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-CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE
' The following is one of the most extra
ordinary cases of circumstantial evidence
on record. It is, however, literally true,
forming part of the criminal history of the
talo of Vermont. It id to- this remarkable-
case that the English novelist, Wilkie
Collins, is indebted for the plot and main
features of his rather sensational story,
'The Dead Alive." Eds. Gazette.
On the morning of the 2Gth of -November,
1819, there appeared in the Rutland
(Vt.) Herald the following, notice:
"Ml'KI'Ki:! Printers of newspapers throughout
thr linked States are desired to mbiii4i that Nt
jilicn Hoorti, of M-iiicliester, Vermont, is sentenced
;.i lie exec.Uod tor the murder- ot Russelh Colvin.
.who lias Ix'f.i alisentj atiniit seven vears. Any per
son who Piinive any information of said C'olviu
may save tln lite ofUhejiiiioct'iit by making iu:iue
diute conimuwinUitf. olviii is about ft. his.
hili, l'udit -hair, litflit elmiplexioii, lilac yes, and
n about forty I-cars old.
Aluncicstt); ft., Xoi: '2Gtfi,
This comjmunication was copied very
generally I'M newspapers, a created much
interest. Betjore describing events thatfol-.
lowed, let n4go back to the year 1812, to
the little ton of Manchester, Vermont.
Harney J5oorn, an old manf had two sons,
Stephen ami Jesse, and a daughter! Sarah,
wife of KusseU (Jolvhn, a- half-witted day
laborer. They were a bad lot poor, ig
norant, and in doubtful repute for honesty.
Two miserable hovels served them for shel
ter, and i few acres of pine barrens consti
tuted all their possessions. They raised a
few potatoes and garden vegetables, and
eked. out a scanty living by day work for
their neighbors.
In Mav, 1S12, Colvin was at home. In
June lie was missing. At first this occa
sioned no remark; lie" was always a tramp,
absent from home sometimes for weeks Jo
getner. uut tins t
as w eelassgrew in
get her. Rut this time he -did not come back;
s'firrew into months, inquiries be-
gati to be mode in the neighborhood about
the missing man. There are no tongues lor.
gossip like those that wag in a village.. One
spoke to another; excitement grew; won
dcr, like a contagious disease, infected ev
"tv.
t was kno.wn that there had long ex-
isted between the old man and boys a
( grudge against Colvin; it was in proof that
the last time the missing man was seen lie
: -&asat work wilh the Rooms, clearing stones
. ijtni a field, and that a dispute was goinfj
. on; and Louis Colvin, a son of Russell, staT
ted that his father had struck bis uncle
Stephen, and that he, (the, boy) beinir
fright pned, run off. Again, a Mr. Bald
win had heard Stephen Boom say, in. ans
wer to the intjuiry as tt) where Iinssell Col
vin was: 1
''lie's gone to li 11, I hope!"
"Is ho dead,- Stephen?" pursued Mr. Bal
dwin. " I tell vou again that Golvin is gone
vi litre potatoes won't freeze."
For seven vears the wonder grew; Col
vin s ghost haunted every house in Ben
nington county. There was no proof that
the Boorns were guilty, and yet everyone
believed it. A button and jack-knife were
found which his wife believed to have once
been Colvin's; dreams, thriee'repeated, were
had by the old women and kitchen girls
and ten thousand stories Were in circula
tion. Five years after Colvin w as missed, Ste
phen Boom removed to Denmark, N. Y.,
yvLilc Jesse remained at home. After the
Tonncr had left, some bones weie accident
ally found in the decayed trunk of a tree
near his house; and," though all surgeons
said to the contrary, it was universally be
lieved that they were part of a human
skeleton. Of course, then, they must be the
'bones of Colvin. Jesse was arrested, Ste
phen was straightway brought back from
Denmark, and both were held for examin
ation. Although all the testimony, when sifted,
was found to bo worthless, yet .the two
brothers were remanded to jail, and Jesse
was worked upon to make him turn State's
evidence. The jailor tormented him with
suggestions, which Lis wife followed up
( with womanly adroitness, and neighbors
i Wiped. Be set with directions rtold that
there was no doubt in anyone's mind that
ephen. committed the, murder urged to
inake a clean breast of it, and thus save his
"i and soul what wonder that The man
confessed, or was alleged to have confess
cd, that his brother Stephen did murder
tolvin! .. ,.
- pu-September 3, 1819, the grand jury
lourid a hill of indictment against Stephen
and Jesse Boom for the murder of Russell
oivm. ilhain Farnsworth testified that
" w thftt he did ir7 ftrfcf iht i
Jesse helped him; that they hid the body
in the bushes, then buried it, then dug it up
and burned it, then scraped together: the re
mains, and hid them in a stump. On this urn
supported evidence the jury returned a ver
dict of guilty against both prisoners, and
thev weresentenced to be hung January
28, 1820. '
And now the men came to their senses.
They asserted their innocence; they said
that they had confessed as their last hope.
Some compassion began to be felt for them;
they might, after all, be innocent. A pe
tition for their pardon was presented to the
Legislature. It availed only to get com
mutation of Jesse's sentence to imprison
ment for life no more. Stephen was to be
hanged.
Let the reader now turn to another chap
ter of this strange historv.
In April, 1813, there lived at Dover,
Monmouth county, N. J., a Mr. James
l'olhamus. Some time in that month a
way-farer, begging for food, stopped at 'his
door. Being' a handy, good-natured man,
quiet and obedient, homeless and a man of
weak intellect, tooy lie was allowed to stay.
He said that his namo was Russell Colvin,
and that he came from Manchester, Ver
mont. Not far from Dover is the little town of
Shrewsbury, then a quiet hamlet, now in
vaded by the cottages and villas of Long
Branch pleasure-seekers. Here lived Ta
ber Chad wick, brother-in-law- to Mr. l'ol
hamus, and intimate with the family. Ac
cidentally reading the New York Evening
Post, he met, not with the notice of the
Rutland Herald, .but w ith an account of the
trial. Convinced that the Russell Colvin,
who was alleged to have been murdered,
was the -very man then living with Mr.
1'olhamus, he wrote a letter to the Even
iny Vast, w hich was published December
9,' 1819.
I'pon the arrival of this paper at Man
chester it excited little attention, as the let
ter was believed to be a forgery or a fraud.
Had not the lu st people in the town long
belie ved the Boorns to be guilty? Had not
one or both of them made full confession?
The bones of the murdered man, a button
of hi,s coat, his jack-knife had not all these
things been found? ' Had not sin Upright
judge made a solemn charge that the evi
dence was eonclusi ve, anil an intelligent
jury found them guilty, and the Legisla
ture sanctioned the findings? There was
no doubt of their guilt none whatever;
and therefore no benefit of a doubt had
been given by jury, judge or court of ap
peal, x
Mr. Chadwick's letter was, nevertheless,
taken to Stephen's cell, and read aloud. It
was so overwhelming that nature could
scarcely survive the shock. The poor fel
low dropped to the lloor in a fainting-fit,
and Lad to be recovered by' dashes of cold
waler.
Intelligence came the next day from a
Mr. Whelpley, formerly a resident of Man
chester, that he himself had been to New
Jersey, and had seen Russell Colvin. The
members of the jury which had convicted
the Boorns, however, hesitated to accept
anything short of the man Colvin's pres
ence, alnOudge Chase, who' had senten
ced them, pointed to Stephen Boom's con
fession. On the third day came another letter. 'I
have Colvin with me,' wrote Mr. Whelp
lev; 'I personally know Colvin,' swore Jno.
f'Rempton; 'lie now stands before me; it is
tue same liussell Colvin who married An
na Boom at Manchester, Vt.," said Mrs.
Jones, of Brooklyn, in her affidavit. But
it won hi not answer. I'ride of opinion is
very stubborn. Doubt of opinion dies very
hard.
However, Colvin, or Colvin's double,
was on his way. As he passed through
l'oughkcepsie, the streets were thronged
to see him. The news preceded him eve
rywhere. His strange story was printed
in all the newspapers, and told at every
fireside. At Hudson cannon were fired;
in Albany he was shown to the crowd on
a platform; and all along the route to
Troy bands of music played, and banners
were flaunting, and cheers were given as
Colvin passed along. Some men become
famous from having been murdered: Rus
sell Colvin was famous because he was a
live. Toward evening of Friday, December
22, 1S19, a double sleigh was driven furi
ously down the main street of Manchester
to the tavern-door. It contained Remp
ton, Whelpley, Chad wick and the bewild
ered Russell Colvin. Immediately a crowd
of men, women and children gathered a
round, and as the sleigh unloaded its occu
pants, and they took their places on the
piazza, cries came from the lips of scores
of gazers: "That's Russell Colvin, sure e
nough! There is not the slightest doubt
of it!" He affectionately embraced his chil
dren, asked after the Boorns, and started
for the jail.
The prison-doors w ere unbolted, and the
news was told to Stephen Boom.
"Colvin has come, Stephen." -
"Has he? Where is he!"
"Here I am, Stephen," exclaimed his
brother-in-law. "What are those on your
legs?"
"Shackles!"
''What for?''
'Thcv said I murdered vou."
''You never hurt mo in your life," re
plied Colvin.
The seqnel is soon told. Stephen and
J esse Boom were released from prison, and
Russell Colvin returned to New Jersey.
But tho judge who suffered an innocent
man to be convicted of murder by the ad
mission of extra-jndicial confessions the
jury who deliberated but one hour before
agreeing upon a verdict of guilty, upon
proof which should not hang" a dog the
deacon and church members w ho urged
confession the uinety-seven members of
the Legislature who refused a re-hearing
pf th evidence wdiat of them? .
The Little World, of London.
Here are some curions statistics about Lon
don, from one of the papers issued by the
London City Mission: It covers within
the fifteen miles' radius of Charing Cross
nearly 700 square miles. It numbers
within those boundaries 4,000,000 inhabi
tants. It comprises 1,000,000 foreigners
from every quarter ol the globe. It con
tains more Roman Catholics than Home
itself, more Jews than the whole of Pales
tine, more Irishmen than Dublin, more
Scotchmen than Edinburgh, more Welch
men than Cardiff, and more country-born
persons than the counties of Devon, War
wickshire, and Durham combined. It has
a birth in it every five minutes, a death in
it every eight minutes, and seven accidents
everyrday in its 7,000 miles of streets. It
has on an average twenty-eight miles of
new streets opened and 9,000 new bouses
built in it every year. It has 1,000 ships
and 9,000 sailors in its port every day. It
has 117,000 habitual criminals onitsp'olice
register, increasing at an average of 30,000
per annum. It has as many beer-shops
and gin palaces as would, if placed side
by side, stretch from Charing Cross to
Portsmouth, a distance of seventy-three
miles. It has as many paupers as would
more than occupy every house in Brighton.
It has an influence with all parts of the
world, represented by the yearly delivery
in its postal districts of 238,000,000 letters.
The man who undertakes to live two
lives will find that he 'is living but one,
and that one is a life of deception. Causes
will be true to their 'effects. That w hich
you sow you will reap. If you live to the
llesh, to the 'passions, to the corrupt incli
nations, you may depend upon it that the
fruit, which is in store for you, will be
that w hich belongs to these things. There
can Ie no doubt as to what your harvest
will be. If you think that, after your
day's business is done, you can shut the
blind and carry on your orgies in secret
with your evil companions ; if you think
you cn serve the devil by night, and then
go forth and look like a sweet and vir
uous young man that goes in the best so
ciety, and does not drink, nor gamble, nor
eommit any vices, then the devil has his
halter about your neck, and he leads you,
the stupidest fool of all the crowd. You
deceive noiiody but yourself. There is an
expression in the eye that tells stories.
Passions stain clear through. A man
might as well expect to take nitrate of
silver whose nature is to turn him to a
lead color and not have the doctor know
it, as to expect that he can form evil hab
its and pursue mischievous courses, and
not have it known. It does not need a
sheriff to search out and reveal the kind
of life that you are living. Every law of
God in nature is an officer, after you. It
does not require a court, judge or jury to
try and condemn vou. All nature is a
court room, and every principle thereof is
a part of that court, which tries and con
demns you. Do not think that there can
be such a monstrous mis-adjustment of af
fairs as that you can do the work of the
devil and have the remuneration of an an
Female Society. All men w ho avoid
female society have dull perceptions, and
are stupid, and have gross tastes, and re
volt against what is patre. Your club
swaggerers, who are sucking the buts of
billiard-cues all night, call female society
insipid. Poetry is uninspiring to a yokel;
beauty has no charms for a blind man ;
music does not please a poor beast, who
does not know one tune from another;
but, as a true epicure is hardly ever tired
of water, sauce and brown bread and but
ter, I protest I can sit for a whole night
talking to a well regulated, kindly woman
about her daughter Fannv or her son
Frank, and like the evening's entertain
ment. One of the greatest benefits a man can
derive from woman's society is that he is
bound to be respectful to her. The habit
is of great good to your morals, meu, de
pend upon it. Our education makes us
the most eminently selfish men in the
world, and the greatest benefit that one
has is to think of somebody to whom
he is bound to be constantly attentive and
respectful.
The Lazy Daughter. -Among the
w orst features of a badly-minded daughter,
we would first single out indolence, or to
use the rough and more expressive English
word, laziness. A lazy, sofa-lolling, lie
a-bed late in the morning young Woman
is an affront to hei sex, and in her own
family more a curse than a blessing. To
her mother she is a burden, and to her
father an object of contempt. She is al
so a great promoter of doipestic strife, and
a shocking example to her younger sisters
Such a being crawls, instead of walking
with tripping alacrity, through life. She
dwadles instead of works, her speech is
vulgar, and altogether lier ways are very
bad indeed ; and, to add, to her misdeeds,
her health suffers through her folly, and
thus she wantonly impiises a grievous tax
on the purse and patience of her parents.
For a girl to be idle in the flush of her
youth is to invite any and all kinds of
calamities to befall her with blistering
anguish; and, depend upon it, tho down
ward career of most afflicted women may
be primarily traced to this early and wick
ed habit, for it is nothing else, it being as
easy for a young woman to be industrious
as the reverse. .
Judge Myrick of California has decid
ed that a man undergoing an imprison
ment for life is civilly deadand his wife
a widow.
A woman sixty years old was recently
convicted of murder in the midland circuit
in England for killing her hnsband, aged
ninerT-nine.
PLAIN TALK FROM A JUDGE.
At Rome, Ga., recently, four young lawyers,-
who had just passed an examination,
were addressed as follows by Judge Un
derwood :
"Young gentlemen, I want to say a word
or two to you. You have passed as good
an examination as usual, perhaps better ;
but you don't know anything. Like those
young fellows just back -to their homes
from their graduating college, you think
vou know a great deal. That is a great
mistake. If you ever get to be of any ac
count, you will be surprised at your pres
ent ignorance. Don't be too big for your
breeches. . Go round to the justices' court.
Try to learn somethiug. Don't be afraid.
Set off upon a high key. You will, no
doubt, speak a great deal of nonsense, but
you will have one consolation nobody
will know it. The great mass of mankind
take sound for sense. Never mind about
your case pitch in. You are about as apt
to win as lose. Don't be ashamed of the
wise-looking justice. Ho don't know a
thing. He is a dead-beat on knowledge.
Stand to your rack, fodder or no fodder,
ana you will see daylight after awhile.
The community generally supposes that
you will be rascals. There is no absolute
necessity that vou should. You mav be
smart without being tricky. Lawyers
ought to be "gentlemen. Some of them
don't come up to the standard, and are a
disgrace to the fraternity. They know
more than any other race generally, and
not much in particular. They don't know
anything about sand-stones, carboniferous
periods, and ancient land animals known
as fossils. Men that make out they know
a great deal on these subjects don't know
much. -They are humbugs superb hum
bugs. Thev are ancient land animal
themselves, and will ultimately be fossils.
You are dismissed with the sincere hope of
the court that you will not make asses of
yourselves."
Health and Talent. It is no exag
geration to say .that- health is a large in
gredient in what the world calls talent.
A man without it may be a giant in intel
lect, but his deeds w ill be the deeds of a
dwarf. On the contrary, let him have a
quick circulation, agood digestion, the bulk,
thews and sinews of a man, and tlie alac
rity ami unthinking confidence inspired by
these; and, though haviug but & thimble
ful of brains, he will either blunder'upon
success or set failure at defiance. It is
true, ''especially in this country, that tho
number of eentanrs in every community
of men in whom heroic intellects are allied
with bodily constitutions as tough as those
of horses is small; that, iu general, man
has reason to think himself well off in tho
lottery of life if he draws the prize of a
healthy stomach without a mind, or the
prize of a fine intellect w ith a crazy stom
ach. But of the two, a weak mind in a
Herculean frame is better than a giant
mind iu a crazy constitution.
A pound of energy with an ounce of tal
ent will achieve a greater result than a
pound of talent with an ounce of energy.
Tho first requisite to success in life is to be
a good animal. In aii3' of tho learned pro
fessions a vigorous constitution is equal to
at least fifty per cent, more brain. Writ,
judgment, imagination, all the qualities "of
the mind attain thereby a force and splen
dor to which they1- could never approach
without it.' But intellect in a weak body
is "like . gold in a spent swimmer's pocket."
A mechanic may have tools of the sharp
est edge and highest polish; but what are
these without a vigorous arm and hand?
Of w hat use is it chat -onr mind has bo
come a vast granary of knowledge if you
have not strength to turn the key!
Spares That May Klndle. Over
every grave, even though tenanted by guilt
and shame, the human heart, when circum
stantially made acquainted with its silent
records of suffering or temptation, yearns
in love or in forgiveness to breathe a sol
emn liequiescat.
Luxurious ease is the surest harbinger
of pain, and the dead lulls of tropical seas
are the immediate fore-runners of tornadoes.
It is a truth of the largest value that the
dominion ot woman is potent, exactly in
that degree that tho nature of woman is
exalted. Such as woman is will man for
ever be; the one sex being essentially tho
antipode and adequate antagonist of the
other, w oman cannot be other than depress
ed where mau is not exalted. Never yet
was woman in one stage of elevation, and
man (of the same community) iu another.
Therefore, daughter of God and man, all
potent woman! reverence thy own ideal;
and in the wildest of the homage that is
paid thee, as well as iu the most real as
pects of thy wide dominiou, see no trophy
of idle vanity, but a silent indication,
whether designed or not, of the possible
grandeur enshrined in thy nature. Re
alize it to the extent of thy power,
"Aud show us how divine a thing
A woman may become."
"Tote." The Mobile Register resents
an imputation cast upon a legitimate South
ern word, saying: "The other day a Geor
gia paper said that Mr. A. II. Stephens
could not have mauVa certain remark, be
cause he understood the English language
too well to make use of such a slang word
as 'tote.' We cling to 'tote as the Anglo
Saxon nation clings to Magna Charta. It
reminds us of our descent from a liberty-loving
people, and preserves the memory of
justice. The writ by which a peasant ag
grieved in the Baron's Court was enabled
to carry (toUere) his case np to the County
Court was known as the writ of 'tolt,' pro
nounced commonly tote.' This privilege
which the hnmble farmer had of toting his
case from his own landlord to a less preju
diced court was'dear to every Englishman.
The people of the South will not surrender
that word. It is as dear to onr yeomen as
the common law' Itself,
distinguished painter, to the effect that,
walking down Broadway one day, he saw
before him a dark-lookiug foreigner bear
ing under his arm a small red cetl,ar cigar
box. He stepped immediately into his
"wake," and whenever ho. met a friend
(which was once in two or three minutes,
for the popular artist knew everybody), he
would beckon to him with a wink to "fall
in line" behind. By and by the man turn
ed down one of the cross streets, followed
close by Jarvis and his "tail." Attracted
by the measured tread of so many feet, he
turned round abruptly, and, seeing the pro
cession that followed in his footsteps, he
exclaimed: "What for de debbil is dis!
What for you take me, eh? What for you
so much come after me, eh?" "Sir," ex
claimed Jarvis, with an air of profound
respect, "we saw you going to the grave
alone with the body of your dead infant,
and we took the opportunity to offer you
our sympathy, and to follow your babe to
the tomb." The man explained, in his
broken manner, that the box contained
only cigars, and he evinced his gratitude
for the interest which had been manifested
in his behalf, by breaking it open and dis
pensing them very liberally to the mourners.
A Dance Without a Smile. They
have a singular kind of a dance conducted
on the greens of country villages in Russia.
The dancers stand apajrt, a knot of young
men here, a knot of niaidens there, each
sex by itself, and silent as a crowd of
mutes. A piper breaks into a tune, a
youth pulls of his cap, and challenges his
girl with a wave and a bow. If the girl
is w illing she waves her handkerchief in
token of assent, the youth advauces, takes
a corner of the handkerchief in his hand,
and leads his lassie round and round. No
word is spoken and no laugh is heard.
Stiff with cords aud rich with braids, the
girl moves heavily by herself going round
and rouiid, and never allowing her partner
to touch her band. The pipe goes droning
on for hours in the same sad key and mea
sure; and the prize of merit in this "circling,"
as the dance is called, is given by .the
spectators to the lassie 'who, in all that
summer revelry has never spoken and
never smiled!
Toilets of the Notabilities in
the Bois de Boulogne. Lucy Hooper,
in her last Paris letter, describes the no
tabilities in the Bois do Boulogue of an
afternoon, when all the fashionables are
out for a drive. The display of toilets is
always magnificent. Mile. Croisette, the
actress, always attracts all eyes as she
drives past in her dashing low victoria.
One lady, who always dresses very ele?
gantly, and whose equipage is as elegant
as her attire, always sits with her eyes
shut while she drives ; whether she is a
sleep or shamming to attract attention it is
hard to decide. In a superb low carriage,
driven by a coachman iu the picturesque
costume of a Russian Istrostchik, the black
horses tossing their heads proudly under
the weight of a harness glittering with
gold, sits the heroine of the Russian dia
mond .scandal, the beautiful Mrs. Black
ford, or Mrs. Feenix, or whatever
other name she mav call herself. Beanti-'
ful both in form "and face, exquisitely
dressed and thoroughly distinguished
looking, it is no wonder that every eye
follows her as she passes down the drive.
Next comes a superb open barouche, lined
with brown satin, the coachman and foot
man in elegant liveries, the horses worthy
of drawing the carnage of a prince, and
with one solitary occupant, a woman no
longer young, but tall and stylish in figure,
with a hard, haggard face, dyed yellow
hair pulled iow on her forehead, and round,
parrot-like eyes a woman who never in
her best days could have been a" beauty.
Yet, sinco she first seized upon the sha
dowy seeptro of the demi-monde, kings
have been dethroned, empires have passed
away, the face of Europe itself has chang
ed, and here she 6its, 6ecure in her evil
royalty. It is Cora Pearl, and, look a
ronnd the Bois de Boulogne as you will,
you will find no equipage more faultlessly
appointed, no toilet more elegant and
tasteful than hers.
Mr. James O-
-, of Cincinnati, who
had just arrived at the Grand Hotel in
Paris, called the other day on one of the
principal Parisian embalmers, to whom" he
said: "1 have just come direct from Cin
cinnati, attracted by yonr reputation, in
order to be"embalmed by yon." "But sir,"
replied the man, "to be embalmed ono
must " "You are going to say," interrupt
ed Mr. O , "it is necessary to be dead.
I have provided for that. In this envelope
you w ill find your fees, some other money,
and directions about sending my body
home." Thus saying, Mr. O ' took a
bottle of laudanum from his pocket, and
was only prevented from swallowing tho
poison by the quickness of the embalmer.
The American was taken into custody and
the authorities have written to his friends.
The Duchess' Watch. When Queen
Victoria was about thirty years younger
than she is now, she was inclined to be
very exact in the" way of business, and
more especially in the way of promptness
to appointed times and places. Seven
years a queen; four years a wife; and three
years a mother, she felt probably a more
weighty dignity resting upon her than she
has felt since. And yet, no crust of dig
nity or royal station could ever entirely
shut out her innate goodness of hearts At
tho time of which we speak, the Duchess
of Sutherland held the office of mistress
of the robes of the British queen, and "on
public occasions her position was very near
her roval person, and deemed of great im
portance. A day and an hour had been
appointed for a certain public ceremony
in which the queen was to take parte The
hour had arrived, and of all the court the
duchess alone was absent, and her absence
retarded the departure. The queen gave
vent more than once to her ; impatience,
and at length, just as she was about to en
ter the carriage without her first lady of
honor, the duchess, in breathless hasle,
made her appearance, stammering some
faint words' of excuse. "My dear duch-.
ess" said the queen, smiling, "I think
you must have a bad watch." And as
she thus spoke she unloosed from her neck
the chain of a magnificent watch she her
self w ore, and passed it around the neck of
Lady Sutherland. Though given' as a
present, the lesson conveyed with it made,
a deep impression. The proud duchess
changed color, and a tear which sho could
not repress, fell upon her cheek. On the
next day she tendered her resignation, butj
it was not accepted. It is said that ever
afterwards she was, if anything, more
punctual than the queen herself.
Watchixo One's Ski.f. "When I
was a boy," said an old man, "we had a
schoolmaster who had an odd way of catch
ing the idle boys. One day ho called out
to us : 'Boys, I must have closer atten
tion to 3'our books. The first one that
sees another idle I want him to inform me,
and I will attend to the case.'
a 'Ah !' thought I to mvself, "there is
Joe Simmons, that I don't like. I'll
w atch him, and if I sec him look off his
books. I'll tell.
"It was not long before I saw Joe
look off his book, and immediately I in
formed the master.
"'Indeed?' said he, 'how did yon know
ho was idle V
"'I saw him said I.
" 'You did ? And were your eyes on
your book when you saw him?'
"I was caught, and I never watched
for idle boys again."
If we are sufficiently watchful over
onr own conduct we shall have no time to
find fault with the conduct of others.
"Phculiau Peoile." People who, at
this period of our commercial prosperity,
when writing paper costs next to nothing,
cross their letters.
People who have no poor relations.
.People who always know7 where the
wind is.
People-who send conscience money to
the Secretary of the Treasury.
People who take long walks before
breakfast.
People who spend an income on flowers
for the buttonhole
People who like paying income tax.
People who go to hot, uucomfortable
theatres.
People who buy early and costly aspar
agus ; nine inches of white stalk to one
of green head.
People who give large parties.
People who lavish their money on the
heathen abroad, and leave the heathen
at home to take care cf themselves.
People who have the ice broken to en
able them to take a cold bath in w inter.
People with no prejudices, weaknesses,
antipathies, hobbies, crotchets or favorite
theories.
People who hold their tongues.
Cast a Line for Yourself. A
young man stood listlessly watching some
anglers on a bridge, lie was poor and
dejected. At last, approaching a basket
filled With wholesome looking fish, he
sighed : "If, now, I had these, I would
be happy. I could sell them at a fair
price, aud buy me food and lodging."
"I will give you just as many and just
as good fish' said the owner wm chanced
to overhear his words, "if you will do me a
trifling favor."
"And what is that?" asked the other,
eagerly.
"Only to tend this line till I come back.
I wish to go on a short erraud."
The proposal was gladly accepted.
The old man was gone so long that the
young man began to be impatient. Mean
time the hungry fish snapped at tho bait
ed hook, and the young man lost all his
depression in the excitement of pulling
them iu ; and when the owner returned,
he had caught a large number. ,
Counting out from them as many as
were in the basket, and presenting them
to the young man, the old fisherman said":
"I fulfill my promise from the fish you
have caught, to teach you, whenever you
see others earning what you need, to waste
no time in fruitless wishing, but to cast a
line for yourself."
Correspondence.
FOB THE GAZETTE.
Reminiscences of a Sojourn of Many Years in
the Principal Empires and Kingdoms of Europe.
NUMBER LKXVr.
Ekhata. In last week's issue two prrorc ocenrred
in "YoyageurV communication : We said that the
streets of "Pisa" were superior to any we had seen in
Europe, except those of Tuscany ami small portions of
some in Trieste, Austria; but sliould have said that
the streets of "Florence" wore superior to any we bad
seen ia Europe, except those of "Piia,". Tuaeany, tc
Again wo said that tbo mosaic "factories" are to be
found in the shops on Veechlo bridge and in the jewel
ry shops near by; we should Krre said the "work" of
these mosaic factories was to be found in these shops,
and not the fketories, aa they are very extensive es
tablishments. 1 i; '- ' , ' ". ..
Messrs. Editors: Ono of the most
interesting places in Florence to visit is
what is called the Museum of Natural His
tory. The botanjeal department is exten
sive, and that of mineralogy is veryiine,
but the zoological department is not so fall
as I have seen elsewhere. ; The anatomi
cal department (in w-ax) was gotten up by
Clement Sosini, an Italian Catholic priest.
It is the largest and most varied collection
I have ever seen, consisting' of all kind
of fruit and flowers, birds, fish, frogs,
snakes, and, in fact, everything and all
as natural arid life-like as it is possible to
conceive. There ar&two fowls male and
female; two ducks male, and female; two
rabbits, two cats, and a vast number of
other things in wax. . Thtf fowls, ducks,
cats and rabbits were all opened, and look
ed as fresh as if they had just been killed,
and, as there were splotches of red w ax here
and there, in imitation of blood, many w ere
under the impression that they were reallv
natural. All the internal portions of these
objects were visible,' so that the curious
might examine and learn their construct
ion. I was particularly -interested in tho '
contents of two glass coffins : one consist
ed in one-half (the left half) of a very
handsome young man, who w as split down
through" the spine, dividing him exactly
into halves; the other was the right side of
a most beautiful young, girl, or at least
that is what one-half of the face indicated.
There are brass rails around these coffins,
so as to prevent any one from touching
them. Men and women (but no children
are admitted to these departments, consist
ing of forty great halls; but there is one
room to which no ladies arc admitted, and
but few gentlemen. There were six of us,
and we made tho usher up a sum and at
last prevailed on him to admit us. Tie
took out his key, unlocked the door, and
we all slipped in as cautiously as possible.
After you leave this room, you enter a de
partment that is filled with various things
that have been turned to stone by some
petrifying process. The name of the man
w ho discovered this wonderful art was Ser
garto, and he was the only man who has ev
er been able to turn flesh to stone. But, poor
fellow, ho was doomed to persecution, be
cause the Bible says we return to dust, arid,
if w e should be turned' to stone we could
net become dust. He w as hounded by the
church, imprisoned and maltreated, until
the poor fellow died from the effects, and
was so provoked that he allowed his se
cret to die with him. And now, when it
is too late, everything has been done to
discover the secret. Several attempts have
been made since by others, and the results
of their labors are there to show that they
are a miserable failure. All the samples of
flesh on exhibition by those who made
these miserable failures are to this day of
a elammv -feeling, and wherf struck with a
key havie a dead sound, not unlike the sound
that a madder of snuff has when, thumped.
The appearance is worse than dead, look
ing somewhat like badly tanned leather.
The w ork of Sergarto is perfect: there are
frogs, lizards, snakes, pieces of human
flesh and hundreds of human specimens
that I cannot now call to mind. I remem
ber seeing the head and neck of a man,
with the hair still upon it. To say that it
looks natural would not be true it is stone,
perfect stone. There are also the head and
neck of a vonng woman, whose hair hansrs
down in a mass behind her ears, to her
shoulders. When any of Sergarto's work
is struck w ith a key or any other piece of
metal, it gives forth a ringiug sound. A
correspondent of the Newark Scnfigcl, writ-
ingfrom Florence, speaks of this petrifact
ion with great admiration. I will quote
,1'tom him, as I am not prepared to appre
ciate Sergarto so highly. He says: "There
was at the exhibition one specimen ol mbd
ern invention a petrified human hand!
A Florentine physician and naturalist, na
med Sergarto,' who accompanied Choinpol-
liou on tho,Egyptian expedition, soon af
ter his return produced specimens of petri
fied flesh, and thus preserved the bust of
a young woman who was killed iu an iri-
i-nrrection here, so beautifully and so per
fectly that it seems like the bust of ono just
dead. At tho anatomical museum attach
ed to the hospital Sergarto was counected
with, are to be seen tables made of petri
fied human viscera'. 1 1 seems mosaic work ,
tho tables aro so beautiful.. A great. vari-ety-of
things made of different parts of hu
man bodies are also exhibited. Sergarto is
supposed to have discovered the sepret in
Kgypt, and he promised to leave it be
hind; but being piqued W'ith the indiffer
ence which had been shown him by
the government he never communicated it.
He died a few years after his return, f
Grea(t pains have since been taken to dis
cover the process by which he produced
such wonderful effects, and so far have
these succeeded that the hand exhibited at
the fair was the result; but it covne far
short, in perfect! i ess, of the human petri
factions made by Sergarto, and is so 'differ
ent in appearanco as to prove that his sct
cret died with him. The loss of such a sure
method of preserving specimens of natural
history for loss indeed it is to the scien
tific world may thus be attributed to the
neglect of the Grand Duke to patronize art
and science." . " '
It is very well for one to be pleased with
what he sees; but to say that the bust of
that girl is so beautiful and m perfect that,
it looks like one who has just died, is a
great piece of affectation. ' t?ergarto's dis
covery was truly wonderful, aud 'he "did
what he proposed to do, turn flesh into
stone, and so did the Egyptians succeed in
turning their dead into mummies; but Who
has ever seen a beantiful mummy ?' "The
fact is, the more the dead are worked with
the worse they look. The process he used
whatever that may have been had the
effect to kill anything like colory or any
thing that could remind one of a human,
being. The substance looked dead dead
like wood more than stone, thongh it m
stone. . And 'tin for the la'dy's work-table,-work
boxes arid snuff s boxes inTaid with
flesh and viscera, everyone knows that nei
ther viscera nor the flesh contain an5' beau
tiful colors, and, therefore, cannot resembl
mosaic, for mosaics require bright,
tittan ara AnM. Ap.IlA VCS
fact they are negatives. Ini2r?om
ITSaw one thing, B
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