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CLIPPINGS AND DRIPPINGS.
Personal and Literary.
—Mrs. Lincoln is to live at Frankfort-on -
the-Main.
—Bismarck has an estate covering 160,-
000 acres.
. —Hans Christian Andersen is coming to
the United States in February.
—BringhurSe is the singular name of a
Philadelpnia undertaker.
—A Californian lived and talked for
three days after his neck was broken.
—A widower of 78 and a spinster of 60
have spliced m Connecticut. Their united
weight is 700 pounds. • .
—A Boston bride —Miss Hilton —re-
ceived a two hundred thousand dollar
house, recently, as a ~ edding present from
her father.
—Hiram Corwin, a Now York Alder
man, recently committed suicide because
the doctors could not cure him of con
sumption.
—The Mayor of Washington has ap
pointed a lady resident of that city, who
is a large property holder, to the office of
Assistant Street Commissioner.
—Mr. Spurgeon is actually coming.
A gentleman of New York has heard
from him. He is to be here in ISC9, but
whether to preach or lecture is not stated.
—London papers announce anew book
by the late Artemus Ward, edited by his
executors, with thirty-five pictures from his
world-renowned panorama.
—A city weekly now states that it will
not publish any more stories that con
clude with the heroine turning nurse
and finding her lover wounded in the hos
pital.
—The New Orleans Picayune says the
tomb of the late Gov. Allen, of Louisiana,
in New Orleans, is so covered with flow
ers placed there every morning by the la
dies as to be_almost concealed.
—Mr. Chase is, probably, the largest
man physically'in public life. He wears
a casslmere coat, pretty' old, buttoned well
up his waist, sailor-like breeches, baggy,
as he likes them, and large boots like the
farmer of Ashland.
—The Prairie du Chien, Wis., Union
contains a notice of the death, by con
sumption, of a printer named Judson
Hurd. About a w eek before he died he
was ordered by physicians to quit work,
and he did his last type-setting on a notice
of his own death, containing his history.
—The ex-Empress Charlotte is quite
prostrated, and she only' revives at inter
vals to utter fearful cries. Burdened by
two invalid children, one mad and the
other dying, the health of the queen of
Belgium threatens to break up, and she is
only buoyed up by her maternal feelings.
—Tn the eighty-fourth year of his age,
Dr. Calvin Chapin wrote of his wife : “My
domestic enjoyments have been perhaps
as near perfection as the human condition
permits. She made my home the pleas
antest spot to me on earth. And now
that she is gone, mv worldly loss is per
fect.”
—A Charleston journal publishes the
secret history of Dr. Craven’s account of
Jeff Davis’s prison life at Portress Monroe,
and says the book w&s written b}' the late
Miles O’Reilly in nine days, Craven sup
plying absolutely no material but a letter
from Mrs. Davis and a list of officers on
duty at the Fortress. "With these excep
tions the story was made “ out of whole
cloth.”
—The Reverend Doctor Blank once told
a little anecdote of Mr. James Harper, of
New York: “I asked the Mayor,” said
Dr. Blank, “ what he did? I said to him,
I know that Mr. John Harper attends to
the business; Mr. Wesley Harper looks
after the literary correspondence; Mr.
Fletcher Harper receives authors, and
looks after new hooks and the magazine—
but you, Mr. Mayor, I have never been
able to discover what you do.” “ I’ll tell
you,” answered the Mayor, in a whisper,
“ bat you must not let it out, I entertain
the bores.”
Miscellaneous.
—Base ball is played out in Philadel
phia, the papers say.
—Half the territory of the United States
is drained by the Mississippi.
—A flock of ants, ten miles in width,
recently swept across Shasta Valley, Sis
kiyou County, California.
—A law suit, brought in New York in
1827, for the foreclosure of a mortgage,
was still before the courts a few days ago.
—lt is stated as a curious fact that the
nations speaking orr language own three
fourths of all the coal in the world.
—John Shannon, a river pilot, won a
wager of .$l2O, at Dubuque, on the 27th
ult., by walking with a -wheelbarrow four
miles in forty-seven minutes.
—Banditti and horse thieves are regu
larly organized In Los Angelos and ad
joining counties in California, and carry
on their depredations with horrible sys
tem.
—A little four-year old girl, in Sudbury,
Mass , saved the life of her brother, who
had fallen into a cistern of water, by hold
ing his head above the water until assist
ance arrived.
—A German, of Hamilton, Ontario,
starting to shoot snipe the other morning,
put a lighted pipe into a quarter of pow
der in his pocket. The result was some
Severe injuries.
—A rustic guest in a Parkland (.Me.)
hotel, a few evenings since, came down
stairs and told the clerk that the gas light
wouldn’t burn, and he thought it wanted
anew wick.
—A superstitious Newport (R. I.) family
were recently frightened out of their house,
one night, by hoarse noises proceeding
from the flue of the chimney. A tame crow
was the cause.
—While a Cincinnati jeweler was re
cently displaying some diamond rings to
a couple of sharpers, one of the fellows
snatched and made oil with SI,OOO worth
of the jewels.
The Massachusetts Homoeopathic
Medical Society declare against the use
of butter, which they aver “ contains no
element of food required by the human
system.”
—One of the Philadelphia engine com
panies puts a clean paper collar and a pur
pie necktie on the neck of its pet poodle
every morning. The dog is said to re
alize its aristocratic position.
—The Portland (Me.) Advertiser men
tions as a weather phenomenon that on
the 17th of October, 1840, it snowed and
froze, and the snow did not go away for
the winter, neither did the ground “open.”
—The Fenian organization of Philadel
phia are making arrangements for the
reception of delegates to the General Con
gress of the Brotherhood, on November
21. Over 1,000 delegates are expected,
from all parts of the world.
—The annual report of the agent of Au
burn (N. Y.) State Prison for the year
ending on the last day of September, 1868,
gives the number of convicts confined in
the institution at 952 for the year—the
largest average ever known before.
—lt is estimated that the rain fall in the
Northern States is foitv Inches: the South
ern States fifty, Minnesota, Western Cali
fornia and Colorado thirty, Nebraska and
Utah twenty,Kansas and Western Arizona
fifteen inches. This is a general average
for a series of years.
—A sixteen-year old boy in Cincinnati,
on a recent Saturday evening, appropriat
ed a couple of dollars to the purchase of a
quantity of beer, the most of which he
drank, topping off -with about a pint of!
whiskey. A coroner’s jury subsequently
passed upon his case. Verdict: Death
from apoplexy, caused by intemperance. |
—ln Ftovidence, a few evenings since, a
citizen was passing down a street, when he
noticed the skirt of a lady’s dress in flames.
He at once extinguished the fire, burning
his hands severely. The lady had just
passed a man with a lighted cigar, from
which the dress caught.
—The father of Baron Bunsen, a shrewd
and humble-born German, sent his son out
into the wide world with this advice as to
expenditure—“ In clothing live up to your
means, in food below your means, and in
dwelling above your means. Don’t be a
soldier ; stand erect before a man with a
title.”
—A party of gold hunters in Schenec
tady, N. Y., were told by a fortune-teller
to dig, and they would find first a stick of
wood, then an old spoon, and then the
iron pot. They dug every night for about
a week, fearing to speak le&* they should
destroy the charm, and found" all the
articles, excepting the gold.
—John Philps, an Englishman, for some
time employed in the Freedmcn’s Bureau
in Washington, and lately discharged for
intemperance, committed suicide in that
city. He stood before a looking glass, cut
his throat with a razor and leaned over a
bucket which caught the flowing blood,
until he fell over exhausted.
—Mr. William King, formerly of
Springfield, 111., but now a resident of
Washington county, Mo., and well known
as an expert shot to many of the Audu
bon Club, of Chicago, made a wager of
SSOO that he would kill 05 birds out of 50.
Conditions: 25 double birds, 18 yards rise,
100 yards fall. Mr. King dropped 42 birds
out of the 50. Three were taken when
flying over the head of Mr. King. On a
second trial of the same hir'd, one shot
I killed two birds.
—Some one who had no visible means of
support, and does not deserve any, has
calculated that the snuff annually con
sumed in Fra ice would make thirty col
umns as large as that in the Place Veu
deme, the smoking tobacco would make a
solid cube as large as the Arc d’Etoile,
Shewing tobacco would fill 3,780 two-hec
tolitre casks, and the cigars, laid end to
end, would stretch round the globe twice
at the equator.
—A young woman in the South, during
the war, wrote to Jeff. Davis saying : “ I
want you to let Jeemes Clancy of Cos.
Ith, sth S. C. regiment, come home and
cet married. Jeemes is willin’, I is wil
lin’, my mammy, she is willin’, bis mam
my says she is willin’, but Jeemes’ captain
he aint willin’, now when we are all wil
lin’, ’ceptin’ Jeemes’ captain, I think you
might let up and let Jeemes come. I’ll
make him go straight back when he’s
done got married and fight as hard as
ever.” Jeemes was allowed to go home,
; married, rejoined the army, and fought till
: the end.
—The Commissioner of Internal Reve
: nue has had the question propounded
! him : •* Where an administrator wishes to
assign a mortgage not due, to the guar
dian of decedent’s heir, in order to settle
his trust finally, is it necessary to stamp
the assignment? No consideration, of
course, passing from the guardian to the
administrator.” To this the following re
sponse has been made : “ I reply to your
letter of the 10th instant, that the assign
ment of a mortgage requires, in every
case, the same stamp as anew mortgage,
for the sum still secured. The tax does
not depend, as m the case of a conveyance,
upon a valuable consideration.”
—Aolergyman in Petaluma, Cal., named
James Hurler, insured his life in the Man
hattan Insurance Company for f o,ooo,and
had paid $330 in premiums, when, a few
months since, he died. The necessary
steps were taken to adjust the matter and
pay the policy to his widow, but when the
amount was tendered her she declined to
receive it on the ground that, when her
deceased husband insured his life, he with
held from the agents of the company and
the examining physician, information of a
malady under which he was suffering,
and which would probably have prevent
ed him from securing a policy on his life.
On being notified of her surrender of the
policy, the Board of Directors rewarded
her upright and noble conduct by present
ing her with $2,000 for her own use and
thai of her two fatherless children.
—A California paper tells this story:
“A convicted muderer, sentenced to death
at Austin, Nevada, was last week furnish
ed by his sister with materials for writing,
three files, four fine saws, and poison with
which to commit suicide in case his efforts
to escape faded. They were concealed in
the back of the frame of a large photo
graph of bis sister, which she brought to
him and had the jailor deliver to him in
her presence. With the saws he had near
ly cu* off his irons when his attempt was
discovered and the tools found, though
the poison was yet effectually concealed.
The sister promised other assistance,
which she was to render in person, as
others were afraid, and a plan whereby,
under pretence of giving another prisoner
into Ids'* charge, the jailor was to be in
duced to open the door, when he was to
be overpowered by the pretended guard
and the murderer spirited away. The
sister was indicted for aiding to rescue a
prisoner.”
Foreign Gossip.
—Spain calls for German and English
immigrants.
—Austria has ceded the Island of Lysse ,
'to England.
—A Mexican child, lately born, has the ,
face of an old man of sixty.
—Blue is the favorite color worn by
Madrid ladies since the revolution.
—The Canadians have subscribed $ 8,000 1
for D’Arey McGee’s widow.
—Ontario, Canada, expects to have a
surplus revenue of $1,000,000 this year.
—Thirty-two out of every thousand of
the Austrian Empire are Jews.
—A Workingmen’s Lord’s Day Best As
sociation has been formed in London.
—During the last 60 years, 3,169 titles of
nobility have been conferred in Paris.
—The highest thirty-two officers in the
British army receive an aggregate yearly
pay of £107,460.
—Prince Alfred left Plymouth, Novem
ber 2, in the frigate Galatir, for a cruise
around the world.
— A. lizard four inches long was recently
taken from the stomach of a womanliving
in Clare, Ontario.
—Two ladies, suffering with the “Gre
cian bend,” were recently hooted from the 1
streets of Montreal. '<
—Several shocks of earthquake have
been distinctly felt, recently', in the west
ern counties of England and Wales.
—London lately observed a meteor so
bright that it caused the street gas lights
to cast a shadow on the pavement.
One of the latest traveler’s story from
China is, that the lowest classes there live
on ea rth worms and caterpillars.
—Hull fighting does not pay in France.
The speculator who undertook to intro
duce the sport at Havre came ont 13,000
francs short.
—The Brazilian Government has offered
a reward of ss_ooo, gold, to the inventor
cf any practical mode of preserving beef
for exportation.
—Efforts are making in England to
amalgamate the two branches of the legal
profession by abolishing the distinction
between attorneys and barristers.
—A couple of parents, in England, re
cently hanged their daughter, because she
persisted in receiving the addresses of a
young man they disliked.
—The British Government declines to
recognize the rights claimed by the Hud
son Bay Company, in the territory be
tween Canada and the Pacific Coa=4
—Horrible London statistics show that
every day there are seven children Dumin
that city, who, from their residence in mor
ally infected districts must inevitably lead
a life of crime.
—Count Adelsvaerd, one of the wealth
iest noblemen of Sweden, is said to have re
fused an offer of $70,000,000, made to him
by an English Company, for his copper
mine at Atrudaberg.
—The Egyptian Viceroy has sent his
two sons to Paris to finish their education,
and Napoleon has appointed a general
army officer to instruct the second Prince.
A third Egyptian Prince has gone to En
gland.
—A man in Toronto, who has been
twenty-four years deaf and dumb, caused
by scarlet and typhus fevers when five
years of age, suddenly recovered the full
use of his hearing and speech a few days
since.
—A passionate mother in England, late
ly threw a table-knife at her little boy,
who had been guilty of some misconduct.
The knife entered his side, and in a short
lime the child bled to death.
Dadanwala Maha WaJ "we Wijaya
sundara Senewiratna Wikkramasinha Na
varatna Chandrasekara Pandite Wasa
lamudiyanselagc Madduma Banda has
been appointed deputy coroner for Yat
tinuwara, in India.
—lt is rumored in Germany that Prince
Louis of Hesse intends to apply for a
divorce from his wife, the Princess Alice,
second daughter of Queen Victoria. Rea
son—jealousy and ill-temper on the wife’s
part.
—Nine young men who left llouen gn
their velocipedes at 7 in the morning
reached Paris at 9in the evening. They
performed the distance of thirty-two
leagues in eleven hours, having rested
thr-e hours during the day.
—Tnc smoke from the volcanic eruption
in the Sandwich Islands was seen one
thousand miles from the islands, and at
half that distance was so dense that
officers of ships were prevented from
making their observations.
—At Lucerne, Queen Victoria offered a
party of ten-pin players $4OO to abstain
from playing on the Sabbath while she
stayed at the hotel. The landlord refused,
rudely adding that Switzerland was a free
country, and those who disliked their cus
toms might stay away.
—A poor needle-woman lived as long as
she could on two shillings a week and then
she died by gradual starvation. Two bot
tomless chairs, a broken table, a heap of
rags and a corpse was all that the landlady
found in the jvoor girl’s room one morn
ing.
—A new geographical map of France is
ordered. The first map of the kind was
designed in 17!)4,when the mining engineers
were organized; but it was only executed in
1840, and completed by a descriptive textin
1848, the whole map comprising six sheets.
The new map is to comprise 286 sheets,
and 200 copies of each will be printed.
It is expected that by the sale the treasury
will recover the money advanced.
—A house at Keranfurus-TTuella, France,
occupied by two families, in all nine per
sons, was destroyed by fire one night
recently. Two women, named LeGengre
and L Canto, with two children, one be
longing to each, were burnt to death.
Their husbands escaped by throwing
themselves from the window. A gardener
and two female servants were got out
alive in their night clothes.
—An African lion hunter was parading
a full grown puma, or South American
lion (which is considered harmless), at a
fair at Nottingham, England, when the
animal caught sight of a dog held by a lad
in the crowd. Breaking away from its
keeper, it sprang on the flog and killed
it almost instantly. The people fled in all
directions, and the puma, seeing another
dog a short distance off, rushed at it and
dispatched it as quickly as it had done the
firs’. The keeper here succeeded in secur
ing the animal, which was Jfd back to the
menagerie with the dead dog in its mouth.
—An atrocious act of cruelty has oc
curred at Talkusch, in Moldavia. A dili
gence having been robbed of 7,000 ducats,
about a dozen persons were arrested on
suspicion and put to the torture to make
them confess. One man, after being beaten,
had splinters driven under his nails; his
wife was suspended by the feet, and eggs
taken from boiling water were applied to
her armpits and the most sensitive parts of
the body. Other men and women were
dragged along the streets tied to horses’
tails and sprinkled with boiling oil. Sev
eral of the victims are not expected to
recover.
—A good story is told in Paris of a son
of M. Bixio. This eminent man was for a
short time incarcerated in the fortress of
Vincennes, after the covp d'etat. His wife,
accompanied by one of her sons, went to
see him. They dined together in his
chamber. The son was extremely sad and
taciturn during the dinner, and at last at
tracted his father’s attention, “ Why, my
dear boy, what is the matter with you ?”
“Nothing, father,” replied the lad of
eleven. ‘Nonsense; I see something is
the matter with you. Come, tell me what
it is.” The boy blundered ; “ Why, pa, I
am so disappointed. I made sure of seeing
you in a dungeon, chained to the wall, and
you ain’t.”
—Among the poorer and lower classes
in Tuscany the process of burial is as fol
lows : A pit or excavation 100 feet deep is
made, and the sides walled up, covered
with a stone and made air-tight. *Phe
privilege of burial in these pits or wells
is bought at any age for a certain sum
paid down, and a sum paid annually until
the death of the future tenant of the'vault.
Into these the bodies, evelopcd in linen
sacks and without coffins, are lowered by
a rope. All who pay for the privilege are
buried without regard to sex or family, in
the well in use until it is full, when the
next is taken and used until full. When
til have thus been filled, the first well is
re-opened, the bones of its occupants re
mo red and burned to ashes, and the ashes
placed in urns, and the well is used for
the next applicants in order.
—A judge of Mohacs, in Hungary, was
returning to the city, with his jurors,
when he noticed a light in a grove which
they passed. He alighted from his car
riage, and accompanied by the jurors, en
tered the grove. On approaching the
spot where the light was, he saw a num
ber of beggars seated around a fire. No
sooner had they taught sight of him than
they hastily jumped on a wagon halting
close by. and drove off. When the judge
and his companions arrived close to the
fire, a horrible spectacle met their eyes.
A 13-year old boy was lying there, gagged,
and tied to a board. In the fire lay a red
hot iron, with which, the boy said, the
beggars out his eyes.
They h.id y li>Stuhl-
tj deprive
him of his eye^m? because charitable
persons would give more alms to a little
blind boy than to the old vagabonds them
selves.
Industrial.
—There are over forty tobacco factories
in Richmond, Ya., employing nearly 3,.')00
persons.
—At Fort Scott, Kansas, the inhabit
ants procure all their coal by grading the
streets, where it is found in abundance.
—A Southern review of the field esti
mates the cotton crop at 2,100,000 bales —
500,000 bales less than last year—the total
value of which is estimated at about
$221,000,000.
—The total value of property in San 1
Francisco, as given from the assessment :
roll for the current year, is $104,603,281;
real estate, $63,576,179, and personal pro
perty, $41,027,202.
—lt is estimated that the emigrant i
wagons between Columbus, 0., and Kan- |
sas City, Mo., bound west, during the
present season, would reach a hundred
miles, if placed in a single line.
—More than one-half of all the land in
California, it is said, can be devoted to
profitable agriculture. The State contains,
in round numbers, about 130,000,000 acres
of land, and of this 89,000,000 can be cul
tivated.
—W orsted was spun at a village of that
name near Norwich, England, cambrics
came from Cambray, damasks from Da
mascus, dimit> from Damietta, cordovan
from Cordova, calico from Calicut, and
muslin from Moussul.
—ln New York stock theaters the busi
ness manager gets $5,000 a year; the stage
manager S6O a w r eek ; the leading man $75
a week; the leading lady the same; the
soubrettes SSO, and the ballet girls $8 a
week,
—Manufacturers have for years been
looking for a substitute for rags as a mate
rial for paper. It is said to have been
found at last in Esparto grass. Paper
made from this grass is much used in Eng
land. The London Times is printed on it.
—The Bay City, Mich., Journal says
that the largest log ever cut in the Sagi
naw Valley w T as sawed in that city recent
ly. Three planks, perfectly clear, were
taken from the log, which scaled 1,120 feet;
one plank was 38 inches wide and 10 inch
es thick ; one 36 inches wide and 5 inches
thick.
—ln England there are many farmers
who more than support themselves and
large familes on the product of six acres,
besides paying heavy rents. Agricul
turists in Germany who are proprietors
of six acres, support themselves on two,
and lay up money on the remainder.
—A New Hampshire editor, who has
been keeping a record of big beets, an
nounces at last that “the beet that beat the
beet that beat the other beet, is now beat
en by a beet that beats all the beets,
whether the original beet, the beet that
beat the beet or the beet that beat the beet
that beat the beet.”
—A meeting of the Women’s Typo
graphical Union and Sewing Machine Op
erators’ Union, New York city, has formed
a Central Association of working women
by consolidating the two societies, with
Miss Susan B. Anthony as President. Miss
Anthony announced that Anna Dicken
son had offered to lecture for the benefit
of the association.
—ln Milford, Mass., on the 31st ult,
while a party of young Irish people were
celebrating All Hallow E’en, two young
girls went into a neighboring field to pro
cure cabbage, and were fired upon by the
owner, Bartholomew O’Donnell, a man
about sixty years of age. Miss Bridget
Murray, of Boston, was killed. O’Don
nell, when arrested, had a large cava'ry
saber, and a large navy revolver, with two
barrels discharged, was found at his house.
He appeared perfectly unconcerned and
indifferent,
—The Commissioner of Patents has
ordered that hereafter appl’* .nts shall not
be allowed to withdraw original applica
tions for the purpose of amendment, but
when it is desired to amend an application,
a copy of the original must be had of the
office for such purpose. Parties filing pa
pers in the office will save themselves
and the office much trouble by retaining
copies of their papers to use in case amend
ment or alteration should become neces
sary.
Religions and Educational.
—The ministers of the five Congrega
tional churches in Hartford receive a sal
ary of $4,000 each.
—The old pew doors of the Winsted
(Conn.) Congregational Church have been
usefully transformed into a fence in that
village.
—There are now 537 under-graduates at
Harvard College, and the college buildings
are not commodious enough to accommo
date them.
—The Principal of the Tracey Female
Seminary, at Rochester, N. Y., is making
arrangements to have the elements of gar
dening taught as one of the branches of
that institution, and a green-house for
plant culture and propagation is now being
built there.
—Only 50 per cent, of the boys and
girls of Maine, between the ages of four
and twenty, attend school. Only 38 per
cent, of the children in Portland attend
school; only 28 per cent, at Augusta. In
the northern part of the State, settled by
French emigrants from Canada, there are
no schools.
—On Sunday, 25th uit., the one hun
dredth anniversary of the dedication of
the John Street Methodist Episcopal
Church, New York, was celebrated. Tab
lets of Bishop Asbury, Philip Embury and
Barbara Heck were unveiled, and Em
bury’s Bible, used at the first dedication
service, and other relics of the “early
days,” were presented.”
—There is a real idol temple erected and
formally established in the United Stales,
at Portland. Oregon. The building is
completed, and the Chinamen are actively
engaged in furnishing it. The vestibule
contains two large oil globes, inside of
which lamps are burning, so as to show to
advantage the heathenish figures painted
on the outside. One of the transparencies
represents celestial warriors or saints, some
on foot and some on horseback. What
ever they are, they go round and round,
propelled in some manner by a current of
heated air.
The “ Yes-Bnt” Generation.
One pines for an apple orchard; his
wife can’t have any preserves, as she used
to. Another cannot forget the convenj
ience of light wood knots and spring
water, and longs for a Carolina sandank,
where he can make five or six bushels of
nubbin corn per acre. Some have more
considerable objections. Here is the sub
stance of a conversation with a well-to-do
person :
“ This is a great country you live in,”
said I.
“Yes; but it> so far to town, or any
where,” was the reply.
“ You have fine roads. I never saw
their equal.” ,
“Yea; but it’s terrible traveling when
it rains.”
“ I never saw better beef than yours.”
“ Yes; but people don’t want to eat
nothing but beef.”
“Such delightful climate—your health
is good.”
“Yes; but the northers are awful on
the constitution.”.
“ Your land is rich; and it produces so
abundantly.”
Yes, ; but the grasshoppers have eaten
up my green-patch.”
“Y"our hogs will fatten on the grass
hoppers.”
“Yes; but it worries ’em to death to
catch the things.”
“Your chickens are .lively, they can;
catch’em.” -
“ Yes; but it makes their meat taste, so
thev say ”
How Some Hew York Men Make a
Li ting*
Mr. A. T. Stewart is conceded to be one
of onr successful merchants. From the
smallest beginnings he has amassed a
princely fortune. No one would ask
whether Mr. Stewart’s t icthod of business
was a wise one. The secret of his success
lies on the surface. In his little store on
Broadway, opposite his mafble palace
Mr. Stewart began his trade. He adopted
two or three simple rules by which he pro
posed to be guided. He gave personal at
tention to his business He asked a fair
price for his goods, and persons could take
them or leave them. If he sold a poor ar
ticle to a customer, he old it as a poor ar
ticle. If he demanded a first-class price
for his goods, they were found to be first
-01 'ss when the purchaser took them home.
He seldom lost a customer, because the
ardcle never differed from the representa
ti m. Since Mr. Stewart opened his little
shop, thousands with capital have started
business with the motto, “ All is fair in
trade.” Few of these survive. Their
very names as merchants have perished
from among men; while Mr. Stewart,
without capital and without friends, under
pinning his trade with integrity, stands
among the foremost merchants of tire
world.
In this city there is a young banking
i house which buys and sells stocks on com
mission. Several rules were adopted and
incorporated in the articles of co-partner
ship. One was, never to carry stock for
any one without a margin ; another was,
never to speculate in stocks, but to do a
strictly legitimate commission business.
■ Ifthatledto wealth, the firm would accept
it; if it led elsewhere, they would abide
! the issue. A celebrated Western capital
-1 ist, whose name was a tower of strength,
1 came into the office. He requested the
house to purchase for him a large
amount of railroad stock. “Do you
wish us to carry it ?” said
one of the partners. “Yes,” was
the reply. “ Then you must put up a mar
gin.” “A margin?” said the millionaire,
i “ I am worth fifty times that amount.” “ I
have no doubt of it,” was the reply. “ wc
have but one rule in this office for both
rich and poor. We would not Carry stock
in this office for Mr. Astor without a mar
gin.” The capitalist w T ent out as if offend
ed. The firm felt as if they had lost a
good customer. Soon a messenger came
up and put on deposit $50,000. The next
day the capitalist called in person. He
said: “Young men, I like yoar rule.
You have begun right. Do business on
that basis and you will succeed. You
shall have my business, for my money is
. safe here.”
Mr. Sturgis, the rich merchant who re
cently died, attributed his start in life to
attending church.on Sunday in the city.
When he was young, credit was almost
indispensable to business. Mercantile
honor was at a high premium. By some
means young Sturgis formed the acquaint
ance of the late Robert Lennox. Pleased
with the intelligence and modesty of the
young man, Mr. Lennox invited him to
take a seat in his pew. The next day
Sturgis called on a merchant in this city,
and asked him if he would trust him with
a bill of goods. The merchant looked at
him and said: “ Did you sit in Mr. Len
nox’s pew yesterday in church?” “Yes,”
said the young man. “ I will trust any
one,” said the merchant, “ •whom Mr.
Lennox "will invite into his pew on Sun
day.” It was a small thing, but it was a
test of character that could not be rms
taken. Let a man throw away his tobacco,
his stimulating drinks, exercise proper
economy, and he then can make an invest
ment, however humble his position is, that
will be an advantage to him financially,
socially and morally.
One of our most wealthy citizens is at
the head of one of our largest banks. He
began life with nothing but good princi
ples, industry, and perseverance. To aid
a fnend he indorsed notes to the amount of
$13,000. He was called upon to pay them.
He had all he possessed on earth.
The bank- would have cheerfully taken
that sum and discharged him. It offered
him any accommonalion by way of re
newals He .was a young man. He in
tended to remain in New York, and do
business, and he made up his mind that, if
he lost his money, he would not lose his
reputation. As the notes matured, he paid
them. When the last note was paid, he
was supposed to be very wealthy, as he
kept his own counsels. He could com
mand any amount of money that he
wanted. The resolution to pay the notes,
though he had derived no benefit from
them, laid the foundation for his great suc
cess. During his long business career, no
note of his has ever gone to protest.
The kind of business a man adopts, usu
ally settles the question of his success. If
he has brains and pluck, is content to wait,
does well whatever he does, is not afraid
of earning his money, makes himself use
ful, so that he cannot be dispensed with,
he will succeed. He may black boots, pick
rags, shovel coal, be alow porter in a store ;
if he has integrity and talent, he will make
his fortune. One of the richest men in
New York began as a porter, and his for
mer master is now a book-keeper in his
establishment. One of the most eminent
bank Presidents in New York to-day,
came to this city a penniless boy.
“Do you want a boy, sir ?” he said to a
gentleman who stood in his store door.
“ What do you do ?” “ Anything, sir, to
get an honest living.’ “Take those boots
down stairs, where you will find some
blacking, and black them.” The lad soon
returned with the boots in a high state of
polish. “ You have done those boots well,”
said the merchant. “My mother told me
to do everything well, sir, that I undertook
to do,” was the reply That answer
touched the merchant’s heart. He has
done everything since ;8 he blacked the
boots. —New York Mail
A Touching Story.
The following touching narrative pur
ports to have been given by a father to his
son, as a warning derived from his own
bitter experience of the sin of resisting a
mother’s love and counsel:
What agony was on my mother’s face
when all that she had said and suffered
failed to move me! She rose to go home,
and I followed at a distance. She spoke
to me no more till she reached her own
door.
“It is school time, now,” she said. “ Go,
my son, and once more let me beseech you
to think upon what I have said.”
“ I shan’t go to school,” said I.
She looked astonished at my boldness,
but replied firmly.
“ Certainly you will, Alfred ! I com
mand you.”
“I will not,” said I; “you can’t get me
up stairs.”
“ One of two things you must do, Alfred
—either go to school this minute or I will
lock you up in your room, and keep you
there until You promise implicit obedience
to my wishes in the future.”
“ I dare you to do it,” said I; “ you can’t
get me up stairs.”
“ Alfred, choose now,” said my mother
who laid her band upon my arm. She
trembled violently, and was deadly pale.
“ If you touch me 1 will kick you,” said
I, in a fearful rage. God knows I knew
not what I said!
“ Will you go, Alfred ?”
“No !” I replied, but I quailed beneath
her eye.
“ Then follow me,” said she as she
grasped my arm firmly. I raised my foot
—“ O, my son, hear me”—l raised my foot
and kicked her, my sainted mother. How
my head reels as the torment of memory
rushes over me! —I kicked my mother —
a feeble woman, ray mother! She stagger
ed back a few steps and leaned against the
wall. She did not look at me. I saw her
heart beat against her breast. *O, Heav
enly Father 1” she cried “ forgive him —he
knows not what he does!” The gar
dener just then passed the door, and see
ing my mother was pale and almost unable
to support herself, she beckoned him to
come in.”
“ Take this boy up stairs and lock him
in his room,” said she, and turned off from
me. It was a lock of agony, mingled with
Intensest lore—it was ihe last unutterable
pang from a heart that was broken.
In a moment I found myself a prisoner
in my own room. I thought for a moment
I would fling myself from the open win
dow, but I felt that I was afraid to die. I
was not penitent. At times my heart was
subdued, but my stubbornness rose in an
instant, and bade me not yield it. The
pale face ot my mother haunted me. I
flung myself on my bed and fell asleep.
Just at twilight I heard a footstep approach
my door. It was my sister.
“ What shall I tell mother for you?” she
said.
“ Nothing,” I replied.
“O, Alfred, for my sake and all our
sakes, say that you are sorry. Let me tell
mother you are sorry. She longs to for
give you.”
I would not answer. I heard her foot
steps slowly retreating, and again Hung
myself on the bed to pass a wretched and
fearful night.
Another footstep, slower and feebler
than my sister’s, disturbed me.
“ Alfred, my son, shall I come in r ” she
asked.
J cannot tell what influence, operating
at that moment, made me speak adverse to
my feelings. The gentle voice of my
mother that thrilled me, melted the ice
from my heart, and I longed to throw my
self upon her neck; but I did not. My
words gave the lie to ray heart when I
said I was not sorry. I heard her wit’
draw. I heard her groan. I longed to
call her back, but I did not.
I was awakened from an uneasy slum
ber by hearing my name called loudly,
and my sister stood by ray bedside.
“ Get up, Alfred. Don’t w r aite a min
ute. Get up and come with me. Mother is
dying! ”
I thought I w r as yet dreaming, but I got
up mechanically and followed my sister.
On the bed, pale as marble, lay my mother.
She had thrown herself on the bed t© rest;
and rising to go again to me, she was seiz
ed with a palpitation of the hcarV and
borne to her room.
I cannot tell you my agony as I looked
upon her—my remorse was tenfold more
bitter from the thought that she never
Would kuc w it. I believed myself to be
her murderer. I fell on the bed bes'de
her. I could not weep. My heart burned
within my bosom—ray brain was on fire.
My sister threw her arms around me and
wept in silence. Suddenly we saw a mo
tion of mother’s hand ; her eyes unclosed.
She had recovered her consciousness, but
not her speech. She looked at me and
moved her lips. I could not understand
her words.
“ Mother ! mother !” I shrieked, “ say
only that you iorgive me.”
She could not say it with her lips, but
her hand pressed mine. She smiled upon
me, and lifted her thin white hands ; she
clasped my own within them, and cast
her eyes upward. She moved her lips in
prayer, and thus she died. I remained
still kneeling beside that dear form till
my gentle sister removed me. The joy of
my youth had left me forever.
Boys who spurn a mother’s control;
who are ashamed to own they are young;
who think it manly to resist her
or yield to her influence, beware! Lay
not up for yourselves bitter memories for
your future years.
A Duel with Locomotives.
A newspaper iu the City of Mexico,
wishing to illustrate the lawless and sav
age character of the people of the United
Slates, relates the following story, which
would do credit to the imagination of
Dumas;
The scene takes place in Tennessee.
The contractors of the public works,
Mr. Clark, an Englishman, and Mr.’Wood,
an American, had crossed each other in a
question of interest, that resulted in a fu
rious rivalry, which soon changed into a
strong haired.
. Twice the two antagonists had met upon
the ground, or, more properly speaking,
once upon the ground and once in the
wood, for the second duel was with rifles, a
man hunt, a reciprocal hunt of the game
and the hunter.
The first time, it was Mr. Clark that was
wounded —he got well. The second time
it was Mr. Wood; his rival having feigned
being struck by the ball, lay as dead. Mr.
Wood approached to see if he had killed
his adversary or if he had only wounded
him. At that moment, Mr. Clark got up
at a bound and fired; Mr. Wood fell,
bathed in his blood, but the ball had made
the circuit of his ribs ; he remained one
month in bed, after which he got up, more
anxious than ever to recommence the
straggle.
After several propositions, some more
frightful than the others, the following was
agreed upon:
The duel to be deferred for six months,
during which time rails were to belaid on
a vacant piece of ground extending along
the edge of a forest, over a space of about
a mile, but only one track. The rails
being laid, the fight was to be with loco
motives.
Here are the conditions of this terrible
duel:
The two opponents, each mounted on
his locomotive, heated to suit himself,
to place themselves, one at each end of the
line.
A rifle shot to he fired from the top of a !
small hill that could be seen from both i
ends ; it might be possible that the report
would not be heard, but the small cloud of
smoke could be seen.
The first shot to be the signal for the
combatants to make ready.
A second rifle shot, a second cloud of*
smoke, would be the signal for the
march.
The two opponels are at their posts be
hind the locomotive, their hands on the
throttle valves, their eyes fixed on the
hillock where the signal is to appear.
The first shot is fired. . A thin white
smoke arises in the air.
Five minutes pissed. Five centuries.
A second cloud of smoke crowns the
hillock. The two locomotives commence
to shake, their motion a little slow at firsts
acquire in a few seconds an extraordinary'
speed, electrical, vertiginous.
The movement of Mr. Wood appeqja
more rapid than that of his antagonia''
Effectively, he has passed the post
dicates the half of the way.
But some fifteen yards further on the
two monsters meet, they strike, the effect
is terrifying.
The locomotive of Mr. Wood is thrown
over on its conductor, whom it crushes,
burns, drags and hackles.
The other, that of Mr. Clark’s, bursty
ed in front, lets escape a cloud of steanu|
and still runs for a few yards, moved
the force of impulsion.
But the conductor has disappjjmMSjT
The shook has thrown
from the road, on the edge of tr#oo(f,
where he was found insensible, bruised,
his face burned by the jet of steam, and a
broken leg.
The doctor pronounced his wound not
mortal, and that Clark would get over it.
As to his adversary, a shapeless and un
known mass was withdrawn irom under
the locomotive, a bloody clay of hideous
remains.
Honor was satisfied.
Good Advice.
The following morceau of correspond
ence, says the New York Home Journal,
will best accomplish the good intentions of
the writer, if rescued from the privacy of
its retirement and introduced to the appre
ciation of a larger audience. It will suffi
ciently explain itself, and wc need only
say, to satisfy the reader’s interest, that
the writer is the respected head of one of
•ur prominent institutions of learning, a
savant honored in the scientific circles of
both hemispheres, and an author who°e
works have enriched our literature alike
im hdles-letlrts and science.
Dear Chum: I have heard of tome
benevolent old gentlemen lending money
to poor young fellows, on the very easy
terms that they should hand the money
over to some other deserving men, when
they were done with it. Good advice cer
tainly ought to be handed down in this
way, and I think the terms of the invest
ment would be more likely to be complied
with, than in case of money transactions.
I have long been your debtor, and the
only way which seems easy to pay the
debt is, to give to others. Mot a
than twenty years ago, we returned .o
our apartment from an evening walk, and
as I grasped the door knob eagerly, and
confidently, to pass within, I was suddenly
halted by a locked door; then it was, that,
with a grave face, you gave me a piece
of advice that has been invaluable.
Bunsbay, the the cautious
Clara, never equalled it for depth of wis
dom. “ P , always unlock the door be
fore you walk into the room.” This sapi
ent counsel was du’.y repeated afterward,
and, at the close of my collegiate career,
you took me by the hand as we were about
to separate, and, with your last farewells,
impressed upon my mind the great im
portance of always remembering to un
lock the door before entering the room.
After beating about the world for more
than twenty years, having my share of
success and some failures, I am prepared
to recommend your advice to all yonn, ,T
men, and ask them to “ make a note of it.”
Success has come by unlocking the
door before attempting to walk in ; failure - .,
by attempting to walk in while the door
was locked.
When I see a young man rushing into
business without preparation, I say, “ ZVly
dear sir, better wait and unlock the door.
If you will take time the door can be
opened, and you may walk in without
difficulty.” So of the men who are un
dertaking what is beyond their powers, or
are attempting to carry on business and is
hcncstly; in nine cases out of ten, they
will find the door into the best room
locked. Good preparation, good conraft*,
and honest perseverai ce, will open almost
any door —the door to fame, to fortune,
or to usefulness —better than both. So 1
give to all young men the benefit of your
sage advice. “Be sure you unlock the doer
before you attempt to walk in.” P .
•***
How to Avoid a Bad Husband.
The following rules will teach young
ladies how to avoid the catching of a bad
husband:
1. Never marry for wealth. A woman’s
life consisteth not in those things that she
possesseth.
2. Never marry a fop, or one who struts
about dandy-like, in kid gloves, cane, and
rings on his fingers. Beware! there is e.
trap!
3. Never marry a niggard or close-fisted,
mean, sordid man, who saves every penny,
or spends it grudgingly. Take care, lest,
he stint you to death.
4. r marry a stranger, or one whose
characti is not known or tested. Some
women jump right into the lire with their
eyes wide open.
5. Never marry a mope or drone, or one
who drawls and draggles thiough life, one
foot after another, and lets things take
their chances.
G. Never marry a man who treats his
mother or sister unkindly or indifferently.
Such treatment is a sere indication of
meanness and -w ickedness.
7. Never, on any account, marry a gam
bler, a profane person, one who in the
least speaks lightly of God or of religion.
Such a man can never make a good "hus
band. i
8. Never marry a sloven, a man who is
negligent of his person or dress, and is
filthy in his habits. The external appear
ance is an index of the heart.
9. Shun the rake as a snake, a viper, a
very demon.
10. Finally, never marry a man who is
addicted to the use of ardent spirits. De
pend upon it, you are better off alone than
you would be were you tied to a man
whose breath is polluted and whose vitals
are being gnawed out by alcohol.—Ex
change.
A (Jueer Scene In Court.
One of those ludicrous incidents that
occasionally are witnessed in the dignified
presence of a hall of justice occurred in
the United States District Court, recently.
A German farmer from the country came
in to be sworn as a surety on the bond of
a gentleman who was getting his tobacco
relieved from the seizure that it had suffer
ed from the authorities. Having been in
formed that he must swear to certain mat
ters, he was brought into court.
Judge Leavitt then proceeded to ques
tion him.
“ Are there any mortgages on your
property ?”
*• Not a d—d mortgage on mine property
and plenty of monys at home,” said the
affiant, with the utmost simplicity, keep
ing to his duty in the line of swearing.
The Judge saw the man was honest and
meant no contempt, so relaxing his dig
nity, with ° nvle on his face, he proceed
ed with t.ieText question.
“Do yot owe any debts ?”
“Not oti d-n cent; und
all as peoples owes me, I bees richer as
I am.”
“ These bonds are approved,” replied
the Judge, with a smile twinkling in his
eyes.
About a score of men, the affiant among
them, were seen hurrying out of the court
rooih, with faces red with suppressed
i laughter. Having passed into the hall,
out of hearing of the Court, each man
sought a quiet place to be relieved of his
pent-up laughter.
The honest old Teuton had, beyond
doubt, experienced for the first time the
process or swearing before a court. It
had been previously explained to.him by
telling him he must swear, and he had
evidently mistaken the civil oath for pro
fanity, as his serious manner throughout
( the whole proceeding indicated.—Cincin
’ nati Gazette.
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— Thr Little Corporal. — A iate num
ber of this original magazine for boys and
girls, and for older people who have young
hearts, has found its way to our table, and
is so redolent of every rare and delicious
thing hearts, that we are con
strained to herald its uncommon merits.
The stories are delightful and invariably
instructive. The poetry is simple, tender,
Sretty and high. The composition is ex
cellent English; and, in a word, the con
ductors seem to enter into the spirit of
their great task, to know the nature of
young hearts, and how to cater to their
immortal longings.— National Intelligencer ,
Sept 10,1868.
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