communicate them to the press. The newspapers of this
country have done much for me, not only by publishing many pleasant
things about me, but by refraining from publishing other things about
me, and so I am glad to be able, now and then, to repay this kindness by
furnishing information and facts for which I have no use myself, but
which may be of incalculable value to the press.

As I write these lines I am informed that the snow is twenty-six inches
deep here and four feet deep at High Point in this State. People who did
not bring in their pomegranates last evening are bitterly bewailing
their thoughtlessness to-day.

A great many people come here from various parts of the world, for the
climate. When they have remained here for one winter, however, they
decide to leave it where it is.

It is said that the climate here is very much like that of Turin. But I
did not intend to go to Turin even before I heard about that.

Please send my paper to the same address, and if some one who knows a
good remedy for chilblains will contribute it to these columns, I shall
watch for it with great interest.

Yours as here 2 4,

BILL NYE.

P. S.--I should have said, relative to the cow of this State, that if
the owners would work their butter more and their cows less they would
confer a great boon on the consumer of both.

B. N.

A Character

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I.

Swallowed up in gulfs of tho't--
Eye-glass fixed--on--who knows what?
We but know he sees us not.

Chance upon him, here and there--
Base-ball park--Industrial Fair--
Broadway--Long Branch--anywhere!

Even at the races,--yet
With his eye-glass tranced and set
On some dream-land minaret.

At the beach, the where, perchance--
Tenderest of eyes may glance
On the fitness of his pants.

Vain! all admiration--vain!
His mouth, o'er and o'er again
Absently absorbs his cane.

Vain, as well, all tribute paid
To his morning coat, inlaid
With crossbars of every shade.

He is oblivious, tho
We played checkers to and fro
On his back--he would not know.

II.

So removed--illustrious--
Peace! kiss hands, and leave him thus
He hath never need of us!

Come away! Enough! Let be!
Purest praise, to such as he,
Were as basest obloquy.

Vex no more that mind of his,
We, to him, are