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TT—r, wMiP I -cia Sown fes? the &**■&•', ■ _ -
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Wlicrevij.'Shehiiishe'strtickinl   -'
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An' ■\7e,drplenty,o*"co2p^?s to spared
.1 Tolunteer'd thsn-i-witli the Howards—
J-taoHghfc —ai-my^iuty waa deai*— '    •
■   An' I diri'fc ldol£ baek'ards, hut for'arcts,
An* went tes xa$ wort Ithout fear.
©a**; 3ayf howsomevar, she got 'me
As quick da th0 shot of a gun,.
t^n>"the*!* "QtedaieofScter allot me
* "AjhxqIs: till my life-race was run.
*2he doc-tors and nurses they wrestled,      "   ,-
But it didn't do me any good;,
""An' the Syugger he poiurdicl an'd.pestl'd,
But he didnU git up the right food.
" No blankits ner ice in the city 1"—:
" I heard him say that from bed—
An' some cried:   •' Oh, God I who'll take pity
On the dyiw that sopn'U be dea&S
Next day, hoWsomever, the doctor
Oome in with a smile on his brow;  "
" Old boy, jest as yit we hain't knocked her,"
Said he, *' but we'll do fer her.now I"
"Ffir, yer see. -John, them- folks ter- the nor*ward
Hed hear'dus'afore we called twice,
. Aa' they'*-}*: sent ns.afuE cargd.forws^'i;   .
*    Of them much-needed blankits: atf-ice 1
- Well, brother, I've been nu^tj* solid
Asta* Yankees, yer Hurw, since the wah,
-■ Ali' agin"1 recoitstmcWM'was^o'ljd,
Not Iiearin' for adngfess her-law;
But, John. I got ohder thet Mver,
!Ehat God-blessed gift o' the Yanks,
■An' it saved toe from fordin' "the river,"
An' I'm prayin' 'em oceans o' thanks!
I tell yer, old boy, thare's er streak in us
'Old rebels an' Tanks that is warm—
It's ey brotherly love thet'll speak in us,
An' fetch lis together in storm;
We may snarl about niggers an' francheese,"
But, whenever thar's sufferin" afoot—
Uife two trees'!! unite in the branches
*The same as they do at the root!
gam, W. Small {" Old Si^',), in Atlanta ConstUxUion.
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I run toward the north,
O river running south—
Eunning south forever—       .
No fear save fear of f?f0"at°Lir„fl-sever*i
I sigh for your bw*!*JJ*Hw sever
And run toward the north.
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©I,X> WOJRED  STOKDSS.
*Froni the realm-of old-world story
There beckons a lily hand,
That calls up the sweetness, the glory,
■The sounds of a.magiq land;
Where huge flowers droop in the splendor
Of closing-day's golden red,
And gaze on each other with tender
Looks, as of lovers new wed;
•»Wher:e all the trees, too, have voices,
And all like a chorus sing.
And a sound as. of music rejoices
In the babble of every spring.
On the air songs of love are swelling,
Such as never elsewhere thon hast.heard,
lill by yearnings divine beyond telling, '
Thy soul is divinely stirred.
Oh*, me! if I might go thither,
And gladden my care-worn breast,
Shake off-all.ihe-sorrows that wither,
Be happy and truly at restf - ....
' A_.many a time to my dreaming   .
Through that blessed region I roam!   •
Then the morning sun comes with its beaming,
.  And scatters it all like foam. -
-Blac&icoocPs Magazine.
a pretty place in Somersetshire, and was
known _T "£_•_- Courtnay, of •"Branley"'
Hall."" "'   "- .;
I met her accidentally, but she was
very glad to see me, and explained to
me what I had not heard, that when she
arrived at Calcutta, she f ounclTtEat poor
Jerry had, four months before he left
Agra, succeeded to this place of Branley
Hall by the death of a distant relation.
He had previously made a "will leaving
her all his worldly goods, then slender
enough, so that in the end this fine estate had come to her, and a new-rraine*
with it.    She as"ked me* to cdriie*" down*
and see her, which I did, and learned
more of her history.
Sorrow and prosperity greatly changed
her for the better. Even her looks had
improved, and she was a pleasant-
thoughtful, agreeable woman. She had
remained four years in * Calcutta before
she returned, but had at once assumed
the name of Courtnay, which was a condition on which the bequest was made.
"You know, Col. Hastings, I could
not have lost the estate, for what would
poor Jerry have said when he
badk?"
brances? Perhaps she might object
to the details of your-establishment.5*
-. - "Not a bit," said Jerry j* "I have none
of your Eastern prejudices; let her come,
•and she will find nobody to disturb
her** .- -      * '   '   '
"' ^>0nn
"E^dbUbMiiy'os '"w,
7 {-Prosit"* .
" -The fele-i^lr
"ativeto the Bin*.
'jdand audi
4
So she did come; and after living iii, istanisfo tie £
Nepaul for two years, brought. Jerry  comTJw6 fa^i
baclfin triumph to -Branley HMT; and , ££JPjg *g*
.such is the true version of a tale which i •av-v-"-',"-l-u'*'**"-   u"c   -
made some ""qoisa in
fewj*ears. ago.
the; newspapers a
-' funs.- 'mam dogtob^.'.
The
came
I thought the woman's head must have
been affected by her troubles, and said
nothing.
"I see you think me deranged, but I
knew he was aliveall the time."
"Why, what could have led you to
think so?"
Dental Cosmos says that the
best^ teeafinent 'in' regard to. offensive
■breath is the use of pulverized charcoal,
Wq or three table-spoonfuls per week,
taken ir**,> glass of water before retiring
for the night.
Thde Lancet warns parents and others
against'bosing children's ears. A blow"
on the ear has not only ruptured the
drum, but caused inflammation of the
internal cavity of the ear, which, years | that it will h$ isi>u
after, terminated in abscess of the brain." of an Indian sfoij"?
A Nice Eeveb Dbink.—Boil one and j     :p£ese .*??c^, 53"-
half ounces of tamA.rir.ds* w,'fh +™ • public, wiU notvbe"
jjceaching Khybe);.-
by an Afghan x>i\ ,"
the company pasi
, ains. Entreaties^
'j officer inaiiiied.th*
"! ^nd ga-^e evidence
j would resist by xq ■
I English. -\, H^ • w^ 7
! Ameer wcijild bft J
j the notificiitioft-m
. still r6fuse„'i_e.jeL-
| the English ioioB1
retrace its steps '%4
i glish telegi'ams iiL
j henceforth be-'~l'fi^
directly concerr*!::: ■,
ondon rel-
'j;;t6 Afghanis iias been a
7'i'iff_ to these
.-^ at>n,  upon
.-/fbnffonted
,  -ied to let
^yJfe mount-
'.cihdl.   The
•v-Tis forces,
.-.liaeTfessary, he
7j[assage of the
- 7ed  that   the
aonsible; but
..[fference.   He
".W^ission, and
^-."brnpelled to
^tjj. -The En-
-* ty matter will
,■"-' | something j
^tpolitics, and'
a this, instead
knife from, the kitchen, proceeded to
the fowWiouse, where she cut off the
heads of six fine cocks and hens." She
afterwards slaughtered five pet rabbits,
and wound up her sosmnambulistic exploits by mortally stabbing a favorite
monkey         -  	
HOW EDGAR A. "POE DIED.
And the gloomy ice-fields wM,
An«yttSSSS&*^^. .
My course toward the "north. _
I run toward the north,
Yet Oliver running fioutn. •
Through wonderful rich floras,
Warmseas to meet-your mouth: .       .     .
ShluTrfpSe while s&l my &'eat AnroraB
Shine on me from the north?
I run toward the north, .
Yet brief and sweet and bright
Summers come to me        ,,.„,,.
^rSoSri^l&lasttheopen^
As I run toward the north!
—October Scribner.    _,
,the American
tt excite any es-
a naif ounces of tamarinds* with two, - - ,   . „_    , .        .
ounces stoned raisins and three ounces ! pe«al interest e*s€"n-ong th6s6 few
cranbemes all in three pints w^ter, un- } ^^ ma7 ns*e giv( Tab attention to
til two pints remain. Strain,"and add a . a"Saifs in that part %-» world "whete
small piece of 'fresh lemon peel, which 'tllis eveiJt has jus^ -;cvd. Ia reality,
shcrald be removed in thirfcy minutes "r i ^i6 occurrence is"j" 'A great signifi-
«I saw Mm, Col. Hastings.   B was in I J__ tht^   ^   ^^ ^ ^ ^cause ii I ^st import
^*CSl wfTfSottep^  SLis^tt inflTmeTSav^-l ^! ^TSTSS ^J2SZ&*Z& ! SthTnew"trackS should be sn^ect to
T^l-l?81^?' an,d' staFfaDg UP m « i Twenty minutes is sufficient to take the • ^H-t»ide imporj
'    "        - Afghanistan is l
some .200,000 squa|
lation of nearly 1
the northwest of !
Tramway-3.
As early as tha year 1676 rails of oak
or other hard wood'are shown by Mr.
Clark to have been in use in the colliery districts of England.   Not long
after this   time* it became a common
practice to nail -down bars, of- wrought-
iron on the top of the" timber sleepers.
It was found that, whereas a horse upon
the common road could draw 8 bolls,* or
1,700 pounds   of   coal,  his  power  of
draught upon the tramway amounted to
19- bolls, or -1,200 pounds. The wrought-
iron bars, not being rigid enough to
prevent bending or breaking at the ends
under the weight of -fche trucks, the use
of cast-iron was introduced by the Coal-
! brook Dale lion Company in 1767. The
rails were cast in lengths of five feet,
four inches wide and one and one-fourth
inch thick, with three holes whereby
they were nailed down to the longitudinal wooden sleepers, the whole being kept true to gauge by cross-sleepers
of wood of about the length of the ordinary carriage or wagon axle.   Here
was the germ of the development of the
modern locomotive system.   On the introduction of steam it became needful
that the traffic should be kept apart
from that of the common roads,
The Kemarkable Story of a Boliemian Veteran—Tlie Poet Poisoned "Witli I/audanuni.
CFrom the San Francisco Chronicle.]
" You say that Edgar Allen Poe did
not die from the effects of deliberate
dissipation?" asked a Chronicle reporter.
" That is "just what I mean; and I say
further that he died from the effec-ts of
deliberate murder."
This was a strange assertion—strange;
being a flat contradiction of a fact,
otherwise a theory, recorded in detail
_. the history of American literature.
The author of the assertion was a well-
known member of this city's advanced
and inveterate Bohemia; a gentleman
who has long since retired from the active pursuits of his profession, and
spends his days in dreamy meditation-
frequenting one of the popular resorts
of the craft, but mingling little in the
idle babble of the throng. "When drawn
into conversation, it is generally to cor
in
or
in
FAiili suits are cut on the buy us.    .
The cucumber does its best, fighiaiig
after it's down,
The pumpkin-pie season approacheth.
To make a mango—Bead him your
last poem. - ■ : *
■ Take away woman and what will follow?   The man. ; '
A volume  that will bring tears to
your eyes—A volume of smoke.
Don't show us any more
« busts" --of
5L±\J *T     KJ.K,    *v**j	
a bank.   Bali! relief is what the people
want.
A smart woman, suggested to us that
what is needed in our public schools are
principals, not men.—Keokuk Constitution. ...'■_.
" 'Tis  sever  thus,"   said   Alexander
  when he cut the Gordian knot.    "Beef
rect some error from" his inexhaustible I -^h mowed," said the Turk when Hie
and on such "-*•-' k^ killed his cattle.—New York Ma-it
oc-
and
mine of reminiscence,
casions his words are few and precise.
" Then you know something of the
poet and his history, doctor?"
" "With a few others, I was one of his
intimate associates for years. Much
that has been written of him and regarding his death is false. Poe was not
what is called a periodical drunkard,
holding himself to spells of total sobriety, giving way to violent bouts of intemperance; but he was a steady
drinker, and, when his means permitted,
Aiii things sink into repose—
The pansy and the woo.dland rose;
And so it's getting hard to stand
The straw hat with the purple band,
-New YorJc Graphic.
By   an   ol<"i   "hnnhelor:    "You
-may
A §TEAK*SE §T0S¥„
BY AN" ENGIilSH 0*ETICEE.
1 was stationed at Agra during the
- Jabul disaster in 1841, one of a mere
handful of British troops, left in charge
"of the wives, sisters and daughters of
lilie actors in that most unhappy expedition.   And a weary,   heart-breaking
i:.ri8 it was.  The Lieutenant Governor,,
**7lia had prayed and besought the Cal-
iizi'.T- authorities not to risk the advent-
\~je, had the worst forebodings for its
Cc ij and, although he did all an able,
1" .'ll'j tud wefl-man&ered man could
reriutain ih-e spirits of the circle,
-""" "  '-'        "■ "     could read too
"Word? etmld
A Vapoe Bath.—A vapor bath may
easily be prepared at home. Place a
pail of hot water under a cane-bottomed
chair, or, if you have not one, put a narrow piece of board across the pail; on ■
this the patient should sit for half an '
drowsy state, I heard a voice at the ve- i pain from the worst case,
randah, and, as I thought, inquiring of
my stupid old native whether I lived
there.   The steps then turned away.   I
darted to the casement, and, although
j the figure was clad in the most extraordinary compound of European and Asiatic garments, X am sure it was  Jerry, i hour, covered by a blanket reaching to
I darted down stairs and rushed out, but | "the floor, so as to keep, in the steam,
the man had disappeared.   The servant j     Acctdentai, Poisoning.- "When poi-
said he was a bad fakir and wished to j son has accidentally been taken, medi-
get in the bungalow, but could or would j cal aid should be instantly sought.   As
tell me nothing of  what he had said, i minutes  may  be   of  value,   however,
But I am quite sure it was Jerry.   So I! prompt measures may be adopted in
anrceftainhe-will come back—but you*! -*1 1 ' "" ■   •  ■
xemeinber he never was punctual," she
added; with a faint smile.
I did not say to her that if Jerry was
alive she must have heard of him in
some other way;   but I took leave*of
her, and, shortly afterward, returned to
India.
In 1853,1 was appointed to an embassy to Nepaul, a very striking country, governed by a powerful warlike
^^  '   MiiEsfe-*-- Oi"
• motive.   The main lines of communica-
•ntry containing I tion were thus rapidly occupied by a
fcslnd a ,poptv ! net-work of railways,   A paction.Jiow-
X.m B iSs to ! ever, set in on its being found that rad-
- Jjeing adjacent • ways, besides their, vast expense were
to Scinde ancl'th,^
north of it lies Bof1 IS Turkistan, a ' lines of traffic which &n™d *™ds and
streets.   The   convenient  and  unpre
tentious tramway began to  be   again
thought of, worked*as of old by horsepower upon common roads.   It was m
feasible route for'Sti.'.'D invasion is by j the United   States ^hatthe^o dern
way of Bokhara iTr-Kh Afghanistan,  tram-road  was ^arhest -^W*!™.
A Bussian -airjay  I '*& jS'lfcMfo* 1 first section of .^ »^^3^2ra
could cross the __i.it. Koosh mount- j lem line being laid down in 18o2 tea
those which must £t_r£e*_dKit «£ I T' ^ieli se|T0 1?™***™? J& \ £§£, VZo^t ho^vet u^
rives, and the foUowingai-e recommend-   Shamntiin, an'dthey,   ;^ng 6asfc. could inches    »  ^5X7™    Twenty
ed:   In   poisoning    ?rom    tofi,   ffoss the Solyman' r,r ^t^s^tou^ ^n^f^0G£6Xra Erench en-
opium,  henbane,   "paregoric,   soothin* ■ thf ^^IQiyber:    , tmd^^he^jears later'^fj^ ^
sirup, sirup of poppies, bad fish, poison° : srvfs .m7 In^ia-   1-'
ous .mushrooms,  poisonous  seeds-   or' JP***3-1©01, **<-" ot
seeds or plants, or, indeed, almost anv ■ b.arnsr to R ItaHm
break, you may shatter the vase, if you
will; but the frightful^ceramics pasfced
on by the women-folks will stick to it
still."
Science says that it took millions of
years to evolve man from the oyster j
, -,--,-,--,. •„■•■ i  i .-.    ,-, observation shows that  it  takes less
he would dnnk to excess.   His habitual] th&n a minnte to transfer the oyster t@
resort in Baltimore   was  the   Widow  .j-^ mari
Meagher's place.   This was an oyster I ' , -
stand and liquor bar on the city front,'      "Bo dogs snore?" asks an -exchange
corresponding, in some respects, with  "We don't know, a« we never fool around
*~ ^—ti'-n-n^ofln,    T+. 1 a dog long enough to find out.   *w'*
country wholly una5
The great bugbea*;'
overland invasioii /,',
possessions by "5jii
ussianinfluence.
(England is an
,isr rich Indian
aiid the  oiily
race.   Tr-*--
-'--ii**'   ^r*
*>"*
'Tjzxer
vegetable substance, the first thing to.be
done is to empty the stomach with
emetic.   This maybe^ma'de "*-**■
a ta'ble-'Sjjoonfiil'of jiii£' '
fe ft-    '""I'ri1?   —.--- .-'-v.-..
au
'^-J***^*
I since 1838,
; -se<*nj:V2 n ,sf-
<^*j 2. m t •
hfii -'"°""
.>*>.
UV 1
ntains   t11"1*""110"11'lQi* <,T"1 •*was suoji* taken*
^^Wil^rfoikied'leave to-lay down a
dumbtan as a 1 fine of street t^TO'L^^ZS
^ee,-]aB#«d,Uhich rapidly  fexpanded a^a.»^^
„._H^i eijer j most ^ Amencan^ ^^J£*£
i-'11®-1'      ;   , . ^fl^ai locomo-
the coffee shops in San Erancisco.   It
was frequented much by the printers
>and men engaged in the shipping offices, and ranked as a respectable place,
where parties could read the paper, en- .
joy a game of cards, or engage in social
conversation.   Poe was a great favorite j
with the old woman.   You would always j
see him sitting just behind the oyster
stand, and about as quiet and sociable '
as an oyster himself.   He went by the j
name of the Bard, and, when parties
came into the shop, it was 'Bard, come j
up and take a nip,' or 'Bard, take a hand j
in this game.'   He was a sort of pen-!
sioner on his acquaintances, as far as
drinks were concerned,   "Whenever the
old woman met with any incident or
"We
know, however, that mules do not.—New.
York Express. -. 7
"Do not marry a widower," said the
old lady: "a ready-made family is like
a plate of cold potatoes." " Oh, I'll
soon warm them over," replied the damsel, and she did.
" We rather overreach you now
In style," said Green to Pease,
" We've got a colored servant, sir:
By Jove! it's jnst the cheese J,"
" WeU. what is that to brag jibout?*"'
Quoth *Pease, the while be laughed-;
•        "There's hardly any bouse but has x    »
An egress lore and aft."  »
—T(niker8 Gazette. '
WHENintosicated a Frenchman -wishes
to dance, a German to sing,.a Susaiiarfi
*3Mshma-a to
to grumble, an Italian to boas
om w""^!. Tf% "£;- fancv She would ! dan to be affectionate, an
idea that tickled ner ™w B" Jwavs i fio-bt an EnaSshman to -eat, am &a&n>
me even now to rec£"^r-"^lS",,trre^_y--L
wretchedness of that fatal month, during
which no tidings came cf. the devoted
army. Evening after evening saw the
roads crowded by anxious women, sitting there for hours, that they might
hear the first news of those who were
dear- to --them-, and evening after evening* -saw them return in despair. And
when, at last, the news came that the
sole survivor had staggered, half alive,
back to his countrymen with the tidings
of the great disaster, the wail which ascended from those heart-broken creatures I shall never, while I live, forget.
There had been a Captain in one of
the native regiments, an" old acquaint-
ance,of mine, of *the name of Donnelly
—Jeily Donnelly, as he was called by
every one. He was careful to explain to all his friends that his name
was Jerome, and not Jeremiah, although
why he so unduly preferred the saint to
the prophet I never understood. Jerry
Donnelly, however, he was, and as
strange and eccentric a creature as ever
breathed.
He was a very good-looking fellow,
and a first-rate officer, but a careless,
rollicking, half-insane mad-cap of a man,
with an amazing flow of spirits, little
education or culture, a great—almost
miraculous—talent for, languages, with
a soft heart and an easy temper. It was
impossible to make him angry; and in
all circumstances, however unpleasant,
he maintained a placid serenity, which
seemed to imply that he was on intimate
terms with fortune, and knew the very
worst she could do.
Among the other tricks which the
fickle goddess had played him was that
she had married him. "Why he ever
married as he did no one could imagine.
The lady was neither handsome, clever,
nor rich. She was simply passable as
to looks, with the livehness of good
health and youth—a quality not inapt
to develop itself in vivacity of temper
when those other attributes disappear.
But, on some impulse, Jerry Donnelly
had asked her the momentous question,
and had been favorably answered.
A  most  uncomfortable couple they
were.   Jerry, from the very first, neglected her—not intentionally, I believe,
but simply because for the moment he
forgot her existence.   It never seemed
to him necessary to alter  his former
bachelor round in any respect; and, as
the lady had no notion of being neglected, she  resented  his  indifference,
and chalked out a line for herself.   It
may be easily supposed that  the one
was not averse to brandy and water, or
the other to gossip and flirtation.  They
never quarreled  outwardly, but  were
hardly ever together.
So stood the domestic circle, if such
it could be called, of Capt. Donnelly,
when he was ordered on Gen. Elphin-
stone's   expedition.    His   wife  would
fain have remained at Calcutta, but, as
all the wives were going to Agra, she for
very shame was obliged to go there also.
On the first rumors of disaster she was
very indifferent—said she was sure Jerry
would turn up at the most inconvenient
time, and that if he was happy she was.
"When, however, the tidings were confirmed, and it was certain that Jerry
had perished with his comrades, a great
change came over her.    She shut herself up for months, saw no one and went
nowhere.    And when at  the end of
nearly a year she began once more to
look, at the world, she was a  grave,
thoughtful, softened woman.   She went
up to Calcutta' after that, and I never
saw her again until I came home on furlough ia 1847.   She was then living in
_ v"eixc<yime6us"ahd
tion. He was a tall, handsome man,
with a flowing black beard, and conversed with me in Persian, which I
spoke fluently. After our interview,
one of the attendants informed me that
gratifying recep-1 no account'be'anowed'to-g^ Iv. -.I-,**;-. cv7
he may never wake. Eor "all strong
acids, such as oil of vitriol, muriatic,
nitric, and oxalic acids, put an ounce
of calcined magnesia into a pint of water, and take a wine-glassful every two
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the Engiit_.. tively 'far leasT-
jaio. _' T-iiaxisj.*"—-j .in  -s.--.Dir the  English1  -;	
army entered the country through the'j Elephants in a Quicksand.
Bokn pass-which lies south of the j 0n the river Ganges (says an English
Khyber pass—with a heavy ferce which,; miiitary journal) there are many quick-
. at first, gained some temporary advan-; sand    ^   during our   expedition, -
poems
"■ --unto a-?, irieritoi'lous •*•->
■*a**3s2ea intoobsoffifi^:**- ^ __^___
little shop that Poe's atl^iioE
ealled to an advertisement in a Phila
■poetical" wo*rk, i to sleep
7c -"Jr*3*"'- -which
XT ■US"'--
-■*»v-_s -
**' the vello' fevahbefo'.
v,gahs habbin' theyello' i'evan bei©'." One
-«--- —  — -----      . ...  iojTthe new school explained:   ""Why
delphia paper of a prize for a menton- ! not?   Wese ^ de rf ^ and p^fl^
ous story, and it was here that he com- j   f citizemS5 and west jest goin' to hab
,.._  ._ „ ,^a ■*„*> ^hich | ^^^giifee the white folks."
If   this  is   not   attainable,
—    ^. ~._   half    an     ounce    of    soap
ner apartment:    He   ordered  the   at-', in a pint of water, and give a wineglass-   1^"" tu.
withdraw, and  then,_ in \ ful every four minutes.    Magnesia or ' ^ests
chalk may be taken if lucif er matches
are swallowed. Eor arsenic, which is
found in rat and vermin poisons and
ague drops, empty the stomach by an
the Yizier wished to see me alone, and  minutes,
he accordingly conducted me to an in- j dissolve
oar"     ~        "      "   " -   -1- ' '
tendants   to
tones only too familiar, he exclaimed:
""Well, Hastings, my boy, how go on
the Plungers?"
It was Jerry Donnelly, by all that was
tages. The principal cities were
ured, the greater part of
country   was   overrun,   and   a
to the British rn-
was installed. This was
in 1840; but during that year and the
following one insurrections broke out in
every direction, which were only
held in check by an expenditure of nearly
Ca£ ! somewhat disastrous scene happened.
*~e * An elephant incautiously came within
.er! the vortex of one; first one foot sank,
then another; and, in endeavoring to
extricate himself, matters became worse;
no portion of either of his legs were at
last visible, and the bystanders had
given up the poor animal as lost. Being,
fortunately,  unusually   powerful,   he,
had; if not, mustard and ■ ^5^9^ tSSS aSn'SS, ^J ' ^^ t^s,mthwhat appeared to all
Give large quantities of Pfffc ?f 1^2 the British gamsons were supernatui'al strength, drew a foot from
w*e iai0e quantities oi   attacked by the insun-ectionists, and in ; tJ   _08dy-(____g   earth, placed  it
Eor mercury in all its forms
miraculous.   I had observed him star- * emetic of ten grains of sulphate of zinc,
ing earnestly at me  during the inter- j if it can be"    ""    '" ""*'*   —-"*■•-*-»''■ «-"'"i
view, and - something in his   gestures ; warm water.    	
seemed   not   unfamiliar   to   me, bMit! milk and raw eggs, or, failing th^^ — j —-P— ^ . ,   , .-  -      ,   ,
Ms flojriBg berf. ri. aix- ^d I and water tafe betee aid after the ^^^U^So^SSr^t '■ ltd' __*£&_?• tt Sthe
Oriental dress, so much disguised him, vomiting. Eor mercurv m all its forms -L , - .-.,„ Tti(1. _ „_* •ovl„14t!i, ^nninB \ iounct tne most sonclity, not untu tne
that even when I heard the weU-remem-! -corrosive sublimate, vermihon, red ^J ^^S^W^_I^_S__ ! tMrd ^ ^d tte ground b^ax his press-
bered voice I could scarcely realize his precipitate, calomel-the whites of ^nf vuT SS™f™ Z L?™ o^ lure' wlien lie ea^uSly released him-
identity* I ^elve ee8s *«^ be beaten up  in : ^ ^ ^I^^2*en^dsomel0 oS ' l^V0^ ^ ^^ P6n°d
"But what on earth are you doing ' *'     "      '      --*•-  —*- —*•» -^ : Mmy(? -s.ome °'uu,u ™ei\ancl sp^ie 1^0   te01ibles   his   cries
here, Jerry," said I, "and why don't you   QJ. o
go home to your wife, like a Christian?5" ] tient vomits, all the better.   If the eggs
"My wife! well that's the whole affair, j cannot immediately be obtained,   use
You see, she's somebody else's wife, so "      ' "11     *"-  -'-*■
I'm better out of the way; it would be a
j)osed his famous ' Gold Bug,
took the prize. I heard him read it before he sent it to Philadelphia, and,
when it was announced that this story
was" successful,  the   "Widow   Meagher
A gent-lejiak took the foHowingtele**
gram to the telegraph office: "I announce, with grief, the death of TJncie
James.    Come quickly to read will.   1
gave him the money to go on and ob-i^11^'*8,    **— ,*-■<•—- .«■     _ ,     _,   , „
tain the prize." • ! heheve we are the heirs.   John Black.
"But how about his death?" \ The clerk- ta"ving counted the words,
" Poe Had been shifting between Bal- ! s^,* " ^fe. -fe ^ words too many,
timore,Philadelphia, and New York for ; Slr "      ^11 right; cut out 'with grief."'
several years.   He had been away from j    An exchange says camphor will drive
Baltimore   about  three   months,   and : mosquitoes out of a room.   And so it
 ""—'-   ""■"m >vi-,+:vnn must 'first catch the mos-
pity that poor Sophy should commit
bigamy."-
"I assure you, you are entirely mistaken. Mrs. Donnelly has not married
again."
"Hasn't she, though?" said he. "Don't
I know better ? Didn't I go to my own
bungalow and find out she had married
that starched fool Courtnay, when she
knew I never could endure him?"
To his intense astonishment, I told
him how the truth was, and, in return,
he related to me his own adventures.
He had been carried into  Tartary, and
there detained for three years, when he
was allowed to accompany a caravan or
body of pilgrims to Nepaul.   Being by
that time a proficient in the language,
he was taken notice of at court, but very
strictly watched.   He effected his escape, however, disguised as a fakir, and
made his way to  Calcutta, but finding,
as he thought, his wife married again to
a man in his old regiment, he returned,
was taken into favor, and had risen to
his present distinction.
" "Well, I always was a blundering fool,
but I went home with a heart so soft to
Sophy, and vowing that I never would
vex her any more with my vagaries
that, when I heard her called Mrs.
Courtnay, I was turned to stone, and
did not care a rap what became of me,
even to be made a Vizier, which, I assure
you, Charlie, is no joke in its way."
" "Well, at all events, you must come
home now, and enjoy your good fortune?"
■-1 am not sure about that," said he.
" Becollect, she has grown accustomed
to be mistress, I have grown accustomed
to be Vizier.   She won't like to be contradicted, and it's a thing I never could
bear, and what I never allow on any account.   Now, if I went home, she would
not be mistress, and, as sure as fate, she
would contradict me.   Maybe it is better
as it is."
Next morning he sent for me again.
"I have been thinking," he said, "of
all that strange story you told me. I am
all changed since we parted.   I hardly
know myself to be the same man I used
to be, and am not sure if I should treat
Sophy well.   But ask her to come out
here, and then she can try.   If she likes
me in this outlandish place, I will go
home with her; if we quarrel here, no
one will bs a bit the wiser, and I can
continue to be dead."
I    "But," said. I, "have you no ericum-
be beaten to ?n 01lt of, the S0™*^- "^ -,ene C^?„?S ' *& During the whole period of his
two^intTof water and a wineglassful a™1?0* someo,000 men and some 10,000 ; troubles his cries were exceedingly
too pmtb oi water, unu «i weyuawiu followers, who had capitulated and   doWm,,,  aTidmio-ht have been heard a
g-ven every three mimites. .H the jp-v   ^ mai.cMngVvt of the country under ! j£g^ SeTfMs £& when Jhey
a safe-conduct, were waylaid m the de-   were at ^ end5 ws equallv indicative
: files of the Solyman mountains and mas-   of satisfaction.    The internal applica-
, sacred, with the exception of a single' ••      -* - -u-i-i-i
Another army some months after
prussic
almond
flour and water or milk.   Eor
acid, which is often found in
flavor, salt vplatile and water stimulants
may be given.
Sad Scene at & Memphis Cemetery.
The sorrows of the epidemic were
never  pictured
man.   	
succeeded in entering the country and
gaining a few small successes, but the
forces soon after recrossed into India.
- Thus ended the attempt of England,
whose failure, in its disgrace, has no parallel in modern English history.
tion of a bottle of strong spirits soon
dissipated his trembling and restored
his equanimity.
Many unfortunate elephants are lost
in these treacherous sands, when large
quantities of grass or branches of trees
are not at hand to form an available
support for them.   After a certain time
Since that  time  the English have   the po'oV be^tTecomes powerless, and
never  invaded  Afghanistan, although ; t]ie owner can only look with sorrow at
    x._ _. in  more    distressing
scenes than were witnessed at Elmwood
Cemetery.    Six friends of the late Ed   ■■--'^   "■—  —o , „     „^ „„_
"Worsham had followed his remains to the j upon one or two occasions the Afghans ' the gradual disappearance of his noble
" city of the dead," for the purpose of \ nave   carried  the war into Africa by I animal^ a^a lament the pecuniary loss
the  last   sad tribute to their * crossing the mountains and making a | ^ thereby suffers, for all human aid is
descent upon India. Latterly the En- ; faiSlBm T]l have heen known to be
ghsh have confined  themselves to in-   twelve hours before entirely sinking.
trigues whose purpose has been the se- \	
curing of a friendly ruler  upon the j A   Cottage   Water-Filter.
Afghan throne. Up to the last year j Those who cannot afford .to buy a fil-
the British have had much to do, in a : ter may easily make one. Stuff a piece
moral way. with a war which raged be- ! of sp0nge in the hole of a flower pot,
tween Yacub Beg and his father; and < place above this a layer of pebbles, then
turned up one evening at the widow's, j will, b^u j—, ~-	
I was there when he came in. Bard j quitoes, choke 'em until they are black
had been making a little raise North, and blue in the face, and then cram a
and it was drinks all around, with re- j lump of camphor down their throats,
peat, until the crowd were down jolly, i This remedy is more troublesome but
It was the night before an election, and ! less expensive than burning down your
the party started up town. There were \ house to get rid of the pests.—Nowis-
four of us, and we had not gone over a j town Herald.
dozen squares before we were nabbed j Tasepebing with the beard is always a
by policemen, who were looking up j dangerous experiment. An eminently
voters to ' coop.' It was the practice in } respectable citizen, who shaved off his
those days to seize people, whether \ mustache last week, was mistaken for a
drunk or sober, lock them up until the j noted base-ball player within less than
polls were opened, and then march j two hours afterward, and urgently en-
them to every precinct in control of the i treated to pray for a sick man the fol-
party having the ' coop.5 This coop was i lowing day. His wife bankrupted a
in the rear of an engine-house on Cal- \ broom-handle and demoralized a brand-
vert street. It was part of the game to j new silk hat in chasing him out of the
stupefy the prisoners with drugged j house, while a dog that he had fondled
liquor. The next day we were voted at j from puppyhood tore his pants, and the
thirty different places   and   over and ; baby was scared so bad that it hasn't
-i "*    '" life I got through giving its mother the par-
paying
dearly-beloved companion.   On arriving ;
at the cemetery they found the Bev. Dr. j
"White,  of Calvary Church, who, with
his aged wife and faithful colored servant, were  the   only mourners at  the
funeral of the minister's son, Eugene \
D. "White, who had died the day previ-'
the remains of
ous.   On learning that the remams oi ■ ^^-^1^^ to~secure such a ; *_££ o"f coa7se sand, and above this a
t VZ ^/di- wSe who 7s S a    epIraSon  between   Afghanistan   and j LyJ of pounded charcoal three or four
to the grave, Di. White, who is also a j ^i^^ ag ^^ have the effect to im-  j^es i_ depth.   Another layer of peb-
pede the* advance of Eussia. Eor the , i,ies should be placed above the char-
last eight years the relations of England j JoaL to prevent it from being stuped up
and Afghanistan have been of a quiet j when the water is poured in -™0 nnT1-
and rather friendly nature.
Mason, asked the privilege of reading [
his burial service.   The   request  was *
readily granted, and the reverend min-1
ister, in words most feelingly rendered, |
amid tears and sobs that almost choked ;
their utterance, eulogized the character !
of the deceased..    As the sod was falling |
upon the coffin of the deceased, Dr.
"White was approached by a gentleman
well known in   this   community, who
asked him to read the service over his
dead wife.   He was the only mourner,
and was heart-broken over his loss. The
kind old man willingly consented, but
first .asked that he might consign to the
grave his   son.   The mourners of Ed
"Worsham    acted    as   pall-bearers  to
Eugene D. "White, and, with uncovered
heads, listened with aching hearts to the
father as he read the service over his
dead son.  This painful scene had hardly
ended when Mr. Ed Beasley approached
and said he would take it as an especial
favor  if  Dr. "White  would  read  the
funeral service over the late "William
"Willis, whom a few friends had just
brought to consign to their last resting-
place.   Thus it was that the good old
man, whose venerable appearance is in
keeping with his age, performed the duties of  his calling,   within  the short
period of half an hour, to four departed
souls that are now at rest.—Memphis
Avalanche.
A single factory in Bedditch, England, turns out between 6,000,000 and
7,000,000 needles each week, or abou
350,000,000 a year, which is equal to one-
fotirth of th population of the globe.
The con
t'ents oFthe flowerpot should be occa-
The telegrams now coming from Don- j sionally renewed.   But, by a small addi-
The next day we
different places   and   over
over, it being as much as a man's
was worth to rebel.   Poe was so badly
drugged that he was carried on two or
three rounds and then the gang said
that it was no use trying to vote a dead
man any longer, so they shoved him
into a cab and sent him to the hospital
to get him out of the way."
" Well, he died from dissipation."
"Nothing of the kind.   He died from
laudanum or   some other poison  that
was forced on him in the coop.   He was
in a dying condition while he was being j
voted twenty or thirty times in Baltimore.    The story told by Griswold of
his having been on a week's spree
being picked up on the streets is
- -   * "■---!   -'„.■.„   xl,„   „
ticulars
Table.
yet.—Cincinnati   Breakfast
don relative to the fate of the mission
which started for Afghanistan, and the
further fact that the affair is no longer a
matter to be handled from India, but
from Great Britain, shows two things.
One is that Afghanistan, and by consequence the Bussian road to the Indies,
has   fallen  into the hands of Bussia.
The second is that the English people,
by installing the Afghan question in En,
glish politics, show that they regard the
event as one of the greatest importance.
It wrould be a little strange if, at this
very moment, when the salvos of the
guns which announced  Beaconsfield's
diplomatic "victory" over Bussia have
hardly died away, the "check" which
and
;, £.  ^ all a
lie.   I saw him shoved into the cab myself."
the
pots
England gave Bussia at Berlin should
now, so soon, be returned by a " checkmate" on that distant portion of the
political chess-board at Cabul.   It is a   __      w     _
fact that, while the English mission was [ one may *be used for two or three
vainly knocking at Ehyber pass for ad- j without being renewed, if the
mission to Afghanistan, a Bussian mission was already installed at Cabul. Already is Berlin avenged. Bussia has
possession of the only available route to
India, and has friendly nations guarding every inch of its extent from Bokhara to fche Indies.
tion to this, a cottage filter may  be
made which, for practical use, is quite
equal to the most expensive filter of
corresponding size.   It consists of two
flower pots, one above the other, the
lower one fitted with a sponge and filtering layers above described, and the
upper one with a sponge only.   The upper pot should be the larger, and, if the
lower one is strong, the upper one may
rest on it, or a piece of wood with a hole
to receive the upper pot may rest on
brim of the lower one.   The two
thus arranged  are placed on  a
three-legged stool with a  hole in it,
through which the projecting part of
the lower sponge passes, and the water
drops into a jug placed below.   The
upper part serves as a reservoir, and the
sponge stops the coarser impurities, and
thus the filtering layers of the lower
years
upper
sponge be occasionally cleaned. Care
must be taken to wedge in the upper
sponge tightly enough to prevent the
water passing through the upper pot
more rapidly than it can filter through
the lower one.
A Sew Horseshoe.
In England   they   are   adopting
.xxx -~~0         „    are   adopting   a
horseshoe made of cowhide, and known
as the Yates shoe. It is composed of
three thicknesses of cowhide compressed into a steel mold, and then
subjected to a chemical preparation. It
is claimed for it that it lasts longer and
weighs only one-fourth as much as the
common iron shoe; that it will never
cause the hoof to split, nor have the
least injurious influence on the foot. It
requires no calks; even on asphalt the
horse never slips. The shoe is so elastic
that the horse's step is lighter and
surer. It adheres so closely to the foot
that neither dust nor water can penetrate between the shoe and hoof.
The _ orgetfulaess off Mm,,
It is wonderfully easy to forget pain.
We often thought there was a sort qf
witness to immortality in the strange
fact that while emotion remembered is,
to some extent, emotion experienced,
sensation is never really remembered at
all. Whatever belongs to the body
seems to bear the stamp of mortality—
it passes at once into the region of oblivion when we are delivered from its
pressure.   How different is the relation
a,, of memory to the maladies of the soul!
- I Place the unkindness of long years ago
side by side in your recollection of the
toothache of last week, and you feel at
once you are comparing a living thing
and a dead thing. The unkindness,
whether remembered by him who felt
inflicted it, is a living reality, potent
and envenom the wound it
Shower of Mesh.
been  'nother   shower
of
A young woman residing in the neighborhood of Headly,in England, recently
arose in her sleep, pnd, taking a. ci^rving
In 1871 the nranioipal debts of England were $340,000,000, and they have
since sprung to $531,000,000, while local
taxation has expanded one-third*
"There's   	
flesh," exclaimed a small boy, as he presented himself at the office of a newspaper. "Ain't you mistaken?" said the
editor. "Naw, I ain't. There's a whole
crowd rushin' out to git some of the
pieces." "Where did it happen?" inquired the editor, wifch slight curiosity.
" Eight out here in the field," replied
the boy, sliding toward the door; " your
boy Johnny fell out of a chestnut tree "
—Oil City Derrick.
or:
to reopen ~~.~  —
had made.   The toothache is gone, as if
it had never been.   To this fact, we are
convinced, must be traced the common
assumption that any degree of bodily
suffering would be chosen rather than
severe  pain   of  mind.    What people
mean in saying this is, no doubt, that
they would rather remember physical
than mental pain, and, of course, a short
experience of the pain which leaves no
trace is to be preferred to an equally
short   experience of  the   pain  which
leaves a profound trace.   But we are
considering the case of one who knows
that this fierce companion will not quit
his side till the clay which gives it its
power is Md in the grave, and.no sufferer, we think, is to be set by his side.
The deadliest  mental  anguish allows
some respite, when the body claims its
due; an undying grief does not prevent
some faint   gleams of  pleasure when
sleep comes on after fatigue or hunger
and thirst are relieved.   But there is no
converse to the picture.   An uninter-
mitfcent pain of body, when very severe,
leaves room for nothing^but itself.—
Spectator.
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