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Announcing names of candidates for othce, $5.00. Cash, in all cases Obituary notices over five lines, charged at regular advertising rides. All communications intended to promote the private ends or interests of Corporations, Bo cieti»B, or individuals, will be charged ub ad vertisements. Job Work, such as Pamphlets, Circu. irs, Cards, Blanks, Handbills, etc., will bo execu ted in good style and at reasonable rates. All letters addressed to the Proprietor wtl lie promptly attended to. Chihli'CEß Worn 1 . Sometime?, when the day grows dusky, And the stars begin to come, When the children, from their playing, Come singing and laughing home, I think, with a sudden sorrow, As they press through the open dose, Os the faces es the children That we shall never see any more. Children in snow-white casketes, Laid away to tlicir rest, Their still hands lying folded Over their pulseless breast 1 Children who came and tarried As only it were for a night, And passed, at the break of the morning, On a journey far out of sight. On a long and lonely journey, Where we could not help or hold. For we saw but. the closing of eyelids, The fading of locks of gold ; And knew how now was but silence Where once had been prattle and song, Aod only a chill and a shadow Where was sunshine the whole day long. Away from our care aud caresses, God knows where they are,” we say, And we know that we tarry behind them Only a little way ; For we, too, haste in our journey, And we know it will not be long. Till we come to the City Eternal, The rest and the rapture of song. Yet oft, when the sun is setting In unspeakable splendor of light, Or the day grows dim and dusky, And the Shadows stretch into the night, When the children, tired with their playing, Come in through the open door, I think of tlfc dear, dear children, Who never will come any more. Tlic Unwearied of She Heart. The effect of everything that touches the heart is multiplied by the intensity of the heart’s own changes. Hence it is that it is so sensitive, so true an index of the body’s siate. Hence; also, it is that it never wearies. Let me re mind you of the work done by our hearts in a day. A man’s total out ward work, his whole effect upon world in twenty-four hours, has been reckoned about 350 foot-tons. That may be taken as a good “hard day’s work.” During the same time the heart has been working at the rate of 120 foot-tons. That is to say, if all the pulses of a <juy and night could be concentrated and aud welded into one great throb, that throb would be enough to throw a ton of iron 120 feet in the air. And yet the heart is never weary. Many of us are tired after but feeble labors; few of us can hold a poker out at arm’s length without, after a few minutes, drop ping it. But a healthy heart, and many an unsound heait, too— though sometimes you can tell in the evening, by its stroke, that it has been thrown off its t balance by the turmoils and worries of life— goes on beating-through the night when we are asleep, and when we awake in morning, we find it at work, fresh as if it had only just be gan to beat. It does this because upon each stroke of work there fol lows a period, a brief but a real pe riod, of rest; because the next stroke which comes is but the nat pral sequence of that rest, and made (to match it, because, in fact, each beat is, in force in scope, in charac ter, in everything, the simple ex pression of the hearts own energy find state. A TuF.iLi.iNG Romance. —Chap- ter 1. She stood beside the altar, with a wreath of orange buds upon Jiev head upon her back the rich est kind of duds, CUTHBERT §§§g APPEAL. The t’oiilE. The banking Bouse of Coutts & Cos. is the repository 7 of all the old English aristocracy, who, from the Queen down, mostly bank there. — There are rich old dowagers, maid en ladies and honorable.?, the real old English baronet with his estate in the rich pastures of Berkshire and Kent, and his “shooting-box” up in the north; the statesman, peer, and foreign ruler —they all intrust the house of Coutts & Cos., with their funds. The Queeu has banked there lor years; and, in deed, the immense wealth of Miss Coutts and of the bank is totally due to the patronage of royalty be stowed upon her ancestors —the founders of the bank. Her “ pass book” is a most handsome book, inlaid with gold, bearing the royal arms, in which all the entries are made in the handsomest and most ornamental of writing. Indeed it is one’s work to attend to her maj esty’s account, which is superin tended by the “ keeper of the privy purse.” The Emperor Nupoleon, too, much as ho would like us to believe to the contrary, kept an ac count there, and the house, prior to the fall of the empire, was con stantly leaking purchases of En glish consols to his order. There is no doubt that Napoleon had a short time ago a considerable sum invested in these English securi ties, as have most European poten tates at the present time. Another great feature with the house us Coutts & Cos., is the large deposits of jewellv, family papers, titles and other articles of value that are left.in it for safe keeping There are hundreds of large, heavy family cases in their vaults, and during the season in London, la dies go daily “to the bank” (they like to make use of the phrase) to take out some valuable ornament for the opera, etc., or •to return some after use. There are clerks whose special duly it is to see to the wants of these ladies. The great success of Contts’s banking house is due almost to'ac cident. Burdett Coutts, one of the founders, was a modest banker on the Strand, London, in George’s lll.’s reign, and he made it a prac tice, as his bank was some distance from the so-called “ city,” in order to keep himself “posted” in the fi nancial movements going on. there to dine with some of the leading city-bankers and bank-managers as often as opportunity would permit: It was during one of these re-unions that a bank official casually re marked his surprise that Lord bad been refused a loan of 10,000 pounds that day at his bank. The. circumstance was noticed by 7 the West-End banker,'and, the dinner, over, ho repaired at once to the house of the nobleman, and left Ins card, requesting bis lordship to call at his office on the following day on business of . great impor tance. The next morning Lord was announced to Mr. Coutts, and, on his inquiring what business had necessitated this visit the banker said he heard that his lordship had desired a loan of 10,000 pounds, and he respectfully offered his set - ' v ices. “ But I can give you no security, Mr. Coutts,” said, his lordship, as the banker commenced counting a small package of crisp bank-notes that were on his desk. “ Your lordship’s note of hand will be quite sufficient,” gallantly responded the West-End banker, and be handed him a note to sign. “ But I do not think I shall want as much as 10,000 pounds” hesita ted the nobleman. “ That is immaterial, your lord' ship” replied the banker. “On second thought I will take the ten thousand pounds, and, as I shall only need five thousand, you will please place the remainder to my credit as an opening of an ac count with you and my name.” The banker thanked his neiv cus tomer, escorted him with much po liteness to his carriage at the door, and then bade him “Good-day.” The action of the banker was a long sighted one. It was a good investment. The balance was soon increased, the loan returned, and the nobleman commenced to tell the story round at the Court of St. James of the wonderful accommo dating spirit of the West-End banker. Others soon deposited their money in his hands, and the story so well circulated at the pal ace that the king’s curiosity 7 was excited, and informed the bank er’s patron of his desire to meet the banker. Coutts went finally 7. He was introduced to the king, and his quiet modest manners Avon the CUTHBERT, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1872. favor of the Court. His presence at Court created quite a sensation, for it was soon afterward reported that the king had given his private finances into the keeping of Bur dett Coutts. The rest of the Court soon followed the example of the king, and thus was secured to the house the wealthy patronage of the aiistocraey of England. Miss Burdett Coutts has, as is well-known, the interest of the em ployees of the bank at heart. It is a hard matter to get into the bank. Noblemen’s sons now seek position? in the establishment, and some of the*partners are noblemen. Col lege educated men are alone taken as clerks, and then an examination is gone through, which is conduc ted with the same strictness as is the examination into the family, reputation, and general recommen dations of the applicants. For ev ery vacancy there are hundreds of applicants. But, when admitted a clerk has a fine position. lie will be told, on his being admitted that he must not wear a mustache but simply side-whiskers; and in bis dress, although nothing will be said to him about it, every modest ly of style will be expected of him This is done on account of the great dislike the real aristocracy of Eng land have for the gaudy, showy fop of the middle classes, who so often in his ignorance and self-conceit, apes the gentlemen. The clerks are all supplied with dinner inside the establishment, at the personal expense of Miss Burdett Coutts, and they owe their good fortune (for the dinner—“lunch, as it is call ed—is first-class) merely to acci dent. It appears that on one occasion Miss Burdett Courts . entered the bank shortly after 1 o’clock, and re marked to one of the partners that the bank seemed very empty. “Where are the gentlemen she in quired. “They have gone to lunch,” an swered the partner, “and they gen erally do so every day about this time.” She expressed herself as not ap proving of“tho gentlemen” going j out in all weathers from one coffee room to another in search of a meal ; and she then inquired if there was j no remedy lor it. She then asked why they could not dine at the bank. “Extra expense,” suggested the partner, whereupon Miss Burdett Coutts authorized the providing of a meal regularly for the gentlemen and her account to be debited with the necessary expense. And thus it is ever with her. She is always on the watch for the opportunity to do some benefit with her wealth. To say that those clerks worship her and her good heart docs not exaggerate their feelings of love and respect for her. Timid People.— lt is the habit of some people to laugh at the terror which is experienced by others at a heavy thunder crash or the flash ing lightning. This is both cruel and wicked, since the victim is no more to blame for it than the color of his eyes and hair—in fact, like them, it is hereditary. Such per sons should be pitied and soothed, and allowed during these periods to be always near someone whom they love and confide in. More es pecially is this true of children, some of whom suffer more than words can tell from this as well as from other causes of fear. Deal gently with such; it is the only way to eradicate their fears ; ridi cule and harshness will only confirm them. The child “ afraid of the dark” should never be forced to en counter it unattended and unwatch ed. Idiocy has often been the sad result of contrary treatment. Let both parents and teachers, then, be thoughtful in these regards Texas.— The State of Texas would contain the entire population of the United States without mak ing it any more thickly settled than Massachusetts, and the same State would hold the entire population of the French empire, (or Republic that now is,) and leave uninhabited a margin of sixty miles around the boundary of the State. —A colored preacher at Sparta was heard to say in a funeral ser mon of a deceased brudder: “He ruminates no longer among us ; he have exonerated from the syllogisms of this world’s discrimination, and when he gits to de cold dry stream of de river Jordan, the Kerosines and Perapheiies will meet him dare to row him over on dry land to the silverstering city.” The height of a young lady’s ara -1 bitiou —two little feet. [From the Loudon Times.] Europe in Ilnrtial Array. This is the season of the year at which we have the opportunity of realizing what is meant by armed peace. The hosts of Europe are be ing marshaled in numbers sufficient to invade and conquer kingdoms.— They are provided, at an immense cost, with the full equipment and and the most scientific apparatus of war; they are commanded by Gen erals who feel, it is said, all the res ponsibilities of a campaign, and offi cers earnest to obtain the practical knowledge of their profession; they engage in the most complicated op eration, and all to prepare for that coming war which the policy of ev ery European ij'ute assumes to be inevitable. The Russians common ced their grand maneuvers this week aud are still in the midst of them. It is to be hoped that in their north ern latitude the heats from which we are suffering are a little temper ed. TuePrusians enter into the cam paign on the Ist of August, and for nine days the operation will proceed with as much precision as if the ar mies were once more marching on Paris. The great heat prevented the French review the other day, but the autumn will not have begun before the reconstructed army of the republic will be tested as openly as its chief can venture to* recommend, considering the susceptibilities of Berlin. The Austrians, ever beaten but ever confident, and with a mili tary machine which, to the profes sional eye, is always in perfect or der, will not be behindhand. No State has labored more at army re form and organization than Austria during the last six years, and she will take her usual pride in exhi biting her new weapons and her new uniforms on the largest scale to millitary cities. Passing over minor continental States, which are all ready to spend their last shil ling on soldiers, we come to a coun try in which there is more fuss about military mutters than in any other, though the people, with the utmost sincerity, protest their peace fulness, and boast of thdir freedom from the warlike passions. We, too shall have our autumn maneuvers to display, and instruct a select por tion of a national force which, as far as numbers go, is really formidable, and which is. cer tainly far larger than Great Britain has ever maintained in Wine of peace. Between the present time and the end of September, the gov ernments of Europe will have set in the field whole armies, the choi cest levies of a body which can not be reckoned ;>t less than four mil lions of jnen. To Cure Heartburn. —Persons troubled with heartburn will find speedy and perfect relief by eating one or two kernels of the peach just as soon as the suffering manifests itself. This remedy is simple, cheap, harmless and effectual. This whole life is but one great school. From the cradle to the grave wo are scholars. The voices of those we love, and the wis-. dom of past ages and our experience are our teachers. Afflictions give us discipline. The spirits of depar ted saints whisper to us—“come up higher.” Prejudice does a great deal with some people, but the most iuveter ate prejudice will hardly induce any man who prefers Democratic princi ple to Radicalism to support Grant in preference to Greeley, since the first is a centralizationist, neiter knowing nor caring anything about the constitution, and the latter the representative at once of local self government and nationality. A dealer in music down East exhibited in his window a song “ You have loved me and left me’ for twenty-five cents. If lemons are placed in ajar filled with wat£r, and the water renewed every day or two, they will keep fresh and sound for several weens. A Connecticut sheriff says: “If any man doubts the Bible doctrine of human depravity, only 7 ask him to be sheriff of this county one year.” —An elderly maiden lady, hear ing for the first time that matches are made in heaven, declared that she didn’t care a snap how soon she left this siuful world for a better land. —“Arthur,” said a good- natured father to his “young hopeful/’ “I did not know till to-day that you had been whipped last week,” “Did’ntyou, pa?” replied hopeful, “I knew it at the time.” ' Bieam Superceded. Are we on the eve of another great revolution ? Not a civil war, but such a revolution as resulted from the invention of the locomo tive and the electric telegraph. On ly thirty years ago Prof. Morse was struggling to get aid of Congress to make a trial of his wonderful in vention. And now another inventor has gained permission of the gov ernment to make an experiment which may yet become as interest ing event in history as the trial of the famous electric wire between Baltimore and Washington. The coming man is Albert Brisbane, for a time a resident of Irvington, and his invention is a kind of pneumatic tube by means of which time and space are to ho annihilated. Ilis unremitting efforts last winter suc ceeded in getting from Congress an appropriation of $15,000. for the purpose of laying a tube between tiie Capitol, at Washington, and the Government printing office, a distance of half a mile, and if the experiment proves satisfactory; an other app opria ion will l e granted for the construction of a tube between Washington and Baltimore, the ground of the first telegraphic tri umph. The method of transit will be by hollow sphere, propelled through the tube by eompresed air, and some idea of the velocity with which they can be driven may be got from Mr. Brisbane’s prophecy that the New York papers will bo sent to Chicago and St. Louis in time for the 8 o’clock breakfast ta bles. The general establishment of this mode of transportation would be a sad blow to the railroad sys tem of the country. An immediate loss of freight traffic would ensue to the railroads, and they with steam boats that ply our rivers, would be consigned to the insignifiieance of mere pleasure excursion party con conveyances. Although Mr. Brisbane’s inven tion has been achieved upon the bn sis of an old theory, he will deserve none the less credit, in case of suc cess, for the man who most deserve the world’s gratitude is 113 by whose effort the world’s derives practical benefit. The inventor’s confidence in the result, and the generally acknowledge feasibiliy of a practical application of the pneu matic theory seem to promise suc cess, and it is to be hoped that .the coming experiment may be a satis factory one.— Exchange, American Literature and Art. —The truth is’that the defect in average American literature and art lies in the haste with which all material is worked up and thrust crudely before the public. Two weeks in the Yosemite or Yellow stone region gives' us a mountain painter in Smith; a chance week in a yacht deluges us with marine views for years afterward from Brown.; an hour’s ride in a railway car fills the note-books of our many “coming American novelists” with characters. Our artists with both pen and pencil work as it were from hand to mouth ; their bread, in housekeepers’ phrase, is made of raw flour. It would bo worth their while to compare Hawthorne’s notebooks with his finished work, to observe bow long the ideas were suffered to lie fallow before they were slowly tilled and brought forth into fruit so perfect and enduring. The real difference, perhaps, lies in the fact that in one casfl the work is done .from tho life-long love of art, in the other from the daily necessity of money; but until that difference is recognized the prospect for both our art and liter ature is but that of a fungus growth strong and rank for the time it lasts but that time will be but a day.— New Y~ork Tribue —lt is not possible to ask a mail to return borrowed goods, books, money, or anything else, without putting in peril the beautiful friend ship on the strength of which he fleeced you. lie was a wise man who said to-his friend wishing to borrow, “You and I are now good friends. If I lend you money and you do not pay it, we shall quarrel. If I refuse to lend you, I suppose we will quarrel. There are two chances of a quarrel, and I think I will keep the money 7 rather than run the risk of losing it and you.” He had in mind the old song: ‘T bad my money and my friend, I lent my money to my friend, I asked my money of my friend, I lobt my money and my friend.” “ Did it rain to morrow ?” in quired a Dutchman of a French man. “Me guess ii was,” replied the Frenchman. The Valley oi Death. A spot almost as terrible as the prophet’s valley of dry bones, lies just north of the old Mormon road to California, a region 30 miles long by 30 broad, mid surrounded, ex cept at two points, by inaccessible mountains. It is totally 7 devoid of water and vegetation, and the shad ow of bird or wild beast never dar kens its white glaring sands. The Kansas Pacific railroad engineers discovered it, also some papers which show the fate of the “lost Montgomery train,” which came south from Salt Lake in 1850, gui ded by a Mormon. When near Death’s Valley some came to the conclusion that the Mormons knew nothing about the country 7 , so they 7 appointed one of their number a leader, and broke off from the par ty 7 . The leader turned duo west; so with the people and wagons and flocks ho travelled three days, and then descended into the broad val ley, whose treacherous mirage promised water. They readied the centre, but only the white sand, bounded by 7 scorching peaks, met their gaze. Around the valley they wandered, and one by one the men died, aud the panting flocks stretch ed themselves m death under the hot sun. Then the children, crying for water died at their mother’s breasts, and with, swollen tongues and burning vitals the mothers fol lowed. Wagon after wagon was abandoned, and strong men tottered and raved and died. After a week of wander,ing, a dozen survivors found some water in the hollow of a rock in the mountain. It lasted but a short time, when all perished but two, who escaped out of the valley and followed the trail of their former companions. Eighty-seven families with hundreds of animals perished lure : and now,after 22 years tho wagons stand still complete, the iron work and tires are bright, and the shriveled skeletons lie side by side. — Springfield Republican. - Paste For Scrap Book. —You have had inquiry for a good* paste that will keep. In reply I will say that after an experience of thirty years daily, I may say hourly use, I have found none so good as ‘flour paste made with alum water; say 7 a piece of alum large as a small wal nut to a few drops of oil of cloves ad ded to the paste when made. The -prevents the fermentation, and the oiLNaleMructivo to vegetable mould. Paste made this way will keep for weeks in the wannest weather. Add the water to the flour cold and bring to a boil. More Boys Than Girls. —From' thecensus statistics which havejust. been completed it appears that the number of children in the United States under five years old is 4,513,343, of which 2,795,8 87 are male, 2,717,426 female. The male children from five to nine, inclu sive, are 2,437,442, and female 2,- 377,271 ; total, 4,814,713. The number of male inhabitants of all ages under twenty-one is 10,050,- 563 ; female 9,975,307 ; total, 20,- 026,870. Marriage. —The importance at tached to the institution of mar riage is not at all an exaggerated one. To select one from the mass of mortals ' with whom yon are henceforth to share the good and ill of life in common ; one whose tastes, pleasures, interest and affec tion, arc to be yours, whether your twin journey be along the ‘please ant aud flowery valleys of existence or up its steep and precipitous path one whose morning and evening prayers are to ascend with your own to God; one whose unclosing ey 7 es are to greet the morning sun when yours do; one who is to eat at the same table, to drink of the same cup, and to be, in a word, like the “lamb which Nathan’s beauti ful parable described as “lying on the poor bosomand all this is not for a few years only, but till death part you. To select a part ner like this, ought, indeed, to be a grave, almost an awful task. “ The unpardonable sin in nran is from good grain to make poor whisky ; and in woman, from good flour to make poor bread.”— The latter is a crime of frequent occurrence, aud has nothing to ex cuse it, for it is just as easy to al ways have sweet, light, wholesome bread, as to ruin one’s digestive or gans with hot saleratns biscuit, or to disgust one’s olfactories with “ salt risings.” —An exchange prints a chapter of the Bible without credit. How on earth are publishers to know where it came from ? Dosi’t toe too Sensitive. There are some people, y 7 es many people, always looking out for , slights; They cannot carry on the daily 7 intercourse of the family with out some offense is designed. They are as touchy as hair triggers. 11 they meet an acquaintance in the street who happens to bo pre-occu pied with business, they attribute his abstraction in some inode per sonal to themselves, and take um brage accordingly. They lay on others the fact of their irritability. A fit of indigestion makes them see impertinence in every one they come in contact with. Innocent persons who never dreamed of giv iug offense are astonished to find some unfortunate word or moment ary taciturnity mistaken for an in sult. To say the least, tho habit is unfortunate. Jt is far wiser to take the more charitable view of our fel low beings, and not suppose a slight is intended unless the neglect is open and direct. After nil, too, life takes its hues in a great degree from the color of’our mind. If we are frank and generous, the world treats us kindly. If, on the con trary, we are suspicious, men learn to be cold and and cautious to ns. Let a person get the reputation of being touchy, and every body is un der more or less constraint, and in this way the chances of an imaginary offense are vastly increased; Drinking.— No man ever became a drunkard, lived a drunkard’s life, died a drunkard’s death, and filled a drunkard’s grave, as a matter of free choice. No one ever became an excessive drinker, who did not begin by r habit of being a moderate, a very moderate drinker. If it were the habit of all not to take the first step, and thus become mod erate drinkers, the unuterable hor rors and woe, the destitution and crime which results from this mas ter evil of in temp ere nee would cease. Wives and children, com munities would not mourn over loved ones thus dishoned and lost. But it is the habit of drinking be coming the law of their being and of their daily life, the lack of resist ing power resulting from this ter rible thraldom, the fever of habit ual temptation and appetite, which causes that y T oarly death march of sixty 7 thousand of our people to the saddest of all graves, followed as mourners by half a million of worse than widowed wivek and worse than orphaned children. —llow dangerous to defer those inomenteous reformations which the conscience is solemnly "preaching to the heart. If they are neglected, the dfficulty and indisposition are in creasing every month. The mind is receding degree after degree, from the warm and hopeful zone; till at last it will enter tlie article and become fixed in resentless and eternal vice. —A good, finished scandal, fully armed and equipped, such as circu lates in the world, is rarely tho pro duction of a single individual, or even of a coterie. It sees the light in one, is rocked and nutured in an other, is petted, developed, and re ceives its finishing touches only af ter passing through a multitude of hands. It is a child that can count a host of fathers, and reikly 7 to dis own it. Dreary Homes. —Of all the drea ry places deliver us from the drea ry farm houses, which so many people call home. Bars for a front gate; chickens wallowing before the front door ; pig-pens elbowing the house in the rear; scraggy trees never cared for, or no trees at all, no cheering shrubs; no neatness. And yet a lawD, and trees, and a neat walk, and a plasant fence around it, don’t cost a great deal; they can be secured little by little, aud at odd times, and the expense hardly felt. And if the time conies when it is best to sell the farm, fifty dollars so invested will often bring five hundred. For a man is a brute who will not insensibly yield to a higher price for such a farm, when he thinks of the pleasant surroundings it offers to his wife and children. Farmers beautify and adorn yoitr farms; set out orchards, shrubery lay of lawns, build good fences; put up good gates aud paint or whitewash your out houses and fences. —“lf there is anybody under tho canister of Heaven that I have *in utter exerescence,” says Mrs. Par tington, “it is the slander going about like a boy constructor circu lating his calomel upon honest folks.” NO 36. A Eat Story. The following cat and rat story comes from one of the best busi ness men in Cincinnati, whose ve racity, nobody acquainted with him, will question. Wo therefore give, it to our readers in the full belief that it is true to the letter 1 ‘‘ Edi tors of the Leader—l have just read an article in your paper of the 29th hist., on a cat and- a rat exper iment. I will give you a cat’s ex periment which came under my own observation. When* living on abeth street, some seventeen years ago, we owned a very fine female cat, who, one cold winter’s morning, brought a large addition to her fam ily. Miss Puss had always been death on rats. Her progeny were short-lived, being consigned to a barrel of water, where they found a watery grave. Puss during the day was in the deepest distress and refused to be comforted. In the evening we found her on the bed, purring aud showing by her every movement that she was perfectly happy. Puss being a pet of my wife she would not suffer her to be removed. Before retiring I lifted up the cat and underneath her wero nestled, unconsciotis Os any danger, three half-grown fats, and there they lay tor sonic time until one by one they were dispatched. Here is o case of maternity, the eat had substituted the offspring of its deadly enemy to supply the loss of its own, and it must have been done without any fear on the part of the rats. The cat must have caught and deposited on the bed each one separately. I have often since regretted the killing of thn rats, as the result might have been in pussy’s domesticating the rats.— But she never forgot it, never af ter this would she molest a r;rt. ” Neioport {Eg.) Leader , Prentice Mulford writes from London to the San Francisco Bulle tin : “I have beeii obliged to purt ly relearn the English language.— Words here do not always convey tho same meaning as in America. — There are no railroads but ‘rail ways,’ no depots but ‘stations,’ no fire-men but ‘stokers,’ no cars but ‘ carriages.’ There seem to be no buggies in England; but they keep ‘ cars’ on lure at the livery stables. There are no stores but ‘shops.’— Neither an inn nor a public house is obliged to ehtertain travelers with other accommodations than beer or spirits. To be fed and lodged, one must go to‘ a • tavern or hotel.— When you ask for beer, they give you porter. ‘ Lager’ is unknown. There is no washing and ironing but ‘washing and miffigling.’ Beans are known as ‘haricots’ (the plebe ians terni them ‘aricots’). The word corn stands for most any kind of grain. There is no Indian meal but ‘ corn flour.’ A streak of sunshine, once an hour, constitutes a ‘fine day.’ No street cars but ‘tramways,’ ho pitchers but ‘jugs,’ no glasses but ‘tumblers.’” “Wheii ti sthinger treats mo with want of respect,” said a poor philosopher, “ I comfort my sell with the reflection that it is not my self that he slights; but my old and shabby hat and cloak, which, to say the truth, have no particular claim to adoration. So, if my hat and cloak choose to fret about it, let them ; but it is nothing to me.” “Doctor what is the matter with him do ye think A corrustified exegesis antispas medically emanting from the germ of the animal refrigerator producing a prolific source of irritability in the pericranial epiders of the mental profundity. “Ah ! that’s what I told Betsy, she ’lowed it was wurrums.” A Beautiful Thought.—' The sea is the largest of all cemeteries, aud its slumberers sleep without monuments. All other graveyards, in other lands, show some distinc tion between the great aud small, the Hell and poor; but in the great ocean cemetery, the king and the clown, the prince and the peasant arealike undistinguished. The same wave roll over all; the same requi em by the minstrels of the ocean is sung to their honor. Over their re mains, the same storm beats, and the same sun shines.; and there, un marked, the weak and powerful, the plumed and unhonored, will sleep on until awakened by the same trump. W asn’t it rough on Clara, just as she was telling Fredrick at lunch how ethereal her appetite was, to have tlie cook bawl out: “Say! will you have yei* biled pork aud beaDs now, or wait till yer feller’s gone ?”