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The Huron Expositor, 1870-12-09, Page 1'of the esa e 8, IleK st- arling rain. ve property, iimal away. -,COMNIUN. 155-1*- e- -- V. • f the sub- th eer, coming the right , to prove id take the VN, 'r€pt P. 0. 541- - e sub- , Lon- gueker- {ALL RIM -ted to prove ie her away. KER. 154-4-* Iirwak 'Rises of the a one year to be brin- houlders, no on the belly, whereabouts ankfully re- Sei a Stanley. 'men. P. 0. 155-3-• N -Wage popee aymente mad iytt .GALL, gent and ener, Seaforth, siker, if.o• rth ABL to inform the ;pened a New "Aim with .hia be aceommad ,s and vehicles, 97-tf. a -TM. remises of the eith Boundary last June, 2 (ere all red ex - of the heifers mcl a little epot fl markei be - the left ear. - information as r will be suite - ills Green P.O. 155-4-2* - _--- of1869. RENT Ai trIR made an as - tame, and the net at the store telv carried on village of Ain- ' Huron, on Fri- tecember A.D. [eve -a o'ciock in statements of Aesignee. .?,tst day of No- WATSON.. iterfirt Assignee. - RTHERSHIP. 17 GIVEN that !- some time past rirv Cardiff and • 'rna of Cardiff, eyville, in the ems and grocers, so mutual eon - !tore be carried ; and the said Aiarge all debts account of the the County of verriber, 1870s X- CARDIFF. 'aF. ELLIOTT 156 -- Obi", A,FOiRTH. enkful for past nate to the in - aid surrounding en hand a Large, t 313GGIES, &c., :Best Mate- Irt test Styles. for WINTER MEAP FOR asers wo,ild do )efore purchasing- R.ZINTC4- aded to. ;tand ; First the Foun- St. MORRISON - 111.- - = - WM. F. LUXTON, *it "-Freedom in Trade -Liberty in R '10g•MMErlil ion -Equality in Civil Righ(s". EDTIOR & PUBLISHER. VOL. 4, NO. SEAFOR'ill, FRIDAY, ECEMBER 9, 1870. BUSINESS CARDS. MEDICAL TRA.017, M. D„ Coroner for the Its- County of Huron. Office and Re- sidence -One doorEa,st of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Seaforth, Dec. 14th, 1868. 53-ly 1 ) C. MOORE, N. D., C. M. (Graduate, Pc. of McGill University, Montreal,) Physician, Surgeon, &a. Office ancl resi- dence Zurich, Ont. Zurich, Sept. 7th,. 1870. 144 T AMES STEWART, M. D., C. M., e) Graduate of McGill University, Montreal. Physician, ,Surgeon, &c. Of- fice and residence M. Coox's. Varna. TIT:, W. R. smrra, Physician, Sur- geon, etc. Office, -Opposite Scott Robertson's Rest lence - Main -street, North. Seaforth, Btec. 14, 1863. 53-1y IT. VERCOE, M. D. C.' Physi- • PE, ASANT SOU A - - The soun s of church,bells p - In the erowded city's w Speaking eace ,t the weary And idding it rest to p DS. aling, Y,. spirit, Ifry is labors, s still. The chime from the hoary be O'er al •,ing valley and I When the Or th reaper rests frbm busy plough stan The rush f the rain in surn On the p ;robed and thir Like the tears that lighten t Of th sorrow that, -gave The drow y caw from the el er The s nof the lark at And the sand of the breeze The b llows of ruset cor The echo from breezy upland Of the tinkline sheep -be The hum pf the bee as it goe To and. fro o'er the fragr The song from a -lip thou lov The sound of the eirnple Thou hest warbled. and loved A d the voice of infant er ty earth, e bosom hem bir h. -trees, orn, rustling 's chime: h nt thini st, lays child tio d raise. '. , dials, Surgeons etc. Office and Ite- sidei ce, corner of Market and High ROUCH1NC IT IN THE BUSH Street, leo mediately in rear of Kield's Store. OR , l 1 ,LIFE IN CANIAD - Seaforth, Feb. 4th. 1870. 53-1y. T CAMPBELL, M. D. C. M., (Gradu- : BY. MRS. MOODIE. 0.1 . ate of McGill University, Montreal) -o- Physician, Surgeon, etc., Seaforth. Office • and Residence -Old Post Office Building, , up stairs, where he will be found by Quebec. night or day -when at home. Seaforth. July 15th, 1869 48-1y. CHAPTER II. LEGAL. trj F. WALKER. Attorney -at -Law aud Solicitorin-Chancery, Con- veyancer, Notary Public, &c. Office of the Clerk ef the Peace, Court House, Gocierich, Ont.'• N.B.-Money to lend at 8 per cat on Farm Leeds. Goclerich, deify. as. 1870. 112-1y: ir AUG 1-1-2Y & OLMSTEA D, 1311 Barristers, Attorneys at Law, Sol- icitors in Chancery end Insolvency, No- taries Public and Conveyancars. &shah tors fee the 11.0. Bank, Seeforth, Agents for the Canada Life Assurance Co. N. 13.-$30,000 to lend at 8 per cent. Farms, Houses and Lots for sale. Seaforth, Dec. llth, 1808. 53-tf. , -DENSON & MEYER, Barristers and Attorneyat Law, Solicitors in Chaa'h eery and_ Insolvency,. Conveyancers, No- aries Public, etc. Oftices,-Seaforth and Wroxeter. Agents for the Trust and Loan Co. of Upper Canada, and the Col- onial Securities Co. of Landon, England. Money at 5 per cent ; no commsision, charged. TA.s. H. RENsoN, W. C. NEYER. Seaforth, Dec. 10th 1868. 53-1y. _ DENTAL. G. W. HARRIS, L. D.S. Arti 'ficial Dentures inserted with all the latest improve- ments. The greatest mire taken for the preservation of decayed e and tnder teeth. Teeth extracted withoset pain. Rooms over McDougall's Store. Seaforth. Dec. 14, 1868. ly. HOTELS. -tiOMME RO1AL HOTEL, Abaleyvill e, kJ James Laird, proprietor, afFerds first-class accommodation for the travel- ling Rulnic. The larder and bar aro al- ways. supplied with. the best the niarlse ts affercl., Excellent stabling in connec- tion. A inieyville; April 237 1869. 70-tf. TT (AX'S HOTEL (LATE SHARP'S) 1‘. The undersigned begs to thank the public fertile 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 olci friends, and many new ones. THOMAS KNOX. Seaforth; May 5, 1870_ 126-tf. IQ RIT I SH EXCHAN GE I -I OTEL, G °d- i) erich, Ober.,_ J. CALLAWAY, PROPRI- e EToR • J. S. 1,11eraghets, (ate of Ameri- can Hotel, Warsaw, N. l,.:.) Manager. This hotel has recently ben newlyfur- nished, and refitted throughout, ancl is now one of the close comfertable and. com- modious in the Province. • Good Sample Rooms for Commercial Travellers. ON the 22nd of September, the anchor was weeighed. and we bade a 1 ng farc- well to Grosse Isle. Ae our V6S el ' st struckinto mid -channel, I cast a lc lingering look at the beautif 1 shores were leaving. Cradled in he arms the St. Lawrence, and. bas ng in t e bright rays of the morning sun, the land and its sister group 1 oked hk4 a •young Eden just emerged fro the w t- .ers of chaos. The day wa warm, a d/ •the cloudless heavens of ti atipecel'ar azure tint which gives to t u e (tanedi n skieS and. waters a brilliancy nknown lin -,ciore nor hern latitudeshe air tiVa,s ure and lastic, the sun silo e, out With incommoI splendour, liglitrig up t ehanging woods with a rich tntellow c 'miring, co eposed of a thous and vivid dyes. . The migh ed flash.ing., and sparkling pelled by a strong breeze, a short rolling surges with a c foam. Never shall I forget that s -e of from Grose Isle to Quebec redall, aft r the lapse of so e eery object that awoke i emotions lof. astonishment , What wet derful combinatien 1 - id brillia t 'river re i- nward, d tipped' ts est ofeno y ort voyage Is I love to oney yea .s, my bre st nd della t. s of beau iy, and grencleurand power, at every wi cl- ing of tha -aoble river ! Every erception of ' my ind beea h e absorbed te t e one sens of seei °ce when upo i rounding Point evi, we c st anchor be ore Quebec. • Wh t a scene !- Can the world produce s ch another? Edinburg had been the .bect 1. ideal to ilne of all th t was beautiful i 1 Nature a vision f the northern Ili bla,eds bad haunt° 0 y dreams acrost tie Atlantic; but all,l ese past recellectio s 'faded le - fore th resent of Quebec! Nature h4ad lavished all her grandest dements to form this astonishing pallor. ma. Th re frowns t e cloud -capped m untain, . and below, t e cataract foams a lel thundets ; Wood, a cl. rock and rive combine to lend their aid in making th picture per- fect, and Worthy of its Divi e Originatbr. The pr cipitious hank up n which tb:e city lies iled, reflecting in he still deep waters a v its base, greatly( nhanc s the romantic beauty of the sit, iatiom • !Ile mellow a d sereee glow l of •he autemeal day har anima so peefec ly erith the solemn g •ancleur of the sees e around me, and san so silently and d eply inte ray soul, up, kiy spi-it fell preetrate 'before it, and I melted. mvoluatar y into teers. , The pl asure we; experie i ced upon ur first glan e at Quebec was eatly dat, p- ed by th sad. convictiou th t the cholq‘a. raged -wi, hin her walls, whi st the alm )st ceaseless tolling (:) bells • roclaimed a m.ournfu tale of Woe and deo th. Scarce- ly a pers n visited the ye setwho was not in 1)1 ck, or who spoke lot in tones of subdu d grief: :They a visecl as not to go on shore if -we value( our lives, as stranger niost commonly- fell the first victims •o the fatal malady. This wai to m' e a sev re disappointmen) who felt an intense c esire to climb to he ,crown of the rock and survey the ncble landscape at my fe t. I yielded at la t the wish- -es Of my husband,. who dir. n t himself resist th temptation in. his own person, and en.d avored to content Myself with the me, ns of enjoyment laeed within ray reach. My eyes were •eVer tired. of -wander" • g over the scene efte me. It is 9 srious to observe h w differently ts which call fart intense ed- it' scone minds wil effect others. 'ch dragoon, Mac tenzie, •seein I long and ietently ; t the distan Montmorency, dry y ghee rved. • ay be a' yore fine.; 1ut it looks r to rey thinken hain hanks o' •o' hung out o'er 1 e bushes" 1," c ied another, "thee fa's are nie ; ' s a brew la d, nee doubt; ust s brew as aul • S otland." t, ma ! hauld yo levees, we be 1 irds here," sad a -third t mau wait a m cl4e time be- y w d think au i ht of you at Terms liberal. the obje Goderich, April 14, 1870. 123-tf. miratio The Sco ^ MISCELLANEOUS: epl HAZLEHURST, LicensedAuction- • p, cer for the County of Huron. God.- erich, Ont- Particular attention 'paid to the - sale of Bank-i•upt Stock. Farm Stock Sales attended on Liberal Terms. Goods Appraised, Mortgages Foreclosed, Landlord's Warrants Executed. Also, Bailiff First Division Court for Huron. • Goclerich, June 9th. 1869 76.tf Cr& W. MepHILLIPS, Provincial „ Land Surveyors, Civil Ene,ineers, etc. All manner of Conveyancing done with neatness and dispatch. G. McPhil- lips, Commissioner in B. R. Office - Next door with. of Sharp's Hotel, Sea - forth. Seaforth, -bee. 14, 1868. •53-ly. • me look -Falls of It na' bett white " We just bo but no' " Ho shall a' "and y 'fore th name." I we trava,ge. some o sight of ed the qu.ence. ed, the pulsive naost.di not 4 little amused at the ex- t ex ectatione eiitertained by our teerage pat engers. The the 0 nadian shor s laad chang- intt personsi o great cons* The II oorest and t e worst-dressi- east-deserving and the most re- in mind and mo als,exhibited gusting traits of s lf ' pariance. Vanity and. presu sees them altoget ly of the rank an nections at ho great sacrifices t to join brothers foolishly settled i enlcountry. Gil able to wash a flo service with cont change' their res( twelve .dollars a to undeceive the gracious task. with s vetal with time ad 'bitter them their sob the re onstraac I ption seemed to p08- r. They talked I oud- wealth of their con- ,• and lamented the y had made in order nd cousins who had this beggardly wood - who were' scarcely decettly, talked of pt, unless tempted to ution by the offer of onth. To endeavour was a useless and -1111- fter haVing tried it nt success, I left it to experience to restore k senses. In spite of of the captain, and the dred of the ch lera, they all rinhed en shore to inspect the land of Goshen and to •end.eavor t anticipatioes. . We *ere favou er our arrival, w the h e 41 tb -officers both the gentle Grave, tnelancho talk -ed much an veiling disorder, strangers escapin ages. 1This was seevedi to clepre mind e'shich, a.fte antido es ageism The cabin seemed to circnlate more ture ofl these pro captain, as if by dition4 glass of g chre gloom their The Visit of th by that of swo of toms ;4 -vulgar, il ing theMselves at familia stare 1 dialog Cus quirie sel) : tain. Cap Ofii 'know' depen PaP men, ef tern 10f11 sere t Bann) 'Cap feW few d Bot Firs ed, Se Cap yes; the br Offi bush). My. slide the o worth drels then this b resist they lanes brand relish passe with nod to tl t us, col e ;- m -house as to the •Any goo( in (gruffly : " Best Th 011 realize their • absurd (id, a few minutes aft- th visit from ; but in this instance en were Canadians. y -looking . men, who ominously of the prc- hd imposaibility o from its fearful ray - tot very consoling, ant e the cheerful toue o all, is one of the bee -1 this awful scourge. to lighten, and the Leis reely, after the depae- eSsional ravens. The Instinct, -• took an wi- ng, to shake off sepul- wesence hadinspired. docsors was followed he officials of the Cus- terate men, who, seat - he cabin table, with a. 8 captain, and blank lammed the following deer (after making in- Sneral cargo of the ves- brandy on board, cam :•,, Yes." remedy for the cholera y one the doctors can upon." s" in (takine the hint) : "Gentle 11 send yes up a dozen b ttlts thi -thank you. We ar get it ge wine from y u. An rgh ale in ,our frieght ? in (with a slight slung) " dreds in eses. I'll send You en with t e brandy. " Capit officer: Any short, large -bowl - I tch pipes, • 'th metallic lids?" in (quite !impatiently) : 11 send yo some to sthoke, with ndy.-Whet else V • r : " We will now proceed eaders wo , d have 'laughed as Ould they 1 ave seen how doggedl man sh ok his fist after thes they looke side t starle cold seem.( the t. before most and silffic the time light. ap cl N tion - to Iee had ji berth; ell dile her aware its, I . thend i He that - fetal' her il dark.i her 11 mastFemig -, sprit A722/6, free ther brig U ing o 'Daniel ladder, } ment vhen the gethei . The s shout: a:iil tath, arlsii g of the d cnse darkn a most a aptain 'w' in the g who we ees. h great ( to acco ueried off e deck, an nless to awa en tranqui h in. mind rofound sl he sun -ha sencircled % clouds ght .,:- the ant hills which -roll s had lef he mut riling to e-feeed m ✓ complan 11, put us t sea, I'd and ale rds nigh ers retut eir . first eclared to a ;Treat de an it did night clo ind.s an to have in rid to the rigid zone. wo hour my light ummer clothi ig was al nsupporta )1e, and now a heav 11 -lined pl id _formedbiit an i nt screen fram the incl mency ather. Alter watching for SOM e singular effect produocl by th n the tow reflected in t e water ary with Thug day o anticipa d. excitem nt, 1 made u my mini e the dec and retire t st settled when the crash th -hole frau of the real moped me ascended scene sffies desc r, the II° ition, an The Ann( lucky nei rhbour a h vessel, w nte on 1.) as direct' . the vessel. " Scoun ered to .himself ; an 'They reit us .nner, and We dare no , for fear of the troubl a If I had those vil give them a taste o that' they w uld no • most of th d, greatly d isit to the ci ie a filthy 1 U better from 11 shore. A ed accom drizzling r de a sudden steerag ssatisfie y, whic ale, tha he ship' (lark am a,nied. b in. W leap -fres' rest. own my. baby in hb , with througl but 110 ung OVe abin, am versel Artie sent a shive e. Alarmed, danger that way to the o the deck. of, confusion ptiou. By soi Ailey HW had change ran. .foul ,of ' us in th was. a small brig, an. a y, three ed Irish her bow- ws of the mable to embrace, the poor • struggle' was go - the coin- itical Ind prevailez ie strang 1 th three h. ard ; and at , across the b and she anchored, and emelt ' fro • the deadly was no s all . danger of ing clown n the unequa ble to co iprehend wha I raised- • y head abov ust at thee 10 t e tic The bull, wo e his kr Wil wore mat on t dar ed bo to a way stor the the mis essels were gr ppled tot rieks of the wbmen, the of the men, and the gs in either ship, aide ss of the night in pro- ful and stunt hag effec s raging like asp of seve e clinging, sh a chafe1. al franti • ieking,I • culty I per4iaded the pany me be ow. The with the cab' light up - we were lef in tot4l t the result. • ity was restor d, fati and in body, I sunk ep, and did i ot awake risen high. :hove the rtress of Qu bec. T e ad all disper ed du ir was clear a d balmy ere robed in_ blue, so d around the in flee is 1 • ; Ones 11111111111•11MININNESININIMPI volumes. As the beams of the sun pene- rated their shadoWy folds; they gradu- ally drew up like a:curtain, and. dissolv- ed like wreaths of emoke in the cleareir. During the day, many of our pass ng - ere took their departure ; tire A -of 1 the close confinement of the ship, and the long voyage, they were too impatie t to remain on board until we reached on - amid. - The mechanics obtained instant employment, and the girls who were' old enough to work, procured situations as servants in the city. Before night our _lumbers were greatly reduced. TII4. old Iragoon and his family, two Scotch fid- dlers of thename of Duncan, a Hight nd- et called . Tam Grant, and his wife and ittle son, and our . own party31 were all .that remained of the- scventy-two pas- 'engers that left the Port of Leith the ri Anne. - In spite of the earnest entreati of his young wife, the said Tam Grant, who vas the most merciful fellow in the w rld, vould insist upon going on shore to see 11 thelions of the place. "Ah, Tam! am !.ye will die 6' the cholera," cried. lie weeping Maggie. "My- heart will rak if ye dinn.a. bide wi.' me an" the baim ie." Tam was as deaf as Ailsa Craig. legardlese of tears and entreaties, he umped into the beat, like a wilful iman s he was, • and my. husband went With un. Fortunately for me the latter re- urned safe to the 'vessel, itt time to pro - e84 with her to .Montreal, itt tow of the ioble steamer British America ; but am, the volatile Tam, was missing. uring the reign of the cholera, wh+t 'nother tine would have appeared but trifling imam* was now invested with doubt and terror. The distress of, the poor wife knew no bounds. I thitk I see her now. as I •sawher then, si ting upon thelltloor of the deck, her lead !burred between her knees, rocking hers f to nila fro, .64 weening in the i tter bendonment of her grief. " He is d ad! e is dead! *My (ear, dear Tam! The pestilence hos sized upon him ; a d. I told the puif bairn are left alone in the strange land." • All attempts at con ola- tion were uieless.;* she obstinately r fus- ed to listen to probabilities, or to be DM. forted. All through the night I h ard iher deep and bitter sobs, and the of -re- pented name of him that she had los The sun was sinking over the pl gue- stricken city. gilding the changing w sods and. mountain peaks with ruddy li rht.; the river mirrored_ back the gore ous sky, and moved in:billows a liquid old; the Very air seeined lighted_ up 'th heavenly:fires, andi. sparkled with yri- ads of luminous particles, as I gaze • my last upon that beautiful scene. The tow -line wag now attached rem 'our ship to the .13riitish America, an.' in company with tcre other vessels, we fol - limed fast in her, foaming wake. Day lingered en the horizon just long en ugh te enable me to examine, with dee in- terest, the rocky heights of Abra am, the scene of aur immortal Wolf's vi tory tvInd death ; and When the twilight f cled ieto night. the moon arose in so emu beauty, and cast mysterious gleamipon the strange,. stern, landscape. The ide river, flowing, rapidly between its ru ged banks, •rolled in inky blackness beneath the overshadowing crags ; while the waves tin midchainiel flashed aim a in, dazzling light, rendered more inten e by the surtosinding darkness. In this] imi- nous track the huge steamer glided ma- jestically forwards flinging -showe s of red -earth stars from the funnel int the clear air, and looking like some fiery demon of the night enveloped 'in s oke and flame- • The lofty groves of pine frowned ( own in hearse -like gloom upon the m'ghty river, and the deep tillness of the n'ght, broken alone by its hoarse wailing, lied my mind with sad forbodinge-alas ! too prophetic of the future. From these sad reveries. 1 was e used, by the hoarse notes of the bagpipe. 'hat well-known sound brought every Scotch - man upon deck. and eet every. limb in motion on the deck of the other v se s. Determined not to be outdone, ou fid- dlers took up the strain, and a 1 vely contest ensued between the rival m which continued during the gr 'Etter part of the night The shouts of misy reve rt- were in no war congeniel t my feelings. Nothing teni ds so -much t n- creaie our melancholy as merry usic whei the heart is sad ; and I lef the seen with eyes brimful of tears, ani my min painfully agitated by sorrowfu rec- collections and- vain regrets. Itro BE CONTINUED.) 4* • 110' High-flown Phraseolo • Amongst all the iMprovements o the age; none perhaps are more striking than those winch have recently been .n ade, and indeed are at presentemaking, ji the language of ordinary life. Who in hese days, ever reads of boarding-schoo s ?- Nobody. They are transformed int aca- demies for boys, and seminaries for r irls ; the higher classes are " Establishme • ts.", A 9oa-chmaker's shop is a "Reposita y for Carriages ;" a milliner's shop a "De mt;" a thread -seller's an "Emporium." One buys drugs at a 'Medical Hall ;" ines, of a "Company ;" and shoes at a "M rt." Blacking is .dielpensed from an "Tie titu- tion ;" and '..eat from a " Purve or." _One would itnagine that the word 'hop - bad not on13 become .contemptible. but had. been discoveeed not, to belong t the English language. Now -e -days, -al the • shops are "Warehouses," or "plac s 'of business," and .you will hardly ti d a tradesman having the honest hat hood to call himself a. shopkeeper. • Th re is now also no such word as that of ts Von that is to say. among ears polite; 'clo- thier" has been discovered to be more elegant, although for our part the term tailor is every it as respectable. This new mode of paraphrasing the len age of ordinary life; however redicul•us it may ha some instances be, is not h f so absurd as the newspaper fashion of using high-flown terms in speaking of very i • common -place occurrences. For instance, instead of reading that after a ball the company did not go away till daylight, we a -re told that the joyous group con- tinued. tripping on the light fantastic toe • until Sol ga.Ve them warning to depart If one of the company happened on his way to tarable into a diteh, we should be informed that "his foot slipped, and he was immersed in the liquid element." A good supper is described as making "the tables groan with every delicacy of the season." A crowd -of briefless lawyers, enbeneficed clergymen and half -pay offi- cers, are enumerated as -host of fashion" at a watering -place, wh•ere we are also informed that lathes, instead of taking a dip before breakfast, "plunge themselves fearlessly into the bosom of "Neptune." A sheep killed by lightning is a thing un- • heard of: the animal may lte destroyed by the • 'electric fluid ;" but, even. then, we shall not be told that it was dead. : we should he informed that that "the vital spark had fled for ever." If the carcass were picked up by a carpenter or shoemaker, we never should hear that a journeyman tradesman had round it ,• we should be told that its remains had been discovered by an 'operative artizan.' All little girls, be their faces ever so plain, pitted, or pitiable, if they appear at a public office to complain of robbery or ill- treatment, are invariable "intelligent and /interesting." If they have proceeded very far in crime, they ere called "unfortu- nate females." Child -murder is elegantly termed. "infanticide ;" and when it is punished capitally, we bear, not that the unnatural m,other was hanged, but that "the unfortunate culprit underwent the last sentence of the law, and was launch- ed into eternity." No person read.s itt -the newspapers that a house has been burned down -he perhaps will find. "that the house fell a, sacrifice to the flames." In an account of a launch, we learn, not that the ship went off the slip without any accident, but that "she glided se- curely and majestically into, her native element; the said native element being one in which the said ship never was be- fore. To send for a. surgeon, if one's leg be broke, is 'out of the question; a man indeed 'mat= be dispatched for medical aid." There are now no public singers at tavern dinners ; they are "the profess - 'lanai gentlemen ;" and actors are all !" professors of the histrionic art" Wi- dows are scarce; they are all "intereet- hag relicts; and as for nursery -maids. they are now-a-daya universally trans- formed into " young persons who super- intend the junior branches of the family." -Anonymous; The Portland "Oregonian" tells this story :-A few days ago a politician of this city purchased a load PI wood anol had. it hauled. home.. Scarcely bad it been. • dumped. on the earth, when a Chinaman applied, with bucksaw in hand for a job. Says the judge, "Row much ee ?" "Hap dollar," promptly replied John. ''Cheap enough,' said the Judge; but just then a stalwart American citizen came along and applied for the job. To the inquiry of the judge the American citizen replied that he would charge a dollar and. a half. Judge: •Well, John Chinaman here offers to do It for four bits: but as I had rather have a white man to do my work, • I'll give you a dollar and half," There- upon John Chinaman went sorrowfully away, and the judge went his way. Re- turning soritC hours afterwards the judge was almost street dumb with astonish- ment to find a Chinaman engaged in saw- ing his wand pile, with neer a white man in sight. Judge to John -"Who told you to saw this wood ?" John to judge- " Melioan Man," and. John described in pantomine end bad Melican lingo. Judge smelled large mice -his employer was his employe of the Morning. "Howmuchee ?' again queriel the judge. And again 'ame the prompt .reply, "Hap dollar." So the judge's'wood pile was sawed. by a China- man, after all, but he paid a white man's price ; and now the judge thinks he is ahont a dollar short in hie finances, on 'account of the uncertainty of a white man. -1- A story iS told of a boy who was wateb- ing his school fellows as they snow - balled an old gentleman's -windows. The _ old gentleman rushed. out of his house, de- termined. if poisible, to inflict some severe punishment on the offender, saying, when he caught the boy, "Now, you young rascal, I'll thrash you within an inch of your life !" Accordingly he began to beat him, when the boyimmerliately conimenc- ed laughing, and continued until the old • man stopped beating him, with the ex- clamation, • 'Boy, what are you laughing at ?" "Well," said the boy, "I'm laugh- ing because you are awfully sold' : I ain't the'boy ?" -.41$ WHOLE NO. 157 VARIETIES., /4 The best thing to give the poor -em- ployment 1 Some men take more care to hide their wisdom then their folly. The tobaeco-chewer is like a goose ia. a dutchtoven-always on the spit. Men are like potatoes -they do not know how se on they may be in hot water. 'What is hone without a mother V as the young girl said. when She sent the old. lady to chop wOod. = i Why is a dog with a, braken leg like a boy at arithmetic? -Becan.se • he puts down three axd carries one. . If yen would be miserable, look with- in. If you would. be distracted, look around. If you would be happy, look up. Every lady who educates her servants into greater truthfulness, fidelity, and orderly ways of life, is doing missionary work of the best lort. - A little one, after undergoing the .un- pleasant operation of vaccination, ex- claimed: "New I won't haYe to be baptized, will I 1" An eccentric but observant Englieh traieller says that he has travelled three times round the globe, and seen but two classes of People -men and women. We have heard many women eonaplain of their husbands' neglect of home. A spoonful of bone e will keep more bees in the hiv-e than will ten of vinegar. , "Now, Johnny, if Willie would hurt you, like a good bey you would forgive him, vrouidn't you ? ' Johnny-" Yis, ma'am, if T couldn't catch,him.' Hope awakens courage while despon- dency is the lasttoi all evils; it is the abandonment of good-th e giving up of the battle of life with dead nothingless. • Severe an the Drug Clerk. -Maid of all work.±"Please, err, Miesus says you will please take a teaspoonful of that per - seriph.= before I brings it home to her." My laudiady, eaid she than, makes her tea so strong that it breaks the cups. - And. mine said another, Makes hers so weak it c n't run out of the tea-pot One of he sable oratoraof old. Virginia made a g od point wheni he said, "De oyster go mo sense clan some folks, 'cause he know when to keep his mouth shu"1t;rill you dake surnding ?" said 4 Ger- nian teetotaller to a friend, while stand- ing nes.i. a tavern. "I don't care if I do," was the reply. "Vent den, let's dake a valle." ' • A gentleman in one of the back . town- ships says, in a note accompanying a let- ter for publication in the "Daily T-ele- graph :"-"I sumtimes missspell a word, and it's possible I have spelt parleement rong." "Jim I believe Sambo has got no truth in him. "You don't know, dere am more truth in dat nigga clan all (le plantation." "How do you make that out ?" "Why he neber let's any out," A charitable man was boasting to Lord Palmerston, "I spend half my income in charity, I assure you ;, I do indeed! I give thousands of pounds away. Gener- osity covers everything." '''' Including modesty, sometimes," added his Lord- ship. . The proprietor of _a forge, not remark- able for his correctness of language but who by holiest industry, had reali;ed a considerable independence, being: called on at a social meeting for a toast, gave, • ' Success to forgery !" Mrs. P rtington wants to know if it were notintended that *women should drive thei husbands, why are they put through the bridal ceremony? There • seems to be something plausible in the supposition, for nearly all the ladies are providing themselves with switches. One day when Erskine was, as usual, on his way to Westminster Hall, with his large bag full of briefs, he was aecosted. by, a Jew boy, who asked. hira if he was a dealer in old clothes "No, you young Hebrew nnp," replied the counseller, " these are ell new suits." A wealthy,Kentueltian, returning from a Southern tour, dropped into a Memphis resta.uran for oyeters, and was amazed. , atlaving thein brought to him by his twelve -y ar-ohl boy, who had run away from home. The olcl man look the pro- digal in hand, and an advanced telegram urged the immediate slaughter of the fat- ted calf. Josh Billings thus speaks of a new agri- cultural implement, to which the atten- tion of farmers is invited: John Rogers' revolving, expanding, unceremonious, self -greasing, and self-righteous hoss-rake is now and forever offered to the gener- ous publik. These rakes are az eazy to keep in repair az a hitching -post, and will rake up a paper of pins sowed broad-kast in a ten aker lot of wheat stubble. These rakes can be used in winter for a hen - roost, or be sawed up in stovewood for the kitchen fire. No farmer of good mo- ral karrakter skould be without this rake, even if he hasto steal one. tington- h key, e---40-4-0,„,areazztiv-7-------iscaeystomtrse I'v . Par - that people' adopt when they are disposed to be philoeophical or moral --"I've al- ways n.oticed that every year added to a man's life has a tenderneis to make him older. I'm sure, too, I haven't got the exorbitance of feellings that 1 once had, and I don't believe I, shall ever have it again live to the a.ge of Methusale, which gooAt:less knows, I don't want - But I don't want to be a centurion; and the idea of one surviving her factories, and. becoming idiomatic, alvrayagives me a dissagreeable consoriousness." The otllier day some ladies went out • visiting There being a little two-year e old preset, one of the ladies asked if he weaild kis her. He answered 'No." "What is the reason you will not kiss me s" "I'm too little to kiss you, papa will kiss you. Ile kisses all the big girh5. ' The youngster was permitted to playwith his toy. • you how it vas. I drink mine soy all . t11 . la, er ; den I put mine hand ori mine he d and dere vas von pain. Den I put mine hanhl on my body, and dere vos anoder pain. • Den I put mine hand in mine poc et and dere vas nothing. So I tine mid de temperancl . Now dere is no pain more in mine head, and de pain in my body vas all gone. I put mine hand in1 mine pocket. and dere was twenty dollars. So I shtay mid de tem- p erance. . Let us be content, to work, To do the thing we can, and not presuitie To fret because it's little. 'Twill employ Seven metn, they say. to make a perfect Who ma es the head. eonsents to miss the point; ' Who makes the point agrees to miss the head; And if a man should cry, "I want a pin, And 1 mast make it straightway head • Ws. wisdoand point,"twcwolt,rit,hBt.heBp.iBnhe 'wants..