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[From the Atlantic Monthly. DICK EX,S AT HOME.

Amusements at G'uixhill—Out the tymntri/—Thfi Author as David Ooppcrfitild—A /Sear Story.

In Mr. Fields' memoir* of Dickens we find these delightful pen-pictures of hits domestic life:

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forth every day, rain or shine, for stretcher. 'Twelve, fifteen even twenty miles were not too much for Dickens, and many a long tramp we have had over the hop country together. Chatham, Rochester, Cobham. Park, Maidstone—anywhere, out under the open rfky and into the free air! Then Dickens was at his best, and talked. Swinging h'.s black thorn stick, his little figforward over the ground, to

a practised pair of legs to defcof his voice. In these I ifard from liis own lips •i^niscences of his early

and it took a practised pair of 1 keep alongsid expeditions I delightful ro days in the region we were then traversing, and charming narratives of incidents connected with tho writing of his books.

Dickons' association with (iadshill, the city of Rochester, the road to Canterbury, and the old cathedral town itself, date back to its earliest years. In "David Copperfiold," the most autobiographic of all his books, we find him a little boy (so small that the landlady is called to peer over the counter and catch a glimpse of the tiny lad who possesses such "u spirit trudging over the old Kent road to Dover. "I see myself," he writes, "as evening closes in, coming over tho bridge at Rochester, foot-sore and tired, and eating bread that 1 had bought for supper." 8 a

Here I lay down near cannon and, happy in tho society of the sentry's footsteps, though he knew no more of my being above him than he boys at Salem house had known of my lying by tho wall, slept, soundly until morning." Thus eagly ho noticed "trampers" which inf't the old Dover road, and observed them in their numberless gipsy-like variety thus early he lookfid lovingly on (.Iadshill Place, and wished it might bo his own, if he over grew up to bo a man. I Ilia earliest memories were filled with pictures of the endless hop-grounds ami orchards, and tho lit'.lo child "thought it all extremely beautiful

Sitting in tho beautiful chalet during his later years, and watching this same river stealing away like his own life, he never could find a harsh word for the tramps, and many and many a one has gone over the road rejoicing because of some kindness received Irotn his hands. Every precaution was taken to protect house exposed as his was to theso wild rovers, several dogs being kept in tho stable yard, and the large outer gates locked. Hut ho seldom made an excursion in any direction without finding some opportunity to benefit them. One of these many kindnesses came to tho public eat during th« last summer of his lifo. lie was dressing in his own bedroom in the morning, when ho saw two Savoyards aud two bears eomo up to tho Falsiafl' Inn, opposite. While he was watching thoodcl company, two English bullies joined tho liltlu party, and insisted upon taking the niua/.los oil" tho bears In order to have a daneo with them. "At oni'o," said Dickens, "I saw there would lo trouble, and I watched the ^scone with flic greatest anxio'.y. In a moment I saw how things were going, tuul .without, delay foiiud mvsrslf rtt the gate. I called tho gardener by the way, but he managed to hold himself at "safe distanco behind the fence. I put tho Savoyards Instantly in a secure position, tutked the bullies what they wore at, forced them to muxxlo the boars agiin, under throat of sending for the police, and ended the affair in so short a time that I was not missed from the house. Unfortunately, while I was covered with dust ami blood, lor the iiears had already attacked one of the men when I arrived, I heard a carriage roll by. I thought nothing of it at the time, out the report in foreign journals which startled and shocked my friends so much, came, probably, from the occupants of that vehicle. Unhappily,

In my desire to save the men, I entirely forgot the dogs, and ordered the bears to be carried to the stableyard until the scuffle should be over, when a tremendous tumult arose between tho bears and the dogs. Fortunately, we wen* able to snparate them without injury, and tho whole was so soon over that it was hard to make the family believe, when we came to breakfast, that anything of the kind has gone forward," It was the newspaper report, causing anxiotylo some absent friends, which led, »n inquiry, to the rehearsal of the Incident.

TllKHR in no doubl of the existence of a stronsly organised party of IVonapartIsts In Franco, conspiring and plotting In All ways to get l*uls Napoleon back again as Kmperor. But a largi majority of tho people have had enongh of that sort of ruling done for them, ami have nothing but contempt for the man who plunged them into the depths of humiliation, disgrace, and ruin. M. Thiers Is doing nls utmost to disgust them with the Republic in order that, when he has held the power aa long as they will endure his conceit and folly, he may hand it over to his favorite Orleans Prince. An effort Is now making to have the question as to the future form of the government submitted to a vote of the people. The movement Is premature, but It indicates what is sooner or later to come In snite of tho prevent ruling* faction. Meanwhile the Communists are coming slowly and stealthily back, and making their presence felt even in I^aris, the mother of ]moba, the cradle of revolutions. The ftith act ol the tragedy has not y# been actcd.—GottUm Ape*

affixing to them a mark by whtebUmy ran be seen and** bead drawn on them at a distance. It renfleni them especially liable to sttack in the rear which reminds me of a little story. A small

Colorado boy, who had been out playing, ran Into the house in a state of great excitement, saying he bad seen some antelopes In a gulch near by. At his entreaty his mother went out to look at them, l«t nothing of the kind -was to be found. She became incmitil ous, and said at last: 'I don't tollers yon saw any antelopes it most have been your imagination, my child.' To this the little mountaineer indignantly responded: 'Humph! I guess my imagination tent white behind

But none the larger grow.

Kvory day we had out-of-door games, At ehureh I am always found such as "Bowls" "Aunt Sallv," and the And strange as it inay seem, like, Dickens leading oft" with ^eat I am always there as tightly hound spirit and fun. Milliards fame after!

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dinner, and during the evening we had charades and dancing. There was no My name you must not speak end to the new divortiKcments our kind host was in the habit of proposing, so that constant cheerfulness reigned at (iadshill. He went into his work-room, as he called it,soon after breakfast, and wrote till twelve o'clock then he came out, ready for along walk. The country about Gadshill is admirably adapt-

ry about Gadshill is admirably adapt- ^fy fir8t j8 in mind, but not in brain for pedestrian exercise, and we went

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/Young Folks.

R1DIVE.

When I wns born I cahnot tell My father's name I do not know lint I can say 1 am always well,

you would bind the wildest team

Nor mention me in public lif\ Lest.you make blush the maiden's cheek

And vet mv sphere is public strife. W. H. S.

CROSS-WOKD ENIGMA.

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My third is in good, bnt not in bad Mv fourth is in delight, but not in sad My fifth is in heroine, but not in hero My sixth is hi not, but not in so My seventh is in woman, but not in wench My whole is a battle, fought by the

French. T. K.

BIBLICAL SQUARE-WORDS. A city built on hills. A Jewish prophet. A Bible word signifying "he is numbered."

An ancient country. I.

HIDDEN CITIES.

1. S-'tys a rat: "O gaze not on me." li. If I can with, I can without you. 3. The mob I have forever. 4. I work from day to nitcht. 5. A woman can to Naples go. (5. A man took iron to New York. 7. May the best man win. 8. The seer I ever will detest. 9. I love but I cannot wed. J. C. K.

ANSWERS TO ENIGMAS. CHARADES rtc. IN EAST WEEK'S TAPER.

Anagr.im.—T irpeia—.V pirafe. Cross- Word Enigma.—Carro 11.

Till-: project of a tunnel under the straits of Dover, to connect England and France, is by no means abandoned. Engineers as competent as are to be lound in Europe have been reported upon it favorably time and again, and tho prospect that the work will soon be entered upon is better than ever before. Indeed the French Government was quite prepared, before tho lato war, to grant a concession to any company that would-tunnel the straits, and that was all that a company already formed was wiiiiiim lor. Now it is expected that the concession will be givtn very shortly. Tho original estimatv of tho time necessary to finish it was nine or ten years. Now it is said that a hole through can bo made in one year, and that in two or three years more it can bo often to travel. A similar reduction has been made in the estimate of tho cost, originally set at ten million pounds sterling. The geologists report that the tunnel will run through gray chalk lor the whole distance, and that (ran bo scooped out as easily as a Dutch cheese. Tho plan looks so feasible, and the cost is so low, that it is now seriously in contemplation to construct two tunnels, instead of one, so that trains shall never be running in opposite directions through the same tunnel. The ex-emperor was tho first to suggest this great work but he will get only a small share of the credit If it shall he carried out, unless the wheel of fortuno should take another turn in his favor.

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DIFFICULT NATIVITY.—A jolly young fellow named Corcoran, when he arrived in this country, some years since, propounded a puzzle to a gruff old clerk in the New York City Ilall, which is believed to have shortened -that official's d*y*. Corcoran wenUfcJF to the office for his "first papers." The deputy was a serious old chap, who, without ever looking up, proceeded to put the formal interrogatories.

What's your name?" he demanded. John Corcoran.""Your age?"

Twentv-one."

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What nativity Well—that 's what bothers me—I'll tell you, and may be you can mako it out." My father was Irish, my mother English, and I was born on board of a Dutch brig under a French flag, in Flemish waters. Now how is it?"

The old clerk look nn aghnst, shoved his spectacles on his brow and slowly made his answer: "Young man, your nativity and that, of our

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iour n*re tho only "ones which ever puzr.led mo."

MR. IftootxsoN's lecture on "Thinking Animals" is said to bo a brilliant success, both instructing and entertaining as It can well be. He savs the proprietor of a menagerie had told him that formerly only children looked at the monkeys, but now they were more carefully observed by grown men than anvthing else in his collection. He dls'putes the theory that man is the only tool-making animal, and related a circumstance witnessed oy a friend of his, when a pair of robbins, after trying In vain to shelter their young from a prolonged storm, finally brought between them niece ot shingle, and set It up successfully as a

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tends that some animals possess a marked capacity of progress, and points out the vast Improvements made by the different species as swallows since they caine to live among men. The theme Is timely, and though Col. Higginson does not meddle with Mr. Darwin's theory, he creates considerable sympathy for "our poor relations,''— Golden Agr. _"

ARKANSAS FI.IRH,—They have large horse-flies out in Arkansas, but the people are intelligent and \ill of resources. But the farmers out there have latelv come a game on them that is likelv to discourage further emigration of this kind. They patiently watch the varmint as he wrestles with their animals, and after the horse has become disabled by loss of blood and lavs down In the farrow, they iust harness the "fly" up in the horses toggery, and keep right along

this statement, no doubt. There is no pleasure in writing tor such people anyway.

TT Is rather awkward for the enterprising photographer of Paris who published the portraits of the "Petroleum Women" of the Commune, and was doing such thriving business by the sale of them. A gentleman discovered the portrait of his mother-in-law among the celebrities—a lady beyond reproach, as all mothers-in-law are—and he visit-

locked him up. Moral—Whatever yon msy do with your own, let other pooplea' mot herein-law alone.

'F.RRE-HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL, NOVEMBER 18,1871.

EPISODE IN THE LIFE OF A REPORTER. Some years ago when the writer was a reporter upon an Eastern paper, it devolved upon him to write for the same edition sn account of the presentation of a gold-bended cane to theRevDr. Mudge, clergyman of The place, and the description of a patent hogkilling nnd sausage machine which hnd just b'-en put in operation at the factory. Now, what made Rev. Dr. Mudge mad was this. The inconsiderate buccaneer who made up the forms of the paper got the two locals mixed up In a frightful manner, and when we went to press, something like this was the appalling result: "Several of the Rev. Dr Mudge 8 friends called upon him yesterday, after a

conversation the unsuspi­

cious hog was seized bv the hind legs and slid alone: a beam until he reached the hot water tank. His friends ex plained the object of their visit, and presented him with a very handsome gold headed butcher, who grabbed him by the tail, swung him around, «plit his throat from ear to ear, and in less than a minute the carcass was in water Thereupon he came forward and said that there were times when the feelings overpowered one, and for that reason he would not attempt to do more than thank those around him lor the manner in which such a huge animal was cut into fragments was simply astonishing. The doctor concluded his remarks, when the machine seized him, and in less time than it takes to write it the hosr was cut into frigmen's and worked np into delicious sausage. The occasion will long be remembered bv the doctor's friends as one of the most delightful of their lives.

The best pieces can be procured for fifteen cents a pound, and we are sure that those who havo sat so long under his ministry will rejoice that he has beet treated so handsomely."

Mad? Well, about i.ine o'clock that morning the office had been abandoned bypvery man but the advertising clerk, and he ascended to tho roof and robed himself in a boiler iron, so that he could watch the venerable clergyman tearing around down there in the street with his coneregation, all wearing the panoply of war, and carrying butcherknives and things. Next, day we explained and apologised, but the doctor stopped his subscription and began to take the rival paper.

TOWAKP the close of the Revolutionary ir, says Dr. Cox, an officer in the ar'mv had occasion to transact some business with Genera! Washington, and repaired to Philadelphia for that purpose. Before leaving, he received an invitation to dine with the gener 1, which was accepted, and upon entering a room ho found himself in the company of a large number of guests. AH they were mostly strangers to him, and he was ot a naturally modest and unassuming disposition, he took a scat near the foot of tho table, and refrained from taking an active part iff the conversation. Just before the dinner was concluded, neral Washington culled him by name, and requested him to drink a glass of wine with him.

Will you have the goodness to excuse me, general," replied the officer. I have made it a rule never to take wine."

All oyes were instantly turned upon the young officer, and a murmur of surprise and indignation ran round the table. That a person should be so unsocial and so mean as never to drink wine, was really too bad but tlfit€ he should abst lin from it on an occasion like that,and even when offered Jo him by Washington himselt, was perfectly intolerable. Washington saw at once the feeling of his guests, and promptly addressed them "Gentlemen," said he, "Mr. Ritcliing is right. I do not wish any of my guests to partake of any thing againt their inclinations, and I rtainlv do n% them to violato any establlshedl^ nciple In their social intercourse itwtuo. I honmSrh. Rltcblng for his frattpiriun, for bis eonmjtenm/r in thus adhering to an established rule wbi'rti can never do fiivi harm, and for the adoption of which 1 have no doubt he has good and sufficient reasons."

No more indignation was cxpieased at that table. -M IT is

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spiritualist. She has a firm conviction that Prince Allert is always present with her, and that she can hold communion with him. Her private rooms are arranged as they were when ho was alive. His chair is'placed opposite her own in the library, and tne books which he delighted to read to her are arranged lovingly, in order, upon the table. In some of her moods she will converse with him for an hour together, conducting her own share of the conversation aloud, and with the vigor and interest of old times. He had taught her by his business enterprise —especially by his management of tie Duchy of Cornwall—to superintend 48 much as possible all her private affairs herself to reduce all unnecessary expenditures, and to forbid extravagant*, llence the greatest simplicity is served at the Queen's table, and N(e Imagines that her husband looks on, well pleased. At times, when she is more than ordinarily impressed with a sense of his presence, it is aid she will order a knife and fork to be plac on the dinner-table fbr him,every morning a pair of boots are cleaned ana set down against the door of the chamber whfc he once occupied and at breakfast, when In .Scotland, she will often sit a long time In silence, waiting for the prince.

THE City of Chicago just now is more like vast intelligence office than anything else. The advertisements in the papers published there are so many expressions of uncertainty, penury and grief. A few begin as follows: "Wanted to find Swedish girl Sophia, formerly living in my familyA lost cow can be found at," etc "Two stray trunks can be heard from at," etc, "Taken out of the flames a dark bay mare **flO reward and no questions asked, for a pail full of dental intruments taken, from," etc, "Mr.-——, please call at and get your boy, "Agnes will find her father at And so on for two long, closely-printed columns.

A FKW questions asked by the Chicago RepnMictm, regarding the Insurance bualness, are worthy of respectful answers. "If a man," it says, "Insured his property fbr $10,080, and paid the premium on that sum for several years, is it in good fialth for the Insurance companies to send an

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here to say it was worth only $5,000r What does the 'adjuster' know aboot it, after all Why didn't they discover that it was worth only FO.OOO when the owner was paying the premium on 000? If tbejr wantsd 3 per cent, ins) 1why dont they say so In an honest and decent way?

Mm. Moots of Indiana thrashed her ho»band for ccffinc drunk, and ttws. Louisville Leapr calls her "the bride] oflam-a-Moon."

[From the Cincinnati Trade List.] UP IX A BALLOON. What are the sensations of going up in a balloon?" This is a question asked by nearly every one.

The sensation in no wise differs from that experienced in standing on the topmost peak ol a mountain and seeing all there is to be seen. "But/should not dare to look out for I would suiely be dizzy."

Ah, there you are very much mistaken. However much you may be made giddy on a house-top or at an upper window, dizziness never affects you in a balloon. Dizziness is something wholly unknown to balloon travelers. Neither is there auy sensation of being drawn swiftly through the air, as there is in a common swing, a fact that is easily explained when it is remembered that the balloon necessarily travels along with the moving current of air, at nearly the same if not fully the velocity of the air itself. There is no sensation of motion at all, and when one withdraws his gaze from objects below, the balloon seems to be poised perfectly still in the air, although itmay be dashing onward at the rate ol thirty, forty, or fifty miles an hour. While enveloped in the clouds, or in close proximity above them, this singular phenomenon is all the more striking for every perceptible object around you or beneath you seems relatively becalmed. So far as dizziness is coacemed, it might possibly ensue in case the passenger was seated upon the top of the balloon, instead ol being suspended beneath it with no point of reference betweed him and the earth. So motionless does the balloon seem that it often becomes necessary to watch given points below with the closest scrutiny, and to throw out streamers or bits of paper in order to detect its actual direction. In rising or falling verjT rapidly, there is sometimes the merest ripple of air, but even an upward or downward motion of 'he balloon can not be detected ordinarily without the use of streamers, flags, or little bits of paper. If the balloon is going up, the flags and streamers lung straight and motionless. If it is falling, the resistance causes them to wave or.rise, and pieces ol paper, from descending so much slower, are left tar above the balloon. Sometimes when the balloon is descending with rapidity and sand isthrownout—as it, of course, must be to lighten the balloon and thus cheek the descent—the sand is left above in tho air and comes rattling down upon the balloon and the heads of its passengers, giving'the first warning, possibly, of a deviation from a Straight forward course to all save the aeronaut himself, who is Argus-eyed and is on the lookout for the slightest change in altitude or direction.

And then, as to the causes which lead to the rising and falling of the balloon independent of the will of tho icronaut. Ii the balloon is given considerable buoyu.- cv at the outset, it rises until the envelope or bag holding the gas is distended to its fullest capacity through the lessened atmospheric pressure from without, the gas escapes through the open neck of the balloon, which serves as a sort of safety valve, but it also bocomes necessary to relieve thegas pres suro by allowing it to escape likewise through the valve at tho top. Incase of a very rapid ascent, where tho gus envelope is already distended to its utmost, failure to do this would probably result in the bursting of the balloon and the instantaneous emptying of the entire gas contents, and it is thus made a very considerable part of an aeronaut's business to do the right thing at tho right lime. I can think of nothing where so much depends upon the coolness aa well as tho knowledge and skill of a simile person, as in the navigation of a balloon—and by navigation I, of course, mean simply its regulation as to upward and downward courses, land, etc., for there is no control to be had over its direction except so far as contrary currents, whero they existj maybe made of avail. The balloon must necessarily be driven in whatsoever way tfief %md listeih. When sortie.power is invented to drive an air ship frt^Uwr. than the wind or to hold it affWWwS l4lM wind, some *tdea of practical havigation may be advanced. The buoyandfr of tho balloon laces it wholly the mercy of the air current, and "tins must bo overcome before "steeragt* way" is gained.

The rays of tho sun in heating the gas in the balloon will cause it to ex-

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and and rise, and the cooling of the by tho intervention of a cloud between it and tho sun, will invariably cause a downward tendency. In a partially cloudy day a balloon Is thils subjected to a succession of changes In its condition, which necessitates the expenditure of much gas or ballast, as the case may be, to cheek Its rising or falling tendencies. Tho influence of a forest, or a largo body of water, is also to cool the atmosphere for a considerable distance above the surface, and a sudden descent into the tree-tops, or a plunge into the waves, must be guarded against, in case the voyage may lead over either.

The dangers of attending the bursting of a balloon in mid-air are generally overestimated. In a majority of eases the cloth would gather in the top of the netting forming a parachnte of itself, and through the resistance.offered to the air in descending, bring the passengers safely to tho ground. An aeronaut in Phfladelphia, years ago, was accustomed to burst a balloon purposely in the air, sometiinesst a height of two miles, as a public exhibition.

Dunnto the Revolution a corporal was giving orders to his men, who wer« endeavoring to raise a heavy log to the top of some military works thev were repairing. An officer, not in military costume, was passing, and asked the commander why be aid not aid. The latter, turning around with all the pomp of an emperor, said, "Sir, I am a corporal." "I ask your pardon, Mr. Corporal," said the officer, dismounting. and lifting till the work was finished, when turning to the commander, he •aid, "Mr. Corporal, when you have another such job, and have not men sufficient, send foryonrcommander-in-chief, and I will help you the second time." It was Washington!""

Mts» J. S. BKLL has a mission among the freed people on Harker's Island, opposite Beaufort. X. C. 8be has two schools numbering upwards of a hundred pupils: but in addition to what she teaches in that way, she gives practical lessons in gardening, fanning, housekeeping, ana the art of living in a cleanly, comfortable, civilized fashion. Which is just the kind of missionarylog which needs to be done there and itka thousand other places. And though tils is not exactly tne Gospel according tc *ny of the secia, we are glad to learn that fUshop Atkinson has approved the work of MteiUL who needs a little asristance in carrying on her excellent enterprise.—OoWen Age.

A coKntL*r A BE. 51 of -a Cincinnati pt^tr was st the Chicago fire, and report* tfcat "Northward the bell-«ng*i •trsde to the emporium of rich pto iuce it was longing for."

A GOOD OXE OX THURLOW WEED. Weed had about as much system in keeping his accounts (aud his money) as Micawber. He was a little greater man though and bad that grain of good sense which suggested to" hi.n the propriety ot pl-ici ng any specific sum of money which he didn't want spent at random in the hands of some financier friend. In 18-36 "T. W." came to New York and received $25,500 from his Republican friends—§10,000 for the purpose of defeating Fillmore for President, $10,000 for the use of the Republicans in Albany, and §5,000 tor the Evening Journal. For sate keeping he gave tho Albany Central Committee $10,000. placed go.OOO to the Journal's credit, and requested his partner (Mr. Sinclair, I believeHoplace the secret 0.000 (to be used against his old friend Fillmore) to his, Sinclair's credit in bank, which could be drawn as required. He did so. One line mom inn, Sinclair dropped dead from heart disease. Tho £10,000 stood to his personal credit without a word of explanation. In vain Thurlow Weed sought the ear of the bank officers. They could do nothing. The executors of the estate found the §10,000 to Mr. Sinclair's credit. They could not, without proof, hand it over to Mr. Weed or his political frien.ts. Thus it was swept into the dead man's estate and into tho hands of his fascinating widow. Not a dollar was used to defeat the placid Millard Fillmore. A year thereafter, tho honorable ex President from Puffalo and the charminz widow of Mr. Weed's partner were attracted by that irtvsterious influence presided over by Venus. A few months later they were united by the hymeneal knot and poor Weed saw his darling $10,000, raised to defeat Mr. Fillmore, in 1856, diverted from its original purpose into the unsuccessful candidate's "marriage portion It is said that Thurlow Weed tells this good joke on himself with a relish, and joins as heartily in the guffaw it never fails to inspire as he used to, in those "halcyon aays of yore," when he told stories on the stage-coaches between this city and the capital of tho Excelsior Slate.

Ax ignorant ci devant actor, dentist, and phrenological and animal magnetism lecturer, who has tried the entire range of humbug, finally presents himself before a convocation of school-ex-aminers in an obscure town of the Far West. The questioners, who are in intelligence about on a par with the questioned, proceeded first to test his knowledge of general history: "In what era, Mr. Flipkins, did Napoleon Bonaparte flourish "How's thai?" asks Mr. Flipkins, in reply "won't you jest repont that question

Certainly, sir in what ago did Bonaparte, the warrior reign?" "Uniph," rejoins the proposed schoolmaster, with an insinuating smile, "you've got mo ihero, gentlemen

Never mind, doctor, about particulars," said ono of the committee to a fellow-member. "Let me ask him the «ame question in a lectio dit'frent form. You hear'n the fust question, Mr. Flipkins now, was it before or alter Christ?" "Can 1 have tho question agin ?"asked Mr. F. "I'm afraid I didn't take it 'z

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as 'twas put."

The querist repeated tho question. The ex-nentist and lecturer scratched his head, looked imploringly first at ono examiner and then at the other and made answer: "Well, re—ally, gentlemen, you've got me agin, I couldn't say, re— any." (ID-

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THKIIK are some people, yes, 'mnny people, always looking out for slights. They can not carry on the daily intercourse of tho family without thinking some offonso is designed. They are as louchy as hair-triggers. If they meet an acquaintance in the'strejt who happens to be pro-occupied *rith business, they attribute his abstraction In some mode personal to themselves, and take umbrage accordingly. They lay on others the fault of their irritability. A tit of indigestion makes them seo impatience in every body they come in contact with, innocent persons who never dreamed of giving offenso are astonished to Mnd some unfortunate word, or some momentary taciturnity, mistaken for an insult. To say the least, he habit is unfortunate. It is far wiser to take the more charitable view of our fellow-beings, and not suppose a slight is intended, unless the neglect is open and direct. After all, too, life takes its use in a great degree from the color of our own mind. If we are frank and generous, the world treats us kindly. If, on the contrary, we are suspicious, men learn to be cold and cautious toward us. Let a person get the reputation of being touchy, and every body is under more or less restraint an'd in this way tho chances of an imaginary offenso are greatly increased.

THK following, again, though not of an animal—it is of a justice of the peace—is about one:

The affixing ot internal revenue stamps to legal documents Is a vexatious matter to all parties Interested, and leads to Innumerable complications. The decisions relative thereto made by the department are, if possible, even more confusing than the laws themselves. It haa come to bo recognized, however, that where a railroad, for instance, has given a mortgage on its property, and the mortgage has been properly stamped, bonds issued in accordance therewith need not bo stamped. Home time since a Virginia farmer, who was something of a sharper, was sued for the recovery of an amount due on a note which be had given for the purchase of a mule. He came into court, and contended that the note was not legal, inasmuch as there was no revenue stamp affixed to it. The justice solved tho difficulty by sending lor the mule. Upon examination it was found that he was branded "U. 8." And the justice held that aa the mule was properly stamped, the note given for his purchase need not bet And accordingly the Virginian repudiator was forced to redeem bis obligation.—QcUajry Club Room.

THE New Orleans Picayune furnishes a suggestive incident in connection with Its account of the fire. The Incident of the burning of the emancipa"lat city :iety, ar ed the attention of one old colored

tion proclamation, which cost that city §"25,000 for its Historical Society, arrestthe attention of one old colore woman, a slave all her life, who Viewed the proclamation much aa the Israelites did the ark of the covenant. "What datf" she said "burned up!" "Yes, aunty, burned up." "Den what gwine to come of us again?* "I don't know may be you'll be slaves as before." "Den dls chile gwine to die right now."

And throwing np her bands in dismay, she left tne presence of her mistress, visiting dire Imprecations on the bead of the man "what sot out dat fire."

THE LOOKS OF LITERARY IFp- & -VAW. Very^ intellectual women are seldom beautiful their features and particularly their foreheads are more or less! masculine. But there are exceptions to all rules, and Miss Landon was an exception to this one. She was exceedingly feminine and pretty.

Mrs. Stanton likewise*is an •exceedingly handsome woman, but Miss Anthony and Mrs. Livermore aro both plain. Maria and lane Porter were women of high brows and irregular features, as was also Miss Sedgwick. Anna Dickinson has a strong masculine face Kate Field has a good looking though by no moans pretty one, and Mrs. St owe is thought positively homely.

Alice and Phcebo Gary were plain in, features though their sweetmss ot disposition added gr«atly to their personal appearance. Margaret Fuller had a splendid head, but her features wcref irregular and she was anything but handsome, though sometimes in the glow of conversation she appeared almost radiant. Charlotte Bronte had wondroi sly beautiful dark brown eyes and perfectly shaped head. She was! small to dhninutiveness, and was as simple in her mannoras a child.

Julia Ward Howe is a fine-looking! woman, wearing an aspect of grace and refinement and gr*at force of character in her face and carriage. Olive Logan is anything but handsome in person, though gay and attractive in conversation. Laura Hclloway resembles Charlotte Bronte both in personal appearance and in the sad experiences ot her roung life. Neither Mary Booth nor Marian llarland can lay claim to hand--, some faces, though they are splendid specimens of cultured women, whilt Mary Clemmor Amos is just as picasing in features as her writings am graceful and popul ar.—- Revolution*

THE Saturday Review says there is no reason in the world that good conversation should be so rare as it is in England, but, as every mistress ol a salon in France knows, good talk does not come by accident. Wo puzzle ourselves, as we listen to the ceaseless gabble of girls on a "call," how any human beings can have fallen into such vacuous imbecility but the secret of il lies at home. An English woman learns to dress, to dance, or to ride, but she picks up the art of conversation as she can. When the need for talk comes, she finds that conversation is just as difficult an art as that of riding, er dressing,or dancing. Sho is too plucky to give in, and too shy to hold her tongue, and so she plunges into a goose-like gabble. Men and women will only learn really converse when conversation, in the true sense of the word, is familiar to thoni at home. But to converse—in tho other words, to find fresh subjects and treat them treshly to preserve a tone of lightness and case without falling into frivolity to know how to avoid mere discussion and controversy, and yet to deal with topics of real interest and value to perceive when a theme is socially exhaust-

Yes."

"And what, then, did you want?" "I wanted (o BSO whether you would poke him or not."

THK "Heathen Cnineo" has decided, to mako an attack upon one of our Christian Institutions in force. A Chinaman who graduated from Yale Collego fifteen years ago and now thirty of his countrymen propose to apply for admission under his lead. Where will these things lead to? And how will the youth iti that ancient seat of learning protect themselves against tho insidious Influence of these disciples of Confucius? And how can Dr. Thompson Ihink of going to E«ypt to study up hieroglyphics, and speculate on the age of mummy cases and inscriptions, when his loved but not quite grateful and appreciative Alma Mater is thusJu danger of invasion?—(Joldm Age,

HINCK the President's proclamation, it has Kone hard with tho Ku Klux ruffians in

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ed, and when the moment has come for.5 a disgrcssion how to check one member ol the circle, or to draw oul the other how to give their proper place even to jest and lepartee—all this is no easy matter

JoilH I'lICKNIX AT THK TllKATRK.— One evening at tho theatre in this city. John Pluonix observed a man sitting three scats In front, whom ho thoughi ho know ho requested the person next to poko the other individual wilii hin^~ cane. The polite stranger did so, and' on tho disturbed person turning hi-., hoad a little, John discovered his mis- ... take—that ho was not the person he took him for. Fixing his attention steadfastly on tho play, aud affecting unconsciousness of the whole affair, he lelt tho man with the cano to settle the disturbance, who being wholly without an excuse, there wwsofeourso a ludi- .J crous and all of which interested in "with tho cano ly. ""Didn't you tell mo to poko thnt man with mv stick?"

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teresting gentlemen who wear hideous masks and steal horses and burn houses.and murder Innocent men for their' patriotism in tho war and their Republicanism since, between two and three hundred have been arrested and are awaiting trial. Meanwhile their political friends are doing iheir utmost to prevail on tho President to interfere In their behalf. It is so tyrannical and unrepuhlican to interfere with the pastimes of chivalrous South Carolina^ gentlemen!—Golden Age.

A TAT.E has of late been drifting about tho United States of a kind-hearted follower of Mr. Henry Ilorgh (with a slight difference), who rescu«d a poor pigeon from a telegraph wire, whero it had become entangled with a piece or kite-lino, and carried it off tenderly home In his bosom fie observed next, day that It made a much better pot-pie than he expected.—(iaiaxy Club ROOT*.

THE frightful punster of the AFCW York World must look to his laurels. The New York Globe remarks:—"Dana, ol the Sun, seems determined to

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advantage of every pretext to give Grant a dressing. Let hlrn beware-— •The way of Grapt's dresser is hard.'"

A HABTFORO editor having twitted an editor in a neighboring city of being bald, subsequently apologized, and explained, that "as long aa can fold bis ears over the top of bis head bo doesn't need any hair anyhow."

An English life insurance pamphlet Is entitled "Thinks for the Thoughtful.'* We beg leave to suggest a similar publication in the interest of saloon-keep-ers, to be called "Drinks for the Droogbtftil."—BonUm Advertiser.

AT Akron, O., a inal driver twisted a mule's tall to make It go. Tho clergyman paid a fitting tribute to the man's many excelleut qualities at the funeral.