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THE CEDARTOWN RECORD. W, S, D. WIKLE & CO., Proprietors. CEDARTOWN, BKORdlA,' SATURDAY, JULY 18, 1871, VOLUME 1. NUMBER 5. THE EARLY BIRD. THE BOARD FENCE. "Shoo, shoo, got homo, yoi plaguy critters ! " cried Air. Babcock, waving his arras as ho chased a dozen sheep aud lambs through a gap in tho fonce. It was a wooden fenoe, and whoa ho had succeed in driving the animals tho other side of it, ho lifted it from its re clining position, and propped it up with stakes. This was an operation he hail found himself obliged to repeat many times in tho course of the season, auil not only of that Hcason, but of sovornl Yet Mr. Babcock was neither alack nor thriftless ; in fact, he rather prided himself on tho orderly appearance of his farm, and not without reason. How then shall wo account for his negli gence in this particular instance? Tho truth was that this fence formed the boundary line between his estate and that of Mr. Small ; aud throe genera tions of men who owned these estates had boon unable to decide to whom it belonged to rebuild and keep it in re pair. If the owners had chanced to bo men of poaoenhlo dispositions, they hud compromised tho matter and avoided a quarrel ; but if. on tho contrary, they belonged to that much lnrgi ‘‘Tslo tlx tho damages,” said Miss Letitia. “ As T said before, women folks nro no judgesabout such matters.” Mr. Babcock meditated a moment, and then sai 1 : "Well, I wouldn't take a eent less than sevouty-fivo dollars, if 1 were you, —not a o:?nt.” " Seventy-five dollars ! Isn’t that a good deal, Mr. Babcock V You know 1 don’t wish to be hard on the poor man ; all 1 want is a fair compensation for the mischief done." "Seventy-live dollars is fair, ma’am, —in fact, I may say it’s low ; I wouldn’t have a herd of cattle ami sheep tramp ing through my premises in that way for a hundred.” " There’s ono thing l forgot to state, —the orehard gate was open or they couldn’t have got in ; that may make a difference.” "Not a bit,—not a bit. You’d a rigljt to havo your gate open, but SmaTVs cows had no right to run loose. 1 hope Isaac drovo ’em all to tho pound, didn't he?” " T heard him sav he'd shut, ’em up somewhere, and ilinn’t mean to let. ’em out till the owner calls for 'em. But, Mr. Babcock, what if he should refuse to pay the damages ? I should hate to go to law about it." "lie won’t refuse; if he docs, keep the critters till ho will pay. As to law, I guess lie’s had about enough of that.” " I’m sure 1 thank you lor your ad- vioe," said Miss Letitia, "and 1 mean to act upon it to the very letter." And Air. Babcock took his leave with a very happy expression of countenance. Scarcely was ho out of sight when Alius Letitia sent, a summons for Afr. mptly as Sonv. follows Mules nun Women, unknown party writes M quad pleas advise mo in your next oolum what to do with a kicking mnal—Shell i pound him or not "my wife is allso treehei tongue is hung •sat both ends "L. L. IV r, don’t pound your mule, t is oustomarv for owners tho auiuial mules to sunrise with a crowbar and pound him until bedtime, but 1 have always fouud kindness more successful. Sock to gain tho friendship of your mule, and as soon ns you succeed you can do any thing with him. When you go into the barn in tho morning, have a kind word for him, instead of knocking him down with the neck-yoke. Ask alt lionlth of his family you are interested in his i civil and yet dignified, and that mule finds out that so this cold world loves Tutu he different mule. All mule that love i boile uly for it. fat oflloo, but (lot old ould i rifloe the than the rjhls, this fence had been i aiding bickerings Aud of this el a rifo. the Again and again they had consulted their respective lawyers on the subject, and dragged from their hiding places musty old deeds and re cords, but always with tho same result. " 1 say.it belongs to you to keep it in repair ; that’s as plain as a pike staff,” Air. Babcock would say. “And 1 says it, belong to you,— nny fool might see that,” Alt. Small would reply, and then high .vohIh would fol low, aud they would part in anger, more determined and obstinate than befc re Tho lawyer’s fees and the loss by dam ages from each others' cattle hod al ready amounted to a sum suflleiont to have built a fence round their entire estates, but what was that oomnared to the satisfaetiou of huvitig their own way ? There was riot wanting in the-neigh borhood police-makers who would gladly have settled tno affair by arbitration ; but to this neither of tho belligerents would liston for u moment. At bust, ono day, Alms Letitia Gill, a woman wuoh respected in tho village, and of some weight as a land-owner ami tax-paver, sent lor Mr. Babcock to come and see her on business; a numinous which he made haste to obey, as how could ho do otherwise where u lady was concerned. Alias Letitia sat nt her window sew ing up a seam, but she dropped her work anil look off her spectacles when Air. Bubcock made his apj; “ So you got my message ; thank you for coming, I'm sure. Hit down, do. ' suppose my man Isaac told you wanted to consult you on a matter » business, —a matter of equity, I ran say. it can’t bo expected that v women folks should bo tho best judges about such things, you know ; (here’s Isaac, to bo sure, but then lie lives on tho place, and maybe ho wouldn’t bo exactly impartial m his judgment about our affaire. 1 ”dts’ so," said Air, Babcock “ NVt ll, the state of the casi When Jsuac came up from -they’re me the same Air. Bab- 3‘1 property, Small, which ho oho his neighbor had dorio. She made to him prcoi statement she had rnado ik, showed him tho inj 1 asked him to fir damages, ft was remarkable that before ho did this, ho should ask tho saino question "Ir. Babcock had asked, namely, bother she had any suspicion to whom io animals belonged. " Well, one of them I observed had a srribly crooked horn.” “ Precisely—it’s Bibcock’s heifer. I should know her among a thousand, was black and white, wasn’t she?" white • To be o, they're Babcock's ugh. Well, let mo si i just about a fair < noils fast what you want mate. I snpr " Certainly.” " Well, I should say ninety dollars was ns low as ho ought to be allowed to got off with.” " O, hut r f. nr that will seem as if T meant, to take advantage. Suppose we oall it—say seventy five?” "Just ns you please, of course; hut hanged if I’d let him off for less than a hundred, it ’twos my case." " And if lie refuses to pay?” " Why, keep his animals till lie comes round, Unity all.” " But tlmre’s ono thing T negleoted to mention : our gate was standing open ; that may alter the ease." " Not nt all,—there’s no law against, your koeping your gate open ; thero is against stray animals.” " Very woll,— thank you for your ad vice," said Aliss Letitia ; and Air. Small departed with as smiling a countenance as Mr. Babcock had worn. B it at milking time that night lie mode a strange discovery—old Brindle was missing! At about the sanic hour Air. Babcock made a similar discovery—tho blnak aud white heifer was nowhere to 1 found ! A horrible suspicion seized the both,—a suspicion which they won not have made know to each other for till it with bricks, aud hang so that it will just swing gainst, the animal’s heels. Every time kicks it will lly hack, like the pen- lum of a elook, and tlm patience of i most enduring mule will, in lime, ar out 1 tried this once, and the mule kicked twenty-four days and nights before he surrendered, but afte that you might mu a steamboat, on hi Is, and he wouldn’t raise a hoo r , Ved your mule well. 1 know <: farmers who t irow a keg of nails or a ;1 sap-pau into the manger, and os ofc a mule to grow fat on such foragt Jilt it embitters their feelings an makes ’em more set. in their ways. C urse I don’t say that you must feed a nlo on fried eggs, currant jell, ke, and the like of that, but don't pent ho can ft ed on rails and fed thusiustio all the time. About your wife. Don’t try to stop her from talking unless you want to kil' her. It’s natural for a woman to talk My tlrst wife used to nearly kill but I now remember with strict grief how 1 deliberately pi intli. I but $10 that, she couldn’t op right on talking for three weeks, id sho commenced. 1 had to go away >m home, but she was a woman that mhlu’t lie, and I trusted to her honor, returned home at the end of three uks. Thero was no one around the use, baton a olmir where I left my ir wife sitting, was a corset, a dross, ozon buttons and a back comb the t sad relicts of my loving psrtner. e had talked horself to death, and 1 began to weep the o »rsot ap >ko up orld. s this : j long ng tho imonly meadow to dinne meadow to-day, good yield thero to dinner, lie fouud that certain stray c>ws had bioken luto the vegetable garden.” "Ho did, hey ?” “ Vou oan fuucy the riot they made. I declare, Issue was almost ready to use •profuuo language. I’m not sure that he didn’t suy • deuce,’ and I’m not certain he did suy darn;’ aud utter all, I couldn't leel to reproach him very severely, for the pains he has taken with that garden is something amazing; working in it, Air. Babcock, early ami late, Weeding nud digging, and water ing, and now to see it all torn aud trampled so that you wouldn’t know which was beets and which was cucum bers, it’s euough to rouse anybody’s temper. '* li is so," said Air. Babcock. "And that isn’t all, for by tho looks of things they must have been rampag ing a full hour in the orcuard and cio- ver-ticld before they hud got into the garden. Just you come and h jmtting on her sun-bonnet, Miss Letitia showed Air. Babcock over the damaged precinct. “ You don’t happen to know those animals did the mischief?” said Air. Babcock. " Well, I didn’t observe them in par ticular, but Isaac said there was one wth a particular white murk; some thing like a cross on her haunch.” “ Why, that’s Small’s old Brindle,’ cried Air. Babcock. “ I know the mark well us I know the nose on my face horns, didn’t She had balls she ? “ Yes, so Isaac said.” " Aud a kind of hiiap on her back "A perfect dromedary,” said Aliss Letitia. " [noticed that myself.” “ They were Small's cows,—no doubt about it at all,” raid Air. Babcock, rub bing his hands. " No she'ipwith them; hey ?” " Well, now I think of it, thero were sheep—they ran away as soon a , they saw Isaac. Yes, certainly thero were sheep,” said Aliss Letitia. “ 1 know it,—they always go with the cows ; and what you wish ol me—\ They waited till it, was dark, and then Air. Babcock stole round to Mis* Letitin’s, and meekly asked leave tr look at the animals which had commit ted the trespass, ne would have done it without linking loavo, only that thrifty Miss Letitia always looked he barn floors at night. While he stood looking over into tie in where tho eovs wore confined, am trying to negotiate with Aliss Letitii for’, the release of tho heifer, alon ( Small, in quest of Brindle The two men stared at each other fora stunt in blank dismay, and then hung inir heads in confusion. It wps useless to assert that tho dam »os wore too high, for had they not, flxo- icm themsolvn-i? It was useless t plead that, Aliss Letitia was in a raanne ponsible for what had happened, o account of tho open gate, for had the. not assured her that, circumstance did not affect the case ? It was useless to ay that she had no right to keep tin ows in custody, for had they not conn .-led her to do so ? As to going to ln\ bout it, would they not thus become the sport of tho whole town ? hat diggeth a pit, ho 1 shall fall into it,,”’ said Aliss Letitia, who read what was passing in tie minds as well as if they had spoke . the light of Isaac’s lantern fell full their faces. " However, I don’t wish to bo hard upon you, and on one cond:' m T will free the cows and forgive you the debt." " Wliat, is that?” Both looked tho qnestion, but did not ask it. " TJio condition is that yon promis to put a good new fence in place of th old one that separates your estates, d viding tho costs between you, and that henceforth you will live peaceably to gether as fur as in you lies. Do you promise ?” "Yes,” muttered both, scarcely audihlo. "Shake bauds upon it, then,” said Aliss Letitif They did "Now let the cows out, Lsaao; it’ time they were milked,” said she. And the two men went away driving thei animals before them, with a shame-faced air greatly in contrast to the look of t^jumph with which they had last quit ted her presence. The fence w.is built, and the strife ceased when the cause but it was long before Miss Letitia' part of the affair came to ‘ho pub}' oulculati not the poopli >n°plon dol- A Popular Oomot. Tho World has received information that the comet is very popular among young lovers, and they never tiro ..r tho heavenly hunt, hut endure with aston ishing resignation the constantly recur ring collisions consequent upon thostul- don movements of their heads in oppo site diretcions. Now and then the young follow is sure ho sees it, and t hen xoitement of the moment he [lasses his arm about his companion’s k, and with his baud under her chin ms her face toward that of the starry flrmument wIi to lie thinks he has dis- 1 tho celestial wanderer. Full of enthusiasm the girl remains gazing in is position long and earnestly, the ver moonlight illuminating her oonn- nauoe with a rodianoo that giveH to cry feature an angelic ohnrm, and ggosting tho idea that she herHolf might be a beautiful star, moulded into human form and sent upon tho earth for tho delectation of mankind. But, at this •nt ing [mint of the search the of a sleepy and litiromanlic father pen- tratos the shadows of tho gard • ,Ta a-a-no ! it is ton o’clock,” and ihiirin is broken. Tho Bamboo Trco. Probably this tree subserves i nirposes of usefulness than anv a u tho wholo range of nature. The Li lian obtains from it ii part, of hii ilimy of his household utensils, ,vood at once lighter and capable of waring greater strains than linavii timber of the same size. Besides, xpedition* in the tropics under tl ays of a vortical sun, bamboo trunl have more than once been used as bar ds, in which wafer much pure] ould bo preserved in vessels of any ither kind, is fresh fi he western coast, of Southern Asia, tho bamboo furnishes all the materials tho construction of house pleasant, substantial and preferable to stone, which the frequently recurring earthquakes bring down upon tho heads of the owners. The fact that the ha boo is hollow has made it eminently useful for ft variety of pnrnoses—it a measure for liquid*, h a lid and a bottom, trunks ils mo quito frequently made mn small boats very often an mode of the largest, trunks, by strength ening them witii strips of other wood where needed. In one day they ob tain the height of several feet, and with the aid of a microscope their develop ment can bo cosily watched. But the most remarkable feature about tho bam boo is their blossoming. With all th: rapidity of growth they bloom only twir in a century, tho flower appearing at tho end of fifty years. Like other grasses, they die after having borne seed highest of the bamboo is the Summot. In tracts where it grows in the greatest perfection, it sometimes rises to tin height of one hundred feet, with a stem only eighteen inches in diameter at th base. The wood itself fs only an inch in thickness. The Cradle of our Fashions. The word " mi'liner” is derived from the name of "Afilan.” Millinery for some centuries was synonymous with fine dress goods of Afilan manufacture. It is still the most f idiionable eitv in Italy, and is the ocutf-r of its silk busi- till 1859, Mil; ‘ 1 French, nml after thorn again by the Austrians, until liberated by tho battle of AIagents, which restored it, to the Italians. The wealth and beauty of the city, and the wonderful fertility of the surrounding country, havo always rendered it an object of cupidity nud longing desire to foreign powers. Tho Merchants of tho Futuro. A German statistician has lately given a tubular view of tho commercial move ment of the world as shown in the ex port and import trade of nations. In some regions, as in Africa, it is diflicult to make an estimate; but what is equal ly striking is the fact that while old commercial countries maintain their trade, new ones are dawning, mi it. were, into the activity of commercial day. On looking lit the trade figures of half- civilized countries, we see in them the great key to tho oommeron of tho future. The trade of some countries docs not always grow In proportion Ip tho mi nor intelligence nml eommwJial spirit of their people, but of tenor according as its natural productions are in do nuind by other people. This intluenoss the export trade alone. The imports depend more on, tlrst, t he available ex portable matter, nud secondly tho noo- cssitics of the people, or rather on their iippieoiation of the wants of civilized life. But here often at fault, f< upon whom most dependence is placed that always turn out the best custom ers. Even in two peoples like tho Chi nese and Japanese t here is a great, dif ference of willingness, to avail them selves of the result, of progress. Social habits and ethnological considerations both «liter as factors. The surprising developments of suoli countries as E^ypt show us the probable impetus which will mark the trade of what may be called undeveloped oommoroiul re gions of tho world. It is this very fact that will preservo such manufacturing countries as Eng land from decline. Trade is only be ginning with some lands, and their in habitants are but just, becoming ao quainted with the products of civilisa tion. Till such time as these new coun tries thomselves begin to manufacture they will doubtless bo customers o Great Britain, France, Germany and America for suoli articles as each sell cheapest. In the meantime, how ever, there is little doubt that when onoo tho barriers which separate China from the rest of the world are broken down, it will (inter in the marlcotu with all tho advantages whioh its immense and skillful population will givu.il. In different kinds of man: faetnres it if more than probable it will completely shut out European competitors. Late travelers through China have, not only on amazed at the progress the Chinese a making, but. are filled with appro- union at the perspective. Another revolution in tho importing (1 exporting business is preparing, which may involve a complete transfor mation in banking and exchange. When ammoroinl relations of two coun* suITloiently regulated, ies ure suffioiently regulated, ux rwitfo* will Lh inado.'im; pHjfiuottf, nM balances will bo paid in orders off other ntries, whioh will also'represoiit so much value in merchandise. Tho reg ulating pow r will not be gold, or gold me, lmt what coin can only ropra- it —tho commodities. These coru- iditios will be symbolized on paper, I the use of metallic currency, in conscononce, will be proportionately diminished. Transactions will be made l>les, nml the merchants of the future will be speculators in products, ns our brokers are in railway shares. Tho spirit of the age is speculative, and the tendency beyond question. What change's commerce may undergo, it. is diflicult to determine, but- it would to gravitate to an excited but. fill contest- with the world for its field of operation.- New York Corn- inl JlulMln. Tho Fate of Old Women Among tho Colorado River Inuians. I'hc life of an Indian maiden is blithe it merry for it few years, but, when ,...u becomes n wife nuo' is mow brolcon down with tho pains of motherhood and • heavy labors whioh ‘fall to her lot, l she soon beco i.es wrinkled, gurru- is, oross, scolding, in fact an old hag. course such hags arc not pleasant mpuuy jn <ninp, and in the belief of * Nuinn such old hags grow uglier ,i mealier until they dry up and lirlwiuds carry them away,‘when they i transforrtiod into witches ; and lest such a fate should befall old women, iy ure taught that it is their duty to ! when they are no longer needed 1 if thev do not die by natural means reasonable time, they must commit oido. This they seem very willing to do rather than to meet that, terrible fate »f being transformed .into witoht s and being compelled to live in snake skins, and wriggle about among tho rocks, •ir only delight being to repeat the rds of passers-by in mockery. I once v three old women thus voluntarily starving themselves. I rode up to wlrnt was almost a deserted camp, tho threo old women only remaining, sH-tiug by the tiro and intently gazing into tho embers. They seemed to heed not? my approach, but ant there numbling and groaning until they rose, each dragging up her weight with a stall, and then they joined in sidewise, him filing, tot tering, senile dance around the fire, propped up by their studs, and singing a doleful song. Having finished which, they sat again on their heels and gazed into the fire, and I rode away. On corn ing to the now camp of tlm tribe the next day, and inquiring of Ghui-at-au- ura-pcak, thoir chief, why these women were left behind grnl what they wore doing, l was informed they had deter mined to commit suicide, fearing lest they should lie transformed into witches. The Dinner Hour. Nothing in nnturo or society appears to have so much specified gravity ns the dinner hour. It has gradually sunk down, Inking a century or two for its descent, from 11 o’clock, when it makes its first appearance in history, to 9 o’clock, tho hour when extreme fashion dines in Loudon. Queen Elizabeth and her court (lined at noon, aud wo may trust that the present [iriino minis 3r of England was not giving a loyal orld mi erroneous impression of the proper hour for dinner when in "Lo- t,hair” he tlxes tho time as "a lute iglit.” This in the lowest point yet eacliod. The fashionable hour for din- tig in continental oil ies is much earlier, and thousands of noble families in Ger many and Franco adhere resolutely to their two-o’olock dinner. 0/ oourso, tho vast majority of mankind never dine at all, but eat- wliat. tlinv oan got, and at- any hour which may bo oonvon jont. But thero ik throughout the well- to-do world among the pooiUo who have onough “ goods laid up” to ena* bio them to invito their souls to make of their diuner something more than a necessity, and evident tendency to postpone tho principal meal of the day to the evening, aud as tho life wf fashionable people becomes every year fuller ot varied occupation, to assign a later hour for dining. This iH probably duo not so much to the progress of luxury as tho'gradual iuorenso of objects of interest to men of wealth. A few generations ago peo ple iu society, woro composed of tho classes who neither toiled nor spun, and to whom tho advent of the dinner hour was welcome as it is on shipboard or in the country An apparently impossible line separated pooplo of fashion from those who did any regular or gainful work. And however agruoablo it- may appear from the outside, it is probable that more dawdling, even when enod liy the pursuit of women, does not till tho day like a regular occupation. There are oompnrativaiy few people nowadays who havo nothing to no. It is especially unusual to Hud among those who possess Hiiflloiont energy nml ambition to iihhiiiuo aud hold leading positions in society, any who uro impelled by these same qualities to tive participation in the practical work of life. Those who havo inherited wealth liko to increase it, or at least to employ it rationally. Thoso who havo received from thoir parents merely good name aro inclined to gild it by thoir own exertions. And in every c spioupus social circle in tho world, oedt, perhaps, in tho tlrst society, the court-oapables of Vienna, you will find among its leaders energetic people who have made thoir own names and their own fortunes. Tho tondonoy of the lime being to an active employment of tho day, it is not surprising that most people prefer to fluinh thoir day’s work, whatovor it may be, before entering up on so solemn aud serious a business ah a modern dinner now is. It was ono of our gioat historians who said that the dinner party was tho highest expression of civilization; aud when wo consider 4.1 iu number of trades, arts, aud sciences which (Uwiou* to yumlueo tho daily re sult-, tho (lrofisos, tho plute, the lurnt- turo, the flowers, the viands, and the wines which are to bo seen iu the mod ern formal dinner, it will be hard to contest tho apothegm. But thero aro some drawbuokg insepa rably connected from this custom of late dining. Two of tho most evident are the gradual abolition through this means of informal evening visits, and tho startling decadence of the English drama. In London the higher classes have almost coased to frequent the the ater. I t is simply impossible to (line at light anil go to a play tho same evening, SCENES ON a;riiine STEAMER. for she herself maintained a strict ijombardy were ruled over and plun- ailence concerning it, and enjoined tho ■ flered, first by the Spaniards, next by name upon her man-servant Isaac. 1 the Austrians, then for a time by the ... 1 therefore the people who habitually line at eight have ceased to go to tho theater. The middle classes follow the example of their betters and stay away ; in fact, ono attraction of places of amiiseraomont is taken away when tho gentlefolks cease to g.-. The prices of admission aro too high for the masses. Th® consoquonoo is that the Bloaters are filled every night with a transient crowd, composed ohic lly of the popula tion of hotels. The sumo causes are operating powerfully against theaters in Now York, though iu a less degree, as hero tho dinner hour is still some what- earlier, uml tho hotel population is not so much inferior to tho educated people of the city.’ Tho opera is less affected than the st.ag<£; for, while it remains fashionable, people are willing to dino a little earlier and more simply. Anil yet, oven in Now York, tho first act of an opera is always sung to a full gallery and empty boxes. Tho effect of late dining upon dramatic art is undeni able, aud is continually increasing. Nr, in ■ York Tribune. Thin Out the Fruit. If this important matter has not al ready been attended to, it should bo done without delay. There is no ex cellence without labor and care, and this is particularly true of fruit grow ing. Daily vigilance is indispensably requisite in order to insure success. In horticulture, sound judgment is re- vuired, and nerve sufficient to execute its commands. When tho timo arrives for thinning out fruit-, it must bo‘done. We know that oxcessivo produo ion is always at tho expense of both quantity and quality, and often results in seri ously impairing the vitality of'tho tree. Wo agree with Air. Mohan, that "one- half tho frees which bear fruit every year would bo benefited by one-half of tne fruit token off ns soon as it is well set; and the overbearing of a treo will in a few years destroy it.” But it requires courage to thin out fruit, as it should bo. As a rule, tho fruit should bo thinned out so that, when fully grown, they will not touch each other. Indeed, it would bo skill better to thin out peaches so that the distance between them should be from two to four inches. Jn the latter case the result will be that what frnit, is al lowed to remain on will be of large size, and usually of fine color, ai d will com mand a ready sale in market at high and remunerative figures. In no in stance is fruit so good when the tree or lose your wife,” said j plant is overloaded, nor will it attain • ' .1 . I nw.nns.1. airrn 'EljCJ pflCC ObtftJ 10.(1 Up tho Rhino from Cologne to Co* blent is, with 11 party of noble German fellow-passongois, all bound for Etna, “lie BiiliM.ii-Hioaiuer glides lip the foam ing stroam under a warm Juuo sun, ripeuing tho cornfields on tiro river hunks mid making the grapes, as yet small as peas, swell and color iu tho -h. A pink aud whito awning has boon seen set. up on dock, a baud is playing ono of Strauss’ waltzes, nml a kollnor rushes tip the cabin stairs with glims sohoppes of oool beer, into which those ladies gathered near tho whool ill dip thoir pink lips as bravely as the gontlomou who escort, thorn. Ono would rather see them suck sherry cob blers through a stiaw, or try that lus cious French drink of strawberries, su gar an i champagne, or nt least trifle with vanilla ices, hut these things are linkuown on board;aud, after all, if the ladies choose to driuk the beer, which renders feminine features plump uh pret ty pudding apples, they have the right, for do they not all belong to kurfahiy society? The gontloiuon aro counts and i.arons to a man, and dressed in gray with felt hats of wondrous shape. They stalk about with tho easy supple- oss of ramrods, like men little used to civilian goar ; and tho Indu s are Frau Grafin von Rosenbaum, Frau Grutin Reisoliod, and Frnuloin von Ln- ehenspiol, who load fashion and every thing else worth loading in Berlin. They aro arrayed in silk mauve, blue and cherry, tlieso ladies—things most npp opriate for travel—anil, judging by the atteyt-ion whioh tho young Oapt. von Reisoliod, t he countess's brother-in- law, pay& to Fraulcin Inna von Laolion- spiol, tho countess's sister, it is evident that ho is smitten in that quarter. Tho older Herr von Reiselied, tho countess's brother, is ono of your old stock Gor mans, who smiles only at marked inter vals ; bub his brother, tho captain, is a true Indies’ man, who oan click his heals together for a bow us no other [Prussian can ; who waltzes half an hour by tho dock, loads cotillions, trolls out his part in a diu t nml has a fund of unco- doto, banter ami conundrums most, choice. Hark t.o him describing how, during the war, he was billeted in n French chateau where thero was a ven erable footman in speotnoloB who had served tho family forty years, ami who one night mysteriously brought him his mistress' poodle aud confided the uui- nial to his honor. IIo was prrsmuloil, good limn, that nothing but this could suvo " Toto" fiom being requisitioned nml eaten, and, as ho explained with nil a Frenchman's grave chivalry, " the death of his dog, monsieur, would bring disgrace on my white hairs.” German curs nro well attuned by this time to anecdotes of this sort, but they never fail to make fair listeners laugh gleefully—ami not, mind, with that noiseless lip-laughter of polite French women, but with gay tinkles audible afar, and buoyant as healthy weather. For all whioh, conversation does not bingo only on oiunp stories, for Eng lish novels (much road in Germany), iintivo metaphysics, tho catholic ques- Uon, an<l tlm health of Bismarck arc all prattled over in turns by iV.m« wull-io- formod anil nob frivolous Indies. On and on shoots tho steamer, plowing up long furrows of white, nml glancing by ropoated clumps of wooden villages, gabled town, ami now river-side hotels. The hand oxhaiiHta Strauss, and takes to Offenbach, Godfrey, and Alotra ; a dinner-bell rings, anil draws down half tho passengers to u prolonged sitting over hot meats, now potatoes fried, ami lank bottles of Rhine wine; then tho afternoon melts into evening, and just, the netting nun is easting broad sheets of purple liglr over the noble river t-ho boat darts by the Giant Hotel nt Oo- blentz, nml roaches the lnudiug-ntngo. groups of Prussian soliliois, bluo aud whito, hang about with brown kirtled factory girls ami flaxen-beaded school boys to see the passengers disembark, aud above tho two forts, Gonstnutine and Alexander, whioh tho Fronqli “shall never have," gaze proudly uml soeuroly down at the tract of matchless land scape where the Rhine and the Moselle blend their waters.—Pull Aral! OatwUn. FACTS AND FANCIES. A sensitive girl has broken off tho match because lie said sho had a foot liko a raisin-box. Thh young liuly wheunistook a bo tlo of muoilage /or hair oil has been too „stuek up” to go to any parties siuoo. —A Boston man boldly declares that if ho couldn’t get out of Philadelphia any other way ho would choorfnlly crawl into a mortar and bo shot out of it. —" I wonder it it’s sea-sickness that makes sailors always a heaving up an chors 1” exclaimed Aunt llopzihah, ns sho looked thoughtfully up from her morning paper. — A little boy of our noqunintnnoo a few (lays ago, after attentively watch ing a oonplo of industriously inoliuod bugs, remarked that ovou the bugs had got to playing marbles. —" Now, Hiimmv, toll mo, havo yon read the story of Joseph?” “ Oh, yes, uncle." “Well, then, what wrong did they ilo when they sold their brother?” "Tlioy sold him too fliotip, I think.” A peddler oalling on an old lady to dispoHO of somo goods inquired of her if sho could toll him of any roail ou whioh no peddler had traveled. "Yes,” replied she, " I know of ono, and that’s the road to heaven.” —Out of one hnmlrod ami oighty-two boys in tho Connecticut, reform school, the superintendent reports that hun dred and eighty aro liars. Tho proposal now is to oiluoato tho entire; lot of ’om for the profession of the law. —It will rernlor your daily routine of ifo more balmy to bo made aware of tho fa,jt. that hydrophobia can bo com municated by a d«g that is not mad, and iliat tho disease may suddenly start from a bite twenty years old. —An elderly clergyman of Chicago, when asked tho other (lay why he had uovor married, replied that he had spout, his lifetime in looking for a woman who would refrain from working him a pair of slippers, ami he.had never found her. —A Brooklyn young womon, who abandoned her old husband, says : " He was too soft. I couldn’t be hugging and kissing him all the while—it isn’t my disposition. I couldn't bear to bo obliged to sit on bis lap and ouddlo him ovory time I wanted a eent.” —Walt Whitman’s ode to the St. Louis bridge : Lu! a bridge at Rfc. Louis! Htrotohod from tho bangH or nmUlplioRtoil AlrowlyovorpaHHod by foot that could not ho oxcoliod in Chicago (whioh ho wns an oloplmut), Hlar-Jo; * d with the miiltltiidiiio jf tho whqrai it string nxpneta- I, lined i A whoroforo HUHtrositios of all And lightning girdod kinds. „ ,. , , n through tlio nntl-spinimodlo whirls or mmboozling all, ovontho lloro- oalolonsioH, —A Shreveport editor, being asked wether Byron wrote ^certain line, re plied that he could not.say that. Byron wrote it, as he did not sj&e him write it, but tho line was to b» ffmnd in one of Bvron’s poems. EvidiAitly something had happened to tench, that editor tion. London’s Poverty. A liondon correspond on t of tho Cin cinnati Enquirer says : " Every (lay I meet tho most pitiable looking objects, imploring ohurity only by thoir looks, for they dare not roach forth a hand. Begging seems to bo a poor investment here. They don’t get rich anil retire liko they do in America. I never sail such squalor uml wretchedness in my lifetime in America as J can see in Lon don streets iu one day. I don’t liko tho extremes here. Hero tho papers nro howling because tho government does not expand more money in buying paintings for the national art gallery, while under tho very shadows of that magnificent edifice people are writhing in poverty. Another thing that strikes me are tho innumerable charitable stitutions I see on ovory hand, all sup ported by private charity. They havo asylums for cripples, blind, tho aged and tho orphans. But thero is i English law liko there i Ohio statutes. These peoplo a for hero only when they cannot care lor themselves, and often not then ; while tlio broad humanity of our law gathors the young under shelter—not merely to shelter, but to ojlucatcand nurture int-o unhood and womanhood nml useful citizenship. The subjects of English charity go from tho asylums to the gri.veyards, while they in our Country go from this kindly shelter into active and useful life, and repay nu hundred fold the money expended for their com fort by tho stuto.’ —"It is an exploded theory,” says one who speaks with knowledge, “ that women dress to picas j tile men. They dress to please or spito each other. Any girl of sense and experience knows that if is ns easy to break a man’s heart in a $2 muslin, neatly made up, as it is iu a .§500 silk costumo made by a man-dress maker.” It is, in fact, a grout deal easier. The natural cluirm of a young girl is often (li strayed by exocssivc In an niiniitigntod extension of tho culmina tion of Gunihirango. —Joseph Arch proposes to bring over 71,000 English laborers and lot thorn know what liberty is, but. Joseph had bettor make arrangements for fcUmr bread and butter UflfdVe they; land. Threo square miles of freedom won t go t as far as a sandwich to a hungry rasn.— />«trait, JArco Prr.HH. —A porr»*u wants to bo careful, of oourso, but wlierC in Oio.ctuwn of one’s lint oan ono find room for a Blip contain- directions for tho treatment of a drowning man, ft compendium ot rules for avoiding hydrophobia, a string of re medies for sunstreko, nud one s me- alarm card ? Nobody but a paper hanger could do tho job well. —An Illinois paper says: ‘‘Mr. A. W. HheHan onmo into tlua offloo tho otlior liny with om. mde of hio f u ™J^“j- lv mvollen nml ono oyo Krently nflamid, onunod, n« lin nny- by tl.o liowon of a notuto him, Ho atriiok n bug win n $Mi„ nml Homo of tl.o ‘W’ Struck bin fnoo noiw Inn oyolid. Two nhynioimiH utUmd.ng U^OOMidor tho bng much more powerful nu u blistering ngnnt than Bpnnnth ilioH. —A Burlington, town, 1-onrd of trade man got into trouble by lotting b>»b»“- no“ weigh too heavily on bin mind tho otlior night-. Hin wife hoard.' bun mur mur in hin Hleem Ella, dear LUn, fondly nud tenderly, and aa W [ "“ n “ Mohitnblu, nho woke lum with tlio I nld end of tho hair brush, ;ind mikid lum, “Whor "I wna thinking of Win Yator,” Rio wretched man said calmly, and ohuokledoffto sleep ogam. —A young man, who had spent a lit- tlo of his own time nud a grant deal of hin father's money in fitting for the bar, wan asked, altor bin examination, how h“«ot along. “Oh, well onough." Haiti ho; "X answered ono question St" “Ah, indeed I said the old gentleman, with looks of paternal satis- i.m Ron’s ncculiar smartness , Gau nt his son's peculiar smartm -and what was it?" "They asked ‘and what was what a f/ui turn action • fc « nui turn action won. That „„a hard ono, and you answered it correctly, did yau? Yes; I told them I did not know. —On a cruiso tho sailors saw a oomot and woro somewhat surprised and alarmed at its appearanee lhe han^.. met and appointed a committee to wait 1 - j | on the commander and ask his opinion 0 » a They approached him and said : ’“ j Swe wan? t?oak your opinion your - 1 honor.” "Well, my boys, whatJMJ about?" “Wo wout to inquire about is a star sprung a leak. A Newspaper trom tho Ark. Mount Ararat has boon encroached upon by journalistic enterprise, And n newspaper, Whiffs from Ararat, has been established by tlio American pil grims at the very foot of tho mountain. This paper A - J “ —“Sad tli a friend to a Verrm liter who > tood »t j its proper size. The price obtained is dressing. Men like tasteful and n the grave of his wife. “ Well, tolera-! alwajs much less, the customers dissut- extravagant toilets; and tlio rivalry bly Bad ” replied the mourner, “ but is fled, and vour trees suffer therefrom, (tress among women is not to catch a then, her clot hue just fit my oldest girl.” I —Rural World. I bean, but to mortify an enemy, interesting local topics, quotes tho price of girls as wives > n the villages, varying from .12 to £10, and disouH8CR the peasant notion that the world rests on a largo ox, which, being irritated by a lly, tosses its head and thus causes oartliciunkoH, and the belief of tho natives in tho neighborhood of tho mount that impassable barriers sur round Ararat to prevent its being desc- orated by mortal feet, -'tale <«gda keep guard on t'no summit lest o piece of tho indestructible wood of tho ark should bo home away.