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And IUq w-v jicnostllcr? whiteness
livery year;
jM? do Binamer'u. flovrera quicken
«or twtnum'R fruitage thirVn
As, they onco did, for. wo slclsou
P ■ ,» < Every year.
It is grafllng darker, colder,
Every year,
As JUo heart and toul grow older,
Every year.
1 care not now for dauclng,
.    Oc for oyca with, passion glancing;   .
JLoveSn less and less entrancing
Every year.
Of tho loves and sorrows blended,
Every year;      -.    -
Of tho Joys of friendship ondod,
Every year; ■ ■   , ■ •
Of* tiro ties that still uilgbt blnd'mo
XTjitil time ta death roeignea me,
.    My luflrmlticffremiud me,
Every year.
Ob I bow sod to look before ns,
Every year;
While tho cloud grows darker o'er ub
Every year I
When \»o seo tbo bloseonis faded,
That to bloom wo might luivo aided,
And lmniottal garlands braided)    ,
Every year.
U'o tho past go more dead faces,
Every year;
itonio nq now ones in their places,
Every year.
Everywhere the sad eyes meet us;
In the evening's dusk they greet lis; .r
And to couio to them entreat us,
Every year.
" \'ou are growing old," they tell us,
"Every year;
You atfemoro alone," they tell ns,
" Every year.
l*ou can win no new offection;
You have only recollection,
Decrer eorrow and dejection.
Every year."
Thank God! no clouds aro shifting,
Every year,
O'er the land to -which wore drifting,
Every year.
No loSHes there will grieve us,
Nor loving faces leave us,
Nor death of friends bereave us,
Every year.
DEATH   AND   ODPID.
Ah! who but oft havo marveled why
The gods, who rule above,
Should ever permit the young to die,
Tbo old to fall in love 1
Ah 1 why should hapless human kind
Bo punished out of season ?
Pray listen, and perhaps you'll find
My rhyme may give tbo reason.
Death, strolling out one summer's day,
Met Cupid with his sparrows;
And, bantering in a merry way,
Proposed a change of arrows.
" Agreed I" quoth Onpld,   " X foresee
The queerest game of errors;
Vou the king of hearts will be.
And I'll bD king of terrors 1"
And so 'twas done—alas tho day
That multiplied their arts 1
Each from the other bore away
A portion of bis darts.
Aud that explains the reason why,
Despite the gods above,
Tho young are often doomed to die,
The old to fall-in love!
-John Q. Saxe.
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THE   BOY   PATKIOTS.
History is filled with tlie deeds of the
men o£ tho ^Revolution, nor nre the patriot women forgotten by the journals o£
'7ti; but where is the historian who tells
of tho boys of that gloomy period?
There were boySun the Revolution, boys
of noble patriotism and dauntless spirit,
boys who would not become traitors,
though the rack and ihe gibbet confronted them; boys who toiled with an
endurance and boldness uneqnaled in
tlie annals of a nation for the independence of the "Old Thirteen."
Let us relate an instance : It was in
tho year of 1777. Philadelphia was in
the hands d£ Howe and his inhuman
soldiery, while the field of Brandywine
gave American people an evidence of
British humanity. The inhabitants of
•A^teajsg^airffa^jrrWr^claTTnrci 1-rr<;rcTit'ith,ti"
mercy of their foes. Bands of Hessian
dragoons scoured the vicinity of Philadelphia- lor miles around, and committed
nets which, would have disgraced a Vandal.
On tho evening of an autumn day a
group of boys, ranging in age from 12
to 17 years, were gathered together on
the steps of a tenantless storehouse in
the village of Newark, Del. The town
seemed lonely, and, with the exception
of the youthful bond referred to, not a
human being met the eye. All the men
capable of bearing arms had left their
homes to join the army of Washington,
on the Schuylkill. A youth of 1G years,
mounted on a barrel, was giving an ad-
count of the disastrous battle of Brandy-
wine. James WilBon, the narrator, waB j
a bold boy, enthusiastic in his love for
the American cause, and possessed of
no little intelligence. His bright blue
eye and flaxen hair gave him an effeminate appearance, but underneath that
plain homespun jacket throbbed a heart
that never -quailed in danger, nor shrunk
before an obstacle.
His father was commander of the Delaware regular troops, and his mother
was dead. The boy concluded his narration, and was deeply lamenting that
he could not join the army.
"I am not old enough," said he,
" but had I a musket I would not stand
idly litre, with my hands hanging useless by my side. 1 have spent nearly a
week trying to find one, but my efforts
are of no avail. I stroDgly suspect that
old Tory Livingston has several secreted
in his house, but, as he permits no ono
to trespass on his land, I am unable to
say positively. If there are any boys
that will help me, I will search hia
house this night. He has no one to help
him except his son George, and we can
easily manage him."
The whole party immediately volunteered, and the young heroes soon started for the house of the old Tory.
Livingston had long been suspected
of harboring British spies, and somo of
his former laborers had reported thathe
kept up a regular correspondence with
the British commander. At all events,
he was generally regarded by the "Whigs
as a dangerous man, and therefore
avoided. His house was situated a short
distance from Whiteclay creek, on the
side of a steep hill, surrounded on all
sides by tall trees. It was just such a
place as one might suppose suitable for
the plotting of treason. At the time
James Wilson and his little band left
the deserted storehouse in tho village of
Newark, dusk had given place to the
darker shades of night; still it was not
dark; the new moon was perfectly distinguishable. At length they gained a
bank of the creek, and, slowly following
the winding path, soon came to a little
low bridge which crossed a shallow rivulet leading iuto Whiteclay. Here they
stopped, and Wilson and one of his companions went forward to reconnoiter.
They had not proceeded far
before they heard footsteps. Concealing themselves behind a
tree, they discovered that the person approaching was George Livingston, tho
old Tory's son. Wilson darted out and
seized him by his neck, and the two
boys soon dragged him to the spot
where they had left their companions.
The Tory's son was struck dumb with
fright when he found himself in the
whole group of boy heroes, with the
vise-like grip of James and Frank on
either arm. He was so frightened at
their threats that he promised to tell
them all if they would not injure him.
The blue eyes of James glistened with
joy, and lie soon gained from tho Tory's
son a revelation which stamped his
father a traitor of the most appalling
eharioter. He discovered that old Livingston not only kept up a correspond-,
ence with the British commander, but'
that he had so succeeded in Mb traitorous
designs that the village of Newark was
to bo burned to ashes, and its women
and'children left exposed to tho pitiless"
foo. Tho old Tory was to receive as his
reward the land whereon the village
Btood, and an annual pension from the
British Government.
But, Stranger than all, the plot was to
be consummated on the very night the
Tory's son bad been captured, while" he
was going on an errand ta a Tory neighbor, about two miles distant. The little
band of heroes learned, too, that the
British troops had secured thoir horses
in Livingston's stable, and intended to
descend the creek in a large boat,
Thero wero twenty of them besides their
Captain. Maj. Bardstone, the leader
of the band, was in temper and in heart
a thorough demon, and sorupled not in
his cruelty to destroy the slumbering
infant or sickly wife. Not a few in that
youthful band of patriots trembled for a
widowed mother or defenseless sister.
Some were for departing immediately;
but James Wilson, still retaining his*
grasp on the Tory's son, ordered all to
be silent. The prisoner was tied hand
and foot, a thick handkerohief bound
over his mouth to prevent him from
calling assistance, and a stout cord fastened to his breast and wound about a
tree. Wilson then told his little band
to follow him, and in a few moments
they stood on the summit of a pre.cipice
which overhung Whiteclay creek.
"Now, boys," said he, "if tho narrative which we have just heard is true,
we must make the best of the occasion.
The British band will pass this Bpot in
their boat—the creek is deep, swift and
narrow here—and, as we have an hour
to work, let us busy ourselves in rolling
some of ,these laige rocks to the edge of j
the precipice, and when tho red-coats !
pass below let us sink them to tho bot- i
torn.".
Each, boy set to work, and in an in-1
credibly short space of
A qHINESIi TORNADO,
Thousands or Lives Destroyed by n. Torrlllo
Cyclone at Canton—Appalling  Incidents
f tho Destruction.; *   •.-. t , * s i •
Correspondence of the Hong Kong
Daily Press gives tho following particulars of the terrible tornado whioh visited
Canton and its su.bn.rbB: Passing over
the , Sharnpep .settlement the>,storm,
crossed'the-canals to tho city, carryiirg-
away in its course the balustrading of
. the East bridge. A native police station was also completely destroyed.
The.Storm leveled all the houses-in. its
course, making a clean sweep of everything for a width of about 600 feet, The
mortality has been variously estimated
at from 5,000 to 10,0(10, and probably
the latter number is? fearer tho mark.
Nine thousand 'houses- (speaking Jn
ro^iidjEambers) jire known to have b'ceir
destroyed,,and although matyof tlie in-.'
rndtesiiadlioticaof the jfnp&nding disaster' by hearing the .ibii^c -caused, by
other.houses falling; ajid made their Escape, ■there were other cases in whion
great numbers of people were killed by
the fall of a single house. For instance,
there was an eating-house in whioh
fifty-two assistants were engaged. In,
this houBO there we):o .at the time*
over 100 people taking refreshment, and none, either assistants or
guests, are known to have escaped. In
another case twenty-four persons were
killed by the destruction of a family-
house. There was also great aestruc-1
tion of boats and life on tho water. Allowing, therefore, for there being no
one in many of the houses at tho time
of their fall, and, on the other hand, allowing for there beiDg great numbers in
some of thoBe that fell, it is probably
below the average to estimate tho loss
of life at one to eaoh house that fell,
and 1,000 lives ou the water. In moat
of the houses blown down, fire was
probably being used, either for cooking
or other purposes, and kerosene is now
so universally burned and stored in Chinese houses that it would have been no
cause for surprise had the- conflagrations
time nine huge j been mudh more extensive thasi  they
filial .spring
mined $m.
prostration fit; \
is ono reiBflxJ
ture, whergHii	
traot thismodo' of 5
a length c&ftnftT
tho blistering ofl
iookj whejehgV
from -making the
Ipsolute and deter-
to oven utter
[and body. Thero
jisodote of this na-
>a. obliged to pro-
U'-defonso for such
[ho was disabled by
feet on n scorching
mi assailed.
LAtl
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PIRATE.
Louisiana for
UFrom'fo*JWI% (fur.-) News.]
After the^bflHjnew Orleans La-
fitto retarnectl'BjF,4kl pursuits, and,
being unab1e'/jiffi*~J»;/at Grand Terre,
removed-to:0»IwBK(than known (is1.
Ciimpeachy) jjdfjjM^w 1817. Here he
built a 6maU'Jp«n»M'riug his quarters
in a oommodw**-' Who painted red,
where Tie wo* ti*»t<I'in 1819 by OoL
W. D, O., Hall (la died here some
years since), iuiK||Keavor to secure
(his co-operation wjfiwen. Long in his
expedition to'Mexujfj ^ut without success. . 'ijifj *
Latltto's pareM f. ius described: He
was a woll-forrruiE |1!< Ssome man, about
;six feet two iritlf',m f height, strongly
built, with, large,'
hair, and genet
Ho dressed in af
skin cap.   He '«r«»J
easy manners, of'
*ous disposition, and
dressiiyit hjs^niln
era* wra1 "almost »]b
■I eyes and black
♦ore a mustache,
uniform and otter-
pan of polite and
J(ed habits, gener-
(' such winning ad-
,A ovor his f cllaw-'
luto. He located'
of Aury's village,
i painted red, and
Sort.
''located on the
j«x armed vessels
of followers. In
sited by a severe
the vessels were
sinland. Shortly
fono of Lafitte's
his town'on the ru|i
built a Iioubo whitih
threw up around it
Whilo" Lafitto
island, he had five
and a largo fluml
1819 the island was
storm, and sever*!
driven ashore 'pa iho
after the ocoup&tfola
men stole a squnisr frfcoi the Caranchua
tribe of Indians, wh^ often resorted to
the west end of the iifwid, and kept possession of her. ThiiMio enraged tlie Indians that thoy attacijpd a hunting-party
of 'the buccaneerSf -pttd killed two • of
them." In return the "Indians were attacked by Lafitto witii 200 men and two
cannon, and a skirmkb." ensued which
laHteu tiio days,- wbe:~"thc Indians were
forced to flee to tho niWlimd, after having thirty warriors sln!l».'
Whilo nt Grand.,'X^ko Lafitto had
rocks were balanced upon the edgo of j were. As to tho clearing away of the
the precipice. The creek nt this point! dead bodies, the Chinese authorities
was directly overhung by the mass of ! seem to have acted with most commend-
rock on which our heroes stood. If the j able promptitude. Almost immediately
British band descended the creek, they '.after (ho catastrophe, orders for 4.Q0Q
would certainly pass this spot; and, if j coffins wero issued by the Oi Yuk Tung
they passed it, then death was theiroer* {..Hospital, ancLjug to theiimo" the steam-
tain fate. In about an hour the boys f er left yesterday afternoon, 3,000 bodies
detected the measured beat of muffled ; liad been recovered from tho ruins
oars, '*-'•■ j flu&'ljruried without delay.   The work
Closer came the doomed loyalists, and of clearing away the debris was proceed-
the hearts of the boy patriots beat wild- ing rapidly, but the stenoh in some places
ly in their bosoms. Peering cautiously | was unmistakable ..evidence that thoro
over tho cliffs, James Wilson saw the | "were dead bodiei. still to bo extricated,
Tory boat slowly but surely approach- j The .violence of the..wind for the few.
ing. An officer stood on the bows [minutes it lasted, was. as great as that'of:
fiuiding t%j,oarsmen, Jiy his^dei^iartaI'thes sevore6t.;tyjr>hoo'n. .i6"*n1t«tirbl<ickfl
the epaulets on liis shoulders™ told that | wero lifted from their places andliurled
ho was the identical fiend, Maj. Bard- . a considerable distance; thick trees
stone. snapped in twain like twigs; roofs wero
When the boat was about twelve feet' lifted bodily, and boats carried far ou to
from the rock, the boy leader fell se-, the shore. In one case a small boat was
curely behind his stone defense, and i actually blown on to tho roof of a house
shouted: ,    ! in tho Tenth Ward.   Arowof houses—. —  -      -    .*
" Who goes there ?" \ all brothels but one, forming one sido of  tnd separated from the larger island by
In a moment tho oarsmen ceased row- a short lane in the city—were the scene j «■ channel seven or eiffkt feet in depth;
ing, and gazed with astonishment above-1 of one notable catastrophe. The other He nlso hanged another of his men
ihem. The impetus which the boat bad side of the lane is formed by tho sido \ named Francois for engaging in a plot
acquired caused it to drift slowly bo- wall of the Nam Cheong temjle, which | to rob and murder Mr. Kuykendall,
neath the rock, and, just as it was fairly  is some thirty feet high.   This wall gave j "who, it is quite probable, visited
rdealt largely in nCJ
Spanish slavers, and'
ness during liis
a great many years
irfg witnessea'that '
bodiqd negro' .«rM
■fcta- In-181.9»
jpTun.dered niO
pursneJ  to  i
States rovonuo c
son.   Brown arrived
and Lafitte getting wind of
taken   from
iued the busi-
*ndit is not
there were liv-
ice of an able-
period only
,ed"Brow&
M&WftSi.
-Uhifod'
Capt. Ma-
the cutter,
affair
I the presentHajrborTmpnJvement Works,
then  known as "Little  Oampoachy,"
.Rescued from a Terrible Death.
[l?rom tho San Francisco Nowb letter,]
If there is one genuine and noble attribute, still, inhiip^tingr p.oQi;,.ialloii hn-
man r*aturb,'Ms thd Godilikoiiustlnotbf
assisting one's fellow-men in moments of
hidden distress and uulooked-for physical danger. Upon occasions when human life hangs in tho balance, nothing
is more toucMng,,nnd oroditable |han the
manner in Which personal"- oomfort and
safety is at once forgotten, and friends
and foes join with equal ardor in such
vital emergencies. The truth was illustrated with peculiar force yesterday after
noon, as many of pur. readers,are already5
•aware. A "couple of children, playing
at tho oorner of Pine and Kearney
streets, heard proceeding from tho sewer
opening a faint and evidently much-exhausted voice calling for help. Some
one, apparently a child, had evidently
fallen down the trap and was in imminent danger of suffocation. The news
was^sgon communicated .to the passers-
by, nnd'irt a few moments tddlrf were
brought and the pavement was being
rapidly torn up. In a short time a dense
and excited crowd had congregated, and
the" sand iflncT atones •'fiew ip. a
perfect shower. No one held
back. Kid-gloved dandies took their
places beside sturdy draymen. Ab fast
as one man came up. exhausted, another-
promptly-'stepped into his place. Gen:'
jMcOomb'B well-known form could be
seen in the midst of the workers, while
Auditor Maynard desperately tore up
the compact soil with his'.bare ftagerB.
At intervals the faint voice from the
sewer "ould be heard gasping, "Help !
Hurry up I" and the like. Col. Barnes
camo !iy, shouting some ^encouraging
words down tho hideous opening, and,
flinging aside his coat, seized a just-
relinquished pick. By his side, with
clonched teeth and dripping brow, his
enemy of the day before, Frank 'Pixley,
worked a heavy crowbar. At this juncture the scene was rendered more intense by the appearance of a poor woman fiom a neighboring aljev. She had
'just misBed her little boy, And, with the
unerring intuition of maternity, guessed
it was her Johnny who was slowly
smothering down in that frightfid hole.
With terrified1'shrioks-.alio latefhritely
wrung her hands and covered hor face
with her apron. Tho sight of the
poor crushed creature brought tears
int§ ,tho :«vos .pf^^.mauvf.!*? •■staj-
wart'man present " *' Would fhey be too
late ?" was tho whiBper that passed from
ono pale bystauder to another. Jasper
McDonald.fell out Qf the ranks,of tho
digger&iina l^npoi-WaittAwnikJ'it'
■tsrly worn out, and Barton Hill, tho
actor, stepped into his- place:" Mayor
winds, and, though equjppcd with nothing but a piece of tin can, did good
service.   Tho brokers, coming up from
had him himged on a little island near. Jhc just-closed board, pitched in with a
.  >*   . — . -v.     . mill K.nrtv    Anof.n      nnmr.     iioov    l.ninfr
below, came forth the doomed words
" Cut loose in the name of Liberty!"
Each boy pushed his rock at that instant, and the stones fell. A loud
shriek from the dark waters told how
well the plan had succeeded, and as the
exultant boys again looked over the
rook nothing was seen but a few pieces
of floating wood.
The boat had been broken to pieces,
way to tho force of the tornado and fell
crushing in upon theoppoBitehouses, the
inmates of which, about 100 in number,
were all killed, most of them being
crushed to death and the remainder suffocated. There were no means
of exit at the back, and no one
attempted to dig tho bodies out
of the ruins. The narrow creek is still
partially choked up with debris, consist-
and the occupants had found a watery ; ing Of broken boats and other wreckage,
grave "beneath the Whiteclay. A cry o'f i in which are numbers of dead bodies,
victory burst from the joyous lips of the ' In too many instances whole families
youthful patriots, and it was echoed ; have been crushed to death in ono boat,
along the shore. i The  supply  of  coffins  is  nearly ex-
When the boys went to the place where ' kausted, and the undertakers are now, I
they hod left theii* prisoner they found ! am told, charging double price. The
that in the efforts to free himself George j villages of Pah Hin Hock and Pah Hoci
Livingston had been caught by the fatal j Tang, two or three miles to the north,
cord and choked to death. There was no
time for repiniog; the traitor and his
son had met their deserved doom, and
there was no room to mourn the loss.
Old Livingston's house was searched,
and, to the surprise of every one, not,
only guns, but three brass field-pieces,-
several barrels of powder, and an abundance of ball, etc., were found concealed
in the Tory's cellar. The military stores
found here were given over to tho American troops, and found a joyful welcome
at their headquarters. Had not the
British party been defeated, the town'Of
Newark and the whole northern part of
the State of Delaware would havo
been overrun by predatory bands
of British soldiers. James Wilson
and Frank Howard, tho leaders of
the band that saved Newark, both joined
the afmy of Greene, and served with distinction in the Southern campaign.
Frank fell in the memorable battle of
Eutaw Springs, bewailed by all who knew
him. James Wilson lost a leg at the
siege of York town, and retired to his
native village, but mortification ensued,
and ho died from its effects.
The vlliage of Newark still stands, and
has become a town of some celebrity.
The scene of the defeat of the British
by tho boy patriots is still pointed out,
and it is a sacred spot in the annals of
Newark.
Such, reader, were the acts of the boys
of '76, and, though they have no monumental pile to preserve their memories,
they live in the legends, songs and
verses, where they will exist forever.
Ornamental Trees.
Mr. Geo. Ellwanger, at the late meeting of the Western New York Horticultural Society, gave the following as a liBt
of deoiduous ornamental trees possessing
real merit for planting. For a small
place he advocated: Birch, cut-leaved;
vellow wood; thorn, Paul's double scar-,
let; Judas tree; beech, Siver's smooth-
leaved purple; alder, imperial cut-
leaved; Koireuteria magnolia Boulau-
gean; mountain ash, oak-leaved; willow,
Kilmarnock. For larger places to the
above he would add: Elm, Camperdown
weeping and Blahehford; linden, wMte-
leaved; oak, scarlet; birch, Young's
weeping; beech, weeping andout-ieaved;
maple, Norway and Wier's out4eaved;
horse chestnut, double flowering.
Coii. tar is
fruit trees,
said to be injurious to
outside the walls, were caught in the
Btorm and suffered great damage, many
dwelling houses and other buildings being destroyed, and numbers of lives lost.
The village across the water opposite to
Shameen came in for its share of the
disaster also, being partially destroyed.
I hear that, though the whirlwind did
not effect so much damage at Fatshan as
in this port, it made severe havoc. It is
stated by Chinese who have come from
there that not leBs than 200 houses have
been laid prostrate, while about half the
boatB in the river have been wrecked.
The loss of life has been put down at
several hundred. A passage boat coming from Fatshan to this city was, when
a short distance off, caught in the tornado and instantly capsized. About
seventy of the passengerB were drowned.
Power of the Human Eye.
Sorno years ago an officer of high'
rank, a Colonel in the Blues, was visiting    his    friend,  Col.     ,  of    the
Guards, who resided in Buckinghamshire, This gentleman had a very fine
bloodhound, which he kept fastened in
the yard. One morning after the arrival of his visitor, Col.   was much
surprised at not seeing his friend as
usual at the breakfast-table and he sent
a servant to his room to ascertain what
had become of him. The servant found
'tlie bedroom door ajar, and, on knocking, the gentleman cried, " Come in,
and remove this beast out of my room,"
whereupon the servant entered, and was
astonished to find the master's bloodhound in the bedroom, a very largo and
fierce dog, who had broken his chain
and escaped from the yard, and, having
scented a stranger in tho house, bad
slipped into the bedroom, as the door
had been left unclosed by a servant, who had called the visitor in
the morning, The dog was on his
hind legs at the foot of the bed with his
forefeet resting on it, fixing his eyes
intently and ferociously on the unfortunate gentleman, apparently waiting for
an opportunity to spring Upon him,
from which he was only restrained by
his prisoner koeping his eyes steadily
fixed upon tho animal, and tho Colonel
was detained in this most unenviable
condition for more than half an hour.
The dog must nave been very ounning,
as he made his way up stairs unobserved
by tiie servants. This Btory (an authenticated one) reminds one of well-known
accounts 61 lions, whioh have in a sim-
tho
island for tho purpose of purchasing a
few of Capt. Lafitte's likely Africans.
The United States, becoming tired of
Lafitte's establishment, owing to the
numerous complaints of depredations
on American vessels, deteimined 'to
break it up, and dispatched a naval forco
under Lieut. Kearney, with orders to
see that Capt. Lafitte left. Tho pirate
chief received the officer courteously,
entertained him sumptuously at tho Bed
House, and issued instructions to his
followers to prepare to depart. Tho
buccaneers having everything in readiness, Lafitto ordered the town to be set
on fire, and, embarking on tho Prido,
Bailed from tho island on the 12th of
May, 1820, never to return. After cruising in the Caribbean sea for several
years he located on the island of Mu-
geres, off the coast of Yucatan, where,
according to the traveler Stevens, he
died in 1826, leaving a widow and a
hecatomb of turtle shells to honor his
memory.
Fish by the Square wile.
Some faint idea of the vast and inexhaustible • number of fish on our shores
may, perhaps, be obtained by a consideration of tho fact that yesterday no
fewer than 6,000 barrels Of porgies were
caught off Newport. —If the sea, through
the Vineyard and Long Island sounds,r
is anywhere near as rich in porgies,
mossbunkers, and other varieties of- thtj'
most abundant kinds of fish, whflA o&
unimaginably te$migg_world of life there1'
must be beneath the waves i And it is,'
even more than the striving, pushing
world of human life, a scene of rapacity
4hd destruction—tho stronger preying
upon the weaker and " the survival of
the fittest." Enormous as this single
day's catch of porgies seems^ it is surpassed by some -of—the v big hauls of
bony-fisb. or,mossbunkers^-the- "white-
fish" of the evil-smelling fish.#il mills
on the shore. These creatures actually
swarm in millions and are caught and
hauled "in by the cargo. Schools of vp-
racioita Muefish pursue and drive them
flipping and flashing to the surface,
where they_ are promptly pounced upon
by the sailing fishhawks and sea-gulls
that wait for them, outr61 water. In the
sea and on the land the world seems to
be a scene of shark and tiger, in one or
another form of destructive rapacity.—
Hat tford Times.
will. Sandy Austin came near being
submerged by the Cnving. cUrth" as thd
pit deepened, and Tumbull in a few
minutes looked as though he had been
resurrected by the last trump. Even
some of iho workingmen's party; lent a.
hand. In just twenty-two minutes from
tho first alarm the sewer level was
Teached. Tho last spadeful of earth was
thrown aside by Mr. Scott, of Wells &
Fargo, when, amid the deafehitfg cheers
of the immense crowd, tho little prisoner
emerged, dripping and almost dead,
from his critical position. It was a parrot, and had-Jpft its perch in front of n
neighboring bird store, and had fallen
down the trap, and—but that's all.
A Girl's Influence.
George Mitchell went on a frolic ih
Antiooh, Gal., on the evening before the
day appointed for his wedding, and in
the morning his convivial companion
was found murdered. Suspicion rested
on Mitchell, and he was placed on trial.
The girl to whom ho was to have been
married sat at his side in the courtroom, and her sympathy and griel were
so attractively exhibited that tho Judge^
in his charge, warned the jurors not to
permit themselves to bo influenced by
her. They acquitted Mitchell, however,'
and it is impossible to determine by the
meager reports wuether the verdict was
caused by the evidence or by the girl,
The pair Ayere morlied immediately ih
the court-room.
should bo avoided as much as possible.
Do not drink much water at a time.
More than two. tumblers full should not
be taken at a meal. Do not drink between meals unless to quenoh thirst, as
excess of water weakens the gastric
juice and overworks tho kidneys. Excessive potations, whether of water or
other fluid, relax tho stomach, impair
its secretionB, and paralyze its movements. By drinking little at a time the
injury is avoided.
•    An Irish Eviction Described.
In my checkered life I have been a
private soldier, and, between 1840 and
1850, I was in the county Cork, stationed at Ballancholy. Those of you
who are Irishmen will want no description of that beautiful valley of the Lee
which winds between the hills from
Cork, and, in summer, seems a very
paradise, green grass growing on the
water's side, and burnished with gold in
the morning, and ruddy to very crimson
in the evening sunset. I went there on
a November day. I was ono of a troop
to protect the law officers, wh)_ had
come with the agent to make an eviction
a few miles from Inniscarra, where the
river Bride joins the Lee. It was a
miserable day—rain freezing into sleet
as it fell, and the men bent down
wretched dwelling after wretched dwelling—some thirty or forty perhaps. They
did not take much beating down; there
was no floor to be taken up ; the walls
were more mud than aught else, and
there was but little trouble in the leveling of them to the ground. We had got
. our work about three parts done when
one of them, a woman, ran and threw
herself on the ground, wet as it was,
before the Captain of the troop, and
asked that her house might be spared—
not for long, but for a little while. She
said her husband had been born in it,
and that he was ill of the fever and
could not live long, and sho asked that
ho might be permitted to die in it in
peace. Our Captain had no power ; the
law agent wanted to get bock to Dublin;
his time was of importance and he would
not wait; and that man was carried out
while we were there, in front of us,
while the sleet was coming down—carried out on a wretched thing—yon could
not call it a bed—and he died there,
while wo were there; and three nights
afterward, whilo I was sentry on tho
front gate at Ballancholy barracks, we
heard a cry, and when the guard was
turned out wo found this poor woman
there, a raving maniao, with one dead
babe in ono arm, and another in the
other, clinging to tho cold nipple of her
lifeless b?oast. And if you had been
"brothers to such a woman, sons of such
a woman, father of such a woman, would
not rebellion have?,aeemed .tha-sJMJywfc
TiiiareilHtn^^t^ffio^i^^^rtf*n^
took placo in tho twenty years preceding
1866. Two hundred and fifty thousand!
(Jan you multiply tho misery of that
250,000? Brother separated from Bister, husband separated from wife, tho
Union Workhouse taking one, and tho
other going out to find life if he can.—
Charles Bradlaugh. »
A Phenomenal Storm.
A correspondent, describing the effects
of tho late terrible cyclone that laid
waste tho town of Biohmond, B.iy county, Mo., killing eighteen people, says:
The stories that are told of the force of
the storm seem incredible. The trail of
the cyclone was swept clean of trees and
shrubs as well as buildings. Horses,
cattle, and hogs were whirled away or
left dead on the ground where the storm
struck them. The streets of Biohmond
How to Live TwOtHundred Years,, ..[.arestillstrovrXwithfragmeutsofwagonB,
and tho bodies of thirty horses have been
hauled away from the town. In ono instance, a team of horses and a wagon
were lifted from the ground and dropped
into the branches of a largo oak, which
was not prostrated. Were it not so serious, thero aro features of the storm's
fury which sound funny. Half a dozen
country stores were destroyed and their
contents scattered. Bolts of cloth, shoes,
and such things have been found as far
as fourteen miles northeast of Biohmond.   Trees were carried through tlie
If anybody wants fo live a couple of
centuries (1) let him never overfeed; and
(2) let him never get drunk. At least,
these are the rulps of health Jaid down,
by Miguel Soils, a half-breed "farmer in'
tho foot-hills of the Sierra Mesila, New
Granada, who confesses to being 180
years old, but is believed by his neighbors to be really rpnch older," Dr. Lutz
Hernandez, who recently paid him a
visit, found him at work in his orchard;
his skin was the color of parchment, but
be was robust and aotrye; his s;ipw,-ybite
hair was twisted' turban fashion found
his head, and his eyes were so bright
that the doctor felt quite uncomfortable
when they were turned upon him. r-Mi-
guel> Baid that the secret of •liis living tir
century or two was very simple—simply
never getting drunk and never overfeed-;
ing, "'r'eatoniyoncfeaflKyjabighearty
meal, which it often takes me half an
hour to get through with; but ypu seo it
is not possible in'half an hour fo eat
more than you can digest in the next
-twenty-four." He went on hx say,.that
be had not made up his mind' about
meat, but did not eat much of it. He
ifasted on .the first and, .middle, days > of
each month, eatingaiothiiig-, but drinking all the water he could swallow.
He always let cooked food.,cpol before
fasting it; tind to this precatitioh he dV-
tributed the fact that his teeth aro as
sound now as. as. they were 100 years
ago. "Dr'.'Hernaiidezwhs informed by
some of tho oldest inhabitants of the
district that they well xememb.eredj.Jili-;
guel as a reputed centenarian when they
were boys; also that the name of Miguel
.8olis,,,cplored>farm<p,( appears- in,a writ,
still preserved,'of" the contributors to
the building fund of a Franciscan mon-
astery.,near Sap. Sebastian, w^ich^Wi&s*
.founded lit 1812, and that the present
ebbot is positive it is the same man.
But, protracted »s^bas been his- sojourn
on earth, he lias "not succeede'd in" winning the respect of his fellow-beings.
The.Ondians3» theneighb^orhoopVflrJnly,
believe'that he has sold his soul to the
devil.
^n^Hfet^Sf/ou^tate'r.  ji
'' No water that- has stood in open,, ves(-
sels dfe?ijgg)t% night.shpuWib'e need for
drinking or cooking. By exposure to
•tJie air it has lost its "aeration," and
has absorbed :many oClthe'ldtfsVKerms'
floating in the apartment. If conven
ietico requires water to be kept
should be covered, unless tho vessels
are tight. Wherever practical, all dis
tributing reservoirs shoull bo covered,
Filtering always adds to the purity of
'water, .DJih^pg^oJef Fspouja^dt M.
taken from lakes or rivers on alow level.
Surface water, or water iu* lakes, pools
or rivers whioh teceive the surface wash,
air. One of them struck a young medical student named Campbell, who had
gone out of a building for safety, and
killed him outright. Men were lifted
up and carried through the air, and iu
one case a man was let down 100 feet
from where he started. His shoes were
torn from his feet, but he sustained no
injury beyond a few bruises. The Baptist 'and Presbyterian churches were
completely torn to pieces, and tho large
bell on tho Presbyterian church, weighing 1,800 pounds, wo-s carried across the
street. An eye-witnesB of the formation
and approach of the cyclone, who was
just off the track of it, Bays that at a
point seemingly about five miles southwest of the city he saw a little black
spot about the size of a man's hand circling and waving furiously. It increased
and took the shape of a large funnel,
and seemed to rise from tho earth until
it had a circuit of about 150 yards.
When it reached a point a mile from the
town it stood on a hill, but continued to
circle and roar furiously. At length it
sped onward until it reached tho southwest corner of the town. The havoc
and desolation which then ensued are
beyond description. Not a house is left
to mark that once beautiful portion of
the town. Houses were blown over
houses. Thero is not a Bingle foundation that was not swept away.
Replies to Correspondents.
Anxious mother—A three-inch incision
in tho skull with a broad-ax is the best
means we can recommend for breaking
your boy of the habit of visiting opium
dens.
Preacher—If the deacon hunched you
ifor threes when he hold only two pairs,
thereby causing him to lose the pot,
half of the amount should have been
'deducted from his Share when you came
to divide at the end of the game.   It is
„,u„~ *^m...»~- .—-— — --- l-- in ves-1 hard to  stock a straight flush, and it
sels^oHfieyBtttl.'lTMirS'JlMore^uae^it 'Would probably take you a year's olose
practice to learn to do it skillfully. It
is safer and easier to palm, that kind of a
hand or raise it fiom your lap,—Tusca-
rora (Net).) Times.
In Mexico seventy-one Oatholio
cburob.es have recently abandoned their
allegiance to Borne.
XME   G&XHlSKIiin SQSB,
Only a rose-butl Bwoet and fair,
Down uy tho road-?ide Browing,
Of other flowers, iloli and raro.
And cultured, littlo ltnowiog
Content its blushing facoto hide
 .'.AloneJlsamUcavSSi when straying
Be?s carao wandering side uy side
Willi zephyrs Idly playing.
Tho rose-bud blossomed out at last
Into Iho perfect flower,
And, plucked by one who Banutored past
- Ere it had bloomed an hour,
Was tossed ere long asldo, poor thing,
Whioh sweeter grow when dyiug,
And left, all crushed and withering,
Uppn iho road-Bldo lying.
You understand, yon say, with scorn,
Whilo listening to my story 7
You know which rose, ono BUmmM- morn,
You robbed of all Its glorv ?   .
Ah, man, the heart yon cast away
When so it served your pleasure,
My own, for many and many a day,
Had worshiped without measure
She knew it not.  I was not worth
Tbo love you held so lightly;
But I could lift her from tho earth,
The flower once blooming brightly—
Tho roao you throw away—ah, yes—
Again lo toy with—never I
But mine, to worship and lo bless,
To keep and hold forever.
-Harper'a Wetklff.
PITH  AND  POINT.
'!
BurtRY nice—The strawberry.
A srAKK air-rester—The lovers' gate.
Musical morality—An upright piano.
PockUt-bookb aro worn shorter this
season.
Wheue there's a will there's a plea of
insanity,
A man never uses his thumb noil for a
screw-driver but onco.
Never give way to despair, for despair
will never give way to you.
When is a literary work like smoke ?
When it comes in volumes.
How often do we find that a man's
better-half gives him no quarter.
Never put off till to-morrow what
can be just aB well done the day after.
The mysteries of the future—The
next fasBionable dresses and bonnets.
Why are the young ladies given to
blushing? Because it's a becoming
red.
Why is a gamut like a gambling
saloon ? Because it's full of sharps and
flats,
A BAi/raionE man has invented a new
paper collar, whioh he callB the Worm,
because it will turn.
"Tom, what inthe woildput matrimony into your head?" Well, the fact
is, Joe, I was getting short of shirts."
Someuody has taken the trouble to
write a book about " How to Find tho
Stars." Don't wait to read it—step on a
bit of orange-peel.
ScrENTrpio agriculturists speak of the
" fruit belt" of the South. It is where
green apples strike the small boy.—New
Orleans Picayune.
Says the Albany Argus : " A coquette is a rose-bush .from which each
young beau pluckB a leaf, and the thorns
are left for the huBband."
Some people, unacquainted with metallurgy, are in the habit of designating
a young lady's fortune as tin. This is
an error; it is belle metal.
"Hats yon over read "The Tale of a
Bumble Bee?'" osked George of Sarah
Jane. "No," said she, as she turned
he color of real paint; "but I've folt
em."
A Mississippi Judge was just saying
that np one but a coward would carry a
pistol, when his own fell from his pocket, was discharged, aud the bullet bit »
M^gr ju^MvUJg; - i   .  '',- ' ^y~ „■ '-^
1u&£2^aWHSSii%«tf7,K'   "ReveT
In tho first plnca I don't know how, and
then think of tho incomplete lines—such
a waste of paper 1"
A wjttmess, on being cross-questioned
lately, swore that ho was in the habit of
associating with every grade of society,
from lawyers up. Tho lawyer who " had
him iri hand " gasped out, " That's all,"
and sat down,
A Kansas schoolma'am has introduced
a new feature in her school. When one
of the girls misses a word, a boy who
spells it gets permission to kiss her.
As a result, tho girls are becoming very
poor spellers, while the boys are improving.
In the following love couplet there is
a great paucity of words, but as much
meaniDg as there is in many moot-moving love songs that have a fashionable
run :
I looked and loved, aud loved and looked, and looked
and loved again;
But looked and loved, and loved and looked, and
looked and loved in vain.
"Abe you trying to raiso a mustache,
my son ? " kindly inquired a heavily-
whiskered father, tho other morning,
observing tho young man scraping his
face " in tho place whero the hair ought
to grow." " Yes, sir," replied the boy;
"since you failed, its about all I can
raise."
Bur as tho season wears away,
The ben ecstatic hums,
And with his orderiferous blasts
Tho squalid squasbbug comes—
Aha, the squeamish squasbbug squats
Or squirms upon the squill,
Or squlrtB his squibs at squabbling squibs,
That think to use him ill 1
And so tho Fquashbua conies and goes,
While nature seems to hold her noBe.
"Enough! enough! Tako him off,
gentlemen, tako him off 1" yelled tho bottom man in a fight before the second
blow was delivered. "What made you
give up so soon? You could have licked
him easy by holding out a little," said
one of the bystanders to the man as ho
stood with trembling knees after being
released from Ms antagonist. "What
made you holler ' enough' so quick ?"
"Do you think I'm a darned glutton,
and don't know when I've got enough ?"
said the defeated party as he limped
awav, holding his sore jaw.—Breakfast
Table. ' .
"What  Charley   Boss   Has   Done   for
Homeless Boys.
Poor little Charley Boss did not sufr
fer in vain, after all, for his misfortune
has been the means of bringing good
luck to very many little boys, who otherwise, in all probability, would have
led lives of misery. In tho course of
his investigations Mr. Ohristian K. Boss
has examined 497 boys, all of whom
were supposed to be the missing Charley. All Of these save three, who had
been stolen, were friendless scraps of
humanity, drifting homelessly over the
face Of the earth, and, through the publicity gained for them by being mistaken
for tho lost son of Mr. Boss, the great
majority of them were provided by
charitable people with comfortable
homes. It Bhould be tome consolation
to Mr. Boss that his quest, whilo useless to himself, has been so fraught
with good to Othera.---Philadelphia
Times.
The Philadelphia and Beading Bail-
road Company aro organizing 140 policemen to guard the track. They are
all to bo armed, and will each have ono
mile Of track under their Supervision.
Fbanois Oaebow's treatment of a Pitts-
field girl was outrageous. He married
her in April, and honged himself in May,
leaving his six ohildren by a former- wife
on lier hands,
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