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which could lead to the supposition that it
contained green fields and lovely verdure like
the beautiful world OF ours. There was no
water yisible,-not a sea or river, or even the
measure Of a reservoir for supplying town
or factory. All seemed desolate.
Sir David Brewster makes the following
remarks relative to the sun SO strong has
been the belief that the sun cannot be hab-
liable world, that a scientific gentleman was
pronounced by his medical attendant insane,
because he had sent paper to the Royal So
cietysin which he maintained that the light
Of the sun proceeded from dense and uni
versal aura, which may afford ample light to
the inhabitants beneath, and yet be at such
distance aloft as not to be among them
that there may be water and dry land there,
hills and dales, rain and fair weather, and that
as the light and the seasons must be eternal,
the sun may easily be conceived to be by far
the most blissful habitation Of the whole sys-
TEN. In less than ten years after this appa-
rently extayagant notion was considered as a
proof OF insanity, it was maintained by Sir
William Herschel as a rational and proba-
bic opinion, which might be deducible from
his own observations on the structure Of the
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This was the cause Of all the trouble
LosT.-On the 10th instant. small Ter
rier dog. with brass collar upon his neck,
and the tip Of his tail gone. Answers to the
name Of Jack" Five dollars rewcrd viii
be given TO the person who returns him to
John Quill. No 81 Rlc5ETr Row.
inserted the above in the Daily FHgfap
IN the hope that | might recover the animal
to which | was much attached. The F7ipfaP
goes TO press at n. IN. At halfpast six
was awakened by pull at my docr-bell. I
got out and opened the window. As | looked
out saw man standing in my front yard
with a mongrel dog. tied to a rope. He
gazed up and observed
Hello, are you the fellow who lost a
dog?'
Yes am
We'll, then, I've fetched him, said the
man.
then explained to this wretched human
being that my dog was terrier. while his
looked more like a log of wood with half the
bark off and propped up on four sticks, than
a dog of any kind.
Well, amt you a going to take him?'
/ wouldn't have have him as a gift. And
want you to move off now, or III call the
police
Now, guess you think your smart, don't
you? I'd bust You over the Jaw for FIVE
cents, would You don't know a good dog
when you see him, you don't, and he went
out, after ripping the palings off the fence
In about half hour there was another
ring at the bell. went down. There was
a man with six dogs of variety of breeds.
= IL, : >. l. l, 7
said this fellow, for be suffered as if he
would strangle on small syllable.
Neither Of them
'Y-you said his n-na name was J-Jack.
d-didn't you?
Yes, that's it.
'w-well then, wh-wh-wbat dye call that?
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Tke Fatal irrOW.

My father had a fair-haired harvester
CLEANED behind him in the barley-land;
And there he put red rose in my hand;
U cruel, killing leaves those rose-leaves were!
lie sung to me little lovelorn lay,
Learned Of some bird; and while his sickle
swept
=, Athwart the shining stalks, my wild heart kept
beating the tune up with him all the way.
one time We rested by limpid stream,
er ~hien the loose-tongued willows whis-
=. An blessed h-ur! so long and long ago,
II eometh back upon me like dream.
And there he told me, bIushing soft-ah me.
W one that he could loye,-so young. so fair,
Like mine the color Of her hair;
o foolish heart! thought that was shei
Full flowed his manly beard; his eyes so brown
Made sweet confession with their tender look.
A thousand times | kissed him in the brook.
Across the fowers,--with bashful eyelids down.
And even yet cannot hear the stir
Of willows by a water but stop,
And down the warm waves all their length
drop
My empty arms, to find my harvester.
In all his speech there was no word to mend:
Whate'cr he said, or right or wrong, was bc>t.
Jntil NJ last an crroJr pierced my breast,
IIpt with fatal point,-he called me friepft
Still next my heart the fading rose / wore.
But all so sal; full well | knew. God w0t,
That had been in love and he had not.
And in the barley-deldl CLEANED no more
.flice Carsy.
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personal.

Ole Bull Is finishing bis htor- in this country
for the present, and gives his flrcwel concert at
New York, May %.
Professor Morley has completed the second Sc,
Of his Tables Of English Literature Thi- set
reaches from 400 20 1926 a. D.
John Russell Young. late Of tIe rraaae. &,
70 De Jay Cooke IS Co.'S financial agent in
Europe Mr.. Wh.;eaw Reil takes his place in
the Tribune office.
Mr.. A r. C0rbin, a retired millionaire Of New
York, was recently married to Miss Jennie Grant
sister Of the President Of the United S;ates.
Professor John Bsscom, who has for several
years been Professor Of Rhetoric at Williams Col
lege has resigned on account of poor health.
Mr.. Casonoya. who was imprisoned and hal
his property conhscatel in Cuba. asks # Slcre-
tary Fsh to demand restitution Of the property
as that Of IA American citizen
Tho new State Librarian Of Michigan IS a laly,
Mrs. Tenuy, wife of Pr. .fessor Teuuy the former
Librarian She became accustomed 70 the duties
Of the position during the absence or sickness Of
her husband for many years, and is said to be-
thoroughly qualidel-
Mr.. Sumner is said TO be much amused by the
latest comments Of the London press, which have
come down from the highly respectful tone in
which they first spoke Of him. He expects soon
to hear that they regard him as the leader Of the
Fenians.
Walter Phillips. night o. erl,or in the Office #
the Western Union Telegraph Company at Prov
idence, r. l., has received letter from Profts~-
or Morse, with gold peaeil case and pen, ''as a
token Of admiration for his mastery Performance
Of recor ling 273l words IN one hour"
AIRS. strah Cook died in Fall River OF Satur-
day at the 1ge Of one hundred years, seven
months and y days She was a woman Of fine
Christian character Her death was not caused
by diselse 6u, by the simple exhaustion Of the
powers Of nature, and she passed. away as if fall
ing asleep.
Hester Vaughn. who was tried and convicted
Of murder in the first degree, and sentenced 10 be
hanged. FIR the murder Of her child, has At
length been pardoned by Governor Geary of
Pennsylvania. There were some circumstances
connected with this case which excited unusual
sympathy at the time of the conviction.
Jacob L. Bowmun, or CLANS Patrick Ie Bon
nor died a few days since in the Sisters HIS
pitll at St Louis, rtving lunatic For some
weeks previous he had shown insanity, leading
large monkey about the streets by a chain, and
imagining himself Shylock, threatening strangers
with huge knife In hospital he became 50 vi
oent that it was necessary to festrain him with
irons.
Fred Douglass son, over whom the Washing
ton typographical union is so severely exercised,
learned his trade inhis fathers office at Roches-
ter; y. Y in 1872, where he continued until
1862, when be went into the 9th Massachusetts,
volunteers as sergeant major He took par; in the
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Mrs Dp Warm GETS s1,-- Anyr-r The
-. g ...--- - -, .-----...-..
1''' I'll I'd
municaie, under which the Washington correspon
dents suffer nowadays Is s.rikingly shown In the
,--..,,,, ~ s-,,.. ,vri.b ,r-s DR. 1T.-. p wsr.-
er' the boomer ana al'en' n''it77' is '--'"e- i"
fill. in their letters and iespl-ches. Sc Pcr-ey '
tell, .bs last warn af,ut her. which Is really
amusing
To-day she sought admission TO the -com #
Commissioner Fisher Of the Patent Ofi.e for an
interview. and while awaiting a response To- her
c,rI the venerable Mrs. Ger. Gaiue. EMERGED
from the Commissioners room. and after eve.u-
Mrs. Walkers peculiar blo1mcr clrb for - few
mon ents. acc8stei her with the Question
..I- this Mrs Or. Walker
Mrs. Walker repliel afiruat.vely.
Mr. Gaines VIII you allow me 60 give a
piece Of advice
Mrs. Walker will not pav ANYTHING for
your advice, but if it is given freely | Will be
hcppv 10 receive it.
Mrs. Gaines-s.I snail make No charge. and
if YOU act upon it. YOU will be benefited bv it.
Mrs. Walker intimatei her readiness TO hear
what was 20 de said
Mrs. Gaiues-.s Well. nv advice /. 10 60 home
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The NOON AND THE sUN.-In an account
which DR.. Scoresby has given of some recent
observations made with the Earl Of Ross tel
escopes. be says With respect to the
moon, every object on its surface of one hun
dred feet in height was now distinctly to be
seen, and we had no doubt that, under favor
able circumstances, it would be so with OBJ
iects sixty feet in height. On its surface
were craters of extinct volcanoes, rocks, and
masses of stones almost innumerable. lie
had no doubt that if such building as he
was then in were upon the surface OF the
moon, it would be rendered dist nctly visl-
ble by these instruments. But there are no
signs of habitations such as ours {; no vestige
of architecture remains to show that the
moon is inhabited by race of mortals SIM
liar to ourselves. II presents no appearance
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Solitude.

IL Is not that my lot is low
That makes this silent tear to dow.
IL Is not grief that bids me moan;
II Is that | am all alone.
In woods and glens love to roam.
When tired hedger Ries him home.
Or by the woodland pool tl rest,
When pale the star looks on It's breast
Yet when the silent evening sich-
With hal,owel air anl symphonic,
My spirit takes another tone,
And signs that it is al alone.
The autumn leaf Is sere and dead
II floats upon the water bel,
| would not he a leaf, 20 iie
Without recording Sorrow sigh
The woods and winds, with -u'leu S4,l.
Tel all the same UNMARRIED tale,
I've none TO smile when I am free.
And when | sigh 90 sigh with me
Yet in my dreams a form view,
That thinks on me, and loves me Too.
start, and when the vision. TOWN.
weep that am al alone.
Henry Ei..s White
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A dentist in Vienna recently supplied Madame
de B., lady well known in fashionable circles,
with a splendid set Of false teet1, worth about
500, and waited with exceeding patience for
payment Finding that the lady made no
sign" he applied, after three months had elapsed
from the date Of delivery. by letter for the dis
charge of his claim. No answer. fortnight
later he wrote again, in somewhat stronger Ian
guage, but received as little notice Of his second
as Of his first application. Determined to have
his money, and to be even with Madame de B.
for her discourtesy, he inserted in
small suburban paper the following ad-
vertisement I" \ magnificent set Of self-ad-
justing enamelled teeth to be sold dirt-cheap.
They are daily on view in the mouth Of Mad
anne de B. [full name1, Stadt, So and so-street,
No" Then he cut out tire slip, and en-
closed it to the fair deiaultsr in an envelope.
Two hours after his bill was paid. and Madame
de B. hoped, as the paper in which the adver-
tisement appeared was an insignificant one, that
she had heard the last Of her bargain but the
leading journals of Vienna have got hold Of the
story, and no teeth have made such a sensation
since Cadmus's famous crop.
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& rurEish Bac-a-isnc.

Ola Uassan was tishermau,-
A Mus-ulmsn was he,-
Though cnmar5us in tie market place,
Too selfish he could be.
Though honest, he " hooked all he could,
With net gains he was gay,
And though his hands were filed with scale
He never had his way.
For he and other fishermen
Paid 10 the Sultan's purse
4 trihute-hut they turned and Si'd.
This Is the Bo--phor-us.
To Mecca turning oft he called
The prophets aid IN vain,-
To make a call for profits, that
His ncighbors though insane.
When once about the close of day,
His own clothes nearly gone,
He thought TO try his nets and see
II he should longer mourn
The nets came slowly iu 60 shore.
Filled with a heavy weight,
And Hasslu, though no hsl ave -rh'
His hope does not ahA'e.
Fo- IN his net there lay "a sick
The Sultau's seal II bore
Was Z TO in-sult-an honest man,
Fate sends this to the shore,
He bore 10 20 the monarch straight,
Though meath the load DE bent,
The Satan in the palace was
On business. though in-tent
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YIN, l., L hIDA MIN
/ says he, as he sung out Jack, and the
whole six degs looked up and wagged their
/ tails like a lot of spawned oxen in fly time,
Why, call it confounded nonsense to
/ expect me to take the whole six dogs because
they're named Sick. I don't want to start
sausage mill, you understand. Mince meat
ism in my line.
'W-w-well, amt you going to take HIM p
Certainly not, do you suppose am glib
bering idiot?,
'W-w-w-well, you sh-shant have him now
if you want him. | w-w-wouldn't trust a
decent d-dog with m-m-man like you, any
way
And the six CANNES fell into line and trot-
down the street after him
had not got fairly into the house before
there was another ring. Seedy looking man
with a semi decayed yellow dog. His ribs
stuck out so, that he looked as if he had
gorged himself with a spiral spring.
You advertised for dog believe Well,
| caught him around here in the alley, after
a desperate struggle. Fine dog, sir
W ell, don think he is. lie looks to
me as if be wasn't well. He is too ethereal
for this world, young man, depend upon it.
Not all, sir. Only shedding bis coat, sir;
all good dogs do that at this time Of the year.
See that sir said this seety Caucasian,
holding the dog by the cuff of the neck See
how he yelps that's sign Of pluck that
dog would fight a million Wild cats, he would,
and lick EN- too, sir
Get outr l exclaimed. and the dog put
his tail between his legs and ran from the
gate.
See that sir see thatl' said the man, as
he seized him, that's a sign he's well trained;
no raw dog behaves like that, want you to
know. Now s'pose you fork over that five
Not much | don't want MIN my
friend
You won't DO it, Well then take him
for seventy five cents, and say no more about
it. He's a valuable animal. You'll never
get another such a chance
8 tell you ! won't have him
Well. don't them said the man, as he
kicked the animal over my fower-pots and
broke three of them, while the brute dashed
madly down the middle of the street.
Just then a big ruihan in a slouch hat came
mp with bulldog, sprung in the knees, and
lamenting the loss Of his tail When the
ruiiian spoke to him be waggcd the whole Of
the last half cf him.
I've brought that there dog, was the OBJ
scrvation made by the ruihan, and I'll fin
ger them there stamps, l reckon
Ny friend, said /, that is not my dog
les, it is, though.
But it Is not.
Don't | tell YOU it is Didn't You say
the tip of bis tail was gone? Wen, Just look
D.
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In hlng street, London. IL. or was some
years ago. " Randalls Commercial board
ing-housc," a iay0ritc q. 81. for
American travellers. Many Englishmen
also frequent it, finding the taile d'h0fc more
agreeable than the usual private dinners OF
the English hotels. Some years ago among
the guests was the genial and eloquent DR..
NJ 'Clintock, and party Of friends, and our
crergymen, whom | Will call the Rev Luke
Robbins. though that was not his name.
One day Mac''-as be is iamiliarly called,
Doctor Of Divinity though he be-said TO
the Reverend Luke:
@ Mr.. Robbins, had hoped to have been
able TO offer YOU treat this evening. \ field
night j, expected in the House Of Lords
expected to have had three orders for admiss-
ion to the gallery, one Of which was to be
for you. Unfortunately could get only
two-so | cannot ask You 10 Join us
'' ! am much obliged to You, but an 60
ing to the Lords this evening"
81 Indeed How did You get your orier2"
.' have no order
Then You cannot be admitted to the gal
lery."
IL am not going to the gallery. l shall
20 upon the 1oor.
IS impossible. No one is admitted there
rrlsss t,cr;,llv introduced bv n Peer
~Ob I've travelled bef5re and never
f,rrd o1y 5ifFrnlr, m -.ir,r .,rbore / wished
Nou'E see me there
v'1iintact and his friend made tbc;7 yrav
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a ,rr,-r Al ,rt,rr,vs oV , gyrnurv,- ror-B
mt S1,.rr~r yC7f,,,- Hfrr, or pe
Si,,.,,i5,
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'-'
correspondent in the south. The letter is dated
New Orleans. Nav srh.
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81 I.;,,-.--, in tba ,,rlir,,. .L0,reI t5s.
they meant .. mischief and were Jus, starting
out on Their welding tour. &c Would YOU Ike a
berth. sir said the lively, Jo.ly-hcei couiuct-
or Il the miserable sleeping car " No, slr-l
rg19n-ls may ue-ihat amt what We want
stammerei the bridegroom. Haint you got no
bridal chamber ou this ere kear
" Oh, the bridal chamber ~ exclaimed the
conductor. ' Come tins way, SIR.
The couple went tremb.ingiy through the car
90 the q" state room. which looked about as
much Ike a state room ou a Northern sleeping
car AS a cell iu the country jail appears like the
Parker House Farl0r
Does that door shut up" " auxiously in
quired the bridegroom.
Oh, yes. Sc how it slides, said the con-
ductor.
" But I'm logged if I see any place 20 sleep,
suggested the applicant for the chamber.
oh. we'll fix that, If you Will be seated, :"
said the conductor, pointing TO a low, hard sofa
on the opposite side Of the car. close TO the head
Of our curtarned couch.
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For the Burlington Weekly Free Pres
y,ne. G, Revelation viii' ia.

. So then because thou art lus'
thee out of nv mouth.
r,,,,,v,rr, souls. the foe grows sirons'i'
-, rba. hosts your camp snil0'"-'
,--0 q, hattie; lag no longer
-, ~ ,l,s silver trumpets souhi-
-. nm. \. srsspers wake, what mean yoN
" .,o' IN L.sats YOU round about,
"a o.r .s,reh. the world within you
: siav. i,l,- or chase the traitor out
v,,t encbsnts you, sloth or pleasure!
Pine, right ewes, with right hands part
81 Tour conscience, where's your treasure'
''r ~ he certain there's your heart.
Give the fawning foe no credit
So the bloody flag unfurled
4.,t base heart, the truth hath siii H.
ives not God that loves the world
God and Mammoui 0, be wiser
Serve them both . it cannot ne
Ease in warfare. saint in mlser,
This can never Wei agree.
s1rn the shame Of basely falling,
rumberel captiyes clogged with clay,
r--re vour faith make sure your calling,
Weld the sword, and win the day
onward press, toward perfection,
Watch and pray, aud al things pro'e'
SEEK TO know your own election,
Set YOUR heart on things above.
SHun hackslidinC, scorn dissemhms'
10 salvation near in view
Work it out with fear and trembling
'Tis your God that works in You
South Burlington, May Isl, l'o'.
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STATE OF THE SOUTH.

''what do you think of the war - asked we.
. Do you see in it the hand of God?''
"No, sir not at all. The devil and the YAM
KEGS produced that awful disaster''
"Don't you, as a Presbyterian, believe that
Gods hand Is connected with all the changes
and events Of life"
We'll can't exactly say; cannot see how
no, no, sir; the devil conducted the affairs osthe
late war, aided by his satellites, the Yankees"
4" am little surprised at your doctrine, for
I cannot but believe that God permitted this
bloodshed in order that many things might be
accomplished, and one of those things was the ex-
tinction of slavery
"Ha ha ! ha no no laughed he; ''is
that your doctrine? That is the most damna-
BILE and inconsistent doctrine ever suggested.
Why1 The niggers were better of in every
particular; had more pleasure, more money,
were better members of the community as slaves,
and God decreed that they should be slaves, and
when the Yankees freed them they ignored the
Bible and a curse is now coming upon them. )"
"What curse?"
"Whyl The race is running out. Talk
about educating the nigger when the civiliza-
ton you have in the North is cursed Of God
The women Of the civilized Yankee don't have
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Ofthe forty members Of the French Academy
only four are actively at work upon the great
task of the Academy, namely, the writing of the
great Dietionnairs de p.AcGdsnis. This IS one
Of the causes why the dictionary progresses 50
very slowly.
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motion m Of his body. He heard the steps Of
his betrothed behind him.
- Robert! What are you doing? am
faint with fear. Help me - she exclaimed,
stretched her arms toward him and tainted.
He heard her fall in the grass, and would
have yielded to the impulse of his better
nature to turn and succor her, had not the
village clock in the valley at that moment
struck midnight. The last stroke found
him kneeling and leaning forward, peering
intently into the rank grass, with drops Of
perspiration falling from his brow As the
chime Of the bell ceased, before him among
the herbs appeared the pale spo. Of light
like flake Of snow among some strawberry
leaves. Immediately all anxiety left his
breast, and was replaced by joyful expecta-
ton. He thought over the words he had
to repeat, and the husky voice whispered
them slowly into his ear. lie stepped for
ward over the Pickering light and said in a
low tone
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NATIVE A1ABAu,Ss oN A WEDDING TOUR.
Hiqi q Southern Minister think, o. the
Situation.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-08-11
$4,000 REWARD.


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q splenaid steam FIGURING and Sawmil, To-
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All of the above We will sell at reasonable
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