The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1859-04-19

will not remember the date Of the entry on
her books--the people will not remember the
date Of your FIRST visit. They will say II
might have been four weeks that you were
IN the habit Of calling, though they cam
mot swear positively. Ia the third place
there were three eye-witnesses Of the faint
ing scene, besides the girl herself; and
have no doubt the young man is bona fde
witness, invited there without any knowledge
Of the conspiracy. Could lawyer ask for
better case with which to 20 before . jury II
But are you sure there is conspiracy Z
4 know it; that's, am morally certain OF
IL
She must have known the advances she
mace would disgust me, it had entertained
On idea Of marrying her.
Exactly 60. She meant to disgust you
She Of course had no more idea of marrying
YOU than she has Of marrying me. A breach
Of promise case was what she was after, moth
ing else
Have they served up any such cases be.
fore r
Yes. have seen the papers for four
similar cases, and rather than suffer the ex-
posure, trouble and expense, the parties set
tied. One man gave 81 900 another 5! 500,
and another $1,000, and another $4,000;
which, have no doubt, was divided up be-
tween the girl, the uncle, the servant girl,
and perhaps the matrimonial Office.
And the lawyer, Jenkins suggested.
well the lawyer has his fee, of course,
but do not know as he was partlceps GRIM
inis.
Jenkins did not argue the morality of the
lawyers part, but requested him to let him
know if anything occurred, which he prom
ised to do
The next morning John Quincy jenkins
left for his home in the rural districts, two
or three days sooner than he intended. In
less than week he received letter from
his legal friend, in which he was informed
that the next day after his last visit to Della,
lawyer was applied to, as he expected, to
make out case and commence proceedings
against John Quincy Jenkins, for breach OF
promise Of marriage, unless it was settled
At the uncles suggestion, the lawyer went
with him to the Metropolitan Hotel, to find
Mr.. Jenkins and see if he would not COM
promise; not finding that worthy gentleman,
the old man instituted search in all the
prominens hotels, and finding no such name
on the books, concluded that Mr.. Jenkins
was q myth, and consigned the individual
who bore that name to curses and to history
Icebergs.
Few sights in nature are more imposing
than that of the huge, solitary iceberg, as re-
CARELESS alike Of wind and tide, it steers its
course across the face Of the deep, far away
from land, Like one Of the frost giants in
Scandavian mythology, it issues from the
portals OF the North, armed with great blocks
Of stone Proudly it sails on the waves
that dash in foam against Its sides, shake
not the the strength of its crystal walls nor
tarnish the sheen Of its emerald caves. Sleet
and snow, storm and tempest, are its com
genial elements. Night falls around and
the stars are reflected TREMENDOUSLY from a
Thousand peaks, and from the green depths
of "caverns measurless to man.
The visible portion of an iceberg is only
about one ninth part Of the real bulk of the
whole mass SO that if one be seen 100 feet
high, the lowest point may, perhaps, be away
down 800 feet below the waves. Now it is
easy to see such a moving island will often
crate across the summit and along the sides
of SUBJ marine hills; and when the lower
part Of the berg is roughened over with earth
stones, the surface Of the rock over which it
passes will be torn up and dispersed, or
smoothed au0 strained, while the boulders
imbedded in the ice, will be strained in turn.
But some icebergs have been seen rising
300 feet above the sea, and these, if their
submarine portions sunk to the maximum
depth must have reached the enormous total
height of 27J0 feet BY such mass any
rock or mountain top existing 2.4OO feet be-
low the surface of the ocean, would polished
and Urnora1 apJ cunoon1i pr boroa III a
mud and boulders upon it. the smoothed
surface might be covered up and suffer no
change until the ocean bed should be slowly
upheayed to the light of day.
In this way submarine rock surfaces at all
depths, from the coast line down to 1000 or
5000 feet, may be scratched and polished,
and eventually entombed in mud. 1t is upon
this theory only that we are able to account
tor the many huge bouders that lay scattered
upon the mountain, valley and plain.