Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 2, Number 15, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 7 October 1871 — Page 2

CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS. 1 ET BAGGED DICK.

Christopher Columbus «u boita in Southern Europe of poor taut respectable parents." At an early age bsbogan to spend bis Saturday nights busting for bis mother's Sunday baking. He was remarkably fond at doughnut* and sponge cakes, and he generally sponged all the cakes he got.

At an early age be went to CouK— he had courted his wife prior to this— and Ferdinand, the King, and Isabella, the Kingus, give him an outfit.

At last the ships were ready to sail jortbe United States, and the stevedores gathered around to see Chris and his men clear out. They told him be never would get back, and that he was .....

down the right corner of his right eye with the index finge as much as to ask if they saw anything green. The vessels sailed away at the rate of two knots an hour, ana that is considered not very fast.

Flavins Josepbus and I both agree that Chris made a mistake by not coming by way of Amsterdam and Cork, and bringing out a load of emigrants, as he would thereby have had a paying trip. After awhile the victuals began to run short, and the men be^aq to get sort of homesick. All this time Chris liftd been aloft looking out for New York. At last the cry came of Land ho I" Then Chris went down to the bar and took a drink. He knew very well his fortune was made.

Well, they came into shore, and instead of being New York, they found it to be the Dry Tortugas. The Indians came down to look at Columbus, and the.Columbusans went out to look at the Indians. Each took the other for strangers, and what was stranger still, neither invited the other to imbibe swi lager. They set down on a log and tried to scrape up a relationship but it was no go, for the Indians said thev didn't want to cluitti relationship with a race of people whose color had faded out. They then swapped lies and jackknives for a while, when Chris elevated his wife's scarf oa a pole, saying he took possession of the land in the name of his master. What else the Columbusans done while 011 land is not definitely known, but Julius Ceesar thinks they gathered turtle-eggs and sunk a shaft for coal oil. We append below a few sentences from the record, as made by Columbus's private secretary:

Mot the natives, and they met us. They are little darker than saddlecolored. Learned that there were two groat cities inland—Chicago andTerreilauto. New York is on the coast, and hoard it affirmed tiiat in the latter place thoy got up draft riots as a sort of amusement. Heard nothing of the social evil—don't think it exists among tho natives. There don't seem to bo much shoddy aristocracy one man is about as rich as another who has no more of this world's goods than he has.

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far as politics are concerned,

I think the people generally vote the native Amorican ticket. The world owes Chris and I a lasting debt of gratitude for discovering this groat coun-

.% pf one of tho discoverer's of Amrrloa.

E E IS E A E A N N HATHAWAY COTTAGE AND CHA11L luS DICKENS. This book has been kept only ubout twenty years, but from the penciled condition of the plastered ten by fifteen walls, it was long ere that a necessity. Even tho little window looking out in the garden is cut to pieces, and the panes covered with names. The low roof in easy reach of a tall man, is black with pencil marks. There are many odd and somo egotistical, entries In tho book. As a specimen of the latter, Armstrong read me this: "Reverend Thomas Gray, of St. Johns, Nowtoundland, son of General B. Gray, M. P., and his wife, daughter of Lleuton-

ant-Goneral

Burnoll, first Governor of

Hongkong." And this from a Bostonian: "Rev. S. Wilbur Brown, servant ot our Lord Jesus Christ, and son of Edward Brown, tho famous missionary of India," "Ah, that man," said Mrs. Bakor I remember ho acted a little queer when ho came hore in fact, ministers often d# set a little quoor hero for ho fell on his knees When ho got to the door and prayed and prayed till the pooplo got tirod enough, I am sure." Shu told us ot many strange pooplo who had visited bor. Among others,

she

told of a German enthusi­

ast, who brought his lunch and blankets and entreated to be allowed to eat and sleep on tho hearth with tho cat. Tho old ladv gave her permission but, fortunately*for her. the first night was a verv cold ono, which sent her visitor to the (looter next mornlug with the neuralgia, and sho has net seen him

While she told us these things. Armvttrong cm no to tho nnracs of I)ick0n8, Collins. Mark Inunon, and a host of other celebrities. Olwerving that tho name of Dickens was dimly and awkwardly written, thoold lady said: "Ah, ves»,. rvtneinber the way that came. Sir. Dickens seemed sad and out of sorts when here the last time, and kept out or the crowd by himself, so that when thev eait.e to write their name* he was not with them. Then I took the book and pen, and went to hunt him up. to have him write his name too and I fonnd him sittiug alone on the big stone down by the well, looking into the water."

When she had told us these things, we laid some pieces of silver on the table, arose, ami went and sat on the big ntone by the well. where Dickers had sat lefore us, and looked at the blue skv down in the well.—fYom "OH aim .-teoV w» A« Odotxr. Qxrriaml MontMy,

fliosK excellent people who identify religion with creeds and churches, and imagine that all 0*1 neat ion which is not Hnnroved bv the Church and interwoven with the Articles is atheistic, muat be shocked at the way things are going In upper Austria. school-teachers recently assembled at Una, and after Koine riiseussion resolved by a large majority that the teaching of religion according to creeds is opposed to the fundamental principle of popular educAtiont that rvllgious teaching should develop as aifnply and ttllv as possibly the knowledge of the criminal source of existence by means of science and history that tltf teaching of morality ahonld proceed by exji in pse as well by prewpt. •nd that them is no need of an ecclesiastical teacher of religion in public schools. W. re on« of our Tcachers' Assoclations la nisi resolution against the reading ,,f the Bible in public schools, half ©or people woukl Imagine that w* were on the way to the bad and not fct from I |)i' goal,—A??,

Kn ENCII aavans have decided that the excessive use of brandy produces tremors and delirium, while absinthe *uperinduee#i epilepsy. Drinkers who n*y their money are thus enabled to their choice of diseases.

''TT'W

Young Folks.

GEOGRAPHICAL ENIGMA. I am composed of 89 letters. My 36, 15, 27, 1, 21, 5 is a cape In Europe. My 18,13,

7,

34, aa. 2, 28, 88, 6, is

cape in Africa.

My 18, 9, 25,16,19 ii a strait on the coast of Asia. My 4, 30,12, 8, 31,8 is a lake in Asia. My 10, 14, 33, 22, 38, 5, 26, 1, 15 is a gulf on the coast of Europe. My 23, 24, 20,19 is a river in Europe. My 17, 23, 8, 14, 36, 39 is an island in

Ooeanlca.

e*£

an awful fool for going but Chrisdre 'gbt corner of his right ej lex finger of his right band,

My 29, 7, 3, 36 is a cape In South America. My 18, 19, 35, 16 Is a river in North

America.

My whole is an ancient proverb. ... ,5 J. S. McMlLLIKEW.

WORD PUZZLE No. 1

My first is in bud, but not in rose. My second is in line, and also in clothes. My third is in river, but not in lake. My fourth is in bread, but not in cake. My fifth is in night, but not in day. My sixth is in clover, but not in hay. My seventh is in money, but not in pay. Mv whole is the name of a small town.

ARTIE M. CALDWELL.

WORD PUZZLE No. 2.

My first is in Pete, but not in Sam. My second is in Joe, and also in Dan. My third is in Jane, but not in Carrie. My fourth in in Tom, but not in Harry. My fifth is in Mike, and also in Sim. My sixth is in Jake, but not in Tim. My seventh is in Alice, but not in Ann. My whole is a city in Michigan.

Oxford, Mich. ELMER JOHNSON*.

ANAGRAM.

Rmbmeree llwe, nad reab ni dnfmj A ttsconna drinfe si rdha ot nfdi Nad hewn ouy nfid eon stuj nad reut, Enacbge ton eth lod eon rof eht ewn.

LOUISE GOFF.

ANSWERS TO ENIGMAS, CHARADES fec. IN LAST WEEK'S PAPER.

Problem.—16.4658 inches. BIBLE SQUARE-WORD. A

A I O It I N

A

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Enigma.—A stitch in time saves nine. Word Puzzles.—1. Arithmetic. 2. Velocipede.

it. CONWAY writes that tho revival of Socialism is just now the most salient teature of European society. The laboring classes seem to have made up their minds that they will no longer monopolize the toil and hardship of life, while others have far more than Is required even for their luxuries. There is hardly a night in which there is not a gathering, public or private, of angry workmen to denounce the existing order of society, and to plan its overthrow. That this feeling represents an almost unequally extensive alienation from Christianity is, so far as the old world is concerned, equally plain. "I have again and again heard Christianity denounced amid vehement plaudits as one of the despots whose throne is to be overthrown. The reason is not far to seek. Every tyrant and every monarch ot Europe is at the same time the official head of a Christian Church. Political offenders have been for ages imprisoned or shot in the name of

Christ.

Now the mass of tlie people do

not care at all what Christianity may have been in ancient times, they look only for what it means to-day. To them it means the monarcbs wh« feats while their subjects starve, the Bishops with fat livings, the intriguing priest and this being the only Christianity accessible to them, thoy hate it. 1 believe there is not one radical in Europe who will consent to bo called a Christian. Undoubtedly the separation between Church and State in America has led social radicalism there to pay more respect to the Christian name and form and so far Brother Noyes is right. But I see that the Christians among you are bent upon committing suicide there also, their forerunners nave done here. They aro tt*ylng to subvert the religious freedom of the Constitution they are forcing the Bible upon rationalists and their children they are trying to make Sunday a Judaio oppression. The foes of Christianity may well wish them success. On the dny when they bring Christianity Into the homes of men as an oppressor, they will simply include that religion in the programme of things to be swept away by the advance of people to equality and fraternity. The reason why Garrison and Phillips like Christianity, while their European brothers—Manunl, Garibaldi, Louia Blanc, Karl Blind, John Stuart Mill— detest Christianity, lies in hist that religious emancipation which the infidel founders of the American Republic secured, and which your superservlceable and suicidal fanatics are seeking to destroy."—Golden Age.

CORONER AND A MCMMY. In some respects Delaware is slightly ahead of any other State in this great and glorious confederation. In the matter of coroners, for instance, she Is Ho far in advance of her sister commonwealths that they must soon either select for the office men of loftier genius, or else abolish the system altogether from very shame and mortification. A week or two ago a gentleman who had been traveling in the old world, and who had collected a large number of curiosities, went down to Wilmington. He had with him a mummy which died and was embalmed during the very year Joseph was carried into Egypt. The coroner of Wilmington—as report save—heard about the arrival of the mummy and what does he do but empanel a jury of twelve men, and then march around to hold an Inquest upon our old Egyptian friend After deliberating for an hour and a half, and listening to the testimony of a doctor, who accused the corpse of having inside of him some complicated works with Latin names—all of which the mummy would undoubtedly have repudiated had he been alive—the jury returned a verdict that "deceased came to bis death by tho hands of party or parties unknown." This was sublime enough. But our coroner conceived a higher flight of genius. He charged the regular fee for his service®, but dated the bill back to the time of the mummy's death, and then presented to the traveller, with compound interest added to date. The amount was some tour million times greater than the combined national debt* of the United State# and Great Britain. The bill was acof

Tsuts Is a fellow out near Henderson who has been expecting for a couple of we«J» past that a hen. which Is setting on a pile of apples, will batch a barrel of cider. Tbe ninny!— Qale*tmrg MupmNu* tm.

TRRRR-HATTTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL. OCTOBER 7,1871.

A WORD TO THE GIRLS. One of our religious papers, In a *ecent article addressed to the young Itdies cave them some excellent advice as iwlLffcitwl bodies «e tbe most beiptitaFofGod$ crestioifll In tbe Continental galterlaf I alwaya saw groups of people gathered about pictures of women. It ww not passion the gazers were just MNttfcely to be women as men it was because of the wondrous beauty of woman's body." Commenting on this fact, tbe writer says further, on imagining a lady passing his range of vision, -Now, isn't that a pretty looking object? A

vi vuo uiww "v*v r—: mons, hideous mass of false hair or bark, piled on top of her head, surmounted by a little flat, ornamented with bits ot lace, birds tails, Ac. The shop-windows tell us all day lohg of tbe paddings, whalebones and steel springs, which occupy most of tbe space within that outside rig. In the name of all the simple, sweet sentiments which cluster about a home, I would ask, how is a man to fall in love with such apiece of compound, double twisted, touch-me-not artificiality, as vousee in that wriggling curiosity?" with a wasp-waist, squeezing lungs, stomach, liver, and other vital organs, into one-half their natural size, and with that long trail dragging on the ground, he wonders how any man of judgment who knows that life is made up of use, of sensA, of service, of work, can take such a partner. He must be desperate, indeea, to unite himself for life with such a fettered, half-breathing ornament. He also tells the girls that the bad dress, added to the lack of exercise so general, lead to bad health, and men wisely fear that instead^ of a helpmate they would get an invalid to take care of. This bad health in women, just as in men, makes tbe mind as well as the body feeble and effeminate, leaving them no power, no magnetism. He tells those who giggle so freely, and use large adjectives, such a9 splendid," fcc., that it deceives no one unless as silly as they are, only showing others that they are superficial, affected, silly, and have none of that womanly strength and warmth which are so assuring and so attractive to man. He tells them they have become so childish and weak-minded, that they refuse to wear decent names even, and insist upon being called baby names. Instead of Helen, Margaret, Elizabeth, they affect Nellie, Maggie, and Lizzie. WThile brothers were Robby, Dicky and Johnny but when they grow up to manhood, no more of that silly trash, if you please. But he knows a woman of twenty-five years, and she is as big as both his grandmothers put together, who insists on being called Kitty, and her real name is Catherine and though her brain is big enough to conduct aflairs of State, she does nothing but giggle, cover up her face with her fan, ancf exclaim, once in four minutes, "Don't now! you are real mean." He wants to know how a man can propose a life partnership to no silly a goose. He denies the common remark that most sensible men are crazy after butterflies of fashion. Occasionally a man of brilliant success may marry a silly, weak woman, but nineteen times in twenty, sensible men ohoose sensible women. In company they are very likely to chat and toy with these overdressed and forward creatures, but they never ask them to go to the altar with them. Girls must also remember that among the young men in the matrimonial market, only a small number are independently rtcb, ouU liiAmow^ such very rarely make good husbandsl But the number of thoso who are just beginning in life, who aro filled with noble ambition, who have a iuture, is very large. But such will not, they dare not, ask girls to join them, while thoy see them so idle, silly, and so gorgeously attired. Let them see that girls are industrious, economical, with habits that secure health and strength that their life is earnest and real that they would be willing to begin at the beginning in life with the man you would consent to marry—then marriage will become the rule, and not, as now, the exception.

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A STRANGE LOTTERY FREAK. A very singular story has come to our notice, illustrative of the strange freaks sometimes played by lotteries. A gentleman well known in military circles in this city, made an investment to the extent of ono ticket In the Sacramento Lottery. He purchased at the time the first tickets that were offered for sale. He had purchased dozens of lottery tickets before, but never heretofore has had the lortune to draw a prize. He had become complotely disgusted with his ill-luck, and had determined never to buy another ticket. But when the Sacramento Lottery tickets were offered, he, under a whim of the moment, resolved to purchase one only, and to seal it in an envelope without looking at the number until the drawing should have tak^n place and he could have a complete list before him. lie carried out his resolution. Last evening, with a full list of tho prizes at hand, he opened his envelope. He had been so many times unfortunate, that be really had no expectation of drawing a prize, but still be had a faint hope that his luck would change. On tearing open the envelope with an affected nonchalance, judge of his astonishment on finding that he had drawn—nothing.

THE Mormons are in Court. The District Attorney Is determined to test tbe question whether Polygamy can legally exist in a territory 01 tho United States The Grand Jury lias been linp.meled with special reference to this cause, and several discontented wives of much married Mormons will apply for the redress of their pecullsir grievances. If certainly looks as though the "peculiar institution" of Utah is doomed, and soon must yield up the ghost, however these particular cases may be decided. The Gentiles, who are now flocking to the territory in large numbers, are fast destroying the unity of public sentiment, and will soon have a controlling voice In Its affairs. Not that they are any better than tbe Mormons, and undoubtedly many of tbem would be glad to have more wives than Brigbam has but then tbey are not so impolitic as to engage for tho support ot a whole harem. This is what much of the Gentile virtue amounts to,—CMdm Agt.

XKW FANOLKD NOTIONS.—Recently two persona travelling on the road to Gotham in a light wagon were smoking cigars, from the fire of which some straw at the bottom ignited. The flames soon drove tbem from their seals, and while busy extinguishing the lire a countryman who had been for some time following them on horseback, alighted to assist tbem.

I have been watching the smoke for some time, said be. Why, then, did you not give us notice asked tbe travelers.

Well," responded tbe rustic, "there are so many new fangled notions now days, I thought you were going by steam."

BIRTHPLACE OF PEA RE.

All the walls are dark with a confusion of names. In a room below hangs a card, on which are transcribed the four lines written by Lneien Napoleon on the wall. The original was whitewashed over by the butcher, or some of his ilk, and is barely visible now. In the acre of ground belonging to and back of the building, are planted all the shrubs, trees, and flowers named by the poet, and they look very-well, indeed, considering that many are not of English growth or kind.

In the muse'tm but little else of interest is seen tnan some beautiful modern busts and pictures, and splendid editions of Shakspeare's works. Let me here confess that In all the busts, from those adorning the doors of shopkeeper to the pointed one above his dust, thai came to my notice in England, and they are legion, I have seen no feature or reflection of Hamlet or Macbeth. The great gold ring, taken from the dead man's hand, had for me a strange attrai tion. It is much like the flat-crowned specimen-rings worn by miners of the Pacific Coast, and has "V. S." cut deep in the surface. Here is also seen the only letter preserved that was written to Shakspeare. It asks a loan of £30—an enormous sum in those days. There are many lawpapers exhibited, in which the poet appears as plaintiff, and show that he had a pretty teen eye to business, particularly where he sues a man tor thirty shillings' worth of malt. Perhaps the modern young rhymer, who cultivates a contempt tor money, had as well stick a pin here, and question with himself whether or not, after all, the scorning of practical things is not a sign rather of weakness than strength of mind. Passing out to the street, and turning to take a last look at his house which most ot the greatest of earth of the last two hundred years have entered, I read ou the door the time and terms of admission, rind over the door that a reward of £1 would be paid for the apprehension of any one caught defacing the building.—From, "On and About the Avonin the Overland Monthly for October.

GRAGE GREENWOOD ON THE NARROW GA UGE. Grace Greenwood writes as follows to the New York Times "I should have chronicled some time ago an excursion on the Denver and Rio Grande narrow-gauge railway. We went out about fifteen miles, as far as the rails were then laid. It was a charming day. Wo had a, pleasant company of oitiaeua and tourlste, and all went 'morry as a marriage bell,' in the old days, when marriages were of some account. On this railway you are struck at once with the reduced proportions of everything—from the locomotive, which seems like a small variety of the 'iron horse'—a very little mustang—to the windows and lamps in the cars. The cars themselves aro bright, pretty, diminutive affairs, cozy and comfortable.

In learning mences with 1c ry things in Muse wha" #n-4Pgrif twenty-si if lei *boutiiveIIun •re combined Unlimited pe

gto see use house The firS-placo of

You pay a shilling to see and the museum, the kitchen, oocnpled up to the Hnk an half- of this centery a~but«tier,3l of enormous eapamty, and not uatike those of the atfners'Un the Siecras. There is nothing*in any ot the four or five rooms, up And down^tslra tiiat Is worth seeing, save the name of Walter Scott cut on tbfr street-window of the room above the- kltcHen, where Shakspeare was born. I looked out of this broad window, made up ot little sixinch lights, and saw that the postoffice of the town was opposite. 1 also saw an old woman, with a gray little donkey hitched in the shafts of a cart of vegetables. She was talking with a shoemaker, who sat in his door and listened with uplifted hammer. A red faced baker passed by with a basket of bread on his head, singing to himself, nnd that was all I could see or hear in Henly Street, Stratford, as I looked out of the window through which the light first came to Shakspeare.

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ly and quietly. The little engine "buckled right do vn to her work," like Chiquita, and-made no ado about it, for several miles when, I grieve to say, she suddenly balked, and had to be 'switched.' We took another horse and went on merrily to the end of the road. Here we all alighted, and watched the men laying the rails and driving spikes. The remorseless officers of the road insisted on your correspondent paying her way by "driving a spike. It was a cruel tasTic

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my 'muscular

Christianity.' The newspaper report jsaid that I 'drove the spike home tri'umphantly.' But I really thought it 'wouldn't go home till morning.' This narrpw-gauge road, when finished to J51 Paso, will be a wonderful route— for pleasure as well-as commerce—as it will be almost unrivaled for variety fmd grandeur of scenery. The nyuntain views, the pictures of river, and park, and plain, between Denver and Colorado City, are especially magnificent

No FALLING OUT.—A Now Jersey correspondent mentions the existence Of an eccentric old farmer in his neighborhood who has the reputation of being "freethinker," ana consequehtly the subject of much solicitude to the village clergyman. Not long since he was taken sick, and, being qnite old and feeble, bis recovery was considered matter of doubt, and the visit of tbe minister was desired by bis family. After tbe usual friendly greetings were over, the clergyman, to Introduce the object of his visit, remarked:

Friend W you are now getting to be an old man, and have lived a careless life would it not be well to take tho present opportunity to make your peace with God?"

Lord bless your soul I" replied the feeble old man "he and I hain't never bad no fallin' out vet J"

PRETISK.—There is said to be a very precise and methodical young lady in one of the interior towns of New \ork, who divides her time up with tbe utmost exactness. For Instance, she allows just so much time to eating, so tnucb to visiting, so much to reading, £c* and on no account suffers herself to deviate from her rales. If she has a caller she says, looking at her watch, •'Now, 1 have just ten minutes to see you in without infringing upon my time for meditation." A friend called pot long ago to relate to her tbe sad particulars of tbe death of her much beloved grand mother. Tbe methodical young woman was affected even to rears, but didn't forget ner time-card. She drew forth her watch at tbe most touching (joint of tbe story, and begged ber friend to cut It short, as In four

miootes

and twenty-two seconds she

must practice with ner dumb-bells

BITS of iron will prevent water from becoming putrid. Sbeet iron or iron trimmings are tbe ba«t. The offensive ftpmll of water in vasea of flower* would be avoided by putting a few small nails In tbe bottom of the

nglisb, a qlllHx ootors, bu, thf^iMMuebtaneseare syllables, beould calf Iftters are

Instssdt,,of our the pblte has syllablefpind these getner, in au almost tatlon, to form their thousand words, each separate character.

fifty or sixty represented l»y a sen From the pauc.ty of their syllables, they have to give them many significations. Thus, for instance. Rev. S. B. Brown informs us that the syllable chae has two hundred and twelve meanings ehing, a hundred and thirteen, etc. Hence, if one Chinaman says to another simply eAae, he may mean any one of two hundred and twelve things, which is practically nothing and he has, therefore, In order to limit it somewhere, to speak another syllable of kindred signification, either before or after it. These two syllables (sometimes three) he utters so quickly together, that they form one word as much in English, which fact makes it inaccurate to call Chinese a monosyllabic language. In other words, the arrangement of the syllables in English is invariable so that, in case of the word "incomprehensibility," for instance, we can not write any two of the syllables together to form anew word whereas the Chinese (supposing it had so long a word, though it very seldom has one of more- than three syllables) could pi«k it to pieces, and make perhaps a dozen, or two dozen, new words. It is hardly too much to say that a Chinaman can unite together any two of the five hundred syllables which have any kinship in meaning, and make an intelligible word.

Let me use a homely illustration Suppose two Chinatnen sit down on opposite sides of atable, one of them with five hundred blocks, smeared with glue at both ends. He might pick up and show ^o the other any ont* of them, and he would at once call out any one of its dozon or hundred meanings, for each of which he would make a different character but to communicate any extended or precise information, bis friend must glue tbem together in couples or threes. This is why the Chinese is not, as it is usually called, a monosyllabic language. We can say in English, "I went to town last night, and found my friend, and went with him to see the play," all in monosyllables but It Is impossible to utter in Chinese anything but the shortest sentences in monosyllables as, ngo swho, "I say ne she eAwe? "who are you?" A rapid speaker in English does not separate his words by greater intervals than bis syllables neither do tho Chinese. The error of calling the language monosyllabic has arisen from tho fact, that in writing, the Chinese make one cumbrous and complicated, but integral, character for every word but that word may, nevertheless, be spoken in two, three, or even four syllable?.— From The Language of Confucius," t'n the Overland Monthly for October.

HENRI ROCHEFORT, the brilliant journalist, the most daring opponent of the Napoleonic dynasty, and one of the leading Communists, has finally been tried and sentenced by the Versailles Court Martial. Ana his sentence—wo tremble for Franco, we blush for justico when we record it—Is transportation to a penal colony for life. M, Kochefort is of aristocratic origin, and a man of literary taste and large culture. Ho is an onthusiast by nature, an apostle of liberty, for which ho dared everything,' endured anything, and confronted death. His devotion to freedom amounted to a passion, and sometimes swept him into indiscretions of speech and act which a cooler and more politic mind would have avoided. But Ins intense ardor and contagious enthusiasm gave him immense influence with the people whom he swayed almost at will, and tipped his pen sometimes with fire ana sometimes with lightning. His Lanterne was more dreaded by Napoleon than the cunning of Bismarck or the armies of Austria. After the collapse of the Empire he was chosen member of the Government of National Defense In which ho displayed characteristic energy. When the controversy between Paris and the National Assembly terminated in a conflict, he was drawn naturally into the Commune, whoso violence he depreciated and whoso madness ho did not share. There was no sufficient evidence that he had been guilty of any criminal act, alid his moderation made him unacceptable to the more violent leaders of his party. Morever, when a prisoner, he refused to accept a release from the Prussians, and afterwards voluntarily offering to give himself up to the Versailles authorities, which he would never have done had he been the blood-thirsty wretch he was represented. To banish such a man from his native land for life, as though he had been a murderer, is a crime against liberty and justice in comparison with which the worst acts ho has committed are meritorious. It would almost seem that the National Assembly were writing its own death-warrant in his sentence, which is prompted either by the madness of fear or the insanity of revenge.—Goldm Age, 4LOOKING OUT FOR SMALL-POX.

Richfield sulphur springs give out a strong odor ot sulphurated hydrogen, which is like the smell of bad eggs. Some years ago a traveler on horseback was ap*pfoachlng the spring, and observing a white flag which was raised on a polo by tlie laborers employed, inquired of a man standing in the door of a ublic bouse a half mile from tbe spring, ill-pox. gof a wag said. "Perhaps it is." "Well,"

P' if that flag was the sign of small-pox. The man addressed being something of

said the traveler, "Is there no way by which I can go around and give smallpox a wide ocrth?" Said the man:— "You will have to go some eight miles

out of the way. But I can tell you how you can pass the flag, smallpox and all, In perfect safety: just ride on within fifty rods of the nag, and then hold yonr breath till vou get fifty rods bevond the spring, ana you will bo perfectly safe." The traveler did as directed. When be supposed he had reached within fifty rods of tho spring, be seised his nose with one band and pat tbegondon with the other. His horse made rapid bounds, and be, a quixotic figure, attracted the gaze of the laborers, who stood astonished. But when just opposite tbe spring he could no longer bold his breath. He loosened tho hold of bis nose and took a sniff of the sulphurated hydrogen gas. "O f»od!" he shrieked, ""I've cauched it!" lie seised his nose again and passed out of sight. Whether be died or small-pox or what became of him was never known.

WHEN a negro jury went out to deiibc

wmm

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iberate, one juror asked

another: "Is dl# a hangin' ease "To be sure, nigger," was tbe answer. "Well," said the first Juror, "din nigger beerd one dem lawyers say dat boy's gbose comln' back here and bant as if we hang him. I no go for bang-

tag. sad have dat boy's gbose foiler mej for tbe bison to back up to the platf No? sir." Verdict of manslaughter. (and get killed.—Chicago Republican,

JOSH BILLINGS UNDER OATH* Josh Billings being duljpwom, tMtt4 fyg az tollers: if

Eight wontL go into ijfk and have mutch ov eunytbingpett over. Msnny a young felMn^iiaz flpind out this sum^ in arithmetic^ bitrieingtew git a nam-1 ber eight foot into a lumber six boot#

Virtue, in-oas reripAt. Is like munny. That which wnavHw work the bard-:, est for, sticks tew us the best.

Affektashun never improved enny vet. Itjz better tew be a devil than a bypokritt.

I bay often herd thare was men who knew more than they could tell, but neve met one. hay often met thozftj who could tell a grate deal more thai^ they did kno, and waz willing tew sware to it besides.

To be proof agin flattery, a man must hav no ^nity, and such a man never existed if hetlid, he iz now one ov the lost arts.

Sum people are good simply bekauze they are too lasy tew be wicked, and others, bekauze they hant got a good., chance.

In munny, interest phollows the*principal in morals, principle often phollows the interest.

Yu will notis one thing—the devil seldum offers tew go into partnership with a bizzy man, but yu will often see him offer tew line the lazy man, and furnish all the kapital.

Love iz about tho only pashun ov tha *. heart, that 1 kan think oy now, thaff never makes enny mistakes that she kan be held accountable for. It yu waz a going tew try pure love for a crime, what court would yu take her before? "In time ov peace prepare for war." This Iz the way sum mmilys llv all tho time.

The vices which a man kontrakts in- 'i hizyouth, however mutch he may shake them oph, will often call ou him thru life, anu seek tew renew hiz acquaintance.

Every man haz hiz phollys, but tharei'iz this difference—in the -poor man, they look like crimes, whilo, In the rich man, they only appear tew be exsentrlcltys.

Old age Inkreases us In wisdom, and'fk also In rumatlsm. I kno lots ov pholks who are plus1 list bekauze they waz born so. They" kant tell when they got religion, anar|' if they should loose it, they wouldn't kno it.

When fortune pipes, we must danceIt aint alwus that she iz in tune. I think the honesty ov men iz oftner" the effekt ov policy than principle.

Thare iz only one kind of folks who^. kan keep a so ret good, and thoy never take enny tew keep.

The man who iz wicked enufftew be. dreaded iz a safer man in community^ than the one who iz just virtewou#'*' enutf not tew be suspekted.

Hypockrasy iz alwus humble. Gravity don't prove enny thing. If a man iz really wise, he don't need it,, and, if he aint wize, he shouldn't hav it.

Thare Iz no excuse whatever lor the

insolence ov wealth thare may possibly^ bo for the Insolence ov poverty. Don't forget one thing, mi boy—Chafe? when five men kail yu a suckcess, and' one man kalis yu a failure, that the one man's testimony iz what fetches^ the jury.

Lazyness iz the fust law ov natur selfpreservashun iz the seckond. Yu kant konvert sinners bi preaching tho gospel tew them at hafl price. Enny sinner who iz anxious tew git hiz religion in that way, iz satisfied with a poor artlklo.

A TOUCHING INCIDENT. One ot the most touching incidents of the lute war has yet to bo recorded. When tho Prince ae Salm-Salm return-1 ed to Enropo after the death of tho Emperor Maximilian at Querotaro, the? Archduchess Sophia appointed thefs Princess to an official post at Schoon-& brunn. The Princess soon became thos bosom friend and companion of tho| Archduchess, who still rofusos to bo| comforted for the loss of her favorite! son. The Prince, meanwhile had joined the army, and fell at Gravefotto. The Princess, although entirely deprived of all lortune by tho deplorableevent of Mexico, and wholly dependent! on the bounty of tho Archduchess, hes-l Itated not to sacrifice the sum of 5,000^ francs—all she possessed—to rcoovor her husband's remains. Tho watch, thetff signal of recognition of tho body, bosides the usual tokens of uniform and accoutrements was of peculiar make— a present from the Emperor Maximilian, and of pure Mexican gold, to whichfH was attached a chain of the samo ma-,t terlal, with a locket containing a small 1 photographic portrait of tho Princes# with the initials of husband and wifo, and the motto, four times repoatod,s "Forever mine," in German, English,, French and Spanish. For a consldera-| ble time no hope was entertained forf the recovery ot the body, when at last :, the five thousand francs roward was, claimed by a certain peasant of Cravo-y' lotte, who discovered the body of an? ofllcor in uniform, too much docompos-^' ed, however, to be recognizable, but In, whose pocket the watch was found with a portion of tho chaiu still attached.

Tho printed description distributed* all over the country had made it familiar enough to the Inhabitants. Tho reward was cheerfully paid, although tho chain was broken and tho locket witlv. the Prlnceife' likeness was gone. Tho body was brought to Vienna and therof interred with all due reverence, and the Princessdo Salm-Salm went to pray* each day beside tho tomb. Last week*./ intelligence arrived from tho Mayor of Gravefotto dfe laring that tbe real body.» of the Prince do Halm had been found*, in a little wood on the hill besido the

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battle-field, and as proof of tho ldenti-, ty, In spite of the utter impossibility of recognition, tbe pocket book, marked with the Prince's cypher, containing several letters addressed to him by tho Princess, were discovered besido him, and the remnants of a gold chain, to which was attached the iwket containing tbe portrait of tho Princess, were found still clutched in the grasp of tha skeleton fingers of the corpse! Thd announcement has produced the greatest sensation in Vienna, and the aup-, position Is that the watch might luvo been found In the possession of a robber. and that tho Prince might have succeeded in tearing it from his grasp.

THERE Is a good deal of suggestiveness in such advertisements as this,f* which appears in a Vlcksburg (Miss.) paper: "If the contemptible puppy who insulted a gentleman Immediately after partaking of his hospitality will show himself on Wasbin"*"" rn"'

Washington street.? 1., he will bo treated^1

after 9 o'clock a. m., to a bullet without any questions J.

T. KEBN."—v

WHEN last heard from the buffalo annihllators, Phil Sheridan, young Jim Bennett, August Belmont, Char-? ley Wilson, and others, were amiably 5 caroling "I love my cocktails in the morning" in a palace car, and waiting for tbe bison to Dack up to tbe platform