Bragging

It is natural f or man to brag. -Ajid frequently the less he has to brag over the more bragging he will do. The most trifling incidents are sufficient to keep some men bragging all their lives. We once knew a man whom Henry Clay kicked out óf his way, and the fellow bragged of it all the rest of his days, and he was proud to be introduc ed as "the man Harry of the West booted." Men brag over things that never happened, though they repeat it so of ten that they come to believe it themselves. It has been estimated thai it would require a vessel like the Great Eastern to carry all the people claiming to have been on Fulton's flrst steamboat when it made its trial trip. We have ourself shaken hands with twentyeight men, each one of whom hoaeted that he was the flrst man to walk across the Niágara suspension bridge. The woods are full of men who are ready to swear they were standing right alongside of Grant when he said he "would fight it out on that line if it took all 8ummer." m - Jacob Lorillard says all the capital to the new steamship line, which is expected to carry passengers to Europe in six days, has been subscribed. Austin Corbin has obtained a big block, and has made a suggestion which has been acted upon, whereby the ships will not come into New York havbor, as originally intended, but instead will land above Montauk Point, on Long Island. The place of landing is a natural harbor, even as it now is. This harbor is inside of Fort Pond Bay, on the sound side of Long Island, ten miles west of Montauk Point bay. It averages a ínile in width, and Lorillard says soundings show that ts waters are nowhere less than ten oms deep. The President, through the British Minister at Washington, has sent a gold watch to Gen. Sir Patrick McBougal, Administrator of the Government of Canada, to be presentad to Capt. Seth Doan, of Halifax, as a recognition of his act in saving the crew of the Frank D. Merritt, of Will Fleet, Mass., which was capsized in the Atlantic Ocean. The United States steamer Alaska ís charged with meddling ia the Peru troubles to the extent of carrying a i messenger with funds and instructions for revolutioaary leaders and landing him upon the coast.