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$1 THE RED CLOUD CHIEF. THE BED CLOUD CHIEF. frz- - Bed (tOUD Chief. RATB8 OF ADVERTISING: & - - PUBLISHED AT WEEKLY, The Otu Inch. IVh Mi t.l Sr.t thre month IUtlHU,Hl inrlirn mnntii., month . , j,m 5,00 im c m Quarter column, threw nnth. .... l,08 M Mi taelrvtatnth. ctIm. . . . 91.MI 3fyW RED CLOUD, Hall column, thn mnth . jm Mi siutJ. ... aJ.rn fjrl mouth. 1M Webster County, Web. iievoiea to the Intercsts'tC i. Southwest Nebraska C. L. MATHER. Publisher. Otie column. tJireo ii month month. .. . sl.i $2.00 PER ANNUM. M trrU mntfc UU.00 Mirrtvie and ONtwary Notice free. Loral re TBRiuu, VOL. J. RED CLOUD, WEBSTER CO., NEf J THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1S74. NO. :U. Ek-n- li tiT xkTalJe liv jttrier! i- -t yaMe line, in . Trnl'ut adac Yfrlj aj.d IcM dxerlimo A4irrtl Two'Dollars a Year, In Advance. H V v i F -- . J If CICKI.Y. Alkali Station. jir nnKT haktk. Ocli jou'n-aixxt- ; rnajlw; I lut much on rhyme; I reckon jou'd kI" c a hundred, ami beat luc cterytiuie. Poetry' lhat tho way oine chap put np an Idee. Hut I take, mine ' atraight ltb,ut Kucar," and that' what' tli" matter with rue. Poetry ! Jwt I)k ronnd jou alkali, rock and Kai;e-bTU- rock ami alkali ; iin't It a in tty page? Hun in the Kaat at xuurniiiK, nun in the Wat at nipht, Aud the fhadow of thin yer utatlon the ou'y thing inoictt in Might. PoMry! Well, no, Polly! Polly, niu to jonrmara ' Kun right away, rr.yjooty! ny-by- e! Alut nhea laait7 Poetry! That remind me o' Mitbli.' rifiht in that nit; Jetd Mint that door, lhar, will er! for Cicely ear" IP" Cllle. Vi noted Polly, the bab) ? A mouth afore fche u ltorn, l'irel (my old woman) a iuoody-lik- i and forloni; Out of hrr head and craxy, and talked of flower and tree ; Pamlly man yonreelf. Mr 7 Well, you know what a woman !. Nrfriouc Mie wa and reMlee -- said that Mie couldn't Ma, hU and the nen-e- t woman Feeuteen luileH away. Ilut I tlied it up with th doctor, and he "1.1 he would treou hand; And I klndrr Mink by the Miauty, and ft need in that Ml o'Ulid. One niRht mm tenth of Oilolier 1 woke with a rhill and a fright. Tor the tl.mr II wan Mauding oien, and Cicely warnt In msht ; lint a note wax piuid on the blanket, which it nid that Mie "couldn't May," Jlut had gone to viot her iieiRhlKir ecienteen mihtt awa I When and how he MainiHtied, i didn't wait for to . l"or out in the road, next nilnit, I Marled an wild a he: Itunuing rlret thin way and that nay, like abound that in off the eeent, Kor there wamt no track in the darkncwH to tell me the way Mie went. 1 e hal Home mighty mean niomentu afore I keni to tliln j"it lM on the jiUliiHiu'j", ilrowudetl almcmt.and hhot; Itul out on thin alkali deecrt. a hutitiiiR a crary wife, Wan ralj aH tmwitlefartory " anything In my life. "C'helj! Cicely! Cicely!"! tailed and I hold my brtath; And "Cicclj !" came from thn ran) oil and all wan Mill a death. And"Ci-ly- l ! Cicely !" came from the rockn AndJM but a wliUjH'r r "Cicely!" down from them al of kuow. I aiut what you call reiioni; but 1 jcM lookivl up to thi'Mtj, And th)rrV to what I'm romin', and maylieye think I lie. lint tip away to tho taM'anl, jailer and bic ai (, j tar. 1 aw of a ftiiddint nMiur, ti Mnien-- kind of i lilt and jb1I rand daiiciuc, it to lieckou to me ; Yaller slid bid and iljticliif. such an yon neer Mr ami yaller and daucitiR, 1 Hcur wr micka ftar; Mid MhouKht or them hari in the iiii.ie. and i wttu torn iiii'iiami in&r. OM r "hend""" "'1 l l ' Keeping the Mat afore me, I went whereer It led. t-- 1 nuuiil net ieen lor an nour, wnen miuiumi iiim h r and iiikIi. Out of the jearth afore me thar rix up a lah.v'if rrj. LiMcii! IharV the Mine iiiukic; but they aro Mroiijjer now Than the U I packed l.f r ami l,er iimther I'm diirued if I Jl know bow. Jlut the doctor kem the next mlniiit; and thn joke the whole tliiui; i" That ih never knew what happened from that ery uishttothiii! Itut Cicelv hajt you're ,1 poet and maylio you liiiKut Home day, JitM her a rhyme 'Ixuit baby that was lioru in a curious way. And pee what Mie '; and, old fellow, when ) oil ak of the vtar. bul tell At bow twaK thti itorlor'H lautern for luajlni 'twout pound co well. THE SEALED WILL Do you suppose, mamma, in case the mouev goes from me that it will be given to you ?" " Dear child, how can I ever guess? Your aunt, remember, is your fnthcr's Mstcr, not mine ; so it is scarcely likely .she has thought of me. I am afraid the heir in the sealed will is John Gar-lau- d. ' Mamma !" " It is only guess-wor- k, dear." " Hut ho is so unfit to have the re- sponsibility of money ; a man known to be a gambler and a drinking-mau- , if not an actual drunkard." " Very true. Yet he is the nearest relative vouc Aunt Jessie had. excepting ' only irsolf " "lean scarcely think Aunt Jessie would leave him fifty thousand dol- - lars." " My dear, she has left it to you, her nieco and namesake." "But upon tho condition that I never I I marry. If I do, tho scaled will in tho hands of the lawyer is to bo oicned. and the money pass from mo to the heir or heirs named therein. You must know me well enough to be sure that the money would never tempt me to break my engagement; yet for your sake, I wish oh, why did Aunt Jessie leave it to mo at all ?' "Do not think of me. T can live as we havo done since your father died. But, Jessie," and Mrs. Markham's face looked gravo and sad, " there's one view of tho matter you do not take." " 1 daro say there aro fifty. Remem- ber, wo havo now lnul only an hour or two to think since- - tho letter came from tho lawyer. But what is the view you mean ?" " Charlie." "Charlie?" Jessie's browu eyes were opened to their widest extent as she repeated the nanus adding, "Why, I haven't thought of anything but Charlie !" "But I mean dear me!" said the mother, shrinking from uttering her thought. " You know, dear, you have always been considered your aunt's heiress ; and Charley is young and only commencing the practice of his pro- fession. It may be that ho will " "Bo false to me for the sake of money?" interrupted Jessie, with the rosiest of cheeks and brightest of eyes. " e win soon tost this, ami she drew a writing-tabl- e to her side. "1 will . send him a copy of the lawyer's letter, and " here her voice and e es softoned " the nvjiirauee that Aunt Jessie's will makes no difference to me." Mrs. Markham made no objection to this step ; but after the letter was signed and sealed, and dispatched to the village, by Polly, the only servant of the Markham household, slu called Jessie again to her side. Over the fair, sweet face of the young girl there had crept a shade of gravity nd perplexity since th'e arrivd of the lawyer's letter, that clouded the brown eyes, and gave the HCDHitive, mobile mouth a firmer pressure than was quite natural. Life had Ixjcn all sunshine to Jessie jrarkham ; 3-- hers was one of the buoyant nature that find the silver lining for every cloud, and coax some sweetness from every bitter dose. Her father had been dead six years, and his business affairs having become complicated in some way not compre- hensible to feminine intellect, his widow and child found themselves reduced to an income that barely covered the neces- saries of life. They left the city and took a small cottage in the pretty village of Morton, where Mrs. Markham eoon frocurcd a class of music scholars., and Jessie lessons in the higher branches of English studies, German, French and mubic, till at eighteen her daughter also procured a few pupils in languages. They were very liappy in their mutual affection, in the love of their pupils, and the cares of their little household. It had been understood from the time Jessie was a tiny baby thut sho should inherit the fortune of her maiden aunt, from whom she was named, and who came from the city every summer to spend a month or two in the little cot- tage, always bringing pretty presents to brighten the homo of her brother's widow, and lavishing tenderest affection ujKn her niece. Yet, though Jessie herself had known of her annt's supposed intentions, neither she nor her mother hsid ever made calculation upon a fortune de pendent upon the death of the one for whom they felt the warmest affection, and the idea Unit otners could e in- fluenced by it was a new thought to the young girl. She had given to her betrothed, Charlie Seatou, the iirst love of her young heart, believing that his love wan all her own. In the six years sho had lived in Morton, child and maidon, Charlie Seaton had been her devoted ad- mirer from the lirst, and had recently finished his course of law study and been admitted to the bar. His fortune, inherited from his father, was very small, barely covering his expenditure for board and clothing.; but he was energetic, industrious, and without brilliant talent, a clear-heade- d, intolli- -' cent ptndent. m omitting to make a eapable lawyer, if not a shining light at the bar. Answering her mothers caM, Jessie nestled down in her favorite seat at her feet, saying: "If Charlie was iuilucnced by any hope of Aunt Jessie's money, niamma, 11 is ocuer 10 kiiow it now. a nau hup- - ixiscd we would have to wait for our wedding-da- y until he lnul some practice, jjjld you KllOW I JiaVO ft JHUO film Ol my t ... . ir i 1 own towards nrsr, cxiienses. o comti live here, and there, I will not think of it any more till tho answer comes to my a letter." 'While you wait, dear," said her mother, " shall I tell you what I think is tho explanation of your aunt's singu- lar will V You, who know her only as the gentle, sad woman of her lao years, can scarcely imagino, 1 presume, that she was once as bright, hopeful, and sunny-tempere- d as yourself. I think it is to save you from her own sorrow that she has taken from the power of giving wealth to a mere fortune-hunte- r. She would havo you wooed and won for yourself alone, and as sho has never positively said you were to be her heiress, she has probably never sup- posed Charlie biased by that hope. Still, dear, it is possible." " Yes, it is possible." said Jessie, slowly; "but toll me about Aunt Jessie." " You grandfather Markham, Jessie, was 0110 of tho leadiug merchants of New York when your aunt, his only daughter, was introduced into society. Your uncle Hoyt was in good practice as a physician, your father doing then a fair business, and already married and in his own home. " It was, therefore, with tho name of sm heiress that Jessie danced through her first season, a careless, light-hearte- d 1 Sin vcr prciiy uuu accuiujmbu-uu- w mako a pleasing impression wherever sho went. She was but a little over twenty when she became engaged to Stanley Horton, tho most fascinating man -- in all our circle of friends. Not only handsome and talented and he was both but possessing in a remark-- I able degreo tho . courtly polish and win- - .11. t g Gco 01 manner ia go , ,ar to1 8an,n81 woman 8Thea.rtV - - The absorbing love Jessie felt for him seemed mutual, and congratula- tions were the order of tho day, when your grandfather failed. From a man of wealth he became actually poor, and losing energy and hope, he came with Jessio to share our home. "Staaley Horton, the man we all supposed a devoted lover, was fully aware of the change in Jessie's pros- pects, yet ho continued his visits, mak- ing no abrupt, ungentlemanly desertion of Ids betrothed. Yet wu, who watched her with the jealousy r affection, soon discovered n change in her. She became pale ami sad, often tearful, till finally she confided to me that Stanley was evidently weary of her, and had ceased to lovoher. Even then sho attributed the change to some defect in herself, not seeing the mercenary motive till later, when time had taken tho glamour from her eyes and heart. " She gave him back his ring and Irromises ; thus accepting the position conduct forced upon her, of herself breaking the engagement be- tween them. The first love of her life was the last. She was vour grandfather's com fort uutil he died, and then went to keep house for Hoyt, who lost his wife and baby one year after his wedding day. When he died he left her his house and his money, and she lived there till she died. Still I know sh. loved yon, and I am quite sure her will is uot designed so much to keep yoa singlo as it is to win the disinterested love of your fntnre husband." There was u long silence after Mrs. Markham concluded her storr, and Jes sie allowed her h?ad to rest in herl mother's lap, under her caressing baud, trying to picture a future of easy compe- tency shared by tho companion of her j life. It had a hrifch nac ; ther was still love and happiness for her yet. And then a bright face crowned with curly brown hair would come before her, and she knew that neither the hand- some house nor the comfortable income could ever fill her heart if Charlie left an aching void there. Suddenly, like a gust of wind, there swept into the little sitting-roo- m a tall, broad-shouldere- d young man, in a gray tweed suit and slouch hat, which lat- ter article found a resting-plac- e upon the floor, as the giant braced himself before Jessie in an attitude of grim de- fiance that sent thrills of glad music into her heart. "Will you have the kindness, Miss Markham," said the' intruder? towering in his six feet of manhood over Jcssio's low seat, " to tell me what you mean by tho absurd letter Tolly handed me? Was it not understood that you and I were to share this cottage with your mamma until I attained sufficient legal eminence to warrant the purcJia.se of a brown stone front in New York ? Was I not deluded in the belief that yonr presence in tho culinary department of our establishment was to reduce our ex- penses to tho limits of our present o? Was it not represented to mo that my present hoard was sufficient to meet the requirements of two in this . . . 1 - "t 1 r v 1 1 - I domicile.' in Hnori, iuiss .uarKiiam, 111 what way was I ever led .to suppose that the fortune of your spinster aunt was to influence in the slightest degree 1 your matrimonial intentions in regard I to myself ? I pause for a reply." Jessio stood up, her hantls meekly folded " together, and her happy eyes downcast till the long lashes kis?ed lcr cheek. " Please forgive me this time, and I'll never do it again," bhe said ; and then the laugh dimpled her cheek, danced in her eyes, and rippled out clear and sweet upon tho air. I "Oh, Charlie! Charlie! I know you never thought of Aunt Jessie's . money." I "And you," said Charlie, holding her off at arm's length, " you can have it all if you give iro up, " As if I loved money better than ' vou," Baid Jessie, nestling now in strong closely around ' have said, in this costs cents, regular is is inimitable, indeed, It seemed, however, as Charlie postago, to letter ; and whole is admitted to money postmasters when most uniquo pieces grotesque-wa- s temptingly Jessie's grabp, to register known in parts." scries Internal revenue that bore upon subject of an marriage. " What is there to wait for," would ask, and then enter upon caleuhi- - tions of present expenses and those of future, proving most conclusively j that thero decided saving both in uniting their incomes. "You me," said Jessie, "of' Dutchman who said could al- - o .,f l.;,.,oir ;f u . Itiwou ..111. 11. .- -. 11 01 mem could uo it I entirely." t But, though she laughed at him, Jes- sie quito willing to admit foreo of reasoning ; and bright Juno moniing, months after Aunt Jessie's death, there wedding vil- lage church, and breakfast iu cot- tage chosen friends. Among these Aunt Jessie s lawyer, will stipulated that sealed codicil to opened at Jessie's wedding, if she preferred love to money. Tho brido littlo paler than when, with n solemn face, I New York lawyer broke big red seal. Visions John Garland hold- ing drunken revels in her aunt's house flitted across her and then she looked into Charlio's face, and her crept an expression perfect content. The will opened, and found to contain only letter directed to Jessie, ami short, legally-worde- d formula making herself and chosen husband joint inheritors of her fortune. Tearfully bride opened letter from dead. , " I not," she y approve of I I money family en- tirely hands of woman ; there- fore, you will find, dear Jessie, that half of fortune only is yours, remaining half to to husband who proved loved you your sweet self, your fortune." During wedding tour young couple, Mrs. Markham, at their earnest solicitation, took an fare- well of her pupils, and removed her household treasures to New York mansion, which, in due time, tamo Charlie and Jessie to brighten long silent rooms with thoir happiness, and that loving circle makes home of any house, however grand tir however humble. Length Rivers. The table given below contains statement length of the long- est rivers upon globe, together with countries they are located INrtr. 0ifry. Mile. Amazon America. .. .1,000 Amoor. ....... Tartary ArkanraK United lJurranipooter... Colorado North Mexico. l,lt Columbia Oreiiu Temtorr .. Danube ."Auatrta Pottu. Scotland 100 Oansro Kritiah Hoaug Ho Irrawaddy..... llunsin Kana..., United Klankn LaPUte ....... ..South Anirn-a....- . Mackenzie. Miirouri and Mlsiin,-tjnite- .l ....4,300 iirer ........ .Africa.... . ..2.nil ......... Ot and IrtiMi... ......Siberia hlo United Stale.. I"".U40i lrtcoco ......liniana..u... .. ....1,J l"ar and Aratfua ...... Brazil .. .l.4M ... ..LoniMa&a. ...... ...ilOO Uio Madeira ji Itto Negro ......Columbia Rhine ..... .Gerruany ... ... ... f) ..... . ........ AX) Seivt! . .Wcet . ....t.4tX St. LawTence..... ......North America. Trane)e- - . ...United Stairs .. .. HO Tbarne lJRVand .. Ytnieej ......Mberia.. .. .. . ...2,.J One of singular coincidences con- nected with status of the members of Iowa of Representatives this winter, is fact that there thirty-fiv- e Grangers among the Repub- licans, and tlurty-fiv-e among Anti-Monopolis- ts, Tho extraordinary di- vision, therefore, is wholly outside and independent of the gmtHte element of eiuicr Fnie, "S. Rate f urrrafab Postal cards, oqai each. Letter go to any part the United 1 three cents pfrlialf ounce, if I London just is Mark Twain's id. J count, in lecture, of the ' buck- - Unpaid lettcre areiiiMU to Dead horso which purch.ised in eva-Lett- er Office at Wasfcjhlgton. It is impossible to put it on paper, Letters weighing ogr half an ounce, as half of effect produced and prepaid a singlo taw, forwarded I story depends upon manner of tell-t- o their destination iad the balance 1 ing It would appear that before duo collected on delivjy. . purchasing this bteed had no idea of lntrjrt TTmnt tirtftnl 1 I Iwn wlinf Mmnttni,' wad ln iiwm1 arms wrapped pout items. As I the way which her. It besides the story told and, if register a all the lecturo be one actually of tho that obliged, required, of the of so near , a letter. ever these he commenced a of interviews stamps cannot be entirely the immediate he his tho was a for remind the ho olr... ,..,! oil''Viu miiinv.il itniiv.. pity two not was the his one was a in tho a the for a fow was for tho was be was a usual, tho the of mind, over own of was ft a her aunt's the the the do wrote, the power in a being in tho a my the go the has ho for own not for the of the affectionate tho to the established which a of the all the the in which South 2.500 State 2.100 I.IW lr00 India l.SHO China 3,lti A.WU Empinr... 1J Slate 1.40J .U,2i .2,7u United SUtc- - J Mate. tic.... 3,3X1 riter. KioOraude. 2,aw Brazil ..".L0 Seine .Prance Africa 1,4M 3 the the the House the are the one of for Jfr his new the mg da. the by the are his it. he ?tff mAAnt ltil 15 was are rie for six the of Bol now he W..J rfl,..w mmm m l'-l- 'f ."V I ccntK iMr half ounce. Letters not called '"(jf prepaid) will be returned to the F-j- jt &t his or her request without dir'"3 postage. Postage on books nll exceeding two oimces in weight, two cents. Each ad- ditional two ounces, or fraction thereof, two cents. NKWSPAPEKS. Newspapers sent from tho office of publication may be prepaid at the fol- lowing rates quarterly : ' DMlien, 7 timeit a wtek 35 teuU Jkt qr Dailiee, (i timen a wiek anient ijr Weeklies 3 reuti" r T j Menthlieit (foretery four ounce or fraction thereof) 3tenta er jr yuArterlieK 1 cent lT ir MISCEM.ANKOC8 MATTKIl. On unsealed circulars, mans, mints. .'.'. iinim.vttifTD anvici.. nirtt! n inrmti-nlih- u "H"""d "". v.n.ir., j.uwhiuj-uo- , types, cuttings, roots, seeds, etc., on ona package to one address, prepaid, ot exceeding two ounces, 1 cent ; over two and not exceeding four ounces, 2 Jnts ; d 1 cent for every additional ""ce or fraction thereof. , money oiujeks. in most of the large ciUes and towns, at j which orders can he obtained upon any other omcc, at the lollowmg rates ol commission : Onorden" uot exceeding 'M .lOceutu OiertJO.and uot cxreedlrur Kui .l.lrentM Ovfr f, auil not excetillUK f 10 'JO cent ijer fl", and not rxtetdiuRfoO . . ...S5ctlit No single order issued for less than one dollar nor more than fifty dollars. Parties .- - desiring v . to . remit larger " sums must obtain additional niouev orders. No anolicant can obtain, in one dav. more than three orders uavable at the same office and to the same pavee. used to pay postage. Stamps cut from stamped envelopes nro not allowed to be placed upon other letters. ' No artielo contained in glass can bo I sent by mail to Great Britain and Ire- - ' land. - The revised rates of foreign postage ! TftnniTMiiTArMiiuKutMi. Uttcn. c centa per half oum. '1 cent each ' JIaj;jiJnc. ...2ccntK per I otiiut ilookB.. Brentit per I ounce. I Sample .. . .8 cent per 1 ounce t A Female Soldier. The military annals of most Kuro- - pcan countries, says tho Loudon r.cho, record a Jew instances of women who, having succeeded in entering the ranks of the army, have highly distinguished themselves in tho apparently incongru- ous profession of arms. Such a fact has, according to the Opininnc, been hitherto unprecedented in the Italian army. It was discovered, however, the other day, that a young soldier named Marcotti, who was to receive his dis-diiir- ei' I nn rim first of next month, beinrr enlisted in 18UG, is one of these hero- - I ines. Julia Marcotti, the Amazon in , nirestion. Deionceti to a numerous ami poor family, living at ban Arabrozio, 1 near Turin, and worked iu tho mines of Upper Piedmont, to which lattercircum-stanc- e her extraordinary physical strength may. probably, bo attributed, Sho enlisted in 18fG, at the time when Italy was about to engage in the strug gle with Austria, her motive being to save her brother, who was married and had six children, . from being obliged to r ' a serve, ot only did .niua penorm a a soldier's duties as well as her com- rades, but she fought in tho lirst rank at the battle of Custozza, and obtained tho medal of military valor. On hcar- - ing of the case, King Victor Emauuel I sent for the woman, bestowed upon her J tho Cross of the Order of the Crown, anil desired that she should oc sent home with a pension 01 .HX) lire. A Law Examination. The following racy examination of candidates for admission to the bar is token from the Wcttcrn Law Journal. The examination commenced with : " Do yon smoke ?" " I do, sir." " Have you a sparo cigar 1" "I have, sir." Extends a short six. "Now, sir, what is the first duty of a lawyer ?" "Collect fees, sir." Right. What is the second ?" "To increase the number of clients." " When docs the jiosition toward clients change ?" " When making ont a bill of costs." ""Explain." " We then occupy the antagonistic EDsition. i become the plaintiff and he the defendant." " Suit decided, how do you stand with the lawyer on the other side ?' "Cheek by jowL "Enough, sir. You promise to be an ornament to your profession, and I wish yon success. Now, are yon aware of the duty you owe me ?" " Perfectly." "Describe it." "It is to invite yon to drink." "But suppose I decline?" Caudidate scratches his head. " There is no instance of the kind on record in tho books. I cannot answer the question." "Yon are right. And the confidence with which you mske the assertion showa conclusively that you read the law at- tentively. "Let's take a drink, and I will sign your certificate at once." Onlt one eclipse will ho visible frvm this continent in 1874 of the niooi total midnight October 114-2- 5. There will le one other cclipe of the moon, partial, and two of the sun, during th year, lint tibese will not' bo risible here. The great aatronosucal event of the year will be the trtLrsit of Yonofi, on Dec 8. scxssi tlc fAci rf the sun. Mark Twaia's Barkis? Horse. Moncnre D. Conwav writes from of one of Mark Twain's latt sto- - States afraid ries. as follows : "Tl.n ilk- - nt Kt.n...-- p ... UUVAUJg U.Ub, St KtU IUU fflUIIU to ask for information. This, however. ho obtained through the discipline of experience. He mounted the horse. Thejinimal then gatheretl its four feet ia aJioach benoathL apdby a sudden upward fling sent kim (Twain) into tho' air just 150 yards. When the audience smiles at this, Mark looks troubled at their incredulity, but proceeds. From this ascent he returns, alights in the saddle, and the horso gives another fling Twain going 150 yards in the air. He then tells his smiling audience that he judged it was that distance by the look of the steenles ; but confesses he did not go into details. This aeent being repeated, he remembers, while m the air, heariug some one on earth say, ' He might have known that was a bucking i,h.. . which the fact flashed ".. upon t . , .... upon mm. ninio lie was aosent the 'it time, some one cut the horse, which started forward, and when he came down jt was lipon tjie grtmmi. ne conia not KJlv he regretted it. There was no reason f0r tjie i,ORc remainiug on his account. Friends gathered around him after this descent, as they always do when one wants to bo iett aiono, and asketl it ho wated this or wanted that. What he rcaiv wuted was to sit down. He did so. Ho placed one hand on his head, another on his stomach, and, indeed, thinks that if he had had sixteen hands he could have found suitable places for their application. But as for the horse, ho assures his audience that this and its other antics such as walking about on ' . A 1 la a i I us jiinti leei, wiui its iimmos under its arms, like a Lord Mayor were all nat ural talent. The horse had len brought up in the wild West, and had never had any advantages to develop these gifts. Population of Cities. The population of the chief cities of the United States is indicated by the subjoined tablo : s: ?.3 fc: Altnuy . . &,it! K.M7 fAMe. 74 02,'A.7 Italtiiiiore !Ji.7,3SI .v.,44'r.,7.7'j4 :r.',.vw 212,411 lloMou IU.V),M 87,Pr,;,J47,013 3.4M 177,! 2 lirooklju tai,(W lt4.7ic:rji.M2 4,944 200,714 lluftalo ii 4.-i3- 7 117,01 0O0 Nl.pjll CharltMon.. , tH,W 4,HW rj,74t; W,t73 31,210 Chicago ellH. 144..V.7 itf.CSl 3,091 109,200 Cincinnati .. iI(VfJ tf.ei'A-iKi.x- 144 Clexeland :W,8I. 91,335, i.iv.i, i..i.rj iMroit I 7'..577 33.31 77,331 S,tt 4:1,417 Indiauajiolia.. 10,6X7" 43,:i 'AWl 1,011 Jtrwj City . I Ki,Mfi 31,.!.r. 1,40! 705 4.l,4 lxiiiiMille 1VJ.7S3 25,BVi K'.,7.ij I4.9M IW.03J Memphi . to.rjfi fi.TMOt 2,75' in.171 22.023 Milwaukee... , 71,410 3.1,773 7I,'iC3 176 4,24i5 AI.il.ll,. 3i,KM .! 1.1V1 13.91! KI.25H Newark. .. ltK.ltti 35.HM 103,J,7 1,79 71.941 New IIaeli I ),K4V 14,3V, I'J.OS-- 1.749 :,204 Nc Orleaun. 191.41H 4H.475 I4fl,VZI 50,540 IOH.073 New York , K 419,U74.V."...19'. U.073 Philadelphia . 1KI,(U4!A31,IM 22,147 50.,529 Pittaburi-- h ... 27,-- . 4,001 2,013 49,217 Itoi Idence . 17,177 00,320 2,559 .'0,000 i1,.,;," I 51,03 3,771 27,V 23.110 37,910 17.2,3X6 21,l4 01,919 4J7 4N.204 San Krmnciwro 14'..tj 73,7191 130,039 l,:t30 5i)2 .:'. -- "- ".""" 22,0 151,70 (1U9.199 13,7571 73,731' 35.4W 01.122 - Cnhing'H Vitality. "Caleb dishing, vitally considered," savs the Louisville VourUr-Journa- l, "is a caM-iro- n edition of Leslie Combs, and everybody in Kentucky knows that Lea lie Combs doesn't mean to die at all. Why, Caleb dishing is not more than half as old an Dr. Graham, and Dr. Gra- ham walks ten miles and works ten hours a day, and is younger than half tho young rascals in Louisville who waste their sweetness niion tho desert air of ball-room- s, billiard-room- s and lager-bee- r saloons. Leslie Combs will never die. Dr. Graham will never die. Caleb dishing will never die. They are sprung from the same generic stratum, which is eternal. The Republican ma jority in the Senate need entertain no apprehensions in that direction. Caleb dishing will live to write an obituary notice of his old friend Ben Butler, and to pronounco a Btiperb enlogium over the remains of Gen. Grunt. He will live, as Jolin Bell once facetiously said of himself, a perpetual legacy to the American people, surviving the ravages of Umc." Brier, Bat Pointed. Chaplain Ives, alia Capi. Spooner, a desperate rascal who has been infesting certain portions of Wisconsin for some time, was nren a severe lesson, accord- ing to the LaCrosse Democrat, at War- ner's Landing, the other day. Detect ing him in some of his villainy, the boys put a rope around his neck and hauled him up to a limb. After choking him a while he was let down, when the follow- ing questions were asked and answered: "Are yon a liar?" "Yea!" " Are you a thief ?" " Ye r " Are yon a son of a gun ?" " Yes !" Will von git if we let vou off?" "Helen Blazes. YES!" The rope was removed, and the fellow " broke brush like an elephant." They think up there that he must be running jet Fires. The Boston Journal has made out a detailed statement of the lotuses by fire last vear in this country, the larger by actual record and the smaller by estimate. aDd finds the amount to be $85,000,000. Of fires that destroyed less than 100,000 and over $50,000 worth of property, there were 152, the property consumed being S3.539.000. Of fires destroying less than 50,000 and over $20, COO, there were 300, the looses being $8,530,000. Saci a record as this for a year not marked by mch extraor- dinary disasters as occurred in the .two nreccdinaT rears furnishes a Jeston I which c'jtht to b read with profit. AH Sort. Oli folks say thut winter in like lSlf- - Pauls ate five thousand horses last year. The uet State debt of New York U 321,lii7,:iS3. Dtsn.ELi will probably visit America early next year. Kite strawlwrries atConterville, Cal., on New Years day. The list of Jav Cooke .v. Co.' crotli-tor- s fills more than two pages of the New York JleraUl. The w(h)ig party is very strong m CougresHJust now. Aiiiui.1: uw pvvvitt bald-hidedJi.- n thrc. ' The amount of gold dug in California siuce 1S18 is Sl,:JS0,700,0lH of which 93,000,000 was mined in 185.J. Two millions antl a quarter of people have emigrated from Ireland to America during the hist twenty-tw- o years. Tun expeuse of running railroads in Italy is enonnous. 11 very ton of coal is bought iu England, costing 10 (gold) j.)cr ton, and tran-qiortoda- t an enormous cost to Italy. The degree of risk in traveling on English railways is evidently not very great. Iist year there were UM),0tH),-00- 0 passengers, and of these only 1,500 suffered from accidents. John II. Lynch, colored, is the young- est man in the United States House of Representatives. Ho was a slave, without education, nt Natchez until the Union army entered that towu. He is but 2t years old. One of the largest books in the world is in process of manufacture in Pari. It will contain the names of all tho of Alsace and Lorraine who havo proclaimed their wish to remain French subjects. On the wholo globe, at least ninety million coplo speak the English lan- guage ; alx-u- t seventy-tlv- o million Ger- man, fifty-fiv- e millions cak Spuuish, and only forty-fiv- e millions speak tho French language. These matters of fact may serve to remove erroncoous opinions. The Cuban insurrection has cunt the Spaniards 10,000 to 15,000 soldiers and $10,000,000 per vear since the opening of hostilities. In other words, in the last five vears Spain has wasted SU0O,-000,00- and lost between 50,000 and 75,000 troops by bullet and disease, in a vain effort to subdue the Cubans. The two negro girls whose bodies are naturallv united nt the bins, and who were, until lately, shown in this conn-tr- v, are now tin exhibition in Pari. They are called the Two-Heade- d Night- ingale, and their Manager, Fraucom, is getting rich with them. Ho brooks uo artificial rivalry, and has sued the pro- prietor of a concert saloon who shows two girls whose jointure is effected by fastening them together tightly in a single boddice. The complaint is that the bogus curiosity injures the business of the genuine. I The SiameHO Twin. Prom the New York Urrald. The Siamese Twins, Eng and Chang, lately deceased in North Carolina, were afllicted with illness in the vear 1871. They were liorn in a littlo village on the coast of Siam, in tho year 1811. Their I parents got their living by fishing, and j until Ibi'J, when r.ng and Chang were brought to the United Statet, they made their living by polling helHih. Their mother ljore seveuteon children one time she gave birth to three, and ( never less than two. Jlut none 01 ihe children were deformed. Tho twins were united at the anterior part of tho chest by a prolongation of a kind of fleshy band the size of the hand. This bond of flesh is about two inches broad and four inches thick. The whole m'ujs is tough and capable of being consid- erably extended. One could whisper in the ear of one of them without the other hearing, while volatile salts ai-- 1 plied to tho nostrils of one had no effect ! on the other ; and while pinching the j arm of one excited no sennatiou in the I other, still if von but stick a pin in the exact vertical centre of this connecting link both would flinch from tho hurt. Tho twins were seldom observed to con- verse with each other. They nlayed a good game of draughts, made pretty much the same moves, and at tho same time, and frcquet.My played against each Other. I After at- - waj,h kwn C, had their in New York. During the war 1 they continued reside on their plan tation and in the same and as until some fewr year affcrwanl. Of course, no one ev? thought of them, and their negroes except when ont of temper from cause, it wss apt to work itself off striking the first one that to hand, from which the best escape was to keep of the way. The probably never would have any but that their wives, sisters, away their hearts, and children were the of this Up to the that each had five all prospered well enough, but one of them a sixth, and this awoke envy and jealousy to such a degree that the twin not being bound together like the twin brother would no live tinder the roof. The were, seems, 54 of age, one. we lelieve. the and feebler of the two, looked, it is said, ten the other. They cavld turn either back to or face to face, but is as far as the remarkable that united them the breaking out of the rebellion the ttrins both drescd lu the gray, and were both riniera of the wrae nnited with a ssaall Baptist Church in their neigh bo rhwd, of which lhv were considered very j worthy ers. though born 'I'AlJIll' V Kit MUX OK KtCKL-MOIl.- " "I rowtni; ilul Irmlttr I. hi. WWn l&rouitti a up lt SwuftUlu titrf pbl A lirelh f a t.'T, t hi. neck lu the ! : A he millM, hi. MitlUkh be .wmhc ' at fn. Kajtal. n' Ot. the tep I am NhmmI tr tw t, HJbcr' He Ukrl tuairtal J, aad hl ee j Hlhl A. a tile of tHlf cM a eowkt wtnt.-- r ttt&t. And ill. S tril ttiit h m.1.1 eull jm lM A he e- - uot hU tvuth aait l eat jrM, It'.up Uthe top eft Sic tummiMB 111 WS O&letx rmered up wl.l thl Wther.ik httow. He JSr t ThrtHJith the lJ.i he . lie llaeled 4frC, The lUh t aX lite candle, and, Ar w arm ; lint a U clmuk of fell oer bla be.! Usd a ulrl aud tretu, b) SI. !ktrHk, he nl. II ' up till the rry tlp-tn- I will ruh. And thru If it fall Jt . u MM Hit rh. Ileiaber: WhUl a lilt, .aid u utit liwili, tMMi bd "l' ,A. A the aui that fell ttii n lb. mi.rUe nlsblff shure, jrll fait in tl atb-r- . me hiirfi Ud, Pur the'ulftit 1. .tk ami ttie atilta ltl, lleilail ! he'd Ut bt t m onl ikM id. Ilut he'd go till the tep If he wlut n ht h"..l. A bright. Immtit ;tMiu trt, Uke Im t ki.l. Am1 him wadbl 5e Mta. ul !" ,'0M h ft.t : .napping hi tiHire" axt IhI hi. rj., While Mmttlliic utxti her. H.lr U. 1 Uieut to lv mttll Utta Um Im llllt a jer ati rlf ha. allot IHr. I im) a. ofM thop, 1W jUr He htoped all nUtlt and he btl -t aH tl.) And ye tHH4ut N- - ktIM nlirli he dhl u ? l'or weiihlu't he l a bMrl uaiH To If latin' hia dallllil ill the .koat- - bti-fluai- i! Whin the old !un ha yratVe. M4i;h ami t !! Sh lire he tnoishl a well ht) il twa eoirtflt.N' there. 11 JaUr ! The best thing to tako befon singitiR Breath. SciiooLMAsrKit "What is " It is when a man hofd liin and jut saf. Thank you.'" tontll lU haate .No tUoe H watte PriH'Ulm to all rrnMfc'ii That men are ! Whiad.enie In the ptr-e- nt KHetattMM " Do r:iv and talk a btth ounuion sense '" eclaiuiid a MinvtntJi 1h1v to visit.ir. "th!" wuh the reply, " but wouldn't that be taking an unfair ad- vantage of you?" Tipkins aiouscd hi wife from a hound sleep the other night, saying hn hud seen a ghost in tho of an own. " O, let nn sleep," ntvs tho reply of tho irate dame, "and don't bo nt i our uun cli udow. A nkwspapeu says thitt a Chicago complain to the )Milie that she has been robbed of 22! gold ring. Wherciqon, a ob- serves that, at leiut 200 of them were engagement ring. "I say, Josh, I war gwino down do mnt't rtt wader day, un I until tr.; bttrk." " Why, dat am nothing. I seed one AoiVr once," " Wal, I d tie saino tree Icitir." " Ya 1 ya 1 ya 1 Did he take hi trunk w id him? " No; he hit dat for board. A Gkhman peddler sold a liquid for the extermination of bugs. " And how-d- vou iiho it?" inquired the man, after ho had bought it. "Ketch to bug, un drop vou little drop into hin moid, the "Tho doiico yon do "exclaimed tho ; " I ceuld kill it inhalf the time bystampingor.it." " Veil, ca inly exclaimed tho German, "dat is a vay, KvEitv person who has ever mot a com- mercial t unst, with hin littlo will tho "Tim drummers camudown like wolves 011 tho fold, their toes were all fronted, their noes all cold. Thoir weather-jH'eh'- d soon shone through tho tiiov fiilililoil tin mn'iev mid Riilifd it ilittrti tlwTi tuitf it fnv tinier utiil lit out of with their howl full ! and skins full of liwr." A YoHKMiim: cook rcrcned her laul basting in this manner : Underneath lbl rrtlM IJr the nxnildeHnc !"' Of Klranor IUtcli-4.- tr Hbtrit, Well erd In th ari j Ire, am! tarte. And the lucrative trade f tb wu. Wb'U Mie Hied W'llrf rutnhr the made her Jt Jfliff, Aud now he ilth II', Aud make her dirt pir. Id bji that eruat may l ratl ' Ianbrr!es. A Nlw Haven editor siwul last Kun- - dny m Slawson, and attended church When the communion nox around h was in a but on lxing nudged, hastily " 1 have a pass." A Daniicky roan who having various ly and nnsiircessfiillv tried kn"p hrns. lmintiM-- a tlimritrli tfm Win. endanger btiilihug, gave their tick cU to friend and wsiu-- at home for tho catastrophe. We aro pained to lnrn that a gentle- man who has lx;cn in the habit of and astonishing his neighbor in this vicinity by lighting his cigars with has a carpet bag at a Htockbridge hotel doing dntj for a bilL Aboat HjCreB-iobi- a. In bis late work on the " Influence- - of the Mind uiwn the Body." Dr. Luke j support the that bvdro- - phobic RvmptouM axe often dovtip,d without previous inoculation. In iliW tration, he rehta a notable instance of a phyr.cian of Lyons, who, having as- sisted in the dissection of several vic- tims of tho imagined that he himself had become 0 to drink, he was seized wiEh soiso of the pharynx, in thi con- dition .roamed abont the streets for three davs. At kneth hi friend sthc- - attracting a vast amoint of tvr hin U:mtter dav, and hw tcntion among Focntists and physiolo- - I mnne al, j., now trying to a gists m the old world, they married tvo ' jjarT sisters, and settleil dtiwn near Sallis-- " bnrv, N. on a wall-stockc- tl planta- -' Sevekal timid but wclbmeaning x-ti- on In addition they at one peri-- pic fearing that the ottiidanoi upon od ample fnnds through Gough's lecture would lw j great as to agent to lived quiet harmony ever, drafting prospered, any in came ont brothers bad difficulty, though turned catisc estrangement. period children, had sisters, longer same brothers it about years but mailer years older than back bond permitted. Since Confederate church, having Siamese. Irpl-PM- th Htiniorou. nothing?" IUy anksyoult horse, hiqe frightened paragraph girl mean paragraph!! probably, Sum. an- swered peddler. purchaser gtMxl too." Hatch'!, appreciate following: bugles town, here, business Of rnMard camn doze, explained, to the enter- taining gracefully currency, board hyiwdiesis disorder, inoculated.' at- tempting axd investel creded in convincing hira of the grousd-Icssn- os of his apprehension, una he at once recovered. Dr. Marx, a Geraa physaaan, writing to the 1inte, re- gards hydropliobxa as a morbid aJeo-tio- n of the imagination ladnoed by fear, and, in support of hi opinion, cite tome interesting cases wtach peraoa unaware of the snpertitioa have t-a- the spASaC . V ' '" J -- Hh-t J" s.nJ&fati, s: 1pS&- - MMMMs feggsa LSTrl 3a?.. g 1 & '. f. ! . . V &- - Jw-g- H a, . a, .j r.
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Alkali Station.jir nnKT haktk.

Ocli jou'n-aixxt- ; rnajlw; I lut much onrhyme;

I reckon jou'd kI" c a hundred, ami beat luccterytiuie.

Poetry' lhat tho way oine chap put np an Idee.Hut I take, mine ' atraight ltb,ut Kucar," and

that' what' tli" matter with rue.

Poetry ! Jwt I)k ronnd jou alkali, rock and

Kai;e-bTU- rock ami alkali ; iin't It a in tty page?Hun in the Kaat at xuurniiiK, nun in the Wat at

nipht,Aud the fhadow of thin yer utatlon the ou'y thing

inoictt in Might.

PoMry! Well, no, Polly! Polly, niu to jonrmara 'Kun right away, rr.yjooty! ny-by- e! Alut nhea

laait7Poetry! That remind me o' Mitbli.' rifiht in that

nit;Jetd Mint that door, lhar, will er! for Cicely ear"

IP" Cllle.

Vi noted Polly, the bab) ? A mouth afore fche ultorn,

l'irel (my old woman) a iuoody-lik- i and forloni;Out of hrr head and craxy, and talked of flower

and tree ;Pamlly man yonreelf. Mr 7 Well, you know what a

woman !.Nrfriouc Mie wa and reMlee -- said that Mie couldn't

Ma,hU and the nen-e- t woman Feeuteen luileH

away.Ilut I tlied it up with th doctor, and he "1.1 he

would treou hand;And I klndrr Mink by the Miauty, and ft need in

that Ml o'Ulid.One niRht mm tenth of Oilolier 1 woke with a

rhill and a fright.Tor the tl.mr II wan Mauding oien, and Cicely warnt

In msht ;lint a note wax piuid on the blanket, which it nid

that Mie "couldn't May,"Jlut had gone to viot her iieiRhlKir ecienteen mihtt

awa I

When and how he MainiHtied, i didn't wait for to .

l"or out in the road, next nilnit, I Marled an wild a

he:Itunuing rlret thin way and that nay, like abound

that in off the eeent,Kor there wamt no track in the darkncwH to tell me

the way Mie went.

1 e hal Home mighty mean niomentu afore I kenito tliln j"it

lM on the jiUliiHiu'j", ilrowudetl almcmt.and hhot;Itul out on thin alkali deecrt. a hutitiiiR a crary wife,Wan ralj aH tmwitlefartory " anything In my life.

"C'helj! Cicely! Cicely!"! tailed and I hold mybrtath;

And "Cicclj !" came from thn ran) oil and all wanMill a death.

And"Ci-ly- l ! Cicely !" came from the rockn

AndJM but a wliUjH'r r "Cicely!" down fromthem al of kuow.

I aiut what you call reiioni; but 1 jcM lookivl upto thi'Mtj,

And th)rrV to what I'm romin', and maylieyethink I lie.

lint tip away to tho taM'anl, jailer and bic ai (, j

tar.1 aw of a ftiiddint nMiur, ti Mnien-- kind of i

lilt and jb1I rand daiiciuc, it to lieckou tome ;

Yaller slid bid and iljticliif. such an yon neer

Mr ami yaller and daucitiR, 1 Hcur wr mickaftar;

Mid MhouKht or them hari in the iiii.ie. and iwttu torn iiii'iiami in&r.

OM r "hend""" "'1 l l '

Keeping the Mat afore me, I went whereer It led. t--

1 nuuiil net ieen lor an nour, wnen miuiumi iiimh r and iiikIi.

Out of the jearth afore me thar rix up a lah.v'if rrj.

LiMcii! IharV the Mine iiiukic; but they aroMroiijjer now

Than the U I packed l.f r ami l,er iimther I'mdiirued if I Jl know bow.

Jlut the doctor kem the next mlniiit; and thn jokethe whole tliiui; i"

That ih never knew what happened from that eryuishttothiii!

Itut Cicelv hajt you're ,1 poet and maylio youliiiKut Home day,

JitM her a rhyme 'Ixuit baby that was lioruin a curious way.

And pee what Mie '; and, old fellow, when ) oilak of the vtar. bul tell

At bow twaK thti itorlor'H lautern for luajlni'twout pound co well.

THE SEALED WILL

Do you suppose, mamma, in casethe mouev goes from me that it will begiven to you ?"

" Dear child, how can I ever guess?Your aunt, remember, is your fnthcr'sMstcr, not mine ; so it is scarcely likely.she has thought of me. I am afraidthe heir in the sealed will is John Gar-lau- d.

' Mamma !"" It is only guess-wor- k, dear."" Hut ho is so unfit to have the re-

sponsibility of money ; a man known tobe a gambler and a drinking-mau- , if notan actual drunkard."

" Very true. Yet he is the nearestrelative vouc Aunt Jessie had. excepting 'only irsolf "

"lean scarcely think Aunt Jessiewould leave him fifty thousand dol- -lars."

" My dear, she has left it to you, hernieco and namesake."

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marry. If I do, tho scaled will in thohands of the lawyer is to bo oicned.and the money pass from mo to the heiror heirs named therein. You mustknow me well enough to be sure thatthe money would never tempt me tobreak my engagement; yet for yoursake, I wish oh, why did Aunt Jessieleave it to mo at all ?'

"Do not think of me. T can live aswe havo done since your father died.But, Jessie," and Mrs. Markham's facelooked gravo and sad, " there's oneview of tho matter you do not take."

" 1 daro say there aro fifty. Remem-ber, wo havo now lnul only an hour ortwo to think since-- tho letter came fromtho lawyer. But what is the view youmean ?"

" Charlie.""Charlie?"Jessie's browu eyes were opened to

their widest extent as she repeated thenanus adding,

"Why, I haven't thought of anythingbut Charlie !"

"But I mean dear me!" said themother, shrinking from uttering herthought. " You know, dear, you havealways been considered your aunt'sheiress ; and Charley is young and onlycommencing the practice of his pro-fession. It may be that ho will "

"Bo false to me for the sake ofmoney?" interrupted Jessie, with therosiest of cheeks and brightest of eyes." e win soon tost this, ami she drewa writing-tabl- e to her side. "1 will

. send him a copy of the lawyer's letter,and " here her voice and e es softoned

" the nvjiirauee that Aunt Jessie's willmakes no difference to me."

Mrs. Markham made no objection tothis step ; but after the letter wassigned and sealed, and dispatched to thevillage, by Polly, the only servant of theMarkham household, slu called Jessieagain to her side.

Over the fair, sweet face of the younggirl there had crept a shade of gravitynd perplexity since th'e arrivd of the

lawyer's letter, that clouded the browneyes, and gave the HCDHitive, mobilemouth a firmer pressure than was quitenatural. Life had Ixjcn all sunshine toJessie jrarkham ; 3-- hers was one ofthe buoyant nature that find the silverlining for every cloud, and coax somesweetness from every bitter dose.

Her father had been dead six years,and his business affairs having becomecomplicated in some way not compre-hensible to feminine intellect, his widowand child found themselves reduced toan income that barely covered the neces-saries of life. They left the city andtook a small cottage in the pretty villageof Morton, where Mrs. Markham eoon

frocurcd a class of music scholars., andJessie lessons in the higher

branches of English studies, German,French and mubic, till at eighteen herdaughter also procured a few pupils inlanguages. They were very liappy intheir mutual affection, in the love oftheir pupils, and the cares of their littlehousehold.

It had been understood from the timeJessie was a tiny baby thut sho shouldinherit the fortune of her maiden aunt,from whom she was named, and whocame from the city every summer tospend a month or two in the little cot-tage, always bringing pretty presents tobrighten the homo of her brother'swidow, and lavishing tenderest affectionujKn her niece.

Yet, though Jessie herself had knownof her annt's supposed intentions,neither she nor her mother hsid evermade calculation upon a fortune dependent upon the death of the one forwhom they felt the warmest affection,and the idea Unit otners could e in-fluenced by it was a new thought to theyoung girl.

She had given to her betrothed,Charlie Seatou, the iirst love of heryoung heart, believing that his love wanall her own. In the six years sho hadlived in Morton, child and maidon,Charlie Seaton had been her devoted ad-

mirer from the lirst, and had recentlyfinished his course of law study andbeen admitted to the bar. His fortune,inherited from his father, was verysmall, barely covering his expenditurefor board and clothing.; but he wasenergetic, industrious, and withoutbrilliant talent, a clear-heade- d, intolli- -'

cent ptndent. m omitting to make aeapable lawyer, if not a shining light atthe bar.

Answering her mothers caM, Jessienestled down in her favorite seat at herfeet, saying:

"If Charlie was iuilucnced by anyhope of Aunt Jessie's money, niamma,11 is ocuer 10 kiiow it now. a nau hup--ixiscd we would have to wait for ourwedding-da- y until he lnul some practice,jjjld you KllOW I JiaVO ft JHUO film Ol my

t ... . ir i 1own towards nrsr, cxiienses. o comtilive here, and there, I will not think ofit any more till tho answer comes to my aletter."

'While you wait, dear," said hermother, " shall I tell you what I thinkis tho explanation of your aunt's singu-lar will V You, who know her only asthe gentle, sad woman of her lao years,can scarcely imagino, 1 presume, thatshe was once as bright, hopeful, andsunny-tempere- d as yourself. I thinkit is to save you from her own sorrowthat she has taken from the powerof giving wealth to a mere fortune-hunte- r.

She would havo you wooed andwon for yourself alone, and as sho hasnever positively said you were to be herheiress, she has probably never sup-posed Charlie biased by that hope.Still, dear, it is possible."

" Yes, it is possible." said Jessie,slowly; "but toll me about AuntJessie."

" You grandfather Markham, Jessie,was 0110 of tho leadiug merchants ofNew York when your aunt, his onlydaughter, was introduced into society.Your uncle Hoyt was in good practiceas a physician, your father doing then afair business, and already married andin his own home.

" It was, therefore, with tho name ofsm heiress that Jessie danced throughher first season, a careless, light-hearte- d

1

Sin vcr prciiy uuu accuiujmbu-uu- wmako a pleasing impression whereversho went. She was but a little overtwenty when she became engaged toStanley Horton, tho most fascinatingman -- in all our circle of friends. Notonly handsome and talented and hewas both but possessing in a remark-- Iable degreo tho. courtly polish and win- -

.11. tg Gco 01 manner ia go , ,arto1 8an,n81 woman 8Thea.rtV

- - The absorbing love Jessie felt forhim seemed mutual, and congratula-tions were the order of tho day, whenyour grandfather failed. From a manof wealth he became actually poor, andlosing energy and hope, he came withJessio to share our home.

"Staaley Horton, the man we allsupposed a devoted lover, was fullyaware of the change in Jessie's pros-pects, yet ho continued his visits, mak-ing no abrupt, ungentlemanly desertionof Ids betrothed. Yet wu, who watchedher with the jealousy r affection, soondiscovered n change in her. She becamepale ami sad, often tearful, till finallyshe confided to me that Stanley wasevidently weary of her, and had ceasedto lovoher. Even then sho attributedthe change to some defect in herself,not seeing the mercenary motive tilllater, when time had taken tho glamourfrom her eyes and heart.

" She gave him back his ring and

Irromises ; thus accepting the positionconduct forced upon her,

of herself breaking the engagement be-

tween them.The first love of her life was the

last. She was vour grandfather's comfort uutil he died, and then went tokeep house for Hoyt, who lost his wifeand baby one year after his weddingday. When he died he left her hishouse and his money, and she livedthere till she died. Still I know sh.loved yon, and I am quite sure her willis uot designed so much to keep yoasinglo as it is to win the disinterestedlove of your fntnre husband."

There was u long silence after Mrs.Markham concluded her storr, and Jessie allowed her h?ad to rest in herlmother's lap, under her caressing baud,trying to picture a future of easy compe-tency shared by tho companion of her jlife. It had a hrifch nac ; ther was

still love and happiness for her yet.And then a bright face crowned withcurly brown hair would come before her,and she knew that neither the hand-some house nor the comfortable incomecould ever fill her heart if Charlie leftan aching void there.

Suddenly, like a gust of wind, thereswept into the little sitting-roo-m a tall,broad-shouldere- d young man, in a graytweed suit and slouch hat, which lat-ter article found a resting-plac- e uponthe floor, as the giant braced himselfbefore Jessie in an attitude of grim de-

fiance that sent thrills of glad musicinto her heart.

"Will you have the kindness, MissMarkham," said the' intruder? toweringin his six feet of manhood over Jcssio'slow seat, " to tell me what you mean bytho absurd letter Tolly handed me?Was it not understood that you and Iwere to share this cottage with yourmamma until I attained sufficient legaleminence to warrant the purcJia.se of abrown stone front in New York ? WasI not deluded in the belief that yonrpresence in tho culinary department ofour establishment was to reduce our ex-

penses to tho limits of our present o?

Was it not represented to mothat my present hoard was sufficient tomeet the requirements of two in this .. .1 - "t 1 r v 1 1 - I

domicile.' in Hnori, iuiss .uarKiiam, 111

what way was I ever led .to supposethat the fortune of your spinster auntwas to influence in the slightest degree 1

your matrimonial intentions in regard I

to myself ? I pause for a reply."Jessio stood up, her hantls meekly

folded " together, and her happy eyesdowncast till the long lashes kis?ed lcrcheek.

" Please forgive me this time, and I'llnever do it again," bhe said ; and thenthe laugh dimpled her cheek, danced inher eyes, and rippled out clear and sweetupon tho air. I

"Oh, Charlie! Charlie! I knowyou never thought of Aunt Jessie's .

money." I

"And you," said Charlie, holding heroff at arm's length, " you can have it allif you give iro up,

" As if I loved money better than '

vou," Baid Jessie, nestling now instrong closely around ' have said, in this

costs cents, regular is is inimitable, indeed,It seemed, however, as Charlie postago, to letter ; and whole is admitted to

money postmasters when most uniquo pieces grotesque-wa- s

temptingly Jessie's grabp, to register known in parts."scries Internal revenue

that bore upon subject ofan marriage.

" What is there to wait for,"would ask, and then enter upon caleuhi- -

tions of present expenses and thoseof future, proving most conclusively j

that thero decided saving bothin uniting their incomes.

"You me," said Jessie, "of'Dutchman who said could al- -

o .,f l.;,.,oir ;f u .Itiwou ..111. 11. .--.

11 01 mem could uo it I

entirely." t

But, though she laughed at him, Jes-sie quito willing to admit foreoof reasoning ; and bright Junomoniing, months after Aunt Jessie'sdeath, there wedding vil-

lage church, and breakfast iu cot-tage chosen friends. Amongthese Aunt Jessie s lawyer,will stipulated that sealed codicil

to opened at Jessie's wedding, ifshe preferred love to money.

Tho brido littlo paler thanwhen, with n solemn face, I

New York lawyer broke big redseal. Visions John Garland hold-ing drunken revels in her aunt's houseflitted across her and then shelooked into Charlio's face, andher crept an expression perfectcontent.

The will opened, and found tocontain only letter directed to Jessie,ami short, legally-worde- d formulamaking herself and chosen husbandjoint inheritors of her fortune.Tearfully bride opened letterfrom dead. ,

" I not," she y approve of II

money family en-

tirely hands of woman ; there-fore, you will find, dear Jessie, thathalf of fortune only is yours,

remaining half to tohusband who proved loved you

your sweet self, yourfortune."

During wedding tour youngcouple, Mrs. Markham, at their earnestsolicitation, took an fare-well of her pupils, and removed herhousehold treasures to New Yorkmansion, which, in due time, tamoCharlie and Jessie to brighten longsilent rooms with thoir happiness, and

that loving circlemakes home of any house, howevergrand tir however humble.

Length Rivers.The table given below contains

statement length of the long-est rivers upon globe, together with

countries they are locatedINrtr. 0ifry. Mile.

Amazon America. .. .1,000Amoor. ....... TartaryArkanraK UnitedlJurranipooter...Colorado North Mexico. l,ltColumbia Oreiiu Temtorr ..Danube ."AuatrtaPottu. Scotland 100Oansro KritiahHoaug Ho

Irrawaddy..... llunsinKana..., UnitedKlanknLaPUte ....... ..South Anirn-a....- .

Mackenzie.Miirouri and Mlsiin,-tjnite- .l ....4,300

iirer ........ .Africa.... . ..2.nil.........Ot and IrtiMi... ......Siberia

hlo United Stale.. I"".U40ilrtcoco ......liniana..u... .. ....1,Jl"ar and Aratfua ...... Brazil .. .l.4M

... ..LoniMa&a. ...... ...ilOOUio Madeira jiItto Negro ......ColumbiaRhine ..... .Gerruany ... ... ... f)..... . ........ AX)

Seivt! . .Wcet . ....t.4tXSt. LawTence..... ......North America.Trane)e- - . ...United Stairs .. .. HOTbarne lJRVand ..Ytnieej ......Mberia.. .. .. . ...2,.J

One of singular coincidences con-nected with status of the membersof Iowa of Representativesthis winter, is fact that therethirty-fiv- e Grangers among the Repub-licans, and tlurty-fiv-e among Anti-Monopolis- ts,

Tho extraordinary di-

vision, therefore, is wholly outside andindependent of the gmtHte element ofeiuicr Fnie,

"S.Rate f

urrrafabPostal cards, oqai each.Letter go to any part the United 1

three cents pfrlialf ounce, if I London just is Mark Twain's id.

J count, in lecture, of the ' buck- -Unpaid lettcre areiiiMU to Dead horso which purch.ised in eva-Lett- er

Office at Wasfcjhlgton. It is impossible to put it on paper,Letters weighing ogr half an ounce, as half of effect produced

and prepaid a singlo taw, forwarded I story depends upon manner of tell-t- o

their destination iad the balance 1 ing It would appear that beforeduo collected on delivjy. . purchasing this bteed had no idea of

lntrjrt TTmnt tirtftnl 1 I Iwn wlinf Mmnttni,' wad ln iiwm1

arms wrapped pout items. As I the way whichher. It besides the story told and,

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ccntK iMr half ounce.Letters not called '"(jf prepaid) will

be returned to the F-j- jt &t his or herrequest without dir'"3 postage.

Postage on books nll exceeding twooimces in weight, two cents. Each ad-

ditional two ounces, or fraction thereof,two cents.

NKWSPAPEKS.Newspapers sent from tho office of

publication may be prepaid at the fol-

lowing rates quarterly :'

DMlien, 7 timeit a wtek 35 teuU Jkt qrDailiee, (i timen a wiek anient ijrWeeklies 3 reuti" r T

jMenthlieit (foretery four ounce or

fraction thereof) 3tenta er jryuArterlieK 1 cent lT ir

MISCEM.ANKOC8 MATTKIl.On unsealed circulars, mans, mints..'.'.iinim.vttifTD anvici.. nirtt! n inrmti-nlih- u"H"""d "". v.n.ir., j.uwhiuj-uo- ,

types, cuttings, roots, seeds, etc., onona package to one address, prepaid,

ot exceeding two ounces, 1 cent ; overtwo and not exceeding four ounces, 2

Jnts ; d 1 cent for every additional""ce or fraction thereof.

, money oiujeks.

in most of the large ciUes and towns, at j

which orders can he obtained upon anyother omcc, at the lollowmg rates olcommission :

Onorden" uot exceeding 'M .lOceutuOiertJO.and uot cxreedlrur Kui .l.lrentMOvfr f, auil not excetillUK f10 'JO centijer fl", and not rxtetdiuRfoO . . ...S5ctlit

No single order issued for less thanone dollar nor more than fifty dollars.Parties

.- -desiringv .to. remit larger" sums

must obtain additional niouev orders.No anolicant can obtain, in one dav.more than three orders uavable at thesame office and to the same pavee.

used to pay postage.Stamps cut from stamped envelopes

nro not allowed to be placed upon otherletters. '

No artielo contained in glass can bo I

sent by mail to Great Britain and Ire- - '

land. -

The revised rates of foreign postage !

TftnniTMiiTArMiiuKutMi.Uttcn. c centa per half oum.

'1 cent each '

JIaj;jiJnc. ...2ccntK per I otiiutilookB.. Brentit per I ounce. I

Sample . . . .8 cent per 1 ounce t

A Female Soldier.The military annals of most Kuro- -

pcan countries, says tho Loudon r.cho,record a Jew instances of women who,having succeeded in entering the ranksof the army, have highly distinguishedthemselves in tho apparently incongru-ous profession of arms. Such a facthas, according to the Opininnc, beenhitherto unprecedented in the Italianarmy. It was discovered, however, theother day, that a young soldier namedMarcotti, who was to receive his dis-diiir- ei' I

nn rim first of next month, beinrrenlisted in 18UG, is one of these hero- - I

ines. Julia Marcotti, the Amazon in ,

nirestion. Deionceti to a numerous amipoor family, living at ban Arabrozio, 1

near Turin, and worked iu tho mines ofUpper Piedmont, to which lattercircum-stanc- e

her extraordinary physicalstrength may. probably, bo attributed,Sho enlisted in 18fG, at the time whenItaly was about to engage in the struggle with Austria, her motive being tosave her brother, who was married andhad six children,

.from being obliged to

r ' aserve, ot only did .niua penorm aa soldier's duties as well as her com-rades, but she fought in tho lirst rankat the battle of Custozza, and obtainedtho medal of military valor. On hcar--

ing of the case, King Victor Emauuel I

sent for the woman, bestowed upon her J

tho Cross of the Order of the Crown,anil desired that she should oc senthome with a pension 01 .HX) lire.

A Law Examination.The following racy examination of

candidates for admission to the bar istoken from the Wcttcrn Law Journal.The examination commenced with :

" Do yon smoke ?"" I do, sir."" Have you a sparo cigar 1"

"I have, sir." Extends a short six."Now, sir, what is the first duty of a

lawyer ?""Collect fees, sir."

Right. What is the second ?""To increase the number of clients."" When docs the jiosition toward

clients change ?"" When making ont a bill of costs."""Explain."" We then occupy the antagonistic

EDsition.i become the plaintiff and he

the defendant."" Suit decided, how do you stand with

the lawyer on the other side ?'"Cheek by jowL"Enough, sir. You promise to be

an ornament to your profession, and Iwish yon success. Now, are yon awareof the duty you owe me ?"

" Perfectly.""Describe it.""It is to invite yon to drink.""But suppose I decline?"Caudidate scratches his head." There is no instance of the kind on

record in tho books. I cannot answerthe question."

"Yon are right. And the confidencewith which you mske the assertion showaconclusively that you read the law at-

tentively. "Let's take a drink, and I willsign your certificate at once."

Onlt one eclipse will ho visible frvmthis continent in 1874 of the niooitotal midnight October 114-2- 5. Therewill le one other cclipe of the moon,partial, and two of the sun, during thyear, lint tibese will not' bo risible here.The great aatronosucal event of theyear will be the trtLrsit of Yonofi, onDec 8. scxssi tlc fAci rf the sun.

Mark Twaia's Barkis? Horse.Moncnre D. Conwav writes from

of one of Mark Twain's latt sto--

States

afraid

ries. as follows : "Tl.n ilk-- nt Kt.n...-- p

... UUVAUJg U.Ub, St KtU IUU fflUIIUto ask for information. This, however.ho obtained through the discipline ofexperience. He mounted the horse.Thejinimal then gatheretl its four feetia aJioach benoathL apdby a suddenupward fling sent kim (Twain) into tho'air just 150 yards. When the audiencesmiles at this, Mark looks troubled attheir incredulity, but proceeds. Fromthis ascent he returns, alights in thesaddle, and the horso gives another fling

Twain going 150 yards in the air. Hethen tells his smiling audience that hejudged it was that distance by the lookof the steenles ; but confesses he didnot go into details. This aeent beingrepeated, he remembers, while m theair, heariug some one on earth say, ' Hemight have known that was a buckingi,h.. . which the fact flashed".. upon

t . , ....upon mm. ninio lie was aosent the'it time, some one cut the horse, whichstarted forward, and when he came downjt was lipon tjie grtmmi. ne conia notKJlv he regretted it. There was no reasonf0r tjie i,ORc remainiug on his account.Friends gathered around him after thisdescent, as they always do when onewants to bo iett aiono, and asketl it howated this or wanted that. What hercaiv wuted was to sit down. He didso. Ho placed one hand on his head,another on his stomach, and, indeed,thinks that if he had had sixteen handshe could have found suitable places fortheir application. But as for the horse,ho assures his audience that this and itsother antics such as walking about on '

.A 1 la a i Ius jiinti leei, wiui its iimmos under itsarms, like a Lord Mayor were all natural talent. The horse had len broughtup in the wild West, and had never hadany advantages to develop these gifts.

Population of Cities.The population of the chief cities of

the United States is indicated by thesubjoined tablo :

s: ?.3

fc:

Altnuy . . &,it! K.M7 fAMe. 74 02,'A.7Italtiiiiore !Ji.7,3SI .v.,44'r.,7.7'j4 :r.',.vw 212,411lloMou IU.V),M 87,Pr,;,J47,013 3.4M 177,! 2lirooklju tai,(W lt4.7ic:rji.M2 4,944 200,714lluftalo ii 4.-i3- 7 117,01 0O0 Nl.pjllCharltMon.. , tH,W 4,HW rj,74t; W,t73 31,210Chicago ellH. 144..V.7 itf.CSl 3,091 109,200Cincinnati .. iI(VfJ tf.ei'A-iKi.x- 144Clexeland :W,8I. 91,335, i.iv.i, i..i.rjiMroit I 7'..577 33.31 77,331 S,tt 4:1,417Indiauajiolia.. 10,6X7" 43,:i 'AWl 1,011Jtrwj City . I Ki,Mfi 31,.!.r. 1,40! 705 4.l,4lxiiiiMille 1VJ.7S3 25,BVi K'.,7.ij I4.9M IW.03JMemphi . to.rjfi fi.TMOt 2,75' in.171 22.023Milwaukee... , 71,410 3.1,773 7I,'iC3 176 4,24i5AI.il.ll,. 3i,KM .! 1.1V1 13.91! KI.25HNewark. .. ltK.ltti 35.HM 103,J,7 1,79 71.941New IIaeli I ),K4V 14,3V, I'J.OS-- 1.749 :,204Nc Orleaun. 191.41H 4H.475 I4fl,VZI 50,540 IOH.073New York , K 419,U74.V."...19'. U.073Philadelphia . 1KI,(U4!A31,IM 22,147 50.,529Pittaburi-- h ... 27,--

.4,001 2,013 49,217

Itoi Idence . 17,177 00,320 2,559 .'0,000

i1,.,;," I 51,03 3,771 27,V 23.110 37,91017.2,3X6 21,l4 01,919 4J7 4N.204

San Krmnciwro 14'..tj 73,7191 130,039 l,:t30 5i)2.:'. -- "- ".""" 22,0 151,70

(1U9.199 13,7571 73,731' 35.4W 01.122-Cnhing'H Vitality.

"Caleb dishing, vitally considered,"savs the Louisville VourUr-Journa- l, "isa caM-iro- n edition of Leslie Combs, andeverybody in Kentucky knows that Lealie Combs doesn't mean to die at all.Why, Caleb dishing is not more thanhalf as old an Dr. Graham, and Dr. Gra-ham walks ten miles and works tenhours a day, and is younger than halftho young rascals in Louisville whowaste their sweetness niion tho desertair of ball-room- s, billiard-room- s andlager-bee- r saloons. Leslie Combs willnever die. Dr. Graham will never die.Caleb dishing will never die. They aresprung from the same generic stratum,which is eternal. The Republican majority in the Senate need entertain noapprehensions in that direction. Calebdishing will live to write an obituarynotice of his old friend Ben Butler, andto pronounco a Btiperb enlogium overthe remains of Gen. Grunt. He willlive, as Jolin Bell once facetiously saidof himself, a perpetual legacy to theAmerican people, surviving the ravagesof Umc."

Brier, Bat Pointed.Chaplain Ives, alia Capi. Spooner, a

desperate rascal who has been infestingcertain portions of Wisconsin for sometime, was nren a severe lesson, accord-ing to the LaCrosse Democrat, at War-ner's Landing, the other day. Detecting him in some of his villainy, the boysput a rope around his neck and hauledhim up to a limb. After choking him awhile he was let down, when the follow-ing questions were asked and answered:

"Are yon a liar?""Yea!"" Are you a thief ?"" Ye r" Are yon a son of a gun ?"" Yes !"

Will von git if we let vou off?""Helen Blazes. YES!"The rope was removed, and the fellow

" broke brush like an elephant." Theythink up there that he must be runningjet

Fires. The Boston Journal has madeout a detailed statement of the lotuses byfire last vear in this country, the largerby actual record and the smaller byestimate. aDd finds the amount to be$85,000,000. Of fires that destroyedless than 100,000 and over $50,000worth of property, there were 152, theproperty consumed being S3.539.000.Of fires destroying less than 50,000 andover $20, COO, there were 300, the loosesbeing $8,530,000. Saci a record as thisfor a year not marked by mch extraor-dinary disasters as occurred in the .twonreccdinaT rears furnishes a Jeston

I which c'jtht to b read with profit.

AH Sort.Oli folks say thut winter in like lSlf--

Pauls ate five thousand horses lastyear.

The uet State debt of New York U321,lii7,:iS3.

Dtsn.ELi will probably visit Americaearly next year.

Kite strawlwrries atConterville, Cal.,on New Years day.

The list of Jav Cooke .v. Co.' crotli-tor- s

fills more than two pages of theNew York JleraUl.

The w(h)ig party is very strong mCougresHJust now. Aiiiui.1: uw pvvvittbald-hidedJi.- n thrc. '

The amount of gold dug in Californiasiuce 1S18 is Sl,:JS0,700,0lH of which

93,000,000 was mined in 185.J.

Two millions antl a quarter of peoplehave emigrated from Ireland to Americaduring the hist twenty-tw- o years.

Tun expeuse of running railroads inItaly is enonnous. 11 very ton of coal isbought iu England, costing 10 (gold)j.)cr ton, and tran-qiortoda- t an enormouscost to Italy.

The degree of risk in traveling onEnglish railways is evidently not verygreat. Iist year there were UM),0tH),-00- 0

passengers, and of these only 1,500suffered from accidents.

John II. Lynch, colored, is the young-est man in the United States House ofRepresentatives. Ho was a slave,without education, nt Natchez until theUnion army entered that towu. He isbut 2t years old.

One of the largest books in the worldis in process of manufacture in Pari.It will contain the names of all tho

of Alsace and Lorraine whohavo proclaimed their wish to remainFrench subjects.

On the wholo globe, at least ninetymillion coplo speak the English lan-

guage ; alx-u- t seventy-tlv- o million Ger-man, fifty-fiv- e millions cak Spuuish,and only forty-fiv- e millions speak thoFrench language. These matters offact may serve to remove erroncoousopinions.

The Cuban insurrection has cunt theSpaniards 10,000 to 15,000 soldiers and$10,000,000 per vear since the openingof hostilities. In other words, in thelast five vears Spain has wasted SU0O,-000,00-

and lost between 50,000 and75,000 troops by bullet and disease, ina vain effort to subdue the Cubans.

The two negro girls whose bodies arenaturallv united nt the bins, and whowere, until lately, shown in this conn-tr- v,

are now tin exhibition in Pari.They are called the Two-Heade- d Night-ingale, and their Manager, Fraucom, isgetting rich with them. Ho brooks uoartificial rivalry, and has sued the pro-prietor of a concert saloon who showstwo girls whose jointure is effected byfastening them together tightly in asingle boddice. The complaint is thatthe bogus curiosity injures the businessof the genuine.

I

The SiameHO Twin.Prom the New York Urrald.

The Siamese Twins, Eng and Chang,lately deceased in North Carolina, wereafllicted with illness in the vear 1871.They were liorn in a littlo village on thecoast of Siam, in tho year 1811. Their I

parents got their living by fishing, and j

until Ibi'J, when r.ng and Chang werebrought to the United Statet, they madetheir living by polling helHih. Theirmother ljore seveuteon childrenone time she gave birth to three, and (

never less than two. Jlut none 01 ihechildren were deformed. Tho twinswere united at the anterior part of thochest by a prolongation of a kind offleshy band the size of the hand. Thisbond of flesh is about two inches broadand four inches thick. The whole m'ujsis tough and capable of being consid-erably extended. One could whisper inthe ear of one of them without theother hearing, while volatile salts ai-- 1

plied to tho nostrils of one had no effect !

on the other ; and while pinching the j

arm of one excited no sennatiou in the I

other, still if von but stick a pin in theexact vertical centre of this connectinglink both would flinch from tho hurt.Tho twins were seldom observed to con-verse with each other. They nlayed agood game of draughts, made prettymuch the same moves, and at tho sametime, and frcquet.My played againsteach Other. I

After at- - waj,hkwn

C,had

theirin New York. During the war 1

they continued reside on their plantation and in the same and

as until some fewr yearaffcrwanl. Of course, no one ev?thought of them, and theirnegroes except when ont oftemper from cause, it wss apt towork itself off striking the first onethat to hand, from which the bestescape was to keep of the way. The

probably never would haveany but that their wives,

sisters, away their hearts,and children were the of this

Up to the thateach had five all prosperedwell enough, but one of them asixth, and this awoke envy and jealousyto such a degree that the twinnot being bound together like the twinbrother would no live tinderthe roof. The were,seems, 54 of age, one.we lelieve. the and feebler ofthe two, looked, it is said, ten

the other. They cavld turneither back to or face to face, butis as far as the remarkable thatunited them thebreaking out of the rebellion the ttrinsboth drescd lu the gray,and were both riniera of the wrae

nnited with a ssaallBaptist Church in their neigh bo rhwd,of which lhv were considered very

j worthy ers. though born

'I'AlJIll' V Kit MUX OK KtCKL-MOIl.- "

"I rowtni; ilul Irmlttr I.hi.WWn l&rouitti a up lt SwuftUlu titrf pblA lirelh f a t.'T, t hi. neck lu the ! :A he millM, hi. MitlUkh be .wmhc ' at fn.Kajtal. n' Ot. the tep I am NhmmI tr tw t,HJbcr'He Ukrl tuairtal J, aad hl ee j HlhlA. a tile of tHlf cM a eowkt wtnt.-- r ttt&t.And ill. S tril ttiit h m.1.1 eull jm lMA he e- - uot hU tvuth aait l eat jrM,It'.up Uthe top eft Sic tummiMB 111 WSO&letx rmered up wl.l thl Wther.ik httow.

He JSr t

ThrtHJith the lJ.i he . lie llaeled 4frC,The lUh t aX lite candle, and, Ar w arm ;lint a U clmuk of fell oer bla be.!Usd a ulrl aud tretu, b) SI. !ktrHk, he nl.II ' up till the rry tlp-tn- I will ruh.And thru If it fall Jt . u MM Hit rh.Ileiaber:WhUl a lilt, .aid u utit liwili, tMMi bd

"l' ,A.A the aui that fell ttii n lb. mi.rUe nlsblffshure, jrll fait in tl atb-r- . me hiirfi Ud,Pur the'ulftit 1. .tk ami ttie atilta ltl,lleilail ! he'd Ut bt t m onl ikM id.Ilut he'd go till the tep If he wlut n ht h"..l.

A bright. Immtit ;tMiu trt, Uke Im tki.l.

Am1 him wadbl 5e Mta. ul !" ,'0M h ft.t :.napping hi tiHire" axt IhI hi. rj.,

While Mmttlliic utxti her. H.lr U.1 Uieut to lv mttll Utta Um Im

llllt a jer ati rlf ha. allot IHr. I im) a. ofMthop,

1W jUrHe htoped all nUtlt and he btl -t aH tl.)And ye tHH4ut N-- ktIM nlirli he dhl u ?l'or weiihlu't he l a bMrl uaiHTo If latin' hia dallllil ill the .koat- - bti-fluai- i!

Whin the old !un ha yratVe. M4i;h ami t !!Sh lire he tnoishl a well ht) il twa eoirtflt.N'there.

11 JaUr !

The best thing to tako befon singitiRBreath.SciiooLMAsrKit "What is

" It is when a manhofd liin and jut saf. Thankyou.'"

tontll lU haate.No tUoe H watte

PriH'Ulm to all rrnMfc'iiThat men are !

Whiad.enieIn the ptr-e- nt KHetattMM

" Do r:iv and talk a btth ounuionsense '" eclaiuiid a MinvtntJi 1h1v tovisit.ir. "th!" wuh the reply, " butwouldn't that be taking an unfair ad-

vantage of you?"Tipkins aiouscd hi wife from a hound

sleep the other night, saying hn hudseen a ghost in tho of an own.

" O, let nn sleep," ntvs tho reply of thoirate dame, "and don't bo nti our uun cli udow.

A nkwspapeu says thitt aChicago complain to the )Milie thatshe has been robbed of 22! gold ring.Wherciqon, a ob-

serves that, at leiut 200 ofthem were engagement ring.

"I say, Josh, I war gwino down domnt't rtt wader day, un I until tr.;bttrk." " Why, dat am nothing.I seed one AoiVr once," " Wal, I dtie saino tree Icitir." " Ya 1 ya 1 ya 1

Did he take hi trunk w id him? " No;he hit dat for board.

A Gkhman peddler sold a liquid forthe extermination of bugs. " And how-d-

vou iiho it?" inquired the man, afterho had bought it. "Ketch to bug, undrop vou little drop into hin moid,

the "Tho doiico yondo "exclaimed tho ; " I ceuldkill it inhalf the time bystampingor.it."" Veil, ca inly exclaimed tho German,"dat is a vay,

KvEitv person who has ever mot a com-mercial t unst, with hin littlowill tho "Timdrummers camudown like wolves 011 thofold, their toes were all fronted, theirnoes all cold. Thoir weather-jH'eh'- d

soon shone through thotiiov fiilililoil tin mn'iev mid Riilifd itilittrti tlwTi tuitf it fnv tinier utiil litout of with their howl full !

and skins full of liwr."A YoHKMiim: cook rcrcned her laul

basting in this manner :

Underneath lbl rrtlMIJr the nxnildeHnc !"'

Of Klranor IUtcli-4.- tr Hbtrit,Well erd In th ari

j Ire, am! tarte.And the lucrative trade f tb wu.

Wb'U Mie Hied W'llrf rutnhrthe made her Jt Jfliff,Aud now he ilth II',Aud make her dirt pir.

Id bji that eruat may l ratl '

Ianbrr!es.A Nlw Haven editor siwul last Kun- -

dny m Slawson, and attended churchWhen the communion noxaround h was in a but on lxingnudged, hastily " 1 have apass."

A Daniicky roan who having variously and nnsiircessfiillv tried kn"p hrns.

lmintiM-- a tlimritrli tfm Win.

endanger btiilihug, gave their tickcU to friend and wsiu-- at home for thocatastrophe.

We aro pained to lnrn that a gentle-man who has lx;cn in the habit of

and astonishing his neighborin this vicinity by lightinghis cigars with has a carpetbag at a Htockbridge hotel doing dntjfor a bilL

Aboat HjCreB-iobi- a.

In bis late work on the " Influence- -

of the Mind uiwn the Body." Dr. Lukej support the that bvdro- -

phobic RvmptouM axe often dovtip,dwithout previous inoculation. In iliWtration, he rehta a notable instance ofa phyr.cian of Lyons, who, having as-

sisted in the dissection of several vic-

tims of tho imagined that hehimself had become 0

to drink, he was seized wiEh

soiso of the pharynx, in thi con-dition .roamed abont the streets forthree davs. At kneth hi friend sthc--

attracting a vast amoint of tvr hin U:mtter dav, and hwtcntion among Focntists and physiolo- - I mnne al, j., now trying to agists m the old world, they married tvo ' jjarTsisters, and settleil dtiwn near Sallis--"

bnrv, N. on a wall-stockc- tl planta- -' Sevekal timid but wclbmeaning x-ti- on

In addition they at one peri-- pic fearing that the ottiidanoi uponod ample fnnds through Gough's lecture would lw j great as toagent

tolived quiet

harmony ever,

draftingprospered,

anyin

cameont

brothers baddifficulty,

though turnedcatisc

estrangement. periodchildren,

had

sisters,

longersame brothers it

about years butmailer

yearsolder than

backbond

permitted. Since

Confederate

church, having

Siamese.

Irpl-PM- th

Htiniorou.

nothing?"IUy anksyoult

horse,

hiqe

frightened

paragraphgirl

mean paragraph!!probably,

Sum.

an-

swered peddler.purchaser

gtMxl too."

Hatch'!,appreciate following:

bugles town,

here,business

Of rnMard

camndoze,

explained,

to

the

enter-taining

gracefullycurrency,

board

hyiwdiesis

disorder,inoculated.' at-

temptingaxd

investel

creded in convincing hira of the grousd-Icssn- os

of his apprehension, una he atonce recovered. Dr. Marx, a Geraaphysaaan, writing to the 1inte, re-

gards hydropliobxa as a morbid aJeo-tio- n

of the imagination ladnoed by fear,and, in support of hi opinion, citetome interesting cases wtach peraoaunaware of the snpertitioa have t-a-

the spASaC

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