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l.,tiilillhe(l Kinre 'IO, at tlie old stand.
Main Strict, On'son City, flrrjron.
f?2 An assortm-nt f Wat lies, Jewei
" "N ry, and Set h Thomas' Weight' Clocks
' . 8 all of which are warranted to lie as
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O ''"'t'eniring done on short nftice, and
': "ul for pat patrnnnjre.
10HN 31. KACOX,
I l !' HITF.Tl AND IRAbEU
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cry, etc.. fie.
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MARSHALL &C0.,
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vow
C HEAT,, ,at nil times, at the
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And have on hand
FKED nnd FLOUR
J? S01'. t market rates. Ijrtio.s desiring:
v v., lurin.sn sacKs.
novi-tf
TO-DAY.
Onlv from 1:.v t iy
The life of :i wis." man runs;
Wh.it matter if seasons far si way
Have gloom or have double suns ?
To climb the unreal path.
We lose the road Wityiicro,
V,'sH'iiii the rivers of n inth
Ami tunnel Hie hill of fear.
Our feet on the torrents brink,
Our eves on tlie cloud a far.
We fear the things we think.
Instead of the thing.- that are.
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fc.tf.rji - le our woi ; should ri
liiior wiivt- i!it) I'cst,
Ttvmnrrow forever Hies,
To-day is the yoeeial test.
Like a sawyer's vork is life ; a
The present makes tUe tlaw,
And the onlyciAeld for strife
Is the ineli befoi-e the saw.
John T.ovle O'Reilly.
The Stra!io Troliocy.
The3 were two stalwart whaling
.... i.i ...... .
feet six .inches in height, while the
latter lacked not no re than two
inehes of reaching the sim altitude.
As these two tall skippers stepped
on board of our ship, when we were j
trying out blubber on the coast of
Japan. the3' reminded nie of Cooper
and Conway on the boards of the
old Park Theatre, the former as
Tirutus, and the latter as Marc An
tony, in the play of 4 Julius C;esar."
These two C.ipta'Ms were slender
and straight, and moved as if they
Were rather pnnid of overtopping
our Captain, w'ao. though a mm of
medium size, looked ignite diminu
tive when contra-fed with his loftv
visitors. j
It lias been said and written that !
large and powerful men U'e good. I
natiired. Sue!) is not always iliei
case. We had a us in yu hoard the ;
frigate iner:'iere nanie.l John Ma- '
cauley, who was nearly seven feet in :
height, and who would, never attack
but one man on board the ship
whoso name it is unnecessary to men
tion who was nearly as tall and
much stouter t.'i :n hhyself; while,
on the other hand, this man would
ily at little f.'llo.vs and give them a
drubbing when they oirend?d him.
The two g'gantie wli.d.iug Can
tains resemhled the latter more tlian
Macauhev. ?.() a p'.vvious vovage
they had ill-t reat-d a poor, friiuid
les hoy, nearly killing him, for
which tiiev had to pay heavy dam
ages on the ship's lvtnrn to ort.
At that lime Stephens was Captain
and II u l er his mate.
5ut one. would hardly have sus
,'ctil tiiem of lieing s ieh c.-uel fel
lows when they cam-' on hoard of us.
Tiie' were very smiling and pleasant
and j l:e.l with our Cipt iiu and
m iles, and even looked, kindly jipnn
the crow. 9
xlien- two sh-.ps saned in company
with o iirs for a few days, when v'e
pared fr-en them in ; gale that
d ;lte:ie 1 the seas li!;.- i niarbit iloor.
We .-aw no m re of them mil il we
ve;e 0:1 the way home. We had not
y; I 1 iokei: np and thrown our tri
works overboard, ;is we sfiil had
room for a few barrels of oil.
We were running down the coast,
and were near the latitude of Lima,
when the men aloft cried out, "tui!
ho:
Wo soon raised the hull of the
stranger, and the? Captain, after ex
amining her throrrgh his spv-ehiss
Slid s h
hauled wind to "fall in
V. II .' 1 us.
S:i-' proved to he the
cam
hove manded by Stephen. We
abaei;. and t!n latter hav-ii!" dro
a ho it in th w afe:'. the lonnf
...1 1 :
man s .stro.vc
sid'.
I was at th
iva:i 1). ():!
.11' Hv J i IJ VHl
1 , ., ...
i-.-ou iiue meinu'iis
conversed niui our eaipiain, and 1
, , -r
listened to a queer story told by the
former, in which I took but little in
terest, as it then seemed to he of
trivial import.
Captain Stephens mentioned, tintt
lying at Valparaiso, lie and a friend
paid a visit to the city of Santiago.
On their return his companion, who
was an old resident of Chili, told
him that they were not very far
from the abode of an aged Scotch
woman, who had lived forty years in
a deep gorge of the mountains, and
who was supposed hy the natives to
he a witch.
Captain Stephens, being in a mer
ry vein, proposed that they should
call and see her. His fellow-traveler
told him it would be impossible to
find her, as her hut was completely
hidden among the rocks and ex
uberant foliage.
Stephens replied, the natives, no.
doubt, knew where she lived; and
finally they gave a ragged eholar a
dollar to pilot th-m to the witch's
eyrie. They found tlie place and
the witch was at home. She was a
very old woman, wrinkled and
shrunken almost li?-o a mummy and
nearly deaf. She did not seem
pleased hy the entrance of her visi
tors though the tall form of the
w haling Captain at once arrested her
attention.
o.epnens insisted that she should
tell
us fortune. Site refused tr ,1a
"'J"Kuiie Kimi, averring that
she w s no fortune-teller, but an
iouesL woman who minded her own
business, though she knew that
manv lies ln.i iun i . .
, , "-- 10m aoout ner
When, however, the Captain'pull
I out a gold coin and offered it to
ei
her
, o.itT f.n oirei n mi. i.,i..i.i.
disposition; hut still she fought shy
as not imtU the monev had
3l 7that ,fVixR ,,er
Captiin and sahP U ot the
"Von will lm li 1 , .
arelonVr " ' be'0re ou
i(Tt,e0 . t i . .
lunts no fortune-felhng," said
Stephens; "come, tell me something
more than that."
It !S enough for you," replied
the hag; go go thlts o(r for-
I tune. Yon will be shorter 'than you
1 are now, hefore 3011 will be longer." ,
"All that I could! do,;' added Cap- '
- tain Steplieiis, "I coultl' nut jiersutule '
! the witch to explain herself, or to 1
; tell me a 113 th in? more." j
sj "And what more did yon want of ;
the old fool V" deniaiuled our C:i-
tain. "Of course, it's nil nonsense. ;
1 You and I, Captain Stephens, are
: not a couple of silly girls to cbelieve !
j in the slang of that kind of people.';;
q1 Our Captain invited Stephens to ;
i go Iw-low with him, and soon the '
! jingling of glasses and nprorions
laughter announced that the two :
!. skippers were enjoying themselves. '
J Tlieir nierriinent'was of short dn- f
ration, however, for just as a diand !
I came aft to relieve me from the helm, I
j the man at the mast-head cried: !
'There she breaches!" I
"Where away?" demanded our
little mate, as he scrambled np the i
'Four points on the lee how," was
the reply.
Ati: mats lust where
we want
em. ieon her oil. von at the helm.
There that'll do. Sleaih- as she
goes. A pull on the weather braces
here."
Py this time the two Captains
were on deck; and running forward,
they discerned the low, bush- spout
of sperm whales tight ahead.
Captain Stephens signalled to his
ship and a boat came for him, al
ready equipped aad majined for ac
tion. I Ii sprang into her and dashed
forward toward the school.
Our boats were down in a trice;
the ship-keeper received his orders i
and halt a do;en gayly-pa'tited,
clinker-built shells rose and fell on
the billow s, while the w h des were
around us.
I was at the tub oar in the Cap
tain's boat, and distinctly heard Cap-
iauj r-uepneu s cell 0:11 10 our V-Up-tain:
. ... '
"Pet von an ounce I kill the first j
whale."' !
In the next moment I heard a
hoarse cry as of a number of voices,
and looking in the direction whence
it came, I saw all three boats of the
other ship Ij'ing on their oars, while
the crew of the Captain's boat were
bending over something in thq bot
tom of it.
Our Captain looked very grave
and worked his steering oar till our
boat headed for that of Captain
Step! ens. When we reached the
latter a horrib'e s'ght met our ga?:e.
The headless trunk of Stephens lav
in the bottom of Ids boat, and the
blood spurted in torrents from the
arteries and jugular vein.
It appeared that the mate's hoit
had been nearly abreast that of his
Cap!a;t. A young bull whale had
come up suddenly in front of the
mate's boat. The boat-steerer dart-'
ed both irons aid just, grazed the
wlia!e, . w! i ;!i whirled about and.
with a hoi 7. nfal stroke of itsllukes,
to-i; o;V the he.id of Captain Steph
ens. T:ie gory head was t ii us d : i ven6
forcibly towards the mate's boat and
strivk the mate on the breast, knock
ing him overboard. He was not so
much hurt but what he soon regain
ed his place in t ho boat; but he
looked very pale and iiHieh agitated
w hen we join d the cluster of boats
that gathered around the. scene of
blood and slaughter.
As T looke d upon the body of Cap
tain Stephens, divested of its head,
f felt a sudden shock as the words of
the old wifeh recurred to me.
"You will he shorter hefore you
are longer.
The prophecy had been terribly
fii'lilled; and it was a sate one for
now that the rack is no longer in use,
I by which S'e;!iens could be made
1 1 .,. ...i-i 4i
1 ""'n( 1 t iii't inc ie were
er, vni;e mere were manv ways
bv- which he might he made shorter.
Pven if a man lives to old age he
heeomes a liltle shorter than he was
in his prime. It may therfore he
doubted whether the witch gave any
tangible meaning to her words.
How could she have conjectured
that Captain Stephens would have
his head knocked off by a stroke
from a whale's llnkes?
Slowly and sadly we returned to
the ship, while the whales, blowing
furiously, went off to windward like
a squadron of mounted Arahs.
Pofh ships went . into Callao,
where the decapitated commander
was buried with the usual rites, af
ter which our Captain sat down to
tlie melancholy duty of informing
the wife and children of the depart
ed, of the catastrophe that had de
priven them of their best friend.
Tiaisrrn to a M0THF.1t. Children,
look in those eves, listen to that
dear voice, notice the feeling of even
a single touch that is bestowed upon
yon hy that gentle hand! Make
much of it while yon 3-ct have that
most precious of all good gifts, a
loving mother. Read tho unfathom
able love of those eyes, the kind anx
iety of that tone and look, however
slight your pain. In after-life you
in ay have found friends, dear and
kind; but never will 3-ou have again
the inexpressible love and gentle
ness lavished upon yon which none
hut a mother bestows. Often do I
sigh in my struggles with the hard,
uncaring world, for the sweet, .deep
security I felt when, of art evening,
nestling in her bosom, I listened to
some quiet tale, suitable to my age,
read in her tender and untiring voice.
Never can I forget her sweet glances
: cast upon me when I appeared asleep;
i ' l.- f ,nee nt nirl,t
Years have passed away since we laid
my father in the old
I church-grave, her eye watches over
j me as I visit spots long since hallow-
i Pa to t it memory 01 iuv uiiuci.
I TT.ord Aracaulav'
I 1 Alacanlay
j A philosopher heing asked Avliat '
wa the first thing necessary toward i
: wini Ua 1v rf n. wnnnn nr.. (
swerecCAn opiorln!iity," ' j
All Incident ;f the War.
A n.mav7ialIe But-1 kei iv-:! tlie ('mil
Nciiut. To Tllli EtITOK OF THE ChIOAUO
Tkikuxe: On the 12th day 01 June,
18t;:j, I witnessed a duel between a
Capt. Jones, commanding a Federal
Kcoutnnd Capt. Fry, cominanding a
llehel scout, in Cireeue county, East
Tennessee. These two men had been
fighting each other for aix. mouths,
M'ith tbu fortunes- o battle in favor
of one and then the other. Their
commands weru, camped on either
side of Lick creek, a large and slug
gish stream, too deep to ford and
too shallow for u ferry boat; hut
there a bridge spanned the stream
for the convenience of the travelling
public. Each 4f them guarded this
bridge, that communication should
go neither north nor south, as the
railroad track had been broken up
months before. After fighting each
other for several mouths, and con
testing the point as to which should
hold the bridge, the" agreed to tight
a duel, the conqueror to hold the
bridge undisputed for tho time he
ing. Jones gave the challenge, and
Fry accepted, The terms were that
they should light with navy pistols
at twenty yards apart, deliberately
walking toward each other, and tiring
until tlie last chamber of their pistols
was discharged, unless one c;r the
other fell before all the discharges
were made. They chose their seconds,
and agreed upon a ltebel surgeon to
attend them in case of danger.
Jones was certainly a line looking
fellow, w ith light hair and blue eyes,
five feet len inches in height, looking
every inch the military chieftain.
He was a man that soldiers would
admire, and ladies regard with ad
miration. I never saw a man more
cool, determined, and heroic under
such circumstances. I have read of
tho, deeds of chivalry and knight
errantry in the middle ages, and of
brave men embalmed in modi rn po
esy; hut, when I saw this man Jones
come to the duelists' scratch, light
ing, not for real or supposed wrongs j
to himself, but, as he honestly thought. ,
for his country and the glory of the i
ll ag, I could not. help admiring the
man. notwithstanding he fought, for j
the freedom of the negro, which I
w as opposed to.
Fry was a man full six feet high,
slender, with long, wavy, curling
hair, jet black ryes, wearing a slouch
hat and gray suit, and looking rather
the demon than the mrui. There was
nothing ferocious about him; hut he
had that self-snthcieut nrt.chalanee
that said, "! will kill you."' Without
a doubt, h'e was brave, cool, and col
lected, and, though suH'cring from a
terrible llesh wound in his lt-ft arm.
received a week before, he manifestt al
no symptoms of distress, hut seemed
ready for the fight.
The ground was stopped oh' by tlie
seeianls, pistol loaded and exchang
ed and the principals hronght face
to face. I shall never forget that
meeting. Jones, in his military,
boyish mood, as tluw shook hands,
remarked that
A soldier braves deaf h for a fanciful wreaf li,
Wli;'ii in glory's romantic career.
Fry caught up the rest of the sen-
tence, and answered by say ing:
Vet le liends o'er the fo. when in iiattle
laid low.
And bathes every wound with a tear.
They turned around and walked
back io the point designated. Jones'
second had the word "lire;" and, as
lie slo.vly said "One two three
fire!" thevT simultaneously turned at
the word "one," and instantly tired.
Neither was hurl. They cocked their
pistols and deliberately walked to
ward each other, tiring as they went.
At the fifth shot, Jones threw up
his right hand, and, firing his pistol
in tlie air, sank down. Fry was in
the act of firing his last shot; hut,
seeing Jones fall. silenthr lowered
his pistol, dropped it to the ground,
and sprang to Jones' side, taking his
head in his lap as he sat down, and
asked him if he was hurt.
I discovered that Jones was shot
through the region of the stomach,
the bullet glancing around that or
gan, and coming out to the left of
the spinal column; besides, he had
received three other frightful flesh
wounds on other portions of his
body. I dressed his wounds, and
gave him such stimulants as I had.
He afterwards got well.
Fry received three wounds one
breaking his left arm, one in the left
and the other in the right side. Af
ter months of sutlering he got well.
Neither of them asked for a discharge,
hut hoth resumed their commands
when they got well, and fought the
war out to the bitter end, and to-da-are
partners in a wholesale grocery
business down South, doing a good
business, ami verifying the senti
ments of Pyron that "A soldier
braves death," etc.. etc.
Trusting that the above truthful
narrative will he a lesson to some
people Xorth and South, that stayed
on the outside and yelled. ''Seek,
dog!" and are still net satisfied with
tho results of the war, let me sub
scribe myself a reconstructed
Confederate Sfroeox.
Mr. Moody can't help it will
have his little joke. Liatehy, in il
lustrating the parable of the guests
who were backward at the dinner
party, he said ; "The excuse of the
third man was more absurd than
any. 'I have married a jvife. and
therefore I can not come.' Now,
why didn't he t.ike his wife along
with him?" Certainly, why rot?
The old lady would have enjoyed
it as much as any one. ,
An original neighbor of old Pip
Van Wiukle was said to he sq lazy
that when he went to hoe corn he.
worked so slowly that the shade of
his broad-brimmed hat killed the
iilants..
The Isthmus Canal
s. F. .bairna! of Commerce.
The benefits to be d rived from
such a canal are almost illimitable.
They would h'j cosmopolitan, not
sectional, the whole commercial
world would share in the benefits,
ftnd the whole commercial world
would pay toll to it. It would be
the most remunerative enterprise in
the world. To San Francisco and
tho Pacific Coast its benefits would
be incalculable.- Py way of Panama,
I he equivalent of I2,i)a0 English
miles w ould he taken off the distance.
To New York the sailing ships or
steamers would only have a voyage
of 0,077 miles, as opposed to 17,100
id? present. Py way of Teh 11 an tepee
the. distance would be still more
circumscribed, being only 5.200
miles. To Liverpool the distance
would be only ".t.lsi miles, as opposed
to ovfr 17,000 at present. This
would" be the salvation of San Fran
cisco and would render such combi
nations to put up freights as how
exist well nigh impossible. Py
passing through a canal at Panama
or Tehuantepec, a vessel would avoid
all the hauling winds and Equatorial
calms encountered in crossing the
equator to the south and-re-crossing
it to the north. With swift? clipper
ships the distance to New York could
be made in twenty-nine to thirty-live
days, by way of Tehuantepec from
twenty-four to thirfj' days. To
Liverpool, the voyage w ould occupy
fortjvtwo to lift--tw; days. This
would be a great difference from the
one hundred and twenty to one hun
dred and fifty daj-s employed now.
Where a vessel to New York makes
one trip now, she could thenmake
four, and where she makes one trip
to Liverpool at present she would
then make three. Of course the
time by powerful steamers like those
employed 13" the Pacific Mail Co.,
would he reduced "nuch more ma
terially, and to New York nineteen
to twenty-one days would he about
the time taken. The steamers that
now stop it Aspinwall could then
come through to San Francisco.
Those from Liverpool, Havre, Ham
burgh., etc., would come through in
thirty day s.
Jt would then be possible to have
a ft earn wheat lleet lo Europe. The
whole year's anticipated surplus
would then, with powerful ".000 ton
sleamers, making three round trips
in six months, be placed in the
Liverpool market by 107 steamers.
Pates of freight insurance,, etc.,
would he reduc d one-half, while
the risks of loss or damage would be
reduced proportionate'. A good
freight rate then would be ii'Js, or
6'7..50, that is about -M . cents per
cental. And when it is recollected
that a dollar a cental has been paid
it may he seen at once how great is
tho difference. There is not i citi-i'.'-n
id this State. Oregon, Nevada,
Colorado and the" Ton i lories of Utah,
Washington, Idaho, or Montana
that would not be benefited in a
dollar and cent point of vu.-w by the
change, for Wool, Q Paso Puilion,
Copper Ore, etc.. could be carried
proportionately as cheap as Wheat.
A Curious Romance.
Norfolk street, Strand (says the
London ('oiii f Journal 1, has a curi
ous commemorative monument. .An
observant spephitor will notice that
the first Ihior windows of a large
iioe.se at the comer of Howard street
present a peculiar appearance". 0 The
shutters are up, and they are covered
thickly with dust, while through the
chinks can be seen the blinds, also
thick witli dust, and mouldering
I'Avay with age. These shutterseand
blinds have been in exactly the same
position, untouched, for about titty
years. During that time no human
foot, it is believed, lias entered that
room. And the reason is this: Fifty
years ago a certain nobleman was
engaged to be married, the day was
fixed, the wedding morning arrived,
the breakfast was laid out in that
spacious and handsome room, the
bridegroom was ready to proceed to
church, when it was discovered that
the bride was missing; a note in her
handwriting was found addressed to
the bridegroom, briefly informing
him that she had eloped with his
" best man," a gay and gallant Cap
tain of dragoons. sThe jilted bride
groom did not say much; but he
went alone to the room in which the
wedding breakfast was laid out, with
his own hands put up the shutters
aud drew the blinds, locked the door,
and took the key. He gave orders
that the door should he nailed up
and barred with padlocked bars, and
that no one should enter the room
again. When the house was let, it
was stipulated that the room in
question should remain untouched,
and a sum of 200 per annum was
paid to the tenant to compensate him
for the deprivation of tlie use of the
room. The nobleman has been dead
some years, but it is believed the
room has never been entered since
he closed it, ami thoje are the "wed
ding meats" molderiug silently away,
and the ornaments crumbling into
dust in the funereal gloom.
Art received rather an awkward
criticism from a free nnd easy young
man who recently met a sculptor in
a social circle, and addressed hini
thus, "Er er so you are the man
er that makes er mud heads?"
And this was the artist's reply,"Er
or--not all of 'em: I didn't make
yours." e
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It is desirable to have the name of
the "well-known New, York banker"
who recently remarket that he want
ed to go to Europe for one special
thing ho wanted to see the Vacuum
where the Roman pontiff kept his
bulls.
Wheat brings si 2o at Oclieeo.
The
passed
seven days that have just 1
might have been termed a !
scandalous week. For scandal, pub- ! sinfulness of sin," hut on the -ex-lie
and private, seemed to crop up j reeding rascality of lying and steal
upon all sides. First in order as to , iug; a religion that baniQies small
social standing came the Queen of j measures from the counters, pebbles
Spain scandal. Not that such an j fi(Si the cotton-bags, clay from the
event in the life of her particularly j paper, sand from the sugar, chickorv
naughty Majesty was anything nu
usiral. but then this was a particu
larly flagrant case. Probably nthe
telegraph has already acquainted you
with all the details thereof; how the
pious Isabel sent her pet Murfori
(the male Mme. de Pompadour of
this female Louis XV.) to Spain,
with the intent of paving the way for
her return; how M. Marfori behaved
so cavalierly to the young King that
Don Alfonso caused him to lie ar
rested and thrown into the prison at J
Cadiz; how the G Queen became
furious, and threatened, first, to an
nul her act of abdication, and tlren
to create a public scandal ly send
ing dispatches by telegraph in or
dinary language, that is to say, not
i cipher; and how but the" btory
grows somew hat long to discuss in
that fashion. Suffice it to say that
Marfori has been banished to the
Philippine Islands, that a decree of
perpetual banishment has been"
passed h- the Cabinet of Madrid
against his "royal mistress," . and
that the Marquis de Moleris was
especially sent to Paris on the deli-
cate mission of acquainting her with j
tlie fact. eiry savage? indeed is her
Majesty, anet with reason. What
are times coming to if Kings and
Queens cannot behave as they please,
unquestioned and unblamed? Cath
arine of Pussia was not one whit
more respectable that", is Donna Isa
bella, and xt t she got along com
fortably to the end of her days.
Put then Catharine possessed brains,
a commediiy which her Spanish
Majesty seems to lack in a most un
common degree.
Next came the Prince Napoleon
scandal. Prince Napedeon possess
ed a war-horse, a beast of w hich, as
the French he made
but little use. This war-horse not
only snuffed the battle afar off (and
afar off only), but he consumed o.ds
audi hay. The Prince was requested
to pay for h!s keep. He refused to
do so. Hence a lawsuit, wherein
the Prince got worsted., and was
condemned to pay a bill of over
2'!!). Mora: Don't keen a war-
horse if von do not intend to go to
battle. Of course the indiscieet and
irreverent papers of Paris did not "let
slip so good a chance of poking fun
at the Prince, who, rightfully or
wrongfully, has a great reputation
for cowardice. One of them related
how at a recent sale a fine horse was
brought out. One of the bystanders
happened at that moment to strike a
match in order to light a cigar. On
hearing the detonation tlie animal
immediately look fright, and rushed
madlv hack to the stable. "It is
needless to add." concluded the
wicked journalist, "that the steed in
question w as the war horse of Prince
Napoleon."
Some one has been working at the
new Senators ami Pepi osentatives,
and has ascertained that of the 17
new Senators, 11 are lawyers. 4 ex
(.Tovernois, o in the Confederate
army, and one a confederate Senator.
Of the 170 new Kepresentatives, 122
are lawyers, ol merchants of variou
gardes, 1 physicians, : bankers, 2
editors, 0 farmers, aud 2 college
professors. Twenty-seven of them
served in the Unn army, and one
in the 11 ivy the last being a colored
man, Pobert Smalls, of Charleston
fame during the war. 20 were Con
federate soldiers, so that in the mat
ter of veterans w ho have seen service
there would lie a tie were it not for
Smalls. Several of the Southern
members were in the Confederate
Senate. Only seven of the new
members are foreign horn. Sixty
nine received a college education, I
and, with the exception of two or
three colored members from the
South who have learned to read since
the war, nearly all had a fair edu
cation. LoxoFEi,LfiW, the poet was once
professor in Powdoin College. Dur
ing a French recitation he called
upon a student who evidently had
made litlle preparation, and was
audibly prompted by his classmates.
The professor gave no heed to the
prompting, hut let the student blun
der through his paragraph, and when
the young man had finished, quietly
said. "Your recitation reminds me
of the Spanish? theatre, where the
prompter performs a more important
part than the actor."
As George III. was walking the
quarter-deck of one of his men-of-war
with his hat on, a sailor asjeed his
messmate "who that fellow was who
didn't douse his peak to the admiral?"
"Why, it's the king." "Well, king
or no king," retorted the other, "he's
an unmannerly dog." "Where could
he learn manners?" replied Jack: "he
was never outside of land in his life."
He sat in a railway car. His head
was thickly covered w ith a mass of
red hair. Behind him in a seat sat
a man with hardly any hair on his
head. He said 'to him, "I guess
you wasn't around when the3' dealt
out hair. "Oh, yes. J was," 'replied
bald head , "but they offered me a
lot of red hoir, and I told them tS
throw it into the ash-bin."
A waggish speculator,-- one of a
n lraerons family in the world, rec
ently sift d, "Fixi years agol was not
worth a penny in tho wrld-jjow
you see where T am through mv own
exertions." "Well; where are yon?"
"Why, a thousand dollars In debt."
Subscribe for tho ETKBPKrsB, .
The Kclfcion AVe YY?nfi
We want a religion that bear
heavily not onlv on the "exceeding
from the evilee, alum from the bread,
and water from the milk caus. TJie
religion that is to save tlie world will
not put all the big straw-berries at
the top and the little ones at t!-p hot
torn. It will not make one-half a
pair of shoes of good leather, so that
the first slftdl redound to tlie maker's
credit and the second to his cash. It
will not put Jouvin's stamp on Jen
kins' kid gloves: nor make Paris
bonnets in the back room of Poston
mill
velv
lliner shops; nor let a piece of
et that professes io measure
twelve yards come to an untimely
; end io the tenth. It does not put
bricks at five dollars a thousand into
chimneys it contfacts to build with
! seven dollar material; nor unuggle
: white pine into floods that have paid
: for hard pine; nor leave yawning
j cracks in closets w here boards ought
i to join. The religion that is going
! to sanctify the world, payslts debts.
I It does not consider bat forty cents
j retnriir ip from one hundred cents
j given, is according to ti e gospel,
i though it may be according to law.
It hx.ks on a man who had failed in
trade, ai.d w ho continues to live in
i In.xurv, :s a thief.
t ii..l!git;
II is
lira:
A sfraiipii g big s!iat.f.er enterfda
store on Woodward avenue 3 estei day ,
and leaning too heavy on the show
case broke one of"clhe panes of glass.
"That will cost you s2," said the
proprietor.
"Haven't got the money,'
replied
G
me striu;;e.i.
"Well, you can't go out
store until von imv for that
of the
"lass."
f said the storekeeper in a determined
voice.
"I'm soiry, but I'm willing to he
licked, if that will iloyouaay good,"
replied the stranger, rapidly fitting
out of two coats and a vest and show
ing arms like joints of stove-pipe.
"Oh, I guess it was p.utely acciden
tal," said the shop-keeper in an al
tered voice, as he got behind the
counter in a hurry, "and y ou needn't
mind about waiting around here r.y
longer. Here's a car diclt if you
are going up the avenue. lltiruit
Fi ve ;.
Would V"ta:.
Would yon keep your 103- com
plexion, wear thick soled shoes.
Would yon enjoy quiet ontent,
do iiway wtth airs and pretenses.
Would j'ou have others respect
your opinions, hold Qind never dis
own them yourself.
W uld you have good lrealth, go
out in the sunshine. Sickness is
worse than freckles.
Would 3'on respect yours-elf, keep
your heart and body clean.
Would you retain the love of a
friend, do not selfishly act.
0 Would you gain the confidence of
business men, do nrt try to support
the style of your employer. 0
Would you never be told a lie, do
not ask personal quest ionsV
Would you fleep well and have a
good appetite, attend to your own
bn siness.
Would you have the respect of
men, never permit yourself to in
dulge in vulgar conversation.
The D 1 fi" er ex ce Petweex IZ.v?.
There is a vast difference, fftys the
Dahbuy A'er-, in the conduct of a
man and a woman in new clothes.
When a woman gets a new suit she
immediately prances dow n town, and
for hours will walk contentedly
along a Crowded thoroughfare.
receiving fresh impulses of jpy every
time another woman scans her ward
robe. Put a man is so different.
He won't put on his new clothes for
the first time until it is dark. Then
he goes down town socautiously as to
almost create the impression that he
is sneaking along. If he sees a crowd
on a coiner he will slip across the
way to avoid them, and when he
goes into his grocery he tries to get
behind as many barrels and boxes as
he can. All the time he is trying
his level best to appear as if the
suit ws six months old, and all tho
while -realizes that he- is making an
infernal failure of it.O We hope the
time will come when new pants will
he so folded 13' the manufacturer
that they won't show a ridge along
the front of each leg when the wearer
dons them. o
Stupendous Enterprises. (ireat 5
enterprises are springingnp all over
the world. Pesides theIt. Cenis
tunnel, the Alps are leing pierced
by a still greater bore under Mt. St. 1
Gothard. The Suez canal finds a
counterpart in the projected nter-
oceanic canal across the Isthmus of
Panama. The problem of tunnel
beneath the English channel, which
has long been moqted, begiuP to as
sume tangible shape, and now it s
seriously- proposed to unite Europe
and Africa by a tunnel uneler the
Straits of Gibraltar. As now project
ed, the tunnel is to he constructed in
a straight line, and he extended be
tween Tarifa and Algoziras on the
Spanish coast, toward Geuta and
Taugier, on the coast of Morocco.
The submarine part wlj he 11,100
feet long, or nine E31gli.su miles.
Who finds allGthe umbrellas that
everybody Ipses? Every man we
meet loses thumbrella lie buySQ hut
we have never got acquainted with
the man that finds them. Can any
ofce answer the question hefore tho
next rain ? '
Gambetta is now in Paris.
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