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retrospect
Oh! to go back in oor lives,
To jjvc them over again,
Knowing all that now we knew,
Seeing all we saw not then.
Oh ! to refrain from speaking
Where that liasiy won! wa- said,
Oh > hut to break that silence •
Which weighs on our heart like lead.
Oh ! hut to tarry once more
At that point where two met,.
Aii’l-choose a- we chose not tK6n,
Jlade wise by a life’s regret.
Oh! but to set out afresh
With some who from earth are fled,
Kow we’ve read them by I be radiance
Death sheds around the diad !
Thus cry we now and af-ain
m words of remorseful pain,
y e t deep in our heart of hearts
Thank God that the prayer is vain,
CBAMBOllD’S LOST CROWN.
There is no history about which it is
difficult, to obtain accurate information
B ° history which our grandfathers
?. s the receut
i fifty years ago, says a
kvp cli writer. The story of how the
EVenck throne was lost by the Bourbon
line is fraught not only with political
. „ ons but also with a romantic interest
the story of how the crown of France,
feablv directed by the hands of a foolish
fond old man toward the head of Henri
Charles Ferdinand de Bourbon, com
monly called the Comte de Chambord,
was snatched ^ry away in the just wrath of
_ an nation, and the words were
nronouneed by a whole people: “Thy
kingdom is given to another. ”
Louis XVI of France when he died on
the scaffold left behind him two children,
and two brothers. The children were
that poor little prince who died in the
Temple, and who knew nothing of sov
eretontv, but to whom was given by the
courts "of Europe the empty title of
Louis XVII, and a daughter, the Prin
cess Marie Therese, the luckless name
sake of her much-tried grandmother,
Marie Theresa, Empress-Queen of Aus
(ri a and Hungary. The two brothers
were known respectively Comte during do Provence Louis
XVTs lifetime, as the
and the Comte d’Artois. The Salic law
excluding Marie Therese from succes
sion, the Comte de Provence accord
inelv became Louis Dix-huit. He was
at that time an old man, and childless;
the brother, the Comte d’Artois was
thereforc the heir presumptive. had
Now, the Comte d’Artois two sons,
the elder of whom was married in 1814
to his cousin, the princess who the in Eng
land would have taken throne,
Marie Therese, daughter of Louis XVL
She’Vas a woman near forty years old,
and the terrible events of her early
youth had made her sad and older than
her years. Duke of Orleans the heir
Inl81G the was
presumptive to the throne; and as soon
as it became clear that Marie Therese
would be childless, there was only one
way to keep the detested Orleans from
the throne. That chance rested upon
the fortune of the marriage of the
younger son of the Comte d’Artois—the
Puke de Bern.
This, then, was the state of affairs in
the matter of the French throne :n 1816.
Louis Dix-huit, old and childless, wore
the crown. The Comte d’Artois, his
brother, was next heir; and the heir
presumptive was his oldest son, Louis
Antoine, who was married to his cousin,
Marie Therese, and childless. The next
heir after him was his brother, the Duke
de Berri, who, although bachelor, about thirty-five
years old, was still a and, fail
ing issue of him, tho Orleans branch
would inherit. Clearly, it was necessary
to get the Duke de Berri married; aud
it was very desirable to marry him to a
young person of esprit, who could conn
teract the social influence of the Orleans
palace by the most distinguished, hospi
talities and gaieties of the reigunig
The young lady selected for the lm- .
portent position was a relative of the
reigning house—the daughter of the
Bourbon Prince who was heir apparent
to the throne of the two Sicilies. Marie
Caroline de Bourlmn becamo Duchess de
Berri in 1816; she was then only sixteen
yew* °w
The immediate business . ... before her on
aer marriage was to set the fashion, and
to sustain the part of leading ladv at
eonrt. This she did with as much vigor
as she long after displayed in more sen
oua scenes.
In 1820 the Duke and Duchess de
Berri were the parents of two daughters.
but the long desired heir to the Bourbon
throne had not yet made his appearance.
Time enough, however, as it seemed, for
that; the Duchess was still a girl, and
r , 6 y° n ff> frivng, 1
■
On tp i
S^vspis:- ktssj.
went in accordance with then- promise,
^fore midm S M c ”;
mges.stood at theMoorto convey them .,
totheu: homes again. Preceded by torch
bearers, they descended the steps; the
guard around presented arms—the
Duohess had entered the carriage—when
suddenly tendants, a man burst through Beni the at- by
caught the Duke de
file shoulder, and plunged a knife into
his right side. Leaving the weapon in
duke was carried back into the opera
8 fo}1 ,°' wed ky Ilia peeping
and and !* the physician, - soon in attendance,
pronounced the wound to be mortal.
His relatives gathered
wuch on which he lay, m the unto
hamber of the deserted opera-house, ,
ho rested in his wife’s arms as he died.
Almost the last words mat the poor
young man uttered were these:
“Take care of yourself, Caroline, for
^ “ r be
Thus iFZ aft tbfpooibffltr ol d»
birth of a son to the Duke and Duohess
de Berri was first made publicly known,
Seven months and a half ifter the
jg f *»• *»« - »<*»
The people on their side were not
backward in their expressions of loyal
*y; Addresses and eln-isieninfr gifts
poured in. Amongst other things, a
public subscription was raised to pur¬
chase the historic Chateau de Ckam
bord, the title deeds of which were pre
sented to the baby prince.
hot very long after all this, Louis
XA I FT, was gathered to his fathers, and
the Comte d’Artois, the grandfather of
onr title young prince, reigned under the
of Charles X.
Bourbon to the backbone, Charles had
not learned, through all his sufferings
to respect the freedom of the French
people. His reign presents one long
course of attempts on his part to restore
t he old methods of despotic government.
At, length, in July, 18At, the climax
came.
Charles Dix found, as the other des¬
pots have discovered before him, that
he was hampered greatly by two institu¬
tions—an Elective Chamber and a
Tree Press. The King made various at¬
tempts upon he his brtes noires; on July
2‘3, 1830, determined to be the death
of t hem both at once.
He issued on that day, through his
ALa,, .-tr> throe oi.Ih.ances.
By the first, no journals were to he
“ d ^ceutwith the express author-
1 nation of the Government, to be renewed
every farce months, and liable to be
suddenly withdrawn should the Govern
meat consider that the paper contained
any objectionable matter. By the sec
ond ordinance, the existing Chamber ol
Deputies was dissolved. By the third,
tne King, on liis own authority, dimin
islied the number of deputies, reduced
their term of office, and altered their
qualification mid the methods of election,
Having signed these, his Majesty, Charles
X, retired comfortably to St. Cloud.
So blind were the king and his minis
ters that they did not, it appears, antici
pate any serious opposition to these or
(finances. No intimation was given to
tho military authorities that any danger
in was impending. ferment. The But Paris was at once
meeting, a and resolved journalists held a
that the ordinal)
ces, The being illegal, should not be obeyed,
papers were printed behind locked
doors, and thrown in bundles out of the
upper windows, above tho heads of the
police, among the eager mobs who sur
rounded the offices,
The. next morning barricades rose all
over Paris. The public buildings were
seized by the people. The soldiers in
large bodies The joined i heir brethern in the
streets. tricolor was hung out at
the Hotel de Yiile, and on the steeple of
Notre Dame, where the great bell was
kept tolling to call the people to arms,
The Chamber of Deputies met, in deti
ance 0 f the ordinances, and began to
propose terms to their sovereign. He.
ou j,j s roya ] part,coolly sent word to the
command ant of his forces in Palis “to
concentrate the troops, and act wto
them in masses.” But before this heart
less message, which meant the destruc
tion of life and property, was received,
the troops were largely beyond the con
trol of their officers. "
The next day—the 29th—the last of
“the glorious three days”—the end
C ame. ""The king decided to withdraw
the ordinances; but already the Cham
ber of Deputies had appointed the
Duke of Orleans “Lieutenant-General
G f the kingdom.”
When this news reached the court the
king and the dauphin agreed together to
solemnly abdicate, the one his rights in
esse, the other his rights in posse, and
to declare the young Duke de Bordeaux
the sovereign of France. Again thov
had to learn that it was too late. The
Chamber of Deputies for all reply scut
commissioners to order the king to give
U p the crown jewels and to leave the
country. The entire royal party—poor the
Marie Therese again driven forth, de
king once more an exile, the Duchess
Berri and her ten-year-old son—were
conducted through Franca to Cherbourg
without a hand being lifted on their be
j m ;f. There they were placed on board
American vessels" which sailed with them
on j; of a harbor where every vessel was
decked with the tricolor, and brought
th em over to Portsmouth. They were
granted Holyrood Palace for a residence
(Y nd there they settled down, while Louis
Philippe was proclaimed king of France,
alld m established for the timo Ixung the
throne of the younger branch upon the
rn j ns of that of the elder house of
Bourbon.
tbo Duchess de Berri could not bring
herself to thus resign her son’s throne
f orevo r. Bur entreaties to be appointed
(j u . rf ,g,. !2 t for him were unceasing; and
at last, in 1832, the old Idng yielded to
her and allowed her to enter into nego
tiations with the Royalists of France, as
the representative of the elder family,
and more especially of her son, Henri
Cinq. The district of La Vendee, ever
stronghold of traditional loyalty to di
vice right, remained true to the exiles,
and there the duchess resolved to go.
She landed on the shore near Marseilles
a night so stormy that the captain of
fj l0 steamer declared that a boat could
&SXA ^ sssarjss and almost
Cis beings gay.
s » 0 one of those frail delicate
b wou]d |)fl snpposed to
^ pow01 , to beIld) and yet who only
enjoy existence with a tempest either
over their head or in their bosom.”
fp] ia t night the Duchess slept in a
charcoal burner’s hut, and the next day
8be re oeived intelligence that the pro¬
rising on her behalf in Marseilles
bad <x>mpletelv failed. She therefore
charcoal bmmer for a frame, to travel
^ °jj^ r adventures in her son’s gailant but nse
Bi ]e {ov heT crown are
TOOre pke a romance thanjiober nine
teeuth-century history. Hairbreadth
ege f| g froni ,jjscovery and captnre,
frOE ea tij b y drowning, alternate in the
B torv with her fascinations of Republi
caI1 ^ ber ttnmnrmtiring endurance of
pain aud hardship in the strangest com- wfn
P^y, udl her
ss
was Higbtato ho^less AS Hhe only squandered £ “S the
lives and or ones o m*ny retreat
and dev « ^led n a
Govemme betrayed tor , S<’-! y { ? J" 1 ^' t]',;^
whom she had trusted.
The Comte de Chambord has never
himself made an earnest and real effort
to regain his throne. In 1845 his uncle
died, and then the prince addressed a
manifesto to the great powers, stating
that he had succeeded to the headship
of his house, and that he protested
against the dynasty of Louis Philippe.
He further intimated that be intended
m future to adopt the title of Comte de
Chambord, a royal incognito, and he
desired that this title should be used in
addressing him by all foreigu courts. In
the same year he married ihe Arch¬
duchess MarieTherese of Austria, but as
there are no children of this marriage,
the elder branch of the Bourbons “in
tail male” expires with the Comte d
Chambord. No friend of France can
ever regret the decrease in number of
the pretenders to her throne, yielded however
sincere harmless a sigh may be to tin
memory of the quiet gentle¬
man and uncrowned prince.
In the Arkansas Woods.
The diet of the people who live in the
A-kansas woods a’remarkable savan newsmoer cor
respondent, is thing in its
svay, not only in qualitv, bat also in
quantity.
Corn bread and bacon constitute the
bill of fare, and in the meagre compass
of its life-sustaining qualities, it com
bines ail—aud the only—delicacies ot
the season, never out of season. It’s
aorn bread and bacon for breakfast,
corn bread and bacon for dinner, corn
bread and bacon for supper; that is all
the year round. To moralize upon the
ingredients of that corn bread would
be as hazardous as to attempt to solve
the mysteries that cluster round that
world-famed dish, boarding-house hash,
I know it is a horrible mixture of corn
meal and water, but I am innocent of
anything else it may contain—utterly
devoid of salt, saleratus, or soda. This
is poured into a small, rusty iron pot,
half buried in the ashes, where it bakes
and dines until it becomes hard enough
to knock a hole through a brick wall,
provided the aforesaid wall isn’t baking more
than ten feet thick. While the
process is going on the family squat
about and fire the fireplace shots in languid tobacco lisUessuess juice at
random of
the fire.
The bacon, too, is an article worthy
of comment, inasmuch as it imparts a
sort of flavor to the corn bread and tbere
by renders it tlie more palatable. with You
first discover it in huge slabs of fat,
little or no lean in its composition, and
almost completely of encrusted and in months. tho nc
cumulated filth weeks
-One glance at it would make oh, a health
officer sick; but to eat it! horrors !
The corn bread, being bakee. to the
proper extent, is placed upon a stump
outside the door to cool, while the dogs
^?, rmel,<de about, lick their chops m
sdeu ^ hunger, and bestow wistful glances
upon *° them, delicious morsel,
Slices of bacon are then placed in the
great iron pot, where they sizzle and
splutter until finally resolved floating into a about unm
her of little dned-up chips
5P? n n sea °* S liri -X g 1 ®* 18 ®
This horrible , mess—grease and all—m
conjunction with the corn bread, is
eagerly devoured by these rapacious
natives, ana on this meagre diet, strange
to sa L nevertheless true, they man
age somehow to keep the sands of life in
motion. Truly, one half the world
knows not how the other half lives,
Bill Arp on the Office-Seeker.
Uneasy lies toe head other that office; wears a
post-office—or most any es¬
especially pecially one that lias politics in Washing¬ it; more
one that comes from
ton, where politics is studied as a game
of chess, and every pawn and every
piece has to be moved to protect toe
king, that is tho President. The player
not only catches his adversaries and
sweeps (him from the board, but when
the kin g is in danger he will sacrifice
his own men who have been fighting
faithfully, and sweep them anybody away will too.
It is a wonder to me that •
hanker after such a business. Before a
man gets an office he is doing something
that makes a living for his family, and
fie quits that, and breaks up and loses
ids trade or custom; and begins to live
on a salary and feels good for awhile,
but. suddenly he goes overboard and has
no trade or custom to fall back on. In
the meantime his children are growing habits,
up, and have got new ways and
because pa is in office and handles more
money than he used to, and they must
step up a little higher in society, parties, and and
dress finer, and give more
take a more fashionable pew in the meet
iug house. And so when the fall comes
it is a hard one, and the poor feller don’t
know what to do. He can ran a post
office, or collect the revenues, or get
after the moonshiners with alacrity, but
post-offices don’t lie around loose, and
when a feller looses one he can’t pick up
another and keep ou in the same line of
Tlie Judge’s Shirts.
Ben. Perley Poore relates toe follow¬
ing anecdote of Judge Black:—
“Judge Black was very absent-mind¬
ed. Once, when he was coming to
Washington, Mrs. Blaok said to him:
“ ‘I want you to promise me that you
will put on a clean shirt every morning,
and I have put six into your trunk.
Please do, and don’t let me see in Wash¬
ington papers allusions to your dirty
linen.’
“The Judge promised, left, and in a
week returned. After speaking to his
wife he went into his office, where he
was soon absorbed in studying a case.
After a while in came Mrs. Black.
a i Why, Judge,’ said she, ’what have
you done with all the shirts you took to
Washington?’ with the shirts?' exclaimed
4 » i Done
the Judge, abstractedly. said matron.
“ ‘Yes, the shirts!’ the
ti i Oh !’ replied the Judge, ‘why, I put
on a clean one every morning, as I
promised you I would.’
“‘Yes, Judge, but what did you do
with those you took off? you have not
brought a single one back.’
‘ ‘The truth then flashed on the Judge’s
mind, and an examination disclosed the
fact that the old gentleman had put on
a clean shirt every morning over those
which he already wore.”
Why lie Voted No.
EMPHATIC SEASONS WHY DBUlEYEEIl's
SHOULDN’T KE TAXED.
[From Carl Pretzel’s Weekly.]
There was a lively discussion in the
Waeeo City Council the other evening
The body was considering the question
of levying a tax of fifty dollars per year
on drummers selling goods in that town.
“I shall vote no, and want my vote
recorded in red ink,” fairly roared one
mobile-faced man.
“I should like io ask the member from
the Third Ward what his reasons are
for being so emphatic?”remarked a cool
member.
“Reasons, sir, reasons,”almost shout
ed the emphatic member; “my reasons
are these: The South is prosperous now.
Wo are prospering and why? as we never is because pros¬
pered before; It
we permit these drummers to invade our
State free of tax. They come singly
aud in droves. There are hundreds of
them here every day, and they leave
thousands of dollars in the city and mil¬
lions in the State every year. T. at,
sir, is my reason for voting no so em¬
phatically.” “I (lie logic of
can’t see your argu¬
ment,” said the cool member.
“Mr. President, and gentlemen of the
Council.” continued the emphatic mem¬
ber, “I was in hopes my words were
pointed enough to probe their way into
your heads, but I see that I must ex¬
plain myself. I must be more explicit.
I’ll tell you,” and the man bent over his
desk and almost hissed. “These North¬
ern drummers are passionately fond it, of
poker, sirs, they are wild over and
they can’t play worth a continental.
Sirs, in imposing this unjust tax on
license we materially cripple one of our
greatest sources of income, our principal
channel of influx. By that route mil¬
lions flow into our State yearly, sirs,
and it has grown to be cur greatest in¬
dustry, and we can’t nourish, cherish,
and protect it any too warmly. andwle- That,
gentlemen, is why I vote ‘No,’
mand my name to stand out in bold
relief,” caul the member, as he resumed
his seat.
The ayes and nays were called and
the measure was lost, and tho bars are
down, and the drummers enter Wucco
without tax.
Buildings llial. Resist Earthquakes.
The volcanic eruptions in Java, tlie
earthquake in Ischia, and our own Wes¬
tern tornadoes have probably caused
much more destruction of life and prop¬
erty than they would have caused if
buildings had been specially adapted to
resist them. In Japan, where shocks of
earthquake are frequent, it is not usual
to dig foundations for any building, no
matter how large or important it may
be. Rocks slightly rounded at the top
house ■ placed are to where be. The /^rneramsts^also comer posts, also
rounded at tho end, rest on these. The
timbers are a11
nafled, so aa to *dl° f
movement without coming n apart In
the central portion of toe buildmg toe
timbers are particularly heavy, and act
as ballMt. In high towerB there aresome
times 8
and
ground, ovartonud P either ... by , earthonake eaithqnake
being
s
manner xrithout the swinging beam, but
with a very heavy ballast in the frame
work of tho centre of the floor. A well
known artist is the inventor of a pointing
Sue hut which is constructed in part cn toe
principle. It rests on stones at the
corners, ed the timbers are keyed under together,
it carries a heavy ballast the
SS l VSSEl will outride gale in
anchors. This hut a
perfect safety. Probably it would not
withstand tlie force of a tornado; but
«>» xv«- *«—■
Solid Seriousness.
APPEASING AN EDITOR WHO WANTED U!TI«
CUES WITHOUT ANY FUN ABOUT THEM.
The editor of a prominent periodical
had among its contributore one bright,
bnt erratic genius, who always seasoned
his matter with the spice of humor.
One day the editor called him in and
told him he wanted him to bring in sev¬
eral articles without any fan about
them.
“But how can I doit?” pleaded the
contributor.
“I don’t know how, but I know you
can,” replied the editor.
“Well, will you take my judgment on
the articles ?”
“If you promise to bo serious, I will.”
“All right, that I they think I may serious.” be able to
satisfy Then"he you are and tho next day
went away,
returned and placed a bundle of papers
on the editor’s desk, which that worthy
immediately proceeded looked to examine. and
After a minute or two, he up
said in amazement:
“Why, what’s all tlfis? Haven’t you
given me the wrong stuff ?”
“I guess not. What’s wrong ?"
“Why, here’s a hill of #15 for board,
another of $5 tor washing, another of
#50 tor clothes, another of #10 lor pew
rent, and heaven only knows wiiat’s in
the rest of the pile.” There
“Well, what’s wrong? ain’t
any of them receipted, is there?”
“No, not as far as I’ve seen; but. I
don’t understand why you should bring
them here.”
“Didn’t yon say you wanted some ar¬
ticles without any fun in them, and
didn’t yon say you’d take my judgment I
on their lieing serious, and could have
found anything with less fun in it than
what I have brought y ou ? If you don’t
accept my judgment in this matter, I
want to quit right, nov.”
“I catch on. Bnt don’t quit, I’ve
been there myself, and I can see clearly the
that yon have an excellent sense of
serious. I’ve got a few old manusc ripts
of the same sentiment on file, and I vc
not been able to see anything funny in
them these many years !”
Then they went out and looked through
a glass darkly.
STRANGEST FREAK OF ALL.
4it Incident ol the Earthquake on the !»!
and of Java.
One of the most singular incidents
was tire sudden rising on the forenoon of
Tuesday of fourteen new volcanic moun¬
tains iii the Straits of Sunda, forming a
complete chain in almost a straight line
between Point St. Nicholas on the Java
coast and Hoga Point on the couto of
Sumatra, almost on the tops of what had
been the Merak and Middle Islands,
which , . , sank , into . . the ., sea the previous .•
:, y ana went heaven .mows where.
The Gunung Teugger has when not had ai
eruption before since 1800, an ex¬
tent of land seventeen miles long and
wide ., was cotuplevoly , , , covered , with ...
seven
" .ate raid sulphurous nine
so peculiar to the eruptions ot
Java. The peak of Gunung
Teugger is (5,000 feet above the sea, and
the monument of flame on top of this
made a scene of wonderful grandeur. red
Every moment a huge boulder hurled at a from
and white heat would be
Tengger’s crater with terrific force, and
after going hundreds of feet into the air,
would fall back with a whirr, crashing
through the thatched roof of some
Chinese fisherman’s hut or crushing be¬
neath its huge mass the body northern of some
native peasant. Much of the
portion of the island, which was covered
with tracts of forest, was soon in one
great blaze. The red-hot vomitings
from the craters had set the trees on fire,
and the giants of the woods fell, one
after another, like so many sheaves of
wheat before a gale. As the eruptions
increased in frequency and violence the
disturbance of the waters surrounding the
barren eoast became more and more vio¬
lent. Here the waves rushed with ter¬
rific force up the steep, rocky incline,
breaking upon the overhanging crags and
receding rapidly, leaving a lava flow
cooled just at the moment when it was
about to fall over a precipice, and there
remaining quickly hardened by contact
with the waters and forming distiucl
strata of black and bright red, purple
and brown, all thrown about in the most
eccentric masses, while huge peaks of
basalt rose at frequent intervals.
Then came the waves overwhelming a
marshy plain, engulfing a hamlet of fish¬
ermen’s rude houses, and, turning sud¬
denly back, swept away almost every ves¬
tige of what a moment before had been a
scene of bustling activity. What a few
hours before 1 were fertile valleys covered
with flourishing plantations of coffee,
rice, sugar, indigo or tobacco, the sta¬
ples of the island, were now but mud,
stone and lava covered fields of destruc¬
tion and ruin.
A TRAMP’S REVENGE.
Tw# l.lttle <HHs Snved from a Terrible
iremh by « Yo ung farmer,
„ . p M
Dallas Crawford, ’ of Wesleyville, recente his
droyo a of f 8 from
Several G ne of them lurked around
days waiting for revenge. Tlie
other day he saw Crawford’s two little
d(mghter8 enter the mll] , on the upper
flo<)r o{ whieh a p ] ay ^ . rooln had been
fiJSl H£$Za£Z£%■ Following he
tt.
ing with their toys, and toon, descending
to the basement, he piled heaps of in
flammable material at several J points tion and
fir Soon the lo el .
f «»-di -»
egress were alike cut off
™ d / be ngomzmg *‘ rh of deaths. They crawled gf
a holfi r .°« f ’J*'™
airauI P im P> TR, Ti'to
feet and the ground thickly dotted wito
1 W d Moulders No ladders were avail¬
^ > 1<jr the J be lf at
“b. [attibr and other spectators tnnied
a W «'ckened, momentarily expecting children
to see the ra ters yield and the
disappear into toe roaring flames
srsz. 1 : s. the
meat stood on a limb high threw over bis
children. and The yound man the aim that
rope, so caught precise in was the smaller girl’s
the hook
dress. Drawing the cord hand over
hand she swung clear and was lowered
safely intr her father’s ai ms.
The crowd watched Bonnell with in¬
tense interest as he cast his hook a
second time. His arm and eye were
true, and tho remaining girl hung sus¬
pended in the air, her clothing catching
fire as she left toe perilous place, but
she was saved.
When Bonnell regained the earth lie
sank down overpowered by intense ex¬
citement and was carried away not a
second too soon for the safety of himself
and friends. The boiler, surrounded by
a mass of glowing coals, exploded, aud
the detonation was heard for miles.
Fragments of iron plates, red-hot ma¬
chines and flaming tiuiliers were hurled
hundreds of feet, though fortunately not
a man was injured by the terrible
shower.
The incendiary tramp fled from the
scene of his terrible deed on a stolen
horse and escaped the vengeance of the
furious farmers.
IT WAS ALU BIGHT.
A man who was looking through a
second hand store in Brooklyn, with a
view of finding a bedstead to suit him
finally examined one and asked :
“Are you sure there are no bugs in
this?”
“Bugs I Vhy, dot pedstead was oudt
of my own family I We got it vh on my
bradder Moses vhas here, und now he
has gone away I sell it for half-price.”
“»ay, I believe it has had bugs in.”
“(Impossible, my frendt. My wife
vhas so neat dot if she knew of such
tings in der house, hanged shego grazy.” here isn’t
“And I’ll be if
proof 1” exclaimed the customer, as he
pointed to an unimpeachable evidence.
“Vhell! vhell 1”
The customer was going out with a
heartbroken look on his face, when the
other detained him and said :
‘ ‘Dot’s all right after all. Ef you puy
dot pedstead, you know you have bugs
from a respectable family 1 Moses vhos
head elerk in Rochester, und you know
I vhas here twenty-seven years in pee*
ness.”— Wad Street Newt,
The A stor Family.
The Astor family is beyond society. question The
the leader in New York
two brothers John Jacob and William B.
Astor. load very quiet lives, Mr. William
B’s family go out more in society. Mr.
John Jacob Aster’s only child is William
W., who is now with his witoand two chil¬
dren at Rome. He had throe daughters.
Tha eldest Mrs. Van Alen, died two
years aero at Newport. Ida
Mr. William W. Astor, to whom
father, John Jacob Aster, has (b oded
his entire estate, reserving an annuity of
$100,000, is a bright literal y m\n. He
was elected to the Assembly i:i his dis¬
trict, but was defeated by Rosy oil B.
Flower in his contest for Congress. He
is spoken of as a pleasant, agreeable
man, loving his books and his pictures,
but more than these, his wife. Miss
Mamie Paul, the celebrated Philadelphia
beauty, whom he married some four
years ago.
Mr. John Jacob Astor is a well-built old
gentleman with snow-white whiskers and
of striking appearance. He enters his
office in West Twenty-sixth nod street and smile with
a brisk step and with a
for every one. He is a careful and gen¬
erous landlord. His houses are 1« pfc in
the best of repair and the rent market is
virtually in his hands,
John Jacob Aster is a very religion sold
gentleman. Every Sunday ho may be
seen at Trinity Church, where he is a
vestryman. At tha appointed time ha
rises from his scat and pasps around tha
collection plate. A story told ol him, is
to the effect that on meeting a washer¬
woman loaded down with her •Jothes
bosket, he assisted her to the ears and
dropped a $20 gold piece into her basket.
The Astor estate continues to grow in
value, as it must, every year.
Besides the city property of the. Asters
there are also immense tracts of land at
Newport, and elegant cottages at the
different watering-places .—New Yuris
World.
GOOD ADVICE.
“Gem’len,” said tho President of the
Lime Kiln Club upon his inauguration, tho
as be passed his list over to Secre¬
tary, ‘ -we lias begun anoder y’av. Do
past am put behind us an’ de fuchcr am
befo’ us. Whatober good wo hn« to ac¬
complished am written down our
credit. Whatebcr mistakes we has
made wo rans’ ax fnrgiveness fur an’
seek to do better.
“Doorin’ de comm’ y’ar let na strive
to see how much good wo kin accom¬
plish, both as a club an’ as individuals.
As a club let ns discuss matters will de
sole objick of improvin’ do human race,
wheder black or white. Seek to be
sages and philosophers. Doan’ sot
down an’ yum 1 yum! obev a water¬
melon widout a thought of Nutur’ an’
her grand works. When you offer a.
resolushun ax yerseM what effect it am.
to have upon do 6,000,000 culFd people
of America. When you am ealled upon
to wote upon de admishnn ol a new
member reflect dat de eyes of 50,000,000
white people am upon you. Strive to
be a Congress, wid de ginera) covrnp- Leg
shuns left out. Beck to be a State
islachur widout hayin’ accepted de free
railroad passes which alt de members
hanker arter. Make yerselves ft Com¬
mon Council, wid de pavin’ rings, sewer
frauds an’ de steam roller left out.
“As individuals, cultivate habits of
industry. Laziness am to be dispised.
Practice economy. It am what we save
instead of what wo aim dat makes us
rich. Treat all men wid courtesy. Any¬
body kin be a loafer, but it am only on©
man in ten who kin possible. bo a gentlemen. If
Keep outer debt if yon
have to go in debt pay as soon as ye kin.
If you doan’ owe a man ober fifteen
cents his presence at a Sunday elude
picnic will spile your enjoyment of do
day. Bo land husbands, just ladders,
oblecgiu naybura mid law-abidin’ citi¬
zens an’ one kin ask no mo’,”— Detroit’,
Free Press.
A Determined Search.
The captain of one of tlie ocean fines
of steamers, running Custom from House Boston, officer was
called upon by a a
few days ago, who said he desired a
word privately. is it?” interrogated the
“What cap¬
tain.
“My iiistinciiouo are to search your
ship.” “Search ship,” replied tho
my aston¬
ished captain, “what for?”
“For $10,000 worth of silks which it is
reported at the Custom House yon have
concealed in your vessel.”
“All right,” said the captain, “go
ahead and do your duty.” tho
First the contents of captain’s
cabin were overhauled, then those of toe
officers, according to rank, hut so silk
was found.
“I guess, Captain, that there’s no
need to continue tha search any
further,” suggested tho Custom House
man.
“Yes, there is,” added tlie captain,
“yon say your orders arc to search this
vessel, and I’m goiDg to see that yon do
it, or else I shaB make a formall report
of your refusal to do so.”
Calling “Yon will the please fire! officer, take this he said: gentleman
all through the nook ship and and see where that he
searches every corner it
is possible to hide silk. If he refuses to
accompany you, let me know.”
The search was continued in tho en¬
gine room, then into the forecastle, and
after two hours was concluded in toe
coal bunkers, from whieh tho Custom
House man emerged covered with per¬
spiration and coal dust.
“Well, did you find any thing ? ’
" “No, Of course sir.” you didn’t, . and | g
expected would. Next yon time never
search yon you
want to my vessel bring you r au
toority along, or else I shall think toat
you’re trying to bulldoze me. Bnt
you’ve got the wrong man this time to
experiment upon, I hope this will be a
caution to you in the future.”.
The Custom House officer has kept
toe story to himself. The captain of the
vessel told it.
Post-officks.—T he Septem ber F>*tat
Guide shows ns that there arc now 48,049
post-offices in tho United States,ol which
number 2,176 aio PresidentiaKilfices and
6,373 money order offices. Sinco the
year 1876 'toe number of post-offices has
been increased forty per cent,
