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FEARLESSLY THE RIGHT DEFEND IMPARTIALLY THE WRONG CONDEMN.
VOLUME I.
POLKTON, ANSOJN CO.. X.. C, THUKSDAY, MAY 21, 1874.
NUMBER 0".
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Department.
T
. HouMkeeping1 Department.
Rat Pohon. Procure : from a druggist
a clear solution of arsenate of potash and
mix it with barley, wheat cr stale bread ;
let the whole stand until drj. Then scatter
it about in the localities, infested with the.
vermin. , M r
Veal Sausage. Chop fat bacon and
lean real in equal quantities, wi;h a hand
ful of sage and a little salt and pepper. It
should be chopped and beat n well together,
rolled and fried. 1 1 ! !
Scrambled Eggs. Beat vp a dozen eggs
and turn them into a pan, it: which a little
butter has been allowed Jto melt : throw in
finely chopped boiled ham jr parsley, and a
little pepper and salt, and osa about rapid
ly to prevent sticking. Sen up on buttered
toast. - I . II '
Poached Egg3. Carefully break fresh
eggs into a shallow pan of boiling water ;
have "ready slices of butefed toast, and
: when the white part! his set lound the
yelks, take them up with a' skimmer and
lay each cue upon a slic of j bread. They
are seasoned at table. j
To Exterminate RoaclS.-j-j-Roaches may
be exterminated by takin; flowers of sulphur
one-half pound; potash ftur ounces. Melt
in an eanhcrn pan over he ;hre pulverfe
and make a strong sohtion j in water, and
sprinkle the places they frequent
To Prevent McthsV Ravages. Hemp,
when the blossoms a-e j ast
infallible preservative o.' tex
opened, is an
ile fabrics and
furs agaiust the attack cf moths. The stalk
with leaves acd flowen h cut when bloom
ing, about July, and died in the shade. , It
is said t preserve its jropcrties for several
years. " , ' ? j ' r
Floating Island. Che', quart of "milk,
sweetened ; whites of six eggs ; wine to
the taste"; half pound of pulverized sugar
for the island; a little currant jelly. Beat
the eggs and add the sUjjar by degrees, and
as much currant jelly as will make ita line
pink; Pour the milk in a glass bowl ; wiih
a table? poon pl.ace the island on it in heaps
tastefully arranged. t - j
,Sugared Pop Corn. This delights all chil
dren, and is within the reach of every one.
One cup sugar, white ; half cup of water ;
boll till it uAM,ki,.iu ;n twr-r
corn, as much as the pan will hold. If
nicely popped, this will sugar two quarts of
corn. Stir well so that.it does not stick
together.
The grains ought io separate.
Kotes on Health. '
Tobacco. Sollening of. the brain is a"
disease always connected with the use of
nervines in some shape. Tobacco is a
powerful agent in its production. Trem
bling is one of the usual symptoms of tcute,
and a common result of ckronic, nicotism.
The Minister of Public Instruction in France
issued a circular to the diretors of colleges
and schoo's, forbidd:ng tobscco to st ilents,
as injurious to physical and intellectual de-
.velopment. . Tobacco j atd . insanity are
closely connected. It isf stated upon the
best authority that of thoie who become in
sane lrotn the suppose! t of spiritous
.liquors, eighty-saven riir ient. alco use
tobacco. ill ,"
Fruit and Health. An hise-c of fruits
implies doctors' bil's. Theiest medicine-
chest an emigrating" family
can carry to a
box of early-
nfewly-scttled country is a
bearing fruit trees, currant, gooseberry and
raspberry bushes, and f Etraw berry plants.
Western residents say that as long as they
have ripe frui they remain' free from all
disease resulting from malaria. J
Hair Dyes. Cases of piralysis resulting
from the use. of hair dyes are .counted by
r the score. The New York Board of Health
a year or two ago, warned the peeople of
dangers from this source. The chief medi
cal officer of the Brooklyn Life Insurance
Company states that a few years ago that
company paid a policy on the. life of a man
who, a post-mortem examination demon
strated, killed himself by dyeing his hair.
To Cure Sleeplessness. Let the full meal
come in the middle of the day. " Two hours
after it ha3 faesn taken Jwalk three or four
miles " or. ride twice that number. Eat a
light, easily-digested supper and pass the
succeeding hours till bed-time in a way
agreeable but not exciting, j Avoid causes
of worry, and sleep in a fresh bed and a
well ventilated apartment, j
T fn A A. A 0m
r new ireaunout ox cancer.
Another treatment of . cancer has been
brought out by Dr. Hasse, of Berlin. An
account of it is given in the Mtdicinisehe
Central Zeitunj,Feb. 18. Dr. Hasse injects
with a hypodermic syringe, ure alcohol, to
which one per cent, of ethe is added, not
into the new growth, but around its edges,
thus obliterating, he claims, the vessels,
'especially lymphatics, whih convey the
infection, and causing the atrophy of the
growth itself. The pain is
but is much reduced by ice
rather severe,
bags, and lasts
only about two hours. The
injections are
repeated every eight to fourteen days, and
have no alarming reaction. He claims
striking success in carcinoma of the mamma,
and in cauliflower excrescence of the uterus,
but has failed in epithelioma of the lip,
which he attributes to the
obliterating iy this means
mpossibility of
the large and
closely adjacent coronary artery.
Jarm and HouehajId
THE DEAD POET.
An Episode in a Life.
Captain Adair, and a young lady to whom
he was betrothed, Louisa Haynes, sat as
two of a gathered company. One glance
would tell you what Captain Adair wa?.
Ihirty, good looking, brave, and rich
what more could any woman ask, unless it
were love ; and that Dennis Adair gave as
he gave everything ielse freely, generously.
He would have giyen his life,, had the need
arisen, for this woman who held his heart
in her keeping this woman, who had said
that she loved him ; whose warm breath on
his cheek fevered his blood and thrilled his
pulseslike wine.
In the grate a fire burned with a cheery
glow.- From the open door floated the hum
of the gay voices, the ripples of light
laughter, even fragments of the conversa
tion. There was a hush presently; some
one was beginning to sing.
"That is Maclennan's voice!'' exclaimed
Captain Adair.
A! cood voice, lust touched, with a soft
Celtic accent. The words were the words
of that sweet song one of the sweetest
ever sung The Irish. Emigrant's Lament'i
Did its tender pathos touch any losg past
experience in his own life, that the singer's
voice trembled so over the lines? They
did not know. And what was it that made
Dennis Adair's face change as he listened 3
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14 lea Bitting on the stile, Mary, where we safe
side by side, . .
On a bright May morning long ago, when first
. you were my. bride.
The corn was springing fresh and green, the
lark Bang loud and high;
And the red waa on your cheek, Mary, and the
lovelight inyoureye"
Hearing it, the coils, of lustrous blonde
hair, thick-sown with pearls, and the perfect
face drawn rather near to the soldier's
breast, passed out of his miad as if they
had never been. He stood on the green
shores of ' his native land, with the blue
skies of spring above his head ; and beside
him nestled a fair young girl, with dewy
blossoms in her ha?r, and in the tender eyes
a look that no other woman's had ever worn
for him. '
Ah, me ! , Ten long years lay between
that time and the present ; but it all came
wistful face, the clasp of the gentle hand,
the glowing hopes of his sweet spring-time,
the lark's song above their heads, and an
the glory and brightness of a day that had
long since passed away.
Tis but a step down yonder lane, the little
church stands near,
The church where we were wed, Mary I see
the spire from here ;
But the graveyard lies between, Mary, and my
steps might break , your rest, -
Where I've laid you, darling, down to sleep.
with your baby on your breast . "
Home, and wife, and littte child. Strange
memories tnese ior me couneu mau, wc
gallant cavalier, whom women delighted to
honor. But I think that in the lives of
most of us there are some passages which
the world never reads some pages forever
sealed even from the eyes that leve us.best.
Louisa Haynes never guessed- evenj while
her lover's arm was about her, now nis
thoughts had gone over leagues and leagues
of blue water, to a green - grave in oia
Ireland, guarded by a simple cross, emblem
of the sleeper's faith- .
" I'm bidding you a long farewell; my Mary,
kind and true,
But I'll not forget you, darling, hi the land I m.
going to. ' 1
They say there's oread, and work for all, and
the sun shines always there, " r
But I'll not forget old Ireland, were it nrty
time as fair." j
Bread and wc rk he had found in the far-
off lands he had gone out to ; fame ana
riches, too ; but be had fnt forgotten old
Ireland, nor the love, faithful and unselfish
that had blessed his early manhood. Years
might come, and a fairer head lie on his
breast where- hers had lain,but no other ever
could be to him just what she had been
not even Louisa, tenderly beloved though
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she was ; lor that eariy nappmess uau
come to him in the brightness and freshness
of youth, and that ah, no ! never comes
aainto any one' of us. And when Ihe
sonfjwas ended and its echoes
had died
away, Dennis Adair woke up with a start,:
and saw his promised wife beside him. j
CaDtain Adair rose, gave her his arm,
and took her back to the more frequented
rooms. Among au me rev cicio jf-tj
ed their part better than the man who had
iust been face to face with his dead past ;
for the peaceful unities of outwaraiue must
be preserved, and it is not well, I think, for
any of us to carry our hearts in our facH
Billiards. There Is an old story told of
a fellow who sauntered into a billiard room.
The keeper asked; him would be . play a
game." He said he would. The keeper got
the first inning, and thinning ne was aeauug
with & M billiard sharp," he run the game-4
out. The other fellow quietly put his cue
away, and started for the door. The keeper
sans out. " Here, you haven't paid for your
billiards." 44 Billiards " says he. " billiards;
I haven't played any bfUkrds," and he left.
T 1 Troy Fire Department use electricity
to unfasten their horses from the mangers
WORLD OF
What a Man Suffers Under the Effects of
Uania-Potu.
In. language, the classical beauty and
purity of diction of which are perhaps un
surpassed in the jEngttsh language) De
Quincy, in his " Confessions of an Opium
Eater,'' gives a graphic account of his ex
perience while under the influence of the
narcotic drug, or while recovering from its
effects.' That painful feeling of intense
sett-concentration when the only world ex
isting is the world created by fancy, when
imaginary persons in all their actions assume
an appalling reality which makes the very
soul shrink back upon itself ; . when conse-
quences follow causes altogether anomalous
and contrary to natural sequence, all are der
scribed in such a vivid manner that whiieyt
cannot fail to charm, it makes the sensitive
reader shudder. ; .
But the peculiar mental feelings following
the excessive use of opium have some re-
aeemmg ieatures wnen comparea wun ais-
orders consequent upon the excessive use
of a'coholic stimulants. In the one case
the dreaded snakes are not present, and the
blood does not course through the veins
like a molten, metallic current, burning and
seething the quivering flesh as it jflows
along. The horrors endured are not those
of " Dante's Inferno,'' those of the damned
and the surrounding spirits are more likely
to be those from Elytium than the fire
breathing, denizens of a lost world."
The folio wng brief sketch conveys but a
faint idea of the mental torture endured
w,hile suffering from mania-potuj in its worst
.
form, and will, peahaps, interest some, when
it is stated that the mental states described
were the results of the combined use of
alcohol and sulphate of moiphia to an ex-
cessive degree. The narration will at least
possess the merit of being true, though fall
ing immeasurably, behind the yet terrible
reality, which would require the pen of a
Shakspeare or a Schiller to dojt justice.
A protracted period of excessive indulg-
ence in drink produced lately a feeling of
intense self-consciousness and wakefulness
in the subject of the sketch, which made
sleep impossible. He resorted to narcotics,
less misery, and the exhausted Oram was
racked by foolish fancies and horrible fears
of impending danger- As the brain Weak
ened the imagination seemed to strengthen,
and was less under the control of the reason
aad.-wii'. Strange: voices whispered into
the ear, and weird and awful faces loomed
up in the darkness of the night. It was all
.fancy, and he knew it; but all his philoso
phy could not banish these phantoms of the
mind or that feeling of unrest which was
fast driving him to insanity.
As the period of sleeplessness lengthened
the phantoms of the brain became fearfully
minute and distinct In every detail. Faces
fairer and more ravishingly beautiful than
were ever dreamed of in the most exuber
ant fancy of the past, passed ;in quick re
view before his eyes. Some, Claude Lar
rainish in their beauty, seemed to be bath
ed in the roseate hues of the setting autum
nal sun ; forms in, which passion . found
expression in celestial beauty. Others,
classically perfect in form and feature, pale,
cold, passionless as the moon in its silvery
radiance of a winter's night, looked to the
wondering beholder like visitants from a
world where the feelings that sway
humanity are unknown. . Visually, those
persons were as real as any reality ; but the
mind was not yet in that state in which it
could accept, even on the evidence of the
senses, those creations as flesh and blood,
like hmself. But1 that time was rapidly
approaching.- The will, also, seemed to be
changed in its functions, and at itsfiat the
imaginary personages would disappear, to
be followed by others, who, in their ap
pearance and number, were not subject to
his volition. i .
Thirteen days and nights without a mo
ment's sleep, four grains of i sulphate oi
morphia, and whisky ad libitum, the scene
completely changes. Foul, loathsome
reptiles are crawling .on the floor, wall and
ceiling. A hand is reached forth to test the
reality of an ugly, lizard-shaped creature.
' At the touch a flame of fire starts from it,
andHhe wretched man starts back iu terror.
He feels his hair singeing and his face
burning at the contact . of the unearthly
fire. The creations of his imaginations are
now accepted even by his reason as ' reali
ties, and he yields' himself without further
effort to the fantasies of his disordered
mind. Slimy snakes crawl up his' legs and
coil themselves around his writhing body;
A thousand poisoned fangs pierce his flesh;
they enter inward
through every
opening
of the body; they
are crawling
through
his 'intestines and .are gnawing' at his
heart; he screams with pain, and prays
for deliverance ; but a mocking fiend stares
him in the face, and breathing a sulphurous
vapor upon ' him, cries ' Too late V He
sinks upon the floor exhausted, and a huge
serpent spit3 a firey, burning fluid on his
face, r His blistering skin bursts, his body
swells; and complete inseility relieves
the wretched victim from ms sufferings.
After remaining in this state for twenty-
four hours, consciousness is . restored, and
THE DRUNKARD'S
FANCY.
he discovers, with delight, that : his fearful
fever has abated during that period of rest.
He recovered slowly, and though he wil
neveri entirely recover from the t shock, he
i3 thankful that his life has been spared,
and Js determined that an indulgence in
liquor will never again make him subjec
to such a fearful visitation.
iae preceaing SKetcn is true in every
particular, and horn ble incidents in the
case are omitted, as it, would be impossible
to describe them, and if they werj, they
would not be credited.
7 American Ship Building.
Ai public dinner was tendered Jto Mr.
John Roach,5 the American ship-builder,
by merchants of New York and others. At
the! meeting it was stated that in 1861 the
amount of
American tonnage entered at
ports of the Union from foreign countries
was a little oyer five millions of tons,
against about two millions land a quarter of
foreign tonnage so entered. For the year
ending June 30, i873, American tonnage
entered rrom ioreign ports naa suns: to a
little oyer three and a half millions of tons,
while the foreism tonnage had risen to over
eight millions. In other words, at the be
ginning of the war, American vessels trad
ing ibetween the United States and foreign
poiis had more than double the carrying
pover of all their foreign competitors,
while, during the last financial year, the
foreign vessels had more than double the
carrying power, of those of their American
rivals. ' ! . '
The causes which have chiefly contribu-
ted to this state of things are briefly, the
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absorption at the opening of the . war of
three-quarters of a million of tons, of our
merchant vessels for, purposes of ;military
transport ana coast defense; the transfer-
ence of another three-quarters of a million,
from prudential considerations, to British
and iother flags, and the kbsolute destruc
tion! of over 100,000 tons by Confederate
cruisers. In this way fifty-three per cent.
of the mercantile marine of, the United I
States disappeared between 1861 and 1866,
. IfjWas even said that from 1866 until
recently, the United States ocean-carrying
trade has partically stood still. ) That is,
we have with considerable difficulty main
S&S'loSo?0 ilfVin J hjmdred
closeiof the war left it. During the same
p'eriojd Great Britain has been adding an
average of 100,000 tons a year to her steam
vessels engaged in foreign trade.; During
the list two years there have come from
the ship-yards 6n the Delaware, 38,000 tons
of iron steamers for our foreign trade. But
how jslender a competition 1s this to the
550, opo tons of foreign steamships, owned
by fifteen different companies and distrubu
ted among 170 vessels, coming into the
port of New York alone !
. Marrying his Dead Wife's Sister.
M. Jd. Conway writes to the Cincinnati
Commercial of an extraordinary sensation
that is just now pervading London society.
It is Caused by the announcement that Sir.
Holman Hunt, the eminent artist, is about
to marry his deceased wife's sister. Such a
marriage, .of course, cannot bfe legally cele
brated in England, and so the parses have
determined to go abroad to seek some coun
try where the alliance is legal. The great
quest: on, 44 Ought we to visit her?" islikely
to be raised, for it is understood that Mr.
Hunt means to take his wife off to Jerusa
lem, which may now be regarded as his
residence. In the eyes of English law a
lady married to a deceased sister's, widower
is not! married at all, and as the lady ih this
case belongs to .a family of high rank, a
good deal of the excitement arises oh that
score But' more of the dismay arises from
the fact that Holman Hunt is the especially
religion s artist of England. If a rumor had
been heard of the Archbishop of Canterbury
it wouldn't have so amazed society; as Hunt
has never been such a worldling as the
average English bishop, who loves old port
and looks kindly on fox hunting. . This
marriage will revive the question of abolish-
ing the laws which prohibits it.
: Lemons "Wholesome.
When people feel the need of an acid,
if they would let vinegar alone, and use
lemons or apples, they would feel as well
satisfied, and receive no injury. A sug
gestion may hot, come amiss as to a good
plan, when lemons are cheap lnjthe market,
to make , good lemon sirup. Press your
hand on the lemon, and roll it back and
forth briskly on the table to make it squeeze
more easily ; then press the juice into a'
bowl (or tumbler never into a tin ; strain
out ad the seeds, as they give a bad taste.
Remove all the pulp from the peels, and
boil in water a pint for a dozen pulpsto
extract tiie acid. A few minutes boiling is
enough ;
then' strain the water with the
juice of the lemons ; put a pound Qf white
sugar to a pint of the juice ; boil -ten
minutes,! bottle it; and your lemonade Is
ready1. Put a tablespobnf ul or two ot this
ipm -m Kirnn in a erlass of water, ana have a
cooling, healthful drink. '
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Ml!say Pat, ijo you asleep ?" " Not
I i i i - --"''
A lin ! Then be afther lendin me a
! it T)t aelom liA lnhpTS !"
A - PLAGUE COMING.
? Seven Year Locusts" Apprehended
We desire to warn the people, says the
Trenton (N. J.) Gazette, that, 'in all proba
bility, they will "be visited by one, of. the
Egyptian plagues this year. It is the season
for the regular pcTjodieal appearance of the
" Seven Year Locusts.'' They appeared in
enormous swarms in' I860, and' again in
1867, and if they are "on time '-' will
put
in their appearance the coming sumtner.
In their former viisits they appeared in the
month of June, and will probably do so
this year. They first appear in the form of
a sluggish and unsightly, brown beetle, and
emerge from the ground through- small
round holes, the ground in some places.' be
ing so thickly perforated as to 'resemble a
honeycomb. When they haye emerged
from these holes they crawl up and attach
inemseives to sveeas or the trunks ot traces,
and thus remain basking in the sun until the
perfect locust is matured; In the course of
a few days the locust bursts its crude,
brawn, beetle-like shell and flies away,
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leaving the husk, like another perfect and
entirely different insect, still adhering tojthe
tree or weed upon which t was fastened,
with a clean cut slit, as though done with a
sharp knife, in the body from which the
locust made itr escape. The liberated lo
custs at first spend a few days in mer rily
singing songs of rejoicing over their advent
o a new existence, the noise made by them
in some localities being deafening, Although
not. particularly unpleasant They very
soon, however address themselves to !the
chief business of their ephemeral existence,
which seems to be to adont5 tha means; to
propagate their species afttna lapse"! sey en
years.- 'lney may De- seen at Unis time in
countless myriads, slowly crawling along
the smaller branob.es of young trees, and
industriously perforating them at intervals
of about a quarter of an inch with a sharp,
ance-like instrument, with which they are
provided. In these incisions they deposit I
their eggs. The wounds they make in the
wood are so poisonous as to kill the brandhes
in which thev are made, and these in
the
Jatter part of summer, or the r early part!
of
autumn, drop to the ground, when the eggs
find their way into the earth, and appear m
the form and manner described. We have
form of beetles until the dropping of the
dead twigs, and our description is trom per
sonal observations. With the wonderful
instinct of self-preservation with which
beneficent nature has. endowed her crea
tures, the locusts chbose high and dry
ground as their field of operations, graFelly
ridges being their favorite resorts. They
never seek a swamp or low grounds in which
to perforate the trees and deposit their eggs.-
-The short history of the locust is replete
with impressive lessons of the perfect and
marvelous handiwork of nature. j
A Blixed Financier. j
We have been on both sides of the cur
rency question, says the beymour (ind.;
Times, one day seeing our Way clear as mud:
i . - i j i - a : t 2.!
in one direction, ana uie iiujli. sceiug ii
equally clear, in the other. Just where we
now stand is somewhat mixed. -(Sometimes
we take a quick glance at the thing and feel
like the late Horace Greeley, as it were, and
are sure that "the way to resume is to rer
. . nr n a k v.L
sume: out ii we surrer reiiecuou .to ww-,
doubts will cloud this simple theory. Hav
ing no clear conception of the subject, we
generally write from the promptings of the
moment, and having no fixed principles oh
finances, only to get all the money we cap.
and keep it, our readers may look for any
kind of doctrine, or for different kinds.
We are not quite sure that we are alone in
our financial muddle. In fact it looks as if
several of bur statesmen had been tarred
with the same stick. If we understand
ourselves just now, we are in favor of the
Inflation bill "just passed, and shall cheer.
fully pocket our part of the swag, if any
comes this way although, last week we
were honestly opposed tq inflation. We
shall endeavor to be honest in our views
whatever they may be ; and the rather, as
honesty is thought to be the best ef policy.
Another Story of Poor Laura Bridg-
s man. '"'. -.j- '
The Hartford Timet relates a circumstance
in the life of Laura Bridgman, the blind
mute whose history excited so much inter
est many years ago which indicates
the remarkable acuteness bf her rirnainihg
senses. While a.t the Connecticut 3Asy lum,
a party of ladies, strangers to her, called' to
see her, and had their interview with her
after they had taken off and, hung up their
shawls, bonnets, &c. Laura (who, has
always possessed, the sense of touch) went
to each one bf them and felt of - them.
After satisfying her curiosity in this way,
she went on with her,; usual work for she
&ouid knit and do a great many other thing?.
, Iwiien the ladies rose lo depart she went to
the place where they had hung up their
things and; taking down each article sepa
rately, carried it to its proper owner. 1
. Anna, to her beau Frederick, what city
is that you are going to visit this fall ?
Fred If you have no objections, Tm going
HavetoAnna,.
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Notes of the Day.
f a'mcrchant fuanages to gctjbls stock -
without piyicg fr' it, ,you had bettor not
behWehini' when! be a'drcrtlscs to sell under
, i 1 ! ' i:
s Probably the wittiest savin c In t ho lan
guage ' is Douglds dj&rrftld's definition . of
dogmatism; that it ii puppyism como to.
maturity.
f Grandua," tild aJlittle urchin, 4 our
specs are upside down do you wear them
thds to see to sew ?1 " No, my dear, J
wear them to. see.
A vounk man who swallowed three
ounces' of I laudajnum. and five, grains or
morphia wjas forded by his friends to walk
the streets M Baltimore for U hours. Tho
exercise sayeu n
. Charles Mathews, the comedian, brought
ub bis son as an larchitcn. V hen itsked
what! profession the young man was intend-
ed ifor. he renlied that he was " to draw
hbibek, ai his fathw had done." v f'
M l)o yoti see thU stick, sir?'J'said a very
stupid ac ualntaiucc to Sydney bmith.'
is stick lias'b
jen all round the world.
said the remorseless
"ind yci
t Is only a sttck."
sId. a lawyer to the
who know? me knows I
Vour Ilonor
judge, f 'every' ma
ari incapab
e of lending my aid to a mean
cause.
That's
ao'j eaid his opponent ;
" jtlic learned gent
emah never lends himself
toii h mean caus
he always gets cash
J . : .. .
down.'' j
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A newsnaber writer lin 3Iissi?sipni, who
had a difficulty with a man and . killed
hiinl wrote a gufchinc tribute to the memory
of: Lis vicliuj, which was . published in the
nexi issuie oi his paper, -laying special strcsi
upon the gallantry iwith which ho met hi i
fate
and fou
;ht to
the last.
lA young linmarrJcJ clergyman in Brock-
port, in conyersa.ti6n,' said that young ladies
howra'days can make a ricl calie, but they
cannot make good bread. A few days
after the remark the Fishkill Standard '
asserts, the divineircceived fourteen loaves
jf Ijread, with the cbmpliments.of fourteen '
young ladies of his congregation. i
During the state of siege at Madrid the
jCaptainj General oj Police dirccfed that no
jshooting of guns j or piXtols should takjo
-".' 3iimlynmuta-TL-l!lCatrer.
the performf nee,"- he aid, let the . actor
stepj in front of thii stage, and In order to ;
satiny the audientig, he mayshout Bang !
bang i' or 4 Boom r.;boom :,
1'
Scandinavian Character.
Cjusf avus Adolpliu3 and Charles j XII arc
two! tvpes of Swedub character. ..bvcry
SwEido has- cither a Lutzen or; a Bender.
But even as ah
adventurer .the Swede
to keep up apnearanccs. '
alwavs knows how
lie may! sink below morality, ,but- he never ,
Rintk hi-low decency. His shrewdness
have vulgar purposes but his'jricks .
OOinOlSnOW 1U IMS JUUVCJ; uuauuuua
self VVithcut digktty, of at lcatj thcbow
of dignity,-b,3 cannot live. Thence Is In
the Swedish character a lofty, aspiration
connected with a tilant for brilliant display;
a lpEging fol the' skiblime in its exulted or
in Its fearful form ; an. audacious, vadven-.
tnfoiiia tenirU ; arid he Who knOWS' tUCir,
language, their literature,1 and their hii-tvry
wflljalways imagine me pwcucs wuhuuir .
into the w rld in glowing uniforms of
yellow, and blue, with glittering bayopets
and r thrillmg chants. . l aey ar nuuuu .
of soldiers. They are mo soiuicr ui w
North. While thd Swede ; "seems born to
gian is born It earn ;wo-cenis anu uuu.
Thd ! steady r the- prudent, the responsrblo
Norwegians ' ; Altiough Norway )s pot" tho
land in the. world test fitted for agriculture
and although it Las other rccources, as, ior
instance!, fish,' iron jand timber, which con
tribute largely to tiie maintenance of its In
habitants, get agriculture ; is the main bust-
i I : 1 'Ii. !.
ny of the Norwegian people, ana iew
nftiocsj if any, have the agricultural ttamp
so distinctly and so nobly impressed upon
their . character. . . ,; ' ' . " '
Tbe Norwegiahlis a prudent maiu He
can calculate and! Wait Ior the opportunity.
tye an work and abidethe result . I he
statisticts ofi births and deaths in Norway
give; a striking instjance of the 'prudence of.
the people, Wheh; compared, tor Instance,
with those from Hungary. A traveler in
Norway cannot help noticing that he meets
so many old folks : and so few children;
whife in Ilingarjj he wouid not be at all
astonished if ; toiq. that every- man was
doomed thete to die when he reached his
thiriieth year, genirany leaving thirty chil
dren behind him- But in Norway every
c'hil tew though theyy are, grows up to
inanhbod and wonaanhoKl ; while In Hun
gary, which) swarms with children, most of
them are dying wiien theyi begin to Jive.
The Norwegian farmer asks his farm
whether It ban support a family pr not, and
he waits for scventyears In pious abstinence,
till bis position alows him to marry. In
no country I know of is ao Utile done for
the convenience land enjoyment of the
prefent generatiou, and much for the
comfort and development of generations to
come.-C Peterten, in th Galaxy for
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