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NIGHT.” DISHES, | ; : veel i ” ee : oe ion | nies Perl , ee preparing | Several years ago a stranger in a travelling "20 1 . , ‘ ao time of Crovawell. a vounge soldier 6 s being ) I BLESS GOD FOR -RAIN. (in the time of Cromwell, @ } 1 X i i hal ' ,| sulky, was leisurely pursuing his way tos daa enenigy son ice s condemned to d in { » Jast Ww r, Perk voluntee | ’ : ‘ Lote _ ee pape : oe ie Mrs. } wards a little tavern, situated at the foot of « Bless God for rain!" the good man said, | the time of his death was fixed “ at the rings | to wash t hes one ” ne of the Western States. A { 1 me ay we Wester é 3 é And wiped away a grateful tear; ine of t] ; Naturally such & doom | kins ele ; t seas \ itain,in That we mav have ; i v bread ' r the years ” : a t i la in advance of him a negro returning wou t an tier to O1 nthe year rs tak n ‘ i He drops a shower upon us " Lt , el i : - : m the plough, was singing the favorite Our ®ather! thou who dwell’st in Heav his hope and pride, but to this unbappy | She had just reached t ™ i f \ lady of by, +} sie +} 4} “ ' st 5 eae eh i 2 was i a At plan meioay ot - gank thee for the pearly show youth death was doubly terri since he W485 ¢ voice of Mr. Perkin _ : i $25 ton Ba es die, i : “Gwine dow hinhone 2 The ' essed procent thou has given soon to be married toa beautiful young lady the dis? { t Sere Te mén, and beast, and bird, and flowe ft ; eH . és Long igo. | re : whom he had long loved. The lady, WO) cwored back. Am ere ' hailed him with « Hullos ved him ardentiv in return, had used he r | ii 4 ce . ted The st g 1aile him with ulloa The dusty earth, with lips apart | oved him arden ” sei , | Mrs. Perkins found & woode sacs vou Snowball Looked up where rolled an ord of flame | utmost efforts to avert his fate, p! ding With | |) and reached up the curtain stick I hy ae hold { i . } s said ylacke ling up his oe @ prayer came f-om ils heert | the judges, and even with Cromwell himse an’t find that dishseloth ” came th 4 ps ! J AER Y a | o 6 corr and lo! it came . ; es inal ; a oe we ” > st a but of no avail. In her despair she tried to | Mr. Parker up the stairway. “1 how | The Indian corn with silken ime | ca hint t ’ Is that tt ha vay |} » ahead yon- Aad tiny pitchers w ed, Fide tae Ore seeren Het ic wring j suk, hanging on a nail, I sa he repeated. | : E } “- dra s Send up their praise um she found that impossibie ‘he hour drew | Itt there, I a ur Mr. P 1 ' | : 4 : ‘ o ' \f , t n )- For precious drops stilled wr for the execution. The preparations | ee ae a) es Wate en een fassa B Lee sh i I 1 } M1 3 of the law | 5, el The modest grass is fresh and greet , ~— am Ifrom the cha lescenit ind © ia wag atch ee brought forth the prisoner, and waited while ; ted ‘Hotei, ay, Billy Leeman The brooklet swells its song again rial. cantata thang A : : | of n th r under 1 \ ; ae ie UB ideas , NY *tting. for the sigt he . os | es sah, you kno ass silly sed té Methinks an angel's wing is seen | the sun wés setting, for the signs de | silently but significantly t ¢ 2°! . 4 es t O'Ced ieaai 2 } | ¢ * ve rt > yr a Pe YT 12 in every cloud that brings us rain, | the distant beli-tower. To the wonder of| .i41) With the same discree s, der. | SP Ot he Monet Comer freee, There is a rainbow in the sky, ' et, ce \ dum mobe now: keeps mushous nice tabern F Upon the arch where tempests tro le verybody it did not ring! Only one human | perkins took it down, keeping his back t + tall ‘ sh ' - " 53 7 i . , } j eli yer God wrote it ere the world was dry- being at that moment knew the reason The wards his wit Mi Perkins re ended tell It is the autograph of God half wild with the thought of her |, ste grt the nple ady Mr. | ‘ Indeed er’s peril. had rushed, unseen, up the wind- } ee ou ict ott baie ‘ Yes sah, you siops dis ebening I speck, Up where the heavy thunders rolled c peek ien ¥ co 4 : "a ies inte the be o Perkins to kee P ue Cys 18 ee oa Lali ‘epéesebio ae puts up dar. You : ' n sirs,and climbed the jac rif ! ae iii mene hi | | i@ gemime I A xd clouds of tire were swe] t along ing Stairs,and ¢ nga : s)} inted the woc na and t hk ee timmes Maden 9 The sun rides in a car of gold fry loft, jand seized the tongue ol the be saci Matildy shouted Mr. Per 1eW vac B 3 j . ; ' leca. promt | ‘ Yes Sambo. here’s some of the rea! Caven- And soaring larks dissoive in song The old sexton was in his place, prompt to]... We cclaimed that lady witt \ en at aiesapc caret of the re The rills that gush from mountains rude, | the fatal moment. He threw his weight upon | | us brevity That wate s the | dish for you > . So > \ rt } lary is vily oat ter | 1 : : ; J bg sean to ne oe base the rope, and the bell, « bedient to his prac- | ; é tail Put 1 lal ‘Tankee Massa, tankee; Quash my name ust like the tears of gratitude r , kin off mes he exclaimed t ; ; That often stain a good man’s fa ticed hand, reeled an 1g to and fro in the | + i tt ‘ said Mrs. Perkins, as s! Quash, ay a nt the brave girl kept her hold, and | f ; Yes sah, at erbi Ooh, grunted : kK p te tk on But the brave gu tli \ to her work What's that?’ said Mr. | ae ead seals Great Aing of Peace, deign now to $$. | no sound issued from its metallic lips Again | : : ‘ os eligh i dis is nice, bette n und i I Prom 1 S ‘ weer t of the stairs M: ] kis r ; $ of the sky unbar . ; shad inks t isi 16 TOOL OF UE : i a Sea i ray Se enon — 7 ceding Rie’ taousness, | 22d again the sexton wt pe, but with " oth aa : in common bacca, tankee Massa, tankee a a ee th sabia ok War Jesperate strength the young heroine held ohn . ea ‘Well Quash, what kind of a gentleman nd wash away the stain ¢ I sesperat Feng ; : ashing eyes a alk ead ¢ 5 And let the radiant bow of Love on. Every movement made her position more rr coi eared ae aie i this Mr. Leeman : the stairs ! V Vil ‘ . a ' , 1} . In beauty mark the moral sky fearful ; every sway of the bell’s huge weight i ek, Clean aan Wet’ cata Ok. sah be fs man, mioushous nice j . owas hy e } face of M erains at the to - ‘ Like that fair sky unrolled abos threatened to fling her through the big tow~ | ne : in, Moushous nice man, empertains gem- But not like it to fade and die : : water in it,’ she recited in an elevated key. er window ; but she would not let go. id is a alae walt ven nesiet fust style and I takes care ob de scietieatanganiahiens ooo ———— 6 » you hear thé Citi, ¥ t ie 1 , “ and deaf, the sexton had not noticed that it ee bled t happy Mr He funny, too, tells heaps ob stor- yr. »., | get mad about it, grumbied the unhappy - f . THE PLO gaverosound. At last he went away. rhe } ri pe a i iemdesel Sites Pork tare.) 2 0 ut ghoses and sperits, notwithstandin — thea Da a _ Bi er aid erkins as he disappeared. if inst ae ne ue ) a Clear the brown path to meet the coulter’s| brave girl descended from the belfry, _— lturned to the chair, mounted it again, and he ‘freid ob dom hisael a ee gleam ! ing and wounded. She hurried from the ieiuatatine dead teal sin ‘Afraid of ghosts, ay?’ said the traveller, i + moking 1 ‘ . ' PAMeCULY VOOR Nik iil- Se! of he comes menind ae ae taM,} church to the place of execution, Cromwell ae : the | musing. * Well, go-ahead Mr. Quasb, as its i's rht ew-drops n his stn- utes passes ininterrup ol the . | ~—oee iat himself was there, and was just sending to | . 1 he 1 getting late, J guess [ll tarry with this Mr. burnt brow, ; | cartaine was down all right The wooden | ° eat The lord of earth, the hero of the plow lemand why the bell was silent J }é hair was moved to the other window, and Leeman to-night. * “Sg eat aI ; hair was mo o the other window, a1 ae a ts : First in the fleld before th reddening $ Slowly England's sun was setting o'er the | 95 avain ascended, when Mr. Perkins Z h,up, mo, Dobin! get along live Last in the shadows when the day is done, “hill tops far away, a ’ as] nd setting off at a brisk trot fullowed i g yurnif 1 | ' ' } ‘ ' } »}ciove lhe air ‘Matild sane nee oo cae c : fant have | Filling all the land with beauty at the close | : ; f s by the traveller, the musical Quash again Marks the broad acres where his feet hay: of one sad day, | Mrs. Perkins though p. * W broke in with 1 } ‘ , mun i ‘ | roane tl 00 : trod ; ; : bh} ss cte | And the last rays kissed the forehead ofa man | what is it no Wt A | . . : Still a he treads the stubl clods ‘aval lady tain - Die ee oe | ‘Gwine down Shinbone Alley divide, He witt tste low and ary. st coc : rhe burden of ‘ Long time ag . e with footstep siow and wea wil : : Phe burden I sng time agi was The smooth, fresh furrow opens deep and : a foal ae, Rall t.’ said Mr adapted t ; re i ide: Ce a ae ts | aKeN | some one apparently in an ads wide; e h bowed head, sad and thoughtful, she |! wn hear and then | Cr : " i Matted and dense the tangled turf upheaves oe | ent corntield, which occasioned Quash to ; . Ce eee with lips all cold and white, | raising voice for his benefit, she added : | G ‘ Meliow and dark the ridgy cornfeld cleaves; | ., iggled to keep back the murmut | ee a ; prick up his ears with some surprise, he Up the steep hillsside where the laboring | °° °°" a, -e.e- mct nol o-night here it always mm the nail back of t ee ee ae : aad. P i Curfew must not ring to-night. ae Sie eee 3 wed the| ntinu 1 hi . ver, with . Dar I meets o! ’ , } . - } Johnny Giadden, when the same ‘ res Stan Is the long track that scores the ‘ve ‘Sexton Bessie’s white lips faltere noint- } ea 2 sd ae ; i : ail | nny : on, as eee Oe + withdrawal of Mr. Perkins. A moment pass- i ing h nr ’ ld i sponded fror t tie} g time piain : ms a : ing to the pris nm Od, | od... Ht win’t i sid M Pp kins fh | sp t i | Lon i Through the moist valley clogged with 002-] With its turrets tall and gloomy,and its walls lag ing clay, dark, damp and coid, | th tefthe sta An exp tted | wW ioe a 4 ciated aaled a 4 i S$ att are The patient convoy breaks its destined way I've a lover in that prison, doomed this very | across Mrs, Perkins t th tion cod tenia , - I r of ne yond ok A King Suaq 1 us tt (QORKINE So ies eee Ges omaning cbeins resend, night to die, : | this piece of information, that deserved a bet-| ‘ ee ee swinging plowshare circles glistening the ringing of the curfew, and no earthly | ' ; ound sides fo se of his sur- sean I , At Heng deh 7 j ter | t than ba Walls inempty | al ie@ip is Digu, . ; pris¢ Till the wide fleld one billowy waste ap-} Cromwell will mot come till sunset,” and her | room. ‘I hare, See FOphES in 6 Oh, never mind, ahead snewba ts pears, lips grew strangely white | voice of emotior ‘Well, | t see it,” he] ne . nbin } ng . ‘ rusk \ hisper | is your master’s spirits | suppose Aad weeried hands unbind the panting! as she breathed the husky whisper | said. Thera was a half min. nee. Mrs. | oe eet ak Gan ny +) steers “Curfew must not ring to-night | Perk suk sehddatie walllell te henr hin | (Juash, in a very thoughtful mood led the -O. W. HOLMES ) Perkins as evidenmtty warner — # | wav to the tavern, without utter \ ss iy the tavern, without ultering another ia’ } —. } sax tor ver . af “hb hy - ' - * DOSsSic, caimiy spec me § {or \ ‘ move ¢ ir newal!l of the search, bu oO | ; — “B > calm) poke the sexton, every ve away in renewal! of the search, but no | H ies ee re ca 7 ve * iY ting efore he { . » stranger LITERATURE word pierced her young heart, | amah gcicad reeched her. ‘1 declare, Denici.’| SIMHE DGrore the Coon ihe Suranger een . ow. like a deadly | Such sound! lare, Daniel, ‘ie na eeuat oe tin abten Oe . wi Like the piercing of an arrow, iike a deadly i ciiniaaid Uilicis oak + ven ave enennd was soon waited on 1 y the ob ging Mr. Se ee poisoned dart. fis . : ro . oe na Leeman; a bustling talkative tleman, v; ‘a r ] es ‘ve rn h “urfew from } to trv th yvatience ot aint ell vou a CATCHING A TARTAR. Long, long years I've rung that curfew,from | to try the patience of a sain’ tell you tha | who greeted his customer with— Light, | that shadowed, gloomy tower | towel is on the nail back of the pantry door |} Peis 1 ‘ole 1 Wall . : | Every evening, just at sunset, it has tolled} ,..,, wishes bath ine Sir, Ligh Here John Quash . tlk (From the St. Lovis Republican.) | 3 r ees Kee roe oe \ : r ’ 7 _ sit ‘Quash take off that rug « Come There were four f them and they w | i Bi, t’ if ye k w so mt a t " tak tha \ ere “ ur of ft m an ney ro) l've don a t ustand | § i ; ngs ssid denen WALA Ricca tin has tad ] yur ] u have} i had better come dow ind ty ig ee cn ee - — young bloods; young bloods. You have} ight wn ‘ank death su ee seen a young blood He is the son of his| Now I'moldI st t | self,” sa Mr. Perkins, with a tinge of sa ; slay ' . ’ , | ‘ vi ; 5 a father and his father is rich. He is called a hinder satan } casin go and « for it aga a : . ol f y I s h ther particular young blood Lecause he bleeds the old man.| Wild her e} er features, stern | | Perkins It don't 1 as ify I att | +f , of lodgings The young bivod toils not, neither does he and whit yhiful brow, I could go down these steps ag sm 7 61M ‘ And within he Bessie made a M P " 4 s Wel Quash, take him to tl Ww + ¢ mine r } wh " s Mr e s shoveda % aa * spina— but his head spins once in a@ Wh ie, } ins x } ; na : Well. there were four of them It was Sun She | a omD é | and Mr Perkins with a sigh t i "u sta ind tend him well; I like to se@a iy i fOUF OL biel V i She ha ] ges rea with- n I * : : ce dey night.—They had been out at Rinkie’s o1 sigh, tention to t tair S| was made se well tended to, and this ts a noble dl a. aa : At the ringing of the Curfew, Basil Unders «vons b fre e ritter,, exclaimed the landlord, slapping ead were coming home, on the St. Charies; “** * roe os the Cu i ery 4 t i wood must die. ae ‘ aa } 1 the back roc , ¥ in a two,seated buggy, F a { and her progress in ti iking it wn Was kroad. They sat in vsewase SS582>) And her breath came fast and faster, and ber | = ae ‘ Tal ai nitl inne: 4° acl (he heres drawn bya dashing span of bavs Preserit- eyes grew large and bright— | and painful, Mr kins was g g ak ar Wil u! hi ae horse i ; | aoe ; ‘ } ckens does th ean!’ ex- ly they came to the large open common at/ In an undertone she murmured, that she was beginning to think id nd What t k kt this mean!’ ex c : ‘ —_— Ce ar : ‘i ‘ : | s the intersection of the rock road and King’s Curfew must notring to-night. whea his foostep was heard at 1imed th | eat ‘ . er nee reahy « he r alle highway She with quick step bounded forward, spran of the stairs, and again his voice as~ Silence, Belzebub, a Te Re, « ° ’ » “3 ¥ l l ther tone neo Here an episode ¢ ! \ have within the old church door } cend Itjaint thers,’ Mrs. Perkins camé ressing t animal, and then turning to seen an episo je. } Left the old man treading slowly paths so oft) down so sud jenly from her chair as to cause | (4 indlord, he observed—‘ You must ex- : atte ididen : he'd tread before. | Mr Perkins to wink where he stood. The ise | he’s rather an aristocratic It is something sudden Not one moment paused the maiden, but with | 5 Ca ae And so unexpecte!. i eves and cheek aglow next instant she swept down the stairs wit rse, its t ect of education, sir. | ’ +} It seizes you with amazement. Transiixes| Mounted up the gloomy tower, Where the | flushed tace and hard determined eyes. Mr * He's the devil, sir you with awe. In this i the episode bell swung bi and fro, _ | Perkins n l awa 1 advan ind prog | None of your familiarity, aid the horse : | j Aad she climbed the dusty ladder on which | |, “d he dete mankna and start.| looking spitefully round at the astonished mashed your nos¢ fell no ray of light, les the pantry entrance, and start-| “OOMIDE ’ A countryman was driving home in a lowly | Up and up, her white lips saying, | ed inside triumphant ~ waived him Ye ie del oa ; ioe ‘“ Curfew must tori night.” . t or han nd the las Siac ‘ ) here (Quash said the astonished | teuck-wagen drawn by an aged and metho-| Curfew must not ring to-night. aside with her hand and the sim, word ee ' ay Bee ial ee § ‘ TT} maw ' a ie i a ' ede | ete Get away. b 1, 4 and t as the traces, what are you dice! gray hours i young b is cam he had reached the top-mast ladder, o'er he: : J iby : dashing up with th steeds. The young hangs the great dark bell, } I towel was not on the nail. | ring ; ‘ il you i Awful is the gloom beneath her, like the path- | quick t ‘it in ‘ Landlord,’ said Belzebub, ‘I want my bloods were beery. ‘ li . ec ET RO Oe PSln~ ) quick ey ed it im pla ‘ he y : way down to hell. “erie , , : ney | " countryman | bout tv irit : . ; first shelf, and with hardly a ause oats aus the countryman had about two drinks | he ponderous tongue is swinging,’tisthe | | Hilway reached up at d al t : Quas! t 1, the landlord backed up | of whiskey in him and hence had the advant- iour of Curfew now, | straightway reached up and picked it uy vu : age. And the sight has chilled her bosom, stopped | ‘There, do you see (hal # and she shook it in to the porch ” . the aren had to er rea } paled , Ww | ‘i I t } et e an ar . au A gill of whiskey holds the same an it ‘er breath and paled her brow, — | his face, To t Mr. Perkins \ t | his vehicle and drive round in of fight as 2 galle : fb 1 tt t Shall she letitring? Nonever! Flash ber | cupnised would be to misrey t urch of the stable himself an & galien eer, and then is § eves with iden wikis 7 iL deat Mise} it le y ith sud light, J : : akan led lisposing of his horse : ! ' ings, b the el was 1 or \ { ‘ ngs le ! ing of his hors much hanidier and less cumbersome. And she springs and grasps it firmly ings, but the towel was not 4 and ilay t } s . loods drew n ar } . ‘Curfew shall r ring tosnig ”" 'Mr. Perkins spera 1 t he returned t the tavern anon supper The young bloods drew rein and the c }. irfew shall not ring tosnight | ) : q | | straw I told 4 wal ere ? ar the eggs had all apparently young tryman haliowed whoa! The y. D.asked the Out she swung, far out, the city seemed aj] ~t i pag ' : al ‘wre emeal “ant tH thar hears they were st { see 2 1° wan't (her xclaimed Mrs. Perkins spits hi i The landlord was greatly if he could tell them where they were go spark of light below, j ; The profane c. told them “to h— Iwixt heaven and earth her form suspend- | fully It was right in ntof € fluat mortifying circumstances, Cc. wld m io D i a * f } anal renee fror Z Then one of the y said ‘ 1 are a blank- ed, as the bel swung to and fro. and anybod buta blockhead w ha but } traveller amends from a ed liar.” ‘ And 7 — sti ll rope, old and deaf, | seen it at onc Well. g ‘ : v4 cold pig vhich, as he inserted the carving : a ‘ reard not t! . e! i fnish t " said WN orkins a of | fork int uttered a piercing squeal, r spond- 4 + } } ’ nnish n MI rkin nat i At this the countryman laid down his lines, | But he thought he still was ringing,fair young | °*" ' ’ : Nad . ’ fs c f -a tha nd he ibiect w he ming j uder 3° fro ne jlan¢glac end got out of the truckewagon and made a Basil's funeral knell. Voice at indicated the subj was becoming | ed to by a louder on rm ‘4 the : Ady speech as follows * You roosters has lit on the maiden clung my st firmly, and with | distasteful to (il finish them myself,’ | Down went th earving-knife an‘l fork, and trembling lips and white, | said Mrs. Perkins firn ‘And I might have | tl rspiration began to grow in large beads - . °G teat aot , ow i } ‘ . } Said Mis. KIMnS UrMiy and migh have Lii¢ perspiralion » val £ V Ih ia i q the wrong fences. Just one of you stayin the | Said to hush her heart's wild beating | I a | done them at first, and saved my strength,for | on the forehead of the poor host who stood wagon end the other three git right out here. ‘Curfew shall not ring to-night. anne al aE et meee eae Cal ; ; | dness knows Ihave got little enough. ‘I | gazing fearfully at the grunter His attens I ken Sey all the dust between here and town vr ined ; ee ee ee ee ee ee ' ’ ; mee ct It was oer the bel] stop sw aying, and the ball ‘waa Wil ds thee’ trotested Bir. Perkins tion was soon taken, however, from veices ° m the felle roan £ t | 1 yo 11a0 them, nN sli 8 ins, | with ye. Oh! 1 am the feller to keep away maiden stepped once more, 1«N } j Sha ‘a from without, cailing ‘Hulloa! house! 1 : ! ' | *No, you have done mis ‘fenough for one rou iwhoul, cai ~ 10 ! . the flies. I'm better than any muskeeteer | Firmly on the dark old !adder, where for| **9 2°04 "4 errs oe — ’ m : f - { » * r el ‘ ner ge Its ‘ lar | Pe ber. Just one of you hold them horses— hundred years before, j day,’ said Mrs. Perkins hysterically, ‘ you | landlord - i Human foot had not been planted. The brave | had better go down street and enjoy yourself ‘Avye!aye! coming gentlemen, more tra- BS ih 1 withor itchin-—dane “ aye ree | rg a eu UI gv : o ; my ole mare I slane ithout hitchin—and deed that she had done, | with vour cronies The unhappy man retire | vellers—help yourself, sir. the belance just waliz to Joseph right here! Should be told long ages after,asthe raysof} , .° o ee a1. <Bendiord'l’ so ie d from the room in great depression, ant * Landiore mow. Come on, git out And the irate setting stn, : so . a io pnt ‘ ‘Coming, gentlemen—here John, a light epnounced his firm belief in the canine pa Should illume the sky with beauty; eventually disappeared down the street,mut- | Coming, ¢ John, ight,

sires with heads of white, should tell the Kittle children Curfew did not ring that night.

ef ji aged | rentage of the y.b.—Then he danced an prenced up and down the road and kicked a the herses’ ears and gyrated his long arms end threw his old sik “Oh I'ma catamount, | am. I like to be| Fi stepped in the middie of the road, I do @ foursyear-old bull pawin’ up big clods right out of the ground, I am—I'm a whole menagrie of royal Bengal tigers, an a cage fuil of grizzly bears. I've fit in the ring heave. Git out here! Git out,1] say’ and show you whar you're goin Then three of the young bioods

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| O'er the distant hills came Cromwell; Bessie sees him and her brow, | ill of hopes and full of gia iness, has no} anxious traces now, feet she tells her story, all bruised and torn ; And her face 30 sweet and pleading sorrow pale and worn, Touched his heart with sudden pity, lit his eye with misty light; ' your lover lives,”’ said Cromwell, ‘Curfew shall not ring tosnight.”

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their coats and accepted the pressing invitas 7 _ : nothing — earth so beautiful as : the household on which Christian. love for

\ he other sat in the buggy and hele * , om,.* H bn the luck: -_ He ,, | ever smiles, and where religion walks, a the horses @ was the lucky one © ©oulG | counsellor and a friend. No cloud can darken

go to see his girl the next night, if he wanted | it, for its twin stars are centered in the soul. te, and had not totell her that he had been | No storms can make it tremble, for it has a out to the base-bali match and got hit with the | heavenly supvort and a heavenly anchor, bell. The best place in the vicinity was in the buggy helding the horses.

Weil the three bounded out countryman set those long arms going the three immediately imagined that the hot speil had brought cn a tornado, accompanied by an earthquake and enlivened by strokes of lightning.

The countryman seemed to have about teen Lists

“P'i tell you whar you're goin’,” he ed as the first of the three tried to climb over the fense on his east ear. |

“That's whar you're goin!l as the second of the three executed @ back somersault in the ditch.

One of the queerest duels on record was that in whieh Sainte~Veuve was engaged. it began to rain slightly after he had taken up his position, whereupon he cooly held jis and! umbrella over his head with his left hand,

while holding the pistol with his right. The | expostulation of his witnesses had no effect ,upon him. ‘ [t isa@ll very well to be killed,’ rapid | said the famons essayist, ‘but I object to | catching cold in my head.’

hen the

A good many stories ef stammerers are

“a following of Platt Evans, of Cincinnati:

could not always ge€ them in the market,

. ked | be ehets the farmer how many there were dozen,’ was the reply Platt, ‘Ik-k-keep boarding-house, “An « the way for you to travel!’ ha| b-b-boarders are the biggest e-eaters you ane sp t ‘0 e . ied to detente | ever s-s-saw. P-p~pick out n-n-nine of the a en news Mane | s+ toughest you've g-gsgot. The farmer ' ¢ 5 ° himself on his nose in the middle of the) complied, and laid aside the other three tens road. der ones. Me started for the lucky fellow who was in | and putting them in his basket, said, the wagon holding the horses, but the lucky Gaal eee ae hoa es 18 “r.—Last Suns fellow let the horses go and got out of _ day morning a family living in the suburbs way

Then he made snother speech as follows: | ing a little girl about seven years of age in “Ob, I'm an earthquake, | am. I'ma vol-| charge of the house. The church was situ-

and these were jeft in a vessel on the stove —Give me some more raw meat to chaw|tocook The little virl while playing sud- ep!” | denly began to smell the odor of burned -* : : } | beans, upon which she rushed out of the

The three siid of hehind the fence, down to house, over into the church, where the pastor where number four sat, holding the horses,| was gravely and earnestly preaching the and quietly into town, and then the three| profound Werd of God. slid Wriively into a drug store. They had been out to.dee the base ball match and got! startied the assemblage considerably, she bit with the ball. They knew where they | cried, ‘Come home, come home, the beans Were going during the balance of that trip | are burning,’ and immediately rushed out Atell events they did not enquire of any | 28"? More countrymen, quietly drying home their truck wagons.

me some more nuts to crack! Give me room!

broad smile.

|“ CUORPEW MUST NOT RING TOs| A DANBUR

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way.—Danbury News

7 —_— - A Minnesota paper made a young poetess say, ‘Oh, for a heart fullof sweet yearlings!

The poetess wrote to the editor. declaring | that she wrote ‘ yearnings,’ and that the | printer who set it up ‘yearlings’ was a

calf.

A citizen of Portland was walking down | town one morning, when a stranger ad- | dressed him: ‘Do you know where the post officeis?* ‘ Yes,’ answered the Portlander, affably, and walked on without further pars | ley. After proceeding for about ten steps | he looked back and inquired in his turn. ‘Why? Did you want to know?’ ‘Hoe,’ | replied the victim with earnestness; and then, the account having been balanced, the two shook hands and gravely walked off

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CrxcInNATUS AT THE PLow.—In that portion of imagination’s realm reconnoitred by the ‘mind’s eye,’ and as bearing upon Roman history thereis no incident, it seems to the writer, better calculated to cause a thrill of admiration and sympathy in every magnani- mous breast than the picture of the grands | est character that Rome ever produced, dili- gently engaged in the manual (but nol de- grading) occupation of guiding tbe plow. The fact that this purest, least ambitious,

told, but none of recent date better than the It |

was one of his pleasures to teach his friends | |how to purchase tender geese, though he |

| One morning he saw a lot, and iuquired of | ‘Abouta *‘ W-w-well,’ said | and my |

Platt picked them up carefully, | “se he proved himself ‘the noblest Roman’ of

; ated but a short distance from the house.! nighted world. cano right from the bowls of the earth. Give | qe family were to have beans for dinner, | conclusion, therefore, |

The first person of | ness consisted; and the family the litle girl espied was a young | than any of his contemporaries of conduct- laity cousin, and to her in a loud voice, which | ing such affairs wisely and well, (for was he

ever boasted, should have, ly, devoted his time, his talents, and his wonderful energies (whenever the Common- wealth could dispense with the latter) to purely agricullural pursuiis, simply demons strates the moral grandeur of the man’s na- | ture ; implying, as it does, that in comparison with all other merely human pursuits Cincins nnatusfdeemed the ‘tilling ofthe soil’ to be at once the most natural,the most innocent, and therefore the most conducive to man’s happis | ness of all others. deed, from ambition, and his lofty indiffer- ence to that species of renown which

“Plays round the head, but comes not to |

the heart,”

them all, and emphatically that immaculate character, in heathen times, who carried out, in his daily walk and behaviour, the pre-

| of the city wentto a suburban church, leat, | cepts and practice of Christianity, without

being aware that its great Founder was on his way to promulgate his doctrines to a be- We deduce this general from his devotedness to agricultural pursuits, and from the re- | markable preference he evinced in relation thereto, as contrasted with his apparent lukewarmness in the matter of state affairs, that Cincinnatus, more than any other man | of his time, understood in what true happi- though more capable

| not Rome’s ‘ pilot in extremity ?’) and when ‘the waves ran high’ was sure to She at his

| post; yet, the disagreeable task being ac-

The astonishment was great, and | complished, he would hasten back to his .* | all the solemnity of the preacher as well as| plow, unmoved by the plaudits of his couns ‘Othe congregation disappeared beneath a | trymen, and devoted more than ever to his

beloved vocation of cuitivating the ground,

In his utter freedom, in- |

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and most really influentiai citizen that Rome almost exclusive- |

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HUMOROUS SKETCH.

bring a light to the door—Sally, wait on the

gentlemen, and out bounced the landlord

with lights, but returned, declaring there was no living thing about. and returned a second belief that the whole

was haunted that night by

ing, he went again

time, declaring his

evil

\ spirits,

The stranger presently rose from the table

| and drew his chair to the fire, having made }

od supper on the eggs and young porker, their cries to the contrary notwiths standing,

That night, rumor saith, Mr. Billy Lee-

man slept with the Bible under his head, |

and kept a candle burning in his room till daylight; and those who pass there till this day discover the heels of old horse-shoes peering over the door casement as a bulwark against witches, hobgoblins, and other evil spirits. The traveller was a Ventriloqguist. ee ae Having suffered for several years from Dyspepsia resulting in great nervous prostra- tion and general debility, impoverished blood Eruption of the Skin, Rheumatic and Neus ralgic Pains, Restlessness, want of sleep and extreme lassitude, I was recommended to take Dr. Wheeler's Compound Elixir of Phos- phates and Calisaya, Having persisted in its use for several weeks I recovered perfect health. My wife, and children also, have taken it, for general Tonic purposes to ins vigorate and strengthen the system and pros mote the formation of pure blood. with per- manent benetit. It energizes an sustains the the vital forces in a remarkable manner. Samver J. Burr, Agent of Toronto Globe, Montreal.

Nationa, Desrs.—Nearly every nation in the world is either a borrower or lender, and the startling declaration is made by a writer in the London Daily Telegraph that the world ‘“‘ regarded by the mass, is living be- yond its means.’ During the 10 years end- ing with 1872, while England reduced her debt $175,000,000, Holland about $30,000,000, and the United States $400,000,000, in five years there was an increase, in some cases exceedingly large, in the debts of France,

llaly, Spain, Russia, Turkey, Austro—Hun- |

gary, Egypt, Brazil, Portugal and Peru, to say nothing of other nations which are com- paratively small debtors. France has gone deepest, increasing her liabitities by about $2,500,000,000 in the decade. The Editor of ‘Fenn on the Funds,’ a well known book of reference in England, estimates the toral in- crease in the aggregate of national debts for the years from 1862 to 1872, at nearly $10,- 000,000,000, while an additional sum of $5,- 606,000,000 is estimaied to have been raised for joint stock companies. The figures nec- essary to express the total volume of the world’s indebtedness, public and private, would represent a sum almost incomprehen- sible.— Republic Magazine.

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The voices calls |

HOMELY OLIVER.

It was at one of Sir Joshua Reynolds

| Supt 1 Leicester Square that an ins fen took place wh nsed the wilspowet of Dr. Fobnson The rather plain sister of the | tartis! had been called upon by the company, after supper, as the custom was, to give a ast She hesitated. and was accordingly ‘oquired, again according to custom, to give the ugliest man she knew In a moment the | name of Oliver Gol Ismith dropped from her ps, end immediately a sympathizing lady on | pposite side of the table rose and | hoo hands with Miss Reynolds across the } table Johnson had heard the expression, ind inad marked the pantomimic per- form f sympathy, and he capped both by aremark which set the table in a roar

and which was to an effect which cut smart- ly in three ways

1 he, ‘the ancients on the com- of their to

e a beast