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Show I 0 A QUEER ELOPEMENT. Capital, he exclaimed, pressing her hand at parting. At the hour and place appointed, Pcrcj Van Rapp, by his own saying, in waiting, closely masked, was of the purest blood of the Knick- Percy was erbockers. It was like Listening to one and peering throigh the night with the impatience of an anxious of the Mosaic genealogies to hear him watchful lover. trace back his lineage to old Rip Van The sound of wheel wa heard preRap;, one of the veriable old Rips who built the town of New Amsterdam sently, and in a few moments a carriage of bricks brought from Holland, before stopped at the spot agreed on. The it was known that bricks could be driver alighted and opened the door. made of American clay, or cheese from Percy entered without speaking, and the coachman, who had evidently reany but Dutch milk. ceived instructions, resumed his place Percy was spending the season at a and drove off rapidly. and was the fashionable watering-place- , In the darkness, Percy could barely jhc&vieit swell there ; unless we except the outlines of a figure Adrian Dodge, a young gentleman of distinguish with a masked face. He could hardly great putative wealth and rather more refrain from clasping it in his arms, than average pretension. and giving vent to a torrent of tender Great rivalry existed between the eloquence; but remembering his promtwo. Which could wear the sleekest ise, he restrained himself. His capahat, and dance in pumps ot the finest city to. do o was at the point of giving kip, was the daily problem cf their out, when, in deep brass, he heard the lives and they put their whole minds words, to it till Kate Wiley came and gave Dearest Kate f 44 them something else to think of. Dearest thunder f' he shouted who the mischief are you ? Kate was a beauty, and rich This And you the fiend are you? exwas her first season, and at once she became the centre of attraction. Fore- claimed the other. Adrian Dodge ! by all thats most among her admirers were Percy Van Rapp and Adrian Dodge, whom amazing yelled Percy. this fresh rivalry might any day have Percy Van Rapp ! by all thats inpersonally embroiled, had either known fernal shrieked Adrian. Villain 3011 shall pay for this how great a coward the other wm. The truth is, in this matter both were roared Percy, springing on his rival with the ferocity of a tiger. deeply in earnest. Mr. Vann Rapps Cowards fight desperately when corfortunes were little short of desperate : and Mr. Dodges, notwithstanding re- nered, aud here both were. The uproar alarmed the coachman, who stopped ports chiefly of his own circulation were in a condition not much better. and called a policeman. The combat Kates cash would be a new lease of dis- ants ware dragged out and summarily off. Next morning they were sipated life to whichever of them could marched discharged, and by that time the truth manage to get it. come out, they took the next Kate received their advances cooly having for the city, thus relieving Kate train at first, but after a time they seemed to of a pair of unwelcome suitors, whose amuse herwhat impression they finally selfih designs her aunts keen eyes made we must let our story tell for ithad been quick to penetrate, and for self. whom she herself leit nothing but conNeither.suitor had room to boast over the other. If Kate had any choice be- tempt. The way in which the two lovers tween them, she kept it to her elf. came to find themselves in the carriage There were times when each would was this : Before the interview have counted the day his own had he together between Kate and lercy at which the not felt that his rival had equal ground elopement was planned, Kate had refor confidence. ceived a call the same morning from It was impossible that things should Adrian Dodge, who, being interrupted long continue so. Percy Van Rapp in the midt ot a tender declaration by determined to know his fate at once. an inopportune visitor, made an apAccordingly, he seized the first opporpointment to return in the afternoon. tunity of faying bare his heart to Kate, Meanwhile Percy came and laid bare only suppressing mention of a few pri- his heart, as we have seen, when it ocvate motives which lay at the bottom of curred to Kate to rid herself of the two it. little harmless strateWhen Kate blushed and stammered adventurers by a How she enticed Peicy ir;tj the something that didnt sound like No, gy. we have already shown. In the Percy could have stood on his head for trap aiternoon, when Adrian returned, he iyBut my aunt, said Kate she was was lured into a similar snare the he was to in the care of a maiden aunt, with a only difference being that and find Kate in waita my auni, bring carriage very sharp eye in her head ing, the conditions as to silence and I fear, will never consent. Aunts have no authority to com- disguise being the same. Before the year was out Kate was mand the affections, was the lovers married to one who had known and reply. loved her, and whom she had known True, she murmured. and loved from childhood ; and the Then fly with me he exclaimed , we'will find gome, spot whore we can happy couple often laugh over the Queer Kloperaent. whose story we have be'happy. attempted to tell. New York Ledger. Kate paused, as if irresolute. My aunt, sbe said, already half The Borers of the Sea. suspects. I can trust the coachman, Many storie are current as to how however. Disguised in male attire I can leave the inventors have borrowed or stolen their she blushed prettily hotel unobserved, and John will be in ideas from Nature, and there has been readiness to take me in the carriage to much ingenious discussion as to whether a rendezvous agreed upon. Meet me hints thus appropriated are properly there,, and in half an hour we can reach patentable. Boring is an example of .he house of a neighboring clergyman natural processes that have been thus ail old friend of my father,. whose aid used by art, and it is remarkable that we can invoke, and aud what a little the lowest creatures are the most skilful mechanics in this particular. An plotter I am eminent living inventor, who had made You're an angel f cried Percy. a fortune out of a patent auger, hit But you must promise one thing, oaid Kate. upon the method followed by the most successful! insects which bore into hard I promise, he said solemnly. Not to speak a word when we meet, wood. And so we are assured that the nor until we are well away everything celebrated engineer, Brunei, in constructing the Thames tunnel, but imhereabotts has ears. burrow of the itated the shell-line- d I promise, he said solemnly. Time and place were fixed, and Percy teredo navalis, or ship worm. This Rapp rose to take his leave. He al- mollusk in shape resembles a worm and ready heard Kates dollars jingling in surround itself with a shell open at both ends. From the moath it can his pocket. One thing more, said Kate. protrude its short foot, and the other extremity of its body, the tail, is Percy bowed obsequiously. will be the night of the fancy bifurcated, one prong being the inus both wear marks, f we re spirator and the other the expirator e no remark, and well tube of the siphon which constitutes the animals nutritive apparatus. mit 10 a. 44 44 44 1 ! - 41 1 0 f 44 Chawed to a Log for Nineteen Years. We learn from "Mr. Robert Glenn of the death on the 20tK ult., of Lewis Flint, at hi home in Wyalusing. The deceased was forty-fiv- e year of age. From .the same source we learn some particular of tne life of the late unfortunate. 'Mr. Flint was an "old resident I of Grant count'. About nineteen years ago it became evident, trora the stid-de- n change that came over him, that insanity was rapidly developing itself. A log cabin was built near the one in which the family lived, where the demented man was placed for better security. Confinement seemed to aggravate h,is disease, and increase his violence, which was hard for hi poor mother to bear; but all efforts on the part of friend to have him removed to some safe place were unavailing. The physicians called to examine his case pronounced him hopelessly insane, therefore no room for him could be A Semi-Week- ly Newspaper found in the hospital for the insane, and to any other place the' feared to have him removed. Another plan, however, was adopted, which seemed to have a better effect. A large block of wood was obtained, to heavy to carry Published in the to which was attached a chain, and the chain fastened around his ankle in such a manner as to produce no injury. This arrangement allowed him some freedom, and he would divert himself by rolling his block around in and out of doors at pleasure, but it was always Largest and Most flourishing uecessary to watch his movements. It wa matiy times necessary for his Mining Camp in Utah, who had charge of him, to be brother, temporarily absent from home, to which the invalid mother never objected. Stunge as it lnay seem, she felt safe to be left alone 'with her insane son, who never during his long insanity, when Contain full and correct information laboring under his strongest paroxysm, seemed to forget the sacred name ot of the mother. His sickness was of short duration. A few days before death he was attacked with a violent pain iu the t The Cottonwood OBSERVE head, which so prostrated lnm that he made no resistance to being laid upon his bed. His- reason now for the first time in many years, seem to be partially restored, lie told his mother that he was going to die, asked tor what he wanted, and discovering his block some (stance lrotn his couch, asked taut it might be rolled to his bedside. With his own hand he wrapped the chain once more around his ansle, and there kept it until lifes fitful fever was over. - Numerous Mines in the Di- strict Main Street, Salt Lake City. SPECIAL NOTICE. Positive Bargains. Having determined to Close out within the Season All classes of Summer Goods, r We shell offer A paper for For Thirty Days , Grant County fWis.) iierald. Crimes Rats pant. Managers, Crimes, of a character the most aw- Mining ful, seem to multiply, rather than to diminish, with the frequent executions Stock Brokers, One John T. Gordon, by the gallows. a young farmer of twenty-eighand rendered unmarried, jealous and ugly And all others interested tn the develthe act father ofhls by conveying the farm to a younger son, arose in the opment of the mineral wealth night aud with an axe killed his brother, his brother's wife, aud their infant of VUtah- child, seventeen months old. all in one bed, aud fearfully wounded their older son, a child of six years, who slept in a crib near the bed. He then set the bed and the1 room on fire. The shrieks of the wounded child aroused a hired Subscribe for it t man, who rushed out and obtained assistance to quench the flames, and reAdvertise ia it t cover the scorched and blackened bodies. It is thought the little boy, though terribly injured, may live. t, Young ladies are always asking what flirting is. it is simply making yourself agreeable Flirts are always pretty, have big hearts, and when once caught youll find them worth a dozen icebergy girls, who are only useful as freezers. ice-crea- The following goods at; Greatly Reduc'd Prices. Parasols, Lawns, Grenadines, Piques, Linen 8x4 Lace Shawls, r Suitings, Dress Linens, Percales, &c., m Is Recitation in Rhetoric. Prof. it a matter of fact or opinion that the moon has or has not mountains? The Obeervee will be issued on Junior Yes, sir; I think it is. Prof. Which is it? Junior (slowly) Wednesday and Saturday morning in 44 think I each week, the subscription being fifty Well, to tell you the truth,-hardly know myself. cents per month, or $5 per year if paid An Albany damsel hsked one of her in advance. 44 44 For the Twenty-Fourt-h 44 ' . i if . 1 a stylish" clerk, at the breakfast table, Why is For subscription and advertisements your moustache like my back hair? He bluahingly gave it up. The answer address The Cottonwood ObAerver, caused him to blush still more: Be- Alta City, Little Cottonwood, Utah. cause it is all down. fellow-boarder- s, dry-goo- ds 44 A handsome assortment of Sashes & Sash Ribbo&K 44 44 t t Equally as cheap. l)Mm |
