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TiJK ROHASCE OK A KUSB. It it uciirlr a hr,mrei varn a;;o Since Uw d 'Klt tbe Couut ! Korliambeau nr a'v a;: :V.' th- Hritiah crown lie! Waainstii iu Newport towu. i.tlt at Marrb, an3 tho air was chill, over AqiiKlii k bill, i 1!ihv took their tx tiae. wat tho : inc. array niy. French and tlno, tlw-p in Rli'terine: line ; cb licet sent a welcome rear ytitis from Canonicnt shore. But twetai .-. On1!! and El' Willie ou cit Of a tra'laut Hanged thrt A:iU tbe Fn Of a Luuir Apd tbe be&ta ran out f roru wry ateeple, .iiCifrc-Q .rtt to street :heNwwiort :-! c:iered with a hearty 3Kt, '. octe!ii Laa and bin honored eneat. Ax.i- wastes out of the vriudows leant. &E3 out ! the window smiled and sent Many a coy, a inuring glance To the nne yonng officers of France. And the story goea that the be'lg of tbe town .Kissed a roce and flnuir ir down Straight a. lUo feet of De llochatubeau ; And the guHjn: Marshal, bending low, Lifted it try wit!) a Frenchman's grace, And Lis. : it back, with a trjauoe at the face Of the dtttag maiden where ahe stood. Blushing out uf ber bilken hood. That nipht at the ball, still the story goes, Tbe Marshal of France wore a faded rose In bis uoid-laced coat ; but be looked in vain For the giber's beautiful lace again. Night afte:- nipht. and day after day. The Frenchmen eagerly sought, tney say, At feast cr church, or along the street For tut girl who flung the rose at his feet. And she, t-ht after night, day after day. Wan speeding iarther and farther away From the iatal window, tbe fatal street. Where her iMatitfBata heart had suddenly beat A throb too much for th- cool control A Puritan u-cbee to heart and soul ; A throb too much for the wrathful eyes Of one win I watched in dimayod surprise From the street below ; and taking the gauge Of a woman's heart in that moment's rage, He swore, -.lie old colonial squire. That before the daylight should expire, Thts daughter of bis. with hr wit and grace. And ber dangerous heart and her beautiful face, Should be on ker way to a sure relreat. Where no i Me of hers could fall at the feet - Of a tntrped Frenchman, high or low. And so v. hi'e the Count tie llochatntteau. In his oid-'aced coat wore a faded ilower, And waited ;"e giver hour by hour. She waR a:l?i away in the wild March night, On the h e cleck of fie sloop Delight, Ouarded even in the darkness there Py the wrathful eyes of a jealous care. Ttreewf ekaafler a brig bore down f Eto to Larbv.r of Newport town, f twlr i wfeck 'twas the sloop Delight ; C ff Htux pton rocks, in the very sight Cf the land she sought, she and her crew And all cn board of her, full in view' Of tbe storm-bound fisherman over the bay, Went to their doom on that April day. When RocLa.tibeau heard the terrible tale. He mattered a prayer, for a moment grew p3le; Then Mob Dieu 1" he e:;e!aimed, so my flue ro mance From bejiii'iing to end is a rose and a glance." Atlantic Monti,!) f;r Qetobtr. THE CRINKLETON MYSTERY. Our grotesque teapot was an article decidedly ugly, wearing a permanent and diRagiveable grin, and with a kind of snake arrangement for handle and spout. The gentle associations the day's labor done, the drawing in round the fire, the family circle, with the cheering, and not inebriating results seem wholly incompatible with the use of such ail article ; and the spectacle of the amiable fluid poured from such a vessel by gentle hands almost a painful one. Bat I would not part with it for any money ; it is held in affection like a cherished heirloom. ITet it is damaged indeed, from the network of lines and cracks which covers it, even an un professional could see that it had been i "smashed' into a hundred pieces at 1 least So it lias. One day it got a fall was dropped and lay on the floor, ; snuvered into a neap of fracrments. The oration, deemed impossible at first. "ndertajxen tor a large sum of money, which was paid with delight, for that fall brought about what you j are now going to hear. I well recollect the day that my dear j father secured it, and when he said it was "a ttniqne." We, could see no beauty in it, although we tried hard to do so : and, as to its uniqueness, we j rather thought that waj au advantage ' for the world, and for the spread of : btei fce. lie was considered a general en- ! thuciast,'fhis Mr. Crinkleton, and, as I j once overheard a brother amateur whisper to his friend, " like a particu- lar saucer all cracked and mended," and, thoagh I should not say it, still fcke conviction began to force itself on i me of iate years that, from over-devotion to this pursuit, he had grown a little odd. Not that he was one of the reckless, wasteful amateurs, with whom collecting is a passion as impossible to be resisted as drinking, and who devour and swallow everything with a reckless craving. He had the moat surprising n.nd judgment, and it was admit that the choicest and most valuable pciiicn of his collection 'had been gathered very cheaply, when he was a poc?r :aan. Bat I can see I have been usi-'TOL ing a good many things as known, which there has not been time to tell. I, who have now the grotesque teapot in my hand, and am relating this story, was his son a son that worshiped him, and sympathized with what friends called his hobby ; though I frankly own I never could understand how this plate was precious, or that jug was rare, or this "bit" of Palissy worth more than the number of sovereigns that would cjover its surface. I confess, indeed, I iad a feeling, but it was one of repul sion, for those brown lizards which kept crawling over the green plates. However, he understood these things, and I did not, though he often offered to teach, or rather inspire me. Gradu ally the house began to fill with these treasures. Corner shelves and cup boards appeared, and were crowded. Z abix ets became chock full, and the ."'jac f the "Crinkleton Collection" i. agan to spread. As is usual in such cases, public .pinion was divided, one portion of the community laughing at and pitying that poor man who was wasting his own and the family substance in a lot of old crockery ard gallipots ; the other looking-knowing, and saying that "little old Crinkleton " knew well what he was about, and would, by-and-by, sell the collection for ten times the amount it cost him. It did, indeed, seem likely for what he had bought for a few shil lings he was now offered pounds. I was all this time what is called " a little thing " a pet, dividing the affec tion of my father with hia other treas ures. That constituted our united family I finding new relations every day, in the shape of china dogs, Chel sea shepherds. Dresden beauties, and Toby jugs. Oh, the Battersea enamel snuff-boxes and wine labels ! the tea urns of rare Bedlin ! but I must leave this subject, or I shall never get on. One day, however, there came a sur prise, not to say a shock, for me. That queer little Crinkleton, as the neighbors ind friends would call him, had brought wae new treasures and curiosities. Has ! a stepmother and her daughter. They were very designing people, Bat, I believe, frightened him into it. xie was shrinking and timorous; he would never have had courage to carry such a scheme into execution. Thence forth began a new and, for me, a terri ble life, i They brought no money with them, though he was persuaded that he was doing what is called "a good thing." They very soon convinced him of the contrary. Two more rapacious spoilers could not be conceivfd. Every moment in the day they were making an inven tory of "the property" about them with a questioning eye. An order was sternly set forth that all buying was to oe given ut, ami that "good money was no longer to be squandered on rub bish. Yet it could be seen that with an extraordinary inconsistency they watched jealously over every article of the property, counting them, and tak ing good care to ascertain their value. AU our life in that house was of a sud den changed. Our poor dear father seemed to shrink and cower away under this despotism. As for me, I felt that all happiness was gone, and that I was living in a prison under the charge of jailers. Many were the little furtive walks he took with me I being no ! older than 8 or 10 years -when we would ; make our. way guiltilv to the narrow lane or street, to gaze at curiosities which he dared not purchase. It was miserable for me, whose hand was in his, tb note his wistful looks, and even more miserable to see that this was but part of his sufferings under his slavery, which grew more and ntore galling every day. It was on one of these occasions that we spit I the grotesque teapot. The sight brought the color to his cheeks, for he had nothing of thatpattern in the collection. It was exposed in a poor, mean little den not a curiosity shop at all a kind of huckster's place. Here the teapot was offered with a view of liuding some purchaser who would use it for the purpose of making tea. He was enraptured with it. He could at least ask the price. Four-and-sixpence worth, he said, five guineas, and would be worth double by-and-by. As we went ut it was offered for three-aud-six. It was very tempting, but he resisted it then. The next day he took me out with him for a walk but this was for a sec ond inspection. He delayed long be fore he could make up his mind, but at last the purchase was made. Then it was to be brought home, and then came the difficulty. Where was it to be placed? for their Argur eyes would de tect the slightest change. But they had an instinct that something was wrong. The daughter was in the parlor win dow, loc king up and down the street, while she I always thought of her as though she were a unique, like the tea pot opened the door and gave a policeman-like look at his figure. The gro tesque was hidden away under his coat, but a great protuberance revealed its place of concealment. We were both arrested, the trembling victim assailed by both women, and the grotesque con fiscated on the spot, as, indeed, all his treasures had been already. I saw them later inspecting it curiously and with eager eyes, for they had a suspicion of its value, and after all trusted to his jutlgment. Indeed, latterly I noticed that this pair was inspecting the cabinets ; and more than once I had surprised them with their heads bent down over eorne little cup or figure. One day, too, I heard them talking earnestly about some one they called "Dimbley's man," and what he had said. This did not make much impres sion, but in a day or two I again heard a remark about Dimblev s man, and to the effect that he was coming to-mor- row.. In our curious about father : next little walx, grown the matter, I asked my "Who is Dimbley's man, father?" He started. "Why," he said ; "what about him ? what do you know about him ? who wants him ?" These questions were put quickly and with agitation. I told him what I had heard, when he almost gave a cry, and turned sharply round to go home. " I see what they are at. I suspected it. They want to sell the things." We returned hurriedly he was in a perfect fever, and, when he entered, dew to inspect his treasures, which he found ail safe, though he discovered the two women busily engaged in peering into the cabinets, and handling them cautiously. But with them was a gen tlemanly and fluent personage, who was giving his opinion and admiring the collection. He read the whole situation Jat a glance. The color Hew to his cheeks, and, with vehemence that was wholly artificial and unnatural, he addressed the party. " I know well what all this means," he said ; " I'll not have it I'll not allow it. It is robbery. I'll not part with these things but with my life. Go away, sir," he said to the gentlemanly man, " this is my property. They are not to be valued or sold. " To do him justice the gentlemanly man was much put out at this incident, and declared truly that he had merely come, as he supposed, at Mr. Crinkle ton's request. And he took his depart ure at once. Then my father turned on them. "Let a finger be laid on, my treas- ures, j thing he cried, " and i will do some desperate. I'll send them to morrow to some museum give them away sooner than have them scattered. Mind, take warning, for they are part of my life !" The two ladies were much taken aback at this sudden explosion, and even tried to soothe him. But for the rest of the day he was terribly excited, and the following morning was lying ill in bed, with wild eyes and all the symp toms of fever. A doctor was sent for to attend him an eminent practitioner who looked grave. Indeed, the two ladies caught the reflection from his face, and looked grave and disturbed. I was the only one whom he seemed to recognize, though indistinctly. Again there was fresh whispering, ana inspec tion of papers and property. And again his eyes peered out wistfully towards the door, as if he could see the spectral images of his collection floating away in the direction of Dimbley's. He grew worse and worse. To my inexpressible grief, it one morning pass ed round the house in a mysterious way that we were to lose him. Some one came running for me, and took me by the hand to lead me to him. There was a piteous intelligence in his eye, and a gleam of light came into it as he saw me. He was moving his arms, and pointing, and trying to speak. The lady who was his wife kept turn ing up her eyes and shaking her head, as who should say his wits were gone. But he kept bis imploring glance fixed on me, making as though he would clutch something in his hand. I was sure, I could have sworn it was one of his pet treasures, and stole away to rack my little braia with desperate attempts. At first I thought it must be two pre cious figures of Old Bow, representing Kitty Clive and Woodward Martin, as the fine lady and gentleman, and I re turned with these in my hands. A fresh eagerness came into his eyes, and he seemed to smile and nod his head, as though it was something near what he he desired. Some curious stupidity came over me or was it my trouble ? for I surely onght to have guessed, and gone out to choose some other article, which should Vie the right one. While I was taking a hurried bird's-eye glance over the col lection, they came running to me again, and 1 was dragged in to see the last friend 1 had on earth in his agony. So he passed away ; and after a scarce ly decent interval the two women were going about with avaricious eyes, count ing up the treasures. This time there was no one to interfere with "Dimbley's man," and the eminent firm had pro nounced that the whole, when submit ted to competition at their well-known mart, would bring a vast sum. By the will of the deceased collector, made shortly after his second marriage, the whole of his property was to go to her, and a small pittance was kept for us, that is, for me and my sister, who was at a cheap boarding-school. A great fuss began to be made about the Crinkleton collection, and it was discovered that another portion was at some museum in the country, where it had been exhibited, and which was quite as valuable as that in our house. The whole, it was expected, would bring 10,000 or 12,000. They were gloat ing over their prospect. We that is, my sister and I would be beggars, but that thev did not think about. By-and-by the inventory was taken, the catalogue made out, and the pros pect discovered to be even more invit ing. The men in green baize arrived to pack and carry away. Spring vans stood at ttie door. we saw me wuoie stripped gradually there was not to be a relic kept (so I was told) to remind us of tho dear old collector who had brought them together. Very timor ously I begged that they would let mo choose something which I might keep as a souvenir ; but an excuse was made that a list had been taken, and that it would be impossible to make any altera tion now. Utterly shocked, and almost desper ate with rage at such heartlessuess, I came to the resolution that I would have what I wanted, and determined to secure what was associated with one of the List aces of my father's life, at which I had assisted, namely, the old teapot. That should be mine, and should not be subjected to the profanation of a sale. I did not care for the penalties, which I knew would be awful ; they might put me to the torture, they should never know where I had concealed this relic. My plans were well laid. I chose a moment when they had gone out, and, taking no one into my confidence, pre pared to execute the daring scheme. It was a nervous task. The teapot was placed, with a few other articles not yet removed, on a high bracket of antique pattern over the chimney-place. Even standing on a chair, I could not reach it ; still I was not to be daunted. I constructed a sort of a ladder formed of chairs, which, with much trepidation, I ascended. I secured the grotesque teapot; but, without ever having heard the Latin quotation, Faeilie descensus, I found myself cordially indorsing its truth, and stood there on a precarious balance, carefully holding the treasure, and not knowing what to do next. To get down and leave the teapot, it might be thought, would be the simplest course ; but, with my nervousness, and its own insecurity, the structure now j began to totter. The next instant I heard her on the stairs. How it occurred I know not, but there followed a crash, I being, left standing upon the insecure construc tion, whilst the old cherished teapot had slipped from my lingers, and was dashed into a hundred fragments on the hearthstone ! They rushed in I was dragged down, and in a storm of scoldings was hurried off for punish ment. It was inflicted with terrible severity, and I bore it without flinching. One thought was even then in my mind, to recover the shattered fragments, keep them in that condition, and per haps one day, when I was richer, get them restored. When they were tired of scolding and beating they had gone down stairs ; then, after waiting patiently, I watched my opportunity and stole down. They had not thought it worth while to re move the fragments, which lay there in a heap the curved handle, leering face, the spout, the lid. I gathered them up tenderly, and as I did so, saw that a small piece of paper folded up, was ly ing, as it were, partially trust into the spout. 1 took it up with the pieces, on the ground that it was a relic of his that ought to be preserved, and reverently brought the whole mass away to my room. It seemed hopeless. I tried myself to put the pieces together in many dif ferent ways, but it was not to be done save by a miracle a miracle, however, which skillful hands accomplished later. In a sort of despair I laid it aside and then carelessly opened the paper. It was signed with his name, which was sufficient to give it an interest for me. And yet this only mademe feel more accurately the cruel loss of the piece of earthenware, which I felt that noth ing could ever restore to us. It was a long time indeed before I set myself seriously to the task of mak ing out what was written on the slip of paper. It began "Codicil to my will," and stated that it revoked the bequest of a particular date, and left his personal property and effects, including the china, which was to be sold off, to his two children. This I did not quite understand at the time, nor did I see the full force or meaning of it. But seizing a favorable opportunity I got out of the house, and hurried to a friendly Mr. Baker of course, bald and benevolent to show it. He started as he read. "This makes a most important dif ference," he said; " you must leave it with me and I will call up in the morn ing." Everything, as it proved, was ours. The cruel pair got nothing, save the small sum that had been settled on her at the time of her marriage. The collection brought a vast sum, much more indeed than any one had an ticipated. And the teapot, as I have already said, repaired with the most exquisite art, now reposes in a place of honor. Cassell's Magazine. The Chicago Ledger is growing to be one of the most popular family news papers in the country. Its cheapness places it within the reach of all, and its circulation is said to be increasing at an enormous rate. By the way, the company that publishes the Ledger must be engaged in the manufacture of sewing machines, as they are offering thousands of these useful articles as premiums to getters-up of clubs. The Ledger is beyond question a cheap paper. It contains forty-eight columns of choice reading matter, including stories, anecdotes, sketches of travel, poetry, etc. etc., and is furnished at the extremely low rate of $1.60 per an num. The publishers aye offering the most liberal club rates. Detroit Journal. Current Paragraphs. Jatan has 33,000,000 souls. Virginia's oldest inhabitant ib I How to test the weight of a wall Scale it. The Itipaaw, a paper just started in Mississippi, proposes to make things buzz. The emigration for the present year is estimated at 135,000, one-half what it was last year and year before. There have been four State Conven tions in Nebraska and a fifth is called. People so hard to pleaae are likely to be fooled in the long run. Scotland has a grant of 20,000 a year for the training of teachers. Ire land has onlv 7,600. The grant to England and Wales is 95,000. An actress in California, a Miss Kin lin, lately married a professional named Wood, and her stage name is now hy phenated into Mme. Kinlin-Wood. A consignment of eggs was latelv re ceived in Baltimore from Ohio, and in one of the barrels was found a live chicken, . hatched since the eggs were packed for market. Several other eggs showed signs of animation, and on be ting deposited in a basket near a kitchen fire each produced a living chicken. A barber on the Rhine has recently celebrated his sixtieth year of service with the razor. He had during that time shaved 200,012 persons, and earned 3.800 thalers. from which it. mnw Via easily computed that the average price of a shave in Germany for the past sixty years has been less than one cent. Prof. Loomis, of Yale College, who has been studying the United States weather maps, saya that storms originat ing among the high mountain peaks of Oregon occasionally travel eastward across the whole continent to the Atlan tic Ocean. This is not a very oommon occurrence, however. The weather maps indicate that about three-quarters of the storms which come to us originate in the neighborhood of Nebraska. Gen. Sherman has sold his residence on I street, Washington, to ex-Mayor Emory. Prior to his election to the Presidency this was the home of Gen. Grant, the gift of New York friends. Subsequently it was purchased of the President by the friends of Gen. Sher man, and presented to him in 1869. The property was also once owned by Vice President John C. Breckinridge, who, with Senators Douglas and Rice, built the block. The remains of Bishop Milnei, bm-ied forty-eight years ago, at Wolverhamp ton, England, were lately exhumed, and found to be in an almost perfect state of preservation. The face had its natu ral color, save a small part covered with a kind of white mold. The tip of the nose was of a dirt color. The hands were discolored, though perfect. A scapular was suspended from the neck. The body was covered with an elegant plaited shroud, made of flannel, and trimmed with amber silk. Mr. David Forbes, F. R. S., in his report to the Iron and Steel Institute on the progress of the iron and steel in dustries throughout the world, mentions a rumor that remains of immense iron works, which must be not less than 3,000 years old, have lately been discovered close to the Hills of Moses, near the Red Sea. A ruined temple and traces of barracks stand in the neighborhood, and it is conjectured that soldiery were kept there as a guard or to maintain order among the laborers. The Sfory of "A Steamer." " Speaking about fast-running steam boats," said Mr. Thomas Hartshorn, recently, rolling his quid into his lar board jaw, and giving his Tuckapaw trowsers a hitch (Mr. H. served as cook on the ram Queen of the West), " I suppose yon never heard of the eld Elephant that used to run between Cin cinnati and New Orleans ? She was a beauty. I suppose that when she was tied to the bank with a sternline and towline she was one of the fastest boats on the river. She made one celebrated trip from iew Orleans, I think, in 18-17. Her time was made a matter of record. It was seven days, six hours and three weeks. Comin' up from Orleans once, the Captain was sittin' at the table, and he noticed several big hulks of fellows servin' as cabin-boys. He called the steward to him, and says he, ' Don't you think it would look better to have boys waitin' on the table ? I don't like to see men fillin' the place of cabin boys. Let 'em go, and get some young chaps.' ' Why, blast it, Captain,' says the steward, ' them fellows were boys when we left Nesv Orleans.' "The Elephant," continued Mr. Hartshorn, clinging to his nautical reminiscences, " was pullin' out from Memphis one day, on a down trip, and somehow she got mixed up with a raft of saw-logs. She broke one of the logs loose, and it floated out into the stream. The Elephant headed do .vn the river, snd finally got alongside the log. Then commenced one of the nicest races you ever saw. There was a good stage of water, and the log boomed along right lively. For about a week they held to gether purty well, but the Elephant had to land at the month of White river, and the log beat her into New Orleans about tweDty minutes. There was something wrong with the Ele phant's boiler, and she couldn't make steam properly. That's what the Captain said. She was a nice boat to ship green fruit on." Brigandage in Sicily. Letters from Italy describe brigand age in Sicily as having assumed dan gerous dimensions. Instead of bands of a dozen unarmed men being pursued, as has recently happened in Romagna and the Marches, by entire divisions of the army, well-armed companies of brigands seem rather to pursue the scanty forces which fly before them. The fields are laid waste, agriculture and commerce are depressed, and in the most populous towns robberies and attacks are committed in broad daylight, while persons summoned to act as ju rors pay the fine for contumacy, rather than expose themselves to the ven geance of the Maffia. Thirty-five cap tured brigands have been transferred from Naples to Piacenza and Pesaro, and are about to be tried in the former town. They were put on their trial at Palermo for robbing the Monte di Pieta, and the evidence had been given and the counsel heard, when their friends forc ed their way into the' court and induced the majority of the jury to leave their seats, whereupon the trial was suspend ed. Early next morning the prison ers were escorted by 100 soldiers to a ship which conveyed them to Naples. It is understood that this dangerous state of affairs will be considered at the first cabinet council, and that a suspension of trial by jury in Sicily, with a concentration of administrative powers in the hands of the prefect of Palermo, is likely to be adopted. The Wonders of Surgery. Few people are so constituted as to contemplate being themselves dismem bered by the surgeon's knife with any degree of serenity or satisfaction, anil even when the victim is other than themselves the surgeon is often looked upon as a man of blood, without sym pathy for others or sensibility of hu man suffering. This idea ia well illus trated in a case which has quite recent ly been brought to public notice. Pe ter Hoener, a well-to-do farmer, resid ing near Quincy, 111., had long suffered from a rupture for which he wore a truss, but from an accidental breaking of the truss, when distant from home the hernia protruded and became stran gulated. His physician was summoned, but was unable to restore the parts, and fearful of mortification, telegraphed for Dr. G. Beebe, of this city, to assist him by a surgical operation familar to all medical men. Arriving at the bed side of Hoener, Dr. Beebe was sur prised to find that the injured intestine had slipped back into the abdomen un der the use of hot applications, but without affording any relief to the strangulation or threatened mortifica tion. Indeed, there had already passed from the bowels from one to two qnartB of black decomposed blood, and the attendant symptoms pointed clearly to a fatal issue. A few hours more and Peter would be food for worms. What could be doDe ? was a question asked by the suffering man and by his weeping friends, and the question must be an swered by the surgeon on the spot. The question was so answered, and Dr. Beebe was directed to proceed as he thought best. The man was placed upon a table and chloroform admisis- tered until he was wholly unconscious. Then his abdomen was laid open and and near 20 feet of his intestines were taken out upon the table and examined. Three feet in length of these intestines were found to be turned black from decomposition, and at one place the bowel was so folded upon itself as by adhesion to be wholly closed up. This obstruction was carefully removed, and then the intestines were placed back in the abdomen and the ghastly orifice stitched up. Extra care was observed to close up the old hernial opening, and then the man awoke to flud himself made over, and, as the sequel shows, as good as new. High inflammation fol lowed, together with some subsequent suppuration in the line of the incision, but these were skillfully treated by Dr. Koch, of Quincy ; and now, after sev eral weeks, Peter Hoerner is as sound a man as lives in Hlinois. Chicago Times, Oct. 9. Hints to the Marines. It must not be thought that marines know nothing of wine because they are willing to accept " any port in a storm." There is no hair to bo found on the mast head. The mast is one of the bare polls which the ship scuds under in a storm. The bight of a rope you may find, to your sorrow, has a smart taste, if you take it that it means a mouthful. Don't ask the first mate why he has the sails " set" and the rigging "stand ing." It would also be impudent to inquire the time of day by the larboard watch. The boatswain's pipe will not be loaned to you to smoke. It is not necessary that yon learn the art of self-defense in order to " box the compass." It may be right to infer, when the wind has changed "two pints to the east'ard," that it is in a new quarter. Don't imagine that you can steer a boat because you have been a tiller of the soil. You need not be afraid of getting shot because it is " blowing great guns." The cock does not kindle his fire with chips from the ship's log. The best way to learn what sea life is, is to go to sea yourself ; be a son of the sea for a sea-son. Boston Commercial Bulletin. Daugerons Playthings. The Alps are dangerous playthings, and yet all tourists insist on playing with them. Every one wants to go a little higher than anybody has ever been before. Tho ladies are particu larly venturesome. Captain and Mrs. Lockhart, of Scotland, were spending the summer in the Swiss Alps, near the; Rosegg glacier. There is a kind of flower, called Eidelwess, which grows only at about 10,000 feet above the sea level. It grows on a steep and rugged height near the hotel where the Lock harts were staying. Mrs. Lockhart wanted one of these flowers. No lady had ever been able to get one: She slipped away from the captain one day, and in company with a daring lady friend ascended the height. She slipped and fell from one precipice and rolled to the next lAtil she was out of her friend's sight. TThe friend raised an alarm. Mrs. Lockhart was found lodged against a bush which overhung a fearful chasm insensible, but alive. She was rescued, ail bruised and bleed ing, but it is thought ehe will recover. It will not be long before some other woman will want to get a flower which no other woman ever reached, and she'll go for it. Feet Washing. There is a place of worship in Pitts burgh, Pa., the official title of which is the " Church of God." The members of the congregation are called by out siders " Winnebrennarians. " One of the peculiarities of their service is the sacrament of " feet washing," which is thus described in a local journal : " The front seats were entirely filled by men and women who desired to take Eart in the ceremony. The females, owever, largely preponderated, and of both sexes there were probably twenty five or thirty. The pastor partially filled two basins with water. The feet washing was done by a man and woman, each of whom wore an apron in i nita tion of the girdle worn by Christ, and each taking up a basin of water, washed one by one the feet of those their own sex, the shoes and stockings as a mat ter of course having been taken off. Both feet were placed in the basin, and upou being taken out were wiped with the apron worn by the washer, where upon the one performing the ceremony and the one submitting to it shook hands and kissed each other, there being no distinction at all made in the matter of sex, the men ' kissing each other as well as the women." A San Francisco Judge has put into practice an old English ruling that misrepresentation before marriage is good ground for divorce. One Mandler Yreteki complained that his wife Eddel had practiced fraud upon him by false ly representing before marriage that she was a sound and healthy woman, when in fact she was subject to insanity whereupon the Judge granted his peti tion of divorce. j During the last ten months there has been a reduction of $100,000,000 in the consumption of imported goods, com pared with the corresponding period of last year. Aching: for a Row. Yesterday, as a policeman was lean ing against the walls of the Detroit and Milwaukee depot, he was approached by a man about thirty years old, whose rd face was a good match for his hair. He was a little "sprung," and he felt like a steer turned into a clover field. "Mister," says he, speaking very confidentially to the officer, " I don't want to get locked up, and have my name in the papers, and be fined, but I am in from Ionia on a little blow-out, and I'd give a clean ten dollar note to have a little scrimmage with some body." " You mean you want to fight?" asked the officer. " That's what I mean. I'm just aching for a row. I want to stand before about three good fellows and have some one give me the word to go in." The officer asked if he wa3 heavy on the fight, and he answered : " Heavy I I should say I was ! Why, I'm terrible. They call me the Rus sian bear at home, and the hull town tand up or sit down, just as I say !" The officer said it was his duty to dis courage disorderly conduct, but in a case like that, where a man had come 120 miles to get up a row, he felt it his duty to extend indirect aid. He told the Russian bear to go to the corner of Beaubien street, enter some saloon, talk in a very loud voice, and he'd soon have his hands full. "That's me; much obliged ! " exclaimed the man, and he walked off. In about ten min ntes a boy came running down and said that a mau with a chewed ear, two black eyes and a broken nose was " up there" in the ditch. The officer went back with the boy, and he soon came upon the Russian bear, who was lying in the gutter, one leg doubled back, blood all over him, and his coat ripped in every seam. " That's you, is it ?" asked the officer, as he pulled at the man's arm. " Well, did you find that row ?" " Po liceman," replied the man, as he gained his feet, and looked at himself and felt of his ear, " Policeman, don't it seem to you as if I did ?" Detroit Free Press. Vanquished by a Cat. Mr. Stebbins Peer, tho funambulist or rope-walker, who has a cable stretch ed across the Niagara river, just below the new suspension bridge, and gives exhibitions of his skill in rope-walking, came near meeting with an accident the other day, which, but for his agility, would undoubtedly have ended his ca reer as a rope-walker. He conceived the brilliant idea of taking a eat on the rope, and starting it on ahead of him, in order to have two sensations at the same tisie. When about thirtv feet fjom the sV0e he set the cat on the ! rope, expecting, bl course, that the leiiue would show how the thing was done as well as he conld do it himself. But the cat was not at all anxious for funambulism, and, instead of making a bee-line across, turned upon Peer, climbed upon him; and fastened his teeth in his shoulder. In his efforts to disengage the cat he missed his footing, and had to drop his balance-pole, which fell on the rocks below, and was broken. Peer himself scrambled along the rope back to the shore the best way he could. He succeeded in reaching terra firma, but the exhibition of the day was brought to a close, as a funambulist without a balance-pole is of little ac count. The pole was subsequently re covered and spliced. Peer will walk again, but will not be likely to take a cat along. Kingston Can.) Whig. Life Not Essential to Muscular Motion. Dr. Brown-Sequard, in a recent lec ture, said that muscular motion by no means indicated life. He referred to well-known cases of snakes, tortoises, and other lower forms of animals, mov ing on the slightest stimulus several days aftwr decapitation. He says he has seen the iris of an eye contract on exposure to a strong light, sixtten days after- death. He had also witnessed pulsations in the heart cf a dog forty eight hours after its removal from the body, and in the human heart thirty six hours after decapitation. An arm fourteen hours after amputation was in jected with fresh blood, when it imme diately contracted and extended the muscles, giving every sign of life. The doctor startled his audience by recount ing the case of a patient of his in New Orleans, who died of the cholera, and whose arms, for a long time after the vital spark had unmistakably fled, con tinued to rise and clasp the hands as if in prayer, falling and rising in a sort of rhythmic beat. It must be a great con solation to people who have disinterred the bodies of their friends, and found that their position had changed since burial, to know that such a phenomenon does not indicate a living interment. An Old Church. A famous old church of London is in danger of being destroyed. The Eccle siastical Commission desires to remove All Hollows, Bread street, to which on Dec. 28, 1608, John Milton was carried from the tavern of the Spread Eagle to be baptized. A tablet records the fact. This ouilding around which many his torical associations are gathered, wt-s erected in 1365, destroyed by the fire of 1666, and rebuilt by Sir Christopher Wren. Fortunately the church register was saved from the great fire, and the original record of Milton's baptism is still to be seen. Among the old monu ments the church contains is one to the memory of a former rector, the Rev. Lawrence Saunders, who in 1555 was burned to death for persisting in the reformed faith. The resident parish oners now number only fifty, the aver age congregation is nine persons and a sermon once preached every Thursday, for the support of which a legacy was left the church in 1629, was given up some time ago because no one came to listen. This last is even worse than Dean Swift's " dearly beloved Roger." When the removal is effected the records, monuments, etc., will be sent to the Church of St. Mary-le Bow. Where the Brashes Are Made. Lansingburgh, N. Y., has for a cen tury been celebrated for its mammoth brush manufactories, which to-day sup ply nine-tenths of the brushes used in this country, the other tenth being made in Boston and Philadelphia. There are, large and small, sixty odd brush factories in Lansingburgh. Some of these employ from two to three hun dred hands, including many girls who draw brushes at home. The steam machinery used in large factories for shaping brush blocks, boring the holes for the bristles, and finishing the backs and handles is wonderful. Huge white birch logs, thirty feet long and two feet in diame ter, are fed into machines which rapidly cut and shape the unwieldy mass in brush blocks, varying in size from a lady's toilet brush to a barber's pene trator. Each machine is adapted to the manufacture of a particular kind of brush. Thus, every style, including hair, cloth, hat, shoe, paint, whitewash, horse, window, scrubbing, flesh brushes, etc. , is produced only by its particular machine. Deceased Episcopal Bishops. The decease of Bishop Lee, of Iowa, makes the ninth member of the House of Bishops who have deceased since the meeting of the general convention of the church in October, 1871. The se cession of Assistant Bishop Cummins, of Kentucky, takes another name from tho roll of Bishops. The names of the deceased Bishops, in the ordf r in which they stood in the roll of Bishops, with the day of the decease, are given as fol lows : .1873, March 12 Charles Pettit Mell vaine, of Ohio. 1872, Sept. 11 Manton Eastburn, of Massachusetts. 1872, Aug. 2G George Upfold, of In diana. 1874, Aug. 10 Henry J. Whitehouse, of Illinois. 1871, Dec. 2 Thomas F. Davis, of South Carolina. 1874, Sept. 20 Henry W. Lee, of Iowa. 1873, Sept. 28 George M. Randall, of Colorado. 1873, Nov. 15 George David Cum mins, of Kentucky. 1873, Dec. 7 William E. Armitage, of Wisconsin. 1874, Feb. 16 John G. Auer, of Africa. Withdrew. Animals and Firearms. That crows and many other species of birds have little fear of man when he is unarmed is a familiar fact, and suggests that they fear him chiefly be cause of the weapons he carries. In Scotland, where shooting was prohib ited on Sunday, crows and rooks were gentle, and fed around buildings with out concern. Singularly enough, the same thing was observed of animals by Dr. Tristam when traveling in the wilderness f Moab, where the sound of a gun is quite l are. He says : "We were struck with the sagacity which all the wild animals showed in the matter of flreams, little familiar as they can be with them here. As it was Sunday we strolled or sat down among the ruins without our fowling pieces, and were consequently objects of indifference. A fine fox sat and looked at us a dozen times among the stone heaps, and just walked away, keeping almost within gunshot all the afternoon. The Sakkr falcon sat calmly on his favorite perch, and allowed us to reconnoiter him on Sunday, while the eagle, owl, sand grouse and partridge showed a similar contempt for unarmed Europeans." Stanley's Exporations. Mr. Stan ley, the American traveler nassed through Egypt in the commencemenT o the month pn hjs way to Zanzibar. Before entering the country of the great lakes he will explore the Juba and other rivers to the north of Zanzi bar, and endeavor to make himself ac quainted with the great seats of the slave trade in those districts. He is taking out a yacht for that purpose. London Post, Sept. 22. Who dies a heaven a sage. fool will never enter Do von ever think that a neglected cough or cold may lead to serious conse quences ? In the early stages of lung disease take Wishart's Pine Tree Tar Cordial. It can always be relied upon. The fact that five million of pairs of SIL-VEB-TIPPED Shoes are make a year shows how these who use them feel a'-out it. Tliey know that they last three times as long. Gained Fifteen Ponnis of Flesh. Botrrn BiBniCK, Me., Jan. 17, 1S72. H R. Stevens, Seq. : Dear Sir I have mad Dyspepsia in f ta worst ffnrra for the last ten years, and have taken hundreds of Collars worth of medicine without obtaining any relief. In September last I oommenced takiugthe Vxqbtins, since which time my health has stead ily improved. My food digests well, and I have gained fifteen pounds of flesh. There are several others in this place taking the Vbgetine, and all have obtained relief. Yours, truly, THOMAS K. MOOKE, Overseer of the Card Room, Portsmouth Cu.'l Mills. DYSPEPSIA. SYMrTOM S Want of appetite, rising of food and wind from the stomach, acidity of tho stomarb, heartburn, dryness and whiteness 01 the tongue in the morning, sense of distension in the stomacH and bowels, sometimes rumbling and pain; cos tiveuess, which is occasionally interrupted by diarrr-o?a; paleness of the urine. The mouth is clammy, or has a sour or bitter taste. Other fre quent symptoms are wateibrash, palpitation of the heart, neadacbe, and uis.rders of the senses, as seeing double, Ac. There is general debility, languor, and aversion to motion; dejection of the spirits, disturbed sleep, and frightful dreams. FEEL MYSELF A NEW MAN. Katick, Mass , Juno 1, 1&72. Mr. H. K. Stevkjcs: Dear Sir Through the advice and earnest per-suasi-n of Rev. K. 8. Best, of this place, I have been taking Veuetink tor Dyspepsia, of which I have suffered for years. I have used o.Jy two bot tles, and alreauy feel myself a new man. Respect fully, DR. J. V. CAHTEK. A Source of Great Anxiety. My daughter has received great benefit from the use of Vegetinh. H.r dec.iuing heal h was a source of great anxiety to all of her friends. A few bottles of the VEOkTixs restored her henlth, strength, and appetite. N. H. TlLDEN, Ins. and Reul iCstate Act.. 49 Sears' Building. Boston, Mass., June 5, ia72. 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