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P .rmuan,iiMkM •bumMl’ * lnn Am ; “ 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.