and everything is lovely again, though knocking him clear away frem him, bu It Hatters Aot. lieve the pain in her chest and make her opposite shore, when he was struck by a Jones has foresworn fifteen-ball pool, and McCoole took a handful of the doctor's It matters not how dark the sky, sleep harder." stiff breeze and lost his balance His never bats an eye when his lady love hair with him. McCoole felt a weakness Yet am I happy, Knowing I Rather unfortunate family," remarked head went down and his feet remained^ Will see the sunlight by-and-by-~.* soothes his cares with music charms. in the stomach for a moment from the the druggist. ...4W'W above water, and fifteen minutes later a'- doctor's foul blow, during which time the Well, kinder, but pa says it's cheaper It matters not hoir drear the day, couple of gunners, sighting the huge doctor obtained a/perpendicular. Within my heart a voice doth say, then going to the seashore, and so we A Shark Story. shoes mistook them for a cosple of "Thank God, 'twil' not be soalway" In the mean time, the spectators, who plaster up and swallow down and feel amphibious monsters, and riddled them were mostly coal-boat men,i had formed A correspondent of Forest and Strewn fight. Hav purty happy, after all."-& & **&& It matters not how deep the snow, with buckshot. This released the air, tfair a ring and called for a thus writes about an adventure with a I eomfjojstfetfcftfarwell I know and the man disappeared. He was found ing had a touch of McCool's quality the shark that ended with the disappointment Ere long the flowere will bud and blow two weeks afterwards, but he was as dead Constant Change. doctor was a little slow coming to time of the fish and to the joy of the sailor: as the late Julius Caesar, jfiso. i And so, some time, when oyer me on the third round, and while Mac was 'In Feburary, 1823,1 was on board of Sweep high the waves of sorrow's sea Both mineral and vegetable matter are i I &u Ml edging toward him the city marshal, a vessel owned by members of my mother's I say, "ThereTare better days to be." constantly changing. It circulates from Hnnnyee.3 JH"I W John McCune, rushed through the ring family, which sailed from Messina, in the soil through the plant into the animal, & I have everything that wealth can buy Yes, I've seen dear faces slip away with revolver in hand and cocked, Sicily, bound for St. Petersburg. The soil again. the1 and thence back to House, carriage,servants,jewels,laeesall:. From out the blessed light of day, and placing the muzzle at McCool's ear Captain was far gone in consumption. He And here's my husband's latest presentsee! "Notlostj hut gone before," I say. The mineral is what we call the earth, told the pugilist to go with him, and he hoped he might live to be landed in the He paid five thousand dollarsforthis hawl. inorganic, incombustible part of the own,1-* went, deeming discretion the better part Island of Jersey, his native place, on our Love never here can lose its plant and animal. When the plant burns I know he loves me in his cold, hard way of valor, andgrertlyto the relief of the For days of peace my life has known, way up the channel. But he died a fortnight the organic part disappears, but the Is proud, too, of nav beauty and my style My lips are still too glad to moan doctor, who tarned white when informed after leaving Meisina, and we consigned He likes to have the people stare and say mineral part remains, and we cull it ash who his eminent antagonist was, for McCoole his body to the deep between Cape I know not when the end will be, I No matter what. I liked it for a while. The wood-ash is a familiar example. If was noted then as a about the best de Gatta and Cape Palos, on the coast of Too plain the love of God I see. any part of the animal is buried the ash man in America as a pugilist. To doubt his tender care for me Spain. But one grows weary of the self-same praise also remains. In the native wilderness, The crowd he was with were mostly Men give the modistes' dolls upon Broad-A* For some days previous to his death, a the natural circulation of universal matter way strangers in the city, and did not know large sharK followed the vessel, and was is short and simple. The leaves and We tire on bonbons after many days, A LOYEK'S ADVENTURE. the doctor any better than he knew McCoole. daily seen by syl hands but strange to bark of the trees are annually shed, and Andeven children cannot always play. The pugilist left tea dollars in say, he did not put in an a ~pearanc on A Joking young Lady ana a Snooting the tress themselves die, to restore their i the city treasury and gave Mound City a the day of the burial, though we were lf." matter to the soil. Next it quits the soil Love was not in tie bondfwhen we werewed wide birth ever after. becalmed all the morning. Two days From the San Antonio Express I do my dutyhonor aad obey. and enters into the plant as it grows. later, as we were nearing Gibraltar, with Like besretB like" and one story leads What heart I may have had I think is dead 2 Hence a single process completes the Terrible Incidents of War. Ah, well,poor thing, it^never had itB way,. a light air from the eastward, I proposed to another. A few weeks ago the Express round. The same is true in the natural to the new Captain to give the white related an incident that happened to meadow. Yearling the young herbage The women en vyme! Ah, yes I know streak a touch of paint, to make the old certain pairs of lovers at the San Pedro It is stated by Mr. Nolen, in his "His Tlie fruit byeoad our reach is always sweet, grow? up and feeds on the waste of the craft look ship-shape. No sooner said The world loves money, ever bending low, Springs, and that recital brought to light tory of Cavalry," thatanofficerjof the 14th past year. In the autumn it ripens and It worships atits idol's golden feet. than done. another adventure"by young gentleman dragoons received a sword wound at the ijero i returnes its mineral matter to the soil. well known in society, even more comical battte of Ramnugger, in India, from the A ladder was slung over the side with What would I, dear' What money cannot It cultivated regions vegetation is almost it character, and which had some tragic effect of which he~died. It seems that a a board on the rungs, forming a safe entirely consumed by animals and effects about it to heighten the interest. Is happiness, pray, ever bought or sold Sikh, on foot, crouched under a shield scaffold, and another young man and myself men. It enters the stomach, is digested Are slaves made glad for that their price is and cut at him from behind. The sword As the report goes, this young gentleman's went to work. One side was finish and converted into blood. From this high* was used with such power and skill as to courting arrangements had arrived ed, and we had only the port quarter to Ah, chains are heavy, though they he of blood the mineral matter necessary for expose the spinal marrow and enter the at that interesting stage when he lolled paint, when a man in the maintop shouted, gold! i building up the body and supplying the skull at the same time. As a further illustration ibout the parlor of his soul's chamber in in an excited tone: S ,i\ hHarper'sJBazar. waste, is tatken up by the vessels provided of the skill of Sikhs in the use that off-hand, comfortable sort of a Alongside there! Hallo! Look out, for the purpose. This process is con of this weapon, Captain Nolen says ''A way aflected generally by lover's of the the shark is close to you!" stantly going on, in the groweth and renewal i "By George!' huge aragoon waa found quite dead. His male persuasion when they consider the "I turned round quick as thought of the body, while the animal lives. head had dropped forward from ajfut on question fully determined in their favor, and, to my inexpressible horror, I beheld A century ago the authorities of a Now But finally the whole body dies at once, the back of the neck, which had! and on the occasion alluded to he was the huge monster, for he was twelve England town hit Upon an ingenious expedient and all these mineral substances return the spine and at this very ac paying his usual visit to the young lady, to fifteen feet in length, within six feet for disposing of their widows directly to the earth, whence they came. said that whilst our poor fellowa^j whose father, for convenience, we will of us, evidently about to make his deadly who w%re a tax upon tne town. It started Here they are broken up and decomposed in vain to draw blood, a touch call Brooks. After "the usual preliminaries" spring. a pauper traffic by selling the poor an-' in preparation for new chemical combinations Sikh's sword across the arm or Jones (for that wasn't his name Shouting to my companion, I dropped nually, at vendue, and it continued this to feed the new plant and for the the bold Englishmen at their mercy, and threw himself at %11 length on a sofo and a large paint brush overboard, and business during many years. In January, service of the living animal. All that they soon hacked them to pieces. One carelessly and with a yawn asked his lady sprang up the rope which held ihe ladder, 1776, the Widow Lovell was added live are constantlv dying. And without officer who was in the campaign, said he love to "play something.'' She seated and gained the deck. As I write, to the anual list, and at a vendue the death there could be no life. Thus saw an English dragoon putting his hands herself at the piano and played the low, I fancy I see the leering eyes of the said Widow Lovell was struck off* to Josiah through waste and death, all the mineral to the reins to try and turn his horse, sweet music delightful to the lover's soul, monster in anticipation of a glorious Stevens for to keep one year for the matter which served the body returns to when a native horseman, dropping his the rippling harmonies only being feed. The stage was about two feet from sum of nine pounds six Shillings, and if the soil. New plants work _p again jtbe have in sword across them, took off both hands brought to a termination presently by to1 the water. she did not live the year, he old materal, arid the dying and living go above the wrist. the sound of a well-defined snere from in that proportion."" The Widow Lovell' The man in the top said that the on in endless evolution. The living must the direction of Jones on the sofa. disposition was very migratory. Although moment I dropped the brush the shark A Sikh, after the retreat of our cavalry pay the "debt of nature," or nature could sold and bought for a year's service, The fact was (though the young lady followed It. Sorry it did not hold a few at Chillianwalla, galloped up.to the horse not reproduce the living. the buyer seems to have considered! didn't know it), the night before Jones ounces of arsenic or other deadly poison. artillery, cut down and killed the two So rapid and sure are these changes in her a bad bargain, literally, for in a few had passed almost entirely in a tireless We finished our job, nevertheless, the men on the leading horses of the gun, matter, that no man can claim as personal months Joshua Bnggs had her in his devotion to scientific pursuits as contemplated man in the top keeping watch, and the one after the other, and approached the property a single atom even of his house, and also had a bill of fourteen in- the pocketing of balls on a Captain on the quarter with a loaded third, a cool fellow, who seeing how badly own body. How idle to cherish affection 1 pounds against the town for keeping and fifteen-ball pool table, and the soothing gun" his comcrades had come off with their or reverence for dead ashes, since we cannot clothing her. She became an expensive rounds of the music soon put him soundly swords, instead of drawing his, stuck to prevent them from passing into hew property to the town. After considerable to sleep. The Toudygahph. his whip, with which he flogged off his forms of vegetable or animal life, in! knocking about, she finally died, and was assailant's horse, and thus saved himself. The young lady, on making this discovery, New York Graphic, which we have no concern. The sub buried at the town's expense. But one A squadron of the 3d Dragoons charged quietly arose, turned the light "Officer Warlow, bring up Moses in the stance of human bodies are constantly of these widows, Jane George by name a body of Sikh horsemflT 'under Majc out, retired to her room, leaving Jones bulbrushes, said his Honor. changing. Thousands perish in the sea seemed determined not to die, but lived 'to snooze it out." Unsett, and he himself told me that' they The officer brought up a seedy-cucumbery-looking and are swallowed up, digested, and soon on until she outlived all who had been opened out, giving just sufficient room Abut 3 o'clock in the morning Jones individual, and placed him built into the forms of marine animals. her cotemporaries. Through nearly two "gawped,1' and sneezed, and awoke with for the squadron to enter. The dragoons at the railing. Thousands die and decay in waste places generations the standing inquiry among on the left front rank going in at the start He jumped to his feet, and in "The officer found you last night," and now vegetable forms spring up and farmers was: "Who's going to buy charge, gave point to the Sikh next him. doing so upset a chair, and the noise upset said the Judge, "lying in the bullrushes feed on their remains. Armies scatter George?" It passed into a saying, and The sword stcuk in lower part of the old Brooks' dreams also, and he, round the Union Square fountain, dead upon the battle-field their dead, which thus By George!" became the town ex. body, but did not penetrate sufficiently thinking at once of burglars rushed out drunk. What have you to say?" restore to the soil material enough to pletive. In 1806 she was sold for a sum to disable him so the Sikh cut back, hit of his room to the head of the stairs to "Well, Judge, I'll tell you how it was,'' build up other armies fer many succeeding equal to about ten pounds. She began the dragoon across the mouth, and took reconnnoiter and listen. As Brooks had said the prisoner "I'm an inventor." generations. to be one of the town's poor in 1759, and his head clean off." heard Jones, so Jones heard Brooks, and 'Of what?" asked his Honor. Nor do cemeteries hold thier dead anv was set up on sale for the last time in cold perspiration started out all over his "Of the toddygraph." more securely. The village sheep fatten 1808. The town was pleased with the body as he realized his situation and "What's that?" upon the green herbage which grows business, and persistently voted not to wondered how he could get out of it. "Why, you wind a cylinder with tin the Devil's Fruii. on the tufted tombs. And the cherished ouild a poor-house on every occasion The parlor window was open, and foil," said" the prisoner, "and drop into a shade trees and shrubs have appropriated when it was proposed. The widows Potatoes were first introduced at Moscow Jones at last concluding all was quiet liquor saloon and take a driuk. You the sacred dust which once composed the gradually increased in number, and they by a Mr. Rowland, between eighty though the Cracking of his joints as he have the cylinder under your coat, and bodies of those we loved. The tombs WeTe sdld to the lowest bidder, every and ninety yoars ago. At first people tried to stand perfectly still had sounded when the barkeeper ain't looking, you and pyramids built to preserve the forms year, without any expression of sentiment. would neither plant nor touch'them, saying like thunder claps and he thought must breathe on the tinfoil when you get out emperors and queens, can hold the occupant they were the devil fruit, given to have awakened the whole neighborhood you turn the crank and repeat the drink but for a season. Embalm the him on his complaining to God that he thought he would slip out of the house often as you Dlease." bodies of friends in resinous cerements, had no fruit, when he was to search in throughr the window. In crossing the "A very dangerous invention," said his He Forgot Big Catechism. as the old Egyptians did, and you wauld the earth for some, which he did, and room, however stealthily and carefuliy he Honor. presrevethem a little longer, but they Some time agp the son of a very dis- 'i, found potatoes. A curious Berwickshire tip-toed it, he ran against a center-table, "By no means," said the prisoner, "for would finally be scattered* to the winds languished English nobleman entered a legend, which, however, is palpably anachronical, which was overturned, and came to the it luins the landlord's business One of heaven. Conceal these bodiea where erack cavalry corps, snd his brother officers attributes the introduction floor with its contents and a crash that to drink will last a week." local history keeps no record, and yet finding that he was nervous, eccentric of potatoes into Scotland to that famous Jones seemed perfectly awful, and he "Yes," said his Honor, "but it kills the they are not sate from the destroyer, and credulous, of course began to wizard of the north, Sir Michael Scott crouched low almost paralyzed with fear imbiber." Dissolution which awaits all material play tricks on bim. The regiment happened The wizard and the devil being in partnership, Not long did he remain so, however. "But if there were no landlords there things will finally reach them also. to be stationed at York, and the took a lease of a farm on the There was a shout from the top of the would be no imbibers," said the prisoner. colonel asked the archbishop to dine at Mertoun estate, called Whitehouse. The stairs, and the sentence it uttered made Self-Cremation.4 Remarkable mess. The invitation was accepted, and wizard was to manage the farm the devil Tones' blood run cold. It was the vroice "That may be so but what has all this .it a day or two before the dinner took place managed the capital. The produce was ,J* of old man Brooks, and he fairly yelled. to do with your being found drunk in a Do you Two novel kinds of incendiarism lately a a wicked wag said to Mr. R., to be devided as follows: The first year, public park?" "Bring me the shot-gun, quick, Ma its 4fNo at all well." V)t appeared in Rome. Two or three weeks know your catchism?" Sir Michael was to have*all that grew burglars sure enough!" "I'll tell you. Last night I was testing ago the Royal Carbineers at Porta del s\4 "Well, by Jove, then you'd better lose no above the (ground, and his partner all By the time Brooks was half way down a new machine, and I thinkI won't De Popolo were attracted by an unusal light time in setting to work. Don't you that grew below the second year their the stairs, Jones had reached the window. positivebut I think I turned the crank which appeared on the road outside the know that it is always the custom for the shares were to be just the opposite way. By the time Brooks opened the front door, just once too often." hh walls leading from the Portal del Popolo archbishop, when he dines at mess, to will''His satanic majesty, as is usual in such Jones was just clearing the fence with a "Very well," said his Honor, I in-the direction of the ancient Porta Pinciana. put the junior cornet through, it, and cases, was fairly overreached in his bargain, bound, but a loud report was heard and send you up for ten days. As you tarry On drawing toward the scene of you're youngest cornet? I wouldn't lose for the, wizard cunningly sowed al Jones heard the rattling of shot in the in classic Blackwell I advise you to turn +he illumination they heard cries of a minute. Not to know it would be to the land in the first year with wheat, and shrubbery above him as he tumbled your inventive genius to something more Vittoria! Ewiva!" and found that both disgrace the regiment!" Poor R., rushed planted it with potatoes the second, so sprawling to the ground outside of the useful. Invent a dinnergraph, for instance, the light and the pries proceeded from a for a prayer bopk and stuck manfully to that the devil got nothing for his share, fence, where he crouched in fear and so that a poor man can repeat a man who was enveloped in flames. Before his task, hut found it tough work. The but wheat stubble and potatoe-tops and agony. Now the young lady, who slept square meal often. Millions yet unborn they could extinguished the flames fata.1 evening came.* He couldn't eat a this scourging rotation Sir Michael continued, evening on the first floor, had also heard the noise, will bless you, and your name will go the man was reduced to carbon before until he had not only beggared mouthful for nervousness. Dessert was and divining its cause, hurried into the down to posterity along with Peter Cooper their eyes. He had soaked his- gar-i his partner^ but exhausted-tbe soil! ^In Ilf put on the table, then coffee came, and hall just as the shot was fired and old and Florence Nightingale." m'ehts in petroleum and set fire to himself. spite of this legend, however, we must then his Grace rising, advanced, smiting man Brooks, who was cocking his gun A box of matches and an empty continue to give credit to Sir Walter benignly, toward the end of the table, A Mayor'Fight with a Pugilist. for another shot, excitedly cried out, HHal 4 petroleum flask lay near him, and his Raleigh for having been the introducer intended in the pleasantest manner to I fetched him!',' Hearing this the young hat, which had mourning crape round it, The Mound City (III.) Argns says*. of potatoes into this country. The first make acquaintance with junior officers lady, believing her lover was a perforated was hung on the adjoining hedge. His Not many of our Pulaski eeunty readers 1fcat tried them, we are told, fell into and invite them to call at]the palace. Approaching corpse, gave a shriek and fainted dead features were horribly dis'fi&ured. The are probably aware that their distil Jhevery natural mistake of eating the R., he said: "I don't think that way. r, gentleman who thus conimitted self-cremation guished fellow-citizen, Dr. N. R. Case anurias, and disregarding the roots. Thtk I quite caught your name when we were Mother B., who candle in hand, had waa a vice-secretary in the offic of this city, once faugnt the celebra introduced before dinner." Now, innocent ^turai^m^rriilZL Mmtl come to the head of the stairs just as the of the minister "f war. He 'was a good prize fighter, Mike McCoole, and camaj as these words sound, they were at young lady fell, thought her husband intelligent public servant and was noted out of the engagement with laurels. It once misconstiued by the unhappy youth A Happy Family. had shot her by mistake for the burglar, for his, steadiness and diligence. He 4m happened in this wise: addressed into a( crafty mode of asking and just as the old man in his excitement was unmarried, and somewhat taciturn The doctor was mayor of Mound Citv Fot the past two weeks, according to the familiar question with, whieh the had accidently fired the second barrel off, and gloomy at times, but gave rno indications at the time, away back in 1865 or thereabouts, name?0 he Detroit Free Press, a Woodyardavenue catechism Ppen~" WhatjE your the charge going into the ceihncr "he of insanity. and he was in his room at his druggist has put up a prescriptiqn Poor R., felt the ground sinking from swooned away and tumbled hall way residence shaving, when be observed The other instances of incendiarism of some kind orother about four times under him, every wbifd he haa learnt dowi the stairs. The old man believing from his window a crowd in the street was the burning of the marriage notices a dajp for a crtain small boy, besides filling seemed erased jro his memory, and it he had killed his wife, dropped his gun nerr by, and a great, overgrown man which hung up- frames^under thepor orders.fbr)a Jarge variety oti ip&tent the amazement of the archbishop, with and went tearing around, groaning and pounding another man unmercifully. "tJco of the palace of the conservators,,' at medicines and porous plasters. The one bound he disappeared from the mes wringing his hands in agony. About this With only one side of his face shaved, the caprtoL The motive for this burning sales were all cash, but the druggist's rortni .V ^eijb. time however, a plaintive and frightened iv the doctor rushed out to command the was set down: as jealousy. The burninghad curiosity was at lenth aroused, and he W- i m+ voice, proceeding from the very bottom 4 peace and put a stop to the disturbance. no effect in delaying the marriages, said to the fatf:*' 1 5vBarbr-^ Hflw long ago did you have of the palings of the front yard fence, He rushed up to the great pugilist, who many of which have been celebrated Got sickness in the family?" tremulouslyexciaimed: was none other than Mike McCoole, and between members of the aristocracy. three4, months ago.'* $ i" Kinder," was the reply. _,, J, C%toSeV-^*AboBt 4 'It's me, Mr. Brooksi Jones." taking him by the arm told him he was cut:4Who cut it!" HKj* "Tour father?" 4&UiS 'Barber*Vwtuf'bad Then everything was explained the under arrest, "and to go with him. Mike Silence of ten "Yesall but me.i.Ma is using the rdidVr Custdmr-^Yott ladies were revived and everybody ifk! Walking on Water. eyed the doctor with contempt, then Jet plasters for a hum* side 'and taking the minuteil *f laughed but rold Brooks, who swore fly a right hanaer and knocked him over Barber fhav&g somewhat recovered his 1 *fA New Jersey man, of an inventive' around awful and declared he wished all The doctor saw stars for a moment *But artiak* tamof mind, undertook to aecohrplish Taewe)r-^I see that, your, chm haa been I of 'em had been killed, and threatened to picked himself up and clinched McCoole ling*rh his throat, and uaes.the arnica on the bibical feat of waUdujron water/ He 4i|t by nh^iaat barber that shaved you"}^., put an end to Jones the most tragical They went to grass together w&h shin. J^uisauaes that catarrh, snuff .had made two manner if ever he put his foot on the top and hand well fastencn in tngdpgti Ihe crirjghSrredrein^ Bilf wrnrJ^the shoes inflated premises again. topknot. Seeing the opportunity the [brandy for *isprained* ankle, and tthe down to the river, And Jones didn't for a long time, but doctor let drive bis feet, hitting Mac in squills are for the baby. That's ail, but shoes, and succeeded the old man finally was brought around making7bravely the pit of the stomach a violent kick and grandma, and,this preipriptipn is to re- yards, and was 0*-