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IB¥ JAS. A. WRIGHT AND HUGH WILSON. THE WASHINGTON GAZETTE. TERMS.—-Three Dollar, a year in advance. MT No Subeoriptiona taken for a ahorter I ' MADRIGAL. Own near, coma ae*r, la »ll Um pwrleas beauty of thy youth; VtH not those loving eyes, i fuiae IkfiftAltAjjJ&aaeaa -aai troth. Mis softly fall., Oa my hot brow the shsJow of their hair j O'er ay fluahed cheek I feel. Lore fraught, thy sweat breath .teal, ttke ki wea from the perfume laden air. »44aj&tiriIgJ3W Jb* tky proud head the wanton moonlight •miles, Till each soft golden tress Glows in the warm caress. 4»wk«a the amamer break, o’er tropie iilea. | And o'er my heart Cornea a deep thrill of psssion delight: Close, cloae upon my brea.t la one long dream of rest Tby loro my life, and thine au eremite >0 ooio/10 •* Ike broadening stream of hoary Time, Till maidenhood', sweet spring Flies oo reluctant wing, And smiles on thee the aummer’. golden prime. And as, for ays, Through the far mists of years that ripen alow, Ever my own to be. While o’er life's shining sea Tbs distant home lights brighten a. we go. THE ONLY FEMALE MASON. The Hon. Elizabeth St. Leger was the only female who was ever initiated into the mystery of Freemasonry. She has had two degrees—the first and second—conferred on her. As it may be interesting to the general reader, we give the story as to how Miss Ledger obtained this honor, premising that the information comes from the best of sources. Lord Don ' eralle, Miss St. Leger’s father, a very zealous Mason, held a warrant and occasionally opened lodge at Done- Imlle House, his sous and some inti mate friends assisting; and it is said that never were Masonic duties more performed Ilian " YjrW brethren of No. 150, the number off their warrant. It appears that “previous to the ini tiation of a gentleman to the first de gree of Masonry, Miss St. Leger, who was a youug girl, happened to be in an apartment adjoining the room generally used as a lodge room, but who l her the young lady was there by dosigti or merely accident, we cannot confidently state. The room at (be time was undergoing some alteration; among other things the wall was con siderably reduced in one part for the purpose of making a saloon. Xlio young lady having heard the voices of Freemasons, and being incited by tho curiosty natural to all to see this mys tery, so long and so secretly locked up from the public view, bad the cour age to pick a brick from the wall with b«r scissors, and thus witness the two first steps of the ceremony. Curiosity gratified, fear at once took possession of her mind, and those who understand this passage well know what the feeling of any person m.ust be who could unlawfully behold that ceremony; let them judge what were the feelings of a young girl under each extraordinary . circumstances. There was no moc|e capfipe, except through the 4eiH' rootn Whefee the con cluding part of the second step was S till being solemnized at the far end, *nd the room a very Urge one. Miss St. Leger had resolution enough to attempt her escape that way, and, with light bat trembling steps, glided along unobserved, laid her hand on the handle of the door and opened it, bat before her stood, to her dismay, a grim tiler with his long sword un sheathed. . .Aj Ibriek that pierced through £he apartments alarmed the members of Che lodge, who, all rushing to sbe door, and finding that Miss St. Leger had 'been in the room during the ceremo ny, resolved, it is said, in the parox ysm of their rage, to put the fair spectatress to death ; but At the »iov ing and earnest supplication %og her youngest brother, her life was spared, on condition of her going through the two remaining steps of the solemn Ceremony she had on lawfully witness ed. This she consented to, and they conducted the beautiful and terrified young lady through those trials which are sometimes more than enough for ' masculine resolution, little thinking they wers taking »to- the bosom of their craft a member that would re ject a lustre on the- lustre annals of Masonry. —— Miss St. Lcger was cousin to Gene- €i. Lcger, who instated the interesting race and celebrated J)oncafcter St, Lcger stakes. Eveftu ftlly she married, Richard Aldworth, Bsq., of Newmarket, ft member of a highly honorable and ancient family. THE WASHINGTON GAZETTE. Atbfen ctdr.a binefii Was Jiti at any | of the theatres in Dublin or Cork, for the Masoniq Female Orphan Asylum. Mrs. Aldworth walked at the head of the Freemasons, with her apron and other insignia of Freemasonry, and sat in the front row of the stage box. The house was always crowded on these occasions. The portrait of this estimable woman is in the lodge in Irel^jjL-— Era. -r GOOD ADVICE. Keep warm. If there is pain or irritation, put a piece of extra flannel on the bowels. They understood that for our soldiers, and those flannel aprons saved many a life. “Keep tho feet warm. If the cir culation is languid, that is one of the first signs—coldness of the extremi ties. And people often have an idea that Ahey will touglien and harden' theminlves,. which is all very well. If they will not harden themgelves into their graves. “Many a one tries to sleep with the feet cold. It’s no use; such sleep does little good. Keep warm. Have a hot brick, a botttlc at hot water, a soapstone. “No, there is little danger of form ing the habit of depending on it. In time, tho circulation may be bettor, and tho extra heat ouly resorted to when it is needed. But half the peo ple live with cold feci, and then they have headaches and all sorts of dis turbances, and then they want medi cine forsooth—as if any magic as medicine would creep up into their brains and draw away tho pain. “How to restore the circulation? “Well, the best remedy I know for cold feet is, plenty of exercise and good digestion. But if you can’t live on exercise and have to write for in stance, this will help. It is the best thing I know: Ilavt; a pail of hot water and p„e of ci>ld, side by side. Blunge the feet into hot water, as hot atf* you can bcavit, for five minutes. Then straight into the cold for one minute or less- Tbpi ruWWtwirkriskkr, and put on stockings. They will q]3w as if thej’shnd been into a Rus sian bath, as,'fmfcctf they’ have. “But, doctor, is not ope liable to take cold?" “Tako cold ? No. No danger of taking, unless there is in some way chill or interrupted circulation. “Keep warm, and usually a cold, as you call it, may bo averted, You bare been chilled and in some way fhV healthful processes interrupted. Now restore the action as speedily as possible. In many enses, the death chill comes from being wet or cold, j and remaining so. If it be possible, 1 get thoroughly warm, into a perspira tion—that is, restoro the action of the skin, and relieve the lungs or other internal organs, and your cold disappears. It has not had , time to fasten itself on any tissues, and so merely proves a slight disturbance. “Keep warm. In our climate, with its spddenjcUangps, very few cm- do without the protection of flannel next the skin. Os that each one must judge for himself, if he only will give up the absurd idea of hardening him self, in spUe of being sensitive. TVbo was the British naval com mander who kept his fleet waiting, when under sailing orders for the AVest Indies —for wbat? Flannel shirt,'a quarter of a yard longer than the regulation 6ize, for his men. It sounded absurd, but ho saved bis men and had no sickness on his ships." — Exchange, A young man from New Jersey, named Mulford, while riding in the Southside train from Patchogue, L. I, gave up a part of his seat to a young woman in deep mourning and carry ing a babe ii» her arms. She soon be came very confidential and a conver srtion sprang up between them, dur ing which the delighted Mulford was informed that she had buried her hus band ojijyahf week that she was on her way to Philadelphia, and that her uncle would join her isl Springfield, She seemed anxioes not to miss the latter station, and leaned over Mulford several times outoT the window. Wbeh Springfield was ge»eb«i she pointed out an old 1 gentleman, wto, she waS the ex ! pected uncle, and asked the young ! man to hold her babe while she help | ed himfto .Mflford too£ 1 the young one and*elie departed on : her pious mission. The train started ! but she did not return. Mulford felt for his watch and wallet, and missed them. He then uncovered the infant and found ft huge India rubber doll. The latest new thing for ladies is to cultivate freckles. If the world keeps progressing, a boil on the nose wfia oms day be a fashionable necessity. WASHINGTON, WILKES COUNTY, GA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER S, 1869. BOW TO MAKE GOOD BUTTER. After the butter hqs cyme, and .is |vieli ifi“tho clatn'/ifi rot iiol enough little |ar4j gjtl> pail of cold water in tho churn, and let it stand in a cold place an hour; take it out with a short ladle into a large wooden bowl, press out all tho milk and water you can, wash it a little by stirring it around tho bowl in cold water, pour off this and salt with fino pure salt, about ono ounce to the pound of butter. This must bo well washed in with the ladle; let it now stand two horn’s in a cold spring liouso t|en wdrkSit %|b|l again, after which give it another rest, nud then repeat the working for the last time. It is bettor to work it thus a little at a time, than one long work ing, as it keeps the butter harder, and gets out all tho butter milk and brine. Tho butter should bo packed in aplono Crbek oVtub 'after tlio third' washing. Set tho newly-strained milk in large shallow tin pans, which should be scalded, washed and dried before the milk is strained into them ; tho pans of milk should bo set on a shelf or shelves; open slatted.shelves are best, in a cpol well ventilated cellar, or in a spring house, if you have one in a well shaded spring grovo near by. The most successful butter-maker wo have here in.this warm dry grain region, sellsovor 82000 worth of fan cy butter yearly. It goes in fancy tubs to the fashionable tip town hotels in Now York city, by express and tho tubs are returned. Tho butter is made front the milk of thirty cows, pastured and slopped daily in summer, fed on cut and steamed food In winter and through tho spring months, and corn is sown in drills, for soiling during tho summer droughts when our pasturago fails; tho present Rea son is an exception, as wo havo been blessed with tirflely showers weekly through tho summer. The profit on the butter of theso cows is only one item, the manure made rich in phosphates and nitrogen is another ; and the butter milk and sour milk fed breeding sows and pigs, increases both the - manure and the .profits IVith.somue.b manure of the best quality’, the farm ..is kept “sem per fertile," and the tile underdrains has enabled this farmer to get a max imum crop of corn this wet season, when so many have less than half a crop. —Southern C ultitatox. ITow TO; Make Coffee.— As good coffee is one of the rafest of luxuries oh American tables, we hope to merit the thanks of ninny a fair housekeep er for the following hints: 1. To have good coffee the first es sential is to procure thegenuine berry in a perfect and and' undamaged state. Mocha is best, but is always dear, and cannot now be had at uny price. Java is generally considered as next in quality, but tastes differ. 2. It ftiust bo properly roasted. Here there is generally a total failure. In roasting the heat Should be strong, and the operation as brief as possible. It is sufficiently rpasted when the oil begins to appear on the turfaec, and not before. Avoid burning. A single charred berry .spoils the whole. 3. Grind fine, and just before using, as it looses 6trengtli.aud flavor rapid ly- 4. It must not be boiled more than two or three minutes‘at most, and if you want the best possible cup of coffee, it must not be boiled at all. Use the French coffee pot, in which is mode is filtering boiling water through it. In that way you can, get a strong infusion with all the, flavor and aroma of coffee, a very different article from boiled edffee; but some may prefer the latter; Make ifc yery strong in either case, and dilute with rich boil ed milk, adding cream if. you have it, and sweeten to the taste with refined sugar. We use at least two parts of milk to one of eogeij. It makes a draught which the gods of Olympus, with their cups overflowing with nec tar, might covet. Try it but do not forget that the coffee must be very strong to bear the dilution with milk that we recommend. If less milk or none at all be made nee of, the dilu tion maybe affectedt>y adding water, but this should be doifo in the cup. Dr. Johnson was observed by a mu sical companion to be very inattentive at a concert while a celebrated solo player was giving an extraordinary performance upon the violin. Ilis friend, to induce him to take greater fiotice of what was going on, explain ed how extremely difficult it was •‘Difficult do you call it, sir ?” respond ed the doctor, “I wish it were impos sible.” Why is a one dollar greenback bet ter than a silver dollar ? When you fold it yon double it, and when yon open it yon find it increases CABS OF INFANTS AT NIGHT- From the Note Book of an Eminent Physician. It is said that Sir Edward Cod rington, when a young officer at Toulon, was so anxious to distin guish himself that he passed, the greater pavt of the day on the deck, watching for signals to give intelli gence of the movements of the French vessels, and when he retired, ho sank into a sleep so profound that the loudest noises did not awake him; but when the Word “signal” was whispered in his cabin he immediately sprang up. This anecdote proves how sleepless in the midst of the profoundest slum bers is that faculty of the soul which for the time being is intense ly excited. The same truth is well illustrated in the case of the mother. She is tho most sleepless porsou in the household. For mouths, and often for years, she docs not enjoy two consecutive hours of sleep. But it is not the noises in the street, nor anxiety, nor nervousness, that dis turb her repose. She can sleep soundly when others are made wakeful by unusual sounds or voices. But there is one sound, one voice, more poteqt in her ears than all others; it is the voice of her child. When that is heard even in the fa hi test whisper, she arouses from tho deepest sleep: how insensible she may be to other voices, that one never fails to be beard by her quick car. Mothers often relate that, long after their children have grown to manhood and womanhood, they arc startled from their slumbers by the old and familiar cries of their baby hood. This instinctive wakefulnqss of tho mother to the wants of her child teaches a most important les sen in the care of children at,night. It is a growing practice in out' first class families to commit tbokinfrnt to the care of the nurse at night, that the mother may not be disturb ed, but may have her regular and full amount of sleep. This is done under the pretence that the moth er’s health requires that her night's rest should not bo brojeen by the care of tho child. Except in extra ordinary eases, there is uo truth in the assertion; if tho mother and child are in ordinary health, the proper care of her infant at night does not tax the mother beyond her strcngtli; while the judicious care of the child by tho mother dimin ishes greatly the irritability and restlessness of the former. But there are certain positive evils and dangers attending the care of the infant by a nurse at night. It will prove, in nine cases out of ten, that the nurse considers her own sleep of paramount impor tance, and in about the proportion given it will be found that she man ages to obtain it. In the first place her affections are not stimulated by the child, and hence her sympathies are not enlisted in its care and wel fare. She sleeps quite unconscious and of undisturbed by its cries, when its plaintive voice penetrates to the mother’s ear, though in a distant and secluded part of the house. Thus many a helpless in fant that has become tired of lying in one position, and merely requires to be changed to secure perfect rest and quiet cries itself asleep from sheer exhaustion, unable to arouse the leaden ears of its nurse. One of the first and most danger ous consequences of committing the child to the care of the nurse at night, is her liability when asleep to over-lay and smother it without hearing its stifled cries. The Eu gliah mortuary records show that two or three hundred children are thus killed annually. But if the child escapes death or injury from this cause, it is by no means free from danger from other ources. It is liable to be habitu ally drugged to sleep. This may aud doubtless will be regarded by many as an unjust suspicion upon their own “faithful” nurses; but there are too many facts accumu lated against them to make it doubtful. It must be assumed as a truth that nurses will have their own usual amount of sleep. If they can not obtain it on account of the restlessness of the child, they so.on learn the remedy for its sleepless ness. They try it secretly and can* iously, and find it succeeds per- | fectly; they repeat it with equal | success several times; and now made bold and confident, they ad minister the anodyne with liberal baud every night, or at least when they fear the child will disturb their own slumbers. A child thus treat ed soon becomes unusually irrita j ble and peevish, its digestion is im | paired, its complexion is a dirty, sallow hue, it suffers from constipa j tion, and finally sleeps soundly j only when under the influence of | its accustomed drug. How many I children in every wealthy and fash ionable community, with good na tive constitutions, fall Into prema ture decay from this cause, it is im possible to determine; but the cor oners inquests prove that many in— iauls die annually from tho impru dent use of the drugs in constant use in many nurseries. It can hut be regarded as an ax iom of the utmost importance ift tho rearing of children, that the mother should have the personal charge aud care of them at night. A medical writer of great expe dience says: “llow many children sleep tho sleep of death through the undue administration of carmi natives and other nostrums! It requires the mothers greatest vigi lance to prevent 6ucli weapons be iug introduced into the nursery; however otherwise excellent, is apt to prefer the comfort of uninterrup ted slumber to tho performance of duty*in studying the welfare of the child committed to her care.” Women as Farmers. Seven sisters, about sixty milos from St. Paul, Minnesota, liave.beon proving whal''women can do as tillers of the soil. Two years ago last April they seen red thero two homesteads of eighty acres each, under tho Home stead Law, and havo since cleared forty acres. Os their crop of last year, besides what was consumed in tho family, they sold niiio hundred bushels of potatoes, five hundred biishols of corn, two hundred and fifty bushels of turnips, two hundred bushels of beets, 1,100 heads oabbuge, and over 8200 worth of garden stuff. The potatoes they sold for fifty cents per bushel. All the work on this farm, the clear ing and grubbing the land, tho fenc ing. sowing, piantiug, cultivating, and harvesting, and taking care of the stock and all other work, excepting splitting tho rails and breaking aud plowing (lie laud, was performed by these sisters alone. They are natives es Ohio, whence they emigrated to that State three years ago, and to that farm, then wild land, in April ISG7. The family con sisted of seven sisters, the youngest ngod fifteen, tho eldest about twenty five, their mother, and their father, an invalid. Their dwelling house, a com modious log building, which the neighbors helped them to build, and all its surroundings, betoken tho in dustry, thrift, neatness, aud taste of the occupants. In the course of conversation on tho management of their farm, the moth er, a fine-looking old lady, remarked : —“The girls are not proud of tho hard work they have had to do to get the farm started, but they arc not as hamed of it. Wo were too poor to keep together and live in town. Wo could not make a living there; but here wo have become comfortable and independent. We tried to give tho girls a good education. They all read and write, and find time to read books and papers. The writer has deduced a few sim. pie rules of health from experience and careful observation. To him they aro of exceeding value. 110 offers thorn to his younger brethren, with the earnest hopo that they may bo found equally useful to them. 1. Find, from careful observation, what articles of diet aro healthful, and partake of such only. 2. Eat only at meal-tiine. 3. Never take so much food atone meal that natural hunger will not be experienced at the next. 4. Eat only when hungry, no mat ter what the doctors say. 5. Exercise enough every day to produce full perspiration. 6 Keep the body clean by bathing. A thorough towel bath ip the bed room answers the purpose well. 7. Sleep only at night, regularly and enough. 8. A celebrated ’physician is report ed to have condensed his rules on health into the following sentence: “Keep the feet worm, the head cool, and the body open.” Tho Writer en dorses the rule most heartily. FARM AND HOUSEHOLD. Storing Potatoes. —Cellars or root - I bouses are generally as good places ns one j can get for storing away potatoes, if they are frost proof, and can be well ventilated. Put tho potatoes in largo boxes—empty dry goods cases are host, holdiog from fif teen to filly bushels each—or divide the space iuto bins like those of a granary, so that eaoh kind can be kept sepatate, and no great amount of beating can take place where there is space for ventilation. A board floor is belter than bare earth. Choice kinds it will pay to sort over in the field, barrel the beat tor seta aud dwlivevy as required, and keep the others for seed. When a frost-proof room in a building can not be bad, select a piece of dry soil, where water will readily flow off, or can be drain ed away. Store the potatoes in small round heaps, of fifty each, eet in rows, each to be covered first with reversed sods, or a very little clean dry straw, and then with earth, putting on a tiille ai first but a few iuchcs, and adding more as the weather gets colder, till hard freezing takes place. Ahoul two feet of earth will keep out frost. A good ditch is to bo made round the lot of heaps, so as to carry off quickly all water that may fall. The heaps when cov ered should bo somewhat cone-shaped, with sides high and sloping enough to carry off rain quickly. The mam point in storing potatoes is to have them put away dry and in such a manner as will keep out moisture, and at the same time run little risk of the whole rolling, should rot set in at any point, or with any kind, some being more liable to rot than others.— Canada Farmer. Ornamental Hedges. —There is noth ing gives such a nice, cosy appearance to a garden ns an evergreen hedge. Not only js it prettier, but' flowers, fruits, arid vege tables come on earlier when the garden is thus surrounded, than when it is exposed on all sides to the cold, bleak winds of spring. The cheapest nnd best plant for this purpose is the arbor vilce. Plants can bo had in most liurseiios at about cigh' or ten cents per foot in height; and set about fifteen inches apart, do not count up oa. heavy hill. The Chinese arbor eifce"indites a good hedge when Well trimmed, o infer -- The hemlock spruce makes a very’pretty hedge. It grows rather slower, and cost about ten to fifteen cents, per foot; but is preferred by many on account of its neatness and beau ty. Norway spruce also makes a very beautiful hedge, but requires nnre width to, do well. Where there is plenty of room, it is a capital thing. In price it is usually intermediate between hemlock and arbor vilic. All the pi.nes and firs make nice evergreen hedges, although tlris is not generally known. It is very essential to have good hedges that they should be trimmed up to a point ia the middle —npt made square on top . that is to say, the hedge should have two sloping faces—not llnee. The best lime to trim is just after the new growth is made —about June. Parker Pili.sbury on Reconstdc tion. —Mr. Parker l’illsbury writes a review in the New York Revolution, of “The South as it is,” in which he says: “I think tho North knows less of the actual South to-day’, than of al most any other portion of the globe. Republicanism bears rulo there, and reports itscll to please itself. Coun ter-authorities, especially from Demo cratic sources, aro east aside as unwor thy of confidence, as no doubt, they often are. But it is time ono thing was told, and belioved, too, every where, nnd that is, that reconstruction so far is a failuro. It is a bad failure. From the sole of its foot to its head, if it have any head, thei’e is no sound ness in it, none whatever. It began whertrit should have left off, with po litical organizations, with suffrageand sovereignty; when the first lessons in civilization had not been learned, bad not been taught, and have not yet been taught. But party supremacy required the measure, and it was adopted, against all the dictates of genuine statesmanship, as well as the demands of justice and hu manity. And hence its failure, as could not but have been expected.” now Much Wheat for a Barrel of Flour? —The question “How much wheat does it take to make a barrel of flour?" is often asked, and the answer is of a general character, "Five bushels are al lowed.” At the annual fair of the Dubu que County Agricultural Society in 1806, a premium of S3O was offered for the best barrel of Hour made from winter wheat, and also the same made from spring wheat. A firm entered one barrel of each, accom panied with the statement that sixteen bu shels of winter wheat yielded three barrels and one hundred and three pounds of flour —at the rate of four bushel* and fifieen pounds of wheat to the barrel. Os spring fifty bushels yielded eleven barrels fl flour, being four bushel* aud to the barrel. The wheat was of a fair quality and no more. —Michigan Farmer, VOL. IV—NO 29 BOBBY ROB’S LITTLE SERMON. | Yesterday morning Bobby Rob climed up into his grandmother’s arm I chair, and preached this little sermon to the children in the nursery ; - “ Beloved Hearers and- Chil’ren : —l’m goiu’ to preach to you about shoes. It was what my aurft’y told mo oncet, tiDd it is true. Every morn in’, beloved hearer* and chil’ren, there's two pair of shoes astandin’ by every’ boy’s and girls bod, —not by the cradles, coz babies don’t know enough. Well one pair of shoes is nige, and makes you good natured aud pleasant ; and the other pair is all wrong, and makes you just as cross as tigers. If you put on jho good pair, you'll walk through the day as good and cheerful ns a birdy bird, and everybody’ll like to hear you cornin', and your step’ll be just like the music of a beautiful hand-organ with little men and woman all dancing round and round; and every where’s you go, things will soem all right aud nice, and you won’t even mind having your • face washed, nor y’our hair curled, if tlipy’ don’t pull too awful. But if you put on the other pair, you won’t have any comfort, and nobody won’t want you, and everything will kind o’ crack. Now, my hearers and chil’rcn, (Oh, Mary Ann I mamma said you musu't jump up your Witch box while any of us was a prcachiu’ 1) Now, my’ hoar d’s, ’emember these two kind of shoes is by everybody’s bed every mornin’. You can’t sec ’em ; but they arc there, and all y’ou’vo got to do is to say, I’ll put my feet into tho good-natured shoes, and wear ’em all day, and not forget it, and you’ll do bully.’ But just as sure as you don’t, your feet'll slip into tho bad shoes afore yon know it; and then look out 1 “Now, my hearers and chilren, I must get down. Tho hrcakfess-boll is a ringin’. I want you all to ’emem ber what I just said to you,—and an other thing: if youlve got on your' good-natured shoes Mus mornin’, you’lli wait for me till I get ray hair bruaEwk fi !• I'vo been preacltin’, an’ wo all ought to Start rttiv if there’s griddle cakes.”—Hearth and Home. TTASitfscifdN, T'ToPSmTxu* 22; The New York Herald says i Chol era, yellow fever and small pox aro raging fearfully at Santiago de Cu ba, 'threo hundred deaths having oc curred. from cholera alone within, thirty, days. It was found impos sible to give the dead bodies proper sepulcher, the bodies being covered only with, a few inches of earth. Asa consequence the stench front the cemetery lias almost become a pestilence- The Cubans in the in terior profess to be confident of success, and give tho (Spanish troops much trouble. A farmer, who had engaged tho ser vice of a son of the Emerald Isle, sent him out ono morning to harrow a picco of ground. 110 had not worked long before nearly all the teeth cauie out of the harrow. Presently the farmer went out into the field to take notes of Pat’s progress, and naked him how lie liked harrowing. ‘Oh!” replied Pat, “it goes a bit smoother now since the pegs aro out.” Thero is a person employed on a certain railway, who brags of having a watch that keeps correct time. Ho was hoard to remark, a few mornings siuco, upon pulling out his watch, “If tho sun ain’t over tho hill in a minute and a half he will bo late.” Oliver Wendell Holmes says that a man over ninety is a great comfort to his elderly neighbors. He is a picket guard on the extreme outpost, and young folks of sixty or seventy feel that the enemy must get by him be fore they can come near their encamp ment. At a sale of autogvaphs, letters, Ac., in New York last week, those of John C. Calhoun sold for sixty cents, Rev erdy Johnson and Charles Sumner’s fifteen cents, J. TV’. Forney’s ten cents, Abraham Lincoln’s one and four dol lars, and George Washington’s twenty five dollars. A Californian, Mark Twain, propo ses a pleasant little job to Congress. : Ho owns, ho writes a number of sil j ver mines : “I own millions and niil | lions of feet of affluent silver lead in j Nevada—in fact I own the entire un* J dcrcrust of that country, nearly, and j if Congress would move that state off | my property so that I could get at it j I would be wealthy yet.” ■ f A Parisian autlier has translated j Shakspeare.i6 line, “Out, brief candle,” into French thus, “Get out, you short ' candle.”
