Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 2, Number 17, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 21 October 1871 — Page 2

Rural.

LANDSCAPE GARDENING. An essay read before the Terre-Haute Horticultural Society by J. F. Soule:

Having been appointed by this society to write upon landscape gardening, I submit a few thoughts upon the subject, trusting that some one who has more time to devote to its consideration, and more practical experience in this department, will hereafter more fully develop its principles,

laying

out, grading and plant

ing, of jx portion of the earth's surface, in such a manner as to be most attractive to the eye of the observer. This is frequently done on a large scale, as in creating parks near large cities, where education, refined taste and unlimited wealth combine to produce scenery that viewed from a thousand different standpoint#, presents an aspect of grandeur and beauty, that rests, refreshes and inspires the soul of the observer. The time will doubtless come when our beautiful and flourishing city will demand and will have a public park, in which the skill of tho landscape gaidener will be practically illustrated and which will rival in its attractions the parks and gardens of the oldest and most populous cities of our country. I will not occupy your time in descanting upon the refining, elevating and purifying inlluenco of auch a park. The happiness it would afford some, the rest and refreshment it would afford others, and the rapture it would inspiro in many. But most of us aro more immediately interested in landscape gardening as applicable to the grounds surrounding our own dwellings. Tho surroundings of every residence presents sonic kind of a landscape. How desolate and unattractive not to sav heartslckening, Is the landscape surrounding many dwellings in the country, and also in the city, would ask you all as you ride about the country, that you observe particularly the landscape surrounding every dwelling you pass. It will be instructive at least, if not amusing.

Any one who will do this for a short time, will bo struck with the variety and contrast of landscape within a few hours drive of the city in any direction, and will be impressed with the importance of tho subject, and astonished that It is so utterly neglected by so many well to do farmers.

There are thousands of residences in fair locations, in tho surrounding couutry, surrounded by a lo\y fence of old decaying\ rails, without a tree, or a shrub in the yard, the only object of said fonce appearing to be to keep the calves from getting out of tho door yard, as it does not keep the horses and mules from get£S in. How often as we pass a residence, are we Impressed •with its desolation and as wo pass another, we Involuntarily say, that is a beautiful place, or that is a neat little place, or what a lovely glace that Is, and similar expressions. Wherein is tho ditlorenoo it is nearly all owing to tho difference in the landscape gardening. True, tho house may add to, or detract from, tho attractions of the place, but the effect ot tho house is of secondary Importance. An old house or a small house with poor architecture, in made genial ami attractive by beautiful surroundings. A costly house, even if it is|of good architecture, seems desolate, cold and unattractive, if tho •grounds about it aro destitute of trees, tihrubs, vines and flowers. In ornamenting grounds about a dwelling, my first direction is to plant something. Anv kind of treo or shrub is belter than nothing. What to plant depends much upon the size of the plot. If vou have sufficient room for a few rorost trees, and also for a small selection of eholco shrubs and evergreens, ana slill not have your resldenco too much shaded «r hid from view, then plant Homo forest trees, as they not only furnish a delightful shade in summer, but mid to tho attraction of the grounds.

Hut evergreens aro absolutely essential, in every attempt at landscape gardening. Hoses and flowers may also bo used to some extent, but a flower garden however nicely kept, will not annwor the purpose. It any ono has taste for flowers, and wishes a collection of them, they should be in an appropriate place by themselves, and constitute tho flower garden. The principles which underlv successlui landscape gardening, require a more minute, delicate and foreiblo exjKwltlon, than I can attempt at this time, and an article on that subject would bo more likely to receive attention in the winter or earlv in the

spring,

than at this

season of* the year. Trusting that aonie ono who Is qualified for the task will in due time elucidate these prlnci

idea. I leave the snHect for the present,

The words of Jesus were

•i ip moment

eUhU-ea hundred years for the evw* of humanity (what do say! of an IntlnUo. bo

tern tnaii

wtlon of humanity) to learn

hl tt

,, Uni tho gleans shall boih« (ttll •!«,«• hESX

lv small po to abide it. uTrvuglV auf tbecJncles of emr,hum*ni^ tv will return to these words, as lo the iJiSortS exPr««ion of its ftdth and iu hopes."

VtrK-PRKSIPKM Col.FAX. ln mperance speech at Washington, site the startling, r©«»*rk that while f&rtv millions of dollars *re P^f.* the Vnit**! States thing. I our

llgiou* purposes* and aw use ua. jure paid for rum. I

Young Folks.

CHARADE.

Of myM I'd have you beware, As it often proves to be A stepping-stone to my whole,

As all physicians agree.

Mv second, if used in air, Might be called, perhaps, a wind.

And

and

exhibit

its claims upon our attention, than I am able to do, in this hurried season of the year. Landscape may be defined, to be that portion of natural scenery which the eye can take in at one view, including mountains, valleys, trees, lakes, rivers, etc. Landscape gardening is the

lsdeemed byitsowner, no doubt. As useful and comely a thing

Enjoying life's

Mv first is in canter, but not in walk My next is in song, but not in talk Mv third is in horse, but not in mule Mv fourth is in jester, but not in fool My whole is the name of a summer flower Which graces many a maiden bower.

Fayette.

TRANSPOSITIONS.

(Fill the following blanks with the same words transposed.) A is often shown by tho post tion of a

got lost in a

the in its place?

man can live air alone. A ^*.5 A AU.

CROSS PUZZLE.

1. A precious stone. 2. A term much used bv geologists. 3. A hard compound.* 4. What number three is. 5. A child's ornament. 6. Something often seen in breastpins. 7. A science. Find in the center letters a kingdom.

\!r R, Coleman.

NAMES OF AUTHORS ENIGMATICALLY EXPRESSED. 1. An adjective, and part of a wheel. 2. An adjective, and a certain dwelling

s'. An exclamation, and a deep pit. 4. An animal, and a sound made by an animal. 5. To quiver, anil a weapon.

manly"statement

J, B. T.j JK*

ANSWERS TO ENIGMAS, ARADES Ac. IN LAST WEEKS PAPER.

Cross-Word Enigma.—Longfellow.

»«. T-l• *Vk,J

danger. Modesty is a guard to virtue. Knaving is tho worst trade. Boasters are cousins to liars. You never lose by doing a good turn.

Charades.—1. Carpot. 2. Dragonet. Transpositions.—1. Gapes, pages. 2. Shrub, brush. 3. Left, felt. 4. Charts, starch. 5. Last, slat, salt. 6. Now, own, won. 7. Larum, mural. 8. Doliver, reviled. 9. Minos, Simon.

7IIE EARLY TRAINING NASBY.

(Extract from an autobiography written by himself, but rendered in good English by a younger brother, who learned to spell In his younger days.)

Modesty being the most prominent trait in my character, it is with reluctance that I speak of myself. In this one particular, George Francis Train and myself are very much alike the only difference being/G. F. manages to make a good living out of his modesty, while I don't. But, modest as I am, I most say that I am a most excellent man? Indeed, I commenced being good at a very early age, and built myself up on the best models. I was yet an infant when I read the affecting story of the hacking down of the cherrytree bv George Washington, and his

to his father that he

could not tell a lie. I read the story, and it tilled me with a desire to surpass him. I was not going to allow any snch boy as George Washington, if he did afterward got to be a President, excel me in the moralities. Immediately I seized a hatchet, and cut down the most valuable cherry-tree my father had and, more, I dug up the roots and burned the branches, so that by no means could the variety be preserved and I went a skating one Sunday, that 1 might confess the two faults, and be wept over and forgiven on account of my extreme truthfulness. The experiments were, I regret to say, partial failurea. I was very much like George Washinjaf^fi but, the trouble was, my fatherJRdn't resemble George Washingtoifa father to any alarming extent, which was essential to tho success of my scheme. "Did you cut down that cherry-tree?" asked he. "Father I can not tell a lie. I did it with my little hatchet," I answered, striking the proper attitude for the old gentleman to shod tears on ine. But he didn shed. He remarked that he had rather I had told a thousand lies than to have cut down that particular tree, and be whipped me till I was in a state of exasperating rawness- The same devotion to truth is characteristic of my children. Truth is their weakness.

They icad the same story but, alas! 1 had no horticultural tastes, and, therefore, no garden, and, as a matter of course, no

cherry-treesabout

hsVe

Jeans after his nave been ten

nnn, has this to say of Jesus alter uu

interview with tho woman ofSichem at

these words, he was indeeed the son of iiod. He f«r the first lime gave» "trance to the idea upon which shall rest the edifice of the everlasting religion. He founded the pure worship ol no age, of no clime, which shall be that ofsll lofty souls to the end of time. Not inlv was is religion, that dav, the benign religion of humanity, but it was 1 «P into knife-handles and susoe JESS' and UH^my their religion button*, so that she could go to cannot be different "fl!j sewiml time by hi« W„r-I r-Uly *«.. -V» vre attain the ideal only for a

my house.

At the ago of eight, my eldest hankered for a cherry-tree. "Whero is the tree for me to hack?" he perpetually asked. At ten he planted one, and nursed it, anil watered it, and pruned it, that at twelve he might hack it down, and manfully confess that he did it with his little hatchet! Since that I *Bhe mo-

planted trees for them.

inent a male child is born to me, I

Thk French rationalist, Ernest Re- pUnt a cherryHree for him. There .it

cherry-trees

houae_thoro teil

lher(j now^ to which

Jacob's well. We have mot nowhere a evidences of the entire devotion of iwinir tribute to Christianity: mv children to truth. I shall never be more glowing tribute to I nr» Vresident. but it seems to me there "On the day when ho nronouncevl

about my

decaying stumps

poiui

Wjth

[From the Liberal Christian.]

WHY THE UNITARIAN DENOMINATION DOES NOT QUO WThere never was a time when the constituency of our body had any earnest denominational feeling of the kind prevailing in other Christian sects. How could there be? Have we ever ielt inclined or able to say that We were

wholly

fleeting treasures,

And sipping lrom pleasure

There's nothing on earth less desired

CROSS-WORD ENIGMA.

pride,

tho

family.

Torcniso

tiox.—"Hiere

Eviphnck of Affbo-

is a woman in Snyder

county. Pa., who is too much of a utilitarian to be regarded with sentimental admiration. When her husband died it seems that she had hi in buried without his shin-bones, which were extracted and sent around to be worked n&er usekeeping properly when she married tbe

must have an object around which to

unbuttons and knife-haudles.

Thkrk Is

right and thev wholly wrong

that salvation depended upon receiving our faith rather than theirs or that a decisive importance attached to the conversion of men from the errors or Orthodoxv to the truths of Unitarians? Doubtless" we have not yet attained an adequate sense of the value of our distinctive opinions but that value does not reside in the exclusive truth and dogmatic correctness of our views, or their technical bearing on final salvation We admit that sincere and earnest Christiansof every order and name are just as safe as we are. But we feel that a wider charity and a sweeter cheerfulness, and a finer sense of tne loveliness of religion, and a fuller aevelopement of the whole man,and even that the only interest which certain important classes of human beings will ever take In Christianity, are immensely dependent on the offering of our opinions. And this is our chief motive for publishing them motive which easy influences any considerable class. It is too general, refined, and dependent on reflection, to be

self-commending

more truth than compli

ments In tbe following story from Mr*. Htrwe's "Pink and While Tyranny:" "Pretty girls, unless they h#ve wise mothers, are more educated by the opposite sex than by their own. Put them where yon will, there always mow nut* busying himself about their instruction and the burden of masculine teaching is generally about the same, and might be stereotyped as follow*: 'You need not be or^do anjr thing. Your bttslneas ln life is to loo

dosimw

or popular. Peo

pie have never Jfet been influenced as much by the love of God as by the fear of Him by hopes of heaven as by fears of hell by things probable and reasonable as by things asserted authoritatively and uiged with absolute positiveness." Our view of the Bible, too, as written by inspired men, but not as being an inspired book—"the word of God in the sense which our Orthodox brethren have offered it, as if God wrote it or spok© it—are a perpetual hindrance to sectarian progress. It must be conceded that we have the very hardest undertaking on hand in striving to create a popular interest in our Liberal Church. Indeed, the wider spread our opinions—if on ordinary soil—the weaker our immediate prospects grew For the first effect—and it lasts a good while—of liberating Christians from the old and erroneous views ot the Church and the Bible and the Creed, is to make them dread and avoid all ecclesiastical and doctrinal organizations.- Every house suggests a a oal to an escaoed prisoner, and he takes to the woods! Every church or

ganization suggests priestcraft, super stition, narrowness, nypocricy, to one who has been lately liberated from Ro man Catholicism or Scotch Calvinism and he becomes his own church and minister, king and priest, and will have nothing to do with creeds and agreements and common religious »c tion, however liberal their pretensions

A RIVER ABOVE THE CLOUDS. If you were told that there was river above the clouds equal in size to the Mississippi or Amazon that this river is drawn out of the sea more than a mile high that it is always full water, and that it is more than twenty five thousand miles in length, reaching round the globe, you would call it very extravagant assertion. And yet not only is this assertion substantially true, but very much more than this is true. If all the waters in the sky were brought into one channel, they would make a stream more than fifty "timesas large as the Mississipi or the Amazon*

How many are there in the skyV Just as many as there are on the-aarth If they were not first in the skihow could they be on eart If it is the sky that keeps them full, then the sky must alwa. have enoagh to keep them full that is it must always be pouring down into the sea.

It is computed that the water which falls from the clouds every year would cover the whole earth to the depth of five feet that is if the earth was a level plain, It would spread over it an ocean of water five feet deep, reaching round the globe. The sky, therefore has not only a river of water, but a whole ocean of it. And it has all come ont of the sea.

Tbe sea, therefore, is the great inexhaustible fountain which Is continual n» ly pouring intf the sky precisely ae many streams, and as large, as all the rivers of the world are pouring into it. It is this that keeps the ocean the same level from year to year. If it were not sending off into the air precisely as much as it receives from the rivers, it would be continually rising on its shores, and would flnaljy overflow tbe lauds of the earth.

Indiaji Chieftains.—Gen.Stoneman

says.that when he first saw the Apaches, in*1846, they were splendidly mounMltl every warrior rode a stallion, and every squaw a mare. They were dressed in buckskins, their lances were bright and their trappings superb. Seven hundred of them rode together. They were the terror of Mexico, and rode li»r into the republic but they treated the Americans wifh chivalry, and bands of California emigrants could ride through Arizona unharmed. Th^ Arizona Apaclio Is now a starving hyena, eating squirrels, rats, owls, anything to keep life and Vengeance, alive. Cochise, the chief, is said to be a splendid physical specimen of a man, of wonderful alertness and remarkable sagacity. He was at peace with the whites when his camp was attacked, and his wife and brother captured. Some days afterwards he and hlne other men rode up to the attacking party, mounted pn good horses and holding lariats to which were attached the necks of nine white captives. Cochise's message was. "Give up my wife and brother, and

Good Jokk.—"l

my, in

peirating a little practical joke a few days since. A grerft many visitors from the country were visiting the Capitol and the oft recurring question was,

cluster the sweet and tender memories v» iierr is »u« _'

fhnnd Colonel Penn*baker ons isange

LITTLE "TAD" AND THE MAIMED SOLDIER. I was in Washington the day President Lincoln was shot. I went to the White House in the forenoon, with a crowd oX persons who were anxious to gee the President. The large anteroom was literally crowded with officers and civilians—Judges, Senators and members of Congress, soldiers and citizens, waiting for an interview There were no seats in the room, and men passed the wearv hours in standing as best they could.

Those who passed up to the President's room, that morning, saw standing near the stairs, a maimed soldier. He appeared stricken with poverty and sorrow. His uniform was soiled and torn. He had but one leg, and looked friendless and forsaken he said nothing no one spoke to him, but even the roung. vigorous and hopeful cast ook on the Mattered boy in blue, evidently anxious, and yet afraid to mount the stairs. He had some message that lay heavy on his heart, some great wrong to be redressed or soine reat boon to ask at the hands of the .'resident. Pushed aside, like the poor man at the pool, he had no lnends at court, and no influential arm to lead bim up. He maintained his position through most of the forenoon, standing wearily on his crutches, for there was no place to sit, anfl he eyed the throng as they drifted up and down the Presidential stairs.

About eleven o'clock, "little Tad, the President's son, entered the crowded anteroom, leading the maimed sbl

dTer'

whom he had "picked ufu below The soldier paused on the thresnold in dismay. He seemed appalled at the sight before him. Generals, Judges, and Senators were waiting lor an au dienceK and .what could be hope in such a Crowd? Shame seemed to mantle his face like a veil when he looked at his tattered, untidy garb ainoug the grand persons that surrounded him Not so nis little usher. Pulling his companion forward, with words of en couragement and smiles, he beckoned him on till ho reached the doer before which the grim usher stood, saying, to every new comer, "The President is engaged, sir you must wait.' The privileged pet of the White House wis disgusted with the check put upon his freedom. He .insisted upon leading the soldier directly into the presence of his father. He attempted to force his way through, but his puny strength could uot resist the man at-arms. I he young soldier desired to withdraw from the contest. He quailed under the eves of a hundred men, some of them the first Generals of the land. He attempted to retreat, but little Tad held him to his position. He resorted to tactics often tried, and said never to have failed. He screamed at the top or his voice, "Father, father they won let me come in." The well known voice struck the ear of Mr. Lincoln in the midst of his discussions. He arose, pen in hand, and went to the door.

As the well-known form appeared, little Tad pushed the soldier in, and the door closed. Taking him aside, Mr. Lincoln learned the necessities of the case. The wounded man told his complaints to oue who, if he heard the story through. At once he granted his request, and little Tad with a face radiant with smiles, led the soldier back to the stairway, gave a loud whistle, threw up his heels, and disappeared through the doors of the private library of,the President. Shortly after, the private secretary appeared at the door of Mr. Lincoln's room and said

Gentlenien, the President will receive no more to-day." With that proclamation Mr. Lincoln

public

levees ended. Almost his last

official act was to hear the sad story, and afford relief to a friendless boy. That night he left the White House, never to return!—Netv York Ledger

IRELAND'S CONTRIBUTIONS TO ENGLAND'S GREATNESS. That was a splendid period in Irish political history which is known as the Parliamentary Period. Hallam calls it "a

period

fruitful ot splendid eloquence,

and ef ardent, uncompromising patriotism." The year 1782 was, in fact, the year of Irish revolution a whole series of laws was swept away, and Ireland, except in allegiance to the English Crown, became an independent nation. Much criticism and amazement have been bestowed on the Parliamentary era, but there are some men who rise far above both. Such a man was Henry Grattan, who showed how pure and elevated a statesman Ireland could produce. Character is a more valuable element in statesmanship even than ability, and there are few lives which have reflected more moral lustre on our annals than that of the highminded Grattan. Greatly as he succeeded, firat in tho Irish Parliament, and afterwards in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. as an orator at the bar he did not obtain the high reputation of many of his cotemporaries. Curran is, perhaps, the best example of that forsenic eloquence which has so pre-eminently distinguished Irishmen both at the Irish and English bar. Another brilliant Irish orator

was

these prisoners shall be set free." The flx you'like*!?bSillsk, so that white people answered thisoybangii|g

yml

on a galiows the chief's wife and broth- jje"£jj

er, and immediately the Indians bound-j fiends made him English Mln ed ofl, dragging the unfortunate hostages over the desert. Since that time Cochise has been merciless in his vengeance, .and his name is a terror throughout the border.

the library eloquent advocate that h*d

Whew ta the mummy? Doctor Morrow,! on^trial^ OH

of the past. There is a love that lives who enjoys a good Joke.had passed in- ("nnn In beyondUie grave, and finds joy even to the Comptroller suffice, where he ys Trial*"

oiBwfhe m^5j?"pirtyj with the inquiry, "I will SI tor. taking them to the door of tbe Comptroller® office. Pointing to the oourtretcbed form of Pennebrsker lying still death "That, ladies," said he, "Is the mummy he is said to be three thousand five hundred years old." After a

Tsnd

b. I

party wonder that tbe art of had ever arrived at such perfection

Shell. He was

born near Waterford, and brought up amid the splendid scenery of the Snir. One of his first writings was concerned with some of the intellectual glories of Irishmen, in his "Sketches of the Irish Bar." In 1830 he came into Parliament, and for many years his oratory was one of the greatest ornaments of the House

of the greatest of Commons. For sheer eloquence there was hardly anyone to equal him. Cobden said, "He was not like any other man I had ever hmtA making a speech he seemed to be like one possessed." Even sn unfriendly critic, Christopher North, said, "Nature has given him as tine a pair of eyes as ever graced human bead large, deeply

for?et everything else a boat him." ... -political friends made him English Minister at Morence, where he died. This striking eloquence, which we might almost mv an endowment peculiarly Irish, was strongly exemplified in the late judge, Mr. Justice 8bee. He was of Irish parentage, and characterised by tbe present Lora Chief Justice as the

bfUJ

health, and his

i!M7r

the Equity Courts, and was Lord Chancellor and leader of the House of Lords at an earlier age than had ever hitherto been known in our annals.—People a Magazine. [From the Washington Republican

MARK TWAINS INVENTION. Mark Twain was at the Patent Office yesterday for the purpose of taking out a patent. When we heard this information our first impression was that it was a huge joke on his part, and we asked, "What is it?"

There is no fun or fiction, however, about the thing. The genial humorist has actually hit on a new invention, and of course is anxious t,p make sohie money out of it and to be protected in his constitutional rights. His claim is briefly that he has invented a new pair of suspenders, of marvellous and hitherto undiscovered advantages, combining elegance, comfort and convenience.

He says that Horace Greeley first put the idea into his head and set him to thinking on the abstruse subject ot suspenders. When he first saw the veteran editor, the extraordinary set of

trowsers,

ever

admirably maintained the oratori-

cal honors of Ireland both in the forum and in the senate. His famous speech

Townsend's "Modern State Trial* there hi a remarkable account of tbia

slhr from the speech of jEscbines on the crown. His Parliamentary career was eminently successful he always

leased and kept tbe ear of the House, Is not by forsenic eloquence alone

UUH iriTVUWVH

few timid glanowi Jt the m'ummv, the that Irishmen hare them'imations of weiven st the bar. The Illustrious exnreservation Chancellor. iJfrrd aims, was long a 'rfection.

retired with exclamations oii wives at tbe bar. The illustrious ex-

n°st

half in and half out of his

boots, attracted his attention, and he at once set to work to see if he could not devise some plan for making them hang more gracefully. He thinks

that he has succeeded, and that if Mr. Greeley would only use "Twain patent suspenders" his pantaloons will in

Greeley would only use pendens" his pant future become the envy and admiration of the New York World and that Mr Greelev will have no occasion, during the long life that is before him, to ask the World editors to discuss his arguments and let bis pantaloons alone.

If Mark Twain

has

really succeeded in

this ho has put Mr. Greeley under great and lasting obligations. His pantaloons bother him terribly, so much so that he has been tempted more than once to throw them off altogether, ami would nave done it long ago if the discreet Samuel Sinclair, the publisher of tiie Tribune, had not protested against it in his usual mild way. Mr. Greeley pantaloons have materially interfered with his canvass for the Presidenoy but now that the great difficulty is removed, we may expect to see him enter into the campaign with vim and earnestness and to have him properly suspended outside, if not inside the White House.

THE MAGISTRATE AND THE MONKEY. When tho trade of the West Indies was first opened up, it is saia that the magistrates! of Aberdeed were tempted to try their fortune in what promised to be such a lucrative business, and sent a vessel out there on speculation. The many anxious gazers from tho Lastie Hill for the arrival of the "sliip-pio were a(? length rewarded, and when sivt'elv moored in the harborie, the civic dignitaries paid it a visit. After having exhausted the accidental wonders which had been brought homo, the provost and baillies retired to the cabin to partake of the skipper good cheer. While thus engaged, a monkey, which was part of the importations, amused with the tje of the provost wig honored it with an occasional pull much to the good old man's annoyance.

Odd, laddie," he would say, aside, "ye'd better be quiet." What's the matter with you, provost?" said the captain, overhearing one of the chief magistrate's remonst ranees*

It's that laddie o' yours," was the

"^"^hat laddie, provost ?", 2 "That one there, wi' the rough, foul face, and the sair e'en."

That's nae a laddie, provost its a vionkev "Is'tf is't?" said the worthy dignitary, "fat better kent I? I thocht it was some of your sugar-maker sons come o'er to our university to get education." i'r

LORD PALMERSTON.

Gordon, thaScottish painter, used to tell this story of Ldrd Palmerstou I had exhibited for several years, but without «*ny particular success. One year, however—the year before painted 'The Corsicanf—Lord Palmerston took a sndden fancy to my picture, called 'Summer In t|ie Lowlands, and bought it at a high figure. His lordship at the same time made inquiries after the artist, and invited me to call upon him.

I waited upon his lordship accordingly. He complimented me upon tho picture: but there was one thing about it he could not understand.

What is that, my lord?' I asked. "'That there Bhould be such long grass in afield where there are so many sheep,' said his lordship, promptly, and with a merrv twinkle of the eye.

It was a decided hit this and having bought the picture1 and paid for it, he was entitled to his joke.

How do you account for it™ ue

ng, and looking first at 1 then •ep, my

icture and then at mec Those sheep, my lord,' I/eplied,

tbe ie

'were only 'turned fnto that field the

night before

finished tho picture.

His lordship laughed heartily, and said 'Bravo' at my reply, and gave mo a commission for two more pictures and I have cashed since then some verv notable checks of his—dear old boy!"

Ay Indian Romani-r.—Col.

Chief of the Cherokee nation, was married some weeks since to Miss Ayres, a wealthy and cultivated maiden lady of Philadelphia. The affair has a spicing of romance. The lady met the bandsome chief (then, and until recently, a married man) some years since in the Quaker city, and became deeply interested in him and his distant people. With the resolution of devoting her life and wealth to the advancement of theCherokees, she removed to Talequah where she has since'lived, and where she has been most active in promoting the religious and educational welfare of the nation. Some years ago she adopted young Lewis Downing, sou of tbe chief a bright and promising boy, and has since watched over bis training and education with more than motherly care. A year ago she built, ostensibly for him, in elegant residence,overlooking the beautiful village, and furnished it with artistic taste. A few months since occurred the death of Mrs Downing, a full-blood Cherokee. And now, at tbe proper time, tho chief lw^. to the altar bis long-time admirer.

V,nnell^w«of

Kriillant effort the

was not until

1*S1

successful sad learned pleader in

PISTOL SHOOTING.

A Counter Challenge.

Edmund W. l'aul, of St. Louis, Missouri, having, by ue "frequent and urgent solicitatio: of his friends," issued a challenge to uy person in the United States t- per To. certain feats in pistol shooting which he enumerates, J. Phoenix Esq., delivers a counter challenge, as folio wf: "I am unable to see any thing verv extraordinary iu the propositions of Mr. Edmund W. Paul. Any person, acquainted with the merest rudiments of Uie pistol, could certainly execute any or all the proposed feats without the slightest difficulty. "Owing" to my entertaining thest opinions, "without solicitation from friends, and unbiassed by unworthy motives." I am induced to make the following propositions 1. I will suspend two dollars by a ring from a second persons nose, so as to bring the coins withiii-threo fourths of an inch from his fac9, and with a double barreled shot gun, at a distance of thirty feet, will blow dollars, noso and man at least thirty feet further, four times out of five. I will add, in explanation, that. San Diego containing a rather intelligent community, I can find, at present, no one here willing to have his nose blown in such a manner but I have no manner of doubt I could obtain such a person from St. Louis, by Adams A Co Express in due season. 2. I will hita dollar, or any-tlnngelse that lias been tossed in the air (ot tho same size), on a wheel,on a pole or axletree, or on the ground, every lime out or five. 3. At a word, will place five balls on the blade of a penknife, and split them all! 4. I will lilt thiee men out of five, sprung from obscure parentage, and standing within ten feet of a steel-trap

(properly set) while shooting! 5. 1 wfll break, at the word, whole box of common clay pipes, with a single brick, at a distance of thirty feet. 6. I engage to prove, by fair trial, that no pistol shot (or other person)^ can be produced, who will throw more apples at a man's head than I can. Moreover, I can produce in this town more than sixty persons willing and ready to hold an apple on their heads foi me, provided they aro allowed to eat the apple subsequently. 7. I will wager, lastly, that no person in the United States can bo produced, who, with a double-barreled shot-gun while throwing aback-lianded sommersanlt, can hit ©Rener a dqjlar and a^ hair, on the perimeter of a rewiring wheel in rapid motion, than I can.

Propositions will be roccivod on the first of April next.

In one

Downing

John Pikknix.

1384 Seventeenth street, Valleeitos. "See compra oro aqui, up stairs." p. S.—Satisfactory references given and required. Abet from ii steady, in-^ dustrious person, who will bo apt to pay if he loses, will meet with prompt attention."

J- P-

A STARTLING THEORY. We hate to be oiphered out of existence, even toconftrin the infiiliblllty of

science,

and sometimes blindly prefer

to believe that figures will lie. Now is a good time to u*e our negative credulity. Alpbonse Adhemar, a celebrated mathematician#, starts a theory that the earth Is covered by a deluge once In 10,500 years on the following calculations: During that cycle one pole of the earth enjoys seven days more sunshine than the other, and at present we have seven more days in the northern hemisphere than the Bouthorii. which means two hundred years of freezing at oue pole against two hundred years of melting in the other. The effect of this Is to form such an immense mass of ice at the lessffavored end of the globe as to change the form of tho planet, and displace Its gravity for a league or so. This displacement draws to the icobound regions almost all tho seas and »ceans, and eventually causes a change in the oscillation of the earth, so as to reverse the order of things, and bring the greater power of tho sun upon the frozen region. Then suddenly as the pent-up waters In an Alpine valley burst tneir barriers and destroy a village, so this gigantic polar glacier by its disruption overwhelms a hemisphere. As a proof of his theory he points to the eliects of. the last or

Noah's flood, and reckoning from tho accepted date, \the next will be upon us In the year 7253, A. I). We are not personally Interested, of course, unless it should happen about resurrection time, but wo are supposed to Itavo a little consideration

for

Pabbpa

our descendants.

tried charging the Bostonians

two dollars a ticket to her concerts, and found rf prevalent air of vacancy about the seats, in consequence. The people stand that sort of tariff rather cheerfully, on the whole, when a stunning novelty like Nllsson is on tho boards but it will not do to come around with, it when the novelty of tho thing worn off.

of the counties In Wyoming

at tbe election, last week, one-sixth tho votes wore cast by women.

L&CA MA TTE11H.

Insurance companies and their heavy losses do not monopolize the time of everybody. There In still a large

who are

that Jews were

allowed to enter Russia without special permission from tbe government. Now they can settle where they plesse' in the Empire, and tbe Council of State has under consideration lsw^ determining their status in the Empire. This indicates the progress of religious emancipation in Europe.—Go

Wen Age.

Georgia negro thought he Would economise by sending his son to school and then make tbe boy tesch bim. The plan worked well until the young teacher, following the custom of the seminary where lie wss taught, gave the eld man a thrashing for spelling dog o-r-g. snd then the latter became disgusted and ran away.

cIohh

already

of perwjns

Insensible to the still pre

vailing excitement In regard to the fire in Chicago. They are those who ar« l»lense«l with pianos, the Knabe Grand, or theHteck, Ju*t from the Palace of Music. Ami there are other* happy In the of or

gan*,

melodcons, and stringed Instruments furnished by Klssner. The intense excitement among the ladles and gentlemen of taste and refine-• rnent,on account of those fine perfumeries at Uullck A Berry's, still prevails. This enterprising Arm

keeps

everything manufac

tured In this line, and their slock of toilet articles, fancy soaps, Ac., Is al wayscomplete

penny saved is a penny mado' remarked an old lady who has saved thou

sands

of pennies by purchasing her groceries

and

provisions at R. W. Rlppclpe».

And tliowe who go to Rlppetoe, always get the freshest fruit*, piOdueo, coffees, teas, sugais, etc., In the market.

In time of fair weather prepare for the ml ny season, fihoes and boots that will do when the streets are dry will aot suit when the snow and rains come. N. Andrews has a large stock of goods for ladles, gentlemen snd children st his establishment, 141 Main street.

When yoo want marblelzed room mantels jroa should take look through tbe large store of R. L. Ball. He has a fine ttock of them and also everything in the way of Moves, tinware, iron and brassware, and smoothing Irons.

Every Miller Is not compelled to be a miller. We know one who Is a first-class harness maker. He keeps at the old postoffice stand on south Fourth street. Hls^ Christian name Is Peter, and he makes the beat jMsnes* In the business.