Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1856-03-29

sonabls that Irishmen should celebrate with Joy
the anniversary Of the day upon which ST.. Pat
rick finally succeeded in establishing Christi
anity in Ireland, rather than the melancholy
event of such good mans death!
Again, have to differ with you, Bridget"
abou, his banishng snakes ,'Ly collecting them
all Oh the coas. Of Mayo, and hurting them in-
to the Atlantic" 1t seems to me that some Of
them must have sacam ashore, for snakes have
been found in Ireland as late as thirty years
ago. l never knew an intelligent Irishnan
bu, what laughed at the idea. aud attributed
the absence Of snakes to the fact that Ireland
is so densey populated, and that reptiles gem
orally give way to cviiza,ion--a fact, blythe
bye, which we daily see illustrated in Ameri-
ca. But "Brdgct," fear that you have let
some fictitious tradition take hold of you, and
that you have paid more attention to some old
woman's "lairy Stories" about the "Seven
Churches" ii.an you have to the mission of ST.
| Patrick. TuApy.
St. Paul, March 2l, 1886.
A BAcuELoR's REFLEcrIoNs.-Bless me am
thirty-nn to-day six feet in my stockings,
black eyes, curlcy hair, tall and straight as a ce-
dar OF Lebanon, ard still bachelor Well, i,'s
an independent life, Mt least no it isn't either
| Here are these gloves of mine, full of little
rips, strings of my most faultless dickeys, nice
| silk handkerchief in my drawer wants hemmng
| buttons off my shirts what's to be done p
How provoking it is to see those married people
looking so self satisfied and consequential Mt the
head of their families If they had done the state
great service. AS to children, they are as
plentiful us flies in August, and about us trouble
some, every alley, and court, and garnet are
swarnng with them they're no rarity and any
poor miserable wretch can get wife-enough Of
them too. such as they are! 1t is enough to
scare man to death to think how much it costs
10 keep one! Silks and satins, ribbons and vel
vets, feathers and towers, bracelets. :mcracks
| AMI folltrols; and you must look at the subject
little jackets and frocks, wooden hnrs's and
dolls. pon-guns AMI gingerbread don't believe
| can do it, by Ju liter! But Them here sit with
the toe of my hest boot kicking the grne, for
want CT something else to do. Its ccmi ~ awful
cold. d~eary weather, long evenings: "a IT 90 to
balls ana concerts for cvcr when do IN room
| looks so much the more gloOmi"r WHEN [ come
back, AMI 1t would be cozv TO We Il Iics little
wife 10 chat and talk and laugh with. l've tried
to think of something else, but can't if look
in the lire IN sure t" pair of bright eyes ::
even the shadows on the wall take f.rv shapes
am on the blink of ruin feel it : shall read
my doom in the marriage list before long-I
know shall
The GHosr OF PIE.-Who but a Dickens
could have painted the folowin. exquisite bit of
fresco
''Once passed fortnight at an inn in the
North of England, where was haunted by the
ghost OF tremendous pie, like fort, an aban-
doned fort with nothing in it, but the waiter had
an idea that it was point of ceremony ut every
meal to put the pie upon the table, After some
days tried to hint in several delicate WAYS. that
| considered tho pie done with as for examplc
by cmPtyng the fag-r.. of glasses of wine into
It, putting cheese plates ana spoons into it, rs in
t. basket: putting wine bottles into it as q
coocr-but always in vain. the pie being invar.
iahly cleaned out again and brough up as before.
At last beginning to he doubtful whether was
not the victim of a spectral illusion, and whether
my health and spirits might not sink under the
horrors OF an imaginary pie, | cut a triangle
out OF 1t, fully rs large the instrument of that
name in powerful orchestra. Human provision
could not have forseen the Iesmlt-but the waiter
mende! the pie. With some cfFcctual species of
cement, he adroitv fitted the triangle in again ):
AMI paid my reckon NJ ani fed.''
so bewitchingly the tips of their ivory fans.
or ply their fingers so nmbly and graccfal lv over
the white keys OF the piano, are wont to cast
thought towards the manner i'm which this NATE
rial is procured, the quantities of it which are
annually used, and the number Of noble animals
which are yearly slain for the purpose of supply
ing the constantly increasing demand. Mr. Dal-
ton. a celebrated Sheffield manufacturer csti-
mates that the annual consumption of ivory in tie
town OF Sh fiji I'D alone is about one hundred and
eghty tons. cqull in value to 0,O0D, and re-
qnirng the ahcr of five hundred persons to work
1t for trade. The number of tusks to make up
this amonnt of ivory is 4j 600: and according to
this the number of elephants slaughtered every
year for the supply Of the Sheffield market is d.
800. But suppos ne some tusks to he cast, ard
some ANIMALS to hive licl a natural death, it
NAV be fairly estimated til 1t $4,000 are killed
for the purpose.
~ W" were shown a private letter o-,lav
from Mr.. {. NJ CLAW. with reference to his fail
ure noticed few days since. Mr.. CLAW saws his
creditors have allowed him to 90 on, and he Will
De able to pay all his debts and have II handsome
estate left. lie did not lose dollar this season
in the pork trade.
Several parties i'm the West will los, bv the
failure OF f. F. Baker & Co., of New York Dis.
patches were received to -dav that IN assignment
hal been made, and that they will probably pay
seven:y-fve cents ON the dollar. a New York
Hour house is also reported to have suspended
Gin. Gdsette.
CT Mrs. Catherine Clarkson, widow Of the
justly famous Thomas Clarkson, to whom slave
~ abolition was mainly due, d. I'd at Playford
Hall near Ipswich, on the 3hh ult.
Gy' lmmensc fockS of wild pigeons are swarm
ing in the woods of Alab.ma attracted by the
abundant crops of acornS, not yet fallen from