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THE GENUINE
DR. C. McLANE'S
Celebrated American
WORM SPECIFIC
OR
VERMIFUGE.
SYMPTOMS OF WORMS.
I THE countenance is pale and leaden-
I colored, with occasional flushes, or
I a circumscribed spot on one or both
I cheeks; the eyes become dull; the pu
■ pils dilate; an azure semicircle runs
■ along the lower eye-lid; the nose is ir
■ Mated, swells, and sometimes bleeds;
I!! sl l e '^ n S upper lip; occasional
■ headache, with humming or throbbing
■of the ears; an unusual secretion of
■ aaliva; slimy or furred tongue; breath
■ very foul, particularly in the morning;
■ appetite variable, sometimes voracious,
■ with a gnawing sensation of the stom
■aca, at others, entirely gone; fleeting
■ pains in the stomach; occasional
■ nausea and vomiting; violent pains
I Ol 'ohout the abdomen; bowels ir
■ regular at times costive; stools slimy;
■ tinged with blood;
I«J S *° llen hard ; urine turbid;
■respiration occasionally difficult, and
■ hiccough; cough
■ _ . dry and convulsive; uneasy
It)** sleep, with grinding of
Vlriab "' bu ' gener '
Whenever the above symptoms
lm> we FOUND TO E3UST >
I C \ McLANE'S vermifuge
will certainly effect a cure.
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* remedy "for *ll
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' ."c- ? •" Bilious Complaints,
cWf^ S, = k Headache, or diseases of
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I ,* GUE AND f EVER.
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prepared by Fleming
H? *ilatir*.. r .*"• l^e market being.
B * me
9IADA9IE PATTHKJJO!\.DO>A-
K RTt,
[From the New York Wor^d.]
William Patterson, her father, was the
son ot a farmer in Donegal, Ireland, who
/at the age of fourteen was sent to i'hil \i
delphia and placed in the counting-house
of Samuel Jackson, a shipping merchant.
Salle" savs that lie "stood shoulder to
shoulder with Robert Morris and Steph
en Girard, with open purse bearing the
financial weight of the Revolution, and
the subsequent dark days ot the Reput
lie,"'enjoyed in n high degree the irici d
ship of Washington, Lafayette and Cars
i >ll and welcomed Rocliaiubeau at
Newport and d Estaing in thcCnespeake.
in his will William said that
in 1775 he embarked his property in ves
sels trading in Fiance with returning
cargoes ot powder and arms, "that his
supply arrived at a critical moment to
] aid Washington before Boston, that he
| made SBO,OUO in the West Indies and
i going thence to Baltimore increased that
Ito a million. 'I have niaue the foituncs
of some, others Irorti ruin and
found bread and employino.it for thotis
and* ol toy fellow mortals,' this singular
document reads, 'and no one could ever
I say to me "neighbor and friend, you got
I the advantage of me—you acted ungen
| erottdy to me." A Iriend ot his daugh
ter describes him as ot strict integrity in
i business relations, but close and arbilra
-1 ry in bis tamily and by no means imoec-
I cabio in morality. Alter long importing
iiig bis wife obtained from hjju a promise
to import for her a chariot; ho kept it,
: bul us the promise did not include horses
! the vehicle remained in the coach house
till death. To Mrs. Patterson, a tender,
religious and well cultured woman, their
daughter oiveu her familiarity with En
glisli and French classics; Rochcl'oucald's
•Maxims' she bud by heart, and at ten
could recite whole pages ot the 'Night
Thoughts,' which remained in her mem
ory for three quarters ot a century,
though in the interim she had never
opened a volume of Young. To a prodi
gious memory she added a quick mind
and sparkling wit; her manners were
fascinating and her beauty retnaikable.^
Betsy Patters >n was less than
iccn when in 1803 she met Napoleon's
youngest brother, Jerome Bonaparte,
then less than twenty, though it is by 110
means certain that the date of his and
his brothers' births were not altered so
as to make tlicm all seem younger than
they were. Jerome had served under
General Lecierc (Pauline Bonaparte's
first husband) in Santo Domingo, and
after carrying despatches home to France
iiad gone to Martinique, in command ol
! a frigato. Leaving his station in 1803 he
sailed to New York, where he was
warmly received. Joshua Barney, then
not long returned, from service under the
French flag, invited him to Baltimore,
and there, at the house of Samuel (Jhasc,
one of the signers of the Declaration ol
Independence, he met Miss Patterson, of
whose beauty and wit he had heard in
Martinique. 'I know the most beautiful
young woman in the world,' an ex-
Baltimorean lady said to him, 'whom you
must marry,' and when one ot his stiitr,
M. Rubcllc, married at Baltimore, and
Jerome Bonaparte declared that lie never
would wed an American, he received the
reply to wait till he had seen Miss Pat*
tersou. A receipt chronicler—not partic
ular as to dates but evidently writing
from conversation with Mrs. Patterson
) Bonaparte—says that Elizabeth's mother
sent her to Virginia to have her out of
the way, that Jerome's curiosity was
piqued by the absence of one they all
talked about, and that when he met her
in Mine, ltubellc'j carriage acting as their
escort to the races, she resented hiu fas
miliar method of talking ot her as his
'pretty wotnin' by turning her back up
on liim, an act of brusquerie that com
pleted her conquest. At this first meet*
ingf Miss Patterson wore a butl colored
«i.'k, very scanty as to di apery, a lace
fichu and a huge leghorn bonnet trimmed
with pink gauze and long osHich feath
ers. Jerome was an ardent jvooer; the
maid was willing to be won, for long
before she had laid it out as her late to
wed a distinguished Frenchman, a pre
diction she recalled when at a party
yauug Bonaparte,# chain accidentally
came 'entangled round her neck.' On
the twenty ninth day ol October, 1803, a
licence for their marriage was issued;
extensive preparations were made tor the
wedding. but Mr. Patterson received,
six days later, an anonymous letter ac
cusing the groom clwrt a of libertinism,
and declaring that lie had just proffered
marriage to a Miss Wheeler, aud would (
ii,ft dare 'marry your daughter at the (
Catholic church before the Bishop iu |
open day,' aud the matcn was tempore
rilv lw>knii off. However on Christmas
eve the wedding loHt place hi accord,
aucc witb the Catholic tftual, Bishop ;
graham, n. o,
John Carrol!, briber of Charle* Carroll,
of Carrollton, officiating and Alexander
J. Dallas drawing up the contract. Tho
bride wore a plain and very scanty India
muslin, with old lace, and a string of
pearHjft her iliroal; (lie groom a suit of
laceil and embroidered purple satin, the
white lined -fcirla of wltfcli retched li.s
heels, k.iee breeches, diamond buckles
ami powder.
On M irch 2, 1805, Jerome ntid Betsey,
at early dawn, boarded the Erin at Balti
more, ami sailed for Spain. On the 2d
>f April the -Erin reached Lisbon.
Jerome set out for Paris, and his wife,
(forbidden to enter France) with her
brother William, for Amsterdam. By
the 3rd of jl.iy, 1805, reports that tho
marriage had been annulled were pub
lished at Philadelphia. In June Jerome
cruising oil Genoa in tho Pomona, while
his wile, who oil the evo of his confines
ii'ent, had lelt the Texel, not permit ted
to laud —the Erin was placed between
a sixty four gnu ship and a frigate,
while a guard boat plied around her at
nigh'—hud reached Dover and found a
refuge in Loudon, where, at Camber'well,
July 7, 1805, her sou Jerome Napoleon
Bonaparte, was born. She had some
difficulty being one of the Bo ti a partes, iu
securing permission to land, and a guard
ot cavalry had to be sent to protect her
carriage from the curious. Jerome
B iiiaparto wrote to his father *in law
from Genoa, June 12, by Le Camus,
declaring that the old man's daughter
"had far removed if not destroyed for
ever the possibility of a reconciliation"
by imprudently going to London instead
of to a neutral port. On the 29th of
July, Le Camus was again charged to
write advising Mine. Bouapaitc to re
turn to America and live 111 re as if she
were expecting her husband, and above
aH "not to reject the murks of the
benevolence of the Emperor." Jerome
with five ships was about to sail on a
mission, and if successful would "ask
his wife as a reward ot coudtict." Iu
September Robert Patterson was made
acquainted with Napoleon's terms—a
pension for life of 60,000 francs a. year
if Miss Patterson would return to
America aud not lake the uame of
Ijouaparte, "to which she has no right,
her niai'iage having no existence."
Though Jerome was "almost always
talking about her, delighting in the
recollection of her good qualities, and
never mentioned her name without
saying 'My wife, my dear little wife!'"
by October, at which time his dear
listle wife with her boy Balti
more, the gossips had ii. that "overtures
had been made to the Qjeen of Etruria
to many him, but that she spurned
the idea with the greatest contempt."
On the 12th of August 1807, he married
the Princes* Frcdorica Catherine, ot
Wurtcmberg. Only once afterward did
he meet his American wife —iu the
gallery J! Pitti Palace at Floronce where
to the Princess leaning on his arm lie
whispered with a start: "That lady is my
former wile!" immediately quitting the
gallery and next morhing the city.
O.i her rot urn to America she began lili
anew with a lift of I,oooguineas sent her
bv Jerome on bearing of the birth ot her
chifd. lie offered her after his marriage
ihe Principality of Smalcald, with
$40,000 a year, an ofler declined, as
'•though Westphalia might be a con
siderable kingdom, it- was uot
enough to hold two queens." Napoleon
appreciated the answer, as he could now
aflord to do, and intimated through the
French Minhtor at Washington his tie
sire to serve her. She asked lo be made
a duchess, which he promised to do
later, and she received $20,000 cash and
au annuity of $12,000, which was paid
until Napolcau abdicated, she toeing
permitted to sign the receipts of it
"Elizabeth Bonaparte." Jerome was
stung at her acceptance of money fropi
his brother, but she retorted tliut she
preferred shelter under the wing of the
eagle to tho wing of tho
goose. To Napoleon's memory she was
grateful lor she declined to visit the
Court of Louis XVIII, not "wishing to
pose for a victim of imperial tyranny/'
U.ider the Restoration she was one
of the reigning beauties of Paris. She
had "a spirited bead crowned w|th
waving brown bair; large, lustrous,
liquid, hazel eyes, promising s teuder
sensibility that did uot exist, a nose of
delicate Greek outliue; mouth and
rounded chin, nests for Cupid; arms,
bust aud shoulders to satisfy a sculp
tor."
In 1819 she was in Geneva complain
ing that site bad been nearly ruined by
commercial speculations, that her soifs
i ducaliou was very expensive and his
lather had po6tively refused to contribute
a single farthing towards bis maintenance,
lie afterward allowed his so*i SIOO a
mouth for seven years, aud bad tlio bjy
TUESDAY APRIL 15 1879
visit him at Home where the lad remained
several months, treatod with affections
by the father and ffiti: maternal kinds
iic&s by the ex-Queen ot Westphalia,
who tearfully called herself ''lhe innocent
cause of* his misfortunes " ller
Duke William of Wurtemberg, admitted
that Jerome hud missed it—was an
idiot to quit the pretty American. "If
she weic a queen w itb what grace she
would reign," Talleyrand had said to
GortschakoQ then n diplomatic, debutant
that she had been "near tho tlirono
of Allies wjuld have found it even more
difficult to dispose of Na|>olcou." Crillon
remarked neatly: "She charms with
her eves while she slays with her tongue*
The Duke of Buckingham aud Cliaudos
paid tribute i:i his Memoirs to her
talent, piq-iant charm and untarnished
name, and Prince Jcroiuo Napoleon,
who was not all her friend, has
characterized her aa ambitious, with an
untamable spirit and a stainless reputa
tion."
When at Rome in 1825 Mine. Uoua
parte-Patterson met her imperial con*
licet ions, by all ot whom sho was
affectionately received. Napoleon 111,
allowed her sou an annuity of $14,000,
discontinued, however when she con
tested the ex-King ot Westphalia's will
iu which Jerome ignored his sou; still
the Emperor recognized bis cousin
at court, and granted to Miue.
Bonaparte-Patterson's grandson a pen
sion of $6,000 that only ceased when the
Second Empire fell. The dead woman
lived secitidod, and a shrewd Baltimore
banker said of her that he knew 'IIO
man more capable of creating legitamate
ly with so small a capital the large
fortune she amassed." In no branch of
art was she accomplished, though she
was an assidious student till ot late years
her tailing eyesight deprived her of this
resource.
" WHV SUK WEPT,
Old Nancy had been telling Bijah that
she'd give tue court as good -sass' as he
sent, and i hat he might give Iter fix
months and be hanged to liiua. S:ie
walked out with an ugly look in hereyes
and her teeth shut, and was impatient
for the affray to begin.
'Years and years ago,' began hi* Ho**,
or, talking as to himself, 'i used to pass
a white house on Second street. It was
so while aud clean, and its green blinds
contrasted so prettily, that I used to
stand on (lie walk and wonder if the in
mates were not the happiest people in
Detroit. 'lMiey were happy. They had
plenty. They had children who played
gaums on the green grass, aud the birds
sang all day leng iu the arbors.
Old Nancy looked around uneasily as
he wailed a moment.
'As the years went by the while house
I timed brown with neglect,* The birds
went away. The children died or grew
ut) ragged and uncivil. 1 well remember
the day the husband and father put a
pistol to his head ami ended Ins shame
aud lite iogeiher. 'l'll* wife was drunk
when the uodv was brought home by the
crowd.
A low moan of pain escaped tho old
woman's lips. . .
■lt was her love tor drink that killed
that man—that buried the children—
that scut the birds away—that pass
ed the place into >trangers' bauds,'
whispered the court. 'ls the woman
dead ?'
Oltl Nancy groaned as her tears fe'l.
'No, she lives. She !as uo home, no
friends, no one to love her. There must
be Ijtn js when siio Icoks back to plenty,
peace aud happiness, and has such a
heartache as few women unow of. There
must be times w hen she remembers the
graves she once wept ovef, and children's
voices must some time remind her ot
the tones of tlioj-e iaid to rest long tears
ago. 1 would uot be iu her place lor all
the wealth in the world.'
'Oh! sir! don't talk lo ine—do not call
it up!'she moaned as she wrung he:*
baud?.
'Vou may go,' lie quietly paid, 4 vou
have not hng to live. Thcie are those
here who can remember when you Itad
silks instead of rags —when you rude iu
your carriiigc instead of wandering
through alleys and lying iu the gaiter.
Some morning >ou will be found dead.
'1 hat will be the last act iu a drama so
lull ot woe aud misery aud wretchedness
that it will bo relief o know that you are
dead.'
White as a ghost, trembling in trerv
limn, aud weeping like a child, she passed
out.
To SUARPSV &CMCOES.— Take a coarse I
sewing needle and bold it firmly between !
the thumb and forefinger of the toft {
band, then take tbe scissors in your right
hand, and cm them smoothly and qtiick-
Iy from handle to point. The dullest
aciseors, unleaa they are entirely worn
onf, van soon be sharpened in thia
w *y-
In Gerumuy a uiau wlio wiabea to be*
come a medical practitioner baa to pars,
I some time in (he course ot bis third :
year's study, an examination in chemis
try and pbysisa, bouny, zoology, anato
my and phyMOlngyfand at the cloau of
Hu studies he baa to spend aoiuetimea as
much aa a live months' aessiun in passiug
a final examination iu the practical dt
im tinea to. J
Stft'lAli NTATIMTM 9 Off CONCIHBM
[Special to RicUiuouu DLmatch.]
Of tho three hundred and sixty-two
members of the Forty-sixth Co'iuess,
exclu-ive ot vacancies ami including the
Senate, two hundred and lorly one are
lawyers. The olliere are divided as
follows: Merchants 24; -Manner*, 16j
bailors, 12; editors JO. manufacturers
9; phyHciaiiN, 7; railroad men, 5;
teachers, 3; clergymen, insurance men,
miners, lumber dealers ami profcjfcioual
office-holder-, 2 ea jh; carpenter, stone
cutter, ini ller, surveyor, livestock deal
er and ticket agent, \ each, and 18 with
out regular calling.
Fifty-five serve* I in the Union aVinv
during the late war, or were identified
with that cause. n,,d seventy-seven
served in the Confederate aritiv. This
does not include Siepheus, of Georgia,
nor those who woro members ot the
Confederate Congress. Four ot the
fifty-five Union soldiers aud nineteen
Ol the seventy seven Confederates are
Senators.
Or A LKNON,
The leiuon is ■ necessity in any house-
Ituld- The following are given as some
of its uses: Apiece of leitiou upon a
corn will relieve it in a day or so. It
should bo renewed night and morning.
The free use of lemon juice .and sugar
will always relieve a cough. A letqon
eaten before breakfast everv day tor a
week or two will entirely * prevent the
feeling ot lassitude peculiar to the ap
proach of spring. Perhaps its most yal*
uable property is its absolute power Of
detecting any of lite injurious and eveu
dangerous iugretlienu entering into the
composition of so very many ot the oos«
luetics aud face powders iu tiie market.
Every lady fcboqUJ sut.jeot Iter toilet
powder to this test. Plaoe a teaspoonfuL
ot tho suspected powder )u a glass and
add the juice of a lemon. If effervescence
takes place it is au infallible proof that
the powder is dangerous, and its use
should be avoided, as it will ultimately
injure the skin aud destroy the oeauty ol
the oouiplexiou.
At London, England, and Bremen.
Prussia, the longest day has sixteen
a half hours.
At Stockholm, in Sweedeu, the iongwt
day has eighteen sud a half boars.
At Hamburg, iu Germauy. ami Dan
tzio m Russia, tiie longest day has sev
enteen hours and the, shortest seven
hours.
At Petersburg, in Russia, and To
bolsk, iu Si>»eria, tiie longest day has
nineteen hours, aud tho shortest five autl
a halt.
At Tornea in England, the longest day
has twenty one hours, and the shortest
two hours and a half.
At Wardhuys, iu Norway, the longest
day lasts from the 21st. of May to the
22nd. of July without interruption, and
at Spitzbergcu, the longest day is three
months and a half.
At New York, the longest day has fif
teen hours aud fifty-six minutes and at
Montreal, fifteen and a half hour*.
A futuiy scene was witnessed a few
days nto in ihe fed ral court at Danville,
Va., the judgo of which, (Hives) it will
be recollected, recently instructed his
urand jury to indict a number ol couuty
judges for uot pulling colored men on
i lie juries. A colored man named
Gravely was indicted for selling liquor
without licence When lie saw tho jury
before which he waj lo be tried, about
equally iliv ; ded between white ami
black, ho exclaimed: 'For God's sake,
don't let them niggers try mel* Eflorts
were made to pacify him, but he insisted
tint 'niggers would bang a man just to
see him kick.'
By a receut change in the |>osUl laws,
a package not exceeding four p»uuds may
be registered lor ton cents, the same as a
letter, and stmt without additional pos
tage. This is cheaper than tb« press
coiupeuina can ttfford to handlo these
small packages, ai.u junt as safe, and will
be found very convenient.
A skeptic who was badgering a simple
minded old iu*u about a miracle aud
Balaams ass, finally said; 'llow is it
possible tor an ass to talk like a man?*
•Well,' replied au honest old believer
with meaning emphasis, *1 don't see why
it ain't as easy for a ass to talk Ilka a
min as it is tor a man to talk like an
ass.'
•Hero,' said a farmer iu Syracuse, as
lie exhibited a broken |»r lo the manu
facturer, *1 psoaed this jar full uf butter,
ninl the jar split from top tu bottom.
Perhaps vou oau explaiu the phenome
non ' •Oh, yes, I can,' was the ready
raply, 'the butler waa stronger than the
jar.'
{ A contemporary noticing the appoint
, meut ot trieud a* puntuiasier, uyn; 'if
I 1M attends 10 the mails aa well aa be doe*
to (lie futilities, lie will njai'e a very
attentive and efleieui officer.'
•My dear,' Mid a gentleman to liU wife,
•oar club i» going to Iwvt all I lie borne
-eomlorta,' »lnueed,' sneered the wife;
•*IHI when, pray, is oar borne tc bare all
tbe clab comiorts?*
Grandpa, don't the Bible
My our bairt are ell numbered V Bald
beaded Grandpa—'Yet, Child, yes I,
Edith— I 'Well, Grandpa, it didn't trouble
them mnoh to ooaut your*, did it?*
Tlie man who told Ins wile sbe bed
made a 100 I of him waa answered with fc
positive denial t 'Because,' said tbe lmly y
. 'in that respect you are a selt matte wan.'
I Which waa repartee to the husbayrf,
NO, 7
G leaning *
one la» M>UI« pio|uuud»y ead tUali
litf-who i« obliged tu laugh.
JkloHimeus (8 neyi r so u;e*n aa wuea it
smile* at auother's woes,
A company wjtlj (3,000,000 capital
lias been formed -it Londou, On l ., to
in»ki; India rubber ixiiu juice ui° W.j
milk weed.
If you do not wiah to be exp'nted,
don't ulk tuo much vour cbililrtii.
A chilli's tuiud i« like * 'jf*ck-ui-a-«ox t '
oi.ce unlocked, it ia all out iu » initiate.
When a great man leceivea an ovation
«he reflection ih»t twice a» big « cro*d
Would cuitiH iq ne« ]|iiu bung uuglii tu
discourse him, > ut it don't*
In a struggle to make a dull brained
toy Dixierrflaud what coiu-cieuue U, a
ft'uclier tinull) naked,' What Htafces von
feel uncomfortable aliee yo« hure dime
wrong?' Father's leather atraji/ fuelingly
replied the boy.
Senators Gordon and linwr have
rented a hoiiw on Vermont tvenap,
Wanhiugfon, which will be thtf social
headquarters of the Southern L emu
urate,
A clergyman recently aronn-d bin
sleepy audience by iu the most
positive liianuer that, nut»itb*Uiidim(
the bard tiiuea the wages ot *iu bad not
oeeu sut down one iota.
Slab Town, Nevada, having ft voting
Simulation of three, bail come out for
rant, Two ot the voter* are emlit-z.
gling paymasters and the third L» a man
wiib a  : olaim," J*mt.
''Georgia," aaid a devoted young mo
ther to ber very juvenile ion," 44 yon can
not have another cookie tit) y.»u a»k fur
it pr6|terly." '.Pleaae, fur (JbriatV sake,
amen," aaid little inuupeuce, with imuie-.
diately folded
Becaujg a phyaician instated npon pay
•nent for the attendance npooa nick
daughter of a Bethlehem, P*., farmer,
the latter committed suicide, leaving
over 520,000 in bank, besides a good
farm.
Two Women of Watertown are going to
have a talking match for champion
ship, and eighteen hundred ot the twen
ty-three huudred inhabitants of 4m
place hav« already puratMMftl tickets fur
the weat. -v
The trait of rigKteoasnete ia wealth
and peace, strength and honor; the fruit
of iimigbteousneas is poverty and anarch/
weakness and ahamej fujhiot Upon mind,
but upon morale, is humaii weifaru
founded.— Charim J£iwjdcy.
A resident of Washington, &v., took
a vow tliafc if ever he got drank attain
be would whip hintaelt all the way hoc:e
iroio the tavern. He got drunk aud ful
filled hia vow wi U such vigor that he
could not stir out of bei for two weeks.
A lawyer about to finish a bill of costs,
wan requested by hia client, a baker, to
make it as light aa possible. "Ah!"
aaid the lawyer, "you might pruper:y
enough say that to the foreman of your
eatabliahmvnt; but that ia not tbo way
I make my bread."
A negro having been bronght op be*
fore a magistrate, and convicted ot pil
fering, the magistrate began to remoitJ
strain. "Pu yon know how to read?"
"Yea, massa—little," "Well, don't
you ever make nse of the Bible?" "Yea,
uiassa, strap bin rajjor on hint some
times,"
Mrs, Willi*, an aged ladyof Chapiber* .
land county, Ky., died reeiuily and left
SI,OOO to the editor of the Glasgow, Ky.
Timet iu token of the 90nifeet ah* bud
found in reading hia pap- r in herawrruw.
Every Western editor will now becin tu
| print columns of comfort for aged and
rich women,
Mrs. Pnnahuader fed t trainp jetter- •_
day because he wore an old nrnty coat of
faded blue. **Yoi went thiovch the
war J" said the sy mpatbetic ao >il, U Y e»'in;
I was drummer," and when the fellow
: reached the sidewalk a soucluden UlO
' seutencf, "for a hardware s|orq tn Quica
-1 go."— Utica Obtermr;
j There ia a aiory that a man went into
! a Newburyport liquor store, aaked tor
I two quarts of runt, proteaaiug that it wan
tor the purpose ot soaking toiue roots.
After the delivery of the lx}uur the deal
or enquired: **Wuat root«f" "Tho
roots of my tongtie," arid tfce man; hut it
was too )ate,
YANKEE Boys.—--A teacher in Spring-,
field, M«a4. t asserts that profanity is in
creasing among the school-boys, ana sttyu
that lie hat known instances where a it
of tlieni arrayed themselves in « line aloug i
the fonoe and set npa competitive swewgfll
ing exercise, ju«t to sse who eonM nster
the moat frightful oaths.
M*. Jacob, a clever Paris detective,
■aid that ha could always recognise a J
man, no matter what wen hia cSsguiv, •
simply by the expression of hie . a. I
|On one occaasion, on a bet, be we: «. to '
the jail of IM and from Hvo
hundred or mqre couviata a dozen we#»Jg|
|iaraded iu coverlets and hoods, so that*
ooly their eyea sou Id be seen. Jia i
each one aa he paaaed.