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erar ,,-~o-v. . r-.- ,K .. „ o r " • ■ • ••V<. «- indstinct print -J, 1 * v : ’ J 'A'lbA’ny w^ekia KUW HE TOOK." ^A^JwTirt 14 * b “- r ‘ rd ’ AtnuCn.MIjtit' Bui ft frown grow suddenly lighten T« to color » day: iod brighter, * ider touch . « b Jt t v g SaIi mftke an ring, ihcok oar glftdntti. The cheeriest ray along oar way to the little act of kindness. «\os» thing 4 bHpC And the keenest sting some carol That was done In a moment of bMndnt We can bravely face life in a home where strife No foothold can discover, 'an. AmU>e lovers still, If ye only will, )Q ffWV WM WVI* Be unkind words When l are far beyond recitUIng. , a faco lies hid *neath a codin'ild. Aim! hitter tears an We lsh! would give l , _To undo oar idle sc i not miss i parttn the light ef the morning, i Pliyk)ftt(id^an|rr%noUoQ Cab- b are falling, ve half the lives we live HUWW vm .«*• scorning; , i let os not miss the smile and kiss » parti m; }W: Cleopatra's Asp. . • 'There is in thp reptile house at the F .“MBBSi’SasS®# eled variety found some few mpnth^ St. John’s woo4, tiilt an ajtp ana blood; or perhaps hav ing regard to its anatomy genteelly, we should say of skin and bodh. This little snake is provided with sand, haunts. This position is an' ’extreme ly good ono for biting the heel of the traveler, t who cannot always retort WbruiatnAihd bead pf the snako, )fqr the aqjjqa) Up |q}i$9tl on Is one of nose many creatures which have a general mode of coloration approxi-' mating to the surroundings among which they Uve. The asp Is, like many frequenters * the iloBort, dewrt colored. The Uiertft about thU is bat ike animals so colored escape ■... detection or take a mean advantage !i Id «*f 'thterlldSodptivo hues to steal a march upon some harmless but mod erate!/ac^tqiibiiousboAst. This snake \ .has a tsur of littlo horns upon its *. 'head. Vheu itis ludUburiud in tire sund these would project and per haps excite the curiosity of some poor wandering Rodent, who might pay for .his, iiiquisitivqncss with his life.— iWff.. . The First Street Car. ['»’(*' Tlie street car is now an Indlg] CHANGES IN THE LANGUAGE. Tka WorSa “OanttsiUiiA" n«d ••twly” AM Sfldam Uwd In i»«illt« Society. , At the present time there are some changes in tho English, luuguago on foot the very suggestion of which would be a great deal of a surprise to homo of our staid old ancestors, There are lots of everyday words in Use which don’t mean at alt what they did 100 years ago, I doubt if .Shakespeare, should he be so situated that he oould stroll down Broadway tomorrow or drop'into some Fifti avenue parlor this evening, would be able to readily follow,the drift oftbe conversation, tor lots of. words used would be se contradictory <in their connection < With the . meaning lie would credit them. with. • ,' -This was very forcibly brought to my attention at,the redeptiOJi of Colonial dub. I one of those upper tenth, died esbOrts to oome forthcin. Cucasiuiv ally a fellow hfcd'to do some -waiting there,' but it Was' usually- tho-uthei* way. ‘ Four oriftvismC the prettiest humanToeobuds you oould plclf along side Riverside ditto ivtee waiting and b reooption of the was -standing,, qp • floors,'about the, ire.the .girls hqd- . b, I tliink; where , the girls hud- togethef - and. waited lor the|| chattering. t couldn't help but ...... . At lint they told each IthtehOW •perfectly lovely” the other girl'* dress was, and how ‘»poky". they'll in “this horrid, old thing that they had May last - spring, you know,” Thentmegirl said: t‘*I same with a man, and I wish' 1 hadn’tpttVsuoh a boro.” ■ 1 ‘‘Yes, 1 ' replied one of two sisters in arich'CTeam satin, “so do we. I told momma. 1 didn’t want to. I think it’s evor so much more fun to go to a ball with tho gir)s than with, a icy all chirruped and giggled and said she was right and that men nuisances. Each girl had somo- tliing or otiipr to say about “a man.” Tho word "gentleman” was not used And ■ .** irnrn-r—i - , , >pen- snble pnri of overy day life, but its inventor — John Stophousou — still litres at'a 'greed old Sge, respected and honored by all men. Born in this city in the early part of the cen tury, of sturdy Scotch-Irish parent age, Stephenson hod served his ap prenticeship uud set up iu business for himself as u oarringo builder when tho first street railroad com pany wus organized iu 1831, It was known as tho Now York and Bari lem railroad; its president was John Mason, of tho Chemical National bunk, and the other offlceis wore equally woll known men. John Stephenson was employed by tho company to design and construct a vehicle of an entirely original typo, calculated purely for stroot car work. Mr. Stephenson's car, the first street car ever lmilt, when com pleted was accepted by tho oompuuy and used when the road was opened. Nov. 0, li.'ll For this car Mr. Ste phen com received n pateift signed by Andrew Jackson.—New York Her ald. ouco., And then their respective ‘men" came up tho stairs and the girls woro so glad to seo them I Since then I have learned that with the roqlly nice and correct Now York young lady the word "gontle- mun" has boon laid aside. They ad mit that there avo ‘‘gentlemanly" actors and "gentlemanly" gamblers, and. that certain "gentlomon" on Broadway do a thriving business in tho "bunko", line. A policeman is also a good deni of a gentleman ns a ChlonS Cmur. Kmm the B»vAsn»li Morals*-Nura. • •! -1. The coroner of Chicago' la -leaking forward to a very busy sekton-neXt year,,. McIIale Is.‘fit's, 'aime',’»aU.frj)p the way he talks*, one would suppose that,he expects ibat.tbe legs ot.Uia o}- llce during, the next twelve icoaths will-tuake lilrn rich, ^ 'w.. ,"u'• Chicago I A; to’ be Ojiigratulated on: having'auoti a'tborougb-golng,.praltt- bal oqroner. Be does pdt even need to tie toldlthat'ha he prtWftifcftiV an extraprqjn^rj^dama^ upon his oft , Hoe-bat-gets ready'.?#*. iC'W»>Ih'/a- vance. * ,* |Ay - ie>i<r,- ;. , -e'-.*n- r.t NSka-ajut; ■, . is y ' : it .'•*'■ ‘ . Bb astMidisCnman. Vrcin the I’lSlAiielnbis ilpflortl. ; : Fudgei- The ^toiy-tbat,pjesidyut r < -elect Clnrelandis to Jbetollowedaround by a bodygaaAt.: Tlte'Denworats.ibase erected' FrAsIdMlt* b Are to fore; and it itetiOst Up nAVteimm. A> TsIealJnea'br Siliay'titee’ af Bisr ■’ "* - -."HlaOa. . .London- Anawera rsoently .invited contributions oil the subject of “Hap-' pltiess." Here follow some of' tho re- sponses, each, of. oduree.'by. a different person! . QCUSS’ VIEW. Happiness,.In my view, consists la c feljqlty, si ' dqniestlcfel ■by Burns: ‘•To make a 1iap;>u n.:-i To Westis iiial «-)(„: nobly expressed I, < ■ thise nrosiilo clime TUsVs tlie frits pAtKos iuul suolimS* ■ OfHiimsnllW.” ?.-■»•.- I iONfW WAATe A . . - Complete happiness for me, ns far as thrfa world-Is conoernedgis oat of tile question. "its- " 1 I have good Kealth'aiid fairly strung limbs, Hut, and here’-is where the mls r chief ' donfes 1 rt; n-it the regulation hnmber. I pa^e dijly one leg, literally: a ft ft'Teg;'' Tlie right, I had the tals-* fortunrito llisd wllbji n chlld. tVetSom* Bain, f . tjj >i| the manager of a stock farm. , ^t,was,». time of drought, arid the evening passed, amid stories of frightful suffering and - lofcsrn." The manager thought it would Be hardly-pdssible. to ,hold out a week longer. "Shady Jack’s well is.drop,”he, said;, "and the Frenchman’s tank .is empty." . Hit wife tried to encourage him. | I ,, , ,, r BBT . . 4H • » I tv IM|J The Jtr«« Ce*sAUrfl“ Betore . J,rr ,.-T|W,Vw«e»,•* *h« Cavlwl , . .Unljaln* Will Sue “Hope for the best,’’ she' said. "My datblf an ' ' i i the Clir. answered the manager, abut the beet things never come off.”' ' A YiS,’Die*," responded his wife, "but the worst things never come off.” 1 - Night after night this man had walked' the rooni. alteAating between prayers and enrses, as each day’s record was Hi): other thomuind sheep dead, unother emp-' ' A riteFSt^lr 'SMlil,. HfrttoW Yhl-lt ftwdldei; rKnp.) 1 4 ee, ’Fi nlrt ttleinw Vfirlt Rd-rml-r, (Hop.) 1 The Mmlth^fatnlly mliSt have proper recbgdrtl6H''"fr0frl ' IFF. ptoveland. p| ISAory' fcffjOq SI 'for ^’jjepidentjBqrri^n, WhotMitho mat ter iwltk Hoke Smith of ^tlahta, as ambassador tiUhe cza*J Hoc|i 1 ,- ,!'‘'1,. : 4 r;f I -.1 . . ‘ PsIPMsMH PepulU,*. Kvmn the CldcRgo Hersid. , The demagogues who int'rodneo ah- dress fori ' I ftafe only one The right, I I ,w, ...ut- lo lose when a chim. ,. NaW, lriy idea qfjpopipletu happiness Is, and 1, linve.offer, dreamed of pos- ty .well; until at last lie had come to this grim aourage of despair. . . , , “I shouldn’t caru so much,’’ he said-to the traveler, “but then my wife; my girlsIn-itlterelV.,t- , . - . -He- drewb his-sleeves across hja oyps SiiccisltothellKiiAi.ii.. jk? Atlasta, Dec. 2?.—B. 'Sanson, a Creek fruit dealer, attowpted, to-day, to nbscohd, bat iwaa c^pght sixteen miles from here In the. fountry. He bought,large amqpnts pf.goods yester day, sold out‘ap’d was trying to gH away‘tilth the mone ' rarits were issued to •Kltfi. sessing ft, two good legs joined to ;a sound, healthy, body. hard bills 1 nr Congress for tHe’taere purpose of propltldtlng popular senfi- estthglsl meht are etieml.es of honest legislation. They pervert their plae.es to basq uses. They display a conspicuous absence of the moral sense and of 'common sense. (t <pvM Aij. AtjiTWqubK ' ' Xfa house, two, storles-fiigh, with Jopg gandeq.-Uaok and fropt, fi,ur goud-siaed ..rooms on door and, four rooms above for bed rooms; the huqse to have,a carriage drive from front to baok,' with coach, house and stables ; a large poultry house and about twelve fowls; also two servdhts and oife ooaohfnanhind one’groom; two horses, one carriage, Okie trap, nnd one wag onette; a good house dog and a cat, with fifty’ dollars per week, and my wife and faipily, I should be hnppy. ’ ayd bowed bis hemlon:the table. For t»u minutes lie sat there so. 'Then the Visitor saw 1 him'wise bis head, start,' IpHng to Ms feetatid’ Hlten with straiqed atUation. What was that? Something, pinged on the corragntod roof overhead. “Ifabji. ritio; i'aiuf„be shuuted.,ua .be rushed outside and fell on bis knees with Mis hands stretched out toward the olonded sky.‘ . ,.„ ! ri - MThank Godl Thank God! Wife' Oirlsl Mary! Bator’ ' Even so. The ftodd gates 'of the sky were opened, and' 'before morning the Visitor was hblping to put up a dyko on <nie side of the house, The march of de struction WHH HtlliJ. , - •' ■ Mar n Brim a Jury* ■ ■, i l.. I-: .1 ,i . lamnt Opccinl to.tho HKRALD., .. . ATiAKtA, Dec. M.-^Tho motion' td submit Jtyan’a case to a fury Was callS ed' this, morning and postponed ' until fiaturda^. , t| . .Judge"Clark says if Be allows the cash Wife 8fibrriittim’'ti ' , a v jury he will- made 'all' creditors patty to the suit. There are about* ia’<hundred creditors iu.aH ahc!it,would tgke> year to try pll the caBes. ■mIX. I C.'Handn. The Martinet and the Trembonei. There is a story, told of a newly ap pointed colonel uirthe days of the old martinets, Who expressed his dis satisfaction vwith tiie bond as it marched part because tho trombones did not dress the slides of their hi- rulo, but tlio puro npd high type of simply 1 “A man" to mnsenlinlty : thorn, ' All thid is in eloso following with tho abolishment of tho Amqricanism of "l^fly" mul tho substitution of "woman'’ instead. Tlioni woro "sales- lndios," “choriis ladies" mid "sorvnpt ladles" until tlio limit was reached nnd a revolution occurred. Then euino in tlio word "woman,” and it’s a fixture now. 1 I suppose tlio Biinio process lias oc curred with "gentleman." Down in tlio Fourth ward Miss Kitty Toole refers to Teddy as "me gentleman friend." Bo simple “man'’ is good enough for tlio gills of Fifth avenuo and those who go tho Colonial club receptions.--Now York Herald. dual Lika Jajr Oould. It was Mr. Gould’s misfortune to have sr"passed the crowd of men by whom ho was surrounded nnd With whom lie hntVhis dealings, hot to audacious un- scrnptilotisncss, bnt to skill and in suc cess. The character of the business in which they are nil engaged calls into exercise by its nature unlovely traits of character, nnd ettconrages the use of artifices which n sound moralist cannot approve. Many tilings that Mr. Gould did injured hia reputation, chiefly be cause ho did them on a large scale, and to tho hurt of numerous'victims. The like Mm been us of toil (lone by others , without their Incurring obloquy, merely beoauso of tho comparative pettiness of their offonso. This of course does no excuse Mr. Gould, but to justice it should silenco the clnmor of many who have been Ills most virulent ussailants. We have little hope that tho lesson tnught by Mr. Gould’s carter and by tlio memory tlint ho leaves behind him will bo heeded by those to whom it ought lo be chiefly useful. They will seo only that lie has succeeded to What they most desire—-the amassing of a great fortune —and they will encounter the risk of a reputation like his, provided only It shall ho accompanied by the same com pensation. Poor lminau nature!—Now York Sim. A WOMANLY imtAL. My iden of complete linppiness Is to possess all the love pf my husband’s heart, to feel that t am necessary to him, to know that my Influence’over him Is for good, and ,tl;at lean spur him oil tfi mate farther efforts in Ills’ profession. When he is depressed and dissatis fied,to be able to bring him true sym pathy and comfort. In short, to lie my husband's sweetheart, wife, and friend III oae. ; This is my Iden of complete llappldesa-l strumonts properly. One man would be half way down while another was just sturling. Iu vain it was repre sented to him thut different instru ments were of different compass and required different manipulation. That yas nothing to him; he must have uniformity in the ranks.—All the Year Round. PlIKlcnl 'Valin Will, Vi Fldlli'tho.lultlninio News (llL'ni.) Public opinion in• OAHlda has been drifting for,some-time toward sweep ing ajvay, tlip barriers, that d'tvjfie North America. Ntmthpt tlio press is alsolending its aid to the movement, there is every reason to believe that the artificial separation of two coun tries, Vvhioli should naturally be uni ted, will not , much, longer be main-, tained. VNALl.OYKDllLlSSJ.-OJt A IlOLLAjl, My idea, of perfect linppiiiess is o I am happily often able to attain. Itoonslsts In the thrilling moment of physical intoxication' when, after the message.pud warm lather of the Turkish,bath, I revel in the delieiotis shock of nil. loy cold shower and douche bath. Ill that Distant of unalloyed delight the hbat and oppression of the previ ous Hour drop from one liken garment, and the bntlier seems a god In the pure keen upper air, with all the cares of earth infinitely beneath him. lllg Trees of Formosa. Formosa is trying to compote with California. It claims to have trees which rival in size and beauty the famous redwoods of our own country. Ten men joining their outstretched rnniH woro unable to surround tho trunk of one of the newly discovered trees. Another one is said to have been covered with huge red and white flowers of a variety hitherto unknown.—Kate Field’s Washington. Graduated tfucceiuiton Taxes* From tlic Springfield (Mnss.) Republican. A strong popular sentiment has; grown up m favor of compelling largo, estates to render,to society n more a<J»' quate return for the services has given in protecting' and possible these accumulations. And everybody must have learned by this time that the present system of taxing personalty is n farce and works gros^ injustice. Oil the other hand the suc cession tax cannot easily be evaded. Why ntif, then, substitute a iyslem of graduated succession taxes? An Innocent Question. .. Mr. A. K. H. Boyd, the Scotch “mconister," is, fqrtunntely for his readers, bleBsed with some sense of humor. He tells us of a Scotch advocate who, while discussing with a judge the question of a vacancy on tho bench, said, "I think, my .lord, they might iiiid worse than myself,' and the judge replied, “’Wham')" TUB ONLY ONE EVER PRINTED. Ann You Find Ih.-VVord? ^ There is k 8-inch display advertise ment in this paper, this week. wliioh lias - no two words nllke except one word. Tlie same is true of each new! one. appearing cacli week, from thel Dr. Harter Medicine ,Co.. This house places a “Crescent” on evCrytlijngtlloy] make and publish. J.ook for it, send them the name of the word, and they .will return yon book. 8UKRIFF’* SALK. I will soil beforo tli« Court IIouso door in tlio w?- An ICxlniordliitiry ('iilmHilonoe. An extraordinary eoiticidonoo oc- curred in Fleet street. After the "settling'' at ono of tlio sporting clulis n gentleman wont into a restau rant, whore lie had n glass of wino 'with some friends, and then took a cab to the Bank of England, thereat ■ ' to deposit j \J tug tlio sum ho founi On count- mo money. id that he hud KtyjEl fifty'pound no to, and at once sped buck to the place of entertain ment to look for tlie missing “paper," being ignorant both of the number of the note and of tho hansom which conveyed him to Threadneodlo street. ■ The' •qifch, was , fruitless, so be tltaptiy, bhottevtd Another cab to Wonvey him to Scotland Yard. To bis joy and surprise his lost treasure was lying on tho seat. It was the same vehicle in which ho had beeu driven to tho bank. This may road like rqnuu19e1.it is merely a matter of fact,—London Tblegi-apli. "llobblng I'dtur to J'tiy I'uul." “Robbing Peter to pay Paul" was first used when Westminster abbey was called St. I’etor's cathedral. Money boing needed to settle tlio ac counts of St. Paul’s cathedral it wns taken by those iu authority from St. Peter's, qirte to tho dissatisfaction of the people, who asked, “Why rob St. Peter to pny St. Paul?" Over 200 yearn afterward tho saying was again used in regard to tlio sanio churches 1 at tlio death of tho Earl of Chatham, tho city of London dbclnring that so great a statesman should bo buried in St. Paul’B, while phrliament in sisted that one bo noble in overy way would be more proporly placed- amid the dust of kings in Westmin ster abbey, and that not to bury him there would be for tho Becond time “robbing 8t. Peter to pay St.’Pali}." Tho abhoy carried the “ *“ par’s Young People. 8 ; with Maitland is rca r Mudo Love. your engagement i really off) jl-vgot tired <if ma- v' Nuniml After Other Mini.' All tho world has Iium d of Bnbiiigton, blit nyt. more Suin' onq : in u thousand knows more j Wnlter Welliitau Won. Koprosontativo Cummiu^s «ct typo Thursday night for tlio first lime in thirty-two years. Mr. Cummings is very proud of having Infou a printer. So is \Valter \Voilman, who loft tho ease Rome twelvo yours ago. Thoro wero some printed notices re quired by tho Press club in a great hurry, uml Mr. Cummings offered to do tho \york. Mr. Wellman said ho could do it better mul quicker than tho Now York representative, uud a wager immediately followed. Accompanied by several congressmen mul newspaper mc*n they went to a printing establishment, und after the appointment of referees, timekeepers and judges, the representative and the newspaper man took off their coats,, polled up their sleeves and went towbfk. It was not a very long job, tlie notice containing but lit words. Wellman finished in twenty-four minutes Atid pulled a clean proof, wliilo Cummings culled time four minutes and a half later, and his proof showed four errors, * v.w, * Tlie story has already got out, an.d .Rep? dhy.—Hor-** reseutativo Caruth, ,of Kentucky, says ho. hc-vcr “jlht, believe Cummings was a printer . n^yhowf."—Washington Cor. ,New York. Ileruld. . , lUGI'U’M HKQUIUKI). A city clerk should be happy with three neves and a coV; a pretty cottage near a rroitt stream; a loving little wife (not a “woman’s rights woman”) one that oould bake and brow, and be the lady when required; plenty of books, and a lluto, violin and bagpipes to beguile tlie wintry hours. city of Albany, Dougluu't-y qouufy Georgia, on tlio first Tuesday in February next, ‘person An Kntlm.hl.:Ic Student. " Huinproi’is stories iire h&n» told now irhoii} him thwi that ho wtw tlio man ! ■» 14 8ort of aftermath of the foothill I i'Uiri&i- ^I&cbiiiomiulolove! What fio Istvbel—-11“ wrote nil his letter* on •u typewriter, -Ilxchiuige. Competitive games, especially in ' - \tercoUe^i;iti*,j in which many ele- 0 coni rime to carry thoexcito- ; inent; t9 tbp highest degree, ni*e dan- gerotiJi.'hot'Oiily in the finid decisive struggle, bnt in the long preliminary ffiffiiBigl ~ » m | CiiiKti. |li| pit* MAhvasbdriefl in a ^lrsigTii.Ml twelve'ytars ago by tlio dot eared nobleman himself, who ' was n proindu'ut.uuhnber of tho Funeral , .Reform a^oepitiQiUj It hud what is' (| ^P4Jlt*d **i.iyn frellj.s w.orkV.mV/nnd ir and wgs iijled -with jclioioo horbs'nnd vver* greens. There have been many people of roi‘e4it years,scmie of tlicui prolniuent *' iu other ways, who have bad their cob .tins made to order tong beforo the ap proach of death. Maybe the originator of the fioham .wni L|prd Nelson, who ki v i/',V,synuliuK. upright iu the J tb’iyH'f-p^'hjcpftin that an ad- t;d pr^ifled to him one birthday iu this coflin his lord l-r;'_e.t pnt te.r^n, Lord Macaulay wuu .unmod. -aftei*. On|y peivons of more than average information know moro about Lord Clive than that Clive Nowcouib wns hiH namesake. The fame of Edward Everett has not* merged iu to that of Ekhvai'd Everett Hale, nor has Ben Franklin faded yet into the nominal antecedent of B. F. Butler, but Ever ett bad better reason than he kncWf to quuke when the ’ infant'"Hale nametl for him, and a less fililLpi Franklin, could hardly lmvo with stood the competition of a Butler.—. Homer's Baztir. w muVII Ofnro Scvkcu-a. The women who apply for places ,are. ver>’ hard to get rid of.* When informed 'twit there is ho vacancy they usually, say, ‘‘The secretary can always make one more place." Mauy of them make most humble and pathetic appeals, sav-, ing. “For pity’s sake., let me scrub the floors or do anything by which I may earh ntybf&d. h Yet I hose same indi viduals. after seCuriug tiituaUQUs und orenpying4born for two dr three days, are pretty Sure to demand three things —•promotion, leave of nbiouce and light er, work. Women can heVor U» con vinced that there is any sincerity in tlie oi\i: nice law.' They almost uhvavt; tin game. In ono of the up town hotels a very rich and promising business man was seated in one of tho cafes eating n low oysters before going to boil. He is living at tho hotel this winter. An en- thiisinfclic, woll dressed young rnnu .wear ing Princeton colors cum© into the cafe, und in d whirl of delirium set out to smash every hat which lie saw. The WANTS, NOT MILLIONS, HUT A POULTRY FARM. If I lwd$l,000 or $1,500 I would take a piece.of wns.t© land l know of, and stock itj ijvjth suitable poultry, which 1 kuowJiow r tp manage, and the income would 'SMflkhbt.or tha daily needs of self and family. : Beingiiuy owo master, the necessary •work- would:be^labor of love, Und I should'be happier than mlMidnairo, whose wealth bet wish Tor, and whose eak'ea^^^ahfd">e^pon8lbiiities, I think, are too‘high a price for the turh tfifey make! v , * !U ' * BOMKTHING TO 'DO,' TO*LOVK, TO HOTR • Vob. If Is admitted by iVll tliat happiness i.4 the V)ifi*8n1t.'hf nihiV,'and to abqU!i*e if three flung* are essehtinl. , 1 ' Wh must linvM shiiieihing to dpi something to love aiVd something to hope for. No man is so hnppy ns he who does nqi aim at happiness, while the best method of making ourselves happy is to try and make dthei*P mi. fim^one which he spied was that which * fJs business man wore, aud hi* broad Venetian Hospitality. _ Whatever - might have been said against the Venciinns, they were a hos pitable people—thin, too, in small ns well as in great matters. Wuonr-for exam ple, in 14T0. an ambassador from the khan of Tartary visited the city, arjd it was knbwu llmt the It nan and his* suit carried b.ui duo shirt apiece in their j bugs, the sciuiiu. formally voted twenty [ducats,- that thpy might be provhled I with additional shirts, \yhich were ttc- cordiugly made “i;lla tartaresclm,” und I presented.. W f e cun imagine how the 6o<hi councilorsflind citizens would en- of one of tlu* inebt influential canilaljstr i joy this iiudlj* lit Lie jeaf.--National Re in the city. Tin* yonng* m.:n the ‘next ! view. ui , , , - , •lay was abject iu lifs apologies, plmost uch vigor that it was completely jammed over the uetom’shed owueFs head. He took it good naruredly. aiul was gliid he did so; since lm was tojd a little later that the out-iii.-inst was a Pniiceton graduate, a'hffnl worker in one of the Hpnday pcboids tif a swell up town churclr and the privau* ."ccretary Legal AUvice. Mr. Suburb—My neighbor has a big (log that wo aro all afraid of. What (io you advise'{ Lawyer—-Get a bigger one. Six Bliillings and eightpenco, i>lease.-r London Tit-Bits. Tlio Vuluo of Tliouglit. It is hardly necessary to say that ail men need to “swing” the moral compass from time to time and to take their bearings in tho sea of life. Tho advice is us true as it is coiivontional. Upon tho uso of thinking for such purposes we shall not, then, dwell. We may, how ever, point out, as a means of strength ening and invigorating tho mind in a secular and worldly sense, the habit of thinking is of the greatest possible value. The minds of those who dread think ing, ns if it were a penance, become like the bodies of those fed solely on spoon meat—soft and ‘ unable to stynd the slightest strain; Reading, as one or dinarily rends, is like swallowing pap; thinking, like eating solid $6dd. .The man who trains his mental powers by meditation and by following outlines of thought obtains an intellectual instru luont a hundred tinges more'powerful tirenc than he.who L' con renr never to think seriously and consecuti^oly. —London■ Spectator < ' ' : ” ■' between, tho tofjnl hours of unto, tlio following i>ro|)ci‘ty,9MW' wit: The undivided ouo-cteventU iutere.uw; lots of land 88 nnd 118 iu tho First District of Douuherty county, levied on and sold to snlisly ll tu from the Justice Court 10U7 G. M. in favor of Hugo Robinson, Agent, vs Jordan Merritt bevy luntlc nnd turned ovor to niohy 13. A. Mas sey, Constable. Tenants in poscssion notified. F. G. EDWARDS, Sliojgn^ PampMe?.** , ; , „ Dll. HARTER MEDICINE 00.VSL Louti. Me. Wcepipg. nnd \Vn.-< only too glad to buy an expensive :Vbhf us was in the marker* .to repay tlie" cue which !u> \Hifiied.— 'Fhihulelplii.i Press! Henry of Navanv Was saved from deutii at the massacre or* Durtholp- mew ly hiding under his wife’s immense fuVdiugalO. General George B. McClellan, who tnnt i acy can got around it uud j was a prime favorite with his men. be- • lilawa in tlio drs,iiie-J KTTtofi. gto i.e «:r<-1 Ut then .1' "Little Mac.” A Ketnvt on l’lark Frldny. ' On tlpit ’nihtoric day in Wall street fol- imvir/r tho ihemorable Black Friday Goulu’s old' partner, shaking bis Unger iu the miUioLaireV faoe, shouted: “rii.liv.b to ace the day, sir, when you’ll have to earn a living by going around this street, witl) u hand organ aiul a monkey,” “Maybe you will, Henry; maybe you will,” was the retort. “Aud when ! want a monkey, Henry, I’ll send'for THE BEST. AW.,CH£APES.T PIvpW ON. EXr^H! yon.”— Lxchr.ug W. S. BELLI. - -fi