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GENERAL KfcWS CONDENSED.
The prosecution of LoeJer and Price,
indicted for perjury in connection with
the Tilton-Beecher trial last year, lias
been discontinued on the ground that
their affidavits were not made to be u-ed
in court, but s:mply to r fleet the public
opinion.
Little Jesso Pomeroy told his jail
keeper that he had read oer filty dime
novels. The pious waiden ruled tip his
eyed in horror at the intelligence, and
asked Jesse if he v.asVt afraid So die.
"No, I ain't," said the by, doggedly,
but I hope they won't l.aug me tiU Fvu
read Bessie Turner's novel."'
John Johnson, while returning home
in Brooklyn, on the morning of Jau.
3d, was met by two men, one of whom
shot him, and the other demanded $400.
The latter had no sooner made the de
mand than he exclaimed, "He is the
wrong person," and both highwaymen
made off.
Charles R. Beckwith, former confi-
dential clerk of Benjamin F. Babbit,
the weil known soap manufacturer of
New York, ha3 been committed to
prison to answer to the charge oi em
bezzlement. The amount of the defal
cation now known is $ 300,000, and may
reach $500,000.
On the evening of Jan. 3d, while
George Smith, of Yuukton, Dakota, was
returning from the bank with f 1,400,
which lit had just drawn, he was
knocked down by a blow on the head
with a heavy weapon and robbed of the
whole amount. The robbers are un
known. A St Louis special says the Supervis
ing Architect of the United States Cus
tom House, at St. Louis, has received
orders from Washington directing the
stoppage of all work on the building
for three months. There has been ex
pended on the construction so far $300,
000, and the walls have just reached the
top of the first .story. There have been
numerous charges of fraud in the con
struction, and threats have been made to
bring the matters belore the next Grand
Jury for investigation.
A cable dispatch anuouuees the death
of the lit. Hon. Earl Stanhope, the Eng
lish historian and essayist, at the aje of
70. He was the author of several his
torical works, and had figured somewhat
conspicuously in the world of letters
and of art. He Was elected Lord
Hector of the University of Aber
deen in 1858, aud founded a prize for
the study of modern history at Oxford.
He was Chairman of the National Por
trait Gallery, and in 1872 was elected
one of the six foreign members of the
Academy of Moral and Political Sci
ences at Paris.
PERSONAL.
Dr. L. K. Lippincotr, the husband of
"Grace Greenwood," has been appoiuted
Chief Clerk of the Land Office in Wash
ington
A Florida Luxury.
One of the luxuries of life in many
Southern homes, notably so in the negro
cabins, is that kind of fuel known as
"light wood." Not light in weight, for
The Prince of Wales has an income it U as dense r.nd heavy as solid oak or
of only $575,000 per annum, and he hickory. It derives its name from its
couldn't afford to pay hia own expenses great convenience for making a bright
m Tn,j:, light. It is the fat wood of the pine
President Luzenau, of the Republic of tree, -o full of rosin that u hot sun
Venezuela, will be a visitor to the Cen
tennial Exhibition at Philadelphia, and
will also travel extensively in the Uni
ted States.
Senator Jones, of Nevada, has had a
private car built for the exclusive use
of himself. It is a richly furnished
house on trucks, and cost $11,000.
The descendants of Rebecca Nourse,
who was hanged in Salem, Mass., in
1G92, on complaint of being a witch,
have formed an association for the-pur-pose
of erecting a monument to her
memory.
Bayard Taylor is making elaborate
studies for a combined biography of
Goethe and Schiller, which will occupy
several volumes, and will not be ready
for some years to come.
It has been the custom in the Astor
family for three generations to deposit
$100,000 In a bank at the birth of a son
or daughter, the money and interest to
be given to the child when he or she
became of age.
Ralph Waldo Emerson says he has
heard with admiring submission the ex
perience of the lady who declared "that
the sense of being perfectly well dressed
gives a feeling of inward tranquility
which religion is powerless to bestow."
"How
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The Stars and Stripes.
FOREIGN NEWS-
A Vienna dispatch reports that a rich
Duke, Rudolph, Prince Imperial of
Austria, will be crowned King of Hun
gary in July.
A Paris correspondent of the Times
reports that the condition of Queen Isa
bella's health causes great anxiety. Her
prostration was followed by an attach of
the measles.
A special from Vienna reports the
resignation of Prince Von Auerehorg
President of the Austrian Cabiuet, in
consequence of differences with Hunga
ry on the currency question.
A special from Rome says: Reliable
private intelligence received here con
firms the reports of serious disagreements
between the Khedive and Mr. Cane,
British Special Commissioner to Egypt.
A dispatch lrom Madrid says : Senor
Castelar has issued a manifesto, agreeing
to contest Barcelona and Valencia foi a
seat in the Cortes. He declares himself
in favor of universal suffrage, free uni
versities, the separation of Church and
State, and regrets any ailiance'with the
Federalists.
The Grand Vizier recently malted the
Pope to use his good offices with Catho
lic Insurgents in Herzegovinia, with a
view to peace. The Pope has according
ly instructed Cardinal Franchi to inquire
L -into the condition of affairs there. The
Vatican will take no action until the
reports of the Catholic prelates of Her
zegovinia are received. The Vatican
and Spiin in relation to Concordat has
been suspended until after the election
of the Cortes.
The Mark Lane (London) Erpre$s, Jan
3d, says 1875 has unfortunately proved
a year of general deficiency and inferi
ority. Barley has shown the best yield
of the season, being only slightly below
the average, but its color has been so
generally affected that its value for malt
inc purposes is greatly reduced, perhaps
eight to ten shillings per quarter. Sales
have been unusually dull. Oats and
beans arc below the average, but better
prices are paid for the latter, -which
compensates for the defect. Peas are
consi lerably below the average, having
suffered greatly in size and quality. The
wheat crop has tufft red most, only one
eighth reaching the averago, while five
sixths is telow It, Whatever dullness
now prevails, and may for a period con
Unue, our large deficiency will become
Vmore evident as the season advances.
Shouldwehaveabad spring an impor
tant advance must ensue.
A timely srticle in Appleton' for Janu
ary 1st furnishes material for a sketch
that it would have been difficult to get
at elsewhere. The "Stars and Stripes,"
as wc know them now, did not make
their appearance until very late in the
year 177G, and weie not adopted by
Congress as the National ensign until the
14th of June, 1777.
"During the first months of the war
each State had its own Hag. The ban
ner of Connecticut contained the arms
of the State and motto, in golden letters,
Qui trantlulit xuitinet "God, who trans
ported us hither, will support us." The
motto of Massachusetts was. "An Ap
peal to Heaven." Her flag was white,
bearing the motto and a green pine tree.
South Carolina had an ensign of blue,
with a white crescent, made by order of
Colonel Moultrie. In the fall
of 1775 Congress appointed a committee
to create a navy, but nothing seems to
have been done about furnishing the
new made navy with a suitable ensign.
The captains accordingly followed their
own devices, sailing, probably, under
their State Hags. One favorite device
was a rattlesnake lifting its head and
shaking its rattles, with the motto,
"Don't tread on me !" Some flags added
a mailed Land clinching thirteen ar
rows. The rattlesnake came very near
being our National emblem instead of
the eagle. It had often before been used
on flags, and its appearance at this time
on the ensign o the commander in
chief of our navy caused much discus
sion of its claims. Oae writer, thought
by some to be Benjamin Franklin gave
weighty reasons for adopting the rattle -snake.
It is found only in America;
was considered by the ancients as an
emblem of wisdom ; its eye is exceeding
bright, and without eye-lids, so it signi
fies vigilance; it never begins an attack,
nor surrenders when assailed; its deadly
weapons are concealed in the mouth, so
that it appears defenseless; and its
wounds, though small, are fatal; while
it never attacks without first giving
warning. In addition to all this, its
rattles are distinct from each other, yet
so firmly united that they can not be
separated, while they also increase in
number. Bat the fact that the rattle
snake is a serpent, and under the curse
of God, probably caused its rejection."
That the rattlesnake should have
come so near being selected for our
national emblem seems a little strange
in view of the present use of the term
"copperhead" though it really stands
a belter examination on its merits than
does tht "Eagle bird o' freedom." How
Ben. Franklin came to be cured of his
love for it does not "appear; but certain
it is thai, late in 1775, he, together with
two other gentlemen, met at the camp
at Cambridge, authorised (by whom it
is not quite clear to create a National
Flag. They agreed upon thirteen
stripes of alternate red and white, repre
senting the Colonies, and fixed in the
corner, which is now filled by our
"Union" of stars, the crosses of St.
George and St. Andrews to show that
the Colonies, while fighting against
England's tyranny, still acknowledged
her sovereignty. This flag was first dis
played from the Cambridge camp, on
the second of January, 1776, the very
day on which the King's address to his
rebellious subjects was put into their
hand. This was the first appearance
of the "stripes."
shininr upon a fat board causes tise
pitch to How. Of course it burLS freely,
so that a few sticks laid upou the lire
dogs and touched with a candle or
lighted match, burst at ones into a
livid flame which warms the room in two
minutes from the time it started. Pas
sengers upon t' c Mi3.&s.ippi steamers
have seen its value for torches. A few
pieces, of the bulk ot a bushel basket,
burnt in a framo work of iron, attached
to the bow of the boat, illuminate a
whole wood yard or whnrf, while the
boat is taking in wood or putting out
freight. A tingle stick, the size of my
finger, lighted at one end, will burn sev
eral minutes like a candle. There is
nothing that has a greater charm for our
Northern visitors than our open fire
places and blaring fires, for be it under
stood and remembered we have a good
many days during the winter mouths,
when sitting around such a hearth is
most delightful. Light wood added
much to the comfort of camp life. In
deed, it seems to be the very thing that
makes such a life so attractive to scores
ol our winter visitors of both sexes.
Soldiers often carry small parcel of it
with their baggage, lest their camping
place would be in some spot destitute
of the luxury of their life. It was one
of the greatest objections the Seminolcs
made to leaving Florida, that they were
going to a country destitute of light
wood All pitch pine does not afford this
kind of fuel. The best quality is only
found here and there, perhaps one tree
in ten, and always the best in dead trees.
An "old deadening," that is, where the
trees have been killed for cultivation of
the land, affords the opportunity for
procuring a supply of the article in its
best condition. And that reminds me
of an incident ol travel among the
"piney woods people." The road for
some miles had been particularly dreary
and almost uninhabited, the land being
almost barren unproductive of any
thing but pine tiees pinus palustris
the kind that furnishes our vast supply
of lumber, the staple product of Florida.
At length our road lay across one uf
those bankless, bridgcless creeks, that
is approached for twenty rods, perhaps,
by a gradual decline, over black soil
covered with a dense undergrowth,
though not fairly called swamp, and
then wc came to the stream , though it
is hard to tell which way it streams, or
its depth, for its color is dark and its
course darker.
Rising from "the creek" I heard the
certain sign of an approach to a house,
the barking of half a dozen starved
dogs. "The house" soon opened to
view, a dark, smoky log cabin of one
room about sixteen or eighteen feet
square; the root miac ot "shakes" held
in place by weight poles; the fire place
a wooden crib without any chimney to
carry off the smoke except a few round
pine poles piled up about four feet
above the mantle, in the same form as
the body of the cabin, and neither were
even "daubed," that is, the cracks filled
up with clay. There was a door upon
the side partly toward the load, for the
building stood corner ways to it, and a
window on the other side; not a glass
window, but a whole where you might
have one. The shutters for door or win
dow had never been hung, but when
close were held in place by a fence rail.
The floor was made of puncheons pine
logs split into slabs and roughly hewed.
Between the cabin and the road was a
rail fence, and outside a dozen hogs, re
cently fed a little corn and searching for
more. Inside of the fence the dogs and
tow headed children appeared about
alike in number and noise. The chil
dren, male and female, were dressed
alike, each in a very dirty shirt. The
mother sat in the doorway nursing the
last addition to the family, while the
monarch of all sat on the fence fixinjj an
old flint lock rifle. Back of the house
was a fenced field of perhaps twenty
acres, which showed that it bad borne a
meagre crop of corn, probably not over
three bushels per acre. But I think I
have never teen a field that would yield
a letter crop of lightwood. Taking in
the whole situation at a glance, I felt a
strong desire to have a little conversa
tion with this landed proprietor, and
therefore drew up and Asked him for a
drink of water.
"Got none, old sow been in the sprig."
"Any milk?" Not that I wanted it,
but just thought I would ask, foreseeing
the answer.
"No, can't keep cows here; there ain't
any range for cattle in these parts."
"Any deer? I see you are preparing
for a hunt."
"Deer! no, some coon, going to try for
one, to-night, asbacoa is getting mighty
long have you lived here?"
'Bout three years come next corn
planting time."
"I see you don't get large ctops of
corn?"
"No, too dry, land ain't worth a durn."
"How about health?''
"Well, we've had cbilte right smart.
You see we'ro toi nigh that creek."
"Ye?, it dues l.ok bilious. No fish in
it, I supposes"
"Wei", noDe but homed cat., and they
ain't no account.'"
"Now, my friend, I won't trouble you
with but one moie question. You have
located upon that laud so poor that you
can't raise a crop, and so near the stag
nant water that jour family are sickly;
you have no range for cattle 'nor hogs;
no fish nor game, no mill V" your family ;
and you cinot even give a tiaveler a
dritft ol water. I won't ask you why
you located here in the first place, but I
should like to know what inducement
vou have, if there is a siusle one on
earth, for remaining in this spot."
I saw by the working of the man's
face that my words had aroused him, and
that he had answer ready. The young
tow heads on the other side of the fence
lifted up their cadaverous facc3 to sec
what answer he would give, and his
'old woman" took the corn cob pipe
from her mouth, and looked up for the
dist time. The man stepped down from
his pei ch on the fci.ee, which started the
pigs and dogs; strtighlcning up his six
feet, he turned slowly round and
stretched out his arm toward the field
of dead pines to attract my attention
that way, and then spoke as though his
dignity was offended :
"You'll aliow, stranger, il other things
ain't quite so fine as you pity folks like,
that we have lightwood tolerably haiidy."
I thought so, too, and as he was satis
fied I thought I ought to be, thanked
him and diove on. There are thousands
of just such inhabitants throughout the
South, contented t live in the same way
if "lightwood is tolerably handy." They
arc universally known as "crackers"
piney woods people. .S''" Ilibinton :
the Semi Tropical.
A Pinch of Snuff.
would take a pinch." And in the SAtue
way Steele, in the Tattler, lectures a ccr
tain Sagissa, who had hidden "a very
pretty fellow in her closet," so that he
might not be seen by a party of visitor.-.
The Lat of the lloyal Stuart.
Bcauseant, in the Ltdy of Lyons,
disclaims snuff taking and such "small
vices;" whereupon Chude M-.-lr.otte,
disguised is the Prince ot Cotuo, pertly
retorts that if it ha-1 betn a vice, M.
ncauaeaui. wuiuu Suic. ..-..- r.-.:u j pI;lC(. tthL.rcup3a tlu. pliant availed
it. The vice, if vice it be, hat almost ; MmscI (J :i,c m,nU ani, 9!mtchcil J".
gone from u now; tobacco i consumed. a kh?; ..?mt heiii. Uimd o .1U?. H)iae
but it is m other lorms; Hie snuu taKer j
An Kuglbh paper of the Uth of Dr
cetuber rejwrts: A historic.il figure has
just passed away; Lady Loubt Stuart,
the l3t descendant ol the royal family
snddfMilr arrive I. Hut she had nresen!
. " . . ,, i i : i i of Scotland, having died at Trauu.ilr
lv occasion to ?eek something in Ins hid- ' " . "
ttou.-ie, near reeuio, in tier one uunurcui
Lidy Louis-' Sruait was the lat
surviving representative of aonrcpow-
SoiiH'lliing on the Nnsc.
A latter day savant, writing on this
branch ol science, gives preference to
the aquiline, royal, or Roman, as being
a sine indication of an energetic, reso
uJe and luliug mind, and cites in proof
the names of Julius Crcesar, Canute,
Charlc3 .Y., Edward I., Robert Bruce,
Wallace Columbus, Pizarro, Drake,
William 111., Conde, Lovola, Elizabeth
of England, Washington and Welling
ton. He tells us that astuteness and
craft, refinement of character, and love
of art and literature, arc the character
istics of Grecian nosed folk, but we arc
not aware that Milton, Petrarch, Spen
cer Boccaccio, Ilafia;lle, Claude, Rubens,
Titian, Murillo, Canova, Addison, Shel
ley, Erasmus, Voltaire, and Byron were
remarkable fur craftiness, however
truly set down m lovers of literature
and art, Alexander the ("rest, Constan
tino, Wolsey, Richelieu, Ximenes, Lo
renzo de Medici, Raleigh, Philip, Sidney
and Napoleon owned hybrid noses,
neither Roman nor Grecian, but some
thing'between the two. The wide nos
trllled nose betokens strong powers of
thought and a love for serious medita
tions: Bacon, Shakspeare, Luther, Wy
cliffe, Cromwell. Hogarth, Franklin,
Johnson and Galileo being a few of the
is now rarely seen, and when making his
appearauce, avoids display of the box he
was once so proud of, and by his furtive
air confesses himself lather ashame l of
the obsolete habit that ha? enslaved
him. Even after the taking of snuff had
ceased t) be a general practice there yet
survive! a praeticc of presenting snuff
boxes; royalty found this a convenient
method of obliging and rewarding its
favorites. The proceeding possessed a
certain Napoleonic ihvor; it boasted
imperial tradition, and so obtained the
sanction of the Second Empir-. And
certainly the snuffbox was a pretty t.y;
the miniature painter the Coa.vay of
the period lent his a'd to the embel
lishmsnt ol the lid, the jeweler and the
goldsmith lurnished valuable assistance:
it might Ik: the most costly ol produc
tions, yet it wai mted as a trifle a mere
vessel to contain pulverize 1 tobacco; it
was precious, aud prized the while it
wa? of a friendly and domestic purp- rt.
But the snutl box may be said to have
fallen with the Second Empire; royalty
now bi stows medals, and rings and pins,
but never a snuff box. The Sir Plumes
of to day know nothing of the conduet
of clouded canes or of aml-cr boxes.
Smoking, which hi.? .mtlivcd snuff-
taking, was yet the elder vice. Shaks
peare makes no mention of smoking aud
it mti3t not be supposed that suuff was
contained in the "pouncet box" held by
Hotspur's lop, pcrrtr.ncd like a milliner,
between his linger and his thumb.
'Which ever anil aiioa
He gave lilf no-e. ana tojk't away aam
Win, therewith am;ry. when It next came there.
Took It in mull."
But, to pipes and tobacco there is very
abundant reference in the other Eliza
bethan dramatists. Of snuff taking as
a habit, however, there is as yet no
record. Gradually it was discovered
that the powder of tolncco possessed an
agreeable odor. It was used as a per
fume about the year 1702, the early snuff
takers carrying wilh them a small
gtater, with which they reduced Ihe to
bacco to powder. But the first suufl
boxes contained no reservoir; it was
necessary to consume the powder as
soon as it was made. Subsequently an
improvement was devised, and a sspa
rate place in the box was made for the
powder, the implements iff manufacture
bciDg incloseil in a special compart
ment. By a further progress in the ci aft
of snuff taking a sufficient quantity was
manufactured t. be contained in a sepa
rate box, which was carried in the pock
et, while the manufactory itself was left
at home.
It must be confessed that snuff taking
had its unpleasant side. The readers ot
Martin Cnuzzlewit cannot but sympa
thize with Mrs. Prig's reasonable ob
jections to Mrs. Gamp's untidy dealings
with her snuff, when she conjured that
lady not to "go a dropping none of it"
into the dish ol sliced cucumber, duly
immersed in vinegar, which had been
prepared for supper. "In gruel, barley
water, apple tea, mutton broth, and
that, it don't signify," added Mrs. Prig.
"It stimulates a patient. But I don't
grain from ofl hr upp;r lip made him
snci: aloud," and thereby bit rayed his
presence, rind at once abtrtn and inform
the lady's visitor?.
Io the eighteenth century snuff taking
was a universal habit. No wonder that
according to Burke the aye of chivalry
had t'eparted, for how cou'd chivalry
aud snuff subsist together? Did
Marie Antoinette take snuff?
Prabably, but it is reputed that she pre
ferred bonbons. Queen Charlotte cer
tainly ''snuffed " Captain Gronow, as
an Eton boy, beheld Her Majesty walk
ing with the King upon the terrace at
Windsor, "her royal nose covered with
snuff both within and without." The
great Napoleon carried snuff in his
waistcoat pocket, and to'ik prodigious
quantities George the Fourth carried
a bos, but inly made believe to apply
the powder to his no-c. lie was an
imposter, even in the matter of snuff-
t.iking At the regiment il mes tables
of the time snuff boxes were sent round
with the decanters after dinner. Mrs.
Siddons and Mrs. Jordan, the tragic and
the comic muse, were both persistent
snuff takcis, even on the stage while
employed in the representation of the
must imp rUnt characters. Gentlemen
of fashion formed collections of snutf
boxes and "cellars" of snuff stored in
canisters aud prized like wine. Lord
Petershan ws supposed to possess a box
for exery day In the year. Ol" alight
blue levies box lie w;ia wont to say,
"Yes, it's a nice one lor summer, but it
would ml do for winter wear." His
sitting-room was like n tobacconist's
shop; j.irs with names in gilt letters of
vaii)i;s kinds of snuff were ranged
against the wall.-, with the necessary
apparatus for ino-stening and mixing.
"Lord IVterhatn s Mixture, long
remained an esteemed snuff, and gieat
favor was won by a scented snuff,
"Prince's Mixtuie," called in honor
of the Recent. A .-nuff known as "No.
!."" long slgnaliz'.'d the popularity of
Mr. Wilke's; "Hardraan's No. 117" was
the snuff used by Sir Joshua Reynolds,
who look it profusely, powdering his
waistcoat with it, letting it fall in heaps
upon the carpet and even upon his
palette, so that it become mixed with
his pigments and translerred to h"i3 pic.
tures. But these were the palmy days
of snuff-taking gone, never to return.
The snuff taker has come pretty nearly
to l:is last pinch.
erful border clan. She w.n the daughter
of the seventh tail, anil upon the death,
in lSdl, ol her brother Charle. the
eighth peer, the ancient title of the line
lecame extinct. Uoru in 177 (J, she had
almost completed her hundreth year;
and, ret titling her faculties unimpaired,
she was b!e to refer from pergonal
kuowledge to eveuts which are matter
of remote history to the present genera
tion. Her venerable age made her an
object of much tinier interest and
attraction. The Stuart of Traquair bear
a notable name, and trace connection
through a long descent with the royal
homes both of England and Scotlaud.
The earliest, mention ot the family in
Peeblesshire cecum in 147d. The Earl
of Buclian, whose mother, Lndy Jane
B.-aufort, was the widow of James I.
and the K-cendittt of John of Gaunt
then purcha ed the domain of Traquair
tor his natural son, James Stuart. This
James, who was subsequently legitimated
was the loundei of the race of Stuart,
and pcrishod at Flqdden, leaving several
sons. The fortunes of the lamily seemed
to have culminated in Sir John Stuart,
Lord High Treasurer of Scotland, nud
Comnmsloucr to the General Assembly,
who was elevated to the earldom inlli33
and, alter a checkered career, died in
extreme peuury. The second earl, hia
t-on, though nn elder of the Church of
Scotlcnd, ultimately embraced the Ro
man Catholic religion, which became
lrom this time the hereditary faith ol
the Stuart1. He was succeeded in turn
by his sons, William and Chat lea, the
Utter of whom married Lndy Mary
Maxwell, sister of the Earl ol Nithmlale,
whose escape from thy Tower of London
through the intervention of his devoted
wife is one of the most romantic and
touching incidents in later history. By
a further intermarriage in the generation
the same families were .it ill more closely
united, and now the names of Stuart and
Maxwell are merged into one, the estates
of Traquair having just passed, by the
death of Lidy Louisa, into the hands of
.he Hon, Henry Constable MmxacII.
younger brother of Lord Herriea and
descend. mt of the Nithsdales.
A Japanese Funeral.
One of the marines of the Japinene
steamer Tsukulm having died on Mon
day night, a Japanese military funeral
took place yesterday morning. It wai
the lirrft of the kind evur held hi the
United State?, Htid is worthy of more
than passing notice. At half past
o'clock yesterday morning the body
was conveyed to the Vallcjo street wharf
in a cuttur which was towed by a steam
afternoon at Etst Leavenworth, 3Io.: launch belonging to the laukuba. In
"A young lady by the name of Missouri acoruancc with the national custom
Lore Tragedy.
Yesti-rd.iv evening a reporter of the
Commercial learned the following par
ticulars of a suicide that took place that
famous "cogitative -nosed" ones, ves- J jelish it myeelf." And there had been
pasicn, Correggio, and Adam Smith, odd mUch earlier satirizing of the female
as the conjunction seems, were men of
the same mental type, possessing deep
insight into character, and a faculty for
turning that insight to account, or the:r
hawk-noses were false physiological
beacons. Certainly it would be unsafe
always to judge of a man by his nose.
Suvaroff, for instance, scarcely comes
within the category of weak-minded
men, although he wore a3 veritable a
snub as James the First, Richard Crom
well and Kosciusko. Even if there be
an art to find the minds construction in
the nose there are so many mongrel or
gans about that it must pirfcrce be one
of but limited application, and. scarcely
more helpful than the advice cf die
wise men who. professing to furnish la
dies with instructions as to choosing
their husbands, says: "I would recom
mend a nose neither too long nor too
short, neither too low nor too high,
neither too thick nor too thin, with
nostrils neither too wide nor too nar
row.
scarce.
The term "car load" is very generally
used, but few people know how much it
is. As a general rule, 20,000 pounds, or
70 barrels or salt, 70 of lime, 90 of flour.
60 of whisky, 200 sacks of flour, 5 cords
of solt wood, 18 to 20 head of cattle, 50
to 60 head of h6gs, SO to 100 head of
6heep, 9,OjOrteVt of solid boards, 17,000
feet of siding, 1W ieet of flooring,
40.000 shingles, oneaU less of bard
lumber, one iourth lesV green lumber,
one-tenth of joists, iciptling,-and all
other large timber, 340 bjshels of wheat,
300 of car corn and 360 of shelled corn,
630 of oatf, 400 of barley, 360 of flax
seed, 360 ot apples, 340 ofJrun pota
toes, or 1,000 bushels of braaumake a
car load.
snuff takers. A writer in the Spietator,
1712, alludes to :t as a custom the fine
women had lately fallen into. "Thi3
silly trick is attended with such a co
quette air in some ladies, and such a
sedate masculine one in others, that I
cannot tell which most to complain of;
but they are to me equally disagreeable."
Mrs. Saunter is described as so impa
tient of being without snuff that she
lakes it a3 often as she does salt at
meals, while the pretty creature, her
niece, imitates her aunt iu the
practice, and if Ies.s offensive to the
eye, is quite as much to the ear, "by a
nauseous rattle of the aorc, when the
snuff was delivered, and the fingers
marked the stop3 and close on the nos
trils." "As to those," the letter writer
proceeds, "who take it for no other end
but to give themselves occasion for pret
ty action or to fill up little intervals ol
discourse, I can bear wth them: but
then they must not use it when another
is sptaking, who ought to be heard with
too much respect to admit of offering at
that time from hand to hand the snuff
box. Yet Flavilla is so far taken with
her behavior in this kind that sbe pulls
out her box, (which is indeed full of
good Brazil) in th2 middle of the ser
mon; and to show that she has the au
dacity of a well-bred woman, she ofiers
it to the men as well a3 the women who
sit near her, but since by tins time all
the world knows she has a fine hind, I
am in hopes she may give herself to
further trouble in the matter. Oa Sun
day was seven-night, when they came
about for the offering, she gave her
Uttinger had been keeping house for
some time for a baohelor by the name
of James Burt. During her stay at his
house she, for soma reison unknown,
conceived a strong attachment for the
man, and, it is siid, made her affection
known to him, but it seems that it was
not reciprocated by th: Bmedkt, and
he refused all overtures. The girl be
came desponden, but still lived beneath
the root that sheltered all that was dear
to her. That seemed to satisfy her until
y.sterday, when she learned that he was
going to Atchison to marry another lady,
and, while he was stiading at the glas3
conibtng his hair, she approached him
aud asked permission to comb it for
him, and upon his turning around she
confronted him with a razor, and at
tempted to cut his throat. He wrenched
the raz.ir from her grasp, and she then
begged him to give her seme poison tint
she might kill herself, as life was now
a burden. He refused, she left the
house and went to her grandmother's,
not fardistint, and asked for a revolver,
savin'? that Mr. Burt wished to shoot a
ling. The pistol was given her, and
upon repairing back to Mr. Burt's she
passed into tke kitchen asking him at
the time to accompany her. II -i replied
that he would come in a moment, but
almost in an instant the lond report of a
pistol startled the household, and upon
soing into the kitchen he found her
stretched upon the floor vith a frightful
pistol wound in the right temple, which
caused almost immediate rfcath. Our
informant fays that she was a very beau
tiful girl, and no reason can be as
singned for her insane passion for Mr.
BurL larenrz'Mh Commercial.
A Piris dispatch of Jan. 3d says: 31.
Oiliver his issued an address to the
eltctcri of the department of Var. He
advises submission to President MaeMa
hon and the republic, but he reserves the
right of appeal to the people. The new
press law has bien promulgated. Several
the body rested in a box shaped coffin,
aboti . two and a half feet high, covered
with the national fltg and surrounded
by sixteen marines, all in lull dma
and armed. Four officers in full dresa
uniform, were in the steam launch. On
reaching the boat stair, the colli n wan
placed In the undertaker's wagon, cqv
ered with the flag. The officers were
placed in a carriage,while th marines oc
cupied one of the Central Riilroad can.
On arriving at Cemetery avenue, the
marines, a3 a guard, preceded the corpse,
and on reaching the grave formed in
double line through which the colli u
was borne. The cofiin, which was cov
ered with Japanese writing, wa. de
posited in the grave, so that the c-rpie,
which was in a silting position, faced
toward the east. Three volleys of
musketry were then fired and the crave
filled up by the ususl attendants. Af
ter this, an officer made an address to
those present, and th'; marines taking
the shovels smoothed the grave over and
made the sanJ into a tqnare shaped
pile resembling the coffin. On th's
pilo each marine, with his sword, made
sundry marks in the sand, which con
cluded the ceremonies. After a tew
minutes stay in the cemetery the
mariners formed in marching order, and
preceded by a band, composed of a
drummer, filer and bugkr, marched to
the cars and proceeded to their ship. The
funeral cortege on Cemetery avenue at
tracted the attention of many citizen,
who accompanied It to the grave. The
ceremonies were conducted wiih gret
solemnity and eTery appearance of sin
cere respect to the dead. San FraneUco
Chronicle, IkermUr 21.
Great Britain has now five iron-clada
under constructiofi : The Inflexible, to
carry four guns of the heaviest caliber;
the Shannon, a nine-gun screw ship; the
Nelson and Northampton, double-screw
ships of twelve guns each, and ttoTesve
raire, aa eigb-gun ship.
At Little Rock, Arkaisu, Dec 3Mk
a negro named Harkersaiith, shot his
nrominent journal?, which were sup-
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charity with a good air, but at the same pressed or forbidden to be tow in lam I wife and another negro wl Uorg
time asked the church warden if he 1 streets, have resumed publication. I Scott, kilUng both. Cause, jwkHHy.
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