Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Volume 7, Number 40, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 27 April 1876 — Page 6

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It wa* in November 1654, Kirfg Lotris xiv*, of France, was conversing with his beautiful mistress, Mme, de la Valliere. she siid to him, "i ana sometimes at a loss to account fur your indulgence." "My indulgence exclaimed the young King. ,, :iI refer to the Queen of Sweden," she said.

Hah said the King, "that tedlou* old spiuster "A very intriguing woman." "Suppose she is." "She is trying to catch you."

The King bunt into a peal of laughter. "What!" he cried. "Ugiy, blonde Christine of Sweden should imagine that I could love her?" "Sire," said the artful siren, "you are so far above all ordinary mortals that any woman would like to becomo the partner of your bosom." "But, Louise,' you are talking nonKensp." "Nonsense Have you not been getting cold toward me?"

The King became thoughtful. It had never struck him that the ugly daughter of Gustavus Adolphua of Mweueu, who was twenty years his senior, could throw her eyes upon him. Still it flattered him that the Winn who theu occupied oue of the foremost thrones of Europe might ba in love with him. (juristine, the most learned woman .of her time, the petted child of the martyr King of Sweden, had come to

France a few months before. Too King had received her in state in tlin mirror room of the palace of Versailles. Then he had told her she could live during her sojourn in France in the lino old palaces of Fontainebieau. See installed herself there with a dozen Swedish attendants and her Italian secretary, Monnldeschi.

This Monaldeschi was a very handsome man. He had come t-o Stockholm when an infant, with his mother.

How Queen Christine first became acquainted with Monaldeschi has never been ascertained. But sure it is that, at the time in which the events we are now relating occureu, she was desperately in love with him. But with him it was otherwise. And how could it be otherwise? Shn was by no means preposessiug. Aside from her dense blonde hair and her magnificent teeth she had n: charms to boa.st of, And yet, when Monaldeschi came into her I'iom Queen Christine would kiss him, he submitting to her egresses •with very ill grace.

One morning on the same day when King LsuisXIV. had the conversation with his beautiful mistress which we have related above, the ieen sat in her immense hemmelhrtif, in the Velvet Hall of the Fountainebleau Palace. It wa* yet early. Hue heard a conversation in the ad jjining room. The speakers were her German maid, Ann Von Der Hevdt, and Monaldeschi. The latter Hait'l:—"Dear Anna, are you to os so cruel as to refuse me your hand 7"

The maid laughed right heartily. •'B.ih she said "what is your hand worth Are you a man whom ao good woman could chorisn?" fie uttered a fearful oath. "What do you mean he cried. "Mean? Ah, my beau, you have thrown yourself away upon nn old woman." "And who is she?" he asked. "Her majesty," she replied, with a

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do I care for her?" be said,

contemptuously. "I almost hate her iookM." "You do And yet you act a« her lover "Tii what way "Who could so more that: you You overwhelm her with caresses. I saw it yesterday and was disgusted. No—don't take my hand—I don't want any man who kisses old red head to touch my skin "But, Anna 1" "I will tell you something, Monaldeschi," sue said, almost solemnly. »r like you, and I hope you wih let ne respect you. But this you must do before you can become the hugbaud of this little woman—you must toll her you detest her "Her? The Queen "Yes! Now you kuow my condition Will you do so?"

Hhe looked at him in her most bewuchiug manner, and he succumbed. TO this edifying conversation the Queen listened. It is needless to say tnat her anger was great. When lualdesolii enter*! the room, with frown on his face, she embraced him, saylDg, hypocritically:— "Darling, I have never seen you look better!''

He turned away from her. "Christine." he Baid, "I intend to get married." "Married!"' she cried laughingly, "to whom?" I "To Annie!'' "What? To Annie, my maid?" "Yes!"

Monaldeschi beheved her. He flew to Anna, and told her wkat the Queen of Sweden had said to him. Anna, overjoyed, dressed in wnite. The palace chaplain was sent for,. At eight o'ciock Monaldeschi and his

bride entered the ante-room of the Queen. To his amazement be was there seized by Christine's two Swedish footmen. "What do you mean, sirrahs he cried, as they stripped his coat from him.

We mean to prepare you for execution," they said. "Execution he said. "What for "For treason to our mo3t gracious Queen." "But this is horrible ',No help for it, sianor— re have obey orders.

The bride rent 'he air with hqr screams as. her I allan lover wag thrown down by the two Swedes and had his throat out from ear to ear.

When he was dead Queen Christine stepped out and said to Anna, who was almost frantic with terror and grief:— "Dili you want to marry that rocue?"

When King Louis heard of thi9 atrocity he first intended to order the Queen of Sweden out of France. But so great was the awe in which royalty was held that he did not venture to ofJiend her.

Mme de Ia Valliere bantered him for years afterward about the Queen of Sweden.

I'Poor Monaldeschi Slid the King often "he had no business to be the lover of a Q^ieen."

INDIA.N JUGGLER*.

Some of the Marvelous Feats or the Oriental Magicians. Correspondence of the London limes.

One of the jugglers then brought forth a ball of fine twine, Md unwound about fifty yards of it in a coil in his hands This coil he cut through wfth a knife at each end ot its diameter then, doubling the several lengths, lie cut them through again, aud repeated the operation until the twine had been divided into nieces not exceeding four inches in lenstth. Taking up these disjecta, he put them into the lad's mouth and hade him swallow them, which, after some efFort, he, to all appear-

Then asking one of the company for a sharp penknife, the man, obviously, made an incision in the skin of the lady' sstomach. From this he picked out, with the pojutof tn knife, the end of a thread this thread he pulled forth, at first gently, then faster, then hand over hand, until he had coiled down on the ground a continuous length of about one hundred yards of wet sewing thread, if a deception, was a marvefor the operation had all

This, ous one

the appearance an tokens of reality, since the skin of the stomach was slightly raised round the orfice through which the thread was evidently drawn.

Our friends were fairly puzzled, and, to add to their perplexity, the onerator cut off the thread close to the skin

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placed a peice of stick­

ing-plaster over it, leaving it to be inferred that the supply of thread was unlimited, and could be drawn upon "to order." "Master, give hie a piece of money," said he who appeared to be the principal juggler, suddenly speakinc in English to Mr. Hawthorne. "Why?" asked the latter, taking a rupee from his pocket and handing it to the man. "Good rupee!" said the man, jerking the coin into the air with a sharp flip of hs thumb-nail, and drawing the true ring irom the meta' "Good rupee Master sure can hold him tight in his hand, so as he can not run away

To be sure I can." replied the voung gentleman. "Master, try, then," said the juggler, taking Mr. Hawthorne's left hand aud placiug the rupee on the palm of it. He then requested him to place the palm of his right hand over the coiu, to close both nauds tightly, and not let the money by auy means escape.

Thoionghly determined On that point, our young frieud pressed his" hands together till be was red in the face. "Master quite sure got money rn his hand?" asked the juggler. "Quite," was the reply. "Can feel him, master?" "Yes."

The juzgler took the gentleman's two hands between uis own, and muttered some cabalistic words then blowing upon them, aud giving them a heavy shake, he asked wijh a grin, "Can feel him now, master

Starting from his chair with a bound, aud we are sorry to record it, with an oath, the young Englishman, with an affrightened look, unclasped bis hands, and there fell on the floor beneath, not the rupeee, but a lively, wriggling little brown snake, about fifteen Inches long, which made immediately for the lees of Capt. McTurk.

Now this gentleman, who under ordinary circumstances was as brave as a lion, by no means relished, or was prepared for, an encounter with the devil, of whom he doubtle»9 believed the approaching reptile was an incarnatiou, so hastily los9ing both his legs high up in the air the worthy Captain lost his balance, and, together with his chair, came heavily to the ground, though fortunately, with no serious consequences beyond a broken back—of the chair we mean.

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"You have made an excellent choice, Monaldeschi. Annie is very pretty—" "And a virtuous woman,' he Interrupted. •'Ob, j'es," said the QueeD. When do you want to get married "As sdon as possible." "To-night?" "Yes!" "Shall I arrange the wedding lor you?" tie looked at her moment then he said, "Christine, could you be so dis interested as that?" "Oh lam the most disinterested wcrld. Have you not been my lover? Who has been dearer to me than you? Aud now I give you up to my maid. And, you shall fcave a magnificent wedding!"

The worthy skipper soon picked himself up, and seeing that the snake had been captured by the lad, around whose arm it was now entwined, joined in the general laugh, and seated himself agaia in another chair that was placed for him. "Master, take this rupee again said the juggler, offering the coin to Mr. Hawthorne with, it must be con* fessed, a regretful look. "By Jupiter No," said the gentleman "you have fairly earned it, besides"— "It might turn into a snake again, in your pocket, you were

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intr to say, Hawthorne," said Mr. "Come, confess." "Well, there's no knowing what that imp of darkness might not do, sfter what we have witnessed," replied his friend.

Art empty flower pot was now placed upon the floor by the juggler, who requested that his comrade might be allhwed to bring up some garden mold from the little plot of ground below. Permission being ac»

corded, the man went, and in two minutes returned with a small quantity of fresh earta, tied up in a corner of his chudder, which was deposited in the flower-pot and lightly pressed down. Taking from his basket a dry maogostone, and handing it round to the company that they might examine it, and satisfy themselves that it was really what it seemed to be, the juggler acoopad out a little ?arth from the center of the flowe'r-pot and placed the stone in the cavity. He then turned the earth lightly over it, and, having poured ajfttle water over the surface, shut the flower-pot out of view by means of a sheet thrown over a small triangle.

And now, amid a full chorus of voices and the rat-tat-tat accompaniment of the taber, the stone germinated presently a section oftiie cloth was drawn aside, and gave to view the tender shoot, characterized by the two long leaves of a blackish brown color The cloth was readjusted, and the inca-nation re sumed. Not long was it, however, before the cloth wa^ A second time drawn aside, and it was theu seen that the two first leaves had given plat-e to several green ones, and that the plant now stood nine or ten Inches high. A third time, and the foliage was much thicker, the sip ling being about thirteen to fourteen inches in height. A fourth vime, and the little miniature tree, now about eighteen inches in height, bad ten or twelve mangoes, about the size of walnuts, hanging about Its branches. Finally, atter, the lapse of three or four minutes'the cloth was altogether removed, and the fruit, bavins attained the perfection of size, though not maturity, was plucked aud handed to the spectators, and, on being tasted, was found to be appioaching ripeness, "sweetly acid."

This concluded the entertainment, and the jugglers, having been handsomely rewarded, made their obeisance and retired well pleased.

The Doy fr«m Boston.

One day not long ago a Detroit jawver had liis atteutiou called to a bright bo# wanderinir up and down on Griswold street. He learned that the boy was an orphan and a strauger, having been shipped here from Boston by some one who imagined that the "Hub" was hardly enterprising enough for such an enterprising boy. The lawyer wanted a lad in his office, aud he took Thomas on trial, agreeing to pay his board aud give him a little something besides if he was a good boy. The boy said he just ached to become a lawyer, aud he was so enthusiastic to get ahea.l and become known to fame that he broken chair and a pane of i»las:s the first itftternoon. When the lawyer gently (suggested to him to re strain his ardor Thomas promptly replied: "There's nothing like making a law office git up and bowl

It was amazing how quickly that boy picked up a kuowledge of legal business. It was his duty to stay iu the office when the lawyer went out, and he felt all the importance of his position. When Uig boys came around to ask for a job of carrying up coal Thomas went for them heavy. "Boy he would answer in a severe voice, "I don't want to see you come to grief, but if you don't hurry right down stairs I'll get out a cabins, switch you behind the bars, and have you hung before grass starts!"

The attorney had to go to Chicago one day,and lie toid Thomas that lie might wash the windows and slick up a little. Thomas went in. He had new matting put on the floor, put a painter at work aud hired an old woman to wash everything which could be washed. It was a neat job all around, aud he felt as if he ought to be praised for his enterprise. The attorney began to scold, out Thomas remarked: "Ain't we as good as those onehorse lawyers across the road? Is a law otfice a barn, or is it a law office?"

Two weeks ago he was told lo go dowa aud order half a ton of coal to keep the store going till warm weather. Some one told him that coal would be considerably higher next year, and so, on the ground ot economy, he ordered five tons sent up, and most of it had been dumped on tbe walk before the attorney discovered the situation. Thomas would probably have lasted a week or so longer than he did but for his receptiou of a lady clieut who came to see the lawyer about applying for a divorce. The lawyer was trying a case in court, and the boy had sole charge of the office. He received the lady in his usual urbane manner, and when she inquired for the attorney he replied: lHe is out, but my legal services are at your disposal."

She didn't seem inclined toconsult him and he went on: "Is it a case of wife-beating or divoroe

She intimated that be was an impudent boy, and he replied: "Very well, madam: we can't take your'caseatall!"

She said ahe'd call and see the lawyer, but Thomas answered: "It won't do you any good. We can't take your case at all—not for love or money."

She returned two hours later, when the lawyer was in and Thomas was out, and it was decided that the boy would have to seek some other profession. That evening, when so in formed, he replied: "All right. If I'm going to bo a

He is peddling peanuts now, and tbe way he dusts around is the cause of his having half a dozen fights per day,':-'

Little do irural boys imagine that, while they are attending school and striving to store their minds with useful information, bold, bad men in New York are raising tbe price of Are-crackers.—{Dan bury News.

Selected Sharps.

Offerings of the season. Twenty cents on tbe dollar. The warmest kind of a bat—one mat's got a stove in.

Coal is a useful thing, yet have you noticed how any people mike light ofii?

It inav be safely said that the people of Worcejter won't say daiu any more.

Old Probabilities, in bis commend able efforts to quell the reoeut sioroi, found it a lay Bjreas task. •"Would'it be disrespectful to call a win saino man a gambler

It must be very laborious to work a sewiug machine, because it requi res such a tensio a.

Tbe gentleman of "long standing lo the community" has tlualiy concluded to "ak down on himself."

Professor of rhetoric: "What important cuan$e came over Burns in the latter part of hi* lift?" Senior" "He died."

They do say that we ere to have a silver change. Well, any kind of a change would be acceptable in these hard times.

Why is a three-card sharper of the colored persuasion like a ommry in Europe? Because he's a Monte-negro.

In olden times, when a criminal was tried in England, h« was never questioned as LO his guilt or innocence. lie was tried first, aud axed nfterwurds.

A few days ago a jury in the Western wilds gave the following verdict in a case of suicide: "Wefiudthe de ceased was a fool."

The young man who has bean con tinuaily "tuniblinn to hinisoll" the past wintor has effected a lucrative engagement with a circus. "What are the wild waves saying?" is no longer a conundrum. The recent wrecks ou every ocean tell plainly enough vvhai they are saying. •'How one thing brings up another," said a lady, ah^orbad in pleasing re trospection. "Yes," replied the practical i)obbs, "an emetic, for instance."

A great many people read the papers Wednesday morning to see if there was auy noose about the ballot-box siu tier. "Ho was a slranper, and they toon hi in in," and charged him twenty-five C/jnts tor a small cup of coffoe and a little roll, on tho centennial grounds, last Sundiij'.

Bristow says the country is getting short or currency whioh is a point in which wo resemble the country near enough to be twins,—[Bridgeport Standard.

When a hoodlum in 'Frisco told Dr. Mary Walker to "pull down his vest," she replied that it was ono of her 'vested rights" to wear it under her chiu if she wanted to.

Elderly agriculturist (to s*»aso tiekot holder in tho train)—"You don't have'no ticket?" No, 1 travol on my good looks." "Then," aHer looking him over, "propablyycu ain't goin' very far." General smile.

See here now—wo want to tell you Romitbing. If a deluded man jumps into an equally deluded water-butt, would it ije ungontlemauly trt say that ho ii iu cisteru on drowning himsell? "Dosen't want no lawyer I'se gwine to toll the troof dis time," is. what a regular customer at the Kecorder's Court told Hi3 Honor when lhat functionary inquired if he had engiged legal assistance.

Ills teeth began to chatter over the icecream. He buttoned up his jacket and swallowed another mouthful. Tuat settled it. Hejumpsd up from the tablo and started to where the SUD could shine ou him, exclaiminir. "whoopet-! Plenty damn cold grub! No cookee nufl! Fleeze bwlly all same like ice wagon."

Personal.

The Cz»ris the tallest sovereigu in.Eurode. Von Bulow is Doctor ofLawr, not a Doctor of Music.

Colfax has made $12,000" by lecturing since last summer. Dom Pedro's title is spelt with an "m" in Portugese, an

r,u"iu

Spanish

and both in English. Now that Wagner has finished his Centennial March, why not challenge Weston for a hundred mile spin for a "century

The Empress of India now signs the autograph "Victoria" in India ink, with a Delightful flourish.

Susan'Anthony likes lobster saiad. There is a sort of affinity between tbe two. The lobster's age is shrouded in mystery.

Westou is on intimate terms with manp English Lords and prize-fight-ers. It is still a mooted question whether he is ranken as a Lord or as a prizs- fighter.

Titiens said to Mrs. Grant: "You have never b°eu in Europe." The reply was: "No not yet. Rut Mr. Grant will soon be at leisure, and then no doubt we snail go."

The Emperor of Brazil has secured apartments on the parlor-floor of the Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York for his accomadation during his stay in tbat city.

Bishop Coze, of New York, said In a recent lecture that the pretensions of Southerners to high birth, to tbe exclsusion of New Englandere, was absurd.

According to a cipher dispatch unearthed in Washington, Secretary Rabeson is the author of "Mary,s" little lamb.

Tbe Boston Herrald hars that Gen. Butler,s handsome face is to be represented in bas-relief on Boston's soldiers' monuments.

Had Danna been satisfied with his

lawyer I want thing to git up and git term before the mast, instead of asaround. You don't want a lively piring to be a minister, his "literary boy around here, and I saw that a:

piratical

week ago." ito lie dormant' and he might have It was intimated that he hadn't jiived to a good old age'Now, it will better "sass" any one, and lie bland- bim the remainder of his life to ly replied: disabuse tbe pudlic mind of the idea "No one is sassing you. If you.

want thi9 partnership dissolved we'll part friendly. If you don't want to rush things this is no place for me."

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act" would have continued

he is the author of "The Pirates

Own Book." David A. Weils made a gallant canvass for Congres in Connecticut, tbe gallantry of it consi ting in the remarkable fact that he resuse3 to "work" for an election* The Sringfleld Republican thinks that if he had adopted the usual methods he wauld bave been elected. As it was, he reduced the Republican darty to less than 200' and Would have been elected, ifhe had received the full Democratic vote. Many Republicans voted for bim

Xnrs rj Xonsense.

Aunt (io alarm): "Surtly you've' I eaten enough, haven't you, Tommy Tommy (iu doubt): "F-f-f-feel me!"

A tidy schoolmaster pays much attention to his scholars and cuffs. Jim says tbat his tencher used to pay more attention to cufl'i than to anything else.

Fir.st y: "I say, Jimmy, there's no water. It's frozen everywhere." becond Boy: "Bully Maybe we Won't have to wa^li ourselves till tbe middle of spriog

A child can pick up a good deal of information if it will keep It* eais open while its mother is converging through a knot-hole in the fence with the woman next door.

We stopped a youth from throwing stones By seizing him by the shou'der He was meek till we let fcim go again,

When he got a little boulder. Nineteenth Century. Mother: "My boy, you should follow the example of your parents aud l'orsnke the delights of immature years." Son: "Siv mother, go and sit down ou yourself, won't you

Good people were very much touched with the conduct of a small boy on Rhetucket street yesterday. A large boy attacked him and cufl'ed tiis ears, but the noble little fellow did not sirik hick, or even swear at bim. He bore it all patiently till the big boy had gone and a silveryhaired old man had patted him on the head and given him a quarter. Then he went around the corner and licked his little brother till he couldn't stand up without leaning against a wall.—[Norwich Bulletin.

Peticoat Plesantries.

An Albiuy [N. Y.] girl despariug of supporting herself look K. Snick for a husband,

Like to like—Married at Harrodsburg, Kv. Mr, L. Cramp and Miss Nettie Kollock.

As long as a woman can attend an auction and buy three links of a rust-eaten stovepipe for sixty cent", she will not worry about suiirage.

A lady of rank complaning that her her husband was dead to fashionable amusments, be replied: "But then my dear you make me alive to the expense.

A young lady Who had an offer of marriage from a Mr More, wrote to him and asked for time to consider the matter, The letter was courteous a ad brief, clcsing wiln

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more at

priBdnt" Tnere are giantesses in Minnesota, it seems. A country paper there, in de« scribing the burning of a dwelling, mentions the rescue, "by way of window, of the servant girl, fifteen feet iu height."

Miss Braddon has finished "Dead Mel's Shoes." She has for a long time been peggiug away at the last chapter. "Why, Mary Ann .wiiatin the world are you doing with the scissors?" "Shure, ye's told me to9Collop the oysters.''

Fastidious Young Lady [who ha9 just had the entire drass-goods depart meut displayed:] "I'll call next week, and IOOK througn yourspriug goods'

A Masschusetts girl had an attack of the lock-jaw Irom using chewinggum. after tne physicians had given her up. sombody called her ".edr headed" aud that cured her.

As the spring comes slowly up tbis way tbe father of a family of eligible daughters may be seen mendiug and strengthening the front gate.

Currency.

Mrs. Smither sent over to Mrs Dolittle to borrow a good book to read. Mrs, D. sent Mrs. S. a copy of le Bible, aad now they don't speak

TheBroblyn Eagle of Gen John A Dix* "A man who at 80 can turn his hand to tbe trauslation of a Latin poem, or who can turn out of bed at 4 o'clock in tbe morning to go duck~ shooting—holding bis own with tbe boys, too —is a good deal of a man any way you take him,"

San Antonio is the oldest city in Texas. lis history dates back two huudred years before the country was settled by Amerioaos. Tbe old Alamo, about 200 years old, stands on tbe military plaza, and is still in a good state of preservation, being now occupied as a government Mtore house. It was here the gallant Crockett and Bowie teil.

A dog got into a hydraulic pipe in Nevada City recently, was forced through a five-inch nozzle, and lauded against an embankment several hundred feet distant. The journal that records tbe fact add*: "In his canine flight a Chinaman was knocked into the current, and both animals perished simultaneously."

As amber attracts a straw, ao does beauty attraot admiration, which only lasts while the beauty continues but virtue, wisdom, goopness and real worth, like the loadstone, never lose their power. They are the true graces which are linked and tied hand in band, because it is by their influence tbat human hearts are so firmly united to each other.

Some paragraphist writes: "There's a tall, gray-headed man, with a high forehead and weak eyes, locked up in one of tbe small dens at tbe top of tbe New York Tribune tower, who hour after hour runs his tapering fingers nervously through his locks, knits his brow as if struggling to seize some fleeting thought, paces wildly up and down the .apartmeut and exclaims, "Oh! how shall I be* gin it "It is Bayard Taylor, at work on the Centennial poem,"

MATILDA. HERON.—In' a recent conversotion Matelda Hercn saeb "Why can't I act the peoth scene in camille? Not because I am toa old: one can not be to old to play Camille Vben one has on% kuown how to act it. Southern has told me thai he would come from any part of the world to act Armand to my Camille again. The oiiginal cast would draw from juet onece, would it not? NO, st is vecouse I am too fat—polite people might say 'to© fleshy*'"

Orth dux 0 itles.

Mr, tilaine, Mayor WTickhana, and: Gov. Morgan attended a Miody anil Sankey meeting Wednesday.

It is said that the organ of the church of tbe Disciples, New York, has been conveyed to its pastor, the Rev. Dr. Hepworth, to secure bis salary.

Mr. Sherman says it would be con-^ tempt of court, aud punishable as such, for any church to deal with a witness on account of testimony given ,in the Tllton—Beacher suit while it is still pendiuv hi court: and Dr. Leanard Bacon tells Mr. Shearman he couM not go to jail in a better cause.

Talnaage is being taught by Arbuckle to play the cornet. A rbuckle is the man who stands on a pedestal in the Tabernacle and plays a cornet as an appropriate accompaniment to Talmage'a performance iu thepulpit. Wtiy does Talmaue devote two hours of every Wednesday tfl learning how *o tool? It would surprise nobody ifhe should introduce cornet solos into his sermons. Talmag* drefaclng a discourse with abla«t of a bugle, or ending a gpat^age

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his

osauory with a harmonious blaire would not be astoundim the publio has learned to expect much of him "Jennie June" sends this iutellH gence tothe Baltimoro Americau: "It isrumered that Miss Janett Becqett, who is a pious Catholic, and a very sweet and lovely girl, will retire to a convent, preparatory to taking the veil, when her brother marries, uu» (ess he can influence her toreconcider her determination. In case she does not,«her fortune, which i.s large, would all uo to the church. Mr. Bau« net is, however, devotedly attached to hissister, and will not consent to the separation if it cin te avoided"

Tiie Hindoo Holy Book forpids a woman to see dauciug, hear music, wearjewe'8, blacken hereyebrows, eat dainty food, sit at a window, or view hersel'in a mirror during the absence of her husband* but it doesn,t say who shall bring up the coal and split wood aud, fortunately, too doesn.t prohibit her from (lying, and we should think death wuli be a priceless boon to a Hiudo woman"

Providence is at war with hairdye, and sooner or later punishes the man who,uses it "Bill Smaliey, shrieked a Kansas Billo, suddenly jerking her shoulder from.under her lover's head aud splllug iiirn igno miuiouslyon the fl)or, youcan't m^jie a piller ot me no re you hair smells like old iron filiu's.' —Brooklyn Argus.

Bell—An Uncalled for Excltment. Gen. Babcock and Mr. Luckey were under various titles tbe private secretaries of the president of the United Stales.

Gen Babcock was indicted at St. Louis for complicity in certaiu whiskey frauds.

Oue C. S. Bell, a wfll-knowu detective, and formerly a Union scout, enjoying, certainly until quito recently' the confidence of Gsn. Grant, tesitfies before the congressional committee of investigation that previous to Babcock trial. Bibcock and Luckey proposed to hjm to steal the evidence of the prosecution from the 'office of Mr. strict Attorney Dyer, at St. Louis. An the whole country is abla/.o with excitment and discussion over tbe matter.

It appears to us that this agitation would all becalmed down by a little cool reflection* Itseems to be entirely forgotten that since his trial at St. Louis Babcock has be^n ignominious-, ly dismissed from the White House, by tbe President of the United States, for having stolen or abstracted a letter from among the President's papers.

Undersuch circumstances, of what consequence is it whether he made thigproposition to Bell or not? If a man is.in state prison for stealing a horse, what boots it whether he once propo ed to another person to make ofF with a team of mules?

As for Luckey, he now ouiy holds a clerkship iu the Interior Department. Let us consider it fortunate for the couutry that he has not been made a Judije of ta C'rtrt of Claims? New York Sun.

You can't get an old Dstroiter, one who values tbis reputation as a sage aad a weather prophet, to commit himself oil the weather. Yesterday, when our reporter found one, the question was put boldely and plumply: Da you regard this as an April thaw, or has spring come? "May be—may be, but I don't want to say, "was the reply. "But tbe spring birds are here," "So people say, he replied. "Frost is about out of tbe ground." "It may be."

Tbe grass is starting—the sun is warm—tbe wind Is balmy, "persisted tbe reporter. "1 dunno," mused tha old man. "Buds are swelling,lamps posts begin to lean, the cross walks are under tbe mud, and it must be spring.,'

(Not

necessarily. I saw ali such

tbinsrs in January, 1832,*' he sighed. 'All the streets have mud on them sink boles abound, velocipedes are out all tbe women are on the gad: snow shovels ore selling at half-price —tbis cannot be winter—this is spring for sure," "It may be, it may be," solemnly replied the old man. In about a monthj

I shal be prepared to

peak more definitely."—[Detroit free Press.

A Vioaiation of Santiment.—A Cincinnattian who had purchased an oil painting at a picture sale called in Tom Lindaey, the artist, to consult bim aa to how he should hang it, Tom looked at it long and curiosly, and then said: "I wouldn.t hang it, if I were you." "Wouldn hang it! Why not?" "Because the sentement of age is rather agai»st capital punishment. I „wouI* mune its sentence to solitary onment for life!"

DREW AN

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mouth' New Hampsbj*, who was considerate enonjfti "come in" after b® bad oscorted girfhome from prayer-meeting th fiber Sunday evening wa*obligedt gton to family prayer, which cam on very soon, but when the piooi houXlder prayed that "the joun* man who, for tne time being is oneo Sr number may direct^ towards bis father's house," he took h» h»! and left without eeremony