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LUTON,
"Freedom
in •Tracle—Libertsi in 1?eligion—Equality in Civil Righto".,
EDTiOR & PUBLISHER
VOL. 3, NO. 48,
SEAFORTH
FRI DAY NOVEMBER
1870.
WHOLE NO. 152.
BUSINESS CARDS.
MEDICAL. 'MEDI:CAL.
TRACY, M. D., Coroner for the 5unty. of
Huron. Office and Residence-- door
East of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Seiforth, Dec. 14th, 1868. 53-ly
JtCI: MOORE, M. D.,C. (Gradnitteed McGill
. -University, Montreal,) Physician, Surgeon,
Axe Office„and residence Zurich, Ont.
Zurich, Sept. 7th, 1870. 144
JTAMES STEWART, M. D., CI M., Graduate
Of McGill University, Montreal. Physician,
Snrgeon, &c. Office and residence :—At MR.
COOK'S. Varna.
-TAR. W. R. SMITH, Physician, Surgeon, etc.
Office, --Opposite Veal's Grocery. Resi-
elence—Main-street, North.
Seaforth., Dec. 14,' 1§63. 53-ly
T_T L VERCOE, M. D.C. M., Physician, Sur-
geon, etc., Office and Residence, corner
of Market and High Street, immediately in rear
of Kidd & MeMulkin's Store.
Seaforth, Feb. 4th. 1810.
53-1y.
JCAMPBELL, M. D. C. M., (Graduate of Mc-
, Gill University, Montreal) Physician, Sur-
geon, etc., Seaforth, Office and Residence—Old
Post Office Building, up stairs, where' he will be
--found by night or day wheii at home.
Seaforth. July 15th, 1869. • 84-ly
LEGAL.
PF. WALKER, Attorney -et -Lew. 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 Farm.
Lands. \ -
G-ocier j y. 28.187� 112-iye
tCAUGHEY & HOL1V1STEAD, Barristers,
Attorneys at Law, Solicitors in Chancery
end Insolvency, Notaries Public. and Conveyanc-
ers. Solicitors for the >R. C. Bank, Seaforth,
Agents for the Canada Life Assurance Co.
V. R —$30;000 to lend at 8 per cent. Farms,
Houses and Lots for sale.
Seaforth, Dec. 14th, 1868, 53-tf.
DENSON & MEYER, Barristers and Attorney
at Law`, Solicitors in Chancery and insolv-
ency, Conveyancers, Notaries Public, etc. Of-
fices,—Seaforth and Wroxeter. Agents for the
'Trust and Loan Ce. of Upper Canada; and the
• Colonial Secutitiee Co, of London, England.
Money at 8 per cert, no commission, charged.
TAS. H. BENSON, s H. W. C. MEYER,
Seaforth, Dec. 10th 1868. 53-ly
DENTAL.
G. W. HARRIS, L. D. 5 Arti-
ficial Dentures inserted with all the
. latest' iraprovements. The greatest
care taken for trie preservation of - decayed and
tender teeth, Teeth extracted without pain.
Rooms over Gollier's Store. .
Saeforth. Dec. 14, 1868. ey,
HOTELS.
OOMMERC1AL HOTEL, Ainleyvill , James
Laird, proprietor; affords first-class accenn:.
modation for the travelling pubic. The larder
and bar are always sppplied with the best the
marketsafford. Excellent stabling in connection
Ainleyville, April 23, 1869. •• 704f.
-pNX'S.HOTEL (LATE SHARP'S) The un-
clersigned begs to thank the public for the
liberaltpatronage awarded to him in times past
in the hotel business, and also to inform them
that he has agaM resumed business in the above
stand, where he will be happy to have, a call
from oldtfrienda, and many new ones.
• . THOMAS KONX.
Seaforth, May §, 1870. 126-tf.
• I
It It. ROSS, Proprietoe New Dominion Hotel,
, begs to- inform the people of Seaforth and
the travelling community generally, that heleeeps
first-class accommodation in every thing required
by travellers.- A good stable and -willing hostler
alwaye on hand, Regular Boarders will receive
every necessary attention.
Seaforth, Feb. 8th, 1869.- 63-ly.
BRITISH -EXCHANGE HOTEL,- Gorereeme,
Okra J. CALLAWAY, PROPRIETOR ; J. S.
WILLIAMS, (late of Ameriean Hotel, Warsaw, N.
) Manager. This hotel has recently been new-
ly furnished, and refitted throughout, and is now
one of the most comfortable anel conimodicen in
the Proeince. Good Sample RoomsforCommer-
cial Travellers. Terms liberal,
Goderich, April 14, 1870. 123-tf.
MISCELLANEOTJS.
HARP'SLIN/ BRY I STABLE, MAIN ST.,
S EA FOR T/V 'Pint Class Horses and Carriages
always on hand at reasonable terms.
1 R .L. SHARP, Proprietor.
Seaforth, May 5th, 1§70.
MAILL L& CROOKE,' ArChitects, etc.:. "Plans
and Sprificattons drawn correctly, !Carpen-
ter's, Plasterer's, and Mason's work, measured
and valued. Office—Over J. - C. Detior & Co.'s
store, Court -House Square, Goderich.
Goderich, April 23, 1869. - 79-1y.
& W.McPIIILLIPS, Provincial Land Sur-
• veyors„ Civil Eneineers, etc. All manner
of Conveyancing done with neatness and dispatch.
G. McPhillips, Commissioner in 13. R. Office—
Next door south of Sharp's Hotel, Seaforth.
Seaforth, Dec. 14, 1868. 53-ly •
BHAZLEM/RST, Licensed Auctioneer for.
a the County of Huron. Goderieh, Out
Particular attention paid, to the sale of Bankrupt
Stock. f Farm Stock Sales attended on Liberal
Terms. Goods Appraised, Mortgages Foreclosed,
., Landlord's Warrants Executed. Also, - Bailiff
First Division Court for Huron.
Goderiche June 9th, 1869. 76. tf
A KIS
We were sta
My httle ife
The.goliden sun
Fell own so s
A small white
What could I
Than the kindly
As she kissed
1 kiow she loves
, e �ne w o s
And the year
Since first
We've had °I m
leSinceleve rnet
But the happiest
When she SS
1 1
Who calres fo
Of fa e of
It does ot gi
Of jut one
With one .wh
She s4ys sh
And I thoug
Whei she
;
ca
t t
At tim sitsem
With all it w
Is very small an
Com ared 't
And w en th cl
Joni think t
f "OD " W !se
To Id s me t
If she ijves
Thef ost u n
I know sh'111 -ve
As the rn�
But if the angels
And She goes t
I shall know her
For.she'll kips
a
T THE DOOR.
g at the doorway—
and, I-- -
pen her hair 1-
ently,
•d Upon my arm,
k for more
glance of ldving eyes, -
e at the door ?
-elith all her heart
ands beside!
ve' been so joyous
ed her bride!
ch of happiness -
years -before,
tune of all was
d nie at the door.
alth or land of gold,
chless power?
he happiness
d hour,
es me as her life-- ,
loves me more "—
e did this morning,
d me at the door.
11
4
d that all the world,
altk and gold,
poer indeed
what I hold! '
uds hang grim and dark
e °mote
aitsmy coming step
he door.
e shall scatter
her head,'
me just the same
wewere wed;
call her
Heaven before,
lien I meet her,
e -et the doer. •
TOO
"Here, take t ese
him," said Amalie in
sat in the sledge a re
"May your jo •ey
Petro, lashing on hi
shower of snow; nd,
Peter .bueg behin m
wilden
Iess..
W •ther did ts
regiori of Sib. - to
friend of ma .0 h.
- through this coi ort
See ! II There are t ac
scents' them.; he i
Tobolski.
A half sun arise
me, glittering wit
stunted pin 6 trees
the, white waste,
red beams. ot the s
writtez the death
ster. 9uicker, .P
rible dSsert So,
Where no sun
Forward, P tro !
like a grave. The
ness of death. _ H
That is a tr nsien
Aftei a dreary j
lengch in Ochotsk.
the go' ernort. and
quaint d with th
ney. He is a ma
ter from St. Pete
coldly ; and with
troducss me to his
After having re
company me to
personally make k
the Emperor. Fo
for "my , den 's.rel
If it is'not 4
accompany 1L1C; pe
aancl to Couiit Pa
it so," he re lies, ha
the soldier on guar 1 t
of excitement ivith w
tance to the hut of th
My heart beats fe, fu
before my eyes, fr m
A - misgiving, su h
waiting two clays f r
seizes me, hut in a gr
to lean for ai.uport on
" This is the hu of
I thank hi , an h
It was about
when I open d the
stood before me,
eupiecl n cleaning
I opened lIhe do
would iot r co e
looked towards me
name, and- I iwas e nb
on his garments ; t
1 I
LATE
knots and this letter
broken ) voice to me,
dy prepared for depart
be fortunate and speed
horse, covered. \me wit
in a few minutes, I had
Before me was'a sno
ed ? Across the fro
Ochotsk, and to the e
Quicker, Petro equic
ess and deathlike regi
o a panther; the ho
trembles. So, we are
The white plain lies bef
in llions of crystals. A f
th •w ghostly shadows acr
th ir borders tinted with
ck y ann. .On everything
en enc e' e4f the imperial do
tro ; quidker through this h
e re in Jakustk. •
sea no d.escriPtion can be giv
A orld 'without a auiis
t
oto y is too.like the re
t y • nd r the northern lig
co ott. On, on, Petrb.
ey'of six weeks, I am
I deliver my despatches
t VI e same time make him
o ject of my voluntary jo
su ted to his place. Telle.1
she g from his son he r cei
a g sture-of his hand. on y,
da ghter.
d the I order, he offers to.
he tletelling. of my frie d
os''to himthe cleme cy
, I am the bearer of an or
as
ec
re
ew
SS
he
is
or -
n.
00 00
ri-
t !
at
to,
c- •
r-
t-
es
c.
of
er
ssary part of your day to
mi me to go. alone op this r -
'said to the go vernor. "Be
lig hie' head, and ordering
cooduct me. The feeli g
eh I walk this short dis-
exile almost unmans nie.
y. Strange figures fl sh
hich the teare are falli g.
as Mad felt before, whie
he order at St. Petersbueg,
ater -degree. ' I .-am forced
my guida
Count Paul." '-
retires. a
e• o'clock in the afternoon
do r. ] The exile of six years
alf bent and half clothed, oc-
he skin of A sable.
r n the supposition that he
; but, scarcely had he
hen he called me by my
acing him. My tears fell
mpest was in my heart.
cold; I hung on 4 statue,
not, his eyes had no tears.
d I retreated a step or two
stion him. - Still indiffer-
work, as thoifgh nothing
e 4 ed, end. as ,though I had
a ion. -Re said, calmly, "I
in for the next delivery, d
ked me not why I cakne
not for his mother, nor his
his work silently—lost
"1 cried, and stretched my
But they fell again' as he
s me with a passioniess ' -
he expreseed impatienc at
ted:him from his wora.. ' I
'
tomeas I turned away.'
no one to ppreach him Or
he,'" he said ; the has e en
y housekeeping himsel --
goveriunent tribute on the4
roper number and quail-
, .
the past four weeks ben
suffered him to have his
marked that he was de er-
cepting his freedom, 4nj
on was left than this re -
so punctual in prepa ng
weeder -fill accuracy he
t is always full. -He 1ias
1
,
his freedom know4 to
(I
but his hear4 rema, e
his arms em raced m
Shocked andj aston sh
and 1ookec1s if to qu,
mit he etur ed to hi'
pardeu ar ht d hap
been hi dai y corn
.am pre ;aria my s
said no mor. H
there ; he a ked ilae
Amalie; he hung we
-"Pat 1! Dai P ul
arms t . war1s h'
directeil a look to ar
differe ce Preseikt1e
my pre ence I dive
am bus " h1e said -
. The over or eaee
has -suffe ed
"14 orb' t t ee• on
prepar d. hi nee ssa
placing the ed,
door s ep, in t e
ty—an ha mew fo
wholly silen . I av
own w y, b cause I r
mined = ev r
that n9 othe imp
concei ed id1ea.
.bistrieute. Ithat
numbe
11
Ft
never been in arr
" St w mus
11
him," aid
"11 Jyou have no done so, we can send 1?irr;
the despate , or, ou can seek him again to -mor-
row at this ime. 1 T e night will, perhaps, leave
a favourabl impr lin on hint."
1°
• d
11 . .
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1
"'Why not early ?" .
"Because at Imidnight he goes to the chase,•
and does net return until the middle of the day.'
The governor invited me to his house and table,.•
Although overcome by the journey and the re-
cent events, I found myself in the evening at his
tea -table.
"1 have never been able," Said the governor,
"to under8tand 4 rightly from the sentence, the
„ 1
nature of the Count's crime. At first I number-
ed him with the state criminals of the • year eigh-
teen hundred and twenty-five; but lately, from
his diary, his youth, and uncommon prtvations,
I have taken another view of it, and feel dispos-
ed to pity him. ' Also, I learn that his father was
sent to Americalbut that his mother was permit-
ted to remain in St. Petersburg."
- " A year before the death of the Emperor Alex.
ander," I replied, "the.. Count and I were btu -
dents together at Gottingen. I loved . him with
a kind; of worship, grounded more on the rare
pre-eminence of his mind than on the tenderness
of his heart. We had the fairest hopes from his
industry and talents, particulary as he did not
seem disposed to enter into the revolutionary
sPirit ofl Hungary, but hoped to strive in some
other way for that oppressed country. He dis-
tinguished himself in every branch of knowledge,
from tiltangle system Of philosophy to the Ob-
scure researches of philolegy eand in activeer ym-
nestle exercises he was ever the exempt and
model of his schoolfellows. He bestowed iupon
me in a great measure his confidence and regard;
I can hardly say his friendship. Shortly before
the death of the Emperor, his father recalled him
to St. Petersburg; and when, a year after, I also
returned home, I learnt the fate of his whole
hceise.- They had been exiled. Why, was, as
usual, a secret. ,
not availlf of the mercy of the Emperor."
himse
a I pity him 14 said the governor. " He will
44eeh do you sup ' "
"A man who has failen from such a lofty sta-
tion becomes. after exile, wholly unfit for society.
Count Paul fe s thie, and, if I do not err, he
keeps, on a black tablet over his bed a rigid
reckoning. MY daughter and Ihave carefully
watched him. In the two first years °this exile,
he constantly placed his bare breast rgainst the
cold snow --to cool, as he said, his burning heart,
while hi.s tears •melted the frozen earth ; T he -re-
fused his food; with the greatest rashness he en-
countered the fi rcest of the wild beasts. in the
thirdyear, he asked for ink and paper, which he
covered with ainiless designs, and with the words
fatherlaid, cleat , vengeance. One night, in the
fifth year of his captivity, he collected and burn-
ed the w ole of these scraps, together with his
portable library from that hour he has never
more read, written, complained, sighed, nor
wept. IIe is not an accountable being."
"Of all his writings," said the daughter, "I
have on leaf only, which he gave me from his
diary fo r years ago, at the time when he did net
avoid ou companionship."
After six hours in bed, I melted with my
breath t e ice on the panes of my window, which
gave . le a view off the country whence Paul
e
would re urn fir m the chace. I examined every
living be g who went by. until at length. about
ten in th forenoon, 1 saw Count Paul returning to
the hut 'th slow and weary steps. He threw
down th bag . with the dead animals' and his
large fur boots, before the door. Withhis gun
directed downward, he then walked into the
hut. . .
About the same time as on the day before, I
again sto • d in his presence. He lay half dressed
on the - bed, and stared vacantly on the bare
walls. 1 n the table stood his unprepared meal,
near his i ead was his gun, there was no fire in
the chimney. I knelt down by the bed, and tak-
ing his hand called him by his name : his .lips
moved convulsively, but his eyes did not move.
" Paul ! the world is again open to thee. Here
is the Emperor's parden." His lips moved again.
He opened and shut his eyes quickly, to repress
the last, --the only --tear, and said, "Too late !"
?At this moment my eyes fell on the black stone
tablet over hisbed. .As I looked at it he hastily
drew away hisland out of mine and closed his
eye's. The tablet :was divided into three -columns.
In the first was the month of January, with its
number of weeke and days ; io the fecond, the
month of February ; in the third the month of
March, to (the eighth ; from this, there was noth-
ing, to the twenty-first, which was written in
large letters. Under this line the whole part of
the third coluiiin was white, so that from the
twenty-first not ing more could be written on
the tablet.
" Thy mother 'and Amalie have sent those tok-
ens of their unch' nged love, and also Prince An-
noskoi has confi'med his kindness in > his own
hanclivriting. Can we not, my clear Paul, begin
our .journey—ho e ! to -morrow.
Withmit sayhzg a word he rose up from the
hed and *rote on theAablet. " Marchthe ninth."
His look aeemed ito tell me this would be the only
answer to, all I said. He then turaed his face to
the wall and signified that he wished to be alone.
I placed the letters on the table near the bed,
lighted the fire, and, full of aguish, quitted the
hut. ,
The go ernor was Waiting -outside and I relat-
ed to'hi i what happened. .
Early e next morning about two o'clock—I
saw him teal out of his hat. He apt-fearecl weak
and len id. , At my, request, the goti-ernor hired
a man to atch hirn. ' ..
.
He did nob return until two in the afternoon.
Re was e ha-ust d, mid Ives* without any game.
Ile.imme atelyf ell on his bed. When I entered
his eyes ere closed, Oral his face with its fixed
stern ex ressioa was tfitned towards the chin
ney. Th lettete and the knots of ribbon t e-
naained u touched. At nine in the evening he
opened his eyes, took the tablet and wrote on it
the day of the moothl-the tenth-zand signed to
me to go way. On the .eleventh, . towards mid-
-night, he1 arose to go as 'usual tolthe chase, but
fell back �n his bed. With great difficulty . he
arose again, about the middle of 1 e date and
placed the prescribed number of skiis in order
for delivery; wrote on the tablet "the eleventh ;"
and staggered back to bed.
! He lay, during eight days, stolid, iinmovable,
rejecting all help from human hancls.I In vain I
tvept anclprayecl, kneeling by his b d ; inlvain
the soft vice of the governor's daughter; in vain
°the Physician -and the priest. a
I dreaded the twenty-first ; his se -appointed
death day. aded . or not dreaded any day
will conae in its course. At five in the afternoon
he lay a the lapt lextremity; around his bed
stoodthei governor, his daughter, and the phy-
sician ; I stood. athishead. He still breathed ;
his eyes were closed.: Shortly after six his eye
lids opened with the last- flash of life's fire ; his
lifted hand made a sign for the rest t go away.
They went, and I remained; he sw me not;
about five minutes afterwards, he suddenly rose
half up the bed, drew a heavy, deep breath, and
fell back. I closed his eyes and prayed by the
body. The last words he spoke, even now
ring in my ears. "Too late !"
eie•es.
Baron Lisoar.
PARTICULARS RESPECTING TEM NEW PEER.
The Times of the 26th ult. says :—The Right
Hon. Sir John Young, G. C. 13., &c., of Beale -
borough Castle, Ireland, on whom, Her Majesty
has bestowed the honour of peerage of the United
Kingdom, as Baron Lisgar of Lisgar, and of
Baiheborough Castle in the County of _Cavin, 18
the eldest son of the lite Sir William Young, of
Bailieborough, an East Indian director, who was
created a baronet in 1821. His mother was Lucy,
youngest daughter of the late Lieutenant-Colonel
Frederic, K. B., and niece of the late Sir John
Frederic, of Burwood-Park, SurrY. His family is
of ancient Scottish extraction, though settled. in
Ireland from the time of our earlier Stewart So-
vereigns. He was born on the 31st of April,
1807, and. was educated at Corpus Christi College,
Oxford, of which he was a gentleman Commoner,
and where lie took his degree in the year 1829,
In 1834 he was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn,
but never appears to have actively followed the
profession. He entered Parliament at the general
election of 1831, as one of the members for the
county of Cavan,sitting in the Conservative in.
terest ; his Toxyism, however, was of a very mo-
derate character, and in his career he followed on
the whole the fortunes of the Peelite party, He
was appointed a 'Lord of the Treasury by. Sir
Robert Peel on his accesion to office in 1841, and
held the Secretaryship of the Treasury orn44
to the fall of the Administration of Ins chief. He
acted as Chief Secretary for Ireland under Lerd
Aberdeen's Administration from 1852 to 1855,
and as Lord. High Commissioner of the Ionian
Islands from the later date down to 1859. From
1861 to 1867 he was Governor of New South
Wales, and returning to England was soon after
nominated to theeGovernor-Generalship- of Cana-
da, which post he has held up to the present date.
Sir John, who was sworn a member of Her Ma-
jesty's Privy Council in 1852, and was nominated
a G; C. M. G. in 1852 and Knight Grand Cross of
the Order of the Bath' (civil division} in 1868.
married in 1835 Adelaide Amiable, daughter of
the late Marchioness of Headfort, by her first
husband, the late Mr. Edward, Taite Dalton, but
has by his marriage no issue. His nephew is heir
presumptive to the baronetcy.
Payingoff in Kind.
The following good story is told by the British
Canadian .---" It will be remembered by our
readers that Brother Jonathan would not permit
our troops going to Red River to pass through
the Sault Ste. Marie Canal, and if there had been
no other means they would have had to return
home again. Another way was found and in due
time the troops arrived at their destination. A,
few days ago Brother Jonathan wanted to trans-
port some troops from the upper part of Lake
Erie to Sacketts Harbour, on the lower part of
Luke Ontario; it was easily enough done, thought
he. A vessel was chartered, and with the troops
on board, started on her journey. She made the
run all right as far as the Wellaud Canal, but
here she came to a stand -still. The officer in
command kindly informed Brother Jonathan that
he must get a permit from the British Govern-
ment before his boat Could pass through the canal
with his %mid sojer boys.? This was a -stunner'
to him, ae he always dreamed there was no nation
this side of the globe but his. No go' Still he
was not to be beaten. He sends them back to >
Buffalo. and thence by rail to Charlotte, on Like
Ontario, where he expected to get a heat to take
them to their destination. Here he encountered.
another ,difflculty. He has no steamers on Lake
Ontario, and as he will not allow Canadian boats
'to call at two of his ports in succession, the one
by which he intended to send them, and which
his custom officials had ordered, only a few days
previously, not to land coasting passengers, would
not take them on board. _So Brother Jonathan
has had to house his sojers ' at Charlotte until
those ' darned ' Canadians mend. their manners,
or he can find some other means of transport."'
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Exhaustion of Talk.
How long the lamp of conversation holds out
to burn between two persons only, is curiously
set down in the following. passage from Count
Gonfallioner's account of his imprisonment:
"Fifteen years I existed in a dungeon ten feet
square. During six years I had a companion :
during nine I was alone. -1 never could rightly
distinguish the face of him who shared my cap-
tivity, in the eternal twilight of our cell. The
first year we talked incessantly together; we re-
lated our past lives, our joys forever gone, over
and over again. The next year we communicat-
ed to each other our thoughts and ideas on all
subjects. The third year we had. nothing to
communicate; we were beginning to 4ose the
power of reflection. The fourth, at the interval
of a month or so, we would open our lips • to ask
each other if it were . possible that the world went
on as gay and bustling as when we formed a por-
tion of mankind. The fifth we were silent.—
The sixth he ,was taken away -1 never heard
where, to execution or liberty. But I was glad_
when he was gone, even solitude was better
than the pale, vacant face. One day, it must
have been'a year or two after my companion left
rae,—the dungeon door was opened, whence pro-
ceeding I knew not, the following words were
uttered.: 'By order of his Imperial Majesty, I in-
timate to you that your wife died a year ago."
Then the door was shut, ,and I heard no more,
they had filing this great agony upon me, and
left me alone with it," ,
The acceptanee by the Duke of Aosta of the
candidaturefor the Spanish crown. has been. offi-
cially announce4 at Madrid. It is also stated
that all the great Powers of Europe have given a
cordial assent to the nomination. The election
°will soon take place, and there eari be no doubt
that the result will be favorable to the son of
Victor Emanuel. This 'will, of course, be a de-
feat to the Revolutionary and Republican party
of Spain, and be the foundation of a new Spanieh
dynasty. Aosta is more fortunate than the Ho-
,
shenzollem.
A woman has carried off the $500 prize for the
best managed farm in Oxfordshire, England.
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According o the State law in M'd. potatoes
must be sold 1y weight instead of measure.
VARIETIES.
Back gammon—The Grecian bend.
Men who "act on the Square "—Glaziers.
A musical burglar—One whO breaks into a tune.
The ship that everybody1ike417Goodfellowship.
Trifles make perfection, but perfection itself
is not a trifle.
The lady who tore her long Own, thinks rents
are increasing, .
Fly in all haste from the friend who Will suffer
you to teach him nothing.
Why is a whale like a water -lily? Because it
comes to the surface to blow. ,
If I were married, what river would my wife
and I be like ? Afaander (nale and lier)
The best place for spinsters must be Ceyldn,
becautie the men there are %waren (single he's).
An old man is easier robbed than a young one,
for his locks are few, and his gait is. generally
broken.
What's the di erence betweena chilly man and.
aanhot.,.
tsdog ? One wears a great coat, and the other
p.
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The New Orle • s Times aays the French sol-
diers wept beca se the Prince Imperial's tran-
quility was 44 all in the eye."
A French bare -r's signboard reads thus, "To-
morrow the pub c will be shaved gratuitously."
Of cours4 it is al aysto-morroW. -
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When may a s ip be said to be in love—When
she's attached- to a buoy, or when she's making
up to 4 man -of- r. - -t
Taking part '• a -charity di4ner may be de-
scribed as eating yourself, to keep other people
from eta,rving.
Thqifference • etween a conntry and a city
greenhorn is th t the one would like to know
everything, and he other thinkhe can tell him.
A practical Ya kee being told:
that in the days
of the 'Millenniu the lion and the lamb will lie
down together, said "he expected the Iwn.b
would lie down aide the
Would the p ilosophers who in counsel so-
lemnly defined human beingto be "a two-
leggectanimal wt hout feathers',1' maintain their
defittition if they SAW the young ladies in full
feather now -a-4 s?
A New York e tor recently wrote that Olive
Logan had spra her ankle). Imagine his as-
tonishment whe u the types made him say that
that fair but ir.d pendent spinster had "married
her uncle."
* "Pa, has the orld got a tail'?" asked an ur-
chin of his father'4 "No, child," replied the
father; "how co ld. it have one When it's round ?"
"Well, why do the papers say, (so Wags the
world," if it has't got a tail to wag
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Suffering -Fir t young lady: "So poor Susan
is dead ?" -Seco , el young lady: "..Yes, poor
thing. She suffered terribly,didn't she? And
only think, she couldn't wear that beautiful silk
dress her mother gave her, and it's too short for
her sister." ; .
A tailor thinned a man for the amount of his
bill. The debtoisaid. he was "sorry, very sorry
indeed, that he could not pay it.' "Well," said
the tailor, "1 took you for a men that would be
sorry; but if youi are sorrier than I am, I knock
under."
Living like a gentleman—" Massa ,make de
blackmail workee--make de horse workee—make
de ox Iiiorkee—make everything workee, only de
hiag—he no workee ; he eat, he drink, he walk
'bout, he go to sleep when he pleases, he lib like
a: gentleman."
Sound economy is a sound understanding
brought into action; it is calculation realized;
it is the doctrine of proportion reduced to prac-
tice; it is forseeing contingencies, and providing
against thein; it es expecting contingences, and
being prepared for them:.
" Mr Solo said a wity lawyer to his landlord,
a boarding-house keeper, if a Man were to give
you a hundred pounds to keep for him, and he
died, what would you clo ? Would you pray for
him !" "No, sir," replied Mr. Solo, " I'd pray
for g anotheririin01 inkeenhf the
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public schools applied to
he teacher for leave to be absent half a day on
the 'ear that they had 'Company; at home.
Th -
teacher referred her to the printed list of 'reasons;
that .the schciol committee think sufficient to
justifyabsence, and asked her if her case came
under any of them. She naively replied that it
might come under the head of "domestic afflic-
tion."
There is this difference between those two tem-
poral blessings, health' ancl. Motley ; Money is the
most envied, but the least enjoyed; and this su-
periority of the latter is still more obvious when -
we reflect that the poorest man :Would not part
with health. for money, but that the richest
would gladly pelt with ali their Money for health.
"Show me the iman who stru4lk O'Docherty,"
shouted a pugnacious little Irishman at an .elee-
tion ; "show me the man who struck O'Docher-
ty, and I'll---"--" I am the Man • who Arita
0' Docherty," said a big, brawny fellow, stepping
to the front ; "and what have you got to say
about it ?" " Och, sure," answered the. small
one, suddenly collapsing, "and didn't you do it
well !" =
Nothing on earth can smile but human beings
Gems may flash refleote;d light, but what is a
diamond flash compared -witit an eye flash and
mirth flash? A..face that cannot smile is like a
bud that cannot blossom, and arid up on the
stalk Laughter is -day, and sobriety is 'night
and a smile is the twilight that hovers gently
between both, and more bewitching than either.
"Massa Tom! Massa Tom! 10 Massa Tom!
howse I gwine to get down this ladder?" ex-
claimed a young nigger front the top of a new
building. "Come down the same way ;you went
ilea you blockhead !" replied the mestere running
up to see what was the matter. "De some way
as I come up, Massa Tom ?" "Yes, • confound t
yon ! and don't bother me any more." "Well.
if 1 must, I must !" and down eame the little
°darkey head foremost.
"Will you do we a favour ?" said, young X to
his wealthy friend, Simon H. What is it.
George ?" said Q. "1 wish yeu to lend me
twenty pouticla, sit." "Call at My "counting-
house;" rejoined H. George was not long in pay-
ing his respects. What security can you give
me, young gentleman V' "My personal security,
sir." "Very well, get in here- ' said 11., lisfr
up the lid of a large iron. chest. 1" Get in here !
exclaimed George, in astonishm.ent, "what for?"
s' eat
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Why, this is where I always' keep my personal