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i ' H E W i f l t i w r j | W f e s S . Q - O - W X a ? : i ^ : B » » 3 ?XISr 3 B, SDiiea Ai^p pBo^^&iisHQR. : : ' | g <TirSI,VS MSKS XAXJt JL BQCiLRieJ) in ' A libwAl diieonnt ■will be laede ta tbose ■who »dvertl*o by tbe»e«.fof »a>et«hUHlftOUfit tbSR»f«BS^ . -si:- ' q ; ; a ; - w T m ^ T m E ; T ^ ^ • - H E E S E R - f • E O T l R A k TEfi PEBPLEIED HOTOSIEEPEB'8 SOLIli- RY XE3. r. S. OAOS. I Wish X h o d a. dozen p a irs Of h»ad* thif Tery m inute; I'd *0011 j i i t »ll these th in jt to rigbts— . The y#ry deuce is in it H ere’s a hie srashinx to done. One p * ir o fhands to do i t ; Sheets, shirts. stoohinf*.oo*tf»ad peats, How will I o er *etthj:o“®h it. D inner to e e t f o r sis. more, . No loaif f tf t o’erfrow Sunday; And the baby as cross as he can be— He's always so oh Monday. And there’s the cream, 'ti* getting sour, jin d m u st forthwith be o hurniiig: A n d there’s Dab< w ants a button on. Which way shall I be turning. ’Tis tim e the m e at ■was in the p ot, , The bread was worked for baking, T h e clothes were taken from the boil— Oh d e a r l the b a b y ’s waking. . Hush bahjidftar, there, hush sh-ih I ' I wish h e ’d sleep a little. T ill I could 1‘u s &nd s e t some vroou To hur^y Up tbe kottic. How niceker kitcliep used to be, Her dinner always ready Esactly When the noon bell rang— Hush, hntb, dear little Freddie. 11 come the haityi before 1'm.tbinkii it hasl^ word* fton aen to drinking. How isn’t that a great idea,, _That men should take to sinning. Because a weary, balf-sick -wife Can’t always smile so winning. When iTiras young I used to earn My living without trouble. Had clothes and pocket money too. Had hours of pleasure double. I n e v e r drearhed o f suc& a fate. When I a lau ts« courted- *VT ife. mother^ nnxsBetw seamstress, cook, house- K9epir, chambonQaid, laundress, dafr^omA'n Kud lorab t^nerally, doing thework of six for the sake of Being supported* \IT WOULD BUST MY FATHES.\ Two ohildren. Fran k a n d Charlie-. BELL LIN D E r S tE H P T A tlO N S . BY HA B I i:XI,E DALLAS. Bell exclaimed, “ I wish I wer< dead—abnoat,” ns tlie door of -the _ ____ „„ wHere she had heeu giv* booh w^ss found and the new'pupiia ing music lessons clanged behind her. came-r—a^d- sh much in it, no more— The “alnlflst” followed the Wish after and the midsummer vacation was at s little ;pause. ^ ^ * hand,- and. Bell was iin the bachelor’s^ A flash of sunlight j the twitter of stuijv waiting for her quarterns salary a caged yellow bird, and breath of ^ ‘quietly as though ah event were air which, sweeping through the win- nothangingover h e riieadhyasingle dows of florist, close a t hand, brought hair. to Bell, upon the sidewalk, a whiff of ; She looked out o f the window play- heliotrope and nmsktose, gave hirth to it. ‘ sun-fall-aslant-on the wall o f the cor- “ After all, Fm wicked ” : thought her house. She sawjhe business men I u r .......rr k. - j ------- r..— ------------------------- \o T dropping, out crossings with a wnys raipj' and p e rh ip s l shnllgeta recklessness which always excites a- new dress sometime.” larm . in the female mind. She saw ' So-Bell took her way homeward, in the dog a t if 6. 4 run out of r the light o f the setting sun ; took and bark a t the k itten on the three steps, a t leMt, and paused—-Stops- gijp, qf the basement a t Ko, 3 , She ped .suddenly, lifted something from saw a man cociing -down the tree ihe pavement, and walked on again, shaded street and thought that he was . Charlie Hope I He came nearer, and she found he was a stranger! H e lassed; and she knew there Vas no ikepess. Then she fell to. wondering UpoB A summer day.' a large and pleasant e< . Together w^r ‘ - beneath a tre^ : p leasant garden, ..^r^a^play* .^._eath a tree* they lia»re«, Whoie branches overhead W ere richly b u n k -with cberrie*. So tempting, ripe and red. Said Frankie, looking npuard, •‘iljj.w jxleethatfrnitm u st b a ! ‘ Lot U3 gather some and taste It-* There’* no one near to s e t \ “No. no,” his playmate ansirered. In Arm, yet gentle, tone ; “ For yoaknorr my father told us To leave the frnit alone.” “ But year faUier canpot see u». And oven if he kne-w. H e u f a r too kind.Ao;haTtyc So let us pluck a few.” But Okariie by this r ea *' But it would hurt my father. I f I ahQuld disobey; 1 do not \visb to grieve him. So, Frankie, come away.\ Then together from temptation The little children fled, And left the untouched cherries. So luscious, ripe and red. True love and true'ohedience By Charlie were displayed^ Let hw beharior, childreB, Be your example made. Oh I may you each remember ^ 'The moral of my song. N o r h n ;^ yonrparents* feelings By doibg -what is wrong. —Wtnntaor Word*. THE S e AMIHO-^BIDE. The young bride is dreaming— V Ah 1 who that dream can tell ? I t may b« of some loved one Er«frf*ehood broko tbpspell; I t may be Of the bridegroom Who watches by her Side, ■‘ i t . f e & ' i f f i ' i i * ” ’ ’ Btttthe tears f ow in hw slumber, And who that dream can. telt? Bat She’ll irake, and smile around h er' la k e «-r*y o f sunshine o ast; Her pride will keep her sileut-^ What she wept foria her dreams, .Oh 1 i f those dreams were happy. May time ne’er break the spell— But the tears fell in heg slnmber, And whuthat dreams can tell. ^ MBUTO IT sooHriBa Steads earth’* bright overseer; tlrd sun ‘ xour w ork, y o ur w o rk! I t is n o t done. The h ifht shkll t|d(e my plaoh anon: Ta^lugirax4?: 8 tiU ^ house of eloona,!'* haanrost^ion’KS. ^Tia ere^a To^see when m a te, the reaper hcAres Ittto th e w a i ^ the b u rsting sheares. figUsmtotlu hicTgst whit#,- S i ; . . I S S S S S H S f - —Pvtnam’t Magasine. How, Inthehiitnad ltera«a'<^tee4W. ' office—S. t portly old wigof-B,ipazjDg curl. . of the loss, . 1 hook was safe however, and Bell, io her old walking dresa set—off a t an irly I ■ She b^helon in : a . . He-made light , , . was politely gratwul for tl^e restoration. Bell hoped hq- would say nothing of ‘’reward,” nuA he did not, hut as she arose to go, Bo spoke; _ ‘ * , I think’lpiavemetyousora^times. You—you teach music don’t you?’’- Bell bowed. - • ' ; . ' ^‘Have your more time for pUpiXs ?” jpilsr - ’ / Bell, wishing all the pupils a t the bottom of the^ocean,- dared not no. The h^r The heiCT^ leathern, pocket-bi Bell held in her little gloved hkiid had been lost hy some one or thrown by some good fairy Straight. in Bell’s path. - . ..— -. Bell walked home, and up: into'her owjs hall bedroom. _ The tea heU had not rung jet;. there was plepty of time. Bhe pulled th e . poeket-pook . . , >pen, and peeped in. Ten pennies, a ^vent-was very clo iar ticket, a visiting card or two, and she smled h a ^ unaware. , _ — . .,‘f Miss Linden,” m d the baefleh “ My goodness!” cried B e ll; “ ac tually a one hundred dollar- bill!— Why my good angels were listening a distance, like Charlie to her. He wa? not like everybody, Ho was pe culiar^ and yet shC^saw him— block pfi’ twenty tunes a week I This prob lem was solved when the door opened to let in Mr. Turvygood~whd drew a ehaic close to hers, flat down andlook- ed a t her—looked n t her in a. bland approving • way, and smiled I ‘ -^The elope a t hand now; hut billi S’ my good angels were listening to A — one—mnndred—-dollar— ‘This,” thought BeB, \ will buy “ Hracious goodness', it isn’t m i after all 1” said Bell. I t is th e loser’s. I can’t spend a cent of it.” She gave a little sigh, and her face grew long; h u t she p ut the crisp note back into the pocket-book, 'and look- She knew tl^*nam e ; a fich mer- Y o if^ “ it h ave^ahem -^a few.,, words to pay t»y.9U‘. ,Itru s t,y o u .ao n \ ’ thing to coHiplain p f in jo ’ le r e . I t r u s t y o n . h a v e h e e n p l e a s e d ! ! have.” “ Sell bowed. VI a^.—It has been.^J have pever had sweeter pu- eyes, which had never left her face. iear Miss Bell,” said irvygood., “ You do not find titorial, unreasonable, unpleaS- eyes, wj “ And Mr, Xur me diefeii ant.” • “ Oh, dear nO, sir,”' cried Bell. “ Toil chgirimne,”^ said Mr. Turvy- gobd. ‘‘ Miss. Linden, perhaps you ware that I have a fine income. have been familiar with my style of living. You confess no aversio Ih« beloT, b u t,: .ndv—in fac ® t 5 , 5 :h S o - i o .W: And Bell locked up the poc and went down t6 her tea coi:qurageou0’ 5 ut, nevertheless, all- night lor she dreamed of spending one hundr« dollars, and awoke in a terrible fright she dreamed of spending one hum mysterious Wayntl might prove true. The lest in some n properly 1 , » . .“ Ho one to. love, none to ^ resal” sang poor Bell sometimes, in that soprano voice of hers,'meaning n’^ r y : word of it? and she^ oould get hejflelf a'Drying with “ Home, Sweet H o m e !” One year—two—since the pocket- the new pupiia ]ly, when”down the yista of' the street a jaguar t she fancied she saw^^as she had faiU\ doing it. pied go often—^the figure of Charlie reach the ^ r o b tree. Hope advancing. , ’ The roars became jnore freqUent And this time ife was xio, fanT:y., I t and louder as I ran, and a t i ^ t , look- .. as really him . H e paused, ^ Hs. in g h a c k when I w a s about h a l f way to hand outstretched, and ghe gavft him IhO tf 06,1 flaw “Xhs Murderer” spiring* hers, ing overthe griiund, gaining on me at “Has anything happened he a s t- eV&rv hound,' Nev< ed, “ You Are pale, you tremble-v r^ch the tree in time. , why Ikliss: Lipden, you are weeping?’ slim ; therein lay its value, you com- For Bell had really team in her^ prebend. There was only a nest of branches^up a t the top, and none but a good 'climber could ever have got up. bosom. ' r . I “ Take my arm /’ said Charles5 what can I do ? tell me.” But Bell could n o t' Speak, ^ ^ ^ . touch o f his atm madeher lobgiiig to icYpnder the jaguar came, houndir weep greater. His head'bent lower- chant;-so rich that this was a mere nothing to him, which seemed a for- . tune to her. • h J t i t l ? S ‘2 i n d . - i i fee, len, I ask you to re’ aur tbfeveri. 1 know of no M y ipW-hcAk Mmire^o much who would welb grace this, mansiouir In-two to make you Mrs. Tur- ' ^ ^ e event had transpired. . Bell I did not think,” . staggered, under it. “ I Ihad \ \ea. no id shefaltered^ ^ ^‘ Katoxally,” said the bachelor.— , \ Butboiieve me, i the idea. I hayq thought ever since we met. I e. I The i / s position, ; them S elves ’ed i i^j:and left Bell -A' borne, luxurious as a palace,— Wba^h umiuiited. A position. Ho more aUxiety, no morfe toil. A hua- band who would be kind and courtly toTrer. ■ W hb admired and in his way loved h er. - T h k on one hand; on the other, the governess life. With health that broke: hnder overwork. Early yoiitA,flitting a w a y ., H er influential J riend:ch»nged to an enemy. Adown tbefUtureyears, ^ a y hairs, wrinkles and. oldi maidenhood. you long for,; may nev< mbsti cast away the si OlV?” , ;ance for the shi lequence was that left the bachelor’s presence pledged to give lessons to his fewer neicra. « The German master sdolds liienr terms a r e - r ^ . W il' ’ Bellcaught her br< never haye dared to ask h alf so much. But she bowed again j and it was set- I shall write a Sunday school book, eiititled Honesty the Best Bol- and'put m3^elf in as the h'etome?’ thought as she tripped away.— ‘Two such.pupils are a little fortune.” Boll began with theia the n ext day. They were p l e ^ n t lifetlq creatures, rbedient and mild, and with SQine alent—foippans, and their .upcle’s wards, and. living in his handsonie PiSSSIIafSlj Ob, n'oJ n o l Bhe irew her hand away eye on t h e .ypung music she h e ; tones of her soft yolc _ i n o v a r t h e f w e h t » r e ” Thifl time..he took her hand. ; . My ^ a r young lady,” he began, , ^ t | h e u ^ e l i shook the temptation ly as she stm leahed upoh his arm; bis other hand Alighted oh hers iand^ress- ed it dose and fast. , often ih^ her s W e d ^ qUi^^ looks back upoU the past and’ tmnks' of all'shemighthavelod'byyifeM ing woeful and uifloving thing, a woihap' who has sold herself for ^old, a wife who has nflefed false vo'ws'at the marriage alter before h er G« \\ ThrOWi%'off everything that could eneumher-jmei I began to run. I am. OHIHESE STBEET JUaULEBS- Street jugglers a nd mountehanki liound in Canton, and, in fact, in cv- heveir had \\any \idea of Chinese city. They also travel, Stfll, I thought I might Aom place to place throughout the ° eadhtry, • displaying their feats and picking up a little cash here and there. As a general thing their juggling feats do not amount to a great deal, yet some of them .are v e rr clever, and would create as much of a tkeatrieal furore in the United States as did the *0 get Into the top. Sudden- ground-i^veryjiow and thmi, like a his pointer dog, andrthmi^ setting up. that; ’ing.m M c ^ , pmg. That 5 “ I cannot h ^ r i t Bell,’^ he said,-— 'a fact, whether the' man ^ s afraid or “ To see you grieve and haveno right not-; iys n curious and well-known ef- commonest feats, and operatoi description can be seen in almost every pi( street. Ode fellbw, however, perform- id( ed a nCmber of feats in front of street, and, haying blown a blast upon a bu-' gie'to giVS'warOing that he was aboi to commence his entertainment, 1 took a small lemon,' or orange tree, which was covered with fruit,-and balanced it upoU.,b% bead. H e then hlewa sortof chirrupingwhistle, when iinmediately a number of rice birds came from everydireotion and settled houghs o f the' fluttered about the circle sit the performer. He coni •ounding HiJsamD BYA^oirAfi. \ ' A BKAZlLIAN SMUGGLEB’ s TALK. respei flesh. H e preys on animals nnd fish, d only fights-a man when he isat* eked himself. But • this is true <tf tacked the jaguar in general, i t is n o t time-of some particular o n ^ , yott.-see, . When one of them has once met a man, and fought with him, he is not. the same beast for the rest of his life-^helis more ferocious and bloodthirsty. Ev-' eh if the man escapes^ this i ah, that’s a dreadful misfortune. Of course, its always a misfortun# for a human being to be killed^thafe’s understood; but it’s ami8fi>rtune:m this case, foriihis reason; that the J a imes froid th a t day a ■ hunter, ui incu. He has tasted human flesh ■ and found out there is no Other] go sweek. Hewatch^ for men night and day, and wo© to the man' that crosses his track I - - Well, about the time I am Spiking of, I got into trouble in SanHlancb, and was obliged to take to the woods, for safety,, till ; ’ \ ioin me. till m y compahiouH pould I t was n o t without a veiy jabl^ feeling under my waist coat that I sixuck ihto tlie Woods— for 1 had, no more deadly weapon than a giifi, no pistol—^nothing that I could even attempt to defend mVself.with in case of attack.' VfA AVAXVTVXJ4M day, and set out in-pttriiuife Of this, ter rible man-eater. So, of coume iny thoughts were' iiill o f tFe“ beast. * ITou^inust know t o was a broad desert between San Blanbo and the woods—a vast waste without w ater Or vegetation, and only here, and ihere a tree. But it would not affOrd me n safe biding place ;p,nd soTbad tobni- ry across it fis f^t fis I could,'m or der to get into the -woods.* once w ^ the Jaguarisroav 1 My uOrves that-he»should seq her honae‘and that ;*id^eE&>wsW m«llltfe -HeBroBe 'Shd VeUt%' bfe desk, drawing thence yddrsetvigeaahy.lter;” . me h ear’it when the beast was distance off ,2^y fiesb aUiioBt crept as I heard thki longjerrible sereecK a noise such as no p tW animal makes, and enough to set your teeth on edge, even ifit didn’tr.mean death. , BuVife did mean death to,me—hn« The trick w a f n catly p e s S ir^ ^ , and defled detection from our eye a nauuaercniei irom one < odt, and crammed : the handkerchief into it,. Giving the handkerchief to a bystander to hold, h e c a u ^ t up a teapot and began to pour a cup of tea ‘ it, when the spout became clog- Looking ittto the pot, apparent- r .the purpose of detecting What was the matter, he pulled out the handkerchief and returned it to the owner. He next took the orange from thn bystander and cut i t open, and i t was round to be f a ll of rice.- ly as e x p e r t a s t h e Jap a n e s e . AH UEFOBTUHATE MISTAKE. M ark Twain says that 'while slee „ .. _ ing recently a t the Sherinap House. — couohed Ghicago, he was placed in a room down under the toeq, roaring wits fury high thaiWater* boiled there at 168 at - hdng thus iMtalixed, , fixing his degrees, and although it was destitute eyes on mine, and nat there, Ms red of many of the luxuries of a eomfort- A o w m e ^ able bed^tocm, hc was u6t sorfy ’ ged i»wa of t^thr.a^d b& toil beating 'Was sent there,-as it enabled hin ibu«rn.iT,ri Mzro«Sf.ia«s^fi,.>nvor,.,T,. -verheaT the following story : “ Ho, she wouldn’t marry- me.\ You were misinformed. I t was broken off and an the saddest way. I was not in the least to blame, upon my worff and honor, though neither the girl nor her father, the deacon, ever believed me ever forgave me. I t was during the.b flection canvass wheuLincola rau tL, itst time. Two-thirds of the deacon’s honest soul were in religion and the other third in politics-^Lincoln man. All of a\ sudden I began to p ray; and bs I prayed my strength seemed to return to me, and the film that was guari hfe gato, rievted on mine. H is eyes seemed absolutely ved' with gore — blind to eVeiything in the world but thb man whose blood he thirsted for deaf to evei whlrih went over the beast’s peck sud denly and was’ dmwn tight. Swish! Another from the btheV side, dra^ jht* Then for the first time I feere - .—“ from -th( iwn I to f'^vedream e thednswor., '^Sav ed, .qomi»dej.8aved! GUmb down and *^iTid out of S e free like'a monkey. ^ M p p e d onfcmyknifeandapproach- PoihJuan,” 'i cried j “ pull. Be e was to he a political pow-wow cburcli where he lived, iay night, and he was to preside. I never thought anything a- )out the matter, b u t Williams hailed one afternoon, offered me a seat in buggy, and away we started. It was Wednesday—cifrse the almanac! but we never thought of it. Going into town' some devilish instinct put it-intb my head that it would help my ease along i f I marched into church ■mth a rail on my shoulder, seeing that ;he deacon and the girl, would both )e there. So I got a rail, and we came into town, shouting and making a grand to-do generally. As we went by the? church windows, I caught a glimpse of her bonnet and plenty c f other bonnets, and I was happy., I shpttlderM iny rail dud marched m.— The houseful of men and women were all quielv and the:- old .deacon,#was Ittanding p p in; the altar saying some thing. ■ Splendjd.I I went a booming up the aMe, with my rail, swinging splitter!’ “ Bufeneyer a yelp out of that audi- euoe, X quit right ia my tracks. The deacon said :—^“ Sir, w© are; engaged B w»j.— in addressing the Throne Of Grace.— He felLdeadatmy feet. Thia unseemly exhibition'is ill-fitted \ \'■■ ------— j'in the totomnities of a prayer-meefc- . , A 'H entucky traveler, dining hi?-’’ :atk 'large hotel in Albany, was an- \ I never felt SO sick in my life, he^ed % t h e showing-off of some of yohn. I never felt so much like tak- the m e m b ^ : Of the -Assembly; who a walk. And don’t you know as I stood up before that congregation. I ’d have given a million dollars for some body to take that fail out-for me, But no, X had to snoak out with it myself. Tuere was a Doara fence and practiced ; climbing backward and ferward thro’ ............. .... . . . ■i s knot holei &r ha .muck as a n h o u r. — _ _ A t o ^ ^ to p e in M dne, erecteai r the, cirnnmstiam ea somehowlfithoutVords;.andihlfe shiver, ^ d n h m f a to ^ . cL became^ or two a bout his opened it and mmm FIPTEBir YEAES_WITH THE IHDIANS. ANOTHER ENOCH ARDEN CASE. Mr. James Gull, an old resident this city,.' who left here some fiftei yearn ago for California by the over land route, returned last Saturday.— To those Who knew hirn, as all did who lived in Belleville in 1854; we need not say Ms' appearance- created a good deal of surprise. I t will he re membered th a t the company with whom he went was attacked by Indi- !, and several o f them killed, among ,ers, as-was supposed, Mr.-Gull.— 3 body was subsequently found reed with twenty arrows, and flilly ntlfied by other members of th*e party. More positive evidence of death, perhaps,- never existed than in this ease, and.of course he was at once tak en as an imposter. “We are has uToi changes during his young ifLfe, formerly 1 drew, daughter of the Andrew, after mournin her husband three yea: 8imeon Dunfor, of East Second street, who now finds him self the husband of another- man’s wife, thus furnishing my sac Tin :iss A tory An- venerable Mr. j the death of iars, married Mr. ist Second s furnishii sase to another Enoch Arden case to tfle many already recorded. Airs.*Gull— Dunfor—^is the mother of eight child ren, only one o f whom belongs to ' GuB, wb9 finds hjs domestic affairi a v e iy unfortunate eondltlon. Haj ly, all the parties interested are pbsed to iriake the best o f it, and it is understood that matters will be as sat isfactorily arranged - - - done under the, cirei MBBTIIfft AH' OpI^ynAmfAHOE;— Last month, -while riding a few miles out in- the oquntryi J halted at a pub- ItohopsSl^tc) -Water horsA A be- •flotted, bloated man, over fifty years o f with d ir^ handa, tangled hair, and a s^dy bfeav^r hat tipped on one side o f h is head, mad'ehis-appearance at the door a n d aqu^ked ou t: “ W ater your horse, mister ?” I nodded' a ^ ^ t . H e went to the pump, and soon eame staggering a- long‘with ft p a iiof. water, which he held ferthn horse to drink, after which he lifted his hat and held out his hand for ftfe&, I hmided Mm a, quarter, id with an almost-ldiotic laugh he started straight for the b ar to pay-off an old score and get adram. I watch- ed him as with parched lips and trem bling bands he swallowed hjs glass of rum, and recognked in him an old schoolmate. A few years ago he was the brightest boy ia school—the idol of his parents. As a young man he was the pride of the neighborhood, and succeeded in winning the belle of i;he surrounding country as his bride, • He became a successfiil business man. His credit v/ith the Jfewburgh, hanks was almost unbounded. He was for many sueeesrive years elected to the first office in the gift of his townsmen. He owned a beautiful property, aud had an interesting family. H e le ara- ed to drink wine and brandy, and, soon loved to drink. He neglected his business and squandered his prop- srty. H is family left him, except his rife, a forlorn heart-broken creature, who still remains to, share his poverty and s u ^ r his abuse. H e occupies a dingy apartment, the rent o f which is paid, by a friend, and here the once proud belle takes in washing to eke out a miserable existence for herself and her once idolized, now degraded, husband. - OUEIOUS FACTS ABOUT \WATEE. The extent to which water mingles n t a n d water. Of-every twelve d tODs of earth which a land* = a.;„ - ------- litS of lorft has in his estate fourhundrec water. ^ The snow-capped summi our highest mountains have many million tons of w a t» in a solid form. most respectable eltizeils, received many callem, and bias strange encoun ters to .relate; some of which would be almost .impossible to believe were it not thafeheffiM remarkable.vouchers he fought with the ferocity of a Koi hut was finally dvercome and mad itiye. He was then carried away, “ feks all that In^an rering for wei _ ____ _ .soners cari be made to suffer; The stiUation b f the phrty was beyond £ inourLta>m& in tlie . sontiiw^tem Pyri of Golorado, beyond the reach of Civilization. To his utter astonishment he there found the ruins of a Iarg( city, evidently of Indian origin, aria supposed to have heen built by the sforG til© disco ^ *“ —*— . aore nearly res( ins found in Mexjeo than any other. Here; too, h e saw many relics of mod ern civilization, such as heknew could never have been obtained from travel ers over the Plains. H e afterward learned that these came from huge eaves two or three hundred miles a- way, in the sides of the mountains.— Gull frequented these caves some five years ago, which he describes as being very remarkable, and still filled with old rusty guns, pistols, skeletons, whole pots of gold and silver coin, - iimecs of which he has, and which he seenat Baker .& Bayley’s (frug sto^ri-. He now wears a large antique looking ring which he found there, on whifch is rudely carved the name oi Capfc HidA But perhaps the most mteresting of all his-relies .am th< manuspripts, which he preserved, which throw a flood of light upon the career of the mysterious Captain Kidd. These consist of over twepty pages of fine but distinct writing, narefully pre served between oiled silk. Upon dis- this,,. Mr, Gull contrived to In every plaster of Baris statue which an Italian carries through our streets >und of water to k. The air we a n-re grains o f water to each cubic foot of its bulk. The po tatoes and turnips which are boiled for our,dinner,have in their raw state the pne.seVenty-five per cent., the oth er ninety per cent.- o f -water. I f a man weighingoneiundred and forty pounds.-were, squeezed in a hj- draulic press, seventy pounds of wa ter would run out, the balance covenng th is fasten it to his person in such a mq.1 that it has never been noticed by the Indians, and so that it has been lit tle subject to wear. Of the contente of these manuscripts we have no room to l never was a scoffer a t religion in my speak. T h e y w ill no doubt be printed life, but h e h a lf believed ! was. W ell, in full in the large city papers Mr re was to be a political pow-wow Gull called unon ns ' ;lie v illage a, Thiirraaj 1 a^abbaj A man is, chemically 'Speaking, forty-five pounds of carbon and other elements, nitrogen diffused through five and a half pailfuls of wa in plants Tve find water thus A siin- [ay, and ... _ quantity. plant exhales in, one h u ndred and s entv-five days about one hundred thousand grains of water. The fibre of plants is the medium through which this mass of fluid is conveyed. It forms a delicate pump, up which the watery particles run with the rapidity of a swift stream. By the action of th e - s a p vai-lo-us properties may be. accumulated to the growing in France is, for in- uuis OI m e tree, lored b y a similai Old Dicky S. is a very weal thy but Very.illiterate East India mer chant and a member of the Oriental ' of London. One day Dickey and set a- of India, [lustrated of the wild and do- limals o f the country. Sud- ckey dropped the compassi Blent. “ I t can’t be J- it ain m lull in the large city papers. Mr. Gull called upon ns last Wednesday. H e says there are untold riches y e t in the caves referred to, and we learn that several o f our citizens are anxious to form a company and go for them, lave only to add that Mr. Gull ttem , but not u ntil the late attae Custar upon Black Kettle has he met a white man. Although in th e hat of an Indian warrior, he wasreeogni a white man, and narrowly « j bemg. shot by* calling out in English to a soldier who had his piece raised almost ready to &te.-^BeU&ville (ML) Advocede. m amazement. “ I t can’t be J- it ain’t in the border of nature that it should be! impossible! ridiculous!” “W hy,' Dicky, what’s the matter ?” “ Woks the matter ? Vy, this Bengal tiger is ninety miles long!” Dicky had measured the tiger by the scale of the map. S ^ A prize of §10 was offered \by ■the Connecticut Teachers’ Institute to any one who could spell the following lines-without a mistake. Thirty-eight teachers competed but not one gained the prize i “ I t is an agreeable sight jto witness the unparalleled embarrass ment of a harnessed peddler attempt- jT of a peeled F cornelian 1 A M other ’ s S oliloquy .-’ Tismin^ ! Bound to me by a tie that death can- pain, -without a quick, response fron mine. I ain the centre of its litth world; its very little life depends on faithful care. It is my sweet duty - deck those dimpled limbs, to poise that tinny trembling foot; yet s ta y ! fends not here! Asoul\ looks ►m those blue eyes dying spirit, that shall plun for a ceaseless flight, gui ’ erring h a n d ! ring hand I The hot blood of „ loison the ibunt whem ife, or the hasty -words (lumeits wings fuided by my inger may not ice i t draws Is escape iny ice. VVayward, ] its lips ayward, pas- ' shall I ap- hush upon my F? imber not at loceneel O, the Seed,” let the post recMess “ sower of the seed,” let not the “ tares spring up 1“ O, unskilifui helmsman, how flhalt-thou pilot that litfele. bark o’er life’s tempestuous s lov*l how Strong! how true! B u t n o t to fender as hm^s wh<®eh^rt - — ------ .............. that babe hqf.h lain beneath I . _ Aunty,” said a sentimental niece to a bereaved widow, '“now you are prosperous and well-to-do, let us get some pretty tombstones tor good uncle Daniel; you know h e has none at his grave.” Aunt Keziah lifted up her hands and emphasized, this touch ing expression; “ Jane, if they want flhything of Dfifliel at the juBginent, they can find him without a guide- hoax'd; I teH you, he’l l be there in A Dubuque Tobacco merchant having been bored a long time by lad-heads, quietly removed the jar of “fine-cut” to another place, and in lieu thereof introduced one of the same * size partly filled with molasses. As usual the tobacco cliewers came around. They edged u p to the .counter i n t i lual routiue and rea( id their fisfe into the ; iked out, -wipii) soused their f whereupon thei le .eounft nd reached over and ’ molasse wnereupon tj their hands breeches legs “ mum,” but thinking much. on their coat tails and , all the while keeping «@*A young lady, who is indig nant a t the typographicAl errors in her first puhlii herself aa follows i I wish I had that editor about half a min- Ute; I’d bang him to his heart’s content, and with «n h begin-it; raphicAi errors poem, expresses I’d jrfeyea and bones, and spell Aid send him torirnt spells
