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The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1875-07-30
DgADLG 4 HUNTTlN,
To EI/JlX MURRAY.

YOU Nrc hereby notified that on the
7lh day of October 1879, the following de-
scvib~d lands, to-wii Tho southeast Of the
southwest quarter Of section thirty six l361
md twenty-six nrres on northeast of south
west quarter of section ~, NIL In Township
~. north IL Range IL Wcst IL b r. NJ
were advertised ani duly soli for ieliA.
quent taxes. by she Treasurer " Howard
County, Iowa, ~ thr day aforesaid TINT
the aaid southeast or southwest quarter
Of - ssion 10, NJ, IL, WAS struck IN aud
sold BY snid Treasurer 10 ". n Barker, aud
the certificate oi sule by him assigned 10
KimbAll n Farnsw0ril and by them ,ayrig,,-
~ 10 the undersigned. and thAt thc
- acres On ths northeast Of south. west
quarter " said section ~, ~ ", was also
o. said 7th day nj October 1879. struck ols
and sold by said Treasurer 10 .. J New.
ton, and the o. rtihcale Of sale nSsiansd BY
hin % D. W. Goodrich, and BY said
Goodrich 70 ne, the undersigned
And unless y0u redeem said described
lands from sald Tux sale Aad subsequent
tsxes and coats, within ninety days From
w 1sy u cemplstsd service u this notice
- 20. yosr right II rsdsmpsion viii e.
llre Ard trsasurers Deed given 70 NJ,
eAo ew0es - said certificates Or sales.
Cfsseo, July l9ea 1870.
oe~s II. ". RABcOcK
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Printers fec ~,
TO w. u. r. DAYTON:

you will please take notice: That
d the Tar Sale held ~ Crcsco. In me
couaty n Howard, In tho state or Iowa, a.
tAs 7ih day of October, n. D., iS7a. thu
following described real property, to.wit,
The south wsst quarter Of the south
east quarter Or section twenty two t99l il
township ninety eight (D6l north Of range
eleven (ll) west, was sold 10 John Min.
and that The certificate ol sale has lNrn IN.
signed To me and thut the right III rrtlcmp.
ilon Will expire and deed Tor sald lind
lie made unless redemption from s,,ch sals
b. made within ~ days from Tic completed
service hereof
Dated July 10 1874
r. n. Trrrlx,
~ +. X. FrLrcS his Atty
printcrs TO 4 3Ota
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ii sAe f#s Nnsr AsaA ~ fss~egs II taw
fsNmntt IA ltN~AsA w ahs HtAst 4 te~M. ~
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hunah *ess gH@fsss ~ The nHsth vsss
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VS. s8aA In r. \ iartfs nma assigned e.
sns ahi ihas ~ rAkAs vi ttasata4ssa wagl
rsrsae nna lsVA tsf saii iAta ~ mals
ahlsss ssassnr,ieH fsueN sasA sAit ~ ssAAa
wishiA pn aass FtvsA re completed ssfsate
hef8as.
lsassi July ir, tATa
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Printers re o.. Nns
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!NI1ERIFE.N NIL =.


TIN STATE or luMA,l
howard County
In thc circuit renrt Of Howard County,
State II lava.
Ny virtue nf special Execution issued
from ,lc etliee uf the ilerk 81 the Circuit
ronr, III Howard County, State VI Iowa,
In nfavor Of Mcnsworti. Hayes. aud -
signed i.1Wilhelnins ri.ak, and against
William l',,sks anil Augustus fusky dated
July asih 1915. anl 10 me directed. com.
handing me that II tho gools. chattels,
stock or interest In sny Company. debts
due property In the hands % third PERSONS,
lands and tcnr,nents which arc not ~
s,npi by law frutn rNrrusirnl IT the saiI
William pitaky md Augustus Pn,ky
nuke or cnusc IL hc mndr the sum Ut 41s..
40 with intercs, an,l cost, levied upon tho
following described Real Ertw.e, lyinK aud
being situated la tho County Howard, and
State III Iowa, namely.
All the interest OF william Fitsky In AMI
TO thu northwest quarter u thu north
IVES, quarter n and tho southeast quarter
a ] VI the northwest quarter 81 section
eighteen ISL Township nincty.nine lsh,l
north II range fourteen lll) Wsst o. the
9th T. NJ.
And hereby give public notice that !
sl,all e'icr for sale nj pshlic cutlery, NJ tho
Cours-house door III crcsco, county Of
Howard and State Of Iowa, on
Saturday, August, 9Nth 1879.
between the hours of d clock, a. m, anil
1 o'clock, p, m, OF said day, sale to conn.,
n,ence M the hour IL two clock sp. N 81
snii day; mud ! will sell tothe highest and
best bidder therefor In cash, the above de-
scribcsl property, Or sufficient thereof 10
satisfy tho abess debt, with interest aud
cost
Dated this :Nth lay II July 1870
d. II. AckERSON,
Sheriff Of Howard county.
40 Printers fee 1900.
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To PATRICK pO WEI.

iDl' will please take notice: That II
lhr Ink Sale held ut crcsco. In the County
of Howard. III the State IL Iowa. on sih day
Of November. A, y. 1879. the following dc.
scrlhcd real property. to.wit.
North wgst quarter of tho north west
quarter, section 1 Township ninety seven
(0Ol, Range II west of 9th T. NJ was sold 10
T. j. Newton and assigned 10 me aud that
the right 81 redemption will expire aud !
deed for said lanl be made unleas re,lcmp.
tion from such sale be made within 90 days
from tho completed service hereof.
Dated July 10 1875.
u W. 0oopRicn.
Printers fec 81. sea-
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IU.S. ID. ATKINS.

YOr will plcasc take notice. That II.
the Tax Sels held n crcsco. In 'lcco,,niy
IL Howard. In The eta,c Of Iowa. on INC
eth day IL October a. u. 1872. iAr fol.
lowing described real property, to-wis.
The southeast quarter ii Tho southwest
quarter of section -, Township it,0. range
~. west " the 9TH II, m. was sold 10 G.
Marsh and that thu Same has hccn assigned
10 nlu nnd that the right Of redemption
will expire md a deed for said hind he
made Within no days from the completed
service hereof.
Dated July aOth. 1915. 40sa
NJ, II. DooilrrlE,
Printers fee "a.
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Aut Will ase 80 sakr nvsseet That
All the Tax SALE hsia MI tresee. In the county
Il Howard Ia the State ~ Iowa. IN the
nh lar If ustnhsr. A n 1871. tho Follow.
ing described r.ai property tas~is;
The Southeast quarter III he soathsw~si
quarter II section Nine ~ ia township
Ninety .ninv trna Range Thirsven III was
saia 10 NJ NcNamars and the certificate
III al. has bern assigned IL m~ AMI tha,
,he right IL redemption will expire ani \
deed far said laHl he made
nalrss redemption from rach sair y,
made within O., days from the completed
service her~of,
Dated July IL, tS,5.
II II. TITTLE
Printers frc Sano 3swa
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10 TME VOTERS or HOWARD 20

hereby announce myself N candidate
for sheriff II tho ensuing election. subject
70 tho decision ~ the Republican county
convention.
Howard July q, 1878 40tf
Il. 4. AxTliL.
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A light hay mare 10 or more ycAra old.
weight 10 10 " hundred; rather thin Ii
flesh; name, tnll nnd legs black withcrs
high, with small white stripe In face, and
hAd some collar marks. rslrayed from the
subscriber nj New Oregon. Howard county
Iowa, July u. 1873, Information a. 10 her
whereabouts addressed ~ above will be
literally /. wrrdcd.
July I'D is:a
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CASH PAID FOR
BUTTER AND
EGGS
In Me basement ~ pLiTT ii
O'MAILEI'S Store, ~
". n. OWEN.
Chirago & North. Western Railway.

Passengers far CHICAGO. nesrit, Toledo, tleye.
LIANT, Hafap. Niseasa Falis, Wti.buts, ,iAetana'i,
haeh~.ior, Aihany, fomn.", Men'mA', Vu.h.s,
Portland, nrssnn. New Yark. rhslaispha, ca'i'.
morr, Masi.insssa. 81. teas, ralfa, San francisco,
sasvn,nsntn. OGDEN. salt inke city. ieussr.
trusen hturs, Nsra.i,r, Esrsnaha, Ntnhsia.
- Ms North, Mesi, south and ks-i. Should bn,
(hs'r ticket. Win ciilrAu0 anil the
Chicago North Western Railway.
Close runueetsens sr maar ri chicago With the
l.ske shore 4 Michigan sauthvvn, Michigan ,en.
trail na'slnnre \ uhl", risshntR, Port Wayne 4
thicas., kausakea t.na snl Pan Handle k,airs,
far ali rashis vast ANIL southeast, nnd With thr
Chicago 4 Al,.a and illlnas central for nil pants
tc1th.
cia.s eenners,era aw aiso made with the
rslss r~r'ae y. &. Onssa for a'i far West
ui,ss rasn~.t.r. sre mate 4, rr,,as Rapids AMI
~ sli Junction palnss With yan' ~ MI rts'- raaA
Pullman Palace Cars.
Th,se ~ elia'sls ais af~ run ~ aii night train.
~ Ill Tie Inns ~ III na.t.
Thss is,he as's lnr running three rars between
chierao anil 4, ru ~ eie." ani v i~autsr.
Al ssntha .aat ss.lsf, .anl.t' III VI. ut,,
lsMA sts~ps ar The tnnn r.'iAr Railroad, Tor AL
points ~.'t 1.-THE NJ suaii harr,
Amnng tiv
Inducements ALFRED Nv This Hont.
10 tn trasei,r. i,,h'le a~ al ths mti.in In.
prey etn.uls, Hn.h u.nl tstayst Ha.ass.A ftark,
N'sri Rail, nees ani Iron hfEsta,s, rasiar end
Drawing Aaem 10y ss,fies sr,Aki'tH mud l.nh'..
Ing t'aas, WvsslHglne s9ets Ar lfah,s, Nltl,,'e
PATENT SAFETY coupling AMI ri farms, Nl.esd .idy
$50 AAsaHe lun nis.
Running through j G,eat Statc~.
asd operating over s,aou mlirs ~ rnAd, this Gem.
psny rretenss To th~ traveller facilities that arr
hss sha cannot h. oiisfea BY m, ecnps'lior,.
Al tickss srsnss rAu sl you tleket. vim this
tOHss
IL YEN Wish The hesl travelling Accommodations,
YEN si'l buy sear tickets by this runie, and viii
tekr ~ nih her.
MANtlN uuuitITT. w. N. sTENSErT,
Usal Superintendent. aen'I Passenger Agent.
Ito nse. II, lsssI
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m =. 70 TERS:

you viii plcnsc take notice: That
u Tho Tax Sale held VI Crrsco. In the
county Of Howard. In the State of Iowa on
the 7ih day OF October, a. d. 1877 the FOL.
lowin described real property, to.wlti
The southeast quarter Of tho northwest
quarter section four township ninety seven
Range thirteen Wort except two acres In
southeast corner of the sAn.e WAS sold 10
J. n. noolittlc for tho num Of Ave dollars
md nineteen cents and TINT the right 81
redemption will expire aud deed for said
land be made unless redemption from such
sale hs made within ~ days from The com.
plstsd service hereof
Dated July 3Oth 1873 l0ta
] Il. DooIIrrLk.
Printers fec ~.
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Printers fec ssoo
TOJfDSUT.I p.tGE.

TVWVY.~H T - 4 .IVI
1ut will please take nctcn Tint
nj the INK Sale held at tresea, Ia the
county of Howard, la the State Of Iowa,
On the 18th lay II October. a. u 1914, the
following described real property. ~ witt
The Southeast quarter VI the Narih.
west quarter et scctiun two ia In town
ship nin.ty.eisht lbs North, of range four.
teen tHl IVES, WIS sold ~ j Mcnamara.
and the certificate IT sale has Lcen as
signed 10 inc aud that the right IT reslcmp-
tim will expire ani n ,le.d for sail land
he made unless redemption from surh salc
hs made within 30 days FROM the eom,lct.
ed rsrviss hereof
Dated July ~, 1874,
Il. II. TuTTLr.
Printers fpr Sl.nN
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! viii sell VI acres III land adjoining
Lime Spiinls. TOR cash. or property In
Cresco n.aMl a. n HOlT
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N~reg~tsra ~ AMthostt, hy the Depart.
MsNts ~ TIA NAttensl .uNtsnnsrnl.
In one OF tho many circulars with which
The publishers of Mehster'S Dictionaries arc
flooding the country. tho statement IL ma,e
That Webster Ii the National STANDARD.
aud exclusively recognized II, Washington
that NIL executive printing, debates, anl
official records II Congress. publications II
tho Smithsonian Institution r,e c,c., are
n,nLs to conform In photography TO Webster.
etc. W. invite thu attention af III. public
10 the following, showing that this claim Ut
exclusive recognition II utterly nnwarra. l.
ablc
DKrARrNRNr or SrArH,
Washington. May Il, 1871
Sin Such II net the fact As regards
this Department. TN the contrary. w have
frequent occasion 10 refer 10 that Worcss-
trr's Dictionary. Aud regard II ~ 4 valua-
bic aid md authority
have the honor 10 BE-, sir, your obclicns
servant, HAMILTON FISH.
DEPARTMENT or Jrsr.cx.
Washington. Feh. -, 1874.
GxNrIsMsS:--ln tho Department Of jus.
tice both dictionaries, NJ we'll IA Richard
sous ars deposited In tho library and used
for reference. Each official u the Depart.
mcnt. Of course. has his own authority for
spelling hut In all printing done under my
direction, the authority u pr. Worcester II
adopted NJ the standard.
remain very respectfully yeurs.
CLEMENT lluGH HILL.
TswAsrRv DEPARTMENT..
Office Of tho Secretary, Feb. 10, 1874.
GkxrLKAxN;--lia,h Worcestcr's and
wcbstcr's Dictionaries are used for refer.
ence In the Treasury Department, but
Worcestcr's IL relied upon ~ tho Standard
for Spelling In tho printing done under the
direction Of this Department.
Very respectfully,
WILLIAM A RICHARDSON, Secretary.
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION.
Washington, Feb. 20, 1874.
siK;-Atthc commencement OF tho orer.
atoms Of this lnstitstion, referred the
question A. - tho Dictionary the Smith
soninn should adapt ns tho standard for
spelling and definitions. to a commission Of
literary gentlemen. aud on their recon.
mcnLation adopted that Of Worcester. which
hns hcen continued Az the Standard 10 the
present time. Yours very truly.
JOSEPH HENRY,
scc'y Smithsonian lns,itation,
LInnARy or CokaHGss.
Washington. Feb. 20. 1874.
nsErLEARxs--Thc report having boon
made that Wehstcr'- English Dictionary IL
adopted ~ The standard by national offcers,
10 tho exclusion Of Morccstcr's, take oc.
canton 10 say that 80 fnr ~ the Library 81
Congrcsa II concerned, Webster has never
been followed In orthogi Apply In printing III
catalogues, reports Or any other Documents
On The contrary, wherever proofs from this
Congressional Printing Once cmhody III
innovations aron English photography 4,
established BY the usage ofall great writer's
which Webster introduced, they are invn
rlably returned with corrections restorin)
the established spelling. Very respectful,
A. H. kPuffURD. Lib Of Congress
DRE w E1l 4 TGs.EATON.
" Publishers, BosfnS
@ s~ae s
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6yend one. IL n Y, KuMEi.i. n co, New
oYork fnr book tnsih edition containing
lis,s ef 1000 newspapers, and estimates
shelving res, VI advertising issi
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xsREl'J,.N Eiens0a.hlr.
Figures will not lie! Come
and investigate our goods and
prices, and be convinced that
we, like figures, tell the truth.
off ZuNpELONITX 4 RRO.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1875-03-18
THE ART Or CONTERSA TY0N.

All the newspapers are publishing, in a
little paragraph, the large fact that GER
tain Baron in Paris, to us anonymous,
offers to give lessons in conversation
Terms, SIS a month. Moreover, our bar
Onial friend will accept invitations to din
ner-limited, since the human stomach
is--and at these banquets he will furnish
talk as the cook does courses. Better
than all, our talkative baron has perfect
ed colloquial system in which ideas are
not necessary. You go on chattering vol
ubly, you amuse, you entertain you en-
chant; you seem to be learned, wise phil
osophical, witty, all-sided; and all the
while you are only delicious delusion
and fascinating fraud. Alas we know
several persons, more, indeed, than sew
eral, who are adopts in this mystery, and
who have never had even SIS worth of in
struction from the Baron or so many as
six lessons from any master-lords of To-
quacity and ladies Of rigmarole who will
talk to you by the hour and half of
things which you understand and they do
not, as if they were the enlightened and
you the ignoramus.
The secret land tits the Baron'sj is that
very little goes to gabble-only little
technicality and nomenclature with
few names and dates, and from six to
twenty phrases. Is it of music that the
discourse is !? Beethoven, a.ldante, Thai
berg, sympathetic and symphony, timbre,
LucCa, and tol-de-rol. Of art2 The Venus
de- Medici and Miss Hosmer, the religion
of Raphael, and the majesty of Michael
Angelo-it will be a great hit and will
bother the other side, il You call this last
named parsonage Buonarotti, and men
ton his admiration for the gate Ghiberti.
OF science? Coslnogony, Tyndall, Hugh
Miller, and the Old Red Sandstone. OF
the drama? Billy Shakespeare, Dion
Boucicault, Joseph Jefferson, Charlotte
Cushman. And 80 on and so on All
topics are trivial and easy to the master
of his resources. As for the resources
themselves are they not upon every book
shelf-dictionaries, encyclopedias, com
pendiums, manuals-one universal swash
OF all the elements2
The secret of a great talker is in his
courage and presence of mind. The god
of gabble helps those who help them
selves to our ears and time. 0 tongue
tied friend what fool you are, with your
stammering and your rush ofblood to the
cheeks, your mistimed modesty and mis-
efable struggles to be accurate Shall we
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1875-03-18

tell you little anecdoteP The scene is
library. The subject is an edition OF the
Greek Testament just put out. The in
terlocutors are two gentlemen who have
written for newspapers until they have
forgotten all their Greek, and another
gentleman Just from Oxford and dread
| fully fresh in his Alpha-Beta. Gamma
He at once points out an error in the text
"A wrong particle and of not the least
consequence so far as the salvation OF
the world is concerned. He wakes in
dignant at the careessness of proof-read-
ers. The two also wax indignant. Good
heavens !" they cry, what are we coming
to?" So the Oxford man goes away with
great respect for their eXegetlcal pow
ers, and then-they look into each others
faces and laugh. lawful Carelessness !"
they say as they smoke verit--"Basker-
vile would never have made a typo like
that" and then they smoke and laugh
again. .H,.
There is nothing like assuming erudi-
ton, though you have it not Besides, 1t
is usually safe, especially in this country,
to take the Ignorance of the other party
for granted. unless you happen to know
your man too well to tryit on. lfyou
are a fool you will sometimes get caught;
but, being fool. you will not feel it. Ac'
curate knowledge ofanything is the rar-
est acquisition of this superficial time.
Don't be scared
When we are excessively dignitied and
moral, we express great contempt for
mere praters, and speak as if general
massacre of the whole crowd OF them
would shove usseveral thousand leagues
toward the millennium. Can anything
be more embarrassing than the awful ST.
lence which sometimes falls down like an
enormous wet blanket upon a company,
left to look idiotically in each others faces
and horribly to hem and hawY Is not
your gabbler he or she, beatitude then
of yoWels and consonants? Your part OF
the work is but small-only "Ye-e-es"
dropped here and there to keep things
bobbing. Sweet then is the sounding
brass-sweet the tinkling cymbal Is it
at dinner? Is not any noise better than
clatter of knives and forks? Or, if it be at
tea a Jingle e-jangle of the spoons? Or in
the evening circle, better by far than the
thrum Of the piano and the chirp of the
family soprano? So when we are some
times lorewarned that Miss Multiglott
is coming" and that she "will talk us to
DEATH" we are not in the least frightened,
but rather consoled We,like hersimple,
honest chat. She will tell us about our
neighbors. And we like dearly to know
all about our neighbors She will make
matters lively. She will sprinkle Wor-
cestershire Sauce upon the funeral baked
meats, and pul little taste into the cold
tea of young-ady-Iisping, 1t is so pleas,
ant to loll back III ones chair and be all
rereptivity! And the best of it is, that we
sh Ii really be told something which we
did not know before; for tits astonishing
what cd 4 things these petticoated fetchers
add carriers pick up in their constant
trUtS.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1875-03-18
GENERAL GRANTS PARTY.
IN. Y. Herald, 4th inSt.7

No better test of the men who compose
Gen. Grants party in the Congress which
expires this day can be found than in the
vote on Wards substitute for the Arkan-
sas resolution. The substitute embodied
the views Of Grants recent message in
favor of Brooks, and was defeated by l52
to 70. Among the Republicans voting
against it were Dawes, Garfield, Hale of
Maine, Hawley of Connecticut, Z. r.
Hoar, e. F. Hoar, Kasson, Kellogg, Kill
niger, McCrary, Merriman t. H. Roberts,
Poland, Starkweather, and, indeed, all
the real leaders of the party in the House.
In its favor were the Southern carpet
baggers like Hynes and Sypher, left at
home for the future, as the two Buffers,
Cessna, Harmer, Maynard, Myers, Sco-
field; Sessions, Shanks, Tyner and Will
liams of Indiana. Nothing more unfor-
tunate for Grants third term aspirations
could possibly have happened, and he
has, beside, the chagrin of knowing that
he precipitated it himself. But while we
rejoice in the result we cannot help feel
ing some degree of pity for the Presi-
dent. 1t must be a sad thing for him to
read this list of his friends; for, since
Falstaff's famous muster of his recruits,
no more pitiful picture has been. A beg
carly array of disappointed politicians is
all that goes to make up Gen. Grants
party.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1875-03-18
AN EXPLOIT AMONG THE SHE1-
LAND CLIFFS.

1t may not be generally known that in
Shetland the cliffs are called banks, and
that, in the "days when fowling was ex-
tensively praCticed, to die on the banks
was looked upon as the most honorable
death man could meet with" in con-
sequence, no doubt of combined profit
and danger with which the fowler's vo-
cation was attended, insomuch that,
when two people were quarreing, the
crowning reproach of all sometimes took
the form of the remark "Ay, but my
father died like man-on the banks ;
yours died like a dog-in his bed" A
ludicrous rather than painful illustration
of the aforesaid danger is afforded by an
anecdote touching "would-be fowler in
Unst," who, having undertaken to'clinb
the steep bank, and being neither very
experienced nor very bravesalthough he
boasted of being both, met with fate
similar to, but less disastrous, than that
of "Humpty Dumpty." He pushed up
ward, we are told, very briskly, without
ever looking behind, till he had got to
about hundred and fifty feet, when he
stopped to breathe The pause was fatal
to self-possession, and he called out in
tones of horror; "Men! men! / am 60
ing!" He still, however, held on for a
little, and it was not till he had shrieked
many times, 81 am going" that he did
fall headlong. His comrades having
been thus warned, moved the boat out of
the way, SO that the poor fellow came
sheer down into deep water. At length
he rose to the surface, when, Of course, he
was instantly caught hold ofand dragged
into the boat. After a good many gasps,
and considerable spluttering Of sea
water from his mouth, his only remark
was "Eh, man, this is sad story-I have
lost my snuf-box." Perhaps he had in
dulged in just one dram ito steady his
nerves." or zone single pipe of caven-
dish," against both of which indulgences
he who proposes TO climb is most strong
ly warned .-ChGmberS Journal