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nifying glass, resembling that of turtle,
and is what makes it so hard to kill. Some
time and training are necessary, as may be
supposed, to break its prancing gait into a
sober trot; but time and patience can ac-
complish almost everything, and after a
while the little erratic animals 60 very we'll
in harness, and the coachman hold steadfast-
ly the ribbons-not, however, until we'll
bribed with blood, which the keeperlets them
draw from his own veins, feeding them as the
opening rart of the performance, On his Draw
ny arm, for so tame are they as to bite in the
presence of numerous spectators; norris this
wonderful, considering that they are among
the domestic animals of Italy The exhiei'
ton has as much sense, and more marvel in
it, than the best monkey show; it has, more
over, wise usage, that of teaching the stran-
ger, smarting and 6dgetting under the visi-
tation of the same tormenting insect, that 1t
may serve other purposes besides that of ex-
ercising the patience.
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HEALTH AND LONG LIFE.-Socrates used
to say that it was pleasant to grow old with
good health and good friend and he
might have reason man may be content
to live while he is no trouble to himself or
his friends but after that, it is hard if he
be not content to die knew and esteemed
a person abroad, who used to say, man must
be a mean wretch who desired to live after
three-score years old. But so much, I doubt,
is certain, that in life, as in wine, he that
will drink it good must not draw it to the
dregs. Where this happens, one comfort of
age may be, that whereas younger men are
usually in pain whenever they are not in
pleasure, old men find a sort of pleasure
when they arc out of pain; and as young
men often lose or impair their present en-
joyments by craving after what to come, by
vain hopes or fruitless fears, so old men re-
lieve the wants of their age by pleasing re-
aections upon what is past. Therefore, men
in the health and vigor of their age should
endeavor to ill their lives with reading, with
travel, with the best conversation, and the
worthiest actions, either in public or private
stations; that they may have something
agreeable left to feed on when they are old,
by pleasing remembrances.
Sir ". Temple.
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MEcHANIcs.-St Paul was mechanic
a maker of tents from goats hair; and in the
lecturers opinion he was model mechanic.
He was not only thorough workman at his
trade, but was q scholar, perfect master,
not only of his native Hebrew, but of three
foreign tongues,-a knowledge of which he
obtained by close application to study during
his leisure hours, while serving his appren-
ticeship. 1t was the custom among the Jews
to teach their SONS some trade-a custom not
confined to the poorer classes, but also prac-
ticed by the wealthy and it was common
proverb among them, that father did not
teach his son a mechanical occupation, he
taught him to steal. This custom was a wise
one; and if the fathera Of the present day
would initiate their example their Erinkled
cheeks would not so often blush for the help
lessness, and not unfrequently criminal con-
duct of their offspring. Even if a father
intended his son for one of the professions,
it would be an incalculable benefit to the son
to instruct him in some branch of mechanism.
His education would not only be more COM
plete and healthy, but he might at some flu
ture time, in case of failure in his profes-
sion, find his trade very convenient as a
means of earning his bread; and he must
necessarily be more competent in mechani-
cal, from his professional education. An
educated mechanic was a model machine,
while an unedcated mechanic was merely
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Yfistellaneous,
A NOVEL, fNJAMRs' STYLE.

A writer in the Knickerbocker gives the
following as the opening chapters of new
romance called "Georde, or the Kings
Pei" by G. P. r. Q. z. james:
s'It was near midnight, toward the close
of the afternoon, on sultry morning in De.
cember, IS, previous to the revolution Of
the last war, when the burning moon was
setting in the eastern sky, casting a brilliant
shadow upon the gorgeous clouds, which
entirely obscured the frnlament; and the
unclouded sun was sending down its noon
day beams with an intensity of heat, like
the shrieking of heavy thunder through the
deep mountain gorges of the western prai-
ries
"Lovcly, indeed, was the sound Of such a
spectacle to the feet of the weary traveller,
for three feline monsters of the deep were
just gathering together for their evening
meal, and separating, ere the sun was risen,
for the sports of the chase, and all things
betokened a respose tho deep for utteranance.
"In the ensuing autumn, about two years
previous to the above mentioned merry cat
astrophe, two pedestrians might have been
seen riding on horseback in a three-wheeled
carriage up the brow of a precipice under
? the side of forest, which had been cut
down before the trees had begun to take
root, and engaged in eating their evening
dinner by the roadside in the arms of Nor
pheus. The eldest of the three gentlemen
was young lady of about 6fty-thrce, aud
about two years younger than the other man,
which latter gentleman was, from the man.
ncr in which she addressed him, evidently
her only and youngest daughter
"The remainder of her dress consisted OF
two pair of pantaloons, neatly buttoned
round the tops of her ears, and elegantly
attached by a golden strap of unwoven silk
to the axetree of the middle-aged gentle.
mans horse.
"The third individual, last mentioned
was an old gentleman of about twenty-five
whose venerable features disclosed the lirid
hue of the Siberian negro. His bald head
was profusely covered with long silver locks
of sandy jet, and which he had evidently
lost during a severe attack of sea-sickness.
caught from the next door neighbor, who
resides several blocks from him in the coun
try. He also was richly attired in the same
manner as the body, being clothed in worn
out frock-coat which was secured by straps
under his boots.
"His feet was bare, and save his gloves
he had no garments to shield him from tht
balmy atmosphere.
"He had lost both arms just above hi:
collar bone, and vas constrained to weal
crutches; this, added to his total blindness
rendered him a. object of general admira
tion."
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LEARNED FLEAs.---The Italian CORES

LEARNED FLEAs.--Thc Italian CORES
pondent of the Newark Daily Advertiser,
under date of '.Florence, April "A, 1885,
says:
Learned bears, learned monkeys, and learn
ed pigs are exhibited in other counties
learned feas here Who would believe this
who has not seen for himself tiny chariot
of cobweb wire drawn nimbly over three
foot race course by team of these spry in
sects, while another of them holds the rtins
composed of gold thread as fine as the
finest hair-he driving four in hand, and the
insect coursers trotting as methodically along,
as if it had never been in their nature to
jump. An Irishman would say that the
hardest part of the training of heas must be
to catch them. This is done by means of
gum, where they find themselves all at once
in the condition of the "two men stuck fast
in the mud" Here the almost invisible
wire is passed through holes pierced in the
insects she'll, which may be seen by mag
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paS 4 Gawky backwoods boy, was once at
a depot on one of the Georgia railroads, and
was of course deeply interested, in gazing
for the first time-at the "mighty fxins. :"
"Finally he got inside of a car, and while
indulsing his unbouDded curiosity, the whis-
tie screamed, the bell rang, and the steam
horse began to surge at the rate Of "two for,
ty."
"Oh lordy!" shouted the boy, "stop it,
stop it, amt agwinc; and bursting forward
he opened the door and jumped out on the
platform.
Just then the train was crossing deep
cavernous looking gorge on trustle work, and
seeing the earth and trees beneath him, he
tainted aud fell.
Directly he came 100, and looking up to
the conductor who stood by him he exclaim-
ed with deep sigh.
n0h, lordee, stranger has the thing lit !"
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j. HENRY CLARK, NJ. D.

\ FATHER AND Son WITH Six WIVES
ApIEcE.-The Manchester On. H. Mirror
gives long account of the proceedings in
that place and in Rutland, VT, of two men
calling themselves DR.. Lyman A. Abbott
and James H. Abbott, said to be father and
son, who are both now under arrest on the
charge of bigamy. 1t is stated that they
have each within short period married no
less than six wives The father passed at
Manchester, n H., as the erich old uncle
of his son." and in consequence of his re-
presentations the tradesmen of Manchester
were victimized 10 the amount of several
hundred dollars. The career of both parties
for number of years is detailed in the
Mirror with great minuteness.
At Newark, \. j in 1854, the elder
Abbott, it is alleged, was married to Mrs.
Elizabeth Roberts, who soon discovered that
he had wife living in Syracuse, n. Y. He
was consequently arrested for bisamy, con-
victed and sentenced to ten years in the
New Jersey penitentiary, but was pardoned
out after seven months detention. A Miss
Gardner. of Westmoreland, N. H., states
that she married the same man under the
name of DR.. Lyman Andrews, in 1852. In
Sussex county, New Jersey, in 1910, it
said he pursuaded Miss Sherman to elope
with him, and they We're married by a jus.
tiee of the peace. He was soon obliged to
abscond for threatening his wife's life in
order to obtain her property. 1t was also
ascertained that the true original name Of
the cold Doctor" is Aaron Andrews Abbey
and the name of the young man James Hen
ry Abbey the latter being the oldest son
Of the former by his first wife. Both par
ties are held for trial.
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From the Newark Advertiser, July l.
MR.. PRESCOTT'S METHOD OF WRI-
TING,

MR.. PRESCOTT'S METHOD OF WRI-
TING.
The following letter, received few days
since by DR.. j. Henry Clark of this city,
author of "Sight and Hearing, How Pre-
served and How Lost" describes method
by which the blind may write, and commu.
nicates an interesting fact in relation to
the infrmity against which the great histo'
rian has struggled in the attainment of his
unequalled fame in his department
LINN, Mass July 20, 1856.
My DEAR SIR: am much obliged to
you for your work, which you have been so
kind as to send me, on Sight and Hearing.
As fal as l can judge-and have had some
experience in regard to troubles connected
with the former-it seems to me extremely
we'll suited to the objects for which it was
intended. I sincerely hope, that the young
and inexperienced may profit by the saluta-
ry counsels it conveys.
You ask me to give you some account of
the apparatus which I use in writing. tits
of very simple kind, consisting of a frame
of the size of common sheet of letter pa
per, with brass wires inserted in it to cor
respond with the number of lines Marked
On one side of this frame is pasted leaf of
thin carbonated paper, such as is used to OBJ
tain duplicates. Instead of pen, the wri-
ter makes use of stylus of ivory or agate ;
the last better, as harder A tin leaf should
be put into the sheet which is to be written
on, as the paper would otherwise yield to
the pressure of the pen.
The great difficulty in the way Of blind
mans writing in the usual way, arises from
his not knowing when the ink is exhausted
in his pen, and moreover, his lines run into
one another. Both difficulties arc obviated
by this simple writing case, which enables
one to do his work as well in the dark as in
the light Though my trouble is not blind
hess, but disorder of the nerve of the eye,
the effect, as far as this is concerned, is the
same, and I am 'choly incapacitated for
rritiag an tie ordina'y nay
should add that it would be more conve-
nient to have this frame bound with leather
or morocco, and attached to a PORTFOLIO
This is the way with mine. 4 model, how
ever, is better than any description and /
have frequently had the pleasure Of furnish
ing my writing case, which was mado in En-
gland many years ago, as model from which
others have been made here for those who
were laboring under an iufr'nity of the eye.
With great regard, I remain, dear sir,
your obliged and obedient servant,
WIN. H. PRESCOTT.
j HENRY CLARK, NJ D.
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THE LAW OF NEWSPAPERS.

l. Subscribers wko do not give express notice
to the contrary are considered as wishing to con-
tinuetheir subscription.
9. If subscribers order the discontinuance Of
their papers, the publisher can continue to send
them until al arrearages are paid.
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papers from the office to which they are directed,
they are held responsible till they settle their bi
and order the paper discontinued.
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CURIOUS CoINcIDENcE.-It is a curious
coincidence, that the Regent Morton, who
first introduced the "Maiden," an instru-
mept of decapitation, into Scotland that
NJ. Guillotine, who improved, and caused 1t
to be used in France under his own name;
and that Brodie, who induced the magistrates
of Edinburgh to adopt ''new DROP" the
same that is now generally used for the exc
cution of criminals; all perished by the in
struments of death which they had them
selves invented; Phalaris, the contriver of
the "Brazen Bull, was also destroyed by his
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THE PRINCETON PRESS,

VNHE design of the inventor wss to get up Pfesss
Il which would answer every requirement of the;
offer made by GEORGE BRUCE, of New York, IN.
1851, viz cheap. light easily managed, and cxs
pabe of throwing off at least 500 sheets per hour
This Press will throw off from 500sto 800shestse
per hour, doing the work eanal to any, Cylinder
Press. The bed stands about 80 inches from the
floor, and is the most convenient of sill Pressesf5s
make ready the form on 1t is adapted to jobbing;
or book work, as well as newspaper, and will reg.E
lister as well as any other Cylinder Press 1T.
requires, to work it, man to turn the fly wheel,
and q boy to feed the sheets. s e - .s5 sSss
The linking Apparatus is very complete and
differs from the apparatus used in Cylinder Pres.a
ses generally, being more like that used intlie
Power Platen Presses. Two rollers pass over
the form twice to each impression, taking ink for
each sheet +- q s53 80.
A Press Of this description for newspaper and
jobbing, bed Al by 2s3 inches, with roller mould;
roller stocks, blanket, flying and registering ap-
paratus, &C., complete will be furnished for $500
Ifintended for book work chiefly, an extra ink
fountain will be furnished for $50. The press,
fly wheel, &c, will weigh about 1000 pounds. The
sides, &C., iron. Length OF frame, seven feet
height, to front edge Of feed board, three feet
six inches Any size made, to order. tSa
The following is the list of Sizes and Prices.as
far rs established: s., ,-...G,35 y, -
"36 "a, 45O. $3.50 49, 800.-
"44 2s4, 500. ss-s"62e 50, ss 625. :
GAG 80 $40, s,-sss sls-sss:;.
The beds will take chases their full BREADTH
and within two inches ofthe length: -
TERHs-One-half, cash :, one half, note, at A.
months, with, approved security; orr per- cent
discount for cash. -. - ~
Boxing and Carriage, $13
For more than three years the inventor OF the1
above Press has been improving 1t, workingit all
the while, and ascertaning, with great care and e1
pense the best mode of carrying out allthe details
and he fatters himself he has succeeded. imp
fecting it; and is now manufacturing the Press,
himself. No Press will leave hispremises without
being thoroughly tested and without it tperforms
to the entire satisfaction; of the purchaser.
JOHN T. ROB1NSON..
Princeton, N. j., Nov. 1866 46 *. 8m, ssts i
H9~ The YoRKy1LLE ENoUIRER is printed on a.
"Prineeton Press" and any information respect
ing it will be cheerful!y given by addressing the
Publisher, LIN. GRIST.
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ELEpHANTINE WREsTLERS OF JAPAN
"The attention of all was suddenly riveted
upon body of monstrous fellows, who tram
Piled down the beach like so many huge ele-
plants. They were professional wrestlers,
and formed part of the retinue of the princes
who kept them for their private amusement
and for public entertainment. They were
twenty-five in number, and were men enor-
nously tall in stature, and immense in weight
of flesh. * = They were all so immense
in flesh that they appeared to have lost their
distinctive features, and seemed to be only
twenty-five masses of fat Their eyes were
barely visible through long perspective
socket, the prominence of their noses was lost
in the pufness of their bloated cheeks, and
their heads were almost set directly on their
bodies, with merely folds of flesh where the
neck and chin are usually found. Their
great size, however, was more owing to the
development of muscles than to the deposi.
tions of fat: for, although they were evil
dently well fed, they were not less we'll ex-
erciscd, and capable of great feats of strength
As preliminary exhibition of the power Of
these men, the princes set them to removing
the sacks Of rice to a convenient place on
the shore for shipping Each Of the sacks
weighed not less than one hundred and twen-
iy.6ve pounds, and there were only couple
Of the wrestlers who did not carry each two
sacks at time They bore the sacks on the
right shoulder, lifting the first from the
ground and adjusting it without help, but OBJ
taiuiug aid for raising the second. One man
carried sack suspended by his teeth, and
another, taking one in his arms, turned re-
peated somerSaults as he held it, and appa-
rently with as much ease as if his tons of
flesh had been only SO much gossamer, and
his loada feather. ."--Dr. Hawks Narrative
ofJopnu Expedition.