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and very much so in his own conceit; and is always ready with a reason and an opinion whenever a chance occurs for him to put in his word. The beds were at one time terribly infested with bugs, and one of the students said to him as he was pursuing his work:

"Professor, nothing was made in vain; what were bed-bugs made for ?"

spirit, who, by great exertion, and by involving himself, fully accomplished the liberation of his friend. He was a commission merchant and partner in a house that ranked with the first in our city for nearly fifty years, without the slightest taint or blemish. In the evening of his days, however, misfortune reached him, and he found his house tottering amidst the financial storm of last autumn; and while his distress was greatest, and his fortunes looked darkest, the bread he had cast upon the wa-swered, ters six-and-twenty years before came floating back to his door. It was his former debtor's check-book, showing a balance in one of our city banks of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, with checks signed in blank to his order, and a request that he would use the whole or any part if it would be of service to him!

A CORRESPONDENT in the interior of our own State, from whom we are always glad to hear, sends a brace of anecdotes:

"Our statute relative to highways forbids the laying out of a road through any fixtures or erections for the purposes of manufactures.' The officials of a neighboring town had laid out a highway which, for a part of its course, embraced within its bounds a ditch leading to a saw-mill, and the question before the Court was whether that ditch was an 'erection.' Upon the one side it was claimed that it was; but says Giles H, the humorous counsel on the other side, 'A sunken ditch is not an "erection." To be such the thing must be raised up above the ground, not dug down below it. Indeed, your Honors,' says he, 'a ditch can never be an "erection" till it is turned bottom upward!" This conclusive argument brought down the Court, and bar, and all, and, what was better, the counsel gained his cause."

"This idea of a ditch 'bottom upward' brings another incident to my mind. I was once near one of our country's bastions,' pointing out to a young lady friend of mine the guns upon its walls. For a long time she did not see them; but finally, willing to see for the purpose of pleasing me, she cried out: Oh, yes! I see them--that is, I see the holes in the cannon, though for the life of me I can't see the brass that is around them!'"'

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UPPER SANDUSKY contributes a legal opinion to the Drawer on a vexed question. The case is thus stated and decided, to wit:

"During the recent sitting of our Court of Common Pleas, one of our attorneys clipped the following paragraph from a newspaper: If distance lends enchantment to the view, and the view refuses to return it, can distance obtain any legal redress?' and, attaching it to a slip of paper, wrote as follows: The case is submitted to the Court upon the foregoing agreed statements. Attorney for View,' and handed it to the subscriber, who passed it to the Court on the Bench, who immediately returned it with the following written decision or opinion: As the view undressed would be more enchanting, it should not be redressed. ——, Judge;' which I consider the best impromptu answer that could have been given."

"PROFESSOR Cox" from time immemorial has been the "dust and ashes" man in Williams College, adding to his duties of sweeping and making fires the other labor of making up the beds of the students. The Professor is wise in his generation,

Quickly, quietly, and aptly, the old fellow an

"To show us that we have here no resting place!" The President could not have answered better.

none.

HEAR the story of the child who went forth into the mountain ravine. While the child wandered there he cried aloud to break its loneliness, and heard a voice which called to him in the same tone. He called again, and, as he thought, the voice again mocked him. Flushed with anger, he rushed to find the boy who insulted him, but could find He then called out to him in anger, and, withal, abusive epithets-all of which were faithfully returned to him. Choking with rage, the child ran to his mother, and complained that a boy in the woods had abused and insulted him with many vile words. But the mother took her child by the hand, and said: "My child, these words were but the echo of thine own voice. Whatever thou didst call was returned to thee from the hillside. Hadst thou called out pleasant words, pleasant words would have returned to thee. Let this be thy lesson through life. The world will be the echo of thine own spirit. Treat thy fellows with unkindness, and they will answer with unkindness; with love, and thou shalt have love. Send forth sunshine from thy spirit, and thou shalt never have a clouded day; carry about a vindictive spirit, and even in the flowers shall lurk curses. Thou shalt receive ever what thou givest, and that alone. Always," said the mother, "is that child in the mountain-passes, and every man and every woman is that child."

A LOUISIANA clergyman sends to the Drawer the following letter, which was received by a gentleman in his parish from an indignant correspondent in Virginia:

HORN TOWN, VA, Oct. 29, 1937.

TO THE HON. JAMES B. WAGONER: SIR,-You have behaved like an impetiginous acroyli-like those inqui. nate orasscrolest who evious of my moral celsitude carry their mugacity to the height of creating symposically the fecund words which my polymathic genius uses with uberity to abiligate the tongues of the weightless. Sir, you have orassly parodied my own pet words, as though they were tangrams. I will not conceroate reproaches. I would obduce a veil over the atramental ingratitude which has chamiered even my undisceptible heart. I am silent on the foscillation which my coadiul fancy must have given you when I offered to become your fanton and admincle. I will not speak of the liptitude, the ablepsy you have shown in exacerbating me; one whose genius you should have approached with mental discalcation. So I tell you, Sir, syncophically and without supervacaneous words, nothing will render ignosci ble your conduct to me. I warn you that I will vellicate your nose if I thought your moral diathesis could be thereby performed. If I thought that I should not impigorate my reputation by such a degladiation. Go tagygraphic; your oness inquinate draws oblectation head this letter, which will drive you to Walker, and fron the greatest poet since Milton, and draws upon your send you to sleep over it.

"Knowledge is power," and power is mercy; so I wish you no rovose that it may prove an external hypnotic.

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Fashions for October.

Furnished by Mr. G. BRODIE, 300 Canal Street, New York, and drawn by VOIGT from actual articles of Costume.

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THE novelty of the DINNER COSTUME,

given on the preceding page, will of itself be to many a strong recommendation, apart from the fact that it is suitable for any occasion short of those which require full dress, and may be made of any material. Here it is represented of mode-colored and Napoleon-blue silk, the dress itself being of the former. The corsage is à la Raphael, waist cut round. The plastron is of blue taffeta, gathered transversely, bordered and divided by a band of the material of the dress, one inch in width, edged with a piping or cording of the blue silk, and ornamented with buttons to match. The skirt is double; the upper one, as well as the sleeves, ornamented en tablier, similar to the corsage; these puffings being arranged in pyramids. There are jockeys to match. The sleeves are large and full, with large puffed under-sleeves. An inside

chemisette and a coif of black lace complete this unique and tasteful toilet. Although we have indicated the colors as well as the materials of the garment from which our illustration is drawn, it can be produced effectively in any colors which harmonize agreeably. For evening costume the under-sleeves, which we have represented closed, as more suitable for a dinner toilet, should be made open. With this slight modification, this costume is equally appropriate for the carriage, for dinner, and for an evening dress.

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In the PROMENADE COSTUME the cloak is composed of alternate stripes of moire antique and plain taffeta. The front two are plain, having an opening between them and the adjoining moire for arm-holes. These sections are arranged in hollow flutes, and have an edging of fringe. There is a pelerine trimming, made of fifteen fluted folds with a two-inch fringe. The Bonnet presents no very special deviation from the styles previously worn.

The FICHU, CAP, and UNDER SLEEVES are of similar construction. All of them are made of ruches of illusion tulle, forming medallions, and trimmed with narrow sky-blue velvet, and bows of blue taffeta arranged in a series of loops. The Fichu in front, and the Under-Sleeves and Cap behind, are adorned with floats of wide taffeta ribbon. A spray of orange flowers and a white moss-rose bud are placed alternately in the medallions of the Fichu and Cap. In the Under-Sleeve these are occupied with bows.

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