Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 27, 1873, Page 11

THE CHICAGO DALY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, JULY 97, is7d. PERSIA. The Shah as a Court. Ruler---His Toheran as o Rosidence---Tho Per~ gian Women, Manners and Customs=--Corcimo- nlous Visiting---Citics of Refuge. Pards (July 7) Correspondence of the New York Herald, The Uttlo dark man in spoctaclos, about whom 5o much fuss hns boon made, was, and still is likely to bo for n short time, very torriblo por- son 1ndoed upon his own territory. Thors is no ona to opposo him—no middlo class, no nobility, no rich mon ; for the theory of tho Porsian law that His Majesty in tho universal hoir of ovorybody in his dominions, Everyone who holda suy sort of powor or authority iy morely a croature of tho Blnh's broath, Ilo could mako ® Primo Minister out of a wator-carrior by n word, and hurl him down ag ocnsily. His wrath s altogother a surprising thing to modern mations. Now and then Lo causocs somo solemn- looking Khan to bo soized and tied with his faco toa donloy's tall. In this pitiablo plight ho is marched about.the capital, and his mouth in fillod with human oxcrement at overy stroot- corner, . Few of tho publio mon In Porsia hinve escapsd tho stick, and thoy actually soom to likeit. It is o torriblo punishment, conslsting of blowa with stout sticks, wiolded by stout arms, and ap- plied to tho soles of tho foet. It makes tho very nnils of thom fall off, and obliges tho sufferor to koop his bed (or rathor his carpot) in a recum- bent position for weeks or months. Novorthe- loss, it carries no disgrace with it, and n Porsian Ministor, onco spoaking oven In private with o British Envoy, eaid, meaningly, **ThoShah isa vory groat King; a vory groat King, indeod, Look at my foot 1" Tlhoro was not & uail upon either of thom, ¥ Not long ago tho Blnh used himeolf to sit in . Judgment u.. ¢ tho fashion of David and Solo- mon. Bya simple horizontal motion of ‘tho =ight hand biforderod people's hoads to bo cu oft by tha dozen, and one of his courtiora snga~ ciously obsorved that ho always folt his hond to Xnow If i€was reslly on whon Lo quitted tho royal presonce. Ono day, however, when tho TRusgisn: Ambassador recoived an audience to e M dey-his credontials, & bloody head rolled ander his feot and so startled him that ho ‘begged such sights might not be_forced on him again. Binco thon tho Shah does his killing pri- vatoly—but ho doos it. Somo yonrs ago ho had roulprit cut fnto forty plocos. Thore is roally 1o Iaw in Porsia but his will, and_this enorgotio sovereign 18 tho potentato whom Europo has de- lighted to honor. THE COURT OF PERSIA, . ThoPersian court ia tho most brilliant in Asla, .aud if any one desires to know more procisely what that may mean, in the prosent day, it may Do briofly describod. When n foroign envoy in nbout & dey's journey from tho ecapital ho Lalts ‘his earavan, and fifey-throo of tho principal ofi- corsof tho court go on horeoback to welcomo him and to conduct him to Tehioran, Thoy aro very woll mounted, but will not sell any of "their Dost horaos to tho Franke. In Porsia s man's xank is ostimated by the size and beight of his Lorse. ‘The Porsinn magnates all rido tall horses of tho Turcoman breed, splendidly cnpari- sonod, with golden bits and saddle-cloths wrought with embroidory and precious atones. Euch magnato Las o cloud of armod servauts wounted bohind him, and theso follows gallop round and round in circlos to show off "their dorsomanship, Their horges' tails and their own beards aro ofton dyed a bright red, like to noth- ing in nature, Their bair is also dyod from their earliost youth with a mixture of indigo and hon- na. Most of tho court dignitariss wear tho star of the Order of tho Lion and the Sun, & decora- tion first inventod by Six John Maleolm, an English Gonoral, Whon the new Ambnesador has been duly esoorted to his residenco mccording to custom, tho courtiors sond bim prosonts of fruit, monoy, loaves of sugar, ten, and sour crosm. Bhortly aftorwards he is admitted to tho presonce of tho King of Kings. The Bhah recoives him in o ram- Dbling, desolato building, vory little botter than s barn in & civilized country, and says o fow words, of courso, to him, his Ministors lookivg gravely on the whilo, Nothing of importauce passos at tho intorviow, which lasts about ton minutes, and thon tho Ambassador roturns on horsoback, ss ho camo, to his own resi- denco, Ho does mnot seo much of the Shah nfior that, unloss ho requests an nudionco on 8OO spucfial occasion. There are no court fos- tivitios, no iuvitations to dinner excopt upon somo great ovent. It must be adwitted that when such invitations do como they are well worth uccopting. Wbhon the Shal proclaimed his second son heir to tho throne there was a very graud banquet. All the diplomatio corpa wero pregont, and foastod with the Ministore in aroom apart, tho Shah dining alono, liko a suporior olns:), a5 hois, After dinner—which took placo in brond doylight at an early hour, 2nd which, by tho way, Was abomiuably bad, and sorved in the Russian fashion—tha dlylomuo sorps wero entertainod with a Porsian play, per- formed ontirely by men, and which was thomost astonishing exhibition conceivable, Nothing probably had beon scen like it out of Persia Bince the deatruction of Gomorrha, A good deal of wino, especially of indifforent champagne, was drunk urinfi those procoodings, and toasts woro proposed and honored in tho same way o8 elae- whoro, Then thero was o brilliant display of firoworks; but the Porsians aro an early peoplo, und all tho court festivities woro ovor at about 10 o'clock, If tho court of Yorsis, howover, vionra but a dingy look on gala-days, it ia still moro dingy at other times, 'Thore ‘I8 no eourt drong, no uplendor belonging to it. Whenover tho Bhah sonds for ono of hia subjeots, that subjoxt 15 bound to rush off at once to the royal prosence, whatover he may bo doing, and courtiors appearout of broath and covered with dust from the hoste they have made to oboy the royal mandato, ‘Fho expenses of tho Shal's household are not great. He can hardly spond moro than £25,000 or £30,000 SSIGO,GW) o year for tho support of himself nnd wiyos, Wwith all their attondants, His anderoon (or harem) is wvory paorly kept, and the lndies have boen known to complain that thoy have not enough to oat. They aro aléo ill-drossed, The Bhah himself is & sparo eater, A little rico and roast, with somo whiorbot nnd & coupla of stews, compriso the wholo of his daily faro. In his own country ho drank no wino, but las gomo to tho bad in this mupua‘ siuco ho weont abroad, Itis £aid that he got his English doctor, Bir Jaso&n Dickson, to order him formeonted Ilquom madi- einally, and tho Dootor has just boon kaightea for his rendiness to understand a hint, As the Shah has beon reiguing now sinco 1848, aud spends go littlo mouoy, he muet have immonso savings, for bis rovenucs, of which Lo has the nancontrolled disposal, oxcead £3,000,000 yearly. ‘Ho i8_very nvaricious and grnaphm. Thoro must bo an onormous tronsuro hidden awny somowhoro, Porhaps the Russians will got it whon thoy sack Teheran, as thoy cortatuly will do, somo day or other. TEHERAN A8 A RESIDENCE, It would be diffloult to imagine & moro_deso- late place of abodo than tho capital of Poraia. It ia & siraggling collection of housos, raroly oro thau oue story high, and thoro is no part of thocity, if itoan'bo enllod acity, which de- gorves tho namo of a atreot or a square, ‘Thoro aro no places of publio amusemont, no buildinga of m{ mportanco. I'lio monoy whigh should or might have gone to make Teheran habitable s sll in the Shal's pockot. Indeed, it would be in the highout degroo daugerous for a Porsian folivo in buch o manuer as to indleate to his Goverament that he might bo aqueoxed with good roaults, Now and thon = sly pargon treats himself to soft carpetn and delicate food, and he hangs n fow flawed and encrally worthloss jewels about his womankind ; ut he takos oaro to prosorve an appoarance of the utmost squalor outside his house, in order that his luxurious mode of lifo may at lenst aitract uo attention. hero is indecd no wuy in which money can bo spout in T'ehoran, ‘Thoro is no soclal lifo thoro—no partios, no balls, no urk or prater or promonade. Whon a man Em bnufimnfuw sbawls and made thom iuto Jlang tobos, when Lo hau got togothor half n dozon horsos and 8 fow wives, thoro is practical- 1y tho ond of his tothor. 1o my wmultiply his fownlo outubliskment if ha choosad to do 8o0; but ho vory soldom doou choose to do it, because n oustom oxiats of taking wives upon lease, or Muarpying for o definito poriod. ~ Concubinage, in tho souss of a disgracelul intoroourso botweon tid'soxon, fa almost unknown in Lorsla, Tho ometan religion allowsof four wivea to — bogin withy And thoto wiven aro dlvorceablo upon onsy couttitions and for o varloty of ron- sons, 'Tlion n Peraian may contract a8 many #1ogalized " marrieges as he pleases. That in to nn?' ho may tako wp Indioa at short dates and got xid of them for n tyifling pocuniary snorifico, as soon ay thoy beeome too numerous, or ho hins not room onough in his houso for them, or whonevor their presonco bocomes In ony way inconveniont to him. ‘Thorefore his o#- tablishment froquently changes without in- nrm\nhnf mnturln‘l\y in "the number of persons whom Lo has to maintmn at the gnmo time. Thero arrangomonts, of conrao, hnve n markod offoct in \\‘Anfieuhlg family ties nnd uttorly do- wtroy bereditary rank and property, A Persinn fnutlnmm may somotimes count his childron by ho hundred, and ono of tho predecossors of tho prosout Shnks left nonely four hundred of Liy rocoguized oftspring whon ho died. Bomo of thom mado their way 1 the world, and becamn Prince QGovernors of provinces; some wandered about the country as uttor hoggars, Porsian childron, oo a rulo, have no claim on thoir pa rents, aud tumblo up anyhow with fow clothes and noeducation, which materlally diminishes tho oxponses of a family man, A Porsian genorally marrics at about 14 yonrs of agé, or ag soon 1y Lo arrives at the ago of pnbnrtfi. If his family aro in good circumstances nnd caro nuythiug nbout him his mothor probably presentahim with ono of her mnids, and thore is a logalized mar- ringe, termiuating at will hotween thom, Tho Tesult of theso early marringes i vory notico- able. The passions buing nllowed abrolutely frce sway, and leng noither unduly oxeited and pro- maturely forced by high living and strong drinks, or ropressed by any congidorations of conventional morality or lacal enstom, produco a raco of men and women nontly all of tho snmo hoight and size. A naturnl " phonomenon is vory seldom scon among thom. 'Thero aro fow or uo very tall or very shorl poople ; sickly and deformed childron, childron with six fingors or six toos, children subjoct to fity or infirmities nro simost unhoard of. A Persian has no nced to hoard up money to Iu'avidn for his family, Ho knowe that they will atways find enough rice and molons to entisfy their lmnger, sud he loavea tho rost to chance. 1fe mey dress thom, and hio wives nlso, if lio Plonnax to amuso him- gelf, in somo scraps of red and yollow sntin ; bub thora is no publio rivalry in dross or aquipngo bo- twoon familios, 'Thoro are no whool-carringes to flaunt fino fonthers nhout ; no tailors' or mil~ Tinora® bills to pay. If & Porsian loves to dross his wives gnyly, ie only does so for his own sat- isfaction ; nud thoy remain, novertholcss, shut up, or nro supposod to romain shut up, In tho sudoroon or women's apartment, far from tho oy of onterpricing man. As 2 matter of fact, Lowovor, PENSIAN LADIES are torrible gadabouts, aud jn this rospect the prosont n remarkable conlragt to tho Lurkish women. Even at Constautiuople, whero thoro is to Inrgo an influx of forcigners, n love affair betweon a Frank and o Turkish woman is almost it not quito impossible; and whenevor it does hnppon%y somo oxtrnordiuar{‘ chanco (such ag anabuso” of confidonco on tho part of & Frauk- ish E}.\yslalnn who ey have been admilted into the linrem), it 18 nearly always followed by mur-~ dor, ‘Tho Persian Indios, howoyer, have no scru= ples at allin their doalings with foreignors,and no soonor has a pmart, ynunlilntmuhn orIndian ofticor arrived at Ueheran than ho is pursucd by lettors thrust {nto his hands in tho stroots, and declar- ing in tho choicest langungo that ho is o penrl, o omegranato, n roso, & star, and that a lady who s dying for him would bo glad of s shawl worth fifty tomans, and burus to havon pnvg.tu inter- view with him. Somo of tho Shah's wives play thoso tricks, for shawls aro among the ourront coing of Yorsia, aud the morchants buy them backat o fixed prico, scarcely differing mora from the firat costof thom than a Ironch or Austrian bank noto sftor it has passod through the hands of o money changor. Tho po- olical love-letter thorefore morely means that the sender {s in ijmmodinto want of sbout five and twonty pounds, and is ready to come to any torms for it. Now, if the yonng nt- tacho or Indinu officer, boing moved by too much outh and runfllnfi, or by divors romantic fancios, disposed to fall violently in lovo with a lady whom ho has nover scon, upon tho strongth of an opistlo which has boen ponned by her nieerza (a sorvant kopt for litorary Rurpoun),_thu is commonly what happons: The first timo ho goos ho will meot an old woman, who will sign tohim to follow her into some unfroquontod art of tho town, and prosently the lady who 6 bent upon hig conquest will pass Dy, rapidly uncover hor faco and disappear, = Aftor that Lo will bo able to recognize hor, and whon ho comos hiome in the ovening from his consti- tutional ride he will probably flud crouching pomowhoro about hin stable’ a bundlo of ragy containing & fomale voice, which whinos pitoouu- 1y for almy, IHis sorvants, who know vory well what i3 going on, will tell Lim mystoriously that this is & poor beggar woman, end she will follow bim into his houso, crying aloud for charity. Ouco insido, howovar, n singular chaunge takes place in her appoarance. Bho throws off her IAgE A8 nmldenl(y a8 Columbino in thoe transfor- mation acono of o pantomimo and stands beforo him confessed ns tho lady of {ha lotter, who wants o shawl of dofinito valuo, Sho is usunlly o quoer customer, aud opona procoedings by Iny- ings hor hands on eyery article of portable prop- orty within roach, intonding to carry it off with her, B8ho is littlo bottor than a young ravhge in wido satin trowsers, and nearly unclothed to tho waist. Bheis paintod all over. Hor oyobrows aro artificially blackoned into thosizo and shapo of half moons a8 big as the rims of o dollar and half an inch wido. Moro blacking has beon forced undor hor oyoballs, er bair is dyed either tho color of " ink or a Lright red, Iler hands, foeet, flugor nails and toe nails aro stained o doep nut-brown by henna. Ior lips aro painted acarlot, and she probubly wears sopue Ylnlfl beads and sham jowelry. Bho can smlt:.:n i ttlo, and usunlly doos ko vory oddly with hot’ oyos shut. She can chattor a gront doal, but sho Lins no mannars, no accomplishments. At homo elio pasace her time in eating sweotmoats, Jmllm about hor dressos, aud torturing her maldy wit] red-hot pineors whonevor sha has a fancy for it. Vory ofton this craze comes upon bLor, and sho doos not olways confino hor oporatious to her maids. Not long ngo, a bng of gold tomans was missed from {ho houso of o European who had taken a Porsian woman on loasa. o chargod hor with tho theft which she hud not committed, and sho sunpectod ono of his sorvants, who wa# equally suiltless, DBoing dotormined to clear horself, owover, ho enticed tho suspected worvant into lier apartments, and shortly aftorward horrible yolla proceeded from it. She and hor maids Lad thrown the man down, trussed him liko a fowl, and then placod n pan of burning charcoal be- sido him, in which thoy heatod o pair of tongs. With this instrumont thoy -bogan to take piocoa oul of his body, adJuring him to confoss as thay id so. Heo was at last got out of their hands moro doad than alivo, - Peorsianomon aro kept vory much like dogs in Europe. A room or an apartment i allotted to them. Thoy are left alone there and fed scantily at fixed hours, All tho wives of on establieh- ment nover livo together, for thoy would cer- talnly Sght if they ald so, Somotlmes, but vory rarely, twoof thom ngreo woll ouough to keop company, but it is gouorally found .uafor aud quiotor to lodgo thom apart. ‘I'ho bost Porsian hounes aro little botter than tho stables at an inn. ‘The worst aro more abom- inablo than tho konnels of o dog fancior. ‘Fhey aro o VERY DINTY PEOPLE, Thoy have no domestio couvenionces ; no win- dows, no doors that will shut. ‘The housos ure usnafly built of n kind of friabio mud, and some- timos a room or two of thom is washed awasy at a timo by a heavy rain ; and tho walls aro liablo to bo flrst split and then ahaken down by oarth- quakes, which are vory froquont all ovor Porsin, T'he furniture used by the richost peoplo is vory moan and seanty. A fow cushions and carpots, & fow door ourtains, a fow lnoldur glussos, o littlo orockery, mako up tho sum of it.” horo aro no tablos, 1o obairs, no bedstoads, no wardrobos, uo pictures or ornaments, though somotimes tho whitowashed walls are pmull{ painted. Evory one, from tho Bhah to tho muloteor, squats on his hams and cats with his fingors, Thoy have no fixed hours for lylng down or rising u», Thoy are awako at all houra and asloop at all hours, During tho winters, which are very sovero, thoy may be gonerally found rolied up ‘liko dormico, nour a pan of charconl, andin the summor thoy never seem to hiave dono with a wator-pipo or a molon, Evory house is as full a8 & rabbit war- yon with servants, and the servants of thoso ser- vauts. ‘Tho mastor of tho houso calla thom all Indiscriminatoly *badja,” which signifios **chil- dren,” ‘hongh thoro ia o sovial lifa consiuting of balls and diuner partios in tho Persizn capi- tal, thoro lu o great deal of OEREMONIOUS VISITING ; end Porsian visits aro intorminablo, lnsting throo or four hours at a strotch, Tho oatimution in whioh & guost Is held Ia markod by tha longth of timo tho host retaing lim, and ko is craimed with swootmenty and delugod with toa beforoe ho Juatlowod to dopart, if o person of nur conso- quence, Firat comes o water-pipo with s gold and {u\volud mouth-piece, which the guost usually brings with him, and which in prosontod by ono of tho flve or wix oor- vyants who accompany him on lis visits, A unfor attacho or an Indian leutonnnt of native nfuntry would hardly gfo abroad with Joss than fivo attondanty, Aftor tho first knloon, or wator- pipe, ton s werved, momatimos in vory dolicuto porcelain cups ; then sweotments made of gum sud sugar, colored with the juice of the mulon or the pomegrauato, Yhey are vory good. Aftor them comos more tea and moroe plpe. A visitor of consoquonce I soldom let off till ha has drmnk at lonst four cupa of strong tos with- out milk, milk boing a rare commodity in I'ersla, aud poldom taken in n liquid form, the visitor Is & Frank he has no sooner loft tho houso of tho Parstan who haw recelved him with such extravagant domonstrations of rospoct than the eup from which ho has drank ia broken, bocauso his 1ipa aro supposod to have defiled it, and the earpel upon which he wad seated is hung out In the nir to purify or huddled away out of sight Ul pome othor Tramk comes to uaa it ngain. Monntime tho Fruid, unconsclous of tha alhorrenco with which ho fn viewed by tho fanatio. Bhutes wround lim, probably ‘agi- nidors himself o very mh} ity moan {u- doed. An ho pnesos through ‘tho bazanrs ho fs hommed in by his morvanta. Threo of thom procods im and two walk bo- hiid, Thoy all enrry sticks, and tho sorvants who welk boforo hiim enll out in a terrible voleo, “8ahibl Bahib! Sahib]" and ply thelr sticks Drigkly on tho lvctl shopkeopors’ shonlders to cloar the way for hin. Moroovor, it must ho obgorved that only n vory small ewell, indeod, will walk about wirh only fivo sorvants, or condeseond to walk at all. Tho Bhal somotimes rides abroad with 16,000 hordo ; and whon ono of his provinces has dis- lensell him lo and l]m{ travel down to it )y onsy elnges and eat it up. Thoy lit- orally consumo ovory odiblo thing that thoy can wring or torture out of the population, and when all tho offendors nro reduced to & state of wiar- vatlon thoy ride nway again. An ordinary I'er- sinn official, riding out to gardon within sight ot the capital, will often have as many as n hun- dred mounted and armed followers with him s and whon o Kohn pays a visit the nolghborhond of bis hout's houys looks like an oncampmont. All the splendor of tho 'ersinng is contined to hovsos, gorvantu, and water-pipos. Tifo'in Porein, aud especinlly in the capital, In athing which should bo tuken coolly. It is nn awful ordoal for a business man in o huery, for if ho wants so small o thing ns’a now bolt 1o Lig daor tho chances aro ton to ona that his chief butlor will consult a judicinl astrologor to as- cortain that it is o lucky day Deforo having it mado; andif the smith who is at last sont for to put it on should happon to meet an old womn- an or o squinting man or £ rod-linired man whon he s sotting out to porform tho job, Iie will aa- suredly turn back again aud wait for & zood omen.” Tiko most godiess and dissolute peoplo, tho Porsiaus aro ° EXTREMELY BUPERATITIOUS, and althongh, sa a xulo, tiiey do not belleso in God, thoy do" beliove very devoutly in tho dovil, and in bogies, giants, and supernatural np‘mnr- nncos, Thus the gutes of tho capital are painted all over with rude drawings of monstors, intondod to {righton nway besieging army, ant thoy doubtless would Liayo the effact of striking consternaiton into tho very souls of Asiatio invadors, Thero are grifling, and dragous, aud shapoloss eroatures, with many heada and oyes, among theso military devices, It is robablo that the mannors and customs of the Porslana huve changed vory little sinco the time of Cyrus, It ia truothat thoy neither know how to draw tho bow or upeak tho truth, thers being noither bows nor truthintho country, Dut, possibly, tho deseription formorly given of thom was meroely n romantie and friondly one. Thoy wero and are bold horsemen, froo livors, and gront braggarts. : CITIER OF EEFUGE. About two losgues from Teheran is a city of refugo, and thoro aro soveral othor cities of refugo in Porain, Thore a murdor oran offender against tho Government may take sanctuary and considor himself out of danger, unless o has vory powerful enomice. IHo muat rosido thoro in closo Liding_howover, and mover von- {uro boyond cortain limits until tho death of tho high priost who happoned to be in oftico when Lo first took sanctuary. Then Lo mmy como out, and is considercd absolved from his offonscs, unls#® it 18 worth the while of auy privato onomy to punish him. Murder in ordinary cases may be atoned by a moncy fine, but it sometimes happens that tho rolatives of tho murdered mnu, who are his 2udgos, will not accept compeusation ; and then hey are authorized to put Lim to death in tho samo mannor a8 ho killed his victim. Tho be- havior of tho relatives of murdered men is some-~ timen horribly bloodibirsty. Some time ago, not very long, the son of u tailor was murdered; his throat was out for a fow silver coins which Lo carried about with him, and in due courso the murdorer was found out. Ilo had made monoy and .bocome o porsonago of somo consoquenca, 80 lio offored any terms to tho tailor to buy him- self off, but the tailor would in no wiso liston to jim, Mo cut that murderer's throat, imbrued his bnuds in the murdorer's blood, and then gnflpod out, *Now my henrt i3 cool.” The Persinns are oxtromely fond of pictur~ cHquo Innfiun 0, Upon' the wholo, por- haps, it {8 hardly safo to irust in the protec- tion of clty of rofugo. A fugilive ia vory ofton kidnapped, "and various dovices &ro adopted to catel him by any ono who really wants to catch him. But there is iho city of rofugo, with a mosque having a gilt dome, which looks protty in tho sunshino, and it is kopt up as a Persina institution in the same manuer as among tho anciont Israclites, GuENVILLE MunRray, e i A SHANGHAI DENTIST. Thrilllng Description of Mooth«Cars pontering as Practiced in China, From the Cincinnati Commeretal, Dr, Willinm C, Eastlack, o practiciug dontisk of Bhanghai, China, made a professional visit with the Dra, Taft of this city, yenterday, on his way from tho ‘“Land of Flowers" to tho Eaut aud England. Dr. Enstlack has beon practicing dentistry for th last fittcon yoars in China, but says that, with tho oxcoption of n fow porsons of ravk nnd distinotion who sought his sarvicos, the *Celestials " havo no undorstanding nor ap- preciation for dontistry. 'I'ho native dentista are the merost charlatans, and practico as magicians and curo alls, They in~ eort. artificial tooth filled out of cuben of tho feoth of the soa-horso, which aro kopt in placo by copper-wiro wrappings or fastonings to the adjacont natural teoth, end charge sbout threo conts per tooth for the aporation, “Pooth aro oxtractod by o hocus-pocus process which the dontal Imposter cally * ch‘;h!ng up.” Tho method of extraction ig this : The dentint applios to tho gums of tho troublosomo tooth o whito powder, represented to bo the salt oxtract- ed from the swoat of a horse, Dr. Kastlack alough, whon tho tooth is easily romove oporator's fingors. But tho Clineas mothod of curing toothacha wau what puzzled Lim most_and longost dofled dotection. Tho operations, it should have baen stated, aro all porformad in o temple or in the spaco in front, undor n largo umbrolls, tho idea boing that religious coremony is in somo way connectod with them. Toothaolie is caused by a moggot which gets into the tooth somehow or other whilo tho patient is aaleop, or while ho is Iaughing immoderately, It must bo removed alivo, or the pationt will go mud. ¥lo is, thoro- fore, placed on » #oat aud his Lead thrown back, Tho dentiat inserts o long palr of forcops, fumbling m‘mmg eod aftor for a fow soconds, produces ~ batweon tho nip- pors & littlo wriggling black _maggot —tho causo of the whole trouble, Dr, Eastlack witnoused this oporation ropeatodly, but it was ouly aftor nblllninfi surreptitious posaossion of tho forcepa that he discovered tho trick, Ho found that ono arm of tho forcopa only was of iron; the othor way of bamboo, painted to ro- sombla tho other, In the Lollow of the bamboo were found a number of little black mnfmols, probably obtained from decayod vaogotables or othér docomposing matter. When nocessary to do service, tho oporator simply Rqueozed ‘tho bamboo sbove and n maggot was ojocted from itho wmall end of tho justru- mont to the mouth, and thon adroitly taken botwoon the nippors and hold up triumphs antly boforo tho gazo of the astonishod and grateful pationt, ~ Dr, Eustlack could never sat- iafy himsolf on the polut of tho patient's rolief, Tho oporatlons ho witnessod wero dispatohed with A»I.ouluhh)fi rapidity, and tho putionts hur- ried nway a8 if that part of the performanco was oukontial to the succoss of thio operation. P OH1 A MYSTERY, Thio rivora flow, ‘Ko breozcd blow, Tiro flowers grow, Tiio sunkots ylow~ But why, I traly do not know, Our dohts wo owo, Aud thero fa snow, Aud Lurrlng's ros, And heavy dodgh— Dut vihy, I truly do not know, Wo'vo groga to mow, Aud cash to show, And things to kucw, And walks (0 fgo— But why, 1 truly do not know Welve many a foo, And ono bl too, Andl its fol-foro, ‘Aud rows {0 hoo— But why, I truly do not know, out 4 ~—London. Fun, THE PICTURE OF H EALTH, 1 nm not loss a dovil-worshiper than tho rost of my spooion; but I hate muacular depravity a8 I admiro Intollectunl rascality, Dick Turpin T have always despised. A man who could only oecapo for n timo, and ot tho cost of o noblo “ Black DBenss,” was nob worthy tho name of thiof. Wore I Tord Chamberlaln, I should bo vory hard upon the Jack-8hoppard dramn, To oxalt tho brainless, dare-dovil villnin above the caleulating, syslomatio neoundrel i an fusult to our progress and cnlightonmont. A man who doca all and moro than o Dick Turpln could do, gota n flattoring postacript put boneath hisnamo on his tombstone, and lonves o good ronnd sum tolils rojoleing frionds, ia a rascal that obtains my profound respoct. Thoro fa nll tho diffor- onco botwoen the objects of my nversion and rospect that oxista between n great blundering donkoy that brenks inlo my gardon, tramplos down my goraniums, and escapes by 1iis hools or calmly talienn cudgoling for his mis- Qemennor, and a subtlo_ fox, whoso crimo in only known by tho scattered fonthors of ono othor martyred gooso. Tho nost admirable devil of my acquaintance is o Picturo of Hoalth, When I fitat Itnow him, ho lived in an alley adjncent to our house, and within ear-shot of our upper window, 'This win- dow was tho coolest and airlost plnco one conld find in the summer timo, and tho fact relative to distance wng impressed upon mo with wearying tautology. Assgoou 8 I porched myaclf on the _sill witl n book, that intoresting boy would ap- poar at his window with & tin tube in his mouth, looking liko & monumentnl chorub with frac- tured tamp. The Picture of Ifoalth was the son of o wonzonod, caro-worn little laundress—— n rotloes, esger, anxious littlo woman, with o stronuous exprossion in overy line and action of hor body. Ho was as wunlike hor ns o fine full-blown cabbage-rose is to tho brior it grows upon. My mother was tho first to call him *the Picture of ilonlth,” which eho did in an onvious tono, on slo looked from his ruddy chubbiness to my snllow flabbinoss. Wo wore about of an ago whon wo first becamo acquaintod, and that sgo_waa C—a poriod of lifo when wo lenst ro- gord socinl distinctions. “ What or you got in your pocket? " wero tho first words ha apoko to me. “T'yvo got n fourponny-bit in my pocket that my gran'ma's given me,” I ropliod, with some rido, e 1 don't beliove you've got n fourpenny-bit in your pockat that your granmwn's given you,” ho romaiked. nllod the silver out and displayed it; ho hastily took it from my hand and transferred it to his pocket, Instond of roturning it, ne I de- sired, ho prooceded to corrupt my innocont miud, My mother's got n groat cn) por that sho biles closes in," bo ssid, ** andit's full or bilin’ wator, Do you know tho sweop?” I did know tho sweep, and_dreaded him with a paralyzing fonr, 1{altored an nsment, and ho continued: WPkt swoop I8 my friond * (I found aftorwards that this was fiction), “and if you don't toll your pgran'mn ‘you gave me tho fourpenny-bit, I'll make tho awcop put ym‘:r[l)u my mothor's biling copper,” I avoid- od the Tictnro of Honlth after that; but it happoned that whon I agafu anw him, lt was to bo once more a sufforer by his delinquency. By goiug out of my way down & by-stroet in roturp- ing from echool I could refrosh myself, aftor tho fatigues of study, by looklug at ‘the cakes in o confoctionor's window. My eyes were tha onl, organa that indulged in thoso luxurios ; for was bilious,-and my father forbade them me, and 1 was 80 ugly n child that my aunts and uncles had _for mio no Lowols of compassion. But I usod to spond delightfully sad half-hours in looking at tho delicacies, snd socing thom disnp- poar down the throats of littlo boys not bilious nor ugly. Just thue in lator days, rojoctod a8 o partner, I havo stood in liappy agony watohing my divinity emiling and whirling in snother's arma, This dny business was dull at the counfection or's. Nobody was sitting on tho tall cano chair, and the confectiopor’s young lndy wasnot scoop- ing the patties out of their pane, I noticed that the fat new buns had roplaced tho buus of yesterday, and obsorved that the gingoer-cako, Jvith the pioce out of the gide, had not gono off ; and thon I beeame conscious that somebody elso was observing tho ehop's contents, I could not mistako that ruddy, chubby little face. It was tho Dicturo of Henlth, His littlo twinkling oyes wore working restlogsly, and in their pink fut Dbods appenred to mo liko tho shining carwig that ono finds in a ripe_ applo. e looked all ovor tho shop, up and dowu the slreet, nt mo, acroes tho rond, and at a tin of pioson & chair half o yard from the door, all m & moment: and thisho continued to do for some minutes, but always bhis surveys tormioated at that tin of pics. At last ho pat Lis loft hand on tho doorpost, ad- vancod ono foot on tho throshold, and bent for- wards ; tho fingers of his right hand moved ner- vously, and his lips bnglnu totwitch in an extraor- dinary’ manuor. Suddenly, with s movemont awift and noiseloss, his haud slashed at the pios, and ho was gone, But the buker'sman, who evi- doutly Liad boon on the wateh, tho next instant had sprung across the shop, and darted round the corner. Thedelinquent was progently brought back by the collar, howling dismally, Moauwhilo, the bakoer's young lady bad appearod, sefzod mo Ly ny hair, and conveyed mo into the littlo par~ lor at the back of the shop. I was very small, very hot, but sconted with such 5 rotreshing and exquisito odor of caraway-secds, that for oue cc- atatio moment I forgot evorything but that, I'ho baker's young lady, whom proviously I had concoived to Lear o strong rosemblanco to the figuro of Justice set over tha shop-front of Mr, Bugall, the scale-maker, wos for sonding hommo tho Plotura of Honith’ with o tart on his promising to ropent, and taking me off to Bride- woll for a contaminator of youthful virtuo; bub tho baker's man, whoso sonso of justico was not 8o binged by tho contemplation of rosy cheoks and infuut tears, boxed the Dicture’s small onrs for somo minutes bofore giving him his liborty. llis punishment wns sovero, but shortly attor I envied him his spoody expiation. Turning to mo, tho baker's man orderad mo to empty my pockets; I eagerly and hastily obeyed, delighted to npxuvn my innocenco to him and tho crowd who surrounded tho shop-door, ““Ah," snid he, “it's just as I thought, ho hasn't got o hapn'y, and yot he's bo prowling outside; I've watohod you ovor and over again. What do you come munching outside for, hey ?" T answered him truthfally, that I came to look at tho tarts— that's all. Every ono laughed but me—I began toery. Bub I couldn't weop prottily, ns tho Picture of Health could ; I always made my faco ten timos uglior by tho porformance. Those two wicked assistants crosa-questioned me for au intorminable poriod, and my answors scomed to couvinco tho crowd of my guilt, For I porti- naclously rofused to tell my name, fearing that my fathor's knowledge of my ignominy would bring his gray hairs with sorrow to tlio gravo, At lust they lot mo go with a punishment similax to that of my youthful acquaintance, but sup- plementod by some vicious slaps from tho con- tootioner's young lady. In s thoughtful momont that evening I deteotod o moral as weil a8 physi~ oal likonoss botweon hor and Mr. Bugall's figuro of Justico: 1 saw the symbol of projudice in tho handkorchiof over thio oyoa of Justico, which Ernvcntnd lier gooing what sho whs about with or senloy, Tho Plcturo of Henlth I ofton eaw after thin. Hig brazonness astounded me. Thoro was in hin faco and ways no sign of romorse or contri- tion for his past wiokedness, I wondeored whothior ho was right in his head, He, too, saw mo, but he did not cultivato my acquaintanco. Probably I did not look very pleasant or com- panionablo; nuyway he coniined himeelf to shooting pons nt mo. My mother had occnsion to chango her lanndress, and omployad tho littlo woman In tho slloy to wash the linen, Thon I zot o farther inslght of the charactor of Lor son, “When his namo was metitionaed, the littlo woman constautly snid that ho was n good boy—a vory Eom] boy’ and from her manner in saying this T ogan to {hiuk tlat porhups ho had infioritd his habit of lying from hor—just as my yollownoss wsa & diiagreenblo oxaggoration of my fathor's pallor, Tho littlo woman was o widow, and hor Gosr Dilly (tho Plcturo of Llonlth) was tho only living moul she had to curo for (#ho snid, 40 who oarot for me;” but I mako the invorsion as boing rathor more truthful). Sho dreased so oorly, aud lived so fmgnll[v. that wo ouce won- what she could do with all hor money, for sho worked from early morning until lato at night. Bho cortalnly was indulgent to hor Billy, ol youth was seldom scen without a soa- sonable dolioacy in his hand and mouth. And uho was coroless, froquontly huving to roplico gomo arliclo gho bad acorched or lost, Billy row apaco, and still remained the picture of flunllh. 11is chooks woro round and rosy, and his {nukut and othor garmontu ndwmirably filled. Tow ovor holearntto rond aud wiilo I dow't kuow ; hut cortalnly ho did not at school, 1lis mothor eaid eho could not sparo him, ‘Chis woalk- nous greatly oxasporatod my mothar, who, I bo- ltove, would have had nothing to do with a woman soonl Pnbly weak had it not boon fortho pitiful aux- 1oty that oxprossed itsolf in tho many lines about the poor littlo woman'a faco, Ono duy 8lio came -Ho robbed mo. i % I e, or,r,onono o — e e e e e to our houso IualxlnF palor than usual, and nsked if nlittlo pinco coutd bo found for hor Billy—a littlo place whoro lio syould he treated kindly, and—1ny mothor would liston to no moro, and ncoused tho littlo woman of pursuing s course with roference to hor son that must” ineyitabl mnko him solfish and bad, and rolioved Loreelt of cortain n{)lmmm sho lind long pont up. At flrat the little laundross answorad only with teats, but there followoed o confension that forovor al- tored my mothor's opinion of her. Sho admitted that hor Billy was in tho babit of taklng things, that slio was Lis slave, nud that she could no Tonger enduro hor thrallom, 116 procured from hor overything ho wantod by threatening to stenl * it publiely. Bho ~ could lido nothing from bim. If"there was nathing olso, ho stolo the lnen, and in vomo myatoriony way dlnimwd of it, To got a “littlo place” for an aselutant of this kind wan no onsy matler; to recommend him for & trustwortly servant would Do na dlsnatrously kind s supplyivg gunpowder for n ugeful fuel, 'Lhe poor mother horuolf wng too honeut to rocommond him. Iowever, tho difieulty waus romoved by the Piolurs of Ioalth finding & littlo plnco for himsolf, Onr lnundrosy now appenrod radiznt, lLor chooks began to plumnp, and tho linos in thom and hor forohoad oeamd loss definito sho wau choorful, dolight- ed, and lu\pp{. Ier Billy was quito auothor Loy he enma honio ot night and otarted to busi- noss in the morning like s man, and ho was o donr goad follow, and sho folt thnt ITeaven had anawored hor widow's prayor. Tho noxt thing that happoned wag this,—iho Dictureof Iieaith found for Limsolf another situation. This timo it was in the dock of n polico-court, aud ho recoived ~such o charactor from hix Inte master, that the worthy magistrato be- fore whom ho stood was Induced Lo offer bim n temporary ““littlo placo” nt Pontonvillo, with constant employment and ovorythung found him, i, in considoration of his tmothor, who stood trombling and rod-cyed neur hor ron, and in cou- sidoration of his looking tho picturs of health, Lis necoptance of tho *1ittlo place” way 1ol in sistod upon. Ho the next day found him cheor- fully shooting pens at mo; so did I. The littla Inundrens hont over her wash-tub day after dny, aud tho briof wunshine wont for over out of hor oyen, and hor bucle seemed ns if it only onco again would unbend. Yet sho nevor spoke an {ll-word of hor sorrow, novor spoke of Lim but in kindnees, with motherly excusos. Somotimen 8ho took his sina upon lier own poor hend— God knows tho sius sho had committed she bad expintod with bittorest sufforing snd cruolest 80| {—%uuiahmunb—nlwnyfl sho oxpressed’ hopo that ho would yet bocome a goodman, Iholiovo it was this hopo that kopt lhier from madnoss. To hor oo alono wan thore anything in hor Billy's behavior to encournge hopefniucss, I umed to think that somchow the wrong boidy must have beeu given to Lis soul, and that if lio Lind boen & pig his mothor’s hopes would have boen ronlized, and sho would hava had her care componsated by soelng o flrat-class modal awarded to hor son at sumo agricultural show for Lis fatnosy, fairnoss, aud gonoral inutility, Ilo ato always, and grow and grew, Whon both liands wero not roquired in fecding, one warmed itself in his trowsors pocket. Al Iast his mother foll ill, Henlth {8 a” capricious lover, thut nt- tonds mout thoso who scok his nttendanco lenst ; fond of bright looks, straight limbs, and glowing cheoks, ho refused to lave any- thing to do with this littlo womnan, ao old and withered, and shrunk and bent had sho bocomo with her thirty yenrs of oxistence in this flowery world, Wlen sho was no moro to ‘bosoon arching over her work at that back win- dow, I wondered how it would go with hor son 3 but When 1n the ovening I met him, aud notod 110 had both hiands in his pockots, I woudored no, moro. Tho noxt day lio was placed again boforo tho magistrates ; for his \‘e!‘{J first sorious at- tempt at gotting o living at tho expeuso of an actual stranger was attouded with ill success. His appoarauco again saved him from the igno- miny of corroction ; e was humauoly sont avay for reformation, Tho parochial authoritios ro- moved the little laundress to tho hospital, and thoro sho lay stricken and spocchles, until kinder doath Tomoved her fo anothor, whero broken hearts aro healod, I bolieye that the Plcturo of Health was roally roformed in tho institution to which he was sont, and that o turned over a now leaf alto- other. 1lo was of an age to learn and to proflt y osporioncs; and o thing bo loarne waa this: his logs could no longor bo trusted; that Insk affair With tho presorvers of piiblic property hind shown them to bo his supariors ot running. e was too fat for muecular dopravity. 'Co get on in tho world at all he must pursue n courno less impedod by unplonsaut_obstacles than that which liad torminated in & dict of nlrlnin chiar- actor, and limited in quantity, Lis mother, too, had played him faldo; on such reods Lo must no longer lean his hoavy weight,—his own happincss end comfort forbedo it Ho ho ro- formed himwolf, 'Tho flowers of ropentauce ho doubtloss suffored mnot to bloom un- soon, and the swoot odor thereof very likely ho wafted into tho nostyils of the ap- preciativo. Othorwise I kuow not how he could hove risen to the ominence at which, whon wo mot again, some threo or four yoars later, I gozed up at him. About this time 1 was seck- 1ng daily bread in return for my valuable sor- vices, Isucceoded in obtaining o mtuntion in o Manchestor house of business as foreign corre- spondent, Iwas to sharo the duties with an- other clork ; that clerk I discovered was m quondam acquaintance, the Picture of Health, kuow lim direetly, and ho know mo; but we waro both wiso, and kept our littlo knowledge to ourselves—tho very bost thing wo could do with tho dangerous commodity. e was unalterod oxcept in height (he was taller than Iam); but his oyos scomed mors than over restless and liko earwigs, I found him &til a robbor; bLut he robbed legally. Ho took noth- ing tbat could bo found in lis pockets. L soy it rathor in ~ sorrow than in boast ; I am o modest mnn, and careloss obout triflos. Ina sublle way ho contrived to n{;pmpflntn all the praiso attonding our joint offorts, and to trensfor to my shoulders all tho blamo. I hadn't the impudence to show thnt somo of tho praiso was mine, nor tho enorgy to show that at least somo of tho blamo waw his ; 80 that at tho oud of & year ho wont up a step in the firm, and Iwont out of it altogother and opaned o eareer in London.' Now I thought, and indeed hoped, our connection would conso ; but wo wero linked by Fate, and three years after wo again camo in contact. My residenco was in a small suburban villago. Every faco was fa- miliar, aud fow incidonts occurred unksown_to me or any other of our littlo commumty, Wo had & viliage bolle and coquotto, and not a hoart amongst us had eacnpcfi hor witchories aund cruelty, Bho Jilted us sll round ono aftor another; somo of us went up and were vanquished again and again, Ono whom every ono know as Mr. Brookes' Joo was thought to be tho Lollo's favorite; cortamnly ho had boon plucked mora ofton than any of us. Ho took his nbasoment with the equanimity that Muomsnulus familiarity with misfortune, And o doggod resolution to try ngain. Such mon goun- orally take their dogroos at last. Whenever our Donuty had no one clse to poraccuto, shio lured Mr, Brookos' Joo to hor feot ; and thoro compln- contly ho grovoled. IIis varying fortunes were oxpressed by his whistlo; for thouglh Joe could not bo considered a musicnl gonius (ho conld whistle but one tuno, and that **Top goos the woagel '), he put. such oxpression into his tune that his eiffilation was more conclusive than words, Ho had boon whistling o long in a mn~ Jjor key that I thoughtho nover again would whis~ tle tho minor, and I for Mr. Brookes' Joo; but oue morn- ing, a8 was runping to tho train, I mot lim with his basket on his armn (NIr, Brookes was n_grocor), and ho was whis~ tling his ouly air vory flat, in hymmn-liko timo, with melancholy turng. It was tho most funo- roanl whistling I'evor hoard, and doloful to a do- groo. I Lnow what had bappenod, and was only curious to know who occupiod tho shoos ho latoly had been wlmltllu;i’ in, ‘That ovening my curiosity was gratifled, but notI. In now rib- bons, and with her vory sauclost smirk, tho bello pastiod mo lonning languishingly on an arm of spockloss cloth, aud looking bowitehingly into hor lover's 1itllo oyes. Again I recognized tho liquid depths at tho bottom of those walls of fut, It was tto Picturo of Health, Both saw mo, and wonld bavo passed mo ; but I choso that thoy should not. Iatopped in their way and grootod thom as old friouds, passed a Yemark upon tho weathar, and made my old acquaintanco {rramlan to call upon mo boforo catohing tho laut ruin to tho city, Tho train loavos at 10:10; ab 10:05 hohad fulfillod bis vow ; so I put on my hat, ran _down to the station, and, just as the train was moving on, 1umpml ‘into tho HAMO Car- riago with the Uicturo, Wo had o littlo talk and arrungomont boforo I loft him to wallc home, in consgyuence of which wo mot the following ovoning at the houso whora dwolt tho parents of our coquotte, ‘Lhoromy old friend made & sol- omu declaration of his mtontious, which woro of tho moxt honorable character, and begged the hand of our coquotte, Ila was rich—had bo- como pariner in tho firm I had left, I know ho had robbed his \VI{ up to that position ; but that ‘wan no businoss of mine, I falt 1 had dono my duty whon I loft him hat ovening, with tho nearest approach to o ncowl on hiy smiablo fon. turos that I hind over soon thero, Tn the courso of timo thera woro threo disap- I\nnmwon in our village, First, the Ploturo of Toalth vanishod; then, Mr, Brookos' Joo's whine tlo pormanontly connad to make itsolf hoard ; and finally, our Loauty loft our villago in ghamo und flrlnr. Tho firm to which I have alluded had dissolved, and thepartner wa wautod was abroad, prosaged happy things . Wa woro nob sich onough to buy justice, Bo the Dicturo of Henlth nnd s promises wore but a momory cursod by all eave hor who had suffored by them. If Thad tho knack of writing sonti- niont, Imight make n long articlo out of Ler woman's griof, and forgivencss, and un- ronsonnblo lovo. Of the Jaller ihore wag o immt countorpnrt in Mr, Trookes' Joo, who would have mude hor a wife, and have becomo a father to hier child, But who was ns .constant nud gorions 10w g she had been ficklo and frivolous before. I'orhiaps sho refueed to link Joo's fato with hors from n feeling of rooti= tuds, posgibly from s llngerlug hopo- tiat the Ialee ono would yot como to redocia himsolf. Ani'wn Joo cartled about his buslot of gro- cerlen in nilonco, Lnst weok, as T was paosing 8t, —'g Olwureh, o Dridal company were: stopping from thoir enr~ ringes, 'Tho bridogroom had eomo up only n minule boforo tho bride, #o I had the felicity of seelng both the ln\&)py yonng lpcnplo. Onco mora the Picturo of Hoalth was beforemo. Had I haon Ioan lothargie and opposed to * sconos,” 1 should linvo walked up tho aisle in n melo-dramnlio ulylo, ‘nnd thoro and thon Luvo forbld- den that marrlsgo, thereby making my- solt apponr n lhero to some nnd & fuol fo otuors; as it was, I morely nsked u conchnan to como and drink at my oxpoenno and toll mo who those happy young peoplo woro, and whero thoy woro golng this fiuo spring morne ing, Tho conchman waw communicativo, and told mo that tho gontloman was mwful rich, with speculating or somothing, and that tho lady too waa awful rich, thongh o bit plain to look at, and that thoy woro guh|§ to have breakfust at No,1 Bo-and-o square. It gcomed vory hard that an aequaintanco should not have bidden me to his murringo-fenst, in which ho must havo known I should feel deoply intorested. I folt it must bo i momory that failed hiim rather than his affoc- Lion ; thoroforo, to roliova lis mind from the afiliction _ the Inowledge of hig negloot might afterwards oceasion, I detormined to utlond his breakfast unasked, and bo on uninvited gnest. I thanked the concliman and bado him farowell, and_ quickly made my way to Bo-and-so aquare. I found no ditienlty in got- tingndmittanco, audirhien wo all wont into broaks fast the confectioner's man (how ho reminded mo of old tlmunl? slipped mo Into n soat botweon two Indies, as if {ho urrangemont had been made beforchnnd. Boiug, s Lhavo said, & modost man, I wns 80 ovorpoworod by o scngo of my own tomority that for some timo I knew nothing—a fooling T imagino an unblooded soldier must ox- Burmncn when for the first timo Lo sgos nothing otweon himsolf and tho enemy ; and with just tho courngo that comes to him in that position was I presontly norvoed. T opened a brisk cone vorention with tho Indlos on eithor hand, nud ewallowod whatever food wau Hot be— foro mo, porfoctly rogardless of tho farful consequences, Aftor a timo I lifted my oyes from my plato, and looked about mo. Vory lit- tlo removed from ma on the opposite sido of the tnblo st the happy man. e, too, kept bis oyos on his plato. His chools woro palo-looking, ns it those radiant spples had thmod up. thole nother side. Of courso ho ind socn mo. I was linppy in my jokes, and tho Iadios boside mo, boiug single and tolorably advanced in yonrs, were appreciativo and pléased to laugh con~ swmedly, Laughter is catching—especially. on stech an ocension, where silonco 8 somofimes broken by a whispered conversntion that vorgea on the motancholy, I beeamo the funny man of thotdblo, I saw nll eyos butb tho earwig ones ; thoy resolutoly avolded mo, Suid onoe of the Iadics : 0, Mr, —er?" *Nomosis,” I said, ** Mr. Nemaosis,—what an odd uamo I—have you Known tho bridegroom long 7" “Trom his uiigeont boghood ; and you " ‘* But lately, Ihave known tha brido from her girlhood,” I was delightod; nothing I snid would bo wastod. What tho bridegroom did not hear di- rectly from me, ho would indirectly through his fo, ‘¢ What n trying occasion this must bol I somo; but tho hippy bridogroom hies had mora disogrocable trials than this, o dropped Lis fork. “*How wall Lo has borno thom! * Men with ptrong moral Frinclplus do not pormit themsolves to bo agitated by tho un- avoldablo misfortunos that lappen to thom- selyos or to uther poople,” # Ho has nover told us of thoso trials.” “1le in Bo modest.” * Such modesty is o groat virtno," Sxeopt when it oxcludes n wife or o wifo'a friend {rom that confidence without whioh mar- riago eannot be perfoct happiness,” “'Did you know his family?” * I know his mammn oxtromely well. I used to sea her ovary day, and sho vimtod us rogularly once & woek, Bhoe loved hor son with n fervor and dopth raro ovon among mothers ; she toiled, though diffcrently, a8 hard for him &8 ovor he has toiled for—himself.” “Blho iy dead 7" “ I was with her when sho breathed hor Inst. And hor lagt broath formed thoso words: My son.'" *\Vas he prosont " “Noj; hodid not kuow of her death until at- tor. 1o had boen studying hard for some Lima proviously for un appoiutment under Govorn- mont, had passod lis examination, and, ot that time, was engaged 1n the onorous dutios of hiy ofiico.” #*IIow shocking! Toll mo of his other trinls." ‘“Not now." “Will you prosently " “Yes; whou I propose the health,” 1looked ncross tho table, The happy man's full nether lip hung bloodless on his chin, dis~ p}ugmg his teoth liko o dog that in beiug stran- gled. * But you aro not tho ‘best man,'" * No ; but I'm good enough for that,” Ilooked up agamn. Ho was speaking to o Wwaitor. * You will bo doing g0 quite out of ordor.” ‘! Ou tho contrary, I shallbo doing go in ordor —to plense mysolf. 5 15'11' )o waitor was working hig way round tho ablo, “1 expect you are vory vain of your oratory,” * Whon I look at te bridegroom ought I ot tole proud of my species? Excuso mo one mouent,” ‘Fho waitor gave mo & hm!tfl{-fa]ded pieco of paper. 1t contained a second plece that eracked as' L opened it. It was o note for £60. I looked up once moro ; what littlo oxpression tho fat faco waas capable of was of abjoct supplication, Iknoyw tho signiticanco cf the £50 ; nnd if, ns I boforo hypothesized, I had beon melodramati= cally conatituted, I should havo rifen and hurled it inits souder’s tooth or oyes. Instead I fum- bled it about nervously on my lap until decision tardily cumo to mo. ‘ You look quito disturbed,"” said tho lady be- sido mo. ‘l’ Iam vory much affectod, I havo received o note,” ! A nico noto P ““The vory nicest—n fitty-pound note. It is from the bridogroom.” “Ilow odd " “Would you like to know why ho sont it ?" %0, na; ha, ha!" “Vory well, thon—you shall, The noto is & dosiro ihat I shonld sparo his blushos, forogo my littlo_biographical oration. Tho mionoy 18 Linlt of u littlo annuity bo allows & paor friond of wiue, little brokeu-hearted woman with achild." ¢ And bl you forogo your Bpooch " “Woll” (n sigh), 'L suppots 1 must. One eannot have ono's way with thoso dreadfully charitablo peaple.” Hardships und sufferings come to all of us in ono way or another. If we Lave been guilty, we call it retribution § if we hve not, wo eall it b; somo soutimental namo. The Picturo of Hoalt! had boon guilly, and tho rotribution cama to him muhdy in o dissrrangomont of lhis feoding apparatus and o #welling of the legs: my doctor tells mo this, His wifa is & virago and a tyrant ; so I hoar from my wifo. With bis offsprings mino will Lold no convarse, I lmow he is wretchodly misorablo ; this I noo myself whon I callon his wedding- dny for the never-fulllng annuity.—Z4nsley's AMagazine. e e The Four Charloty. From La Vie Purisienne, Ono flno morning in June, 1872, tho Count Oblonowski entored tho ostablishmont of the mout colebratod carringe manufacturor in Purfy, “Ihave come,” sail tho Count, " to order some now cliarioth, I lowve the mattor entirely with you, Build them nccording to your own tagto, 1'ut nuthlnf( upon tho panels—neither oyphers nor esocutchoons nor arms, Dulb build thom in uch o way that next winter thoy shall Lo tho bnndsomeut charviots in Iaris,” Iam going tomy country-soat to-morrow. I shall not return to town until Novombor. Thou let theuo carringes bo ready.” ‘“Uhey shall bo roudy, M, lo Comto,” roplied the groat conch-builder, 4 And no the Oount withdrow, 1In the eurly part of Novembor ho mado hig ap- ponrance again, *¢ho four chariots," eaid ho, oy aro roudy,” “ Bhow thom to me." 'I'io entringe-builder led the way, The Oount inspocted thom, and declared himsolf porfustly sutisflod. Two of the ohariots wore painted & lovaly blue, one in maroon, sud onoe groen. Tho Count said to the makor ¢ bridegroom's A lady will enll horo to-morrow. You will show hor these four churlots, Bho will muko a chaico,” The carringe-maker bowed, Tho lady came tho noxt day. At the first glanco tho manufase turer rocognized hor ns one of tho friskiest notronac of tho Varioties, Blio shows hor loga— Eul :’cry protty nnliles sho Iins—still at tho same ontro. 'Tho pelite comedienne examinad the four care ringos, oponed the little doors, mouuted upon tho soft rugs, sal horsolf down upon the dsflny curhions, and huddiod horaol? up in ono of the cornora. *TIuhall toke this one,” she enid, finally—it wan one of the bluo ones. *Put my inifials, npon it." 1 sho Look her doparture. ‘Iho noxt day tho Couut visited the carriager makor, 11 Indy camo 7" Yo, Monsionr lo Comto." ‘*Sho chono a earriago P Yeu, Monsiour lo Comto.” Which of them ?" “ Ono of tho bluo onos,” “Vary good, Aunother Indy will come to-morv row, You will ehow Lor tho throo chariots, Bh¢ will make & choico." “ Vo X “ It i unnocessary to toll this Iady that thore wa.x:ucgom' nlénrluls.“‘] Bali bosatd b, not n word shall bo sald on that pol o, o Comio P L n the noxt dny eamo the othor Indy—a notm Dbility of tho domi-monde, 1o uhuwuyd. hor the three chariota. Oh, the blue,” said sho, I ghall tako thy blue. You will put my initials npon the panols,— L. B.,—vory simple, fsn't It " The uoxt dey & frosh visit from the Count— tho convorsation always tho same. *“Tho lndy camo—8Sho took tho chariot—Tiy blue—Very " good—Another lndy will como to morrow—You will show hor the two chariots— Bho will mnko a choico—It is unnocossary to tel bor, &o." Tho noxt day tho third ]nd{ r . C., All right, cama Tho two others were very quiot in_ their maue nera—but tho third! 8Sho was horribly loud is tono, manners, nnd sddross, Bho swept like :gm]mnb into tho workshop of the manufao ror, **I am como,” said sho, **to seo_the two can riagon ordored by Count Oblonowski.” 1o led hor to whoro tho carringos stood. Sha put alittlo pair of gold speetacles ncross hor noso: then sho uttorod crios of horror when sha 8nw Lho greon chariot, ‘Ol groen; I abhor green, Tho ofhor ona —whoro iss tho other chariot ? Maroon, why mae roon? Why didn't the Count order n bluochar< iot ? T wanted s bluo one. My livery {a blue, What is to become of mo betweon this groon and this maroon ?* “ Bluo and maroon govery well togethor," aaid tho carringe-maker, "']?.o you think so? Idward, get up onthe Boat, Edward, the valet, drossed in bluo, sprang 1 on ilio ment and foldod his arms, " Tho fady studiod tho effoct through hor oye-glasses, ““You, that may do upon a pinch., However, T would much profor & bite one. Put my arms upon the panols.” ' Bho gavo hor name and hor address—tho Mara, chionoss do Garlano, It was tho daughtor of the Count Oblonowski, ’ Tho noxt day the Count paid his last visit ta the carringo-maker, Tho srme conversation on= suod: ““Tho lady came—She took a carriago, ote. To-morrow another lady will como. Itia ‘unnecossary, oto."” i The fourth lady esmo tho noxt day. Her man<' nors wero simple, modost, clogant. An air of exquisito swoetncss and rofiuoment seomed to float softly around her. Tho carriage-maker sliowed her the unlucky green chariot which no~ body would bave, Bho thought it charming, “'You will send it to mo to-morrow,” she said. My namo ?—the Countess Oblonowsld." st cn S damin ) ON AN INTAGLIO HEAD OF HINERVA, Tho cunning hond that carved this faco, A hittlo hiolmated Minorva— Tho Liand, T eay, oro Phidiss wronght, Tiad lost its muibtlo skill and forvor, ‘Who was ho? Was ho glad or sad. Who kuow to carvo Inf 6uch a fashion? Porchanco o siapod this dainty hoad For somo brown girl that scorned his passion, But bo Is dust; we may not know 1ia happy of unhanpy story § Numcless, and dead thoso thoussnd years, His work outlives him—thera's hia glory, Both man nnd Jewel lay in enrih Beneath a lava buriod city ; Tho thousand summers camo and wenf ‘With neither hnato, nor hato, nor pity. Tho years wipod out the man, but loft ‘Thio jewel frosh as any blossom, Till somo Viscont! dug it up— To riso and fall on Mabel's bosom 0 Roman brother ! _seo how Timo Your graclous handiwork has guarded, 8ca how your loving, pationt art Haa como, at lnst, to bo rowarded ! Who wonld not auffer alights of men, Aud paugs of hopoless passion also, To hinve his earvon agato stoue On such a bosom rise and fall so | . 8. Aldrich fn tho August Atlantic, ECR e il An Existing Race ot Pygmies, . Dr. Behweinfurth, who has traveled extonsivoly in Contral Africa, recently ontertained the Borlin Goographical Bociety with aun account of a diminu~ tivo race of men, the Acca, whom he takes to ba tho originnls of the Pygmias colebrated in Grecian litorature, agrocing with Aristotlo in the opinion that the i’yfimiea of Homer and Horodotus wora not altogothor crontures of jmaginntion, Dr, Behwoinfurth mado diligent inquiry whorever ha went as to_tho oxistenco of z\lurflsh racos of mon. On the Uppor Nile Lio was told of men * not ovor throo foot in stature, wearing white beards, , who woro slkilled in elophant-hunting, and who 8old ivory to foreign traders,” Dut it was af tho Court of Munaa, King of tho Mombuttu, that ho first saw eo individual of this diminue tivo raco, * One morning,” says he, * thecamp rung with a joyous shout, as my peoplo brought in o cariouns, timid littlo man, the palpablo em. ; ‘bodimont of myths which have Eu_un current for over 8o long.” DBy moans of gifts and Lkind usago tho pygmy was inducod to take a soat, whon he was moasurod and his portrait taken. Ho stated that Lo was tho hoad of & family, liv= ing half an howr's journoy from the capital; * that his tribo are callod Acca, and that theie® country lioa south of that of the Aombuttu ; thag they Liad been conquered by the latter, and sot-* tled in the noighborhood of the roysl rosidenco. ITis hulgm wns one motor (thirty.: nino inchos), atd alboit he had a pendout bolfy-_ and vory elondor shanks, ho porformed incradi= } blo fenls of agility. On tho next dmy soveral othors of his tribo, induced by the promiso of , glfte, paid our travelor & visit, and thoy, too, wero measurod, and had thelr portraits taken. It is to bo rogrotted, howover, that, during tha ontiro threo wooke' stay of tho Doctor at Mun«. ws0's Court, ho nover had tho good fortuno to soa o pygmy woman. But why did he not go out to tho sottlomont and vigit tho lndics himsolf ? The Acca aro notod warriors, notwithetanding - thoir diminutiva stature. Xt happoned during Behwoinfurth's stay at thocourt tflnt King Mum-= ery, oscortad by several hundred Acea warriors, paid o vieit to his brothor Munga, bringlug him & share of tho plundor taken in o reconi cam= paign. Theso Likitiki (men who understand war) fought sham battles for tho entortainment of tho travelor. The only domestio animal among the Acca iy the comrmon barn-yard fowl, aud it 18 worthy of. romark that an ancient Mosnio at Naples pleturcs the pygmies in company with such fowls. The Acci aro much superior morally to the Bush- mon, and aro of groat sorvico to King Munsa, who in turn deserves tho thanks of othunologists for saving from oxtinction so intorosting a race, —_— Wereditary Sngncity, Bays au ensayist in the Leisure Ifour : Thad @ Dblack kitton bronght into my houso from s do- sorted shed, where it had beon born. It was half wild, liko ity mother, aud for some daya would not tolerate any ovortures of friendship; but it grow to be s flne frisky, companionabla creaturo, and at last, with ‘much troublo, ¥ taught i‘, for my littlo daughtoer’s amusomontn to sit quiot upon my ehoulder during moaly i times, in hn{m of now sand then “c“flufi"(u i 3 0. dninty morsol, It also loarned to bow an “‘any grace” bofora meals, which it always did by rubbing ite hond firet against the hand of the person who fod it; Lut it noeded no instruction to distinguish thoe dinner bell, the sound of which wauld bring it from tho top of tho garden first of tho bhouschold to its place. Tha first kitton of this cat was ngvan nwni to n neighboring family, and surpriso thom not long afterward by jumping upon tl shoulder of tho only male momber of tho hous o8 they sat at moali—n praotico which it cons, tinued; yat 1t Liad nover boen taught, nor had it boon allowed any opportunition of obsorving ita’ mothor iu parlor company, I havo sinco boon, told that black cats havo a peoullnr habit of imnphl;i on the shoulder, but from my troubla, n teachiing our cat should doubt tlus, The ack{ was more probably rom})!nd i her kitten by horaditary habita,” In roforonco to this subjoef, I have heard that, whoreas the formor geuora- tions of cows menifosted unlversal foar af thn) npprosch of a railway train, thoir doscondantal \vlh ofton continuo their ruminations undls, turbod, 'Pho calf of & cow ncoustomod to foody by & railway is loss timid thau tho calf of an ans; imal Lrod olsowhoro, Can any sgrioultural; reador say whother thoro iy any sufticlont founs, dation for this ntatement 7