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VOL.. IY. Will' t ALBANY, OREGON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1871. 'NO. i .1 BY FAIX'OJJDRIIHiE. "Mr. Shcpley ?" "Mi. Sliepley, sir." U, John." - "Tliere's a gentleman who" wewld like to see you, sir." 4 "Show him in." I liad amused myself almost to sleep on tliat iXwmber afternoon ; the dull gray clouds had a ghastly look about them, and the blast had the shriek of a demon in it, ami be tween the two. the play of the clouds awl the wild notes of nature's orcliestra, I had well nigh dropped off to sleep. j 'Is this Mr. Shepley, sir " The speaker was a man of mag nificent figure, with iron gray hair, awl what we would call a iiKtit gue air about him. He had re moved his hat, and stood hesitat ing. '.;"':. "It is ; pray le seated." The man sat down, a splendid figure shining out against tlie dark back-ground of the ..dingy office, while a" streak of sunshine shim mered throusjh the. wii.dow and fell on his face. "The demons seem let loose out f doors to-day," I said. I had been conjuring up strange laissies before lie come in, and had almost brgtten my visitor as I fjioke. 'They arc let l.Mise, they arc let loose." As he spoke a cloud came between him and the warm -un-fshine, leaving his face in sliadnw. ' There was something more inter esting than clouds to study ; the man has evidently some iierplexing egal diihouitios, and he has come to the firm of Miepl.n- & I'earsou to have it solved, lie shall not be dis appointed. 1 resolved, mentally. 'l see you advertise for a copy ist," went on the man. "I desire the situation." 1 -started whet J? Iwgan the sen tence. " You, sir," I maanged to stammer, "a copyist The man evidently observed the look of astonishment that broke over inv lace. "The severest review does not equal yours4" 1 replied laughing. 1 1 is face flushed a little, "I beg your pardon, sir," lie said humbly. "Ah ! every man to his opinion," I replied and so the matter drop ped. '- - ' 1 had occasion to CO down THE SCOT ABROAD. "I have been to twenty places to day, sir. 'no work all tiill.' and the V une gcntlema .wa?4 of the ram on tlie wmdow iaie outside aiid his voice Lad a hopelessness in thcin. "Do you see that wind take that limb." continued the man a little dower, "how it writhes and twists ' and struggles, every leaf stripped from it ? " I am in the g"asp of a demou fiercer than the winds. It's followed me for forty years. There, as tlie Ihnbwei.t down with a crash, "I'm afraid ftat will lie the end of mr." "You shall have the situation," I said earnest ly for I raw it was no legal erpiexity, but a problem old as eternity, aiid tliat held in its is sues the destiny of a soul. Tlie sun came out just then and fell across his face azain. "the face street one night alout ten, tlie beau tiful, dazzlinsr street. I have thought of it since, how seductive it looks of nightsthe saloons with their invit ing bars, and the bright-eyed wait er, how tempting it says to one "come in." There was loud talking: in one of them, a man came staggering out,on the sidewalk, lie was my copyist ; the fine face usually so quiet and gentlemanly, looked like a fiend's ; he raved fearfully, but I got him home at last, and then it all came out, the struggle of his life, how lie had lost wi'e and daughters, had met a mend that night lteud rath er who made him drink, and the peace of three years was broken. 1 loft him quieted, but the next morning lie came to tl.e oihee sub dued, and attempted to speak of the bitter struggle; but 1 would not hoar him ; wanted iio common drunkard in my office. He trem bled sdightly as I said it, I gave him his wages and bid him good nior.a-.!g, and in my spotless man hood, in my ui.containinated purity, turned him adrift. As lie passed down the street and I caucrht a gl!nq-e of his haggard face, 1 start ed to call 1 im back, and then eluded myself for .-uch folly. lint the conviction gradually forced itself upon me, as I sat in the gathering night, tliat that man's soul would be required at my hai.d. ilouths pa-sod, and I did not hear of him. could get no trace of hiin. Was he sucked into ti at 'ear ful mHeL.tivm that hides at every cm.er? Thank C'od, a bettor hV"e awaited him. A woman an ai.gd, rather fou-. d hira, learned his history, mure than I had ever known (they arc hest for such work), and helloed him up to a better manhood. 1 Lad a note this mornh g from her that he was dying; would Iciine? I went; the man Lad cl.ai ged somewhat in a twelvemonth ; the Iv courtesy, but fingers on those death had laid his ashen lips. I humbly begged Lis pardon fi r the great wrong 1 did him, and he answered me that I did not know his need then for some kindly hand of help; t! at he forgave me gladly, We were a merry jrarty at the Heathermuir Lodge in the spring of 1854 ; for any prospect of active service is always welcome to young officers, and just at this present time . the' proceedings respecting which Mr. Kingslake has recently refreshed out memories had reached such a pass; tliafwe all expected to be starting "Ea4 ward ho 8 before many weeks were over. f fence, our gathering, on the evening of which I speak, might almost be considered in tlie light of a fare well entertainment ; and it was proportionately jovial and noisy. Songs wore- sung, ftortes told, healths drunk, and cheers given in answers to them, till the glasses rattled on the table, and the very root seemed to tremble over our ! heads. Our host. Colonel Walter Par ritchapt (who, though considerbly past his eightieth year, made one of the merriest among us), was a fine specimen of what 1 will venture to call, iu de'ault of any better title, the cosmopolitan h cotchman. Enter ing upon active service when other lads are still usually robbing orch ards and wield bohtcr-pistols, he had been successively a subaltern iu the Turkish service, an officer of sepoys iu India, a farmer in Can ada, ail inspector of army stores at Vicuna, a consul in Spain, and an attache at St. Petersburg; and after all his wanderings, was still able to oat haggis or oatmeal-iorridge with as keen a relish, da; ce a Ilighiard reel with as nimble a foot, and cho-" riis "Auld I.aug Syne" with as much spirit, as though he had never even quitted the banks of the Clyde, where he was now oi.ee ni. re snugly established. One .-art'cularity of the Colonel's ; which we all knew well, was that his talk always came to its highest p;r ectiou toward the close of the evei.n g. hen he had a Fpeclally good story, or an -unusual telling joke, it was sure to appear, hke a kind of stirrup cup, just before the company separated; ami, eonse- j quently, we all pricked up our cars, f after a" long sileix-e, he at last open ed his mouth and spake. "Let me give you a word of ad vice, mv IhTy ," aid lie to Knsign Donovan (corrupted by, the mess into "Downy U n") who was very e:.tbiisia.-t'e "about our new destina tion ; "don't expect too much from foru'gn parts, for they're very much hke parts that are not foreign after ail." ' ; " ; " Such an exordium, coming from hke but things imuirnerahlc, we a last found 4 ourselves, with our tnmnesR tarn, ished, and our ideas of 'glorious war' considerably modified, encamp ed at some unpronounceable place on the Lower Danube, ; with old , Stivarov's ' great - coats quartered.-, within three miles of us." "Did you ever see Suvarov?' askel I Jeuteuant M'N aughton(poT ularly known as "Lieutenant Make-M some of our savants hold a tlieory that Scotch "was the original lan guage, to which all nations will one day ; return z and this . looks rather like it, doesn't it ? "Scotch the original language I (shrieked my companion ; and break ing off in the middle of his sentence, he subsided into a silence more ex pressive than words. A tew days alter tins a scouting a-notc-on"), who was a kind otTparty of which I had the command walking Hiographic Umversaille, and never lost aJ chance of learning fresh particulars respecting the food, drink, clothes, lxots, and tout en semble of any great historical cele brity. . " Onlv once," replied tlie Colonel; "but I haven't forgotten it yet. One day when there was a truce tor three or four hours, some of tlie Uussian officers invited a few of ours to dine with them ; and'an old IJavarian cavalrv officer, who was one of the elect, and with whom I had become quite intimate, think ing I might like to see the fun, took me along with him. We were all thick as thieves in a twinkling, and there was a great hand shaking and drinking of healths going all around when, all of a sudden, the hangings of the tent were flung back, and in rushed a little pug-nosed, dirty faced fellow, dressed (or rather un dressed) in a tattered pair of trous ers, and a shirt that looked as if it hadn't been washed for a month stuck his arms akimbo and -crew like a cook. 1 took him for a drunken camp-follower, and was rather -astonished to see all the hussiau ofheers start up and salute 1 have no words to tell vou the story i listened to by that -bed-side, the lips of a veteran traveler with the relentless shadows ereen- .the Colonel, made us all stare mg over Ms taee, and the angels j lie proceeded wunoui nouce4i.g um wa ling to take him home ; l.e was calm, but 1 shook with an agony of tears; he had fought the devil of darkness all his li'e ; it had lieen no common struggle, for his was no common soiil. lie pointed to a volume on tlie table ; I tok it up ; it was the one lie had criticised so sLaridv ; I of a gentleman," you raid indis- i oieneu it ujwn uie uy-iear, the cm tinctly; the profile of some Creek f plunentsof the publishes were ten- philosopher cut in marble, could iKt on-.i io nun, me aumor. h . 1 A 1. 1 . . . . 1 1 . 1 ..... 1 . .1.. . i IIO Lil-llC W S MIUW oi ll.e skeletons that hang grinning so ghastly in our neighbor's closet. The man Ijelore me was a genius of no common tyjie, and I had turn him from my door. Cotxl Cod! and I thiiddcred at wliat might liavc been. 15ut the end was near. "Tlie limb did not break ; " he said, quietly smiling one of his own smiles, referring to tlie circumstances when I first met him, "it will bud and blossom by-and-by." A bit of sunlight tell upon his face, giving it the look of oi e of Raphael's heads. Tlie angel Lad come, aid with the smiling band his spirit soared away. - i look nobler. "The sunshine again," I said lleasantly. " Ves," lie said, absently ; "can I . begin my work now '." And so it came a!ont that the juiet gentleman you have lict'eed iu the corner always IhisiIv at work became my copyist, always the cul- - tured man of thev world, always re sponding to my essays at conversa tion politely ai-d wisely, and yet si lent if left to himself; tltere seemed to stalk along with him a gray tshadow. "Why was he ouly a copyist ?" . , . ' - I ventured as much as this o. e ,: day. The work he ltad done for us j "was executed with such rare skill, -. fuitksipating any explanation, often niggesting some improvements in matter of method, atwl yet with bo fnuch courtesy that one could not be offendecL "Why," I asked, was be only a copyist ?" r ; i "God knows," and the man shiv- ; ered, and then bowed himself upon tb table, ,; ,Wbei ,? he., looked up again I attempted to apologize, but he stopped me with, "1 don't won der ; you're not tlie only one that has asked me 'why when I wrote ;" and then he stopped, .bat I was called away just then. I never questioned him again, I ; knew a tragedy was - behind it all, as there is behind many white faces. He was at the time Mr. - -; a ; book was making a sensation; no " body knew who was the author : tlie papers and reviews were full of praise and criticism, 1 had onoe epoken of the volume to him. - lie evaded the subject at first. I knew him to be a fine critic, and unthink ingly pressed the subject, and then Tie gave me such a burst of fierce, biting sarcasm on tlie book, that t ' was struck dumb for the moment, - for the book wan really omethiug '' ..'WoMcrfiU in its way. Iuflaure or n. Voting Lady, You are a siter, and may mould a brothers mind to virtue and to useful ness. Does your brotlieT drink now and then ? Go, take him by the hand and whisper thee words in hi ear : "Drunkards shall not inherit the king dom of heaven." Does lie swear. te,il ' hiin, "God will not hold him guiltless tliat takes the name of the Lord in vain.' Does lie tell lies,-; tell him that, "Heaven is no place for liars." Be sides all this you can pray for hiin daily. How mueli I owe to my si-ster ; what I am, God only knows. ' But this I know, that her prayers- have greatly influenced my life. Then, a you love your brotlier, eee that he also loves tlie Ijord ; for no one can exert a greater influence over hiin than yourself. E. An Indian called at a tavern, in tlie fall of the year, for a dram. The land lord asked "him two coppers for it. The nest spring, happening at tlie same house, he called for a not Iter, and had to pay three coppers for it. "How is this landlord Vu says le ; iast fall yon asked me two coppers for a glass of rum, now you ask three P' "Oh,. says the landlord, "it costs me a good deal to keep rum over winter at Is as expensive to keep a hogshead of mm over winter as a horse." "Ah," says tlie. Indian, "I can't eee through that; be wont eat so much liny; maybe be may drink as much water," f . -A maiden's speech .A k papa. tonishment "I knew a man once, now,; who went abroad to find novelty, and, instead of that, found so much of wl .at he Lad left at home, that it fairly broke his heart." "A storv. a stow I" shouted we with or.e voice, seeii g by the twinkle of'thc old gentleman's eye that some thing god was coming. " W ell, it is a. story," said the Colonel, laughing; "and as it's rather early to break up yet, 1 don't mind if 1 tell it to you. it was in the end of last century, more years ago tlian I like to calculate, tl.at 1 found myself en route for the East, iust as vou -youngsters are now. with about a dozen more scajiegra ces from almost every country of Kurope." " We were going out to join the Turkish service, where hard knocks and high pay were to be got forthc asking, and of course we talked of nothing but tutting, ai.d slashing, capturing standards and winning endless glory, forgetting that we might be picked off by marsh fever or cholera before we ever saw the enemy at alL,' The most enthusias tic of u-s all was an .Englishman, a jolly, empty-headed, good-natured sort of fellow, who was go lig out as an interpreter, having somehow picked up a smattering of Turkish, though of vKussian and the other languages of Eastern Europe he knew no more than I did. I found out by chance, before I tell in with him, that his ruling passions, was an unqueitchable hatred for everything Scotch - and so, just for the fuu of the thing, I determined to pass my. sen ou w nun as an Jngusnmau 1 laving been brought up in Eng. land, 1 succeeded . very well; and to tlie others who were in tlie secret it was as good as a play to hear the tellow -lauiicluiig put against Scotland and the Scotch, never dreaming that Ills attentive listener it?oe. litrvtvAlf ki ia tVa li a tnno " "I'm not going to intlict upon : you the- history of.oor journey up the country, which at the time ; 1 thought uuenduraule misery,though ' I kiiow: better what ?fpighitig it really means by - this time. Suffice it to say that, after several weeks of" bed food, dirty' quarters, day's crawling at a-auad s pace along the worst-roads in theWorid,'and nights of being crawled over by creeping him, as if he Lad been tlie Empress in person ; but nn old Pavarlan, rinmrkinf' mv Ijewildcnuut, whis- orod to me that this was tl Sur varov Limsel?. IJe chatted for a minute or two with his officers, ai.d then looking hard at me (I suppose he thought 1 looked rather greener than the rest, and wanted to give me a start), asked in liuss, which one of tlie others interpreted for me, 'How many stars are there in the sky?' 'None at present, 'answered 1 in Frei-ch ; 'tl;ey only come out at night !' Tlie oh I fellow laughed when they repeated what I had said, and told me I ought to have been a Kussian, and with that he bolted out as suddenly as he had came in, and 1 never saw him again." M'Xaughten put up his pencil and note-book, (which had ., been busv during the "-whole of the last paragraph, and looked around with the air of a virtuoso, who had just lighted upon an undeniable Galha, or a fragment ol one oi the lost books of Livy. "It was a few days after our glimpse of the enemy's menatje" pursued the Col-Hiel, "that the lir.t taste of retribution overtook 'my friend the Englishman. We wore strolling through tlie camp with a Turkish officer whose ac quaintance Ave Lad made the day before, and the interpreter was abusing tLe Scotch to his heart's content, as usual, when to his utter astonishment (and mine too, for that matter), Hassan cy turned uhii him, a. id bn.ke out fiercely. 'I'll tell ye. whaat, ma mon, gin ye daur lowse yere soushc upon ma country like, thaat, i 11 gie . ye a it took a Russian officer, and in order to cheer him up a bit under "this misfortune, I asked him to dine with me, the party being completed by my friend the interpreter. Luck ily our prisoner was a good hand at French, of which we both knew enough to go on with ; so tlie con versation went smoothly enough, except that my English friend, who thought no small beer ot himself as a philologist, would keep bringing out scraps of what he imagined to be lxuss, making the disconsolate captive grin like a fbxtrap, when ever lie thought no one was looking at him. At last, after we had drunk each other's healths all round and nuishcd what little wine we had, the Russian called upon me for a song ; and as I didn't know any in Huss, I gave him a French ot.e instead, which I had peeked up on the voyage out. 1'hen our interpreter followed on with an old Latin drinking song (which our new friend seemed perfectly to under stand ;) and when L.e had finished turned to the Russian, and said very politely,' "Won't you oblige us with a song yourself? it ought to go all round. The Russian bowed, leaned back a little, looked at us loth with an indescribable grin, and burst forth m the purest native dialect with "Auld J-ang CO CO -3 - ,. ""N-'- - , -.' 1 ' ti jgjf " '" " " ' ;.'.": v.utff i ) i I f. - . 1 1 i 'b i'.i r -i ' ' siCa. .( , 1i " Jf J !-f(l. 5igr - ' 5t,,m' i '"' . " "5Ns'r s .A i') V! 'rifl .1(1 1 cioot on ti.e nig mat 11 mak' tingle fra this tdl Ilaliowe'eu !' You should Lave seen the Eng lishman's face ; 1 think I never saiv a man really thunderstruck before. hy, good gracious I" exclaim ed he at length, "1 tliought you were a Turk !" "Ami sae I am a Turk the noo, may braw chiel, retorted -v the irate Glasgow jMussulman ; "and a better ane than ye'll ever make, fbrbve, for ve ken nao mair o'j their ways than my lathers auld leather breeks, that iie'ertrawvelled further than just frae Glasgae to tireeuock and back again ; but when 1 gang hame (and I'll do or it's lang,.if it be God's wull) I'll jist be Wully rorbes, son o' auld JJaddie' 1 orbes o' the Gorbals, for a' that's come and gane !" .'" -; " ":- ",,'' , At that moment, as if to add to the effect of this , wonderful meta morphosis, a splendidly - dressed Hungarian, whom I remembered to have seen among the Russian oft! eers with -whom" we ! had dined, called out from tlie other bank- of the stream that scja rated . the ene my's, " Wully, mon, there's truce the noo for twa hours ; jist- come wi me, and we'll have a glass o' wiiusky thegither I" . , At this second miracle, the inter preter's face assumed a look of un do fined apprehension wouderful and edifying to behold exactly ,' the loot of .Moliere's- 'ilalade lmagu naire' when he began to -wonder whether there was really airything serious me mauer wuvii: nun. - MIsnt that fellow, a Ilungariau?" said he iu a low. horror-stricken tone -. wliat oq earth makes him talk Scotch?" ; f 'Periiaps rbVs srot, r a cold."susr. geted.1 'j :ot Iitllywlat SvnC. ""Jiless my sotil !" vr'ivl the an guisl etl Lnglisl man, starting up, 'is evervboIv on earth a Scotch- man? 1 crimps I'm one myseir, witliout knowing it! And thereup on, overwhelmed by his apj wiling idea, Le slunk away to bed, where LJieard him groaiuug dismally as long as I remained awake. From: tliat day there was a marked change in my rollicking companion. All his former joviality disappeared, and a gloomy depres sion hung over him, broken by con stant fits of nervous restlessness, as if lie were in perpetual dread of the appearaiice of some Turkish, Aus trian, Greek or Tartar Scotchman. Indeed, what he had already seen was of itself quite sufficient to un settle him, as you may imagine ; but all this was a trirle to what was coming.' For about this time' our corps was detached to meet a Rus sian force under a certaiu General Tarassofl (of whom we had heard a good deal), who was threatening to tall upon our tiank, or do something else which he ought not, according to our view of the ease. e tell in with the enemy sooner thau we expected, and had some pretty sharp skirmishing with him for two or three weeks together ; after which (as usually liappens in a fight when both sides have had enough of it) m armistice was agreed upon, that the two generals might meet to arrange, if 1 recollect aright, for an exchange of prisoners. After all the trouble Tarassofl had given us, and all that we had heard of him before, we were naturally rather anxious to see what he was like ; so and three or four more (among whom was his Excellency the In terpreter) contrived to be present at tlie place of meeting. ' We had to wait a good while before the great man made his appearance ; but at last Tarassofl rode up, and the Pasha came forward to receive him. The Russian was a tine soldier-like figure, nearly six feet high, with a heavy curassier moustasche, and a latent vigor betraying itself (as the physical toree" novelists says) 111 every line ot 1 us long muscular limbs, Uur l asiia was a snort thickset man, rather too round and puffy in the face to be : very dignified ; but the quick restless o-lance of his keen grey eyes showed - . -! that lie nad no want 01 energy, friend the interpreter looked miringly at the pair as they ap proached each other, and was just exclaiming, "Tliere, thank God, a real Russian and a real Turk, and admirable specimens of their race, too ! when suddenly General Taras sofl' and Ibrahim . Pasha, after star, j nig at each other for a moment, burst, forth simultaneously, , "Eh, Donald 1 Cawmett, are H ye here ? ''Lord keep us, Sandy 5 Robertson, can this be you ? v ' C CVIIIOO CLOCKS. YANKEE COSTKIVANCES OtrrbONG THE OIAKN TI51K. : rs ad A man bought a Hog to hunt wolves;" a great dog eetebrafed for hi pluck ami speed. He set rait one frosty mora-r Ing with his dog. who soon tracked a wolf, ami put oft for. him at a tremen dous pace. . Tlie owner traveled on as fat as he eoukL sir cmnhigtoa wood ehopper he asked him If tie had seen a dog and a wolf pass that way. .He said he had. "Well, how was it?" asked the man: "Ifc was pretty mneJi nip ann iuck, " said the wood-chopper. Tlie first instrument used for noting tlie hours was probably the su.t-cliai. But some means f reckoning wa need ed wlieu the sky was ovvroat. To meet this want tlie clepsydra was iu veuted.. It consisted-, of a yesl taining water, which dropjied slowly througii a small oriiiet-. while afloat iu tlie vessel rtsculvitjg itiiUatiliv its hight the lape of time. The s:u:ii glass, fitiliued for many purpose. w:is also an ancient iuveutioa ; Isit the ex act date of the invention of clocks is uikiiowu. liy some tliey aresupimsed to liave originated among the monks : hut as the Stiraeens are known to liave imd them, iu the eleventh century, it is much more prolwble tliat tliey wore introduced into European inoiiusteries by the t'rusiMk-rs. " Alfred the Great contrived a candle clock, which was formed of six candies each divided by pins into twelve indi es. These lighteb successively ai;d burned four liours each, at Uie r;ite of an hich for every twenty minutes. Thus die six candies lasted twenty-four liours. Iu 809 Ilaroun al Rasclud presented a clock to Charlemagne, in which wore twelve doors tliat opened successively at each lionr, and continued open until noon, wlien the knights on liorseoaeK paraded around tlie dial, aiid disappear ed within tlie doors, which closed alter tlu-;n. The Euqieror sjaljuliu gave Frctlerick the sievond a clock wliich marked not only tlie hours, hut also the course of the sun. moon and pliinots. Some years :igo the Kmpeior of CJ'nina received from the Kast Iiulia ComiKiiiy a clock in the form of a cliariot, in which w;is seated a lady. On her li:i gi r was A riiu SET IN HI AXIOM s And rubies, with lU wines expaudeil. as if alNiut to take its flight, and which fluttered for some time when a certain diamond button was touched. llie body of tlie binl, which contained the machinery by which it was moved, uiojisured about tlie sixtwntli iu t of an Inch. Over tlie lady's la ud wi re two umbrellas,.-under the laig r of which a bell was placed at some dis union from the clock, and apinuvidly. liaviiiir 110 connection with it. but from which communication was secretly con veyed to a liaiumer that - rigulstry struck tlie hour. At lier i feet was a gold dog. before which were two bird-s 6u spiral springs having Uieir -wuigs aiKl feathers set with stons of .various colors. Tliey appeared to be flying with the clinrlot, whiclu hv a hidden motion, was made to rim hi any direc tion, a boy stationed at the back scctii h:g to pu-lr it forward.- Above the umbrellas were flowers and ornaments of precious stones,, terminating iu a flying dragon, set iu the same maimer. 1 ne wnoie was oi . goiu, curiously wrought aud cmbellLshed with vubios and pearls, i .".,,,' Droz, a mediauie of Geneva, pro duced an instrument which excelled all -otliera hi . ingenuity. On it were scut tid a negro, a sliepix-rd aud a dug. wbeu the clock struvk, tlie slieperd . On his flute, and the dog approaclied and fawned upon him. This wonder ful machine was exhibited to the King of .Spiiin, who . was . greatly delighted nun u. . ,..f ,.,..... ..... "the ccutieness of niy do",': Droz, . "uhis least merit. . If your Maj esty touch one of tlie app!e-s which you see lii tlie shenhenl's basket, you will admire the animal's, fidelity.". .... Tlie King took an apple, and Uie dog flew at hLs haiHl . barking so loud that the King's dog, which was in the room, began to bark nlso . At this tlie cour-. tiers not doubting that it was a ease . M. r...atTl.. tltn iwilti. ihcinslv(j as tliev denurtod. llaviug desired the MinisU-r of Marine declaring tliat it must lie the -work of a supernatural being. It is ' probable that iu the performance of these tricks Droz touched certain springs in tlie me chanism, although this is not mention ed in any of tin accounts of his clock. Tlie largest clock in the world" is tliat of the cathedral in Htrashurg. It is one hundred foot high, thirty feet wide and flfteen feet deep. - It has also wonderful automata connected with it and has performed its allotted duties for nearly 300 years. - s .' Pki.f-maie Men. Tfyoti are to 1s an exception, you will lie tlie first in all mv observations and experience. ....... 1:,......5.. . .nary an.1. or any ouier .aue; .T.'ii JT.Ii .ih U wiWttoa To uiwlorstand Uie philo)pliy of th! plieuomenon, essential to tlie -very ex istence of plant and animals a few -facts derived from 'observittlori und-a long train of exieriiuenU;- -utust be re- -menibered.; AY ere the . ntuiosplicre, at all times at a uniform temperature, we si wold ne ver lu ve ra In, hail or stwif . 11iewaterabsorbedby.it in evaiWiratlon from the sea and tlie artu1s I surface would descend in an 4inpe.reeptjible. va por, or cease to be alMorlied by tlie sir wlnn It was fnily-iiaferwtwd. trh b . sorbiug innrer oftlie aimospLcro. aud ' consequently- careibillty to retain iiiiiiiiMjiv- m proponionaoiv grrjuertu jpsid IhaiiJn warm air. :The air. nnr from it ntty men wno are most riu- j gmsned for talents or Uny destrijition of public usefiilhiess I will answ er for it they are all, every one of tliein. men who lx-gui the world without a dollar. L.ook into the public councils of the nut ion, ami who are tliey tliat take the lead tliere? They are uieu who made their own fortunes self-made men. who lxpui with nothing. The rule is universal : it pervades our courts state and federal, from the highest to the low est. It is true in all professions It is so now. ithaslx-en so at any time since I have known tlie puklic nicn of this State, or tiu; Nation, and it will ! while our present institutions con tinue. Vou must throw a man niton his own resources to bring hiin out. Tlic.strnggle which is to result in. em inence is too arduous aud must ... be continued too long, to lie encountered and maintained voluntarily, or unless as a matter of life !Uidd.-ith. He wIk has a fortune to fall lrnck upon -will soon slacken from his efl'ort s. and fiuitllv re t ire from comiK-1 ion. With me it a a question whether it is desirabh' that a iiiiivnt should leave his son any prop erty at all. Yon will liave a larjce for tune, and 1 am sorry tor it, as it will oe the spoiling of a good lawyer. . Tlienc are my tleiirx-nitn seutlmeiits "and 1 shall lie n-joicisl to llnd in your instance that i was mi stiiken; -him;- N A J ' (the ouiy one who ventureo. 10 remain; to ask the negro ,wliat o'clock it was. Tlie MluUtjL-r illd so, but : obtained - iio A country merclKint who wanted two tailor's irons, several years ago onlvred them of Messrs. Dunn &Sieiioer, liard Avare merchants theiidoinglrtiduess in this city. lie tlrst wrote this order: I'lease sonil me two tailors jioosi-s." Thinking this was Uid graiumer he. de-strovoil it ami wrote ' this -one: I'lease send me two tailors' geese.'! , Uixm reflection lie also destroyed, this one tor lonr lie would receive Jive Kotfse. He thought over the matter till. le was verv much worried, and at last in a moment of despenwiou : lie- seized his jieii and wrote the following, which was duly mailed : "Meswrs . iunn & . Sieucers I'lease send me one tailors'' gixkse. auu Mvia nie another. fills was tlie only way he knew to order two of them, Eastern I'mier. . .' ' A Last Look. Tliere is a feelln' that resembles death iu the last glance we are ever to nestow on a loved obiect. The girl you havetreasurexl in your se cret- iieaix, an sue jesses, ny en lier weiMuig-ilay, , it niaj- lie hippy nd blissfu!, lifts up her laughing eyes, tlie symlwl of her own -liirht Tieart.f and leavos in that look darkness and. deso lation to ysi forever The ov . yir fatlicr spirit. has clung to, like, the very light of yom- exNtencCj waives htshaiHl from tlie qu irter-deok, ai tlie ' gigantic ship liemls oyer the breeze f the wind is playing tlirough tlie locks your hand so oftentimes have smoothed ; the tears liave dimmed hi, eye : for mark, be moves hi Augers over tlieui nd this Ish last look. -- ;:" ; i- -i-s-,- ?. m t.,.r.:i ' "What made von ii;t Tr-ni- said a man In Nevada to a new comer, "I got into trouble by marrvlng two wives,"; was the 'resrxiuse.tve!l,': said the other, "I came out here because I got into trouble by nianyiiic only, one Wife." ''And I, Add a bv- stander, came here because I rot Into . .t .1 .. .-i . i . . . hxhkuv muipiy uy promising to - - marry one; . t -,;; 1! -rrl ; t r .-, ? t ft .-- renlv. lima then olwerved that the neirro ltad not , yet learned Hpanlsli. niMu which tlie uuetii!i . wa-4 repeated Ft.. i.-.-.....K whi.11 tit tiliielr timiMllnln. 111,1'JV-IKWii . -.v . .,1 I.!..'. A -1.1.-. ....... nwulln... "but If anything the -dog was a leette f tie flrmnes of the, Minister, also fois aliead.,'' ..'..' . - lie retreated raicUibitlv it is in th reirion of th clouds; ; Tlie higher we ascend from tlie earth the colder we find tlie atmospliere. Hence tlie tierpetual snow on very biph mountains in the very hottest ciiinaUn. Now, wlien from-evaixiration,' the Mr is highly saturated with vapor. thMh it be invisible, if its teniptnsiture is sud denly reduced by cold currents descend- -ing 'from alxivei rrusbJiig: from ltl.li.... ft Inurw iu tit 11.1a Itt mnAiritV to retain moisture is diminished, cloud are formed, and the result Is rain. '. Air ' coudenscs-as it cools, and likea sponge filled with water ami compressed, pours out watsT which its diiuinLshtd capac ity cannot liold. How singular .yet liow simiile Is tlie arrangeiiu-nt forwa- teringdie ea rth . Sci euunc Auaaricau. ' Pmiias, pere; and Monsieur V--s , a celebrateil Parisian wit, were sworn enemies, Tlie Marions de X-, an Intimate- friend of lioth,' invited the rivals to duineri UaV' V -? re fused to coiue unless Dumas would promise 'to speak "only once- dlir lug dinner. -The Marquis uifonaod IXiinas of this -ridiculous proposal, but, to his surprise, tlie great novelist accepted It. During tlie roealtiVr- distinguished himself particularly by a rolliiur fire of wit. Every one remarked Dumas' silence. At dessert : -; - helped himself several . timetAKes two or ; thtx-e.. - A lady seated next to hiin passed the cakes once nrnre, wliou V-i excused himself, .saying, -tVSo, nuulauie, I have eaten almost as tujuiy as Sam-ion killed Philistines." "Yes. said Dumas ' 'and with i " weitj on." That was ,nouglk ,.Y-f left Uie table, i ' ' . . VTHMicie Come tiik Koses? .There Is an old legend that there were in the Garden of JJdeu- o roaes but white ones until Evs tasted of the forbkiuen fruiti When tt3 roses s:tvberdotliis, they blnslRsl for slminciueVerr troni tlie Cibite-st dmnask to biirning red ; and ever slnee there 'have own 11 Ik li-i.ul tlntd tlvut - The most suitable window for a sin gie . lady, when on the look-out A now. ; . '...- , ,If Eve was wt a feniau, !m least tlie first no on mn,;. ,-. One very cold night, a jolly old I low. who Imd been druiking toortffe'y at a tavern started- for home In JPJ anil on tlie way was upset and left by tlie side .of the .road. foine -person, passing a short time after, discovered lihn holding Ms feet up to the tuoou. aud ejaculating to some imrtsable per son, -'"Pile on Uie wood ; it's a misera bly cold tirer- i -- ' -""41 r J-rit !.;: T '. ' ' r ftfv . WUlard Young, the Mormon ostlet at West Point, t3d an tiiterviengre lorter the other day tlt bet teen brothers aud -twentywo f,P Tliua one of tlie great qnestiotis time Is settled--Siirtyufrd u Brigham's family. J - r -rlX ti-Lot of young ladies .hMi'tlwJj names of tlajirV-st frieinW wsue not even know what UietT iny be a,yesr;bepcew!; vi----- , Airrtce - o ' trJr corn a much as yon 5JgSu3 but dou't puU its ears gnthat u" Marrlageu Alter b'hx lays hlset-Uiok-aiKla U Is re Sl'iine.e tiiunte. ' Vwhis have lHon; llf - - It Is a ' Hiwr woAuia tW uiiestloi JttlwP -Um querist; -J.-