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THE SUNNY SOUTH.
Tribute to Biihop George F. Pierce.
TO THE MEMBERS OE THE METHODIST CHURCH,
WEST POINT, GA.
Our cherished Bishop! can my rnnse indite
A tribute worthy of a theme so bright?
Can feeble pen award what virtues claim,
Or add new lustre to a glowing fame?
It Is enough for earth and heaven to bind
Those links which yield a memory to mankind,
To draw an influence from the throne of light,
In triumph o’er the world’s destroying blight.
He needs no humble pen or mind to trace
His high demeanor through life’s glorious race,
For well his deeds in purer lustre snine,
To deck his name with radiance divine.
Whose faith and hope within the paths he trod,
Where these, “religion, country and my God.”
Of lineage high, and held with just esteem,
With all of manhood in majestic mien,
None knew, none loved, none named nim but in
praise.
The friend of all, where tender mercy sways.
Thus was he stamped, of courage and of worth,
A man of God, of blood and of Southern birth;
A herald of the cross, which ages yield
Religious character—his protecting shield.
And like the Shepherd, led by a guiding star,
He led his flock from dangerous fields afar,
In zeal that lull’d a vain ambition’s wile,
And tones that spurn’d a wretched faction’s
guile.
Hushed in bis voice! unstrung his wondrous
lyre.
No more his eloquence now glows with fire,
For death, ah! death betokens slow decay,
And holds that form in its usurping sway.
But lol—what beauty gleams from your bright
world.
In mantled splendor of soft tints unfurlded!
In jewels bright of peace and joy and love,
And all for which the sainted spirit strove!
Behold him there, where heavenly echoes float,
And hark! his voice is measuring every note,
With every breath of soul divinely strong,
To swell the rapture of that heavenly throng.
Yes, there lie reigns, and oh! for wings to bear
The pure of earth, who, too, such joys would
share,
To grasp the hand, which fairer worlds adorn,
Ana trace the bright, good resurrection morn.
Where friends meet friends “before the shrine
of tiuth.
In holy bonds renew’d with age and youth.
Immortal friends! who now behold the shrine
The faint remains of him for whom we pine—
Bear this in mind—tlie cast still lingers yet,
The heart wherein his love is firmly set.
And many a gentle thought lies bid, not lost,
in buried tears with thee, who feel the most.
But time flies on witli sure reviving ray,
And soon will bring thee to a better day,
Where heart meets heart and loving eyes be
hold.
All that they love, believed, and yet foretold.
The loved with thee in one unbroken chain,
Linked with thy God in his angelic train.
Immmortal mission! Man may emulate,
The deeds and virtues of the wise and groat,
Adoring God in all “his works displayed,”
Obeying laws which He in justice made,
The world is all before him, with Us nameless
tides.
But yet he feels no ebb where peace abides,
For in its waters sweeping, bright and strong.
Are currents tamed to bear his barque along.
This barque that bears him on returns no more,
But lands him safely on another shore,
Where all his deeds of earth and truth intense
Beam “through the clouds of death aud beckon
hence.”
Florida M. Reed.
West Point, 6a., October, 1884.
Kit
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the
BURDETTE OUREAT MEN.
He Describes How He Went to See
Schuyler Colfax.
In the earlier days, when I drew my lecture
from Its scabbard and swept like a bosom of ho
locaust across the land, I lectured one night in
Macomb, Illinois. As I passed through Buslt-
nell, I was told that I must drive up from Ma
comb that night after the lecture, because
Schuyler Colfax would pass through Buslinell
the following morning at five o’clock; he would
have an hour or two to wait for a connecting
train; the leading Citizens had arranged a little
eurjy'jbjjgakfast narty for him, thej'e would
• be much to sayrsoðing to eat and nothing to
drink, and I had been appointed one of the
speakers. There were no trains, but the dis
tance was only twelve miles, and I could drive.
Drive? I would walk. In those younger days
to meet a great man were greater than to be a
Soman, and to make a speech at a great man’s
reception—remember, brethren, I was young
then. I was not a snarling, toothless old cynic,
with ashes of disappointment on my head, and
the cinder of envious distrust in my eye. So I
went willingly, joyously, proudly.
I believe, to inset the s.ims m m, f w.rnid do it
again.
1 left Macomb at midnight. The roads were
not of the good, goody; they were of the bad,
baddy; they were prairie roads. It had been
raining on them twenty-two years off and on,
principally on. The night was darker than a
theological controversy. It was raining like a
house afire. It seemed as though old Aquarius
had got mad, pulled her wide open, threw her
over, and was running wild for the next deluge.
It thundered hard enougn to sour a man’s tem
per. When it lightened, which was nearly all
the time, you couldn’t see anything for the blind
ing glare. When it was dark, which was most
of the time, you could reach out and feel the
darkness like afog bank. Splash, splash, splash,
splash went the horses through the mud. Where
they couldn’t wade they could swim. By and
by there was a scrambling sound in tiie dark
ness. The driver would have disappeared if he
bad been apparent. As it was. without missing
anybody particula rly, I felt that I was alone.
Presently a voice came up from the darkness.
“Where are yon?” , .
I recognized the voice of my driver. I had
not seen him since we left Macomb, but lie had
been swearing all the way, and his voice had
become familiar to me. I said that I was right
where I belonged, on the seat In the buggy, and
asked where he was. He informed me that the
horses had stepped upon a fallen bridge, under
one end of which there had been a washout.
The forward wheels were resting upon the sunk
en bridge, while the hind wheels were perched
on the great round earth, which is the planet
we inhabit. This accounted for the peculiar
sensation I experienced of sitting on the roof
of a house or the side of a mountain.
The driver further told me that he had fallen
over the dashboard and was sitting between the
horses. He had the dashboard with him but
did not know what to do with it. He concluded
by asking me if I was hurt.
I told film that at first I felt a Uttle piqued at
not receiving an invitation to the bridge open
ing; but since his explanation X forgave every
thing—cheerislied no resentment. He then
suggested that I get out and walk across the
bridge while be held the horses, and I could
see fi the other end was alright.
I replied, with much feeung, that while I
could not do that. I would remain where I was
until daylight, when I could look across and
tell him how it was.
Finally he led the horses across, and we re
sumed our pleasant loitering along the dark
ened way- At the merry hour of 2:30 a m. we
reached the Bushnell, .
I was mud to the eyes, I was wet to the
hone Mv eyes burned for sleep. I had smoked
one hundred and fifty cigars on my way and
W IcrawlM| ,l hito 0l l^d just in time to hear the
or ter say it was time to get up. .
I sat up on the side of the bed, and beginning
at my neck counted 300 distinct and definite
aches and stopped at the floating ribs discour
aged I arrayed myself in my wet and muddy
r.r’........ danced merrily on to the banquet
Warren’j Observations on
Street Pedestrir
I am not exactly a mind-readei. At least, I
can’t read the average mind with such accuracy
as to insert all the words and the punctuation
where they precisely belong. I can’t, like As-
modius, lift the roof of the brain and eavesdrop
its pshyical gossip. But sometimes the leading
thoughts and purposes of the mind hangout
like the characters on a signboard and are leg
ible even to a hasty glance. To try my skill at
sketching a coup de oeil of a few of these, as
they drift along the sidewalk, I am now seated
on the marble block in front of No. 42 Marietta
street, pencil In band and scratch-book on my
lap.
A man comes heading along as Industriously
as if the assembled world were waiting his ar
rival, with breathless impatience, just up the
street. I can hardly call him a man; lie is only
a sample—full weight about ninety-five pounds,
basket and all, and a large majority of bim is
overcoat. His hat runs up like a village steeple,
but the main disorder under which he labors is
a palpitation of the feet. As he bends to his
task, with an anxious, earnest look, I discover
that he is a bailiff, burdened with the weight of
that oppressive aud responsible sense of duty
whieh is uow driving him to fulminate the thun
ders of a cost fifa.
Here comes a man who wears the profile of the
jack of hearts, with radical points of difference
in the bust and facon. He seems to have grad
uated and taken the first honors at a strutting
school, llis garments fit as well as if he hud
been melted and poured iu them; mud, solt
enough to hag a moonbeam, would not yield to
the touch more readily than that downy vest,
aud the fly wiiicii dares to set foot 011 those
pants without first pulling off his shoes deserves
to he condemned for sacrilege. Look at him;
he holds iiis iiead as if iu constant readiness to
he drenched, tries to keep straight until lie lias
become sway-backed and measures eacii step
like one who carefully calculates the distance
traveled. I read that man's thoughts as he
passes along—read all of them—index, preface,
introduction, contents and apeudix, and all are
comprised in three short words: “Behold the
man."
"Extremes will meet,” as the parent said
when he saw his baby sucking its own big toe,
and right before me is a most uontrastable anti
thesis of the man 1 have just finished. The
upper part of his body sways and tacks like a
pendulum or a ship, while tiie lower In.lf,
hitched to a number 12 brogan, wags along
without reference to anything in particular.
His eyes show they are in his head aud that’s
about all they do show, and his manner indi
cates that lie is not pestered about the affairs of
tliis transient and fitful existeuee. It is evident
that he don’t care whether Cleveland heats
Hendricks or McDaniel beats Randall, and no
conceivable adjustment of the vexed and com
plicated tariff question can possibly cause a
single, solitary wave of trouble to roll across
his peaceful breast. His cares have folded
their tents, like the Arabs, and gone off- with
out leaving word when they will be back. He is
above medium size, and there’s nothing peculiar
about Iiis apparel except that lie don't seem to
mind whether it hangs on or falls off. As 1 am
not versed in hieroglyphics or dead languages
1 can’t read that fellow’s thoughts and must,
therefore, content myself with having told wiiat
he didn't think.
Next comes a tall, stringy man, with an intel
ligent eye and a dejeeted, long-metre look. He
walks with a slow, scanning, poetical step, and
musiugs drip with each succeeding footfall.
He is soon to illuminate the world with Ins lit
erary chef d cruvre. I think iiis subject is
“Noetical Dynamics.”
There goes a poor, homeless outcast in rags
and wretchedness. Forlorn, friendless, for
saken, a victim of the despotism of the bar
room aud the gaming-table, lie wanders aim
lessly on, waiting only for the opening earth
and the descending clod. Far away are mother
and sisters whose tears and whose prayers and
whose affections are tenderly and forever iiis,
and a brother whose arm is long enough and
strong enough to give, and whose heart yearns
to lift him from the pit of degradation. But
PORTRAITS AND BIOGRAPHIES
OF DISTINGUISHED MEN
AND WOMEN.
HUGH S- THOMPSON,
Governor of South Carolina-
The popular Governor of South Carolina is a
progressive and able statesman, and the inter
ests of his State will be advanced under his
future administration, as they have been dur
ing his present one.
He was born in the year 1836. His title of
“Colonel” suggests the part he took in the strug
gle for a separate government of the Southern
States, initiated by the secession of South Caro
lina. Tiie war being over, he accepted its re
sults with ready acquiesence, and devoted Ills
powers aud influence to the repair of the social
and political fabric whieh it had disastrously
impaired. He is recognized as a leader in that
element of the population of the Southern States
Which aims at material and social advancement,
days, entered society, and became a favorite in
South End circles, and, until recently, nothing
was said to her about her parentage.
Something over a year ago the rumors and in
sinuations she heard at school took more defi
nite shape, and naturally aroused in her mind a
longing to know the truth. The truth, so far as
it was known to those with whom she lived, was
reluctantly told her, and she determined to know
the rest if possible. The handkerchief was the
only clew, and the discovery of the identity of
the parents through the mere initials seemed al
most impossible.
But patience and' perseverance accomplish
many strange things, and in time the vague clew
was traced home by a skillful attorney. He
found the owner of tne handkerchief to be the
wife of a wealthy manufacturer and the mother
of several children. The wealthy manufacturer
was no other than the youth who had applied
for rooms twenty years ago at the South End.
Nothing was said to the mother, but the father
was informed of the case, and was astonished
at the developments. He and his wife had been
told and had firmly believed that the child died
immediately after birth, and having good reasons
for remaining unknown in the matter,they had re
frained from making further inquiry, accepting
as true what was told them of tne fate of their
child.
At the time of the birth of the child the young
man was a poor book-keeper, and feared to take
upon himself the burdens of a family, but in
time he advanced, was fortunate in business
siieculations, became the employer of many
workmen, and derived an income amply sufn-
JtUGIl S. THOMPSON, Governor of Smith Carolina.
and is building up the new South with results
as astonishing as satisfactory.
in 1876 Colonel Thompson was made State
Superintendent of Education, an office which
lie held until he was elected Governor the first
time, in the year 1882. During the six years in
which he held that office he displayed great
ability, energy and liberality of sentiment. The
measures lie adopted aimed impartially at the
elevation of the entire population, both white
gained for him the popularity
cient to support iiis wife and children more than
comfortably.
When he was informed that the child of his
early love had not died at birth, but had grown
up to be an accomplished, attractive young wo
man, he was of course greatly affected, but
fearing the result to his delicate wife of any
disclosure of the truth, lie kept it carefully
from her and quietly took steps to assure him
self of tiie genuineness of the claims made.
He did not evince any disposition to deny tiie
truth, but was concerned only to establish the
identity of his daughter beyond question and
protect himself from possible imposition. A
lawyer was employed and instructed not to put
any obstacles in tiie way, but to use every means
to ascertain the facts, and then to make such
of raauly. generous, noble Impulses; that beats
warmly for a world which turns coldly to him;
that has sympathy for the suffering, forbearance
for the wayward, charity for those who err,
and only kindness, and tenderness, and com
passion for all the creatures that walk the earth
—with such a heart as this, yet pulsing its warm
blood, liks refreshing sunlight among moulder
ing ruins, he wanders on, feeling as if he were
the last, lonesome guest who lingers amid the
desolation of a “banquet hall deserted.”
Ah! here comes the Colossus of Rhodes—an
other man with a big head. A suit of clothes
the size of his feelings would be large enough
for a wagon cover—owing, probably, to the size
of the wagon. Put him on oath and you may
cover the value of his property with a home
stead, but the homestead would hardly reach
far enough to make a noticeable speck on tiie
map of his wisdom. If every man in the United
States had the opinion of himself, in proportion
to his merits, that tliis man lias, and if each had
to swear to the value of his sense and pay a tax
of one cent on every thousand, tiie government
treasury would soon be so full that tiie clerks
couldn’t get in the house without climbing down
the chimney. That gentleman is a Republican
politician. He still confidently believes Blaine
will be President during tiie uext four years,
and is just now musing upon tiie sublime gran
deur of iiis prospective mission as a minister to
the Court of St. Cloud.
Two youngsters next. Each looks like he
liad just fluttered out of a band-box and regis
tered as a life member of the beau mmide. Bob
flings himself on tiie responsibility of remarking,
“Good morning, Tobe;” to which' Tube replies,
“That's tiie very observation I was going to
have made myself. You should have been at
the hop last night.” “Yes, I intended to go, but
1 took and stumped my toe and got drunk, and
you just ought to have seen tne old captain
when I came stumbling in tiie liouse. He is al
ways eloquent on such occasions, but lie did his
level dogondest last night. He took me in at
tiie beginning of the Bible and brought me
through the apochrypha and the births and
deaths and marriages, and carried me out at
the Concordance. If it wasn’t for tiie financial
department I should want fathers abolished.
AVliat about the liop?” “Oil, we had a roaring
time, and I was the belle of the evening; I was
a perfect bridesmaid.” “Miss Ellen was the
star?” “Yes, sir; you bet your sweet life she
was, and all the boys honed and hankered and
signed for one glance of her eye-hall, and I
hitched on to her and we promenaded, and I
squoze her hand and she squeezed back. I tell
you what, that girl’s dead in love with me; hut
I wouldn’t marry her to save her life.” “Why?”
“Because her foot’s too big. But I told her for
ty thousand lies about how pretty and sweet
she was and bow much I loved her.” “Was
Miranda there?” “Yes, and she looked like an
angel that had just lit. Nature acted with the
prodigality of a spendthrift in loading one little
creature with such a wealth and luxury of
charms; hut, old fellow, you’ve got a formidable
rival.” “Formidable fiddlestick! Tom may
court on; wlien I get ready I ean, in five min
utes’ time, pull her straighter than a ten-pound
trout ever pulled a fishing-line. I could marry
the whole family and not half try, If I wanted to.
Say, Bob. let’s moisten.” Exeunt omnes, behind
the screen of the lmr-room.
Here is a stout old gentleman from the rural
districts. He wears a neat, cheap suit and has
an honest face. He is a man who tells the truth,
raiment and danced merrily
hall I sat at the festive board with smiles on
1 iv pale false face, and murder 111 my wicked
heart When the festive board did not groan, I
rif/i I was among good, kind, loving friends,
but'thelrword'of cheer fell upon an iev heart,
y ' 1 1 wanted to crawl under the table and go to
— I meant all the true and
fieantHulMnus I said about him that morning,
and hewili farffive me when he knows that i
wmit‘back'to my hotel’and went to sleep
1 wtiii uuuR j nr .,n mv room, before
boiler to cRtcIi a Picket witb «i drp*
fax, wearing a water’s white
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f >ays his debts, loves iiis family and discharges
■is duty. He has an easy conscience and Iiis
mind is at present engaged in no weightier em
ployment than that of exercising his lips in the
pucker necessary for raising the tune in church
next Sabbath.
There goes a frying-sized spring chicken las
sie, Just a little to the cradle side of sweet six
teen. She is as fresh and lovely as a new-blown
rose. She lias a kissalile lip, a hugable waist,
and a squeezable hand. She is going to a dry
goods store on Whitehall street, and she’ll make
the fur fly when she gets there. Her thoughts
are all mixed up and messed up. She is think
ing of poetry and bangs and velvets and music,
and whether tiie shoes shall be round-toed or
square-toed, and whether they shall b>Uon or
lace; and she’s thinking of furs and iRrtffli and
pretty boys, and how she will show offlrol shine
out at the next german, and, I declare. I am not
able to untangle the skein of her reflections;
besides, tiie five minutes are gone and I must
step over to the office and hand in my manu
script. K. J. Warren.
The New York Journal reports that a Brook
lyn girl has just made a beautiful evening dress
out of an old pair of silk brocade curtains. The
brocade was dampened and pressed out on the
wrong side. The dress is made princesse and
cut with a short, round train. The silken cords
and tassels knotted about the waist, and, falling
at one side, are both fashionable and becoming.
Soft oriental lace ornaments adorn the neck and
sleeves. This same young lady made a very
pretty shoulder cape out of an old dress-coat be
longing to her brother. The shoulders are
slightly puffed, and the whole lined with the
bright sflk of the sleeves. A baud of velveteen
forms the trimming.
and colored, and g;
which gave him a majority of 50,000 votes wlieii
he “ran” for Governor in i882.
A gentleman of good breeding and education,
an enlightened statesman and large-hearted
man, Governor Thompson, of South Carolina,
ranks with the most useful and honored of out
public men. j reparation as could be made for the year^of
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Of course the father had not striven to aswir-
ain absolutely the fate of the infant. He had
made a mistake in his youth, had done all that
ne could to conceal ana repair it for the sake of
his wife, and was naturally disposed to accept
the story that had been told him of the fate of
the child. He had regarded the past as dead
and buried, and was not anxious to recall it un
necessarily. But when the truth was made
known to him he blamed himself for his indif
ference, and for the trouble he had, permitted
others to experience.
It was ail easy matter to establish the truth
when once the clew was found, and in time a
settlement was made to the satisfaction of all
concerned, without making known the story to
the manufacturer’s wife and family. The lat
ter know nothing to this day of the story of tha
ABANDONED WHEN A BABY,
TO Find Her Father and Mother Af
ter Twenty Tears-
It was about twenty years ago when a young
couple applied to a lady at the South End of
Boston for rooms and board. The ostensible
husband was a mere youth, 19 years of age,
and the lady was but a young girl, perhaps a
year or two his junior. They were quiet, modest
appearing people, and won the confidence of the
lady and her family at once. When the young
MLLE. GIGLIO NORDICA, of the Paris Grand Opera*
woman’s condition became apparent the lady’s
womanly sympathies were at once aroused, and
she did everything possible for the comfort of
tiie prospective mother and attended her with
assiduous care. But, strange to say, the sup
posed young wife appeared greatly disturbed,
and immediately after tiie birth of the child the
young couple disappeared, leaving the infant
in care of tiie lady with whom they had boarded,
but no clew to their own identity or movements
other than a marked handkerchief which they
had misplaced and forgotten. Inquiries were
fruitless, and it was evident that fictitious names
had been given.
There was but one chance In a hundred that
tiie infant could live, but careful nursing and its
own strong vitality kept it alive, and it became
one of the family. No trace of the parents
could be found, and finally all efforts to discover
them were abandoned And so the little girl
grew up in ignorance of her origin, regarding
the people with whom she lived as her own
kindred and being treated in all respects as
though such were the truth.
But there were whispers here and there that
she was not the daughter of the lady whom she
called mother, and at school this sometimes
came to her ears through the gossip of children,
and caused her to wonder what it all meant.
The years passed by and the child grew to
young womanhood. She was given a good edu
cation, acquired the accomplishments whieh
most girls of well-to-do families possess in these
lettered handkerchief, and perhaps never will
know. The heroine of this romance of real life
has never seen her father, and still lives with
the lady whom she has always regarded as
mother, and who has always been to nerall that
the name mother implies. Reparation has been
made, so far as is possible, without controversy
or the intervention of the courts, and none but
the persons directly interested need know the
names of the characters In this strange drama.
PERSONAL MENTION.
What tne People Are Doing and
Saying.
Major General Hanoook will retire from
the army in February, 1888.
Colonel Ingernoil says that when a man
lovee a woman she never grows old to him.
The new residence of ex-Oongreaaman W,
D. Washburn, at Minneapolis, is said to be
the finest in the West.
A movement has been made by State
Senator Wiokham, of Virginia, to ereot a
monument over the grave of ez-President
John Tyler.
General MoLean has written a letter in
which he says that the Oonnt de Paris as his
aide-de-camp was all that a brave man and
soldier Bhould be.
Murray Hill, the aristocratic locality of
New York City, was named after Lindley
Murray, the famous grammarian of the last
century.
Viotor Hugo enjoys ospital health, except
ing occasional twenges of neuralgia, and
takes great interest in the plans for his new
house, which will be a real palaoe.
The Czar of Russia is said to be growing
quite gray, and to bear on his faoe the
wrinkles of premature old age, induced by
worry and anxiety.
Mr. Moody, who has just been holding
services in Toronto, Canada, begins to show
his age. His onoe blaok hair and whiskers
are now tinged with gray,
r Francis D. Moulton was bnried yesterday
afternoon. Tnere were no pall-bearers.
Moulton’s will, it is understood, contains
provisions for the disposal of the Beecher-
Tilton documents, which have been in his
possession.
Mr. Charles S. Voorhees, a son of United
States Senator Voorhees, of Indiana, who
has been elected as a Congressional Dele
gate from Washington Territory, appeared
as Hamlet in an Indianapolis theater some
years ago for one night only.
Seoretary Lincoln has turned over to the
Seoretary of the Navy the oharge of matters
oonneoted with the unveiling of the Dupont
statue, reeently ereoted in Washington.
The statue will be unveiled on the 20th inst.,
and Senator Bayard will deliver the oration
on that oooasion.
Mr. Crittenden, the Governor of Missis
sippi, and Mr. Campbell, the Lieutenant
Governor, threw their hands in the air when
they met in Washington the other day.
Each supposed the other playing the part of
Chief Executive in Missouri, whieh State
was unknowingly left without an offioial
head.
The oolleagues of Senator Salsbury say
that twenty-four years ago he took a vow
that he would not marry until a Democratic
President had been elected. Though now
sixty-six years old, the gossipers intimate
that the sturdy old Delaware Senator is
looking for an intelligent young woman who
is a good Democrat, and when he finds suoh
a one as pleases him there will be a wed
ding.
A Washinton correspondent says he heard
Mrs. Blaine say at Augusta, when the elec
tion was still in doubt: “Oh, there is noth
ing that can ever pay for the agony and suf
fering of this summer. No White Honse,
no power oan ever compensate me for what
I have been oalled upon to endure since we,
against onr will, gave up the peaoe and quiet
of a happy home for this season of perfect
misery.”
The editor of the St. Louis Chronicle re
cently received an autograph letter from
"Onida,” the novelist, whioh doses so foi-
?orm£"isSn'i5ti'?a * j
true regarding me in the newspapers. The
Boston Herald some three or four years ago
had a long tissue of falsehoods about me,
and described my housekeeper as myself.
‘Ouida,’ Louise de la Ramie, Florenoe, Italy,
November 11.”
Miss Mary Caldwell, a wealthy Catholio
lady of Baltimore, has given $300,000 to be
need for the establishment of a Catholio uni
versity for the better^ducation of the priest
hood, on the plan proposed by Bishop
Spanlding. The Plenary Gonnoil has ao-
oepted the gift.
Mr. Matthew Arnold, the English author
and literary critic, has fully determined to
resign his offioial position next year, and
visit Amerioa and leotnre in the West and
South. His daughter will be married to
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The key of fate is in our own hands; weofte"
unlock it and then throw the key away.—Anto
Even as late as the time of Henry VIII.,
all foreign artifioers were prohibited from
working in England.
It was formerly a common superstition
that toothaohe was oansed by a little worm,
having the form of an eel, whioh gradually
gnawed a hole in a tooth.
Manlius, the Boman, is said to have put
his own son, though victorious, to death for
disobeying orders, and Cassius Brntns killed
a son who had negotiated with the enemy.
Abraham paid 400 shekels of silver ($200)
for a piece of land for a bnrial plaoe. In
Solomon’s time it is mentioned the prioe of
ohariot from Egypt was 600 shekles
($250.) The prioe of a horse was 150 shek
els (abont $72.)
Boar hunting in former times was a fa
vorite recreation. In the Middle Ages the
destruction of a wild boar ranked among
the deeds of chivalry and won for a warrior
almost as much renown as slaying an enemy
in the open field.
As early as 119 A. D. we hear that Hermes,
a prefect of Rome, being oonverted, pre
sented 1250 slaves for baptism, all having
boon freed. Another prefect, Chromatins
(284 A. D.,) after his conversion to Christi
anity, is related to have freed forty slaves,
first having baptized them.
Aooording to a vulgar error, current in
by gone times, the elephant was supposed
to have no joints, a notion which is said to
have been first recorded from tradition by
Ctesias, the Cnidian. Sir Thomas Browne
has entered largely into this Bnperstition,
arguing from reason, anatomy and general
analegy with other animals the absurdity of
the error.
In 1687 an excise doty on tobaooo was
laid in England, whieh alarmed the Virginia
planters, and they attemped to retaliate by
procaring acts of the assembly for the enoonr-
agement of domestio mannfaotnres. that
they might import less from the Mother
Country. King James disallowed these aets
as hostile to English interests. A similar
attempt failed in Maryland.
The wife of the Consol of Cologne, Retoh-
mnth, apparently died of the plages in 1571.
A ring of great value, bnried with her,
timptea the enpidity of the gravedigger,
and was the oanse of many fntnre years of
happiness. At night the pnrloiner marohed
to his plnnder, and she revived. She lived
to be the mother of three ehildren, and,
when really dead, she was reburied in the
same church where a monument was erreot-
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recited in German verse.
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