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Comllis WeeMy Gazette. GAZETTE PUBLISHING HOUSE, Pubs. COBVALLIS, OEEGON' The Constitution of Ohio adopted in 1851 provides for biennial sessions. The holding of annual sessions is un constitutional, but the members whip the "devil around the stump" by ad journing from one year to another, thus making one long session. Louis M. Iddings, a young and well known journalist of Ohio, a million aire, married the daughter of Josiah Belding, formerly of Calif ornia and all the papers are extending to him envious congratulations but it is a strange thing that the lady is not congratulated upon her good luck in capturing a bright journalist, an exploit that might well satisfy the ambition of any lady in the land. THE GERANIUM LEAF. The "granger" railroads, so called, from the fact that they run through states which produce a vast amount of grain, report a very large increase of grains in October. The Milwaukee and St. Paul increase is $352,205; Northwestern $369,800; Omaha $53, 000; Chicago and Alton $143,503. The tonnage of wheat is decidedly be low the average, but this is more than compensated by the large increase in corn and provisions. A writer in an eastern paper says he had got a little hardened to the atrocity of "funeral obsequies," es pecially since some literary light or other recently defended the use of the phrase; but he was totally unprepared for "wedding nuptials," and uttered a feeble protest against too much of a thing as good as matrimony even. He felt that the line must be drawn somewhere on tautological expressions in the public press. Bridal couples in great numbers have recently arrived in Washington' and it has been observed that with those from Kentucky and Virginia the ages of the bridegrooms averaged forty to forty-five, while the brides counted about twenty-fivesummers only. The explanation of this interesting fact ap pears to be "that after the war the young fellows in the South were not able to double up, and now that they see brighter political prospects ahead they are making a venture, although not quite so young as they used to be." Bussia has decided to construct as speedily as possible four more steel cruisers for the Baltic and three ships for the Black Sea fleet. Work will be gin as soon as three enormous iron clads, eachof 10,000 tons, are launch ed from the dockyards of Sebastapol. Bussia has an abundance of iron and coal, and seems determined to have a navy that will correspond with her great armies. Bussian sailors are among the hardiest and best in the world and there is no reason why they should hot handlegreat ships and great I gentlemen, and I can't say that for every mail ui my acquaintance. And here she shut the door between us with a slam and left me to my It is very strange, when we ome to mime sdoui it, on what small cogs and pivots the wheels of fate turn, and what a slight jar will do toward chang ing the whole machinery and set it to turning in an entirely different direc tion. It was a geranium leaf that altered the whole course of my life; but for the trivial leaf, picked by a young girl in thoughtless mood, I should not be sitting here to-day in this pleasant i ' : i . -i uiumg-room, wnere tne sun comes in through the vine-wreathed windows and falls upon the geranium pots in side; and this little girl would not be upon my knee, nor yonder red-cheeked maiden on the veranda with young Smithers; and neither would that very handsome matron who hasust passed into the parlor have been in her pres eat condition, xi you will listen an hour or so I will tell you my story It was just twenty years ago this sum mer that I fell in love with Carrie Dean. She was 21 and I 27 both old enough to know what we meant and what we were about; at least was, but Carrie was such a littile coquette that I used to think she had no mind of her own. Oh, but she was lovely! all rose-col ored and white, and brown-tressed, and pearly-teethed, with the roundest. plumpest figure, as graceful as a fairy in every movement, and with beauti ful, shapely hands that were a con stant delight to the eyes. I was just home from college, and she was on a visit to my step-mother, her aunt, and my half sister, Lilla, and her cousin. I had seen a good many girls in my seven years at college, and someof the belles of tne land; but I had never yet had my heart stirred by any woman's eyes as Carrie Dean stirred it when her glance met mine in greeting and the touch of her soft fingers completely set me afloat on the sea of love. I was her slavefrom that hour not her slave either, but her passionate lover ana worshiper. And, of course, she knew it and, of course, being a finished little flirt, she queened it over me right royally. There was Fred Town, the country physician, and Tom Delano, the hand some young farmer, both as badly off as' I was; and a pretty time we had of it. Fred and I, old chums in for mer days, were at swords' point now and hated each other splendidly for a few weeks. And Tom I held in the ut most contempt, and railed at them both whenever opportunity presented itself, for Carrie's edification after the manner of men, and was repaid by seeing her bestow her sweetest smiles and glances upon them the next time they met. Fred drove a splendid span of bays, and almost every day they dashed up the avenue and dashed out again with Miss Carrie's added weight. And Tom was on hand nearly every evening, and she was just as sweet to one as the other, and just the same to me; and- that was what maddened me. I was not to be satisfied with a "widow's third" by any means, and I told her so at last, and disked her how the mat ter was to be settled. "I love you better than those brain less fops know how to love," I said hotly. "And now decide between us She had listened to my love confes sion with blushing cheeks and down cast eyes, but when I said this she turned defiantly on me. "They are no more fops than you are," she said, "even if they have not spent seven years in college. They are guns as affectively as any. The Egyptian obelisk in Central Park, New York, is now receiving a paraffine coating, which, it is hoped, will prevent further injury by the climate. The surface of the great pil lar has already been seriously affect ed, and crumbling pieces are easily re moved with the finger. Before the paraffine is applied all the loosened particles will be carefully taken away; then the stone will be thouroughly cleaned with ammonia and finally cov ered with the heated wax. The par affine to be used has been speci ally prepared, and is as pure as it possibly can be. It is estimated that more than 200 pounds will be required. The pro cess will give the obelisk a slightly darker hue than it now possesses. The commissioners of emigration of the state of New York have reported to the secretary of the treasury that durine the year ending June 30, there arrived at the port of New York from foreign ports 356,906 passengers, of which number 294,013 came as steer age passengers and were landed at Castle Garden, where they were exam ined by commissioners. Most of these were destined to Illinois, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin. During the year there were returned to the country whence they came 1,183 emi grants of which 51 were insane, 33 were idiots, 2 blind, 9 deaf and dumb, 21 crippled, 78 en ciente, 478 disabled by sickness, 77 by reason of old age, and 435 were without visible means of support. The amount of the im migrant fund collected under the act of Aug. 3, 1882, was $142,210, and the expenses of the commission amounted to $140,031. The commis sioners recommend that the act of congress to regulate immigration be amended so as to provide for adequate penalties for all violations of the law. pleasant reflections, and half an hour later I met her at the gate with Fred going out for a ride, which was very aggravating, I must confess. I thought over my conduct that night and concludedthat Ihad been abrute. The next morning I found Carrie at the dining-room window alone and sought her side. She had her hand among the leaves of a sweet-scented geranium, And just as I approached she plucked a leaf and twined it around her braids. I remember just how bright and green it looked among her dark locks. "Carrie," I began, "I fcar I was very rude yesterday." "I kncW you were," she said, look ing indifferently out of the window. This was a bad beginning, but I went on: "But, Carrie, I love you so, and when I see you with that Fred " Here Miss Carrie turned on her heel. "I am not going to listen to you while you slander my friends," she said. "When you can speak respect fully of Mr. Town I will return," and she left me again. I left the house then, and did not re turn till afternoon. As I came up the path I met Tom Delano. Poorfellow! He looked like the last rose of sum mer after a rain..- "Good-by, old fellow!" he said, gloomily. "I'm going away. She has sent me off and I can't stay in the place. I hope you are the happy one I do honestly, Al. She said her heart was given to another, and it's either you or Fred." I hope it is you, and God bless you!" Here Tom dashed away, and left me staring after him in amazement. "Given her heart to another!" I re peated, with a great pain in my chest somewhere. Well, it is evident that 1 am not that other, and that Fred is. Poor Tom! poor me! The best thing I can do is to follow suit, and leave too. I can never see her the wife of another, and the sooner I'm off the better for me." So I went moodily up to my room and packed a satchel, and I got all things in readiness for a speedy de parture. On my way up I met Car rie, just emerging from her room, arrayed in her riding .habit, and 1 iould hear Fred's deep tones shoutin -''whoa!" in the yard below. I watch ed her trip down the stairs and on of sight, thinking it was the last timt I should see 'her for -years, perhaps forever. When I had strapped the buckle on my satchel, and all was in readiness, I went down to say good bye to father, mother and Lilla. Lilla was not in doors, and my parents looked at me in amazement. "But, Allan, my son," pleaded father, "I thought you would enter into business with me. There is 4. grand opening for you, and I have held the position in reserve." "I thank you for all that, but I want to travel a year or two . before going into business," was all I could answer, and my father gave up in de spair. Lilla was -still absent, but it was quite dark, and the train would leave in half an hour, so I left a "good bye" for her, and passed out into the hall. It was a long, narrow hall, reaching the whole length of the house, and with several rooms opening into it, but as yet it was unlighted, and was as dark as Egypt. xVbout half way through it, 1 heard the street door open and shut, and a moment later ran full againt some one who was entering. "It is Lilla," I thought, and reach ing out my arms, caught her between them. "Is it you, Lilla?" I said; but she did not answer, only twined her two arms about my neck. "Why, little sister," I said, softly, "do you love me so much?" for Lilla was not demonstrative as a usual thing, and I was surprised at her movement. "Oh, better than all the world be side, Allan," she said in a whisper, and then as 1 lifted the face to my hps, the sweet odor of geranium perfumed the air, aud my heart gave a great leap. It was Carrie, notl-iilla, wnom I held in my arms! She was trying to disen gage herself now, but I suddenly caught her light form in my arms, and 'Open ing the library door I carried her into the brilliantly lighted room. Her face was hot with blushes now, and her eyes full of tears. You are too bad! she sobbed. "And I hate you!" Hut then she noticed my traveling attire and paused abruptly. "Why, where are you going? she asked, with interest. I was going away never to return, I answered. "But since you said what you did in the hall I have changed my mind." Carrie pouted. "I was only speaking for Lilla." "Then 1 shall go, shall 1, and leave you to marry Fred?" "I -detest I! red! she cried. "And you love me better than all the world?" So the flirt was conquered at last, and I was the victor. "But how did you know that it was not Lilla?" she asked, as we sat to gether. "By the geranium leaf 1 saw you put in your hair this morning. "And but for that you would have gone away and not come back lor years?" "les; perhaps never come back for that tell-tale leaf." Then we will keep this leaf al ways, she said, taking it trom her hair. And so we have. I procured a little golden box, and there it is to-day, one of our dearest treasures. Of course I married Carrie, and of course that blooming matron is she, Tom Delano didn't die of a broken heart, but married a lovely girl out west a few months after his departure; and Fred Town is our family physi cian and has a pretty wife of his own. JJfcCKSON? B DUEIj. A Chapter from the Early History of Ten Marr y. The Detroit Journal publishes from an old newspaper, the Gazette, dated July, 1817, thefollowing, which is good advice for 1885: "If you are for pleasure marry! "If you prize rosy health marry. "And even if money be your object marry! "A good wife is heaven's last best gift to man his angel and minister of graces innumerable his Sal Polyese sium or gem of many virtues his Pan dora or casket of celestial jewels. Her presence forms his best company her voice, his sweetest music her smiles, his brightest day her kiss, the guardian of his innocence her arms, the pale of his safety, the balm of his health, the balsam of his life her in dustry, his surest wealth her econ omy, his surest steward her lips, his faithfulest counsellors her bosom, the softest pillow of his cares and her prayers the ablest advocates of heav en's blessings on her heart. If you love the Creator, you ought to marry, to raise up worshippers; if you love the ladies, you ought to marry, to make them happy it you love "mankind, you oueht to marry, to perpetuate the glorious race if you love your country, you ought to makry, to raise up soldiers to defend it in fine, if you wish well to earth or heaven, you ought to marry, to give good citizens to one and glorious angels to the other." Homeopathic Perfumes. The odoriferous molecule of musk must be incomprehensibly small, when we are told the particles one grain of musk had, in a radius of ninety feet; disengaged in one day. No microscop ical power has yet been conceived to enable the human eye to see one of these atoms; yet the organs of smell have the sensitiveness to detect them. We cannot imagine their smallness, as it is stated that the same grain of musk undergoes absolutely no dimi nution in weight. A single drop of the oil of thyme, ground down with a piece of sugar and a little alcohol, will communicate its odor to twenty-five gallons of water. Haller kept for forty years papers perfumed with one grain of ambergris. After this time the odor was as strong as ever. Bordenave has valuated a molecule of camphor sensible to the smell to 2,262,584, 100th of a grain. Boyle has observed hat one drachm of assafoetida ex posed to the open air had lost in six lays the eighth part of one grain, from vhich Keill concludes that in onemin ate it had lost 69,120th of a grain. From the Chicago Current. It is from the early career of Andrew Jackson that we can form the best conception of the social conditions which exist in the south and south west until late in the first half of the present century. His life is an inex haustible repository of broils. writer, inspired by the zeal which lavishes its energies upon objects in an inverse relation to their importance has computed that the seventh presi dent of the united (states was a par ticipant in nearly 109 "hghts or vio lent and abusive quarrels" in the course of the long squabble which con stituted his existence. One duel was prosecuted with such stern purpose up on his part that he afterwards declared in words, which gives us an additional insight into the iron will which made him an once the hero and scourge of his country, that he could have killed his foe if he had himself been shot through the brain. For our purpose dt is enough to say, that in the year 1806, Andrew Jackson and Charles Dickinson, a brother attorney in Ten messee, had a feud; that this feud led to a challenge which was at once ac cepted by Dickinson; and that the seconds of the parties fixed upon spot in Kentucky , as .the scene of the (duel. Bets were freely made upon the re sult by the public. The duel was to take place on Friday, the 30th of May. On Thursday morning before dawn, Dickinson arose from the side 'of bis young and beautiful wife.quieted her inquiries with an evasive answer, kissed her tendferly, and assured her that he would certainly be at home on the niglt of the next day. He then set off for the scene of the duel, accom panied by his second and several other sworn friends. That night he slept at a "tavern only a short ride from thespot which besought. Andrew Jackson and his party slept at a tavern about two miles off. Early next morning the two .cavalcades were in motion. The spot which had been selected for the duel was in a copse of poplars in the heart of a. dense forest; and, under the agree ment between the seconds, if either of thepflineipals fired before the word was given, the seconds were to shoot him down instantly. Here Jackson and Dickinson met. What then happened cannot be more vividly and powerful ly described than has already beende scrioed by barton. "Jackson was dressed in a loose frock coat, buttoned carelessly over his chest, and conceal ing in some degree theextremeslender- ness of bis figure. Dickinson was the younger and handsomer man of the two. But Jackson's tall, erect figure, and the still intensity of his demeanor, it is said, gave him a most superior and commanding air, as he stood un der the tall poplars on this bright May morning, silently awaiting the moment of doom. "Are you ready?" said Overton, "I am ready," replied Dickinson. "I am ready," said Jackson. The words were nosoonerpronounc ed than Overton, with a sudden shout, cried in hisoldoountry pronunciation: "r ere! Dickinson raised his pistol quickly and fired. .Overton, who was looking with anxiety and dread at Jackson, saw a puff of dust fly from the breast of his coat, and saw him raise his left arm and place it tightly across his chest. He is surely hit, thought Over ton, and in a bad place, too, but no; he does not fall.f Erect and grim as fate he stood, his teeth clenched, raising his pistol. Over ton glanced at Dickinson. Amazed at the unwonton failure of his aim, and apparently appalled at tlv awful figure ana lace beiore lnm,I)iekmson had un consciously recoiled a pace or two. "Great God!" he faltered, "have I mis sed him!" "Back to the mark, sir!" shrieked Overton, with his hand upon "his pistol. Shall we go on? Dickinson stepped back to the mark and took his place with his eyes averted from Jackson. Jackson covered the body of Dickin son with his pistol, sighted him delib erately and pulled the trigger. The weapon was lowered, the hammer was reversed, and Jackson again took aim. There was a report. "Dickinson's face blanched; he reeled; his friends rushed toward him, caught him in their arms, and gently seated him on the ground leaning against a bush. His trousers reddened. They stripped off his clothes. The blood was gushing from his side in a torrent. And, alas! here is the ball, not near the wound, but above the opposite hip, just under the skin. The ball had passed through the body below the ribs. Such a wound could not help but be fatal." The rest is easily told. The wound ed man was carried to the house in which he had slept the night before. The mattress on which he had laid was soon soaked with blood. All day long he suffered with great agony; ard hiscries of jain mingled with his exe crations upon the bullet in his side are said to have been terrible to hear. About 9 o'clock at night he asked why the light had been put out. Five min utes afterward he died, and the next day, when his miserable wife was hur rying toward the spot where she had heard that her husband had been "dangerously wounded," she met the rude wagon in which his remains were being escorted by a silent procession of horsemen, to what was once.but was no longer, his home. Nor was Jackson unscathed. When he had retired about 100 yards from the field his surgeon noticed that one of his shoes was full of blood. His coat was opened, Dickinson had been deceived by the fullness of the dress that Jackson wore, tor his bullet had one straight to where he naturall" -supposed that the heart of his antt onist was throbbing. As it was, his bullet had broken several ribs, and ef fected a displacement of the viscera ! hat gave Jackson trouble twenty years afterward. Little remains to be narrated. A polite note was dispatched by Jackson o ask whether he could contribute in my way to the comfort of the man vliom he had just shot down in the oroad day light. This note was fol lowed in the course of the day by a bottle of wine. How bitterly sardonic and unnatural these courtesies were may be inferred from the fact that Jackson afterward said that the rea son that he had at first concealed his wound from his friends was because he did not wish Dickinson to have the grafication of knowing that his foe had even been touched. Rotation at Faro. From the Denver News. "What does a Faro dealer make?" "He gets $5 a day, six days in the the week. A pretty good salary, you see, and he could manage to lay up a little on that, but he never does. When he commences work Monday he is generally strapped, having spent it all Saturday and Sunday." "But these men buck the game them selves?" "Often, and sometimesmake a win ning. Some spend it on wine. Others buy jewelry, and a very few save it. It finds its way back into the bank. You know it is an old saying that a bank never considers itsalt loser, no matter what is drawn out, but simply loan ing the money to the lucky individual, to be paid back to him. A short time ago there was a dealer who tackled the game from the opposite side of the table from where he is used to sitting and cashed in $500 off a five-dollar bill. "He went out with the boys that night and blowed it in. The next night the fellow who runs the house dropped into the gambling house where the fellow who blowed in the money was dealing and dropped $600. The house got a good percentage for the loan of that $500 for one night." "What sort of people frequent gam bling houses?" "All sorts. I have seen people in every business, trade or profession carried on in Denver in gambling houses, except preachers. I have never seen a preacher in them, though they may visit them, for all I know." "How is it with men who play every day?" "They are mostly gamblers. I'll tell you how they manage to keep up. You can set down for a fact that two- thirds of them are always dead broke. The other third of them may have a little money, and stake the others eith er with a meal or a dollar or two to try their luck again. By that means they manage to keep up. I'll bet that I could go around now and strike two-thirds of those that depend on gambling for a living for a loan and find them broke. Another thing: There are a number of persons here, as elsewhere, who are in the habit of staking gamblers, who, as a rule, never pay them back, even if they win. They will pay back one of their own class, but hardly ever an outsider. "You see, although there are some gamblers who are honorable, the ma jority of them are not. Let them smooth it over as they will, most men who depend upon gambling for a liv ing are rather low down in the scale of morality. As a rule, they think that dress makes the man, and act accord ingly." Cocaine for Hay Fever. Hay fever, which a few years ago was supposed to exist only in the im agination of would-be invalids, seems now to be an established fact. In deed at this season of the year hun dreds of people in the city are afflict ed with the aggravating malady. By some it is called a cold, and by others catarrh, but under whatever name it is known it is a most distressing and seemingly incurable ailment. Phy sicans have been puzzied to suggest an adequate remedy. Professor Eoberts Bartholow, of Philadelphia, has, how ever, stated witn connaence inac a peculiar mode of applying cocaine answers the requirements of a cure for the disease. From an editorial in the New York Tribune we clip the Pro fessor's views on this subject: As soon as the remarkable function of this agent in allaying the sensibility of nerves of the mucous membranes was ascertained, physicians began to apply it to hay fever, but only within different success except in mild cases. The substitution of carefully prepared tablets, or pellets, in place of the usual solution has apparantly been singular ly successful in England, where someof the most obstinate cases have yielded to treatment. The tabloids, as they, are called there, contain one sixth of a grain of hyd-rochlorate of cocaine, and are inserted in the nasal passages, ! the nostrils beingclosed until the drug has time to dissolve and affect the sen- j sitive parts generally. The Lancet has published several accounts of complete cures effected by this treatment. The attention of the medical profession in this country has already been attract ed by these favorable results. Suffer ers trom hay lever may, theretore, oe encouraged to hope that means have been devised for their permanent relief. Evils of Washington Clerkships. Enter one of the offices and you will see pale-faced clerks, men. and women, bending over desks writing- and figur ing away their lives in order to obtain that which sustains their lives. A Washington clerk seldom gets more than this, and under the oivil service reform scheme the Government clerk is becoming more and morea machine, and less and less an active, thinking, growing man. As I stand here on this marble pavement and think of the lives which will be eaten up, of the en terprise shriveled into dolessnes s, and of the manliness wasted: in this build ing in time to come, it makes me shud der. Young men will come in here full of hope and courage, full of brains and energy. When they enter their thou sand dollars or more a year will seem good pay to them, and they will work with a will, hoping to rise through the various branches until their earnings shall equal those of a Cabinet Minis ter. It will not be long, however, be fore they find they are fighting the wind-mills, and in the same old grind of copying other men's writings, of posting dead books, where they have not the opportunity for -the exercise of an original thought, their brains will waste away for lack of use, and the lazy hours of from 9-' o'clock until 4 will eat up their energy- until some day in the future they will wake to the fact that they have been swallowed up by that great monster cannibal, called the Government, which not only eats up men's bodies but their souls as well. At this time some-of them may attempt to cut themselves loose, . but their efforts will be as futile as those of the Laocoon. The snakes of habit and dolessness have wound them selves about their palsied frames and they will wait until at last death will come to take away what it thinks to be of so little value as to be hardly worth the taking. This will; be the case, supposing civil secvice reform prevails. If it fails the Government clerk's position will be alb the worse. He is bound to be dependent on his superiors at best, and the lack of civil service rule makes him alL the more of a sycophant or a toady. There is no worse employer than the Government, and I would rather work for a Scrooge than for Uncle Sam. Washington letter. The Solidity of English Building:. "What has impressed you most on this side?" I asked of a Philadelphian. "Its solidity," he replied, "Its sol idity. The English are the best builders, I should say, in the world; they seem to like building; where we have a fence they have a wall; where we have a wooden jetty they have a stone pier; where we have a wooden sidewalk they have a granite pave ment; we are in a hurry about every thing, content with makeshifts; the English are never in a hurry, and they hate makeshfts. I reckon we lick the English in inventing things, saving labor, and in steamboats; and, except that I admire the little gardens to the humblest homes in England, I think Philadelphia can match the old country for homes; but, as I said be- ' fore solid is the word I should write down to describe England." London Letter. Engag-ed For the Snake.- He got on a "bust" once,, and when he came to the end of his tether he found himself sobering up in Garson. Having but one suit of raiment, he hurg up his shingle outside the door of his room in the hotel and went to bed while his costume was being re newed to wear. He was in the depths of slumber when a knock aroused him. He requested the knocker to enter,and a Carson man, in somewhat rough . attire, walked in. "Are you a lawyer?" "Yes," he answered from the pillow. . "I've got a case for you." He sat up in bed, drew the bed clothes around him in an instant,and assumed an interested air. "State your case." "Well, you see, I rented a field' for -grazing from a man. I put a horse on i it, and the horse died." 'Indeed! Well?" "Well! Hain't I got a case against ; that man?" ''Unquestionably. But, tell me,, what did the horse die of?" "You see, a rattlesnake bit him and he died." "Ahem!" "Can't I sue the man for the value' of that hors? He hadn't any busi ness to go and rent me a field with; a rattlesnake in it, had lfe?" "You're right, sir, perfectly right. . Do you want to take up the case?" "Yes, of course I do." "Ahem! what what amount what -fee do you propose to offer?" "Well, I haven't got any money.. I'll give you I'll give you halt the val ue of the horse." "Very good. What, may I ask what do you consider the value of the- beast?" "It wasn't very young. It had been kicked by a mule, and the gophers had nibbled at it, and it had fallen down a shaft, and it had been fifteen or six teen years drawing quartz from a mill. Well, it wasn't well, I should say it was worth about $9." The lawyer gently lay down in bed and prepared to go to sleep. He gave one last look at the client. "Good morning. I am engaged for the snake!" San Francisco Chronicle. Anecdote of Judge Noah Davis. Lockport, N. Y., Journal: A corre spondent furnishes us with another anecdote of Judge Noah Davis. The case pending in court turned upon the point whether one of the parties had made a legal tender oi payment under a certain contract. M. M. South worth, Esq., conducted the case for the plaintiff and called as a witness a woman of an uncertain age, whose testimony on the point fell far short of the advocate's expectation. In vain did the dexterous attorney ply the witness with questions, to which evasive answers were returned. In the midst of his perplexity the advo cate received in thehand-writingof the judge upon the bench the following couplet: "Southworth, forbear; this toush old jade Will never prove a tender made." The examination of the witness end ed about that time. The prison population of Great Britain was twice as numerous in 1852 as it is now while the whole pop ulation had reached only two-thirds of its present size. The decrease is most rapid in the ease of juvenile of fenders. The causes a. e to be found in diminution of intemperance and the growth of education. It would pay for an enterprising syndicate of hotel men and skating rink proprietors to wipe out the peo ple of Hayti and turn the island into a health resort. Ex-Minister Lang ston says that the average human life in Hayti is about ninety years. He thinks that an American going there with a fairly good constitution would live almost forever. An old man in Philadelphia once went to Hayti in the la it stages of consumption. He at once began to mend and lived sixty five years longer, dying at the age of considerably over one hundred.