An Unrecorded Duel.

HAVING had occasion last spring to visit New York upon a matter of business, I was somewhat astonished to find, upon my second day there, a letter, tho writing of the address of wliich seemed familiar. _ The clerk at the hotel I was stopping at said, in answer to my inquiries, that a messenger hoy had left it. there about nine o'clock that morning. I opened it, and it read as fol lows :— ' ' ' " 16, Nassau-street, New York. " Dear , I saw your namo yesterday among the list of arrivals at the Hoffman House. If you can spare time call at the above address and see your old Califomian friend, Tom Parker. I am ill—so ill, in fact, that I havo hardly strength to,write this. The doctors only give me a few days longer, so waste no time- if you wish to see mo alive. I have much to say, and should not die easily until it was said.—Believe me, yours affectionately, "Thomas Parker." I need hardly say that t'wastcd no time in answering poor Tom's summons, hut before I relate the painful intervicwit is as well to explain a few of tlio peculiar and somewhat tragical circumstances which sur rounded Tom's sudden departure from San Francisco, eight years previously. » * * * * Ho had gone over to Marin County, ostensibly upon a deer-hunting expedition. Frank Lodi, a mutual friend, was his sole companion. In less than four hours after the two had left San Bafael a buggy drove furiously up to the door of Dr. White, and Tom Parker (for this was the name of my, friend) jumped out, rang at tho bell, and pointing to some apparently inanimate ob ject in the bed of the buggy, sank exhausted to the ground. Dr. White lost no time in solving the mystery, and found poor Frank Lodi wrappod in the buggy robe, which was saturated with blood, insensible, and bleed ing profusely from a wound iv tlie right side. j

Ho was carefully carried into the surgery, restoratives were applied, and in course of half an hour was sufficiently recovered to tell those around him that in carelossly taking his Henry rillo, which was loaded in case a deer should be seen on tho road, the hammer got pulled back and tlio rillo went off, wounding him in the right side. A careful examination by the doctor de veloped the fact that the bullet had passed entirely through his body, tearing away part of one lung and badly shattering the right shoulder blade in its exit. After the examination was over Dr. White left the room, and beckoned to Mr Parker, who had now recovered his senses, but still looked terribly pale and excited, to follow him.

"Your poor friend," said the doctor, "has not more than half au hour to live. It is too late to send for his friends, but I think it would be more satisfactory to you and myself could we get his dying deposi tion taken." A notary was sent for, and, with his last breath, Frank Lodi repeated exactly the story of the accident he nail told tho doctor. As the doctor had said, in half an hour poor Frank closed his eyes, and, with his hand clasped firmly in Tom's, passed with out a struggle into tho unknown world. An inquest was held, aud a verdict of accidental death returned.

The above are the facts as they appeared in the San Francisco papers of August 4th, 1873. Now we come to the most curious part of the sad affair. No sooner had poor Lodi been buried thau Parker sold out his seat in the Stock Board at quite a serious loss, find bidding his friends a hasty good bye, left for the East. He had neVer cor responded with any of his Californiaehums, ana his sad letter was the first intimation I had of his being still in the laud of the living. Jumping into a hack, I soon found myself climbing the stairs which led to the rooms .occupied by Tom. On my my knocking at the aoor a feeble voice said "come in."

' 1 had prepared myself to find poor Tom much changed, but I was shocked beyond measure at the cadaverous face, with its liectic Hash and largo, deeply-sunk eyes, which met my gaze. After shaking his wasted hand, I drew a chair up to his bed side, and listened to tho following painful history, told in a voice tremulous with -emotion and weakness, and interrupted by repeated violent fits of coughing : — "0 how glad I am that you came here in time 1 A few days more and I should not have been able to case my conscience by saying what I am about to. "For eight weary years this secret has been my curse. It has robbod mo of my rest and haunted me night aud day. Ol! course you remember poor Frank Lodi— (who docs not that once knew that whole souled boy)? Well, you know he was sup posed to have shot himself. Ho did no such thing. We fought a duel with rifles at twenty-five paces, and^-cursc my luck - I hit him at the first fire. Beforo we deci ded upon our desperate duel, which was only to. end when one fell or all our fifteen cartridges were exhausted, we swore that if the one who fell had sufficient strength to write or speak, he should declare it to be an accident, and one where no blame could be attached to any one. How nobly poor Frank kept his word I need not tell you. And now the cause :

"We wero rivals for the hand of Miss F s, and each supposed himself to he the accented suitor, for, like too many of your Californian girls, sho liked to have two strings to her bow. Frauk and I talked the matter over quietly, and, as neither of us would give way for the other, nor she definitely decide m favour of ono, we agreed that a duel a Voutrance should de cide our fate. As soon as I arrived in San Francisco after poor Frank's death, I hastened to the house of Mi?s F— —s to break'to her the sad news. , *, ,'

"I found her alone in the conservatory, and commenced to toll my painful errand. Whether the clear glances of those truth ful eyes, which seemed to search my very innermost soul, unnerved me, or whether my guilty conscience betrayed In c, I cannot tell. But I faltered in my account of the accident, contradicted myself, and finally completely broke down. - "She seemed to divine the truth, for, with pale face and flashing eyes, she rose and, looking me straight m the face, said, in tones I shall never forgot, ' Leave me, you are not telling the truth. Now that Frank is gone I have no love left to give. Go, and never let us meet again on earth.' '' Conscience-stricken I left her, nnd within two weeks all my Californian ties'were severed, and I accepted the Eastern States as my future home. Fortune has favoured me, so far as wealth is concerned, for my career on Wall-street has been one series of successes. But of what use has it been to me? Here I am, a wretched dying man, with no loving woman's hand to smooth my pillow or kiss my cold forehead when the pale angel has paid his visit." Tom was much exhausted by the effort he had made, and, after giving him some stimulant, I left, promising to call again next clay. The next day I found him far worse, and so weak that it was with diffi culty I could hear what he said. His first questions were as to the whereabouts of Miss F s. I told him she was still un married, and, her father having lost all his fortune, in stocks, was earning her, living

and supporting her parents by teaching school. "Then," said Tom, "I may yet "make some amends." He then handed me; a regularly drawn up, witnessed and signed will, which left his whole fortune, outside of a few trival bequests to servants, to Miss F *s. It amounted to $150,000. Poor Tom Parker died two days after handing me the will, and was buried in New Jersey, where his father and motlior lay. • '■■ It is at his own request that the above history iB written, feeling, as he did,! th&t the world is entitled to know the truth. W.I/.E,. San, Francisco, August Bth, 1881.

Gaining Custom.

o a wine dealer's shrewd dodge. : A Dresden contemporary tells a truly remarkable story of how a young and sharp witted wine merchant in tlie Rhino district made his way to a good custom,, and ultimately to wealth. In tho city .where lie lived many other older dealers, who had been long .established and favourably known, were his rivals. Against them he could make no headway. It was of no use that he advertised the cheapness and excel lence of his wares; orders ho solicited in vain. Ho was unknown, people had no faith in his wines, and ho remained with out patrons. At last one day, almost in despair, he took up a daily paper to try by reading to kill the time which hung so heavily upon his hands. While engaged in this not very profitable employment unprofitable if the paper he read was of the average German type—he noticed among the announcements of deaths that a certain convivial old baron, who was noted for his fondness for Rhine wine, had died very suddenly. It was then that_ this bright idea—tlio idea which made Ids fortune—' came to the young man. Upon a respect able but solid-looking piece of business paper, bearing his letter head well printed, ho hastily but carefully penned to the head man a noto, in which he thanked him for his kind ordor of a few days before (never given, of course), said the wine desired hud been duly forwarded that day, and that tho price, according to the agreement between them, would be three hundred thalors. This letter, with a quantity of his best wine, ho sent to the address of the dead baron. The message and tho wine were received by the heirs and representatives of the latter, who, overjoyed at falling into a good property, paid the merchant's bill, promptly drank tho wine, nnd, doubtless out ot respect to the judgment of the baron, gave the dealer whom he seemed to have favoured an extensive order. So, little by little, the good qualities of tho wine which the young man had for sale became known, his custom increased steadily, and at last liis fortune was made. This story, which is now going the rounds of the German press, is vouched for as being founded on fact.

BITS OF FUN.

"Family secrets," says the London " Globe," " arc no secrets at all.

In Cleveland, Oliio, 5,000 irrepressible boys nnd young men carry firearms.

China has only 15 miles of telegraph. The facilities for circulating lies in that country aro limited.

A scientific editor exclaims: "What shall we drink?" He might wait until somebody asks him up.

It is a very easy matter for a person to be in two places at a time, even though those places be thousands of miles apart. One frequently hears of a man being in a strange country and home-sick.

It is said that kerosene will remove stains from furniture. It has also been known to remove the furniture, stains and all, with the stove and a red-headed servant-ghl thrown in ofttimes.

An old man-of-war sailor, who had lost a leg in tlie service of his country, became a retailc. of peanuts. He said he was ob liged to be a retailor because, having lost;a leg, he could not be a wholo sailor. ■'_'■ y''

Tho journeymen confectioners of New York say they cannot make good caiidy unless the bosses give them more sugar, and tho fellows out in Nebraska say they cannot give the girls taffy unless the Boston people givo them mo' lasses.

A Rhode Island man called a neighbour a " lantern-jawed cockroach." A suit for slander resulted, and the jury returned as follows : " Not guilty ou lantern-jawed, but way od' on cockroach, and we "find damages in the sum of three cents." !

A man praising porter said it was so excellent a beverage that it alwayb made him fat. "I have seen the time," said another, "when it always made you lean.". "When?" asked the eulogist. "Last night-^against a wall." ■ ••

A Fact.—Baker (to youthful customer, who has jjust purchased a new loaf):'"I say, this is not enough I Bread's rose." V.' C. : "Oh, has it? When did it rise?" Baker: "To-day." Y. C.: "Oh, then; I'll have yosterdny's one, please 1" >''■"'

Sceno—breakfast table. Mother reads from morning paper: "What is vinegar without a mother ?" Little M. inquires, "What does that mean?" Mother: '.It means there is what is called ' mother" in vinegar." Child remarks: " Thoro is vine? gar in mothers, sometimes." 'I •*-*.

She laid hor chock on the easy-chair back against his head and murmured, ---"HowI do love a rest ngainst your dear head, Augustus." "Do you," said he;, "it is because you love me, darling." " No,' because it is so-nice and soft." Then he lay and lay, and thought and thought.

In naming children with the expectation of a handsome present, it will prevent dis appointment to get the present first and name the child afterward. That is to say, we do not mean to name the child " After ward," but aftor the present. No, that isn't it either. But everybody knows what we mean

" Dovey," he said, "I think I was tell ing you, after I came home last night, about the necessity of some retrenchment' in our expenditures, .was I not ?" " Well, really, I've forgotten, John," she answered, non chalantly ; " turn on the phonograph and see." He turned it on and all it said was : '' Wazzer mazzer—(hie) —niozzer ? Whazze. mazzer?" ■•,'■<.•< v.

John J. Piatt, the poet, for some time Postal Money Order Clerk in the Cincinnati post-office, was discharged recently sor the alleged: reason that his handwriting isH. legible, and the rural postmaster canuot decipher his '' letters of advice." .'-.'. ■■■

Among the Chinese no relics are more valuable than the boots which have been worn by a magistrate. If he resigns and leaves the city a crowd accompany him from his residence to the gates, where his boots are drawn off with great ceremony, to be preserved in the hall of justice.

' Fashion item: "Which had you ratlier be, a twinkling star in the heavens or a comet that, with its broad train of fire, sweeps iv majestic course through unkno\yn space?" "I should prefer by all means to wear a train," said she; " but'not"in unknown space. It would never, be de-: scribed in the newspapers." I.',',': ,; ...'-.

Forms with Ghostly Faces.

TALKING WITH MYSTERIOUS APPARITIONS.

From the New York Tribune, June 29. IN tlie parlour of a pleasant house in one of the* suburban towns on Long Island assem bled one evening recently a small party, in vited to witness certain mysterious pheno mena, called spirit manifestations _by those who belicyc in the close connection of the present and tlie future life. The host was, a'prosperous New York business man, whose household consists, besides himself, of only his -wife and tyro. servants. The visitors >verc an ex-colonel from the West, a New England manufacturer, and a news paper man, all solid-looking persons of more than average avoirdupois, and: with no *ap- Searaiicc of being liable to fall victims to elusion. The "medium" was a middle aged woman from Boston, tall, slender, and delicate, having a highly sensitive nervous ' temperament, and low vital .powers. Her husband, an elderly man, was also present, the couple being guests and friends of tho family. Among the spiritualists the "manifestations" of this "medium" are ranked as the most perfect of the kiud known. A good deal has been published about them iii the journals of the sect, but the family in whose house the mediuniis now a guest naturally object to newspaper notoriety, and their name and residence are therefore not given here. V ' \ The house is a spacious villa, standing in the midst of handsome well-kept grounds. On the main floor there are two parlours, separated from the library and dining-room by a wide hall. All the rooms were lighted during the seance except the front parlour, which was separated from the back parlour by heavy curtains. The door leading from this darkened room into the lighted hall was locked, and the shutters of the windows were secured. At eight o'clock the medium came down from her room and lay upon a lounge in the dark parlour. Several shawls were placed upon her by the lady of the house, although the evening was warm. The six spectators took seats in a semi circle about twelve feet from the curtained door. First, the Lord's prayer was said by the hostess of the house, and a hymn was sung. Then a large music-box was wound and set a-going. After about ten minutes the curtains were drawn aside and there walked out a beautiful girl dressed in white, with a long lace veil thrown around her head and over her bare arms. She was greeted in the most affectionate language by the host and his wife as their daughter Lizzie who died about three years ago. The face had a curious indistinctness, and the ' eyes could hardly be seen at all, but the hands and arms looked substantial enough, and the figure advanced with a firm step, its little whiteshod feet peeping out now and then from under the long white robe. Nothing more beautiful and charming than the appearance of the girl as she glided across the room could be imagined. Her drapery diffused a delightful perfume, her long veil was managed with perfect grace, now thrown half across the face, now stretched out across the shoulders and over the arms, and now held aloft with one hand. The figure first stooped to notice some flowers on the console table, thon stepped around one side of the somi-circle of sitters and pointed to a painting of herself which stood upon an easel and returned behind the curtain. Emerging again she came forward and threw her veil over her father's head, then passed around the rear of the chairs and touched each of tho visitors on the head. Her hand was warm and of a velvety softness. As sho stood under the chandelier, where a single shaded light burned, the reporter stared hard at her face, but it still had a ghostly, indistinct appear ance. The apparition went out into the hall, entered the dining-room, returned and again disappeared behind the. curtains. Twice she held one curtain far aside so that the company could, plainly see the medium lying on tho lounge enveloped in her multi tudinous wrappings. A third time the girl appeared. She beckoned her mother to come to the curtain. A whispered conver sation was carried on between the two which the others could not hear. To the host and wife this was evidently as much their daughter as though she were still alive. She came to all the sittings, they said. Their affectionate delight at seeing her could not have been feigned. In the course of the next hour ami a half eight other figures came out of the curtained door. Two were recognised by the Western colonel, one by the New England gentle mand, and two by the reporter. The . remaining three were strangers to all the company. AU were women out one. The figures varied considerably in height, size, gait, and manner; and the garments, though invariably white, were of different form and style. All the faces, though plain . enough for recognition, had a curious, im palpable, ghostly look, and in most cases the eyes were closed. One of the most definite countenances was that of a.relative Of the reporter, a woman of strong features aud strong character, who died at the age of 70. She came out to where he snt, took him by the hand, beckoned him to come to the curtaih, whispered two words in his ear in a strange, gasping voice, gave him her cheek to kiss as she used to do in life, and lowered the curtain. ' The male apparition appeared to be a young Philadelphia journalist who died a year ago. He showed great delight at seeing his old friend tho. reporter, grasped his hand, and patted him on the cheek, but after a vain effort to speak, nt the opening of the curtain, disappeared. A description of the ghostly visitants of the other members of the circle might be monotonous. They were all white-robed women, some young, some-middle-aged. They nodded, waved their'arms, clasped their hands as if iti prayer, and extended them as in a benediction.' The colonel knelt At the feet of. an'apparition whom he called' Katie, and she put her hands On his head and when he rose1 kissed his forehead. The New Eng land'man was greatly moved by one of his ghostly friends; he, too, knelt. ; After wards, he followed her to the cUrtain, and holding it a little aside whispered for a little while to the form within. Nearly every one of the apparitions were careful in coming out or in returning to hold the curtains so as to show the. recumbent form of the medium oh the lounge. The reporter,' though, greatly interested in the whole per formancey was naturally most closely obser vant* of the forms which claimed his acquaintance. One of them, and perhaps the'mOst distinct and beautiful of all tho apparitions, was a girl* with light brown hair and a singularly sweet and dignified face. : The skirt of her white dres3 was ornamented with golden bars and discs. In her hand she held a lace veil, apparently no longer than a pocket-handkerchief. She stood before the curtain and began to manipulate the veil. "See, she is weaving liice, exclaimed the lady of the house. The veil grew longer and longer until it wds'about five feet square. A silver band ornamented the border. The girl came forward into the room and beckoned the reporter to advance and kneel before her. He dropped on one knee, looked long and steadily at her face, but could not recognise it. She put both hands uponhis head. "Who arevoii?" he asked, but got no reply. '"Have 1 ever seen you before 2" A shake of tho head gave a negative answer. Taking the v<jil from her arm the. apparition* threw,.it ;over'the questioner's ; head—so that it en :

tirely enveloped him. Then she clasped her hands aa if in prayer, and again placed them on his head. She removed the veil, add he rose and took her hand,—a small, soft, white hand. Her bare arms were very white and beautifully formed. Her _ face, although the features were definite, did not have a life-like expression, and the large eyes were too nearly closed for their colour to be distinguished. Her garments were of a wonderfully fine texture and gave out an oxquisite perfume. As she retired to [the curtain the reporter followed her, begging her to tell her name. She stood for about a minute, holding the curtain one side and partly concealed by it and allowing one hand to rest in his grasp. Then she whispored "Yourguardian," and, after an affcctionfl.te salutation, withdrew ;her hand and viuiis- The last figure which appeared, also'that of a young woman, did hot come outside the curtain, someone said" The power is almost exhausted." The circle waited 10 minutes, but nothing more came. A moaning sound summoned the lady to the assistance of the medium, who was found under her wrap pings on the lounge. It was perhaps, a quarter of an hour before she fully Came out of'her trance.' Meanwhile the visitors went into the dining-room and talked over the phenomena tq satisfy themselves they had all witnessed the same tilings, so that no one might think he had been the victim of a delusion not shared by the others. Two of the visitors returned to the city, the other remained over night. As he sat in his room lulled by the lapping of the waves against the sea wall that bordered the lawn and the sighing of the night wind in the trees, the whole experience seemed like a strange and beautiful phantasmagoria, of perfumed robes' white arms, waving veils, and grace ful gliding forms. Recalling by an effort aU the details of the strange per.onnance, he said to himself, " This can be accounted for in one of three ways only : first, it may have been a gross deception—a masquerade of living people dressed up to represent ghosts. This explanation is hardly tenable, though. The character and respectability of the family are against it. Then, where could they employ nine persons to represent spirits, and how did they all get into the darkened room ? Besides, there was some thing unsubstantial about all the forms. They did not look like so many living people decked out in gowns and white veils, A second explanation is that the spectators were in some way mesmerised and thought they saw what they did not see. The history of mesmerism, delusions, unconscious cerebration, trance, and similar phenomena does not, however, furnish any example of threee healthy, robust men sitting for two hours, in the apparent full possession of their senses and fancying they see and speak with a series of ghostly forms, whereas in fact they see nothing. The third explana tion is that the forms were what they pro fessed to be—the apparitions of men and women whose spirits have left the earth.

How Mines are Worked.

Laramie Boomerang.

"I wish you would tell me about the way men get gold and silver out of a mine, my dear, 'said a lady in East Laramie the other evening to her husband, as he peeled off his coat and sat down in three chairs for the evening. " Well, what kind of mine do you wish to hear about; gold or silver, quartz or piacer, deposit or refined lead ?" "Well, all of them briefly. I want .to know whether they scrape off the gold from the under side of the ground, and wash the. dirt off in the creek, or how it is." '•Well, they don't scrape off the under side of the ground exactly. There you are in error. In placer mining they have to collect the dust and pan it out with a gold pan. " Oh! they have to use a gold pan, do they? That must be what makes,mining so expensive. Does the pan have to be solid gold?" " No. It isn't made of gold, it is simply to pan gold, hence the name. Iv quartz mining the prospector finds first the fioat, and tracing it to the lead he begins to dig for the purpose of ascertaining how exten sive it is and what it will assay. "Oh 1 that is it. I thought they first bored into the ground with a pay streak until they find the shaft, and then they drifted for the assessment, and when they found that, they just put a blast in the indi cations and salted the dump. Sow, it seems that you don't do that way. You follow up the micieious slate till you strike the bias fold. Then you see if you can find a colour that matches with the copper stained trilobites that you prospect, and you—" '•', "No, I must stop you there; you* are getting a little off the vein. You probably have the right idea, but you are using terms that are not correct. After they get the wall of the rock on the dump,' and pinch out the night shift, they salt the contract and blast the vertical chilblain. Then they drift for the blossom rock, baled hay and poverty, till they strike the vari cose vein. After that, it is a short job to put on the bios folds and sample tlie stock holders. Where the bituminous duplex bisects the brocaded porphyry and scollops the gouge With cross-eyed shirrings and bicarbonate of bilious colic, interlaced with moire I antique wads of gray copper and free milling erysipelas. It is not always tlie case, however,' for indirectly or in versely, perhaps more, or sometimes less, as the case may be, and still we might or might not, and also besides, if not always, as' [already described, perhaps, yet I wouldn't be positive of anything which might be doubtful." . .Then he laughed a cold, hard laugh, and went to bed. If husbands would always explain these things to their wives how much pleasanter our homes would be. ;:' "

Pairing.—A novel;system ot courtship is proposed by an American Women's Right Journal, as a means of placing men and women on equality. The marriageable youths of both sexes, according to their plan, would assemble at stated intervals, each one would write on a slip of paper the name-of the person he or she would, like to marry, the paper would then he submitted to two discreet individuals, and if.any;two were found to have declared a mutual regard, the fact would be announced, and the marriage would follow. The remaining papers vrould be immediately destroyed. : ...; ■~..

The summer resorts, it is said, are gener ally paying particular attention to drainage. Jones, who knows what he is talking about, says they always did- pay particular atten tion to drainage. They drained his wallet pretty effectually wherever he has been.

. He entered the kitchen and found his wife anointing a pan preparatory to crib bing the cake mixture init. "Now, in r deed, you are my wife," said he, " for hath it not been said that the wise will find life butters pan." Of course she got a divorce.

" The trouble is," said a Nantucket land lord who, was disposing of patrons, "that everybody wants windows looking all over the creation. They won't be satisfied,with two points of the compass; they want three, and now and then they want four."

H you cannot go to Long Branch, young man, console yourself with the memory of the time when your worthy progenitor used to bring, the long hranch to you.

Forty Cats and an Old Gentleman.

St. James' Gazette., ..'..'■.. ... At Naples (our correspondent at Rome writes) a very eccentric old gentleman'met with his death! the other day/ Signor Navarro, who,was .70 years ,of age, retired from the world feonie tihuS ago, and'^hu himself up, -without any attendants, ia! a house he owned'hear the Toledo, in.com pany with forty: cats and a large, assortment of toys, ,Tho ; toys ho added to .eveiy day, for he devoted the -chief part of; a1 rather large income to keeping up'an army of leaden soldiers and-dolls; but the forty cats, which he called his Academicians, never exceeded the prescribed number.1' On the demise of one ot the number the' cotpse was placed oma bier surrounded by lighted tapers, and the dolls were marshalled'in procession behind it, escorted, by the metal soldiers, and presided over 'by Si<Tior Navarro as chief mourner and priest. Irhe next day the cat was either buried: near dtie of his villas in. the vicinity: of Naples or stuffed and kept,-'on his terrace.iin a lew days' timo the deffrnct member's chair being filled by another. "immortal."' - " Finding his cats insufficient to keep him company, he lately added a couple of par rots to his menagerie,l and had he lived much longer!would probably have ended by having as many parrots'as cats. But one night a nephew, whei had interested motives, in keeping arii eye on his uncle, noticed! smoke, issuing from one of his rOoms., ii He hastened to knock at the door, but the old man, who hated him as a rival to his'cats,, ordered Mni away, i Instead, however, he went for the fire engines,'but it was too late. When the door was burst open there Was nothing left but Signor Kavarro's half-cOnsumed body, the* remains of the forty Academicians, a few*frizzled featliers, and. burning stacks iof toys, atfd worst or all for the nephew, who is the Heir, the securities the old man kept in thehouse had been taken from the safe—it is gup. posed by tho owner, when at last he at temp ted, to escape-r-and had been burned with.him,', , id :*.* '*.;-,*; .- .:!*.;;!?.,

It is learned that sharks are very fond of cats as food. Now let somebody _invent a method of teaching'sharks to climb oyer woodshed roofs and backyard fences.;. , Old lady Squoggs don't belieye the mooU is inhabited. "For," saysshe, "what-on airth becomes of, folks in, the moon when there's nothing left of it but. a litUe streak?" ' , . .: * ..'- ■'■' V . V A good many people who? have the painted or worsted worked motto, "God Bless Our Home" posted up in their houses ought to hire a man to examine the sewer pipes. A very small boy can get outside of a very large watermelon in a very small space of time, but it takes a very large doctor.to hariiibhize tlie two. '/, ', . The angel of midnight—The woman who opens the street door for her husband when he is trying to' unlock the bell knob, and thenlets him sleep, on-the floor. .. ~_ *>' You can judge,something:of a .man's character by the umbrella he totes. If it is a cheap, cotton one, you may conclude that he is honest but not very sharp. "Aunty, is it proper to say 'this.ere,' 'that air?'"' "Why, of course hot." "Well, I don't know whether, it is proper to say it or riot, but I feel cold in this ear from that air." -- • • ■ r

star Saturday KpptiMfliM, October i, lm.

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__a____s__g WIZAKD OIL; is a, distinguißbing name, given by Frank Weiston to his Medicine, which is composed of various Vegetable Oils, Healing Gums, Rare, Balsams, Roots,- • Barks ami Herbs, (found only on tbe Great Amer ican Continent,) forming tbe Chemical Compound universally known as: "Weston's Wizard OiL ~.,,,,*,-,„*, , , - This Medicine was first introduced, by Frank Weston, to the Australian, Public in 1864, and the wonderful an* mysterious influence it exhibited in stopping the most exoruciating Fains, Acnes and Infirmities, in a >few days after its use is well known. Its mirac ulous pbwer in rising the Bed-ridden, Crippled,RheumaticXJ"euralgic,divesfr ing the system of all. suffering from pain, inflammation ' and weakness, curing in a few days the sickness and diseases of months and years giving instantaneous Ease and Comfort in jS ordinary pains and aches, either inter nal or external, all cramps, spasms, congestions, &c., is well known. Westonte i Wizard Oil has the power to distribute itself over every part ot the body internally as well as externa ally, curing the most inveterate cases of tumors, ulcers, sorofula. diseased, liver, piles, swellings, wounds, &o.,&c< KEMPTHORNE, PBOSSER '.'.'&' C 0.,) ■ '' '.*.'-■ ': ' AGENTS, '!'■'■■ ■;- "-]' AUGjKL AXp.Yl' • I*^ T .1. UE • STATEM-i; NT. I By going to,. ( ' t -,' -,\ V ' fl WALTER BAY NE, I Kyber PASs'GEifßß'in'FußNisHikG Stoke D You can havo Furniture, Hardware, and a U General Assortment of Useful Articles, at R and BELOW Town Prices. Funerals con- H ducted on moderate charges;11 Caskets of H all sizes kept in. Stock. Prompt attention B given to all .Orders. , ,;.*.•.;■,...■,..'..'*•' B BG R 0 C X E B-■'/ ... BOOT AND.SHOE MAKER, 61, Victoria Street. '■■• All kinds of Ladies' and Gentlemen's Boots made to order of the best quality. Town and Country Orders promptly executed.