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DEAR f.r.V'IIJlBEH. (Jimdiooilier utp wliu lumlf tM I forward 'id bk iIi:oiiib ll q'ulut old room Out 01 (be flrelltlil, dauulUK acid uO, li lo ibo kbUiltIhk du mi1 Iik iu; f..rwid n il ik.cH In hrllkio Willi ii lit Mi K rt. Ill iif unrt-liV.! -.! 4 look of Uittjdet pit. irndem- m la Hit fdid nuti ol bet fine ol J f.i.o. Wrm on hr Inert In hit ml iikM ( inn, ' Like 4 till I Illy, 'Ha biliy he . W Mia tufUr lh iiM llr! ilroup dwu 0 er Ike ileerr H'lle .-Tia. Cwndmoiliir liitrt lu biro wrel n1 1 iw. And m ronrUi e .me wil'i ft tlr-org OfilieiUvil'jiitln)Mn.'iili.i;i'. Whfn her We wn joiinj ud b'T fc'rt win Ornlraolhtr' children h loft hr no; Tbe Urge old Iuiimi la tab lowed )lcr; Jlul hltu' out u Die lu.i-cl 10 01 bi r h'r, line '. cum lbs libj' fare. He IIk w lirru b obi fi I ix'i Ik; : ivifily ! lu(ci bun Hi 'i uma w r'. tf!i Till tie jrr iii'cti-iiliiKro '; i vry. Aad lie J yol !!(' uioru'.ug no bun ala. OmndBioili(sr'frjr besilli herding U, Orur lie dnu llitio i'roy one ! TbnM p uf bi ptihot; Kie lw tKi, The biby'n j.mruey bu j lal b' K'ln. Yet i lie toy nwo of bit iuIkI'hi ioe BrlKbU ut liie evening lhl i.l.u w.'M dim; And in tiU't yitn, liotn bi r limine ebore, The Jlilitbl lur bit Ing will rion him. UiNMmu onion. A l'LOT IMSCOVEKM). I am ft saddler by trado, but am of a eentiiuontftl ami coutomplutivo turn cf mind and often sunntor ny inysolf iuto St. James Park, London, ft ml along Ilia Bird Cago Wulk. One evooing lutely, rapt in my meditations, I remained till it was dark, and tho path was nearly empty. 1 bad taken my station under largo troe, near which was a bunch, on which two rather well-droned men were Boated aud apparently in earnest conver sation. Coming ont of my rcvoiio, I be gan to specnluto on tho eause which wore most likely to have drwn my now milch bora to this quiet spot. "Aro tiny," thought I,"memberBof rarlimuent como here to study what they aro to say ou tome important question? Aro they lovers, seekiug retirement to discant to each other on tho charms of thoir in tendeds? Aro they husbands, Afraid to faoo their wives? Aro they" but all my conjectures were put to flight by the flr.it acntenca which reaehed my car. "Well, Tom," said one, "your plot is well luid; but I think you will havo nomo difficulty in disposing of Berke ley." "Oh, not at all," repliod Tom. "I pro pose sending him to ouo of the West In dian Islands, and thero are too many wayi there of stopping a man's breath for me to bo at' any loss." "Is his death absolutely necessary?" asked tho other. "Undoubtedly," answered Tom, "for yon know tho duko has sworn that Julia shall nover marry Villiers so long as Berkeley is allvo." "Heavens and earth," thought I, "what atrocious villains oro here! What duko ore thoy speaking of? Whut Berke ley do they ullulo to?" I had no time for further reflection. "Truo, truo," said tho other, "he must certainly be put out of tho war; but I think your sending him to the Wot Indians is a clumsy mode of getting lid of him? Could you not kill him in a duel?" "Nothing could bo niorooasy, my dear Bob," replied Tom; "but as I dismissed Spencer to tho other world, with a bullet for nis passport, I would rather try nn olher mode. I think I shall havo him murdered by a slave driver." "I eiin nut consent to that," answered Bob; "I don't likn tho expedient." "Liko it or not," said Tom, angrily, I am not aware that it i.s iicousuary to ask your consent in tho matter." "Did wo uot ngreo to do tho thing be tween ns, and to divido tho cash?" uskml his companion. "You are itiexperienccd in thcBo mutters, but I havo put a good many such jobs through my hands al ready." Imagine the dismay with which I listened to this horriblo dialogue. Mr Jiead swam, my blood ran cold, I crept eloso to tho tree, even afraid to draw my breath. "Well, well," said Tom, "don't let us fall out ubout it; Borkeley shall die some way or other. I am glad you think well of my plot. Our employers will snrely bo satisfied seeing thoro are three dukes, so von marquises and ninoloen earls en gaged in it. Tho duuoo is iu it it that won't content him I" . "Thunder and lightning!" said I to myself, "it is plain that some awful con spiracy is hatching. Is the towu to be burnt? Is tho houso of commons to bo blown up?" "Wheu Berkeley is done for," con tinued Bob, "Villicrs will marry Julia. They will be presented at court, and then comes tho grand catastrophe. Wo then assassinate William." "My brain whirled; I could scarcely credit my senses; and it was only after pinching my arm that I could believe I was awake. "Is it possible," thought I, "that those rullians could coolly plot tho leath of our gracious sovereigu under the vory nose of the palace? Desper adoes that they aro! But tho king shall livj, and Berkeley shall not be mur dered by a slave-driver, if I can help ill" They had by this timo loft tho bt'nch and aro walking toward towu. Fired with indignation 1 hastouod after them, guided by tho sound of their footsteps. As there was uo creature near to assist me iu securiug them. I resolved uot to attempt it till help was at hand. Step by step I followed them till they reaehed Charing cross, w hen suddenly springing forward I seized Bob by the collar, aud called out "Help! help! they aro mur derers!" Acrowd immediately gathered around, and Tom instead of rushing away stootl stock still. "I obargo you all," in the king's name," said I, "to secure these two rullians I" Bob, who had remained motionless, now knocked mo down. Tho police interfered, howevor, and set me on my legs. I was still bold as I could be. "I charge these two men," said I, "Tom and Bob, other names uuknown, with conspiring the death of sundry in dividuals, and I command yon," I con tinned, turning to the policeman, "to carry thora before a magistrate, where I shall substantiate the charge." At this Bob and Tom affected the most perfect amazoment, and troated the accu sation with the fcreatost scorn. Tho mob, however, took part with mo, tho uproar increased, and the policeman carried ns all before Bir Richard Birnie. The appearance of Bob and Tom at Bow street seemed lo occasion some sur prise, and Bir Richard, who appeared to know them, looked confounded on hear ing the report of the polioeman. "Qentlumen," sniJ ho, "this is a most extraordinary affair. I scarcely expected to see you before me on such an occa sion." "Yuu could not cxpsct it l?ss than we did," answered Bob. "It is not to be Lorto that gentlemen aro to bo poltod by a mob, und dragged here liko felons, on tho bureus icrtion of a scurvy, half drnnk tailor." "I r.m not a tailor, Master Bob," I re plied; "I urn an honest maker of aid dies." "I wish you hud learned to put them cn tho right horse," answered Bob, as bold as brass, "Sir Richard, I presume wo may retire?" "if you let thorn go, it will be at your own peril," said I. "Gentlemen," said Sir Richard, "huve a moment's pationco and we will soon Hcttlo this business. You fellow, stato your cliargo." "By your leavo, Sir Richard, I will lirct say a few words which will make thoir conscience fly in their . f iees. Hark ye, Master Bob and Master Tom, other names unknown, look ut mo." "Well I" answered .Bob, "wo do look at yon and seo nothing but a hulf starved wretch in n suit of clothes not worth eighteen pence." "If I took in hand certain jobs, and shared the cash like some poople," ro pliod I, spring him full in tho face, "I might have a better ooat ou my back. You tuko me, Master Bob" "I takoyou foran insolent scoundrel!" said Bob, in a rage. "No more of this," said Sir Richard'; "but state distinctly your charge." "I charge them with conspiring tho death of a gentleman of tho name Berke ley, and of his gracious majesty, William tho Fourth." At this Boh and Tom stared at each olhor. and Sir Richard looked con fonndud. !Yos," I continued, turning to tho culprits, "I overheard your murdorous schemes, aud you monster of iniquity! you swore to assassinate thokiogl And whut harm has Berkeley dono that ho should be murdered by a slave-driver? You boasted -that your plot was well laid; but confers, rullians, who are the throo dukes, tho seven marquises aud the nineteen carls who aro engaged iu it?" At this tho hardened wrotclies burst iuto such a shunt of laughter as made ttie roof ring, l'eal after peal, though I plainly saw that this was dono to gain timo to concoct some story to palm upon Sir Richard. At length Master Bob owned that he and his companion had wrtainly been in St. James' Park that night, uud tliut they had sat for some timo under a tree; but that the conver sation I had overheard related entirely to tho personages in a novel which he and his companion woro writing jointly, and that this was tho plot they alluded to. Master Tom, taking this hiut.chimed in with the story; und they so bamboo zled Sir Richard that tho good simple man dismissed tho charge, lidding a few remarks so little complimentary to mo that I mint stand excused for not setting them down. "Sir R cliard," naid I, solemnly; ".you aro imposed upon; thiso rogues are too munli for you; butsinco you are pleased to let lo"o M.u'tor Bob and Master Tom, other names unknown, I wash my hands." "Whon your hand is in, yon had bet ter wash your face," remarked Master Holt, and this was the lust I saw of Mas tor Bob aud Master Tom, other names uuknown. Old Circuses mill New. "Tho circus season is npproacuing.ar.d pretty Boon tho bill posters will bo around, and then will come the show, and wo will livo over tho old days again," said the good naturcd old man, ns he took a fork and transferred soma saur kraiit to lin mouth from a plate ou tlio lunch counter of the Baloou,nnd punched a cross old fellow iu tho ribs, who is known ns tho "kioker," and who grum bles ut everything. "O, don't talk nbout it," said the kicker, as he spoared somo headcheese that was trying to hide under a slice of onion iu a plate of vinegar. "Circuses of to-day aro no moro like what they were in '4'.) and '50 than they aro liko a school boy," and tho kickor askod for another schooner of beor. "0, 1 don't know," said tho good na turcd man, as ho clicked glasses with the kicker. "It all seems the same to nit, and I am just as anxious to go to the circus as ever." "Yes, but yon don't go till tho doors are open. You don t think of it, and dream und dream of it fioiu tho time the bills are put up till a week after tho show is gone, Mie way you used to. I remomber, Bill, whon you and I used to set up all uiy'dt, the night bjf ore tho cir cus camo, and watch for a few wagons that came on ahead, as though wo never saw a bay horse with a white spot on the side. We felt as proud as kings to bo al lowed to hold tho tired team while the circus man weut around tho buggy to take out tho valise, iu front of the coun try tavern, and to be allowed to drive dm team to tho barn, at miduight, ard help unharness tho horses by the light of the hostler's tin lautern, was more blisj than wo get now days, though we are worth fortunes. EaJ, I would givo more for tho feeling of happiness I havo had in driving a circus man's hor.io to tho barn tho night before a circus, with the landlord's daughter looking out of her window to see me, than I would give now for a pointer ou wheat. And then, will, to get out two hours before day light in the morning r.ud walk out live miles on tho road the day tho cirous was coming in on, to moot it, was bettor than a trip to Europe would be now. Bare footed, trudgod along in the dewy grass, with eyes strained fr tho first sight of the elephautl Trousers rolled up to tho knees, a they would bo clean when we rolled thorn down wheu we got back to town. O, Bill, thoso are days that will never camo back. Let's Uko another drink." Bill wiped a drop of somothing out of his eye with the salmon napkin and said they could .t'k expect the days to coma back, because they had gone for keeps, and the old kicker weut on: "Bill, didn't an elephant loom up of a foggy morniug when we met the circus out on the road? Wo could smell the cirous half a mile before we got to where it was resting on the road, and then we conld hear the circus men swear, and pretty soon we would be within thirty feet of the elephant, and bow surprised ho would look, and bow still we would keep for fear of waking np tho porform ers who were asleep in the wagons, and with whut awe we would look into a car riage window and seo tho sloopy face and frowsy iica of one of the female per formers, who looked so mad in a car riage and so smiling wbon Bho got on a horse in the ring. And wheu daylight came and the procession started toi town, how prond we marched along in front of the elephant, and how we ad mired the bravery of the man who punched tho elephant with, a sharpstick. And how we prayed to grow up to bo a driver of a cago, and hold tho ribbons over four horsos. Somehow, Bill, when we escorted tho circus into town, wo al ways felt that a great responsibility rested on us, diJu't wc? By gracious, a circus traveling with wagons is tho only way to inspire the people. This going around ou tho cars takes all the romance out of it. Bill, how many cirens horses do you suppose we have rode to water when we were boys, after tho circus had got to the ground whore it was to show? How wo would look now, wouldn't we, church members that we are, to go bare footed and straddle a sweiiny roan circus horso, and ride him down to the creek to water, and lead three moro. I 'sposo we would bo "churched" if we did it now. But wasn't it happiness?" And then the putting np of the canvass had to be superintended by us boys, and how many pails of water have we carried to mako lemonade, of which wo didn't get a taste? Those fakirs who concocted lemo nade along in '50 wouldn't know us now if we should happen to visit the stutos prison whore they tre, would they? If thero was happiness iu thoso other ex periences, Bill, how shall we describe feelings if wo could embezzle onrselvce iDto tho dressing room, where tho per formers were getting ready for the grand cntrco. If we should try as hard to go to hoaven, Bill, as we have triod to got into the dressing rooms of circuses or to crawl under the canvass of the show, there would bo joy in hoaven. Bill, and don't you forget it. The old fashioned circus took the cako for making boys happy, and I don't suppose we could spend ten thousand dollars aud havo as much ploasuro as we have had for two shillings on cirous days long ago. Why, wo would bo bo exoited we would forget to go home to meals, and our mothers would think we were lost. We havo gone twenty-four hours without eating a mor sol, exoept a yard of gingor bread. Bill did you ever have any spring chicken, or anything lutely tasto as good as a chunk of ginger bread and a dipper of that red lomouade? Well, if I could be set back thirty years, barefooted, on tho road out of town to moot a circus, beforo duy light, with two shillings in my pocket, and a light heart and an empty stomach, and feel as I used to, you could take all my money and do whut you darned please with it, Bill." "But I wouldn't take it, Ike. I would give all of mino to be back there with you and not hnve a care on my mind. But, let's soe. There is a vestry meeting this afternoon, and wo have got to bo on hand, und seo about raising tho minister's aalnry. Let's drop the circus for tho timo being, Ike, and be tho stuid, pious old dolegutcs that we ure expeotcd to bo. But, say, when tho show comes wo will take it in, oh?" "You bet yonr boots," says Ike, and they go ont into the streets looking pretty young and spry for their ugo. Peck's Suu A Counterfeit Colu. ' Speaking of old bums," remarked Charley Blackburn, of tho Registration olllce, takiug out his pen knife anil ex tracting a plug.pnrchaHod at tho reduced rate under the new turill bill, "did I ever tell von how wo ran Cocktail J iui out of Marysvillo in '52?" The numorous visitors, gathered ibout in anticipation of ouo of Charley's iniuii tublo yarns, confessed utter ignorance of tho circumstances under which Cocktail Jim left Marysvillo in '52, "Don't mind if I tell you. Does any body object? I'm not a man as likes to bore anybody?" Tho listeners considered thomselves not only in no danger of being bored, but were positively anxious to hear the story. "Well," continued Charley, throwing ono leg over the othor, with the air of a man who is determined to leave no detail unombellished, "Cocktail Jim wus tho hardest case I ever saw. During all the timo I was in Marysvillo I never knew him to eat a nrcal or to do a minute's work. He just loafed around Boston Harry's monte saloon and drank and drank and drank always co?ktails. He nover paid for a drink in his life, but laid for the game, aud when the crowd was called up ho was the first to ordor. An ordinary cocktail was an insult to him; ho had to havo 'em witli lemon pool iu, a snifter of syrup, and with loaf sugar rubbed around the rim of the glass. After loafing around tho town for a year ho got to be a great nuisance, aud tho boys tried various ways to freezo him out. But he nevor lost control of him self, no master how much bo drank, and thoro appearod to bu no method of nuk ing him tired of Boston Harry's saloon. "Well, ouo day I arrived in town, hav ing boon down to Sicramouto for a load of supplies, when I saw from a distance a big crowd of men in the middle of tho street with Cocktail Jim in charge Just a week beforp that they had olectod me justice of the peace. As I drovo up one of tho boys says, 'Ah, here comes tho judge. Now we can try him at oneo.' "I asked what was the trouble. It did not take more than two minutes to find it ont. It saems Cocktail Jim had been fired out of Boston Harry's early the night beforo and slept iu the open lot. Early in the morning he got up, famish1 ing for a drink; the first man he met was Pete Warner. 'Peto,' says he, 'I ain't had a bite to eat for three hull days. Lot me have a dollar.' Pete didn't like to do it. 'You'll spend it for whisky, won't you?" 'No, sir,' says Jim; 'Pon my honor, not a (nt. I will go straight np to the hotel and eat a meal.' "After talking some time Pete took out a counterfeit Mexican dollar and handed it to Jin. 'There,' he says, 'cat something to eat, but uo whisky.' Jim promised, thanked him, and they parted. Peto at once rushed no to Boston Harry's, knowing that Jim would merelv walk around a little and then stop in there to get a cocktail, and told Harry about it, cautioning him that when he attempted to pass the counterfeit dollar to hare him arretted for showing eonnterfeit coin. "In about ten minutes snre enough Jim came in, ordered a cocktail, and un concerned like, flipped the dollar up ond let tho dollar fall on the counter. Toe cocktail was made in the best style and Jim drank it down. 'But,' said tho bar keeper, 'give me some other money. I hear from the Bound of thi? that it's no Kood. Jim confessed at ouco that the dollar was all the coin he had; a lot of tho boys githored around, the sheriff was sent for, and he was placed under arrest. "When I arrived Jim was abont seared to death. Tho boys had been talking of banging him right thero. Well, we'll try him,' says I. So the boys brought him along, and in fifteen minutes a jury wai impanoled and tbo witnessss sworn. It wus a plain case of passing counterfeit monoy. Jim told his story, but tho jury didn't beliove a word of it, and found him guilty without leav ing their seats. I then addressed the prisoner, telling him how clearly he had been caught passing a bad dollar, something against the peace and dignity of tho state; but, presuming ho had a mother living who had thought something of him nomo time, or a loving sister, or a law-abiding brother, I would be merciful and give him tho lightest penalty the law allowed. I then sontoneed him to twenty ono years in the state prison. Whon he heard this Jim fairly howled. His red, swelled eyes just oozod the tears. But it was no use; tho sheriff snatched him and began to move through tho crowd. I got down from tho dry goods and edged up to Jim. 'Can you ran?' I whispered. 'Run?' he whispored bank, 'I can run like a quarter horso.' Well,' says I, 'there is some doubt abont this, but I couldn't help it, you know. Tho law says so and so, and we judges havo to follow tho law. Now, I'll toll you what I'll do,' says I, still whisper ing. 'I'll call the sheriff off as if to speak to him, ond when the coast is clear you run for fie river as though the devil was after you. The boys will shoot somo, probably, but don't mind that just climb.' "So I called tho sborilT to ono sido.nnd Jim give a jump. I swear, gentlemen, that man wont liko ho had wings. Tho road was knee-doep with dust and the Yuba fivo hundred yards away, but ho cleared tho wholo cussed distance, with a hundred men yelling, hollering and shooting in the air, and in fivo seconds, whon the dust cleared off, ho was nowhere in eight. We never saw him afterward." When tho langh had subsided, some ono askod what beaame of tho counter feit dollar. "Oh," addod Charley, "that was paid iuto court. Tho foreman of tho jury, tho sheriff, tbo distriot attor ney and me went down the street and passed it off on the first barkeeper we met." S. F. Bulletin. Imaginative Seasickness. It may have happened to many of you to feel a degree of seasickness, or, at any rate, of the discomfort in which that stute ordinarily commences, from the mero contemplation of an agitated soa, especially in viow of a ship tossing about in it. And I remember very well that when, at ono of our seiui-so;o,nti83 or popular exhibitions in Loudon, there was a small model of a ship, which floated, as it were, upon a sea of gold beater's skin, and was m.vlo, by a con cealed combination of levers, to ro through a series of movements rem rk ably resembling tho pitching and rolling of a ship at sea, with an occasional 3ink iug down iuto tho trough of a wave, many porsons said that they could not continue to look nt it without, sensations which made it dosirablo for thorn to turn away. I was once told of a lady who ac companied a friend to see hor off by steamer, I think ncross tho British Chan nel, and on whom tho Bight of tho rough sea and tho heaving vessel at the pier was sufficient to excito renl and cumploto seasickness. Clearly it was the mental stute in these cases that called up a physical oondition of tho central organs so fur corresponding to that which tho actual exporieneo would havo dono as not only to produce the sensation, but tho reflex act prompto.l by it. It was not the mere sight, but tho associations connected with the sight, that brought about that fooling. Thero is an old story told of himself by a very able physician of his day, Van Swieteu, which is an ex cellent illustration of this tendency to the reproduction of a former physical state by a strong mental impression. He sits that he once happened to pass a place whore there was tiio body of a dog in a stute of such loathsome decomposi tion as to prodnce upon him tho physi cal result to which I lave just now alluded. Somo years afterward, in pass ing the same spot, the remembrance of whut he then saw and smelt came upon him with such vividness as to reproduco the sumo result. Dr. Carpenter. A Wurd for the L'oetors. Our clever ontempory Punch is al ways ready to wield its inllueuce in be half of science nud humanity. In its issue of tho 14th instant, it speaks as follows of tho discussion a few days bo fore iu Parliaunnt ou the Anti-Vivisection bill: "The Vivisection Abolition bill waa talked out tho other day, and, ns we do not wibh to seo the progress of modical science checked, we cannot but regret that tho proposal was lost. Vivisection, as the law stands, can only be practiced nuder very stringent regulutioDs, and the authority of a license grautd by the Home office, which, in very rare cases, allows experiments to be male without ana'sthetics. Only one per cent. of the in vestigations made equals the pain of an ordinary sargic.il operation, and what does the world owe to vivisection? "The discovery of the circulation of the blood, the antiseptio surgery of the present day, the famous operation by which Mr. Spencer Wells and others have saved the livos of many hundred women; all these, and many other ben efits' we owe to the experiments which it is now proposed to abolish. As Mr. C&rtwright said during the debate we prefor to quote him instead of a medical man like Dr. Fairplay 'Professor Lis ter's discoveries had revolutionized med ical science, and it was said ho had re duced the mortality cf man by seven cr eight per cent., and yet on account of the restrictions surrounding the provis ions of the present act. he had been obliged to go abroad in order to prose cute bis invaluable researches. In the Lnrnson caso the clinohing ovideneo that 'i r conviction was dorivod from an experiment on a living animal. If this were psssod into law, ex periments would be made on human frames aud in the rudest forms. In the nineteenth century tho houorablo and learned meiubor askod thorn to prohibit investigation, to annihilate inquiry and to say science was a thing that must be curbed." ... . , "No cases of cruelty under the exist ing acta can bo cited as occurring in this country, all the horrors of which we read taking placo in continental cities, where there are no restrictions. As Sir William Harcort said, the question is, Whether man, the superior animal, has a right to use animals for his beuetit?' Of coarse that can be auswored only in ono way.but the anti vivisectionists rush off iuto a shameless obuso of a noblo profession, and d thoir causo no good by it. Sir Williura Uarcourt well sum med up the debate when ho said: Thoy must bring a litt'e common sonso to bear on this quo:ion. Thoy must look at it in the light of exporionco and ho ventured to soy that true Immun ity was on the side of these eminent mon, many of whom were among tho most tenderhearted members of society. He was satisfied that, under the adminis- . . : I t..nniit lattf Viirtf ItttlA irUMUII VI 1UD ...... pain was ioQiotod, and that what pain ' ...... , . i. u. . : wa innicteii was umier bucu scpuruion nn.l ornir:Hitnps that it was not only in the courso of exporimont,butwa3 abund antly justified. "Mr. Punch viold to no one in his de testation of cruelty. Bat crimos must notremom nndiscoverod, our cuuuren ntimf tint, ilin nf rvmntin discuses, and our wives and sisters perish for the want of skill and the Knowledge mat nave been ootainea oy uuraane operators from vivisoction conducted, be it ro momborcd, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, with tho administration of antesthotics." Medical News. Ann Hatluwaj's Second HubauJ. Moncate D. Codway, writing from Stratford-on-Avon to tho Cincinnati Commercial Gazetto says: "The story of the poet's doxth by fe vor. after drinking, looks like a Puritan invention to stigmatize a play-actor. On tho othor hand, neither Ualiwell, nor any othor Shakesporeau writer makes mention of the following vory romarka ble fact. In the old register of burials kept in the church, whore I haze just inspected it, there is the following dou ble entry: . f Mrs. 9hkepre. J Anut uxor Rlcbirdl Jiine. "Thero could hardly be plainor evi dence that the widow of Shakespeare had married one Richard James after the poet's death. The Mrs. Shakespoare is insortcd for identification. But who was this Richard James? Whoever he was, thero would have fallen to him all tho letters and papers of tho poet, which have so mysteriously disappeared, inso much that not one smallest scrap of tho noet's handwriting (signatures ex cepted) has ever been discovered. The antiquarians of England ought to insti tute grand hunt tor traoes ot Ann A. Hatbaway's second husband. Nor should they rest from tho search till thoy havo explored Shakespearo's tomb. That this should bo prevented by the doggerel engraved upon it is unworthy of a seioutitie age. I havo heard it sug gested that it any documents were buried with Shakespeare, they would, hv this timo. havo been destroyod bv the moisture of the earth, but tho grave is considerably abovo the level of the Avon, as I observed to-day, and oven any traces enuuectod with tho form of tho poet would bo usoful. His skull, if not yet turned to dust, should be pro- nerved in the Royal College of Surgeons as the apox of the climbing series of skeletons, from tho micrcsjopo to tho divine." The Art or Singing. It must havo struck every intelligent frequenter of the concert rooms to what hopeless straits an enthusiastic admirer of any particular singor is put when asked to give his reasons for appreciat ing the merits of his favorite. The an swer, if one is given, is often couched in vugne generalities, and in some cases may be said to amount to little or noth ing at all. The artist has a clear voice, ono is told, a clear enunciation, has per formed certain "tours de force" with success, and even, for such reasons havo been given ere this, his general appear ance and deportment aro pleasing. Why should this incapacity to give a reason for liking a thing exist? Tho explana tion is dear enough to those who have given their attention to the phenomenon and lies in the fact that an audieiico takon collectively knows little or noth ing of the art of singing, and even were the very executant who is tho object of applauso interrogated ns to tho causo of his or her succoas, in but few cases would a satisfactory explanation bo fortucoming, for although ho or sho may have received such education does uot tako into account tho fact that ex planation may sometimss be required. Slory of William i'iukney. A law student is reported to hove been huiirhed out of Lafayette, Indiana, bo caiiso detected in tho" act of airinsr his eloquence to his father's wood pile. A3 if there were anything to bo ashamed of iu tnis sort ol practice, or a man could be perfeot in any gift without exercising it. Henry M. Breckenridge, in his vory interesting "Recollections," mentions the fili't that when lin drat pimn tn Ilia bar in Baltimore, in 1S08 and succeeding years, it was nis custom to cross over to "Whetstone Point' (the busiest part of Locust Point to day,) and thoro exercise himself in declamation, under tho shel ter of some tall hedgerows. One day, as ue was entering bis oosky dell, he found some one SDoakinc in ail run cn nf htm and approaching with precaution, found iue great muiatn rinKuey reaesrsing with care every point, sentence and ges ture of a speech, which next day he de livered in court as impromptu. Pinkney was at mis time iu tho zenith of t fame, the only American lnvrcr with European reuutation. nn.l lm hi great distinction to his assiduous labor ana practice. Baltimore American A New York. birtpr. m,. ...... Wt tii wifo by death, says he felt her cold hand oa nis laoe me other night while lying in nis oca. ue could not ory out because nn tongue was paralyzed witn terror iDiCATiom notes. Nebraska has 7000 more oirUr. . oge than boys. 8 rl,?hool An industrial school is tn 1 '" lished at Baltimore. baoUb. Cincinnati schools are exneeti . $811,000 for the year to como. d toc A Presbyterian Ublisbod at Pierro in Southern r Nowburgb.N. y jgait '"nDakouI schools freo. ilg Public John Hopkins' university - , five journals devoted to original aef investigations. orio'iaI cimi&lj Tho young ladies of tho Hwh hi of Seneca Fulls, N. Y have inrV lo "AntiSlung Society." orMftlu Cornell university i t0 i fossor of physical culture. A r.L' prc for a toaclier of gymnastics. IUn, American colleges, it in Rn;i i . four-tenth ami English colTl ' derif tenth of their inSm os'0 J? students. ' om tteir In probably no other plttC0 in wor d bnt Html!, n 00 10 the tTchoZ41"00"88 The J uno commencement of Ti: college, N. Y., was the . ftj ann versify of tlu.k tnu;l-.r.UUD.(1.ruUi ing. .uimn oi iear. Of tbo first six students of tho ing class at West Point this year are from tho couth, two from Ohio 2 one from Pennsylvania. B1 William 11. MoKenney, a Choctaw Ir dian, is soon to graduate from Enilii college, Virginia, the first Indtot ceive such an honor in Vircrinin The aggregate of-gifts to tho university of Virginia, since 1807, in connertSi with tho Leander-McCormiclrTbS tory, amounts to $113,000. " A proposition is before the Daltimor. school board to mak ), "mo" ihool teachers ten years. The obiectof Charles F. Kinir. muotnr f n.. t . school. Boston. rerPiiM n Loston geography is more poorly taimbt t inn nnv ntUnr l,mr,l. t ..' , 3 . uou -. .uv-u ui Biuuy, una that spelling comos next to it. Tho Cincinnati Commercial f;,..n. says: If a fovr of the brass ornaments of our PUbllO school nnn rn r.1 .t..j - - v OIUUV WAM knocked off, school expenses micht ba uuw eouu.uuu por annum, and no one would be the worse for it. M. Jules Ferry has issued an edict for the abolition in French schools of the punishment known as sequestration iue punisnment was solitary confine ment from one to II vh rinv in . .i.:- dungeon, with a diot of bread and wster. The prize for tho best essay from th literary class of thn sity was awardod to Miss Mary S. Con ou, u erttuuuunButer oi the late Bishop Soule. She - "uuwvoiua aUlUEH class of ono hundred and twenty-one The Harvard "An nflT." tar tun matt sconces itself iu four aportmeuts, a re ception room, a reading room, and two recitation rooms. Its reference library - " m wo volumes. Thoro is a small cabinet of apparatus fer scientific illustrations. Tho National Elnn.itionul A will meet at Ooean Grove, N. J., next August. It will bo conducted by the Rev. J. C. Hartzell of Now Orleans. Governor Pattison of IVnilsvlr.inia will preside at the first session, and the open ing address will be delivered by United States Commissioner Eitou. Many other distinguished speakers will mako ad- ureases. Till! stntn of Virginia in tnnl.-inrr n nnm ---0-" .o-"-" departuro towards education through s uoiter organization or tnepuuno bcuooi system. Tho political parties ore united in collecting the school tux and applying . . i fn i ?.....- . ii propeny. icocners institutes aro m work and first-class teachers are de manded. A normal school for the train ing of colorod teachers is to be estab lished soon by the state, and there sre sorious suggestions that the collego of William and Mary bo tlevoted to thii purpose. The St. Louis Manual training school is an interesting experiment. The first class of twenty-eight is about completing tho three years' course. They have made three fteani ongines, doing all the work from the drawings to the final touch. Til.:.. -f .1... 1 1. nnl Uaan accomplished at the sacrifice of the edu cation of tho head, as only two hours of eacti ttay are Uovoted to manual luuut. The courso extends over throo yoarn.dnr ing which time they bocomo skillw draughtsmen and gain a knowledge oi , ;.i. mi i - 11 Anal materials, iney learn lo mum, iu .. and to plane, bore aud drill castings by i it. i . hIoaI macuino 1001s. u rougui iron uu d aro workod by thorn r.t tho forge, and temporing, brazing nud soldering thoroughly loarnod. In view ot tue buv. ... a. t ..... .i i m.:..i Iiaji cess oi mo oi. ijinis souooi, .iiii:., - raised 100.000 for the establishment ol a similar institution. A Sagacious Maris. A bnnd of wild mares were sent to George Nealo on Sun day from Lower California. They were treated very roughly on tho road and on arriving ut Old Town, were placed 111 small corral. No vaquero being in me vicinity, great difficulty was anticipated to teach the mares to drink from a pail, aud every ono predicted thot it could not be accomplished. The advantage of kind overrongh treatment, was shown by the fact that after one or two attempts, air. Neale succeeded in inducing them to drink. OnA nf thn animals, however, seemed determined to prevent the bal ance of the band from obtaining water, and after shoving the rest of the horse out of the way, deliberately pijkedup a pail in her teeth, by the handle and car ried it to the other end of the corrw. This act was applauded by the spectators. Son Diego Sun. A Shower of Br.iMSTOSE.-The wiBeacros are not a little puzzled over most mysterious fall of "sulphur, wbicn covered tin house and yard of 3ir Abram Wilson, a reputable farmer, re siding four miles east of Wellf burg. ! substance was discovered on the morn ing of Saturday last. A match nppw to it caused a bine flame, from whi-u came the odor emitted by burning " phur. The same substance was also tf covered at other points. No Mh"7 explanation has yet beeu given. Wufl ing Ictclligcncer.