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-J I' IS" I 5. 1 THE JOURNAL. WEDNESDAY, Al'UIL 23, 1881. Iiterci it ti Pc:t:2:e, C:lssta. ITofc., tiizs Bitter. rcccal- A LEAP-TEAS VICTIM. Miss Jennlo is a wlnsomo irl Tho fairest lass or many; And I would bo a heartless churl Did I not lore Miss Jennie. But when Into my llst'nlnsr ear Her tide of passion (rushes, I scream and run away forfear She'll see my lell-tale blushes. . Miss Susie is so sweet and mild. ahu iovcs me, on: so dearly. I can't reject the little child lwould drive her crazy. uut as sho hangs upon tho gate And Slnirs her hnnnlcaa anrrnv I murmur: "It issuing: late Please come around to-morrow." And there is rosy, romping Belle And there is proud Ophelia And pensive, lofty-minded Nell, And prattling- little Delia: And I am wooed by Elolsc, And courted, too, by Jessie, Whilo Maggie falls upon her knees. And ditto charming: Bessie. There's still another homely ah Tbc gaunt, uncouth Eliza When first she came a-wooing- me, Oh, how I did despise her! But as sbe fondly lingered near There fell, like dripping honey. This sweet assurance on my ear She had a heap of money! So. though I sigh for Jennie's curls And Delia fo impassioned. And hanker lor the other girls So sweetly, grandly fashioned. It seems decreed that I should part From nil these charming witches, And sacrifice ray manly heart To gaunt Eliza's riches. Eugene Field, in Chicago Kew$. saw the blue and gray uniformed array of martial hosts rushing together in deadly conflict; 1 heard the roar of can non, the shriek of shell and the. .zip at the minie-ball; then there came in my mind the picture of a -Younsr wounded soldier dying beside the soft murmuring, now ol a country spring, and a 'beauti ful young girl filled with tender pity and compassion bending over him, soft ly saying: Poor, poor fellow! "liwmv- der it he's deadY sad-zaced lady l recognized, tue young girl 1 loved with all my" heart, ana whom I was once engaged to. be mar ried to. I, of course, spoke to her; the recognition was mutual. She is now s poor widow, having lost her husband ten years ago. Well, yes, of -course" tou have, after the fashionof-vou inter viewers, surmised -tho-whole Business In a few days we will be married, and A Beqaeft f Bases. Eli Adams is one aflne anmerous well-known characters -in Louisville, who have secnbcttr 'times, -socially, politically and financially: vThe old man, nowyerging'upon the seventies, makes periodial;viits.to the city from the alms-hioute, where . he has been a privileged inmate, for- wo years past, on a mission76r"b6oksr-phaniphletJ and newspapers to 'be added teethe circu- Tn .-this nrnnmrn' latins: library of jthat, iastitation; he having '.recently lbeen. .appointed its librarian : ..J''r Eli claiSM-to'wlmYebeea -wealthy man in ante-belium day3 and was a prosperous jpublisher according to all Recounts. When the war broke out he .was sent to England as a commissioner to nlnatl the nnsft of th Cnnfednrsifir before the pedpleiaffEnglaudraad has newspaper cuttings in his possession to -FEHSOSAliJATrD'LITERART.' ;? A Boston paper calls- Matthew Arnold "tho apostle of molasses and moonlight." '" ' It agrees with Mr. Arthur to "be President of tho United States.. He;has gained ttwcnty-sis pounds in weight since he 'assumed that office Chicago Herald. . ., - . , -rIitu.s.Sheardt, the new-.Speaker of tho .New YorklAsscmblyiai-rivcd in New York City in 1856"vfrom Ireland, alono and almost penniless. K Y.'Times.' . Senator Saulsbury, of Delaware,'!? the only member of tho United Stales Senate jvho has,noverv been rf married. He is called the. Lone JStar of that bod v. Boston Post. L ' fv "l '-' -3v volume of taWoVallc, or" wit Vridv wisdom, of3 Frederick therGreatr'ha . if ther. is a hannv hinr in this orwnt . SftOAV that BmAde -." number Of ad city it is the man who is'now talking to Tdfesses in that country in behalf of the" you." " " ,0- -J-oauseln which, hhad embarked.; The Tha vailinn- will ha atnimitil in close of Tiosnlities be?rra'rfld him with errand stvle at an earlv "dkv in this citv. rtbotisandrof -others,- andwith his-? her fortunes Manvof tho surviving veterans of tha worldly wealth went his. ambition and been discovered'inthe PjnissianState. Archives, and will be published early in the ensuing summer., r A Miss Sheriff1, who was practical- ly me nrst tngnsu prima donna to try in America, recently died unnoticed in London. It is thirtv .sfKlMJSE, LUBKER & CO., CSiL tM&L- V-. tf,V w .. .1 ij oo'ast. fid s.. - : DEALERS j - ,'t- ''. - .V S.-i M z: -a gJJTJLF tUj AND HOLrOW sla w Jtf4 - -. ---. a i ' i - . WT aTui w- Din tn Dim iiriin i T rk r- aaiim -. American civil war will be amongthe courageiograppie-wunauversiry; e i.uu,ouoHmmBcuuuwiY. specially invited guests. It is tho inten- ' sank lower and lower still, in thelsocla1 ' R. J. Burdette is forty, Bret Harte twn of tho prospective irroom to charter actile,, after a few futile struggles to re- , is forty-live, Mark Twain is foitv-eijrhr. A SOLDIER'S ROMANCE. Over twenty years ago, on that fatal Jnly tl.ij' when the greatest artillery duel known in ancient or modern times took place between the mighty contend ing armies near the quaint, sleepj- town of Gettysburg, Pa., Mr. Robert Corson, now a well-known citizen of Baltimore, was dangerously wounded. At that time he was :i private in a Pennsylva nia regiment, having been born and raised m Philadelphia, and on that heroic field this gentleman fell, struck in the side by a minie-ball coming from he never knew just exactly where. After lying on the lild for ten hours, suffering- intensely from his wound, thirst and lack of needful attention, and nerved by desperation to almost super human efforts, he crawled, during the darkness of the succeeding night, some distance in the country from the battle field. As dawn broke he sank totally exhausted and almost lifeless by the side of a spring of water. There he was found b' a young girl from one of the neighboring farm-houses, who thus early in the morning had ventured from her home to obtain water from this spring for culinary purposes. The wounded eoldier was young in years, not twenty live, and possessed, notwithstanding its distortions by suffering, a handsome, in teresting face. The young lady was in the first blush of conscious womanhood, auti ii sue nau leit mat suuenn'r voun? prospective groom on the marriage-day a special train be tween Philadelphia and Baltimoro to convey a number of his old soldier friends from one city to another to witness this unexpected and romantic consummation of his hopes and desires.' WTitt " HTnlnimo.1 tin linntitr man ...,, -....w. ...... ...,, .uuu. Thomas incvc nis iancn iortunes, and, arming v. u. noweiis is lortv six. to Louisville, he sought s precarions '' Bailey Aldrich is forty-live. Joaquin living Dy selling newspapers, -i-inauy, i ouiier is iorty-two, James Kussell lx)w falling sick, he was taken to the alms house, and there received .pitying care from a number of charitable ladies and prominent physician of the city, who war talked to one soldier about that girl, I talked to a thousand. I used to be known all through our division as the man who was going to marry the girl of Gettysburg when the cruel war is over.1 " Baltimore Cor. N. Y. Mercury. Ah Italian Murder. if L during the last fow years of the nk now connected with the staff of the ... . ... J - -..' .-r-i r mi j!i --ii i i iuuieviue lueuicai vouegw, woo ra&ue ' much of the old man, not only for what he had been, but for the pure character he had maintained, despite his down fall in the world. Recovering under these kind auspices, he began to peddle stationery and pen cils about the streets, always returning at the close of each day to the hospita ble shelter of the. almshouse, where he was permanently assigned to a room. This room he has decorated with prints .of all kinds, and it contains all his re maining treasures, consisting of a num ber of war relics, memoranda, letters, newspaper references, photographs, manuscriptjaddresses, essays and poems ' for Eli. is a fruitful rhymer, a quaint medley of souvenirs of his long and checkered life. To add to this selection is the only gentle mania which gives pleasure to is last days, and prevents his mind from literally rusting out through mo notony. A short time after he began this new business ho was invited by the physician who had attended him in his former r J .. man there to die, by that one act she would have branded every ancient and modern male and female romancer as a base destroyer of the goddess of truth. But she did not. She reported his sad condition to her parents, and, moved b her earnest pleadings in his behalf, even in that hour of great confusion and multiplicity of demands upon them, they reluctantly consented to have him removed to their house. There he was carefully and. skillfully nursed back to rc bustlifeand vigorous health by the young lath who had saved him. louring the da3s of his suffering and convalescence the old, old, ami yet ever, ever new story of human hearts and desires was being enacted in that now quiet farm house. While he was repairing his vi tality and acquiring his .flesh he was losing his heart. Soon the rosy flush on her fair cheek and the bright light which sparkled in her eye while in his presence convinced him that h;.s fond passion was recipro cated, and so this young couple became regularly engaged with the consent and blessings of every interested person on all sides. The young gentleman rejoined his regiment when he had fully re covered, although he had been reported dead, and was so marked on the book ot the command. At the close of the war he returned to Philadelphia, and began the life struggle to secure a home for what he then considered his destined bride. During all these years a warm correspondence had been main tained betwe n these two young peo ple. But somehow the young man con tinued just what he originally was very poor. J lien the young lady, at last completely tired of waiting and sighing, and realizing that time was fleeing and years disappearing, broke the engagement, and receiving the at tention of a neighboring farmer "who possessed Government bonds and one large Pennsylvania farm, par value $2,- 000 per acre, in due and proper course of time married him. Mr. Corson, in Philadelphia, did not lie down and die. As he remarked recently to your repre sentative: "At that time I felt exactly like Mme. Bonaparte, nee Miss Elizabeth Paterson, of Baltimore, did when, after the de sertion of her royal husband, she ex claimed: 'At one "time in my life I had three ruling passions love, ambition for worldly "honors and avarice they are all dead now but one, and that one is avarice. It is the sole controlling mo tive in my life As this gentleman, after many efforts, failed to succeed in Philadelphia, he came to this city and once more hitherto relentless fate changed her countenance from the dark frown of adversity to the blessed smile of prosperity, and he began to legiti mately coin money, and what was, is ami always will be much better, save the major portion of the same. During all these years he conipletelv lost sight of his first and only love," but his heart remained undisturbed by the bewitch ing efforts and coy blandishments of the many young ladles who. for the past ten wealthy years of his life, have been paying him marked attention. The con cluding chapter of this true narrative cau best be given in the vivid descrip tive words of the gentleman himself, which he used with much emphasis and many graphic gestures to your corre spondent to-day: "Last week Wednesday mornino-, while walking down Baltimore street, passed s. lady. One brief, casual glance at her Face at once attracted my attention. I have seen that face before,' was my first thought. And then I mentally ex claimed: 4 1 wonder where?' Although to the ordinary observer there was noth ing especially attractive in either her face or figure, for she was evidently over forty years of age, with her hair whitened by trouble, and plain face strongly marked by the lines of care and sorrow, yet I feltbv some unknown cause strongly drawn toward her. She passed me, walking at a rapid pace. I stopped, and for a moment gazed after her irresolute. Then I started after her. Then I paused again, unde cided. 'Very foolish in me, an old man, to be running after an equally old woman,' was my next thought. Then 1 determined to get one good square took at her face, and see if I could as certain why I was influenced by her in such a peculiar manner, and where and when I had seen her before. I walked hurriedly after her, and while passing her glanced at her in what would be considered a very impressive, imperti nent manner. Then, great Heavens! 1 recognized her. "The energetic street scene of smiling Business surron&d- and Considerable excitement has been caused in Rome by a most cold-blooded and carefully-planned murder. In 1870 a man named Monti and his wife, neither of whom could read or write, hired in the Piazza Colonna one of the kiosques which had just been erected for the sale of newspapers. By 'd:li- gence and saving, they succeeded in putting by no less than" 32,000 francs. In the mouth of May last Monti was in duced by a man named Emilio Fallaci, who was passing by the name of Adolfo Landucei, to join him in carrying on a manufactory of wax matches, which ho said he was about to establish at Leg horn, and to accompany him there. From Leghorn letters purporting to be dictated by Monti were received from time to time by his wife, iuforming her of matters connected with the manu factory and .requiring remittances, which were immediately sent. Becom ing anxious, however, at his protracted absence, she wrote expressing her fears, and in reply received a letter telling her to make a trip to Leghorn, as he could not leave the works to come to Rome, and to bring her savings-bank deposit- books witu lier. bhe started with the intention of returning in three or four days, and in the meantime left the kiosque in the charge of her eldest boy. A fortnight having passed, her children received a letter purporting toi be from . her, tellingthem thatshe-was unavoid ably detained; but that "their ,'gocd'v Adolfo," the partner, was going to Rome to get some things required out of the strong-box. Adolfo arrived, was permitted to break open the box and ttike all he thought fit from it, and then departed. Finally, however, suspicion was aroused and the Leghorn police were communicated with. The pre tended manufactory in the Via del Corallo was found to be deserted; aud." on the door being broken open -the bodies of Monti and his wife were dis covered in a room, on the door of which was a notice prohibiting any one from entering there, because, it contained in flammable substances. The body of the wife, who had' evidently' been murdered immediately upon her enter ing the house, w:is lying on the floor. That of Monti, in aii advanced stage of decomposition, was found buriod a foot or two under it The murderer appears not only to have gone, after the murder of the wife, to the police office at Florence, and, presenting himself there as Luigi Monti, to have requested the authorities to obtain for him from Roma that attestation of his being the lawful owner of the savings-bank books, which would enable him to sell them;. but with incredible coolness, to have gone backward and forward there for several da3rs, until becoming, it may be supposed, alarmed, he finally disap peared, just as suspicions were aroused. London Times. sickness to visit the dissecting-room of the Louisville Medical College. He peace anu uusuimr avtiwb ui and pleasure which actually ad me instantly faded from view. Evcry-Day Dresses aud Children. Wraps for White muslin dresses for winter wear are now see only on the smallest children, and these are the simplest slips with a tucked yoke and cuffs, as the "foreign aid of ornament" in the way of lace and embroidery has been entirely given up for these "wee babies." The fine dark blue flannels and soft cashmeres are used by many mothers fcr their children who are only eighteen months old, though most mothers dress their girls at least in white until they are two years old, but use the colored domestic flannels for boys soon after putting them in short clothes. Flannel dresses are heavy for children, and should be simply made on account of their weight. The long belted blouse with three box plaits down front and back, stitched on each edge from the neck to the hips, but loose below, is made of bin.', brown or gray flannel of American make, for boys, while the same material is made into yoke blouses for girls. For walk ing coats and even lor infants' long cloaks the practical eider-down -m-nels are used; these have a .Jersey-like webbing at the back, with thiek lanib's wool fleece outside. In dark colors this is very serviceable, ami in wh'te and pale blue shades it is s-iflicienilv dressy for the nicest use. There are also excellent plaid flannels of domestic manufacture in the soft dull colors seen inimported stuffs that arc used for the skirts of girls' dresses, with pVneesse over-dresses of the plain flannel; and these plaids make entire kilt suits for boys. Harper's Bazar. went out of curiosity, and was so filled with admiration at what he saw of the patient toil and reverent treatment of cadavers by the students that his soul was fired with the idea of contributing his own frame to medical science after death, and expressed a determination to leave it to his medical friend, whose skill had restored him to health. A few days ago he presented the doc tor with a.document.written in blue ink, duly signed aud attested, purporting to be a last will. The paper reads as follows. full of pathetic-interest: "This is to certify that I, Eli Adams, formerly bookseller, latterly peddler, having mi memory and faculties all right, out failing gradually in health, and feeling that I am liable to sudden death, make this my last and only re quest and wish my mortal remains and all that I am possessed of: "1. Igrlve and bequeath my body to Dr. ,or the city of Louisville, Ky., immedi ately after death, for him to use as he thinks . best: with full permission. to take it apart by dissection (preserving my skeleton entire), for the benefit of himself or of any medical col lege he may be connected with: preferring :that he will retain my skeleton himself. "T do this in the belief that my mortal body, bo disposed of, will be of more benefit to the living than to bo buried to corrupt in the ground, or to be burned to ashes. I also glva him my two books of poetical essays, printed and in manuscript; also my private papers of all kinds, including letters, Journals, memo randa, manuscript, poems, essays, memen toes of the late war, etc., and my photographs and any curiosities I may dio possessed of. I request him to send a copv of this, my last wiu,toray only brother, Charles Adams, of No. 431 Chestnut street, Philadelphia; also to insert once a short notice of my death In The Commercial (Sunday issue), of Louisville, and to examine my papers, manuscripts, etc, and to dispose of them as ho pleases. "S. If I die in the city almshouse (where I am at present,) I respectfully request tho su perintendent to have my body washed, a clean shirt and socks put on and wrapped in my blue-gray blanket, with red and yellow stripes at its ends; and cause my body, so Inclosed, 'to be delivered to thebrder of Dr. , in accordance with the directions given pre viously. Also, that all of my private papers (including the original manuscript of "The Heautirul Snow." and tho popular story of "Cousin Solly Dillard," whose author I am.) all my journals, letters, etc., be put In one of my boxes aud sent with my body. "I also give my clothing to Mrs. , nurse: to be distributed to some of the blind and crippled Inmates of the almshouse, white pt colored: and If she should not be a nurse at the time of my death, nor an employe of the almshouse, then said clothing to be distributed by the. matron, whoever sbe may be; always remembering that I want the most needy to have them. If I do not die tn the almshouse. Dr. is to dispose of my clothing, etc. The books, magazines and newspapers were given to me for the use and benefit -of the pauper Inmates, and should be given to them. The pictures on the walls of my room are Included, excepting the colored engravings, which are my property, and are to be equally distributed by lot to Dr.. , Mrs. , and Mrs. . "To all of which I subscribe my hand. "Eli Adams." Witness: Theo. Davit. Louisville Commercial. ell is sixtv-four aud John G. Saxe u sixty-eight A". J. Tribune. E. D. Winslow, the notorious .bos ton forger, who almost succeeded in causing a rupture in the diplomatic re lations between England and America a fewyears ago.is now a successful business man in Buenos Ayres, South America. He has taken the name of W. D. Lowe. Boston Herald. The Boston Travellsr says that Presihent Bruce, of the Massachusetts Senate, and Speaker Marden, of the Massachusetts House of Representa tives, were bom in' thesamVyeariTnthe lame town in New Hampshire, and were graduated in the same class at Dartmouth College. The Fresno (Col.) Republican says: A remarkable matrimonial compact was made at tho United States Hotel in this jity Monday evening, in. which Noah Htckok and Elizaoeth Hickok wore married for the third time. They have been twiee divorced. The bride aud groom have reached the .mature age of seventy-three and eighty-seven respect ively. ;M. Rottstan, the new French Minister at Washington, is about forty-eight years of age. He has held many Con sular posts, and in 1881 was appointed Ambassador to Tunis. He was a con spicuous actor in the recent events in that country, and the success of French diplomacy in the dealings with the Bey is due almost entirely to his firmness and sagacity. Washington Star. Trollope received S240 for his first production and 35,000 for one of his last. Captain Marn att received $100, 000 for ouo of his works, and Lord Lyt ton $15,000 for the copyright of the cheap edition of his Avorks by Messrs. Routlcdge & Sons, in addition to the large amount paid at the time of their publication, whilo it is well known that and is r Messrs. Longman paid Lord Beacons- field $50,000 for "Eudymion." -V o Jat.,J o - . . -... ,o LsLsLsLsLsLsLsLsLs; -SiLA o t1MHflHrLsLsiL"w T3ILsLiHLli. LsHLsLsvBBBiHr siiiiiiiiM LbLbLbLbLbI LbLbLbLbLV LbLbLbLbI sLbLbLbLbH LbHLb "LbLbLbLbLbV'LbLbLW LbLbLbLbLbY LbLbLbLbLbv r ALbLbLbm LbLbLbLbLbTLbLbLb". 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While the thousands of skaters were darting over the frozen surface of the Schuylkill yesterday afternoon one venturesome chap, clad inVbiguls'tcr," woolen gloves and a fur cap glided gnwttfully upon a wide stretch ot thin ice under the Girard Avenue bridge. In a moment he was floundering in the water. In rcsponso.to his cries for help a member of tho Philadelphia Skating Club and Humane Society tossed him a life line. .He seized it and a score of willing hands at the other end pulled hard. The rope parted and the unfortunate skater was at the tinercy of the icy waters. The saving, appliance, after the mishap, was too short to reach him. No other rope was near. It looked, squally for the man in the water, who cried out that his strength was fast leav ing him. A tall, -muscular fellow threw himself flat on the'treacherous ice and slowly drew himself to the sinking man who seized his arms. Amother skater prostrated himself in like manner and caught hold of the ankles, of the. other man, forming a chain. Several, per-, sons grasped the legs .cf the last man and succeeded in drawing the trio to a place of safety. The rescued man was' almost exhausted. He was wrapped in a Blanket, placed on aaledand hurriW Jy taken to the boat-house of the Skat ing Clab, where, under the treatment he received, he aodk iowred. JSWtW A Daaclas; Epidesale. The earliest mention of tarantismus is found in the works of Nicolas Perorti, who died in 1480. It appeared first in Apulia, and at the time of this author, seems to have fairly well established itself as a disease in -that province. It is spoken of as having been produced by the bite of the wolf-spider, an earth species of light brown color, with black stripes, known to science as the Lycosa 'tarantula Apiilica. This creature is fonndgnerally'distrlb'utedtlirbiigh6ut' Italy and Spain and many an old trav eler has told wonderful stories' of. the effect of its bite, which was accredited as poisonous. The part bitten, accord ing to common belief, became swollen and smarten; the victim became low spirited, trfmbled and was anxious; he was troubled with nausea, giddiness, and at length fell down i a swoon. All exterior circumstances powerfully anecteu mm; ao wits .essay wxciwju 10 frenzy or depressed to melancholy, ana behaved generally as a hysterical sub ject would do. The strangest effect, or rather supposed effect, of the bite was the behavior of the patient at the sound of music; for he immediately rose and danced as 'madly as do the wicked people in the fairy tale at tho sound of the hero's enchanted pipe. However 3he patient may have been affected at tho outset, he seems invariably to have fallen into a swoon the result of nerv ous exhaustion from which music and music only " could relieve h'im; but neither music nor any other remedy' could permanently cure him. Cham hers Journal. There is on exhibition at Osvregd, N. Y., a singular freak of nature' to which has been given the name of the "Bear, Man."' It, possesses some char acteristics of a human- being,, but more of, the Bruin. " It originated .from Queens County, New Brunswick, and has been on exhibition about two years. The thing is, certainly a curiosity, walks on all .fours like "a bear, talks a little, and is well calculated to excite feelings of disgust in the .mind of anyone who sees it, except admirers of monstrosi ties, and there are many such. Utica Herald. m m A worthy old lady offers the follow ing advice to girls: "Whenever. fel low pops the question, .don's blush; and stare at your loot, just tnrow your arouna xus neec, iook urn nut n ik face and commence talking abets &lmmlttir.--PMtlehikMcrL Collin is tho name of a rising tenor singer in the West. Strange that a man can sing -who is always a Coffin. JV1 Y. Commercial Advertiser. "Yes," said the Idaho man, "it's dreadful unfortunate that my gal got hugged by that ar' b'ar. She's sorTo' helu me in contempt since." Chicago Herald. A party of young ladies attended a church sociable in Elizabethan costume, and when the local paper said that tho fair was visited by ruffs nobody caught on to the joke. Boston Herald. We started to read a poem by Bart ley Campbell tho other day. FInaily we came to tho point where he rhymed "plenty" and "went she." Then we stopped. We are not Citizen. "Yes," said Mr. Brickhandler, "my bull dog has wonderful artistic taste. He wouldn't attack a tramp the other day because the cloth of the man's trousers wouldn't harmonize well with the color of his jaws." Boston Post. It was his first attempt on roller skates, and as they brought him to in the toilet-room he remarked: "I tell you, boys, that was gorgeous. I must have knocked iu the whole dome of heaven, the way those stars Hew 'round. I wonder if there's any left for the next man." Oil City Derrick. "Take my advice," said old Skin flint to his clerk, whom he had discov ered stamping an envelope from his own Erivate receptacle; "take my advice. I ever find you taking anything of mine your connections won't save you. To jail you go." "Very well, sir,' said the clerk; "perhaps I had bet ter not take your advice, then." The Judge. "Thetop of the morning to ye, Mrs. O'Flaherty." "The same to ye, Mrs. O'Raherty. An' did ye seo the orphants marchin' yisterday?" "I did; God bless iyery mother's son of 'em. But I didn't see little Johnny O'Hera in the procession." "Aud sure, he's not an orphan t any more. He's quit the business and has gone to learnin a thrade, ho has." "Arrah, God bless him for his enterprise." Kentucky Stale Journal. Why he wasn't there now: Koscius ko Murphy, who is a book-keeper in a grocery house, met a friend who clerks in a cigar store on Austin avenue and asked lum for a cigar. "Ain't got ,any," said his friend. "Ain't got any!" said Kosciusko. "Why, when I used to work in a cigar store I always had my pockets stuffed with cigars." " Xcs; probably that's the reason you ain't in a cigar store now," was the crushing reply. Texas Sif tings. "Young Calvin" wants to know if we "believe that" the angels have wings, and why we think so?'p We think they have, Calvin. 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