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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1886-3-11, Page 7YOUNG ' FOLKS. Craoked Ise. BY ELIZABETI', P. ALLEN. "What does make mothers so emery, 1 wondermid Y". Been Martin fretfully, d_.. Benny . swinging his new skates, Uncle Bents teat Christmas present, while a small thunder cloud settled on his round face: "I once knows. little boy," said mamma, while the sewing machine went whirring On, "who said his "mother was too scary about an old dead limb ; he went out on it and got his collar -bone broken; did you ever hear of him, Benny ?" Bennydid not ,newer, but the cloud lifted a little "1 once knew a little boy," said mother again, stopping her wheel to pull out the basting threads, "who thought hie materna was scary because she said the water in the creek was to old for him to go bathing ; he went in, nd liked to have died with. hear of him Benny e• .. u'ever x m o p By thie time there was a' bit of a anile on Benny's face. Yon needn't. go on," he said ,, "I know -o the rept, about the plumake, and kir. Bart- lett's'kicking mule, and all that ;, bt I don't see what those times have to do with New Year's Day and the long pond." Mamma was buzzing along eo fast!, wind ing a bobin, that she could not answer right away ; presently she said, ae if she was dons talking about the eubjeot now, "The lee' is cracked, Benny, and no boy is cafe on crack- ed ice," Benny understood this tone to mean : "Enough said ;" and being really an obedi- ent, good-tempered boy, though he failed sometime:le he strapped his shining skates actress his shoulder, kirsed his buoy mother good -by, and started off for the mill-raoe, whieh was not cracked, and not deep enough to hurt him if he should break through, He had hardly left the room before mam- ma remembered that she must caution him about not staying too late, and running to a front window she threw up the saah and put her head out. Benny was standing at the gate talking to George Burbank, and as the little front yard was very narrow Mre. Martin could hear through the Mill frosty air what the boyo were saying. " What are you going to that atnpid old mill-raoe for?" asked George, whose face was set toward the mill -pond, There wee ailenoe for two seconds ; Mrs. Martin could not`see Benny's fade, but motherit wits are sharp about boys, and Mrs. Martin felt what made Benny hesitate ; he didI't want to say : " Mother won't let me. " Benny did not say that. "Oh, there is a}oh a crowd there," was his answer to t eorR e's question. "Humph 1" said George ;""Where did you get to be afraid of a crowd 2 and then the boyo went their separate.way. Mrs. Martin closed the window and went bask to her work, too much disturbed about her little boy's uncandld speech to remem- ber that she had failed to tell him about teeming homely. Bet Bennefrtionscience had had a good training about"the troth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, and ihis answer to George kept buzzing along in his mind all the way to the mill -race ; even the new skates did not make him forget that he had said what wee not honestly true. Presently George Burbank and a crowd of other boye joined him on the mill race. "Ho," said George, "we've come to crowd yon here, Ben the ice is smashed over on the pond, and lot's of the fellows fell in; they wore all big fellows,- though, and • got out Webs" Benny she! i to the bank where the boys were estrapp le yon their skates and eat down. He felt somehow as if he had just had his life saved, and nothing makes people eo honest as to come face to face with death. "Well, I'll just tell you, George," he said slowly, "the real reason that I didn't go to the pond ; I don't know why I didn't tell. you at first. Mother knew that the ice was cranked, and she wouldn't let me go." "You don't say 1" exclaimed George; "why in the name of eense didn't you toll me Y I wouldn't have gone on the ice for a pretty ;good sum if I had known it was cracked." Ben felt ;more ashamed of himself than ever, but was -more comfortable, neverthe- less, at having owned up. They had fine eport on the mill -race, and Benny went home tired and happy. In- deed his mother did not at first like to see his face so bright, her own was so grave and sad. "Well, nue," he said gayly, "I've had a jolly time, and it's well you didn't let me go to the pond, for they had a smashup there." "But I'm afraid my boy has been on cracked foe, too, this afternoon," said Mre, Martin, sadly. "Ma'am d" Benny could not understand. "When a boyeigives a wrong reason in place of a right ono, son, ho is on a danger - nom footing -aa dangerous as cracked Ice." "But, mother," Benny said, eagerly, un- derstanding now what she meant, "I mend- ed that crack. And when Mrs. Martin hoard the whole story her heart grew light again, and she was almostas gay as if she ha& keen nkat lug all evening on the mill -race. In Papa's Boots• BY H. L. CHARLES. It was winter, and the :snow was very deep where little Katie lived. She did not like winter. she wanted to run and play out of do One day she asked her main - nut -to let h "go out and play in the snow. "Why Katie; yon would freeze," said her mamma out in the snow, and he doesn't "Papa goeq freeze, ' said Katie. "But papa is larger than my little girl. Besides, he dresses warmer. You know what large rubber boots he wears when he goes out in the snow', Katie said no more ; but the next day she found the big boots in the hall, whore her papa had left' them. A large coat and fur sap were hanging there, too. - ;, Petty soon Katie's mamma heard some one crying, Sho thought it sounded like the voice of her little girl. She began to search for her i but she was not to be found anywhere in the houao. Thera she went to the door. There stood Katie, a few steps from the houao, in the deep snow. She had on the big boota and the coat and sap. They were so large and heavy that she had got stook fast in the snow, and could neither go nor come beak. " !don't want to play in the snow any more," she sobbed, ae her mamma took hor . into the house. She is now willing to wait until the nun ehallMolt the avow away. A. Tallahassee, Flee despatch says : Sarah MoDaniels, a oolored woman living on Mr. Fish's plantationeone Milo west of that city, has become the mother during her lifetime to forty-two ohildren, Sho is now ,robust, 'ealthy leaking -woman. BOU1U TSE WORLD. The railroade in the United States give work to 630,000 people. Manitee, Mioh., has an orchestra oompo- ed of fourteen young women. A f slur-inah, dead smooth file has 864 teeth to the face, or 210 to the inch. "A nisei never loses anything by polite nese," flow about tile seat in a street oar ? first time in its histo: h - For the y the Duto ere county (N. Y.) jail has not a prisoner in it. Buckles of brass of the modern form aro found buried in the-prehletorlo mounds of England. Judge Travis is e, eating a fine two store, stone residence in Calgary. the appears to intend to stay there, There has been more snow this winter in London than for fourteen years, and there is great distress in consequence., It is said that Shanghai ehipped to this continent last year not less than 500,000 pounds of willow leaves dieguiaed as tea. The value of the contents of a barrel of crude petroleum ranges from 86 cents to $1, while the value of the barrel lteelf is $2 50. At St. Helena, California, a few days ago, several thousand gallens of ten-year old California wine sold for throe cents a millers. In Paris it costa $3 to comets a body, and this includes coal and labor with an urn thrown in, In Milan the cost' is only $L40, bat they give no urn or chrome. A druggist at. Louisville advertised hie. store aa a " free warming place' for the public during the very severe weather of a few days ago. Statistics of last year's shooting in the Grimes show that the chamois are inoreaaing rather than diminishing in that part of Switzerland. Angus, Iowa, could not rest until it was incorporated as a city ; but the city govern- ment costs so much that the citizens aro petitioning to have the city charter revoked. A silver box, abut at a wedding in Hart- ford, Conn., the other day, is to be kept un- der'seal, like that of Pandora, till the time for the silver anniversary, twenty-five years hence. School teacher Brink, of Niles, Iowa, will be tried for manslaughter. He whipped a 12 -year old child so severely that it is assert- ed the child died from the effects of the punishment. Mrs. W. P. Miller, of Buchanan, Mioh., is the fond mother of six children' who were all born within the past thirty-four months. They came two at a time, and all but one are alive and thriving. A newspaper of Beloit, Kansas, eays that in Clark county daring a resent snow storm a large flock of sheep crowded close together, and the snow, melting for a while and then freezing, fastened the entire flock together. George Leib, a colored carpenter of Sa- vannah, Ga , fell backward from a third story scaffolding the other day, turned a complete somersault, struck sgnsrely on his feet, looked around to nee if any one was hurt, and quietly climbed back to his work, Capt. Tom Gregory of Winchester, Tenn., has a unique pair of gloves. They were made by Mire Nannie Phillipe, who snared a lot of rabbits, carded and spun their fur as if it were wool, and 'from the yarn knit the gloves. She decorated the bask of eaoh glove with the ear of a full grown rabbit. Fifteen years ago Mr. Joseph Arch was a farm laborer supporting his family on ,j4 weekly wages, and he is now a member of Parliament. He is what is commonly call- ed a self-made man, but as his wife taught him to read and write he may be consider. ed a creditable specimen of domestic manu- facture. A runaway teem in St. Paul dashed Into a funeral prociasipn, just missing the car- riage contalnihe pall bearers, and strik- ing the hearse -squarely. The driver was thrown to the ground: the hearse overturn- ed, its glass sides shattered, and the coffin turned upside down. One of the runaway horses was killed and his mate knocked soneeleas. Wyoming hunters aro excited over re- ports that come from the head wators of Snake River of a band of fifty head of white, or snow eik. Hitherto there have been traditions of snow elk, - in whish they are described as being as white as the snow, from whish they get their name, and larger and swifter than the common elk. Now and then one has bean seen, but never a herd. Moody and Sankey are a revelation to Now Orleans, and the effoot they are having is remarkable. One Sande), they held seven aervioes and addressed 10,000 different persons, Over 600 attended their inquiry meetluga, of whom, the Times -Democrat says, it le carefully eutimetoct over 300 confessed Christ. Such an lntereet in re- ligioue exorolses was never before seen in New Orleans." In a slugging match between Jack ltfo- Gee and Tom nicadenus, ie B ietou, the other evening, MoGoe knocked his man out by a blow which is described as novel and aurprisieg to all the sporting men present. Motiee faced his op orient and " turned to the right like a flash, pivoting completely around, gaining in force ae he revolved," until he caught el°Manua on the jaw and dropped him. McGee says Jack Stewart of Glasgow taught him the blow. There having been two or three runaways of unhitched horses in Chloago recently, the police were ordered;to •' bring in" every rig found in the atreete where the horse wad leit alone or unhitched, The now order went into effect the other day, and over fifty buggies, cabs, wagons, and drays were driven to a livery stable where their owners found them and redeemed them by the pay- ment ayment of half a dollar each, Lots of.profanity followed the enforcement of this ordinance. There le now living on the Piedmont Toad, near Charleston, W. Va,, an old col- ored woman named Clara Brown, who is perhaps the oldest colored woman in West Virginia. Of course, she well remembers seeing General Washington. It was in Richmond that she met the Father of his Country. She says he entered the kitchen of the hotel where she was and spoke kindly to the cooks. She ,nays she le 122 years of age. The population of London nowexceeds every other city, ancient or modern, in the world. New York and all its adj:aoent cities combined are not equal to two thirds of it. Scotland. Swi'zeriend, and the Aus- tralian colonies each contains fewer souls, while Norway, Servia, Greece, and Dan- mark have scarcely half :so many. Yet at the beginning of the present century the population of all London did not reach one million. The German Mioiaterof War has given orders for a number of doge to be trained with a view of testing the value of the ser. vices they might render to sentinels engaged in keeping guard during the night. It is fully believed that by tee help of these sa- gacious animals outposts would be far less liable to surprise, and that the doge would always give notice of the approach of the enemy mush earlier than it could be detect- ed by the sentinels without such assistance A year or so ago James Hawkinsa re- spected colored man of Denver, with his wife, went to the opera house owned by e Senator Tabot, and handed the ticket to L=wo first-class tickets. He was told he could not occupy the seats called for the tickets, and the money for the tick was offered to him. He refused to ace it, and brought snit for damages against ex -Senator. A jury brought in a ver awardiug Hawkins $1 damages and price of two tickets, $4 in ad, The English steamer South Cambria brought from the bottom of the Bea an int tasting rel.o of the American War. R ning short of coal, she was compelled to into the harbor of Newport Newa. As crew were hauling np the anchor, they fo the bowsprit of a war vessel attached to The spot where the South. Cumbria v. lying was exactly where the great naval di took place between the war vessels Congr and Merrimac, in which the former sunk. This waa in 3S62, and the bowap brought to the surface re supposed to be t of the Congress. Since' the death of her husband M Thomaa A. Hendricks has been considara annoyed by letters and communicatio purporting to be from Mr. ivendricks whl have been sent to her by Spiritualists. of them pretended to be an autograph lett written by the dead Vice -President in t spirit land. Mrs Hendricks . is reported saying that this was a very close'imitati of her husband's handwriting, but that a could easily detect its spuriousness. I not believe in such :things," she - says, " do not see that any good can dome fro encouraging them. That they do not co from Mr. Hendricks is !clear to my min for the sentiments of none of the commun cations are oxpresoed in language such as 1 would have used. They bear on their fai the impreas of an inferior mind, are inferi to bis while alive, and certainly inferior no if the spirit land, as I believe, elevates a ennobles the sentiments ,and spirations the soul." • Eii�s��1m;1 - crew-we- ut1 THE IiJJNTING LEOPARD. A SINGULAR KIND OP' SWAT Wuxou rs PRACTICED IN THE JUNGLE,, It ink itw eh correspond- ent a ere,wXites a oo respond- ent to Our Indian Stations, that I wit- nessed the only instance I ever saw of the blank ; buck being run into and killed by the cheetah, or hunting leopard. itlany consider this a low kind of sporb, but I think it quite equal to partridge shooting, besides being a beautiful sight,` I shall, therefore, describe as well as I can what I saw. Or arriving with my friends at the place of meeting in the jungle we found a few rough and -ready looking natives in charge' of three carts, or rather small two. wheeled platforms drawn by bullocks. On each vehicle sat, in an erect attitude, it beautiful leopard, strongly chained, and with a hood over his eyes, similar to those used for hawks. We were soon Hader way and driving toward the herd of ante- lopes which could be seen grazing in the distance and whish had been marked down beforehand. There was no difficulty in getting the carte to within 120 yards of the deer. Then one of the cheetah, a fine male was unhooded and set free. Iia depernnre from the gharry and its decision in ohooeing the moat covered line in the open plain for rushing on its l rey were so inetantanooas and rapid as to be quite marvelous. It seemed to vanish from the cart and appear elmnitaneonety half -way toward the fine black buck it had singled out for attack. When at about thirty yards from the unsuspicious troop they suddenly became aware of the deadly peril they were in. One and all sprang into the air with galvanic bounds, and no doubt expected to escape easily by flight but the hunting cheetah is, I euppose, for a hundred yards, by far the fleetest of all wingless things ; and this one wan soon in the midst of the aff iglltod throng, which scattered wildly and panic stricken in all directions as their leader—a fine blank buck—was struck down in their midst. There he lay, alone, in his death agony, in the clutch of Ms beautiful and relent- less foe. We ran as hard as we could, and were soon surrounding the strange group. animal meved, for the buck was paralyzed with fear—his starting eye- balls and dilated nostrils alone gave evi- dence of life. The cheetah, on the other hand, with his body aptead out over the prostrate form of his victim, seemed to strain every nerve in pressing his prey against' the earth aa, with his long, sharp fangs buried in its hroat, he con- t , e :d. tonleas but his of n- nd he • ON HIS ;ow riT 'GIBOUND. ' o u �. H DY AGAIN. YOU WILL N.LTER GETS WELL AS TANG <J}r, Pelllncrcy. So 'YOU HAVE caDEN EATING Too Mvo aux AS YOU no TEAT. )' : mix 1 THE GHASTLY . UTI0E WILL. CHYME IT INTO �rhnma (who has lately taken tip physiology): On, I Meese I lin i.o WEEN'!1'IIE AGITATION Oy THE DIAGRAM 'met NATURALIZE THE INSPIRATION AND RESOLVE FIT INTO SWEET BREAD en 'AIT-t3nnAsE, WHICH M0ILELY ACTS AS A ntreEnti9'I0. g as `ho nt as to se o- re- on -on ed of is y er Bi. d, !s e :e e Is' n n e d f e e f d I how the cheetah had been able so beaten- THE Lin KITS CL' UB, taneonely to strike down such a powerful animal immedl to on albino' a:x1 with it As the meeting opened ]3 rothor Crtprdner I ab once observed a sin le lorxig, dee announced that the Hen, Standoff White, ash' n bhe flank, whish 'Wee evigntly of Montgomery, Ala., was rn the ante•room, g caused by the decisive blow. But I could not imagine with what weapon the leopard had been able to infliob this very etrangd' looking wound, for the oheetah has a foot like: a dog and his olawe are nob rotraetUe, Tanning then to the beast as it sat on the cart,' I inspected it oloeely and saw that the dew -claw, whish in the dog appears moat a ussloss appendage, is represented in this brute by a terrible looking talon exactly suited to the infliction of such a gash. THE QUEEN S SUITORS. MEN WIio Fettle]) Fanon Ir THE EYEs ,pr VICr9RIA. The splendid pageant of the opening of Parliament and the pausing of the Qaeen in state from Buckingham Palace to the House of Lords, remits the day, as Haan look on her, in her.Mary Stuart mourning, when she traveled that same route as a happy young bride. Victoria, like all other girls, had some lovers before the lucky ons came. Her first was the late Lard E'phinstone, a tall, singularly handsome young Scottish peer, who was sent to Madras as Governor to get him out of the way. Her next was Lord Fitz Ilan. another six-footer, a splendid young officer of the First Life Guards, grandson of the then Duke of Norfolk, and afterwards Duke of Norfolk 'himself ; but he was a Roman Catholic—a fatal objection. Fltzallan fell passionately in love with a pretty barmaid, who ad- ministered beer at a tap opposite the Horse Guards, and wished to marry her. His family sent him abroad to get ever his young passion, and, falling el at Athens, he married the 'daughter of Admiral Lyons, British 14lenieter there, and slater of Lord Lyons, remembered as Minister at Washington, who had attend- ed him through his sickness, and who is Mill living as Dowager Duchess, Her third lover was Lord Alfred Paget, one of the Marquis of Anglesey's splendid eons, an officer of "the Blues." standing about six feet two, who is the father of Capt. Paget, ' married to our Minnie Stevens, and who was then her equerry - in -chief, and has continued as equerry ever since. This love affair was regarded as ro dangerous that King Leopold of Belgium, the Qaeen'a uncle, brother of her mother, the Dachess of gent, was sent for. The result was that Prince Albert was sent for next. Albert was at that time a cour- teous, chaste, quiet, mild, bland, acoom- plished prince, but here and there a keen obeervermight have detected on his round, fall face a flash, anti in his manner a flutter which bespoke the agitation that swelled the hearb beneath. Over the chimney piece,too, of his student chamber, there hung one of Chalon's exquisite drawings of Victoria which, though too f etteringly graceful and airy even then, still when surrounded with the interest which of itself lent beauty to a young girl placed in such a position, gave a fairer idea of her than would be imagined in her pre- sent grosser figure and highly colored face, as presented in the most correct and de- lightful pictures of court life, by Adam BEV. deau Albert. though little noticed, had been present at Victoria's coronation scene, a silent but not, we fancy, uninterested spectator. 'When Victoria was seated on Prince Edward's throne and the shout which proclaimed the girl he was educated to look on as his wit?, Queen- of that empire on which the sun never sets, rang along the roof of the good old Abbey, and was borne on the boom of guns down to the City Tower, he must have felt some emotion ; and when she tripped over with agile grace, to lift np old Lord Rollie, who had tumbled, may we not faacy that emotion grew into some softer feeling. That evening, too, whenon her return, the women wept, as Greville tells ns, be- canee she feared to be a queen, Albert may have been near. A woman's tearer are at all times touching. At such mo- ments a life of happiness or unhappiness,' as the case may be, is often built. Bs this as it may, queens are not allowed to possessor at least indulge the feelings of other folk, and the news men for once did not, a few days after, convert a yawn -into a sigh or gild a smile with sentiment. Well, at all events, when Leopold sent for Albert, quick and with luggage light as a young Canadian starting for Mani- toba, the appointed youth booked himself in the small steamer which staggers be- tween Ostend and Dover. The affair was very quietly managed by Leopold. In the Court Circle column the Prince's name found rather a mean and minloned place, and as the Prince and Queen went onb the evening after his arrival for a saunter in the woods, their stroll was un- observed except by the . select few who were in the secret. But Victoria's .maid, Rosalie—a kind, mischievous, merry little elf from Longenschwalbach, andwho was more excited that evening than Victoria herself—prattled, for a little gulden, to the court news man of how Albert's meek eyes, when they returned, were radiant with joy, Victoria looked slightly flushed, and wore in her girdle a small flower—the flower of a dove which, through all the darknocs of widowhood, has never lost its freshness—sand her straw cottage hat was orushed back in front. Perchance she caught a branch -perchance some sweeter pressure—about which I think there are some levt'ly young brides in Canada could tell. Be this as it may, the club man calling, the next morning, for his tea andtoast and Times was startled by the announcement that `` Her Majeaty was abnut'to lead to the hymeneal altar his Royal Higbnase Prince Albert of Gotha and Saxe-Coburg"—and thus Victoria was wooed and won. l'ho distinguished gentleman was on hie Ovato Chic o to 'e his cl in sister,and y ug Ae y g had taken advantage of the 000asion to stop oyer three or four days and make, himself acquaiutad with members bof the Lime -Kiln Club. He had a little address which he de- ired to deliver. It was entitled : " Do We Realize Where We Were and Where We are Now Y'- If there were no objections the addresser would be brought in,. Whalebone Howker arose, not to object exactlybut to enquire if the Hon. Stand- cfad 'brought any credentials with him. -' flow did the club know but that he was a base imposter Y "Brudder Howker 1" sharply replied the President, "do yon emagine dat I would take! a pusson into zuy own cabin, an' loan him a clean shirt an' purvide him wid a pipe an' terbacker, if,I did not know dat hewas all right 1" "N -no, sah," "Dosou kerfio " erself down intoyour sheer, an' de less we h'ar of you fur de ext two weeks de better it will bfur all hands round TEE HON. STAIDOBF, The distinguished etranger was then ush- ered in. He appeared to be a person about eix.feet high, lame in the left leg, of'san- guine temperament, and to be possessed of great presence of mind. He bowed right and lett, smilln' liko a tickled baby, and begun HIS ADDRESS By saying "Nobody knows how good it makes me feel to scan' in de shelter of dis famous ole Paradise Hall an' look down upon de 200 faxes turned up to de shingles. If my sister hadn't taken a noahun to die, an' if 1 hadn't got a half fare ticket to come dis way, I might nebber hev sot eyes on dis famous ag gregation of wisdom, prudence au' progre shun. [Cheers.] "Whar' war de cull'd people of die kentry twenty y'ar ago ? Let your memories run back to de closeof de war. We war'. men in statoo, but chil'en in intelleck. On de day dat peaoe was deolar'd had you put me, down in Cincinnati wid a $20 bill in myt pocket I: should hev bin helpless. Your wise President here couldn't hev told whether aF, shotgun loaded from in front or. behind. Had you asked Sir Isaac Walpole who Shak-:: apearewas he would hev crawled 'ander de, bed in oonfuahun. Trustee Pullback had de: ' Pilgrim's Progress' all mixed up wid de ' Pirate'a Promenade.' ' Waydown Bebee didn't know whether the Onio Riber empti- ed into de Mississippi or Salt Creek. [Great applause ] "• We war' chill'en In feelin' an' ackshns Ds tones of do fiddle war' mo' to ns den dao, de voice of Progress am now. If we had hoe -sake an' bacon we war' content to let de. rest of de world hev poetry, science, art an' wealth. Oar 'religan might hev bin all right, but de rest of us war' all:wrong. In cur ignorance, de san riz on de plantashun to de east of us an' sot en de one to de west. De world was composed of about fo' Stafter an' all de knowledge an' weadom was sup - Feed to be carried tinder de hats of a dozen white men." [Agitation ] " Now, far whar' we are. Take de finest lie paintin' in de land an' walk into any barbar shop in de kentry an' you'll find men to criticise it. Dey'll pint out de faek dat de foreground has skipped a cog, or dat de perspective corkscrews too much. Dey'll light, down on a bad sky like a hawk on a chicken, an' you kin trust 'em to diskiber anything wrong wid a waterfall or a side hill. [Cheers,] " White men who come to ns an' look wise an' talk about de sciences am astanieh- ed to find dat dey am barkin' np de wrong tree. We has got dar 1 Sewer gas keeps just as fur away from de cabia of de blaok man as from de palace of the white. De science of government am discussed ober our dinner -pails ae often as in de halls of legislashun. Watered philosophy has to keep dodge' to get out o' our way. L[Pro- Ionged applause,] Do cull'd race was a long way back when de last gun was fired, but dey has bin ttabblin' on a run eber since. " I should like to talk to yon fur twt hours, (cheers) but de accashun am not pro- pitious. If anybody among you has any doubts dat our race has not passed de three- quarter pole /et him sot out and ,trabble a few miles. I shall now pass on to see my dyin' sister, and I shall always remember din event wid de moas' malignant ,pleasure. In wlshin' you farewell, permit me to use de words of Socrates to de Egyptians ' Cu= dig Solis.' PENSTOCK 'TRIES A SHOT. Givens/am Jones moved that a vote of thanks and the freedom of the city be tender- ed to the orator, and added that he hadn't had anything do him so much good since water melons went out of market. "I hope dat moshnn will not prevail," said the Rev. Penstock, as he bobbed up. "I claim dat de greater part of dat speech was stolon bodily from one I delivered in Richmond six y'ars ago 1" "It down' seem possible,"repliedithe Presi- dent. "But I am suah of it, sah. I worked fur three weeks on dat speech, an' I remember atmos' ebery word of it." On motion of Waydown Bebee a com- mittee of two went out to find the Hon. Standoff and bring him in to face the music, but he had gone. Also, Elder Raffle's plug hat, Samuel Shin's overcoat and a lantern belonging to Antimony Johnson. ACQUITTED, Sir Steven Bulwark then palled up the case of Prof. Pompadour. Some weeks since the Professor was charged by a white man with stealing a wheelbarrow, and the charge was given, to the Interior Department to in- vestigate. Sir Steven would like to inquire why the committee had not reported. The Chairmen replied that he was waiting for an opportunity to report that thewhite man had found his wheelbarrow two days after makhie r.; "Wiering wchains It gefound Y" asked the Presi- dent, "In do alley in rear of his honse. It was brought back in de night." "1 sec, Purfeseor de charge again' you am dfamissed, an' you sten' fo'th as innocent as a iamb. Nobody naw you return de wheel. barrow, an' dar am no 'oaehun fur yon to gin yerself away." A :TEST, The Librarian reported that the stove in the Library was in such condition that ho dare not keep a fire in it any longer, and he ash ed for an appropriation of $6 to purchase a now one. "De matter will be laid on do table fur de present," replied Brother Gardner. "It at a good time now to make a' test an' diekibor whether thirty or forty members orowd into do Library each night fur de purpole of en- rich#a' deir minds or of toastin' dem siting, De Librarian will report any fall#n' oil in numbers. Any unfinished biome will now be packed Up alt' put what' de rats can't oat; it, an we. will infringe towards our homes." Sam Small, the oonverbed 'Chicago jour. naliet, who is ,tiring up Chicago prepara- tory to Sam Jones's advent, is described as a plainly.drosaed, tall, elendor young man, Behind his gold -bowed eyeglaasee are snail eyes, and above his heavy sandy moustache le a rather long thin^naso. His forehead, high and narrow, is surmounted by very carefully smoothed dark hair. He looks rather commonplace, but when he ap''oaks bo at once shows strength. The Herald says : "Ills voice possesses that subtle, trem- ulous quality which makes men listen, It #s a voice which invests the merest common. place with interest."