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STAR OF THE CAPE.

CAPE MAY CITY, N. J., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1874.

nr tiuforaeS* he her loved into tervo, end

STAS OF

NO. 36.

VTr SSiSSffi fn^ewryteoetfheMier^.hell liowlhiroty - "AamDeUy the sum of hre hnndred doQk duhis the time for *hHl ther ehelihere be. •leoSa. imd while they ehell hotd tbetr oflla ^aSSjsfnifssr?"

refw.^^Wtoo.'^jim^Seiet nI

they left, the night aanvM • aeeue of greet^riaLnce id ezottement. 8he eeid ibe nerer iv Theodora eo enoed ee he vu thet oiffht. Kiel Anthony elect vith her, eed mode Tory free refertaee to the ' oriel in ciroaletfnn nbont Theodore'! [e. She Hid moot eolemnly it vie A true ihe nude iny oonfeee seen Anthony of my improper irpert. All iheieia to .her a tbjoot vie thet Theodore

p * 0 ‘'

Mre. Tilton neeonted no vritten to the Beecher InreetigmUng e. Hereznminetion vie ora!, it ie mid to here been eery effectleg. She vent on in detail to nnoorer ' eorron thet had afflicted her home yean pelt. She performed her talk i manner that mored ilmoit to teen. She recounted the offorta abe had made from going after 1 ~ vrz. ~

ir prejudice and that of Hr. Bna had not thought of laying that there wee one word of truth in “ There via no truth in that etateit It van entirely fabe, Shedoea not teliere that Bonn Anthony would aay that she crer fare her a hint in

Mre. Tilton vm naked if ihe erer. her own motion, wrote a word, eitk i a-ea 1 ^***a*"g ir

wee to copy papen that prepared for her. Sometime! ihe did not e>en know the eontenta of the paper. Theodore would —*- aneea that it wai beat to do >eeoe of the family, for her paaM, awT ter hia peaoe, to help him

, tho tiling ... word of the ..I U fo bar to copy. She copied it until ihe got to clauae charging that Mr. Beeeher _a* i s -a fc, her.

wrong upon Mr. Beeeher. Theodore aaid " Nerer mind, it ie beat you ahonld do ik I hare got my true atatament of Ihe elory all written here lahowing her - *-*’ I want that

ban that girt la a woman grown. Oh, how aid! SheU here to tofl to the rvy bone Or grow ao bed Rein, the liter, a dnmkard'e doom.

And madly well. cnrm your pily, cold, ookl hlj :

painted black thonght it w

. got a eail-boat. They

great many aail-hoate m , and Jill hired thie for a week of a chap in town that had gone home to aee hie young lady. She wee a neat craft, '-.-.•a 3,14. Aunt John

a pretty boat. Hi Sandpiper.'* She wi

finished ae neatly ea any boat in U harbor. We got her for fire dollara week, and mooringe. We moored hi off tho rocki in front of the boaru ing-honae with one of thoee pulley mooringe, yon know, in n ring, where you eet her in and out, hand orer hand, and tie the painter too long, and hare

bang np against another man'a i, and are called away fro to go out and haul her all in

orer, and find your pudding oold. Of oonree, you lean to tie r — 1 —*

There waa one girl at or -' • ’ - Bailer knot •

' she had a boat. Frank

one bia hair, aalf he'd been going to ^„-?,:ri£rasT; L ._. aa wall own np naw. We didn't if ua know enough to take a eailfrom Qloneeeter to SwampsootL me. And we'd no baaiueaa to bare without aakinn ad rice. But we n't ao greanwedldn* a Bail-boat from 8 , . Oloaoeetar, in the teeth of aa eaet wind, and then to hare the luck to ran into - -ic Ton don't enjoy It, Bailing in a fog -kethet. I'd giren all I owned, U ! hadn't kept thinking about Annl John ao often. But I did. So did Jfll, I Tne fog waa thick aa mud, and the wind had shifted to tl '* “* growing ve

bn

wka Tony OnoaL But ihe wouldn't let Frank tie the boat np. Now, than waa this about baring that boat. Annt John said : “Boya 1 I'to found a boat in town yon oan ban I if I gi *

(which abe knows neTmi/ Annt to look ont for

mth“™t praoen >. “Iexpect yon

jera aa oarofnlly aa grown men do. If I freef yon Ilka men,yon odf like men.

Annt John mid this, and U

_ She did not ! rther nor fuse. We inat took that We rafTT” ” ’T Friday it came up, aomebcw, about

going to Swampaoott.

weather said .he’d go. thought it waa aafo, but be eald be

beliere, we didn't mention it at , _„ didn't. I wanted k> go like sixty the ralnoteit-waa spoken of. did Jill We got up early, you ki-... id off before anybody waa up. At least, nobody waa np but Tony

ater's long tongue, to eca, aa If it would lap np poor Idlowa, t oonldn't but think. And the lonesome pine woods

We oanght hold — Sandpiper'a" celled, ana called “ Help! BlipStar 1 Oh,

aj? r

rung out aB together, another one rang into

He'd been ahcntlng, nobody

on?' Thera in a minute!

, . Keep np ! Where are yon f

Keepnp! Koepnpr

We knew the roioe ae Boon aa we . heard it It waa the light-keeper at • Ten Ponnd Island. It was jnat the ' "eat, cheeriest, heXpingal roioe that vaa, we boys thonght; and he.waa

eed to the water aa a dock. The

a minute wo heard him we felt eats,

t The water waa washing orer ns pretty

r strongly by that time, wl *' . •' Sandpiper lay orer on ihe n

t !«y ji

been a tough ewim in the

and anch a sea. Mar be Frank t Starkweather oonld hare made it. Ptr1 tape I might myself ; but I don't know

■'—* t” 1 * ao oold, and

nt Jill. The water m

Then I

Frank my:

between his teeth. I oonld aee jnat one . Jnat gray—oold,

You couldn't aee the ehore;

ig It to and Iro. no has grey hair, a lohg^grey beard, and they blew The light-keeper swung hie lantern ) twice, and put hie hands to Uia mouth tramgetwiae and hollered out

- boats I You're—too — i—np—till 1 oan—get—

We hollered beck that we guested ao, and he jnat ran ! It'a some little job to get to the boat-house, that ia the -•'--r aide of the island. He jnat put it I guess, for, before we knew it, nound of oars came splashing nd. Not the little, eaey, quite-at- ■ - -hurry kind of strokes *—

Now we knew why.

hartwr,

each other's faces

nm ml Mid a Utile patch my-blaek water round about, couldn't realixe, unices you'd it, how quick a fog cornea down. ilnuU, and there isn't any ! i minute, and there isn't anything else

o '£r

We h

t it ortitt'f.

Aa I said. Frank Starkweather aaid : •' Ah-h-h-h!" Jiil said, •' Ow-w-w I" I said, “ Wh-ew-w-w I” Frank jarnrntd his head into hit hat, nd took to the ropea with a jerk. I iked him if he thonght he could caw ‘ - two. But I got an extra'

Norman'i ,, It’a the out Longfellow'a poetry tella of, about the ekipper’a daughter. I fait aa if I oonld hare written a poem myself about It, if v ... iv.« i .

aB. Wa dreadful feeling to go Bailing on and net know bat any minute you'd strike * —rat reefs on all th

it (foriFaan awl . ____ and thick pine woods o bonace to apeak of, i—* ig craft ao shy of it), i

we three boya in a mil-boat by < selves in thiek weather, afbfdark 1 I anppoee it'a the way .with > good isny other dreadfol thinya'; but we

mr knew it till tt waa orar.'

Frank had jnat mid,‘There's a lift in

' a," and I t ’ '* •—

" * i’to hit !" a .... ig noise ant

posh of tbs wind, and I gave ai v the tiller I heard it crack,ai

aaQcd off in a apart, and a

Whether we oonld aee the lights in the txarding-honae parlor, I don't mb a^rart many lights, I of Ten

alongside, and we got in. We all skivered. Nobody aaid anything at first Tho light-keeper rowed arouad, and looked the “Sandpiper”

We b

don't tl "Sandpiper” before. “Ia she ranch hartf” asked Frank. “Oh, I hope not—hope not!” aaid the light-keeper, cheerily. “At any rate, yon can't do mm* for her to-night She'll atay where the ia tall next tiefo, I think. ITl jnat take yon home, and when I come over I'll find her anchor, and drop it till morning. Ton'd better get home and aee yonr friends quick ae *°Now, Frank told him he waa very kind, bnt we'd take the other boat anil row ourselves home. Wo wouldn't trouble him. But he said, “ Oh, no, he'd rather lika to ao. and aee what the

folks said.”

He didn't any he knew we were all too soared to want to touch another boat that night, even that distance— because w* were boya—but I suppose be thought ao. *-* -•--»■

treated

eeracdTl waa mighty glad to be like a little boy for a few minnt

_ pair ol well enough tb out it np into patchwork and aew it together again. He and Fr ink talked, and Jill, some; bnt I didn’t. I didn't feel like it. Then there was Aunt John. Then there waa another thing—inmrbodv had got to be reapooaibla for the “ Sandplper." They were aU out, when we got there, looking for ua. It seemed to me aa If all the Point were ont—all our house, and everybody from the pretty little brown cottage, where the two hammocks are, and the tent. Tony Onset waa there, Frank mid, ’way ont on a slippery rock, looking analooking, in her little milor hat I didn’t sm her for some time. I didn't notloe anybody in particular. I don't think I oonld aee very dearly. I oonldn't aee Aunt John anywhere. When we got ont we found wo were naed up, end staggered along on the rooks, “rank waa white aa chowder. I saw spots on Jill's face, ai rubbed it, and hie hands woi But I oonldn't see Annt John. So they all crowded round, ana we didn't know what to my ; and then 1 mw her. She waa coming over the racks with great shawls. She pat oos on me and one on Jill, and led na np to the house any from everybody, when she

e dirty.

e only A ed, and g

cry; I thonght a

didn't do cither arouad and got na to bed,

blankets and bottles and hot ooneo rna ttaJUil ahe°taw^me^choke*^ tL^ISI just mid, ‘jOh^boyi, how oonld ytmT’ mw crowed ; upon my word, aha didn't. The more frightened come people are about you, the more they abuse yen. Bat Annt John ia different Sbo knew wo fait bad enough ; and when I spoke np abont tho " Sandpiper, ” thongb ahe looked troubled, ahe only told me to go

to sleep, and we'd aee to morrow.

So the next day we felt pretty tired, and we all want aver to see the •• Sandpiper." We oonld aee her from the boardIng-honm window. She lay on '' ’ nh aa we had left her, only

lower. She looked like the . eaa ran orer—very mnoh

"discouraged" Bo^e got the lighl-^-^Mmete, and Allot John, and rowed o.the island. The " Sendpiper "

ween er r an a rope ^e

^thought

be out of pocket on her. It eah't ... serve*,” mid the light-keepar. “ ’Wall see than how much ahe'a damaged. Porhaps it tot anch a had JobTSwr

r eighty dollara to Now, our people’ aren’t very well < They eonldn t afford eighty dollars —“ for a Bail-boat, any way in , . I didn't know what on earth — —-aay. I jnat walked around a thonght of things. I had an aw headache. I oonldn’t go to dinner, wondered if I should have to go int< store and earn the money. I wondei. _ the fellow that owned her wonM eat os, if we didn't pay. It at father and mother would and how disgraced we were. I i miserable boy yon ever km it waa JiU. _ vaa ont on tho rocks in a enbhy there ie there, where nobody sees y-— -hen I heard a step behind. Ton'd .know Annt John's step it regiment, if yon’d ever heard it. springe along, and strikes down broad. She wears great low boot-heels, like I’a, and her dresses don't drag. Coming in to upper ?" asked Am

“ I'm np each a tree abont that beat! aaid L " The boat,” said Annt John, quietly,

Bnt I!

> The ‘ Sandpiper f 10 paid for berf” . I knew when she shook

’ emil-

how it came ont of what she'd laid op. I felt eo ashamed that I oonldn't apeak, and made np my mind we'd pay h< back, if it took ten yeara to do it. Bi I felt as if all Eastern Point had jam] od np and rolled away off my hoar And still ahe never scolded nor crowed And Frank Starkweather and Tony " y like

id they said if wi

open prairie, in r,j net as the Ban onntsins, a half

Recently Fish's band of Utee returned to Denver from a soont on the Republican river and they brought with them three froah Sioux scalps. Nothing afforded those Indians so much e ee of war to their friends. Encampon tho outskirts of Denver, they got op a " ecalp-dance " in good old Indian style, and it waa witnessed and enjoyed by thousands of eight-aeekor*. Few people know anything abont the oeremoniea attendant upon this great fete champetre of the copper-colored sons of the forest, and a brief ontline may be both interesting and instruc-

tive. On the

ofthec behind

braves i „ — of them were most hideously smeared with war paint. With stately and measured tread they marched around the slow-burning camp fires. Hairing iu line, a gray-headed warrior stepped forth and eulogised his braves for tho gtbry of their recent achlevemeats. Then the squaws ol the scalpers, with the gory locks of the victims Soaring from rude 1 so oca, moved to the head of the lino and a circle formed. Other equaws then approached and edged their way into the circle, A hideous shout ar war-whoop broke the monotony, and then a peculiar chut ensued. The wbole^ circle moved ^around and oordant time waa beaten upon dried dear skins stretched serosa hoops. The a listless, limping manner to the weird mnaio nch aa alone can emulate from

scalps which steamed in the ai lowered and beaten in the ddai wiui terrible imprecations. Then, again, they went oloft, ud the startling warwhoop rang load ud long. The duee ud chut were oonrinnea until neerly midnight, ud though apparently tiresome were entered into with a seal and fervor mnnh after the fashion of an old-time Methodist camp-meeting, each hnek and each equaw vying with the

nntil morning. ^Thentl

edge of his berth alone. Ha waa a onoe struck with the ehlld'a wondron beauty; tho bright, lustrous eyes, a tenuoe of extraordinary intellio, hia long light hair falling in abont his shonldera, awakened u indescribable in lores tin the little one. " ' ' the appearance of a child be>ur years and four yeara ud a . He wae dressed in a linen or ■nit. of darkiah hue, ud mnch ie for the dost of travel. As « dress wsa concerned, this gensays, he did not observe very oiosely, ud ie not able to give more “iu a general idea. He took the child 1 at a glance, and made some pleasant smark to him, when tho mu entered ith a glass of water for the child, relarking sa he handed it to him, " Take lia, Charley, ud we'll have some

ie by Piah, who, after remain outskirts of the city teg a, moved off with his viotork

A few days since u elderly gentlemu in Sacramento, who had got ont of business ud conaidered that he was too advanced in age to do hard work, concluded that he would start a grocery store. He secured a stock of goods, and yesteiday morning^while^ preparing dtaecTtha! he would tap the k'ega of

learned that he intended " to Up that beer.” The questioner suggested that the proper way waa to plane the fan eet in position, ud drive in the cork which the revenue stamp covered, bnt the old K ttemu concluded that hia way was beat, and forthwith forced a hole throngh the top of the keg. Of con me the beer ascended like A fountain aa he withdrew tho anger, ud he endeavored to suppress it by putting hia hud over the hole, ud failing in this, by inserting hia finger; as a tot reoort he aat A upon it, calling londly for some hud him a faucet ; bnt meubeer had forced

’JS

former yean, we have had to take with the appearuee of the comat the fall of the flying man. Eight *■— a yean back, so constant is preeela a or land, a comet and a flying were brought into eloee connection each other, though, aa history r exaetlv repeats itself, there were of <stall in the two

ill ha took it into hia head to mm. He fas toned winpa to hia ■ and feat and took flight from the f a tower. Fm the specs of a fnrif anybody oboosoa to believe it, m merrily, bnt than a strong wind him to Iba around, ud he broke

THE ROSS CASE.

A private detective, who has t» quietly trying to unravel tho myet .. of the abdnotion of Charley Rosa, has

—ling in Oineinnsti. who thinks he eaw Charley Rosa on a train on the PitUbnrgh, Fort Wayne ud Chioago Railroad. The detective's friend waa en route from I'illabnrgh to Cincinnati, and had taken passage in a sleepingcar. When he tamed in for the night he took the npper t— 1

one was occupied by

boy, who did not retire nntil he had been in hia berth perhaps half an hour. He was restless, ud did not get to sleep until far into the night, when hia compapnbiu du voyage entered tho apartment tho mu said to the little fellow: "Now, my little beauty,

good—* — J —*" ‘- r -

It, ud we'U feel all U

nees, he aaid, " Can't I kiss mammi ud papa?" “Tea," answered th< iu, as soon as wo get home. Anc ow, don't forget that I am yonr unde nd yon shall have lota of nice thing! hen we get home." The mu's tom as kind and affectionate in the ex

* his greatest solicitndi ' ' *' ihild happy

seemed to be to n

One by one th 11 was blank nnt

is discipline, which, h

its widest ud moat correct senae, in volvee the knowledge of toetloe, regu lotions, etc., ao “a well-diaoipiinei

army” ahonld mean o

conversation. The mu waa statne, well bnt plainly *—eling anit. He made

nt the weather, ud he r that ‘ ‘ ftfg

found friend during tho night. "Poor little fellow," he said, “it's hard to —mfort him. and if I did not think he'd t over it I'd take him back. And then - makes people stare so wherever we go. 1 have t -ken him, thongb, air, ud 1 moan to do a good part by him. It's a long atory, and a pitiful one. and yon wouldn't care to be bothered with it. “ These are the aim pis facta: Twenty ■eare ago I struck ont for the West. I Irat settled in Misaonri, bnt I've kept mailing on, nntil now Fm in Miunemve never lad uy children. When I tame East this time I found that u old riend of mine hsd died two days beore I got there ; his wife had five chilIren on her hands, ud her husband hadn't left her a penny. I relieved immediate wants, got piano* for o oldest children, ud offered to take one myself. It was a hard straggle for the mother, bnt she knew I would * kind to him, ud she let mo have a. So hero wo are on onr way to Minnesota. I like the child, and I want This ia the atory ho told, ud he had about him snob an air of eudor that the gentleman to whom it was related placed reliance in what he aaid. At generally known, the aujplelons of this gentlemu became aroused, and each day he becomestriionger in the conviction that he rode from Pittsburgh to Cincinnati with Charley Roea. He doe* not claim that .the mu ‘.answered the published' droonj-iion of - either of tho abdnetori, which he oenainl. —‘ Neither does he believe th

one of the kidntpueri.

ia opinion is - that the mu sa' d (although he had not apoki >g in that oily) ud, being ohtl

himself, negotiated with the kidnappers for hia abdnotion. He faraiabea these

friend .in this elty in

ay may aid him in search. The detective ia not a resit of Philadelphia, bnt ia endeavoring to get a clew to start with. It is hard to say what connection this mu had with ” *" 1 notion ease, bnt it ia very il all the feats in the ease

in all military duties. The term

-•pllne ie sometimes naed in a narrower nse, aa abont equivalent te subordina>n, and then means that habit of mind hioh ahonld lead every member of an my to yield prompt, cheerful, and inUigeut bnt unquestioning obedience

all orders coming from his superior".

This frame of mind ia not natural with all men, nor ia it equally easy of attainment with all nations. Some individu-

• through different means from Some naturae require harsh

to produce the ‘habit of discipline ; but it may safely te said that,

- oneral rale, the more intelligent re, the more readily do they Perth e necessity of discipline^ and ere readily do they acquire it, es-

, ly when they eu trust ud respect their superiors. Tho habit of obedience i* acquired in the aquad, at drill, ud in the various duties of the interior aervioo—thas within the company, ud

ill* eye of the captain. Rewards uuishmenta muat both be naed ling to circumstances; bnt the

better tho class of men. the less-of tho latter. In support of this, the German

aoldii a —*'* ‘ v *

gent in ithe 1

hum any other. With each men as hose who ocmpdse our armies in the • and with competent offl-

>!tnw ia Hast nwlwhliahtwl

as

been at flnt gi , would not hava taken two wei the aggravated nature of the a! reach Cincinnati. Patting this by the aide of the rumors whiol

already reached ns from the inte—... can be imagined how the ehild might have been driven far np the country, perhaps even to Pittsburgh, in a carriage, and then delivered to the principal contractor in the tmaineea. While a transaction anch aa this would bea new thing in this conn try. It ia u old crime in Europe, ud the failure of the anthoritiea to advuoe a step in a whole month allows that the United States

Tee Often Tne.

oo mnoh m to expend in 1

lavish display.

apeedily bring thamaelvaa to the v of bankruptcy. One old gentlei who had commenced life as a poor boy, * * * ' pa to

i*Ha

.. — rived

fort

leaving a prosperous

hafi/ta of hia son.

ass'in tl

yeara the young mu

bankrupt. He had failed in bnai . ud waa compelled to take a position u

clerk <n a stranger'a store.

...w_ asked why it wu that,

in which ho bed snoeeed-

He gave this When I first ec life and I lived on porridge. A uainesa increased we had better

Dnn'r Wokt bib Ena Pull ir Humphrey Daey when a chile. . . ale ud ball, bnt a witty little fellow withal. Attheageot six he waa aent grammar school, the master o! i wm inoexapetent for bis work. .lobrated only for hia severity to the boya. Little Hmnphray often had •-'a ears pulled, and one day be went to heel with a Urge plaster on each ear. What dees that mean ?" naked the master, with hia neon] barbarity. child looked up with u archly _ .

evOT*nrVnowa I< thst Um^work Ifor which it ia intended is of the ntmoat difficulty and importance. IU importance ia measured by the foot that, — * ~r Providence, a war, a earn pain, or rlo battle may, ud often doss, determine the fate of a nation for eent, ud thns affeet the liberties and pq— at families ud individuals . .. —Shorn. The task is difficnlt, been nas il Teqoxrea every member of armv to euoFait cheerfully te the tnwi of yrivation, fatigue, and duger; to devote all b : ~ *—‘‘ duties; to give up opinion for those of 1 , , to be ready to expose his life at uy moment. It.is clear that a mere form of army organisation, no matter how perfect in theory, will not an - dnoo good reeulta, ud that work most be animated by a moral ferae which shall impel' and enable eveiy nu to do hia beat. This morel form, ehieh ia often called "the military iplrit," includes the various military jualities or Virtues, ud most be ao-

flag, moral ud subordination ;

C ancTTho

Cesidea these qualities, „ id trathfolness in ell the relation* of !e come within the category of miiiry virtuea. Bearir - —*“■* v —

widely individnaU dil moral qualities, it U.

excise of the military qualities referred to cannot eafely bo left to individnal impnlae, bnt that aomo atandard rule oat be eaUbliehed for the gniduoo all, ud whioh shall loach aU how to

Thia 1

dicate that the panto is ol that a atranger oan display a mxy coni ahinplaater in Chicago and not be haul-

One of the best paying industrial of the Booth ia the matrafarrture of artificial ice, r. branch of trade whioh is rapidly extending throughout all the •eat cities of that section of the oonnHow doth the boayjUttle pig improve mb shining hour, ud gather aa usages 1 day from every opening flower. And hen the shades of twilight tall, he umbers In hia stye, or sings his pret- ' evening hymn, " Root, little pig, or

, * "P, Tommy, yonr mamma's, in the front parlor reading the Beeebar-Tiltcn buai-

The following [splayed ai the e. .,'ew Orleans : •' eatly requested no

dully on hand.”

Daring tho war of 18TO a German jiamter^ having nothing else to do.

ed that he gav the work of hi

ooroing to

t tbs m

xtaining the coveted paint-

care fully removed. There are now ei .nt mlssionarte* In

piro; of these the i aent twenty, tho Americai Board thirteen, the Reformed church (Ameriou) eleven, the Protestant " .pal eleven, the Methodist Epte- •— J **>e Baptist Union six. triet advises fanners dry their boots when by filling them with dry oats, de - -npi.lly abeorbs the moisture, ud

y ahonld

cere, dteripli .. through a hind

perfectly firm ud jnat conduct; bnt to establish ud maintain an entirely iifactory discipline among Amer — ia quite essential that they at respect ud have entire oonflden. the knowledge ud skill of their officers. With good officers, there are no people “-'e to intelligent discipline rapidly be made good eoldiera, ud none who wUl form a better fighting army. In uother generation, after the from tho aoone, should it ever again become necessary for onr country to raiae large armies to meet a sadden emergency, the main danger ud difficulty will always lia in ths l*ck_of a sufficient number of ~

jelghbi— highly orguizrd ud to the baatily-f

The English Priest.

The ot

the I

r day, says a correspondent,

Catholic Bishopof NoMingI, being in London, walked in the

I of the evening in Kensington Qa a, in company with a friend of hi. jftloer in the army. They met «t —to all appearance a Roma

priest -who had a worou on hia am who had her hud in hia, and who wi Sighing fast ud furious Uve to he.. The face of the Bishop flashed red ; he passed on; bnt he inatutly tamed back, ud overtaking the priest begged penniaaion to speak to him. “ May I

Je*."

1 he, “If yonare a priest ?" the^reply. “A Catholic

"Tea.”

under the jorisdiotion of what biahop are yon?' r "Before I answer that K eetion," aaid the priest, * I ahonld a to know to whom '* — — ■ am the Biahop c hia lordahiik^''* . exalaimed

belong ' Icl.gbt. i !

, , rdon with __ bnt I do wish that yon would k abont in onr uniform I” ral of this fanny alary it that

luutatlon of the Be mu clerical d._ by Ihe Bitnaliatio clergymen In England ia ao accurate that it may deceive

■rinco Bismarck riaoner Kullmar... . Blamarak—Why did yon wish to kill Kallmann—On account of the ecclesiastical laws. Bismarck—Those laws do not oonoern eu, as everybody ia at liberty to beer,. what he likea. Did yon commit ita act of yonr own • Kallmann—No; I

e off their re- • V* l* 0 P ri ' t itand ia nemos.

dining-room. A d< -— day wna ao ebai—60,000 thalers for

A priest at Bute Marta, in the United States of Columbia, followed Father Hyaeinthe'e example, ud took to himself a wife. He has lately repented, ud addressed a petition to the Biahop of Dibona, begging the pardon t. the chnreb, ud declaring that he aa put away the woman. The pardon as been granted. With all hia wealth, Nevada Jones is _ot happy. He ia tronbled with a bad digestion, and hia physicians tall him il he does not live like u ueborio will not be ablt te live at all. «, therefore, starves in the midst of plenty ud chews the end of bitter reflection. while all around him an rev-

a wolves go mad u dogs. One of than mu oreunrea ion got into a military encampment d bit six dogs. There were twentyur at that tima in tha camp, and it is deemed prudent to ahoot every one ,

Id her friend to get nu r friend, being anxlona annuo fit for her, ordered the storekeeper to change the marks on a pair of sevens. He did ao, ud tha ladyaaid they fitted better thu any abe had had in a long time. Husbud and wife who have fought the world aide by aide, who have made n Block with joy er sorrow, and aged together, are not uufreqnontly found curionaly alike in parJOS gained annAhlng feminine which brings hia mu hood into

» UlMMty of Telegraphs,

rendered a somewhat important decision relating to the liability of totegraph companies for error* in the tranamiaaion of dispatches. Some four yean ago a bnsinaaa firm te that State telegraphed te a firm te Ghteago by the Western Union line for ton thonaand ' 'iala of corn, bnl tha dtoatah waa etoread "ona^heuaand.^ ud herpes ud Ihe firm lost nine hundred dollara. It waa It night message, ud the nanal agreement that the telegraph peny shall not be liable for blunders signed, bnt the Court decided that I aaontrest, being aaaiaat pebtio policy, la voidj and therefore awarded

their farms uder a strong ccralry, ud aome prefer enr