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POETBY. ODE TO THE OCEAN. Interest has teen excited by the discovery of a remarkable coincidence between the well* known passage in Byron's "Childe Harold," beginning— "Roll on, thon deep and dark blueocean,rollj Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain, and certain stanzas in fin "Ode to the Sea,' by Chenendolle, a French poet, which are as follows: "Dread ocean, bnrst npnn me with thy shores, Fling wide thy waters when the storms bear sway Thy bosom opens to a thousand proreii YetflVetswith idle daring breast thy spray, Ripple with arrow's track thy closing plain, Ana graze the surface of thy deep domain. "Man dares not tread thy liqjid way, Thou sourns't that despot ol a day, Tossed like a snow-flake on the spray, From storm-gnlfs to the skies He breathes and reigns on solid land And ruin marks his tyrant hand Thou bid«t him in that circle stand— Thy reign his rage defies. "Or, should he force his passage there, Thou risest, mocking his despair The shipwreck humbles all his pride He sinks within the darksome tide— The surge's vast uniathomed gloom His catacomb— Without a name, without a tomb. "The banks are kingdoms, where the shrine, the throne, The pomp of human things are changed and past. The people, they are phantoms, they are flown, Time has avenged thee on their strength at last. Thy billows idly rest on Sidon's shore, And her bold pilots wound thy pride no more. "Rome, Athens, Carthage 1 what are they? Spoiledheritage, successive prey Mew nhtions torce their onward way, And grasp disputed reign Thou changest not, thy waters pour The same wild waves gainst the shore, Where Liberty had breathed before, And Slavery hugs his chain. "States bow Time's sceptre presses still On Apennine's subsiding hill No trace of Time is leit on thee, Unchanging sea, Created thus, and still to be. "Seal of Almightiness itself the immense And glorious mirror! how thy azure face Renews the heavens in their magnificence I Whatawtul grandeur rounds thy heaving space! Two worlds thy surge, eternal warring, sweeps, And God's throne rests on thy majestic deeps!" Chenendolle's ode may be fonnd in Long fellow's "Poetry ot Europe," irom which the above translation is derived. Some doubt ex ists as to who was the plagiarist in this case, it Chenendolle was born in 1769. In 1807 he produced "The Grnins ofMan." a poem great ly admired in 1820 he published a collection of his earlj odes, with some new ones. It is uncertain when the ode from which the above extract given first appeared.—Appleton's Jour nal. MISCELLANY. WARNINGS FROM VESUVIUS. The'Naples correspondent of the Lon don Times writes to that Journal on Dec. 10: Wc have had no other alarm from the earthquake since Monday, and the public feelinjr is subsiding into its usual tranquil state of sccuirty. For one or two days every one, I believe, was anxious and ap prehensive, for it is no trifle to be rocked in your bed, to see your walls rocking backward and forward, and to hear the timbers creaking. Such sights would be alarming anywhere, more especially in Naples, winch has suffered from a series of disasters, and which has not yet for gotten the awful earthquake of 1857. On Monday night and Tuesday morning few persons went to bed: or if they did they threw themselves on it in military style, completely dressed and ready for a start. Many formed parties, as if seek ing security in society, but more were in the streets, in cafe", or in carriages of any kind they could lay hands on. Thoes who were less fortunate had to pass the night on the pave exposed to rain, and what for this country was bitter cold. There wag a full expectation that the earthquake would repeat its visit at the end of twenty-four honrs after the first shock—it not unfrequently does—so that from midnight until 3:24 on Tuesday morning apprehension became increasing ly and painfully strong. Conversation was on the wane, snatch es of Litany were chanted here and there almost sotto voice. As 3 o'clock ap proached there was a dead silence, as if the enemy were upon them and thus it was at 3:15 when apprehension was in tense but the minute-hand marked 3:24, and the sense of relief was great, for nothing happened to ereate alarm, though this did not suffice to satisfy those who fancied that the dreaded visitor might have delayed his coming, or that clocks might be wrong A few minutes more restored tranquility to the most timid, and by dawn of day all went home chill ed to the marrow, many, it is probable, having found the death from which they fled. During the day preceding this anxious night preperations were made by persons which remind us of the hurried flight from Pompeii, indications of which have often been brought to light during the excavations. Boxes were purchased and jewels packed, and in some cases it is said, even articles of drese. All that was most precious was in readiness to bo carried off, and, says a Journalist, one lady sent off her 'adorato papagallo' (adored parrot), to be restored if demand ed, or bequethed to the friend if she herself were buried under the ruins of Naples. It is unnecessary to say that this general apprehension was of a most exaggerated and unnecessary character^ Still no one can answer for his house when its foundations are heaving up and down, and we cannot forget the horrors of 1857, when 30,000 persons were des troyed by earthquake in the neighboring provinces, and our bells rang, as it were, funeral peals over lhem. Later re ports now tell us that the shock was felt as far as Bari, and in every place it ex cited great alarm. In Salerno the peo ple were in a state of fanatical madness. All rusned to the cathedral, insisting on bringing out the statue of the patron saint, Saint Matthew, and the bells being rung—a not uncommon practice in a tempest. The clergy, however, in obedience to the civil authorities, would not permit it, but the public feeling was too strong to be resisted, so that the statue was carried off on the shoulders of men. Wax tapers were' seized, and, fol lowed by many thousand persons, St. Matthew was borne in procession through the streets. There was considerable few that a dangerous collision, might have oe cured, for by order of the Prefect, a de tachment of soldiers was sent out and placed at the disposal of the Qutestor. After a bng time, however, the people were persuaded that the saint had little connection with the earthquake, and as it did not repeat its visit, St Matthew was taken back to the cathedral, and all returned to their homes. No serious disaster has occured any where except in S Marco, in Lamis, in the Capitanata, a commune of about 15, 000 persons. There several houses were thrown down, and three persons hurried. Many foreign visitors left Naples on Mon day, and it is feared that for the moment the trade of the season will be injured but, with the almost certainty of an eruption, crowds will propable come in. As iu 1875, the earthquako of December was followed very soon after by an eruption, for if Vesuvius was not the cen ter of the recent movement it is more or less remotely connected with it. The activity of the mountain increases daily, and Cozzolino, the well-known guide of Vesuvius, writes to roe that the shocks have been frequent at Resina, though slight. The panic which was created on Monday, he says, was indescribable for, in addition to earthquake, thero was a general apprehension that tho moun tain was, or would be. pouring down its streams of lava upon them. Let me haz ard the conjecture that the actual sub terranean may have been produced or precipitated by the deluges of rain which have fallen this season. Professor Phil lips, in his interesting work of Vesuvius, says: "If we follow out the idea arrived at in the preceeding passage—internal fissures arrising from some kind of accu mulated pressure—the necessity of earth quakes following upon such a process in a volcanic region will be apparent. For thus the heated interior becomes opened to the admission of water: the generation of steam, the sudden shock, the far ex tended vibratory motion, are conse* quences of a slow change of dimensions, in pressenco of internal heat and admit ted air." A SEXTON'S EXPERlEhCE. [From the New York Graphic] A few hundred people in New York know the Episcopal Church of the Trans figuration by this, its proper name but when we speak of it as "The Little Church Around the Corner" it is familiar to every one, for its reputation has crossed the sea. Located on the north side of Twenty-ninth street, between Fifth and Madison avenue, its exterior presents picturesque attractions unsurpassed. While its architectural altitude is far be low that of scores of other churches around as many corners, as a synonym of a humanity of sentiment towards all men it reaches an upper atmosphere far above many of the houses dedicated to worship, in which the creed and the people are as stiff-necked and inflexible as the steeple over their heads. James C. Rappleyea, the sexton, does not advertise himself and his funeral rare?, as is the wont of other sextons, by a tin "shingle" nailed to the house of God with a delicacy that docs him the highest credit, he allows his works to praise him. Neither does he like to talk of himself or his great success as "Sexton and funeral furnisher" (to quote from the city direct ory.) The writer recently conversed with him at length concerning sextons and undertakers in particular, and many other things in general, and he furnished many interesting facts. "Dr. Houghton is very particular what goes in the papers, and what don't go in, doa't you see was his satisfactory reason for his guard ed statements. "No I don't have no sign on the church," said Mr. Rappleyea "It makes the church look like a place of business-that is just the reason I don't have a sign. People coming to.church don't want to have a sign stuck in their faces to remind them of what they are coming to and then perhaps the very next thing they see alter they get inside is me, and every thing comes up. And I don't have any coffins in my windowj." he continued, re ferring to his place ©lousiness as under taker, at No 654 Sixth avenue. "I have been sexton of the Little Church Around the Corner," or the 'Church of the Holy Cucumber-vine,' as it was once styled, since Nov 1, 1860. I was with Dr. Houghton when he was a little young boy, over in Twenty-fourth street near Fourth avenue. I was assistant with my brother-in-law, Mr. Samuel Deare, who was sexton of Calvary Episcopal Church. From there I went to'the House of Prayer, in Newark, with Dr. Southard, where he was rector and I was sexton. I've known a great many men, but ho was a gentle man in every respect. I never knew one like him-a friend to every one who is a friend to himself." "Holland's funeral ?Oh yes, I managed that at the church, but the things were furnished by two or three different per sons. You know that wasn't the first trouble. John J. Eckel, the man who was sentenced for killing Burdell, died at Albany, and his body was brought down here. He was a memberjof Rutger's Presbyterian Church. Queer, wasn't it, that both the big churches right around the corner on Madison avenue should do tho same thing But theyfwouldn't let his body in, and it was taken over to my store on Fourth avenue-I used to be there and a prayer was said by Mr. Mc Allister, a Methodist clergyman. Yes, Eckel's was the first case, but Holland's fuueral is what gave the church the name everybody knows it by now. Dr. Sabine was the man who called it so." "No I don't keep no record of weddings I just take my fee an' let 'cm go. But I keep a book of all my funerals. Talk of real, genuine men-there are other under takers in the city who have great funerals sometimes—but come to the real thing, I have probably buried more private gen tleman than any other undertaker in New York. I've had close along towards a hundred funerals this year—twenty five or thirty at the church. What prom inent men have I buried Why, a great many of 'em. Mark Smith was quite a famous great actor, you know, and his body was brought here. Then I had Dr. Mott, the old gentleman himself Mr. Squires, that was killed on the Erie Rail road—he was quite a man, and belonged to General Sickles' brigade Major-Gen eral Hamblin, at which Jim Fisk was so prominent, and a great many more. Here they all are, and you can* see for yourself," and Mr. Rappleyea passed the book over containing the entries of all his funerals, with the items of expense. Accidentally the first page opened con tained the name of Guiseppe Guidicini, who frescoed the Grand Ooera-honse, but died the night it was opened. His last wish had been to see the effect by gas light. "Fisk paid the bill for his funeral without looking at the items," said Mr. Rappleyea. The items which Fisk did not look at are as follows: Ice-box anl porter Merino-lined coffin, silver moldings..., Eight silver handles, at 82 Plate ...T. flUISKPPI QCIDICINI. 812 00 300 00 16 00 15 00 DiedJanuary 7,1868, Aged 67 years 13 days. Hearse to Greenwood Twelve coaches, at |7.. Seven pairs best kid(doves, at 82 One linen scarf Four porters to house—two to Green wood Cueforcasket Best velvet paU Cash paidforgrave Ferrying. 10 00 84 00 14 00 800 8 00 5 00 3 00 6 00 7 60 Personal services rendered. 15 00 Total 1403 60 "My funerals are always recommend ed—almost always," continued Mr. Rapp leyea. "Now I think they often put the body on ice too quick. A great many respectable people who have fine feelings won't put 'em on ice, but use an ice box. and then, perhaps, the body won't keep at all. My funerals are among the first clasa people in the city-it seems that way. I've had as many as eight in two or three days, sometimes." "Did I ever know of a-.case where a per son was buriei alive Well, not exactly. But I knew a person in New Jersey a great many years ago, when I was a boy. that would have been buried alive if it hadn't been for roe. I promised the family never to say anything about it. She was a tanner's daughter in New Brunswick, N. J., and they had her laid out on a board, the eld-fashioned way, on the parlor table. I knew she wasn dead, and they waited. She looked so pretty-and she lived to have two or three children," and the sexton smiled and looked wise. "Was you ever knocked down by a dead man "Mr. Rappleyea asked. The visitor confessed that he never enjoyed an experience of this sort, and modestly allowed that few live men could accom plish that feat. "I was once," continued Mr. Rappleyea. "Another man and I onco went to lay a body out. The widdow said the remains of the departed were up in the front chamber. We went up, but the only thing we found was a man reclining on the arm of a sofa. So we went down and told the lady, and she said that was him on the sofa. We went up again. I says, 'That's him,' and walked over to the man on the sofa. He looked as natural as life, but he was so stiff that when we laid him out on the floor we had hard work to straighten him. The other man went down stairs for something, and as I was over the corpse his right hand come up from under him, where we had bent it down, and hit me a lick that sent me over against the man tle. Oh such a clip! It made my jaw so sore, and my face was black and blue for THE THERMOMETER MAN IN. DETROIT. [From the Detroit Free Press.] He was a way-worn man from the East, and he had thirty-seven thermometers in a basket on his arm. After standing on the street corners for two or three hours without making a sale, he started for the eastern part of the city, hoping to do bet ter among the private houses. He seem ed to gain confidence frotn the cheerful look of the dwellings, and he bore him like a banker as he4 ascended the steps and pulled a door-bell. "Nothing for the poor," said the lady, as she opened the door. "I'm net soliciting for the poor—I am selling thermometers," he replied in a balmy voice. "Don't want any—bought our stock in the Fall," she said drawing in her head. "I said thermometers, Madam," he call ed in a despairing voice. "I know it but we've got all the veget ables we can use," she called back, and the door struck his toes. Going to the saloon on the corner the man addressed the proprietor with a sweet smile, asking: "Would you like a thermometer to day "By de pushel asked the saloonist. "No—a thermometer—a little instru ment for telling you when it is cold or warm." "Any music-box in it inquired the saloonist. "No it records the weather." "What wedder!" "Why, the weather we have every day in the year. When it is warm this little bulb runs up when it is cold it sinks down." "Umph! Vhen it ish warm I dakes my goat off vhen it ish gold I but more goal in dcr stoaf. Go und sell dat to some schmall poy as knows noddings!" The thermometer man entered a carpet weaver's, and a bow-backed man nodded kindly and cordially welcomed him. "Accurate thermometers for only twenty-five cents," sajd the peddler, as he held one up "New thing asked the weaver, as he took ono in his hand. "Wc have had thermometers for many years. People have come to consider them a household necessity." "Zero? Zero? Who was Zero ?"ask ed the weaver, reading the word behind the glass. The thermometer man explained, and the weaver, after trying to get his thumb nail under the glass, asked: "Where does the blamed thing open "Thermometere arc not meant to open, my friend, was the reply. "Well, I don't want any thermometers around me that won't open!" growled the weaver. "I thought it was a new kind of stove-handle when you came in, or I shouldn't have looked at it!" The thermometer man next tried a dwelling-house. In answer to his ring, the door was instantly and swiftly open ed by a red-faced woman, who hit him with a club and cried out: "I'll learn you, you young villian!" She apologized and explained that several bad doys had been ringing the door-bell, and he forgave her and said: "I have some accurate and handsome thermometers here. Would you "We never have hash for breakfast," she interrupted. "My husband detests hash, and so I don't wan't to buy." "Hash! A Thermometer has nothing to do with hash!" he exclaimed. "Well, I can't help that," she replied, owly crossing the door." We havn't anv lamps to mend, and you shouldn't track the steps in that way." There was a portly man crossing the street, and the thermometer man beckon ed to him, haltad him, and when he got near enough asked "Can I sell you an accurate thermom eter to-day "A what?". "A thermometer." "What do I want with a thermometer?" exclaimed the portly man, raising his voice a peg. "Why, to note tho weather." "You blamed idiot! Do you suppose I run the weather roared the fat man, growing purple in the face. "But you want to know when it is hot or cold, don't you! "Am I such an old fool that I don't know when it's summer and when it's winter shrieked the fat man. "We all know, of course," replied the stranger "but every respectable family has a thermometer nowadays." "They have, eh! I never had one, nor, I wouldn't have one, and do you dare to tell that I ain't respectable screamed old portly. "I didn't mean "Yes yon did, and you've made me miss the car, and I'll cane you!" The Thermometer man waded across the muddy street and made his escape, and at dusk last night was backed up against the Soldiers/ Monument, his basket between his feet, and was squint ing sadly at the clock on the City Hall tower. MARVELOUS CONCERT. [New York Letter, Jan^d, to the 8t. Louis Anseiger drsWeatens.] Yesterday, by a lucky accident-how can I sufficiently congratulate myself upon it!—I obtained insight into the .workings of a secret order which threat ens a danger of quite a different kind from that of the O. A. U., which of latter time has caused so much excitement. Hear me out, and then judge for your selves whether or not I overestimate the danget'which menaces the great Ameri can republic. On Sylvester evening I was invited to a social dancing parly at 's, on Pifth avenue. I arrived a little early, and seated myself in the niche of a window, behind the heavy curtains, to look at the turmoil on the opposite side of the street, when two young ladies entered except ing myself, the first guests in the parlor— who, believing themselves to be quite alone and unobserved, walked up and down and conversed quite freely together. They told each other of visits which they expected on New Year's day, and I heard one of them say to the other, very distinctly, that she was promised calls from Count J. B. Pritchard, Marquis Hiram Butler, and the young viscount Jimmy McBridal. I brushed the hair from my ears, for they must have deceived me. My friend Pritchard was the son of a Brooklyn soap boiler, who but a short time since was admitted to partnership in his father's business my other friend— Hiram Butler—was cashier of a bank on Broadway and only two hours before I had, in company with Jimmy McBridal, gone home from his India rubber estab lishment, where 1 myself worked, to make my toilet. How in the name, of all the tattlers in' Christendom had my friends come by their titles of "count, "marquis," and "viscountV over night? But I was to be still more astounded! The parlor began to fill up with guests, and I already thought I had lost sight of the two mysterious ladies when I came directly upon them again, and heard one of them say to the other: "No, your grace, this evening I shall dance only a single quadrille, and had I not promised that to Prince Johnson I would not dance at all, as I am suffering from a terrible headache." "Prince Johnson!" I said to nnself. That cannot certainly be my friend Giles P. Johnson of Boslon, who has been dodging around here for a week or so celebrating the holidays! I had scarcely uttered the thought when the quadrille was called. I looked for my lady with the apple green satin trail. Sure enough, there she was dancing with friend John son! Now I also recognized his dancing partner, it was Mrs. Annis, of Annis, Dougherty & Co., importers of artificial flowers, and one* of the most fashionable and popular beauties of the city. Her husband was in Paris buying a stock of summer wares, the wife, an in timate friend of the family of our host, by whom we were invited, had come with her brother-in-law and sister. "Shall I have the honor of conducting the countess to her carriage?" said Johnson to his partner when the quadrille was over. She gracefully bowed, took his arm. and the countess and prince vanished. Was this all a dream? a mystification? a New York madness, which I, who mixed with fashionable society at pleasure, and thought I knew all the world, knew really nothing at all about? My curi osity was excited. I listened to the right and to the left. I renewed old ac quaintanceships which I had not lately thought of. I heard not a syllable more which could afford any explanation or clue no one again called any of my acquaintances "prince," or "count," or "marquis," and just as far was I of hearing anywhere a lady addressed by a title of nobility. But my ears could not have been deceived. And the key to the mystery was to be furnished sooner than I had for tho last two hours been led to hope. I was just about to leave this festive scene when my friend Jimmy McBridal came out of a side room, and seeing me, exclaimed: "Henry, see here, I have looked the whole evening in vain for you. Now it is too late to make a new beginning, but I will at least take you home in my carriage.",! I was quite ready to go. So soon as seated, I went straight to the subject that so perplexed me: "What new nonsense is out that you allow yourself to be called 'viscount,' that they speak of Pritchard as a 'count,' and of Hiram But ler as a 'marquis," and call Johnson a Vrince' "No nonsense at all, my friend. You should this evening have been initiated, and I have a commission to invite you to a meeting of the O. A. E. to-morrow evening. Will you come One word brought on another, and I learned precisely that the wealthy citi zens of New York, Philadelphia and Bos ton—capitalists, manufacturers, import ers and jobbers, in connection with a great number of the large landed proprie tors of the south and west, had founded an order for no less an object than to perfect a plan to the minutest details, to substitute for the Republican constitution of these United States an imperial con stitution, with an elected emperor at the head of the government, supported by principalities, dukedoms and electorates of the various states, upon the basis*of a newly-founded hereditary nobility. And I had on Sylvester night, by theracest accident, become acquainted vsich few of the iuferior memberrs. Under the seal of secrecy I now learned the objects and designs of the "Order of the American Empire," and the progress it had already made. Upon the person of the first emperor, who is to be elected for life from the electors, kings and dukes, the order is not yet agreed. The rich ladies insist that the first emperor must be a married man in order that there may be an empress and also that her court state can and shall be now se lected from among'the first women of the land. The pretender, who has up to this time the prefcience in the counsels, is a single man, although they hope to find before the advent of the centennial day next July, a married magnate of a great New England family, who can wear the imperial crown with becoming dignity. On the other hand, it has already been decided that New lork, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Missouri, and California should be kingdoms, that both Virginias,Louisiana, and Arkansas should become temporal electorates, and that the spiritual elec torates of Baltimore, Natchez, end Santa Fo should be established. It is impossi ble for me to remember all the principal ities and dukedoms of the various States, so far as settled in the plan. Illinois, if I remember aright, my friend, the new Vis count McBridal, told me was a grand dukedom in the imperial scheme. A lot of large landed estates—to make up—at least three whole sections of land—are devoted to entail and knightly manors, and all public lands yet un settled are set apart as tho hered itary domain o(the great imperial crown. Hunting, Ashing, the tobacco and play ing-card trades will be elevated to the royal prerogatives, which, together with the taxes, the post, the military estab lishments, and the diplomatic service shall depend exclusively upon the impe rial government. More than 1,500 prin ces, counts, viscounts, chevaliers, mar quises, dukes, barons and baronets are created the right of the first-born for the new nobility is established, and sub sequent sons are provided with officers' rank from general down to captain and and this as well as the whole diplomatic service is already arranged. They intend through the multiplicity of newly-founded noble families to fit and commit society to the new form of government, and by the transformation of our whole domestic life, and all the fashions, the provision of numberless monarchical emblems and patents of nobility, orders, escutcheons, and the like, to give the industries and tho arts such an impetus that tho whole population will be immediately won to the new order of things. Keep this communication strictly secret until I have become acquainted with the whole conspiracy in all its ramifications —till I myself, for the welfare of tho re public, am admitted as a member of the rrder of American monarchy. Then all will be brought to light. A POWERFUL FEASIBLE MEMORY. The bootblack at the corner stand on street was looking for a customer. He was as black as the ace of spades, and as he carelessly dusted off his stand with the stump of a corn brush he occasionally paused and rolled his eyes hungrily up and down the street. Presently a tall, raw-boned, middle aged man, with a considerable length of goatee and not a little breadth of hat rim, stopped and glanced at the stand with some show of interest. "Have a shine, boss?"said the owner of the stand, giving his chair a parting dab with his brush. "Shine 'em up in half a minit, sah. You'll jist have time to glance over de mornin' papers." Without deigning an answer the lank chap climbed into the seat before him. "Whar yea rollin' them pants to was his first remark after the owner of the stand began to operate. "All right now, boss. We musn't muss 'em, you see. It's all feasible now, sah." "Well, proceeed to business." "1's a movin' boss I's a movin' sah!" "Wall, sec that you keep a movin'." "De people of de souf," said the boot black,cocking]a cunning eye up at his cus tomer, "dc people of de souf (another look of the eye) most alius gives us pocr cullud boys any little feasible job dey's got." "You think I'm from the south?" *Tso from the souf myself, sah." "Likely." "l'se from dc souf, sah—from ole Kain tuck, sah." "Indeed!" "Sartin, boss. I'se from Lexington, Kaintuck, sab," scraping away with an old case knife at the mud on the soles of his customer's boots. _, "I'm from Kentucky myself, and from Lexington," said the man, beginning to look interested. "So you are from Lex ington, eh?" "Ges so, boss. Practically I was born dar, sah." "Like you I was born thar.'' "Nice old town, boss." "Very." "I golly, boss, cf I didn't think from the fust that I saw in you the rale old Kaintucky gentleman. You've got a good deal of the cut of somo of dem law and med'en students dat used to be about de ole Transylvania 'varsity but you'tsc aged a-1-e-etle grain more dan was de boys in dem days." "Ive often seen the old university." "It was a fine old town, too. De main stredtwasmor than a mile long dar war beautiful trees 'long de street and dc orphan 'sylum an' dc baggin' facterys, de wire-works, an' de— "The lunatic asylum." "Yey, boss, shore 'nuff. dar was de lu natic 'sylum." "And the river." "An' deriber I golly, dat fist big bend in Town of Elkhorn, up 'bove de city—practically dat was a mighty feasi ble proposition for catfish." "Araazin'." "I say, boss, practically, you never happened to know a culled boy named Columbus Parsons, as lived out on dc road to'ards whar ole Henry Clay was horned—out to'ard Ashland—did yer sah?" "I knowed a culled boy named Colum bus Parsons that rode ole Woodpecker against Ploughboy, down at the Blue Grass course, and won the puss." "De Lord love us! Was you dar De great honkky! Practically, I am dat same Columbus Parsons what rode ole Woodpecker an' won de puss down dar to Blue Grass." "The Columbus Parsons I knowed used to be a great fiddler played for all the balls and parties for miles around." "Dat was me, sah. I was de boy. Now you's a-beginning to know me." "The Columbus Parsons that I used to* know was a great singer—was lightnin' at all the nigger camp meetins'." "Dat was me, boss I'm identically and practically dat same Columbus Parsons,! You's got de most feasible mem'ry dat I ever saw, sah." "The Columbus-Parsons that I knowed went down to Frankfort and run on the river as steward on the Bell Wagner." "Yah, yah! You knows me—you knows me, boss! you knows me like a brudder, sah! In dem days didn't I put on de apparel? Wasn't I attired? Prac tically, sah, you's got the most feasible mem'ry dat I ever saw," "The Columbus Parsons that I knowed, the Columbus Parsons that rode Ole Woodpecker, the Columbus Parsons that used to sing at camp mcetin'.is the Colum bus Parsons who burst open the trunk of a passenger, stole a thousand dollars, and was sent to the state prison at Frankfort for five years." "Practically, boss, you's got a powerful feasible mem'ry, but dar was anoder Col umbus Parsons down dar 'bout Lexington and Frankfort—partie'larly south Frank fort, 'cross de chain bridge—dat was a hoss rider, a fiddler, a singer and steam boater, an' he was a low-flung, harum scarum, unaccountable feller, I guesj he mout a bin the Columbus Parsons what you know'd, bah." "You think so?" "Sartin, sure, boss, but don't say nuffin 'bout de feller heah, sah. You see, prac tically it mout injure my good name, sah. "Out-of-the-way polite"—Don trouble I can find the way myself! Oh, nonsense my dear, I'm very pleased indeed to show you out! A PUZZLE FOR THE DOCTORS. [Corresponpent of Suix City Journal.] A physician of Sibley, la., Dr. Miller, has a strange case of disease in his I practice, the details of which may be I interesting to your readers and of value to medical men. Mrs Carew, is probably fifty years of age, and well respected in this community, where she has resided for three years, during which time, and for years previously, indeed she has been an invalid. The disease develcd what are commonly known as fever sores on various parts of the body, and one of these, situated in the region of the right breast, became so depraved that it was the source of great pain and annoyance. The ulcer finally assumed a sort of can cerous character, and for a number of months Mrs. C. was under mediele treat ment for the supposed cancer, and at one timts she was supposed to be ircurable. However, for several months past. Dr Miller has been attending the case, and now comes the strange part of the story. During the past ftwo weeks, at different times, he has extracted sewing-needles and brass pins from tho aforesaid ulcer, the total number being five pins and three needles, some of which are extreme ly corroded, and one of the pins are con siderably bent and evidently had once been used. One needle wis extracted only yesterday, but weather any others remain, of course it is impossible to say. With refference to how the pins and needles came to be imbedded in the flesh is something of a mistery, especially how they came there without the patient's knowledge. The only solution of the difficulty seems to be that during the severe sufferings, induced by the treat ment of the ulcer as a cancer, as she oc cupied a reclining position for days weeks together, the clothes and bandages were generally pinned to her clothing. The ulcer seemed to have its seat in the alveolar tissue that united the lobes of the mammary gland, and this tissue was wasted by supuratioa until the purulent cavities were formed into which a pin or needle might have dropped without any great difficulty, and that, too without the patient's knowlege in the midst of her excruciating pains. Then, of course, when under judicious treatment the process of healing began, these foreign substances would necessarily find their way to the surface. At any rate Mrs. Carew is slowly recovering her health, and is much astonished as any one at the fast that the old-time cancer turns out to be needles and pins. A WOLF IN A BAGGAGE CAR. The Atlanta{Gtk.,) Herald of the 24th inst., gives an account of the difficu'ty Baggage-master Hunt met on a trip from Chattanooga the day previous. It says: "At Chattanooga a man from some west ern state got aboard the train. He had, chained about the neck, a very large yel low wolf, the brute appeared to be docile enough while in charge of his owner, although to strangers his fierce eyes and grinning teeth were sufficient to keep one at a distance. By considerable pulling and kicking and jerks, the man succeeded in getting him aboaid, and putting him in the baggage-car, where he was chained in one corner. As might be well imagined, the baggage master did not fancy such a companion in his car alone, and protested against the act, but was rcpeadly assured that the wolf was harm less and would attack no one. Thus the baggage-man's feanj were allayed, and the train started. It leaves Chattanoga before light and tho baggage-master left alone with his gaunt companion. The train had not proceeded a very great dis tance before it became necessary for the baggage-master to adjust some pieces which he proceeded to do. In moving about he either forgot the presence of the brute of depending upon what the owner said ,n regard to its viciousness, went too near his \volfhip, which, of a sudden made a spring at Mr. Hunt and seized his coat tail. Turning to fi^ht the animal off it seized him again, tearing his coat half off. Mr. hunt fairght the wolf off and made his escape into the next car, where he informed Conductor Bell of what had taken place. That officer felt outraged at the danger to which his sub altern had been subjected, and started in to dispatch the brute, but thought it best to inform its owner of what had transpir ed before proceeding in his revengeful errand. The proprietor of the one-horse menagerie was aroused and informed of the situation, and told that he must make reparation for the damage done or he would be short of a waif very soon. He offered to console the injured party by saying that the wolf Vt as playing, and that he frequently toro his clothes off in these' little antics. But this did not restore the rent garment or allay the anger of the baggage-master, who insisted on his making good what the beast had made worthless. After considerable par leying and bickering, they finally com promised on $10 50. After that the wolf had the car pretty much bj' himself the balarse cf the trip." Never ask a child to tell the truth before company. In its innocence and arteless ness it may tkink you mean it. After having been married thirty-five years, in which time they have accumu lated ten million dollars' worth of prop erty, Mr. and Mrs. Alvinza Hayward, of California, have separated and Mrs. H, applied for a divorce. When a man and woman, with so .many years experience and ten millions to help them, can not make matrimony desirable, it is hardly worth while for young people with only ten dollars a week to undertake much. "Pa, are you in favor of a Bible in pub lic schools asked a West Side young ster at the table the other morning "Why, of course I am," responded the the father, plea&cd that such an impor tant subject should imagine the attention of his youthful offspring. 's-What makes pou ask such a question my son "O, uothin?,*' rejoined the hopeful, "only 1 thought maybe you wasn't, as you never have had one at home." The urchin dodged but wasn't quick enongh. Soldier** Additional Laud Claims Wanted. Aeoording to Act of Congress, June 8th. 1872, and the amendatory acts thereto, all honorable discharged soldiers who have serv ed 90 days or more the Union army, and have homesteaded 40,80, or 120 acres ot gov ernment land priorto June 22,1874, and made final proof thereof, are now entitled to an ad ditional 4(1, 80, or 120 acres—enough when ad ded to the original entry to make 160 acres— without residue thereon. The undersigned will pay the highest cash price for these c'ftims. Address, Z. T. Hedges, Springfield, Missouri. "Heal Thyself." The People's Common 8ense Medical Advi ser, a book of about 900 pages, illustrated with over 250 engravings and colored plates, and sold at the exceedingly low price of $1.69, tel.'s you how to cure Catarrh, ••Liver Complaint," Dyspepsia, or indigestion, Sick, Bilious, and other Headache?, Scrofula, Bronchial, Throat, and Lung Diseases and all diseases peculiar to women, and most other chronic as well as acute disorders. It contains important infor- mation for the young and old. male and fe male, single and married, nowhere elselo be found. Men and women, married and single, are tempted to ask their family physician thousands of questions on delicate topics, but are deterred from doing so by their modesty. Thiswork answers just such questions so fully and plainly as to leave to one in doubt. It is sold by Agents, or sent by mail (post paid) on receipt of pr oe. Address the author, R. Y. Pierce, M.D., World's Dispensary, N. Y. From the Lafayette Daily Courier. A VALUABLE WORK. Rr. B. N. Pierce, of Buffola distinguished iu surgery, and the general practice in the pro fession he honors, true of the day, in the com prehensive work entitled "The People's Com mon Sense Medical Adviser." While scien tific throughout, it is singiarly free from tech nical and stilted terms. It comes right down to the common sense of everv-day life. Dr. Pierce is a noble specimen ot American man hood. He has sprung from the people and, with many sympathies in commonwith the masses, has sought to render them a substan tial service in this the great work of his life. SCHENCK'S POLMOXICSTBUP.SE A WEED Tox ic AND MAXDBAKB PILLS.—These deservidly celebrate 1 and popular medicines have affect ed a revolution in the healing art, and proved the fallacy of several maxims which have for many y/ara obstructed the progress of med ical science. The false supposition that "Con sumption is incurable" deterred physicians from attempting to find lemedies for that di sease, and patients afflicted with it reconciled themselves to detth without making an effort to escape from a doom which they supposed to be unavoidable. It now proved, however, that Consumption eanbe cured, and that itha* been cured in a very great number of cases (some of them apparently desperate ones) by Schenck's Pulmonic Syrup alone and in lonnection with Schenk's Sea Weed Tonic and Mandrake pills, oneor both, acceding to' the requirements of the case. Dr. Schenck himself, who enjoyed uninter rupted good health for more than forty years, was supposed, at one time to be at the very gate of death, his physicans having pronounc ed his ease hopeless, and abandoned him to hU fate. He was cured by the aforsaid medi cines, and, since his recovery, roanv thous ands similarly affected have used Dr. Schenck's preparations with the same remark able success. Full directions accompany each, making it not absolutly necessary to personally see Dr. Schenck unless patien'8 wish their lungs ex amined, and for this purpose be is profession ally at his principal office, Corner Sixth and Arch Sts., Philadelphia, every Xmday. where all letters for advice must be addressed. Schenck's medicines are seld by all druggists Chapped hands, face, pimples, ringworm, saltrhenm,and othercutaneousaffections cured, and rough skin made soft and smooth, by using Juniper Tar Soap. Be careful to get on lv that made by Caswell, Hazard & Co., New York, as there are many imitations made itli common tar, all of which are worthless. THE greatest slaughter of prices ever seen in Minnesota is now going on at the Bos'ou One Price Clothing Store, Minneapolis, on Over coats, Underwear, Gloves and Mittens. Send your size and get clotbing with the privilege of examining beiore paying. Everything war ranted. •l od|0fl perdnyatho»e._ Terms Free. Address STINSOX & Co Portland. 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