The Shasta courier., 1868-01-11

FAITuFUL TO THE END.--When Sir
Thomas More lay in prison for conscience
sake he was visited by his wife, who was
somewhat worldly wise woman.
What, the goodyear, Mr.. More,' said
she, in dialect Of those days, d" / marvel
that you, who have been hitherto always
taken for wise man, will so play the fool as
20 lie here in this close. filthy prison, and
be content to be shut up thus with mice and
rats, when you might be abroad at your lib
erty, with the favor and good will both of
the King and his Council, If you will but
do as the bishops and the best learned men of
his realm have done; and, seeing you have
at Chelsea a right fair house. your library.
your books. your gallery, and all other
necessaries so handsome about you that you
might, in company with M your wife, your
children and household De merry-I muse
(wonder) what in Gods name you mean here
thus fondly 10 tarry."
He heard her out and then said
AZ pray thee, good Mrs. Alice, tell me
one thing"
What is it ~ saith she.
g. Is not this house as near heaven as my
own ?"
Sir Thomas More had his eye on a heav-
enly home, but his wife looked only to the
right fair house" at Chelsea.
GOPHER HUNTING IN IowA.-The people in
Iowa are troubled by an underground ami
NAL of the genus squirrel, called gopher
This branch of the population was ordered
in the county of Muscatine to g disperse"
within twenty days or abide the consequences
which are detailed Not gopher moved
from his hole, and reward Of twenty cents
was offered-not for their heads, but for their
tails. All the boys and old women in the
country turned out on big gopher hunt
Their motto was "go for 'em," and they
went Thousands OF luckless animals were
scalped in the tail. Whether the bodies were
killed or permitted to live, that new tail is
worth twenty cents 'and the ''rise of the
market" might go out and gladden. the hearts
of the people, the press saith not. Since
last January sixteen thousand seven hundred
and seventy two gopher tails have been pre-
sented at the county seat, and disbursements
made accordingly, amounting to little over
thirty. three hundred dollars. Another county
paid out in one year over eight thousand
dollars for the same luxury The war Of
determination, though. is pronounced q
failure.
AN ExrINcF RAcE.-One of the most re.
markable races that ever inhabited the earth
Is now extinct. They were known as the
Gaunches and were tie aborigincs of the
Canary Islands. In the sixteenth century,
pestilence. slavery, and the cruelty of the
Spaniards, succeeded in totally exterminating
them. They are described as having been
gigantic in stature, but of singularly mild
and gentle nature. Their food consisted of
barley. wheat, and goats milk; ard their
agriculture was Of the rudest kind. They
had a religion which taught them of future
state Of rewards and punishments after
death and of good and evil spirits They re-
garded the volcano of Teaeriffe as a punish
ment for the bad. Tho bodies of their dead
were carefully embalmed and deposited in
catacombs, which still continue to be an
object of curiosity to those who visit the
island. Their marriage rites were very
solemn, aud before engaging in them, the
brides were fattened on milk. At the pres
ent day these strange people are totally ex-
tinct
They have remarkable human curiosity
IN Kansas City, being a half woman, or a
woman without any lower limbs, and in other
respects being almost indescribable. 1t is
SAID she halls from New Mexico, where she
was found in cave, when quite young. in
company with a WOLF
IT is Sid that there are three extinct vol.
canic craters near Red Mountain CITY. in
Montana, which are so deep that the light is
entirely excluded from their depths, and that
when stone is thrown into them, no sound
can be heard of it reaching the bottom.
WHEN Sherman was marchiug through
Georgia, lady complained of his work Of
devastation. Madam" said the General.
what have done in Georgia is nothing to
what shall do in South Carolina Madam,
if crow flies over my track in South Caro-
lima, he will have to take his rations with
him."
A NANTUCKET urchin tied his mother
ball Of yarn to a table-fork, and hove it into
the cat. Puss spat and sputtered and