Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 5, Number 28, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 9 January 1875 — Page 1

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A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

[Write® for The Mall.) DUTY.

A monk of old for mnny a year, With penances and vlgildrear. Had praved that, er« lie closed his eyes, To open them in Paradise. He might for but one moment scan The face of Him who died for man. Heaven krunts its faithful servants prayer For, while blest choirs resound in air,

The cell the swish of angel wings Makes musical with inurmurlngs. The convent wall is rooked to base, The massive roof is lost in space It shrinks away asunder riven liefwre the lixlit of glorious Heav

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'Mid clouds a form li«ht descends— Th' enraptured monk adoring bends!

Hark! 'tis the clang of convent^bell, VV hloh eehoes thro' th' illumined cell, Warning the monk at that the gate, The Master's poor his care await. Attentive to its harsh behest. Repining not he leaves The Guest— Not e'en one thought his task to shun His duty 'twas, atiu must be done. 1

*Tls done, and well but faint with dread, 2jest while away his Lord had fled, Back to his eell the saint repairs, In spirit blest by toor souls prayers. Oh, bliss! stih, still the vision waits His coming from the convent gates. In testacy of Joy In- kneels, While thro' his soul this message steals: lilext be the man by duty letl /laiUC stayed with me, I must have fled!' —[BliUCE. ftoCKViLLK, Jan. 3, 1875.

Town-Talk.

IH'BMC SWKETNESS.

T. T. claims to be a good-natured man. most poople aro gwxi natured, in tbeir own estimation. But T. T. is really and truly good-natured. But souio of his married friends have roused his ire to a fearful pitch. It is done mostly by young married folks, though the pro voking eonduct is not confined to the young. Some older people, who ought to know better, aro guilty. It is not kind, neither is it good mannors, for these married people to parade their bliss beforo tho world, and especially before their unmarried friends. They remind T. T. of the follow who, sucking away 011 a stick of candy, turqed to his girl and said, "It is licking good don't you wish you had some?" It is not to to tho cooing and cuddling which young brides and grooms resort to on the cars and in public places, which stih? tho indignation ol T. T. Bless thoir hearts tlioy aro no more responsible than people are for what they say and do in dreams. They will wake up soon enough, and tho honey visions will vanish. Cupid is a strange mesmerizer, and the little rascal is putting theso victims through all sorts of tricks for his own amusement and that of tho public. Let them coo and bill, and if older married people, or old maids and bachelors don't enjoy tho sight, lot them look tho other way. T. T. don't object to silliness. If anybody chooses to play the fool, T. T. is not going to got mad about it. It is arrogance to which T. T. objects. For instance—and this la the immediate occasion of this protest—T. T. called on an old friend of his the other evening, who had been married a year or two, and a snug little wife he has. At parting, T. T. stood, hat in hand, having a little farewell chat. This friend mado a playful appeal to his wifo, and, calling her some pet name, chucked her under the chin with his fingor, while she, in response, gave Kim ono of hor woo tost looks, and taking his hand nestled up close to him. Now these people knew,or ought to have known, that this was awfully aggravating to a bachelor. Such endearments aro all rignt, and must be mighty nice. But it is not polito to thrust such scenes upon the vision of those denied thoir enjoyment. It is too much like a self-satis-fied saint standing In tho door of Heaven aud calling out to a fellow in tho uncomfortable temporaturo of the other place, "I say, down there, it is mighty pleasant up here how do you think yon would you like to change places?" It is bad enough for tho sinner get scorched, without having somebody chuckle over him. T. T. met this same pair on the street the next day. Ue had her arm, (this is the fashion now), and,as we met, he drew her closo up to him, as much as to say, "It is lioking good don't you wish you had some?" T. T. dined with them and when

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she put up her lips, and he—thohusband not T. T. put lis Hps down to meet them. Nothing was said, but T. T. was was deeply, not to say paintully, impressed with tho fact that no such lips over invited his to meet thorn. T. T. does not object to chocking a wife under the chin, or hugging her up close, or kissing her, or hor suggesting the kiss. But he does object to this public sweetness. Let it bo done in private, or when only married pooplo and children are present. It is all right for married poople to bo happy—if they can bo—but it is not right for them to thrust their superior privilege® upon the public, the unmarried public. Besides, they convey felso impressions in this way. If they parade their caresses, they should also their quarrels. Give us outsiders both sides of the picture or neither aide. Probably tho latter is the better thing to do.

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BABIES.

T. T. has no antipathy to babies. He does not see how it would bo possible to have affairs properly conducted her© for any considerable period without babies. He believes in babies. He does not object to looking at babies, or even to holding them, though he must confess that he is in a condition of trepidation from the time he takes ono until it is taken from him, lest some embarrassing emergency may arise. But still he holds his friends' babies a great deal, and is inclined to the opinion that the pleasure which he gives to the fond mother, and which he gets himself, compensates lor the discomfort. But T. T. does object to having a lump of jelly, red, llabby, and out of all shape of anything human or animal, thrust into his arms, and being compelled to hold it at the imminent risk of getting it turned upside down, or wrong side over, or dropping in a slush 011 the floor. If ho holds babies, he pre fers to do it in the exorcise of his own free will.

T. T. objocts to all leading questions in reference to the beauty or the family resemblance of babies. T. T. has been tooled by such questions into lies innumerable, and without the slightest shadow of foundation in fact. He has extolled the beauty of recently hatched infants to thQ skies. He could not have said more if they had been visitors from the land of spirits, cherubs iu very deed, veritable Katie Kings, when the truth was, that no cage of apes ever contained specimens of ugliness equal to them. He has been compelled to tell beautiful women that their babies looked like them, or like their good looking husbands, when he wondered why they didn't shoot him on tho s^ot. If they had shot him, the verdict would, or should ive been "justifiable homicide." T. T. wonders how he has escaped the wrath of heaven for the falsehoods, the outrageons lies,, he has told concerning the beauty of infants. Annanias and Sap liira are now where in comparison. Probably a merciful Providence took into consideration the fact that he couldn't help it. What can a man do when a mother asks, Isn't it sweet? Isn't it a beauty? Doesn't it look like its mamma, or Isn't it the very image of its papa? Do? Why he must lie, and trust to a merciful Providence. But T. T. won Id prefer not to be asked such questions. He has learned that the parents will never detect tho falsehood. They will believe anything favorable to the beauty of their offspring. But he is not exactly settled in his mind as to the view Providence will take of the matter.

Husks and Nubbins.

No. 140.

A WORD TO YOUNG MEN.

There area great many young men who do not realize how many opportunities they are letting go by unimproved. Somebody always seems to be in the way just ahead of them, blocking the passage and making it impossible for them to move on, and they aro waiting for that person to get out of the road. In fact, with too many young men, youth is spent mainly in waiting. Waiting for this and waiting for that waiting for tho older men to die out of the way, so there will be empty places for them waiting to get older themselves, being too young to do anything of consequence waiting, in a general and indefinite way, like Micawber, "for something to turn up." This is peculiarly true of young men in professional life. The young attorney sees the profession full of trained and skillful lawyers, who have tho reputation of years, tho confidence of the people, and into whose hands the business of the courts naturally fillIs. What can fen do but wait? As these men grow old and die there will i)e mom for him. That is just where he may make a great mistake. It is true that the offices, the business, the whole complicated machinery of the nation must in time come into the hands of the young men. It is true that tho present generation, like their fathers, will pass lf the stage and leave it to new plays and new players but who will those players be? Who will be the coming judges and governors and men of influence in every department of life? It is easy enough answered. Not all young men, nor any young men simply because they are young, but those who have so used their time and cultivated their talents that they are the best qualified for and the most capable of getting these places. There will be a struggle just as there always has been, and the strongest men, considered with reference to the aggregate of their powers, will be the men who will win. And this one thing may be considered as certain, that it will not be the young men who are waiting, for waiting is the poorest method of development, the most utterly barren of results, of any that is conceivable. One would better do anything whatever I than do nothing. Doing atrengtbens the faculties, but idleness weakens and benumbs them. The most pitiable object is a young man rusting away in idleness. Ho I09QS i^t.once both the dispo

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sition and tho capability of action, and to him tho opportunity never comes, simply because he is never preparod for it. He is always in the rear when the tight is going on, vainly waiting for the enemy to come to him, instead of going to the front where there is work to do.

Thero aro two questions which every young man should frequently ask himself, and insist on a definite answer ov.e is, whether lie is growing as fast as he can and ought to do, and the other is, whether finy other men of his ago are accomplishing more than he is. If he has to answer either of these ijuestions unfavorably to himself he may depend upon it that ho is a promising candidate for defeat in his futuro contests that he stands an excellent chance for taking a back seat, and keeping it too, in the congress of practical lifo. It is a great spur to a man to coniparo himself carefully and impartially with men of his own years anul see whetlior he is leading or being left behind. If lie finds tho comparison unfavorable and perceives that he is falling in the rear, his ambition and selfrespect will be aroused, and he will press forward with greater energy. If, on the other hand, he finds himself ahead of his competitors (which is less likely) his pride will urge him not to lose his vantage ground. This sort of comparison is too unfrequent with young men. Thoy are much more likely to keep their eyes on the older men and to say, "Oh, well, wait till I am forty or fifty (as the case may be) and I will be quite as much ofa man as he is." Probably you will, (though it is much more likely you will not) but suppose there area dozen men, not a score of years your senior, but of your own age, who are outstripping you in the race, and getting further ahead of you every day, do you suppose you are very likely to pass them at any subsequent period A man of twenty-five has no business comparing himself with a man of forty-five or fifty. He cannot know what the older man was at his own age how many of his first efforts, his earlier attainments are completely covered up and hidden by the accumulations of later years. The young man will forget much of liis present knowledge before he is forty, but that is the worst possible excuse for not learning all ho can, for he will know little enough at the best.

Doubtless when the man of middle life, full of family cares and business perplexities, looks back to the period when he was a young man, in robust health and with more time almost than ho knew what to do with, doubtloss he sees how that time might have been better improved than it was that it might have been the foundation of more solid attainments and a greater breadth and completeness of character that he might have been a stronger man to-day if many hours that were ill or foolishly spent had been devoted to profitable application. The young man is too anxious for action for notoriety. He has yet to learn that when the period for action comes, the period of silent thought and study is for the most part gone. And only when tho time of action is upon him does he realize how valuable are the results of those earlier years oi honest and earnest application wherein his faculties wero developed and bis mind stored with knowledge that stands him in good stead now at every turn. Thoy aro destined to be the successful men who see in looking forward, what the man of middle age sees in looking back, and who never see a solitary hour go by illspent without a sting of conscience for its low. The year upon which we are just entering will bring double the measure of power and attainment to some young men that it will to others and tho result will be manifest twenty years from now.

THE CHURCH ICS TO-MORROW. Subjects at the Baptist Chapel: MornIhg, "Tho Gospel for the Ages to Come evening, "Religion not Superstition." C. R. Henderson, Pastor.

To-morrow, tho first Sunday after Epiphany, the services at St. Stephen's, will be appropriate to the events commemorated by the church at this time, viz.: the manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles. Tho hour of evening service is changed from 7

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First Presbyterian Church: Communion in the morAing young people's meeting at 8 p. M. and preaching at 7.

Centenary M. E. Church: Subject in the morning, "True Relation of Things Temporal and Spiritualevening, "The Week of Prayer and Revivals." Social next Thursday Night. A cordial invitation to all.

Rev. M. Crosley preaches at the Unirersalist Church to-morrow subject, morning, "Following Christevening, "As the Tre Falls."

The pastor, Rev. E. F. Howe, in the pulpit of the Congregational Church tomorrow, morning and evening. ft^

Christian Chapel, Mulberry street, between Sixth and Seventh, G. P. Peale, pastor. Morning subject, "The Resurrection of Christ evening, "The first Miracle." Sunday school at 2:30 A. *.

Mrs. Whipple, mother-in-law of Isaac Beanchamp, died Tuesday night, at the advanced a^e of sixty-seven years.

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TERRE HAUTE, IND., SATURDAY EVENING1. JANUARY 9, 1875. Price Fitfe Cents*

People and Thh^g^

They take life easy in Mississippi. Working along leisurely is a great genius.

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"Silver threads" tingo Schuyler Colfax's chin-whiskers. The Detroit Press man is supplanting tho Danbury genius.

Among the dead of the past year is Victoria Woqdhull's paper. That quaint Detroit judge asks a man:

How would 60 days suit?" Forty Kcntuckians rode two days to kill a fox worth sixty cents.

A Princeton, Ind., school principal has the absurd name of Smoke, 15

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Andy Johnsoa wants to be Senator to pay up his impeachment foes. Next to a diary the most difficult thing to keep is a lead pencil.

Tho prudent man upholsteretb his spine before he getteth upon skates. ANew Haven elder preached a watchnight sermon arrayed as Father Time.

The" New York World wants to know if a man with a cough is not a liackman. An Arkansiin "kept helping himself to the crackers" till the grocer shot him.

Rov. Mr. Perry [Episcopal], of Baltimore, will bo tried for praying for the dead.

Gangs of cut-throats, with a glamour of romance about them, still infest Missouri.

Four days after ho took the horse, a Kansan was in the penitentiay for four years. Y,

A man who can't dance is' ignored in Washington, though his brains fairly bulge.

Rev. Mr. Jelly, of Baltimore, is very popular. There's always a jam in the church when ho preaches.

Hell closed for Repairs" was the title of the Rev. Mr. Lutz's sermon, in New Haven, on New Year's night. "C-c-c-cau that p-p-p-parrot talk?" asked a stuttering man of a German.

Ven he don't talk so gooter as you, I schop, by tam, his head ofl The Gardiner (Me.) Journal says there is a store in that place in a which a skull is kept on the counter, marked,

This man was a drummer. Beware!" There are some men who take things critically. Such an one was Col. Sullivan A. Meredith, who died a few days ago. His last words were: "This is a new sensation."

There is none of God's creatures for whom the recording angel reserves a larger share of pity than the man condemned to wrestle with the average boarding house surloin

At a Univorsalist church fair in Lowell, Mass., a country clergyman, astounded by the lures and devices resorted to, made a speech of violent denunciation. The young ladies wept, and the young gentlemen hustled him out.

Uhe sum of ten dollars has been lying on a table in Alton, New Hampshire, for nearly two years. A man tried to make a legal tender of the sum to John W. Currier, but he refused it, and it has been left on the table ever since.

A Nevada audience dislikes to bejdisappointed. Three thousand gathered to see a murderer banged at Carson, and their enjoyment was spoiled by a reprieve from the Governor. That night a party of miners, who bad walked ten miles to witness the execution, caught a horse thief and hanged him to a tree.

A Harrisburg paper informs Its readers that "when a gentleman and lady are walking on the street, the lady should walk inside of the gentleman." How the lady is to do it is not stated.—[Philadelphia Ledger. Why, she's supposed to "walk into his affections" before the the start for their promenade.—{New York World.BjP

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Before Ben Butler's gubernational campaign in 1873, a gentleman told him authoritatively that if he would keep quiet and wait till the next year he could be Governor of Massachusetts without any fuss. "My friend," said Butler, promptly, "I'm much obliged to you, but I don't want anythiug I can get without a fuse."

In San Francisco, lately, at the installation of a Universalist pastor, the opening prayer was delivered by a Unitarian, the Scriptures were read by a Jewish rabbi, a Presbyterian offered the second prayer, the sermon was by a Congregational ist, the installing prayer by a Presbyterian, and the charge to the pastor and address to the people by Unitarians. 3 •$•* -f .«

In the midst of the service fa the Roman Catholic Cathedral, in Baltimore, a man dressed as a Quaker walked up the aisle, entered a pew, and stood bolt upright with hia bat on. When told to take off his hat, ho said he was permitted by his conscience to do so, but he had no objection to having somebody else remove it. He proved to be John Hopkins, a wealthy bul very eccentric Friend*

The Bostonese are already preparing to celebrate the centenary of the battle of Lexington. The intention was to have a sham fight on the old field but thoy gave it up because none of the fa, vs would personate the red-coats. Tfc best they can do now is to have a grand i" Boston, with poems by Wendell Holmes and Whittier and speeches Iy ondell Phillips and Josiah Quincy. v-

The New York Sunday Dispatch says, Dio Lewis sits in bis garret, scribbles out a magazine article demonstrating how easy it is to keep a family on ten cents a day, then goes to bis dinner, and when he has finished the meal, bis landlady files into the room with her halfstarved progeny, and wants to know why that "Blamed old philosopher cusp didn't eat the knives and forks while he was about It."

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Katie did. "She "did"' IVl'r. Owen completely. Eight hundred thousand more women than men in England!

The style is for engaged ladies to dress as plainly as possible. When it comes to point lace, all woman can see the point.

ANew Britain, Ct.,woman of 66 writes pieces for the local papers. A Harrisburg landlady rocently cowhided a non-paying boarder.

Many Washington belles wear perforated buckskin undergarments. Mrs. Soule, at the Women's Convention in Chicago, boasted of not having asked any man for money for the last twenty-two years. -v..

The Praying Women's Temperance Union, of Worcester, furnishes the firemen of that city with hot coffee at every fire, the aim being to forestall the de tnand for intoxicating beverages.^,

Chicago holds up its hands in horror at the antics of a wealthy woman who went to church drunk, and was so unruly in her responses in the Episcopal service that she had to be led out. It was afterward explained that she had taken brandy medicinally, but the doubters will scoff.

In England the waist of a ladys dress is called the "body." A yoyng American girl on a visit to an English country house, which had the reputation of being haunted, had subdued her nervousness sufficiently to fall into a light slumber, when there came a gentle tap at the door, and a sepulchral voice whispered through the keyhole, "I .w^nt to_c9me in and get my body."

Three old ladies whose united ages were 269 years recently met at the Mansfield depot, Mass. Mrs. Melinda Brown, aged 05, walked alone from her home a mile distant Miss Roxana Jewett goes up and down stairs easily, and eats nuts and pop-corn with the same teeth Dame Nature gave her 88 years ago, but Mrs. Delight Baxter who was the youngest was the feeblest of the three.

New York belles didn't offer their New Year's callers egg nog and punch this time. Even wine waa scarce, and tea, coflfoe, chocolate, beef tea, and lemonade appear to have been generally adopted as substitutes. Beef tea seems an odd sort of drink to offer to perfumed and kid-gloved eallers, but they had to take that or none. Another modern delfcacy which the belles brought on this yeareonsisted of brown bread sandwiohos.

A leading Paris authority in fashionable matters says there is nothing more difficult for a woman to do than to sit gracefully in a oarriage. The lorette lies down at foil length the strong-minded woman crosses her legs the bourgeoise sticks up her knee the waiting-maid leans over the side and the high-bred lady only holds herself as she ought to do without either carelessness or stiffness, and looking as though she bad been born in a carriage.

The Cumberland, Md., Nevfe says a committee of three young ladies, Miss Kate Long, Miss Maggie Gramlich, and Miss Maggie Richart, waited on Mr. Wm. Kempoff, of that city, and requested a donation for a fkir then being held, to which he consented on condition that the ladies named would roll a barrel of flour, which he would present them,, from his store to the hall where the fair was being held, and in case they failed to do so they were to pay a forfeit of one dollar each. The ladies accepted the proposition, and won.

Mrs. 8t. John Ecket, "Maria Monk's daughter," gives the following account of the successful reformation of her pug nose: One of the first things my sister bad said, on seeing me, was, "But where is your pug nbset" "It is gene," I replied but I did not tell how it had gone. I will here make the confession to tbe reader. At night I would take along garter and fasten it around my face, drawing it so tightly over the tip of my nose that I could hardly breathe through my nostrils. During the day I used to pull on the nooe. In two years I succeeded, and the pug had disappeared. How much, did I not suffer for this vanity.

Connubialities.

MOTJIEH-IN-LAW.

Mother-in-law. My raother-in-lnw— I Joarost old lady that ever I saw Her finger thrust Into every pie hitch secret bored by hergimlet eyV And for everything that amiss doth go, 'A 1 he comforting murmur: "ToTd you so.',

Mother-in-law. My mother-in-law— Dearestold lady thatevir I saw! Mousing, and meddling, and stirring up strife, Now with the husband and now with the wife Perennial spring ofa family care From tbe day she began our comforts to share.

Mother-in-law. My mother-in-law, Dearest old lady that ever I saw! And now she says she is going awar. When I've doae s# much to prolong hVr stay. I gave her room on the topmost floor. With a banging shutter and Joctaless door Choked up the ebimney for her dear sake, And bought her a cross watch dog to koep her awake. Could a son do more She couldn't demand it, \n«i yet the old lady declares sJM eaa't stand it.

Mother-in-law. MofficT-fn-law— Dearest old lady that ever I saw! .Since y«u are determine# fo sever thiv tie, Give me your hand, and say good bye You won t? Not awordrnet a parting tear, •Save for her y«u have soothingly dubbed "poor dear?"

Mother-in-law. My molher-Js-law— '•I" Dearest old lady that ever I saw 5,$^ $£ Coming each Christmas day to dine Now yon bring joy to this heart of mine, Which quite wells over with grateful cheer As 1 think that day comes only once ayear.

A Brockton, Mass., youth had lCfr guns fired in honor of his nuptials A Norwich dame of 70, two year^ & bride, has got a divorce for cruelty.

An intermission of two weeks occurred between two twins at Keene, N. H, Far Western papers call marriage "social fusion," perhaps because it's a thing that few shun.

The law of Minnesota won't allow a father to thrash a child over sixteen years old, but he can maul his dear wife from morn till night.

Nothing recalls to the mind of the married man the joys of bris single life so vividly as to find that the baby has been eating crackers in the bed.

A wife in Springfield, Mass., saw her husband walking with another woman, and at once started for the river to drown herself. On the way she changed her mind, got a pistol, sought the offending pair, and forced confession and repentance under a threat of instant deatlv

The Washington correspondent of tho Indianapolis Journal telegraphs that there are sensational rumors there to the effect that Mrs. Sartoris has separated from her husband, and is now in Washington. Miss Nelly will now be asked to arise and explain, but really we fail to see whose business this is, even if the sensation has a foundation in fact.

Mrs. Eliza Brookbanks, of Chicago, I who has mourned as a widow for the space of twenty years, was recently surprised, as also delighted, at the receipt of intelligence denying the death of her husband, Abraham. He left Chioago nearly a quarter of a oentury ago, and remitted regularly for several seasons when ho suddenly ceased, and all trace of him was lost. He Is said to be the proprietor of two silver mines in Arizona» and rolling in wealth.

A justice of the peace living in anoth-1 er county was recently called upon by a* couple from Barton, Vt., who desired to be married, but two weeks after perfor-: ming the ceremony, he remembered that tbe marriage was Illegal, as being made^ out of the county where tbe couple belonged, so he married them again. Some .* time after, he ueoollected that he hadi not been qualified for office in theirscounty, and, taking tho oath, he againperformed the ceremony. I

A beautiful and well connected youngs lady In Seymour, tbis8tate, being willing to enter tbe matrimonial state un-,, der fevering circunnstanoes, put herself5 up to raiBe. The man who threw the highest number in three casts of tbe die* was to win tbe prise, provided, however that she need not aocept him unless she chose, and that be might have the same privilege. There was a large number of contestants, the prise being won by ones of the handsomest young men in the| town. The matrimonial bint contained.| in this proceeding mfcrht be Lrgelj utilized by our marriageable young la-* dies.

A Mormon paper at Salt I^ake placet* the number of polygamiats in tbe T^rrM tory «t 1,000 men, 8,000 women and?l 9,000 children, and the cost aa2 oss, by legal puniahmoot of all, at 9^000,00, and thinks that the courts would haye| around them 3,000 crying women and 9,000 crying children. This is probably a pretty accurate oomputation. One oft the beautfot of the polygamous system. is shown by a statement that within stone's throw of a prominent churph in» Salt Lake ia the residence of an aged Morosoi\ who is tbe husband of a wo-E man and her two daughters. Thus his. first wife is hia another-in-law, hia stepdaughters are his wives, his son by hia1 ftnt wife is half-brother to his other wives, and a sort of uncle to his other?, children, and—you can study it out ftuK ther, if you want to.

SoMk books are te be tasted, others to| be swallowed, and some few to be ohew-» ed and digested.—[Baoon.