Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 5, Number 11, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 12 September 1874 — Page 1

Vol, 5^^ No. ii

THE-MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

Town-Talk.

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There *&e several of him. He tumidly men at tha oorner of Main and Sixth street, but T. T. has seen him at jgll hoots of the day at other kwalitiea.

The defiant boldness of the Hon, the unblinking astuteness of the owl, the superb grace of the bear, the unmitigated gaae of the monkey, are all barmflnUMuly united in the despicable man who "tare*.

Ue Imaginea himself att Exquisitely Irresistible "ladies man," and he starea at every one of the opposite sex who haa the misfortune to paas him on the street. First in the line i» the little school girl In short dve* and white, raffled apron. She i* swinging her satchel of books, eating peanuts, and thinking of the answer to the question at the top of the page, which according to her position in the clam, will likely be pot to her, "That droadthful man who stareth tho," •he lisps to her mamma at noon," made me forget the anther, and the teacher kept me in at recess."

Next comes a young girl, who, tor the first time, Is intrusted atone with the mystic rites of shopping. Her pretty Awe beneath the jaunty hat la puckered with importance and self-sufficiency. fully appreciates the confidence and resolves to merit the applause of an admiring household. As the impudent atare comes before her vision, a pink tide of timid annoyance melts the selfcomplacency from her countenance. She Is no longer the reliant woman, bat the childish coward. Where are the proad aspirations and fond desires.' Banished by the detestibie man who stares.

He, perchance, allows hla mechanical gu» to &U on a poor widow who has known batter dajfrs, and sfcritik* Aram observation, as she wearily drags a huge bundle of sewing to the tailors. How the wrinkled cheek bows with shame beneath that impertinent stare, and how heavy grows the load, not only of actual labor, but of poverty and dependence so long endured with the end not yet.

Or the poor sewing girl is the object of Ids merciless scrutiny. Her best alpaca is foded and worn ber nocktie baa been washed as many times as there are inches in length ber hat looks weather beaten and unbecoming bet gloves will fray out at the finger* In spite of -countless darns while the lowest stoop admissible, at the street crossing, will not altogether hide the patched ahoea. All these flaws in her toilet revolve through her burning brain as she endure* the tortuous gaae of this imperturbable wretch, while a few scalding town leave a salty flavor on her tremulous lips aa she hastens to the disheartening tasks of the day

Darwin might find a conclusive proof of hla theory by dissecting the man who •tares. Poanibiy owe degree lower In the scale am the ,A moimcwi

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noons.

Theae are the nice young men, who part their hair In the middle and cany wanted pocket handkerchief, and display a flower in their coat collar, and have their hair sweetly oiled, and occupy a prominent neat In the Church pews. After services are over they will stand about the eHttaaoe to the ehurch and •tare at the ladies aa they descend the ehurch steps. They will range tbemaelvsa along the edge of the sidewalk, and catch with glistening eye occasional glimpses of white stocking* and trim aftkfe. Whan they meat the eye of a |«dy so fortunate aa to have the honor of their acquaintance, they will lift their little hat* with the grace of aa automaton, and smile the sickly, Mfc*tc wnile peculiar to the nice young man. these half-grown puppies, who have the odor of napeotabUity abort them, belong to

at the corner of Main and With atresia* one class frequenta the bar-rooms and the other the churches. There's but littie difference between them.

DM nke young man awl be mistaken, He doat chew tobacco, bat be ocenskraatly dfaatpalas with a li^t dgar. His datxeanor Is charming. He looks Uke a milliner** in tel, or a tailor's aon lowing off hie fiahar'a «oelt of elotMnf. Ha la A«n a seelaty Wot. J| Hetaoa/atf In etiquette, bat deplorably 'j Ignorant of good manners. Ha stares the la#aaaathey pasaawM* dMnk, hla foetuses Indicating «H the lutein gence of the mackerel. These noodlea regard tt as a sohwan doty to hang about dhnreh doom. They are fkw^ meek yaxi^ste**. who w*old be naughty if they had the eotnagn. Tbeyfo* waieh the uplifted skirl of a tody with the gravity of att owl, and never dream that a* sMMdtag M,.vi|rtaa» popplea* beeauae they have Jo* «ome oet of nharoh and ate idw.

Ladies have complained eo often of these imbecile young that hints are i^iloet upon them, They need something «T strong. T. T. wiH give it to wf" have the pah-

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tiat some Sunday morning hi Iwwitafa certain church, who will make jte* tures of theee feeble-minded as they stand in their fcvorita attttadea aa pious stgbtera. Aa nature, hi many eases, haa deprived them of attflktoH mental capacity to wad a newspape*, they wont know that T. T. la writing for their benefit antil some lady tak*e one of them aside and dlrecta hla attefcto tfcK Even then he'll think it refers to "some other fellah," Mad continue to part his pretty hair over his Mghfclit» tie head and agitate his powerful intellect over the distressing problem whether hla cravat la tied property or his back hair ahowa np to a good advanuJ

Husks and Nubbins*

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How much do you charge far haullng a trunk Fwhare to?" responded the interrogated hi the broad brogue of Erin

I indicated the distance. Fi-efly cents," he replied. It was near seven o'etook, a cool September evening,the sky hidden behind a veil of dark grey clouds and the air such aa to suggest to the refieotive mind the propriety of laying in the stock of winter coal before the price rises. The man, a short, heavy-set specimen of the Shamrock Isle, withlumpy, dogged features, had just stopped his horse in front of the public fountain to drink and had evidently felt that his day's work was done. No sooner did he sea his chance to make another half dollar, however, than he accepted it with cheerfbl alacrity and lost no time in getting into his seat. I got up beside him, thinking I would rather enjoy a ride through the dusky street alongside my Jehu. We passed on In silence for some time, I, busied with looking into the lighted windows cf the shops and at the multifarious procession of vehicles and pedestrians of all sorts «iyt moving at all paces, while my stolid Mend apparently thought little about anything except to get this last trip off his hands and go to supper. As to conversation, its limits seemed to have been reached in an introductory remark or two about the weather and even if I had bean dispoaed to talk, there was little in my stolid-feced companion to invite the pouring out of my inner self.

At length we reached the depot and with trunk aboard set on ton the return. After proceeding for some distance in alienee I asked my friend whether he didn't think fifty cants was too much for banting a trunk so abort a distance. "I couldn't chairge leas If I wanted to," be replied.' "That's the regular price."

We\l, bot suppose yon should haul It for kna, what then?" "Ha!" with a abort, knowing laugh, "tbem fellows would fine me four or five d'liaxa if tbey foatmd it out. "What fellows?" "Tbem fellows what kepthe books," and he laughed again mysteriously

I did not care to pursue the subject farther, and asked blm bow much he usually made a day, *6h, he didn't know, sometimes more sometimes less."

Well," said I, pressing the matter, for I began to feel an Interest In the man, or rather In hla mode of life. "Well, yon can make four or Ave dollars a day, cant yon r* "Yes, sometimes sometimes tenor twelve dollars. Depends on business."

How much can you make in a year?" "Oh, I doat know never keep any account of it. Oookln't tell indeed, sir."

And thus, aa we Jogged along I kept plying him with questions until, flatter ad by my evident Internal in him, (for do wt not all like to be noticed and did not Socrates confess to feeling flattered by the notice of a flah-woman?) he told me something of his unavontftU history

In answer to the inquiry how long he had bam 1st theboalneaa, ha aaM^x* teen years.'* He had only been from the old country about nine months when he began hauling and he had kept at It fa this one Sixteen yearst I thought that ts a tang Umeta have sjwmtao—coming out every morning with horse and wagon, stand' ing on the square till ao*ta raving body should hire Mm to move trunk or housebold goods, picking up a quarter here and a dollar ttnre and at laat going home at night, sometimes with good, •omrtimee with poor wages only io renew the mm monotonoes life on the morrow. Tat what better do any of as daf This rfnpM Irish wagoner *s wiser than the shifting multitude whose goods he haa hauled from time la Hose now to the railroad whan they ware going away to And a better place and than txom H, aa they wars coining ha«k, poorer but no wiser lor what did they And hut rifting op in the morning and lying down «t Bight wherever they want, and while they wers waiting Ut«ir sobetaooe in the vain chase for novelty, he found much Of it as thsy and grew riehar Instead of poorer.

Inquiring how much be bad made during thoe* lAxleen years I eonld only

Afafeer ofTh* Mail statL„ his special ar-Jf.* for var, "Ho, I doat know

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bat you have aoma Idea jyoo know how nmdti you am worth now, don't you?" He replied rrinoiantly that ha had a honae wt on Osageo aba* the* waaworth tknaaor foor thonand doQam aaybaandacovqp&a vacant Wi b^aldas whkb w«a worth fiftaen tektad toa. BtaoaktatWattallMte them, (speaking gnaidedly, If I ndgfal aea to devalope into a uurtaaiti). Ha did have three Iota botartdonea pis yaaia ago for twelve hundred. Tbeaalolsha boogfct nine yeaia ago at tieai for abewt flBO each! To ^ve ma a cemplete Idea of hto prosparoua eoodtttoa he eould not refrain from adding that be bad two cows from which tte "old woman" sold "a foinlot ot milk." Inofcloed that h$a hotaewas In exodUent ooadiUon and imnaiclcad upon tt,

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legs and belly all rfP every night with warm water." The Improvidence of the Irish race Is proverbial, but now and then we find a rare exception. Here was one of them. No phlegmatic Gorman with hia thirteen children, cow and cabbage patch, oould be more plodding, Industrious and prosperous. While many of his companions bad started out with as good chances and prospects ash#, their profligate ways had consumed ail their earnings, they had spent for liquor what might have bought them a home, and were still, as they always will be, living in those squalid hovels, filthy, rickety and comfortless, which seem to be the only congenial home for the lower specimens of the Irish laborer. I thought this Irish teamster might furnish a good example for Imitation to many occupying higher places in life than he, who live expensively, pay extravagant rents, and find themselves advancing Into middle life without a home or any prospect of one. They feel it too and are saddened because ol it, yet do not see what they can do to help it. The trouble is that they did not commence years ago to make some small sacrifices, to deny themselves some passing pleasure, for the sake of putting a little by for the purchase of a home. Such small expenses dldntseem much In comparison with the aggregate it required for them to live on and yet they would have been surprised, If they had made a practice of laying a little by each week or month, at the considerable amount it would have reached In the course of a few years. And this habit would have stimulated in them a desire to save and they would have found It an easier thing to do instead of a harder as time passed on, and, by and by, it would have resulted In the purchase of a home, whether more or leas pretentious.

Fashions' Fancies.

Plain and elegant will be the rule for winter suits. The newest thing In ear rings are slippers of painted wood.

Heavy ribbed black silks will be very fashionable next winter. Models of the "coming bonnet" are coming—across th« ooean.

Saratoga hasn't developed any special fhahlonable gait this year. Sashes are now tied low down on the front width of the drees and looped up on the left side.

A new imitation of the camel's hair shawl haa appeared. It is saUl to be a magnificent imitation."

Beautiful suits of black velvet are im ported for the winter. They are completely covered with beads.

Waista of evening dreeaes are to be trimmed with Insertions of laco, adged with rwd Jet beads in profusion.

The feablonable style of dressing the hair is in puflk, Less felae hair is inquired, for which the ladles ought to be very thank AU. l*m gold Jewelry la worn now than for many years past. Jet, Swiss wood, ebony and coral appear to be the most fhahlonable Just at prsaeaU

Leghorn hata untrimuied and ornamented by awing or plume are affected by foahkmable bellea at the watering placea for seme reason or another.

Walking suite will not be materially altered In style or length. Much of the trimming will ha concentrated en the front width, where, of eouiae, it la moat liable to be aeeo.

The Jet waist belts are getting larger in else and vary elaborate. Those of real Jet are, of course, the handsomest and moat expensive with a black ailk dress they are very effective, if any poor girl wtabea to get np a sftylieh bonnet at little axpanaa, let her ran bar head Into a sheaf of aata, and af* terwarde stick In a few field flowers here tad there to light tip her oolftare, and the thing la done.

Madame De Lefeo, wMh «f the ambassador from Portugal, has bean tfce moat etegntitly drained lady at t^ong Branch this season Mrs. August Belmont at Newport Jimi Holliatef at Saratoga, and the wifoof Senator Stockton at cape M*y.

TEREE HAUTE, IND., SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 12.1874. Price Five Cents.

People and Things.

tS yomMUMSt Wt*) never ahow ywpf

Mr. Ttente la Philadelphia's fevo-

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la, having attempted a duel. Aootenponry remarks that thht haa bean a "had year tot good men."

Boas Tweed la afflicted with the goat, andthey wont let him goat to cars It. Bsasfe aoenaed Theodore of playing the aehoot boy game called "Anthony

Mr lamas Paget, Che great London surgeon, protests against high-heeled boots. "Amateur gentlemen" is a pretty good deeeription of a oertaln olasa of young men.

John Morrissey wants to go to Congrass again. He thinks he will make a bit this time.

Sartoris has won another prise. He did it with his little yacht in an English regatta this time.

It oosta Stokes fifty dollars a week for board. He oould do better than that out ofSing-Sing.

Mrs. Stowe declines to express any opinion as to Henry Ward Beecher, except that she "could always see the angel in him."

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The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher will deliver the addresa before the Fair of Grafton county, at Plymouth, N. H., on the 22nd Inst.

Maokey, judge, In South Carolina, wears a silken gown, and goes to and from court preceded by the sheriff, carrying a drawn sword.

A political end seems to have oome to the Blalr family. Montgomery has just been trying his hand at a Congressional race in Maryland, and is badly beaten.

Of

course, we couldn't have him

roaming around here and putting on Congressional airs," says a Nevada paper, in explaining how a horae-thief came to his end.

At a recent Cape May juvenile ball, two Philadelphia misses exhibited between them |25,000 worth of diamonds. They were sistctes, and their mother used to take in washing.

A "wild man" has the woods about Morristownv N. J., all to himself, now-a days. Plc-nica are being postponed and hunting parties organized. He is described as "covered withskalr and having claws."

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"Brick" Pomeroy says his "wont" name was originated by Geo. D. Prentice, who copied an article from his paper with the comment that "whoever writes such sarcasm as this must be a perfect brick."

A terrible punishment was that inflicted upon a man in Delaware, who waa found untying another man's horse at midnight, by two men who made him kneel on the barn floor and pray his level best for seven straight hours.

If the time ever eomes for the explanation of the myateries of this world, we shall be glad to know why the young man who remarks on leaving church, "X can preach a better sermon than that myself," Is content to wear out his life over a counter at (DO a month.

It is related of Sir James Simpson, the oelebrated English physician, that the Duchess of Baccleugh drove up to his door and sent her footman to tell him that she waited without. "Tell the Duchess," he replied, "that Dr. Simpson Is engaged with a washerwoman."

The Milwaukee Sentinel relates that while a prominent preacher of that city was recently making a pastoral visit, the lady brongftt out a number of engravings she bad just purchased. The cautious pastor flew through the front door, and sent hia boy around for hla hat afterward.

New York Commercial] "Are the Joneses backinquired Mm. Spilklna, who haant been oat of town all summer. Yea'rn," replied the oook "and Mrs. Brown and the children got home ftom

Saratoga thla morafng." "Then, Mary, yon may open tbo front ehutter»," continued Mrs. S., "and say that we've returned, too.**

An obesrver, of a good deal of acn men, has concluded that people of small Ideas and weak conceptions are the kind of folks who don't begin, but always commence." They doat live, bat "reside." Tfcty dont go to bad, butmyaterlously "retire." H*ey don't eat and drink, bot "partake of rofreabmanta." They are nover tick, bot "extremely In disposed." And at last, Instead of dying, they "dooa—a."

Edward Bunbury, of Hllea, Mksb., sold his eon for |tQ& The son, Tbomaa, had been elty tax eolieetor, and ran away with fS,900 and a young wife. A reward of |M0 was offered forhla capture. Afew dayssgo the fet her oitered to surrender the aon to the ttariff on payment of the teward* The offer waa aooepted, and Bunbury led the offioer to an apartment In hh house where the daSmlter was dying of oonsumption.

"See" W. S. Ryce & Co. on Black Cashmeres and Drap-de-Ete for Assortment and liow Prices.

I have much to do, and many things to finish," said Victor Hugo, recently, and life is psaslng away from me. My hsad is frill of novels, but shall I aver have ttaae to write themT I am seventytwo yean old, and the ami cannot be for oft Xhose who waged those battles with me are all dead of all of them, I alone survive. I feel like a general who, after a battle, seen his army lying slain aronnd him, himself the sale survivor."

The merrieei monarch in the world Is Victor Emmanuel the finest looking, daer Billy the most stuck up, Alexander XJ., of Russia the thickest-head-ed, Francia Joseph, of Austria the most repablksen, Leopold, of Belgium the richest, Peter IT., of Brazil the moat amiable, Christian IX., of Denmark the youngest, Oscar II., of Sweden and Norway tho moat productive, Queen Victoria the dirtiest, the Emperor of China the most married, Abdul-Axle-Khan, of Turkey and the "dorgonedest," Gen. Grant.—[Brooklyn Argus.

Feminitems.

Boneless corsetsaro anew idea*. Montana la short of women now.'t: Why will a yellow-haired girl wear a blue dress

In California all educational ofltoea are open to women. Female arrests for inebriety are painfully frequent In Boston.

How to Economise like a Lady" Is the title of a book just published in London.

ANew York firm has received an order for a f15,000 bridal outfit. Hard times. cm

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A New York doctor figures it out that an averago woman will shed a barrel of tears In forty years.

Olive Logan wears 930,000 worth of millinery goods in her repreaentation of the "Woman Who Talks."

There will be no post-office clerks in heaven unless the girls stop directing their letters "oatti-ooraered."

Dr. Mary Walker assumed female habiliments AM* a few moments so that she might write: "I consider Mrs. Tilton a disgrace to my sex."

The proper study for mankind is man but if you want to study women, yon must go to Long Branch. The bathing hour is a good time for study.

A Brooklyn girl, who has been read ing somebody's "statement," went Into a dry goods store the other day and asked for a yard of "Impure lace."

A Cincinnati boarding-school girl, indulging with her companions In the amusement of kicking at a mark the other day, dislooated her thigh joint.

Mrs. Austin, of Alexandria, Virginia, haa lived in one neighborhood thirtyeight years and never borrowed her neighbor's flat-irons or a cup of sugar,

There are said to be thirty-eight women now occupying pulpits In the United States. This does not Include those who officiate statedly or occasionally among the Friends.

The freshet yarn in Western New York la that concerning the young Buffalo miss, aged sixteen, who fell so desperately In lov§ with her own brother, a youth of twenty-three, that her parents had to send her to Germany.

When an old friend sees Mile. Coronetti Redetti ringing on the Italian stage she nudgea her eacort and says: "Why that's Matllder Reed." Learning music at MUan had the usual effect on Matilda's name.'—{Milwaukee Sentinel.

Death's "Order of the Gartor."—According to newspaper reports, tight gartering haa killed five women In thla country within the last six months. To "fell Into poetry," aa Sllaa Wegg says:

Whene'er we take our walks abroad, Borne limping frfrl

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HLatlciytlowi with one accord: "Donit garter below the knee." A well-to-do (krmer'ft wife at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, has a remarkably sociable manner of crusading. She stands in the streets, throws a brick through the win dow of a saloon, and whispers so as to be heard three blocks, "I'm gdf n' to die In glory I" And her husband stands acroai the road and fervently ejaculates, "Amen!"

A Long Branch gossip says that young lady from Washington, daughter of distinguiahed General, entered Into a conspiracy with one of the jockeys for the purpose of buying a French pool. 9he paid fiva doUam and won eleven hundred. She rewarded tho jockey for hia astuteness in selecting the right home by giving htm a grand dinner.

Swimming Matches between ladies are the latest New York semations. Mka Bennett, the professor of the art saya: «Yoa eaa sea the value of a knowledge of swimming to ladtaa. The grace which dtey acquire in the water clings to them on land. Miss Anna Mason awam BOO yards in two minatoa and twenty aee* and M0 yarda in one minote and twelve seconds, winning both prisea-a gold locket in one cute, and a pair of earrings in the ether? Who wonldnt be a mermaid.

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The talk in foshionable eirelee la that Miss Briatow, daqghter of the Secretary of the Treasury, will be the belle otf Washington this winter. She is only sixteen, bot her surpassing beauty hass touched the heart of an enthusiast'c Kentuckian, who dedareethatbe would roost in roeebuah and live on dewdrops a whole summer for one look of aff&otion from those gaaelle orbaef hers." "(Mlvia" says that beauty has departed from Saratoga. There are no more gorgeous, purple-haired brunettea from the South, or Swan-throated Evangelinea from New England. The noeeeof the Knickerbockers have changed from the stately Roman to the more plebtan beak. The chests of New York are flat, and the curves are turned into acute angles. How old has "Olivia" got to be?

We are exceedingly grieved to learn by the newspapers that Mm. Celia Burleigh, widely known aa a speaker and writer In the Woman's Journal, and widow of the lare William H. Burleigh, the Connecticut poet, haa recently gone to the city hospital la Roches&er, N. Y., probably to spend ber last weeks, ahe being fiur advanced in consumption. She has, it is stated, neither a home nor near relativea^-fWoman's Journal.i

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A young lady in a note to the Woman's Journal saya: "I have read with intereet all yon hare to say on dress reform, and now wish to aak why we have not the independence to give up skirts at once Warm, full trousers buttoned to a skirt waist with a band below tho knee, a full plaited skirt reaching to the knee, with handsome boots, would make a graceful oeetume, which would be admired by all so soon ss the eye became a6costomed to it." .,

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Domestic broils make unsatisfactory meals. Silver sarxfine boxes axe now given to bridal couples.

A man may love wisely, but he oan not love two very well. 1^^--It seema that Mme. Bataiae disguised her husband aa her man servant. Such tyranny!

The one thing needfed for the perfect enjoyment of love la confidence." Same with hash and sausages.

A Detroit man recently eloped with a woman and ber six children. The forsaken huaband did not pursue.

A St, Louis obit nary closes thus: "He leaves a wife and five children, but had a suit for divorce pending in the areuit Court."

A delicate lady who went to the White Sulphur Springs on a mattress was so restored to health that she married a man worth 9200,000.

A Boston court has decided that if a woman lends money to her husband she cannot get it back. The decision will not be new to many wi ves.

I -thonld like 'Courtship and Marriage' and "The best of Husbands,"' said a pretty girl, tripping into a bookstore. "I think I can fill the bill, miss," replied the dapper young salesman. "Have you Ten Thousand a Year

We never stand by," says the Detroit Press, "when a woman entera a hardware store, shuts her teeth together, and inquires the price erf'them 'ere ironhandled rolling pine,' without feeling that there Is rest beyond the grave for her huaband."

Is there any person you wish me to marry said a wife to a dying spouse, who had been somewhat of a tyrant in his day. "Marty the devil, If you like!" waa the gruff reply. "No, I thank you, my dear, one huaband of the same family la enough for me."

One of the wretched lunatics confined In the poor house of Milwaukee is a telegraph operator, and she spends her time In telegraphing to her husband In Ireland, her fingers bring worn down to the bone in her constant tapping against the wall, In ber Imaginary dispatching.

Thla la how it was done at Council Bloflk, Iowa, recently: An old but well-to-do former .aaked a friend to recommend a auitable wife. A comely servant girl In the former's house was at onoe recommended, waa asked to wed, said "yes," and became lady of the manor.

When a man haa Just "been yanked out into tba bade yard by hla wife and had th* door alammed in hla AM*, he cant take up a position In the middle of tho grass-plot, with a boot in one hand and a shaving brush in the other, and personate

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defying the lightning to any

great extent. In a recent Michigan paper,the Alpena pioneer, appear theee "short and simple annals of the poor": "Dnro.—On tha 16th inst*, at the County Poorhouse, Margaret, beloved wife, of August Peters, brewer, Alpend. The afflicted huaband haa our heartfelt sympathies. MAKStntD.—On the 90th Inst, at Alpena, by Paul Dane, Esq., Mr. August Peter*, brewer, to Mia Annie Glance, of Alpena. Mr. Peters haa our heartfelt coagratnlatfons."