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THE ST. CHARLES HERALD.
OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE PARISH OF ST. CHARLES.
VOL. III., NO. 32.
HAHNVILLE, ST. CHARLES PARISH, LA., SEPTEMBER 25, 1875.
TERMS. S 3 A YEAR
TIMELY TOPICS.
Jefferson Davis, .has started from
Memphis, on his ieeluring tour in the
west.
The pnblic debt statement for August
shows a redaction of aboat a million
and a half daring the past month.
" Gams to his death hr accidental
drowning," is Ute vercnetHbf^iJb Sah
Francisco jar; in the case of Balaton.
The Freeümen s bank commissioners
think that a dividend oar be declared
for the anfortnuate depositors by Christ
mas.
Philadelphia this year heads the list
of United States ports in the molasses
trade. The bulk of the importations
for the year are usually made in the first
half year.
Recent reports say that the colony of
Liberia ia prospering. New plantations
nre developing, oommodions dwellings
are going up, and the schools and
churches are well attended.
Next Tuesday will lie a blaok-letter
day in the annals of Arkansas. No less
than six murderers are theu to be exe
cuted at Fort Smith. Arkansas can
claim pre-eminence in one respeot at
least
The Atlantic Mills, at Lawrence,
Mass., started on Monday, after being
idle seven weekB. The stook on hand
has been sold to good advantage. There
ia a prospect now for steady employ
ment for one thousand hands.
The eminent oomposer, Gounod, has
declined the directorshop of the pro
posed American College of Music,
gently hinting at the same time that
an Amerioan institute of the kind
should have an American director.
bridge across the Ohio at Cincinnati,
will perferm the feat of spanning the
sixteen-hundred feet obasm with wire.
The " wheat belt " ia enlarging its
area. Arkansas, for instanoe, will ex
pert small grains this year for the first
time in its history. The same general
tendency to raise more and buy less is
observable throughont the south.
The great suspension bridge between
New Tork and Brooklyn is assuming
shape. The towers on both sides will
be completed next spring, and the Roe
bttngs, who constructed the suspension
so
' In an agricultural convention at
Dalton, Go., a few days ago, a gentle
man called on all present who owned
sVep and no dogs to rise, and thirteen
rose. He then called upon all who
owned dogs and no sheep to rise, and
sixty or seventy responded.
Valmaseda has called on the loyal
merchant« and planters of Cuba for
$800,000 in gold to pay for the trans
portation of the fresh troops from Spain.
He gives each person twenty-fonr hours
to respond favorably. If they do not
uotim his cironlar they are declared
rebels. Valmaseda will squeeze the
gold out of these unfortunates.
Thebe is evidence tua» the French
government will put _ «top to the Ger
man Oathc lie pilgrimage to the shrine
of Our Lady of Loardes in the sonth
of France, if it can de so. The pope
has given his blessing to the movement,
however, and he will hardly interdict it
now. The Frenoh fear complications
with Germany.
The liabilities of the late bank of Cal
ifornia are estimated at $14,000,000, and
assets at $7,600,000. The stock
holders will lose aot only their invest
ment in stook, bnt will be heevily as
sessed to pay the olaims of depositors,
the entire Meets of the bank only fool
ing up about eighty per cent, of such
claims. _
The superintendent of the direct
United States cable says messages are
passing over the cable at a high rate of
speed. Although the Faraday arrived
at the location of the fault on the 22d
of August, ten days after railing from
London, she had only three days of
moderate weather, daring which she
picked np the oable in 2,500 fathoms,
out out the fault, and made final splices.
Despite the laws governing the im
portation of sattle in England, which
ate ao strict that if only one animal is
found diseased the whole cargo ia
slanghtered, the distemper hai broken
out in Dorsetshire, and ia rapidly
spreading. Happily, few cattle are
brought to the United States from
Europe, but tbe présent oiroamstanoes
warrant every precaution being em
ployed at Amerioan ports to guard our
herds from this fearful plague.
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spaoe in the Boston onstom-house, bat
the blundering Mullett pat the vault in
the aeoond story without sufficient sup
ports, and only $3,000,000 can be placed
there. Every money mill the govern
ment owns is rattling out silver by the
millions of dollars, and it looks as if thr
secretary of the treasury contemplate Aj
the speedy substitution of silver oci sTj
for fractional rags.
The mudh-mooted consolidation
the Western Union and Atlantic & Pa
oific telegraph lines has at last oome to
pass, and the telegraph system almost
of the entire continent of North Amerioa
is now gathered into the control of
vast monopoly. The Western Union
absorbs the rival corporation, the terms
of the transfer being a guarantee of an
annual dividend of 7 per cent, npon
25 per cent, valuation of the stock of the
Atlantic A Tacifiio, or $2,000,000.
The recent pleasant weather in Great
Britain and on the continent has en
abled the farmers there to gather their
crops with but little injury. The yield
however, is deficient, both in quantity
and quality, especially in Great Britain
and France. In other parts of Europe
there will be but little deficiency over
last year. The entire surplus of the
United States will, however, be con
earned by Europe, and good prices will
therefore be realized nntil the next har
vest That which makes the farmer in
Europe groan, makes the American
granger smile like a basket of chips.
Their future affords scaroely a hope,
At last it looks as if the Oarlist cause
was about to be abandoned. The
render of Seo de Urgel was a sad blow
to Don Carlos, who is represented as
being greatly dispirited. It has bees
followed by disastrous routs of smaller
bodies of Carlists, who, besides being
greatly outnumbered by the government
troops, have bnt little hope for the
fntnre, and fight only because their sit
uation is desperate, and compels it.
and we may look, therefore, far ah
early disband?ning of the army and the
flight of its leaders into France.
The imprisonment of Cortina, the
border bandit, in the City of Mexico,
has not had the effect of restoring peace
along the Bio Grande. The brigand's
former companions are continuing the
cattle raids, in the conduct of which he
so well instructed them. Our govern
ment is now fitting out additional light
draught gunboats for immediate servie*
on the river, but it is problematical
whether this will have the desired effect,
as long as the Mexican government is
not strong enough to ourb its own law
less population on the "free zona."
Thebe ia a good deal of interest at
the east relative to the location of the
new mint at the west New Tork wants
a coining offioe in connection with the
assay offioe there, and will combine with
Chicago if Chicago will anpport her
(daim. Philadelphia will fight New
Tork's enterprise, for if oarried it would
make the Quaker city a secondary place
in tbe matter of coinage. Philadelphia
will also form a combination with some
western city to defeat New York. If
New York and Chicago nnite, Philadel
phia and St Lonia will form a combina
tion. The question, at any rate, will
create a good deal of trouble in tbe
next congress.
She Cored Him.
At last she completely cured
had patiently endured
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For months she
the pangs so many
are compelled to suffer. Almost every
morning at breakfast the heartless bus
band expressed the hope that he might
live to s«e the day when he eould get
such coffee as he nsed to get at home ;
or such corn bread as his mother was
wont to msks and bake. At dinner the
meat was overbaked in the range. To
be snre his mother used to roast tbe
meat in an old-fashioned Dutch tin
even, and the piece was alwayr done to
a turn—the last torn of toe revolving
spit. Those days were forever gone.
But he might and ought to get such a
green apple pie with new cheese as his
mother need to give him. At length
the long suffering wife arose in her
wrath, upset tbe table, seeding the
dishes and their contents clashing to
hne carpet, strided over to her astonished
band, and gave him a box on the
which knocked him off his ohair.and
the
sad a »ave him a box on the
remarked : " There's a clip over tbe
head, snoh as year mother used to give
you when yon was a boy." Thereafter
there was domestic peeee and quiet in
that house, with never even an allusion
to the maternal oookery and oomforts
of the bygone days.
—The newest rage at the summer re
sorts is the Chinese sun-shade. It is a
very peculiar affair and somewhat
unique—hence its popularity among
young women at the seaside who act
and call themselves fashionable. They
are cheap, and the fact is calculated to
make them still more fashionable.
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THE BORE.
Ag»ln I bear the creaking step.
He'« rapping at tbe door 1
Too well I know tbe boding sonnd
That ushers in a bore,
I do not trem ble when I meet
The «tontest of my foes
Bnt heaven defend me from the friend
Who comes but never goee
He drop« into my easy chair
And aaka about tbe news.
He perpe into my manuscript.
AüdJbveSlhia^andirt visita; ' *
He tell* me where he likes the Hne,
And where he s forced to grieve !
He iskes the strsngeet liberties—
Bnt neve» tak a his leave.
He read* my daily paper* through
Before I've seen a word,
He scans the lyric (that I wrote)—
Asd think* it quite absurd.
He calmly smokes my last cigar,
Aid then he a*ks for more ;
He open* everything he sees-
Except the entry door.
He talks about bis fragile health,
And tells me of his pains.
And of a score or more of ill*,
Of which be ne'er complains :
And hsw he struggled once with death
To keep the fiend at bay :
On themes like thoee away he goe>—
But never goea away.
He tellameof the carping words
Some ihallow critic wrote,
And eveiy precious paragraph
IVnilitriy can quote ;
He think« the writer did me wrong,
He'd like to run him through !
He rays a thousand pleasant things—
But never say* " adieu i"
I mean to take the knocker off ;
Put crape upon the door;
Or bint to lohn that I am gone
To «tay s month or more.
I do not tremble when I meet
The stoutest of my toff,
But heaven defend me from a friend
Who never, never goe*.
THE DEAD BANKER.
Something About the Monte Christo of tfic
Pacific Coast,
W. C. Ralston, the president of the
bank of California, who is supposed to
have drowned himself on Friday last,
was, in many respects, the most re
markable man of the present century.
He was intimately known to many of
our leading citizens, several of whom
were entertaiaed at his beautiful
country residence within the Dast few
weeks.
Ralston was born on a farm near
Wellaville, in Columbiana * County,
Ohio, and in early life served as clerk
on boats between Portsmouth aud
points on the lower Ohio. He also run
„ u the trade to 8t. Louis, rad in oar
uaii line here. He prospered, and in
ims built the old steamer Memphis
»ere in 1847, and run her in the Mem
»his and New Orleans trade. In this
rade he made a fortune of $100,000.
He was afterward oaptaic of a boat that
am from New Orleans up the Missis
i and Missouri, and afterward drifted
to California, where he first appeared
clerk in a bank. Later he became
cashier of another bank, and during
this time speculated with remarkable
He was afterward appointed
osahier of the bank of California, an
institution greater in its influence, if
possible, than the bank of England.
Ralston held this position in '72, and
■hortly after became president of the
bank. He waa no Jim Fisk, in any
sense of the term. He was the pro
jector of the Pacific coast, prominent
among which were the Kimball manu
factoring company, an establishment
employing 2,000 men, and engaged in
the manufacture of furniture, railway
ooaohes, etc ; tbe Pacifio watch oom
pany; rolling-mills and machine shops;
and not the least among them all, the
Palaoe Hotel, one of the largest in the
world. In the construction of this vrat
building be personally superintended
and directed the work, compelling the
architect to oonform to his plans. In
the management of this hotel he devoted
two hoars daily, amid the multifarious
duties that devolved upon him.
He was always ready to assist in any
enterprise that would advance tbe in
terests of his section, and never failed
to give hearty encouragement to bnsi
raen. Belmont, hia oountry rési
deras, situated about» thirty miles from
Ban Francisco, near San Jose, was a
magnifioent structure. It would lodge
sixty two people elegantly, and every
arrangement was on the most superb
scale. His stables contained nearly
one hundred of the finest horses that
could be purchased; and his carriages,
of varions kinds, were proportionately
numerous.
He entertained a large number of
people daily, but particularly on Satur
days and Sundays hi" invitations were
(enerously extended and aooepted. No
iotel oonld vie in profusion and luxury
with Ralston's entertainments. His
(nests, if they traveled by rail, would
m met at tbe depot with elegant car
riages, drawn by four horses, and were
driven to Belmont through delightful
scenery.
He was the modern Monte Cristo.
His power to command gold seemed to
be unlimited. In his personal appear
anoe Ralston was plain and unassuming.
His apparel gave no indication of
wealth. He was the personification of
business.
Only a few weeks ago, while visiting
San Francisco, Mr. George W. Morris.
Dr. Dennis Long, Mr. W. Hite, Jr.,
Mr. Muldoon, and ' everal other citizens
of Louisville who had known Ralston
for years, and admired him, partook of
generous hospitality at Belmont,
death a.....
his
His death will be sincerely regretted by
hia Louiarille friends. Thom who
knew him intimately judge him well
The morning the telegraph announced
the fadnre of the bank, and the ex
citement consequent upon it, a gentle
man in this i-ity just from the Pacific
coast predicted tnat Ralston would not
be able to endure the disgrace of his
fall. The prediction was too trne. He
died in the prime of manhood, amid a
wreck of falling fortunes and tbe ruin
of vast interests.
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They» re worth an army of plodders.
Theywrest fortune from fate itself.
Through their indomitable energy and
wondîrfnl brain power they build up
and boite vast interests, which cans«
desefts to bloom and hamlets to spring
into iities. They make and unmake.
Whep they fall ruin and distress follow;
but, ifter all, it ia better to have ao
oomp^sh ij much and then failed, than
to have done nothing for one's country
or fellow-man. The ble.isings which
accompnny the worker will outweigh
the curses which naturally follow
failure.
Pre-natal Homicide.
Archbishop Lynch, of Toronto, does
excellently well to reprove pre-natal
homicide upon all proper occasions, but
when he ventures to say that "in the
New England States an ungodly people
are exterminating themselves from the
face of the earth, and a chaste and God
fearing people are succeeding to their
inheritance," the little adjective " un
godly " is likely to go far toward upset
ting the whole of his argument. Are
the Catholic Frenoh an " ungodly peo
ple ?" It is certain that the crime of
abortion is practiced much more oon
Btantly in Franco than in New England,
and with results which approach much
nearer to the point of arresting increase
of population. Must it for that reason
be assnuedthat the "ungodly " Frenoh
are exterminating themselves from the
face of the earth in order to make room
for the chaste. God-fearing Germans ?
Such a conclusion will scarcely suit
Archbishop Lynch, nor yet those to
whom his remarks were addressed. But
the French are seriously oonoerned
about the decreased growth of their
oountry in popnlation and the causes
which Lave led to this, asking them
selves waether the cold blooded theory
be indeed trne, that races, like individ
uals, have a limited existence, and that
there are young races which blot out
the old aid decrepid ones by mere oon
tact witk them. M. Sadillot, of the
French institute, has lately been ex
amining into tbe general question of
the vital functions of a nation with
special nference to the resources of
Franoe in these respects, and his Du
Revelcmsnt de la France is a pregnant
and instructive work. Omitting refer
ence to all that is embraced in this
valuable' book except the subject
touched Tipou by Archbishop Lynch,
we find that the French marriage bed
is unfertile in comparison with the Eng
lish. In the first place, the proportion
of marriages to the total population is
much greater in England than in Franoe;
in the second place, the mean of chil
dren bom to an English marriage is
four, while that to a French marriage
is only three. Here is a difierenoc,
really startling, of 25 per cent against
the Frenoh, and the proportion of it
due to aboition must necessarily be
large. One cause of this diminished
fecundity naturally is that the Frenoh
do not marry so early in life; the
higher classes do not marry mnch
younger than thirty, while the age of
restes t fecundity is between twenty
ive and thirty-five. The large drafts
of young men into the army is also a
deterrent agency ; but pre-natal homi
cide is after all the chief cause, and
how large a part it plays may be gath
ered from the significant foot that, while
the average mortality of infants under
one year old is for all France twenty in
a hundred, in some departments rising
to thirtyjaix per cent., the death of
suoh inf aits born out of wedlock range
from double to triple thjs percentage.
In the regions about PariB the deaths
of illngitxnste children run from fifty
to seventy per cent, of the births in tbe
first year, and it is a well known fact
that in Pitis the nnmber cf illegitimate
births exceeds tbe number of legitimate
ones. Tim New England States show a
much mom healthy condition of things
than this. Taking the whole United
States thiougn, as compared with the
other countries, we find that in one hun
dred thouiand persons the proportion
of popnlation under one year is, in the
United SUtes 3,212 ; in England and
Wales, 2,929 ; in Italy, 3,319 ; in Nor
way, 3,042; in Franoe, 2,169 ; in Massa
chusetts, with its large manufacturing
and town population, 2,419. If Arch
bishop Lynch will compare these fig
ures he will discover that Catholic
Franoe is in much greater danger of
being depopulated than ungodly New
England ; but, per contra, that Catholic
Italy is more prolific than either the
United States or Protestant England,—
New York World.
A Scene from Life. —A young man
entered the bar-room of a village tavern
and called for a drink. " No," said the
landlord. "yoo]have had delirium tremens
once, and I cannot sell you any more."
He stepped aside to make room for a
couple of young men who had just en
tered, and the landlord waited upon
them very politely. The other had
stood by silent and sullen, and when
thev finished, he walked np to the land
lord and thus addressed him ; "Six
years ago, at their age, I stood where
those young men are now—I was a
young man with fair prospecte. Now,
at the age of twenty-eight. I am a wreck,
body and mind. You led me to drink.
In this room I formed the habit that baa
been my rain. Now sell me a few
glasses more, and your work wijj be
done. I shall soon be out of the way ;
there is no hope for me ; bnt they can
be saved. Do sell it to me and let
me die, and the world will be rid of me;
but for heaven's sake sell no more to
them." The landlord listened, pale and
trembling. Setting down his decanter,
he exclaimed, " So help me, this is the
last drop I will ever sell to any one."
And he kept his wo. d.
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Go-oper&trve Business Idea.
The Mississippi Valley Trading com
pany has five hundred thousand live
working members in England, with an
active business capital of twenty-five
million dollars. This company is tbe
natural outgrowth of new ideas in re
gard to productive industry, and the
exchange of the fruits of labor by tbe
producing elaaras of one nation and one
continent with those of the same classes
living in another nation, perhaps on a
different continent. The managing
director of this company is Mr. T. D.
Worrall, wbo, by invitation (with
others) recently addressed a large meet
ing in St. Ixmis. He said "the plan of
oo-operation was the salt which was to
savor this country. The grange oper
ation began by bay ing at wholesale and
distributing to it* members. The plan
will do harm. If the natrons of nns
bandry will adopt the Rockdale plan it
will prosper. As a people, Americans
want to do too much at once. Begin
with a small amount of capital; but be
gin. Hire a clerk; the committee, how
ever, must ran the machine. They
must meet once a week with great
punctuality," etc. Mr. Thomas, presi
dent of the Leed's co-operative socie
ty, gave an intending account of the
rue and workings of that organisation
From very humble beginnings the
profits of the society were now twenty
five thousand dollars a year. He ra
marked, that "a* soon as a man be
comes a co-operator, he begins to think
and to save, and tue result is that he
be ones a better citizen. He felt con
fident that cooperation, if faithfully
«mied ont, wouldrevilt in incaloulable
good to the peoplftof America.
Co-operative idtas have taken a
strong bold of tbe people who apeak the
tbe English language on both aides of
the Atlautio. Tkev number some
eighty million souls, including tbe
British Provinces lorth of the United
States. Fraternal lympathy, free trade
and greater econony in the adminis
tration of government affairs, will be
among tbe first fruits of the cordial
union of the industdal classes of Great
Britain and this republic. It ia tbe be
ginning of changes in. agriculture, man
ufactures, trade, tansportation and of
reforms in government, of unknown
extent, and of mestimable value.
These representative men are of a type
♦ha* has never betete eleltad'fliX
oountry, and will carry book to England
information gathered in New Orleans,
Memphis, Georgia, St. Louis and other
places in the south and wesi, of telling
influence on the minds of both capital
ists and operatives in a land whion has
a redundant population. Business in
tercourse and confidence between
millions of laboring people living partly
in Enroue, and partly in America, are
a new feature iu the progress of modern
civilization, and in the distribution and
accumulation of wealth. The Valley of
the Mississippi is beginning to be better
understood, and more appreciated in
London, the center of the world's com
merce and capital. The agricultural
resources of this vast water-shed of
more than a million square miles, call
for an industrious, enterprising people
of at least one hundred million to own
and cultivate the soil. One English
man (Mr. Grant) bas purchased in
Kansas, and is settling with immigrants
over 300,000 acres in one body. We
have no doubt of the auooeas of the
effort to deepen the water at the mouth
of the Mississippi, ao that ultimately
some 20,000 miles of river front can
ship direot to any part of the commer
cial world. Scientific engineering,
backed by oo-operative industry and
oapital, will in a few decades show what
the waters of the great lakes and rivers
of North Amerioa were made for. Them
waters are placed by nature in a position
to have a thousand fold greater agri
cultural and mechanical foroe than is
now appreciated. Such lakes as Su
perior and Michigan, plaoed so high
above sea-level, do not elsewhere exist
on the globe. The affluents of the Mis
sissippi are constructed not only hard
by on the same continent, bnt on the
same magnifioent soale. Tbe intelli
gence, industry, enterprise and oapital
of the best parts of the Old World find
in the Valley of the Mississippi room
and verge enough to invest their labor
and money, and plant their offspring
to become a part of a nation whose
fntnre is so full of promise. Direot
trade with the south and west is what
Mr. Morrall and Mr. Thomas seek.—
Nashville American.
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American Tea. —Georgia is going to
her hand once more at tea growing,
ose who have investigated the subject
assure us that the obstacle to the cul
ture of tea successfully in the southern
states is the want of experience, bnt
chiefly of cheap labor. The tea tree of
China has been grown by several per
sons in Georgia, from tbe Piedmont
region lo the sea coast. This enrub ia
a hardy and vigorous evergreen, and
thrives as well with us as it does in
China and Japan. It grows fiom three
to five feet high, s neat, compact, laurel
leaved shrub, with pretty white flowers
in Spring, and is quite ornamental. It
is perfectly hard and will stand any ex
posure to the ehmate, and bra been
tested in Athens and many other locali
ties in Georgia. We are told it would
be an easy matter for any family that
has a home and a few feet of ground to
produce their own tea, and a little to
sell. I*s general introduction for home
use would must likely lead to its pro
duction for the people to learn before
they are able to manufacture the article
as we get it from China ; but it is said
a very good tes, and free from adultera
tion,'can be made by simply picking
and drying the leaves in tbe same man
ner that sage leaves are cured.— New
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FACTS AND FANCIES.
—The papers ara Always saying smart
things, and one of them has just said
this: ^ "No young lady who vaines her
happiness will marry a widower until
ta least his first wife is demi."
—The Troy Times ia assured by the
chief signal officer that, not withstand
ing the periodical exoeaaivo rainfall,
the aggregate rainfall in the United
States is not increasing.
—The following is significant of
.Spanish morality; "NoSpanish maiden,
however poor, or however low her rank,
can ever walk alone in tne street even
for a few paces; if ahe does ao her
character ta gone."
—Little Alio«» was crying bitterly,
and on being questioned, confessed to
having received a slap from one of her
playfellows "You should have re
turned it," unwisely said the questioner.
"Oh, 1 returned it Itefore," «aid the
tittle girL
— Happy Bridegroom —"More money,
madam ! More money ! (lav e you for
gotten that my money lias bought
everything that you jHissess the very
dress that yon staud in ?" Bride
"No, air; nor hare I forgotten tUat
your mourn has bought wuat stan lai i
it"
--A ragged little urchin came to a
lady's door asking for old clothes. She
brought him a vest and a pair of trows
era, which she thought would be a
comfortable fit. The scapegrace took
the garments and examiued each ; theu,
with a diaoonaolahle look, said ;
"There ain't no watch pocket."
— Madame de Staël wrote on an al
bum reoeutlv delivered. "When two
beings truly love each other, they obey
without knowing, and that state of
mutual dependence constitutes the
warmest and mildest of tyrannies."
—During a clerical conference, tbefol
lowing conversation waa heard lietween
two newsboys : "1 say, Jim, what's
tbe meaning of ao many ministers being
here altogether ?"
"Why," answered Jim, «eortifully,
"they alwaya meet once a year to swap
sermons."
—"What wealthy old fellows those
Knickerbockers mast have been," said
setrenj«». walking thronst* one of our
ancient graveyards.
"Why so?" asked his companion.
"Beoanae," answered the first, "I so»
'Died rich' inscribed on so many of tbs
tombstones."
—A London paper tells of a oountry
man being taken to a theatre, and when
the lights were down and the play had
commenced he was offer*»d the use of
an opera glass. Examining it as closely
as the darkne's of the place would per
mit, ne plaoed >t to his month and
turned it upwards. Finding that no
liquid was coming-out of it, he handed
it back in despair, : "It's empty, John;
there's not a single drop in't man "
—How much greater is the power of
an old song, with simple air and words,
than that of those more difficult and
artistic ones which sometimes throw
professional musiciana into ecstasies of
delight ! It may not be because there
is more music or feeling to it; but it is
endeared to the hearts of the common
people through familiarity, and as
sociated with home scenes of love and
affeotion, and appeals to sentiments and
feelings that oonld not be awakened
otherwise.
—Miss Minkler, of Story county,
Nev., deserved a better fate. Both her
arma were taken off at once by the sickle
of a reaper. Her father and the hired
man were paralyzed with horror. Miss
Minkler quietly called to them each to
seize the stumps above the wound and
oompress them them, which they did.
She then told them to walk her to the
road, and they obeyed. She was taken
home smiling, the wounds were dressed
and the-poor girl is gointng to recover.—
Chicago Tribune.
—During a dense fog a Mississippi
steamboat took a landing. A traveler
anxious to go ahead, came to the un
perturbed manager of the wheel and
asked why the boat stopped.
"Too mnch fog; can't ses the river."
" But you can see the stars over
head."
Yes, replied the urbane pilot; "but
until the biler busts we ain't goin' that
way." The passenger went to bed sat
isfied.
—Addison says : "I have always pre
ferred cheerfulness to mirth. The lat
ter I consider as an aot, the former as a
habit of the mind. Mirth ia short and
transient, cheerfulness fixed and per
manent. These are often raised into
tbe greatest transports of mirth who
are subject to the greatest depression
of melancholy ; on the contrary, cheer
fulness, though it does not give tbe
mind such an exquisite gladness, pre
vents ns from falling into any depths of
sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of light
ning which breaks through a gloom of
clouds, and glitters for a moment ;
o jeerfulness keeps up a kind of day
light in tbe mind, and fills it with a
steady and perpetual serenity."
—All the ladies wear a medal or a
cross, attached to a ribbon, round their
necks. On close inspection I saw that
these medals and crosses were the sane
as given to distinguished men for ser
vices rendered to their oountry ou the
bat 1 le- field. On inquiry, also, I ascer
tained that they were in reality the
medals and crosses of the husbands of
the ladies who wore them, and that it
was now to be the fashion of all ladies
to show in this way that their husbands
are decorated. "So," they say, "we
are snre that this fashion at least will
not be copied by the vulgar "—Paris
Correspondence.