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I" - GENERAL ROBERT E. LEE.
BY IIKI.ES D’ESTB.
I The lines were written on the death of
Mku Robert E. Lee.
■ . wiiheriDK WiAt has fallen
■ O'er ill the iwmy So f* lC '?’ 1 “ t1 ’
Her sky is covered with a cloud,
iier heart enveloped in a shroud,
Her leader is no rapreu •:
Tl, marble king has set his seal
On the brow of her noblest brave \ *
With frosty breath he stilled the heart
A*d the flow of its crimson waves,
A dirge comes wailing from all parts—
lHath bulls are ringing in our hearts,
Our Lee is now no more.
The weaiy hands are folded now
Over the sad and patient breast;
Hie stedfast soul has taken its flight
To the home of eternal rest,
So grief will ever reach him more,
]lu boat has touched the other shore—
Lee is on the golden sands.
To save his country and her fame
LK- dared the sword and bullets smart—
Tvas her defeat and not his own
Tint broke his true and noble heart.
lU< banners trailing in the; dust,
But his freed spirit o'er her must,
Will yet.
, field him in thine arms, 0, Father!
I Let our loved and honored Lee
Twist our country and tliy Kingdom
A earner of blessings be.
With hitter tears we wash his grave,
But God has taken what he gave,
And yet will live again.
HOTS fi'va&¥J«SK,
or, ■* - v v . ... :j
HEARING AN ENGAGEMENT.
■ ' ha little witch a3 she was, this Katy Day,
■ '"-mi I write. She couldn’t help flirting if she
■ 1 an ! it wasn’t her fault, of course, if men
B-w ’ab'n in by the round, childish face and great
■ •■■•nt blue eyes. For they were scores of them,
B>! Kitty went on her way rejoicing—completing
Hear bewilderment by the shy looks, and smiles,
Hxi Hashes, that really meant nothing, but were
H.y effective, nevertheless.
■T.nt an unlucky hour for Kitty, she said “ Yes,’’
■ .melancholy young man, who hachbeen
B* di flow for months. She wasn’t in earnest)
Bit id it hr the “ fun of the thing,” and because
B' v, .";ed to know how it felt to be “ engaged.’’
■ c ,and -ri mslv. however, for, in spite of ex-
Bvsp commands to the contrary, the expected suit.
B went directly to her father and told him all
Bmn it.
I v ' l'v looked at his daughter mischievously
B•' . t. a< she &it behind the tea-urn with such
■ m ica! assumption of dignity.
■ "tv 1 m to lose my little housekeeper before
•nr am 1; questioned he, significantly.
■‘• ''•’•y. papa, what do you mean?” and Kitty
Huhed scarlet.
I hr. (i. ,rt callol on me to-day. lie is an cx
■ : y, ur,g man, and the son of one of my old
! ! as. 1 heartily approve your choice my
Bar.”
■., .. l ' T ‘ "” lSo^ keep the engagement a* secret,”
Bid Kitty jn a vexed tone.
A lt( ' lv \ lno ’ hut concluded afterward to
ua promise rather than act dishonestly.—.
W* “ , Jat hav « W quite fair to have cOn-*
BUcd the engagement from me.”
B‘-l don’t know why, I’m 'sure. It’s only.'a bit
I 1 ,K>ver meant to many Him.”
■ h r-1 aj looked at her sternly.
B M '* >ot jesting,” she added, pettishly. “H e
■>', 'T'}* * nto su °t a passion that I was fairly
■ / and sorry enough
F been for it since.
■ An- you in earnest, Kitty ?”
I Yes, l am." and the blue eyes flashed defiant
■/ s . i? P°**hle that a daughter of mine has so
W* feeling and principle ?”
Iw . papa, what is the use of lecturing. You
■* u “‘ l °ld. I’m in trouble and want yoU to
■' a * out of it.”
ißatvrt •
,7‘• l ave S lven your word, Kitty, and must
it"
1 he break bis ?’ r
, 7 was justified in doing so. But you
ifi give you a choice of two evils
harrying young Gilbert one. Few
hither keep your promise and make
** i circumstances, or break it and pass the
L‘ ul ,ie country with your aunt Dorothy.—
® 2i t going to have play fast and loose with
* after this fashion.”
' up in her father’s face, disbeliev
determination was written there; and,
bidden dismay, she began to plead for
‘' v ° 03 the sentence.
» vrpnld nt listen. “ You can stay
[y “* ai Participate in its gayeties on one
Pn * ’ i' y c mentioned,” said he.
anything so provoking?” muttered
lather had gone, down town.—
l uvs > n forlorn-looking old place,
[ .v,:. 1 " dderaess around her, and papa
V!' o * s crossest old maid in cxis
-1 ■- ill be even with him yet.”
njyni’.ng Kitty announced herinten-
K. in A* city. - But, papa. Mr.
Kit .*»7 grow tired of the engagel
- t ", iliu ’ K me better, you’ll not punish
U ‘ aQ d her eyes trembled
a question to ask?*
H ) tlada motive in It. A plan had eug^
®fte gnrifcen fit*.
. P V
VOL. VI.
gested itself to her mind for outwitting both father
and lover. But she didn’t mean to hurry, and be
gan to pave the way for its suocess cautiously.
As good luck would have it, who should call on
her that morning but cousin Joe, the firm ally and
abettor of all her childish mischief, and as ready
to help now as then.
“ Oh! Joe, such trouble as I’m in,” and she
clasped her hands with a pretty little gesture of
appeal.
f “ What, you, Kitty ? Is your canary bird frac
tious, or is it something about anew dress sir bon.
bet that don’t equal your expectations ?”
Kitty looked at him so reproachfully that he
was sobered in a* minute. *
“ Tell me all about it,” whispered he.
** I’m engaged,” and if she’d been announcing Her
own funeral, she couldn’t have done- it in a more
solemn voice.
Jee flushed up to the roots of his hair, and
clasped and unclasped bis hands in a nervous sort
of a way, but didn’t say anything. »
Kitty watched him maliciously. “ It’s to that
young Gilbert. He’s a splendid fellow, and has
great "dark eyes and the dearest little moustache.
You know him, don’t you ?”
“ No—yes—a little,” stammered Joe, to the de
light of his listener. “ But what’s the trouble
about ? Won’t fyour father ,'consent ?” and he
looked so utterly wretched that Kitty, with, a faint
twinge of remorse, hastened to tell him the true
state of the CaJfe.
He brightened up wonderfully. “ Then you
don’t love the man after all ?” he asked.
“ Well, I don’t know,” she answered, meditative,
ly. “ I never looked into the matter much. I
suppose he’s as good as any one, hut I’m not in a
marrying mood at present.” *
Joe’s countenance fell again. “ Will you tell me
just what you want?” said he a little sternly.
“ Now don’t be cross, Joe ; you’re the only friend
I’ve got in the world,” and Kitty raised her soft
eyes imploringly, j
He was molified at once. “ Why not break with
Gilbert and accept the alternative ?” suggested he.
“ Twon’t be so very dull at aunt Dorothy’s. I’ve
a college friend iri the neighborhood, and can visit
you occasionally.”
Poor Joe ! The idea of having her all to him
self was delightful, and he waited for her answer
with subdued eagerness.
“ Is that the only plan that has occurred to you?”
answered Kitty sarcastically ; “ you jhavn’t much
ingenuity if you can’t devise some other way of
getting me out of this dilemma. I’ve no intention
of becoming an animated fossil. Now listen to
what I propose.”
Then Kitty disclosed her plot, and Joe listened
approvingly, and the two heads were still bent
close together when young Gilbert called an hour
later. He entered unannounced, and Kitty gave
such a start and blush at him that Joe’s hopes
again sank to zero/ But if he’d been sensible he’d
known that her embarrassment was the result of
surprise rather than emotion. She was very arch
and winning that morning until after Joe left (the
little witch knew he was on nettles all the time,)
then she changed her tactics grow cold and distant.
“ So you had to tell papa, after all,” she sneered,
men can’t keep a secyct.”
ller lover tried to explain, but she wouldn't lis
ten, and gave him such a rating as would have
done credit to the shrillest and noisest of viragos,
“ Is this a specimen of her temper ?” thought he.
escaping into Jthe street as soon as possible.—
“ Who’d have thought her soft eyes could flash
or the lines of her face sharpen in such a curious
way ? She really looked dangerous.”
He had seen Kitty laugh and clap her hands as
she vanished from the scene, he’d have been more
puzzled than ever.
The next time they met, she greeted him with
such a charming smile, and looked so naive and
unconscious that this little episode would have
passed from his memory if it hadn’t been for one
circumstance. *
He accidentally (?) overheard a conversation be.
tween her cousin and another gentleAan. Kitty
was the theme of the discourse.
“ She’s a dear little girl, but a regular virago,’’
said Joe. “ Everybody's afraid of her when she
gets into ofie of her tantrums. She just raves and
goes on in a way that’s perfectly frightful There’s
a taint of insanity in the blood, you know; her
aunt and grandmother jlied in an insane asylum.”
Young Gilbert listened, shuddering. These
words explained the scene that had puzzled him
before and awakened foreboding for the future.—
You saw her father come down town last week
with his head all bandaged up, and heard him tell
perhaps, how terribly he’s afflicted with neuralgia
continued Joe, “ Poor old gentleman 1 ’twas Kitty
did the mischief, for in one of her langry fits she
threw the flat-iron across the table, and it hit him
in the temple. He’s anxious tor marry her off, and
I hear Gilbert's to be the happy man.”
That individual turned pale. He remembered
Mr. Day’s eagerness in forwarding his suit, and the
wish he had expressed that his daughter’s marriage
should take place at an early date. Though hi s
love for Kitty was as strong as his shallow nature
was capable of feeling, a vixenish wife would be
endurable. . But wasn’t it possible that her cousin
was mistaken, or had colored the picture a little
too highly ? He resolved to wait for further de
velopments.
They came speedily. A week later he called on
Kitty—just at dark— and was ushered-by mis.
•take(?) into the library. The door between that
and * the dining room Stood slightly ajar; a wo
mank shrill voice reached him from thence. Was
it Kitty’s? Yes, he recognized it; he had heard
it once before pitched in the same high key.
“ Don’t tell me you didn’t mean to,” she screech
ed, more Ijke a mad womoa than anything else.-
," You did, you did, jSft>u wretched little imp
BAINBRIBGE. GA-, MARCH 30th 1872
Then there was the sound of a heavy blow and the
shriek of a child..
“Oh 1 don’t, don’t; Miss Kitty!” wailed a pit!- 1
ful voice. “ "Twas so dark I couldn’t see when you
run up against me, and then I stumbled-and fell
and the pitcher got broken, and I tried to keep the
milk oil your pretty dress, but couldn’t.”
“You stumbled and fell,” mimicked Kitty.—
* Well, I’ll teach you not to another time. Take
that, and that, and that,” giving the child blow
after Wow that resounded through the room.—
“ Stop your sniveling, too. Da, you hear ? I’ll
make you if you don’t,”
“ Kitty, let that jehild alofie,” said anew voice;
and Gilbert recognized it as her cousin’s.
“ I shall do no such thing 1 Get out of the way
and mind your own business!” she shrieked, and
there was something that sounded like a bottle
whizzing through the room and crashing Up against
the wall. Then a man’s groan was heard distinct
ly-
“ Oh! Kitty, how could you ?” said her cousin,
reproachfully. “You’ve cut my #ieek terribly;
see bow the blood runs ?”
Gilbert didn’t wait to hear any more, but fled
from the house, resolved that he wouldn’t marry
such a vixen, though she had the. face and form of
a Hebe. ...
The front door had no sooner closed on him
than the actors in the above drama went off into
ppasms of merriment. Kitty stood revealed in the
gas-light with dress uninjured, there was not a cut
to be seen on [Joe’s face; the child was nowhere
visible. -
“Oh! oh! ’twas too funny!” gasped Kitty 5
“ that whine would have .deceived anybody, ’twas
so natural. I half started {myself, thinking ’twas
really a child’s voice instead of tjrours. You de
serve a reward of merit for such splendid acting.’’
• “ Give me one then, and let me choose it myself,’’
whispered Joe.
“ Well, what will you have?” and she looked up
archly.
“ Yourself.”
“ What a modest demand!” There was a mock
ing smile on his lips, but her eyes fell beneath his.
“ Do you think so ?” and, taking the mischiev
ous little face between his hands, he scanned it
closely. What he saw there was {evidently satis,
factory, for he kissed it over and over, and Kitty,
though she resisted a little at first, finally submit
ted with a very good grace. .
“ ’Tis well to be off with the old love before yon
are on with the new,” whispered he, slyly. “ Gil
bert’s done for, and I’ve stepped into his place.”
“ But he didn’t treat [me in this way,” pouted
she.
“ I hope not. :: f would be worse for him if he
had. I ; d shoot him in a minute and Joe tried
to look belligerent, but failed wofully.
Mr. Day was surprised the next morning by
Kitty's late suitor. The young man seemed ill at
ease, and stammered a good deal in making his er
rand known.
“ I understand, sir, that insanity is hereditary in
your family,“ he began awkwardly, “ and—and— ‘‘
he paused and tried to collect his ideas—“that
Kitty's aunt and grandmother died in a lunatic
asylum.“ *
“ All a mistake," responded Mr. Day, pompous
ly. “ There never was a case of insanity, either
among my own kindred or that of my last wife.“
“But your daughter, sir, has a peculiar
disposition,' and I find it isn’t suited to mine
at all. We should be miserable together.
I desire, therefore, to withdraw from the
engagement.”
“And have - you told her this?” thundered
his listener, white with rage. Mr: Day re
ally had a violent temper, and didn’ need
to feign its possession, like Kitty.
“Dear me! tlie father is worse than the
daughter,” thought the young man. Aloud
he answered, "Oh, no ; I came to you first.”
(The feet was, he didn't dare to fece Kitty
with any such proposition.)
“Well, sir, all I have to say i3, that you're
a mean, contemptible villain, and if you don’t
get out of my office this minute, I’ll kick
you down stairs,” and before the words
were fairly out of Mr. Day’s mouth, he
started to make his threat good.
Young Gilbert made a hasty retreat, con
vinced that not only Kitty, but Mr. Day,
also, were partially insane.
Kitty listened demurely to her father’s
version of the affair, ftnd the anathemas he
hurled against her recent lover. Once,
though, during that narration she shook so
with laughter that he* looked at her suspi
ciously. But she put on at once such an
air of wretchedness he ascribed it to wound
ed pride. It was not till two years after
ward that he learned the truth, and Kitty
was married to Joe, who I forgot to say,
was not her own cousin, though she called
him so, but a sort of distant relation. Mr.
Day received his revelation good humored
ly (Joe had always been his special favorite,)
and was ready enough to laugh with the
rest oyer the way in which he had been
outwitted.
• ,
A Dutch woman .kept a tol-gate. One foggy day
a traveler asked, ‘-Madam, how far Is to B ■?’»
-Shost a leetle ways,” was thej-eply. “Yes, but
how far ?” again asked the traveler. “Shoost a
leetle ways,” more emphatically. “Madam, is it one
two, three, four or five miles ?” The good woman
ngenuously replied, “I dinks it is!”
FOR THE TO ALL.
[From <!> Wild Oats.“]
ON A JURY,
Another innocent man has been tor*
from the bosom of his family and drawn
ijnd quartered—drawn into the jury and
quartered into the Court House in Brook
lyn. “Let justice be done though the heav
fajfaU” is played out, and what’s the use
fi having: a bosom of a family if one is lia
ble to be torn and thrust into a
courtroom for domg nothing? If such
doings are to continue, we had better bring
in oijt of the wet and cold the girl that
stands on top of our court houses with a
white rag aroiid her brow, -and unwind her
head, and set her to weighing sausage meat.
I, came down the Erie road to spend the
holidays with my family, but was impressed
into this new Court Hoffs* job, and on the
2d day of January began to Helloo “Here I”
at Id o’clock in the morning. I can’t call
it a gross piece of injustice, because there
were only seventy-to of us, which makes it
a half a gross piece of injustice.
THE JURORS’ SOLEMN OATH.
On the first day the clerk of the. court
called OUr names, and we yelled “Here 1”
then he tore the names off and stuck ’em
into a dish and shook ’em up for the draw
ing. •Then we all got hold of a Bible, and
the clerk said: “Lub a dub dub dub, mum
mum mum, so help you god. Now kiss the
book.” Then we all kissed the Bible. I
love the Bible, but not that Bible. Any
body that will stew the grease out of that
Bible and save the soap-fat to start a Soap
factory with, can make a fortune and live a
life of indolence. My lips have tasted like
a tallow candle ever since I kissed it Now
these fellows when they have all shouted
“here” are called- panel. They are called
panels because sq many cross-grained fel
lows get into ’em. Oqj court did not have
a bar, and there wasn’t any judge on the
bench. There wasn’t any bench for him to
get on. It was a nice arm chair, and the
witi4ossfls wereAput on £the stand sitting
down.
THE JURORS GETTING DOWN TO THEIR WORK.
The first mess we settled was that of a
fellow who last May had a hog stolen, This
made it a may-hog-any case, and the fellow
who stole it was on trial to see whether he
stole it or some other fellow. He pleaded
insanity without malice aforethought or
prepense. The judge decided the case un
constitutional on the ground that it was an'
outrage upon the body politic to bring a
pork case before a Jew-ry. Yersus.got the
case, and aforesaid and whereas had so pay
costs.
The next case Was a flute case. Plaintiff
bought a flute, and swore that defendant
sold him what he supposed to be a .flute ;
but it turned out to be a dried eel-skin with
boles bored* into it, and it turned out that,
on attemping to play “Write me a letter
from home,”'it burst all to thunder, destroy
ing his parrot’s eye-
THE JURY LISTENING TO THE LAWYERS’ LOGIC.
Defendant set up a general denial; swore
that a fellow who would burst an eel-skin
flute was a blower; that eel-skins made ex
cellent flutes : that in putting out the par
rot’s eye he rendered a service to the com
munity ; and that any man who would sit
up at nights and blow a flute out of the
window and own a green parrot, was a
cursed nuisance, and as such not entitled
to recover a red. We return a verdict of
♦ .
mayheto, on the grounds that the selling of
a flute that would burst Was a public bless
ing, and therefore the defendant was enti
tled to a verdict, which might as well be
mayhem as anything else.
ASTONISHING TESTIMONY BEFORE THE JURY.
The next case was that of a fellow who
invented a saw-mill to saw off turkeys’
heads. It did it so quick that the turkeys
didn’t know it, and would eat com for half
an hour after they were dead and thus keep.
fat. A fellow made a mill that would Hot
only saw the neck but plane the feathers off
and fill the turkey with stuffing. The first
fellow sued the last fellow for infringement
on his patent His lawyer was so green
that if he had lived when the first rainbow
was made, when Noah was sailing around
loose with his family, he would have gone
into the ark through the widows as the
greenest thin» that pigeon CQiild find. The
first witness gave greeny alihe wanted.
Lawyer—Were the wheels to this mill, con
vex or eoneave ? , --
Witness—l didn’t say it. had a wheel
trifling with court and jurors.
Lawyer—Mr. Smith, do you know you
are on your oath ?
I Witness—No, sir; I thought I was on a
chair.
Lawyer—Very well sir, Mr. Smith, will
you look) dare you look this intelligent jury
in the face and say on your oath—on your
oath, sir—dhat you don’t know whether *.hi«
mill had a wheel or not ? *
Witness—Yes, sir. -
Lawyer—Mr. Smith, {don’t all mills hato
weeels?
Witness— l have, sir.
* Lawyer— Now state to the jury what kind
of a mill
Witness—A gin mill.
Lawyer—May it please the Court, this
answer is irrelevant.
Court—Go on, go on.
Lawyer*—Now, Mr. Smith, won’t you tell
the jury, isn’t it as natural for a mill to
have a is for a Baddle to have
stirrups ?
Witness-Yes sir, it is.
THE DISAGREMENT OE THE JURY*
Lawyer—Well, sir, did you ever see a
Saddle without stirrups ? Mind sir, on your
oath sir. ; . 1
Witness—l have, sir.
Lawyer—What kind of a saddle was. it,
sir? • *
Witness >lt was a saddle of venigofi, sir.
Lawyer—May it please the Court, I rest
my ease. ’ *
I guess it is resting there yet, for We
didn t agree—that is, I agreed, but the fest
didn’t. ' • -
A Libel case.
The next was a libel case. A man* called
another man a son of a gun.
Lawyer—What’s your name ? .
Witness—Green,
Lawyer—That your maiden name?
Witness—Yes, sir.
Lawyer—What is your business ?
Witness—l have a contract. *
Lawyer—Live in the city ?
Witness—Yes, sir. , . '
Lawyer—How dare you stand there and
swear you have a com tract iri the city ?
Thr jurors’ final VF.RF.Trrr.
Witness—l didn’t say so. I said con
tract.
Lawyer—State to the jury the nature of
the contract.
Witness—l have a contract to visit the
arsenals and vaccinate the State arms.
Lawyer—Did you call the plaintiff a son
of a gun?
Witness—l might have done so.
Lawyer—Don’t you know you did ?
Witness—Yes, sir.
Lawyer—Tell the jury what a son of a
gun is like.
Witness—lt is like the plaintiff.
Lawyer—Now, sir, what is a son of a
gun?
Witness—lt’s a pistol, sir.
Lawyer—. Well, sir, if a son of a gun is
a pistol, tell the jury what is the father of
a gun.
Witness—A cannon, sir*
Lawyer—May it please the Court, that is
my case. We fined this fellow ten dollars;
not for calling the plaintiff a son of a gun;
but because he didn’t call that long-haired
lawyer a darned fooL Besides, we wanted
to give a verdict, because £every time We
give a verdict we get ten cents.
This is my case.
JOHN.
Reply to 42r rfeat Hr!taiil.
It appears from a cable report of a reply
of Mr. Gladstone to an of Mr. Dis
raeli that the reply of Mr. Fish to the note
of Lord Granville, touching the claims for
consequental damages, calls upon England
to submit the geneva tribunal the question
whether the claims shall be admitted and
discussed by that board. The .attitude
which the British Government will assume
upon this phase of the question will prob
ably determine whether the Geneva arbi
tration will continue or be abandoned.—
Mr. Reverdy Johnson, in his late speech
before the international peace meeting in
this city, while scouting the pretence of in
direct damages, expressed nevertheless <he
opinion that England might consent to re
fer these claims to arbitration with safety,
and that it was inevitable that they would
not be allowed by the arbitrators. Wheth
er the sensitiveness excited upon the sub
ject in Great Britain has sufficiently subsi
ded tb permit the ministry to agee that the
Geneva tribunal shall dSbide whether the
claims shall be admitted for discussion, (in
.which event, if they dicide for the . admis
sion she would be bound by their award as
to any amount of the claims) remains to be
seen. It is hold by many that this indirect
damage claim weakens the rest of the
American case, and indeed was presented
rather in the form of a suggestion than a
demand, so that it seems, had our Govern
ment thought proper to do so, it could have
been dropped without detriment either to
national pride or interests.— Baltimore Sun.
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Behind the Scene*.
I don’t know which is the most eUrious
study, the little world before, or the littlO
world behind the scenea—Perhaps .you.
think there is nothing interesting in the
conduct of the audience, and yet the ifrfa
in the box office of a theatre will tell you.
if you get hold of him some time when he
has a duH night a very curious story ftbdut
the pleasure seekers. I was in the littMT
cubby house at WallackV not long ago,
with my friend Ligingstone, and Mr. Moss
pointed out to us the box office museum.—
It was a collection of articles picked up
in the theatre after the audiehce had left it.
Now,#ou will imnfediatly guess what
some of these' articles Were. Hair pins and
garters and pennies, you know abound
where men and wofiaen congregate, and
handkerchiefs are always being picked up
in clutches and theatres.— collec
tions included night keys, gold ? *rings, faro
cheeks, playing cards, false curls, reticules,
card cases and tooth picks.
We can even understand howthesc things
may be dropped occasionally* But how
are we to understand the absence of mind
whioh covers the loss of falfie teeth and in
dispensable Underclothing ? There is a
fine pair of new patent leather shoes taken
Off during the performance because they
hurt the owners feet, evidently. But it is
incomprehensible that he should forget to
put them on again, ahd walk out with the
crowd in his- stocking, feet. There is a
beantifql set of false teeth on a gold* plate.
Gan it be that they fell to the floor during
the open-mouthed wonderment and ab
straction of the spectator, or were they, too,
taken out for comforts sake, and slipped
into the folds of a dress’instcad of a pocket,
and then left behind when the owner got
up ?. A dog collar, too, by alUfchat’s odd,
With ”Fido” on its brass plate, and a bottle
of ’’cold cream,” and a paper of
dedjfcacks.
But even tliis should not astonish us
when we ascertain that the lap dogs them
selves are sometimes left behind and Mr,
MoSs has to send out for milk and other
delicasies, and turn the box office into a
nursery until the waiting maid comes, as
she inevitably does the next day, with a
warm blanket over her arm, and reclaims
the darling with tears in her eyes. Then
we have a safe key. Ha 1 what a tale of
rail!l)liiaianaH«*-*uL:l
that tells ; and a bank book, and a Colt’s
revolver, with all the barrels loaded except
one, and that one smoky and begtimmed.
It is fanciful to suppose that some cun
ning miscreant, whose victum was dnly re
ported among the killed, came with a crowd
.to the theatre to escape detection and left
his instrument behind him. Why, there’s
a bunch of skeleton keys. How do we
know that they wero not left by tho
same person ?
A Singular Coincidence-— A Dream and
its Fulfilment.— -Mr. Frank Canfield, who
was killed on Friday last, was bethrothed
to a young lady of this t&wn, and was to
have been married in about two mouths.
On Friday, when the train paassed here
on its way West, the young lady saw him,
and that evening she was in unusually light
spirits. The next morning at the breakfast
table her appearance wan ek> much the re
verse of the evening previous that it attrac
ted the attention of her mother who asked
her the cause of her apparent trouble.
The young lady thereupon related to her
mother that she had dreamed that her lover
had fallen under the cars and had been so
seriously injured that he had died in about
'two hours. She told the circumstances as
she had seen it in her dream, how he had
fallen and the car-wheels had teribly
crushed and mangled his left leg and
his left arm, and that he had lived in
great agony .for about two hours. Her
mother endeavored to persuade her that
there was nothing in a dream, but *to no
purpose—she could not drive it from her
mind. About noon a sister of the ’young
man came to the house and said she had
bad news for. her. She then related tye
circumstance of her brothers death, corres
ponding in detail with the dream as told
by the young lady some hours before*—*
Jamestown ( Va.) Journal, February 23.
How to Figh* Seasickness. —An otd voy
ager thus writes to the New York World l
If you design to cross the Atlantic, or
any other ocean, observe a few simple di
rections. It is doubtless wise to remain
quietly in one’s berth for a day or two, as
it is easier in this position to become ac
customed td the motion of the vessel. But
after the first forty-height horn’s, Kve on
deck.’ Which overwhelmed With the dizzi
ness or nausea which attends even a mild
attack of seasickness, the journey from
state-room or salobn to the upper deck
seems a weary and impossible distant,
so that one is f eady to say. as did a lady*
not long ago, in crossing the Channel, ”1
can die, but I can’t move.’’ Nevertheless, *
drag yourself out, or, if positively unable to
do tips, summon to your aid tL.fi bed-room
steward, or an assistant, whom you may
secure as your feithfuf ally, for a small
gratuity. It is also of the utmost impor
tance that you eat, and eat often.
inclination for fopd is naturally gjeat, * e t
extreme suffering is often caused by the
very want of it, for it is a feet that the dis
tressing nausea which makes life at sea al
most intolerable, is frequently lessened
rather than increased, by partaking of some
simple article; and remember that any
thing retained upon the stomach fifteen
minutes enters into the system with sus
taining Dower. •