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. BOTGR*8 PETITION. una t. niLM' LMt roni. ** Kind traveler, do not pu* m« bf, An&thas a poor old dog fat-saln; But «t|pgp a moment on your way. And bear mf woe, for pity's MUM! ** Mr mvQiA in Rover; yonder hrmaa win nfrre my hon.e for many a year. My master loved mo; every hand CareMxni young Rover, tar and near. " The chi'dren rode upon my bark, . And I could hear in j i>rnt*e« sung; With Joy I iicked their pretty feet. As round my sbagK}' side* they olunf. ** I watohfvl thou while they played or slept; t (tnve Ii »iiii nfl I lia<l to uive; If r 8tr<uiK*ii their* from morn tin night; ror ou!y them I oared to live. " Now I am old and blind and lama, They've turned me ont to die alone, Without a Chester for my head. Without a scrap of bread or DOM. ••TUia morning I can hardly craWl, While shlrei ing in the anow and hall; My teeth are dropping one by one; I acaroe have atrength to wag my tatL " I'm palsied fp-own with mortal paint, _ My withered limb* are useless now; My voice is almrwt gone, you see, And I can hardly make my bow. "Perhaps you 11 lead me to a shed Where I may find some friendly On which to lay my aching limbs, And reat my helpiena, broken paw. u Stranger, eicnee this *trry long. And pardon, pray, my l»nt appeal; You' e owned a dog y nun-elf, perhaps. And learned that dog?, like men, oan feaL" Tea, poor old ltover, come with me; flood, with warm shelter, IM supply. And Heaven forgi ve the cruel soul* aaS Who drove you forth to starv* die. THE STORY OF A HOSE. "Will you permit me to sit beside you, little mountain girl ?" " With great pleasure, and I am grateful to you for preferring my side to that of so many belies that shine in the salon. Do you know who I am ?" " No ; and it is quite possible I would not, even though you would tnke off your mask. But no matter. We may becrin an acquaintance this evening, if you will. Acquaintances made at masquerade balls are not apt to be the worst" " They are apt to furnish disappoint­ ment, though." n I will m.t deny it, for I have expe­ rienced some, but--" 4* And you have given BOtne also ?" " No; he who is accustomed to pre- neating himself everywhere, not except­ ing at carnival Iwlls, with his face un­ covered, can deceive few." " Truly you have no reason to hide it, and not every man oan say the same." '• Thanks, pretty mountain girl; ac­ cording to that, you know me ?" " Yes, by sight; they told me you were a poet. Don't you want to compose some verses for me ?" " I will do so if you wish. I have always taken a pride in pleasing the ladies, but I should first know your name." renounce the delightful familiarity which the carnival balls permit ? Now I speak to you as an intimate friend or lover would do." " Well, then, when I commit the in­ discretion of taking off my mask, you would hasten to leave me; you wo.ild hardiy be able to articulate an indiffer­ ent and irritable ' Farewell, lady.' " " What enjovmeut you have in morti­ fying me ! Do you think me capable of such a lack of politeness ? I will sup­ pose for a moment ttu.t you are ugly, hideou9, could you remove with mat mask the spell that allures me ? If the attractions of your conversat ion, of this voice that Itowitchea me, of this grace that cU-.uins me, can be removed with the mask"; how can a woman appear ill with such gifts? If your face is ogly I par­ don you for it" "iiut you are more indulgent than other men ? Are you governed less by self conceit than they ? In your eyes, ugliness is a woman's greatest crime." "Oh, I am of another species, or else yibu calumniate the man, little mountain girl; if not, undo this ma^k that tor­ ments me, and you will see how, far from being cooled, my affection will augment. And you do net believe my proposition is so venturesome; where oan this ugliness reside with which you pre­ tend to frighten me ? Do I not behold the elegance of your shape ? Do I not clasp your beautiful hand ? Am I not fascinated with your beautiful foot ? Does not the palpitation of that heavenly bosom reveal the greatest enchantment? Do not t-?e beams of light from those charming brown eyes pierce us ? Those ebony tresses that form sueh a lovely contrast "vith the dezzling whiteness of your throat, whose are they but yours ? If there were anything so ill, 1 should know it. Does it lie in the movement of vonr head--which 1 have not yet seen-- or in the,delightful smile of your divine mouth ? " " Then, with all this exquisiteness, which you no greatly exaggerate, I as­ sure you that I am frightful ! I should horrify you if I uncovered my face." "Oli, no; it is impossible; your form, your features " " Have you seen them all ? " " I may say yes. The nose is the only--" Here she interrupted me with a burst of laughter. '• You laugh ; does it chance to be-- Roman ? " " Or Carthaginian ? I don't know. I will not engage to say." "No, it is not possible that an anoma­ lous nose tarnishes the luster of to many attractions, and, moreover, I accept the consequences of the favor I entreat. With that mouth, with these eyes, that incomparable form, I permit you to be flat-nosed or long-nosed." " You Sire imprudent." " No, I am not. Reveal yourself." " Rash man 1" " Will you oblige me to go upon my knees? Will yon expose me as the laughing stock of the company ? " " Enough. As you will. You are "Ascribe any tc me : ' PhylHs,' j about to see me with the mask off. Why € Laura," Philt-na,' one that seems prao- tical to you. I do not have to tell you my real name, but the first-men­ tioned occurs to me. Arrange it as seems worth while, and according to your own taste." " But how, without seeing the face whose perfe tions I must exalt; without knowing the sweet object of my inspira­ tion, how cau I--" "A poet says that! You, who alwavs live in the unbounded regions of tlie ideal, why should you need the presence of the object of your worship ? For my part, I have not so much confidence in my face, nor does your imagination seem so sterile, as to risk revealing my­ self." " It is true that poets, in whose num­ ber you seem willing to count me, axe accustomed to exercise their genius throughout imaginary space, but we do not feed ourselves with illusions onlv; i must we women be so weak. But let it not be my hand that shall open Pan­ dora's box. Receive through your own the punishment for your foolish impa­ tience." " I can unmask you with this hand ! Envy me, mortals ! Give me the lyre, 0 Muses ! I am thrice blessed." "No--you are rash and ill-atlvised." "Perdition take the knot! I cant untie it. Ah, my knife, that is it. Beauti--" I could not finish the word, such was my surprise, amazement, terror. What a nose ! What a nose I Oh, what a nosel 1 would not have believed that nature was capable of arriving at such a degree of pleonasm, hyperbole, amplification. The sonnet of Walter Quevedo, There was a man attached to a nose, would be poor and colorless to paint it. This was no human n<-se ; it was a beet­ root, a corner st.»ne, an Egyptian pyra­ mid. as for me, 1 can only sav. that, in I ^ ̂ *'s '° condemn every- 43ie matter of pleasure, I am, and shall thing unseat>nal>le, everything exagge • - * . : „ ' *»i'i T m I w'Iitt to »f r. •» n !<>nr 4 ^ Always be, for the positive. "Aud what pleasure con you promise ^yourself bv seeing niy face ? " •• That ol admiring it, if it is pretty, Bs I presume it is; that of adoring joii." "You have ' adoraton ' ever on your | tongue. You poets ought to be ban- I xslied from every Christian republic. I Either you talk of ' adoration,' through idolatrous impiety, or just for the sake of pleasing prattle. You do well in com- j ing without a mask. Poets have no rea­ son to lie; you would be masquerading always." " If that is certain, for my part, I ac­ cept with much pleasure a quality that likens me to the fair sex." "Are women such dissemblers ? " "Yes. my litile masrfuerader. With respect to that, yon cannot say thai the men accuse you groundlesslv; but at the same time, I must confess that men's suspicion and tyranny occasions your lack of 6iacerity, and that, in general, your fictions are well worthy of indulg­ ence, l>ecause the same desire of grati­ fying U3 obliges yon to tell them. But is it possible that I am not to see your face?" " It cannot be. The desire of gratify­ ing you counsels ma to keep the mask on." " Your conversation charms me, and every word makes my impatience to know you more lively." "Do you need to see my face inoiiicr to suppose it full of attraction? Did you not call me the sweet object of yo*r inspiration ? Believe me, your and my interest oppose each other in the matter •of condescending to what you ask. While I remirin concealed, I am sure of hearing flattering expressions from your mouth, to which I am not accustomed, perhaps. If I remove this proteetiug crape from my race, then farewell to il­ lusion ! Rigid courtesy, gloomy seri­ ousness will follow the enlogieH the en­ dearing expressions, which, if they have not made me proud, have at least divert- «u aad pleased me." "This modesty i«*, to me, the best proof of your merit. ' "Yes, I have the meri* of 1>eing mo' est---no, 1 am wrong ; I mean of being sincere." " If I might confound you with the mass of women, it would not c^mt nie touch trouble to believe von uow. Ijt- <iies pr'>te«ted by the sitki-ri ni'nk feij^n less than with their own tae. s: th. y hive few such opportunities for telling the truth witli impunity. Bat you, you are not ug'y, I can swear it. I have* by o«tnt of 1'irorn and deceptions a sort of tact, a certain skill m seeing through masks. I do not mistake so easily. Like the grayhound, I h«tve a keen scent and a erood nose." Oo saving this, 1 nofieeii in mv com­ panion a movement, either of surprise or dis ',iist. I f:;n-*U:d that such a vuigr.r Eh rase sounded ill to her ears, and I astened to exculpate myself for not having made use of more elegant lan­ guage, as she m-rited. But my mount­ ain girl Lm.'/hiiiyly clasped my han<1 and declared that she pardoned me fully and with g<H>d grace for eo trivial a lap- tux lingiuz. " But one thing would grieve mo," I continued, "if jou should unmask." "What?" " Thitt it would not lw», lawful to speak lienor," and she burst into a to you as the mount-tin g:rl--as to a J Uiock.ng laughter, masqueradar. Would it not be a 'pity to 1 never saw her moreu rated, why is it that a law is not givtm against the exaggeration of noses? In the midst of the horror which this mournful disooverv caused me, I wanted to withdraw myself from the large-nosed mountain girl, without incurring a rude remark from her. I made incredible ellorts toward some expression of gal­ lantry. Impossible. If I could have had a mirror before me, I am sure I must, have s-cn a loolish facc. | Fortunately for me the monntain girl I --who doubtless had learned to resign herself to her deformity, likewise to all j its effects--laughed quite good-humored- i ly, whether at my conflict or at herself | I did not know. This gave me courage j <x> rise, under the pretext of going to ; greet a friend. And, without daring to | look at her again, I took my leave with j a formal "Farewell. Senorita." Shame gave wings to my feet; wrath i blinded me ; the ground failed me in my j flight. I stumbled over furniture, 1 against persons, over myself, and would ! have walked home without waiting f.»r j the coach, or to get my overcoat, it not | having the same weight with me that ! my hunger did, which was as huge as the nose in whoie.shade my gayetv grew dark. I flew, then, to the refreshment room, took j>ossession of a table, snatched up the bill of fare, asked what they could bring me the quickest. I ate now--not with appetite, but fu­ riously--from four different plates, and tlicy were about to bring me the fifth, when I beheld seated iu front of me-- divine justice !--the same mountain girl, or rather, I should say, the same nose which had horrified me shortly be­ fore. My first impulse whs to rise and run, but the merry girl petrified me by saying with infernal sweetness : " What I Aro you not going to invite me to supper ?" I felt troubled and looked sheepish. The nose laughed, and so, to my dis- comfort, did the fptllant who accompa­ nied her. I would have liked to wreak my rage upon him. " Senorita--" "I shall not cost you much--a glass of lloman punch ; nothing more." | Such impudence stung me keenly, • and I resolved on being revenged by | mocking her. I "I shall have the greatest pleasure in . complying with your demand, Senorita, though I fear that your nose will pre- yent you from putting a glass to your lips. H you cannot take it off as you did your mask, I do not know how " "You ore rude, sir, but I be gracious. I will remove it." " How ? What do you say? Then " At this instant her hand darted up to her nose, and--she tore it ofi^I Alas ! it was false. It was pasteboard ; and it left her real nose revealed, no loss Kraceiul and perfect thun the other I features of her face. Hoiv shall I depict my shame, my des- I peration, on lieholdingsucli an exquisite | creature, and the remembrance of the | 1, v'ty, t.ie discourtesy, the iniquity of j niy conduct? I was going to beg a thousand pardons,-to lament my error, and prostrated, kiss the dnst at her feet; but the cruel one took the arm of her escort, disconcerted me with a severe look, and, imitating my cold manner of a short time before, said: " Farewell. peal of POMEgiy ECONQgfc THE skin of a bv>iled egg is ftie most efficacious remedy that can bo applied to a boil. Peel it carefully, wet and apply it to the part' affected. It will draw off the matter aud relieve the soreness in a few hours. To take out tea stains, put the linen in a kettle of cold water; rub the stains well with common castile soap; put the kettle ou the side of the stove and let the water get gradually warm; wash it thoroughly iu warm soap suds, then rub the stain agaiu with soap; then rinse. Chicken Cheese.--Boil two chickens till tender; take out all the bones, and chop the meat fine; season to taste with salt, pepper and butter; pour in enough of the liquor they are l>oiled in to make moist. Mould it in any shape you choose, and when cold turn out and cut into slices. It is an excellent traveling lunch. Home-made Yeast. -- One pint of mashed potatoes, with the water they were boiled in, one cupful of salt, one cupful of flour, one cupful of strong hop tea; add four quarts of boiling water; when cool add one pint of baker's or other yeast; let it stand aud Work twenty- four hours; then skim, strain and put in a jug; Pas DoDDiiiNos.--This is a New Eng­ land dish, and is nice at the places where appetites are expansive. Take three cups of tine rye meal, three cups Indian meal, one egg, and three tablesjxx»nfuls of molasses; add a little salt and allspice and enough rich sweet milk to make a batter stiff enough to drop from a spoon. Fry to a good brown in hot lard. The bridges across the Missouri River at Council Bluffs and Omaha comprL^e eleven spans, each span is 250 feet iu length, or in all 2.750 feet. There are three spans to the St. Louis bridge, the center being 520 feet, and the other two each 502 feet in length. The bridge cost about $9,000,000. Orange Salad.--Peel eight oranges with a sharp knife-, so as to remove every vestige of skin from them; core them as you would apples, and lay them either whole or cut iu slices, in a deep dish; strew over plenty of powdered sugar, then add four red banauas cut in small romid slices, the juice of a lemon, and a little more sugar. Keep the dish covered close till the time of serving. Excellent Coffee Cake.--This is one of the best of plain cakes, and is very easily made. Take one cup of strong coffee infusion, one cup molasses, one cup sugar, one-half cup butter, one egg and one teaspoonful saleratus. Add spice and raisins to suit the taste, and euougli flour to make a reasonably thick batter. Bake rather slowly in tin pans lined with buttered paper. For Chapped Hands.--The nicest preparation for chapped hands is com­ posed of quince seed and whisky. There is no rule as to proportion. Put the seeds in a bottle, and pour in enough whisky to cover them. As this thickens add more whisky until it is of the right consistency. This healing preparation is far superior to glycerine, as it dries off quicjsly and leaves a most agreeable odor. Cortted beef left over for the next day should be put baek in the liquor it was boiled in. Instead of the hard, brown woody substance that is sometimes, served as cold corned beef, kept in this way, it will always be juicy, as it re­ absorbs much of the richness from the liquor itself. Skim the liquor, of course, before setting it away, and it will keep as well in the pot it was boiled in as anything else. Anecdotes of Dueling. Frederick the Great was so lieartfly opposed to duelling that he resolved to put a stop to it, at least in his army. He issued an order that the first party en­ gaging in a duel without his cons*nt should be summarily punished. On the very next day after the promulgation of this order, an' officer appeared before him, and asked his pel-mission to chal­ lenge a comrade to mortal combat. He gave his consent, but stipulated that he should be notified beforehand of the time when, the place where, thy duel was to be fought. The hour appointed for the conflict, arrived ; and when the beligerent partiw appeared upon the ground they found the King there ; and, to their great sur­ prise, saw a gibbet erected on ihe spot! The challenger appealed to Frederick to know what that meant. "It meaais this," answered the King, sternly : "I intend to witness your battle until one of you has killed the wtlier; and then I will hang the sur­ vivor ! " It may be readily believed that the duel was not fought. And, thence­ forth, dueling was a rare event in the Prussian army. It is related of the late Judge Thatcher, of Maine, that, while a member of Con­ gress, he was challenged by a brother member to fight a duel. The Judge, as all who knew him could knowingly avow, was not deficient in animal courage ; but he was opposed to dueling. To his challenger he made answer, in his bluff, off-h nd way : "I will go and consult my wife ; and, if she consents, be sure I will accoinmo date you." " Mo ! You are a coward I" cried the other. Whereupon responded Thatcher, with a nod, and a most significant smile ol contempt: "Aye, you thought I wan, or you never would have challenged me ! " In the memoirs of the Marquis de Doimrsau, who was most earnest in his opposition to tive duello, we find the following : One day he overheard two brave soldiers, belonging to liis cavalry, just winding up a heated and angry dis­ pute by drawing their swords for mortal combat. The challenge had been given, and instantly accepted. " Hold !--One moment!" the Marquis exclaimed, as he catue iijhiu the scene. " Whi. h of you two, tiiuk ye, will have the pleasure of robbing himself of k fneuil and a brother, and, at the same t.iue, robbing me of ono of my best and bravest soldiers V Have wo no enemies, that you must turn your swords again* i one another?"' For a brief space the two men looked down, evidently feeling foo>ish and ..•on t-ciejice-bir.ckon. Then they sheathed their v.ejpjns, and ;onel hands; an I together thanked their lord for tUe good he had done them. man selected almost at random from his class on the "T|»ory and Practice of Stone-throwing." He placed the young man on the floor of his lect­ ure-room, with the girl immediately in front of him. The lights were .then turned down for a few moments in or­ der to favor chemical action, and, on suddenly turning them up again, the girl's arms were found to be tightly clasped around the young man in the plane of his waist-band, although at a somewhat greater altitude. It is im­ possible to break the force of tins ex­ periment. It conclusively shows that the female arm can move iu the very direction in which Sir Isaac Newton as­ serted that it could not move. The same experiment has been often repeat­ ed and always with the same result. Any young man who can secure the co­ operation of a girl can repeat it for his own satisfaction, and, it might be add­ ed, it is universally agreed that it is one of the most thoroughly satisfactory ex­ periments known to science. We need, then, pay no further attention to Niw- ton's hypothesis, since it has been com­ pletely disproved, and it is now held by no one who has even a moderate ac­ quaintance with science. Newton Was Mistaken. Sir Isaac Newton long ago propound­ ed a theory which, in spite of its falla­ cy, has had many adherents. He in­ sisted that the anatomy of the female arm is such that it is impossible for a girl to move her arms in the plane of her waist­ band. Without dwelling on the fact that, he unwarrantably assumed the ex­ istence of female waist-bands, it is suf !i.\ent to say that the facts conclusively contradict this assertion. Several sci­ entific persons have since demonstrated by a simple and pleasing experiment tiiat a girl can move her arms in almost any plane. Prof. Furraday took a girl of the usual pattern, and a young Even Burglars Are Rnshed. "Why," lie replied to a cop, "I never saw so much push and rush in Detroit since the war, and I presume it is so all over the country. The boom even ex­ tends to my profession, which you are aware is that of burglary. I haven't been so rushed in ten years. I have ad­ vertised iu a dozen papers for a 'pal,' but can't get one at any price. Third- class men, only fit to put up ladders, hold lighted candles, pound with a sledge, and swear au alibi, are g» tting their own prices this year. The iwo I had struck for $7 a day apiece, and I had to pay it or let my business go to ruin. You have no idea of the number of chances we have had for 'jobs' this year, and the season is promising all that any burglar could ask for. I am so pushed that I hardly know which way to turn first." "Anything very big on hand?" " Oh ! a dozen ot, 'em. I ought to go up Woodward avenue to-night and rob a house where two back windows have been left up for a whole week, but I may net get around to it because one of my pals is dead drunk in his room up­ stairs. Then there's a splendid show down Fort street. Two of the back doors won't lock, some of the chamber windows are unfastened, and there's half a cord of silverware piled up in one room. Duty tells me that I ought to take it in right away, but something may prevent. Dear me, but I wish I could Lire at least three first-class burg­ lars for the next six weeks. I've got a special lay for them." .. "Anything startling?" " Well, no. There's a bonk in Toledo we could get at very handy, a jeweler over in Chicago who aches to be robbed, and I know of a farmer out here a few miles who has $il,000 in gold in the house. If I had two good men I could gather in at least $50,000 within the next ten days; but this boom has taken mo all aback. I need two full sets of burg­ lar tools right off, but my blacksmith is rushed with other work, and must delay me. I went yesterday to see about wigs and whiskers, and found a doz_n orders ahead of me." "It's unfortunate." " Well, I should say so ! It just makes my heart ache to Jaiow that scores of back doors are unSoeSbd, hundreds of windows left open, heaps of silver and jewelry left kicking around, and here I am so fixed that I can't half push busi­ ness. I'm nervous and uneasy, but I can't mend matters as I see. If you happen to come across a first-class hall- thief and a pair of professional cracks­ men, I wish you'd send 'em to me. I'll guarantee the very highest wages and steady employment for the season."-- Detroit Free Press. Learning Trades. Many men who would like to learn more than ono trade have been deterred by the constant iteration of the old sav­ ing, " Jack of all trades, master of none." Now this is only partially true. Many trades, or rather branches of the siune trade, are so closely related to each other that there is no reason why the young mechanic should not learn two or more of these branches. To do so would not only widen his horizon of thought, but would give him more self-reliance, enlarge his experience, and render him more independent of the fluctuating cir­ cumstances of hard times. If he gets out of work in one trade, it is rnoie than probable that he can earn a livelihood by means of his reserve trade ; again his manifold accomplishments louder his employment more secure. When the time comes to reduce the number of men in a shop, those who are the most accomfAished aud who can turn their hands to the greatest number of things, or who can change from one class of work to another, are the ones who are retained. It is well known to those who are observant that the greatest part of the exj>erinieht in "making things work," in cases where t«vo trades de­ pend closely upon one another, as for instance pattern maker and molder, arises from the utter ignorance of the workmen in regard to the requirements of each other's trades. Both may be wrong, yet they will almost invariably charge the failure tJ produce a good job each upon the other. Now, if kuA understood the difficulties under which the other labored, he would l>o able to point out the error at once, and there would be l*) necessity for jarring. Ig- norance is the great producer of discord. Young mechanics, never lose a chance to acquire more than one trade. Re­ member that he wUo can readily turn his hand from one branch or trade to another need never lack for either ap­ preciation or profitable and steady em­ ployment. The Art of Dining. Thomas Walker has written a book milled " Ariatoloijy; or, The Ait oi Dining." Six or at most eight persons, lie says, are the proper numlier to lie seated at one table ; "for complete en­ joyment a company ought to be one ; sympathizing and drawing together, listening and talking in due pro|x»rtk>u». -- no monopolists, nor any ciphers." Small, unceremonious baohelors' din­ ners, he adds, are those that he like* l>est, because "gentlemen kevj^more in view the real ends, whereas ladies think principally of display aud ornament, of form aud ceremony--not all, for some have excellent notions of taste and torn fort; and the cultivation of them would seem to be the peculiar province of the sex, as one of the chief features in house­ hold management. There is ono female failing in resjieet to dinu rs which I cun- not help hero noticing--and that is a very inconvenient love of garnish and flowers, either natural or cut iu turnips and carrots, and h uck on dishes, so as to greatly inijjede carving and helping. This is the true barbarian principle ot ornament, and is in no way distinguishable from the ' untutored Indian's' fondness for feathers and shells." ADRIENNE LECOUYREUIk •w Surrcptitloua and Unseemly Burial. [Froml'artou'a " Voltaire."] In March, 1730, occurred the sudden death of the actres^, Adrienue Le- couvreur, aged 28. She played for the last time, March 15, in Voltaire's "CEdipe," and played, despite her dis­ order, with much of her accustomed force and brilliancy. In accordance with the barbarous custom of the time, there was an after-piece, in which she also appeared ; and she went home .rom the scene of her triumphs to die after four days of anguish. Voltaire hast­ ened to her bedside, and watched near her during her last struggle for life; and when she was seized with the con­ vulsions that preceded her death he held her in his arms and received her last breath. Being an actress, and dyinjr without absolution, she was denied "Christian burial," and the gates of every recognized burial-place in Franca were closed against her wasted body, the poor relics of a gifted aud bewitching woman, whom all that was distinguished and splendid in the society of her native land had loved to look upon. At night her body was carried in an old coach (fiacre) a little way out of town, just be­ yond the paved Streets, to a spot near the Seine now covered by the house No. 109 Rue de Bourgogne. The fiacre was followed by One friend, two street port­ ers and a squad of the city watch. There her remains were buried, the grave was filled up, and the spot re­ mained uninclosed and unmarked unti the city grew over it and - concealed it from view. The brilliant world of which sha had been a part heard of this unsteuily burial with . ncli horror, such diagusi, such rage, such "stupor," as we can with difficulty imagine, because all these ties of tenderness and pride that bind families and communities together : r more sensitive, ii not stronger, in Frai.e than with our ruder, more rooust nu e The idea of not having friendly an 1 de­ corous burial, of not lying dovvn witii kindred and folio w-cit.teu- in a place i p- pointeu for the dead, ot being taken ou at night and buried at a corner of a road like a dead cat, was and is utterly deso­ lating to the French people. Voliaiiv, for example, could never face it; he lived and died dreading it. And the effect of the great aetreus' surreptitious burial was increased In various circumstances. That gifted wom­ an possessed all the virtins except vir­ tue, and, unhappily, virtue the ga_v world of Paris uiu not care for. Nature and history pronounce virtue, whethe r in man or woman, the indispensable pre­ liminary to well-being, and the church was right in so regarding it. But Paris loved rather to repeat that she had pledged all her jewels to help her lovei (one of her lovers), Maurice de Saxe, son of Augustus, King of Poland. Paris remarked that, if she had not partaken of the sacraments, she had at least lent 1,000 francs to the poor of her parisli. The gay world dwelt much upon her noble disinterestedness in refusing toie- ceive the addresses of Count d'Argental, though that infatuated young man ljved her to the point of being willing to sac­ rifice his career to her. That she had borne two children to two lovers, that she had expended the precious treasure of her life rufd genius in a very fow ye«rs of joyless excitement, that she had lived in utter disregard of the u iCuangeable conditions of human welfare, us well as those of the highest artistic excellence-- who thought of that? Who could think of Chat in connection with such an out­ rage upon her wasted remains ? Voltaire, who owed so much to this brilliant woman who owed so much to him, was profoundly moved. To the assembled company of actors, her com­ panions in glory and shame, he said : "Announce to the world that you will not exercise your profession until you, the paid servants of the King, are treat ed like other citizens in the King's serv ice." They promised him, but who wa-> to maintain them in the interval ? The chiefs of the company only received from 1,000 to 2,000 francs a year. " They promised," he wrote thirty years after, " but did nothing further in the matter. They preferred dishonor with a little money, to honor, which would have been worth more to them." The Girl and the Hen. In the village of Pandapnra, hard by the town of Savatthi, there lived a {.'irl, who by tasting a turtle's egg contracted a great liking tor hen's eggs. The hen seeing the greedy gill eating the egg slie laid daily bore a grudge against her, and a strong wish arose within her that in her re-birth she might become a ghoul aud eat up the girl's offspring. In the course of time the hen died anil be­ came a cat in the same house, and the girl on her death became a hen iu her mother's house. Whenever the hen laid an egg the cat, out of grudge to her, ate it up. After this had happened sev­ eral times, the hen prayed that she might be so reborn as to be able to de­ vour the cat and all her progeny. The girl dying aud leaving the condition of a hen was reborn a leopard, and tiie cat iu due. time reappeared as a deer; the deer gave birth to a lawn, aud the leoj>- ard, vaho still bore her a grudge, atd them both up. Iu this way, during the course of 500 existences, each of them devoured cacti other iu turn, in their last existence the girl regained her hu- maa»foim lU'd the cat became a gh^ul, ami both-were converted by the Bud­ dha's discourse, which was to this effect: •' No one must bear a grudge against another, saving, 'He has injured me, he has l>eateii, he has robbed me, he lt*is eonquened me,' for if he does this, hatred viU bo repeated successively in fnt nre existences ; b«t if no grudge be borne, enmity sulfides." Tliis round of rebirth often brought al>ont some very curious and complicated relations, as in the case of the uncharitably Br,»h- niiu who always dined with closed doors and wiudows, lest he should 1m; disturbed by importunate beggars. One day, wnen he w:is dining, along with his wiisj and child, on a fowl, Budaha api^pared before him as a mendicant, au.-l up­ braided him for his inhoqntubio con­ duct, and with the family disgrace with which he was invoivt-<L In a former birth, the bird the Brahmin had just eaten was liis father ; the httle boy, uis son, had been a demon and had eaten the father, aud his wifo, in former day.-., had been his mother.--Uoutemporasy Review. A School-House Built of Gold. But few people are aware of the fact that the fac<ngs of the High School aro constructed of pold-l>earing stone, but it is an actual truth that is testified to bv \ Mr. King, the architect, as well as thoeo j who did the masonry. It wjw obtained • from a moiiutain near Granite, upon I which several gold mines have b en di - ! c >v, red, and which are at pres.-nt beii g j operated with much profit, in antiqu tv 1 tlieie wits extr ivayanc.- visible in ad t ie aivhitecturat efforts, but to witn- ss tie- re{K:iiti;>n of those times in this era and in the cnrl'O'.iate metropolis is something iudctd siartling. It is a f.ict, h<»weve», that the facing-" of the institution men­ tioned nre made of the gold rock, and it can lie provfn. During the work of e e tion, and when the masons Lad the stone in hand and were dressing it, this was discovered. Upon one occasion they weie sawing a huge block of the materiil in which a streak of gold about the size of a knife-blade was discovered by the workmen. The streets are paved with silver or slag containing the miner­ al, and it is probable that a handful of dirt from most any place would assay from one to ten ounces.--Lcadxilie (Col.) Democrat. FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS. Sharks generally turn on their sides to eat. Ix animals the arms and legs are of the same length. No creature below the > back-boned animals ever breathes tlirough its mouth. Silk waste, which a few years ago was sold for old rags, is now manufact­ ured in New York into a variety of line cloths. Sugar is ptetty well up now. We are afraid it will lie come as dear as it was in the days of Henry IV., of France, when it was sold by the ounce by apothecaries nearly as Peruvian bark is now sold. Among the peasantry in a certain por­ tion of Germany it is considered a sign of good luck to meet a pig. Some shrewd goldsmith utrtized the ilea by manufactiiiiiig charms, or pig emblem", which became all the rage in Germany, and which have lately been the fashion in this country. There is a plant in Chili, and a simi­ lar one in Japan, called the "flower of tlie air." This appellation is given to it because it has no root, and is never fixed to the oartli. It twines round a dry tree or sterile rock. Each shoot produces two or three flowers like a lily, white, transparent and odoriferous. It it capable of being transported 200 or •500 leagues ; and it vegetates as it trav­ els, suspended to a twig. Bot one mechanical workingnrnn his ever been honored with a burial in West­ minster Abbey, aud that was Graham, tiie cloi'kmaker. Graham made exact astronomy possible by liis great im­ provements in time pieces. He invent­ ed the dead-beat escapement and th • gridiron compensating pendulum, aid he was the first to make clocks that would run for many days without wind­ ing. Graham was also a maker of great quadrants, and instruments ot that sort. His funeral was attended by all the mem­ bers of the Royal Society. France, viewed from a sanitary poict, is one of the most favored countries in the world, yet nearly 1,000,000 persons die there every year. From this it is statistically proved that the daily num­ ber of deaths ki the world averages near­ ly 98,790, while the number of births is over 104,000 in everv twenty-four hour *. The timid, who think the earth is going to fill up with people in a very few years aud crowd them off, caai take courage, as from the latest showing there is an annual increase in population of less than 3,000,000 at the present time. The lion has often been seen to de spise contemptible enemies and pardon their insults when it was in his power to punish them. He has been seen to t.pare the lives of such as were thrown to be devoured by him, to live peacea­ bly with them, to afford them part of his subsistence, and sometimes to want food himself rather than deprive them of that life which his generosity had spared. The lion is not usually cruel ; he is only so from necessity, aud never kills more than he consumes. When satiated, he is perfectly gentle. A Live Frog in Stone. In Hardwicke's "Science-Gossip," of Feb., 1, 1867, edited by M. C. Cooke, author of "British Reptiles" aud other scientific works, and published iu Lou­ don, is a communication uuder tho l»ead of "Frog in Oolite." The contribution is on page 45, and is from the pen of Simon Hutchinson, ?Janthorpo Lodgi Grantham. The communications re­ ferred to opens with the remark that the writer begs to submit the following cer­ tificate to those who are interested in natural history. Then the certificate is given as follows: "I. William Munton, of Waltham, in the Couuty of Leicester, quarryinan, hereby certify that I was wit less to the discovery of the stone and frog, now be­ fore me (in possession of Mr. Simon Hutchiusou, of Manthorpe Lodge, Grantham), in tho stone quarry at Widtham, from ten to twelve feet below the natural surface of the ground, in solid rock. When the stone was Fplit, the frog appeared siiive; in size equal to the cavity thcreiu. It continued to kve about ten days after its release, ai*l was afterwards preserved i:i spirit by the late Mr. Stow, of WaVtham. Before the stone was broken, no crack or crevice was anywhere visible. As witness my hand this first day of December, 1866. William Munton. This is an cxact copy of the certificate, and the names of the parties and of the places, together with the dates, etc., are given just as they are published in Hardwicke's "Scicnoe-Gossip." Mr. Hutchinson adds to this the following: "This discovery is familiar to persons now living at Waltham, besides Mr. Munton; therefore, })ersonal inquiry can l>e made l>y the skeptical, or silence in future will bo most becoming. The skeleton of the frog and the stone, also, are own for iusj>ectiou. It is natural to exclaim. How could a helpless frog pen­ etrate solid stone ? It is not difficult, however, to imagine a live frog first en- velo|>ed iu mere mud, which afterward hardens into solid stone, exer remaining sufficiently porous to admit air and moisture enough to maintain torpid ex­ istence: and which, like seed of natural vegetation buried immensely deep iu the outer crust of the earth, from its first formation, remains dormant, until some accident brings it within the influence of the sun to reanimate or develop, and ul­ timately exhaust its vitality. As to the age of the animal, I offer no theory. The Dean's Thanks. Some accidents seem to have hap- l>eued on purpose, so pat are they. For mstance: A certain Dean of Ely was once at a dinner, when, just as the cloth was re­ moved, the subject of discourse hap jx'ned to be ttiat of extraordinary moi- tai>ty among lawyers. " We have lost," 6aid a gentleman. " not less than seven eminent Imrrister.- iu as many mouths." 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