Commodore Vanderbilt

bilt was bom on israten Jsland, and wnen a boy was a tall, daiing, athletic lad. When quite youug he oarned $600 by putting a crew on board a vessel in a storm. He owed his Rtart in life to a daring feat. At tho risk of his life he rowed a man to the Battery, the man lying flat on the bottom of the skiff. That man 's fatlier wanted a fearless man to run an opponition steambont. Vanderbilt was hired, and tliere his career began. __ I renew my previoua recommendations to Congruas for general amnesty. The number eiigaged in the late rebellion yet laboring under disabilities is very small, but enough to keep up a constant irritation. No possible ditnger can accrue to the government by restoring them to eligibility to hold office. - U.ti. Orant, 1873. "Cüt this out ; it may save your life,' is the headiug of au advertisement in the Portage liegister. A Portage man cut it out, pasted it in his hat, and the same day was kilied by a brick which feil from the top of a building. Boston has 476 public schools, 63 banks, 165 hotels, 196 churches and religious associations, 14 courts, 138 constables, and between 900 and 1,000 lawyers, and 198 uowspapers and periodcala. " Shoui.d any female teacher enter nto matrimonial relation her place will beoome vacant," is the classical wording of a reRolution lately adopted by the Brooklyn, N. Y., board of education. Thb home circle - walking around 11 night with s niek baby.