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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1870-07-08, Page 1ch-1oading Spencer of ammunitionwill be ifte Range, on Domin- ock p na Forty en - ;es 300, and 400 yards ; Entries min be re- urrie's)- saloon, where beert POSTPONED, s.arties, 'and will come t the same time 131-2in. [I SAW. farm of 25 acres, ai -el a good log house, eer miler& and a. first the east corner a lot IluIlett, Co. Huron. ron Road, 5 miles from h. This farm is well VIII be sold either With 4 Forfurtherparticu- on the ple,mises. ENOS MORTON. 'I31-tf. k SALE. >r saie, n eaa-y- terms, • ; A good Farm of 51 ired, and well -watered to the barn yard. A a young Orchard, bear - >use, well furiehed—a with Stabl and Gran - If of Lot 22, 5th eon - three qearters of a avel Road leading to three miles from Sea - house -within a quer- r particulare apply to encases. 0/11sr SPARLING. 129-3m— ECCS! to tender Tie thanks' s:eir liberal patronsee and also to statethat sh Price itity of th Eggs. art Street; Seaford'. 1). WELSON. 1254f. ERY, NTL E SH : of reterning thanks e extended to -her since mid respectfully inti- rs, that the is still to BY'S STORE. All f' 10S. ATTE.NTION. S'E , TNESS and the be ‘EXCELLED 1N md HAeIR-WORK RTFIST NOTICE. 0. t 121— MAN'S OOD QUALITIES 'TABLISHED HOUSE PLACES FOR DO - CANADA. 1524f, intimate to the pub- efortle for the sale TEisaAW'S PO I laad„ PS WILSON. Market .Scestare 1.93atf Ir. William, ILjwrie a for .conveyan jer— takieg affida•vits. IrOS CARROTir. tice of I N CI emptly. attend 0 all eepecially the runLmes - RITS CARROLL, Land Surveyor 11111121MM WM. F. LUXTON, "Freedom in Trade—Liberty in keligion--Equality ,in Civil Rights". VOL. 3, NO. 31, EDTIOR & PUBLISHER. SEAFORTH, FiUDAY, JULY 8, 1870. WHOLE NO 135. BUSINESS CARDS. MEDICAL. RTRACY, M. D. Coroner for the County of . Huron. Office and Residence—One door East of theMethodist Episcopal Church.= Seaford', Dec. 14th, 1B68.. 53-1y iorL. VERCOE, M. D.C. M., Physician, Sur- geon, etc., Office and Residence, corner of Market and nth Street, imm.ediately in rear of Kidd &:. MeMul •n's Store. Seaforth, Feb. 4th. 1870. DR. W. R. SMITH, Physician, Surgeon, etc. Office,—Opposite Veal's Grocery. Resi- dence—M am -street, North. Seaforth, Dec., 14, 1863. 53- ly T CAMPBELL, M. D. C. M., (Gra,duate of Mc, Gill University, Montreal) Physician, Sur- gec; etc., Seaforth. Office and Residence—Old Post Office Building, upstairs, where he will be. found by night or day when at home. Seaforth, July15th, 1869. 84-ly LEGAL lan F. WALKER, Attorney -at -Law and So- ' licitor-in-Chancery, Conveyancer, Notary Public, &c. Office of the Clerk of the Peace, Court House, Goderich, Ont . N.B.---Money to lend at 8 per cent On Fainn Lends. Proderich Jan'y. 28. 1870. • 112-1y. • 7QAUGHEY & HOLMSTEAD, Barristers;, SAL 'Attorneys at Law, Solieitors in Chancery • end Insolvency, Notaries Public and Conveyanc- ers. Solicitors for the R. C. Bank, •Seaford', 'Agents for the Canada Life . Assurance Co. N. B. --$30,000 to lend at 8 per cent. Farms, Houses and Lots for sale. Seaforth Dec. 14th, 1868. 53-tf. BENSON & MEYER,, Barristers and Attorney at Law, Solicitors in Chencery and Insolv- ency, Con+eyancers, Notaries .Public, etc. Of.- fices,—Seaforth and Wroxeter. Agents for the Trust and Lean Co. of Upper Canada, and the Colonial Securities- Co. of London, England. Money at 8 per cent; no commission, charged. /AS. H. BENSON, •H. W. C. MEYER. Seaforth, Dec. 1004.1868. 53-ly • DENTAL. G. W. HARRIS, L. D. S Arti- ficial Dentures inserted with all the latest improvements. The greatest care taken for the preservation of decayed and tender teeth, - Teeth extracted without pain. Rooms over Collier's Store. - • Saeforth. Dec. 14, 1868. ly. HOTELS. lOMMERMAL HOTEL, :Ainleyvill , James kei Laird, proprietor, affords tirst-class accom- modation for the travelling public. The larder and bar are always supplied with the best the markets afford. Excellent stabling in connection A inleyville, April -23, 1869. • 70 -tf. TT 0 NX'S 110T EL (LATE SHARP'S) The un- dersigaed begs to thank the public for the liberal patronage awarded to him in times past , in the hotel business, and also to --inform them - that he has again resumed business in the above stand, where, he will be happy to have a call from old friends, and many new ones. • THOMAS KONX. Seaforth, May 5, 1870. 126-tf. • JR. ROSM, Proprietor New Dominion Hotel, begs to inform the people of Seaforth and the.travelling community generally, that he keeps first-class accommodation in every thing required by tra-611ers. A good stable and rilling hostler always on hand, Regular Boarders will receive every necessary attention. Seaforth, Feb. 8th, 1869. 63-1y. ITIORITISH EXCHANGE HOTEL, Goasennt, _131 ONT., J. CALLAWAY, PROPRIETOR ; J. S.. NV -Imams, (late of American Hotel, Warsaw, N. • Y.) Manager. This hotel, has recently been new- ly furnished, and refitted throughout, and is now one of the most cumfertable and conamodions in • the Province. Good Sample Rooms for Commer- cial Travellers. Terms liberal. Goderich, April 14, 1870. •123-tf. MISCELLAN:EOUS. 0 HARP'S LIVERY STABLE, MAIN ST, 10 SEAFORTH. First Class Horses and Carriages always on hand. at reasonable terms. R .L. SHARP, Proprietor. Seaforth, May 5th, 1870. 3-tfa- MAILL & CROOKE, Architects, 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 -House Sqleare, Goderich. Goclerieh, April 23, 1869. '79- ly. & W. McPHILLITS, Provincial Land Sur- veyors, Civil Eneineers, etc. All nmener of Conveyancing done with neatness and dispatch. -G. McPhillips, Commiseioner in B. R. -*Office— :Next door sotith of -She. 's Hotel, Seaforth. .• Seaforth, Dec. 14, 186 •534y JT. S. PORR TE, Seefortb, Ont.'dealer in hides, - sheep skins, furs and Wool. Liberal advance- ments naade on consignments. Money to lend. Insurance agent Debts collected.- Highest price paid for green backs.---I-Office east side of Main Street, one daor north Johnson Bros'. Hardware Store. 122.4f. _le)HAZLEHURST, Licensed Auctioneer for . the County of Huron. Goderich, • Ont 'Particular attention paidto the sale of Bankrupt Stock. Farm Stock Sales attended. on Liberal s Terms. Goods -Appraised., Mortgages Foreclosed, Landlord's Warrants Executed. Also, Bailiff 'First Division Court for Huron. efoloclericli,• June 9th, 1869. • 76. tf, PADDLE YOUR OWN CleaNOE." Up this world and down this world, And over this world a -ad through, ' Though drifted about, And tossed without, Still "paddle yonr own -canoe." What if the breakers rise up aheed, With dark waves rushing through, More steadily try, With steadfast eye, To ,"paddle your own canoe." If a hurricane rise in the midnight sky, And the stars are lost to vieW, • Glide safely along, With smile and song, And "paddle your own canoe." Up this world and down this world, • Over this world and through, Though weary and worn, • Bereft, forlorn, Still "paddle your own canoe." Never give up when trials come— Nevergrow sad and blue; Never sit down - With a tear or a frown, But "paddle your own canoe," There are daisies springing along the sbotes Blooming and sweet for you ' • • There are rose -lima dyes In the autumn skies- - - Then "paddle yotir awn canoe." UNDER FALSE COLORS. (Concluded.) • e will pass over the events of the next few' years. It would hardly interest you to follow, as I did, each step by -which the heroine of my his- tory progressed ever downward on the path of vice.. We find her at last _travelling in Italy un- der the protection of the Count Von Erleisten, an Austrian noble of great wealth and dissolute char- acter: • She has cast aside the name she once bore, and anticipating the jewel -borrowed cog- noraies of Cora Pearl and La Reine Topaz, she adopts a title from the .profusion of pink coral jewelry which she habitually wears, and Rose Sherbrooke is known as Rose Coral." Horace paused. A short, sharp sound brake the mopmentary silence, it was caused by the snapping of one of the gilded fan -sticks under the pressure of the white, rigid fingers that clasped it. But the listener kept her, face hidden, and but nit that convulsive motion the speaker might have fancied that she slept, so silent and motion- less did- she remain. After a short pause Horace continued*: - "The -attachment of Count Von Erlenstain proved to be a lasting one, and we find Rose Cor- al at a later period enstalled in a luxurious estab- lishment in -Vienna, and one of the reigning queens of that realm of many soveregns, thedem,i-nionde of the gay capital of Austria.- But the Count fallsill:- his sickness speedily assumes a danger- ous forn" ; his death deprives Rose Carol of her splendor; and the sunny streets of Vienna know her fair face no more. • I will not trace for you, as I could do, each step in her rapid descent from luxury to poverty, from splendor to vice, from celebrity to ruin. But one day she makes her ap- pearance, under the name of Rhoda Steele, on board the steamship America, bound for New York. The state -room which she occupies is shared by a young girl named Marion Nugent, whose future career is to be that of a goyerness jn the United States. On the first night one of the occupant S of the state -room is taken, suddenly ill and dies ; the corpse is committed to the deep and it is reported throughout the ship thaa the name of the.deceased is Rhoda Steele. Thetale was false : it was Marion Nugent who diedit Was Rose Sherbrooke, alias Rose Carol, alia8 -Rhoda Steele, .who lived to rob the poor girl of her effects and to 458=e her name !" • The broken fan was flung violently on the floor and Mrs. Rutherford sprang to her feet, her face livid with passion and her blue eyes blazing with a steel -like light. "How dare you come here to assert such false- hoods" she cried: "You have always hated me—you and all the rest of your haughty femily --because it pleased Clement Rutherford to mar- ry me—me, a penniless governess. But I am your sister -in law, and I demand that you treat me with proper respect. You came here to -day simply to insult mt. Well, sir, I will summon my husband, and he shall protect me from your insolence." She turned toward the door as she • spoke but he motioned her back with an imperative and scornftil geeture. • "Softly. • Rose Carol," he said with a sneer the manners of the Quartier Breda are notmuch to my taste, not do they suit the character you have been pleased to assume. Do you think me so void of common sense as to return home with- out full proof of your identity? I have in my possession a large colored photograph of you, tak- en some years -ago by Hildebrandit, of Vienna, and endorsed by him on the back with a certifi- cate stating that it is an accurate likeness of the celebrated Rosa Carol. Secondly, I have brought home With me two witnesses—one is Jane Sheld- on, late househeeper for the Rev. Walter Nugent and forraerly nurse to the deceased Marion Nu- gent; and the other is a French hairdresser who • lived. many years in Vienna, and who, for several months, daily arranged the profuse tresses of Rosa Coral. One will prove who you are not, and the other will as certainly prove who you are." "Who I was," she said, defiently. I will deny it to longer : I am Rose Sherbrooke, once luiown. as Rose Ceral, and what is more to the purpose, I am the wife of Clement Rutherford. Have a care, ray brother Horace, lest you reveal to the world that your immaculate relatives have been touching pitch of the bleckest hue and great- est tenacity. Prove me to be the vilest of my sex, I remain none the less a, wedded wife—_ -your brother's wife—and I defy you. The game is played. out, and I have won it." • She threw herself back in her chair and cast on him a glance of insolent disdain. Horace 'Ruth- erford, looked at her with a scornful smile. "The game is not played out," he said calmly. "One card remains in my hands, and I produce it. It is the Ace of Diamonds, and its title is The Rose Of the Morning." A livid paleness overspread Mrs. Rutherford's features, and a stifled cry escaped from her lips. She half rose from her seat, but, -seeming to re- collect horielf,* she sink back and covered her face with her hands. Horace continued after a moraentary pause: • "My investigations into dee, history of the Count Wilhelm Von Erlenstein during the last years of his life revealed the fact that he had lost the most valuable of the jewels of his family. It had been stolen. It was a pink diamond of great size and beauty, known to gem connoisseurs by the name of The Rose of the Morning—one of those remarkable stones which have it history and a pedigree, and which are as well known by re- putation to diamond -fanciers as are Raphael's Transfiguration and the Apollo Belvidere to the lovers of art. This gem was worn by Count Wil- helm as a clasp to the plume in his toque at a fancy ball given by one of the Metternich family, at which he appeared indict costume of Henri IIL, of France. He afterward, with culpable careless - nes, placed' it amongst his studs, pins, watch - chains, and other similar bijouterie, in a small steel -cabinet which "stood in his bed chamber: His illness and. the dismissal of Rose Coal occur- red soon after the fancy ball in question, .land it was not till his heir, the present count, had been for. some time in possession of the estates that it was diaeovered that the gteat diamond was mis- sing. • It was not to be found, and suspicion im- mediately fell uponethe late count's valet, a Frenchman named Antoine Lassalle, Who was found to have been mysterionsly possessed of a large BUM of money after the count's death. He was arrested, and it was conclusively proved that he had stolen a number of valuable trinkets from hi3 dying master, but still no trace of The Rose of the Morning could be discovered, and Lassalle strenuously denied all knowledge respecting it. The family offered large rewards for its discovery and the detectives of all the large cities of Europe have been for some time on the alert to discover it, but in vain. As soon as I heard this story, I .thought that I could make a tolerably shrewd guess as to the whereabouts of the •missinglewel ; midi caused investigations to be set omfoot in New York by a trusty agent, which resulted in the discovery that The Rose of the Morning had been sold some six months before to a jeweler in Maiden Lane for about oneetwenty-fifth of its value, the peculiar tint of the stone, and the purchaser's ignorance of the eatimation in which it is held by the gem -fanciers of Furope, -having militated against the magnitude of the valuation • set upon it. It was secured for me at a compara- tively trifling price.- The person who sold it to the jeweler some six months ago, in spite of a • partial disguise and an assumed name, was easy to recognize, from the description given, as that lady of many names Mrs. John, Archer's govern- ess..You may be Airs, Clement Rutherford, my brother's lawful wife, but you' -,are not the less a thief and a criminal, for whom the laws have ter- rible punishment and bitter degredation." "This is but a poor inventions; where are your proofs?" she cried, looking up as she spoke, but her faltering voice and quivering lips contradict- ed her words. "Here is my chief witness." He clrew Off his left-hand glove as'he spoke, and extended his hand tywards her. On the third finger blazed the beautiful gem of which he had spoken, its great size end purity fully displayed in the afternoon sunlight that flashed back in easyradiance from its bright -tinted depths. - "It is almost too large to wear as a ring," he said with great coolness, looking at the jewel, but I wish it to run no further risks till 1 can transfer it to its proper owner, -which will be as soon as it has played its talismanic part by free- ing my brother from his impostor -wife." The lady rose from her seat, pale, calm, and resolved. "Further insults are useless, sir," she said. " The !same if ended now, and you have won it. What is it that you wish me to do ?" You must sail for Europe in one of next week's steamers, leaving behind you sach a con- fession of guilt as will enable my brother to pro- cure a divorse without revealing the shameful fact that he was the innocent means of intorduc- ing an • ostor—a ei-devant lorette to his family and frierkls as his wit. Better this scandal of an elope ent than the horror of having such a story mide public. An income amply sufficient for your wants will be settledetpon you, on con- dition that you never return tothe United States, and never, in any way, proclaim the fact that • Mrs. Clement Rutherford and Rose Coral were .one and the same person." "1 accept your conditions," she said wearily. I will go, never to return.. eiow leave me. But stay : will you not answer me one question?" I will, certainly." "Who. was it that discovered my secret" "My mother—my blind mother. Some years ago, -riefore she lost her sight, I accompanied her on a short European tour, in which we visited Beigland, France, Switzerland, and filially hely. While we were at Rome I fell ill with the fever of the country,and my physicians gave orders that as soon as I was well enough to travel I should leave Italy for a more bracing climate. We had not visited Naples, and I was anxious that nay mother should not return home without seeing the wonders of this city; so as soon as I became canvalescent I prevailed upon her,to leave • me in the care ot some friends, and to join aparty who were going thither. During the stay she went frequently to the opera. One evening she wrs greatly disturbed by the loud talking and laughing of some persons in thenox next to the one she occupied, and she was much struck with the beauty, the brilliant toilette, and the boister- ous conduct of one of the female members of the party. She inquired the name of the person she had thus remarked. It was yourself, and she learned, not only your name, but your whole history. When at her own dinner -table she heard the sweet and singular laugh that had so struck her on that occasion, the sensitiveness of hearing peculiar to the blind caused- her to recog- nize the sound at once; and the description which I afterwards gave her of your personal ap- pearance only changed torturing doubts into ago- nizing certainty." "Thanks for your courtesy; I will detain you no longer." Horace bowed and approached the door. Sud- denly, as if moved by a sudden impulse, he turn- ed back. "Believe me, this task has been a hard one," he said earnestly. "And remember, if hereafter you need pecuniary aid, do not hesitate to apply to me. For heaven's sake do not return to the life you once led. There was one. redeeming fea- ture in the imposter which you practised: it showed that some yearning for a pure name and innotent life was yet possible to you." "I want no sermons," she answered, abruptly. "Only leave me at peace. Go, I am sick of the sight of you." As he closed the . door he cast one parting lance on the room and its occupant. She stood • g against the back of a large arm -chair, her clasped hands resting on the top, and her white, rigid face set in the fixed calmness of total des- pair. Thus left alone, she remained standingfor tome time as motionless as though she were a marble stone and not a living woman. Suddenly she seemed to take some desperate resolvershe threw back her head with a bitter, mirthlees laugh, and going to the bell she rang it. • Her maid quickly appeared. "I have a vrretched. headache, Christine," she said. "I shall not come down to dinner, and -do not disturb me till nine e'clock, that willgive me time enough to dress for Mrs. Winchester's ball. I will wear the pale -blue satin and my point -lace tunic. Be sure you change the white roeetethat loop it for pink ones, and lay out my Future of pearls and diamonds, and my point -lace fan and handkerchief. Now bring me the two phials that stand on the third shelf of the closet in my bed- chamber. Christine departed on her errand • and soon- re - returned, bringing with her two bottles. the smallest of which was labelled, "Solutim of Morphia—Porsow. Dose for an adult, ten /while -the largest was simply inscribed, 1- 'phuric- Ether," These she placed on the chim- ney piece,and thee proceeded to arrange the cnshions of the lounge, and to draw the curtaiu• -s. • "I will now leave madame to her repose," she said. Does madame need anything more r • "No, I shall want nothing more," was the re - .ply. The door closed upon the maid's retreating form, • and Mrs. Rutherford instantly shot the. bolt. , Shel cast a sad and wistful glance around the dainty room and on its glittering contents. Petals is bleu ici," said she regretfully, "I had found here the existence which suited me, and now the end has coine. It is not in my nature • to remain satisfied with a life of poverty and re- spectibility, and I will not return to one of deg- redation and vice. But, after all, what does it matter? • My fate would have found me sooner or later, and this soft couch is better than s hos- pital bed or the slabs of La Margie. This draught is more soothing than the cold waters of the Manses or the_Seitae. Life is no longer . a game. that is worth the candle: let us extinguish the. lights and put the cards away." She took up the phial of morphia, drew 'die little sofa' nearer to the fire -place and extended herself upon it. The daylight faded from. the sky and night eame, and with the night clime sleep—a sleep whose dream was of Eternity, and whose waking light would be the dawn of there- surrectionanoraing. • • "Accidental death" was the verdict of the core ner and the newspapers, and, in fact, of the world in general—a conclusion much issisted • by the evidence of Christine, who testified. that her mis- tress was the habit of using narcotics an amestheties its large quantities to relievethe of -the neuralgie.headache from which she was constant sufferer. Society said, "How sad dreadful, Is it not ?" and went *on its way—no exactly rejoieing, for the death of Mrs. Rutherford deprived its members of her long-promised long-talked-of Shrove Tuesday ball, and. conse• quently the gay world mourn her - loss very sincerely for a short time; in fact, till a well- known leader of fashion announced her intention of giving a fancy dress party on the night thus left vacant, whereupon Society was consoled, and Mrs Rutherford's sad fate was forgotton. Only two) persons—Horace Rutherford and., his mother—suspected that her death was not an accidental one; but they guarded their secret carefully,. and Clement Rutherford will never learn that hie dead wife was other than the; in- nocent English gin she represented herself t�. be. Walter Nugent wrote a pathetic letter to Mrs. • Rutherford,. begging that a lock of his lost and now forgiving darling's hair might besent to him; and it cost Horace a sharp pang of regret when he substituted for the black, wavy tress fuznish- ed by Clement a golden ringlet purchased from one of thedeading hair -dressers- of New York. • "Heaven forgive me !" he said to himself re- morsefully, as he sealed the little pack; "but I really think this is one of the cases wherein one cannot be blamed_ for not revealing the truth." A few•months later, Horace Rutherfotd stood in Greenwood Cemetry contemplating with curi- osity and interest the inscription on a recently erected- monument of pure white marble:. "Sacred to the memory of Marion Nugent, be- loved wife of Clement Rutherford," be read. "Well,. this is consistent at least. She wears the disguise of a virtuous woman in her very tomb. Marion Nugent rests beneath the waves of the Atlantie ocean, and here Rose Sherbrooke sleeps in an honored grave beneath the shelter of the dead girl's stainless name. But the deception has power to harm no longer, so let us leave her in peace. It is well for our family, that, even as a sunken wreck, we still find this pirate bark Un- der False Colors.--Lippineot's Magazine. ea • ese ORIGIN AND NUMBER OF ANIMACULES.—If some hay is placed in a, glass of pure rain water, and al- lowed to soak for .a few days in a Slimy plolce, and if it be then removed, the water will be found, under e powerful microscope to contain many very small moving things, which are called infu- sona, from their being produced after infusing the hay. The eggs Which were on the hay bred the myriads of Small things,which often have a very beautiful coat of transparent flint or ailica. If the water is kept clean, and is not allowed to de- compose or Smell, generation. after generaiton of the infusmia live, die and fall to the bottom of the glass. They form a very delicate film there, and minute proportions of it, when examined un- der a high magnifying power, show the silicious skeletons or shells very distinctly. Now many strata in the Oarth are formed entirely of the re- mains.of infusoria; and a very familar example is the Tripoli -powder, from the polishing slate of Bilin, in Bohemia. A single grain of Tripoli - powder contains 110 fewer than 187,000,000 ani- malcules; yet the layers of earth which are made up of them at Bilin extend for miles. . In the har- bor of Wismar, in the Baltic, they increase and multiply at a great rate, fon 17,596 cubic feet of mud are formed every year there, and every grain of it contains 1,000,000 of the beautiful sin- ful tiny sea animalcules, and they are in such numbers that it must be suppose Barbadoes there is a thick mass of the most beauti- d the dead min: cious remains of the„.infussiria.. In the Island of ute things were constantly falling in. Faany Fern wishes this statement of hers put irethe crowns of the gentlemen's hats, "A fool of either sex is the hardest animal to drive that ever required a bit. Better one who jumps •a fence now and then after your sulkey, stupid donkey, whose rhinoceros back feels neither bad nor good." .71 tee•eak What is resolved once for all *should be well considered. vARITIEs. How to make a fire liot—Keep.it coaled - When lovers quarrel,. do tkey return the kisses Have confidence, but e cautious m whom you, place it. • It is curious, but the end of a- isaa is generally .lubber. • Terrible as they are, what shouldwe da with- out fire and death ? • The defmation of a gentleman One who has no business in this world. • Women are like flowers, a littleaspeeziine makes them more fragrant. Young folks grow most when they are increases their sighs wonderfully.. - Minds of moderate crdibre ordinarily condemn, everything Which is beyond. then...ranee. , "If thou art a master," says old Fuller.- "be sometimes blind, if a servant soinetiznes deaf..." From the Aural Districts—What is the &Lifer- ence between a -justice of the peaee and pies* of justice? , An old toper being requested to define harci. drinking, said, "It was sitting on w rock and sipping cold water.' A Cincinaatti drunkard hung himself the other night to escape a drove of black monkeys emer- ging from his boots. A loving .couple sleep in a country churcb.-yard with this effecting epitaph at their head.. "Their. warfare is accomplished." • A Yankee describing a lean opponent,said,— "I tell you what, sir, 'diet man don't amount to a sum in arithmetic—add him up and there is no- thing to carry," It is commonly said, a trader, will never grow rich who despises small gains ; and with equat • truth it may be said that the man will never grow virtuous who despffes small assensions to his virtues. i A man whoseprife huzag herself in his presence • on being askedhe did not prevent the tra- g-ecly, replied: cut liar down three times last week, and I can't be always cutting, her 15 " • - down." • "You say," said a judge to a witness, l'that • the plantiff resorted to an ingenions use of cis- cumstantial evidence state just exa,ctly WhaV Tr.' mean by that. "Well," said, the witness, e- - exact meaning is, that he lied." "So you are going to keep a ', school, young lady to her old aunt. "Well, for my part, sooner than do that, I would. -marry a widower with nine children." "I would prefer that my- self," was the reply; "but where is the widower?" • A young gentleman recently found himself in. company -with three young ladies, and -generously divided an orange between them, "You- will. rob yourself,' exclaimed one of the damsels. `Not at all," replied. the innocent; "I have three or four more in my pocket !" • Aman on being told by a generous farmer that he would give Irizia a narrel of eider, asked him if he would bring it to his house._ • `Certainly,'re- plied the farmer, `with 'demure.' 'Well, said the grateful recipient, `what will you pay me for • the barrel when the cider is gone?' "A close fisted fellow treating a friend to some old wine- peered out A very small quantity.—The latter, taking the glass and holding it above his - head, remarked, rather skeptically:. ' Yon say this is forty years old ?" ' Yes, "* replied. the hosts "Then," replied the other, "all that I have to say is, that it is very small fon its age." A physician examining a Student as to hiapro- gress, asked hina, "Should a marefall into a well forty feet deep, and strike his head against one of the tools with which he had been digging, what. would be your course if called in as a, surgeon" The student replied, "I should. advise them to leave that man lie, and fill up the well," "Really, my dear," said poor Mr: Jones to, hne better half, "you have sadly disappointed. me. I once considered you a jewel of a woman, but you've turned out only a bit ofnaatrimonial paste.' "Then, my love," was the reply, "console your- self with the idea that paste is very adhesive, and. will stick to you as long as you live.!' "How does the Empress Engein,e dress?" in euired an inquisitive female of a bachelor friend just returned from Paris. "Like a woman," was the brusque reply. "Of course," continued the inquirer, "but I wish to know whether she wears costly dresses."- "I understand.. you, madam," was the ungallant response : "She dresses like:a woman wearing the most costlY garments -_she ean procure," A young man accompanied by his lady -love, took breakfast at an hotel the other tlay.—Never having seen any fish -balls, be handed one to his lady under the impression that it was a dough - mit. After breaking his own,hecarefully:exam- ined, then greened it, and -with a sepulehral voice, Said, "Sal, don't eat that dough -nut; there's something deacl in this." - "Here lies the body of John Smith, * .• Buried iii the cloisters; If he don't jump, at the last trump, Call ,"Oysters." . "Here lies me and, my three daughters, Brought here by using Scidlitz waters, If we had stuck to-, Epsom salts, We would not have been in these here vaults," • • SONNET.. Once in my garden grew a lovely flower, - A fairer in the world you scarce could see; It drooped and faded in a single hour— Ales ! how dear the flowret was to me I Lily and rose it grew combined in one, To it the violets their perfume lent; But now its matchless beautiea all are gone' And the rare fragrance of its breath is senpt. Fee so it lies, the fairy &met 1 loye, Safe in the gieat Herbariam abnve. '�.*.. EXTINCT FAMILIES.—Robert Stephenson leaves .. no family behind him. His wife died many years '-44 ago, and he remaina a widower, so that the direct line from GeorgeStephenson, the eininentEnglish engineer, has died out. James Watt, the noted English Inventor, ieft no descendants. It appears that the men 'noted for mechanical genius, like many of those famous in literature, science so government, in Great Britain, leave no el 'liar Bacon, Newton., Harvey, Pope, Mansfield, Poidit.: to perpetuate their names. Shakespeare, 7,,,,,,,....: sFmioxih,Geraony'greCvoew,PllurineC,61Bliitinha'opl:h."18°)31 Iljoosbhbusa, ReAyndaoraidsS,misittl.aThBenthana ' DavY, "..t.r- IiLoyinrdge. lyde, and ot,.hers woenillattlIA:wievn:e;11:'ekillEXI°114 -British annals, have no lenial Aepreser it aii316 114Vir