THE POWER OF KINDNESS AT A BULL-FIGHT.

Evening Star, Issue 4156, 22 June 1876, Page 3

THE POWER OF KINDNESS AT A BULL-FIGHT.

A Cadiz letter in the 'New York Ledger' says:—Notice had been posted on all the public places that on a certain day the bull called " El Mora" would be introduced into the arena, and that when he should have been goaded to the utmost fury a young girl would appear and reduce the animal to quiet subjection. The people of Cadiz had heard of El Moro as the most magnificent bull ever brought into the city, and it soon became known that the girl thus advertised was a peasant girl of Espara, who had petted the bull, and fed it and eared for it during the years ot its growth. On the appointed day the jVast ampitheatre was filled with an anxious, eager crowd. The bulls had been killed and dragged away, and

then the flourish of trumpets announced the corning of the hero of the day. With a def-p, terrific roar, ,: K Moro" entered upon the scene. Hi was truly a bovine mon arch, black- and glossy, with eyes of fire, dilating nostrils, and wicked-look-ing horns. Tho pica do res attacked him warily, hurling their banderillos (small, dart-liko javvlins, ornamented with ribbons, and intended to jado and infuriate). The bull had killed three horses off-hand, and had received eight banderillos in his neck and shoulders, when, upon a given signal, the picadores and matadores suddenly -withdrew, leaving the in furiated beast alone in his wild paroxysm of wrath. Presently a soft musical note, like the pining of a lark, was heard, and directly afterwards a girl wot more than fifteen years of age, with the tasteful garb of an Andalusian peasant, and with a pretty face, sprang lightly into the arena, approaching the bull fearlessly, at the same time calling his name, " Moro ! Moro ! Ya voy !" At the first sound of the sweet voice the animal ceased his fury, and turned towards the place whence it came, and when he saw the girl he plainly manifested pleasure. She came to his head, and put forth her hand, which he licked with his tongue. Then she sang a low, sweet song, at the same time caressing the animal by patting him on the forehead, and, while she sang, the suffering monarch kneeled at her feet. Then she stopped and gently removed the cruel banderillos, after which, with her arms around '• El Moro's " neck, she led him towards the gate of the torril.

In one of the suburban sc' oole a teacher gave out the word "psalter" to a class in spelling. It was a poser t • all till it reached the foot or the class, when a curl -headed lit le fellow spelled it correctly, and being asked to define it, shouted out, ''More salt."

A Five Pound Iluaband —An FnglMi 1 idy promised to give her maid five pounds as a mamasje portion The girl g.it married to a man of low statue and her mistres • on seeing him was surprised, and said, ' AVel. Mry. what a little husband you have got !"—" La! exclaimed the girl, "whatcould you expect for five pounds !" It is a great year in Amer'ca for the old men. Grandfathers who hja l , e neglected and made to fee! that th y were in the way, and wished they were dead; who have long been thrust away in the kitchen, and left to mumble to themselves in the chimney-corner, are astonished by being brushed up of an even ing and brought into the parlor, where they are shown off to the company as centennial relics. Two sons of Erin, shovelling sand on a hot summer di»y, stopped a few inome ts to rest, and exchanged \iews on the labor questi li thus:—"lt is, iodade. Jimmy ; \ ut what kind of work is it you'd like if ye could get it ?'' "Well," says the other, leaning reflectively upon his shovel, nnd wiping th; perspiration with the back of his hand "for a nk-e, aisy. clane business, I think I'd Ike to be a bishop."