Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 28, 1873, Page 6

PERU. A Breakfast in Lima~--The Bill of Fare--=Table-Manners, A Call upon the Senoritas---How a Visitor Is Received and Entertained. Appearanco of tho Poruvian Ludieg- Bolles that Aro Kascinating, but Dirty. lgnorance, Indolence, Sociality, and Merriment. Special Correapondence of The Chicago Tribune. Lista, Peru, August, 1873, 1 have ofton given youn lottor descriptive of the outer life, manners, nnd customs of the Poruyians, but a8 yot nothing describing their fonor and home ways of hiving. As I have saidn former lotters, tho Poru- vinug . DREARFAST at 11 a, m., baviog had acup of chooolato, ton, or coffee, and o biscwit brought to them in bed ot 6n.m. Tho dusky Senorss and Senoritns all dress in white, looso, flowing wrappers (children and all), if among tho wealthier classes; and tho fomalo portion of thohouso leave their long, hoavy Dlack bair hanging, in two looso plaits, down tho back, matrons as well as children. Thon, if tho sea-brooze be vory cool, they como out to broskfast in little crimson or bluo cashmero sacques over their white robos; aud the brenkfast bogins with soup. Nothing ean be more doliciona than these nativo roups ; one, in particular, oalled chupo, mado of & kind of crab (called camarona), liko tho Eng- lish shrimp, but moro dolicious eating, nnd more resombling o lobster. Theso camaronas aro boiled alive in new milk, to which is ndded rice. parsloy, grated choouo, hard-boiled oggs, pota- toes in halves, onions, and bread-crumbs, Then tho fruit and melons aro brought in,—many, however, preferring the fresh figs, melons, and bananas bofore the chupe. Then the fish, broiled or triod,—s snlt-wator flsh, broiled, called corbi~ aon, very much like our Bpanish mackerel in fla- vor ; nnd small figh fried, called peekanais, liko our fresh-water porch, except not so long, And now come tho substantinls: TFricd bananas with ponched oggs; mutton chops bronded ; dolicious beofstonk with fried potatoes around it,—tho dish containing ouly enough for one per- gon; lottuce and radishes mnde into salad; ham and oggs ; and always the native dish of aquiqus, compounded of red peppers and potatoos, snd 8o hot with Clnli pepper that tho tears start from your eyes as you swallow it. Then rice- onkes and picantie,—anothor flery dish, made of mustard,—or & kind of ourry and rico and toungue. Then comea coffec (nevor boiled, but condensed in Fronch coffee-pots), and always cloar ag amboer, and served in tiny Savros China mugs, without milk or sugar (unless you ask for them); truly, a *‘ nootar fit for thogods.,” Then clgara and claret come on, and the ladies light not only your cigars, but a cigarette for thom- golves, and you sit and chat at thotable for half- au-hour, THEIR MANNED OF EATING {6 not exactly like ours. Thoy use a knifo quite as often as o fork, and the fingers moro than sither. Ono of their peculiar customa at tha ta- ble deserves especial montion. If thereis any littlo dolicncy on their plate,—a bit of the breast of & fow], a tonder morsel of turkey, any littlo Aninty that is inviting,~it is a vory delicate com- plimont to a person sitting noxt you at the table io take up this **morceau” in your thumb and Engor, and place it in that porson’s mouth from our own fingers. I have ofton seen n youug Eumvinu gellaut pick up o bit of chicken, or & small pieco of game, and convey it with hia Bogers into tho mouth of the leading belle, slthough bis fingors may drip with ~gravy, or (if 1t bo proserved fruit) "tho drmcn may run Bown lus wrist, It is tho most delicate compli- ment ; and 2ny one refusing the donor the eating of thego finger-bits would commit an unpardonable insult, There are no largo dishos put upon the tablo,—no platters or :T‘m sorved in large quantitios, Every one at tho table has s plate ‘brought to him, and & plate set beforo him, and ench courss soparately, that ho may help him- gelf to what ho ploases. After one has finished or refuged one course, anothor i brought and vogatablos are sorved to differont dishes, Roast Doof or boofateal and potatoss, boiled tongue and small French poas, veal-cutlets broaded, and £ealad with rolls or bread, A8 WI LEAVE TIIE BREAKFAST-ROOX (wao have beon brenkfasting in tho glass balcony front, or in the roar), we open the glass doors, and find oursolves within an inuor hall, running tho entire four sides of tho Louse, and pave with marble mosaics, If weare calling upon poms of the fair Sonoritas, wo prosent our card Lo a little Cholo boy, ssleep or nodding on s mat ; and he ushors us across_the hall, through glass doors. into the drawing-rooms, hva- rooms, sitting-rooms, &c.,—all opening, by oth- er glass doors oppou'uo the hall, on to the paved inner court-yard, You find 'in the draw- ing-rooms Epglish carpsts of shin- lng pattern ~ and_ softost toxturo, chairs and sofn of gilt with fello\v satin uphol- stering; immense mirrors, with side-tablea called consoles, and a grand upright piano. It ls not later than 2 p. 1. THE MOTRER enters smoking cigarotto, wonring a black ailk gkirt and a red or blue sacque,and with her magnificent lnir braided down her back in two luite that almost swoop tho floor. Advanclug {’u you, she removes her cigar, apits upon the corpot, although it may be white velvet tapestry, and folds yonu in both arms to her matronly hbosom, pushing your head gently down wupon ber shoulder, “and patting you softly on your back. = You muy be embarrassed if & young man, »t this firet embraco; but whon you find fhat the cuetom {8 universal, and answers to our hand-shaking, you socon become osed to it. All classes moct and embraco. Young men aud old womon, old meu and young Indies, and evon children, all unito in this pat~ ting embraco, and raroly kiss. JF THE DAUGHTERS delay coming into the room, the mother opens the plano, and plays you some old national dancos, ead, yot brilliant, in tho ‘l’llulnfivn minor Koy that CGottschnlk so admirably imitated in iving us Poruvian melodies, Orsho c!n}m her hsnds and o native brings in & bottlo of wine sud fruits of various kinds, and you aro ox- octed .to parleke if ovor “so litlo, o diughtors nover keep you long walting, if they are not at mnss, or “shopping; and, if at Gomo, never oxcuso thomselves, Thoy woar white wrappers trimmodslmw with native Jaco, aud the honvy bralds of hair lika tho Moth- er's, Convessing with thom, you soon ascor- uin the extont of thielr ncquiremonts: a littlo Fronch, and a kuowledgo of tho geography snd history of Pern. - Thoy soldom know more than to road and writo Spanish, and kuow nothin, olso, and caro to know udthing olso but nboul Toru. As a.batupal copsequenco, they ara vory bigoted} and, should you desciibo to them othor countries, invnrhsth -will" “expross intorest, but rospond, '*Ah,~‘yeulibut I am botter .pleasod’. with~ Lima -Cpr. Poru).” Yot thelr nianners are ulmnnlnf, their rocoption of you hoarty and sincero, ‘They aro-yery so- ciablo and hospitablo, ‘freo ‘from! apology, and only.dingy, but——dirty; that tho nails aro not cloan ; and that tho tiny foot, pooping from tho troiling whito . wrappor, ofton Hnu either no stookiug or .a very dirty ono, and almost always' tho shippors aro torn and slipshod. If ic“ admiro tho ong lnrge drop gllstening In tho ittlo oar, half-huddon undor-tho hair, you will 8eo, hosidoa tho dinmond, thnt neck and ear nre not {vo cloan, and this among the very flrat and wonlthicet of Peruyinn arlstooraoy, Bliould® you go into the nursory or sitting- rooms, you will find the mother lylug on n lounge, ‘or sitting indolontly in nn ‘onsy-chalr, surrounded by rathor dirty-facod . ohildron of all ngos ; children who orawl'and clambor all ovor aud aronnd hor ; ‘childron with whom sho_sits upon the floor and plays,—herself n very child. And you cannot but adwire the wonderful ma- tornal love and tondornoss of these dusky matrons, Every child, almost, s IT8 OWN CITOLO NURSE ; whilo overy Peruvian houschiold ia overrun with children, it is more than overrun with colored nuraes. Like tho darkoys of tho Bouth with the childron of a planter, theso Cholo nurses swarm in ovory place whero tho childron are, and all live in the groatost froodom togsther, ‘Tho mothiors lond tho most indolent of lives, and tho daughtors aleo. Bleop, dross, dauce, lirt, and ont,—theso aro.all they do; and the gons nre sont away, at 10 yonrs of ngo, to Gor- many or Franco, to school, * Tho sorvanta do all tho sowing and embroldory ; and a morrier, Lap- pler got of laughing, playing people than a Pe- mv:ln,n lousohold cannot be found anywhere on onrth. As the brenkfast conslsts of from ten to twelvo cournes, and {8 not done until about 1 tho Lousoliold do not dress for tho day unill about 4; and dinnor is at 5 p. m.,—n very olab- orato affair, Then all the family conErogatu in {ull dress, with powdered faco and hair, and costumen of latest Paris styles, After dinner THE BALON 18 GAY with young poople, and musio, dancing, cards, wine, and cakes ; aod not until after the.boll has struck for midnight aro the lampa put out and tho gayoty over, It has beon truly said {hat & Poruvinn's ovoning is always a gay ono, for thoy mover are quict or alono at that timo. Operas, bull-ights, opora-bouffo, and many ~ natiomal sports, - make of their lifo a particularly gay and joyous ono. All the mombers of the family, young and old, babios in arma and grandparonts, gather in the salon, in tho ovening, after dinnor; and, now that they have adopted -the Eng:llsh cus- tom of tes, at 9 o'clock, brought in and mado - at tho tablo, with & bisouit or ceragkor passed around, o mun: at, Bocial, vlunsunt group cannot bo found than ono of theso ovenings at home with Peruvians. It hins ofton beon A WONDER TO ME when the onq.a od mombors of the family found timo to tell thoir loves, and moot for sty kisses slone, sinco, in all the . familics in the beut ' socioty in_ Limn aud. Callso, tho father and mothor are tho very lnst to rotire, and leave tho room only whon the young pooplo have sl retired, and the oung gallanta and boaux bave boen bowod out. 8aw, occasionally, o young couple in the em- brasuro of a window, or sitting behind somo friondly ourtain, but it la considered a great broach of atiottque forany thuato absont thomsolves from tho family-group, and they aro mever allowed long to bo by themselves. ~ But whon all sented togother in famlly-conclave, I have seon n protty wavo of the fan, and a suddon uplifting of tho dark eyelashos, that meanta ¢ world of meaning and of love,” to tho fortunate one to whom it woa addressed. ‘Warpa. = — e MAX ADELER'S HUMOR. From the Philadelphta Saturday Evening Poit, BAWYER'S ONLY DEFECT, ‘Whon the Sawyers roturned from their wed- ding trip, wo of courso called upon them. Mrs, Bawyer alono was at home, aud, nftor a briof diecuesion of the weather, tho conversation turned upon Bawyer. ‘We had known him for many years, aud wo took ploasure in making Mrs. Sawyer bolieve that hio had ae much virtue a8 an_omnibus load of Yntrinrclxl and martyrs, and tho wisdom of Solomon, with a cnug}n of oditions of the rovised cyclopadia thrown in, Mrs. Snwyer assented joyous! to it all, but we dotected a ebado of ead- ness on her face whilo“she spoke. Wo asked her if nni‘tmng was tho matter; if Baw- yor's health wos not good. **Oh, yes,” sho 8nid, “*very good, indeed, snd she loved him doarly. He was tho best man in the world; but —but—" Thon we assured Mrs, Bawyer that she might spesk frankly to us, as we were Baw- yor's most intimate fricnd, and could probably bmooth any littlo unpleasantness that might mar thoir happincss. Sho thon eaid it was noth- ing. It might seem foolish to speak of it; sho know it was not her doar husband’s fault, and she ought not tocomplain ; but it was hard, hard to submit, when she reflected that there was but one thing to provent her boing Enm.-cuy happy: yes, but ono thing; “for oh, Mr, Adelor, I would ask for uulhluf more in this world if Ezokiel only had a Roman nosel!” We did not mention tho pubject to Ezekiel when wo mot him, for fear of uxcitini\ him, But it is sad to think of two young lives beiug mado_miserablo, and two loving hearts soparated, just for tho want of one Roman noge. But it is partly Mrs, Bawyor's own fault. Any woman who truly loved her hus- band might, wo_think, live happily with him i he liad o nose like o bar of Onutile sonp. FOOD FOR INFANT MINDS, Wo have rocelved tho first number of & new Bunday-school papor just igsued in Chicago. It hos for ts motto, ** Onward to Heavon,"” and it containg & request for a notice from other papers. One of the most prominent items in it ia the following : Old Bangs was o littlo too fond of his bitters,—and ono day, after tuking a snifter or two too many, ho lay down the roadaide toslecp. A buzzard observed him, and, thinking he waa dead, alighted on his breast and’ pecked Wim in the faca, Wheroupon old Dangs Tooked up and_said, *You'ro & leatle bit too smart; I ain't dead yot,” ‘We donot profesa to know much about the best methods of luulruuuni children, but this gooms tous tobo just tho kind of intelloctunl food to fill the infant mind with a yoarning for puro roligion, and to dispose it to scok to find peaco in holinoss, - Tho child whose tou- deney to yiold to the impulues of original sin impols itto walk intho path of wickedness, naturally would embrace the truth of Chris- tionity with impotuous ardor, immediately aftor rondiu¥ about the snifters of old Bangs, and if the alluslon to bittors did not couviuce such an uvll—dla&)uaud babo of the instability of all carthiy happinoss, cortainly the conversstion botwoon Baugs and the buzzard would create an irropressible longing for colestial joys. We oan cordinlly commend sich a papor &4 this, TIE HIRED OIRL. ‘Thore is one roason why we should rogret to havo the present trouble with domestic servants ondod. It is becpuso women dorive 8o much pleasuro from discussing tho subjoct. Place two womeon togother, and it makes no dif- foronco whore tho conversation starls from, it will be perfectly cortsin to work around to the hired-girl™ question before man; minates havo olapsed, Wo havo scen an el- dorly honsokenyor, with oxperionco in con- ducting tho talk in the right direction, bronk into o discusslon of Pythagoras and tho dogtrine of the trausmipration of souls, and switch. off the ontiro dobato with such oxpodi- tion that an unsophisticated listenor would for somo moments have an indistingt improssion that the couversation referred to the inofticiency of Pythagorns 88 o washor and ironer, and to the tondoucy of that heathan philosophor to take two Thursdays out overy woock, And when & woman has an unusually villainous Lired girl, wha burns up tha coal, wastes tho buttor, mixes Lior hnir in tho bisonit, and stuffs hor rolations with tho sugnr, it is intoresting to observa how aho glories in the nuporlorihy of hor sufferinga to thoso of her neighbors, and how, aa she tolls of them, she i!aulu over her misery and feels good about it. A woman who has a rnnll{ compotent servant is always in o condition of abj eduess on such occasions, —_— ‘Traveling Companlons; From the Pall Mall Gazette, At this senson of tho year a man natnrally falls to musing which of his frionds would Lo to go touring with him, Say that Aand B wre chums of that sort who know all cach ofhor's anacdotos and foibles,” Thoy agree to go abrond for two months, and instautly comes the pro- oct wrotcli hava an alrof clarming frocdom sud; uniyeto, ‘Thoy wlllfio to tho oonsolo, and, taking an or- namontal bottlo of porfuniory, coma:up.to you avhile talking, sud - - o " B th £0p Of. 341in rond, 3¥ "bp. i oithor upon the top of . y ond, P your ook wt poue collar, - BAGWIA they tafl to d¢ is at your firat vislt, remombor you aro not ox- pocted even fo-call upon theur-agsim-and-are-ei=- .!lmr considerod beneath-their notice, or they wh} bold an avorsion to you forover moro, Thoy all play tho piane, harp, or guitar, yory-flnoly, ofton | without reading by noto, and will’ play without urging. They are alwaya roady for a dauce, and danco gracefully and in perfodt - timo, And you aro almost_fascluated by tho soft, lsuguld: eyes,-| the clear olivo complaxion, the ioayy blsok. hair,. | all growing upon tho_ head,—tho liquid Bpanish scoont, tho perfest asso of thair xanners, and the plonsure of your visit.: Dut you: canuot but DROPH, seo that thoy aro " . - 3 ¢! ILLITENATE AND YERY IONORANT § that, though the dismonds s“lluum upon small porfectly-formed, brown hiands, liminary dispute ns to whore audhiow, * Where?" means through what country on the map, and “Iow?" shnll it bo in first-class enrringes or on foot, with dross-coats, lottors of jutrodno. fion and circular notos, or with nothing but #:voliso, a stick, and two pairs of double- soloa? Aftor much strifo ~concossions aro mado on both sides, and it is sottled that thero shall ba dross-confs for emorgoncios, but no lottora ¢ of introdnotion ; double-soles and stticke for picturesque roglons, and first- clugs cartiageg whora tho land is barron, This ia sarp ta.lead/todifioultiea by-nud-by, and A and B will ‘certainli diffor more than onoe ns to what is picturesquoe and what noty but it snflces for the!; raaunt.'nnd‘rnolhlpf: romaing but o little hitelr rospootiy™ o~ slortost or longost mon routes, ogofierattile, If A dislikos tho son, Lwillbea cnls» ta) sailor; aud lot A koop a cau- tioijs eye on énml'umk.vmll to his manmuvres, Ioit the latter.should lnsonsibly beguile him to- warda conste, ithero; by gpoclous ropresonta~ tlons as to the smoothnbia of “the wea, entlco THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, SEPT enpora with him during threa weoks of horror and snguish in the Dny of Biseay, Such things liavo happened, and will agaiu ; but we are sup- posing that A ia prudont, so that lio and B start ploasnntly, and havo no words till thoy roach the Cont{nont, whon It turns out, aa usual, that ono profora Bordentx and tho ather mlrgnndr; ono fu for strictly natlvo hotots, and tho othor for cosmopolitan houses of tho now nrd hngo sort; ono wants to dino at tho table d'hote, and talk with tho othor viaitors, the oth- or objcots to any but dinnors a In carte, and will form ' acqunintanco with no mau, Thosa aro small polnta; but thon with what oxasperating obstinacy thoinm nluufi to by both parties, At hisclub”in London Amaynot care n straw whothor ho drinks Larosa or Pomard, but s #oon a8 hosots foot In France ho Inunches a wholo theory ns to Durgundy boing honting, while B, not to bo outdono, talkas sncoriugly of Bordoaux as beiug & weak and washy vintago, only fit for old women, As to the bLotols, x's proforonco for the native housos is basod on tho notion that {f you visit foreign lands you should 800 the most of them, and that if you liko to lodgo in overgrown caravanserios “filed with Lnglish, it would havo boou much simplor to ga to Brighton, and romain thero j but to this B rotorts that the main point {s comfort, which is only 40 bo found in the most modern liotals, tho smallor ones boing sordid and unclean, though wilh » porvorse inconelstoncy which can procoed {from no other motivo_than that of making A's tooth gnasn, B will havo nothing to say to the table d'otea at tho blg Liousos, becauso of tholr mixed company. Flerco and many woro the discussions whioh tlfis mixod company pxjomalnu. ngnn &ro mon Who can nover go a journoy without makiny frionds all do\vngu.m line, '%hny bogin on znf stoamboat, exchango cards with strangors, be- como band and glove with porsons of suspicious sspoot, and if & protty face superveno—swhich it iuevitably doos—plunge into courtships which, beginning in refroshment-room civilitios, end anyhowornover endat all. If A bo ono of theso affablo souls, dopond upon it, B will have Just the contrary fomporamont, and protest with nnorgf nagainst boiug lod into romautlo groves or on to lonoly benches, t!lln]fldvE that A may fall in accidentally with that handeoma young “person hometin the trmin, and when ‘it comeato s quostion of gumnF up n dinner party and invit- Ing that dingy fellow-pnssongor, whom A lias discovored to bo o mosk romarkable man, B atrikon in disgust, and vows that it wns not for this sort of thing thal ho loft England, These opisodon being oft_ropestad on the journoy gonorally ond by B's offering with friendly asperity to go asunder from A, since they are so dissimilar in their tzatos, whoroas A professes to ropent, and goes for tho noxt fow days whithor- socver B leada him, though it seldom takes long boforo ihey are af war npialn. robably abont guides. A’likes o gulde to tell him all about the ruinod castles and to Y{oln! out historical odifices in tho stroots ; B thinks that the groat fun is to wandor about nnd dincover things for ono's-golf, guidos being linrs every ono and bores into tho bargain—which romark nlso holds good as to the carringes which take ono to battlo-fields, B de- claring that it {s infivitely plensanter to walk and fut up an appotite, But'tho most vexed conton- ions of ol arigo as to Sunday occupntions, If A has read up the aphorism of doing in Turkey o the Turkoys do—that is, attond theatres,horso- races, and bull-fights—never foar but that B will dovelop tho strictost views concorning Sabbath observance, and aa on theso points n question of ways forced to yleld—not without rosolvin, mournfully, perchance, that noxt yonr ho almfi go. tuurinl(:v along, A nico kiud of traveling companion to have iy ono who likes practical jokes. Generally de- mure, his propensity to mystify the werld ‘does not rovenl {iself till ho is woll undor way j thon ho gots & portmanteau full of cigars through tho custom-houso by tolling the ofticials that thero is 8 young rattlosnake Insido, and choor- fully tondoring thom his koys that thoy may oo for themselves, or ho roquests a norvous old E:munmnn on the train to bo carsful and not iok his carpot-bag, bocauso it containa o pound of dynamite, or ho romarks audibly in n crowded jago that o passonger who has got out is evidently but just rocovering from the small- ox, Jokors thus facotiously disposed have con known to onliven their companions by ex- prossing thomsolves publicly and in loud terms ngflfluu the Government of tho Siate where they aro traveling, so that, as thoy plensantly ndd, s dotoctive Las . gov into tho carrings bohind them, =nnd {8 following them ss comspirators. But theso amusing mim aro npt to termiuato disngroen- bly. A, who has jpoun]nrly contrived to got Looked ma a conspirator, may bo suddenly ar- restod in bed at cock-crow, whoreupon B sponds & memorable weok in hunting up tho British Consul, telographing to tha Foreiga Office, boing cxow-?unsuouod, by magistratés, sud oventually obtaining A's relonso only to bo ordered por- emptorily out of the country with him, This climax, howover, nover damps A's spirits, and he will bo certain to romember the adventure to all timo a8 * that jolly day when you and I got into trouble,” Another pleasing varioty of companion is the one who travels not_eolely for amusemeut, but for instruction. This sort of man dooa not earo for cathedrals and musoums, but will drag you through wanufactorios, ‘over aqueducts, into tunnels, and down ~sewors. His pockets are full of notes; ho has appointmonts at sunrigo ; brings in men of scionce to breakfast, ond comes back to diuner worn ouf and covered with mud, pitch, and coal-dust. The chancos aro ho will want you to help kim to caniln a book, and send you proofs for revision oll through tho following winter; but much ss ou may suffer at his hands, Lo is porhapa loss orriblo on the whole than the artist companion, For nman who ig no artist himself to bo linked witha traveling companion who has brought a skoteh-book, and may bo an easel, with him is the orowning load of trial, Nothing, indodd, beats it, for thoroia no boaring up with the tribulation by morely racing about with tho mci- entifio friond, or by vonfinfix o furious Indigna- tion agninst tho jokor. The artist-companion cncamps himsolf on tho top of a bleak oliff, and tolla you that he shall only bo fivo minutes sketching that strip of the ses, wheross most ofiem bo I8 fiye houra. When you want him for lunfin, ho hna clambered on to tho roof to jot dovrn tho outlines of a steeplo; whon you just have ton minutos to eatch tho train, ho hns gono off down & valloy with a swinocherd in isttorsa who moans to show him the dovil's pnes over 'm watorfall. If it rains, ho talks of tho fino effects of (he misf bothing the mountain ridges; if the fsun is Daking hot, ho invitea you to earry his white um- brolla into a plain whore there is not tho stump *of o treo for glade; and, if it suddenly fropzes, he foole lio should fika to tako you out of doord st1in tho morning to watch the moonbenms glinting ovor tho hoar-frost. And, with a sickly want of candor, you aro obliged to encourage thoso villainies, admiro his landscapes, assuro him that the pumpin the hotel yard, which ko liaa drawn on his millboard, is most truo to nature, and that tho walter, who brings you u tho vileat tea, has a fine Roman profilo, an would do excellently for Curting jumping down tho gulf, Whon you get hold of an_artist-com- panion you are not likely to forgot it. There is & lnst spocies of follow-touriuts who must bo classed nimn—nnmolr, tho man who takes yon off to Ireland, ostensibly to enjoy the Iakes, but will the real and fell purpose, as you afterwards disover, of assisting him to canvass a conatitu- ency. This man, howover, has no claim to the titls of companion. Ho roscmbles the peas which I:ll;irlms of yoroe wero condemned to putinto helr shoog, though with this difference, that the pilgrims ara sald to Lave sometimon Boiled the peas, wheread tho law will not allow you to boil a politicinn, —_—— Mistory of Rats in Europe, The Iast number of the COatholic Magazine containa an nxcundlnsly intorosting articlo on tho history of rats in Europe: “Tholato inundation of the Sormo, which causcd #0 many disastors, ocoasioned ono of which thero had beon no expoctation, In entoring the sew- ers which opon {nto tho river, tho wators drove on an immonso numbor of rats, who wore ‘thus carriod into tho houses which stand upon the quays or in their noighborhood, ‘Tho houses were complotely ovorrun by those Lorrible crea« tures, and for & week their inhabitants mado In- coxsant raids upon them, by moans of torrior- dogs, traps, sud poison. In tho RueBaluto Julion lo Pauvro, in one day ono hundred and forly rats of enormoun size woro dostroyed. ** Now, the question is, whonce did tho rats como which in such numbera fnvaded our shores? Without dosigning an historical courso of ratology, thore ars many details whioh might bo communleatod rogarding tho origin of thana crenturen, which aro of a very interesting na- turo; & raro book upon tho historical curiosition of Paris, published about tho middle of the lost ocontury, and other works by erndite schiolars, uurnlf much information onthe subject. " Tho logions which woro ao unceremoniously dislodged tho other day came from the borders of tho Casplun Bea, ut _before spesking of those foreigners, a fow words are in order about the brown rat--a rat which is almost extinet, in ocousaquence of the war which for 100 {nnm they hinye boon compolled to carry on with the red, or Aulatio rat, “The brown rat was himeelf an emigrant; his roign was by flfih& of canquert, not of birth, Ho eamo with tho barbariaus from the North. As the surfaco was ocoupied, thero was a corro- #ponding occupation bonoath it. Thore was tho rat of tho Goths, tho rat of the Yandals, the rat of tho Hung, the hande aronot | him on board a friond's yaoht which shall cut {,. %The brown rat was tho rat of tho Vandals. { Whon he camo to France thoro sas no one for bim to dlslodgo fn ordor to find room. ‘Tho Gauls wero not infosted by any Individunls of this kind, and must thorefore haye boon rathor m‘u;xl)flun b the appoaranco of “this unkuown visitor, ‘* Ak tho sight of tho ravagea by whioh ho firat bul.mlcl\ his 7nongnlln, it mfi;ht nva hoon pup- {mnn that his coming was an inimodinto visita- lon of Divinoe justico. A pastego of Grogory of ‘Tours tolls how the inbabitunts of Parly, who could not account for thls subtorranoan in- vasion in sny rationnl manner, sought its oxplanation in s fablo, Thelr town of Lutotla, l,ho‘y eaid, had nlways beon soouro from fires aud tho attacks of hurtful animals, by tho pro- tection of agod to whom thoy hau offored homago, burying cortain imagos in a conscorated placo. b‘nfurluuntuly, in dlll?glns a Bower, ono of thoso Loly images was displacod, and thon theso burtful nnqulB took posscssion of the town, and it was ravagod by fires. “Onco mnsators of the Hoil, the brown rats moved not. Thoy ouly sent any army of occu- pation in.the uite of Willilam ‘the Conqueror, whon ho wont to ‘invade England ; and theso English rats slso found monng for moking an irruption into Irgland, Tho froge, so abundont there, proved a delicate morsel, and thoy feasted upon thom with 8o good an appotito that ono fine morning the wlmfis nrnnklnfi‘pnpuminn liad disapponred, Tho rats, falling thoir provisions, diappoared in their turn. “Toward 1047, shortly bofore tho TFrondo, thoro was s rumor in P'aria that a now kind of rat had suddenly appoarod, and distinguished iteolf, not only by ita ravagoes, but by tho des- porato battloa 1t wagod with the brown rat, the mastor of tho soil. Tho now comors wero 0f an {ron-gray color, and on this account wero called vulcans, !The surmulot, the raco which now reigns, that terriblo animal which csunot bo drawa from Montfaucon, and it is' found will hold good its place In the quarters of tho marketa and tho Palals Royal, did not arrive till & hun- dred years lator. i “In tho {nn of 1725, there wore torrible enrthquakes in the countriea on the bordera of the Cm:f:lun Beo, From the dopth of tho abys- so8 euddonly oponed from the bosom of tho mountain in labor, what came forth? Rats which were largo snd fat, and armed _with for- midablo tooth, and with thoir long red hair had a torribla appearauco, Thoy advanced in im- moneo battalions, and thoir arrival in Askalon in the autumn of 1727 was_romarkablo. Nothhng stopped them, not even rivers, for thoy are goo: Bwimmers, Tlmy cithor passed the Volga or took }wsuunulon in logions of tho vessels which thoy found thore, Others pushed on in an opposite direction, A whole army moved simultancously toward Siboria, and lmvin% ontored tho littlo town of Juikh, mastered it. The town was then tnkon by asssult, The attack took plnco at 4 o'clock in the evening, and s quarter of tho town was given up by tho conquered to tho conquerors. . “Tho veseols Iying in tho Ruesian ports, on board which tho surmulots had taken freo pas- sago, returned to Franco, and tho hungry rats wora tho first to disembark, ‘*T'wenty yonrs later the surmulots woro mas- ters. Tho black rat cannot make hoad sgainst this intruder, strongor than ho is, bettor armed with teeth, and ronowing his legions throo times B yoar, by & birth of from twolve to twonty litile ones onch time, Ho dissppenred, aud his exist- enco is now ono of the myths of tho sewers of Paris and London, “The black rat has been driven from England by tho gray rat, to which the name of Hanover rat has boon given, on necourt of the time of his appourance in that country, and ho is now master of tho situation,” ———— ENGLISH MINERS. A Miner’s FetceaUnderground People under the Skiew, A miner's foto i doescribed as follows in tho columns of tho London Daily Telegraph: **Thres ifllrfl sinco, hnp{‘uuiug to bo in tho neighbor- ood of Briorly-hill, Btaffordshire, about this sonkon, I was an invited guest at an annual out- ing and rural foto of pit lada aud their femalo frionds. Tho proceediugs wore, howgvor, not dignified by tho titlo of fote. ¢ Biinkes ' was tho modest torm applicd to the entortainment, and I fael bound to say that it comprehondoed so many features of Ahi(i‘h]y objectionable naturo as sot ouo thinking that it this was the inovitablo result of mak.hxsJl a body of men to delvo for their daily bread In the bowels of the dark earth, tho soonor we return to tho primitive prnchco of roasting, and boil- ing, snd warming our abodo by means of sim- plo wood, the better, Womon as woll as * lnds ' attonded, and although on a moderate _cstimato oach one of thom must have consumed ot loast four shillings' worth of ntoxicating liquor, tho ‘value of tho gowns that onch wore was not half the monoy. Among the amusementa was a dog- fight in a distant corner of tho field, whoro tho womon wero s froo ns their husbands to back o favorito pu{ for a shilling ; & man fight; and—n sight, thank Heaven, I never witnossed before or sinco—a woman fight; & regular strip-to-the- waist, stand-up set-to, tho backers on the one side boing tho husband, and on the other side s noble-minded swain, the sceopted suitor of tho pugilistio maid who was the marriod woman's antagonist, If I remember rightly, at tho oloventh round tho maiden Amazon, by = shoulder-hit full ut the other's broast, cauged such a suddon and prolonged fainting-fiv that sho was unable to como up to tho soratch whon tho timo was called, and, despita her hue- baud's strenuous endoavors to ‘bring to' the wifo of his bosom by bonding Ler thumbs and applying a pinch of strong souff to her inani- mato nostrilg, the aponge was thrown up, To ho sure, tho stakes were only a quart of rum, and it was some consolation to observe that a quarter of nn hour aftorward the parties concorned wero all partaking of it a8 amicably na possible, but it Wwas an %gly sight, and one to bo remomberod, On Monday, when I snw a placard posted sgainat the wall of tho railway arch at Leamington, an- nouncing in bold tm that noxt day tho Amal~ gomatod Socioly of Minors of theBilston District would this yoar hold their annual foto at a woll- known pleasuro grounds within two minutos' walk of tho most fashionablo parade, it flashed to my mind that tho miners woro now a roformed race, who wore ro}mted to have grown 88 [amiliar with tho flayor o champagus as thoy proviously woro with common fourpenny ; and tho placard consed to bo startling, Tho romain. per of the announcoment set forth that *winos and rpirite of the bost qunlit{ and cigars of tho fineat brands, would bo provided on tho #pot by scompetont and trustworthy j“d%;: of such goods; and, furthermoro, that a celebratad military band would be in attendanco and perform *n so- loction of oporatic and dance music,’ ¢ Whynot ? why should not coal-minors drink champaguo it thoy hiave a mind to ?' inquired tho gentleman who was rocontly examined a8 & wituness on tho Parlismontary Commission; and if, finding thom- solves slightly disordered after the Iluxurious libation, thoy have a mind to try Loamington watord to sob thom right, what, pray, is to hin- ‘thlr gbemi Not tho present prico of coal, cor- ainly. “Tho Brierly Blinks, however, reourred so froshly to my memory that I feel an iuclination to go and seo how au amalgamatod brotherhood of modorn miner, accompanied by thelr wives and swecthearts, disported themsolves, It i thirty miles from Bilston to Loamington, and o gpecial train brought the sturdy excursionists. ‘They camo with s band, and they camo with bauner; and if the Bilston fotes of oldwere auy- thing like that alroady alludod to, the change. was nothing ehort of marvolous, To ba sure, of the hundreds whoin docorous procession marche ed,headed by tho band,thero wore o fow ronghpit Inds, but thoy sorved to ot off the respoctability of tho great majority. Discredit hns beon thrown, and pnfl.\ngu desorvedly, on the champagno story, but thero can bo uo mistake to tho coul- minors' improved worldly position, Itis recorded of iho now misorably "hard-up Spitalfelds woaver, that thirty yoars ago, when his trade was at the hoight of pmapurfly, it wos that proud artisan's ambition to wear silver erown- pieces instond of buttona ou his coat. A flush of mouoy has not drownoed the pltman's common sense to this extont at present, but it caunot be denied that It has botrayed him into inconsistons cies. Ho dresscs his wifo in expensive stuffs, and not unfroquently in blye ailks of the fashion able tint, and” with whito lace rufiles at her wrists, The profits off ourhouso coal, at two guinens o tou, enablo him to place inthe hands of his wifo and daughtors costly ernan]n and to adorn thoir hoads with bair, and bonnefs o docoratod with seoming froits and flowors that it 18 a wonder tho' birds and becs do not nssnil thom, If they folt half as happy as they looked in thelr flnory, one imight be tompted almost to oxeuso the worthy pitman, though ho worke only four doys a wook in place of six. The improved pit- man has donned o {all hat, wours collars, and somehiow he contrivos to torturo bis Lonost, conl-mining hands into kid glovos, 1lo is ad~ dicted to trousors ent to tho Intost stylo, and has cast amdo the neat and easy woodon-sola clogs in tavor of fashionabla boots, not unfrequently of patont loather ; thnufh, atrangely enough, in Lis hurry to bocome gontcel—and as was in more than ono luatauce evidenced in his dancing on tho green at Leawmington—ho does not yot thor- oughly comprebiend that modorn society cannat digponse with socks and slookings. It looks odd to aco nn inch or so of naked linb betwoon a_ gontloman’s boot-top and trousers-bottom when he i waltzing, and, for that matter, to see W put two of his bogloved fingors iu’ Lia BER 28, 1873. mouth, that ho may omit na shrill whinllo to natiract tho attention of .his wifo, in light bluo silk, at the furthor ond of tha flold. But thouo are Lriflos that exporionco will doubtlens sot right. It is not in a splrit of the lonat unkindnosh that I mnka theso rovolations. 1t tho conl-miner oarna at tho prosent Limo twico a8 much as Lo ueod to do—say fitly shillingy fu- slend of five and twonty—no ono who hns nny nequaintanco with his labor would for n moment bogrudga him the largor nmount. It is Lorrible work, onruu what ho must_pardon mo if I per- alst in ealling tho borrowed plumago in whiok T enw him and bis 500 motos yostorday, [t was painfully ensy at a glanco to porcelve how con- Btantly Lo porils hiy limbs and his oye-slght in onmning hia daily brond. Ovor and over again o Bcoro of times aralsod hand discoverod a thumb or a fingor, somotimes {wo, gono; while men with only ono oyo wors ns common as nmnuf U8 are mon woaring spootscles. Nor wag this all. Of their wholo numbor, one in ton at lonst boro on his face bluo fcars of powder-blnsting, and some wore dlsfig- ured with jagged and deep sears oxtonding from brow to chin, ~ Aud noarly all are stuntad, and have round shoulders, and wan facos, and that shy, blinking gazo that invariably distinguishes mon who labor in somi-darkness, " Iwould rather bo an_abovo-ground tiller, even though all through my lito I was unablo to cover my hoad with a chimney-pot hat, and breon waa the only kind of moat which once a weck edorned my oard, Ho far, the fato of the Amalgamated Miners of Bllston, I may briefly sny, was o success, 1t was rathor slow in tho early part of tho atter- noon; but after tho comfortabla baskets, well- stocked with eatables and drinkables, had beon broached, and tho kid gloves of all had heen pockatad, and the tall bats, and a groat many of tho flowering bonnets had boen taken off and. hung on thoindxes, ovon the malo miners ap- ourod to forgot tho pinching of thoir patont- :&fih'?r shocs, and all went morry as o marriago oll. P — A SAGACIOUS DOG. One That is Worth Ilis Focd. From Chambers’ Journal, One of tho dogs whose ways we havo watohed with great interost was o fino Nowfoundland. His name was Calder, from the nawe of a neigh-~ boring stream. e was a noblo animal, vory largo, vory gentle and playful, with au fix%m!u- 1ve faco, lnrge hanging oars, a groat quantity of rich curling hiair, and o bushy tail that somo- times, when it waa whisked incautiously, brush- od things off tho tablo, Ho was vory intolli- ont, and ovidontly undorstood many things hat woro said to him, Woe are vory suro thnt ho know the mnames of many things, for ho went to geok them whon ho was told, ond brought the thingnamed, 1o scemod to fool much pride in carrying anything with which bie waa fustructed, and nothing gratified him more than to be pormitted to carry in his mouth his master's snuff-box ; although, if itwas prosontod to him open, he drew back from it with signa of groat disiike, making grimaces and uttoring little short barks. Whon his master hinppened to leave home without his snuff-box, Le sometimos sont_Calder back for it, nnd, as tho omission hiad already probably been discov~ erod, tho purposo of tho dog's return was spaod- ily understood, and tho snuff-box intrusted to him, with which he mado all haste to hin mas- ter, nover failing to carry it safely. Ho was gomotimes permitted to carry a walking-stick or an umbrolla, which evidontly afforded him groat dolight. ‘To carry nn umbrells, especially, wag an honor which he seomed to appreciato as highly as any maco-bearer or ushor of tho White Rod can appreciato tho duty of his offico. 'Fo satiefy him in this particular, as it was found that & good umbrolls was not improved by being carriod in mouth, an old ono was given him for his own ospecial bonefit. On one occasion, he mado the mistake of tsking tho umbrella with Lim when ho wont for & awimm o lake, along the gide of which the road led. Ho happoned to lot it go whilo howas in the water, and it sank to the bottom, and, that part of the lake being shal- low, his swimming end diving stirred up 80 much mud that ke could not find it again, and had to bo called off. I! was intoresting to sco how shawne-faced ho was when he cane home and the story of the umbrolla was told. He boro all roproachos meekly, but hung his head and lot bis tail droop. A waek or ton days afterwards, liowever, ho was ordered to neek for and bring tho umbrella, which mission he faithfully ex- ocuted, roturning {friumphant with tho™ lost articlo {n his mouth, There wna nothing in which ho more dolighted than to carry an ogg, Ho novor seoned to think of an egg 88 a thiug to be eaton ; but apparently hiad a notion that it was something valuable, and much to bo proforred to a stono, which ho would gomotimos pick up in his gamboling, ond fling it out of his mouth nagain “rfl carolossly. Of an egg ho always tool grent care. e know whero tho hens' nosts woro, and, a8 some of them were easily necesiblo to him, he oceasionally visited thom, and thon might 'bo sean walking slowly an proudly, with hesd aloft, and an ogg in his mouth. The sorvants soon learned to know from his demeanor when he lad su egg. It called upon by them, he was not always wiiling togive it upat once, but drow back, facing thom, vagging hig tall, aud looking all delight, Howover, 1f they let him alone, ho was satisfiod with taking a short promonadoe, and then camo and doposatted the cg(;' upon the kitchen floor. Ho was evidontly quite awara of the danger of bronking it, laid it down on tho ntone floor with grent caution, and then scomed to take no furthor interest in it, but was quite willing that any ono should tako it way. We could give many instances of his powars of refleotion. o S ol e ~ THE WORLD AND I. Whether my heart bo glad or no, Tho summers come, tho AuMmMOrs go, Tho Ianoa grow dark with dyiug leaveay dcloles hang benoath tho caves ; Thie aators Withor to tho suow. Thus doth tho summer end and go, Whathor my lifo bo glad or no, Whether my lifo bo ad or no, Thio winters como, tho wintern go, The sunshine plnys with baby lcaves § Bvallows build abont tho oaves ; Thie lovely wind flowers bend oud blows Thus doth tho winter cud and go, Whother my lifo bo ssd or no, Yet Mother Rature gives to mo A fond aud ‘\;\n!(nnt sympathy ; In my own heart I find tho charm To make bor tondor, neor, and warm “Ihrough summer sunshine, winter sbow, Bhe clasps mo, sad or glad or 1o, —Harper's Magazine, ——— ficene ot tho Freedmon’s Bank in Washington, From the Washington Star. There wero somo droll scancs at the counter of tho Froedmon's Bauk fto-doy. The assombly is & mixed one, the colored race, of course, pradom- inating, and many quostions aro askoed which rovoko laughter.” One old colored mau, with a lack Lot woll orowded down over bhis oyes, look- ing vory much as if a hon had hatchedin ll,hnv- ing in"his hands two umbrollas aud o fishpole, and a blauket wrapped around his tattored coat, shouted at tho top of his voice, upon rocoguiziug a femalo acquaintance, * Fore God, Busan, chilo Lus walked all do way from Pohick to got dat soventy- fivo' conts; aint gwine to lose nn;iuuug, shuah honoy. IIow dy'e.” Auother as black ag Erebus rollod in with a chenp travoling trunk, His sppearance was tlio signal for general Inughter, for hisiphyslognomy would have pro- voked it, asido from the trunk which ho carried, A husky volco criod out: *‘What am you gwine todowith that trunk?" ‘OD, you go way chilo; Tain't got no pockots, deys dono gone, aud I'so got free hundrod dollars; I has. ~ You oor trash can Iaff all you want,” o foll in at ho rear of tholino, and dragging his trunk, awaited until ‘ita ** longthoned awootnoss, lon, drawn,_out,” should placo him at the portsl ‘whero the monoey-teller would hand him his cash on domand. Quito an amusing incidont ocourred in which the Hon, Potor Campboll figured. An old col- ored mau, whoue locks were frosted to & white- noss which botokened four score yoars and ten, baving a whip slung over his shouldor, shufiled in with his number twonty Loots, and walked in tip-too, fearing, perhaps, he might soll the tos- solated floor, Espylug tho Hon, Potor, he ox- claimod : 4 Pralso do Liord, honoy, I's done glad you'so heah § I'so loft cart widn lond of conl up heah on do corn, to aoo ahout the olo woman's money, ~—he's done got the bank-book,~in the namo of od, what must I do 7" BIr. Campboll nssured tho old man that ho had mouoy with the bank, and proposed to leava it, funsmuch s ho considerod that thoy could woathor any storm; the bauk was organized by tho frionds of the colored man, and “they need not bo afraid of any troublo or loas to thom, ‘Upon recolving this intolligonco, tho old man throw up his hat and orlod ont: #'Foro God! Bomobody pat ‘Juba’; T wants to dance! 'Fore God, boss, I'se leave my old woman's monoy hero, sink or swim 7" And casting a contemptu- oud look on those in line, he waid: ** Yon'se all Thomasea! Oh, yo of lltlo faith! Took at the po' trash trylug to 'barrasd dore frionds—I'so gwino to my cart, Tam " Tholold apple-woman of Coltio origin Liad her *'chick" book, and was anxious that tho ** dommod unger olarks" should hurry ug as gho wantod hor §2.60 Leforo tho s dirty blaok bouk bust up.” SUPERNATURAL REVELATION. A Dead Corse Revisita the Glimpses of the Moon, “Foul Deeds Will Riso, Though All the Earth 0'erwhelm Them, to Men's Eyes," Porrundo oursolves to the contrary ns wo may, thore Is yot something in tho supornntural which dofios unconditional skopticiem, and ‘forbids us to donudo oursolves ontirely of tho mystorious mantlo with which it has, for 5o many ages, en- robed us, Wero wo guidod by ronson alono, wo sliould find no difioulty in rejocting the volumes of testimony, sggrogated and acoumulntod 88 thoy aro, which every gonoration hsa collected. But, whon faots presont themselves with suok unyielding stubbornnoss as successfully to rosist tho whole panoply of argument,—facts sup- ported by what would appesr to bo thn_mon Irrofragablo ovidenco on which human. ‘judg- ment can roly,—wo aro compellod to admit OUR UTTER INABILITY to faco thom down with more donlal, or escapo the eonviction with which they would soom over- wholm us. : ‘Tho inoldenta which I sm sbout to rolate are, for the first time, reduced to thoe fgrm of a coho- ront narrative, complled from tho official records of tho court of law which gave its final and solomn sanction to tho tragio story, and from ro« poatod soarohing inquiries of and convorastions with tho party who furnished the principal oral toatimony. At tho vory time that our country waa com- ploting ita third docado, Jomy FowLen satled from Englaud, in the good sbip Jenny Btowart, for Australis. Hero he arrived in good time, after tho long voynge of that day. No golden dronma had suggosted his oxpatriation; for at that timo, 88 tho roader romembors, the auriferous doposits, which sinco attracted so many thousands to that distant land, had not yot been brought to light, Fabulous accounts, however, of the succoss whioh followed sheop-farming _ had induced many to invest thoir all in this pursuit. Fowler having brought with him a fair'amount of monoy, immodiately on his arrival purchnsed from the Government largo tracts of land in the vieinity of Melbourne, then an inconsiderablo villnge. Theso lands ha stocked with the bout broods; lio was fortunato in the choico of the sorvauta assigned him by tho convict-authorities ; ond ovorything that he touched scomod - to prosper in his hauds. o was #oon 1n o condition to build n convenient and comparatively-handsomo house; and, - having somo taste for landscape-gardoning, ho beauti- flod ita grounds. He bogan now to breed and deal in horsos, snd monay flowed moro and more freely into his coffors. Ho bocame, in a word, tho 5/ MOST FLOURISIING AND WEALTHY SETTLER in tho wholo district. And yet so resorved and rotiring was this man’s disposition that, in all tue years of his residonce in what grow tobo n opulous neighborhood, he associated with none. Flo wag striotly corroct in all his doalings, punc- tual in all his ongagements, and ‘hnd even beon known, on more than one occasion, to holp an unfortuoato neighbor out of some untoward dilemma; but his doors wero novor opon to other than himeelf, except on busincss, and he sought no other door thun his own. This was, brietly, the condition of affairs when one EMANUEL LOPEZ, & Spaniard, who had been living for some years in o distant point of tho continont (for as such the vast island is now described), and lLad thriven, paid a visit to Molbourno (by this time greatly colarged) and its noighborhood. Tho house,nnd farm of Fowler caught his oyo. It hod boen hintod, bosides, that Fowler con- tomplatod roturning to his native country. Lopez callod on Fowler, and, after a hort inter- viow, actually bargained with him for the pur- chago of his [ands.. A lawyer of ominenco in Molbourne was umplased to proparo’ the neoes- sary ingtrumonts ; and, after an appointed day, tho transfer was comflnted at Fowlor'a house b} tho payment of the purchase-money ani tho exccution of the deeds, in prosence of the witnesses who had beon got togethoer for the oxproes purposo. Before the sopuration of all partios concorned in the transaction, Lopoz had Lesn hoard to invito Fowloer to REMAIN IN THE HOUSE, notwithstanding the ealo, and to consider it utill bis homo until be should bo quite prepared to embark for Englaud, and this invitation Fow- ler had boen heard to gecept. It was but nntural that tho salo of solarge s proparty should become generally Lknown throughout that part of the country, and Towlor's intention of rotwning homo was tho etoreotyped sppendix to each and every anuouncemont of the nows, But, to the surpriso_of nll the neighborhood, Fowler not ouly madoe no overt proparations for going away, but kopt bimsel? so closely conceslod, after the gnlo of Lis Troporly, {hat niono of tho settlers d EVEN LAID EY2S UPON HIM, Though his retiring habits were woll known, nothing absolutoly unkind in bis chnractor had exhibited itself, and the good-hearted poople felt somatwhat burt at his continued reserve, or, if he bad actually sailed that he should have left the neighbors of 8o many years without aleave-taking, But =o it was; and, as Lopoz voluntcered no in- formation on the sub’eut, no inquiries were mndo, and tho nino daya' wondor oxplred with its term, In Australin—~thatland of anomalies, whore gwans aro black and quadrupede woar ducks’ Iills, and Nature so strongly inverts itself,—the rivors flow from tho sea to the interior, and aro full of water only in tha rainy season, When the cloud-springs have passed away, and the a;m's rays resume their ovaporating powoer, these rivers DWINDLE INTO MERE WATER-HOLES, left horo avd thore in the dul'»jpnr bottoms of what wore 8o lately tho river-bods. About six weoks after tho sale of Fowlor's roporty, James Martin, who lived on & farm a ittlo farthor from Melbowrne than Fowler's, was roturning home on liorseback, after having boon to the town on somo ordinary business. It was o moonlight-night. Martin had boon enjoylng the society of somo of bis frionds, after the transaction of his business, and was riding slowly, smoking his pipo, nud auticipating an- other merry meoting when ho should next go to the “city,”ss it lLad now begun to bo called, As ho was passing Lopez's Louse, ho sawa figaro on tho fence on tho opposite slde of the rond, As he approached more nearer, he recognized, with unfeigned amazemont, THE WELL-KNOWN FOWLER, in n stray biat and his shirt-sleeves (his ueual costuine), golnuug with one hand to s wator- holo hard-by. An oxclsmation of surpriso st socing him atill in the neighborhoed after so long o seclusion, involuntarily nscngod Martio, and he rodo up to the fonce to ask the menning of tho fienturu, when tho flgure at once vauishod from ofore Liis oyes | is astonishmont now gave way to fear, and he made tho best of his way homoward, and immodiatoly told his wifs what ho had seon, Bhe was outiroly incrodulons, and attributed his vislon to tho effeots of brandy- and-wator, which ho did not deny having taken, though moderately, while with his friondy in town, And so the apparition was not further spoken of at prasent, * ‘Chrae duys later, anothor visit to town beoame necossary, Said Martin to Limsolf, ©I will carofully abstain from anything n tho loast do- greo mmmuuf this timo, and, if tha figura appoars again, I shall hoar what my wife will thon havo to say.” Ho kept his resolutlon ; and on his roturn in the moonlight, THELE SAT FOWLER, drossod as beforo, evory fanturo ‘plainly rocog- nizablo, on the vur{ portion of the fence ha had before acoupied, still pointing, though with in- oronsed enorgy of gesture, to tho wator-hole, An attompt tb address the figuro was followod b{ its disappenrance, a8 boforc. Haatening to his wife, ho rolatod what had again occurred, and sho was obligad to adnit his porfeet sobrioty, ‘Tho noxt morning thero was a seorot consulin- tlon among the nothom in the fmmodiate vicin- ago, and the wator-holo was dragged, DUT WITH NO NEBULT. As they wers roturning m somo porploxity, from thoir fruitloss search, thoy mok a purty o natives, to whom thoy confldontially communi- catod the object of their quest, Now, tho magaoily ‘of our North Amorican Indlan on o trail has booome proverblal; but the native Australlan has for moro rosourcos s command. Accordingly, ono of tho natived ran to the odgo of tho pool, and lying down, Iflncad tho sido of Lfu ioad s nearly as poasiblo” on a lovel with the surface of tho water, which ho soanned with the minutest eorutiny, 'In & fow momonts Lo rouo to lils foof, and, with an cxprossion of tha snd tedious, fullest confldoneo, said, ** Whito man down thore.” And, whilo the native continued to ine dicate, by tho poluting of his hand, the oxnct spot to bo searcliod, tho sottlors ronewed theis ondonvors, and tha body of Fowler | WAS DIIAGOED FROM THE WATER-TIOLF, The native had observed a thin iiln of animal fat flonting on tho surfaco of tho wator, and his mind was mado up. Topez was sofzod and given ovor to justico, Ho asgertod his innoconco whon tho trisl was bogun, with n calm firmnoss that might have boon mistaken for innocenco itself ; but the ciroumstantinl ovidenco was utmngthculniz itselt from moment to momont, and when, nt lougtlh, Martin told his tale, the prisonor sauk luto an sgony of dospair, 1118 FULL CONFESSION waa mndo shortly bofore the drond sentonce of tho law was put into excoution, The {nvitation to Fowlor to make tho houso his homo, though mno longer hin proporty, was tho firat step In tho dosign of the hollish orimo. - That vory night o murdered his guest, ropossossed himsolf of the purchase-monay, an threw the body into tho river, already dwindling in volume, though ho blindly thought not of it. I offor no commont on the facts I bave horo collocted togathor, That thoy are facts, tho ad- judication of o court of justico has shown, Its zocnrd.l are oxtant and open to public investjga- on, o ey THE REASON WHY. It wax not that T loved her overmuch ot mado our parting bitter s It was not for tho moftnosn of her fouch, Ot hor eyes' glittor § Xt wwas not that hor chicok was rosy falr, Or smooth a8 any Poll‘.h'l 3 Xt was not that shio fiad sucli fots of Linir 'Ax black a8 locolios § It wan not for tho cunning hat she wor, All flowors and luco and zeather, 1t waa not that, though tomperauco to the cors, ‘Wo amiled togother; "Ipas not that whon wo partod her small hand ‘Waved an adjou—I did not so discorn it ; *Twaa that aho borrowed my umbrella, and Did not return it, —— N it HUMOR. 0 matter how amiablo & lady may bo, s tho Now York Afail, fashilon domandy that she shall appear ruffled in publie. —*Who dat hit me? Whoro's dat lantorn 7" :‘vor]u tho‘:&xnll;u}mtl?fiu of au natonishod Elmira arkoy aftor boing thrown something 1) 1 drod foot by a. loc%mulh‘o. B Mo By —No actor has yot been ablo to countorfolt that oxpression of joy which a man sliows when dlucovering & 10-cent slamp in bis peper of -to- bacco. —How difforent is tho bina of men's mindal What opposite tendencios thoy oxhibit in their inyestigation of tho phenomena of mental Bcionco ! Tor oxnm‘fle, the lawyer iuclines to tho nbstract, the builder to the concrato, —Warner, in his “Backlog Studies,” says thore ar stll attompts mado to bring up'n fam- ily round & “registor,” but you might just as woll try to bring % up by hand a8 without tho rallying-point of a hoarthstone, —An orphan, under ago, marriod his fomalo guardian in Iflinois, tho othor day, and was compelled to got lior written consent to hig marriage before the wodding could takoe plnce, —The prico of spocklod trout just now Is twenty-five cents s speck. Purchasers who do not count tho spocks aro Jinble to be cheated. ly hearing that a tunnol cost 5,000 franca & yard, importuned her husband to buy ler a dross of that material, —A man who was discovered asleep nmong & lot of tombstones in & stonscuttor's yard, suid, on being awakened, that bo had coma it to buy a monument for himself, and having picked out ono, mado up his mind ho would try it one night before purchasing, ly in Now York had soveral hundred dollars’ worth of polut Inco elippod off her cloth- dog by an adroit thief, while skio was at churoch, slngmi, s Etrl[;) me of the robe of pride, clotho mo in humility, —A. onndidato for the civil service recently gave up his oxamination in disgust, becauso he was asked how many bushels of wheat could be bought for 810 if one bushel cost 40 conts, Ilg gald he hnd not lenrnod anytbing about whont, but hod always done his sums in potatoos aud turnips. —DMistresa (finding the honsemaid for the third time hanging about tho drawing-room door)—* Mary, what are you hero listouing at tho door for 7 ' Hiavon't you any work 2" Mary —*Oh, if you pleaso'm, I don’t mean no 'arm— it's that "ovingly musig | " [N. B. Tho man waa only tuning thie piano {] —Pioche, Cnl., jury-room scone Firat juror —“You auwou aro satisfied that this man com- mitted murder, and yot you object to finding him guilty. Give us your reagon,” Second iunlrlor—-”_WnH, seo lore, old, fellor, we've all illod our man, aud &'poso we kill another ono, how would wo feel if & sot of d—d mesn cusues should conviet us ?” Jury in chorus—** That'y 80 ; Wwo nover thought of that, None of ns will bo safe if we ostablish such a precedont.” Tha prisonor was honorably acquittod. —* Evin CoaMuNIcATIoNs,” ETc.—Lord Regi- nald—Ain't yor goin’ to buvo somo puddin’, Miss Rioharda? " It's so jolly!” Tho Governess— #Tnere again, Reginald! *‘I'uddin''—¢ Goin''— tAin'tyor' {1 That's the wey Jim Dates and Dolly Maple speak—aud Jim's o stable-boy, and Dolly’s a lnundry-maid!” Lord Reginald—"Ah} but that's tho way father and mother spenk, tog —nand father’s & Duke, and mothor's a Duchosa !l Bo there!” B —Tho caution of the New Englander in giving an answer to a direct quostion was illusirated to mo, eays & correspondent, tho other duy, when I asked an Eastorn friend of mine, whoso family were not noted for very active habits, * Was not your fnthor's death ‘very sudden?” — Blowly drawing one hand from his pocket, and pulling down ks board, the intorrogated cautiously re- plied, “Waal, rathor sudden, for him,” ¢ —A Sottler Settled—"I have como,” snid o 8cotch farmer to a neighbor laird who was just dying‘ #I hiave coma to sottlo sbout that bit of land¥ #Bottle 1" cried tho old wranglor; ©how will you sottle’t? Your father couldns settlo’t, aud your grandfathor couldna_gottlo't, and tha ‘fiftoen’ couldna sottlo't, and how will you set- tle't 2" “ OL," said the rival claimunt, " T'll lot you hava it altogethor,” “But I'll no tek'it," cried the atout old litigant, aud he turned his faco rosolutely to the wall, —A. correspondont, writing from- a Jersey camp-meoting, tolls tho following: ** Many poople sloep in the eame tent Lore, being sepe arated by partition. A young Mothodist fellow from Camden had beome quito interosted in a protty duugmor of a religious farmor. Lost night, whilo a dozon of cold-hearted fellows ware trying to ’h"i’i they heard him enyina low, swest voica: ‘ Now, Caroline, doar, lot mo soal the vow, dol' *No, Jamos, I cannot. What would my father and mother sy ?' ropliod tho awoot, girlish voico, ‘But, Caroline, you have promisad to bo_mino—now let us seal tha vow—lot us, do let ms—won't you? Do kmq mel® ¢No, James, I caunot, ohl I cannot-- In a moment, the tont Imrlition partod, and a big-whiskered brothor, who wanted kleop, shout- ed: ‘For God's sake, Currio, Jot him soul that vow. He'll koop us awake all night if you don't.’ Tho vow iwas soaled.” —_— Just Threo Bucks Ahend,’ 11, 0. Wilson, ]an‘nr at Troy, Vt, is one of the men of that class which comprahends tha full valuo of the ** Almighty Dollar,"” aud scldom laty ono slip from his grasp. Now, thore lan law in this Stato which atlows a man in whoso fleld a buck oscapos during corlain days iu the oar, to add eaid buck to his own flock as his fl:dwldual property, Among Wilsou's noighbora ia » boy named Aldrich, Now it happens thata year ngzo this boy owned a buck which, on one oceasion, bunted through Wilson's fenco, and entored upon his freehold to iuspoct his flock, As this fact came to tha kuowledgo of Wil son, his familiarity with tho statuto en- ablad him to’ see money in tha escapo, and lig forthwith ndded to his inventory a gain of * ona buelk,” I'he Loy appourod and apponled with tho full force of sorrow's nloqllmu::u or his pm}m_rlv. Buk Wilson, taking down his statuto, explainod the law, and told tho boy thatif he wauted ta row up and bo a rich man, ho must ho ¢ trooly oil,” submitting willingly to the laws aud Cone stitution of his country. The boy rotired to walt for bottor days, which did not appear till last week, whon four of Wilson's fine Lnulm oscapod into’the boy'a fiold, They were carod for, us a matfor of course. As Wilson honrd of the escapo ho went ovor to rellovo the boy of further troublo, Thoboy was at home, Wilson proe sontod his caso, pointod to his mark on the Daok of the bucks, ** cussed " tho division fence, which he would have ropaired at onco at hia own oxponeo, and offored the boy a dime to holp drflo the bucks homo. ¢ Mr. Wilson," sald tha boy, *I have beon refleoting upon tho excollent advice you waro so liind na to give me last yoar, and have conoluded to submit to tho laws, oboy the Coustitution, and try to get rich. I bhava adopted your game and beab you just throo huonul" Attor whooling ‘round throo or four times in confusion, Mr, Wilson's eyes rosted upon tho gate through which he passed, aud tha Inst the boy saw of him ho was stratohing hiy hoad and solomnly stopping toward home. — Mr. Wilson's addross s North Troy, Vt., whore hq onu ba applied to for fustlior partionlars,—Lyns don (Vi) Union,