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1T KEENLY HURT HIM.

A London correspondent has extracted
this humorous information from the
gathering of foreign tu~tle-soup Destroy
ers in London at the Lord Ma yor's din
ner: "The want of appreciation of any,
thing like joke by the members of the
Latin race has just received notable H.
lustration here. When, upon the eve of
the recent municipal banquet, it was an.
nounced that Sigor Peruzzi, Syndic of
Florence, was on his way to London to
take part in the festivities. some of the
newspapers revived the recollection of a
transaction between King Edward III.
and the Peruzzi family, in which the lat
ter were had las the English say), and
it was loosely suggested that Mayor
Pcruzzi might take advantage Of the visit
to Mayor Stone to bring suit against
Queen Victoria for the money lent to her
the banquet and ball, in which, by the
way, Peruzzi cut very fine figure, ana
was much looked after, he gravely wrote
letter to be printed in the Tunes, in
which he disdained any idea of suing for
the debt to his ancestors, and said it
'keenly hurt him that the intention was
attributed to him Of taking advantage of
this opportunity to appear as an unfortu-
nate creditor before those who offered
him, as magistrate of his native city. a
hospitality as cordial as it was magnifi.
cent Mark Twain, weeping at the
tomb Of Adam, is not more ridiculous
than the Italian dignitary forgiving the
debt which has been compounding inter-
est for 500 years.
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POETRY
LITTLE BROWN ACORN.

Little Brown Acorn swung on tree,
While the leaves turned yellow and red.
MANY day have been here" said he,
And SO, as I'm tired as tired can be,
Think will go to bed'
Little Brown Acorn hid under gray
Messed rock ON the side OF the hill.
never have heard that he's gone away;
So, should you look there this very day,
I'm sure you will find him still.
Little Brown Acorn under the snow,
When the winter days are come,
While the winds blow high and the winds
blow low,
While the mornings dawn and the sunsets 60,
Stays in his chosen home.
Little Brown Acorn naught will befall
Till the stormy months are DER;
But when in the oaks the robins shall call,
He will lift up his head so green and so tall,
Little Brown Acorn no more.
Youths Companion.
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Nothing positive is known about them.
but it is supposed that they mark the
temples of Druids, religious order which
possessed great power in France and Eng.
land during the century before and the
century after the coming of Christ. They
obtained complete mastery over the ig-
norant and superstitious people then oc.
cupying those countries, by the practice
OF mysterious arts. which often were ex-
tremely cruel. They prelessed to know
tie hidden nature of things, and the
forms and movements Ct the sun and
stars; bnt in reality they were not as
wise as the children of our primary
schools, and the simplest tricks of good
modern conjurer would surpass their
most wonderful ones. They were astrol-
ogers and herb doctors as we'll as priests
and historians, and they attributed sa-
cred character to many plants.
Human sacrifices formed one of the
most terrible features of their religion.
The victims usually were criminals or
prisoners of war; but when there were
none OF these. innocent and unofending
persons were sacrificed.
The tavorite resort of the Druids was
an island opposite the mouth Of the river
Loire, in France, where, once every wear.
between sunrise and sunset, they pulled
down and rebuilt the roof of their tenn
pies: and any priest who allowed the
smallest part of the sacred materials to
fall carelessly, was torn to pieces by his
fellows.
The only traces of the order left US are
the rude stone Buildings at Stonehenge
and Carnac. Retreating before the Ro-
mans, the Druids went to the Isle of An.
glesey, in Wales; and when they saw
their conquerors following, they made
preparations for battle. Among their
preparations-not exactly for the battle,
but for what they expected to follow it.
were immense altars, on which they in
tended to sacrifice the unfortunate Ro-
mans who should be left after the battle.
They were quite sure that they would
need these affairs, for their oracles gave
them every reason to believe in glorious
triumph Of their arms. But the Romans
were again victorious, and the Drulds
themselves were the ones sacrifced.-Al-
exander wainwright, in st. Nicholas.
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THE DIR UIDS AND THEIR TEMPLES,

Near the town of Carnac, in Brittany,
France, there is an extensive plain several
miles wide, with fat and barren surface.
1t is the last place in the world tourist
would care about visiting, if he were
simply travelling in search Of beautiful OBJ
jects. In Winter the coolest winds blow
over it with Wild force, and 10 Summer it
is unprotected by trees or shrubbery from
the scorching shafts of the sun. But it is
not wholly uninteresting, and propose
that we shall make short visit to it.
We will suppose, then, that you and l
are stopping at one of the quiet taverns
in Carnac, and have wandered toward the
plain for walk. just outside the town
bit of hill rises high enough to show
us the surrounding country.
There are few houses or trees on the
plain; but it is divided into several avenues
by long rows of unhewn upright stones,
which, as far as the eye can see, are rang
ed in perfect order, like an army pre-
pared for battle. There are over thous.
and of them, and they stretch across the
country from east to west for nearly seven
miles. The largest are twenty feet high,
and the smallest ten feet. A few have fall
en-, and others have been carted away but
originally they were placed apart at reg
ular distances.
When you come nearer to them you
will see many signs of age upon them.
They are scanned, messy and battered.
how old do you guess they are? No.
body is quite sure, not even the wisest of
the historians, but we may safely say
that they have held their present po-
sitions for over eighteen hundred years.
For eighteen hundred years they have
chung to the meager ground and with.
stood the combined assaults of time and
storm, while generation after generation
of the living has passed away.
How did they come here? The simple,
credulous people of old, to whom all fairy
stories were the truest histories, believed
that giants brought them and planted
them; but we know better than that.
They were erected by ordinary men,
and you may imagine how much labor
the work cost at a time when there wsre
no carts or wheel-barrows, much less rail-
roads or massive cranes. Years, perhaps
centuries, were occupied, and to the
builders the undertaking must have
seemed as stnpendous as the erection of
the East River bridge seems to US.
Similar stones are found at other
places in Brittany; but the most famous
collection is on a plain near the town of
Salisbury, in England. This is called
Stonehenge, and consists of one hundred
and forty stones, the smallest of which
weigh ten tons and the largest seventy
tons. The remains of men and animals
have been also found in the vicinity, and
these have given the antiquaries clue as
to the objects for which the stones were
| raised.
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80 Lord, here's Billy Bent needs ten
din to! He's PANIED out his last dust,
an ne seems to hev purity clear idce that
this is his last chance. He wants YOU to
give him lift, Lord, an it's the opinion
Of this house that he needs it. faint
none Nv our bizness what he's done, an
ei it wuz. you'd know more about it than
we cud tell yer, but it's mighty sartin
that a cuss that's been in the diggins fur
years needs sig ht of mendin' up before
ne kicks the bucket
"That's so.' responded two or three
very emphatically.
"billys down, Lord, an no decent man
b'leeves that the Lord nd hit man when
he's down, so there's one Nv two things
got to De done-either he's got to be left
alone: ur he's got to be helped. Lettin'
him alone won't do him ur any body else
emmy good, so helpin's the holt, an as en-.
ny one Nv us tough fellers would help him
eft we knew how to, it's only fair to s'pose
tibet the Lord II do it mighty sight
quicker. Now, what Billy needs is to
see the thing in tibet light, an you ken
make him do it a good deal better than ,Ue
ken. It's mighty little fur the Lord to
do, but it's meat an drink an clothes to
Billy just now. When we wuz boys sum
Nv US read some promises of yon'n in tibet
book tibet was writ good spell ago by
chaps in the old country, an though Sun.
day'school teachers and preachers mixed
the matter up in our minds, an you III
know what we mean. Now, Lord, Billy's
jest the boy--he's hard case, so you
can't find no better stuff to work on
he's in bad fix, tibet we can't do nuthin'
fur, so it's jest yer chance. He amt ex.
actly the chap to make an A Number One
angel Of, but he amt the man to forget a
friend, so he'll be handy Teller to hev
aroun'."
"Feel any better, Billy?'' said Nose,
stopping the prayer for mement.
"A little, said Billy, feebly. "but you
want to tell the whole yarn. I'm sorry
for all the wrong I've done.''
"He's sorry fur all his deviltry,
can amt got nothin' agin the judge"
continued the sufferer.
AN he don't bear no malice asin the
Judge, which he shouldn't, seein' he gen.
orally gin as good as he took. An the long
an short Of it, Lord, is jest this--he's a.
dyin', an he wants chance to die with
his mind easy, an nobody else can make
it so, putin in, fur Billy's comfort, tibet
we recollect hearing how you forgive
dyin' thief, an tibet it amt likely yer a.
goin' to be harder on chap thet' always
paid fur what he got. Thet's the whole
story. Amen"
Billy's hand, rapidly growing cold,
reached for that of Nose, and he said, with
considerable effort: "Mose, yer came in
e. handy as a nugget in gone.up claim.
God bless yer, Nose: feel better inside.
Eff l git through the clouds, an hav liv.
in chance to say word to them as is
the chiefs thar tibet word IL be for you,
Nose. God bless yer, Nose, an ct my
blessin's no account, it can't cuss yer, en-.
nyhow. This claims washed out, fellers,'
an here goes the last shovelful, to sec eff
theirs emmy gold in it er not
And Billy departed this life, and the
boys drank to the repose IF his soul.
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Of Of B Sey'0 ce ss Ph nso%eg e.
Temperaments, Marriage, Keproduc ksn 49,
all of which are treated in an originaI 4s1a n
teresting manner 1t il comp+iduana II An-
atomcal, Physiological and Medical ssa1s1ue.
and embodies the latest discoveries in sesaaRAb-
partment.
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Ill oil IlSIdut.
"There's Deacon Adams over to Pat
tin's,' suggested bystander, ''an' they
do say he's a reg lar rip-rosrer at prayin'
But 'twould take four hours to 20 and
fetch him.
TOO long, said the doctor.
Down in Mexico, at the CATHEDRAL"
said another, ';hey pray for Teller after
he's dead, when yer pay 'em fur it, an
they say it's jist the thing---sure pop.
III give yer my word, Billy, an no back.
that I'll see the jobs done up in style fur
yer, eff that's any comfort.''
..lwant to hear it myself" groaned the
sufferer; II don't feel right can't no.
body pray--.nobody in the crowd q
Again the boys looked inquiringly at
each other, but this time it was little
shy]y. If he had asked for some one to
go out and steal mule, or kill a bear, or
gallop buck,:iumping mustang to Frisco,
they would have fought for the chance.
out prayingg---praying was entirely out of
their line.
Ire silence became painful soon SLOUGH
ed hats we're hauled down over moist eyes,
and shirt.sleeves and bare arms seemed
to find something unusual to attend to in
the boys faces. Big Brooks commenced
to blubber aloud, and was led out by old
Thompson, who wanted chance to get
out.of:doors so he mi ght break down in
private. Finally matters we're brought
to crisis by "Mose' no one knew his
other name. Nose uncovered sandy
head, face, and beard, and remarked.
81 don't want to put on airs in this here
crowd, but eff nobody else ken say word
to the Lord 40 tut Billy Bent, I'm a-goin
to do it myself. It's a bizness I've never
bin in, but theirs nothin' like tryin'
This meetin' IL cum to order to wunst."
''Hats off in church, gentlemen - com.
handed Pentecost,
OFF came every hat, and some of the
boys knelt down, as Nose knelt beside
! the bench, and said:
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A SLEEPY HORSE That BEAT rHE FIELD

A SLEEPY HORSE THAT BEAT THE FIELD.
Al The Dubuque fair sleepy, poor, homely
morse, called Lothair, was entered an every
race. He began by taking the 3. Is race. theu
minutes, 2:i5, 90, and won two heats OF the
80 race, when protest was inferred that ne
had letter record than the race he was troi
tig IN his driver denied this soft impeach-
ment, ard challenged proof The judges caIlei
him up 10 the stand and swore him. About
this time he had got his wrath up. and swore
ne would show them trick worth looking
at. In the third heat he let the sleepy horse
out and dlstanced the whole field easily. cat
ing all Others out OF the chance OF second.
IhlTd, ana fourth money. The swearing OF the
army IN FLANDERS was nothing compared t.
thoee norsemen who were Topped. The air
got so hot that Lothian and his driver lii GU I
in the night with several thousand doll ar
pulled frum the greeuies who PLAYED with
him. During the selling OF pools the owner
bought the Held - against -, ant in the end
ScCOped the whole business. The query j.
w DO rs Dothair, and where did ne come
from?" Nobody knows further than the
owner said he came from Canada. At all
events he cut the eyeteeth OF the SharpeSt
hofsemen in the state. and did II SD hand
somely that they did not discover il until ne
had got their money and was gOae.-WdUcry
Repttblicda.
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NcCSG WfDow LADY CHLoRoroRNrn
AND NloLATfD-ln Pswtuckef n 4 ! laSt
sunday night, about N a clork a fsr,dIxb
outrage was cOmmittSi. Tire facts OF TIE "a -
being as follows &C., THE house OF Mr. No..
Wilkinson, widow lady about TWENTY
seven years Of axe. living an tensneTt
houAe OF South street, Wa entered bv soma
fellow, who, AFTER applying chlorosorun to
her, dragged her nom her bel and groSSly
violated Ter. It IL supposed that the en- :
trance 10 the house was effected hy pushing
The Key from The door aud openiug it with
'otheI Key from the outside. a Young
lady bOarter lived with Mrs. Wlkin-
son, and, with the latter's daughter tWp
ears OLD, the three occupied the he'd together.
10 II believed that chlonbiorru was almin-
lstertu loail. aS the young lady was awaken
"A with great dificulty Nv ire s,,,.,Inants -
Ire Ups tairs tenement Mrs Wnkt6Son haS
a lalnt rocollection OF some one throwing
wafer IN Der face, and nndiBg size was on the
noor, struggled 10 get M. but in vain. amer
ward, o. dina out that she was tiad Town bv
her child's skirt. she made an effort n fres
herself. but was told by The villain 20 liz
SIN or he would choke her TO death. When
she came 10 Consciousness she was bewild-
cred. hut managed to arouse the folks up
stairs. Both the entry and outside doors
were found opened. The police were nOtlne 4
OF the affair, and are securing the place Tor
Tie wretch. The lady belongs in New uamp-
shire and iH respectfully connected. art
much sympathy h expressed for her 10 Is
oelieNed mat the outrage was cpmm tied nv
some one well acquainted with ia e surround
iugS.
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IITTlT JoSEN SULLINAN's DFArH-y'te
InguFN ~ Coroner fSrkcT AMI Zee fputfiloa n
DT. hdcN hi.gsts.-I 'orOrpr Croker he'd al in
quest IN tie case al little Jo>ey sullivan
yesterday. aud AFTER taking the testfm INV Al
the FATHER and Others IA relation o. the hoy =
disappearance, listened Ia that az Mr. Jam
neNiue, a. e. lows am "A dealer I'm hay. 4
live at $40 Washington street. and my ware
house u ~ "a IN the same street. Ca the Gti
OF september 1 received l8a bales of salt
meadow hay from staten Island. IL was
piled IN tiers, each tier being about ten feet
high. There were two tiers of tie salt mead
ow bay near the wall, and there was "A third
and lower tier Of "a different kind OF hay ont
slde OF them. In piliug hav we usually make
a set OF steps, beginning at the outer tier and
rising u the tier that h against the walt
JOsey sullivan often came % NV Office In
play. i never saw him I'm the Warehouse.
On the 18TH Of September I heard THAT ia
was missing. Since then we have sold moro
or les az the Staten Island hay every day
Yesterday, while selling some OF this hav
and when We had got u the last bale OF tie
second tier, 1 saw the legs of a child An tie
harrOw hollow between the last bale aud rae
tier against the wall. Bales OF salt meafnyg
hay are not like bales OF any other kind OF
hay, the ends Of the former being loose and
soft. Even when they are piled close together
tle body OF man can 20 dOwn between bales
OF salt meadow hay.
Deputy Coroner +. Wallace WhInnIs
testified That iu his opinion the boy died OF
starvation and impure air Bittle JOsey was
. = years OF age.--N y. Sfa, az.
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THE NINELASD EDITORIAL TRoUBLE-
TIE Victim Of Lends Shooting t1 a Teyy CTi .
tcdl Physicfd Condition -Carruth. the New
Jersey editor in whose brain bullet lies m
bedded, the alleged handiwork of Chas. X
Lands. is sinking fast at his home in Vine
land. A Herald reporter had an interview
yesterday with some friends OF the unfortu-
nate man at Nineland, when they said that
CaTruth's mind seems TO be getting weaker
every day, that he is suffering a great deal
OF pain, ard his eyesight is very poor. he
cannot walk without support, and the
wound, which is not healed, continues 20 dis
charge all the time. Last Monday a week
ago: he was out in a carriage riding with Mr..
T.. TEAL, the purchaser OF his newspaper
and when they returned home the wounded
editor had 10 be assisted into his residence.
Then he could not see the DOR. He has not
been out OF the house since that time Dr.
Brown, of Philadelphia, has been re-
Gently attending him. but 10 is said he
could do nothing TO ameliOrate his condition.
III Is reported that mutual friends are Il
work trying 10 bring about a settlement be-
tween him and Lands, with but little pros
pect OF success, however. Soon after the
shooting occurred Carruth demanded $50 90
civil dam ages from Landis hut the latter
refused 10 comply. Afterwards Lands offered
TO pay CaFruth $50 900 for n thirty-acTe farm
belonging TO him, on condition that he would
leave the state. To this Carruth likewise
demurred. The Nineland independent was
sold by Carruth To TEAL. for 81 500, IRndTs
furnishing the money, and IL is now run by
real. Carruth has wife and five children
living, the eldest OF whom is only fifteen
years OF age.
The grand jury of Cumb erland county now
In session at Bridgeton, II is said. are investi-
gazing the case. If Carruth dies within one
year frOm the time OF the shooting Lands is
liable TO be indicted for murder i'm tho FIRST
degree according TO the laws of New jersey
". \. Herald IN.
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TWO CENTS.

a TRAGlCAL ENECCTION.-The Galveston
LTexas) News has details OF the hanging of
Nelson Mitchell for the murder of two men
named Truitt in Hood county and the death
OF Jeff Mitchell, who was trying 20 convey
poison TO his father I'm Jail. Although every
eGort was made TO secure the oommutation
OF the sentence. Gov. Coke was firm I'm his re-
fusal, and on Friday last the officers pro
ceeded 10 put the sentence into execution.
Mitchell, who is a man OF eighty years OF
age, made several attempts to commit suit
cice "Wednesday night by hanging him self
with chain he had wrench ? from the door
but his heart failed him. He spent the MI GIT
In curSiI z the sherin and officers. aud on
Thursday night guard was placed IN hts
cell 10 prevent selfSestruction. On Thurs
day night the guard about tie Jail 4 iScoverei
az armed man crawling towards the Jan.
ara, not knowing how many Others there
might be, fired. IN the morning the lifeles
bCiy OF Jen. Mitchell. youngest son of the
Coomed man, aged about twehty-one. wa,
round on the ground, the whole top OF his
mead blown of. He was armed with a
rouhle barrelled shotgun. aud had a brace oi
Colts revolverS buckied around him. and al
heavily loaded. Ia his pocket was rpnpt a
large vial OF lauuauum. wrapped with rags
which be was evidently conveying To mis-
father. The old man asked that the bofy %
brought into the Jail that he might see ms
son, and was much affected. Near by his
horse was hitched. hrs hat and shoes tied q
the saddle. The execution was attended by
5000 people. A little after one O'Clock toe
wagon. containing the doomed man Seatel
on his ,"ffin. proceeded 10 the gallowS. the
rore was tied and the execution gone tnrOLgl
with.
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TIE FIREMEN'S CONVENTION.
CLOsIng PrOeeedinys and Festivities

NEW YORK, Oct. S.-The conven tiOu Of
chief engineers OF departments of the United
states reaSsembled this a. M, and were ad-
dressed by President Hendricks, who recon-
mended that all future gatherings for bust
uess should not occupy more than two or
three days. 1t was resolved to abolish the
office OF treasurer 10 the convention and con-
fer the duties pertaining TO that position on
The recording secretary. After easing votes
OF thanks to tie Officers who governed their
proceedings, the convention adjourned to
meet IN Philadelph next year. After adj
i0urnment, the delegates went in body to
witness parade of the fire department of
this city. This p. m. the chiefs will witness
display of explosives, and in the evening
VIII be rendered dinner at DelmonicO's by
the gentlemen representing insura nee inter
cstS in this city.
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0-Gen. Fitz-John Porter ani Roger A.
Pryor have been initiated into the Tammany
society.
SThe British admiralty have suSpendef
the operations of the circular OF the Slst OF
July, ordering the surrender OF fdgiIvs
slaves found on British vessels.
nTColonel Bakers disgraced relatives in
London ips1d a photographers tL0Oo 10 pre-
vent the sale Of the unfortunate soldiers pic,
lures on the streets.
~The authorities OF Richmond, Va, have
extended The hospitalities OF the city 70 tbe
widow and daughter OF Stonewsu Jackson
Tor The both, when the statue will be unveiled.
~lt is stated that Henry 8. Belden. prom
inent In the New York canal frauds, is very
III from poison, taken during recent at
tempt at suicide.
HThe Bavarian Cltramontanes have in
troduced a violent address into the chamber
OF deputies, calling for the dismissal OF tha
ministry.
rVTwo schooners were seized by ths
United STAT revenue officers at Boston yes
terday for noncompliance with the law re-
quirtng the use Of suitable fog horns.
~MeTrie England has fast newspaper
trains, too. They run al sixty miles per hour.
and the distributors are left barely time tn
distribute and chuck cut the parcels a. tha
way stations.
@The late Mr.. Ralstons country sear
(Belmont), twenty-five miles from San Franz
cisco, will be turned over 10 the use OF Mr..
Leland, OF the Palace hotel, and conducted az
a rural adjunct OF that establishment
GHIn Key West the repu blicans have no-ls
mated for mayor Carlos Manuel Cespedea
son of the late president Of Cuba, and ior tax
collector another Americanized Cuban, III :
bursio Terres The Cuoans represent a ls-gI
proportion OF The population OF Key Wes.
ga leader OF the ton In Paris has inst IN
troduced an Eastern fashion which 10 ar
probability will soon be Initiated in this
country. She Is having all her chairs, sofas,
ana even her carriages stuffed with AROMATIC
herbs, which I'LL the air With an agreeable.
but not too powerful perfume
- Sam Graham, a st, Louis negro min
slrel, committed suicide few days ago.
That evening his chair In the row OF perform
ers was left empty aud draped In black, the
songs were all melancholy In character, ana
no jokes were cracked-which must have
made the entertainment very cheerful.