The Vermont Gazette from Bennington, Vermont • 1

0 lA-V I The Bennington REE H. L. STILLSON, Editor and Proprietor. "fbee thought, free wewh and free BENNINGTON, Vermont. FOR THE WEEK; ENDING SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10; 1872.

VOLUME II. NO. 29. WHOLE NO. 76.

TERMS, $2.00 PER YEAK. A Kiss. A Reform Seeded. It is through the uneaualed manage with rnin, and demanding an immediate remedy. Recovering his presence of mind, he pushed the automaton quickly behind the screen, and then proceeded to reassure the audience, who, by this time, seeing and smelling no smoke, had begun to think it a false alarm, but whose attention heretofore had so luckily been occupied with themselves and their means of escape that they had not minded the antics of the machine.

Automaton Keniinisences. A large proportion of our readers have probably seen or heard of the automaton chess-player which was exhibited throughout the United States some years ago. To such, and to others, the subjoined reminisoenoes, which we find in a late translation from the French, will be found interesting Maelzel and Mouret as partners, were exhibiting at Amsterdam before the king and court The king had announced his intention of having a game of chess with the automaton. The day arrived. occupied himself with the decorations, to give the greatest eclat possible to the coming contest between the king and the machine "a mere machine, gentle For the Old lore's Sake.

And have yon forgotton me qmto, dear, Or von sometimes dream What life might have been if we wandered still Together by wood and stream Do yon think of days when my love was all The world could give or take, And eay, with a sign, they were happy days," Just for the o'd love's sake Do you ever Bit in the twilight, dear, And think of that wintry day When wo met and parted and journeyed forth' Each on our separate way I turned, and stood for a moment, dear, And looked in your face, to take Its memury far on-my way through life, Just for the old love's sake Juat for the old love's sake. Sweetheart, Just for the old love's sake. Do you ever think they were bitter words Their memory haunts me yet. Do you wonder now you could say them all, Ana wonder if I forget Yes, dear, mv heart has forgiven them long, Though I thought at first 'twould break And whenever 1 think, it is kindly still, Just for the old love's sake: Jnst for the old hive's sake, Sweetheart, Burmese Courtship. The Burmese are Buddhists, 'and Buddhism has nothing to do with marriage.

In other words, marriage is contrary to the principles of the Buddhist religion. So says a correspondent of the Pali Mali Gazette, writing from Bangoon and he adds A Burmese damsel is demure, laughter-loving and self-reliant. Her manner graceful and pleasing. She wears a bright silk petticoat, a white jacket, a gold necklace, and has glossy black hair decked with flowers. She often smokes a green cheroot.

Of course she has admirers, and she gives them all a fair chance. Every evening she receives a visit from all these young gentlemen and such is the waywardness of human nature that the same swain will often pay similar visits on the same evening to other young ladies of the same village or township. This courtship is always going on, and courting time has been an acknowledged institution from 'time immemorial. Here some explanation is necessary. The Burmese evening is divided into three watches, viz.

children's bedtime, old folks' bed time, and young folks' bed detective followed me right to Working but I squared him with a hundred pound note, and got clear away to America by the Southampton packet. It never prospered me, that money and I got lower and lower, till I listed as a soldier, and here I am I'm getting tired sir. Don't forget Bedford Heathcote, retired draper." I passei on in wonder and astonishment anJ, if I must confess, a little disappointed and disenchanted. I was no special care, then, of any overruling Providence, as 1 had fondly deemed myself. My wonderful warning and deliverance was a mere affair of chance and accident.

As I passed the man's couch again, he lay on it stiff and stark and dead. On my return to England, I made inquiry of the officials of the revenue department, and found there really had been a fraud of the kind ir question, that the collector implicated in it had died suddenlyby suicide, it was thought. As to the defalcations, the defaulter's surietics had paid a part one of them, his father, having been sold up in consequence and the rest bad been paid over again by the parishioners he had defrauded. So I found out the old man at Bedford. He was living with a daughter, in abject poverty, and I paid to him the hundred pounds with compound interest.

To him I seemed a celestial visitant. The Cold-meat Train is now a thing of the past, I believe. A luggage train car-riesbelated officers back to camp; but, to this day, I confess that I always prefer to pas Woking in broad daylight, and that I carefully look inside the carriage before I enter it, I desire no more Loans from tbe Dead. Cutting and Polishing Diamonds. The art of cutting and polishing diamonds is supposed to have originated in Asia at a very early period, but was first introduced into Europe by Louis Ber-quen, of Bruges, about the middle of the fifteenth century.

He accidentally discovered that rubbing two diamonds together caused an abrasion of their sur ment of the French women of all classes that France now. despite its enormous losses in the recent war, is showing re sources which ttmaze all Europe, and soem to rank her as the richest country or at least the country of best distributed wealth under modern civilization. Every family has been trained to save, and, in the middle class, to make a tasteful appearance on small means. This is, of course, only done through careful management and judicious self-control. A rentier in Paris who sees an expensive play, dines that day on a bowl of bouillon, will, on the next day have a stylish dinner--in both cases keeping within the exact average expense apportioned to'tach day.

The German woman succeeds in the same department, but with much severer labor. She trusts more to work than to management. She saves by doing with her hands a great deal which an American woman gets done. She is contented, too, with less show for herself and her main extravagancies are in dinners and out-door Treasures. The Ger man matron has.

moreover, an immense advantage over the American, in escaping two of our heavy expenses carriage hire and cost of education. Whatever else is dear in Germany, these two are always cheap. The market supply of teachers whether in art, or science is always beyond the demand, and thus the teaching of children costs little. For some inscrutable reasons, also, hacks and carriages are remarkably low-priced in German cities. Bent, too, in French and German cities is less than in ours, but then you get much less with it.

The same comforts in New York and Berlin would not now cost so very differently. Still this does form a marked advantage with the Continental housekeeper in making both ends meet on a small income. The grand reason, however, of the su- Eeriority in this matter of the foreign ouse-lady, we are convinced, lies in the fact that sue woks cioseiy alter ner mica-en. She sees waste at once she detects thieving or giving she can direct the application of each odd and ead she knows immediately if grocer nnd butcher and tradesman are putting down wrong items, or are overcharging. The mere fact of her overlooking the kitchen checks a great-deal of petty jobbery.

The kitchen being on the same floor with the drawing and bed-rooms, puts tne Continental housekeeper at once on a vantage ground. Probably onr basement kitchens sink a gooddeatof our incomes. We doubt if most Amerioan housekeepers make a study of house management. The immense gain in the winter season of wholesale purchase of meats the laying in of wholesale groceries, and careful watching of them the using of provisions, and checkinsr of waste, are not much known in practice to our American It is true that, owing to the the whole day a turning to self destruction as a means of escape from all the degradation of life. I would accept the omen.

I carried with me, a practice I had acquired in the East, a small American revolver which fitted in my waistcoat pocket. It would kill at twenty paces, and would give me my mittimus easily enough. I drew it out and placed it against my forehead; then it stnick me that the ball, after passing through my head, might pass also through the partition dividing the compartments and strike some one in the next carriage. I turned, therefore, my back to the window, and again placed the muzzle of the pistol to my forehead. Again I withdrew it.

There was no hurry. The train did not stop till it reached Woking. I could not possibly be disturbed. I wanted a signal the whistle of the engine, as the driver sighted the red lamps at Woking, should be the signal for my departure from the world. Yes," I said, aloud, turning upon myself, as it were, in a sort of frenzy" yes the moment the whistle sounds, William Ilcathcote, you shall die." I have said that the rising moon was sh'ning brightly into the carriage, full upon the coffin, and upon the mysterious inscription.

I don't think I really believed that this coffin had any tangible existence. It might be but the production of my own fevered brain, but none the less, on that account, was it a veritable warning of my doom. Looking up, however, to see if it had indeed disappeared, I saw no longer the coffin lid, but a whito shrouded figure, a pallid, corpse-like face, the eyes of which, in the moonbeams, shone, upone me with a sepulchral gleam. For a moment, I thought that I had indeed passed into the land of shadows that I was a disembodied spirit, looking upon my own mortal remains and the thought that I had ceased to be an individuality, and bad become the mere shadow of a thought, struck such a chill terror and horror to my soul, that every other impulse of it was lest in an eager effort to resume my individual existence. I came to myself with a deep gasp, digging my finger-nails into my palms.

Ah, the joy of that moment, after the torture of the sti uggle back to life Life ragged, miserable, it might be, but still dear life how precious it seemed how unfathomably deep, below the utmost wretchedness of being, was the dread abyss of non-existence! Shadows I defied them. Come forth, old mole I shouted to my double in the coffin. He came forth. As I live, he stepped out of the coffin, seated himself opposite to me, and laid a finger on my arm laid a finger on my arm, and leaned forward to speak in my ear. Mercy, shrieked the figure, in a voice that pierced the roar of the train, then thundsring over a bridge.

See cried the figures, slipping a paper in my hands keep it keep it only don't be-trav me." Whew-w went the whistle of tbe engine, shrieking, as it seemed, close into my ears. I turned my head for a moment the moon had just passed into a cloud; the figure had vanished the coffin still stood in the corner, dark and gi'itn. The train slacken democratic spirit of equaiity. the middle here aim often at a style far beyond age Just one kiss two faces met, But the brows were knit ana tne cneeu ware wet: Jast one Mbr then up an away But its mark will last for many a day. Just one kiss and Inst one word, Bof tly spoken ana narcuy neara Jurt one word that was said through tears, and told tbe story oi au tne years.

Just one look from the deep dark eyes Juat one grasp at a glorious prize Jnst one kiss then up and away But ah 1 such a heavy debt to pay 1 Facts and Fancies. Tf von court a voung woman and vou are won and she is- won, you will both be one. A sarcastic young lady says that the most unpleasant things in nature are lovers and pigs. The latest stvle of trimming the over- skirts of dresses is with chenille fringe and velvet or chenille trimming. Dnrinsr the last five centuries more than R250, 000,000 worth of land has been washed away from the eastern coast oi England by the encroachments of.

the sea. Holland has loBt 8500,000,000. Titusville bridegrooms step upon hy menal platform, adjust the wtal noose, and swing off into that silent bourne from whence they can never return save by the Indianapolis or connecting lines. The last subject discussed by a debat- ing society was, If you had to have a boil, where would you prefer to have it The unanimous decision of members was, "On some other fellow. Decatur, HI.

boasts of a dog that never barks, but crows like a cock instead. He has been brought up and educated among the fowls of the farm-yard, and has learned their language and forgotten his own. At Kansas City, the drill which is boring a shaft for a eoal mine went through a cave 44 feet deep before reaching the rock underneath. The bottom of the cave is nearly 800 feet below the surface of the earth. A gentleman riding in a Paris fiaert indignantly abused the coachman for driving so slow.

The latter disdainfully replied: "Do you think that simply to please you I am going to spoil a pair of horses worth thirty-five francs." The Chinese have a custom at their weddings which we protest is no improvement upon our own practice on those blissful eccosions. Instead of kiss- -ing the bride the bridegroom and guests slap her gently on the mouth with their sandals. It is a noticeable fact that in elite society flirting is not carried on in as great a degree as was formerly the case. It is indeed cause for sincere congratulation, as in most instances what was life and pleasure to one party was intense misery to the other. A Calif arnia Judge recently had a gro- cer brought before him for selling matches without Btamps.

He decided that the grocer hod not violated the law which forbids exposing for sale" unstamped packages, because the matches in question were sold from under the counter. Two citizens of Grundy County, Nevada, settled an old grudge lately by a resort to the code. One of the duelists was armed with a revolver, and the other with a musket, which, either by accident or trickery, was not loaded. The result was that the man with the unloaded weapon was killed. "I weeded my friends," saidan eccentric old man, "by hanging a piece of stair-carpet out of my first floor front window with a constable's announcement affixed.

It had the desired effect. 1 soon saw who were my friends. It was like firing a gun at a pigeon-house. They forsook the building at the report. A man stopping at a hotel in Bich-.

mond, lately causedno little trouble by the reprehensive habit of walkiBg about at all hours of the night. Having; established the reputation of a first-class somnambulist, he walked off to an early train with his carpet-bag as naturally as though he had been awake, and lefthis-bill unpaid. "Mr. Jones," said a clergyman at a pastoral visit, I never see yoa at church on Sunday evenings!" "No," replied "to tell vou the truth, I cannot very well get out on Sunday night, for I am oblised to take care of the children." "Why, how is that; have you no servants?" "Oh, yes!" said poor paterfamilies we keep two, but they don't allow us many privileges. The Offended Dandy.

I had quite a laugh in the park tbe other day. Not flu: from where 1 was lounging a gentleman was promenading, accompanied Dy a muguiuuieuv b'cj-hound, while just in advance of him walked a well-known dandy. The gen-tlemancalled, "Bruno, Bruno!" Thedan-dy stopped and looked around, but not knowing the gentlemen, quickly resumed his walk. Again the gentlemen called "Here Bruno come here I' Upon this the dandy turned, thus angrily demanded, What is your pleasure, sir With you nothing. "Then how dare yon, not knowing me, thus address me on a public promenade Pray, sir if I may ask what is your name "How, sir Do yon wish to insult me?" But will you please give me yoar name quietly pleaded the owner of the greyhound.

There is my card, sir And the dandy handed forth a slip of pasteboard. Why," said the gentleman, reading aloud the letters upon the card, "this is B-r-u-n-o-w. You need borrow no further trouble, My dog spells his name without the to T' Stokes. Mr. South ack the father-in-law of Edward S.

Stokes has been prostrated with two or three attacks of apoplexy since the tragic occurence. Previous to the murder Stokes corresponded regularly with his wife, who has been in Europe some months educating her little daughter. Since the tragedy he has received no letters from her, and as at last accounts she was in Paris, the shock to her nervous system in consequence of her husband killing a fellow-man, had probably prostrated her to a bed of sickness. A staob employee near Newtown, Kansas, fired at one Taylor, with whom he had quarreled, and killed a man named Merrill, a friend of Taylor's whereupon Taylor shot and killed the stage-man. The ruse of his rival, thus promptly met, did no harm, and the field of battle was lett in quiet possession of the greater light, but Maelzel often said be could afford to pay that man handsomely, for he showed him the only defect in his machine.

The Town of Siika, in Alaska. The villase contains forty or fifty houses; The population consists of one thousand Indians and two thousand s. Of the dogs, all but one are of the same sharp-eared, wolfish type seen among the Indians of the plains. The exception was a bandy-legged, lop-eared our of civilized breed, the only one among the two thousand that showed a lack of civility by barking at our heels. the houses much more resemble the semi-subterranean abodes of the Laplanders and Esquimaux than the wigwams of American Indians.

Like the bak described by the American poet, they extend as far into the earth as above it. Some of them are from twenty to thirty feet- square, and built of very wide cedar plunks, many of them more than four teet across, worked out by these rude people. We entered several. Creeping through apertures, both square and round not more than three feet in diameter, we descended flights of steps into the large single room. In the centre of each a fire was built on the ground, and in the centre of each roof a hole, out of which passed a small portion of the smoke, the most of it remaining for the benefit of the salmon hanging oyer our heads, and to make sore eyes for the inmatesr The whole inside is floored, except the fireplace in the middle.

On both sides are the sleeping-places, covered with skins and blankets, and in some instances separated by low partitions. In the rear, and on shelves below the dormitories. were stored potatoes and dried salmon in small bales, covered with matting. Their largest potatoes are the size of a hulled walnut. The ladies beautify their complexions with soot and red paint, and still further enhance their charms by wearing a bone through the upper lip, tbo size of which is increased from year to year until, in some of the old ones, it attains a width of two inches.

An Indian lady thus adornqi, with her coarse, black uncomb ed locks in matted profusion aronnd her beautiful pig eyes and. lop ears, is only resistible to those whose af fections are, thoroughly preoceunied. Th delights of couT tshifrmust be bled by the pleasant aroma of salmon which prevades the premises and, 1 have beard, their persons. Among them the crow oncl the raven are held sacred, and ny around their abodes undisturbed. Ihey live mainly on fish, and have a monopoly of the trapping.

There is but one white trap per in the country, and he is at Cook's Inlet, six hundred miles west northwest. He came down to Sitka once to go to Lodiak. Learning that no vessel would sail for a month, and growing tired of the place, he said he would take "a little walk." He started with his rifle and a pocket full of salt, aud traversed alone that mountain wilderness for three weeks. He had no covering at night but the skins of fleshly slaughtered animals. He returned in good condition, and in answer to questions, boasted that he had lived better than his questioners.

The Extent or England. Hon. James Brooks, in a letter from Calcutta, speaks as follows England, once more, one everlasting JKnsIand That little sea-girt island has not only girdled the great isles of the world, and put its stamp upon them, but, here am in the portals of a great British East India iimpire, the very magnitude of which is astounding. Think of it, over 200,000,000 of people, native and British in the Indian Government proper, under the untish nag Satiated with the very vastness of dominion here, the British Crown declines more land, and all the population it wants nay, more, too, and refuses, actually, to be bothered with yet more Think ot the revenues and expenditures of this British Indian Empire, ttajU.wUjUW of our money, incoming and outgoing, each year. Think of its immense army, 320,000 in all, of whom are European soldiers, the others.

Indians, under British officers, all! Think of a Christian Government over 110,000,000 of Hindoos, 25,000,000 of Mussulmans, 12,000,000 of Aboriginal of Buddhists, toe. I What a medley of humanity to rule What a mixture of laws, as well as of creeds, and of tongues, and lan guages (There are sixteen, or more, languages that a British ruler ought to learn. What a vast trade, some of imports, and over of exports 1 The little England at home, which governs all this vast territory, and these millions of people, dwindles, herself, into insignificance, when contrasted with this, her mighty Empire of the East. A Hint. If a youth is wooingly disposed towards any damsel, as he values his happiness, let him call on that lady when she least expects him, and take note of the appearance of all that is under her control.

Observe if tbe shoes fit neatly, and the hair is well dressed. And we would forgive a man for breaking off an engagement, if he discovered a greasy novel hid away under the cushion of a sofa, or a hole in the garniture of the prettiest foot in the world. Slovenliness in a woman will ever be avoided by a well regulated mind. A woman cannot always be what is called dressed;" but she may be always neat. And as certainly as a virtuous woman is a crown of glory to her husband, so surely is a slovenly one a crown ot thorns.

An Lvsane "Woman. A young woman whose father's palatial residence in situated in one of the principal streets of Missouri's capital, recently in the space of a single twenty-four hours managed without discovery to get herself tied in the matrimonial knot of eight different men, and told them all to come at the same time the next day to obtain her father's blessing on their union. They all did so and the scene that ensued can be better imagined than described. The lady meantime had left the State disguised as a Jew peddler. Two miners wrr frozen to dealh, at Helena, Mont-ana.

1 men The exhibition was ordered for 12:30 and as 12 o'clock sounded, his ac complice not being in the dressing-room, as was always his custom, Maelzel stepped across the street to the hotel to hurry him up. Imagine his surprise to find poor Mouret in bed, covered to the nose with the blankets. Goodness gracious What do I see What is the matter cries Maelzel. 1 Oh, I've got a fever 1" coolly replies Mouret. A frver How so Yon were all right at breakfast les; but this has come on since like a clap of thunder." Well, but Why, the king is coming, man alive 1" greatly excited.

Oh, he will have to go back 1" cool as a cucumber. "But what can I tell him Tell him the automaton has got a fever. Oh, quit your joking, and get up imperatively. "Ah! but leant, decidedly. "Why, wo have never received more money for one exhibition." 1 know but you can give it back.

The devil you say I'll run for a doctor." No that useless." Why What can I do Is there no way to break the fever 'Oh now you talk. Jtes there is a way one way. Tell me the way. "Pay me that Inou o-joest Oh, well is that all Yes so will, when the soiree is over." No sir I must have it here. "Now "Before we begin.

I want the 2,000 francs that was paid you this morning. "All of it Just that and no more and no less, Then I will play and not till then." Maelzel looked the little man in the eye, but determination was written there. This was evidently no time for excuses. Me had the money, and his partner knew it, and, besides, was only asking what was his due. He looked at his watch it marked 12:15, and His Majesty, who was known as a model of punctuality, would be there at 12:30.

He took out his pocket-book from his breast pocket, and counted out the" four notes of oUU francs each, with a groan. The cure was marvelous to behold for, as soon as Mouret's hand closed on the money, he jumped out of bed, full dressed, boots and all The artful dodger had been watching for Maelzel from the window, and when he saw him cross the street had just time to pop into bed. The soiree came on as appointed, and never had the automaton seemed to play with deeper inspiration. The king did not move the pieces himself he simply counseled his Minister of War, who played for him, but tne coalition was completely routed in two- games. The defeat, however, was put wholly on the shoulders of the Minister.

"Had they won, it would have proba bly been the king who was the victor In tins same city, a few days alter words, ended the travels of the machine in Europe. The partners separated, the best of. friends, and Maelzel began his preparations for a tour in the New World the details of which were ably recited in the Chess 'Journal, formeily edited by Paul Morphy and published in New York. Sohlumberger, a German, and a very strong chess player, directed the movements of the machine, and the se cret was undiscovered, except by some boys in Baltimore, who, not having the cash to pay for an admission; climbed upon some sheds overlooking the rooms in the, rear and were so startled upon the conclusion of the exhibition to see a little man in shirt-sleeves hop out of the machine, that they nearly broke their necks in their efforts to get away, and, upon reaching home, repeated what they had seen. These facts were published by a Balti more new spaper, but Maelzel had the good sense to buy its further silence, But their fate was more especially settled by some of the leading New York and Boston papers, who took them np of their own free will, and combated them as the most preposterous ideas ever put forth, and worthy of the childish jmnds they came lroiu," and the machine con tinued to be considered the greatest mechanical triumph the world ever saw 1 Oh I most learned pundits There was one thing among the numerous instructions which Mon3.

Maelzel invariably gave his accomplice that deserves to be remarked. If any one, at any exhibition, should cry jSre, said lie, don't you be in the least bit alarmed. Depend upon me. I will get you out safe, if I die in the Attempt. Upon this point he was always extremely urgent and his reason for it was this In the course of his travels he had arrived one day at a little town in Germany, where a celebrated prestidigitateur, the Professor Anderson of that day, was giving his exhibitions.

The automaton soon eclipsed the lesser humbug, and he, in pique, jealous of the i i i supenur puwer ui mu rival, wno caused his audiences to become small by de grees and beautifully less," closed his doors one fine afternoon, and went to see the wonder, determined, if possible, to discover its secret. Fifteen minutes in its company, and this skillful manipulator of humbngs saw through the veil and knew there was a man in that box. Where he was concealed he couldn't say, bnt he knew he must be tlttre, and seconded by a fnend, be raised the terrible cry Fire File Fire One can indge of the terror spread in the audience, and of the immediate rush for the door, bnt strange to relate, the automaton, too, partook of the panic. apparently, for the most frightful noises came from its bowels, and a perfect suc cession pt thnmpmg and kicks, as though it was trying to Break loose from itself, while stood aghast stine His surprise, however, was only mentary, and was ensed by the fact of a catastrophe he had never prepared taring mm in the face, menacing him jusc lor me, old love's sake, AND FKOH SUCH A SOURCE. A good many years ago the regiment to which I then belonged was quartered at Aldershott.

After a long absence from England, spent on a parching reck in the middle of the Bed Sea, bleak and dreary Aldershott seemed a very paradise. It was delightfully near London, too leave was easily to be obtained and a great part of my spare time, and more than all my spare money, was spent by me in the metropolis spent, I am ashamed to confess, in riotous living and much disorder. Still, had it only been that, I 3hould, possibly, like many of my brother officers, at the cost of much subsequent pain, and weariness, and pinching, have passed through my cycle of dissipation, and settled down at last but, in addition to my youthful aberrations, I lad a tatal predilection for games of skill and chance. I was the best whist-player in the regiment, and could hold my own with the crack players of the clubs and ihad I stuck to whist, my belief, never ruined any man who had a head -upon his shoulders, I could have made a decent income out of my skill but my moderate winnings at whist were swallowed up, and much more lost besides, at unlimited loo, blind hookey, hazard, and other kindred games. To crown all, I took te backing horses, and lost at that, I need hardly say.

A long run of evil luck beset me I had lost all my available funds, had mortgaged my commission to the utmost jenny 1 could raise upon it, and found myself, at the end o( the Epsom week, fevered and parched in body, in soul wretched and despairing. Ihad come to the end of my tether 1 was regularly done up life had nothing but evil in store for me. On the following week I should be posted as a defaulter on the turf 1 should leave the army in disgrace, and such tidings would kill my old widowed mother. Tt was Sunday night I had been in London, trying to raise money, but uselessly the Jews closed their fists to me. I only wanted a hundred pounds to pay my Derby-losses; this achieved, I could sell out.

and retire without open disgrace but 1 couldn't raise it. One man ottered me fifty pounds for my bill of two hundred and fifty ponnds at three months, but I wasn't quite so mad as to take that I might as well smash for a hundred as fifty. My last sovereign was changed in paying my hotel bill on that Sunday night. I had a return ticket to Aldershott in my pocket, and a few shillings besides nothing else in the world in the way of available assets. I think if I had been possessed of a five pound note I should have gone down to Liverpool and taken a steerage passage to America.

It was the limited extent of my means which made me resolve to go back to my quarters at Aldershott, and appear on parade the next day. The clock in the coffee-room where I was sitting showed half-past eleven as the hour of night the waiter only was in the room, arranging his spoons and napkins in the bullet, yawning surreptitiously every now and then, quite indifferent to the problems which were agitating me. Waterloo Bridge or Aldershott I must make up my mind quickly; another five minutes, and it would be too late for the one the other was always open. "Waiter, a hansom I shouted all of a sudden in a tone which made the man jump. i At that time there was a rain which left not Waterloo, but some station a little distance down the line; it might have been Vauxhall, or possibly Nine Elms, I scarcely remember which left the station at midnight.

It ws popularly known among us as the Cold-meat Train. Its passengers were dead bodies for the Woking Cemetery, The railroad company, ever solicitous to accommodate the publie and turn an honest penny, had, for the convenience of the camp, affixed to this train one first- class carnage. After leaving the dead bo dies at Woking, the carriage was run on to Jbarnborough, whence you could walk to camp, it you had not been prudent enough to order a fly to meet yen. The hotel servant who ushered me to the cab got a handsome gratuity for his pains, It was my leave-taking of the world pleasure, and I was too insolvent to be careful about little matters. Thecabsped me quickly to the station; but the clock at the hotel had been slow as we passed under the railway arch, a premonitory shriek from the engineoverbead warned me that the train was on the pjint of starting.

I stopped the cab at the bridge, and ran quickly up a narrow flight of steps which led directly on to the end of the platform known only to the initiated the train was moving on, but I had just time, despite warning shouts of guard and Dorters, to open the door of the last carriage and jump io. ine oiner compartments oi the car rige I nuticed were lighted, but this one was dark that didn't affect me, I didn't want to read. I took out a box of wax matches and proceeded to lieht a ciear. As the glow of the match lit "up the inte rior ot tue carnage, I saw in the earner a long dark object, quite black, and vet with some little metallic gleam about it it was a coffin, reared np at the farther side of the carriage, a board being placed behind it, against which it leaned. As I looked stead fastly at the coffin, it appeared suddenly to glow with a taint radiance.

Jsvery nail and every plate upon it began to gleam wth strange mysterious light. Bah! it was themoon. We had just left the clouds of London behind us, and the great round moon, rising out of liver-mists, cast her glorious beams, right athwart But 1 tur ltd away from hetf i disgust I What waslbe beauty of the night tome a ruined spendthrift -the scorn and laughing stork of the world Tbo black coffin on the other side was a more congenial companion to me." I lit another match, and wad the inscription on the plate: "Wiliuic Heath cote, died 25th May, 18 aged twenty five years." Thi liairnn mv head rose in amass: my heart heart ceased to beat. My own name, my own age, and the very aate of the day that was now just born It chimed in, too, did this inscription, so mysteriously with that impulse I had felt time, Children bed time is sunset, or shortly afterwards. Courting time' be gins soon-after children bed time, and it continues long after old folks' bed time, which is about nine dock, xoung folks' bed time depends a great deal upon the will aud pleasure of the young people in question we will say about eleven o'clock.

When the hour of courting approaches the young lady trims her little lamp, so that it gleams through tne window, ana takes her seat npon a mat on the floor. Meantime the young gentlemen have been putting on their best bright silk putzoes, a nondescript garment, something between a pair of trousers and a pettiooat, have donned their clean white jackets, have tied colored sine nanaicer- chiefs on their heads in tbe most ap proved styles, and have turned out alto gether in the height of Burmese fashion, They enter, they seat themselves on the mats round the fair one, and then the chaffing" begins. If a gallant has been unsuccessful in a boat race, or has tumbled into the water, or has paid too much attention to another damsel, or has been deserted by another damsel, or has made himself ridiculous in any- other way, the chances are that his feelings will be hurt before the evening is over, How the lady receives each lover, espe cially in the presence of other lovers, is more than we can describe. She herself requires considerable attention, and the old people never interfere. Indeed, why should the old folks interfere? The young folks can take care of themselves, and are only doing what they themselves did in the days when they, too, were young.

State pay and mile of the United States State Legislatures is as follows Bhode Island SI per diem, mileage i cents Maine $2 per diem, mileage 10 cents one way New Hampshire 552.50 per diem, no mileage New Jersey S3 for forty days, after that S1.50, mileage 10 cents; Delaware S3 per diem, mileage 4 cents Minnesota S3 per diem, mileage 6 cents West Virginia, Michigan, Indiana, Kansas and PieDraska. each $2 per diem, mileage 10 cents Oregon and New lorfc fe per diem, mileage 20 cents Tennessee 4 per diem, mileage 18 cents Missouri and Kentucky each 5 per diem, mileage 10 cents Iowa $5 per diem, mileage 25 cents North Carolina, Arkansas and Alabama each $6 per diem, mileage 10 cents Virginia, South Carolina and California each 6 per diem, mileage 20 cents Georgia and Mississippi $6 per diem, mileage 20 cents Louisiana $8 per diem, mileage 10 cents Texas $8 per diem, mileage 20 cents Nevada $10 per diem, no mileage Wisconsin pays 350 per annum, mileage 10 cents Pennsylvania $1,000 per annum Maryland $5 per diem, and 5 cents per mile. In Illinois and Florida the rate of compen sation is fixed each session. A Singular. Stout.

A strange story of swindling and malpractice comes from Detroit. A couple of doctors sporting the name of "The Twin Doctors have beeu performing surgical operations and prescribing medicine solely for the pur pose of obtaining money. Among others they visited a farmer who had a boy about nine years old who has been a cripple for three years past, the cord of the right leg being drawn up. The doctors no sooner saw the boy then they said they could cure him for $25, and so they strapped the boy's crooked leg to a straight board, but as the pain was terrible, and they found tiiey could not bena the leg to any extent wituoui tue poor little fellow fainting away, they said would cut the cords at the back of the knee, and then, they asserted, they could straighten the limb at once. The father fortunately was aware that suoh an operation would ruin his child, paid the men the $25, and in his own words told them to clear out" These brutes deserve State prison, and we are glad to hear the authorities are after them.

Faille and Silk. The palest tints of silk are most stylish. At the beginning of the season only fine failles, worth or $6 a yard, were produced in the faint shadowy tints, but now cheaper silks marked $2.50 or $3, are shown in a pale rose, sky blue, light green, and the delicate ecru and cuir shades, that combine so prettily with rose and may be trimmed with either black or white lace. These cheaper silks, when lined, are quite handsome, and are so cover with tulle, grenadine, and muslin over dresses that their quality is not apparent. How they do rr.

A printing office in Chicago is selling to anxious whiskey bummers the following blank form Permit, Permission is hereby granted by me, the lawful wife of and I declare and witness by my own signa ture that my husband has the perfect right and liberty to dnnR, ana as oiten as be ohooses to drink, and I hereby relinquish all the claims arising therefrom. s-y Fakmtso Lands nt New York. The cash value of farms in New York has doubled during the last ten years, while the value of implements has inci eased from twenty-five to forty-five millions of dollars in value. We believe this is a fair index of the general advance in prop erty throughout tne country during the last decade. Once fob all." Mistress By the way Anna Hannah Tm not sure.

Is your name 'Anna or 'Hannah'? New Uxji wmch my name is Anna, mum Haieh, Ha, Hen, Hen, Ha, Haioh, 'Anna Mistrens (giving jt np in despair)" Ah Thank you. faces, and from this soon deduced the aft as it is now practised. The process of polishing and cutting, as I observed in Amsterdam, is very slow and tedious, nearly every part ojit, from the delicacy and exactness required, needing to be done by hand. The preparation of a sin gle demands two months of continuous labor and the famous Pitt or Regent diamond underwent two years of con stant manipulation before it was complete. In the mills one diamond is employed upon another, each being cemented into the ends of a handle, and a model of lead being taken of the gem to be cut, which determines the faces.

The stones are then rubbed together with a strong pressure, and held over a metal box with a double bottom, the upper bottom being perforated with small Holes, through which tbe diamond dust falls. Tbe dust is of such value that it is ve carefully collected, and, after mixture with vegetable oil, is used for polishing the gem upon a steel or cast-iron plate. which is made to revolve rapidly, some times by steam, as I have said, but gen" erallv by means of a tredle. The dia mond powder is also used for cutting. It is placed upon a steel wire or saw, and this, drawn swiftly backward and for ward, makes the required incision.

When a large piece ot the stone is to be remov ed, it is occasionally done with a fine chisel and hammer but this so increases the danger of breaking or destroying then gem, that it is rarely resorted to. of work can be nicer or mere diffi cult, for the workman must thoroughly understand the character and peculianty of diamonds, and must have an absolute knowledge of the cleavage planes before he can be trusted with their manipula tion. How to Hake Scrapple. In New York a discussion exists as to the cost of living. A lady housekeeper sends tbe following Get a young pia's head (fresh) weigh ing five or six ponnds, which can be bought for twenty-five or thirty cents one from the country preferred.

Clean it well, cutting off the ears to enable you to clean them well inside. (Get the butcher to take out the eyes and teeth you buy it.) Put the head in two gallons and a half of cold water. Let it boil until the bones can be easily separated from the meat. Chop the meat very tine, put it back into the liquor it has been boiled in, and season with pepper, salt, thyme, sage ana sweet marjoram. (Bon't put too much of the herbs.) wen take equal parts of buck wheat and corn-meal, and stir in until the compound is about the consistency of mush; lifting it off the fire while thickening, to prevent it getting lumpy.

Then let it boil for about fifteen or twen ty minutes, stirring it to prevent burn ing. Turn it into pans to cool. Cut into thin slices, and fry brown as you want to use it. The cosf will be about fifty cents. For that sum my family of five grown persons have plenty for breakfast every day for a week.

As my husband is, as he calls himself, some what of an epicure, and decidedly ob- jests to an uninterrupted course of beefsteaks and chops, which mainly comprise the range of Bridget's bill of fait for breakfast, I have several domestic dishes, the result of along experience in hosskeepmg, which 1 will be happy to furnish at some future time, as I am afraid I have already trespassed too much on your valuable space. Feakdts. The peanut, which is so popular a commodity, has one peculiari ty of growth which distinguishes it from all other known plants. The flowers and leaves are produced as they are in other plants of the pea or bean tribe but when the flower has withered, the stem which supported it grows rapidly in a curved manner, bending toward the ground, in to wmcn it penetrates several inches. In this position the fruit becomes ripened and from this singular operation the pea nut has derived the name oi earth-nut in Europe.

This nnt is a valuable article of food in many tropical countries, and is extensively cultivated, formerly was largely imported now we depend chiefly on the crops from Virginia and the Carolina, it contains a large per centage of clear yellow oil, which is largely esteemed for domestic purposes, and is frequently used to adulterate olive oil. In Cochin China and in India peannt oil is used in lamps. The Western New York Poultry Association opened their second annual exhibition under the most flattering auspices. The collection of domestic fowk and other birds was admitted to be the finest exhibition in the section of the country. Over $2,500 in prizes were offered, and the attendance was large.

All the New York City Notaries whbs terms expire March 30, 1872, have bsei renominated by the Governor, and we confirmed by the Senate. their incomes. And in the matter of dress and furniture, all classes are extravagant. This general style cansot easily be varied from. Yet with all this, and under all our disadvantages, and with a taxation eating out our means, skillful financiering onsht to enable our families to lay up one-fifth of an income of five thousand.

The retorm must Degin wicu our women, who. in American society, are absolute. They must be trained, as girls, more to accounts and house-management, and not be kept in such charming ignorance. And they must set the fashion of more moderate display in dress and house furniture, and show that highest businets faculty of the cultivated lady, the power of producing effects of beauty in the homes by small expenditure of money. A Trinity Tombstone.

Tender interest clings round an unpretentious and almost undiscovered tomb, in Trinity Church yard, which is seen by but lew it lies so close to isroaaway that it may almost be touched from the All old New Yorkers at least will recall the melancholy story of a young and most beautiful girl, who, nigh upon a hundred years ago, was taken from a boarding-school by a British officer of high rank 8ndbyhim betrayed and deserted. Discarded by her friends. she with her child were found by her father in wretched quarters, both at the point of death. The heart-broken parent wa? just in time to receive her last sigh and to close eyes for ever. The pitiful story was written out in book- form, and was dramatized and played in every theatre then in the country, thus becoming familiar as household words to thousands who bad no personal knowledge of any of the parties.

Years thereafter the officer made such tardy reparation as he could, by placing a stone table with an extensive silver head- plate over the remains of his dead vic tims, i his silver piate nas Deen wreucn-ed off and stolen by sacrilegious thieves, and now all that remains to mark the last resting nlace of these unhappy ones, is a plain brown stone slab, lying level with the paved walks Trinity unurcn-yard, and bearing but these two words, fliAHTvnrie Trmpf.1e" Greatness of London. The population of London, according to the last census, ib o.ooo.uuu. a his vast multitude is more than the combined population of New York, Philadel phia, Brooklyn, St. Louis, Chicago, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Boston, New Orleans, San Francisco, Buffalo, and Alle gheny City, JPenn. To lodge these pe-jple.

777.000 dwellings are required, and the people consume annually about barrels ol nour, uuii-ocks, 2,975,000 sheep, 49,000 calves, 61.250 hogs, and one market alone sup plies annually 7,043,750 head of game. This, together with 5,200,000 salmon, irrespective of other fish and flesh, is washed down by 75,600,000 gallons of sle and porter, 3,500,000 gallons of spirits, and 113,750 pipes of wine. To fill its milk and cream jugs 22,750 cows are kept. To light its streets at night bdO, 000 gaslights are required, consuming every 24 hours 22,270,000 cubic feet of gas. Its water system supplies the enormous quantity of 77.670,824 gallons per day, while its sewer system carries oft cubic feet of refuse.

Japanese Fashion. In the ferrymen are held responsible for the safety of their passengers, and if one of these is drowned the ferryman is in duty bound to either drown with him or commit harikari on the instant. If he does neither the government very considera-tively relieves him of bis head. The adoption of this principle with respect to railway passenger traffic in this country would probably have the effect of considerably lessening the number of accidents. The Missouri Legislature has appointed a committee to receive the Grand Puke at the State capital.

ed, stopped. Jem," said a voice that of the guard's there's a body in that middle first-class coach there's some parties coming to meet it with an 'earse." "All right. Jack," said another voice; "they've come to fetch him. Bear a band here, will you Oh, Lord shouted the man, as he saw me sitting in tne corner. "Oh, I beg yonr pardon, sir.

I hope you aren't been annoyed, sir? Jack, what did you mean by putting the gent into this compartment I didn't," growled Jack "ne must 'a got in by All right," 1 said, getting, out and stretching myself on the platform. I'll get. into tne next carriage. JNo bodies there, are there Wye call me nobody said Fat Keil- ly, looking out of the window. "Jump in, Billy, me bhoy I've cleared out the rest of the company ye'll introduce a little fresh capital into the concern." What a contrast to the scene I had quit ted was the cheerful, lighted carriage, with its occupants, all brother-officers of mine, smoking, chaffing, and playing loo on a rug stretched over their knees! purely the whole of the previous scene had been a dream, or could it have been an incipient attack of D.

t.l not brought on by drink, indeed, tor 1 was not given to that, but by irregular habits and stress of mind. It wasn't till I had reached my own hut at Aldershott, that I thought of the paper which the ghost had given me, and which, in my delirium, I had imagined I had thrust into my waistcoat pocket. Here was a test, at all events if there was a real paper, bearing signs of its ghostly origin, then I was still sane, and the appar-ation I bad witnessed was not a delusion if the brain. In the comer of mv waistcoat pocket was a crumpled piece of flimsy paper I unfolded it, and found it a Bank of England note for one hundred pounds. From that time 1 was ai altered man.

I paid mv gambling debts confessed all my embarrassments to my friends, who lifted me out ot the mire 5 never touched a card or a die studied for the Staff Col lege passed a good examination went to Sandhurst, came out with higi having a little interest at headquarters, got an appointment as commissioner, to watch tbe operations ot the American War of Secession, on general 's staff. It was at the close of a bloody but des perate battle, or series of battles, which resulted in tbe retieat a tne armv of the South, that I vis-ted the field-hospit als at the rear of the army, in search of a fnend who had been wounded during the day. The doctors and attendants were tco busy to pay any attention to my wants, and I walked down the long rows of nastily improvised couches, trying to recognise my friend. Scraps of paper, on which tbe names ot the patients had been hastily scrawled, were pinned to the coverings, and I started as I read on my own name. The man appeared to be sinking from exhaustion, but heightened up when be beard the tones ot a triendly voice.

I kndt down beside him, and asked if I could do anything for him. He nodded his head. You're English ne whispered. Yes, I am." So am I. If you should be in the neighborhood of Bedford, snd should be awe to bear ot an old man named Heath cote, a retired draper, will you tell him his son uiea in a creaitaoie way 1 was a disgrace to him, sir, when I was alive; but when I am dead, perhaps he'll think kindly of me aeain.

I'll tell von mv storv. sir. I was a mgne I was an undertaker, but I was a collector of taxes too and I entered into a conspiracy to defraud the government. It came out; but I had warning in time. I sbammed dead, and got away in one of my coffins with all tbe swag.

Tbey wasn't very keen after me; 1 don't know wby but just at tbe last moment I thought they'd have nm. A.