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In every French regiment game. are to be found two or three first-rate "No," said Mrs. Hifligh; "now that wordsmen, commonly called des tateiirs, Sunday breakfasts are so fashionable, I whose especial business it is to test the really don't get time to attend church nerve of any recruit suspected of a defi- any more ; but I send one of the servants ciency of physical courage. On the most to sit in the 'pew and put my card on the frivolous pretext the tateur fastens a plate.. I understand it's all the go now q.uarrel on the unfortunate iwuv1iau, and in Bostlng." the unanimous voice of the regiment de"What is a curiosity, ma 7" asked little olares that honor demands bloodshed. Jamie, "A curiosity is something that The encounter takes place in the presence is very strange, my son." "If pa bought Gf four non-commissioned officers and of the regimental fencing master, who you a sealskin sacque this winter would stands by, sword in hand, ready to parry that be a curiosity 7" "No, my son; any too dangerous thrust. The weapon that would be a miracle." med in the cavalry is the sabre, and m "Is not your son a jailer?" asked one the infantry the ordinary sword bayonet, New York lady of another. "Y-e-s, he is and the issue is generally harmless a jailer ; bub you must remember he is a enough, although cases have been known jailer in Ludlow street jail, and Ferdinof the tateur himself coming to grief and Ward, Gen. Grant's partner, and tllrough the recruit going for his adve1·- some of the most raspectable people of sacy. New York are in that 1ail." In society, and especially among gen"Plearn give me somethiug to eii.t. tlemen connected with what the French I've not had a warm mouthful in a week." term la petite presse, a very similar ri;ile "Here, my good man, is a plate of prevail.a, but with one important mod1fi- nice hot soup for you, replied the cook. cation. The tateur is here conspicuous "Hot soup," he howled. ··Haven't you by his absence, and the young aspirant to anythmg else 1 This makes the fifth social or journalistic honors is expected plate of hot soup I've had m the last hour. to faire ses preuves by deliberately pick- It is not healthy to put ao much soup on iog a quarrel with some eligible oppon- an empty stomach." ent. The weapons used in these affairs ' F or heaven's sake, whab are yoa <>f honor is almost invariably the small doing, :M:r. Schneidervrow ~" exclaimed sword, the pistol being considered far too the leader of the orchet1tra to the eecond dangerous an arm-the issue of these en- violin ; "you're not keeping time at all ; counters is as a rule a scratched finger or count the beats, m~n, count the beats.'! forearm. Occasionally, when pohtlcalor Mr. Schneidervrow dropped his bow, other conaiderationB render even a eoratch looked over the audience of deadheads, undesirable, pistols are resorted to, but and exclaimed in despair, "It vas imposwlth peculiar precaut10ns. Thus MM. Slble !" He had misapprehended the Gambetta and De Fourtou-the former laader's meaninl:(. being one-eyed and the latter nearly blind A young man once went to Vicksburg, -were put up in a dens~ fog at forty Milk'., and announced that he was going J>aces to exchange shots with very sho~- to publish a "lively, spicy p~per, devoted barrelled smooth-bore pistols. In sho ' to local affairs." Next day several onenine ont of ten French duels may be 'armed, one-legged and one-eyed gentle1ooked upon as merefarces played for the men called on him and advised hun not amusement of. the gallery. The excol- to tl-0 it, because they had tried it, and it lent health enJoyed by MM. Rc:.ch~fort, did:n't seem to suit the people of those De Cassagnac, and Carle des '.Perrieres, parts. Some people have no idea of true ~ho among them have been oi:t over fi:f~y humor. ~es, adds strong confirmation to th11.1 Old Judge Peterby has been laid up vie.w of the matter. . for aome time wlth the guut. His legs In [both Italy and Spam duels are fre- are swelled to an enormous size. Ilia quent; but in both countries the ~a?re doctor, who fa also a church member, reis used, to the almost complete exclusi.o n buked his impatience and told him: o~ the s~all sword, Indee~, the preJU- "'Lou should be grateful to the Almighty dice agamst the latt er arm 1S so strong in for His kindness " ·'What kindness ~,, Italy that it is. all but imposslbl~ to ii.nd "Hrs kindness in giving you only two lege seconds who will consent to act m a duel to euffar with. Suppose you had as many a l!epee. The natural result is that, while leg11 as a centipede I" a fatal issue is rare, the ugly gashes in Little Boston Girl-"Oh ma I those the face ar~ very common. In ~oth folks next door is awful poor: Ma~ma th~se countne_s the penalty. fof duellmgi "Poor 1 Why, pet, they are very wealthy as m France, 111 merely no;nma ·. Philadelphiane who are only residing , Through~mt Germany, ii;cludrntg Prus- here temporarily," "But they are poor, sia, A~stna, and the mmor S ~tes, a ma. I never saw people so badly off. I very ~dferent rule prevails. "With t.h~ was in their house this morning." except10n of the oft-d,escnbed Schlng~r "'Vhy, child, what do you mean 1 Their duels ~mo?g umversity students, whrnh house is magnificently furnished. Why a~e. .still wmked . at, enc?unters ~otween do you think they are poor 1" "They had civih~ns are pumshed with. cons1deiable no pie for breakfast." se~erity, ~h? ordeal of a amgle combat ··You needn't tell me, sir," said an bemg a pnv.ilege practically resel:ve~ for angry father to his son, "that you drank the.army. In th~ event of two office~s nothing but a glass or two of beer, You ~ailing out, a court of honor (Ehreng~- b:-..vd been drlnking whiskey, I can smell wht), generapy e?mposed of hve superior it." "Father," acknowledged the young officers. and pre8lded over by the colonel miln, "it was whiskey that I drank, not of th?ir rogune!lt .or the Gener~l con;- beer." "Well, you shouldn't have tried mandmg the castrrc~, carefully mvesu- 1,0 deceive me, you young rascal ; you gates the w;hole aff..ur and decides whe- ought tu be ashamed of yourself." "l ther an apo.ogy shall be tendere~ and ac- am ;;\Shamed of myaelf. ' It was very foolcepted or whot1;ii:r an encounter i? nee~~- ! ish in me to think that a man of youl'sary. The dec1210n <;Jf the court is fin_a · your-experience, wouldn't know- whis~nd any officer nfusmg to ~mply with k~y frum beer." it w~uld be ~ompel!ed to retu·e fr?m the l Johnny was a bright little kid and had service, while any.duel unauthor1zed by · a taste for good things. One day he was the . co_urt would mfall,bly lead to the loukmg at the clock m the dinmg-room csslner~g of. the otft1nders. P1a~ols ar~ and lus grandmother noticing him -in· almost mvarmbly used, at a ~1stance. or qnired what he was doing. "I'm looking twelve paces; and, German officers being at 'e clock." "What are you doing that as a rule very good shots, fatal conse· f~r I You can't tell what time it is." quences are no~ unfrequent. By a "'Es I tan, too." "Well, now, tell strauge ~nomaly, the v.e_rd1ot of the grandma what bme it is." "Why, da.n'· Ehreng~nc_ht d~Eie not entuely cover the ma, it's time 'oo was divin' Johnny a responail:nhty or the combatants. In t~e pi<'ce of pie m 'e pantry." event of a fatal issue, the sur~1vor is ----- ---- · -· - ------ ~ liable to suffer a t9rm of open arrest in a fortress, varying from two to six months. Labrador A German officer thus £nds himself The failure of the Labrador fishery is placed in the dilemma of refusing to fight the most serious we have liad m that and being compelled to retire, or of fight- quar~er for many years. The 1nantity of iog and running the risk of being placed codfioh taken, on a moderate calculation, under arrest for doing so. will be one-half below the average, After In 110 country are duels more frequent to1lmg all the summer, numbers are now or more murderons than in .Russia ; the returnmg home with but miserable reRussians being, especially when in their turns for their labors, and some have al. oops, as quarrelsome among themselves as moat nothing to show. In such case, they are proverbially courteous to foreign- where there ia a necessity, the supplying ers. The mode of combat univer2ally morohanb makes advances to enable the adopted is that termed the duel a la bar- poor fisherman to pull throuqh the long riere ; the opponents being put up at fif. winter. Where absolute destitution exteen paces, with liberty to adv~ce fiv11 1sts government aid 1s given in the shape paces each at a given signal, and to fire of provis10na, It fa believed, however, at will. Should one of them fire and that the number of cases requinng such miss, his adversary is entitled to complete aid will not be great, A man of-war is his five paces before returning the shot. shortly to be dispatched with supplies on Many cases have been known in which a board for some of the more destitute lo· duellist, although mortally wounded, has cv.hties in White bay and sounhern Lab· yet retained sufficient strength to take ra.dor. To add to the distress, consider· steady aim and fire with fatal effect. The able losses among the fishmg craft have great Rassian poet Pushkin was killed been sustained m consequence of the in a _ duel a la barriere, aftel' severely stormy weather which has prevailed. The wounding his antagonist. steamer Hercules, on her return from the In the Baltic provinces a system pre- mail service on Labrador brought tne vails which at first sight appears even crews of eight veseels which had been more murderous, The adversaries are wrecked, and was obliged to leave a large placed onJw three paces apart; the pistols number of others behmd from the want ~re held with the muzzles pointing up- of room on board. Assistance has been ward, and are brought down and dis- dispatched to these sufferers. A. vessel charged at a given signal. It may appear named the Lady Jane, having fifty two almost impossible for two men to miss souls on board, many of them wolllen each other at so short a distance ; buu a,nd children, on her return from Labraihis is not the case. Each of the oppon- dor, struck a rock and became leaky and ents is so desperately anxious to gain unmanageable. When almost smklng, the least fraction of a second on his ad· another, the Flamingo, bore down upon versary that, on the signal being given, her and took off the crew and passangers the weapons are often brought down with after terrible sufferings. Seldom has so hurried and violent a jerk that the worse weather been experienced on La.ballets bury theml!lelves in the ground. brador than this season, A success10n of At:a duel fought last year at Riga between storms destroyed the prospects of the hei;an officer and a student in thi/ fashion, rmg fishery, just at the time when hert_hree l[!hots were exchanged without any ri.ugs had 3truck in abundantly. Labraresult, while at the fourth discharge the dor herrings will be a scarce and dear stude¢_had the great toe of his right foot arfil:cle this year. One storm in particular cut cle~n off by his opponent's bullet.- which caused damage 1s reported to have jPall Mall Gazette. been the heaviest experienced in twenty , ·~e;i.rs.-fMontrea.1 Gazette. '.l'he Fisheries. '-'Do you have good drinking water OuR D~TRACTED CoNTmnuTon.. nere ~" asked a stranger in Kentucky "Here the ildttors ask a tellow to write "Guess it's pretty good," replied the na- only on one side of the paper, and then tive, "'never 11eems to hurt the horses nor hey go and complain of too much onesidedness !" cattle." A young girl, pretty and modest, with >;co:llea ta Io·"""' p,;i -;;~iured by tho Ftm a rifle on her shoulder is not a 11trange ous cnv .,, ot · 1 hem steers " sight in these parts, writes a corresvodent, At Charles City I missed railroad confrom California to the N CYW Yoi·J, Sun. Many ;}'Oung women in the far wc~t are nection and had to drive ncroas the very proficient in the use of fire:i.rrna, and country to Cresco, fiHy miles, <i:nd it wa.s no one thinks it strange to see the1t1 thus the first cold day of the season. The eqaiped on the highway or in the moun- wind came with a sweep across the prairies, and when it struck, shaved like a tams hunting, In nothing is the western freedom from razor. The tree·tops of the groves planted conventionalism more striking than in around the farm-houses broke or bent the latitude given young women in their hke whip sticks, and sometimes the The amusements. The typical far western buggy was hfted from the ground. girl would doubtless shock her more sub- driver got out and put in rocks to hold dued sisters of the east in many things the machine down to the earth. We did which here are considered within the not want to ma.ke the trip to Cresco bounds of propriety. She hunts, fishes, through the air. It was lucky that we camps out, rides, and tramps, with all the struck a stretch of country where there relish shown by the sternei· sex, and in were bowlders, The road for the first not a few of these accomplishments is she ten miles was on the section lines, and the equal of any of the men. Visitors the settlers were Irish and N Jrwegians. from the east unfamiliar wibh pastimes of They had large farms and large stocks of this kind have often been seriously em- cattle and hogs, and plenty of corn and barrassed on finding that their charming haystacks. We stopped at a farm-house companions of the parlor or the lawn to warm. The proprietor was an Irish· could load and shoot a gun as well as a man, He said when he lived in the old rifleman, mount and ride like a trooper, country he did not taste meat once in a month. Now he sold cattle and hogs by or chmb mountains with untiring limb. A few weeks ago a plump young wo- the car-load. He came to this country man m this town who rrdes, hunts, fishes, thirty yeara ago, a steerage passenger on and dtmbs, had her photograph taken in an emigrant ship. He went back to Ireher fresh air costume and sent one of land last year on a visit. He went in a them to rel&tives in Illmo1s. The por- sleeping-car to New Yo1k and across the trait exhibited !'. girl of 18, with a jaunty S(JQ. a cabin pussonger on an ocean steamer. turban, her long hair done up tightly ma He found the old country just as he left coil, hei· face full and fair, and her eyes it There had not been $15 spei. t fur bright as.dollars. Her dress waa t1ght- irnprovemeuts in the httla town in which fittmg at the waist and aleevea, cf ~ark, he was raised 11ince he left it. He had servicable material, and the skirt coming cLanged so much he was homesick as a just below the knee~, failed to meet the dog. He had grown up with the United tops of her high-buttoned boots by seve· States and was so changed himself that ral inches. It was aa pretty a picture of the old country had no attractions for health, vivacity, and beauty as ono "ould hun. He had three horse teams plowing care to see, but the relativea in the east -one following after tho other, and a were profoundly shocked, and, in ac· hundred acres of corn that would "make" knowledging the receipt of the portrait sixty bushels t) the acre. His "ahanty" quietly hmted that they would like to was a two-story white hous.!l_white green know what the occ<i:sion was which de· hlmds. When he returned to the land mantled the young lady to appear m that of his birth he found no attractions bestrange costume. .Probably they will be cause he had changed, become Americanmore horrrfied than ever when they learn ized, and the old country had not that she is see:a on the streets almost changed. The wind blew a gale and eometimes claily in just such attire, and that nothmg spit snow until we reachd the "Wapsys." whatever is thought of it. The girl over whom this section of the The horses kept a dog trot up hill and state is raving just now is Mrs, Lillian down, and mado about seven mileS- an Smith, an expert with the rifle, who hour, in spite of the wmd. The "Wapsys" threatens to carry off the honors in marks- are the forks of a river, and sheltered by manship if she ever consents to appear in timber. The woods were full of hogs and a contest of 1:1kill. She is only 13 years cattle, that had taken to the timber to of age, but she appears much older. She get out of the wind. The road in the has a strong frame, abund<i:nt dark brown '·Wapsy" country was crooked and steep, hair, and big brown eyes. Tanned by washed out and wound round among tho continued exposure to sun and wmd, she trees. At IO o'clock the last fork of the is the picture of health and of typical far "Wapsy" was crossed. Before rising up western beauty. When only !) years of to the open prairie the driver took more age she manifested a fondness for the rifle rocks from the creek to ballast the buggy. which her parents readily gratified. She The road took a bee-line for Busti. We often went off into the wilds of Mono had not gone far before we me~ a Norcounty on hunting expeditions, and fre- wegian with his load of boailds all blown JlUently- secured game which she was away. The boards lay scattered over the distance of obliged to procure assietance to brmg in. prairie to the windward, Of late she has amused herself at odd forty or fifty rods. The town of Busti times with shooting at glass balls and consists 0f a hotol, a store, and a bla::ktargets, and so unerring has her <i:Im be· smith shop, and is half way between come that a failure to hit a mark is con- Charles City and Cresco. The landlady sidered almost out of the question. On fried side bacon, cooked eggs, and made her huntmg tours she uses a 22-calibre the best dish of tea I have seen since I rifle, which she handles with the ease and have left Chase's mills. A railroad had been surveyed from La Crosse to Charles precision of an experienced marksman. One of her feats with Lhe rifle which has City, by the waY.. of Busti, and the landattracted most attention is the breaking lady was anxious for the "keers" t() of a glass ball traveling three thousand come. When the country is all settled the feet per minute. S)le shoots straightforward and also over her shoulder, using a roads run on the section line, that is due north and, south or east and west, and hand mirror to siuht with. there is no direct road between busmes~ centres. When the land is '·laying out," the roads run "anglmg" to the section Freaks ()f G1·eat Men Imes. The "angling" roads run on the In Moore's "Life of Lorcl Byro11" there divide'J and are more direct than the roads is a ourious instance of the eccentricity in on the sectlon hnes. From Busti we diet w h1ch now and then took the place took the "angling" road. The settlers of other vagaries with that remarkA.ble were few and far between. Thousands of genius. When dining with Samuel Rog- acres of as fertile land a.a ti.e sun ever ers, Moore writes: "Neither meat, fish, shone upon lay as left-by the hand of nor win~ would Lord Byron touch, and of nature. Large flocks of prairie chickens biscuits and soda water, which he asked flew up al·ead of the horses like scare<l fur, there had been, unluckily, no pro- partridges. As the sun went down the vision. He protested, however, to be wind went down. The driver began to equally well pleased with potatoes and throw overboard ballast and we arrived at vmegar ; and of these meagre materials Cresco at 6 P. M , in the midst of a dead contrived to ma.ke rather a hearty meal.' calm, without a rock in the buggy.On another occasion, when Moore sat op Solon Chase in Lewiston Journal. posite the poet at dinner, engaged, as he ____ ........ +4*1ff.....4 ' ¥ ' U : - - - himself confesses, "rather earnestly over The Messenger from Waterloo. a beefsteak," Byron after watching him The messenger who was employed to for some minutes, said, in a tone of grave inquiry: "Moore, don't you find eating convey to the Rothschilds in London the beefsteak makes you ferocious 1" . The news of the victory of Waterloo was orsecret of Lord Byron's occasional abate- d d 11 h K" f F ranee, miousness in diet is to be found in that ere to ca upon t e mg 0 morbid dxead of corpulence which he is (Louis XVIII.,) at Brussels, on the way. known to have possessed ; yet had he Ho did so, and then proceeded to the been versed in the rules which Mr. Bant- Rothschllds. After they had extracted from him all the mformati ' n "hat he posing subsequently laid down and success- sassed they sent him on to Lord Liverpool fully pzacttced for persons in like condi- the Prime l\1mister, in order that the tion he would have shunned potatoes, Government might receive tidings of this even with the concomitant of vinegar, great event, Lord Liverpo ul could make like the plague. The fact is that any nothing out of the man, and after exarticle of food of a starchy or saccharme amining and cross-examinmg him for nature tends to produce fat, while such some time, he felt increasmgly sceptical things as toast, lean me.at, [ruit, and as to the authenticity of the news which gre!ln vegetables are all mim1cal to the he brought. He then sent for Mr. Croker laym_g ond of_ superfluous fies~. The po- and told him that the messenger had tato is a !Stl~ctly fattenmg ~md 0,~food, come from vVaterlon with the tidings of wlul~ m~at JS more ~specia~ly flesh- victory, but that his story was confused, formi~g. It.would be impossible to sup- and it was therefore difficult to accept it port life J°n. e1ther kind of bodily susten- as genuine. Thereupon Mr. Croker began ance exc usive1y, and there are few ~eo- to question the man with all his legal acpl~ _who ;-ould_attempt_t~e Spartan srmf umen, but he succeeded no better than f.hcity o a diet ~onsisti~? who~ly 0,, Lord Liverpool in making the narrative magnum ~o~u!Ds or champwn~. intelligible. When about to give up indeLord Byron s likmg for potatoes an~ vm- spair, as a last resource and by a sudden egar, however~ recalls the affect10n of impulse, Mr. Croker questioned the C~rms, the au~1ent Roma~ genera.I, for a messenger as to his interview with the dinner of turnips roasted m the ashes of French King and he asked him how the his own fire, and served up on a wooden Kmg was dre~sed. The messenger replied pla~ter_. Gr~at Y!len ~ave 0~~en been pe- "In his dressing-gown." Mr. Croker then cuhar m their dietetic fancies. Py~ha- asked him what the King did and said to goras, for ;:x:ample, ~ot only abstam_ed him, to which the messenger replied : from the es~ of animals, but con~1d- "His majenty embraced me and kissed ered ~ven_a dish _of beans too stimulatmg me." Mr. Croker asked, ··How did the for his ph1losophical acolytes. ~f t~e po· Kmg kiss you?" "On both cheeks," re· tato had been known _in Greece m h1S day plied the messenger ; upon which Mr. the probl<m o~ affordmg at once a. '!hole- Oroker, emphatically exclaimed: "My some, nour_1shmg, and not t<?o excitmg or lord, it is true ; his news is genuine," too expensive fori:_n of nutri~ent would and so in truth itproved.-[Jennings. have been far easier of solut10n.-[Lon....... ........... don Times. The topics discussed at the recent Bng"I'm afraid I was cheated on those lish Church congress were of a living and lightning-rods." ·'Wh11t's the matter practical interest: "The Ov1ncrowded with them~" "l hadn't had 'em up mor'n Condition of the Poor," "Popular Litera month when a fearful stroKe of Iight- ature with Reference to Infidelity and nmg knocked 'em. all ways for Sunday, Public Morality," "The Best Mearns of burned my barn, and everything m it." Raismg tlie Standard of Pnblic Moral"But didn't the agent give you 11 guaran- ity," "The Condition of the Toiling tee~" "Oh, yes; l wrote to him and he Masses," "The Rights" of Parishioners," wrote back very consolingly." "What "Lay Ministration,'.' eic. The London did he say 1" 1'That lightning never Times and the Gii.a~·dian reported the prostrikes twice in the same place." ceedmgs at great length. I An Insmnce ot Lu111{ Coallau.:i.u.:o 111. a 01111<;10 Icou~ohold, BY T. S. CULYER, D D., OF BROOKLYN, a The oldest of Mr. l\fannering's servants, if not the moE>t important, id Sp!JT\terbar, the coachman, For three generations, grandfather, father and son, the Splinterbars have hved under the squires of Durlestone, and in spite of some short-comings, have given them honest and hearty service, The grandfather drove the four grays, and though, after the approved fashion of his time., he more th~n once found himself m a ditch after an evening's carouse, he made rt Ins boa.st he was never drunk on the same night as his master, and that neither the squire nor the squire's horrns were one jot the worse for his occasional deviation from the strict rule of sobriety. In the next generation the father not only drove the four grays.-which it has been a point of fam1lv pride to maintain,-but when the storms of the French revolution and the suspension of cash payments made men hardly know what to hope or what to fear, he buried for his master)n the corner of the stables £1,000, as a secret hoard against possible eme:i:a;encies. And now the son, who is some few years Mr. Mannering's semor, gray-headed as he is . still· drives the four-in-hand, superintends every detail of atablo-mansgcment, and sees that ca.rriages and horse11 are turned out as smartly as the beat coachman in L ondon could discharge tho ta11k. !Ls labors are not unapprac1ated, fo1· if Mr. Mannering h<;s ::i. weakne~s iL is for his stables, and no man has a quicker eye to detect a atrnp wrong, a carriage panel ill pamtcd, or a speck of duet on the harness. .Mr. Mannerhig's bu~ler is but a few years younger than his coachman. He too, was born and bred in Durlestone, was Mr. Mi>nnering';;i servant at college, travelled with him afterward, is not much of a "scholar," as the country people ~ay, but brews the b~ st ale in the country, sees that the mahogany dmmg-table and the handsome old 111lver on it are polished hke a lookjng-glass, ia consiclered as an old friend ot the family, and is heart and soul devoted to the service of t.he aqmre. When, a few years since, one of Mr. Mannering's nephews, a good hearted but foolish youth, had involved himself imd his family in eome troubles, which 1 am not free to e:a:pJa,rn more particularly, old Holdw<lrthywas immediately consult· ed, and by his shrewdness and devotion succeeded in releasing the young man from the fascinations of the Circe by whom he had been bewitched, and in settling once and for all a serious domestic cuffi. culty. Hold worthy ia now growing old; he is rather short of breath, and he is sometimes, it is said, somewhat sharp upon the younger servants; but he has lost none of his shrewdness,and he steadily believes that there is no one in the round world equal to his master. The housekeeper, Mrs. Blocket, l1olds no inconsiderable position in the house. Sha is past 70, but still vigorous and hearty except as regn.rds her eyesi~ht, which, she complains, is foilmg hol'. She is, however, able to read her large text Bible of an evening, and to keep a very close eye on the younger maida. She divides hei· leisure between the care of the poor, the disposition of the furniture, and the making.of prllse!."Ves; the l~tter of which occupat10n hes so clone to her heart tha.t it is said that when, some ten or fifteen years ago, there was a fire at the ball her first thoughb was for hiir confectioneries, and her secQnd for oh<3 family portraita,[National Review. ·---- - ~- On the chief thoroughfare of this city I pass a stately Savings-Bank, built of freestone, and l see groups of working-people gomg m to deposit their hard-earned mouey. Some are mechanics; some are I.nsh domestics ; some are poor widows laying by a few dollars for their fathiirless children. · ' But on the same t1tre~ t}ere has been opened more than one ~ · · ;;tor Losings. In some parts of the city 'Te is one at nearly every corner. In almost every rural hamlet, too, is there a similar in· stitution, New York city contains six thousand of them. In each of these Banks for Losings is a counter, on which old men and young, and even some wretched women, lay downstbe1r deposits in either paper or com. The only interest that is paid on the deposits is in redness of eyes, in foulness of breath, and remorse of conscience. Every one who makes a deposit gains a loss. One man goes in with a full pocket, and comes out empty. Another goes in with a good comes out with character and the word "drur1k'" written on his bloated countenance. 1 have even seen a mechanic enter m a bran new coat, and coming away agam as if the mice had been nib· blrng at his elbows, I have known a young clerk !eave his '·s1tuat10n" behmd him m one of the rum seller's Banks nf Losings. Several prosperous tradesmen ha.ve lost all their busmess theze. Church members have been known to ieel out from these seductive haunts--trymg to walk straight but backsliding at every step What is worst of all, thousands of people go in there and lose their immottal souls, If the ca.shiers of these institutions were honest they would post ever the doors some such notice as th1~ : ".BANK FOR Losrnos.-Open at all hours. Nothmg taken in but good money, Nothmg paid out but disgi:ace and disease and degradation and ~P· An extra dividend of delirum trem.. \VI ill be !liven to old deposito1 s. A £ ,Jass to P£rditwn given to those who pay well at the counter; also tickets to the cemetery, entitling the holder to a Drunkards Grave ! All the children of the large depositors sent without charge to the orphan asylum .or to the almshouse." Young men, bew;ire of the Banks for Losings. Some bait their depositors with champagne; some wit!1 ale or Bourbon, some with a pack of cards, and others with a billiard table. If you wish to keep well your character-Keep oi~t ! Young ladies, never touch the hand that touches the wine glass. Never wear the name of the man who is enrolled in the deposit list of the devil's bank. Never lean on the arm that leans on the bar· room counter. It will be a risky support. The best savings bank for a young man's money in a total abstinenoe pledge, The best savings bank for his time is hon· est industry and a good book. The best saving bank fo1· his a:ff"ections is a tn1e wo· '.!.'he beat_aavinga bank for man's heart. hlB soul is faith in the Lord Jesus Uhrist. But if you do not want your "green back" turned into black eyes and red no11es, if you don't want yonr pocket emptied, and your characner worm eaten, and your soul drugged with the pcison of the pit-them keep out of the "Licensed to Sell Bank for Losings.",,,., .... ----·· ~ _____ Twenty-J<'ivo J.rrests by a Dog. .A larga black mastiff made the acquaintance of Policeman Trass m Avenue A on a stormy night about three years ago. The dog was hungry and the policeman fed him, After that night the dog visited the officer on his post regularly, and gradually extended his acquaintance with members of the force. In time the Fifth street police station became his home, and he waa named "Policeman Jack." .Among hia warmeat friends a.re Captain l\foCullagh. ~nd Sergt. Welsing Jack spends most of his time in their company except at night, when he patrols the precinct, rain or shine. Many of the patrolmen found him a ready helper in mnnlng down escaping thieves or ruffians, and for mch services the dog is credited on the books of the precinct with having twenty-five arrests. Not long ago policeman Fisher saw thieves attemptmg to rob a drunken man, and started to arrest them. They fled, 'l'lnd Fisher gave an alarm rap as he pursued. 8uddenly Jack rushed past him sprang upon the back of one of the thieves and fa.11tening his teeth in the man's collar forced liim to the ground ln a moment, The other thief surrendered, and both prisoners were marched to the police station. Sergt, W elaing saya that a few months ago Jack captured a. burglar in the rooms of Frederick Boc.kel, in Eaati Eleventh street. Bockel was asleep when the thieves walked into the house and opened the door of his bedchamber. They were throwing some clothing out of a front wlndow when Jack passed along the sta:eet. The dog barked so loudly that Boeke! was awakened. The robbers attacked Bockel, but Jack rushed in and helped to capture one of them. The prieoner iu this case was sent to prison for ten years, An ex-policeman aecretly took Jack to a barn in the Annexed district laab winter, and matched him to fight against a bulldog. He won the fight. On ano~her occasion the dog was made drunk on beer which was poured down his throat by some brewery-men in One Hundred and Seventeenth street, but, although unsteady on hrs lws, he followed the first policeman he saw. When permitted to follow his own inclinations, Jack is a sober and vigilant member of the force. - [New York Tribune. - - - Death--:; ,:~:h;~si:: ---------·---Plantation Phtlosophy. De healthiest lookm' men ia sometimes de soones' ter die. De b1gges' tree is de one whut am appte' ter be holler. It ain't no use for some man t er try ter be great. It doan' make no difference how much a mouse eats heneberwill be er rat. Dar's dis difference twixt men an' wimin: Er 'oman try-f.er make her heart show on her face; de man tries ter make his mine show on his countenance. De trouble is dat de 'oman ain't allu11 got a heart an' dP m1m ain't allua got a mine. Adam Forepaugh's white elephant, Li.ght of .Asia, died at tho headquarters of the showman, Philadelphia, recently. The body has been shipped to Dr. Boyd, of Chicago, where it w1llin all probability be set up in the Academy of Natural Sciences. A.bout one week ago Mr. Adam Forepaugh conceived the idea of traimng the sacred elephant. Unfortunately, he selected a cold wmtry day for the per· formance. Tne elephant showed such wonderful sagacity that his trainer failed to note the flighti of time, and it was nearly dark before he allowed Light of Asia to return to his stall. The keeper carelessly left the window open, and all night long a cold blast blew upon the sacred beast, The next day Light of Asin. was taken seriously ill, but Mr. Forepaugh considered himself £qual to tho emergency and immediately began administering what he considered the proper medicines. The white elephant grew worse day by day, however, and it was discovered that he was suffering from luug fever. About 9 o'clock on Friday morning the sacred beru1t breathed his last. The attendants say that the companion elephant of Light of Asia, ton seeing her friend fall over dead, wal ed up to him and endeavoured to raise up with her trunk. Failing in this, ~._2hen placed her front foot on the whtoe elephant's side and pressed upon it several times, evidently for the purpose of proving beyond a doubt that life was extinct. l:lhe then walked slowly away and began to bellow most pitifully. The other elephants took up the cry. ancl Rocks, one of the largest of the trained elephants, beat his trunk against the brick walls of his stall 1md eude<i:vored to break loose. He gave one tremendous lunge forward in the effort to break the heavy iron chain that encircled hib right fore leg, and pulled the leg from its socket. It has since been impossible to approach Rocks with safety, and he stands on three legs groan10g contmually. Mr. A. J. Forepaugh made a post-mortem examination of the body of the white eleghant, and found that death was due to lung fever. The flesh was subsequently removed from the bones, 11.nd the skin, bones, and headthe latter perfectly intact-were sent to Chicago. Mr. Forepaugh said; "By the loss of the white elepnant I am out of pocket $52,000. I sent the body to Dr. Boyd because he secures every beast that dies m my possession. I gave the body of the big war elephant Romeo to him, and he is now on exhibition in the Academy of Natural Sciences m Chicago. Thia Fall I have been very unfortunate, Recently I lost a Bengal tiger, valued ab $1,500. The big blue faced mandrill dit>d about two wec}ks ago. I will give $1,000 for another like him, J: will never buy another white elephantY'The people didn't appreciate the one I had, and they wouldn't a1 preciate another unless he was white as snow.'"