The Dillon tribune., 1883-04-21
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ANECDOTES.

ANECDOTES.
r.AAc T. HorPkR had expo situated with
Kane. = colored painter, for profIne swear
inc One day. enc ,untering him IN the
- eet mourning forth vol'ey Of oaths' 'e
took him before q n,ng strate, WI" nneo
him for bias,he ~. Twenty years passed.
A. Fri, nd Hopper was standing at his door
Kane passed by. He looked feeble ana
moor The Friend stepped out. shook
hands and said, kindly. ''Dost thou re-
;, emher me. and how caused thee to be
ined for ,wearingy" Eyes. indeed l do;
I rrn.sn, Der how many dollars paid ae well
"a If it were but yesterday" = Did It 90
thee any good ~" Never bit. 1t only
made me mad to have my money taken
fro me T" Hopper invited Kane in. cal.
,:u ated the interest on the fine. and repaid
every cent aiding. ~ mennt it tor thy
good, aud am sorry that only provoked
thee" kane's cOuntenante changed NJ
once. and tears begun to flow. He t OK
the money with many thanks, aud t0as
..srsv ugatA hsa,I to sscsur..
INFORMATION or ArR.--To discourage
tn. introduction Of American cam d meats
into Germany, the customs ofic r. have
contri> ed three.fold duty on such com.
modities. The meat 10 taxed for itself
the can il taxed 40 line iron.wure. and 'he
bel> are compelled to pay another hi. b
duty ~ chrome. Autographs. Apparently
to Justify the customs charge upon the
covering Of imported goods, Berlin pal or
relates how Alexander Won Humboldt once
took advantage Of the exemption from
duty Of the covering Of ARTICLES free from
duty, formerly, II mot now. the rule IN
France. In the year 10U6 he and Guy
Lussac were In Paris. engaged In their ex.
perimenta on the compression OF air. The
two scientists found emselves in need OF
large number Of glass tubes. This arti-
Gle Of impost upon imported glass tubes
wns something alarming Humboldt sent
I'm orler to Germ any for the needed arti.
Gle, and gave directions that the manufac.
turer should seal up the tubes ut both ends
aud put label upon each tube with the
words Deuttchs Lutt e. German air.. The
mir Of Germany was an article u, on which
there was no duty. and the tubes were
passed by the customs officers without a. y
d mand. and arrived free Of duty in the
hands Of the two experimentsrs. -ecse's4.Dc
Wwtd.
TIE TRAGEDY or CHARLES LANES
LtFE.-The tragedy Of Charles Lambs life
is universally known. It exec. DIS in pathos
even that Of owner. At the age Of
twenty-five the young clerk in the Ind a
house, who b d himself BEEN temporarily
insane, un lertook the charge Of an imbecile
father, who happily did not long survive,
and OF mad sister ten years older than
himself. Mary Lamb, wnoln Hazlitt con.
sidered the most sensible woman he knew,
was Liable. all her life long to tits Of fren.
~. After the fatal calamity Of l7yG. the
elder brotI or. John. VINO kept apart from
tire family troubles, desired that Mary
should be confin, d for Ii in an asylum.
Charles. however. obtained permission t.
he her guardian. and the two lived togethe,
in what Wordsworth finely calls dual loneli.
years afterward. His sister, - John Fors.
ter observes was but another P"rtion Of y
himself. The noble constancy and unsalf>h
stslnt love he received from Mary in return,
~ any conta Md in the history Of heroic
deels Char. 81, be it remembered. did no
NE. W himself to bear his awful charge TO
a month or for year he endured his eros
through life, conscious that there was n,
e,cape from its burden ami from its pa IL
There were premonitory symptoms. but
both knew that Mary's insanity might re.
turn any day. When they travelled she
carried strait waistcoat In her trunk. and
friend Of the Lambs has related how, on
one occasion. he met the brother and sister
weeping bi, terly, and walking hand in hand
across the fields to the lid a.ylum. This
was the lot Charles had to face, and once
only did his courage tail at the prospect.
My heart il quite sunk he writes to
Colrridgel. and don't know where to look
for relief Mary will get better again. but
her constantly lei Y liable to such relapses
is dreadful nor is it the least of our evils
that her case and all our story is so we'll
kn.wn around us. We are in manner
marked. l am completely snip.
wr cked. My head is quite bad. almost
wish that Mary were dead" Five years
later Mary writes: 1T has been sad and
heavy times with US lately. When am
rr tty we'll his low spirits throw me back
aguin ; and when he Begins to get little
cheerful, then do the same kind office for
him." Aud again she lays " Do not soy
ANYTHING, when You write. of our low spirits
lit viii vex Charles. You would laugh or
you would cry. perha both. to ZEE us ait
tog, Their. looking at each other with long
aud ruefnl faces. and saying, How do you
d.! and How do you do ap ! then we fall
u CRYING and soy we will be better on the
morrow. lie says we IRE like toothache
ana his friend gumboil, which, though a
kind of ease. is but an uneasy kind Of ease,
q c9mfort of rather I'm uncomfortable sort. !"
hsastf's Aaguzins.
COME AND THE LIARS While George
Combe was preparing his work on moral
philosophy he lost no opportunity to study
human nature in its manifold phases. It
Is related Of him that on one occasion he
had gath red three notorious Tiara into con,