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DEVILTRIES.
—Never use a gold snuff-box. Gold is
not to be sneezed at.
—The best band to accompany a lady
vocalist: A husband.
—When is a girl not a girl ? When she
turns into a confectionery shop.
—A clumsy man with big feet is the
biggest train wrecker a lady knows of.
-—When should you apply a sovereign
remedy to your tooth? When it’s a-king.
—Doctors never allow ducks on their
premises, they make such personal re
marks.
—A young man who last year went to
Texas telegraphs his father : “ Fatted
calf for one.”
A wife can always make home at
tractive to her husband by hiring a pret
ty chambermaid.
—Why is a prosy preacher like the
middle of a wheel ? Because the fellows
around him are tired.
—Dave Arnold, having partially re
covered from blasted hopes, is now down
with a blasted toothache.
—There is a fellow in California so
extravagant that he kindles the fire with
bank notes and skates on iee cream.
—A Western woman said of her lost
husband, “Daniel may be known by a
scar on his nose, where I scratched him.”
—“John, what is the chief branch of
education in your school ?” “ W illow
branch sir : master’s used up nearly a
whole tree.”
—A foreign correspondent thinks if
the Czar had brought his mother-in-law
to the Danube she would have made him
cross long before now.
—“ I am speaking,” said a long-wind
ed orator, “ for the benefit of posterity.”
“ Yes,” said one of bis hearers, “ and il
you keep on much longer your audience
will soon be here.”
—Not long ago they had a picnic in
this county, and a fellow threw two lem
ons and si lump of sugar in the crock and
charged visitors five cents every time
they took a drink.
—“That’s our family tree,” said an
Arkansas youth, as he jMiiuted to a vigor
ous oak, and added, “ A good many of
our folks have been hung on that tree for
borrerin’ horses after dark.”
—Traveling agent to melancholy-look
ing old gentleman : “ D >n t you want to
get a domestic magazine?” On! gentle
man : “ No, no! Mv wile is ail the do
mestic magazine I need. She blows the
whole house up every day !
—Wo are told that, “ when bid, the
Berlin gorilla will wine his nose a dain
tily as a child of four or five.” And we
all know how daintily a child of four oi
five wipes its nose —on its sleeve; and
how pretty often it doesn't wipe its nose
at all.
“Sing Sing!” shouted the brake'
man, as a Hudson Stiver train rolled
slowly up to that station. “ hive years
for refreshments!” yelled a passenger
with short hair and bracelets, as he rose
to leave the car in charge of a deputy
sheriff.
—Somebody has written an article on
the subject, “ How to Keep I toys at
Home.” To tie them to the gate-post
would be a good way, but shoot them and
pack them in salt, with a little sprink
ling of saltpeter, would be much more
effective.
—“ Julius, suppose there are six chick
ens in a coop and a man sells three, how
many are there left?” “ What time ob
day was it?” “ What time of day was it !
Why what has that to do with it?” “ A
good deal, honey. Is it am arter dark,
dar wouldn’t be none left, dat is, if a
nigger happened to come along dat way.”
They were acting charades at a party
one evening recently, and got along fine
ly until trouble occurred on the word
Beautiful. A lovely young lady had rep
resented the first syllable with charming
effect, but when they endeavored to get
a young man who parted his hair in the
middle and wore a tall collar to play the
part of Fool for the second act, he refused
with such vigor that it cast a gloom over
the entire company.
—Two women fought in a Virginia
police court, and a reporter thus de
scribes the scene: “ Hairpins flew in all
directions. A tuft of false hair went
skurrying up in the air. A set of false
teeth were thrown through the window.
Rags began to eollect in quantities, and
still Mrs. Kelly and Mrs. Shine wrestled
and scratched and gouged like two Da
homey warriors, and dancing around the !
room for all the world as if, like the last j
toy sold on the street corners, they had I
strings tied to them, and were being;
danced up and down.
—Night in a New York newspaper
office ; Special European correspondent:
“Mr. Scratchemout, I've just finished
writing that cable telegram; hadn’t I
better say the information is from Ploe
jesti ?” Scratch : “It doesu't make any
difference. But how many of the Turks
have you killed?” Special: “Well, I
thought I’d put it at 17,000, being as we
sympathize with Russia.” Scratch :
“ O no, that will never do. We musn’t
go it too strong at first. We really
musn’t impose upon the public. Cartl it
2,500, and then you can write up a tele
gram about a slaughter of Circassians.
Jt’s variety that the public wants.”
Special cerrespondeut retires to his
bloody work beneath the flaming gas.
BY T. L. GANTT.
RECIPROCAL KIVDVFm
AXDROCLKS, from his injured lord in dread
Of instant death, to Libya’s desert fled;
Tired with lus toilsome flight, and parch’d
with heat,
He spied, at length, a cavern’s cool retreat;
Hut scarce had given to rest his weary frame.
When, hugest of his kind, a lion came:
He roar’d, approaching: but the savage din
To plaintive murmurs changed,arrived within;
And with expressive looks, his lifted paw
Presenting, aid implored from whom he saw.
The fugitive, through terror, at a stand,
Dared not awhile afford his trembling hand:
But ladder grown, at length inherent found
A pointed thorn, anddrew it from the wound.
The care was wrought; he wiped the saiiious
blood,
And firm and free from pain the lion stood.
Again he seeks the wilds, and day by day
Regales the inmate with his parted prey.
Nor he disdain the dole, though unprepared,
Spread on tin* ground ; and with a lion shared.
But thus to live—still lost—sequester’d still—
Scarce seem’d his lord’s revenge a heavier ill.
I lonic ! native home ! Oh, might he but repair !
He must—he will, though death attends him
there.
He goes, and doom’d to perish, on the sands
Of the full theater unpitied stands;
When lo ! (he self-same lion from his cage
Flies to devour him, famish’d into rage.
He flies, but viewing in his purposed prey
The man, his healer, pauses on his way,
And soften’d by remembrance into sweet
And kind composure, couches at his feet.
Mute with astonishment the assembly gaze:
But why, ye Romans? Whence your mute
amaze ?
All this natural : Nature bid him rend
An enemy; she bids him spare a friend.
THERE'S 81TKSHINE AFTER IS AIV.
There’s sunshine after rain, dear friends,
There’s sunshine after rain;
And twilight comes when darkness ends,
To usher day again;
Spring brings to life the sleeping grain,
And varied flowers gay :
And Hope, when all is grief and pain,
Shines o’er the heart’s highway.
The never let the fiend Despair,
Enchain onr troubled mind ;
Nor let the clouds of bitter care
The soul’s bright mission blind ?
For if life’s morn oe dark and drear,
By gloomy ills o’ereast
A glowing noontide, bright and clear,
May cancel troubles past!
The meads grow richer for the storm,
And sweeter smell the flowers ;
And why not man receive the charm
From e’en imbittered hours?
Good with the evil ever blends,
Weeds grow among the grain :
'While there is love for all, dear friends,
And sunshine after rain.
T. &*' Admirers of Russian literature will be
pleased with this scrap of poetry, written by
Alexis upon his departure from New York :
Owata joliitimiv ad
Sinci tooklevov mioldad!
Owata mericovive bin—
Ivespenta nawful pilovtin !
Dainsorri tolevanii now,
But landigoshen jingo vow,
Thetur kishwar mustavastop
Gotele graph!toff topop.
EES3 VIOOBOI'S THAN THEIR FA
THERS.
A New Hampshire correspondent of
the Manchester Mirror expresses his
views on the deserted farm question thus
bluntly: “If farms have rundown the
people who occupy them are along way
ahead in the race. We have got on our
farms to-day a class of people who can
cipher through the algebra, play the
piano, and boast of an acquintance with
the fine arts, but they, can’t work. They
have got fine minds but their bodies are
sickly, puny and weak. To talk the mat
ter plainly, we have bred the bone and
muscle out of our families until we have
got a kind of human Jerseys, fine-boned,
mild-eyed, and nice to look at, and pet,
and put on exhibition, but so tender and
weak that they are fit neither for onr cli
mate, or work, or our circumstances.
Our fathers worked twelve or fourteen
hours a day and never thought of getting
tired. We are used up when we have
worked four hours. Our mothers made
gutter and cheese, fed the pigs and chick
ens, did the milking, raised a dozen
children, made the clothing for the fam
ily, and when a shower was coming could
rake or load hay. Our wives want a
maid to tend the baby and another to do
the house work, a boy to do the chores,
and if we keep more than one cow, a
cheese factory to prevent the milk from
spoiling. It is safe to say that ten farm
ers’ wives to-day can not do as much
hard work as would tv\o fifty years ago.
Asa farming people we have played out.
If the young New Hampshire farmer
who wants a wife to help him get a living
instead of one to haug ribbons on and
pour patent medicines into, would just
go down to your city and find a good,
strong, vigorous, industrious aud frugal
Irish or German girl, be would find his
farm would pay better than it does now,
and his children would be likely to be
worth ten times as much as farmers, as
will be any of the next generation of
pure-bred Yankees.”
A few days ago citizens of Fort Grif
fin, Texas, captured eleven men who
were trying to run otf twenty-seven head
of stock, and hanged them all in the
wood.
Believers in anew religion, called
Morrisism, are gathering in Walla Wal
la, Washington Territory, in expectation
of a second coming of Christ.
Texas beef sells at 14 cents a pound
in London and 15 cents hi Galveston.
LEXINGTON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 29, 1877.
UIVORCE IV HIGH I.IFE.
A Case that .Rakes a Sensation in
Eouisvile and St. Lents.
A divorce case of a strangely sensation
al nature was decided in one of our Cir
cuit Courts this week, but the court and
lawyers conspired so successfully to make
a tame affair that it received scarcely a
passing notice in our city papers. The
plaintiff was John Baptist Charles Lucas,
the wealthiest young man in St. Louis,
and a member of one of our best families.
The defendant, his wife, was formerly
Miss Mary Cummins Morton, a Kentucky
belle of great beauty, and for some time
a brilliant star in the social circles of
Louisville. About two years since Lucas
met her by accident in the usual way,
and conceived such an admiration for
her that he at once made seige upon her
heart. In time the citadel was taken. A
fashionable marriage took place in Lou
isville at the home of the bride. The
happy husband returned to St. Louis with
his beautiful wife, and with her was the
toast of the town for many weeks. In
three months love’s young dream had
faded, however, so far as the husband
was concerned, for he discovered that his
Blue Grass beauty would become a moth
er before that period which young mar
ried people look forward to as the short
est possible time within which they can
achieve legitimate posterity. A big row
ensued. The husband swore and tore up
things generally. The wife vowed it was
all regular. Doctors an mothers-in-law
•were called in, and they pronounced the
suspected wife’s condition very serious.
The husband left his splendid home, his
wife remained, and within five months
after the marriage gave birth to a bounc
ing boy. A divorce suit followed, and
last Tuesday Judge Guttschalk set a spe
cial hour in the afternoon to hear the
case. Nobody was present except the
court officers, and plaintiff and defand
ant; the case was called, the evidence
consisted of the marriage certificate and
the testimony of Dr. Hodgen that the
child was delivered by him, and that it
was a healthy nine months’infant; that
it could not have been even a seven
months’ product. The wife was repre
sented by attorneys, but they filed no
answer. They at first proposed to fight
the suit by proving like adultery on the
part of the husband, but lie agreed to
donate her $50,000 and endow her with a
lifeannuity of SI,BOO, and they agreed to
let him get a divorce by default. The
wife is with relatives in Kentucky. She
still swears it was all regular, but it is
stated that the paternal author is well
known in Louisville. The secret man
ner in which the divorce proceedings
were conducted has given rise to much
unfavorable comment here, and especi
ally in view of the fact that an attorney
named Beall had been so recently dis
barred for advertising to obtain divorces
without publicity.
THE I ASI) OF MIIHAX.
A correspondent of the Times, writing
from Alexandria, informs the public that
Capt. Burton, the African traveler, has
made a “ find” of unusual interest. At
the request of the Khedive he has visi
ted the “Land ofMidian,” the desolate
region on the eastern side of the Gulf of
Akabah, the easternmost of the two long
and narrow estuaries in which the Red
ends.
Accompanied by M. George Marie, a
French engineer, Capt. Burton landed
in Midiau on the 2d of April, and in an
exploration of some weeks explored a
region full of ruined towns, built of solid
masonry, with made roads, acqueducts
five miles long, artificial lakes and mas
sive fortresses, all making a wealthy and
powerful people. Their wealth was bas
ed on mining operations, and Capt. Bur
ton reports the existence of gold, silver,
tin, antimony and turquoise mines. The
auriferous region is extensive; indeed'
the discoverer believes he has opened up
a California, and the Khedive proposes
to have the country worked by European
capitalists.
It will be remembered that in the Bi
ble Midian is always described as a land
full of metals, especially of;gold, silver
and lead. It is more than probable that
Solomon’s Op’nir was situated there, as
the small ships in which he imported
gold, ivory and peacocks were launched
at the head of the Red Sea. Midian is
part of the Egyptian Viceroyalty.
The Deacon Answered.— Up in New
Hampshire, where I used to live when a
boy, (says Gov. Noyes) there was an old
deacon who was a great deal more pious
than honest He was an old hypocrite,
and when he had done any particularly
mean thing he eased his conscience by
going out into a field, along one side of
which was a stone wall, and kneeling
beside it prayed the Lord to topple it
over on him if he had done anything of
fensive to Him or wrong in His sight.
Well, we boys found it out, and one day
when we saw the deacon making for the
stone wall, we got on the other side and
waited. He knelt down according to his
usual custom, and went through his usu
al formula, closing with the petition to
have the wall toppled over if he had
done anything wrong. And we toppled
it. Jumping out from under the stones,
the old man cried, in tones of mingled
disgust and alarm. —
“ Good gracious, Lord ! Can’t you tell
when a man is joking?”
Volcano in Arizona,
THE RED RIVER SETTLERS.
A few days ago, says the Nashua Ga
zette, we gave an account of a party of
French citizens leaving this city for the
Red River country and Mootaban; and
now we give the sequel to the story as
related to us by those who have heard
from the party, and bv those who have
returned. It seems, that the agent re
turned to this city a few days ago and
visited the “ French Acre,” in ward six,
and met a with a warm reception from the
residents of the locality, who went for
him, and to save himself he “ footed it”
to Hollis, where he took the cars for
Worcester. So much for the ageDt.
The stories told were very fine on the
start, but it was found that nothing but
trouble was the lot of the party. Many
of them had no money, and but little to
eat when they left, and after that was
gone they went fearfully hungry. It is
said that the man, who accompanied
them in the car, had to hide himself to
save his life. After their provisions had
given out, they telegraphed ahead for a
butcher’s cart to be at some station, when
the train arrived, and the crowd would
rush out and take the meat from the
cart and eat it raw, so famished had
they become. Instead of finding teams
to carry them from one station to anoth
er, where a change of cars was made,
(as promised by the agent,) they were
obliged to get along as best they could
on foot. In fact, on the whole route to
that far-off country, the party had a hard
time, and when at last they did arrive,
they were dumped out on to a prairie
without anything to eat and not a stick
of timber within many miles, strangers
in a strange land, with no shelter. To
complete their troubles, the price of car
fare home again was increased by the
Railroad Company to such an enormous
price, that there was no chance for them
to get to Nashua. Two men travelled
two hundred and fifty miles on foot be
fore they could take a steamboat, and
they had to pay $52 apiece for tickets to
bring them home. Such, in fact, is the
story of those who left a good home and
families for a home they knew not where
in some far-off country; and now they
would he pleased to return, if possible.
SLOW BEE AIIORE.
The “slow fighter” was a tall, raw
boned specimen of the Pike County breed,
and when he arrived in the mining camp
the boys began to have fun with him—to
“ mill him,” as the call it in the parlance
of the mines.
Pie stood it fora longtime with perfect
equanimity, until finally one of the par
ty dared him out of doors to fight.
He went. When they got all ready
and squared off Pike County stretched
out his long neck and presented the tip
ofliis big nose temptingly close to his
tormentor : “ I’m a little slow,” he said,
“and can’t fight unless I’m well riled ;
just paste me one—a real good ’uu—
right on the end of that smeller !”
His request was complied with.
“ That was a good ’un,”he said calmly,
“but I don’t feel quite riled yit”—(turn
ing the side of his head to the adversary)
—“ please chug me another lively one
under the ear!”
The astonished adversary again com
plied, whereupon Pike County, remark
ing that he was “ not quite as well riled
as he would like to be, but would do the
best he could,” sailed into the crowd,and
for the next ten days the “ boys” were
engaged in mending broken jaws, re
pairing damaged eyes and tenderly res
urrecting smashed noses. —New Orleans
Demoaxit.
Strange Bird Story. —L. Page and
son, cutting wood near San Jose, noticed
that for several days that a number of
birds remaind constantly upon a tree
near them, some going and some coming
from time to time. Upon cutting down
the tree they discovered a limb with a
hollow cavity, some two feet in length
and three or four inches in diameter, in
which were two f ill grown birds of some
goodly sized species. There was a small
aperture through which the birds were
supplied with food from their mates.
The limb was cut and the birds liberated.
They were neither of them able to fly,
having evidently never been out of their
imprisonment. How they came inside
is a question. It is probable that the
mother bird was small, and though able
to make her nest in the hollow of the tree
and rear her young, could not extricate
them, and they did not gaiu strength
enough to themselves until the hol
low had so closed that escape was impos
sible. Those who examined the birds
think they are about two years old. They
have been fed from their birth by their
fellows through the aperaturein the limb
of the tree. A nobler instance of devo
tion even the human family never exhi
bited.—San Jose [Cal.) Mercury.
All the sons of the Czar are grand
dukes, and each daugeter a grand duch
ess. The children of the present Czar,
who is Alexander the 11, are Grand Duke
Alexander, heir apparent, born February
25, 1845 ; Grand Duke Vladimir, born
April 10, 1847 ; Grand Duke Alexis, born
January 2, 1850; Grand Duchess Marie,
born October 5, 1853 (married to the
Duke ofEdinburgh); Grand Duke Ser
gius, born April 29,1857 ; Grand Duke
Paul born September 21, 1860. All of
these dates are old style Russian, twelve
days earlier than our calendar. The
brothers and sisters of the present Em
peror have the same titles.
HOW TO PREPARE BOTANICAL
SPECIMENS.
Amateur botauists who propose roam
ing about the fields and forests this sum
mer in quest of specimens for their her
baria will be interested in the following
extract from the English Mechanic, giv
ing directions for the preservation of the
plants :
“ Small plants should have the roots ;
and, if possible, obtain a specimen of
each at different seasons—the young
plant, the flower, and when the seed or
fruit is nearly ripe. Get a quire of good
thick blotting paper and a couple of large
boards and paper on which to mount
your specimens. Let the boards be
about the same size as the blotting pa
per. Demy paper of good quality is the
best size for mounting. Arrange your
plants between the sheets of blotting pa
per—some plants require several thick
nesses—and see that the leaves, etc., are
properly disposed on the paper, as you
will not be able to altar them when they
are dry. It is a good plan to interpose a
few sheets of cardboard, as it prevents
one plant from spoiling another. When
your drying paper is filled, put the
whole between your boards and subject
to pressure; take them out every twenty
four hours, and dry the paper, correcting
any displacement as you go on ; when
dry they are ready for mounting. Don’t
gum or paste them to the paper, but
make short slits with a penknife under
the stalks about one-eighth inch long.
Take a piece of paper as broad as the
slit is long, fold the paper, and pass it
over the stalk and through the hole at
the back, and gum the ends on the back.
I have seen every (I think) method of
mounting, and this is certainly the neat
est and cleanest. After this they must
be painted with the following preserva
tive solution; Corrosive sublimate, twen
ty grains; camphor, twenty grains ; rec
tified spirits of wine, one ounce. This
is a deadly poison, and should be han
dled very cautiously. Each sheet should
have a neat label in the corner stating
date and place of collection, and name
of collector, also general habitant, speci
fic and generic names, with natural order,
etc. Without those particulars they
will (as a eiieet.io.) be- perfectiv value
less.”
A3*SI,ET HOI'SE.
The following most remarkable and
interesting particulars relating to the
Apsley House, once the residence of the
first Duke of Wellington, may not be
generally known.
King George 11., riding on horseback
one day in Hyde Park, met with an old
soldier, whom he recognized as having
fought under him at the battle of Dettin
gen, and fell into discourse with him.
The king finally asked him what he could
do for him.
“ Why, please your Majesty,” returned
the soldier, “ my mother keeps an apple
stall on the bit of waste ground as you
enter the park, and if your Majesty
would be pleased to make us a grant of
it, we might build a little shed, and im
prove our trade.”
The king complied with his request,and
a grant was given him. The shed was
erected. The situation was excellent, and
the business of the old woman became
brisk and prosperous. Their only son,
in course of time, was articled to an at
torney, and gave indications of making a
figure in his profession.
After some years, the old soldier being
dead, and the grant of the late king
being overlooked or forgotten, then the
Lord Chancellor, attracted by the eligi
bility of the situation, removed the shed
of the old woman, and laid out the ground
as the site of the present mansion.
Alarmed and terrified at this measure,
and not venturing to contend with such
high authority, she consulted with her
son (whose articles were now nearly ex
pired) as to the course she should take in
such extremity.
The soil calmed her fears in the best
manner be was able, and promised to
find her a remedy as soon as the structu re
should be completed.
This was no sooner done than he wait
ed upon his lordship, to request some
renumeration for what he alleged to be a
trespass on his mother’s rights.
The latter, as soon as he began to per
ceive the claim of the applicant was rea
sonably founded, tendered some hun
dreds as a compensation, which, under
the advice of her son, the old woman re
jected ; and, to make the story short,
upon the next interview, thesondeman
of his lordship four hundred pounds a
year as ground-rent—adding, that if he
did not like the terms, he was at liberty
to take his house away again, as his
mother did not want it. His lordship
acceded, and the house yields, to this
day, the above rent to the descendants of
an old apple-woman.
A MAN who had been acquitted of a
charge of robbing an express company
in Akron, 111., attended one of Moody’s
meetings in Chicago, became converted,
returned to Akron, and confessed his
guilt. The law does not allow anew
trial after an acquittal, but he was sen
tenced to three years imprisment for per
jury in swearing on the trial that he was
innocent.
Earthquakes, or volcanic eruptions,
occur on an average nearly three times a
week, in greater or less intensity, in some
parts of the globe.
VOL. Ill —NO. 38.
THE •• KEEPSAKE DRAWER."
I have just been taking a peep at ray
“ keepsake drawer.” What woman has
not such a treasure? Is there one to be
found who has not some secret place
wherein she keeps the cherished memen
toes of other days, trifling and valueless
in themselves, yet of untold value to the
possessor? I know you all have one,-and
as I looked over it, and recalled the his
tories connected with the donors, I
thought you would perchance like to
compare your treasures with mine.
Ah ! here is that dear old needle-book !
Old as it is and faded as are the colors
that once made it so handsome, it is as
dear to me as anything I love ; a dead
mother’s gift. Was I not a proud, happy
girl then? Only twelve years old. How
triumphantly 1 bore off the prize and de
posited it in my new work-box, and how
often for years afterward did I bestow
warm kisses on its now faded cover.
What is this, done up so carefully? 1
unrolled the tissue paper and the tiny
bells from a child’s rattle fell in un
hand. Ah! the tears will come and
blind my eyes as I recall the time when
I took them from the plump, rosy finger
which were scattering them on tlie floor
in high glee and laid them in here! How
wonderingly those large blue eyes gazed
in mv face as I strove to impress on that
infant mind the naughtiness of a “ little
hoy who broke his playthings.” Years
have come and gone since we laid him to
sleep in the village graveyard ; and the
yearning of a mother’s heat t for the lost
is not quiet yet.
Another, bearing his name, is standing
by my side, his lips quivering with emo
tion, his little hands put up to draw mv
face down to his that he may kiss away
the tears, whispering; “ I do love mam
ma; don’t cry, mamma.” And as I
turned to comfort the sweet little conso
ler, the voice, the eyes, the very dress he
wears reminds me of the sweet cherub
in heaven, and although I love this little
prattler—how dearly God only knows—
he can never, never fill that void in my
heart; it will ever be sacred to the mem
ory of him, the first cherished pledge oi
love.
Here is a little white paste- board box.
I take off the cover. A few dead flowers
and a dark chestnut curl are there.
Handle it reverent, for the fair brow
over which it once waved lies far away
toward the setting sun ; there be went to
“ gain wealth and happiness for me.”
Ah,dear! I thought all gladness had
gone out of my life when I bid him dial
last farewell. First love! First love,
how rarely are thy imaginations ever re
alized.
Let us examine this little parcel, tied
so daintily witii a blue ribbon. Ah ! Let
ters! Yes old, love-letters; sweet mes
sengers that once brought light into my
eyes and soul and now are treasured for
the dear, bygone days !
An old valentine, yellow and torn, its
poor Cupid turned upside down ; never
mind ;it will beep as well thus—a broken
ring—an invitation to a picnic; 18—;
how long ago!
Here is a rose—the flower bestowed on
me with the first betrothal kiss—this is
not the first time that you have been
taken from your resting-place; and how
many little tales could you tell did you
but know how to speak. I doubt if he
would not be jealous of the kisses I have
given you. And this tiny thimble—a rec
onciler after the first little quarrel—one
solitary gray hair stolen from his brown
curls on his thirtieth birthday, and a
little note of apology for his abseence
from dinner during the first year of our
married life. Oh! ail the tears you
have cost me? Yet I will kiss you still.
1 never knew how much I loved until
that day. This is the most cherished
memento of the past !
And now my drawer is empty; and
though the reminiscences may have been
as uninteresting and wearisome to you
as they have been pleasant, though sadly
so, to me, yet not for the all the gold my
hands could hold, would I exchange the
contents of my “ keepsake drawer.”
Ax Example for Boys.— A Yew
Orleans paper tells us of a printer who,
when his follow-workmen went out to
drink beer, put in the bank the extra
amount he would have spent if he had
gone out with them to drink.
He did this for five years.
He then looked at his bank account,
and found that he had laid up five hun
dred and twenty-one dollars and eighty
six cent.
In five years he had not lost a day be
cause of sickness. Three out of five of
bis fellow-workmen had, in the mean
time, become drunkards.
The water drinker then bought out the
printing office ; and in twenty years from
the time that he began to put by his
money he had laid aside a good many
thousand dollars. This story teaches a
lesson which every littie boy should lay
to heart.
The town authorities of Windsor
Locks, Conn., having recently offered a
reward of one dollar each for dead dogs,
a fine animal of the Newfoundland spe
cies, that had but lately saved two child
ren from drowning, was one of the first
victims.
Elder Johnson, an Advent preacher
in Cumberland county, Tenn., married on
Monday and eioned with his wife’s nelce
on Tuesday.
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A WEI.E-.UAX.I6EO SWINDLE.
Acsterday a man clad in the garb-and!
having the general style of the frontiers
man called at Mr. EppsteifTs pawnbrok
er soffice,on thecorner of Woodward and*
Jefievson avenues, and said he would like
to make a dicker.
*’ \\ ell, sir, what can I do for you ?” tn 1 -
quired the urbane attendant.
”I ve got some gold here,’ said the
stranger. “ I'm hard up, and want to
raise some money on this ’are pile.”
He took from an inner breast-pocket a
small pasteboard box, carefully lifted l
the cover off and disclosed to the pawn
broker a handful of gold nuggets.
“ Where did you get that?” inquired:
the pawnbroker.
“ Dug ’or myself,” was the reply.
“ How much do you want for it?”
‘‘Oh!’’ returned the miner, “ I don’t
want to sell it, oaly want to make a tem
porary raise. I guess $15(1 will see me
through for a few days and when I git
home I’ll send for it.”
1 be- pawnbroker tested one of the nug
gets, found it twenty-one carrat gold, and
after weighing it and finding the pile
worth $175, lie otfered to advance SIC(V
on it.
1 wont do, mister,” said the visitor;.
“ I must haveslso or nothing.”
“One hundred dollars is all I can lend
you on it,’ replied the pawnbroker,
handing back the box and its precious
contents.
The owner replaced the cover and his
treasure back into his pocket and started
toward the door. At the threshold he
halted, appeared to be debating with'
himself for a moment and at length,
turned again to the pawnbroker.
“ Well,” said he with a careless air;
“take it and give me the SIOO. I’ll
make that do.” With that he handed out
the box once more, received a ticket and
SIOO in cash and disappeared.
An hour later Mr. Eppstein thought
be would have a look at his gold, and
took it out oi the sate. To make assur
ance double sure be again tested it.
The first nugget proved to be silver, very
neatly gilded. Another and another
were examined in like manner until the
whole had been gone through, and every
nugget was found to be of the same
character, the whole being worth a frac
tion over $4.
The trick was now transparent. The
prentended miner was in reality a very
clever swindler, who had two boxes, one
containing the pure gold and the other
gilded silver, which he exchanged at the
time he pretended to decline the offer of
SIOO. He made his escape, and Mr.
Eppstein philosophically pocketed his
loss of $96.
A New York Clergyman ix the
Desert.— The Rev. Dr. Sehaff, of N\v
Y'ork, is traveling in the Syrian De e t,
writes as follows, under the date of
March 30:
“The trip through the desert nearly
killed ine. We were not allowed to go
to Hebron on account of war among the
Bedouins, and had to turn to Gaza. We
went from there to Hebron. At the
Mosque where the patriarchs lie buried,
in the Cave of Machpelah, which no one
is permitted to enter, we were near y
mobbed by the fanatical Moslems. But’
the Governor of the place, being inform
ed, sent us a military guard, and put into
prison the fanatic who struck me with
his fist. A report having reached hero
that we had been killed or captured bv
the Bedouins, ten soldiers were sent alter
us to Hebron.”
A Yankee Obituary.— The follow
ing obituary notice was sent for insjrti >n
in a Yankee journal:
“ Mister Edatur: Jem Bangs, wee air
sorry to stait, has deseized. He and pa t
ed this Life last mundavatthe age of 23.
He went 4th without any strugle, and
aich is life. Tu Da we are as pepper
grass, mighty smart, To Morrow we air
cut doun like a cowcumber of tbe grownd.
Jem kep a nisestuar, which his wife now
wates on. His verchirs wuz knumerus
to bihold. We never new him ter put
sand in his shuger, tbohe had a big sand
bar in front ov his howse; nur watur in
his milk, tho the Ohia river run ; past his
dow. Pease to his remanes ! He leaves
a wife, 8 chilun, a cow 4 horses, and qu d
rupets to morns his loss; but i.i tl.e
splendid laugwidge of the poit, his loss
is thur eturnul gane.”
The first and only railway in China,
the line from Shanghai to Woosun i
recently built by English capitalists,
turns out to be a great success. There is
a regular traffic, and a rush for the cars
at the stations. The nimble natives are
particularly expert at getting inside the
cars. The Chinese themselves have now
undertaken a iine to run from Woo3ung
to Soocho v, and English capitalists are
not indisposed to advance the funds ou
an enterprise which promises to pay.
The railway having thus become incor
porated with the new policy of the most
conservative nation of the world, it is
estimated that before many years Eng
lish and American engineers, contractors,
and builders will be having something
to do with the vast interior of the Cninese
Empire.
A BOY" in Salem, Mass, diet! last week
from lockjaw, resulting from tl*e filling
of a tooth.
Ax acrobatic Frenchman walks 00-thf:
ceiling with his head, down— lihe C?ss.