Worcester Daily Press, 1873-11-05

&he fluifo jjjress. WEDNESDAY MOUSING, NOV. :*. Till: FALL OF Tin: LEAF. They full! Tin- eddying whirls, with wild unrest. In strange, fauta*iie measure, sweep along, Oark'ning the air, hiding the earth's cold breast, Toning sad nature to a dirge-like song. List to the innster-ehord, distinct and lull. With It* wild burthen of decay amt dentil, Falling the Spring'* last hope, the Summer'* pi !/-'. To swell the requiem with their vanished breath. Faintly the echoes of tliut sullen river Blend with the *pirit rustling overhead; The thick gray mist which o'er my pathway hovers Shrouds in its gloom this City of the Dead; Yet, here ami there, some sculptured column glancing Like sheeted ghost seen dim at eventide, Brings the quick throb of an impatient longing To pierce the mists which Life and Death di divide. - vide. divide. They fall - the leave*! They rustle on this tomb, But scant and slow, as he'who lies beneath Fared not for tear nor moan. His fevered life; His baffled aims; the good beyond bis reach, The hopeless strivings with an evil fate, - These made him eager to lie down and sleep Not o'er the strife-worn frame, the broken heart. Whose sighs are stilled, may Man or Nature weep. l.o! now in gusts the leafy shower is driven. Ami wildly eireles round this turf-raised mound; Here little feet are laid in solemn stillness: I Here prattling tongues have hushed tlisir scarce-learned sound. Vet oil they drive, and thickest fill thi* nook. Sheltered from wintry blasts which loudly rave; Here autumn lingers with a fond, sad smile, As loth to leave our Mary's little grave. A little grave! yet large enough to hold A mother's hope, a sister's darling pride, A husband's all, an infant's borrowed life, The grace, the gladnc*s of a dear fireside; A wealth ol worth untold, yet felt by those Who marked the slide's* youth, the radiant prime, Of the sweet flower that blossomed a brief space, And drooped and withered in its summer time. 1 1 sweet, fair face, which saddened midst its glee. To mark tin* autumn leaves amuml thee shed! o pure, bright life, w hose lofty aims were gained, When the freed spirit from its home had ih-d! No need hast thou, the loving ami the true, For the cold lettered marble, dark and grim, To keep God's glorious sunlight from tll> bed, And crush the flowers which o'er thy ashes spring. No need of aught, save loveliest sights ami sounds. The spring'* first sound, the autumn'* latest glow, The grand diapason of Nature's choir, The lights and shadow* in their ceaseless flow ; These watch her rest, ami lit fill come and go, Nor mock our sorrow by a changeless face. Heap on, O leaves, your wealth of \ aricil hue; Our darling loved' ye; deck her sleeping place. They fall - the leaves! The river tloweth on. Vet changed the mournful cadence of the lay ; High o'er the mist where gleams one rift ot sky. Fotne sun-bright visions of eternal day. Sparkle the waters of the glorious river; Beam the bright faces of the lost and the gone; Life! through thy tears, thy travail, and thy an anguish, - guish, anguish, The dearest light from heaven's gate i* won. DOG-FIGIITIN'G EXTRAORDINARY. There is at tlie present writing a member of the house whose father was renowned in his day and way as the far-famed Davy Crocket 1, of pleasant memory. We will call him Uncle I'nele John lived and moved in these parts forty years ago. Cards and race-horses and dog-tights were liis chief delight. Few men could beat him at a game of "old Bis horses had lightning in their heels; while his dog* (bull-dogs and fighting-dogs were fashionable in those days - they were the genuine carried the swift arrows of death in their bristling fangs. But it is seldom given unto one man to excel in three pursuits at one time and in all places. However, in respect to cards, horses and dogs, Uncle John never met his match until the facts took him to Sparta, then and now a flourishing little village, in White county. Even there lie beat everything in sight as far as his cards and horses were concerned, but his dogs were badly worsted. The Spartan inn-keeper had the king dog of all his tribe - a ferocious that "chaw "chawed - ed "chawed up and spit everything that came along. Uncle John put up SSO in specie on his own "Tige," but if Tige had gone through a Cincinnati sausage-grinder lie could scarce scarcely - ly scarcely have looked more ragged when he came out. As went the first, so followed the sec second, - ond, second, faster and faster, till it seemed unmerci unmerciful - ful unmerciful disaster had overtaken Uncle John in the dog line at least. Be traveled many weary miles in search of a dog, but all to no pur purpose. - pose. purpose. Be was losing his money fast, and, worse than all, lie was losing his temper and his patience. Faith in the motto,'*try, try had almost deserted him. lie went out on what he avowed was his last hunt, and was nearing Sparta on his return late one afternoon, gloomy and dejected, for lie hadn't found the right animal yet, when, as good luck would have it, just as lie got w ith ithin - in ithin a few miles of the inn which had been tlie scene of so many disgraceful defeats, he met a backwoodsman driving an ox team, with a meat, vicious-looking wolf chained behind the wagon. Be was not long ascertaining that the wolf was as wild and as savage a* a hyena; that lie had but an hour before been taken in a trap, and that his owner could be in induced - duced induced to part with him for a valuable con consideration. - sideration. consideration. "i'll give you two dollar* and a half in hard money for that critter,'' proposed Uncle John. "Not enough yet,*' said backwoods. said Uncle John, finally, "if you'll just help me strap him behind my sad saddle - dle saddle and'll take five dollars, it's a trade." And they traded. "If I don't whip that d - d tavern-keeper's dog this time," mut muttered - tered muttered Uncle John to himself as In* drew to toward - ward toward Sparta, "he may take my hat for a corn basket/* As it was quite dark when our hero readied the inn, he cautiously unstrapped the terrible beast, and pitching him into a deserted out-house, which fort unately stood hard by, and fastening him in securely, en entered - tered entered the hotel. "I think I've found a dog that can chaw yotir'n up, this time," remarked Uncle John to the major dome, after passing the usual sahitations. " You really think you've found him at last, do you?'' chuckled the master of the king of dogs, and tipping a sly wink at the crowd. "Well, what do you say to jettin* 'em together in the morn morning?" - ing?" morning?" "All right," said Uncle John. "Urn bound to he off home mighty airly in the mornin', hut if you'll be ready directly after break breakfast. - fast. breakfast. I Won't mind giving you just one more -turn, anyhow." The rumor soon spread through the vil village - lage village of Sparta that a great dog-fight was to come off qext day by sunrise, and the whole vicinity was on the uni v ire. Our hero ex explained - plained explained that his dog was so tii/ru* that he was compelled to keep him closely confined. "Blamed," said he, "if l bleeve he knows hi* own master yit." So it was arranged that his dog was to remain in the out-house - an old crib or barn, by the way - and that tlie other dog was to be unchained and turned in on him at a given signal. By day daylight - light daylight everybody was up and ready for the fray. The old barn in which Uncle John's dog was shut was so dark at that hour that only his outlines - just enough to indicate that he was "a shoo nuff dog" - could be de detected. - tected. detected. Bets ran high, the odds being all in favor of the great victor in so many hotly hotlycontested - contested hotlycontested fights. Uncle John staked a round hundred against a like sum of the inn-keep inn-keeper's. - er's. inn-keeper's. Time was called; the ferocious bull bulldog - dog bulldog sniffed bis antagonist through the cracks of the old barn, growled defiance for a mo moment, - ment, moment, and, when unchained and the window opened, he lit in at a single bound. All! then there was hurrying to and fio. and Hying fur, and sputtcrings of distress, and checks till pale which but an hour ago blushed with a quart of rum, or something loss. Men women and children were out outside. - side. outside. running round that crib, trying to peep in through the crevices. Such a spattering, sputtering, growling, yelling, gnashing of teeth, and caterwauling, lias never been heard in Sparta from that day to this. The tavern keeper excitedly suggested that "forty wolves couldn't keep more fuss than them two dogs." Unde John waited the is issue - sue issue with the calm dignity of one conscious that lie holds four aces in his hand, and the liftli lip his sleeve: the only cool man on the ground. But it didn't last long. Sooner than it takes to tell it, a faint whine was heard at the window, the shutter was thrown open, and what was left of poor "Bull struggled heavily to tlie sill, and fell a raw i lump to the ground on the outside. Im* was the first and last time he ever turned his back on any enemy; he made one or two nervous kicks and all was over. Be was in a shocking plight indeed; minus one ear, one eye, and the greater part of liis "innards. I It* might have passed through a threshing

machine and fared better. Uncle John hast hastily - ily hastily snatched the wager from the stakeholder, mounted Ills horse, and rode off in a a ween weening - ing weening gallop, yelling at mine host, as lie hade him adieu, that "whenever he had anymore litin' dogs to nlcose let him know." How long tlie wolf remained in that crib as monarch of all he surveyed, or how long "BullV* muter waa In finding out ihe nature of the dog that sent liis favorite to liis last account, is not precisely stated; hut it Is said that, when he became fully con conscious - scious conscious of the facts as they existed, his neigh neighbors - bors neighbors heard him swearing for a distance of two miles, lie took oil his coat, rolled up his sleeves, mounted a stump and gave ut utterance - terance utterance to such malodictitfiiH a* were never heard before. Bis character as a dog doglightist - lightist doglightist gone, his money gone, Id* dog gone and uncle John gone (never to return), stirred the deep foundations of his inmost bile. It is stated a* a fact that he never smiled again, and that all any one had to do to get up the biggest sort of a rumpus was just to ask that .Spartan if lie had any more dogs that he'd like to bet on. - |Louisville Courier-Journal. IN \ DENTIST'S CHAIR. If Spivena is to he believed, there wa* re recently - cently recently an extraordinary case of dental sur surgery - gery surgery in this city. He says'that a friend of his wife visited a dentist on street, for the purpose of having a tooth extracted, li was an eye tooth. Spivens accompanied his friend for the purpose of favoring him with a little sympathy over the *houhler. It i* so pleasant to witness the agony of a friend, and to advise him to bear it like a man. The dentist seated his patient in a chair, lanced liis gums, applied his forceps and gave a vigorous pull. The tooth was wrenched from its socket, and came out easily enough, but the root hung lire. Either it was a very long root or it stretched. In fact, the dentist had exhausted his reach, and the root was nol yet entitylv out. Spivens ventured to inquire if the root was not unusually long; but the dentist was not going to admit that any thing could hap happen - pen happen that had not always occurred in his ex experience. - perience. experience. "Not at all," he replied. "I have often pulled teeth whose roots reached down to the hips." lie mounted a chair and took another pull. Be thus succeeded in getting away with about a yard of the tooth, but the root continued to hang. At the same time tie* patient's leg, below the knee, wa* violently jerked up. Spivens ventured to say that this was sure surely - ly surely an unusual case. "It is a little singular," replied the dentist: "but I once pulled a tooth whose roots reached down to the man's knees." Having thus extinguished his questioner, he* tied hi* patient to the chair ami straight straightened - ened straightened out liis leg by putting it in splints. Then he took the forceps over his shoulder and walked away like a deckjiand going up a hank with a bowline. When he reached the parlor door, li«* braced himself against the jainb and laid back for a final pull. The tooth popped out this time, but the dentist made the most noise when lie reached the lloor. Spivens jumped forward and picked up tlie latter end of that tooth. The root had two prongs, and on each prong was a toe nail. "That's what hurt you so," said Spivens, consoling liis friend, whose screams had been somewhat annoying. "Never mind; it will he all the same a hundred years lienee. Don't you think, doctor, that thi* is rather the most unusual ease that ever happened in your practice?" "I am inclined to believe that it is the most singular case of it* class," replied that imperturbable dentist; but I once extracted a tooth for one of the Siamese twins, the roots of which extended through the bodies of both, and at the end was a corresponding tooth from the mouth of the other. It wa* a good thing for Chang, for whom I pulled the tooth, but bad for Eng, whose tooth hap happened - pened happened to be sound." Spivens' friend had such a high respect for the dentist that he told him lie might keep tin* tootli for his pay. Some incredulous people may accuse this story of being too thin : but they are mis mistake - taken mistake - it is tooth out. Stubbs Locks Himself Our. - Stubbs's family have been "seasiding all the sum summer. - mer. summer. He lias taken liis meals down town, but lias occupied the family domicile at night. The boys arc a legion in Stubbs's neighborhood, and nut of the class who bear away the Sunday school prizes. They have a trick of ringing the bell, ami from a safe distance enjoying liis discomfiture thereat. One night he had turned off the gas, and was just inserting his head under the mosquito bar, with that spasmodic yet scien scientific - tific scientific wriggle which is calculated to prevent mosquitos entering at the same time - when, ring went the door-bell again. A burning desire suffused his usually tranquil bosom to beat that boy for liis mother. Like a thought he skimmed down the front stairs, four a jump, Ills white raiment streaming back at right angles, and burst open the door, but only to clutch the empty air. More deliberately lie descended the steps and took a survey. Any exclamations he might have made were cut short (to match his shirt) by the slamming of the door. It had a spring lock. Stubbs's intellect is not Websterian, but lie comprehended the difficulty of that situation immediately, if not sooner. Alone at midnight, in scant ballet costume, and no one within the house! lie strove in vain to force tlie door, and at times rang the bell most energetically, though for what purpose he knew not. Then he sat down to consider matters. He was considerably excited, yet avers that be rapidly cooled down. The whiles a stiff September breeze played about liis Apollo-like form, and he vainly endeavored to make a shirt answer for a blanket. Stubbs's extremities are by no means stubs, and no amount of stretching would bring that article below the knees. He had seen the boneless man at "Bamum's," but had not sufficient practice to draw liis lamp-post limbs into so scant a garment. The hour was such that only an occasional couple promenaded by. Then lie glued him himself - self himself to the wall, took on the form of a sheet of writing paper, and held his breath. Afterwards lie tried the parlor shutters and stood upon liis toes in a way that would have excited envy in the breast of a premier danscuse, but the "open sesame" appeared to be entirely on the in inside. - side. inside. After one hour of anxiety and shiver shivering, - ing, shivering, he suddenly bethought himself to make a burst around into the alley and enter by the back gate. When the coast was clear, he gathered himself for the heat and sped down the street like a deer. Stubbs is not rotund: quite the contrary. Bis long spindling shanks glistened in the dim gaslight, hi* back hair and robe dti chainbre took up a position parallel to the pavement, and at every step liis toe-nails rattled on the bricks. Bis action was tremendous. Be rounded the corner in splendid style and took in a Teutonic gentleman "on the fly" who was returning from Uhrig's. There was a collision and combined odor of sulphur and malt. A pros prostrated - trated prostrated beer barrel yelled murder! fire! thieves! but Stubbs kept on the straight and narrow way which led to the alley and paused not. Just as he reached it a policeman came upon the scene and gave chase. Stubbs made the gate first, but passed the Rubicon only to the extent of one leg, when the "peeler" arrested the other. Having "lost liis pocket" (a la "locket") lie was unable to jack-knife off the offending member. Slowly and sadly the part which had gone over recrossed to its mate. Remonstrance was useless. It was then that Stubbs enjoyed his first night promenade to a police station. Before sun sunrise - rise sunrise the matter was explained, and in bor borrowed - rowed borrowed shorts Stubbs returned a subdued man. It cost fifty dollars to hush the police and keep the affair out of the papers. The story leaked out, however. Everything leaks out in .Stubbs' neighborhood. The mother of the misguided youth who recently tried to sell Stubbs a spring lock, has ordered her mourning. This story i* not mere fiction, but is founded cm stnbb-ovn facts. - [Ex facts. - [Exchange. - change. facts. - [Exchange. The following act was passed some years ago by the Pennsylvania assembly: state house yard shall be surrounded by a brick wall, and remain an open enclosure forever." First reveller (on being turned out of tlie "Caledonian club"); "Come and take a glass at my rooms." Second reveller: "Na, na, ah've had mair than eneuch!" First reveller: "Hoots! Tak' anitlier, mint! D'ye no see ye're lettin' yer judgment get the better o' ye?"

Heal (f stale. WORCESTER COUNTY I'AliM AGENCY. FARMS ! Farms! Farms! Greatest Bargains in Farms and every descrip description - tion description of County Real Estate ever ottered in New Ragland. GEORGE W. DOANE & CO., NO. 1 TOWN HALL BUILDING, Brookfield, - - Mass. From our numerous Bargains we select the fol following: - lowing: following: I'OK SALK, Hnlv Seven Mile* from the City of Worcester, on a good level road, two miles from depot, and a large manufacturing vil village, - lage, village, a prime farm of 55 acres, ten in wood. The mowing and tillage is level and free from stones; cuts twenty tons of hay; keeps eight cows and team; modern style, two-story house with L, 8 rooms, papered, painted and blinded; barn 36x40, earriage house attached, cellar under the whole; *liop 10x18; buildings are nearly new and in ex excellent - cellent excellent repair; uncommonly well located; con convenient - venient convenient to an excellent market for farm produce. The owner's business requires his removal to an another - other another State, and he offers bis farm at a great sac sacrifice - rifice sacrifice to effect a speedy sale. Trice, $3,400; SI,OOO cash, balance to suit purchaser. 50 ACRE FA KM, 400 Cords of Wood, for #1 ,ioo, 3 miles from a manufacturing village; near school anil good neighbors, a farm of 5o acres, 15 in wood; will cut 400 cords of market marketable - able marketable wood, which delivered at a village near by will sell for more than enough to pay for the entire estate; the balance is level, free'from stones and well fenced with good stone wall; fruit in variety, comprising apples, pears, cherries, grapes and berries; one-story brick house; 7 rooms, need re repairing - pairing repairing inside; barn 30x40. This is a decided bar bargain - gain bargain and must sell at once, l'rice, $1,100; only one-half cash. A GREAT BARGAIN - Be sure uml read about it. - lso acres with excellent buildings for only $1,700; 40 acres in wood, balance well di divided; - vided; divided; cut- by machine 25 tons of bay: 100 apple trees: other fruit of all kinds; the laud stones to the south and east; aqueduct water at tlie house and barn; tip-top house of 7 rooms, papered and painted; was put in thorough repair two years ago at an expense of $800; barn 30x40, with horse barn and shed attached; piggery supplied with -et-kettle: wood shed, Are.; high, healthy loca location - tion location ; 2 miles from two village*, where all tin* pro products - ducts products of the farm can be sold for cash. Remem Remember, - ber, Remember, the price is only $1,700, and a perfect title guaranteed. Possession given at once. FOR S7OO - A nice little farm of 30 acres, 3 acres ol'thrifty growing wood; the balance is well divided into mowing, tillage and pasturing: the land is smooth, very easy to cultivate ; cuts 4 tons of 4 hay: keeps two cows the year round; one onestory - story onestory house of 5 rooms, papered and painted in inside*; - side*; inside*; stable 20x32; good soft well water at the buildings and a living spring in the pasture; the buildings are pleasantly situated, with shade tree* in front; one-quarter mile from boating and fish fishing. - ing. fishing. This is a rare chance for a man of small means to secure a good home, l'rice only s7oo. 25 ACRE FARM FOR #1,200 - SOOO Cash Cashat - at Cashat Charlton, one-half mile from church, neaicr to school, a line farm of 25 7 of which are covered with a handsome growth of oak and chestnut wood; will cut 200 cords and some good lumber: the land is comparatively level, and con consists - sists consists of a deep, rich soil; produces hi tons of hay in a season: .'»u apple, pear and peac h trees; also, cherries, grapes and berries; a cottage house withL; G nice rooms: workshop attached: barn 21x36, all in good condition. This is an excellent little farm, and an investigation will convince the reader that it is the best bargain lie has ever seen for 5t,200. Full particulars of L. Doanc, Charl Charlton - ton Charlton Depot, who will show this and forty other wonderful bargains in Charlton and vicinity, free of any expense. WHY LIYF. IN THU CITY and pay high rents when you can buy a snug little farm of 10 acres that will keep a cow and horse the year round, with a good house of 5 rooms, nicely papered and painted inside; a line stable, 22x30, with cellar; good variety of fruit, apples, pears, peaches, quinces, Ac,; ample supplv of pun punwater - water punwater at the house, located in a pleasant country town only two miles from village and church, and very near school, for only S6OO. This is a bargain, and will not be in the market many days at such a low figure. ONLY #3OO DOWN-l'rice, soo3 - F«r a cosy little farm of 15 acres; 7 acres in wood, mostly i white oak; warm, early soil, especially adapted j to vegetable culture; cottage house and L: 5 rooms: stable 20x20. This place is pleasantly lo located, - cated, located, 3 miles from station and village. It is offered at a low price ami on terms ot payment that cannot fail to satisfy any purchaser. THIS is A BARGAIN A good CO acre farm is oll'cred for $1,300; 15 acres in wood, balance level land; cuts 10 tonsof*hay; an abundance of fruit; two-storv house of $ rooms; 2 barns, 30x40 each; a trout brook flows through the farm, stocked with lisli; situated one mile from village, churches ami a noted academy. The owner is de determined - termined determined to sell at once, and lias lixed bis price at $1,300, S6OO cash, balance S2OO per year. ISK.VD WHAT #1,400 WILL BUY. at Brookfield, 3 miles front the village - A good farm of 65acres; wood sufficient for home consuinp- I tion; soil is dark loam, very productive; t uts l! tons of hay; 80 fruit trees, from which 40 barrels of winter apples ami 15 bushels of peaches were picked last fall; good, old-fashioned house of 5 rooms, winch is more comfortable than many of the modern-built bouses; barn 34x36, with cellar; located on a well traveled road. Price, $1,400, on easy terms. WOOD AND TIM ISUR FARM, located two miles from village. - This farms contains 100 acres, 50 in heavy first-growth wood and timber; will cut 1,200 cords ami 400,000 feet of lumber; worth at least §3,000 on the stump; 20 acres in mowing; very smooth; grass can all be cut by machine; a good supply of fruit; one-story house, 7 rooms: barn 24x10; located on a rise ot land, convenient to saw mill and a good market for wood and lum lumber. - ber. lumber. This presents an opportunity for a man acquainted with the wood and lumber trade to more than double his money, l'rice, $2,700. Our teams are in waiting upon the arrival of all trains, and our many desirable estates, in including - cluding including upwards of 100 unadvertised, will be shown to the applicant entirely free of expense. GEOIUiE W. DOANE & CO., No. 1 Town Hall Building, n 3 lin Brookfield, Mu**. #QRA - EIGHT HUNDRED AND fCVJU* FIFTY DOLLARS Will buy a Farm of 40 acres with good house and barn; keeps 4 cows and a horse ; one and a half miles from a town of u.oon inhabitants; with plenty of fruit. Also, fifty other farms and resi residences - dences residences at from SSOO to SIO,OOO. Apply to GKO. CORKY, Real Kstate Agent, n 3 Ot* Brookfield, Alas*.

A TURKISH I'IIIXCKHN. Il«nv slm* Look* anil llow Slit* Livt>*. ! Among other Introductions, wc two Eng- I Hall women had brought a letter to a certain J Turkish princess, widow of a naslia, and re reputed - puted reputed to lie a beautiful, amiable and agree agreeable - able agreeable lady. Tlie presentation of this missive required some little formality, but, after one or two interviews between our dragoman and her royal liigliucss's chief of the house household, - hold, household, all was arranged; and one sultry after afternoon - noon afternoon wo found ourselves at the gate of the palace. Two very smart negroes, dressed in black frock coats and trowsers, received us with stately |K>litcness. 'Vewcrc led through a garden to the front of the house, where several women servants received us. and the men retired. These two men, at a first glance, might have been taken for English uiaids-of-all-work; but, on closer In Inspection, - spection, Inspection, their olive features and white crape turbans betrayed an Oriental nationality. They were, in fact, Circassian slaves. On the terrace sat a very ugly old duenna, smoking a long pipe. We honed to each other, and she rose with dif difficulty - ficulty difficulty to accompany ti* to the reception room, a long apartment that made us fancy we were in a fa*hionable lodging house at st. Leonard's. Excepting a few knick knickknacks, - knacks, knickknacks, all the furniture had come from Paris and London, and was in very bad taste indeed. The old lady motioned us to sit down, pipes were presented to us, which we refused with all graciousness attainable; then followed a long pause, during which our companion continued to puff away and stare hard without a word. Then the Princess entered. She was tall and slender and very handsome, with a pearly skin, delicately-cut features and black blackhair - hair blackhair ami eye*. Her dress was simply per perfect, - fect, perfect, ample, flowing, easy, of soft, noiseless, lustrous silk, the precise hue of which it would he impossible to describe ; it was something between an asphodel-blossom and the palest silk coral, and vet neither the one nor the other approached it at all nearly. Around her head was wound a little iurban of delicately-colored gau/.e, fastened over the forehead with a jewel. Now , lam sorry to confess that this graceful and imposing creature was such an inveterate smoker tliut it seemed the sole business of two or three of her slave girls to supply her want*. During the two hours that wc were honored with her presence one of these automaton-like figures would come in about every seven or eight minute*, un unsummoned. - summoned. unsummoned. and hand each of the ladies a cigarette. Anything more like machinery could not he conceived. There was no salu salutation - tation salutation on tin* part of the servant, no ac acknowledgment - knowledgment acknowledgment on the part of the mistress. The cigarettes came ami went, and that was all. Meantime our hostess had sent for the French goierness of her little adopted daughter. Hilpare, to act a* interpreter; and soon the governess and her young pupil ap appeared. - peared. appeared. Uoffee was handed to us in little jeweled cup*, the French lady made some something - thing something like sociability possible, and we were asked if we should like some music and dancing. Of course the proposal was accepted joy joyfully. - fully. joyfully. will bo much amused," said the French governess to me: "the Turkish national airs are so naive, and the princess has among her young slave* some really fine voices." "We do not realize at home." I *aid, "that slavery -till exist* in the east." "Oh! but what kind of slaveryTlese girls are happier than our cooks and house housemaid* - maid* housemaid* at home. The princess i* like a mother ti* them. Some she marries off ami provides with a dowry; to all she is kind kindness - ness kindness itself. They have no cares; think of that!" Not being able to argue the point from her stand-point, 1 was silent. 1 could readily believe that our hostess would he good ami kind to everybody and everything under her care: but the thought was uppermost in my mind, how differently such goodness and kindness work in our own conditions of so society. - ciety. society. With us a good mistress is sure to have a smiling household. Here no one smiled. Every look and movement of the dozens of women we saw about us, most of them young girls, was joyless, mechanical, monotonous. They were evidently neither starved, not beaten, nor overworked; but the prevailing look of apathetic helpless helplessness - ness helplessness and hopelessness was very depressing to unaccustomed eyes. Meantime, the musicians and dancers entered, ten in number, all Circassians. The hitter wore Turkish trowsers wf white linen, striped with gold, bright silk sashes, and flowers in their hair, which was long and flowing. The singing had something inex inexpressibly - pressibly inexpressibly savage about it, consisting for tie tiemost - most tiemost part of wild chants repeated again and again to a monotonous accompaniment. After the songs came the dancing, which lasted nearly an hour - if aseriesof gymnastic feats and exercises could, indeed, he called dancing. The woodcuts in Wilkinson's "Ancient Egyptians," representing women tumbling and performing feats of agility from the temple of Beni Ilassan, would give a better idea of the entertainment than any descriptions in writing. The jumps, prostra prostrations. - tions. prostrations. rhythmic movement of the arms, standing on the head, and other ungraceful, laborious performances displayed for our amusement, must be very like those of the dancing women at the time of the Pharaohs. On the termination of the dance we rose to take leave. Gilpare, her governess, and half a dozen maids - 1 mean slaves - accompanied us to the garden, where we were presented with roses; then they retired, and we drove away, without the slightest wish ever again to enter the precincts of a harem. The monotony, the inanition, the dead-alive at atmosphere - mosphere atmosphere were unendurable. - [M. Betham Edwards.

17MBIIKLIA8. A correspondent writes to the Providence Journal as follows anent umbrellars: --When in the usual placefor rips Our gloves are stitched with special care, And guarded well the whalebone tips Where first umbrellas need repair - When you see that blessed day Then order your ascension robe*!" It is not of gloves that we wish to speak, though we may remark, in passing, that the scarcity of rips i< by no means getting to bo so great as to warrant any hast e in the above-mentioned preparations. Gloves cease to he exactly things of beauty before they be begin - gin begin to rip, so that we may speak of them w ith comparative calmness. But umbrellas! We sincerely hope that Dr. Holmes' umbrellas remain with him until they need repair at all the whalebone tips; and if such is the case his experience is exceptional. We sometimes see about the streets a dilapidated old man with a bundle of more dilapidated umbrellas under his arm, and it would seem to be a rather depressing sight, judging after the manner of men; but it is in reality a comfort to know that umbrellas ever do grow old. Too often, alas! they de depart - part depart in the dew of their youth and the fresh freshness - ness freshness of their vigor, and we are denied the melancholy pleasure of seeing them dado away, and the whalebone tips one by one re relax - lax relax their hold, till the whole falls into in inevitable - evitable inevitable decay. Ido not forget the famous umbrella of Mrs. Camp, "in color like a faded leaf, ex except - cept except where a circular patch of lively blue had been let in at the top.*' If we may judge of its antiquity by the description, it may be safe to call this the oldest umbrella of which we have any record. I never in my life saw anybody steal an umbrella: I never lost one that I had reason to suppose was stolen; but one after another they fold their tents and steal away, more silently and mysteriously than the Arabs, by far. Where do the umbrellas go*.* We have for answer only the dismal echo - "umbrellas go!" But it is idle to speculate and worse than useless to lament; I am convinced that no tidings will ever reach us front the land of departed umbrellas. This, however, l am resolved: I will never more set my affections upon this un unstable - stable unstable object. Its folds may be silken and its handle of polished ivory, but 1 have hardened my heart. Should it remain for any length of time to shelter me from the rain, I will enjoy it with thankfulness; if it follows its predecessors to an unknown fate, I will be resigned. In this connection it may be interesting to know that not even Zimmerman, in his "Pleasures of Solitude, '* nor yet Cowper, in the poem - "1 am monarch of all I survey," can claim to have developed one point of at attraction - traction attraction in Robinson Crusoe's lonely life jso fully as has been done by the author of the following lines, part of an ode upon the losses and miseries of umbrella owners in American cities. The writer must have lately lost a ten-dollar silk: "It. Crusoe on liis solitary isle Was no doubt lonely, ami, it may be, sad; When he cracked jokes there were none by to smile. And none to sympathize w hen he felt bad; But yet he had this glorious consolatiou, His parachute was free from eontlscation. "lfe could roam round his island at his w ill. And take his parachute, or leave it home; He knew that where he left it. it would still Remain there until he had ceased to roam. Thrice happy man! U doubly blessed R.Crusoe! Who among us in cities dares to do so?" The writer of the above was particularly aggrieved that it was wet weather when he was bereaved of his umbrella. He says: --Oh, why not take it on some pleasant day. When 'in the zenith Sol was shining brightly? At such a time 1 would not say nay; Not missing it, its loss would grieve me slightly. As W. Shakspeare said, in language terse. -Who's robbed, not knowing it. is nothing worse.' " Tin: Weight of An:. - Little as we real realize - ize realize the weight of gaseous bodies, it is meteor meteorologically - ologically meteorologically certain that one cubic mile of at atmospheric - mospheric atmospheric air weighs over live millions six hundred thousand tons, and one cubic mile of pure hydrogen, the lightest known sub substance, - stance, substance, weighs no less than three hundred and eighty-nine thousand tons. If will, therefore, appear somewhat startling to those who laugh at the terrors of our fore forefathers - fathers forefathers when the earth was threatened by collision with comets, to learn that such a gaseous body has an enormous weight, and its mass is not less than that of an asteroid. It would have, if reduced to the density of the earth, a diameter somewhere between thirty-two and two hundred and thirty-seven miles; and, if reduced to the density of a sphere of lead, would have a diameter which may approximately be put at least as high as fifty miles. here, my friend, you're drunk.' "Drunk! to be sure 1 am, and have been for the last three years. You see, my brother and I are on a temperance mission. He lec lectures, - tures, lectures, while I set a frightful example/'

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Jocosity in Journalism.- - English jour journals - nals journals are beginning to write in that semi semijocose - jocose semijocose vein of irony into which we long since fell in this country when discoursing of rail railroad - road railroad accidents. In recording a recent rail railroad - road railroad accident, caused by tin* contact of a passenger train against a wandering bullock, the Fall Mall Gazette says: "The public, however, insured to the in-* cossant. slaughter of the last month, will think little of an accident in which only two adults and one infant in arms met their deaths." Indeed, that inexplicable law which has so often seemed to cause a succession of ac accidents - cidents accidents in this country ha* apparently goue into effect in England. Several collisions and mishaps, resulting in a shocking loss of life have recently occurred on some of the best managed roads. Considering the sur surprising - prising surprising tardiness which English railroad managers evince in adopting some of the simplest means of safety used in this coun country. - try. country. it i* strange that they have so long with withstood - stood withstood the consequences of their obstinacy. The atmospheric brake is almost unknown on their roads, and the very simple device of a signal cord seems to have been entirely neglected. In consequence of this last omis omission, - sion, omission, the occupants of a car which took fire a few days since when the train was in mo motion - tion motion were quite unable to make known their frightful situation. Moreover, they were, according to the universal practice, locked, nor could they, owing to the compartment structure of the cars, pass from one to an another. - other. another. It wa* only, therefore, when they began to throw themselves from tlie windows that their predicament was discovered. Sev Several - eral Several of them sustained severe injuries, and it i* a wonder that none were killed outright. We have, of course, nothing to brag of in the way of immunity from accidents, but wc may safely say that were it not for our countless'mechanical contrivances our reck reckless - less reckless railroad men would have a much longer list of murders on their consciences than is tlio case at present. It only remains now for a competent band of western borderers to cross the ocean and waylay a train, let us say on the Great Northern line out of Lon London, - don, London, ami our English cousins will be edu educated - cated educated up to an adequate idea of the perils of railway travel. - IS. \. Independent. Nia.no Kkpuonaxfe to Wiilelbak Wiilelbakijows. - in - ijows. - in Wiilelbakijows. - in prosecuting the Ashantee war one of the difficulties against which England has to contend is the repugnance of the Gold Coast negroes to wheeling barrows. Neither horses nor mules can live in the Gold Coast, and the only way of transmitting articles is either by wheelbarrow or on the heads of the negroes. These obstinate darkeys, when furnished with wheel-barrows, invariably put them on their heads and cannot be per persuaded - suaded persuaded to work them. The same objection to wheeling barrows was observed by Capt. Warren among tlie Nubian laborers iu Pal Palestine, - estine, Palestine, who could not be induced to work with wheelbarrows at all. Herein lies a suggestion for the punishment of negro criminals here, by sentencing them to im imprisonment - prisonment imprisonment and hard labor with wheelbar wheelbarrows. - rows. wheelbarrows.