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Anecdote Of Sydney Smith,

The following is related Of Sydney Smith
and that it Is founded on fact there can be
but little doubt, eIemphfyinx, rs it does,
that peculiar and matchless humor FL,
which sydney was 80 remarkable. Tie
thing occurred in Edinburgh. when Jeffrey,
Brougham. Sydney, and the rest of that
brilliant constellation Of men of genius
were shedding so great lustrc upon
Aud Reekie" and the world. There
was, at the time, literary pretender and
bore in Edinburgh, whose everlasting sub
ject Of disclosure was "The North Pole, y
and whose delight it was to infict his
theme upon every patient listener. He
met jeffrey in the street one day, and after
the usual sautation, at once introduced his
! favorite subject. Oh the North
Pole" vociferated jeffrey, and extrica ting
himself from the bore's grasp, pursued the
even tenor of his way. The former, WING
ing under Jefrey's abrupt treatment, also
went on his way, when, encouneering the
good Sydney, he related to the
latter with much chagrm and Disgust
what Jeffrey bad SAID. "Ahf' fsays
Sydney,) II wouldn't mind 1t. We all
knc:- Jeffrey. You'll hardly believe II,
but in conversation | had with Jeffrey,
the other day, he actually spok d,srespsct-
fully Of tie equator"
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Jealousy freed.


From the Carson (NevJ ribune.
One night recently II young man Of this
city (whom We will call Smith for accom-.
mediation sake, who feared that the lady
he loved (she wasn't Miss By any meaus)
was entertaining an adnirer, determined
TO climb tree III the yard from which he
could see into tue slit ng room IN the second
story, where tie young woman was sup
posed TO tie. just as he got himself fixed
IN comfortable position commanding the
widow, some one on the inside rolled the
curtain down. Then Smith made IN his
mind to come down. 1t was very dark,
aud, just as he began slididin down the
trunk, Smith heard dog barking furisusly
beneath, and looking down he saw IA huge
animal capering about, appurently very
eager to nip his legs. Then Smith sudden
ly climbed the tree again and endeavoreI 1
to drive ut the dog. but the more he s,oke
to the brute the mere t dane, d Found and
barked. Then smith came down as low us
be dared and tried 20 coax the animal but
this only made him bop around and howl
more furiously than ever SOFT became
apparent that Smith wouli have to speud
the night in the Tree. IL fixed hun, elf
comfortably rs he could III cIo.ch of the
hGb-, and kicked his legs and rruyed his
arms TO keep himself from freezing to
death. Several times when Smith thouybt
the dog was asleep, he tried to descend,
but each time the brute woke up and began
to caper about. By the time daylight
arriV ed Smith was 50 benurnbed that he
| could hardly Use bis hands, but AS the sky
grew brighter he leaned over to examine
his prosecutor, and to his Amusement he
found that it was his own dog, which, uu-
beknJwu 10 him, had followed him to the
tree, and had barked and capered only to
express his delight at the prospect of Saith
coming down and going home. The sud-
deunesS With which Smith reached the
ground IS said tn have been remark able.
and the language bad. He las some Of
the rhe umatism which he got on that n, .,ht
Z "A
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Tennyson Writing a Tragedy.

NJ. II. Conway thus writes from undon:
1 nave Tor more than month been find
IN virtue Its own not quite satisfactory
reward, by withui ia. from my letters an
interesting bis Of literary gossip, because
It came to Inc in private and personal
way. A correspondent generally has to
regret having yielded to such weakness,
aud that Vas nv feeling when | read in
this mornings dMeuaeun, the following
paragraph a runUr i. current in so.
ciety which We give under all reserves, that
one OF our chief poets has completed his.
trrlcal tragedy, which, not impossible, will
be produced on the stage" Ills being
now divuiyed, perhaps ! may venture, So
far Lway as Cincinnati, to say that | have
reason to believe that Mr.. Tennyson is the
poet ,eferred to that the srtject of the
tradegy is, Mary Queen of Scots !" and
that tie Laureate Will be advised by Mr.
Ten Taylor as to the practical ways and
means necessary tor the adoption of his
work on tie stage. ! also believe tnat
"Old Erury" has been selected Tor this
dramatic venture, which cannot fail to be
the sreat theatrical event ofour time.
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An Ohio Giant.

A Clcave!and paper relates number Of
anecdotes illustrative Of the the strength
anI.size Of Abner Mclirath, whom it iubs a
giant. Itarr-ars that McIlath i, s y.ars
OF age, and is si1 feet seven aud half inc hes
standing ia hi boots, fairly prrportiancd in
form. wirhou; pound of waste fesh He
was and Is u giant In-r.,u secular strength as
well as physically. lie has lifted LOO
pounds of iron, ard blow with his massive
Est and long arm was sc pawrr ul that on
one occasion, when some twelve or fifteen
sailors went out 20 his place To raise I,
rnuss,' he t. rashed the hole lot and ,hr- n
them one by one out of the door, Just AS
one could throw SO many babies, aud during
that operation he dared not double his fist
Ter fear his blows might prove fatal to some
oil tie rcwdi.s. Abe formerly carried
on the business of a cooper, and used to
come 10 town with his load of barrels. On
one occasion, While stopping at the Red
Tavern, lately known AS the jackson
House, and which is now torn down. n
snob from town, who was out there with
his turnout in the shape Of a livery horse
and buggy. got into difficulty with Abe,
and having insuited hila ic some Way or
another, Abe Resulted it by lifting the
buggy right up and s,raldiug il acru>s the
fence, and thea got on his wagon and DR., We
ofsa town., whi,tling as tboagh nothirg
was the matter, and leaving the itickless
dandy to get his buggy OF The fence as best
be WAS able.
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EDITORIAL BACHELORS.

An Unusually Large Numb Of TIN c m
Among the New York Fraternity.
Cor. sspontence OF the Cincinnati Counsrei.i.
II is rather q singular fact that 50
many OF the editors of this city are living
10 S state of bachelordom. Bennett, the
the immensely rlch editor OF the New York
Herald is a solitary bachelor, though he
sill socn be forty. Riej, the editor Of the
Tribune, ia soli.ary bachelor, though he
Is somsshere about forty. Mlrble, the ed
itor Of the Hortd, is a solitary widoyer of
forty; and his most brilliant staff writer,
Huribut, is a Solitary bachelor, though IN
DER city. G,undy, the editor OF the Mall
70 solitary bachelor, though under forty /;
Coug1on. OF the Tribune, j. solitary
bachelor Of over sf,y; and, in fact, on the
daily press alone, coc.d certainly name a
score Of leading men who are about forty
sni wifeess. OF the editors named, Ben
s,ett 10 the ~eaithiest and mosts athletic
Bird, the ables. ard most skllfull.-
Marble is the handsonost and callaestj and
Harlbut Is the most thoroughly polished
man or the world. mast wa,n yoans or
middle aged ladies looking forward to mat
fmonial bliss to avoid these bachelor edi
tors, because | presume such a warning
will send scores of these maideps in pur-
suit Of them. / wonder that some Of them
do no. fnd.a wife among the INTEL act 'ral
ladies shat write for their papers or try to
write for them. Such unions nigh: be ex-
pso.ad to provide very braiiiy successors to
Lhs preser. .disors,in the natural order.
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Wood Wanted.


From tie ssdaiA Democrat.
To show how low and degraded country
journalism has become, We Will cite This
fact: Thirty years ago all these newspaper
| fends went into caboot, and started papers
for the simple purpose Of laying up enor.
nous amounts II wood. For this purpose
every county PAPER put this notice at the
head Of its loca! QUINN:
"WooD wasrID.-Ws will take wood
for subscription for this paper. Bring on
your woodv'
Yes, "brin9 on your wood" Mark
that!
Now, what are these rascals doingi
Why. they have been running newspa.
pers for wood unit. they have got all the
wood in the country III their own hands.
And now wood Is up-they'ye made a cor
ner in il.
But the reader win ask, "where j.
their MARKET Wha. good will it do thern?'
Poor, ignorant soul! Wen tell -ou.
After these country editors have got all the
wood in the country into their own hands,
what do they do' Why, they 70 to work
tooth and toe nail, and adroccte eremation
They know perfectly well. just as soor q,
cremation becomes part of American poll.
tics, every man will be trying il on his
mother in la1 and vife'a relation. And
wood will 90 W to 800 a cord! Every
one Of these fends viii LaYe this advertise.
rnent On one whole side of their paper:
TO cRExATIoSIsTs.
Ten million crrds of the be-t hickory, old
and dry, just the thing for Burning your
dear ones in the quickes. time possible
Oh exchanges, fer kindiing, thrown in
gratis. Apply at this office.
Then these country editors will be rolling
in wealth, instead of glue and mola,ses,
and they wouldn't no more think of ex-
changing with you than running patent
outside.
All this II a doom laid pl,ft
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1874-06-04

Law Suit About a Name.


The famous law suit against Mcneely l.
Kimberly, by L. A. and G. r. Moneelv,
bell founders of West Troy, has just been
decided in the Supreme Court The action
vas brought to restrain the defendants
from usins the name Meneely in the bell
business at Troy, on the ground that the.
plaintiffs had acquired u monopoly of the
use Of that name in that business, as a
trade mark, and that by virtue of the will
of the father of the plaintiffs and the de-
PENDANT Menee'y. The referee before
whom the case wac tried. decided in favor
of the plaintiffs, and granted the iniuncti III
asked for; bot this has now been reserve!
ard set aside by the General Term of the
Supreme Court at Elmira,. Justice Miller,
writing the opinion. Wherea, we suppose
the defendants will peal their bells and the
plaintiffs toll theirs.
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They Prefer Death to Dishcaor.

The life of an editor is not always
strewn With roses and free passes; but It
dses Our heart god to learn every new aud
then that the craft is worthy of Its great
Lame, and thar heroism is not vet dead in
ranks. In kentuekey, when y 5un. nnan
gets in lows deep enough 10 speak his rem
tissents in rhyme, which be 10 sure IS
poetry, asd which he wishes to see in print
he loacs his shot guo and starts for the ed
itor of a country paper. If the editor re-
fuses 10 publish his poem tk. irate child
OF genius uuoads his gun under the eoitor's
ear, or Ia some other portion Of his auatc-
my. To the honor OF ihe craft be il said,
great many often prefer. death to Gas-
honor.
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x Farewell, Eyes!'

4 Worcester occulist was called upon By
tough old customer of sixty, whose eyes
showed plainly brandy and water was no
stranger to him, and his breath corrobora-
I, painfully the statement of his eyes.
The doctor examined him and suggested
mat ardent spirits might have something
70 DO with his condition.
"Oh, No. said the old fellow. IL don'i
drink enough to hurt anybody. l take
something stir,ulative when get up, and
then again just before breakfast, then only
ooce at eleven o'clock, and only a little
more before and after supper, aud just be,
scss 20 to bed.
"That al ?" said the doctor.
Never take any more unless somebody
asks me- said the man.
..Well, err, said the doctor, 81 think
osn cure your eyes, bu. it will be necessar.
for you TO leave OF drinking entirely"
What" said he in ama,ement, Cant
Make littlef
No, sir, not drop; and if you 90 no
have off drinking you are liable to tscom
blind"
The, farewell, eyes.' said the OLD
sorer, SIS be seized his hat and made fo
she door, evidently afraid that the docto
would prescribe for him before be could &
out -
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We Minutes and 4 VI ns'Life

10 the pages o romance one sometimes
hears ct tue Gathering oi the hovis of a
messenger bearing horse, arriving at
ut the executioners' block Just in tine to
lnterpose a. respite or pardon between
tue eager axe ara human head. In
Ueorsia, recently, there was an actual case
oi saisafieI m the very. biok of time. At
Leestursh, negro named johnson was To
be burg for tue murder of a yeupy uaan.
On the day os' the proposed exeruaua some
RESIDENT, of the place telegraphrd the gov
ernor that new testimony had been dis
covered, rendering the nesros' innoceu .e
certain. When the telegraph reached
Atlanta, the g.versor had gone to Marietta.
intending To ride thence to the mountains:
is Was eleven 0 clock, and the k.iJ. VAS 70
lie ted at tw-ise. Inc i.htang Wa.
again br'ught into play aud struck the
governor Just ss he Was vaultiny ,nto the
the saddle. Iii, respite reached Lec> burgh
exhctls four minu,es before hanging tine.
IL ~as successful application Of Ell. ctricity
- desperate case
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1874-06-04
A Dead Horse Driven Nine Miles

Bill Whaley, who recently died in IL,
Fayette County, Pa, poor,house formerly
drove stage coach between Cnioutowu
and Morgaatown, in that state. lie
wouldn't own horse that had more thar
enough skin to cover his bone s, and through
which the moral law could not be read
His ANIMALS were queer ge,metrical puz
DETERMINATIONS of angles. right, obtu,e
and acute. One day he came driving int
uniontown a, full speed, and just as h,
drew up in front of the hotel one of hi,
horses dropped dend.
" That was very sudden. Death" re
marked a bystander.
Student replied Capt. Bill. "Tha,
horse died in Smtnfed, lime mite,
| from here: but / never let him drop unit
/ get him in town
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A KENTUCKY GENTLEMAN.
Ms Dotnss Mt the CapItal-A Boul
bon from Shelby County, Sir

U1s D0tnHs mt the CapItal-A Bour-
bon from SHELBY County, Sir
Grace Green. God IN View York Times.
We have genuine Kentuckey spirit
8trrrxs in Washington. An iratc Southern
gentle IAN "all of the rsle old stock" and
signing himself Shelby" appeared in one
Of our papers few mornings ago in an in
diguant protest against the modern French
society play, must quote a few passages.
am iity-h gears Ct age, and have
been constant :hestre goer for forty years,
lot / never had occasion to blush as spec
ss.oT until last night, when saw for the
ts.t time that abomina ton, called Monsieur
Aiphonse, at the National Theater I'm
fortunately had taken my two daughters,
young girls, aged fifteen and eighteen, res.
pective!y, attending the convent in George
twn.
:. You, sir, may imagine the shock their
innocent mihds received. am aware that
the rehemence of my remarks may excite
Che ire of actors and managers of this most
Indecent play, but my fret duty is to socie.
y, Of which my family forms q part. in.
.,ose my card. cir, Before the war, sir, no
man xas better known in the South. Nv
father was District Judge OF Shelby county
KY, co. twenty years, and the keys of my
front daor and nv side board are always on
the OUTSIDE. Ii my name is demanded you
ne \. perfect liberty to give 1t. | am pre-
parsd to accept all the consequences of my
phiIippic under the oaks Or in court of
Ax."
How Delightfully."- old.fashionei. Has the
dear old planter been taking Rip Van
Winkle sleep in the Mountain Cave for the
lsst dozen years, that he don't know that
plays are no longer written for innocent
young ladies or modest old Gentlemen And
be hasn't heard Of the Temperance crusade
and dosen't know that the duello has
gone out--ths: 40. even the fiery Southern
Il called on to fight "under the oaks.
slough he sometimes sarrendors in their
grateful cha le.. The royal oak it was the
tree, beneall, which Pemberton J. c.,
"threw up the sponge" in 90. II is
wonder that be puts up at the Arlington
aha. he did not 60 to the National and ask
for Henry Clay's old rooms, saying I'm
q Kentuckisn, sir, from Shelby sir. If the
Fooms are occupied, sir, they must be va
Gated. There's my card sir"
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Danger in Pulling on Boots.


The Nashville (Tenn.) Unien reports
shat Col. Lucius ~ Temple, of that city,
broke bis leg few days ago under peeu
har circumstances It says thar ne ~as
irving on a pair of tight boots. and, after
putting one en- the left foot, was endsasor-
ing to draw on the right boot, when sud.
denly swapping SQUAD was beard "rhere
you're broke strap. = remarkeda tystand-
AZ. "I'Ts broken my leg replied Col
Temple, coolly, and upon examination such
vas found TO be the case,his right leg being
Sy,ken above the kace. Dr.. Eve was call
ID, and the linb was set after which
Col. Temple We. taken to bis home in
iSposld;
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The Supreme Court.

The United States Supreme Court has
been presided over by only six persons ir
eighty siI years of its existence. OF these,
three were appointed by Washington, one
by the elder Adams, one by jackson, and
one By Lincoln. President, Grant has now
named the seventh. The first appointed
were Jay, in 1881, who served eight years;
Rutledge, four, and Ellsworth, i've years.
Adams appointed Marshall, who held the
othce thirty years. Taney, the choi.e
Of jackson, served twenty eight years, and
Chase, the appointee Of Lincoln, nine
years. The following table Will show the
age Of each chief justice at the time of az,
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1874-06-04

Stang words are TO always .hag
L Ike the words Jolly" In Jufn Traps
Commentary on The Old and New Test. :
ments, pubhshcu Va L ndon 300 year.
ago, it $50 be read "all Vas jolly oui.
~ E2bss SOS before ST. Paul came thither."
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MtNIT0WOG PILOT.
THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1874.
An ALLEGOR1.

The crfcket said to the NseE :
Why do you sit 30 Sill
Listen to me. how shrill
l slug in the evening chill ~
But the Wren sail, - Hark!
I'm patching eggs 10 tie DARK
The Cricket said 10 the Wren
J: i, time to fy about
The other birds are ont,
And they wise no doubt -
But tbs Wren said MOI
These eggs Wont let T.: Ss.1 IA
The Cricket said 20 the Wren:
The =. zHt has gone away
Yet here you cit to-day s
Wien do you do il, pray
Be: tie Wren said, - See
Three vrens haze besn born 20 NE -
-SSmHet ". DugFeId an a.e Clristiau Union
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The Hawaiian gazette., 1874-08-05
Foreign News.

By the Bark D. C. Murray, which arrived on the
sist of July the regular mails for this place were re-
ceived, and San Francisco papers to July 10.
From our files we CLEAN the following items.
sARAroeA. July ISth.-The boats started at IL. as
A. NJ, in the intercollegiate boat-race. Columbia
College wins the race; Yale second. The unofficial
time of the race is seventeen minutes and twelve and
three four,hs seconds.
Notifications of the Postal Convention between the
United States and France exchanged yesterday,
at the Post-ofhce Department, aud the convention
will be carried into effect the LIST of August next
New YoRK, July 1sth.-The trustees of Plymouth
Baptist Church. of this city, state that an attempt
has been made to assassinate their pastor. Rev.
Henry Miles, owing to a sermon delivered by him fav-
oring the reading of the Bible in the public schools.
Two shots were fred into the pastors study during
his absence and he has received threatening letters
Doubts ms to TIIton's Sanity.
BROOKLYN, July lsth.-Tilton's statement is fin
shed AMI ready to be submitted to the Investigating
Committee,
On the Beecher scandal on Monday the Eagle will
publish an interview with intimate friend Of Til
toms who declares that be has serious doubts of Til
toms sanity and that many others entertain the same
doubts. He believed Tilton had no serious cause
against Beecher.
The Investigating Committee meets on Monday
evening expressly to receive Tton's statement The
nature of the statement is profound secret Some
parties, pretending to know, aege that Tilton has
gone outside Of his case and charged Beeeher with
offences involving others than Mrs. TitOn. In this
the Committee may possibly refuse 10 listen to
him.
Mr.. Beecher's statement is completed and in the
hands of his friends, and viii be submitted to the
Investigating Committee when Titon's is put in
Gentlemen who have it, speak of it as a frank
straightforward. manly document. 1t explains the
of his trouble with Tton denies that he ever
made impure iutimaton to Mrs. Tilton, and con-
cudes with an absolute and unequiyocal denial of all
the ether SANDERS against him in that connection.
lie Acknowledges that Mrs. Tilton complained to him
Of her husband; that she spoke Of his nidelity and
inconsistency and cited instances, and proved that
her statement was true, and finally begged Beecher
to advise her, as a man and a minister, what to do.
Beecher, after long deberation, and with much hes
tancy, advised her that if she felt she could
claim her husband to leave him. After time he
felt he had made mistake in giving this advice, and
he apologsed to Tton, promised to extend the right
hand of fellowship and bury the past. This is the
scope of Beechers statement.
Great Britain.
LONDON, July sth.-Bourke, Under Secretary for
Foreign Affairs introduced in the House of Commons,
to-day, bill amending the international copyright
laws, which was read first time.
LONDON, July l3th.--The House of Commons to-
day passed bill abOlishng patronage in the Church
of Scotland.