Bloomington Courier, Volume 7, Number 38, Bloomington, Monroe County, 23 July 1881 — Page 3

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OBSERVATIONS OF REK QABJE

T 'JLUVAJSIC.

- Yon may retort It on do palin's as a mighty xesky plan

To make your judgment by do clo'os dat

KiTora np a man:

For I bardly needs; to teliydu howyon often

comes ercross

A fifty dollar saddle and a twenty dollar

- hoss.

An, wukinMn dftlow-gronn's, ypii diskiyer

as you go j, Dat de fines' shncfe mayliide do meanest' nubbin in a row! , .

I think a man has got a mighty slender

chance for he ben

Dat holds on to his piety bnt one day out of

seaen, - Dat talks about de sinners wid a liean 6 solemn chat An nebberdrapsa nlokie indefiaissionary hf.t; Bat's formost in de meotin'-house for raisin' alldechunes, , . Bnt lays aside his ligion with his Sunday pantaloons. rJ ... 1 ! I nebbcr judge o people dat I meets along de way By do places whar dey come fmn an de houses whar dey stay ; For do bantam chicken's awful fond o

rcostin pretvy high, An de turkey-bnazard sails above

in do sky; -Dey ketches lit

An'

de eagle

ittle minnors in the middle ob

'possum npde

do sea.

you finds de sm alios bisse&tkind o' tree!

Scribner's Monthly for-July;.

THE STOBY OF A COUPE.

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Every one in Paris knows Darley, the livery-stable keeper. His establishment is now half a century old, and lie furnishes the Faubourg St. Germain with all the carriages, they hire. Many of the upper ten have their homes in the country, and never take their horses to Paris. Therefore Monsieur de Merisi, immediately after his arrival, went to see Darley to engage a coupe. After the usual salutations, the following dialogue began : 'Well, Darley, I want a handsome coupe, with one horse. How much will it be?" "What will the amount of work? be, sir?" ' "Oh, not very rnuciv "I never want it before 5 in the afternoon. -1 pay a few - visits, and take a drive in the park. In the evening I wantit to take me to the. theater, or home from i jthe club?' ! ; ..' Darley reflectively scratched his head. ' Well, how . mncira month do you want for it?" 4 "Hum let me see. For a new coupe and a good horse, in May, the .busiest month76 francs, is r heap." ' "What? from 5 o'clock to midnight, or 1 o'clock in the morning?" ' "You must remember that during the remainder of the time I canto use either the coupe or foe horse.". 'Well, let us say 700 francs; that's handsome pay for so little work.''" , "AH right," ; grumbled 1 Dailey. "Same place, I suppose?' 1 "Yes." "Well, I'll ,.send it round :tc;raorrow," ;.. -

An hour later Darley received, with with the utmost respect,, another im-portrait-customer, Madame de Belrcy. "Well, madame: what can I do for you? Carriage, eh? Well, .let me recommend a landau in that mad am eTa toilet can be seen to the best advantage." -.. ' ... , "No, sir; as you see, I am yet in mourning, and came to Paris only to settle some aflairs." 'But madame will pardon me if I say that in a coupe, her beauty " No, - Monsieur. Darley,; I am a widow, "and I live retired. I want a carriage only for , my shopping and such things; a coupe will do me a simple coupe with one horse, elegantly lined, but dark., .How.mueh will it be per month?" . . : ' " "That depends upon the' worki?' c;Oh, it will not - be much. At 9 o'clock I will drive to mass; atter breakfast I shall have calls to make and shopping to do ; at 5 o'clock I shall drive home. This is all for I never go out in the evening." . ''Well, madame, during May, our busiest month,-the price is ?&) francs a month." ' v... ,,. .. "Too much, think. It seem to me that 6fM francs" - ; "Go:ne, madame, I hatf Just what will si it you ; something very elegant but quiet, lined with silk" . . ' Yoa tempt me. Well, be it so. Bend it around to-morrow mornine."

And it so happened that Monsieur,

deMexisi and Madame de Belroy had the same couoeby the month. The gentlemen found this out very soon7. One day he saw in one ot the coupe pocket a note book, with gray enameled cover and gold border, in which were several cards On the back of some' .of these were v memoranda, tsueh-fts calls tu be- made, impressions, reflections, etc. He examined a card and read on one side : -- -- ;8 :. i Madame DeBklkoy. . yS : ll r V ' 7. "Jr i :-.

ways the same: To her grandmother's, to the parish"priest,3, to the Sisters of Charity, to her lawyer's office, and a long stay at a house .on the Boulevard St. Michel.- " At last De Merisi came to the conclusion that he was a fool. He was occupied with Madame de Belroy to such a degree that ha neglected for her sake the affairs for which he had come to

Paris. There was only one thing to be done to ask permission to be presented to her, and to pay his addresses. His state of mind was becoming intolerable. So one day, at the club", he said to Monsieur de Villeperte, who

was nick-uameotho 'jElite Directory :"

Villeperte?" "Very well, indeed; but there's not many left only the grandmother and her daughter-in-law." "Could you present me?" , "Hum not easily ; the grandmother is 80 years old; the young widow is nearly always in the country, and lives very retired since; the death of her husband." , .. "Come now as a great favor to rneiH "Weil, I'll see," "But at- once, because I'm going

"Well, I'll go to-morrow and see the

grandmother."

"Are you acquainted with the young

widow, too?"

iinown ber over since sne was

born, my dear boy. a handsome, dis

tinguished, and graceftd woman."

"And sne is num num never

been any. scandal about her, has there?'? ... -J.-.

Villeperte arose with such precinita-

tion that he overturned his chair.

" What do you mean ?" he roared. "Madame de Belroy! Why, not a whisper has been heard " Outwardly discomfited, but inwardly rejoicing, Merisi abased himself before his indignant friend, and finally succeeded in making his peace. The next morr.ing he again followed the charming widow, who spent her time as usual. . The stay which she made at the Boulevard St. Michel, however, seemed to him a little longer than usual. And it seemed to him, when she came out, that her toilet was a little disarranged. Her hair was disheveled, her hat awry, and her collar rumpled But atter some mom en ts of jealous rage, tiie answer of Monsieur de Villeperte came to his mind, and he quickly repented of hi3 distrust. The" grandmother had been very amiable; and had given Monsieur de Villeperte permission to present his frienu. This was soon done, and Monsieur, de Merisi fell, deeper in love than before, if it were possib'e. The old lady bef rinded him, too. He was her partner at the card table, and used to read to her newspapers and the newest of novels. He was a clever fellow, was De Merisi. But he waaa suspicious fellow, too"; and he had retained the coupe hoping again to find the note-book which had so deeply interested him. "Julius" stuck in his memory. But his researches were far from being successful. Being more and more captivated by Madame de Belroy, he at last dared to declare his intention, and he was strongly supported by the grandmoth

er. Maaame oe iseiroy aiu not say "No," and so the engagement began. ,. One day De Marisi leaped into his coupe to, make a purchase required by nis new situation-an engagementring of fabulous value and exquisite taste. The gray note-book was there. He opened it; The memoranda had changed very "little; "The lawyers; the priest's the milliner's: flowers; bring " Julius his shako." s wA shako ! Iot one of ft.he friends of the Belroy family wa3 in the army; what could it mean? With feverish haste he turned tne card over. Alas! he found toe easily its meaning : "He looks adorable with hie new shako. How silly lam! He would not leave my room last night, and I pretended to be angry." Tingling with jealous rage and shame, Merisi ordered the coachman to drive bim immediately to Madame de Belroy 7s house.. She was waiting for him at her window. "Why, how funn ! she exclaimed, "you are in ray : coupe ! How did it happen, and what does it mean !" Merisi was deadly pale, so angered was he. He choked with rage as he endeavored to find words to unbraid her. Suddenly an unexpected viti tor made his appearance. It was a little boy 4 or 5 years old, adorned , with a shako and a saber. So frightened was the little fellow by the agitated air of Monsieuifde Merisi that he sought a refuge in the folds- of . Madame de Belroy's

dress.

"Why, Julius," said she, patting his

cheek, -wnat is the matter?"

TABIiE TALK.

- On the oih-pr side, in a drlicate. feminine handwriting, were these penciled

lines:

;5 s

it

After mass t the Sisters. Then, to the Mission for the Poor. At half-pa3t twelve my lawyer. -Then, to the eemeterw . -5 Thon to at. ThomaS Church, At twboTciocfe, see grandmamma. At trree o'clock Julius. Now I; feel that-he is mine.'

Cockroaches are recommended as

gdod bai t for black bass. ;

" . More than $5,000 a day was cleared at the old English 3?air in London. San ..t)iego,,Cal.f4s said to prohibit by ordinance cigarettoi smbkitig by beys. A woman, 'lias become th e regular pastQr .otheBaptisWchurch at Wheaton, ill, "l .

. Count Herbert Bismarck is abow; to marry the -married lady with whom he eloped ; Five Japanese- have, established a factory at Newtown, Conn., where they

will make J apanese articles. Married At Osceola, Iowa, in a circus ring, Major Lifctleflnger, 82 incaes high, to Moli.e Shade 31 inches high. Two Boston women, aged (J7 and 60, had a desperate fight in the street, and one was killed by being knocked into a cellar. Senator David Davis wealth is estimated at between four or.flve millions, chiefly made by investing; in the suburbs of: growing? Western tffovniB; His

taxes-amount to $38,000.

The young Duke de Morny is said to VF ATI A Af thft flomirii? croldeu vouth of

France clever, witty, discreet, skeptical, and. a sportsman elements of success, indeed, in that world which Alphonse Daudet ' opens- out to us in "Kings in Kxile.?,: The Duke of Sutherland sent to a San TTranoisco theatre for a box. The

manager returned the money with the tickets, saying he would be glad to consider the party as guests. The DukeTeplied that he . wouldn't use ilo box if he couldn't pay for it. The Louisville Courier-Journal says that Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Romanoff will pass the season at Pelerhoif, where there is a delightful view of the Gulf of Finland. Mr. Ilomanoff will always wear his Bessemer overcoat to avert the danger of sudden chills. Scotland is pretty sure to get the Secretary of State she demands for her aflairs. 'Lord Bosebery told the Government that the neglect of Scotch business is causing so much disgust north of Tweed", that, ominous murmurs of home rule were arising. The Irishmen who tried to fire the Town Hall at Liverpool, seem to have been caught by a brother Irishman, by name Peter Casey. This recalls O'Oortnell's alleged dictum, that if one Irishman is to be roasted, there is always another ready to turn the spit. The Chicago Historical Society hf.s decided to erect a memorial monument at the spot in Lincoln Park wh ere th e last building was destroyed by the great fire in 1871. It will bear a brief account of the fire, thejnumber of lives lost, etc., and statistics relating to the rebuilding of the city. Walter Wilson went to his wife, at Little Hock, alter- several years of separation, and sought H reunion. She

would not believe mat lie wassmcerejy

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r.Vhe coupe stopped at the club. She must have'been a saint, thought Merisi; hut who is this Julius?" . He replaced the note book .vhere be had found it, and, alighting, aaid to the coachman: .,. . "Somcv one left a note book in the coupe. Consequently some one must nave used it.?' '. ' 3 - sTh"e coachman's confusion showed Merisi that he was not mistaken. The name of Madame de Belroy was not unknown to him, but he had lived so long away from Paris that he couldn't remember who she was. As soon aa he had entered the club room? he sought for information. ,,: 4,De Bassino'said he, udoyou know a Madam de Belroy?" ''Yes,"-! i-plicd that gentleman. ' she tnat was Ottte De Bt. Saone. ' Poor Belroy died last year, and she is plunged i n grief. . It was a sad loss " ""Who? Belroy ?,J ... "No, hi wife,' who is charming, but always invisible. Society sees her no v more." --..." 5 : Merisi now waited anxiously for another fi'id in the conpe. But, alas, r for a whole week neither note book or anything" else was forgotten. But the little "saint" who spent her time so piously, oocuoied bninind incessantly. So he said one evening to Uhe coachman : .... 3 'il have d isco vered that , my coupe is also used, by a Madam de Belroy. Do not deny it. I am sure. Now I am cious to see jkhjs lady. .Tell me where Jxnight d j so?' J Well,sirieVer5 morning at 9 o'clock

itatve ner to mass at tne Unurcn of St. j Philippe.? 1 Mext iaorning Monsier de Merisi was nunctual. and saw his saint at her

' devotions. Ic seemed to him as if never before had he seen such a lovely ice. 8bft was stil' in mourning. She wore a nmall bonnet of black tulle, which framed her lovely blonde hair; a long veil of black gauze hung down on the train of her dress, which was of dead black silk, trimmed with black - surah. In her black-gloved hands were a musal full of saints' pictures and illuminated texts. , Merisi paid little attention to the mass. "Ah!" thought he: "if I had known on earth there was such a woman-beautifu, young, modest and s)unnin? society oh! I would have adored her. How gracefully she makes the sign of the cross. Sho 1h a little saint ' But that Julias-who the deuce From this moment Monsieur de ' Merisi bung upon her stepv He saw her every morning at the Church of St, Ph ilip in , and followed ler coupe in

lover, uis this Julius T r ' ' "Yes; ho 1 is my godson, a poor orphan. By and by I shall tell you all about his m other, and the trouble I had to be appointed his guardianand how I used to go and see him atv the Boulevard Ht. Michel, where he lived. Noy. ' Julius, go and kiss Monsieur de Merisi, who, I am sure, will be very kind to yon if he loves me truly. V. Monsieur de Meriar did love her truly. He loved her so truly that he would have died rather than tell 'her that he had doubted her.. . And she does not know it sto this

day.

Kemarkable

Recovery from Liver

d - wound. - In the bulletin of theNew York Pathological Society for January, 1881, the following case is recorded: "The patient had died of some other disease, and at the post-mortem examination an iron bullet was found by Dr. H. B. Sands in the ome n turn. It was encysted,, and had evidently been there a long time. It was seated two: inches from the loft border of the great omentum, and two inches below the great curvature of the stomach. On a more close examination a circular scar 'was found on the right side of? the chest, a well-marked scar ort the pleura, between' the eighth and ninth ribs; another scar on the pleural surface of the diaphragm, and still au other oh its lower surface, all of the same size and leading in the same direction." There was also another scar on the right lobe of the liver, which was grooved and furrowed by. the bullet. The lung itself had not been injured, for the -ball had passed through or rather between the two pleuras, then through the diaphragm, next between it and the li ver, which it had deeply grooved or furrowed, and finally lodged in. the abdomen without injuring the stomach brihtestines, kidneys, or any of the great blood-veiisels,": , . .. . . .This poor hospital patient had been shot years before in the chest, the ball weighing one aud a half ounces, grazing the lungs, perforating the diaphragm, deeply grooving and injuring the liver, and finally was buried in com paratiyely unim portant portions of the belly, where , it remained for years, the patient dying suosequently, and long alter, of some other-disease "entirely unconnected with his previous injury: . Little Kate B., who is of an inquiring turn of mind; was ; watching her father cover, the fire with ashes one night last winter. She looked, at ...him in tently a lew minutes, and then ask ed why he did it; to which he joking replied: "To stop the rapid combustion."1 Ashort time after she ran to tell her mamma what she had seen, and ended by- saying, The tire was covered up to keepthe rabbit from busting"" 1 ... , ,,, - - ..,-r- .. . Our Jives are like some complicated machine, working on one side of a wall, and delivering-, the finished fabric on the otner We cannot cross the barrier and see the end. The work is Jn our hancis-the completion is not

rnentant, and laughed.taft" his decara tion that he couldn't live'' any longe

without" her. He' convinced he by killing himself in her presence. A new drama by Jj. . liietrichson, an historical. writer of Sweden, entitled uGeorge Stephensou,n' has at least the

merit of timeliness. It turns upon tne struggles and the triumph of the famous inventor, and satirize the stupidi ty of the men who blocked his path so long with their ignorant doubts. Sarah Bernhardt, who always ha? a keen eye to the future, has already ar ranged her tomb at Pere 1 a Chaise. It is of black marble, under a canopy, with a huge "Bernhardt on it. It is much better to do this sort of thi ag during life, as survivors may not take nearly as much interest in the matter. .The commissioners appointed to frame a charter for the city of Newton, Mass., promise a provision under which, "when an appointment has been made, the officer : may be reasonably sure of employment so long as he is honest, capable, and efficient, and sure of removal .when he fiiils in eitper particular.,r . ; . It was a shrewd device of the man who, when he wished to have a load of wood piled up in his back yard, impressed his boy with what fun it would be to play au enemy was approaching and to erect a barricade against him. The boy got out his tin sword and called in the neighbor's oby with his drum, and by the . aid of a riumbor of other youths, who were attracted by the commotion"; had the wood piled up in a jiffy. In England a fir3t-class telegraph clerk, under the present system may, good luck and good conduct oombined, after 18 years' service, mise himself to a pecuniary pinacle whereby he would be entitled to a salary of .120 per annum. The wages of a third-class clerk commence at sixteen shillings per; week, and rise by gradual increments to the sum of twenty-ssven shillings; aud yet they are not tf.ppy, and, like Oliver Tavist, .'are asking for more!" - . v A great sin girig fest ival has been crowding Chicago with visitors, and atvan tage was taken of the si tuation by the restaurant keepers n the fullest degree. In front of one quite humble eating house, for; instance, where 25 cents would buy. a whole meal at ordinary times, a placard announced that roast beef : was ;hafa dollar.,! The purchaser found, too, that the price covered tne meat only, even bread and butter being extra, and the use of a napkin costing 10 cents. The number of vessels plying between the United States an i Europe is 5,210, of which 4,655 are sailin g vessels and 555 steamships. The sailing vessels are distributed among the various nations as follows: 1,270 are British, 1,025 Norwegian and Swedish, ' 884 American, .598 Italian. J65 Gorman, 165 Austrian, 85 Spanish; ' 64 iRassian, 57 French, 49 Dutch, 29 Banish, ,26 Portuguese, aud 2 Belgian. Of the steamers, 447 are British, 35 German, 21 Spanish, 14 American, .Belgian, 9 French, 6 Dutch, 5 Italian. ' The King of Bavaria posesses a form of noble and kingly beauty. Tall and graceful in figure, he might serve for the model of a youthful god. The waving brown hair falls back in rich curls from an alabaster forehead of breadth and power The deep blue eyes are full of mingled poetry, tenderness and fire; ' but in the lines of tbe mouth can yet be observed a . certain sterness and determination which go far to explain seemingly contradictory traits in the character of this eccentric

sovereign. A Queer Duel. A veteran correspondent thus shows that the bravest are cowards in the dark: ..... ' It was at a dinner party; composed of some of the survivors of Waterloo, a few of their young relatives and the scion of an ex-king, on a ysjfcfrpm his home ill America, and to wlioin our friend owed "his intrdductioa to the circle, gojne questions ,arone about bravery, wlien the young' members of the company -were olc ctrified , tb hear the venerable aBd heroic Ehreelrnans gravely and seriously declare that ,4men were all cowards in the dark." The general smiled at the expressions of dissent, remarked that it was very like youth, and proceeded to tell the following anecdote in support of his strange declaration : "There was a young hot-head in the emperor's service, who burned for action and his duties for the time affording no opportunity, at last reiolved to fight a duel, and accordingly, choosing to construe some remark of an old and superior officer in to an insult, challenged him. . The old soldier, waving all considerations of rank, agreed to meet the young man, but ori the following unusual termSV The time should be nigh f ;th o ilace a room , in o pposi te corners of which they were i,o stand; the seconds, having placed their men,

were to withdraw outside of the room, taking the candles with them: the

word should be given from without

when he who had the llrst fire should

discharge his weapon, aud the second,

bearinir the lights would immediately

rush in,

Tneso Btraugo conuitlous were ac-

mtorl fTiA tlmA n.rr5vrt. nnI I lift spi?-

onds placed the parties as agreed upon

withdrawing immediately, and leaving

tho men in the dark. The word was

given and the fire was heard: the door

was reopened and there stood the elder of the two upright iu tho corner, his adversaries ball having entered the

wall so eloso to his head that escape

seemed little less than miraculus. It

was now the old soldiers turn to shoot.

They were again left in the dark, the word was again given from outside

and the seconds rushed in and found

the ehallengerorostratounon the floor,

not having vet recovered himself from

his trick to avoid the ball, which, on

examination, was found must have

killed him. The youn; man was covered with confusion, and tho seconds

were overwhelming with the expres

sions of their scorn, when the veteran

stopped them.

'VNbtso fast, my you agfri ends, said,

he: vou will grow wiuer. Where do

you sunnose I was at the first fire? On

my hands and knees in the; cornei

but, ma foil I was up quicker than hi I

Par dieu, messieurs, we are all cowards

m the dark!"

It was afterwards whispered to our

friend that the story was an actual fact, and that the elder of the parties was

no other than the brave Excelmans

nimself. A Minor's Eomance. Washington Post. - . At Amherst College,H the class of '58 there were two chum?, who had stuck together ever since they had first entered college. They were fast friends and no troublehad ever disturbed their friendship. One was the son of rich parents and the other of a country minister. When they graduated the

rich man's son went iuto business with his father in New York and took his friend as an employe. Tilings went smoothly for some 1: me, when that common accident of life happened thej both fell in love with the same girl. The fight in the heart of the employe was long and bitter, but contrasting his position with that of his friend, the difference in the advantages he would offer. the woman, he yielded, and with scarce a won! of par ting, with none of explanation, he left New Yprk and went West. A year afterward found him. in San Francisco and he soon joined the gold diggers. His fortune was varied at times rich and at times poor, Afterward in Nevada he followed silver mining, and when the silver craze struck IieadviUe. be went there. There he was successful', and this spring, a rich man, he determined to return East for the first time in twenty-four years. Yesterday, as he got off of the southwestern train at Wilton, Iowa, and went to get on the main line train which was ro carry him to Chicago, a lady who was trying to

turn a seat attracted his attention. Stepping forward to help her, he first looked with wonder, then joy, to see that it was the woman he had run away from so long ago, a woman now past forty, but handsome yet, He talked to her timidly at first, and tincertain, .When he learned that she was yet unmarried his questions came faster yet, and her present condition was gioon known to him. Her parents had died, and, depending on her own exertions for support, she had taught school, and at present wa3 principal of a school, in Western Iowa. The old love still lived in the miner's heart,and he soon found that he had not been entirely forgotten by her. To make a long story short, it was a very happylooking couple who got off the tram here last night, looking for a minister, and still happier one which registered at the Sherman as Mr. and Mrs. Shearburn, Leadville, Colorado. . w Sunstroke1. Carry the patient carefully, but promptly, to the nearest shade. 2. Secure forjhim as much circulation of wholesome air as raay be possibly obtained. . 3 If the skin is hot, sponge with cold water or ice. 4. If the head is vry hot, and the arteries of the neck pulsate violently, apply ice. 5. Give two teaspoon fills of good brandy or whisky every ien or fifteen minutes. The addition of two or three drops of laudanum to each dose of the stimulant prevents vomiting or urging, which is liable to occur and often to prove fatal. . 6. Jon't give; large draughts of cold water or any other fluid, even if the patient is able to swallow then.

7. Don't allow tte patient to oe moved or raised, from a recumbent position until sufficiently recovered, to render it safe to do so. This seldom occurs for hours, aud often not for days, after the attack. 8. Send at once for a doctor, not for half a dozen. Otherwise valuable time may be lost by differences in opinion as to w heather the case is one of congestion or exhaustion. It is always safer for non-prof essiona! prescribers, and generally safer for doctors, Ito pursue methods of treatment calculated to relieve more or less profound exaus tion of vital powers. , Burning of Baraum's Gorgeous Advertising Car. One of the three gorgeous advertising cars connected with Barnum's show, was burned early 3Testerday morning near Steveusville. Can., a small, station pu the Canada Southern road, about eighteen miles from Buffalo, says the Express of that city, while en-route for Detroit. So fiercely did the fire burn and bo inflammable was the contents of the ear, that its occupants, thirteen It. number, barely escaped a horrible death in the tiauies. The burning car wat uncoupled, and after a brief delay the train moved off, leaving the circus employes at iSievensville. The car was totally destroyed, burning like tinder, the intense heat warping the iron rails of the track completely out of place. Tho car was a model of elegance and artistic work. ItJJwafl sixty-three feet long, and was built by Barney & Smith, of Dayton, O. Tne interior was elegantly finished in black walnut and ash, so arranged that every inch of space was utilised. The exterior was painted by James Walker, of New York, at a cost of $5,Q0D, having on one side a representation of a pageant scene, and on the other a group of animate, giving a handsome effect. Tbe loss on the car alone is estimated at $20,000. The advertising bills carried amounted to $5,000, and were all consumed. The employes lost nearly everything, but few saving even a suit of clcthe3, making the total loss about $28,000. The origin of the fire is unknown. A Competent Dog, Oswego, N. Y., Palladium The hook an irladder company's dog, Truck, again distinguished himself last night. When the alarm was sent in for tho fire, Truck and the horses were alone in the house, but three or four members of the company were standing at the corner of Second and Bridge streets about 150 feet distant The gong does not sound loud enough to be heard that distance, but the men heaid the faithful old dog barking loudly and furiously, and they knew that meant fire. Running to the house and. opening the door, they found Truck greatly excited, with his lamp iu his mouth, running to and fro between the truck, the horses, and the door, to inform them that an alarm had been sent in. The men understood Truck, and hooked up their team and wore at the corner of. Eighth stree;, before the City Hall bell sounded, Truck running, as usual with his lantern in his mouth, where, on dark nigh te, ho is worth more to the hooks than the w hole street lighting depaiijment of the tow.

I

THE HEW VERSION.

Talmage Donouncos it in a Most

Excoriating Way.

N. Y. Special Cincinnati Commercial,

One of the largest congregations ever

assembled in the Brooklyn tabernacle

was present hear Talmaere preach on

the revision of the Testament, Sunday

morning, in his introductory prayer,

he repeated the word 3 of tne Lord's Prayer, aud started to sav "For thine

is the kingdom," eto., when he ended

aoruptiy, remarking, "Mere we are

commanded to stop." He chose as his lesson of the day John v,, but ho had read only a few verses when he remarked, "I don't think I'll read any more of it, that has be en abolished or made doubtful." Then he turned to Zohn viii and began reading concerning the woman taken iu adultery, and breaking off in the middle of the story he said; "But that, also, has been abolished, and I'll pass that." Turning to John v, he read a little and then stopped saying, "I go no further with that readiug,as that also lias been abolished. I think I will have to turn to the Old Testament, for the Old Testament commissioners have not reported yet and will not for three years." He then read Psalms xix. In the course of the sermon he said : "Nine hundred and ninety-nine out of every thousand regret in the depth of

their souls that the revision has been attempted, and look upon it as a dese

cration and profanation and a mutila

tion aud a religious outrage. I am wil

ling to take it as a commentary, and to

stand it respectfully on my book shelf

oemuu other human onxmons of tho

word of God, but to nut it upon my

private stand, or in my family room, or in my pulpit as a substitute for King

Jame'a translation, I never will; audi put my hand on the old book and take the oath of allegiance, so help me God,

Loud applause. I am glad to

know Lord whaftoirv and the Arch

bishop of York, and many

rong men on the other

ot the sea are anti-revisiomsts.

supported b' high authority

authority, I here and now take my

stana. Aoniause. Tnese nicv men

after fifty years' tinkering with the

word of God, annouce that they Xiave not found a new doctrine. If it had

been found that tho translation

other

. side But, or tio

though J object entirely to sheep beiugT

degraded into "Scavengers," i, wun iwvhlft inconsistency, admire them

greatly in their office of dung-carriers. And with reason: for I was born and

hiPfl nn in manhood in that part of

England in which the whole of the farms are indebted for their very existence, as productive soil, to the sheep fold. How many years ago the regular system of folding first obtained I never could find out. it is a very simple business. The sheep go to fold about seven in the evening; the next morning, as soon as the dew is off., they are let out, and run on the natural down pasture for an hour or two; they are then allowed to feed on some eai-ty forage plant rye, tares, .Winter barley Winter oats; then a few hours on the downs again; another feed, of forage plants, and about 4 p. m. they graze tbeir way along the downs to the fold. The iuclosure of wajitled hurdles is arranged to accommodate a certain number of sheep, so that the land may be properly and regularly m manured. The calculation is that one sheep passing one night on one square yard of land is equal, in money value, to 3 10s. ($17.50) per acre; and it is upon this basis that acts of husbandry, as they are called.for which the incoming ton ant has to pay his predecessor, are valued; ThinK for a moment of what passes in the fold during the night The land has been recently plowed; the liquid and solid ejections are therefore easily absorbed, the oil from the fleece forming by no means an inap

preciable part , of them. The sheep,

many weighing. from a hundred to a: hundred and twenty pounds each, pass eight or ten. hours couched on the same

spot, and the pressure of their bodies,

together with the trampling of tneir

tiny uoiu tod hoofs, condense and

solidify the land in a fashion that no

roller could hope to emulate.

FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN.

Emerson : Women, more than till

are the clement and kingdom of illu

ion. .

Four young ladies ifois.y ear received

the denree of. Bachelor of Arts at the

Jjondon University,

Walking sticks for ladies are coming

back to fashion from tne reign ofiueen Annie! But thev never1 can takethe

place of a young man's arm.

A cynical old pr&etitiioner gays: VA lady who practices medicine commits

Her Baby." .

liidianapollK Journal. ''

There are many who cannot under

stand the difticulties between 'the fac

tions in New York, also know no dif

ference between hail breeds and

stalwarts, and careless; who are unde

cided as to the responsibility for the

deadlock in Congress, or the trouble at

Albany, and who are at times inclined

to blame Conkiing, then Garfield, for all this unexpected and unseemly row

in in Wpw VnrV

tifVv? ncr nnv ftilcn ?r''ci nf fJnfl nv rkf i tj ... . . , .J. ..-..' i.i 1 .1

the soul, or of the future, I would say try all means give us a new version and

put forth thejmmediate and mightiest effort for the organized obliteration of

the old translation. The world cannot

afford to have wronr notions of God

aud the soul and eternity. This revision

of 1881 is a deprecation of the 300,000,-

000 copies of the bible out in the world and doing their work. It assails the

magnificent liturgy of the Episcopal

church and makes all her prayer-books

vast m accuracies, it mates the in

scriptions on the grave of your dead

untrue. It reflects upon the old family Bible, and leaves nothing certain save

the record of marriages, births aud

deaths. If this new: version succceed, for the next few years you will have to watch your children's offering of

the Lord's Prayer, and jerk them up

short before they run over the evil one

Into an uninspired doxology. Laughter

"It is an out-and-out war against all he religious literature of the ages.

Who undertook this impertinauce on

the other, side the sea? I know not

the qualifications of the men who

done the work. I understand that

rnairy of them are far from being the

best scholars of Great Britain. Loniy

udge them by this reason : It is pedan ic. capricious, aud false to the princi-

ole which thev disclosed at the outset

would guide them, namely that they would make no uunessary changes. The work is a literal y botch which will never be adopted if all the people fearless of criticism and rebuke, speak out their sentiments." '

Talk With a Two Headed-Girh Mucon Telegraph. Last night a Telegraph and Messenger reporter dropped in at Masonic Hall, where the two-headed girl is being exhibited. Expecting to find a melancholy Siamese twin monstrosity, the reporter was agreeably surprised to find two girls joined in one, cheerful, refined and cultivated. The haggard, worn expression which, as a rule, the curiosities of human ity wear, was entirely absen t. It seems true th at Ml le. Christine Millie is entirely satisfied with her existence as much as any reader of the Telegraph and Messenger is of his. ' - The girl of girls, lor no looker on can learn to regard her as other than plural, was born in Columbus county, North Carolina, in 1S50, and is, consequently, thirty-one years of age. She was ot a Moorish eofor, her mother beiner a uegress and her father of Moorish descent, She has traveled all over the world, and speaks .English. German, French, and Italian perfectly Moreover she sings very sweetly, and converses in the most ladylike and intelligent manner. The reporter heard her sing. She conversed with a German and a Frenchman present, and spoke English perfectly. Kessler's sand was present, and struck uo a waltz, to which she responded by waltzing with herself in the most graceful manner. She aud herself ang 'Sweet Spirit, Hear my Prayer, as well an we ever heard it. aud afterwards wehtT down the steps together. . - After the crowd had withdrawn the reporter approached and said "You speak French, I understand ?" "Yes, I do. Do you?" "No, It is diflicalfeat times, for me to speak English." "This is only natural. One is frequently at loss for words." . "What do you tl ink of tho weather?" asked the reporter, by way of relieving the sjlencewhich had ensued. "It is warm," replied half of the girl.

"Yes, warmer tcan in

spouded the other half.

Cuba,

re-

i4Ah; you came from Cuba, then?'

"Yes," said tneciri on tnengni. 1 1 Did you get sick ?" "No,"said the girl on the left. "Can you swim?'' ,4No,. sir" (from -both of her). "Wnat would you have done ha 1 the boat gone down?" "I would have gone down, too, ?aid the left section. "And yon?" "I would have gone down with the balance of me." "To be feiire," said the reporter, "I had not thought , of that. Were you ever desirous of being separated?" "No, sir." "You believe, than, that whom God has joined together no man should put asunder?" "Yes, sir, we are one." "Have you decided which one?" 4 That is my worser half," said the girl on the left, nodding backward; "and,1' said the balance of her, imitating the motion, "vice versa." 'Ah! I havo a gentleman to see us home," said the lei't-nand half. "Areyou authorized to make engagements for both?" ... "On.ves; it is only across to the Lanier House-" And taking the arm of a gentleman who at that moment appeared, she, or ihey, sauntered off sideways across the street, one of them espondingto the advise not to get r3un-burnt. "I shall be careful, sir," aud the other saying gently: "Good night, gentlemen." Considerably nonplussed the reporter withdrew.

It is all a niiat.v maze to them, and

they have no patience nor inclination to dig down to the bottom facts. But there, is nobody who did not understand that grief-stricken old lady, the mother of the President, when she said : "How could anybody be so coldhearted as to attempt toldll my baby?" Her baby ! The Chief Magistrate of fifty millions of people, 'Her baby! The grandest figure before the world, the full-armed type of American manhood, physically and intellectually the superior of- any ruler of any people of

the earth; And yet to'her he was, not the ,: representative of the people in Congress, not the Senator from Ohio, not even the President of the United States in all his honors and dignities; he was her baby, still. How in that the mother spoke. Honors, titles, offices were nothing. JEfis first claim to her consideration was the fact that he was her baby, and she could no more comprehend enmity to him as President than injury to him as' a child. How wonderful, how inexplicable is a mother's love. We call it instinct, but it. is thafrliuk that biuds' the world together. Opposed, the shrinking woman becomes a tigress and die3 for hei offspring rather than desert it. Over disgrace, over crime, over home affections and over all other ties it rides and rules, defying faifce and scorning death. It was the art oi a master that made

Lady Macbeth say : "I have given suck, aud know How tender 'tis to love the babo that milks me," Before this sorrowing old lady the world stands uncovered in reverence, in sympathy, and in tears. We had not thought of him as ever anybody's baby, but he was and is, and there is a grief in that fond old mother's heart surpassing all the Nation feels. SELECTED MISCELLANY.

Marriageable young men belong to the surplus population. Quarrels would bo short-lived if the wrong were only on one side. ' - To win, work and wait but work a good deal more than you wait. Beautiful are the admonitions of him whose life accords with his teachings. Married life often begins with rosewood and mahogany, and ends with pine. Habit is the deepest law of our nature. It is our greatest strength and our greatest weakness. Though avarice will preserve a man from being necessitously poor, it generally makes him too poor to be wealthy. The universal heart of a man blesses flowers. He has wreathed them around the cradle, the marriage altar, and the tomb. : ' ' Good temper-is like a sunny day; it sheds a brightness over everything; it is the sweetener of toil and! the soother of disquietude. . Tjaose are mock gentlefolk who'mask tiiieir faults to others and to themselves; the true know them perfectly, and . aekirowledea them.

4Is your daughter at ihome1, Brush?" M Yes, sir: and so is

Cultivation of Wheat. WlieaL Culture, by Arthur It, Jcuiicx Fust. .. it is my firm belief that the real reason why our wheat crops only yield half as much as the English crops is, that iu England they utilize sheep as grain, growjers, while, we only. consider them1 as wool and mutton makers. I have even heard an essay onSSheep as tho Scavengers of the Far m," meaning probably, "picker! up of unconsidered trilies" in th Jorm of weed. Now,

Mr. her

mother." Callow said ''he'd call some

other day," but lie never did. Socrates said that there are two sciences which- every mail ought to learn first, the science of speech, and, second, the more difficult one of silence. . .. - , Mental pleasures never cloy. Unlike those of the body, they are increased bv repetition, approved of by reflection

and strengthened by.enjoymeut.-r-Col-

,; A more glorious victory cannot be trained oyer another man than this, that when the injury began on his part the kindness should begin on,yoms -Tillotson. 5 Adhere rigidly and uudeviatiugly to truth; but while you, express what is true, express it in ai, pleasing manner. Truth is the picture, the manner is the frame that displays-it to advantage. Those passionate persons" who carry their hearts in their mouths are rather to be pitied thair feared,' their threatenings serving no other purpose .than to forearm him thajt is.threatened. Life is divided into three terms that which was, which is, and which 'Will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present and from the present to live better for the future. After all the talk of scholars, there are but two sorts of government cue where the men show their teethuat ach otner1 and one where nieh show heir tongues and iick the feet of the tiongest "..,.

There is no better way to live healthily and happily than to cultivate a temperment, wherein the most contradictory qualities and properties ' of the organism are perfectly counterbalanced and combined, ' Cure for a Kattlesnakq Bite. Xalc oi a Sportsiuau: . t "While out hunting a short time lice,?? said he, "I was bitten by a ratesnake on the back of my left hard, and having heard that if powder was burned on the bitten part it would be an antidote to the poison, I immediately poured a small quantity of powder on the bitten part, struck a match and set fire to it; she result was that t felt no inconvenience and experienced no pajOjpr trouble' whatever,, from tho hife." The experiment is certainly worth trying, only be careful anddout blow yourself un. 5

two faults: She increases the number

of doctors and diminishes the number

of women.,? :

The Chicago Tribuna says the prettiest women ih the world live ill Philadelphia. Many of them have to vear veils to keep the men from becoming

near-siguteu. Mercer tStockings. miss? Yes miss. Wh at number, miss, d o y ou Mat

ter-of-fact youuglau Why, two. of

course! Do you think I've got? a wooden leg?" - , ' A Boston man: who bought 1,000

Havana cicars, on being asked, what

they were for, replied that thev: were

tickets to a course of lectures to. ba given by his -wife.

Laura (with novat)--Oh! if this tale

were only true, and I were the heroine.

Kate What! With her persecutors.

and.her mis;ery? Laurar Ah ! but then, dear, remember sh a do os ge ta husbau d .

after all. 1. '

Nothing rnads a1 man more than to

come down to his breakfast and have his wife tell him he has been talking

in his sleep and refuse to : give' 'away what he said. Not that his conscience

troubles him; oh, jiol He is, only after .

psycnoiogieai lacK. If a man really wa?its to know of how little importance he is, let him go with his wife to a dressmaker. Modern Argo. And if a man- wants , to know of how much impoitance he is just wait until the dressmaker sends her bill in for payment. ' " ' V . . At a Cincinnati wedding, lately the organist emtertained the audience awaiting the lridal party by a series of voluntaries, the last of which unluckily was, 'Trust her not, she is fooling thee,,, at which ho was hard5 at work as the bridal procession walked ,up the aisle.-.' 1: ' f"' :r .. A young man objected to the young girl that his rich old uncle wished him to marry. You anus tn ? t be so particular,:, said the exasperated uncle. I tell you she's well enough." 'So she is, uncle," responded the 'nephew, "and 5'ou know you always taught me; to leave well enough alone.? V ; 1 Miss Gordon Cumnungs relates that during her recent trip to New Zeland, ' her pastor and companion, Kevr Mr.

Laugh am,- was in danger of being con

verted into food by an aged cannibal who; in her presence, stroked admiringly the sides of the clergyman, while exclaiming,. aOh, how fat you, are!"

Many ladies of 3ank in Paris are devoted to art. One of the; most remarkable pictures in this year's salon4 is the work of Mile, de Bashkii,seff,t)ne of the belles of the season who has hidden her artistio identity' under the

assumed name of " Audrey." . ; The

dealers, have oflered 1,000 for the picture, but the young lady refuses, intending It as a gift to a friend.1 Bachelor Jones 'The State would be better if every Chinaman was kicked out of it to-morrow." His marrierl. friend "Where " would you get your

washing done then 2" Bachelor Jones

uMarry some nice girl and have it done at home;" Chorus by six eligi

ble young ladies who happened to overhear Jones and his friend, talking "The Chinese must; go." 1 - ' '

The Rome (C4a. ) Bulletin states that Mr. B. &. Foster of Chattanooga county was recen tly pressed lor hands. His cotton was "in the grass" and he was in a dilemma, J3e was at a loss to know what to do." At this juncture his two girls, who are attendants upon Shorter College, hearing" of their

father's nliorht, went to him. The fol-.

lowing day they wore, hoe in hand, weeding cotton. r . The ingenuity tof a slave mother in getting her little boy to run on the way to freedom by throwing a ball forward for him to get, has been surpassed by that ot a French governess, whose employer, a very proper lady, said to her: 'l am shocked that my daughter has been receiving letters in French from a young man." Governess "Pardon, maaame; it is only a little ruse to cheat mam 'selle into study. When she would reply to an unknown lover a Frenchman mon, Dieu, how quickly she would learn my language," ' " -.-". --'' 'Twastiie first twilight interviewi She swinging in the hammock on the. side veranda, and' lie sitting submissively at her feet, with his legs dangling oft the boards. "How refreshing at the closing hour of day," he gently remarked, "to thus in sweet com

panionship await tbe rising of the stars that will soon fleck the cerulean dome of Heaven with, spa ngles of silver. I would ever thus, with thee at. my side.

revel in the clones ot tne azure

azure, as sure as " "What exquisite language," said she with a sigh. "How can you afford icon 6 a week?" The youug mah was not; quite "as sure! as, he was, and slid down the pillar to the yard, and was seen no more thereabouts forever; New Haven Register.

1 1 be-the Prince Qt. Whales, lhn-ay? hWhat'ud Jroutoiouff'l ,

"Shut up ai of you l Qmmanaea Mrs; B., "I reckon the I'sesident's wife is the highest authori,1 in; th land! Anyhow, there'd be a diisky old time if anybody questioned it,:and I bet when the exercises 'were' 'finished the

surgeon would not ask for any-electoral ftOTnmiRfiioTr to decide if over again I

My! Fd like to 'see anybody-7-but, by the way, Mr; Butterby, mfmt mas it you was going to sayyou wpuld dp if you was the Presidenf tfi the Unitel states?"' v'4- wy y & "Resign as spon as Jhe Ijord would let me," said Mr.' Butterby calmly, but determinedly, . .- - v? And then a meditative silence felt upon the family ? arid remained there nnlil the meeting arose. ! '-X From Minnofjota;- l This city is the dustiest,muddiest and altogether the most disagreeable place that you cari imagine when yoo have to 'ifoot it" ground the5ps;lesale parts of town, kicking oyer sacks of

coffee and barrels of fish and agoing

around hogsheads of prunes and piles of washboards. But the - tourist is not expected to spend Ids time in wading through the whoteale fitreeta,. but to leave sugar and Corn and pumps sxuS

pipe and crackers and flour aud go "up

to 91. or to some or tne -ajvw pupuuuresorts." If a man is summering for nleasure he could not find a better

place under the sun. to enjoy himself.

iiennepm coumy uunu su vvt?t with the most picturesque and beauti

ful lakes that heart could wish. There are very good facilities - for-; reaching them also. The Motor liheruns trains to Lake Oalhoun and Harriet and is building an extension to Minnetonka the most popular of all the resort

What Chautauqua is to the ias Minnetonka' is to th: Northwest

Even; the sunday schools, convene and have tneir camp meeting '"a la Chau taugua.,, You can go every -fifteen

minutes to anyone of the resorts your wish;Galhoun, HarnetjIvtedicine.Geda White Bear, Minnetonka, Union Park

Fort Bnellinc: and a'uy and every place

in range of fifty miles. Qne . of the avorite trins for the day is td go to

Taylor's Falls and around the river and back in the evening.- But alas for our daar Minnehaha !No longer poets

deeam, Mr. Iipngfellow would shed1 trare and never' write another 'J poem

would he see his beloved "Minnehah

Iiaui2rhin ff "Water." All the bums and

dead beats and general cussedness!conffrecate down there on a Sunday after

noon and the air is thick' with" their mingled breath, oaths and obscenity. They have poor, . bands and tawdry women to ;draw erpwd to the beer gardens, and' no one who has the least sense of propriety would. take as 'lady the: e especially on Bunday . ; It is no longer musical Min-ne-ha-ha but plain

,1 ' ''J

If I Was. President- : Detroit Fres Press. " .; . "Now, if I was resideht," began Mr. Butterby tbe oriier morning, as he passed his cup over for a second cup of coffee, If I was president of the United States" "Which you aren't, you know," broke in Mrs. B. in an argumental and confidentnii tonef "And not likely to be,' added Mrs. B.?s mother, witha contemptupvis toss of her head. 1 r : "Ko," assented IVIr. B. pleasantly, "but I was just supposing the ease " '. "Then suppose something in reason," retorted ' Mrs. B,, snappishly. "You might m well suppose you was the man in the moon, or the man in the iron mask, or" ' . : "So I might, my dear so I might," asserted Mr. B.sj ill pleasantly smiling, 11 but that has nothing-to do with it.L I was merely going to say that if I was president of tho United States Pdr-" V;My!" burst in Miss Gertrude, aged eighteen, "wouldn't it be splendid if you was, pa? Just to think how those Wheedle top girls would change" their tune when I meet them, instead of throwing out tbeir insinuations about people who consider it Christian like to turn their lat season's silk dre3S, so that they raay have more to give to charity." But they might turn green with envy- before C would ever" ' ' , Yes, and wouldn't I warm it to Sammy Bugan, just, V chirped in Master Thomas, aged twelve. "I'd go up to him ati' smack him -on 'the nose with a brick 1 fore he knowed where he was, an7 he dsisacht hit me back then 'cos it 'ud bo treason, an' they'd hang him, and I'd side oil. the sidewalk an1 shy snowballs at the p'leceman 'an sass Miss Feru le, 'an play hookey every day when it didn' t ram an I'd" - "Yes," chimed ih Mrs. B., catching the infection of her enthusiastic progeny, "aud then I'd he the first lady in the land, let theteext be who she would, and governor '8 wives would ask to be introduced to me, and I'd have balls twics a week nd banquets every day, and" r ' . ...,. "And I'd have the management of the white house, and run things," remarked Mrs. B's mother, her eyes suarkling with the prospect. " "Not much you would n't," from Miss Gertrude, "not much if I kept my health and know myself yqu wouldn't, not as long a X was the President's daughter and--'5 " "Yah!" ejaculated Master Tom. "I guess tho Projident's son would bo the biggest plum ill that dish? Wouidp't

MinneapqliSjf une 15,81,

; - lolumne Pocket Miners. StocktoxiIndependeiit.it- p -i The gold fever is raging with peculiar fierceness at Senora. Men Ibave left their vines and their orchardsand have taken to the hills with picks and shovels,and!resb dirtis visible at every hand. A new light has recently dawned on the people of that section. They find that the S minersof- twenty years ago failed because their search was for wash golct. They should have looked for ledges5 and pocketsv They looked for 'lieh gravel ad failed ; men to-day are searching for rich .Dockets and ledges, and are finding them;' They enter old tunnels, and seeing a slip of clay, maybe no thicker than a .piece of naper, thev follow on, and lol a pocket. They dig into the hills ano 3trikea blue streak and detect the contact liaeT between the slate and the limestone and

see where water has found its way in

and carried its ingredients with it and rotted the rock, and they take out .the yellow dirt and xmt it through a battery and pocket irom $100 to $20Q? per ton 2 for their venturer Sometimes ,the vein ot quartz is found, and that is taken and milled with good results; but the richest finds of all are the little pockets jfoxy genized quartz,which yield sometimes naif .their weight in solid coin.'. : .'' ' 'V-- v A man named' Lewis, who has-been urospecUng lately, left .Stockton, for San Francisco with a leg of a pair of overalls filled with4 reck; which Vras nearly, it not quite one-half gold. He made" no secret of the fact that he got it from a led.e near f3dhora, and that it was taken from tbe surface; Heipounded out $610 with a mortar in a short time before taking 'out this rich rock. Lewis says he has a boulder worth?S15,000, whiclyhe took jonr -fajB claim. Sold His Pretty Wife for fc$2,OQQA suit has viust beea instituted . in

the Superior Court otDutchess coun ?y, N. Y which revives a curious and al

most forgotten story. The parUeSv. to the action are brothers. About a dozen years ago George Smith1 married Charitv Miller, one of the handsomest girlsr in Rhinebeck village. ' They lived tegetherr several years, and bad four children! Smith never, provided very liberally for his family. A wealthy bachelor who' visited this house became greatly attached to Mrs. Smith and in a jovial wayofiered her husband $2,000 if he woulol transfer her to him. Smith accepted the offer and the papers; were drawn un by a lawyer, trahsfering all light and title to the woman to the wealthy bachelor. George: then went to the home of his brother Anner a wealthy farmer, in Dutchess county, where he lived until a short time ago, assisting his brother in the management of his farm. V A few weeks ago he brought suit for $2,000 which ho received tor the sale of his wife, and which he loaned to his brotherV and

also for labor .and sevicea for ; a

amount. -

:r

Curious Vow?. ; -j Col. Edge worth; an inveterate gam -bier, having lost all his ready cash at the card-table, borrowed bis' wife's diamond earrings, and staking them, had a turn of luck, and rose a' winner in the end ; whereupon he solemnly vowed never to touch cards ,or, dice again. ' And yet-before the w,eek was out he was puUing straws from a rick, and betting upon which should prove the longest ; keeping as strictly to the letteV of his promise as the hard drinker who vowed tc eschew intoxicating fluids as long as he had a hair on his head; and an hour afterwards emerged from a barber's shop with a: smoothshaven pole, and then got tipsy with a clear conscience ! Tn one of Voltaire's romances, cynical poet represents a widom in the depth of her disconsolat-

ness, vowing she will never marry agaih'as long as the river flows by the side; of thehillt"' A fewmonthsgo by; The widow, bethinking ? herself that there are still irood fish in the sea.grows more cheerfuly and takes counsel with a clever engineer. He sets to work; the river is diverted from its course; it no lougor flows by the side bf the hill, and tlte huly exohugea. her weeds for . a bridal veil.' . ; - f t .. Dot Pfif' , Now York: Kxpross. : a , - One of the- teachers irr tiiel public schools actually received the; other day f an excuse unique in its way and writfi ten in behalf of a delinquent pupil bys the father. No teacher could; hold such au excuse not valid even under the re-; v quirements of IS, new code of the Board ot Education. It runs ia' this : wise: ., ..' - , . d "Mr. Teacher Dot poy of mine vos absent de odor day ven he shtaid out.? He got one big col mid in his neck vat make him much trouble all, do yUe, Blease don't give him some punishments veh he vas late in de morning. " He vould get there shuet in. timr everJ5, day, but he is not himself to blame; he. is got no mother. She vas deat te j years ago. I ani dis boy's rbareiit b his mother before she vas deat T i