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Tlifl Cry or tho Dreamer. I am tired of plann'ng and toiling In tbo crowded hives of men; , Heart weary of building and spoiling And spoiling and budding again. And I long for tbo dear old river, Where I dreame I my youth away; For a dreamer lives forever, And a toiler dies in a day. I am sick of tho showy sesming, Of u lifo that is half a lie; Of the face? lined with scheming In the throngs that hurries by. x1 rum iho sieypiess cnougois' enueavor, I would go where the children play; For a dreamer lives forover, And a toiler dies in a day. I feel no pride, but pity For the burdens the rich endure. There is nothing sweet in the city But the patient lives of tho poor. Oh, the little hands too skilful, And tha child mind choked with weeds! The daughter's heart grows wilful, And the father's heart that bleodsl No, no! from the street's rude bustle. From the trophies of mart and stage, I would fly to the wood's low rustle, And the meadow's kindly page. Let me dream as of old by the river, And be lovod for the dream alway; For a dreamer live3 forever, And a toiler dies in a day. ?John Boyle O'JReilly. k ===== HUMOROUS. Cooks should settle in Grcece. A hard thing to sharpen?The water's edge. The old chaps who wore armor were tiie lirst mail carriers. A turtle is a lazy fellow, and yet ho doesn't have a soft snap. A guest at the marriage of a deaf-anddumb couple wittily and gallantly wished them unspeakable bliss. A man of short stature gives as a reason for his stunted growth that ho was brought up as a child on condensed milk. Frog's legs are said to be unusually high. This is not on account of the French influx, but because the legs were always on the jump. Prof. Wigweover: "Robert, what was it that made the Tower of Pisa lean?" ^ Little Robert Rocket: "A famine in the land made it lean, sir." An exchange gives a long list of reasons why you shouldn't snub a boy, but omits the principal one, which is that nine times out of ten it's a waste of time to try. The sting of a bumblebee contain? only a fiftieth part of a drop of poison. You can't get the average boy to believe that. He'll insist on at least a a fluid ounce. A Pittsburgher has taken out a patent for a machine to crimp flour bags. . That's all right. Why shouldn't the flour bag -wear crimps so long as the flour barrel has hoops? w Astronnmpra t.nll lia in + nirn aim. pie, intelligible way that thf gradual lengthening of the days is due to the "obliquity of the ccliptic of the terrestrial horizon." This ought to set at rest the foolish idea that the days are longer because the sun rises earlier and ^ sets later. The Czar Sends Tor Ills Uniform. "When Prince William of Prussia visited the Russian Emperor on the occasion of the rceent imperial hunt at BrestLitovsk, the Czar found himself without Prussian uniform, and the consequence was that a messenger had to travel all the way from St. Petersburg by special train to repair the deficiency. The Czar discovered his loss the afternoon before Prince William's arrival. Sending word to his valet to have a Prussian uniform in readiness for the morrow, the man appeared to say that by his imperial master's orders all uniforms had been left at St. Petersburg. An aide-de-camp was sent for. "A Prussian uniform must be here by 1 o'clock to-morrow morning." It was then 4 o'clock. The aide-de-camp despatched two telegrams, ono to the master of the imperial wardrobe at St. Petersburg, and the other to tho railway authorities, and about 6 o'clock a loeomotive set off from the Russian capital carrying the messenger entrusted with the required dress. Fresh locomotives were in readiness at Dunaberg and Wilna, and the distance of 950 kilometres was traversed in thirteen hours, a rate of 73 kilometres per hour, so that tho uniform was in readiness for the Czar at the time fixed. Sweetened Mortar. An Englishman writes to tho mayor of Charleston communicating some newly discovered facts regarding tho making of mortar for building, which he believes will bo of great importance in a city subject to earthquakes. lie says that the addition of saccharine matter, such as molasses, infusion of malt, etc., to the mortar, increases its strength to an extraordinary degree. Tho hardness of the old Roman cement, which is equal to that of the stono it binds together is believed to bo duo to tho addition of saccharinc matter. Water to which sugar has been added will dissolvo fourteen and a half times as much limo as pure water. R.-ccnt experiments with sweetened mortar have proved that walls may be built so strong thoy cannot b? torn down with anything but explosives. ?Botton Transcript. "diamond cutting. I The Art as Practised in the Great Diamond Centre. Various Processes Requiring Uniformity and Nioety of Touoh. A San Francisco Chronicle correspondent who bus visited the diamond quarter of Amsterdam, Holland, says : It is strange to think that tho art of cutting the diamond, though tho stono itself has been held precious from a period which ] antedates history, should only have been | discovered in the sixteenth century. Before that time rough diamonds only were used, and those were preferred which presented naturally a pyramidal figure, and which were set with the point projecting. In 1576 Louis de Bcrguem discovered the art of cutting tho stone and of polishing it with its own dust. Then for the first time its true beuuty was revealed. It has from time to time been cut in many forms, as an .0 may sso who examines models of ttioso most famous,, but only two are now employed by skillful lapidaries ? the rose and the brilliant. The rose cutting is only for thin stones. It presents on one side a pyramid of triangular facets and on tho other a flat surface to be hidden by tho mounting. The brilliant, on tho contrary, presents on one side a flat surface, surrounded by triangular facets, and on the other a pyramid of facets, intended to bo placed openly in tho setting and to reflect tho light. Most of the diamond cutting and polishing cs tauiisnmcms arc in Ziwanenourger straat, and unless one has a guide he finds the locality with difliculy. Ouco found, there is no trouble about seeing the operations. The proprietors arc only too glad to rcccivc visitors, who may become customers, for there is a good deal of rivalry in the business. The concierge conducts them through the place, receiving half a florin (21 cents) for the service. The work is carried on several floors, and the processes, though nice, are simple, uniform aud easily understood. The power is supplied by a handsome steam engine in the basement in a very simple manner. By means of cogs it is transferred to upright shafts running up through the different floors. These have great horizontal pullics from which it is conveyed to the polishing ! wheels ranged alonjr tho sides of the rooms. These are also horizontal. The first operation consists in dividing the diamond as many times as is deemed necessary. Technically this is called cleavege, and it is one of the miraclcs of nature that the hardest tubstanco known is capable of such minute separation. It is the business of the skillful workman to find the cleavage by following the seams of its crystalline forms which run parallel to the faces of a regular octahedron. Having found it he fixes the rough diamond on the end of a stick, or mandrel, by means of a cement which is easily softened by heat, but hardens quickly, holding the stone in its place with the requisite tenacity. Then by the aid of another diamond having a cutting edge and fixed to another mandrel in tho same manner, he traces a line along the face of tho hard crystal. It is only necessary then to apply tho edge of a small sharp instrument to tho lino ho has traced, give a smart blow and the diamond quickly separates at the point desired. The first cutting is done by a workman whose hands aro protected by thick gloves, who, having fixed two diamonds immovably in the manner just described, rubs them briskly together, which results in giving the form roso or tho form brilliaut, according to tho nature of tho stone or the preference of the master. These manipulations of the diamond aro performed over little boxes, that not a narticle of tho powder bo lost. Thn A A - ? men engaged in it sit ab a little table or bcnch adjacent to the main room, whose appurtenances are all of the most primitive description. The polishing is performed with great exactitude. The horizontal wheels or disks used for it aro of steel, about a foot in diameter. The diamond dust is mixed with it before being applied. The diamond is firmly fixed in an egg-shaped piece of lead in such a manner that only tho surface to bo applied to the disk is exposed. To the lead is attached a 6ort of stem or short handle, which is taken by the polisher by means of a pair of pincers. When touched to the disc the pincers arc held immovable by two pieces of iron, one of which presses it firmly on one sido and tho other on the other. Tho polishers sit at their wheels in a long row along cither It 1 A. _ ?. _ 1'lil. / *i wau, out at a miio instance irom it ana facing the middle of the room. The diamonds arc fixed in the leaden eggs by a sot of workmen, much less in number, who sit at little furnaces along the wall, j It takes a keen eye to determine when the facct has been cut just enough and not too much. The workmen are mostly Jews, some ol them withered old men who have passed their lives over these steel discs. Others are mere boys, to whom tho less important work is confided. Hero and thero may be seen a faco of tho Holland and Flemish type, but not many. Tho most adroit workman in the establishment it an aged Hebrew, who cut I / 1 * tho famous Koh-i-noor, for which Queen Victoria paid 10,000 florins ($4200), beside a handsome douceur to the polisher. Cooking nt Sea. The first thing that naturally attracts the attention of a landsman is, what a fearful state of contusion there must be in the galley during a rolling sea! Imagine an ordinary kitchcn gruto covered with saucepans, etc., were it suddenly to begin to swing backwards and forwards like a sea-saw. This difficulty,however, is easily overcome. Every galley fire is fitted with a number of iron bars fastened to a rod at tlio back, and which fit into little grooves in a rod in front. Consequently, when tho sea is rough these bars arc fixed, and each cooking utensil is held tightly in its placo between the bars just tho same as a saucepan could bo held over an ordinary fireplace with a strong pair of pincers. Another difficulty is when the saucepans on the fire aro at all full?when tho ship rolls they run over. Tho remedy for this is as simple as Dr. Abcrnethy's one for tho old lady who complaincd of having such a dreadful pain in her arm when she went "so." lie pocketed his guinea and said, "Don't go so." So with tho saucepans, the simplo remedy is, "Don't fill the saucepans." No saucepans on board ship should ever be more than three-quarters full when the ship is rolling. My first impression in watching tlio cooking on board ship was?how many practical lessons might be learnt from it by cooks on shore! How often do cooka complain that "there is no doing anything in this pokey kitchen;" the pokey kitchen beinj; probably quite four timc9 the size of the galley in which I am standing, in which breakfast, lunch and dinner have to be prepared daily for over 200 persons. The requisite qualities required for success aro early rising, an entire absence of fussiness, and, by no means the least important, the power of looking ahead and seeing that each person minds his own business without interfering with another's. Tlie Star of Soatli Africa. In a farmhouse, with its large table and bureau bearing a bible and two or three old Dutch books, and the clumsy rifle leaning in the corner, after the evening reading of a chapter in the Boer fashion, a trader named Niekirk, who chanced to be present, told the vrouw Jacobs that the great white shining stone? they had just been hearing of reminded him of tho pebbles the children played with, picked up along the banks of the neighboring Orange River. As he spoke, there entered O'Reilly, an ostrich hunter. They tried one of tho stones on th( window glass and scratched it all over, the scratches remaining there until this day. It was agreed if it turned out ? diamond all were to share equally. Oc his way to Cape Town O'Reilly showed the stone, and was laughed at for his credulity; it was even taken from hin and recovered with difficulty from the street where it had been thrown, but "he laughs best who laughs last," for ir flano Town tho nnbhlo from thn hnnka the Orange was pronounced a diamond, and bought by Sir Philip \Vodehous( for ?500. Ten more such were easily found by ;he vrouw Jacob, snd early ir the next year, 1868, several wero picked up along the banks of the Vaal, among them tho renowned Star of South Africi by a Hottentot shepherd, who sold it t< Piekirk, the trader, for ?400, who disposed of it on the same day for ?12,000. Then the rush began in earnest, first tc Pniel and the river diggings on the Vaa ?Pniel, which stretches with its sea oi tents, its hive of men and checker ol _1 Ji i. i.1. . i 1 .1 i ciaims, qowd xo ine iouu una uusy river, ond up again to the "populous hcighti of Klipdrift. Hero and there, but rarely upon the slope, a cantecn]of dirty canvas, or a plank-built storo with roof of cor rugated iron; upon the slope, all pockec with holes, so that all looked like som< rudo and careless cemetery. Withir three months of the first discovery then wero 5,000 digging there?CornhiU. Popcorn a Novelty In England. I am going over to England next yeai to introduce popcorn to the unfortunate natives, who have been brought uj to regard corn as food for horsos anc chickens only. Every English visitoi to the exposition goes wild over popcorn and declares he never saw it before. 8c I have taken the contract for the Ameri can exposition in London noxt spring and have 5,000 bushels of corn ready tc ship over. It has always been supposed that corr wouldn't pop if it got damp, and to tr] how a sea voyage would affect it I sen1 a barrel over to London and wroto th< consignees to send it back. It poppec nicely.?St. Louis Olobe-Democrat. Pleasant for Featherly. ' 'What was it that ma said to you, wher you camc in?" whispered young Bobbj to Featherly, ono .of the guests. "Oh, simply that she was delighted tc see mo; that was all, Bobby." "I'm glad of it," said Bobby, and i look of genuine relief came over his face, "'cause she said this morning, that sh< hoped you would't come."?New Ytrl Bun. THE LITTLE CAPTAIN An Ex-Confederate'3 Story of the Civil War. on on How a Oomp\ny Was "Kittled" in One ^ Fisht and Redeemed Itself in Another. rr An cx-confcdcrato tells this story in ^ the Detroit Free Press: In one of the 111 first battles that dccided McClellan's career on the Peninsula company "G" ' of a certain southwestern regiment, hav 11^ nig been stationed to hold a particular ^ point, became rattled under the artillery fire of the Federals and broko back in wild disorder. The case was so marked, U' . ni] occurring as it did in sight of half a SI J mile of battle-line, and 10,000 reserve ^ ( troops, that the company was guyed, sneered at and ridiculed without mercy. Had it been losing any number of men ^ under the tiro the ease would have been x tr | different, but they broke back without oven having a man wounded. I was personally acquainted with many of 90 ! the men, and I had thiscxcuso for them. riJ It was their first fight, and their officers tli Ijad no experience. Under a veteran ^ ( captain they would have held their place ; ? and cracked jokes about the screaming c 1 \ shells. j The epithet of coward was applied to Ir every man in tho company, and the tc colonel of the regiment was so indignant oi , ? ? over tho matter that it was whispered ri about that he had requested our Briga- G dier-General to have tho company dis- si banded in disgrace. Nothing of that A sort was done, however, as we had already begau the pursuit of MeClellan. al In tho fights up to Malvern Hill the regiment was in the rear, or supporting d: artillery; but it came to the front when we swept up to Crew's farm to find the Federal army posted on the plateau beyond, and waiting to give cur victorious ^ legends a bloody check. We were form- tr ing battle lines in the woods when tho ni gunboats at Turkey Bend opened fire ?* ' with their great guns, and three or four bi different times the falling limbs crashed b; . down to break our formation and throw ki us into confusion. 01 By and by the order came for the ad- T vancc across tho level meadows. My *r company was in tho second battle line, P and directly behind "G." Just before f* the order was given, the captain, who g1 was by fnr the smallest man in his com- ?> pany, and had all along been known as tl the "Little Captain," stepped to the i b; front and quietly said : ?1 "Men, we have a chance to redeem S ourselves. We have been called cow- p ards, and our good name has been taken oi away. Let us regain it here or die on t< ! the field." p The men did not chcer, but I saw o; them settle themselves for desperate In work. Away went the first line, sweep( ing along like a giant wave, and then li wo got the ordor to follow. w Just as we broke cover the Federal nr- w ' tillcry opened on us with over fifty guns, li 1 and the echo of the first gun had not li died away when a shell blew three men s< 1 of "G" company to pieces. I had to I step over one of the mutilated bodies as wo followed on, but the living showed ' O no signs of dismay. Shot and shell ^ ^ plowed through that front lino without *( 1 mercy?grapeshot hissed as we got nearer ? 5 ?musket balls were striking far beyond *3 us before wo changed our "common f< 1 time" to "doublequick." "We could not t< get there. Such a fire was opened upon 4 ' us as seem to whirl us about In a mad st 1 circle. Amidst the hoarse shouts of n ) officers and the crash of musketry I heard v tho Little Captain calling: fi "Steady, boys! Tho enemy is there in ti y front?come with me 1" t< * We went forward as a mob would eo, 1< [ halted, whirled round and round, and ai then the order was given to retire. We si ' retreated to cover to form again, while h 3 a fresh batch of victims moved up. I b r had a scratch, as did almost every ono ti ' else in my company who camo off alive, a but this did not prevent me from looking h * about for Company 4,Q." Our colonel p J came ridincr down the lino to rrivn ord- i it . ? -- -- o - e^8 to tho captains, and he halted near " me and called: "Whero is Captain Blake and Company "Q?" ^ "Here, sirl" replied the little captain, ^ as ho saluted. ^ Ilis left arm had been broken by a ^ bullet, and thero was blood on his faco ? from a sccond wound. Lying at his J? feet, with a ball in his shoulder, was his second lieutenant. Standing beside him was a private with two fingers shot off. v' Every other man in "G" was lying dead * or wounded at the front. Indeed, tho ? company was blotted out. The men ir who had broken back in a panic in thoir first fight had died tho deaths of old vet- ^ . erans in their second. i m 3 Willing to Accommorintc. S * It was a very ragged but an exceed- s( ingly polito begejar, who took off his al greasy cap to a gentleman on Broadway b and said: a ^ "Pardon me, sir, will you plcaso grant G mo tho favor of a gratuity of ilvo cants; I ) havo not yet dined." "Neither havo I," said tho gentleman, 4 moro to himsolf than to tho beggar, be- K causo he was hurrying homo for that pur' pose. "Then mako it ton cents," said tie y beggar, "and wo'll diao together."? 01 Btflingt. , : . - *. 'V. i yJ' A Plucky Ambassador* Gen. Pierco M. B. Young, Consul. neral to St. Petersburg, tulls men new ic on Gcu. Cussius M. Clay, who was ir Plenipotentiary to the conrt of the surs under three adininistrations. Said 2i). Young: "Soon after G . . Clay arfed in the Russian capital he concludI tn nffnnrl flw? tlmnfrii niul nnnnnrofl ? v., his dress suit. ! The Imperial box ha3 an ante-room, i larded by two tovering soldiers in ittcring uniforms and with bayonets cod. They arc splendid looking felws and lock like giant statues. During an interlude Gen. Clay mado > his mind to go into the Imperial box id chat with the Czar of all the llus- i is. The noble guard did not know j cn. C!ay, and stopped him at the ircsliold, thinking, no doubt, that he as a Nihilistic intruder seeking the ood of the autocrat. The General ied to identify himself in his Kentucky ialect, and started in again. The ntincl pushed the General back rather idely. Quick as a flash that big Madi n county fist flew back and stretched ic giant soldier at full length toward ic Imperial box. The fall of the solicr and his heavy gun sounded like'the .lilding was going down, and the nperial coterie rushed from their stall > tho scene. The other guard advanced 1 Gen. Clay, and was in the act of inning him through when one of tho rand Dukes recognized the General and louted to the cuard to "ston. it is the merican Embassador." Gen. Clay was promptly admitted :ter that. lie was from Kcntuckv, and tlicy idn't forget it.?Louisville Times. IIow Missletoe U Growa. Mistletoe is well grown at Streatliam odge, in Surrey, one pyramid apple ee in particular, some seven feet high id six feet through, being n dense masr I it from top to bottom and laden with crries. The apple tree thus smothered y the parasite does not bear any fruit, ut this loss is compensated for by the rnamental character of the mistletoe, hose who wish to introduce mistletoe ito their gardens should devote an aple tree especially to it. The berries om which it is to be grown should bo atliered in March or April?not earlier, r success may be doubtful; earlier in %? \ : i. mi.. iu Ki-usuii nit: (jerries uru nut ripe. 1110 ranches on which they arc to be placed lould be from three to four years old. electing a clear bit of bark on the nper side of the branch, rub the berric it, and they will be found to adhere ) it. Blackbirds and thrushes are very artial to them; therefore trees thus pcratcd on should be netted. After a ipse of some three months the seeds ill be seen to have thrown out suckcrkc claws, when all danger from birds ill be at an end, and tho young plants 'ill after that rapidly increase in size, oung apple trees with mistletoe estabshed on them may also be bought in >mc nurseries.?Tjondon Garden. Could l'rovc nn Alibi. There is a deaf-mute in the Treasury epartmcnt who has been there for a >ng time and is an excellent clcrk. The thcr day he had a scare. He wasbusir nmrrnrrni? n f 111 a rlnolr tri-Uini* wlmw o ?b"o ? ?** " '"""o " " ;llow-clcrk came up to him and began ) talk to him in the sign language. 'The secretary is going to go for you," lid the clerk, with his fingers. The mte clerk looked up surprised. ""Why, 'hat have I done?" he asked with his ngers. "Oh, the secretary has heard lies about you, and I hear you are about > be discharged." Tho deaf-muto >oked bewildered. "Why?" his fingers sked. "Some people have told the icretary that you have been around the otel corridors talking in a loud and oistcrous manner against the adminisration." An expression of relief camo cross the mute clerk's face when he card the reason, and his fingers relied: "lean prove an alibi."?Baltimore American. The Powor of Acquiring. The power of acquiring quickly and roll is a distinctive trait of the American eople. It seems to bo our natural incritance. From the hour when an .merican child begins to talk, straight n through the entire educational roces?, the power of acquisition mani59ts itself in a remarkable degree. Inced, so rapid arc the unfolding, the dcelopment of a child's mind with us, mt we are outgrowing the old method f education. The child seems to grasp ltuifcivcly much that was formerly arved at by slow, mechanical processes, or instance, American children now-aays lenrn to read by the "word icthod"?taking in a whole word at a lance, instead of analyzing it into its jparato letters. In fact, the English Iphabct in tnis country to-day, as a asis for instruction, is almost as much collection of "dead letters'' as tho reck alphabet.?Penman's Art Journal. What He Got. "Thomas, of whut fruic is eider lade?" "Don't know, sir." 4,Why, what a stupid boy. What did ou got when you robbed farmer Jones's rchard?" "I got a thrashing, sir."?Sifting* "THE PALACE." Onn r-if tho lVfnQf Infopoodnn Buildings In Mexico. The Official Home of Mexico's Presi* dent and Senate?Aztoc Remains. The Pulaco is one of the most inter estingbuilding* in Mcxico, because of its dimensions, the cunosities it contains, its history, and the knowledge we have of the schemes of tyranny and bloodshed devised within its walls. Each of its six patios is entered through ponder! ous outer doors, that iniglvt bo relied 1 upon to resist the blows of a catapult, and these courts are surrounded by walls of enormous thickness. The building occupies the exact limits of Montezuma's palace, and contains the official apartments of the President and of the Senate, the world-famed Ambassador's hall, tho offices of the government, the post-office, museum, and a military barracks. President Diaz has leased a residence near to ... i il.? i ?..,i v.:? Liiu ?L'sti'iii amu ut uiu x iti/ai, uiiu un private dwelling, on Ilumbolt street, is now the residence of the American Minister, General Ilenry It. Jackson. The starry bnnner of the American legation floatS in the soft breezes above tlio liigb walls and shady gardens of the private dwelling of the President of the Republic of Mexico. After a call upon the Premier, Senor Rubio, and an audience with the President, a visit to the Hall of the Ambassadors, and a glance at the well-arranged general post oflice, you are close by the entrance of the patio of the Museum. This court is well shaded, and to the left of the entrance you are permitted to enter a small apartment, in which is exhibited the State carriage of the Empire, the gift of Napoleon III to Carlottn, and said to be handsomer than the imperial coach of Russia. Opposite the street entrance to this patio is the door of the Aztec hall; entering this long, narrow chamber, but recently appropriated to its present uses, I found a few workmen erecting pedestals for the gods, and the sacrificial and calendar stones (removed thither from the Cathedral walls and the patio inclosure), and the gods themselves lying around in the most undignified postures. The idols exhibited at New Orleans were arriving, and lay scattered about the completed pedestal of the "Divinity of Death," or, as Bindalier insists, tho Hutzilopotchtli (war god) of Tenochtitlan. A few feet distant, and directly in front of this bloody idol, is placed the sacrificial atone, on which ^ sixty thousand hearts were cut ouT* to his honor. Tlio pvfrnnnlinnrr <>!iroin(ra nn tnn nnrl ? ?. J ~ -"I' ?? sides of this stone of sacrifice attract unlimited attention until the bowl in the center rccnlls its bloody uses. Into it the heart's blood of the victim ran, and thence aloug the trench to the side where it was often drank by the sinister priests, with their 4'matted black locks flowing down their backs;" and then, horror of horrors 1 to remember that the body of the victim was served by his captor in a banquet t<J friends, with the most delicate of wines and toothsome of viands. Ascending a flight of stone steps, close to the fountain that throws the spray of its cooling waters amid tropical plants, the museum proper was reached. The first impression was a disagreeable one; it was made by an intentional display of very bad taste by the commissioners in trusting the painting of "Maximilian and his General's," into an obscure niche, and denying it even a frame. Entering the first room you see relics of Hidalgo v Costilla, the standard of the conquest, and a noble cast of the facft of Juarez. In the second wo halted at the long table and tho cases containing the one hundred and seventysix pieces comprising the "silver plate of Maximilian." Tho remaminfr rooms contain tho glasswaro of Iturbide, Aztec weapons, musical instruments, mirrors, domestic utensils, shield of Montezuma II., portraits of the Viceroys, picture writings of the Aztecs, their pottery and featherwork, together with tlio skeletons, minerals, birds, insects, reptiles, fauna and flora of tho country. Playing "Momma." Little Florence was 6 years old, and her brother Willio two years younger. One evening their mamma wished them to go to bed, and knowing tho littlo girl's fondness for playing mamma, sho said: "Come now, children, I haven't had timo yet to look over the morning paper. You run right up to bed now and let mamma read. Florenco you can play mamma and put your little brother to bed, you know." "All wiglit," 6nid Florence, sitting down and taking up a paper in imitation of her mamma: "wun wight up to bed, Willie, I want to wead the morning paper. ? Ch icago News. A Bright Future* 'Wo can't oil bo President of the United States, Bobby, suid the minister. "I know it," Bobby replied, and his clear, honest eyes shone with lofty ambition, "an* I don't want to be. I'm goin* to be a drum major."?Neva York Gun.