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Heboid this ruin ! ’Twas a skull, Once of ethereal spirit full t This narrow cell was life's retreat, This spaoe was thought's mysterious scat., ifhat bcautious visions filled this? spot! What dreams of pleasure long forgot! Nor hope, nor love, nor joy, nor fear, Have left one trace or record heie, Beneath that mouldering canopy Once shone the bright and bus# eye, But start not at the dismal void ; ll' social love that eye employed, If with no lawless fire it gleamed. But through the dew of kindness beamed, That eye shall be torevor bright When stars and suns are sunk in night. Within this hollow cavern hung The ready, swift and tuneful tongue, If falsehood’s honey it disdained, And when it could not praise was chained. If bold in virtues cause it spoke, Yet gentle concord never broke, That silent tongue shall plead for thee When time unveils eternity. Say, did those lingers delve the mine ? Or with its envied rubies shine ? To hew the rock or wear the gem, Can little now avail to them, But if the page of truth they sought, Or comfort to the mourner brought, The hands u richer meed shall claim Than all that wait on wealth or fame. Avails it whether bare or shod Those feet the paths of duty trod ? If from the halls of ease they tied To seek affliction's humble shed, If grandeur's guilty bribe they spurned And home to virtue's cot returned, Those feet with angel’s ways shallvie, And tread the palace of the sky. The Sage’s Reproof, Alhakem, the sage, whom all pco pie honored for his great wisdom and his many virtues, sat in the market-place giving instruction. A youth named Seyd, who had recent ly inherited vast wealth, passed that May, and share* 1 with the old teach er the attention of the multitude. “See,” cried Seyd, “how my good fortune hath lifted me in a day to claim a public attention which Al hakem hath been long years in gain ing.” And he smiled prondly a* he ispoke. Alhakem had heard his words, and motioned for him to draw near. *‘My son,” said the sago, “let me speak unto thee a fable. Once upon a time a gourd wound itself around a lofty palm, and in a few weeks climbed to its very top “How old mayest thou be?” asked the gourd. “A hundred years,” answered the palm. “A hundred years !” cried the gourd, in derision “Only look ; I have grown as tall as thou art in fewer days than thou countest years!” “I know that very well,” the palm made answer. “Every sum mer of my life a gourd has climbed ap aroflnd me as proud as thou art, and as short-lived as thou wilt be l” • . Seyd heard, and went away with his head lowered. CHEAP READING.—For one dollar you can yet the Appeal the balance of the year ; CUTHBERT 111 APPEAL. Speech of Horace Greeley in Portland, .lie., Aug, 14th; 1872. Mr. Chairman and Ladies and Gentlemen: —lt is certainly due that throughout the course of my life, so far as I have been connected with public affairs, I have strug gled with sftch capacity as God has given me so—first, impartial and universal liberty; second, for the union and .greatness of otlr com mon country; and third, and by no means least, when the former end was attained, for early and hearty reconciliation and peace among our countrymen. For these great ends I have struggled, and I hope the issue of the third is not doubtful. I thoroughly comprehend that no personal consideration has drawn this vast assembly" together. Oth er higher and grander considera tions have collected you around me to-day. It is part of the un written law of our country that a candidate fur the Pretidoucf raay net make speeches in vindication and commendation of the measures which his election is intended to promote, though a candidate for Vice President is under no such inhibition. I not only" acquiesce in the restriction ; I recognize and af firm its propriety". The tempta tion to misinterpret and misrepre sent a candidate for the higher posts is so great that the means of circulating such perversions among the people who never see a word of their refutation, are so vast that a candidate lias no moral right to sub ject his friends to the perils. lie must he brave, if not, invite by ta king part in the canvass. Yet there is a truth to he uttered in be half of those who have placed me before the American people in my present attitude, which docs them such honor that I claim the privi lege of stating it here, and now this is that No person has ever yet made the fact known that lie proposed to support, or actively did support, my nomination, wheth er at Cincinnati, at Baltimore, or in any action which resulted in send ing delegates to cither Convention as the basis of a claim for office at inv hands; no one who favored my nomination before cither Conven tion has sought office a f my hands, 00 for the lent inner to parties cither for himself or for any one else; nor has any one suggested to me tl/at I might strengthen myself as a candidate by promisisg to ap point any one to an important office in a very few instances less than a dozen. lam certain some of the smaller fry of politicians have,since my double nomination hinted that I might increase my chances of elec tion by promising a Post Office or some such place. So my volunteer correspondents every where respec tively. Ihaicuot usually respon-. tlbd to these overtures, but I now give general notice that should I be elected I will consider the Claims of these untimely aspirants, after those of the more moderate and retired shall have been fully satisfied.— [Ap plause.] Iu two or three in stances I have been asked to say whether I would* or would not, if elected, confine my appointments to Republicans, I answer these by pointing to the plauk in the Cincin nati platform wherein all who con cur in the principles therein invol ved are cordially invited to partici pate in their establishment and \ in. dication. L never yet heard of a man who asked liis neighbors to help him raise a house aud proceed ed to kick him out of it as soon as the rxif was fairly over his head.— For my own part, I recognize every honest man who Approves and ad heres to the the platform as my po political brother, and a? such fully entitled to my confidence and friendly regard. One other point demands £ word: Those who are adverse to me ask me what pledge I have given to those lately hostile to the Union to secure their favor aud support. I answer that no man or woman in all the South ever asked of me, ei ther jlirectly or through another, anyother pledge than is given in all my acts and works. From the hour of Lee’s surrender to this mo ment, no Southern man over hinted to me an expectation, hope or wish that the rebel debt, whether Confed erate or State, should be assumed or paid by the United States Gov. eminent, and no Southern man who could be elected to a legislature or made Colonel of a militia regiment even suggested the pensioning of all the rebel soldiers, or any of them even as a remote possibility. All who nominated me were perfectly aware,that I Upheld and justified CUTHBERT, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1872. Federal legislation to suppress Ku- Klux conspiracy and outrages," though I had long ago insisted as strenuously as I now do that com plete amensty and general oblivion of the bloody", hateful past, would do more for the suppression and lit ter extinction of such outrages than all the force hills and suspension of habeas corpus ever devised by man. Wrong and crimer must be sup pressed and punished. But far wi ers and nobler is the legislation, the policy by which they are prevented. From those who support me in the South I have heard hut one demand —“Justice,” but one desire —“Rec- onciliation.” They wish to be hear tily re-united and at peace with the North on any terms which do not involve the surrender of their manhood. They ask that they Should be regarded and treated by all Federal authority as eitizens and not as culprits, so long as they obey and uphold every law consistent with equality and right. They do site n rule which, alike for white and black, shall encourage industry th«y discourage rapacity and vil liany; they cherish a hope in which I fully concur, that between the sth of November and the 4th of March next quite a number or Governors and other dignitaries, who, in the absorb name of Republicanism and loyality, have for years been piling debts and taxes upon their war was ted States, will follow the whole some example of Bullock, of Geor gia, and seek the shades of private life. The darker and deeper those shades, tho better for themselves and for mankind, and it is to be hoped that my election may hasten the much desired liegira of theiving carpet-baggers has reconciled them to the necessity of supporting me many who would otherwise have hesitated and, probably, refused to do SO. Fcllo v citizens, tike deposed and partially excited Tammany Ring lias stolen 30,000,000 dollars from tlie City c-f New York. That was a most gigantic and it hurled its Contrivers and abettors from pow er and splendor to infamy, but theiving edrpet-baggers have stolen three times that amount. Stolen it from people already impoverished and needy, nndthey still flaunt their properous villainy in the highest places of the land, and are address ed as Honorable and Excellency.— [Applase.] I think I hear a voice from the honest people of all the States declaring that their iniquity shall be gainful and insolvent no longer, at the farthest, than the 4th of March next. By that time a na tional verdict will be pronounced that will cause them to fold their tents like tlie Arabs and as silently steal away, and that I trust will be an end of their stealing at the cost of the good name of our country and the well beingof her people. At the conclusion of liis speech, Mr. Greeley" sat down amidst a storm of cheers. Be Your Own Right Hand Man. —People who have been bol stered up all their lives are seldom good for anything in a crisis.— When misfortune comes, they’ look around for somebody to ding to oi lcan upon. If the prop is not there down they go. Once down they are as helpless as a capsized turtle, and they cannot find their feet again without assistance. Sufch persons no more resemble men who have fought their way to position, making difficulties their steppijig stones and deriving determination from their defeat, than vines resem ble oaks, or spluttering rush lights the stars of Hoaven. Efforts per sisted into achievements train a man to self-reliance, and when lie has proven it the world will trust him. One of the best lessons a fath er can give his son is this ; Work ; strengthen your moral aud mental faculties, as you would your tnus cles by vigorous exercise. Learn to conquer circumstances; yon are then independent of fortune. — The men of athletic minds, who left their mark on the years in which they lived, were all trained in a rough school. They did not mount to their high position by the help of leverage ; they leaped the chasm, grappled with the opposing rocks, avoided avalanches, and when the goal was reached, felt that, but for the toil that strengthened them as they strove, it could never have been obtained. —An Irishman being in church where the collecting .apparatus re sembled election boxes, on its being brought to him, lie whispered iu the carrier’s ear that lie was not natu ralized, aud consequently could not vote. Vexations ofa Front Yard. BV BOGGS. We have recently moved into a house that has a front yard. We have always lived in houses whose front yard was the street. Chil dren will play in the yard whether there is a street running through it or not. After two or three of them had barely escaped being run over by the teams that insisted in run ning through our front yard, wife said she must rent a house that hadn’t any street in it. So we di.d. But lord ! the children don’t "make any account of it. They arc in the street as much as ever, accumula ting their daily supply of narrow escapes. Wife said the yard looked baVe without shrubs, and flowers, and vines. I hinted that a little grass Would help it, too. She asked me if I knew where I could get some and I told her I knew a little grass widow on the next street, if she Would do. I retreated, followed by the rolling pin. One morning as I was going away, wife asked me to bring her a few “ annuals” when I came back. I wondered what she wanted of an nuals as I rode down town in the street-car, but I am accustomed to a blind obedience to lier requests, so when I went home at night I brought her gome annuals. There were “Dr. Jayne’s Medical Alma nac,” I remember, and “ The Odd Fellows’ Annual Offering,” and a “ New Year’s Addiess” for 1872, and the “ BirtlU Day Gift,” and numerous annual addresses be fore agricultural associations that had accumulated on my hands. * Good gracious’’ exclaimed Mrs. Boggs (she never swears like that unless under great excitement,) “ what have you brought me ?” “ Annuals, Mrs. Boggs,” said I. “ You said you wanted some annu als, and here they wo.” Then Mrs. Boggs burst out laugh ing and cried, “ Why, you t>!d fool you (we have been married twenty years, but Mrs. Boggs, calls me pet names yet,) the annuals I meant are flowers, such, as verbenas, pan sies t daisies, morning glories, mig nonette and the like, to 6et out in cur liont yard.” Then she took all the annuals I had been at so much pains to collect and set them out iu the back yard among other rubbish. The next morning she asked me if I thought 1 could get her some roses for the front -yard. Told her I knew a man who had got a lot of early rose potatoes, but it wasn’t the right time a year for setting them out. (I have an idea that the ground is much better employed than in raising a flower, unless it be a barrel offlawer.) Wife said I hadn’t a bit of taste. She then gave me a memoranda of roses she wanted. I was busy all day, but just as I was about taking a car for home, I thought of the roses. I referred to the memoranda, and found the fol lowing : “ Get a few geraniums, luchias, heliotrope, roses, bourbon, running rose, ‘ Prairie Queen,’ go’dt-n tea plant, vines, English ivy, Wander ing Jew, seeds, etc.” I studied it hard, but it was slightly incomprehensible. She iiad evidently got things mixed up.— However, I went td a florist’s and told him what I wanted. Said I— “ Give me a few geraniums and a few she’s, and —” “ A few What ? asked the flower man, looking very puzzled,” “ A few she’s,” said I, turning very red, I know, for I couldn’t tell for the life of roe what my wife wanted of a Jew she’s about tho place, as she neVfci could lire in the same house with another woman. As the florist looked more stag gered than ever, I handed him the memoranda, when he burs'ted iuto a loud laugh. “ Why, man,” he cried, “its"/7/- chias , she wants!” and then he roared again. “ Well, whatever it is, give me a couple of yards of it, anyhow, front and back yard, too.” You see I was mad. I got the things the memoranda seemed to call for at various places, and went home. “ Here, Mrs. Boggs,” said I, testily,” “ are the things for your front yard.” “ Why, what is this?” she cried, as I thrust a two-gallon jug upon her among other things. “ Bourbon, my dear, I found it on the memoranda. • Pretty thing to set out in the front yard, though, llow long do you s’pose it’ll stay there with the neighbors we’ve got? ” “ Boggs, you are an infernal ; that memorandum was a ‘Bourbon Rose.’ Bui what is this nasty little book ?” holding up a dime novel with a highly colored title-page, representing a gorgeous squaw on a fiery and untamed mustang. “That? -Why you ordered it, didn’t you? # That is ‘Running Rose ; or the Prairie Queen,’ one of Beadle’s, you know.” My wife carried it at arms’length and threw it into the stove. Then she took the jug of Boutbou and emptied it into the back gutter.— While she was gone I concealed Alexander Dumas’ “Wandering Jew,” which I also had purchased, for I began to see that I had made a terrible blunder m filling that order. (I have since ascertained that 11 Wandering Jew” is the name of a vine, but how was I ex peeled to know all about it?) — L'at Contributor's Saturday Might. Horning. llow many times has my heart boen gladdened by the risiug. of the sun over the hills of tho old home stead, where the corn and olover sparkled with the dew, and the newly headed wheat nodded lazily" to and fro in the enchanting breezo, as spring and summer joined hands for the coming harvest. I looked upon the broad fields with a proud eye then, for I thought every spec* kled conn-tassel and budding kernel gave promise of much happiness. But as the brightest morning may be darkened by the clouds that seemed so beautiful when faraway, so our lives may be shadowed by the approach of that which was wont to dazzle our eyes with its decep tive glory. But ■ however darkly the gloom may gather, we know there is always “sunshine above the mist. ” It is natural for us to look back upon our childhood and liken it to the morning ; because the’ horizon of our life has never since seemad so blight, nor music of the birds by the wayside so sweet, nor the breath of the flowers so fragrant; and our friends, unmasked of our childish confidence by the noonday sun, have never since proved so true. There is always a charm hover ing over the morning; and its mag ical presence lends beauty to every thing we see or bear. Would you listen to music t It may be grand at night--it is sublime in the mor ning. Would you know a friend ? Meet him in the morning. Yon will then find him more as God made him than after the enchanted hour has passed. Would yon look upon Niagara, or some old silvery-browed mountain. Go while yet the darkness lingers near, and see how they smile upon the morning. Glorious morning 1 We can al most imagine heaven nearer as you approach ; for in heaven ii is al ways morning. Editing A Paper, Editing a paper is a very pleasant business. If it contains too much politicial matter, the people don’t believe it. If the type are too small, people won’t read it. If the type are too large, it don’t contain enough reading matter. If we publish telegraph reports people say" they are lies. If we omit them, they say we have no enterprise, or suppress them for political effect. .If we have a few jokes, people say we are a rattle head. If we omit them, they say we are an old fogg. If we publish original matter, they damn us for not giving sclec tiens- If we publish selections, men say we are lazy for not writing more and giving them what they have not read in some other paper. If we give a man a complemen tary’ notice, we are censured for be ing partial. If we do not, all hands say we are a greedy hog. If we insert an article that pleases the ladies, men become jealous. If we do not eater td their wishes his paper is not fit to have in the house. If we remain in the office and at tend to business, folks say" we are too proud to mingle with our fel lows. If we go out, they say we never attend to business. If we publish poetry", we affect sentimentalism. If we do not, we have no literary polish or taste. If we condern any evil practice or criminality, or make any sugges gestions for the public good, they say we are a u —arned sight too meddlesome. If we do not notice them, they say we are a darn—damage to the community". A Very Strict Judge. Old Ostego County boasts a jus tice of the peace who flashes out in tlie annals Os local frtrrte as arraign ing himself for a delinquency. The justice of the peace refered to (no matter about his name or where he belongs) possesses the excellent at tributes of integrity and worth, but on one occasion he forgot liis mag isterial Integrity. He let down in a weak moment the judicial bars which should hedge him in and roamed into the fields of Bacchus. In short, on a recent occasion lie imbibed too much strong drink, and in consequence awoke with a rea* lizmg sense of that fact the next morning. Nowhere was a pretty" go: A justice of the peace on a bender, or a part of one. A man who was appointed to swing the flail of justice over the beads of poor unfortunate fellows wandering over into tho. wrong pasture himself. But there it was. He felt remind ers of it in the occasional throbs of headache. But what was to be done.? The mofc he viewed it tlie more lie become disgusted with himself. ITo made up his mind, lie would attend his case. He would vindicate the outraged law. So, at the usual hour, he entered his office. He formally opened court and then he called his own name as defendant in a suit' in which* “the people” charged him with an of. fence against the law, went over the circumstances in detail so far as he could remember them, read “the statute in such cases made and provided,” and then asked “tlie prisoner what lie had to say.” In the role of prisoner he pleaded guilty to the offence, said it was a Bliatne fora man of his years and po sition, bilt hoped “the Court would not be too severe on him, as he was determined to ‘reform.’ ” “The prisoner will stand up,” said the stern old justice. The prisoner arose. “Now,’ said the jus tice, “I m very sorry you have been brought into this court on a charge which so seriously" effects your good name and standing in society t you have set a bad axample, and if you go on at this rate you will bring sor row and disgrace on y'oursclf and family. • I sentence you to pay" a fine of $lO and cost, or to thirty days’ imprisonment in the county jail.” The “prisoner” said lie would prefer to pay tlie fine—and then the court closed. Ho walked over to the poormaster of tlie town and paid the $lO. — Utica Observer A Two IHinutc Sermon to Girl*. “Ladies—caged birds of beauti ful plumage but sickly’ looks—pale pets of the parlor, who vegetate in an unhealthy" atmosphere like the potato germinating in a dark cellar why do you not go out into the open air and warm sunshine; and add lusture to your eyes, bloom to your cheeks, and elasticity to your steps and vigor to your frames ? Take exercise; run up the hill on a Wager and down again for fun; roam the fields climb the fences, leap the ditches, wade the brooks, and after a day of exhilarating exercise and unrestrained liberty, go homo with an appetite acquired by healthy en joyment. The beautiful and bloom ing young lady—rosy cheeked an! bright-eyed—who can darn a stock ing, mend her own frocks, command a regiment of pdts and kettles, feed the pigs, milk the cows, and be a lady when required, is the girl that young men are in quest of for a wife But you, pining, screwed up wasp waisted, doll-dressed, consumption mortgaged, music murdering, and flovel-devouringdaugh ters of fashion and idleness—y'ou are no more fit for matrimony than a pullot is to look after a brood of fourteen chick ens. The truth is, my clear girls, you want less fashionable restraint and more liberty of action; more kitclieu and less parlor ; more leg exercise and less sofa; mo’re pud ding and less piano ; more frankness and less mock modesty. Loosen your waist strings and breathe pure atmosphere, and become something as good and beautiful as nature de signed.” Popular EurokS.—That editors keep public reading rooms. That they are delighted to get anything to till up the paper with. That they are always pleased to have as sistance in selecting copy for the pa per. That every mein’s Own private act is a ’matter of public interest.’ — That it doesn’t make very much difference whether copy be written on both sides. That editors return rejected manuscript. That any other time will do to pay for your subscriptions. A Model t.ove Eetter. My Dear Mrs. M.—Every time I think df you my heart flops up and down like a churndasher. Sen sations of unuterable joy caper over it like young goats on a stable roofj and thrill through it like SptlniSli needles through a pair of tow linen tfiotvsefs. Asa gdsling swimmeth with delight in a inud puddle, so swim lin a sea of glory. Visions of ecstatic raptiii'b thicker than the hairs of a blacking brush; and brigh ter than the hues of it htlttlmitig bird’s pinions, visit me in niy slum bers and borne on their invisible wirgs, your image stands bo fore me, and I rtiach out td grasp it like a pointer snapping at a blue bottle fly'. When I first beheld your angelic perfections I was be wildered, and my brain whirled around like a bumble-bee under a glass tumbler. My eyes stood open like cellar doors in a country town and I lifted tip my ears td catch the silvery accents of your voice. My tongue refused to wag, and in si lent adoration I "drank iu the sweet infection of love as a thirsty man swallowcth a tumblar of hot whis key punch. Since the light ot your face fell upon my life, I sometimes feel as if I could lift myself up by my boot straps to the top of the churCli stce pie; and p'llll the bell-rope for sing ing school. Day and night you are in my thoughts. When Aurora, blushing like a bride, rises from her saffron colored doflch j when the jay bird pipes his tuneful lay in thb apple tree by the springhouse; when the chanticleer’s shrill clarion heralds the coming morn; when the awaking pig ariseth from Ills bed and gruntelh, and goeth forth for his morning’s refreshments; when tho drowsy beetle wheels to droning flight at sultry noon tide ; and when the lowing herds come home at milking time, I think of thee; and like a piece of gum elas tic, my heart seems stretched clear across my bosom. Your hair is like tho mane of a sorrel horse pow dered with gold; and the brass pins skewered through your water fall fills me with unbounded awe. — Your forehead is smoother than ihe elbow of an old coat; your eyes arc glorious to behold. In their 'iquid depths I see legions of little cupids bathing, like a cohort of ants in an old army cracker. When their tire hit me upon my manly breast, it penetrated my whole anatomy, as a load of bird-shot through a rotton apple. Your nose is from a chunk of Parian marble, and your mouth is puckered with sweetness. Nec tar lingers on your lips, like lio'nby on a bear’s paw; and myriads of unfledged kisses are there, ready to fly out and light somewhere, like blue birds out of their parent’s Hosts Your laugh rings in my ears like the wind harp’s strain, or the bleat of a stray lamb on a bleak hill-side. The dimples on your cheeks are like bowers on beds of roses, hol lows in cakes of home-made sit gar. I am dying to fly to thy presence and pour out the burning eloquence of my love, as thrifty house-keep er pour out hot coffee. Away from you I am melancholy as a sick rat; Sometimes I can hear the June bugs of despondency buzzing in my" ears, and feel the cold lizards of despair crawling down my back.— Uncouth fears, like a thousand min nows, nibble at my" spirits; and my soul is peirced with doubts, as an old cheese is bored with skippers. My love for you is stronger than the smell of Coffey’s patent butter or the kick of a young cow, and more unselfish than a kitten’s first caterwaul. Asa song bird hank ers for the light of day, the cau tious mouse tor the fresh bacon in tlie trap, as a mean pup hankers af ter new milk, so I long for tHtie: You are fairer -than a apeckcld pullet, sweeter than a Yankee doughnut fried in sorghum molas ses; brighter than a topknot plu mage on a muscovy duck. You are candy, kisses, raisins, pound cake and sweetened toddy altogeth er. If these remarks will enable you to see the inside of my soul, and me to win your affections, I shall be as happy as a woodpecker on a cherry tree, or a stage horse in a green pas ture. If you cannot reciprocate my thrilling passion, i will pine away like a poisened bedbug and fall away from a flourishing vine of life, an un timely branch ; and in the coming years, when the shadows grow from the hills, and the philosophical frog sings his cheerful evening hymns, you, happy in another’s loVe; can come and drop a tear and catcli a cold upon the last resting place of Yours affectionately, ID NO 35. A Novel Duel: Amongst the reminisinces told of the Franco-Prussian war is the ac. count ofa curious duel between hVo subordinate officers of the FrehClt army: “Toil intend to fight a duel eh !” askbtl thb’ bdnlmdrltiiittti “Yes, Colonel. Words have jtffS* sed which can only" be wiped out with blood: We don’t want to pats for coiViirds.” “Very well; you shall fight; bttt it must be in this way: Tithe yotlt 1 Carbines, place yotit-selvcs on a line facing the mansion wher.e the ene my is. You will march upon their garrison with equal step. When sufficiently fleuf their posts you will fire upon thenl. The Prussians will reply. Yoil Continue to ad vance and fire. When one falls tho other may tiiHl upon his heels, and his i'ctrCat shall be covered by one of my companies.” “In this way,” concluded the com mandant, “the blood which you both demand will be spilled with profit and glory, and he who coins* back will do so without regret, without the remorse of having kill* cd or wounded, with his own hands a Frenchman, at a time when France needs all her defenders, and all her children. If you both fill! who shall vay that yOu affe Cowards? I rnay also add that I tliiis give you an excellent CJjfpUfttlnUy for putting a couple of Germans out of the way a service that will procure for you a good recommendation for reward find prdrtlotion.” The matter waft arratlgtd as thb commandant had flictatcdi At twenty paces from the walls of Mai* maison, one of the adversaries was WOunded, stagered and fell. Tlie other rrln to him, raised Hint Up, and bore him away on his shoulders anlid a regular hailstorm of balls—both; thenceforth, entitled to life greatest honor and respect ffotll thb whole regiment: Beauty of women.—A New Turk contemporary draws a parallel be tween American and English wo men, and by a very easy’ line of argument makes out iHff former to be by far the most bedtltifiil. Os course the standard df female beau* ty varies Sd With CcHtiitries and ell* mate that cdcli nationality con ceives beauty according to its own fashions. The Africans, of course figure beauty as black or bronte; with swollen lips; and td ntake the lower lip rriore beautiful some tribes render it pendiildtls by attaching heavy jewels or weights td it through artificial holes. In Perii the lon. gest ecifs afe considered thb hand somest, and a great mark df Beatify in the females. Sdrtfe pbdplb stain their teeth blabk and Soitfe rbdj and in Basqitb thb Wdirlen dd fidt con* aider tHeniselves fit fdf* brides until they" have shaved their head closb to tlui skin. The Mexican Women rejoifce • iff low foreheads urtd vef"j" thick heffdfl of hair; the bhickei" thb better aud the coarser it is the higher the ap preciations while the Italians ven erate red, golden and light hair. The Spaniards fancy light, slender figures in tlieif women; the ltd* bans, dti the cdlitrary; are fond of full developnlbtlts df limb arid fig ure. The Oriental and Wes terns are also at cdirtplefcc antipodes as td tlie hiannef" in, \fcHich thsy interpret beauty and What re lates to it. Tlie Eastern women use yellow cosmetics; While the French dud English clrad that tinge in their complexions; The Asiatic, wheth er of China or Siam, is delighted with the olive skin and high cheek bones of thb Mongolian wonted: Physical Training. —Thb ritotb ment inaugurated in Germany by l redrich Jahn for developing man hdod by physical training has taken ground in France, tfhc city of Vab ence has just founded a large pnb ; I*° gymnasium; wHibh it is expec ted will prove a model td be fol lowed by all other Cities thtoughoftt the country. It Wa3 only Opened last June, and already has lOOpupils paying two francs per month, and 100 others who receive instruction gratuitously. Tlie counto df in struction' comprises lessons in fen- C * C S* gymuastics and shooting; Which are now regularly followed and it is intended soon td add in struction in swimming and -in horsemanship. From time to time there will be public exhi bition?; iir Which the pupils will contend for special prizes. Childrert of bath eeics, from the age of five to ted years form a separate divis ion attached to the school. It is said that tlie city of lloucn is about to follow the good example of Vab ence immediately.
