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Inflammation of the Lungs; all Liver, Kidney, and Bladder diseases, organic Weakness Female Affictions, General Debility, and all complaints of the Urinary Organs in Mail and Female, propucing Dyspepsia, Costiveness, Gravel, Dropsy and Scrofula, which most generally terminate in Consumptive Decline. It purifies and enriches the Blood, the Billiary, Glandular Secretive system; Corrects and Strengthens the nervous and Muscular forces; it acts like a charm off"weak nervous and debilitated females, both young and old-. None should be without it. gold everywhere. LaVrhtory?142 Franklin St. Balt^ Md. Aug: 1?ly. Axle Grease, By the Box oj: Keg. fiODGSON & DUNLAP. * e THE PASSING OLOUD. .fi.*.? (''tit .a : J1 Do you want me to get anything for you in town'( " K-.riwK vM"* Andrew Thurston spoke very calmly,, and a chance listener might'have thought that he spoke very kindly. He cer iainly spi ke deferentially; but his lyJs were compressed, and there were fines upon his brow which wore not usual. Ordinarily he would have ^id, as he ,dr$w on^a. gloves, Now, my love, what can I get for you in town ? " and he would have spoken gayly and frankly, with sprightlincss. and sparkle; for they had' been married not a year yet, and only the day before Andrew had declared that they would never outlive their honeymoon. "JE1 lie," he said with;* fcisv^lien we cease to; love we shall have ceased to: liv4;?lor. lifej wdd be nothing wHhp^l^ve.", ,miy ; But nbjr a cloud had come^rvej-j small at, first^nbt bigger than a man's ban#?but' jet a cloud. Ellie had never complained of fatigue or weariness, j and jet she i^asjfar from being, robust. .On ^his :particular morning she had arisbnyith an aching hepd, but she did not mention it. * She did not smile as was-her wont, and her husband asked her .what was the matter. His question seemed to implj that her manqer had fretted him?there was almost an accusation in itr-^-and she replied rather 'shortlj", ""Nothing." " Hut there must be something," said he, "What is it." " This to his wife, rendered orpr-spsceptible . bj her headache, seemed a disputing of her word, and she answered,' "I tell jou?noth-' ing." V ' ' 1. 1 " But, Ellie," he said, "jpu wouldn't act so if thero was nothing the matter. f " ActhowT-" -detnandfeft'hU wife, flushing under this direct charge. il What* have 1 dope?" . What could her husband replj to:.this ? What a single act of hers?what word, even, _ . i9 Cf 'r?i: V--1 couia ne point out i oomctnuig in ner manner had jarred upon ihe sensitive chords of his .heart, and a cloud bad come between them; but how could he tell it? Dow, could he give to another , an idea of that which had no form nor substance, and which he had only perceived because it dropped a discord into the exquisite harmony of his jealous love ? lie could make no plausible answer, and this fretted him still more. * " Oh, nothing, nothing," he said, drawing back. " If you don't choose to confide in me, all right." llis wife's eyes flashed now, and she spoke quickly?spoke so quickly and so feelingly that her husband was in turn offended; and with a hasty word upon his * lips; ho went out into the ball and made ready for the city, which was but a few. miles distant from his suburban residence. When Andrew Thurston re-entered the sitting room with his hat in his hand, he. asked the question we have already heard, "Do you want me to get anything for youin town?" ...? How cold his voice sounded to his wife, who sat with bowed and aching head by the curtained window! It did not sound like the voice of her husband, and she did not look up. She would wait until he came to kiss her, as he always did before he went away, and then she might be ablo to speak? to speak upon bis bosom, where she could hide her face, hut Rhe darpri nnt trnflt her voice now. She knew she-should cry if she spoke, and she would hot have Her husband see her do that if he was angry with her. But he did not come to her. He turned away without another word, and was gone. Andrew Thurston knew that his wife must have heard bis question; and as she did not immediately answer he allowed his anger to express itself in a slam of the door, as he went out. He pulled on his gloves very vigorously, and stepped off with measured strides, but not very long so.. The fresh morning air fanned his brow with a cooling influence, and he began to think. He missed something. For the first time since his marriage he was going away from home without his wife's kiss. Surely a cloud had arisen upon the domestic horizon, and something" very much like a storm had Come upon their peace. He was unhappy; and the more he meditated the more unhappy he became. J'Eillie was to blame," ho said to himself; but this did not heal his wound. " I may have been hasty," he acknowledged after a further reflection. ' "Rnt still." he asRnred I himself, "she irritated me." Thus he reached a point very far from sat- i isfactory or soothing in its influcnoe. He was forced to acknowledge that he had allowed himself, in a moment of irritation, to speak hastily and unkindly. When he en- ; tared the train he took a scat in a corner and pulled his hat down over his eyes. He did not wish to converse. When he reached his office he was moody and taciturn?very unlike the Andrew Thurston whose custom it was to come with smiles and cheerful salutations. . . A little thing it was, to be sure, but it gave him great pain. A mote is a tiney particle, but it becomes a thing of painful moment when it is lodged in the eye ; and the heart that is made tender with a delivinnr lnvp is ns spnsitivfl fn mnt/>s ns in the eye. Hitherto the current of An drew'8 love had flowed on unbroken and untroubled, but this incoming of obstructions had produced a turhulance, as destructive of peace and happiness for the time as though' the very fountain of love itself had been broken up. In short, he was brought to the Belf-confession that there oould be no more joy for him until this cloud had passed away. And how should that be done ?? How should the sunlight be let in again upon his hearthstone ? ' He was proud, and did not . like to make a confession of his fault. Would his wife make the first acknowledgement ? He hoped so} for thus the evil might be put uway. As he sat alone in his office, ho took up a paper, and sought to overcome his unhappy thoughts by reading. .'He oould not fix his , mind upon the thread of <a long article, sohe k read the short paragraphs ; anilat length he can'ght the following: Wh^re there has been misunderstanding between hilar'-and dear friends* resulting in mutual unbappiness and re'gret, the one, who loves most, : and. whose sense of right anck datyf is strongest, will .make the first advances towards reconAndfbw Thurston 'dropped the paper and rose to his feet. It was as though a voice from Heaven had apokan to?him. ' ' Id) cot love the moist," he soliloquized, but I am the strongest, and should show my Itrvifby my work*.'' ' He iooked at his watch. It was almost noon. It was his custom not to return hometill evening, but he could not remain .and Lj.?a lit A k A n ^kwAtl n?Vl h A A^llA* Vl An M of uvnr tuu uuuicu tuiuu^u iuc uuup* aivuio u* the day. And he marvelled as he put on his hat ahd drew on his gloves how even the resolVe lo do this Bimple1 thing had let the sunlight into his soul'* V eiii vuf * * . u; . e-n Miq lii/'- - ?' J H r" ; leh Thnrston, when she knew that her, husband had gone?-gone without a word or a kiss?had gone without giving her time to recover her stricken senses?sank down and wept, and it was a long time before she conld tbiak or reflect. -jBbe had,been left alone? alone with pain and sor.ow, and she was utterly miserable,. She. blamed herself for not hiving called her husband tb her; and she blamed him for nbt having come of his own accord. To her it1 seemed as though the death of joy had ccme. ,j8he had -never known such misery before.By and by, when she 90old think, she.wohdered if; her husband would smile upotrhff7 if she should offer him the -first kiss, and speak the first word , pf love. ,She would-try it. It would be terrible .if he should repulse her; but she' could not live sof ' , The hours paiised, and the yonng wife sat like ono disconsolate. She . thought not of dinner-?ehe had no appetite.- - She only thought could.,$e warm sunshine ever come again? Did her husband love her less than shfe bad thohghtf*Thus she sat with pale cheeks and swollen eves, whbn she heard the-'enter door opened, and a step in the hall. She started up to listen, thinking that her senses might have deceived her, when the door of the sitting room'opened, and her husband enterod. His eyes Were filled with tears when he saw how pale and grief stricken his wife looked, and with open arms he wenhtowards her. "Ellie, my darling, don't let us bo unhappy any more!" j He had been thinking on his way home, what he shonld say when he met her; and he had framed in his mind a speech of confession which he wohld make; but he forgot it all when he saw her, and his heart spoke as it would. The words "hurst from his lips, lovingly, prayerfully, beseechingly, " Ellie, my darling, don't let us be unhappy any morel' - She came to his bosom; and twined her arms about his neck; and for the kiss that was missed in the morning they took many now; and they wept no more apart, but wept together. ? \ ^ That was all. The cloud had passed; and they experienced the exquisite thrill which oil *ma VianHa fonl tpVinn ?. wrnntr has he'en made right, and when the warm joy-beam a drive away the dark shadows of sorrow and regret It was a life-lesson to them both; and they promised themselves that they would never forget its teaching. * x ' The Darwinian Theory?The Monkeys Hear of it, and are Much Agitated in < Consequence. Darwin's theory concerning the descent of of man is creating a tremendous sensation among the monkeys. They have just heard of it, and are terribly exercised. They repudiate the whole theory. That man des- ' cended from them they consider a slur on the entire monkey race. A cage of John Robinson's monkeys held an indignant meeting over the. matter, the other day, after the performance. A vener- j able chimpanzee, whose gray hairs entitled him to the distinction, was made chairman; 1 and, sitting in a swing, presided with the ' utmost dignity. He got a little excited in his speech as he took the chair, but this was pardonable under the circumstances, j "What!j exclaimed the venerable baboon, . "Man descended from us! I repudiate the ] idea with scorn. True, we have our "faults. 1 Wa nra ar>nnar>d ftf onttlnur 11T? TTinnkftV fihinCS 1 sometimes, and not without cause; but this attempt to mako us father the human race is altogether too much. Is it not enough that poverty requires us to travel around the country in this manner to make a livelihood; to exhibit ourselves to gaping men, woman and children, at so much a head, (when twothirds of them haven't any head at all to Bpeak of,) without having it flung into our faces what we originated the pack of fools styled men?" His remarks were received with every expression of possible delight to the monkey. Some Btood on their pyramidal heads, others hung on by their tails, while others threw flip-flaps from one end of the cage to the other. A monkey who had traveled much, and seen a great deal, and who had probably used the cat's paw to pull more chesnuts out of the fire than any other monkey of his age, next addressed his fellow-monkeys. v i ..mi i i - J!, earn lie: "xnis aarwin nas inuicicu a uu?- < grace upon us that no monkey of self-respect < will hesitate to resent.- I fling his base < insinuations back into his teeth! [A wild i chatter of applause.] If man was indeed 1 descended from us, what a fall was there, my J countrymen! [Prolonged howls of derision.] i If I had this base slanderer of our race?this Darwin, who dar'xein fame by traducing us? I would r-r-r-r-rend him in pieces with these ; pentadactey. with this -prehensile tail!" i [Immense cheering.] The chairman interrupted the spoaker to remind him that no puns would be allowed. Nobody but men perpetrated puns, and a pun was altogether beneath tho dignity of any monkey who had the least respect fpjr himself The speaker promised to be more i guarded in the future, .and proceeded with hie remarks: '! ' ' ' . "Look at thb follies .men perpetrate every dpy,. t.Did you ever know a monkey to toikg such a' fool of himself as they, do? Did you ever know a monkey to buy a ticket to a menagerie and go staring around and making remarks about better people? thin himself? Did a monkey ever get drunk, or talk about hie, neighbors,or wear s plug hat, (unleas it was fastened on his head by g,detectable ringmaster,) or sue for a divorce, or color his whiskers, or go intojbankruptcy, or cheat a printer, or get elected councilman, or run for Congress? Never 1" [Screams and screeches ofassent.1. : >\ ^ "Man descended from the monkey, indeed! If wekwere descended from man, it would be sufficiently disgraceful I get a-' i shamed when I think there is a possibility of a connecting iink?; look at- in. their political, contentions,. lav our 'moil idiotic momenta did we ever yell and howl. as they d? t ' Look at them in Congress. A whole menagerie on a drank coatdn't behave worse.' Andwhere-did they get it? They didn't get it from tis, that is a sure thing. The key ! to their cussed^ nonsense is not the mon-key. [An admonishing shake of the head fiom the President.] Mr. Datwin must seek for his ancestry elsewhere, and let monkeys alone!. He-might, perhaps, trace it to the beasts of the field or. the birds of the air, or," what is more likely, the jackass!" -. Tremendous applause followed this speech. After some farther remarks on the part of the distinguished ifionkeys^dflike tenor, the meeting passed a series of resolutions Utterly repadiating the Darwinian theory,t4tad adThe Boy of the Period. .. Everybody has seen the boy of the Period. His face hangs on the show-board in front of the,photographer's. He is on exhibition for awhile every fair evening on the corners of conspicuous streets. Ho is carefully and ex-quisitely dressed, wears delicate kids; twirls a light'stickjpuffs a fragrant cigar ; eyes every young lady that may chance to pass, and giyes his opinion of her at once while her ears are in reach. Having finished his treet performance, he lounges into a billiard saloon, flourishes his cue, drinks his drinks, pays for them with ostentatious parade nf his indifference to money, and then sallies out in search of home or of some other place, i, The boy of the Period is a great reader. He is familiar with "Our best Society," "The Days Doings," and all the pictorial literature which draws its embellishments from a lewd imagination. He detests reading of a solid kind as being unworthy the attention of a modern young gentleman. His taste is too fine and fanciihl to be rogaled with the vulgar food of useful. knowledge. He glances his eye now and then 07er the leading daily prints, but if he fails to find in them some rousing sensational record of crime, he tosses them away in disdain. He has heard of the Library, but-deems it of no use to him?it may serve plodding blockheads very well. The Boy of the Period is a genius. He is j above work, and has a clerkship; but be has no intention of passing his years in the dull routine of a profession, trade, or craft. He , is too smart for all that. Ho needs- money, for he has th& habit of a spendthirft. 1 Chance is protean. Honesty is straight- ' forward,- and has a single eye. The Boy of ( the Period worships chance, and waits daily at her shrine. At lenght he sails in: makes . ?1J1 ? X. ,L. J. i a vent lie, in some ionn, auu iuuk., me ucceiver, at first is on his side. Suddenly lock has turned against him. He fights against his luck desperately; flounders into a crime; is detected, arrested, imprisoned, and punishsd. Then the Boy of the Period gets his Pace into the rogue's gallery, and himself imong the criminal classes. Such is a brief outline of the biography ffhich very nearly describes the line of life ilong which a good many young men are traveling. A little reflection on their part, night induce then to choose a better and safst path. ' ? _ * How to See Down a Well.?It is not generally known,says the Lancaster (Penn.) Intelligencer, how easy a matter it is to explore the bottom of a well, cistern or pond of vater, by the use of a common" mirroriiVhen the sun is shining brightly, hold a mirror so that reflected rays light will I Pall into the water. A bright spot will be * leen at the bottom, so light as to show the c jmallest object plainly. By this means we" J bave examined the bottoms of wells fifty feet r leep when half full or more of water. The imaJlcst bit of straw or other object can be. perfectly seen from the surface. In the *ame way one can examine the bottoms of ponds and river, if the waters be somewhat dear and not agitated by winds or rapid modon. If a well or. cistern be under cover, >r shaded by a building so that the sunlight will not fall near the opening, it is only necessary to use two mirrors, using one to reflect the light for the opening, and the other to reflictdown into the water. Light may be thrown fifty or a hundred yards to the precise spot desirable, and then downward. We have used the mirror with success to reSect light around a house to a shaded well, ?nd also to carry it from a south window through two rooms end ;hen to a cistern under the north side of the house. Half ndoz bd reflections of light may be made, tnougn t Bach mirror diminishes the brilliancy of the f light. Let any one not familiar with the s method, try it, and he will not only And it useful, but a very pleasant experment. It . will perhaps reveal a mass of sediment at the bottom of the well that has been Httle thought ( of, but which may havo been a frightful source of disease by its decay in the water. . "Wife, do you know that I have got tho 4 pneumonia?": "New monia, indeed! Such , extravagance! You're the spendthriftiest man I ever did see?to go and lay out. your ; money for trash, when I do need a new bonnet . so much!" ffEWS IT-HKS. l? * c%?! ;i? ,i IT 4 *Vil?' - J45fenJJ * Paternal acres?The old man's corns. ; - ilr -V.v ? '1w; L Stagnation-Trai nation inhabited mostly by men. 1 ; ??7 - ' '* ' " ' " . A stylish bppnefc in California costs nam than a mails. ^ Jackson county, Mississippi, has a sm> horned cow. . _ ? ' The Mayor of Savannah denies tlmi yellow fever exists there. j . A Texas negro jury sentenced & au be "hong by the head until dead." The Democrats of Indiana . wa?| H?* drichs for Presides t : ,.i !:!.' '~'T - '.l ' , A Kansas jnan is in jail for letting luwb follow bim. ?' i i' ' : An ipeh of rwp falling upou- 'hn a^'sf lan^ weighs awojj ope (hundred ;topaT utu '? Tjecetuna Great pr tain slots theft' outof about 31,&00t00<lpeople ooy 30,00# ero landholders. / . Why-was Lonis Napoleon's army Kke hie mou sta che ? Because it was waxed at both e ids. A Jersey lady has sued a ferry h(N& for not stopping to pick np?her bran near ifteeu dollar'bat. 111. ./* ' Bojier lot revenue stamps is beeoaaing scarce,, owing to the difference between the heads of departments. _ ,5Fhete is a town in HHnoit called Hit- grilles. The men of that town are ailMa*- 4 Baulks hims. * ..... Chief Justice Chase has greatly improve! ' physically since his sojourn at the Magnetic Springs, Michigan * ., There was a daring express robbery in Kentucky Monday. The thieves carried off $20,000 by overpowering the messenger just as the curs were starting. -.'ft..! A man in Cleveland broke his thigh by kicking off his boot. It is not statedwheth- r. er his wife was talking to him about coming home in that condition. "J *!-> ' ' "* ... . 'IM/; Two disguised men mnrdered a fanner named George Campbell in Tborndale, Canada, a few nights ago, and only obtained ten cents. ? * ! * . VEnglish ritualistic clergymen want to ex* elude female singers from the choirs of all churches. They are unwilling to give women any chanty " The steam power employed in tbe United States does the labor or 140,000,000 win, while that of Great Britain ia equivalent In 400,000,000. The yellow fever ia doing terrible work ia Brazil, and nearly all the foreigners at Apeix have fallen victims to it, including the Bafliah Consul and wife. v As an argument in favor of polygsay, a Morman father in Salt Lake City show* a child six months old weighing forty pounds and measuring twenty-six inches around the waist. "Tea punch" is said to be a favorite with Boston ians. The ingredients are one bottle of champagne, one of whisky, one of nan, two of claret, a lemon and a tablespoonfal >f black tea. , . Wilmer McLean, area! broker estate at Ma* lassas Virginia, owned the farm on which the irst battle of the war waa fought at BuJ) [tun, and that upon which the last was ooa* ested at Appomattox. ) . . ' ' ' -? vA> A singular but striking instance of the rorking of the law of compensation is sforded in the nndonbted fact that although he Orangemen are all Protestants, a majorty of the orange women are good Ecmm Catholics. ? It is stated that Dr. Livingstone his not tad any breeches to speak of for four years, Via merchant tailors of ITiili -rofutinn # > iredit him. With a little paint, however, ind a segment of lion skin around his loins, he Doctor has managed to keep the wolf rom his door. The theory that white men cannot endnre. he labor required to utilize the sugar and otton crops bids fair to be exploded. Exleriments made by Southern planters who lave imported laborers from the cold regions >f Sweden show that Swedes do more work nd suffer less sickness than native born (lacks under the same conditions. Koopmanschap, the famous importer of teathen Chinee, has been to Tuscaloosa, Ma., to look'after the interests of about 350 Chinamen who were taken there to work on . railroad and have received no pay. Be ound them living on blackberries and crawish, and probably deemed the diet healthy or the Mongolian constitution, as he left hem to continue the same regimen. In Lancaster, Ohio, the people engaged n the lest celebration of our nation's indejendence were fortunate in the engagement if a cplorcd chaplain who graduated from )berlin College, and was progressive in his deas, as may be judged from the-con eluding jrayer which he vented on the occasion of a nixed assemblage of patriotic celebrants: "I >ray the Lord I may livo tQ seo the day when he colored man may forget his prejudice so ar as to be willing to receive all other racec is his equals." A farmer who went to Texas to buy a arm was greatly prejhdiced against the jountry he thought to settle in from the fhot hat a doctor whom he called to attend him wueii no wjw ceizeu wiui a lever oegan tryog on bis clothes immediately after writing i prescription. The fact that while the doe,or was trying on his coat the cbaqibtfmaid iros examining his handkerchiefs and tftfe porter was straggling with his boota" Wot. wings io his imagination, and doubtless in inflnence in regard to his speedy e*ft from the State.