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THE EEl. 1 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. (SEE RATES OP SUBSCRIPTION A REPUBLICAN WEEKLY NEWS PAPER THE CENTRAL ORGAN OP THE PARTY. - W. M. BROWN, Manager. ' A : ... Jt $ - Job Work executed at ihort no tice and in a style unsurpassed by any similar establishment In the State Office over the North Carolina Book- j tore, corner of Fyetteville and Mor- San streets, tirst door sooth or the SUu j House, j RATES OF ADVKBTIS NO : RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION : One year, - - - - f2 10 Six months, - - - - 1 03 Three months, - 55 T-Isvahiablt ix Advaicck.- Ono square, one time, -" ' two times, " " three times,- Contract advertisements proportionately low rates. $ 1 CHI 1 50 2 00 taken at VOL. IV. RALEIGH, N. C, THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 1875. NO. 40. THE ERA. if ! n i hi DIRECTORY. lulled State Corernmtnl. i'Ii'ium s ftrant. of Illinois. Presi- i . i i - pnt. ironr wiUnn. of Mi., V. President. Hamilton FUh.ofN. Y..Sec'y of State. Benjamin H. Bristow, of Kentucky, Secretary of the Treasury. William W. Belknap, of Iowa, Secre tary of War. ;eorge M. Robeson, of New Jersey, Secretary f He Navy. Columbus Delano, of Ohio, Secretary f the Interior. (ieorge II. Williams, of Oregon, At torney Generah Marshall Jewell, of Connecticut, Post master General. supreme Court of the I. S. Morrison R. Waite, of Ohio, Chief Justice. Nathan Clifford, of Me., Asso. J ustice. Noah II. Swayne.of O., M S.tinuel F. Miller, of la., " iMvid Davi-sof 111., Stephen J. Field, of Cal., " William M. Strong.of Pa., " Joseph P. Bradley ,of N.J. " Ward Hunt, of N. Y., Court meets tirst Monday in Decem bor, at Washington. . C. Representation In Congrre. SENATE. A. S. Merrimon, of Wake. Mat. W. Ransom, ot Northampton. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. l.t district Jesse J. Yeates. J-l 3d 4'.li ;.th rith 7th J. A. Hyman. A. M. Waddell. Joseph J. Davis. A. M. Scales. Thomas S. Ashe. W. M. Robbins. Robert B. Vance. ITnlfed State Courts The stated terms of the U. S. Circuit and District Courts are as follows : United Stales Circuit Court Eastern District North Carolina Held in Hal eigh first Monday in June and lastMon day in November. II. L. Bond, Circuit Court Judge; residence, Baltimore, Md. Geo. W. Brooks, District Court Judge, Eastern District ; resld. Elizabeth City. U. S. Marshal, J. B. Hill; off., Raleigh. N. J. Kiddick, Circuit Court Clerk; ntFiee, Raleigh. EASTERN DISTRICT COURTS. Elizabeth City, third Monday in April and October. Clerk. M. B. Cul pepper : resi., Eliz. City. Newberu, fourth Monday in April and October. Clerk.Geo. E. Tinker ; resi., Newbern. Wilmington, first Monday after the fourth Monday in April and October. Clerk, Wm. Larkins; resi., Wilming ton. Marsha!, J.B. Hill, office, Raleigh. District Attorney, Richard C. Badger; residence, Raleigh. Assistant, W. II. Youug, Oxford. V. S. CIRCUIT COURT WESTERX DIST. H. L. Bond.U.S. Circuit Court Judge, Baltimore, Md. Robert P. Dick, U. S. District Judge, Western District ; resi., Greensboro. Robert M. Douglas, U. S. Marshal ; office, Greensboro. Circuit and District Courts in the Western District are held at the same time. Greensboro, first Monday in April and October. Clerk, John W. Paj-ne; resi., Greens loro. Statesville, third Monday in April and Vtober. Clerk, Henry C. Cow lea; resi., States ville. Asbeville.first Monday after the fourth Monday in April and October. Clerk, E. R. Hampton ; resi., Ashe ville. Virgil S. Lusk, U. S. District Attor ney ; residence, Asheville. Assistant, W. S. Ball, Greensboro. 1'nited States Internal Ilerenue. I. J. Young.Collector Fourth District, office, Raleigh. P. W. Perry, Supervisor Carol in as, Vc.t office, Raleigh. Charles Perry, Assistant Supervisor, Raleigh. Hint. Branch Mint ol the U. S. at Charlotte. t.overnment of North Carolina EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT. Curtis II. Brogden.of Wayne, Governor. John B. Neathery, Private Secretary. R. F. Armfield, of Iredell, Lieutenant Governor, and President of the Senate. W.I I. Howerton, of Rowan, Sec. of State. David A. Jenkins, of Gaston, Treasurer. A. D. Jenkins, Teller. Donald W. Bain, Chief Clerk. John Reilly, of Cumberland, Auditor. Wm. P. Wetherell, Chief Clerk. S. D. Pool, of Craven, Supt. of Public Instruction. John C. Gorman, of Wake, Adj. Gen'ral. T. L. Hargrove, of Granville, Alt. Gen. W. C. Kerr, Mecklenburg, State Geolo gist. Thos. R. Puruell, of Forsythe, Libra'n. Henry M. Miller, of Wake, Keeper of the Capitol. governor's council The Secretary ol State, Treasurer, Auditor and Supt. or Public Instruct'n. Institution. The University of North Carolina is t Chapel Hill. The Institution for the Bear and Dumb and the Blind ; the In line Asylum and the State Penitentiary re at Raleigh. Hoard of Education. -,T.? "n-t Governor, DIRECTORY. Secretary of State, Treasurer, Auditor, Superintendent of Publio Instruction and Attorney General constitute the State Board of Education. The Gover nor ia President, and the Superinten dent of Public Instruction, Secretary of the Board. Supreme Court. Richmond M. Pearson, of Yadk in, Chief Justice. Edwin G. Reade.of Person, Asso. Justice Wm.B. Rodman,Beaufort, ' W. P. Bynum, Mecklenburg," Thomas Settle, Guilford, " Tazewell L. Harerove. of Granville. Re porter. W. II. Bagley, of Wake, Clerk. D. A. Wicker, of Wake, Marshal. Meets in Raleigh on the first Monday in January and June. Superior Courts. Samuel W. Watts, Judge Sixth Judi cial District; residence, Franklinton. J. C. L. Harris, Solicitor, Raleigh. i Wake County- Government. Commissioners Solomon J. Allen, Chairman; Wm. Jinks, A. G. Jones, Wm. D. Turner, J. Robert Nowell. SheriffS. M. Dunn. Superior Court Clerk Jno. N. Bunting. Treasurer David Lewis. Register of Deeds W. W. White. Coroner James M. Jones. Surveyor N. J. Whitaker. Government. Mayor John C. Gorman. Commissioners-2!cwern Ward H. M. Miller, D. L. Royster, Stewart Ellison. Middle Ward John C. Palmer, W. C. Stronach, J. C. R. Little. Western Ward Wm. W. White, John R. O'Neill, J. H. Jones. Treasurer John Nichols. Clerk and Collector Francis M. Sor- rell. Chief Police James C. King. POETRY. Under the Kose." A PL. ATONIC KISS. BY WILL WALLACE HARNEY.' You kissed me, as if roses slipped Their rose-bud necklaces, and blew Such breaths as never yet have dipped The bee in fragrance over shoe, While rose leaves of their color stripped Themselves to make a blush for you. Nor chide with such a cold constraint, As if you laid the rose in snow ; For this the summer stores her paint, The dappled twilights overflow With motley colors, pied and quaint, For kisses that in flowers do grow. Nor pout and tease: you did not mean So sweet a thing. Abide this test : In open markets grades are seen Of good and bad, In price expressed ; The buyer's purse must choose between; But when we give, we give the best. Yet if that color, sweet as bees, Of flower flushes teases, see How we can pluck such thorns as these, That bleed in blushes, easily ; For kiss me, sweet, just as you please : I'll take It as it pleases me. Harper's Magazine. MISCELLANEOUS. JOSEPHINE BY It. W. CHALMERS. We do not know of any event in history that is so affecting or so full of pathos, as the divorce of the Em press Josephine. The Emperor, Napoleon I, (the Great Emperor) weary of incessant wars, thought if he could form a marriage alliance with some one of the royal families of Europe, he might put an end to these conflicts and perpetuate the order of things established in France. For a long time he dreaded to speak upon the subject to Josephine, who had be come aware of her impending doom , and was overwhelmed with grief. At last this fatal hour came when the emperor was to make the dread announcement to the empress. It was at the palace of Fontainbleau, the last day of rsovember, 1809. Dark clouds obscured the sky, and i a freezing wintry winu moaneu through the towers of the castle. The emperor and empress dined alone. Neither had the heart to speak ac5Vt)rd. s tne attendants retired at the close of the repast, at which it was said that neither could eat a mouthful, the emperor, pale and trembling, took the hand of Josephine, and said : "My own dear Josephine, you know how I have loved you. It is to you alone that I owe the few mo ments of happiness I have known in the world. Josephine, my des tiny is stronger than my will. My dearest affections must yield to the welfare of France." The dreadful blow prostrated the empress, and she fell fainting to the floor. The Count de Beaumont was called, and by the aid of the empe ror, Josephine was borne, apparent ly lifeless, to her apartment. Queen Hortense, her daughter, was summoned ; she said reproach fully to the emperor : " My mother will descend from the throne as she ascended it, in obedience to your will. Her chil dren content to renounce grandeurs which have not made them happy, will gladly go and devote their lives to comforting the best and the most affectionate of mothers." The emperor sat down and wept bitterly. Then raising his eyes, flooded with tears, h said to Hor tense, whom he loved with parent al fondness : " No, not leave me, Hortense. Stay by me with Eugene. Help to console your mother, and render calm, resigned and even happy in remaining my friend while she ceases to be my wife." "w i v jugene josepnines son) soon came from Italy. He immediately repaired lo nis motners apartment, and, clasping her in his arms, they wept in mutual anguisn. lie men entered the cabinet of the emperor, 3 si; f ii i i um recomng iroin ine coruiai era- brace with which theemperor would have greeted him, said : "Sire, permit me to withdraw from your service." " What 1" said the emperor, sad ly and with deep emotion, " will you, my adopted son, forsake me?" " Yes, sire," Eugene firmly re plied. " The son of her who is no onger empress cannot remain Vice roy ot Italy, l will follow my mother into her retreat. She must now find consolation in her chil dren." The emperor was deeply moved. Tears filled his eyes. " You know," said he, " the stern necessity which compels this measure. Will you forsake me? Whom, then, should I have for a son, the object of my desire and the preserver of my interests, who will watch over the child when I am ab sent? If I die who will prove to him a father?" They both then retired to the gar den, and, arm in arm, for a long time they walked up and down one of its avenues engaged in earnest conversation. The noble Josephine with a mother's love could not for get the interest of her children. She urged Eugene to remain faithful to the emperor. "The emperor," she said, "is your benefactor, Eugene: to you more than father. To him you are in debted for everything. To him, therefore, you owe boundless obe dience." A fortnight passed and the day arrived for the consummation of this cruel sacrifice. It was the 15th of December. All the mem bers of the Imperial family were assembled in the grand saloon of the Tuilleries. An extreme pale- ness overspread the face of the em- peror. In his brief address to the assembled dignities, he said : "The political interest of my monarchy, and the wishes of my people, require, that I should trans mit to an heir, inherting my love for the people, the throne which Providence has placed me. It is this consideration alone which induces me to sacrifice the dearest affection of my heart, to consult only tne good of my subjects, and to desire the dissolution of our marriage. God only knows how much such a determination has cost my heart. But there is no sacrifice too great for my courage when it is proved to be for the interest of France. Far from having any cause of com- plaint, I have nothing to say but praise in the attachment and ten- derness of my beloved wife. She properous people, living by agncul has embellished fifteen years of my (Ure rather than by the chase, life, and the remembrances of them About a thousand years ago, how- will be forever engraved on my heart. Let her never doubt my af fection, or regard me but as her dearest and best friend." Josephine then endeavored to read her consent to the divorce. But tears blinded her eyes, and sob- bing choked her voice. Sinking into a chair and handing the paper to M. Reynard, she buried her face in her handkerchief, and remained in that position while it was being read aloud. Napoleon then embraced Joseph- ine, anti iea ner, inmost miming, to her apartment, where he left her alone with her children. The next day the Senate met to sanction the divorce. The emperor, care worn, wrretched, pale as a statue, leaned against a pillar. A low hum of mournful voices alone disturbed the gloomy silence of the room. There was a table in the center of the apartment on which there was a writing apparatus of gold. Jo sephine entered, leaning upon the arm of Hortense. Her face was as pale as the muslin dress she wore. The daughter, not possessing the fortitude of the mother, was sob bing aloud. The1 whole assembly rose. Tears blinded nearly all eyes. Josephine sat down and leaning her pallid forehead upon her hand, listened to the reading of the act of separation. Eugene and Hortense stood by the side of their mother, the daughter weeping convulsively. Josephine, as the reading was finished, for a moment pressed her handkerchief to her eyes, and then rising, in clear but tremulous tones, pronounced the oath of ac ceptance. She then sat down and taking the pen signed the deed which sundered the dearest ties which can be formed on earth. Eugene fell fainting to the floor. His inanimate form was borne out of the room by the attendants. Jo- sephine retired with her daughter. Ni ht Th eraDero- utter hy wretched, had just placed him- seif in the bed from which he had ejected his faithful wife, when the I door wa3 siowlv ODened and Jo- sephine tremblingly entered. Her eyes were swollen and her hair and dress disordered. She seemed scarcely conscious of what she was doing, as with hesitating steps she approached the bed. Then in a delirium of grief, all pent up love of her heart burst forth, and she threw herself upon the bed, clasped the neck of the emperor in her arms and exclaimed, " My hus band ! my husband !" while sob bing as though her heart would break. Napoleon also wept convulsively. He folded Josephine in his arms, and assured her of his undying love. For some time they remained in each other's embrace, while mutual words of tenderness were interchanged. The 'valet de cham bre,' who thus far had been pres ent, was dismissed, and for an hour the emperor and empress continued in this their laut private interview. Josephine then departed forever from the husband she had so long and tenderly loved. They remain ed the best of friends until the death of the empress And. one of the last words of tho emperor, as he was dying at sephine." St. Helena, was; " Jo- Colorado's Antiquities. TTer TAlltDutian Dwellings A Le- gend of their inhabitant. A letter descriptive of the Hay den expedition's explorations in Southwestern Colorado tells the fol lowing : Aside from ihe interest attaching to the ruins themselves, there are thrown about this rock and its sur r0uudings the romance and charm of legendary association. The story rung thus, as given us by our guide: Formerly the aborigines inhabited all this country we had been over as far west as the headwaters of the San Juan, as far north as the Rio Dolores, west some distance into Utah, and south and southwest throughout Arizona and down into Mexico. They had lived there from time immemorial -since the earth was a small island, which augmented as its inhabitants multiplied. They cultivated the valley, fashioned whatever utensils they needed very neatly and handsomely out of clay and wood and stone, not knowing any of the useful metals; built their homes and kept their flocks and herds in the fertile river bo toms, and worshiped the sun. They were an eminently peaceful and f hpv wpre visited bv savasre strangers from the North, whom they treated hospitably. Soon these visits became more frequent, and annoying. Then their troublesome neighbors ancestors of the present TJtes began to forage upon them, and, at last, to massacre them and devastate their farms ; so, to ,save their lives at least, they built houses high upon the cliffs, where they could store food and hide away till the traders left. But one summer the invaders did not go ohck iu uiur uiuuniaius aa the people expected, but brought their families with them and set tled down. So, driven from their homes and lands, starving in their little niches on the high cliffs, they could only steal away during the night and wander aefoss the cheer less uplands. To one who has trav eled these steppes such a flight seems terrible, and the mind hesi tates to picture. At the cristone they halted, and probably found friends, for the rocks and caves are full of the nests of these human wrens and swallows. Here they collected, erected stone fortifications and watch towers, dug reservoirs in the rocks to hold a supply of water, which in all cases is precarious in this latitude, and once more stood at bay. Their foes came, and for one long month fought and were beaten back, and returned day after day to the attack as merciless and inevitable as the tide. Meanwhile the families of the defenders were evacuating and moving South, and bravely did their protectors shield them till they were a hundred miles away. The besiegers were beaten back and went away. But the narrative tells us that the hollows of the rocks were filled to the brim with the mingled blood of conquerers and conquered, and red veins of it ran down into the canon. It was such a victory as they could not afford to gain again, and they were glad when the long fight wras over to follow their wives and lit tle ones to the South. There in the deserts of Arizona, on well-nigh unapproachable isolated bluffs, they built new towns, and their few de scendants, the Moquis, live in them to this day, preserving more care fully and purely the history of their forefathers than their skill or wis dom. It was from one of their old men that this traditional sketch was obtained. Anecdote of President Lincoln. As the President was passing through the wards of a hospital near Washington upon one occasion he observed in one of the beds a young soldier whose pallid countenance and expressionless glassy eyes be tokened great physical and mental prostration, and he inquired of the attending surgeon if there was any prospect of his ultimate recovery. " Not the slightest," replied the doctor. " His vital powers are rap idly ebbing away, and will soon be exhausted." " I am heartily sorry for the poor boy," said Mr. Lincoln, "and I should like to do something to make his last hours pass as comfort ably as possible. Would there be any harm in my speaking to him?" added he. And upon being assured there would not, he sat down by the bedside, and taking the young man's hand, in the kindest possible tone of voice said, "My young friend, I am the President of the United States, and am informed by the doctor that you can not possibly live but a short time. JNow it mere is any request you would like to make in regard to your family, it will afford me very great satisfac tion to comply with it." The youth turned his dim eyes toward the 1 'resident, but made no response until the question was re peated, when, with great effort, he succeeded in giving articulation to his thanks, and expressed an earn est desire to see his aged grand mother, who, he said, was then liv ing in Bangor, Maine. The President, after assuring him that every effort should be made to gratify his wishes, bade him a kind adieu, and calling the medical of ficer aside, asked if there was any prospect of the young man's sur viving until the old lady could be telegraphed to and come to Wash ington, and he seemed a good deal perplexed on being told there was no hope of this ; but after a mo ment's reflection, he said the only expedient that occurred to him un der the circumstances was the exer cise of a little of that harmless strat egy which was always allowable in war times; that if he could only find some old woman who would consent to personate the grand mother, the boy was in such a state of lethargy that he wTould not prob ably detect the deception, and would die with the consoling belief that he had received the parting benediction of his aged relative. " That would certainly be a per fectly justifiable device," replied the surgeon ; " but where will you find the elderly female to enact the part of the grandmother ?77 " Let me see," soliloquized Mr. Lincoln, holding up his left hand while he enumerated with the in dex finger of the right hand : "there is old Mrs. B r, old Mrs. S :k, and old Mrs. M s ; they are all mo3t benevolent ladies, but lam apprehensive they could not be pre vailed upon to undertake anything which involved the faintest shadow of deception. No, no," continued he, " there is no hope from that di rection ; but if I could only induce my venerable friend Gideon Welles to personate the old lady, in suitable costume, the object would be attain ed, and nobody harmed." " But," remarked the doctor, ! " Mr. Welles's long white beard would at once expose the artifice." " That can all be obviated by his wearing a night-cap, tied down so as to cover up the beard," said the President. Accordingly he sat down at once and addressed a note to the Secretary of the Navy, begging him, as a special favor, to comply j with the request at as early a mo- j ment as practicable, as the boy's , hours were numbered. Now it so happened when the i Secretary received thiscoramunica-! tion he was ousily engaged in of- j ficial transactions, which, in his j opinion, were ot so much conse quence that they could not be post poned for any thing else, and he replied that he entertained a high appreciation of the honor conferred upon him by the President's select ing him to perform the chief role in the sad little drama indicate 1, but unfortunately he was at that very moment deeply absorbed in the so lution of the difficult problem as to whether Noah's ark or the new model gun-boat was best adapted to the purposes of modern warfare. Editor's Drawer, in Harper's Magazine for A pril. Wealth of Farmers. When one takes a dive into agri cultural statistics by way of ascer taining the actual result, he is struck by the fact that there must neces sarily be a variety of other classes who are even worse off than the farmers themselves. Mr. S. B. Rug hers exhibits a taste for this sort of inquiry, and at the Social Science Congress he gave the result of his investigation in some astonishing figures. He stated that the people of ten States lying North of Ohio river, owned, in lS6f),cfarm property valued at $914,000,000. The popula tion of these States had doubled in the last ten years. In 1870 the value of this farm property was $5,132,000,000. The value of the farm products was not given in I8o0 ana 1800, Out in lb0 it was shown in these States to be $978, 000,000. The farmer was not a serf. He had no tyrannical landlord to oppress mm. it was snown mat 975 of every 1,000 farmers in this section owned farms. In twenty years they had accumulated $5,000,- 000,000 worth of property. The cen sus of 1870 showed that there were 2,000,000 farmers. This would give an average amount of $2,500 each. It is also shown that they had paid their help less than ten percent, of their income. They had paid- $91,000,000 for help. It was likewise shown that each and all of these poverty-stricken farm ers above the aire of ten years were in receipt of an income of $400. In the light of this givat process, what would be the result in 1900 ? Iru 1850 there were raised 300, 000,000 bushels of grain in the States ; in 18G1, 500,000,000 bushels ; in 1870, 810,000,000 bushels, or 21, 000,000 tons of grain. The figures are stupendous. A Stupendous Work. It is e3timated that if the English Chan nel is successfully tunnelled, the 300,000 travelers who now cross it will increase to 3,000,000. A journey from London to Paris will then take but five or six hours, with the dreaded rough sea voyage taken out. The boring is to begin simultaneously in France and Eng land, from the bottom of two wells, 100 leet deep. The bore is to . be nine feet in diameter, by machinery invented by Dickinson Brunton.The debris made from the excavation is to be continuously carriedout the whole ot tne bore, and rthe fresh air Dreatnea Dy the workmen , is to be continuously forced in. When Charles Dickson made Montague Tigg the projector of the plan for tunnelling the English Channel he did so in the nature of a huge joke, that was intended as a satire upon some of the chimerical financial schemes of the period. Yet here, to-day, is a practically and scien tifically organized scheme: backed by large capital, for the execution in earnest of the task he proposed in jest and ridicule. Assuredly, it is unsafe to ridicule almost anything no matter how impracticable it looks at the moment, for posterity turns our ridicule upon ourselves. Baltimore sun. Child's Civility. When the Emperor of Germany was lately on a visit in a distant portion of his dominions, he was welcomed by the school children of the parish. After their speaker had made a speech for them, he thanked them. Then, taking an orange from a plate, he asked : " To what kingdom does this be long?" "To the vegetable kingdom , sire,' 9 replied a little girl. The Emperor took a gold coin from his pocket, and, holding it up, asked : " And to what kingdom does this belong?" " To the mineral kingdom, sire," replied the little girl. " And to what kingdom do I be long then ?" asked the Emperor. The little girl colored deeply, for she did not like to say " the animal kingdom," as he thought she would, lest his Majesty should be offended, when a bright thought came, and she said, with radiant eyes : " To God's kingdom, sire." The Emperor was deeply moved. A tear stood in his eye. He placed his hands on the child's head and said, most devoutly : . " urant mat l may oe accounted worthy of that kingdom." A rich man beginning to fall, is held up by his friends; but a poor man being down, is thrust away by his friends ; when a rich man is fallen, he hath many helpers; he speaketh things not to be spoken, and yet men justify him; the poor man slips, and they rebuke him ; he spoke wisely, and could have no praise. When a rich man speaketh every man noioetn his tongue, and looks; what he sayeth they extol it to the speak, this? clouds ; but if a poor man fellow is they sny, what A Graceful Action. The Tennessee Legislature has passed the following resolution in regard to tho Centennial celebration in Mecklenburg county, North Car olina: Whereas, on the twentietjh day of May, 1775, the people of Mecklen burg county, North Carolina, in convention assembled, declared their independence of Great Brit am, and proclaimed to tho world their intention of defending said independence with their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor ; and whereas, the State of North Carolina proposes to celebrate the centennial of this declaratidn on the 20th of May proximo ; and where as, the people of Tennessjeo were then citizeis of the State df North Carolina and claim a participation in this heritage of fame: therefore, be it j Resolved, By the General Assem bly of the State of Tennessee, That a committee of five on th0 part of the Senate and on the) part of the House be appointed tb confer with the Executive of the jState of North Carolina, in conjunction with tho committee appointed! by the Tennessee Historical Society, and to uiuo sucn steps as may be necessary and proper to celebrate anlevent so glorious to the fame of our ancestry. common i rinck Bismarck. i Lit n mi. vices from Europe stato jtho fol lowing : Prince Bismarck's sleep lessness having again increased, his physicians so earnestly insisted upon the necessity of a temporary relaxation from wrork that the question of his resigning! one or several of his many functions was seriously discussed. Onol or the Chancellor's most irksome duties being to harmonize the policy of the various Prussian Ministers when he has no real control over them, the Emperor to alleviate his burden, has ordered that Minister intending to introduce measures into Parliament shall be bound t) take the opinion of the entire Cabinet before the bills are drawn, and not afterward, as has hitherto been the case. It seems certain that this remarkable stride in the direction of constitutionalism will so sensibly reduce the Jaborsof the Chancellor as to cause him to retain his present position until the sum mer, when tho state of his health will have to bo consulted as to the possibility of his going on. Depth of Quiet People. Some men draw upon you like the Alps. They impress youi vaguely at first, just as do the hundred face's you meet in your daily walks. They come across your horizon like float ing clouds, and yet you have to watch a while before you sec that they are mountains. Some men re mind you of quiet lakes, places such as you have often happened upon, where the green turf and the field flower, hang over you and are re flected out of the water all day long. Some day you carelessly drop a line into the clear depths, close by the side of the daisies and daffodils, and. it goes down, down, dovyn. You lean over and sound deeper, but your line doesn't bring up. What a deep spot that is! You think, and you try another. The reflected daisies seem to smile at you out of the water, tho turf looks as green as ever. You never thought of it, but your quiet lake is unfathomable. You are none the less impressed from these facts that It jis a quiet lake. I Viuiam Quarterly. Circus Music in Church. There are a great many JSd wards, large and small, whose personal ex perience is dittoed by thajt of littlo Eddie R -, of Alblbn, New York, of whom the following U sent to tho Drawer : i He had lately attended a circus for the first time, and onj the Sun day following was taken by- hi. grand-mother to churchj. Eddie gazed around In some wonderment for a few moments. When tho or ganist began to play, hejturned to his grand-mother and said, in a whisper, i " Grandma, will there Lea circus. so I can see the J ion ?" " Why, no, Eddie, this f& church." " Well," replied the little man, " it's circus music any way." Doubtlets. There's a good deal of it in thesanctuary. UdUbr'e Draw er, in Harper's Magazine for April. Four Hundredth Anniversary of Michael Anfjelo's Birth. On Saturday, the ' 6th. was cele brated at Florence the four hun dredth anniversary 6f tho birth of Michael Angelo. Tho occasion was celebrated, itissuppo3ed, by giving to the world the contents of a pack et which on his death-bed the great sculptor willed to posterity, with the solemn injunction that it should not be ODened until March ft. 187f. This packet is said to contain many valuable State papers secret cor respondence with popes, princes and leading men of Michael Ange lo's day, and, it is hinted, some thing of hi3 correspondence with the Marchesea Pe-cara. Signor Gotti, it 13 said, was to publish a . new life of Angelo,. which was to appear also on tho Gth of March, 1875, in Italian, French? German and English. A little girl, reading the history of England with her mother, and coming to thostatcmentthatllenry I. never laughed after tho death of his son, looked up and a-sked: " What did he do when he was tickled?"
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