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Blowing Babbles.
As noltered through the village.
I saw children at their play.
Blowing bubbles in the sunshine
From a penny pipe of clay.
I had passed them with a greeting.
But their gladness charmed me so,
Tbatl turned to watch the bubbles
Sailing through the summer's glow.
Thongh they seemed not half so brilliant
As In boyhood I had blown,
'When the smallest of my babbles
Hold a Talnbow ol Its own.
Yet my little friends grew merry
As each tinted, air-blown toy
Floated upward, and the baby
Clapped Its chubby bands for joy.
And the girl her arms outstretching.
As if begging tbcm to stay
Said, "I'm sorry, oh, so sorry.
They so quickly fade away !"
But her brother Jooked right manly
As lie shouted with delight,
"It is easy, very easy.
To blow others just as bright! '
And he blew with such good fortune
That, before his task was done.
You might count a score of bubble:
Floating gaily In the sun.
Then her eyes with pleasure sparkled.
As the crystal phantoms played,
And she quite forgot her sorrow
That they each so quickly fade.
And she paused where I was resting
In the shadow of a yew,
And in tones of laughing wonder cried,
"Can't you blow bubbles, too?"
As I knew not how to answer.
There I left them at their play.
Blowing hubbies In thesuushine,
From a penny pipe of clay.
THE GIEL MUTIlinBER.
Toward the close of au October daj'
in .777, a vessel sailing in a south
westerly direction crossed the fifty
seventh degree of north longitude.
Her keel plowed the waves of the
North Atlautic, and her destination
seemed to be the Azores. She was
sailing before a strong wind, aud the
arrangement of her sails indicated
flight. If flight, from whom? The
naked eye could perceive no pursuer
on the bosom of the ocean; but the
sea-glasses leveled by a number of
British officers, who graced the clean
decks, revealed a dark speck on the
watery rim of the Northern horizon. iue- uu,- wauiH " ". ""
Ti.fa disfnnt nhfent nMnslnnprl no I in "euce the chain of tyranny, with
little anxiety among the officers. A
silence which had reigned among
them for many moments, was sud
deuty broken by a man whose bear
ing might have proclaimed him an
English Admiral.
"He still follows," were the words
tbat fi'll from his lips; "but by the
help of Neptune we'll outsail him in
the night."
Though the officerRj.oke with much
assurance, there lurked in his tongue
a latent fear which his companions
detected, and exchanged significant
glances.
Over the face of the deep, night
was setting, and the vessel kept
straight before the wind, to the joy of
its commander who had lately spoken.
The shadows gradually veiled the far
away pursuer from sight, and when
the officers separated, expressions of
triumph were on their lips.
The British vessel was the Meteor, a
fast sailer, whose armament consist
ed of twenty-eight guns. She waa a
well-built double decker, and had
seen much service in the Avar which
had raged almost three years between
Great Britain and her American col
onies. Her speed and her formidable
armament had made her a te ror to
American vessels in European waters
Her commander, a sea-born English
man, named Guilderoy, was au officer
of undoubted courageand cunning, to
which he added a vindictiveness that
rendered bim obnoxious to many of
his own crew.
The Meteor was flying from a new
and very formidable foe flying with
ahold filled with booty. On the day
preceding the one that had just closed
upon her iu flight, she had captured
an American cruiser, after a spirited
contest. The prize had proved one of
value, and Captain Guilderoy did not
wish to risk an engagement with the
vessel following in his wake.
Captain Conynghaui, the pursuer
was a second Paul Jones. He was
one of the most daring spirits of our
then infant navy, aud his name bad
become a terror along the coast of
England. He pursued and captured
a number of British ships, which he
either burnt or sent into friendly
ports ; and when he descried the Me
teor, fresli from her victory, he hesi
tated not to crowd on all sail and give
chase.
There were men on the decks of the
Revenge, as Conyngham's vessel was
appropriately named, who watched
the flying Englishman. Much spec
ulation concerning the result of the
chase ran'th rough the several groups,
and Conyngham smiled when he
turned to reply to the words of a
youthful lieutenant who stood be
side him, sea-glass in hand.
"We can outsail her, Gilbert," the
American captain said, with empha
sis. "This wind favors both of us
alike, and in the calm that will soon
prevail, she must lay by till day."
The young officer turned from his
captain, aud again his " eyes were
strained to make out the form of the
ship rapidly disappearing among the
now prevailing shadows.
Conyngham did not return the glass,
but watched the face of his youthful
companion.
"I am confident that Miss Temple
is on board of the Englishman," he
said, at last.
Uf course she is I" exclaimed the
' UtenaDt With a flash- " know
that she was on board the Mischief
; wnen it fell into the Meteor's hands
I nrt T nm itifi,i k -v.-. -:n '
I . . . ,,
mains a prisoner."
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The fairest prize old Guilderoy has
captured in many a long day?" re
marked Conyngbam, with a laugh at
the lieutenant's smile, and the flash
that lighted up the depth of his anx
ious eyes.
The conversation was interrupted
by an unexpected veering of the wind
that paled the oheeks of the numer
ous watchers on the deck, and the of
ficers separated.
IS"ow, having learned something of
the -Vlsteor's pursuer, let us return to
the English vessel.
Tne calm prophesied by the Ameri
can captain fell upon the ocean short
ly after the descent of darkness. It
worried Guilderoy, and he held fre
quent consultations with his officers,
now on deck, now in his state-room.
He held consultations in the latter
place over a bottle of choice wine,
and under the liquor's influence he
soundly cursed the Yankee priva
teer. Becalmed on the water and beneath
the stars the Meteor lay like a huge
slumbering leviathan. Her lights
were hidden, and the spectral figures
that trod her decks conversed in sub
dued whispers.
In a small apartment not far remote
from the couacil cabin stood a beauti
ful voung girl. There was a look of
sorrow in her dark eyes and she was
quite pale.
She appeared to be listening, for her
ear was bsnt toward Guilderoy's room
from which direction came a fuint
murmur of voices.
"I know that we are becalmed,"
she said to herself In an audible tone,
"and I know, too, that the officers are
worried about it. The men ? I know
thatagreatmany of them hate Guilde-
roy. Didn't I hear the helmsman say t
last night that the sailors would re
fuse to fight for the man who rules
them with a rod of iron, and when he
had spoken thus, didn't he remark to
a fellow tar that the prisoners did not
know their strength ? Yes, that he
did. The men think of mutiny, and
the man at the wheel is now read' to
rise against the captain of this ship.
which their captain has bound them.
I will spring the mine. I will lead
the Meteor's mutineers, aud the Re
venge may have our prize."
Adaliue Temple spoke with stern
determination and clenched her
handt.
The observer would have laughed
to think that she had decided to head
a body of mutineers that she a fra
gile girl of uineteen, had resolved to
rob the English navy of one of its
best vessels, or to perish in the at
tempt !
She left the room with a resolve
well formed, and steadfast in her de
termination. Like, a spectre she glid
ed down the darkened corridora of the
vessel, and at last, climbing upward
with care, reached the deck.
Captain Guilderoy and his lieuten
ants were below, discussing the situ
ation over teveral bottles of
wine. Adaline saw the stars over
bead, and turned her face to the va
rious points of the compass without
greeting a breeze that would have
pleased the British captain.
The man at the wheel having noth
ing to do, seemed to have fallen
asleep, for he started when Adaliue's
bund fell upon his shoulder, and his
hand made a rapid movement toward
his belt, when he saw her figure.
"I want to talk with you," she said
in a low tone, making no display of
the knife whose hilt she clutched a
knife like the helmsman's. "I want
to say a few words, and are you going
to listen? I heard you use mutinous
language last night, and I could have
you hung at the yard by sptJaking to
the tyrant Guilderoy."
He was her man !
"You are harboring schemes of mu
tiny at this very moment," she con
tinued after a pause, "and you are not
alone in the diabolical work. I can
tell the captain before an hour, if
Adaliue paused a moment, and
heard the beating of the sailor's heart.
He stared into her face like a man
suddenly frightened by a ghost, and
she finished her sentence with lips al
most touching his ear.
"If you do not obey me !"
Then the helmsman's lips parted.
"For the love of heaveu do not
throw us poor devils at the feet of
Guilderoy," stammered the sailor.
"He would hang every one of us be
fore morning. Do you want us to
mutiny to-night? Our time has not
yet come. There be but nineteen of
us now ''
"But the prisoners sixty-two men,
strong and brave."
"They are Americans !"
"Nevertheless, they will not hesi
tate to rescue gallant English sailors
from the tyranny of the captain of
this ship. To-night! If you say no,
I will drive this knife to your heart,
and have your comrades hung at the
yard before day."
Tben the helmsman saw the knife
whose blade flashed vry near his
breast, and the next moment he stood
on the deck.
"We'll do it V1 he said. "But Ches
ter is wouuded hurt yesterday by a
ball from your ship. Chester was to
have led us."
"I will take his place," said Ada
line. "Now let us strike I"
Captain Guilderoy, unsuspicious of
the mutinous spirit on his ship, had
placed watches who had belonged to
the Chester party. Adaline soon dis
covered this, and at length seven de
termined sailors, armed with knives
and pistols, prepared for the fray.
She stationed two of the strongest
at the door of the council room, while
as many more guarded the hatches.
Then the prisoners were called forth,
one by one, until 62 strong-limbed
Yankee sailors stood nn deck, ready to
do their duty.
There was a tumult among the cap
tain's party when the mutiny was dis
covered, and the officers were appriz
ed of the state of affairs by the dis
charge of several pistols In the hold.
Mutiny!" cried Guilderoy, spring-1
ing from the table; and the next mo
ment, having opened the door, he
found himself flung to the floor by
one of the mutineers who guarded the!
portal
Another British officer was knock
ed down, when several prisoners made
their appearance, and the inmates of
the cabin were secured. It was one
of the most startling and successful
mutinies in the annals of the British
navy ; but the most thrilling part was
yet to come.
"Now three cheers for the English
sailors!" cried a stalwart mutineer
who bad ably seconded the patriot
girl.
Three cheers were given with a
will. They swept far into the night
and startled the tenants of another
vessel's deck.
"No more such cheers!" suddenly
cried Adaliue Temple in a tone of
command. "The Meteor is to bear
the flag of the American Congress at
her mizzen peak. The British mutin
eers will lay down their arms. Yan
kee sailors will prepare to shoot those
who refuse to obey !"
A moment's silence was followed
by curses, and thenineteen mutineers
looked into the faces of the men
whom they had armed with English
pistols and cutlasses. Obedience
alone would save their lives, and in a
few moments the Britrsh mutineers
were prisoners like their former com
rades, and the good ship Meteor was
in Yankee hands.
Before dawn rockets revealed the
Meteor's position to her pursuer, and
the astonished Conyngham stood on
her bloodless decks! Then theyoung
American lieutenant encountered the
heorine of the hour the girl on whose
finger he had already placed a shin
ing ring, r
"I knew that jou were near in the
Revenge," she paid to him, "and I
thought -I- would-present you with
the Meteor. Why, Gilbert, if I had
not led the mutineers, I might have
run away from you as I did yester
day!" Gilbert Farley assumed command
of the valuable prize, aud in many of
his cruises he was accompanied by
the gallant girl whose fame was suug
on the decks of every vessel in our
little nav3.
After the war well, the reader can
guess what happened "after the war.'
jIOCX -CARRIAGE.
How a Young Lady Unwittingly Be
came a Lawful Wife.
Mr. and Mrs. David Manneriug,
who live at Lorimer and Jackson
streets, Williamsburg, have au only
daughter, Clara. She is a brunette,
seventeen years old, with bright,
black eyes and dark curling hair that)
flows in waves over her slight but j
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wen u-veiupeu ugure. oue ictuiu-u
a few weeks ago from Orange county,
N. Y, where she has been spending
the summer. About ten days since,
Mrs. Manneriug, while looking over
the contents of her daughter's trunk,
which had not yet been unpacked,
discovered a roll of parchment, richly
engraved and ornamented, and held
together by a blue ribbon tied in a
true love knot. She opened and read
a certificate by the Rev. William H.
Williams, of Uuionsville, Orange
county, setting forth that John Bruu
dage and Clara Manneriug were mar
ried on the 25th of August, 1S77.
Hardly able to believe her eyes, Mrs.
Mannering questioned her daughter.
With some blushes Clara explained
that, when two or three people came
together in the Catskills, the favorite
mode of amusement is the perform
ance of a mock marriage. On the
evening of the above date she bad at
tended a party given at the house of
a young farmer named Bruudage.
Accordingly she stood np with Mr.
Brundage before one of the guests,
who volunteered to play the part of
clergyman, and the pair were pro
nounced by him man aud wife. Hard
ly had the words, "Whom God hath
joined together, let no man putassun
der," been pronounced, when Brun
dage, declaring the marriage was a
real one, and not a sham, claimed her
as his wife. The supposed bogus cler
gyman, he said, was a minister of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, and the
ceremony he had performed could not
be nullified save by a divorce obtained
by due process of law. All this was
done in a joking way, however, and
not even when she got the certificate
of the ceremony did Clara realize that
the affair wasnotahoax. She brought
the certificate home with her as a
memorial of the mock marriage, but,
so she said, had forgotten there was
such a thing in existence when her
mother brought It to light. The mar
riage has been pronounced valid, and,
as Mr. Brundage is a man of wealth
aud good habits, and as Clara does not
seem much worried about it, the cer
emony will probably end as do wed
dings usually. iV. Y. Sun.
Gingerbread. The following is
an excellent recipe, and was brought
to Hollidaysburg by the wife of ex-
Gov Cur'tin; Two oupa of Orleans
molasses, one cup of brown sugar, one
oi jaru, two orsonr milk orwater, one;
tablespoonful of soda, one of cream of i -
tartar, one of ginger, one of cinna-j
mon, one teaspoon of cloves, two eggs
improve it, and currants, raisins, and
citron added make it as nice a fruit
cake as a person would Tfih for.
AARON BURR.
His Dnel With Hamilton His Blan
nerhasset Treason His Flight-Poverty-
Power, Return aud
Ignominy.
Cincinnati Commercial.
Perhaps there is no one net which
shows the mental characteristics ofibe waa finally imprisoned at Itich-
Burr more fully than his duel with i
Alexander Hamilton, and none ap
pears in the life of Hamilton which
shows such weakness as his consent
to meet Burr. If we stud v the Ian-
guageused by Mr. Hamilton we shall
find nothing more worthy of a person
al conflict than wa3 common iu those
days, aud more so in ours, against po
litical opponents; but Burr determin
ed to kill his enemy, and Hamilton
was unwise enough to let him. I was
much interested one da3 in a diserip
tion given by an old gentleman who
bad been a carpenter in 1804, of Burr's
practice for the occasion. Ho occupi
ed a shop adjoining a bowling alley
-which Burr had reuted, and in which
he daily practiced shooting at the fig
ure of a man until he could hit it
where ha pleased. He saw him
through the cracks in the partition,
aud the intense interest he manifest-Pfe;
ed in the success of his shots
wfl
fiendish.
From thatdatehis fortunes changed, j wbo in their turn influenced the
He lost thB prestige of previous hue- I world. In France, for years virtually
cess. The be3t uf his friends fought a prisoner, equally poor, except when
shy of him, and he was .compelled toicuarit:r n the shape of loans kept
fall back upon the support of a faw.of uim iu clothes and food, he exercised
whom the Swartwouts were the moat
noted. Restless and ambitious, the
scheme of a grand Southwestern Em
pire wa3 his resort, but the elements
were so few and weak that toauy oth
er mind than his the project would
have been utterly hopeless. Dissatis
faction with the Government existed
in Kentucky and the Southwestern
States, but it was by no means univer
sal. He believed, and doubtless with
reason, that Gen. Wilkinson would
favor hisAiewa, aud a3 he had com
mand of-the army, ho thought him
an important acquisition, but he
mainly relied on his own personal
power, and his thoughts must have
been of a wild and peculiar character,
when threading alone the forests of the
Allegheuies toward a fancied empire
and glory.
Whether the Morgans of the upper
valley really gave him encouragement
and then were the first to turn State's
evidence, or merely sat silent under
the picture he drew so vividly of a
great nation to be born, history will
never make certain, but Burr evident
ly believed he ha 1 in them friends to
his scheme.
His uext decent was upon Blanner
hasset, whose name thus became more
generally a household word in his
adopted country than that of anyoth
er man of his position and capucitv.
My first visit to the Island of Blan-
nerhasset was in 1SS5, and I confess it
i
rather dampened the ardor the glow-
;,mnlnl,,rn WMIInm UJt h,l l.i.nJ
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in his splendid defense of the proprie-
t-r T ftirwi flic istanri Kith n.if tha
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Eden. It waa good, level corn laud,!
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tt tltnnf a r rr nr tl nturu I honilh fhnn
any other islaud in the Ohio, and not
as much as thousands of the bottoms !
that border that beautiful stream
The view of it from the mouth of the
Little Kanawha, two miles above the
island, to a painter presents a scene
rarely equalled, but I could not imag
ine it especially attractive when all
wa9 in wilderness, as it was when the
simple-hearted Irishman selected it
as his home. The farm houses, cot
tages in the ravines, the meditative
cow3, the corn-fields,
"The orchard, the meadow, the deep tangled
wild wood,"
aid much in the picture, aud why
Blannerhasset should have selected
that spot is one of these things "a fel
lah can't most alwavs tell." When I
visited it, there was no vestige of the
'
residence except the well, moso-cover
ered, a well as the "old oaken buck
et," and a small tree was growing
where I was told the hou.e had stood.
The eround wa3 mostly in corn. I
There were a few persons who re
membered the gentlemanly proprie
tor, aud some of the militia who went
down to arrest him. The house was
described by them as a long rambling
structure, whose principal comfort in
summer was the wide but unsubstan-
l tial porch. The house itself was a
sort of toy house on a large scale,
built by a rough carpenter, whose on
ly previous occupation had been to
cut cord wood and haul it to town.
Flowers, some shell walks and the va
rious little trinkets and needle-work
with which the mistress of the place
had contrived to adorn it, made it,
however, a wonder of beauty and ele
gance to backwoodsmen around, but
few of whom had ever been in a
house at Marietta, fourteen miles
above. The house was used for sever
al years after he left for the storage of
hemp, and was burned by carelessness
in 1S11.
The old Bettlers said chat Burr was
first seen by some fishermen, coming
to the island in a skiff in the early
evening. How long be remained no
one knows, but he was from time to
time seen by the servants, and rarely
by others for eeveral weeks, during
which time he may have made some
long excursions. He found in Blan-
nerhasset an easy dupe. too honest
himself to expect fraud in others, and
evidently too simple to distinguish
clearly between xight and wrong, un-j
less the line of demarcation was os
wide as a turnpike- That Burr final-
Jy succeeded in exciting the ambition
necessary to his purpose in the clear
er mind of Mrs. Blannerhasset is evi
dent, but that he was able to win her
from her allegiance to her husband
was not believed by the most intelli
gent who. knew her then or in after
Jife.
We leave to biographers the story of
his failures and arrests, his life in the
wilds and swamps of the South, until
mond to be tried for his Jife. la t-pite
of all the disgrace attached to his ut
ter failure, of the position in which
he then stood before a people, almost f
aI1 of wbom were patriotic, of the de
gradation aud even the prison-cell, le uoor OI ine Dea roora- -" seeing
Aaron Burr became, among the ac- nis wife WnB dressed on thebed ha
compllshed ladies of Richmond, the i imaS"ed she-bad laid down to take a
man of all others the most courted aud
sympathized with. I remember hear
ing Hon. B. W. Leigh say that he was
more popular than Jefferson, had
good things sent him enough to feed
a regimeut, and whenever he spoke
all appeared, llko Capt. Scott's cook,
to come down. Yet, although acquit
ted for want of proof of the crime of
treason, his escape to Eugland was
only a secret flight. In England,
feared and suspected by thoae In pow-
I er. so Poor that he often found it dif-
ficult to buy the potatoes to maintain
yet he was often iu the society of
the Greatest and most famed, and
strongly biased the opinions of many,
the same influence, and finally ob
tained his pass-ports by the same
"one-man power."
From his arrival in Boston his se
cret movement to New Y'ork, his al
most isolated life there, and forxhe last
yeare on Staten Island, until his
death in 1S36, the world knows little,
nor is it apparently worth knowing.
It comprised the las. dreary years of a
long life of one possessed uf immense
personal power, of exalted talent or
genius, failing from a total want of
j principle, truth or true honor. His
will, made when he was 79 years of
age, shows the ruling passion strong
in death. He willed more than he
owued, owned more than he willed,
and among the legatees were two il
legitimate children, one two, the oth
er five years of age, by different moth
ers. Of Aaron Burr, more than to any
oue of our nation, cau the couplet be
truly applied:
"He left a name at which the world turned
pale.
To point a moral or Rdorn a tale."
He was a splendid enigma, capable
of the greatest achievements, with
the highest personal force, alwaya
physically temperate and mentally
active; has left a name that will
long be remembered, yet accomplish
ing nothing.
The Bnruing of Michael Servetus.
When he came in sight of the fatal
niiB the wrfifnhe(i SprvPtiw nrnstmtprl
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j himself on the ground, aud for a while
was absorbed in prayer.
, .
advancing a few oteps,
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Rising and
he found him-
self iu the hnnd of the executioner, by
whom he was made to sit on a block,
his feet just reachiag the ground,
j Hia body was then bound to the stake
behind him by several turns of an
iron chain, while his neck was secur
ed in like manner by the coils of a
hempen rope. His two books the
one in manuscript sent to Calvin in
confidence six or eight years before
uis sinciures. aim me one lately
priu ted at Vienue were then fasten-
cu iu uia naak. uuu ills UCUU v. s eu-
.w? .s.:- ...: -,,! u:i i
en-
circled in ruockerv with a chaplet of
, . . . , .,
straw and green wigs bestrewed with
brimstone The deadly torch was then
uyyiieu iu 1 ue mgguis uuu iiasueu iu
his face ; and the brimetone catching,
and the flames rising, ruug from the
vintim Hllfth a nrr nf nnmiish n cf-nif.b
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i terror into the surroundinc crowd.
After this he was bravely silent, but
the wood being purposely green, a long
half hour elapsed before he ceased to !
show signs of life and suffering. Im
mediately before giving up the ghost.
with a last expiring effort, he" cried
aloud, "Jesus, Thou Son of the Eter
nal God, have compassion on me."
All was then hushed save the crack
ing of the green wood; and by and
by there remained no moie of what
had been Michael Servetus but a
charred and blackened truuk and a
handful of ashes.
Thus perished a noble man of whom
his age was not worthy the victim of
murderous religious bigotry. But the
crime thatbad been committed shock
ed the humanity of Geneva, even in
that dark period, and before the year
was out Calvin waa driven to self-defense,
and displayed -the remorseless
traits of bis character by libeling the
man whom he had slain. It is said
that in this persecution unto death he
only manifested the spirit of hid age, ':,.. . .. ...
-. -,.,-f v, t a a i, . . . a .telling whathe would havedonehad he
and must be judged by that standard. ' f. r. . -----
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pily true that in the lapse of centuries
better standards have arisen, by which
the character of Calvin will be given
over to execration, while that of Ser-!
vetus will be increasingly honored as
that of a heroio Christian martyr.
Science Monthly.
Everv farm should own a eood far'011' woulu suow UR6 lr cau
mer. "
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A Temperance Sermon.
Ies3 than a year ago a quiet wed
ding oceurred-atSt-Stephens Church
New York, followed by,a brilliant re
ception at a Fifth Avenue mansion.
The parties were Mr. Robert Stuart,
son of LieutejiantRobect Stuart, U
S. N., and Evelina Terry Marks.
There was wealth on bntk sides, and
until within a month ago their life
was happy as a story. About that
time dipsomania, "inherited from his
father who died a drunkard, took
possession of the young man. His
position as assistant cashier of the
Gallatiu National Ban c waa lost, and
Inflate he was constantly under the
iufiuence of liquor. His wife, unable
to cope with the constant shocks of
fered her high strung sensitive nature
determined upon suicide. About 6 p
31. on Sunday Mr. Stuart entered his
apartment intoxicated. He opened
1 naP- He Ia!d down on tbe &unge in
the parlor and slept till 6 o'clock nexs
morning when, feeling cold, he-determined
on going to bed, believing thai
his wife had undressed. When he
Pflned the bed-room door and saw
that his wife Btill lay dressed on the
bed he vaguely apprehended that all
was not right, and stepping to the
side of the bed, shook his wife's arm.
This failed to arouse her, and lifting
her head, he found that she was in
sensible, pale, and breathing heavily.
He endeavored to set her on the side
ol e oea, out ne was still under the
innuence or liquor, and her inert form
slipped from his gra9p arid slid to the
floor. Dr. Hubbard, who was sum
moned, found the patient too far gone
from narcolfc"poisoniug to rally. Mrs.
Stuart died about 8 oTclock. Her last
moments were inexpressibly sad.
I None of her friends or family had
been summoned, and her husband'
became bisterical, wrung his hands,
cried bitterly, innocently charged
himself with having caused his wife's
death, and heaped curses on his own
head. Mrs. Stuart was only 8 years
of age.
The following bit of harp worldly
and religious practice occurred recent
ly at Edinburgh : A great Sawney, at
la charity sermon, put a five-shilling
piece by mistake into the plate, and
was about to reclaim it. when the'col
lector, who kuew his man, said, "Na,
na, Sawney, mon you're in for the
siller."
"I meant a penny, sir," was the pit
iful rejoinder.
"It can't be helped, mon; I say
you're in for lheIHr," was the hard
reply.
At length Sawney gaveup, and said
with a sigh, "Aweel, I'll get credit
for it in heaven."
"Na, na, mon," continued the hard
dealing collector, "you'll only get
credit for the penny."
A fourteen-year-old girl was a wit
ness in a recent Indiana divorce suit,
and a portion of the evidence was na
follows: "Father got mad because
mother starched his stockings; moth
er picked up the stockings and hit
father on the head with them, and it
sounded as though they were, sticks of
wood. Father tben stuffed a hot
wheat cake down mother's throat,
and then mother set the dog en fath-
, er, and twisted the dog's tali to make
I
i him bite harder."
When you. see aJadv In the etieefc
j stop and auddenly kick and reach
backward and downward, don't be
alarmed, it's not a brickbat she is af
ter. As soon as she shakes out the
old oyster cans entangled in her trail,
that same sweet smile will return :
and everywhere the street contractor
hails the woman with a trail as a
blessing,
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fer's atEdinburgh twelve ladies drink-
in - porte of ad & Qf
1 14takinga boltle of SlonL At the
counter two misses in their teens were
paying for three brandy-and-sodas.
School girl3 there, he avers, take nips
of cherry brandy.
Two prominent young men of Fort
Howard, Wis t made a wager on the
result of a recent election, the terms
of which binds the losing party to
make his round of New Years calls,
on the 1st of January, in a gcart
drawn by a hog.
The widow sits by the vacant ohatr.
A combing her strand;; of yellow hair,
While her soal by a thought is v$xei.
Not of the man who sat thre last, '
Not of the joys of the buried pas$.
Bat of who wookl sit there next.
Louisville Ceurter-Jtommal.
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Said the great Napoleon, "A jour
nalist! That means a grumbler; a
censurer; a giver of advice; a regent
of sovereigns; a tutor of nations!
Four hostile newspapers are more to
be dreaded then a hundred thousand
bayonets !"
A veteran observer says : "I never
1 place reliance on a man who is alwavs
ihow.tIs kind of people never tret
lL cc .bcb
there."
There was once an old lady who,
speaking of Adam'd naming all -the
animals, said she didn't think bede
served any credit for naming tbehor
him.
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