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gt iiiis Jlmericain"

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day he»to the summit o£ !

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Jut i'plate of pork an ' t tans— • wis Jlmericaiifc'i j ' j j ^ / . i j .

Lieerhe went^whate'erhedid^, ? \ 13' always iust the same; j,o ddpH, it appeared, forget. \

:ounlry*w,henoeiie eame\.. :

gradually approached us. We had just :entere'd:a~deepjhoj^rw-, where a "few large -tr-ees-Strel'ched th&r^Jiuge branches over a dense'thickftt.j^Sien suddenly there .arose, -s,ev;ejfal. loji!|i^)harsh, baying and parli^i^fttfttd^flflglat.kand^jT^ 5tio^e'n^ffiere:3^i||agquick rustling and

;thtalhi^^^Qgig#ge_bushej,;.^an4j(hen, tmme siW.Wi-fmlm&rge' waives—lean, ga t^ fe^ t t ^mMelged with hunger— s5r,mjg;ijit'Q-itih^JiiiEtclose beside us , .

** T-Kio, -tro-niifi ed},;|0 suddenly and un-e"4ec1ie31y"'f3iairray wife gave a .slight

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M^ - . - ^ - ^ ' ' • Kmber of years agp,H.,s§.|d. an %ld p f h o i n I met onl ij%*w«Mernt ftl j t ooh my family"teWiscensin, {a,te.d myself, in -the woods, about

|les fiom the nearest settlement; 'east irveirom the nearest neigh-

<ie country rolind was mostly aiid^wild-Masts. find Indians ; tnunTdf6f|j*-<ihat: my . friendsfatf

axnlly remedy 'Titiown fo -SBIB, Sores, cut's, sin J t#farrh, nemerrholde, etc Sttatreroafrand dlgbiheil! fdleading-EliyslclamoIEn M BWirom pare Vaseline i ' MiJUPHOBIOB.anll Lg ji^Mlmllar ones. Tni i u

,^TOffl>d'ds. |

-.4fc»SaS°W fry nil nn tcjj

p o hear; of our still beh at the end of a couple

evei, I did" not feel "much on my own account—and my

'"***: sr more aftd more alarmed, and., dashed on

: *' *' 'Ife' -Wasij jist. about fdarfctwhetf festaw thri lghts '•: of eT-^.glea^hig' In the ?disr

i P ^ ^ « l ^ e ^ e c t e d ^ i 4 ^ p | b | | meeting, an old. acMaintaHCe^jrhOshads

: i % # i T t l | € t a f f - o p f r « » i a i ® ^ • wiffi v^hoffi We5 :Mdp^il!6ed • to Rafter ; <t%»nefe ,-aa§KtaEe^m)perT-t'heiVtime

i r mej wKs'to reiwjerher

.... ^carcof-jt' ^3£W^iife#SyipJ0Mft.. tQ» ,flnd her

f^%,j|nd.4Xl!fi^a^i|j3^p jaot a. little| puz4ed"lo^cc/oMfeiot/|nyR,presentimenj/

ftl^ii-,;wach9>i|;a@^eafi%^^ !u.usiT-yv.'it*"BM"-*¥--i;-*'"«fTSSp4^'- • ' : : i i

*ward—thrpugh a dense^ark , gloomy {wpodp w^ighi hgMI.<>WV # % o n either si'de-^aM'' nia Ja^el^ "tiroffe'eded about

:'fl-W'mtles;'iwheicl%ve -.'WeW ^omewhat| startled^by^a ••sgriegi'pf. long, - plaintive; ho«w.ls,-at-a.cons.iderable distance, and in' .d3Jefer.ent..dirScti.Qns,v.arid which ^ u ^ ex-f ~periehtje^oiii-us-"weje"woivesrseei»ingly:

calling and answering each other through the .great fofest. »^"'Mie wolves-pf^jihis. region were of thfe'larger and-fiercer Species ? and-though ^OT^inarily and singly-they might not at-t'ab2"a"humah being, yet in numbers and pf $sse)i'.by htinger/las they generally were at {Ms geasonrof the, year, Jgby tto jneans •• felt? certain that *we should' not be'. m'ble'ste'di; v» iil.'i - ^ '« ftff t' -.• «.%«J

" Accordingly we quickened the pace of;our horses and as, We hunied onlgrevr every moment more uneasy and alarmed as JL noticea tnaxL many "of the-isutmus

?SP T § : '*\\l ' '9^ ' "T ,. . , ^hiiek, believing iWwas- all over !wfth' ntf^was about to get up" a"nd face the •JKraSfe. when,, shouting to her not to P&J)that I Was still safe, I placed my nipbl against the.head of my assailontr. imi stretched him quivering on the $nftw|&lso.. ? "s T.- " - •» -i ' - •»

? Fstill had my rifle* in reserve; ;a4ft pointing•, th^t^ at- the.fightipg p a ^ ^ I pourfdjits contents! amdng.them., *[qw many -were wounded I do- n6fkn'ow4-but almost immediately thespace around. us became .once more, cleared of our, hoivhag enemiesr-some limping as they fled, and appearing bo'be harrassed by the others. , . . - » , " , > ' ! i t • i • ' -

" Again it appeared to me we had jhet with a wonderful deliverance; and though the wound in n»y tMgb. was somewhat painful, a brief examination i aMsfied .me that it would not prove

jjjerious; and I hastily proceeded toi?e-lpad my weapons—iny wife' meantime getting upon her feet, embracing me tenderly, •und earnestly thanking God for our-preservation.

'"•Oh, the dear children!' she ex­claimed, Wjith.maternal tenderness;' Jit-tie do they,'know how near they" have come to be'ingf made "orphans, and left alone in this solitary wilderness! Let us hasten home to them! Oh, • let us' has-tenuhome toJiiem^.while w.e.hav.e ,n op­portunity !'

" ' We have no opportunity,' I gloomi­ly replied. ' Hark! there are more of oui^ foes in the distance — dp you hear theni?'

" ' A n d are they cpming this, way, tot>?' she'tremblingly inquired.

" ' I fear so.* ' " ' Oh, great. God! what will become

Hi as r' she fexolaimeJ-; ' Sax ? am'ahn^isfr certain that we shall not both survive a

of fire. - ' ' i i r i lMitkjf-bSf stfiden fall startled

-the w.JJd anim'als a, little.;. and as'they monientar^ly 'drew back, she, with rare presence of inind. at once gathered ller buteild rbb^-WHi'ch "sh^ haddraggea wi th lterj5n-su6Mat,m;a^iner-'about, her pei''s6n

•ferocious^nimads; wfi^i ffle mdij savage* •gVowl , sprung at her,'at me, and at the two-horses simultaneously. - H e r s at once shook himself cleat'of his foes and ^^TTHid-roiire-beganHie^eaT-aBd-ptogei, an-sushja-rhanneiiStha^ Metbi B single w » ! | M M | J MMftw |1*&ggi,j|ept h i ^ l lm^a -unmnf a j ray •"Withme; '

" I t w a s ateiTjble' moment of exciting ,.ag6nyp! rfindxthevinstant that I could re-^eWmffeeM^]#the' ' -st irrups I leaped to-jttte^r«imdv«th-a^eU-^my^ifl.e slip­ping from my hands^andf discharging ifc, self by.ithe .conoussiony-tvjt^i^ijsteed^ rushing like lightning -aiieK|ii^|flying companion over the frozen sno'wsgiW ^ ' L u e S a y , ^ h a d m y loadgdWsMB&i^

^ ^ i f e f c o t f v ( e t o i | | - - f e % ^ M ^ j *8cM«el5^eMsCigus.ofiw^ bM|hffik&g Miy thff mtM mm af f i ry4 iMeole |nay^f f ly % l*Mt«^ev or four of the" furiously fighting and

iHyihouid learn of our having all been cut ._ .

aliv£,»s&arJumjjwM^beasts, I grasped the e"&*f weaporisrt&e'in each hand, cocked them

at.the same instant, and fairly jumping into the midst of my enemies, placed the. i?'S<h* -«M,g5fei&f •+wa>fe.o'/r=. Mi^-nStS^t*

»S||^"oan lor maklDSl"!

1MW> STRENGTH

OTSs'o-called) ConanCstl •

;tn'8>Eji#0BB E£QFTHE'N0R1>1

:oe|iiadoasyp»y>ae* lioto'inaUedfreB. Appl' j l

ron>y-jd sometimes, 'When I was a w a y

|pme, the sudden growl of a beaj*, ' ri of a wolf, or the scream of a

| r would, make me think of them, t quite uneasy.' -*'**' waT-while, at firs^.<the uiglit-

pngran^ howling ""of these wild I p alarnreo the 'ehi'ldj;en a gobd ajid sometimes'my wife and me—• Illy when we mistookthe cry of the Ifcfoi an In'diafl*yeHr^we^obrf |ed to the 'differentTsounds,"and

^id not mind them do much;-and '" 'had got-"a few .acres, .cleaaaed

the dwellin'g,' they generally' ore distant at rrighfe-rju^t as if

OmprehCnded that the plade'. 46W ^possessibn bf "'their ehemies,lWas' gei to be an abode for' them, ^e -Cnow and then" shot onej^yhicli,,

|d them a littlej" "and IpiroBably afed-thebthersj'for^tliey^adually s less bol4 and annoying.

|di ing the~'i6rst year I had two nanow escapgs^-orice.-frprtt a/

. ttd once from a panther; but the f emaikable adventure of all was oge 'Which happened during the iTwinter, and which I have always ijated as a ' Night witMhe W-olyes.'

Saebittei;cdld morning—tfWglrsmid ' deeply covered with snow, T*

A and f:.ozen that ncTKet cojili Bto it—^BrpugBt out'thehorse foi' 'ife to ride to C , the nearest ptent, wher,e, she had some pur-

to m ^ ' , which, she wished to' to he¥§elf. Besides being welL

led. up in her 6,wn clothmg, ' # ped a large buffalo robe around and" admptiigh|ng her that the

8 yreie full of'danger after da rk , ! Lher to be sure and get back before % which she prpipised to dp. 'il day long, after Ker departure, lome cause for which I could not \t, I felt very ranch depressed and -f as if somethmgveyil were going toen; and when-T saw the" sun Salf an hour high, and rip signs of

J f e leturning, I got out iny .pistols, r ammunition ..and hu^tihgrkrijfe* led a young and rather, skittish colt, [bidding,.the children ke,ep within •s, and tm Muge "ssjfely locked, I inted and tbWoff to meet her, which tpgeted t(r„qe at .every turn of the

J^g.p.ath^^::Bjat.&fe.^er5»•t^ I Was: p a | d ^ : i \ i ^ p p M % e ^ t j ai idwhenT PJtttmil^a^eiVilSiiei BShmd me, with-^iseeing #p^s ign i of her, I became

both together. ^'Botlyshotsy-thank God! took effect-

it could not be otherwise^-and as the two wolves rolled howling back in their death agonies, their starving companions! smelling and getting a .taste of It-hen] blood* and instinctively eomiprehending tfiaf tluVwei-e no'wfairiy mthe'irpowerr fell upon theftj with the most ravenous fury, arid literally" tore them to pieces,

•and'devoured thym before'my very eyes, "almost over" the body of my wife, and in less, I should say, than a'minute of time.

''Asceitaiihing by- a few. -anxigus in­quiries that m'y wffe was still ahye and linharmed, i^'ad.e, her. remain quiet, and, "picking up ii'JfiiHeV I proceeded to load 'all my'wgkpoISs With the greatest dis­patch.

".^.s spon .as I had rammed th&^rsj. -ball'home rfelftenrptedto shoot another* bfMihe''animals ff but ! iat>that' moment I heard a distant .howling, and fearing we should soon be beset by another pack,

tsresei?ved my( fij?e ,^>r the next extreme anger and hurriedly loaded the others. "By the time I had fairly completed

. this operation pur first.assailants; having "nearly ; gbr'g'ea ' themselves' uppn their mbre unfprtunatd companions', began tb "slink away"; but the cries of the others at the„f ajne time growing nearer, .warned

toelb'beupotfmfgUard.'"1' •-'""' j * ^ < £ J i t d jusTsucceeded' in getting-my wife morb securely rolled in her protect-, ing.robe—as the safest thing I coUld'db in that extremity—and myself, pistols in hand, in a de'fensive>attitude overjier body, when some eight or ten more of the savage and desperate creatures made their appearance, upon the scene.

' 'There was a momentary pause as they came into view and discovered me —durine-which-their- eyes -glared and shone llfce living coals—and then, with terrific growls and snarls, they began to circle round me, each moment narrows ing the space between us.

Suddenly one more "daring or hungry than the others bounded forward and received a shot from one of my'pistols-liireetly between the eye's, ana as he rolled back Upon the sttow a part of the 'others sprang upon him, as in the case pf the first.' - . - ' . , • -

" B u t I had no tirn'e to congratulate. myse.lf that I had disposed of him;, for almb'sl at the same instant I felt the lac­erating fangs of another in my thigh, which caused'me to, shriek with pain; und my poor -wife, with an answering

third attack. ." ' I see but oneway of escape,' said I,

anxiously, ' We must climb a. tree, and remaiaio.the branchesMUmbrning.' '

" ''We shall surely freeze to death there!' she replied. . " ' I trust not; but at all events, aspur

horses are gone, we have no alternative. I think your buffalo robe, well wrapped ai6un.d,'Wi'll protect*you from the cold, as^f has done' ff6in'the %olvesf\ritfas lor myself, I will endeavorto keep warm by climbing up and down, and stamping upon the limbs.'

^'But, why. not kindle a fire?' she qtiiCKly6 rejoined, her voico suddenly ani­mated with a hope that I was obliged to disappoint. , '. " v. [ ' v

" ' For two reasons,"' I replied."' First, because we have not time—do jou , not hear another hungry pack howling'?—" and secondly, because we have not the materials—the loose brush arid stick's being buried under the snow.'

" 'God help us, then!' groaned my wife; ' there ^seems- nothing* for us ' but death! ©fifWjiboT?, d i » children!

iM^^the'go0jd^%>a4fgEaiit that they be nojs madfe prpBajii Ahas night!' •• •" • »

S'5®Ue3tieit^ie^CaTt'andr^lde.si)aj.rj;, and then selecting a large tree, whose joj8£rJunbjj_W6rjQ^ad and thick, but abovetheriacTrbTouf enemies, I hastily assisted her .to a good foothold, and im­mediately climbed up after her.

",\Y-P were,-not there a moment too s<4naLC°K$e.aJc# ^tW% g^oujs.elves settled in a comparatively comfortable position, when another ljungry pack of ou,rs,enemi§s4jippear,ed .bel&w.^s,—howl­ing, snarling and fighting—their up­turned eyes occasionally glowing fearful­ly, in the darkness. , . . . w

,"39irt.we were, safe fjom'theii' r.each; , and all that long, dismal night we re­ga ined , the.re, listening to their dis-. ||Brdant tpries, and thinking of the dear bTnfs^f^hbme.. i. "l|hej|pight was intensely cold; and in spi.Miofs^n my efforts to keep my slug­gish <bl ||6lffj[pft.circulation, I.ibeoame so Benumfed|§te|'bf,e morning, thaj I b.elieve ^ shbuldsfi^'igiiyen up and perished, ex­cept fpfe tM'spflsding.voice of my wife, Who begged-niljiof Gpd's sake, to hold out, and not lea^e3h'e*i5al widow and my

-i?njldgej^^elriesJS;g^a . ,.T

"Dayflghf "cantfezlt'ill^t; and never " Met • joy. Our

one, and

f

wsts 'mbrri-hiailed^Wit&i^Ut foes now slunk g,vv:ay;,;lb^ left us to ourselves; an%%;l|jwjtninutes after-their disapneatartcwSg^t^t*pt>%nd exercised myself viplently ; -(an^| i^^ng thus brought baek a little warmtKiJ'#iSyv system, I assisted my wife tp aligb |gS|(j|>j we at once started homeward., , j ^ w-lfls

"Iscarcely need jiddthat we"arrav§d| there in due time, to find pur poor, nighty long terrified children almost frantic" with joy at our safe return."

-ABaUroad-that Forms a Loup. 1 A gentleman who has taken the rail­

road tide of 750 miles from San Francisco to Yuma, Arizona, describes the cele­brated " Loup," one of the most notable railroad engineering feats ever accom­plished ,r .Hesays: About four hundred miles from Sah'Ffancisco,* as you'aWake in the morning, you find the train wind­ing through mountain passes, sweeping around mountain tops.and running along

gjrightful precipices. By taking note as the train passed certain points, I fre­quently fbtirid* myself running "along a cliff se've'ral hundred •feethigH, the bbt- • torn of which the train had been skirting a few miniites before, and then again within ten*minutes'tbe Sndr'tf bf'the loco­motive .would re-eeho from the bottom

.of a deep gulch up the sides df the very cliffs from which we had just descended.

After passing through several tunnels in rapid succession, the ninth is reached. Here the locomotive almost comes to a standstill,, as if preparing for the effort, and then it dashes through up a steep e^ade and describing an almost perfect oval i t crosses over the tunnel ithad four minutes previously passed through, thus forming a loup. In making the loup the .road rises seventy-eight feet in a distance of less than four thousand feet. After making the loup we emerge inttrthe arid desert. This is a most desolate region, presenting no relief to the eye from the Waste of'sand.y^thing grows here. The jaifjf'thing-that is raised here is an occa­sional sand storm, blinding and penetra­ting. To get out of this sandy waste the train dashes through the San Fernando tunnel—1piercing the mountain—a dis­tance of nearly seven thousand feet, and then emerges into the Los Angeles "val­ley, presenting "a picture in grateful con-toast with the scenes just passed through. Here the lemon and orange flourishes.

i Mijfs—r—, j ,. A; P a r t a k i n g Painter. Americans are well acquainted with

Meissonier's " 180Vr?or which the late W t . Stewart'paid $60,000. ' Meissonier Wtefked fifteen years on this painting, a fact which will be readily believed when

yhis mMmenof painting is known- What-leyePibe its stee.i every figure hepaints is A e object bf a jspgcial s t udy . ' ^he arm |bj&the . colonel jdf the cuirassiers in !'r&f807 " was'fthe* 'subject of a series of Studies^ each one of which is,an admira-.Me bit of.pajnting; the arm was not^de-,.cided upon untirafter he had tried 'sev­enteen different jjositions, and had wit-e-iiessed a,scpre of charges of cavalry,., No (petail-was! put 'on canvas that had not Ijeen repeatedly examined, so that the l&ictHre; Represents over two hundred preliminary pictures. As there, was a •Disagreement between two veterans about the-color-'oft the.collar of the uni­form wor-n-"by a, certain regiment, he spent a week in' various libraries in order to gather evidence about the sub­ject, -and undertook a journey to Bor­deaux to consult a veteran surviving member of the regiment-

One cannot imagine how much" pains his-" 1814,- or the " Retreat from Mos­cow," as it is otherwise called, cost him. In la biting cold winter day the writerhad gone td Poissy together with the celebrated art critic, Paul Burty. I t was snowing, and there was a foot of snow on the ground. We found Meis­sonier on the turret of his chalet, seated in the war costume of Napoleon I, on a stuffed gray horse, and painting the figure of the emperor as it was rendered by a large mirror that stood at some, dis­tance from him._ He had been there

ir-ef-^he cold, and was-perfectly happy, as he said, because, he had f found the "sinister tones of the Russian landscape. Paul Burty ven­tured to remark that as he had already finished painting the landscape, he might withdraw and continue his work in the studio, without exposing himself to the disaster that overtook the"" Great Army.''*" '-' How could I obtain in the studio," Meissonier quite excitedly re-jpine'd, " ther igh t tone and the true effeet of Napoleon's gray coat in harmonious contrast with the somber grays of the sky and the SnoWy carpet on the ground, and tl)e just value of the flesh tones of the emperor's countenance, darkened by the dull atmosphere of a wintry sky ?" It was there, on the top of that turret, that ;he completed what is perhaps his masterpiece. ;i_ About ajnonth later theTvriter found Meissonier in Ttiis studio scraping the same figure of, Napoleon, to paint which he had endured so many hours of a freezing temperature. " W'hat on earth are you doing now?" I asked, almost be­wildered-. " A-n old servant of the em­peror has been here," Meissonier replied, svo^hcpwas withrhim in Russia. He had fsears in his eyes, and spent a good hour i]n silent contemplation before my pic­ture. After L liad aoaxed him for a long while to tell me whether he found anything inexact in the canvas', the good old man fihajly. said: 'During the cam­paign of Riftsiavhis majesty wore the Uniform of the^efiasseurs, not that of the grenadiers» Moreover, his majesty never consented to have his epaulettes vmfast-ened from his funic. That will explain to you why the'.-arm-holes of his over­coat were so large.! I had painted Na­poleon in the. uniform of the grenadiers and with the .epaulettes outside of his coat. How could I help doing what I am now doing?" Thus, love of truth overbalanced all other considerations, ,and Meisgpnier began studying anew the uniform bf the qhasseurs; the effect pro­duced by the epaulettes under the over­coat and so on, until he had obtained the Same perfection,he had reached in the ac#s|Orfesj byhfg; previous portrait.

> : a " I ' S t e M i)isciplinarian. • The father of Miss Maria Edgeworth,

the English novelist, had grim ideas of moral training. A contributor to the Chicago Mo^dard. relates the" folio win i; among other instances of his harsh dis­cipline;' Charlotte Edgeworth, half-sis­ter ttf M&ria' '(the daughter of the famed beauty, Honora Sneyd, the second of Mr. Edgeworth's four wives), was a beau­tiful girl, with luxuriant golden hair. The rector of the parish and an officer

i.pf the British army were dining at Kfedgeworth's town house. After din­g e r , the ladies'repaired to the library, ;;|ndj^the .ggntjemen jblloy£ed. As they ;iehterea"the door of the library, the offi­c e r exclaimed: "Howbeautiful!" Mr. Edgeworth said, haughtily and quickly: " w h a t do you admire, sir?" He re-

Sliedffi^ " Your daughter's ^magnificent air. ";©jiarlotte was standing in a be­

coming at|itude.before th,e bright grate, with he£ arms resting, upon She mantel­piece. Mr. Edgeworth walked across the room to the Dook-shelves, opened a drawer, held her head bapk, and cut her hair close tQv her head. As the golden ringlets fell into the-drawer, this extra­ordinary father, said: ' ' Charlotte, what do you say?" She answered: "Thank yOU,'fathet." • Turning to his guests, he remarked: " I will not allow a daugh­ter of mine to be vain."

The Smartest Dog in the World. I haye a dog called Guard, a spaniel,

who, iny little ones say, is " the smartest dog in the world." One day last month, as I was overseeing the manufacture of some ropes, I had the misfortune to have my.fo.ot and ankle badly hurt—so badly, indeed, that t sent for a carriage, and drove at once to a doctor's office. Guard followed me, and stood watching the doctor with great interest while he dressed and bound up the foot. Fdf a week after this I went every day to the doctor and had my foot rebandaged, Guard always going with, me.

Some days after my foot was quite well, the doctor was surprised, one morn­ing, at seeing Guard walk into the office alone, holding up one of his paws. On looking at the paw, the doctor found a nail in it, which he took out; then he tied up the paw and the dog limped away. But the next day he came again, and had his foot tied up as before. He did the same thing every day in the week, just as I had done.—Nursery.

Four watches were found recently in the stomach of a Florida alligator.

TIMELY TOPICS.

It was recently said that no new heathen temples were now building ih-Northwestern India, but a missiomirv writes home that the people are " still mad on their idols; almost every house •has them:, new temples are constantly being built in honor of these idols, and the religious bathing-places and assem--bly-grounds are crowded."

In New York city< there are dealers, incredible as it may sound, who make a living by buying broken meat, given as almirby tender-hearted servants to im­portunate beggars. These mendicants, from out of their day's receipts, select such lumps of meat or half-picked bones as wiil prove salable, and at nightfall prpoeed direct to these stores, where they dispose o'f their unsavory'wares. Then the scraps from the tables of the rich are resold. „»—»•-

A wealthy old gentleman living in Berlin.fell in love with the young daughter of "a poor widow. He wooed and won the girl, and , before the wed­ding-day arrived, he made a will leaving-her all his property, amounting to sev­eral, hundred thousand marks. The marriage was celebrated in brilliant style, and the wedded «pair with their guests sat down to "breakfast. Scarcely hadjhe feasting began, when the vener­able bridegroom*dropped his knife, and sank back in his chair, dead from heart disease.

Mrs. Jane Grey Swisshelm, in an open letter to the Rush Medical College, stoutly reaffirms itep belief that in'the early part of this century a German of Chester county, Pa., acquired and.kept until his death in extreme old age a very widespread reputation for curing hydro­phobia ; that he guarded his secret care­fully and always carried his medicine with him, and it was known to be a root which he himself procured in the woods. He slewed a portion of this root ip a pint of sweet milk, which he himself drew from the cow; stewed it slowly and stirred for a half hour; then gave it to his patient fasting, i. e., before break­fast ; permitted him to take neither food nor drink, except water, for six hours after taking the milk, and repeated the dose on three successive mornings. Upon the old man's death a son sold his recipe for $1, and it was simply two ounces of elecampane root stewed in a pint of milk, and given so that the digestive organs would have nothing to do but appro­priate it.

A remarkable case of lynching has oc­curred at Cheyenne, Wyoming. A man named Dug Reed, who had been guilty of a crime particularly obnoxious to the citizens, was taken out'Of jail*. Then, with unusual courtesy, the lynchers al­lowed Reed to select the method of death most agreeable to him; and when he stated that he would prefer to be hanged, they went stil. further in their courteous regard for bis feelings, and allowed him to be his own executioner. He took the rope in this hand, climbed a telegraph-pole, fastened one end around the top, and formed a noose in the other end through which he passed his head. Then he made his last dying speech, which was short, being; no more than "Good-bye, boys," and, jumping off, was launched ittto eternity.

A coroner's jury, "once upon a time, brought in a verdict of "involuntary suicide," and have been pretty well laughed at ever since for such an appar­ent contradiction, but here is a well authenticated case, which would seem to be perfectly described by that apparently absurd phrase.

Words of Wisdom. ^.Money is a good servant and a bad

master. It is easy to find reasons why others

should be patient. If rich, be not too joyful in having,

too solicitous in keeping, too anxious in increasing, nor tpo sorrowful in losing.

No matter how purely and grandly we live to-day, there is do denying that we may live more purely, more grandly to­morrow.

Style is only .the frame to hold our thoughts. I t is like the sash of a win­dow—a hea^y sash will obscure the light.—Emmons.

Dandies may become useful in the same manner as those slaves of Sparta, wJio were made diunk in order to inspire children with a horror of intoxication.

Friendship does not display itself in words, but it acts unremittingly; those

Eretended friends who talk of nothing ut their hearts are like those cowards

who are continually vaporing about bra­very and b"attles.

There is'tbis difference between hap­piness and wisdom: he that thinks him­self the happiest man really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is gen­erally the greatest fool.

The damps of autumn sink into the leaves and prepare them for the neces­sity of their fall; and.thus insensibly are we, as years close around us, detached from our tenacity of life by the gentle pressure of recorded sorrow.

Why He Didn't Go to the Circus. " I say, John, did ye see the circus ?"

yelled a little boy to another last even­ing.

"No-o-o, I didn't see the circus !" sneerihgly said . John, who had been kept in the house for disobedience.

" Humph! Ought to have been there: biggest show you evey seed; elefant, ana carmels, and boa contwisters, and—and everything. If I couldn't go to a circus I'd run away."

" Who wants to go to zer old circus?" yelled John. " I had-a circus all to my­self. Tied the milk-pitcher to the cat's tail, and the cat knocked down the flowerpots, and smashed the pitcher, and broke a pane of glass. • Git away wid your old circuses; been to moro'n four hundred, an' didn't have so much 'fun; an' didn't get licked nuther," and the boy who had been to the circus felt as if he'd got hold _ of the castor-oil bottle.by mistake.—Oil City Derrick.

The Funny Small Boy. The room it was hot,..

And the room it was school; So the schoolmaster got

Fast asleep on his stool, While the scholars were having a lrolic,

Borert otftll reason and rule. When a ball, badly aimed,

Struck tho schoolmaster's nose, Whioh was long and quite famed

For its terrible blows; Then he gcowled ou those innoqent scholars;

In a way he could scowl when he chose.

" Come hitheifTmy child, Thou art writing, I see;"

And the schoolmaster smiled, " Come, now, right on my knee; f

The upstrokes, yori see', are made lightly", The down-strokes are heavy and iree."

IWhile that small boy was tanned, Came his laughter—a roar,»

And the teacher, so bland, Was now vexed and he swore;

For the way that the awful boy giggled Was something unheard oi before.

The teacher was beat And deprived of his wind,

So he stood on- his feet That small boy, who just grinned,

And who shook with a mirth that was jolly, And lelt ol his back which was skinned.

" Now tell me, my son, • Ere this rod I employ Once again for thy fun,

Why this wonderful joy ?" " Such a joke," cried the, lad, wild with

laughter, " You're whipping—ha-ha -the wrong boy."

—H. C. Dodge, in Detroit Free Press.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Something to be/looked into—A mir-or. Mr. Moody, the evangelist, has de­

clined an urgent invitation to renew his revival labors in this city.

Out in Nebraska two boys living on a farm followed and recaptured a horse thief who had escaped from jail.

Lord Beaconsfield and the Duke of Northumberland are the only members of the English Cabinet much past mid • die life.

Statistics lately published show that the number of German pork-eaters known to have suffered from trichinosis in 1877 was 138.

" When I was a boy," said a very prosy, long-winded orator to his friend, " I used to talk in my sleep." " And, now," said his friend, " you sleep in your talk." But, somehow, that didn't seem to*be just exactly in*point the orator was going to make.—Saivheye.

" Never," says a writer on etiquette, " take bits out of your mouth with your hand." He is evidently writing for the lower class of society.' People of tone and culture never take bits out of their mouth with their hands. The remoye them with a fire shovel.— Norristown, Herald.

Mrs. Ellis, of Ithaca, N. Y., has in her house a large room, the floor of which is covered with sawdust, and with two leafless trees and many bamboo perches in it, where she keeps more than a hun­dred canary birds, raised from a single pair which she bought a few years ago. She can identify almost every bird and tell its age.

We are a little puzzled over the offer of a subscriber to pay his last year's dues in logs. We believein trade, but thospv logs seem to stump us in some way.— Stulwaler Lumberman. You might con­vert those logs into clubs; and we never knew a newspaper that didn't urge its subscribers to " make up clubs."—Nor­ristown Herald.

Of the astonishing speed of the animal called' the jack rabbit, a writer in a Colorado paper says: " I never saw any­thing that can run as fast 'as a jack rabbit., A long-legged greyhound under­took to catch one, and after playingalong for a short time and encouraging the dog the rabbit suddenly started bff and distanced his enemy in about three seconds. The dog gave up the chase at once and returned to the wagotfthe most crestfallen and disappointed and meanest looking dog I ever saw."

A Big Irishman, 'o The Emerald Isle has long been fa­

mous for producing giants. The most celebrated of these was the well-known O'Brien, whom we first hear of as a great raw youth crying in a public house because unable to pay a bill, having been left penniless through a quarrel with his exhibitor. A gentleman, taking compassion on him, paid the debt, and advised the young giant to set up on his own account. Acting on this recom­mendation, O'Brien started a public heuse in Bristol, long known by the sign of. Giant's Castle. A memorial tablet in Trenchard street Roman Catho--lic chapel rcfibrds his stature as having eight feet t^ree inches. He was very anxious that his remains should not fall into the hands of the anatomists, and gaye directions for securing his grave against desecration from body-snatchers. I t has, however, been disputed whether the giant's bones still rest in his grave, or form one of the curiosities of the Hunterian Museum, though we believe that they -itill lie undisturbed in a deep-sunken grave. Poor O'Brien had to take his constitutionals under cover of darkness, to avoid being mobbed by the cui'ious, and like mostbig fellows proved

Shimself a simple ana inoffensive man; though he inadvertently terrified a watchman almost to death by lighting his pipe at a street lamp, the sudden ap­pearance of which strange apparition threw the watchman into a fit. His colossal proportions once saved the giant from being robtoed, . the highwayman who stopped, his carriage riding away in terror at the sight of O'Brien's huge face thrust through the window to sec what wag themattei-.—CAamfeers' Journal

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