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C. 8 YUY'S HOSPITAL, LONDON, ENG n I AND. 1 site W. MH. Gi residence, Simcoe , Oshawa, » opp bbs JOUN MctiLL, I ICENCED AUCTION 4 wa All orders leftcat thi proiupt SER, OSH 3 s Othe wil ly altended to. CN. VARS LD 8, YEETH INSERTED ON ALL THE es of the art, as cheap as the od as the best. Tectli med Teeth extracted without local anaesthesia : van's New Block, hing St, Oshawa in C Store, over 2-42 5. FERGUSON, ICENTIATEorDENTAL SURGERY. 4 Of a e over the Groecry of! Messrs, Rimpson Bros., Oshawa, A < preformed in a skilful manner. Residence in the same building 3 RB. McGEE, RRISTER, ATTORNEY, SO. CITOR, ( Onveyancer and Notaric sh a, South-East Corner of Ring a and BL ¥ to Lend. Mortgages bought and (b} R. McGee. S. 0. COCHRANE, L. L. B., TER, ATTOR r in Chance -LAW, vy. N ce low's New I} FAREWELL, LL. B,, "CROWN-- ATTORNEY, tt ¢, Solicitor, Notary Pub Lately oeen ldccased, Brock Street td KE. VOUNTY Barrister ied by hithy ATTORNEYS- '} ¥, Notaries ney to t GREENXWO McMinn "© W. sMITH, RCHITECT, PATENT, INSUR 4 ance anc r Strect, Oshawa, toand from N NCE-M F a B. SHLIRIN & Cou, THOLESALE MANUF of HOOP SKIRTS. erial used. The trac Factory -~King Stree nent Bul loans of woney Canada Per rn orontc t. Pr. RE. Issuer of Marriage Xicenses WHITEVALE. NOOVER, DOMINION 'BANK! OSHAWA AGENCY. J. H. McCLELLAN Aent Money 16 Lend, REDUC or RATES. y of Good 1 AM NOW PR EPARED TO LEND WIGHTM Farm or Productive Lowest Possible 1d manner 108 aid Dy yearly ates of Interest) Principa , or in one n sun can sa a made in Debentures, Mortages, serird I AND G i El ¥NDBACKS BOUGHT AND BOLD. SILV} yrs apply te JAMES Hot. DEN, GMclal Assignee, : MeM War's : Bick, Brock, 1871 for furtiser particy! Moncey Office 8, Whithy April 13th 'Butcher Shop! GE . W. GARTH, ETURNS THANKS TO HIS NU. I EROUS Customers, r al past favors ex 10 nd them that he has opened ou . Meat Marke aezt door to Mr. Gurley's Tailor Shep, And hopes by strict atlention to husiness to ¢ of patronay I meet th . 8 as heretofore 120, 1872 Oshawa, Dec, MILE, MILE! THE UNEERS D HAS MUCH sell & Glass all their righ Milk busine and thut he the sale and of tha! most wrifele, MILK, | by a continu ity indrlivery, uge of all who may be and pune ! ybtain the patron in want of the same, : H. TAPLIN, We the undersigned takes pleasure in recog. ug to the it £ Oshay a Mr. I our opinion and w 10 buy able in the above send teal who wast Millinerg ! Miilinery ! For Style in Millinery, Go to Brooks', For Cheap Goods, Go to Brooks' Ladies' Furnishing Store! Rimcoe 8t., Narth of King Street. VOL. 3. OSH AWA, ON TARIO, Ww. IDNE SDAY, MAY 7 ' CERTIFICATE OF AGENCY. FEVIIIS certifies that Mr. authorized Agent, for the sale of Abbot's Patent Lock Stitch and Silent Family Sewing Machines. This further certifies that Mr. L. Prudliom has the exclusive right of selling otir Sewing Machines in the village of Oshawa, and that he js also authorized tu appoint Agents for the sale of our Machines, in said Territeryi Such agents have all the rights and privileges of the trade, as though appointed by us. gned for the Company, J. J. COLLINS, St. Catharines, Ont, The above Machine is one of the best Family Machines in the market, and only tieeds to be seen to be ap intel, Prices, 8523 withont stand and $30 with stand. wanted. #4 A fecond-hand Gro & Bakes Manufacturing Machine for sale cheap. to do good work. Satisfactory reasoms given for selling LA LARGE LOT OF 'BOOTS AND SHOES CONSISTING Men's Wear of all Classes, Ladies', Misses' and Children's, of all ( lasses and Sizes, To be Sold at a Reduction of 20 Per Cent., IN ORDER TO MAKE ROOM FOR SPRING Agents Warranted oF STOCK. } . . A share of public patronageisolicited. L. PRUDHOM. Hurrak for Old No. 1 on the Corner! ' i : Just arrived, a large and well selected Stock, of = SUMMER - GOODS! 2 CONSISTING OF Tweeds, Broad Cloths, Steamlooms, Prints, Doeskins, Dennums, Shirtines, Ginghams, Table Linens; Table Towellings, Tickings, Lace Curtains, Damasks, and Colored Kid Gloves, Ribbons, Velvets, Hoisery, Corsets, Hoop Skirts .and Bustles. ALSO A LARGE AND BEAUTIFUL STOCK OF PLAIN AND FANCY DRESS GOODS! Lustres from 20 cts. Cobourgs, Gray Cottons, Napkins, lack to 81 10, Paramattas, Silks from 75 cts to 83:50 ription of Mourn- Black Crapes, and every dese tug Goods. of BOOTS and SHOES ever to the Public cial linies in Ladies Prundllas. Glaze ids and Seal Guliders. pairs of Prunellas at 90 ct=.to 81 60. Leather Sutchels and Carpet Begs at all Prices. | ALSO A COMPLETE OF GENTS FURNISHINGS, Consisting in Part of White and and Colored Shirts in latest patterns and Cuts, Felt, Shaw and Panama Hats, Bows, Neck-ties, Collars Hoisery, Braces, Gloves and Unbrellas. Having secured the service of a First-class Tailor, get up Suits at the Shortest Notice The usual stock of Hardware, Crockery, Groceries, Carpets and Haber- dash ry are still to be found at J. W.. FOWRKLE, OLD NO. 1.0N THE C Also the Largest and Best Stock ofiared ol) ASSORTMENT we are prepared fo ODRNER t . Fresh Arrivals from Great Britain | CAT... A LATE COWAN'S 2 Cases Fine Fancy Dress Goods in all the New Materials. 1 Case Black Lusire, Qobourgs, Paramatters, and New Metz Cords. Full Lines of Black: Silks, Gross Grains, Gross de Naples, &c., 200 Pieces Hoyle' S, Butterworth' s and Ashton's Prints, New Lace Curtains, Sheetings, Quilts and Coun- terpanes. "Blaached and Brown Table Linens, Holland and -----ALSO ew Hogsheads- Bright Muscorado Sugars, which will be sold at 12]bs for $1. 10 Cases New Turkey Prunes which will be sold at 5cts per 1b. 25 Ha,f Chests Teas comprising Gunpowder, Japans, Souchongs, Pekoe, &c., &c., WILLIAM M. WIGHTMAN, (LATE W. F. COWAN,) KING STREET, OSHAWA; Young Hyson Oolongs, LOUIS PRUDHOM is our duly Zortry. THE oLD MAN 8 DREAM. [Oh, for one hour or youthful joy, Give back my twentieth spring; I'd rather laugh a bright hair'd boy Thah reign a bearded king. Ons moment of my life-blood stream From boyhood's fount of flame! Give me one giddy reeling dream Of life, all love antl fame. My listening angel heard the prayer, And calmly smiling said ; "11 but touch thy silver'd halr Thy has ty wish hath sped." "Bus isthe re nothing in thy track, "To-bid thee fondly stay, Whije the swift seasons hurry back Toind the wish'd for day 1" Ab, truest soul of womankind, Without thee, what were life? One bliss | cannot leave behind; I'll take my precious wife, The angel took a sapphire pon, And wrote if rainbow diw, The man would be a boy again And be a husband too. And is thefe nothing vet unsaid Before#ie-change appears temember, all their gifts have fled With those dissolving years. Why, yes; for memory would reeall My fond parental joys, I could not bear to leave them all, I'lltake my - girl and boys, And #0 I laughed - my laughter woke The household with its noise And wrote my dream when morning broke To please the gray hair'd boys, Selections, HARLEY'S CHANCES. A Story of the West. BY CAPTAIN CHARLES HOWARD, Prior to the great financial crisis of 1837, Joshua Martin was deemed the most prosperous merchant in the frontier city of St, Joseph, Wisconsin, He was noted for his sterling integrity and stainless cha- racter J angl, if he reveled in wealth, he did not parade it before the eyes of the people. 3 He came to St. Joseph in 1831, and at began to amass a fortune. Those who pretended to know, said that the merchant operated in eastern stocks, and that the bulk of his wealth once was staked among the bulls and bears-of New York. The memorable crash of that decade which embraces the dates above written, ruined Joshua Martin.. He had staked everything in eastern securities found Poor blinded sav nothing s, and he suddenly himself a comparative He could and he sat baggar. man ! from the wreck, his fortunis, like ng those of Carthage. to relingnisgh among the ruins of Marius ame Forced the imposing residence his eagerness to delve due , lie hs 1 liged to remove his famil an® one dauy humble dwelling ; that r mentioned in 'St. Jp.' The troubles which | Wl mortgage wes ol y, ing of a wife ater; to an date of moval, the Martins were no more and the the fashionable 'society of of the bankrupt's fikiily Fhe blow killed the Though a strong man, he.coukl If a few thou- sand had been takea from him at intervals lid ns% end here. merchant. not bear vp under his loss. he might have reddvered and regained his but the des*ruction of tens of thousands at one sweep of lost position ; the waves, He sank rapidly, gnd died, leaving his family to buffet the waves ol the world,and to do the best they could among those wlio once knelt.at their feet; but who now did not deign to recognize Lan on the streets. overwhelmed him. When a rich mang suddenly Eesomes | | or, the griwve is the best place for him. It is a house of refuge, where he is safe | from the scorn of those whose equal and superior in social position he ence was. Mother and daughter took quite readily to their new life. They sold mueh of the gorgeous furniture which had ornamented theif late home.; bat kept tle piano; and a few other pieces which Manmee loved. Maumee Martin had grown to bewitch- ing 'womanhood during her life in St Joseph, and her accomplishments rivalled her beauty. After the death of her father -- after her transformation into the child did shrink from the duties which fell to her lot. She must live ; she must earn her daily of a despised bankrupt -- she net bread ; aud a week after the change of life we find Maumee Martin plying the seain- stress' needle, or givirg lessons in music to a few children whose parents sent them to lier because she tauglt cheaper than regular musical preceptors. By and by, the house which they oceu ( pied was sold over their heads; but the new owner -- a great middle aged, but | somewhat handsome man -- assured them that they should pot be turned out. The new owber was a stranger in St, Joseph ; but immediately after purchasing the property: above mentioned he opened at once drew a a commission store, and thriving patronage about him. Andreas Marley, for such was his name, came often to the home of the Martins, and reports went abroad to the effect that | that he intended to wed the bankrupts' widow. 'My chances are decidedly good,' said the merchant one evening,as he bent over | the counting-room' desk. "The girl ap- pears coy,but she will cosne about in time People think that I am after the widow ; but I never entertained a thought in that direction. The beauty of . the daughter would 'draw the widow's most devoted adorer to her side. That girl's a beauty. She must become Mrs. Harley ; she shall ! | Yes,' after a long pause, and as he slowly | urned from the desk, Harley, your chances are goud--decidedly good. 'You own their howe, and in the depth of winter you can turn them out, if Maumee becomes stub- | born, and says No He was the sole oz2apant of thy count | one of his clerks. | cosy counting- room, | upon the handsome young clerk. ! and he carried his umberalla low in-room ' Hold a moment, Mr. Harley. the counting-room, please. words with you.' Re-open I wish a few ; but as he crossed the threshold | and turned to lock the donor, he heard a | | footstep and a voice down the dark aisle arrest, hasten tins. He ofter [to the store, a the ban Maumee wa { her class in The merchant recognized the voice of | thought she * He did not reply, but stepped into the | closely followed by Phillip Lee, 'Well 1" he inquired, turning suddenly ' Speak quickly, Lee ; I must be going.' * All I desire to say is, that some of the funds of the house have mysteriously dis- appeared.' * What 7' cried the merchant, .* again boy.' Say that The yuune man repeated Lis a wols, and added 'Une afternoon, while you were absent | east, I placed nine Mindred and fifty dol- | lars irr the safe,and the folowing morning forty-five were missing.' "You hive committed an error in eount ing, possibly.' 'If 1 cannot count when it is before my eyes, I.deserve to be money correctly thrown out of employment,'said the youth in an insulted sir, sverd) times during your absence, have I noted the peculations of some unknown person.' ' Who had access to the safe!' 'I held the quickly. keys, sir," answered Phillip 'I have not missed them for a single moment. But the safe hus been opened by keys.' Andreas Harley dropped lis head in deep thought, while the clerk "stepped to lis desk, and summed up various columns of figures on the back of an envelope which he drew from an inner pocket. 'Three hundred dollars have been pur- loined witliin four weeks,' said Lee, turn- » ing from the desk. ' It staggers Maley. 'But we will watch the thief, and catch him, me,' returned if we he shall have his reward.' The merchant began buttoning his great coat, and the clerk walked from the room » and lock the outside Joor of the store, and thom Andreas Harley heard him clos stepped toward the desk; his dark eye fixed upon an object which lay thereon It was the envelope upon which Phillip Lee had t 'I'll look at his figures," he murmurs but the next moment he lope and stared was merely ' Phillip Lge, ~hiregraphy st delicately torméd letters he ed before. Ax room dix 1 fig ring. turned the enve eription. It ent,' at the supe Pre griled the merchant. but the Those had encounter 1d after closing the counting- r, hé half w the let- hiding § Ia moiaeu arfully dre ter from its this eyes renfained fix upon the brief communication, wher started from the desk while something like wth £11 from his lips, , Mugs Ma Martin,' : letter to the floor, an « umee he cried, and gazing fyou possess a lover beside Aridreas: Harley. angrily at it, Girl --woman--T will not submit to this, If you prefer the em- ployee to the employ or, you mist Hunt another home. Bat, by heavens, you shall not wed him, as* he stands before the world' now. He has held the keys to the safe. . He has robbed it! be fastened upon him. The crime shall do: not look $0 bright mow ; but 1 fancy that a little sternness will bring the] girl to terms. She's a beggar now, almost. Does she want'to marry another {' Then he pickel the letter up; read it again, and placed it on the desk where the youth had. left it, The contents of amount to muth the missive did not It was merely a reply during business hours, ; but the appella- to one which, Phillip Lee had sent her tion of * Dear Phillip,' ich to Andreas Harley. had open a mine of He had never encountered. his clerk at. the home of the Martins. They had spoke of him but once or twice, and then casually ; and he had suspected nothing until the letter informal was thrown mr his way Several quite preceeded burstir.g of the storm, 1 days "of 4- Clerk and employer enfpbuntered each other often, but no unusu@ words passed between them. It was eviflent that And- rews Harley was A something, but he took care to concealihis displeasure as much as possible, i The night following thofone that wit nessed the scene in the conhting-room de- scribed above, witnessed the Sibbery of the safe. This time thirty dollars weil abstracted Andreas Harley calledfone of the Mason, to His desk and acquainted him with the facts} and clerks, Theodore Mason, upon being asked if he suspect- ed anybody, said : A 'Lee.' The merchant started at tHe announce ment, but a flush of trinmphistole to his temples. it the store last night at eleven, while I was going honie from the club,' 'I saw Leo standing by continned Mason, evinei an eagerness to unburden himself of some thing that preyed wpon his mind. 'He did not speak as I passed him, but per- haps he did not see me, as it Was raining, a little lower than was necossaty, I fancy.' "1 am on the right trail,' Hare a sorrow{ul tone, said Andreas y, exultingly. * And yet,' feigning "I do not want to think the purloiner is Phillip Lee.' 'Nor do 1,' ' but': circum- stances eondemn him. I could tell you- more, Mr. Harley, but 1 do not like to speak against Plallip.' said Mason ; Andreas Harley pershaded Theodore Mas a to unburden his mind further con the acensed clerk found himself in the clutches of the law. The arrest was so quietly conducted that the public was unaware of the trane- action until tho morfiing papers placed it cerning Phillip Lee, and that night before their eyes. Inshed with trinmipl, Andreas Harley, oa ths morninz following Phillip Lee's | ment, | thedoor that {leads into the street,' Harley's chances » her plain dre . He did nc had not long impart a pic interest the The mer | the news drew a mot 'Iam so | paragraph,' hi column of cit, help it.' Maninee took mastered arrest, ' Mr. she asked, when she lookea with pallid face. Harile y, canto. * No, Maumee ; the proofs are convine- ing against him,' he answered, and then, while the fair girl's head lay on her bosom and her eyes, swimming with tears, fell to the floor, kre left Lis chair and came to her side, * Girl,' he said is Phillip Lee'anything to youl' Maumee quickly drew Ler hand frem his grasp, and started to Ler feet. ' He is something to me,' she cried, fac- ing the merchant, through whose schem ing she seemed to have seen instantly, ' He is much to me -- and more, Andreas Harley, he never robbed your safe !' The merchant, for some moments, did not know what to say, at last he found his tongue, Girl, he is guilty, I greatly regret to say ; but you can save him.' , ' How, Mr. Harley I' ' By becoming my wife ! y I can liberate him, and on such conditions the doors of the gaol shall be open to him Fire flashed in Maumee Martin's dark | eyes. ¢ Andreas Harley,' she cried, ¢ yonder is and with quivering finger she pointed to the portal. ' This houselis mine !" said lve '1 care not.' "1 can tura yoéu out into the snow.' door! 1 under your bounty no longer." 'There is the wish to live '1 will not go until you promise to be- come my wife," said the merchant sternly At that moment the widow entered the 1a to fi room, and Maumee sprang into the ¢ sh her mother had just vacated. tant later she Andreas IMwrley,' she eri deterfiined tone. 'Mother the door Wondering i transpirel to mar the friendship existing between Mumee and the Mrs. Martin the parlor door, and Andreas Harle merchant, clencued hands and vengful visaj®e strode from Le roonn than Mau- and threw No sooner had he departed, mee dropped the gun, herself into her mother's arms ! mother misfortune how follows another: lifted her head, ¢ Phillip shall not be condemned ! He shall" uot fall the victim of a conspiracy--never | "Oh, mother she cried, * swiftly one Jut," and she Yet that day the Martins were driven from beueath the roof which. had sheltered them since their first great misfortune, and they found a temporary abode with Phillip Lee's widowed mother. Maumee soon learned the particulars of her lover's arrest and preliminary' exami- nation, and the following day she pur- chased a pistol with a portion of her musi- cal earn rp" When night came"she made her way to Theodore Mason's chamber, and startled The sathly hue the clerk by her abrupt appearance. young man's face assumed a de and Maumee's mental ejaculation was : ht man.' much of Theodore Mason's habits, and she judged him to be the rob- ber of tl first he denied the charge, but when he saw the the fair changed his tune H * I've found the ri She Knew we merchant's safe. At pistol cluched by girl's white hands, he He wrote his confession on paper, and Maumee called a young lawy®r into the That con- The riz having been detec crimes by the merchant, who had promised to par room to witness the signature, fession implicated Andreas Harley. tel in his don him if he would =zid him to convict Phillip Lee, who, in time Martin. Young Mason was permitted to escape, nd when Harley heard of the confession, he hastily disposed of his store and follow ed him. The guilty clerk left behind him the skeleton keys with whygh he had opén ed the safe, and they still hang in the luxurious ho yae of Phillip Lee,now one of Cliicago's merchant princes, L 2 A Matrimonial Adventure, The cove sonsation of the season at Swell was Miss Arabella Wyshibone, h, at least, the rich hciress--st passed for, infirm he the story ran, had willed her an fortune of which, any day, she might be- come the mistress. Quoted at nineteen, she looked she A wealthy aunt, in salth, immense older; but such anachorism, are in feminine chronology. Her was thinnish her hair reddish, her ayes grayish, and not quite porallel, If don't fancy the picture, say you would have passed common figure you wa can for only no + judge at Swellcove. Among the visitors at the 'Cove' that soason, was a nica young man from the pity. We need not describe him more par- ticularly --to knew one of thesa nice young mer} if to know all. De Quipeny) Dot} His namo was antar | of Trett & Co., wedded Maumee, society. paddled in the before a tendér nature possed be And when Mr, anything whic. Dothunter did venture a hint at tne state of his feclings, the lady at once cut Lim short. 'That is a matter Lirst tween Sur rektives to be discussed be. ,' she' maid, ' Certainly, but' | the j 'Come I can't hero another word now. | My aunt will be down here to-morrow, apd if your unele--' Mr. Dothunter looked blank. '¢* My Uncle,' he said with some eornfns- ion of voice and mauner--*the fa ct is, my uncle is so chained to business---his nose 30 kept to the merchantilo grindstone --you know .how old fellows-- besides, he is a confirmed invalid, confined most of the time to his room.' yoy well, sir' down it is with these replied the fine young have talked the yi over, I can have nothing more to say.' Mr. 1 ngth. lady ; "till he and my aunt Dothunter's face brightened at ' What timo could 'your aunt see my uncle I" he asked. < ¢ Any * I will return to the city this évening,' sa'd Mr. Dothunter, appeal to my uncla Mr. Dothunter took his leave on the next train for the city time to-morrow--say five o'clock.' and make a personal At the tims oppointad, Mr. Dothunter's uncle a sprucely, attired elderly gentle- men, called: at ths princi; hotel, and havirg sent up his duly al Swelleove card, was 1shered into the presence of a looking elderly lady. gentee Bdws and compliments exchanged, the business of the meeting was at oace pre- ceeled to. * "My nephew, madam,' began, ' inforins me that his happiness de- pends on thes answer you shall give $6 the gentleman the demand, which he<has imputed me "to make of your niece's hand. Hé decid- Arabella, you see * This is too grave a matter to edly tastily,' she said is so very young--and then, the fortune she will, at no distant day, inherit--A ha king coug! w interrupted * he sautence ' And my nephew's prospects,' warmly broke in the old gentleman, must people will call not inconsilerable. The house of which I have the honor | to be the head, is not, I believe, unknown in commercial circles. My nephew will come in fur all I have--and very soon, too I fear, Mr. Trett added, making a not very succesful effort to look frail. ¢ The importance of such a union makes deliberation all the mora necessary,' re- plied tlie Judy, I would suggest at lgast a ets y ¢ A year I" Mr. Trett fairly bounded in his chair. Had he been himself the lover his disappointment could scarcely more manifest. 'Good he My nephew have béen consider madam ! impatient temper, and if your niece loves him as he loves her, they wi'l certainly be driven to elope, and what would you 6 'then, madam !' ¢ Of course I should forgive her, dear --she poor is all 1 have left in the world ; but then it would quite kill me if she acted so," said. the old lady crying and coughing Mr. pleasure, g together. Trott' s eyes fairly glistened with he answer to his last question which he had waited for with eagerness was plainly satisfactory. Finding the aunt's resolution inflexible but expressing the hupe she might yet be induced to alter it, Mr. Trett did not pro- long Al visit, Next day Mr. Dothunt ly into Arabella's presence, or rushed wild- On her checks were traces of tears, "I know the wurSt I" he cried. me, beyond ho reach crualty:that wonld defer our hopes. Sobbing, she leaned ker kbad upon his shoulder. Fly wi'h of the dearast, ' In a fow hurried worlls Lis consoled ler; and in Jess time than such an affair was ever planned before, a rendezvous was fixed and before anotker hour had elapsed the twain were one flesh, What was to be done next ? 'Go and ask your aunt's forgiverigss,' suggested the bridegroom, = ' She loft this morning. , ' Well, we can go wher she is.'3 'Alas! she will never forgive me,' whimpered Asabella. 'I know she will.' ' How da you know 1' ¢ Why, she told me so hersclf, yester day I could have tit his tongne of for maling such a slip. ¢ Told you so herself ! not here yesterday, and you annt. Wretch ¢ Nonsense she exclaimed, a gleam | ance, as she closely scanned her hy 'new Ho Lad a butcher s knue,>. that was in his boot, aad unfortunatly, he had a pair of overhalls over all. There was, luckily kole in the overalls, through which he succeeded in getting his hand in and got his knife. Ie struck the brute in head the first time, but the skin was so tough and wrinkled that the knife failed to penetrate. the second time he stabbed the animal near to the small of the back. Uttering a yell the animal bounded away. Day immediately regained his fect and found himse The lion zone down the hill some distance, His rifle being between him and the lion, Day went for his gun, and efter getting it, so steep was the ground KW could not keep his footing, but went slip- ping and sliding until he was almost upon his fod. But the lion had no deeire to re- the conflict; and when he saw the enemy decending upon him Le started for the mountains on theopposite side, scream- ing worse shan any female. Single handed ¢ aitchilv ind If siightly injured. having stopped. . no wan is a match for afull grown Califor- | is of an | nia lion, but Day was decidedly in luck, that his shot did not prove had lost one o the fore paws--perhaps ina trap. This vented it from using its fore feet, and Day's bullet broke r considering latal. The lion, somchow, pre likely discouraged it. its under jaw, The only wounds Day re- ceived 'were in the shoulder, inflicted by the lion's upper teeth in its attemps to bite hi . -- +S -- aren A Mysterious Well. A singnlar 'discovery Las boon made at the old Conciergorie in Paris. | At the of Cessation, figg Kad destroyed two threo towers, and a few days workmen engaged in repairing that named after St. Louis, eame sudden- ly upon a wysteriousiy deep well, This wes corkriveld curiously in the wall facing the quay, and proves to bo nothing less" than the fafal dungeon of the old palace of 'St, Louis. Yet none of the historians of tLe conciergerie mention it, and chance and mischance have only made it known. An opening of two square yards in one of the turrcts revealed a horrid tunnel reach- ing the level of the Seine. There it forms a gr llery sloping downwards to the bed of the river. o penetrate in' | this dreadful dungeon was fruitless, as the interior 1s lined with sharp iron spears and" since the The attempt t points which cross each other in every direction. When this towsr of St: Louis was usad occasionally as the dwelling of the kings of France captives of note were confined in his underground prisons, and | when the powers that/were became anxious to get rid of iny of them they led him | through a passage fogaed in the interior of the wall towards this newly discovered dungeon. A secret door was opened, and he was precipitated in the yawning chasm, and there transfixed by spikes, he perished in slow torture. Of course, it may be easily | imagided that it was only portions of skéie- tons that ¢ver reached the bed of the Seine The discovery of this relic df a barparous age is another milestone magking the pro- gress of humanity. 1 re --_ © ---- i Postal cards will be a ciinvenines to* people who wish to tell all they know. Smith says to his landlady :§ * Any letters for me, to-day I' 'Only two postal cards, but therelp nothing par. ticular on tem.' : And she affswors: Tho circulation of GM papers is stated as follow 170,000 copies A 140,000 ; Daily News, 90, ; 'Echo, 80,- 000 ; Times, 70,000. The morning and: evening papers together give a sum total daily of 530,09Mce pic ndon news. The Daily the Standard Telegraph, Ax English gentleman informed' his steward that hs was to have s'company of clergymen to dine. * Bo they High choreh or be-they Low I" said the steward. ' What has that to do with it? was the raply. ' Wery much,' was the answer, ' If they be High church, we want more wine --- if they be Low church; we want more wit. { taltsy' t st ggered A drun'on fellow 'was' walking up the" | street quite late the ther night, singing at the top of his hasky voics, ' Rock me to sleep, mother, rock me to sleep." Hy p Mica: nan, who re- 'I won't rock you to sleep, bus T against a plied : | will elud you so yon will ba glad to Jur | down and be quiet, if you don't shat wp," | He Jost his vaice right away pretty quick, | thoe-Lyes, at 'thy command, I'd tear the" ~ Li were | neger saw my WuaT 4 Lover Wound Do.--¢ Eva, for cternal firmiment into a thousand frag. ments--1'd gather the stars one by one as they tumbled from the regions of ethofal space, and pdt them in my trousers' pockets; Td pick ths sin -- that oriental god of day that traversen the blus arch of of intelligenca flashing over her counter heaven in such majestic splen lor--T1'd tear foatares, ' I sea it all, | myth. I sae Your, Wn isa yourself in dwguise, Whom wv a" AIH hatogel 7 211k hain iy = 8 him from sky, and qnench "fis bright | effulgenc love for thee,' vin the fountain of my eternal 'Don't, Walt, it would make i* ¥o very dark.'