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• [The following poem is, justly considered a
• poeticaltem of the highest order. The -original
was found in an Irish MS. in Trinity -College,
. PubIin. There is reason to think thatthe_poeru
was written by one of those .primitive Christian
bards -in the reign of Diarmici, about the year
054, and was sung and chanted at the last -grand
:assembly of khigs, chieftains, and bards, held in
thefamoushalls Of Tara. The :translation is by
Donovan. A nianuseriptccipy: of the poem
Was:ail-at by Prof. Stewart, of Trinity College, to
the person whofurnishedit for publieatien in the
BuSalo CommorcialAdoortiserd -
Like a damask rose you see,
Or like a blossom on a tree, -
Or like the dainty flower inality,
Or like- the hiorning to the day, '
Or like the sun„ or like the shade„.
Or like- the gourd which- jonEtth made:
,Even such is intim, who thread is
• Drawn out and out, arias° is done.,
The rose withers, the blossornblasteth,
• The flower fades, the morninghasteth,
The sun sets; the shadow flies,
Thegonrc1Constanee, the ruart—he
Like the grasatharanewlysPrungi
•
Or like the tale that's- noir begun,
• Or like the -bird that's hero to -day,
" (Jr like the pearled- dew in May, •
Or like an or like .
Or like 'the singing:of the swan. -
Even such ieruan, who -lives: by breath,
is here-, now there, in life and death.
I.= Vie grass withera,-tlie tale is ended,
is flown, the dew's ascended.
•, E0 hour is short, the Span not long,
Theawan'anear death, mares:life is done.
Like_to-the-bublil in Ow:hp:kik,-
Or in a_glassinuch-like-a-look,
• Or like the shuttle in weaver's. harlq.
Or like the writing on the sand;
Or like a thong/at, or like adman'',
Or like the gliding of the stream;
EVeti such is man, who lives by breath,
Is here, now there, in life and death; " •
• The bubble's: out, the -look 'ergot, ,
The- shuttle'a flung„ the writings blot.„
The thought.ispast, the dream: is gene.
. The waters glide, mart's life -is done..
Like an:arrow fibre a bow;
Or like -a -swift donne of wator flow,
Or like the time 'twit flood andebb,Or like the spider'stender web,
„Or. like a race, or like a goal. •
Or like the dealing of a dole ;
Even such is man, whose brittle 'state -
Is al:Ways-subject unta fate. -
• The arrow shot„the flOpc1 Soon spent,
The thne. no pae,-the web - soon; rent,
pera.cesoon run,,the• goal soou. won,
dole -Soon dpalk.mareg life soon done.
"Like to the lightning from the sky,-
• Or like a post.that 'quick doth hie,
. ;Or like a euaver in a song, •
Or like a journey thrb days' tong,
likesnow when s II er's come,
Or like a pear, or like -a 1.). luni; •
Wen such is man, who- • eaps Up sorrow,
Livesbut this day,,and 'dies to -morrow.
". The lightning's wait, the postmust go, •
'111,? song i short:the-journey:so;
The pear doth rot the plum cloth fall,
• The-suctwciisSolves.and so_ must.
. , .
. coritish -aaeritina-women.
pitkina our wa.y, throtgli the puraaish
mud and stories below the Kara,. we dis-
covered a little old woman laboring over a
:tale of award:fled copper ore. We had to
look twice before we- could assure Ourselves
of her sex; net only Was her dress perplex-
- mg, but there was an unreality andaweirda
,neas her Person. She was _very,•
almost dwarfish, with bent shoulders and
wrinkled hands-Atd face; her skin had the
texture of parchment, and was curiously
-
mottled With blue her hair was thin and
wiry. She seemed very old, but her eyes
had a, shievicl and penetrating •quickness,
and her ?movementswere utterly Without
decrepitude. Indeed, ehe applied- herself
l•to. her work with the willing vigor of a
streng young man, and the work consisted of
ahavellingthe'heavyblecks of ore into a small
Waggon resting on a, temporary tramway.
Shovelful after' shovelful was thrown in
with an easy muscular swing, and With
Much more aotivitythan the average
"navvy" ever exhibits.Her petticoats
a ended above theankle, and were stained
with the hue of the copper ore; her shape-
1es legs were muffled up in woollen wraps,
• and- herfeetaincaaearin substantial brogans,
• She was not apparently . uncomfortable
bodily, but her -fate. had in it a look of
• uncomplaining- suffering, of unalterable
t_ gravity, of a habituated sorrow which had
• extinguiiheclall possibility; of a smile. Not
underatanainga question which We 'int to
. her, Sheueedthe words, " PleaSe, sir ?"--
a fornar of interrogation which we often
. beard ih the neighborhood of Redruth.
"
You seem to be old, Lor such hard
work," we _repeated. • " 'Deed, • sir, I
• don't know how old I am, but I've been
. at it this forty years. I'm not Young
-any longer., that's sare,a she answered in a
clear_vpice. With seaatelY any accent. "Are
-you parried "No, sir; nobody would
ever have; me," she continued, without
relaxiag.frote her gravity or delaying her
• Work for a roeMent—a nobody, -Would have
-znq or go with me, as I alwaye. was Fplbieet
to they are. ' rstill have 'em
once or twice- a. week sometimes, always
with a change in • the moon.". How, do
you account for it ? " Why, before my
• 24th year I was - in the serviceof a lady
who threw me dOwristaira, and ' that
, clianged any blood; so wile* the moon
- changes, I have fits. Little can be done for
them when the. blood's- changed." This
superetitipn was a- 'matter of profound
faith with her, but otherwise' her -manner
was:temarkably intelligent. She told us
- _ that her wages were .:fourieenpence---
twenty-eight cents—a. day; and When We
unneeasearily said that she must he tired
of WOrk,at such a price, she: answered in A
bitteriome, "No use being titedi when
yon. tired thore'e the workhouse for
. - -
•
She had nearly fined the waggon by. this
time, and two younger women, : dressed as
she was, but more yigoroiis-looking; carne
to help her, and after spitting on their
hands, which were as large and As hard as
any Man* they applied 'themselves with
shovels to the 'heap of ore; falling into a
ma.chine4fike swing of the ;body as they
scooped up the 'heavy -reek. • Two. men.
• afterward joinedtheni, and when the- wag-.
-gon Vas- lOadedathey-propelled italongthe
' traek toward' the mill, the women sharing
. . .
DIARVE.i.8 OF THE rAtivEssE: ENGLISUREEN.
•
astronomer, gives is some. concrete illtis-
Prof. Young, . the mathematician and li rich People ia. England
to bring down their _omesti expenditure
shOtild see fit
.. . .
' d '0 -
are fascinatingria their •waY•
tratiOns of the marvelsof the universethat to that usual among families of -similar
The traveller. Meall13 here, they. avouldvery sten be able
•
Suggistbie Facts amtvidcalationa: - And -Blow Tliey:Spend Tharliloiser.
. -
who would make the circuit Of the. world not merely to recoup themselves- for - the
in eight days Wonld require nearly twenty- losses of several bad harvests,' but to este
four years to tiroanmatigate the sun. The vast emus of uleu,Y. -4 our large eastern
sun's solace is nearly /moo tirneo, and its pities family men with anything under
volume -da- hulk -more' than 1,300,000 times 25'000 a year spend more freely than
greater than that of the earth. If the Enghshmen with the same meanie ; but,
earth is rePresentemde bsarosiie",. rwelinboeh graIoehree
the sun, on the s earns orimegZilst isthjtis:e wanlitheinrc'Imaettlier°.veWlar Meant
than twenty -serer' feet in diarneter, and ite Macaulay, before proceedin t
distance .3,000 -fee
low, and the ea
would be room fo
away,- and for:
Mites beyond her.
that is, the quanti
it, is nearly 330;
of the earth. Thi
as great as the co
• planets and satelli
it is two octillions
pull of this tie
,earth, at a_ dist
. „non-
- If the sun Were boa_ eulteraSyaneY Sinith's experienced brother,
h at its centre, there the famous " B013US," • as . to tikpendes.
-the_ Innen 240,000 Miles 94' Calcutta, he .Iyafil told that he nould.
nether *satellite) .lbt4,000. not be ,comfortable under .23,000 a Year;
Taa, buss of the sun, and he -could --not- possibly " get thitugh
y_-toimf inesatataergitoreanttatietdbiel -17,21,9°te.i0ci.tstlatkut.4.7.1.24t.. ma ignlheat beeurstielryuao,;soefi...tthede
m9saigiaheat__750_times_ that in the whole of this country:11We are
Tainea maaaes of all the not five persons, if as many, who 'spend
eseflihe _solar system;. °Ft their establishments - 6100000. A-eare-
f tons._ - The attractive- -ful estimate,. made a year or . two ago by
e,ndous- Mass ppm the
- persons. eminently qualified t " '
ce of - nearly 93,000,900- brought suc ., . _
h expenditure up to $95000 It
3afollowed by17ipliersa If graaitation- away witli- Inemnee of
al),
from 000,000 to
is_ thiitysix cruadri 'oils- damns ;in -figures,
miles again tranice da -all - conception: It " Ninecw1updoe4,iinflw_all_cohutiateby; seat. what runs
a Yacht, a villa ati
were to cease, and easel wires- were used to §25o,,000 hi England is the. keeping up Of
'hold the earth in her,orbit, each wire being country seats, -hounds; hospitality and
4as large as the heamiesttelegraph wire (No. Pa* Prese.rv:ea..- At Driiinlanrig Castle -
), it would require nine to each square for instance', one. of , its owner's ten resat
inch of the - earth's surface, and the dentes; there ' are:. eighty miles a of grass
whole sunward ' hemisphere Of dur 'drive kept in. ordeaa at Caridge, more than
-globe would hat to be covered * As forty. :add . to this acres of garden and
as thenearestfixed eitarawhich iainore than year milet- be added. - Agaltn'• while the
hospitality of an average Well-to-dfa Ameri-•
. • • • . .
thickly as blades of. grass upon a latnia A.
man who on earth °bid Weigh. 250 poundia gaasraes-akneedpers, and it is easy' to - see where
the expenses of park -keepers and
and be unable to sti
Woad at the sun " eigh nearly WO tens,
. A planet as fat away: „lishment on a liberal Beale; atleasta20,000 a
the -money goes,. If there ha liiintitileetab-
200,600 times more ' emote than the sun
If the radtian seerna slow,. it is because the Pkaaerpgrilr' daanzda-a°7ehraaPana't:;nthe Englishman,
i
from the earth, it not disturbed by any can favorably earepaiee with that aL an
other attractions; va uld a till be governed bErtgaldie.aahnir-nedn,°1-4lp4ihlarmat , iii ...hail:tensely
-means, that of the
ingin A circle, ne rIy 90,000,000 years,
in its ?Motion by the irele though if mov- iipnaire.
greater- than that of - the American , niil-
. would be required- or a- single revolution. The latter.: gives Some dinner.
annual ball; and
distance is so vast t. but the planet Would.
still be se Powerffillar held in its orbit that op. the Other - hand, besides ' consta tl
tee: ubI dy onlydartiferge eat away
withf romasovlaerioattyraoci dinner
for weeks at , a tine with twenty
entertaimng in - town, oftep sits down to
More than 3011 feet per s'econd.
guests staying, with their Servants, in his
country house, and :feeds fr(nn fifty to sixty
. • "
. Liiminon Acteorso
. movileryh beef
in rcihi sbeer servants'athey please
ctavtiot he e• pa B. -
• . At the , recent ee elan of the. I3Htisli sunae. More than this, e at tirnen enter,.
Association, at. York, Professor A. .S -j tains whole- schools 'and parishes, besides
Herschel read the re ort of the pommittee giving aWaY hundreds ofponndeifi the shape
on ' luminous meteors, in the course* of Of beef and blankets at Christmas... He sub-
whica he referred to.t e, reiolite which fell scribes, too, to. every public- charity,in tra,
near -Middlebroughth s year, and embedded . ceunty.; soinetimes in two or three coun-
Itstaa :estimated that it struck the earth
1,
there is. Lord Derby - with
itself to a. cotsiaeTabl depth in the earth. ties. Merely • to take 'a single . example,'
With a velocity of
There was no cloubt,it
The committee recap
information they had
a mistellaneous chara
make any further!, rep
-Sir William The
majority of Meteoric s
a feet per second. tants in his house, and about forty more
. E. ser -
fell at least 40 miles. domestics feeding daily- at his board. Sup.
mended that as the posing to -morrow he and his .wife should
eceived was of .such agree to struggle along on $100,000 a year,
ter, they should not he could save at least a890,000 a - year;
rts for a few years. 'while were • the Dukes of Westminster,
son saida the great Devonshire and Bedford to do -likewise
ones, instead. of fall- Weir savings wo Id b
mg -to the earth. in &solid mass like the posing Lord Derby toSav ta
greatO1 . Sup
-
one- produced,. genera
pieces m the'air thro
tensely het: -
Prof. Herschel obs
in question had not
great heat.
Sir William Thorns
ly got shivered to thirty years, what air artlamilliohaire he
a or
gh becoming so in. would become. -Twenty ,years *ago there_
. - • .
a . died a queer oklbachelor, Lord Digby, who
ed that the stone owned Raleigh's ill-fated home of -- Sher
en exposed to any ' borne Castle. -He was a most liberal land,
- .lord; but did not care to spend more than
n observed:that in some §35,000 a year, and let his '
all probability some of he vegetation. exist;t. on rolling up, investing, it all in the.ai per
money go
-ing was of meteoric cistry: The stone cents., .f.fis income Was not . a fourth
in question was not On he earth a quarter of Lord Derby's, but he left in
of an. hour before it w :picked up, and it the /uncle ' 64,500;000. Ara a rule, a
was Certain. thatit crane from outside the peer leaves • comparatively little:. behind
earth; }In also said - here was a general ; §-4000;000 would be. regarded an
consensus of sentime tal belief that in -unusually large -faith for A man with
many ether bodies in. the universe. there 1400,000 it year to have- .and h
was something like • t
but that was not sci
ever, science was in
a sceptical condition.
a possibility,' and scie
length of saying that lif
impossible., __At the a
say that the sentimen
be as well, founded as
but -all .,-lie could say -
such a belief was not fo
grounds:. "."
: 11
e life on this earth,. one case on recoril—that Of Lord . Dysart,
, is but
itifie belief;'how- aneccentricrecliisecd a peer leaving over
at might be called' 7,50.0,0.00 Personalty. On • Very large pro -
Life elsewhere was
. perties, the - surplus income . al chiefly
, . . ..
be. On1y. went the expended .in very costly improvements.
elsewhere Was not Thus the Duke of Devonshire has built
e time he aid- not Eastbourne - arid much of Buxton: The
',belief might not ,Duke of Buccleuch hasexpanded thousands
ny 'scientific belief, at Granton, and both -have put vast -sums
t 'present was that luta enterprides •connected with Barrow-
hded on scientific in-Flarness. . ACOnt. 1110,000,000 of Lord
a
atevivai el the
, • . •
Men who incline to hi
shit studs under -a
water be indaded to ado
coats tliat salmis of th
urging upon the - man -
•• IB ute's has gone into docks at Cardiff. The
a _late Lord Westminster built and rebtrilt
taataaaa• -probably not less than one thousand houses
Loudon, and - Northumaefland - and
e the light Ofthtil Suthealand- reflect on all sides the generous
'lite enamel "'via' exPnUditiire Of the dukes of their .fiame;
t the new waist''' while beautiful- churches,. berarnodieus
,
'given tailors are sch 1 . -
f fashion. It an some , hoMesteads )3ooli
18- lk Inform the trateller. in Wiltshire and Bed -
French idea, and taken:143 by the best New fcadehire that he is on the broad domain of
' york *tailors, to have th ei waistcoat of some e Earl of Pembroke or the Duke of ..aea-
solid brilliant cdlor„
lAue and brilliant e are shim'? yen'. ford. Hid the ;vast gams thud spent been
mainlyput WO stocks or bond and mod-
. fabrics in Mixed gages, the present holders of the lands
rde Polka dote, Might have been richer . men; but the
e. "The intention -countrY;would have been in anaay-respeete.
occasional Wear, the loser, and it Would be a widely different
ilia with a high looking region from -what it is to-day.-aarew
l'ET'l.trc highs
tid intended to b •
'elegant diagonal in pale.
scarlet, and other .seede
red and bine, with,
imported for this purpo
is to have these vests fo
with a black suit, prefe
tut Prince -Albert noat..
double-breasted in style, ,
completed by neck-sca f of exactly the cons.umptionf opium.
•
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same shade as the vest. he coat is turin3a • ; - -
• Not one reads the statistic§ will one
beak With masculitie co uetryao as te dis- -
close about tout inches ' f. the - vest. _ The form a good- idea of the eitent to whi h
. .
effect is not -so very unh
scarf, and the affect hi a
good. allot every than cc
of thing without looking
those who can will lia4
and be glad to see the a
its add. p ce of honor
dress. T e vest is now s mply useful as a la 1871; being an increaseof 17,000 pounds
depoilor, the watch and Cigar -holder,. but in a -single year, and this increaie not being
4ene was when it was a- amous 'article of, attributable . to the - increase 'of enithisa
luxury,' and - was a sou ce of pride for -immigration at that; The: number of
dandies and dressy men generally. At -Chinese sedokers in thecOuntry is estimated .
present -tile price of - One lot the garments at 10,544, and .ealoulating upon the iamb
for ordinary *ear iS al5. ' t - '•. i.• estimate as hi the•'Arherimn* cases, they
: ,a,• • -a tensume -50,246 pounds- adr the drug in- a
, .
i; year. orabined, the consumption resalii3s
e wprk equally with the mea, if, indeed; has: been emphisiied of l te by the Beta- making the :cost for the total iiidulgence
1
Trio: Wonderful progre a made in Chink tae etartling figure of • 69,2,4a pounds,
rtainly eitremerY
e a- large Stanley opulin is imparted and used in this country..
,
tTho importations of :smoking 'opium into
-
Id wear this sort America have steadily increased during the
Ike, a flunkey; but last tep years, ana the return for 1880 shows
he new departure- the anormouft--quantity of 77,196: pounds;
eskit " restored to valued at:0773,796; imported, as sagairist
. a
the scheme of -37,824,Founds, Valued at 4353,234 sennere
• they dad utt use even greater exertione. Oilifith John, -a- long time missionar f •
• • "
;
'llie eraployraent of womenainder.groinid the Louden Missionary 'Society, who has quantity of the opium' used is aka?. einuga
_ . _ . . e enormous suna of over 2,900,009. A
- $
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is noW fez -bidden; by la*, the degraaa,tiou -been visiting in this e0U14,17.. Forty Nears glpd, and is not included in tI;eabove esti-
resulting from it having been perceived: by ago it was a- &Hale for a foreigner to learn mate; and Sorne - of it is also -impure.
t English legislators onlywhenitina become the Chinese language, or for a Chinamanto' ,Upon these data the New _York 'Mita
, ilagitiouE lc: but of 13,000 persons engaged in teach it 'to him a and though the • Nanking Argues that the injurious effects of this.
' the minim, about 2,000.era WoMert, who are _treaty Was made in 1842; 3V,hena -Ma John: consumption is thus increased .gteatlya
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.emplo in various: parte of the, process- -went to China, twenty -1v years ago, there -being had - enough _when • the ...pure drug
of dressing the ore. In the simpler opera- Were -only fite pienewin the in alone - is employed, as it leaves.33 per
tions very young girls are useful and at ,which a foreigner might lvioll.* The great tent. of ash i six grains only of WhicV. is
• .- the- mill we found a large 'number Of them- :interior was still closed, as non might go enough to paralyze arabbit whett-hypoder-
-the daughters at _miners_ usually—same- turther-athan-bould-be-aeablied in Werte- kuically injeoted, The last point to be
of them, pretty and alt of them neatly' hours - from it; treaty port. a Thd whole noted la that the repulsive spectre .of the
clothed and intelligent, even pert innaan- enipire lit POW open. ' Thi teenPut of the -emaciated, cadaverous creature t� be-feued
ner. they etta ah write and they -have an . eig4teen Provinces -have 'been actually everywhere among Chinese votaries is sel-
appetite, far literature Of the Adolphus- oacapied-hynaissionariess rdtbeir families, dam if ever seen among Amoriaati opiun-,..
Adeline .sort, which they ' devekur in penny. the gospel has been preaclied in nearly all -emokers. Nor, again; is the smoking of the
instalments Wawa their work iEr slack.— .the principal cities and towns, and the drug so injurious a, manner of. introdiming
.Noventher, - '
137:. ZI; Ridebith in moves magoine for Bible and I:441V forrnS of Chaistian. 'item- it into the system as the Method of eating
ture are circulated everyWhere. - it or injecting it hypodermically..
1 MADER MYSTERY FigATEL
A„ .Woman's Long -..Quest thrffil Her
• Muivipied - Husband—The IfInrdb-rer's
• Sheeeletkl Likes ..find' ISe4iseet je the
Wronged '‘fronalut: -
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On the 29t11: Of SepteMber, 186 just
sixteen years ago, /Moos Baxter left One-
Ce.utity,Michigaa- ; with his ,wife, ittnidmgto 7 eraigrate. JO _ Louisiana.,- -Soineilidlitad
. - .ii
along the border he fellin: with:a Imanwho-.
gave hisnae• as 'sage' Young, anti..k whO
.obtainedPerriiinsion to join the.BexteS, as
heelainied :to he travelling theanis'
direction they were 'Oleg.- ;:-.2:00glittes-
about 30, , - very ..-. plausible, , and.4'4okly
ingratiate&-himeelf in the. good .grd si-of
. 'i:_
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. Baxter and his Wife. '' He .-COnfided his
i3oria.p.aniona everythinging i regardind -hie
financial.
resources and. futme :planar and,
Baxter, bilk -eh!, made a :similar: revela-
tion..AmOng Other_ things, heainfaitied-
:-
the -y--,--oaigiiiien that he had sold •- his arm
for 62,00, and that he :carried the :Laney, -
in :$20:"gold pieces, /Ina leltStrapPedarOlind
his waist. , _. . • . '. _. - • • - : .-- .- ' '. '
-Sonia_ :time :atter - this - -the _ seal
grants
carriPed -one" i night. at a point between;
_Dyke's Mill, ta„_and-iMaguelia,T Ark; e:
'spot solected for.a camp was at the h�&td of'
a lonely:glen, Whibh Wan-ahaded-onergher
.aide by tall pines ,And 'thickly carp ted
with luxuaiantagaase. . A , sprieg. of olaat;
-cold watera. gashed from; a ledge of Rieke
half4vay down the -.glen, .and a nurnbei":.Of,
fallen pine logs furnished ample matetial;
for fuel: . When a' tamale-- repast was pre-'
pared and eaten, '•Baxter • lit his. pipe- arid
'Saying he would -return :Aeon, strolled &own-
._ , .
theglen, Young and Batter remained
seated by the blazing -are talaingAborit -the.
incident -1i ' of :the, Ilay'.a. - travel: ''.A.n Wine
pasied....-Baxter-dia net return. 1118 Hie wile
grow uneasy, and Young to quiet her: fees,
as he expressed it, ,Started " down" the glen,saying he would bringhiru back. The woman
waited impatiently. One, two, threehottre.
-Weht by; . yet -neither i,ppearecl. • :: Mrs.
-Baxter: was now thereimhly .frightenkt
She called. loudly for her biiebancl, •- but
.received.: no response._ - tonlY'.-the-,eohblvf:
her own voice came. ,back to her, .borne on
thenight.whid; Which' swept iloWn the . vail;
ley and through the tops of the swaying
trees. . She ventured diaten tire glenatreia-
blingacalling, likening; .. but I She neither
heard ' nor 'saw _ anything - -Beth her bus -
band and his nompanion.hact disappeared
as templetely waif the -earth:had -suddenly
.opened and swallowed.: them .up, . . Altobillt
distracted, she returned to the Camp, 'where
she :)e,eed to and .fro WV morning :- cared.; ".
then; Mounting :one of the : hernia's, she
hastened to nearest houseandseen had
ii," body of Men scouring the country . ik
search of the miseing.Men. The search was
einitinued.: .neirlSr - tt -, week without finding
any trace -of Young -or Tieateri: when it was
abandopea. 'The Men engaged in it -tia.
adaa.- Baxter bluntly_ that the •::affair - • tV kg -
p te paw Sr te cl. between the two men,.- aile,
that her husband had heart;3ssly desert'
her. The wife20strangely bereft.'wohl
not accept this theory. - She -insisted rthat
het husband had been murdered by Ilia*
Young, and that • time yaciald..* show' the
she was not , mistaken. -... -*Eng.. on. this-
-supposition . she returned to .•ber..,ifortrIO:
lions; -- and, gathering all . her -;:availablfp-
Mein's, instituted._ A thorough Search: . She
advertised,'eniployed-cleteetiveaa scattere
handbills With 'accurate. description of her
:husbandAnd•YOunga but all to no purpose;
Nothing tame. Of it, and the , affair seeine4'
a Mystery "'which s. go ahenian- skillctuld,
aeravel.- -- - . . I. a a - . • ' t.'a- a
a:
Years went by; and,stilf She remained hi' sP'3a':43` ..` Jeanie._ _ Deana, Who heard- the--_ - -
for tidings of her missing :husbatid- ' a -'etni •-'"
her"rntuntain :home,- liOpingand- -praying :„-,d1f4a1;Intg-giPeTs'4111:eeYients-1:Tgbrste:e°f.8.;..:rtisiPthe4-418111-eit; - :-
even .a.clewthat - would Point.' to his fate. .i.81,e9tt's .1164.9i4e l'*ithAgt EiSt'igoe4Patul.4144jaa clot '
The suspense in • all -.these .yearabae been, 'riiiiiig- /3r.' 1Wie.
had -1j-famine an old Wciinan., By the gale Of ,-
trying. Snide ' that •:?idetadtable 'night she tinfith-rtnt11:4"6"14:17:.Pshite-_-i-.11A-;1-3-grlue•a:pgittle",. _
nearly all the: effects -which remained to ;P*11."13-etiir 1-84 e" distinguished vi-rIirtibetl- '.
her after her husband's,„disappearance, she 'funeral' in the 1114ee of Si*- Peregrl4e•:14-44'2-;
had been enabled to buy a aittlemabin and exquisite
and should ' not be • attributed -tees.
enough remaining to keep her, with 01°861
a.• few: Acres of !ground and have: ilitney: 4.; tri iliinto.g,-) ignorancewi which _ entrapped°f:86ttmany41lore*arnaft
:economy, gapaaaateaa want. And alone i- - ournalistS two years :age into eelebratin ---
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• A R.EHABHABLE- SPEECH. -
_
Wtst*t Parnefrii Mistier ikad -*ear
York -Iffecting-Atieti Declaration
['cutup Proclivities._ . • - _ • - •
At the reception in New York to Mr
-O'Connor, the Land laiagueaelegate,.:Mrsi
Parnell spoke as folio* : _•-•:-:
Lone ABM GaarxmazziI regret. very .
math that I came here totally-, unprepared
to OftyttbnSithing.. -I Can only say ' that tny_l -t-
thoughts have been thrown into -coral-.
siderable _boafildlorr,' in -which _respect_
has Won:. -. the - :battle. (Trentehdointi
1
hope none Of theIrishiace. will ' copy - mei
(Applause_ and laughter.) But I Must - sa
that . . T., are.: not -in. the least alernied:
(Applause.) ; I .1:must, say - to -night
that -. I_ . am- -glad . that. . My -.Son
i3heering.) .:1 - ant glad that yea' eaat 'hail
hini. thoroughly'. as your brother in sidle;
,ytiilli.viu(4!,unPPilater.-aes44:-.212'ei trust,n9:,tahderpolitre4Illids.-tsi
(applause), until you advance and take:: the:
na
all, as brothers o, and push for-
ward in- onebody,end th*oWdowt.gauhtlet, -.
alter gauntlet, to ithe British .Government _ - •
. ._ _.
Ancient- capital _ of = your acountry and
the a:.cotnitry of your ',hopes aaand aspii-a
ations • in quer; final a assault -. and vic-
tory. - . (Applause.) You " - knoiy. that I:
Started a Pohlah. (Applause.) I :have
never gone back, but :if. there: is. any-steR.
forward in adtante. -of Fe/diploma I ate:
ready to -take it. (.9.pplauie.) _ If -I go to .-
areland, Which I hope to do_ after it little'. ,
While; Mope- the Government will'a reason-
ably- suspect" mo also. . (A storin of cheer-
ing.) And 11 it shall come to -TABS , that -11,.
Welnin .shall- be gilitietMd in Ireland, I hope
that the last'worde she Shall Bay " Will bei.
"God Save Ireland, and. God .Save the
. . ,
:(Neezi,!' -(Uproariouta pheers.) '
. .
: A. Perteet. Cup et ceitee.-
Coffee is the final issue of Eastera hoapi-
tality—the cliniaa of the visit: One recog-
nizes,' on entering, the sound of the coffee
?mortar; for in every' properly regulated
household in the East the coffee is not
ground, but pounded to an impalpable pow=-.
-der,- having been roasted that -moriling„-
.eabh- day its provision and pounded the
moment it is needed.-.. And 'he" elle Who.
has mot' drunk it, there ' can pre-
sume to - judge of the beverage. Iti Eng-
land we roast :it is black grind it as
we would cattle food, boiling TOW_
for beer,'. end. we drink - the bitter
and unaromatic &id* ,Tenaaine and
-say we have taken our coffee, The Eastern
coffee drinker- ImOWS the grades of.berry .
and/Preparation as a silk _merchant knows: -
the quality of silk;. the caffereehnoWs that -
to roast it a shade beyond the point where
it breaks crisply under the pestle is to
It, and When the sac)* pulverising is done,"
each measure goes into its- little capper •
receives its dose Of atoiliag water,
just. one of the tiny cups full rests an
instant on the coals to restore the heat lost -
in the .ibrik, . and is. poured into the egg
shell cup, and s�T,caine-to us, each ctip-in
&gold enamelled holder: The rule in_these .
• lands neenas to be that few things:are-worth'
doing, but these few" are Worth doing well,.
and there isno waste of life or material by
nvevbatita:pall Mall gazette, ;
Tat- Paris Sieck now th President
of the United States Mr. Arthur Cheiter--
placing, as it were; the Cart before the horse.
This is hardly as good as the London Daily
Teleg.raph, which in the couree of -en inter-
estihg. :article -on the relief of Ltickno
11
tliat ittle cabin she waited sler tidings of
then:tan to whom she shad linked her fate.„
Last week startling news reached that
selitary-Weinan in her tnountainiretreat
It genie in the Shape - of a,letterWriTtten
on1Plast June, and: dated at Melbourne,
„Australia. The -writer saidhehad that
day assisted `.te bury -,man of the nithe of
Se.unders,- but .Whose papers,: _which the
.writer had been. =cheated to .'eaamite,
showed ha was Isaae Young,. an Aniekican,
and who confessed: to a horriale. brithe.
•Then followed a detailed_ seta:tint of . the
night in the -gleir, t4teen-years ego.
It seems Young had -made up his mindto
rob and -minder •Baxter from the tithe he
learned that Baxter had 02)090. He fol-
lowed hiniplietly'down the glen stoleupon
limr unawares, and struck him. a blow with
a stick of wood'Whichltilled him;instattly.
To , secure the .money and bury the body
under -some loose earth and:Stones-Was the
W.04 of a very feUr tnomeiate, and before
Mrs. Baxter had :started-- d - h
the welcome prepared for Mr. Gladstone :
by the - Eaal of Reseberk :to the ile,art•
of Midlothian," the said 4,‘ Heart 7 being
the old prison Of the Tplboeth lorrg "Once
demolished! • - *
Mr lgorTough O'Brien nephew: of tbe.
te Smith O'Brien, laaiheenriamed•Secrea
to the. Land Conaudasioia Smitli
riett'Sbrotheri Sir Lucius, Succeeded, on •
e death of his kinsman, the .Marquis of
lioniond;.to the barony of Inchiqinti, and.
s .goii is the 'present peer. • He has a fine .
eat (Dronieland:CaStle) in. the Comity
-allaae, which he is one of the hail -dozen.
-i-argei3t latailholdere. Prior to engaging in
;he affair . - Mr. Smith O'Brien (who -
t •
always refused to take the affix of "Hon.
," albeit his brothers and sisters were .
anted itwhenthe -eldest brother gm] .
teeeded to .the -peerege). made- over his
- PPerty to -his :eldest son... The O'Briens -
re not, as -family, -in -sympathy- with
Young was Miles -away. He hastened
g en ,r; S. O'Brien's 'Porittea19:'views.
to resident landlord. .The O'Briens of Dromo- r,
190. dare-Pretestants., s The
or nc iquin is al:uglily respected.
New :Orleans,: -took passage to Australia; _
changed his narne and speculated George Barnfield, M. of
ill-gotten gains. He prospered ainazingly;, the First Presbyterian. church,. Brockville,
and, unlike the :traditional. 'hinderer; died _darts in a few days for the Holy Land,
undeteeted. and wealthy. • „ • : *here he intends to spend_ several months:-._ -
He directed- that Mrs:Baxter be found, if :chiedrin,archieological And philological '
living, and paid -a2,000 With interest' vestigatiOnaa Mr. Burnteld is an excellent .
the date of the murder, and. he begged her Oriental Scholar; and has for a long, time
toforgive him. this WaS: all that the letter been prosecuting hie .---researchee into.
contained. But subsequent s investigation this branch of learning with such materials .
proved be true. Baxter's bOUes:. -tveie Ito he has at hand. He ititeuds to make- "
found the of theglen- and-, decently -special study of the •litscriptions found
itt
buried, and ' the Australian party turaed 'atakiOns parts of the wilderness.' of Arabia,
out to be Isaac Young, the murderer-- ;seine -of whieh-raream—aaapAiors' , Which is a
Pare. Baxter the. money *with mixture- Of Hebte*. with the Sethetielan7
-indignation; but. She may yet conclude to =glitiges. 110 takes with hint Specially: pre-;
take it.- . - " • -ped paper for "-.the purpose -of. -b.ringnig
,The ritOri isas strange as true: - • -bthelt inapreasione.of-theaniscrip,•=
. . .
"- --Oka. L. V. Richmond, a Spiritualist '',.'fko;-e inire polled Aberdeen.. or 'Anglia' est -
inediMP, induced 800 -hicagcsans..to. pii-y---25. iltbelonging to the trustees of .the bank -
cents - each to hear what she said was an 41-I 't Marquis of HUntly were--redently wild ,
,addtessby the i spirit of , 'Garfield. 811.0,_ iti,, 1 auction. ..The _herd, which - was cOna- --
represeated _the -.1desal President 8s saYiag- 4nbbe in 18% had been carefully bred . .
that Lincoln was the -first person he beheld imp: reared, and contained se*eral 'Splendid. -
in theepirit land,. and -that-together
accompanied the fl theY imals. " _Thirty4wo animal
Branch Clevea
swere Offered, '',''
.urieratritin from Lein ana -these coraprised-twentyfour cows, the
to lnd. al ' ftrW
enjoyed the annistY Of Washin9gtaon,e-Jeaffrd
s
er-
• .
son rind -Adanisa t.' .'• -
_ . cOckeer ea ebepixnege;btaelluse-Ittlynd;-ecdalvieets,: beTiehge:ibeorgaves. - a
i Oned, handsome, and very highly bred -
' The clergymen of latibury, Mas., - gnithals in the breedingeondition and
devising new reithads Of temperance work, 'OP"senti4g-all the1141°st fashionable tribes -
are ., , ,
and ono: of them is to: eiriplciy an agent to $ Ple keel -Um Smith was the highest- - -
visit: the; Police Court every .day, 'interest rIced animal- sold, bringing 115 _ guineas.
himself • in the cases of Men arraigned- . liti Sale realized an Of over $250 -- :
for the first tiche for Intoxication and Pithead- - . - - '
adopt whatever. course - may seem most_ . ' Magni, -the tenoris engaged for the _St _
judicious for their vf corm. Paters urg season. .- , .
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