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Bortfolio.

BY THE RIVER.

I am sitting by the river, On a little mossy bank,

With its fringe of flags and rushes

Growing tall and thin and rank;

I am dreaming by the margin

Of a rippling English stream,

On whose clear and glassy surface, Meny mirror'd cloudlets gleam. Here the sun has found me often

In the long bright summer days, Dreaming here the happy moments,

Basking in its burning rays;

I have heard the voice of friendship Underneath these willow trees,

And I love them for the mem'ry'

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Of such happy days as these.

I have peop'd into the river,

And in pictures mirror'd there Clearly in mysterious beauty

Seen bright castles in the air; I have bent o'er drooping rushes As they kiss the rippling tide, Till I've heard the secret whisper Of the waters they glide. -Maggie Symington,

ON THE LINE. No, Sir I'm no better, these shivors Don't make a man feel very jolly, And Mary, my wife's just as bad," And poor little Billy and Polly All down; I can't help 'em; I tried Just to handle the shovel an hour, You see, sir, we wanted some food;

But to earn it I hadn't the power. Who am I? Well, doctor, a man

Who has always worked hard for his bread,

And would do it just now if I could;

But a chap can't do much when half dead. If it hadn't have been for a few

Good Samaritans lending a hand, We should all have been starving. You smile,

It's as true as before me you stand.

I came out an emigrant; yes,

I was led to believe such a lot; They told me that wages were large,

And plenty of work to be got. We were treated like brutes coming out; Fed on food that for pigs wasn't fit; And before we got here that run short,

'Twas a favor our getting a bit,

I tried to get work at my trade,

But I couldn't. At last me and mino Began to want clothing, and so, sir,

I had to take work on the line.

I hadn't been used to the work,

But I wrought with the best of 'em, The fever got hold of me; doctor,

The power was wanting, not will.

I don't know whose fault, but I know I am dying. It seems to me funny That we are to die off like sheep.

"After costing the State so much money. If a boy has a rash on his face

THE CHINA MAIL.

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Name, sir, please.". "Never mind the name. Put it down for

womgu”!

Don't chest poor Venus of kør contur-- You'll find it handy when you go

To-you know where; it's pure asbestos." Then Phaabus of the silver bow,

And Hebe, dimpled as a baby,

[No. 4379. Juur 14, 1877.

her swain. She would have made a splendid picture! They were still walking round, and it seemed as though the struggle would never begin, when, lo! a simultaneous shout went forth from the whole crowd, as the great Bulgarian lay sprawling and half stunned upon the ground. The movements of the gypay had been so quick that it was marimpossible to say how the throw was done, but the Bulgarian was: tuzued almost a somersault in the air, and came down with a heavy thud. The young champion shook him by the hand, lifted the heavy man high into the air and then wat him on his fent.

Chader and chased and caught, it may be

and One took the quiver from her back,

One held the cap he spent the night In, And one a bit of bric-d-brao,

Such as the gods themselves delight in Then Mars, the foe of human kind,

Strode up and showed his suit of armor ; So none at list was left behind

av Venus, the celestial charmer. Four Venus! What had she to sell ?

For dil she looked so fresh and jaunty, Her wardrobe, as I blush to tell,

Already seemed but quite too scanty. Her gems were sold, her sandals gone

She always would be rash and fighty Her winter garments all in pawn, Alas for charming Aphrodite ! The lady of a thousand lover,

The darling of the old religion, Had only left of all the doved

That drew her ear, one fan-tailed pigeon How oft upon, her finger-tips.

adifico, of putting our hats somewhere else fence nearly five feet high, seizing one of separated from her boy, and her old masterThis kerchief's what you want, I know than on our heads. Where to put them is the largest oxen, and again leaping bpk, said that he was sure she'd keep her word. still as unsettled a question as it was when dragging the bullock after him poross several But don't yon all see that the girl is worth Sir Isaac Newton formally placed it on his fields and over two hedges, ku his old age more money: than-Isak for both of them famous list of the arcans of national when his teeth become worn he not in- Come, who'll give me six hundred for both

Of all the various expedients by which in frequently becomes a man enter and such. The planter waited a moment for a reply, genious oharoh goers have endeavoured to is the devastation he then pecasion that and then said: es And Dian with the breast of snow,

* Well, I must have some money.Come, safely dispose of their hats, there is met whole.villages are sometimes deserted, and one that has not been abundantly proved to extensive districta leid waste from dread of what say you to a raffle thirty changes at be fallacions. To hold one's hat continually these, feline scourges In these; disastrous twenty dollars a cliance? Ont with your in one's lap is practicable only in a Quaker circumstances the advent of an English cash, gentlemen. The first on the list has meeting-house, where the worshippers rapportsman with his rifle and elephants is the first throw it buds ankohenes main seated during the entire service, and hailed as a godsend by the whole neighbor- This, proposition areated a decided stir never use any devotional implements, auch hood. A tiger, then brought to bay often among all present. The three players at as prayer books and hyntn-books. No man spits exactly like a ost Contrary to the the table led off by taking three chances could successfully balance a hat in one hand received opinion, tigera saldom roar but at eagh Their example was followed by the and find the Epistla for the twenty-second night the forests resound with the hideous spectators, and twenty chances were taken Sunday after Trinity with the other hand; din of their cries, which resemble the as rapidly as the planter could take the white to stand up in order to repeat the caterwauling of a whole squadron of gigantic money. Then there was a slight pause. Creed or to sing a hymn with the hat under tomcats. In making a charge the tiger utters The pintar, himself now took two chances the left arm would be the height of absura series of shert, vicious, conghing growls, as and he was followed by his three, fellow dity. The hat, then, must be laid entirely trying to the nerves as the most terrific players, who each took one chance more. aside during divine service, and our chur roar. Tiger hunting, even from elephant Finally, threp more chances were taken by ches, being constructed with exclusive back is always accompanied with danger, the spectators, when the planter cried out reference to souts instead of hats, afford no One day when Captain Baldwin and a friendwo changes still, gentlemen Who resting-places for the latter, a fan Klasa were out beating the bush for tigers, one of will have them P

foolishly General K whispered something in The extreme danger of placing a hat in his beaters, a fine young man, the aisto immediately outside the pew is crept forward to try and discover the actual Judge J's ear, and then went to the universally known. The first lady that spot where the tiger was hiding. He must table and laid two ten-dollar gold pieces on sweeps up the alele carries with bora con havo.appreached within a few feet of the it fused maan of defenceless hats, which are animal, for it struok but one blow. without deposited in the shape of a terminal moving or exposing its body, and dashed moraine in the front of the pew which the unfortunate man with great violence to the is her final goal. Of course the hats the bottom of a stony ravine. He was res" Eh--what for the girl herself "" which have been subjected to this process oued at once, but died the same evening, his are reduced by attrition to a rounded form, skull having been fractured by the blow and are covered with scratches, reminding from the tiger's paw. In tiger shooting, one of the marks of glacial action on granite when you discharge your piece, whether you boulders. However interesting they may hit or miss, you must not move, but standing be to the geologist, they are of no further perfectly stall, keep your eye on the animal value as hate, and can rarely be bent into a and put in a fresh cartridge. Many lamen- shape that will allow their owners to wear table accidents have occurred from sporta- them home. In the days, when expansive men going, rashly up to fallen tigers, orinolines were in fashion, the fate of the erroneously supposing them to be dead. hat deposited in the aisle was still more ap: palling. When a well-dressed lady passed by in its vicinity it disappeared totally from human sight. There are cases on record where one fashionable woman has thus caused the disappearance of thirteen separate bats during her passage from the churchdoor to a pew ip the notghbourhood of the pulpit. What was the final fate of these hats was never ascertained. Their owners simply knew that they vanished at the rustle of arinoline, and left no trace bobind. Whe ther they were absorted by contact with soft kid, or resolved into thin chemical elements by proximity to steel, is yet to be discovered. The boldest men shrank from making investigations as to their fate, and preferred to bear their loss in sad and dig

nised silence.

He perched, afraid of Cupid's arrow, Or kissed her on the rose-budlipa,

Like Roman Lesbia's loving sparrow ! Yes, certainly, let's give her a chance. All right! One for Ninette. And now My bird, I want your train," she cried That's for the boy," said Judge J

Come, don't let's have a fuss about it quietly, as he laid twenty dollara on the T'll make it beauty's pet and pride,

And you'll be better off without it." table.

"Good! bravo! bravo" eried the plantero vulgar! Have you noticed, pray, and several of the by-standers: "Une for Tommy, which makes the thirty. Now, gentlemen, let's see whom luck favore."

The dice were brought and the throwing bogat. Each chance entitled the holder to three throws.

Thirty-six was the highest thrown until the holder of the eleventh chance throw. He scored forty-two. Then a less number was thrown, until number twenty-one soared forty-nine,

The excitement now became intense. Forty-nine was hard to beat; the highest throw possible being nine sixes-fifty-four.

Again and again the dice rattled in the box, until it came to number twenty-nine."

"Come, Ninette-it's your turn now As the poor woman came forward, her hands crossed and pressed convulsively against her breast, it was truly painful to witness her agitation.

chance for me please throw?" she asked, in a "Won't the gentleman that took the low, tremulous tone.

An earthly belle or dashing bride walk, And how her flounces track her way,

A

lover's heart It quickly cools; Like slimy serpents on the sidewalk !" It mine it kindles up enough rage To wring their necks. How can such fools Ask men to vote for women suffrage 1'!; The goddess spoke, and gently stripped

Her bird of every caudal feather A strand of gold-bright hair she clipped,

And bound the glossy plumes together. And to the Fair] for beauty's hand,

The lovely queen of beauty made it; The price the named was hard to stand,

But Venus smiled the Hebrow paid ft. Jove, Jano, Venus, where are you 7:

Mars, Mercury, Phoebus, Neptune, Saturn But o'er the world the Wandering Jew

Has borne the Fan's celestial pattern. So everywhere we find the Fau-

In lonely isles of the Pacific, or In farthest China and Japan

Wherever sums are sudorifio,

"No; let your boy throw," replied the General; "perhaps he would have more luckay, even the olly Esquimaus than 1,"

"Come, Tom," said the planter.

Tom came forward and picked up the box The woman pressed her lips firmly together and clasped her hands as if in prayer, The the dine and threw three!

In summer court its sooling breezon In fact in every olime 't is so,

No matter if it fries or freezes. And since from Aphrodite's dove

The pattern of the fan was given,

And wafts the perfomed gales of heaven Before this new Pandora's gift

One or two stones should always be thrum first, to see what power for inschief is left in him, for it is quite possible that he may require another ball as a quietus. A tiger cannot alimb trees, but he can spring to a considerable height, and this should be remembered in shooting them from what are called machans, a sort of framework of poles resting on the higher branches of a tree. An officer, some years ago in Central India; got into a tree which over-hung a water-course, to wait for tigers. He was a considerable way up the tree, but he did not advert to the fact that the high bank of the ravine behind him was almost on a level with him. In no long time a tiger came to drink, and he fired at and hit it, but failed to kill it, when the enraged brute rushed up the bank to the higher bank behind, and Next to the alle, the pew-seat is the springing upon him, dragged him out of the most dangerous position in which a hat can tree, and bit and tore him so frightfully that tillbe placed. Statistics show that out of he died very soon after he was rescued. every 100 hate thus situated, 60 are sat Powerful and ferocions as the tiger is, he is upon by their owners, 35 are sat upon by afraid of the wild dog. A pack of these ra- other people, and only five escape unlujar- venous creatures, finding strength in their ed. It is a curious fact that more men sit union, will set upon, kill, and devour a tiger. down on their hate after repeating the In the opinion of some old Indian sportsmen, Creed than after reading the Psalms or the panther is even more to be dreaded than boy trembled like an aspen leaf, but shoo No wonder that it breathes of love performing any other perpendicular part of the tiger. He is a large, powerful, thorough the service; and another curious fact is the y ferocions brate. In old age he also attraction which a hat thus exposed upon sometimes takes to man-eating, but not so sest exerts upon a fat person. Neither of often as the tiger does. Our author, however, these facts has ever been satisfactorily ex gives an instance "of one in Gwalior who plained, although they are matter of had devoured over fifty human beings, and was the terror of the whole district" One general notoriety. A man may enter & remote pew in a strange church, and place evening Captain Baldwin, along with a his hat on the seat in a position where it is friend, was perched in a tree in an open part impossible that a fat man could perceive it of the jungle, near the carcase of a cow, on entering the church. Nevertheless, er which had been killed as was supposed by perience has shown that in six cases out of tiger. The body was covered with birds of be exact, in: 6.138 cases the prey struggling and fighting over it like sp saston will show a fat man into that preciso many feathered demons, when suddenly paw within ten minutes after the hat is in great commotion occurred among the noisy position, while other and further. fat men diners-out, and with a whish-h-h of their will from time to time bover about the flew into the trees close by, making way as hoavy wings they left their dainty fare, and locality, with the evident desire of ascer taining if the hat la still susceptible of fur it appeared for their betters, for very soon a ther smashing. There is clearly a law of huge brute approached the carcase, and patre at work here which needs to be began to tear and knaw at the flesh. "A definitely formulated, and it is discreditable tiger whispered the captain to his com- to solence that this has not yet been done, panion. "No; & very large panther," as to putting one's hat on the floor answered the other, Bring as he spoke, but underneath the scat, no man who follows not killing the animal, in a minute he this reckless course can expect anything but recovered himself, and springing up he made disaster. If there is is small boy in the straight for the tree. It was an ugly situa- pew, he will infallibly discover that hat, tion, for although a tiger cannot climb a and kick it to the further end of the pew tree; & panther can as well as a cat. As he within the first 30 minutes of the service approached, another shot was fired at, him, If there is a lady in the pew, a surgical which passed between his forelege, and he "Never," says our operation will be required to remove her paused and looked up. boot from the interior of the hat, while in author, shall I forget the devilish ex

They spend hundreds to keep off infection; But when strong men are dying by scores,

To spend money there seems an objection. Do you think I shall live till to-morrow ?

You don't? Well it's hard for the wifo- It's of her and the children I'm thinking,

For myself I am tired of life. They can't let 'em starve, they must keep 'em,

It's cheaper perhaps children to train, Than to keep me alive-Mary-dootor

Them shivers is coming again. -Jeff Cramer in Queenslander,

THE HOW AND WHEN.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Whish, taken at the flood, leads on to

fortune," Too many men are just top late; always kurrsing after missing trains, constantly gazing at the bubble now out of reach, grasping after the part which is beyond re call, continually oblivious to the present fall of its hopes and promises very much like the snail in the well, which during the day climbs five feet up the well and slips back four feet every night.

Again, an opposite can be affirmed with equal truth. Many men often fail of success from want of deliberation, and

strike it till it is made hot."

ten-or,

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him his quietus.-Chambers' Journal,

RAFFLING FOR FREEDOM. The subjoined incident is alleged to have occurred on a Mississippi steamboat a short time before the war.

For a moment he stared at the dice as though he could not believe his eyes, then he put down the box and stepped back pala and dejected,

"Come, Tommy, throw again," urged the planter.

"It's no use, master: I couldn't throw forty-nine now."

True, true! But you have your own chance. Throw that."

"Certainly," said Judge J, that one was your mother's. Now throw for yourself, on the chance I gave you. Have a stout heart, my boy, and may heaven amite ou you!"

took up the box. He pressed his lips Again, the boy returned to the table and together and did his best to control his trembling limbs. Not a sound was to be beard in the saloon but the rattling of the dico. For a moment every man seemed to hold his breath,

Ho throw.

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"Two fires and a six-sixteen 1" said the planter, putting down the number, while murmur of satisfaction ran through the crowd.

One of the bystandere gathered up the dice and put them in the Box, and the boy threw again.

Two sixes and a five-seventeen l The excitement now know no bounds, and

I ascended the Mississippi, save the writer, on a steamer on board of which were Judge J—and General K-, of Pennsylvania, with

I will not attempt to describe the seene both of whom I was slightly acquainted.

that followed. In the general satisfaction, "A hard set, these Natchez men," said one of the roughest looking men in the the Captain, who met us on the cabin stairs. crowd proposed a subscription for the freed "There's some of them down in the saloon negroes. The proposition was received with

fifty dollars were collected..

In slavery woman's tyrant kept her, But now he kneels her glove to lift

The fan is mightier than the sceptre, The tap it gives, how arch and sly !

The breath it wakes how fresh and grateful Behind ite shield how soft the sigh !

The whispered tale of shatae how fatefull Its empire shadows every throne

And every shore that man is toss'd on : It rules the lords of every zone,

Nay, even the bluest blood of Boston! But every one that awings to-night,

May trace fi pedigres aright

Of fairest shape, from farthest region, To Aphrodite's fan-tailed pigeon.

Miscellaneous.

A FOUNG woman recently answered an ad- vertisement for a dining-room girl, and the lady of the house seemed pleased with her. But before engaging her there were some questions to ask. Suppose," said the lady, now only suppose, understand, that you were carrying a piece of steak from the kitchen, and by accident should let it slip from the plate to the floor, what would you do in such a case ?". The girl looked the lady square in the eye for a moment before asking, "Is it a private family, or are thero boarders?" Boarders," answered the lady. Pick it up and put it back on the plate," firmly replied the girl. She was engaged. |Saturday Night.

The superstitions of the Chinese are sometimes very curiously exemplified. The other day a woman died in the city-she was the wife of a charcoal-dealer-who for a long time had hearded money secretly; the faat being hidden even from her husband, When she fell sick, she took her dollars and concealed them under her pillow, her avarloe extending so far the ruling pasalon strong in death-that when she died her hands were found clutching a number of the colus so tightly that it was impossible to unlock the angers. Of course, firmly as the muscles may- have been set, it would no doubt have been possible for the husband to bave wrenched or cut thom apart had he wished to do eo 1 but no. She stuck to her dollars during her life," said the widower, and she clings to them still more desperately in death ƒ let her have. them undisturbed," And so the corpse was buried, its dead hands clasping the dollar with a desperate grip, while the rest of the poor creature's savings were put into the coffin and burled for ever with hon- Ehanghai Courier, sms dat

Tan docnir Militaire remarks that the deployment of the Russian army of the Danaba may be considered to be completed. From Kilia to Turna-Magurelli, at the con fluence of the Aluta, nine Russian army corps stand concentrated on the left bank of the river. The left wing of the whole line is formed by the three last arrived corps (the 4th, 18th, and 14th), which sa sembled originally as a reserve force in Bessarable and Podalis, have been brought into first line, at the urgent request, it is said, of the chief of the staff of the army in Roumania; their place in reserve being tak en by 55,000 fresh troops, who are expected to arrive early in June. These three corps are concentrated between Galate and Ibrai la, with detachments watching the shores of the Black Ses.. The centre of the Russi an forces is concentrated, the Avenir Mili consists of the 7th and 9th Corps, brought- twire statos, in the vioinify of Oltenitza, sud

thither from the positions they originally occupied at Galatz and Ibraila. The right of the Russian line, finally, is said to be assembled about Simnitza, a small Roam- anian village opposite Sistovo, and between this place and Turna it is reported that as many as 90,000 men are collected under the command of Lieutenant General Zimmer-

mann.

THE following squib is from the New York Graphic:-In a recent African letter, Mr Stanley details the following Interview with a noted African chief :-Old Rambuster disputed our passage through his Kingdom.

WRESTLING IN MACEDONIA. Col. James Baker, in his Turkey in Europe, gives the following account of a wrestling match he witnessed while travers

He demanded as the price of passage in the great plain of Macedonia:

passed through a very fine town called through his territory, 40,000 casks, of rum and inhabited principally by Christian to parley with the old fellow, and after six Barak-Djumas, in the middle of the plain, and a hundred white wives. I was obliged Bulgarians. A great wrestling match was days of Incessant palaver reduced his going on just outside the town, and I demands to a pint of gin and a worn-out about 30 yards in diameter was formed by sald old Rambaster, as he smacked his lips stopped to witness the sport. A circle Tazor. Yours are a wonderful people,"

their eyes are fairly opened, or before their particle of duet within a radius of eight awful moment of suspense followed, during The boy as he took up the box to throw for Bulgarians and a plentiful supply of gypsies who were with him, waited in vain for a haste; they rush into everything before any event the bat is certain to absorb every pression of that terrible countenance." An the "bravos" resounded on overy hand. the men, women and children-Turks, over the fee he had exacted. Els Cabinet, hands are sufficiently strong; they count feet, and to fasten itself to the floor with the which Captain Baldwin contrived to give the third and last time, was as nearly all sitting closely packed together round drop. Rambuster, noting signs of impati- colorless as it was possible for him to be the oircumference. There was the usual once among them and divining the cause, their chickens before they are hatched and Neither under the seat, on the seat, nor in aid of forgotten Sunday-school gum drop.

with his yellow skin. the motherly old hen comes off with only the alale can the worried hat find rest, and

Out rolled the dice, and up came three of a drum and a clarionet, which was kept he remarked, "must be taught to know accompaniment of a gypsy band, composed had them killed on the spot. Cabinets," three-tenths of the number calculated upon the plan of establishing a hat pound in the

sixes, which made fifty-ons. Many, too, fail from lack of having some

cried the planter. "You are your own around with a grand air as he displays his down. There is always plenty of good definite aim in life. They allow thomselves vestibule, where hats could be ticketed and

"Tommy, iny boy, I congratulate you going continuously. A competitor, stripped their place. I always kill mine when they to the waist, steps into the ring and walks set contrary to my wishes, and salt them to be diverted from an otherwise comtemp. kept during service, would simply result in

and your mother's master! Fill up the muscular frame to the admiring gaze of the material at hand to form new Cabinets. lated and direct career to success by the converting a church into a bat-exchange current of passing events, and are too much hats, and the saints would be compelled to where the sinners would secure all the good

them. These gentlemen will be the wit the ring, and both competitors shake hands down aspirants for my place." Kambuster necessary papers, Captain, and I will sign bystanders. Presently his antagonist enters Besides, my polley in this matter keeps fuclined to take things as they come, forget content themselves with worn-out and

nesses!" sing that the coming of events is shaped worthleas ones.

and chaffing goes on. They then commence bis limbs in battle, legs and arms he had in a good-natured way, and a little laughing had been a great fighter. He had lost all in a considerable degres by their own Thus a severe and exhaustive process of exertions. They must not wait for the

walking round, every now and then turning none, nose and ears were bitten off, and (ten to come, and as is said, they must reasoning shows that there is no place in a not only strike the iron while it is hot, but modern church where a hat can he reason

in to shake hands again, until middenly one one eye was gouged out. "My bones are A tale is told ably safe. But let us be thankful that we

ounces upon the other to get the "catch," whitening on many a battlefield,” he said. and the struggle commences. No kicking once, proudly, **yet with one of your are at the dawn of butter. things. A clever Playing a high game. How men can be such favor that in less than five minutes is allowed, and the throw must lay the former great statesman I can, with of the great statesman Calhoun, that when inventor has just devised a plan for solving he was a student at college he was bantered the problem that has so long baffled the sout

yanquished man upon his beek, so that both propriety, say, I still live."" He has re shoulder-blades touch the ground at the tently conquered the neighboring province for lile intense earnestness in the pursuit of his studies, and his only reply was, "I am he calls "an improved pew hat-bolder." eat minds. He has secured a patent for what

same time. The champion was a burley of Yum-yam, and annexed it to his own Bulgarian of herculean strength, when, at kingdom, Kaving killed all the inhabitante compelled to make the most of my time is consists of a sort of wire cage attached to at a table around which a crowd of spectators

the invitation of some black-eyed gypsy and salted them down for the winter's that I may oreditably acquit mysel? In Congress" and was not that reply mough the back of the pew, and intended as was gathered. The four were the "heavy

When filled this players."

[Dr Holmes prints in the Atlantic Monthly girls, a fine but slim young fellow of their provision. It is my way of living on the receptacle for hats. Did not time show that his purpose was receptacle revolves, and carries its precious changed hands rapidly. We had not been Boston Brio-&-brao Club last February, although considering his youth he made a the duel (o1 trust that the report that The game was poker, and the money for June the poem, which he read before the tribe entered the list against him; but, enemy" he remarked. He had heard of hit the mess and that it was calculated to is

mark? Our most eminently successful men are in an uninjured condition at the end of the middle-aged man, who I learned was a cotton Holmes, the gods and goddesses held an net mon of remarkable gifts, bat they are service. Let us hope that the inventor is planter, bet his last dollar against the hand auction sale of their property, the Wander. men who, launching their frail barks noise not too sanguine, and that his scheme will of one of his antagonista. The latter showed ing Jow being the chief purchaser. Jove lessly and unnoticed, have trimmed their most all the exigencies of the case.

four kings, while he had only four quesne, put up his robe, which sold for two shillings spile to the varying breeze, and catching can tell how great will be the effect upon He was cleaned out," and rose as though and sixpence overy wind have anchored at leat safely in the spiritual welfare of the community he were going to leave the table,

"Are you broke, Colonel?" asked one of his hat from his mind and give his undivided when the masculine church-goer can dismiss.

the men

"Dead!" was the laconic reply. 41 Fever mind; I'll lend you'

the harbour of attccess.

Those positions were gained by pressing

whence it is alleged that it can be withdrawn

Who

to certo agmins, with unerring march attention to other, parer, and better

to use a phrase of Virgil'wasting no time, to stop and see where their campanions are o what success they have attained, and nover losing sight of the goat before them, upon which is written in latters of gold that enviablo word, Buccess!

themes

THE TIGER AND PANTHER OF THE

INDIAN JUNGLE.

such fools, I could never see!"

"Let's go down and look on awhile," suggested the Judge.

In the saloon we found four men stated

*No I can make a raise, I reckon-Hero,

Romp

Hero, massa!" responded an old negro, as he emerged from and corner of the saloon Bring that girl and her youngster here, that I bought in Natches. Wait a fow minuter, gentlemen, I'll raise tome money."

The tiger, the tyrant of the Indian jungle, hus, as is due, the precedence over his feebler or less dreaded congeners. Skirting the base THE HAT FROBLEM.

of the Himalayas range, extending east and The old negro went on his errand and soon. west for many hundreds of miles, is a tract returned with the girl and her youngster. (From the New York Times.) of land covered with jungle; called the Terai: The "girl" proved to be a stately mulatto Among the tent fascinating questions this is his chosen home. Credled in the long woman about thirty-five years old Her upon which profound and subtle thinkers feathery grass of the jungle, he gambols youngster" was a fine, intelligent looking. ats in the habit of speculating is the ques. about in his infancy playful as a kitten, and boy eleven or twelve years old, whose com- tion, what shall a man do with his hat in usually attains when full grown the length plexion showed him to be much more nearly church Great men in every age have of nine or nine and a half feet. Wild hogs, allied to the white rabs than to the black, grappled with this problem without reaching deer, and all the larger specimens of game Here, gentlemen," said the planter as any satisfactory conclusion. It is true that are his usual prey but sometimes a pair of they entered, "you see this girl and her the Jews have tried to solve it by wearing tigers will take up their abode within a mile boy-two as fine nggers as you can and their hate in the synagogue, but this is a of a village, sallying out from their, lair anywhere. I paid eight hundred dollars for subterfuge unworthy of Christianity, and every three or four days to pull down a them yesterday in Natches. Who will give not much better than Spinoza's plan of bullock or a buffalo, always selecting the me six hundred for them? evading the issue by not going to church at fettest in the herd. The strength of their Will you sell them separate ?" asked all. We, in this enlightened and Christian musonlar forearms is enormous. Captain some one.

Age, recognize the necessity of solug to Heldwin says: #7 remember in Assam a 3 So, can't do 18) promised not to. The sburgh, and the duty, while in the neared Ugea in the dead of night leaping ever af girl, avours she'll take ber Hilo H. sada

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THE FIRST FAN.

The ice was broken up they came,

All sharp for bargains, god and goddess, Each ready with the price to naDS

For robe or head-dress, scarf or bodice. Flat Jane, out of temper, too- The Pallas in her stocklogs blue.

Her queenly forehead somewhat cloudy Imposing but a little dowdy, The scowling

Before the of heaven unrolled a threadbare turban i Thresshillings One. Twill suit some old Terrific feminine suburban.” But as for Falias- how to tell

In seemly phrase a fact so shooking 1 She pointed-pray exonse me well, She pointed to her azure stocking. And if the honest truth was told,

Gods!" low-bred Vulcan cried, behold! Its heel confessed the reed of damning There! that's what comes of too much

..learning!"

Pale Proserpine came groping round,

Her pupils dreadfully dilated Wids fuc iatich living underground

4 residouse quite overTALOG |

sprawling on his back, to the evident chagrin 1 would marry him to my two oldest and disappointment of the gypsy women, daughters and give him the Kingdom of Their eyes flashed with anger as they now Polo. Do you think he would like Pole p held a hurried consultation, when off started he asked. I told him that my chief would a very pretty girl, evidently bound upon probably like Polo better than the girls some errand. She soon returned with one " And possibly better than his father-in-law, of the most splendid specimens of humanity I too," said the mutilated old wretch. “But ever saw. If, as is asserted, there were he need not fear mej I would confer un Fringes and Dukes among the ancient tribes him complete and thorough matrimonial of gypsies who emigrated to Europe, this sovereignty. Besides, there is no mother. must certainly have been a descendant of one in-law date her als months ago. She of theta. His fair escort pushed him into the wAS A "TRES WOMan; she was tender I ring with an air of pride and confidence, de fattened her up to 400 pounds. We still much as to say, "Now, you shall see what | have some of her corned in the royal larder. (a gypsy dan do.2 The young man was Tell your chief that if he comes and Istriss about 28 years of age, and nearly six fest into our family he can for a time live on his high, with a handsome, aristocratio and mother-b-low if not with her." pheery countenance, and as he took off his

"BERKELEY, Sept, 1860 --Gaatlemen, huset bil stripped to the water, there was feel it a duty I owe to you to express my

stood s burs of admiration from the whole crowd. gratitude for the great benefit I have de He was slightly made, but all was sinew. rived by taking 'Norton's Camomile Pills, Langhingly and half modestly, he shook his applied to your agent Mr Bell, Berkeley, powerful antagonist by his hand, and then for the above-named Pills, for wina ba the the wall round commenced, the young gypsy stomach, from which I suffered excrucia talking and laughing all the time. Itting pain for a length of time, having tried seemed as though neither liked to be the nearly every remedy prescribed, but with turned sharp upon his antagonist and tried taking two bottles of your valuable pilla, I frat to begin when suddenly the Bulgarian out deriving any benefit at all After a favorite catch, but quick as lighting the was quite restored to my usual state of lithe form of the grosy eluded the grasp, health. Please give thle publialty for the and a sigh of relief went up from his clan, beneft of those who may thus be afflicted. The excitement was now intense, and the Lem, Bis, yours truly, HEBT ALLFA58. young girl parfestly quivered with nerveis To the Proprietors of Nesson's DANO, nazisty se Bay watched every merener) et | Kuta Pinja"-90/19/17,