Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 2, Number 45, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 4 May 1872 — Page 1

Vol. a.™No. 4.5.

Additional City News.

FEW people go oat of town for few weeks or months without ordering The Mall sent to them.

THS paraphernalia of the Grand Army of the Republic,coffins, torches and all are stored io the fourth story of the buildicg now occupied by the Exp

THB Dolly Varden" atyle Is of Bible origin. Jacob gave his son Joseph a coat of many colors. Now, If Joseph's name had been Josephine, it would bare been a Dolly Varden" instead of a coat.

~A COUPLE of yoathfnl lovers leaned against the lamp post on the northwest corner of Seventh and Ohio streets precisely three hoars on Tbmrsdsy, endeavoring to adjuat a slight difficulty, and went off mad at last.

KBPUBLICAH candidates for the county offices sre blooming more rapidly than Democratic aspirants. Is this because the ohances for the lormer are better or beeause they are more rapacious office seekers?

TUB Two TICKETS.—Below we give the two tickets for City Councilmen, nominated by the Republican and Democratic Conventions, for the several Wards In the order named

REPUBLICAN DEMOCRATIC 1. Michael Brers. William CoaU. •i. Parker Mllllgsn. David Phllllpps. 3. Fred. Otte. Martin Kercheval. 4. Matthew Bridentbal. Harry Douglass. 5. William 8. Ollft.

On Tuesday you depoeits your votes and takes your choice.

OUR people did the handsome thing to the Areola excursionists, over the Paris A Decatur road, on Tuesday. The party numbering some four hundred, were received at the depot, driven through the prinoipal streets in carriages to Dowling Hall, where L. Ryoe Ksq., told them ef our wonderful city, our wonderful resoouroes, and what a wonderlul people we are, and then they were feasted with a most appetising dinner. All seemed highly pleased with the visit and good will doubtless result to our business men, if nothing

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f- BOOK BEER, a* We are now in the midst of the buck beer carulval. The anxiety to study the nature and workings of this myaterious beverage Is deeply rooted In the human heart of beer drinkers. Tear aftor year Its votaries, forgetting its seductive and treacherous nature, Imblbe and become frolicsome, frisk their brief hour upon the stage, and fall aa the leaves fall, coming out of their stentorlons sleep with a splitting headaohe, and an honest determlnstion to never, never buck again at buck beer. lluck beer cannot bo partakan of in greater quantities than a bucketfull at a time, without proving deleterious. is provocative of a desire to buck against the the tiger, and makes young buoksand buxom fraulelns frollcksome as lawns. And even ladles, when not buxom, when they drink more than a dozen glasses it books 'em. A badly bucked young buck finds himself anlaker'n a buckeyed cow, and though his beer may go "agin" him, if he keeps taking "square" drinks It will bring him to his bier—which Is equivalent to circling the square—a more difficult problem than squaring the circle, in regard to the origin of buck beer, we find the following going the rounds of our exchanges:

One of the institutions In Munioh, In the olden times, was the official brewery, which waa established by royal authority, and which for a long time was an Important source of revenue to the prince. In the sixteenth oentury there was a great rage for anew kind of beer, which waa perfectly white, but whioh is not now made. It was to brew this white beer that the official brewery waa established. Later, however, this old brewery waa devoted exolusivelv to the manufacture of book, a kind of beer first made in Einbock of Brunswick, whence it derived its name.

The season opens on the 1st of May. For weeks before the opening, the cellara of the old brewery are shut fust, and as the tradition goes, the only being allowed inaide is the black demon, who superintends the perfection of the beverage. Two day* before the opening, occurs the official testing. In ancient times three lords of the oap were dressed in stag leather and seated upon a bench. They drank the Book" from two pots, and it st the expiration of an hour they oould not stand up, the beer received the verdict of approval. If, however, they were able to stand up the beer "Was pronounced a fkllure.

Of later years a select company as* eembles in the oellare to test the beer, and are expeoted to do so without getting toddled. As they come out of the vault they are waylaid by anxious crowds, eager to learn of the quality of the beer.

Upon May-day the rooms and oasks sre dreeeed with boughs of to, musk) It provided, and the people are Invited to Mip themselves During the eeason the brewery Is crowded with men and the beer ia believed to be the beet la the world. The rooms are dingy and fbrlorn, with the lenmeoee oasks tilted up In the corners. The beaehee and tablee sre of the coarsest description, MH! the oltoe might be taken tor one of the lowest beer shops. It taw however, the most democratic place in all Geamsnv, for here may be aeea aids by side, the highest officers of the State drinking "book" with thehombleet peasant*

[For the Saturday Evening Mall THE SUICIDE. ar mvsmn. Oh! why do the storm clouds weep? And why do ths rain drops flail Is it sorrow for stricken souls enshrouded with the dread ef a nameless pall?

Drop, drop, drop, On the moss-grown gable roof and top Kach drop a tear

From some far away sphere ifinflHny lu sweetness with earth's bitter gall. Oh! why do the lightnings flash And why does the thunder roar Is it rage for the human crime that is done or the corse that's torevermore?

Roar, roar, roar, ,Qn the night's dmerlan shore i,1 While darkness and death

Await on its breath

From whose blast there is hope nevermore.

The wind through the crevices howl and shriek ilk* demons in search of their prey Or fiends let loose 'mid darkness and storm to bear lost spirits away.

Moan, moan, moan, Through the corridors empty and lone While the shriek of despair

Is beating the air

And the echoing wall dies away. The pattering raindrops fall on the roof like the sound of clattering feet, They rush through the air at the storm's behest to quench the lightning fleet.

Plash, plash, plash, Alternate gloom and flash For the tale you would bear

On the storm laden air

Is wrapped in death's winding sheet. An outcast thrid through the thronged Btreets daring the doom of the wave. Seeking to hide In Its soundless depths the soul that she could not save.

Dash, dash, dash, The rippling wavelets splash Invitingly cool

The deep running pool

Offers the fluttering heart a grave. An unuttered prayer and a plunge as the the stream opens wide, And another lire history written glides away on the dark rolling tide I

Break, break, break. Naught the hell-driven soul can awake, Let the storm king hover

Above the dark river

Aod thunder, toll knell for the lost suicide.

Town-Talk.

I^'HOW SOME PEOPLE LIVE. It has been an interesting study to T. T. to note the msny and devious ways devised for making a living without work. How to make money without capital and without labor is the great study and problem of many a "fine-haired" young man who, without money, brains or skill, desires to get slong In a genteel way. Hard work is to him simply preposterous. He knows no mechanical trade and don't want to —as to clerking, he den't like it," and besides, no merchant who is a Judge of human nature wonld give him bis board, or have him around at anyprioe, and be knows it. He never seeks employment—he saya he "oan't live on a salary and half the time be is out ot business and out at elbow. He has several dodges by which to raise the wind. His fevorite one, however, is the sdvertislng dodge. This dodge consists in dodging from town to town, dodging around among the merchants with some kind of a clap trap arraugement for advertising. Sometimes it is a hotel register, a railroad time Indicator, some kind of a clockwork fixing, a railroad guide, or a hotel table where the merchanta can have their carda exhibited under glass, like exotlos in a hot house. Then there are charts. Charts with clocks and charts without clocks. For a email sum this slick young msn will insert a merchant's card, ocoupying one line or two inches as may be desired, and said to be printed on several thousand million of charts which are to be circulated throughout the city and country roundabout. The complacent patron little dreams how bsdly he is sold. In msny pases his card is printed ons few sheets only—enough to afford one each to the men who have oarda, and a dosen may possibly be hung up in the hotels and barber shops.

Strange to aay good natured merchants can always be found to pay fabulous prices to be put in some strange contrivance, which nobody soaroely ever eeee. This class of advertisers go it on pure cheek. They bolt Into stores with the greatest sang froid, button hole the pmptietor, (no matter how much he may be engaged) and introduce their "enterprise," with aa much gravity and importances* though the destiny of the house depended upon the reenlt of the interview.

They are not to te put off with the first refusal—much lass by a polite evaalon. They are eloquent about the inertta of their particular dodge, Itgoee everywhere, la seen and read by all men. And bestdsa, Mr. A. and Mr. B» (mentioning some respectable names In the same line of business as ths person he Is addressing) are to be "represent* ed." The merchant often goee in" merely to get the canvasser

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You cannot" hlnfT' one of theee follows hie akin is ss tongh aa aa alligator'e. He la shrewd, independent, anecropttiooa. He ton fauguam the beelthy

growth of legitlmste business. A point blsnk refusal in atone of uncompromising decision Is the beet way to treat theee irresponsible snd wsnderlng mercantile psrssites. If a msn is known snd hss local habitation and name," it ie different, and In all honeat, legitimate transsctlons, no objection can be urged to the method ofseeking business by personal aolicitstion, bat it needs a little dlscriminstion to separate the wheat from the chaff. As general thing merohsnts, businees snd professionsl men, srtists snd mechanics, will find a greater return for their inveetmente by using the regular newspsper publications of their town.

SPEAKING RIGHT OUT.

Much hss been ssid snd more written in fsvor of frankness, and in denunciation of duplicity. But isn't there such thing as carrying this open-minded expression a little too for? T. T. occasionslly meets with men, and women too, who boaat ot being what they are pleased to term plain-spoken." I didn't go round the bush about it," "they are heard to say. I told the fellow just what I thought of him, plump snd plain,—all this going to demonstrate to an admiring circle of listeners that the speaker is a plainspoken" msn—very. But T. T. generally finds that the ruling characteristics of such persons is not true frankness—far from ingeniousnees—but rather a coarse disregsrd for the feeliugs of those to whom they deal out their "plain" talk and many a ating do the sensitive sutler at their gross hands. The true gentleman—in fact, any one but an uncultivated man—will never purposely wound the feelings of any one, no matter how frank his nature may me. He leana to innooent deception rather than to that plainness of speech which amounts to harahneas. One is net bound to grasp by the hand a man whom be dislikes, call him my dear fellow," and smile hypocritically neither does it devolve on one to play tbe role of the "plain-spoken" man and unnecessarily wound another by telling him aqua rely what ia thought of him every time he is met. The dog snarls aud the mule kicks at those they do not like—both thus displaying great frankness so, this too plainspoken" man msy properly be classed with such animals—creatures among which, it would reasonably be inferred, he had received his education.

Feminitems.

Toledo has a lady house- painter. The reason why Horace Greeley opposes female suffrage is doubtless bocause the ladies are all free-traders.

A young lady in this city,who proudly called her friends to admire a Dolly Varden cat, has at the suggestion of her brother, concluded to call it Thomas Varden. v«

At the funeral of Miss Annie B. Leonard, in New Bedford, Maasacbusetts, recently, four young ladies, dressed in black, with white veils, flanked the

TERRE-HATJTE, SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 4,1872.

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A New York belle, seeing smong the religious notices that a certain clergyman would preach "D. V." said at once sbe would go and hear him, presuming as sbe did, that the discourse was on

Dolly Vardene."

Miss White is a collegian in tbe University of Michigan, who has routed all tbe male matt "^qaticians of the course, and finally overt*, the faculty Itaeir in the casual solution of a problem that has been "given up" by the graduating classes for the last fifteen years.

Three things tbst womsn cannot do are now said to be to sharpen a pencil* tie up a bundle and carry an umbrella. To do anything else, for whioh her sex does not directly incapacitate her, she has proved her ability, says the New York Standard." t. 4- it

Laura Fair, it ia announced has so completely changed tbe current ol public feeling which set in with her conviction, that she is -now confident of acquittal in tbe approaching trial. She has given herself little care during tbe interim. Tbe very comfortable fortune she hsd when convicted has been increased, by her own well-directed speculation, by more than flfiO.OOO beside which, daring her imprisonment, she hss waged interminable and success fill law-suits, and written a book or two.

The "cheek" of the ordinary female book ageut is proverbial, but tbe quality seems to have reached ita elimax la a woman who called the Lien tenantGovernor of Rhode Ialand from his place as presiding officer during a debate In the Senate the other'day, to solicit his subscription for a work on "Personal Beauty." Upon her making known her business, the interview terminated abruptly. He didn't sabscribe.

The Lock Box.

[Under this head we will publish short eommunleations on matters of local interest. from tbs people. All are Invited to contribute. Letters, hints, and sunesttoos mur be left at this ofltee or dropped in the rostofflce, addressed to The Mall.] 't-oL

^A WORD TO COUNTRY TALK. MR. EDITOR As I don't know who Country Talk is, and cannot talk to him personally, I should like to say a word to him through your Lock Box. Of

course

he knows his own bis, but

while se much Is being said about Town Talk, I think C. T. should also stir np the natives a little more. We need it down here in these "diggins." The Bigblow family are some of them country Jakee and onght to be dished up. It would do them good, and the country would be gratified. Now, Mr. C. T., you are too calm and docile. To do justice to the cause you ought to be more radical and strike a little harder aud stralghter. But I expect your present calmness is only in preparation of Herculean blows. Come to think, T.T. started off in the same way, and now look what a volcano ho ia. I have beard some tslk sbout C. T., but not enough. Some say It first rate and some say it is "pretty d—d thin." I think it is good as far as it goee. But the beet writers must expect criticism. I nnderstannd some people doubt T. Ts claim to a high place In literature. C. T. is as good as T. T., and we want tosee it better. C. T's WELL-WISHER.

LOAFER'S ROOST.

EDITOR MAIL:—I wish to inform the polioe snd the pablio through The Mail of a loafer's roost in my neighborhood whioh I think should be routed by some means or other, as it is a great nuisance, and I fear a dangerous collection ot nocturnal prowlers. The roost is situated on South Sixth street pretty well down. The location varies somewhat, but my fence appears to be the principsl plaoe of attraction. They often assemble Immediately after dark and torment the neighborhood until late at night. Whether they are a harmless aet of Idlers or whether tney assemble to plot mlschisf Is not for me to say nor the polioe to wait longer to aee. 4^

N *?RR CITIZEN.

EFFECT OR BUCK BEER.

FRIEND LOCK BOX:—The Mail advised me, two or three weeks sgo, to go up town on Saturday eyening and see the sights. Contrary to my usual custom, I followed the advice and was rewarded in seeing much that was interesting and amusing. :«rf

Coming home, I walked for nearly a square behind two men who,arm in arm, were finding out how many tunes they could cross tbe sidewalk in going from one lamp post to the next. One of them was singing "It ever I cease to love and sfter brilliantly improvising, "May I never have a chance at any more

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hearse as pall bearers..

"All Flesh is Grass—Halt a Ton of it gone to the grave," is the feeling way in which the Cincinnati Enquirer heads a notice of the death of Mrs. Amelia Brooks, who weighed over nine hundred pounds.. ,t

If ever I cease to love,' turned to bis companion and said: "But, my God! Tom, Mollie and the little ones can't go to church to-mor-row, for I spent the money that was to get their shoes tor Buck Beer, and haven't a cent left."

They reeled routid the corner, and in a minute I heard the same voice: "We (hie) won' go home 'ill mornin'."

SATURDAY NIGHT.

WHAT I KNOW ABOUT LAUGHTER. I know Ipts about laughter new. I bet you, when I get to be a man as big as my father I'll pay you up, too. My father Is ten feet high, I gnees. He wears number ten boots.

I am six years old. My mother read that stuff you had in your paper about "laughter cure" to father at the tea table, and I listened. I thought you wss smart man then,'cause I like to lsugh. I don't now. They laughed over it, and said It was cute. Half an hour after that I began to laugh and choked myself with hot tea. Father aent me away from tbe table. I forgot to cure my tongue by laughing. I did something else.

Mother bad a headache after tea and I tried to cure her. I aang Captain Jinks real loud and funny, and drummed on the diah pan. She said, "Do be still, Bertie I've got an awfal headache," and wouldn't laugh a bit. Then I played I waa clown in a circua, and rode Bruno for a comic mala. Bruno barked and Jumped 'round the room joat as lively aa anything,but ma called father to stop tbe noise. He pat Bruno oat doors and made my ear sore. I didn't think to cars that by laughing.

When it came time to aay my prayers I waa so aleepy I did not know what to do. So whan I should have said "Give us thla day," I laughed to keep awake. Ma a hook me and told pa, "Bertie is surely erasy to-night. Did yon «m sea atMh actions!" V"

The next day at ohurch the minister looked so pale when ha waa praying thai I thought he waa sick aod needsd to laagh. Whan ha waa about half through I aatd, "Amen," real load. I thought Mat waa funny, hot pa hart

my aore ear, and whispered, "Be still I Are you oraay? I knew what I waa about, though, and when the minister looked my way after a while, I made the fannleet face I coald. He did not laugh one bitonly looked mad. Then father took me home and a polled the nioe peach tree whip that I waa going to play horse with at school on Monday. I wouldn't try to cure my back with laughter because I think your lsughter care ie a humbug, and I don't like yon one bit. You'll catch it, BERTIE Ban.

Amusement Notes.

Thia has been a quiet week In the way amusements—nothing whatever having appeared at Dowling Hall or the Opera Hoaae.

Next week we are only promised the oat-door exhibition of the "Great Eastern Menagerie, Museum, Aviary Circus and Baloon Show," a title sufficiently long to draw.

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On Mondsy and Tuesday of the following week Fanny Janansohek oomee to us again, supported by a first-class company. On Monday evening she gives "Mary Stuart," and on tbe following evening Macbeth." The sale ol seats will oommence on Wednesday morning at Bartlett A Co's. The Philadelphia Press, of recent date, saya:

Schiller's grand tragedy of Mary Stuart" was repeated last evening at the Chestnut street Theatre. Janauschek's abilities aa a tragedienne ware demonstrated to many of our people, who felt her magic power, and especially the intense earnestness with which sbeportrayed the more violentpassions. But probably none were prepared to bear her act in English with such remarkable accuracy and propriety as sbe does. We oould not detect false pronunciation in all her long and trvlng part of Mary Stuart," and aoaroely a wrong emphasis. We do not remember to have ever before beard a foreigner give so perfect an English reading.

The picture which Janauschek draws of the hapless Queen ot Soots is not only strong, but in some particular an original one. It has no touch of tameness, not even in tbe first act, which needs all her power to relieve it from dullness. The climax of lta strength is in the interview between the two queens. This Janauschek rendered with striking Intensity snd consumate grandeur. In the closing scenes she gave a beautiful exhibition of subdued feeling and of passion sublimated Into pathos. Altogether, this impersonation is a grand and most artistic one. sessH55ssaas^si

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People and Thing^.!S

A Michigan jury wished to bring in a verdict in poetry. Thomas A. Scott, the great railroad man, was

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a penniless youth.

O. Bull snd wife will sail for Norway this mouth. Mr. Bull Is the well known fiddler. uj 1 ii

A Cariitivflle, Illinois, elocutionist advertises the Lord's Prayer as a speciality.

About two-thirds of the convicts in the Northern Prison are unmarried men.- 5 "!5 "Nasby" is to lecture next season in opposition to tbe Woodbull theory of marriage. His title is Hannah Jane."

Boston Corbett, who shot J. Wilkes Booth, is still living in Camden, New Jersey, so says the Newark Advertiser.

The voice of one claiming to be a lineal desoendsnt of John the Bsptlst is heard crying in the wilderness near Cairo, 111.

Dio Lewis hss written book on digestion which he dedicates to those of bis countrymen who are all gone in tbe pit of the stomach. •. 7''

In Switzerland, editors who advocate woman's rights, are prosecuted according to law, and one narrowly escaped conviction lately in the canton of Uri.

Ass means of curing intemperance, Dr. Bowdltch suggests that food, tea and coffee rooms, chesp sad frequent, should be encouraged for popular use.

The euphemistic wsy of patting it now, when a fellow gets kicked, is to say tbst somebody's boot toe eaaually walked ojer the basement of hispantaloona. •, ,»•••• /X

Gail Hsmilton thinks an exoellent sermon could be preached opoa donation partiee In general, the erlla from which they epring, the evils which they engender, and the propriety of their discontinuance.

Dr. Holmes givee hia estimate of three profeealona In one sentiment, thus: The lawyers are the clevereat men, the ministers are the most learned, and the doctors are the most sensible."

Gospoti- Indiana, lias a man who hears through his month, being without the usual external ears. Happy follow! He can shot his month when hie wife scolds. (Boeton Tlmee.] 80 oan any man, and the scolding wlfo will esaee the quicker tax it.

One of the lateet sensation storiee oommeooes with the ossnsl remark: Did you ever, gentle reader, have a with a fall-grown Bengal tiger T" The Chicago Poet asys: We did, and If the king had turned, aa we betted it

Price Five Cents.

would, we'd have 00me out thirty-five dollars ahead." Theodore Thomaa says the eaddeet thing on earth la that people will blow their noeee when hia orcheetra are in their moet delicate pianiaaimo paaaages If they wonld etrike the proper key, it would be something, but they are invariably an octave or two out ot the way.

Biahop Simpaon, in appointing Rev.* Dr. Newman to the Chaplaincy of the United States Senate, said, that under the general law of the Church he had power to sppoint chsplalns to reformatory institutions, and he oenaidered the United Statee 8enate to tall within the eoope of the rale. ,,

The looal reporter of the Lawrenoe (Ka.) Tribune ia in a bad way. He haa been recently converted, and In oonsequenoe la obliged to aotloe amusemente very mildly. In announcing the appearanoe of a minstrel troupe he says: For those who do not oonslder it a sin to witness minstrel shows, this entertainment will furnish a pleasant relaxation from the revival meetings."

The publlo will rejoice at the announcement of the death by atrangulation of the author of the following:

One of the laat worda Introduced prominently to the public is* 'sdumbratlng.' It Is defined to mean the 'individualism of preliminary and precipitous prognostication, as eliminated in irrefragability of never flinching and never-to-yield-an-lnoh discomboberatlon of spontaneoue oombuation, whether or not, and evincing antedeluvlan indiviaibilitiee, contemporaneously elucidated by unregeneratlng consanguinity when sycoelephantioal and scintillating approximately to scentlflo elaboration.'"

Fashion Chit-Chat.

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The lateet thing In ladiee' shops,. buttons on the Ineide. Summer dreesesof white msterial are handsomely embroidered in black and crimson.

Fashion says green of all shsdes is to* be worn this year. "Green suits my oomplexion beet, and green it shall be," eaid the milk maid In the old spelling book, W

A contemporary suggests that the tailors should get up "Simon Tappertit" suits for tbe men, to match the

Dolly Vardens" of the ladies. Them legs, you know. 4- 1 Generally the new sprfng bonnets* prove to be very becoming. They are adroit combinations of tbe cottsge and gipsy bonnets, with very narrow crowns and narrow head pieces.

The ladies of Alaska are aaid to wear a body dress of equal proportion of furs and dirt, arranged to suit the taste of the wearers. Tbe married ladies all wear silver rlugs in their noses snd needlee through their lower lipe, while elderly ladiee add to their lrreeistible charms a "stopper," wbetever that may be, in the upper lip.

Betrothal partiee, after the German custom sre becoming tbe fashion in New York, The engaged reoeive their Iriends in formsl fashion, and are congratulated. Thus tbe happy event is made public, and great is the rejoicing thereat. If this becomes general, and every belle gives a patty every time she becomes engsged, New York society will have its hands fall all the year round. ^^mmitr

I: For The Boys.

There ain't but phew kan stiek a white pocket handkerohief into the oreet pocket ov their overcoat without letting a little ov It etlck out—just by acksident.—[Joeh Billings.

Young men of extra conversational powers, who are capable ef conducting a five minutee' conversation without saying you bet, and hash, are in good demand in up-towncirclee.—[Cleveland Leader.'* "One who has been there" propounds the following conundrum Isn't it rather a disagreeable occurrence when a young man's suspenders give away, while be dsnoee a scbottisobe with a young lady who never wants to sit down T"

ADVICE.—Young man, don't get too foxy. If yon happen to get in possession of a tow dollars, set fast as you did before you got them. Don swell np and burst. If yon have a good ahare of brains you won't do thla you will remember that neither money, olothes or good looks make the man, and that worth Is aa often garbed ,'n a ragged coat aalt lain broadcloth. Don't •Und on hotel etepe, dangling your watch chain and talking boss." Those who load themaelvee with airs are tbe emslleet kind of potatoes snd the fewest ia the hilL fat Job often epolla young men of »weak minda. They immediately eommenoe to dreea fine, aad take great pride in cultivating aa aldermaaie corporation, and a sport lag air. Seaeible parsons are alwaya dtamatad with such actiene when they detgn to noUeo them, which Is very seldom—[Ex.