, 1864-06-03
NUMBER S5.

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JACKS LETTER. AN English writer says:
One day when came home from visiting,
my old landlady told NE that some one had
been down begging me to 20 up to old Willis
house as soon as ever 1 could-he was in
great trouble. started off at once, and
found him and his old woman both in tears.
asked him what was the matter.
=" 0 Sir, we've had such letter from
our Jack in Africa
His letter was in highhown strain He
had been evidently reading Moore and other
poets; and he had written when the news Of
the threatened Chartist riot on the famous
10th Of April had just reached the CAMP
| cannot remember all Of his letter, but THIS
passage occurs to me -
!" Beloved Pdrehts.-I have heard of the
terrible dangers that threaten my native land
Perhaps ere now it has been devastated by
lawless bands Of unprinciped miscreants;
perhaps ere now the humble cot in which 1
first drew nurture has been committed to the
ruthless flames Would were with you,
to protect my ancestral hearth cannot
be with you but, beloved parents my soul
hoVers over you, as the fabled Houri of the
Mohammedan and do all can, by wish
and supplication, to cast egs around you"
OF course I burstou laughing at this high
flown letter and their grief They started at
my laugh.
(" What, Sir, is all right? We thought
summit terrible had surely happened; we
never heard such words afore"
l assured them all was right, and transla-
ted the letter for them, to their amazing COM
fort but can assure you that letter was
shown to every neighbor as what our Jack
could do, and doubly treasured because they
could not comprehend it.-[Englsh pa.
A YANKEE DEvIcE.-Ono of the pecu-
liar slab-sided, gaunt Yankees lately emf
grated and settled down in the West He
was the very picture Of mean man, but as
he put himself to work in good earnest to
get his house to rights, the neighbors will
lingly lent him hand. After he had got
everything fixed to his notion, thought
struck him that he had no chickens and he
was powerful fond of sucking raw eggs. He
was too honest to steal them, and too mean
o buy them. AT last thought struck him,
he could borrow He went to a neighbor,
and thus accosted him:
'Wal, l reckon yer haint got an old hen
nor nothin,' you'd lend me for few weeks
have you neighbor 2
4 will lend you one with pleasure re-
Piled the gentleman, picking out the very
finest in his coop. The Yankee took the
hen home, and then went to another neigh
Dor and borrowed dozen eggs He then
set the hen and in due course Of time she
hatched out twelve chickens The Yankee
was again puzzled, he could return the hen,
but how was he to return the eggs An
other idea-and who ever saw live Yam
kee without one ?-he would keep the hen
until she laid dozen. This he did, aud
then returned the hen and eggs to their re-
spective owners, remarking as he did So
WAL | reckon I've got as fine dozen of
chickens as ever you laid eyes on, and they
didn't cost me a cent nuther.'
VAST WEALTH OF OF CRGsUs.-In our
jottings Of millonares, it would seem as
though these pages were incomplete without
some data concerning him whose name has
for centuries and gencrations-fres down
to the present day-furnished the standard
representative Of vast wealth Croesus -four
ished about the middle of the sixth century
B. c. The prodigious wealth which be had
inherited had been increased by the tribute
of conquered nations, by the confscation Of
great estates, and by the golden sands Of
Pactolus Perhaps some idea Of the extent
of his wealth may be formed from the rich
votiye offerings which he has known to have
deposited in the temples Of the gods Hero
dotus himself saw the ingots of solid gold,
six palms long, three broad, and one deep,
which to the number Of one hundred and
seventeen, were laid up in the treasury at
Delphi. He also saw parts Of Greece the
following offerings all in gold, which had been
deposited in the temples by the same opulent
man: figure Of lion, probably Of the nat
ural size a lustral vase a statute of a female
said to be Crosus' baking woman, four and
one half feet high wine bowl of about the
same weight as the lion; shield and a
spear; a tripod some figures Of cows; and
number of pillars a second shield in a differ
ent place from the, and Of greater size.
Mrs. s. visited her neighbor's
house, with the benevolent intent of recon
Cling the differences existing there, and ad-
dressed the better half something in this
style: " Now you know" said she, chow