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THE WOllLD ANDI I.
a.LLrT . a5rln'ta?,st .
w hether wy heart he giat .,r t. ,.
Thbe grow drark with Itihe)l l1CtU
i Iciclea hang beneath the eaver;
The aster as, iiic th the rrud a
Theal 4n~:h she o.,ner eund rnl i',
Whether my Life e glad or n*.
Whether my life bh sad or no,
I The witliers come, the winters R" ;
"I he nnhilne plays with baby leave.;
swaIlkow build alr.ut the eav.e;
The tI.vely wind-l.wers hend and h'nw;
Thus d4t1 !le winter end and gro,
SWheithr any life e mad or nu.
Yet *lnther natllre give to nme
A food and patiet sympthy ;
t Int my own heart I ind the cl.arm
To amake her tender, netr and warm ;
Through eullmler lnto.hine. winter snow,
she calre ale, at or glad or no.
t AN EVENING IN CLhCUTTA.
About six o'clock ever evening the
beau wmdle of Caleutta, says a writer
in Lippincott for October. begins to
take the air on the course, a very pleas
ant drive which runs along the bank of
the river. It is usually crowded with
carriages, brtt it must be coufetsed that
none of them would be likely to excite
the envy of an owner of a fashionable
turn-out at home, unless, indeed, it
might be now and then for the sake of
the ooelnta.
Long before the course begins to
thin it is almost dark, and then, if the
poor lounger is " un-attached," and is
sharing his buggy with a friend as un
fortunate as himself, the general effect
of the scene before him is the most in
teresting object for his gaze. The car
riages continno to whirl past, but one
sees hudly more of them than their
larps. The river glides, cold and shin
ing, a long silvery light under the op
posite bank, while trees and masts and
rigging relieve themselves against the
golden bars of the diutant sky. But
the band ceases to play, and every one
goes home to dress.
If the traveler chooses, he may find
many an amusing drive in the native
parts of the town. Tall Sikhs, whose
hair and beards have never known seis
sors or razor, and who stride along with
a swagger and high-caste diruity;
effeminate Cingalose; Hindoo clerks,
smirking, couoe.ited, and landiftid too,
ae'or ling to their own notions; almost
naked palker-bearers, who, neverthe
less, if there is the slightest ah wer,
put up an unbrella to protet their
shaven arowns; up-oonntry girls with
rings in their noses and rmings on their
ona; little Bengalee beauties; Parsees,
Chinese, Oreeks, Jews, and Armenians,
in every variety of costume, are t,, be
see bargaining on the quays, chaffer
ing in the bazaars, loading and unload
ing the ships, trotting along under their
water skins, driv ng their bullock-earts,
smoking their hookaha, or squatting
in the shade.
We have had the good fortune, thanks
o our interest in native manners and
enustoms, to make the acquaintaie of a
Hinduo merchant, a millionaire and a
boe eiwvst, on whom his religion site
somewhat lightly. We might, if we
had not been otherwise engaed, have
dined with him this evening. He would
have been delighted to reeive us, and
would have treated us with abundant
hospitality and kindness. The dinner
would have been of a oomp te oharao
ter, partly European, partly native. A
sort of rimoleof chicken would certain
ly have been one of the dishes, and with
equal eertainty would have met with
our approval; the curry, too, would
have ied you, even if you had just
come from Madras or Singapore. There
would have been knives and forks for
us; our coavives would not have made
muh use of the latter, and some of the
dishes on which they would have exer
ised their gerwould hardl have
temptel .a  chmmpagne sdan elut
are erxellent, and our host, Hindoo as
he is, is not sparing in his libations,
and at the same time he and his oun
trymen would have been vociferous in
pressing us to est ana drink, tilling our
glasses the mouent they wer empty,
and heaping our plates with the choseest
morsels.
After all, however, perhape we had
no great loss in miseig the dinner. We
shall enjoy the pleasant drive, and by
being a little late shall seape the not
v .rydelightfu sonund of various stringed
instruments being tuned. Arrived, we
tleave ouar borse an i buggy to the eare
of some most eatthroet-looking imdi
vidnals, who crowd round with miuch
noise and gestienlation, wondering who
an e what we are, while the noie briungs
out a sort of major-domo, who recog
niset as as friends of the master, and
soon elears a way for us srums the
courtyad, takes us np a light of steps,
d uashes s into a long aad tolerably
well-ihted room. Our host comes
forwri with outstretehed hands, and
with preat cordiality weleomes ad pre
sents s to h; friends. We cea't an
dertand all be my., or his ]rlishat
the besht is not always intellntbl d
be is mew partislrlnd ta tv end
er de the wh a their
S thsem, m hh; hme a team
seas-a a r the tw)o d a ato
rh menad wo ,o h these
tha ldtatesd.
eeak euther searme
g br Order h a lenth
_-On oSf te alm, th
.  im tS w h i s -
or~~clr d m.t
stretched arm and hand, quivering
them, and allowing her body ver
slighly to partake of the same move
ment. Her feet nmrk the time of the
music, notby being raised, but by mere
ly pressing the floor with the toes. The
action and movement thus seem to run
like a wave through the body, greatest
where it begins in the hand, and grad
unally .'iminishing a it dies away in the
foot. With a change of time in the so
compeniment the girl drops her arm,
advances a step (,r two nearer the per
son before whom she is dancing, and
leans back, supporting her whole weight
on one foot, with the other put forward
and pressing against the floor the bor
der of her drapery.
In het han Is she holds a little scarf,
which serves to give a motive to the a
tion of her arms and head. The move
ment in this figure. which admits of
great variety, no two performers being
alike at all in it, is somewhat stronger
than in the first. The undulation, too,
instead of dying away gradually from
its c')mmencement, runs with equal
force, lik' the line of an 8, through the
body. Without any pause in the musie
the dancer sometimes glides impercepti
bly into, sometimes begins with start
ling suddenness, the next movement.
The general position remains what it
was before, but to describe how its
principle of life and motion seems con
centrated below the dancer's waist, and
from thence flows in undulating streams,
to flash from or to dull, according to
her organization, the eyes, anad to crisp
the child-like feet with which she
grasps the carpet, is for me impossible.
One of these girls is a perfect setres :
numberless shades of expression pass
over her delicate features, but the pe
vailing one is a beseeching suppliea
ting look. We administer to her, asu the
custom is, some rupees in token of our
admiration, anad with an arch smile the
no longer supplicating damsel pases on.
Deadly Struggle on a Tight-eope.
Little did the tens of thousands of
men, women and childrea who thronged
the public square of Agram, Croatia,
on the 20th of September, anticipate
that they were aboutto wites a specta
ele such as has, perhaps, never been
Ieen before, a mortal struggle in mid
air. The occasion of the gthe was
a performance on the tight-p- The
aerobats, Andress lolter and Francis
Pergowitch, were to ppear on the roe,
which had been stretctd from a win
Jow in the fifth story of the court-house
to a window in an opposite house, a
distance of 250 feet The arobts were
to meet midway and then to pass each
other. When tie clock struck 12, the
acrobats emerged from their respective
windows dressed in tights, and without
balance-poles. Kolter walked rather
cautiously while Pergowiteh case to
meet hi erom the opposie direction,
with a nervous, quik step. At last they
met, and the suspeae of the crowd
underneath changed the neat moment
to a feeling of indeseribmble horror.
Pergowith suaddenly uttered an angry
exclamation, and dealt Koiter a terri
ble blow on the head. lterstaggered
and fell, but in so doing, s eeded in
elutching the rope with one hand, while
with the other he grasped the left uleof
hisassWilant Pergowathow fell, like
wise, bat passed his right arm around
the rope, o that he hung uapon it in
omparative security. And now began
Slife and death strggle. Kolter with
his right hand, tried to drag Pergowitch
from the rope, while Pergowitch kicked
oltler with his right foot, and with his
left hand endeavored to loosen his an
tagonist's hold. No one was able to in
terfere, and the result, it was easy to
foresee, must be the death of one or
both of the acrobats Many women
fainted, while strong men wept like
children. What added to the general
despair was the apperanoe of oldter's
young wife at the open window, from
which her husband, a few moments be
fore, had set out upon his fatal walk.
Her piteous scenms were heard above
the dm below, and her peals to Per
gowitch to spare her husband's life
would have moved the heart of an Ap
ache. The struggle in mid-air lasted
perhapsa Sinnte, when Kolter suddely
fell to the ground, striking it violntly
and expiring iustantly. While the peoc
plge tl, ered aond the earps of poor
Kolter, his murderer oan the tightre
manage to get on his feet With
a diboli. exprsi o niaf1ce he
uttered a e of triumph, The preit
of polioe ordered Pergowitsb to mar
weith. In f ase he should not do s
within ire minntes be would be bot
down like a dog. Finally he raised
himself to his feet and ran quiekly to
the court-house windew, where be sa
redered, begging that he mght be
protected from violeoe. There was
pmtdhnfiofhi being eMx ted by
the popwho o
the murderr be ~tro up to them; b-t
the military tbyhe bealtas
the blie quare. Pergowitch, being
what emnasd him to perpetrt
thiserime, said thattbehad been
gadge between him ad Eolter ever
slae the Iter had married youxa
Basita Mrgof Polish i of rare
bat. Kolter in a It of j uy, had
him he knew oMne or the o of
mastdi on thisacoaut. hadmas
tos m tho yorusm ser ve
as be patdel d SU weiir MeeLs to
,  ri b m .ee L e ther
I sI e ag b s ai m beack
tone e mse qaion s wllwa or
.l agm i to the u at -un -a m
men to his . meis. U *
I atveaal wr1eal ao-
see t eal me9gal
Ieak
The Future t Franes.
The London Spectator thinks that if
the departure of the Germans prove
the signal of an explosion, France, now,
a ever, will be stronger than assembly,
or intriguers, or soldiers, and will adopt
some form of administration which sill
be effetive, which will be strong, and
which in some way or other will suit,
her national genius. What this form
will be we are as unable to divine as to
divine wLy Nap,leon went to w1+r with.
Prussia in the teeth of his own couvic
tions ; but we are more inclined to be
lieve that the form will be the one ex
isting, a sovereign assembly to which
any one may be elected, which merely
by existence keeps all areers wideopen.
Ithe Comte de Chambord would albdli
eate or go to heaven, it might be easy
to construct a constitutional monarchy,
for that, when a legitimate or an ap
proved king is on the throne, secures
that opening for all careers and all par
ties without which Franoe is kept siem
marng with fear of violent change; 1
while his heir is a man ready to accept 4
the prineiple. So also it might be easy
to construet a republi, we will not a y
"conservative," beeaunse the word has
been abused, but so strong or awayed,
by so strong a man, that it would have
the power to conserve all that is worth
conserving, including the institution of I
property. It was not a king, but a
mere president, removable at will, who
delivered so eruhing a blow to the com
mune in its stronghold. Marshall Mc
Mahon may reign while he gives satis
faetion, the amembly may vote while it
reates no disgust, but failing in either i
of the conditions, France would seet
its way to the ejection of one or the din
solution of the other. Frenchmen, 1
with all their outward fuss, and haste,
and oise, a singularly patient and
pearsitant They may be hot, but no
other nation ever formed a queue.
They may be haesble, but no other!
uation ever dheeed as they have done,
through ill report, a d good report, to
the Bourbons, orin later times to the!
Bonaparte family, which, unless all re
ports arefalse, could, but for timidity
in Paris, have remained there still
They ma be variable, now sanguine 1
and now despond nt, but no other na
tion has ever been so persistent, not to
ay obstinate, in two decisions, that
Frsace must be a great power respected
abroad, and that at home equality must
be the idepl. -
That rmmdibPaci s Coast Horse.
[prom wam' sp"rit.]
orv. Standford's fast horse, Ocei- i
dent, heralded last yest as the "Cali
fornia Wonder," has again created a
rare sensation by making a record
against time of 2:161, thereby winning
a piece of plate valued at d,000, offered
by t state agricultural society to any
horse that should best the best time i
madein this state, which was Gold
smith Maid's 2:17) last fal. The re- 1
cent perferanee took place over the Un
17th inst., and was witnessed, it is said,
b abot 8,000 pep. This r cord I
tie that ofthe-hd bersel, and
shares with it, under the existing rules, f
the hoors of rst position. There is
this diemene, however, that tie Maid 1
had to con against ecompetitor,
while t liemnis a hoe had the track
to himself, with the privilege of select
ing his puiti. There is a prevalent
opinion horsemen tha reordc- t
gat time, being accomplished under
this and other advantages, should not
be admitted on a par with competing
records, either to point of rank or for,
the eeding of bets ; but the rules
eaetion h performances, and the
hores is therefore entitled to the record4
with all its bearinags. Oaident has
proved himself a remarkable horse, and
deservedly ranks among the foremost of
our trott lights. When the surpris
ing time made in his private trials was
first announced those who think they
hold a patent on that artiele treated it
with a seer of contempt, and emdeav
ored through their special organ to
throw diseredit upon the reports.
Knowing full well through thei own
experience, "the trieks that are dark
and the ways that are vain," they could
not brook an intrder uaon their pecu- I
liar domain. Oceidents ariends, how
ever, intea d of skulking der the pre
tst dof immorality, of gave pa teir
ow faith and honey bringing him
out in p*lis a a iat Old
smith Maid ad i1.cy; thougj defeated
intrun byeeh of te amres, hisper
formanses were surprisingly emebirle,
and mehk eamer to his reputed trials
thenm unal resudlts would have warranted,
his friends in ezpetingd.
LAcK or Ismmmxmrr Amun--The
most stapid elpediture of human na
ture is sen ins everything here. There
sems to be an tterwant of ingeanity.
h8ovels and e bhae handles six
feet ieg as tdek at the top' at the
bottom, and twie as heavy as required.
You emamot make a wmrka--cr his
fror that matter-landerstnd
Stlids Cim shadle m no stronger
thn its wbe poit, and that t.s
weak point j at its janeia with
the iron. The seythsued ,nalhoi
bst Msbill-hoo two fee
Sii at the bas, the
pese of a beerld. A small
_lim sem s loIng and nely
equmes has haole baed through one
end,an thaur ts bale a peg a foot
leog is the prtedig on seke s.le
aJ~tsbo to e io this maMine.
The tw set themelves astride the
beerad, eaf e pals, the other pus,
anl beth pease a few memento to rest
ewey ethey have to hitek along the
beed. hInr t ple a te foot
sestlg therfore, en aIir of two
-s wMh s, tweman week for more
tnen hou. Umid s-en such in
sepdblle ll as te Aersneir
bse m ias mm of shu sepeehaps ten
yet Ala .inhj to a pair law,
th srie t-ir 4bmmu i
ea ag Stories
Have a knack of running in one
gro, ve. H,.rodot.is tells us how Amasis
advised Polyerates, as a charm against
misfortune, to throw away some gem lie
especially valued; ho-v, taking the ad
vice Polyerates went seaward in a boat,
anl cast his favo,rite ring into the ocean;
:uld It,1w, a few ,lar s afterwards, a ti-her
rn.u, ctaught a large fish, so extra,rdi
narily tile tihat Ie- thought it tit only
for the royal table, and accordingly
presented it to the fortunate monarch,
who ordltered it to e dreAsel for sul'
per : and Io : when the fish was opened
the surprised cot,k's astonished eye be
held his master's cast-away ring : much
to that master's delight, but his ad
viser's dismay; for when Amasis
heard of the wonderful event, he im
mediately dispatched a herald to break
his contract of friendship with Poly
crates, feeling conf'ldent the later would
come to an ill end, " as he prospered in
everything, even finding what he hadl
thrown awea ." The city of Glasgow
owes the rin, holding salmon, figuring
in its armonial bearings, to a legend
concerning its patron saint, Kentigern,
thus told in the Acta Sanetorum : " A
queen, having formed an improper at
tachment to a handsome soldier, pitt
upon his finger a precious ring, which
her own lord had conferred upon her.
The king, made aware of the fact, bnt
diissembling his anger, took an oppor
tinity in hunting, while the soldier lay
asleep beside the Clyde, to snatch off
the ring anti throw it into the river. 1
Then ret urning home along with the
soldier, he demanded of the queen the.
ring he had given her. She sent secretly 1
to the soldier for the ring, which could
not be restored. In great terror, she
then dispatched a messenger to ask the
assistance of the holy Kentigern. He
who knew of the affair before be:ng in
formed of it, went to the river Clyde,
and having caught a sa mon, took from
the stomach ihe missing ring, which he
sent to the queen. She joyflly went
with it to the king, who, thinking he
had wronged her, swore he would be re
venged upon her accusers; but she
affeeting a foregiving temper, besought
him to pardon them, as she had done.
At the same time, she confessed her
error to Kentigern, and solemnly vowve
to be more careful of her conduct in
future." In 150 a merchlant and alder
man of Newcastle, named Anderson,
handling his ring as he leaned over the
bridge, dropped it in the Tyne. Some
time after, his servant bought a salmon
in the mrrket, in whose stomachthe los'
ring was found; its value enhanced by
the strange recovery, the ring btearn'm
an heirlooman, l was in possession i f , m.
of the alderman's descendents sonme
forty years ago. A similar sccident,
ending in a similar way, is recorded to
have happened to one of the dukes o
Lorrine.-Chambrs' Jomrns?.
How the Naturalist Search the Sea.
Prof. Verrill's invention, the cradle
sieve, is of a semi-cylindrieal form,
abount three feet long, and one and a
half wide. While the dredge is coming
up, this sieve is hung over the side of
the vessel, and ultimately the dreldge is
lifted over and into the sieve. The
lower end of the dredge net is then un
tied and opened, and the dredge lifted
a little; and the entire contents slide
out of the net, gently, into the sieve.
If now there is no anxiety to secure ,
without injury the very small. at antl
most delicate specimens, and there is no
occasion for nastte-perhaps to repeat
the haul-the eradle sieve is covered
with a tight-fitting lid, lowered over
board, and allowed to drag by a tow
line in the water till the mud is wnabed
out. If, however, there is time enough.
as there usually is, a stream of water
from the pump (propelled by steam
ltower) is passed through a few lengths
of hose into the sieve, while it is hang
ing over the ship' side. The bose, hi
the hands of some one of the natura
lists, is, of course, entirely under his
control, and by moderating the force,
volume and direction of the stream, he
can wash out of the mud his most deli
cate specimens, with as much personal
care for their safety as he chooses to de
vote. No one, however indifferent he
may be to scientific pursuits, can eeape
the iudfections ardor with which the
naturalists crowd around the spreadM
tarpaulin, as the contents of dredge,
trawl, or tangles are brought to deek.
The spiteful little reeling engine has
pulled its load up to the davit, and the
practiced crew lift the burden carefully
and deposit it on the sailor's table
cloth, the tarpamulin. Down on their
:knees go the scientists around it; this i
their homage to nature. Bottles with
alcohal, jars with glyearine, dishee and
bowls with sea water, psils, tubs and
all kinds of receptacles ae brought into
rWequisition. The nastralists, all but
one, thrust their foagers into the muddy
mas, pall out their plums after the
fashio of Jack Homner, anonce the
name of their wriggling aptms, and
plump them into th pot,pail, bot
tle-all but one, who its wrth pencil in
had ad records the ues a they are
called, omitting dpliestes- Eey Sew
minutes, a a rarer ape.s a i gt
to light, or eeaapei~ awh e ebarrae
teristia thLe is eam moted quaslo,
the heads eod tIothr over tar
pauli, sad a diemes tsr tkes
dwhich is in m#s them one s e
to the nimitiaed.
-The Poplar Seilee Mon thly ua:
" One of the great dangers attendng
the us of the ruar sedhatives em
ployei in the numery is that they tend
to prodaee the opium habit. "rhee
qaek medietae owe their sotbing sad
quieting elets to the satin of opium,
sad the infantis by them give a mor
bid atito fnar aaeotie stimulan:s.
The '~ for sale of asuh nsotrums
race. In i mothers gie to theirin
fate r poll scoateinag opiun, sad
theora is a legkd, ees l rae of
hopeless debsebsee In the Udited
fStoer tie "pis~dmeis adminis
teed uadner amthw ; hut the c.
ieqmasems will prbablMy the am,"
-A physicisa, on presenting his bill
to the ensentre of a esat f a di
I gassed patiest ask' "Do wisht
" av*e y ra_ the
"e,iator; "thi de d t  
' i s.d m ce a m
Wilkie Collins Before the aLtos Club. F
,N:w YTrk Tribue.aj
Mr. Presid.t and G ntllenren--M-1y T
years ago-more yearn than I now quite tl
Iike to reckon-I was visiting Sorrento, a'
in the bay of Naples, with my father, t(
mother and brothers, as a boy of thir. a
tehn. At th it time of my life, as at this V
tilne of my life, I was an insatiable res- I
der of that crder of books fcr which W
heavy people. have invented the name of IU
light literature. In due course of time RE
I exhausted the modest resources of the sI
lihhrary which we had brought to Naples, et
az 1 d;fund m self faced with the neces- aI
city of bhrrowing from the resources of fa
our fellow-travelers, summer residents ti
of Sorrento like ourselves. Among TO
them was a certain countryman of yours,
very tall, very lean, very silent and very of
melancholy. In what circumstances tl
the melancholy of this gentleman took Is
its rise I am not able to tell you. The is
ladies thought it was a disappointment a
in love. The men attributed it to a sa
can e infinitely more serious than that a
-I mean indigestion. Whether he saf- ki
fered in heart or whether he suffered in L
stomach, I took, I remember, a boy's di
unreasonable fancy to him, passing over tt
dozens of other people, apparently far to
more acceptable than he was. I ven- di
tured to look up to the tall American- T
it was a long way to look up-ani said ai
in a trembling voice, "Can you lend me m
a book to read?" He looked down to Je
me-it was a long way to look down- at
and said, " I have got but two amusing ti
books. One of them is the 'Sorrows of Is
Werter,' and the other is the ' Senti- 9s
mental Journey.' [Laughter.] You are at
heartily welcome to both these books. Ic
Take them home, and when you have w
read them bring them baek and dine T
with me, and tell me what you think of b
them." I took them home and read ol
them, and told him what I thought of it
them more freely than I would now. w
And last, not least, I had an escellent of
dinner, crowned with a cake, which was T
an epoch in my youthful existence, anl, w
which, I may say, lives gratefully a.rl d
greasily in my memory to the present ai
day. l Applause.] di
Now Mr. President and gentlemen, I is
venture to tell you this for one reason.
It marks my first experience of Ameri- a
can kindnees and American hospitality. tL
In many different ways this early e-- e'
pression of your kindness and hospitali- b
tv has mingled in my after life, now in o
England, now on the continent, until it vi
has culninated in this magnificent re- it
ception from the Lotos club. I am not tI
only gratified but touched by the man- a
ner in which you have greeted me ad ei
the cordiality with which the remarks V
of your president have been received. I it
venture to say that I see in this recep
tion something more than a recognition a
of my humble labors only. I think I d
see a recognition of Englishliterature,
liberal, spontaneous and sincere, which,
I think, is an honor to you as well as a b
honor to me. In the name of English g
literature, I beg gatefully to thank n
rou. On my own behalf, I beg to asure e
you that I shall not soon forget the en- 8
couragement you have offered to me at o
the outset of my career in America. g
Permit me to remind you that I am now p
epeakirg the language of sincere grati- a
tnde, and that is eemsentilly a lmngnage a
of very few words. 1
Chinese Minig.
All along the road on either side can t
be seen nothing but brush and rough t4
lumber and shake shanties, in sise v
twelve by thirty feet, and shafts and b
drifts with rough and ancient Ilokig b
windlasseM, rockers, pmns, pumps, and C
other tools and equipments incident to t1
diggings of this clam. All the tools ti
and fixtures used are old, and anne of
the more improved and scientific are to U
be seen in use. For example, they do I
not even use our style of forge bellows,
but have a most ingemious and chesp r
substitute in the form of anoblong box, v
about three feet long, which is made on a
the same principle as a steam-ebest, and t
in the box is a pistan.rod, which by A
pulling out and pushing back amin
ejects a bltst of wind through a rude I
looking iron nossle, the whole worked 5
by two valves on either end of the box. I
There is but one white blacksmith 7
among about four to six thousand of
these mining Celestials, and the other U
forges are raun entirely by the hinmese
themselves. They do rot se our ir
anvils, but as a substitute a species of 5
black granite stone, a large at pse of I
which they forg and point their pbk
on, and whe the stone is broken they a
substitute a new one and so on, thus
saving the expense of an antil. They
are primitive in all their workins
around the shaft, and carry out or imi- t
tate the ideas of the California miner of t
over twenty ye ,rs mgo. We sw one i
fellow washing his shirt and pants t
hanging thet up .on some tailings t
dry, sad going around lad in his boots
until they werm dry enongh tower. It
is indeed singular tht, with all their
awkhardnes and ignmammes of mining,
they can mnake sn Mwages as they are
certaibly doing.-Orwtle. (Cat.) Met
Tmat Jnxrsoua.-Mrs Dis tells in
Our Youmg Folks a ceomical story of two I
twinsa, who looked so much alike that
the neighbors micould not tell which was I
mmn ad d hieh wa Johy,and, so
role them "the Jimomyhb " And
this is the secountof onse their funy
S, When the Jimmies were Itte
iw over their cralle m bmmpvng their
Sheal together; end Mrs Thinuer
found that the beat way to stop the ery
iug, atsuc time, was to tur it into
kissing. The raeon of thissivery plaim.
In .cyi, the mouth Iim open; in
ig, i shats. Mrs. Plammer was a
wodenlwoman. She found out tihrt
shut t the mouth would stop its ery
in· to sh ut the mouth shec er
trved that pretty lkissing pla, and at
the rst somad Of a bump wreld catOh
ap the little toddlers, pat their arm
romad each other's neceks, and sy :
" Kim ohny, J-immy' i Jimmy,
Johany I" It mough to make my
body laugh to ms them, inthe mid of
smyi espell, run toward eab other,
ather shLeeks still wet with tears, emd to
e their poor, little, tristd, rynag
mouths trying to shut ap into a kim I
-With the didsplay now rquired feeor
Ia rstels-m famel, -olare begin
a m ad aht see the temos
The Island ef Jeasy.
But the Jersey girl are so lovely I
They pas you by ones and twos and
threes, literally taking your breath F
away, for there is searcely a plain face I
to be seen among the whole lot. Fair
and dark, little and big, charming as c
Venus, stately as Juno, they miake a
goodly show as they pace the greens- I
ward listening to the strains of "Blue I
Danube" or "hydropaten." The Jer- F
seymen have a decided admiration for F
small feet. and those damsels who.
either by nature or art, have acquired t
small extremities, do not disguise the
fact, but wear their tpttieoat a good
two inches shorter than their less-fa-t
vored sisters, who walk abroad discreet
lyclad in "tails." Asa rule, the belles ,
of the island have little or no style; i
they do not dress well, or in parties- I
larly good taste, while their fgures are
in no way remarkable, but their faces
make up for everything. You may i
see more beautiful girls on one sum
mer's day in Jersey than you have
known during the whole of a crowded
London season. Perhaps it is the won-t
derful air of the island that gives to
them that exquisite prity of complex
ion, tht soft yet healthy bloom, which I
distinguishes them so remarkably.
They also have, for the most part, mag- s
nifieent hair and eyes and good fert
ures. Few of these girls are born in
Jersey; they have, for the most part,
settled in the island for some years, and
the prettiest of them come from Eng
land. These damsels are by nomeas
slow, but hardly as fast as their Guern
sey sisters, who are not nearly so good- 1
looking. It is always the plainet
women who flirt the most ree essly.
The Jersey girls marry offvery rapidly,
but not always welL It is rare to hear
of a really good wealthy marriage, but
it is quite certain that when one of the
wise virains of the island gets a chance
of matrimory she seldom refuses it.
The men who go there have usually
warm hearts and light pockets, so that
matrimony is often essayed on suenh
maent sums as two or three hun
dred year. They will marry a civil
ian with a smiling countenance ; but if
yn wash to see a proud and triumph
ant herinr. beold a Jersey girl ail to 1
the alter with an omler ? A few out of I
every regiment are caught and made
benediets, and there is great rejoicng
ver the treasure T all have a per
verse, infatated, and tarughly fm- I
nine love for a scarlet coat, esteeming
the faithless little finger of an oaeer
more t an the whole body of virtuous
eitiseas. "O qwej ate e f e militaire.!"
Where have not Eve's daughters suang
it, and will they ever cease to do so ?
It is very amasing to see the way love
arsre managed over there. An of
fder, let us say, selects some pretty
g-irl whom he particularly admires,
dances with her, walks with bher, takes
her to St. Simon's, and if he is of a
godly turn of mind, sits beside her,if
not, he awaits her at the door with other
choice spirits, and takesher hose ; bys
flowers as long as his purse will hold
out, and toall appearance they are en
gaged, when suidenly a new actor ap
pears upo te seene. Perhapsit is a
new lover for the girl with a little
money (the oicer has nose) or a young
lady looms within the red-coat's ken
with amoderate fortuneor l.:vier face ;
anyway, the spell is broken. One, two,
three, and aw ar! te couple who till
today have bee inseparable are di
rsed, ad oes or the other in due time
is married or jilted; but they do not
break their hearts, and whether it is
Oorydo who is left behind or Phillis,
that one does not sit by the river-side
thumping a guitar, but is ready for
" bmmes when ah opportunity turns
up. It is a acuriousm set-out frorm flt to
last, aeseen by English eyes. Every
girl who is not ve p arti car r s r
regular "spoon," her ale property
with whom she takes the air,
at tea-fights sad Suwerhews, t
tre, promenades, ad church, and ases I
generally as aa sbjet witht whihto im
spire envy in the brasts of those sawise
virgins who have aegleeted to secure
such furniture to their own ee se.
These lat e esu b asely wg it
g er i s , or 0 ignominy I ets
adla under the shadow of their
r wings. But that is a rare
ght isded, for it is a eurus fust
that Jere ppas ad mam rse coa
spicuous bthuir absenes; sad, though
we are to bulieve they eist some
where, stillone i tempted to think they
mre vered up like the satin chairs in
pervasu' drawing-room and only visi
bleon state ocasions. I hbae see them
at balls ittit in l virtuoiu rankap t
the m aw hor of a , but never
with ' d aughte L = aless
the latter were hopeles wrll-owers.-
Tam Ironr ow A Braen A MW Eu
Ruaclu.-A erowd of boys followed
her, y have seemn them ehase an ua
fortunate kitten with a ti-pail tied to
it. Jas ad insults prsued her.
These little Aabs of the street had
even pinked up missilesto throw etbr.
The poor hueat, rtretured eaud
a face of appeal, sad my friend met her
frightned eyes. He hurried en ad
himielf st her ida d e has
knight of the p; but I quesa
wheerheesvemdid a braver ac than
this, for this tiame the sapeatrs were
may ad of all ages. E wsbody
A he Blooer" shoted the youg
yuoiwn, h-r ied, facin them andto
drsto touc tm ladyrIll blo wI
brains out." Then he said t hera:
*Madae, I will esort ye tea c*r
riage, if you wll allow me" bUser o
eame to e he bhad tearoed sveral
l i wihL tm bloomer badIM i.
ad the jrlage nod inh is rsear. When
that eves his an uebi~ -.
her theleks b u the mma d o
iared., i his g-~he votee,
eostume is an embasament. Bedese
sbmitin to inwrlssa, ldr it ne
I hassnite com ida1rr whet hermi
-The story of the degradation of the
North Carolina University is thus pun
gently told in a paragraph from the
Hillsboro Recorder: "Some of the
young ladies called upon Mr. Pon', to
obtain his permission to use the chapel
for the Sabbath school celebration. Mr.
P. replied that he had no objection,
provided the chapel was restored in as
good order as when the permission was
granted. One of the young ladies re
plied that on examination of the clhapel
they found it filled with cows. " She
supposed it would be an easy matter to
drive them back into the building when
the exercises were over.',
--Here is one outcome of the density
of population: A society is forming
in Zurich, with many indications of sup
port, whose object is toengage that their
remainsshall be burned instead of buried.
The actuating motive is that, under the
prevailing custom, large spaces of val
uable land are occupied by cemeteries
near towns, often to the detriment of
the public health, and which s,,me
tim a present revolting spectacles when
graves have to be interfered with. The
other outcome is emigration to America.
Plenty of room to bury them here.
-" Thirty-two cents !" e"hoed a wo
man yesterday, when her grocer char
ged her that sum for a pound of but
ter. "Yes, 'um," he repliedl with a
bland smile. " You see the grocer can't
earry much of a reserve, and we can't
turn out our eollatterals at a sacrifice.
If the government cails in the bonds
due in 1874, and then imports of bul
lion tend to ease the money market a
little, butter must find its level with
everything else. Butter is very pan
icky just now, but I think the worst is
over." She paid the money without
further growling.-Irkfroif Frec Prrss.
-After church, one Sunday, a little
girl inquired of her mother who the
"siggerbuggers" were. She was in
formed that there were no such cres
taures, but persisted that there must be,
as the minister had prayed especially
for them, that day. It happened that
the reverend man had some peculiarity
of pronunciation, and after considera
ble investigation as to what the child
had mistaken for the "siggerbuggers,"
it was discovered that the internded
sub ects for prayer were "the sick among
u.'
-The last from Scotland--Baillie
Sawmaun: "Of coorse, I want Wullie
to be a guid eddycation; in fio, I'm
thiamin o' sending him to the ceemetery
at Bothsay." Couneilor Trott : "The
ceemeter ? Ah, ye'll be wantin' him
to learn the dead laneuage, elh ?" B. S.
(who does not see it.) "Of coorse, of
coorse; deed and leering."
-In an editorial on the horse dis
eaaetheCongregationlist suggested that
it Aight be wel to sit at the feet of a
horse and learn humanity. Just so,
says the California. News-Letter ; sit
down at the hind-feet of a mule, and if
he don't humiliate you, puil his tail
and tickle the inside of his legs with a
stable-fork.
-We were at a Sunday-school con
eart the other evening and enjoyed the
following: Little fellow reciting his
verse-I am the Bread ot Life. Super
intendent, questioning him as to his
knowledge of the Bible-Who said I
a the ]red of life? Little fellow, in
surprise, I said it.
A Parrr &Scoosrmes.--The com
mander of a schooner which trades with
Houston, Texas, is a lady. She is de
ari'bed as having eyes like diamonds.
(Ah !) hair like a vered mass of golden
feathers. O faultlss lorm. (Pshaw!
And a honor as pure as polished snow.
(Obeh I)-.Da- rºr News.
-Sarah Jane DeFoe said that she
weald be married in her old Kentucky
home lia spite of her father, and some
men tied him to the sofa, the crowd
walked iand while he guashed his
teeth SaJane was wed.
-How different is the bias of men's
minds? What opposite tendenciesthey
exhibit in their investigation of the
phenomena of mental science For ex
ample the lawyer inclines to the a'
strat, the builder the concrete.
-Those old soakers never lack for
argaments. Lately one replied to a
temperee lecturer by the following
: "If water rots the soles of your
what effect must it have on the
coat of your stomach?"
-Paneh thinks that some people are
never contted. After having all their
ambs broken, their heads smashed, and
thir brains nked onut, they will act
nly goto law and try to get fnrther
-"Who dat hit me? Where's dat
lantern," were the exelamations of an
astonished Elmira darkey after being
thrown something like a hundred feet
Sfrom a leometire.
--No acter has yet been able to coun
terfeit that expression of joy which
a man shows when discovering a l0-cent
stamp in his paper of tobaceo.
-The sardine fishery is said tobe the
beast, this year, for years, ad everybody
who likes the taste of coal oil and scrap
iron bailed down will rejoice.
.-Olive Logan says that the sight of
a wman's ankleoa Wall street waould
a q'iea a any gold panie by
eg c the erord away.
-The story hat a Leavenworth father
had offered P10,000 to any oe who
I would marry his may damet
Sint ton in one week.
I -An Irishman having been told that
the tpie of bread ad been iowered,
a lasumed, "'bis is the irst time I
ewmr seoieed in the fall of my best
friend."
-Tbea is an saeeient asiag Truth
li in a well. May not tho moder
Sadgesrn, the moat certain charity is
at a pump.-Doug ae.Jerof.
-The price of spekled trout t
ow is trawety-ave cets a speea.
ehusr whode not couant the speeks are
Uableto chebted.
-.Aa mste ip as that "rwhen
bra amet the call by becomiag s
S--Who was the straightest man
Stieaed in the Bible? Joseph-beeemc ...
Pharbao made a ruler'of him.
I -Many men, may mindsa p tahe
eblna ; ubt how mererns eme
w~ a sa a ai