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a chance at least, of one of us being saved: draw
your knife and cut the rope belowP was the cool
and intrepid order of the parent; exert yourself,
YOU may vet escape, and live to complort your mo-
lherp There was no time for discussion or fur
Their hesitation. The SON looked up once more,
but the edge ofthe rock cutting its way, and
the rope was nearly severed. The knife was
drawn the rope was divided, and his father and
brother were launched into eternity. '-Stantey'S
history Of Birds.
A GSoD STORY. They tell good story att
Northampton about the editor of the New Orleans
Picayuno. He stopped at the stage house, with
the intention of speed dg some days in that beauti-
fuI town. After a reasonable time he became dryI
and called for glass Of brandy. NO" says theI
landlord, ''we have no license to sell spirits-wei
don't keep the article" The editor visited theI
other public houses,-Iooked into all the groceries
and cellars made close inquiries, but found them
all tcetola He returned to hestage house with
long face--"Landlord," said he,Ss'te me the
nearest place where can get a gIassao brandy
for Pm too dry to stay here any longer. ''l guess
you can get it at Greenfeld for they grant licenses
there, and it is said they seIlsprits." How far is
stare start" '"Twelve O'Clock at night" "Well
landlord, book me for Greenfed.'
GREY Sq1RRELs. correspondent Of the Phil
adelpha North American, writing from the Dor
dero of Lake Champain, confirms statement
made by DR.. Morse in his we'll known geography,
and which has by some been regarded as fabulous.
He says:
GA word on the instinct Of the squirrels here.
| When they wish to move from one island to the
other they watch the wind till it blows in the right
direction, and you viii see them in dozens coming
to the beach, each with large piece of bark in
| his mouth which be launches, and then Jumping
| h; t,H nuJo bn
goes to the port of his destination. might have
Shot them while making sail but it looked to me
as something almost wicked"
DEAR. At Fort Laramie, eight hundred miles
west of ST. Louis, on the first Of August, flour was
selling at forty dollars per barrel. The Oregon
Emigrants who passed the Fort at the date named,
could not afford to purchase at that price.
hnportant Discovery. A discovery has been
made of a way of hardening wood, SOFAS to give it
almost the c0mpactness Of iron. This is done by
exhaustng the air from the wood by an air pump,
and then saturating it with iron and lime in sou-
ton. Wood submitted to this process, has been
used for some tme on railroads in England and
found so firm as to have scarcely been marked by
r the cars.
A novet hvlni.on. A pedomotive machine has
been invented and put into successful use on one
; of the English railways. 1t carries four pussen
gers, two of whom work Il system of treadles witt
their feet and thus prope the machine at the rate
: fifteen to twenty-five miles an hour! Ii is eXpec
ted to superceed the horse express. 1t is light ant
; can be lifted off the track easily as chair.
, The official dog-slayer in New York inform
the public, through the columns Of the America
Republican, thai his functions ceased for the pres
ent year on Saturday; and that between the 18th
of June and the 28tb Of September, three thousanC
three hundred aud fifty three of the canine rae
were put to death.
4 Political Erpediant-Mr. Walsh in his la;
letter to the National Intelligencer, after speakn
+ of the riot and violence that attended the recent
+ lection in Greece, says that Sin a church wher
p the ballot was held general exchange of blow
! 1t was stopped by a rustic, who empted hive
J. bees in the midst of the combatants."
h philosopher has said, 'hough man wthol
T. money is poor man with nothing but money
u still poorer"
I'd .MjHtaru ditp correspondent asks, els
~ Aliens son under age, liable to do militia duty;
e. He is not, neither is the Father. Both are lab
F. however, when the father becomes citizen.
pe The editor of the Cincinnati Advertiser says
er 81 am knowing Of the fact, in 1885, Of Senat
OF Black Of Mississippi, receiving under frank, Il
N WaverIy Novels, in SO volumes, weighing at lea
So pounds, as public documents"
er The Esquimaux attain the height of but fe
ne inches, and the Mongul Tarters but feet
n1 inches.
in A coquetle IS rose from which every lov
or plucks eaf-the thorns are reserved for her +
las lure husband.
'eF .aziamal - aiisos IN China. This undt
a. stood ii the celestial empire, and turned to go
efs account by the BARRIERS OF Canton.
M FREEDoM oF THE PREss.-A controver
has for some time been going on betwe
: Rev. Luther Lee and the Rev.A. M'Caln
the South, on the subject of slavery. y
w., Lee asks aSouthern journal to republlSh
az al. controversy. Tie reply'is, 1--WE are taxi
an legal advice from the Judges of seve
of cotrs in sIavehoding States, to ascert;
whether such documents are or are not
gally mcendary If they can legally reo
I'M those having interest in them, they will
ing admitted"
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