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Iead all intending purchase
Earket affords, to, at /east try
est IA (mon !
has. of Staple and Fancy
s always on hand.
- JAM ES -C. LAIDLAWs
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prepa-red to furnish Houses at
s, attetided to in a satistacta
er. A lAarse for hire.
MAS BELL'S
s4F-a MATTRASS
land and fitted to any bed-
Lele the best -aud cheapest
t to by all who have used it.
satisfaction.
Ee place
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_WM LT LKINS.
:Lst 1870. 87-tf.
have on haaid at their Mille,
rth flops :the Village of Ain -
feet of Good DRY PINE
felloning different kinds; viz
half, and two inch, clear. A
,(tito- inch and a quarter, and
ring, both dres.sed and -under-
. .
. sadeng, common boards and
a feet long. Beard and strip
deft will .be Bold at rediseed
- added a first-class plannin
tner machinery, and: inten
nber of all kinds constantly
afly upon being able toprocure
artieles of Lumber at their
is here adve-tised.
Umber to the mill can have it
test notice and lowest possible
M. & T. SMITH.
1S70. 114stf
Lot or Sale
RENT.
MONDVILLE.
has far sate or to rent; on
s, a good Frame House, with
pump and good yard in con -
were lately occupied by
y ter
JGEIN F. WEILAND,
Hotel Keeper, Egmandville.,
1, 1870, 114-4ins.
ITN SHOP.
:S-7WATSON.
public generally that he still
rai Blacksmithing at his
Old Stand,
TE ARMSTRONG'S HOTEL.
ILEYVILLE.
ion paid to Horse-Shocing.
y. 218t, 1870. 62-1y.
BUILD)ERS.
as at his Kiln, Con. 5, Lot 4,
a S., a large quantity of firet-
tie offers cheap for Cash,
JAMES PICKARD.
1870. 114-6ines
A LODGEI
•Q-17.0
t Regular Comraunicatiore oat
vening Feb, 21st.
R. COUNTER, Secretary.
y -to Lend.
ad on Farris Lands at 8 per
P. F. WALKER,
Solicitor, Goderieh;
I870.
WM. F. LUXTON,
" Freedom in
Trade—Liberty in Religion ---Equality in Civil Rights".
EDITOR & PUBLISHER.
VOL. 3, NO. 13,
SEAFORTHI FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1870.
WHOLE NO., 117.
BUSINESS CARDS
MEDICAL.
TRACT, M. D., Coroner for the County of
. Huron. Office and Residence -01 e door
East of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Sea.fortheDec. 14th, 1868 53- ly
1 _
11L. VERCOE,; M. D. C. 'M. , Physician, Sur -
geon, etc., 10ffice and Residence, „.corner
of M•arket and. High Street, immediately in rear
of Kidd & McMulkin's Stere. .
Seaforth, Feb: 4th. 1870. ' 53-1y.
TIR. W. R. SMITH, Physician, Surgeon, etc.
Office,—Opposite Veal's Grocery. Resi-
dence—Main-street, North.
Seaforth, Dec. 14, 1863. 53- ly
T ,CAMPBELL, M. D. C. M., (Graduat of Me-
e) „ Gill University, Montreal) Physician, Sur-
geon, etc., Seaforth Office and Residence—Old
Post Office Building, up stairs, where he jwill be
found by night or day when at home.
. Seaforth, July 15th 1869.
..84-1y
LEGAL.
C. CAMERON, Barrister and.Att
Law, Goderich. Ont.
December 14th, 1869.
iney-at
• 53-tf-
TTAYS & ELWOOD, Barristers a.nd A torneys
_El at Law, Solicitors in Chancery, *Aeries
Public Conveyancers, _etc. Office. —Oyer Mr.
Archibald's Store, Crabb's Block, Goderich, Ont.
Money to Lend.
W. TORRANCE BAYS, J. Y. ELWOOD.
Seaforth, Dec, 14th, 1868
53-1y.
BENSON & MEYER, Barristers and Attorney
at Law, Solicitors in. Chalicery ancli insolv-
ency, Conveyancers, Notaries Public, etc. •Of-
fices —Seaforth and Wroxeter. Agents; for the
Trust and Loan Co. of Upper Canada, and the
Colonial Securities Co. of Loriden. ngland.
Money at 8u per cent, no commlseion, ch rued.
JAS. IL BENSON, IL W. C. /i EyER.
Seaforth, Dec:" 10th 1868. 53-1y
NT 7C ATIG- HEY & HOLMSTE B rristers,
_VI- Attorneys at Law, Solicitors in hancery
and insolvency, Notaries Public and Co veyanc-
ers. Solicitors for the R. C. Bank, ,.:eaforth,
Agents for the Canada Life Assurance 11 CO.
N. B. —$30,000 tolend at 8 per cent. Farms,
Houses and Lots for sale.
Seaforth, Dec. 14th, 1868.
53-g.
WALKER. Attorney -at -Law nci. iSo-
"- licitor in -Chancery, F Conveyancer, Notary
Public, •&c. Office of the Clerk of the Peace,
Court House, Goderich, Ont.
N.B.—Money to lend at 8 per cent tn Farm
L&nds.
(launch, Jan'y. 28. 1870.I12 ly
DENTAL.
G. W. HARMS, L. D. . Arti-
ficial Dentures inserted wi h all the
latest improvements. The greatest
care taken fur tne preservation of. dec Yedand
tender teeth. Teeth extracted: with t pain.
Rooms over Collier's Store.
- Seaforth. Dec. 14, 1898. 1 y.
HOTELS.
S.HARP'S HOTEL, LiVery 4table, andi Genera -
Stage Office, Main -street. R .LSilattr, Prop.
Seaforth, Jan. 8th, 1869. ' 53:tf.
CIOMMER0
1H
AL OTEL, Ainleyville* James
J Laird, proprietor, affords first-daasaccom-
modation for the travelling pubiiis • ,The larder
and bar are always supplied with the best the
markets afford. Excellent stabbing in connection
A inleyville, April 23, 1869. • k 0: 0.
R. ROSS, Proprietor New Dominion Hotel,
„ begs to inform the people of Seaforth and
the travelling comiaunity generally, that he keep
first -Glass accommodation in every thing required
by travellers.- A good stable and swilling hostler
always on hand, Regular Boarders will receive
every necessary .attention.
Seaforth, Feb. 8th, 1869.
ARCHITECTS. I
MAILL & CROOKE, AtchiteCts, et . Plans
0 and Specifications drawn correctly, Carpen-
ter's, Plasterer's. and Mason's work, 'measured
and valued. Office—Over j. C. Detlor, & Co.'s
store, Court-Ilouse,SqUare, Goderich.
Goderich, April 23, 1869. 79-1y.
TENRY.WATKINSON, Architect 4ncl Build-
er. Plans, Specifications an4 Details drawn
correctly. EV ery description of Building Works
measured and veined. Bills of quantities pre-
pared. OF-FTC-E.—Next door North of Mr. Hiek-
son's old. store, Seaforth.
Seaforth, June 9th, 1869. 79-tf
SURVEYORS.
G& McPHILLIPS, Provincial Land Sur-
. veyors, Civil Enbineers, etc. All mauner
of Conveyancing done with neatness and dispatch.
-41. McPhillips, Commissioner in B. R.,. Office—
Next door south of Sharp's Hotel, Seafortly..
Seaforth, Dec. 14, 1868. 53-ly
AUCTIONEER
J3_ ILAZLEITURST, Licensed Auctioneer fo • the County of Huron. Goderich, Ont
rarticular attention paid to the sale of Bankrupt
Stock. Farm Stock Sales attended on Liberal
Terms. Goods Appraised, Mortgages Foreclosed,
Landlord's Warrants Executed Also, Bailiff
First Division Court for Huron.
Goderich, June 9th 1869.
76. tf,
'FISHERMAN'S SONG
"The air is still the night is dark
No ripple breaks the dusky tide,
From isle to isle the fishr's bark; -
Like fairy meteor seems to glide—
Now lost in shade—now flashing bright,
On sleeping wave and forest tree,
We hail with joy the ruddy light,
'Which far into the darksonae night f
Shines red and cheerily. .
With spear high poised and steady hand,
The centre of that fiery ray,
Behold the skilful fisher stand,
Prepared to strike the finny prey—
ow, now !' the shaft has sped below,
ransfixed the shining prize we see,
On swiftly glides the birch canoe—
The woods send back the long halloo
In echoes loud and cheerily..
Around yon bluff whose pine crest hides
• The noisy rapids from oar sight,
Another bark—another glides-
-Red spirits of the murky night—
The bosom of the silent stream
With mimic stars is dotted free,
The tall woods lighten in the beam,
• Through the darknegs shining cheerily."
TH, LEGEND OF THE RHINE.
It was years and years ago, and in Germany,
where, especiallY at that day, a mighty line was
drawn between the rich and poor, that in a cer-
tain village beside the Rhine lived two who made
the old story true for themselves, and almost be-
lieved, as lovers will, that they were the first who.
had. ever loved each other—Gretchen and Carl,
both peasants' children, and both as poor, in
everything but youth, and health, and beauty, as
any twain could be.
But, for all this, they would willingly have
united their fortunes, or their lack of fortunes,
but for the wise old folks, who knew so much
more about the world than young ones can'and
quite forget how much better a lenteen feast,
-with love at the board, is to youth, than all the
dainty viand o that can be spent on silver, and set
forth on damask, if the little god is away. The
old folks set themselves • to oppose the match
stoutly, oii. the ground that Carl would never earn
the salt to his porrage, and that Gretchen, being
very pretty, might make a better Match.
Indeed, the Baron, whose castle stood not far
off, and. who was not so old as he might have
been only too glad to stoop as low as the peas-
ant's cottage and lead from thence the pretty
Gretchen as ilis bride. But the giri found no
charm in his title, or his wealth, or his person,
to lead her to forget Carl ; and when he left her to
seek his fourtune, that he might share it, when
found, with her, she gave him a locir of her golden
hair, and promised that she never; would forget
him, and plighted her troth to hinthere beside
the blue Rhine, for ever and ever aye.
- .Gretchen sang and danced no more. She
changed sadly in face and heart; but the Baron
Claussen only thought her more lovely, and more
like a lady, with her pale cheeks and downcast
eyes, and haunted- the cottage as much as ever,'
under pretence - of patronishing the old grand-
father.
• As for Carl, where was he? Ever so far away
by this time, foot -sore and sad, but making sure
of a fortune ahead of him, in meeting with a good
natured boatman, who took him on board,. and
bade him to be, at ease until he reached the end
of his journey. So Carl lounged upon the deck
of the little draft with its load of cheese, and look-
ing over in the water, thought of Gretchen, never
guessing that his sighs had brought to the sur-
face -a beautiful mermaid, who- no sooner set eyes
upon Carl than she felt madly in love with hem,
and began forthwith to sing and play upon her
lyre, and comb her sea -green hair, and use all her
mermaid arts to lure the beautiful peasant to her
home in the caves of • ocean.. She floated with
him to the mouth of the Hague, where, finding
• no avenue to fortune in any other direction, poor
Carl shipped on board a vessel bound for a two
years' voyage, and paid a man who was - about to
travel down into }fosse Darmstadt to take the
news to his sweetheart. . •
"And tell her," said Carl, " that I shall think
of her by dey and by night, and shall return to
claim her for my own when the voyage is over.
And if her love is as strong is mine, she will wait
forme."-
The man promised, and the. mermaid rejoiced,
for Carl was to be within her hach for two long
• long years in her ewri realm—the briny ocean.—
But this was not enough for her, for she was e
very wily mermaid. One moonlight night she
saw the messenger walking on the shore, and call -
self and the mermaid, who, in very excellent
spirits, was following over the sea the vessel on
-
which Carl sailed, thinking of nothing but home
and Gretchen. ' •
The news nearly killed the poor girl, since she
• never doubted it for a moment: and though, had
she known Carl to be living, she would have
thought of him only, and waiting for him though
he had returned poorer than, when he parted from
her, the veil of death separated him from her se
completely, and there was such a blank wherever
• she turned her yearning eyes, that in . h3 end she
did not feel so angry with the Baron Claussen. for
bringing her fruits and flowers, or for looking at.
her tenderly, and holding her hand fondly. And
at last—for we -must tell the truth, however troller
disadvantage—she married the .Baron, and went,
with a, crown of white flowers on her head 'aid
• white gloves -on her hands, and wearing a dress of
fine bleached Lauslin, up to his cae`tle, his bride,
and not unhappy; though but for the urging of
the old folks she never would have seemed to
forget poor Carl so soon.
It was a grand wedding, and the bride was
beautiful, and the Baron was very kind to her :
and instead of toiling in the fields, Gretchen sat
iii her handsome house to be waitecl on by her
M'aidens, and wore silk in place of coarse stuff,
and golden rings upon the fingers whence she had
slipped poor Carl's gift, the little silver circle.
which was all that he couldto give her in token
of her troth plight..
And in a year a little baby lay within her arms,
and looked inta her eyes* and taught her to love
its father, who had been BO tender and sokind to
her; and she was the Baroness Claussen, and a
Wife and a mother, and net the peasant girl
• Gretchen, grieving for her lover any more.
And just at this time, Carl Steyer, with his
two years' pay in his wallet, and ssome hard-won
possessions besides, stepped from the ship's deck
upon dr,, land, and hurried as best he might to-
wards Hesse Darmstadt, to find Gretchen. That
she Might be dead, was a fear that crossed his
mind ; but that she might be married, never once
occurred fo him. He had sent her information of
his intentions ; he had told, drenched by rain,
beaten by wind, pelted by hail, in danger of ship -
Wreck, and assailed by the fever -laden breezes of
southern lands, to win little 'pittance which seem-
ed so great a sum to him. • He had done it for the
sake of her love, and she could not be cruel or
false to one so constant. He boatedit and footed
it homeward, in an ecstasy of yearning love ; and
the poor mermaid, who. had fallowed - it back
again, made her way along the Rhine, sobbing and
sighing,.for her sailor had left the sea, and was
going back to his lady -love and She Was about to
lose him. _
The Baron's castle hung over the Rhine, and
the nursery wherein the Baroness watched over
her baby -boy looked out upon the water. It
was under this window that the mermaid stopped,
'bemoaning herself, her flossy hair all tangled, her
eyelids heavy, her lute unstrung, and her looking
glass lost. And Carl hurried do to the cottage
"in
were Gretchen's grandmother d elt, and rushed
in, and cried, for he was so bro n and so long -
bearded that they did not knew him, "1 am Carl
Steyer, come back to marry my dear Gretchen
Warner! Tell me where to find her?"
But the old grandame answered, "You can't
be Carl, for he is drowned, and has had masses
said for him ; but even if you were, you have no
business to call the Baroness Von Claussen your
Gretchen. It is a piece of impertinence not to be
pardoned, should the Baron .hear you."
" The Baroness !" faltered Carl. "How ?—
the Baroness ?" .
" Ay," said the old grandame. 'She married
the Baron Von Clanssen generations ago, and has
had a fme young Baron as any one ever set eyes
on. Would you -have had her wait for a ship -boy
to come back, and make her a beggar? even if
you are not a ghoit, which I doubtgreatly."
"Where is she ?" gasped Car . "Let me see
her. I'll believe:no one but her." •
• ' She is where she ought to be—at the Castle,"
said the old woman. "But you'd be mad to go
there."
Perhaps Carl was mad, for he went. . He put
aside porter, and maid, and page, and made his
way to the room where Gretchen sat singing to
her babe; and she, seeing him, forgot everything
else and rushed to meet him , and he took her
in his arms, and they wept together. But soon
he put her off, and asked her sternly how it was
that she had deceived him.
"1 came back to win my bride," he said. —
"Oh, -Gretchen! could you not keep faith with
me for two little years?' .-
. "I thought you dead," she said ; then sudden-
ly a great horror came upon her. "Why did you
come ?" she eried. I am a wife. I had learnt to
love my husband—my child's father. Now there
will be only you again. Oh, cruel to come—
cruel !" And aniidst these words, though even
.while she spoke them, she clung to Carl's
shoulder.• -,
They heard a clatter' of . horse's hoofs, and a
voice below bidding the servants say if it were
true that Carl Steyer really were closeted with
their mistress --the Baron's voice, and raised in
agony tones. '
"See ?" cried Gretchen,- -"see how cruel you
are ! He is jealous—he .will hate inc.? I must
not love you, for I am a wife ; I cannot love him
for he keeps me from you. Even my babe will
scorn,,me when they tell him my story. Oh, cruel
to come backatncl seek me, and bring such shame
and sorrow !"
' "Cruel !" cried Carl. "Ah, she calls me cruel!
But see, Gretchen. lam kinder than you have
been to me. The B,gon shall not find me here.—
Tell him Carl StOr's ghost came to you. . You
will speak thelruth, for I shall be dead when
you utter the words. Adieu. Forget me, since
thaewill make you happy. Adieu."
And as he spoke, he pushed the lattice open,
and jumped from the window into the foaming
waters of the Rhine.
The jealous Baron rushed in the moment after,
with his sword drawn, but found his wife alone
beside her baby's cradle—alone, muttering and
moaning of the sea and of Carl Steyers, as she
muttered and moaned through all her weary life7-
a mad woman from that hour, despite all that
could be done by cunning leeches, bribed heavily
to do their best with the -Baron's yellow gold.
But as for Carl Steyer, he did not drown. The
mermaid caught him in her arms as he sank be-
neath the waters, and bore him away to her caves
of coral andpearl, where with her songs and her
embraces, she taught hini to forget inconstant
Gretchen, the toils of the sea, the pleasures of the
land, his own soul, and everything but her.
So now, though the castle of the Baron Von
Claussen is a rum, and all the 13arons of that
name dead long ago, the peasants often see a fair
He.was an ugly looking fellow, in a rough fur
cap, and- With a red nose with carbuncles upon it,
with whom mermaids were not apt to fall in love;
so he had never seen once. And when he saw
her with her pearly skin, and sapphire eyes, and
floating hair, her hands lying upon the golden
strinas of her lyre, all ringed with pals, and
pearl's dripping from the lobes of her pure ears
and. Wound about her neck, and saw her smile, •
end felt her breathe, and heard her voice, he
grew bewildered. First, she made love to hi;
then she bade him do something to prove that he
cared for her. It was such a little thing; only
to go on beard the vessel and take Carl unawares,
and push him over. After that, he would find
her waiting for him by the mouth of the Rhine
ready to bear him to her coral caves. •
She had not the slightest intention of keeping
her vow, but the man with the fur cap and the
carbuncles on his nose beloved her, arid actually
went on board the vessel, and giving a form lean-
ing over the bulworks a push that sent it down
into the water; but in his excitement he made a
mistake, and only. drowned a young sailor from
Hanover, instead of tossing Carl' into the mer-
maid's arms. Theneterrified by the cry the man
gave he fled, on his way to Hesse Dermstadt,
where he had business.
Then, being a good Catholic, he bethdught him
—for he had no idea of his mistake—that the
drowned Carl would have no taa.sses said for him
unless his kindred knew of his demise, and so
went down to the cottage, where Gretchen sat
spinning and sighing and thinking of poor Carl
Steyer. Then there was a little cry and the -
wheel stopped.
"1 bring news of him," said the man, hicling
his eyes yet more, "bad news. I knew him in
Holland. He had shipped for a two years' voy-
age, but before the vessel started he was drown-
ed. I saw him fall overboard. God rest his soul
and comfort all here."
Then he went his way, inwardly cursing-- him-
,-
the sea can be, who bears in her white arm the
most beautiful of mankind, lulled into a mystic
sleep by the 'magic oflier song. And now comes
to taint and triumph. over the sad phantom of
Gretchen, Baroness Von Claussen.
Death In. the Wilderness.
A'GlikASTLy TALE.
The following narrative of shocking,. suffering
and death is reported from Bangor, to the Boston
Post from one of the survivors of a hunting and
fishing party, consisting of five indviduals
(French Canadians, ) who .were strickem down by.
disease, and perished in their camp on the Canada
side not many milesirom the American border.
The narrator states that a party of five persons,
of which he was one, set out with two horses and
-
a pang, about Christmas; upon a hunting and
fu3hing expedition, in the wilderness. near the
American line. The party were well equipped
with guns, traps fishing tackle and provisions,
intending to speak a- month or two in. that un -
habitable region.. The first two weeks. they had
good luck and some.fine sport, captuving several
otters, mink, sable, &c., and making a good
catch of trout -in the lake. Returning one even-
ing, one of the men complained. of sore throat.
Not much was thought of it by the rest of the
party, till towards the middle of thenight, when
the man gave evidence of extreme suffering, his
throat being so,swollen that he could not swallow.
He Continued to.grow worse during the night,
and when morning, carne was quite insensible.
He had been attacked by that rarest loathsome
and fatal disease,. cliptheria, which is alike ,mali-
gnant and terrible in the city and in the forest.
Without medicine of any description, and nearly
fifty miles from any human habitation, they could
but anxiously await the erisis. They had not
long to wait; for before night set in. the man was
a corpse. Before the first victim expired, how-
ever, another of the party began to complain of
the same difficulty, and on the second day died of
strangulation ; or from the filling of the throat.
The three survivors took the two bodies out of
the camp and covered them over with snow, for
, the purpose of preserving them till they could
• carry them out of the forest. They cleternun.
to break up camp the next day and return -with
their dead comrades, but were doomed to die-
-appointment, in consequence of two of the re-
maining three being . prostrated by the same
terrible agent. The last two survived about
forty-eight hours, when they, in turn, were
carried out by the. only one remaining, to be
buried in the snow. Alone in the wilderness,
fifty miles' from any human being, excepting the
grim cold bodies of his lifeless companions, the
sole survivor resolved to start early in the morn-
ing for the abode of civilization, with his freight
of pulseless humanity. But griefs never eome
singly. During the night the deadly contagion
fastened upon himself: In his own words he
"felt the monster at his throat," and resigned
himself, as well as he could. to his fate. The
poor fellow suffered the agony of a hundred
deaths, alone and =cared for, in a literally
"howling wilderness," -with the prospect. of no
one ever being able to tell the horrid tale. He
lay, as he thinks, some four OT five days before he
awoke to a consciousness of his fearful condition.
The mildness of the weather and a good supply of
blankets and boughs saved him from freezing in
the abscence of a fire, which he was to weak to
'kindle. As soon as he could crawl, he went to
the hovel, and to his amazement and grief found
both of the horses dead. They had died of starva-
tion. Returning to his damp, he thought he
would take a look at his dead companions. Judge
of his horror, when he found _their bodies nearly
eatenenp by the wolves mid other wild beasts that
inhabit that wild and desolate region. Nothing
now was left for him to do but -to make his way,
alone, out of the forest, With a pair of snow
shoeslupon hiSfeet, and as much provisions as his
weak a.nd feeble frame could carry, he started
forth; and on the third day reached an Indian
camp where herested w
till he as able to proceed
on his journey. He gave his name as Le Roix or
Le Broiq, and stated that he was born near
Riviere du Loup.
Another Steamship Disaster.
Cario, Feb. 22.—The following are the par-
ticulars of the disaster to the steamer Emma
No. 3 :--
She struck a snag in a chute near Island No.
35, on Saturday -about 10 a.m., and while sink-
ing, slowly careened and upset the stove, setting
fire te the cabin and driving every person into the
water except Capt. James Marratta, -who Nivea
saved by clinging to the wheel, and the mate,
Caleb Marratta, pilot Attenborough: three pass-
engers, the Chambermaid and head cook, who
managed to remain on a small strip of forecastle,
sheltered behind some casks, which they prevent-
ed from burning by throwing water upon them
with their hats. The officers launched the yawl,
and. Succeeded in keeping back the affrighted
passengers until the ladies on board, five in num-
ber, were in it, and as many passengers as was
considered safe. Before the yawl could be clea-
ed filen the steamer the flames burst out with
such fury that others could not be restrained, and
they jumped in, swamping the yawl and turning
it bottorn upward, by which all the ladies were
lost and some twenty others. The survivors, ex-
cept. those saved on the bow and on the wheel,
managed to reach the shore on doors, planks and
cotton bales, and were picked up by people along
the river and by the'eteamer Columbian, which
brought a number to this city. Other survivors
were taken to farm houses in the neighborhood,
and havenot yet arrived. Head engineer Lyen-
berger died from exhaustion after reaching the
shore; also a passenger named McFarland.
Steward James Ford is not expeeted to live from
the same Cause.
Walter Marratta, first clerk, in disregard. of
danger to himself, niade an attempt to save a lady
passenger, and- perished with the others.
It is hoped that the next arrival from the
scene of the disaster will give names of saved
among those now reported missing.
LATER PARTICULARS:
Cincinnati, O., Feb. 23.—The captain of the
Emma No. 3 telegraphs from Cario that 70 lives
were lost by the burning of the steamer St Louis.
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What is the difference between a man walking
up steps and one looking up? One steps up stairs
and the other stares up steps.
A man in Cliilicothe, Ohio, has succeeded in
weeping phantom at its empty windows, and see t making a. whisge of a pig's tail. He has named
in the stream below, another, fair as a Maiden of the instrument the pigolette.
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-VARIETIES.
If von were to ride upon a donkey what fruit
ld
wouyowre-semble ? A pear (pair).
An Indianapolis paper tells of a mais who. "re:-
proved his wife with an axe handle."
"People," says a modern. philosopher, "go ae-
cordingto their brains : If these he in their head_
they study, if in their stomach they eat, if in
their heels they dance."
"Susan 1 wish you would step over and see -
how old Ars. Jones is this morning." Susan re-
turned in a few minutes with the information
that Mrs. Jones was seventy-two years old.
JebiLonely, evidentlyhenpeeked, says:—"If in
our school days the 'rule of three' is proverbially
trying, how much harder, in after Iife, do we feel
the rule of one ?"
A man attempted to- spell crockery, the other
day, and proceeded tins-1'Kraughltearreighe.
but expired in a spasm befere could make a yi.
with which he expected to end the word.
Mike, speaking of w celebrated. musician, said
—lie has led a very ahandoned life." "Oh yes,"
replied another, ‘• the whole tenor of his life has
been base."
lawyer who had a most absurd, case sub-
mitted to him, on being asked if the action would
he answered—"Yes, if the witness will lie too,
but not othervvise."
it man with an inveterate habit of talking to
himself, wheal asked why, he said he had two
reasons: one, "he liked to talk to a sensible
nian ; the other, he liked to hear a sensible man
talk."
Let all young people forbear the use of much
wine or strong drinks,well as spiced and hot -
meals. They introduce a preternatural heat into
the body, and at last hinder and extinguish the
natural.
A boy, three years of age, was .particularly
backward in his tongue, and his parents feared he
would never talk'. ''Send him to a girl's school,"
said a friend. The hint • was adopted and, suc-
ceeded beyond expectation.
Found.—The hinges of a Christmas box ;
padlock beloiaging to a cha.in of circumstaneels ; a
skeleton key conjectured to appertain to a dead-
lock; the socket of a thunderbolt. If the above
are not claimed within a few days they will be
sold. for old iron.'
A Missourian tried to trick an insurance com-
pany by drowning himself immediately after
taking out a policy. By dying he escaped a great
disappointment, for while his application for in-
surance went by mail, the news of his death iwas ,
sent by telegraph, and the policy was not issued.
In reply to the objections l of the comas& for
the defence,. a Virginia Justke said he didn't 'care
about "consecutions, and*ould. try de case flay -
how, and if deaf didn't have satisfattiost, " dey
could repeal agm his excision."
They have a new fancy drink in. New York
called the "glycerine cocktail," which is handy
to haveliisicle when chased by a policeman. The
modus is d.escribed as necessitating the pursued.
to throw himself concu.ssively on the ground in
front of the policeman when the glyceriase ex-
plodes and blows the eificer into smithereens.
An artist painted a dog so natural that the ani-
mal had the hydraphobia during the hetweather.
He's the same man who painted a beer bottle with
such skill that the cork flew out just as he was
finishing it. And after he was manied. he paint-
ed a picture of his first baby so life like that it .
cried; his wife spanked him before she discoveras
the mistake.
Mr, Josh Billings on. the mosquito.—There is
one peculiarity abcrut the „mosquito trade, and
that is, the supply always exceeds the demand,
and yet the production is not diminished. I can't
understand this nohow. Mosquitoes have consum-
mate courage. I have known a single mosquito
to fight a man and his wife al/ night and -draw
the first blood. They are Cheerful little fellows,
singing as ishey toil.
An Indiania girl, who had been loving a fellow
to an alarming extent, and feared that her mother
woUld find out what was the anitter,.rode twenty
miles with a revolver in her hand, to where the
chap was chopping in the woods, and told him if
he didn't -marry her she would make a tumid
through him. The -w-edding carne off that after-
noon.' He said. he never would quarrel with a .
woman about a little thing like that.
To apme pungent remarks of a professional
brother, an American barristar commenced his
reply as follows "May it please the court, rest-
ing on the couch oi republican equality as I do—
covered, by the blanket of constitutional panoply
as I am—and protected by the aegis of Arriesican
liberty, as I feel myself to be—I despise the buz-
zing of the professional insect who has just eat
down, and defy his futile attempt to penetrate,
with his puny sting, the interstices of my imper-
vious covering."
Here is Mark Twain's latest account of himself:
. I have but little character, but what I have I
am willing to part with for the public good. I
would . have been a better man if I had had a
-chance, but things have been against me. I never .
had any parents, hardly—only just a father and
mother—and so I have had to struggle along the
best way I could. I do not boast of this charact-
er, further than I built it up myself, at odd hours,
and without other educational aid than I was able
to pick up in the ordinary schools and colleges,"
Mr. Abernethy rarely met his match, but on
one occassion he fairly owned he had. He was
sent for by an innkeeper who hail had a quarrel
with his wife, who had. scarred his face with her
nails, so that the poor man was bleeding and much
disfigiired. Abernethy thought ibis an oppor-
tunity not to be lost for admonishing the offender.,
and said, "Madam," are you not aahamed of your-
self to treat your husband. thus—the husband 'who
is the head of all—your head, mad -am, in fact ?"
"Well, doctor," fiercely returned the viago, .'"and
may I not scratch my own head?"
If. anything in the world will make a mail feel
badly, except pinchinghis fingers in the creek of
a door, it is unquestionably a quarrel. It degrades.
*him in the eyes of others, and, what is worse,
blunts his sensibilities on the one hand, and in-
creases the power of passionate irritability on the
other. The truth is, the MOT() peacebly and quiet-
ly we get on, the better for our neighbors. 'Ia
nine cases out of ten the ccurseis—if a man cheat
you, cease to deal with him; if lie slanders, you,
take care to live so that nobody will believehimi No
matter whohe is or how he misuses you, the beet
way is to let him alone, for there is nothing better
.than this cool cabn and. quietway of dealing:With
tha wrongs we -meet with: . °
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