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HOW 1 GOT HER,

‘Tobacco is the tomb of love,’ writes a modern novelist of high standing, but with every respect for his authority, | beg to say it was quite the contrary in my case,

Twenty-one years ago 1 was sitting by my fireside, footing up innumerable pages of my bachelor’s housekeeping book. taking exercises in Arithmetic in long columns of ‘petty cash ’—comprising items for parrots and bathbricks, metal tacks and mutton chops—until, tired aud wearied, I arrived at the sum total, and jerked the book on the mantlepiece. Nevr at the same time I placed my hand in the pocket of my drees- ing-gown, drew out a leather case, and lit a principie, I placed my feet on the fender and sighed exhausied by my long job of domes:ic accounts. I was then in business —’ was a small wholesale business then, tis a large one now; totting of carrots and bathbricks, of tacks aud mutton-chops, wou!d tire me a thousand times more than twenty- four hours of honest ledger work. I sighed not from love, but from labor; for, to tell you the truth, [ had never been in love- Is this to go on forever? thought I, as I took my third whiff, and looked dreamily through the thin smoke as it ascended between me and a large print, the capture of Gibralter, which hung over thechimney-piece. Am I to spend my time in totting up parsvips and computing carrots and comptrolling washing bills? I sighed again, aud, in the act, off; flew the button of my neckband, as though some superior power bad seasonably sent the accident to remind me of my bhelpless- ness,

Te button settled the business; though as it slipped down inside my shirt, and parsed with its mother-o’-pear! coldness over my heart, for a moment it threatened my matrimonial resolution, I pitied my own lonely siate, and pity, we know, is akin to love.

But how was the matter to be accom- plished? Most men at my age would al- ready bave adjusted their inclination to some object; so that, having made up their mind and ccunted the cost, little more would have remuined to be done than to decide upen the day and lay bold upon the license This, however, was not the case with me, I had been too much occupied, too idle or too indolent, to devote the time or make the effort to *form an attachment.’ It was through no disinclination or difficulty to be pleased; for had any young lady of moderately agreeable power taken the troub‘e, she might have married me long ere then. |] sbould have even have been grateful to her for taxing the trouble off my bands: but | was too bashful to adopt the initiative,

I was a bashful man, This weakness came from the same cause a8 my uncle Toby’s—namely, a want of acquaintance with female society, which want arose from another cause in my case—vamely, too clese-an application to busin-ss.

Accordingly, I thought of an advertise- ment; yet with no practical design of doing business, but, as | pe-suaced myself, fora joke. So d-seratched with a pencil on the back of a letter the following:—

“ WanTeD, A WiFs.—None but the princi- pale need appiy. The advertiser does not re- quire cash, but a companion. LHe is six-and- twenty, and tred of singie life As men go, he believes be basa moderate share of temper, | aud want of time is his only reasvn for having resource to the newspapers. He -bas enough means for himself and second party, and is wil- ling to treat at once; He is quite aware that a great many attempts to convert his bonest in- tentions into an extravagant joke will be made, but be warns all rash intrudere, If he finds a man hardy enough to make sport of his affec- tions he will thrash bim, if a woman, he will forgive hey. He basa heart for the sincere, a hereewhip for the impertinent. In either case all advertisements will be promptiy attended to if addressed to P. P., to the office of this paper. ”

I felt proud of my composition, and pufied wy prineipie with a vague glee and anticipation of something coming out of it, I bad no very great idea that anything but fun would result; and I certainly bad not the slightest notion of involving myself in a persoaa] collision with any one, Stil] the presentment that it was not destined to be alt a@ barren joke pressed upon me. On Saturday the advertisement appeared, and 1 heard its style canvassed by all my friends and it was jockingly suzgested by more than one that 1 was the domestically destitute individual who put it forth,

On Monday morning [ sent a boy to the newspaper office for P. P.’s letters I ex- pected he might be followed by some curious and ixqusitive persons, eo I told him on his way back to call at a bachelor neighbor’s of mine for a took, The trick took. The lad was followed by sor: per- sons who never lost sight of him until he ran him to my friends, and then they went back and announced that he was the adver- tiser; 1 thus discharged in full one or two practical jokes which my neighbor had played upon me, ‘Lhe answers were of the usual character, some seeking to elicit name aud still more suggesting places of meeting where | was to exhibit myself with a flower in my buttonhole and a white hankerchict in my hand, One only looked like business, It was from a lady, who propo-ed an inter- view in a neighboring city, about forty giles rorth. She said there was something so frank and straightforward in my adver- tisement, she felt convinced it was real, and she could rely upon my keeping her name secret if, after we met, nothing came of the meeting. She would, therefore, see me at the-——_—_———., on a certain day, and if mutual approbation did not follow the in- terview, why, there was no harm done,

Most people wou'd have put down this as a trap to give me ajourney fornothing. 1 didnot. A preseutment impelled me to accept and keep the engagemen',

This was in the old coaching days, when a man had time to make an aequaintance of | forty miles; notas now, when you are at your journey’s end before you have looked around your company: io a railway carriage. ‘There were but two.inside—myself and a

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mony and have a cup of tea with him after | I had dined at my hotel, My ‘fair en-|

liked the old gentleman, I accepted his offer.

and my promised cup of tea. difficulty in finding him out, for he was a man of substance and importance in the) place. I was shown into the drawing room, | My old friend reccived me heartily, and introduced me to his wife and five daugaters. ‘ All spinsters, sir,’ said he; ‘ young ladies Whom an undiscriminating world seems dis- posed to leave on my hands.’

‘ If we dow’t sell, papa,’ said the eldest, who with her sisters seemed to reflect her | father’s fun, ‘it is not for the want of puffing, for all your introductions are ad- vertisements. ”

At the mention of thig last word, I felt |

diveomposed, and almost regretted my en- gagewent for the ncxt day, when that very night perhaps my providential opportunity had arrived, [ need not trouble my readers with all our sayings and doings during tez; suffice it to say that I found them a very pleasant friendly family, and was surprised to find [ forget ali my shyness and timidity, en~ couraged by their good-tempered ease and conversation, They did not enquire whether | was married or single, for whee there were five young, unmated daughters the question might seem invidious, 1, how- ever, in the freedom of the mument, volun- teered the in‘ormaticn of my bachelor»ood. I thought I had no sooner communicated the fact than the girls passed around a glauce of arch intelligence from one to the other. 1 cannot tell you how odd | felt at the moment. My sersations were between pleasure and confusion, as @ sus picion crossed my mind, and helped, I felt to color my cheek, Presently, however, the eldest, with an assumed indifference which cost her an effort, asked were I was stayipg-

* At the———hotel,’ I answered, some embarrassment.

It was with difficulty they restrained a laugh; they bit their lips, and I had no longer a suspic'ion—I was certain. Sc, after some music, when I rose to depart, I mustered courage, as I bid them good bye, to say aside to the eldest—-

‘Shall P. P. consider this the interview ?’

A blush of conscious guilt—I shonid rather say innocence—told me I bad sent my random arrew to the right quarter; so I pressed the matter no further at that momcnt—but [ did ber hand.

I remained at my hotel next day notil an honr after the appoiuted time; but no one made their appearance. ‘Then,’ thought I, brushing my hair and adjusting my cravat, *sinee the mountain will not come to Mahommet, Mahommet must go to the mountain, so 1 walked across to my old friends ‘The young ladics were all in The eldest was engaged with some embroi- dery at the window I had therefore an opportunity as l leaned over the frame to whisper—

‘S. 3. is not punctual ”

The crimson in her face and mock were now so deep that a skeptic himself would no longer doubt. 1 need say no more. That eveving, in ber father’s garden, she con- fessed that she and her ‘sister ‘had conspired 'o bring me up ‘to G.:on «a ‘fool’s errand never meaning of course to keep the-engage- ment.

‘Then,’ said I, ‘since you designed to take me in, you must consent to make me happy.’

+And what did she say, papa?’ asks my second daughter, who is now looking over my shoulder as I write.

‘Why, you little goose, she promised to be your mamma. She kept her word,

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A STRANGE STORY.

The English papers announce that the Marchioness of Tweedale bas died at her residence, Edinburg. If the fact is men- tioned now, it is pot to have an excuse for speaking of the virtues of the deceased lady, wor for sketching the principal features of ber long career, but because ker name is connected with a strange event, which is worthy of being narrated,

The Duke of Gordon was a dissipated man, Is a few years he ran through the imwense fortune be had irherited trom his ancestors,—Ashamed of his excesses, or perhaps annoyed that he was ro longer able to occupy in the world the high posi- tiun to which his rank entitled him, he withdrew to a solitary mansion, situated close to the sea, in Lincolnshire —There he shut himself up like a hermit for several years, living eomewhat like a wild man bolding no communication mith men, and passing his time in roaming about, except ia the hunting season, when be would oc- casionally ride with the foxhounds,

Que evening he was startled by piercing shrieks, He rushed to the window and looked out toward to the sea, but all was dark, A horrible tempest was raging; the waves dashed furiously against the walls of the mansion, The violence of the storm terrified the Duke. Suddenly a tremen- dons flash of lightning rent the clouds, and by its light he perceived a dismantled-ship almost a wreck, being driven toward the shore. He cou'd sec persons running about, as if demented, on the deck; then ail was dark again. Suddenly he beard a fearful crash; the ship had been dashed upon the rocks, In the midst of the howling of the tempest, the Duke fancied he beard the piercing ery of a woman, He ran out cp- on the beach and listened, while he beld bis breath, The same cries continued to be heard, and he though¢ that notwithstanding the darkness he could distinguish something moving.

The sca appeared to redouble its fury. A monstrous wave rose and br ke upon the beach with such rapidity that the Duke bad | scarcely time to run a few paces back. It, enveloped him up to his waist, threw bim |

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pleasant, talkaiive honest-faced .elderly gentleman, Shy and timid in female society, 1 was yet esteemed, animated avd agreeable enough among my own sex. We had no tropble, therefore, ia makieg our- selves agreeab that ast old

A. ‘McNEILL, Auctiozeer. Exchange}Buiiding, Jone 6, 1870,

le to one another, sa much so, .which an_a'most insensible woman was con-| be coach approached G., snd: the | Avother wave, not Jess tleman iearued that I meant to stop monstrous than the preceeding, ibundered yon?” asked Sir Fredrick. “ He's in lre-

there that night, he asked meto waive cere- ‘on the beach. The Duke sejzad the woman Jand, your bonour,”. wes the promt reply.

far on to the ground and retreated, He) was stunued for a moment; but, recovering himself, be perceived at a dittle distance | from him the fragment of a boat which the’ wave had east.up cn to the shore, snd to,

vulsively clinging.

| seilles. and met his brother in the saloon of an |

hastily, lifted her on to his shou'der and bore her to the mansion, A good fire was

Fegement was not till next day, and as burning on the hearth, and it was not long |

before the unknown regained her senses, The Duke gazed upon her, dazzled, “fa-

After my pint of sherry, I brashed my |scinsted! The lady was marvellously beav-| th hair and went in search of my companion tiful<so beautiful, indeed, that the young | { had no nobleman beld his breath for fear of caus-'le

ing this exquisite apparition to vanish. The unknown opened her eyes, looked arcuod ber with astonishment, stared at the Duke and uttered some words,—lHer dress her manners, her features, all indicated a foreign origin, and the words she uttered were in a language—whici he did not un- derstand, Who was she? Whence came she? Where was she going?

The unknown remained sevéral months in the mansion. The Duke had resumed his former gallantry and became her de- voted cavalier. He taught her in a short time sufficient English to enable her to hold @ conversation with him; and partly by words partly by pontomime, they got a'ong exceedingly well. The D ke became de- sperately enamored of his ecmpanion. He implored her to unite her lot with him; but the young lady smiled sadly, and re-

plied, ‘No, [ will never be your wife.’ | The Duke became more and more pressing, | |“ The Rogue's March.”

but the lady did not cease repeating that she would never beeome his wif.

One day she declared to him in the most positive manner that he must renounce a!! bere, and that it was perfectly useless to try to make her change her determination ; but, seeing his deep despair, she added:

‘Lam your friend, Will you follow my

advice ?’ ‘Say on, madam,’ ‘Well, then, marry the daughter of

Lord Howth, who lives near your estate; she will make you happy.’

* Never,’ replied the Duke, ‘I will have 00 other wife than you,’

He resisted long, but at last he yielded to the entreaties of the lady, and went to visit Lord Howth, promising to himself that it should be the first and oaly time, But he reckoned without his host, for Lord Howth succeeded in gradually overeoming big repugnance to stay, His lordship’s daughter however, was by no means to be despised, and the Duke began to entertain the idea of making ber bis wife. In short, one day be demanded her in marriage, and obtained her hand. He returned to give ar acount of his visit to the foreign lady tle was sad and cast down,

‘ You will soon love her,’ said the un- known with a strange mile. ‘ Here is my wedding present to you’

She drew out of ber hair a blue ribbon, which . he fasteped around the Duke’s wrist, and said

‘Wall you swear to me that you will never separate yourse!f from this ribbon!’

*] swear,’

‘So long as you have it on your arm

happiness will smile on you, but beware of |

separating yourself from it.’

She then tock the Duke’s hand tenderly pressed it and withdrew, saying, * Adieu!’

‘You mean until I see you again,’ said he, his heart barsting ae he followed her to the door of her chamber,

She shut the door, repeating the word ‘Adieu!’ In the evening she disappeared

Years roiled on, and the Duke of Gor- don bad, fora long time, ceased thinking of the uvknown, He had married the daughter of Lord Howth, and was living very pleasantly in his mansion in Devon- shire, where be bad numerous visitors, for his wife had inherited her father’s fortune The Dachess of Gordon would have been the happiest woman io the world but for that mysterious blue ribbon. That ribbon troubled her night and day, One evening

when ber husband was asleep, she gently |

detached the arwlet from bis wrist, and ap- proached ‘he fire to decipher, by its light, the iuscripticn which was marked on it in letters of goldal most at the same instant her husband made a movement, The duch- ess, alarmed, let fall the ribbon into the fire, and it was soon devoured by the flames, ‘Three days afterwards there was a grand banquet at the mansion, In the middie of the repast loud barks were heard; they be- came at last so noisy that the Dake sent a servant to inquire into the cause of the tu- mult,

*A rat, my lord, it’s a rat, cried the man, returning. * All the pack are after it. It bas already rau through all the rooms in the house, pursued by the dogs, and it is uow coming toward this one,’

Almost at the same instant a rat eatered the room, followed by the pack, ‘The rat sprang on to the table, and stopping before the Duke, fixed his piercing eyes upon him All the guests arose,

* Stop the dogs!’ cried the Duke, trou- bled, The life of the rat was spared, It became the inseparable companion of the Duke of Gordon, and followed hi-n like a dog. Nevertheless, its preseace coon be- came intolerable to bim. At first be had been amused with it, but after a time it an- noyed him.

*Why don’t yoo kill it?’ people asked him.

‘What would you have? I am supers'i- tious,’ replied the Duke, * and I never sha!) dare to get rid of him by violence.’

His brother had advised him to travel.

The Duke decided upon goirg to Malta. He left his mansion, crossed the channel, and in a few days found bimself at Mar- He had just arrived in that city

hotel, when they heard a dog bark behind the door. Soon afterward a singu'ar noise was beard on the staircase. The Duke open- ed the door, and to his great amazement saw the rat enter, drenched to the bones aod walked up to the fire.

‘Is it the devil?’ cried the Duke, be- wildered.

His brother, in a fury, seized the poker

and struck the animal a blow with it,|

stretching it upon the floor. The Duke ut- tered a terrible cry, sod staggering for- ward, fell, saying:

‘Wretched man, you have killed me!’ And he expired.

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A Nest Rebuke—Sir Fredrick Adam spoke with a strong Scotch accent. Oneday when inspecting aregiment he ucticed tuft of a eoldier’sshako was missing. Ihe mao wae ao-lrishman end a bit of a vumour ist. ‘* Where's your feyther (father), wy

that the |

MISCELLANY.

Barbarous Musicians— Vocalists, when they execute ** Annie Laurie.”’ . The heaviest notes of a bass singer are those at go lowest down the scale,

The popular colored ink for writing love tters now is violet, because it fades se soon. Why are the Breect.-loaders supplied with | Beedies ?—to keep there breeches in repair, of couree.

An editor out West bas been elected town

| constable, and now is able to arrest the atten- tion of hie readers.

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A Scraps —A man who meets one’s re- /marks with a * fiddiesticha!” clearly wishes to do violins to.one’s feeiings.— Fun,

| Jobn Paul says that nothing is raised in | the vicinity of Long Branoh but the visitur’s | indignation at fincing himself there.

| Since Queen Victoria took her place on the _ Engiieh throne, every other throne in Europe, | from the least to the greatest, has changed oc- | cupants.

| Why cannot the Germans obtain anything more from France ?—Because the French have sentout of the country the very !ast Napoleon they had,

At a festival in Obicago to the St. Andrew's Society, when the toast ** The Bench and Bar,” was announced the band struck up

Cause and effect—A correspondent says that he was lately presented with a sample of tea from Fiji, He thinke it made kim Fi ji-tea, ;

A Now Orleans paper says thata young widow in that city, who writes wall, is train- ing herself for aneditor, We hope we are not the editor she is training for.

“ Father,” said a sporting youth to his parent, ** they say trout will bite now.’ * Well well,” was ths eonsoling reply, ** mind your work and then you'll be sure they won't bite you,”

The Unco Guid.—Scrupslous Waiter, to Tourists, “A whag? A sangwitch ! Na, Na! \I ll gie ye bread’and cheese, an’ as much whiskey as ye can drink; but, to mak’ sang- widges on the Sabbith day!”

Prussia has greatly improved in agriculture in the last fifty years, The land now coppers twice as many inhabitants as it did in 1820, though a greater space 18 devoted to feeding cattle, and to the raising of plants for manu- facturing purposes,

Lunar Beaux—said an astronomer to a bright-eyed girl while talking of Rainbows, * Did you ever see a Junar bow ?— * I haye seen beaux by moonlight, it that’e what you wean,” was the sly rejoinder,

Suited—Lawyer: ‘* The coat’s too long, the waistcoat’s too long ; in fact, the entire suit’e too long.’’°—Tailor; Dear me, sir, I'm very sorry ; but the fact is, ]—~I thought that gentlemen of your profession preferred long suits,’”

Wearing The Wrong Card.—A young woman was recently seen sitting beneath the shade of a large maple tree on Broad Street, philadelphia, soliciting alms, with the fol- lowing placard fastened round her neck :— “ Blind for fifty years and the father of eight ewall children,”

A servant girl in the town of A——, whose beauty formed matter of general admiration and discussion, in passing a group of officers heard ane of thom exclaim to his fellows,“*By heaven, she’s puinted.’ Turning round she very quietly replied, ** Yee sir; and by heaven only !”’ The officer acknowledged the foree of the rebuke, and apolog:sed.

At the trial in an Alabama town, net long ‘since, one of the witnesses, an old ‘say of /some eighty years, was closely questioned by ‘an opposing counsel relative to the clearness ‘of her eyesight. “ How well ean you #eg me ?” persisted the lawyer. ** Well enough,” responded the Jady,* to see that you are neither a negro an Indian nor a gentleman,” The anewer brought down the house, and silenced the counsel,

A Suarp Acrngss.—A merchant in Berlin having failed to obtain the hand of an opera singer, purchased two dresses and sent them to her to make her choico, saying he would call to know her decision, Shortly, however, before the hour when he had intended to set onton hie errand, the merchant received from his beloved a billet-doux to ihe followin effect .—‘* Of the dresses you have cent, t like one Quite es wellas the other, I will, in fact, keep both, so that you have no need te calli"?

‘Bo” ro a Gooss. Ben Jonson having heard that Lord Craven wae-very anxious to sec him went to hie Lordship’s house, Being in a some. what tattered condition, the porter refored to admit him, and addressed him in impertinent language, which Ben did not fail to return. While they were wrangling Lord Craven ha pened to come out. and desired to know the

| cause of the quarrel. Jonson immediately said

“T understood your lordship wishes to see me.”"—** You, friend,” replied the lord, « who ere you ? "—** Ben Jonson,” replied the other. ** No; vou cannot be Ben Jonson, who wrote the Silent woman; you took as if you could not say bo toa goose !’’—* Bot’ cred Ben. ** Very well,” said nis lordship, who was better pleased at the joke than offended at the effront,** I am now convinced of your identity.”

THE COLORED MAN IN CONGRESS.

A Washington correspondent, writing on the 12th, says:

“For the firat time in the history of the Government a negro was sworn in today eee member of the House of Representatives, The fortunate individaal is’. W. Rainey, and succeeds B. F. Whittemore, of cadetahip selling notoriety, from South Carolina, Ruirey was elected to serve out the balance of Whit e- more’s term in the present Congress. Ontse opening day of the sesson, about a week ag, there were numerous inquiries for the “nego member,” and to-day, when he pat man ape pearance for the first time, be was the centre of attraction on the flocr as well asin the galleries. A light mulatto, with long, dark, straight, glossy hair, bushy side whiekers, and | decidedly Caucasian features, he looks more ‘like a Cuban than a negro. Ia this respect ‘he is quite unlike the negro Senator from Mis- 'sissippi, Revels, who tas the African features ‘aswell.as the woolly hair. Rainey came for- ward at the request ef the Speaker, after his credvatials had been presented, and amid per- fect silence took the iron-clad oath, He did | mot meet with as warm a reception on the part lof the members as Revels did in the Senate ‘when he took-his seat in that body, As he passed towards his seat in the rear of the Hail | the southeast corner—the — member who thought it worth while to shake hands with him was Horace Maynard of Tennessee, When he had reached his place two or three of the South Carolina members came ever to ‘congratulate him. He evidently felt » good deal out of place, and no |:ttle disappoiot- ment at tha freezing reeeption he received — from bis brethern of the white persuasion, The negro member's firstevore was given ip favor of General Banks’ Bt. omingo resolu- tion. He was born in Georgetown, District of Columbia, where (bis father and mother ‘were both slaves,.and 1s ubont thirty-oige years of age.”