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Newspaper Page TextB. F. WHITE & CO., Proprietors. VOLUME 1 sCI)c vEuthbcrt ttcportcr PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY BY T. il. BYRD & R 1L WHITE. Teims of Subscription The Cuthbsrt Rr-pmler 4* pu'lialiml at 1 WO DOL LAR par annum, in advance, ine Hollar for 8u M< .Bills, and forty C nta lor Three Months. If nivincnt be delayed 6 mnnthi, *4 50: if delayed *ar year *3 OQ wilt I e rttquired in every Instnine rrr In no case will nn order for tile paper lie attend ed tn nn teen accin*|iaaied with the money, or a aatufac *OiV r*fernc* _ Bates of Advertising. - ‘General Advertisement* will tie Inserted at 81 per mmaTof 1C lines ur less, for th, first insertion, ami I ifiy renta.lnr eaeh suhaentieiit insertion Professions I Cards, uni exceeding ten lines, will be Sr? oTcand,date. for .Oe 85, to be paid . pirtorwl charaeler, w:ll be charged a. ad vocuar wt-u Us— Regulations of the Reporter. Letter, and cnmniooicatiims mniaining new. from “"all loMnninicat'ionV written . • ! f the pa|ier, to insure Insertion Legal Advertisements. Snip, t.f Lands nnd Negroes by A.lininiatrn iorr. Ksecmorsor Guardian., are re.|mred tty law to he held on the tiit Tuesday in lhe moiilli, tieiweei. the hours of ten in the rorenuoo, and three in the afternoon, at the Court House ill the comity in winch the property is situated Notices <>f these ele* must be given in a pub lic ga7.ette forty days previous to sale Jay. Notice, for the sale o personal property unis’ k>- given in lik. manner ten days previous to “’n uncos t<> debtors and creditors of an estate mnsl he published forty days Notice that application will be made to the Court of Ordinary for h-ave to sell Land or No smea, must he published for two months * Citation* for Letters of Administration. Guar di.ii.hip. Ac , must be published thirty <mv*— for Ui.niis.ioit from Administration, mo thly, wu months —for Ui.uiis.ion from Guardianship, furty d j *y*- i for foreclosure of MorfjHjre must b*>. published monthly for (our months for esiablisli ,V hart papers, for the full *(•• of three months; for compelling titles from K.ecutors or Aslmiowtr.iors where hood has been given !by the deceased, to be published the full spare of three month. miscellaneous. A New Cannon The Dali ns (Texas) Gazette snys a gentleman residing in *1 arrant county, in that State, lias invented a Cannon which he can dwcliaige forty times in a minute. The gun swabs itself and docs not become heated at all. The inventor will proceed io Washington soon, to pet a patent for the invention. Should it prove sncces fttl, it will revolutionize military opera tions, and Ire numbered among the most “important discoveries of the age lhe inventor entertains uo doubt of it. complete success. An English Miser. Daniel Dancer, when lie had £3 000 a year, used to beg a pinch of snuff from all his friends, and when his box was full, bartered its contents for a tallow candle But his paisimotions ingenuity oppeais contemptible in comparison with that ol the Russian miser, who learned to bark, that he might avoid the expense of keep ing a dog. Verbs. —A teacher one day endeavor ing to make a pupil understand the na ture aud application of a passive verb, said “ A passive verb is expressive of the nature of receiving an action —as, Peter is beaten. Now, what did Peter do?” The boy, pausing a moment, with the gravest look imaginable replied, “Well. I don’t kuow, without he hol lered,” * Stick t one thing.—Two lawyers, for example, begin to practice at the same time One devote his whole mind to his profesMon ; lays in slowly a stock oflegal learning, and waits patiently, it * may be for years, till he gains an oppor tunity to show his superiorly. The oth er, tiring of slow work, dashes into poli tics. Generally, at the end of twenty years, the latter will not be worth a pen ny, while the former will have a Iwidso.ne practice, and count his tens of thousands bank stock or in mortgages. Slick to one thing An eminent artist is about getting up a “panorama of a law suit.’’ It opens with the year one, aud closes with dooms day. Height of inquisitiveness—to climb the house top and look down the chimney, to see what one’s neighbor has to dinner. (Jrs A wag proposes to publish anew paper, to be called the “Comet,’’ with an original tale every week. * R©“ There is a firm in New Ilaven, the name of which is Lay, Hatch & Cos. The clerks are presumed to be all Shanghai. Asa jewel of gold in a hog’s snout, so *is a fair woman without virtue. CETSBEBT REPORTER. “If is (lie Last of Gurtli.’’ Men seldom think of the great event of death until the shadow falls across their own path, hiding forever & forever from their eyes the traces of the loved ottos whose living smiles were the sunlight of their existence. Dentil is the great un tagAvnist of life, and the cold thought of the tomb is the skeleton of all feasts.— We do not want to pits- through the dark valley, although its passage nay lead to paradise ; and with Charles Lamb we do not want to lie down in the muddy grave even with kings and princes for our bed fellows. Hit the fiat of nature is inex otable. There i*no appeal or relief from the great law which dooms us to dust.— We flourish aud fade as the leaves of the forest ; and the flower that blooms and winters in a day, has not a frailer hold on life than the mightiest monarch that ever shook the earth with his footsteps. Generations of men appear and vanish as the grass, and the countless multitude that throngs the wotM to day, will t •-morrow disappear us the footprints on the sand shore. But we shall meet again. The dead only sleep for the resurrection of iiiiinor tality. In the beautiful drama ol lon, the instinct of immortality so eloquenty uttered by the death-devoted Greek, finds a deep response in every thoughtful soul When üboiu to yield up his yuuig exist ence as a sacrifice to fate, Ins beloved Clentamlie usks, ‘if they shall not meet again,’ to winch he replies . ‘1 have asked that dreadful question of the hdls that look eternal ; of the flow ing streams that flow forever ; of the stars, among .whose fields of azure my aised .-pints hath walked to glory—and all were dumb. But while I gaze upon thy living face, 1 feel there’s something in Ll l at love that mantles through its beau ty that cannot wholly perish. We shall meet again Clemanthe !’ ‘Our Mother’ only sleeps ; aud she who rests beside her is not gone forever ! Thank God who gave them the victory through the Lord Jesus Christ ! The earth is filled with ‘learned dust.’ Greatness ut il gentleness sleep together The cherub-faced babe and the infirm old man go down side by side All of us have friends and kindred gone to the grave. I here is an interest in the dying words of men that does i.ot attach t*> them while living Tltey often give a clue to the whole history ot the,uian They still of lener give a significant intimation as to the state in wlticli the departed expired. We excerp below the last words ot a few of thegn at ones of the world, 1 here is profit in pondering them : ‘Head of the army !’ —Napoleon. T must sleep now.’—Byron. ‘lt matters little how the dead lietli Sir V\ aher i alcigh. ‘Kiss me Hardy.’—Lord Nelson. ‘Don t give up ihe ship.’—Lawrence. ‘I m shot if 1 don’t believe I’m dying!’ Charles Thurlow is this your fidelity?’—Nero. ‘Clasp nty hand my dear friend, I die ’ —AI fieri ‘Give Dayrooies a chair ’— Lord Ches ter tic Id ‘God preserve the Emperor.’—Hay den . ‘The arteiy ceases io beat.’—Haller. ‘Let the light enter.’ —(ioeth. ‘All my possessions for a moment of time.’—Queen Elizabeth. ‘What ? is there uo bribing death !’— Cardinal Beaufort. i love God, my father aud liberty ’ Madam de felacl. ‘Be serious.’—Grotis. ‘lnto Uiy bunds, O Lord.’—Tasso it is small, very small indeed.’ (clasp ing her neck) —Anne Boleyn. I pray you see me safe up, (ascending the bcaOoid) and as for my coming down, let ute shift tor myself.’—Sir Thomas Moore. ‘Don’t let that awkward squad fire over my grave.’—Burns. ‘I feel as it I were myself again.’—Wal ter Scott. ‘1 resign mysell to God,and my daugh ter to my country.’—Jefferson. ‘lt is well.’—Washington ‘lt is the last of earth- lam content.’ Adams ‘There is not a drop of blood in uiy veins ’ —Frederic V. ‘A dying matt can do nothing easy.’— Franklin ‘Let not poor Nelly starve.’—Charles 11. ‘Refresh me with a great thought ’ — Uerdcn. I feel the daises growing over me ’ — Keats. ‘Let me die to the sounds of delicious music.— Mirabeau. Daniel Webster uttered the words, ‘I still live.’ A farmer in Southern Alabama advises persons tracking bains to throw upon the fire, occasionally, a handful ot China ber ries, which, he says, will be an effectual preventive against skippers. citiumim. ga., Tuesday, November is, is,io. I low People Take Cold- Tile time for taking cold is after your exercises ; the place is in your own house or office, or counting room. It is not the act of exercise which gives the cold, but it is the getting cool too quick after exercising. For example, you walk very last to get to the railroad station, or to the ferry, or to catch an omnibus, or to make time for an appoint ment ; your mind being ahead of yon, the I tody makes an over effort to keep up with it ; and wlmn you get to the desired spot, you raise your It,it and find yourself in a per-piration. You take a seat., aud feeling quite comfortable as to tempera ture you begin to talk with a Mend, or to read a newspaper ; and before you are aware ol it, you experience a sensation of dullness, aud tlie tiling is dene. You look around to seewherc the cold comes from, and find a window open near yon, or a door, at that yon have taken a seat at the forward pan of the Car, and as it is moving against the wind, a strong draught is made through the creviees- Or, it may be, you meet a friend in the str ‘et comer, who wanted a loan, and was quite complimentary, almost loving ; )ou did not like to be rude in the deliveiy of a two lettered monosyllable, and while you were contriving to be truthful, polite and safe, all at the same time, on comes the chilly feeling from a raw wind at the street corner, or die slush of mud mid water in which, for the first time, you uo i tieed yourself standing. After any kind of exercise, do no ! stand it moment at a street corner for my body or anything ; nor at an open j door or window When you have been exercising lit any way whatever, winter ior slimmer, go Ifome at once, or to some sheltered place ; and however warm the room tuny seem to lie, do not once pull j oil your hat aud cloak, but wait some ; live minutes or more, and lay aside one at a time ; thus acting, a cold is impossible. Notice a moment,; when you return from a brisk walk aud enter a warm room, raise your hat and vour forehead will be moist ; h t the hat teinaiu a few moments and leel the forehead again, and it will be dry, showing that the room is actually coo er titan your body, and that, with your out door clothing ou, yon have cool cd tiff full soon. Among tlte severest colds I itave ever ! known men to take, were tlio.se resulting I Tom silting down to a meal itt a cool room after a walk, or being engaged in writing, and having let the fire go out, their lir.*t admonition of it was that creeping chiluess, which is the oidinary forerunner of severe cold. Persons have of ten lost their lives by writing or remain ing in a room whcic there was uo fire, although tlm weather outside was rather imcouiii rtable. Sleeping in rooms long unused has destroyed the life of many a visitor aud friend ; sur spleuded parlors and nice “spare rooms’’ help to enrich many a doctor Ihe cold sepulchral parlors of New York from May to November, bring dis ease-, not only to visitors but to the visi ted ; for coming in from domestic occu pations, or from the hurry of dressing, the heat of the body is higher than natu ral, and having no cloak or hat on in go ing in to meet a visitor, and having in ad dition but little vitality, in consequence of the very sedantary nature of town life, there is very little capability of resistance and a chill and cold is the result. But how to cure a cold promptly ? that is a question of life and death to multi tudes. There are turn methods of univer sal application ; first, obtain a bottle of cough mixture, or a lot of cough candy— any kind will do; in a day or two you will feel Letter, and in high spiritß ; you will ( hc charmed with the pionfiptuess of the medicine ; make a mule of you self by giving a certificate of tile valuable reme dy ; and, in due course of time, you may depend upon another certificate being made for your admission, foot foremost, into ‘Greenwood ” The other remedy is, consult a respect able physician.— liatl s Journal of Health Scratches on Horses. It is said thnt this often troubled disease, uiile-s very bad may be cured by washing thoroughly with soap-suds, and then rub bing with lard fried out of salt meut Keep clean, and wash and grease every oilier day until a cure is effected Leav ing mud to dry upon the legs of a horse is one great cause of this disease, and many horses are injured by want of care and cleanliness when driven m muddv weather. Oi.d Newspapers Many people like newspapers, but tew preserve them ; yet the most interesting reading imaginable if- a file of oid newspapers. It brings up the very age with all its bustle and every day affairs, and marks its genius and its spirit more than the must labored des cription of the historian. Who can take up a paper half a century back without tiie thought that almost every name there printed is now cut upon a touibstoue at the bead ts an epitaph. NO PROSCRIPTION FOR OPINIONS’ SAKE. SO NO. Am—“ I’m sitting on the stile, Mary.” I’m thinking on thy winning smile, Fair maid of peeilnss woitli; Anil know that ilinu cans'l rival all Tho beauties of the earth I For see, llliuo image now is stamped Upon this constant heart— And oh! for all the gems of earth, 1 would not from it pin t. L : ke gazing on the twinkling start Tnat gild ihe figure skies ’Tib thus I drink th sweet, tile soft Reflection of thine eyes. I would not give thy w inning smiles For diamonds bright to see; When thou dost sweetly lit them beam With tenderness on ine. Ah! how my nature teems with joy, Thy lovely form to view Ami liiuds with Cupid’s magic chain This trusting heart to you. So let thine in return, 1 pray, To mine be freely given; And I will seek thy jo> on earih. And pray thy end be- Heaven. Compliment to Printers. John 0. Rives, of Virginia, in a recent i published letter on the -uhjcct of public ; printing, has a word of sugge-tion to writers for the press, aud of compliment to tlie compositor, whose duty it not un frequentiy is to make sense out of sense less chirogrophy. None but a writer for the press can comprehend how much truth there is In the veteran printer’s re marks. Many members of Congress— and not a few greater men—must have been surprised at the respectable figure they cut in print, without thinking of the toilsome labor ami the exercise of tho better tulant than their own, which had been expended by the journeyman print er in putting into good shape the mes sage or report of a speech furnished by them. Mr. Rives says : “ I have seen the manuscript writing of most great men of the country during (he past twenty years, and I think 1 may safely say that not twenty of them could stand the test of the semtiny of one-half of the journeymen printers employed in my office. This fact will be Touched by every editor in the Union. To the poor journeyman printer many a “great man” owes his rcputut.ou for scholarship, nnil were the humble compositors to resolve, by concert, to set up manuscript in their hands —even for one week—precisely ns it is written by the authors, there would be more reputations slaughtered than their devifs could shake a stick at in twenty four hours. Statesmen wou'd become “small by degrees and beautifu ly less ” Many an ass would have the lion’s hide torn from his limbs. Men, whom the world call writers, would wake up ol mornings and find themselves—famous as mere pretenders —humbugs, and cheats!” Extraordinary Balloon Ascen sion. The nssension of Motts. Godard and four otlicis in a balloon, ou ‘I hursday af ternoon, was a grand affair. About 6 o’- clock tiie party descended on the farm of Mr. Carter, near Chester Creek. There they took supper, the balloon being se cured meantime After this they resum ed their serial journey, and again descen ded a few miles further on. where they were entertained at tiie liou-e of Mr. Fel ton, of the Baltimore Railroad Company. After leaving Mr. Feltons, it nas found that tiie balloon had lost much gas, and that it was consequen'ly unable to take up all the excursionists. Messrs Hew ling and Butcher accordingly remained on terra firma, while their companions again ascended, and finally came down at N’ordieast, Md., at 10 o’clock, at night. T hey returned to tiie city yesterday de lighted with their trip. Tiie balloon was at times over Wil mington and Norristown, 40 miles apart, and it crossed the Delaware and the f-cuylkill rivers more than once during its journey It is believed thai tiie balloon reached the height of 14,000 feet above tte earth, and that it, performed a jour ney of 60 miles. At Wilmington, Md,, Godard descended sufficiently low to con verse with a number of citizens of that place. lle again ascended, and came down along the road and shook hands w'ith several astonished, individuals. Tiie passengers on this novel excursion, say the sight from their lofty position was the most magnificent ihat can be imagined.— t his was particularly so to those who were up just as the moon began to rise and tip bill and valley with her silvery beam*. One of tiie peculiarities of this night ride, was tiie remaikablo echo at tiie height of some 10,000 feet. M. Go dard sang a song, and each verse was as distinctly sung by echo as sweet and melodious as the voice which uttered the words ! At this aludude could aiso be heard the barking of dogs and even the ; cackliug of chickens.— Baltimore Sun. A ueeilote of llagai tii- A few months before this ingenious ar tist \v*s seized with tiie malady which deprived society of one its most distin guished ornaments, lie proposed to ins matchless pencil the woik lie hud entitled the Tail Fieee—tiie first idea of which is said to have been started in company, while the convival glass was circulating round his own table. “My next, undertaking,” says Hogarth, ’’shall be tiie End of IJ Tilings.’’ “If that is tiie case,” replied one of his friends, “your business will be finished, for there will be an end to the painter.’’ ‘There w ill he so,” answered Hogarth, sighing heavily, “ and therefore tiie soon er my work is done tiie better.” Accordingly lie began the next day, and continued his design with a diligence that seemed to indicate an apprehension that lie should not live till lie completed it. This, however, lie did in ihe most genious manner, by grouping everything which denotes the end of all tilings —a broken bottle ; an old broom worn to the stump ; tiie butt end of an old fire-lock ; , a cracked bc-ll ; a bow unstrung ; a crown i tumbling in pieces ; towers in ruins ; the ! sign-post of a tavern, called World’s End, tumbling; tiie moon in her wane; the map of the globe burning ; a gibbet falling, tiie body gone and chains which held it, falling dawn ; Phoebus anil his horse dead in the clouds ; a vessel wrecked; Time with his hour-glass and scythe broken, a tobacco pipe in his mouth, the last whiff of smoke going out ; a play-book open, with “exeunt omnes’’ stamped in tiie cor ner of an empty purse ; and a statute of bankruptcy taken out against nature “So fur so good,” cried Hogarth, noth ing remains but diis,” taking his pencil in a sort of prophetic fury, and dashing off the similitude of a painter’s pallet, broken; “finis ! ’ exclained Hogarth, “the deed is doue, all is over ” “It is a remarkable and well known fact that he never again took tiie pallet in hand. It is a circumstance less known perhaps, that lie died in about a year after lie had finished this extraordidary tail piece.— Anecdotes of English Artists. Soimiiiiig tin; Atlantic. Tiie steamer Arctic which arrived at New Y’ork on Tuesday, has sounded tiie Atlantic ull the way across, finding the greatest depth 2,070 fathoms (more than two miles) It was not accomplished without difficulties, ns muuyjof tiie instru ments used were new inventions. The bed of the ocean in tiie section traversed by tiie Arctic, is a plateau, as aleady an iionuced by Captain Berryman, who had twice before sounded across the Atlantic l he bottom in the deepest part is a very line mud, of a mouse gray color, so that tiie sounding instruments Frequently sank several leet into tiie mud. I hey brought up specimens of tiie bottom, at every sounding, iu quills which were attached to tiie end of the sounding instrument Toward the shore on each side, this mud changes into a fine green ooze. No oth er substance were met with, no rock, nor anything that might prove fatal to a tel egraph wire. ‘I here seems to be now nothing to hinder tiie great work,, to unite Europe nnd America Ly means of a tele giftph wire, an undertaking so grand that few thought it possible, The whole dis tance across was found to be 1,049 sen miles, Iron) St John N. J?\, to Valentin Harbor, Ireland. Tiie greatest depth was found nearly in tiie centre betweeu these two places. The profile of tiie At lantic bed, on this route, is of by fir ea sier grade than many of rail toad profiles. Dobbs makes a “ Pint.” Dobbs walked into a Dry Goodcry, on Court street, and began to look around. A double jtnled clerk immediately ap peared to Dobbs, “What cau I do for you, sir ?” said he. ‘ A good deal,” said Dobbs, “ but I’ll bet yon won’t.” “ I’ll bet I will,” says the knight of the yard stick, “if 1 can.” “ What’ll you bet of that ?” says the Import arable Dobbs. “I’ll bet a fourpence 1” says the clerk, with a cute nod. “I’ll go it,” says Dobbs. “Now, trust me lor a couple of dollars’ wutli of yu: stuffs! ’ ‘• Lost, by Ned !’’ says yard-slick.— “ Well, there’s tiie fourpence.” “Thank you ; call again when I want to trade,” says Dobbs. “ Do, if you please; wouldn’t like to lose your custom,” says the clerk, “no how.’’ Polite young man that—as soon as his cliin vegitates, provided his dickey don’t cut his throat, lie’ll be arter tiie gals, Dobbs thinks.— Humors of Fatconb < edge. The Sunday Atlas, in a fit .of revolu tionary enthusiasm, says. ‘Hurrah fori the irirls of ’76 ’ ‘Thunder !’ cries a New Jersey Whig, j ‘that’s too d—d old. No no; hurrah j for the girls of 17.’ Oil Is help that man along! He’ll do to’ BYRD & WHITE, Fiiblimlicr*. HUM RE It 14 (low French I* mini its ar.e made- We have derived no little amusement from tiie perusal of a circular issued to li quor dealers throughout tiie country, by a firm In New York, in which the impor tant information is conveyed, that they have for many years been “ trying to im prove all kinds of spirits made from grain, and turn them into a good imitation of French Cognac ; and that after much la bor ami experiment, they have at last found an article to answer that purpose.” Tims they set forth tiie process of manu facturing, “ By distillation and chemical operation we get at fomrth-proof, an arti cle in which the flavor is so lunch concen trated, thut, by mixing a gallon of it with twenty-five to fifty gallons of Ame rican pure spirits, it gives a good imita • tion of the different imported brands.”— One gallon of “ an article” to produce from twenty-live to fifty gallons of imita tion of the imported brands; to be bot tled, labelled, set forth, and swallowed at one dime per pony glass, as an article “ suoli as you cannot get elsewhere in town.” This article is called spirit of Cognac, and according to the circular, “ muy be had without color, or colored for pale or dark.” “ Dark, by all means.’ “ I prefer pale.” ‘‘ You can take which you please, gentlemen, but you are now aware of the maimer iu which both are prepared ” This enterprising firm have also discov ered un article which they call spirit of gin. They aver that a splendid imitation of Holland Gin can be produced by mix* ing one gallon of the spirits witli forty gallons of pure spirits. In addition, they have constantly on hand a fine supply of “chemical coloring,” by which the dark article of imitation brandy is produced. Tiie circular closes with a list of prices, which, if published, would astonish our citizens, many of whom, when imbibing these imitations, which cojt about 60 cents per gallon, are informed that “bran dy cost me $8 in New York ” With this information in their posses sion, we should not wonder if henceforth there was a decided decline of confidence among brandy drinkers, as well as among the imbibers of tho less pretentious li quors, giu and rnm. Facts About the President. Four of the first seven were from Vir ginia. Two of tiie some name were from Mussaclrassetts, and the seventh was from Tenmeßßee. All but one were sixty six years old on leaving office, having served two terms ; and one of them, who had served but one term, would have been sixty six years of age at tiie end of another. 1 liree of tiie seven died on the 4lh of July, and two of them ou the same day and year. Two of them were on the sub Committee of Three that drufted tho Declaration of Independence, and these two died on the same day and year, and ou tiie Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, und just half n century from the day of Declaration, Theuames of three of the seven ended In son, yet neither of these transmitted his name to a son. In respect to tiie name of nil, it may be said, in conclusion, the initials of two of tiie seven were the some ; and of two others thut they were the same ; and tiie initials of still two others that they were tiie same. The remaining one, who stands alone in this particular, stands alone ulso in the love and admiration of his countrymen and tiie civilized world— Washington 1 Os the first five, only ono had a son, and that sou was also I’resi dent. Rather Perplexing, The late Dr. Wilson, senior fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, though a very grave man himself, was very fond of quiz zing aud pnziing the country people who came to inquire after their friends and re lations in college. One day, seeing a man slandiug in the court with a letter iu his hand, gapiug and starting about, and not knowing vvhcie to go, he walked gravely up to him and inquired what ho wanted. Ihe man answered : “Sir can you tell me where I may find Mr. Dalahunts?” “Yes,” said the doctor ; ‘Mo you seo that building before you ?” “Yes” “Then crucify tin's quadrangle, and take tiie diameter of the plot beyond it ; enter the opening before you, ascend tho ligneous grades, then turn to your left and you will find him either peripatonn ing iu his cubicile, dormitating his lectu ary or peroscopouiiting through his fenes tra.” Tiie poor man who understood nothing of this, and remembered not one word but (he lust, said ; “And pray sir, what is the fenestra To which the doctor replied : “It is an or.fice in an edifice to admit luminous parciticles ” “Ah thank yon,” said the poor fellow, and lie walked off more perplexed than before. who li <1 the itch was the doyil—ditinue bis title “ the Old Scratch.”