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A Dream of Life.
1 built me a vessel long years ago,
\nd I fitted it out like the galleys of old;
Its sails were as white as the fresh fallen
snow.
xi.d its bows were resplendent with crimson
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"Here Shall the Press the People's Rights Maintain, Unawed by Influence, and Unbribed by Gain."
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ar.u goiu.
Its bulwarks were rlrm. and its masts strong
and tall,
And a gay colored pennon on high was
spread; _
'Ihe beauty of YocyHflent a charm to it all,
And an image Hope was its proud ligure
head, /
I launched it one morn in the spring of the
year,
vV hen the breezes were low and the sunbeams
were bright,
i And I. in tlii pride of my youth, had no fear
Of the str^Gtth of the waves, or the gloom of
^night.
dreamed of the riches my galley would
i bring
From the lands were no hark had been ever
before;
But the smmiitr passed by. and spring wore
rouuu id MjiriiiK.
And my vessel returned net, alas, to the
shore!
At length < ne dark autumn It came back to
me,
But its masts were all broken, its bows were
bare:
its bulwarks were covered with growth of the
sea.
And the figure of Hope was no longer there;
While it brought me for freight but the drift
of the wave,
The sea foam and weeds that had laid in it
long;
And I mournfully sighed as ! gazed on the
grave
Of the dreams that were bright when life's
heart-beat was strong.
?[Chaklks a. Close, in London Graphic.
" Chalk Your Own Door."
His proper name was Jeremiah Mar- ,
den ; but he had not been in the village
a week before everybody called j
him Jerry Marden, and within six
weeks he was known as Jerry Muddler.
But why Muddler? Who gave
him that name, and why was it given ? 1
The giver is unknown?for who ever 1
knows the giver of nicknames??but 1
the reason for its being bestowed was J
that Jerry was always muddled with
drink.
He was a very good shoemaker, but 1
he stood no chance with George Stevens,
a sober man, and so drifted into 1
becoming a cobbler.
Jerry's one idea was to get a job, and
having done it, to invest the proceeds
u drink at his favorite beer shop,
The Oram Anns." The consequence '
--'Was, that Jerry was seldom sober, and '
jfr*1 Jbad he not possessed an iron constitu- , '
tion, two years of such a life must
have killed him ; but he dragged on, 5
working to-day and idling to-morrow,
and drinking wheuever drink could
I be got, and finally he drifted into i
debt. j
His score at 44 The Oram Arms " was |
a large one, and the chalks stood up ;
against him like files of soldiers, but
Jerry ignored their existence?paying (
_ off a little now and then, and drinking ]
more, each time increasing the army
of debt against him, until one evening (
- Mr. Richard Rewitt, the landlord of
the aforesaid 44 Oram Arms," cried (
44 halt." ,
441 can't go on any longer, Jerry," ,
? he said. 44 The last sum I had of you i
was three shilliugs, and you have paid
nothing for a fortnight."
44 Work is slack," murmured Jerry,
44 but the harvest is coming on, and
then everybody will have their soling j
and heeling done, and I shall be able j
to pay you off."
" Perhaps so," returned Mr. Rewitt, ,
"but you will have as much as you
can do to square off what is up there.
Look at them. Those chalks are a
standing disgrace to any man. You
ought to be ashamed of yourself."
Jerry looked at the accusing marks,
and really felt aghast at the long list
against him. !No spider courteslv entreating
a fly to enter into his parlor,
could have been more oily-tongued or
smiled a more persuasive smile?that is
presuming that spiders do smile, which
is just possible, but when Jerry got into
the toils, and had been well confined
Iffjhe web, mine host, put on another
?~ Jaoe and tone.
" If you drink," he said, "you must
ex^ec^ to pay for it. My brewer would
stand no nonsense from me, and I must
have my money from you."
" duly one pint," pleaded poor Jerry.
" Xot half a piut," replied the landlord.
Go home and work, and pay
yoifrtlebts like a man."
fm * "f .1 /.notAiYicii* xrith
I lit; euiraut'c ui ?i vuoi?mvi ...v..
ready money cut short the conversation,
and Jerry stood back a pace or
two while the other was being served.
When that was done, and the beer
drunk, and the stranger gone, Jerry
madca final appeal.
"I've been a good customer to you,
Mr. Hewitt. Almost every penny I've
earned has couie into your till. I've
nigh lived on beer, if living it can be
called, and my wife and children
have had to shift how they could for
bread."
" That's nothing to me," said the
landlord.
" Let me have one pint."
"Have you the impudence to ask
for it with that shameful lot of chalks
staring you in the face?"
Jerry did not reply, but he took a
long and earnest look at the recording
files, and drawing his hand across his
dry mouth, hurried out of " The Oram
Arms."
" Who is that you've been talking j
to, Richard?" inquired Mrs. Rewitt,
entering the bur from a room behind.
"Jerry Muddler," was the reply.
" I've stopped his drink until he pays
up.
"Then he will go to 'The Green
Goose,' and get his drink there," said
Mrs. Rewitt.
"They won't trust him a penny,"
returned her husband with a grin?
" he's tried it on and failed, and so I've
got him. If he does not pay up I'll
molro "
uiarvt uiiii.
" There's nothing to be got out of
that house," .-aid Mrs. Rewitt,shaking <
her head; 44 I've heard that there's not
a chair for them to sit down upon ; and i
Jerry's wife?clean and tidy manages
to keep herself?looks more like a skel- '
eton than a woman ; and as for the
children they look as ravenous as
wolves at the dinner coming from the ]
bake-house."
" That's Jerry's lookout," replied 1
Mr. Rewitt, cooly. 44 If he can't afford i
it, he shouldn't drink." i
The subject was dismissed, and Jerry
forgotten in the noise and bustle of <
the usual evening business. About 1
nine o'clock Jerry's wife, to the aston- 1
ishment of both Mr. Rewitt and his
wife, appeared in the bar; but not, as s
they supposed, for drink.
44 My husband tells me," she said, j
44 that he has a heavy score here. How t
much is it?"
44 I'm almost too busy to tell you," j
replied the landlord, 44 but if it is press- ^
ing I will reckon it up." t
44 It is pressing, and I shall be very &
thankful if you will let me know at
once what it is," returned the poor r
woman, who was indeed wan and pale. ;
and almost justified the title of "skelton,"
which Mrs. Rewitt had given j
her.
The landlord went through the c
chalks twice, and finally announced
that Jerry was indebted to him to the
amount of two pounds, seventeen shil- t
lings and four-pence, halfpenny. Jer- v
ry's wife received the announcement *
with a look of quiet dismay, thanked
the landlord and left the house.
"I suppose she is thinking of mak- 0
ing an effort to pay it off," said Mr.
Rewitt, addressing his better half,
"and 1 hope she will; but I fancy it ^
will be a little too much for her."
For a whole week nothing was seen
5r heard of Jerry ; but at the end of ^
that time his wife appeared and put
iown five shiljingsjfon the counter.
" Will you please take that off the
imount, sir," said she, " and give me r
i receipt?" a
This was done with a gracious smile,
ind Jerry's wife departed. Mr. Rewitt
innounced his having hit the right J
nail on the head. The wife of the cob- d
bier was making an effort to clear off t
her husband's debt. d
At the end of another week a sec
j ^? -t. : A 1
ODQ nve SJJIIlIJLlg was puiu, auu iucu ?
harvest came on?truly a hardest to the i
agric ltural laborer, as at that time be r
gathers in clothes, and whatever
necessaries his harvest money will a
enable him to procure. All the little s
tradesmen in the village were busy, c
and even Jerry was reported to be full- 4
banded. But he did not come near t
14 The Oram Arms " for a drink. f
On the third week Jerry's wife 1
brought ten shillings, and on the c
fourth, fifteen, to the great joy and sat- t
isfactiou of Mr. Rewitt, whose joy, t
however, was alloyed by the fear that s
he had lost a good customer. He re- r
solved to look up Jerry as soon as an- t
other installment of this account was e
paid. i
Nothing was brought for a fortnight,
and the landlord congratulated himself
upon not having hastily sought
his absent customer, who still owed 1
him over a pound, but the appearance 1
of Jerry's wife with the balance had
the effect of making him think other- t
wise. There was no display in putting 4
down the money?it was quietly done 1
?but the happy light in the woman's 1
eyes when she took the receipt, spoke <
more than mere words or actions. I
441 have been hasty with Jerry," 1
said Mr. Rewitt, when another whole '
month had elapsed without Jerry ap- '
pearing ; 44 he promised to pay at bar- '
vest time, and he did it; but I have '
attended him, and 4,The Green Goose" '
has caught his custom." '
"Go and see him," suggested his '
wife. <
" I intend to do so. Here, give me ]
our Tom's boots; they want a patch (
on the side, and it will bean excuse for ,
my dropping in upon him." ,
"That isn't much ot a job for him,
seeing that you give George Stevens ,
the best of the work'" said Mrs. Rewitt.
"Stevens works better than Jerry,"
replied the husband ; " you can always
trust him to do his work when it is
promised, but Jerry keeps the things
for weeks together."
" That's true; but I've got a pair
of boots that I want new fronts, and
I can wait a week or two. Take
them."
" I'll take both," said Richard Rewitt;
"nothing like baiting your hook
while you are about it."
Armed for the reconquest of Jerry
the landlord set forth in the morning?
that being the slacl. time when he
could be easily spared from home.
Outside were a couple of loafers, with
no money and 110 credit, who touched
tiieir hats to I im. Mr. Rewitt favored
them with a nod of lofty indifJ
ference.
Jerry's cottage was in the middle of
the little village, standing back about
fifty feet from the road ; and although
its inside {>overty had been well
known, the outside, thanks to his wife,
looked quite as well as its neighbors.
Therefore Mr. Rewitt was not in the
least surprised to see that it looked j
bright and guy on that beautiful autumn
morning.
As he approached the door, he heard
the sound of Jerry's hammer upon the
lapstone, and, to his utter amazement,
the voice of Jerry carolling a cheerful |
ditty, as unlike the cracked efforts he j
used occasionally to come out with in |
the taproom as the song of the raven, i
Raising the latch, the landlord of)
"Tin Oram Arms" peeped in.
44 Good morning, Jerry," he said.
44 Ah! is that you, Mr. Rewitt?" replied
Jerry looking up. 44 Come in."
Jerry looked wondrous clean, and
liad even been shaved that very morning.
His blue shirt looked clean, too,
md he actually had a collar on.
Mr. Rewitt was so overcome by the
change that he stood still with ttie
x>ots under his arm, forgetting that
they formed part of his mission.
44 You look very well, Jerry," he
(aid at last.
44 Never felt better in my life," reslied
Jerry. 441 wish, sir, I could say
J; e same of you. You look whitish."
44 I've erot a bit of a cold." replied
he other, " and I've been shut up a
food deal with business lately. Trade's
>een brisk; but how is it we've not
;een vou?"
" Well?the fact is, sir," said Jerry,
fibbing his chin, "I've been busy
vorking off your score."
" But it is done, man," said Mr. Rewtt,
cheerfully; "the door is quite
:lean, as far as you are concerned."
" I am glad of that."
" Others have got their share," said
he landlord, facetiously; " but I think
ve could make room for you, if you
ook us up."
" No, thanky, sir," returned Jerry. [
' I've had enough of chalking on ;
ther people's doors, and now I chalk j
?n my own."
" Yes, sir; have the goodness to '
urn around and look behind you. }
['here's my door half full."
"It's a wise thing to keep account |
ourself," said the landlord, whc hard- j
y knew what to make of it." for mis- |
akes will happeip; hut?"
" No mistake can happen sir; interupted
Jerry, "for I am the only party
s keeps that account."
" But who trusts you to do that?"
"Nobody?I trusts myself," replied ;
erry. " The marks that were on your I
loor showed what I did drink, and I
hem marks on mine show what I
lon't drink."
A little light had got into the landord's
brain, and he had a pretty good
dea of what was coming, but he said
lothing.
" That night when you spoke to me j
bout the chalks on the door being a j
tanding disgrace to me, was the night |
>f ray waking," continued Jerry.
'No man could have lectured me beter
than you did, and T thank you for it
rom the bottom of my heart. As I !
eft your house I vowed to touch or I
Irink no more, and I came home and !
1 1
old my wife so, and we both joined in |
sarnest prayer that I might have
itrength to keep my vow. The next
norning I went over to George Stev;ns
and asked him how I could go
ibout signing the pledge. He helped
ne like a man?and it was done."
With his eyes wandering too and fro
)etween Jerry and the chalks upon
he door, the amazed landlord still
emained silent. Jerry weut ou :
" My wife wanted to work herself
:o death to keep me," he said ; " but I
mid 'No. You do what you can to
jeep the children until my debts are
3aid, and then I'll keep you and the
jhil ren, too.' So I went to work,
paying right and left; and when all
I l>o?on /nt T :
ft US fj?tiu V/ll, -X l?\.QCWi iv UV ?> 1.MV A |
flight to have done years ago?feed my I
wife and children. I had enough and j
to spare, and I would have sj>eut some j
with you. And many's the time I've I
t>een tempted to come ? and I'm j
tempted still, but when the feeling
monies over me I have a drink of water |
3r a cup of tea, puts twopence into the |
box I've got on purpose, and scores a ;
chalk on the door. All of them chalks j
are so many temptations and so many j
twopences saved."
" Mr. Rewitt was unable to make :
a:'y particular remarks; but he mur- j
mured in a confused manner,
" You've got a lot of 'ent."
" Yes, there's a large family," replied
Jerry, complacently, "and the
more I lookes at 'em the better I likes
'em. There's not much standing disgrace
about that lot; credit if anything."
" Oh yes?yes," returned the landlord,
" but?dear me?this cold in my '
head is quite distressing. You must !
have a large box for all your two
pences."
" When I gets together I takes them
to the post office," replied Jerry;
"There's a bank there better than any
till. They give nothing out, hut banks
like that returns you more than you
??ut in Ttntil I beiran to keen my own
chalks I had no idea how much your
till swallowed up. You would not
trust me for a pint; but I can have my
i
j money out of the bank whenever I
j want it."
"That's something," said Mr. Hewitt,
tartly.
"It is everything to a man who has a
wife and children to keep," replied
Jerry. "The best of us have sickness
j and trouble and rainy days, and then
it's a great thing to have something to
fall back upon. It is better to be able
to keep yourself than to go to the parish.
Ther's another thing, too, about
these chalks of mine?yours went down
before my wife and children were fed:
mine go down after that's done; ana J
ttiink tliat my chalks are the better of
the two. So I say to all, :Chalk your
own door.' "
Mr. Rewitt had nothing to say; he
could not deny and he would pot admit
it, but took refuge lika^fher beaten
men?in flight. With the boots under
his arm he hastened home, and presented
himself before his wife in a
rather excited condition.
"What is the matter, Richard?" she
asked.
"Nothing particular," he replied, 1
"except that Jerry Muddler has joined
the temperance lot, and he seems so 1
firm in it that I don't believe he will
ever touch a drop again."
Mr. Richard Rewitt, of "The Oram '
Arms," was right. And..Jerry, who
bears the name of Muddler no longer, 1
but is called by that to which he is en- '
titled by right of birth, viz., that of J
Marden, has not touched a drop of 1
strong drink from the day of his reformation
to this. His door has been '
filled again and again with the score \
which he records in his own favor; and
the beer he has not drunk is every- '
where around him in th$i_ form of a 1
comfortable home, a respectable amount
in the savings bank,and yoodly invest- i
ment in a building society. Verbum I
sat sapicnti, which, being freely inter- 1
preted, means, "A word to you, my '
reader, is sufficient." Chalk your own *
door."?The British Workman.
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A Curious Fact abou^ljjfread. 1
A Paris correspondent caUSpention i
to a curious fact about bread, i..'a letter g
to a New Orleans paper. He says: r
" Did you know that bread is not only
eaten, but eats? Darwin has told us t
that some flowers enjoy a porter-house 1
steak. The discovery is ilri^rcstinj; tc i
dyspeptics, for bread can be made to do *
the work of the alimentary canal and s
relieve dyspeptics of all bother except c
mere deglutition?and of course paying
the baker's bill, which is harder work c
than digestion. Science has si^pfound 1
that several vegetable juice?M>r saps, t
dissolve meat, but M. Scheuj^Kestner c
is the first person who observed that in r.
the process of bread making a peculiar i
fermentation lakes place which pro <.
duces complete digestion of meat. A
beefsteak hashed fine and mixed with ]
dough containing yeast dis ppears entirely
by the time the bread is taken
from the oven. Tne steak's nutritive t
principles are di-solved and incorporated
into the bread. Not the least curious
phenomenon notice 1 in these
circumstances is that m?at, which so *
rapidly becomes putrid, when once incorporated
into bread, may be kept (
longer than ordinary bread. Bread 1
made in 1873 has been shown in the 1
Academy of .Science; it was as sweet 1
and free from mold as when it first
came out of the oven. At first M.Scheu- ?
rer Kestner used raw meat; he mixed
one and one-tenth pounds of Hour, one <
pound of leaven and three-fourths of a t
pound of raw beef minced fine; water 1
in sufficient quantiiy was added, and 1
the dough was left to ferment. In two 1
or three hours the meat had disap- I
peared. The bread was then baked as '
usual. This meat bread had a disagreeable
sour taste. To remove it M. Scheu- ;
rer Kestner first boiled the meat in just ;
the quantity of water necessary to wet
the flour, and used this water in knead
ing. The* meat should be rid ofsUlfat,
and only salt enough to season ,-fhe
bread added; for if salt be added the
bread will become humid (salt being a
great absorber of water) and spoil. (
The objection to this bread is that it is
insipid. If bacon be used instead of
beef the objection is removed. Veal,
too, makes a delicious meat bread.
All these breads may be used to make
soup. Cut into slices one-sixth of a
pound of this bread, put the slices in a
quart of water, salt to taste, and boil
for twenty minutes."
A Bi-Lingual Performance.
The greatest novelty of the coming
season in this country will be Salvini
playing in Italian with a company
speaking English. The Courier den
Etatn Unin otlejs this as a sample of
what may be expected in " Othello; "
vyirnw? ^rv.Mv.?.w?M
Who's there, Othello ? Otello?Dcxde- '
mona, diccxle in nuocxfa Hera la voxtra
prece? Desdemona?Ay, my lord.
Otello?Sc a!con de/itto pur vi ricordi,
che dai del mm ehbe pardono, or Vinuocate?
Desdemona?Alas, my lord,
what may you mean by that? A polyglot
performance of this same tragedy
wjis attempted, some years ago, with
Davidson, the German actor, in the
titular ro e. An American aciress
played Desdemona, and the house
j laughed at Othello'? scenes.
I
General and Personal.
Afternoon naps are what keep Bismarck
in health.
It is now denied that cigarette smoking
is injurious.
The growing of ginger is a new industry
to be tried at the South.
Hartford sportsmen are bagging reed
lords by the hundred 011 the wild rice
fields alone the Connecticut river.
Mr. Moody told the ministers at
North field that one of the prime evils
of Christian life in this day is telling
stories to raise a laugh.
A very important line of railroad is
now approaching completion in Russia,
connecting the Caspian rfea and the ,
Cuucasus with Moscow.
Dr. Samuel Elliot, Superintendent of
the Boston Public Schools, who is in
Europe, owing to ill health, has written
home resigning his position.
An oid salt, when asked how far
north he had ever been, replied that he
had been so far north that "the cows,
when milked beside a red-hot stove,
?ave ice eream."
Black and white Spanish laces are
ihe coned caper for a lady to wrap her
pretty throat in and fasten the folds on
the left side with the oddest lace pin to
be found in the market.
The oldest living ex-member of Congress
is John A. Cuthbert, of Mobile,
Ala., who was born in Georgia in 177S.
He practises law in Mobile, and is said
;o be still hale and hearty.
riiirtnir fnrtv-five davs fishimr ill the
-"" O ' / ? mf ? O
St. Lawrence river last summer exLieuteuant
Governor Alvord, of New
i'ork, caught 3,:13S fish, including one
nuscalonge, 479 pickerel, 2 pike and
1,309 black bass.
Mr. Clark Davis, of New Roohelle,
!s. Y., has a portrait of Major Andre,
minted by himself while awaiting
rial. It represents hini as of fair comjlexion,
blue eves, dark-brown hair,
md smooth face, excepting small
vhiskers.
The Roman Forum has now been
ompletely excavated, with the excepion
of a small portion at the entrance
lear the Capitol. The shape proves
rregular, being broad on the Capitol
iide ami narrow toward the pilace of
he Caesars.
A Cincinnati firm which manufactures
powdered soapstone is said to sell
arge quantities of it to Western dairy nen
and butler-packers, who mix it
vith the butter in j udicious proportions,
greatly increasing the weight of the
:omriiodity and their profits.
An elephant travelling through Inliana
in a car next to the engine, got
lis trunk out of a window, opened the
ender tank, drank all the water ami
impelled the stoppage of the train.
L'iiis is probably a lie, out as no names
ire mentioned it will not hurt the cirrus
any.
Bumors of the National Press.
Women resemble flowers. They shut
ip when they sleep.
The youth who permits his sweetleart
to rule him is a miss-guided
r'oung man.?Somerville Journal.
A tramp woke up suddenly with
rold sweat standing in great beads
lpon his forehead. " What's the mater?"
asks his companion. " A fright111
dream. I dreamt I was at work!"
41 told you that last mince pie would
jive you a horrid nightmare."
44Do you want to kill the child?" exrlaimed
a geutleman as he saw a boy
ip the baby out of its carriage on the
-calk. 44No; not quite," replied the
xiy; 41 but if I can get him to bawl
oud enough, mother will take care of
lim while i go and wade in the ditch
A-ith Johnny Bracer!"
Queer Things in English Hymn
singing.?Take such memorable cases
us the following:
My poor ]K)1?
My poor pol?
My poor polluted heart.
To which he might have added from
Dr. Watts:
And see Sal?see Sal?see Salvation nigh.
Or this to the same common metre
tune, " .Miles' Lane:"
Where my Sal?my Sal?my Salvation stands.
Or this, when sung to " Job :"
And love thee Bet?
And love thee better than before.
Or:
Stir up thisstu?
Stir up this stupid heart to pray.
Or this crowning absurdity :
And more eggs?more eggs?more exalts our
Joys.
This to the tune of " Aaron's " ~s:
With thy Benny?
With thy benediction seal.
This has recently been added in a
fashionable metropolitan church:
And take thy pil?
Ana taKe tny pilgrim nome.
And further havoc is made with j
language and sense thus:
IJetore his throne we bow?wow?wow?ow? |
wow.
And
I love to steal?
1 love to steal?awhile away.
And
0 for a man?
O for a mansion in the skies.
To which we may add :
And we'll catch the ilea?
And we'll catch the Ilea?ee? eeting hour, j
Two trebles sing: "And learn to j
ki?s;" two trebles and alto: " And
learn to kiss;'' two trebles, alto and
tenor: " And learn to kiss the bass,
solus: ''The rod."
I
j This is sung to the tune called
J 14 Boyce:
Tbon art my bul?
Thou art my bulwark and defence.
Travelling Etiquette. ? The
i fashionable girl now lays her head on
j the shoulder of her male companion
j when travelling, according to a Cincinnati
Enquirer writer, who says:
44 The nicest girls do it, and they are
so demure, so innocent, so unconscious
j in their manner, that nobody could
i deem the nraotiee harmful. Tliev have
L ^ the
unconcerned air of using a pillow.
This would have been reprehensible a
year ago; now fashion and mothers
permit it. But the man must not so
far forget himself as to slyly hug the
girl. If he does, she pops bolt upright
and will lean to him no more forever.
! That is new but approved etiquette."
Goon Pkice fok Donkeys.?A
Galveston man met a gentleman from
Northern Texas and asked how a certain
mutual friend was' coming on.
" He is doing very well," was the reply.
44 What business is he at ?" 44 He
has got the softest thing in the world
of it. He bought a lot of Mexican
donkeys at San Antonio for $3 apiece,
and having taken them up to his
rancho, he clears $27 a head on them."
44 Do they bring such high prices?"
44No; but he lets the railroad trains
run over them, and the company has
to pay him $30 apiece for 'em."
Drawing it a Little Fine.?
Elder Huckleberry Simmons here
arose and said that he had been requested
by a certain colored church
congregation in the interior of the
State to submit to Brother Gardner a
question in dispute. One of the congregation
had written a prayer meeting
hymn, which some of the people
thought was rather fly, while others
defended it as simply exhilarating.
The verse most objected to ran as follows
:
Wild cat howlin' in the woods,
Satan up a big gum tree;
Git right down an' mop de floor,
Kase de debit's arter ye.
Chorus?Whoop up de power,
Let us faint away;
Solid chunks of glory
Are lalling down to-dav!
" Ize free to say," began the old man
as he rose up in response, "datwhen
I find myself in church or prayer
meetin' I am lookin' fur dat sort of
singin' dat raises old folks about
eighteen inches high by de watch, and
sots de young folks tumblin' off de
benches, but at the same time dar am
sucn a fing as gwine a little too far.
Ize powerlul on de sing when I gits de
feelin', and I doan' alius put on my
spectacles to foller de hymn, but it am
my candid opinyun dat dis yere poetry
am drawn down a leetle too fine fur
church bizness."
Whispers from the Wings.
Lawrence Barrett is playing this
week in Detroit.
Lotta opens her season at Montreal
next Monday.
Rossi, the Italian Hamlet, wishes to
come to America.
Mapleson opens his opera season in
New York, Oct. 18.
Leavitt's specialty troupe Is at the
Gaiety, Boston, this week.
Alice Harrison and her company are
playing "Photos" in Louisville.
Signor Brignoli is engage i ior I lie
Emma Abbot English Open. C'< cnpany.
Ada Cavendish has scored a sua ess
at the Grand Opera House, >. i.
Mary Anderson opens an engagement
at the Brooklyn Park Theatre on
Monday evening.
R >bson and Crane are playing
"Flats and Sharps" in Chicago, and
are to follow with "Our Bachelors."
The new Grand Opera House in Chicago
has been very successfully opened
witn "A unuu 01 tne ouue."
"The Royal Middy" is revived it the
Rush street, San Francisco, with Emilie
Melville as Fanchette.
Frank Chanfrau opened the season at
the Boston Theatre last Monday in
"Kit," as he has done for nine years.
John Howson and a strong company
are playing "Lawn Tennis," Ben
Woolf's new play, at the Park, Boston.
"The Danites" are making a great
success in London, but an $500 is a big
house there they hardly pay exj>enses.
The new play in which Miss Rose
Eytinge will appear at Abbey's Park
Theatre, in October is entitled "A Battied
Br~~ty."
"Ninon," based on the French
"reign of terror," is successful at tne
Baldwin, San Francisco. James O'
Neill plays the leading part.
Miss Georgia Tyler, late of the Boston
Museum company, and an accomplished
actress, is leading lady of the
Chicago Academy of Music stock company.
Rice's Surprise Party in "Revels"
at St. Louis this week. His " New
Evangeline" is at Brooklyn, N. V.,
and his "Fun on the Bristol" on the
New England cir uit.
Grau's French Opera Troupe opened
the season at the Standard, New York,
on Monday. The new prima donna,
Marie Albert, and the new tenors are
highly commended.
John MeCulleugh has much thesame
; company as last year, comprising Fred
B. Warde, Edmund K. Collier, John
A. Lane, Miss Kate Forsythe, Mrs.
Augusta Foster and others.
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Famous Dogs.
Of the two most eminent dogs of our
i day?Prince Bismarck's Tyras and
Viscount Hugo's Senat?the latter has
i just joined the canine majority, full of
i years and hwiors The " Realm Dog,"
who achieved historical immortality
two years ago by collaring the venerable
Gortschakoir when that celebrated
I diplomatist was paying an official visit
to the German Chancellor, still lives to
dismiss troublesome deputations and
terroize importunate petitioners. But
! Senat, the great French poet's faithful
friend and constant companion during
many years of exile, has succumbed to
i old age at Hauteville House, and received
interment in the grounds of that
i romantic retreat. With him was buried
the silver collar presented to him
somewhat late in life by his master,
! whose Senatorial experiences of docilj
ity toward royalty exhibited by the
first French Legislative Chamber in
pre-Napoleonic days probably suggesti
ed to him as admirably appropriate to
" the most obedient of dogs " the name
he bestowed upon his favorite. Upon
this collar was engraved the following
: distich expressly composed for Seuat
' by the author of "Uu Crime": "Je
j voudrais qu'au logis quelqu'un me
I ramenat. Mon etat? Chien. Mou
maitre? Hugo. Monnom? Senat."
Industrial Items.
NOTES OF THE WORLD'S ACTIVITYRAILWAY,
ART AND MANUFACTURING
NEWS.
| Seven hundred Portuguese are now
j on the way to work Louisiana sugar
j plantations.
The Boston and Maine Railroad is to
have a double track the entire distance
j from Portland to Boston.
The New York, Pennsylvania and
Ohio Railroad has contracted for 2,000
[ new box and 1,000 stock cars.
North Carolina has now sixty-four
; cotton mills, having added ten the past
vear. makimr a total of 117.758 spindles.
The Westiughouse automatic brake
has been applied tc 3,277 engines and
13,502 ears, and tlie non-automatic to
2,472 engines and 8,312 cars.
The Miami Valley (narrow gauge)
road is emerging from its troubles, and
under the name of the Cincinnati
| Northern is to be built at once.
The railroad boom has struck Missis|
sippi. Seven lines are projected, and
j steps will be taken to put the projects
j into practical execution at once.
The track of the Texas-Pacific is now
laid to a point in Stephens county 117
miles west of Dallas. Iron is being
laid at the rate of one mile per day.
The New Orleans, St. Louis and Chi!
cago Railroad shows a movement of
! 303,748 tons for the year, a gain of over
j 50,000 tons. The cotton receipts exi
ceeded 400,000 bales,
i The surveys for a tunnel under the
j St. Lawrence River, near Montreal,
j are being thoroughly made by Walter
Shanley. The project is generally
! considered visionary.
The Chicago, St. Louis and New Ori
leans Railroad Company has broken
; ground at Cairo for the construction of
! its large elevator, whose capacity will
j be 1,000,000 bushels.
The St, Louis and Southeastern Rail[
road is to be sold October 27 to satisfy
j judgments, by order of the United
| States Court. The total debts are be
tween $12,000,000 and $13,000,000.
j Newfoundland is to havea railway?
j narrow gauge? from St. John's to
i Green Bay, 300 miles, with branches
I to Harbor Grace and Brigas. It is ex'
pected to developed the miningandag;
ricultural interests of the island. The
j surveys are being made.
In August, 1855, the Mississippi and
; Missouri Railroad, now part of the Cbi;
cago, Rock Island and Pacific, ran the
| first train went of t .< Missi- jppi in
| Iowa. Now the Su e as nearly 5,000
I miles 01 onerateu ri.i-rotu, ana only
j four Stales exceed it in mileage.
Seme thirty or forty purchasers of
' land in Western Iowa from the Chicai
go, Burlington and Quincy Railroad
about three years agostopped payments,
| claiming that the company's title was
invalid The case has just been tried,
; and the Judge directed the jury to find
for the railway con. pany.
The total tonnage movement over the
New Orleans, St. Louis aud Chicago
J Railroad for the year ending August 1
shows shipments of 10u,712 tons, aud
receipts, 203,712?a total of 303,743 tons,
against 25:2,959 for the preceding twelve
months. The cotton receipts by this
route exceeded 400,000 bales, by far the
largest on record.
The Connecticut River Railroad Company,
wh'ch is already operating the
Vermont Valley (from Brattleboro to
Bellows Falls, Vt.) and the Ashuelot
(from South Vernon, Vt., to Keene
N. H.h is to onerate the Manchester
and Keene Railroad, under the trustees.
It connects Keene with the Peterboro
Railroad at Greenfield, X. H.
In Russia the railroads are so many
separate thread-lines, no network being
formed. Thus two lines are instanced
which run parallel to each other for
nearly 5oo miles and have no connection.
The result is that to get from
one town to another, almost in tliesame
latitude, a long journey north has to be
made and then a return to the south.
John T. Raymond is playing in 8t.
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