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Sharp County record., 1877-11-09
The Great Mexican Railway.

The building of the great railway
from Vera Cruz to the City OF Mexico
was colossal feat in constructive en-
gineering. The intervening country
was superbly beautiful, and crossed at
right angles by the great Sierra range,
through which is one continued pano-
rama of beauty. 80
The railway is 267d miles long has Is
lengthy tunnels and many fine iron
bridges. 1t cost 100000 Mexican
dollars; and is undoubtedly the finest
constructed railway on the American
continent. The first 40 miles is straight,
and on a gentle grade, rising slowly
from the sea; then for a distance OF 10
miles it crosses over three distinct
ranges of mountains, each of which
stands up like colossal staircase. This
section is very crooked. Winding
around the numerous canyons IN the
mountain, the train runsfor many miles
over the brink of precipices, almost per-
pendicular, 5000 feet. The grades are
400 feet per mile; and the ordinary
American locomotive finds the greatest
difficulty in crossing unencumbered' d.
But the company use an English engine
known as the Fairlie patent-which
carries ten loaded cars with ease. 1t IS
double engine, or two engines con-
nected, with their heads turned togeth-
er, and 3O-inch drivers. At the west
end of this division, which is at Boca
del Monte, the road-bed reaches its
greatest elevation, which is $4,000 feet
above the sea at Vera Cruz from there
it gradually declines through a contin,
uation of broad valleys to the City OF
Mexico. These valleys are from 8 to
20 miles wide entirely hemmed in the
tall mountains. Every foot is irrigated,
and in thorough state of cultivation.
-MUnuf@ctarer and Builder.
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Settling Up of Ashtabula.

The Lake Shore and Michigan
Southern has indemnified the rel
atiyes and heirs of 65 out the 81 per-
sons who lost their lives in the bridge
accident at Ashtabula. The balance OF
the claims are in fair way of speedy
settlement. The largest amount paid
to any one party was $4,000. Mr.. and
Mrs. Rogers, newly married couple on
their wedding tour, were killed ana
their bodies burned beyond recognition
vet their lives have been settled for at
the comparatively small figure OF $4,000.
The claims against the company
have generally fallen under $1,000
ChicG0O Times.
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HINTS FOR THE HOUSEHOLD.

JumUeS.-1 cup butter, of sugar, )
eggs, 4 cups flour; mix soft; bake in
round cakes.
Apple CuStard Pie.-1 pint OF sweet
milk and 3 grated sweet apples, 2 well
beaten eggs, little salt, sugar, and nut
MEG to taste. Have only an undercruSt.
| Crab-apple Jcgg.-Cut in havles and
boil in water till soft; 2 qua' IS water to
| peck apples; strain and add l pound
of sugar to pint juice; boil % minutes.
Canned Crab-appleS.-To 3 pounds
apples take pounds sugar; make a
sirup, and when boiling put in apples
and boil until soft; seal Immediately in
heated cans; no pairing.
Elderberry Butter.-Take gallon of
elderberries, 3 quarts of sugar, and l
pint of vinegar; boil for 8 hours, STIR
ring often; for pies, take 1 tablespoon
fuls for each pie Of the butter, and re-
duce.
Suet Pudding.-2d cupfuls flour, |
teaspoonful salt, cup suet chopped
fine, eggs, scant pint milk, teaspoon
full soda, ! cup apples chopped fine, l
cup raisins, teaspoonful each of cloves
and cinnamon, teaspOontuls molasSes;
steam II hours.
French Cream Cake.-Boil Scant pint
milk; take 2 eggs and 2 small table
spoonfuls corn-starch beaten with lit
tie milk; when the milk bOils stir this
in slowly with scant cup sugar, l table,
spooful butter, 2 teaspoOnfuls lemon
essence; make a cake of 8 eggs, l cup
full sugar, Il cupfuls flour, teaspOonful
baking-powder, 2 tablespoonfuls milk ;
bake in 8 layers, and whilewarm spread
with cream.
Ounce Cordial. Take the paringS
and cores of the ounces when presery-
inc, cover them with water, and boil
a gallon down to J gallon; when re-
duced in this way to thick, clear mu-
cilage, add 2 pounds of white sugar;
stir this until dissolved, then add 2
quarts of the best white brandy; pour
this into very clean wine bottles, and
into each bottle put 4 or blanched bit
ter almonds; shake each bottle well and
cork tightly; in l week it is fit for use.
Preserved PearS.-5 pounds pears,
peeled, quartered, and cored; ! pound
green ginger, scraped. Cut up in small
pieces, put these on the fire with
boiling water to cover them, let them
hoil till fender. take them out with
perforated skinner. Put pounds OF
white sugar into the water in which
they are boiled, let them boil up once,
then put in the pears; let them boil
without being covered for hour, and
put them into jars with the skinner.
When the sirup boils for Is minutes
without being covered pour hot over
the pears. When cold tie them up
closely.
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when food begins to get scarce, to adj
vance grain to the poor of the district,
who return it at haryeSt-time with inter-
est in kind at the rate of 10
per cent Two-tenths of the in
terest thus paid are appropriated
by the officials, one-tenth is devoted to
restore waste, and the remaining seven
tenths, after the necessary repairs to the
buildings have been paid for, are depos-
tied in the granary.n The working of
this system is shown in the case of three
granarieS, which, in fourteen years from
their foundation, returned to the origi-
nal contributors the full amount of grain
advanced by them, and still had sutli-
cient corn and rice to supply the needs
of the neighborhood. In times of fam
inc, the grain is dealt ont first to the
women and children, and then to the
men. Cooked grain and rice are also
provided for those in immediate need
of food. In prosperous years, interest
on the grain advanced is strictly de-
manded; but, when the harvests turn
out bad, the interest is remitted, and
the original loan is even allowed to stand
over until the next season. There is n
great deal of charitable work performed
in China, Notwithstanding the reputa-
ton which the people bear for cruelty
and ard-heartedness. In nearly every
large town and district, there are asy-
lums for the aged and the orphans, in
addition to the establishments for the
relief of the poor. Colleges, schools,
and societies are also sustained for the
instruction of the children of the poor,
for the preservation of life, for the burial
of the dead, for encouraging husbandry,
and forvariouS other benevolent objects.
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Good Manners.

The essence of good manners is kind
thoughtfulnesS of others. The man who
goes to his room in a hotel stamping and
talking through the corridor, slamming
his door, and finging his boots down
heavily upon the floor, is merely brutal
" selfish. He is not aware that he owes
duties to other people who will be affect
ed by his conduct. He does not think
that he rudely awakens some one to
whom sleep is indispensable, and whom
he has no right to disturb. Haydon'S
picture of he man in the chop-house
waiting for the Times, which his neigh
bor has held for an hour, and is evident
lv bent upon holding until he has read
all the advertisements, is an illustration
of this common Selfshness. The talk
and conduct in the cars are generally
signs of vanity or a morbid self
consciousness. A well bred man keeps
his toothaches and headaches to him
self, and does not assume that strangs
ers are interested in his digestion.
A well bred woman keeps her children
Quiet, and does not assume that all her
fellow-travelerS must share her fond
ness for them. If Mrs. p, with her
vivid sense of Mr.. P.'s peculiarities and
of her fine house and equipage, could
only once know how Supremely unim-
portant any individual is, how well the
world Jared before Mr.. P. arrived, and
how unshocked the universe will be by
his departure, she would be a modest
and we'll hammered woman. That
knowledge, indeed, would be general
corrective of manners. A certain kind
of personal conceit often accompanies
undeniable superiority. There are men,
like Lord Chatham, who like to have
their going and coming regarded as
events, to move with pompous hustle,
and to be constantly regarded as great
men. But if they could only know it,
that very taste is constantly accounted
to them for weakness, and their infu
ence is just as far lessened.
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1t is interesting to notice, in the
pictures of the Russian battles, that the
Correspondent is always seen standing
erect in the hottest fire taking notes and
making sketches, while the airis streak
ed around him with bursting shells.
Occasionally, near the god-like form
of the correspondent, may be seen the
figure of an officer, in full uniform, with
his head reverently barred and his hat
tucked respectfully under his arm. This
is the Commanding General.
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VECETINE
SAFE AND SURE.

Mr.. II. r. STEVENS:
and Welding to the persuaSOnS of friend, consented
to tTyit At the time was suffering from general de-
work and irregular habits Its wonderful strengthening
and curative properties seemed to affect my debtated
system from the first dose and under It's peSSten use
rapidy recovered gaining than usual health and
good feeling Since then have not heSitated TO give
VEGETINE my most unqualified Endorsement, as being
restorinG the wasted system to new life and energy
VEGETINE is the only medicine use and as long as
live never expect to find better.
Yours truly, w. ID. CLARh,
12O Monterey Street. Allegheny, Pa
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THE GREAT FAMILY MEDICINE.-Dr. Will
hoft's Anti Periodic or Fever and Ague Tonic |
No case of incurable Chills has yet presented
itself, where this scientific and safe medicine
has been employed. No case has been found
so obstinate as to resist its prompt and mas
terly action. No man has been so reduced by
malaral influences, but with its use has come
up perfectly reconstructed, Nopills or purga-
tive required with this medicine. G. r. FINLAY
& Co., Proprietors, New Orleans.
For SALE BY ALL DRUGGIsTs.
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MIR. Layard, the English ambassa-
dor at Constantinople, and Mrs. Lay
ard, dined with the Sultan a few days
since. This is said to be the first time
that a Sultan has sat down to dinner at
his own table with a European lady.
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Mothers, Mothers, Mothers.

Don't fail to procure Mrs. WINsLows SooTH-
ING SYRUP for all diseases of tecthing in chill
dren. Il relieves the child from pain, cures wind
collie, regulates the bowels, and, by giving relief
and health to the child gives rest to the mother.
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HER OWN WORDS.
BALTIMORE, Md, Feb. 13, 1877.

BALTIMORE, Md, Feb. 13, 1877.
Mr.. H. r. STEVENS:
. Dear Sir-Since several years have got sore and
very painful foot. / had some physicians, but they
couldn't cure me- Now have heard of your FEGE-
TINE from lady who sick for long time and be-
came all well from your VEGE1INE, and went and
bought me one bottle of YEGETINE and after had
used bottle the pains left me and 1t began 70 neal
and then bought one other bottle and take it yet
thank God for this remedy and yourself and wishing
every sufferer may pay attention to it, 1t is blessing
MRS. c. KRABE, 69S West Baltimore street.
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OswEGo H-Manufacturers of all
fine goods, threads, laces, ETC., at home and
in Europe, use KINGsFoRD's OsWEGo
STARCH. No other article can produce so
fine n finish
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KIDNEY DISEASE, weakness and pain across
the back, lack of strength and activity, de-
preston and misery cured, eradicated and dis
nelled bv a single COLLINS VoLTAIC PLASTER
all the other plasters are worthless in compari-
aOn
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The spire of the Cathedral at Rou-
en-, France, is described as the "tallest
and ugliest of structures built by human
hands," 1t is 492 feet in height.
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VECETlNE
The Best Spring Medicine.
CHARLESTOWN.

OHAKIESIUWN.
H. r. STEVENS: -
Dear Siy-This is to certify that l have used your
"BOod Preparation in my family for several years. ana
think that for ScrOa or CankerOuS HumOrS or Rheu-
matte affections it cannot be excelled and as blood
purifier and spring medicine it is the best thing nave
ever used, and have used almost everything. can
medicine Yours respectfully,
MRS A. A. DINSMORE, 10 Russell Street.
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MIi0hf asa Cork

The good wife exclaimed on taking the bis
cult, prepared with DooLEY's YEAST POWDER,
from the oven; and well she might, for they
were "perfectly splendid"
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PATENTERs AND INVENTORS should read ad-
vertisement of Edison Bros. in another column.
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0PIIUJM M CURE
INSTITUTE.

This is an incorporated institution for the rad
zeal cure Of this dreadful habit 1t is not of the
many humbugS which furnish medicine by the month or
year only TO fleece the poor victim and leave him
Slave at last. No .'tapering OFF, plan. No
painful agony and longing. All desire de-
strOyed the first day; Cure completed gsu;
ally i'm few days. Patients eat, sleep, and feel
happy while being cured. Health improves from the
beginning as tine patient emerges from dreadful bond
age into life Of liberty and happiness. Perfect
curee guaranteed I'm all cases taken. 1T WILL
NUT COST DOLLAR unless the patient is satisfied that
a PERFECT AND RADICAL CURE has been effected.
FOR TREATISE ON OPIUM HABIT, with most convincing
testimony addres. OPIUM CURE INSTaTUTE,
AAI and 443 North Meridian street, In
diSnap0lss, Ind.
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a,rsee E. BROWNS Adv't of Foot LATHEs.
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UTHMTS TMG OF LIFE UNVEILED
NFaUEAE ! y or BOOK or FATE.

A Book Of Wonders of Marvellous Mysteries!
OF Life unfoIded! !KNOWTHNSEEt.A Agents
Wanted. II you want tn make money, send
for illustrated circular and extra terms 10 W.
MARSH. 1922 North Fourth street, st. Louis. Mo.
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ruv pprr POLISH IN THE WORLD"

IN Fine Mixed Cards, large size, tints, with
4Uname, by mail, lOc AHUNT & CO., plymouth, Ind.
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q T. Fancy Cards, Snowflake, Damask, etc, no2
ID alike With name lOc Nassau Card Co. NassauN NY.
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On Elegant Gilt-Edged Cards, no. alike, with
D Unamc lOc postpaid C.Yaup6Co, N.Clatham,N
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! n MIXED CARDS, with name, lOc. Samples
u 3.cent stamp. J. MINK. Err * CO., Nassau n. Y.
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OF Fancy Mixed C;,rds.no alike, with
4 Ename, Toe postpaid L Terpenlng, Cohesklll, n. Y
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ocATTv piano. organ best - Look! startling ng
DEN news. Organs II StolS,SI3 ilali'S Only SIoV
cost $3.50 cir Free Daniel T. iea;ty, WaSitngtOn,NJ.
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STAMMERERS 4na ' c ';a1 Ss
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GOO Day. How to Make 1t: Somethtng Gew M
Aoents COE, TONGE d co, Louis, Mo.
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Ladies' Friend & e. SSs e. s4.sss
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fr n n a day surc made ny Agents selling our tlLo-
Nj y ia mos @ ayuus, Picture Chrome Cards iSss
vi SAMPLES worth So, seat postpaid i'r Sbc' IL
AZ ng free. j. H. bUFFuRps SONS. Boston, Mass
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ncs cor pea, dag at home Samples worth IS
Nc Ig IGW iree STINSON & co. Portland, Vie.
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n HPn A MONTH-NgcntS Wgnted-3o
"a abcst.srlng articles In ID" world; salnple
UU OGTee. Address JAY BRONSON, Detroit 'Nlcn
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Nl0 a Day at HOme.-Agens wantedf Outh
9Lk and terms free. TRUE & CO., Augusta, Me.
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VIII ben
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egapc Revolvers sent free for exaininatn Prce'nst
uUstS fret, GreatWestn GunWOrks, Pittsburgh, Pa
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a GENTS WANTED to sell Illustra'd Life OF Brig
Aham Young. Price soc. Sun Pub. Co. ,St.L
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NJ r. ~ ~ II month TO Agents. DDnT go 70 , Me
U XIX U91r-bouse send stamp for immense Illus
IG w trated catalogue. OGBRYANr, Chicagoul'
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Ann n Best thing fer AGENTS. j. LATH-
XZu IOf Z. AM co. 4l9 Wash. st., Boston, Mass.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-02-23
MEMPHIS TENN FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 2S 1871

Tabernacle must be strikingly SINH
lar-for if people were not found
to applaud his cant and rant, Mr..
Talmage would be compelled, in
accordance with the eternal laws OF
trade, to shut up his spouting shop.
Yet we take the liberty of doubling
whether there is in Mr.. Talmage's )
congregation a single person whose
gorge does not rise when in cold
blood he recollects or reads one of
these hebdomadal howls. Is it not
about time for some moral board of
health to abate Mr.. Talmage's
special sermons, if only for the
sake of Mr.. Talmage himself and
his hearers? The public oGense
consists not so much in the crazy
clap-trap he talks aud the silly
stories he invcnts. These are only
ofenses of manner. Mr.. Talmage's
ardent desire for the death and
damnation of Mr.. John Morrissey
illustrates the more grievous traits
which make him a fit object fol-
sanitary supervision and correction,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-02-23

Alexander, sold on the streets for a
cent a stick. From this humble
beginning arose a large confechon-
cry, and afterwards the extensive
sugar refinery in Chambers street.
The elder Stuart, Robert, resides
in the handsome brown-stone front,
standing in well-cultivated garden,
at the northwest corner Of Fifth
avenue and Twentieth street. 1t
was long one of the finest private
houses in the city, and is still very
pleasant and attractive. 1t is
superbly furnished containing many
pictures and works of art, though
it is greatly surpassed now by more
ambitious establishments. Robert
Stuart is between sixty-fye and
seventy; has several children who
have repeatedly made him a grand.
father; is an earnest Presbyterian
(his ancestors were Scotch-Irish), /,
and also liberal entertainer. His
estate is estimated at $6,0OO,OOO,
and his brother Alexander, bache-
lor, owns property worth about
S3,000,000 or $4,6O0,OO0. They
are excellent examples of what
honesty and industry will achieve
for men in country where every
citizen has a chance and all en-
couargement to do his best.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-02-23

birds. These little creatures show
the most remarkable likes and dis
likes in the selection of mates.
They carry their prejudices to great
lengths-to the extent even of end.
ing their days mateless, for natural
lists have noticed old bachelors and
old maids among the feathered
tribes. He related q story told him
by a clergyman, of a hen observed
by the latter in a barn-yard, finding
and approaching a bright feathero
a rooster, which she two Or three
times stuck in her plumes and wore
with an air.
Birds of the brightest and most
attractive colors win in the lists of
love. He had no doubt but the
rich songs poured out by birds in
the mating season were listened to
by the pensive female, and she is
won by the enchantment.
He discoursed also upon the fer
tilization Of flowers by insects, bees
especially, who carry the pollen in
the rough hairs of their heads and
bodies, and to that agency we
greatly owe the infinite variety Of
color in the flowers.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-02-23
Professor EorSs sa EvOI"tiOn'

VlnNlnhhu gym merclhl' 1tn'
Professor Morse evidently believes
more implicitly in the doctrine Of
evolution than he indicates. He
has q peculiar and felicitous way Of
putting his facts at the audience
and forcing the deduction. He is
0 very rapid talker, but makes him.
self easily understood both by speech
and illustration on the blackboard,
at which he works with both hands
with equal facility.
He related the peculiarities of
animals and insects in taking THEN
color from the prevailing hue sur
rounding, as, for example, the white
of animals in the northern regions
and the green of insects which feed
qu green things, Caterpillars and
insects Of bright colors are not fed
on by birds, because when squeezed
or broken they emit disagreeable
odor. The birds know this by In
stinct, sad experience or common
sense (9 and avoid them. This is
most observable in South Americf
where birds are known to fly great
distances to reach a plain colored
butterfly that is innoxious.
The most entertaining part ol
his very instructive lecture, which
we do not pretend to even summar
ize, was the sexual selection 0.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-02-23
Touon,ng TnImage.

New York World, 49,
The Irreverend Mr.. Talmage was
at first an amusing nuisance; from
that he glided imperceptibly into
the stage of being a dreary nui-
sance now he has shot Niagara
and become a raging nuisance. We
are decidedly indisposed to inilict
SO much of his tediousness upon
our readers, for newspaper reports
are as the breath of his nostrils;
but it is necessary to reproduce his
vulgarity and blasphemy if we de-
sire to convince the community
that in laying the lash on his back,
we are only visiting with just sever
ity extreme offenses. Mr.. Talmage
is, of course, aided and abetted BY
his congregation; indeed, the ideas
of docency in the pulpit and Of
decent conduct in the pews Of the
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Aneedole OF a Fnmous rninler

Pail Mall Gazettel
If any ambitious young artist
would like to eclipse the fame of
the late Sir Edwin LandSeer, he
would do we'll to ponder an anec-
dote related in some memoirs lately
published, or about to be published,
of which the celebrated Martin, the
"domptegr," is the hero. It is said
that Martin, while he was staying
at Ghent, i'll 1926, noticed among
the most constant attendants at his
menagerie a young man who, by
reason Of the drawing materials he
brought with him and freely en-
ployed, stood confessed an artist.
Martin yearned toward him, and
the two became thick as thieves.
One day the enthusiastic artist,
while taking the portrait of noble
lion called Nero, complained Bit
terly that the bars of the cage were
in the way, "Don't let that be any
obstacle" said the "dompteur,"
sympathizingly; eff you will come
with me into Nero's apartment
and allow me to introduce you, l
can answer for it that he will show
how flattered he is by a visit from
50 excellent an artist, and will give
you every facility for handing down
his features to posterity." The ar
tlst, strange to say, jumped at the
offer; and Martin, who was not
the man to lose an opportunity
of advertising himself, sent word
to the Duke of SAKE Weimar,
governor Of Ghent, and to other
notabilities, that he would on
a given day go into Nero's cage and
take un amateur stranger with him.
The duke did not fail to pat in an
appearance; the plucky pair walked
into the cage, and Nero was at first
inclined to be what is called nasty.
But, reasSured by his masters voice,
the lion went and lay down in
corner, and the painter, sitting
down opposite, coolly proceeded to
cut his pencil. Having performed
this little preliminary to his salts
faction, he executed a sketch of
Nero, which was pronounced to be
very like. The "dompteur" and
the painter then took a polite leave
Of the elton; and the duke, having
complimented the artist on the
pluck as well as talent displayed,
would fain have purchased the
sketch, But it was no more to be
had for money than the water
which Dayid's mighty men drew
from the well of Bethlehem was to
he treated like common drinking
water, and the artist kept it him
self as the converse of memento
mori. His name was Verboeckho-
ven, alterward famous as a Belgian
animal painter. How much Of his
success he owed to his daring feat
there is no telling, but it very likely
gave him the start which talent
requires, and yet one would hardly
like to whisper to the young aSpi-
rant of to-day, $50 thou and do
likewise.