Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 2, Number 39, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 23 March 1872 — Page 2

1HE Tt.t. 1'b.UtLE.

Placing Brtdyforcl Washing« Getting tlx Puitlna

That lit«w^«tBoiberft an doing to-night# Spyingout bole* In the little yarn heme, Layiu* by hboes tbat are worn thro the toe», Looking o'er garment* laded and thin— Who but a mexber knows whr-re to begin Cbangtrga button to tnske it look rigbt— Thalia what mot hem art doing to-night,-Calling tb9 I

Kile one* around her chair.

Hearing them lisp forih their soft evening THi^a^tbem storf** of Je#us of old. Who lovm to gatht-r ib«- limilw to his tola Watching, they listen with childUh de-

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Creeping so softly to take a tart peep, After th.little one* nil are aalt-ep, Anxious to know if th*- children are warm, Tueklug the blanket* rousd each little

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Kifing little lace, ro*y and bright"Thai is what mothers oo night after night Kneeling down gently bwild» the white bed, /Lowly and meekly the bows down ber bead.

Praying an only a mother can pray, "God guide and keep them from going astray

MAMMY F" said a precious little boy, •who against his will was made to rock the cradle of his baby brother, ''If the Lord has any more bullies to give aiay, don't you take 'em."

DON'T yon remember the next word In your lesson? It's the word after cheese. Wb»t comes after cheese?" "Mouse," triumphantly exclaimed the puzzled pupil.

My boy," said a clergyman, "don't yon know tbat it is wicked to catch flah on (Sunday "OUCH*1 hain't sinned yet," said the bov, without taking bis eye off the cork "baiu't bad a bite.''

A LITTLE wiiif that was picked up in Baxter street the other morning was aeked if he had a mother, and replied, "1 dunno, but I guess not, for when I ran away this morning the old 'uns was quarreliin', and father had the batchet."

Two NKwsBOYsfsavs the ConffrnlirClal ^Bulletin, were standing before a cigar store, when one asked the other, "Have yon got three cents?" '"Yes." "Well, ave two cents give me your three, and I will luy a live center." "All yight," says No. 2, holding out the money. No. 1 enters the store, purchases the cigar, lights it and puffs it with agreat deal of satislnc-lion. "Come, now give me a poll," says No. 2. I furnished more than half the money." "I know that," says the smoker "but then I'm President, and you, being only a stockholder, can spit." "OH, mother! mothor!" "What, •on?" "Mayn't I have the big Bible up in my room to-day "Yes, my child, in welcnne. You don't know what pleasure it gives me to see your thoughts turn tbat y. Bat what sticks are those you have in your hand?" "Trlguer*.." "Triggers for what, my child?" "Why, trap triggers. Here's the standard you see that's the flipper, and tiiatone with the fat meat on the end in tho long trigger. There's mouse ke« ps mining into my room and iiiMulling me, and I want to set the big Bible lor deadfall, and try and knock the Mtufliug out of liim."

AN AWKCL STORY.—There was once an awlul little gitl. who had an awful way oi a ymg awful to everything. She livi-d in an awlal bouse, in an awful a reft, in an awlul village, which was an awlul dinti'iicu r-m every oth er awful pi nee. She went to an awful school, win re she had an awful teacher, who ive her awlul lessons out of awlul-books Every day she was so awful hungry ill »l she ate an awlul amount of lood, so tbat she looked awful healthy. Her hat was awlul small, and her "leu were awful large. She went to an awlul church, and her millisier waa an awlul preacher. When she look an awlul walk she climbed awlul hills, ami when she got awful tired *h' sat down under an awful tree to rest hert#li. In summer she found the weather awlul hot, and in winter awful add. When, it didn't rain there was an HWUII drought, and when the awful drought was ovr there was an awlul rain MI that this awlul girl waa all the time In an awful state, and if she don't get over saying "awful" about every thin*, I aju a.raid she will come to an awlul end. -1 "(ItKLH—A rosiwwnioN."—Our public schools have produced many extraordinary prodigies of youlhful learning and composition-writing, but we imagine IVrre-Haute*will have to i«uoenmb to the following flashes of genius from the pen of a down-east juvenile, ll.s subnet is "Ulrruls" and he treats it thusly: 1 don't like girls. Girls is different from what laws Is. Uirls don't play marll», and also girl* don't play hookev. I played hookey once and got wlilpiani tor li. Girls sometimes gets whipped, but not so much as boys th»*ir clothes ain't so well suited for It, that is the reason I suppose. I never soes no girls play base ball, but they say they do in Boston. There is plenty of girls in Boston and big organs. Last year when I was young the teach er made me set with the girls because I WHS naughty. I cried. Big boys like girl* better than little boys. I went on a sleigh ride one ninht with my sister Nancy and Tom Svkea. We were going to New Hartford, and when we got up by Pegg's tavern Torn asked me to look-in the bottom of the sleigh for his whip while 1 was looking he fired off a torpedo. I asked him if be had my more torpedoes and he said no, but he ftivd off another when I wasn't looking. Girls don't like t- have men kin them. They always say "don't." If they wasn't fools they would tarn their heads the other way, bat they never do that. I saw Tom kiss Nancy onoe and I went and told my mother. Then my mother put me to bed. When a girl takes out ber handkerchief in the street to wipe her nose, the young men who earn their living by standing In front of the Pine boxes always wipe their noees at the same time, if they aee her. Girls get mart led sometimes, but not always. Thoee that donl get {married don't want to. When they get Snarried they have wedding cake. I !like wedding eake bat I ao not see any fun in getting married—especially to a girl.

TH* Ideas ot Darwin are going into the pal pi A olergyman in Chicago, on Sunday last, attempted to prove th«t pre-hietorto man waa a brats, without reason or the higher sensea. The a*ane may bo Mid of a great many *nen, as ffcr down aa the laat half of the nineteenth oentuiy.

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ITUKDAY NIGHT. till* bit* all In row, treh on tlKMDorrow.yoo know I iscftsaad little black fobs •ntf lit 10 befcittsed, clean (anacDU and

"Man snd wife are one." Which one? The first dsy of Ad m'| lift mart tve been along one, aa it had no *ve. Platonic love, like all other tonica, Is very rxcttinft aud jhqifltf be taken

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hoincepat hieally. Men and women differ. Ton may. perhaps, convince a man, hatyou must persuade a woman.

Because a man snd wife be-dear and be-angel each other in public, don't be sure that they are bleeoed turtle dovea in private.

A cynical lady, rather inclined to flirt, says most men are like a coldvery easily caught, but very bard to get rid of.

Two curious suicides have taken place at Paris, both occasioned by the remorse of the victims at having scolded their wives.

A youth of 91 recently led to the altar a ekarining bride ol 106. It is reported that they were married without tLe constant of their parents.

A Detroit bridf groom was so affected by the marriage ceremony that he burst into violent lit ol noee-bleed-ing. "8tra iger (to a Mormon): Are you sainta 'sealing' many wives now-a-days?" Mormon "No we are co»cealing those we already have.

If your wife does abuse you, you have the pleasant consciousness tbat she will not permit any oue else to d6 so.

A book entitled "Lectures to Married men," has appeared in England. Heaven save the mark Haven't they their full share already?

There is an Arabic poem which compares woman to a mirage, but says that while a mirage's deceit is brief, a woman's love deceives eternally.

We have a Newbern, N. C., paper containing a notice of a marriage, to whicii is appended the announcement, "No cards—no humbug—no nothing."

A St. Louis woman, over six feet in height, recently married a man who is four feet nine. When she wishes to kiss him she has to stand him on a chair.

The following congratulatory telegram was received from Cincinnati by a wedding party in Nashville: "Congratulations on your nuptials may your future troubles be only little ones." tura A. Barry of Davenport, Iowa, is the first woman who, as a notary public, "swore" a man in Iowa, but not by any means the first "lively woman" who made a man swear in that State.

A happy pair made the choice of the 29ib of February as their marriage day, und were reminded by the officiating clergyman that their silver weddiug could be celebrated in just one hundred years.

A woman raised to the third power of of widowhood has the photographs of her three departed lords in a group, with a vignette of herself in the centre, and underneath is the prescription: "The Lord will provide."

An exchange, describing a fashionable party, speaks of a gallant who whispered to a lady "and took her apart," and ungallantly adds that "it IM not a very difficult teat to take a lady apart these times, but then there is very little left of her afterwards.

A young wife, on being lately asked what she would do in ease ber husband should fall, replied "Live on arms, to be sure I have two and he has two— with hands at the ends of them." We will venture to say tbat that couple will never fail.

A YOUNG theological student, Dot far from Boston, recently invited a young ladv to attend a concert. The damsel's anawer to the invitation was in this wine: "If you come as A'temporary supply' I must decll.ie the invitation. I am onlv hearing 'regular candidates.' He din't suoply.

An Illinois editor'thus sarcastically sneaks of the marriage of a professional brother in Indiana: "He stepped upon the Hymeneal platform, adjusted the fatal noose, and was swung off into that unsilent bourne whence he can never return, save by the Indianapolis connecting lines."

A forlorn individual perambulated the streets of Boston a few days ago seeking for a wile. He said he would give tiity cento to any one who would put him on the track of a first-rate artlelo, and that he would furnish the article, when obtained, with a home on a good (arm.

A YOUNG man applied for a marriage license in Cambridge, but the clerk reminded hint of two previous applications. "Yes," was the reply, "the other girls did not know I wanted to get married till I showed them the document but this one does,"

A weak, uncomplaining woman in Columbus, Ohio, attempting to gently persuade her husband with the toe of her boot, missed her mark and kicked her chili into eternity. The jury disagreed on the question whether the husband should oe convicted of murder, or manslaughter in the first degree.

The philosopher is sound who says that it is very nice to make loye to a young and blooming maiden but when it comes to stating the financial condition to a father-in-law wbo can't

the financial

be Tooled by pretty speeches, the bravest man sinks into mere nothingness.

Marriage between kindred in Russia, however distant, eveu unto so-called ••forty second cousins," is against the law, and considered by all Russians as an abomination. Neither may a young person marry a god-parent, the latter coming under the head of ••epiritual relatione."

Downsville, Delaware county N. Y., furnishes a romantic story. It concerns a reoent marriage. In which both bride and groom are in their eightieth year. They have loved from childhood, fatot the course of true love has been so rough that they have been unable to secure their hearts' desire until now. At many periods they have been separated for years: and previous to their wedding day they bad not met lor a decade.

A lady in London got the Idea in her head that the devil was in her, and hang hereelL—[Ex.

Now, if every woman that's "got the devil In her" wonld "go and do likewtee," what a bleeaing it would be to unfortunate Benediota! Bat In that aertoaaly tear tho ftoainino a would beoome inoonveniperanaaion eotly scarce. However, we apprehend that there Is no epeelal eaaae fc* alarm. la that way will never eonfeae the epirit thai moves them |M| would*

MY BIG BLUSD&IL

At4be age of twenty-five the life of London bachelor is eed active to a hi£ then imagination, but aflerwarda growa leas pleasant to contemplate. One geta eeltsh. and a selfish man deteriorates rapidly. Bo It waa a shook to me to bnwh a grey hair one morning out of my celibate whiskers. Abnormal No a careful inveetigatlon showed tbat there were more where that came from. I sat down, a

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either band, and contemplated. When I rose to complete my toilet, I had determined to marry Sarah Hervy aa soon aa possible. ..

Sarah was a superior girl, there could be no doubt about tb it men called her strong-ininded, eccentric, and were rather alraid of ber not but what there were plenty of them ready to brave any danger there might be. She preferred historical, biographical, and even philosophical »oks to novels. She had found out a simple style of dress which suited ber, aud kept to it, only allowing such modifications as were necessary to avoid an appearance of affected indifference to the prevailing fashions. The instinct was a true one, for her principal beauty lay in a certain classical grace, a soft dignity, which I cannot attempt to describe, but which would certainly have been marred by florid dressing.

Though 1 knew that other men had tried and failed, 1 lelt fairly confident. "She has more be id than heart," said Maurice, lor example, "and it will take a clever fellow to get round her." Exactly but I was a clever fellow—in my own estiuiaiion.

To confess the truth, a more conceited coxcomb tbau your humble servant, at the time I am speaking of, never leaned over the rails of Rotten Row. There were no fewer thau five young ladies whom I thought I could have for the asking, and Sarah Hervey was one of tbeui. I

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veiry intimate terms

with her, it was true, but directly I tried positive flirtation I found tbat she would not drop into my mouth quite so readily as I had anticipated. She was intelligwni, friendly, lively, confidential even to a certain extent, but most difficult to make love to. For ex imple, we were engaged one day iu art criticism, counting the leaves on a Pre-Rapbeslite ivy-bush to see whether it bad a realistic allowance, when I took occasion to draw her attention to a spoony couple, intended by the artist to be the most prominent objects in the picture, and tried to make use of tbeui. "What would painters and poets do without love?" 1 began.

I cannot imagine," said she. "Hew strange it is that the most unpleasant things in nature, lovers aud pigs, should be so pleasing in art I" "You are harden the poor things, surely," said I.

Am I?" she continued. "Well, fond as I am of Ward's pigs, I never could look at the real animals without disgust."

Oh, I grant you the pigs," said I, feeling clumsy "1 meant the lov-

Well, can there be any spectacle more idiotic than a couple iu that condition she asked, pointing to the picture.

The question sounds cruel, coming from oue so calculated to reduce a man to it."

There J", she said, with a frown, and a petulant tapping of the foot "th*t is the worst of iteing a ». irl one cannot talk freely without being suspected of fishing for couipliuieuts."

Of course I knew that Miss Sarah's sentiments would become modified when the rigbt man turned up but I was evidently not the rigbt man, at present at all events. She was not to be carried by assault, as I had hoped. I must attack according to the rules. Love must be disguised as friendship flattery must be implied rather than expressed. Above all, I must maintain the opinion which I knew she had of my abilities for she quite worshipped talent.

I learnt the Athenoeum by heart every Sunday. I did. My memory was wonderful in those days. And Miss Hervy. who did not see tbat journal, credited me with having read all the books, beard all the music, formed an independent judgment on th« plays and pictures, mastered the astronomical, geological, philosophical discoveries chronicled iu its pages from week to week.

My plans were disconcerted by the Hervys going out of town. Mr. Her,vy was a director of a hundred boards. Mrs. Ilervy was not 8arab's mother, but the second wire, with a tendency to bronchitis, which sent the family to a house they had near Ventnor when spring returned with all its sweets, east wind included, and the period of migration had now arrived. But I was not utterly check mated, for I knew that my friend Kreshet had a castle somewhere at the back ot the Isle of Wight, and wonld be too glad to go there if he could get any fellow to stay with hitn, for that was his constant object.

I went to the club we both belong to, and found him playing at billiards and smoking a pipe, with his coat of arms on it in alt-relief. I said the pipe was coloring. I praised his games. I spoke of yachting, which he lived for, and promised to take a cruise with bim. We dined together, and spoke of the castle, which turned out to be within a couple of miles of the Hervys' place. He asked me to go down there with him I agreed. He said he would make up a party, and wrote to the housekeeper to get rooms ready that very evening. You might do anything with Freabet if you knew how to nlay him.

I bad Known bim at school and at college, poor fellow—yet why "poor fellow He was rich and happy, and if he had a vague, uneasy semi-con-sciousness at times tbat people were laughing at bim, it did not seriously damage his self-complacency or his dige*tton. But one always aays "poor fellow" of a good-natur»d man who ia below the average in wits, and Freshet WM certainly thait. Thrw MEN b©8id«B myself agreed to be

Freebet'a guests

and I was somewhat annoyed to find that tbey were all admirers of the girl I had calculated on monopolising. The reason was simple Freanet had gone1 about asking all the men he knew, and only thoee wbo were attracted by the knowledge that the fair Sarah waa in the neighborhood aocejptwl the invjtation It waa case oi Natural Selection.' It did not promise to be a very cordial group however, I flattered myself that my presence waa much more injurioua to their chances than theira waa to mine, and aa «chof them had probably arrived at a similar conclusion In his own Ihvor, and aa moreover we were all mon.of the world and not Aroadiana, we robbed elonf very well together. We the secrst attraction which had drawn uaindividually to***??*****JP£ tended intense Intoraat In the pUoe

really onoe a ditch and a draw-bridge Waa that pteetye partot the old Cfterue. "'By

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the morning alter our arrival one proponed stroll over to

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Ventnor »omeone elee said, "By»the by, were not the Hervys at homep It ftaa then averred that Hervy Was a "fettling gwd wyr?.„.taiifia to mean one who haa jinping maionata In bia pockets.) and that Jt a nioral dntv to look him up. W» we called. andT a queer game ol eourtehip was started. Four competitors and only one prise and no younger or" elder sisters. or other spinsters, to divide our attention and make things lesa awk ward. What a bretty tournament we might have got up. it such thinga had not gone out of faabion!

And as if tour lovers were not enough for one girl, our host took the Sarah fever very badly, to our great amusement—for when we were at borne, and not occupied with whist or pool, we amused ourselves by mystifying Freshet—and bis present ptsaion, which seemed to us outrageous, formed anew subject for the exercise of our s.

The fact was that I found myse great deal less alone with Miss Hervy than I bad been In London even, and my weekly cram of Athenaeum was for th*e most part lost labor. Indeed two of my old rivals showed country accomplishments which threw me somewhat in the background one rode, and the other croqueted in a very superior manner, and though I did not fear lest such frivolities should make any real impression on so lofty an intelligence as Sarah's, I did not quite like the opportunities thus afioraed to men who were undeniably amongst the cleverest of the lops who dangled about her. Prudence suggested that it would be well to spoil their little games when possible, even if I could not at the moment profit directly by the manoeuvre for of course I could not interrupt a rival's tete-a-tete personally without a row. So whenever Martingale's riding lesson, or Mallet's instruction in croquet, appeared to be growing dangerously confidential, I set Freshet .at them. The honest fellow had no notion thai his guests were his rivals, and took each of us in turn into the confidence of his passion. So he had no compunction whatever in falling in with my views whenever I suggested that he should constitute himself an odious third. "It was nothing to Martingle or Mallet, but he was spoons in that quarter," he reasoned.

The others did not perceive my manoeuvre or make reprisals, and as Freshet never took the initiative, I was left in peace when I managed in my turn to secure the ear of the lair Sarah.

W by do vou all laugh at Mr. Freshet?" she Inquired on one of these occasions. "I don't know. People always have," I answered. "He was the only child I ever heard of who practically attempted to catch birds by sprinkling salt on their tails."

Did you see him?" "No the fir time I ever witnessed his naivete was later, when we were school boys together, and watching the s.ile of a horse. The purchaser, after having stroked his legs down, etc., secundum artem went to his mouth. 'Rising seven,' said the would-be seller.

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all that,' replied the other. 'How did he know the horse'sage?' Freshet asked me, and I. being a coun-try-bred lad, was so amused by bis greenness that I replied, 'Did you not see the grey hairs about bis nose? 'Oh said Freshet, quite contented.

Presently afterwards we u. et a grev. "''What an old horse that must be cried Freshet." '•It was a perfectly natural deduction from the information you had given bim," said S irah, smiling.

Perfectly his blunders always are. That is what gives tbem their piquancy." •'I see," said she "his nature is so trusting that no amount of experience can break him of placing confidence in his fel ow creatures. Well, perhaps he deserves to be laughed at."

It was evident that Sarah's kind heart did not approve of the flippant manner in which we were in the habit ot treating the man whose hospitality we enjoyed, and I resolved not to quiz him again in' her presence. And indeed, when I thought about it, I was ashamed of making a butt of him at all, and determined to discontinue the practice. And yet, so powerful is custom, I put the most cruel hoax possible upon him the very next day, for, bored by his praises of an object I could appreciate so much better, and Irritated by professions of a love which seemed to burlesque my own, I told hint that it was wonderful he was so blind as not to see his passion was returned.

As usual, he put implicit faith in my words the idea of irony or "ch tff" never occurred to him. "I should never have dreamed it!" he cried, grasping my hand. "What a thing it is to have a friend!''

He hurried off to the stnbles, and in five minutes I heard him cantering along the road. My heart sinote me I had no idea he would be so prompt. It was eleven o'clock in.the morning, and presently Martingale and Mallet, who were always late, came down to breakfast. "Where's Fresh t?" asked Mallet. "Gone to propose to Miss Hervey," said I, and they roared. Freshet, of all block-heads, to rush in where—hum _ha!—really intellectual beings feared to offer! We awaited his reappearance

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as a gourmand watches the twisting of the champagne wire. At lunch time he arrived bis horse in a foam, his necktie twisted. He grasped my hand I relt very guilty.

Don't be excited, old fellow," I stammered "I had no idea that you would rush off like that. If I was mistaken

I'm your debtor for life! Congratulate me, you others I have offered to Mis* Hervy, and been accepted."

Chorus., "Aoepted." "Yes. I should never have dared ask if it had not been tor Penyolin."

I thought there must be a mistake, but there waa not and they were married in the June following, I acting aa Freshet's best man. That was ten years ago. They are the happiest couplt I ever knew, and so grateful to me! If ever vou want to get anything oat of Mrs. Freebet, talk to her baaband and pretend to ahow deference to what he says ahe will subscribe, safe.

REV. MR. HKPWORTH, of New York, whoae defection from Unitarlaniam a few months ainoe created such consternation, la evidently progressing. He exchanged pulpita with Mr. Beecher on 8nnday.

UPON

being told that there were 1,-

SS2JH6.000 cigars amoked laat year at a ooet of GLSMM.000, Kli Perklna waa seised with a audden At of economy and reeolved to amoke. "never again.**

A "WOMAN'S protective tion" la a Western novelty, devoted to nutting down the reprehensible practice of Kissing good night between the

woman yet crested

as bsautifhi aa the virtue ahe ean posTfcatt whot Hewttt eoys truly.

Over six thousand mlllon pins need in the United Stateeeaeh year. A woman has opened a billiard saloon In San Franclaeo.

The Peruvian railways have smoking I cars "exclusively Ibr ladles.** A woman named Sarah Plnekney ia captain of one of the steamboats on the Mississippi.

Anna Diukineon haa, it is announced, forty silk dresses—that ia one tor every year of her age.

A young colored woman waa graduated Tuesday from he law department of Harvard university, Wasuiugton.

The Hannemann Medical college of Chicago has just graduated four meedemoiselles and two mesdames.

The Branch Academy of Fine Arts are pondering upon the eligibility of women to the uiembetsbip of that body.

The man whoae hair turned white in a single night is surpassed by the girl wbo lost uers in one dance.

In Manilla twenty-five thouatnd women and girls make cigars at average wagee of aeven cento per day.

The Boston Young Women's Christian association propose to raise $180,000 for tbe erection of a building to accommodate 200 homeless ones.

There is a Boot-black brigade in Boston made up of girls. One of the rules of the association'is that the young lady who shines tor less than a dime does so at the penalty of losing her chignon..

Miss Ellen L. FI. tcher, of Charleston, N. H., having learned the trade haa opened a jeweller's shop, and the watches of all the young men in town are out of order in oonsequence.

A lady In New Albany, after oirculat ing a petition for the pardon of her busbana, who is in the penitentiary, and getting it fully signed, burned it up, aud will marry another as soon aa a divorce can be obtained.

An Indiana woman has put 9,424 patches into two quilts, and ner brute of a husband says tbe effect of her work has been to transform her into a cross-patch.

A Philadelphia woman who bad broken her leg was so modest that she would not permit tbe surgeon to set it, and there being no female doctor around, mortification ensued which resulted in death.

A Wisconsin woman has done all the family sewing for twenty years with a paper of needles which was presented to her on her wedding day. Though her family is large, the needles are not all Used up yet.

Tbey do say thai our Queen of song, Nilsson, is sometimes jealous onoe of Miss Cary's applause after ber aria in "Trovatore." What gossip! Sky larks never come down to pick out tne eyes of sweet little brown thrusbee.

Mrs. Southworth continues to reel her adjectivaicocoons. She has already written thirty-five works of fiction, and still the insatiable novel gobblers "cry for tbem." She is twirling down to the pupa of two others as rajHdly as possible.

At Saginaw, Michigan, two girls made a wager tbat they could take five grains of morphine. They both won the bet and are now sleeping where the daises blow. Their father says he never knew a year when girls died ofl so fast.

A Mrs. Margaret H. Garner of Bffringfield, Ills., gave ber hand and heart lately to a Mr. Olive, making tbe^ seventh husband the iHdy has thns garnered to herself. Seven is a lucky number, and Mr. Olive will probably stay put.

A Philadelphia. woman who, forty years ago, at the age of sweet sixteen, inarried a rich old fellow of three score for hia money, expecting soon to be a gay and festive widow, has recently di oetas fifty-six, leaving a husband of 100, and tour children to mourn her loss.

A Detroit woman named Joyce had cause for rejoicing a few weeks ago, when her husband, who although net a thing of beauty, gave prospects of ing a Joyce forever, consented to s'gn the following agreement to leave ber bed and board "Detroith, Feb'y 21.— this iz too Agree that if mi wile p*ze me 10 doles won't Never bother Her aiiiiv ntor as treu as I liv if doo she kan'sind tbe pleese alter me.—[HENRY JOYCK."

INTERESTING FACTS.

Chocolate, the flowerof thecocoanut, was first introduced into England from Mexico, in the 1620, and soon alter became a favorite beverage in the London coffee houses.

The moht ancient manuscripts are written without accents, slops or separation between the wards, nor was it until after the ninth century tbat copyists began to leave spaces between words.

The most stupendous canal in the world is one in China, which passes over two thousand miles, and to fortytwo cities it was co nmenced as far back as the tenth century.

Bowling was a famous old English game, aud was very common as earlv as the thirteenth century. Charles I. played at it, and it was a daily sport with Charles II at Tuinbridge.

Tbe first bank was established in 808, by tbe Lombard Jews, of whom, some settled in Lombard street, London. where many banks have sinoe been located.

Tbe first piece ol artillery waa invented by a German soon after tbe Invention of gunpowder, and artillery waa first used by tbe moors at Algeslras, in Spain, over five hundred years ago.

Billiards were invented by Henrique Devigne, a French artiat, in tbe reign of Cbarlea IX., about the year 1671, and at once became a most fashionable and captivating game among all classes.

Armorial bearings became heriditary at tbe close of tbe twelfth century, and took their origin from the Crneaders, wbo were accustomed to paint their banners with various devlcee.

Tbe oldeet and largeet chain bridge in tbe world is said to be that at Kingstang, in China, where It forms a safe and perfect road from the top of one lofty mountain to another.

Women never appeared upon the stage among the ancients, their P®rts were represented by men until ss 1st* ss 1088, when Charfee EL first encouraged their public appearance.

Olsss bottlss were made in Snglsnd about 1868, but the art was pMtcd among the Reams In tho ysnr It A. D., aethey have been found plentifully amosgthenUnsof Pompei.

Gas is made from oorn eotafcin Ooun-i oil Blufh. Tsm American oofper sent eiroalatesi In Japan, having v4*e tferibie IM home worth.

THBRU haa bssn another -fight In Mexloo, and a vlotory tor one aide or the other—it don't matter which.

THB Indiana declare that they have never known aucb severe weather, and so much snow upon the plains within tbelr memory.

THBY seem to have done everything possible for tbe amusement of Alexia at Havana, exoept to about a patriot ot hang a medical atudent.

IT ia said that two tbouxand dollars are to be spent for tster fl wers and decorations for one of tbe New York up-town faahionable churchee.

ENGLAND ia borrowing oar etyie of railroad care, and a score or more have been built and abipped fron» thie country to aee how the traveling public will like them.

A MICHIGAN Indian attempted to open a can of nitro-glycerine with hie tomahawk. He got it open and immediately hurried away. With the exception of one arm and a thigh bone, nothing haa been beard of him aiue*

A MOVEMENT is on foot for a grand reunion ol tbe veterana or 18121 aud survivors of the battle of tlie River Raisin, on the 4th ot July next, at Monroe, Michigan, at which, it ie Intended to assemble all that can bo found of those eld landmarke from Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Michigan and other States.

THE Bel'evtlle Illinois, Democrat says: "Notwithstanding the unusual severity of the winter, the prospects of a good yield of firuit are very favorable. The continuoua cold weather appears to have kept tbe buds from developing to that condition in which they are so easily injured by frost. Horticulturists say hat tbe prospects for a large yield of fruit next season were never so flattering -it this season of the year aa at tbe present time."

THE Boston papers notice, as "the most remarkable event of last year" in that locality, the fact that a oommittee of the Legislature, having occasion to visit the Mtate Prison, instead of ordering, at the expense of the Commonwealth, a number of carriages, actually took passage in the horse-cars and paid their own fares. A "tidal wave** of reform must have oertaiuly swept over the old Bay State in more ways than one for this circumstance indicates, not only that Massachusetts legislator* are economical of State funds, but also that thev do not accept free railway

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lasses. In the latter, if not In tbe case, few law makers outside of Massachusetts resemble tbem.

EXERCISES tOrt AIITICVLJLTION. In the Richmond Normal School a few daya ago, the lesson in elocution was upon "articulation," and various examples of difficult enunciation were cited and practiued. At theeloee of the exercise the Principal called lor such examples to be handed in as the pupil might know or be able to find. Ttie following are some of the results ot tbe

investigation, and furnish a very good collection for practice: "Amidst the mists and oo!de«t fK»'t», ,,

With bureau wrl*t and •Moute-t boasts, He thrusts bin fists agalnai lbs »ta, An 1 Mtill lnnlsta he fees the gliosis." "Ofall the saws I ever saw saw, I never saw a saw as this saw BOWS." "Up the high hill he heaves a huge round stone." "Crazy Craycroft caught a oiate of crinkled crabs, A crat.- of crickled crabs crazy Craycroft caught If crazy Craycroft caught a crate qf crickled crabs, Where's the crate of orlckled erabs crazy

Craycroft caught?" "Thou wreath'd'at and mnazl'd'st the far-fctch'd ox, and Imprison'riat him in the volentio Mexican mountain ol Pop-e-o tt-apet-1 in Ou-'o pax i." "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled _a p»*ck of^ickled_pep-

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wher'es the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?" "When a twlBter twisting, would twist hlnr ft twlnt For twlatlng a twist, three twists he will twUt, But if oue of the twists untwists from the twist, The twist untwisting, untwists the twls's. "Robeit Rowley rolled a round roll round a round roll Roltert Rowley rolled round. Where n»lle«l the round roll Robert Rowley rolled round?" "Theodore Thistle, the successful thistle sifter, in sifiimr a slt-veful of thistles, thrust thr«*e thou*and thistles through the thick of his thumb." "Peter Prangie, the prickly pear picker, picked three peck* of prickly prangh pear from tbe prangly pear trees on the pleas nit prairies." "Villey Vfte and vlfe vent on a voyage to Vest Vindsor and Vest Vindbam von Vitson Vednesday." "Bandy legged Borachio Mu«tacio Whiskerifuscius, the bald but brave tmbardlno of Bagdad, helped Abormilique Bluebeard, Bisuaw of Bilemandeb, to beat down an abominable Bumble of Baslaw." "I saw Ewtau kitting Kate:

The fat Is we all three saw: 1 saw Essau, he saw me, And she saw 1 taw EMMU."

THAT fanner wbo desired "one of thoee chemist fellows WHO think they know eveiything" to visit bis farm and tell hitn haw to man ige it to the best purpose, was quite displeased when his visitor said: "B^gin by selling half your land. "Too much land badly managed is one secret of failure in agricultural pursuits.

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