoi been, where a ten-horso-power engine and. frame of sfaindles was to be seen running without oil or lubricant of any kind. The* Evspinccr says-:—"We had tho pleasuro of seeing one of the bearings, running at 10,000 resolutions per minute also a dmen cotton, spimlles running at:5,000 ECTrolutions^ and a little steam .engine driving them, niaftit\g 100 revolutions per minute, with, all the liearings scrowed dowji Jiard, and not one drop of oil or lubricant of any kind. Wo saw and therefore wo believe.'"

The Evgimeriiipes on to say that Ban* ge-r fc Burloolc. halve introduced into iln^land a new material fo^-liearings auKl shaft steps, which, judging always fmom what we have seen, apgears likely to prove the miost imji^rtant impsovenient that hsis been introduced iato machinsry four many years.. Metalino is a new.- nuitatanco, made of old, and Avoll-know.n. ©.nes, and fashioned into bearings ami footsteps which, nerguire no luliricaut at least so say the inventors, and they prove what they say by running, an engine a LI 00 revolutions, without ©ill, cotton spindles at i,000. and one experimental spindlo at 10,000 revolutiousi. In appearance,metaline soinewliat resembles blacklead,f hut it is not blacklead, nor does it necessarily contain blacklcad,. although plumbago may somctimes-be employed in its formation. For small bearings, cotton spindle steps, etc., it is-fomiod into little tubes and cups-.. For,- large bearings it is made in the form.of little buttons, enc-half inch diametesj. and three-eiglit iiiich thick, foi* ed int^suitable cavities, drilled intodhe or^Linary brass bearing,». The theory involved is this—liearitigs wear benause tho surfaces broaght into contact are never truly siuooth they always wsemblo more or less two brushes, drawn over each othei%, tho prominences and cavities interlocking. Oil or grease acts as lubricant, because it keeps the surfaces apart and prevents interJoekiug. Metaline acts by filling u^.all the cavities, however small, in tho shatt c-c lK:aring, producing a perfectly true siuftiice, with which t'jei-e can bo winter locking,and conse^upntly, althwugh friction remains, there* can be no cutting, while heating,is reduced t®-a muuimum, and deprived of its evils.,

TIL'C GIM.K STUKAM.—It is unilf liable th:U the inlluenee of the Gull iy iani is felt through a large part of North. Atlantic Ocean, o.Li the WesK /n shores of .J.reat Britain, and stilly »lier along the northern and n.ortlj/ .tern coasts ol" tin rope. What is the origin of this influence? This practical «|uestion has iieeu answered in a variety of ways, by different writers. It seems to have been taken for granted that tlie stream rises in the Gulf of Mexico, and houce 'f it is commonly called tho (ulf Stream.

It is general Iv supposed that the most, if not all, of'its striking peculiarities originate in that quarter of the Atlantic. On tho coasts of Cornwall, Ireland, Scotland, Greenland, and still farther north, traces of tropioal vegetation are found, which are supposed to be thrown on the beach and lodged among the rocks by the northern and eastern How of the Gulf Stream. The western slopes of this part of Europe are clothed with moisture and peculiar verdure, inconsequence of the steady deposit by the southwest winds from the sea, of the fertilising and warming vapours which abound where the Gulf Stream flows.

Dii. CHAI.MKKS says: "The little that have seen in the world, and know of tl»c history of mankind, teaches me to look upon their errors in sorrow, not in anger. When I take the history of one poor heart that has sinned and suffered, and represent to myself the .struggles and temptations it passed through—the brief pulsations of joy, the tears of regret, the feebleness of purpose, the scorn of the world that has little eharitv, the desolation of the soul's sanctuarv, and threatening voices within, health gone, happiness gone—I would fain leave the erring soul of my fellow man with him from whose hands it came." ...