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The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1881-01-02
LITTLE LAURETTE.

Little Laurctte was sitting beside
Her dressing room Are, In a dream alone;
A nignonnc mixture Of love and pride
She seemed, as she loosed her zone.
She combed her tresses Of wondrous hair,
Her small white feet to the Ere peeped out,
strangely nuttcrcd her bosom fair,
And her lips had wilful pout
Whoever had seen that little Laurctte,
Looking so innocent, tender, and sweet,
Would have long to have made her his own, pet
To lie ut her fair young feet.
Is |, fear that dwells In those weird blue eyes?
For II Is not love, and II Is not sorrow.
All little Laurette, from your dream arise,
You must he married tomorrow,
Married to one who loves you well,
Whose wealth to your life will glory be.
Yet guess you are thnking-who can tellp
OF Frank, who is over the sea-
How happy they were-that girl and boy,
on the garden terrace by moonlight met
When to look In his eyes was the perfect Joy
OF that little darling Laurette.
How wretched they were, that boy and girl
when for the last, last time they met,
And he carried away soft, bright curl,
And the heart OF little Laurctte.
Pooh, pooh, her hearth why she hasn't heart;
She waltzed that night with Sir Evelyn Verc
Into the greenhouse they stroed apart
He's got twenty thousand year
A house In Park Lane-a chateau In France
A charming villa on Windermere.
She made up her mind In that very first dance
She'd like to be Lady We're.
The news will go out by the overland Mall:
In n month or two poor Frank will hear
That London has nothing to do hut to hail
The beauty OF Lady We're.
She be Queen Of Fashion, that heartless elf,
TIL younger comes, and the world grows cool.
And rs to Frank-will he shoot himselfY
Well, hope les not quite such fool.
MORTIMER COLLINS.
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1881-01-02

High courage and a furious temper are
generally admitted to be leading character
istics Of that formidable quadruped the buff
falo but, Notwithstanding his reputation
for boldness and ferocty We should scarcely
have deemed him capable of so desperate
an enterprise as that involved in challenging
a railway train at full speed, had not de-
tailed account Of his successful encounter
with the evening express, leaving Pestli for
Vienna on the 9th instant, appeared in the
Austrian official journal. 1t seems that the
train, travelling at the rate of thirty miles an
hour, had to be pulled up short when ap-
preaching Rakos Station, to avoid running
down am enormous buffalo, which had taken
up menacing attitude between the rails,
and there stood, snortng ont defiance to its
advancing foe. This intrepid apimal had a
few hours previously brought goods train
to standstill on tho same spot, which he
evidently regarded as the frontier OF his
own especial domain, not to be violated with
impunity by any iron monster that ever
hurtled along upon wheels. A large party
of the Staatsbahn's servants was assembled
with considerable trouble and loss oftime, the
express and the buffalo remaining stationary
the while, facing one another like two
doughty but prudent adyersaries. AT
ter many fruitless attempts to drive the
huge beast oil the line, the railway officials
contriyed to lasso him, and, tying his legs
tightly together, to haul him bodily into an
adjoining field. The Staatsbahn authorities
have offered areward for the discovery of his
owner, whom they intend to prosecute for
allowing so savage brute to be at large.
Meanwhile the horned hero is in durance
vile, receiving, doubtless, all the considera,
tion due TO brave prisoner of war.-LondO,
| IeIe0rduI
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Some days since young Spotted Tail, son
of the renowned chief OF all the Sioux, took
advantage of the absence Of Chief Stranger
Horse ON an expedition to persuade Stranger
Horses squaw to elope With him. Stranger
Horse returned to find his fire gone out, his
squaw departed, and his tepee desolate.
Gathering his friends about him he started
out with his rifle, threatening the life of the
offender. The affair was reported to the
agent, who summoned the iaithless wife aud
her paramour to the agency where they
were confronted with the wronged husband.
When the agent demanded of young Spot
why he had committed this wrong, he said
"she led me into it," After full hearing
of the case, in which the agent acted as a
mediator, it was decided that the wounded
honor Of Stranger Horse 9honld be healed
with the gift OF an American horse and a
number OF valuable articles, and that he
should take back his wife and live with her
again. In following the usages OF the tribe
Stranger Horse will very likely make the
faithless wife o mental, aud take another
squaw unto HIMSELF Omaha Herald.
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1881-01-02

Thirty years ago Michigan people were
frank and truthful set. Strangers could
come here and trade horses with their eyes
shut, and breach of promise cases were I'M
known. Folks meant what they said, and
when they gave their word stuck to it.
Exactly thirty years ago this month a
widOwer from New York State appeared in
Lansing on business. That same business
carried him over TO De Witt, eighty miles
away. While on the way he stopped at a
log farmhouse to warm his cold fingers. tie
was warmly welcomed BY the pioneer and
his wife both of whom were we'll along in
years, and after some general talk the
woman qneried
Sam right in thinking you are a
widower y"
"Yes.n
Did you come out here to find wife :"
"Partly."
Did anybody tell you of our Susie :"
"No."
"Well we've got as bouncing girl of
twenty-five as you ever set eyes on. She's
goodlooking, healthy, and good-tempered,
and think she'll like your looks"
"Where is she 7"
"over In the woods, here, chopping
down coon tree. Shall blow the horn
for her 7"
A'o. ~ lou ~ hcSP al " e VIZ NY hVi5e
III find her."
"Well, there's nothing stuck up or
affected about Susie. She'll say Yes or no as
soon as she looks you over. Ii you want her
don't be afraid to say So"
The stranger heard the sound of her axe
and followed il. lie found her lust as the
tree was ready to fall. She was q stoui,
good looking girl, swinging the axe like a
man, and in two minutes he had decided to
say:
Susie, I'm widower from New York
State, Pm thirty-nine years old, have one
child, own good farm, and ! want wife.
viii YOU 60 back home with me ~ NW
She leaned ON the axe and looked at him
for hall a minute, and then replied: L..
"Cant say for certain. Just wait till
get these coons OF my mind
She sent the tree crashing to the earth, and
with his help killed tive coons which were
slowed away In hollow.
We'll, what do yon say n he asked, as
the last coon stopped kicking.
Pm your'n," was the reply; and by
the time you get back from De Witt III have
these pelts of and tackled up and be ready
for the preacher"
lie returned to the house, told the old
folks that he should bring preacher back
with him, and at dusk that evening the
twain were married. Hardly an hour had
been wasted in oourting, and yet he took
home one of the best girls in the State o.
Michigan.-Detroit Free Press.
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He Put HIS Arm Around Her.

The other day several men were standing
on street corner talking when hand
somely-dressed lady passed.
9 You may not believe me" said man
named Spriggins, but have had my arm
around that LADY, Fe aA Is
"You are a vile slanderer, sir, /" exclaimed
young Mr.. Paperage, and, drawing of, he
struck Mr.. Spriggins heavy blow between
the eyes. Both parties were instantly
arrested, and when Mr.. Spriggins requested
that the lady be summoned, policeman
caught up with her and requested her pres
ence in court, which had Just convened in
afternoon session.
"Judge," said Paperage, "while several
acquaintance and myself were standing on
the street talking this lady passed. Then
this man." pointing to Spriggins, remarked
that lie had put his arm around her. The
lady is nothing to me, Judge, but my mother
was lady, and my sisters are ladies', and
have always made it point to chastise a
man who speaks i'll of a lady"
"Mr. Spriggins," remarked the Judge,
did you say that you had put your arm
around the lady i''
Z" Yes, sir.''
Then the gentleman did right in striking
you. Ladies are not safe in Little Rock
so long as such uffians are allowed to insult
them"
"Judge, allow the lady to speak," re-
quested Spriggins.
Certainly. You will please make your
Matement.''
81 didn't hear the man when he said
that he had put his arm around me
and as passed on did not know what hat
occurred
3" Excuse ME for being blunt, but-but-'
DO you mean to ask if the man ever pu
his arm around me p
eyes"
Then, must say that he has"
For sfew moments there was a deeI
silence, only disturbed by boy who picked
at the plastering with horseshoe nail.
"What right had he to put his arm arount
You 2" stammered the Judge.
Because" answered the woman, che i
my husband"
When the court adjourned the men tool
beer, and the court adjourned. "-Luii
| Rock Ga,ene.
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and when the last male Brpton died, broken
down by debt and regret. the manor house,
for which the castle had been deserted in
Elisabeth's time, had passed from the family.
His widow, the possessor of couple of acres
| of ruins and a few manorial rights, having
no relations, had sought shelter in the
| charity of her ancestors. The name of the
family was. still great through the country
| side, kept up by the relics of grandeur the
| church, full of their monuments, and halt
occupied by their pew; their arms over
the village inn; the castle, famous among
| sightseers.
| Fresh from the realism, the matter of fact
ness, of London life, these things seemed to
Walters, as he leaned from his window in
the little inn and gazed upon the ruins, that
! seemed vaster by night, like some patch
work dream of past and present, in which
the imagination fits in every improbability.
Bnt he was content. Ifnot wealth, yet long
descent, in view of which his own family
pride dwindled to a shadow, would come
with his bride and, for her mother, he
| knew that she would accept nothing. From
the hands OF their fathers could the Brutons
accept aims, and from no other5.
Next morning Beatrice took him to see the
church, of which | need say nothing. save
that il was a Somersetshire church, with one
Of the towers that, nutilated as most of them
are, make that county famous. In It, how
ever, he had now a personal interest it
was but receptacle of past Brutons, whose
monuments of all sorts, from stately effgies
in stone arraoT to mnral tablets, telling of
Quebec and Waterloo cadets, were there.
thin the altar-rails were the Oldest records
- the family for there had the tablets and
grasses been placed which had been taken
from the castle-chapel, when it had been left
to decay nearly half a century after the rest
of the pile had been deserted. Right and
left, in front OF the altar, were two brasses
left into the pavement, one OF which affected
Our hero in a curious manner. He oould not
conceal his surprise, and when Beatrice
asked him the reason, only pointed to the
portrait, still almost as clear as on the day II
was cut. From the inscription below, 1t
simply appeared that II was Aymer de
Bruton, Lord Of Wimborne, who died in the
reign of Edward u, and from the crossed
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HathOrn Water vs.. Whisky.

Two lrishmen staggered into the Hathorn
Spring the other dav, and going up to the
dipper boy (who by the way, is something Of
wag) asked for something TO drink, when
the following colloquy ensued:
Dipper Boy-What will you have, gentle
men?
Patrick will take whis-key straight.
Michael-Give me a little me too, If you
please.
Dipper Boy-All right, gentlemen. (Gives
them each a glass Of Hathorn water.)
Patrick (tastng)-I say (hic). Moike, If
this (hic) is what they call Saratoga whiskey,
I'd rather have the good old (hic) genwine
Irish stuff and no mistake about it,
Michael say, Patrick (hic), this kind of
whiskey is a stranger to my stummick. but
(hic), why as sure as ! live there's John Kel-
ly the broth Of boy that knows what good
whiskey is; let's ask him (hic) about this
stuff they are trying to get down our throats
and call it Irish whiskey.
Patrick-Never moind Kelly he's dead
cock in the pit; let us drink our full of this
stuff and see the races.
Exit Hathorn water and two Irishmen.
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The Land of Luther.

Historically, the district is by no means un-
interesting; ruined castles ON many a lofty
point tell of manners and times and valiant
deeds forever passed away. For the Protes-
tant Englishman one name, however, over
shadows all other intcrests-the name of the
great and brave Martin Luther. 1t was at
Eisenach. just on the borders of the forest,
that he begged his bread as chorister, and
at Erfurd, not many miles across the plain,
that for many years he lived as monk. The
Wartburg. where he was confined by friendly
violence. is a conspicuous object from many
of the higher hills in the region, standing as
it does on an isolated point just above Else
mach. In this old castle the curious stranger
may still see the room which Luther occupied
and gaze out of the window on the glorious
view which. while so much has changed,
must be in its main aspects the same which
Luther saw. 1t was in one of these forest
vlades that the hare running from its pursuers
found a refuge in the arms Of the great re-
former. Here was the birthplace Of the
German Bible. the most precious gift Of all
that Luther gave to his country.
Still the name of Luther pervades the place !;
Luthers Catechism is learnt by the boys and
girls in the village schools Luther's portrait
hangs in the most conspicuous place in the
one church which serves for the associate d
villages of Tabarz and Cabarz and in many
others too. Whether to any great extent the
spirit of Luther survives in the hearts of his
countrymen is another matter. but even at
this day his influence NAV perhaps be traced
in the great contrast between the intellectual
and spiritual freedom ofthe Thuringian peas
antry and the abject superstition Of such a
population as the Bretons of Finisterre.-
prOf 111is
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Burdette's Weather Predictions.

The Burlington Hawkeye says that 1t is
easy enough to predict the weather if you
only follow the right rules. Here are some
of them. An intensely blue sky indicates a
temporary absence Of clouds. Under other
circumstances. again, an intensely blue sky
indicates a-tornado. When the sun rises
behind bank of Clouds and the clouds hang
low all around the horizon and all over the
sky, and the air feels damp, and there 10
fine drizzling mist blowing. the indications
are there will he a rain somewhere in the
United States or Canada. When it begins to
thunder look out for lightning. To
see the head of the family feeling
in his right hand pocket. then in
his left hand pocket, then in all his
vest pockets, then in his hip pockets, and in
his coat pockets, and then at the ceiling, in
dicates "no change" If he suddenly stops
whistling at the ceiling and expands his face
into broad grimace Of delight, it means
unexpected change If the corr husks
are very thick, the winter will be colder than
the summer. If the corn husks are very.thin
the summer will be warmer than the winter.
If the corn husks are neither too thin nor
too thick. the summer will be warm and the
winter will be cold. IF the weather prophet
predicts rainy season and it happens to
rain away out in Calverous county, and Is
dry as bone all over the rest of America.
this rain must he set down to the credit OF
the weather breeder and all the dry time
counts for nothing.
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wEDNEsDA YNORNNG sITT1 1851
NO. 223.

filled with very rich loan. Then put in
plants of various kinds of ivy in front of the
wire trellis work. which as they grow must
be trained carefully over it, and very soon
they will completely cover it. In the front
of the box selection Of quickly growing an
nuals can be planted, such as migonette,
sweet alyssum. lobelias, musk plant, or even
lilies of the valley.
Ii the screen is to be used in the honse To
shut out disagreeable view. in the winter
it could be filled with hyacinths, tulips, cro-
cuses and narcissus, and make pretty win
dow garden. 1t can be placed outside . win
dow ledge on the staircase, or arena and
fastened to the ground with large hooks :;
and when the ivy has become large all the
fastenings will be concealed by the green
sarlands of ivy. Screens of this kind can
also be covered with the passion flower, the
clematis or the wisteria, or even with the
Virginia creeper. or indeed any Of those many
pretty and graceful creeping plants which
every florist knows, and the plants or seeds
of which are so easy to obtain. The benefit
of the ivv is OF course that il is always green
and never need be shabby if properly cared
The leaves must be carefully sponged every
few days to keep the plants healthy indoors,
but otherwise they need little attention.
Ladies Ga-effe of Fashion.
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Weekly Kennebec Journal Free

The publishers of the Kennebec Journal
offer the following inducements to parties
sending them subscribers:
An.extra copy Of the Kennebec Journal
will be sent one year free to the person send
ing them three subscribers, accompanied by
six dollars.
The "American Agriculturist,' or the
| ''Goion Rule" will be sent one year to the
person -ending two subscribers to the Jour
nal, and four dollars.
The American Agriculturist Is a frst-class sgricuI-
tarzI publication and is is-ned monthly. The Gold.
en- Rule is an independent, religious and family
paper, published weekly.
Harper's Monthly or Scribner's Magazine,
will be sent one year free to the person send
| ing six subscribers to the Journal and twelve
dollars in money.
Ehrich's Fashion Quarterly and the Ken
nebec Journal will be sent one yer SanSone
sending 81. %.
Ehrich's Is fssued four times yea, n In
tereetiDg reading matter. aud great fu1 q 1pfor
nation OF the highest interest to ladies' fhe Fnl,
ter.
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General News.

Somebody sent Guiteau present of dead
duck few days ago.
The arrival of emigrants at Castle Garden
| since January !, foot up 32S, 900.
The cholera is raging to terrible ex-
tent in a Russian town near the Austrian
frontier.
When a New Orleans man wanted his pic
ture in a heroic attitude. the artist painted
him in the act of refusing drink. -Meriden
Recorder
Lord Beaconsfield's home of Hughenden
Manor has just been let, it is rumored, to
Madame Elsie. the fashionable London dress
maker.
Dr. Frank Hamilton writes small.
| scratchy. indistinct hand: Dr. Agnew's writ
ing is careful and legible; and DIR. Bliss
| signs his name in large. irregular hand.
The coal operators of Pittsburg have given
the miners an increase of half cent bush
el for mining and advanced the price of coal
one cent bushel.
most damaging thunder storm passed
over Naples and vicinity Sunday. Villages
at the foot of Mount Vesuvus were com.
pletely swamped and several persons were
drowned.
Charles Hustled of Michigan married a
girl because her house was destroyed in the
great fires. rendering her homeless. lie
thought that was the shortest way to provide
for her.
Marshal Moltke, although seven years
younger than the Emperor William, is de-
| scribed looking much older than the latter
by one who saw him on horseback at the
| recent review of the German army. Age and
care seemed TO have made deep impression
| on his face and form.
Guitesu is now in cell made expressly
| for him in the southern corridor of the
Washington Jail. 1t is of brick, with a cast
iron door lined with plank, and is bullet
proof. grated opening near the top admits
light. Only two sentinels in the corridor car
see him He is much pleased with his new
quarters.
Mr.. Walter, of the London Times, has
| declined an invitation to visit New Haven
| saving: Il have always cherished the mos
] agreeable recollections of my first and only
visit to New Haven, fifteen years ago, when
| | was struck by the beauty of the town ant
the air of comfort and prosperity which
/ pervaded it.
| At Lille whole family have been injured
several seriously, by the explosion Of bomb
! weighing thirty pounds, sent in box so ar.
ranged that the opening Of the lid made i
explode. Five similar boxes, addressed tt
other inhabitants, were fortunately detected
Suspicion rests on a bankrupt tradesman VIII
had to leave the town some time ago, win
threatened his creditors with vengeance
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Portable Floral Screens.

/ recently saw a charming house decora-
ton, which am anxious TO describe for the
benefit of my readers. 1t was a portable
screen Of growing ivy, so simple in its man.
ufacture that anyone could make it for them
selves. The dimensions will depend upon
the place it is destined to fiji. A long narrow
box must first be made and mounted upon
strong iron castors. Then trellis work OF
wire is to be fixed to the back part Of the
wooden box. the netting being first enclosed
in a wooden frame. The height of this will
be dictated by the height of the mantel or
window it is desired to fill. The whole
screen and box should then be painted a
good dark green, and when dry it must be
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THE PRESIDENTS WOUND.
A Parallel Case in Army Life
BY Dr David X ennedy. one of the Surgeons
ON Duty at the q. . "A General Hospital
West Philadelpeia, Now OF
ROndOut, N. Y.

west Fn1Io0eIRenas NOW O1
ROndOut, N. Y.
In the issue of the Philadelphia Record Of the 9th
of July was published article reat ng to the case
of Capt william Palmer. now Quartermaster Second
Brigade New Jersey State National Guard, who was
wounded at the battle of Messy Creek East Iennes-
see in winter of 1862 In that article the striking
,embance of the TO that Of President Garheid
in many particulars. pointed out the authority
for the atement being the brave captain himself
still betttr authority Is DIR. David Kennedy, then
surgeon u. 5. General Hospital, West Philadelphia,
who had charge of the and performed the opera
ion Of removing the detached bone, and finally ex-
raced the bullet The entire treatms Mt being per-
fectiy Palmer living TO this day in
the bloom of health DIR. Kennedy does not hesitate
to say that many of his patients both in military and
civil practice their lives to the wonderful heaing
and strengthening powers of his medicine called
.Favorite Remedy" The Doctor is in possession Of
an autograph letter from Capt Palmer. attestnE his
indebtedness for his present good health to this med
icine-"Favorite Remedy'-which he says has
doubled the obligation he felt the Doctor for the
treatment Of the Captains terrible wound.
While DIR. Kennedy Is engaged in the Introduction
of "Favorte Remedy he still continues the practise
of his profession at Rondout. n y performs all the
minor rs well rs capital operations Of surgery Ad-
dress as above. augI2t&w4w
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The situation in the Apache country has
become interesting. After all the reports of
the general uprising of the Apaches in
Arizona and New Mexico have been sifted,
it nov seems tolerably clear that the only
hostile band of any considerable strength is
now concentrated in the White Mountain re-
gion. Three columns of troops are now
moving upon the camps of the malcontents.
and the next reports from that region should
settle the question of war or peace. If the
Indians are found in force, there is likely to
be long campaign.