POETRY.
A CATASTBOPHE.
No human being who 3aw that sight
But felt a shudder of pale affright.
He gat in a window, three stories high,
A little baby, with no one nigh.
A stranger saw him and stopped to stare;
A crowd noon gathered to watch him there.
A gleam ! a flutter I —in airy flight
Came past the window a butterfly bright.
From fields of clover and perfumed air,
Wayfaring insect, what brought you the.e?
The baby saw it, and eagerly
Reached out to catch it, with crowing glee—
With fat, pink finders, reached out —and fell!
The awful horror, no tongue can tell I
Poor little baby, so sweet and bright 1
Pals faces quivered aud lips grew white ;
Weak women fainted, strong men grew weak.
Up rose one woman's {Mart-piercing shriek I
Hnrrah for the awning I Upon the fly
It caught the youngster and tossed him high .
The bounce prodigious made baby scowl ;
He caught his breath, sir, and set up a howl.
All blessed the awning that had no flaw ;
But a madder baby you never saw I
The Scourge of tho Highway.
Iu the year 1774 a man named Joseph
Richelot was broken alive on the wheel,
at Orleans, for high iray robbery; and as
there were no relatives or friends to
claim the body, the executioner, when
he thought life was extinct, gave it to a
surgeon, who carried it to the anatom
ical academj for dissection. The legs
and arms of the wretch had been fear
fully broken and mangled, but yet, when
the surgeon applied his knife, he de
tested signs of life, and by the applica
tion of powerful excitants and stimulating
oordials, the highwayman wag brought
to his senses, and to the power of
speech.
The surgeon and his pupils were
kind-hearted, and deeply moved by the
sufferiags and earnest solicitations of
the culprit, they resolved to attempt
his oare.
They would thus lose the subject for
disseotion, but the experience of band
ling such a case in treatment would be
valuable. So dreadfully mangled was
be that they had to amputate both his
legs at the hip-joints, and take off his
left arm at the shoulder. His right arm
had been fractured above and below the
elbow, but the bones had not been
shivered, and with extreme care that
important limb was saved. Notwith
standing the mutilation—a mutilation
and blood loss that would be sarely fatal
in nine hundred and ninety-nine oases
in a thousand —the man recovered
And HOW what should be done with
him ? A man with not even a stump
of it leg, and withyanly OM He
begged that he might be taken further
from Paris, where he could gain a live
lihood by begging. They might be
sure he would henceforth lead an honest
life. He swore he would rather die
than steal again. The good doctor,
willing to do anything in bis power,
put Riobelot into a cart, and sent two of
his students to convey him fifty leagues
away to the Southwest, beyond Poitiers.
The man was full forty leagues away
from the nearest plaoe where he had
ever been known. He took a situation
by the roadside, close by a ragged cliff
of rock, and a dense wood, where his
deplorable condition excited the com
passion of all who saw him. In his
youth be had served in the army, and
clad in an old huzzar's jacket and helm,
he passed for a soldier who had lost his
limbs in battle Time passed By
and-by a peddler, who had set out from
Lusigflan on his way to Vitray, with a
a full paok, and much money, was
missed.
Other wen mysteriously disappeared
in. that same section. Tbe police
searched for the robbers, bnt oould not
■ and yet they were well as
oft-recurring disap
accident.
suddenly breaking from behind a cloud,
threw it strange shadow upon the sward,
causing the traveler to look up, when he
caught sight of a good, stout right arm,
belonging to tho mendicant, raised above
his head, the brawoy baud of whioh
grasped a short iron bar, with a knotted
knob on the end. He arrested the
blow in its descent, and being a man of
immense muscular power, he lifted the
beggar, and carried him to his oart, and
having thrown him iuto it, he drove off
to the next towu, where he brought his
prisoner befpre a magistrate.
Oa searchiug him a silver whistle, of
curious construction, was found in his
pocket, which naturally led to the sus
picion that he might have accomplices
in the woods, whereupon the magistrate
called a sufficient guard, under com
mand of an experienced officer, and seat
them, with the drover as a guide, to
the place where the murder was at
tempted. Not mom than an b*ur bad
elapsed sines the drover had left with
hisj>risoner when the spot was reached,
from the tillage being not
quite a league.
The gens cTamies concealed them
selves in the bushes, after which the
whistle was blown, the sound being ex
ceedingly sharp, dear and penetrating ;
and directly an answering whistle was
heard, seeming to come from under
ground ; nor was this all; hardly had
the n >tc of the whistle died away, when
three men arose to sight from a thick
tangle of shrubs and vines close at
hand.
Tho soldiers, with muskets cooked
and presented, advanced, and ordered
the uien to aurrender. One of them
turned to flee, and was immediately shot
down, upon whieh the other two, aeeing
that they were fairly caught, throw
down their arms. When they had been
secured, the place where they had ap
peared Wtt3 searched, and aa entrance
found to a deep, spacious oive, wherein
w;re discovered two women, ana a boy
and a girl.
The women gave in evidence that
they had been originally sbixed by the
robbers, and oamed away from their
homos—that they had been forcibly
held captives, and had finally married
with their abductors. The boy and girl
were their ehildren. The girl, a bright,
intelligent miss of ten or twelte years,
testified that dead bodies oi travelers
newly killed were often brought into
the cavej arid stripped and buried. O9
days it was their custom to
oarry the old mutilated soldier out to
the roadside, where he would sit for
three or four hour* at a time, his pitia
ble condition being sure to eseite the
compassion -f passers. When a traveler
appeared who gave promise of a well
filled purse, the old robber, with that
strong right arm, and bar of iron, having
inveigled him within reaoh, would ad
minister a blow that was sure to stun, if
it did not kill him, and then the whistle
would quickly call assistance. Only
the sudden gleam of the sun from a
thickly olouded sky had saved the
drover. The mystery of the disappear
ance of so many travelers was solved,
and with the patting away of the pre
cious gang the work was stopped.
The next time Joseph Riohelot was
broken upon the wheel, be sure the ex
excutioner did not surrender the body
until be was well assured that no sur
geon of eaithly mould could bring it
back to lif*.
A Slight Mistake.
Tbe present arohbishopof Dublin, tbe
gifted author of the work, so widely
known, on the "Study of Word," is not
in very robust health, and haa been for
manv rears apprehensive of paralysis
- rtnblin, given by
Mr. Parker and His White Buil-
Pup.
Mr. Parker was walking down Broad,
way yesterday, a benevolent smile on
his ruddy countenance,. and a fat, white
bull-dog trotting complacently at his
heels. Occasionally Mr. Parker would
look around at the dog and phuokle to
himself.
'•The Board of Alderman be darned,"
said Mr. Parker. "Pin not going to
put a four foot strap on your neck,
Marcus Aurelius," and Mareus Aurelius
wagged his stump of a tail. Just then
a small boy exploded a bomb directly
under the dog's black nose, and that
animal gave a howl and made a dash it
the small boy.
"Look a heaf," yelled a polioeman to
Mr. Parker, "you want to put a strap qp
that year dawg. He's mad."
"He is not mad." said Mr. Parker.
"Well, old feller, whose the judge?
I say that your dawg's mad, and Pm
goin' to knock 'im on the head with
my club."
Mr. Parker for the moment loe"
frightened. Suddenly, howev
twinkle oame into his eyes, and drawing
himself up to his full hoight, he ad
dressed the policeman haughtily.
"Offioer, you evidently do not kno"#
whom we are. We had desired to pre
serve our incognito but you force us to
reveal ourselves. We are the Grand 1
Duke Alexis! annd that is our bull dog.
That dog is an alien ; he i* not a oiti
ten, and must not be bound by foreign
laws and straps. Do you wish to em
broil your land in a war with Russia f
If you do, just olub that dog." * .
"Well, call off your dawg, then," saiu
the policeman.
"Here, Bloyiskinourskiroscurobisdin
asohowhockouski," said Mr. Parker,
without the slightest hesitation.
"Well, I'm blowed," mused the offioer
as Mr. Parker and his dog disappeared
"I'm blowed ef that dawg couldn' chaw
a free lunch out off the people's legs
afore the Juke could pronounce half hi£
name."—AT. Y. World.
How a Hole Can Hurt.
A negro was oonvioted in our superior
oourt the other day for hitting another
negro with an axe. A party of colored
savans were discussing the case in old
Si's presenoe.
"What I wants to kno," said one of
them, "is jUs dis : llow ken a man
anvniiler nan wid de/«y« ob j
axe r ' \
"Why kant he—tell me dat ?" said
old Si.
"Kasc it stands to reezen, don't yer
see—for de eye ob er axe is whar de
dandel goes in an' how is er man gwine
ter 'sault anudder man wider contempt
ter murder by hittin' him on de bed wid
er hole ?"
This was a clincher, the other darkies
thought, but old Si remarked :
"Fore do wah me an' you used ter
work in de same ootton yard, didn't
we J"
"Yes, we did."
"Well, I s'pose you 'members when
masse Tbrellkill, dowu dar at Griffin,
used ter lam' yer 'bout forty wid dat
paddle dat he bad ?"
"Oh, you go 'way !"
"Well, dis are de pint: When he used
fer ter paddle yer, an' yer used fer ter
grone 'round an' complane ob do blisters
whar he raised on yer, wus hit de pad
dle or de holes in de paddle whar raised
de Bkin an' made yer sore? Now, whar'a
yer scientifiy argyment?"
The ease was settled—nobody in the
negative.— Atlanta Constitution.
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A Conetoe Coquette and a Cokgy,
Swain-
She was eighteen, fair and serenely^
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This page is mutilated
The Two Webstors.
When Mr. Webster visited England,
after be bad attained fame enough to
precede him, an English gentleman took
him one da; to see Lord Brougham.
That eminent Briton received our Dan
iel with suoh ooolnesss that he was glad
to get away and back to his rooms. The
friend who had taken him at once re
turned to Lord Brougham in haste and
anger.
"My Lord, how oould you behave
with suoh unseomly rudeness and dis
courtesy to so great a lawyer and states
man ? It was insulting to him, and has
filled him with mortification ?"
"Why, what on earth have I done,
and whom have I been rude to ?"
"To Daniel Webster, of the Senate of
the United States."
"Great Jupiter, what a blunder! I
thought it was that fellow Webster who
made a dictionary and nearly ruined the
English language."
Then the great Chancellor quickly
hunted up the American Senator, aod,
Having other tastes in oommon besides
ls»w and politics, they made royal
night of it.
Boraps.
To-morrow—This is the day on which
idle men work, and fools reform.
Formality—the moro polished the
society is, the less formality there is
in it.
It i 9 with life as with coffee, he who
would drink it pure must not drain it to
the dregs.
It is not oar earnings but our savings
that make us rich— as what we digest
makes us fat.
More evil truths are discovered by
the corruption of the heart than by the
penetration of the mind.
Keep your temper in disputes. The
cool hammer fashion* the red-hot iron
into any shape needed.
Happiness is a perfume that one can
not shed over another without a few
drops falling on one's self.
It is with ideas as with pieces of
money, thoso of the least value generally
oiroulate the most.
A man, for being told the truth,
thanks you the first time—votes you a
bore the second —and quarrols with you
the third.
Life is to be hated only when its con
tinuauoe would thwart the purpose of its
gift. When the alternative is martyr
dom or apostasy.
Frieudship requires actions ; love re
quires not so uiuch proofs as expressions
of love. Love demands little else than
fcthe power to (eel and to requite love.
i. Spreading Over too Much Land.
Two distinct systems of farming arc
in vogue in this country ; the one in the
North, wherein the great aim is to make
the largest possible yield to the acre;
and the other in the South, where the
controlling object is to produce th
I largest crop possible from each hand.
I This great difference was more manifest
I before the war than now, but still many
! of our farmers do Dot reflect enough
' upon the importance uf giving heed to
i the suggestions of experience and intel
j ligence upon this subject. Hearing
| directly upon this point, the editor of a
New Jersey paper says the past year's
experience bus taught many a farmer to
plant less breadth of land, manure and
cultivate more thoroughly, and use tuoie
intelligent thought in the planning of
his work. This skimming over acres
for the pleasure of being called a large
grower, and with the oft exploded fal
lacy before the eyes that if ten acres
produoe 10,000 bushels or pounds,
twenty will produce twice as much, is
fast losing its charm. Thoroughness in
farm operations is what we want, and
then no chance will be given for skim
ming over large surfaces with f>ueh
losses, disappointments and above all
ruination to the land, if continued on
year after year. Let us face about and
reason opposite tj what we have been
doing, viz : That if oue acre will pro
duce one hundred bushels or pounds of
• orop, one-half an acre should be made
—with extra manuring, cultivation and
attention—to produce 150 or 200 bush
or pounds. Our thoughts should
prua in this direction, and we would then
I stop the wasteful and ruinous practice
sue have been running into.
"armer* « l - ,J -
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