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OCTOBER.
There k.mer moth in the weary year,
A mouth -.f eiaulre randheal t l :
When the ripe laiven fall, ad the air i. cdear:
Ortoblr : the brown, tie risp, the B -e.t.
My life has little enough of ht:
I drag the day' of the odd eleven,
ltag the : me that shall lead to this,
The mouth that ,pens the hunter's heaven.
And O for the mornings crisp and white,
With the wee.l, of the bunud upon thetrak ;
The tark-rc'-fe.l cabin, the c.amp-flrea light,
The break of the deer and the nries crack.
I" ," *..- t mll e ? I tell you., frend,
.A 1." lo ti,. fr. -t It I.at all prai..,
flie.- elb. a dt z.n rPtch e, mnthai on rud.
Yru ray take m balance ,f years and day's.
For brick and mortar breed lthIe and crime.
Ant a puee of evil that thro.l and beate;
A:c;,Lrn grow witheredl bh.f.,re ther prime
Witth ther-nree pla .ed in ou the lanes and streets;
Autd l tIrn are ch he t, and ehoulti,te are bowed
Iu the .ne,'hering reek of ueIt andl mit"e;
Andu Iliath . Ilks in o,' the LtrnlRg!tiRg *'r . 1,
Wite he iahou the shadowtof uak and ittur.
And of alt to which the meamory elings.
ThI-re is naught so sweet as the uennmy *I*.t
µ er.e .,cr .heu'ies te* d by the crystal leriug,
lThe cm:,e.heidhlunde , and the lutky k hlto.
The Aldi'ee.
INTLLLECT IN FAT MW.
Apropos of the discussion in the Tich
borne trail between the lord chief jus
tioe and Dr. Kenealey on fat men, the
London Telegraph remarks : Theopin
ion of the lord chief justice, most tem
perately and toler..ntly expressed, was
that there are numbers of very stout
persons who are as remarkable for their
shrewdness as any thin ones. Cour
teously doolining to deal with the !iv
ing, the presiding judge instanced the
late Sergeant Wilkins, who was certainly
no dullard, sad who must have mea
sured an unonuaeionable number of
inches round the waist. Dan'l Lambert,
again, who was so corpulent that when
he died his friends were fain to bunr
him in a coffin as big as grand piano
forte, and to coanvey him to the ceme
tery in a broad-wheeled wagon, was a
very sharp, asenute talker, and an excel
lent man of business. Sir Alexander
also mentioned Mr. Harrison, Q. C., a
lawyer of excessive obesity but with
exceedingly sharp intellect. r, Kenea
ley, stieking to his postulate that dul
ness and fatness go together, ventured
to think that a survey of the English
beach would show a vast proportion of
lean men over fat ones, to which Sir
Alexander promptly rejo.ned that
judges were, as a rule, meagme, becamse
they worked so her I. Dr. ensealey
had, neverthles, the better ths I
section of the argument. It an be
shown, by a review of judicial portraits, i
that we have only had three Iudges who I
were distingui hed at one for embon
pedal and for slntal attanm nts : I
Chief Justice Gaseolgoe, who commited
Primes Harry for contempt; Page, a
his haging pndUiri , bnt good re
Watis priuaemomb1yineJ1ctao
Jf -Lw ýyiueller Je&ely-
hs ft was aleohoie' and blea
ted, and not the unctuous beeanses of I
an honest ma. Bir Matthew Hale was t
asthins a a wipio post; Coole the
no fat ohis boaes; on the othe ad,
Bradshawe the president of the high
court of justice, was a big, carse,
man. It may here be noted that e
ahawe was only aunder the legitimate
government a sergeant-at-law; nd ean- I
riously mare wearers of the coilf who q
have never rsee to the bench bav beesn
fat. Sergeant Taddy was stot; so was
Sergeant Arabia;. su tease of B
ant Wilkis we have already men
tioned. sLet it be likewise sesmebered '
that, although fer three hundred years
we have had so fat lord chauellors, the t
keeper of the royal esaienese was, in '
the days of elesiastical ebhatellars,
usually a very portly pn Wo
sr y was alderma lie in r w mi
was St. Thomas aa et, at whose ad- Ie
dietedasms to game pie and e ber. -
gladdean hook has deicately hinted, s
at all approuasat to a skeleton in di- '
mensions. It is true taat, toward the
os of his lie, the saint pstised the i
bating a sm ie t
iof Sir Aleanader o which
ads us abstain from bringing or '
living illustatiesof* the argument, pro
ad n oa, c , e p i t to the expri
enoe of a esrtnm emlst I
who ae wrote a very nar book, '
ad who therain proved most trim- '
phantly that fass an damel., do not
couasel for the defence, a. aboands I
with t to rule whichL tshe I
ihton tirve to etab
lihh, that it waold he b labo
rioely summing ap the nmt of
haown on either side ad sri i
a balame that anything like a satisf- ac
tory coneliuaen could be formed, Itts
-t e time aret to imporihbe to I
aceertain aseh a balanse, from the eon- a
ti additions that would be suggested
both tothe dter saa eedMor sede of a
t ae n Nmal al the Greet will, i
et sorsehe eldmd b he this aide.
- w, indeed, in y ptst bL y I
dLt, wa a by arIb we s I a
Iad, h ksbit ehwiuswe sI"
bd sems that tho
auestion we see I
t the - me nauqs had I
bean hen hishst- sd and I
thk mane as he was, his h
wasb gedl thi aw e r
hl '?atl eisg ak Swl and ottlle I
when the sbu d~a mseeings of u
4tia to el at tblewwlk a
atheagha l 6d I o
beastuaa h
3a '
neither fat nor lean; while Louis XVIII,
the wit, the genius of the family-the
cunning old joker who so snugly en.
soonsoed himself in the sheets of Na
poleon's state bed was phenomenslly
fat. His subjects used to call him
" Louis Coehon," and "Louis des Hni
tree." Obvious considerations of de
lieacy bid as abstain from saying any
thing about the four Georges ; although
much might be written on the injustice
of those accusations of stupidity
brought against the last George, who
was certainly more gentleman than
fool; hut there can be no harm in re
marking that Queen Anne was a fat stu
pid woman; whereas George Irs Queen
Caroline, although fatter, was very
clever. William IIL, in every respect
a great man, was as thin as a herring;
his consort Mary was just a little less
corpulent than her sister, but a great
deal shrewder. And so the shuttleeock
of evidence is bandied to and fro by the
battledores of contradictory cases. In
polities we are pussled when we remem
ber that William Pitt was lean and thin,
whereas Charles James Fox was, to
wards the elose of his life, a man-moun
tain. In the literature of the last cen
tury we recall plump little Mr. Gibbon,
tke hardest student and worker of his
century; fat Capt. Grose, the anti
nary; portly Dr. Parr; big, hulking
tsm'l Johnson, and burley Dr. Bur
ny. But, on the other hand, Voltaire
was s epectre ; -Southey had a lean and
hungry look; and Charles Lamb was a
mere mite of a man. Nearly the only
instance in which we can get our feet on
firm ground in this shifty controversy is
in respect to Dr. Kenealey's position,
that the fat boy at chool is usually a
slow stupid boy, who cannot learn his
lemons and is the butt of his playmates.
At the mention of such an obese youth,
the remembrance of the fat boy in
"Piekway," and of the late admirable
comedian, Mr. Keeley, as a eorpulent
lad in "'To Parents and Guardias,"
suggest themselves irresistibly to the
mind; but, turning from the fat boys of
fiction to those of fact, a very slight
amount of medical knowledge will suf
fice to convince us that fat school-boys
and fat school-girls are nearly always
very stupid, because abormal corpu
lence in boyhood or girlhood really
amounts to disease. The sufferers are
slow to talk, and seem slower to think,
for the reason that they are in a chronie
stats of discomfort and unrest. Yet
here, again, we e brought up sharply
by the reminder that babies cannot be
too fat, sad what mother would tolerate
the amertirm that babies are stupid ?
It is worse than idle to dogmatile on
this vexed topie.
The P1ies at the Smarald.
The pim the emerald has no fixed
and ez d re, like that at thedia
mond, and the Anetuations of its value
luring the past three centries from an
interemti hapter i the history of
s?. k-w hmdrd uu ago the
rice small salmt s a the rt qual
ty was one lois the eet; one and a
half carets, five lois; two earets, ten
Lonis; and beydOd e weight no rnin
if value wouldbe eddWhl In 100
merald were ro at as be worth
mly quar mml a the diamoyld.
-he -were gletted with the froe
psent importations ben prsand four
en yes before tis sbovemeationed
acnd e vnse brought from South
two hundred and three pounds
tf fin emeralds worth at the present
rlation w em tma mvea millios of
iollas At the boegl eig of this een
"r, aesoedlug to Came, they were
worth no mere than twenty-four francs
(or about fe dollsem) the caret, and
for a long time antesedent to 1850 they
were valund at only afteen dollars the
ee-. 8ime this peL  they have be
met y rare, snd their vrISitio has
oro wn ly. rIn fety the
value of the emerald amw eszesds that
if the diamond, and isrspidlyapproaoh
iag the ratio xbedbd iasesto Cel
LiaI in the middle of the sixteenth en
bury, which rated the emerald at four
imes, d te roby at eight times, the
value of the diamond. s tones
th emerald is emeaedagly liable to
w, the beryl is more free, and the
green aphire is rrmely mpaired by s
wsures or m ) of me mmt in weight
are worth at the at day two hun
ed dol n g . Pte ,.et gem. of
two caret, we ill ommand fie
hundred dollr ia g4while the lar
ger eses are at extravagant
priees.-Lppine ea Magmfme.
dull g sa Arab Ernie
of fe eta brick cad alon from the
mo-n, sad, indeed, I had to wat-h
them elosely to pevent them taking
cnth of onsequnene. With these
b athey nugt •nmber of
-t th-ded bria f te old
village, rad, when a sfleient amount
of mterials was hped together I hd
toaly out the plan of the Ihona by
rrangg lines oa brick ad fragments
p the postion in which I wanted the
wes The m thena made some Arab
mter; or this prpse they dyug up
-d temed over a lmagquare space of
to b bri . sh m ful etm ad mls al
ng. Ne-,the earth, water wun
im admas, seem the tmale os .
dI mix whethe thins;e leatn
- the -k -stem was vell
la this md e r, was laid
-m and e wilh the mds. As foon
s the welb were e --ly high the I
*wem thqa thatr ma een n
both bee my eer a cd the bhet
itthesa, cad coming round thecor
-e I somimes caught the whale
-~thr isr Wwh.. the wals
md the whole party went en an ud
eamto the be t oithe lab to eel
eat ca det braswod far the reef.
dol the bruahwood cad - the
s-of alhreessk bu~~it uda1,
dI~,(h
i ighway Robbery in Nevada.
A startling episode of frontier life
comes from Nevada, where four bold
brigands recently waylaid and pills*,ed
a stage-eoach while going to a village in
Sierra county. There were fourteen
paengers aboard, and they had just
emerged from a thicket when four men
sprang from behind the rocks, and seiz
ing the horses by the briddles bade the
driver get down and take the horses
from the coach. Next the peasengers
were told to dismount and seat them
selves on a redwood log. As each of
the robbers held a double-barrelled shot
gun, the order was obeyed with alacrity.
The passengers sat still a mice under
cover of the shot-gns, and silently
watched the operations of the robbers
in getting at the contents of the safe.
The scoundrels drilled holes about the
lock and elsewhere in the door, poured
powder into theopening, tamped them,
and then lighted the fuse. In half a
minute there was a thick puff of smoke,
a dull, heavy round, and there lay the
safe open. It was but the work of a
minute to saek the bags of gold and
packages of greenbacks, and then the
robbers ordered the passengers to
mount. The travelers obeyed and took
their seats, and then the driver was
ordered up and drive on quick. The rob
bers relieved them of between $8,000
and $12,000, and after making a mile in
uncom monly quick time it was ascer
tained that every man of the fourteen
had a revolver safely stowed away in his
trunk or valise.
Pnmsa Dnmqrrwrv.-Among other
customs enforced by Persianetiquette is
the rule that where a superior dines with
an inferior the latter brings in the first
dish himself, a practice not without pre
cedent at western courts. The briging
a dish is, however, in Persi no li un
dertking, and requires considerable
skill, sngth and practice, forthe man
ner in which the operation is performed
is, especially at court, dritd pre
at arm's Ilngh, earried perfectly horri
sotally, and deposited precisely in the
right plaee at one. ome ldierousto
ries are related about thispractice. One
old gentleman with a magnicBent beard
had to bring in a largse tray ontaining
several dishes, and place it in front of
the shah. The tray was heavy, thebearer
was feeble, and, to make matters worse,
just as he was about to p , aeendle,
which he had not obseed, t fire to his
magnificent beard. For a moment he
was in a state of the utmost perplexity.
To pat down the tray elsewhere than in
its appointed place, an operation which
required some deliberatio, was out of
the question. To allow his cherished
beard to be coasamed was also impossi
ble. He was equal to the occasion, and
plunging his flaming beard inteo a dish
of cards which stood on the tray he
calmly completed hi task, amidst the
applause and amusement of the be
holders.-Hearth and Hoe.
ALConoH W Baman.-It has been
generally stated that the alcohol formed
in dough during the process of fermen
tation is all expelled x the takig, but
some earnest teetotalers ma be pained
to learn that Mr. T. Boles find that a
perceptible amount of the intorieting
auid may be obtained from so mall a
quantit as two ounces of breed. From
the report oa his inestigtioes pub
lished i the ehemieal mews, it ar
Sthatu iamples'of De besd, boUt t
sbop in London, yielded from . to
(u of one per cnt. of alohol. After
the bread had been eaposed to the sir
in a moderately wmm m for a week,
two-thirds of the aleohol had evapaora
ted. Mr. Bolas'reesarks that "The
amount of alcohol eontained in bread is
too small to be of aay dietetic impor
tance, but it may be, perhaps, worth
while to notice, that forty-two pound
loeaves are about equal in aleoholie
reng to to bottle d pet" Hebo
soon to deteie tihe amotf aco
which dough loses while baking. Our
readers probably reclleet that some
ar p were made in Eag
lmd to rsave th lamouetr of leobol
o to be lost in bers' oweas. A
deal of mnoey was aunk in the ez
mm but it was ounad that the
a d qulity of the spirit ob
tained were not suck as to make the
prsee ummtira-Lendo MN
Firt etor-It's yellow ever.
Second ditto-It's malarial.
.ourth-I t'e heU m of th thora ,
nduc by lewdamdtie maie
Fifth-I have been praitiinia twenty
f.rred to - poney iio,,, sad bourbon
for the rem four -
of the hydroa-eholaide of tcb enarae
of beeswa, tintred with the mrilatie
of jijm, eternally, will ee
Seventh-There re two mild e
hese, or else there is a beap o' fom ad
feathems seut two -as o billeus
feber.
ml tul the fur SaI s end the gl
- m e nd we drmw th eamt.
Tazasoan Vuaeuo .-A Panama
perpgives a -rik illtratimon of
r a idt eo vegetation in
ths topi by zeimermto the bushes
ed trees inth ruins of the
burnt Aesywall at Pans.a It is
.acel.y mare t two asince ths
cau n ocred, end yet thisn i
now gpowng within walls frees at
least 8sfees in height They beloag
to what are called trumpelrees (Ceesr
pias) ad the braeahes are said to be
aowding out o the highest doors and
windows, s as to render t ru
throw th wa wh whic they
are iaterased.
The Patest Offe.
The annual report of the commis
sioner of patents for the year 1872 has
just been issued from the government
printing office. It gives a complete
alphabetical list of patents for the year,
13,500 in number, with name, residence
and invention, alphabetical lists of in
ventions, designs, re-issues, extensions,
disclaimers and trade marks. In addi
tion to this technical information there
is a considerable amount of statistical,
ofoial and general matter, which con
veys some idea of the vast field of
acientific and mechanical progress cov
ered by the ingenuity of the people of
the United States. The report gives
the following exhibit of the business of
the office fcr the year ending Dec. 31,
1872:
Appliatensm for piste.................. ...12. 6
Patents i-ued, ladudina iv-tmn ad de
apptee tes ofr lilaW.......... . -1
Pmvtext Add.d.....»................ 0ra
Patla cglil j.....»..................... 3,09
Patents expired ........ 3.491
Patents allowedl but not issued for want of
a e ....... ......... ...._...... ... 2,32
The following were the nationalities
of the patentees :
United states_ .......................... 13,009
Ores Brit ............ ........ ............... 445
Pranne................ ................ ............... 51
Other goereaneats .......... .......... 53
Tota. . ......... .... ..... ................13,590
The following shows the number of
patents by states and territories and
army and navy :
Vo.t No.
Alabamao....... ..... 4;I Nebrasa ......... . 2
Arkansa ......... 1 Ne e............. 2
Cairoraof...»,.....»b 143 ....... .S
Clorfa .... ......... Hampshire...... 12
Ool~eut....... .... 641N Nw eiauo........... 2
Dakkota.. ....._... 2', New York........ 3,079
Delawe ........42 Noth Carolna...... p
Dittrit of Columbia 143 Obik.......... s
rida ........... s 00 s.. ......... 2
Oeorixa ....... ...... a nusyaMy la .....1.1S5
I ac...a..»......... Rm e I.la... 2 . 79.
Siaoola ................«. 5a'nth Carol ... ...
Iodians..... 3 T resaw~ ,o ........ 106
ow............... ..... i261 rea ...............
Ksas....... j. ,t.a ..... . a.
Kentucky......... 145 ernt............ 91
aiaaaa.,.... 76' VirgnIa. - 106
lesl......... l1` W. nastos ........ a
Minown ...,.... 76' united states arny.. 7
lrTsa :::::zr. 961nltdsar as
The financial exhibit of the offie is
not only dtteing to its prosperity and
magnitude, but ows tht it is one of
the few, very few, self-supporting
branhes of the government.
For the year ending Dec. 31, 1872,
the receiptr and expenditures were as
folows :
..oolpa.... ...... ....».... .- ...59,7.13
The state of business at different
times from 1887, the date of the present
organization of th bureau, to 187, may
be n by the following comparative
exhibit :
Tes Sn Mleareo.
1f t... .... s43 llo.... 1.0701s61m ..... . s34
5 1...... e l.... 52 1s 998112..g... .521o
14. » 473 1862.......... 1,02016...... » 5026
141. ....... 456 183 .... 1,95'61561...... 6.616
1r4 .... 1,lls e 16..... 1.9 l,50....... 9,40
IS . ..... 9tl ss. .. 2,5 16.. .. ...12,s
4 as....... ll6 0 11....« « ,910 i5 ..........13
1,46.s. S30l, 157.... 2,730 l641.........13,98
som.etm hiale...... ,thOII .._lIesI
1-_..... 572l1UN....... 3,710 171.....m3
1-....... 572 IM . 4.515 187. .....9i6
Shoeing a amel.
A traveler from Pekin to Siberia,
aerm the geat desert of Gobi, tells us
thSat wheoev as smel's feet havbe
es very tender and se from long
marshes,- the poor reature lies down.
His driver knows at ones that his feet
hut him, sad looks to nd out if the
thiek skin of the feet is blistered.
Whenever a blister is found two or
three strong men, usually ioe rls,
keep wat the mel until it is not
r them. UAt jt the right mo
t t me a rush all toether
upon the camel, throw it over upon the
ad nd make itfs Then, withL a
mwedle ade for that use, they sew a
ae io of leather ge enough to
wh toesh wsk a[ e, sitb oat hoa.
inh the ae in itehine se mhde
the amel is read toe gt t up·and
dow in h mi d ila amush
-l tewide dsertad dis The
rvh t The tieest lart es
sin mak.lly sh paca. e the ise f t
skin thee a te c .t d fter d. wr
n th..irlsh, d pul, uniasybe
earn so esi ml yie a rsem
witd bi red et gaefl tohe
hare dsoes md c it, ithe ae
whe heot heid sdotwh s eoudamt
miov.-BueiZe erber. I
To a i nviut i smi s al s
sele in da l ; is woo4reMi ta
the de t eal Tsr m's etanvseest
whense ws unowna ml v aOter
rea te r f .lt hu ebjsehlthaedr
"Terr ml ar mdau 4 noth
las wsle tZ S pals I
in S p'
fe's Md
Barns and Stock Sheds.
If there is one thing we are more de
relict about than another it is the pro
viding of proper covering to protect
our stock in winter. It I were to take
the trouble, I could find excellent and
reliable authority for asserting that
cattle left out in the cold require to he
fed a third more to keep up the same
amount of flesh or milk than if proper
ly housed ; that is to say, food is the
fuel of the animal engine, the real ear
bon from which heat is derived. Now,
your brute is constantly subjected to
the influences of cold winds and rains,
the heat is carried off, whilst if it be
kept in a warm place the heat will be
retained. Again this heat, this carbon,
is also fat; therefore, if your ox or row
is exposed to the weather and not suffl
ciently fed to supply earbon to keep up
the warmth, nature makes a demand on
the tores laid up in better times, and
your animal gets poor; or if the store
is not there to draw from, the poor
creature dies. Look at it in any light
you will, exposure, is loss, waste and
bad management.
Every man who pretends to be a far
mer, in the proper acceptation of the
term, should keep two-ffths of his land
in red clover which cannot be saved an
lees put under clover. Here, then, are
two dnducements to multiply roof sur
face. And yet another : No farimer
should neglect to save every particle of
manure that falls from his stock, and he
cannot do this properly in the absenee
of sheds and stablinn. We mean the
man who utilizes all the hours between
the time crops are laid by and gathering
time, and who will then have foresight
enough to rive boards and built houses
to shelter his cattle. Figure as what a
few hundred dollars properly expended
in this behalf will do for you. What
will it cost to eut, bark, haul up and
put in the ground twenty-four posts, to
average a foot each' in diameter, and
stand ffteen feet out of the ground
.et them tea feet spart and you will
have a house forty by one hundred.
What will it cost to put up and secure
plates on the posts, and also joists, with
a row of posts in the center for sup
port; then rafters, say thirty-four par.
or three by six stuff eah twenty-eight
feet long, say twenty-five hundred feet
of lumber? And now for the boards:
It will take fourteen courses, of Ave
hundred to the coarse, on each side, or
fourteen thousand in all, which will
make a very excellent job: ten thou
sand will give you a roof, but not a good
one. How much will the boards cost ?
A keg of eight penny nails, sad twenty
pounds each of tens and double tens,
will be needed. Set in and spike to
the posts, horiontally, at five feet
apart. three by four scantling to nail
e siding to; this will require fourteen
hundred feet of lumber. Of siding we
will want four thousand feet of inch
plank, to be set on end and nailed to
the last mentioned scantling. At ten
feet above the ground we want a good
trot oor, ith strong joists, made
of poles barked, four thousand feet of
lumber for the floor. We want some
doors with hinges, and some ladders.
We also want a good well in one corner
of the building, or under ashed adjoin
ing. Carefully estimate the value of all
the material and then valuetheputting
pinlae. l g the center of the
alnding, and g the entire length,
have your corn ribs on either side of
this isle. Should we aut off twety
feet for this purpose, we have still left
ample room for eighteen animals in
stalls, and a harness sad tool room. In
the loft will be found capacity for ene
hundrea toes hay. To makethis barn
perfet, we must surrounad it with a fif
teen feet shed. This will take twelve
thousand more boards, and twenty-four
hundred feet of rafters, and five hun
dred feet of plates, and five hundred
feet of ties,and another beg of ten
-ny and ma other e pound
late ad neil ad work it all ot, anad
-ee th th ~ea uildrl a
early r a q ofaa acre of
will eBt b a few haundred 1ons
"But," sysanemjuiran hied, "wht
do I want with ths big bouase? Ihave
but few animals and no ." There.
nye havei a stork is b
have aeither food nrhelterferit. tYou
a e onta to oe a fewtenadoullr eows
when you might bad my worth ten
imes tha muee
wi beimuddtoget the hy Be
sro n sow ead d doer on ~rm this
manth. D0nt be sin with the sued,
md des't be aframid to put thesa on she
__-ae; mAwhm you have the hy
r a t e, wkh mess hes. ad
male a d as brd took, ill mal
"iply, your mare heaps wil gow,
yoar luald will get rie#h, ad, as a se.
asne, tm eame thing will happen to
-The h m r of haing adeted the
in tr n d Phldepeds
The buildingbhas Aes eas faZ
rsef muratisn, and will bdedi
es tthe pes etth, Its aggregate
met is 615,000 4 O includin s 79s
fas w ad e or risiTn feet
above the grond This towebr is the
esl,- M ed h eall, the eionie
m etsee mid what . Te  d1
slaborats building of th kind in the
-"Some grso"eaid OM Hank,
"I took a bd-btg o l e r kodry,
ma droppeti it th ladle where the
elted ison was, ad had it rean Int t
Mf-lt Well, emld woman sed that
skilst pratty sedyfor the lest mi
Ll tos e shn dwhatde thsak,
-nlmq that era ineet wJakd
ant of his hele where he'd ben lying
lihe a fr ia reek, san made backs
r his oM moot s tairs B y,
?sr sm looked ity
-A fosde Isad b.ubmim hasmes
hoese tothbatrot rb m
bib r'bkI"tina at
The Shoemaker and Corn-Doctor.
NSew ekch Plays late te t Other's Hans.
Most men who have reached the years
of discretion have learned, what all men
are apt, sooner or later to learn, that the
shoemaker, though a useful and even
an indispensible member of society, is
a dificult person to deal withal. Your
tailor, your furnisher and your barber,
though too often warped by a narrow
professional prejudice, are still not al
together unmanageable. Your tailor,
if your nether extremiti.es be small or un
shapely, may be induced by a proper
exercise of tact to eat your nether gar
ments by the zouave pattern, albeit the
edict of fashion should decree that
nothing but tights be worn. Your bar.
ber will accommodatingly tart your
hair near the middle or well to the side
provided yo succeed in indicating to
him the locality in which the part shall
be placed. If you insist upon it he
will refrain from the too lavish use of
the pomatum stick, provided you ean
give good and valid reasons for object
ing to that cosmetio. If you resist with
some firmness he will not force you to
permit the operation of hair-cutting and
shampoonin when you wished to be
shaved quickly; and if you refuse ab
solutely to pay for his costly prepar
tions for promoting the growth of the
hair you may perhaps escape their ap
plieatien. But the shoemaker is made
of sterner stu. Much intercourse with
was and flax and leather has made him
resolute and pertinacious. It is useless
to suggest that you would like a loose
fit if he prefer to give you a tight one ;
and even as he makes the shoe so must
it be worn. And great is the exaspera
tion which results from the unyielding
disposition of the shoemaker. For the
person who likes a shoe at once neat
and comfortable is by the shoemaker
contemptuously styled a dandy, and is
accordingly harassed by the shoemaker,
who is nmth'r himself a dandy nor a
sympathier with dandies. One of these
persons besought this shoemaker
for a neat boot, butthe shoemaker would
give him no boot not suaited for a gout
person. A tight boot was then ordered,
but the same oauty boot was produced
in response. The alleged damly, in de
spair, then foolishly ordered an exceed
ingly tight boot If, said he, the boot
be not so tight that I eannot get my
foot into it, I will not' take it. The
shoemaker joyfully took him at his
ward, and for onee in his wretched life
complied literally with an order. The
wretched man resignedly paid the shoe
maker his price, and went sorrowing
awa in the gouty boots previously
ma for him. There are certain in
conveniences which result from wear
ing certain kinds of shoes, and people
who, having sufered have consulted
authority on the subject, know that cer
tain epiaermous fungi, vulgarly known
as corns, are apt to result from the pres
sure of a tight shoe or from the fric
tion of a loose one. Such persons, if
prudent will call upon their man of
leather forasnugflt. Theman of leath
er with much eare sad consulta
tion, measures his prudent customer
and promises to make a snug fit. He
ha a woade sly fine appreciation of
how a comfortable shoe should be made,
as he has unlimited admiration for the
man whois no dady,and who scorns
the vanity of tight boots. But the
sag fit turna t anything but mung or
ortable. Itpinches a favorite corn
and promises to produce other corns
whiceh may in time become favorites.
It isa muh too tight in one place as
it is too loose in another; but there is
no more mercy for the lover of com
fort thpa for the dandy. He may re
monstrate that the shoe does not ft;
but the shoemaker standing by, with
sleeves rolled up and bammer in hand,
asserts that it does. And the timid man
assents. He goes into the street sad is
accosted with "shine airt" from the
ubiquitous boot-black, who rubs with
all his might where the leather is tight
est amd the eour is tdee He bls
phemously wonders why God made
shoemakers, not thinking, in his rage,
that God mae aoem rs in order
that mWight in turn make ashoes.
The imof the hoemake is perhaps
no soomer released from the bootblack
tban he meets a peripatetic advertise
meant lilmping og, eeasd in pano
ply of pasteboard,capped with a hel
met, ad baring alo the modern
alr mu. The 'Dt htreads upon
the vietim's cors, ad the vtim thor
thb est time learus tha t tbhe porte
ti is abroad to advertise thei of
. lipot pemises, broogh the per
Mre(io thOfew b illt em ove cornsfo
.ill e a of each,or perhaps
for a lesser s n. t the arn doctor
fids aive cors where the vitim of the
shoemaker thought he had but one.
Hispurei raeordingy lightr bS a
-im fi time tag rea he expected
to part with. After remo i the coras,
Dr. lipbtoe ordersn thaet the oot he cut
wherever it pi . The shoemaker
and co do y partners in basi
naeas-N. Worldi
Pumsom or aun Banm.-One of
the most incoceivable things in the
ature of the brain- is that, although
the org Cof seamsation, it shbould itself
be inseaulble. To cut the brain gives
no pain; yet is the brain resides the
oiewr n id. n inwr " r e l
it frm the inted part be divided, we
as It is olyby communication with
the brain thatt any kid et eamation is
peoad; the orga itself in
woaderful still. A cartmai portion of
te brain itself amy be smovred with
out desklaIng life. The animal lives
ad prferms all those fatieons which
asrenearyto am vitality, but it has
noloager amd. Ia tthinkor eel.
Ithanpi that the food should be
p olits stome h ; cac there it
g and, d the animal will even
thrive sad grow fat We infer, there
s-One of Ge.' JaksM's comrnco
p·per is' tobesen in Nashlle Any
em who ha sed m to a mane cib can
mae h ofa ss aoifhe is
HUMOROUS.
-A St. Paul washerwoman attending
church offered to call it squar if the
deacon who passed round the contribu
tion box would put in the amount of his
bill.
- The Boston Courier says some
members of the city council refuse to
be vaccinated at the city's expense, as
they are opposed to taking anything
out of the public lpus. 0.
-Warner. in h;s " B:acklog Studies,"
says there are still attempts made to
bring up a family ro:miu a "register,"
but you might jlus t as well try to bring
it up by hand as without the rallying
point uuf a hearthstone.
-A lady, slhowing to a friend the
photograph of herself and husband,
was told that the gentleman's was much
the better lihkeness. "Yes, my dear,"
she answered, "but then you know that
men are so very easy to catch."
-A dyeing establishment in this pity
lhas a mixture which is called the purple
udye. It is a strange coincidence that a
man who had a very sick dog the other
day expressed his apprehensions in pre
cisely the same language.
-The Danbury News fellow says:
"The majority of women care but little
about suffrage. If the backs to car
seats could only be hollowed out so as
to admit of their bustles lapping over,
the ballot might go to thunder for all
they care."
-If an edge tool is so hard as to
erumble, grind it on a dry stone until
the edge turns blue ; it will then cease
to break, and the temper will generally
prove to be about right. Scythes and
axes are sometimes too hard at the edge,
but if treated in this way will give no
further trouble.
-The Piutes in Utah occupy their
leisure moments in catching flying liz
ards with sticks curved like the handle
of a cane, and eating them. When a
Pinte sees one he extends his stiek, and
by a dexterous twist spins the lizard in
the air, catching him in his hands as he
comes down. The flesh of these lizards
resembles the meat of a bull-frog, and
they are said to be even more delicious.
As fast as the Indians catch them they
string them around their waists sad
necks, and toast them one by one, as
they become hungry.
SCmras OF WisnoW.--Mot people
are like an egg, too phull tf themselfs
to hold enny thing else.
" Misery lunv kompany," but kan't
bear kompetishun : there ain't noboddy
but what thinks thare bile is the sorest
bile in markit.
To be a big man among big men, iz
what proves a man's karakter; to be a
bul-frog amung tadpoles don't amount
to much.
What a blessed thing ir is that we
Lan't " see ourselves as others see us;"
the sight would take all the starch out
nv us.
Thare in lots ov phoiks in this wurld
who kan keep nine out ov ten of the
commandments, without enny trubble
at all, but the one that is left they kant
keep the small end or.
Expektashun is the child or Hope,
and like its aren a arogt brat,
Excentrictys are mosat alwus aryf
shall, and the bs. that an be sed ov
them is, they are quite as often the re
sult ov dimdence as ov vanity.
If i want tew git at the trew karakter
ow a man, i studdy his vices more than
i do his virtews.
Those who expekt tew keep them
Sselves pure in this life must keep their
souls idemg all the time, like a pot,
and keep all the time skimming the sur
fae.
It don't do tew trust a man tew much
who is alwus in a hurry, he is like a
smire, whose heart and bones lays in
There is nothing so delishus tow the
soul ov man as an oekasional moment'
or sadness.
Jealous people alwas luv themselves
more than they do those whom they are
jealous ov.
Curiosity is the germ ov all enter
priss; men dig for woodchucks more
for euriusity than they do for wood
chucks.
The parest and best specimens o
human natur that the world has ever
seen, or ever will see, hav bin the vir
towous heathen.
Men don't fail so often in this world
from a want of right motives as they
do from lack ow grip.
There in odly two men in this world
who never make eny blandlers, and they
are yu and me, mi friend.
Yang man, yu kant learn ennything
by har'n yourself talk, but ya may
possibly bh bearing others
Thare is lots o folks in this world
whom yu kan blo up like a bladder, anad
tbhen kik them as high as yu ples.
I hav alwus notissed one thing, that
when a eunninv ma burns his fngers
every bodey ho,llers fe ty
I sumtime distingih between ta
lent and genius in this way : A man of
talent kan make a whimssel out of a pig's
tale, but it takes a ma of genius to
make the tale. I hkanttell now whether
a goose stands on one leg so much to
rest the leg as to rest the goose. I
wish some scientific man would tell me
all about this.
I had rather be a child again than to
be the satokrat of the world.
There is newmerous individuals in
the lad who look npeon what they
haint got as the only things worth haMv
bhare is those who kant a1fl with im
punity; if they ain't stil and sollum
tbey ain't nothing.
One man o genius to 97 thousand
four hundred and 42 men or talent is
just about the rite perproshun for aktu
a lssmines.
Veentilashan is a goodthing, but
when a ml kant lay down and ap in
10 aker lot without taking down lsagths
of fence to let the windin he it alto
gather too airish.
I think that a hen who undertakes
Itew lay 2 eggs a day must aeeasmuily
elekt sum other brameh o bissinemss.
is " •memny a slip between a
capnda lip," but not ha s menay
asthaer thn wt hay faith in
thing, i m willing tew be I
out ow 1 0.
I dot neverha t
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