Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 2, Number 37, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 9 March 1872 — Page 2

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[From Lta« Atlantic Monthly.] AUNT TABITHA.

BT O. W. HOUTO.

Wbttcvarl do and whatever I say, Aunt TkMlbt tells me tbat knt the way Wben she wai a girl (forty vu nam era ago] Aunt TaMtba tefis ma they never d:d ao.

Dear an at! If I would only take her advice! Bat I like my own way, and find It no nice And beaidea, I forget half tbe things I am told Bat tbey all will oome back to me—when I am old. If a youth passes by, It may happen, no doubt. He may ebanoe to look In I obanee to look out .. Bbe would never endure an Impertinent atare— It la horrid, ahe aaya, and I muaa't alt there.

A walk In the moonlight haa pleasure*, I

Bat if isn't quite aafeto be walking alone Ho I take a lad's arm—Just for safety, you no But Aunt nkbitha tella me tbey didn't do BO.

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wicked we are, and how good they were then! They kept at arm's length those deateatable men What an era of virtue she lived In! But stayWere the men all such rogue* In Aunt Tabllha's day?

If tbe men were no wicked, I'll ask my papa How he dared to propose to my darling mamma Was be like the rest of tbemT

Who knows?

Goodness!

And what shall say if a wretch should propoaef I am thinking If aunt know no little of sin. What a wonder Auat TublIlia's aunt rnmt

And her grand-aunt—it scares me—how shockingly sad That we girls of to-day are so frightfully bad! A martyr will save us, and nothing else can Let'me perish-to rescue some wretcr ed

ThougCwIien *to the alter a victim I go, AuntTabltha'll tell me »he never dltf so!

A High Calling.

AN ACROBATS STORY.

It wa* done away with long enough ago. Parliament took it up, said it waa dangerous, and put a stop to it. Perhaps it was dangerous, and perhaps Parliament was right to put a stop to it. Hut I didn't like it then, for it was my bread, and meant five pounds a week to me and wben it was stopped, my profession was ruined.

I don't look like it now, for you see I've made flesh, and am close on fifty but fifteen or twenty years ago, when I waa in my fleshings, I could have shown you such a figure and such muscles aa you wouldn't see every day. Me and my brother were a regular pair, just tbe same hight, and wonderfully alike. It was a bit of gammon, but it took wonderftilly In the bills and cur mannger said it would be utter madness to announce ourselves as Benjamin and Thomas Hitchens, so we used to be in blue letters all over London, "Le Freres Provencaux," and the people caine to see us from all parts.

We were engaged, you see, at the Royal Conduit Gardens, aDd did the trupeze work. Now, I dare say, you'll find plenty of people who will say it was known long before but don't you believe 'em. I'm tbe man who Inventen the trapese—at least I'm the boythai is, I invented it when I was a boy, on the swing in our back garden, the one we made under the old apple tree, out of mother's clothes line, and rubbed till it broke-all to bits, and let Tnm^iown so heavy that he put out his shoulder.

You see, it was from experimenting on that swing, hanging by my legs, by one hand, by two hauds, anil upside down, that I sowed the seeds of all those wonderful trapeze exploits that have, aa we say in the bills, "thrilled expectant audiences in evory nerveaud fibre ol their frames."

Tom turned very sulky after he put his shoulder out, and he wouldn't try any more tricks, till he grew jealous of seeing we get so handy at them (ho was a queer fellow waa Tom, and never could bear tor mo to be ahead of him, ovoti in taking medicine), and then he set to when 1 wasn't by, and worked so hard that he got to shorten the rope, and to hang by one Toot quite clever. I hadn't known anything about it, he'd boon BO sly so that I was quito took aback one day when, alter figuring about In my boyish lushlon upon the rope, he sniggered at uio a bit, and theft, to my great astonishment: "Get down," ho says and he sets to and does all I have"done before, and a great deal more, too, till he etuis by hanging by one leg, when crash the rope snap-

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WHI, down rattle poor Tom on his and shoulder with a terrible bang. Up got Toui, and (lew at mo like a tiger because 1 was laughing—and 1 put it to you, could I help it?—and then we had a regular slatul-up light, which waa not ended till Mary charged down on us with a clothes-prop. and c.tughl Tom by the throat wuh the big prong, so «s she held hitn against the wall until ha promised he wouldn't tight any more. Tom didn't keep Ins promise, for he was a terrible boy lor lighting, and iny'sthe up and down »«-t to we hive had together. Wa bolide any boy, though, who touched me! It didn't in .titer how big li.« was, Tdin always look my part, and thrashed him.

I'Voin doing things on the rope, we took to tumbling allttleon the ground, tvtng ouiselves in knots, walking on our hands and I ahull never forget the day Hi ti I first threw a somersault without touching the giouud with my hands. That day was a marked one lor me first because of tbe pride I felt as Iran in the field and spun over second, lnv.auHO Tom was so jealous that he itak a run and a jump, and caiue down on his b.ick, making it sostiti thai ha could 11*1 move hardly fbr a

At last, having done all this fbr our own amusement, as boys, we had to give it up, lor times got very bad at home. Poor father, who had onlv been a Journeyman painter, fell ill ami died, and mother moved to Loudon, where, after a deal of Irving, we hoys got a job here and therw at rough painting, for, from helping father at home, we were both pretty handy with the brush.

Times, however, were very hard with us, hen one day we heard of a chance. The Royal Conduit Gardens were being done up in a hurry, the lessee haviug takeu tuem, as it were, at the eleventh hous and being at a high rent, of course he wanted to get them open as aoou aa poaaiHla. Kedeoderation waa the order ol the day, and every man who could handle a brush waa taken ou. painteis being scarce in the spring.

Well, we went, and were soon busily at work, painting arbors and arehea, and touching op orchestra and artificial sky, till the Gardens were opened, when the manager, who was a very civil Mlow, gave Tom and your humble servant a ticket for tbe opening day.

That W48 a treat for us. for we were COM) spirits, having a fbw shillings a our pockeU. We saw the theatricals, heard the music, looked at this,- and

looked at that, and were thoroughly enjoying ourselves, until we Joined the circle about to witness the performances of the Tantipalplti family, and there we stood for some time seeing them walk on their bands, tie themselves into knots, and do few clumsy aoinersaults. Then *IVm, looked at me, and I looked at him, and we Vfent away laughing together at what we baa seen.

Why," said Tom, at last, stopping short, and giving himself a tremendous slap on the thigh, "if I oouldn't do that fly-over better than anyone there, I'd eat my boota." "It was poor, wasn't It?" I said.

Poor!" echoed Tom, "it was shameful." We walked home that night in ailenoe but no sooner were we in our room than Tom whips off his ooat and waistcoat, and kicks away his boots, and then goes through half a dosen of our old tricks—rather stiffly, but .better than anything we had seen.

Have a try, old boy," he said and I had a try and tbe next day we nearly irigbtened our landlady to death, and sent her off searching tor help to cut Tom down because he had hung himself from a hook in the ceiling. Tbey got used to our antics at last and took no notice oi us,as we tried hard to

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et tbat stiffness, for the same idea struck us both—that we had better take to tumbling than to paint and starve.

It strikes me," said Tom, "that it we get a rope or two, and some cross bars fixed, we can rather astonish some of them anyhow, we'll see."

I quite agreed with Tom and a short time after, as bold as brass, we applied to the manager ot tne gardens for an engagement. Of course, he wanted to see what we could do so a couple of ropes were fitted up over the stage of the little hall, a bar was tied across like a swing and on it we set to, turning over, hanging by hands and toes and the backs ol our heads, and playing such daring pranks tbat we brought down the house—tbat is to say the lessee and his friends applauded loudly and I believe I never felt so i.appy in my life as when he engaged us on the spot at a salary.

For the whole of that season we were as successful as could be and through constant practice, we got to be very handy, and did our tricks in a way which the newspapers called graceful but as a matter of course, there were soon a host of imitators and at the beginning of the next season, people wanted something new, and the manager asked us if we couldn't introduce something. "It must be wonderfully exciting, you know," he said, "or else it won't take. You'd think that was strong enough for them," he continued, pointto a balloon but, lor, bless you, they don't care now for balloons. Go and thiuk it over. For my part, I thought of proposing a trapeze at the top of the two highest scaffold poles tbat we can get."

I started a bit as he said that and just then the balloon rose and went awav swiftly and lightly over the trees, white I watched it thoughtfully, for I had got an idea in my bead.

The next morning I talked it over with Tom, who agreed to it in a minute and we shook hands over it slowly, for our tnlnda were made up.

When the tn inager engaged us fl^t, be said our Dimes wouldn't do a bit. The Tantipalpitis' name, he said, was, by rights,Bodge. The consequence was (as I have said), we went in ftrFrench so the announcement of the "Grand Trapeze Act" of '"Lea Fieres Provencaux" was advertised all over London.

How well I remember that bright June day, when, going forward in our grand dresses, all tights, satin, ruff.and spangles, we were greeted with a roar of applause, and saw that the gardens were crammed with people, in the middle of whom whom was the great balloon readv filled, and swinging about as it tugged at its ropes.

How do you feol Tom I said,looking at hitu. Brave as a lion, my boy," stvys he stoutly. "It's no more than doing it twenty leet high." "True,"! said "and it's as easy to drown in sixty as six hundred feet of water."

Tne next minute we were holding the trapeze bars, close to the balloon, waiting for the signal for it to rise and now, for the first time, I felt a sens ition of fear, and I tell you what ive it to me—the people, instead of cheering us as soon as we began to rise, kept perfectly silent and- that seeined to go jight through me for you must know that what we had been advertised to do was to perform our rope and bar tricks right under the balloon, twenty feet below the car, and that without anything to save us if wo should make a slip.

Tln-re was no time for fear, though and the next minute we were doing it all as coolly AS could be, and as we rose fiftv, a hundred, a thousand feet in the'alr. an 1 fl uted away out of sight. 1 don't recall that I was so very glad to get up into the car, for the excitement kept me troiu feeling afraid I remember thinking, though, that

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looked rather pale. Then we wrapped up well, and enioyed our first hour's ride till we came down right away iu K»"nt.

We kept that on time after time, and the people came to see us in mobs. The manager said it waa the greatest take he had overbad and I mustsiy be behaved to us vtry hands mely, what with raising our wa^es and making us presents. But I did not teel easy in my own mind, for the idea waa my own invention, and I thought I ought not to have exposed poor Toir. to danger likewise but all the same I dared not «y a word for if I had I knew how jealous he would have turned directly.

I should think we hai done this about a month and all through that month there waa ringing in my ears the words of a woman who said out loud on the second lime we went up "Ah, they'll do that once too often." Suppose,* I thought to myself, we do do it once too otteu! But then then* came tbe thought ol the money, and that drove away a great deal of my timidity as I told myself that a man might play such antics for bis whole life and never fall. Well, as I aaid. we bad been doing it about a month, when one evening we took our pl*e* as usual, ft waa an extra night, and the larg* st balloon was to ascend our rope too, was to be lengthened to thirty feet and at that distance below the oar we were to swing about aa Asual.

You mav sav we ought to have been used to it bv this time there are things, though, which you never do get used to. try how yon will, *ud this was one of tbem.

The bands were playing awav their beat the people were eagerly looking at the half-a-dozen aeronauts who were to ascend the manager of the balloon was there the signal was gi van, and the people got in. Then the balloon was allowed to arise so high tbat our trapeae swung clear, when I hung from it by my legs holding a crosa-twr In mr bands, over which Tom threw bis lees, and buog bead downward and

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away we went up, np through tbe

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soft evening air, so slowly Ahat Tom's banda touched the top of one of tbe aim trees as be waved abont a oouple of

'?ur custom was to bsng qnlte atill tllll we were up four or Ave hundred feet, and toen to begin our twiniugand twitting, and so we did now, whenToin pitched away tbe dags, and we went through our tricks rising higher and higher, with tbe facta ot the dense crowd getting mixed into a confused mass, and the strains of the band growing fainter and fainter, till all below waa quite inlngled In a faint hum.

We bad only one more trick to do, and tbat was to oast loose tbe bar, and each man swing by his own rope. I bad loosened my end, tbe perspiration streaming down me the while, and Tom had doue tbe saine, wben, swinging round toward me with a horrible white face he exclaimed:

B*n. old man, I'm going to toll," It's no use I couldn't tell you what I felt then, if I had tried ever so much, only in half a second, I saw Tom lying a horrible crushed corpse far below: and I felt so paralysed that I thought I should have let go of my own rope and fallen myself. I oould act thougn, and did, for In a flash I bad given myself a jerk forward, and thrown myself against Tom, flinging my legs round blm and holding bun tightly and then tired as I was, 1 felt that I had double weight to sustain, for Tom's rope waa swinging to and fro, and as iiy legs clung round his body, his head hung down, and I knew he must have tainted.

How I managed to bold on I can't tell now, for though weak with all 1 had done, I managed to give a hoarse cry for help, and the next moment I heard a cry ol horror from 'he basketwork car.

Then I felt the rope begin to jerk as tbey begau to haul us up, and I managed to shriek out: "No! no!" for if they bad hauled any longer, they must have jerked poor Torn from my hold.

I often ask myself whether It was half an hour or only a few seconds be fore I saw a rope lowered with a big running noose, and then I've a misty notion of having set my teeth fast on tbe rope, as I felt a dreadful weight as of lead dragging at me. Then I telt that it was all over, and I knew that I bad been tbe death of poor Torn, for he bad seemed to fall, as I felt the rope by which I hung jerk again violently. I'saw the earth below like a map, an the golden clouds up above the great net-covered ball, and then a mist swam before my eyes, and all seemed black and thick as night.

When I came to, I was lying on my back in tbe car, with a man pouring brandy between my lips. My first words were gasped out in a husky tone for 1 did not know where I was and then I remember bursting out into quite a shriek, as I cried: "Where's Tom "Here, old man," he said, for they had managed to drag us both into tbe car and for the next hour we sat there shivering, saturated with cold perspiration even tbe men in tbe car being silent, unnerved, as I suppose, by our narrow escape.

Tom wanted to go up again, but I wouldn't let him. "I did not tremble," he said "it was only a sudden tit of giddiness through being unwell."

I went up, though, many times afterward alone, on horses and on bulls and I meant to have had a car of flying swans tor a grand hit,when the government stepped in and put a stop to it and, as I said before, very sorry I was, forvit was my living.

A BOY'S SOLILOQ UY.

Yes, there's another of 'em up stairs now! I know it, cause pa told tne I must be quiet ana sit down in .be corner with my book, and musn't play ball nor ask Willie Smart to come and help me to put my puzzle together. Then there's across nurse that's always scolding me for getting in her way. no mutter where I get. Besides, Miss Gad all was here to-day, and she took me on her knee, patted me on the back just like the cook does wben I'm choking, ami said my nose was another degree out ol joint but I know better, lor this is ilie third time she has told me so, and it i-j no more out of joint than it ever was. She's a hateful, gwggle eved old maid—that's what she is.

I saw it, too. It's got a little, round, red head, without any hair, with great, deep wrinkles instead of ey«s aud when it cries it opens its mouth as wide as though it meant to swallow Itself. Pa helped me up on the side of the bed and told uie to kiss my dear, pretty little sister and when I wouldn't and called it a horrible ugly little thing, he said I was a naughty boy, and the nurse shook me and said I ought to be ashamed. I didn't get to kiss my ma at all I knew belter than to try It, lor onee when another ba^y came, I climb ed up ou tbe bed, and putting my arms around her neck, bugged and kissed her, but all the time I had my kuee right on the biby's head, so I was whipped and put in my crib without any supper bec-ause I didu't Know it was here.

Little Annie thinks its so nice to have a new sister, but she was a baby belore, and don't know auything about it. I can remember long, long ago, ma used to call me her '-sweet little darling," and pa dandled me on his fool, and said I was a "fine lellow," and aunt Julia declared that I WHS a "perfect little augel but then Tom oame, and all my pretty toys were given to him 'cause he was a baby, and I was cuffed and scolded by eveiybody 'cept grandma—and she's good to me yet, though them's been two other new ones since.

I wonder where all the babies come from Mi says the Lord sends them. 1 wish he wouldn't send any tnore to our house we've got more'u enough now. It might be a nice thing for them if they could stay little always but thev have to grow big after a while, and tliev ain't no better off than the rest of folks. I rather thiuk if I was a baby, I'd ask the Lord to send me where I'd not grow any bigger, and then I'd have nothing to do out lie on my back and chew my toes, and have foiks say I was the "darlingest, cunningest little creature they ever laid eyes on."

SXOKHTO"NOT

OrFRitsrvx."—A cor

respondent of a Georgia paper tells this story "One night, passing from Wilmington to Florence, Alabama, our car filled with gentlemen, and there was only one laHy present. After we bad proceeded some way, it was proposed to bave a smoke, but one of tbe passengers pointed to a card on which there was 'No Smoking Allowed.' So when tbe conductor came through tbe cxr we asked hitn if he would not allow us to smoke. He pointed to the lady and replied, 'if she baa no objeotions you may ao so.' I went to tbe lady, and bowing, aaked if it wonld be offensive to her. She, la-dy-like, answered, 'Not at all, my dear sir I am so looseotneK.'ffiad a j#g*r I would smoke mywlff-JS^ V' Jrt at oooe supplied, and we of happy .eliows, smoking sleep.

WIT ASD HUMOR. bandy tune—Fortune. It is not eommon metre.

A bighty bad oold id the dOM" ftpappears tp "be tbe luxuries of tbe season.

No cards," aa tfce jrious frtber said wben he gave hU|jen a laabing fer playing euchre.

Woman Ant tempted man to eat. He took to drinking on bla own aooount. Joab Billings says: "A man with a phew bra nee is like a dog with one flea on him—dredful oneazy."

Jokea are like butternuts. To be good they must be craoked flatways. Arly genius Is like arly cabbage: it dont apt tew hed well.

Bleased Is .he who kan pocket abuse, and feel that it iz no disgrace tew be bit bi a dog.

A dandy in love is in just about as bad a fix as a stik ov molassis kandy that has begun tu melt.

Hope has maid a grate menny blunders but there iz 1 thing about her that I alwauz did like: she means well.

Most ennyboddy thinks he kan keep a good hotel (and he kan) but ibis akouuts for tbe grate number of kussid mean ones over the country.

Thare iz two kind of men that dont kare to meet when lamina grate hurry men that owe, and men that want to owe me.

I bave finally come to tbe kouklushun that it a man kan't be born but once, he had better issue proposals to have it dun somewhare in Nu Eng land.

A young hopeful of Janesville, Wisconsin, poked nine kernels of corn into his ears, and was perfectly happy until the surgeon made him shell out.

If a man tells you that water, leached through ashes, is fit for a beverage, don't believe biui. It is a lye.

When you see a man is intoxicated, don't say he's drunk. That's too pointed. Say "he is eccentric."

Mechanics can now put in their ten hour's work by daylight very comfortably—if they want to do it

If your neighbor's hens art troublesome and steal across the way, don't let your angry passions rise fix aplaee for 'em to lay

Abusing one's relations in the bosom of one's family is said to be one of the sweetest of domestic privileges.

Admit tbat there are opinions in the world worthy of respect beside your own, and do away with a good deal that is disagreeable and makes people dislike you

A Michigan Indian was promptly escorted to tbe happy hunting grounds by a can of nitre-glyoerine, which he endeavored to open with his little hatchet. *, ol

A man died suddenly from intemper ance, and a Western jury found tbat deceaaed came to his death by drinking between drinks."

Enraged parent—"Did you throw the halt-brick at random?" Weeping boy —"No I threw it at Johnny Williams." "And did yon strike him on purpose?" No I struck him on the nose,"

The Cleveland Leader says that the musician who put his lips to a brass horn on a recent cold day will not be able to let go until navigation opeus.

A blushing bride at North Platte handed her marriage certificate to the conductor, instead of her ticket, and was horrified to hear the announcement that it wasn't good.

A Quaker's advice to his son on bis wedding day: "Wben tuee went a courting I told thee to keep thy eyes wide open now that thou art married, I tell thee to keep them half shut."

A darkey was passing along tbe street, when a lot of brickbats tell froui a staging overhead, and showered down upon bis head. "Keep yer peanut shells ter home up dar," he yelled and marched steadily along. "Putty-eyed-inonster" is what appeared in the paper of a Tennessee editor who wrote with respect, "pretty aged minister." Tbe sons of the minister "interviewed" the editor the next morning with shot-guns.

A New Haven lady got up quite an excitement at the supper table just becu?e a mouse jumped out of a doughnut she was eating, aud ran down ber bosoin. Nobody blamed the mouse, however, as he was about being ©a.teu out of house aud home. ,.

The Springfield correspondent of the Chicago Journal having stated the "warn weather and budding trees will adjourn the general assembly more effectually tbau HnyRerlesol resolutions." the Quincy Whig imploringly exclaims: •'Uoiue gentle Spring, etberlal mildness, oome."

In one of our district schools the master was examining a class in orthography. "Spell and define floweret," said he. "F-l-o-w-e-r-e-t, floweret, a little flower." "Wavelet." "W-a-v-e-le-t, wavelet, a little wave." "Bullet." "B-u-l-l-e-t, bullet, a little bull," sbouied urcuin number three.

THE TRUE SCItiXCE OF ir.-ii?. We understand that a movement is on loot at the Navy Dejwrtment for constructing a new kind of ship, preparatory to a war with England. It is proposed to build a vessel of India rubber, and then to run her alongside of any given English fort. The lort will fire at the ship, the balls will strike ber India rubber sides, fly ba«k,and batter down the fort, killing all the men. Admiral Porter hope*, by this sj-stem, to couduct the entire war without burning an ounce of gunpowder upon an American vessel. He thinks that in tbe event of a battle between two ships at sea, he could arrange it so that the enemy would sink herself in half an hour by firing at this gum arrangement. The idea sems to us to be an excellent one, but it might be extended profitably. Why can we not, for instance. get up some kind of a trwaty compelling England to arm her troops exclusively with boomerangs? Then, wben our armies met them on the field the Britons would fling their weapons at us: they would reooil and brain every disgusting myrmidon in tbe British ranks on the spot. This is the highest kind of generalship. It is strategy. We perceive in an exchange, that a little boy was killed in the West recently by tbe exploaion of a mince pie. We are investigating tbe case, and, It It is ascertained tbat the pie baa this dangerous property, we are going to organise a plan for throwing explosive mince pie into tbe enemy's camp, so that devastation and death ana minoe tneat and crust will be dealt to tbe foe. War rapidly being reduoed to a science. -tfaxAdeJer. v\ 5 'X

MOM,

"Romaot Bomdof Wher^ore art

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On laat Wednoaday morning .the trainer of tbe jperforming elephant Romeo" entered aa usual the portion of the menagerie bnlldinga In which be is ootifined. Mr. Forepaugh, before beginning hla task, paused for a moment ana lookod through a oblnk in tbe boards at a scene in tbe ring. He then turned his face towards the elephant. Quick as lightning tbe gigantic trunk waa extended and entwined around hia body. He ahouted for help, but in another moment be was thrown into tbe air and fell senseless upon a pile of hay. Hia unconscious form was still within tbe grasp of the fatal trunk, wben his brother Charles seised tbe training fork and ran to his assistance. He was just in time. As Charles Forepaugh plunged the fork into the trunk of "Rouieo'° be tuined bis bead, and tbat moment others who were around dragged the senseless form of tbe keeper from its perilous position. He was considerably bruised,but wss otherwise uninjured. A reporter visited the menagerie yesterday afternoon. He met Messrs. *Adam, George and Charles Forepaugh at the gate. Mr. George Forepaugh related the scene with "Romeo" as told above, and then con ducted us to the wooden building in which that monster of the desert is confined. We found the gigantic monarch in a sort o! wooden stable.' His feet were heavily shackled with iron chains extendiug down into the cellar. His trunk was dyed crimson with the blood oozing from tbe wound in bis trunk. The elephant "Roineo" was brought to this country in 1865, by Mr. Maibie,and purchased after bis^deatb by Mr. Adam Forepaugh. He is beyond all odds the best performing elephant in the country, ana is for that reason extremely valuable, or be would have been kilted long ago by reason of the malicious fits that come upon him by spells. He has already killed five keepers, the latest being tbe case in Hatboro, in 1867, which created such an intense excitement that all the farmers aroond carried rifles with them whenever they ventured from home. In every one of these five instances "Romeo" has first stunned bis victim by tossing him in the air, and has then crushed the life out of him by kneeling upon bis prostrate form.

This elephant hxs always had, since coming to this country, frequent bursts of the most ferocious viole.ice. His last attack commenced during last October as the show was coming home. He was taken into the ring and thrown upon his side and kepi there three days showing no relenting, he was let up and then again thrown down and kept in that position a week before he showed any signs of concession. His right side is all scarred with the wounds inflicted upon him. In 1866 he was shot during a spree ol his, and was blinded in the right eye. During another freak he broke olf one of his tusks. Owing to a wound received in a struggle with bis kee|»ers, a piece of of flesh wvighing seven and a half pounds had to be removed from his right side.—[Philadelphia Post. JS: ,5

Ii 1 TH tl LEO. Some enthusiastic Frenchman once declared tbe human leg to be the most philosophical of all studies. "Show me tbe leg," says Gautier, "and I will judge the mind," and it does seem quite natural that the leg should indicate the disposition as the shades of hair should indicate t.e temperament.

What a sloth, for instance, does the obese limb betray? What a shrew is the possesswr of a limb like a walking stick? But what a gentle woman i* s-.e of the arched ini-tep, the round ankle, and the graceful pedestal, swelling to perfection, and modulating to lightness! What dogged obstinacy the rumpy leg with the knotty calf exhibits! What an irresolute soul does the lankv limb betray! How well the strongankle indicates the firm purpose how the flag ankle reveals the vacant mind.

Young men about to marry—ob serve. The dark girl with a large leg will become fat at thirty and lie abed until midday. The brunette with slender. very slender limbs, will worry out your soul with jealousy. The oliveskinned maid with the pretty round limbs, will make you happy. The blonde with large limbs will degenerate at thirty live into the possession of a pait of ankles double the natural size, and afflicted with the rheumatism. The fair haired damst with thin limbs will get up at half past five in the morning to scold the servants, and will spend her nights talking scandal over tea. The little rosy girl, with a sturdy, muscular, well turned leg, will We just the girl you want.

It vou can find a red haired girl, with a large limb, pop the question at once. The short ladv should always possess a slender limb the tall lady should possess a large and ample one.

No doubt these hints are reliable, and the prevailing fashion make them quite practical and available.

CONS ID ERA BLY MIX ED.

A correspondent asks if we will be kind enough to furnish bim with some information concerning the revolution in Venezuela. Certainly we will, if it is wanted by our readers, llut we warn them that il wo begin tbe story and gel ii under way, tbey will probably find themselves "tit subjects for a commission de lunatico inquirendo before long. Because the last lime we undertook to write up the revolution In Venezuela we began three hundred years back and before we were half-way through, we got about eight thousand revolu.ions running Into and overlapping each other, and got so mixed that we ourselves oouldn't tell which revolution was which while the Don Leon Maria Guzman de Blancos and the Hidalgo de Pedro de An equeray Xlmeneses and the Miguely rancisco Pecbeco Diaz Sanchez Fernandezes were so Jumbled and Jammed together that nobody could say for certain which of them was the man who did any given thing, or whetherany one ot them waa a human being, or the revolution itself, «r some kind of a double-barreled, breech-loading, back-action, repeating Paixban gun. It was awful. We spent years trying to straighten out Uj »t narrative, and It reads yet as wildly and deliriously as some of tbe editorials in tbe papers which steal these Items. But we will do it. We will begin to publish another account in this paper if there is a demand tor it. AH we ask is 'hat the people who want it will publish their names,so that if anybody becomes frenzied from perasul of tbe narrative, tbey will know where to wreak vengeance without hunting up us with guns and bowie knlvea.

THX pinnacles of tbe English Parliament Houses are crumbling to pieces, and it is proposed to support them with Iron rods.

Bio Flats and Horse heads" is tbe suggestive name of a place in Central New York where a minister haa just been called.

SENSE AND SENTIMENT. The oountry la not priest-ridden, but press-ridden.

Cheerfulneaa is the beat tynin to the^ Divinity.—[Addison. He is most like the goda who wants nothing.—[Soeratea. f|

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Man begins with (ml wm to tbe end of himself. Your trouble's essy borne when everybody gives it a lift.

Wise books, for half the truths they bold are honored tombs. rscST-: errTo the'sentinel that hour is regal wben be comes on guard.

Testamentary charities are no better than dead aacrlflcea.—[Sherlook. In character, in manner, in style, tn all things, the supreme exoellenoe is simplicity.

A cunning man overreaches no one half so muob as himself.— [H. W. Beeoher. Cowards die many times before their death?' Tbe valiant never taste of death but onee. [8hakspeare. Daretobetrue, nothing oan need a He: A fault which needs it most grows two thereby.—[Qeorge Herbert.

Self-ease is pain the only rest Jit"

Is labor for a worthy end.—[ Whlttler. 8fienee Is the nerfeotest herald of joy: 1 were but little bappy If I oould say how much.—TShakspeare. ,^r, *.-«.!—% I

There is no real use in riches, except it be in tbe distribution the conceit.—[Baoon •,SMAKbutjsrest

God asks no man whether he will aocept life. That is not the question. You must take it. The only choice is bow, i,. 'o XllT

Matthew Arnold savs that the difference between the Bible and the Koran is that tbe former grew, while the latter was made ffy*

If the whole be greater thank part II" whole man must be greater than that part of him which is round in a book. —[Bulwer.

A man has no more right to say an uncivil thing than to aot one no more right to say a rude thing to another, than to knock him down.—[Johnson.

No man was ever yet oonvlnoed ef any momentous truth without feeling in himself the power as well as the de- $ sire ot communicating it.—8outbey.

With may readers, brilliancy of atyle passes for effluence of thought: they mistake buttercups in the grass fbr immeasurable gold mines underground,

A man of genius is Inexhaustible only in proportion ss he is always nourishing bis genius. Both in mind and body, where nourishment oeases vitality falls.—[Bulwer. „,, Habits are soon assumed but when we if strive To strip them, 'tis being flayed alive.

Sects are many, leaaon Is one, Patlenoe is only bope prolonged. [Vauveuarges. The blossom can not tell what be- |,s. comes of lt» odor, and no man oan tell what becomes of his influence and exam ole tbat roll away from him and go beyond bis ken on their perilous mission. v'

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Riohard Lovell EdgewOrth said to his daughter one day, "Maria, I aui growing dreadfully popular I shall be good for nothing soon a man can not be

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r-n isV In scicnce read by preference tbe newest books in literature the oldest. Tbecliissic literature is always mod«rn.

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rate old ideas old books suggest and, invigorate new ideas,—[Bulwer. ,, Morality without religion is only a g( kind ol dead reckoning—an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.—[Longfellow.

Compromise.—Ono p«rty cedes half or its claims and the other party half of its rights he who grasps most gets most, and the whole is pronounced an equitable division, perfectly honorable

to both parties.—[Washington Irving, Whon I feel Inclined to rend poetry, I takedown my dictionary. The poetry of words is quite as beautiful as that of sentences. Bring me the finest simile from the whole range of imaginative writing, Kiid I will show you a single word which conveys a more profound, a more accurate, a more eloquent analogy.— [O. W. Holmes. IV

A man without decision can never be said to belong to himself. Ho belongs i* to whatever can capture him and one thingalter another vindicates its right to him by arresting him while he is trying to go on. Such lnflrml'-y of spirit confesses him to be made forsubjection and be passes like a slavo, frotu owner to owuer.—[Foster's Essays.,, u-

Nuwsi'AFKiis. Wherever I bav# wandered In my missionary labors, whether in tho East, West, North, or South, I have always observed ibat where the Newspaper was laken by the family, there thrift, morality, and

eneral intelligence were to be found, tho log cabins of tho West, as soon as mv eye caught sight of the newspaper, 1 thought to myself, "Hereat lenst fj I will find morality, intelligence, courtesy, and welcome, as a garden ripe to receive 'he gospel seed On the contrary, where no newspapers nor good books were to be seen, there ignorance, bigotry, superstition and grossness were to be lound In all their forms. Yes, I have often thought that the

newspaper was the pioneer of civilization, and did much to make the way

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ea-y for tho successful labors of the home missionary.—[Lorenzo Dow. ti

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A BOY or a glr, an old man, or even a man with one leg can do good work with a ttulky Attachment. Any plow, sod or old ground, can be used with If. jmasA Jonra'. iu

Ir buying tbe largest lot, getting tbe best discount*, paying the leaet freightssnd having tne [best Plows Tn the market, are -advantages, Jonas and JOHSS

oogbt to ell the Hamilton Plow "a little lower" than any one. -1« ». ,1 1«.