Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 2, Number 38, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 16 March 1872 — Page 2

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NEWS AND NOTlNOSi

prodlges in vetting to bf &

glut on the market. jBnnnlTMla hxi two counties withoii ehurch in tbem.

Fioridnorange blossoms didn't freeze, tod the Orange crop will be huge. *Vrnit prospects are reported as good throughout the southern counties of ibis State.

Tbe wile of a rich and stingy Baptist in Salem, Ohio, gare her gold watch to the Church.

England contributes over eight hundred thousand dollars in gold to tbe Chicago relief fund ?The suggestion for tbe abolition of capital punishment is meeting with the good favor of the Iowa press. I Horse liniment, taken bj mistake for brandy, sent a Louisville family on the full gallop after a doctor.

Bloomingto:), Illinois, has been exulting over some prize lambs, eleven *1 months old, with wool sixteen inches :k lon«-

Rhode Island is the only State which i, has followed tbe example of Massacbusetts in making tbe 22d of Februarys legal holiday.

The small-pox is still epidemic in Philadelphia, but thenumberof deaths is decreasing. 118.

.Mayor Brown, of St. Louis, visited the city bridewell one day last week, .. and pardoned out 117 prisoners at one fell swoop. ""A large wild cat, with a leather col lar around its neck, was killed near

Bowling Green, Kentucky, on the 2d. instant. It is said that tbe Rev. Joe. Simpson, who eloped from Newport, in this State, with Dr. Young's wife, is now holding a revival meeting at Riley, 111. $ The iron manufacturers of Pittsburgh •Sr. have advanced tha price of all descriptions of iron three tenths of a cent "per pound.

The boy that carried theat to General Washington's camp is dead, after worrying through 107 years of this troubled life. His name was Uncle Cob Sleet, and he was black and lived in Boone

The Dakota and Western Iowa papers are much excited over the reoorts of the discovery of gold in the former territory, and denounce the denials of it as infamous lies. A rushN in the spring is anticipated.

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Tho contest over the admission of Utah as a State promises to be a warm one. A strong Congressional loby has been formed to put the measure through, and the Mormons aro in favor of it. Tho Gentiles, however, whose influence is not great enough to control the Territory, oppose it.

Evansville must be a truly good place, unless its peace officers are negligent. The Journal says: There is not a prisoner in tho county jail, and the doors and windows of that necessary adjunct of civilization, are open to give it a thorough ventilation. Such an event has not occurred for years in

Kvansville.

An exchange has an article headed I'. "A Detroit negro buys a coffin and a *1 cemetery lot, end then poisons his fathor."' That negro shouldn't have poisoned his father that was a little irregul«r. But his forthougbtin buying the oofiln and the ceiuetary lot in advance was worthy of all praise.

The Bourbon Mirror has a ploasaht way of reflecting the changing year. Hoar it "Congealed protoxyd of bv- ,, drogon is rapidly disauearing from our 'streams and lakes, and soon the strains tbe feathered choristers will enliven $jami wake up tbe echoesoi our forests."

Spring must be coming, cure.

A Terre-JIaute paper says that the -2 ifi Indiana State Temperance Convention was a failure—temperance people being in humor to tako interest in an af&*fiiir which would only benefit the Do •1 mocracy. There ought to We a dilutod civil rights bill in operation down there—[Boston Times.

\s The French are oertainly paying off the German indemnity fund with a great deal of ease. They have just an.^tlcjpaled tbe puvment of the fourth in- ,£ stall ment of Ave hundred million s- ^firanes, and the Minister of Finance roports a balance of* four hundred and flf- *. ty million* in tho treasury.

Tennessfcflis moving to tako A hand $$ »in »-he Liberal Republican Convention at t» Cincinnati. The Reunion and Reform

Association havecnllod amass meeting of Lllwr ds of all parties at Nashville, on the lfxh of »y, for consultation as *|to the boat meaus to be adopted for the ^support In that State of the nominees of the Cincinnati Convention.

A Russian pathologist has discovera us a as btt'ti putting tna«l dogs under his nil**eroscope for some time, and now snjtBounces that "tho main oauso of rabios is the anatomical alternation of 'kidneys through their parenchymatous ^Inflammation." Anybody can tell -when a dog has that—by tho way ho walks.

The Denver and Rio Grande narrow jruage railroad, the first one built in this country, makes a very good show %f earnings* which, it is claimed, are «qual to the ©ruings of many broad -4guag4 roads costing twice as much, sl'orty-two uiilea more will bo in running ortler by the middle of At»ril, %naklug a total length of on© hundred »nd eighteen mile*.

JAPANKSK auctions aro conducted on novel plan, bnt one which gives rise none of tho noiso and confusion afwhich attend such sales in Atneriw.

Jiach bidder writes his natno and bid %pon a slip of paper, which he places in itW When biding is over, the box is opened by tbe auctioneer, and the goods declared the property of th^ highest bidder.

I As tim* passes, sad the first excitement diminishes, it seems more probable that the Treaty of Washington will be amicably carried out. Exactly in what manner osn not now be stated, Jbut oertainly in some way. Both suies {Are disposed to be friendly—as we said when the agitation began, neither •'•wants to fight—and neither wishes to reopen the Joint High Commission proceed ings.-

The JTap«ll**§ Embassy, eomistingor lwakura and suite, were received bj the House of RepreseeUtivee last week. This honor has been aocerded to foreigner* bat foar times in the history of tbe Government the first to Lstayette, oo the oeeasioa of his revisiting America: to Louis Kossuth to tke Japanese Embassy with the late Minister lo Iw». knrs.

CONN UBALITIE6. _____ A

Be earefol, ye whoae wedded hearts Are lovingly united: last roll fly serpent form, graceful luring poses Or. coming in a different guise, ong tbe roses!

Be heedful last an enemy ou uninvited! Steal on A little

With A thorn

Be careful, ye whose marriage bells Now merrily are ringing Be heedful of tbe bitter word.

The answer keen and stinging, The sharp retort, the angry eye It* vivia lightning Cashing Tbe rock on which so many nopes

Are daily, hourly dashing!

The ecstatic pleasure of beating ones

mother-in-law

adelphia

may be enjoyed in Phil­

for the moderate sum of $600.

A Cincinnati judge has decided that if a husband joins the Shakers bis wife has good grounds for suing for a divoree.

A yonnararentleman of Nashville who atteni]

iptea an elopement the other day, from the premises with a wet

Last week thtv reached retiree coat and a dog at bis heels.

Two young girls, sisters have run away from ftBrlin, Prussia, for Salt Lake, to marry a young man they are both in love with

In Henry county, on the 28th ultimo Mr. T. Winkle to Miss Fanuie JStarr. T. Winkle, T. Winkle, little Starr.— [Savannah News.

A Dubuaue woman, who claimed that a married man in Omaha was her husband, withdrew her claim In favor of wife No. 2, in consideration of $100, and went home.

A young lady of Paris, Me., has sued a prominent young man of that town lor $200 as damages for wood and oil burned while paying his attentions to her.

Tbe latest case of absence of mind is that of a young ladv, who, on returning from a walk with her lover the other evening, rapped him on the face,and bade good night at the door.

A sentimental chap intends to petition Congress for a grant to improve the channels of affection, so that henceforth the course of true-love may run smooth. j** "I pant for a redress ot Woman's wrongs I pant for freedom!" ejaculated a female woman's wrong righter. "A pair of pants," and husband "and I wish you would return them."

A young lady at Fond du Lao was married without shoes or stockings on the other day, in accordance with an old whim that such an act would bring good luck.

A California judge has had the Impudence to decide that the fact that a woman has been frequently seen in tears is not sufficient proof of her husband's cruelty to entitle her to & divorco.

Leap year asserts its rights at Weathersfield, Connecticut, by the marriage ot a wid«w of sixty to a'boy of twenty. The few young men left are rapidly packing their trunks for the West.

A Mrs. Margaret H. Garner of Springfield 111., gave her hand and heart lately to a Mr. Olive, making the seventh husband the lady has thus garnered to herself'. Seven is a lucky number— which is a good thing for the husband.

Conversation in a Wisconsin store— Polite clerk: "Can I show you anything else to-day?" Lugubrious customer "No, 1 reckin not, I lost two horses and my wife lust fall, and I feel putty poor. Good span of horses, too." t- v-

At si meeting of a certain society in Petaluma, not long since, a graceful swain accosted a beautiful swainess to see her home. "Oh, yes," said i-be "see me as far ns you can, but don't dare to walk alongside of me." He took tbe other street.

Anew way of raising money is practised at Logansport (Ind.) mite society meetings. A gentleman seats himself in the middle of the room, and offers a round sum (say 10 cpnts) to each lady who kisses him. Many of the ladies accept the challenge for the good of the cause. .--1

A Boston wife lately surprised her husband by presentIng'hlm with a deod of a nice houxein the city, costing nearly 17,000, which amount the wife had saved out of the money which her husband had given her to spend for various things.

Said a tipsy husband to his wife, "You need-peedn't bl-l-ame me. Twas woman that first tem-tempted man to cat Torbidden things." "That won't do retorted the Indignant wife. "Woman may have first tempted man to eat forbidden things, but he took to drinking of his own accord."

Any tnenchanic who toils and labors for the sum of fl*2 per week, and whose wife goes trapesing around town hunting for a servant girl, to whom |3 p«*r week will have to be paid, should niHke love to tbe glrlatonce,or as soon as she gets into his bouse. Her services will soon thereafter be deemed unnecessary.

At a marriage lately in Maine tbe bride's voice faltered, and she paused in the midst of the impressive ceremony. Her little neice. a bright little three year old, thinking the naughty minister was compelling aunty to say something disagreeable, stamped her little foot and exclaimed in ft tone of authority, "Aunty, don't 'oo thay it."

A woman was arrested in Camden the other day for whipping her husband in tbe street. And served her right, too. When a woman wants to whip her husband, she should take him by the ear, lead hitn up two pair of stairs, thrust him into a chamber, and then wallop him in a pleasant and civil ised manner, and not makes pnblic exhibition of too affair.

A boy in Delaware, Ohio, only sixteen years old, eloped with hired girl. tew days since, who was almost old enough to be his mother. The two tied up tbeir *%duds'* op in bandana handkerchief, walked six miles to take the cars, sad with Just $8 25, started for Kentucky, where they were told persons only years old could be married. a

youtn ana auuuaen mmutm front-yArd gate. Time, nlgh£ Fair LunA and severftl atari studing the Mae vault. Youth and maiden penrtvsij gasing at the suae. ThemOdea hnsu tha poetic sUsoce "Heury dear, oh howl would like to study botany

A Janeeville (Wis.) pa young oouple so thoro~ ,rir

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Bear and forbeartbe ools way To tread life's path's together, Then come, and welcome^hining sun,

Or come dark, clou 1y weatherTwo loving hearts dissolved in one, That canot live asunder, Have put Love's golden armor on— .1

Oh, world look on and wonder! In order to impart an unusual variety to the proceeding, a North Carollness eloped simultaneously with.three devoted admirers.

TKRBK-HAPTK SATURDAY t^VKNING MAIL. MARCH 16,1873.

tells of determin­

ed on°mstrimony that, %ithoat delay, they dit ve 23 miles in sn

open wagon,

when the tbefjnometer marked 1? degrees below 4ero, to gel certificate. The h»d their hands, feet, noses and eats severely hipped By frost. but after thawing out were successfully nnited, and boldly drove back in tne biting cold on tbe return jonrney of 23 mi.es.

A handsome voang gentleman walked into the Adams express office tbe

"What are they worth?" asked the clerk, who in making ont his account desired to know what was the risk. The young man hesitated a moment, then clearing his throat from a certain hnskiness, replied: "Well. I can't say exactly, but a few weeks ago I thought they were worth about four hundred thousand dollars."—[Lexington Press.

A Maryland paper tells tbe story of a marriage under difficulties, where the first bridegroom failed to appear at the appointed time through bashfulness, and was discovered, pursued, and oulv "brought to" with a shot-gun. The bride then became Indignant, and refused to marry so faint-hearted a swain, and finally tbe clergyman, who is something of a wag, settled the matter by threatening to huve them both arrestee for breach ot promise unless the ceremony was immediately performed —which it was.

A facetious individual, not many miles from Danbury, saught to "draw bis wife out" by pretending to be found dead with an empty laudanum pbial by bis side. And that lady was a good deal shocked at first, but having read that a needle introduced into the human flesh would indicate on its surface whether that flesh was dead, and being a woman of eminent practicability, she at once armed herself with a polished instrument of nearlv two inches

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rowth, and, with throbbing heart and breath, introduced a good share of its length into tbe deceased. What the surface of the needle really indicated was not learned, as he took it with him as he passed through tbe sasb. i'

PHILOSOPHY OF TIPPLING. It's an old piece of advice, but it's worth repetition Don't drink freely ef spirits. Don't drink because you are despondent, because you are dull, be cause you want excitement, or because you feel gay and would feel gayer Drink for despondency For every blue devil so driven away ten will re turn to reinforce him. Drink against dullness? For the few days ot fleeting, baleful light so brought to you there shall afterward come clouds as thick and black as those which once darkened the heavens over Herculaneum and Pompeii. Three times out ot four the blues means a torpid liver. Bad blood sent to the brain generates gloomy thoughts. The life current is not circulating through your body with sufficient power to keep the varied departments in proper action alcohol gives it a spasmodic impulse. T. wheels of life for a few moments are sent whizzing and spinn'ng around, then comes reaction, and they turn more sluggishly than ever. The only good spirits in the world are resident In good bluo*. The worst ones live iu bad. 'Tisthat which sends false imaginations, suspicions and despondencies to the brain. Moderate tippling is the father ot dyspepsia. Intoxication in any degree will cause you to overrate your power and distort your judgment. The reaction causes you to underrate and sinks you in your self-esteem. So the drinking man lives on a see-saw. Now up in the false sunshine of vanity, now down in tho gulfs of self-degreaatlon. So the devilish spirit of wine plays with humanity, and well it earns the title of "Mocker."—[S. F. Figaro.

HOW THE ARAB LADIES PERFUME. How the Arab ladles perfume themselves is thus described by Sir Samuel Baker, in his work on the Nile :—"In the floor ot the hut or tent, as It may chance to be, a small hole is excavated sufficiently large to contain a champaigne bottle. Afire of charcoal or simply glowing embers is made within the hole, into which the woman about to be scented throws a handful of drugs. She then takes off the clothes or robe which forms her dress, and crouches over the fumes, while she arranges her robe to fall as a mantle from ber neck to the ground like a tent. She now begins to perspire freely in the hot air bath, and tho pores of tbe skin being open and moist, the volatile oil from th smoke of the burning perfumes is immediately absorbed. By the time the fire has expired the scenting process is completed, and both her person and ber robe are redolent of incense, with which tbey are so thoroughly impregnated that I have frequently smelt a prty ot women strongly at full a hundred yards distance, when the wind has been blowing from their direction. The scent, wnich Is supposed to be very attractive to gentlemen, is composed of ginger, cloves, cinnamon, frankincense, and myrrh, a species of sea-weed brought from tbe Ked Sea and, lastly, the horny disc which coverethe aperture when the shell-fish withdraws itself within its shell. The proportions of these tngredients in this mixture aro according to taste."

FOR BOYS.—It is not necessary that a bov who Ienrn8 a trade is compelled to follow it all his life. Governor Pa'.mer, of Illinois, was a country blacksmith once, and began bis political career as a constable in Macoupin connty. A circuit Judge in tho central part of Illinois, was once a tailor. Thomas Hoyne, a rich and eminent lawyer of TIUROIS, was onoe a book binder. Erastos Corning, of New York, too lame to do bard Tabor, commenced as a shop boy in Albany. When he applied for employment first he was asked, "Why, ray little boy, what can you do?'1 "dan do what I am bid." was the answer that secured him the place. Sena tor Wilson Of Massachusetts, was shoemaker. Thurlow Weed was a canal boat driver. Ex-Goveruor Stone, of Iowa, was a cabinet-maker, which trade tbe late Stephen A. Douglas, also worked at it in bis youth. Large numbers of men of prominence now living have risen from humble life by dint of industry, without which talent is as useless as a gold coin on barren inland. Work alone makes men bright, snd it does not slone depend oo the kind of work you have to do whether yon rise «r no*—It depends on how you doit. ?-.?-

"MOTHS*, when* is the man to deep?'* asked a girt of fifteen of her mother, who had Just offered a traveler a night's rest, in their oot-o«-th*-way hut. "I'll have to put him in with you and Jack and Sue and Kate and Bet, I aoppooe," was tbe reply, "and if it is too crowded, on* ot yon most tarn in with me and dad and Dick and Tbm and tbe twina."

VA HI AT

[Extract/Torn at olored Folk""Hymn Boek, used In South Carolina.] "We% be nearerjs d& Lard j#\

Daadewhlt* Mtks. and dey knows Vf See de glory-Kate un barredWalk In darktgrs, past dsguard! Bet yerdollar fie won't dose 111 {_ S "Walk in darkeys, troo de gate.

Hark, de kullered angels boiler Oo way, white folks, you're to late, We'a ue wmnln kuller! Wait^ Till de trumpet blow to foller! "Halleloqjab! tanks to praise!..' V": Long enutT we've borne our crosses

Now we's de Nuperlor raoe, And, with Oerramighly'x grace, We's gwlne to hebben afore de bosses." dissipated Yale student drank the alcohol preserving a toad.

Tbe only persons who really enjoy bad health are the doctors. If a man loses bis breath, he shouldn't run tor it he will catch it quicker by standing still. •.*

A good motto for seamstresses: As you sew, so shall you rip—especially if you only sew BO-SO!

Life is a contradiction. We send to our butcher for sweet-bread and if we want a sweet-meat we send to our baker!

A tailor who in. skating fell through the ice declared that he would never again leave a hot goose tor a cold duck!

The reason why so many railway trains tumble over "giddy" precipices is probably because all locomotives are "light-headed."

Probably with the intention of "stocking" the vicinity with farm implements, an Atlanta man advertises "garden and plantation hose."

A country editor thinks that Richelieu, who declared that "the pen is mightier than tbe sword," might have spoken a good word for the scissors.

"Sommy swathy tesmy, you sbaggenkase nowntril shabby truth nothin butty truth seppy gob washy name."— [Oath in a Sau Francisco Police Court.

Some robbers having broke into a gentleman's bouse, went to tbe bed of tbe servant and told him if he moved be was a dead tnan. "That's a lie," said be, "for if I move I'm sure that I'm alive."

On Washington's birthday a tipsy Danbury man braced himself against a lamp-post and exclaimed: "Merciful heavens! can It be possible that that great and good man is dead.

The Jenkins of a Sac, Iowa, paper. In writing up a reception, says: Miss Moody was noticeable for ber large feet, and Miss Summers for her excessive perfume of musk-rat odor.

When a young man of Dubuque asks a young lady to "take bis arm," she

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azes on him'with a vacclnnating smile, B.—This is as low as we shall go OH these small-pox jokes.—[Boston Advertiser. "Angelina, my angel, can you tell me why your loveiy eyes are separated by distant climes?" "No, Augustus, I can't. Tell me, oh, tell me why they're thus." "Because they correspond, but never meet." "How shall I sell my horse?" said a jockey to an acquaintance "his tail came off in less than six hours after I bought him." "Sell him by wholesale for no honorable man will re-tail him," was the reply

Calling namet never yet righted a wrong all true and lasting reform comes of the shot-gun, heavily laden, skillfully pointed and earnestly expl News Letter,

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loded.—[Moral critic of San Francisco

A Swiss gentleman has "swallowed a fork. He must have been .n a hurry with his eating. An operation is meditated as tbe fork is uneasy. Send down a knife and a sirloin of Beef and, all will go well.

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A correspondent asks why, asw-o-r-k is pronounced wirk, p-o-r-k is not pronounced pirk, s.-t-o-r stirk, c-o-r-k kirk, and so on to an iV£-some extent. To which we might retaliate, if to its pronounced too,and do doo, why is not go pronounced goo, and so soo?

Scene in a horse-car in Boston—Car stops: smiling young lady enters every beat full. An old man rises at the other end. "O don't rise"' said' the lovely girl, "I can just as well stand." "I don't care whether you set or stand," he replied, "I'm going to got out."

A negro who was suspccted of surreptitiously meddling with bis neighbor's fruit being caught in a garden Dy moonlight, nonplusped his detectors by raising bis eyes, cllsping his hands and piously exclaiming. "Good lord! dls yere darkev can't go nowheres to pray any more wldout being 'sturbed."

The custom of saying "God bless you!" when a person sneeses, dates from Jacob. The rabbis say tbat, before the time that Jacob lived, men sneezed once, and that was the end ot them but the patriarch, by his intercession. obtained a relaxation of this law, subject to tbe condition tuat, in all nations a sneeze should be confaocrated by a sacred aspiration.

All over India sweetmeats are con-' sumed as a substantial article of food. A native when traveling seldom eats anything else, and between the two great meals, at all times, be whiles away tbe long noon of the Indian summer day by sucking lollipops or candy between tbe whiffs of his hookah. Lirge dishes ot sweetmeats are very common presents to make on religious festivals or domnstic red letter days and when a Hindoo wants to be very merry or very dissipated he never gets drunk, but goes to a "milllal" shop and makes himself ill with candid sugar.

IIY SO ItE ARE POOR.

Cream is allowed to mould and spoil. Silver spoons are used to scrapo ket-

Tbe scrubbing brush is leit in the watei*. Nicb-bandled knives are thrown into hot water.

Brooms are never hung up, and soon spoiled. Dishcloths are thrown where mice can destroy them.

Tubs are left in tbe sun to dry and frll Apart* Clothes are leit on the line to whip to pieces by tbe wind. 1*1* crust is left to sour instead of makings few tarts for tea.

Dried fro it is not taken care ot in season, and becomes wormy. Vegetables are thrown away that would warm for breakfest.

Tho oork is lets out of tbe sugar Jar and flies take possession. Bits of meat are thrown bnt that would make hashed meat or hash.

Coffee, tea, pepper and spices are Ml aaa lose

to stand open and kisestrsMth. Pork spoils lor want of saU, and because tbe brine wants scalding.

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'From the Kansas City (Missouri) Times.] AWAITING MAPNE98.

An Ezptdmi Fate worst tAMt that of Promethemt. Then isn farm houss aboat two miles fro in Arnold Station, Clay county, over which sadness, and sorrow, and terror afo brooding, for in one or the rooms of the house are two strong men. heavlly ironed and chained to tue floor.

They are waiting there for a most terrible malady to take possession of them, and after potting them to a torture a thousand time worse than that of the inquisition, to destroy their lives.

When a mad dog killed by Campbell, at Liberty, several days ago, was on its destroying mission throughout the country, those two men crossed its rath and received its horrible bite. The mad stone was applied, bnt, fearing and doubting its efficacy, they prepared for the fearful ordeal of an attack of hydrophobia. Not knowing at what hour the fell disorder might make its appearance, and fearing for the safety of their wives, little ones, and friends, they had heavy irons made for the purpose, and bound themselves so securely that it would require almost the strength of a Sampson to break their fastenings. Their bands are securely manacled, a strong iron band is locked around their waists, and to this band is wedded a heavy iron chain, one end ot which is fastened to a heavy ring in the floor—and there they stand waiting for tbe dread approach oi the awful maddening stupor tnatannounces the flow of the poison through tbe blood and brain, waiting for the stupor from which they will revive by the quick and sudden twitching of the muscles, deadly pains through the head ana through the body, and burning eye balls, while poisonous froth will gather at the month. They will be seized with an uncontrollable longing to bite, to tear, to destroy. The stupor gone they will be wrltning, snapping, snarling, growling, howling, tortured {demons—pressing bard upon their fastenings, glaring savagely upon all around tneui, tbe ties of love, of blood, of humanity obliterated from their understanding—going into horrible convulsions ol rage and pain clanking and rattling their chains in order to free themselves from restraint, and with but one thought, one desire—to kill and destioy—to rend with teeth and nails every living thing, and after this, with hot scorching eyes strained and twisted back in their sockets, and blood and foam streaming from their parched and burned lips, to die—to die auiid the oonvulsive agonies and tortures of hydrophobia, worse even, tis said, than the pains of bell itself.

This is what these unfortunate men are waiting for. there is terror in every breath they araw. Little children, with saddened faces fondle and caress tbem with increased love.for the dreaded fate of the fathers has been whispered in their ears. Fond wives and mothers with tearful eyes and faltering hearts, tenderly care for thein and see that every want is supplied, and the bondage madeas light as love and sympathy can render it. These loved ones are all waiting, watching, not knowing what hour they will be drawn away out of the reach of the two men, whose very touch may soon be almost instant death.

Up to this titne no Indication of madness has been manifested, and ns the time has already passed In which the disorder attacks its victims after the poison has been infused into tho blood, the friends are very hopeful that the madstone has proved effective, the men declare tbey will wear their irons several days yet, so fearful are they that the poison is still lurking within them.

THE FOROE OF HABIT. One day a fantastic little drama was enacted upon one of tbe most fashionable streets of San Francisco. It was "high change," at least lor promenaders and among the crowd there strolled Idly along, happy In a nice new suit of broadcloatb, with boots, beaver and gloves lo match, a tall, well made, good-looking, heavily bearded man, snch as an.v woman of sense, or man either, would like to look upon. All at once, without a word ot warning, a voice on the other side of the street shouted: "Stick **'s -.

Instantly the good-looking promenadcr bent or rather pitched forward, reaching out bis right hand as one who thrusts a peg into the earth, bawling as a if in "Stuck!

Then be recovered himself, looked round and saw the voclt'erator over the way laughing enough to fairly break his heart. Flushing a deep, angry red, but without a word, he drew a knife and darted at the laugher, who with equal speed disappeared round the next corner.

Whether the pursuer ever came np wtit the pursued, deponent sallh not. But what was it all about?

The answer is plain it was an illustration of tbe foroe of habit. For many long months the two men, just arrived in Sin Francisco on liberty, had been comrades on one of the Government surveying expeditions somewhere up or down the Pacific coast, chopping, sighting, chaining, staking, and otherwise designating roads, and boundaries over mountains and through for ests, valleys and swamps. Thousands and hundreds of thousands of times, in chaining lines, had tbat strange short dialogue been repeated between them. The well-dressed promenader had been the front chain man and his miscblveous assailant tbe rear. As they walked forward along the appointed line, and as tbe rearward chainman came to the end ef tbe last measured chain's length, he bent down and thrust a sharp peg into tbe earth, crying: "Stick!"

Instantly the front tnan did the like, answeringf* "Stuck!'' 'f:

One more chain was noted, and tbe couple walked on another chain's length.—[Ex. ...

NiLssoif in

BBBECHBS.—Here

Nilsson makes a little by-play for the amusement of the audience. She sits down before the flrf, rubs her hands, puts one foot ap on tbe other knee, sticks both legs sraight out toward tbe blaze, stands up with her back to the (ire, and crossing bn hands behind ber holds up first one foot, snd then the other to warm tbe soles. These are all attitudes natural enongh to a man, but tbey are prectoeiy-tbo things tbat a modest and gentle Mignon or any pretty lass just out of petticoats snd stepporarily into unaccustomed re woulc

tem attire

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ing. Tbey are to the character enly, and nnartistic, Nllsson knows better than tea be told ber. But tbe audienoe laughs to see ber boyish ways, and foi the sake of the laugh Mfss NUsson sncrtfioe# the troth of tJbo -situation. However, as no ope expeets a venr high standard of acting on the operatic stjg*, it ddea not WUVI VII »|IV mueb matter.—[^. T. World.

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"Oh for a thossam lad when.he t""®1 "It is never right to|ake anyone In, said a Sunday -school teacher, *h%waa laying down nreceptp of mondmr to olaas. "Yes it ts,'rlfcid a Httff girl "my mamma says we should always take in a poor person who comes to our door in a storm."

What can be more harrowing to your soul than the thonght of wasted opportunities?" asked a teacher of a bright boy. "A peg in niy boot harrows. ihy sole moreen anytblbg else," replied the bright bov.

A boy asked his father what an axis was. "An imaginary line," Was tbe answer, "supposed to run ftbtoogh the centre ef the earth, and on which we think it revolvee." "Father," said the bov, "do you suppose the world revolves on your think?"

Winona, Minnesota hae"an enterprising little girl who is making a fortune by perambulating the streets and pretending, whenever a oharitable appearing person comes along, that she has lost ten cents and is in iinininent-dan-ger of getting a whipping for that misfortune.

It is related that a Massachusetts school-boy (though the story ean be told as well of any othor) who was asked by his teacher how many eouimandments there were. "Ten," was the prompt reply. The teaeher said there nad been one added, and asked him what it was. The boy looked perplexed Boratched his head a moment and then trlumphautly replied, "The Fifteenth Amendment."

Minnie, a little three-year-old in this city, recently took it into her head that "God likes new prayers." So after repeating "Now I lav me," and Jesus like a shepherd," the otber night she told her mother she would like to make a "new prayer." Her mother nodded assent, whereupon Minnie gravely proceeded: "O Lord, bless all the Minnies, and all the papas, and all the mammas, and all the Uncle Arthurs. Jesus, I've been vaocinated,and I guess it's goiug to work!

A little girl in the South, old enongh to attend school, had never heard a prayer. A missionary persuaded her to go to a union Sunday School he had recently started, and which wad eonducted by a lady. When the little girl saw the school was opened with singing and prayer she slipped out audran home saying: "Mother, mother, we've got the queerest schoolmarm you ever saw or beard on. She sings songs and speaks pieces in school, and the fun of it is, she gets right down on her knees when she speaks ber piece."

The Sunday-School Union might find work for a few more pioneer missionaries in that rigion.

Johnny writes this letter from sohool: "i wrigbt to tell you tnat am very wretched and myohkllyblanesis worser again. I have not made any progress and don't think I shall, am sorry to be such expense, but I doh't think scbule is of any good. One of tbe fellows has takentho crewne hout of my new hat for a target, is id yon would not like It, he has alsow borrow my watch to make a water wheal with tho works but It won't act. Me and him have tried to put the works ba but we think there is soino wheals missing as it won't At. bope MtitUda's ould is better, am glad she is not at schule. 1 think 1 have got consuinpshnn. the boys at this place are not gentlemanly, but 1 suppose you did not know that when you sent me. I will try uot to get Bad habits, tho trowsers have worn out at the noes, think the tailor must have cheated you. the buttons have also come off anil tbey are toro at the back. 1 don't think the food is good but should hot mind if 1 was stronger, tbe piece I send you is of the beef we had on sunday But on other days it is more stringy. Thore are black beedles In tho kitchen and sometimes they cook them iti tho dinner wbich can't be wholesome when you are not strong, one off tbe boys had tamed 1, not a cooked, a rtw one ami it will dance when you whistlo "Down in a coal mi tne," which makes him t^ink of hts happy home." li

COOKINO WITHOUT Fin«.—There is a place'in Oregon called S'noky illey, where the people have a curious way of cooking. They do not ivo the trouble of making a fire evory morn ng wheu they wish to get breakfast. They Just' walk out with their kettles, coffee pots, and whatever else they need, and oook at the boiling spring. The water seems a groat deal hotter than common boiling water, and all they need to do Is to hung their kottles In it for a short time, and th"ir food is nicely cooked. They aro able even to bake in it. The bread is put into a tight saucepan, and lowered into the boiling flood for an hour or two, and then drawn up most exquisitely baked, with but a thin rim on the crust over £t. Meat is cooked hero, and licans, which are tbe miner's luxury. It takes bat a minute to cook eggs, or to make a pot of coffee or tea but if there should chanco to be a "slip between the cup and tho lip" the food would be gono beyond recovery.

A Vrsrron to the UnUed States Supreme Court writes: "Facing the door as you enter, ou a raised platform, in silken robes sit the nine Judges—supposed to be the most dignified tribunal in \merica—and I «ve no doubt it Is, notwithstanding I have seen one of the Judges eat an apple with great gust while seated on the bench, and another partake of molasses candy, and after the repast lick every one of his ten fingers with great sttislidtioft. I

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