The Hartford Herald, 1875-06-23

Sam., .i, 13, and 1 Sam., i, 14. Another Hebrew word (chemer) for wine is found in Isaiah, xxvii, 2. It is Irom the root ciamar,which means"to fermcnt.to foam." By the laws of transliteration known to students of Semetic philology, the Hebrew word ckemcr should appear as khamro in Syriac, and as kkamrat in Arabic In ex examining - amining examining the Peshito version of the New Testament (Syriac), the language which Jesus spoke, I find khamro for wine in the expression "the water, that was made wine," of John ii, 9 mayo honun dahvau khamro). In the Arabic of the same verse tcinc is rendered by khamran, which is the accusative of khamrat, from the common, evcry-day Arabic root khamara, to ferment ('l-mata ' l-mufahairwala khamran). Even in the English New Testament (Ephes (Ephes-ians, - ians, (Ephes-ians, v, 18) we arc thus exhorted: "Be not drunk with wine" (me Mcthuskesthe oino) where inclhusko means not a "tipsiness" but a profound drunkenness. Our words "dead drunk" express its exact sense; less elegantly, to be sure, but not more vigor vigorously. - ously. vigorously. The English word wine is a derivative of an old Aryan root which has its coun terpart in every Indo-European language, from the Persian mat to theGadhelic Jion. It expresses inordinate exhilaration, and gives rise, by the common reference of ef fect to cause, to the substantial form. This is not an attack on the cause of temperance. Its true defenders are those who seek to extend its influence by appeal ing to the reason of man, and not to his ignorance or prejudice. If those who dif differ - fer differ from others in regard to the methods oi presenting its claims to the considera tion of mankind are to be relegated to the rank of bar-keepers and open advocates of wine-drinking, they may not be sorry to know what one of the fathers of the church and one ol the lights of the reformation thought"of the first miracle of Jesus at Cana of Galilee. St Augustine says that Christ made such wine as a "drunken guest would praise" (lalevinum, quod cbrius cliam eonviva laudarcl). John Calvin says: "It results from our vicious nature, if this liberal kindness leads to licentiousness; nay, rather, it is a genuine proof of our temperance, when in the midst of abun dance we are sparing and temperate." Kostro vitio Jit, i ejus Lenignitas irritalmcn- cuii est luxuriar, jmn potius hcr.c lemperantim nostra vera cstvrobatio si in media affluentia parci tamen ct modcrati sumus). J. S. BLACKWELL, rrof. Languages Ky. Military Institute. June llth, 1875. A Detroit Man's Jolio. From the Frco Press. He did not look like a joker. One to sit and study his face would have said that his soul was so lost in melancholy that he didn't care two cents whether the sun set at noon or stayed up until !cvcn o'clock. He entered the ladies' sit sitting - ting sitting room at the central depot, walked up to a woman whose husband had left the room about ten minutes previously, and calmly inquired: "Madam, your husband went out to see the river, didn't he?" "Yes why?'' she asked, turning pale in an instant. "He was a tall man, wasn't he?" "He was," she replied, raising up and turning still paler. "Had red hair?' ',11c had oh! what has happened?" "Weighed about ISO pounds?'' "Yes yes where is he where is my husband?'' she exclaimed. "Couldn't swim, could he?" "He's drowned! oh, he's drowned!" she wailed. "Had a silver watch-chain?'' continued the 6tranger. "Where is my husband where is the body?'' she gasped. "Do not get excited, madam. Did your husband have on a gray suit?'' "Yes oh! my Thomas! my Thomas!" "And Btoga boots?" "Let me see him let me sec him!" she cried. "Come this way, madam, but do not get excited. There, is that your husband across the street at that peanut stand?" "Why, yes, that's him; that's my hns hns-band!'' - band!'' hns-band!'' she exclaimed joyfully. "I thought you said he was drowned.'' "No, madam, I did not. I saw him buying peanuts and I believe it my dutj to say to you thatpeanutsare not healthy at this season of the year.!" He slid softly out, and she stood there and chewed her parasol-and stared alter him as if he were a mcnagerieon wheels. AVnsliiiisr Not Takon In. A good old minister of one of our New England Baptist churches was agreeably surprised by the intelligence from one of his flock that five individuals had ex pressed a strong desire on the next Sun day to have the baptismal rite performed upon themselves. After its performance, however, he was somewhat surprised and chagrined that only one of the live joined the society ot which he was pastor. A few Sundays after the same elder wailed on inm with the intelligence that ten more desired immersion. "And how many of them will join the society?" queried the minister. "Two, 1 regret to say, are all we can depend on, was the replv. "Very well." said the jrooil old man. "you mav as well inform the other eight that this church ducii t take in wash in-"

contributes the following to the "Editor's Drawer' of Harper for June: I was reading a melancholy sketch of the last days of 'pxirTom Marshall' a few days ago how his light went out, flash ing and flickering, amid-t the haunts of men who dared make sport of him, as the Philistines did of Goliath, and I remem ber a story told of him by a gentleman who was prtsent on the occasion, which I never saw in print. "Many years ago," he said, "when the science of phrenology firstbegan to attract public attention, a lecturer of that sort, brimful of enthusiasm, turned up in Louis Louisville, - ville, Louisville, and gave a series of 'talks' to the people, and examined a large number of heads, made charts at so much each, and, n short, developed quite an amount of hidden vice and virtue which had not been before even suspected among the good peo people - ple people of that city. Tom Marshal I was pres present - ent present and enjoyed the exercises. After the affair wa3 over a crowd adjourned to the Gait Uouseto post books and render judg judgment - ment judgment on the science itself. "Tom said he could examine heads as well as anybody It wa3 all a humbug, a penny-catching business and to satisfy the people he was right, he would take take-any - any take-any number of men who chose to go into the parlor adjoining and make the exper- raent, although he teas a little the worse for an overdose of Bourbon. Many went n, and Tom seated them, and went round from man to man, most of whom he knew, and made a vast amount of fun for the crowd, as he always could on almost any provocation. "It so happened that amon tho persons csent a Louisville buck, of a scant Amount of brains, who was distinguished for his puppyism and forwardness, had taken his seat. Tom passed him. but an nounced, nevertheless, that he had non non-examined - examined non-examined all the beads In the room; whereupon our back arose with, 'Be" par don, Mr. Marshall! I wish just to say you have forgotten mc. 7 have not been ex examined.' - amined.' examined.' Tom seemed puzzled at first. smiled, looked around, but relieved him self with, 'You mnst excuse me, sir, I can't do it I really can't. lam too drunk to read small print by candle-light I' " A French Solomon to 111 Son. Paris Chiavari. Women love but once shun thatonce. Women hate in proportion to their love. Most women retain their virtue, but many like to risk it Not all women lie, but no woman evar tells the whole truth. Hatred is at thebottom of love, as death is at the bottom of life. One always thinks he is in love when going up stairs; coming: down he is not so sure of it. Yoa cannot impede a woman in her love; you cannot recall the arrow shot into- space. A woman is a fortress which can always be taken by him who knows how to make the assault Man's vanity is irritated by defeat, and consoled with a rupture. Women's van vanity - ity vanity acts in an inverse sens:. Ask not a woman's heart; she has but one, and may give it. Of all fatal presents a woman's heart is the most deadly. Do not love a romantic woman. She will make an ideal of yon which you can not realize, and which will grieve you to to-destroy. - destroy. to-destroy. The "boss" grasshopper has been heard. from. He took the window blinds off a, poor widow's house in Phelps county, Mo.-, and then he roosted on the fence and asked her, "Come now. Arc you overdoing to bring out that cast-ofi'clolhing, or do you want us to starve?" Ttey materialize to some effect in France. "At a seance in Taris lately, the spirit ol Catouchc, the famous thief, was called up, and came so practically that nearly every one present subsequently subsequently-missed - missed subsequently-missed a watch or purse." Now somebody is telling about a lady with a mouth so large that two dentists worked on her lower teeth at the same time without in any way hindering the work of another tooth contractor who was putting up a staging to do a little job on. the upper teeth. The Chicago Tribune says that tha President in his third term letter has said "what he means, and said it in terms so so-concise - concise so-concise that the wayfaring politician, though a fool, may comprehend." Itap Itap-pears - pears Itap-pears that the editor of the Tribune, whether a fool or not, did not compres bend, for he says that the letter banish banishes - es banishes the third term specter. As a matter of fact, the letter is an open bid for the third term.' Butler, being interviewd, said: "I am giving ray attention now to patent rights and qnestions of law, and conse consequently - quently consequently I know nothing about General Grant or political questions, and nothing: could induce me to disenss the subject. In the language of the confirmation ser service, - vice, service, 'I have renounced the devil and all his works.' " Important, if true; but has the devil really lost his best friend? Time will tell. The ragged edge of a poor man's coat giveo him great anxiety this spr eg.

has been made nublic Miss Miller was on a visit to eome friend at Wai-ki-ki, a celebrated watering place near Honolulu, nnd nlo noted as the summer residence of the Hawaiian Kings. It is a great place for surf-bathing almost evpry hour of the day during the season shoals of dusky figures being visible bathing among the breakers. The waters near the shore arc considered safe, but outside of the reef are tabooed, on ac count of the shark.-", which abound in im mense numbers. Wo to the daring swim swimmer - mer swimmer who ventures that far. Once beyond the reef he may as well make his will in favor ol the nearest fish, for his fate is as certain as the depletion of a friendless toper's exchequer by the voracious sharks of a police court. Une day .uiss Miller was enjoying a surf- bath with a number ol her compan ions. Like moat of the islanders, she is amphibious, as much at home in water as upon land, swims, in fact, like a fish, and has a national reputation as a diver. While so engaged, one girl proposed they should swim out to the reef. The sugges suggestion - tion suggestion was not followed, fear of the mon monsters - sters monsters there abounding being the excuse. This did not intimidate the girl who made the proposition. She resolved to go thither herself, and finally bantered her companions into following her example. As they approached the reef a canoe pass ed them, the natives in it shouting, "Mano! Mano!" (shark! shark!) also urging them to hasten to the canoe for safety. But, before the terrified girls could move one way or the other, a huge blue shark surged in among them, and, rising to the surface, lifted Miss Miller out of the water. In her terror she grasped one of the shark's upper fins. This proceeding, as well as the burden upou its back, seemed lo terrify the mon ster, for it darted off at a speed that would easily outstrip that of the fastest ship, keeping, however, upon the surfaced! the water. It kept along at this pace for about sixty yards, still bearing the Ha waiian naiad upon its back, when it sud denly plunged downward, forcing its fair rider to let go her hold, and leaving her unscathed after her perilous adventure. She was soon picked up by the canoe, and, with her companions, returned in safety to Wai-ki-ki. This adventure raised Miss Miller highly in the estima tion of her ctwntry people, by the bulk of whom the shark ia held sacred, and still worshiped. Even alter a century of Christianity, this superstition prevails The Kanakas will not kill a shark except in self-defence, nor will they eat its llesh, though this ia estimated a delicacy among most of the South Sea Islanders. The fact that a Hawaiian had ridden a fish so sacred (and we may add, voracious) , was indeed a tit subject for pauegyric; though we question whether the highest culogium would induce the sweet-voiced Mauian to again cavort upon the spine of an azure- skinned "mano.'' tVIint is nn Old Maid? Never be afraid of becoming an old maid. An old maid is far more lion crable than a heartless wife; and "single blessedr.css" is greatly superior, in point of happiness, to wedded life without love, "Fall not in love, dear girls beware!" says the song. But we do not agree with the said song on this question. On the contrary, we hold that it is a good thing to fall in love, orget in love, if the object be a worthy one. To fall in love with an honorable man is as proper as it is for an honorable man to fall in love with a vir tuous and amiable woman; and what would be a more gratifying spectacle than a sight so pure, so approaching in its de votion to the celestial? No; fall in love as soon :i9 you like, provided it be with a suitable person. Fall in love and then marry; but never marry unless you do love. That's the great point. Never marry for a "home" or a "husband.'" Never degrade yourself by becoming a party to such an alliance. Never sell yourself, body and soul, on terms so con tumptible. Love dignities all things; it ennobles all conditions. With love, the marriage rite is truly a sacrament Without it, the ceremony is a base fraud, and the act a human desecration. Marry for love, or not at all. Be "an old maid,'" if fortune throws not in your way the man of your heart; and, though the witless may sneer and the jester may laugh, you still have your reward in an approving con science and a comparatively peaceful life. For well-to-do old bachelors we have no sympathy. They ought to be taxed nine tenths of all they are worth, to support women and children. Dr. Berry, the Radical candidate for Treasurer, says he can't do much, but proposes to hug the women. We men tioned it to a Radical lady the other day and she said, "dat white man better kcej his hands oll'dis nigger he had!" O'as i Tm-

the chamber of those nearest and dearest to us, leaving our hearts and homes void and cheerless. Yet, how sweet the thought that, although we are often obliged to part with loved friends, we meet again in that "far better land," where our happiness is iindimmcd by a eingle tear. Then, cheer up, little heroine! Bright er days arc in store for you. For, as the poet says, "Who hath not lost a friend?" Next morning, when Latta arose from her sleepless couch, she went to the room containing the remains of her mother, and most keenly did she realize the fulfillment of her dream. 'Twas but veeterday she arose from her slumbers a happy girl. The scene had indeed suddenly changed. She knelt beside a coffin, and raising the lid, found her mother lieing there stiff cold dead! Continued next week. From the Frankfort Yeoman. "WHAT IS BIBLICAL WINE." Editors of mc Yeoman: I see in your paper of the 10th a query put by one who calls himself a "Clerical Student," in ref reference - erence reference to the meaning of the word la'ncin Biblical 'language. He wants fo know whether vine, as there used, means "fer "fermented - mented "fermented liquor" or not. One cannot ex expect - pect expect to do much in an effort to cat right the common apprehension of men with re gard to this matter, seeing that the error has been so widely and so diligently dif diffused - fused diffused by persons who, doubtless, were sin cere in their belief of a strictly accurate interpretation. But truth, however un unpleasant - pleasant unpleasant to the inihgination it may appear in its sterner forms, should be the direct result of human endeavor, since it is only by the impulsion of truth that wcare ad vanced in the pathway of progress. The error as to the meaning of the word icine threatens to become a lance of defiance in the hands of the triumphant promoters ofa good .cause. That they may not sud suddenly - denly suddenly find it shivered like ice when val iantly fighting, and thus become instantly defenseless, I propose taking the time and opportunity now offered to examine the word. In John ii, 9, where is mentioned "the water that was made wine" (in Greek, to hudor oinon gegenemcnon), and in 1st Tim othy, v, 23, where Paul exhorts Timothy to use a little wine for thy stomach's sake" (Greek, oino oligo chro dia ton stoma-' elion sou), the intelligent reader will ob' serve that in both instances oinos is the original word translated by tcinc Nowi it requires small scholarship to find out that oinos, in both classical and Hellenis tic Greek, is ordinarily used for a liquor which will intoxicate, if not sparingly used. The first instance of the word is found in the objurgation of Achilles ad dressed to Agamemnon, in Homer's Iliad, i, 225: "Thou drunkard, with the eyes of a dog, and the heart of a stag'' (oinobarcs, kunos ommal' cehon kradien iT elaphoio). The Greek word here, oinob-ires (heavy with wine), is translated "drunkard'' by Anthon. A like compound of the word is used in Homer's Odyssey, ix, 374, in ref reference - erence reference to the drunken sleep of Polyphe mus, who was made drunk on wine hod" erengctooianobarcion. In Herodotus, i, 202, we are told of the inhabitants of certain islands who collect certain fruits, throw them into the fire, surround the Haines, and "get uproariously drunk on the smell, as the Greeks do on wine" mttkuskrstkai te dime, Kataper Jlcllenas to oino). In the Alccstis of Euripides, lines 757-9, a ser vant is introduced, who chides Hercules for becoming too hilarous over his wine (oinot) in the mourning house of Admetus. I could quote with convincing effect pas sages from Sophocles, Aristophanes, Xen ophon, Plutarch and Lucian, but I turn to Biblical Greek: In Gcnesi, ix, 21, it is said that Noah "drank of the wine and was dm iken " The Septuagint has it "and he drank of the wine and became dead drunk" (kai epicncklouoiiwi,kaictncthutthe). By turn ing to my Hebrew Bible, I find this pas sage to read vayjest minhayyayin rayyish- kar, in winch yayin translates the Greek word oinos. y.ow, yayin is derived from the root yon, which means, in the Innguagc of Gesenius, "to boil up, to be in a fer ferment." - ment." ferment." The word occurs by metonymy for drunkenness in Gen. ix, 21, and I .Sam .Samuel, - uel, .Samuel, i, 14. The verb shakar, of which the "future with ac: wr,"is given above,

must be thrown to Iloltum from the stage. The latter made a bet of 5,000 francs that he would perform the feat under condi tions which left no room to doubt; and when the bet was taken, Veron designated Mabille as the place for the trial. All the journalists of Paris were invited, and they found Iloltum there before his can cannon. - non. cannon. It was examined with minute care, and the heavy ball was passed from hand to hand. "I am no longer in my own house," said Holtum; "you are master here, and you must watch overall the ar arrangements." - rangements." arrangements." Having carefully aimed and lashed his cannon, it was charged, ami Uoltum took his place against a plank target some ten yards away. This was to show that the ball was solid, and the force of the powder great enough to send t through the plank. Holtum got the aim of his gun, and then placed his head n a certain position against the plank, giving the command to fire. The ball ust grazed the hair and broke through the plank, rolling some twenty yards further on. The same ball was nicked no by the journalists, who again charged the cannon and sent home the ball, and this time Holtum caught the ball in his hands as neatly as he does nightly upon the stage. He won his bet. and no one seem ed disposed to accept his offer of 3,000 francs to any one who would perform the same astounding feat. The physical force required must be enormous; but Holtum showed his strength by tossing up cannon balls as if they were so many oranges. The only precautions taken are very sim ple; he wears very thick leather gloves. and covers his breast with many thick' nesscs of thin paper to form a sort of cui rasa. This looks to me like a very daa gerous feat, and particularly the first part of it, where Iloltum places his head against the- target half an inch below where the ball will probably strike. If the powder should chance to be defective, some day there might be an accident It is like the foolhardy trick of putting one's head into a lion's mouth. One day I fancy that ball will snap his head very neatly off, Trifle for the Fair. Ladies will sooner pardon want of sense than want of manners. Societies for the aid of fallen women arc springing up in all parts of thecoun try. The European exodous has.commenced n earnest, and from now until July the steamers of the popular lines will be crowded, Hypodermic injections of arsenic in rose-water is the latest way to enamel the ladies' faces. They don't mind the par alysis. A woman, says Buckle, reaches her prime between thirty-live and forty; for, though her beauty has then lost the charm ofyouth, it has acquired that of expres sion. At morning weddings, according to Worth, the bride should appear in a deli cate shade of violet gros-grain; with a full English veil worn over the face. A little Troy girl, hearing her school teacher spoken of as a painstaking woman remarked that the scholars were the I'painstakinest," for they were generally whipped all round every day. According to a London doctor, black eyes and deceit to go together in women Lester Wallaek has purchased, for $30, 000, a summer residence in Stanford, Conn., which bids fair to become quite a theatrical colony. Fast young ladies like fast race horses' often win by a bare neck, and yet with this difference the horse's victory is due to space covered quickly, the young la dies' to space not covered at all. A French doctor, by an examination of matrimonial statistics, has discovered that out of one hundred blonde women thirty seven remain old maids by the wayside, while out of one hundred brunettes onl eighteen stop without a husband. A little three-year girl, to whom he imparted this information, asked him to make her :i brunette. Yesterday, when a white-washer upset a pail of white-wash on a parlor carpet doing $50 damage, he said to the grief- stricken lady of the house: "I wasa-goin to charge ye sixty ceuts for dis white' washin', bnt in view of dis disastah, I'll put Jo figgers down one half." Praise is not valuable unless it comes from one who has also the courage to con demn. A man may wear the color of a cardina on his nose anil yet not be strictly religious. How to make a good pull Send a pub lisher fil'lv cents a line far them.

AX ORIGINAL. XOVKI.KTTE. "i gcroinc of So-glai' WEITTEJf roE Tit HiBTrOED DFEJILD, By VIOLA. CHAPTER II. The month sped by on golden wings, and, as Latta had said, 'twas hard to part with those she loved, yet the etern neces necessity - sity necessity of an education compelled, and she went almost without a murmur. Mary Ellis was an amiable, good-heart-cd girl. She and Latta had been associated from their earliest youth, and there had always existed between them the most de devoted - voted devoted affection for each other. But they were entirely different in every respect. Neither was ever known to entertain the same opinion. Mary was blonde: Latta brunette. Mary was forgiviving, and for getful of wrong done her. Latta was the reverse, and treasured the memory of wrong endured and longed for reprisal and vengeance. Mr. Ellis accompanied the girls to school, kindly placing them in charge of the Ma Matron, - tron, Matron, and with many parting injunctions left them to their studies. As is often the case, the months flew by unheeded, and a year was gone before they realized its existence. Latta was very Eta dious, applying every spare moment either to reading or writing. On first entering school her compositions had been greatly admired, so much so, that she had been prevailed upon several times to send her manuscripts to some literary paper. They were invariably published, and were uni versally praised as productions of great merit and rare promise of future distinct ion in the world of letters. I will not tire my patient readers with wearisome details of school life. Four years had passed. Latta and Mary were beginning their fifth and last term. Ima inc La t La's surprise and grief, when, one morning as she was entering the school schoolroom, - room, schoolroom, a telegram was handed her, convey conveying - ing conveying the afflicting intelligence that her mother had been stricken with sudden and alarming illness and desired the presence of her idolized daughter. Not many hours elapsed before our he roine was wending her way homeward with a sad and forlorn heart Mrs. Ellis met her at the door, and tried to cheer her with the thought that Mrs. Green was eome better. Bat Ehe, too, broke down, and was obliged to weep with thebercaved girL Iler mother welcomed Latta with a sad yet happy smile, clasped her closely to her breast, bade her sit down, held her hand in here, and said: "Oh, I do thank God for sparing me to give my darling, my last blessing!" She was then seized with a spasm of coughing and was obliged to be lifted up to prevent strangulation. Her illness had told plainly on her. She who was once eo beautiful, was now reduced to a mere skeleton. Her fa;e was as pale as marble, except a hectic spot that burned on each cheek, and one could easily discern that a swift consumption had developed itself, and was rapidly carrying her to her last rcsting plrc: the grave. Alter regaining her power of speech, Mrs. Green drew Latta still cloerto her, and said: "Yes, Latla, I am surely going from you, my darling. My pilgrimage has almost ended Do not weep, darling. Bather, rejoice that I am going to the home I have been longing for so manv

would be supremely bleat were their neighbors at war, and general chaos the order of the day. If this description happens to offend any one, they will be apo to kick, but it does not matter. Let us have peace. II. B. T. Tho Professions mid the Presidency. Milwaukee Sentinel. The confident prediction by so old and intelligent a statesman as Hon. Alexander II . Stephens that the next President of the United States will be a jcurnhlist, suggests the inquiry as to how the different profes. sions have fared in the past in the distri bution of that honor. A hasty review of the list will be found to result somewhat as follows: Washington.soldicr, Tyler, lawyer, Adams, lawyer, Tolk, lawyer, Jefferson, lawyer, Taylor, eoldicr, Madison, statesman, Fillmore, lawyer, Monroe, lawyer, Pierce, lawyer, J.Q Adams, lawyer, Buchanan, lawyer, Jackson, soldier, Lincoln, lawyer, Van Buren, lawyer, Johnson, lawyer, Harrison, soldier, Grant, soldier, It is true that Jackson was a lawyer as well as a soldier a judge as well as a general but as it was his career as a fighter that made him President, he is credited to that profession. So Pierce was a brigadier general in the Mexican war; but he didn't distinguish himself peculiar ly as a warrior; so we apply to him the correlative of the proposition that wc ap plied to his great Democratic predecessor. It should perhaps be explained with re spect to Madison that he studied law, but seems to have been drawn into public life too soon to make any progress in the prac tice. An Imperturbable Witness. Mr. Dallas, once Vice President of the United States, while practicing law, was counsel in a case in Philadelphia, and Mr. Schccrer, a noted politician, was called in as a witness, lhe following questions were put by Mr. Dallas: "Mr. Scheerer, wero you in Harrisburg last June?'' "Last June, did you say, Mr. Dallas?" "Yes, last June, don't repeat my question but answer it." After 6ome minutes of study, the answer came: "No, Mr. Dallas, I was not in Harrisburg last June." "Were you in Harrisburg last July? Here he re- tlected again, and slowly said, "No, Mr. Dallas, I was not in Harrisburg in July." "Were you there last August, Mr. Scheer er? The witness again meditated and said, "No, Mr. Dallas I was not there in August." "Were you there in Septcm her?" Here Mr. Scheerer reflected lonser than before, and replied, "No, Mr. Dallas: I was not in Harrisbug in September." Mr. Dallas became tired of this barren re result, - sult, result, and, raising his voice, said, "Mr. S'cheerer, will you tell the eourt when you were in Harrisburg?" "Mr. Dallas;" said Mr. Scheerer, "I never was in Harrisburg in lay life." Carteret County, N. C, is the abode of a fair and fat matron weighing t 10 pounds, oneofwho-ie stockings H utilised as an oact bushel measure.

For tho Hartford Herald. MEDDLERS. Tavloctowx, Kv., June 19. Ma. Editor: If you consign the fol following - lowing following to your waste basket, or light your fragrant "Havana" with it, and smoke in utter obHviousnessof this effort of a youth unknown to fortune or fame, it will be "all right," Meddlers are, of all persons, the most contemptablc, and arc despised by persons who make a business of attending to their own affairs. Whole-souled, broad-minded, liberal-hearted people regard a med meddler - dler meddler as a something 'so mean, insig insignificant - nificant insignificant and little-minded as to scarcely demand 'their notice, were it not that they are always forcing themselves into notice. Their sphere of happiness seems to consist in prying into other people's af affairs. - fairs. affairs. There is no business transaction can take place without their knowledge. Oh, no, they must know all about it, ar.d, if they have the least dislike to ci cither - ther cither of the parties engaged, they will do all they can to cause disturbance. If Satan ever has any emissaries on earth, meddlers surely fill the place. They are so little-hearted, narrow-minded, and dev devilish, - ilish, devilish, they cannot endure to even see an intimacy between two individuals without gossiping about it, and trying lo find out what such intimacy means, and do nil they can to disturb the relations existing between such individuals. They feel and know that all truly noble-minded people have no confidence in them, and do not trust them with their plans nnd prospects, therefore they are jealous and envious, and do all they can to cause dis disturbances, - turbances, disturbances, quarrels, and strife among friends. If there is anything in phreno phrenology, - logy, phrenology, the bump of inq'tisitiveness, if ex examined, - amined, examined, would be found to actually dis disfigure - figure disfigure such individuals' heads, it being so largely developed. If you start on a journey, they must know where you arc going, how long you arc going to be gone, when you are coming back, and what you are going for. The next thing then is to make all haste and publish it. If they hear any story in regard to a neighbor, detrimental to his or her character, they must publish it. They are only happy when the air is fetid with scandal, so that in every breath they draw they can in inhale - hale inhale the troubles of their neighbors. They