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Anccdote OF Finn. the Actor.

Many OF our readers of the last gen.
Grafton will remember Finn, the favorite
comedian and accomplished gentleman.
lie was among the lost of the Inflated
steamer Lexington, which was burned
IN Long Island Sound on the night of
Jan. IL, 1910. Once, while q member
of the old Federal Street Theater COM
pany OF Boston, Finn was called as q
witness in an important case before the
Court OF Common Pleas, and his testi-
mony was so direct and conclusive in
behalf OF the prosecution that the coun-
sci Tor the defense resorted to the repre-
hensible trick of blackmailing-for
surely that system of dragging q mans
private affairs to the public gaze so often
practlced III our courts deserves no bet
ter name. 1t was thought necessary, in
order to weaken this mans testimony.
that his character should be impeached.
Mr.. Finn, said the counsel, assum-
ing look of severe sanctimony, "you
live in Pearl street, do you not ?'
eyes, 1 do" answered the comedian,
frankly.
"You have lived there some time?"
Yes, several years"
"Does not female live with YOU in
the same house, and under your protec-
tien ?"
cit is so, sir"
"Does she bear your name %
She is known, sir, by the name of
Mrs. Finn"
"Is she yonr wife %
"No sir she is not.
"That will do, sir; l have no more
to ask"
The lawyer waved his hand, and would
have turned to the jury, but Finn ut
tered word and gave him look that
held him suddenly spellbound.
Hold, sir - said the actor, with a
flash that was awful in its majestic wrath
and scorn. 81 have something more to
answer. The Mrs. Finn of whom you
have been pleased to speak so unseem-
ingly is the woman to whom L owe my
life and my joy-the woman who sus-
tanned my infancy and led me kindly
and lovingly through the years of my
boyhood-dY MOTHER In all the years
of my pilgrimage L have known but one
man base enough to breathe anght
against her. You, sir, know who that
is ! She has protected me in all love
and tenderness, and L, in turn, will pro-
tect her. Poor, miserable reptile !
down from my sight, and never again
tempt me as you have this day done p
1t was as good as play. The baffied
counselor, shamefaced and trembling,
absolutely skunk out of sight and when
Finn appeared in the street he had hard
work to prevent the people from taking
him upon their shoulders and bearing
him off in triumph.-Nea0 York Ledger.
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II is Better.

Better to wear q calico dress without
trimming, if it is paid for, than to owe
the shop-keeper for the most elegant
silk, cut and trimmed in the most be-
witching manner.
Better to live in log cabin all your
own than a brown stone mansion belong
ing to somebody else.
Better walk forever than to run in
debt for horse and carriage.
Better to sit by the pine table for
which you paid three dollars ten years
ago, than send home new extension
black walnut top, and promise to pay
for 1t next week.
Better to use the old cane-seated
chairs and faded two-ply carpet than
tremble at the bills sent home from the
upholsterer's for the most elegant parlor
set ever made.
Better to eat thin soup from earthern-
ware, if you owe your butcher nothing,
than to dine off lamb and roast beef
and know that it does not belong to you.
Better to let your wives have fit Of
Mysteries than to run in debt for nice
new furniture, or clothes, or jewelry.
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Happy End OF n Boys Struggle.

The following story, related by San
Francisco paper, is full of romantic in
interest: 1.-Two years ago q widow of
London apprenticed her son to the cap
tain of an English steamer plying be-
tween London and India. During
several trips made by the vessel the boy
was very badly treated by the captain.
Not long since the steamer came to this
port, and while on the voyage the lad
barely escaped being killed by the cap
tain.
On more than one occasion similar
treatment was extended to the men of
the crew, and during the stay of the YES
sci here several of the crew deserted,
and induced the boy to leave also. One
of the sailors, whose sympathy had
been engaged in the boys welfare, pro-
cured home for him with kind lady
i'll the southern part of the city. This
lady has since provided for him, and
has been as q mother to him.
One week ago she saw card in q
newspaper asking for an errand boy at
the drug store of Messrs. Painter &
Calvert, corner of Clay and Kearny
streets. She brought the boy to the
store herself and stated his circumstan-
ces to the druggists firm, and her rela-
ton to him, and he was set to work at
the store next day. He has been work
ing there for the past week, and has
attended to his duties so intelligently
and faithfully that the proprietors have
been highly pleased with him.
The other morning he received two
letters from London-one from his
mother and the other from lawyer
employed by the executors of his grand
fathers estate. These letters informed
him that through the decease of that
relative he has been made sole heir of
$50, 600 or $3.50, 900. They also inform
him that in few days money will be
sent to pay his passage to London.
He says that he will retain his place
in the drug Atore till that money comes,
and he was as diligent as usual during
the day. He is fourteen years of age,
and apparently deserving in every way
of his good fortune.
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be fitted also for the successful culture
of all ordinary crops. BY this means
the mineral constituents of the subsoil
become thoroughly intermixed with the
soil of the surface, which, in conse-
quence of oft.repeated shallow plowings,
has been depleted of them.
To make good soil by tt method,
the blowing should be d le in the
summer or fall, in order tb the newly
turned up subsoil may + subjected to
the ameliorating influences of the heat
and showers of summer and winters
freezings and thawing. But after all
this is done it will be found that good
crops cannot be produced unless there
is liberal application of manure. Plow
deep and manure generously and you
will have good soil and bountiful yield.
1t is bad policy to pillow deep when there
is only thin stratum of mould or mel
low soil, and to bury this mellow por-
ton far beneath the surface.-M Y
Herald.
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Sleep as a Medicine.

The cry for rest has always been
louder that the cry for food. Not that
it is more important, but it is often
harder to obtain. The best rest comes
from sound sleep. OF two men or two
women, otherwise equal the one who
sleeps the best will be the most moral,
healthy and efficient. Sleep will restore
to vigor an overworked brain. 1t will
build up and make strong weary body.
1t will cure n headache. 1t will cure
the heart-ache. 1t will cure broken
spirit. 1t will cure sorrow. Indeed, we
might make long list of nervous and
other maladies that seep will cure. The
cure of sleeplessness requires a clean,
good bed, sufficient exercise to produce
WEAKNESS, pleasant occupation, good air
and not too warm room, clear stom-
ach, clear conscience, and avoidance of
stlmulants and narcotics. For those who
and are overworked, haggard, nervous,
who pass sleepeless nights, we commend
the adoption of such habits as shall Sc
cure sleep; otherwise life will be short,
and what there is of it sadly imperfect
Science of Heath.
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Varieties.
A LOST ART-Domestic economy.

A LOST ART-Domestic economy.
The best substitute for character
Cheek.
BRIGHT and shining ights-The little
bootblacks.
A PAPER "MILL "A fight between
rival journals.
WHY is the sun like a good loaf? Be
cause it is light when it rises.
AN old lady thinks the Bonds must be
family of strong religious instincts,
because she hears of so many of them
being converted. s-: r: ,.,.....
A YOUNG Irishman told a sweet Cork
girl (fesh and blood not made of stopper)
that the following was photography
~ r. A b U Il, L N"
"THE strongest propensity in O
woman's nature" says surly editor,
els desire to know what is going on,
and the next is to boss the job"
/. NEVER get up in bad humor.
2. Never eat in bad humor.
3. Never go to bed in bad humor.
4. Never get in bad humor at all.
A sEA-CAPTAIN, invited to meet the
committee of society for the evangeli-
zation of Africa, when asked, "Do the
subjects of the King of Dahomey keep
Sunday ?" replied, eyes, and everything
else they can lay their hands on.
A PIoUs, but uneducated Judge,
closed a sentence with the following
touching reproach: Prisoner at the
bar, nature has endowed you with a
good education and respectable family
connections, instead of which you go
round the country stealing ducks.
A LUD1cRoUs mistake happened some
time ago at funeral in Marylebone.
The clergyman had gone on with the
service until he came to that part which
saws, "Our deceased brother or sister"
without knowing whether the deceased
was naoleor female. Returned to one of
the mourners and asked whether it was
a brother or sister. The man very inno-
Gently replied, "No relation at all, sir;
only an acquaintance"
THERE was a pale, attenuated man,
with a countenance of vigorous sadness,
in the baggage car of Housatonic
train on Friday. He was sitting on an
ended trunk, swinging his legs. OPP
posite him, on another trunk, was O
iarge-sized man, extracting the fainting
fragrance of very short cigar. The
large man glanced at the thin man, and
the thin man, being under the impression
that he might hear something to his adj
vantage. looked at the large man. Their
the large man drew forth fresh cigar
and silently extended it to the thin man,
whereupon the thin man jumped briskly
down to accept it, and the large MAJ
deliberately put it in his own mouth
and as deliberately applied the lighted
stub to it's end. Then the thin man got
back on his trunk again, and stared very
hard at the large man.-Danbo~y Neacs
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Victor EmmanuePs AbstemiOusness.

Twenty-four hours on horseback
tire me less than single hour of court
etiqnette," once remarked Victor En-
manuel to an Austrian diplomat. This
expression is not surprising in the
mouth of man who leads so frugal
life as the Re Galantuomo. The King
drinks nothing but cup of black coffee
for his breakfast, and what he eats dur
ing the day is so little that his atten-
dants may well say he fasts until toward
night. Late in the evening the King
takes his only substantial meal, which
consists of three courses and bottle of
red wine. At the State dinners got up
in his honor he attends merely as mat
ter of form, rarely touching any dish.
The reason for this abstemiousness is
said to be that the moment he departs
from it he is overcome by sleep.
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Greeley as a Filibuster Chief.

On reaching California, Mr.. Greeley
discovered that the military authorities
of Mexico were in arms against him.
Some paper had published burlesque
statement, at the time the journalist
was travelling over the plains, that he
was coming to California to take CON-
mand of all the flibusters, and to in
wade and conquer Mexico. The Next
can commander at Mazatlan took this
hoax as q matter of dead earnest, and
issued solemn proclamation, warming
the people against this Horace Greeley
-" a most diabolical, bloodthirsty, and
unmerciful man." "This dangerous
man," continued the Mexican. sis not
of the common school of filibusters
they wish for plumber, he for blood
and murderous deeds. "-IngersoWs
Lite of Greetey.
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out the slightest intention of providing
for its payment.
"Collect it," said his landlady.

Out Tile sllSibcSI iubcutiou VI pTOVluluS
for its payment.
"Collect it, said his landlady.
Slope you'll have good time and be
successful" said H., with q chuckle.
"This note squares our account, in full.
You will please find other accommoda.
tons, Mr.. H., from to-day"
The landlady then proceeded to the
White House with the little document.
Good morning, madam" said Jack
son. "Did you get the note?"
"Oh, yes, sir. He was very ready.
But he laughs at me for being so easily
satisfied with his promise to pay"
The President took the note, turned
it over, seized his pen, and wrote across
the back of it, boldly, "Andrew Jack
son."
"There, madam" he added, briefly.
"Put this in the Washington Bank for
collection. You've got good indorser,
Mt all events. The note will be paid at
maturity. Good morning."
The lady did as she was advised. II.
was duly notified that his note for two
hundred and ten dollars was due in bank
on certain day. He smiled.
But got good mans name on the
back of it," said the widow, cheerfully.
did you, indeed Who was fool
enough to indorse my note for two hun
dred ?" asked the clerk cavalierly.
And out of mere curiosity, on the day
the note fell due he proceeded to the
bank to see who the fool was and
found it be no less parsonage than
Andrew Jackson.
He didn't laugh now.
The note was paid promptly He
could not afford to permit the President
name to go to protest.
The widow got the money in full. He
got other lodgings. And three days
after the note was paid, Mr.. H. received
the following brief missive, which ex
planned matters, but did not set the
flashy young man forward much
+" TREASURER DEPARTMENT,
WASHINGTON, ID. c., 1873
"MR. l.. H.; SIR-Your services as
clerk in the -th Auditors Office will
not be required after this date. BY or
der of the President Yours, etc.
e Secretary, ETC."
II. "saw the point" and was not c
little chagrined. Still he declared, CT
was something for young fellow to be
able to have so good an indorser !"
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The recent session of the Evangelical
Alliance in New York seems to have
opened Pandora's box. The letter of
DR.. Tozer, commenting upon the pro-
priety of the action of the Dean of Can
terbury in communing with Presbyteri-
ans and other sects, has already been
published. The Dean of Canterbury,
however, was not singular in this
respect. On Sunday last, Rev. DIR.
Freemantle, of the Church of England,
communed with the Presbyterians of
the University Place Church, New York,
and Bishop Cummings, of Kentucky, at
one time Rector of Trinity Church in
this city, has not only done the same
thing, but openly boasts it will not be
the last time. The action of these clergy
men has caused great excitement in
church circles, and, as it concerns two
denominations, we may expect o long
and tedious discussion in the Presbyte.
rian and Episcopalian Papers on church
proprieties. -Chicago Tribune.
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FENCE PosTs.-A writer in the Vest
crn Rural says: "Take boiled linseed
OIL, and stir in pulverized charcoal to
the consistency of paint. Put coat of
tins over the timber, and there is not a
man who will live long enough to see it
rotten. have taken out Eastwood
posts, after having been set seven years,
that were as sound as when first put
into the ground. The posts can be pre-
pared for less than two cents apiece. -
Ihey should be well seasoned before the
oil and charcoal are applied.
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TO CORRESPONDENCE.

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BE particularly careful in giving names and dates 10
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HE rallying cry in Kansas, upon
which newspapers of divers views are
unanimous, is: Let no man be elected
to Office who owes over five years sub
scription to local paper"
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your fortune !" And she led him to the
window and gave him kiss.
His friends kept their promise, and
furnished him with money. He went
into the service of the Gar, fought in
the battle of Pultowa, and acquired name
and honor. Afterward, when Denmark
needed him, he returned home, and be-
came mighty man of the army and of
the Kings council. One day he entered
the professors plain room, and ii was
not the professor he wished to see this
time either, it was again his daughter,
Ingeborg Winding, who gave him the
kiss-the Inauguration of his fortune.
A fortnight after, Paul Vendelo Loeven-
dern Nyon-eagle) celebrated his we'd
ding.
THE GOOD PROMISE.
The enemy once made great attack
on the Danish Island of Funen. One
village only was spared; but this was
also soon to be sacked and burned
Two poor people lived in low-studded
house in the outskirts of the town. 1t
was dark winter evening; the enemy
was expected; and in their anxiety they
took the Book of Psalms, and opened
it to see if the psalms which they first
met would render them aid or comfort.
They opened the book, and turned to
the psalm, 4" A mighty fortress is our
God" Full of confidence they sang it;
and, strengthened in faith, they went to
bed and slept well, kept 10y Lord s
guardianship. When they awoke in the
morning, it was quite dark in the room,
and the daylight could not penetrate
they went to the door but could not
open it. Then they mounted the loft,
got the trap-door open, and saw that it
broad daylight; but a heavy drift of
snow had, in the night, fallen upon the
whole house and hidden it from the
enemy, who, in the night time, had pill
LACED and burned the town. Then they
clasped their hands in thankfulness, and
repeated the psalm, ga mighty fortress
is our God - The Lord had guarded
them, and raised an intrenchment OF
snow around them. Hans Christian
andersen.
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Danish Popular Legends.

Denmark is rich in old legends of his
torical persons, churches and manors,
of hills, of fields and bottomless moors
sayings from the days of the great
plague, from the time of war and peace.
The sayings live in books and on the
tongues of the people they fly fan
about like a flock of birds, but still are
as different from one another as the
thrush is from the owl, as the wood
pigeon from the gull. Listen to me
and l will tell you some of them.
New Orleans Republican., 1873-03-11

DY CHARLES f. FORTIER, AUCTION.
D eer-Office No. 81 Exchange !ey.-SATUR-
DAY, April 5, 1873, at twelve O'Clock NJ, at the
St Louis Auction Exchange. on st. Louis street,
between Royal and Chartres streets, will be sold
at public auction, by virtue OF an order of the
Hon A. L Tssot, Judge of the Second District
Court for the parish OF Orleans, dated March s.
A CERTAIN LOT OF GROUND, situated in the
Second District of this city, in square No. 81
bounded by CustOmhouse Johnson, Bienville and
Galvez streets, designated by the letter A, and
measuring 3G feet inches front on Custom house
street bv depth and front on GaIvez street or "a
feet inches. together with all the buildings ana
improvements thereon. This property IS Leased
until September l. 1919, with the privilege OF Two
years more, at $32 month.
4 CERTAIN LOT OF GROUND, in the same
square as the above, designated by the letter B.
and measuring % feet front on custom house
street, by 73 feet inches in depth, together with
all the buildings aud improvements thereon.
3. A CERTAIN LOT OF GROUND. in the same
square as the above, designated by the letter {,
and measuring 27 feet inches front on GaiYe2
street, by depth of "a feet inches, together with
all the buildings and Improvements thereon,
4 A CERTAIN LOT OF GROUND, s. uated IN
letter d, and measuring % feet front on Custom
house street by LOG feet in depth together with all
the buildings and improvements thereon.
The whole according to a plan made by a. De
Armas. surveyor, dated February %, 1878.
Ttrms-One half cash, and the balance in slS
and twelve months, Tor notes secured by mort gage
with vendors lien and privilege, bearing eis hi
per cent interest from date to payment; in case o
suit the purchasers to pay five per cent lawyers
fees on the amount sued on; the buildings to be
to assume the taxes for the year 1873 over ant
above their b!da
Acts of sale before A. Hero Jr., notary public. a
the expense of the purchasers. mh6 20 ap5t
New Orleans Republican., 1873-03-11
pYC. E. GIRARDEY & CO., NICHOLAS

DY e. Z. GIRARDEY & CO., NICHOLAS
ID J. Hoev, auctioneer-Ofioe No. II Exchange
place. SATURDAY, April 5. 1873, at twelve
O'Clock M at the Merchants and Auctoneers
Exchange on Royal between Canal and Custom
thouse streets in this city of New Orleans, by vir
tsse of a Judgment in partition rendered py the
ism of Orleans in the above entitled matter on the
nineteenth day of February, 1873, will be sold by
public auction in order to effect said partition the
following described property, to wit:
l. THREE LOTS OF GROUND. with all the build
rgs and improvements thereon, situated IN Al
gers now the Fifth District of this city, in square
bounded by Delaronde, Olivier Gosseiln and Peter
streets, designated lots Nos. 3d. ii and 81 OF
square No. 2, adjoining each other, and measur-
ing each 30 feet front Delaronde street, by ll3
feet II inches in depth, between parallel lines.
2 THREE LOTS OF GROUND, with all the
Alglers now the Fifth District of this city, in
square No. l. bounded by the public road, or Pat
terson street Delaronde, Olivier and Gosselln
Streets designated lots Nos. 10. II and ~. Lots
Nos. Is aud II adjoin each other, and measure as
TO lows Lot No Is has % feet line front on GOSae-
lin street lOl feet inches lines in depth on the
line of the public road, Patterson street 99 feet
inches in depth on the line of lot NO Il, and 23
feet inches line in width in the rear; and lot
No. l. ras 25 feet inches line front on GosSelA
street 80 feet inches III depth the line of lot
No. Is, 81 feet in depth on the opposite side hne,
and 25 feet inches in width IN the rear ana tl1e
lot No 90 measures % feet front on Delaronde
street, SO feet inches line in depth on the SIDE
line toward G0sselin street, SO feet inches lines
III depth the side line OF lot No Il. ana 80 Ieet
in width in the rear.
Terms of sale-Onehalf cash, and the balance at
one years credit, VITA notes or coupons TO suit
parties in interest secured by mortgage on the
property sold. bearing interest at eignt per cent
per annum from date of sale until final paymen L
with five per cent attorney tees IN ease OF Judlca
proceedings for the recovery of said notes or any
part thereof, to be secure by said mortgages the
improvements to be kept fully insured and the
policies transferred TO the vendors or holders OF
the notes or coupons, and purchasers to assume
pavme1 over and above the amounts OF their BIDS
of all taxes Of 1872.
Acts OF sale at the expense of the purchasers
before Octave Morel. Es'... notary pubic. No.
Commercial Plac".
ml.5 Is y 29 ap5