| Show w'tj-Jtfi- RqBMeffaMH)BS&Ci ‘n i il - Si ?? v : v - r - r : t! m GREAT SALT LAKE CITT UTAH m:KLY tklkgjuwi j andtuvivdat ira kvkrt jiosiay hTi'STEX HOI'S E Editor 0 T the Tilmiaph Fur rLEWLNT m TiB tomorrow rur t0ran uor net impu WTe oath Ui A t - 1 m JT ’! hri"S rpret-n1 c?ie lI1ertiiy - i4riJ0'fwc4Bna'‘lrife !— M LV-- Ir1J‘n'e Pi'1® 1’ 5 il- - si!t Xi&tF ' ® aru nwy i NitA a trukon vow— tlliue jiau'j-- i tfti the 1 beh tl3 Jpl T wlawy-BUI apou thjr mortn tlii-- '' u In Vrvf ftf-U V r ft puriufey— ' power anhonr " frre “'" rufn: r“Iine‘ ’£ Pnle'L overthrow ' f or loclT Wf heart Chain ‘rn a deathly part Tt liiA H"1 Much ri"h " v ’ hy-l- -' ' ' - IfrnwtWor If ilerKn tfiou nuwt ri plvo it the help efiViMl Vkit art Hum man hut (tenthly dunt? pnwnui'tiiinils animated clod! 7nief MUt ftr t let them'hn tlWlJinchniM f r iVjn " - Gll UO r Much 25 lr ' ' and free ‘ N‘5 e t 1 or great g(KKl lias as I luul give'u pence If riches could awav? returning with overladen excuses? wcara a ghastly frown lately it All Had I not seen her more thanr obco of give happiness X ought to be one of the expression late drop a letter into the receiving box will soon be over” iiappiest young fellows iu tho Austrhave alia” at the Post Office' wlien-shmight over And it was soon house? nut it in liiy mail-bo- g the Vr Ilad at the to be coxtixued (continued chief I pot scon her nervouly starting at thcr officer) for one evening at SunLKXGTII OF'CIVIL WARS The ship bllgli test noise when scaled in the twi- - down a man fell overboard m was tho time sitting-rooand wimlowr therewas in her little going free at light at the The Peloponnesian ' war was in some rea stiff breeze As the man passed the which overlooked the garden? ' “She walked into the house before me quarter or rather as the quarter passed spects of the nature of a civil contest as ft was waged between meu who had beeu uni-te- d and I had time to collect mvself 1 him it was plain that he could hot swim to a very great extent years before to pleaded headache 'and retired into my and his lookof horror a3 lio rose on a resist foreign invasion and one man of note' at least saw its closing scenes who would library She knew -- that I' never could wave would have gone through you remember VXIarathou Sparta and Athens bear the presence of any one when ill Aspen was standing beside me on the were the heads two of the branches and I was safe from interruption Amid poop-dec- k lie snatched up a lifebuoy of the Hellenic races —the principal Dorians and loni-ansthe whirling dance of my maddenin' arid leaped overboard A boat w'as lowand were more lliaii once united though enemies jn the Peloponthoughts iio idea of revenge on her had ered but it took too long a tiine the they were deadly was carried on for twenty-seve- n warwhicu 'Vv! nesian ' comwas in believe the I don’t ship any placiv broughtrto was and the real cause of the' years There were only two Oars in the boat ruin ot Greece monly received -- opiniontliat real love cat! bo changed into hate I could not though four men had jumped into her That terrible civil contest which led to the hate her 1 even ' thought with pity of and wo saw that they hardly made any- destruction of Lhe Uoman Jtepublic Lad more the outer sorrow that could not tail to way in the direction of the floating uien than : one stage or war in its very long course with intervals of peace which par-- 1 bothers in this vprld for evermore around whose heads the cormorants tics employed as "breathing times Tliode escape me! No IIow wore sweeping their terrible bills often cisive stage came when Caesar crossed: the best to proceed? ‘Shall J go and ques- coming very near them Itubicon and Home hardly knew what peace-meanthe next twenty yan when the tion my groom who must from the staDarkness soom came on 'Wo burned srccess lor of Uetavius ovdf Antonius bles have sometimes witnessed their prepared lights for the boat' which at last' re- tho way for tlie mx Iswiana which gave stplen interviews?’’ Xo my instincts turned but without and without for many general tranquUifyihlianpire Aspern revolted ci t the idea of talking to a grooin the sailor There was no doubt they generations about her fallen angel though she was liad The greatest civil war that England has the end ever gone down This sir was 1 would' do it all myselfT Aly plauS were ' had was that contest which is known as of pur Queer Passenger the AVars of the Roses or the wars of York soon formed and Lancaster It occurred in the fifteenth Early next morning I rode to our Onr in reached Victoria century and it lasted though with considership safety t little town nnd gent back by my sen-anand 1 lost no time in going up the coun- able periods of peace for some thirty years a note to my vrifertating tliat I was opened at tlie first battle of St Albans in that' Lad re- It try to see some! gold-fiel1435 and lasted to the battle of ltoswortlr tr Ixmdon that compelled totart discovered I was fortunate in 14$5 It was of a most ruthless character to make some arrangements about' cently been to procure a black “boy” to lead and the greatest battles ever fiought'on Enmy voyage u ml that I should be absent enough Pack-hprs-e and I set out' with a glish ground then took place Almost two my at least a week A then went to 'the couple centuries later England had another domesscvcu-inc- h of revolvers a good tic contest w hich light-colore- d a purchased cityofP— rifle four good liorees two of them ‘‘The Great Civil is called par excellence War” and which extended wig a largo pair of green spectacles and ladencd with traI the all British Islands It began in the ajtolerable “swag’r oyer disguised with these and a large beard voled about miles a day for four Slimmer of' 1G42 and it was not terminated fifty arid onoustaclie returntd to our village the Autumn of 1G51 camping out each night and- at until where I engaged apartments opposite days The of the civil wars tliat France has came’ to a good-size- d public house known'worst was the'Post Oihce Tlicro I remained on last that religious contest which did where I determined to stay for a few her so much mischief in the of the last the watch to give a spcll'to my horses I Was three Kings of the Valois linereigns endays and ‘'fhree days after my supposed de- lonely enough during my stay until a dured fotL’more than a generationwhichThey parture my wifo's carnage drove up to gentleman came who was a treasure as a were marked by periods of truce but of peace the shop kept by the' Postmaster Pre companion He was much my senior Frauen had small knowledge lor well nigli 3cars vious toher entering the shop 1 saw her nnd seemed a thorough know- forty The Year' AVar of Germany was a-- note in the letter-bo- x After a ledge of the world I had never met a a civil Thirty drop conflict in the main though its issues few inmutes delay in making purchases luore willi foreign qaestions in fascinating man- - I was delighted she drove oil again its couic aud at its close It lasted from that we were to travel together lClS to lClS i i “Late in the afternoon a "tall disti"We did travel together and well it coil-teThe war of onr Revolution civil a was nguished-looking man with a travcliug-c- a was for another that we did so On tlie' On the day of Lexington and at Bunits" peak closely drawn down over second day we came to a creek where I ker Hill and for more than a ' year a Iter'the 1 felt this to-b- proposed that we should his face entered the battle latter tho men who hero contended and lunch stop es King Georg-- j considered my enemy 1 saw him receive a let- 1 had scarcely spoken when a horseman against as lunch- Englishmen as if they had beca ter from the Uostiiiasters wife ami haspassed us at rapid pace lie wore a red living in Corkall or Yorkshire That war Willk ‘I tily away' 'lmflrieil to the shop Garibaldi shirt ami a helmet hat with a lasted more than seven years opening fn the and iu broken: English asked if them red silk “puggaree” streaming behind it Spring of 1775 and ending iu tlie Antoum of were letters for Ilerr von Thirl? fcjho lie hud hunlly- disappeared over the XiSi The greatest civil war of the existing cenreplied in Vue negative but I earnestly steep bank on the opposite side of tho that which broke out iu Spaia be? tury alLth'e over look letters creek when two shots were heard followed tweenwas requestinl herto the Christines and the Cur lists which Thi3 wa3 in order to gain tiino fora by a shout AVe spurred our horses over broke out iu 132 aud which was not ended question or two the creek and in a few seconds beheld until lfslO It was characterized by atroci- “I inquired who was that fine looking the person- - who' liad passed us overman who had ' just gone out of the shop? thrown liis leg pinned to the ground by (She didn't know he was a Stranger his horse wlricii had fallen and a man in of Spain in virtue of the success of her in the longest and crudest war lut was not liis name on lifs letters? a mask about a dozen yards off taking partisans Oh yes the name-waThornton but he aim at him with a revolver We dashed that has been known lor almost two centuries didn't live in the village Had ho been on but my confounded horse came down IA) THE POOR EDITOR in a ong in tlic habit of coming for letters? with me his foot having landed bandicoot’s hole 1 staggered " to my Xot' very long It is all very Sue — inasmuch as it allows “I walked forth in the direction of my feet much Bliaken and was iu time to see spunk and costs nothing— ibr an indignant ldine It was nearly (insk wljcn I came the issuer The red horseman and the citizen to stride into auew?paper sane linn or an editor upon the public high way within sight of that spot where my bliss bushranger fired simultaneously and the Jindwaylay alter forth a dark tale of pouring in life liad been Over the wet spongy robber fcwervcd iu his saddle but lie or public wrong- demand ihu the privalo editor ields over crumbling fences through cairie very close to the other and extend- shall giro the wrongdoer “literal llellr? lt and it is as common had come but ed liis revolver again Tle other's fate is ’all very fiueIf we say were swollen water-courseeditors so accommodatisitisfiuc sealed had been for but the promptness danger and fatigue were- unfek About and as a limited to even give paragraph of skill of my companion He took ting lalf ivniile from the house 1 a horse denunciation to every case of mblic and ied up to a fence lie was With her a long shot the robber's pistol fell to private outrage which is indignantly detailed the ground liis right arm dropped at to them every day wc might all bo publishthen — and those of most formidable liis side and uttering a howl of ing “I hid myself close to tlie bridge' for a and pain he galloped off towards the size “quartos? iu the estimntiou of the mass of our otherwise citizens the editor while until darkness should conceal my scrub idfems ty be a licensed and legally authorimovements I" then burned across and When we reached the fallen man and zed cxcoriator of other men with a hide im noiseapproached the Slimmer-house-'- 1 to' bullet and insensible to the cow-skiliad released him he said gaily “Well pervious callous to the writhin&s of and lessly 4’liey were hot Jtherc Xo 'Of that was touch and go! Tour his' victimsa 'heart lie is furthermore expected to course hey were in Jtho house then I by Jove! of there being more was not tong left in indecision as to my shot saved my lji6 sir and a better shot ignore the- possibility a to one side than revolver never I saw” ?tory and to act vigorousnext step "Tho window of her sitting-roo- witliA aud promptly upon the ex parte statement “Who could your assailant have been?” ly of every responsilde or irresponsible John (it was a French window) opened said my companion Doe or Richard Roe who may desire to see and there they stood within a foW yards Oh one of Micky’s gang of course his enemy figuring as a scoundrel in a ii of me his arm thrown round her waist: LU11 Yews Gold matter— of leaded have become troublesome very — heard him 1 saw him kiss her I heard They j dou’t and life take to I scruple lately him liis heard MODEL THEATRE "kiss A I her impassioned - Cifo !' ' ds mo-meii- i XiUKKli PSKXdKli'' - " foiXTISt’EDl I LaJ luiil :i lovjdy gunlcn laitl out Ieil down to a r Iff” A i?ii1frwlk of ornaniLMittttl wodJ'" ifuL britlj! - ' ‘ fich pretty stream — an A iittiintt ih'jfta ofit avail 'themselves evening stroll- was ? stye jiark and these iv WuT - our 'ppmleif were' strictly" neme da vs the fraiih-ha- il hwivihv ami our walks jTer becli were however lwaspmeh occupied bus£iiiesd in tho iieighliouring town uf did not return as early as usual for MpW -- vctil days in succession ilark rainy' evening Much min had fallen U'fure-sunse- Aa t 1 cnijjiod the Jjridgo on foot I the streajiV Rowing turbid 'and This Was notmy uiriing beneath sial way of jrtuiVg: lmt in home1 eonse-icnr- e of the raind rode straight to the horse to the groom arid uk the shorrcjif 'fjiere was a shady 3kt house in the npjer' corner of f pah'vnful I observed to niy sur-“a laia’i' footprints along the path win! thither from the bridge r sts tvrf those of a fashionallvinade Abanilinysiiqriso was increased by to a spot iii which they seemeil hivo Ik'ea imt bv another person theiuv b'th led to tlie Sum- Whose foot but cr’slcould - ‘ilj’vA 'nwivniy H‘ niale the ive- 1 J and there 1 those' tiny inipressions? Smumor-libus- e ' inv wife rj'i ' ' - ex-ao- a: - tra-jge- saiil f® uie hrido??' I 'no one up the walk ' frightened again shud- aa'I with her large eyes in gaziug '??! t 'Ptedi ‘Xo stranger has tra tere’ 1 looked at her earnestly: her eyes 6he was ghastly pale e‘1 y dearest I said ‘let me J011 yell you are very imprudent J? yourself to the-daiWU ‘': mp wpped I JiSVi-- J f her largo shawlaround of hi fhl3 there fell on glow It st r-h- tlit-msel- v - - - ri-ign-s - s! - -- - well-inform- : m Uaroline’ I vck out on sricli an evening— w She --was shivering 'Vho was’ liere?’ I said lt“fudsh’prod st iir more and replied -- mjP r 0 has been here ‘y heavens! becamc-complicate- s returrunl one fcl : to-hav- stream in ilry weather but si i'ivnius torreut after rain JLn tiine of n A the water nislied down tvitlr rrcat aii'l Li ifev(Mit the of lloorin several the boanls jjliSjW pf '1'his bridge led ifl not nailetl'down nfyek'jiiWt- beyoml which were-ti- n tho staJjli'S commanded n ' A Ithouijli then j:arile!i Jpasliurt t to tlie stables front krbpehine of the servants wef5 dropped-fro- half-colum- H- - and then with the noiseless step of late I hastened by a 'near cutito tho bridge “I crossed it shoved the ends of three planks off their support s so that the slightest -- weight should tilt them over and waited about ten yards off with a heart whose throbs I heard above the -roaring ot the angry fiood “He came' lie made a few steps along the bridge' Tlien a wild cry a dashing of wood together n plunge in the torrent an interval '"of silence another cry 'Help help!’ That was all I waaravenged Xo mortal could escajie out of that d stream in its (Jood-by- e’ - r” picked “Xext morning I sent d note: to my IliP1? ficyealed it It was a lavender alv 3 “' that had" been worn by V wife' ‘Caroline I said ‘I was close to you when you and lie parted last night 1 le'shall come to much of my’ feelings I saw everything you God moref no forgive you’ of Qndrcd3 triyial tliiug3 -- “I left atronce I joined tjblung and crowding into- - inv your fillip and °f them each Jof them I know I shall never land: alive Don’t Tuaupu that the worst was true oP misunderstand me JL shall not commit suicide llut hU face— that face which 'Herd her frequent weeping I never saw in lifer— is with me ever wtter were now accounted for And so the memory of her Closely and bften withdrawn entwined with being his face bears a 3 cn BoJ°ften the ievenings and staj’ed long likeness to hers my but ualike hers it always - -- - : f - fortwo-pound-te- three-pound-sixte- en not a village nor is Boston setts an interior department‘s hat the Museum of that city-i- a theater in the management of which during the last tweuty years more sound sense and clearer artistic perceptions have been shown than at any other similar A really institution In the United States bad performance is not known to have occurred there The teiyors of a “first night” A never had an existence within its walls hitch ora break in a performance does not enter into its experience It is notorious for the dispatch and promptitude of its represen“Roseuale” was invariably pertations formed there in a half hour less of time than at AVallack’a Its scenery is better than that of any other theater in any city and twenty years ago it produced scenic effects the counnow considered terparts of whicli are even Its mechanism is remarkable in Xetr York Although Qtage is small there perfect are no complications sufficiently intricate to embarrass it Boucicault's most exhaustive “Fauvrettc” and ‘’The Colleen Eieces like are prodiiod there with better effect oh the whole thih we hare seen them done elsewhere Th stage management-fi- rst under W II Smith’afterward under E F Keach and now restored to Smith — has and intelalways been tr model of precision ' i “ ligence ' At times Ahe stock company of the Boston Museum has contained the best artists in their line that the country has produced although it is not for the quality of its companies so much as for the character of its administration that the establishment has Massachu- s -- rock-banke- r— ifi ' then state didnot seeit am certain Tint the scoundrel but by Jove! sir you have given him a' stinger He has killed my horse though poor brute inid I wouldn’t have taken two hundred for liim this morning Gentlemen my tent is not far fjrom this and there’s plenty of room” We made him mount one of our spare horses and we soon came to his tent: a capital tent of galvanized iron “Xow then Bob look sharp about dinner” Bob looked sharp and we were soon seated at a table on which we bronze-winge- d saw kangaroo-I’steamewild of ducks and prea pigeons couple Xor were welcome served potatoes liquids wanting There were sparkling hock sherry and pale brandy After dinner we lighted- our pipes (he and 1) and he became very communica tive N ‘T came out without twenty pounds” he said “and no one could believe how lncky I have been I ‘dropped’ on large nriergets I got advances from the banks an3 purchased large quantities of gold n an ounce for which I 1 bought received in a bits of swampygrouud place that was reserved for a township and soon afterwards got as many pounds for them : V YOL 17 - - v ' - - '" vcn ! j iburly — with U “what hath been” lu'D'tnw vht knwekt thon ' 7 j "a ' ’"oW i to thin - harl and soul boL with all thy APRIL J — 1 rftir® ”" 110 r MONDAY i‘ tax A law has just been passed levying a 1M after on of a been distinguished Let any visitor to Boston look in upon the pert'ormauce of “The Veter is now upon the bills of the Sin--li- e an” which will find a combination of superb seam scenery rich appointments glowing and picturesque groupings of tableaux euch as we do not say could not but whicli probably would not How be equalled by any theater in New York And if he further scru-tiuiz- c tio details he will find that they all evince the Mine conscientious purpose that the incidental music for example is of a quality which only one theatrical conductor in New York would be capable of rivaling and that it is performed in a manner both as regards chorjas and orchestra which managers have evidently no idea of making possible with ns jwiJ moreover that the personations of the various parts are far more cveu smooth and sympathetic than D common here and that one character at least— that of the Veteran liimself represented by V II Smith— is n dignity interpreted withwhich we do a vigor and a gallant heartiness not think could bo found united in icy other So much for artist now before the public the little Boston J1 usciim whose" dramatic virtue is and always lias been its own best rmrJ-- X Y Tribuue cos-tnm- nt es A A'OLUXTEER BULL FIGHT I remember once seeing when a lad at school a fight between two bulls Though I was not more than eight or nine years of It hapage I can never forget the scene pened in this wise: Year tho houpe--n-n unpretending edifice ft was— ran a deep Arid rapid Across it river had been thrown ajifgh-woodc- n bridge the head- railing of which time had destroyed The ground on the opposite side oftlie stream was owned by different persons and farmed by them One summer day— I remember ’it as if it were yesterday— the hours ofnoon had arrived and a group of boys were-seoat for recreation ' On a fjuflden the roaring of two bulls that hail broken out of their confinement attracted onr attention r The beasts wcie not yet in sight of each other bat were approaching at a rate of speed whicli caused them to meet near the centre of the high bridge which I have described jind beneath which ran the-rivbetween steep banks The more daring of us gathered near the bridge to see the And we were not disapanticipated fiht pointed Nearerpnd nearer approached tue Bastian nevoi pro- pawing combatants duced two brutes of fiercer aspect Presently as they simultaneously ascended tho respective abutments they came in fiilt sight of each other And they went at it with a gusto Front to front their horns locked every ntusdc'fct rained they were fightiug only as bnl's can light ' Itseemed an even match Xo w one ' would press back his opponent a few paces and then yon would hear quick sharp' short steps! and hh adversary - wctilU The fight was hard prexn back in liw turn and now aud then savage For a time neither gained Hitherto they were pressing each other ttgthw-teof the bridge On a sudden they begun to wheel and in' a moment they were facing each other crosswise They were at angles with the bridge which shook right with their trampling and strife It was the work of a single moment one of the beasts however as if conse:oiis-o- f its position made a desperate plunge forward and pressed his antagonist back so tliat there was but another step of tho plank between him and tlie water bcavatlk The moment waA one of intense interest to uj spectators Never was the amphitheatre of ancient Rome the scene of a more exciting combab Another step backward- - )cs the unfortunate bull was farced tr do it Back he is and over the bridge he goes Such-- Sight I never saw aud never wish t(jee ngsriu Imagine a Ijrgo and powerful bud piadiel back ward over a bridge arid tunibiiug thirty feet over and over-lb- : turned once or twice I thought he turned fifty times there seemed such a CiinfusJon of hern and leet revolving iq the i ’i ONE HAMLET AND TWO GHOSTS Some fetv years ago at a benefit given to a fire company in Philadelphia a new aspirant for histrionic honors appeared on the boards of the AValnut Street Theatre Tlie playwas “Hamlet” Glurt before the curtain rose the - nt ’ t X too - ng ! - - fun-seeki- i (2 gallon January whiskey Now tho pack arc working upon tho lTejn-drlu - The speculators waut him to signshall bill while distillers are as urgent that hewhisVeto it The government is broiling in tothe ky what a sad final termination Maine law! The government it now getting its richest treasures from its tax on whiskyand other liquors i Tho War is to a considerable degree supported'by the Immense quantities of liquor that the people are drinking and intoxicating liquor is about the most atarticle in tlie market tractive and After making for "speculating purposes thousands of drunkards' after waking it fashionable to keep liquor In the hojf'se ana in club rooms alurr reviving tho old liquor loving practice of offering the intoxicating cup to frieuils who call— tlie Maine lqw has done its work of evil and the United States is drawing vast :mi oFlnoney from its tax on that which gets the people drunk It' shows to what sad ends fjuaticul Ideas will people who follow thenit aud it carry the showa too how mistaken are tbe tiew of who torn their tboe Minister of the UopeI attention from religious duties and embark fanatical ideas in the work of forcing upon the statute book or into the policy of the government — Hartford Timea "r gentleman engaged tor play: the Ghost” struck for “wage” and tlie manager was best he could forced to supply his place-af- i In due time the play went on and tlie' Ghost in blue armor appeared saying in hie usual lugubrious tone— ‘Hamlet I aiu thy father’s ghost!” When even ns the Prince ef Denmark was contemplating the image of hts father’s ghost a voice was heard from another wing— "Don t vou believe kiin Hamlet I srajour father’s ghost —this fellow underbid me” And with the word'another “Ghost” in blue: armor of course stepped on the stage - Tho embarrassment of llanilct was extreme Two ghosts of one father jjbotii dressed in bine armor speaking" at once and each claiming to be the Simon Pure as thus— “Hamlet 1 am thy father’s ghost’ began Xo i ‘ “N Ilamlet I’m your father’s ghost” cried No 2 the “Doomed for a certain time to walk : earth” continued No 1 - ? “No Hamlet” continued Ghost No 2 insinuatingly “iUs me that’s doomed to walk tlie earth—not him”: You see lieplaya Ibr five dollars a week and I would not do it under six I’m your father's ghost Hamlet At this juncture while Hamlet stood look- - ' ing from one to the other in most nnprincc y confusion No 1 again rallie- d“1 could a tale unfold” he said “All fudge Hamlet it’ mo tliat cofild- the tale unfold-'crie(ibost No? '‘This- felI’m your low ain't got any tale to uufold father's ghos my boy” At t!i is 'crisis the curtain "fell leaving Hamlet to settle the matter with the ghosts behind the scenes while the audience were shedding- tears but not of sorrow r w ii- - -- er - - - c -- -- - 3' - An English' newspaper says:' “Wo cannot impress too strehgly upon all cor- respondent? when in doubt whether the pewtagj of a letter is a penny or fwo- pred iencc the force of tho old proverb Two loads are better iban one”’ A loving spirit 11 order to feel a joy himself readily discerns the little joy of the poor: a malignant heart spfes out" their miseries not to lessen their amount but that he may grumble at the rich- A French proprietor lately paid four undulutMar and wide with the coiictission of his weight: The otlur beast dil millions of francs for a tract of vino land because I supposed at the time ip could not where Medoc wa3 the favorite wine and But we laughed-anshouted onr applaud lie lias realized the full amount of tho There stood the victor booking direcilvdown into theabvs bclohr into whicli he hurried purchase money from the crop of 18Gd -- -- " not-hug- " alone liwuiiluckv fob Ife stood but a moment and then as iffrichtycd at the prospect lie be- can to snort and tcp backwards But he retreated with his head in the fame pugnacious attitude as when in combat—' bacit-sti- ll another step and over he went bn the opposite side ofthe bridge performing just as inanv anr ludicrous somersets as his had done a moment before It was h scene to be lougremeiubercd and the called forth immense applause In about live minutes both buU might be seen well sobered by their docking and dripping wet scratching up the steep banks each one on his own side of the river “Those bulb will neverTiglit again” said V- a boy behind me Ilis prediction proved to becorrpct for two more peaceable bulbtban they were ever afterwards' could notThavc been found' ' ‘ If your" husband chews hank God that lie doesn’t smoke If he chews and smokes thank God that he doesn’t take snuff If lie does all three thank God' 1 - that hell not live long' ad-versii- ry It i3'Tclated of the great- - artist Poussin thatrbeirig shown a picture of a pei son of rank he remarked: “Yon only want a little poverty sir to make you a" good painter” " A flag of truce wa3 sent to tain of one of the Mississippi gunboats with a challenge from agnerrilla chief to xneet him with thirty men armed with muskets one mile from the shore and —Ex have a pitched battle or in the event of WHISKY declining that challenge a bottle of whiswas requested as a forfeit The gunsince cot- ky Whisky is getting “king” ton abdicated' if cotton has resigned Enor- boat captain didn’t see fit to embrace either horn of the dilemma presentedJby mous fortunes have been made by the speculators upon it Before the war it wa3 sold at tho guerrilla whereat he was veiy much four or live shillings a gallon' Now taxes offended 7 : the-Cap- — ‘ to-b- e - and the depreciated paper and the high cost of grain have carried the price up to J3' 20 per gallon at wholesaler and the way the people drink whisky now at the high prices — the cost making this formerly despised liquor quite fashionable— is a caution to those who don’t want to become' drunkards " A single distiller in Pennsylvania has just paid 1120000 to the United States government as hi tax for whisky manufactured by him during the past six months and other manufacturers and holders have paid large earns hi All classes taxes upon this kind of liquor have speculated in it Men in high position in the government — old politicians wao have ‘ran’ machines” and distilled public sentiment-— Thurlow Weed at the head of them have made tiieirlw of thousands in the past two years in wlnsiy speculations Congress has been ridden like an old horse by the to shape speculators who have attempted The taxation themselves suit to legislation laws affect them Distillers want one thing the speculators another Ax Oib Bacheijr’s Rexarks Xi rpox-TYoME- — If you don’t mamr them they " despise you If you do they abuse you'-I- f you don’t let them have theirbwn way they hate you :If you do they rain you '' If they see a better looking fellow than ybbrself and take 'a fancy to liim - ten to one but they run away fromyoo1 Get married? otifiknowit ‘ r I Jone3 and Brown were’ talking of a' young clergyman- whose preaching they had heard that day The sermon wae very poor “AVhat do you think of him!” inquired Brown “I think” s said Jones “lie did much better ago” “Why he didn’t preach at all' then’ “True” replied Jones said Brown mean” what'I is "that two-year- - - t t ' V VT : ' ' f- - - V rj ± " !: r ' v j j j i £ ‘i a J4 - N 3 a 't iT - |
