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THE DAWSON JOURNAL
BY J. D. HOYL & CO
THE WONDERFUL, MARKS
MAN.
Carver Astonishing the Ger
nums and Pigeon Shooters
Dr. Carver gave another exhibition
| o{ h's remarkable >kill with the rifle
and shotgun in Deerfoot I’atk yejpr
day atternoon. Among the poisons
present were a delegation of shatp'
shooting Germans IromHobok en,
many Long Island pigeon shooters.
The Doctor came upon the gtounds
accompanied by his friends Cos! Fletch
er, Texas Jack, an! sevoraiother gen
leuien. They brought a heavy car
pet sack filled wi’h cartridges, four
Winchester rifles, and two doubie-ba r
retled shotguns. These were placed
on a tough, ricketty table, end a bar
rel of glass baits filled with feathers
was placed aboutthiitv feet in front
of the table. Col. Fletcner began to
load the rifle, and Dr. Carver threw
off his blue flannel sack coat, picked
up one of the rifles, and balanced it
in with the fondness of a
boy handling his first fowling pieco.
He then looked over the field, his
loDg blond locks waving in the breeze,
and quietly remarked to Col. Fletcher,
“I’ve got too much wind to shoot to
day.” His broad, white jfsombrero
shaded his neck, face, and eag'e eyes:
a loose, black velvet jacket, loaded
with heavy golden Ooliforuia medals,
covered his broad, sinewy shoulders
and breast, w hile a gold watch chain
that lesetubled a section of the work
ing c \ble of tite Brooklyn btidge dan
gled from the fob pocket of his light
colored, we 1 fitting pant“loons that
he wore gracefully without suspender -.
Col. Fletcher, who tossed tho balls
and other marks iu the air for the
Doctor to shatter and perforate, was
dressed in an easy-fitting midshipman’s
suit of blue, and was not encumbered
with co&ttails Ttias Jack tejoiced
in black trousers, a white shirt, open
down the back, that caught the
breeze delightfully, and black slouch
hat that sha led his Hashing eyes and
bronzed cheeks.
“Gentlemen, Fin ready tor a few
experimental shots to warm up,” s*>id
the Dodo*, as Col. Fietcher stepped
toward the barrel. The balls were
soon flying in the air, about twenty
feet in Iron* of the Doctor, who stood
ready with Iris rifle. The balls were
thrown about twenty-five ft t high,
and the wind would carry them about
three feet out of the line before they
were hit. The Doctor broke tire first
two, then missed one, then hit again
and again missed. “Whoop them op
a little higher,” be shouted to the
Colonel. The halls were snt higher,
the Doctor leaned forward on his left
foot,.his left hand well out on the
barrel of Iris tifle, both eyes open, Ins
right hand moving with the precision
of clockwork as he fired off the bul.
n ks the balls, scatte-od tho
feathers, and threw out the shells ol
tho cartridges. The marksman soon
broke five balls in succession The
man, the rifle, and the mark seemed
to be one piece of machinery, which
worked unerringly.
“I am now ready to try a hundred
oalls,” said the Doctor, and the Col.
began to elevate them. The first sev,
cn were broken as rapidly as the re
porter could jot a single mark for
each shot; then there was a miss.—
From that up to the fortieth evety
ball was shattered. The Doctor miss
ed the forty-first and forty-ninth
From the forty-ninth to the one hun
dredth shot the marksmanship was
inaivellous. Not a single bullet miss
ed its mark, and the hundred shots
were completed with only throe miss
es.
Dr. Carver rested a shot t time, cool
ed his th'oat with a glass of lemona
de, whiie the Colonol and Texas Jack
likewise partook of a refreshing drink
with the Doctor. The rifles weie
cleaned and cooled, and then the
matksiuan went at it again in a sens*
of varied experiments. First Colonel
Flf tcher took a brick in his hands,
walked off fifteen or twenty yards,
stooped over, facing the crowd and
the Doctor, swung the brick backward
and forward between his legs, then
suddenly shooting h.s body and arms
erect, sent the brick fifty in the
air. The Doctor fired—and missed.
Iben the Colonel raised the brick
agein witn bis sinewy derrteks. The
Doctor broke it in two pieces. Pieces
were tossed in the air. The Doctor
converted them into brickdust, some
times hitting a piece twice before it
was pulverized on iU way to the grass.
Other pieces were thrown u r , and as
they came down the marksman would
fire three times, the first two bullets
going over the mark putposeiy and
the third one shattering it. Occasion
ally the Doctor would miss these shots.
One of the gu s was out oforder, and
s-veral times little pieces of the ex
plodlng eartiidges tickled his right
eye in a painful manner. Then he
powdered small pieces of brick thrown
at him, the dust settling on the heads
of the eager spectators, who crowd
ed mound and branched out from tho
Doctor.
Fragments of glass were then
thrown toward the marksman and
shivered. A dollar was sent whizzing
over the field with a hole in it. Quar
ters shared the same fate; and, most,
remarkable of all, three ot our small
est cents were shot at- The rifle crack-
ed, atid the coppers went out of sight
with a ping.
One lank Long Island pigeon-pop
per, with patched trousers, said:
“That ain’t pigeon shooting. I won
der what he can do on the wing,”
Just then two yellow butterflies, a lit
tle larger than Jersey mosquitoes>
chased each othei over the grass,
about thirty feet in from of the Doc
tor. He fired two balls at them. The
second ball knocked off a wing ot one
of the butteiflies, and he fluttered off
into the glass.
Dr. Carver then tool: another rest
and a second lemonade, and the spec
tators indulged iu coramen'B over tho
tvonderlul shots. The Germans said
that he could take all the prizes at a
Schutzenfest. An enthusiastic Irish
man said, “Bpgorran, theonly troub
le would be to match him. Ye cau’t
folnd h:s aqual ”
“Oh,” said the L’tig Island pigeon
shooter, “I guss Bogardus would
fetch him on birds and game.”
’Game, is it?” replied the Hibernian
”An d’y.i kuow how he shoot buffa
loes' He jisi roides alongside uv a
drove, waits till the heads of three get
ilia shtraight loine.ahd then draps’ern
all w'd a shot through their six eyes,
be jat.hers ” The. Long Bland man’s
reply was drowned in a roar of laugh
ter.
Tho Doctor and Lis friends then ie
turned to the shooting table. Col.
F etcher ian 10 the barrel of balls,
platted h's hands on the sharp sidts,
tl;:ew ftis body in t e air, and remain
ed straight and steadily wi’h his feet
up.
“Get down,” shouted 'tie Doctor
“or I’ll snoot > our heels off. The Co
lonel dropped.
Dr. Catver then gave t e specta
tors a aste of rapid shooting. One
hundred ha la were broken out of
about 120 thrown in ’.lie air as rapid
ly as the Colonel could fling them.
This was done in 5 minutes 3£ sec
onds, the Doctui having to stop twice
a few seconds to pull his eyelids over
fragments of shells that were sting
ing him, and two of the rifles were a
little out of oider, which also made a
difference of a tew seconds.
The Doctor next gave a fiue display
of doublebarrelled shotgun shotjng.
The metal ball that tings when hit
was thrown up at distances of from
forty to sixty yards. The Doctor only
missed it twice in thirty shots, finish
ing this pi ictice amid great ap
plause
Giass balls filled with feathers were
thf n sent up at fifty yards, most of
them thrown with great force away
from the shooter. He shattered near
ly every one of them.
Asa wind up Texas Jack and the
Colonel began to pelt the Doctor with
pieces of brick. He julverized them
as fast as thrown. The Doctor then
reserved himself for to-day’s shooting,
which is to take place in Deertoot
Park, also known as the Brooklyn
Driving Park.
There is in Coffee couuty a hoy ag
ed feurteen years ‘to the manner
born,” who weighs 456 pounds. Ho
is undoubtedly a wonder of the
world. Repeatod applications have
been made to bis parents and large
amounts of money offered them lor
the privilege of exhibiting him; but so
far all proposals have been declined
—DuPont Okefeenolean.
——* ♦ ►-
The capers of a team of mules
hitched to a harvesting machine, near
St Louis, saved the liver of five meu
who had taken shelter from a thun
der storm under a tree. The mules
beean to kick, and the men going to
quiet them, escaped a thunderbolt that
shivered the tree.
DAWSON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JULY 25. 187 S.
Crazed by the Use of Arsenic.
From the Sacramento Bee.
About a year or so ago e young
laly ol sunny temporameut,and pleas
ant features began to use to excets
preparations for bleaching her hair to
the fashionable golden tinge, and at
the same time became r. slave to that
beautifier of the complexion and the
form the deceptive poison arsenic.
Her features before though not beau
tiful were at least good. Peoplo soon
remarked her changed appeaienco for
the better. Her complexion was rosy
and blooming ; her hair soft, ailkey,
and of a beautiful tinge; her form
plumper thanit had been, and her skin
smooth and wh’te. But her self-cuu
gratulation did not last long. Head
aches soon followed, growing more
and more violent every day; but still
she kept on using the abominable,
stuff which has been the ruin of so
many. Of late her sufferings have
been almost intolerable. The bless
ing of sleep has not been hers. Her
head was a very hell of torture night
and day. Her mind grew feebler and
feebler, her thoughts wandered, her
intellect was lost, and to-day, a
girl of twenty years, she is confined in
a cell in the living dead, Stockton, a
maniac.
A£ai> Romace —Thedetermination
of Gen Sherman’s son, Thomas Ew
ing Sherman, to become a priest re
vives the r< mantic story of the life and
love of one of Goa. Scott’s daughters.
As the story goes, this daughter felj
deeply in love with a member of one
of th n foreign ligations. The attach
ment was reciprocated but the match
was so bitterly opposed by the old
hero of Lundy’s Lane that it was
broken off. She cared nothing lor the
world after that, and very soon was
toceived as a nun in the Georgetown
Convent. Her lover returned to his
native country, and was soon enrolled
itt the piiesthood ol the Catholic
Church.
In subsequent years he wastirdered
to Georgetown College, and took his
turn in heariug the con
fessions of the nuns at the convent
On one of these occasions Miss. Scott
knelt in the confessional to her for
mer lover, and under such ciicumstan-
ers a recognition took placo. She
faiuted and went irto .. rapid decline
and eocn aftei died, and he loft the
country never again to return. Bo a
Washington gos-ip declares.
Eclipse of the Sisu.
There will tie an eclipse of the sun
on the 29 h inst , which w.ll be total
iu many places of the United Stales,
and if the atmosphere be favorable
at tho time of the greatest obscurity
severa planet end some of the largest
fixed stais can be seen. Tho eclipse
will be tota at or near New Orleans,
aud nearly so at this point. It will
begin 131 degrees 7 minutes from the
sun’s vertex towards the right; it will
end 68 degrees 1 minute fioui his ver
tex tjwaid the left. It will remain
to’al about two minutes. Size ot the
eclipse fere 10J digits on the sun’s
south limb.
Beginning of theeclipse here 4 hour*
6 minutes, r. m.
Time of the greateet obscuration
here, 5 hours 7 minutes p. m.
The eclipse will end here, 6 hours 2
minutes, p M.
Duration of the eclipse here 1 hour
56 minutes, P M.
— —• ♦
Glood Digestion.
“Give us this day our daily bread'’;
and good medicine to digest it, is both
reverent and human. The human !
stomach and liver are fruitful sources
of life’s comforts; or, disordered and
diseased, they tingle misery along
every netve and througheve y artery.
The man or woman withyootf dig<*tion
seer beauty as they walk, and overcome
obstacles they meet in the rotine of
life, where the dyspeptic sees only
gloom and stumbles and giowls at
every imaginary object. The world
still needo two or three new kinds of
medicine before death can be perfect
ly abolished ; but that many lives have
been prolonged, end many suffoiers
from Liver disease, Dispepsia and
Headache, have bean cured Mekiiell’s
Hepatinr, is no longer a doubt. It
cures Headache in twenty minutes,
and there is no question but wbat it is
the most wonderful discovery yet made
in medical science. Those afflicted
with .biliousness and I, ver Complaint
shrnld use Meurem-’s Hfpatine.
It can be bad at Dot- J. R Janes.
Cherry rum refuse thrown into the
yard by a Bangor woman was eaten
by tut keys that died from
the effects. After being plucked they
were thrown in’o a heap on the grass
On the next tnerningthey were found
walking around the yard iu undress.
DANGERS OF AERIAL TRY V
EL.
A Flying Machine Unntangablc
in Mid-air
The Boston Adcertuer says: The
many thousand persons who witnessed
the ascension of the flying-machine
from tho Common on Thursday morn
| ing admired the e tolness of the oper
ator, Matk Quinlan, in making the
I attempt iu the strong wind that pre
vuiled, hut few of them had an idie
that iiis nerves would be put to such
a strain as his adventure called ior.
The word
“let oo”
Was given five minutes before 9
o’clock, when the machine sudenly
shot upward to a height of 2,000 feet,
instead of ascending gradually and
smoothly, as was the intention. Iu
attempting to work tlie cranks, by
means of which the fans are put in
motion, Q linlan found to his horror
that something was btndieg the gear
ing, and that the machinery wnu'd
not work, The balloon being inflat
ed with hydrogeu gas, which bus a
greater expansive jmwer than the
ordinary illu moating gas which is
generally used in ballooning, because
of greater susceptibility to tho influ
ence of the rarefied atmosphere at
such a great elevatioo, expanded rap
idly and.
BEGAN TO CtiACK,
While the bands surrounding tho
vulcanized rubber cyliuder or baloon
began to snap. The situation of the
mronaur was one of extreme danger.
He knew that he mU3t get his ma
chinery in motion to doscend into a
lower atmosphere, or accomplish the
same resnlt by a more hazardous ex
pedien'. of cutting a hole in the bal
loor. Deteimined not to resort to tho
cutting till all the other expedients
had failed, he wound a piece ot hemp
en cord around his left ankle, and
then removing his foot from the stir
rup, fastened it securely to one of tho
brass pipes < f which the frame of the
machine is constructed. Having fas
tened tiis left wiist iu 'he same way
to the frame <>f the machine, Mr.
Qninian got out of his saddle and let
himself down under the machine
Having discovered tho cause of the
to be
o loosened screw, the projec'ing head
.f which came in contact with one of
jhe small gear wheals, betook out his
aek-knile, at.d using the point of a
blade as a screw-driver, he turned the
screw back into its place end fastened
securely. He then
IU GAINED urs SEAT
And found that the Tan would work,
and that under the influence of a re
verse minion to ttie cential or horizun-
Ui fan he was descending. He made
his flrsi 1 .tiding at Furnumaville, near
Grafton, at 10:20 o’clock, having
made the lorty-fonr miles in 1 hour
and 25 minutes.
After a lunch and a rest he made
another ascent, with the hope that ha
could reach Boston iu time to make
tw„ other exhibitions, as advertised
The machine this time worked wel 1 ,
but when be got will up he fouud
that the lower current of wind was
b owing in the same direction fiom
from which he had come, aud ia or
der to rectify this he started for the
higher cuirent. and found that it was
blowing toward Boston, but vet he
was a great w-iy from the city, and
with everything in his favor, it was
yet another thing to make the Jsir
ed poiri*. Contrary winds proved too
muth for his courage and skid, and
after Irarning tlrat tho wiud was in
creasing, and that the lower current
had tio’ changed at all since he start
ed, he deemed it best to lard in the
most available place, and did so
without much trouble, this time at
Dover. He started for Boston by
rad, reacliing hero about 6:30, and
bringing his machine with him-
A Preacher's Struggle with a .
Knife nr His Boot. —The Catawissa
(Penn.) Aetcs Item saye: “A peculiar
accident happened Rev. C. E. Fosse-j
den of that place, last Thursday
morning While he was dressing lo ;
goto ilkesharre to witness the
Fourth of July celebratin'*, he drop
ped his penknife* with the blade opei.
into his boot. Being in somewhat ot j
a hurry, he did not notice where the
knife fell, and when he pulled on his
hoot he felt something cutting him
S'vercly on the ball of the fool. It
so happened that the knife feli with
the handle to the heel and the point
of the blade to the toe, with the sharp
edge of the blade up, and something
hke o'd Jeinin a’a piaster, the more tie
pulled to get the hoot off the more the
knife cut his foo*. How to get tho
knife without cutting the boot was a
stunner for the reverend genth until
and, with the knife cutting deeper at
every movement of his foot, was no
pleasant situation, with tram time ap
proaching, and, woist of al 1 , Mrs.
Fessenden being absent from home.
Not being aide to devise away by
which to get the knife, Mr. Fessenden,
after about sn hour’s woik, cut the
foot to pieces, and was in tune to take
the train for Wilkesbarre.”
Tuis is the season when a min who
wants to remember the poor can sit
down and think of himself the whole
day long.
vor, 14.—UNTO. 21-
How I>hl it Hapi>en?
Mr. 1). R. Creech, a merchant of
.this p'ace, ordered a lot cf dry goods
I !a<t March from one "of the leading
dry goods houses in New York city,
nnd amoungst other things he order
ed a lot of wrapping piper, which
'came in large bundles. The first
! bundle he opened was just what he
'bought it for—wrapping paper. The
other was stored carelessly under the
dry goods shelves, and ram lined
I there until last Sa'urday, when Mr.
Creech’s little son Henry—who like
most children, are always on the 110k
out for something new—'-spied ns he
informed his father, “something very
curious about that bundle of paper
—that there were several colors, some
blue, some hlaek, and some yek'W.”
This led to an examination of the
supposed bundle of wrapping paper,
when lo ! and behold, there were six
full oolts of the best black silk, worth
at least two to two and a half dollars
per yard—the six to
be worth §I2OO §ISOO.
Now bow did it get there ? Who
put it there ? There was an express
tag, showing it was shipped by ex
press from Toled", Ohio, and possi
bly the bundle wasm'staken for wrap
ping paper by the expross company
who no doubt have paid for the silk
as long long ago, There is a mise
ry about these pieces of silk that may
never be explained, though the par
ties from whence it came have been
written to by Mr. Creech, and they
may he able to throw some light on
the subject.— Quit mar, Reporter.
Utah Ants. Amonng the many
curiosities of Utah, the red and black
aui is excelled by none. One of tl'.ose
ants, iv lghiug one-fourth of a grain
troy, can draw four gmins, or sixteen
times its own weight, with apparent
ease. Asa warrior its courage is
wouderfu'. The other day I witness
ed an attack of four ants, one alter
another, on a green worm, and each
retired f.otn the conflict badly wound
ed the worm resited the attact vigor
ously. The wound'd ants meeting
co;upaniot'B, reported their troubles,
and soon seven aunts were seen advan
cing in a line of battle on his worm
ship when a hard battle took place.—
The worm made frantic efforts to re
lieve himself but all iu vain. In one
mitiu e from the time of the attack,
the worm was lifoles, the ants still
ho'ling to him. I placed them in
water, when to all nppesroneos they
became lifeless, but still held tlietr
grip on the worm I then p'aced
them in the worm rays of the sun for
ten minutes, when they were a'l tight
again, and hauldod their victim off to
their hill,— Correspondences S.lt Luke
Tribune.
A Singular Affliction.—A singu
lar case has just bean brought to the
notice of the medical profession to
Cincinnati. Peter Lavelle and wife,
waiters in a Central avenue dining
room, retired .o rest a few nights since
in good health. Next morning Mm
Lavelle awoke and atte opted of
speak to her husband, when she found
herself totally deprived of the powe r
of speech; all effoits to articulate were
unavailing, and a physician was sent
for. The only symptoms of disease
apparent were a thick dark coating on
the tongue and a tiol'ow appearance
of the eyes. On the saiueaft ernoon
Lavelle, while sitting in front of his
employer’s establishment, was ohsorv
el to fa 1 hack in his char; another
waiter undertook to arouse him, when
it was found that tie wis tmahle to
gjeak a word. Since that lime neith
er mar. nor wife lias spoken, and the
physicians are unable to account lot
the loss of speech. Lavelle is very
ill, but will pruha* ly recover. His
wife is growing weaker daily, and all
hopes of >i t recovery are abandoned.
The theory has been suggested that
poison had been placed in their food,
which caused paralysis of tho tongue.
So far no physicians of prominence
Have investigated tho case. — New York
| Times.
Pertinent Queries. What does l
billet dous? \\ hat check did counter \
sign? Whoever saw a hood wink?
Who ever saw a pig iron? What
does egg plant? Why did the thun-i
<ier W.t? Wlio ever heard a foot hall?
What did the dew dtop? Where does
clock work? What did ploughshare?
Who over saw a wheel wright? For
whom did penny weight? Who did j
tin foil? What did brauly smash? j
What did glass plot? Why w.is
grape shot? YY hat did the pick
pocket? Who did tho goose beny?
Is it jokes that jim cracks?
It is one the mysteries of iti nKiu
politics hew an bonect, cnuscicntiniis
man can bring him-edf to vote the le
publicau ticket. Mind I Y\ e don’t
say lie does. We aro merely suppos
ing a case.
THE SCORCHING SUN.
Terrible Effects of the Heat in
the West.
CiircAoo, lils., July 16. -Reports
are received here to-day fiom many
intoiior points in this and adjoining
states showing that the heated term
continues with unabated severity, the
meremy ranging from 97 to 100 in
the shade, and in some places even
going higher. Iu this ei y a hot
btbfzi has blown all day from the
prairie. The mercury ranged from
89 to 9G at different hours and vari
ous points. A few cases of sunstroke
are reported. At Grlesburg many
sunstrokes are reported, and several
deaths have occurred. At Peoria
many prostrations and two deaths
were lepoited yesterday, while the
heat to-day was still more intense.—
At Morris, 111. several farm hands
were prostrated in the fields during
the last three days, but their lives
were saved by prompt and proper
treatmert. At Jacksonville, 111,, the
mercury was ninety-five in the shade.
Two fatai cases oi sunstroke iu the
county are reported. At Des Moines,
lowa, several persons wore prostrated
liy tiie heat, among the number be
ing Capt. James May, of Rock Island,
one of the nioooers ot the state. At
Madison, Wis., one case of sunstroke
is reported. At Janesville, Wis., the
mercury has been at ninety and over
for five days pas:. Hut one sunstroke
occurred. Although the hot weath
er is very oppres ive to man and beast,
the farmers look upon it with favor,
as it is just what the corn crop need*
to bring it forward after the cool and
wet weather that has provided.
A correspondent from LmdvillePickons
county, to the Edij <y Courier , gives an
account of a trem mdoin an 1 most
painful excitement brought about in
that quiet community on Monday last
ty tlio lo s of a little chill, bstween
two an' three years old, the daughter
ol Mr. L Linßrd, a merheant there.
The little creature wandered off, and
on being missed, soarch, in which ail
the neighboi'9 joined, was instituted
for her. It was continued rvithouc
success all day and throughout tho
night. Despair had taken posession
of the party, when the faint sound of
a horn was heard aunoneing the jovlnl
fact of the discovery of the child.—
Sim was found wrapped up nnd im
prisoned in some bamboo htiars. Her
little feet, legs and hands wore htorly
scratched up, but she looked well con
sidering she had beon out for twenty
hours in the rain. Says the corres
pondent : “Ti.isis one of tho few ex
citing scenes in life that I never want
to witness again. The mother had
been vry jsictcj from exposuie aud
nervous pros'a'.iou; the father stood
'he test as'oid Nap ilion the defeat at
Waterloo. Not being able to walk
be took bis stand early iu the day
under a little oak, where he could
he somewhat out of the rain and, at
the same time command* view ot the
P.n Hook route, and see an 1 hear
each messenger as they would pass
along, hut the sight of his lost child
fnun : again caused oven him one of
the most exiraoidinarily nerved men
1 ever i: et with to weep.
That an alligator should attack nn
ox will be surprising news even to
tho-e who are thoroughly [amildar
with the habi'a of the fresh-water
monster. The Floridian has been fur
nished by an eye-witness with, tho in
teresting details of the strange encoun
ter last week a’ L ke Jackson. The
ox went into the lake to drink, and
attaked by the alligator whose mouth
clo-ed on tne fmo-leg of tho animal
crushed the hone. The ox Rtnrted
imtnedia'eiy out of the wa'er, drag
gin* the al igaror. Enraged with
pain, the poor animal rearod and
plunged wlilly, endeavored !o horn
his antagonist. Meantime the edge
of the lake was black with the snouts
of a ligators which had smelt tho
blood th tt ran from tho ox when
tir-st struck in tlie water. Four or
five of the monsters crawled out and
with wide open mouths started to the
attu' k. Meanwhile the loosened the
bolt of bis antagonist, an 1 smarting
under its wound went in with infuri
ated ardor to the assault of the reen
forced assailant. He caught one r.f
the alligarers on his* horns and threw
him high in the air, the clums.ay thing
i falling heavily to the ground, and
; there lay stunned' Another was
i tossed far into the lake. But tne
gallant ox washy a faLo muiame,
ng iin in the water, iu which element
Ins actsvity was impeded, and ceing
• surrounded hy his fees one of which
! caught hint **y the nose and pulled
his liea'l under the water, lie fell a
victim by drowning.— 2'ilUhastt F/ur
' dim.
The other evening to London, on
leaving the opera, a short-sigh'ed
gentleman said to a lady wi.fi a fash
ionable long train over tier arm, *•!)■
allow me to carry your mantle for
you," upon which he seized and
elevated the train, blushed and apolo
gia a
nd Nevada mar advertises t’e loss
ot a touiid-headed biacksmih’s ham
mer.