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40. 2s2. 900 As, 800, ,s75

III reserve $751; 407 100 $5e 400 200 Dec. $685., 900
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IA well established oyster Saloon and chop House {;
good neghborhood in Brooklyn satisfactory reasons
given for selling For particulars inquire at go Bed
ford
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yVANTED-S5oo TO 5000. on VESSEL PROPERTY
~ Tor one year. Address, tor two days. SCHOONER
oni
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A YOUNG MAN, EXPgRTENCED FARMER, HOLD.
Ang claim ON iso acres OF land la Kansas suitable for
stock grain raising desires meet with al
Of Join him the IN shares.
Address FRANK MARSHALL. station w, BROOKLYN H.. ID.
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A RARE CHANCE, IN THE BEST LOCALITY IN
A6th av.. between 14th aud 23d sts-Leass Stock aud
Fixtures Lease and Fixtures for sale Address T. X.
box l9J Herald Uptown Office.
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81 knew it knew it!' exclaimed
the old man, in an excited voice. "At
last, have found the child of my poor
lost daughter!'
In few words Mr.. Treherne explain
ed how he had cast off his only child on
account of her marriage with a poor
officer, and refused even to open her
letters when she wrote asking for for
giveness.
"But, thank heaven!a said he, when
he had finished his sad story, 81 can
atone in some measure for my harsh
ness towards my Helen, by taking her
Helen to my heart, and making her my
daughter"
1t is needless to add that when Sir
Philip Marston heard that his son had
married the heiress of one of the finest
and oldest estates in the country, he at
once wrote a letter of reconciliation to
Harry and, after all, Helen eventually
became mistress of MarstoG Hall, in the
picture gallery of which no painting is
more valued and treasured than "The
Mysterious Portrait
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A Happy Family.

A household in Dayton, Ohio, has /
very curious happy family. 1t consisl
of an old cat and hen that came TO thff|
house in a very dilapidated condta|
several months ago. The cat was rufla|
and dirty, and its TANKS very lean. a
it appeared quite grateful for some neG!
and milk that were fed it, and settle
down to be quite useful domestic on
NAL. A few days later an old hen witt
an equally woebegone and famisheds
pact dropped in, seemed quite as va
pleased with the location and treatns
it received, and it, too, took up its res
dence there, and contributed to its SUP
port by laying an occasional egg.
peculiar old-maidish feature of this 8
gular fowl was, that it would always
its egg in the morning before it left
roost; consequently, in falling, the es
were broken and wasted. This state
affairs was finally remedied by placl
a bucket of water beneath her, Il
which the eggs fell without breaklr1
Finally, this whimsical female took
into her Uranium that it would DC (
pleasant thing to raise a brood Of pei
ing chickens. But it was an evident
possibility that seemed to be comp
hended by her ladyship, that she eoa
hatch eggs from her roost, or BY sna
on bucket of water. After a time
was contentedly settled in a nest VIII
dozen eggs beneath her, and IN daeE
cess of events the chickens were hae
ed, five of them. About the same per-
the cat had evinced a similar domss
tendency, and became the mother o.
kittens. Both females are close inena
their nests situated alongside o. e.
other. Their families internlx, anu
contention ever ensues, while tnep
ents will eat with equal good NUE.
from the same plate or OIL the SD
bone.
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down his rations to eight quarts o, th.l
milk and ten poun's o. liver ' dN
You'd naturally s'pose that were , say
for any fish. Now, catfsh'd live nun !
be thousan' year ole on that fod S /"
But Teetotaller's constitution reon;S sl
a considerable nourishment AM os
mornin' bout three months arter tbo V =
duced rations commenced, thew for -
him floatin' in the spring VII his ' beIa
turned t'the' sun. He were deader'n!
shared pheasant. The ole Squire saa
he'd been pizened, They Want a NJ
more pizen bout him thin thew Is 'bo ~
garter snake. He were Starved ' ~
death, boys; he were, certain!n !"
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The Highest Mountain Ever Cii'he'
Man.

Mr.. Charles Wiener, who for inc
two years has been conducting vi
tific expedition in South America uu
directions from the French GoVslnm
claims to have succeeded in maklus
first ascension of Mount lliihAr1, n
Bolivia, one of the few known i
peaks on the surface OF the ea l !,
virgin of the foot of man. on sne
of May, with two companlvI 4
reached, as he believes, the top y
mountain, and ascertained the ao l ,,s N
the southeastern peak to be ~, -. inp d
He gave this peak the name OF ", ,sc
of Paris, which name has Deen = =
nized " officially" (by the French 7,
ETY., we SUPPOSE, and deposlle1u II II Il
summit, in a Theoretically sealea .,,
document recording his aso' md
claim. Lieut.. Gibbon, OF the n
States Navy, many years agG ;o,,r,t
course of his very interesting. In
attempted to cline Illimani IA M
side Of La Pas, but retired ailer III n
ing height of $4,000 feet. Inc dss
peak of the South American Anu op
assembled by men of European !; n 1t
fore this feat of Mr.. Wiener III
Chimborazo, the summit OF WI j
reached by Boussingault IN TO- oe,tssj
Il height of 1865 feet was a''
by him,-New York World /
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f." NANCY, THE PRIDE OF TN,
WEST.n
AN IRISH SONG.

AN IRISH SONG.
We have dark, lovely looks on the sbo,
where the Spanish, 's
From their gay ships came gallantlv for.
And the sweet shrinkin' violets sooner ~
vanish
Than modest blue eyes from our North:
But oh! if the fl. irest of fair daughtered Eli,
Gathered round at her golden request D'n
There's not one of them all that she'd tbra
worth cOmparin'
With Nancy, tic Pride of the West.
You'd suspect her the statue the Greek fell il
love with,
If you CHANGED on her muslin alone,
Or some goddess great Jove WIS ofendei
above with,
And chilled to sculpture of stone:
But you'd think her no colorless Ella. sics
statue,
When she turned from her pensiye renos,
With her CLOWN gray eyes glancin' timidlTr
And the blush of a beautiful rose.
Have you heard Nancy sigh?-then you'y.
caught the sad echo
From the wind harp enohantingly borne
Have you heard the girl laughl-then yOuiy.
heard the first cuckoo
Carol summers delightful return.
And the song that poorignorant country fog
fancy
The lark's liquid raptures on high
Are just old Irish airs from the sweet Inns N
Nancy,
Flown up and refreshin' the sky.
And tho her foot dances so soft from tn,
heather
To the dew twinklin' tussocks of grass.
1t but warns the bright drops to Slip Close,
together,
To image the exquisite lass.
We've no men left among us so lost to emo
ton,
Or scOrnful, or cold to her sex,
Who resist her. if Nancy once took up the mo-
ton
To set that soft foot on their necks 2S2
Yet for all that the bee flies for honey do
fragrant
To the half opened flower of her lips,
And the butterfly pauses, the purple-eya
vagrant,
To play with her pink finger tips.
From all human lovers she locks up the treas
ure
thousand are starvin' to taste,
And the fairies alone know the magea
measure
Of the ravishin' round of her waist
The Spectator
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MIERIS and THE COBBLER.


NS'S'
A cobbler, weary of jerking his thread
Sits smoking his pipe by the chimney log,
While mellowing glow from the embers red
Makes charming picture of him and his
dog.
His wife, in shadow, moves round the room
To finish the toll with the dawn begun,
For though with the daylight she quilted the
The work of the woman is scarcely done.
Now, resting her broom, that ever and DER
Had felt the grip of thrifty hand
She summons her good man to the door:
"Hist, hearken," she murmured, "aS here L
That calleth for comfort" "Trnth," cries
otis a wearisome wall, and if to bless
Be ours the portion, twere well to see.'
Soon Hans and his Gretchen into the night
Go hasting along in an earnest way,
Lit by the CLEAN of their lantern bright
And the hope that is warmed by candies
And the little brown dog, before, behind,
Runs, barking at nothing as dogs will do,
Helping, as well as he may, to find
Whatever they're seeking the darkness
through.
Nearer and nearer the sound is heard;
Yet fainter and fainter the moaning falls;
Truly these good folk have not erred,
And now they are sure tits a man that calls.
For prone in the yawning earth anear,
Where only for them he had called in vain,
Lies helpless traveller spent with fear
Trapped in the dusk by an open drain.
Strong is the helpful hand put down
Into the ehasm-strOng and dett;
Soft the compassion with which is thrown
The light of the lantern into the cleft;
Even the dog with pity is still,
As the burden is lifted to purer air,
And Hans with Christian heart and will
Shoulders the freight he is fain to bear
From the cobbler's home in the morning sun,
Their guest departeth, while Hans and his
wife
Are full of content that they have done
Something to succOr a kindred life;
Still, little they know that their kindly deed
Has stirred to gratitude one whose name
Makes the gift that he sends them fruitful
seed
OF treasure, born of an artists fame.
Little they dreamed twas Mieris that fell
(After bidding good night to his friend Jan
Steen)
Blinded by darkness, into the WELL
And little they thought when they took him
pitiful waif, to shelter and feed
That forms hundred and eight times told
Would drop, as mama, to safe their need,
Out of picture quickly sold!
Yet to the cobbler-guerdon meet
And the cobbler's wife and the little brown
Who lay as before at his masters feet
When the red glow fiared from the chimney
log,
Came blessing and fortune.
'Wife," quoth he,
And his thankful mood Gods word sufficed-
"To the least, if we do it, ye do it to Me;
We helped the painter, but worked fol
Christ" Mary b. Dodge.
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THE MYSTERIOUS PORTRAIT.

~
sitting-room in a London hotel, young
lady was sitting in an easy chair, before
blazing fire, one dreary November
afternoon. Her cloak and hat lay upon
the table beside her; and from the ca
ger, impatient chances she turned to-
wards the door at every sound of a foot
step on the staircase outside, it was
evident that she expected visitor.
AT last the door opened and a tall,
MISUNDERSTANDING young man entered
the room
"Harry, what long time you have
been!" she exclaimed, springing from
her seat. "What news have you
brought? What does your father say
about our-our marriage?" hesitating
with the shyness of bride at the last
word.
Read for yourself, Helen" replied
her husband, handing her an open let
ter; and standing opposite her leaning
against the marble mantel-piece, watch
ing intently the expression of her fair
face as she read
In marrying as you have done, you have
acted in direct, deliberate opposition to my
wishes. From this day you are no longer
my son, and l wash my hands of you for
ever!
Harry, why did you not tell me of this
beforeP" exclaimed Helen, as she read
the hard, cruel words, looking up
through her tears into her husbands
face.
"My darling, what was there to tell !?
How could know that my father would
act in this hard-hearted manner?
knew that he wished me to marry the
daughter of nobleman living near
Marston Hall, and so unite the two es-
tates; but had no idea that he would
cast me off for disobeying his wishes.
And even if had known it, he added,
fondly clasping his young bride to his
heart, and kissing away the tears from
her eyes, 4" 1 should not have acted diff
ferently. My Helen is worth fifty es-
tates, and as long as she loves me
shall never regret the loss of Marston
Hall and its fair acres. But, my love, -
he continued, more seriously, "there is
an end of your promised shopping ex-
petition into Bond Street. You will
have to do without diamonds now that
your husband is penniless outcast in
stead of the heir to fifteen thousand a
year."
Hush, Harry! Please don't talk like
that" she said, hurt at his bitter Tone
You know it was not of diamonds and
dress | was thinking. But what are
you going to do, Harry" she contin-
ued, laying her hand upon his arm, and
looking up sadly into his pale, set face.
" You can not work for a living
"And why not work for 1iving?"
he exclaimed, in a determined voice.
because l happen to be the son of a
baronet, brought up and educated with
out any ideas or knowledge of business?
But l WiU work for my living, and
show my little wife that l am not quite
unworthy of the trust and confidence
she reposed in me when she placed this
little hand in mine," he added, stoop-
ing to kiss the small white hand that
rested conidingly upon his arm.
1t was while pursuing his favorite
study of oil painting, among the famous
galleries of Rome, that Harry Marston
wooed and won Helen Tracy, a gov
erness in an English family residing in
Italy, and the orphan daughter of an
officer in the army. Before he had
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THE early mornings witness the gath
ering of the hard-up and hungry along
the wharves, all armed with bait and
fishing-tackle. An old darky was
heard talking to the fishes he saw swim
ming around his line yesterday, and
among other enticing things he said
was: ''Give me bite, honey; de chill
dren am a-crying down to my house,
and I tell you it's fish or nothing in dat
establishment, Galveston NsWs.
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Come Logan replied the Superintend-
emit "put up your book and go ont with the
Others. It's a holiday. I'll hear you to-
morrow"
"Hc has an idea" said Butler, as the dus-
Ky student moved reluctantly away, "that
the only cause of his political failure was
his weakness in English grammar, and that,
If he can once master syntax, he will get
''ack into the Senate | consider it real
kindness to encourage him in this belief
| Bless you am perfectly safe in doing So.
"The inmates are quite happy here" the
Superintendent went on, as we entered the
spacious dormitory. They treat each other
| af1ably as . general thing, and if political
discussion becomes at all heated, as once in
while happens, that small garden hose yon-
der is equal to the emergency. OF course
We are obliged to keep careful watch on
kleptomaniac inmates Ike Colfax Patter-
son, Belknap and others. They are apt to
appropriate little articles belonging to the
institution or to each other. Secor Robson
was caught day or two ago ransacking
|
ex-Secretary denied any evil sntention,
cake of Spanish scented soap belonging to
Fish was found in his pocket Robson is
now locked up down stairs, and Parson New
man, our chaplain exhorts him twice day.
"What do you do with turbulent sub
jects?"
"Weare troubled with very few. Down
there, at the end of that corridor, where you
see the grated doo- is an iron-ba apart
ment where the unmanagable and violent
are confined. i don't think yeu want to vis-
it it,"
As the General spoke, peal of demoniac
laughter rang through the corridor, and a
grinning visage appeared at the gate, while
the owner saluted us with volley of horr;.
) bly, profane and ribald abuse. "Who wa,
that ?" / asked, as we hastened away.
"Thc only occupants of the apartment fo
the unmanageabe and violent at present
said Gen. Butler, care Bob Ingersoll, form
erly of Peoria, and Zach Chandler. of Mich
: igan."
Before go, General" said, 81 shoulc
like to see"
: 81 know whom you mean, interrupted tn
Superintendent, "and am sorry that ou
e rules will not allow me to oblige you. Mr.
Hayes is private patient whose friends pa.
i his board, and he has room to himself
Nobody visits him but myself and Car
# Schurz who is detailed tn attend him. Yol
see his mental capital gave out, aud be ha,
n to be put in the hands OF receiver But al
f though disappointed and broken-dowl
f. man, his heart continues to bleed for thu
e poor African"
:. | thought that Gen. Butler winked jus
y then, hut it it is always hard to speak wit
= pn-tivenes+ in regard to his occular demon
ii stratious
l. We hal reached the door of the asvlun
.. cordially thanked the Superintendent C
te his courtesy to myself and my friend, an
Y also took occasion to commend the exec
n. ence of his administration.
d, "If you write an account of your visit
of he said, as we shook hands, send sever
Id copies of the Sun. The poor fellows will
lie delighted to see their names in print ont
more. ~. Y San.
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Josh Billings ON Boston.

Boston is the kapital of Mass; the salt of
the earth, and the kradle and rocking hoss of
the live Yankee.
The inevitable skool marm, the kamphene
agitator, the warlike debater, all cum redhot
from Boston.
am playkarded to lektur here to. night
at Musk Hall, but how shall succeed the
Lord only knows, for i, man of no learnin'
a very poor speller and devoid of impudence
have got to face the poets, and skolars, his
toryans and sages, besides lots of wimmin,
who have got more edukashen in one
mint than Nebudkennazzer had after s99
years of toll and sweat.
| shall probably make fzzle of it, but i
hay one cOnsolashun to cheer me it won't
be my first fzzle.
Fust 6zzles are what phellow breads; if
he kan manage one of them, and not all
leak out there is hope for him, and also a
slight sprinkling of salvashun.
What have saw of Boston suites me. The
people are as gentle as lambs, and know a
stranger the mint they git their eyes on
him.
Nobody here is in too much of hurry to
be civil. If yu hav lost yure hotel the first
man you meet will waste hours telling yu
of the different crooks you must take to
reach it, and finally konklade the safest way
is TO drop everything and 90 with you.
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Boston is the ezyest place to get lost in
with all its morality that hav ever tried.
You kan get lost and not kno it till an hour
afterwards
There don't seem tew be any streets that
run parallel. Tha all seem to run where tina
pleze, and every street has got at least one
end to it, that brings sup in somebody's do or
yard.
To learn Boston one must be born here,
or at least serve an apprenticeship here 40 or
so years.
Boston is principally celebrated (jsst now)
for its CRATE temperance question.
Whiskee is about as skarse here, as hair
on the head of my cane.
/ haven't dared to ask the question for
fear of being arrested, but / don't suppose as
near as kan judge, that there is square
drink of corn whiskee within six miles Of
the city of Boston for sale or to let. What
on earth the people live on to drink is 8
| mystery to me.
Virtue and morality are the two staple
krops of Boston. This afternoon am go
| ing to be invited to ride on the mill dam, a
piece of fast read near the city, which Is
built in straight line to avoid the unworthy
\ appearance of trotting track
| Bunker Hill is not far oph, and am teas
ed to stay over ter morrow and visit it, but
allus made it rule, the quicker kan leave
a town, after have spoken one of my LEX
turs, and got my money for it, the more
pleasant 1t is for my friends to entertain
me.
Plimuth rok is likewise sumware in these
adjacent parts. | would like to go and stan
en- 1.-THE man who can stan on Plimuth
rok and not puff up some is a stony kuss.
Such a man probably never had emmy four
fathers, nor emmy soul, nor emmy gizzard,
nor emmy fewter prospects in him.
spent two hours just after breakfast in
the common, which is not an uncommon
piece of veritable land, Inhabited with grand
elms, and Ii, NJ hy day with happy chill
dren.
iii had boy i wanted to elevate in the
: way he should 20 the most, wouldn't un-
, dertake the job myself, but would take oph
, the halter and turn him loose in the city Of
; Boston.
E 1t has been sed by one of her historians
"that a man once born in Boston don't hay
a tew be born again" If this is really lit is
! great saving.
Relics are just now very cheapin Boston
I was offered a hemlock board ten feet long
eight inches wide and an inch in depth, Ia
ken in one piece from the great Colyseum
10 for the miserable pittance of 50 so.
% Itwas dorg sassage cheap, but it was tw'
"a dollars more money than had and NOR
Il hemlock board than stood in need Of
=, Brains is the chief article of consumption
Is in Boston. Almost everything else is neg
o lected, and to this is Ia sublime idea, tn
d consequents is that a great deal of natura
genius is neglected, and the city is a eetl
o overstocked with morbid taylors and langui
n mantumakers.
" There is one thing that i low and respec
As Boston for--she let's head sleep in peace j
,e graveyards all about the city.
l konsider mans bones a first mortgag
$. on land, that no process but the summons {
;" Gabriel's horn can remove.
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Easter in England.

OF Easter Monday rites various curious
relics still linger. One, called clipping the
church," is performed by children of the
charity schools, amid crowds of people and
shouts of JOY. They place their backs against
the outside of the church, and JON hands
till the circle is complete and the building
surrounded, when the ceremony is over, and
they go to another church.
Another custom in Durham, is for men to
90 about the streets and take off shoe from
every woman they meet, unless she will pay
small fee to prevent it. The next day, as
is but fair, the women retort by doing the
same to men.
In some parts still more ridiculous GUS
tom is found, called "heaving" or lifting"
On Easter Monday the men Gift" women
and on Tuesday the women are the liflers.
1t is done thus two strong men cross hands
in the way we used to call making chair"
in my school-days, or they carry chair
lined with white, and decorated with flowers
and ribbons. On meeting woman in the
street, they invite her to take seat, and, in
fact, insist upon it. They then lift her into
the air three times, when she must kiss each
of her lifters, and give them money besides,
In the time of Edward /. this custom was so
general that even the king was "lifted."
In Kent, the young people on Easter Mon
day "go pudding -pieing" That is, go to
public houses to eat pudding-pie, dish
about the size of saucer, with raised paste
rim, and custard inside.
And everywhere, and all the time, are
eggs, eggs, eggs boiled and colored; striped
and mottled, and gilded ornamented with
names, or notices, or pictures. Common
ones are yariously adorned with design
drawn with bit of tallow, which keeps dy'
from taking on those parts. A better kline
of decoration is to scratch the design with
n sharp knife on an egg after it is dyed
landscape, notices, etc, can be made yer.
neatly.
A common game-which, perhaps, yor
KNOWS played with Easter eggs. Tn
owner of hard boiled Easter egg challenge
any one he meets to strike eggs with him
If his egg breaks the other, it is called 18th
cock of one," and its owner has the broke
one as trophy. When it has broken tw
it is "cock of two," and 50 on. If an eg
which is cock of one or more is broken, til
: conqueror adds the number of trophies wo
by the victim to his own score.
The custom of making presents of eggs
, said to be Persian, and to bear allusioa t
the mundane egg" from which the worl
was tabled by certain nations to have bee
derived. 1t is a custom among Jews, EgyI
tians, aud Hindoos, and was adopted
Y Christians to symbolic the Resurrection.
This feast of eggs, therefore, very prope
z ly occurs at Easter-OHre morne, 81. Nc
= oLas for AprH