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fwPS v, if._; -T, , SATED BY lorf »T jr. nr. HA*MH out my winder, BY J. 0. WILSON. Vet XAnf I gaaad from •-#* *lMiwi<JhriAi d»d strest; wie* toot the din below (A rolVtg whtwla and busy «M% Airs- ,: •••'. ".,r-;;' ̂ - "She bustling world eared not for an*. Ha* I for all the busy WOTM; the storm r ** ... •{V? WhoseW»TM against tb»rook*Hi kwflift. JLi_ ' < •> Wvoyagedonthisatoqmysea, , "Mid wrack of hopes, which oft betel!, felt Its treachery, worse to SMi, > rlThan hidden rocks, mid mart aM swell. < framed oblivions, weary, sad;* v *1' ' J*0* wlth *»tfht I'd ever seen. " -Ijjhere all seemed tempesttoesedaad rglfl ;" l̂ ljDeceitfnl, ever, Tile and m if »*• H- las: »-4•• JJive, awake; but still my life r **Wae worse than not to lirve at all; Sjf ij, MM conscious of unequal strife, . "trowUng, climbing, hat teML \y>' Hhen, beyond the street appeared. At m window, long I'd watched to vaiitt V|ie owner of the pretty bird, , ^ -^Ehst sang outside the window pane. .' •s",. dimpled hand she damped and stltvii * T1» flowers on the window-sill, ;!$•? Ar-' stroked the feathers of the fetid, V"r> ,* - ' ,ttnd Mndly coaxed him to be still. , fl ^th eyes up-turned, she softly sang .A song as sweet as the angels sing, Ahd the warbling notesof music rang : ' " Like the blended song of birds to sprittft;* . . V T» ¥>7\# ' ; , 1 *IiO*e is life, and life ia love; . i *V. j^Loving we live and never die; , ̂ \ •' J^aise to Him who rules above, ^1 •/Who loves all creatures inislli HwUli ' ' sf 1 tort to wealth; so let me be ̂ 1 Kaher far than money-fctog; y |f^5 •'. .tâ then^ghformj: , ̂ i of ttiee, sweet love, I ̂ ̂ . Jfflod of love, my prayer to Thee, * 'tf- * In love, Mid faith, and hope asoanda! ̂ me, in love, to worship Thee, , . , l jV , And love Thy creatnree ail as friendsf love mankind is happiaesay • p 'J ̂. To.hate and doubt is grief untold: | tl- jfelp me to shun such wretchedness; ̂V"'v? .," jMake love my dower instead of gold.' b'.- f**&mbition hss no charms for me; "V ̂ s?an the heart and clogs the soul; "•' •K love ad dharity, >; V_ { ̂ i"' -And nesvea •• my goal."' *, • 1 flhe did not know that she had raised A 4 ( mm-. ke did not know that she had nM ! A soul from darkness up to light. Until, united, we together praised The Ood of love, most happy la the rlgfet." •TiwasM a W^. ^DptirsaiiA.Mo. Si} h.M \?L \i > I M m m&mobseless barbers. BY BOB BUBDSTTB. »"i !HM lild, angoveraable pac&on a ^ tmifjer lias for brimming your hair! On ̂the 4th of December I was in Boston, thinking about a lecture I was expect- t: ing to deliver in the evening, and so badly scared that I couldn't remember "M, the subject nor what it was about. I ;f; irent into a Tremont street M Institution • of Facial Manipulation and Toneorial Decoration," and inqidred for the Pro- feasor who occupied the chair of Medise- val Shaving and Nineteenth-Century Shampoo. One of the junior members •o# the faculty, who was brushing an un- 'K <Iergraduate's coat, pointed me to a chair, and I climbed in. When theper- •tu foraaance wm about concluded, the W barber said to me: r' • &£ j ,1 } ^ |̂Eave your hair trittuned* «r? * I believe not." ; "Keeds it very badly, sir," he nod; looks very ragged." ' I; , I never argue with a barber. I «aid: " All right; trim it a little, but ^ -don't make it any shorter." ' Immediately trimmed all the curl out of it, and my hair naturally, you know, ; has a very graceful curl to it I never discovered this myself until a few ^ " months ago, and then I was very much surprised. I discovered it by looking at my lithograph. ™r Well, anyhow, he trimmed it. ̂ ̂ Oh the 6th of December I at Bath, Me. Again I was shaved, and again the barber implored me to let him trim my hair. When I answered him that it had been trimmed only two days before, he spitefully asked where it was done.- I told him, and he gave expres­ sion to a burst of sarcastic laughter. 1 ^Well, well, well," he said at last, "so you let them trim your hair in Boston. Well, well Now you look like a man who has been around the world enough to know better than that." Then he affected to examine a lock or two very particularly, and sighed IjMvily. "Dear, dear," he said, "I don't know, xftally, as I could do anything with that hair or not; it's too bad." Well, his manner frightened me, and iold him to go ahead and trim it, but please not make it any shorter. ; "No," he said," oh no, it wasn't neces­ sary to cut it any shorter; it was realty tpo short now, bat it did need trim­ ming." So he " trimmed" it, and when I faced the Rockland audience that nigh*- I looked like a prize-fighter. In fotur.days from tliat time I was sit- tang in the chair of a barber down in New York State. He shaved me in grateful silence, and then thoughtfully run his fingers over my lonely hair. " Trim this hair a little, sir?" he said; ••straighten it up about the edges?" I meekly told him I had it trimmed twice duiiag the preceding week, and I was afraid it was getting too short for printer wear. * Yes," he said, " he didn't know but what it was pretty short, but you didn't need jto cut it any shorter to trim it. It in very bad, ragged shape at the UrS t remained silent and obstinate, and last, I told him, wad he burst into a shout of laughter that made the win­ dows rattle. " What's thq matter, Jimt" inquired an iwBsistant partner down the room, holding his patient in the chair by the nose. Jim stifled his laughter and replied: **This gentleman had his hair trimmed down in Maine." There was a general bnrat at merri­ ment all over the shop, mid the ap­ prentice laid down the brush he was washing and came, over to look at the' Maine cut, that he might never forget it. I surrendered. " Trim it a little, then," I groaned, "but, in the name of humanity, don't cut it any shorter." ••No," the barber said, Mhe wouldn't make it a hair's breadth shorter." When I left that shop, if it hadn't been for my ears, my hat would have fallen down clear on my shoulders. When I reached the hotel, everybody started, and a couple of men got up and read a handbill on the wall, descriptive «xf a convict who had recently escaped from Sing Sing, and looked from the bill to myself very intently. That night several of the audience drew revolvers as I came cut on the platform. Then I went to Anasterdam, N.. Y. The barber of that sleepy village, who, in the interval of his other duties, acts as Mayor of the town and edits the local paper, undertook to shave me with a piece of hoop-iron he pulled out of his boot-leg. When I resisted, he went out into the kitchen and came back with a kitchen-knife and a can-opener, iand offered me my choioe. I selected the can-opener, and he began the massacre, remarking incidentally that he used to keep a good sharp spoke-shave for his particular customers, but he had lost it. Then he said my hair needed trim­ ming, very badly. I protested that it was impossible; it had been trimmed three times within ten days, and was as short as a business sup os tfce lat of January. : • J •' " Oh," he said, "it wasn't too abort, and/ besides, there was no style about it at alL" He could give it some shape, however, he said, without making it any shorter. So I surrendered and told him to shape it up. And if that fore-doomed, abandoned, Amsterdam son of an oak­ um-picker didn't go out into the wood­ shed and come back with a rusty old horse-rasp and begin to file away what little hair I had left. He allowed a few shreds and patches to remain, however, clinging here and there to my scalp in ghostly loneliness. I rather feared that, my appearance that evening would cre­ ate a panic, btit it did not. I observed that the majority of the audience had their heads " shaped up " after the same manner,- and were rather pleased with my conformity to the local custom and style;' Well, I got along to Corry, Pa., and rushed in for a shave and got it, in one time and two motions. " Hair trimmed, sir? " the barber said. I supposed he was speaking sarcas­ tically, and so I laughed, but very feebly, for I was getting to be a little sensitive on the subject of my liair, or, rather, my late hair. But he repeated his question, and said that it needed trimming very badly. I told him that was what ailed it--it had been trimmed to death. Why, I said, my hair had been trimmed five times during the past thirteen days, and I was afraid it wouldn't last much longer. " Well," he said, "it was hardly the thing for a man of my impressive ap­ pearance, who would naturally attract attention the moment I entered a room (I have to stand on my tiptoes and hold On with both hands to look over the back of a car-seat) to go around with such a head of hair, when he could straighten it out for me in a minute." I told him to go ahead, and closed my eyes, and wondered what would come next. That fellow took a pair of dentist's forceps and " pulled " every lock of hair I hftd left* •' •;•••• • i ' '• ••••>* "There," ha said, proudly, "nowwhen your hair grows out ft will grow out even.* " > '* *• •' '• "I was a little dismayed at first when I looked at my glistening poll, but after all it was a relief to know that the end was reached, and nobody could torment me again to have my hair trimmed for several weeks. But when I got shaved at Ashtabula the barber insisted on put­ tying up the holes and giving my head a coat of shellac. I yielded, and my head looked like a varnished globe with the maps left off. Two days after I sat in a barber's chair at Mansfield. The barber shaved me silently. Then he paused, with a bottle poised in his hand, and said: "Shampoo?" I answered with « l«»k, »Hten he oiled my hairless globe and bent over it for a moment with a hair|»^ush., ^Then he said; . .... • r , «-f-. "On which si^e do you part your ^ ' -,>r| SALT water for fire extinguishment is proposed in New York, because it will I am a silver dollar, and of the family known by some people as " The Dollar of the Dads." I believe w© are indebt­ ed for that name to*Durbia Ward, of Ohio; but our family name proper is Standard. I am <ot going to give a history of our family, but propose here to give a brief history of my first day's exist­ ence. I was born in the Government mint, in Washington oity, on the 10th day of July, 1878. Upon my face was stamped on the day of my birth, the motto of my native oountry, and I was presented with thir­ teen silver stars, and a picture of my mother, the Goddess of Liberty. I was told the motto, " E. Pluribus Unnm," was my passport, vohich would secure to me protection wheresoever I wished or chanced to go. I was requested to show the thirteen stars to eveiy American citizen I hap­ pened to meet, and was told this would insure me a warm reception by every patriotic fireside in this nation; as they were the emblem of the few but deter­ mined and mighty colonies, who com­ pelled Great Britain to quit-claim to my mother a territory designed by God to be the dwelling-place of herself and her many friends. I was told to show my mother's por­ trait everywhere I went, and particular­ ly to the oppressed and down-trodden of the monarchical governments of the world. The genial smile of her coun­ tenance, it was said, would call to their minds the friendly invitation she had so long extended them, and which she still extends, to come and settle on her farm, where peace and plenty is ever to be found, beneath her Irind, indulgent government. And thus, I was toUd, while the rich and great might slight me, the poor, the honest and the true would love me, not for my natural worth alone, bnt also for my dear, good mother's sake. I was then presented with abranohof olive and a few small spears or arrows, likewise a wreath of laurel. "Wear this wreath," said Mr.John Sherman, my mother's friend and cashier, "wheresoever thou goeth, for thou art an American, and the name alone is enough 1» give thee glory; thou art born a victor, and for victory. The olive branch carry in thy hands, that every person meeting thee may see it early and recognize thee as a friend oi. peace's, but keep the arrows ever readw^ to thy hand. If a stranger scoff the^ thou art the child of Liberty and neej tj,e not notice him. He is a slave. But, [leliv* the stranger smite thee, he is the enemjiiug, of thy parents; the follower of a tyrax: a would-be ruler in a petty way. /'Draw, then, an arrow, and oause hi to bite the dust or die." An eagle then was furnished me as traveling companion. I was told this bi would live as long as freedom reign upon our blessed land, and that looked into the future beyond the pi tration of man's eye, and, seeing dani hidden there, it warned America's fr< men to prepare; or if it saw some bl ing rich and good it bid them to jotee. >L At last, near close of day, my mothdt came to me and said: "My child, thy usefulness is in travel--in thy change of place. The more restless thy life is, the greater good thou wilt work to human­ ity, for w;hose sake thou hast been born. Young as thou art, I will see thee go into the world without a single fear for thy welfaro, if thou wilt make me a promise to trust in God." Then, I, with my brothers and sisters, answering her said: "In God we trust." The words were then stamped upon our right h^nds; we kissed our loving moth­ er good-by, and started out into the world, to drift with trade and txaffio, and to be the willing helper of commerce, If you wish more of my history, I will be pleased to furnish it when we meet some evening at a fireside as genial as this one has been to-night. Let me slip into your pocket now, for I sa\weary and would rest. CSUHA, Ohio. - . four. In all other respects he strikingly abstinent, his food consisting wholly of bread, water, wad vegetables. In a letter communicated to Sir John Sinclair, by John Gordon, Esq., of Swine, mention is made of a person named John Mackay, of Skerry, who died in Strathnave, in the year 1797, aged 91; he only slept on an average of four hours in the twenty-four, and was a remarkably robust and healthy man. Frederick the Great, of Prussia, and the illustrious surgeon, John Hunter, only slept five hours during the same period. The celebrated French Gen­ eral Pichegro informed Sir Gilbert Blaine that during a whole year's cam­ paign he had not allowed himself above one hour's sleep in the twenty-four. THE! ZULUS. Tile following account of the tribe of Zulus, which are giving the British so much trouble in South Africa, will be found interesting: Cetewayo is the most powerful Afri­ can monarch south of the equator. He has 300,000 subjects within the 10,000 square miles of Zululand, ,and they are a powerful, well-built race, capable of great endurance. He has already as­ sembled 8,000 men on the frontier and called out his army. There are forty regiments, seven of which, however, consist of men over 60. Of the remain­ ing thirty-three, fifteen are composed of bachelors and eighteen of married men, the latter being distinguished by their shaven heads, on which only a circlet of hair is allowed to grow. Each corps has its distinctive marks and special stations. At 14 or 15 the Zulu males pass into the army and are formed into regiments, with which older soldiers are mixed. Not till 40 is marriage per­ mitted. At present the army contains 22,500 men under 30,10,000 between 30 and 40, 3,400 between 40 and 50, and 4,500 between 50 and 60; total, 40,400. The soldiers have breech-loaders and some cannon. Each regiment has two wings of equal strength, subdivided in­ to companies, The regiment has a commander and second in command; there are two officers to each wing, be­ sides company officers and two or three junior officers. All have their regulated duties and responsibilities, and their orders are readily obeyed. Drill there is none, though the Zulus perform some simple movements with method, such as forming a circle of companies or regi­ ments, heading into companies from the a line of march in » toi Fitzsimmons & Evansf* Xeur Depot, McHn" circle or forming uo- m : v " • • - " Machinery, bnt call on * * 1OJT0 AND 8JBOBT SLB. ; Seamen and soldiers, from habit, can sleep when they will, and wake when tfiey will. Captain Barclay, Vhen per­ forming his wonderful feat of walking 1,000 miles in as many consecutive hours, obtained such a mastery over himself that' he fell asleep the minute hi lay down. The faculty of remaining asleep for a great length of time is pos­ sessed by some individuals. Such was the case with Quin, the oelebrated play­ er, who would slumber for twenty-four hours successively; with Elizabeth Orvin, who slept three-fourths of her life; with Elizabeth Perkins, who slept for a week or a fortnight at a time; with Mary Lyell, who did the same for six successive weeks; and with many others, more or less remarkable. . A phenomenon of an opposite charac­ ter is sometimes observed, for there are other individuals who can subsist oft a 'surprisingly small portion of' sleep. The celebrated General Elliot was an instance of this kind; he never slept •fe- :'v ^< R^V* A, ^ A correspondent, ieib a story about Judge Kent that is interesting. A case of burglary was being tried before him, The prisoner's name was Cowdry, and the evidence showed that he had cut a hole through a rubber tent in which sev­ eral persons were sleeping, large enough to admit his arms and head, and had ab­ stracted several articles' of value. Hia counsel took the ground that the pris­ oner, having only reached into the tent, had not "entered" it, and that on this technicality the defendant should be discharged. In his charge to the jury, Judge Kent, with a grim smile, alluded to the plea of the prisoner's counsel, and instructed them that, if they were in doubt as to the guilt of the whole man, they might bring him in guilty as far as they judged the evidence would warrant, and the jury, after a brief period of consulta­ tion, brought in a verdict against Thomas Gowdry, the prisoner at the bar, of guilty to the full letter of the indict­ ment as to his right arm, his right shoul­ der, and his head. The Judge sen­ tenced the arm, the shoulder, and the head of said Thomas Cowdry to impris* onment at hard labor in State prison for the term of two years. The prisoner might do with the remainder of his body what he pleased.--Bangor (Me.) Whig. • CINCINNATI is to have a game of chess with living pieces. Gentlemen and la­ dies appropriately and richly dressed will personate the kings, queens, bish­ ops, knights, rooks, etc. The pawns will be represented by young ladies, tastefully dressed. All the parapher­ nalia incident to a tournament in che middle ages, such as lanoes, spears, shield!, banneffi, trumpeters, warabala »and attendants, will be faithfully imi­ tated. Two of the most skillful players will fight the mimio battle. * * THE SWEETS OF LOVE. , '̂ IjpehftBting sex, whose tyrant reign ̂ ",ll|>oms us to wear a servile chatft.'s ( ̂ V • j Though we would fain conceal it{ * please each fancy, folly, will, » |S cup of bliss we love to fill,.; ; Yet dare not to reveal it, Ohr pockets, twenty times a day*, 1 ̂ * Vbr vain expense of dreei and pU^y,; Ton rifle, till we feel it; let, oh 1 tin monstrous--while we smart, JUnother comes, he woos your heurt, v ' And, faith, contrives to steal it! LAi&UREB, Wis. W.M.HAHIH. I* the Missouri Legislature a long winded member paused in the midBt c an interminable speech to take a drin . of water. Representative Stumpf, of S ^ Louis, arose in the interim and made point of order. " State your, point < order," said the Speaker. " My poii of order," replied Stumpf, "is that windmill can't be run by water." that his loss *ps ajudgmentof Heaver ̂ upon him for his wickedness. " Jg, i t f Well, if they will take the judgment in cattle, U is ike 0aeicat way I < pay for it P - JTHBEUABY SECONlJ. r T ground-hog " mosied * out t»-d*y, ̂ j,.:f ' * ftnetched himself as if for play „ , ,4 , Bint, seeing his shadow, skinned awav " V •" ! , 5 ACBOSTIC.--OABRIE V. SHAW, v-j Care aad sorrow mny'st thoa never khow, And m&y Fame her bright mantle o'er thee throw Hare flowers ever in thy pathway bloom, Bendering the air fragrant with sweetest pesfum< Innocence wreath round thy brow entwine, Emblem of purity, may it ever be thine; Virtue's bright star in thy crown may it shine. So, my fair friend, would I have thy life be, Happy, contented, joyous and free; And may Heaven's choicest blessings on thee dei cend, Watched o'er by angels, «*• to the end. 8SDAMA,MO. M. T. RAVSOX. Mto Ms burrow, there to stay For si* weeks from to-night. ft tv.1 MYN"' I IS THE GOLDEN OPPOf aK, TOO LAItG lsnally found iu a Country Store, :• i: ;t ; ' -t ! » « . » * - o S6y§fdlS&m DURING the debate in Congress o •/ ,t 7,;' THE day after his recent Senator Don Cameron made the on first the Civil Bights bill, Gen. Butler, wh was leading the Republican side, aske" Mr. Randall, the Democratic leader, t« agree to a Sunday session, in order to finish up the business. Randall ob­ jected, saying that he had some hopes of a hereafter. Butler replied, "If you have, you will be the same there as here, a member of the lower house." TEAMSTER SPARE THAT HORSE. Teamster spare that hone; He has too b<g a load; How hard he tries to draw, - Urged on by whip and goad. Don't raise that cruel whip To deal another blow; Make his burden less And.see how fast he4l go. Undo that galling check That lifts his head in air; Without the torture it inflicts He has enough to bear. Don't grudge a little pains; Think how, through heat and oold, He's served you many years, Even till he's growing old. How patiently, for hours, He*!! at the curbstone standi With tired, aching limbs, Waiting your command. Faithful, enduring horse; What a servant he has been 1 Oh, then, drop that cruel whip And use it not again. £xSxnrntx,D, Masa. HAKKIKT E. 8. CKMR. THE following is a funeral sermon lately preached in Ohio, by a Buckeye clergyman: "I have been begged, im­ portuned and entreated to preach this 'ere sermon, but I don't want to do it. I never did like the man; I never knew nothing good of him. He had horses, and he run them; he had cocks, and he fit them. I have heard he was occasion­ ally good at fires. The bearers will please remove the body, and sing the following hymn: •'.With rapture we delight To see the cuss removed." SO MY HUSBAND, ON OUR FOURTH ANNI­ VERSARY. Floor short yean ago we started On life's journey, side by sids, Tou the tender, loving husband, I the happy, proud, young bride. Little thought we then of Borrow That would fill the coming years. That would try our natures strongly, And would bring so many tears. In the church-yard lying yonder Rests our all--our babies, two-- They were given to us only To be taken for some good. So they tell me, as they comfort Seek to give my aching heart, But it does not still its throbbing. Only makes the tear-drops start. Dearest husband, as we journey, In life's pathway day by day. May^he light shine brighter to as Toward the " straight and narrow way;" And when all our journey's o'er. And we reach the other shore. May we " anchor in the harbor," All our pain and troubles o'er. Ama, Iowa. M. J. « • • " 1 A CERTAIN good-natured old Vermont facmer preserves his constant good na­ ture, let what will turn up. One day, while the black tongue prevailed in that State, one of his men came in bringing the news that one of his red oxen was dead. "Is he?" said the old man. " Well, he always was a breachy cuss! Take lus hide off and carry it down to Fletcher's; it will bring the cash." An hour or so afterward the man came baok, with the news that " Lineback " and his mate were both dead. "Are they? " said the old man. " Well, I took him of B to save a bad debt that I never expected to get. It is lucky that it ain't the brindles. Take the hides down to Fletcher's; they will bring the cash." After the lapse of another hour the man came back again, to tell him the nigh brindle was dead. "Is he?" said the old man. " Well, he was a very old ox. Take off his hide, and take it down to Fletcher's; it is worth cash, and will bring more than any two of the others." Hereupon his wife, who was a very pious soul, taking upon herself the office of Eliphaz, reprimanded her husband se­ verely, and asked lam he was not awaze NX> IN MeHENRY CO writer, of more gravity, we fear, thag veracity, asserts that the inhabitants of Harndenburg had formeily the singnl^ custom of electing the Burgomaster whit had the longest beard and the biggest foot. • ( t , 1 •* ,/ - i , a DID MB TBLL A LIB? There was a merchant ship-owner of Liverpool (a Quaker) who prided him­ self on his unimpeached and unim­ peachable honesty. He would not havin told a downright falsehood to have save£ the value of his best ship. Jaoob fered one of his best ships to set sap from Calcutta for home without ang insurance upon either vessel or cargo* At length he became uneasy. He wsg§ confident that his ship had encountered bad weather and he feared for her saf<>» ty. In this strait he went to his frien§ Isaac. He called him friend, though { am under the impression that Isaac was one of the children of Israel. "Friend Isaac," he said, "I would like thee to insure my ship that is a| sea. I should have'done it before, but carelessly negleoted it. If thee canst have the policy signed, all ready fcjfr delivery at 3 o'clock on the afternoon of the morrow, I will send thee the money in full. Isaac did not seem to be anxious to insure the ship, but, being assured th# no unfavorable intelligence had been heard from her, he said he would have the policy made out to take effect on and after 3 o'clock on the following day, but to cover the ship and cargo from the date of her leaving India. Early on the following morning Jacob received a message from the hand of a Captain just arrived to the effect that his ship was stranded, and her cargo lost. This was very unfortunate. Should friend Isaac happen to hear the news before the policy was made out, he would not make it out at all: or, if it was made out and not signed, he would not sign it. What should he do? He wanted to*act honestly. It would not be right to let Isaac go and make out that policy under such circumstances. Finally he hit upon a plan. He sum­ moned his confidential clerk and sent him with this message: "Tell friend Isaac I have heard from my ship, and if the policy is not signed he must not sign it" The clock was close upon the stroke of 3 when the clerk arrived*. Friend Jacob's message was delivered. The ship had been heard from, and, if the policy was yet signed, he need not sign it. " £ think I am In aeason In save it," the clerk said. "No, sir," Isaac answered, Emphatic­ ally and promptly. Now, in truth, the policy of insurance had not been signed, for the insurer had been in doubt; but when he heard the message he judged at once that the ship was safe, and that Jacob sought to save the heavy item of premium he had agreed to give. "No, sir," he said; "you are too late. It is passed 3 o'clock; the -policy is signed. I will go and get it." He slipped out and hastily finished and signed the policy, and, having dried the ink, he brought it to the clerk, de­ manding in return the sum which had been agreed upon. The money was paid and the policy taken home to. Jacob, who received it very gladly. The end can easily be imagined; and it is not difficult to judjfe which of the two felt most sore over the matter. ' ^ ST. Louis is tormented by the noise of church bells, and an ordinance is under discussion prohibiting the ring­ ing of bells of over fifty pounds in weight That would silence several fine chimes, and it is likely that a compro­ mise measure will be adopted, restricting the ringing to certain hours.