The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-05-24
A CoNSEcTIcur SroRY.-The follow.

Ing Is IeIdLeU DIS ldCI, having dCIuoii5
happened, some years ago in the State
of Connecticut:
A man of rather Indifferent circum-
stances, surrounded by large family,
being entirely out of meat, had recourse
to the sheep fold of his neighbor "a
wealthy farmer) for relief. The neigh
Dor having large flock of sheep, did
not perceive that be had lost any, until
one of the finest of the flock, very large
and fat, was missing-and counting his
sheep found that he had lost several.
Unable to account for this extraordinary
loss, he resolved few nights after, to
watch. About midnight, he observed
an uncommon disturbance among the
sheep, caused by the sudden appearance
of man dressed in disguise. Curiosity,
as well as to observe the conduct of the
person, so as 10 find him out, induced
him to stand still In the flock there
was ram, with whom, it seems, the
man was in the habit of conversing, as
= he had been the actual owner of the
sheep
"Well, Mr.. RAM" said the nocturnal
sheep-stealer, 81 am come to buy an
other sheep, have you any more to sell?'
Upon which he replied, as in person
of the ram:
eyes, l have sheep to sell.
By this time the owner had discov
cred him to be one of his neighbors.
.'What viii you take for that large
fat wether." said the purchaser.
Four dollars" replied Mr.. Ram.
g That is a very high price, said the
man, "but as you are SO good as to
wait for the pay, l think that 1 will
take him. Well, Mr.. RAM" continued
the honest sheep buyer, "let US see
how many sheep have bought of you"
elf l am not mistaken" says the
ram, "this makes the fifth" and then
went on to cast up the amount of the
whole, and giving Mr.. Ram polite in
vitation to call upon him for his pay,
and bidding him goodnight, the man
led the sheep home, while the owner
lay laughing at the novelty of the
scene, as highly gratiied as if he had
received ample pay for the whole.
A few nights afterward, when he
supposed his neighbor was nearly out
of mutton, he caught the old ram and
tied little bag under his neck, and
placed piece of paper between his
horns, on which he wrote in large let
tiers, 81 have come for my money"
Under this line he footed up the whole
amount of the five sheep, exactly as
his neighbor had done, as before re-
lated; he then took the ram to his
neighbours house, where he tied him
near door and went home.
When the neighbor arose in the
morning, he was not a little surprised
to find sheep tied at his own door;
but it is beyond words to express his
establishment when he found it was the
old ram with whom he had lately been
dealing so much in mutton, with his
errand on his forehead, and the amount
of FIVE sheep actually made out, as he
had done few nights before in the
person of the ram. Suffice it to say,
he obtained the money, and after tying
it up nicely in the little bag, and tear
ing the paper from his horns, set the
ram at liberty, who Immediately ran
home jingling his money, as if proud
of having accomplished the object of
his errand to the no small gratifca-
ton of the owner.
AN ARAB TRADIT1oN.-"T This ira
dition, which l tell you," said Ribs
Hassein, sis many centuries old. 1t
states, that there was, in Paradise, a
temple built up of precious stones.
Man dare not utter its splendor. Deep
in the midst of the palms of Eden it
stood, angel built, dazzling sanctu-
airy. Our first parents sang their YES
per songs in the twilight shadows of
its courts; for there were pillared halls
and cloister of emerald and pearl, where
fountains sprang aloft in the silent noon;
and long, luminous vistas, where, hand
in hand, those two first lovers walked
in sinless beauty. Then there were
pinnacles and domes of sapphire, blaz-
ing in the sunlight by day, and glitter
ing it the starlight by night. From
court and terrace, waters welled out,
and iris-crested cascades fell down to
cool shady dells of asphodel below; for
the temple was placed far within the
privacies of that valley of Eden, whence
the four rivers flowed eastward. How
ever, sad to relate upon the day that
Adam fell, this glorious temple was shat
tered into million fragments, and sown
broadcast over all the earth. These
fragments we now light upon and gath
er up with cost and care, and call them
rubies, emeralds, sapphires, and dia-
monds; but they are, after all, only the
splinters of that primeval palace. The
sunset splendors and the diadems of
princes, the Milky Way in the heavens
and the spray that sparkles in the en-
tanglement of a maiden's hair, are,
alike, but the costly dust of that lost
sanctuary - the sad remembrances of a
departed Eden - Overland Monthly
for Nay.
PULLING A HIPPoPoTAMUs's TooTH.
Not long ago, the old male hippopot-
anus at the Gardens suffered long
from decayed tooth. In former times
he would have been shot, as was poor
e" Chunee," the elephant at Exeter
Chance Mr. Rartlett sunerintendent