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A MAP, OF BfcSSY LIFE.
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Lear ling to Walk
Only bn.'inninj; tlif j t ' llrnr X I
Many a mil.’ K>f°i
(a.I h,,»' H'ey P»H« r . r I
Wan.lcring to and Wo
rrying ag-’in s " ' ,r * v *' 7 ’
l.-ugliing in It-* 1 ’?' »* cC l
Hiding H» in .uolheP.Up,
Jokes for the Jolly.
i bal'J
i bo.
failsi n ~th* ol ' u “ sl ^ngaago
j.; vr r before was hea d ;
, i in ill r—you’d hardly think i
f «darslands every word.
Don’t Slam the Gate.
Vo* «"h >r’io, pray, don’t laugh at me;
jtui when you go out late,
I with you w .uM be careful, dear,
To never alain thm >£ite.
IT' 1 '' "
Kut Annie listen* every night,‘
And so docs teasing Kate,
Ti* oil me next day, what o'clock
Tuey he «r«l you slant the gute.
For all the neighbor* hearing it
Will say (iur future late
We’ve IfCt-n discussing—so I beg
Vou will not slant the gale.
For though it may he very true,
1 Whli that they would wait
To canvas our affairs until
Well—pray don’t slain the gate.
At least, not now ; but by-and-by,
When in “our ho: a«j” I wait
Your coming, 1 .shall always like
To bear you slant the gate.
,r whether you go out or in,
At early hour or late,
in* whole world will not tease me then,
About that horrid gale !
A Song for the Times.
II i> I.VII.T to Grin Ihua to Growl.
bet hard times assail us,
bet poverty nail us
Like mystical horse-shoes to every old wall;
bet deep tribulation
Ami fierce desolation
.read • ver all lands like a funeral pall ;
Though empty our purses,
l hmtgli creditors curse us,
it-1 >|u trier* arc squeezed 'till the eagles all howl,
bet's hare merry feces
And smiles for all places,
U«*>ueit)<M*ring ’tis better to grin titan to growl.
What though the lianks are breaking
And “big house-*” quaking,
-i -».ie lay undo all they ever have done:
oar crossness can’t mend it,
Mar weepings won’t end it,
,i> n •! take t.»e right aide and call it all fun ?
Will forfeited pleasures
Or intbejalc measures
utg hack our lost coitfi lenco, lift the «lark cowl ?
No, no ; to-day's sorrow
brings no brighter morrow :
io n tniugs will go Itad let oagrin and not growl.
Uut lei us keep thinking.
That thougu we are sinking,
i* an t go much further, because it won’t pay ;
The old saw not forgetting,
Tnai’s cured lots of fretting.
Toe l»our i> the darkest just before day.”
Though vacant our purses,
Though creditors curse us,
id quarters are squeezed till the eagles all liowl,
Lot’s k op merry faces.
And -miles lor all places,
j.irely i- i he t r to grin man to growl.
Osceola’s Grave.—A merry
j' irty picnicking on the island one
lay, wandering around the walls
f Fort Moultrie, were suddenly
hushed in their "lee as they came
upon a lowly grave, covered with
tint white stone hearing simply
die name " Osceola.” The young
nv-i reverently uncovered thcni-
> and the maidens gently
[ilwcl (lowers on the mound,
while wit \ dimmed eyes and low
'"!<• s -.hey told over the story of
tlie euninred chieftain. How,
niidd ud with gri -f and rage
at a cru-d w • n ■ done to him, e
had threatened vengeance, and
" is sirzed by order of the United
>t ites officer and imprisoned for
six dais; how in desperation lie
had killed hi.- oppressor and then
ad d an atta.-k .nraiust the whit
a ; low for niuia than a year he
'ondaiicd tile unequal struggle
•'iih s perhiiiii’ energy and skill,
1 1 at last, wh ie In ldingnconfer-
en ■ ’ui 'e a flag of truce, trusi-
ia;r to th • honor of his foe, he
" as treacherously siezed and car-
ri d in chains to Fort Moultrie,
where he languished and died a
captive. Was it reserved for the
Modoc chief in 18711 to ho the
revenger of the treachery shown
ihe Seminole brave in lt<38?
"The mills of the gods grind
slowly, but they grind exceeding
small.”.—Hearth$a*& Home.
'nit
,* --- '•—
L>ss of a -(Continent.—Plato
s ‘‘iit down to posterity a tradition
“f his day that a great continent
"huh occupied the space now
''"'•red by the Atlantic ocean
"uVWnl v sank down out of sight
.«* further says that it was an
; uul called Atlantis. On it were
n m ''",'us and organized govern-
,. UMlI V "'ealth, arts, and civiliza-
I, 0 ."’ ms, iMitly lost to human sight.
: '* u "' v opinion of the lead-
"‘ogist—those mostadvauc-
i-i i.t; R K ‘ ,,c< '—biat the American
‘‘‘PPeared when the At-
. " , ' l c s r us!ied into the enor-
- < ,u lf y or df’pression on the
. , 1 * M,, duce now tilled by salt
' er ‘ Koekv Mountains
Ihen the ron
which
—Domestic broils make poor dinners.
---The best iron tonics for fashiona
ble ladies—the flat iron.
—What cups is a man pretty sure of
after cups of liquor? Hiccups.
—The right man in the right place—
A husband at home in the evening.
—“ Woman ! If we had her for a
toast, we won’task for any but-her 1”
—Stokes’ sftng in the Tombs—“ It
may lie four years, and it may be for
ever 1" - ; i 11 ‘
- —A good motto for the'door of a
foundling asylum: “Thus far—and
no fath*q., . . ;
—Somebody asks, “ WhJ does not
God kill the devil? We are free to
admit that we do not know.
— A man in the up-country has been
so frightened with a mad dog that he
is afraid of the hark of a tree.
—“ Husband, where shall I get the
ticking for our new feather bed?” “At
any place you can get the tick.”
—An Irishman, trying to put out a
ga -light with his fingers, cried out:
“ Och, murther! ther’s niver a wick
in it!”
—Many homes would lie happier if
men met their wives with “ smiles”
in their eyes, instead of in their
stomachs.
—We know a boy who said that he
liked “a good rainy day—too rainy to
go to school, an just rainy enough to
go fishing.”
—“Maria, have you given the fish
es any fresh water ? “ No, sir ; what’s
the use? They havn’t drank up what’s
in there yet.”
—“I could a tail unfold.” Could
you ? Then lose not a moment, but go
instantly to Mr. Darwin. He will be
delighted to-seeyou.
—What did Adam and Eve do
when they were turned out of Para
dise? They raised Cain! When they
got AM, they stopped this business.
—The gentleman who “fired at
random” did not hit it; and, in dis
gust, lent his rifle to the youth who
determined to “ aim at immortality.”
—“ 1 sa_\, ToiB, did you ever hap
pen to he caught wh re it was raining
fitehforks?” “No, hut I’ve often
been caught where hailing omnibu.-e
was ail tlie go.”
-—A Claiksvillian astounded a gro
cer by entering his store with this re
quest: “ My Groves, would you lind
me an empty barrel of flour to make a
hen-coop for mv dog?”
—A worthy old farmer, who was
worried in his cross-examination by a
lawyer in Maine, exclaimed: “Look
fere, Squir, don’t you ask a good
many f *ii-hquestions?”
—A fop just returned to Ei gland
from a continental tour, was as ken how-
lie liked the ruins of Pompeii. “ Not
very well,” was the reply; “they are
so dreadfully out of repair.”
—Joe Smithson, up in Banks coun
ty. is a believer in the maxim t bat
“ practice makes perfect.” His twen
ty-second haby took the first premium
at th • Greene County Fair.”
—“John,” saida doting parent to
tier rather insatiable boy, “can you eat
that puddii) 1 ' with impunity?”
on’t know,” replied young ’
•• but I guess 1 can with a spoon
—The Dos Moines Quartette were
mewhat startled tlie other evening by
tindiiur that the selection, “ When
wearied wretches sink to sleep,” had
been printed on their programmes,
“ When married wretches, etc.”
—An At liens negro told a doctor that
the reason he had not paid his bill was
because he had to huv an “italic” cof
fin oi Mr. Wood for his haby, and it
d been so expensive that he couldn’t
ink "uh do luxury ob dc medicine
,!»*, Washington.
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Ex-Prcsldent Johnson Replies to the
Attacks of Judge Holt.
Waskin«rtqn Qkrpnide in re^
that of Jndge Holt, pnWishc
h bottom of an
,.v , — v* rose with marine
of -.! '' S it ! ls an, l other products
or >gin. that are found
fa t n'* ' strewed there, and in
a’ a ovor korth and South
the Tl' Ucruna »ts of Atlantis.
beli..v l 7V Urgt, d continent, are
reeownf j ?° me scientists to be
the tv hit ^ \r U tlie Adirondacks,
longing to hi th° U k ° PP J ng8 bo_
that ,? , other boundaries of
. “ntrt g n'i fon T “
What 2; ^! lere 18 nt > knowing
r >et bTm n U ri nd - lng dla . covcri es may
yci dc made m coming ages cor-
rohorative ” Plato’s nar^tive
— .V Milwaukee servant girl has
ah onioned tier place because for six
\h:>!e weeks she never went to but
t!ir<e circuses, four prayer-meetings,
even picnics and two steamboat ex-
i-ursi'ins. Slie said «be wants to have
li tie lime to herself.
—“ Mv dear friend,” said a geutle-
inn to a bankrupt the other day,
• I am sorrv to hear of your misfortune.
Your family have my warmest
-sympathies.” “ Oh, don’t trouble
vourself about my family, I looked out
• •r them, you bet! Just save vour
mpathies for tbe families of* my
creditors. ”
— The mihle editor of the Kokomo
'n iiana) Trih„ne has ad:ipt<-d his
••mis to the ino.-sure. He takes rab-
bits, squirrels, ducks, etc., on subscrip
ts ns, advertises merchants in exchange
for dry goods boxes, and then barbe
cues his game hy a roaring fire made of
the boxes, in order to entertain his
-taff. compositors, and the public
cenerally.
-A Connecticut genius is said to
:avo found his way to Paris, with a
patent reaJv made hilly and bul'et
■r i. -el(Erecting street barricade,
•iirown up in two minutes by the most
mniilitary reformer, and, hy- touching
a spring, will fly any flag—Bourbon.
Orleans, red or tri-odor—and play
unes all the way from Marseilles to
■'yria.
—A eelebiated dandy was in com-
l any with a young lady, and observing
her kiss lit r favorite poodle, lie ad
vanced, and begged the like favor, re
marking that she ought to have as
much charity for him as she had
shown to a dog. “Sir,’’said the belle,
I never kissed my dog when he was
a puppy.” ( The fellow took the hint
and left iustaiitef.
—A man in Eldora, Iowa, married
igain the week after hjs wife’s death,
and his neighbors gave him a deafen
ing • har ivari. The bridegroom finally
app-ared at a window, aud adminis-
tcied a sc uhing rebuke to the crowd,
in this manner; “Aiu’tyou ashamed
of yourself to be making a noise about
my house, when a funeral took place
here but four dayB ago ?”
Washington, November 11.
Ex-President Johnson has* ad
dressed a communication to the
o
led in
the same paper in August last, on
the subject ^of the execution of
Mrs. Surratt as one of the assas
sins of President Liuc-oln. After
reviewing the evidence adduced
by-Judge IloltpJohnson says, iu
his search for testimony, Holt
succeeded itf'discovering only 6he
witness who said he saw the re
cord of the case, with the petition
attached, in the President’s office.
This witness is lion. James
Speed, then Attorney General,
who is undoubtedly mistaken iu
his statements, for, as is already
shown, the findings aud sentences
of the court were submitted on
the 5th of July, lie and I being
alone, w r ere then and there handed
to the Executive, and taken by
the .Judge Advocate General to
the War Department, where, on
the same afternoon, the order to
carry them into effect was issued.
Mr. Speed doubtless saw the re
cord, hut it must have been in the
Department of War, and not in
the Executive oliicc. The record
of the court was submitted to me
hy Judge Holt in the afternoon
of the 5th day of May, 18(55. In
stead of entering the Executive
oliicc, the examination of the
papers took place in the library,
and he and I were alone present.
The sentences of tlie court in the
cases of Harold, Atzerott aud
Payne were considered in the or-
dev named, and then the sentence
in the case of Mrs. Surratt. In
acting upon her case, no recom
mendation for a commutation of
her punishment was mentioned oV
submitted to me, hut the question
of her sex, which has already been
adverted to and discussed hy the
newspaper columns, presented
itself, and was commented upon
both by Judge Holt and myself.
With peculiar force and solemnity,
he urged the fact that though the
criminal was a woman, it was
itself no excuse or palliation. That
when a woman unsexed herself
and entered the arena of crime, it
was rather an aggravation than a
mitigation of the offence.
That the law was not made to
punish men only, lint all, without
regard to sex, who violated its
provisions. That to discriminate
in favor of Mrs. Surratt and
against Harold, Atzerott and
Payne, who were sentenced hy
the same court and at that time to
suffer the penalty of death, would
bo to offer a premium to the fe
male sex*to cngiige in crime aud
“ I I bribe the principal actors in its
hope ul, commission. That since the re
bellion began, in some portions of
the country, females had been
prominent in aiding and abetting
traitors, and he thought the time
had come when it was absolutely
necessary, in a case so clearly and
conclusively established, to set an
example which would have a salu
tary influence. He was not only
in favor of the approval of the
sentence, but its execution at the
earliest practicable day.
Upon tlie termination of our
consultation, Judge Holt wrote
the order approving the sentence
of the court, and I affixed my
namo to it, and rolling up the pa
per, he took his leave, carrying
the record with him, and depart
ing as he came, through the fami
ly or private entrance.
From the above statement, it
will be noted that the papers were
not submitted in the usual way
by the Secretary of War, but
were brought to the President by
the Judge Advocate General, tui
der, of course, the instructions of
Mr. Stanton. This, doubtless,
was done to save time and hasten
tlie execution, and evinces the
spirit which animated Judge Holt.
During the entire proceedings,
who can doubt that if his name
and that of Judge Bingham had
been attached to the petition,
signed hy five members of the
court, and the prayev had been
brought to the attention of the
President, such au application
would have been duly weighed hy
the Executive before final action
i the premises.
Mr. Johnson says,in conclusion,
it being absolutely certain if the
petition was attached to the origi
nal record before it was submitted
to the President, it is not to be
found in the printed record author
ized by Judge Holt and certified
to hy Col. Burnett, Special Judge
Advocate of the Commission.
The question arises which of
the two is authentic and genuine
If the i ecord in possession of the
Judge Advocate General is true,
then that is false which he has
given to.the public. If, on the
other hand, the record published
with his official sanction is true
then that in his bureau is false,
necessarily.
Judge Holt is at liberty to ac
cept either alternative, and to es
cape as Be may fhe Jirtivftlitffe con- 1
elusion that he did not only’fail to
submit £be* petition to tlie Presi- The
dent, hut suppressed aud with
held it from- tfio pfficial history of
the most important trial in the an
nals of the Nation.
The Curse of Drink.
The appetite for strong' drink
in man has spoiled the life of more
women—ruined more hopes for
them, scattered more fortunes
for them, brought them to more
sorrow, shame and hardship than
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cast ol the Counlhah of
the Marquesas Islands.
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Wo a£e indebted, says a San
Fraucisco paper, to Captain Hodg-
kins .for.|y following particulars
of the cauifl aud result of this bel-
ligcrcnt Jnovement of the Bruat
agniust the Cannibals of the Island
of Dominique :
. SliortlyoY before the arrival of
Captain Hfcdgkins an incident oc
curred on the island peculiar to
the natives* and • hot uncommon,
although seldom occurring open-
any other eyH that lives: . The
country numbers"tens—fiSV/lnlTiM ,. _
dreds of thousands—of women! H^kmd of AS Crawford & Co., an
who are widows to-day, and sit Captain Rickie, who trades among
in hopeless weeds, because their
husbands have been slain hy strong
drink. There are hundreds of
homes scattered over the land, in
which women live lives of torture,
going through till the changes of
suffering that lies between the ex
tremes of fear and despair, because
those whom they love, love wine
better than the}’ do the women they
have sworn to love. There are
women hy thousands who dread to
hear the step that once thrilled
them with pleasure, because that
step has learned to reel under the
influence of the seductive poison.
There are women groaning with
pain while wc xvrite these words,
from bruises and brutalities in
flicted by husbands made mad hy
drink. There can lie no exagger
ation in any statement in regard
to this matter, because no human’s
imagination can create anything
worse than the truth. The sor-
the Marqu?sas group, gave to Cap
tain Hodgkins the details of the
Cannibal incident. Captain Hart,
an American, has a large plantation
on the Island of Dominique, on
which he employs Chinamen and
natives to raise cotton. There are
two or three tribes of natives on
the island, who at this time are
on unfriendly relations with each
other. One wears the emblem of
revenge, sweet and unadulterated.
When a tribe proposes to go on
the war-path, and have the liver
and lights of their fellow-country
men for food, the members of
said tribe let the hair on one side
ot the head grow long, and keep
the other side closely clipped.
When the hair has grown to fight
ing length, war and man-eating
begin. Shortly before the visit
of the French corvette, one of the
tribes wore the hair in ^fighting,
revengeful, man-eating fashion
row’s of a wife with a drunken bus- j liat ives employed by Captain
band, or a mother with a drunken i Hart were not ot that tribe, hut it
was against them that this spirit
husband, or a mother with a
drunken son, are as near the reali
zation of hell as can he reached in
this world at least. The shame,
the indignation, the sorrow, and
the sense of disgrace for herself
and children, the poverty, and not
infrequently the beggary—the fear
and the fact of violence, the ling
ering, life-long struggle and des
pair of countless women, with
drunken husbands, are enough to
make all women curse wine, and
engage unitedly to oppose it
111 everywhere as the worst enemy of
their sex.
Noah’s Ante.—A scientific wri
ter gives it as liis opinion, found
ed on certain Biblical facts, tiiat
the ark was smaller than the Great
Eastern. It had three decks, and
was divided into numerous com
partments by longitudinal and
transverse bulkheads, for the safe
ty and order of its occupants. It
was built of gopher wood, a species
of evergreen timber resembling
the pine in length and strength of
trunk, and the white cedar in
lightness. In model, it was all
that a great carrier could be, chest
like, with lines straight and angles
square, hut tlie bottom and top
were elliptical in outline, present
ing convexity to the, earth and
sky. After giving the dimensions
ind the model of construction of
tlie several parts, this authority
tells us, as if he were equally cer
tain on this point, that the ark ''is
now in a good state of preservat
tion, but lying under an eternal
mantle of snow, hundreds of feet
deep, at an altitude of seventeen
thousand five hundred feet above
the level of the sea. Ever since
the flood dried up, the climate of
Armenia has been colder,, and
snow r always covers the top of
Ararat, rendering it impossible for
any of Noah’s descendants to go
up and find the ark.
A little boy in the Bishop Scott
Grammar School at Portland,
Oregon, has composed the follow-
ng essay on " Oxen” Oxen is
a very slow animal. They are
very good to break up the ground.
I would rather have horses if they
didn’t have colic, which they say
is wind collected in a hunch which
makes it dangerser to keep
horses than oxen. If thex-c were
no horses people would have to
wheel their wood on a wheel-bar
row. It would take them two or
three days to wheel a cord a mile.
Cows are useful too. I heard some
people say that if they had to be
a ox or a cow they wood sooner
he a cow, but I think when it come
to be milked on a cold winter
morning I think they would sooner
be oxen, for a oxen don’t huve
to raise calves. If I had to be a
ox or a cow I wood be a heffer,
but if I could not he a heffer and
had to be both I would be a ox.
A gentleman, last Saturday,
carried his wife, children and
mother-in-law to* Lent’s circus
While viewing the cage of ani
mals known as the " happy family,”
containing monkeys, cats, dogs
and coons, the old lady exclaimed,
" Oh 1 isn’t it strange that they
should live so happihr and peace
fully together?” The affectionate
son-in-law replied, ** Not at all
they have no mother-in-law living
with them.” There was a savage
look/ and then the qualities of the
elephant was next discussed
Rome Commercial.
of revenge had been nursed, and
war was to he made. One of the
belligerent tribe, by an indiscicet
haste to satiate his appetite with
a steak cut off a victim, precipi
tated the unequal contest between
his tribe and tlie French. He
visited Captain Hart's plantation,
and took with him a heavy hatch
et, which he asked, one of the
plantation hands, a native, to
sharpen. He took the hatchet,
reduced it to a keen edge, and
handed, it, hack to the warlike
camribah*^The latter said: “Is
this well done ?” The former
mswered, "It is.” Scarcely had
the last word been spoken when
tlie cannibal raised the hatchet,
whirled it in the air, and, aiming
i blow at him who sharpened it,
struck him on the neck and almost
severed his head from his body.
Another (stroke of the hatchet aud
the prostrate cannibal was in con
dition to be cooked, His wife
was then assaulted and murdered,
vnd the Cannibal buried bis vic
tims "to keep for future use.”
After - the lapse of two or three
days the wily savage returned,
took up his victims aud carried
them to a convenient valley, roast
ed them, and, assisted hy others
of the tribe, devoured them with
revengeful relish. Captain Hart
reported,the matter to the French
officiate on the island, who im
mediately informed the officers of
the Government at Tahiti. The
corvette Bruat was at once dis
patched to punish the natives for
this fresh outburst of cannibalism.
It arrived before the Maggie John
son, and for seven days an in
cessant lire was kept up on-the
island. The tribe flew first to the
hills, supposing they could uot lie awe *
reached there, but they were soon more
disabused of this idea. They
abandoned their favorite positions
and took to the valleys; but they
were no safer. Shot and shell fol-.
lowed them everywhere, and they i rertiser.
were finally compelled to surren- '
der. It is not know’—was not
when the Maggie Johnson left—
how many of the man-eaters, if
any, we'rfe killcd or wounded; hut
as wounded means killed—because
unable to protect themselves they
will certainly he killed and de
voured—this general term will
answer for both. The Marquesas
Islands belong to the French, and
this disposition to punish native
treachery will protect those who
settle on them. There are six
prominent islands of the group
which arc visited by merchant’s
vessels. They contain a popula
tion of about 10,000. The smaller
ones are seldom visited, and but
little is known of them. The na
tives are cannibals, and although
there are Catholic and Protestant
missions established on the larger
islands, there are but very few
converts to Christianity. The
natives love the Christian cere
monies, which they call himiui,
from the fact that they are so
much made up of music, vocal an
instrumental. They crowd to
church, hut as cannibals, and they
are more interested, while in at
tendance, in-thte portly propor
tions of the priest or minister, and
in discussing the virtues of a
steak cut from either, than in
Christian doctrines. The chief
missionary of the Catholic church
is a fat,' portly, healthy man of
about fifty summers. He is very-
much loved by the natives,
i They crowd to his church in
large numbers; they sing - and. A Boy Bat-Eater,
pray,And after service they talk] . ~—~
to the good old man, feel his arms i There lives in this city a boy—a
and pronounoe him good to cat. c kild four years of age—whose
They join in a general " Hula-1 for the abhorreuthas become
lula”—a most immoral dance—) so disgustiug as to make even his
after service, and consult almut. presence among his playmates the
capturing, killing and devouring i s ^c na ^ f° r a nauseous revulsion of
the fat dominie as a kind of ad-' deling; at least among the more
denda to Christian ceremonies, i tMicate, In a word, he has be
lt is said that this priest Would', ? om ? a veritable rat-eater, and, it
have afforded sweet and nourish- j ^ relishes his disgustiugfood.
ing food for the cannibals, only , 3 .an instance of the manner in
that they are afraid of the terrible j w hich he deals with the loathsome
punishment which would bo cer-! creatures, it is related by eye-
tain to follow such an act. But • Witnesses that yesterday afternoon
when they talk of the excellent' a grocer of the corner of Mason
honfllffdnr’lfbr killing, of the }•*»»«.
priest, their thirst for human flesh, cou ple of large, grey, ferocious,
becomes so desperate that it must niangy rats, whose very appear-
be satisfied hy one of their own a .nce would sicken a Scotch terrier,
people. Only a short time before j grocer took the rats to the
the visit of the French corvette,! s * rc . e * * u have them killed hy dogs,
thirty natives were devoured at a, Seeing the approaching exeite-
grand. barbecue, and the opinion j men U a crowd of urchins gather-
of forcigncVs who have lived on the ! 83 usual on such occasions,
islands is that the natives are as j aud among them was the little
much cannibals to-day as they ! four-year-old fellow in question,
ever were. When they cannot j H*s lips quivered aud his mouth
get human flesh they substitute j began to moisten as ho saw the
hogs ; hut they call this meat a j y crmin about t o he offered to yelp-
very poor substitute indeed. They j ^ n g cur3. His little comrades heg-
are cooked thus : A hole is dug in * ^ ie eaptor to give them one
the earth and lined around with ^ 10 ru * s h»r their friend, aud
red-hot stones. The liog is
rolled up in banana leaves, laid on
the Stones, covered with more hot
rocks, and finally with earth. Here i f‘ lc storekeeper gave up one, and
it remains until cooked. Captain ! ** ' Vils immediately taken trom the
Hodgkins says they cook well, i by the unnatural hoy, seized
man or hog. Tlie women of the
thej r would have more fun than if
the dogs got them both. Curious w
and anxious tiq know the result, j o’clock in the forenoon, meet a few
benevolent gentlemen at the side
LA Singular Case.
Several kind-hearted gentlemen
of this city, says the New Haven
Palladium, are at present wear
ing upon their naked arms a device
of a singular description. Our
readers have not forgotten the
terrible accident which occurred
four or five weeks ago at the shirt
factory of C. C. Darics & Co., in
Court street, hy which a woman
had the entire scalp aud a part of
one car toru from her .head by an
entanglement of her hair with some
machinery. Though a great suf
ferer, it Is possible that the life of
this industrious and unfortunate
woman fiiay be safe3, prokidiens
sufficient number of persons pre
sent'themselves at tlie bedside, in
company with the surgeons who
have charge of the case, and con
sent to the removal of a little bit
of their cuticle for transference to
the skull of the patient. The
surgeons are hopeful of saving the
woman’s life, hut they do not have .
as many generous offerings of cuti
cle as are desired. A number of
transferences arc doing well, the
new skin taking on a healthy edge.
The operation of giving in this
singular sort of charity is exceed
ingly simple and almost without
pain. The surgeons, at nine
islands are as savage and as far
removed from civilization as their
lordly cannibal masters, hy wlionl
they arc by turns respected and
despised. They are excellent
swimmers from the fact that
through some supeqjgitious notion
the men will not allow them to go
into their boats. They will tow
them through the water if neces
sary, but into a boat they can
not go.
A Paris Sensation.
One of the sensations in Paris
just now is an Eastern juggler,
who, with the assistance of a
beautiful young lady, furnishes his
audience with a very wonderful
illusion. Tin* young lady, attired
in a rich dress with flowing sleeves,
stands on a dais resting on a broad
square of Turkish carpet. Two
supports ax-e placed under her
elbows, and the magician makes a
series of strange passes over her
with liis wand, when she gradu
ally closes her eyes and apparent
ly falls asleep. Then the dais and
one of the elbows supports' are
removed, and the lithe and spiritu-
elle figures is seen suspended in
mid air.
Capriciously still.
Like the lone albatroes incumbent on night.
She docs not remain stiffly
poised in one position, hut the
juggler gives her body the most
graceful and poetical attitudes,
culminating at the close with the
striking representation of an angel
in flight. Great white wings arc
fixed to her shoulders, a golden
trumpet is placed in her right
hand, the lights in the theatre are
turned low, a halo of pale gold
streams upon the fair girl, and as
the spectators gaze upon her glori
fied face a breathless silence falls
upon them, and they watch the
beautiful picture as it lades away
with an emotion that is akin to
This illusion seems rather
marvelous than auything
shown us by Prof. Frikell, and wc
hope that some enterprising entre
preneur will induce the juggler ro
visit this countrv.—Boston Ad-
around the body hy the hand,
while the other held fast to the
back of the head, to prevent the
animal from biting. Thus having
secured his prey, the young mon
ster sank his teeth in the neck,
and gnawed away at the tough,
fibrous liesh with as much apparent
gusto, as though tearing open an
orange. lie thus continued until
he had literally eaten off the lat’s
head. Nor did it take him long,
for scarce had the disgust of the
spectators seized them than the
hoy held in one hand the bleeding
carcass, and the other tlie mangled
head, ami there held them as he
stood gazing and laughing at those
whose stomachs had turned during
the process. It is hard to say
how much further the youth would
have gone—-perhaps eaten, the
misavoryTTeslU—fcuhiat Old-drones'
dispersed the crowd aud driven
them home. Think of tlisrt young
ster’s taste! Who, one almost
imagines him picking rat’s hair and
flesh from between his teeth for a
day after liis meals.—Sun Fran
cisco Californian.
Tho Great Salt Lake.
Served Him Right.—A Mr.
E one evening visited a young
lady, and, as he removed his over
coat, etc., preparatory to enter
ing the pai’lor, the lady overheard
him utter the following remarks:
Taking his overcoat and hanging
it up, he said, "Hang there, you
fifty dollar overcoat.” Pulling oil’
his gloves and putting them on
the table, "Lay there, you five
dollar gloves.” Placing his hat
on the rack, "Hangthere,you ten
dollar hat.” Putting his cane in
the corner, " Stand there, you fif
teen dollar cane.” Then entering
the parlor, he xvas about to sit
down, when the young lady pulled
the chair from under him, and as
she left the room, said, "Lay
there, you ten cent fool.” He
has not been seen arouud that
house since.
The Electric’ Mountains.—
The explorers’ experience on the
Electric mountains—a high aud
much exposed range separating
San Luis Park from Wet Moun
tain valley, - in Colorado—was
most amusing. They could scarce
ly . handle their instruments,
sparks being elicited at ever}’
touch; their rifles too snapped
under the electric influence, and
were-in continual danger of going
off, while when caught in a -thun
der storm their hair literally stood
on end. The whole party ex
perienced shocks, more 'or loss
severe, hut noncyrere'Injured.'*
As we neared tlie Rocky Moun
tains, says a traveler, a thin blue'
streak appeared beyond the marsh
es. It was the Great Salt Lake.
Gradually the streak expanded
until the surface of the sea was
spread before us. A strong wind
came from the northwest, and caps
of foam danced upon the bosom of
the waters. They were of daz
zling whiteness. The lake, how
ever, was as blue as indigo. In
some places it was streaked with
green as though veined with
streams of sulphur water. We
drove along the base of the moun
tains, which throw their rocky
spurs to the shore line. Looking
to the north nothing could be seen
hut the water heaving against a
dear sky. It was like gazing upon
the ocean at Long Branch. The
lake stretches toward the Central
Pacific road over a hundred and
twenty-five miles. Fifty miles
west it washes the borders of the
great American Desert. It is a
large body of water. Delaware
and Rhode Island might he thrown
into its depths aud there would
still be room for a fair slice of New
Jersey. On our right was-Church
Island, a mountain etched with
sparkling springs and green val
leys, nearly thirty miles long. A
similar island arose on the left.
The lake is dotted with these
mountain islands.
Profile Rock is a cliff which pro
jects into the lake about twenty
miles from the Tabernacle. Black
Rock rears its head from the water
several hundred feet from the foot
of the cliff'. The waves dashed
against these rocks with great
fury, creating a noise not unlike
the roar 'of the ‘ocean surf. The
beach is white sand, though in
some places it is ridged with peb
hies of variegated colors. Along
the marshes the action of the
water has thrown up breastworks
of white sand, which Uuofbe shore
for miles. All the stories about
men riding down to the shores of
the lake and shoveling up bushels
of clear salt are false. The sand
beyond the reach of the breakers
hits a coating of salt, but it is as
thin as a sheet of foolscap. Parties,
however, go to the boach aud boil
down the water in large kettles,
getting about 33 per cent-, of salt;
but it cau only he used for curing
beef and pork. It must he refin
ed before it is fit for table iqse.
The water tastes like spoiled brine,
aiid smells like the seaweed of
Long Island Sound at low tide.
entrance of the shirt-fiictory.
After reaching the sufferer’s bed
room coats are taken oft’ and shirt
sleeves rolled iqi. With a sur
prising delicacy of manipulation
one of the surgeons segregates it
hit of the desired commodity not
larger than a half dime from the
benevolent person’s arm, no blood
being drawn: Another surgeon
immediately applies a round patch
to the place where the skin is not
and a strip of adhesive plaster is
put on over it. In a few days the
benevolent, who has perhaps been
a little annoyed at the irritation,
removes the surgical chevron, and
he has the pleasure of kmiwing
that he has contributed something
of himself (the truest charity iu
the world) towards relieving a
dreadful distress and prolonging a
useful life.
A Sad Sight. " —
D. F. Powell, Assistant Sur
geon, United States Army, gives
the following particulars of the
Sioux Pawnee battle:
" I was scouting with Capt.
Charles Meinhold and Company
B. Third Cavalry, on the Republi
can,. when, on the 5th of August,
a party of Pawnees came gallop
ing up to us and told Capt. Mein-
hold that about 1,500 Sioux war
riors had attacked them while be
tween the Republican and French
man, and had killed sixty of their
braves, women and children. Wo
marched nearly twenty miles lie-
fore reaching the battle field. It
was a horrible sight. Dead war
riors lay grim in death, with bows
still grasped in thoir stiffened
fingers. Sucking infants wc*?
pinned with arrows to their
mother’s breasts. Some lay on
the ground, dead from ghastly
wounds made by knives. Others
presented to us their skinless
heads, the red blood glazed upon
the skull where the scalp had been
torn oil'. In a canon, as we rode
up, the first object that attracted
our attention was a dead squaw;
and, its wc advanced along the
ravine, wc counted fifty-nine other
dead bodies. They were in every
possible position, having fallen
where shot, and apparently ex
pired in great agony. One squaw,
with her pappoose, was found in
the weeds, badly wounded hut
still alive. Wc made her as com
fortable as possible and proceeded
up the ravine, hut when we re
turned the baby was dead, aiid
had on its head marks of fresh
violence. The mother had killed
it to save it from further pain ?”
He is Able.—God is able of
these stones to I’aise up seed to
Abraham.
Able also to save them to the
uttermost that come unto God by
him.
What He has promised He is
able to perform.
Able to make all graces abound
reward you, that you, having all
sufficiency in all things, may
abound to every good work.
I commend you to God, and to
the word of His grace, who is
able to build you up and to give
you an inheritance among all them
that arc sanctified.
Able to keep that which I have
committed unto Him.
Able to keep you from falling,
aud present you faultless before,
the presence of His glory, with,
exceeding joy. *
Able to succor them that are.
tempted.
Able to keep all whom the*
Father hath given Kim, so that He
will lose not one.
Able to do exceeding abundant-,
ly above all that we ask ox think..
Believe ye that He is, able 1&
do this ?
