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BR0WNVILLE. NEBRASKA,
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A MYSTERY.
The river hemmed with leaning trees
Wound through its meadows green ;
A lov,-, blue llneo' inoiintaiubshowed
The open plains between.
One sharp, tall peuk above them all
Clear into sunlight sprang;
I saw the river of my dreams.
The mountains that I sung!
No clew of memorj- led me on,
But well the wavs I knew;
A feeling oi familiar things
With ever j footstep grew
Not otherwise above itr crag
Could lean tho blasted pine;
Not otherwise the maple hold
Aloft its red ensign.
So up the lone and shorn foot-hills
The mountain road should creep;
So. green and low. the meadow fold
Its red-haired klne asleep.
The river wound as it should wind
Their place the mountains took.
The wlitte, torn fringes of their clouds
Wore no unwonted look.
Yet ne'er before that rivet's rim
Was pressed by feet or mine.
Never before mine oj-es had Crossed
That bioken mountain line.
A presence, strange at once and known.
Walked with me as my tritide;
The skirts of some forgotten life
Trailed noislessly at mj- side.
Was it a dim-remembered dream?
Or glimpse through icons old?
The secret which the mountains kept,
The river neer told.
But from the vision ere tt passed
A tender hope I drew.
And, pleasant as a dawn of spring)
The thought within me grew,
That love would temper everj- change,
Alid soften all surprise.
And, mistj with the drearris of earth,
The hills or Heaven arise.
John G. WhdUer in Feb. Alldntic.
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ME. STItEE'S HOSSE.
From the D.mbury (Conn.) News.
The other morning at breakfast Mrs.
Perkins observed that Mr. Stiver, in
vhoi house we live, had to be ctilled
away etuly and wanted to know if I
would tee to his horse through the
day.
1 knew Mr. Stiver owned a horse,
because I occasionally saw him drive
it out of the yard, and I yaw the sta
ble every day,but what kind of a
horse it was I didn't know. I never
went into the .stable for two reasons :
in the firt place I had no desire to,
ami secondly, I didn't know us the
horae cared particularly for company.
I never took care ol a hor.se in my
life, and had I been of a le-s hopeful
nature, the chaise Mr. Stiver had left
with me miht have hat! a very tie
pressing eli'ect, but I told Mrs. Per
kins I would do it.
"You know how to take care of a
horse, don't you ?" said she.
I gave her a reassuring wink. In
fact, I knew so little about it, that I
didn't think it safe to converse more
lluently than by winks.
After breakfast I seized a toothpick
and walked out to the stable. There
was noti:i::; particular to do, as Sli
ver had given him his breakfast, and
I found him eating it. so I looked
around. The horse looked around,
too ; and stared pretty bard at me.
There was but little said on either
side. I hunted up the location of the
feed, and then sat down on a peck
measure, and fell to studying the
beast. Theiei-a wide dilierence in
hor-es. Some of them will kick you
over, and never look around to see
what becomes of you. f don't like a
disposition like that, and I wondered
if Stiver's horse was one of them.
When I came home at noon I went
straight to the stable. The animal
was there all light. Stiver hadn't
told me what to give him for dinner,
.and J had not sriven the subject any
thought; but I went to the oat box
and tilled the peck measure, and sal
lied up to the manger.
When he saw the oats he almost
smiled; this pleased and amu u d h m.
I emptied them into the tmngh, and
left him above me to admire the way
I parted my hair behind. I just got
my Ik. id up in time to save the whole
of it. He had his ears h.-wk, his
mouth open, and looked as if he wa
on the point of committing murder.
I went out and tilled the measure
again, and climbed up the side of the
stall and emptied it on top of him.
He brought his head tip so suddenly
at this that I immediately got down,
lett'iig go of everything to ?o it T
struck on the sharp edjje of a barrel
and rolled over a couple of times, and
then disappeared under a hay-cutter.
The peck measure went down on the
other side, ami got mysteriously tang
led up in that Jinimaf's heels, and he
went to work at it, and then ensued
the mo-,t dreadful noise F had ever
heard in all my life, and I have been
married eighteen years.
It did seem as if I never would get
out from that hay-cutter, and :ill the
while I was; sniggling :lM wrench
ing myself and the cutter ap-irt, that
awful beast was kicking around in
that stall, and milking the most ap
palling sounds imaginable.
When I got out. I found Mr. Perk
ins at the door. She had heard the
racket, and had oped out to tho stable,
her only thought of me anil three
stove lids which she had under her
arms, one of which she was about to
ti:e at the beast.
This made me mad.
"Go away, you unfortunate idiot,''
I shouted, "do you want to knock my
brains out." For I remembered see
ing Mrs. Perkins sling a missile once
before, and that 1 nearly lost the ue
of an eye by the operation, although
standing on the opposite side of the
hou-e at the time.
She letired at once. And at the
ame time the animal quieted down,
but theie was nothing left of that
pec measure, not even the maker's
name.
I followed Mrs. Perkins into the
honsp. and had her do me up. and
then I sat down on a ciuiir. and fell
into a profound train of meditation.
After a while I felt better, and went
out to the stable again. The hor-e
was leaning against the stable stall,
with eyes partly closed, and appeared
to be very much engrossed in thought.
"Step oft' to the left," I said, rub
bing my back.
He didn't step T got the pitchfork,
and punched him in the leg with the
handle. He immediately raised up
both hind leg at once, and that fork
tlew out of my hands and went rnt
tlmg up against the timbers above,
and came down again in an instant,
t he end of the handle tapping me
with sucl force on the top of the
head, that I sat right down on the
floor, under the impression tiiat I was
standing in front of a drug sfore in
the evening. I went back into the
house, and got some more sttift'on me.
Hut the Perkins grit was up in me,
and I couldn't keep away from that
stable I went out there again. The
thought struck me that what the ani
mal wanted was esrc se. If that
thought had been an empty glycerine
enn, it would have saved a wind-fall
of luck for me
But exercise would tone him down,
and exercise him I should. I laugh
Ci it 4
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1873.
;.HHij;j '"""lin
JU.-VM. J .-1 1JJ.U
ed at myself to think how I would
trounce him around the yard. I
didn't laugh again that afternoon. I
got him unhitched, and then wonder
ed how I was to get him out of the
stall without carrying him ouf. I
pushed, but he wouldn't budge. I
stood looking at him in the face,
thinking of something appropriate to
say. when he suddenly solved the dif
ficulty by veering about and plung
ing for the dooor. I followed, as a
matter of course, because I bad a
tight holt! of the rope, and hit about
every partition stud worth speaking
of on that side of the barn. Mrs. Per
kins was at the window, and saw u-
come out the door. She subsequent
ly remarked that we came out skip
ping like two innocent childr n The
skipping was entirely unintentional
on my part. I felt as if I stood on the
verge of eternity ; my legs may have
skipped, but my mind was full of awe.
I took that ..nim.il out to exercise
him. He exercised me before we got
through with it. He went around a
few times in a circle, then he stopped
suddenly, spreid out his fore legs and
looked at me. Then he leaned for
ward a little, and hoisted both hind
legs, and threw about two coal hods
of mud over a line fuU of clothes Mrs
Perkins had ju-t hung out.
That excellent Iad had taken a po
sition at the window, and whenever
the evolutions of the awful beast per
il) tted, r caught a glance at her fea
tuie. She appeared to be very much
interested in the proceedings, Imt the
instant that mud flew, she disappear
ed from the window, ami a moment
later she appeared on tho stoop with
a long poker in her hand, and (ire
enough in he- eyes to heat it red-hot.
Just then Stiver's horse stood up on
his hind legsand tried to hug me with
the others. This scared me. Ahorse
i never sboWs his strength to such ad
vantage as when he is coming down
on voti like a frantic pile-driver. I
Instantly dodged, and the cold sweat
fairly boiled out of me.
Tt suddenly came over ine that I
had once figured in a similar position
years ago. My grandfather owned a
little white hoi so that would get up
from a meal at IJelmonico's to kick
the Piesident of the United States.
He sent me to tho lot after him one
d.ty, ami unhappily suggested that I
should ride him down. I often went
after that hoise, and suileied all kinds
of defeat in getting him out of the '
pasture, but I had never attempted to
ride him. Heaven knows I never
thought of it. 1 had my usual troub
le with him that day. He tried to
itiint) over me. and misiieil me down
in a 'mud hole, ami finally got up on
his hind legs and came wa.tiing alter
me with facilities enough about him
to convert me me into hash, but I
turned and just laid for that fence
with all the agony a prospect of in
st:int death could crowd into me. If
our l.tte candidate for the Presidency
had run one half as well, there would
be seventy-live Postmasters in Dan
bury to-day, instead of one.
I got him out filially, and then he
was (jiiiet dough, .and took him up
alongside of the fence and got on him.
He stopped 'in instant, one brief in
stant, and then toie ofi'down the road
at a frightful speed. I laid down on
him and chisped my hands tightly
.around his neck, and tho'tof my home.
When we got to the stable I was con
fident he would stop, but he didn't.
He drove straight at the door. It was
a low door, just high enough to allow
him to go in at lightning spued, but
there was no toon: for me. I saw if I
airu'-k that stable th struggle would
ue a very brief one. I thought ihh ail
over in an instant, and then, spread
ing out my arms ami legs, I emitted a
scream and the next moment I was
bounding .about in the filth of 'hat
stable-yard. All this passed through
my mind as Stiver's horse went up
into the air. It frightened Mrs. Per
kins dreadfully.
"Why, you old fool." said she,
"why don't you get rid of him?"
"How can J?" said I in despera
tion. "Why, there's a thousand ways,"
said she.
This- isjiist like a woman; how dif
ferent a "statesman would htivc ans
wered. l?ut I could think of only two ways
to diposp of the beast. I could either
s.vallow him where he -tootl and then
set down on him. or T could crawl in
side of him and kick him to death.
But T was saved either of thes ex
pedient-, by his coming toward me so i
abruptly that I dropped the rope in
terror, and then he turned about, and,
kicking me full of mud, shot for the!
gates, npping uteciinues tznesin two,
and went ofi'down the street at a hor
rible gallop, with two of Mrs. par
kins' garments which ho ha Lily
siritehed from thp li e floating over
his neck in a very picturesque man
ner. So T was afterward told. as I was too
full of mud myself to .-ee the way in
to the house.
Stiver -got his hors all right, and
stays home to tako care of him. Mrs.
Perkins has gone to her mother's to
recuperate, and I am healing as fast
as possible.
Cyrus D. Perkins.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Washington correspondent
A
- peaks o: ji fashionable young lady .
as "weaimg her laces down to her
knees." Lord ! Lord ! we never knew
befoie thai :i young lady had any
knees. What next?
A distinguished clergyman in
Boston performed ?hc' marriage cere
mony, and the couple walked away
without trp.-'tr.wing any fee. But the
bride turned and said : "We ar. very
much obliged to you. sir. and I hope
one of these days wo vhall be able to
retaliate."'
While the Empress Eugenie was
in the height of her beauty and posi
tion, some one addressed her as "the
most enviable of mortals." The em
press answered : "Oh ! yes, very hap
py ; until one line morning they will
throw us out cf the windows i-nto the
street 1 '
A rural editor, lamenting the
death of "one of the best advertisers
and subscribers he ever had," thus
touchingly concludes his obituary
eulogy : ' !! posc-seil the love, con
fidence and esteem of all who knew
him, and some who did not ami,
save a slight poker debt to Mr. .
did not owe a cent it the worid."
Are lovers al way- to be unfortu
nate'.' And ought iiot a lover in a
town with the poetical name of Mil
ton. Wis., to have hr-en more fortu
nate? He was a student, and. in 'or
der to show the depth of his love for
the lady whose heart beat as as one
with his own. he undertook to saw a
cord of wood for her. But he made
one IittJe mistake, and sawed a cord
of wood belonging to "another fel
low's girl."
!.. i..-n-T-rTJll
One of the most saddening and hu-
miliating exhibitions which human
i nature ever makes of itself, is in its
srreedv ere.du itv touchiny a renorts
ot the misdemeanors ot good men.
If a man stand highxts a moral force
J fc o i '
in the community ; if he stand as the
rebuker and denouncer of social and
political sin ; if he be looked up to by
any considerable number of people as
an example of virtue; if the Whole j
tend ami power of his life be in a high I
and pure direction ; if his personality i
and influence render any allegjition I
against his character most improbable, i
then most rapidly does any such alle- (
gation find eager believers. It mat-;
ters not from what source the slander I
m a j come. Multitudes will tie mtlu
enced by a report against a good man's
character from one who would not be
believed under oath in any matter in
volving the pecuniary interest of fifty
cents. The slanderer nitiv be notori
ou-.lv base mav be a nanderer to the
I worst na-sions and the lowest vines
i . ..... .. ..
may oe a thiei, a notorious liar, a
drunkard a libertine, or a harlot all
this matters nothing. The engine
that throws the mud is not regarded.
The white object at which the foul
discharges are aimed is only seen ; and
the delight of the bystanders and
lookers on is measured by the success
bf the stain sought to be inflicted.
As between the worldling and the
man who nrolesses to he guided ami
controlled by Christian motives all i lawyer, tne mecnanic less a mechanic,
this is natural enough. The man j whatever tends to adifhision or a mis
bound tm in bi selfish and sensual . direction of the energies rather than
delight who sees a Christian fall, or to a broadening of the intellect, is es
hears the report that he has fallen, is tentially bad. In literature especial
naturally comforted in the belief that,
after all, men are alike that no one
of theai, however much he may pro-
quite essential to his comfort "that he
cherish and fortify himself in this
less. i better than another. It is
conviction. So, when any great scan
dal arises in quarters where he luis
lound himself and his course of life
condemned, he listens with ready
ears, and is unmistakably glad. We
say this is natural, however hasp and
malignant it may be; but when peo
ple repute good nay. people profess
ing to be Christian shrug their virtu
ous houlders and shake their feeble
heads, while a foul scandal touches
vitally the character of one of their
own number and menaces the extin
guishment of an influence, higher
or humbler, by which the world is
made better, we hang our heads with
.shame, or rai-e them with indiguti
tion. Tf such a thing as this is
ral it proves just one tiling, viz.. that
these men are hvpociites. I here is
no man. Christian or Pagan, who can
rejoice in the faintest degree over the
reputed fall of any other man from
rectitude without being at heart a
scamp. All this readiness to believe
evil of others, especially of those who
have been reputed to be eminently
good, is an evidence of coucious weak
ness under temptation, or of coucious
proclivity to vice that finds cdmfort
in eminent companionship.
There is no belter test of purity and
true goodness than reluctant e to think
evil of one's neighbor, and absolute
incapacity to believe an evil report
about good men except upon the most
trustworthy testimony. Ahis. that
this largo and lovely charity is so
nire! But it is only with those who
possess this charity that men accused
of sins against society have an equal
chance with those accused, under the
forms of law, of crime. Kve.y man
brought to trial for crime is presumed
to be innocent until he is proved to
be guilty; hut, with Uk world at
large, every man slandered is pre
sumed to be guilty until he proves
himself to be innocent, and even then
it takes the liberty of doubling the
testimony. Every man who icjoices
in a scandal thereby advertises the
fact of his own untrustworthine-s ;
and every man who is pained by it,
and refuse-, to be impressed by it, un-con-eiotislv
reveals his own purity.
He cannrft believe a bad thing done
by one whom he regarded ;is :i good
man, simply because he knows he
would not do it himself. lie gives
credit to others for the virtue that is
consciously in his own possession,
while the hssc men around him.
whether christian in name or not.
withhold that credit because they can
not b"liev. in the existence of a vir
tue of which they are consciously
empty. When the Master uttered the!
words, "I.-et hhn that is without sin '
amoilgyou first cast a stone at her,
he knew that nu - but eonseiou- de
linquents would hae the disposition
to do so; and when, under this re
buke, every fierce accuser r tired over
whelmed. " He. the sinless, wrote the
woman's crime in the sand for the
heavenly rains
to efi'ice. Tf He ,
n pco of .riiilt not !
could d this in
disputed. It certainly becomes His fol-1 nes the root ot much misery, as ev
i...s ,n ,,.,, i fn.r.'.Mioi- ground ev- erv observant man known. Our cdu-
. , -. . --. ,- - - -
ory one of their number whom mal- cations are well enough, and the ful
ice or revenge avails with slanders to j ler they are th better. But if they
which his or her whole life gives the ;
lie.
In a world full of influences and
tendencies to evil, whpre every good
fnrna ?c noii.l.wl onil llooils lo tiP lPJll-
ou'slv cherished and guarded, there ,
is n choicpr treasure ami no -more
heneficient power than a sound char
acter. This is not only the highest
result of the be-t forces of our civili-
zation. but it i the builder of those
forces in society and tli ctnto. Socie
ty cannot ntTord"to have it wasted or
destroyed ; and its iu-tinct of self
preservation demands that it shall
hot he suffered There is nothing so
sensitive anil nothing so sacrpd as
character: and pver3' tender chanty.
and loyal friendship, and chivalrous, United states for the iorpoeof.study
afl'ection and manly -pntiment and u,g 0,,r institution and the character
impulse, ought to intrench thprn-elv- manners, and so-forth, of our jx-ople.
p; around every trup character in the j jt WM the liist time we were a-surud
cnmmunitv -ojhorouehly that a that the son of a tzar hud bf-en sent to
breath of cniurfTny shall be as harm- n republic. It turns out, however.
ps as an idle wind. If they cannot .according to Fred, thai i- all a delu
do this, then no man i safe who re- loUm The prince imperial had become
fups tn mike terms with the devil. J
and he is at liberty to pick his victimsi
where he will
, U.
i
Commander James W. Shirk
S. navy, died of pneumonia
The Shah of Persia will reside at
Buckingham Palace while in Eng
land. The citizens of Cairo are lulled to
It is a good thing to furnish jail-j
and prisons with libraries, but the
ami prisons wiiu iioraries, urn. mc j
purpose should be to mUigate the hor- ,
Tunper. This action might possiblv,
be defended on the groun J that it will
tend to repress crime.
sleep by "the soft note ot the pistol This coming to the ears ot the imper- TliB1-o u n i.., - m
ix,t.i ii- ci.rio!.- nrtho vie- it r,.nw.i. rM.bi ;., i ;k J..,. I J neie is n boy in Austin, T
tirn." l Lht will prbly 'his 1 fc nm '"i'r! of knowing, who
t .i.: ..,., c f-,. -nw the voung gentleman will rn rrmvl. I "V. "B rf.nven Kitovnis
a ur-uiuu,- " T"", I iM,M,n ,.,r .i... r." V" it.: " ' "u ' wishes some family to ci
receiveil a coniriouuou oi cj, hh , -r ........ w.. wi.m .110 me him. Two hovs ivalrtfHntfP-s w
nowsneuasa niet pn ot. :w M . ., """-; --' " V.,-; l-" ;'.. "" tnken from the Indians oy Gen
to put on her taoie oi imnero, - , " 1 ' - "- "" - , McKenzie at his recent victory. C
I li. mill' !!". . J. "Uii - til s vi,i . iinj ilss.i- i tv , , , .,.. ,
' rors ot prison lite rather tiiun increase , ;,;"," 'n"'" "A"' v"" "ny- . live years ago. in which several wo
i them. The authorities of St. Louis, ! K":."';-., 0ar , ,G1ernuim, , . fnen.d I men were killed, and the mother of
however, have been guilty of the liar-, ",1" X.7V scalped, but recovered
parity ot oeginninga norary mr me , "" r, "v, " lf ::","' u i ilxe smnrtfather of the boy spen
iti. i,ii with tiiirrv- i-niimns f. pay nun half the profits. ,1. R.. .1 i .ii,. ., .-L A-i-. .
v.. .... ..., j.... . -j .--.w..... ....-- .. iiniuunnv- ini'iisKwii uvnuii t"7 :iiei:
VOL. 17.-N0. 20.
-jMVLxia?suirrmf tV-T-l?CT
j....... -.....,
Wa,te Work.
There is a good deal of work ti.rown
' away in the world, simply because the
people- who do it have no just colicep-
. Hon ol the ntuess ol things. Ami it
is very excellent work, too, some
times. We have known physieians
and lawyers who were full of uuiioi.s
and admirable information of a kind
which would have been invaluable to
men in some other walk of life, but
which wjis of no possible use to them
:ls physicians and lawyers. We know
a merchant who has a fancy for geo
logical lore, and who knows greatly
more about fossil remains than about
fluctuations in the markets. It is al
ways well, as a mater of course, for
every one to itifoitn himself in mat
ters outside of his particular business
sphere, and there is nothing so grea -ly
to be deprecated as a narrow shop
piness of intellect or information.
But the first ellbrt of every man
should be to do his own very best
, work in the world, and
in the world, and to this end it
' absolutely necessary for each
to
make the things which bear directly
upon his work his first and chiefest
care. A failure to do this results al
most always in a life failure more or
less decided in its character. What
ever tends to widen one in view, and
to make him something more than
physician or lawyer or merchant, as
the c.ise may be, is essentially good.
But that which makes the merchant
less a merchant, the lawyer less a
ly there is a large proportion ot waste
work. Men and women who might
write excellent prose persist in devot
ing themselves to the production ot
! P"r poetry. People who could write
! very entertainingly of facts, write tic-
tion in the face of frequent failure. A
good many make shipwreck of suc
cess, too, because they write with lit
tle or no reference to the market
which they are endeavoring to supply.
We are every week in receipt of :ir
ticlesgood enough in themselves, but
utterly aside from the purpose and
character of Hfttrth and ffottir And
the same thing is true, doubtless, of
every periodical. People send long
articles to pa pets which never print
any but short ones. Abstract e-stiy.s
fill the wate baskets of periodicals
that deal only in concretions, and if
there be any class of matter mani
festly unsuited to a particular journal,
natu-Li,u'rp :ire W1-,,s who are certain to
Mlooil that journal with precisely that
;mii ot material, home writers are
peculiarly happy in their ability to
suit their work to their market, or
rather in their ability to select a prop
er market for each of their wares. We
know two or three men of. the sort
who never make a mistake. Their ar
ticles are not better than many oilier
people's, but they send them to the
proper places always, and so succeed
almost invariably in getting them ac
cepted. The facts are precisely similar in
olh'T business. The merchant who
skillfully selects the proper phfeesaud
the proper times for the purchase' and
the sale of his goods", is the one who
achieves success. The lawyer who
knows what to' do in each emergency,
and when to do it, is the lawyer whose
work surely brings its reward, wheth
er lie be superior to his fellows in any
other regjirds or not The fanner who
should plant corn in the autumn, or
uiniertiike to cultivate cotton In
Mji'iie, would be deemed a lunatic,
and yet nearly all of us waste work
quite as abstirdly now and then.
Some people do it persistently, nn-i
these are they who are known as men
of marked ability, who know every
thing except how to make a living.
The fault is to some extent one of con
stitution, but it is Iatgely the result of
educational defects in very many
eases. Jn this country we lay little
stress upon regular j reparation for
life-work. We grow up With vague
ideas, or no ideas :it all, as to what our
bu-Miioss in to be. After we are grown,
we select a, business at Imp-hazard,
frequently with the purpose of mak
ing it merely :t temporary nteam of
subsistence, intending Iatwr in life to
take up something else, though we
may have no very definite iuVa what!
that something else is to be. Even in ,
mechanical pursuits, where technical
is most essentially requisite, we have
shortened the period of apprentice
ship and produced a eliiss: of v ry in-
In other businesses we know no an-
prenticeships at all.
Our educations
contemplate everything' except the
thorough knowledge of some calling
in life, and that, too, in a country
wnere ainiosi every man mu-t loiiow
" calling of some sort. And herein
- . ... -
- - ..
no .it mcniue some skmi, enner oi
hand or head, which may be turned
to good account, they may serve only
to develop a capacity for snileniig.
which will give an additional sting to
thespvprity of failure stud poverty.
Hearth and Io'ur.
ALEXIs MAIIIIIED.
Tli Itiisla; Graiiil Dulse's Itnnaivay
.Hatch Dfcrcc of Uiitil.siwuent A
Scrap of IieperiM Gos-Sp.
From the W.nh.ugtoa Capital.
It seems that
hat Fred. Grant brought
Europe a bit of imperial
back from' E
gossip. We were flattering ourselves
that the grand duke was se,t to the
enamored of a lady not of the blood fthies.
roya by any maner of means, and' -..-
1""" " ..... u..... ... .lie.,. 1-7 ..III!
.,j..,i m m.rrv i,r 'v,l .iM
not meet the approval of the imnerfrl
familv, and so. to get clear of the Mas-
alinn-, the .mn g man was sent a-
iin j , a iiu uiu
broad. But love laughs at Iock-milhs
(when he has the I iteh-key,. and the
vounsr girl followed her imperial
er as far as Lond-n, ami the two were
united, on the sly in the holy bond-.
c'"l""n
") ;
will engage him to lecture.
lc)PPPntj nil nf!".r mnrL 1J...
-,. -.. ...... ......
' ;l --"" gentleman n nucago
". ""
' . Auuei-ivauer is lying seriously ill
ln Damascus.
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OFFICIAL PAPEK OF THE COUNTY.
.t .-.
Things a 3Inrrlrd Man Cannot Help
Thinking.
That all the girls used to be iu love
with hinl.
That all the widows are now.
That if he were a wid.ower he could
marry again whenever lie coose.
That all the other fellows are fools.
That he wouldn't introduce any
fellow he knows to his sister or hi9
daughter.
That his wife is a little icafous.
That she used to bo a pretty girl.
That his mother could make go
good
bread ; that his wife cannot.
That he wouldn't trust most wo
men. That if he should ever speculate hd
would make his fortune.
That he would enjoy a country life.
That his girls will never be so" silly
lly
as to ituirrv.
That his mother-in-law mftv
be u
line old lady but.
That smoking never hurt a num.
yet.
That with a little management tho
servants would always do well, and
neve: give warning.
That his shirt buttons are grossly
neglected.
That he is going to make his for
tune some day.
That he despises old bachelors.
THINGS A MARRIED WOMAN CANNOT
HELP THINKING.
That she was very pretty at sixteen.
That she had, or would have had, n
great many good offers.
That all her lady friends arc five
years older than they say they are
That she has a very fine mind.
That if her husband had acted orl
her advice, he would be a rich man
to-day.
That people thinks too much of tho
looks of that M ss , who would
not be called handsome if she didn't
make herself up.
That her mother-in-law is a very
trying woman.
That her sister-in-law takes airsj
and ought to be put down.
That her girls are prettier than Mrs;
A. 's girls.
That she would like to know ivhbro
her husband spends his eVeningd
when he stays out.
That her eldest son takes after him.
That he is going to throw himself
away on Miss Scraggs.
That Miss Scraggs set her cap for
him, and did all the courting.
That hrr servant girls are tho worsfe
ever known.
That she has taste in dress.
That she has a good temper.
That she pities old maids.
PEKSOXAIiJ
Col. D. H. Strother, ("Porte Cray
on,") of Virginia, is at Washington.-
King Oscar, of Norway ami Swe
den, is to be crowned at Stockholm
on the -1st of May.
The Sultan's third Soii, tiged sev
en year, has been a lieutenant iu the?
Turkish army.
-The Maharajah of Bulrampolo is,
according to latest ad vices from India,
catching wild elephants.
CJeorge H. Pendleton, of Ohio
was pre-ented to President Thiers by
Minister Washburn on the tilth ult.
Amadeus won't go to tho Vienna;
Exhibition is .in announcement
from Europe as King of Spain limy
be safely provisoed.
The ex-Prince Imporial of Franco
is known as (Jeiitleman Cadet Count
de lYrrefonds, at the Woolwich Mili
tary Academy.
Mrs. Crittenden, widow of the'
late Senator Crittenden, of Kentucky
died in St. Louis Sunday at the resi
lience of her son-in-law.
Two descendants of Genghis
K din, the Mongol sovereign and con
queror of the twelfth century, are
high oilieers in the RusMuii army.
"Aleck" Stephens will lmvo' n
Clear :un for Congress from the Eighth
Georgia district on the 20th instant
there being no opposition to him.
Miss King, an English woman,
was married to the Mahometon Shor
lii" of tiiia.en, at Tangier, Morocco,
on the 17th ult. Tho Sheritt i,nt? al
ready four wives.
The Enrl de (Jrev, ?on ami only
I child of the Marquis and Marchioness
f !. heenme of age on the 29th
ult., and the event was duly celebra
ted. Jle is a true ripe-un.
The lord mayor of London ha
ordered a picture of Chicago to b
hung in the state dining room of the
Mansion house. It is neither tho Ar
mitage picture not Capt. Hy man's.
The letter addresed by the Km
perorof (Jermnny to Prince Blsinnrck,
with the era r hat in brilliants of the
Biack Eagle, terminates with these
words, "Your faithful, devoted and
grateful King."
Preside ni Thiers refuses to accepc
the Emperor's hospitalities for his
May in Vienna while attending tho
Exhibition. He has hired the Pnlaco
Leitenbuger, and will there abide
with the French Commission.
Mr. Joseph Howe id to succeed
Sir Hastings Doyle as Lieutenant
Governor of .Nova hcotia. Mr. Howe
strongly opposed the union of tho
British North American colonies,
and since its accomplishment he hae'
ueeu in private ine.
The Philadelphia Ayr t bin ksthero
will be no difficulty in Mayor Have
meyer naming those Republican lead
ers who "gamble all night and choat
each other and intrigue all day to rob
the public," if Hia Honor should'
name tho whol6 bach of these wor-
' mi . J, ,, . ,
I Tne visitor? who saw thecof&se
i - i r r -t a
"t -s'P',-'" iii. nouceii two weu-
' :,,nt? rmsI." hls lef' h:tml- One of
' l!T-e V'V """"" the ot!,t?r ws thar
". -iw" curing his ute-lnc,
,1,.ls mlJesl 'V'1 to,wei,r a tlllra Wetl"
lov-l''1"." nn'-that of bra mothvr, "la
?SU Hnrt4!w', ,lis "er ring
l!t - "ul"e -. a3 a souvenir..
?xa? '
ho
name.
Ixim
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teral
I no'
as
Temple Friend.
Friend, now of
tne 3on
Eldorado,
of. John
Kan-as.
lie was taken at
t
nis rescue, and had given up atl hop
e
of ever seeing him again. The other
boy has not been claimed.
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u inns-fiery lour or
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HI
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