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1 1 i wr 4 home. Knowing the prejudice against cards, which, perhaps; from the bad company they are often associated with; is not very unreasonable, we do not venture to commend absolutely their use. Children, however, we must say, take, according to our experience, a greater and more constant interest In these deila books," as the Scotch minister terms them, than in almost any other game, and this without the stimulus of gain. Their aspect, which is ordinarily bright and cheerful, entices the youthful eye, and the various changes ana combinations the card's admit of are Deceasing provocations to their curiosity. Without cards, however, there are draughts, chess, dominoes, and hom billiards, to which, we believe, the most scrupulous do not now object.

Parents and guardians should be careful to supply these games and whatever else may conduce to the innocent amusement of children. Harper Bazar, THE MAK WKO SEVER LAUGHED. r. 1 TT I had anroli! rrien IflaW should erer lead you to the graveyard at Rhelms, von might read hia name on a slab that is neighborly yrith the tomb pi Abbe Caatel, aa amiabte poet, who hat received credit for some things which were produced by somebody else. It is as much as ten years that my old "friend has laid under the cypress trees that his grand-children planted over rThe wind has gradually filled with earth the inscription which was intended to inform the public: "Here lies M.

Jean Bernard." Moss has crept over the specimen of lapidary caligraphy until the letters of the epitaph, have become a velvet green jthe jnopt picturesque appearance. My old friend, like a goodly number of those who sleep about him, was something besides a tender spouse and excellent father or whose soul prayers are offered up. He was brave and adventurous; he had traveled extensively, had been shipwrecked half a dozen times, and was the possessor of a worldly experience well 'worth consulting. It was a most singular thing, however, that, in spite of his amiable and often jolly humor, never laughed. il.

Bernard was fond of telling pleasant 8torIer.but, while all around him were convulsed with laughter, he alone retained his impassibility. His features would-become animated, his forehead wrinkled, his eyes would sparkle, and joyment was plainly visible; but, as his lips, they did not seem to be able to express even that silent grimace that Fontenelle tolerated the smile. One evening it was on board the English steamer Solent a nephew of my old friend teas sitting by my side. Tell me, I said, suddenly, to the young man why is it that your, uncle never laughs?" What I Have you also remarked that peculiarity It is an old story, that dates awav back to the days of his boyhood." Cant you tell me about it '-Yes; on condition, however, that yon will he careful never to make any allusion to it in my uncle's presence." I promised, but, now that my old friend is dead, I can take my turn and tell why it was that he never laughed. H.

In 1314, during the great war in France, M. Jean Bernard had reached his fiftieth year.v was living in Haney with his mother. His father had been killed at Leipsic, and his lelder brother, a captain in the young guards, was one of the 70, 000 heroes who disputed, step by step, the much of the allies on the soil of France, whose success lay in their numbers alone. It was a rainy day at the end oi February. The Prussians, beaten the night before by Napoleon, fled toward Nancy, and traversed hastily the almost deserted streets of the town.

Worn out and covered with mud, they formed on the public place in front of the walls of the Hotel de Ville. Suddenly there was heard the gallop of a score of horses; the soldiers, hurrying on, and turning their beads to look back, loaded their guns. They felt that they were pursued by the terrible cuirassiers who had passed their lines on the night before. They ar afraid cried a yonng boy, who wm pna of a small Crowd of citizens looking on. A.

burly -captain, with a grizzly mustache ana an athletic form, heard the re-ntaik, looked the boy in the face, and advanced toward him. My friend the bov, 1 mean turned very pale, but doubled np his fists and awaited his coming. The coliossal Prussian stepped up, seized the boy by the throat, slapped his face, and threw him to the ground. This revenge accomplished, he lengthened out his step to regain his already retreating company. The young Frenchman jumped quickly to his feet livid, breathless, mad with rage threw himself upon one of the retreating grenadiers with an effort to disarm him He was quickly thrown to the ground, stamped under feet, and wounded ut the breast with a sabre.

The curious crowd that had gathered had fled in a state of consternation when the trouble begaaand the enemy was already out of towh, when the yonng Bernard, in his paroxysm of rage, was still fighting in fata -own blood with an imaginary foe. Ho was picked up and carried home. A brain fever placed his days and his reason in danger, and it took all a mothers care to bring him back to life. He never spoke of this adventure, which he seemed to have forgotten, and everybody was careful not to recall it His character was visibly affected from frankness and joyeusness he become taciturn, and when he was particularly happy he contented himself with simply smiling. After the year 1815 Jan Bernard was placed in a bank, while his brother renounced the profession of arms and bought him a farm In the neighborhood of Melun.

m. There was a heavy storm In Mayence on the 21st of November, 1832, Gaining from 6 oclock in the morning till midnight. Toward 8 oclock on the evening or that day Major Hasner, of the Prussian army, -was dancing his little girl on his knee as usual, giving her his mustache to pull, and listening to the recital of her prayers. After receiving several of those child-like kisses that resound so charmingly he laid her down in her little cradle. As soon as Mile.

Charlotte had closed her eyes, her mother rocking her and singing softly one of those little lullabies that can be traced even to the savages, the officer went into toe parlor, where his mother sat waiting for him. He hissed her forehead in sincere filial affection, then walked up and down the long room several times, halting finally before a window to look out upon the gleam of light that stretched from the parlor candles upon the wet sidewalk. 4 graceful young woman, one finger on her Ups, and stepping lightly out of the room where her little girl had just fallen asleep, approached the dreamer, who, thoush he had just been promoted to a majority, still wore his captains uni form. What are you dreaming of, Frederic?" she asked, as she leaned her lead against her husbands shoulder. Of you, Martha," he answered, as he reached out his arm to draw her toward him.

i i la It the rain which makes you sad?" No, hut the prospect of passing my evening at toe inn, when it would be so much pleasanter for me to stay at home with you. Then why do you go?" Torget, my dear, that my old friends, Weisch end Buggler, have offered me a punch for to-night, which we are to drink in honor of my promotion." Cant I go with you?" answered the Majer, who Couldnt keep from laughing at the idea of seeing hla Martha enter the bar-room of an inn. Then they dont allow women in your miserable old tavern? It is they who refuse to come.1 At least, that waa the way of it when I was a lieutenant. Sinoe then, Martha, I have been with yon so much that I dont know whether there has been any change or or not Then go quick, so that you can come back all the sooner," said the young wife, as she disengaged herself from her, husbands arm. Major Hasner, who had now reached his thirty-fourth year, waa one of the most promising officers of the Prussian army.

Hia character was pild, and his regular features carried an expression that was rather melancholy' than otherwise. He threw his great army coat about him, buttoned it up, looked out of the window, and then came back and sat down opposite his mother, and beside his wife. Martha had in her hand one of Mile. Charlottes little ribbons, which that young lady was probably dreaming of at that very moment. Come, go on, now, and let me have this sofa all alone, said his wife, who saw his hesitation, and wished to help him out of it.

She received another kiss, and the major, after haring traversed the room three or four times, with measured tread, bade his mother good night!" with a sigh, stopped a moment before the door of the bed chamber to hear the regular breathing of his child, and then went away. IV. There was still a fine and drizzling rain outside. It was quite a distance between the majors house, and the cafe Aux Armes de Brandenburg, which was situated near the cathedral Devil take Buggler and Weisch for breaking in upon my habits, such weather as this muttered the officer, as he felt the rain in his face. There was a time when the rain would not have made much difference to him and then he would have been equally indifferent how late he remained at the tavern.

But that was when he was a lieutenant, when he as in France, when his mother was far away, and before he knew Martha. The major was late in arriving, and his appearance was received with the most respectful salutation from his subordinates, and a hearty Bliake of the hand from his friends. The veteran Buggler, who bad been the first to arrive, had taken the largest table in the room. He broke out in hurrahs when he saw his companion enter the room. Hasner had served under his command, and he was delighted at his promotion.

As to Weisch, he arose, spread out his mputh, and his great porcelain pipe vibrated in the air as it hung for a moment between his teeth, a post it never left except to be filled again. Although Mayence in 1822 contained a Federal garrison, the cafe Aux Armes de Brandenburg was frequented only by Prussian officers. The jokes of liis two friends and the congratulations of everybody soon drove away the majors bad humor. They all went Dack to the battlefield. The recollections of the past were revived while the punch was brewing under the personal superintendence of a captain who had very willingly taken charge of this feature of the evenings entertainment.

Suddenly the door opened as if it had been buret in by the wind, and a gust of damp air agitated the dense cloud of smoke from the pipes, and made the lamps flicker. A young man, wrapped in a doak, entered the room. eyes, of a sombre grey, took a rapid sweep all around him. He seemed to hesitate as to where he should sit down first went toward two old mustaches that were engaged in a game of chess, then, by a-sudden change of resolution, took hip place at the little table where Major Hasner was. The citizens of Mayence very rarely visited the cafe Aux Armes de Brandenburg unless accompanied by an officer.

There was a silence at all the tables for the purpose of inspecting the new-comer, who threw back the wet collar of his cloak and let it fall upon the chair. Light-complexioned, pale, and with a new-born mustache covering his upper lip, he said curtly to the waiter who asked him what he would have Brandy, beer, anything you like. The conversation, thus interrupted for a moment, was taken np again, and the waiter placed before the stranger. Gentleman," said the latter, as he tamed to the officers who were watching the progress of the punch, which one of you speaks French I know something of the language," answered Major Hasner, as he arose in what way can I be of service to you The young man looked at the calm face before him for a moment, then shut his eyes and pressed one of his hands to his breast, as if he was in pain. I beg your pardon, he added, in a trembling voice, a moment after, but are not these" and he pointed to the epaulets on the majors shoulder are not these the inBignia of a captain in the Prussian armyr Hasner had scarcely answered in the affirmative, when, without having noticed the rapid movement of the young mans arm, he felt a blow in the face.

All the officers jumped up immediately, and surrounded the Frenchman, who held himself at bay against the walk Hasner was about to fall upon him, when his friends Weisch and Buggler seized him and held him ofl. Then a bottle was hurled at the head of the stranger by one of the officers, and broke into a crash upon toe wall. Hold, gentlemen," cried Hasner, this affair is mine." He then stepped in front of the man who had insulted him, as if he feared that the latter was going to run away. I do not know you," he said, after looking at the Frenchman a moment Six years ago," replied the other, one or your countrymen, a captain like you, slapped my face on toe public square of my native town. I tried to avenge myself, and I was thrown to the ground, beaten, and wounded by his soldiers.

I always felt that blow till a moment ago, and I only awaited the death of my mother to demand satisfaction for it I arrived in this town this evening, and, lees cowardly than your compatriot, I addressed myself to you that is, to a man and not a child. A murmur arose among the officers, but the major suppressed It I am innocent of the outrage that was fcommitted upon you, monsieur," he said, on raising his head, sadly; I would not have struck a child any more than you, believe me. You have no longer a mother so much the better, for you have placed me under the necessity of killing you. My friends." added the major, turning to Weisch and Buggler, I leave the arrangement of everything to you." T. The nex( day, about 8 o'clock in the morning, A post-chase carried M.

Jean Bernard on his way hack to Franc. At the same hoar Weisch and Buggler carried to Martha the inanimate corpse of her Jmsband killed without haring had the time ever to put on his major' uniform. My uncle," continued the young man who told me this sad story, whose good heart and fair dealing yon know, as well as any one, learned only too late that he whom be had, insulted had a mother, a wife, a child, and was no longer a captain. He has never ceased to think of the orphan. And now you know why he never laughs.

i Spring Cleaning. Now, when Mother Earth has summoned the winds to sweeD away the dead leaves and all the winter litter, she may have clear space fop the sweet, clean flowers and budB, her daughters feel an intense sympathy with her, and within the bosom of eveiy housekeeper is stirring the thought, When shall I begin the spring cleaning? Down among the orange groves, the palmettos, and the Agar-canes, perhaps, the grand army of brooms and scrubbing-brushes has finished the regular spring campaign; but we would sound a note of warning to our housekeepers of more northern latitudes. Dont begin too soon. Dont trust -entirely to nature, and, because we have a few warm days, and the maple-buds have a show of red, imagine that we will not have any more cold weather. Even Nature makes a mistake sometimes, and clothes the fruit-trees with blossoms in the first warm spell," when she ought to know by experience that we are almost certain to have late frosts.

So, if you are tempted to clean house early, call to mind the long rains we usually have in May, when, in your fire-less rooms, you will shiver in a shawl, and the children will be fractious, and your husband will grumble, and with reason. (To be sure, last May was very warm, but that was an exception.) Therefore, in the name of health, comfort, and good temper, we counsel you not to remove, your stoves and lay down matting until you can feel assured that the warm weather is actually at your door. The last of May is early enough for the spring cleaning, over at least half of our country. And we would also beg of you not to Upset all the house at once, and drive the gentlemen distracted and the children to the neighbors. By doing only one or two rooms at a time, with a little womanly tael and management, the whole house can be renovated, and not a man a whit the wiser, until it is all finished.

(And, ten to one, he wont know it then unless you tell him.) This is the time to brighten up old furniture, and perhaps all young housekeepers do not know that if their oiled walnut looks dingy, kerosene oil, nibbed well into it, will piake it look as fresh as new. After the floors have been scrubbed and dried, have them washed with salt-water (so salt that the boiling-water used in making in will hold no more in solution), and this will carry certain death to any insects that may be lurking in the cracks. Take your bedsteads to pieces and saturate every crevice with brine, acd you will find it good for the sleepers and bad for the bugs, if there are any. Paint is easiest cleaned in damp weather, we are perpetually told which is true; but, whether this is the best kind of weather in which to have open windows and doors and wet floors, is anotoer matter. Have all the house-cleaning weapons prepared and in good order before the work begins.

If you are so unfortunate as to have only hard water, a gallon of lye to a barrel of it will make it as soft as rain-water. Have a regular plan of operations marked out a system that you think is likely to give the least trouble and annoyance, and then see that it is carried out. Ana, whatever else you lose, be sure to keep your temper. This article is more easily misplaced at this time than at any other season, and there is no occasion when it is more needed. Hearth and Bom.

Amusements for the Yonng. 'The importance of surrounding the young with cheerful objects is seldom sufficiently recognized. How often is the nursery the dullest room in the house It should be toe most cheerful, and have, both literally and figuratively, a sunny aspect All its contents should have a lively air. The walls Bhould be painted of a bright color, and the carpet be of a pattern noticeable by the distinctness of its figures or the warmth of its tint Colored pictures of a bright objective character, large representations of animals dogs, horses and farm-yard, and groups of ruddy boys and girls, elephants -cheerful scenes of the field and playing and merry-making, should be so hung on all sides as to attract the sight and animate the spirits of the little inhabitants of the nursery. Their eyes and ears should be, as far as possible, kept closed to ail scenes and relations of horror and cruelty.

The excitement of the natural terror of the child at darkness and solitude must be carefully avoided, and no threats of summoning ghosts, bogies, old witches or other monsters, so fearful to the childish imagination, should never be permitted. With tocreasing age youth finds in the companionship of its fellows the society which is essential to Us happiness and acquires that knowledge of the traditionary games of boyhood and girlhood which an endless source of gayety and pleasure. The top, ball, marbles, tag, leap-frog, hare and hounds, prisoner base, and many other amusements of the young, with their varied Inducements to active Exercise of the body and enlivening influences upon the animal spirit, have a value to the child proved by the experience of all time and all countries. regret, however, to learn that as they involve a certain roughening and dirtying of the hands, reddening of the face, ana disheveling of the hair, and unquestionable wear and tear of the clothes, many parents discountenance them. They are denounced by the over-refined as the games of the rude children of a rude age, and as not genteel enough for the nicer offspring of modern civilization I They undoubtedly afford the young just tht combination of mental excitement and physical action in which they delight, and from which both mind and body receive so much benefit We therefore decide, without much hesitation, In the case of fine clothes w.

healthy and happy children, leaving the fine clothes, as the lawyers say, we believe, to be cost for damages." Parents should not only encourage their children to play these famous ohl games out of doors, but make abundant, provl-sion for their, childrens amusement at country, dissenters are punished for holding services during the hours of Sunday sacred to the Lutheran Church Captain Goodendugh went through the infernal fire" of Waterloo, and escaped unharmed; which was good enough, too. Rut. after all these years, the old veteran fell into a pond the other day in East Devon, England, and was drowned; and that was certainly too bad, The collar of the Order of the Golden Fleece, which was sent by King Amadeus of Spain to the Comte de Flanders, is the identical collar which was 'worn by Christopher Columbus, and with which he was invested with the Order by Ferdi-nand and Isabella, in honor of the discovery of America. Heretofore, only persons liable to military service have been taxed in Rus. sia, so that the nobles have shifted the burden of taxation upon the peasantry; but now this discrimination is to be done, away, and taxation will become universal and military service very nearly so.

The secret expenses of the Austrian Ambassador in Paris, from 1859 till 1871, amounted to thirteen million francs. Employes at the Tuilleries, even valets and chambermaids of the Empress of the French, were on the secret pay-list of tho Austrian legation. A letter from St Petersburg says: The position of the Siberian exiles is much talked here just now. The total number of these persons, many of whom have been banished by administrative decree without a trial, amount to so that, taking the whole of the population at 70,000,000, there is one exile for every 200 Russians. The Empress of Russia is suffering from gout and dropsy of the heart The Empress of Austria is consumptive.

The Empress of Germany is rheumatic. The Queen of Denmark is deaf. The Queen of- Holland is subject to frequent fits of hysterics. The Queen of Portugal is a confirmed invalid. The Queen of Spain is the only crowned lady on the European continent who enjoys good health.

The Paris papers tell us that a deaf and dumb young lady, educated according to the system of M.Grosselin, has recent-lv passed an examination at the Hotel de Yille, which obtained for her the position of directress of the asylum, and that in the course of the examination she was called upon to read aloud, which she did in a manner that not only astonished all present, bat even excited their admiration by the felicity of her intonation. For the first time in the history of the dynasty, a Prince of the blood opened a railroad, the other day, and it was Prince Arthur. After the addresses, prayers, an ornamental spade was handed the youth, and he was requested to turn the first sod into a silver wheelbarrow, all in a figurative'sand symbolic way, you know, lie pitched in, however, like a gardener, and broke the ornamental spade handle at the first stroke. Nothing daunted, he put his gloved hands into the tnrf and soon landed a good-sized clod into the barrow. Some Yankee-like Frenchman has produced a new edition of the Cardiff statue.

His ingenuity has made it a great improvement on the original. It was dug out of a stratum of sand in a cavern, in which many relics of the stone age have been discovered. Then, too, It is life-size, so that the pretense of its being a petrified man can be made with some show of truth. The face is nicely tatooed, and bears a petrified wreath of pebbles and shells. Two arrow-heads are sticking in the temples, and a choice assortment of miscellaneous curiosities was dag up around the body.

Ingenious antiquarians are already disputing the precise age of the world in which this petrified mortal lived; and it bids fair to have as good a run as its kindred humbug on this side the water. Incidents and Ira Reed, a Mormon, was recently struck by lightning and killed, at Salt Lane. The lightning melted the rod off from a Nevada church recently, but did no further damage. Lewis E. Barnes, of Menomonee, Wis was accidentally shot and killed by his brother, while banting a few days ago.

Tho house of Frederick Treble, in Wheatland Township, 111., was burned recently, and his mother perished in the flames. A few days since, Mrs. Edson Pickle, of Hanover, knocked over a kerosene lamp, which exploded, and she was fatally burned. Daniel Heller, a prominent citizen of South St. Louis, accidentally crushed one of his toes the other day, and died soon after of lock-jaw.

A man named Haines was thrown from a hand-car the other day, near Denver, 111., and so badly injured that he lived but a few hours. Rev. H. Freeman was accidentally run over by a freight car at Iuwood Station, a few days since, and so badly injured that he lived but an hour. George Brobston, a prominent citien of Louisville, had his skull fractured by being thrown from a buggy, the other day, and died a day or two afterward.

An accident occurred on the St. Joe Council Bluffs Railroad, recently. The train fell through a bridge, killing the engineer, and fatally injuring the fireman. George Waldron, from Muscatine, Iowa, a newsboy on the Southwestern road, was fatally injured by a railroad accident near Trenton, a few days ago. Rev.

Father Bryan, pastor of the Brookfield, Catholic Church, was drowned, a few days ago, while attempting to cross Locust Creek, having missed the ford. A boy named Somers, ten years of age, living in Ylgo County. who suddenly lost his speech eight months ago, as suddenly recovered it a few days since. It is stated that Shumway, the gambler and desperado who was killed lately on the Northern Pacific, was buried witn his face downward and a pack of cards in his band. John Reed, Captain of the bark John Bredcn, of Chicago, waa accidentally drowned in Buflalo Creek recently.

Deceased was one of the oldest captains on the lakes. A two-year-old son of W. P. nub-bard, of Marseilles, 111., the other day nulled over upon himself a spider foil of hot grease, and was so badly scalded as to cause his death. a doctor in put carbolic acid into Mr.

A. C. V111-worths tooth to quiet the pain. Mr. V.

died In about a week, having swallowed some of the poison. The recent fire in Ingersoll, Canada, was very disastrous. It swept away tho business part of the town. Two citl- zens named C. C.

Paine and John A r-, mand perished in the v-- A man suffering terribly from smallpox was put off a steamboat at Dubuque, Iowa, recently, where he lay on the levee exposed to the inclemency of the weather, and without any care whatever, for two days. At Manteno, ML, a few days ago, T. Robson, a blacksmith, came to his death by the discharge of a rifle, the breech of which, it is jhe had placed in his forge for the pifrpoeeof exploding the load- Robert Allingham, a conductor on a freight train on the Lake Shore Michigan Southern Railroad, recently attempted to get on top of a car, fell between the care and waa run over and so badly injured that he lived but an hour, M. L. Phillips, of Greenville, accidentally shot himself with a revolver, near Troy, while on his way west with a party a few days since.

The ball entered at the eye and passed through the brain, causing instant death." Charley FarquayT son of Mr. James Farquay, of Couilliardville, waa drowned at that place recently. Tho little fellow was watering a horse, when tie animal became frightened and (hrevMm over his head into the river. Two boys, named Kiddenbaugh and Whitaker, twelve and thirteen years old, while planting com in Magnolia Township, a day or two since, ate a quantity of wild parsnips, which they mistook for wild artichoke. Both died, one in an hour and a half, and the other in thirteen hours.

A few days since, while thirteen miners were descending into the shaft of a mine in a skip car, in the Lake Superior region, the rope broke, precipitating them to the bottom with great violence. Nine of the number were killed instantly, and others were seriously injured. Mrs. Engels and daughter were extirpating bed-bugs in Green Bay, recently, by pouring kerosene over the vermin and setting it oil fire. The oil in the can took fire and exploded, and Mrs.

Engels and her daughter were fatally burned. Her husband also received very severe burns, but would possibly recover. A man was found in Skunk River, Jasper County, Iowa, recently, with a bullet hole in his head. He had evidently been murdered and chucked under the ice. He had not been Identified, and no resident of the vicinity is missing.

Some stranger has been foully dealt with. A few days ago a young man abont twenty-one, named Lewis M. Leyden, from Wheeling, an employe in the woolen mills at New Albany, got his arm caught between a loose belt and a revolving shaft, and his arm was torri from the shoulder, making a sickening spectacle. The wife and son of the Rev. Wesley Lattin, of Fort Scott, Kansas, were drowned recently at a ford of the Marais des Cygnes River.

Mrs. L. was aged fifty-thiee years, and her son nineteen. When the bodv of the young man was found, he had hold of the bridle-reins near the horses mouth, with the reins wrapped around his arm two or three times. Union City, a few days since was visited by a fierce tornado which did much damage.

Two houses were blown down, others injured, and horses, cattle and men were lifted off the ground and carried some distance. The damage is estimated at $5,000. No lives were lost, though In many cases houses were blown to ruins over their inmates. A few days ago three men were seen struggling in the rapids between the American shore and Goat Island. No help could be given them, and all went over Niagara Falls.

It is supposed they were from Chippewa, Ontario, and were on a fishing excursion, and, being carried down by the current while attempting to land at the head of Goat Island, the boat struck a rock and was dashed to pieces. Near Venice, 111., recently, the dead body of an unknown man was found beside the Chouteau Slouch road. He had a stab through his heart, which must hare caused instant death. He lay upon his back, with a bundle in his arms, his hat at his feet. Fresh buggy tracks were under the body, and it was' supposed the dead man had been brought to the place in the vehicle that made the tracks.

The wife of a tradesman, at Plymouth, England, recently met with an accident, which caused two of the fingers of her hand to be bent over her palm. She had frequently declared that she would rather lose her hand altogether than be thus crippled, and, a surgeon having refused to amputate it, she went to the railway and laid her arm on the rails. An advancing train, more complaisant than the surgeon, cut off the hand very cleanly at the wrist. The woman then took a cab to the infirmary and had her wound bound np. Little Harry Milbum, of Jacksonville, got tired or drawing his baby brother around a few days ago, and thought he would utilize the old mare, who was loafing about the yard.

He accordingly attached the carriage to Fans tail with a rope, and requested her to start. She couldnt see it, and remained standing. Harry urged her with a stick, and she started on a gentle trot, the unusual pressure upon her tall, however, soon caused her to become interested, and her interest gradually increased to enthusiasm. She was soon flying around the field at a lightning gait with the baby-carriage whirling through the air behind her. The baby was picked up with many bumps and scratches, bnt Harry thinks his own wounds, inflicted by the parental hand, are worse than the babys.

An Irishman, named Paddy Doolan, a ready-witted wag, who always had a word for everybody, let it hit which ever way it might. Paddy went into a grocery store one day to buy eggs. IIow are eggs ther day? fie asked of tho'clcrk, who was one of those over-smart fellows, by the way. Eggs are eggs to-day, Paddy, replied tho clerk, looking ouite triumphant upon two or three young lady customers who happened to be in the store. Faith, Im glnd to hear yecz say so, replied Paddy, the last ones I got here were chickens A resident of a small town in Maine fuddled himself on whisky, and proceed-edjo smash crockery, in ills own house, until he was about a hundred dollars poorer.

When his scattered senses became collected, he proceeded to sue the saloon-keeper "Who lad sold him the llqnor, Ana obtained frqm him a sum sufficient to meet all his losses, If ever you see them 'manufacturing avan a cigars down in Connecticut, you will never forget your dear mother, now gone before, who, when yon were a Uttle boy, called you to her, and stroked your curly head, and said: Henry, my son, I want you to promise that as long as you live you will never bite the end off a Icn-cent cigar; always cut it off" CURRENT PARAGRAPHS. 'Personal and Literary. Mark Twain got in one week, by simply Roughing It. Alexandre Dumas, is said to have laid up more money than any other writer in France. It has been proposed to hold a public meeting in honor of the late Profeasor Morse, in the City of Mexico.

Wendell Phillips says his lecture of The Lost Arts has never been written, a faithful memory only preserving its outline. The daughter of General Thomas, United States army, is the fiances of Mr. Parker, one of the American students at the Berlin University. Mr. H.

W. with an appearance more venerable than his years seem to warrant, is quietly engaged in literary pursuits at his home in Cambridge. It is noteworthy fact that during the last thirty years New York has never re-elected a United States Senator, with one solitary exception, William H. Seward. Garibaldi is said to show his years sadly.

He can only walk by the aid of crutches, and his hands are drawn together with rheumatism. With all these infirmities he is cheerful and hopeful. William Cullen Bryant is in his seventy-eighth year, and does not relish solicitous inquiries after his health. He is vigorous enough to consider such tenderr ness as a doubtful compliment. Believing in the proverb, Never too old to mena," Prof.

W. L. Mitchell, of the Georgia University Law School, has just commenced the study of Hebrew, aped seventy. It may be of service to him as he grows up. The Rev.

O. B. Frothingham says of Mazzini: He was a patriot with principles so broad, with ideas so far-reaching, with conceptions so brilliant, with hope so magnificent, that Italy only Boated like a gem in the ocean of his humanity." A. 8. Abel, editor and proprietor of the Baltimore Sun, is stated to have amassed a fortune of $10,000,000.

He commenced life as a journeyman printer, forty years ago, and is reputed to be the wealthiest man in Baltimore. Mrs. Lewis Downing, wife of the principal chief of the Cherokee Nation, died at Tahlequah recently. She was a Miss Eyre, a white lady of Philadelphia. She conceived a romantic passion for the chief, and was married to him but a few months since, after the death of his first Of the two colored cadets at West Point, Smith the original bone of contention, stands tenth in his class, which is an appreciable gain month by month, while young Napier, for whom a better feeling has been entertained, in consequence of franker and more amiable disposition, stands at the foot of a class of sixty-six members.

Dr. Edward T. Perkins, formerly of Ann Arbor, died in Rio, Brazil, March 11. He had lived an eventful life: was successively a printer, a book-keeper, a whaleman in the Pacific, a member of the royal household of the King of the Sandwich Island, a commission merchant, a California miner, author of a book of travels, medical student, and surgeon on the steamers of the California and China mail line. Prince Kamehameha, the heir to the throne of the Sandwich Islands, arrived at San Francisco a few days ago, on his way to Utica, New York, whither he is going to be educated at the Jesuit College.

He is described as a young man of about twenty-two, about five feet eight inches in height, with a very dark copper-colored complexion, and a profnson of black, straight hair. He was baptized at San Francisco. John M. Barclay, the Journal Clerk of the Lower House of Congresss, has held that position for over thirty years. He is the author of Barclays Digest, which is considered the best parliamentary manual ever published, and has been the prop and mainstay of the Speakers for many years.

It the deliberate opinion of the Speakers and ex-Speakers of the House that for the past fifteen or twenty years Barclay has not had his equal as a parlamentanan. Foreign Gossip' 1 The French Academy proposes that drunkards shall be disfranchised. The new fortifications at Strasbourg are to cost seven millions sterling. The often infirmities of the Prince of Wsles are predicted to prove fatal. There are in Germany between two and three hundred persons that can fluently speak the ancient Greek language.

Last years census gave Italy over 24,000,000 inhabitants, more than half the number of people in the United States. About four thousand people leave Ireland every week for foreign ports, two thousand alone embarking at Queenstown. Achievement, the famous English racing mare, is dead. Her winnings, in stakes alone, as a two-year-old and three-year-old, amounted to $112,210. The Emperor of Germany' has contributed 1,000 thalers from his private exchequer for the publication of a scientific report on the late Arctlo expedition.

The cruelty of the knout is almost entirely abolished in Russia, and is only resorted to in the punishment of the worst crimes, when it is generally fatal in effect. Public gambling will be suppressed In Germany At the close of the present year. Certain watering-places will not then be so attractive to one dass of visitors. A Methodist preacher has been sentenced to bread and, water for eleven days. In Sweden, for Endeavoring to gain proselytes to his denomination.

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