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TUB INFURIATED TIGER.
«■ Bound! with one lashing spring, the mighty brute
His angry tail ; red rolls hiseje's diluted glow.’’
*• Where his vast neck just roiiigles with the spine,
rheathed *i his form the deadly weapon lies/’
Cmiloe Harold’s I’ilorimacici
Upon one evening, a party of collegi
ans and young bloods ol the town had
met together at my room to play and ca-|
rouse. In fact it was a regular meeting
of the Sad hunters, who assembled twice)
in every week. We kept it up jollilyj
until midnight, having in that time man
aged to get full of Bacchus, when Som
ers proposed that wo should sally forth;
and astonish the town by some well;
planned and well directed piece of mis-!
chief. Without any one of us having a
very clear conception of our actions or
intentions, we hailed the proposition with;
drunken rapture and started forth.
A travelling menagerie had arrived ini
the town the day before, and among the
wonders it contained was a young hear.'
The poor animal had been so well beaten.!
that he became very humble, and ac-[
quired a number ot amusing tricks. Os
this we were ail aware, having visited the:
inenegerie the day before. Just as wej
passed the* spot where the animals were 1
contined, it occurred to mo what rare
sport it would bo to capture young Bruin,
and place him in the chemical lecture
room, to astonish, on the next day, the
professors ami the class.
No sootier had I made a proposition to;
this effect, than it was adopted, and all 1
volunteered their assistance in carrying]
it into execution. The tent or pavillion
which covered the beasts, was erected ini
the great yard of the principal tavern. —i
The cages, each containing one or more
animals, were iron grated boxes, stand
ing on wheels, by means of which they i
had been dragged into the town. These)
were ranged around the interior of the;
tent, forming a circular array of wow:j
andiron. Not imagining that any on< .
would disturb the animals, the showmen |
and keepers had retired to rest along with!
the inmates of the tavern, leaving
tents, entirely unwatched. Thus we
were afforded a clear field in which to)
execute our scheme. After several of;
our number had been posted as sentinels.!
the rest crept in under the canvass, and
entered the arena. It was some time
before we could, in the deep darkness of
the place, identify the cage in which out
friend Bruin had been placed to sleep.
After stumbling over divers things which
lay scattered about, and peering here and
there in the dark, vve found the object of
•our search. There in a substantial cage,
was the dim outline of the animal, his
two eyes flashing drops of fire at being
aroused from his quiet slumber.
The next difficulty that occurred to us
was the mode of conveying him to the
college, which was several hundred yards
distant. Some of the revellers proposed
that we should throw a halter around his
neck and so drag him along. We reject
ed this, not for any personal fear, since
we had arrived at that point which makes
one oblivious of danger, but lest we should
be seen by some late straggler, and have
our fun spoiled. A better plan was, after
much scheming, devised, and one which
met with universal acquiescence.
In the tavern yard stood a water hogs
head, with a sliding lid fastened by means
of a hasp and staple. We had only to
roll this in, slide down the box from the ;
wheels, open the door immediately in '
front of the hogshead, and drive the ani- i
mal in. We could then push down the
lid of the cask, secure it by means of a t
rope passed through the staples, and roll I
oar prisoner and prison-house to the i
college. i
No sooner was this suggested than we t
hastened to put it into execution. The s
AUGUSTA, GA. SATURDAY, JANUARY 20, 1844.
'cage, with our united efforts, was slid
!quietly down from the wheels—Bruin
growling alt the time with anger-—the
hogshead was rolled in and placed open
end in front of the cage and the animal
stirred up with our canes. With a ter
rific yell he rushed in, and we closed the i
lid suddenly down upon him, fastening it ;
at the same time in a secure manner.
The yell of the bear had roused the other i
animals, and our ears were regaled for i
jthe next ten minutes, with a variety of 1
hideous sounds, that wakened fearfully
]the sleeping echoes of the night. The
animal in the hogshead growled, and his
voice came like distant thunder, so dead
ening was it by the wood in which he lay.
llis fellows had no incumbrance to their
: voices, and they howled as clearly as
though they had been iu their native for
; est.
Fearful of being discovered we remnin
jed quiet for a time, holding our ven ]
I breathes in suspense. But no one dis
turbed, or thought of disturbing us. The
l animals often started a chorus of strange
|noises during the night, and the keepers
thinking nothing unusual to bo the mat-
Iter, merely cursed the unruly beasts ior
[destroying the unity of their rest, and
turning back, went to sleep again.
As soon ns quiet was restored, we slit j
la hole in the canvass, for we were afraid
ito emerge by the aperture which faced
the tavern, rolled our hogshead through
the yard to the back gate, which we un
fastened, and then passing into the road !
jstarted at a quick rate for our spot of des
tination. Over and over went the hogs
bead, the animal within growling at tke
rough treatment he experienced, we near
ly convulsed with laughter at the un
couthness of the noise he made.
At length we reached the hack part of
I the college, when one of our party climb
ed over the wall and unfastened the gate.
We rolled in our prize to the back door
(of tho laboratory, which was the place
{where our professor of chemistry lectur
led. We found that in consequence* of
the narrowness of the door, the hogshead
would not enter. Such being the case,
we were about to start the animal through
the open door, when an idea more redo
lent of fun struck the fancy of Somers.
Back of the lecture room was a small
'apartment containing odds and ends, and
I which was not visited perhaps once a
; month. He said rightly, that if we pla
[ced Bruin in this apartment, he would
inot likely be discovered until sometime
[during the lecture of the chemical pro
jlessor, when the noise he w’ould be apt
'to make attracting attention, the plot
I would readily be brought to a crisis. We
ijoined our strength, and, upon our shoul-
Itiers, up went the hogshead, until it was
'placed on a level with the window A
jiight young fellow, the smallest of the
[party, climbed up, hoisted the window,!
[and siided up the lid of the cask. We
shook the hogshead violently, but at first
Ho no purpose. The animal was tho
j roughly frightened, and lay still, or with
!only an occasional growl. We shook it;
| again and he started. There was but
one possible mode of progression, which
was straight forward—and the brute gave!
a spring through the window. There)
was a crash of glass, a howl, and the ter-1
rifled animal, crouching in the corner,]
remained silent. Our little companion
closed the sash and leaped down. Wc
rolled the hogshead up into a corner of
the yard, and, returning to our rooms,
continued our revelry till near day-light.
It was about noon when I awoke. I
hurried on my clothes, passed a wet towel
round my head, swallowed some soda
water, and afterwards a cup of coffee,
and then hastened to the college. It was
the hour of the professor of chemistry,
and I entered the room just as he had
commenced to descant upon his subject.
The class were all wrapped in attention—
for the lecturer was an able man, and
was treating upon “Light,” a matter of
interest, and capable of beautiful illustra
tion. He had scarcely finished his short
and eloquent exordium, before we heard
a crash of bottles, and a low, startling [
growl in the next room. The professor (
started, and stopped a moment, while (
those ofthe class not in the secret, looked |
at each other in astonishment. There
was a pause of a few seconds’ duration— '
and then the professor proceeded.
I began to feel alarmed. I remember- j
ed what had been done the night before.
Under ordinary circumstances, there was
no danger to be apprehended. The bear
was tame enough, and had been whipped 1
until he had imbibed a proper sense ofthe s
superiority of mam- But from the sounds, \
•
I judged that Bruin had worked himself
into the room, only separated from us by 1
a thin partition full of w indows, in which
were kept the various drugs used in illus
trative experiments. There were a great
many carboys and bottles of acid in that
room. Should he overset any of these, i
and their contents touch his skin, he i
would be apt to break through the win
dows of the apartment, and do some mis
chief before we could secure him.
the looks of my companions, I saw. they
entertained the very same fears.
There was another crash and growl.—
The professor stopped again, and the
class looked around in dismay. Those
who were acquainted with the cause of
the noise, could scarcely keep their coun
tenances. In spite of the alarm under
which they labored, there was something
so ludicrous in the growl, especially
when we figured to ourselves the coming
consternation of the class, that they could!
hardly refrain from laughing outright.
The professor who could not exactly tell
from whence tho sound proceeded, and
thought it a trick of the class, reproved
them severely, and then coutinncd his
lecture. “ Gentlemen,” said he, prepar
ing for a brilliant experiment, -“1 will
show you a most startling effect,”
Anti he did. Hark! there was a sud
den crash, as if every bottle in the place
had been destroyed at once—a smoke
rose tip —there was a terrific howl, that
made the blood curdle and the marrow
1 brill—and, through that frail glass—
Father of Truth! we had mistaken the
cage—there leapt forth infuriated with
the burning liquid, which streamed over
him—horror!—an untamed royal tiger.
No words can describe the consterna
tion o£the class. Not one stirred. Pet
. rifled by horror—motionless—breathless
—there we sat. Not a muscle quivered,
so rigid were we with our intense fear.
It was our preservation. Maddened with
the pain, the animal rushed on with ter
rific bounds, and, meeting with no obstacle
passed down the stairs into the great hall.
There, as he leaped and rolled, and howl
ed in his agony, the eldest daughter of
our janitor, coining with a message, un
wittingly entered. She screamed and
fell. The tiger, frantic with the acid,
which was eating to his very flesh, heed
ed her not. On he passed, and the girl
[lived. Better had she died, for never
more shone the light of reason on her
vacant eyes. From that day forth, she
was a gibbering incurable idiot.
On passed the tiger—on ! on ! on !
through the streets, with the populace
flying to every side for shelter—past his
old prison, where the keepers stood won
dering at his escape—ou he went, bound
after bound, howling, screaming with
agony. On he went, while behind, be
fore, and around, rose up the mingled cry
of men, women and children—“ The
tiger! the tiger!”
At the extremity of the main street, a
traveller was riding quietly to his home.
'He heard the noise behind him, and,
{casting his eyes around, saw the cause.
Ho spurred his horse, who started snort
ing with terror, for he saw the coming of
the mighty animal as well as his master.
;It was in vain. The tiger noted not the
[man. He saw only the terrified steed.
One leap—the distance was just saved—
and ho struck his claws into the hind
[quarters of the horse, who, unmindful of
, his double burthen, rushed on, bearing
the fearful load as though it were a fea
ther’s weight. The man received no
hurt. With the presence of mind and
coolness most determined—for it resulted
from despair—he drew his bowie-knife
from his bosom, and, with a firm stroke,
buried it to the hilt in the neck of the
tiger. The spinal marrow of the reval
brute was severed and he died on the in
stant. But he did not release his hold.
Still, with the death-grip, he clung to his
place, his eyes glassed and glaring, and
his claws sunk deep into the flesh. On
went the horse, snorting, plunging, and
screaming in mingled pain and terror—
on he went, until exhausted by fatigue i
and loss of blood he fell prostrate. Those ;
who catne that way an hour after, cau- <
tiouslyand timidly, saw the three stretch- ■
ed together. They watched awhile and t
found they did not move. They stole r
up—!o the horse and tiger were dead, and
over their lifeless forms was the traveller,
insensible, though alive, and still grasp
ing in his hand the friendly knife. a
—, c
Thrilling Incident. s
In 1787 Wheeling was beseiged by a v
large army of British and Indians. So’J
sudden was the attack made tjia.t. no Jime r
was afforded for preparation. The fort c
«
at the time of the assault, was command-!
ed hy Col. Silas Zane, the senior officer 1
who was in a blockhouse some 50 or 100;
yards outside of the .wall. The enemy
made several desperate assaults to break
into the lort, but on every onset they were
driven bacly. The ammunition for the
defence of the fort was deposited in the
blockhouse, and the attack was made so
suddenly and unexpectedly that there
was no time to remove it. On the, after
noon of the second day of the seige, the
powder in the fort was nearly exhausted,
and no alternative remained but that some
jonc must pass through the enertiy’s fire
iio the blockhouse tor powder. When!
Silas Zane made the proposition to the 1
men, to see if any one would undertake
the hazardous enterprise, at first all were;
silent. After looking at each other for!
sometime, a young man stepped forwardj
jand said he would run the chance. Im-|
: mediately half a dozen offered their ser
vices in the dangerous enterprise.
While they were disputing about who
should go, Elizabeth, sister of the ZanesJ
came forward and declared she would go
for the powder. Her brother thought she
would flinch from the enterprise, but he
was mistaken. »She had the intrepidity
to dare and the fortitude to bear her up
in the heroic risk of life. Her brother
then tried to dissuade her from the at
tempt by saying a man would be more
fleet, and consequently would run less
risk of losing his life. She replied that
they lmd not a man to spare from the de
: fence of the fort, and if she should fall, she
would scarcely ho missed. She then di
-1 vested herselfof such of her clothing as
would impede her speed, and ran till she
arrived at the door of the blockhouse,
where her brother, Col. Zane, hastened
to receive his intrepid sister. The Indi
ans, when they saw her bound forth, did
not fire a gun, but called aloud, ‘ Squaw,
squaw, squaw!' When she had told her
brother the errand on which she came, he
took a table-cloth and fastened around
her waist, and poured into it a keg of
powder, she then sailed back to the fort
with all the buoyancy of hope. The mo
ment she was outside of the block-house
the whole of the enemy’s line poured a
leaden storm at her hut the halls went
whistling by without doing her any in
jury. She afterwards married a Mr.
Clairville, of Ohio.
Woman.
Great indeed is the task assigned to
woman. Who can elevate its dignity ?
who can exaggerate its importance ? Not
to make laws, not to lead armies, not to
govern empires, but to form those by
whom laws are made, and armies led.
and empires governed ; to guard from the
slightest taint of possible infirmity the
frail creature, whose moral, no less than
his physical being, must be derived
from her; to inspire those principles, to
inculcate those doctrines, to animate
those sentiments, which generations yet
unborn, and nations yet uncivilized, shall
learn to bless; to soften firmness into
mercy, to chasten honor into refinement,
to exalt generosity iuto virtue; by her
soothing cares to allay the anguish of the
body, and the far worse anguish of the
mind ; by her tenderness to disarm pas
sion; by her purity to triumph over
sense; to cheer the scholar sinking under
his toil; to console the statesman for the
ingratitude of a mistaken people ; to be
the compensation for hopes that are
blighted, for friends that are perfidious,
for happiness that has passed away. Such
is her vocation—the couch ofthe tortured
sufferer, the prison ofthe deserted friend,
the scaffold of the godlike patriot, the
cross of a rejoiced Saviour; these are
the theatres on vvtuch her greatest tri
umphs have been achieved. Such is her
destiny—to visit the forsaken, to attend
to the neglected ; amid the forgetfulness
of myriads to remember—amid the exe
crations of multitudes to bless; when
monarchs abandon, when counsellors be
tray, when justice persecutes, when breth
ren and disciples fly, to remain unshaken
and unchanged ; and exhibit on this low
er world, a type of that love—pure, con
sfant, and ineffable —which in another
world we are taught to believe the best
reward of virtue.— Blackwood's Mag. 1
Cleanliness. (
Cohbett says, a yellow-white cravat or
a shirt, on a man, speaks at once the \
character of his wife : and he assured that -
she will not take with your dress pains t
which she has not taken with her own. \
The manner in putting on the dress is r
no ba,d foundation Jjst judging"; if if heir
carelessly, slovenly—if it do not fit pro-!i
[One Dollar a Year.
-
perlv. No matter for its mean quality—
mean as it may be, it may be neatly and
trimly put on, and if it be not, take care *
of yourself, for you will, still find to your
cost, a sloven in one thing is a sloven in
all things. Oh! how much do women
lose by inattention to these matters.-?-
Men, in general say nothing about it to
their wives, but think about it; they envy
their luckier neighbors, and in numerous
cases, consequences the most serious arise
from this apparently trifling cause. Beau
tv is valuable—it is one of the ties, and a
strong tie, too, that however, cannot last
jto an old age, but the charm of cleanli
jness never ends but with life itself.
[Boston Bee.
*o Effort Fruitless.
j My firm belief in the moral government
of the world will not suffer me to think
that any good effort is ever entirely lost,
:or that any strenuous and honest endeavor
to improve the condition of man is ulti
11mutely made in vain. One eflort may
jSeeny insulated and inefficacious, oneen
i flea'or may appear servile and fruitless,
. but many make an aggregate that is al
. wu 3' s sooner or later productive of a cor
; responding benefit. The moral and phy
) > '^ ,, l world will furnish abundant evidence
, of this cheering and salutary truth.— Rev.
11. Fell owes.
Bacon.
■ As the season is at hand for putting up
t Pork and making Bacon, a few practical
■ hints in relation to the best modes will
: not be out of place.
1. Kill your hogs as early as the sca
? son will admit. By this course, the Ba
: conjwill be completely cured before warm
• Weather, and will be sounder and better,
i than if'deferred later.
• 2. In cutting out, take off the head
■ first as near the ears as practicable, lay
, the hog on the back, rut the ribs from
' both sides of the back bone, then halve
; lhe hog, :in(l hike out all the ribs and
. hack bone. Next cut the midlings out as
near the ham and shoulder as convenient.
( Trim off all the lumps and corners of fat
lor lard, and the slices tor sausage meat.
' Take oti' the feet above the knees and
i hocks, and put them with the heads for
1 soucc.
:i. Let all cool one night, and you are
ready lor salting. Prepare a level sur
face at least four feet square, for rubbing.
Then measure out a bushel and a half of
salt to a thousand pounds of pork. Some
J persons use about a pound of salt petre to
; ‘t thousand of pork, but the utility of this
1 practice is much doubted. The better
1 plan, in our estimation, is to pulverise
about a half pound of red pepper with
every two bushels of salt: In salting,
rub the skin side first, then on the flesh
side, till every part has an abundance.
| Lay down your midlings, and joints to
I themselves in a cool place. A level sur
-1 face is best, and as each piece is laid
! flown, let salt be sprinkled on till it is
1 covered.
5. If the weather is favorable, in four
' or five weeks, the meat should be taken
i up, the salt washed off, and the hanging
commence. Let every piece be hung as
it grew on the hog; that is, the big end
' of midlings and joints should be upper
most. See that the house is tight, and
' that the meat is not touching.
r 6. The smoking may now begin. If
J convenient use green hickory wood, and
the smoking should continue constant,
; four or five weeks and all is finished. In
> damp weather, however, a little smoke
1 will prevent mould, and prove beneficial
•at any season. Frequently the bacon is
> taken down and packed in salt, bran, or
' ashes, to prevent the depredationsof flies;
: but this is unnecessary, if the house is
■ dark, so that flies cannot be comfortable
I within. — Nashville Agriculturalist.
i To Remove Grease Spots from, Silk,
Ape- —Take the yolk of an egg, entirely
i free from the white, mix it with a little
warm water, (be sure not to scald the
egg,) and with a soft brush apply the
mixture and rub it on the spot until the
grease appears removed or loose. Wash
off the egg with moderately warm water,
and finally rinse off the whole with clear
cold water. Should not all the grease
be removed, .which may arise from being
on a long time, or not sufficiently washed”
drv and repeat the operation.
Some years ago, I was in company
with a lady who wore a splendid Merino
shawl, and in passing the wheel of a car
riage, she got her shawl badly smeared
with tar and grease. I saw she was
much mortified at the accident, and I im
mediately applied the above remedy, and
in a lew minutes all was sunshine again.