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Bat my fixed heart ihall never go aatray,
Liketboae eahn words, whose sun-dlreoted
motion
I* undisturbed by strife of wind or sea.
Bo shall my swerveless and serene devotion
Sweep on forever, loyal unto thee.
I will be true. The fickle tide divided
Between two wooing shores, in wild unrest
May, to and fro, shift, always undecided.
Not so the tide of pas*tan in my breast:
I.lke the grand surge of Jhme resistless river
That hurries on, past mountain, vale and
lea.
Unto the main Its waters to deliver.
' So my full heart keeps all Its wealth for thee
I will be true. Light barks may be belated
Or turned aside by every breese at play.
While sturdy ships, well mannered and richly
freighted.
With broad sails flying, anchor safe In bay.
Like some firm rock, that, steadfast and un
shaken,
Stands all unmoved, when ebbing billows
flee.
So would my heart stand, faithful. If for
saken,
1 will be true, though thou art false to me.
—Klla Wheeler.
ONLY A GARDENER.
An evening in early spring, grey and
clouded, a low-ceiled, plainly-furn
ished apartment in an out-of-the-way
old house, and though the other rooms
are the perfection of neatness, this one
is in all the disarray abd abandonment
-of art.
Two young girl-students are resting
after their day’s work—resting, each
after her own manner. To one, Gert
rude Trevelyan, the word implied
utter repose; she, therefore, leaned
back her regal-looking head in a com
fortable old chair, as with half-closed
eyes, the words dropped listlessly from
her coral lips. But to Esther Forbes,
rest was merely something less labori
ous, and seated on the hearth-rug, by
the tilful glimmer of fire-light, she
glanced over a daily paper, “to glean,”
as she said, "a little news for grand-
■ketch-book and portable color-box,
she set forth, hut could only ride a
portion of the distance, for the way lay
through lanes and roads leading to
rarious residences.
But at length Oakleigh House was
reached, and there the great gates so
appalled poor Esther that, but for the
hope of gaining that prize, she would
have retreated in dismay.
In a few days Gertrude again visited
the studio, but this time to watch her
friend’s progress only, having aban
doned her own attempt
“It is exquisite!” said she, after a
careful survey. “But you have not re
lated your interview, further than the
door of the conservatory was opened—
then you broke off to show mo the
picture.”
*T had to wait so long, and feared
the gardener would never come, so I
found my way to the lilies alone. But
Gertie, I have fallen in love with that
gardener! And as I don’t know his
name, I mentally call him ‘Claude
Meluotto.’ ”
“In love with a gardener, child? I
hope not! But pray sketch for me in
words this paragon of Adam’s calling.”
“He is probably ’between twenty-tive
and thirty. Not exactly handsome,
but a good face, expressive of great in
telligence; a pleasant—indeed, melo
dious voice; and ho has certainly some
artistic taste, for when apparently
wondering at my lily-craze, I de
scribed the design, he then made a few
valuable suggestions. And he gave
such a basketful of ferns and
me
father at
supper-
er-umc.
“Oh, Gertie!” she cried, “listen to
this: •The Art Decorative Company is
offering three prizes—tirst, second, and
third class—for the best design for
screen decorations. It is to bo a
yearly competition.’ How I should
like to compete for one of the prizes!”
“And should not 1? Let us com
mence to-morrow.” And so saying,
Gertrude sat upright in her chair, and
opened wide her great-dark eyes.
“How delightful 'twould be,” said
she, “to awake some morning and find
oneself famous—to read in a para
graph, 'Miss Gertrude Trevelyan has
obtained the tirst prize and a gold
medal for the most original design.’ ”
“1 shall be content with the second,”
replied Esther; “for that fifty pounds
is jiiMi what i shall want next sum
mer.”
“And what do you want so much
money for, child?”
“Ah, Gertie! were I as rich as you, I,
too, might work for tame; but you re
member how my dear old grandfather
suffered from last summers heat, and
yet refused to take from our little In
come the sum requisite for a two
months’ so}onrn by the sea If I
could put this into his hand, and say,
‘Let us go, dear grandpa, like Uvo
happy pilgrims and enjoy Old Ocean’s
breezes,’ oh, how proud I should be!”
The girls were not relatives, but
only neighbors, and the home of each
was in that pleasant art-suburb of Lon
don that has grown up of recent years
about that Cockney’s paradise, Hamp
stead Heath.
But as Mrs. Trevelyan disliked the
litter and untidiness of an artist’s
room, Gertrude frequently came and
“worked,’ as she called it, in her
friend's studio.
Esther did not name her aspirations
to her grandfather, but she lay awake
many a long hour, thinking out that
proposed design.
The next morning, she found a note
from her friend—she would bo absent
for a few days, as her mother had
made some engagements for them
both—and very glad ‘w as Esther to be
alone wiili her unrealized thoughts.
In the visions of the nijfht. a sister
*rt, Poesy, had come to her aid. and
the subject chosen was from Hood’s
idyllic poem, “The Plea of the Mid-
summer Fairies,” where the little elves
are entreating the pity of remorseless
Time.
She designed it rapidly, and ere
long the picture told its own story.
Tne old Mower could not be intro
duced—he would have demanded too
much space—but one hand, portionsof
his grey, colorless raiment, and his
scythe, to which dung fresh grass,
were visible. And as Hood describes
it:
"▲ shady and sequestered scene,
Like those famed rardens of Boccaccio—'*
So the fairies were in half-shadow
and in various attitudes—some kneel
ing imploringly, some bowed down
with grief, others—"the loyal fays”—
’surrounding their qneen, as though to
protect her, while a few had, in de
spair, cast themselves upon the ground
among the flowers.
One, that seemed to have stepped
out from that boeky leafage to plead
with “the dread King of years,” point
ed to a gronp of lilies in the picture’s
centre, upon which fell a too ad ray of
moonlight—as, with their stems folded
in their large green leaves, those pale,
E nrfi lilies stood serene amid that deso-
ition—and symbolic of the lines Esth-
•T had selected, as her motto:
"AiObe that purifies the M»ht,
‘ Uy, faithful to her white,
wept In Bden for her
bn Bve
shame.’ 1
“But I must have some real liliw!’’
exclami&f Esther. “’Tis the most im-
porthafcptotof the picture.”
AndAWMLjhe ipnt to a florist’s, the
n^ost extenHfein the entire neighbor-
bood, she was well known.
Bpt h# wot even one, and de
clared. jr <toh Jkson, they could not
bop< /twly /
‘•aoto some at Mr. Mont
calm’s of ’Oakleigh House, Miss
Forbes,”, said Mra. Joardain, the flor
ist's wife; “for they have a fine con
servatory,, and a first-dMIfltordener at
tends to it- Toq will find n!m quite a
gentleman, and hd Will allow yon to
draw from anything yon like.”
Esther further learned that Mr. and
Mra Montcalm had lately returned
from the Senth of FtotAoe, and that the
lady was so fond of plants and flowers
thfthe spared no expense to gratify
firmed wjth her
flowers and greenery—sending it hero
to me—that I hope he won’t get into
trouble with Mr. Montcalm for so
doing!”
“If you looked as you do now, Esth
er, with your waves of golden hair and
rapt, brown eyes, like some peri that
has lost her way, then I should not bo
surprised if he fell in love also. But
only a gardener! Ah, well! Of course,
you will go no more to Oakleigh
House?”
“No, indeed, Gertie; but he asked
permission to call and sec my picture
before I sent it away.”
And ono day lie did come, bringing
a magnificent bouquet, and this lime
gave his name, which was Bernard.
Ester Forbes’ picture was consider
ed very beautiful and highly poetic;
but—alt, when does not a but, or an if,
or some other stumbling-block exist?—
It did not gain the first prize.
She was, however, awarded the
second, ant! that, with the sale of later
artistic work, amply sufficed for the
accomplishment of her project—a trip
to the Isle of Wight with her grand
father, Captain Forbes, wiio, having
been a sailor nearly all his life, was, in
that truly maritime little spot just as
happy as the summer days were long.
But before their departure, Bernard
was unfortunately the cause of a sepa
ration between the two gills.
Ho had come again and again to the
little out-of-the-way house in Hamp
stead, had avowed his love, had asked
Esther Forbes to be his wife, and
finally had gained her grandfather’s
consent to their marriage.
“Mr. Bernard is not a common
gardener.” urged Esther to her friend.
"He might have employment on the
estate of some great nobleman; but I
believe the Montcalms like him greatly,
and he docs not wish to leave Oak-
leigh.”
“It is not the money, but the position,
that I think of,” answered Miss
Trevelyan, with a lino look uf scorn
upon her proud, handsome features.
“But I am not ambitious. Neither
can I look very high. You know that
my grandfather has little besides his
pension.”
“Yet, an officer in the navy always
holds a certain rank. However, have
your own way, and blame no ono but
f ourself. If some of your friends arc
ess cordial than formerly.”
•T consider Henry Bernard a most
honorable man. Ho is kind-hearted,
ho is highly intelligent^ and ho lovea
me, and 1 would not givt him up for
every friend that I have. Therefore,
Miss Trevelyan, you are at liberty to
set the others an example.”
have singled out from tbo rest of
the world.”
“And this revelation took place bo-
fore your marriage?”
“Yes—for that ho had always intend
ed—and it was uttered to me and to the
waves during one lovely twilight hour,
when he had rushed down for a brief
visit to our little sevgirt home.”
“And Captain Forbes—what did he
say?”
“It was some time before ho could
grasp the entire facts, being so much
less poetic than practical.”
“But oh, Esther!—how about the
other Mrs. Montcalm?”
“She is Henry’s mother, and the
very kindest and dearest old lady. She
also has hud her little romance; for as
Miss Born aid (my husband’s second
name) she gave up the lover of her
youth to comply with her father’s de
sire, and though a* good and loyal
wife, was never a very happy one, and
henceforth resolved not to control the
choice of her son.”
“Have you had time to conclude
your chat?” asked Mr. Montcalm, on
returning to them.
‘ Not quite,” was his wife’s reply.
“But Miss Trcveiyan will pass the re
mainder of the day with us.”
“No, Erlhor,” said Gertrude; “you
have generously overlooked my once
unkind comments, but cannot have for
given them.”
“They are both forgiven and forgot
ten, dear. Ami now, Gertrude,” she
whispered, "Henry’s cousin, Jack
Ellery, is to dine with us. Ho admires
bruuettes above all others, and I can
find some scarlet blossoms to wreathe
in your dark hair. And as Jack, liko^
yourself, is an amateur artist, scorning
lucre but craving fame, you can enter
into a partnership to design something
for next competition, and then—who
knows? for strange happenings sur
round us unexpectedly.”
Anil as Gertrude was whirling along
in her friend’s carriage, away out to
their Roman villa, within her own
mind she partially repeated her friend’s
words:
“Truly, strange, very strange hap
penings do come to us—sometimes!”
Hot*.
LONDON’S GREAT TAILOR.
The Coroner's Verdict.
The Memphis Avalanche says Ten
nesseeans are in the habit of coming to
their death by the following causes,
according to the written verdicts of
Tennessee coroners’ juriesi
“She come to her death by strangla-
tion in testimony we have sit our
handes and seal the day above wroten.”
“Paul Burns came to his death by a
male running away with a wagon and
being thrown therefrom.”
“By taking with his oun hands an
overdose of morphine.”
“From causes unknown to the jury
and having no medical attendance.”
“Said infant child came to his death
from premature birth,”
"Camw to his death from national
causes.
“Said child aged 1 day old came to
her death from spasms, said child hav
ing been found by the witnesse in a
trunk under suspicious circumstances.”
“The joueres on tharc ouathe do say
that he comes to his death by old age,
as tha could not see enny else the mat
ter.”
"Come to bis death from the follow
ing causes, to wit; from some suddent
cause to the jurors unknoun.”
“The said deceased being an orphan,
father and mother both being dead.”
“From an overdose of gin adminis
tered by his own hand.”
"Being run over by two coal cars
while detached from the engine."
“Come to his death by tender of No.
7 jumping the track on which he was
riding, either jumping or falling off
and engine running over him, whic'
was an accident and no fault of the
engineer of said engine.”
“She come to her death by lighten
striken her.”
‘^rom heart desoize.”
“Came to his death in the followinir
i «
They did not meet again until one
day during the following winter, and
that chance meeting was in the wond
rous city of Rome, where so many,
whether bent on pleasure, novelty, or
study, and some from a yet higher
motive, find their way.
Gertrude Trevelyan with a party of
friends in one of the art galleries, when
a lady whoso face appeared famijiar
passed by.
She was richly dressed, and accom
panied by & gentleman.
“If that is the Esther Forbes of olden
days,” she soliloquized, “then success to
gardening!”
She went toward her, saying, as she
held out a daintily-gloved little hand:
“Will you allow me to congratulate
you, Mrs. ”
manner, to wit: He was born dead.
“From the hands of some unknown
e rson, or persons, to the jury un
own, and afterwards placed on the
track and got run over by the income-
ing train."
“Congestion of the brain and appli-
cote fitze.”
"The body was so mangle and mu
tilate that tha could not tell ennythig
about it but tha think it was put in the
sisterne by some unkown person.”
“Calded on hir left side by kittley
of hot water burning over on hir left
side and causing hir death.”
“From the effect of injuries receive
“Do I know anything of tha lan
guage of pos’-ga stampaf” aaid a wall
known stationery dealer yesterday. ”1
don’t know of any book on the subject,
if that is what you mean, bat I hare
heard the slgnifioatfon of soma of tha
ways of placing them on envelopes.
For instance, if the writer is a gentle
man who wishes to express love for a
fair damsel he inclines the label toward
the left, which method is repeated by
tha lady if she is favorable to his anit.
If. on the contrary, the wishes to fiye
him the cold shoulder she Inclines ner
label to the right A stamp in a per
pendicular posture signifies simple ad
miration; when the bust stands on its
head it means that the only sentiment
evoked by the suppliant is ridicule. If
the stamp lies on us face it indicates
that the writer is dying for love; it it is
lying on its back then the writer has
got over,his attack of heart disease. A
label may be placed wrong way up
with an inclination to the loft that tells
a story of hopelese attachment, while
should it be leaning towards the right
haM corner it is a sign that the affec
tion Is unrequited.”
“Are there any other signs?”
“Yes, such as sticking the label in
odd places on the envelope, in wrong
corners, using two or oven three
stamps, making kisses around them,
near them or in propinquity to them.
These have various meanings and may
all bo included in the language of post
age stamps.”
“Did you ever know of any ono using
this mode of communication?”
| _ “If you promise not to give me away
; I will tell you of a postage stamp cor
respondence in which I myself once was
a principal participant.”
“My honor as a gentleman.”
“That’s good enough. Well, it's
about ten years ago. 1 liope you won’t
bo shocked to hear that this correspon-
j deuce grew oul“f mv being a regular
attendant at church?'’
“Not at all. That makes it all r the
more interesting."
| “I suppose it docs, so many similar
correspondences have arisen from a
like cause. I have for years been a
member of St. Peters Episcopal
| church, at Third and Pino streets.
Ono Sunday, ten years ago, I was des
perately struck with the appearance
of a young lady who sat in a pew on
the opposite side of the aisle to mo.
Never mind the details—after some in
quiries 1 found out who she was but
could not obtain an introduction.”
“What did you do?”
“I got from a friend of mine some in
formation about the postage stamp lan
guage and the language of flowers.
Every Sunday morning 1 managed to
f et to church in time to place a small
ouquet of flowers in her pew, together
witli an empty envelope with the stamp
affixed in a certain way. After awhile
she discovered wha her unknown ad
mirer was. What is more she learned
the stamp language and in return she
w^uld leave an envelope stamped in
the pow for mo. This silent courtship
continued for nearly eight months,
when, ono lucky day, 1 found an ao-
quaintonco who knew the family. I
need not tell you that I soou became
acquainted, too. To make along story
short, the lady is now my wife.”
“Indeed! That is certainly a happy
and fitting ending to so romantic a
courtship. ’
“There are ono or two other things
you might say about the sticking on of
stamps if you arc going to publish
this.”
“Such as——"
“Well, I fancy some of the stampers
at the postoffice would feel obliged to
you if you would recommend foolish
young people who are anxious to ap
pear eccentric, not to put tbeir stamps
in any corner but tbo npper right-hand
one. It will lift a weight of sin off the
stamper's shoulders.”
“But how about the language?”
“Easily arranged. If a square place
is penciled off on the right-hand upper
corner of the envelope the stamp can be
affixed in any manner that may be
chosen. By the by, there is one curious
sign in the stamp language you might
mention.”
“What is that?”
“Pasting the stamp on with the mu
cilage upward."
“What on earth does that meaaP”
“That the sticker on is a confounded
idiot, and most probfcbly drunk. Good
morning.”—Philadelphia Times.
Recollections of UtC Man Who Pat
Dtsraqli on the Road to Fame.
“Iremember Henry Poole very well,”
said a gentleman to a Philadelphia
Times reporter. “He was a line, tall,
Ifflndsome man, over six foot in height,
with bushy blonde whiskers. Ho
measured forty-two inches around the
chest. There was no mistaking the
man when you saw him; he walked the
streets as if London were his own pri
vate property. Henry Poole was the
second son of the old tailor of that
name. He was educated at Cambridge
and graduated with a bachelor of arts
degree. He might never have taken
to the tailoring oustnoss, but his broth
er died and then Henry thought he savt
his way to make a big thing of it. You
see the largo connection he had among
his college friends helped him. Ho
was a man who always drosssd with
great taste, and not only expected bat
insisted on all his employes dressing
well, too. When Henry Poole took the
business in hand tirst there were not
more than a hundred men employed;
in ton years there were
sand.”
* Fatlgne of the Eye.
Persons speak of their eyes being
fatigued, ho said, meaning thereby that
the seeing portion of the brain i» fa
tigued, but iu that they are mistaken.
So men say their brains ara tired.
Brains seldom become tired. The re
tina of the eye, which is a part of the
brain, and an offshoot from it, hardly
ever is tired. The fatigue is in the in
ner and outer muscles attached to the
eye and in the muscle of accomoda
tion. The eye ball, resting in a bed of
fat, has attached to it six muscles for
turning it in any desired direction, and
the muscle attached to the side nearest
the nose and one at the outer angle of
the eye should, in every normal eye, be
balanced. They are .used in .converg
ing the eye on the object to be viewed,
and the inner mnscles are used the
more when the object is the nearer.
The muscle of accommodation is oaq
which surrounds the lens of the eyii
When it is wanted to gaze at objects
near at hand this muscle relaxes and
allows the lens to thicken, increasing
its refractive power at the same time
that the muscles on the inner or nasal
nearer a thou- side of the eye contract and direct the
eyes to the point gazed at. It is in
any truth in the story of these muscles that the fatigue is felt,
>nago of Disraeli?” and ono finds relief in closing the eyes
or in gazing at objects at a distance.
The chief source of fatigue is in the
lack of balance in the two sets of inner
and outer muse'es of accommodation.
It may be set down that there is some
thing wrong when the eye becomes fa
tigued. The defective eye, as it gives
out sooner, is really safer from severe
strains. The usual Indication of strain
is a redness of the rim of the eyelid,
betokening a congested state of the in
ner surface, accompanied with some
pain
“Is there
Poole’s patron
“Oh, yes. Disraeli was in very poor
circumstances when ho first obtained
the clerkship in the homo office. Poole,
who was always in and out of every
place where young men congregated,
saw him, took a fancy to him, and be
lieved there was something great in
him. He took Disraeli out with him
one evening to dinner and proposed
that he should supply him witn clothes
suitable to tho position iu society that
Disraeli ought to hold. Tho future
prime minister jumped at the offer, and
When it is shown that the'eye la
About 44000.000 MtaiMf
in the United C" " '
there is little doubt that he also recciv- not equal to the work Required of It,
the
by her close accidental taking fire.”
“From exposier.”
"1 am rejoiced to meet you, Gertie,”
interrupted Esther, “and to present
you to iny husband, Mr. Montcalm.
Henry, this is Miss Trevelyan of whom
you have frequently heard me speak. ”
“I will leave you for awhile to talk
over old times,” said he, after express
ing his pleasure at tl^e introduction.
“My breath is taken away!” gasped
Gertrude, when they were alone togeth
er. "Did tho moonlight fairies bring
about this romance?" »
“I think they did,” replied Esther,
laughing—“through the agency of the
lilies, and I will relate the story in Mr.
Montcalm’s own words.
“ On that eventful morning a
message was brought to mo that a
young lady requested to see tho hot
house, and was. she said, permitted to
use the name of Jourdain, the florist.
Our gardener had gone to a sale of
shrubs, but as his return was delayed,
I went to explain matters, while collect
ing a few early violets from their
frames. You’—for this was addressed
to mo—‘evidently mistook my identity,
and appearing rather embarrassed, I
thought it bettor to leave yon unin
formed. Then the shyness wore off
melted away by tho enthusiasm with
#hksb you described your proposed
sketch.”
•1 most omit all the sweet nonsense,
Gertie, bnt Henry always says that 1
arrled away his heart that morning.
“I believe he once had a theory,
» some youthful disappointment,
woman kind was self-interested,
and here was an opportunity to test the
ainosrity of one, wboto he alleges to
Something Yet to b« Invented.
A scientific gentleman in this city,
speaking recently to a Graphic repre
sentative, said: “I believe that before
long an instrument wilLbe invented
which will do away with the stenog
raphers in our courts and offices. They
were badly scared when Edison invent
ed his phqjjbgraph, which would faith
fully record the sounds of tho human
voice as well as those of musical in
struments. That idea only needs to
be developed to produce a machine
that will answer all the purposes of
the modern short-hand writer, and in
fact be a more faithful recorder of all
that takes place within its range,
sounds such as laughs, sighs, moans
etc., that a stenographer cannot write,
it being alike susceptible to. Another
advance in this lino would be a ma
chine which would automatically write
out these recorded sounds, as on a
type-writor, and thus every man could
be his own amanuensis. Inventors are
now looking into this matter.—New
York Graphic.
A Boarding House Develops GalL
Botts came down to breakfast the
other morning at his boarding boose,
and, looking about the scantily spread
table, pnt his hand to his head and
said: “Everything makes mo sick to
day.”
“Ah,” replied the landlady, sympa
thetically, you require a spring tonic.”
“Ye^" said Botts, as ho took a cold
bean on his fork, “the doctor presorib-
ed cue for me the other day.”
“Indcod! What was UP”
, “Well, ho said for toning an a empty
sioinacli there was nothing like a
poached egg and a aico mutton chop.”
Thought the Minister was Joking.
“My boy, what are you doing with
that cigar in your mouth? Throw the
filthy thing away,” said a clerical-look
ing man to a bootblack who stood near
the Globe hotel puffing a cigar. The
urchin looked up at the man with an
injured air, then shaking his head said:
“Naw ver don’t I’m onto that trick.
That’s what the kidftells me when I’m
flush and smokin’ a two-for, so they
can pick it up. But when a lad can’t
take a smoke without an old chap like
you wantin : him to throw it away, then
there’s a case for pity.”
Reaching into his pocket, tltotfeMVO-
ient boy brought forth threw Mtofe, say
ing, as he held them out to th^Vbashed
gentleman:
“Here, take them coppers and buy
one for yereelf, but don’t ask me
again.”
The dozen or more men and boys
who had collected around the pair
shouted derisively as the minister turn
ed and walked away.—Syracuse Her
ald.
ed pecuniary assistance ^rom
shrewd and generous tailor,
“Did ho he not assist tho late Em
peror of the French in the same way?”
“Yes; but there was g reason for
that, you know.”
“On, yes. You refer to tho story of
Poole’s wife.”
“No, no; there is not a word of
truth in that. It was Miss Howard.
She was a cousin of Poole’s. Her
mother kept a very fashionable little
hotel in Dover street, Piccadilly, just
behind the White Horse collars. She
was created puchess dc Beauvernc by
Napoleon on his marriage to the pres
ent Empress, on condition that she left !
France. He also settled a very good
income on her. Poole did not marry
until late iu life. His wife was a lady
with whom ho had fallen in love while
quite a young man at college.”
“Ho was very strict, was ho not, in
business?”
“I should think lie was, indeed. Ho
never allowed anything to go out of
his shop that had uotbecn tried on and
fitted over and over again. Ho would
employ a man and keep him in his em
ploy for tho simple reason that he was
of the same size and build as a good
customer. I have knowu a man to sit
for a couple of hours on a saddlo-
block, only having the crease in a pair
of riding breeches rectilied. Ho reduc
ed tailoring to a science.”
“Did he do any cutting or measuring
himself?” * -
“No, sir! There is a story told of
Lord Hardcastlo meeting Poole on the
chain pier at Brighton. He stopped
him and said: ‘Look here, Poole, 1 got
this coat of you and sec how badly it
fits.’ Poole took a bit of chalk out of
his waistcoat pocket. and marked his
lordship’s coat all over and said: ‘Take
that coat to my cutter, my lord, and he
will make tho necessary alterations.’ ”
“He was very extravagant in his hab
its, was ho not?”
“Very. He had a house at Brighton,
another in Burlington street, near hi#
store, which was a perfect mine of art,
and on tho Thames, at Hammersmith,
he had a regular palace. His cham-
G aign luncheons cost him a fortune.
[e nad one of the finest hunting studs
in Great Britain. He never cared
what he paid,for a horse, and although
he was such a big man he was a mag
nificent ’cross country rider.”
••He did not die rich, did he?”
‘•No, he was worth about £25,000
when he died, and the result of the sale
of his houses and horses barely settled
the claims of his creditors. Ho was
generous to a fault. He could never
pass a beggar, and many a half-sover
eign he’s given away to people who,
perhaps, didn’t deserve his charity.
He was the best of employers and he
kept men with him for years, but there
was never the least mistake about who
was master on his premises.”
tho proper remedy is not rest, for that
Is fatal to its strength, but the use of
glasses of sufficient power to render
unnecessary so much effort in accom
modating the eye to vision. It is not
good sense to waste time resting the
eye, and that practice does not
strengthen it.
Eyes begin to ago at about the tenth
or twelfth year of life, when they have
reached their full jdevclopment. At the
age of 45 or 50 years the lenses cease
to thicken, when the pressure Is re
moved, and their presbacepia, or old
sight, begins. When a child is com
pelled to uso or require the use of
glasses th re is little reason to hope
that it will outgrow the need, but tne
person will usfi these glasses as a basis,
adding other glasses as ho reaches tho
age when old sight begins, or using tho
thicker glasses, Mr. Seely, however,
mentioned ono case ho had observed
where a child had outgrown the need
of glasses, but in the meantime he had
grown from a small and puny child to
a large and well-developed man.
Second sight, or the apparent recov
ery of strength of vietoa, wtoah is
sometimes seen in the aged, the lec
turer explained as a change, an elon
gation in the shape of the eyeball, by
which tho person became near-sighted,
accompanied by a change in the lent
caused by the appearance of a cataract,
—From a Lecture by Dr. W. W. Seely.
Curios in Westminster Abbey.
Mottoes For the Frieze.
A newly-married modern Athenian
has taken a suite of rooms in a Book
Bay apartment hotel, and bis bride,
being in the sewinglese condition inci-
’ dent to having a complete trousseau,
desired to embroider a frieze with a
motto to go about the reception-room.
She accordingly asked a bachelor
friend for a quotation from Shakspeare,
and thought him mighty witty when he
proposed “Suites to the sweet” The
sentence was brief, however, to go all
the way round, so the professor was
asked to lengthen it Unluckily, he
had in the meantime opened a note
containing a bill for rent for a flat be
had vainly tried to anblet,
what disconcerted the f|
by growling out; “Oh^ t of
the way round ‘Flats to
Boston Advertiser.
Admiral Hewitt In Ab/minla.
The special correspondent of tho
London Daily News, who accompanied
Admiral Hewitt on his mission to Abys-
tiuia, writing from Adowa, gives au
interesting account of the
experiences _
of the mission so far. He says: “The land, but judiciously left oufthe legend
other day we witnessed a wedding, and
we had followed the Wedding party
some distance, having resolved to pre
sent the hasband with a present of dol
lars. He received them with much
pleasure^ but when thanking us, a
mounted soldier rode up, snatched
them from his hand? and threw them
atthtehead of our int tor. This
was one of many insults we had re
ceived from the troops of the governor.
Since the day of oar frxival v e and his
officials have been most disco ..rtcous.
He pointedly delayed calling on the
Admiral, and when ho condescended
to do so was so drunk and stupid that
he had to be supported by his inter
preter on his road home. He forbade
the people in the district and towns to
bring-bs supplies. In A .wa there are
no shops or hostelries of any descrip
tion, the people getting their goods
from a market hold once a week.
Tedge and beer are browed, corn cot>
verted into flour, and all coooking pre
pared in each household. Unless,
therefore, these people are allowed to
sell or give hospitality, the travelers’
chance of escape from starvation is a
small one.
Charles Reade’s London publisher
says that once the novelist, as they
traveling *—“ ~ mte * ’ ‘ ^
of water
“That’s where Christie Johnston
caught .the herrings.” He regarded
this incident of hu own iuvenuon aa
reality, so ttneere was he in his
mco the novelist, as they were replied. T <1
together, pointed to a piece. & aB •
in tho distance, and said: qBkfod
In Westminster abbey there is a cer
tain well-worn stone, which, without a
doubt, was used for the coronation of
the Kings of Scotland, and has been
during centuries taken but once from
the abbey. This solitary occasion was
tho installation of Cromwell at West
minster halL The Soots have mad*
many efforts to recover their relic, t*
which they attach very great impo*»
ance.
The coronation chair, as it is oallsd,
is also the subject of a curious legend.
It is said to bo the actual stone anitemnlortv-Ava orAftv to
which Jacob laid his head at Bethel, Iftp^fllies per hovl
and from Palestine it la reputed to have
been removed to Egypt.
to Egypt, thenoe to
Spain, and finally to the hill of Tara,
in Ireland, where it was used for the
coronation of the Irish Kings. From
Ireland it was carried to Scotland, by
Fergus, tho Irish King, who enbdaed
tho northern country. All these mat
ters, historical and legendary, were at
ono time only set forth in the Latin
label but in the year 1861, for the con
venience of visitors to the great exhi
bition, the head guide rendered in the
common tongue a sort of sub edited
inscription which gave the anthentio
history as regards Scotland, and con
cluded with the legend as to Ireland,
but omitted all references to Jacob’s
pillow as being profane.
For thirtv years sn^ more the stonflt
on this authority, passed as “the coro
nation chair of the Kings of Scotland
and Ireland,” but the other day, notic
ing that the other side of the label wa*
dirty and grimy, the same guide turn
ed it over and wrote on the other side
tho fact that tho stone bad been used
at tho crowning of tbo Kings of Scot-
Colorado contribute* 100,000 «
the country’s i
Of the 351 _
to Harvard, forty-mine as* I
The poultry crop of North O*
la said to be worth about OffSOffC
Tbe births In Spate dutef Ittl
bored 458,000, and th* death* 41
A woman of Greenwood, Ms.,
ported to be catting her fcnrth i
Canada exported last year $1.7
worth of butter and $6,461,870
of cheese.
Sam Collyer, tho noted pugt
now Hving in the vteiaity ef Has
Virginia.
The wonted Industry *f te
•mpicryt-ff 335,830 spindles; in V
Alexander H. Stephens’ library,
cost him 120,000, has b***a sac
for $800.
The census of 1880 shows ffl
colored people in the form*!
slates.
It is estimated that the yield
pies In western New Tort wil
000,000 barrel*.
An old well in States Island !
to be running dry of water and
a turn at oil giving.
The “Osborne” flat-boose ii
York, city, which is almost eom
Is fifteen stories high.
Rev. Dennis Osborne, a noth
■ionarv from India, says his
have 833,000,000 gods.
Tbo Capo Cod canal drsdger
largest in the world. It tall**
cubic yards an hour.
•Tho razor of Daniel 0?Cob
labeled for tale In a shop winds
the Bevoa Dials, Loadem.
Samuel Noble, nf ft nutetim. A
given $2o,000 toward fooadia|
high school at that place.
U is estimated that upward
000,000 tons of canned goods ai
ally packed in this country.
A Stuttgart doctor says that
lent persons may become thin t
ing on and wearing animal wo<
Thirty veeeels have been '
and sunk off Norwalk and BrU
on the Connecticut shoals i
Eddie Bunnell, living
land, Sacramento eouaty, Q
six years and three month*
107 pounds.
Oil-boaring strata exist 1* til
borbood of siw. Soother* Afgi
and tbe rovurunieat wiU togt
next winter.
A Walla Walla. W. T„ mm
to hate picked over 8,000
strawberries from lees than
of vines this sezeoa.
An astronomer who belterm
science Uopetids much upon
raphy estimates that It w**M
years to photograph th* hwv*
A woman has ruosnlff po
fire escape. What we must
this leap Tear of our Load I
escape. Will some womanp*
General George H. Thoms
will make Washington her pi
home in the future, and has
begun tbe erection of a haadl
dence there.
A hundred-ton cannon that
ing fired for tbe first time re
Gibraltar'split or burst at th
in ooasoqoenoo of the shot ■
rimmed homei
An old dock shooter oalmd
brood bills fly at ths rate of 1
tnilO miles an hour i
p*rr
There are 380 eolleges and
tics In tho United State* of «
twenty four have mote than
dents, and only seven teas h
than twenty r
There are nine«
British house of commons, t
{
concerning Ireland, for the verger
since 1851 has acquired considerable
antiquarian knowledge, and ean n*
longer subscribe to tne belief he once
held. Indeed, the stone never was in
Palestine, and Professor Ramsey, who
has examined it as a geologist, pro
nounces that none of Its kind is fonnd
there, and that the chair is of true
Scotch limestone.—London Cor. Phila
delphia Press.
She Removed the Pieces.
“The ixalted marquis av Smith,”
says Miss Bridget Magee, “who is so
journin’ in this mathropolis in blissful
ignorance thnt he is heir to a toitle an*
vast istates, was tillin’ me av aa advin-
ture nr tbe koind. Sed be: Oh, Mite
Magee, I wint uptown On Wednesday
in the car, an’ it was full, an’ l had to
sthond up fur about fourteen blocks.
Thin somebody got out, an’ jist as I
was preparin’ to take the vacant plaoe,
which was besoide a lady, what d’y*s
think she did? Why, she deliberately
picked up her parasol an’put it acrost
the sate. 'What d’ye* think I didf*
•Why pokdtoly rsqoisted her to ramov*
it, 1 supposed loteamC *M.
theses wtoyMMtaMmminnto i»
being eighty-three. On* men
North; who la eighty, ha* n
tbe
sits in
North.
It has been observed that 1
th* ftygi* "magmtl* gftr 1
exerting her powers habitus
her hands through *
her strength, like!
hair.
The study of the Irish I*
becoming popular among m
men in this oosntry. If EM
large cities ths** ar* mflum*
for the Ptrpote. II* PI
classes, for Inf no* mm
pupils.
In order to prevent hsyst
destroyed by fir* fanners I
west scatter * few handfuls <
suit between each leper. It
that the ml* ly absorMni
midity of the hay, prevent*
tstion and oonseqoeat hernia
Tfc* mortality of th* whoh
been somputedt by a oontin*
cation >1 th* following flgm
seven per miaot* 37,700 p*
36,689,885 per annum; wl
births ure 56,791000 par u
000 per dtem and 70 p«r nd*
A mysteriona and terribl
known as th** “wUlipns wa
made Its araneumar 4
Tens. A x amber orattemfe
it, spd they say It is
belches fire, fte
be doing a good
of the noway.
Robert flhnmate, of Heim
n ‘‘gar for” In hi* **r mN
He knoonad it out i ‘
until after I* hsel
m
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