Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 2, Number 20, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 11 November 1871 — Page 2

A TREE RIDE.

Nebraska Story of Buffalo limiting.

BY SUW-SHAKPSBR.

I have never been an advocate of dead-headism, from tbe fact that all my rides have been paid for.

Did I say "a#/" No, not quite all for there was one fri?e ride that I had, and that, too, without any **xtra preparation. In fact, I might say that it was altogether against iny wishes.

I suppose the re.ider would like to know about that free ride. So I will try and relate it, promising to tell the truth and to be as brief as possible.

There are plenty of buffaloes in Nebraska. Buffalo hunting is. consequently, frequently indulged in by the settlers. A great many are killed and as they are the largest game known on the American continent, it is rare sport. At least, that is what the majority of hunters call it. Tor my part I beg leave to differ from them.

Before I had tried it, I. like others, thought that it would be grand fun so, from thinking, I was very anxious to take my first grand hunt. I took it, and am not keen to go again. No more buffalo hunting for me. Veni vidi no, not quite. Small game will do for mo now, or, in lieu of that, I'll dig potatoes.

A party was gotten up in the (all of ]h«J8, to go out to the Buffalo Range, about one hundred miles west of the Missouri River, and take a grand hunt. This, now, was the long-wished lor chance for me and I went along.

We were well fixed for camping out, with such thing* as salt and fryins: pans to tho choice morsels of stoak, ant barrels to salt our meat in and, with jubilant spirits, we pushed out west enlivening the journey with songs and many remarkable stories of our dureout hunting adventures. Ofthelatti I

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sorry to say, I don't believe tho truth was strictly adhered to in al eases.

Well, we got to the 1 tango safely

That night 1 nad a remarkable dream

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I have since interpreted it. But. at the time, I laid it to a late hearty supper and hard bed, and in half an hour after I thought no more about it Thus it ran: I wa*»t a lonesome station on tho Pacific Railroad. I he civ ginoaiid tender were standing oil the track. No human being was near. I got aboard. All steam was yet on, as if waiting for the engineer. I thought the steam was too high. I took hold of thovalvoto let some escape, when off went tho iron-horse liko a streak of lightning.

Further, faster! hi lift, treos, and sta lions were all mingled together. 1 was dread full alarmed, yet, try as I would, I could not stop the fiery and untamed steed nor dared I attempt to get r,fi'.

Then it rocked and

jolted so that, to keep my equilibrium, I grasjM'd two stakes. Tho stakes soon took toe shapo of Buffalo horns, and tho engino resembled an immenso buffalo. Soon my imaginary buffalo ran off the track. A gulley was just before down that wo pitched, and landed at the bottom a complete wreck

I awoke. Tho sun was just rising abovo the

camp. Arriving

wo espied a largo gang of buffaloes near tno head, about a half a mile distant. By koeping under cover of the brush we succeeded in getting within gun shot of a tine-looking old fellow without his being awaro of our presenee.

Now was our chance Taking deliberate aim we both fired at once. Down ho dropped, and up wo ran to cut his throat.

He had settled down—all his feet under him. My partner told mo to null him over on his side, that we might bleed him. I grasped his horns, at the HIUJIO time throwing my leg over his nock. In an instant he was upon his feet, and, with reirn ndous bellow, was bounding over the prairie with the licetness of a raise-horse.

It was all so sudden that, from the first movement he made in rising, 1 was unable to free myself from him without dninrer of injury. So like a toad on a tu^oe, I held on for dear lift*. I had relinquished his horns, and taken a firm grip on his long, shaggyhair. I needsay that I was alarmoil, for the miner can guess that much.

On, on, we and soon joined a Urge herd, and tno bellowing was almost deafening and the speed with which they moved, was certainly ft caution to the greasiest of greased lightui»K-

The herd, being the freshest, and not havinir riders, of course, took the lead, whilst l, and mv Bucephalus, brought pounds up the rear. Miles and miles we pas- (Jonlnu-Uts sod

After recovering I left my nearly '•"ibaek

worn out beast, and started on the

"ffl track. I my comrades coming after me. Wo got back'to camp as soon as jKWislble. (earing, from signs, an attack by the Indians. We left for home without getting a buffalo. I don't hunt any more.

^rwum Cwrn&MM.—'The extent to

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which Judaism dominates the daily life of those of Ua tollowers who are faithful *.o its precepts, can hardly be realised by the Gentile world. In the kitchen, especially, Rabbinical Judaism is supreme. All Weber's meat must be soaked betore is cooked, to extract what remains of blood. Three times does tbe Pentatcuch delare that a kid must not be boiled in its own mother's milk, and fkrrtfnrt milk and its products must not ferm part of tbe same meal with meat and even poultry. «This results In the employment of a double set of utensils ftr cooking and bringing the food to table, and is a source of endless trouble and expense.

Tt«! unfortuv»ateco»»/i^r»»»/v* which, acoordioK to tbe thirty-second chapter of ICNWKwia, happened to Jacob, has had tho curious eflfect of Inducing his descendant* to practlcadly abstain ftpra ilcd-quitters of the (tw

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CROSS-WORD ENIGMA.

My first is in cat but not in dog Mv second is in calf but not in hog My third is in bark but not in tree My fourth is in hear but not in see Mv fifth is in boy but not in man My sixth is in flour but not in bran Mv seventh is in love but not in hate Mv whole is a countv in Ohio State.

E. M. B.

ANAGRAM.

An anagram is noted here. In seven letters doth appear The name of ancient Latin maid Whose Roman sentinels betrayed For what the Sabine bands would yield, And buried was, 'neath many a shield. Transposed it then presents to thee A robber on the open sea. E. S.

ANSWERS TO ENIGMAS, CHARADES Ac. IN LAST WEEK'S LPER.

Anagrams —1 Badger. 2. Logwood. 3. Anemone. 4. Accessories. 5. Something. 0. Constituent. 7. Manipulate. 8. Indicates. ». sunrise. 10. Outrages.

Charade.—Wormwood. Transformation.—Ay, lajT, gay, hay, jav. may, nay, pay, ray, say. way, day. ^rranspositions.—1. Name, mane, Amen, mean. 2. Levi, veil, vile, live, evil. 3. Debar, beard, bared, bread.

Cross-Puzzle.—P., ore, round, Prussia, roses, pit, a. Riddles.—1. Bulbul. 2. Imitate a good man, but never eoun.erfeit him.

ATTRACTION.

To the voung there is no groat attraction in science, mainly because it is not mado sufficiently attractive. Iiopiim to attract attention to scientific subjects we take attraction for our first theme.

There are several varieties of attraction—attraction of gravitation, magnetic attraction, electric attraction, attraction of cohesion, attraction of adhe-

well, we got 10 me JVIURU nun Ui Selected a good spot, and mado our sion, capillary attraction, chemical alcamn As it was late in tho day, wo traction, and the mutual attraction of young people of opposite sexes for each did not try to hunt, fcut got our camp Ulii ihh ti n--fixed comfortably, and cleanod and put other our guns and knives in order.

Sir Isaac Newton discovered attraction of gravitation in a singular manner. lie was sleeping off his beer under an apple tree one afternoon when a pound-sweet fell and busted him on the snoot. This set his nose to bleeding and himself to thinking. He wanted to know what caused that apple to fall when it wasn't a fall apple. 'Why,' asked Newton, 'when that stem gave wav, did not that apple shoot upward as the sparks do, and fly away, instead of coming down and that, too, when, according to tho market reports, apples were not coming down

To our eye, although it may bo all in our eye, Sir Ike,sitting in the grass undo! that apple tree, studying out attraction of gravitation, while trying to stop tho nose-bleed, was one* of tho^ most striking and interesting pictures in history. '1 have it!" cried Newton, exultingly, and just then another apple fell and hit him on top of tho head, satisfying him thero was something in it. 'It's attraction—attraction of gravitation!' and it lias been attraction of gravitation over since. Even tho applo didn't know why it fell (any more than Adam did, who was tho first to taste ono,) until Newton found it out.

Large objects attract smaller ones, as 1_ outtinr the eartl

wi sometimes see a Kttlehnan- cut ti af«l»d-with a big-^'oman/ If theeai (MiYhi \vou f(1*"fiave gone to^t^Tappfe,

even if it had to climb the tree. Newton, who knew ton of things, knew that, though it may bo news to you.— /at (biitributor.

me rt'ar. mii™ biui huu-h il over, without any abatement of 1^'^ the »es- of ii speed, until I iM'ganto learthat I was in slnking Klow the fir -l-l, .rip .1.0 gn?Hl Amori- n. by I .JlWn

can plains. But, after some two hours, in which we must have gone twenty miles, my

animal's spirits became somewhat fag

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Greenland, though so intensely cold, and apparently so cheerless, is full of Interest to tho naturalist, and bv no means withouj profit for the merchant. Tho outskirting lands support a luxuriant growth of from threo hundred to four hundred species of plants, somo of which ascend to tho height of 4,000 feet many species of soals, and whales and fish sport in tho waters every rock swarms with waterfowl, while land birds from tho south visit the country as a nostiiig-plaeo countless herds of reindeer browse in some of its valleys the bark of the fox is to be heard even in the depth of winter and the Polar bear may be seen the year round. The Dunes, at their first visit found a human population of 30,000 and Within their own possessions there is at present a healthy, intelligent, civilized race of hunters o'f not less than 10.000 souls. Exclusive of homo consumption, the annual exports of tho settlements amounted in 1835 to 9, barrels of seal oil 47,809 seal skins, 1,714 fox-skins, 34 bearskins, 194 dog-skins, 3,437 poundsof cidor down, ii,2CW pounds of feathers, 439 pounds of narvrtiale ivory, 51 pounds of walrus ivory, and 3,596 nnds of whalebone.

Geologists havolong taught that at Greenland is sea. This

The dwellings of several Greenland families, who lived on Savage Point rom 1721 to l?2i», are now overflowed tide. In ono locality, the

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ged, and the herd began to gain upon ruins of old Greenland houses are only i, .Vi i„ ii.„ in hoiwnn at low w:»tei\ us rapidlv. soon leaving us far in tlu rear. Antl now 1 was in hopes that would fell insensible But vain hopes! All at omx a deep canon appeared iust before us. To the brink he went! Down he plunged, whilst 1, making a a sudden leap, landed, head first, In a mass of rocks and brush, more dead than alive.

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TUB DRACO* Pr?.xi.KN.—Deacon Johnson »s a great temperance man, and sets a good example o( total abstinence as far as he is seen.

Not long ago he employed a carpenter^ to make some alteration In his parlor,' and in repairing the corner near the Are-place it was found necessary to remove the wainscoting, when, lo! a discovery was made that astonished every body." A brace ol decanters, »tumbler, and* a pitcher, were eoitily reposing there as if they had stood there from the beginning.

The deacon was summoned, and as he beheld the blushing bottles, he exclaimed: "Well, I declare, that Is curious, sure enough. It must W that old Bains left them when be went out of this 'ere house thirty vcars ago." "Perhaps he did," returned the carpenter, "out, deacon, tbe ice in the pitcher must have been tri* mighty hard to stay till this time."

RTKXCFT 6x BMOIIAW.—«r«e* Greenwood, now in the Mormon country, in ft recent letter says I've seen Brig*

ham Young. I h*d heard nrnny descriptions of his personal appearance, but I could not recognise the picture so often and elaborately painted. I did not see a common, groas-looking person. with rude manners, and a sinister, sensn*! countenance, but a well-draw-ed. dignified old gentleman, with a pale, mild hce, a cle*r gray ere, a pleasant am lie, a courteous add rem.

Mkilnff the hfcd-quajterB of the tew and. withal, a patriarchal, paternal air, beast* left to them by the fifteenth which of coarse he comes rightly by. iahaoter of Leviticus, neither is this (In short, I could see In bis face or bmhslU Ko meat whatever Is permitted to tier none of tbe profligate propensities bo Mteti. tare soch as fat killed and and the crimes charged against this ft

be eaten. sav« soch as Is killed and and tbe crimes chained against this naiaraUy waste. It is better to place soldbvpersons licensed bv tbe R*h- myirterioa*. masterly, msny-skled and nit where stock cm have free access authoritta, msny-wived msn." jto it.

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THE LAST HO TRS OF MARIE ANTOINETTE.

But the end of all was at hand—her trial and death. No one could befbnnd bold enough to defend her. and the tribanal was obliged itself to appoint I counsel. It was on a dull October morning that she was conducted firotn the Conciergerie through the dark winding passages of the ancient monastery in which the trials were held.

The Hall of Convention is a large, gloomy apartment, with sparse and nanow windows, through the dusty panes of which the dull yellow light without creeps sluggishly. A few dimlv-lit lanterns are scattered here and there, but the atmosphere is heavy and foggy, and half the hall is indistinct and full of shadows. On the lower benches sit the butchers with their blood-stained aprons, and long, sharp knives gleaming in their belts. Above them sit the tricotcmes—terrible as the PNRCJE weaving the weft ot fate some have cards in their hands, upon which, by the prick of a pin, they count the votes for and aeainst as

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ed from the Tribune. Everywhere are scattered scowling faces eager for tho blood of tho unhappy woman. From without come the murmurs of the savage crowd, threatening death to those depntjes who dare to vote against the condemnation of 'VAntrichienneand as tho doors open and shut, their stir and fierce cries surge heavily into the Court. The trial lasts three days. On the last day the proceedings begin at noon and last until 4 the next morning. All these hours the Queen of France stands in the hot polluted atmosphere without aught passing'her lips. Burning with thirst, she begs for a drink of water no one dires to stir, lest he should be marked as a snspcet. Faint and exhausted, she asks a second time, and then an officer of gendarme*, in whose heart a spark of humanity vet lingers, puts a cup of water in her eager, trembling hands. A howl of disapprobation follows the act. He will bo dismissed, but history will immortalize him. The indictments against her are numerous, somo absurd lor instance, one charge is the number of shoes she has worn out! The money she has distributed in charity is charged against, her as bribes to buy over tho people. To all her answers are calm, simple, and concise. At length Hebert accuses her of having corrupted her own child. At that horrible charge a shudder runs through the Court. She is silent, bnt the muscles of her face quiver. Tho question in pressed, and then, with a heaving breast, she turns upon her acouser with sublime indignation, crying. "If I have not answered, it is because nature itself revolts against such an accusation brought against a mot her. I appeal to all mothers who are here—is it possible?" A murmur runs through tho Court—even the furies of the guillotine are softened by that pathetic appeal. Calmly she listens to the sentence of death, and loaves tho Court without a murmur. It strikes 4 as she is conducted back to her cell. A few hours more, and the tumbril takes her to tho Place de la Revolution. There, facing the gardens of the Tuileries, the guillotine raises its grisly head and there, facing that palace,

she had been conduct­

ed bv a King amid the acclamations of a nation, surrounded by adoring nobles who would have risked their lives a thousand times to win a smile from her lips, consort to the heir of Ihe most splendid tlirono in Christend]lf^**yT%nng ing dnr.^Mffgiy besnflflil. splf irth els. hnpynfit with flomvv^nTy as a name, a'

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need woman with white hair, a pallid, worn face, furrowed by tears, attired in filthy tatters, lays her weary head beneath the knife, amid the obscene songs, the execrations of the vilest of human race and the body of her vfho for thirty-five years had reposed' itpon velvet, and satin is thrown into a litch, and there consumed with quicklime.— Trmple liar.

THE CLERICS STORY.'

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When I used to tend store at Syracuse the old man came round one day, and says he: "Roys, the one who sells the most between now and Christinas gets a vestpattern as a present."

Mavbo wo didn't work for that vestpattern! I tell you thero were some tall stories told in praise of goods just about that time but tho tallest tklker, and the one that lind the most cheek of any of us, was a certain Jonah Souires, wlio roomed with me. He coula take a dollar out of a man's pocket when the man only intended to spend a sixpence and tho women—Lord bless vou—they just handed over their pock-et-books to him, and let him lay out what he liked for them.

Ono night Jonah woke me np With, "Bv Jo, old fellow, If you think that ore's got cotton in it, I'll bring down the sheep that it was cut from,, and make him own his own wool. *Twont wear out, either wore a pair of pants of that stuff five years, and they are as trood now as when I first put them on. Take it at thirty cents and I'll say you don't owe mo anything. Kh, too dear? Well, call it twenty-eight eents. What d'ye say? Shall itear it? All right, it's a bargain."

I could feel Jonah's hand playing about the bed-clothes lor an instant, then rip, tear went something or other, and I hid my head under the blankets, perfectly convulsed with laughter, and sure that Jonah had torn th«best sheet from top to bottom. When I awoke tka next morning I fonnd that the back •if my night illaf band.

I next morning ionna inaime oaca jijtkf my night shirt was split from tail to ,ffco

MISSION An tells the following -*^rv: One day a trader-chief came to join my church with his two wives—one old and ugly, the other a handsome young Lft egress. "That will never do." I cried "my religion allows a man bnt one wife. Choose one for the partner of your joys and sorrows, and make suitable provision for the other. "They all went away looking very crestfallen. A week or two afterward the old chief came back leading the yonng and pretty one, both looking very happy. 'Me come back/ be said 'me all ready now.'" "That is right," said I, '"and, pray, how have yon disposed of th« other wile?" "*A1I right,'he said,'me eathdrup.'"

HALT ut THK Hr*AH 8mtx.-A scientific gentleman in Scotland states that 57 per cent, of tbe saline matter of the blood consists of common salt, and as this is partly evolved every day through the skin and kidneys, the necessity of continued supplies of it to the healthy body is sufficiently obvious. The bile also contains soda—one of the ingredients of salt—as a special and Indispensable constituent, sad so do sll the cartilages of the body. Stint the be abi^ **lt' "^'her will the bile

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Gabb was a collector. 1 Smith called him in when he was passing one day, and said: "Gabb, bero is a bill of twenty dollars against Brown. Brown is a little 'slow,' you know, but you can collect it. I'll give you a commission of ten per cent." "All right," said Gabb and he took the bill.

Gabb called on Brown, and presented the bill called another time, and so on, as usual.

Much to his astonishment. Brown paid the bill the eighth time it was presented. Probably he began to apSrehend that Gabb was preparing to un him.

Having receipted the bill, Gabb was going away, when Brown said "Money's awful hard to get, Gabb." "Yes," responded Gabb. "I find it difficult to collect what's coming to mo," continued Brown, "or I could pay my debts more promptly. By the way, you have the reputation of being a good collector "Yes," replied Gabb and his bulk increased with pride. "Well," rejoined Brown, "I have bill of twenty dollars against our neighbor Jones. Ho is, no doubt, h'onest, but so negligent about small matters. Suppose you take the bill and collect it What commission will you charge?" "Ten per cent." "Very well. Here's the bill."

And Gabb took tho bill of Brown against Jones, for collection. That evening he made his return to Smith and received his two dollars commission.

Then ho went after Jones with that bill of Brown's. He found Jones rather "slow," but succeeded in collecting it—at last.

THK Oohlm Age, says 'of the recent triennial Episcepal Convention: It decided that the world "regenerate," used by the priest when hesprink les an infant's brow with water, does not mean regenerate, but something else and that the worship of idols is vory bad, and the use of images tends to Mariolatry, which is a sin. It debated the proper length of surplices, the kinds of robes and bands to be worn by clergy, the burning ot candles and inconse, lind the lifting up of the consecrated emblems at the sacrament. It trembled at the thought pf Rome, and shuddered at the suggestion of Reason, and without squarely meeting any great issue of its own communion, it hid tho widening scams under a thin veneer of sentiment, and varnished the old paint with pious phrases.

The result is disappointing. All the great interests of our new civilization pressed for recognition, and were passed by as of no account. As wo read the reports of the deliberations it seems as though they were chiefly concerned with the shroud and coflln of a dead religion and the order of its funeral, and not with the living Christ who pleads for followers in every reform and philanthropy of the world, and cries aloud for justico in every legislature, and pleads for every neglected child and insulted woman,"and suffers crucifixion anew in every victim of social tyranny.

The Episcopal Church of America was on trial in the Baltimore Convention. It has condemned itself. The dead shall bury the dead.

THK following letter was lately received by a neighboring P. M., which shows that postmasters are expected to be posted on all kinds of subjects, and from the reply it would seem that they are: "KANCIS CITV, Oct. 2nd, IS & 71. Mr. Postmaster,

Dear Sir:—I am engaged in the producin business here, and as I don't know any one in yonr vicinit3', you would do me a great favor if yon would write me and toil me the price ot sheepskins, muskrats skins, pelts, martin, and mink and greatly oblige, yours truly. ABRAHAM WKATJHKBWIMO *,

REPLY.

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When Jones paid tho bill, he said: "Gabb, you're a good, energetic, persevering collector, I have a bill of just twenty dollars, it happens, against a man that I guess'li never pay it—unless I send you after him. Really, 1 have a mind to offer you six dollars of the amount if you'll collect it." "Who" is it "Smith." "All right I'll try it at six dollars," said Gabb and Jones handed him the bill.

Gabb was a philosopher, and he walked out of Jones' storo chuckling at himself in a whisper.

Smith wasn't going to be dunned bv Gabb for he knew him. So, ho promptly paid the bill in alittle less than three weeks, so that Gabb didn't even wear out so much as a pair of shoes going after it.

Jones was surprised when he loarned that Smith paid the bill so soon, and said he felt sorry for what he had said about Smith's being poor pay ho had wronged him, evidently.

But he paid Gabb the promised commission of six dollars, and— MORAL.

Gabb, the philosopher, wont home that night, thus meditating: "Ahem!—Brown owed Smith twenty dollars. Jones owed Brown twenty dollars. Smith owed Jones twenty dollars. If Smith, instead of employing mo, had paid ones, and Jor.es had paid Brown, and Brown had paid Smith, not one ol' them would have been a dollar poorer, and three old debts would have been paid, like magic. As it was. they naid me. among them,

liy,tf ,by collecting."

O.VTARIO, Orr. 4th, 1871.

My dear sir:—Not being in the produce business myself, ef course I cannot inform yon as correctly as though 1 was in that business. Sheepskins are rather woolly just now, it not being quite time for shearing. Muskrats are lively, particularly if you como near them with a double barreled gun. Yon might get pettcd if you came here. Martin runs a foundry yet, which be declines to sell. Truly yours,

PosTMAinrea.

THK Secretary of War has turned four cadets ont of West Point for basing. Which is merited punishment for a crime that is a relic of barbarism for which there is no reason and no excuse snd the college that tolerate# it ought to forfeit its charter and be turned into an asylum for idiots,—CMden Age.

Wm.t, David," said a poor but worthy citicen to one of tbe city magnates, "the world has prospered with you, snd tbev say you are immensely rich."

Well, replied Dark!, ^perhaps it is true, but we cannot take our gold with us when we go."

It would melt if yon did,'* was the quiet reply.

THE A TRICA A NECDO TE. When Stephen Kemble was manager in Newcastle, England, and the house was rather fiat, no less a personage arrived in town than tbe Prince Annamaboo, who offered hisservices for a very moderate consideration.

Accordingly, the bills of the day announced that "between the acts of the play. Prince Annamaboo would give a lively representation of the scalping operation he would likewise give the Indian war whoop, in its various tones, the tomahawk exercise and the mode of feasting at an Abyssnian banquet."

Tho evening arrived, and many people attended to witness these princely imitations. At the end of the third act bis highness walked forward, with dignified step, flourishing his tomahawk, and eut the air, exclaiming "Ha ha—ho ho

Next entered a man with his face blackened and a piece of bladder fastened to his head with gum the prince, with a large carving knife, commenced the scalping operation, which ho performed in a style truly imperial, holding up the skin in token of triumph. Next comes the war whoop, which was a combination of dreadful and discordant sounds lastly, tho Abyssinian banquet, consisting of law beefsteaks these he nni«!o into rolls as large as his mouth would admit, and devoured them in a princely and dignified manner. Having completed his Cannibal repast, he flourished his tomahawk, exclaiming "Ha, hn—ho, ho!" and made his exit.

Next day, tho manager, in tho middle of the market-place, espied the most puissant Prince of Annamaboo selling pen-knives, scissors and quills, in the character of a Jew peddler. "What!" said Kemble, "my prince, is that you? Are you not a pretty scoundrel to impose upon us in this manner?"

Moses turned round, and, with an arch look replied "Prince be d—d! I vash no prince I vash acting like you—you vash kings, princes, emperor to-night, Stephen Kemble to-morrow. I vash humnugs, you vash humpugs, and all vash lium'pugs/'

TIME FOR MATRIMONY. Among the Ancient Germans, tlian whom a finer race never existed, it was death for any woman to marry before she was twenty years old. In this country very few ladies are fit, either physically or mentally, to become mothers "before they reach tho ago of twenty-one, twenty-two, or cno or two years'older. The unsound condition and constitution ot tho parents is usually transmitted, with increased intensity, to the offspring. By the Laws of Lycurgus, tho most special attention was paid to the physical education of women, and no delicate or sickly women wero on any account allowed to marry.

Dr. Johnson, in his work on tho Economy of Health, says that matrimony should not be contracted before tho first year of the fourth septennial on tho part of the lady, nor before the last year o! the same in the case of tho gentleman in other words, the female should be at least twenty-one years of age, and the malo twenty-oight years. The doctor says that there should be a difference of seven years between the 80xes, at whatever,«perl^l of life the connection is contrtcfc&d. There is a difference'of seven years, not in tho actual duration of life, in the two sexes, out in tne Stfl^nina of thfe constitution, tbe symmetry of the form, and the lineaments of tho Ikca. In respect to early marriage, so far as it concerns the softer sex, for every year at which marriage is entered upon before the age ol twenty-one, there will bo, on an average, threo»years of decay, nioro or less apparent, of the corporal fabric.

THERE are always people enough in a city liko this to support low amusements, and we aro not surprised that very vulgar and silly plays are coarsely acted and applauded by those who aro not cultivated or refined enough to appreciate what is better. But it is cheering to see how tho highest dramas and the best acting nro sustained here, and how steadily the demand for superior talent on the stage Increases, and the taste for and appreciation of the most artistic performance grows from year to yeaf. Tho theatre is one of the most educative of our public amusements, and every good drama well represented on the stago is a powerful teacher of mind and morals, tnsto and action. The support given to the best plays and noblest acting is so much encouragement to one of the most effective teachers of taste, refinement, and virtue.—(loldcn

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ROWK keepsa hotel in the northern part of this State, which ho boasted was tho best in "them parts," where, as ho used to say, you could get everything that was made to eat. One day in comes a Yankee, sends his horse around to the stable, and stepping up to the bar asked old llowo what ho could give him for dinner. "Anything sir," said old Rowe, "Anything from an elephant to a canary bird's tongue." "Wa'lt," says the YAnkee, eyeing old Rowe, "I guess I'll take a piece of pickled elephant." Out bustled old Kowe into the dining room, leaving our Yankee nonplussed at his gravity. Presently he came back again. "Well, sir, we've got 'em all right, right hero in the house, but you'll have to take a whole one, 'cause we never eut 'em." The Yankee thought^he would tako somo codfish and potatoes.

Till? AMERICA* Montim-ix-LAw.— Tbe American mother-in-law is afiont to have her status finally settled by a New Jersey court.. It seems that a voting man living in that section objected. to the extent of using personal force, to tbe habits and customs of his motber-in-law. and Is on trial for the offense. lie demanded a jury of bis peers, I. e., a jury composed of men who have mothers-in-law. The decision will be looked for with intense anxiety by a largfc class of bald-headed dtixens. A great deal depends upon tbe Court, and one trembles when ono reflects on what the result will bo If the decision is adverse to tho prosecutrix—or, indeed, where will we be if in her favor? Whichever way it goes, there is going to be trouble, and why should this young man In Now Jersey thus precipitate matters?

SKTisiiKue.—The. Amerkan EdnoaiitmtU Monthly says that the High School of Springfield, Ohio, graduated tbe young ladies of its last class in calico drosses, as pleasing to tbe eye of taste as to the hand of economy. This was brought about by the thoughtful suggestion of the superintendent and the hearty acquiescence of the girls themselves, on the only ground on which high schools can be long perpetuated, namely, that being supported by taxation they must to all classes In society, and

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open to all classes in society, ana ^.jifer tbelr advantages upon tbe poorest of their pupils, without prescription by fashloivor creed, expenses or anything else.

EARTHQUAKES IN THE UNITED STATES. Eighteen years after the pilgrim fathers landed on Plymouth Rqck thev experienced their first New England earthquake. This was in 1(3S, ana was very severe, so much so as to thr©\ persons to the ground. Since it occurred, down to tho year 1850, one hundred and forty-nine earthquakes are registered as having been experienced in the Eastern gtatos, of which fortv happened in tho winter, sixteen ill the spring, thirty-two in the summer, and ftrty-six in tho autumn, while ol filteen the year only is stated. Nearly twiet as many have occurred in winter ant in autumn as in spring and summer Iu these, cooler latitudes tho severes earthquakes take place in cool or cok weather, a rule that in tropical conntries is reversed. The shock of November IS, ISo2, was very severe. "Letthis shock be repeated." writes W. T. Brigham, "and half Boston would be destroyed." New York and Philadelphia have never experienced one of these convulsions in any considerable degree of severity. But tho sites of Montreal, Quebec, Cincinnati, and Chicago have in time past boon shaken. The extraordinary visitation of the winter of 1S&> convulsed all Canada in a most surprising manner. It lasted six minutes and shook down mountains, turned tho course of rivers, and made havoc of tho whole land. Tn the valley of tho Mississippi, the first shock on record is set down for 177tf. Others occurred in 1791, 1795 and 1790. Then in IS(U one took placo near the site of Chicago, and of such severity that should It te repeated the citv would sutler terribly. In 1811. November 10, began an earthquake ol which a writer in the Atfanfasays: "Since human history began, the earth has rarely been shaken by a more tremendous* convulsion." Its repetition would endanger tho safety of all our western cities. Some writer afllrms it to have been as severe as tV*e great shock that destroyed Lisbon 1775. Tho seat of tho disturbance wi at Now Madrid, fitly miles below th mouth of tho Ohio River. Here, fron November 15, to December 28, over six-ty-seven wero counted then the enumerator ceased counting for vory weariness ot tho trembling task. At Cincinnati ono hundred shocks wore counted. At Columbia, South Carolina, plaster fell from tho ceiling*, while tho noils of Charleston were rung by tho rocking steeples. "Washington wfls alarmed by the seismic throbs. On th Mississippi valley tho ground rose ant sank in awful waves, and split intd chasms ono or two hundred feet in depth. This remarkablo earthquake reached from the Rocky Mountains ti the Atlantic ocean. .S.L AT FORT DONALDSON. 'Were you in tho fight?' 'Had a littlo taste of it, sn.' 'Stood your ground, did you?' 'No, sa, I runs.' 'Bun at the first tire, did you?' 'Yes, sa, and would hub run soona had I knowd it war comin.' 'Why, that wasn't very creditable to your courage." 'Dat isn't in my line, sa—eookin's my perfeshun.' 'Well, but have you no regard for your reputation?' 'Reputation's nuflin to mo by do side of life.' 'Do you consider your lifo worth more than other people'*?' 'It's wortn more to mo, sa.' •Ttdii you nmat valuo If-vory hlgn**

•Yes, I does—mori dan all wuld—more dan a million ob dollars, sa, for what would dot bo wuth to a man wid do bref out of him? Selfpreserbashun am do fust law wid mo.' 'But why should you act upon a different rulo from other men?' 'Because different men set different values upon dar lives—mine is not In de market.' 'But if yon lost it, you would hav tho satisfaction of knowing that you died for your country.' 'What satisfaction would that bo tn trie when de power of feelin' was gone 'Then patriotism and honor aro noli, ing to yon?' •Nufiln whatever, sa--I regard thei as among do vanities.', 'If our soldiers woro liko yon, traitors might have broken up tho Government without resistance.' 'Yes, sa, dar would hab been no heli for it. I wouldn't put my lifo in de scale existed, for no Gobernmenl couldf tc-, placo do loss to me.' -v 'Do you think any of your Com pan would have missed you if you hn been killed?' 'May bo not, sa—a dead white mar ain't much to dese sojers, let alone dead nlgga—hut I'd a missed myself and dat was do pintwith me.'

MISH ANNA B. DICKINSON gave lccturo on "Demagogues and Workin men" at Steinway Hall last Thursdi evening, and had a very fino audien in spite of tho rain, ifrer lecturo w: able, pungent, pathetic, and courageoi as well as could be, and held tho aud once riveted to their seats for a fuhour and a half. Her lecture Is agran protest against all cliques and classes and clans, and the tyranny of tradof-i unions, and all arbitrary schemes Labor Reform, in behalf of universal liberty and the interests and rights ant welfare of mankind. Her vimlicatio of tho Chinese immigrants who brin their prudence, thrift, industry, and cultured simplicity of mind to thicountry to pick un the crumbs which drop from our Industrial feast, and yet have been beaten and butchered with a barbarity unworthy ofa race of savage1-, was thoroughly eloquent and grand. Wo learn with pleasure that she been Invited "to repeat her locti/Ve each of the four largo cities in which 1$ has been given.—Colrten Age.

LOCAL MATTERS.

"W. A. Sheap la bis name, Ami America 1* hi* nation He well* Hie Baltimore oyster,

A ml Hlxth Htr««J Is his station. Hhcapgei* the delicious Saddle Rocks, the way from the Chesapeake, still gasplt for breath, i'or the fresh bivalve go 1Sheap'*.

Too much ran not bo said in favor the Htelnway Piano. It* superiority I* acknowledged all over tbe world. A. Bhlde the only man in this city who sells it. may be found at the Terre-Haute Muslcf Institute, south Fifth street. You will alft" find tn his charge some of the finest Juvenile musical talent In tbe city,

Wo saw a horse valued at $150 sell taW. lie was ornamented with a set of Pter J. Ryan's finely mounted harness, wbio be manufactures at corner of Main nc Second street*. He keeps a large number workmen constantly busy and does all stilcbing by hand.

Ihtddleson is becoming a peculiarly familiar name In the mouth of every smoker. All who love a good cigar are ev able to And Dnddteson. Three clear Havana for 2j eents Is a sure bargain, and it can I bad at anjr time opposite tbe poetoSQce,