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VOL. VII. NO. 48.
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Aldreaa,
Margaret.
BT HOSE HAHTWIOK THOltn,
Anthor of “Curfew Must Not fWHg To-NigHl.”
. 00. Margaret, beauttful Margaret,
In the hush of the twilight cold,
The nun on a gliMjtring throne has set
In a ckxyl pramber and gold. *
AiidUhe K re *b ’green waves with their white
cape wet '•'■■■-—
O’er the beach to thy feet have rollod.
Oh . what is the charm of the great, green sea,
The sea with its roar -mlits gloom?
The treachecufa eca, how it shouts in glee
Y>“et each Jewel-decked coral tomb.
Art waiting the lover who went from thee
la the light of a golden moon?
Art waiting the lover whose kiss one day
Was'pressed on thy quivering lips V „
The lover who sailed from your aide away
In one of those swift-sailing ships;
O er the waves that bright in the sunshine.lay,
Neath the glow of his finger tips ?
Whenever the hush of the twilight creeps
O’er the earth, with her fair feet Wet;
When the stars come out and the great world
sleeps,
When the murmuring waters fret
tin the sandy shore, then she comes and weeps,
Lonely, sorrowful Margaret
Then she sits ’mid the gleaming sands
By the shadowy ivied wall,
And over the clasp of her trenibliiij; hands
Like a sliow’r the tear drops fall,
While the sea brings whispers of far-off lands
And the blue sky bends o’er all.
‘•Oh ! bring back my lover to me," she cries,
“Must 1 die by the sea alone ?
Oh * pitiful Father, in Paradise,,
$U*>p down from Thy glorious throne.
And grant to the light of my waiting eyes,
One glimpse of hh face, only one."
And the sea roll* in .with a mighty swell,
Will it bring a curse or a crown V
For no echoing mnrnmr comes to tell
Of the home-bound ship that went down
’Mid the hidden reefs, with never a knell
From the slumbering tiarhoj:-towji.
All about her the water moans and raves,
She^s drenched with the falling sleet
Something lies daik in the arms of the waves
Where the sky and the waters meet.
Lo! a victim snatched from the coral graves
Is cast on the beach at her feet *
Oh ! lieautlful Margaret, pale andYuhvlT'
By the sea no longer alone;
For two faces lie in the mi<yiight there
With their features like chiseled stoiie,
Arfid the sea weed drifts from Ins tangled hair
To the sunny locks of her own.
MKS. MILLS’S SPUING SUIT.
BY MARY N. PRESCOTT.
"Now,” said Mrs. Hills, as she took
lier semi-annual dividend from the en
velope—’‘now I will have a spring suit;
it's high time, too, and I mean to have
it made By Furbelow. Once in my life
1 want a dress that will fit like a glove ;
and look stylish. I’m de^d tired of be
ing dowdy, and running about in ready-
mttdq gowus that haug on me like a bag,
und rtTVel apart if one looks at them. I
think I will have a gray Henrietta cloth
and gray velvet. I saw one at an ‘open
ing’ that was too lovely for anything—
bnt a wedding. I am so siek of black
rnsRmere and black silk; it seems to me
I’ve*neve? worn anything else. To' be-
sure, black is more economical- your
-next neighbor can’t be. certain whether
become her. Brown might look old-
womanish. Black was the safer, of
courset She consulted with her friends
and with several of her feminine rela
tives. She made np her mind in favor
of gray on Monday, and chose brown
on Tuesday. She found her attention
wandering in church from the preacher's
and those who don’t draw the prize
think they’ve made you a present. I
don’t care if it is worth a fortune. I
want ten dollars now more than I ever
text to the parishioners’ toilettes,. The - let me have the rare happineas of mak-
womau who hesitates is lost, we are told, ing a present”
you had your black gown this spring or
last, nmHFs becoming and lady-like. I
ahruldg’t care to. have Mrs. Brown say,
‘Iher? goes Mrs. Mills in her everlast
ing gray gown; when shall we see the
last of it?’ Perhaps I should get to Be
known as the woman in gray; and then
'gray spots so easily, and benzine Isn’t
all that fancy painted it To be snre, it
would dye—and shrink. N Brown is a
durable color, and not so pretentious. I
could acrcr wear, a grayjown except on
fete days; still thiT gray gown has
haunted my imagination; it's like a
poem, like the first sight of the silver
catkins, the first sound of the robbin.
However, I’ll go Into town, and get pat
terns, and see Furbelow.”
So Mrs. Mills went in to town, and
btained patterns at the best shop; pat-
’ terns of velvet, of Henrietta-olotb, of
cashmere, of armure, of bourette, of
bison-cloth and what not; patterns of
gray, of London smoke, of sshea of
rosfg, of clover red. Then she pro
ceeded to Farbelow’s, and looked at
fashion plates, and asked questions.
"Here's a ^Iray we have jusi finished
- for Mrs. Hyson, of Mount Vernon streel;
It’s thonght to be very chic," said the
assistant. "Our price for making ia
forty-five dollars only.” Mrs. Mills
sighed. It was plain she could not have
a gown made by Furbelow, fit her never
so wisely. Her check was but for fifty
dollars. When she reached home with
her patterns, in rather a pleasant frame
of mind- for even the selection of pat
terns is a kind of shopping which ex
hilarates the feminine heart, more or
less—she found Mrs. Armstrong waiting
for her.
"You see,” explained Mrs. Armstrong,
*we are getting np a testimonial for
dear Mr. Glucose—his thirtieth anni
versary—and we knew you Would wish
• to add something; all of our best people
has given. MiH Clspp gave fifty dol
lars; nobody has given less {than five ex
cept old Mrs. Blunt, and you know how
stingy she is. She gave a doiiar.”
Mrs. MHk gave five dollars. "She
couldn't do lees,” said Mrs. Armstrong
afterward. , 'T wee detehnined she
shouldn’t get off with e dollar.” t
"That rather oats into my spring
suit,” said she; "bdt I can have it made
without the velvet, I suppose."
She returned to her patterns next day,
and meditated Upon them; it was so hard
to deeida. If grey shouldn’t happen to
and Mrs. Mills was still debating the
subject when a letter arrived from her
dearest friend.
wrote) "that my wedding day is set for
the, 29th. Yon must come and stop
here. It will tie a quiet affair, without
much dress. Malcolm’s partner has sent
me such a lovely necklace. In haste.
‘.‘NiiiLin.”
“That means a wedding present,” ,
thought Mrs. Mills, -"She gave me such
a beautiful vinaigrette when I was mar
ried; and ten dollars is all I dan spare.
Well, I suppose I can get my gown for
thirty-five, and have a dressmaker come
to the house; that will be cheaper. Of
conrae it won’t fit like Furbelows.” And
she went to look up a wedding present
for ten dollars; and as she conldn’t find
anything for jnst ten dollars that suited
the circumstauees of her friend, and as
she had the money in hand, she paid
fifteen for the loveliest piece of bric-a-
hrac, that had jnst been marked down
from twenty dollars. "I needn’t give so
much for the material for my gown,”
she reflected, aa she counted her re
maining duck ts. _ .
"Have yon decided ai>ont your spring
suit yet?” asked a friend, later. “Is it
to be gray or brown ?’’
"I don’t know,” answered Mrs. Mills.
‘I have been obliged to spend some of
my money, and that makes it diffieultto
decide.”
It was a few days afterward, when
she hadiiappenvd in at a neighbor’s in
the evening fot a game at whist, that
that the conversation fell upon the Cin
cinnati sufferers. Everybody expressed
great commiseration. “Yes,” said Mr.
Salem, one of the guests present, "we
are all very sorry, but it doesn't keep us
awake nighfo, and we- don't like to
abridge our own material comforts for
their sake; we are sorry in a poetical,
immaterial way. Now who of us would
give our personal adornments for their
benefit ? I mean to pass round the hat,
and see who is In earnest about this
business. Tlere goes my seal ring, my
intaglio, (or an example; it came from
Rome, and was blessed by the Pope.”
"And here go nay ear-rings,” said a
lady present. "I always disliked
them !” ‘~
"And here’s my locket," cried the
hostess; "lockets have gone out of
fashion."—\—
“I have no ornaments to give,” said
Mrs. Mills.
"You have a tiuy gold- chain-around
your neck, Mrs. Mills,” whispered her
neighbor. "Do you wear it for a
charm ?"
“Mrs. Mills has charms enough with
out it,” said Mrs. Langworthy, aside, at
her elbow. *■ .
"Hush!” returned Mrs. Mills. "I
have my pocket-book. Perhaps ten dol
lars will answer quite as well: it is the
smallest bill in it.”
"Oh, give him the, chain—he
tuskcil—far-ornaments—and save yoot-
dhTf
money,” advised a friend.
shall again.”
"But I will lend it to you—I will give
it to yon v I have ten dollars that I
don’t exactly know what to<Io with. Do
"No; let me pawn the fichu to you—
that’s a dear !—and maybe I’ll be able
to redeem it some day; and if I oan’t,
nwybe yrm’il be ahle-to r*T Tt ‘fl'hl*
you think it’s worth. Now. is it a bar-
And Mrs. Knowles went homo with
her money, and Mrs. Mills laid the
fichu in the drawer and counted her
change. "Well, I must have a gown,”
she said; and before the remaining ten
dollars should melt away she went out
and bought ten yards of black bunting.
"A black gown is always safe, espe
cially for a widow,” she thonght, and
she purchased the last Bazar pattern,
and hired a sewing machine for a week.
And while she puzzled over the paper
pattern, Mr. Langworthy dropped in.
Before she married, Mr. Langworthy
had been a lover of Mrs. Mill’s, and
there had been a lovers’ quarrel, and
Mr. Millp had stepped Into the breach
he had helped to make. All that had
happened years ago—Mrs, Mills would
have told yon, when she was very young
and foolish. ,
"Dressmaking, eh?” said Mr. Lang-
worthy. "Why is this thus ?”
"I doy’t know why I oan’t make a
gown as well as Furbelow.”
"Is this the gray cashmere and velvet
with which you were to astonish the
.natives?”
“The very same. ”
"Yon should not give five dollars to
Mr. Glucose, nor fifteen for Miss Nel
lie’s wedding gift, nor ten to Mro.
Knowles, nor ten to the Cincinnati—”
l "How did you know Mr. Lang
worthy ?”
'"Mrs. Armstrong told me of the first
ihdescretion. I assisted yon to select the
wedding present, Mrs. Knowles confided
iu me, and I saw the ten dollars drop
into Mr. Salem’k~’hat for Cincinnati.
Let me ask, by-the-way, why yon didn’t
put in the necklace you wore that night.
Was it because yon had forgiven the
louor, and lovwd the gift for his sake ?”
"Perhaps so,” answered Mrs. Mills.
It was a few days later when an ex
pressman left a huge box and a tiny let
ter at Mrs. Mills’s door.
"Dear Corsin” (the letter began),—
•‘I’ve just lost an uncle in the Cincin
nati flood, a great-uncle whom I never
and hardly, ever heard of; but papa
GREENLAND ICE PACKS
TIIK *I’FEKINTKKU£MT OF MINKH
ACCOUNT** FOK TIIK MV**TF.IC\.
Why W> IlnTp
Uiiantltlea-
lrrbrr«» In Knrh I .nr**
4 Bad Kook Ahrad.
[F«um tlio New York Herald.1
The report of the ioe packs near
Greenland, just brought by the bark
Fluorine to ( Philadelphia, clears up the
mystery of the early efflux of ice on the
Atlantic this year. The barks Fluorine
THE MORMON Ql KSTIOX.
Bill Fooord by the Unlird Mfntrn Hen-
ole thnt l( to Hoped Will Kenoh ike
Kvtl and Krndlrole It.
saw,
suys we must wear black, and here’s my
lovely gown, that Furbelow just sent
home, going a-begging. As your gowns
used to fit me to a T when I visited at
your house in the days of my impecuni-
osity—that word’s so big I’m not sure
of the spelling—perhaps you won’t mind
accepting this from your loving cousin,
"Ltjqu.
"P.8.—I oan’t bear to part with it,
but it’s no use to me, and will be out of
style before I oan wear it.”
■- It was a gray silk and velvet, a per
fect symphony of a gown, the very
shade Mfk -Milk poyeted.
"It will answer for my wedding
dress,” she said, with a little blush,—
aiid STicaTurlved at Arsnk Fiord, April
9, from Hamburg, and took refuge in
the harbor of Kyrtalik. The Bilica,
after having been driven north to lati
tude (13 degrees, longitude 64 degree*
west, encountered a broad ioe belt, and
sulieeqnently sailed along a pncl^ fifty
miles, which was so high that one could
uot see over it. The superintendent of
the mines at Ivigtut, South Greenland,
stated that the past winter has been ex
traordinarily severe for frost, snow and
gales, and the adjacent fiord froze
deeper and further out from shore than
over before.
Fortunately for the navigation of the
Arcti^jwas b<*yond the great rush of
heavy ice from Davis’s Strait ceased
after May 4, and the Fluorine encoun
tered no ioe in coming southward. This
( fgct suggests that i the ico morses in tin;
approaches to Smith’s Sonnd may have
thinned out in some degree by the time
the relfeT steamers—tbe Thetis, the
Bear, and the Alert—reach that latitnde.
It may, however, be found that the ex
traordinary stream of ice which for some
months has been moving off the Labra
dor coast, will not be exhausted till the
middle of next month.
The exceptional iciness of the Green
land acas last winter may have been, as
Dr. John Rae has recently suggested,
the indirect cause of the exceptionally
mild winter of 1884, in the British
Islands. The natural effect of so large
a flow of cold water from the north,
meeting the warm Gnlf Stream at right
angles, says an English explorer, wonld
‘ not only lie to deflect the latter to the
southward of its usual course, causing it
to strike onr shores further south, but
also in mnch greater volume, because a
much larger supply is required to re
place the mcreased^uautity from the
Arctic.” This reasoning is sound, but
it would seem as if both the phenomena)
glacial flow west of Greenland and the
mild British winter are rather to be
ascribed to one cause—the prevalence of
a vast cyclonic area of low barometer
over and east of Iceland, which wonld
induce powerful polar or northwesterly
winds in Baffin’s Bay, and eqnally
strong equatorial currents over the Brit
ish Islands, If this be the case, as the
present summer advances-and the seas
northeast of .Iceland grow warmer, this
area witl Ynove farther to the eastward,
possibly subjecting Great Britain, espe
cially Scotland, to occasional boreal
winds in July, which may be injurious
to the grain crops.
At last, after much
eral interruptions, the United States 1
Senate has passed the Utah bill pre
sented by Mr. 1 Hoar from the Judiciary
Committee. The provisions are so im
portant, and will, if the bill becomes
law, be so far reselling, that it may be
well to summarize them. They are
substantially as follows: •
-- Testimony itrow A rif pnjseciiUon for
bigamy, etc., may be given by the law
ful hnsband or wife.
Every marriage ceremony shall tie
THE AMftlCAM SOLDIER.
QUAKER
WIT.
Ilsw k« la MwtasleA la Ik* Matter el
(ietklas aa4 Kit.
Hla
On entering the office and making his
wishes known, says an intelligent United,
States soldier, the reerait is taken to a
§yb; jr<»au stripped by
A ■ATt'll
OF JOKKN FROM
KVKNINU CAIX.”
the doctor, after which an outfit of
certified in writing, and snob certificate
tiled and recorded in the Probate Court,
under penalty of a fine not to exceed
ftl,000, or imprisonment for not-more
than two years, or both.
Territorial laws conferring rights-of-
inheritanee on illegitimate children, and
all other such laws contrary to the pro
visions of this bill, are annulled.
The corporation known as the Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is
placed in the hands of fourteen trustees,
appointed by the Preaident, who shall
make an antinal report to the Secretary
of the Interior on the business affairs,
property and operations of the corpora
tion. , „
The Perpetual Emigrating Fund
Company is dissolved ; the Attorney-
General is to institute proceedings to
dispose of the property and assets ac
cording to law, and all funds over tnd
aliore its jnst debts and liabilities are to
escheat to the United States for the
lienefil of the common school fund of
the Territory,
The Territory is to be redistrioted by
the Governor, the Territorial Secretary
and the Federal judges.
The right of dower is secured to wid-
clothes, consisting of blouse,eap.drawers,
stoakiags, shirt, shoes, pants, and
blaalfotpis issued to him. He signs a
bteak&m for the clothes he has just
dam, his signature being witneaaetl by
the officer. A note at the bottom of the
form declares that all spaces not used to
denote articles drawn shall bave a red
ink line drawn through them, to prevent
any person having charge of the same
from inserting other articles of clothing
than those drawn after the blank has
l>een signed. This filling is never done
and when the recruit reaches his com
pany he is apt to find himself charged
with clothes he never drew, and is truly
fortunate if the company commander
does not prefer charges against him for
disposing of clothes he never bad. As
there are several grades of clothing he
often gets the poorest and is charged tot
the best, while when any of the recruit
ing squad draw clothes they draw the
iiest and pay for the poorest After
drawing his uniform he is informed that
he must’dispose of bis citizen’s clsthraa
as he will not be allowed to keep it.
The sergeant or one of his men accom
panies him to a dealer in old clothes
who offers him one-twentieth' what his
suit ia worth. He refuses to part with
them at the price bnt is told by the ser
geant that he cannot be running around
town With him aa he has other duties to
perform. Not wishing to make enemies
at the start he takes whit is offered,
.knowing be is imposed npon, and
returns to the office. Had he kept his
eyes open he might have seen the old
MAKING PROGRESS.
Johnny, b<m J
are you getting along at school F*
Johnny—"Oh, first rate. I started
on third, but I am on*first now.”
"Glad to hear it, my son. Always
try to be first. There hi fifty ceota for
your inAnatoy.”- ■ — ' r —•-;——=ed
"Ain’t that nioe I I'll try to get
higher yet.”
"Higher f How can you be Uigtier
than first ?”
"Easy enough. I oan get to be short
stop or pitcher. ”
DROPPING Til? K.
Minks—"The New Yorkers G.-df Hi-
letter ‘r’ as mnch as the Eogla.. do Uin
■b.’” «
Finks—"I noticed that in speaking
they are qnite apt to give Uie ‘r’ tho
goby.” •
"That probably aeoounta for their
very, tender treatment of their big
thievea.”
"In what way ?’’
—^‘Instead of putting them in cells they
keep them in luxurioualy furnished
apartments.”
"What haa that to do with the letter
*rF”
"Why, don't you see, they drop an •
•r’ from arrest and it becomes a-rest.”
A DBSIHABLE STYLE OF UA!*,
"Mias Smith,” he remarked, as they *
seated themselves in the ice-erram
saloon, "will yon begin on vanilla and
follow it np with lemon and chocolate.
Dickens In this Country.
Harper'» Baxar.
But Mrs.- Mills only repUed with a
flush, and threw in a ten-dollar bill,
mentally calculating the shrinkage of her
spring suit, perhaps.
"Twenty dollars is rather a small
amount for a spring suit,” she reflected
later. "Let me see, ten yards at a dol
lar a yard—it’s no use to buy cheaper,
for the elbows gill be out in no time if
I do; that leaves ten dollars for the
dressmaker, linings, buttons and extras.
I’ll ask how much Miss Slasher has a
day.”
"Three dollars a day is my price,
madame," reported Slasher; "and I
might have it done in three days if yon
are in a hurry. I suppose you have a
machine ?’’
"No."
«"I could bring mine, but that’s a dol
lar extra.” ; •
4—— :—^ *— ——.— ; .y , ;—
"And nothing left for linings and ex
tras,” thonght Mrs. Mills. "I moat
give up Slasher too." She went home
lost in thonght Her spring suit was a
problem which wonld have vexed New
ton’s ingenuity to solve: the laws of
gravitation were trifling ifl comparison;
and while she worked over its solution
an acquaintance who had seen better
days rang her bell.
"Yon can’t guess what I came for,”
she said, coloring furiously, and as-
folding a lace fichu. "You know I got
into debt when the children had the
measles, and jnst now I want ten dollars
desperately. Now here’s this fichu—
what earthly use is it to uie, a poor
widow doing her own house-work? 1
haven’t worn it for ten years. I pee
they’re coming in again, and I thought
maybe you could give me ten dollars
for it, and not feel cheated.”
"Bat, Mrs. Knowles, it> worth fifty
at laaai I couldn’t think of giving yon
ten dollars for it; it would be like grind
ing the face of the poor. Bnt why
dont you raffle it F’
“I don’t want to publish my poverty,
that’s all. I don’t mind an old friend
like you knowing it; it’s patent enough
anyway. But when you raffle anything
people always feel as Tf they were con
ferring an everlasting favor upon you,
The Holland Succession*
-The serious illness of William Hi.,
King of Holland, and of his son the
Prince of Orange, heir to the crown,
renders the question of the succession a
matter of grave importance to the Dutch
people. The long existing sense of dan
ger to the national autonomy, both of
Belgium and Holland, from the recog
nized longing of Prussia for the ag
grandisement of these two countries,
was exhibited by King William during
his recent visit to Leopold IL at Brus
sels, when at a banquet, addressing the
general officers present, he alluded to a
possible union of the armies of the two
conn trie# to oppose invasion of one rr
the other by some Power which he failed
to designate, Last year the two kings
had a friendly meeting at Spa, and the
entente cor diale existing between them
is noticeable. King William is not liked
by the Hollanders. He is irascible,
overbearing and takes no pains to in
gratiate himself with his subjects.
Queen Emma, on the contrary, is the
delight of the people, her affiable man
ners, her charming person and the ease
with which she manages the ill-tem-
l>ered old monarch having made her a
universal favorite. It is not strange,
therefore, that a large and powerful
party should i>e preparing to support
her for the regency in the event of the
demise both of the King and the Grown
Prince, and that determined objection
should be made tp Bismarck’s intrigues
in favor of the house of Nassau. Ger
many, which is hungry both for Ant
werp and for the mouth of the Rhine,
May yet find herself confronted by the
Belgian and Dutch armies, which oom-
Lnned would be by no means an ignoble
(oe.
Ben Perley Poore recalls poor "Boz”
in the reminisoenoes which he is writing
for the Boston Bulletin in the following
way : "Charles Dickens, when hp first
visited Washington iu 1842, was justen-
tering his thirtieth year. He was a
middle-sized, somewhat fleshy person,
an& he wore a brown froek coat, a red
figured vest, and a fancy scarf cravat
that concealed the collar and was faa-
FomaJe suffrage ia al>olished.
It will be seen that, if enforced, this
lull ought to be a long step toward the
disarmament of the Mormon hierarchy.
By breaking np the emigration oom-
jinny the great nonroe of supplies is ent
off. By putting the corporation in the
hands of trustees, with power to enforee
the act that prohibits the holding of
more than a limited amount of property
by a religions corporation, the concen
tration of power is broken up. By se
curing the right of dower to widows,
)K>lygamy is rendered lens profitable.
By providing new ways of getting testi
mony, the punishment of polygamy is
rendered more possible. By the aboli.
lion of female suffrage, a large part of
the political i>ower of the priesthood is
taken away.
The bill now goes to the House.
A Hearty Welcome.
in (he fall of 1800 Stephen A. Donglas
was a Democratic candidate for Pres *
dent. He made a tour of New England,
showing himself to the people wherever
possible, making several speeches, and
being received with almost universal
enthnsionm. The Mayor of Bangor was
a Republican and he was induced to
preside at the meeting. The Mayor
could never make much of a speech. He
was a business man, a stakl. reepeetable
citizen, and a good Mayor, but did not
shine as aa orator. His duty, however,
was to present and welcome the re
nowned Senator from Illinois, and he
did it in very nearly this tuhlon, besi
de th os man place a bill in the sergeant’s
hand which wonld explain why he could
get no more for his clothes.
When, at last, he is shipped with a
nnmber qf others to the depot, he is
again examined, and having passed, is
put out to drill His drill master, nine
times out of ten, is s Swede, German, or
foreigner of some sort, whose slight fnnd
of English is composed principally of
oaths. Under such a teacher he doee
not progresa very rapidly, for whieb
failing be receives an ample ahare of
abuse.
I neglected lo tell abont the cleaning
kit sold to the recruits at the depot by
the post sutler. It consists of one
clothes’ brash, one blacking brush, hair
brush, brass brush, two combs, one
towel,one cake ofsoap, button stick and
small paper of tripoli for cleaning but
tons and a box of blacking. I did not
ask the cost of these articles, bnt on
reaching the company fonnd |3 charged
for sutler’s kit Now, omitting the brass
brush, button stick and tripoli, I have
seen the other articles sold in Chatham
street for fifty cents and of a better qual
ity. After the recruit has reached his
company and learned his drill he is
assigned for duty with h\s company and
draws another ontflt of fllothei. As the
y of these clothes is taken out of his
pay he usually serves tax months or
more before he draws any money.
or wonld you prefer the ehoooiate first ?"
On the way home be asked her to
marry him, and whatever she said It
wasn’t "No.”
’Anon.
SPEAKING FROM OR
Little Nell—"Mamma gave ma a'
strawberry. Ain’t it big F*
Little Jack—"She gave ma ooa, loo.
Here it is. It’s just as big as youia.”
"Ain’t that nioe ? Let’s pretend it's a
strawberry festival I”
"But it don’t seeag like a festival I”
"Why don’t itF’
"Thera’s too ffiany strawberries."
TKXn OBJECTIONS.
Jonas—"I have a great mind to bay a
bicycle."
Smith—"What for, pray?’*
"To ride on, of course. A friend of
mine who ia a dealer in bicycles says
they have many merits and only three
objections.
the New Pension Office* «-
tating and stammeriBgi
tened to the bosom in rather voluptuous
folds by a double pin and-chain. His 1
hair, which was loug and dark, grow 1
low npon the brow, had a wavy kink
where it started from the head, and was
corkscrewed as it -fell on either side oi
hin face. His forehead retreated gradn
ally from the eyes, without ah^ marked
protuberance save at^ihe outer angle,
the upper portion of which formed a
prominent ridge a little within the is-
signed potation of the organ of ideality.
The eyeballs completely filled their
sockets. The apertnre of the lids was
not large nor the eye uncommonly clear
or bright, bnt quick, moist and ex
pressive. The noee was slightly
aquiline, the mouth of moderate dimen-
siona, making no great display of -the
teeth, the facial consoles occasionally
drawing the upper lip most strongly on
the left side of the month opened in
speaking. His features, taken alto
gether, were well proportioned, of a
glowing and cordial aspect, with mote
animation that} grace, and more intelli
gence than beauty.
’Honored Sib—We cannot show you
the magnificent prairies of y<rar—°f
your own native State; we cannot show
you the magnificent architecture of
your—of the nation’s capital; we cannot
show you the magnificent—magnificent
railroads and—building* and—steam
ships and—the business of* the nation’s
metropolis; we eannot show you the
grand and magnificent mountains—and
rivers—and lakes; bnt we, the Republi
cans of Bangor, welcome you without
distinction of party.” J
The Government is erecting on Judi
ciary Square, in Washington, a large
itraoture for the exclusive nee of the
Pension Office, for which Ooogrees has
already appropriated 1440.000. fyM'
four hundred feet long and two hun-
A Woman Frighten* a Panther,
“Seat, You Wretch I”
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The plan adopted last year in London
ot sending po r and delicate~ohildrer
into the country for three weeks in mid-
enmmer has proved very successful.
They are boarded in cottagers’ families
at the rate of abont $1.25 per week.
Manchester and other towns are making
an effort to the same end.
A citizen of a hamlet in Kidder went
to the cars in White Haven one day to
see his favorite daughter off. Securing
her a seat, he passed out of the cars and
went round to her window to say a
parting word, as is frequency done on
such occasions. . While he was passing
out the daughter left the seat to speak
to a friend, and at the same time a prim
old maid from Wiikesbarre took the
seat and moved op to the window. Un
aware of the important change inside,
he hastily put his face np to the window
and hurriedly exclaimed:
“One more kiss, sweet pet” In an
other instant the point of a blue oottoo
The Brookvilie Crescent tells .this
singular story: What came near being a
tragedy oecurred on Balt Lake River on
Thursday a week ago. Mr. Shiver,
well known in-ibis pari of Florida, was
absent from home on business, and his
wife, after attending to her household
duties, had seated herself near the door
at her sewing, while her little one played
around • on * the floor, near at hand.
Hearing a slight noise, Mrs. Shiver
looked around and saw crouched within
a dozen feet of her and her baby an im
mense panther, ready to spring. With
a shriek she sprang to her feet and
dashed the heavy shears with which she
was cutting her work in the |>anther's
face, -snatched her child, and rushed
back into the honse. The i>antber, dis
concerted by the sudden attack and the
noise, b^at a deliberate retreat for the
swamp.
lowed by the passionate injunction
"Scat, yon gray-headed wretch f* and
he seetted
Ten years ago a penniless man, with
a peculiarly-shaped heed, made a bar
gain with a London professor of anato
my by which the latter was to have the
bead on payment of the man’s funeral
expenses. Meanwhile the man became
wealthy, and when be died the other
day his friends tried to avoid fulfilling
the contract Bnt the professor insist-
dred feet wide, the height being three
stories, with a vast central sky-light
rising a fail story above the roof of the
third story ancf lighting the oourt ‘ The
roof of the inclosed court is supported
by two rows' of enormous column*.
This oourt, with its triple colonnade
on ell tades, promises to be the best
architectural feature ot the edifice,
which from the exterior suggests a tern*
porary exhibition building, by the cheap
ness of its matsrial and deeorationa.
Tbs entire structure is of brick, and the
cornices and ftaeae ere of terra cotta.
Between the first and second stories »
yellow^ bend, or frieze, three feet in
height, is carried entirely around the
building, slid on this are represented
scenes from military tnd naval life—in
fantry, artillery, and cavalry on the
march, wounded men, saflors in boat*,
etc. This much at least oan be said in
praise of the figures, that they ere not
the stereotyped soldiers and sailors of
the picture books, but seem to have
been designed by some one who has
seen actual warfare. They are too small,
however, to be effective. The building
is not yet far advanced, bj|t onf or two
things are clear;"!! will have the beauty
of usefullness, which is lacking in so
many of our public structures, and it
will be a wide departure from the classi
cal ideas that long dominated our Gov
ernment architects. For the purpose of
providing a large nnmber of well-
lighted and well-ventilated office rooms,
tbs plan seems an excellent one. The
architect is General Meigs, formerly
Quartermsiter-Gentral of the army.—
Century Jar July.
"Did he tell yon what the objections
were?”
“Well, no.**
"I had one onee. Yonr friend I* rlglil.
A bicycle has bat three objeetk***. The
first one is that yon are liable \t. Lrosk
an arm; the second one is that you srn
liable to Break a leg ” —
"Good gracious 1" v-
. "And the third is that yon are llabte
lo break yonr neck.”
bio woxDe.
It is never well to use big words when
■mall ones will express Ifie
ing. A lady who was making a eaU on
some acquaintances observed that tho
furniture had been changed, and re
marked to the lady: "Yon
metamorphosed, haven’t yon F' "Y-ohs,*
said the other hetatetingly. "You
calcimined, I suppoce; it
better, doesn’t itf” "What
little boy’s sickness T’ sated a ptea
mother of a mother whose little mb was
very ill "He was climbing s ladder,^
mid the lady,
"Poor little fellow," said
tbetio woman; "do buy him ■totter;
he'll be more careful the next time I**
"Did you find the people
asked a clergyman of a wealth*
ber of his church who bad beer-
on some very poor families. "Oh, <
no,” answered the lady; "they
spectable, but as poor m
Msv York Observer.
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BUOMi jpatnnmaeTAMimta
Mr. Purssproud—"No, sir, you shall
not marry my daughter."
Augusta*—"Toot objection, tar.’'
Mr., Pareeproud—"Whoever
my daughter must earn her.’*
Augustus—"Oh! it’s all right
If there is no law against cremation
when the time cornea I’ll urn her."
DTFFKRKNOB IN MTMt.
Jones—"What a lot of lunatics there
are in this world. A New York
thinks he can live sixty days on h i
diet.” ;
Smith-" Milk contains all the tap-
menta of the human Mood. Why do
you call that experimenter a lunatic F*
Jones—"Because he intends to try It
with New York milk."
umbrella caught his seductive lip, fob led, and the matter is to be brought be
fore the law courts. Pending the deci
sion, the defunct gentleman has been
buried with his bead on his ahouldaza-
Anoklioa (at a lecture)—"How rude
of that couple to go out, Algernon T woti* knows it, howewer
Algernon (glancing toward the door r "“Was there evsr soak
With a sigh that aignifies he thinks the
lecture a bore)—"Yes, bnt how happy
thsv are now 1”
Minks—“Why, hoods do, Pinter
Where have you been f*
Finks—"Right hem I have changed
my business.'•
"What are you doing now F*
"Manufacturing horglaa’
"IftatF*
"Manufacturing burgh—*
uGreatO—art And you
How do you know that I
you?"
"Tall everybody you w
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