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Tie Jesus Sentinel , Office in the Jesup House, fronting on Cherry street, two doors from Broad JSt. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY, ; ...by... T. P. LITTLEFIELD. Subscription Rates. (Postage Prepaid.) One year $2 00 Six months 1 00 Three months 50 Advertising Rates. Per square, first insertion $1 00 Per square, each subsequent insertion. 75 rates to yearly and large ad vertisers. TOWN DIRECTORY. ' TOWN OFFICERS. -Mayor— IT. Whaley. Conneilmen—Dr. R. F. Lester, IS. A. Eler bee, M. W. Surency, A. B. Purdorn,G. M. T. Ware. Clerk and Treasurer—G. M. T. YTare. Marshal—Wm. M. Austin. COUNTY OKFCBBS. Ordinary—Richard B. Hopps. •heriff—John N. Goodbread. Clerk Superior Court—Benj. O. Middleton f Tax Receiyer—J. C. Hitcher. Tax Collector—W. R. Causey. County Surveyor—Nosh Bennett. County Treasurer—John Massey. Coroner—D. McDitha. Couiity Commissiorffe—T. F. King, G. W. Haines, James Knox, J. G. Rich, Isham Reddish. Regular meetings of the Board *d Wednesday in January, April, July and October. Jas. F. Ring, Chairman. COURTS. Huperioi Court, Wayne County—Juo. L. Harris, Judge ; Simon W. Hitch, Solicitor- General. Sessions held on second Monday in March end September. BMsbear, Pierce Unity Gtoriia TOWN DIRECTORY. TOWN OFFICERS. Mayor—R. G. Riggins. Counciimen—D. P. Patterson,J. M. Downs J. M. Lee, B. D. Brantly. Clerk of Council—.). M. Purdom. Town Treasurer—B. 11. Brantly. Marshal—E. Z. Byrd. COUNTY OFFICERS. Ordinary—A. J. Strickland. Clerk Superior Court—Andrew M. Moore. Sheriff—E. Z. Byrd. County Treasurer—D. P. Palterson. County Serveyor—J. M. Johnson. Tax Receiver and Collector—J. M. Pur dctn. Chairman of Road Commissioners—llßl District, G. M., Lewis C. Wylly; 12‘0 Dis triot, G. M., George T. Moody ; 684 District, O. M., Charles S. Youmanns; 690 District, G. U., D. B. McKinnon. Notary Publics and Justices of the Peace' etc. —Blaokshear Precinct, 584 distriot.G.M., Notary Public, J. G. 8. Patterson; Jnstioe of tho Peaoe, R. R. Janies; Ex-offioio Con stable E. Z. Byrd. Dickson?* Mill Precinct, 1360' Distriot, €1 M , Notary Public,Mathew Sweat; Justice of the Peace, Geo. T. Moody; Constable, W. T. Diokson. Patterson Preeinot, 11S1 District, G. M., Notary Publio, Lewis C. Wylly; Justice of ibo Peace, Lewis Thomas; Constables, H. Prescott and A. L. Griner. Schlatterville Precinct. 690 District, G. M Notary Public, D. B. MoKiunon; Justice o the Peaoe, E. T. James; Constable, John W Booth. Courts—Superior court, Pierce county Jchn L. Harris, judge; Simon W. Hitoh Solicitor General. Sessions held first Mon dry In March and September. Corporation oonrt, Blackshear, Ga., session held seoond Saturday in each Month. Police eenrt sessions every Monday Morning at 9 e’alesk. JESUP HOUSE, €oraer Broad and Cherry Streets, (Near the Depot,) T. f■ LITTLEFIELD, Proprietor. Newly renovated and refurnished. Satls teetlon guaranteed. Polite waiters will take veur baggage to and from the house. BOARD $2.00 per day. ttingla Meals. 50 eta CURRENT PARAGRAPHS. Southern News. An Alabama judge has decided that any one who sets a spring gun does so at his own peril, and is to be held reponsi ble for any damage done, even to tres passers. The Poles, Germans, French, Bohe mians, Scandinavians, Italians, Aus trians, Hungarians, and Slavs of Chi cago are perfecting an organization tor the protection of their rights in their adopted country. A Sacramento woman accused her husband of attempting to kill her, and he was sent to prison for two years. Then she begged to be sentenced for the same term, because she could not bear to be parted from him, and, the judge refusing, she went away and tried to hang herself. “ Bob,” the veritable sorrel war-horse which Stonewall Jackson was riding when he received his fatal wound, is still living, at the age of twenty-three, and retaining much of his old-time vigor. He is owned by a brother-in law of the general, in Lincoln county, North Car olina. New Orleans Democrat: The New Orleans custom-house is comparatively the most expensively conducted large custom-hoHse in the union. There are on the coast of Maine, it is true, a num ber of customs districts where the ex penditures far exceed the collections, but these and these alone are more ex pensively conducted than the granite building in this city. Our city is the sixth port in the union in the amount of collections. The following are the ex penditures in the six leading ports of this country for every doliar of revenue collected : New York, 2.9 cents ; Bos ton, 4.8 cents; San Francisco, 14.6 cents; Philadelphia, 5 8 cents; Baltimore, 9.2 cents, and New' Orleans, 16.1 cents. That is, the New Orleans custom-house is five timesas expensively conducted as ihe New York and three times as ex pensively as the San Francisco and Bos ton custom-house; and this wholly be muse it is made “ a political asylum and the headquarters of the radical party of the state.” • VOL. 11. Mobile Register; Ail that is wanted to complete the Grand Trunk to Union town is one hundred and fifty thousand dollars from the people of Mobile. This money will be paid back in one year by the handling of forty thousand bales of cotton that will come from Marengo, Clarke and Perry, and the forty thousand bales of cotton will enable our merchants to send hack to those counties over two millions’ worth in return. But even if this were not so, the history of Richmond and other Atlantic cities teaches us the enormous possibilities of Mobile as a coal ing depot. We have now more water than Richmond, and we can improve our hay at les3 cost than the James can be deep ened at. If Richmond sees over three hundred vessels at tho Rocketts, within three years after the railroad has tapped the mineral regions, there is a certainty that Mobile will see five hundred vessels at her wharves so soon as the Grand Trunk road reaches Birmingham. Memphis Avalanche: The causes which have made the colored people think of removing from the cotton belt to the grain region are worth finding out. They have been induced to remove from the uplands and the older southern states te West Tennessee, to Missis sippi bottoms and to river lands in Arkansas, because there more cotton could he raised and better wages se cured. But now they seem to desire to go farther west, and to go beyond the cotton belt. Their emigration tenden cies have not been very strong, but. re cently they have been excited by the Liberia movement, and they are in a mood, as a race, to change in hopes of bettering their condition. This is an evidence of improvement in their mental condition, and evinces a spirit of enter prise. The Liberia movement will not ho a success, but we are inclined to the opinion that the movement to the states west of the Mississippi river will be as formidable as that of the whites which sweeps annually across the Mississippi river at Memphis. All Sorts. Lawyers have fleeced the Erie railway out of $400,000. Canada owes $160,000,000, or at the rate of S4O a head other population. Joaquin Miller, it is said, realizes from his published works an income of about $4,000 a year. Tho Chinaman’s weak spot is white sugar. lie’ll pass over jewelry to steal cut-loaf. A tooth the size of a small ham, and similar in shape,weighing twelve pound was extracted from the jaw of a white elephant in Ceylon while the animal was under the influence of chloroform. In Hartford, Conn., women receive twenty-five cents per dozen for making corsets; and the cotton thread, which must be bought of the corset manufac turer, is deducted from this sum. There arc thirteen stitches to the inch, and five thousand stitches in one corset. An ex perienced needle-woman can complete half a dozen in a day, and thus earn twelve and a half cents. Foreign Intelligence. The tsetse, known to entomologists as glossina moreitans, is thus described by Stanley: “Not much larger than a common house fly, nearly of the same brown color as the honey bee. After pait of the body has yellow bars across it It has a peculiar buzz, and its bite is death to the horse, ox or dog. On man the bite has no effect; neither has it on wild animals. The famine in China was the oppor tunity of the English and American missionaries. They devoted themselves to relieving the dying people about them, and helping the suffering as far as the means at hand would allow. This effected a change in the opinion of the Chinese as to the religion of the mission aries. They now concede that a religion which sends its devotees on missions of mercy is at least a good religion, if not a better one than their own. The assistant adjutant general, depart ment of Texas, has received a dispatch from Fort Brown,, which says: “Mr. Eveesman, a large merchant in Mata moraa, telis me that the authorities have Sued foreign merchants about 880,- 000. His houee was to pay 822,000. He and many other:* are preparing to leave Mexico as soon as they can close their business. Gen. Canales is opposed to the fine, and a revolution is confidently ex pected, with Garcia do Cardenas as the head. He is governor of Zacatecas. Brazil has made a liberal appropriation for the introduction to the people of Europe of sterva-mate, an article largely cultivated in Parana and used in South America to produce a popular beverage, but as yet unknown abroad. Mr. O’Conor, of the British legation, says it will be a capital substitute for the far more expen sive and too-often adulterated tea and coffee, being more fortifying and alimen tary and much more wholesome, and an article that can he sold at a price so moderate as to place it within the reach of all classes. ..“That’s our family tree,” said an Arkansas youth, as he pointed to a vig orous hemlock-. “ A good many of our folks have been hung on tnat tree for borrowing horses after dark.” JESUP, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 1878. THE PILGRIM’S SONG. Uow sweet, as we're floating on life's changing bil low, Like mariners voyaging over the foam, lo think qf the dear ont-s in vender blest harbor, And the oeautiful songs they are singing at home. How sweet to he thinking of pearly gates open, And angels in white robes so spotless and fair. With golden harps ringing in mansions of glory, And sweet songs of love floating soft on the air. I How sweet to believe that our Savior is Jesus, And trust in His strength as we re gliding along; ! His love ne’er fail us ; it guides us forever, | And tills our glad hearts with a beautiful song. How sweet to be singiDg, while o’er the waves glid ing Ani praising tho Lord with our heart and our •ong. ' And working and praying that' others mav love Him. j And join in His praise as we’re floating along. How sweet to be thinking of angels and loved ones, And joys that await us in Heaven above! Sweet strains will be floatiug, when Jesus our Savior Shall welcome us home to the mansions of love. Dear Savior, we thank Thee, we love Thee, and trust. 'lhee; We’ll sing of Thy lovo as we journey along; Aiut.ch, when we enter the harbor of Heaven, We’ll praise Thee with a beautiful songl J. Emerson Walker, m Chicago Standard. THE DYING DOGMA. Some Pointed Remarks on Everlasting Punish went. Asa bit of personal experience by a lady of large brains and large heart, the following extract from a letter to the New York Tribune by Miss Catherine E. Beechor deserves careful and thoughtful reading: In Baxter’s “ Saint’s Rest,” given to me when I was vainly trying to love God, it is written that the torments of sinners will be universal. The liquid fire will prey on every part—the eyes will he tortured with sights of horror, the ears with howls and curses ©f companions in torment, their smell with fumes of brimstone, and no drop of water shall cool their tongue, no respite relieve their agonies. President Edwards, in a work given mo to lead me to love God, says the saints in giory will see the sufferings of the damned with no grief, but rather with rejoicing. They will not be sorry for them, but will be excited by joyful praise. Dr. Emmons, whose preaching I heard when sorrowing for a friend supposed to have died unre generate, taught the happiness of “ the elect” in heaven will in part consist in watching the torments of the damned and among them will be their own chil dren and dearest friends; and yet they will sing hallelujah, praise the Lord. My father’s friend, Dr. Gardiner Spring, of New York, said that when an angry God undertakes to punish, he will con vince the universe that he does not gird himself in vain. It will be glorious when He who hung on Calvary shall cast those who have trodden his blood under their feet into a furnace of fire, jvhere shall be w r eeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth. My father’s friend, Dr. Nehemiah Adams, of Boston, says it is to be-feared that the forty-two chil dren who mocked Elisha are now in hell. President Edwards, iii his sermon ‘‘Sinners in the hands of an angry God,” says “you cannot stand an instant before an infuriated tiger; what then, will you do when God rushes against you in all His wrath ?” (Spurgeon of England says “at the day of judg ment thou wilt have twin hells; thy soul sweating drops of blood and thy body suffused with agony.” Dr. Talmage of Brooklyn, paints the miseries of hell in a similar language. The Methodist Ohristain Advocate represents that this denomination, on yearly average, gives only 34 cents for each person to save 700,000,000 brothers and sisters from wading chin deep through the torments of eternal death. The biographer of president Edwards says that when preaching on the dangers of hell, at times, the whole congregation arose smiting their breasts, weeping and groan ing. My father rejected the idea of literal fire and brimstone torments, hut I once heard him in Cincinnati describe the miseries of the wicked shut up together with all their horiid passions, and I should have been affected, as were the hearers of president Edwards, had I not escaped by leaving the church, as did my sister, Mrs. Stowe. For the benefit of those who claim that the doctrine ef a materialistic hell is no longer taught, we present the fol lowing passages from a book written by Bev. J. S. Furnis, and published in England a few years ago by ecclesiastical authority “for the instruction of the young.” We know how far it is to the middle of the earth, it is just two thousand miles; so if hell is in the middle of the earth it is four thousand miles to the horrible prison of hell. Down in this place is a terrible noise. Listen to the tremendous, the horrible uproar of millions of tormented creatures, mad with the fury of hell.' Oh ! the screams of fear, the groans of horror, the yells of rage, the cries of pain, the shouts of agony, the shrieks of despair, from millions on millions! There you hear them roaring like lions, hissing like serpents, howling like dogs, and wailing like dragons. There you hear the gnashing of teeth and the fearful blasphemies of the devils. Above all you hear the roar of the thunders of God’s anger,which shakes hell to its foun dations. But there s another sound. There is in hell a sound like that of many waters. It Is as if all the rivers and oceans of the world wereuouringthemselves with a great splash down on the floors of hell. Is it then really the sound of waters'? It is. Are the rivers and the oceans of the earth pouring themselves into hell? No. What is it, then ? It is the sound of oceans of tears running down from mil lions of eyes. They cry forever and ever. They cry because the sulphur ous smoke torments their eyes. They cry because they are in darkness. They cry because they have left the beautiful heaven. They cry because the sharp fire burns * * The roof is red hot; the walls are red-hot; the floor is like a thick sheet of red-hot iron. See, on the middle of that red-hot floor stands a girl. She looks about sixteen years of age. She has neither shoes nor stockings on her feet. The door of this room has never been opened since she first set her foot on this red-hot floor. Now she sees tho door opening. She rushes forward. She has gone down upon her knees upon tiie red-hot floor. Listen, she speaks! She says: “I have been standing with my bare feet on this red-hot flood for years. Day and night my standing place has been thisred hot floor. Sleep never came on me for a moment that I might forget this horrible burning floor. Look at my burnt and bleeding feet. Let me go off this burning floor for one moment--only for a short moment. Oh! that in this endless eter nity of years I might forget the pain only for one single moment ” The devil answers her question. “ Do you ask for a moment—not for one single moment dur ing.tlie never-ending etornity of years shall you ever leave this ved-hot floor.” Doing' Paris Cheaply. One may, at ordinary' times, live in Paris very comfortably oil eight or ten dollars per week; and this will include car-fares and admission to the theatres, great and small. Possibly, during the exposition, prices may rule a little higher. In the Latin quarter an apart ment need not cost more than a dollar and a half or two dollars per week. Two good small rooms there will rent at thirty francs (about six dollars) per month. Breakfast, coffee and all the bread you can eat, four cents; lunch at noon, or the real breakfast in Paris, one and two thirds franc, or twenty-five cents —this includes the lialf-bottle of Claret; thesnme rate fordinner.atfiveorsixin the evening. Fifty or sixty cents oar day w ill Iced you well. If you chobsc to eat in your room, you may, in buying cooked food (and every variety of food is cooked and held for sale by the cut jn Paris), live for thirty cents per day on roast fowl, various kinds of salad, fresh fish and potatoes, baked apples and pears, potage or bullion. 11 is not bad for a change, and far better than any cheap food you can get in New York. To familiarize youriseif with French quickly, buy your own groceries Prices of such staples as flour, sugar, coffee, etc., are more extensively marked than with us, and every shop window is a practical edition of Oilendorf, only tiiere are no quarts, gallons, pints or pounds, feet or yards. These are all changed (o liters (a little over a quart), meters (three inches over the English yard and kilogrammes or “ kilos” (two pounds three ounces avoirdupois). The smallest French coin is the copper five centimes, corresponding to our cent. The smallest silver coin is the fifty centimes, corresponding to the American dime. The franc is twenty cents American. The average seat in the uppermost gallery of the French theatre is railed, cushioned, and as comfortable as the more expensive one below, and costs but a shilling You will recollect that the museum and galleries of the Ixiuvre are always free; also the Jardin des Plantes of zoological gardens ; also the museum of the Luxembourg palace; also the Hotel Oluny on certain days, which is a palace showing the style of household royal furniture common five hundred years ago; also the palace at Versailles. These alone will interest you far more than the exposition, for they contain the accumulation and historic associations of centuries —[New York Graphic. Theology in the Hud. Once on a time my cousin’s child, a four-year old boy, had to “ try on” some garments, His admiring mother, finding she had made a bad muddle of the cut ting, naturally vented her own irritation on the restive little figure wriggling under the infliction of “taking in here and lettiDg out there.” it ended in her giving the poor child a slight shaking. At night, as his mother was preparing him for bed, he said, I was so naughty you had to shake me mamma, didn’t you cause I wouldn’t stun’ still when, was a-makin’ my new close, would I?’, Then “ Say, mamma, tell me what God has to do to the naughty little boys up in heaven that won’t sf.an’ still when he’s a-makin’ of’em [ Hawkeye As year after year rolls into the great sea of the past, and man drags nearer the great port of death, he be- I comes more and more sadly convinced j that red flannel wrappers will shrink in spite of the best efforts of the washer woman. This is why it is -o hard to dis tinguish a last year’s wrapper from a coral necklace. EDISON'S WONDERFUL IN VENTION. An Improvement on the Telephone Successful!) Tested---The Ariphone or Speaking Fog Horn and its Mission, The prolific brain of Professor Edison lias given to the world two new discover ies One of these is an improvement on the (arbon telephone. In the two pre vious inventions the diaphragm was suspended from the carbon desk by a section of rubber tubing, lie has dis covered that by bringing the diaphragm into immediate contact with the disk, a considerable increase in the force of articulation is increased, and that the thickness of the diaphragm could he increased at least three timeß without affecting it. By this method vibration gives place to pressure. Experiments were made with this improvement between the offices of the Philadelphia local telegraph and residence of Professor Edison, at Menla Park, New Jersey, a distance of sixty-five miles. The remarks made through the instrument at this end were even mere distinctly heard at the other end. An experiment was made of sending marks to Menlo, via New York, a distance of one hundred and thirty five miies, which was equally success ful. The second invention is the airophone. It is an instrument into which words can be articulated and they gather such force as to he heard fora number of miles with great distinctness. Indeed, it is in reality a talking fog horn. By its aid captains at vessels meeting at sea could converse easily while three or four miles apart; signal etation officers could warn vessels coming on a dangerous coast to keep off, and it is adapted to all uses to which such instruments as fog horns, etc., are now applied. This is a most remarkable discovery. Mr. Adams, Edison’s agent, will leave Now York on (Saturday next for London. A Company of English merchants have offered Mr. Edison .660,000 if the invention can successfully bo applied to the local telegraph wires in London.—[N. Y. Times. Sedentary Habits. In “ Nutrition in Health and Disease” Dr. Ben net Hays: These physiological effects explain the prostration of an in valid, or, indeed of any one unaccus tomed to exercise, after a great muscular effort. They feel languid flfid exhausted", have pains in the muscles ami cannot sleep. They have used up, wasted part of their muscular structures, and there is not sufficient organic activity in the economy to rapidly renew the destroyed fibre; so the feeling of fatigue and pros tration lasts. This, however, is not a reason for renouncing exercise as an im possibility, as not agreeing with the con stitution. A small amount only should be taken regularly at first, persevered in whether agreeable or not, and gradually increased as the muscular power increa ses. which it is sure to do, Active people, even in doors, take a deal of ex ercise. They are ever on the move, run ning upstairs and down, fetching all they want, and waiting botli on themselves and others; and that oven when surroun ded with domestics. Huch persons find that they have walked several miles in the course of the day, without even leaving the house. This is the history of female servants, who often never go out of doors from week’s end to week’s end, and yet usually retain good health. Sedentary people, on the con trary, persons of indolent habits, who never move from the chair or sofa, if they can help it, and who ring the lie) 1 for all they want, reach the end of the day with scarce a mile of exercise. Not only, therefore, do they eschew exercise out of doors, hut they do not even take it indoors, is it surprising that they should be obese and unwieldly, and a prey to the diseases of a torpid, sluggish vitality? The Outcome of It. Hard time* always have a soft aide to them. The fool of Kin;.' Charles cried when he went down hill, but laughed when he went up. Being asked why, he said : “ If I am going up hill now I shall be able to go down next, but if I am going down now, I shall noon have to climb.” The country has some things to groan over; traffic is thoroughly at a loss in its circulation ; manufactures are bankrupt; and yet we never had a more bouritilul harvest than in 1877. The land teemed with every variety of pro duct. There was enough and to spare for every citizen of the union. The difficulty evidently had risen from the fact that too small a proportion of our population has been in the direct line of production. The plentiful or super abundant provision of nature fell lavishly into the hands of a smaller num ber than it was intended; for. That we have land enough to provide comfort and competence for every one who will work is self-evident. The iazy will be badly off under all circumstances, and neither nature nor neighbor can make them permanently contented or happy. I This the pressure of the times is at last driving the people to recognize. Men can live, and live well, on the land, if they are willing to work and use econ omy. The demand for farms, either to buy or to rent, is vastly on the increase- While rents drop continually in the cities, and town lots are unsalable at any price, farms do not anywhere beg for occupants and workers. This is not notably true in the east, where the ten dency has been for years to press toward the cities. Young men are less ambitious of rapid wealth, simply because they have become satisfied that the avenues are closed. They must learn to be patient, laborious and saving. It costs less not only cashwise.fcbut demands less exhaus tion of vital force to live in the country. This ebbing of the human tide carries back to the farm life, intelligence, and a knowledge of the world accumulated in the centers of trade and thought.—[St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Tlic Dentil of Nero. Nero wandered out into the streets of Rome, knocked at the doors of friends; none would answer to let him in. He came back to his bed room, called for Spicillus, the gladiator, to kill him, but Spicillus was gone. “ What! ” Haid he to Epaplirodilus, his secretary, who had now joined him, “ have I neither friend nor foe ? ” and he rushed out again to throw himself into the Tiber; but his courage failing him, and the reason grow ing clear once more in the face of appall ing calamity, he wished for some quiet place where he might consider his strange and sudden positiou, and collect his thoughts for death. With his head muf- Bed up, and covering his face with a handkerchief, dressed only in a tunic with an old soiled cloak thrown over his shoulder, he trudged along barefoot in the gloom of the early twilight, accom panied by Pliaon, Sporus, and Epaphro ditus. As theso four slunk from the Nomentane gate together like common wayfaring men, they could hear the soldiers in the Praetorian camp on the right cursing Nero the beast, and hailing Galba as father of his country. “They are in pursuit of Nero,” said a man as he passed them. “ Any news in the city about Nero?” asked another. There was no time to spare. They found him a broken-down horse which he mounted, and they hurried on. At last they reached the village of I’haon, parched with thirst; the Emperor lapped u ' some water with his hands from a running tank, with the bitter jeat, “This is Nero’s distilled water.” lleeropt quietly into the house on all-fours, through a hole in the wall, and threw himself on the first mattress, prostrate with hunger, misery and fatigue. Then he ordered a grave to be dug before his eyes, for he re: used to fly. He bade them pave the pit with marble, ami, weeping theatrically, be prepared, sur rounded by his only remaining friends to play his last act. “ What an artist is now about to perish !” he exclaimed, but ere the words left his lips a dispatch from Rome arrived, which he snatched out of Phaon’s hands, lie read it and shud dered. He had been condemned by the senate and beaten to death and dragged by the heels and flung into the Tiber Seizing two daggers, ho felt their points. Greek verses occurred to him and lie began to recite. He begged Hporus to set up a wall for him—to kill him —to kill himself first. At this moment the tramping of horses and clash of armed men were heard below. He broke out in a verse from the Iliad: “The noise of swift heeled steeds assails my ear.” Jn another moment he would be taken alive. “Come then, courage man I” he cried, and feebly pushed the point of the dagger into his throat. But his nerve was gone, and Epaphroditus came to ids help and pressed it home. The guards burst in and would have seisrd him. “Is this your fidelity? ’he murmured and expired, with staring eyes, to the terror of all who beheld him. It was his last pose, and, as the end of such a life, it could not have l>een out done. “Is this your fidelity?” “He had never made a better comic hit,” writes M. Kenan. “Nero uttering a j melancholy plaint over the wickedness of the age, and the disappearance of good faith and virtue ! Let us applaud ! as the drama is ended and the curtain falls. Once in history, O Nature' with a thousand masks, thou hast had the wit to find an actor worthy of such a role ” <i rand mother Miller, of Brooklyn, one hundred and six years old, says: '• Father j’ined the rebels, as they called em then. I ’member when peace was declared, though. I was about twelve years old when mother took me over to New York to see Cfen’l Washington and his army come into the city. It was, about November somewhere, in 1788. The general and the army came down from Harlem 1 remember he rode a splendid horse 1 , and (ien’l Knox was with him. I threw a bouquet in front of his horse, and he bowed to me and smiled. The troops were awful ragged, some of ’em, and my father was one of ’em.” . In the species with which we are best acquainted—namely our own—l am far, says a writer, even as an observer of human life, from thinking that youth is the happiest season, much less the only happy one. WAIFS AND WHIMS. The Cock rfncf the Sun. A cock neea the sun aa he climbs up the east ; “Goo<l morning, Sir Sun, it’s high time you ap pear ; I've been calling you up lor an hour at least; I’m inhumed of your slowness at this time of yearl” The sun, as he quietly rose into view, Loosed down on the cock with a show of line scorn; " You may not be aware, my young friend, but it’s true, That I rose once or twice before you, sir, were born!” . The pleasure of talking iH the inex tinguishable passion of woman, coeval with the act of breathing.— [Lesage. . .0. Vanderbilt, jr., is as yet quite uncertain which hurtH him most, his father’s will or his brother’s won’t. ..It is said that the latest mania of pottery decorators is to paste pictures on bald heads and coat them with varnish. ..Canon Farrar says that “Hell is a temper, not a place.” If he has that kind of wife, why doesn’t he apply for a divorce ? .. A negro teamster in Nashville de clares that he must either give up driving mules or withdraw from the church, the two positions being incompatible. ‘..“Do you see any grapes, Bob?” “ Yes, but there is dogs.” “ Big dogs, Bob Yes, very big.” “Then come along®—these grapes are not oura, you know.” '. “ Well, 1 swau, Billy,” said an old farmer to an undersized nephew who was vi-itiDg him, “ when you take of! that ’ere plug hat and spit two or three times there ain’t much left of you, is thar ?” . .Haid him to she: “What is the dif ference between a hill and a pill ?” Said her to he: “One is hard to get tip, and the other is hard to get down. It is old but good.” Said him to she, “Do you allude to the hill or the pill?” NO. 32. MIhTAKKN. The yewng mm paced the pnrlorH, While Bho was cleaning her teeth; And lie thought ol the needed dollar* Which the old man had to bequeath. The old man aat on tho counter. With hiR head between hi* bund.*, And rejoiced that the girl trad a lover Who would help him meet hi* doinnndtt. .. Definition’s artful aid : “ What is a junction, nurse?” asked a seven year old fairy, the ether day, of an elderly lady, who stood by her side on a railway platform. “A junction, my dear,” an swered the nurse, with the air of a very superior person indeed, “ why, it’s a place where two roads separates.” . .“Why haven’t you got married be fore this time of life?” querulously asked an old man of his nephew. “Well, uncle,” replied the nephew, “I’m sure it is not my fault. 1 proposed to three girls only last week, and, on comparing notes, tho whole of ’em unanimously rejected my offers.” 'Hie resident of Washington territory having heard that another man had settled in the western part of tho territory immediately applied for admission into the Union as a state, ami baspryflll*** to elect the other man fe WsJ*glsl*tnre, if the other man will pledge himself to vote for him for United States senator. THIC CHJLDBKN. All! whnt would the woild tin to in If tho children wore no more ' Wo Hboul.l dro it the doHori hohlnd ui Worne than the dark before. W Ini I tin leaves are to the foicst, Willi llijht and air and fowl, Mr,. th,lr mwooi nrnl tender Juio finvo been hardened into wood That, to the world, aro children , Throw/h them it feels the glow Of a brighter and climate Thyt reach, a the trunks below. .. A Scotchman who had gone back to his country alter a long absence, declared, after going to the kirk, that tbe whole kingdom was on the road to perdition. “The people,” lie said, “used to be re served and solemn on tbe Sabbath, but now they look as happy on that day as on any other.” . .Jennie lias strict ideas about equity in little things. When she first heard the story of the Savior's miracle in feed ing the multitude with a few loaves and fishes obtained from tbe young lad’s basket, she was awed into thoughtful and solemn amazement. Home time afterward, in the midst of a talk about other matters, she suddenly paused and asked with special concern, “Did they give back the basket to that boy ! An Old lliillfigditer’N Struggle. The London Times’ Madrid corre spondent gives this incident, of the bull fights which made a part of the festivities following the marriage of the King of ypain: Casas, aommonly called Bala manchino, is a veteran matatlor, seventy years of age, who, having figured in tjucen Isabella’s marriage festivities, wished, although he lad long retired from the field, to appear in Friday’s and Saturday’s bullfights He appeared dressed in blue, embroidered with silver; his gray hair was gathered into a knot behind ; and over his pure white shirt waved a long, red cravat. On the fourth buli being let loose he advanced toward the royal hex to request permission to encounter it. AH the torrrros clustered round him to protect him. The bull is attracted toward Salamanchino, who holds his scarlet mantle in one hand and his sword in the other. The struggle commence", but Casa* is old, he is not firm r.n his legs, his mus cle.s are not supple, his arm is not sure. Twice the bull throws him down. He is thought to be dead, but he is up again and returns to the fight. There is a cry of “ Fueral ” and pockethandkerchiefs arc waved to stop him; but the obstinate matador wishes to wiu a last laurel. Fortune,however, isunpropitious; seven times he attacks the bull, seven times he misses it. According to custom, after seven unsuccessful attacks, the bull’s life is safe, and, shaking its streamers may re enter the “ Tori!” amid the applause of the spectators; while, on the other hand its unfortunate combatant is hissed.