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WEEKLY Mum's.
i’ort‘Téwnsean. Jefferson County. W. T
ALLEN WEIR Editor Ind Proprmor
A World of Girls and Birth,
Said the lm)‘. “I'll vlimlu tli-t tr. :-
And bring-lawn I near. I line-w."
Qunth tbegirl. “I will but im-
Liltle birch! defrmhlml run
(.‘ikurdly their nI‘FU tn talw.
And their little benrtx tn Inn-n.
And their little rgge tn “ml 3
Lou-o them happy {or my aim.
Surely little birds cm feel.“
And thalittle robin-bird
(Nice brown back and crimson luremlt
All the conversation hmml.
Sitting trembling in his neit.
"Whit I world." he cried. "of bliss.
Full of birds llld girls were this!
Blithe we'd answer to their call,
But I grant mistake it in
Boy- wera ever made at. Ill."
“Sells."
It would puzzle a philosoplu r to give
an exact definition of the “sell." Nearly
related to thchoux, it diii'ers from it in
being more innocent in its inception and
less mischievous in its consequences.
Some little ingenuity is required to con
coctahuppy "sell;" but any one may
perpetrate a hoax who is equal to “lend
ing a lie the confidence of truth." The
latter isrt deliberately planned deception,
oftenest attaining its end by personution
ot‘ forgery or something closely akin to
it; whereas asell needs no such playing
with edged tools, and may not only he
unprcmeditated, but even unintentional.
The Irishman who undertook to show
an exciseman a private still, and intro
duced him to his brother,who had been
twelve years in the army and was a pri
vate still,sold the guardian of the revenue
very neatly; although it is possible the
victim of the joke did not see the Inn
of the thing, any more than thcotliciul . f
the North London Railway Company did,
when overheating a third-class passenger
Iver that. any one could travel from Broad
street to Dalston Junction without a‘
ticket, as he had done only the day be
fore,he interviewed him when he alighted.
The trawler not proving communicative.
the zealous railway servant conveyed a
coin into his hand. and then asked : “How
did you go from Broad street to Dalston
Junction yesterday without a ticket!"
“oh," was the unwelcome reply, “I
walked l"
.Ls readily trapped was the amateur
musician who responded to the advertise
ment: “Wanted, a trombone-player for
Barnum’s Balcony Band." by waiting
upon the famous showman without delay.
“You want a trombone-player?" in
quiredhe.
“Yes,” said Mr. Barnum.
“What is the place worth?" asked the
applicant.
“011, about twenty-five dollars a week,
I In pose.“
“guy well, I should like it."
“All right," said Mr. Barnum; and the
trombone did frightful execution through
the week. Saturday came, and with it
Mr. Green for his salary, instead of
drawing which. he received a paper on
which was written: “Mr. Green to Mr.
P. T. Barnum. To playing the trout
bone on his balcony one week, twenty
five dollars.” The recipient smiled.
“It‘s all right. isn’t it?" asked Mr.
Barnum. . ' '
“Why,” said the musician, “you‘ve
made an odd mistake; you‘ve made me
the debtor instead of you."
“No mistake at all," said Barnum.
“You see, this is how it is. There are a
great many men in this city fond of
practicing on brass instruments; but.
the cannot do so at home because of
their neighbors' objections. So I find
them room on my balcony during so
many hours a day, where the street is so
noisy it does no harm; and they give me
so much a week for my trouble in keep
ing the organization complete. You
don't think me such afool as to pay such
a wretched lot of players surely? How
ever, as you seem to have been honestly
mistaken, you can pay me ten dollars
this week; but hereafter I can make no
reduction." There was a vacancy in
the balcony band the following Monday.
We take it that the shrewd showman
was not quite so much astonished at the
way his advertisement was miserinstrned,
as one A. 8., who recognizing a long 10.1
friend in the stalls of the theatre, but on.
able to catch his eye, notified in the
“agony" column of the Times: "if the
gentleman who was in the stalls on the
——Thentre on the evening of the sth
inst.. will write to the following address,
he will hear from the Box nbove;" and!
received nearly a score ot' replies. The!
first he opened. ran: "My Dear Madam—E
I cannot express to you how delighted l i
felt this mnl‘llihu on inking up the Times}
and reading your advertisement. How
exceedingly kind and thoughtful of you
to communicate with me in this way.
Pray, let me know as quickly as possible
when and where I may see you. Cuu we}
meet this evening! Do send me a note,
or better stii|,a telegram, here, on re
ceiptofthis—Yours Most Afi'ectionately."
The second letter. commencing “Miu‘
Carissima." suggested a meeting at the
Duke of York‘s Column, and ended:
“Good-bye, pet. Yours ever and it any—
The Gentleman in the Stalls." A third
deluded mortal declared that he had not
slept a wink after seeing “A. B.” at the
theatre. “You know Who" inlormed the
“Dearest Being," whose im'w' he still
saw before him,that his punt m wos much
too much for ordinary w H; to .tell:
that after wandering all ll .‘ Iltr, mixing
,ri u'u-Illii-ll‘, I"I'. ll" ~l||||li|i llkL‘ i"
4.4. -.r Fm, ullll tiul-du-vl s uuewhat
'l‘" .. .:t~ ‘l'\ nit" "[t~ _lll_~l tour n‘n'lua'k.
.\Il :rrv 111 in I and l'r-t «deep. Hum]-
:ltghl I'III 11-uf llHlFlHit” ALI] 5-! tin;
with ~| l-ih in wt other amino“. who evi-
Ilu-utw -l-~ ll'n'd t‘u- :t'lunytnwll‘ occupant
at the liq unthiug ~h~rt at an hem-w.
\i..:._\‘ .m Imp!l'lnml'trllmi sell has been
I" r; n-ti null trum iuzdnlity to resist sail
dl'll temptation. Hui-wt the judges of
llw Shim-mp l'--urt it New York State.
\l~ilil'L'lln' t'ruto-nui'il E\hllntion. sat
d-«m. in .i .I'm-t vurmr apart from the
n'hfh. 1.. int: n to a ult'dt (u~riiet-plzl_\‘t-r.
and. :u \\ id hl- “Hunt in murt, drew his
army Ul‘ti lli‘i-11l his hexd and ears in a
pmteeti n agailht pnnsilrlu draughts.
; tli- lli'dd'lllt'rfl tiguri- mum attracted at
'Hltiwlli and the whi~per run that it was
the Sl‘lllit' of mine \wudertul character.
Tlu-judge's sister wickedly told those
near horthat they Were gazing at the
etligr of an Aztec priest from Mexico.
The int'orumtiou passed from mouth to‘
mouth, and some hundreds of people‘
were druu n to the spot, to disperse some—t
wh-at aheepishly when the ohject of their
curiosity, having had enough of the cor
uet. re-adjusted his coat and rose to go.
A good story is told of one Boggs,
whose impertinent curiosity was pro
verbial throughout tho country that
owned hint. lie was on one occasion
traveling on the Little Miami Railroad
alongside a solemnlooking man. who
persistedin looking out of the window
and took no heed of Boggs‘s endeavors to
enliven the journey with a little conver
sation. At last the brakeman or guard
came round with some water, and the
unsociable traveler turned round to take
a drink. Seizing the chance, Bag 3
asked: “Going as far east. as New York%”
“No," granted the man.
“Ah 1" said Bogga, “New York is dull
this time of your; mehhe you‘re strik
ing for Philudelphia?"
The burly one shook his head.
“P‘rnps Cleveland‘s your destination?"
insinuatcd Mr. Briggs. “No? Can’t be
going this roundabout way to Chicago?"
No reply was vouchsafed.
.“Wl-ll,” cried Bnggs, despairin‘gly, “I
Upon: you‘ve no objection to telling
whcicyuu are going?“
“Well, pin." exclaimed the man, “I'm
going for seven yealsl"
Then the deputy sheriff said he would
rather not have folks talking to his pris
onerh, and Boggs gave in.
This puts us in mind of Mark Twain‘s
anecdote of Artemus Ward and a travel
ing bore, between whom the following
amusing colloquy took place:
“Did you hear that last thing of
Horace Greeley‘s?”
“Greeley. Greeley, Horace Greeley;
who is he?” said Artemuq.
Five minutes elapsed, then came:
“George Francis Train is making a good
deal of disturbance over in. England; do
you think they will put him in prison?"
“Train, Train. George Francis Train,"
said Artemus, solemnly; “I never heard
of him."
The tormenter tried another tack; he
said: “What do you think about Grant’s
chance for the Presidency?”
“Grant, Granti—Wlty, man i" said Ar
temus, “ you seem to know more strangers
than any one I ever saw.”
The man took a walk up the car;
coming back, he said: “Well, on igno
ramus, did you ever hear of Adam?"
The humorist looked up and said:
“Adam? What was his other name?"
The journey henceforth was made in
peace. '
Very nicely sold were a couple of
trantps who waylaid a wealthy farmer in
Louisa County, lowa, and demanded his
money'dr his life. Disinclincd to part
with either, he took to his heels. They
chased hltn half a mile down the rough
est of lanes, dashed after him through
a brier-hedge. and went panting across
an old corn-field. Then the chased one
struck for the woods, and went wheezing
upa steep hill, his pursuers pressing
closely behind with blood-shot eyes and
shortened breath. The farmer dashed
across a forty-acre stubble-field, across a
frozen creek, through a blackberry patch, ‘
down a ravine, over another hill, across a'
stump-field, to he run down on the road
by the tramps. They overhauled him
thoroughly, searched him from top toi
toe, to find he had not a solitary cent;
wherewlth to reward them for their]‘
perseverance. 1
Our concluding example relates to an‘
affecting romance told by the Detroit‘
Free Press. It was the second time that,
the hero of the story had accompanied‘
the young lady home from one of those
little social parties which are got up to
bring food hearts a step nearer each,
other. When they reached the gate, shed
,n-ketl him it' he wouldn't come in. He
:sal-l he Would. Sarah took his hat, told:
l him to Bittiowl), and left the room to re-l
lllvwe her things. Sue was hardly gone,
‘ before her mother came in, smiled
iswcetly, and, dropping down beside the
”than; than, Sllltli “i always did say that
‘it‘ a poor lvut respectable young man fell
in low; with Sarah, he should have my
,con out. h‘ one mothers would sacrifice
ltheir daughter’s happiness for riches, but
‘ I am not of that sort." ‘
i The young man started with alarm;
lhe di-ln‘t know whether he liked Sarah
or not; he hadn't drramed of marriage.
"She has acknowledged to me that she
loves you," continued the mother; "and
l, whatever is for her happiness is for mine."
; The young man stammered out: “1—!
i haven't -"
"01:, never mind! Make no apology.
l know you haven‘t much money, but. of
course you‘ll live with me. We’ll take
in boarders, and I‘ll be bound that we‘ll
get along all right."
it was a b-Id situation. lie hadn‘t even
looked love at Sarah. “I had no idea
of—-—" he began; when she held up her
hands saying: “I know you hadn't; but
it‘s ullriuht. With ynur wages and wlml
the Imunlcrs bring in. We vhnll get Mung
u sung as possible. All lh-Itl ink is
thnt you heumul in her: Sun-h has a tur
der hth. and if you should be (rims and
ugly. it wuuhl break her down inn week."
I‘m: young man‘s eyes stuml out like
cncunnuu in a shop window. and In: um
up “I,“ tried Insay something.
“Never miml nlmut the ihnnks,"ahc
amid; “I don't believe in lung cunn
shipo. Tho: eleventh nf Jnnuary is my
birthday. and it wuuld be nice fur ynu to
be marriul on that dug."
“But—hul—lmt ~‘ ' he amped.
"There. then-Y I dun't lt‘XlmCt :my
spew-h in reply," nlu- laughed. “Yum
and Sarah <ett2e it tn-niuht, and I'll ud
vertiw t'm tweh‘e hmuders straight away.
1'“ try tube a model mother-in hm. I
believe I'm g-«uldempeted and kind
hearted. though [ did unce fulluw a
young man two hundred miles and plum!
0“ the top of his head for agreeing to
marrymy daughter and then quitting
the country." She-patted him on the
head und Hkiit‘tl nut. And now the
young munwants advice. lie wants to
knnw whether he had better get in the
way of u lrcmnotive or slide off the
wharf. lt‘eVer «young bachelor was
“sold,“Snruh‘s young man was in that
predicament.—Uhambero‘ Journal.
Train up a Child in the Way He
Should (10.
There were many ideas entertained by
the Puritan settlers of New England that
happily Were not bequeathed to those.who
came after them, but in fixing proper re
lations between parents and children, and
in parental government generally," would
have been better to have preserved sonre
of the inflexibility of discipline that dis
tinguished them. The youth of the pres
ent have their own ways too much. No
obedience or respectis exacted from them
by father or mother in many instances,
and they grow up selfish, overbearing and
sometimes dangerous.
The case of the boy in Maine who a
year or so ago killed his father because
she was angry with him is probably fa
miliar to all. The other day a father in
New York was obliged to complain of
his son on account of the boy‘s repeated
thefts. When the youth had been sen
tenced he turned to his father and told him
that as soon as he got out ofjail he would
"blow the top of his head otf.” A few
days since a young man in high station
in Brooklyn tried to murder his wife.
He was neither intoxicated nor insane.
The only trouble was that Ire had always
been permitted to have his own way, and
the groove of selfishness and petty tyran
ny to which he had been allowed to shape
himself led but in one direction, and he
considered any means—even shot-guns
and bowie-knives—justiflable in reveng
ing himself upon those who opposed in
the slightest his wishes or course of life.
Children need checks, direction and
good influences. A well-governed child
is in the grand majority of cases sure to ,
grow into a respectable man or woman,
but the noblest natures may be blighted
unless the weeds of untrained propensity
are kept down.
Carcuax (immense—To one chick
en, chopped, add a little salt, parsley,
pepper, nutmeg, 9. saltspoont’ul ot onion,
one cup of cream, one-fourth cup of but
ter, and one dessertspoonl‘ul of flour.
Put the chicken, spices and cream on the
lire, when hot stir in the butter and flour,
boil about five minutes, and when cold
make into balls. Beat up one egg with
bread crumbs, dip the balls in, and drop i
in boiling lard. Very line for breakfast. ‘
Veal may be prepared in the same way.
Guarani) Carina—One cup of sugar,
half cup of sweet milk, one egg, one tea
spoon of soda, two of cream-of—tartar, or
three teaspoons of baking-powder. Bake
in three layers, as for jelly cake. Pre
pare a custard by boiling a pint of thin
cream, one beaten egg, one tablespoon of
flour, one teaspoon of corn-starch and
half a cup of sugar; when cold, flavor
with lemon, or anything you please, and
spread this between the layers.
; GINGER Snaps—One cup of molasses,
. one cup of brown sugar, one cup of short-
Lening, boil together, let cool, then add
one large tablespoonful of soda dissolved
in one tablespoonful of hot water, add
one tablespoonful of salt and one tea
spoonful of ginger. Roll very thin and
bake in a quick oven.
A N res: Banaxms'r Diem—Take equal
parts of milk and water, a little salt, let
it come to a boil, then stir in quickly
some graham flour, that which is pure
and good, and make it as thick as hasty
pudding. Eat with cream and sugar, or
milk if you have’ no cream.
DAHK‘ STEAMED Punnmo.—To be
steamed two and a half or three hours.—
One cupful molasses, one cupt'ul sweet
milk, two cupfuls butter, four cupl‘uls
flour, one teaspoonl‘ul soda, three-quar
ters oupful fruit; spice to suit the taste;
to be eaten with sour sauce.
STEAMED Puourso.—Three cups of
floor, one cup of molasses, one-hail' cup
of butter, one cup of milk, one teaspoon
ful of soda, one cup of raisins, and nut
meg to taste. Steam two and one-half
hours.
Carcass Pm.—~ Take one pint of sweet
cream, two tablespoont‘uls of flour, sweet
en to taste, flavor with nutmeg, and make
a crust like a custard pie.
Rncnnrons at the White House semi
to have n fascination for the people who
go week after week, and submit to being
crushed Ind sandwiched for an hour or
more before they gain entrance to the
presence of the center of attraction. And
what in it nil for? Simply to be taken
by the hand, hear their own names men
itioned. and pass on, well knowing that
‘they are forgotten IS seen u cute! light.
A (‘yclmm
A terrible cyclone recently swept "Vt‘f
the Country em! and wept ot Sioux (.‘ity.
entering the State shove Missouri Valley
.lunctiun. plhilllg iiortheuterly «cross to
Storm Lake. l'omeroy and l-‘ondn, in Mo
notm ('ounty. Tret'u were torn up by the
r-mli along the rivers. The home of .l.
It. Thurston mu wrecked completely.
The wing of the h mile of Mrs. Reilly wits
*truck and turn to piecea, and I’. Reilly.
who was standing in the wing. was picked
up and carried over the main building‘
and some trees tie-tr by and set down un
injuml. .l. .l. llughes‘housein the nme
neighlmrhnod nus entirely destroyed.
The i‘xunily were nwaty from home. The
force of the storm was terrific. destroying
fences, llpl‘mitlllg trees. overturning corn- l
cribs. etc. Horses and cattle were picked
up and cntried n considerable dietwce.
Nenr ”new. the huttw of Mr. White
was destroyed nud the contenttl scattered
fur miles. The family fortunately were
away.
The truck of the storm was a lmlf mile
to a mile and it half wide: very henvy
hall. a number of stones fastened together
into one muss, measuring fourteen inches
in circumference. 7 7 , A
Near ()nawa, man was drivinga double
team, and horses, wagon, harness, and
driver were taken up bodily, carried sev
eral yards. and set down uninjured.
0n the Illinois Central Railroad. east
of here, the damage was more serious, ac
companied by loss of life. A whirlwind
or tornado passed over Storm Lake from
the southwest three-fourths of a mile east
ot‘towu. The residence of Alfred King
was struck, lifted from its foundation,
and dashed into a thousand pieces. Mr.
King‘s mother was instantly killed. She
was found some distance from where the
house stood. Other members of the
household escaped unhurt. The lighter
timbers of the house were pounded into
kindling wood. Trees and orchards were
torn oti‘ and carried away. The house
of Mr. Degralf, half a mile from King's.
was nnroofed, some hogs and cattle were
killed, and farm wagons and a buggy
broken up. His loss is about SI,OOO.
The buggy was carried a. quarter of a
mile through the air. Water in the
lake rose to the height of many feet.
One witness says millions of barrels were
lifted up. The stable of Mr. Watson
was destroyed, and a cow blown a con
siderable distance.
After the storm the town of florm
Lake was crowded with men seeking sur
geons to attend the sufferers. It. is be
lieved the damage south of here is very
great. Reports say four persons were
killed and forty wounded. In the Grif
fith neighborhood, north of Pomeroy,a
man, unknown, had the top of his head
cut off by asharp board driven into it.
An elderly lady was badly hurt by falling
timbers at: a house at Fonda.
The towns of Newell and Sulphur
Springs escaped injury. At Pomeroy,
the house ot G. U. Lowry was blown
down, killing Charles Pearce, an estima
ble young man. The houses of George
Wallace and S. Gill were blown down.
Mrs. Wallace and family are injured |aud
not expected to live. A. O. Ilarge's house
was blown down, injuring several of the
inmates severely. All the houses were
very strong and substantial. It is con
sldered the severest storm ever known
hero.
I. Studies of the Ancients.
“Orpheus,"remarked the envious Cus
ca one day as he and his friends were
strolling through the market where,
“hard by, a butcher on the block had
laid his Whittle down,” “Orpheus would
have made an excellent butcher, with
his wonderful musical abilities."
“And why?" demanded Brutus, “be
cause he could take the bull by the
horns?"
“Not exactly,” Cases. replied, “but
that is something like it.”
“Because,” suggested Cinna, “he could
knock the Beef flat, every time?"
Casca looked disgusted.
“And do it single-handed?” suggested
Decius Brutus.
Casca looked around for a brick.
“Because," said Cassius, “every time a
customer wanted veal he could make calf
notes'l"
Casca wept silently and shook his
heed.
“Because he could show his thanks
giving customers how to trombone a tur
keyi‘ asked Cinna.
Cascaxulled his hat down tight on his
head, an looked as though he was going
to kick somebody.
“I know,” shouted Decius Brutus, “be
cause he could take awholc beef and
cornet.”
‘ At this the envious Casca waved them
’all to silenCe. “Nay, an you talk much
imore like that, I‘ll never look you in the
flee again. For mine own part it is all
Greek to me. I had some l‘oolery of mine
own in thought when I began, but you
have driven it out of my head. It is the
part of men to hold their hush, when the
mighty gods, by such conundrums, send
such dreadful answers to ustonish us.“—
, Burlington Ilawkcye.
Ilnmw VII[., so runs the story, having
quarreled with Francis 1., resolved to
send an ambassador to deliver a message
to that monarch in the moat menacing
terms, and appointed Bishop Bonner to
execute the commission. The bishop
told the king that the embsss would
cost him his life. Henry replietf that if
any harm befcll his representative he
would instantly cut of! the heads of all
the Frenchmen in his dominions. “So
you may, sire," objected the bishop, “but
I fear there is not one of them that will
fit my shoulders."
anunsmp in me itWicine for all
misfortunes, but ingratitude dries up the
fountain of all goodness.
The Earl of Derby.
' He isdeu‘rlhed u nluuy. tinny. In the
sintervnls «if the grenlnt rue-of Stlte,
lhe plunges into luvnl Inu-ines- with the
'eugi-iuessnl a lllnll whose “parity for
lgetting through w-rk is. urm-‘tneu el~
r-t-ptul, his most rennu kuhlc- churneleristic.
..\3 he risen from his “IiiIIIK-tlhit9, rind
i-tundt between the visitor und the light,
,tlie traits of the Sunles- mm- are thrown
;intn strung n:|lef-- the inlt-Ilm'ttml fore.
’hcnii, the apparently n-unken eyes, the
hit"). lu-uvyjnw. and [he lsrgt'. flexible
imoulh. His greeting is l'rirf lint courte
lous, uncl rather in the (‘t-tt'tttnltintH tone
of the last generltinu lhnt: the otl‘ hand
istyle ut‘ the present. At his magnificent
icouotry-M'tt of Knumsley his life in
pcurcely less ilbUlinlh than in _l.>ndnn.
Except Mien wnlking in the park-Hum.
for exercise than pleasure —— or when
indulging in the run: relaxation ”to day‘s
shooting, he is perpetually at work.
Buried tn books not] pupa-rs, he but rarely
litts his eyes to the beautiful prospect. of
Wood and water, flower-beds and shrub
beries, spread before the window of his
snug retreat. Endowed with nientnl fuc
ulties of a high order, “lid with an excel
lent speaking Voice, Lord Derby has,
throughout his career, never quite suc
ceeded in shaking otf u nervous difliulcnca
which at times approuches the gravity of
a disease. When suti'ering from :1 severe
attack of this constitutional mulsily, he
finds cuunciationdiflicult,und pronounces
his words with obvious eii'ort, the effect
being that—to use a homely expression—-
of "u tongue too [urge for his mouth.“
'l‘na‘. phonograph, which opens up an
entirely new vista in the field of science,
is now an established success, and al~
ready tnultitudinous means of applica
tion to the practical uses of mt are be
ing suggested. l’rof. Arnold, of the
University of the City of New York, in
his lecture at Chickeriug llall last week,
gave a description of the celebrated talk
ing machine constructed by Prof. Faber,
of Vienna, which was simply a repro
duction of the natural organs—the ma
chine having a throat, an india-rubbcr
tongue and lips, which ha-i to be changed
to suit dill‘erent classes of sounds, and
all the vocal organs as near as possible.
The phonograph is constructed upon eu
tirely dill‘erent principles. and is far sim
pler and more available. One of its
singularities is that the speed with which
the apparatus is turned determines the
pitch of the voice. If turned very slow
ly a soprano voice becomes a deep bass;
if very fast the bass vibrations are printed
very near together and, reproduce( , gives
us a piping treble. Therefore, to obtain
a uniformity of speed the employment of
clock-work has been suggested. What
an inventloa for lovers! Now the un
consciously prophetic words, “Thou art
so near and yet so far," may be practical
ly verified. Would it not be well, also,
for married lovers to record their court
ship and honeymoon prattle for future
reference? No need at being any larger
afraid oi burglars; one may fire 0 a
gun at tho phonéilgraph, and in the dead
our of night th useful machine would
“tire ofi'" at the burglars. Also it intro
duces new material for intrigue, more
striking and available than forgery or
ventriloquism or any of the threadbare
agents used by novelists heretofore.—
Courier Journal.
“mantras RIVALS.— Few men ever
forget their old loves, even after they are
comfortably married to and settled with
the new love. Women vary, even in a
matter supposed to be so common to them
all as jealousy; but a sensible woman
will regard her husband's old loves as the
least dangerous portion of his acquain
tance. it has been said, that no one ever
loves twice. That may be doubted. But
it is pretty certain that no one ever loves
the same person twice. Ashes yield no
flame; new fuel must be added to pro
duce that result. Old loves cannot be
new ones, since the heart never travels
over precisely the same ground a second
time. A man may cherish a tender sen
timent tor an old love for a good many
years, or even through life, rovided
either that he continues to see Ker ever
and anoa, or never see her again at all.
We must confess that it is rather trying
to the maintenance of tender feeling, for
an old love, after quitting her in the mid
summer ot‘ her charms, to meet her again,
for the first time, after many years, in
the plump autumn of her decay, bristling
in artificial corn-flower, and much at
tached to her treasure of a cook, whom
she would not part with for worlds. The
shock is too sudden and disastrous to
sentiment. It is wise, therefore, to keep
seeing one’s old loves periodically, if one
does not want to experience a painful
contrast, which may, possibly, excite the
suspicion in our mind, that we are as
much changed to our old loves, as our
old loves are to us.
A SINUULLH Turn—There is nothinfi
romuntic about the Indian squuw of we
life, however she may shine in romance
and poetry. They eat a great dual 0‘
food, if they can get it, and are not fas
tidious. Some time since, while at Win
ona,[ was leisurely walking down street
to [mes away the time,when my attention
was attracted by an Indian squuw
and her pappoose. Prompted by curiosi
ity, I watched her movements. and as she
entered a store, followed. Imagine my
surprise to see her purchase half :1 pound
of rancid butter,and forthwith proceed
to feast upon it, estingit clear, and using
her fingers in lieu of knife or spoon.
Now and then she would give a dainty
handful to the “pappoosihus,” who ate it
most greedily. Indeed, they seemed to
relish it as heartily as an Esquimaux
would his whole blubber.
Do not run after famous people.