Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 2, Number 23, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 2 December 1871 — Page 2

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A FULL AT THE "POWKS.

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I How ihfey* do misrepresent things! J^

Little or no reliance is to be placed on

of"Sweet A nbnrn! loveliest village or

the plain," carrying the idea that the plac- is mainly inhabited by carpenters —mfen oftb* plane. Auburn is chiefly noted for its State Prison. Sweet Au.barn,indeed! "Not a dram was heard nor a funeral note," wrote Wolfe, narrating the burial of Sir John Moore. How can we rely upon his notes of that funeral, when he did not takea "funeral note "You must wake and call me early, call me early, mother, dear," sings

Tennyson, in the Mav Queen. Now, why no call her Wade Hampton, or Stonewall Jackson, as well as Early? Fact is, this was before the war, and Early wasn't heard of.

Longfellow writes a poem and names it after Dan Rice's celebrated trick horse "Excelsior." He misrepresents things in the very first line, for he says: "The shades of night were falling fast," when It is a notorious fact that window shad* were higher that year than tbey had been for a long time, and were still going up. If we can't rely on I»ngfellow, what fellow can we depend upon

Tom Moore sings "The harp that once through Turn's halls the soul of music shed," but neglects to.Inform us wether the harp after shedding music's sole, was decent enough to get music re-shod. Or, perhaps, "music shed." was a slang phrase applied in Moore's time to a concert saloon.

It was a cruel joke on the part of (low per to make Alexander Selkirk exclaim "I am monarch ofall I survey," when Selkirk had no knowledge of surveying whatever. ('owner can't sell nte, although he did Selkirk.

I was at some pains not long ago, to hant up the homestead of the man who wrote "Old Oaken Bucket," and found there wasn't even a cistern on the place. They brought all their water from a spring, in tin pail! Ho must have had an iron-bound conscience or a moss-covered memory to write as he did.

The author of Casablanca tells a pitiful story how, "The boy stood on the burning deck." He wouldn't have stood on that, only he hadn't a good hand to stand on. All wrong for the poets to work us up so about trifles.

Campbell opens out: "On Linden when the sun was low," when in reality the him was high, jack, and the game. He was rl«lu, though, about tingame being "On Linden." Campbell's rhetorie is faulty, lor in the first verse ho changes his tinure from a card table to a ball alley, when ho speaks of "Iser rolling rapidly."

Campbell also records in verse the elopement of Ijord Ullin's daughter with an oil prince, known as Chief of Ulva's i/c." Ho tells how Ullin's hired men ohasod them on borsoback for three days, and yet commences his

Eound.""A

oem chieftain to tho Highlands Now, if the chieftain was bound to the Highlands, how could he have efTi-clcd that three days' flight? Ho was bound last to his girl, more like, for In the third verse wo road: "Ami/tut In-fore hor father's men,

Three ilayn we've tied together, For nhoiilil LI*' Unit UM In tliu KICII My blood would stain tho heather." For ox posing the young lady in a leakv ferry-bo it on such a stormy night, the chieftain should have been fined in the police court, even if they hadn't "find us in the glen."

Hut these |o«ts aro so visionary they aro wholly unreliable, and thoy mix things up dreadfully. ,.

AMERICAN rOKTS IN ENGLAND. lint,in McCarthy in one of his recent London letters, says:

I hetrd a wonderful ntftff" about Bret Harte, told in full faith by a London ItteYary in in. Bret Harte, the story went, is now in London—a fact of which I was n«»i aware. Ho is a man of glgantla stature (which he certainly was not when saw him last), enormons personal strength, anil a tempor which although noble and generous. Is son what stormy. A Ijondon publisher, who oocsionally reprints American books (and, Indtwd, English books, too for ihu matter), without paying tbe author, h.id pirated Mr. Harte's "Sensation Novels." One of theso wns supnosed to reflect on a certain brilliant Bohemian Of London literature, and tho Bohemian brought action for libel. Tho publisher waited on Bret Harte, snd asked whether be, Mr. Harte, was not prep ired to assume all the pecuniary responsibility. Drawing himself op to Ms lull height, and flashing on the publisher an eve of soorn, he exclaimed "Miserable wretch! First you rob me of my property, and next you ask me to p»y you for your crime?" Then, seining the atfrlghtened publisher In hl« arm*. he lifted hliu high in air and, when the miserable man believed he was atsnit to be hurled into spar*, Bret Harte scornfully lowered him to the ground, silt} dismissed him with oue contemptuous kick. I can assure you Hint the man who told me this story ftill.v I* lleved It, snd wss loud in Ins admiration of Bret Harte's noble anger. Titanic strength, and witte ring ignanliuity. I don't know whether 1 am to el »ss with this legend various stories which I have heard about the eccentricities ot another Atn rlcun pmt, who actually waa in I/ondon I itel v, and was much lienlsed here. People tell UH that he would oc•avl nally ke a ©ok with him t«* a dinner party, and calmly Inform his bosie-* that ho did so because he did not care total* to people at dinner, snd

referred to read. I nave hear*! that has am a *d a drawing-room by suddenly s-i*hig a young lady's "back hair,'" pulling It down until it hung in diahe\elil »l bn. aa, and then covering with kK*"s on the allegation that it reminded him of the hair of some loved ere it ure in another clime. I don't know wh ther these stories are true but ihey were certainly told to mil t»y iw»r-*o'is usually creditable and truthful, -«nd who proposed to describe vbu iiiev b«d actually seen. R«ther "no ootnffmable ui I private mad-house kind manner," as .Mr. Mantallna aaya •I Newui «n N'Wgs supposing the things to «%*e r*«Uy occurred as they have beeo told to n«*.

MR. MCDONALD CHKKK fs a twtifderer who »a de*erv»» I «r«il of the Republic. lie sentenced to death, but obtained iv prt«ve, where6n the tmlUnUw -,la tb'- vu i«d «»f Bmokvllle attempftod jlo co'H|n«w ii|m»iruction. He knocked down tne first lyncher, aelaed his revolver. *i*i mo JtHlk^oosly MTfiMrated »UMiHi«peiiliM friends of publie moral i'ty th ther tncmUneatly d»p*rt#d, sod Mt blm to t»» habeas ec descend to lb*W»«i?1»nete uhofiites. 'W aid b* srqui t*a. It wa*ft*t quite proper to kill his brother-loUw. bat fiiMi »hould IM TOFIIWN blm In view OF his determined ex inrttoa of tbe Hoo«kr r*ulator».-*««Ve MfmHkmm.

TF.ij.RR-HAUTT!

Young Folks.

ANAGRAMS. 6. Suits not in it 7. Seven dice.

Had moon.

stripe

any thing thev say. Goldsmith tells us ib

any thing thev say Goldsmith tells us

I tie cat, I no find! 8. Name us this. 9. I sent Dr. a poem. 10. Nan'a cute paper.

4 lg U8

Fancies icing,

CHARADES.

1. My first is an animal, loyal as brave My second tbe dearest of ties that we have

My second the dearest oi nes mat we

My third

is ail gone

My whale is a tutor's dictorial tone. 2. My second may be tbe name of my first.

My whole is well-known poem. TEMPT

J1V VHIIVI IB O My fourth is in dove, but not in a crow My fifth is in eve, but not in a morn. My sixth is in whistle, but not in born My seventh is in plate, but not in dish

friend, turned out to be a fiend.) 1. Let the himself. The was excited by

3. He was sitting in bis when be lost his 4. His young

5. He said he never saw such a

6. The

was escorted by a

BUUCAVKD

BORDJtB

The Humor "of the cnliar, and not readi

gtopp}ng

have !iCfnl«iantrv.

TKMPY.

4. Good need copyists. 5. your heart to good 6. That is good, but Is terribly

N AM ES OF A ES EN IGM ATICALLY EXPRESSED.. 1. An oversoer and a weight. 2. A stream and a city ot Massachusetts, 3. An edifice and a weight 4. Vulgar, and part of a hpuso.

MOLLY.

ANSWERS TO ENIGMAS, CHARADES Ac. IN LAST WEEK'S PAPER. ("ross-word Enigma.—Bufifalo.^

Charade.—Cod. Riddle.—Penelope. [Penelopewasthe wife of Ulysses, and noted for her faithfulness.] SARDINES, WHERE THEY COME

FROM AND HOW PRESER VED. There are few delicacies so well known and so highly esteemed as the sardine. Tho delicious flavor of the fish when the tin Is first opened, and the sweetness ol the oil (always supposing a good brand), print their charms upon tho memory. It will be unwelcome news, however, to many to be told that anything good in this way Is exceedingly scarce tnis season. Unfortunately, it was the same last year. Then tho destroying demon of war took away tho fishermen from the villages, and, ndded to this, the fish were scarce, so that more wrn oontracted for than could bo delivered. This year It Is worse. Few fish of any sizo have been caught (except some very law), least of all those of the finest quality. The consequence is, that the French manufacturers are again unable to carry out their contracts. "The fishery, says the London Grocer, is carried on generally fiom July to November, all along the west coast of France. Two of the largest stations are at Douarnenea and Concarneau. Fleets of boats go out some few miles and spread out their neU, by tho side of which some cod roe is thrown to attract the fish. The nets are weighted on one end snd have corks attached to the other so that thev assume a vertical position—two nets being placed close lo each other, that the fish trying to esoape may be caught in the meshes. Brought to land, they are Immediately offered for a«le, aa, staler bv a few hours, 'hey become seriously deteriorated in value, no first clans manufacturer caring to buy such. They are sold bv the thousand. The curer employs large numbers of women, who eut'off the beads of the fish, wash, and salt them. The fish are then dipped into boiling nil for a few minutes arranged In various sixed boxes, filled np with finest olive oil, soldered down, and then placed In boiling water for sometime. Women burnish the tins the labels are put on, or sometimes enamelled on the tins, whieh are after

his funeral

SYNCOPATIONS. uieuiaic piuopn v. —... (irtntt.8 blank, wilb bwi word of ^uggSed

SKI.

was instantly carried

to^wn was

G-

PUZZLE.

I am bnt one in f*et, yet I am equal to twenty beheaded I am the pith of every thing again, and I ain a metal now transposed I am a syncopated word, which transposed is.an animal. j-f,, TEMPY. »V &/•>* (Give the authors of the following lines:) 1. As wild his thoughts and gay of wing, 2. Eternal summer gilds thein yet, 3. And Lucy at her wheel shall sing, 4. Because the garden grass is wet.

N KLM ISABEL.

TRANSPOSITIONS.

1. The troops of the sutfered more from the of the mountain than from the of the valley. 2. A farmer, anxious to sell his stock of sent out of circulars, even beyond tho of the county. 3. The positively painted with

rlne.

But if thev are too salt at' first, age does not benefit them—they alwaya remain tooith. Tbe sites of tins sre known as half and quarter tins. There are two half tins, one weighing eighteen onneea sad tbe other sixteen ounce* gnu*. about seven

quarter

In Prance, but seldom aeen here. As la well known, the sardine trade la an Important branch of lndusi ry, ynf Uirge quantities being consumed In Prance and the exportation to England and America is truly wooderfal

dolenre of frienda—that It w*s Indeed a ureal lose—a Mil bwe«vement thst he had suffered, added: "And Jos* tbinkt On IV a few days apt* I baogfct her a whole box of pilK and ah* hadn't time to take bslf or thews before afce died!"

THUI la only one good anhafltnte for the endearments of a aiater. end that is the endearments of aome other frUow*w sister.

volley. "Limber Jack" was sl ot in the face and lungs, and his interest in the sports consequently began to slacken, and the waggish party withdrew. "Keno Bill however, was.captured, and the citizens, to carry out their side of the joke, at first determined to hang him. In consideration, doubtless, of the rare and excellent wit of the whole proceeding, they let him go with an admonition never to couie back.

SATURDAY EVENING MAIL. DECEMBER 2.j871.

ROBERT DALE OWEN, ___bert3D

7MOM, »t Weal is p#• Robert jDale Owes has, so to apeak, The latest AL energies and eml

understood In been long "oft! of

emiar. ana DM MUIF ""5 more eonservatlve coniftiunities. What work to which be gate _. has been (Mled physical Wit ia there great learning Was, we believe, the Life .on, often^rried' to an'excess which tbe of Abraham Lincoln bat he gave up, 1 mmedlately went to hla writing-desk, m^t iSklSi of practical jokers here- and why? We believe that the reason and brought back a cheque for a hunabouts would hardly venture to inii- has never been printed. Now we are dred pounds, aod insisted on its being tate It rarely reaches, perhaps, the told that he is about to put forth a vol- forwarded extravseant pitch of that Tennessee ume relating to the debatable land be- like taking it, said Itogere, who told irentlemsm who irately shot his best tween this world and the next, and me the *tory, f°r I knew that he was friend Durelv "for fun, to see how he while it discusses almost every ques- in want of it himself. His servants would take it." But facetious violence,

rnnldtakeit" But facetious violence, iionor importance miwgiuui»uw«rii«j,

tionof importance in

the oommonest form and unquestionable

we must get when our cash pJ^jfie humor. What could be more immortality, and the character of the

oil dlKt7ul iS itS way than the last story life that follows this. The work seems was an old man who had been butler told of the celebrated "Wild Bill," who to be the interim of his "Footfalls on to his mother and I have seen Byron, is said to h^e shot a man one day and tbe Boundaries of Another World." as the old man waited behind his chair naid

expenses the next? He maintains that while the tendency at dinner, pour out a glass of wine and Quite as remarkable was a little joke of modem thought and spirit of the pass it to him when he thought we nlaved bv certain Western humorists age are anti-papal, Protestantism can were too much engaged in conversation aW^it a week ano in tbe town of Gib- never overcome Catholicism until it to observe what he waa doing. The

CROSS-WORD ENIGMA. „nn jn the Indian Territory. can teach abetter doctrine of the future transaction was a thing of custom and \f Ant in win! bnt not in line A'few choice spirits under the lead and on unquestionable evidence. The both parties seemed to flatter them*Z\ ?. in HS-kbutnotintime ioS felows-the St. Louis tide of public opinion is setting in selves that it was clandestinely effected. Ky ,nifS Vi, hr^ad but not in a douirb «^«Wtcan ^rverselv styles them no- against the old doctrine of infallibility. A hioeous old woman who had been XZ wnn°it inacrogw: ^lliKS-ffow^ bv the poeti- T^e line of human progress isfrom the brought in to nurse him wheii he was eal titles of "Limber Jack," "Poney less to the more of liberty. Despotisms unwell at one of his lodgings, and

Rill" and "Keno Bill" found them- give way to limited monarchies limit- whom few would have cared to retain selves one pleasant morning comforta- ed monarchies te.id to republicanism, about them longer than her services blv drunk in Gibson, and with no im- And more especially is the sentiment were required, was carried with him, mediate Drospect of amusement. One of the present day adverse to mental in improved attire, to his chambers absolutism and spiritual coercion. The the Albany,, and was seen

syncopated—e. g., I attended tbe sale of ^e realized by sion that a God of goodness and mercy his house in Piccadilly. She had done

.hi' p^ mcTnlins their bon», riding ..ever bn granted, .nd ..ever will grant hln.

furiously about the town, and firing to any man, or to any church, a g......

how

laughed incredulously, and gave the their way to some better shelter whereword to destroy the largest warehouse with to replace it. This, Mr. Owen in the place, "there was evidently no

Everything having resulted so pleasantly, with the exception ol the slight accident to "Limber Jack," there seemed no reason why a jest so piquant, and apparently so highly relished by even its victims, should not be indefinitely repeated. But unluckily and unexpectedly the United States Marshal at Fort Smith, Arkansas, developed a deplorable deficiency of humor. He actually pursued tho jocose "Keno" and the facetious "Limber," and having caught them, turned them over to the United States authoritfes for punishment. It may com tort the good people of Gibson, nevertheless, to remember that "Poney Bill" still remains at large to invent new games for their amusement. Next time, perhaps, ho will burn the town and shoot tho inhabitants by the lightofthecon flag ration.—N.,Y. 1 imes. rpfjp SH 4 72/1* inii forms us that to ms Kiiuwicugo m"

most terrible of them is the white shark. He has six rows of hard teeth. which have hard points, and are shaped like a wedge, lie can make them stand upright or turn them,if he please, flat in his mouth." It is said ti.at some sharks are so large as to weigh three or four thousand pounds. "Their body and fins are of alight ash color. When seizing their prey, their eyes are goggling, their teeth erected, and their fins agitated. They appear fierce, savage, and malicious and are ready to devour everything that comes in their way.

They frequent the seas where the climate Is hot, and sometimes follow the ship and boats in long processions, looki'tg about for that which may fall overboard and the swell of the water occasionally lilts the foremost of them higher than the boats, and this alarms 1 so unaccustomed to witness such a soene.

Sharks are greatly dreaded by the sailors who, if they fall into the water, aro almost sure to perish in their jaws.

Tho fins and tails of these creatures are very strong, and they swim with great swiftness. Sometimes when sailors are bathing a shark suddenly makes his appearance the poor fellows are filled with terror, and make great efforts to reach their comrades in the boat but it often happens that one of them becomes a victim to the monster of the deep.

The negroes employed in the pearl fisheries of South America, when diving, carrv with them a sharp knife and if thfs fish come near one of them, he endeavors to stick the knife Into his belly. When this Is done the animal frequently swims away.

When these negroes are in danger from the approach of a shark, and are no: aware of It, other divers plunge themselves into the water, with knives in their hands, lo rescue them but

hetical to all pett ife has consisted in flattery. It is the t'rl

amellwl on me tins, wmen are »iwrwards packed in wooden cases, gener- kind of talk sisters are very apt ally containing 100 tina, and then are _n,m brothers, and daugbters ready tor ex|*rt

from fathers snd mothers, when Titb

it does not alwaya seem to beremem- era and mothers do thelrduly by them beml that the lomcer the tin is kept un- which sets the world bahfi are sixty four: Gen. Cbangarnier opened tha more mellow do tbe fish be- *"d not as it is painted by

JKie and. if pmperlv prepared, age Thoae women who prefer the society of improves 1 hem aa it do«i good irin*^ gentlemen, and who have the faculty ly'Pv: .. ... -r of bewitching their senses, never are in the way of hearing from this oold mat-ter-of fart reuion for them it teally does not exist. Every phrase that meets tbeir e^tr Is polished and softened, guarded and delicately turned, till

recognise ths woman *bo lives byfl-U-

lery, and give her her poriiou %if meat in doe eeaaon and thus souie poor women used

0,PELR,!R

A nwutAVKD widower, while reeelv- Uln ofmbbish. to wntea eacoi p«*r-

widower,

log wito due acknowledgment the con- by adda one etone. Upprsevers nee of tbe American people.

Tl^ty or. a pre^y woman w»o

r..ssed

There aro many kinds of sharks, and" horses had never passed over the road they aro all dreadful animals: but the ^ut

glxlv.eight.

".»d lb.'1b.r nam*. «l. ITO»rt«l .nd tnrnw. MM Ko-mh in hi. "7 "-"'^1»1"' 'ath The quarter tin usually weighs D*1 in round of speeches, doggesball came suits aa these. about seven ounces, hat tbe.els a larger .}" ,"n ^/^miVnd th^

over the road

but once, and that several years since, as they have been in his posession quite a long time.

0,ie0i anfj

that several years since,

I'RKNTICK.—A lady in hers at his last

LAST WORDS OF who held his hand hour, asked me: "What do you suppose Mr. Prentice meant in his last expressions? Just before his death tie seemed to arouse himself and said—we heard him distinctly 'I want an and then, again, 'I want an i.' We supposed he said at first: 'I want to go,' and these were reported to have Doen his last words but I have often thought of them and doubted what could have been his meaning."

Knowing Mr. Prentice's long habit of dictation in writing, and his manner of correcting the manuscript, which ho always seemed to overlook carefully while walking to and fro or sitting at his table, I told her that I thought perhaps Mr. Prentice was in a slight delirium at the time, and supposed himself dictating an article. And (sitting aside the natural tendency to wish one's friends to die with a religious longing on their lips) I think this explanation more characteristic, and that the noble old editor died correcting his copy. Yet he always kept in sight his early religious education, and I know that he fully anticipated his death, and did not dread it.—Oor. Cin. Com.

AOES OF EUROPEAN CELEBRITIES.— In these days fame seems to be of slow

of age. Madame Miolan-Carvalho, the A statement

juvenile on

in their hands, to rescue them nut yj Adolphe Thiers, are respectively He showed that in the this they generally find an imposaibll-

gjXty-two

Mpdeniotortie

youngest French prima donna who has a well known lender obtained European fame, is the most movement ^Und, at a recent

the list, and she is already meeting of the British Social Stlence forty-one. The youngest, and certainly Association, ^vealing a prospect for the the most active, of the politicians is laboring Prince Bismarck who is flftv-six. His schemes of the International and of the lHte ^ntH^Xs M. Jules Favre and "Libor Reforms" very unimportant,

ity. yeteran Guisot has attained tbe age of lation °^veJuy WA'V eighty-four. The youngest of the eel®- oo-operative societies numbering -n PRETTY WOMhA. Jf is Offenbach who la thousand members. They bad a capl-

Tbere is a chilly, disagreeable kind ^-.nine .'v^di |a fitty-seven Wag- til of eight hundred thousand dollars ot article called common sense. whleh _'flftv-ehrht- Victor Hugo and In their six co-operative stores, and a is ot all things most repulsive aid anti- ^irirdin are sixtv-nine the lively hundred and fifty thousand dollars lntted creatures whose

THE Towjr OPSHALI. BR .—The Manstield (Obi) Herald tells tbe following capital story: Speaking of Kossuib

on W

tin sometimes imported. ^$ole world of Illusions, not supposing that Mr. Kossuth would FRIK^DSHIPI* FtsH.—I onoe hadoccsUna. and even larger ones still, are itsed Hluskwa of all^wb«ibe called on to apeak elsewhere, but sion to observe the strengt of friendu— tbe sole condition

nfthft b,vir,ff

Cleofthe

RftlDG

\OQKB0.

u«

only just short of that exqui- aims to show what certain knowledge rortheirfeelings ^hi^h I haveseldom

religious doctoine, he treated

-i—• «u... „—.in.. /bow what certaih knowledge fbr their feelings which I have s" .: v.!« A,itk Kotu _u«aaau1 in anv other, and thev ..... there

faith

devoted

out with the most possessor to punish and exterminate tertain a doubt. He required a

flatterine success. All along the route other men and other churches, because deal from them not more perhaps, of the irav procession the tradesman they did what conscience enjoined, and than he, from the abundance of his life, i™o/i ihl'ir «hnns the better to eniov believed what reason taught them, freely and fully gave—but more th«n was par ICU ar until several Under such circumstances we might be they had to return. The ardour of his

Dersons'had been wounded, and the led to expect the immediate downfall nature must have been in a °olj™al

about to be put to the torch, of a doctrine fraught with barbarity, state ot disappointment. He imagined thit tho citizens began to think the Its ultimate downfall is certain yet higher qualities in them then they posioke had gone far enough. They made its bold is still strong on the human sessed, and must very often have known the impression to "Limber mind, and there are grave difficulties Jack" and his merry crew. But when in the way of its abolition. Men are did a practical joker realize that it was wisely loath to pull down an old house, time to stop? "Limber Jack" only

dilapidated soever, until they see

thinks,

Protestants have-not yet done

in the nlace. There was eviaenuy no ininics, rroiesiamo U»YO UUI """J resource but to turn the laugh on these and his work attempts to point out if appeared to entertain a regard for him, incorrigible jokers, whld. tt. attorn not the deBcienoy. •»nd had accordingly did with well-directed II'

EQUINE SAGACITY.

The Lafayette Courier gives the following: A well-known citizen hired a pair of horses and buggy lrom Nick Hank's liverv stable and drove them the direct road to the vicinity of Stockwell, a distance of twelve miles southeast of the city. The horses were hitched to the lence while the gentleman took supper at the residence of a friend. After supper, when ready to start home, it was found that the horses had broken their halter and disappeared. The young man came to the city by the early morning train from Stockwell, anil'tbe first thing went to the stable to report the loss of the team. Imagine his surprise at learning that the horses had come to the stable at three o'clock in the morning without a driver, and with everything intact, the buggy not even being scratched in the least. They had come alone and undirected, except by instinct, twenty-eight tniles, that being the distance from Stockwell by the route they had taken. Between Yorktown and Jeffersonville there is a bridge, out of tbe floor of which two or three boards had been taken. The horses, instead of trying to cross the bridge, went down one side of the road, crossed the stream and up the bank on the other side, in a track nobodv had every taken before. Mr. Hanks inhis knowledge the

to him. At Newatead there

.. .. 1- marriage, georgeous in black silk, at

and seventy-four while the borough1 of Olnhain, with a total P"P

Dejaiet, who still plays vested .11 other places. They had built

what are technically known as seventy five workingmen houses in M?re« hea-mrta" is seventy three— the last twelve months. They have a which la also the age of Mlcbeletand corn-mill, large halls, and five libraries Fn-derie Leinatre Marshal Ba*aine is slxtv Marshal McMabon and Gari

srirsuisi'to 5s2?siS^rwr? »,«..».n. «r 1 11 li.11 1K.nftL.u1 Ilhnriu prpir*tln,(it..d icadil.nK alwul th« eonn-

Mansfield lo make arrangements.

was detained at Jbelby, then having ship which can ex! between fi*h. I

I llv WAS UCHIHF5U OUvl W*v BKI|f fci fVU iiVM i,v fi .i but three or four houses, and the peo-j was accustomed to keep some golden

All gentlemen, by a |,a, three or four houses, and the peo- was accustomed to keep soim

,f auu mw w"•» •wwwniiru a

country having learning of! g«h in a large gl»»be. la arrival, came in crowds and called I nhould do so n«»w ft

•e on him for a speech, and then went off might take ot them, still It was a state "RE

«o be in *nd condition, is one of the evidences |ng them. It so happened that, from

orUwdliencTf tbe

de mncb

to? dhi(|fWMbto twinii or* JQ&iiii tu mmA it will says. "to Inatruci the throne in tbe ^®*11

language of tnith.^ W* wad of a girl who

A BMTKIAYKK. who had fallen Into choked lo death by her lover enclrea toh of mortar and waa naked if be w*s linn arm*. Tbls_is a warning to^ ladles hurt moeh, replied. '"No, b«t I suffered mortanlom."

determination and

while rse^v- or the etierjrv, the determination and iome ranse, tbe nature of which

1 7 A an

extraordinary P«w"^' Vou have named your town -Hhall fie/

You hare called be."

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found his expectations sadly baulked by the dulness of talk, the perversity of taste, or the want of enthusiasm, which he encountered on a better, or rather longer, acquaintance. But notwithstanding, I have never yet heard anybody complain that Byron had once

W. Harness.

THE BOA-CONSTRICTOR. "John, undo his tail! There, ladies and gentlemen, is the wonderlul boaconstrktor, so called because ho constructs many pleasing images with his serpentine form. Tho constructors a long animal, us you will perceive, and is very long lived. Ho lives ahundred vears or more it he don't die beforehand. He is of the worm species, and worms himself along the ground with legs. Ho is capable of climbing the highest trees, in which ho is fond of concealing himself in the branches thereof, that he may impose upon the benighted traveler or other beasts whereby to satisfy his hunger. "He Ticks his vittals before he eats 'em, and then swallows 'em head first. The sea-serpent is much larizer, yet I think the constructor could lick him,for he is fall of pluck. Prick hiui, John, and make him hiss. When he hisses he he is very angry, and cares very little what becomes of him. This is because he ia very weak-minded and has a small head. He has, however, a large bellv, and when it is full ho is very good natured. He has a very lovely skin, but is very sulky and lazy, and he is so spiteful it is a mercy ho can't talk. I have took oare of this mighty snake for three years, but he shows no gratitude, he is a glutton, and likes to stutT himself and then go to sleep. If John didn't stir him—stir him again John—he would never wake up except to his vittals. "I don't know as I ought to blame him. though, because nature Is nature, whether in Bosting or the rude valleys of Bengal. I have an uncle living in Bengal, and a brother who has never beeiTthere. My Uncle tells me he has seen ten thousand boa-constrictors frolicking in the forest, and eating each other up. My brother does not beliove It, but then he has not seen it. My uncle may oe depended upon. He sold rum and sugar to the Injens. He is the only man in the world who ever gave liquor to the boa-constrictor.

This Is

the one ho gave it to. He first got it tight, and then boxed him up. The boa will never forgive him."

BENEFIT OF CC-OPKIIA TION. There seems, savs tho Nation, to be a mischievous notion growing up in the minds of some of tho European Governments that tho International can, and ought to be, put down by force. An attempt of this kind is probably the only thing that could make it permanently powerful and dangerous. But its existence isa symptom, and a striking one. of tho tendency of political questions everywhere to merge themselves In the labor question. and the main result of the work of the International will probably be the rooting In the working class mind all over Europe that this is really the

taliI,

and consultation rooms where they meet weekly for discussion. They have a capital of'fifteen hundred thousand dollars. Invested In cotton mills *nd loan* and in one ofthe*e cotton mills, which represents a capital of half a million of dollars nine-tenths of the shareholder* are workmen. A ifood qu*-stion for onr "labor reform** conventions to

HOW A FQRTU&E WAS tOXt

A Georgia Diamond teortM TvtntM-JhM Ifiimrns of Dollar*. From the reemtly published work of Dr. Stephenson on the geology, miner-, ology, etc., of Georgia, we take tbe fbl-' lowing interesting account of the diamond mines of Hall connty

Running parallel with the marble ia the immense ledge of itacolninite, or elastic sandstone, the matrix of the diamond. It extends throughout tho country for thirty miles, and in every

gave

in any other, and they were

old deposit or brauch mine near it, been found splendid diamonds by» the gold-washers who being totally ignorant of their nature or value, either lost or destroyed most of them. Some were sent to Europe to be cut and set in jewelry, but most of them were lost. Some of them are still in the hands of the finders, who keep them as mementoes, in their rough state. Being entirely ignorant of their value, none were picked up, but such as were without incrustation which, in Brazil and Golconda, amounts only the one-tenth part of the whole product. Four-tlfth» of all the diamonds found in any country are small, and only fit for mechanical purposes, in general being less than half a carat, or from oue or two., grains. The carat is a fraction less than four grains, (three and oue sixth,) but in all estimates and sales in the mines the carat is put at four grains. It originated from tho use of a plant in tho East Indies in the sale of diamonds. This berry, which grows only in that region, though not very accurate, answered the purpose of the soul-civilised Indians for several thousand years.

The yield in Brazil, for forty years, from the labor of frbui 30,000 to 00,000 hands, ranged from 1,000 to 1,200 ounces. Of this large amount they rarely found more than three or four, and never more that ten, that weighed more than thirty carats. These faots strongly confirm the opinion that, when developed, Hall county will be as rich in diamonds as BrazilJ and contain even a larger per cent, of sizable ones of the first water. In washing for gold,all the large ones would,from the construction ol tho machines, necossarily be lost or thrown away with tho quartz gravel with which they are associated, and onlv such as passed into tho rifllers, wfth tho grains of gold and line sand, would be found in the panulngs after the day's work waa done. All of these found in Hall county were than found, weighing from two to six carats, some few less, and three were o: largo size. One of these as before statod.was broken up to see the cause of their lustre by the ignorant miners. Another was used for years by tl.e boys aa a "tniddlo man" In playing marbles and tho largest one by far was lost by Dr. Loyd, who was employed to oversee thirty negroes in working tho Uhulo gold mine, a deposit twelyo miles northeast of Gainesville.

During the four years he was employed, he picked out of the sands ol tho pannings for gold overy night, alter tho day's washing was over, about halt a pint of pretty stones, which ho gavo to his wife, who put them In a mustard bottle in an old cupboard, except such as tho children took a faucy to, which were generally lost. When tho bottlo was lull, she mado a little bag and put them into that for future amusement. Some of these, from their sizo and reputed lustre would have been worth from twenty thousand to fifty thousand dollars, But the "big ono" was found by himself whilst working in the pit in the placo of a sick band. Ho said that about two hours by tho sun (ho had no watch) whilo raising a gravel he found a stone just like tbe little ones, excopt that it was bright and shining only on ono side, tbe other side being covered with st crust of brown stuff. It was about the (bizo of "guinea egg." Being hard pushed to keep t!,e wheelbarrows filled with gold gravel, so as to furnish grit for constant washing, be laid it on tho bank by a gum tree, which stood close by uptil night, when he intended to take it up to his wife and children, as being the largest of tbe pretty atones ho had found. But when night came, the machines were emptied of their gold sand and in the hurry ol the moment, he forgot all about tbe pretty stone.

Twelve years afterwards ho was shown a rough diamond, find at onco recognized tho contents of tho "mustard bottlo," and tho "big one" ho had laid up by tho gum tree. Soon after he

found "the "pretty stone," the lease ex^-

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ired, and tho company who sent homo the hands.

flousethan

no* recollect, my stock was diminished to two. I gave away one of them. Tbe other from that moment, refused to eat he lay mot ionl**s at tbe bottom of tbe water, and. as I thought, was evidently pining »nray. It si ruck me that be w«a mourning the loss of bis eom-

anion. I shall never «R»rget the evi-

who employed 's. and quit

work. About that time Mrs. Loyd died and his daughter,who had reached womafiliood, mart led, and then moved away to Southwestern Georgia, and took the llttlo furniture they had, among which was the cupboard, which then contained the fated bHg. When he became satisfied of tho value of tho stones, he at once left Atlanta,whero ho was keeping tho Washington Hall, and went to his daughter but she had no knowledge of the bag or mustard bottle. They were gone. Ho then went to tho mine, and looked long and anxiously for tho stone by the gum tiee. no tree was ther?. The ground had "been cleared and cultivated In com tor ten years. He looked in vain for any sign of tbe place. None existed. Ho now wasbed the gravel front the heaps whero ho thought it was, for weeks and months, but found it not. Discouraged and weary of hunting, ho returned to Atlanta to die. From his description of Its size and character, there can be no donbt of Its being a diamond and being aa large as be described it, about as large as a "guinea egg," must If pure, nave been worth about twentyfive million dollar*. £,

CONCENTRATION OK PROPBRTT IN BNULAND AND SCOTLAND.—In England onehalf ofall the land Is now owned by less than a hundred and fifty persons, while the remainder is distributed among three hundred and fifty thousand. Half of tbe land of Sco land belongs to only a do«en owners. Nine of tbe Honse of Lords own more pro-

erty any ninety members of the of Commons. These nine members are tbe Dukes ol Bedfor I and of Portland, tbe Marquises of Exeter, of Salisbury, of Northampton, ot Westminster, and of Camden, Earl Graven, and Btron Portnian. Tho Duke of Buceleucb Is tbe owner of more lordly residences than any other person in England, tbe Queen not accepted. The latter possesses five residences, while tbe Dukn of Buecleuch alternately inhabits Montague House (London ),Uiebmond (Surrey), Boughton (Northampton), Ddkeltb, Druialanrig and Bowbill, in Scotland—six altogether. Before 1858 Lord W. Cavendish, Duke of Devon, whose estate wss divided after be died, could boast of seven such palatial residences, snd the Duke of gather! md has four.

Tbe Marqalsof Westminster owns tbe entire qusrter of LondoH called Westminster, snd his snnual refit amount* to half a million pounds sterling.—N.

Post.

A girl In Cloc nu al advertise* for somebody to love her, and she she will give him |200 if he will do it in "a virtuous snd gentle manner."