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Py shinany! Isl, Dot sop

Thers is doubtless such a thing as exces-
sive prompsness in emergencies. Presence
of mind and determination are admirable
qualities in themselves, but it sometimes
happens that decision made upon the
spur OF the moment is regretted upon
more deliberate survey of the field. This
remorse seems to have overtaken lately q
worthy Datehman of Anaka county, Min
neaota. The Dufchman was seeking to
reach town at some distance from Sank
Centre, and to accomplish this must drive
over the prairie from the latter town He
was unaccustomed 20 the road and night
overlook him With his vehicle fast in q
slough and no town In sight. He sought
the solitary farm house visible and asked
permission to stay till morning, the farmer
telling the traveller, however, that it would
be necessary for him to sleep with the
children or with the farmer himself, as
their accommodations we're limited- Quick
as lightning. the Dutchman expressed his
resolution not TO sleep with the = bndslera-5
tion shiltren, = 10 ise slept with the farmer.
The rest Of the story may he given in his
own language
8 Veil, in der nnrnin', ven wa comes mib
der stlairs down, Eaee two gitls aliosah
seventeen und nineteen years old. ,and /
ask der odd man Pees dem girls die shils
tren yen told me apoait?a md he say
raw; dem isl, mine only ahilsrenl md
SAVE 10 myself Py shimiWs lsh dat a.ss i
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The Circulating Value Of Dollar.

A merchant friend of the writer, few
months since, received dollar bill in part
payment of an account early one morning,
and few minutes later paidi it out to lis
butcher. 1t was peculiarly stained, SO that
it attracted attention. An hour Or two
later the same bin was paid on another ac-
count, and was again paid ont. It was rc-
ceived ON account and for goods no less
than six times during the day by the one
merchant. His curiosity was excited, and
as the expressman would say, he started %
trace to learn the route it had travelled
during the day. He was surprised to learn
that it had changed hands twenty-one times
during the day, and finally rested in his
safe at night. 1t is not probable that all
the money in circulation win - age
nearly so great activity; and yet there are
but few who have ever thought seriously of
the paramount value to every business re-
lation of keeping money rapidly in motion
in the eommunity.-Indianapolts Ssntisses.
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EyE-ANaEL1cAL CORNER.

Chatelaine pockets are extinct.
No true woman will ever snarry a man
so tall that she cannot reach his hair.
Oliver Wendell Holmes POLITICALLY defines
Q kiss as "the twenty seventh letter Of the
.alphabet-the love-labial which it takes
two to speak plainly"
Aunt Tabitha is worried by the frequent
changes of the French Ministry. She says:
stI never had much opinion of them French
people anyway. and nothing could save
them but good, stated, regular preaching"
One ofthe theatrical critics having spoken
of Emily Soldene as "a Geriian shape Of
dazzling hne,' the Providence Preaa says:
We suppose he means to convey the idea
that she's knotty as well as nice"
The Alcott family, says correspondent,
have been absolutely poverty stricken at
times but the girls have struggled hard.
"They are noble and lovely women. The
family were at one time so poor that Louise,
who, by the way, has any amount of reso-
luton, hired out as servant in neighbor-
ing family of snobs. Think Of Louise
Alcott's securing pans and kettles for other
people, or, indeed, for anybody You will
will laugh to know that size was discharged
for refusing to clean boots for the SON and
heir of the house."
Mrs. Ford, a lady oft1fty-six years Of age,
was buried yesterday afternoon from her
| residence on Hamilton street above 18th.
| She was remarkable for her extreme size,
| and is said to have weighed at the time of
her death about 600 pounds. For thirteen
years she has been bed-fast because of her
being unable to carry her weight around,
and it is easy to believe that death to her
was welcome relief. Dying in her room,
ON an upper floor, it was with great difficult
ty and the laber Of strong men chat the
body was carried down stairs into the back
parlor, where it was laid oat in coffin not
one whit smaller than cart-body. The
house was inundated with all the women
| and children who cauld gather themselves
there from that prolific neighborhood, until
the Interference Of the police had to be in
| voked. --FhisadelphiG Times.
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Little Johnny's Composition.
GIRLS.

GIRLS. q
Girls aint animels, but humens yich gro
up to be wimmins, same as calls git TO be
cows. if the butchers mind their biznesses.
Mr.. Briley is butcher, but Mr.. Doppy he
has got red-headed wife. Girls has long
hair, too lazy to cut it of, and wears
frockses, not like me and Billy, trousers,
If I was girl yude see me take them
things off nifty sune, | can tell you, cos
they luke dicklous in en-, like shNgar iofes,
only not sweet. hate girls, and Billy he
hates em too, but not my sister, cos she
can't helIup it. Uncle Ned, wich has been
IN Injy and evry were, he says be was to q
place once were ol the little boys like me
and Billy hates the little girls like takin
pills, but after the little boys is erode up,
and the girls too, they likes EN-. I said
Uncle Ned, where is that2 and he said
Madagascar. Then I said: Oh, that ac-
counts for it, them boys is piggers, and he
said that's fack, Johnny, they ia kind Of
Ohpake to luke at, but that's wot makes if
more sprsin, cos the girls is niggers too.
My mother she says once that she was
little we tiny girl her own self, good job
didn't know her then, may be we wudent
liked one mother, but like Mary, that's
the house maid, wen she amt stuck up,
nd my father he likes pale all and Mister
GLADSTONE. Once my father was drinkin
some, and CATER Peters he came to the
house, and he said, CATER Peters did, wot
| was it, and my father said pale nil, have
some, CATER, but CATER shuke his head
| and said I shude think it wude spile les
You had a cuver for the pail, wy aint it
kept in bari like human beins, ] never
see SIGH nufangle ldes as folks is gitten
nowdaysl Amt it onenertle ole man,
not speck of hair, and no teeth neether.
wich don't kno any bettern that? Girls Is
mostly yunger than boys, but Mary shees
| older. e
| That girl jus makes me sick !! Yes.
terdy wen Aunt Marthy was to our
house with her little baby she give it to me
to mind, vile ol the folkes was in the dinin
rune, and her too, so bine BY Mary sha
come runnin in and said Johnny, mite
she give it goody, the darlin little angel,
and said yes, she mite if she wude, SO %
patch or. my little red whaggon were it was
wore out. She said she wude, and wot do
you think she give it, Wy, a pickle walnut
wich was so bigit wude hardly go in it's
mowth. Such strangling and coffin and
hollerin was never saw, and when the foxes
come in my father he had to get it out with
the handle of table knife, and oil the vile
the vinnyger Dustin out Of its kauose.
Wen it was ol over, my mother she said
Mary, how under the sun did the child git
sich q thing, and Mary she said O, if you
/ pleeze, mum, it must have cetehed it passin
the hospittle. But Uncle Ned. wich has
been to Injy and every were, he says the
little topper must have been mixin his drinks,
| cos wot it had was tite fit. don't kno
wot he means, for how cnde it mix en les
| 1t had 2 mothers? s
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WHAT THE WITS SAY.

The only difference between the moon
and ourself is, she's on her first quarter,
we're ON our last.-Marshau Messenger.
The most accomplished linguist in the
English Parliament is DIR. Kenealy. He
can talk man to death, and give his victim
the choice of language. Worcester Press.
Another woman in the case The Madi-
son State Journal has an article about
"Lively Sally between Tilton and Eyarts,
Evarts too: We trust-but no! It cannot
be LA Crosse Democrat.
In New York, fashionable clergymen
have commenced their hacking cough in
anticipation of being sent to Europe this
summer for the benefit Of their health
MilDaukee Sentinel
They have got SO now that they blow up
whales with torpedoes, and it won't be long
before the women will get hold of the in
yention and scatter an intoxicated husband
all over the ceiling. Detroit Free Press.
An Indiana editor declares that we are a
jack-ass. We must say, as much as we
hate to deal in hard words, that the man
who makes such declaration as that, is a
mighty poor Judge of Observation-Disclosures
Journal,
"The New York Graphic thinks that
Carruth, the Vineland editor, who persists
in living with bullet ih his head. is estab-
fishing a bad precedent" The Graphic
is quite right. Our readers will bear us
out in the assertion that when a newspaper
editor receives, in the regular course OF
business q bullet in his brain, he ough.
thereupon to crawl into patent contain
err" and retire from business.-Courier.
journal.
He left the spelling bee at 10 o'clock, and
stopped in a saloon on his way home.
Here he met several friends who "set 'en
up" divers times, and he reached home
about midnight with confused brain and
q very Gemoralized pair Of legs. Then he
| swore that somebody had stolen the key
hole, but his wife, with fearful scowl or
her brow and lamp in her hand, admitted
him. "Drunk p she exclaimed. D-r-tl
NC (hic) drunk. THAI eazynuff.' - Brute J?
''B-r-o-o-t(hic) give us harder one. ,
Idiot - "Thsz harder (hic>, but kir
spellum I-d-I-d-g-I-d-g-i-t, idiot. Now
give us a sumner (hic)." She picked up {
poker and gave him a sumner "-and the
spelling-bee. adjourned sine die.-Norris.
oseB Herald.
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THE TRAFFIC IN sHRoUDs
a Novel Subject tor an Enterprising
Interview. 49,

The following is from Reading Eagle
"interview." In majority Of instances
we are ordered to get the material at the
stores and make the death dresses. We
use different material. / have made q
shroud of white satin that cost nearly fifty
dollars. Ordinarily they are made out of
white merino or white cashamere, faced
with repped or stamped satin, that is,
figured diamond shaped. This satin is
used for facing fronts. Then the shrouds
are lined with muslin, trimmed with white
gimp and white cord and tassel generally
goes with it. White ribbon generally goes
along, and we buy stockings, gloves, cotton
laps and such other things as people may
want.
"White shrouds for men are getting out
of style, are they not ?" was next asked.
"Well, yes, we seldom dress men in white
shrouds. Their coffin wardrobes are
either their citizens dress of black, or it ia
g shroud made out of black satin. For my
part like to see man dressed in q black
silk shroud. It is natural for us to approve
of shrouds, but laying aside all business af-
fairs, am of the opinion that all dead
bodies should be dressed in shrouds, and
for men nothing is more appropriate than
black silk. They come little expensive
but the difference is not much. "
"How should women be dressed ?''
"In white shrouds all the time, particu-
larly old women and young children.
have seen them dressed in their best clothes,
however, one time buried woman dres-
ed in black silk velvet wrapper as they
called it. Sometimes people when they
die want to be buried in their wedding
dresses. know of two cases of this kind
but their wedding dresses of satins were put
under their shrouds.
| One time I knew young woman that
was buried in her wedding dress, but il
would not do to mention names. She died
two years after her marriage, and when she
was dead she was dressed just the same as
| the day when she was united to her hus
band in the holy bonds of wedlock. Orange
| blossoms and flowers were entwined in hei
| hair. and she looked like bride. The
husband nearly broke his heart over her
| coffin.
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Mr. Beecher's Income and outgo.

Quite as obscure as this are Mr.. Beecher's
financial transactions. He receives sal
ary of $50, 900 ID year as minister he is
part owner of the Christian Union news
paper he is voluminous author, having
written over thirty books /; he obtains very
large fees for performing marriage cere-
monies, and he says that he made $4,000
on the lecture trip. For contributions to
Bonner's Ledger and other journals, Mr..
Beecher is said to receive several thousand
dollars per annum. We have frequently
heard his friends say that his yearly income
has been from $4,000 to $50, 600 per an
mum. Now if he only saves his salary from
Plymouth Church and spend the remain
der Of his income, he would have been able
to lay aside 100000 in ten years, not
counting some $4,000 interest to be added
to the principal. Yet two years ago he
mortgaged his house for 5000.
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P0E:: :: 7 RY.
A CLOSE, HARD MAN.

A hard, close man was Solomon Ray,
Nothing of value he gave away;
He boarded and saved;
He pinched and shaved;
And the more he had the more be craved,
The hard earned dollars he toiled to gain
Brought him little but care and pain;
For little he epeIt,
And all he lent
He made 1t bring him twenty per cent.
such was the life of Solomon Ray.
The years went by and his hair grew gray;
His cheeks grew thin
And his soul within
Grew hard as the dollars he worked to win.
But he died one day, as all men must,
For life lie feetiag and man but dust.
The heirs were gay
That laid him away,
And that was the end of Solomon Ray.
They quarreled now, who had little cared
For Solomon Ray while life was spared.
His lands were sold.
And his hard-earned gold
ALI went to the lawyers, / am told.
Yet men will cheat and pinch and save,
Nor carry their treasures beyond the grave.
All their gold some day
Will melt away
Like the selfish savings Of Solomon Ray.
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TlMBER FOR THE CENTENNIAL.-1n a
letter from Whiteield, Oregon, published a
few days since, mention was made of .
gigantic mast-stick cut at Puget Sound,
by Mr.. Brown, New Englander, who is
engaged in the numbering business in that
locality. It was stated thst the stick was a
foot through at the upper end. The
dimensions should have been stated as fol-
lows 1870 feet in length and 40 inches
through at the top. Trees grow to an
enormous size there as in California. A
Mfr. William Squires of Nostocton, Oregon,
writes to the Centennial Commissioner for
Oregon that he will furnish at Tillamook
bay, fir plank. twelve feet wide and one
hundred feet long; a spruce plank eight
feet wide; cedar, seven feet; larch, seven
feet; Hemlock, five feet. He says he can
get much larger ones if transportation
could be furnished, and can also supply
hard wood planks Of like proportion, in
cluding shittiin wood, of which Noah built
his ark
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A. Diplomatic Boy.

When Lacrosse street boy is playing
"hop-scotch y on the walk and his mother
comes to the door and asks him to split
some wood, he replies that he viii be along
in just one minute. At the end Of ten
minutes she opens the door and says:
Wilyum, want that wood.''
"P,a coming rightaway," he replies, and
then goes ON hopping here and there ON
one leg.
Another ten minutes flies away, and she
opens the door and says:
"Wilyum, If you don't get that wood
You know what your father will do ! =
ssJnst ten seconds he calls back, and
enters upon new game.
The next time she calls she says:
"Young man, its almost noon, and | can,
cook dinner without that wood.'
.sI know tim coming now, " he replies
and he stands on one foot and holds lone
discussion with the Johnson boy as Ii
whether the game of hop-scotch is as good
game as baseball. He has just startet
60 hop when a boy whispers:
Hi, Bill there's your old dad u
"Great snakes." whispers Bill, and h
| goes over the fence like flash, grabs th'
ax, and during the next two minutes b
strikes two hundred blows per minute. HI
| goes into the house ahead Of his father
and as he drops the wood he says:
" Mother, the boys were just sayin
that | had the handsomest and best an'
roodest mother ON Lacrosse street, and
want to kiss yoa l''--Detroit Free Press
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THE PINE AND THE WALNUT.

THE PINE AND THE WALNUT.
RY THoMAs BAILEY ALDRECH.
(Newcastle 1s62.)
A mile or 80 from the gray little town
Of Newcastle perched like gull BY the sea-
On the Kitterey eide lwhere the banks shelve down
To the lovely rivers golden brown]
There lowered, long since, an old pine tree.
And oss the stream, in right bee line,
Like sentry guarding the ruined fort,
Was large-limbed walnut, where the kline
Huddled together in shower and shine,
Nibbling the herbage, sparse and short.
Summer and winter those brave old trees
Watched the blue river that slipt between,
Leaned to the sunshine and drank the breeze,
Clothed like emperors taking their ease,
Now in ermine and now in green
Many time, when was lad,
Idrifted by with suspended oar,
The wind in the walnut seemed 80 sad!
But ahi what clustering voice 1t had
in the rugged pine on the Of her shore
And often, i'm restless slnHnber tost
Iseemed to be drifting down the tide,
Hearing the strident wind as 1t crost,
Todie away ike murmurlng ghost
In the dropping boughs ON the farther side.
Perhaps twas boyish fantasy,
The dream of dreamer, half afraid,
That the wind grew sad in the walnut tree.
l:ut surged through the pine like the surging sea,
With a sound of distant cannonade!
VII.
Only fantasy! Who can tell I?
But think twill haunt me to the end,
Seeing what curious things betell
The walnut tree and the pine as we'll
For they went together, friend and friend!
From eullen cloud broke war at lest,
And grim sea dog OF the quarter deck
Took the gaunt old pine for q mizzen mast.
In the fame of hattie his spirit past,
ind the mizzen dragged by the shattered wreck
With the Union Jack across him laid,
They bore him back to the town BY tine sea-
The guns at the yard his requiem played,
And the Admiral's coffin it is said,
Was shaped of the planks of the walnut tree!
Atlantic Nonthlg-
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A Lesson in Pronunciation.

How many can pronounce the words III,
the following sstest = correctly? 1t was
first published by the teachers Of Toledo;
t. A courier from St. Louis, an Italian
with Italics. began an address or recitation
as to the mischieyons national finances.
2. His dolonus progress was demonstra-
ted by demonstration, and the preface to
his sacerdotai profile gave his opponents an
irreparable and lamentable wound.
He was deaf and isolated and the envei-
one on the furniture at the depot Was q
covet for leisure and the reticenGe from the
first grasp 1t the dancing legislature Of
France.
4. The lilafien Of the clasna or trough
made the servile satyr and virile optimist
vsl,emeiatIy panegyrise the lenient God.
q. He was M aspirant after the vagaries
III the exorcists and an inexorable coadjutor
Of the irrefIagibie yet exquisite Farrago. on
flae subsistence Of the despicabie finale and
the recognition Of the recognizance.
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Chicago is big town, and it has q lot Of
fine buildings. &c, but the isindows Of most
Of them arc adorned xith ehromos OF s To
Rent, \ and the free -lupeh men are the onls
ones who are doing llg hsssiness. ~.
sraukee Neacs.
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A Kansas woman went into court and
identified fenr qsarts Of white beans which
had been stolen from her and mixed with .
wlse,le lsarral fnsh
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l. Amy one who takes paper regularly from the Post
efHcs-wheeher directed 10 his name or anotherE CT
whether he has subscribed nos responsible for the
payment.
q If psrson ordsRs hs paper discontinued, he mnss
nay a arrearagea or fhs pubshsF will continue 20 send
Il until payment s made and collect the whole aonnss
whether the paper ID taken from the ofacs or NOS
g. The courts have decided that refusing to take the
newspapers periodicals from tho Pnstoee, Fenaov-
Ing and leaving them uncaed for 10 pFa deo evidence
Of intentional fraud.
Papers ordered any address be changed to aneth
er address at the option OF the subscriber.
Remisances by draft check money order, registered
lettsr NAV be risk All Postniasers are
quired to register letters on application
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Mr.. Peter Herdic, Of Wi Transport, IL q
philanthscpist Of the first water. He pro-
poses solving the labor question in the
following practical manner: /" The conflict
between capital and labor ia paralyzing the
industries OF the country. Continual
strikes indicate the bitterness of the n
test. Capital has it in its power to regulate
this state Of affairs and start business
anew. Working men should be able to
live nearly IS cheapiy now as they could
before the war, and it ia the duty of capital
10 supply them with the necessaries of life
at low rates. For one, am determined to
dc this, and a,a nov stocking stores with
goods bought at Wholesale for cash. from
which to supply working men at the lowest
possible prices. ! shall also board my
laboring men 1t s3 per week. If those
who control capital viii take huld DC this
matter and do their duty. therc will be no
difficulty III starting business anew with
health and vigor Nv store win open first
of May next.
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TERMS Payable lavarissiy In advance.
NEWSPAPER DECISIONS.

One g0
SIX MOntES. g w
Three ~
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THE Texas CATTLE DRIvE..-The dro-
vers have already started their Immense
herds Of cattle from Texas for the mar
kets Of Kansas, where they win arrive after.
months of tedious travel have reduced them
to bundles Of bones wrapped in hides, and
crowned with horns" Upon reaching Kan
sas they will be sold to hertismen and turned
upon the prairies TO fat, and will thence be
shipped to the eastern markets. For years
this has been an extensive and profitable
business, and though every year We have
been told that Tho supply was nearly ex-
hausted each spring has seen the departure
0fnew droves countless MS any which have
preceded them. Kansas City Ii the head
quarters of the trade in z ssiong-horns, y and
il 10 reported that one hos1se there will
have the disposal Of $1,000 head this sea
s0n.
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mile or 80 from the gray little town
Of Newcastle perched like gull by the sea,
On the Kitterey eide lwhere the banks shelve down
To the lovely rivers golden brownl
There lowered, long since, an old pine tree.