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"Liberta.s et 2'lta.le MeolnBu." u1III. inAYVIIE. LOUISIANA, ASATURDAY. .JUNE -2 , 1MA1. NUMBi;I COfN T.vT rxr. i. t. U! OaORal I3TtcroNaI. , I am cont ,tl In trlltrl !a'l tron My mopulet peoplekit .a : Ar To any amnaghty nan, with throne Aud m elrter, i nit ,o; And if he is, why thin I cry, The nan Is jtu.t the same a. I. The Mogrl's gnld, the Mtultan'a show, I The her-.'a blist, whIn. seld To And tnomore of the , rr !d 1. ,a,, Raise his eyes toi- .nard ret I wuld not hars it. things hkothut Are only fit f r laugh!l.g at. My motto is --content with this; Gold rank -1 yr:I n u"t . i. ,th. That qlhich I hat:., m Itea- . . it ; WIte nme,t -i -i, - r 't . t I.t l . Men wa alt! w,-h and hast, th--:- wi ni, And ish agm1 ant h ;Iigr) st:2. Andt olnd r h ,:or, thmnigh :t r ing".. Is but as britt:e glas. ; The luctuatlau coturse f th! ." Ieft Showe that ar 1! d."i: pa--, ar Oft changitg many .at, iun., And givintg hnlor a short run. Tod. right, to e gout. and He ,i. In llmore than rank or "ivi; Then are thou always of :goil . eer, "' And bli"lsw Iast nuntot; Theo art tb. w:th thy.if at on;e, I 1 And, no tnan hat:.i, fuarest no-a I an, cntent. II tr+:utlli'a t,-o ', My mona let pepie k. ,', And anlny a ulau hty ,t., with thr 'ie And seplter, is n',ot -; And it be SI% why then I cry. The aa tL just the -ane a - i. - - - I · - - A I ,ISE IN KIE.)fATIA. .u' My health nasking it nuee":ay for in , tl to, give uIp y 'rl.k-hiip, I clt:finel t aiy situation as nagou-drv',r. to Spul.nt-er :1, Academy. This, one of the two luardin,-w,.hll' .1 t!I. *nf the Choctaw lnation, in situatedl in the t t heart of the wotuls, ahbout twnuty-five ia, miles north of Red river, tu»l fifty from 'it the railroad. Ie To reach Paris, Texas- the base ,of suPldies--it is neceus:try to cross two rivers- ed river andti Kiontati.t-in the At Territory. These rivers are sometimn"s i, fordable, but more frequently must Ie lhr eromsed by a ferry. it They both--l t particularly Kiomatia ut: --are subject to sudden risens frolally lr caused by the bursting of watuer-spionts, n in the mountains. These riee,'tre fr'.- v quently attended with loss of life and property. I had been at Slwncer but a few weeks, th, when it became necessary to send to at Paris. Two wagons were aent--Ernest lt Black, a young man, driving oine, my- lx aelf the other. I had been intimate with kt him in Texas, but had lost sight of hint it since his coming to the Nation, some rr years before. of We started from Spencer early in the to morning, intending to make our noon day halt at Kiomatia, twelve miles on the ty way. The road crosses the river ob- at liquely, so that it is 200 yards from where It goes down into the stream to where it emerges again, with high, steep banks em each side. Mi•dway of the river, when it is low, Is a Sat, sandy island. I proposed to Black that we would stop here to lunch, I as the water would Ie convenient for our It teams. "No," said he. "I tried that once, and will never do it again." Then, seeing my look of inquiry, he added: " Wait until we get on the other beak, where there is a good spring, and, while our teams are eating, I will bll you why I have such a dresad of that bland." So, while our mules were lingering over their fodder, he gave me the fol owing story of his experience with Kio antis: "Two years ago I first began driving i h0 Spencer. I had been in the Nation Ir sveral yars, sad knew the couantry petty well, but was not awasre of the dd changes a In thisrivr. It was, I Ilah, my third 4p to Paris. lomatia 4 beean low all summer, ead an one eght a bs. A yaug lady-Miss Illen Cotter--had been to Spencer on s visit, and was desirons of returning luae As her home lay directly on my road, I oered her a sreat in my wagon, which she aoeepted. I we in love with her them--he is my wife now-and of coamrse was glad of the opportunity . a long ride and talk with her. " We started out on much such a day as this, just cool enough to make the anpleasnt. When we rehed Kio matia, I stopped on that island to lunch. I loosemed the traces of my team, threw the males a bundle of fodder apiece, and thea helped Ellen ont et thewagon. "We eat ther ohatting ad eating Wor a half-boar, ad thean began to get ready to start. It seemed to me that the - - .was considerably larger when we to On looking more closely, I found that the rver was rising rapidly. Sill I not alur ' , but a little un 4es. paZI laot a _ t I M E ittt, the wngen, hitched np the traces T o :I.1 .t ,ot my saaddle-cuh. .othe '" I;v thi. time, the water blegan to vain . ,,11". ,ln ln in wave v, 1u,11 ,effre' we l.ft som I Il.hund it wa's Iul1h-delep. With a asi ,,nl "f , ttvnurntnut to Ellen, I swil hl at.1 it IlUy te,:a :tl: 1dhunged in. I of t' r,, I..1 n my mul.e all I coubl, lint the efo vi.r ncit gettilg ,l.,.per inst, and it was wer o, t- . r f: lie' fre- ht el1. Mules do -,, ike to gp fast through water, and, mid lt slit. olf imly effort, we mlad.il slow prog- ail rc,-s. Tllt we were finally very near snor the 1,ank, and I thiuglt we would make Ibil it all right. Ion{ "Jus t cs my l;eli were lbeginning wit t,v .nt f the w:ater, a s-ream from the 11"11n stattltl d me. I looked around and pin saw to my terror that the water had wat hlft.'d the wuagon-,ced out of the stand- kee aris, antd it wa, t rapidly drifting down in "(living a parting shout to my team, ke I plunged into the river, thinking I ,cuhld easily cetceh the bed and guide it rive t, tflee ,ank ; lint I had underestimated one I, -lit thile dcpth and the force of the bly si.tr.:Im. I was swept off my feet in a wit Imlt,''tit and lhitad to0 swiim for ift bat " I tried to, 'i,t- the wagon-hed along, wit \ ,,,::. , i e.hinld it; but neither was the thisi l'sshl, the ,force of the stream wa.s i t t, great. I sean found I was getting e.lxha:ttted, and (climltl'd into the wagon- ti' bed. Ellen was mluh frighte,,e, lbunt caltm. I rea.ssured her to smoce c.itent, time Iy tellinli hner there was no danger, " t:ihough far from feeling safe myself. tlt "'Two principal dangers presented ill Sth.uely." l. Fir-t, that we would sink; an s.ecndlly, thatd the drift, which by this r, • iat.e was coming down in consideralhle lquantities, would tcntish the frail wagon- il Ie.e . I11. " On the first score I thought there fl" :Las bult little danger, as the wagon was 00 ,Ilhcst water-tight. The second danger lc0 iecreed more serious. There was a stiff " Ihrezeo blowing up stream, which kept "a us back, while large logs, having less it surfa:eo elxpsed and running deeper, t Ilrifted faster, and kept running against lI uts, and every now and then gave a se- an vcrce shock. "I seized a pole which was floating fa Iy, and managed to keep off some of we them, though not all I also tried to steer our novel craft toward the hank, ut t it wasas unmanageable as a ferry boat. The current, for the most part, kept us in the middle of the stream, i, though every now and them we would a nmu chlee to the hank, just out of reach of the branches which hung down so a temptingly. " I knew there was a ferry about thir ty miles below us, where we would be c stopped if we could keep afloat until we idi e reached it. There were also houses ci along the bank, but too far off for my voice to have reached them, even could g the inmates have helped us. it " I was but a poor swimmer ; Ellen tl could not swim at all, or I would have A been tempted to leave the wagon-bed, 11 and make an attempt to reach the bank. w Naturally, too, we wished to stay in the ti wagon as long as possible. It seemed a barrier, though a frail one, between us T and the seething waters. a e" I began to find the water was com ing in much faster than before. The l blows of the drift had orened the seams, and it soon Ibeame necessary to bail it t out. To do this, I had nothing but my 1 hat, and it kept me busy, as I was often I b liged to stop and ward off some large I log which threatened to swamp us. 1 "While thus engaged, my eyes fell Supon something which gave me a gleam I of hope. This was the rope which I al Swayrs carried in the wagon in case of ac cidents. , You know I used to be a good hand at throwing the lasso, and my knack had -ot entirely left me. I thonght I Smight be able to throrow the rope around some limb or log, and by that means draw the boat to the thank. Ellen, . meanwhile, had been standing in one 7 end of the wagon-bed-it was too wet to D' make sitting comfortcble-and, as I itb could see from her earnest face ead f folded hands, praying, I hoped for me as well as herUelf. " Oivriag my hat to her and asking her y to eonatinuea baling, I made the rope into a la As seem as the eurrent carried us ne e mough to the bekI began * throwin. My art attempt was to e hrow to ea a ettonwood limb. In this i uc I was meseal, and, as the rope tight m. enedl my hads, I elt a wild thrill ing exltateona. I thought we were awved: but t sas we beges to aear the benk, the an meormeom leg came foating dowa the sn ~eas, whieh we both failed to see. It ly, came down with sehek foe that, as I l. bem a with the grip of despair, the n- brittle limb parted and dropped into the ' ." w'ar. I was discouraged, bat thought I could easily throw the rope over an other. But my expectations were in in vain. I threw again and again, trying Is O sometimes the end of a limb, sometimes to g a sapling, sometimes a stump ; but the on swiftness of the stream, with thee force lWe ' of the wind, rendered all my efforts in- coo, effectual. Probably, too, the peril we of an were in confused my brain. negl "Again were we whirled into the in middbi of the stream, and I went to th, hailing. The last shock had been al- ,mr most too much for the frail craft, and are, bailing ant with the hat coMdd no ecoI longer keep down the water. Woman's m,, wit came to our aid. Ellen, taking off d the short eloak she wore, contrived to :.ti pin it into a sabpe which would hold rot, water. Between us, we managed to | la i keep the water from getting any deeper lv i in the bed, though we could not lower it tri any; but it was apparent we could not surl keep adost much longer. rfrn "I had hunted on this part of the river before, and knew that there was tr:t one place where the lasso could probat- I. L, bly be used with advantage. This was where there was an old clearing on the r, bank of the stream, thickly studded irt with stamps. The river had eaten into 1e , the bank, until some of these stoodx r quite at the water's edge; though ti . l: low water consilerably above the " I knew we must Ie nearly level with pr' them now. I thought that here weI iluhdl ee s.Wel,t near the bank, and de- ral t.riline,'l to make my last trial there. ali 1 Shoollt, it fail I would take Ellen in my tho trms, and make a desperate eflort to hom *r, aich the hantik. "Soon we came in sight of t e l leiarilg, aand I plparedl again to throw., hi Itut the current had changed since I ha hadi l een there, and the stream swept us im ,out of reach of the hlank. My rolpe was the l, nag eouugh; but heavy at any time, its m" weight was dorbll by its being weet, t" tital my utmost efforts could not throw arn it far enough. " I threw time and again, nearly 1h tiro, wing it over a stump sometimes, but tin t ialways falling a little short. We soon Ii r:, in l the clearing, and but one chance of a. ameal left to us. The wagon-iIlae was tha g fas: tilling and would soon sink, whether ral we heft it or not. an " I h ltkee at Ellen, and in that su- t:i , premine mtnent each read in the other's fai . yes the love as vet unspoken between fir us. With tilhe whisperel w,rdls, ' Dar- n~ t l'ing, if I cannot save you I will die with to Id o,,,' I clasped her in my arms, and wals o just prelmring to plunge into the river a when her dear voice said: nu " Watt!" "As sile spoke she pointed at a large a cottonwoodl tree, which was drifting rap- an * idly down stream at an angle with the cc a current, and nearly on us. ny "' This only seemed to me a reason for # Id greater haste, particularly as our sink- th iag craft hal been caught in an ealdy of we n tile stream and was almost stationary. re re Again I started to plunge in, sad again c d, hle restrained me. She told me after- to k. ward she had an instinctive belief that to he the log would save . t Ia "8o, indeed, it proved. It drifted is as nearer the bank, until one end ran against it, and on this, as a pivot, it ft n- swung around, inclosing us between it a he and the bank. T 15, "The tree came with such rapidity r it that I feared we would be craushed. jr ny IBt, before it reached us, the long en branches began to drag on the bottom, te ge and it came more slowly. Soon it struck r the wagon-hed, and bore hts slowly, but ell ,te.dily, toward the bank. In a few I am nonents more it grounded, and I leaped a-,, ut with Ellen ead mode my way up the c- ank. " Not a second toe ~so. barely d were we out on dry lad when the tree Ikrecame dislodged and drifted down the tI s iver,cearlrying our boat with it. This went barely fifty yards before it sank, Sjust as we turned at the top el the bank to get a lasint gliap of it. C "We made our way to a house a Sw miles distant, where we obtained dry I clothing. I hired a horm ad went mud after my team. The maules wenre well me trained and had kept the read, until passing a house, where the owner knew her them, they had ban stopped. The pe nto pIrewere just organising a search for me ed when I rede np ,* Sinae then, whemeer I have te eros to deep water, I have always tied down the this wagon-bed; and I nwever stopped on the t- sland in ionmtia asgin." red: Wnmi Beaeoseld was yeug, the , Duke of IatliandmerAd at himn. Dis th raeli had a lhg meory. etrnaing It tram Brlia in triamph, safter years, as I soamebody said he weuld be made a the Duke. "I, a Duke l" he xelsimed, the with tfeigned resentmet, "rske me • aght Duke! Wy, Rutlad's a Duks LI" WAsTr Or OFrEL. .1 In domestio ecenomv the waste of fuel WaL. is exceedingly great, but it is not easy to give precise tigures representing the, loss of eflecit, owing to the manifold pur- 1 th looses to be accomplished, inclnuding hand i c·ooking and the heating and ventilation if any of apartments. If ventilation could be the ot neglecta'd, close stoves, such as are used and " in IRussia, would unquestionally furnish had a the mn. .t economical madle of heating thoe our apartments; but health and comfort educa are, after all, of greater importance than .oon 1 economy, and these are hest secured by as the means of an c'' ,himntey. Not only who t dslas an olnl chimniey give rise to an lw do active circulation of air through the do it, Sroni, which is a nec sasity of our well tAook 1 iing, but heat is supplied to the room quirce lv radiation from the incandescent ma- I w teri:l instead of condunetion from stove variol surfaces. In the one case the walls and la;rni furniture of the rmn absorl the lutmini- there uain heat rays and yield them back tao the follo tra:lsplarent air, whereas, in the latter ure ii 'ase, the air is thea first recipienut of the saombi' -ta vt' heat, and the walls of the room stru' r,.mitn ctmparnatvely cold and damp, PIal'' 1'il:,; rise to an uUle'asant musty at- liLrai in" -pherec and ti dry rot or other nmoldy for a gr. a th. The adivcrsaries of the ojlna moth tir.l lace sany that it warms you on only to ma ,one: ide. thut this one-sildel radiant heat r'ron praduces lpon thedenizens of this some- and a what humid country, and indeed upon Bume all unprejudiced peoplo, a particularly :trail agr'eattle sensation, which is proof, I Tff a think, af its healthful Influence. The one' hot, radiant tire imitates, indaeed, the sun ation in its effect on man and matter, and lwo- It Sfore disc'arding it on the score of waste- to le fulness and smokiness we should try hour I hard, I think, to cure it of its admitted frien imperfections. It incandescent coke is aver the main source of radiant heat, why, it fort i i may he asked, do we not resort at once he to coke for domestic fuel? The reasons time Sare two-fold: the coke would be most pose difficult to light, and when lighted would ting oo k cheerless without the lively flicker- it wi t ing flame. The true solution consists, as h, n I venture to submit, in the combination chat SI of solid and gaseous fuel when brought kno is tihoroughly undler control, by first sepa- piec r rating thee two constituents of coal. I said am b ald enough to go so far as to say the - that raw coal shoudd not be used as fuel con]al a for any purpose whatsoever, and that the sent n first step toward the judicious and eco- A r- nomic production of heat is the gas re- Iha In tort, or gas prodacer, in which coal is tint as converted either entirely into gas, or into do a 'r gas and coke, as is the case in our onli- ence nary gas works.-S'iemen*, in Nature. to - roY wAssEALsLA abEar. tral -* Tom Marshall, Richard Menifer beft * and Frank Hunt were all brilliant men,' (f t continued Gov. Magoflin, as the conver- des ration drifted in that direction. " Hunt buc cr ame nearer being the equal of Clay win k- than any man I ever knew. He was a elm wonderful man. Marshall had a wider ins V reputation, perhaps. He was a singular to 1D compound. 'They talk about my as- he r- tonishing bursts of eloquence,' he said far to me one day, ' and doubtless imagine at t that it is my genius bubbling over. It the is nothing of the sort. I'll tell you how I S I do it. I select a subject, and study it ho' it from the ground up. When I have it mastered it fully I write a speech on it. r Then I take a walk and come hack and ity revise and correct. Ina few days I sub 4 ject it to another pruning and then re ng copy it. Next I add the finishing m, touches, round it off with graceful pe ek riods and commit it to memory. Then Iet nst I speak it in the fields, in my father's hew Ir'.n, and before my mirror until gest Sure and delivery are perfect. It some the times takes me six weeks or two moaths to get up a speech. When I have one Sprepared I eome to town and go to e drinking. I generally select a court hean waten there is sure to be a crowd.l I am nalld on for speech and am per mitted to select my own enhject. I alse sk hold on to the bannister or railing and Sconfirm the impression that I am very drank sad spk my piece. It aston ishes the people, as I intended it should, ant ad they go away marveling at my well amazing power a oratory. They aDl I ntil it geniu, but it represents the hardest me kindof work.' Thisr was the way Marsell e- wouldtalk to hisintimates, and I have no m doubt he was telling the trath. Yet, with all his vanity and Ialts, he was a ma man of naquestioned ability and intel Slectasl power of the highest and bright eat steamnard."-Rarredaburg (Ky.) ted ter des Chicu. Thuses. A a puzw a mvaselag sapt, heoing th tola by an old ady that it wsn a to D be- ebrite for ppers mow, a Mether n Shiptioo said the world was e ing to sas, an and this year, said: "But rat:1 S you want to aeed an aeount dof the 1i wad, hole afair, as soon as it come. of f' a a "That I will," answered the old lady, ad sbe sabribed Wheatn.Yem8 T. P4#i.lds W Fslrd Io Were Ie Tr nBoy train. ntall. [Irrn the .t .' li.-'.: |tpp A .t' .) 'I think I w"ul'a lh'arn to usel my lef: To hand as freely on my right one, an that ount if anything hapi,'ned to either of thiter the b the other wo.ul be all ready to write Fit and " handle things," just as if nothmng ophy lhad occurred. There is no reason in reite the world why Isth hants shouldl no,t 1N+ Ta educated alike. A little practice wouhld An soon render one set ,f tingers as ealpert man, as the other ; and I have known peol-Ih W who never tihought, when athing was to of a IN. done, which particular hand ought t,, .,,,_ do, it, but the one nearest the object 1.1 tooik hold of it and did the ofice re- plt quirel. dtwi I would leant the art of using tools of h. various sorts. I think I would insist ,it Itarnintg lsome trade, even if I ktnee Rl there would be no ocoasion for me t., ieni follow it when I grew up. What a pleas- prop ire it is in after life to be able to make Ti something, as the asyilg is-to con- Bi struct a neat box to hold one's pens anli ' Thi paler ; or a pretty cabinet for a sister'as llmp library ; or to frame a favorite engraving knto for a Christmas present to a kind, dear A mother. What a loss not to know how " i to mend a chair that refuses to stanl up cOvle r'rong, only because it needs a few tacks ides and a bit of leather here and there. 8 Some of as cannot even drive a nail hav straight, and should we attempt to saw hult ffi an obtrusive piece of wood, ten to girl ,one we should lose a finger in the oper ation. tt 1 It is a pleasant relaxation every day .., to leave books and studies and work at; wlih hour or two in a tool shop; and my ilh friend, the learned and lovable Prof. 01- A sver Wendell Holmes, finds such a cot t fort in " mending things," when his act- It, tve brain needs repose, that he some- s Oe Stimes breaks a piece of furniture ,.n pur- she t pose that he may have the relief of put. d I ting it together again much bettor than a it was before. He is as good a mechani. as he is a poet; but there is nothing me Sehanical about his poetry, as you all t kt now who have read his delightful ex pieces. An English author not long ago tar I said to me: "Prof. Holmes is writing cat the het Englikh of our times." And I "l could not help adding: " Tea, and in- isa e ienting the best stereoscopes, tool" I, Aboy ought alsotobe at home in a re s. barn, and learn how to harnem a horse, ON is tinker up a wagon, feed the animals and th o do a hundred useful things, the experi- rhg . ence of which may be of special service ho tohiman alter life as an explorer e. ý traveler, whenm unlooked-foe emergencie , befall him. I have seen an e-President all of the United States, when an old man, sot . descend from his earriage and rearrange lit t buckles and straps about his horse ms when an saccident ecourred, while the ye clumsy coachmsa stood by in hopeless ye r inactivity, not knowing the best thing Al W to be done. The eaxPresident told me cy h hhad learned about such thins on a id farm in his boyhood, and he was sever pi Sat a ls forremediee on theroad when t It the crriage brok down. w I I were a boy aga I would lear it how to w a beat and hdle a sail i we 1y *' t I m -d ,he it. im oe im ot ote swavy t SThe is always ue bllly isn every teem, who gets al the ehode bite thati am stelen by the othe rs and gmalty m dages to keep ad t, o m e hok b short they are of preovsione . He waits ti ean r t tom e the rd4 and thea Sstands on the otaide to take it tway f · .These bullies are in seral a e ods. There the hief, of whome t a 5 r, m aid, ad tha thn is the at i toa, a, o ew all areakaid bt the 3 Su; a d thlrd, d hom fellW alrid blt ] t!o, amd so a dowam. Sometime the r food is et into em pieces# ad thrown i hr o as u o he ic tohelp them- h d selves, ad then aere is a rough-ad- 1 tnmble aght d marlingad growine og, ~ asifawholem egeof asad hy ] b loce t heme beollies hveno ad- I vantge, indeed, the adantage is with my sma, lively sellowa tht slip in and al ge the mat while Mtie big e are fighting. Whanm dog manag. to steal I spiec of meet e hasslively itime of eit, Ior eoon mery other dog uamp i after him,d he has to t it on the it ril at slIheade of at every turn by one ra the bollie d whi ing aMnd Schsh n at the same time. sIt certainly ise e of the mad onmial ehibmitoans ever witnersed.-"AioSU lA Esi asto thr "o uo, John Wesley. aI you don't take1 * to that brat out of here while I a writing Wont this poem on 'A M1other's love,' I'll f the the side of his head of," a*id a faahion -t ?" al aie lveston lady of a literary turn of lady, mind, to her husband, the other day. i;al'~ston Neu; PLEA .ASTR IES. Tas syllable "leo" in olecwnrgartar n,,,ana that it in strong an a lion. Tau fellow who was much estrnek by a oung lady wanted to return a kiss for the blow. FrILirxsL has I Bn jamin his philos olphy into everybody over sinue we ean remember. Tat evening had been convivial. " And now, g.entlemen." said the ('hair man, "I'll protoee a post." War dt.w' the new m,,n reenin.I one of a giddy girl? Boeeatse shil is tie youIng to show much renfl'etieon. Monro of the goed eelletor -Nosver lpnt off until to-morrow what ;atn 1be lhmined to-day. --Pihilad, 1lhia I "hr,, idele. RAvENs fed the prophet Ilijah in an cient days, but golde, n eaghas fedi th1e prophets of the present. day.-- lhei9.'h'ell Tim's. BEEOHER says, "We pray to, mue.l,." This explains why the erat'.ge i:,'w.. lajwr man's brereches alwas, $a ; at the klees. r A Boor.ves fashion iaper stateed that "emaidaen's blush" was a fashiojnahle, c',lor, and none of the readers hail any idea what it was like, HSVERAL notable happy narring.es I ave been made on two hourH' cortship, but it is a pretty safe rule to know the girl for at least three days and a pienie. "Now, SAMMY, have you re:rl the atory of Jo(eeth ?" "Oh, yes., uncle." "Well, then, what wrong did they do when they sold their brother?" "They sold him too cheap." A Bosrox young lady, who moved to a certain Wisconsin town. in disapisuint ted to And that the young men of whom lshe is moat Foud-du-Lac meltUre, and she Is going back.-Cincinnati .atur dqy NWght. IT would never do to select women to thiee. If a female Sheriff should visit I the residence of a handsome man and explain to his wife that ale had an at tachnmat for him, there would be a va caney in the oetce in about two minutes. I "A roarsas named Mivart will soon a- issue a work a the cat," says the Ne'w avess Rapfder. We've deas that al a ready. It was a heavy copy of Slhak e speass's plays, ad we issuned it from a d thridaltel window, and it took her 1. right between the two shoulders, and we o hope ft broke her blamed back.--Bosto ,a ParIPuax wisdm : "Pa, what is en at silage?" "Why--h'm--enilage, my a, son, s;-.- age is-oh, something ge lke mucilage, my sea; something like re melSage; usrl to stick thin(s together, he you knew. There, now, run away to .'s your play, ead don't disturb me now." ag And that boy thinks his pa is a very en me cylopedll of wisdom. ia Tan tMeher had Frown eloquent in r pidturin to his little pupils the beau en ties f heaves, and he Sally asked " What kiad little boys go to heav Am en?" A Meely -year-old boy, with kicking beets, ourished his at. "Well, you may easwer," said the teacher. " Dead ers I " the little fellow shouted, at the estest et his launs . hat e rar Mun rsE eCnasACTra 11 l Sir Julius Benedict, writing in &rib Snw'r of Jenny Lind, says of the produe' its tion of an operati adaptation of Shil en re, " Bobberl " in which she took part: ray "A whimsical eircumstance quite al marred what wa to be one of the rost S~triking s e enes of the drama Old Moor, in who, lib King lear, has diseardld his t e ad devoted son fr r the elder, but Frs, a deman In human form, is pun the ibshed for his eredulity by being thlrust m into a dungaeon by this villain, there to a- starve. Carl, the rejected son, whoh-a ad- besome the chief o( a bead o( outcsts, a, diseovers the whereeabote of his un k rn hppy lher, whose prison.doors le ad- ea opan. Tbhe old man, on appear ith ing the stags, half eray by his ufer and ing and famine, eaclaim~ , 'I am et-v are lg I' Now pern Llablache, having the kteal oaferene twoFyastdh rolled into eeoe, looked anything but a picture of ps srtioiand, whrn he made the pate I the appealu ata ast the whole home turn earins." ad Ma sesrm pleater wanted to turn inly hislandinto a stock farm. His neigh one bhomrs, who stick to eotten, applied to a coeuart feor sat aijuaeto to restraia him from growing ed, a the ground take that the re over -Aoi , cotten. The"m ins ws granted. ioe- NoINaro a exceeed the intense ae Sof tion which a girl ladles out to her father y, I for a doy a two before the time when s he's going to sk for a new dre.