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arch 15th,
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kUCTION
le a large quantity of
Lir FURNITURE,
tom,
TABLES,
BEAD/ITEM,
QASH.
J. P. BRINE,
Auctioneer.
116-4ins,
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e The National Pills,
areenewthscovery
in medicine. They
are composed of
LS, purely vegetable
extract prepared
by anewiyelisceve
etecl process, %la
Li -as. are sugar coated.
They are the great
- blood arid stop:teat
purifier. They- act
Se OD the liver with
, magical effect, are
mild, searching,
yet , a. thorough
purgative, & have
no equal as- a first
class family pill.
See eirculara with
each box
.IfeS and E. HICKSON &
(icine dealers generally.
BENTLY ‘Sz; CO.,
.stirietors„ Brougham,
Out.
) HOUSE.
WINTER
Selling at greatly
Priees!!
A,NNEL,
LS and HOODS,
variety,
7roceries,
!rockeryEMV..A.RD "CASH.
1870. 53-tf.
YORTH:
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OtR, AND
ACTOR Yt
leave to- tender their sin
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i numerous cestomers and
ehe very liberal". patronage
icing business, le Seaforth.
a very large stock of Dry
and having lately enlarged
-6c1 New Machinery (there,
lities for doieg work with
ifident of giving every sa-
es rn y fasemr them with
se but first-class workineze
'paid to custom planing.
ROADFOOT & GRAY.
1870.
ACT OF 1869.
e In the County .Court
of the -
County of Huron.
:.(fIr KING.
An Insolvent .
th day of March next, at
sks in the forenoon, the
to. the Judge of the said
ider the said Act.
us 26th day of January,
rCY KING,
1-1N BELL GORDON,
his Attorney ad 1iteru-
t8.70. 112-7ins,
ITN SHOP.,
WATSON.
lie nerallv that he still
Atte =tithing at his
Stand,
rtRtitSTRONCLS HOTEL
YVILLE.
aid to Horse-Shocing.
Lat„ ma. 62-1y.
4%, SON,
ITULLETT.
Kecuto binding in every
:siding at a distance by
the Signal Book Store,
crosrro,u office, Seaforth.
upen them being weli
WEST PRI CES.
witho4 daisy.
/am 80-tf.
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WM. F. LUXTON,
VOL 3 NO 15
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" Freedom in Trade—Liberty in Religion—Equality in Civil Right8".
EDITOR & PUBLISHER
SEA:FORTH, FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1870.
BUSINE-1SS CARDS
MEDICAL. 1\
RTRACY, M. D., CoX•oner for the County of
e Huron. Office and Residence-2-Ohe door.
East of the Methodist Episcopal Cherch.
Seaforth; Dec. 14th, 1868, 53-ly
L. VERCOE, M. D. C. M., 'PhYsicia Sur-.
geon, etc.. Office and Residence, corner
of Market and High Street, immediately- n rear
of Kidd & McMulkin's Store. - =
Seaforth, ,;Feb. 4th. 1870.
TAR. W. R. SMITH, Physician, Surge
OfRce,:-Opposite Veal's Grocery.
dence-Main-street, North. f
Seaforth, Dec. 14, 1863.
53-1y.
n, etc
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CAMPBELL, M, D. C. M:, (Graduate cif Mc-
. Gill University,. Montreal) PhySieian Sur,
goon, etc., Seaforth. Office and Residenc ---01c1
Post Office Building, up stairs, where he be
found by night or day when at home.
Seaforth, July 15th., 1869.
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1. I 1 • T C. CAMERON, barrister and Atto
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..JeL„ Law, GoderiCh. Ont.
December 14th, 1869.
J'AYS & ELWOOD, Barristers and! Att I
at Law, Solicitors in Chancery, Ni
Public Conveyancers, etc. Office. -Ove
Archibald's Store, °rabbis Block, Goderich
Money to Lend.
W. TORRANCE HAYS, J. Y. ELWOOD.
Seaforth, Dec, ' 14th, 1868 53
rneys
terms
Mr.
-Ont.
ly.
BENSON & MEYER, Barristers and At
• at Law, Solicitors in Chancery and I
ency, Conveyancers, Notaries Public, etc.
fiees,-Seaforth and Wroxeter Agents fo
Trust and Loan Co. of Upper Canada, an1
Colonial Securities Co. of London, En
Money at 8 per cent, no Commlesion, charg
11. BENSON, H. W. C. MY
Seaforth, Dec. 14th 1868. • 5
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solv-
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1tIF9CAUGHEIC & HOLMSTEAD, Bsurilters,
LYI Attorneys at Law, Solicitors in Chancery
and Insolvency, Notaries Public and Conve
era. Solicitors kr the -R. C. Bank, Seaf
Agentsfor the Canada Life ASsurance
N. R-430,000 to lend at 8 per cent. F
Houses and Lots for sale.
Seaforth11 1, Dec. 14th 1868.
_. 53-pf.
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anc-
rth,
Co.
inis,
-Et .F. WALKER. Attorney -at -Law and
' s licitor-in-Chancery, Conveyancer, Notary
•
Public, &c Office of the Clerk of the Peace,
Court House, Goderieh Ont. •
• N.B.-Money to lend at 8 per cent on Farm
Lands.
Goderich, Jan'y. 28. 1870. 112-1y.
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Rooms
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G W. HARRIS, L. D. ,S, Arti-
11 ficial Dentures inserted -with all
latest improvements.. The greatest
taken for the preservation of decayed
teeth. Teeth extfacted. Awithout pin
over Collier's Store.
Seaforth. Dec.' 14, 1898. . -
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HOTELS.
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SHARP'S HOTEL, Livery Stable, and Gen
Stage Office, Main street R .L Sneer, P
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les Laird, proprietor, affords first-class acc
xnedation for the travelling public. The lar
and bar are always supplied with the best'
markets afford. Excellent Stabling in conneeton
A inleyville, April 23, 1869. 70-tf
1-- it.,11.0SS, Proprietor New Dominion Hotel,
e) „ begs to inform the people of Seaforth ' and
the travtlling community generally, that he keeps
Arst-thss accoinmodation in every thing requ-
by travellers. A good stable and willing hostler
always on hand, Regular Boarders will rece
every necessary attention.
Seaforth, Feb. 8th, 1869. _ 63-
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ARCHITECTS.
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-1.4AILL & CROOKE,. Architects, et. Pl•
Sand Speeifications dra-wn correctly. Carp .n-
ter's, Plasterer's. and Mason's Work, measu
and valued. '' Office -Over J. a Det-lor & C I
store, Court -House Square, Goderich.'
Goderieh, April 23, 1869. 79,1ke
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sorreetly.
measured
aared.
ion's
Seaforth,
"ENRY WATKINSON, Arehitect and Bif
er. Plans, Specificationsani Details dra4n
Every deseription of Building Wor
and valued. Bills of quantities p
OFFICE. -.Next door North of Mr. Hick-
old store, Seaforth. _
June 9th, 186°. s9-tf
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k. "McPhillips,
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Seaforth,
- SURVEYORS.
& W. MePHILLIPS, Provincial Land Su
. veyors, Civil Eneineers, etc. All mann
done -with neatness and dispatch.
Commissioner in B. R. Office-
door south of Sharp's Hotel, Seeforth.
Dee. 14, 1868. 53 -1
AUCTIONEER
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, HAZLEHURST, Licensed Auctioneer
the County of Huron. Goderich, 0 s
attention paid to the sale of Bankru s
Farm Stoak Sales attended on Liber
Goods Appraised, Mortgages Foreclose4,
Vv aerants Executed. Also, °Baili
Division Court for Huron.
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MY FOREST LAND.
BY DA.vTD
0" tell me not of sunny la,nde,
Where snow is never seen s
Of spicy gales and fragrant trees,
• With branches evergreen.
Siieh scenes may please the languishing,
* But bold hearts spurn their spells, -
'Give me the land where winter reigns
In snow -roads and sleigh bells-.
Some sing of lands where purling brooks
Are all the streams they boast;
• Where craggy mountains clothed in mist
• Protect their sterile coast'. _
Give me the land where inland seas
And giant rivers sweep,
And where froniNiagara's Falls
A. deluge meets the deep.
•
Give me the land where forests rise
With towering heads and high;
Where leaves in Autumn's, mellow seen,
Reflect the tinted sky. -
Our own dear land, our Canada,
A land of freedom strong e
Conse join with me this song toraise,
And sound it loud and long.
- THE MID• NICHT-SEARCH.
I was sent to Beejapore in the Christmas time
eof 18---, on a special duty concerning -well, no
'matter what, for its details would have no inter-
est for those who may read what I am going to
write, and need not be mentioned. My mission
kept me there nearly a month ; and as • what -I
had to do did not absorb the whole of my time,
I hid the morning and evening of every day at my
disposal, which I employed in sketching the
noble palaces, mosques, mausoleum, and fortifi-
cations which exist there in every possible com-
bination of architectural beauty and magnifi-
y-
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or
n.
at
std
st
s,
d-
cence. •
Though picturesque materials abounded ever
where, and choice of subjects was difficult, owin
to their great number, the interior of the Ark,
citadel, contained perhaps, the greatest profusio
With its noble fortifications, and wide, deep mo
part of Which is filled with water, and overshad-
owed by graceful trees, what combinations. exi
of foliage and buildings, ruined and entire; an
what gorgeous color over all! What massive
palaces, roofless, it is true, but displaying va
audience -halls, once filled with trains of courtier
in splendid attire, standing in ranks, in atten
a.nce upon their sovereign, while their caparison-
ed elephants and horses, with...their armed retinties,
waited in the open apace without! What rangee
of private apartments, harems once so jealously
d
d
and closely guarded, now open to the sun an
wind, with wild creepers and grasses waving
from their walls! What romantic fountains and
gardens, now overgrown by underwood, and the
abode of hyenas and panthers! Here portfolios
might be • • • •• filled with drawings, and yet the ma-
terials remain unexhausted for days and days.
In My wanderings from place to place, at ol
min, one of the sweepers of the great mosque by
r
d
profession, attached himself to me as guide. If
we had to go any distance -that is to 1['orwa, d
any of the old ruined suburbs -my guide, Shekh
Kulleem Oolla, -followed me, mounted on an Syl
grey pony, as lean and rugged as himself. But in
the Ark, or citadel, he needed no assistance, and
with his long staff would stride along before me
as fast as my horse could old -figure, walk. A grand o
• figure, too, six. feet high 4 least, with a spare,
wiry frame, a noble head, and a long white beard
descending on his breast. He said he was
seventy-three years old, and he even looked more,
and yet was as upright and active as a youth ; and
with what a treasury of stories and legends at his
disposal! When he found me inclined to listen,
how fast they poured forth !-anecdotes of kings
and nobles, of queens and royal mistresses, of
saints and their miracles, and devotees; and I
often now regret that I did not take notes of
many of them, which, in twenty- years, have
passed out of my memory.
It was the afternoon Of Christmas Day, and my
guide was at my tent as usual. I, had begun .in
he inorninga pencil aketch of the 'Place of the
Seven Storeys,. th the eitadel, certainly the most
picturesque rum in Beejapore, and waited for an
-yelling effect to color it. My guide had been ab-
ent in the morning as it was his turn to sweep
he mosque, and rhad selected a- point of view
hich appeared to me the best for my purpose.
sI Mounted my horse, I told hirn I should be
he guide this time; and, laughing and girding
p his waist with his scarf, he strode ion before
e as usual. We passed through the royal deer -
ark, by the tonibs of the queens anti viziens,
cross the esplenade of the -citadel andthemoat,
nd through the fortifications till we reached the
pen space beyond the enclosure of the royal'
itclren and magazine. Here, to the right hand,
as another block of buildings,. partly fallen in,
ncl choked up with rubbish and bushes, which
as called the Treasury; and on a part of these
ins had seated myself in the morning when I
Lad Made my eketch. Then the sun was full in
y face; but I knew that in the evening my seat
mild be in shadow, while the full blaze of the
tting sun Would fall upon the palace, and en-
ance the beauty of its coloring. As I reached
e spot, I stopped my horse and dismounted,
d, scrambling up the ruin, seated myself on my
osen spot.
How glorious it was! In front of inc was a
reground of broken walls and arches, relieved
bushes and tawny grass; then an open level,
assy space, out of 'which rose the nolile old
lace, towering tfi a dizzy height -in its fifth
orey---with the broken walls and oriels of the •
st above, and the Wild creepers waving over all,
d hanging down the stairs. Below, from storey
storey, the gromed arches were open, showing
e sky through them ; and the King's chamber
audience, rich in fretted. work and delicate
thic tracery, gave an exquisite linish to the
hole. The two lower ' storeys open into the
urtyard, and outside they forma huge base-
ent, upon which the tall body of the palace was
hied, producing is, wonderfully picturesque
ect. Beyond the palace were the noble
arind-tree of the moat, and the distance, ex -
riding for many miles in waving, undulating
wns, was covered with the ruins of -the old city,
1 they were lost in a blue haze -melting into the
y. out of the holes in the palace walls, and
e ruined rooms aleove, flocks of blue pigeons
cled in the air, while the green paroquets, al-
t as numerous, and screaming shrilly, seemed
be disputing the dominion of thse ohl ruin with
"Not here, my lOrd, not her .; iny lord 'should
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not sit here !" cried my guide 1 earnestly, as he
followed me up to ray seat. "It is an accursed
spot. • Ah, not here !" and he clasped his hands.
together in supplication. "Come away ! come
away !"
"And why not here ?" I said. "1 have begun
my picture, and muat finish it; and you know we
English have few.fears ofghosts and grim legend's..
What is the matter with the place, my friend?
lnshallah ! it will do, very w ,
ell. '
"Yes-Inshallah !"' he muttered, and again
away43,t ,ut : "No, noi, sahib ; come away, come
ay1
I believe that my attendant's were frightened,
and oneof them began to put back into the case
the pencils and brushee he had charge of.
"Nonsense !" I exclaimed. "Are you foolish
to day, Kulleem Oolla, or have you a story you
are frightened to tell ?"
Frightened to tell !" he echoed, and I
thought shuddered. "Pardon me; my lord • I
am old, and foolish sometimes, and the place f 411
of memories. See, yonder is the balcony where
his wife put the body of Kumal Khan, the false
vizier, after - Ise had been slain by Yoosuf the
Turk ; dressed it out in rich clothes" and jewels
as if it were alive, and set her slaves to wave fans
behind it while she, ordered her son and the.
troops, in hie father's } name, to go and attack the
young Kingthat was King Ismail, a boy of nine
years old, you know -who, with his mother, lived
in the great palace yonder. Ah, yes, they went;
and the Queen and the bravenurse, Dilshad Agha,
Put on armour and came out on the terrace at the
head of their few guards, and fought with bows
and arrows, though they were only helpless
women after all; and they fought till sense true
men got over the fort wall, and came and succour-
ed them. Yes, Alla was with them, and would
not see murder and treachery done. And then
the royal lad saw Mullet Khan's 80111 standing
under the wall to shelter himself from the arrows,
and showed him to an archer, who wounded him
in the eye • and then, as he was trying to draw
out the barb, the boy pushed over a !great stone
and it fell on his head and killed him. I will
show- my lord the stone. • Come, come; it will
be dark boon ; it is not far."
I looked up into the old man's face, smiling.
"No," I said, "friend, that is not the story. --
The tale of the old revolution would not make
you tremble."
"I tremble ! I am not afraid," he said, looking
around him with a wistful kind of glance. It
is not night, that I should fear -and you with
me."
"Day -or night, you are afraid of the place," I
said: "Is it haunted, or has murder been done
here?" -
"0, if I could tell you !" he exclaimed ; and
you might know of some medicine that would
help him when he is wild --mad."
"Mad -who ?" I asked.
"My brother," he replied, "my elder brother.
But you have not seen -him. If he were to see
you here, he -he would kill you. There was a
poor 'shepherd boy once, sitting where you are
now, piping to his rats, and he came and fell on
him, and only that some heard his 'screams he
would have Strangled the lad with his hands."
"But I anr not a poor shepherd boy, and have
some armed chuprasseee with me. 0, old man.
are you foolish ?" I said, laughing.
"I am not foolish, my lord; it was a ffrievious
thing that happened here, and, as I said, the
place is accursed. Come away !" he cried with
vehemence; "come away, 'elie they will be upon
1I8 1,,
"Who ?" I asked. "Of whom are you afraid?
"Of the evil spirits," lie replied, in a low
husky voice. "I dare not stay -come !"
My interest was aroused by the old ma a
manner. What could have happened here?
crowd of thoughts of some evil deed that mig t
have been done in so lonely a place rushed in 4iy
mind. "Tell me," I said, "the servants are j4ut
of hearing -tell me what happened." Stt he
hesitated, and I pressed him the more urg
ntly-.
At last he yielded, and sat down near me. The
tears were falling fast from his dim eyes. I (lid
not speak to him, and after a little time he
wiped his face, and looked up sadly.
"Well, Shekjee ?" I said.
."My lord, the tale I will tell you concerns us
only -myself and my poor., brother, and he is
mad ; but it will grieve you, and you have a
gentle nature. I had better be silent."
"No," I replied; speak, and I will listen."
• CONCLUDED NEXT WEEK.
- Largest Cattle in the World
The curiosity of the city has been greatiy ex-
cited to -day upon "bovine" matters. Mr. George`
Ayrault is a well-to-do Dutch country fanner, a
man who takes great pride in raising .sleek, fat
cattle. In this branch of a farmer's business he
met with great success, so great, in fact, as to be
able to day to state that he has raised the four
fattest steers in the world. The lightest of them
• weighs, 3,300 pounds, and the heaviest over 4,-
000 pounds. The latter is named "George Pea-
body. Recently Mr. A.yrault sold these
cattle to Mr. Lalor, Fulton „Market, New York,
for $800 each, or $3.200 for all. .
They are purely Anierican, having been calved
on Mr. Ayrault's farm, and they are indeed
wonderful to look upon. They were brought
here from Mr. Ayrault's on bilge barn -like sleds,
being drawn into town one by; one the first two
by six horses, and the last two b'er twelve oxen:
• As they passed through the city to the stables of
the Northern Hotel vast crowds followed them,
and the windows in the street through which they
moved were filled with men and women peering
down upon the monstrous masses of flesh. They
are to remain here on exhibition till Friday, -
when they will be shipped to New York, and
there butchered; after which their hides are to
stuffed and placed in Central Park. -
During the past year these animals have gain-
ed 1,400 pounds, or 350 pounds each. Their feed
has been mostly .meal and beets. A beautiful
chromo-lithograph of them has already been
issued, and it is soon to be followed by a chart
from Mr. Ayrault, giving particulars relative to
their "bringing up." The heaviest pair weighs
300 pounds heavier than ilny on recerd. in this
country or Europe. The English Steer noticed
in the Rural New Yorker as being a prize Christ-
mas steer, weighing 2,180 pounds, falls short
1,200 when compared with Mr. Ayrault's light-
est steer, a fact which may nerve our English
brethren to more vigorous efforts in the future. -
The "bulls and bears" of Wall street should look
at them when they arrive in your city, and note
what they may yet come to. -E. Y. Cor. Tribune.
"Dead ! is it possible f Was she resi e 1 9"
'Resigned? re.signedr Mein Gott ! ske Itaxl to
be p,
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blechilnistal - of Thought
Our brains are seventy year clocks.. The
_Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then
closes the case, and gives the key into the hand
of the Angel of the Resurrection. Tic -tic .t tic -
tic! go the wheels of thought; our will can not
stop them ; they cannot stop theinselves ; sleep
can not .still them; madness only makes them go
faster; death alone can break into the case, and
sea' g the ever swmging pendulum, which w
have carried 'JO long beneath our wrinkled fore
heads. If we eould only get at them as we lie on
our pillows and count the dead. beats of thought
after thought, and image after image jarring
through the overtired organ! ;Will nobody
block those wheels, uncouple that pinion, cut- the
string that holds those weights, blow up the in-
fernal machine with gunpowder? What apassion
comes over us sometimes for silence5 and rest that
this dreadful mechanism, unwinding the endless
tapestry of tune, embroidered with spectral
figures, of life and death, could have but one brief
holiday' Who can wonder that men swing them-
selves off from beams to hempen lassos? That
they -jump off from parapets into the swift and
gurgling waters beneath? That they take counsel
of the grim fiend who has but to utter his one
peremptory monosyllable, and the restless ma-
chine is shrivelled as a case that is dashed upon a
marble floor? Under that building which we
pass every day there are strong dungeons where
neither hood nor bar, nor bedcord, nor drinking
vessel from which a sharp fragment may be shat-
tered, shall by any chance be seen. • There is no-
thing for it, when the brain is on fire with the
whirling of its wheels, but to spring against the,
stone wall and silence them with a crash. Ah,
they remembered that -the kind city fathers -
and the walls are nicely. padded, 80 that one can
take such exercise as he likes without damagileg
himself. If anybody would really contrive some
kind of a lever that one could thrust in among the
Works of this horrible automaton and check them
or alter their rate of going, what wou/d the world
give for the discovery ? Men are eery apt to try
to get at the machine by some 'indirect system or
°other. The clap on the breaksby means of opium,
they change the maddening tnonotony of the
rhythm by means of fermented liquors. It is
because the brain is loc
its movements -directly, that we thrust these
coarse tools in through any crevice by which they
a
may reach the interior, alter its rate of going for
a while, and at last spoil the xna,chine.
.ledup and we can touch
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The Importance of Accent.
.
Some years ago, when the opera of 'Fru Diavole
was first performed in England, the overture at
once became so popular as a piano piece, and had
such an immense sale'that more than one publish-
eres.each being eager for his share of the profits -
undertook to issue his ov..n. arrangement of it,
when, to their dismay, one stepped in with a law-
suit against another, basing his elainnton the fact
of his having purchased the copyright abroad,
.and hence his sole right to publish. _Among the
witnesses for the plaintiff was John Blewitt, the
celebrated organist, composer and wit. On being
esked to look over the spurious copy and see if it
was the same as the genuine, he replied in the
affirmative, remarking, at the same time, that
there was some trifling difference in a few paste
ages, chiefly in their accentuation, but that the
spirit and intention was the 'same.' 'Wtat "said
the lawyer, is there accent infnuisic ?' 'Certain-
ly, sir; as much as there is in; language.' 'Please
explain,: replied the limb of the law. 'It will be
almost impoasible, sir, as you eeera to be unac-
quainted with anything connected with music,
which itself is the language of sound. Were you
a musician, you would instantly comprehend me ;
but -as you are not, I despair of making myself in-
telligible to you.' 'Well sir, give me as you best
can some familiar examples of accent' Our hero
at once explained himself thusly : 'Suppose I
were to say, you as, that would fbe one kind of
accent, you ass -that would be another kind -
oh! -you ass would be another kind --and, you're
ajackass would be another. 'Enough, enough,
sir.' Evidently the 'limb' knew notkints of danc-
ing as well as of music, or he might have had some
idea of Recent.
VARIETIES.
••,
What is the greatest want of the age ?-Want
off undas
General Court -,Waiting on three or four girls
at the same time.
•
W hen a woman wishes to be very affection-
-ate to her lover, she calls him a "naughty man."
Pride is a vie, which pride itself inclines
every man, to find in others, and to Overlook in
himself.
Customs in the Hipialayas
About Wangtu -a curious change in social
customs occurs. Below' this point polygamy pre -
Valls, every man buying his wiyes from their
parents, for a given nuxnber of rupees. When he
tires of one of these, hei sells her to his neighbor,
for something under eopt price, and purchases a
new inthnate for the Zenane, •Further up the
valley, however, where the people are very poor,
and the tiny ridges of cultiiation will not support
largefamilies, polyandry is common -as among
the Midas in the Neigherries. The elder brother
chooses -the children are common property, and
seem equally beloved by all the family, so, they,
at least do not suffer by the arrangement. The
sisters of the wife being considered detrimentals,
are placed in Buddhist: convents, whence they
come forth to work in the fields, or as coolies. --
Many men, also, find homes in these convents,
though this seems rather a matter of social con-
venience than of religious feeling.-Goocl Words.
IT is certainly gratifying to ;know that in
Illinois, the the Young men's Christian Association
is doing a good work. One of its moetetactive
• members is Mr.-- -- a young gentlema,n of
position and means, who has done much in aiding
the poor and unfortunate. At one time he be-
came quite interested in a German family in in.-
digent circumstancps. The wife was quite sick,
and he visited her very often, doing all he eould
to prepare her mind for the worst, if it should.
come to that. He had not seen her for a few days
when he met the husband, and the following con-
wivefresa„ion took. place:
"How do you do, Mr.—? How is your
"Mein frau ?—inein frau is dead."
WOUNDS made by the teeth often prove poison-
ous. A man in Detroit struck another in the
teeth on -Christmas day, cutting his own knuckles
thereby. The hand swelled and became very
much inflamed, and since then the flesh has de-
cayed from the- wounded linger. The diseased
bone has been scrape
the physicians thiuk amputation.willbe necessary.
d, but without effect,and
Shocking -Will the venerable gentleman 111
Specs, who in mistake kissed Miss Angelina
Spiff toe for his punt, kindly forward his name
and address, so that the kiss may be returned to
him ?
Getting into debt, is like a mouse getting into
a trape---very easy going in, but extremely dif-
ficult gttting out.
The worst form of indigestion is that -which -
arises from having to eat one's words. This
;ee,s
au4iesm. ore pain ,Vran inability to stomach other
An old lady refused to let her niece dance with
a young graduate, because she heard that he was
a bachelor ef arts, whereby she understood him .
to be an artful bachelor.
If the principles of contentment are not within
us, the height of station and worldly geandeur
will as soon add a cubit to' a man's stature as to hia
happiness.
A small boy, in one of -the city Sabbath
schools, upon being asked by his teacher -"What
is the chief end of man ?" answered "the end ,
that his head is on." . •
A toper's idea of temperance-" Temperance is.
a great virtue, therefore be moderate in the lase
use of ardent spirits. Six glasses•of sling before -
breakfast are as good as a thousand."
The three P's. --:-The press, the pulpit, the.
petticoat -the three ruling powers of the day.
The first spreads knowledge, the second spreads
-morals, and the third spreads considerably.
Parents are commonly more careful to bestow
wit on their children than virtue, the art of
speaking well, rather than doing well. But
their morals ought to be their great concern.
The Augusta (Maine) Journal relates that an
advertisement of "a small sewing machine, for
onedollar, was answered by a young man in the
rarel districts, who received in return for his dol-
lar a shoemaker's awl. °
A gentleman made a sad mistake the other day,
in mentally deciding that a grass widow must
• necossately be verdant He acted upon that
basis, and found that the emerald hue was all oil.'
his own side -of the house. •
A Judge recently stated, in behalf of a female'
witness whom a lawyer was cross questioning as.
to her age that a woman had aright to be of any
age she pleased, because, if she stated her real
age nobody would believe her. ,
"Talking of law," says Pompey, "makes me.
tink of what the mortal Cato, who lib more dan
a donsand years ago, say. Him say, 'De law is.
like a gioun glass window, dat give light .enough)
to light us poor earin' mortals in the dark pas-
sages of life ; but it would puzzle de dickens him-
seltto see troo it."
Never let Us wonder at "myelin we are born -
to, for no man has reason to coni where via
are all in the same .condition. 1 e that escapes
might have suffered, and it is but .,equal to sub-
mit to the laws of inortality. We must undergo
the colds of winter, the heats of summer, the dis-
tempers of the air, and the diseases of lite body.
The Captain of one of our tea -ships had some
rare China coffee -cups, and some having got hyp-
hen which he was unable to get matched, be was
induced, while on one - of his trips to China, to
have them matched there. He gave the order,
and was astonished to have handed to him a set of
cups, fac-simile of the cup left, with &small chip
broken off the rim of each, and colored as if they
had been broken or chipped and used some time.
Many a maiden leads her adorer further and
further, weaving around him the soft net -work of
her enchantment, until he dream.s of recipro-
cated affection and wakes to find himself deserts
ed for a new a4mirer. 'Something is gone from
his life that, were he to , live a thousand years,
will never come back to it. There are other
"songs without words" besides those of Men-
delssohu ; but the saddest of all the songs are
those of the flirt who has nothing but the conse-
quences of her flirtation to reflect upon.
A very successful fleaXCe in Cincinnati the
other night burst into tears when the medium
described a very accurately tall, blue-eyed spirit
standing beside hien, -with Egtt side whiskers
and his hair parted in the middle. "Do you
i
know him ?" nquired &Mill at his side in a - gym -
pathetic whisper. "Know him. ? I guess I do,, '
replied the unhappy MOM, wiping his eyes. "lie
was engaged to my wife. If he hadn't a -died he
would have been her husband instead of sne.
"Oh, George, George," he muttered in a voice
ocuhotk?e,d with emotion; "why, why. did you peg
Solitude, though it may be as silent as light, is
like light, the mightiest of agencies, for solitude
is essential to man. All men come into the
world alone, all leave it alone. King and priest',
warrior and maiden, philosopher and child, all
walk those mighty galleries alone. The solitude,
therefore which in this world appals or fascinate*
us is, but the echo of a- far, deeper solitude,
which already we have passed, of another soli-
tude, deeper still, through Which we have to pails
-reflex of one solitude, prefigurative of another.
When is a prison door like an escaped thief ?
-When its bolted. What is the highest pitch
of a voice ?-The place where the voice sticks.
A hint ?-Dress plainly; the thinnest soap-
"bubles wear the grandest colours. If twenty-
four grains will make a penny -weight how many
-will make a penny run' When does rain seem
to be studious !-When its poring over a book-
stall. .Why is a candle with a "long nose" like a
contented man ?-because it wants nuffin. "
didn't think you'd be BO hard with me," as the
shark said, when he bit the anchor. When you.
hear a man say : "Life is but a dream," tread on.
hiscome and wake him up. Life is real.
Artemus Ward. once lent some money_ Ile _
thus recounts the transaction ,:-"A gentlemanly
friend of mine came to me one daywith tears in
his eyes. I said 'Why those weeps r_ Ile said
he had a mortgage on his farm, and wanted to bor-
row £200. I lenthim the money, and he went
away. Some time after he returned, withmore
tears.fie said he must lea.ve me foreier. I
ventured to remind him of the £200 he borrowed.
He was much cut up. I thought 1 would not be,
hard upon him -so told him that I would throte
off £100. Ile brightened, shook my hand, and
said, 'Old friend, I Won't allow yau to outdo me
in liberality -P11 throw off the other hundred.'
And thus he diseharged the debts"
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