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Ail OS SOLVED MISTER Y. la the full of 1SG1 there appeared at Pa ris -a' man who call 'd himself Vic de Lasa, and was so inscribed upon bis pass-ports. He aim.' from Vienna, and said ho was a Jlnnrariaii; lie was a small man, with a pale iaceloTig Lloii'lo hair, h wandering 'Line eve, and a mouth of angular firmness. His companion, presumably his wife, ten years younger th:m he, was a strikingly beautiful woman, of that dark, rich, llun- "; Everywhere Madame Aim.ee de Lasa at- traeted great attention and admiration, '. which she acerpted. even the broadest, with tin squeamishncss. They lodged iii luxu ; lhtiis apartments, entertained handsomely. and- had a.good hank account, while the lady's diamonds w ere of conspicuous histreT How-happened it, then, that the prefect r.f police s:fw tit to suspect Monsieur de La sa. and detailed Paul Delessert, his most expert detective, to "pipe"' him?"' The f;U't -is. t.K- ):i.-urnin:-a:it man wmi ins ypienum wife was a very mvsterious ju'rsonaire, and the j.il:ee wispeet auy t!nn inat eanteti an 'air of mystery. The conelusion to which "rt.f nrcfeet had arrived was that I. de La- :-a was an adventun-r and charlatan. In .the ?:i-:u:Ti:.je the fatter, very unhtruive ly, and without trumpeting forth, any ol the wonders. Tie intended to perform, had made his salon 'the rage,' and the number of persons .who .paid the lee of a hundred franr fur :i Kin ilo m-pii into his mfl.i'ie ervs- - k 3 " 11 - I tnl. and a sinirle messaire bv his spiritual a t'degraph, was real I.v a.-tonishing. The :e- rreU'f this was thai M. de Lasa was a coh J'lrer and diviner whose pretensiotis were omniscient, and whose predictions always earne tree. .Di'lessert did not fin 1 it very difiicultto oh'tiiu admission into de L,asa's salon. It was even!!! ' when'ne nt'ended one oi the- reeej.ii.His i:i Lis assutned eharaeter of Jl . 1'lebrv. virtu: so in j-we!s and a convert -to snirirualism. He f mini t!;e oarlors brilli atitlv lighted, and a charminir assemblage gathered of wtdl -dressed guests; Madame tie L:isa performed-on the iiam, or cn vers"d from group to group most delight fully, while Monsieur walked about iu an unconcerned way, saying .a word now end then, i'Ut ra:ier seeming to shun , observa tion. Servants handed about Vi-frwhsueuts, ice, wines, etc., and l)elsert could have fancied himself dropped in upon a modest evening entertainment, altogether unex ceptionable, !t!t for one or two noticeable circunist.ihc.'s which his observant eves no ted. " : . At ;al k a verv tall and dijrniried r f ottii:'.n would approach a guest, and, id:c . hie.g a profound bow, present to him a card on a silver salver.- The guest would then go out, preceded- by the servant, anil when he or 'she rfnuiied some did not re i ttin: nt a!! ihev invariably- wore a dazed or lnghtened bok. All this was so unmis ;; takabiy genuine, and De Lasa - and his wife sec'ined. so inicoticcrio d amidst it all, , that Delesseit could not help being foi'ci- bly struck atnV greatly puzzled. Two or three little incidents which came ; under Delessert's observation, .will tuliiee to render plain the character of the iniprcs- sious mad?;' upon those present. Two gen I tletnen, both young, both of good, social 1 condition, and e-vidently gotil"friend., were conversing together, when the dignified footman summoned' Alphonse. "Tarry a X moment.-. Auguste,' said lie, "and you Khali know nil the .particulars of this w onderftil f,,r'!liie." -Vew well." replied Angnste; may vhe orjiifles huMHt be propitious! ' A '.minute haircarcelv -''elapsed before Al phonse retmi ed to the salon. His face bore an expression of race that was fright fill to witnes Tie came straight to An- -tfnste-, Hashing; and, landing his face toward his friend, he hissed: "Mon sieur, you are a villain!"" "Very well Monsieur Mennier," responded Augusts, iu low tone;. f'to-raorrow morning at fix o' clock." - "It must be settled,"" cried Al phonse, ''false friend, execrable traitor, to the death!" "At y our service'.-'T muttered the other, moving towards the" hat-room. A diplomatist of distinction, repreeenta tive at Paris'of a neighlK5rinr state, an el- n'-'rly gentleman of most superb-aplomb and commanding appearance, was summon ed to the oracle by the bowing footman. After being absent about five minutes, he returned, and immediately ruade his way through the press to M. de Lasa, who was standing not far from the fire-place, with his hands in his pockets, and a look of the Utmost indifference on his face. Delessert watched the interview with eager interest: "I am exceedingly sorrvto abse-t myself," Gen. Von , p0on from y0nr interesting Balon, M. de Lasa, but the re it f rayjw ff-nrincpg mt that mr despatches have been tampered with." "I am sorry," responded MI. do Lasa, with an air of luugnia lait cui"tevjs interest; "I hope you may be able ro rlisc vcr vvhicli of your servants has proved unfaithful." "I am goinsr to do that now," said the Gene ral, addiug in significant tones, UI shall also see that neither he nor his accornp liees escape punishment." "That is the only way to pursue, Monsieur." The aiu bassador stared, bowed, and took his leave with a bewilderment in his face that was beyond the power of control..' Arthis moment the tall footman bowed before M. Delessert, and presented the salver cotitaining' the card. . .Delessert took it and red: "vou are granted an audience i-of thirty-five seconds, M. Flebry; no long er. He followed the footman lrom the saloon across the corridor; the footman o- penea me ooor 01 amuuer room, ana sign ed to Delesseit to enter. "Ask no ques tions," said he, briefly; "Sidi is a mute." I.) dessert entered the room, and the door closed behind him. It was a small room, with a strong smell of frankincense pcrva in it; the walls were covered with red hangings, and the floor with a thick car pet. Opposite the door, at the upper end of the room near the ceiling, was a large cloc k; under it, each lighted by tall wax candles, were tw o small tables, upon one of which was a telegraph instrument, appar ently, and upon the other a crystal globe about twenty inches in diameter. Bv the door stood Sidi, a black man, wearing a white turban and burnous, with a silver wand in one hand. He led Delesseit up the room quickly; pointed to the clock, which struck an alarm, and. then pointed to the crystal. Delesseit bent ever, look ed into itL and saw a fac simile of his own sleeping mom, every thing . photographed exactly. Sidi then led him to the other ta ble, where the telegraph instrument began to .click; the mute opened a drawer, drew out a slip of paper, crammed it into Deles sett's hand, and pointed to the clock w hich struck again; the thirty-five fcoconds had expired. The door opened, the visitor was pushed out. and the interview with the or- acle was over. Delesseit glanced at the piece of paper in his hand;- it a printed slip in capital letters, and read dimply: 'To Paul lelesscu-t: the policeman is always welcome; the spy ahvayj in dau ger: . The detective was dumbfounded to find his disguise pieroed, but the words of the footman, "this way, Jf. Flebry," recalled him to his senses. lie returned to the sa lon, and made his way straight U Do I-a-sa: "Do you know the content of thiii?" he asked, showing the message. "I kuow- ev erything, M. Delesseit," replied De Lasa in his careless way. "Perhapis, then, you know tuat I mean to expose a charlatan, or peii.'i iii the attempt'" "I am willing, Monsieur." "You accept.' my challenge,' then?" "Oh! it is a defiance!" replied De Lasa, composedly; "yes, I accept it." De lessert tLea departed. Delescert now set to work to det-ect and expose this consummate Korcrer. Persist ent inquiry satisfied him that the man was neither a Hungarian nor named De Lasc; he was W.rn iu Xuremburg, and was noted in his chUdiiooil and eariy. youth f - his tirecocitv and deviltry. In his siitecr.th year he attracted the attention of Ilouclin, tbe celebrated magician, who employeO him j;s a:i .'isistatit in his public eotuuriiif l J p pei-formai ees. Bubeqiief.tly, Tii-ck lin lich (De Lasa'ti real name) w chi to the O rient, and thence, after many years roving sretnrned to Vienna, and finally turned up in Paris. The detective next turned his attention to Mine, de Lasa. This ladv had a verv uotorioug record, and it soon lamo evi dent that she was identical with a certain j'me. SchalF, who had Ikmmi rather conspic uous among the demi mmde of Buda. De lessert postel oil' to that 'ancient city, and thence went into the wilds of TransyUa ui.i to Multfjuji. i)n Lis: return, r.s soon as he reached ttie lKiimos of civilization, he telegraphed the prefect of police from Kard sag: "Don't !e sight of my man. nor let him leave Pari;; i will run him in for VOU two day,; after 1 get back." It chanced that, on the day of the de tective s return the prefect w as absent w ith the emperor at CherUmig; he cfiiue back out lie fourth day, just twenty-four hours af ter Deletsert's death. That happened, as near as could le-gathered, in this w ise: That night, after Delessert's return, he was pre iHMit at De Lusa's with a ticket of admis sion to a H'anc-e. He was very completely disguised as a decrepit old man, and fan cied that it was impossible for any one to detect him. Nevertheless, when he was taken into the room, and looked iuto the crystal, he- was actually horror-stricken to see there a picture of himself, lying face down and senseless on the .side-walk in a Street; and the message he received ran thus: "What you have seen will be, Del essert, in three daye. Prepare!" The de tective, unspeakably shocked, immediate ly left the house, and sought bia own lodg- inge. 1 In the morning he sought bis office in a state of extreme dejection; Le was com pletely un-nerved, and in relating to an acquaintance what bad occurred, he naid: "That m&u can do what Le promises; I am doomed!" He said that he thought he could make out a complete case against DeLasa, but could not do so without seeing the prefect and getting instructions. He would tell nothing in regard to his discoveries in Bu da and Transylvania said that he was not at liberty to do so and repeatedly ex claimed, "Oh! if M. le Prefect were only here!" He was told to go to the - prefect at CherlKMirg, bnt peremptorily refused, on the ground that his jyesence was needed in Paris. He time and again averred his conviction that he was a doomed man, and showed Limself irresolute and vacillating, atid Twr nervwis. H ttii told that .he was perfectly safe, since De Lasa and all his household were under constant surveil lance; to which he replied, "you do riot know the man." An inspector was detailed to accompany Delessei t, never lose sight of him for an instant, and guard him careful ly, night and day; and proper precautions were taken with his food and drink, while the guards watching De Lasa were doub led. On the morning of the third day Deles sert, Who had beeu staying chiefly in-doors, avowed his determination to go at it once, and telegraph to M. le Prefect to return immediately. With this intention heand his brother officer started out. Just as they got to the corner of the RnedoLancry and the Boulevard, Delessert stopped, sudden ly, and put his hand to his forehead. " "My God!" he cried; "the crystal! the picture!" and fell prone upon his face, in sensible. He was taken at onee to & hos pital, but he lingered only a few hours, never regaining his consciousness. Under express instruction from the authorities, a most careful, minute and thorough autop sy w as made of Delessert's body by sever al distinguished surgeons, whose unanimous opinion was that his death was caused by apoplexy, due to fatigHe and nervous ex citement. As soon as Delessert was sent to the hos pital his brother inspector hurried to the central office, and De Lasa, together with his wife and everyone connected with the establishment, was at ouce arrested. De Lasa smiled contemptuously as they took hint away.' "I. knew yon were coming; I prepared for it. You will be glad. to release 37 me. It was trne that De Lasa had prepared for them. When the house was searched it was found that every paper had leen burned, the crystal globe w as destroyed, and in the room of the seances was a great heap 'of ..delicate machinery, broken iuto indistinguishable bits. "That cost me 200,000 francs," said De Lasa, pointing to the pile, "but it has lcen a good invest ment." The walls aud floors were ripped out in several j daces, and the damage to the property was considerable. In prison neither De Lasa nor his associates made any revelations. The notion that they had something to do w ith Delessert's death was quickly dispelled iu a legal point of view, aud all of the party except De Lasa were released. He was detained iu piiiou,upon one pretext or another, until one morning he w as found hanging by a silk sash to the comics of the room whera he wai confined dead. The night before, it was dieover ed, "Madame" de Lasa had eloped with the tall footman, taking the Nubian Sidi with them. De Lasa's secret died with him. MAGNETISM. A young and skillful disciple of Rob ert London was some time ago traveling i a the northern provinces of France, -giving exhibition in natural magic, iu. com pany with a young wag, now director of a printing etaldihment in Paris. Iu their wanderings they arrived at the town of R , more renowned for its manufactories than for the natural brilliancy of its inhab itants. Here the receipts of the magician were absolutely cothiiig, and despair reigned in the hearts of our two adventur ers. What was now to he donel "Bv my faith!" exclaimed the assistant magician, "it will never do to say that we did not make onr expenses! I have it! Let me write a poster for one or mora en tertainments, and if the attraction don't answer call me no assistant for a high priest of diablerie: 'At the urgent request of the large and intelligent audiences of our former entertainments, we have consent ed to perform the astounding feat of mak ing the cathedral lell ring any Lour indi cated by any cf the audience. To take place this evening.' There, how- will that dof" "But how are you to fulfil the promise!" "O, never mind. Am I not a worthy pupil of-a skillful master! Leave that to me." Night came, and w ith it a crowd of the curious. All went oti well, and now came the feature of the evening. Auy one was asked to name a number. "Pour!" came from the crowd. In fear and trembling the mirrhtv naa gician extended his hand towards the ca thedral, when one! two! three! four! boom ed from the cupola. The cold perspira tion started to the exhibitor's brow, and the audience shouted w ith delight and sur-. prise. 'Encore! encore!" resounded from all parts of the room, "Again!" what was to be doneT Bat a voice from behind the curtain said "Go ahead, old boy u's all right." With a sigh of relief the exhibitor re peated the miracle again and again, and the spectators departed, filled with enthu siasm. "What in the name of wonder liare tou been doingf exclaimed the puzzled prin cipal to his laughing assistant, as soon as the doors were closed. "Why, I gave the bell-ringer five francs to stay in the belfry and ring as nianv times as I placed candles on the window, and I think it succeeded pretty well," re plied the other shaking the well-filled cash-box. The next day as they were starting in the cars, one of the City Councillors came to them and begged that they would ex plain the miracle. .-":.-.:,-' . "It is magnetism, my friend," said the magician, with a grand flouirsh of his hand; and the magistrate departed, much edified and perfectly satisfied. . . . Alligators fall into a lethargic 6leep da ring the winter, like a toad. . There are ants in Texas that actually plant grain, and Teap th harrwt. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER STORY OF AN INDIAN" PIUXCESS. Before the treaty of 1868 nearly all the Sioux were hostile. The march of immi gration had driven them over the Missou ri river, and the settlement of the country further westward, incident to the building of the railroad across the Continent, show ed them that, year after year, their huntiug grounds were becoming more and more con tracted. Iti times of peace theUrule's had often pitched their tents, or tepoes, on the North Platte, and Spotted Tail and his family had frequent opportnuitiesof visiting the garrison at Fort aramie. The intel ligence and -demeanor,- as well as the per sonal beauty of his eldest daughter, Pehe ziwi, had made her. a favorite at the foit She was not slor to see the great advant ages in superiority of numbers, in intellect ual acquirements, and in all the graces and comforts of civilized life, which the white race had over her own; and it is only nat ural, with her hue mental and physical or ganization, that she should have become very friendly to the whites. As a child she attracted the notice of every one at the fort, aud when she was blooming into wo mauhood she was the recipient of inarmed attention from many officers of the volun teer troops which, at that time (soon after the close of the late war) chiefly composed the garrison. Besides being beautiful, in telligent and graceful, she was a pure In dian prince??, the. eldest daughter of the ruling chief, and on that account alone en titled to some consideration. Her figure was rather below the medium height; her face, a well rounded oval; her eyes, black and piercing; her nose, small and straight; her lips, full and finely formed, and her teeth lemarkably white and perfect. In dtifti names very often are misnomers, as is the case in the present instance. Pehezi wi meaus yellow hair; but her hair was ra ven not coarse, as you ofteu see it ou the Indian, but fine and soft and silken, and quite in keeping with her exquisite organ ization. To these physical features she added a native modesty ami a grace of movement, which added their poetic influ ence to increase the sum of her attractions. When she used t be at Fort Laramie in the winter, wearing her blue cloth dress, her beaded leggings and her elalwrately ornamented moccasins, with strings of Iri quois shells for ear-rings and necklace, her hauds and arm adorned in Indian style with rings and bracelets, and a handsome buffalo robe thrown around her, she was always, as the phrase;. .is, "the observed of all observers." Peheziwi u-ed all her'iu fluecee with her father and her people to dissuade them from further resistance to the whites. She well knew that war a gainst thy w hite race wa only suicidal, and she was a a sweet mese;ger of peace wherever she moved .among her people. But Indian outrages upon settlers on the frontier provoked retaliation by the troops stationed in the West for their protection, and-these growing troubles led at length to a general state of w arfare between our sol. lid and the hostile Indian. It was wish a heavy heart that Pehiziwi saw her people drawn into a contest which she was well aware uiut necessarily prove for them hopeless. After the red men found on the war path had been punished, aud the council was called to assemble at Fort Laramie to discuss uew stipulations, Spot ted Tail moved with his band to within a reasonable distance of the fort iu order to keep posted, but not, it is alleged, dis posed to enter into peaceable relations with the government. It was at this pe riod that his favorite daughter was attack ed with what, within a week, proved to be a fatal illness. The fever took fast Loldn upon her, and, though the medicine men of her tribe for days aud nights went through their superstitious incantations, h& could see the life of his first-bora passing to the hereafter. Kuowiug that her days were numbered and the hour of her departure near, she made a last pathetic and affect ionate appeal to her father in favor of peace with the pale faces. An Indian's eldest daughter is regarded w ith special fa vor. As his eldest daughter aud pride, and by the love ho bore her, she insisted that after death, which was now so uear, he should go straight to Fort Laramie, and meet the white chiefs and straightway make a treaty of peace with, them which should endure forever. (This I Lave from Spot ted Tail himself through an interpreter.) "Remember the dj-ing .words of Pehezi wi," she said; "go to the pale faces, shake Lands witL them strong," wLicL in Indian parlance means true and lasting friendship. "Promise me this; and promise rae also, that, as a pledge of that peace, you will bury me in the cemetery among the pale faces at Fort Laramie." What w as this but the echo of the Divine Voice speak ing to the heart of the savage chief through the fading accents of his dying daughter? He could not resist such an appeal; his heart was melted, for he .was devoted to her; Lis judgment was convinced as Le re called her arguments; and, taking Ler hand in his, he pledged Lis affection as her father, and his honor as a chief, that he would carry oat her wishes to the let ter. Her mission was accomplished; the hour of her death saw the triumph of her life, and Ler soul ascended to the Spirit Land to share the reward of those who, like her, had labored for Peace on earth." Spotted Tail was eqnal to his word; he went to Fort Laramie and made the treaty; he is now among the most intelligent ami friendly of all the Indian chiefs; and an Indian grave within the limits of the fort, towering high alwve the graves of the white people buried there, stands as the pledge of peace secured by the Princess Peheziwi. It has been said that she had cherished an affection for an army officer," and that, as an alliance was impossible. her premature, death at the early age of eighteen years was owing to the influence ot her unrequited passion but this ts qnes tioned, and is drmbtfaT". 23, 1875. A Rebuke to a Swearer. A Gen eral officer, who was in early life much ad dicted to profane oaths, dated his reforma tion to the memorable check he received from a Scotch clergyman. When he was lieutenant, and settled at Xewcastle, he got involved in a brawl with some of the lowest class in the public street, and the altercation was carried on by both parties with abundance of impious language. The clergyman, passing by, was shocked with the profanity, and stepping -into the crowd with his cane uplifted, thus addres sed one of the leaders of the rabble: "O, John, John! what is this I hear! on only a poor collier boy, and swearing like any lord in the land! O John! have you no fear of what will become of you? It may do very well for this gallant gentleman (pointing to the lieutenant) to bang and swear as he pleases; but you you, John, it is not for yon, or the like of you, to take in vain the name of Him in whom yon live and have your being!" Then turning to the lieutenant, "You'll excuse this poor man, sir; for he is an ignorant body, and kens nae better." The voung "officer shrank awav in confusion, nnable to make any reply. Next day he waited on the minister, and thanked him sincerely for his well-timed reproof, and was ever after an example of correctness of language. Mariette Itemy, a beautiful girl, who had led rather a gay life, died in Paris the other day. She was known among her friends as Opal, from the fact that she al ways wore a very handsome opal necklace. This necklace was given her by her first lover, who at the time said: "Ion know that opals are gems which live. My fate is inseparable from these. When you see them become dull and die, I too shall be at the point of death." One day they thought they were tired of each other, and they separated. But after hehad gone, Mariette found that her love for him was still ardent, and she sought to recall him. It was too late; he bad left the country. She consoled herself, however, by looking at her necklace and saying: "The opal still lives; I shall see him again." But about a month since the opals began to grow dull; then, one by one, they lost all their lustre, and became dead. A few days ago, but one remained, and that gave but a faint reflection. "He is aboat to die," thought Mariette. She fell into profound melancholy and said: "Then I, too, must die." Aud when one evening; the last opal gave the last gleam she took poison and died. The same dav this telegram from Luchon reached Paris: "Paul Bor- day, ill here for some time back, died yes terday.-7 Paul Borday was Mariette s lover. Living too FiST. In onr day, both married and single people live too fast. A bachelor now has need of an income such as would once have satisfied a roan with a family; and the husband and father ro- tptires for his single household the means that twenty vears ago would have support ed two families, if not three. Daughters are scut to fashionable schools, at an enor mous cost, there to learn extravagauce, and in short, to become fitted for anything but to becomes wives of poor men. :Sons are ruined with unlimited pocket money, late hours, and almost total absence of pater nal control. Thus we not only waste onr own estates, but perpetuate the vice in our own children. In every way wo are liv ing too fast. Damaged Mjex. You can see, any day, in the streets of any city, men who look damaged. Men, too, of good origiual ma terial, who started out ia life with generousv aspirations. Once it was said they w ere bright, promising lads; once they looked happily into the faces of mothers, whose dailv breath was a prayer for their purity aud peace. Ah! what if some of them have vow ed their souls away to confiding wives, who silently wonder what can be the meaning of this change the cold, slow-creeping shadow that is coming over the house and heart. Going to the bad! The spell of evil companionship; tlm willingness to hold and use money not houestly gained; the stealthy, seductive, plausible advance of the eppetite for strong drink; treacherous fascination of the gaming table; the grad ual loss of interest in bnsiness and doings which build a man up; the rapid weaken ing of all noble purposes; the decay of manliness; the recklessness and hlasphcrjiy against fate; the sullen despair of ever breaking the chains of evil habit. What victories of shame and contempt, what har vests of hell, have grown from such seed as this? Sneer, if you will, like a fool, at the suggestion of reform, morals, religion. Everyman knows, in Lis better moods, that all there, is of true life is personal virtue and rectitude of character. Going to the bad! But there is Lope. Earth and Leaven are full cf Lands ever reacL- ing to help the lost man back to the bet ter way. All tbe good there is ia the universe is in sympathy with that little goodness which inwardly reproves and protests. ' f' " ' . " - A First Sight of NAroLEOX. Tdie memoirs of a noted Frenchman, just pub lished, give the following picture of the first Napoleon: I was strangely surprised at his appearance, for nothing could be more remote than this from the conception I had formed. In the midst of a numer ous staff I saw a man of stature below the middle height, and extremely slight'. His hair was powdered, and cut in a peculiar manner, squarely below the ears, and then fell beLind on his sLoulders. He was dressed in a close-fitting-- coat, bnttoned all tLe way np, and ornamented with a very slight embroidery of gold, and he wore a tricolorod plume in his hat. At first glance his appeaAince was certainly not handsome. But he Lad marked fea- tnrcp, a quick and searching eye, while his animated and sharp gestures showed ar dor of soul, and Lis large and thoughtful forehead profound power of reflection. nQ made me sit down by him, and we talked of Italy. His way of speaking was brief, and at this time very incorrect. Back to the Plow. It is said that Ruftis Choate, the great lawyer, w as once in New Hampshire, making a plea, when a boy, the son of a farmer, resolved to leave the plow, and become a lawyer like Rufus Choate. He accordingly went to Boston, called on Mr. Choate, and said to him, "I heard your plea np in town, and I have a desire to become a lawyer like you; will you teach me how?" "As well as I can," said the great law yer; "come in, and sit down." Taking down a copy of Blaekftone, he said, "read this until I come back, and I will see how you get on." The boy began. An hour passed. nis back ached, his head and legs ached. He. knew not how to study. Every moment became a torture. He wanted air. Ano ther hour passed, and Mr. Choate came and asked, "How do you get on?" "Get on! Why, do you have to read such stuff as this?" "Yes." "How much of it?" "All there is on these shelves, and more," looking about the great library. "How long will it take?", "Well, it has taken me more than twenty-five years." "How much do you get?" "Mv board and clothes.'"' "Is'that all?" "Well, that ia about all that I have gained as yet." "Then," said the boy, "I will go back to plowing. The work is not near so hard, and it pays better.". A Wonderful Clock. A marvelous piece of mechanism in the way of clocks is described in the French journals. It is an eight-day . instrument, with dead-beat escapement maintaining power. It chimes the quarters, plays sixteen tunes, plays three tunes every twelve hours, or will play at any time required, The hands go round as follows: One once a minute, one onee an hour, one once a week, one once a month, one once a year. It shows the moon's age, the rising aud settiug of the sun, the time of high and low water, half ebb and half flood. By a beautiful contrivance there is a part which repre sents the water, which rises and falls, lift ing some ships at high-water tide as if they were in motion, and receding leaves these lit tle automata ships dry on the sands. The clock shows the hour of the davr, day of the week, day of the month, mouth of the year, and in tLe days of the month there is provision made for the long and short months. It 'shows the zodiac; it strikes or not; chimes or not, as may be desired, and it has the equation table, showing the difference of clock and sun every day in the year. CcRiors Facts. Fishes swallow their food w hole. They have no dental machin ery furnished for them. . Frogs, toads and serpents never take anv food but that which thev are satisfied is alive. If a bee, wasp, or hornet stings, it is nearly always at the expense of their life. Serpents are so tenacious of their life that they w-ill live for six months without food. Turtles d? holes in the sand by the seashore, and bur' their eggs, leaving them to be hatched by the sun. Lobsters are very pugnacious, and fight severe battles. Iftheyloso a claw, an other grows out. Naturalists says that a single swallow will devour 6,000 flies in a day. ; The tarantula of Texas is nothing but an enormous spider. A single codfish produces more than a million eggs in one season. A whale suckles its young, and there fore is not a fish. The" mother's affection is remarkable. Toads become torpid in winter and hide themselves, taking no food for five or six months. Turtles and tortoises have their skele tons partly outside of, instead of within the body. It is believed tbat crocodiles live to be hundreds of years old. Tho ancient Egyptians embalmed them. Correspondence. FOR THE GAZETTE. Reminiscences of a Sojourn of Many Tears in the Principal Empires and Kingdoms of Europe. KtTaBEB LXXVIII- Hessks. Editors: In my last num ber I gave an account of a society that was worth speaking of, and now I will tell yon of one that is as insignificant as the other is creditable : On some Saint's day (it is immaterial as to which certain Saint it is) the priests of tho city of Florence give a grand entertainment to-the beggars aud paupers. This is an annual feast, at which all tLe beggars are seated, and the priests wait on them in order to show their humil ity. I had several invitations from priests to attend these feasts, and did go to one in company with a priest. TLe room in which the banquet was Leld was very large, Laving some eigLt or ten very long tables. The sapper w as superb, there be ing a great abundance of everytLing, and the priests waited on them and were as at tentive as any servants I Lave ever seen. Bnt I must say that I was so obtuse that I could not see any sense in it. Hera were hundreds wboligd been perishing the- whole WHOLE NO, 110. year for bnud (dune, and they weio now all brought together to behold each others misery blind, lame, deaf, every kind of deformity. How much better it would have been to have taken that money and had a friend to buy bread, and, if possible, to buy a little meat also to relieve their suffering, instead of commemorating a cer tain day by bringing together a vast num ber of poor to sing and pray as they were made to do before eating. " It w as a sad sight such as I never wish; to see again. One day my preceptor asked me to guess how many Priests there were in the city. I thought I would make a guess which would far exceed the number, so I said 300, when to ray astonishment he told me there were 1,350". Think of it .'1,350 priests in a city of only 125,000 inhabitants. Yet when one considers the vast -number ha meets in the streets, and recollects that tho churches are crowded with, item, he is al most surprised that there are not more. Florence has any. number of churches, but from some cause several of them aro not finished. Among these is the church St. Lorenzo, the whole front of which is unfinished. The front is of coarse, ugly, unpainted brick; it has three doors, but no windows of any kind, .except a blind w in dow situated very high up, and all tho light is admitted at the sides of the church, through very narrow; windows, not more than two feet wide; and iu a row, just a bove these narrow places in the wall which are intended as substitutes for windows, are round holes of the same width, which look like the windows of a steamship. This, as well as 1 he other churches of Flor ence, is anything but fine looking. I do not remember that any one, except tho ca thedral, has a dome, tower or steeple. But this church reminds one of wealthy people who make bnt little show, for its wealth is vast. In it is to be seen onp of the most magnificent mausoleums (but which, I anv, sorry to say, has never been finished,) that there is in Europe. There are twoplen- j did -monuments to the Medici family; bnt the great thef tVccuvre is the celebrated 1 statues of ''Day," "Night," "Twilight" and "Dawn." These productions are the work of 'the great Michael Angelo, and if he had never been the author of any other product ions they are enong4i- to immortalize him. The next most wealthy church is that of the Sainted , Cross. In this church, as I have said in a former number, are de posited the remains of two of the .greatest . men that have ever lived Galileo and An gelo, and over their.reinains, as well as over the remains of Alfieri, Machiavelli, and other distinguished dead which I will not take np your space in naming over,. are erected the most magnificent mausole ums that are to be found in Europe. All these splendid mausoleums and tho great number of paintings, rich altars and the Great Altar, form one of the rich est and most magnificent interiors there is on earth. But I must be allowed to say I do not like the exterior or interior of this church unfinished in front, with only coarso bricks, three doors, no windows, ex cept one large, round window, perfectly de vout ot taste, ami just Iike.any otuer com-. mon window,save thatjt is round. No ' dome, no steeple, no tower, and no cross to' be seen anywhere. The interior is the same so plain that it is disagreeable to look at it. " - The next church of much note is St. Ma ria Novella. In this aro to be seen tha productions of the earlier Florentines. There are other churches well worthy of a visit, but I will only give the names of one or two. There is the sainted Trinita. St. Nnnunciata, St. Spirito and. St. Mark. : borne of these churches are quite small. Last, but not least, is the great Metro- politain, as it is called, or, in other words, the great Cathedral,, commenced in tho 13th century. It is built of the best of white Italian and black Egyptian I marbles. - After the granite foundations which rise a bove the surface is a layer of fine, jet-black marble; and then, a layer of white, contin uing so for four rows, which form black' and white lines around the whole church; -. and then, after these rows, a most beauti ful pauel or wainscot work passes entirely round, and reaches up for a distance of twelve feet. Then there are eight altern ate lines of black and white marble which "... reach up to the lower part of the Goth- L ic windows. These windows are full Goth- 1 ic, with wainscot-.work on each side nntil it reaches nearly to the top; then there aro two rows of inlaid black marble, which bring the work to the topof the windows. ' Then commences a series of blind, se.mi Gothic arcLes. This is all on the. rear of the Cathedral, which is circular, having three great additions of Lexagonal forms. The sides of the church are composed of -x tLe same kind of work as tLe rear, bnt not ' so elaborate. The roof is the old, origi- i nal 3fausard or Dormar, or what some call the "hip roof," which is a strange form for a church. Tho dome is one of the largest and most beautiful on earth; it ia built of this same black and white marble, and its form is octagonal. Tbis dome is immense even larger than that "of St. Paul's, Lon don. It Las eigLt round windows which aro very large, one window on each side of ibis octagonal. The Metropolitain and the cathedral at Milan are the two most remarkable on earth; they are entirely unique.' - -'- .. '" -;; ----'; -"V"- ."".:;' The great doeJicr or belfry which stands near the Metroplitain, towers up by and almost , out of sight of the great dome. It is constructed of the same marble as tho Cathedral, and tLe work that Las been De towed upon it is incredible. There is no piece of architecture constneted ont of mar ble that can compare to it. I am not ablo to-give even a faint outline of its beauty: all I can say is that M is constructed of three kinds of marbe white, black and a marble looking like basalt. . The. archi- , f ecture of this -belfry is Gothic, and its win dows are splendid. YoTAGSFK."