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CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Foreign Gossip.
—There are 540,000 tenant farmers in
Ireland.
—The city of Buenos Ayres has a popu
lation of 180,000, and the province 1,180,-
POO souls.
—Advices recently received by the Cape
mail in England state that “it is the gen
eral opinion in the colony that Dr. Living
stone is dead.”
—J. Ross Browne says that it is a com
mon practice among the Chinese to steal
children and cut their eyes out for medici
nal purposes.
—A party of Englishmen, anxious to
find a haunted house, have inserted the
following advertisement in the London
Tim*: “To proprietors of Haunted
Houses.—A few gentlemen wish to have
the opportunity of visiting a house said
to be haunted, situate in or near London,
for the purpose of scientific observation.”
—The nobleman who has been for 2(1
years at the head of the Masonic Order
in England is on the point of retiring—
the Earl of Zetland. A short time ago a
magnificent testimonial was got up for
him, but when die fact came tohisknowl
edge he begged that the money might be
devoted to the charitable institutions of
the brotherhood.
—An elegantly dressed lady recently
presented herself to one of the police
Magistrates in Paris and politely de
nounced herself as the murderess of
eleven children. Investigation fortunate
ly proved that she was laboring under a
fit of hallucination caused by the horrors
of the Pantin tragedy.
—Thieves in Russia are punished with
extreme cruelty. They are branded on
the forehead, flogged within an each of
their lives, and sent to the Siberian mines,
generally for a long term of years. Nev
ertheless, it is said that Russia is the conn
try where audacious thieving is more prev
alent than anywhere else on the conti
nent.
—A master carpenter at Tnplitz, Ger
many, lately made a bet i f ten Horins that
he would eat twenty-five liver sausages
and ten rolls of bread at one meal. He
managed to get down twenty-three of the
sausages and eight rolls, when ho had to
give up the task. Ho lost not only his
bet, but died in consequence of his glut
tony shortly afterward.
—The other night, an athlete perform
ingatthe Alhambra Music Hall, Notting
ham, England, undertook to seize a rope
with his teeth, and, suspending himself,
thus to hold some half-dozen fifty-six
pound weights. While he was holding
on with his teeth, an assistant asked him
if he was ready. The performer opened
his mouth to reply, and, of course, tell to
the grounc. He was not much hurt.
—The amnesty recently granted by
Louis Napoleon has liberated thirty-four
galley slaves, imprisoned at Toulon.
These convicts are encouraged to employ
their leisure hours in the manufacture of
fanry articles, which are sold for their
benefit, and the proceeds are handed over
to them at the expiration of their sen
tences. On the recent liberation by the
Amnesty, the sum paid to the thirty-four
gailey slaves amounted to $5,200, being
an average of $l5O for each convict.
—A Bottle-Conjurer announced in Lon
don that he would jump into a quart bot
tle at the Haymarket Theatre. Ten thou
sand people were found who believed that
lie could do it, and came together to gain j
admittance, and witness the miracle. He
tried, but couldn't, and the believing au
dience were so enraged because he did
not jump int o the bottle, that they nearly
palled the house down in their indigna i
lion.
Incidents and Accidents.
—lt is claimed that seventy-five theaters
have been burned since 1800.
—A young lady in Fort Wayne, Ind , j
died a few days ago from the effects of
burns caused by the explosion ot a kero
sene lamp.
—An aged couple named Van Dusen,
perished in the flames of their burning
residence at Greenville, near. Pittsburgh,
Pa., the other day.
—A boy on Long Island recently hung
himself to death to ascertain how it 1
would fed, having heard his neighbors
talk freely about an execu
tion.
—A gentleman in Portland bad his fin
ger badly poisoned the other day by the
prick of a quill tooth pick, which lie car
ried in his vest pocket. The doctors say
he will be lucky if he saves his iiucd.
—ln Harrison county, Ky., the other
day, a boy put the muzzle of a gun in his
mouth, after taking the cap off, and get
ting his foot on the hammer, pushed it
lack, let it slip, and fell dead.
—Some time ago a lady in New York
charged a servant girl with stealing a
piece of money which her little boy after
ward acknowledged to have taken. The
girl, being very sensitive and delicate, fell
sick, was removed to the b ispital and died
in spasms.
—A few days ago a little mulatto girl of
Kansas City had an eye put out by a cat.
Sir; had the animal in her lap fondling with
ft, when it suddenly beeame enraged, and
attacked her by clawing her face and eyes
with the n ,ult stated.
—A little boy nine years old, while stay
ing at a neighbor’s in Chicago, a few
nights ago, got up in Ids sleep and walked
to his lather’s house, a distance of over a
mile and a half, and went to bed at home,
w hile still asleep.
—ln Tiffin, Ohio, the other day, a little
boy placed his mouth over a teakettle of
boiling wafer, lipped it up and filled his
moutk with the hot water, a portion of
which he swallowed. His death resulted
in a fe\s days after the occurrence.
- A mother in Cincinnati, the other
day, lock' <1 up her little two year old child
in a room alone, whjje she went to mar
ket On her return she found the child’s
clothes had taken fire from the stove, and
it was so badly burned that it would
probably die.
—Near Sparta, Tenn,, a few days ago,
a young man enveloped himself in a sheet
and attempted, for the fun of the thing,
to frighten a couple of young ladies paus
ing a lonely spot at night. He succeeded
so well that one of the victims fell in a
swoon, while the other reached home,
with reason unseated, a raving maniac.
—A negro boy stole a doll in Petersburg,
Va, the other day, and while protesting
his innocence, unwittingly pressed it as he
endeavored to hide it more completely
under his shirt. The doll gave a loud
squeak, and the little negro, who had
never heard of crying dolls before, turned
almost white, and thought a miracle had
been done in his ease.
—At Buffalo a young man recently
hung himself, and,” being cut down im
mediately by his father, threw himself
into a cistern, from which ho was also
rescued and taken to the county insane
asylum, attempting to tear his eyes out on
the way. The reason he gave for his acts
was that his parents wanted him to go to
church too much.
—A wood sawyer who was piling wood
near the rairoafl track at Edgerton, Ohio,
one day lately, noticed, while standing on
I the pile as the lightning train approached,
a large stick lying upon the rail. With
out a moment s hesitation he leaped direct
ly before the train and grasped the stick.
At that instant the engine struck him and
hurled him some distance forward, He
fell 10 the ground mangled.and lifeless, but
he had saved the train.
—ln Butler county, Ohio, the other day
a woman threw some burning oil which
had accidentally caught fire in a tin cup,
out of the door just as her daughter,
eight years of age, came round the house,
and the blazing oil lighted on the neck
and shoulders of the little girl, burning
her so badly that she died soon after. The
mother was badly burned in her efforts to
save her child.
—A prisoner destined for the jail in ■
Wilkesbarre was recently a passenger on :
the Lehigh A Susquehanna Railroad.
While the train was crossing an embank I
ment at a high rate of speed, he suddenly ,
jumped out of a car window, and rolled i
down the steep bank with the velocity of
a cannon ball. The train was stopped as !
soon as possible and backed to pick up the
“mangled remains” which everybody ex
pected to see. But on reaching the spot,
the lively corpse was discovered making |
a bee-line across a field at 2;40 speed, and
apparently uninjured. The fellow es
caped.
—The Florida Pevinmda has the follow
ing incident: “ A short time since a gaunt
tiger or panther entered the dwelling of
Mr. Eli I*. Whldden, in Manatee county,
and sprang upon a little daughter of Mr. i
Whidden. The father rushed to the res-1
cue of the child, w.iereupon tin; panther re- ;
leased the child and made at Mr. Whidden
with such force that he was compelled to
retreat. Mr. Whidden jumped out in the j
yard and ran around the house with his as- 1
sailant close after him. He seized a broad j
axe and attacked the panther, but the axe I
flew off the handle and he was again com- j
polled to retreat, but he finally reached a j
foot-adze, and laid his enemy dead at his
feet.”
Miscellaneous.
—Texts fur Sinners—Pretexts.
—How to take a cold bath—Take it
coolly.
—There are 450 miles of sidewalk in
Chicago.
—Motto for chess-players—Act on the
square.
—A tale of thrilling interest—The rattle
snake’s.
—The Washington Life is governed by
the laws of New York.
—A Pennsylvania town has passed an
ordinance against loafers.
—Wanted —A fresh covering for the bells!
that have pealed.
—A logical fact—The mouths of Jrivers
are larger than their heads.
—'The students of the Naval Academy
have to study and drill on Sunday.
—lt is officially denied that a great Mor
mon temple is to be built in New York.
—"To enjoy a good reputashun,” says
Josh Billings, “give publickly and steal
privately.”
—A prisoner was examined in court,
and contradicted himself. “ Why do you
lie so ?” asked the judge. “ Haven’t you a
lawyer?"
—Height of extravagance Getting
yourself run over by a railroad just
after you have bought your diary for j
1870.
—An independent man is said to be one !
whoeanlive without whisky and tobacco,
and shave himself with brown soap and ,
cold water and without a glass.
—The man who was “ moved to tears,’
complains of the dampness of the prem
ises, and wishes to be moved back again.
—Where there is no Christian Babbath j
there is no Christian morality ; and with- ;
out this free institutions cannot long be I
sustained. — Mr. Justice McLean.
- “ i don’t think I can see to shave me
without a light,” said Mr Quilp to Mrs. j
the other morning. “ Oh, la,” she ,
replied, “I should think your face was
plain enough to be seen anywhere "
—The Buffalo Erpresn recently contained
the following:
AcHOcOsrSO! 11
The next day it explained it thus:
It's easy—A c-elghty (cat) c-ought (caught), a
r-oighty (rat)—A cal caught a rati Ain't It?
—“ Go away,” said Muggins, "you can’t
stuff such nonsense into me. Six feet in
his boots! Bah! no man as lives stands
more nor two feet in his boots, anu no use
talking about it. Might as well tell me
the man had six heads in his hat I"
—By a deed recently recorded in Cleve-,
land, Ohio, Maggie Mahon conveys to
John Stanton Hu; undivided half of a cer
tain lot of land “in consideration of the
i payment by the said John Stanton of $5,
' anil his marriage to the grantor the day
immediately alter this deed is made."
—They have a base ball club in Den
ver, of which a local paper says: “It takes
three of them to pick un a hall, and then
they quarrel seventeen minutes to see who
shall throw it to the pitcher, when the
pitcher finally goes after it himself, and
gets his nose punched.”
—A student was’under examination once
at the College of Surgeons in London,
I when a hypothetical case was submitted,
I its various stages described, and the mode
l of treatment required. At last came the
! crisis; “ Now, sir,”said Sir Astley Cooper,
"what would you do?" "Sir,” replied
the pupil of Esculaplus, “ I would send
for you."
—An English paper announces the
! death of the Vice-President of the Equit
: able Life Insurance Company of London,
1 Mr. Ralph Price, himself a remarkable
i instance of the benefits of Lite Assurance.
j His own policy, originally effected for £5,-
, (MX) ($35,000), at his death amounted to
£25,000, (say $125,000.) Similar results
; are being attained by the Washington
| Life.
—The Whole Calf—
“ Those boots were never made for me—
They are too short hy half;
I want them long enough, yon see,
To coverall the calf."
“Well sir,” said Watte, with stilted laughh,
“Toalter I’ll not try —-
They must, to cover nil the calf.
He more than five feet high I"
—A Chicago paper tells a story of elec
tion night, which, it thinks, shows the en
terprise of the young Ohicagoese. A party
of boys were seen getting together the
materials for a bonfire. When they were
asked what was the news, they replied
that they had none. “We don’t dabble in
politics.' We build the tire so that when
! the news comes in, we can sell it to the
! side that beats!’
—A rather startling discovery in the
! geography of the Lake Superior region
has been made by Professor Bell, who
finds that Luke Nipissing, lying only thirty
miles north of Lake Superior, and unno- ;
ticed on some allasses, is probably larger :
than Lake Brie or Lake Ontario. He had |
traveled five hundred miles of its coast
line when the approach of winter com
pelled him to return to Canada, leaving '
the remainder unexplored. As Lake
Nipissing runs into Lake Superior by the i
Nipissing river, Lake Superior may lose its
title of the Father of the Lakes.
Personal and Literary.
—Carlotta Patti was horn at Florence,
Italy, in 18-fO.
—Ex-President Johnson lias taken
quarters at Washington for the winter.
—As President of a Southern Life In
surance company, Jeff. Davis will get a
salary of $15,000.
—Ho - who ■ drinks-a-quart-of-fire-water
without-winking, is the name of an Indian
chief out on the plains.
—A Sun reporter is ready to take an
affidavit that the face of the Cardiff giant
was taken from a wax cast of the dead
Napoleon.
—General Sherman is a lineal descendant
from Samuel Sherman, one of the founders
of the colony of Connecticut, in 1635, at
Weathersfleld.
—Mr. L. R. Waring, who died recently
in Richmond, Va„ is said to have given
away in charity all ids earnings during 30
years, amounting to half a million of dol
lars.
—The Lincoln monument in Phila
delphia will cost $32,000, and will bo
ready for dedication soon. The statue is
to he of bronze and is mow being cast iu
Munich.
—Jeff. Davis is said to be engaged in the
preparation of a book, giving his version
of the, political affairs in which he has
figured so prominently. Ho has already
collected a large amount of material, and
its early issue may be looked for.
—The Washington Shir reports that
Mary Harris, who shot Adoniram J. Bur
roughs, a clerk in the Treasury Depart
ment, lias been discharged from the In
sane Asylum cured, and is nmv employed
in the Philadelphia Post Office.
—Mr. Peabody, it is said, adopted a
poor girl in Baltimore, and when she
grew up offered her his hand. She con
fessed that she loved a clerk in Mr. Pea
body’s employ, and was married to (he
clerk with Hie benefactor’s consent and
bounty.
—The convicts in the Maine State
Prison were furnished with a turkey din
ner on Thanksgiving Day, and were al
lowed three hours’ recreat ion in one of the
large shops, which they seemed to enjoy
very much in talking, singing, jumping
and dancing, without restraint.
—The St. Paul (Minn.) Prenn describes
the Irish priest “who furnishes brains to
the insurrectionary movement at Red
River," as a young man named O’Dono
hue, a student or novitiate attached to
Bishop Tache’sestablishment,at St. Boni
face, about 22 years of age, fine looking,
a man of ability, education and great de
termination.
Industrial.
—The manufacture of glase eyes em
ploys OOOjnen in this country.
—A pretty girl of sixteen Macks boots
in the New York City Hall Park.
—An Edinburgh factory turns out 8,000
doses of chloroform every day.
—Springfield, Mass., has spent the past
year, the sum of $1,500,000 in erecting
buildings.
—For the next five years he who shoots
a partridge in Pennsylvania will be liable
to a fine of $25.
—Cigar stumps collected from hotel
floors are manufactured into fancy brands
of smoking tobacco.
—Brooklyn is to have a “co-operative
kitchen,” or rather a public cooking simp
established, where any family can order its
meals and have them sent home, at a small
advance on the cost of the raw material.
—Mr. A. S. Fuller recently said, at a
meeting of the Airorican Institute Farmers’
Club, that he never saw a country that
did not contain, in some shape, all the
elements of fertility required to make it
productive, if Hie people knew how to
make proper use of these fertilizing re
sources.
—A California correspondent of the
Boston Journal , who lias eaten wheat
bread at supper, Hie material for which
was standing in the field at sunrise, says
that when Hie grain is ripe it is often cut,
threshed and put in the sacks the same
day. Instead of the reaper, th "header”
is now generally used. It cuts the straw
midway, and its snath has a width neurlj
double that of the reaper. With two
headers and five wagons a larger thresh
ing machine is kept running, and in tills
way forty acres and I,5'M) bushels of wheat
are harvested in a single day.
Religions and Educational.
—lndianapolis lias aj.lady Unlversalist
preacher.
—The first school house erected in Bath,
Me., 1l 1794, is still used for its original
purpose.
—The Methodist Almanac reports 9
Bishops, 18,371 preachers, 11,093 churches,
and 1,255,115 lay member*.
—The new building of the Young Men’s
Christian Association was dedicated a few
evenings ago in New York city.
—Three women students are in attend-
ance upon the lectures of the medical
college at Indianapolis, Ind.
—The first Methodist sermon in Amer
ica was pn ached a little over a century
ago to a congregation ot five persons.
—The Cincinnati Board of Education
has forbidden the use of religious bonks
and sacred songs as well as the Bible in
the schools.
—The Now York Methodists have
bought a camp meeting site in New Uo-
I cheile for $!10,(K)0, and will abandon the
| old ground at Sing-Sing.
—Here is a ministerial Joke, from the
I Peoria (111.) Itrrusie : “ One of our city
i ministers has been put in a parsonage that
did not come up to the idea of what a
| minister should enjoy. Becentlv he has
been call eel upon to announce that there
| would boa mite society at the ministerial
dwelling. He said : ‘There will be a mite
society on Thursday evening next, at the
parsonage. The parsonage is a little, old,
: tumble down building on street.’
j Some of the older ones of the congregation
■ took umbrage at. this, while the younger
, ones laughed. In the evening the parson
j was called upon to make the same an
nouncement. After saying that the mite
society would be held in the parsonage,
he paused a moment, and then remarked:
‘On the ertrner of the street near my resi
dence is a well, said well is covered over
and clapboarded. It is unpainted and
weather worn, but 1 wish to describe it so
that none ot you may make a mistake and
take the well for the parsonage. The mite
society will be held in the parsonage and
not in the well.’"
The Boston Wonder.
lIY .1. 11. F. WALK KB, M. I).
I.v the course of his remarks the
preacher mentioned the work which a
young man in Boston, by the name of
Cullis, was doing, and recommended his ex
ample to the young men before him. “ lie
was a poor, young physician," said the
Evangelist, “ but in less than six years he
Ims produced a Wonder in Boston, fully
equal in importance and beneficial results
to Muller’s Bristol Wonder in England,
with which all Christians arc familiar.”
At the sound of the name, Cullis—
by no means a common one—l started;
for, something like a dozen years before,
in a New England college, I had a chum
who bore that name—a modest, Christian
young man, who was admired and re
spected by all who knew him. Ho was
from Boston, too, and was a physician 1
determined to see him, and learn the story
of his life. The next day found meal No.
18 Ashburton Place, Boston, in the Doc
tor’s office. He was at home, and knew
me as 1 entered. 1 related my experience
at Westboro’, and told him I had come to
learn of his works from his own lips,and
to pay a visit to the institution. The
reader shall have the story as I got it :
“ After leaving college I returned to this
city and commenced the practice of my
profession. 1 married a wife, and in four
years she died of consumption. During
my practice 1 was frequently applied to
by both nu n end women who were suf
fering from the same disease. In the ma
jority of cases they were young girls, who
had broken down in health running sew
ing machines in our clothing stores, or
who were engaged in some other confin
ing, overtaxing, sedentary occupation.
These came to me for advice, for medicine,
and sometimes, when they had exhausted
all their resources, (hey would look to me
for food, clothing and a home. My heart
was tilled with pity for them, hut being a
poor man, dependent upon my
practice for a support, I could
do but little. At last mj wife
was taken sick witli the same disease. I
watched by her bedside and saw her life
slowly go out. I told tier of the desire I
had to assist those who were suffering
and helpless, and she besought me to make
the trial. I laid the whole matter before
tlu: Lord, and asked Him to lit me lor the
work, and open up some way, if it was
his good pleasure, whereby it might he
accomplished. 1 determined it should tie
entirely ft work of faith; that it should
be the Ijord’s doings; should tie his chari
ty; and that 1 would never ask a dollar
for its support from any man. My pKn
was to provide a home for consumptives—
those who Lad the fatal disease, and were
unable to find a resting place to procure
proper attention. Not only should there
be rest for the body but comfort for the
soul. The institution should he entirely
undenominational, but the weary ones
should have the opportunity of finding
their way back to Christ.
11 For several years 1 supplicated the
Lord for wisdom, strength, faith, and a
clear purpose. I mentioned my plans to
a sister and a few personal friends, and
they gave me encouragement and such
material assistance as they could, which
was hut little. About live years ago 1 de
termined to make a beginning, sol looked
about the city for a suitable house, which
should not lie too costly. I found one on
Vernon street, and after telling the owner
my plans and intentions, lie let me
have it at a reasonable price, and was easy
as regards the terms of payment. I soon
discovered that the Lord helps those who
help themselves; that it tvas only neces
sary to make a beginning and assistance
would come. J nought Hie house and
commenced to nut it in order as fist as I
was able, for I had determined never to
go beyond my means, and to ask the Lord
for everything which was needed. As I
i prayed with perfect faith the gifts began
1 to come iu ; furniture was sent, provisions
were given, men were found willing to
i work at half price or for nothing, money
came towards paying for the house, and
before long it was paid lor, and was ready
for tlie admission of patients.
11 My plan at first was i,o simply provide
for homeless women. It was to he an
absolute charity, free to all w ho needed it,
of whatever country or religion. The
I only condition of entering the house was
that they should come under Protestant
religious influences. But this plan war
not broad enough for the Lord. My first
bouse was soon full of women, and inon
applied for admission. Then 1 bought the
house adjoining, and resolved to turn all
the proceeds of rny practice into the in
stitution, as a Home for Consumptives.
Men now applied to me for help, and I
could not refuse them. Tw > more houses
upon the next street were bought lor
them, and in the court between the four I
Lad a chapel fitted up, thus making five
buildings all connecting with each other.
“The work was still growing. Many
of the poor fathers and mothers who died
left little children behind them, and their
great sorrow upon leaving this world was
that their children were destitute and un
provided for. I was implored to adopt
them, and at last I resolved to do so. The
result was I had to open an Orphan’s
j Homo in connection with the establish
ment, and another house was procured for
j that purpose. Then it seemed desirable
to have a school-room and a tract deposi
tory, library, etc., and a place where the
neighborhood could worship on Sunday,
since the Home was in a part of the city
destitute of churches. Ho another house
was (anight for that object and fitted up,
and a schoolmaster, preacher, and city
missionary, combined in one person, was
employed to look after its interests. All
t hese houses arc now full, and the increase
of patients is so great that I have been
obliged to open another one, vhich is now
being put in order as last us we obtain the
means to do it"
This was substantially the story of Dr.
Cullis, told in a modest manner, with the
distinct understanding that it was all the
work of the Lord; that a dollar had never
been solicited from any man for its main
tenance; that all the contributions sent to
it were voluntary and often anonymous.
By this means alone is tho Boston Won
der sustained. It has no agents; it in
dulges in no advertising; it does no beg
ging. It is the Lord’s work, and Ho is
able to carry it on.
Of course I could not leave Boston with
out visiting this remarkable Institution,
which is as yet so little known to the
public. I found everything as described,
amt my anticipations were more than re
alized. None of the houses had been
'lined into hospitals, with long wards
tilled with iron bedsteads; there was none
of that air of sameness and vapid charity
which is so cold and repulsive to sick peo
ple in our American hospitals (they are
introducing beautiful works of art in the
English hospitals), and which I consider
to be a sad mistake. The rooms for the
patients were all neatly furnished, and
adorned with pictures, illuminated texts
of scripture, flowers, ami all those name
less lit lie things which give a house the
air of a home. The sweet influence of
itself was very beneficial, and some sur
prising cures have taken place in the
Home. The sick ones are furnished with
all the dainties of the season, such as
fruits, melons, jellies, etc., for the people
of Boston and the surrounding country
love to send them in. Many bouquets ot
wild flowers also come in from the coun
try, shedding their sweet perfume upon
the air.
There are pleasant, faithful nurses in at
tendance ; there are books to read; the
cooking is done in the basement and
served by dumb waiters throughout all
the houses. Most of those who seek this
Home never expect to leave it alive. Wo
were shown a little room opening out of
one side of tin' chapel, provided with
grave-clothes. All around us, in all the
chambers, were the dying. This was hut
a halting-house before the grave. It was
pleasing to learn that most of them wt nt
to their long home rejoicing, having found
a Saviour while under the influences of the
Consumptive’s Home. After glancing at
the apartments occupied by the women, I
crossed l lie chapel and passed through the
rooms filled with dying men. Most 'of
them seemed very happy even while suf
fering much.
In the Orphan’s Home we saw the little
children at play, as merry as if they were
with their mothers. There was nothing
of the Asylum look about tho place, and
as most of the little ones lost their parents
when too young to remember, they called
Dr. Cullis father, and knew nodinerence.
The children were of all ages, from the
infant, In Us long white dress, to the hoy
or girl of six or eight. They go to school
like other children, do not have their hair
cropped, are not dressed in a uniform,
which proclaims their misfortune to the
world, and they are not fed like little pigs
from a common trough or kettle of soup.
The idea is “ home," and lids they will
have, the Lord willing, until they are old
enough to be put out to work and care for
themselves. Such is a brief account of
the work being done In Boston by one
young man.— Packard'* Monthly.
George Peabody—ln Affair of the Heart.
It has been contended by some of our
ablest thinkers that the greatest amount of
good done in the world lias been bestowed
by bachelors. Whether this be true or
not, we often wonder that many men,
famous for their kindnejp of heart and
generosity of disposition, should remain
single through life. There is no more re
markable case of this sort than that of the
late George Peabody. It is said that In
his history there is a romance that per
haps lias never yet been made public.
A Lumber of years ago, when Mr. Pea
body was just entering upon his career of
success, us a business man, in Baltimore,
he met by chance in the street a poor girl
who was laii a child, but whose pleasing
face and gentle manner attracted his notice.
Questioning her as to tier parentage and
surroundings, he found her in every way
worthy bis regard, and a (U subject for
his benefaction. He at once adopted her
as his ward, and gave her an education
As she advanced iu age, her charms of
person as well as the brightness of her
intellect won the affections of her Ijcne
factor.
Through this relationship he had ample
opportunity of watching her progress, and
day by day lier hold upon his affections
grew stronger. At length, as Ids ward
bloomed into womanhood, though much
her senior in years, .Mr. Peabody offered
her his hand and fortune. Grati fully ap
preciating his generosity, and acknowledg
ing bet attachment for him as almost a
father, she with crest feeling confessed
tlm*. honor compelled her to decline the
ace.- ptance of this, his greatest act of gen
erosity, informing hersiiitor that her affec
tions ha l h en given to another, a clerk in
the employ of her benefactor.
Though disappointed and grievously
shocked, the philanthropist sent for Ins
clerk, and learn'tig from him that the en
gagement had been of long duration, Mr.
Peabody at once established his successful
rival in business, and soon after gave his
benediction upon the marriage of his ward.
This, it is said, was the first blow Ids heart
reei ived, and it is possible that from mis
episode came the inspiration that made
the future of Mr. Peabody so universally,
distinguished, and has rendered his name
famous as a remarkable public benefactor.
—New York Sun.