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About Weekly constitutionalist. (Augusta, Ga.) 185?-1877 | View Entire Issue (April 27, 1870)
Mtft wc cklii Constitutionalist. BY STOCKTON. * CO. OUR TERMS. fche following are the rates of Subscription: llfc Daily, one year.... |lO 00 one year..... $3 00 Dead in the Street. Rfifcnder the lamp-light, dead in the Btreet, |H!|. Delicate, lair, and only twenty, There she lies, Face to the skies, : ' Starved to death in a city of plenty. Spurned by all that is pure and sweet, Shßsed by busy and careless feet— Hundreds bent upon lolly and pleasure, Hundreds with plenty of time and leisure— jbeieure to speed Christ’s mission below, K To teach the erring and raise the lowly— - ipenty in Charity’s name to show liat life has something divine and holy. >ted charms—classical brow, cate featnres—look at them now; k at her lips—once they could smile; i —weil, uever more shall they beguile : errnore, nevermore words ol hers blnsh shall bring to the saintliest face, had found, let ns hope and trust, ace in a higher and better place, j yet, despite ot all, still I ween, ol some hearth sh“ must have been, e fond mother, lond of the task, is stooped to finger the dainty curl; e proud lather has bowed to ask blessing for her, his darling girl. 1 to think, as we look at her there, 11 the tenderness, love and care, melv'watching aud sore.heart-ache, AH the agony, burning tears, Joys and sorrows, hopes and fears, eathed and suffered lor her sweet sake. :y will pintnre a home afar, where the daisies and buttercups are, where life-giving breezes flow, from those sodden streets, foul and low ; :y will picture a lonely hearth, an angel couple dead to mirth, eliug beside a bed to pray, ping awake o’nights to hark a thing that may come in the rain and the dark— |s* gi hollow-eyed woman with weary feet; Better they never know She whom they cherished so l| Lies this night lone and low— I Dead in the street. Vaccination. A FABLE, ofrA cow and a chemist once sat by a stream I That ran through a meadow so fair; ■The cow calculating the cost of her cream, I The chemist the weight of the air. ■ At length said the Chemist, observing the cow, “ Maybe yon can give some Idea ■ On a question now causiog no end of a row, @ And important to peasant and peer. ■ “Ids said that if lymph be extracted from you, And unto man’s system conveyed, 4 He will never have small-pox—but yet not a T This ioefri nit have' wholly gaiusayed.” I Said the cow : .“ I can’t argue a question like this; X know nothing of yon or your blood ; You’ve spoiled my post-prandial moments of I bliss — I was quietly chewing the end." “Oh, fie!” said the chemist; “you will not declino To argue the question at all; You give your opinion, and I will give mine, And an umpire p’raps we can call.” * “ Look here!” said the cow, “ though the plan may be odd, To decide the moot point I can see The way is most clearly to try Tommy Dodd— I’ll toss you which way it shall be.” So she tossed the old chemist right over the stream, And smashed his silk chapeau —his best— And resuming her thoughts on the cost of her cream, She quietly lay down to rest. | Only bruised was the chemist—he luckily fell On a bank of the downiest moss ; I Though he might have argued uncommonly well, He had certainly lost in “ the toss.” At Home. BY CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI. When I was dead, my spirit turned To seek the mnch frequented house; X passed the door, and saw my friends » Feasting beneath green orange boughs; From band to band they poshed the wine, They sucked the pulp of plain and peach ; They sang, they jested and they langhed, For each was loved of each. I listened to their honest chat; Baid one: “ T o-mprrow we shall be Plodding along the featureless sands, And coasting miles and miles of sea.” Said one: “ Before the torn of tide We will achieve the eyrie-seat.” Said one: “ To-morrow shall be like To-day, but much more sweet” “To-morrow,” said they, strong with hope, And dwelt upon the pleasant way; “ Tomorrow,” cried they, one and all, While no one spoke of yesterday. Their life stood fall at blessed noon ; 1, only I, had passed away ; “ To-morrow and to-day," they cried ; I was of yesterday. I shivered comfortless, but cast No chill across the table-cloth; I. all forgotten, shivered, sad To stay, and yet to part how loath ; X passed from tte familiar room, I, who from love bad passed away, Like the remembrance of a guest That tarneth bnt a day. My Lost Rose, i ' Yon clasp to-day your perfect rose, Full-blown, a rare and tender flower, And jnstly, for yon wisely chose, With faith in love’s transforming power. And this the bud I threw away! Because, pooedool, I could not see That, bidden deep within, there lay The perfect flower that was to be. Wbat matter that my heart’s desires Seemed then her gentle sphere above t No height to which a man asplrss Can prove too high for woman’s love. My soul has longed snd struggled so Through all the years, unloved, slope. O, Hod! It breaks my heart to kuow Her deer love might h»ve been my own. Wall, ’Us not heat that J complain, Not Iters tbs fault that I was blind ; ■ Yet not In all this world of pstn 1 Mball I nuoiber ross-bod Audi Jim Smiley’s Frog. MARK TWAIN’S MASTERPIECE. We make no apology for publishing for the second or third time, “Jim Smiley’s Frog.” It is a production which is des tined to “go the rounds ” for many years, as one of the richest specimens of Ameri can humor: JIM smiley’s frog. He cotched a frog one day and took him home, and said he cal’lated to educate him; and so he never done nothing for three months but sit in his back yard and learn the frog how to jump. And you bet he did learn him too. He’d give him a little punch behind, and the next minute you’d see the frog whirling in the air like a doughnut—see him turn a summerset, and maybe a couple, if he got a good start, and come down flat-footed aud all right like a cat. He got him up so in the mat ter of catching flies, and kept him in prac tice so constant, that he’d nail a fly every time as far as he could see him. Smiley said that all the frog wanted was education, and he could do almost any thing, and I believe him. Why, I’ve seeu him set Daniel Webster down here on the floor—Daniel Webster was the name of the frog—aud sing out: “Flies, Dan’l, flies,” aud quicker’n you could wiuk he’d spring up and shake a fly oflTn the counter there and flop down on the floor again as solid as a gob of mud, and fall to scratching the sideof his head with his hind foot as in different as if he hadu’t no idea he’d done any mor’n any frog might do. You never seed a frog so modist and stnpglitfor’ard as he was, for all he was so gifted.— And when it came to a square jumping on a dead level, he could get over more ground at one straddle than any animal ot his breed you ever see. Jumping on a dead level was his strong suit, you under stand, and when it come to that, Smiley was monstrous proud of his frog, and well he might be, for tellers that have traveled and bin everywhere all said that he laid over every frog that they seed. Well, Smiley kept the beast In a little lattice box, and he used to fetch it down town sometimes, and lay for a bet. Once a feller—a stranger in camp, he. was—came across him with his box, and says: “ What might it be you’ve got in the box ?” And Smiley sorter indifferent like: “It might be a parrot, or It might be a canary, maybe; but It ain’t, it’s only just a frog.” And the feller took it and looked at it careful, and turned it around this way and that, aud says: “ H’m—so’tis. Well, what’s he good for?” “ Well,” Smiley Says, easy and careless, “ he’s good enough for one thing, I should judge—he can out jump any frog in Cala veras county.” The feller took the bQX again and took -another long and particular look, and gives it back to Smiley, and says very deliberate: “ Well, I don’t see no points about that frog that’s any better’n any other frog.” “ Maybe you don’t,” Smiley said. Maybe you understand frogs, and maybe you don’t, understand ’em; maybe you ain’t only an amateur, as it were. Anyways I’ve got ray opinion, and I’ll risk forty dollars that he can outjurap any frog in Calaveras county;" And the feller studied a minute or two, and then says kinder sad like: “ Well, I’m only a stranger here, and I ain’t got dp frog, but If I had a frog I’d bet you.’’ “And then Smiley says: “That's all right. That’s all right. If you’ll hold my box a minute Til go and get you a frog;" and so the-feller took the box, and put up his forty dollars along with Smiley’s and sat down to wait. So he sat there a good while, thinking to hisself, and tuk the frog out and pried open his mouth and took a teaspoon and filled him full of quail shot—filled him pretty near up to the chin, and set him on the floor. Smiley, he went out to the swamp and slopped around in the mad for a long time, and finally he ketched a frog and fetched him In, and ghne him to the feller, and says: “ Now, if you are ready, set him along side of Daniel with his forepaws just even with DanTs, and I’ll give you the word. Then he says, “ one—two—three—jump!” and him and the feller tonched up the frogs from behind, and the new frog hopped off lively, but Dan’l gave a heave, histed up his shoulder—so—like a Frenchman, but it wasn’t no use; he couldn’t budge; he was planted as solid as an anvil, and he couldn’t no more stir than if he was anchored out. Smiley was a good deal surprised, and he was disgusted, too, but he didn’t have no idea what the matter was, of course. The feller took the money and started away, and when he was going out of the door he sorter jerked his thumb over bis shoulder—this way—at Dan’l, and says again, very deliberate, “ Well, I don’t see no other points about that frog that’s any better’n than any other frog.” Smiley he stood scratching hla head and looking down at Dan’i a long time, and at last he says: “I do wonder what In the nation that frog throwed off for; I wonder 11 there ain’t something the matter with him; he ’pears to look mighty baggy some how ;" and he ketched Dan’l by the nape of the neck, and lifted him up, and says, “ Why, blame my cat if he don’t weigh five pounds,” and tnrned him up-side down, and he belched ont a doable handful of shot, and then he see how it was, and he was the maddest man! He set the frog down and took after that feller. Bat he never ketched him. A Mastodon’s Jaw-— Professor Shep ard has in his possession at the laboratory of the Medical College, the lower Jaw of a young male mastodon. It is about two feet long. Prom the fact that the teeth are not worn at all, as wonld be the case with an older animal, It l« Judged that the for mer possessor of this Jaw was young and a male. It had two tusks In the lower Jaw, about a foot long. This law was dog up at Phosphaterllle, near the Eight-mile Pump, on the Northeastern Railroad. Other por tions of the body, such as the ankle bones, vertebra, Ac., have been found, but unlike this Jaw, were so decayed as to scarcely bear handling. The cranium has not been found. The herblferous beast which chew ed with this jaw, although young, must have lawn between eleven and twelve feet high, and about eighteen fu*l long. “ There were giants In those days."— UKarluUtn Ntttt. The subject of uniforming tits police of the cities of Hoam and Atlanta Is tow- j mended by Ihe local press, AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MOBNING, APBIL 27, 1870. (From the Sew York Son, April 4. The Electric Faro Box. THE GREATEST GAMBLING INVENTION OF THE AGE—ELECTRICITY MUZZLED BY THE SKIN-GAME KEEPERS. One of the most ingenious inventions for fraud and deceit ever introduced to the “sporting fraternity” has recently been placed on private exhibition for the in spection of a lew select gamblers. It con sists of an electric faro box, so constructed as to permit cards to be secretly drawn, at the will of the dealer, without the possi bility of the manner in which the move ment is made being detected. It will be necessary first to say to those who have never fought the tiger that a faro box is a very simple affair, usnally made of sonic kind of metal, and is used to hold the cards, which are presumed to be drawn singly while the game Is being played, un til the whole pack is exhausted. Every second card shown, except tlie first card, which is called “soda,” wius throughout the game. The first card shows loses. This is the rale, although there are a few technical exceptions. The box is usually about four inches by three in size, and is fitted with springs which press the cards to the top, whence they are released byjbe ing pressed through a slot. In all square games bnt one card is passed through the slot at a time, although there are accom modation boxes which permit of more be ing drawn. Cheating is thought to be quite as dis honorable among professionable gamblers as among gentlemen who uever gamble, but if the thing can be reduced to a science, then it becomes a mere matter of skill; and this is the light in which some view the recent invention. The electric faro-box is very similar in construction to the box now in ordinary use amoug gamblers, except that it is inva riably made of steel or iron; and the springs for pressing the cards up are spiral instead of elliptic. Through one of these springs rnns a wire which controls the magnet in the box. The table upon which the box rests is fitted in the usual plain way with the lay out, the check-rack and cases. Upon the lay out, however, depends very much of the success of the fraud.— This unpretending article is usually only a board covered with cloth, upon which Is fastened one of each of the several denomi nations of cards in a full pack. Those cards when used in connection with the electric faro box, are oxidized aud placed upon the cloth in such a way as to com pletely dispel all suspicion of their charac ter. This is a part of the secret of the in vention, and Is claimed to be an entirely new thing In the science of electricity.— Attached to these cards, and running from each separately, are fine copper wires, which are placed under the lay-out board and run down through one of the table legs, where they connect with * tottery under the floor. The cards used may be of the copinion kind, but before being placed In the box they are immersed in a po’werful magnetic solution, which W also held as a secret. Wheu the game is about to open, and the dealer takes his seat, the table lias the ap pearance of a very ordinary piece of gam bling furniture. The box Is produced and placed upon the table, immediately over a strip of oxidixed cloth, highly charged with electricity, and the game begins. All the cards being magnetized, both in and out of the box, the current of electricity is made complete by a magnet skilfully adjusted in the box, which is always under the control of the dealer. As all money at a faro bank is usually represented by chips, some weight is placed upon a card when a bet of any importance is made—for ten or a dozen chips will weigh several ounces. So sensi tive are the cards on the lay-out that the slightest pressure is at once telegraphed to tlie representative cards in the box, and in consequence of their becoming magnetized they cannot be made to win unless the deal er breaks the current of the electricity. This is done by an ingenious contrivance which detaches the magnet in the box when the current is off. Otherwise the cards, having been prepared for the pur pose, would come out in pairs of doubfe, very mnch after the fashion of braces nsed in all skin games. This is not easy of ex planation, except that every card on the lay-out corresponds with four similar cards in the pack, and that they are severally magnetized, so that any card upon which a bet is made must lose if permitted to come out double with another card. This is done through the slot, which is so arranged that a slight piece of steel can be moved so as to increase or diminish the aperture. In this manner the deal can be changed—a pro ceeding that all gamblers will readily un derstand. Estimated Cost of a Bam, in Pauis.— The. Prefect of Paris lately gave bis an nual ball at the City Hall. The following is an estimate of the expenditures necessi tated by the festivities: Franca. Expenses of the Prefect for gas and ornamentation....- 50,000 Refreshments and wines 250,000 Service 10,000 Music 4,000 i.adies. Toilets, not Including diamonds.. 852 600 Flowers, natural and artificial... 21,000 Gloves L 10,000 Shoes 25,000 Underclothing 11,700 Perfumery and hair-dressing 15,000 OENTI-EMEN. Gloves and cravats 30,000 Hair-dressing 2,700 Linen 2,000 Tailors’and hatters’ bills 48,000 Carriages for gentlemen and ladles 20,000 Pour bolre to the drivers 1,200 Total 1,853,800 In American dollars, about $270,000. This sum, divided by the number of guests (10,000), makes the expense to every In dividual twenty-seven dollars. We ask our ladles to examine the Items of the above accounts, and compare them with the corresponding cost here. They will And that It is pretty expensive everywhere to attend a dress ball, although the gloves, laces, head-dresses slid flowers are mode In Paris, and are thers about three limes as, cheap as here. The Hsvsnneh AiltorUttr says that Judge Hehley has decided that a clerk's salary la j not subject to garnishment. * (From the Richmond Dispatch, April 11. Horrible Affair in Richmond, Va. INSANITY, STARVATION AND DEATH—FULL PARTICULARS OF THE SHOCKING OCCUU , RENCE. Persons residing or having business in the lower part of the city are familiar with an old weather-beaten one-story framed house located on the south side of Main street between Twenty-second und Twen ty-third. It has been occupied for years by two persons of advanced age named James and Nancy Hayes. They were brother and sister. The man had the repu tation of being deranged, but as he rarely left the house, few people knew anything about him ; while the woman (sometimes called Mrs. Michaud) was known to be eccentric. They made a living apparently by raising poultry and keeping cows, though rumor said there was a good deal of money stowed away in the bouse. Yesterday morning a chimney in a house near by took fire, and one of the neighbors, wondering why Mrs. Hayes did not come out during the excitement, entered the gate, and knocking at the door, which is in the rear of the bouse, was met by James Hayes,-who said his sister was asleep, nod had been asleep several days. The neigh bor, insisting upon entering, found the woman lying dead updn a bnndie of rags, ard covered with dirty bed-clothes, in a corner of tlw room. Further investigation discovered the fact that she had been dead a long time—the flesh being decomposed in many places, and the face so marred and discolored as to make her identification, but fqr the locality in which the body was found, a doubtful matter. Hityes, who talked rationally on some subjects, being questioned, said his sister had been lying there twelve or fourteen days. When stye first laid down, he said, she complained of something like erysipelas and pains In her back, arms"and legs, and wished she was dead. After a day or two she quieted, and then he took it for granted she had gone to sleep, and waited alt this time for her to wake. In the meantime he had nothing to eat, and had lived, accord ing to his account, on water and coffee.— Being asked why he did not get something from the neighbors, he replied that he Was waiting for his brother Sam to cohie home from Philadelphia, and that he "hadn’t been off the lot for sixteen years.” The fact of the finding of the body was communicated to Deputy Coroner Beabrook, of Mayor Ellyson’s police, and soon After to the first police station. Representatives of both the police forces now on duty in the city were soon on the ground and the house was rearched by Captain Parker. H 6 found in an old chest a bag containing about |BOO In Confederate money, $lB In Federal currency, and a dollar or two In nickels and coppers. In tire out-hou»»« were fottpd the. carcases Of’tWb’ fineCHlleS, whose death had been caused bv starvation, anti all the domestic anfniafs about the establishment had shared the same fate. Nbthfng further worthy of note was ob served except the entire absence of every thing edible. Hayes was with great difficulty induced to leave tlie miserable hove! of which for a week past he had beerl the sblitnry occu pant. He moaned jflteonsly that "he couldn’t leave his sister," and then tnunj bled something about a secret which he couldn’t tell. The officers took him to the first police station, and on the way he told them again that it was sixteen years since he had been on 'the street. Oonilng near the old Union Hotel, he exclaimed, as though recognizing an did friend, “ Why, there’s the Union Taverfi!” At the station he was given something to eat and drink, and was very tractable. Ifi the afternoon a jury was empanelled by Deputy Coroner Beabrook, with E. A. J. Clopton as foreman, but little testlmooy was produced. Mr. Timothy Kerse testi fied that he knew the deceased, and that some weeks ago, when she was suffering with a sore foot, his wife hart dressed It several times. Hi nee that time witness had seen nothing of either Miss Nancy or her brother until this morning, when her death Was discovered as above related. The jury rendered- a verdict of “ death from natural causes.” This singular and shocking affair has, of course, excited much comment In the lower part of the city, and the interest in the case is Increased by the fact that Mr. Samuel C. Hayes, a former resident of Church Hill, was a brother of the de ceased, and that she has respectable and wealthy relatives now residing In Philadel phia. It Is said that Mr. Hayes has fre quently tried to get her to leave her miser able dwelling for better quarters, but with out success. Couldn’t Find the Verdict.—At a re cent session of one of the courts of South Carolina, an entire negro jnry was em pannelled. A case was brought before them, the witnesses examined, and the at torneys made their respective arguments. The jadge, after laying down the law and recapitulating the testimony, gave the papers Into the hands of the foreman, a rattier intelligent looking darky, with instructions as soon as they fonnd a ver dict to bring It in withoat fail. Thirty minntes or more elapsed, when the Jury returned, headed by the fore man, and stood before the judge. As the foreman appeared to hesitate, the judge inquired : “ Mr. Foreman, have you fonnd a ver dietr “ No, Massa J udge, we habn’t found ’em no how,” replied the ebony juryman. “ It’s a very plain case," said the ludge. “ Can’t help it, massa—couldn’t see It,” replied ebony again. “ On what grounds,” Inquired the Judge. “ We didn’t look into de grounds, Massa Judge,” replied the foreman; “de osslferdld not take ns out Into de grounds, but he tuck us Into a room and locked ns In, and tole os when we fonnd de verdict he would less us oat. Bo we liegin to find de verdict, and ssreh every nook, corner, crevls, and eberytlng derc was In flat room, but we found no verdfes—no nuflln ob de klne dar.” The Hartlnsburg (West Virginia) Union puts at rest an Item which has long been on Its rounds through the press by saying that Hells Jioyd's mother resides In ml if more, and not In M*rtln»burg, and that IP-lle Moyd herself, who Is hopelessly In sene, has been for months an Inmate of tits Mount Hope Asylum, near Halil more ’ {From the Kalamasoo (Mich.) Telegraph. The Martyrs of the Trapeze. SOMETHING OF THE HISTORY OF AN ACROBA TIC FAMILY. Seeing in many city papers an account of an accident which occurred lu Baltimore recently to little Zoe De Lave, site first female gymnast In this country, and the first female that performed the now less novel feat of “ the flying tntpete," lam tempted to write for your readers a few facts concerning the troupe of which she is a member. My Information Is from a lady who became acquainted with them during a stay of a week or two they made at a hotel at Grass Valley, Cal. The “De Lave Troupe,” or “family,” consists of Monsieur (whose specialty and sole part of their entertainment is an act on the tight rope), his wife, a German girl about 21 years now, and who is advertised as Lila, and Zoe, a child about 12 years old, his daughter by a former marriage. In Mie first part of their entertainment, before the real fatiguing busiuesscommences, Lila dances someof the fancy dances, well known in the days of the ballet. Then shd and Zoe do the double and single trapeze, rings, parallel bar, Ac., In sort, all the business that the Hanlons are so famous for, only that they do different parts mnch more rapidly than the Hanlons. Zoe also' does an act on the tight-rope. M. De Lave once crossed Niagara river on a rope, with Zoe, then six years old. walking In front of him. One of her feats Is for Lila to precipitate herself from the gallery celling of * theatre, clutching a trapeze or ring hanging from about the oeutre of the celling, where she hangs by her feet, and Zoe flings herself to her, Is caught and is again flung to some one on the stage, whose business- it is to catch her, and who does It or not, as the case may be, as we had an instance of iq, Philadelphia this Fall. Mrs. Be Lave has warned her husbaud .time and agalq that the child was getting too heavy, and. some day she should be unable to catch her. This and the flying trapeze act are the most dangerous of all the feats they attempt, and in doing these Zoe Is continually missing her hold, and has narrowly escaped death several times. Theso girls detest the life they are obliged to lead. Mrs. De Lave says every night, when she goes upon the ropes, the cold perspiration, started by sheer horror, breaks Out over her, so the rosin put there to prevent slipping will not stay upon her hands, Bhe enters upon every performance with a protest. Zoe has musical talent that, if cultivated, would lead to fortune much quicker than the means she at pres ent is obliged to ado(»t. She Is small of her age. Blender, though very muscular— her face thin and peaked—she is not what would be called a pretty child. She Is Ig norant—does not even know how to read. Shots self-willed—will not even venture upon either tight or slack ropes until sat isfied, they arc securo. lfcr father has ed ucated her to beljeve (hat ns long as he stands by the rope or'bar she will never be hurt, at least, dangerously. This, of course, gives her confidence. He excuses his,stern ness to them by saying that unless they do Just as he orders they 'would, in many In stances, have becii killed. But this will never palliate the brutalities he was known to have been guilty of lu Philadelphia. At the time my informant met them, De Lave was Independently wealthy, and promised, after exhibiting Zoe at the Paris Exposi tion, she should be withdrawn and placed In a convent to be educated. But the pledge has been broken, aud last month she was so Injured in Baltimore that It was thought she wonld be-n cripple for life, and sol suppose her life will be held thus cheap ly by her inhuman father until she is crip pled, or death Intervenes and sets her free from dally contact with the things she loathes. Knowing this, aud that there are parallel cases, as for instance the apprentices the Hanlons have, one canDOt but wish that freedom might always be the reward of bravery, and wonder which Is tlie most to blame for this cruelty to these girls-—the Frenchman, De Lave, or the real power be hind the throne, the.public, who patronizes and applauds these life-imperilling per formances? A Mummy. A MAN DIES AND REMAINS UNDISCOVERED FOR FOUR MONTHS. (From the Now York Tribune, 14th. On the first day of December last George O. Colt left his home at the corner of Bcv enty-flfth street and Beeond avenue. He did not return, and search was mads for him, but the (inly trace of the missing man that could be found, either by the police or by his relatives, was that afforded by the conductor of a Third avenue car, who said that on December 8d Colt rode up town with him, left the car at Seventy-fifth street and went in the direction of bla home.— About ten days afterward Mrs. Colt, find ing that her husband did not return, re moved with her three chlkhen to the house of a relative in another part of the city. Before leaving she noticed that one of the doors of the outhouse, which closed with a spring lock, and which herself and family had been in the habit of using, was fastened. She hud no key, aud made no attempt to open it. Nothing more was heard of the missing man until last Tues day. Some boys were playing hide and seek in the yard in the rear of the house, and one of them climbed ou the roof of the outhouse, and, looking through an aper ture In the unused compartment, saw a man In a sitting postnre. Knowing that the door of the compartment hod not been opened for several months, the lsd informed hla companions, and they also climbed up and looked In. As no movement was made by the man, the boys became alarmed, and acquainted some of the Inmates of the tenement of their discovery. The door of the outhouse was forced open, aud the In mate was found to be dead. The body had apparently been there for a long time. Jt had the appearance of a mummy, so dry and shriveled was It. Htrsnge to say, no offensive odor was emitted. Bo completely was the apixmrauca of the body changed tint none of the neighbors recognized It. From pipers found on the body, Jiowevcr, It win ascertained that he was none other than Mu mlselng man Colt. Yesterday Coroner Hollins commenced an Investigation Into the elreurnslanoes connected with the slfbli’. Neversl week* before the dlsapiMtarsnoe of Colt he was seriously Injured at a fin. i VOL. 29. NO. 17 It is conjectured that In returning home, instead of going to his apartments, he went Into the outhouse and died without being able to call for assistance. Phases of the “ Leg Business.”— Mrs. Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie writes as fol lows from England : Upon the drnwlfig room table of a lady of rank In London—a lady of high position and irreproachable character—may be seen, beneath a glass case, a lovely, dimpled little foot, delicate ankle, and rounded calf, up to the knee joint. It Is a cast of the leg of Lady the hostess. In Soho square there is a small, ratherluimble-lookhigshop, in which you can purchase, for live shillings, a cast of one of the most equisite of legs. The original (In the flesh) belongs to Lady de G , and R , who went to tliis lit tle shop Incog., had her perfect leg molded, and afterward generously gave the shop man the privilege of selling copies oi the cast, which he does dally, for it was quickly discovered to whom the beauteous leg be longed. One lady—the wife of a mayor of a town in the prbvlnces—came to London and had two casts taken of her log ; one nudo, and one with the neat little shoe, stocking, and garter. Strange to say— though no artist will call it strange—the leg with the stocking and garter produced an effect ranch further removed from modesty than the leg quite unclad. Bruc- > ciani, the celebrated castvender in Covent Garden, drives quite a brisk trade In cast ing ladles’ legs, and has any quantity of models of all descriptions, taken from life, and chiefly from noble life, for sale. How this leg mania originated we have not heard, but there Ib certes some explanation for this sudden passion among the aristo cratic fair to have their legs recognized. Perhaps It Is only because " a thing of beauty la a Joy forever.” Padding and Painting. —Concerning the delicate questions of padding the legs and painting the face, Miss Logan enters into some curieus details. “ The woman,” site says, “or the man either, who cannot exhibit a shapely figure on the stage, has certainly not learned the way to the shop of the pad-maker. There are quite a num ber of these ‘professors of symmetry’ In this country, but they are most numerous In Philadelphia. They advertise quite freely In the theatrical journals, snd no' one need be lu ignorance of their where abouts. They do not boldly advertise the unpleasant word ‘padding,’ of course— the popular term for padding Is ‘ symmet rical goods.’ Much need uot here be said of the modus operundi off the pml-maker.— The science lies in weaving leggings or tights in snch a way that they shall in crease the thickness of the oalf, thu thigh, &c.; and woven, putting silk or cotton in the place where flesh Is wanted, and thus concealing leannr*®- or uetorniHy. Thus a tragedian with lower limbs like plpr-stems can pnll on his tights and stand before an admiring sndleuce with the sturdy legs of an athlete. “To make tip the face Is on* of the subtlest arts of tlie actor. Who that has witnessed the aetfng of Ristori In Queen Elisabeth, but will remember ho v, from act to act, she visibly grew older before oiireyes? Not only by voice, and manner and gait was this change effected, but her face, bright arid Joyous at the beginning of the play, became gradually wrinkled, pule and careworn ; her hair grew grayer and grayer, until at last, as she lay on the couch representing the dying Queen, she seemed reduced to a skeleton and livid as a corpse. This was brought about solely by her perfect knowledge of how to make up the face. “ I was behind the scenes of the French Theatre In New York one night, when Rls torl was playing Elizabeth, and when I came to look closely at her face, it seemed a meaningless mass of white and black marks, with deep dashes of red under the eyes: but at one step off the effect was wonderful. It Is easier to make up the face to look old than to look yonng; never theless a careful mingling of pink for the check, white for the forehead, black for the 1 brows and carmine for theJps, will go a great way toward making an old and home ly woman look like a young and hand* 4 some one." —Ottee Logan. •An Extraordinary Duel.—A quarrel took place between Bir Edward K., an English gentleman, very well known in Pans, ahd another sportsman, hot less faftions, the Baron n. The seconds had In vain endeavored to reconcile them, and it was necessary to have recourse to arms; but as both the principals were flrst-fate shots and swordsmen, it was agreed that they should fight with—cigars. Two cigars, similar lu every external respect,, but one of them prepared In such a manner that it should explode add prove mortal to the smoker, were placed on the table. The combatants drew lots for first choice. The novel weapons of war were then lighted, and after a few puffs an explosion took place and Sir Edward fell back. He, how ever, Immediately got up and was sur rounded by his seconds, while his adversary offered him his hand. “Gentlemen,” said one of the seconds, “ you have both of you shown the greatest conrage since yon were both of you ignorant of the effects of the explosion. Mr. H. (the otlwr secoud) aud I agreed ouly to put a little gun-cotton In one of the cigars; and now let us to dinner. May snch lie the end of every duel!” The meeting Is said to have taken place on the Belgian frontier. The Law.— The Galveston (Texas) News says: There are4lo civil and 188 criminal cases pending in the District Court of Washington county. Among the civil cases arc 15 applications for divorce; of the criminal cases 17 are charges of murder, and 20 of assault with Intent to murder; 1 larceny ;23 theft; 5 burglary ; 8 robbery; 8 gambling, etc. la two of the cases of murder twenty two persons are Implicated ; and in other criminal cases there are several defendants. The devll-fleh of Victor Hugo’s fiction has Its counterpart. A crab caught In Yokohama Bay weighed about 40 pounds, had legs over five feet In length, and Its mouth contained two large teeth. When In the water It* strength was sunh that It could have quite overpowered a man— Tills horrible ghoul, as if attracted by that appalling calamity, was found clinging to tlie masthead of the recently sunken steam er Oneida A taxidermist lu Man Fran cisco Is preparing th* dead monster for exhibition.
