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“ Ofc bo.” m* 4*. *■ Übbb Ik
A mu* abavar'a boa*: *
“TV Up. doth bobbA DM d**p,
Aad cutfctb sharp and kara j
•“P P'S**** M Ihoa tD nij haart,
Which boon bo otVrqnaao.
“And a!no* to topper torn/ bud*
Thou wUI n M coudcmhd, ■*
I ftar mj day* hava run their race,
Aad <9*-h*a tnr Mbar a*4
• This form mu crnaih!* In th* dust,
Th*** lip* in death rA* dumb.
Thia hatbar’a mu*, n fair ami anti*,
Muriel a ifnld faecßibu. ' ’>
- Cntv.nrn Bard.
“O, artanora! Wherefora tali Hi* th!a?"
The maiden lair replied,
“And razor roar because, forsooth,
I aria not be jronr bride.
" Comb, whisker round; aome trim young laaa
Ton'll arin if you’ll but j.. i
Don’t beard dolt, brush off the tear*.
And ne’er curl up and die!
Ala*: bead her wools.
But took a gun—poor soul—
And Mew bis brans out? ” —Ho, not much.
He hen trad hi* barber’s pad.
-ravc^Sm *•-
the talismax.
A rdmtfnpon the red lips of (Jerald
SinelaJr’s young wife—unmistakably a
though a wifr yf almost two
veal's, the fond, indulgent husband had
for the first tube said nay to an openly
expressed wish.
Tue fancy ball of the seasoD, a grand
r " 1 ' 1 fll (Wpwfey>wismtdage, was to take
rlce absence, and ho had
““d Si should prefer 6he did not
jLet this much bo
N “ d W* <an> V ttoa ''' °t •* -two great
tears to the brown, eyes and
down the pretty face,
splaslilngCh tnoming dress,
which, clinging to the dainty form, fc
\ • graceful oqUinos.
rcft 9Ph'to feol
of her children.
But (Mw|-fti]mlair had only stooped to
kiss drops’ in a hK
-'• ' ‘i-•n**Tuqw ] perhaps to hido his
*“ NevefmSni, little wife; I’ll make it
up to yotfanother timri.” i
Then he
turning whwifig ter wedding-ring,
it. It was a curious
ring-y solid -.band sat with five large
diamonds. ■* H
It find bd&filicr charm; her talisman,
not tf> be taken from her finger until
sonl-ffud body had parted; bat this
mornhigit had lost its charm. If it
faile&to scatter the clouds, it failed to
bring back the sunshine.
EifcSh When tho hour came around for
Gerald’s home-coming, he missed his
usual warm welcome; but ho thought
that he might trust his wife’s heart, and
said nothing. The next day he started
on his journey.
•.J.'You’re pot gping, my dear?” ex
c!aimed ifrs. Martin, bursting in upon
her biwiaq. tbtjuorning of the ball,
’” nd hf •at?’’-' 7
'‘Gerald is away,” replied Mrs. Sin
c*R jfiihfi little slipw of wifely
dignity, as thongh the fact were in itself
sufficient explanation.
“ittfiwty reed that make any differ
ence ?” Mrs. Martin, a bewitch
ing little, widow Bojnei -few years her
friend’iyigni^, “I will share my escort
with you—Count Bolonzi 1"
Sophie Sinclair looked amazed. She
Uny yan mentioned had but
OOtrsse into society, and
knew, also, thalf Her husband disliked
and
Once oi JHce she had seen his eyi
Ixed adinirsg£’ upon herself,and had felt
lomewhat as the bird might feel beneath
Die basilisk glare of the serpent.
“Well, why don’t yon answer?” con
iinned Mrs, Martin. “ Will you go ?”
“ No, replied, trying to speak
with film dAision. “ Besides, Ido not
think that--Gerald admires the Count,”
” Prejudices. * The Count is one ol
the npet charming'find agreeable men I
know* I* deed. I . think I should be
canonized for‘ my willingness to share
liis attentions, especially as I have heard
him say all manner of pretty things
ahont yon.”
“Hnnsonse, Ellen 1” reported Mrs.
Binclair.
But-she felt the ground slipping be
neath her feet as she spoke. __
Gerald had not said, posi-
Efiid he thought it neces
sarj^f fcr he had openly expressed his
disapprobation ct liar going?
Hchad not known that she would be
sorelp v tempted. Besides she would
No one would know her,
tuulfHyjn she told,Gerald he would for
givefbeor. A sudden thonght came to
‘'■'n'Bhgoj'’ she said at‘last, after con
timSpihWnC, and. looking at the pict-
liglits, “ on one
coraMronT and" that "is. no one is to know
tiMI a <4 ■
even the Count. Say that you
persuaded a Mend to accompany
you whownsnes to remain unknown. I
will come to your house,_ where he will
find me, gain no clew."
So ithmsdecided ; but, spite of her ex
piiattS-costume of -a fairy, as she con
fedWh-*t-and- herself beneath a large
lomino, as the clock on the mantt.
fhimed 10, it seemed to Sophie every
stroke said, “ Stay! stay !”
She was almost tempted to obey it,
bat she had promised Ellen, and after
all she had heard that it was well for
young wives to assert themselves.
An hour later, and, on the Count Bel
zoni’s arm, she entered upon the brill
iant scene. So far he had not even
seamed curious to ascertain her identity.
She experienced at this a singular sense
of relief.
The ball was at its height as the
clock rang out the hoar of midnight;
bnf, for the first time in her life, light
and guyety were distasteful. A hundred
Unit* she wished herself at home.
ELLIJAY 183| COURIER.
TO. CoiVtBWI
Editor and Pabliahar. j
“I will tell Gerald. I have already
been punished,” she whispered to her
self, as she stood for a moment alone in
a quiet mjrner.
“You lowk more like a nun than a
fairy—rattier like one who Had fore
sworn tlie vanities ot the world than a
sn-en to .tempt men to their destruc
tion,” said a voice close to her,
“ thongh to the latter I know no one
more fitted.”
“Sir!* she exclaimed, indignantly,
recognizing as she spoke the'Count'
standing at her elbow,
“Ah, you thonght I did not know yon.
I should penetrate any* disguise yon
wore. Beside, you have forgotten to
remove a badge of recognition.”
She followed with her eyes his down
ward glance, and saw that it rested on
her hand, ungloved, as in better accord
with the exigencies of her costume.
Involuntarily she drew it away, with
the ring which had betrayed her.
Denial was useless.
“ Since you know me, then,’“she said,
“we will no further play a part. To oth
ers we are masks ; to ourselves we are
ourselves.”
. “Ah, madams,” he whispered, “ let us
rather say to the world we are ourselves,
to each other We are a mask. Can men,
think you, look coldly on such beauty as
you possess ? Can—”
. Indignant and alarmed, she checked
His further speech by starting forward
to eEcape him. His hand dosed on hers
as in a vise. She wronched it from him,
sprung among a crowd of maskers, and
so made her way to the dot*.
•'Call a carriage for me,” she di
rected.
Ten minutes later @he was within her
own house. Her first impulse was to
tear off tho hated costume which had
caused her such trouble ; her next to
throw herself op tho bed and sob out her
excitement and contrition. The morn
ing sun, streaming in her room, awoke
her.
M ith a shudder she remembered tho
events of the past night. She looked
down at her hand—the hand which bad
l>eon polluted by another’s touch—as
though in some way she expocted to find
the contamination branded on the soft,
white surface. It was all unmarred!
and rubbed her eyes ani
looked—tho color meanwhile fluttering
out of hor clioeks and her pale lips quiv
ering, as if her heart seemed to stand
still in a sudden agony of fear, for from
the third finger was missing the tab
ismauic ring.
When and where had she lost it, and
howcouldshenow find the courage to coni
foss all to Gerald ? She rose and dressed,
revolving and Be-rogolviUg this problem
u> her mind. * r
At nny hour her husband might re
turn. For the first'time she dreaded to
meet him—dreadeel to look into the
kindly, handsome eyes, and reaTuhere
all his incredulous reproach, mmglcol,
perhaps, with scorn and anger.
The day wore on. Her friend, Mrs.
Martin, ran in to scold her for her deser
tion, but her pale face and trembling
tones made good her plea of sudden ill
ness.
At nightfall Gerald, arrived. She
threw herself in his arms, in a burst of
nervous weeping'; but, when he wonder
ingly asked its cause, her courage failed
her.
Why was it she never imagined that
ho might look stern until to-day ?
A week passed, when one evening,
sitting in the twilight, a step sounded
close beside. She looked up to discover
the Count.
“ Pardon!’’ he began, in answer to
her indignant, questioning look; “why
must you be so cruel ? May I now see
you ?”
“ Sir, 1 command you to. leave me. I
am now nnaer the protection ol my own
roof:"
lie was about to answer, latch
key was heard inserted in tire outside
door.
In an instant he had sprun g foto some
place of concealment, but the fact that
lie was near lent to the young wife a
sudden courage, bom of the' moment’s
desperation. Her husband, entering,
approached her, but she motioned him
back.
“Gerald,” she said, “I hjave a bitter
confession to make. It ia fitting you
should hear it now.” •
He listened, with arms folded across
his breast, while she told him all the
story of that fated night.
“And this is all?” he ~ questioned,
bitterly, when she had panned.
“No, not all,” she continued, rais
ing her voioe.
“My confession has another witness,
who lias forced his hated presence igain
upon me. The Count Balonzi is here
again, Gerald.”
As she spoke she drew apide the cur
tain, but the form she expected to dis
close was gone, the open window at
testing to its flight.
Silently the husband drew a paper
from his pocket and showed her a para
graph offering a reward for the arrest of
a thief and swindler known as the Count
Belonzi.
“Mv darling,” he said, “my little
wife has learned a good lesson that she
ELLIJAY, GA., THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1881.
will never forget. I have known this
story all the time, bat have waited until
you camo to tell it to me. I returned
the night of the ball to take you with'
me, when I found you had gone. Imag
ine what I suffered and my addgjl suf4
fering when arriving at the soene of
joymentj where* I followed yon, I dis
covered who was your companion, j
stood near yon and heard the words lid
addressed to yon; heard with joyful
heart your answer j sa-fr yoil wrench
your haudJspm his hold: and also saif
what you did not—the sparkle* of the
ring he drew from your finger. Poor
little girl [A I watched yon haston
through tho crowd, and knew that you
had already met your bitterest punish
ment. Jt has been through my efforts
that the Count has been traced and ex
posed. Only this morning I recovered
your ring from the man with whom he
pledged it as a security. Once more I
place it on your finger. But remember,
darling, it is only the outward charm.
A wife’s true talisman is her husband’s
honor, which no thief may steal, unless
he adds assassination to his crime and
buys it With her heart’s blood.”
. A GOOSE STOKT.
A fanner of London township, Ont.,
noticed one morning that a wild goose
had joined his flock. Somewhat sur
prised at this sudden change to domestic
life, he carefully observed the behavior
of the visitor. He soon learned that it
had not actually joined itabaTn-yard rel
atives, but only appeared at meal-time.
Further investigation showed that after
the goose had thoroughly satisfied }ier
own appetite she would pick up an ear
of com and fly away. Greatly interested
by Jthe strange .conduct of the bird, tfie
farmer one morning watched the ditec-,
tion of its flight. It was but a short
distance to the river, and he noticed that
after circling the goose dropped appar
ently into the river. Going down the
bank, he discovered his visitor standing
by a companion who was lying on the
ground and feeding on the ear of corn.
In order to understand this restaurant
project, he walked up to the feeder and
found that it had been so disabled that
it could neither walk nor fly. Without
disturbing it he returned, and morning
after morning watched the generous
gon SlM# jTjr away an earW/iorn jjjnn!|v
Hie visits ceased, but shortly afterward
the sick gander himself waddled into the
camp and gobbled up the corn himself.
He has remained all winter, and the in
dications are that he has made up his
mind to settle down and go to house,
keeping.
AIiOVT THE SAEE-AUENTS. .
Safe-agent No. 1 had just taken bis
leave. He had told a most wonderful,
circumstance about tiie kind of'safo lie !
was agent for, whicli was as follows, ami 1
related to safe-agent No. 2:
“Sir,” says the poor fellow who had
lost his safe in the largo fad, “ there
isn’t any use of your talking safe to me.
lam convinced that the man who has
just left here is the man to buy of. Why,
he soid a safe in New York city to n
large produce merchant who had as a
pet a jittlo bantam rooster, aqd.tljip little
rooster got into that safe, and the safe
was locked up.* .Tfaet night the building
burned, and it was a terrible hot lire.
In a few days, when they were able to
got at the safe and open it, what do yon
think?”
“Well, I suppose,” said the safe-agent,
“that the rooster was cooked.”
“No, sir; that little rooster came out
and crowed. ”
“ Well, now,” says safe-agent No. 2,
“that puts mein mind of a safe I sold to
a man in Philadelphia. He had a little
dog, and the dog got locked up in the
safe, and the building took fire. The
outside of the safe was red-hot, but they
went to work and opened that safe; the
combination worked to a dharm, and
what do you think ?”
“ Well, I suppose that little dog came
out and barked.” •
“Barked? No, sir; not a bark. That
doc was froze stiff I?
OUTGROWING ONE’S EMENDS.
There are men and women in publio
ife whose pathway is marked by the
“remains” of whilom friends whom
they squeezed dry and. dropped like so
many sucked oranges. In politics it is
said of such a man that he has kieked
down the ladder by which he climbed.
In literary or other walks of life the
human sponge often swells up with the
thought that he has “outgrown” hi*
humble friends of other days. In pri
vate life the self-coD scions so content*
itself with becoming more and more the
center of its little circumference, tak
ing none within its orbit who will nol
consent to revolve around it and emit
light and warmth for its enjoyment.
There have been many and noble defini
tions of what a Mend is. People of
real individuality, strength and sensi
tiveness doubtless have fewer real
friends than they are apt to think, un
less they have been oherishing, uncon
sciously, low ideals. But, whatever a
Mend may not be, certainly that sweet
and noble term is unmerited by one
who, however generous in other direc
lions, is sellish of himself. Oohtrn
liute-
ir/t love ovk corrsrtmt.
“ I fed,” said the fat fasßenger, as
(lie train lirossed the Ohio line, “ that I
am in tho land of statesmen. There is
the smell of a postoflice in the air, and
the low sweet sound qf 4/X' ,, ulute is
heard in the dewy distance. 1 see the
shady forms of Marshals to be, and,
out of the dreamy gates of Impossible
I see the sad procession of Never to be
Supreme Judges. It is a dear and fa
vored land, this grand ohUjtop-mother
of Presidents. ” i
“We nil love diir *d the
sad passenger, “and wti fight, and
stiver, and work, atd lj a -vwit
and slkout for the privilege, of adminis
tering her finances. Ok, America,
America, what would a country, be with
out offices?” 11 • j •
“It would be like'la cat ithont a
voieOtMhe man on the wood-UU said.
“Or a cigar without jfh,” the
cross passenger said. ~
“Or a room without a bed, yaid F.n
dymiqu, the sleepy passenger,,'
“Or a bar without whisky,” said the
tall, tliin passenger, wherenpou several
voices immediately asked What that was.
“After all,*’ the jester said, “politi
. cyans nre-no worse than ijsed to be,
tint there are more of thafki affal therein
is all the . evil. Giassbqpp/. ore no
moro .voracious in one seas. , than an
other, but, in the year whdb ,cy multi
ply their census by couriQee millions,
they are able to do infinitsM more mis
chief than when tliore aral-enough'
,pf them to furnish tish-!Mt for the in
ihWtrious citizens of the republic. And
oli tho mischief in tho ooujy ry isn’t done
by the politicians. There aio lawyer’s
who would honor the bar by getting
lliemselves Melted otit bf ft. • There are
editors who disgrace- jouiwlfcm. There
nro ministers who profans thf ir pulpits.
There are several people outride of poli
tics who need a little killing. There
is ”
And, seeing that tliis audience has
gone to sleep, the jester prepared to fol
low their example. —liurdetto on hi*
Travels.
CARE or AN ORGAN.
Those who own a parlor organ may
find in the following extract from the
Score a hint as to its corf which will
lave them trouble andexjf " < dX
h£^ts,'but4feadiSf! S
fearful mass o t dust and dr£‘ A gentle
man called on ns in relation to an organ
purchased three years- sinje, and said it
was “ all ont of tune,” anl “ something
rattled.”
But being in the habit of receiving
the information that an organ is “all out
of time;" when there is a small piece o!
dirt stopping one sent a friend
to look at it.
Ilk reported that it was “ outrageous
ly ” out of tune. It was sent tp our re-
Imi ring man, and, on opening * the top
lid, the whole -interior ma found filled
with immense .cobwebj.
From unlcmcath the'keys was taken
a mass of dirt, in which we found one
hairpin, three noodles and eleven pins,
v. mlo from out of the reed cellfcSwte re
moved thirty-two dead flifiS; and on each
reed point was a cake of jauft, white the
tongue vibrated between, twp thick walls
of dirt; the dust on the tongue altering
ilie pitch, and the dirt on tho block
changing the tone. ‘ 3 fit • I
After cleaning the dirtyfrdm the reeds,
and replacing them in the) cells, every
one was fonnd to be in perfect tuna
Now, this organ had been kept open
all tho time, and the steps -left drawn.
Had there been no “forte” Stops to hold
the swells open, the dirt ♦fluid have re
mained comparatively harmless on t’.-o
outer board. , J , .
But being left open, together with tho
other stops, the dust and iijsect# had ac
cess to tho most delicate parts of the or-
gan, and the consequence was dissatis
faction with’ the organ, wken the organ
was not in fault. - .
SMOKXWfi ot
Tho woman who does sot require of a
man the form of respect,Vintites him to
discard the substance; add there is one
violation of the form recent and
gross, and might be well cjted as a strik
ing illustration of ther decay oi manners.
It is the practice of smok&g in' the so
ciety of ladies in public and private
places, whether driving, tit walking, or
sailing, or sitting.
There are preux chcvaliira who would
be honestly amazed if -tkey were told
they did not behave like gffctletnen, who,
sitting with a lady on a hfjtel piazza, or
strolling in a public psfk, take out a
cigar, light it, and puff af tranquilly as
if they were alone in rooms. Or a
young man comes alone djpon the deck
>f a steamer, and blows! clouds of to
>aeco smoke in their faceqy without even
that tobacco is disagreeable
o some people.
This io not, indeed, on 4 of the seveD
deadly sins, but a man unconcern
edly sings false betrays Hat he has no
ear for music; and the mmi who smokes
in this way shows tliat ho is not a gentle
man.—Harper't Magazine
Men, like books, at UuTlm ginning and
end have blank lea.cws-nifauoy and
gray-haired old age. . -
IBE ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC ARC
TIC.
Nqrdenskjold reported the east coast ol
all Arctic lands as heavily ioed, when
their west coasts are comparatively free.
This is explained by rotation of ths
earth making the eastern shores the
weathers or resisting and advancing side,
while- all.westem shores are relatively
lee shores. His interesting tidal observa
tions just south of Wrangel Land show
an average rise and fall of only eight
inches. This seems to indicate that the
marine basin north of Behring strait is
of limited extent, and either land
locked or composed of an archipelago of
numerous islands, connected tsy
with little smWonadirtg water. Judging
by tho comparative size ot Greenland,
any Arctic continent that j may exist, if
in general pnopfftion, would likely be
about four and a tudf degrees in depth
from the physical North pole of the
earth. All shores within the Arctic cir
cle appear to be skirted with' islands.
Cafit, Keenan, Wlidn “boding eut” in
the bark Jnraos Allen, about 100 miles
north of Point Barrow, saw with perfect
distinctness a range of high land, visi
ble a long way, north of the vessel’s po
sition, Tliia is annually confirmed by
the flight of large numbers of aquatic
birds, wbiicTi pass northward in tile
spring from P6int Barrow, and return
in Augtwt or earty September with tlieir
yopng, which are Always reared -ution
land. When that tly ( iee-
Aaimer in this part of the Arctic'suc
cessfully resist* tlip ihskHous approach
of tlib wKrin IPnro Slim, coining from I
the trjpics, and a ; branch of 1 which flows
post'Japan- tod through Behring strait,
it argues a ootid backing to sustain if
sqoh as .a qouj:
pact archjpelago or continental coast*
line further north would present.
b -O.
FEELING OF THE MARICvt.
“ Guess I won’t take in the school to
"day,” said a Carson urchin, kith at.
Appeal in his hand.
“ Why not ?”
“Concordia him fallen off 40 cenls
arid I don’t daro to show up until i
picks up again.”
“ What have the fluctuations of Cpu
cordia got to do with you* studies?"
“A good deal," answered the loy.
-tgri t ki r Tfaaiimri'h —r of thestbek.
catch it heavy, I keep Bty eye on the
list, and when there's a break you bet I
don’t go to school. I play kick. Golly!
how sho basted me the timo Mount
Diahlo busted down to $2. When it was
sellin’ at S2O sho was as good as pie. 1
wns the first feller that got onto the
break, and X told the boys of my cliiwi
that if she didn’t soli there’d bo the devil
to pay. • X heard Undo Fmser say it was
a good short, and I never slept a wink
for a weak, ~( I grabbed the Appeal the
first thing every morning, aud whpuj X
bow her keel down to sl(> I skipped
to the hills. Lord, how she did hang
Johnny Dobson round that morning ! J
was in hopes,, that the blasted mine
would pick up, hut the water got ih the
lower levels, and I knew we were in for
it. She licked Homebody for every dol
lar it dropped;'-.After it struck sff it
pickod up a little; and we had time to
get well. My mother's been patdiin’
my pants now ever since the big break
in Sierra Nevada, aud if the market
don't take a turn pretty soon I’m goin’
to quit the public Hchool and go to work
on a ranch.”— Carxnn City Appeal.
JOHNUY IS requested to with
draw.
Several fashionable ladies were drink
ing tea in a palatial residence on Gal
veston avenue, and, of oourse, they dis
sected a few of their friends, among
them a married couple who did not get
along very well.
“Yes,” said one lady, “ Mrs. Blank is
a very positive woman. She comes right
straight out, and nevor whips the devil
sro'tnd the stump.”
“ But she chases Mr. Blank around
the orange trees with a broom-stick, for 1
seed her doing it the other morning
when I went for milk,” remarked John
ny, who wan taking in the conversation
with open mi ruth and ears.
Johnny’s seat in the Senate was imme
diately declared vacant by a unanimous
vote.— Galveston News.
A MARRIAGE TRICE-LIST.
A minister out West, who has been
troubled a good deal over marriage fees,
issued the following circular and price
list :
“One marriage, plain, $2. Ditto,
kissing the bride, $3. Ditto, trimmed
with one groomsman and one brides
maid, $4; 50 cents extra for each addi
tional groomsman or bridesmaid. Bach
elors past 40 will be charged extra.
Maids of same age 10 per cent. off.
Mileage will be charged in long-dis
tance matches. Liberal reduction to
clubs. Payments in cash ; no notes oi
securities accepted. No money refund
ed or rebates made for poor goods.
Come early, and come often. '
A taxdob was startled the other day
by the return of a bill, which he had
sent to an editor, with a notice that the
“ manuscript was respectfully declined."
subscription vm i on
Sl.no per Annum VU L. V J.'*JNU. ZU.
TBE EXKROT or OM A OR.
The restless energy of age is nothing
else than the buoyancy of early life pass
ing over the original boundaries, and,
like a swollen river, inundating the sur
rounding country. As the snows of th
far north treasure up the rainfall of a
long season nd then keep the brooks
and rivers full until far into June, so the
buoyancy of youth treasures up great
vital forces which send floods of spark
ling waters down through the plains of
later years. We can all recall to mind
many old persons upon whose temples
white hairs came in vain, for the mind
and hoart refused to grow old. BiognM
pU y .liouiula m such picture*. Many
of tlie most vivacious pieces in litoxatnxv
have been composed in the latest jears
of their authors, not because their great
vivacity came then, but because it re
ceived such an impulse in youth that it
could not die away or suffer great abate
ment. Swift was 60 when he laughed
out * ‘ Gulliver’s 1 Travels. ” Oowper was
-over 60 when he-wrote “John Gilpin,”
and Defbe was 58 when he composed the
“Robinson Qrusoe.” And when Cer
vantes made the world laugh at
“ Knight-errantry ” he was three-score
years away from his infanoy; and when
Goethe was 82 his ihind created tbs
“Helena.” In rill’these illustrious men
there was built up in boyhood and early
manhood a Are-of enthusiasm which
never poled.— rPrqf. David Swing.
TUB PARAGRAPH.
A curious chapter might lie written on
' the survival of the paragraph, Haunch
one once, no matter on what subject it
may be neither a sensible nor opportune
one—and it seems pervaded with on en
chanted life, which years will not fa'll,
? Jt|is reported on raliablq authority that
an editor, in the 70 ( th year of his age,
once become visibly excited over a oom
monplaco paragraph in a current news
paper beonuse this same paragraph, on
a very insignificant subjeot, had been
dilo to his pen just fifty-two years be
fore. It had gone. floating round and
round, submerged for a time, then rising
buoyant, water-logged once more, again
to bob up and down before the eyes of a
new pablio. It is quite oortain that
paragraphs brought into existence to
day, without any particular merit, will
come to the surface when our great
”** * ■"<-*. urn*., a Own,
graphs have sometimes the honor of a
translation, and undoubtedly do service
beyond the seas, delighting Frenchmen,
Germans and Russians, in time to be
translated back again to their source of
(Origin.
SHE WAS THE WRONO WOMAN.
Tho days of romance are not passed.
A Cuban planter visiting New York saw
a charming woman on a Brooklyn ferry
lvoftt, and fell' in love with her. He
traced her home and learned that she
was a widow, most respectably connect
ed. lie was willed to Cuba, and wrote
her a letter full of affection, and giving
references. Her friends inquired and
found that ho was a desirable match.
She roplied to tho letter. Ho responded.
She wrote and he wrote until there was
an offer of marriage and an acceptance,
and the wedding day was fixed. She
prepared hor bridal robe and he re
turned to New York. They met at tho
house of one of her friends, she wonder
ing how he looked, ho anticipating a
second vision of beauty. She saw a
handsome man; he looked and
screamed, “You fire the wrong woman 1”
And so it was. They had neglected to
exchange photographs. Sho remains a
widow, and he hagpts tho Brooklyn ferry
boats for another vision. —Boston Trav
eller.
AH ANECDOTE OP LINCOLN.
In their “ early days ” Abraham Lin
ooln and Wm. G. Green were partners
in a grocery store at New Salem,
Menard county, HL At the breaking
out of the Black Hawk war they sold
their store and enlisted for that cam
paign, both joining the same regiment.
Lincoln and Green continued to be on
terms of warm friendship until the
former’s death. Shortly after Lincoln’s
election to the Presidency, Mr. Sreen
called upon him to offer his congratula
tions. They talked about old times.
“ Greet, do you remember that fellow
who challenged our whole rcgimentjfor
a wrestle, when we were at Book Island?”
asked Mr. Lincoln, referring to the
Black Hawk campaign. “Yes, I re
member him,” said Mr. Green. “What
was his name?” “Don’tknow; Ire
member the man, but not his name."
“ Well, you remember I threw him,
don’t you?” “Yes, you did that.”
“Well, if I knew his address I would
send him a commission for a nice little
office, so as to let him know I bear him
no malice,” said old Abe, with that pe
culiar twinkle of his eye which those
who knew him remember so well. Mr.
Green, who is still among the living,
and resides at Tallula, Menard county,
loves to tell this little anecdote when he
meets “ mutual friends” of the good old
times. —Chicago Journal.
Pashkvcb is s good thing for a man
to har, bnt when he haz got so much ov
it that he kan fish all day over the side
ova lioat, without eny bait on his hook,
luAyucKH a what’s the matter ov him.
mm irtTKmrtKwmm ram root.
An English merchant, who had
amazed considerable wealth in the in
dia trade, made an excursion into Soot
land, partly far his health, and partly to
see the country and study the people.
He had taken a fancy that ho would like
to lie a moral philosopher; and to that
end he moat look anderstandingly into
the characters of the different classes of
his fellows.
Arrived in Dundee our philosopher
was seized with the fancy that he would
like to interview the meet consummate
fool, and the most wise and erudite man
of the inhabitants; and he applied to an
aforetime correspondent, who had been
born and reared in the town, to furnish
him the means of gratification.
“Certainly,” said the friend, “I havo
tho two men in my mind—tlie acknowl- '
edged fool of Dundee, and our best and
wisest man. I'll take you to the fool ,
first.”
And he introduced the philosopher to
a worn, and tattered, and drunken “cad
dy,” or street-porter—a man who did
the work of a mule—called “Dundee
Jock,” informing tho latter-named that
the gentleman wished to converse with
him. - •
“Yes,” said the Englishman, kindly,
sild coaxingly; “I wish to ask yon n
few Bible questions, ami if you will, an-.
wr them I will gjve you five t
shillings—five sil veil .shillings.’’
Jock bpbbed his frowsy head, and
grinned, and grinned, and bade the geri
tlcman go on.
“ Woll, Jock—now tell me—who
was David’s father? That ig- a Bible
question.”‘t C ■■ y
* ‘ Heoh I So it be. Aye—Jes
us, I ween.” _ , •
“Yqs—you are right {iow tell me—-
who slew Goliath ?” '*" ' Ji-*'
“Why—mon aleeve—Vho but David
bimsel’ I” d’:u. i
And so wCntbn, and.
.it wrii Adk-fc his pdWee to >propound At i
’Bible question rirhink the £O9! could apt; ,_
answer. The eeoreti was, that from his j
mfoqcy Jock had pursued.the Bible sto
ry wif-han avidity which, nothing could
cheek. He could not himself read ; but
A a got others to read iii hliri.
1,1 In the end the gentleman wail so well
satisfied with Jock’s answers that’ ha.
gave him, instead of five shillings—ten
—assuring him that hq was worthy of .
them. v .
But poor Jock ahfjok Ho
did hot feel that he had earned ten
shillings, and, hence, he was unwilling
to take them.
“But,” said he, “if you will ■ answer
me a question we oan settle it. I will
ask ye only ana, and it shall be as sim
ple as simple can be. If ye answer it
I shall not take ycr money; but if ye
canna answer it ye shall double it, and
gio me twenty shillin'.”
The philosopher assented readily.
“Go on,” he said. “Put your ques
tion, and I will answer. ”
“Well, sir—ye ask me who was
- firriMiißi ***’• x ye. >,.
tell mo— Who tens lit fuitKer t" \
Hnffice it to say—the philosopher paid
the twenty shillings ; and he did not in
terview the wise man.
The Carson (Nev.) Appeal is respon
sible for the following story : A gentle- '
man who took a trip into the country,
when on the plains, a mile from any
. house, noticed a cat, a huge one, almost
as large as a fair-sized dog. It was
lying upon the ground, its feet upper
most, in such a way that he had no
doubt that it hod fallen a victim to some
vicious dog. Around it, feeding unsus
pectingly, was a flock of small birds.
The apparently lifeless oat was within
range of the vision of the observer for
some time, and just as he was thinking
how much easier it would be for the
animal to feign death and catch a bird
by deceiving it than by slipping up to
it, he was astonished to see the cat sud
denly roll over and grab one of tho
feathered tribe that was very near. The
other birds flew away 100 yards or so
and alighted. The cat only made one
or two monthfuls of the game, and then
crept around to the windward of the
birds, laid itself out again, and once
more successfully played the dead dodge.
The gentleman drove away without see
ing how many birds it took to satisfy
the feline.
At Rangoon, in Burmab, recently, in
one of the most populous quarters of tho
town, a tiger was killed in broad day
light. The brute had been hanging
about Dallah, the straggling village*
on the other side of the river from Ran
goon, for several days, and early one
morning swam across the river to RaiVv
goon. Fagged with the long; mile
1 through a swift current, and no doubt
astonished at tho number of people he
came across, he ensconced himself be
neath a house. The District Superin
tendent of Police heard of the arrival,
and, armed with a Winchester repeating
rifle, went down with another English
man in the direction pointed oat. They
came upon the tiger rather unexpected:
ly. Entering one of the houses on the
river bank, they all of a sudden discov
ered the snimn.l only a few inches below
them, with nothing bnt the scant pro
tection of an open bamboo floorwork be
tween them and him. A bullet between
the shoulders, however dropped him
before any harm could be done, and a
couple more shots made things sure.
Burke, in speaking to Dr. Johnson
about a mutual acquaintance, said:
“ Doctor, you must never believe more
than half that man says. ” “ Which half
shall I believe?” growled the doctor.
Burke was nonplussed.
Good newspapers are driving novel
reading out of existence. We shall have
an age of practicability yet, and then there
will be some fun in living. —New Jlaym
Register.
