Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-08-23
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per cent. on all the money / recovered,
i'll succeeded. laughed at the idea,
and listened. Five hundred dollars
was a great deal of money to begin
on. 1t would be a long time before
/ would get such s sum as medical
fee. / was interested in the story of
the robbery, and took the job pro-
fessionally Two months later L
closed it up, having recovered serenity
two thousand dollars of the money.
and received my fifteen per cent. ten
thousand eight hundred dollars, less
the five hundred dollars already paid.
On this money | set Charley Drake
up, elegantly in business, and married
him to Nellie: and put Sanford in the
way OF getting up, sending him since
large practice I'm done, sir, |
hope l havn't bored you with the ac-
count of my first case p Appleton's
Journal.
The BLACKBIRD.-When black
bird once learns tune he never for
gets it, nor any part of it. once
knew bird that could whistle 'Pol-s
ly Hopkins with wonderful accuracy.
His owner sold him, at the same time
making the purchaser acquainted
with the birds favorite tune. AS
soon as the gentleman got him home,
he hung up the bird, and going to the
piano. struck up "Polly Hopkins. r.
The birds master, however, introduc-
ed parts into the tune that he had
never heard before; so, after listening
awhile he began kissing, 1uttering his
wings, and otherwise signifying his
distaste for the whole performance.
Much surprised, the gentleman left off
playing, and then the bird opened his
throat, and favored his new master
with his version of Polly Hopkins"
nor would he ever listen with pa
tience to any other version.
This same blackbird after staying
in the service Of the aforementioned
gentleman for two years, was adopt-
ed by serious family, where, Polly
Hopkins" and all such profanity were
sedulously avoided. Wherever poor
"Joe" (the birds name) attempted to
strike up the old tune, cloth was
thrown over the cage, and he was ST.
fenced. The family consisted of an
old lady and her two daughters. aud
every night, at 7 o'clock. prayers
were read and the Evening Hymn
sung, and Joe, who was an obedient
bird, and anxious to conform TO the
habits of the house, speedily learned
the tune and regularly whistled it
while the old lady and her daughters
sang it. This went on for six or sew
en- years, when the mother died and
the daughters separated, and Joe, now
an aged blackbird, fell into new hands,
but to his dying day he never gave
up the Evening Hymn" Punctually
as the clock struck he tuned up,
and went through it with the gravity
of parish clerk. 1 4
A CHANCE FOR "BoUNTY-JUMPERs. !"
That enterprising class of persons
who did so good a business in en-
listing as "substitutesn during our late
contest receiving big bounty and
then deserting almost before they got
the uniform on will find Paris to be a
very fruitful field in which to resume
that class of business at the present
time. Wednesdays dispatches tell US
that substitutes in that city command
| e3000-ffteen hundred dollars in
| gold-and they are scarce at those
rates, If this is the scale in the third
or fourth week of the war, what will
it be after the war has been prosecuted
two or three months, especially if the
French army should experience a
severe defeat? It might be well for
this class of recruits of whom New
{ York could 40 doubt furnish several
regiments, and other cities pro-
portionate number, to secure passage
=. for Paris at once, in order to take ad.
vantage of any rise in the market.
They could be very well spared, and
: their departure would not be greatly
f regretted. E