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An Irish Romance. •
When. I arrival at Kilnaurrey, ono of
those storms which come from the Atlantic,
and in an instant envelop the Wanda in a
cloud of wind:striven mist, made Me seek
refuge in a cabin. It was a crowded busy
peasantni home, and as I sat by the fire—the
warmest seat being given me with the invari-
able hospitality of these people—I found
abundant material for observation and re-
flection. Whatever cleanliness as possible
in a family of eight occupying one huge room
along with two pigs was carefully maiatainecl; •
a least, the mother and the children were
neatly and comfortably attired, the earth
well ewept, and the pigs were conficed to
the limits assigned them. An old woman
was carding wool, a child rocking the cra-
dle, and the mother, spinning at the wheel,
The chickens, also driven in by the rain,
one by one hopped up the leaden to their
roosts among the iefors from which they
watched over their ruffled feathers the busy
family and the blazing hearth with so
muoh approval and satisfaction that I ani
sure, if chickens be susceptible to emotion.
these were very tender ones indeed. A dog
sneaked in, and seeing a stranger, wet out
into the rain again. The dogs, which aro
not numerous on the islands, are of the most
miserable aud condemned aspect, and seems
to feel their ignoble ancestry, as they in-
varibly jumped over a wall or ran into some
obscurity on the approach of a stranger.
While drying my dripping garments, I saw
for the first time, seated in a corner, as if to
screen himself frees observation, the figure
of 'a young man clod in white flannel; the
of the island. His face was thin
and sad, and of the same color as the gar-
ments he wore, and he gazed at tho fire
'with such a dejected and hopeless expression
as led me to infer that he was the fated
victim of some terrible disease—Consump•
tion, perhaps—and was feebly waiting
through the long hours of the day and night
the death he knew to be so sure and near.
I spoke to him, striving in my pity tit appear
unconscious of perceiving big, xnisery.
Without answering he rose abruptly and left
the cabin. The looks of concern and in-
queitude in tho faces about mentold me of
some unusual sorrow, which the mother,
leaving her spinning -wheel, explained to me
in a low voice. She told me that the young
man, her eldest son, poor Owney, as she
called him, had until a month before been
the most healthy and cheerful member of
the family; ready and prompt at work, and
the life of the household, when a letter came
from America to a neighboring family inclos-
ing money to pay the passage thither of their
eldest daughter. It appeared that the youbg
man had long entertained a secret passion
for this girl, and when ho heard that he
probably , would never see her again, he
declared his love to her, and besought her
to remain. So far from being unmindful
of his affection, she avowed her willingness
to Marry at ohce, if he would accompany her
to America immediately afterward. ' This'
was impossible; his ownfamily was unable
to assist him, and the few people who possess
money on the island would not lend it with-
out security. •The praetibal dameel.saw on
the other side of the Atlantic every prospect
of improving her material condition, and
doubted not that husbands were as plentiful.
there as elsewhere; while, if she remained,
she knew the drudgery and hopelesselaverp
that were the lot of all around herwould
hers also. Thereforinshe told her suitor if •
he would not accompanyter she would not
listen to hie suit. When the youngman
found his apbraidinas useless, he gave way.
to despair, and had not worked Or Spoken.'
since hie cruel sentence had been prOnoune- •
ed. Every day he grew thinner and more
wan, and he did not partake of trefficent food
to support life. All the 'solicitude and
tenderness of his mother had net .Succeeded
in arousing within him hie former self,' and
with tears running down her. cheeks she
told me she thought he had lord his reason
forever.
Some weeks previously the school -master
had written for them to a priest, a distant
relative of the family, who•lived in Conne-
mara; but they had received no reply, and
she supposed he had neither help nor conn.
sel to give. I pondered for e tong while,
as I sat by the tiro, upon What often prove
to be the unfortunate sincerity of men, and
I would not refrain from deploriag the no
less frequent levity of iiiy own sex. Inpas-
ing through the village a week afterward I
stopped to say good clay to these kind peo-
ple. when I found the house a scene of bustle
and confusion. My erewhile lot-e•siek swain
was, when I entered, making himself a pair
of pampootees; and as he bade me good day
over a dangerously starched co11i, his deo
glowed with health and energy. The now
cheerful and happy mother informed Inc
that slime my last visit they had received a
letter from the priest in Connemara; inelos-
ing his blessing for her son, and the moray
to pay his passage to America She had
very busy knitting him stockings, and mak,
ing him a fine white flannel suit to be mar-
ried in, and which thereafter he would not
again wear until his arrival at Now York.
so that he would make a decent appearance
in the new world, as became the relative of
apriest He was to be marmied to the objact
of his choice the next, day, and they were
to start immediately afterward upon their
long voyage. As I loft, the damsel, whose
month's delay to prepare her outfit had given
such a fortunate respite to her lover, thrust
her head inside the door, and calling upon
Oa ney to be sure and wear thebine etook-
inge she had knitted him to the chapel ea
the morrow; and then, with her little -re-
trousse nose turned up to the sky ran blush.
ing away.—J. L. Cloud, in Harper's Mag-
azine for March.
train was beyond. their contrell. Seeing that ' SMILES.
nothing could, be done to atop the mad course
the train was running, Brown jumped from
the cab while going at the rate of sixty miles
an hour, and landed seventy-two feet distant,
actual measurement. Blesniagham, who was
on the caboose with Pawnee Charley and wife
as pa sense s, fearing that the train was going
to destruction, cut his way -car loose, and
checked it with the brakes, while the train
continued its velocity clown the long grade.
The fireman stood at bis post like a hero,
and while the engine was plunging down the
Sight at a giddy speed, he crawled out on the
foot -board and poked sand through the Band-
box, thinking that it might assist the wheels
in getting a grip upon the rails. As the
train tined around Material curve, which is
short and stoma" the velocity was so great
that the locomotive ran on oneirail, and over-
balanced so greatly that it came within an
ace of losing its equilibrium. The brakemen
on deck were obliged to lie flat and cling to
the running -boards for safety. For six miles
those badly-frishtened men stuck to the ship
and faced. the horrors of death. Be* Con -
omit° is a natural basin, with three miles of
level track, and it was on ibis stretch the
rnnaway train was mastered and stopped.
Some cf the cars were laden with iron for the
front, ut they wi re unloaded before the train
stopped by the material being hurled in all
directions. Just how the train held to the
rails as well as it did is a mystery wh•ch the
philososhert must Ive—we cant.
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The Influence of Poe.
gondos;ews.) ' • '
Poe, like Pope, threw himself into a war
with' dunces. He tit and .thrust at them
vigorously, he exposed. a score of cheap popu-
lanties, heaves merciless to the inexpensive
reputations then readily aequieed by every
tootler on, the avhistle of Miss Eliza Cook.
Since the time of Poe American literature' has
wonderfully advanced in the acquisition of
force and of polish. .Amertean novelists, for
example, almost gives us lessons in eleboras-
tion of style; in reticence, and in we.11•caleu-
lated effects. American poets are, perhaps,
too numerous. That they get a hearing, as
they do, and appeal -to a really large public,
says much for the interest of the people in
centeruporary verse. In form, in the mere
art of versifying, even'the minor American
poets of to -day nhow wonderful -versatility
and deftness. Commonplace 48 much less
successful than it was of old. In fiction,
analysis is almost too catoful. We can not
but think that this rapid ripening of the
American Muse (who • was a raw, unformed
schord•girl in the lifetime of Poe) is due in
part to the influence Of that critic.. His
method is as unlike the method of Mr. Mat -
there Arnold as possible: But he examined
the same kind. of innuence, Like Mr. Arnold,
he introduced Borne tinge of Frenbh thought
d f h lot t intothek
!lin of his countrtnne s be Was not
fi wide reader, and thell'eleteethtaPe affectation
in -n s ifiature may lie detectelidifuhtis quota.
L • th
• allusions. It is hard, to nay how much know-
ledge was implied in thine allutioadhow
rich -thiamine was from which Poe dug these
:sparkling frieg,ments. Still, he judged the
writers of his own country with some know.
ledge of other liteeintiren. As he was_ quite
?Olsten in,hisenticiems he . did good, but at
.h cost. ' • • .
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Turkish Policy In Armenia.
•• [Frani 'the London News.) •• s
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Although there is no truth in the •report
that aninsuireetion has broken out in Ar-
menia, yet the conduct of the .Turkish Gov-
ernment in that Province leaven Calculated
to' provoke arising Of the people. They are
introducing large numbers of Circassions in- •
to the •gendarmerie ostensibly charge with
the -duty of maintainingorder in the country:
There have been considerable differences of
opinion as to the numerical proportion which
toe Armenian Christians bear to the Kornis
and other Mussulman inhabitants of Arme-
nia. The Turks appear deterniinea to settle
this question in a very -high -heeded manner.
They have introduced into the country latgit.'
niiinbers of Moslem emigrants from the Cau-
casus, so that substantial increase may talca
'place in the number ef .the faithfals The
•Aarnenian Patriarchate at Constantinople ap.
pointed agents to make an informal but ap-
proximate. census . or population ; but the
Turkish autlictithls. have arrested these per.
sons, and seized their papers. , By such un-
satisfactory motile -Els is the Porte endeavoring
to show that Armenia .shouldte' blotted out
of the and henceforth be known.as Kur-
distan. Even in Constantinople all the :pie:
tures representiag the old Kings and heroes
•of Arnienia have been seized, and many of
• their verniers put prison. If no outbreak
takes Vane in Armenia it will certnitilY not
be for want of pinvosation. . •
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An Irish Family in Bed. '
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Malachi Higgins is the tenant in possession
.of five acres of the dividedtarm. "The house
in which he lives *as built by his father
ivhen. (111 his Marriage that portiou of land
was allotted to him. • It is 'a cabin .eonSists
ing of a single noom. The walls are macle
•,of tempered mail mixedwith straw, and the
water that oozes from: the rotten thatch
makes slimy patterns upon their 'white-
washed faces. In this one room • is' a
bedstead, raised about eighteen inches from
the mad .floor, on which a feathered bed is
placed Over a thick layer cf straw, and in
this bed sleeps every member of the 'family' i
Malachi Higgins, tis wife, and the girl's
heads one way ; the boys' heeds at the other
end of the bed. Before his father succeeded
to.procering a bed the family adheeea to the
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A Runaway Train,
(Las yaps (N,'1%) Optio.). • ."
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The most hair-raising episode .that.. ()Ver.
happened to a New Mexican mountain rail.
. way train fell to the lot of Conductor. Bless.'
ingham Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock, on
the west slope of Glerietta sorninit . The
train comprised nearly thirty loads, and as it
entered upon the descent, Jake Brown, the
engineer, threw on the water brake, but
found that it was broken'and would not work.'
The train gained. momemtum. °such
frightful extant that the switch -cables and
hooks lying on the pilot baso in front were
hurled from their place into the air, breaking
orae of the locomotive's .guara,rails. Brown
called for brakes, but the trans men had. al:
ready set every one, .and realized that the
primitive custom of sleeping " stradognan
At night, ; rushes and ferns being :spread
upon alio finer the ,husband and . wife lay
down in the Middle, the. youngest girl next
the inotliern the youngest boy next the
father, and ao on in graduation of age until
at the extreme ends were the Strangers sleep-
ing on the outside of their respectivenexes.
The 'bedstead being raiser' so • high off the
ground affords a comfortable place. where
tho pigs can sleep, and in winter the addit-
ional warmth supplied by the animals is
welcome. The other end of the apartment
is large enough to.aecommodate the cow-ana
the 099,50 Malachi Higgins sees no necessity
Or erecting a shed for these useful beasts:. •
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When one gots to love work, his life is a
happy ore. •
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The e liter man sat lonely runt grim
In his room up near the sky,
And never a laint of hie terrible rage
Could be seen in his deep blue eye.
With pencil and scissors he toiled away
Nor *ken from his pipet up,
But his soul was feared with an anguish
Andwoinidgjore bo could calmly sup.
Beneath the shirt -front so snowily white
Reposed a rubble -stone heart.
For the editor man was reading a picot
Winch be tersely described as
"Dod-rot the darn poets 1" bo fiercely eaid,
" With their soul -tongs and other gush;
HI had my. way I would sink their stuff
Along milt the fishery slush?'
A fair•haired inaid stepped softly te,-1
The editor's girl, I wenn,
Full quickly ho looked from the manuscript
up—
Ah, 'tis you, ray heart's own queou."
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The etlitor-men have pretty tough times,
And often their bones do ache ;
But in winning the hearty of the maidens
fair,
. The editors capture the cake.
More Truth Than Poetry.
Father,, tell me what are Editors ?
Are they men, or beasts of prey ?
1 heard some one say,, their creditors
Kept thorn in ambush, night and clay.
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Alas, how soon the hours are 'ever, •
Counted us out to play the lover I
And how much narrower is the stage
Allotted us to play the sage 1
But when we play the fool, how wide
The theatre expands 1 beside
How long the audience sit benne us ;
How many prompters, what a chorus!
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A tame It-on—the sofa.
A dam growler—A tigress:
Sequel to Cowl play—An egg. •
A sterling work—An English sovereign.
Tho sphinx is a mystery—the hen, an
'egma,
• The actor who cannot draw is worse than
a blister.
•A matchless story—one in whioh there aro
no weddings.
'• Some people have had a cold. all winter.
It is very fashionable—Old cold.
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Boxing, the ,manly art, is a sort of hand
to mouth way of getting a living, . • s
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A down -east girl, who is engage to a
lumbermen, says she hag caught a feller.
It's hard to get along with cannon,. they
are so melee mouthed about everything. •
Pnossminut.--Mett ire- geese, women are
• ducks, and birds of a leather flock together. •
The " enyelope " muff is Much worn. It:
'stamps its , wearer as ready for the next.
male. • ‘, •
The Elmira Aplvertirer' thinks that pietty
soon itzwill be cheaper to be cremated than
to keep on living. •
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• Plump giris are said to be Oleg out of
ton. 1.f this is true; -the plumper the girl OM
aelnorner her chances.
• Womares Sumicz,—Woman's silence, al-
though it is less frequent, signifies• mach
inore than a man's. .. • •
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The Egyptian emblem of a snake with
its tail in its mouth was the 'eailiest sign of
the "swallow tail." ,
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With Liszt.
(From nelsrevtaa
The bell of St. Croce, in the tall campanile
over the cloisters which form part of the
Villa cl' Este, rang out at 12 45. It was a
Lad tell, like most Italian belle, and I nat-
urally alluded to the superiority of Belgian
bels, above all others, rather to my surprise,
Liszt said "Ye, but how are they played?
1 remember being much amok by the Ant-
werp carillon." 1 describe t t hint the me.
&aniorn of the carillon clavecin and tamhour,
and reminded him that the Antwerp carillon
was much out of tune,Bruges being superior, as
will as of heavier calibre, and Mechlin bearing
off tho palm•fOr general excellence. We stop-
ped short on one of the terraces, and he ssem,
ed much interested with a description I gave
hint of a performance by the great carilloneur,
M. Deny, at Meohlin, andttilich reminded
me of Rubinstein at his lace. lie expressed
surprise when I alluded. to Van den Ulieynn
compositions for bells, laid ''et like regular
fugues, and organ voluntaries, and equal in
their way to Bach or Handel, w o were con-
temporaries of the great Br 'glen organist
and carilloneur. " But," he said, n the
Dutch have also good bells. I was once stay-
ing with the Keg in Holland, end I believe .
it was at Utrecht that I heard some
bell music which was quite wonder-
ful, I • nave lietened myser to that
'Utrecht canine, which is . certainly
superior, and is usually well handled.. We
had again reached the upper terrace, where
the Abbate's midday repast was being laid
out by his valor, It .as a charming situa-
tion for lunch, •commaading that wide and
magnificent prospect to which 1 have intuited;
nut Autumn was far advanced, there was a
fresh breeze, and the table was ordered in; •
doors. Meantime, Liszt, laying Ins hand up-
on my arm, we pass through the library,
opening to his bedroom, and thence to a little
sittiug•ro nu, (the same which commanded
that view of the Campagnan Here stood
his grand Erard piano. `` As wo are talking
of tells," ho sant, "I should like to show
au % Angeltai ' which I have just written ;"
and opening the piano, ho sat down, This
was the moment which I had so often and so
vainly longed f,r. When I left England it
- seemed to inasimpossible that I should ever
hear Liszt play, as that 1 should ever see
Mendelasoliu who has been his grave for
33 years. • How few of the • present genera-
tion have had this privelege. At Bay: euth,
I had hoped, but no opportunity offered it,
log and it is well known that Liszt can
hardly ever be ;prevailed upon to open the
piano in the presence of strangers. A favor-
ite pupil, Polig, who was then with him at
- the 'Villa d' Este, told me he ninety touched
the piano, and that he himself had seldom
heard Win; "but," lie added with enthasa
. jam,' "when the .master•touphes the keys,
it is always with the same incomparable ef-
fect, unlike anyone else.; always perfect,"
"You know," said Liszt,' turning to me,
-." they ring tho 'Angelus' in Italy careless-
ly the hells swing irregularly, and leave off
and the Cadences are often broken up thas :"
,and he began a little swayingpassage in the
treble—like bells tossing high up in . the
evening air it ceased; but so softly that the
= lialf•bar of silence made itself felt, and the
listeuingsear still carried the broken rhythin
through the pause. The Abbate himself
seeineasto fall into a dreani ; his fingers fell
again lightly on the keys, and the bells went
on, leaving off in the middle of a phrase.
Then rose from the lastairthenOng of the An-
gelus, or rather, it *inert like the., vague
,emotion or one who, as he passes'hears in
,the ruins of smite wayside Cloister the ghost
ncif old monks. humming their droWsti•naelo-
' dies, as the she goes down rapidly, and the'
purple shadows of Hain s'eal over the land,
out of the orange west! We sat:motionless
--the disciple on one side, I on the othdr.
Liszt was almost as !motionless ; his 'fingers
Seemed quite independent, chance ministers
of his soul. The dream was brokent by a
pause; then came back the little swaying.
passage of bells; tossing high up in the even-
ing air, the half -bar of silence, the 'broken
rhythat-Land the Aegeles wakrung.
MEAN crusty old bachelor says
be thinks it's woman, and not hor Wroisge,
that ought to be redressed.
' T.he latest journalistic: ventnro in Cincins
nati is a penny minor with no name. . It
goes wherever there is one sent
A London bookseller who tried to imitate
Dr. Tanner lived five weeks on filtered -water •
;and then "kicked the bucket", . .
'Over:maim )3Y A PASSER.B57.-11Y. Jane, it
eleven o'clock; . toll that young Man to
please shut tho • front door from the out-
side."' s •
'First gentleman (at the theatre) -a" What.
do you think of tbescenery?" Second gentle-
man—n I never saw a prettier Gainsborough
hat in my life." •
' Hee:BAND' AND WIFE. --.The experience, of
many a life, n What a fool I've been 1' —
The experience of many a wife,'" What a.
fool I've got!" -•
"you seem to have apidket tee," as the
bey said to the fence when it detained him
by the subsequent part of his pints. Would
you say he was boy -004(1S • s
" 0 dear !"' exclaimed penniman, " I wish
I could excel in something! I do believe if I
sliould kill:a man it wotildn't be anything
but Murder in the second degree 1"
Too ItUE.--Tbe Arab horse is not broken
until his fourth Year. That's where they
differ:from teacups.. But then Arab hotses
are not washed by the average kitchen gith
An: editor in Georgia says; "Gad is
found in thirtti.:six 'leanness:in this State,
silver in three copper in • thirteen, iron in
forty-three; throe,
in' twentsraelx, and
whiskey in all of them ; and the' last gets
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• away With all the rest," • • •
A stranger in Galv.esiton asked an
Old resident how malarialnever could be
'distinguished from yellow -fever. " As a
general thing," was the reply, "you can't
tell until you have tried it. If you ain't alive,
then it is most likely yellovv-feyern%
"18 it law you're talking about ? Look,
now, when was .a soudger I shot twenty
men for the Queen, and iffie gine me a pin -
shun ; but it I was only to shoot one stray
fellow for Myself, bedad, I'd be tried. for
murther. 'There's law for yea!'
They wore watching the seagulls whirling
in gracefuteireles above the waters of the
bay, while the rays of • the sinking sun
covered the landscape with a flood of gold,
Finally he •turned• to her, and in a. voice
'trembling With emotion, asked ; "Darling,
it we were seagulls, would you fly away
with me andbe at rest?" To which she
answered, with her .gaze. fixed on a far-off
mass of castellated clouds: "No, Georgia ;
I'd let you fly away, and then I'd have all
the reit I wanted here."
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A Sunken Island in Lake Michigan.
From atrilLu.ritimplijiYue%Praelltiarm.1 no learn
tonne particulars vor•cernieg the teealled
whoa " 1.4 the vicinity of Port du
nforts (Dentinal:seer). Mrs. Graham states
that the islaud was situated in, Lake AIWA -
gen, about five mil( southeast of Rock
Island, and known as " Little Gull," be-
cause of its whiteness and appearance of a
gull at long range. The island was irregu•
lar in shape, being about fifty feet in width
by one hundred feet in length ; VMS entirely
a formation made of small stoners ranging
from. the size of a walnut to rocks wetabiog
several pounds. By no means its the Island
a place of vegetetion, for not siren grass
grew linen it. In the summer of 184G or
1847 Mr. Graham built a tieli shanty or house
on "Little Gall," to be handier to his nets
that wore sot "outside." Into the small
fish palace, on the island of soa pebbles, Mrs.
Graham v. out and oo11ke4 for her husband
during the summer mouths; buf, as fall ap-
proached and old Michigan beetn to froth,
the inhabitants of "Little Gtill " returned
to Rock Island, where terra firtna was more
extended. The next season Little Gen was
too amen ta even "egnat" ma—having dimin-
ished good deal during the winter. It
continued to grow smaller each year, and
long years ago disappeared below the nut,
face of the water. Then the spot was re-
ferred to as the "outside gloat" Still the
work of "'going down" continued, and email
suil crafts of light draft could navigate over
the shoal. few years ago the water over
the shoal was of a depth sufficient to hide
the appearance of a shoal, and alarge steam: -
or suffered heavynoes by grounding on the
bar. To.day; tbe °nee dry island is covered •
by fathoms of water. By the superstitious
it is claimed that the disappearance of Little
Gull island is a mystery, and that the neigh-
boring islands have also settled a number of
feet. Landmarks prove the latter statement
entitle, while the mystery connected with
the "sunken island" does not seeni to be.
be difficult to solve. The fact that the little
island was entirely formed of small stones—
unquestionably. heaped up by the sea—it
does not seem unreasonable to suppose that
the same power that rolled the stones up
could also level or roll them down again.
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(tneseow Herald.)
Sheriff Barents at Perth; has just held an
inauest under the prisons act on a man who
had died ia the lunatic ward of the general
prison for Scotland. The evidence disclosed
someniventful and very romantic phases of '
this man's life. Be had been arraigned at a
circuit court at 3tulturgh for the crime of
• murden but, on proof that he had been and
. was insine, he was ordered to be de-
tained in prison during the Pleasure••ef .her
majersty: He was in 1885 transmitted to the
lunatic wards of the general prism In 1875
• he was kr far restored that, on -medical. • .
certificates, he was released on probation
under an owlet of the.se,cretarn of state. He
then took an his abode, at COldstreani,‘ of
Which place he was a native. Soon after his
first commitment to the prisoa a woman in
'another county wos also. brought before a
justiciary court charged also with minder. •
She in like Manner was found to be insane,
and accordingly was cotnmited to the gen
etal prison.' The two had seen ellen ether .
-within its ann. She too; hide° fitt recovered, .
as soon after his release she was also set at
jiberty on a probationany order. She wearied
• hernvay to Coldstream, and there the two
lunatic murderers were wedded tegether:
,The man soon relapsed into a state Of lunacy,
and attempted to commit suicide, and there..
fore was recommended to his old quarters at
Perth. At rici lengthenedinterval the woman,•
now hie wife, also replan& into lunancy and ,
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was sent back to the prlson where her hus- .
band had preceded nen Ile died from cancer
intlie stomach oath° -bf January last, • •
and wa.s'buriea in thegraveyard of the pHs, '•
on. The wife is still an inmate of the lunatic: • •
Married Maniacs.
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ward of the general prison. , • .
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A Southern Grace Darling:
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(arum tea Galveston News.) •
Capt. Omen. of•the sloop •Tomron, plying
hetween Clear Lake and this citys gives. the
News an account of an aot or heroism by a
young' girl that 18 eminently worthy Of
record. He saarthat during the last norther
a snatll sjnapam•svhich.thbre were two men,
was capsized off . Elwards's Paint. Both:
succeeded in getting upon the bottom of the
boat, and in this perilous position were. bitf-
feted by wind and .sea and exposed tci the
gold for about •twenty•four hours. One of
the men, utterly exhausted, was reedy to
succumb, but • his eon:mai:non bound him to
the boat with a romra and thus prevented hie
destruotien. , Finaily they were berried by
the waves to within about a mile of the
shore, when they were seep through a spy-
glass. by Miss Evans, a sixteen -year-old
daughter of a gentleinan residing at, the
Lawrence place on the b :sr eliores between
Edwards's Point and the mouth of Clear
Creek: The brave girl, realizing theirnm-
minent peri!, and knowing that thero. was no
one ou the plane to go to their rescue, herself
launched a frail' skiff and set out to aid
them. With such a sea as was tunninn;
this would have been a hazardous undertak-
ing for a strong man,•but the little heroine
Was not daunted by danger. Pailling,through:
the billows until exhausted, ishe would drop
her anchor, nest, nod, hoisting her weights,
Would start anew. In this manner she
slowly Worked her way to fhc men, whom
she relieved from their dangerous situation,
and safely conveyed to land, attonding to.
their wants, and gently .caring for them at
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Frenchman is- about to be beheaded.
Under the guillotine a priest approaches him
and says : friend, have you any last'
wish to make r The wish of a dying man is .
sacred." " Yes," replied the doomed min,
"I want to learn English."
Did you over see a woman slip down 110f
course you never looked, but then you've
seen them. She don't flourish. around like
an intoxicated junming•jaok, filling the air
with arms and bad words as a roan, down
but she simply abbreviates,:so to speak,
• like a .ortished hat or patent drinking cap,
' while ypu stand by and Wonder .you never
noticed that hole id the sidewalk before.
• CHAT BY TEL WAY. , • . •
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Wittinti no mann 'feelings urinecersiiiily. -
There ate thorns enough in .the path'of ham -
an life. .•
tntinii is the most powerful thing in the
World ; even detion only pleases us by ins-
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resemblance to it. a '
If we could only' tax• the follies of the
world the payment of 'national debts would
be a mere begetelk.: •
Whenever you And a poor inan who is
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truly grateful for the pittance yotiziye hiin, -
you may be sure that he Would himself 'be
generous if he had money to give. •
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• Solari people have a .genius for doing
everything wrong. ,They are like the Irish- •
mah s frog, who always stood up When he
sat down, and always sit down when fie
stood up.
Gossip is the peculiarity. of a small mini
Souse people don't know :enough te talk
about the greatness of things, and so they
talk about the littlt nun of persons. The •
expression of their men shallawness is what
wo ecu '
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• .A Foolish Desire. ' •
• • .(Frolm the Pall saintelasotten'. ;
A. Very curious story is telegraphed to the •
Standard this morning from . Vienna. It is
to theeffeet that Spain is seeking to bo rec-
ognized as one of the great powers. She fedi
humiliated at not being admitted to members
ship of the European concert, and she laments
that the destinies of the .East are being
arranged without her being as meal at •
stilted, • In area, if not in population, nhe is
superior to Italy, and in, population, if not
in arca, she has the advantage of the Sultan.
Why, then, should she not be invited 'to
European congresses and take part in inter-
national naval demonstrations? Such, accord"
ing to an "eminent authority" in the Aus.
trials capital, is the question wit* Spain. is :
. now putting to the chief Cabinets of Europe,
who skew " no •strong disposition to oppose
the views of the Madrid :Government."
WhO would have thought that he Spanish •
Government could be so ungratefultfor the
enormous advantages of ita present position ?
Ambition, however, isjtho will-of•the,whisp
of natione, andit may lead Spain to flounder
in the Orientalinorana's
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