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Nlntr Mlgktj Hnppj. wUppmnu boCrr ■»« rtr Jrn-drapa lallln-: Duct imp a^obcus' wars do ba« mla poTol N«TT mlEbtJ bsppj when at ow-tbrmr. HqaYl to to lanplc* wMn Of ictj-hmt. comiL1; Hrr-nwrtlo mi: wbra dr boorjJnif bammlo ; Lru bo-ir slcSar iM at paaus-rtsf apnoo- ! iuu.li Mel blscsi aba ot oKwmuII besdi'B'*mn brfioTO' wb Of biaso oij Bbr su. oaiifi wbrb bt dour tout Of oncsn; Bulllrt* llUrlj wlira be niacin' in Of I Met. I: N«rr nalcbij bappy— *f kWnli OoaarA lady Is this city OTertusrd ber nurse girt Islktsf U> Ibr link child she 111 pulling to sleep, ssd among other Wgendi of the nursery ia oAiu h she indulged wai "If you tfoal go rigbl 10 sleep this Tery minute, s greet, big. swful blnck tesr, with eyes like costs of lire, and sharp, white, oroel lecih, *111 come out from tinder the bed and c-»-i y^>-u s-l-l u-p. The poor little nestled down under the clothes sod sfutr s long sewn of terror feD asleep to dream frightful dreams 1 of horrid bears eat tug ber up. That night when the stolid nurse bad composed herself In her own comfortable and bad put the light out there came s sudden rep si the door and the Toioc . f the mistress ailed loudly througbAhe "Maggie I Maggie ! for meroy'a sake get up as quick as you can ! There's a fearful under your bed, and aa soon m get ssleep he's coming out to rob sod At the word burglar ibe girl ipreni; screaming from the bed, tore open the door sod fell in hysterics! into the hall. The lesson was e*eo more Instruct! re thin the mistress bad de-igoed, but a lien the girl's fears were aimed she said to ber : "You did out besiuie to tell my little delicate child, »hj eooid.m* possibly know that it wsa a lie, a cruel alary of a bar under her tied ; now, when I treat you to the sauie kind of a slumber-story, ' you are nearly frightened to death. To- ' morrow you ao go into the kitchen and work; you are st fit to are fur little children." How maay children are there who, every nigbi of their lives,' are frightened ^ to steep }— Detroit Pott. . Two Wsjs o(l.ablagal Two boys went toTuii^f^jiea. One 1 was happy braute they founders pes, • The otLer was unhappy bcatae the 1 grapes had seeds to them. Two men being convalescent were ' asked bow Ibey were. One said: "I am ! better today." The other said: "1 wis worve yesterday." » 1 When It reins ooe man ays: "This will make mod." Another; "This will lay Ibe dust." 1 Two children looking throngfa colored glasses, ooe said: "The world ia blue." 1 And the other said: "It la brigbL" 1 Two boys rating their dinner, noe ; said: "I would rather have something ' other thnn this." The other aid: "Tbls 1 ia batter than nothing." A servant thinks a man's house is principally kitchen. A guest, that It is principally -partor." "I am glad," says one, "that It la no 1 wubr." "I am aovry," says another, "ihat 1i la no better." One *ao spoilt a good repast by thinking ofB belter repast of another. Anotbir 1 enjoys a poor repast by coaalraating it with none at all. One man ia thankful for his blessings. ' ia morose for hi* misfcrtnnev. One man thinks be ia entitled to a bettor world, and dissatisfied because be 1 hapo't gut ii. Another thinks he ia not entitled to any, and ia aalitfled with 1 this. his wants. Another from bla assets. i Vulgar Habits. Asking questions prirate or personal X a vulgar habit, asd teiHogyour busi tea which DO ooe wants to hear, ia ' another. Asklog Hie cnat of a preaeui : I that has teen made P> yon, loud talking 1 in poblic, bard staring (l table, insolent , disrespect to husband, wife, sister or ' brother, showing temper in trifles, and • making soeses in public, showing an em- i barraxing amount of food neat, and mak- i tng lore ia public, curort sneers, of which ■ people cpo see the animvi. if they do not i always uoderaum! the drift; persistent egotism, which talks forever of itself, and I cannot even feign the moat passing in- ■ turret in another, detraction of friends, i and it may be of relatives, a husband tell- i plaining of her husband's faults, the bold • assumption of superiority, and the servile I these are signs and evidences of vulgarity I — vulgarity of a far worse type than that , i which rail its fish with sswrrl knife, and i «jf ^'Tou wsa." and Each oLihc men j < Term tor Braotljo i "Hare you tried tbe faith carer asked i a long-haired, sallow -faced f linger, adn gentleman who sat Uli nd hliu in a Brooklyn arret- ear. "I hare" w»> the ansa e, . "Do you before iu ItT "I I du " "May I ssfc.tbec.of srhat you wire cmwdr "Oertainly. I war cured of my

GUILTY, OR NOT GUILTY. ' ^ — tt A friend and neighbor of out* relate- a ; . Mining ciperienhe of his aa a Juror when ( i - residing in Ulster county, in the Btate rf | New York, in 1854: , The case, the meriu of which be and i * bis eleven associates were to deode.ls one _ tit R range inlereft. even al this late day. , ' : We give II to our readers, substantially as | _ told us. Il seems that a resident of the ( : county by the nhmc of Gflalin. and of , " moderate respectability bad been married p lo a lady of the locality, whose family , relatives were Ibr brat. Bom after bit i i wedding Goal in made Ibe acquaintance of , a oomely mulatto maiden, and by a systematic course of villainy seduced ber. His | wife, when tbe sffsir berame poblic, waft liv- , ' nblr racilcd over ber husband's infidelity j No his marriage vows and the disgrace be , bad brought upon herself and relatives j Nntmly tvere tbeactora,unmrdialelycon- i i ceraed in this drama in real life, greatly ( | a rough! up by lLbut tbe town gosaipa haJ | a line morsel of scandal to feast upoo. Id i J their hands the business grew to pertrn- | lions proportions, nod sober citizens ot t tbe place began to talk of that which, day i j by day and more and more, filled the pub- ; lie mind. While nil this grasip was going , on a terrible crime of attempted murder , bad beep perpetrated upoo tbe uooffrod , ' j ing victim rf Goslio's lust. Its discovery | | and tbe <acapr of the tojured girl seems miraculous II appeared that a ciliten of | ; the village, late on a Monday afternren. | was grinding an ate. 'fo-I -ne bciog lurte 1 ( ' alternately by bis two sons. One of the , ' | leys whose lime il was to take a rrtL DO- | tired a woman hobbling toward them, as sistfd by a targe stick in cneh of ber , bands. His turn to work the stone enme. , and tbe struggling tramp, as lie I bought. , gwaa pointed out to ibe brother,— w bo , ^ ap« bis fstber for hel|i. They fcaind rial | tbe supposed beggar wasouoe other tbsn ; the mulatto girl, where nam* In cocbec- , , tin with the wretch 1MI I % had wagged , ; on tbe publ&-4an£uc fur ao m.ny dsvBut what a fearful plight she too in! lie- , sides almost beyond rccognilion, l,er , ' clothing badly torn and saturated with. , blood, this poor creature was trying to ; | lsorft hrr borne, whicb lay a little furiber , along the poblic highway. Faihcr and | sons lent their aid wiih willing bands and , sympathetic hearts. Tbe injured woman , was tenderly carried borne, m doctor called. , and bW wounds, whidi. were of a most serious character, dressed. When, by , ' caret ul treatment. when atrengtb had lieen , restored aulflctantlr, she revealed to the < _ frieods present that Goslin and his wife , ! bad tried to foully murder lier by throw- ( ing her from a steep ruck, 340 feet high, | ' w hich lay juat by the village. Now oome* , ' In the experience of our friend. Of , oosret>„Go*lio and bis wile were duly sr. ' rested, and indicted foe the crime of at- ; tempt al murder. At tbe proper time the , cads' being called up for arcoDd trial, ( qualifications of jurure proved a barrier , to the speedy and satisfactory arraignment . of the accused and wife. T be opinion. , generally, lire! the scamp did the deed, . had tented deep down into tbe minds of | Ibe whole community. In lb la dilemma, from new comers in the county, a Jury by the supervisors was selected, and Mr. bad bta name drawn, was duly . qualified, and took bit teal among his fellows, all of whom were strangers to ' . him. He had out even Men ooe of them be- , fore. The first witoeaa called was the . , victim herself, who bad so far recovered ( to be able to testify against ber betray- : er. The girl's story ran somewhat as fob ( I lows; "On Sunday morning about 10 *- m 1 had occasion to pats Goalie's bouse. ( When I got opposite to it 1 waa seized by - and hit wife, each holding ooe of my | and hurried forward toward Oape ■ , Mouutaio. a lonely peak near and belong- ( . to Sbemaogant Mountains. On ar. [ riving at the precipitous edge of the hill . Mr. Goslin released my arm. and looked ( over the edge of the overhanging cliff. ( He pretended to see in tbe valley below s ( hedge-bog, and called to fata wife and my- ( , self lo look over, but I waa afraid. When be fuund 1 could not be induced to look ' over, be. ptaclog his anna around m-.. ( poshed me beadkiog over tbe rock. 1 ( . asw Goslin and bis wife looking al me as j 1 was sent on the fearful plunge lo the j foot uf the hill." Here tbe woman lie came exhausted, and had I* he gitm ( rest before she could complete her story. ^ When suOcienlly rt stored, she repliid , , a qoestloo rf ouunsel. as lo what she . . thought when falling: "I prayed " raid ( , she. "What did you pray foil" "That 1 ( might live to let the world know who . that 'ho good God would tare me tbtn. f and hereafter." In answer to other que*. . lion* tbe woman said. "I did oot know ^ how long I preyed, hut ill tbe lime I wa- f falling to Ibe bottom of. the precipice. t i , where my senses forvnk riie'fne lm or I twelve hours. When 1 awoke a burning . I thirst was devouring me. 1 crawled away ( . j with tbe little remaining suregth left to- f ward the road, when coming to a small stream of water I drank frrely, feeling t much refreshed, but In a little time ao t ague seized me, my senses reded, and a darkness crept over everything. Waa 1 dying i I remained there all night W hen 1 recovered my senses a light, as . from some ooe carrying a lantern, moved ' about the place where I fell, but I kept ' still, foe a great fear came upoo me thai ' was Goslin oome to soe if bis work bad ' l tws well A*f .Sft— ■llawlha HptiS > disappeared. When morning dawned I fell better, and tuned forward again. * Lo oklng back rf me 1 saw the roan G-s-lin on lop of the mountain looking all . about him I hid behlod a bush He , • did not tee me. It was now af lemon ; of Monday I tame to a fence, tt was tn , ; places broken down ao that I got over . il. MJking a suppept of a cuuple of , e '.akrs I hobbled along tiy their mid. A rein j : set in and tbe cnel drops refreshed and . gave me cosnagr to atrnggle on. My life , , depended upon reaching succor befon i ' eight. Soon 1 sen a boy approaching me 1 and then a man 1 knew no more Uli open- . ing my eyea.boorsaficr, 1 was surrounded j by friends who wore caring fur me trn- j

I derly." The doctor oooflrmed the condition of tbe girt ak to her fearful injuries. ' She wns mangled in such a manner that : ;The wonder is bow ' the highway was " reached. Raid the diet or: "Ooe leg was ° broken, both ankles oot of Joint, both * arms broken and severe contusions about c the pereou should have made ber helpless. ' ° The injured Sri beige S»U"1 give as * J ° reason for ber attempted murder to be a ; n I fear on tbe pan of Goslin rf Lis wife's ; * ' people and a desire on his part In hide her ^ 1 II was also proven for the prosecution dial Goslin ran sway to escape arrest on * I Ibe Monday afternoon his victim was rescued. He bid in a swamp, and tbe police 0 • had to shoe* him down before he was 1 1 finally apprehended. In ber fall of 240 feet " - she bad lodged io Ibe top of a tree eighteen f fret high, which fcsi situated under ibe * bjrliff, sod strange to aay, that it gently 1 to tbe tore* of 'the falling body in ' ■ surh a way as to make the circumstance qrftf providential. One of tbe girl's slip- ' * 1 pern caught in a branch of the tree, acd ' 1 fragments of clothing fluttered from the broken in ber descent,!— evidence ; ' that lhr leap, voluntary or involuntary, j bad really hern made. The defense tried to prove the girl a bad * I character, and thai such are likely to com- ' mil suicide which she tried to da It was ' a'sjdispuled that there was sufflcieoj time 1 1 prey during ber descent from the cliff. J A minister was called who testified lo the ' fart that there was time for the prayer she ' made and for any more. An expert toll the court- before tbe clergyman's tea- 1 I Uiuooy. how long it would take a body to ' • fall 249 feel. Gisliu's mother. swore that be was Dot 1 out of ibe house all day Bunday except to c feed the pigs. He met a neighbor early ' on Sunday morning and spoke to him coo- c ' corning tlie siekoesa of hi* wife wbooould E • nut sit up at all from a disease peculiar lo ^ 1 No ooe cross-questioned this witness, c ' and as 'her sober, q taker- like dress and 1 1 deeply impressed the jury it is * probable Ihat her evidence greatly influ- ' ' enced io making up a verdict. Counsel ' both sides was of the best. Die prose- 1 ' cutioo insisted that the case waa proven, ' independent of the mother's tea'-imooy ' who seas swearing for ber non. Tbe de- c fecae claimed that Guaiin was of good ' diaracter sod tkc girl whom be had ruined 1 commit suicide. 0 And so the case went to tbe jury, and, 1 after makiog op a Terdlct, came into court a at 8 p. m. with a written return, that e 1 "The Jury agrees to disagree." So ended ^ the aeoond trial of Goalin for tbe crime of 1 murder. He was remanded back to Jail 1 from which be broke, and diaappeared.no ' 1 ooe knows where. Our friend said fur- * tfaer, that when the Jurora, of which he c wasYoremai., went Into the court-room of ' Ulster county, N. Y.,"lt was 1 crowded that nrt even standing room ' Oould be bad. When tbe verdict was an- ' noanced an uproar of hirers, yells, and * groans followed. The foreman made his c escape by a back door, glad to be clear of ' the violence of an ex cited tuob. The pa- ' pen next morning sustained tbe verdict. ' What say you. reader. "Guilty or not • ^ guilty." H. * Died of a Short Tree. 1 Severn! days ago Mr. George Webley, ' Oie of the moot promising young planters 1 1j Arkansas, came to tbe city, bringing 1 the sad intelligence of bta father's death. 0 "The old man, you all i em ember, was ' one of the most noted 'possum hunters in * the Slate. The other olgtil when it was e dark thai a black bal thrown up into ^ tbe air would have looked like Buiwer's shadow, the dogs treed. I " tbe old man not to go, but be straightened himself up. gave me a kind " of ante-bellum look and wanted lo know I were a fool. ' He left tbe bouse, and 1 after be bad been gone about two hours 1 * became uneasy and started out to look ' him. 1 found Ibe old man chopping 1 oo a tree about four feet'tbick. 'It's a ' and I know he's up here," tbe old ' moo raid. 'The Ire* would have been 1 down by this time, but It's to dark that I ' hmve to strike by woodcbopper'i instinct.' * He would not lei luc assist him, for he 1 attained that age when a Southern ' gentleman takes pride in accomplishing a 1 alitor. Jt seemed as though tbe tree ' would never falL Tbe" old man's strokes J lighter, tor his strength was near- 1 exhausted. Tbe dugs stood around * and whined. They look.d to me as ' though they were lying and Lad only ■Deed' to please the old man- Finally. r the enormous trer creaked and slowly fell— a slump, extending only a few * higher than the old man's bend, * tree bad been chopped down during 0 wa'er, and tbe poor old man had c chopped down a~ big stntup. By this L time ilayHght was breaking, and.wlen " light came sifting dowo atuoog the F branches -.f neighboring trees, t bey old L fellow looked st tbe stump. Yarned sway c an 1 west home. He bad Just lost his b third wife and had borne up manfully, but the stump disappi-inimeni killed him." ® The oldest tree In the world, so far as * anyone knows, is tbe Bo tree of tbe sac- ^ red city rf Amors poors, in Burmsh. It was planted 268 IL C., and is therefore * 2170 years old. Sir James Emerson Tenoet gives reasons for believing that the lire is really aT this wowfcrfol and refer* to historic ducumenta in which ^ it is mentioned st different datra, aa 182 . A. D.. *23 A. D.. and so oo to the present . ttay. "To iu" says Sir James, 'kings even dedicated their dominion*, in WfcDOc j rf bdlrt that iltaabonch rf the identical tree-onder which Boddah rvsp— ilieosj- lis lesrea are carried * as siresmera by pilgrims, but it it ton sacred to touch with a knife, and therefore tkey are only gathered when " hey fall. The king oak in Windsor I : England, ta 1000 yean okL t For dressing the hair, and beautifying 1 1 it when gray, nothing tan satisfactory as 1 Hair Balaam. . t

"1 was dowa to Ibe drug store this I c morning, and aaw y.nr ma buying a' lot j .of court plaster, enough to make a shirt. I ! j, should think. Whst's she tkiing Wilis so ! K much court plaster, "asked tbe grocery i4an I ( of the tmd boy. as be came in and pujlrd ' ( '.off his b-mls hy tbe store sod. emptinl , : out a lot of snow that' bad collected , ■ as he walked through a \ drift. « lie hearth, which melted, and made a lis I •meli. "O, rgueas she is going to patch pa up lie will hold water. Pa's i cm per got 1 him Into the worst muss you ever see. last nigbL If that museum was- here now ' they would hire pa anil exhibit him ' : as the tattooed man. I tell you. I have , got too old to be mauled as though 1 was ' ! kid. and any man who attacks me from this day out. wants to have his peace ' made with the Insurance companies, and know thai his calling and election if u forget it?" And the hoy pulled- on 1 j his boots and looked so eras and draper- - that the grocery man asked him is ' j he wouldn't try a little new cider. I "Good hcart-os," said tbe grocery man ' ! tbe boy swallowed the dder, and his ' resumed lis natural look, and the pi- ' ralical frown disappeared with the cider. ' "You bare not subbed your fstber. have 1 you? I have feared that one thing would on another, with you, and that you ' would yet be bung." "Naw, 1 haven't stabbed him. It was ' soother cat thai stabbed him. You ate. 1 pi want* me to do all tbe work around ' the house. Tbe other day be bought a ' load of kindliog wood, and told me to it into the basement. I have not ' educated up to kindliog wood, and 1 ' didn't do jL When supper lime camr.aod 1 found that I bad nut carried in the ' kindling wood, be bad a hot box. and he 1 told toe it the wood was not io when he ' back from the lodgo that be would ' my jacket. Well. I tried to hire | some one to carry it in. and got a man lo ■ promise lo oome in tbe morning sod carry 1 il in, and take his pay in graoerie* bete and hare them charged lo pa. But that J wouldn't help me out that nigbL 1 knew when pa came home he would search for 1 So I slept Iu the back ball oo a cot- 1 1 didn't want pa to bare ail bis 1 trouble for nothing, so I borrowed ao old Kim cat thai my chum's old inaid aunt ' and jiut -the cat in my bed. ' 1 ' thought if pa came in my room after me, ' and found by ids unklndneM that I had ' changed to a torn cat he would he sorry. 1 is tbe biggest cat you ever see. and 1 the worst fighter iu our ward. It isn't ' afraid of anything, and can whip a Newfoundland dog quicker thao you can put 1 sand in n barrel of augar. Well, about ' eleven o'clock I beard pa falling over tLe ' w ood, and 1 knew by tbe remark ' be made, aa the wood slid around under ' thai there was going lo lie a cat fight ' real quick. He came up to ma's room, 1 and sounded ma lo know whether Uro 1 had retired to his virtuous coach. ' is swiul sarcastic when be trim to be. ' 1 oouid hoar him lake off hit otolhes, ao-l ' him say, as he picked up a trunk 1 'I guest I will go up to bit room ' and watch the smile on hit face, as be dreams of angels. I yearn to press hitu to my aching boaem.' I thought to my- ' self, mebbe you won't yearn ao much di. ' rectly. He oome up stairs, and I could 1 hear him breathing hard. 1 looked around ' the corner and oould see thai be Just bad ' bit shirt and panls, and hit suspenders 1 hanging down, and bta bald bead shone like a calcium light Jon before 11 ' explodes. Ta went into my room and up 1 tbe bed, and Ixsuld bear him say. ' "Come out here and Btg in that kindlier ' wood, or I will start Tire on your Isue ' burner with thiaatrap.' And then there ' was a yowling soefa aa I never beard before, and I* said. 'Helen Btaza,' and the furniture is my room began to fall ' around sod break. O, my! I tbiDk 1 look the torn cat right by the oeck,tl.e 1 be does me, and that left all tbe cat's ' feet free to gel in their work. By the 1 the cat squalled at though it wis be- 1 ing choked, 1 know pa had him by the ' oeck. I suppose tbe col thought pa was 1 a whole flock of New Fouodland dogs, and the cat had a record on dogs, and il kicked awful. Ta'a shirt wss oo proteo ' tion al all in a cat fight, and the cat Just ' walked all around pa's stomach, and pa 1 yelled "police' and 'fire,' and 'turned on 1 the hose,' and be called tin. and the cat ' yowled. If pa had had presence of mind 1 enough lo have dropped the cat. o.- rolled • il up tn a maltreat, it would have breu all 1 right, but a man always gels rattled to 1 and started down stairs" yelling murder. 1 tnd met ma coming up. 1 guess ma's 1 night-cap. or something frightened the tome nunc, because he stahlieil ma on - the oigbt-ohiri with ooe hind -foot, and □ut said 'mercy on us,' she went hack. and \ stumbled on s band tied that was i-o suits, sod Ibey til fell down, and Ibr sod yowled all nigbL Ta and ma 1 went Into their room, I and gtuaa they an- 1 noisted Ibemsrlvet with vaseline, and ' Food's extract, and 1 went and got into 1 my bed, cause it was cold out in the hail, and the cat bad wanned my bed as well • as II had warmed pa. Il waa all I-eoukl I lo go to sleep, with pa and ma talking ■ all night, and this morning I came down ' the hack atain,and haven't been lo break- ' fa si, 'cause 1 don't want to see pa when be < is vestsi . You 1*1 tb# BOB that oorries iu J the kindling wood have six shillings I worth of groceries and charge them to pa. ' have passed the kindling wood period ■ t boy's life, and have arrived at tbe " coal period. I will cany In coal, tat 1 I draw the line at kindliog wood." "Wen, you are t cruel, bad hoy," ma i the grocery man. as be weal to the book I and charged lbs six shillings. I "O, I don't know. I think pa ta cruel. < A man who will take a poor kiuy by the i neck that basal dooe any barm, and tries I chastise the poor thing with a trunk < strap, ought to lie looked after by tbe hu- a mane society. And it ta cruel to uke a < ot! by the neck, how much more cruel is lo lake a boy by the neck tout bad the t

j diplbrria ooly a few years ago, and whosr ' j throat ta lender. Say. I guess I will ac- I cvpt your invitation to take breakfast with < I you." and the hoy cot off a pies* nf bo- I ; ugna and helped liiinarlf to the crackers, t and while the grocery man was out C ; shoveling off the saow from ibeviiewalk. the boy tilled his pockets with raisins and i • and loaf augar. sad then weol-.-noi to i watch the man carry in his kindling wood. I -Tool s Sen. A Practical Joke. Troa Texas SllUoea 1 Hrrr von Dablrn is Ibe nSnle scion of n ' once proud and haughty baronial race. He ! s until grocery on toe corner of 1 Woshlogtoo and East Eleventh streets in ' York City. While wailing t« costurners he doe* not wear a ducal coronet did his aoccstnrtaway hack in tiie lento Century Magazine, hut blood will tell. Although only the raveled end of s long the too Dahten of the nineteenth century, yet its presence can be detected in the offwtlb - hia-Leod-ao-much-for-Buck Ingham air that be assume* as he weighs oul oleomargarine, uf allocs off a few short-weight pounds ol cheese. This fills toe customer with awe, especially when he realizes that hereditary nobility has been charged for in toe bill. Here Von Dahlen itiU fondly hug* tbe delusion thai any German knows more than il ta possible for aay.ooe else to know, and that he— von Dahlen— knows twice much aa any other German. His ideas this subject, however, have recently undergone a len-cenla-oa-toc-doltar change. One day last week he waa si ooe ia his store, musing on toe past history of hit illustrious family, aod toning dowa Hie strength ol bta vinegar with a watering ppl, wheiTTwo young men found his store- They disturbed hit reverie by their , uproarious laughter, bul^hcVdcuinly ptoevedod to wail on them, for, allhoSgh torir undignified icrily wo not pleasing lo bias, yet he was willing to put up with that (or the take of the profit thai might be In , their custom. They explained lo von Dahlen that they bad made a bet as to whicb of their lists would bold the most , mutator*, and that Ibe ldet ot making such bet was to absurd and comical that they ! could not keep from laughing al iL They I wished tbe grocer to decide the bet, they said, and they offered not ooly to pay Jor the motaasra but to allow von HsM- rf to keep both molixe* and hat* foe Lis trouble in deciding tbe wager. The grocer that Mirre waa not enough money in the transaction lo restore the tenth cengrandeur of the family, but he believed in the ndagp that every liule helps, and to be consented to furetab tbe molasbut be did It with a bad grace, and as ; poured out the quart iato the tail man's be remarked soceringly: "Doac Amer- ! icon jokes vaa not funny, and the point mil a bracticai Joke vs.' not much good anyhow." Then lie spoke of the superiority of German humor. The stout man told him to pour in another quart and Ibey would sh^w him bow pointed some American jokes were. As von Dahlen turned once more lo toe molasses land, ibe tall man took the bat almost full of molasses, and putting il on the baronial bead of the grocer, pulled it down orer his cuts. Von Dahlen would have interfered with this corfmalioa ceremony had not toe Rout nun held bis arms behind his hack— not his family arms, for they looked duwn from.* sort of God-bless-our-bome position above vt-o Dahlen 'a parlor door. Notwithstanding that toe grocer's eyes full of.ninlnaw!*, be aaw the point of he joke, bat there w ere several things be did not see, sad La* not seen since; among them was a roll -sf greenbacks, valued al 4275, that the tail roan Polked out rf tbe drawer, while the «Mhcr J-At-I come tbe Vincent game on the gneer's i-ookru. Then they very -unostentatiously withdrew, leaving Van Dahlen Bumbling scattering molassr* over hit renoaining assets. and bumping his crow nod bead on the canvas-backed hams that hung from the celling. Beini; unable to get his bead out of this new kind of ducal coroocj. a* hit hands were tiod behind his back, hu went charging about like a oow with her bead wedged into a slop barrel. Some, partita passing Ibe store noticed von Dahrushing around in an inraoo msue-r. climbing over a pair rf Ksirhsnkrsnxle*, and bumping his Lead gainst (tir Bock of canned gowla. Tory came 'la Mis reacue, and pulled; hitu oul rf thr practical jokers' bal. Ttie revering rt' W;« connection with too Lai was 'Ciebratad by a -and resembling ihat mete by a hone's nobe made by a cu-tnic t -adding striking i ibe pavement from a Hard story window. His reacucra bonify that although von Dahlen had a *we«<*ptcaaion on bis face , when he came uu: rl too hat, be wed bod in expressing Lit opinion -j , United States j dtaes. The two l.umorilts were gone, but (bey had kept tocjr word I about allowing tbe grocer to keep hit mo- , It was all there, although ooosid- . erahly scattered. Since tbe occurrence toe grocer baa been combine bla hair with , towel steeped in hot water. Of course the neighbors and customers dropped into the Bore daring toe-text I few days while von Dahlen was -engaged in scraping tne motaasra off the walls, and wiping il of toe staple sod fesey grocerand all wanted to 4reew what be charged for motaasra, whether be sold il by toe ream or lb# hatful, -and -ether fo--formation of that charterer, until begot angry, aod determined Jo thrash the next man who joked him about molasses, and toes aril out and leave the neighborhood. Tbe proprietor of the riral grocery on the apposite comer, a plcbian American, the way, and a practical Joker, sent Barney Mulligan, a reformed prize flgbU who was ignorant ot the circumstances narrated afore, to von Dahlcn's store for quart of malssaes. He told MoIIigan he ; wanted it for his tick oow, and thai an old Stovepipe bal that be handed him would do to carry it in. Voc Dahlen has now got eourtp taller I all over ooe tide of his Iter, and has aas- I

tainrd int.vral injuries which the sorgreo at tbe Imeftiial il-inks will yield lo medical" treatment and rest. Io toe meantime, his wile it engaged in closing oal the buti-pn-psrmnrr I" taking him hack to V-m Dshleo has ex I vested the wish that tn care his Injuries should tertniosie fatally, that lit* remains be re- , moved I- his native omntry fist inter, mm. as 1* do* n-a Inhere Ibis o-unlty is perfect I j safe far a drad man to Use lo, io toe ruranliiue, the nval groc-v baa sll tlie f.atooi «f !■" n« Itaht len, whose misfortune* can be cksriy . traced to bis oaHrn.pl for Arocririn bo. 7 rnor. We have mailed hire a marked copy L of this iraue of Texas Nf/lfaps, and tape that, if be survives, be will profit by toe ( lestuo taught him. J Thr Froebel syaem of teaching children between the agre of five and tea yean has . met with much opposition from many , who have voted themselves practical. . They tee nothing but nonsense in tlse I "gifts," denominate the rhymes "dogger - r el," and pronounce the idea of obtaining . any useful knowledge without effort a 1 fallacy. They consider making toe school s play-room out of harmony with the taw . of mental progress and toe entire system . of kindergartens Jbe merest trifling. In , short, with them learning is sssnrisled . ooly with hooka. In the subline ralisfac- ■ lion of their opinions they do oot atop to r think that il is of more importance that a child of tender years should know what a s cow ii like and her uses than bow to spell ( oow. This may seem orerdrawn, for il . c would tjf lie thought poxlbte that any l> child old enough lo learn lo road tod spell B had never seen a cow, but an examination , made by Dr. Stanley Hall of the younger . children in toe public schools of Boston r developed the fact ihat * per cent, of {| their number had no knowledge of tbe t appearance rf thai Useful animal further □ than thai gained from picture*. Billya corn growing. 54 per cenL a rose, 21 per h CCOL apples. DO per cenL did not know where their rib* were, bat ooly t percent, v did not know toe local loo ol their stocny acfaa. Souse replied that flour came from T the grocer, who gets il directly from God; 0 meat is dug from (he ground or picked from the meat tsee. Dr. Hall, In a recent T lecture, sutod that the firB attempt to Q study the wkads rf very young children . eiaUsiically was made in 1809 by the Ted- .. mgogie Soriety of Berlin. About ooe ^ thousand children in toe public schools b were examined to find out their common s concepts rf ordinary things. Tbe results a were about the same aa those obtained in .. tbe case of Boston children. What strongit er arguments can be brought forth In faa vor of Here FroebeCs methods of leaching .. tbe young? Teachers unlverally concur a in the opinion that children are teat to d school loo early io life to begin tbe Budy e of books. Tbe mind is not expanded but n dwarfed by such a course and a distaste for such, study is engendered. In toe a kindergarten the little one learns, withoal d realizing how, all thai it can comprehend, , iu ideas are gradually developed, and It d gains in Ibis way ibe mental fort* which • w ill enable il lo contend successfully wlto ■ the Bemer aspens of Body in malum d year*. 1 We quote toe doting sentences from an j editorial, entitled "Stealing a Minister, " ia nt Cntnry for March. " The church that calls a settled mlntaWr 1 is aaid to be guilt) at an act precisely like that of tbe woman wbe (tiros your cook e oul of your kllcben. Hal If there ta anr wrong In this cane, ll ia in tbe fact tost ( your cook it ignorant and easily imposed upon; that toe woman who has coaxed her away dCert ber oo bettor place, and ' thus Injures you without benefitting your servant If toe servant ta able to judge >n for benelf, and knows that she is Impror- ™ ing 'for condition by ibe change, wbxt rig* have you to stand in tbe way of her going, or to complain of another for givlag ber what you withheld? This kind of outcry ;• ncrer beard concerning any ctaza en ployes save those who are to be unable to chooae wisely for tbemt' selves. The cashier rf a bank, the superiolendent rf a railroad, ta called from one ( place io another, and nobody ever toinki ^ of qurarioning his right lo go, or the right c of another employer to offer him empioymenu There seems lo be no good reason j wiih*) much judgment, nnil allowed as much liberty, as is granted to n bank cash - • ler or a railroad supcrinlendenL ' There aeons, toen.lo Lena other method x for a church to pursue, If it wishes to keep d iu minister, than that srblch tin) cm- £ a valued terror*. Tlie church must keep d ia part of ibceoSUfci, must are Ihat iu J] crate wfto him io sll possible ways, must e Shew him that bis tabors ire appreciated and that his welfare ta fairly cooaldercd. H. rafter the church baa dooe all tola, the mintater gora away, common sense will bring to* church lo ooe rf twpqpodulons; i' will cither bow to tbe providential decree that has removed a faithful teacher, or it will thaok G:«I that it ta rid of a triiler. ' Dcalti Belore Jalap. A young physician, wlioTiaa long worl ahlped at a distance, wsa one day sodden- » ly called to attend ber. He found her , suffariDg from no particularly dangerous • malady, but she wanted him to^reacribc for her nevcrtoelrae; to be took ber hand a and said impreasircly; "Well, I should prescribe— 1 should prescribe that— you— t gel— married." "Oh, goodoess.'" said toe interesting ini valid, "who would marry me, I wonder?" r "I would." soap pod lbs aoclor, with - all the Toracily rf a six-foot pickerel. I "You!" exclaimed toe ""id-n I "Yea" "Well, doctor; if that is the fearful ah : tentative, you can go asrty and let media peeoe."— Tre^oD -iswribf*.