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What Became of the Pear SOME TRUTHS OF THE GERMAN ARMY. that the marriage lines were either HUNGAt THE YARD-ARM. ber 1, when McKenzie decided that their LOVERS. hidden so that they could never be doom should be death. It was an- To Fast Fifty Days. nw lost latelllcrnt Sfarhln* of War—A Mutiny the The Car* tk*law In ulßi om< found again or else they were The Storjr of the on Brig Semen. nounced in these words: ‘Igive WrlTdwta iumm.it o Weapon. destroy- you The medical committee appointed Look Wellto Each Other. ed. Lord Berkeley even concealed his From the Brooklyn Eagle. just five minutes to live,’ and at the to watch over Stefano Merlatti, the rg The German military correspond- marriage from his most intimate On the top floor of the three-story expiration of that time the sentence From the' Fit tabu Dispatch. was was carried out.” McKenzie was tried new lasting man, during the fifty days The young man, when he goes to ent of the London Times has been friends. One of these the Prince frame house 977 Gates avenue lives a Regent (afterwards George YI.) who and finallyacquitted. The trial crea- he intends to remain without food, hie love, hie beet *• writingan interesting series of letters woman whose life for the past call on lady puts on rrn'the German army, as seen in its frequently visited Berkeley Castle, forty- ted great and universal interest at the met recently at the Voltaire of- duds, makes his mother or his sisters where Lord Berkeley allowed his wife three years has been passed under the time, and extended over a period of a recent review before the Emperor. fices?' They had previously examined fly around and help him to get himself The Times comments on the subject to hold a most invidious position for shadow of a great sorrow. Her name year. The only survivor of the crew of the Somers, as as known, Merlatti, and found him to be sound in the best form He jaws a.t length, saying among other things many years. Four children had been is Margaret E. Cromwell and she is far is is up possible. born of the alliance when, at the sug- an old Sandy Hook pilot named Eu- and in perfect health, and decided to the following:— the widow of Samuel Cromwell, one them, gets mad, slams things around Europe so.light apricein gestion of the Prince Regent, and after gene Schuyler, who now lives in this let him enter upon his fast without of kicks the pays every having been assured by the best legal of the ill-fated seamen who were exe- city, and was at that time but lad Agardless consequences, way for its armaments that it ought to on a delay. He took his last meal on Tues- pinches, authorities that a second marriage cuted for mutiny board the United of 17. wall because his shoe and lee! pleasure when it has good cause States brig Somers in the summer of day night before midnight, and trusts looking lor belief that it is obtaining worth for would not invalidate the firßt, if the Another interesting local fact con- finally rushes out as cross as marriage lines could be recovered, 1842. Mrs. Cromwell is now 76 years nected with the brig Somers, is that to be able to hold out until December a drink its money. Any one who has careful- a teased terrier. He foregoes Lord and Lady Berkeley went old. She is of tall, commanding fig- the vessel was named for a at a. ly followed our military correspond- through ure, traces naval hero 15 midnight. Will Succi give up a cigar for fear of their spoiling his a ceremony and still retains of former of Commissioner or of man- second of marriage five whom Park Somers his visit Merlatti, according the German beauty. In December, 1840," she mar- a was to Paris? breath, and loads his handkerchief oeuvres in the neighborhood of Stras- years after the first. Cromwell, is lineal descendant. This hero ried Samuel who came from the American was com- to his previous story, is likelyto ut- with the perfume best calculated to burg must be persuaded that Smithtown, Va., and officer who who had for thir- mander of a frigate which he blew up terly outdo the Milanese faster. The or the taint of cigar- the cost of the Emperor William’s Genius Not Hereditary. teen years been in the United States disguise smother and Count von Moltke’s in a naval engagement near Tripoli, new hero of theday professes great dis- smoke. The young lady is army The saying, genius is not hereditary, naval service. Cromwell’s duties al- crew an ette ex- is not thrown away. Never was and sunk with all her 1 officers, dain for Succi, and speaks of the there has crown almost proverbial, and ob- lowed him but little time to enjoy the himself included, surren- secret pecting him, of course; has had a machine of war more intelligent or bride, rather than of liquor most experience society of his and in October, memory of con- the in the contemptu- up in papers all day; perhaps so intelligent. The private servation and denote that 1842, Somers, on der. In this service her hair the which he was gress erected a statue of him, which ous terms. He is staying at the Hotel in soldiers are strong and active. They it rests on a basis of truth. Of liter- acting as instructor, the afternoon has been spent boatswain and for years stood in front of the capitol des Etrangers, Tronchet, him, take long marches without becoming ary genius it seems particularly true, from Azores, was in the Rue getting ready to receive and when sailed the where she at Washington, but which was after- near footsore. They are drenched to the of note very rarely stationed, dispatches the Madeleine, where I have had parlor lights are burning skin, since authors have then with for ward removed to the navy yard in the Bhe looks and burst out into spontaneous sons who distinguish themselves in the the sloop-of-war Vandalia, an interview with him. Stefano Mer- a very angel. Had he seen her in the song as stationed that city. they proceed, to their quarters. field of letters, or ever pursue letters on the African coast. The Somers latti is a young man of twenty-two morning with a handkerchief tied Victims of conscription, they are en- in any form. The prospect of com- touched at Tenneriffe and Porto head, heard her Pra- years of age, or Thereabouts. He is around her complaints thusiastic about their emperor and pensation is so small that, in this age ya.and thence sailed to Liberia, where, A MORMON ABROAD. indigestion nervous headaches, on of and princes. They bear to bo scolded as of luxury, with the great need of money, having accomplished the object of short and perhaps the whole slen- seen slovenly morning wrappings •f were her her they galley slaves by their offi- young men have reason to be deterred voyage, started on return for The Encounter of an Enirlisli Farmer With a Mia. der, but well knit and healthy look- caught a few of tartly-expressed cers, a she her and her from corporal to a field mar- from embracing the inky profession. the United States byway of St. Thom- sionarjr Freni Salt Lake. ing. He has a swarthy complexion, views on the conduct of her mother shal, without uttering a word in de- But those who have a strong temper- as. From the bonden Rare Bits. ,and the family in general, he would “ jet black hair, glistening eyes,protrud- fence. A startled hare attracts hardly amental bias toward a calling are apt The crew of the Somers consisted of ‘Areyou a Mormon?’ sez I, with have been in a quandary as to which a glance, much less a a ing cheek bones and prominent foot in pursuit. 1 to embrace it without regard to its eighty apprentices, eighteen ordinary stiflin’sort of a gasp that purity nigh jaws. region the angel belonged. They are always ready, whether for a probable or possible seamen, five or a His physiognomy self- parlor smiles, tenderly rewards. The six midshipmen and me, must shows much In the all is battle or a parade. Their accoun t re- must that, a passion aergeant-at-arms. was choked forI say that to look melting glances nter) fact be if for lit- She command- possesion, and is extremely mobile. lisped phrases, and ts, if not as expensive as those of erature is felt by one member of a ed by First Lieutenant Alexander Mc- at the man’s face he Reared good enuff protestations against all that is* rude British are Merlatti, who is an artist, has just troops, absolutely service- family, it is not likely to affect any Kenzie and Lieut. Gansevoort was to lead a class meetin’, and I was or disagreeable and in favor of that able. Our correspondent has discov- come from an eight months’ stay in other member. The writinghabit may her second officer. One of the mid- afeared he mightn’t like the question, which is gcu tie and long suffering. They ered no defect, except in the not im- be so unnatural to humanity at large shipmen was a lad of 19, named Philip Italy. He began to train himself in deceive themselves as well as each maculate some but he sot thar as kam as cold beans, pipeclay of belts.
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