Bloomington Courier, Volume 7, Number 41, Bloomington, Monroe County, 13 August 1881 — Page 3

A' i&gend:

. . . - Xfcero w3nt a widow wouian from the out ti sklrtu of the city, Wbose lor ely sorrow might have moved tho stonsshe traLto pity. She wandered, weeping through, tue'flelds, by-God and man forsaken, Still calliug on a littlo child the reaper Ueatn had taken " . When, lot upon a day sheiuet a white-robed train advancing. And br isjn t!y on the ir 1 golden li eads their goidcsn erownswere glaneing, ChC d Jes s led a happy band of little ones a-Mayiug. -Wit b. no wors oi spring and gems of dow, all Innocently playing. Far from t he rest the widow sees, and iUes to clasp her treasure; "What ails thee, darling, that thou must not tate with theseithy pleasure?" "Oh, mott-er! little mother mine, behind the rest I tarry. For, See, how heavy with yon r tears the pitcl.erlmnstiearry. ' "Hyonhcd ceased to weep for me, when Jesus went a-Maytng, I should 1-aveoeeu amongst the' blest, with little Jeans playing."

had toiled for me, followed me, and en vy or malice in her' whole compo-

v. . Aiviti -unvj . ; r no L iu iis on my nigged path alone! Heartsick

A STBANGE STORY.

I have a strange, almost incredible story to tell of an experience of my own one fearf ul night in the woods. Imagination had nothing to do with

it. 1 am a backwoodsman's daughter, accustomed to the wild sounds of the forest, the loneliness, and. all .that is terrifying to a novice. ' My- father was' a good man, serving God after his own simple fashion, seeing him and loving him after his own works. I have heard him- hold forth on the provident' ways of the beaver: 'Why ! the little critter'd starve in the cold season if it hadn' t used its little flat tail for baildin1 its house, and then filled if . with food in time!7 I have heard him tell of the caribou: 'Look at that, too he would say; 4and at the moose. Now, the caribou "has to travel oi ten a matter of twenty miles for his dinner, for he's a dainty 'un, and only e$is the long gray . moss that hangs from the treesso God. gave him snow-shoes good as an , Injun, could make 'em to skim over the ice crustvhile the big,- .heavy ; moose there amks right in. His dinner is close at hand. He could live a month on an ftcre lot !' He would speak of the looit. and its adaptation in every way to r:ts watery home always ending such talk with : 'All God's works are 'poB honor; there's no half way With him!' I wast the only one left: of twelve children. My father, when mourning over and missing the others, would never complain but only say: 'They're better off! Why! if we can't trust the little children, that don't know what wrong doing? is, and don't know the meaning of sin, then there ain't any chance for ns men!' And so he lived his quiet life-his heart bein close to nature's heart, and his soul unconsciously; seeking? and finding nature's God; - .. My mother must have been teautU ml in her youth. Shelwas a Lorette Canadi anne, and her bright' French spirits carried ; her gaily over many a hard trial in her life of frequent deprivations. One great, overshadowing sorrow of her life was the unaccountable disappearance of her little year old daughtsr, her only beautiful child the one in her own image, whom from the first abs. slovedwith a peealiar. tenderness. :'r ..." The child had been left alone in her little b: rch bark crib for a short half

hour, while mother was busy at the I

JZCX 7: k' only creature left for me to love

L " STSiiC tZct"' I care for ! One short second it

ju iuc uiiuott- uiy miner, i .,i i.r.A n4- e

and overcome. I stonned at tliR floor.

and leaning my head against it, sobbed in uneontrolable despair. Tired out at lengtti, I had grown quiet, and was just about to lift the latch, when a faint moan, as of' an animal in nain. and

close to me, startled me; then a death.

jtuu sueiivo reigneu; I knew I had not been mistaken. I felt thai; I must forget myself and help the psor creature in distress. "It is very good for strength to know that some one needs you to be strong." ."No longer hesitating, I hurried into the

little cabin, struck a light, and went in the direction whence the moan had reached my. ear. I thought of the shot I had heard. It was quite possible; a poor, wounrled deer was lying in the bushes. Yes ! I could now see its skin unmistakably a fawn spotted dun

color. It lay quite still perhaps that was its dying gasp! and so 1 came quite close to it, leaned over, aud, paralyzed with horror saw my mother's face, only young and very beautiful, as she. must have looked when a girl. Deathly pale, dead, possibly, sue laymatted nair all about her face and

clothed in doeskin. Just tnen she stirred; it was not death. All wonder ceased within me, every feeling fled before the thought that this being, whatever, whoevershe was might be saved to live. ,. I dragged her the few steps i n to . i he house, laid her on my hemlock boughs, untouched by me since the "sickness visited us. Then I found a wound in

the poor creature's side and bound it up; "bathed her head, and in the quiet, nowagain I felt startled at seeing my mother's image, young and fair, before me, and when, at length her great eyes opened, I felt it must be that sister lost ta me till now, and sent back in this sad hour to take my mother's place. I leaned forward, in an access ot tender ness, to welcome her, when a look of fright, an animale-like, wild with terror, took possesion of her face, and a low sort of snarl brook from her human lips. ' Th y start she gave caused a fresh rlow of blood; dimness passed over her eyes. Again I staunched the wound,- and prepftredvsome nourishmen i a sh awaked. Too busied nr these ways for further speculation; only with a strange weight at my heart and weariness of

body, suddenly I felt the gleam offijes watering me. Such strange eyes ! No human. expression about them; a stealthy look in them now. Gently as I could I approached her side. She fcremoled and tried to hide her head when I offered my ear fully prepared food, I moved away studiously avoided any appearance of watching her. Yet I ws intently conscious of her every movement I could see her, eyeing eageilv with a wretched, famished

look ata raw venison steak that had been forgotten and lay on the table close beside her. . Suddenly like a bird of prey, she grasped it, ana in a moment she bad corn it in pieces and devoured it. Horror filled my heart. Could this creature be human ? I sat still in the corner, where, myself unseen, I couid watch and restrain, her if necessary, and soon weakness overcoming he:: after this last effort she lay tossing in an uneasy sleep. Oh! I was so weary and so very lonely ! The dreadful night was almost at an end. I went to. her side, threw myself on the bed beside her, and put my arms about her neck. Again her wonderful eyes opened full in in v face. I Jixed them with my own. I caressed her, called her by the endearing names of old I besought iit-f to be gentle and to love

mr. i tola ner sue was my own. tne

and

seemed

as a trjiat for having ..be en especially SlS4ifci!LS 5:1 good Q jte beforerFatheranTl had jSCTA

had a r.nlendid time we alwavs did

when Tve went - together and, our canoe full of. trout, we? -were coming gayly home, toward evening, when a cold cl ill feil on our happiness, and my eh id's heart felt a strange' thrill as I read a sudden anxiety in my lather's fa2e, .vhse every change "T knew.

jbis qcjcK ear naa eauenc rne souna ot mother's1 voice, and, rter a while, I, too; could hear av hope!ess moaning, a 'dreadfil heari-brokein sound. We

muuu muiuur noiesiiug on Loe noor, hr head leaning on the empty crib, and monrning as one that could not ha eoinforted: The baby was gone. B ow, oir where we could not tell we n3ver knew. -Weeks "were spent in searching for herj and, at length, to sfcve mother's reason, father forced her to lea ve the pretty log hut in the

ww rj vw- 1 .IV , II HV1 VU1 i(UI OUl" row hud come upon wher, and; we went to Montreal.

ing the winter time. The nuns ot the great .convent of the Gray Sisters took charge of my education. Mother and I nad neat little rooms in the French quartftr, while father went off moosehuntnig for weary .months; but the summer-times are always spent with him. He would choose lovely spots for our encampments; but never on the

site of thft toe fifthin fte-wrf-prf affr t.hp

baby'Ji loss, until the summer of my

took possession of my' mother to go once-more to the old home. She had beeri-very delicate that. winter,and my creat, rough father denied her nothing I shudder when I think -of that beautiful direful . place now it seems jas though pur evil fate hovered about it. AH Ute anguish I ever "knew centers theT' fl We passed one peaceful month together, disturbed only by distant" ru

mors of the dyptheria.a seourge which weemed to be! striding along from village to village, first on the river, then near r us on the great lake; but we nevei' thought of its touebinfir us, until one miserable night when father came home, languid and feverish, from one of his numerous expeditions, and we read in his face that the ghastly finger

or we seourge nau set its mark upon him; After the second day of anxiety about my father, all strength seeJiied to desert my delicate little mother. From the first she had despaired about him and :aow I saw that, if fatner died,! I a should have to part with them both. " Her life would die with his, for sorrow forgets stronger bon ds even than joy, juhT they had suffered so much toi?etlv3r, his love alwavs support insr her.

: that he nad become tne life of her life, J She 3puld not exist aloue. 1 struggled hand to hand,and sick at hear t,against what I felt to be an inex4 orable rate, and on the afternoon of the eight day 1 found myself alone and al

most despairing, save for the thought

gave the struggle over.'and with that

low; fearful growl again, she fastened her white teeth in my hand. - Shiieking with the pain, I fainted. When I came to myself, dawn was struerling in at the window ; leaf-shadows flickered on the floor. Fearful pain in my hand roused me at length, and a- consuming thirst drove me to the woods toward: -the spring. to get a drink. ... v I struggled through the underbrush,

and there, close to the water, discerned

a confused mass. There lay my poor sister, dead, her head pillowed on a wildcat of the woods, killed by the same hand, probably, thathad wounded her fatally.

The Prevailing Topic.

Brooklyn Eagle. - "I tell you' said a tall thin man, seating himself on a horse-block before a Fulton street clothing stoe, last iSiTirsday afternoon, ; and contemplate ing the show bills in- the window,

while addressing no one in particular, "I tell you this is an awful1 thing about Jarfield; If I'd been fired through a brick wall I wouldn't have been so broke up." A ,.; -.. . ... ? You're right, sir," conceded anoth er tall, thin man, drawing near. "I wouldn't believe it at firslr. . Friend of mine told me about it, audi said 'Pshaw!' Bight out that way, DShaw' said I." . r''i"- V . ' Yes, sir, and you hit it," lepiied the first thin man. 'I've been out since morning looking for news about the matter. My wife told me to get her some ice cream, and I've got it here in the box, but I haven't felt like going home till I found out how it would turn ont about the wound, Seen :any bulletins lately ?" .; Yes, bout an hour ago. Temoratu:e 109, pulse 205, and respiration 8" v'Qood enough! he's getting better Did you notice aboutthe tympanites?" ? " " Yes, that was 16. Did you t ku p w that man Gniteau ?" . ' ' , ' ' Well i should smile ! He made fhese clothes. I patronized him" for thirty years, and only quit him when he got to borrowing m on ey from the

charity patients in the hospitals; Did ycu know him?" ; ,lI should think-1 did! Him and me fished all one winter for shad up in Maine. He used to take, the scales off the fish to weigh . 'em with, 'cause he was too mean to buy steelyards.' Aint you 'fraid your ice' cream 'I melt there in the sun?" ,1... "No, I reckon not. You must have known Gui teau when he was preach -ing put here in Bush wick, and I threw him over a red-hot stove for spending the missionary money in cut-steel but tons to use as poker chips?" V r "I wasn't here then, but ! knew him in Florida when he was publishing al-

i sraiorrs tans as, onsrinai stories m a

of tite happiness of the two I had loved San Francisco-paper- Which ay was best in the world. " ' M you going?" ; .

TJie sunset came as 1 sat by thelake "Eight out Fulton street," replied

tmn man, picking

side, flooding my desolate world with a heavenly glory ,hke a 3ign from them , to me of their new found joy. - Tlie stars had come out before I ventured to return to the worse than de-

vri.eu uuue. a uwuu uuu nope ior neip f froia my neighbors until I sought it myself the next day, and I had to look for?wd to a riight-r- how horrible I did not foresee, or I could not have endured it. What follows I could scarcely credit myself, if I did not bear on my hand a tangible proof of it iii a welldef ned scar; and; even now, I could not bear to write on that nights experience had not my children's laughter and my loving husb&nd'F care long sin-3e banished, alU, unnatural gloom : from my life." r Whiie I bad been sitting cn the

laEesnore, towarti the evening, I had'

he:ird a distant nhui j it scarcely rouseoS mcv A sportsman, I thonght, had wa n dered from his en cam pmeut on the opposite shore, bad Keen some cram e in

wuf wiiu wwua, juueu if, ana nis canoe halloogsinee carried him away, in thf 5 gathering darkaoss, 1 groped my w,y back through the familisr little path anfrreaclMHl my own door. I alone eh )uld pass the tlireshoid i n the f u tu re ; k ,h2if feet wfre stili; tlie,busy feet that

me nrsc tail tmn man, picking up

0 is ice-cream box, 'Fll 'walk along

with you.' ? " , "My wife gave me thisdollar to buy some thread with, but I don't believe I can match what she wants. Come and! have a little something?" . "I don't mind, I'm feeling better about the President's prospects, and it

ynay help me to brace up a bit."

"Certainly. In a time like this strangers become friends, and we can't do better than stand in against a na

tional calamity. Here's a good place."

And one woman went without ner thread, and another got-a sodden paper box in lieu of her ice cream, and both mourned dismally while their busbands rejoiced-over the happy turn of affairs, and lied like thieves about ; their experiences with Gniteau. v

The Cirl Everybody Jjikes.

She is not beautifulo.. no! nobody

thinks of calling her that Not on of

a. dozen can tell whether her eyes-are blacfc or.biue. If you should ask them

to describe her. they would only sov:

"She islust right," and there it would

. .... She is a merry-hearted. fuUrldvibg,

bewitching maiden, without tv sp?vrk of

n

sition. She emovs nerseu and wants

everybody else to do the same. She has always a kind word and a pleasant smile for the oldest man or woman ; in fact, I can think of nothing she resembles more than a sunbeam, which brightens everything it comes in contact with. , .All pav her marked attention, from rich Mr," Watts, who lives in tho mansion on the hil.1, to negro Sam. the sweep. All look after her with an admiring eye, and say to themselves, "She is just the right sort of a girl." Tne young men of the town vie with one another as to who shall show her th most attention, but she never en

courages them beyond being simply kind and jolly; so no one cxai call her a flirtj.no, 'indeed, the young men would deny such an assertion as quickly as she. Girls wonderful to relate like her, too, for she never delights m hurting

their feelings or saying spiteful things behind their backs. She is always willing to join in their little plans and assist theni in any way. Ibey go to her with their5 love aflairs, and she manages adroitly to see Willie or Peter and drop a good word for Ida or Jennie, until their little difficulties are all patched up, and every tilin g soes on smoothly again thanks to her. Old ladies say she is "delightful." The sly witch she knows how to manage them. She listens patiently to complaints of the rheum atdsm or neuralgia, and then sympatizes with thorn so heartily that they are half cured. But she cannot be always with us. A young man comes from a neighbor

ing town by-arid-bye and marries her.

The villagers crowd around to tell him what a prize he has won, but he seems to know it pretty well without any

telling, to judge from his face. So she leaves us. and it is not long before we hear from that platje. She is there the woman everybody likes. ..... . - o. . .: . - Foreign Husbands. Lucy Hooper's PurJs Letter. Italian gentlemen as a rule malre far better husbands for .. American girls than do their French confreres, and so the promised bride of they oung Prince Buspoli will probably do far better than if she. had married a Montmorenci or a DeEohan. The young lady in question is a Miss "Dille:, formerly of Springfield, 111. Her father was the United States Consul at Bremen during the last years of the Presidency of Mr. Buchanan . I have never seen the bride-elect, who is said to be both pretty and accomplished, but I have met Prince Ruspoli in society. He is a pleasant looking but rather shy young man, and hit; private character is re-

pputed to be as; far above reproach as the

length of his pedigree and die antiquity of his title above suspicion. Q,ueen Isabella of Spain will confer upon him the rank and privileges of a Spanish' grandee on his marriage, and there are

some vorv o.id uncles with immense fortunes looming in the background so that altogether the match appears tb be one of extraordinary promise for the young American wife. I hope sincerely tha t-myiair countrywoman will be happy. Meantime I am prepared and, indeed authorized to state that Miss Eva Mackay is not engaged to any one, neither to the Couut de Hareourt, nor to the Marshal de MaeMahou's eldest; son, Patrice, nor to any other person what: ever, The young lady in question is only just 1 8, and her p'aren ts have no idea of marrying her after the French fashion to any titled personage in existence. I do not think that while there are houses, and mines, and pictures, and other purchasable objects in existence, that our intelligent and sensible bonanza king and his charming wife will ever care to expend any portion-of their vast wealth in buying that very costly and unsatisfactory ai tide, a French son-in-law. Murray on MustangsThe Rev. W. H. H. Murray has evidently found employment that he likes in Texas horse breeding. He writes enthusiast! 3ally to the Boston Herald that Texas is just the place for the business, and that the tough little mustangs are the right stock to take hold of for improvement. He declares that they trace their origin back to "a race of equine kings and queens ," and have only deteriorated undeHiard usage. "I have seen these little 800 pound horses," he says, 'travel eighty miles, with a 180 pound man up, under a Southern sun," in a ride across the country, with out roadways, from sun to sun, and that, too, on little grain, perhaps nothing but the grass they can get from the prairie at night. Many of them pace pace like the wind pace so fast that they play with you on the prairie, though you have a blooded mount that can run like a greyhound. Others trot trot naturally with stifles out and

perfect knee action, and will do noth- : ' ' . 1 k. A .J. 1- V. 3 . -1 T

rag ounroc, nowever nam presseu. a have raced through the prairie grasses and flowers at the rump of a mustang stallion .16 hands high and blood bay in color, with a tail black as night and that would sweep the ground a foot, and been unable to break him from his trot or range up' to litis side, although my mount was a three-quarter bred mare of 1,000 pounds we:.gbt, that took to the chase with her eyes blazing and ears laid back in a way that plainly told her rider that she felt a good deal as he did." Mr. Murray advises a cross from a thoroughbred stallion, believing that it would increase the sixe without losing toughness, and produce the best saddle horses as well asrtrotters.

M-rs.l&yra Clark Gaines. Waiihingt on Letter. , The indications are that tha t wonderful woman, Myra Clark Gaines, will devote the re iiiainder of her energy and such part of her vast estate as may be n eces aary to save her son-in-law, Christmas, from tho legal consequences Of havin g killed her . own son; Whitney, in this city last Saturday eveniug. The sympathies of Mrs. Gaines are

very manifestly with the living son-dn-law, who seems to have been much

more a son in fact and a much worthier member of society than the dead man. It is a curious sight ttiat is noM witnessed at the old Oatacazy house, where the remarkable woman sits iii her grie f, surrounded by her six grandchildren, three children of the murdered son, sending a message to the latter at the police cell that she will see that what the law can do will

be done for him. The latest evidence

is that the fatal shooting i3 a better ease of self-defense that at first , appeared. Whitney is now reported to

have struck Unnsunas a severe Dlow

in the back of the neck as he was de

scending the .stairs,., and to have im

mediately afterward placed jmnand

upon his hip pocket as; if about to draw a weapon , meanwhile disowning

Christmas and his own mother in the

vilest language. Th3 case will be de

fended by the ablest legal talent. Tins is the most notable murder sensation in Washington since Daniel B. Sickles slew Philip Barton Key, the seducer of

his' wile, and was aegmtted; ,

Brotherly Love

Texas SiftiDgs. ... .

"Where is your little brother Billy?" atiked an Austin Sunday school teacher of little Johnny McSpilkins. "He is home in bed. He is too sick to come, out and I am glad of it,.,? responded Johnny. i "Why do you speak so unkindly of ItillyV" 1 'Because he played me a mean trick. " "What was itV" ' "Billy told me that ma said the boy that eat the most meat for dinner should, have the biggest piece of water-

meloift I beat Billy all to pieces eating

meat. He didn' c Jiardly eat any meat,

and when the watermelon came on I

boohoo had eaten so much meat

that I had no room for trie melon, and

Billy, who nadn'i: .saten any hardly, ate up nearly the whole watermelon.

and now he is sjok, and I'm so glad it

TABLE TALK.

An "Eurclish writer estimates that

there are 40,000 Americans iupSngland

ro-aay.

Tlie Brighton Railroad tragedv has

made revolvers sell like hot cakes in

London.

The grs,nd , stand at Epsom, which

dates from. lHS, pays its shareholders

forty per cent. Mr. Gla dstone and Mr. Tennvson nro

said to have disputed over the size of

tneir neaas, ana aaa tnem measurefi. Mr. Tennyson's proved the wider, the other tho iiigher. Tho prophetic Vennor. is 40. His father was a hardware merchant, with a house iri Taverpool and another in Montreal. Tho nronhet was educated

at the MoCtUI Uni versity of Montreal.

2tfo one of Queen Victoria's daughters has ever mixed in general society

so much as the Princess Louise tins

season. S ho ; drives out with tho frequency of a regular diner out, presume ably for her health's sake. The Rev. Henry Knight, of Clifton, Kan., knocked down a man who expressed a bopo that the President would not recover. An eve-witness estimated the weight of the blow at 13,000 pounds. A church tribunal will determine the gravity of the offence. The last State ball in London terminated in a gallop "entirely in honor of the Americans present, .who had expressed tbeir longing for something more lively." It is thought that the fashion thus set will be followed at private balls during tho rest of tlie sea

son. The Servian Government is reported to be contemplating modifications in the national constitution that will fullv emancipate the Jewish residents

of the country, and will place phem in the enjoyment of all the rights, civil and political, that are enjoyed be Servians of tlie Christian faith. Iugenious little Billy Ryland constructed a jack-in-the-box, with a figure of unexampled hideousuess, with which to amuse his mother, int Sacramento. He sprung in on her when she did not expect anything of the kind, and the shock threw her into convulsions, during which she died. A man wagered that he could crawl through a drain W0 feet long at Steuben ville, (X. He went in through an aperture scarcely Larger than his body, and the spectators waited an hour for him to emerge at the other end. But he got stuck in the centre, and had to be dug ou The job lasted all day,ancl when rescued he was almost dead. The people of Wlleox,PajWere greatly alarmed and angered by the news that a torpedo of nicro glycerine was to be fixplodad in their town by oil well borers,and they determined to avert tho danger if possible. They discovered a tin cylinder in an office, and a brave volunteer carried it to a safe distance, svhere i was buried deep. It really wan a case containing a surveyor's drawings. The Grand Duke Nickolas.late Commander-i:a-ehief of the Bussian armies in Turkey, is living in Paris. He occupies rooms on the third floor of the Hotel Chatham, and is living in a very retired manner. He is suffering from nervous derangement, and says that the recent campaign in Turkey Jeft his healtli in a very unsatisfactory condition. At a concert recently given in , London by 8ir Julius Benedict, Mile Sarah Bernhardt gave a reading.'Her tloweroovered hat and costume seemed to?cre ate agrater surprise and pleasui'e than her declamation. HenryBIrving, who wore no flowers in his hat, seemed to please morebyjhis declamation and won immense applause by a pathetic recitation of"My Uncleaceoinpanied on the piano by Sir Julius. A woman who exhorts among the negroes of southern Georgia wears on her head a halo made of burnished brass, winch seems to impress some of her hearers profoundly, She tells them that it was given to her by an angel in a vision, as a reward for her superlative piety, and is positively the only one ever conferred upon anybody before reaching heaven. She claims that its possession enables her to intercede with certainty for sinners, and gives her miraculous power over disease. At the London Zoological Gardens there is an elephant which eats buns out of your hat. Lord jSforth brook, First Lord of the Admiralty, who had heard of this, bought a bun, p laced it i n h is 1 iat,' and gracefully presented the dish to the elephant. Unluckily this happened to the the wrong elephant, and one whose education had been neglected, for he took hat and bun together, handed them into his capacious mouth, and munched them contentedly amid the inextinguishable laugh tei: of the onlookers.

DUCAL BLOOD

Eomantie Story of the Duke Sutherland's Mother.

The New York correspondent of the Hartford Courant is responsible forjthe following: The Duke of Sutherland, with his party, among which Dr. Bussell of Bull Buii "fame was included, sailed from this city for England a few days ago. I have heard a story about the mother of the present Duke, at one time mistress of the robes to Queen Victoria, which is not a little remarkable and. which I have every reason, except personal knowledgeto believe to be true. The story, which has never been in sprint, was in substance as follows: The Duchess of Sutherland (that is the mether of our recent visitor) is recorded iu '.'Burke's Peerage'7 akbeing the third daughter of the sixth Earl of Carlisle, but she was in fact the daughter of Samuel Eastman, a eomparatively poor man, who lived in the suburb of London known as Battersea, and who was for inauy years beadle of the Battersea parish churoh. He was of good English farmer stock, but his wile was of more gentle blood, and was a cousin of Lady Bessborough, who was well known in her time, about ISOO to 1820, and one orf whose relatives has figured somewhat prominently in connection with the parliamentary treatment of the existing Irish land troubles. Mrs. Eastman being very ill and not expecting to live, allowed her cousin, Lady BessbDrough, to take her infant child, Harriet Eliza

beth, with the understanding that she would give it the care that its mother could not mve it then. Aftetalont?

illness Mrs. Eastman recovered, but

when she called upon Lady Besabor-

ough to return the child, she was in

formed that it had died at the' Isle of

"Wight, where she had taken it. Mrs. Eastman

DID NOT DOUBT THE STOKV

iiz tun time, and she named tho two

next children that were born to her Efarnet and Elizabeth respectively. Many years, afterward, Lady Bessborough being de&d, a Mrs. Peterson, her lady's maid, informed Mrs. Eastman that her child not only had not died, but had been transferred by Lady Bessborough to the Earl of Carlisle and adopted by him as his own child, aud had just then married the Duke of Sutherland. Mrs. Petersen added that Lady Bessborough had adjured her on her death bed to inform her cousin of the fact, and to do what she could to repair the wrong that she had done. Before anything further was said or done about it Mrs. Eastman died. The next that was known in the Eastman family m re spect to the matter was that a Duke or Duchess of Hutherland sent a Dr. Lee, f Jiondou, to oiler Mr. JKstman such

a-farm as he might select, and an income for life, if the man would not lay claim to the duchess as his daughtev; but tho old man had more pride than policy, refused the offer on time conditions and died poor. Such are the leading points of this story. Why Lady Bessborough should give away a child she had used sucdeceptiou to serarre, or why tho Earl of Carlisle should have made the child his own, couid not be explained by my informant; but she told her story straight, and related so many little in eidents in connection with it that it was difficult. to doubt that she was nar ra ting veritable history. She had in her possession a picture which closely resembled herself, and which was a likeness of the late Duchess. IF THE STORY IS TKUE, the two were sisters, both being daughters of Farmer Eastman. By all accounts the Duchess was a good and noble , woman, possessing the re

spect and love of ail who ku jw ner,

either personally oi' by reputation, and

the same thing can no said of my in

forman t, who is known to bo of unim

peachable respectability, and who in any event had nothing to gain by giv

ing false information. The personal

habits and tast3 or the present Duke

tend to confirm the storv. He 13 a

plain man of democratic instincts, and

with'a great passi m for machinery,and

particularly, locomotive engineering.

It will be remembered that while he was visiting George W. Childs in Philadelphia, he induced the latter to ac

company him in a railroad ride on the

front of a locomotive; and a friend of

mine, an Enghyhman, tells me that

once, being on a visit to a new English ship whose machinery had some notable features, he stumbled in the bowels of the vessel against a man wearing a rusty blouse, and whose face and hands sho wed that he hail been hard at work in connection with the engine, and that the man, looking outwardly very much like a skilled mechanic, was the Duke of Sutherland. Often 5n England, I am told ? tire Duke runs a locomot ive engine, just as other fine folk of that sort drive a four-in-hand. Keign of Terror in Hew Mexico. Soma Po special to Cincinnati Times-Star. Murder, rapine and robbery prevail along the nw settlements on the San Juan', Animas and La Platte rivers, in the northwestern section of this territory. Desperadoes from Colorado raid into that section, kill and rob at pleasure, and return to Colorado when satisfied, A petition, signed by over eighty of the best citizens of Tass and Riti Arrila counties, has been received by Gov. Lew, Wallace, asserting that it was safe neither for life nor for property that it was necessary for aands of armed men to patrol the iarms of settiers at night to prevent murder and robbery. The petition seis forth that the countv officers, are entirely unreliaOle and

do not perform their duties arid functions, and prays that arms and amunititon be furnished them, and that the citizens be organized into militia to more effectual ly protect the tnselves. Governor Wall ace is very earnest in his desire to render assistance and enforce the law, -and, as from all accounts the situation is critical, and demands prompt and vigorous measures, he has concluded not to await the arrival of his successors," Governor Shelclon, but to go at once.The Adjutant-General of the territory, Captain Max Frost, has been directed by Governor Wallace to,proceed at, once to Bio Arrila county with sixty stands of rifles and 10,000 rounds of amunition, and to organize two militia companieiJ as a posse for a sheriff.. The desperadoes seerd to be under the leadership of one Ike Stockton, brother of Pete Stockton, a most hardened desperado and murderer, who was fcilleu a few months . ago at Farmington. Their headquarters .are at Durango, Col., near the State line. Five days ago these two men attacked, two herders, killing one of them and then fleeing back to their hiding place in Colorado. Several men have. been driven from the county and ordered not to return under penalty oi? death. Recently a man, Anderson by name, was hung, and two other men, George Brown and Oscar E. Puiett, were wantonly killed ; the ranches of Garrett and Eldridge were ransacked and burnt; a Navajo Indian was killed wantonly, and the Nava jos are mad and make trouble. About lifty citizens have left the county, afraid of their live3 and matters are descr tbed as altogether deplorable. 9 t m THE SOCIETY" REPORTER.;

His Sad Experience in J3rooklyn "Well, how did you get alone: at the party last night asked the city editor of the Brooklyn Eagle of a new reporter whom he had engaged the day before, and whom he had sent to write up a social -occasion. . . "Not very well," responded the new reporter, gloomily. 'I don't think Brooklyn society is the iop-notch racket any ho w,n "What's the niatier?" demanded the city editor; "didn't they use you well?" "I can't say they did," lejoined the new reporter. "Now, I went up there last niaht aud vraded right into the fun. I asked for the Chairman of the party, and told him we were laying out to sweB their heads in to-day's issue,and he'd better skip in aud introduce me to some of the high-bugs if he calculated to have Mis name meu tinned n the report." "What did he ay to taal?" asked he city editor, with a calm gleam in his eye. "He wanted to know who sent m. I told him the main guy of this literary bank had fired me in theie, and that when I'd got th rough shaking a leg Pd like some facts afout the lay-out. If he couldnlt give 'em, I told him, he'd better get the secretary - to heel up nretty lively, or I'd give the whole outfit a deal in the paper that would make him think every hai r on his head ii band of .music, and all playing different tunes." "And what did he say to that?" inquired the city editor, the gleam deepening ominously. "Oh! he was a friend to the Eagle, and would do what he could for me. J told him he'd better hop right at it, and first I wanted to meet the gals. If he calculated to hold the friendship of the Eagle, I said, he didn't want to waste much funny busine?s before he had me humping around in the mazy. He said if Pd go up stairs and take oft my hat and overcoat, he'd see me

later." "Did you do it?" asked itor, in a constrained tone, "No. I said I wanted

first. So ae took me down in the front kitchen, and asked me if I liked boned turkey. I told him I'd take a leg and Home of the breast. What do you think he gave me? Head-cheese! If he didn't you can lick me. I couldn't eat that, and to I asked him for a glass of beer aud a cheese pandwiofc. He said he hd some wiue; iv 1 drank a bottle and put two oi tnree bottles in my pockets. f1 What did you do then?" interrogated the city editor, fin gering a length of gas-pipe; -I went up to the parlor, and he said I'd better tike a description of the

scene before;! danced, and he gave me the names. Here they are: Mary

Monroe, red. frock, white sack, and

the city ed-

some grub

hair Dimcned ; jsmraa JatroDe, yellow dress ami ln$h-heeled slippers; Marion Willoiudibv. some kind of thin stuff.

had on a velvet outfit a mile long, and sixteen rows of teeth on her gloves. Her hair was a dead yellow tied up like a bun, and had a lot of vegtable3 in it. Florence Iios:i, green dress, flipped with velvet and. hoisted up at the side with a white check-rein. Vinnie Haramersiy, white network with red streaks, walked with a limp and hair frescoed. That's all I got. There was a lot of old pelicans there, but I knew you didn't care for them, and as for the men. I told 'em, it cost a dollar a piece, and as they wouldent put up I shaved 'era. I can state that they were a cheap lot, who don't know any more about society than a pig does of polities, and I'll teach 'em a lesson. And, I say, we'd better give the Chairman a rub He didn't introduce me to a solitary hen. Better say that he hasn't paid his gas bill for seven months, and his

accounts were lound short. .What do you think?" "Got any more about the party?" demanded the city editor, risng slowly. "Notning, only that the grub wasn't fit tio eat, though furnished by that popular caterer, Mr. Traphagener. I told him I'd give him a puff. You might say, too, that the whole party was a dead failure oh account of the villainous treatment to which our new society reporter was subjected when he asked for a handful of cigars. Say, what havs you got for me to do to-night?"

"JSTot a thing!" yelled the city editor, as he brought the gas-pipe across the new reporter's ear. "You infernal reptile, don't you know that was one ot the best houses in town and the alMr one of the finest of the season?" "I'm going back xo St.Paul," groaned the new reporter, as he fell down stairs. "If that's Brooklyn society, I'm going where they have some style," and he struck off toward the Northwest largely afoot.

., ,,

ACQUAINTANCES MADE ITS 6A

Learning Something of the Peculi

arities oi Tnreo uumous Pets. N. Y. 8mi..

"Look out ifor Dusty," said the onearmed proprietor of a fouv-by-ten booth

tnat stands at the head of the long

brume leadirig; trom tne tootn street

station to Washington Heights. The

reporter had oeen driven to its shelter

by the storm that passed over on the

Fourth, and had accidently touched a

tame -crow that was perched on the.

round of a ch:iir, and thereupon became

tne ooieet or attack trom tlie aioresaid

Dusty, who was a Skye terrier of the mo3t approved pattern. "They're

great cronies," cue owner said, laughing, "and any one that touches Pete

has to look out."

"He is a queer one. sure enough "

chimed in a hackman, who.tipped back

in a chan, was unconsciously eating

cherries from, a basket" labelled "'five

cents a pint, and throwing the seeds at

tne crow.

dead, several small insects were found.

The 1 i vincr froes were closed up again.

AYvd at the end of the second year all-

were dead. The frogs were examined

fi'Pfmftntlv dnrincr their confinement

bv re moviner the slate without disturb

ing the i?las3. and in all cases the living

one3 were found not torpid, shut awak '

and active. , -;r :

-W mm . t 111 L. l.nrr l-n

xiovers or irocrs' lees wiu u jjayM ,

learn that the remains of a fossil erea-

tare, very like our frog,have been found that must have been as large as aii

elephantand could have jumped thirty1

feet. The pipings of this primew't

JOCOSITIES.

The first poker-sharp inmerica was

Poker-Hontas. ,,

Never write the word "ilnis" back

ward. It will be a "sin if" you do it

A Dutchmen repetited the adage.

"Birds mit one fedder goj mit dem

selves." . . .. ,ry '

A Brooklyn maiden wan ts to know

Tho latter gravely hopped down from I how to avoid having a mustache come

on her upner lip, Jbiat onionssis,

A Connecticut woman was appoint

ed constable the otnor !ay, ana tner

Adulterated Beer. New York Sun, The proportion of substitutes which brewers venture to use runs from 33 J to 45 per cent, by weight, and that is the same with gluco.se as with the cereals. A brewer practicing such adulteration would, then, upon the lowest basis stated, use, instead of say 85 pounds of barley malt (tlie highest allowance ordinarily for a barrel of beer), only 57f pounds of barley malt and 28J pounds of corn, or 35 pounds of elucose, which would be equivalent

to about 25 pounds of the solid extract

at the rate of 40 degrees liaume. It iS

reported that the German Government

has forbidden tho use of substitutes for barley malt, which would seem to in

dicate a lack of appreciation of the

very innocuous euaraeter claimed for them by their advocates, upon the

part of authorities whose good udg-

meut in the matter of beer will hardly admit of question. IS von if their use cannot legally be prohibited in this country, it does seem to many beer driakers as if it might be both practicable and advisable to have to have some

such law enforced as that proposed a couple of months ago in the iSfew York legislature and promptly sat upon by the influence of the brewers, by whieh the makers, of glucose, corn, rice and other bogus beer should be compelled to brand their kegs with a veracious statement of the actual contents. Such beers may be all well enough for those who like them and it is a pity their use cannot be confined to those who make them but, as theStaats-Zeitung said a couple of years .., ago : ..." Wh atever'they may be and whatever they they should be called, tney certainly are not genuine German lager beer, which can only be made from hops and malt." , I is emphatically xlenied by brewsters that they habitually employ any substitutes for hops,but every beer drinker knows of beers in common sale which have a great deal of some bitter element that is entirely devoid of the flavor of the hop. And it is also a signifleent fact Bolley's TechnischChemische Untersuchungen, a work of the highest authority, affords a list of tests for the detection, by analysis, of the presence in beer of picric acid, capsicine, alyetiue, daphiiine, qua ssia, menyan thine, absynthine, coloey thine, gentian and pierotoxin. The latter material is the active principle of the poisonous "fish berries." The principal additions to beer to prevent its souring, to give strength enough supposably to check butyric, acetic, and lactic acid fermentations, and to sweeten it. are bi-sulphite of lime, bi-carbonate' of soda, salicylic acid, alcohol and glycerine. Generally these are employed in such small quantities as not to be particularly dangerous to the consumer; but there was a case m Germany not so long ago in which so much bi carbonate of soda had been used to correct sour beer that persons drinking it were attacked by severe and even dangerous purging. The brewer who played that trick upon hi3 customer's was fined heavily. The bi-sulphate of lime absorbs oxygen and prevents the developement of acetic acid, for which reeson it is much used in bottling beer. The sal icy clic acid is a strong disinfectant and a powerful anti-ferment, and is largely employed in foreign beers received in this country as also in beer shipped from the "United States to hot climates. In the proportion of 1 to 2,000, in which it Is generally used, it cannot . be regarded as injurious. . - Seth Green's Spider Story. If you anchor a -pole in a body of water and put a spider on it he will exhibit marvelous intelligence by his plans to escape, At first he will spin a web several, inches long and hang to ou6 end whiie he allows the other to float off in the wind, in the hope that It. will strike some object. Of course this plan proves a failure, but Ihs spider is not discouraged. He waits until the wind changes, and then sends another silken bridge floating off in an other direction. Another failure Is followed by several other similar attempts, until all the points of the compass have been tried. But neither the resources nor the reasoning powers of the spider are exhausted. He climbs to the top of pole and energetically goes to work to construct a silken bal-loou.-He has no hot air with which to inflate it, but he has the power of making it buoyant. When he" gets his balloon finished he does not go of! upon the mere supposition that it will carry him, as men often do, but he fastens it to a guy rope, the other end of whieh he attaches to the island pole

upon which he is a prisoner. He then gets into his aerial vehicle while it is made fast and tests it to see whether its dimensions are capable of the work of bearing him away. He often finds that he has made it too small, in whieh case he hauls it down, takes it all apart, and constructs it on a larger and better plan. A spider has been seen to make three different balloons before he became satisfied with his experiment. Then he will get in. snap the guy rope, and sail away to land as gracefully and giuupremely independent of his surroundings as could well be imagined.

its perch, uttered a, curious croak,,

uanceu around a stone with

bristling like a hen, then, picking one

up, crept beni net. i;r e mend ly Hack man

in the most cunning manner possible,

and deftly inserted the pit into the

crease of his trowsers that were turned

up at the bottom.

"Oh. no! he ain't euanhi. not at all,"

the man continued, pretending not to see the bird, and tossing down more

cherry stones.

. The bird picked up one and then another, depositing them in the same place, until, the hackman Beeming to

have recovered from his fit of abstracf aiTiwklir naoaoH onrl Va

solemnly .hopped- on Busky's back, crowing like a cook, squeaking like a hen , and ending w ith ..ft. prolonged howl that made the dog prick up his

sk'vrt ears as if he had not been fooled

time and again iu the samt3 manner.

" vvnaf do you Jieep, a. museum or a restaurant?" the mystified reporter

asked as Ins eye eaugat the solemn coantenance of :m wl perched on a

candy jar.

- " Wtjfl," the man said laughing, vT?m fond of animals of all kinds. This crow and owl a friend of mine caught

up at Kimr's bridne. and I've got 'em

so they seem to know about as much

as tho ordinary run of people. Dusty

and Pete made fnenos right on. The crow sleeps by him at night, and when the dog's a lay in' in the dust here, the bird will stand on him and. kill flies." "That is kind," the reporter interrupted. . r "Yes, only after he kills them he stoves 'em away in the dog's ear, and makes him so deaf he wouldn't hear one of these torpedoes fired off right alongside of him; but he don't seem to mind it. He'll lie down here and pretend to sleep, and these ere spairows will come around, a whole lot of them, after the era mbs and cherries and bits

that the crow hides in the sand, and L when they set right near he'll go for I

I'M i

first thing she said

catch amani"

was:i? 4STow I shall

42

The Free Press professes to have seen

a Cincinnati woman's bustle that far-

uishd a roost for three boy smwi a??

market basket. ' 1 . .y c v

Rev. Dr. Talmaee said the other flay :

that modern vouna: ladies were not the . i

daughters of Shorn and Ham, but the4 daughters of Sham and Efem .

Somebody sends tins in as new: ,

Whit species of snake was it tkats tem)ted Eve? The garter?snake, he, :

bQimx the only one tnat cquia .get

atound her. ..'T -.r-r i .

A California astronomer claimed to

have discovered seven comets in a buueh the other evening, but. hev was;

just from the States and had not yet

become accustomed to the coast Drana

of whiskey.

Tliere was a young fellow from lJslo -But down on a t hree-conier-Jd file; " With a sorrowful wail . Ho pulled out the nail, ? -5 And despalriny said, VI shouldmlle" ; (But hodidnt.) . Tkev were at a dinner party, and he

remarked that he supposed she was-

fond of ethnology. She said she was, but she was hot very well, and the

doctor had told her nottoeat jinytliing

fir . tnnnMf AnOTtrVaC 3

"ITft'fl ft heantv." observed the mule r

-0

4t: ir-

Amur, fldmlrinrfv strokimr tne am-

T-ila jyipha. "and amiable. . too.

when he eetsmad it's lust worm jjiu w

Vanderbilt's fortune to see him feeling , , no- ' 'm XI .vu.l nrUk kid f

ror xue nair oi mo, uuiuov wiiu u

heels.". , . v , - '

A Chinese laundi vman in PhUadel'

phia has' a revised sign, of which Jhis;,

ii. a true copy:

ir-

.......

No trustee no butee Busteo is Hadee ' v V-

No trusbse no bus tee

,............"

white, and tfied up with blue tape, aud hair frizzled;. Jennie Murohison, black clothes and a feather in her hair; Ella Wexford,, red suit flat in front and stuck out behind; Pauline Tresley I

a tub and cU'tsed to tfc.e branch, Bhe

jPreferred a. Husband to $5000. Baltimore Sun. Miss Nannie Siffartl, of Frederick, was married at her residence yesterday morning to Mr. Aubray Pearre, of the firm of Pearre Bros. & Co., Hanover street, Baltimore. By her marriage

Miss Sitiard, now Mrs. Pearre, is obliged to surrender in accordance with the provision of the will of the late John Doats, her brother-In-law, an estate estimated to be worth between $50,000 auti $75,000. The property, in which she was given a Hie estate, or until she married, consists, in part, of one of the most elegant private residences in the city, and a fine barn located on the im mediate southern limits of the town. It will now pass into the hands of a

j Board of Tr usees for the establtshmeiit I of an Orphan Homo for fdrig,

Jor- Taa noiinrli h -rirr our) ' i nt Arriav

Willi : J.J.V O VfcVViU.U W CV" VV WVMWi day the crow grabbed one and ate it up. , They're at him now." ..... ( Dusty was lying in the street, and a few venturesome sparrows were edging gradually toward him. Finally, one hopped almost on to his tail, and with a yell he darted at it, chasing the whole ilock far away, and almost nabbing one by an astonishing jump into the air. ' . "I n ever h eard of but one dog before," said another looker-on,- 4that would catch birds, ar?id he v;as owned by Mr. Tom Spencei and ..kept on his coun try place, up n ear Gfer man towm He was a great hand at catching swallows, and every evening he used to go otf the main road . and lay for them. They fly low, and, I don't know whether yon erer noticed it, they seem to see how near they can come to you without striking. They tried this on Tom Spence'a dog. but when he saw one coming he would start int he same direction, and, as. the swallow skimmed by, would spring into the air and grab it. He would do it time and agsan, and just for&he sport, for he never ate them." ' . The story ::. seemed mcrvellpu3, " out the reporter readily credited- it, being the fortunate possessor of a fogbound wbo had developed remarkable talent in the way of catching hens, either on the fly, from the roost, or in a fair, out and out stein chase. . , ' ;tThere's a f riend of mine,,, continued the owner of the place, pointing to a

small hole just outside the 4 canvas covering, by a stump; , fronl: which looked a very ordinary toad. "He's only a toad, but he no slouch;" tossing a fly at him- ' iSfow, you see he lives in a hole that seems to go down into the ground, and after a shower like this you'd think he'd be drowned out, wouldn't you?" The reporter admitted such convictions. Well, now, that's just where you make a mis take. If any one knows anything about d rainage that toad does. He ought to be on the Board of Health." After enticing the toad from his retreat he continued, uNow just examine that hole with your finger and see if I'm hot right." By thrusting his finger in the orfioe the philosophy of the toad became ivident to the" writer. The hole proper ran in and down when probed with a stick about a foot, and the bottom wis full of water, the eftects of the recent flood. "A toad eouldn't stay there," continued the mm; "they don't like water. Now, feel the uppar part of the entrance." ,,s - - Following Ids directions, the writer found that about four inches from the opening was a passage that led up, and was enlarged :intoasmall shelf, stud there the toad could sit and watch the water as it ran ia and down under it iri to the blind lead-or well it had, prepared for the purpose.' I tell you," the proprietor continfcued, (,it makes a man think when he sees a common animal like that show so much sense. I know fifty men right on the Heights tihat ain't up to that dodge about their own houses." loads and frogs are objects of considerable curiosity, notwithstandhng they are so common. They disappear so effectually at the approach of cold weather that they are never found until they ome out in the spring time. A pond in thev woods at 159t!a street, High Bridge side, is a famous place for frogs, and at the time of a visit the young were leaving the water,a perfect realization of the old Egyptian plague.

as far as nu m beics went. Thousands of

them, about half an inch long;, jumped aside and could have been swept up in heaps. Tho amount of croaking they will produc e by Augus t will be a pkasant problem for the dwellers around the place to work out. Recently laborer uei.r the bridge found several toads burrowed into the solid rock

according' to their story, and they evidently believed it. lint the fallacy of this issjiowii in the intertisting experiments made by Rev William Buckland. He took a dozen frogs, weighed tihem,r and placed them in holes d rilled in limestone, and the holes were covered with ghW lids cemented w:;th clay, and the glass protected by giate also cemented with clay. Twelve wore tieated in the same way in a block of compact sandstone, and auother lot yere placed in holes drilled

hi the trunks eft rees. At the end of a year they wero examined. Those in. the wood were dead and partly decayed as were tfcose ink he sandstone. About half of those inli mestone wereli vmg,

and of those alljmt two had lost weight j

and two had increased in weignt. Tue comen t cloains; the eelll of one of tl ese wascraefced so that small insects may have found their way into it and served as food ; and although no crack could be found in the cell of the second it was probably fed in the same way as iu a third cell, also without any dis

OQverable iu wJ4oU the frog ws

9

a -

Tnef RnrnmAr shfi was eatinff ffreen

CDrn by gnawinglt from the cob.when : her teeth became entangled with .

corn silk. uOh, dear," said she impa- .

tiently,"! wish when they get the corn ? -

made they would puiuout ine oas uiiK fp ; f threads. : ? . '" . , -

A man in passing a country graye-

yard saw the sexton digging a grave,, and inquired, "Who's dead?" Sextons

u01d Squire BurableOee. Man:" woat complaint?" Sexton (without looking up): uNo complaint; everybody sat-, iiified." Vi Biddy,5! said a lady to her servant .'.'I wish you would step over and see how old "Mrs. Jones is this morning,'.' In a few minutes Biddy returned with tho information that Mrs- Jones- was 72 vears, 7 monthsand 28 das old. T :

: A saloon-keeper' iiV; New IiOndon,:i.) onn., whose lost pocket-book, con? . taining nearly $100, was returned to him, -by the finder, impulsively exclaimed-: u'You pees von honest poy ;I vill shake j mi; you for de drinks;" And they . r

naid. -? -vf - -,:F-f:

Un til the whole revision ist made, it? can not be sail whether the new Bible is better than the old one for pressingsautumn leaves, or for propping up the - neraon that works the base end of a . biano when a duet is called for and

there is only one piano stool in tne

Virion thi nks it stranee that nobocis: -

linougnc oi reuuciog ias wuivvuwuKv.vk i-HiA pFAiairlArit'A mom bv holdiusr A-J-i'''

church "social" in it. Fogg says that . .. .i -. ... jt in t. ... M

one or tne "socials" wiat mey uuve ui , hisi town would put a coating of ice" f ten inches thick on a fire- of bLaang ji sea coal in less than five minutes. , Sho iaramed a hairpin. Inker liead " it madft her feel doite sore '

SUe murmured iu an undertone: u 'Twon't hairpin aur more.:' " Hor lover heard this dreadful jest, And cried in deep distress: 4 That pun; my dear, ' pon my wordj ,c TrAMrri mr hftlr-tlll-neSS!"

' Thi s couple joined th. minstrelsi then.

' - But they .were not aesirea; . . For all their jokes were new and good, . And they. o course, were fired I ;

ta The Detroit Free Press thinks that

"plaster of Paris cats are no longeu tony enough lor mantle ornaments, but thev must s'cat! and give place toft crockery dogs with yellow eyes." Ami yiit in the highest ci ?cles crockery dogs are nowhere beside.iaiajclica toads. . " . Baltimore people Lave great pres-?ty . ence of mind. When a man fell dead '

the other day it was prcposed ta'cutar ;

Ml. fit.

l.

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vi

1

4

4

n imnfir. Haul a man. -now jin ;

two. ' This is a very meiancnoiy oe-

currence, hut we may as well. maUe the best of it, and enjoy seeing the race v '-

between the coroners ana coeii-Ni

over the hody." Aad4heydid. '

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4

a

n A Singular pcenrrnce.

On last Wednesday afternoon, during I sudden thunder-storm, a, lightning

bolt struck a large pine tree in a neitir belonging to Mr. G, B. Faulkner, : who reside? about eight niiles ,wiiivVi Richmond, Va. At the time Mr. Fanl&ner and a number of hand were g working near by. The report waa

sharp and loud , aud shocked sever u or r -the men. Mr. Faulkner noticed that the tree was set on fire by thelightinft. ; and sent hands, to clear away ttiebrusU . to prevent the fife spreading -1" his r fenciog. About twenty minutes fter the tiee was struclc another loiid and fe r deadening report w is heard in the lxeef v and on exs.minatiou it was fouint that -the fire had communicated with a shell

shattered jTom-the exnlosion

old eompa aion, and the bushes near b. uwg cut down bv the trajrments. Nol

one knew -of theshellbeiug in the tree

This is a most singular oecurreuce, probably the fii'st where a sWl exploded-by lightinnir; a r : ;

wass;

Set

Aphorisms iom the Quarters. ; ionor Brie-a-Brao. f ; ;J ... . ?

A sore-back mule lb a poor baud ta guess de weight of a bag of meal. i , A fork in a stiarge road doft't mafee :a a man any better Kwis'chun. ? ' To-morrer's asheke is bettr'n las Sunday's puddiSS; " ; : ! ; ' It lon;t (iake iiQ prophet to i0keriec bad luck. , f -i: Bey donthab n;lofers iude-niM f De wire grass lubs a lazy nigger. f Bar's right smart 'ligioii. in a,plowiT 1 handle. -. ,. . J-- w mmlxra nrruir nohhor i.Q in n tllirrVL

s Kebber. 'pend too muehojide; ,Waejk P berry blossoms ? y'M. ' , Bon't bet on a. 'later hill before dfe grabblin' timel . ' ? M ' A heap o' good cotton-stalks git$ hopped up funi 'soeiatin' wid de weedsl Many a nice corn siwittds up a nut bin' in de WL v A chicken roon' is de debbul's steal, trap, and giN?f ris;flow& gftrdon. s-li-----De mornitt' glories ainH pertioklef

lubly to a man w 4 baelage, y

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