Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 4, Number 36, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 7 March 1874 — Page 1

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Vol. 4.—No. 36

THE MAIL.

Office, 3 South 5th Street.

[Written for The Mail.] AVENGED. BY HETTY A. MORRISON.

Only a face, a dead woman's face; With bands of brown hair. Parted plain from the brow,

How iter* it teems now, Onee so gentle and fair! With chews, pale and thin, That once were aflame Both with fafcacuy, and shame, laps, gmtlee, that could win -i. Krora the sternest, dose pressed, As they soorned to confess, To shame, sorrow, or «n: The hands meekly crowed. As when saints kneel at piayer, Bat the marriage ring loet! Or has never been there ,»ri ,* Only a face, a dead woman's face,

And fold, upon fold. ...... Of damp grave yard mould, Wraps the poor pale fiaoe In, Hides its shame, and its sin.

Only a free, a dead woman's flbce,

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Bat the grave cannot keep It: Deathly white, it most rise, With stern pitiless eyes To meet one who trembles to meet it, ..

How lovely the bride! How proud the fond lover, That stacdaat her side!

And now he bends over,

To kiss the rod lips, ah! he starts, The face of the dead woman paita, Bride, and lover,

And though not a word, Those stem lips have stirred. Lips aud kisses are mine," this he heard,

Cold and white are my lips, Onoe so red, and so warm, And the foul earth worm sips,

Where your kisses fell like a rain storm. And the damp, grave yard mould, Clings close to my hair, Do you mind O beloved how your hand once cAremed

And dwelt lovingly there? I am cold O beloved! I am oold, In the bed you have made me, Kiss me warm O beloved, I am cold. Where ray love, and your sin have laid ma." And when the groom touched the bride's

She'skwered, as though a cold wind had passed.

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Town-Talk.

AM93SG THE NEW8PAPKKS. HOB. Daniel W. Voorhees writes for the Express.

Hon. Bay leas Han aft writes for the Gazette. t"! SKSIi

Han. Robert N. Hudson, Hon. Thomas Dowling and Hon. John T. Scott, write for the Journal.

HOB.Perry S. Westfall and The Right Honorable T. Talk write for The Mail. The Express is mathematical. The School Board are debating the propriety of adopting it in place of the primary arithmetic*.

The iimtte is trifling with "Rail road Items." T. T. is firmly persuad ed that many of its Items are pare inventions. He boldly charges the Ga zetto with making op these items in its •wn office unless it gets somebody else to do It. •«,«•-

Col. Hudson claims ID his new Jonr nal that he has a few religious ideas himself, bat promises that he will not inflict them upon the subscribers to the Journal, nor ridicule theirs—if they have any. Two good premiums. Better than chromos. The first is rather the sap«rior of the two. His list of subscribers ought to "expand" rapidly. .,," Aesthetics—Tbe science ot the beautiful in nature and art"—(Webster.) The Express has taken to aesthetics. Those who know say that the editor modestly withholds from the public the rotes for himself as the handsomest man, bat carefully peruses them by the midnight oil. They preparatory to sleep.

Hnsk and Nubbins has changed his name—T. T. didn't know that ha belonged to the class that sail yftder "aliases." ,SThe Journal is clean and sweet in its new dress If?

The Gasette is not as dlrlj as liuaed to be. The Journal Is potting its BOM into the "handsomest man" business. It Is no ose. Neither the editor nor his assistant can get any votes. Try an ugly man's ticket.

Georgians has departed. He, she or it went out in a blaeeof giory. Splinters of Marshall is walking In her tootsteps.

By the by what has become of Mrs. John Smith? Perhaps "Py O^by" Is what's the matter.

Ool. Thompson will stump the district tor Dan. and the Express will be his organ. This

report

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oame to T. T. too

late to Interview tbe parties and learn the toots. If they are not as reported T. T. will Correct himself next week. T. T. forgot to say that it is also reported that Bay less W. Hanna will be the rival of Mr. Voorhees in the coming political race, Hanna being the Liberal Democratic candidate and Voorhees the Bourbon Republican candidate.

THE SALOON KKKFKRS I 7t

Do not manifest the slightest fear of the results of the Temperance Crusade upon their business. On the oontrary they firmly and unanimously assert ihat more liquor will be bought and drank in a few months than ever before. They are willing to risk their business, but they manifest unfeigned and deep sorrow that the cause of religion and the female sex are so degraded by this movement. If there is any thing that is admired in the saloons, and which the keepers desire to see kept pure and spotless, it is woman and religion. T. T. never noticed so much anxiety about this as within a month. Perhaps the danger threatening these is greater than ever before.

Are greatly hurt that their business should be put on a level with saloon keeping. It is a pity that so many of these put their own business on that plane. But tbere are drug stores where liquor is sold to he drank on tbe premises about as freely as at tbe saloons.

TOO BAD.

The Sewer question is settled. No cards.

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T. x. wencfed bis way to tbe Commissioners Court on Wednesday morning to hear Thompson and Voorhees on the question of granting permits to sell liquor. He was disappointed. He heard the two renowned lawyers. Bat they were mild as cocing doves Thompson thought that he and bis friend Voorhees wouldn't differ much, and Voorhees thought that his friend Thompson had stated the case about right, and he stated it over again about the same way. They didn't wax eloquent once. The American bird didn't flap a wing. Thompson didn't seem to knew whether be had any case or not. If he had he left it to Cassll, which was the surest way to lose it. If T. T. might be allowed to advise the temperance people, he would suggest that they do not appear before the Commission ers till they are perfectly sure that they have a ease, and that then they put tbe thing tiiroogh as if they meant business. The liquor sellers could not ask for any thing more favorable to their cause then the "fooling" of last Wednesday, morning. From what T. T. saw of the temper of tbe Commissioners it is evident that a permit will be granted every time Cassll appears before them to oppose it. He may bo a first-rate man with moral character too good to be admitted to tbe bar, but the sentiment of Wall street is not favor* ble to him, and the Commissioners' Court sits on Wall street and bolides, the Board is neither enthusiastic nor unanimous in its opposition to the liquor business. Cassll is placky, but It is not good policy to set him to plead before that court. If a good lawyer cannot be found who will take a real interest In seeing that all the provisions of the Baxter bill are complied with and do tbe work free of expense, then the temperance folks may as well pat their hands in their pockets and pay a good fee or drop the matter entirely. A drunken.lawyer with skill, sad ready to use it for a fee, is better for tbe canse than a temperance lawyer who will not or cannot make himself master of the situation. Score one for the saloon keepers this time, and discount ten for the temperance aide on account of their stapld blundering.

Husks and Nubbins.

H!*TAB~D*PTHa."

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iny head I Millions Mid millions and millions of miles "Drifting" through space at tbe rate of seventeen miles a second 1 Systems, constellations, Aggregations and chmd* of snns Star-depths, deep, deep, bottomless, boundless, infinite emptiness 1

People and things are d^tfnjftWNidfnlly mixed h«r*a bouts. Col. Hudson, haying swung »round the circle,is editor of tbe Journal, and Jndga Jones Is hit next friend. There are Ool. Thompson nuad Daniel W. Voorhees, cheek by jowl With only the difference of tweedle* dum and tw^dlr dee between them, and that to*t disappearing. Then tbere are Bayleas W. Hanna and Dan. Voorhees—heretofore Damon awl Pttittm, and David and Jonathan combined— new at swords* points, each ready at a WMOMril wwrttfeft to MI mwj thing he knows about the other—and print it too. Vfext the SxpHM pats Voorhees on the ba«fc~-.U nacrito pat him with its boot me- U»rsilly—and sets him up to apeak at its big meeting. And Voor* beealnttirti nrlbuW* tberaost brilliant effusion* uf his p«* to the colnmne of the Things are decidedly mixed. It i• currently reported that the plan is tor Voorhees to take' make the sun which warms oar pigmy Hunter's place In Congress, and that system seem like (he end of a match

Which means, being interpreted, that 1 havejost come from hearing Proctor, the wteld-*«t6wn«d astronomer, lecture on Celestial Architecture* Of ooorse I w«»t prepared tor anything. 2 was not altogether unfamiliar with tbe arithmetic of Astronomy. Had learned from Foe some commonplace and insignificant facts abcut oelestial measurements and gained from other •onroes some notion of La Place's Evolatkuai theory. So I was not going to be snrprlsed at any little computations Mr. Praetor might male*, way small •lima in multiplication In which "both multiplier and multiplicand" might consist of three or tour orders of figores. Oh, no, I wsant going to b* troabled sboat a tow billion# of «abie miles mors or less or light that woaid

TERRE-HAUTE. IND., SATURDAY EVENING. MARCH 7, 1874.

from which the last spark was dying or motion that would make one swoon at tbe weakest effort to follow. No, I went clad in Impenetrable stoicism. Nothing should surprise me, nothing move me.

They did though. It was too raucb. I believe I should have been able to withstand the mere, oold arithmetic, but tbere was something more tban that something I had not counted on and not prepared for. It was the pictures. They were tbe last straw that broke the camel's back of stoicism. I saw that I was bagged and gave up the contest

First came photbgraphs of the Spectra of some of those "twinkling liftle stars" (only a few million times bigger than the little twinkler we live on) which we have all so innocently apostrophised in our juvenile days and complacently "wondered what you are." Well, there was nobody then who could tell us, for this wonderful apparatus they call tbe spectroscope was in its elementary state of iron, wood and in those times primeval. But that is all past now and the "Twinkle, twinkle, little star" will have to b® omitted from tbe revised edition of the primer. Yes, those black lines on the screen there show that hydrogen, nitrogen, sodium, iron, and many other of the chemical elements with which we are so familiar, exist throughout the universe of worlds, and that we are only a chip from the great block,one of the "ash-grey blossoms" floating about, of which Richter speaks.

Then came pictures of the stars, the milky-way, the nebulae, or "starclouds." How wonderful they were, some of them! Suggestive of such portentous and tremendous things. There were the vast, empty spaces between the worlds, seeming vaster and grander even than in the sky itself, doubtless because our imagination was in active exercise. One picture I think I shall never forget. The stars formed a perfeet wolf's head, with a great sun for an eye and stars set along the jaw for teeth. The ears were stiff and bent forward anal tbere was an expression of savageness in tbe features that was terrifying. Think of it—a beast formed of worlds millions of miles apart and rushing through space at the inconceivable rate of a hundred miles a minute, yet standing in the position of that snarling visage forages! It ysaq the demoniacal of Astronomy. •, .4

Then there was that star, away off in some corner of creation, which Mr. Proctor said suddenly conceived one time tbe idea of expanding from a star of tbe tenth to one of tbe second magnitude. And how do you suppose it accomplished this wonderful feat? By setting itself on fire and biasing away like a barn full of hay. Envious star! not satisfied with shining according to its natural capacity, it must perforce try to rival its grander neighbors even though it burn up in the attempt. And that is not the worst of it. Mr. Proctor assured us that so intense must have been the heat that tbe beings on all the worlds of which that reckless star was the sun were utterly consumed and destroyed! Might we not be permitted to hope that the cilixens of that nook of creation possessed greater ability to resist tbe effects of caloric than we aad bence possibly escaped such a dreadful death? It would be a pleasant hope to oberlsh. The burning of that star saggests that the traditional belief In the destruction of our own world uy a conflagration is neither foolish nor absurd.

It Is not worth while to try to give an Idea of Mr. Praetor's lecture to anyone who has not beard it. Mere figures and statements would be lifeless and uninteresting. Even to read the lecture, word for word, would give but a poor idea of it. The effect, as in all studies of suoh a nature cornea largely from tbe atmosphere around one, tbe consciousness that a large number of people have Isolated themselves from the harry of passing events and are unitedly bending their energies to the stody of the same grand, infinite lesson. There is a sort of sympathy born of tbe feeling which sustains and invigorates, the tooling that one la net alone. But more even is d«s to the beautiful photographic pictures of tbe heavens which are projected on a large seraen in front of the audience by means of magic lantern. The effect of some of these pictures Is altogether lndeecribabie. They bare tbe power to carry one away la an instant to any pertion of the universe and to reveal the marvelous giory of its infinite depths in each clearness s* to give as site* gather anew eoiiosptiott of it.

Very fitting it was that this sublime study on the "siar-depth*" should b« supplemented by Rlobter's "Dream upon the tJaiverse," with which the lecture olosed. ^Iniinediately my eyes wore opened and I saw as were an interminable sea of light ail spaces between til hmmam were filled with happiest light tor the deserts and wastes of ereafloii were t»6w {Hied with the sea of light, and la this sea the rane floated like ash-grey blossoms and the planets like grains of ee*d. Then my heart comprehended thit im­

mortality dwelled In the spaces between the worlds, and death onlg among ike worlds. And the murky planets I perceived were but cradles for the intent spirits of the universe of light! In tbe saaraba of tbe creation I saw, I beard, I felt—the glittering, the echoing, tbe breathing of llfo and creative power." ——From the snbiime to the—pitifully contemptible. On the seat behind me sat a man whose alcoholicsteeped brain soon wearied of the "saarahs, of creation." He fell into a drunken sleep and snored throughout the remainder of the lecture.

JEAN PAUL*

Boston has one colored policeman. A spendthrift intellect is a deplorable sight.

Bishop 8impson has arrived in Mexico, in good health. Over 80,000 persons get their living by liquor in Pennsylvania.

A Washington letter says "Dawes talks like a saint, but votes like the devil."*.1'^'""^'#

Beecher Bays he was "pitched into the ministry headlong," with a small stock of theology.

Statistics show that the largest portion of crimes in England is committed by young persons. W '-MV', "All right, old boss—I'll be on hand!" was tbe reply of an Alabama youth when sentenced to be hung.

A man who spit tobacco in the eye of a dog belonging to an Iowa justice was fined f7 for "contempt of court."

The Sous of Malta have taken anew start, and the order bids fair to flourish and be known over tbe land again.

The statistics of Iowa show tbe singular fact that the greatest number of thieves and murderers have bine eyes.

The red men used |6,438 worth of Government soap last year, and they ain't a bit whiter than they were before.

How quick they get tbe hang of it! A colored cashier of the Freedman's bank in Atlanta. Ga., has just absconded with jio.ooo.

Harvard says that "enquire" is right and Yale says it is inquire." We think acquit" is pretty near the thing.— [Detroit Free Press.

A Good Man Gone to Roost," was a headline in a western paper's obituary. That proof reader was admonished.— [Springfield Republican. |p

Gen. Marmaduke is suggested as a probable candidate for Governor of Missouri a State he tried, to destroy whvn he was in tbe army. a

The Danbury man made hay while tbe sun shone. He has $25,000 in bank, and now he don't oare a cent whether folks laugh or cry at his jokes.

An enthusiastic Granger exclaims, I'd ratber be a door-keeper in tbeb**' of the Grangers tban to shoyel sugar in tbe stores of the middlemen.":

A Kentucky paper apologizes for having spoken of "red-headed, malignant mule who dispenses the county money," by saying that it wrote, "Bighearted, valiant soul." fJ

Mrs. Marrowfat is still pondering that paragraph ahe saw In a paper the other day, that two men will sit and chat together* a whole evening without discovering each other's age.

Boston Post: The most original phase of society life in Wssbington is the card announcement of births. It reads, "Compliments of Mr. and Mrs. Blank and Son, January 80."

Ool. Higgluson has relieved himself by the foliowlngobeervation "I would rather see too much enthusiasm tban not enough. I often think that tbe spread-eagle of the stump orator is better tban tbe cold spirit of tbe olty editor who cuts him up. 1 would ittthcr be choked with gas than smothered with starch."

There's a good little boy in New London, N. Y.„ who devotes himself to the needs of his little sister by snowballing pedestrians with a view to making them dodge. Tbe strain they «r« subject to breaks off more or less buttons, which he industriously gathers after tbe victim's departure, and gives them to his sister to pat on a string.

Tbe Rwv. Mr. Sweetser, of tbe Bleek* ®r Street tTblversallst Cnurcn, In New York, having been announced, lately, to preach about "His satanlc townees, the devil," the organist, with a delicate respect foe the proprieties, selected tor the "voluntary" the tuna with which the suggestive words, "Should sold netpualotanc* be forgot," are universal!y associated,

Daring Ool. Tom Scott's recent visit to St. Lews!* be was hailed on the street by a little bootblack with "Bom have yoar boots ahined f" Tbe Colonel pleasantly shook hia Soger at him, saying,

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Feminitems.

A Milwaukee woman traded her boy for a Newfoundland pup and §6. The Wisconsin lady who blew oat her kerosene lamp now wears a wig.

Mrs. Van Cott boaats twelve thousand converts. She is evidently In the Van.

Three sisters own and operate a Maine flouring mill, and they an making money.

The old ladies who make rare bed quilts hope there'll be a Centennial.— Phila star

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People and Things,

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tle wftir swnng his box over his shoal' der, and ye ng the g«eat railroad king rom head to font, replied,You're boss of your boots, ain't yer?"

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Within the last three months the Presidentbss appointed thirty women postmasters.

Yellow River, Arkansas, has "resolved that the great need of this town Is about forty women."

Mrs. Paist has been elected to the Philadelphia school committee, and will undoubtedly "stick."

The oitissens of Cheyenne don't allow landlords to collect rent of widow women, and landlords, therefore, have a care whom they rent to.

There la a young lady in Western Massachusetts, six feet six inches high, and, as she is too much to marry, they use her to dry clothes on.

Tbere is a Mrs. Peale in California who owns and manages a farm of 173,000 acres. She goes and does it, without holdiBg any conventions.

Our great-grandmammas are turning over in their graves in consequence of tbe rumors now current that "poke bonnets" will be revived nextSum-

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The old style of combing the hair over the ears is revived. What a blessing this will be to those who have homely "organs of hearing," and what a sacrifice to those who haven't!

A powerful eagle lit upon a Georgia lady, tbe other day, and attempted to carry her off. He had forgotten to sharpen his talons, however, and she was too tough to get a good hold of.

A manager in Liverpool, who advertised for "good looking ladies" to go on in the pantomine, received 300 replies. One young woman sent a yard of auburn hair as a specimen of her charms.

Anna Dickinson, Miss Swisshelm and some others don't believe In the woman crusade. It kickB up suoh an excitement that leoture committees don't want to pay $150 per night, which is what's the matter.

At a recent election of officer of the First National Bank of Lafayette, Ind., about one thousand votes were cast by the lady stockholders. People on the street thought the regular sewiag-olrcle meeting was being held at tbe bank that day.

That wonderful scholar, Mrs. Somerville, read Greek every morning before breakfast. After she had passed her nineteenth year, she divided her time between the higher algebra, reading the poets and the newspapers,receiving friends, aud working with the needle without spectacles.

Mrs. Stanton throws down the trump card in tbe proposition that no woman should attend a church where they refas to admit a woman preacherto the pulpit on account of her sex. If this were carried ont every church would have to succumb, as women compose the majority of the audiences.

The latest specimen of a man's tyr anny is credited to Qnincy, 111. Fourteen fathers of that city have signed a pledge not to allow their daughter* to take music lessons until they know how to make good bread. This is a striking example of the troth of the statement of a woman at the Vlneland Convention, that the moment a mother puts pantalettes on her daughter, she makea her tbe stave ot tbe portion of her offspring who wear pantaloons.

A Philadelphia lady lost a thousand dollar diamond out or her engagement ring, and though every means of search was employed, the case was Anally pronounced bdpGleas. flat, ono day, the lady happened to bd brusbiog tbe dust out of tbe trimming of her street dress, when lo, and heboid I there was the lost diamond fjwrkllbg in the Insecure crevice of a flounce. It bad gone to and fro in tbe streets and shops, been brushed and shaken nearly every day, and yet there it lay like an ordinary

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American women will got their "rights"—If the woaderful Granges do not *ttllaps9. In the State of Iowa there are,more than eighteen hundred ot these Oranges* *&d among their members mm BOthan twenty-five thousand of the gentler sex, who are being gradually prepared by parliamentary practice, debate, and the details ofgeaeral basins—, tor tbe proper •anderstanding of the dutiee and prtvilegea of the clti&et>. It Is estimated that tfas total srumber of ffemaie Grangets now enrolled in the different State orgaitiKatbnsi is at one ha adred thoassnd—a quiet bat ibrmldable army, not given to platform oratory,

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and not neglectful of domestic obligations, bat nevertheless earnest, diligent, and capable—women, in abort, who may yet use effectively that potent little weapon called the Ballot.

Mr. Robert Dale Owen, la retorriag to the traditional admiration tor Italy Vi dark-eyed daughters, said he had see» more handsome girls in New York or Boston in five weeks than he saw i» Italy throughout five years.

Connubialities.

The moon that Is made of grecn cheeeo —The honey moon. It is said that the boat means to earfe a fast young man is to "bridal" him.

Practicing with a dumb-belle—Talk-ing brilliantly to a dull but pretty woman.—[Graphic.

A New York bride recently startled tbe fashionables by dispensing with orange blossoms at the ceremony.

We regret to notice a growning asfrmoeity towards life-insurance among middle-aged husbands with young wives.

For an English sixpence and a handful of powder one can buy a wife ia Ashantee, and if be hasn't the sixpence, they will take the powder.

While Wm. Cray of Seville, O., was riding for the doctor to attend his sick, child, Mrs. Gray packed berjyrnuk an$ a

A man was boasting thathe'httfl'besw married for twenty years and had never given his wife a cross word. Those who know him say he didn't dare to.

A wealthy Buffalo lady of sixty has just married her own widowed son-in-law, and the children of two families are now puzzled to settle their jcel*tio»sbip. i* ,«*{ .»,*, sw 1

A Dubuqnfe young lady gave up the man she loved and took tbe one her parents favored, in consideration of tbe sum of three dollars and a sky-bloo merino dress

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Maryland girls won't marry in tbe full of the month, believing they would have ill-luck through life, but an Indiana girl wouldn't let forty full ssaois stop her ten seconds.

A Detroit woman lately left her husband's board, but took the bed with her. The Union says he is in a quaatdary how to word a legal notice of warning to prospective creditors.

A Saratoga belle, twho six months ago was so languid that she could scarcely support herseli at the altac, now throws a flat-iron fifty-five and hits her husband every time.

A Connecticut lady, aged seventeen, is suing for a divorce. Sooner or later this infamous parental tyranny «f sending girls to school after twels* years of age, will come to a dlsastsow end.

A Cincinnati clergyman has been detected trying to pass counterfeit mons^ It was the a bridegroom gave him tor tying tbe knot. May the crockery fly about his head before the honeyoMMm wanes.

Mrs. Robert Sbebee of Owasso, IOSL, in a card setting .forth her domestic difficulties, says: "I do not care ne much about a man's striking a wotnaa with his fist, bnt when it oomes to taking an axe to her, it's too much."

Miss Olyrapia Brown and Mr. Willi* were united in marriage last spring It was a change of state, but not of name for Miss Olympia Brown Is now the Rev. O. Brown, while John Heasjr Willis attendetb to the wants of the grocery business. On the door of tbe Atmily mansion is "Olympia Brown."

A slab above a grave In Aricanaas bears the following legend, evidently tbe tribute of a devoted bat dlsorlmhs" atlng husband: "Shewashed the children,

Fed the fowls. And MiRdc her hon»«? R««OUnd with hoWttL*

%lu a recent divorce suit, tin) flecistew the court was tbat the man shooid %e allowed to re-marry." A compositor *et the sentence so tbat it read, "The plaintiff sh*l! be allowed to ran away." It was ascertained tbat the compositor had lately become a benedict and tbat was his deliberate ad via* to his fellow-man. -1

Mrs. Green, a Kansas widow, learn from the Kingston Freenwa, wants to be married again, and, an a recommendation, she says she haanaot one broom for fourteen years. It seems most pitiable that a lively Kansas widow should be In possession of a tor fourteen year*, without being to engage some skull hard enoogh tm break It.

Which shall ovftfee tM fire tn the morning? Positive inability to —Ml* harmonioualy this momentous question has ceased tbe honeymoon of a fresh couple in Northampton, Mass., to wee* prematurely. She has ietacn«d to the paternal told. He has taken atrem#n*oosdoseof laudanum, bat, having recovered, he now knows perfectly wl which must make the Sw In the morning, If It la to be kindled at all.