The weekly Butte record., 1863-06-13
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every l0,500 years, the waters of the sea pass
from one poll to the other submerging and
overwhelming in their passage the earth and
all its inhabitants. According to the au'her
of this theory, NJ. Paul de Jouvencel, the last
of these deluges occurred 500 years ago the
next one is due 10 6,000 years more VI. Jou,
yeucel recounts this great cosmical drama with
the yigor and pictorial effect of au eyewitness.
Six thousand years-sizty centuTies-then,
only are left us,wherein to do our whole worlds
work, and to complete and perfect the ciyiliza
ton which has as yet hardly dawned on tie
greater number Of mankind, Sixty old men
may touch hands across the interval between
the p.esent moment and the last hour Of the
world as it exists; then all Will be finished. all
consumed, all will disappear! The sea 10,500
years in It's imueasurabie depths viii crush out
our history and leave nothing Of it all but q
few fossils SO, at least, says NJ Jouvencel
CHINESE FoRrUsE TGLLERs.-These men
carry on their profession in the streets where
there is space available. \ mat is spread on
the ground, with a stick fixed at each corner,
around which a strip of cloth Is cast to form
an inclosure for the fortune teller and bis hen,
which is in a small bamboo cage. BY his side
is an open box containing q number of very
small rolls of paper with sentences or single
characters written on them. In front of him
is long row Of fifty Or sixty small pasteboard
envelopes, which also hold single characters,
or the divination sentences. A little board
painted white for writing on, and the ink
stone and pencil are at hand ready for use.
An inquirer who wishes 10 consult him, squats
do1n on his heels outside the enclosure, pays
three cash (half farihiug) and tells bis story,
stating what be wishes to know lie is told
to pick out roll from the box, which having
done, he hands it to the man, who unrolls it
and writes its contents on the board He
then openes the door Of the cage, and the hen
marches forward 10 the row of envelopes; af
ter peering over them inqnistively. she picks
out one and lets it fall 10 the ground. \ few
grains Of rice are thrown into the cage and she
returns. The envelope is opened, and the char
acters inside also written on the board from
the two Inscriptions On which the consulter's
prospects are announced. The hen is regarded
as the arbiter of fate, Incapable Of moral mo-
tive in the selection OF the roll and is there
fore supposed to give the decree of fate, without
the possibility of eoiiusion, or misinterpreta-
tion Of any kiud-7hs MeddaI Missionary in
CHING.
The Lo>T DARLIN.-A man in search of a
child was hailed by poaderous Hiberian, who
thrust his half naked frame through the win
dow Of dilapdated three story wooden
builiug =
Is It child ye gant?'
Yes"
about three years old ?"
Yes"
Has be fair, blue eyes, red stockings and
smoIe-colored gaiter ?"
YES"
Had he a plata dhress an white sthyaw
bat on p
YES! yes! Is he up there with you ?"
Och. no sir its mesaif that wishes he
was-but seed his mother, a while ago, a
looking for tie darlin"
WELL, know netting of mems hair, but
there is our friend. Mrs C.. of Biddle street
the lady who has been Just twenty niue years
old for the last fifteen yeaFs-her husband died,
you know. last winter, at which misfortune
her bair turued completely blaot within twenty
four hours after the occurrence Of that sad
event
Nh. BRANDrFoDDY's three reasons for not
drinking are very eharac;istic Of that gentle,
man.
Take somthing TO drink:" said his friend to
him one day.
Ne. Why not inquired his friend in
great amazenent.
In the frst Place, returned Mr.. Brandy
toddy. am Secretary Of a Temperance So
cie'y that ulseis today. and I must preserve
ny temperance character. In the second place
this is the anniversary Of ny fathers death,
and cut of respect 10 him have promised new
er to drink on that day.-And in the third
place, I have just taken something"
An editor out west wants TO know whats
TO become Of the women if muslin goes up
much higher ?" Our Dabster thinks the re-
suit viii be that they'll turn ont to be poor
shiflless set.