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The Origin of Indian Names.

A member of Major PowelPs expedi-
ton, which has been engaged in the
territories, furnished the Tribune some
interesting notes of the discoveries
made in tie origin of Indian names.
It seems that each tribe or primary or
ganization of Indians, rarely including
more than two hundred souls, is, in
obediance to the additional of these
people, attached to some well-6efne
territory or district, and the tribe takes
the name OF such district. Thus the
U-intais, known to white men as a
branch of the Utes, belonged to the
Uintah valley. U-imp is the name for
pine too meap, for land or country !;
U-im-too- -meap, pine land but this has
been contracted to q in tab, and the
tribe inhabiting the valley were called
U-in-tats. u is the term signifying ar
row U-too-meap, arrow land. The re-
gion of the country bordering on Utah
lake is called U-too-meap because of the
great number of reeds growing there from
which their AFRO VS. hats were made. The
tribe formerly iDhabiting Utah valley
was called Utah ats, which has been
corrupted into the name Ute by tbe
white people of the country. The name
U-tah-ats belonged only to a small
tribe living in the vicinity of the lake,
but it has been extended SO as to in
cIude the greater part of the Indians of
Utah and Colorado Another general
name used by white men is Piutes. A
tribe of U-tah-ats being defeated and
driven away by stronger tribe, who
occupied their country and took their
name, were obliged to take new name
corresponding otbe new home in which
they settled themselves. But they also
called themselves Pal q tab ats or true
U-tah-ats. The corrupted name Piutes
is now applied to the Indians of large
section of country. Several of these
tribes have numerous names, and in
this way the number of individual
tribes has probably been much oyeresti-
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War HOrses.

War horses when hit in battle, trem-
BILE in every muscle, and groan deeply,
while their eyes show deep astonish.
ment. During the battle OF Waterloo,
some of the horses, as they lay upon
the ground, having recovered from the
first agony of their wounds, fell ttG6uf1d- tG6u md
ing grass about tlfH' eircle of bare
tnpGuhd, the limited extent of which
showed their weakness. Others were
observed quietly grazing on the field
between the two hostile lines, their
riders having been shot off their backs !;
and the balls flying over their heads,
and the tumuIt behind, before, and
around them, caused no interruption to
the usual instinct of their nature. It
was observed that when charge of cav
airy went past near to any of the stray
horses already mentioned they would
start off for themselves in the rear of
their mounted companions, and though
without riders, gallop strenuously
along with the rest, not stopping or
fipching, when the fatal shock with the
enemy took place.
At the battle of Kirk, in 1745, Major
Macdonald, having unhorsed an English
officer, took poss ession of his horse
which was very beautiful, and immedi-
ately mounted it. When The English
cavalry fed the horse ran away with
his captor, Notwithstanding all his
efforts to restrain him, LOr did it stop
until it was at the head of the regiment
of which, apparently, its master was the
commander. I'he melancholy, and at
the same time Iudicrous figure which
Macdonald presented when he thus
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A Discouraged Boy.

Crabapple's boy had read that touch
ing Thanksgiving story about the chaI
who ran away from home when a boy
and went to sea and was not heard oI
for years and years and how every
Thanksgiving day the mother sat 8
plate for the wanderer, and kept seal
for him at the table, and hoW tbassTno
haired sire, when pWBaSSward son-prayfd d
pitaS he might return in safety to the
paternal roof
And then one Thanksgiving day, when
they had atout given him up for dead,
although the plate and vacant chair told
the story of a mothers undying hopes.
Just as the family had sat down to the
Thanksgiving dinner, there came a RAJ
at the door. "Come in - cried the
sire, and in bounded the boy in sailor
jacket and tarpaulin bat Just home
from a whaling voyage. Such rejoicing
as there was in that house. How his
father shook both his hands, and how
his mother wept over him and embraced
him, and how all the brothers and sis
ters, aunts and cousins hung around
his neck and tugged at his sailor jacket.
1t was worth Drawing the dangers of
the sea to meet with such a welcome on
his return. He sat ct the feast in the
chair that a mothers deathless love,
and hope, and recollection had always
placed for him, and never was there a
happier Thanksgiving since that cher
ished anniversary was invented.
Crabapple's boy wept over that story
every time he read it, and he got to
wondering whether such fuss would
be made over him should he run away
from home and then turn up again
some THANKSGIVING day.
He thought about it SO much that he
fnally determined TO test the business,
anyhow. He would see how the people
would act when he played the prodi-
gals return. So about week from
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Fad's Jetty Bill,

The west and so4th, irrespective of
party, unitedly favored the bill. The
provisions of the bill, as amended
and passed the house, are these: That
john B. Eads, of St. Louis, be au-
thorized to construct such permanent
and sufficient ietties and such auxiliary
works as are necessary to create and
permanently maintain a wide and deep
channel between the southwest pass of
the Mississippi river and the Gulf of
Mexico, and for that purpose he may
construct in the river an outlet or pass,
and likewise in the Gulf of Mexico
such walls, jetties, dikes, levees and
other structures, and employ such
boats, RATS and appliances as he may,
in the prosecution of said work, deem
necs ssary. Provided, that no such
structures employed shall materially
interfere with the free navigation of
said pass, and to protect said works he
may build and maintain such levees as
may be necessary to secure their per-
mauency along the banks of the river
or southwest pass. Provided, that un.
less the construction of the work shall
be substantially mImpsGnrcSGyaI Of this
"a 60 [11secuted with due diligence,
SnesG iet provisions shall be void, and un-
less Eads shall secure a navigable depth
of twenty feet of water through said
pass within thirty months after the ap-
proval of this act, congress may revoke
the privileges granted and cancel the
obligations assumed by the United
States unless Eads shall, after securing
twenty feet of water secure an addi-
tiOnal depth of not less than two feet
each succeeding year thereafter, until
twenty-six feet shall have been secured,
and four feet additional, or thirty feet,
within twenty-four months after having
secured twenty six feet; and in case
Eads shall fail to comply with the fore
going conditions as to depth of water
and time for any period of twelve
months in excess of the time fixed,
and the act shall absolutely become
null and void without action by con-
gress. These conditions are made OBJ
ligatory upon Ead's hens. That the
conditions prescribed being complied
with, the United States agree to pay
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Literary Composition.

Byron wrote ''The Corsair" in ten dayF,
at the rate of two hundred lines a day, :,
and sent it to the press as it was writ
ten, published it with hardly correc-
ton. Lope de Vega wrote three hun
dred dramas for the stage in one hun
dred days. The average amount of his
work was nine hundred lines a day
Yoltaire wrote "Zaire, in three weeks,
and ''Olympie" in six days Dryden
wrote his lode te St Cecilia" st a sit
ting. The finest OF Elizabeth Barrett
ProwniDg's poems, "The Lady Geral-
dimes Courtsbip," was the work of
twelve hours. 1t was written to com
plete the original two volumes of her
poetry, and to send out with her proofs
60 America. Shakespeare was not oneeOf
these slap-dash workers; and Shaks-
peare, with his thirty four plays, has
conquered the world. Dickens, when
he intended to write a Christmas story,
shut himself up for six weeks, lived the
life of hermit, and came out looking
as heggard as a murderer. Tom Moore,
with all his e9ervescence and sparkle,
thought it quick work If he added sew
enty lines to "Lalls Rokh" in a week,
although living out of the world in a
WAlbiI1S -DOA III hllS p6dh- 14aHGuc pIO-
duced his burlesque at an equally SLOW
rate, thinking ten or a dozen Ii@>s gay },
GOOD work The ..uGnor OF CaSJe
and = school" was one of the slowest of
workmen. Even Albany Floublanque
often wrote his articles in the Examiner
six times over before he thought them
fit to go to press-itis said he wrote and
rewrote his "Two Queens" eight times.
That exquisite trihe of Knglake's,
"Eothen, was rewritten five or six
times, and kept in bis desk almost as
long as Wordsworth kept "The White
Doe of Rylstone."
A GIRL was smothered to death while
on a sleigh ride near Bangor, Me-, on
one of the recent intensely cold nights.
A party of young people were out ON a
frolic, filing a long sleigh. This girl
grew very cold, and to keep her warm
her sweetheart wrapped her closely IN
huge blanket, covering her head and
face. Too drowsy and benumbed to
stir, she suffocated without her com
panlons being aware that she was dying.
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PaWnbrOkeTs.

Few OF our readers arc probsbly
aware Of the immense extent TO when
the poor 10 this city make use Of loans
from the pawnbrokers' shops; There
are in New York and Brooklyn some
4n0 of these. and in jersey City and
Hoboken sixty. They advance 70 tbs
moor during each year some $1,000, 600.
These loans are usually for thirty days,
and the rate OF interest is from eight
to twenty per cent. per month. The
article pledged for the loan ~ ue1alIy
three times the value Of the sum lent
and is often never redeemed, owing to
the distress or poverty Of the person
borrowing. If the interest is from IN
eight 20 ten per cent. per month. it will
be seen that the pawnbrokers make
some hundred PER cent. on their loans,
or about four millions annually nom
the poor and it not improbable they
Get as much more from the sale OF the
articles pawned.-NeU York 7Tmes'
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By H0RSIEY BROS. & FIGUERS

lightly balancing the weight on her
arm, and enjoying the impromptu
masquerade as only a spirited young
woman can do. ~
Mrs. Prowler bought four quarts for
preserving, at twenty-five cents per
quart.
Wild berries has such flavor, ~
said the old lady, refectively, "and
faint often you get 'em in the city. /
s'pose you don't come round TT G lar.
young woman 2"
"No, i don't, ma'am."
Because you might get some good
customers" said Mrs. Prowler.
Miss Seninthia Hall, who keeps
boarders. purchased two quarts; AIRS.
Capt. Csrhury took one, and then
Millicent jumped on the cars and rode
verify down town.
j" I've got dollar and seventy five
cents of my OVID, at all events" she
said to herself.
Strawberries Nice, rire, wild
strawberries Buy my Strawberries y
Her sweet voice resounded through
the halls OF the great marble building,
on whose first floor the great bank was
situated. -----
= II chanced to be dull interval of
business Just 1tnen, aud the cashier
looked up with a yaWn. - -..-.
81 say, Bill James, said be, to the
Youngest clerk, SCI have an idea that a
few Strawberries wouldn't go badly.
Call in the woman"
Billy, nothing 10th, slipped off his
sto d with a pen behind each ear, and
scampered off into the hall.
So Milly sold another quart
As she was giving change for the
castier's doIlsr bill. the president him
self came in, bus,ling aud brisk ss
usual.
"Eh? What? How?" barked out
Mr.. Radcliffe Gates. Strawberries z?
Well, don't care il / take a few my
self. Here, young woman, how do } ou
sell them % 7=a=
Milly pushed back her sun-bonnet,
and executed a sweeping courtesy.
"Twenty- five cents a quart, sir, if
you please" purred she, with much
humility.
Mrs. Gates !" he calculated.
"My name, sir, :" MiIlicent.
"May venture TO inquire
so, yes - said Nj ly. "You may
inquire as much as you please.
l.
it. See how much 1 have already :"
and she triumphantly displayed her
roll of crumpled stamps. 1.-THE straw
berries were sll my own, sent to me
this morning by old Mrs. Peabody, and
I'm selling them to get an income of
my own"
You, ma'am, selling strawberries
through the streets -
Milly made a second courtesy.
Extreme necessities justify extreme
measures, Mr.. Gates" said she, saucily.
81 earned my own living before / saw
you, and I can again.
Mr.. Radcliffe Gates looked uneasily
around at the crowd of gaping clerks.
"Jarnes," said he, "call me hack.
My dear, let me take you home"
"Not until have sold the rest of
my strawberries, saucily retorted the
young wife.
"I'll Ike all-at any price !" impa-
tiently exclaimed the banker.
Cash DOWN."
eyes anything, every thing-only
come out of this crowd.
So Mr.. and Mrs. Gates went home !;
and that evening the banker agreed to
make his wife a regular allowance of
20 mucu per week, W DC pau dO"H
every Monday morning at the break
fast table.
But we'll have no more selling
Strawberries, said Mr.. Gates, ner-
vously.
"To be sure ot," said Milly. "An
I wanted was a little money OF my
own."
And Mr.. Radcliffe Gates respected
his vvifa q n tho mora baoausa Sba had
conquered him in fair battle.
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Little Gprtir.

Gertie Mayhem wound her golden
curls in o massive coil around her
shspely little head, fastened the dainty
ruffis at her throat with a rose c1ral
pin, hung the drops in her delicate
ears, and threw herself into a sleepy.
hollow chair to think.
So absorbed was she ii her medita-
tions that the dinner-bell sounde d twice
ere she needed it, and when at last she
rose we Arily from her seat, the blue
eyes were brimming with tears, and the
rosy mouth was quivering.
Twelve years before, when John
Roeheford stood by the bedside of his
only sister, and received from her dy-
ing lips the charge to be kind to her
little girl for her sake, if for nothing
else, tears stood in the strong mans
| eyes, and his lips trembled as he prom
ised to be father to the little Gertie,
who looked on with wide-Open blue
eyes, too young to understand what it
meant. and only wondering =" why mann
ma didn't get we'll"
SO Uncle John took her way from
the pretty village where she had always
lived to his own grand home in London,
and stately Aunt Irene kissed her and
bade her welcome.
Perhaps they meant to be kind to
her; but Mr.. Rocheford was wholly alb.
sorbed in his business, and his wife
was a fashionable woman of the world,
indulging her own childlep, Irene and
Bell, in every whim.
And so Gertie was stranger and un-
loved, with the sole exception of Lloyd
Preston, her uncle's ward, who, from
the time he first saw the beautiful
child, constituted himself her protector
But, two years later, he was sent to
one of the far-famed German univer-
sites And during the long ten years
of his absence Gertie was lonely indeed
Now, af,er this long absence, be was
home again and it was no wonder that
our little Gertie trembled as she de-
scended the stately staircase, and en-
tered the brilliantly lighted dining.
room, where the family had alreaoy
assembled.
It is a week later-Ch Christmas Eve
and Lloyd Preston entered the bril-
liantly- lighted drawing room.
Where is Gertie?" he asked.
"Gertie ?" said Belle. "Moping, 1
suppose. She always is"
"Wlll you please bring me a book
you'll find on the library-table, Lloyd -
asked Irene.
Ard so entering the dimly-iig hted
library, he found very disconsolate
little girl sitting in the corner.
"Gertie !" he exclaimed, "why aren't
you with the girls ?"
A half suppressed sob was her only
answer.
Little one, come to me only give
me your love, and tomorrow will be a
blessed Christmas"
All there was no mistakiDg the look
in the brown eyes then, ard IN the dim
light little white hand was slipped
into his, and they only knew that they
were very happy.
Irene opened the door.
Cant you find"
And then she paused, for she read
their secret in the happy faces before
her.
Look, girls, here is a pretty tab
leau %
eyes," said Lloyd, proudly drawing
Gertie's hand within his arm, "Miss
Mayhem has promised to be my wife. y
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Thanksgiving he ran away from home.
He didn't go to sea, because the sea
was too far off, and he couldn't make
much of voyage in week anyhow.
| He got a job in a lanyard, grinding
bark, which answered all the purposes,
for he could Imagine his bark was on
the sea-" as he rode the old horse
around the circle. He called the mill
the world, and imagined himself sailing
around the world at every revolution.
With beating heart he approached
the paternal mansion. He looked in at
the window and saw the folks just sit
ting down TO the Thanksgiving supper.
A chill of disappointment crept over
him as he saw there was no vacant chair
and there wasn't an idle Plate on the
table. He listened at the door as the
blessing was asked, but although several
prophets were honored with flattering
notice, his name wasn't mentioned.
This was little hard on the boy who
had rdn away from home and wss liable
to turn mp on that or any succeeding
THANKSGIVING day. .....
Racollections OF him didn't seem TO
cluster around the hearthstone to any
very great extent. ..... ".l ..
depressing chilling fOrebodlng that
arose in his breast, he flung open the
door, rushed into their midst aud ex-
claimed" Gather mother 'tis /,
Sammy Crabappls home again homel
home - and then threw himself on his
fathers breast, sobbing convulsively.
What did that father do =? Did be hug
him and sob fears over him, and call
him his long "lost bo-bo-boy ?" Not
much. He took him by the collar, led
him into the wood shed and worked
over him more than on hour with a bar
rel-stave, his brothers and sisters dane
ing around on the back stoop in an
ecstscy of delight, while his mother
screamed. "That's right, Ambus give
it TO him Learn him better'n to ran
away from home again !" ....
Then he was sent to bed without any
Thanksgiving supper at all, and threat
ened with being deprived of both Christ
mas and New Years dinners.
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Conversation as an Art.

We all converse-or, in other words,
talk with each other-unless forbidden
by unkindly nature, as in the case OF
deaf mutes, or compelled by arbitrary
force to maintain silence we abhor.
We occasionally read of people who, in
fit of caprice, resolve never to bestow
upon their fellow w-creatures the benefit
of their discourse. But such people
may be called phenomenal. Men and
women may be taciturn, Just as men
and women may be loquacious, but
voluntary silence is never to be expected
of any human being possessed of the
ordinary desire to secure information
supposed to be locked up in the bosom
of another, of any one gifted with q
common anxiety to impart information
to others. Tons ues were made for vocal
purposes, and humanity is apt to regard
them, in its own case, as made for
speech. Whether the inferior orders of
creation enter tain each other with CON-
versation or not is question we leave
to scholastic disputants but that no
two of the human family will long re-
main silent if placed within sight and
hearing of each other, is an accepted
fact. If they can think, as strangers,
of no other congenial point of interest,
they will dilate upon the weather, and
the way to mutual discourse thus opened
upon neutral ground, the path to So
ciability becomes one of facility.
But, after all, mere speech is not con-
versation in the stricter sense, and of
those with whom we talk every day,
how few really converse well-how few
of them so interest us with their con-
versation that we listen to what they
utter with qualification, and in their
absence long to listen to them again.
Is conversation, then, an art? Speech
we know to be natural gift but is
conversation itself-the kind of CONVEX
sation that first wIns and then fasci-
mates our attention. gift only ac-
quired by tuition and experience The
French think SO, we presume, for we'll
known professor in Paris advertises to
"give lessons in the art OF conversa-
ton ;" and if professors teach ladies, in
youth, how to walk gracefully, why not
how to talk in the same manner? For,
although everybody walks and talks,
not more than one in a hundred
do either, without instruction, in a
manner calculated to earn an honest
compliment. The art of conversation
is realized as such IN a moment by
person unaccustomed to society, if sud
denly introduced to a gathering of in
tellect. However fluent in speech ard
self possessed in manner upon ordinary
occasions, even the boldest feel dis
mayed upon entering sphere pervaded
by an atmosphere of mental culture.
They are at once conscious of their in
ability to rise to the level of their sur
roundings. They have language, and
they may have assurance, but they lack
the buoyancy inspired by a familiarity
with the art OF conyersation-iust as the
uutaught founderer in deep water sinks
because, with hands and feet like his
neighbor, he lacks knowledge of the
art of swimming.
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Loss of Memory.

The loss of memory during illness or
from some sudden shock has, no doubt,
been observed by every one; but some
curious phases of it not generally known
can be found in the books and Journals
of physicians. A Scotch Highland wo-
man, long accustomed to use English
language, was placed under the care of
DR.. Macintosh at Edinburgh, during
au attack of apoplexy. She go far re-
covered as to look around her with an
appearance of intelliP ence; but the doc
tor could not make her understand q
word he said. At last it occurred to
him to have one of the attendants speak
to her in Gaelic, her long unused native
tongue and to that she Immediately
and readily responded. When she re-
covered her health more perfectly, her
Eng ish came back to her. DR.. Rush
mentions the case of an Italian gentle
man, who died of yellow fever in New
York, and who underwent, during the
malady, a series of mental changes.
During the first part of his illness he
spoke English, which had for some time
been his familiar language in that coun-
try during the middle period English
was driven from his mind by French,
which he had learned earlier and on
the day of his death he spoke only his
native italian. Abernethy, the great
surgeon, told similar story of man
whom he attended, who was born in
France but had spent the greater part
OF his life in England, and had for many
years lost the habit of speaking French.
An injury to his head brought him un-
der the care OF Abernethy, who OBJ
served that during his Illness the man
spoke only French, going back to his
English as he recovered. We all know
how, to the very old and the dying, the
language of their childhood comes again,
aud the old scenes rise before the oying
eyes like pictures, so that from the re-
covery OF childish peace they go out
across the tide to the unknown, new life
beyond.