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A Legend.—There is a legend
that two Dutch lovers at Little
Falls, N. Y., who were prevented
from marrying because their fath
ers were enemies, took ihe dire re
solution of leaping from rhe
heights clasped in each other’s
arms. This was long before the
days of the Erie Canal, and the :
story goes that the man was dash-!
ed to pieces, but that the girl es
caped with simple fracture of both
her arms, and that she recovered
and married the husband of her
father’s choice, and was a happy
wife and mother. She must occa
sionally have dreamed of that leap,
and it must have spoiled her appe
tite each time for a few days.
A Happy Surprise.
We have read somewhere of
an ingenious stratagem, devised
by a French lady of fortune, for
securing a husband. She kept
herself secluded from society, and
gave out areportthat she was fright-
fully ugly as as a counter influ
ence against her well-known
wealth. As she was not accessi
ble personally to her suitors, they
had recourse to their billet deux;
and among these one Belgian
pleased her fancy, and to this
missive she replied. An inter
view was accorded, and the for
tunate suitor proved to be a man
of fortune also, and of noble
character.
When they met in her saloon,
the lady wore a mask. She
warned him not to risk his hap- ;
piness by allying himself -with i
one so deformed in face and fea
ture.
He replied, “Well, accept my
hand and never unmask but to
the eyes of your husband;” for
he was so charmed with her elo
quence and grace of manner.
“I consent,” she replied. “I
shall survive the appearance of
affright and disgust—perhaps con
tent-yon may feel after marriage”
“I shall not shrink from the
proof,” said he. “It is your
heart, and not your figure that!
charms me.”
In a few days their marriage
took place and notwithstanding
his refusal to accept it, the whole
of her fortune was settled upon
him.
Returning from the alter, she
threw herself upon her knees be
fore her husband, and placing her
hand upon her mask, lifted it ex-
claiming‘ “You have not deserved
deformity; you merit the love of
beauty.”
And a vision of angelic beauty
now stood before him.
TO THE mMEBS OF MIGK-j
LSNBUBU COUNTY.
WE hear from all quarters that our
approaching Fair will be well patronized
from other counties in the State and
from the adjoining States.
I We respectfully appeal to you to
make an exhibition of the farm pro
ducts, and let your wives and daughters
exhibit specimens of their handy work,
and thus show the world what old Meck
lenburg can do. Books showing pre
miums offered can be obtained on ap -
plication. Remember the Fair com
mences November 25.
THOMAS. L. VAIL, Secretary.
Nov 15—2t
A German who was asked if
lager beer was intoxicating, re
plied: A ell, I drinks from seven
ty t° eighty glasses a day and I
feels all straight in mine upper
shtory for any kind of peesincss,
but I can’t tell vat it vould pe mit
men vat makes a. swill tub ofhun,-
selfF
American Humor.
The American humor partakes
slightly of the Spanish character
and extravagance, but it is never
theless the growth of the soil.
The vastness of the country,
which is said to be bounded on
the east by the Atlantic ocean, on
the north by the Aurora Borealis,
on the west by the setting sun,
and on the south by the day of
judgment, and the peculiar cir
cumstances in which the people
are placed, can be traced in most
of these stories.
The hyperbolical or tall species
of American humor was much in
vogue some years ago, and such
stories as the following were once
very common:
“A man was so tall that he had
to go up a ladder to shave him
self;” another “was so strong that
his sneeze would kill a buffalo
across the Mississippi river;” a
Massachusetts pig was “so lean
that it was necessary to tie a knot
to his tail to prevent it getting
through the chinks of the pall
ing;” “an American Artist painted
a snow-storm so naturally that he
caught a bad cold by sitting near
it with his coat off;” some land
was “so rich that asqaash vine, in
its rapid growth, overtook a drove
of pigs;” “the reason why cream
is dear is that milk has risen so
high the cream can’t reach the
top.”
There is a capital story,, in
■which it is related that “a coach
drove through the country so fast,
and the mile stones passed so!
quickly by that the passengers |
thougt they were in a church-yard.” j
This coach, however, was beaten!
by the “skipper, which went so |
tarnation fast that in sailings
round Long Island she left her;
shadow three and a half miles
behind her.” Major N., when
asked whether he was seriously
injured by the explosion of the'
boiler of the St. Leonard steam
er, replied that he was so used to j
being blown up by his wife that a
mere steamer had no effect upon j
him. The evidence of a witness!
in a life insurance cause, involved
in the blowing up of a steamboat
on the Ohio, is droll just because j
it is characteristic. The witness!
knew the missing man, and saw j
him on the deck of the steamboat j
before the explosion. When;
asked by the lawyer, “when was 1
the last time you saw- him ?.” he j
answered. “The very last time II
ever set my eyes on him was-when j
the filler burst, and I was going |
up; I met him in the smoko
stack coming down.”
We all know that the Ameri
can oysters are large, but; that j
one must have been of extraordina
ry size which required threa men, 1
to swallow it whole.
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