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WEEKLY EDmON TCTNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1882. ESTABLISHED IN 1844 T j A "Wife to Her Husband. centred all } ne of us, dear- ness! Do not i But one? despair, but sa] L -?, Will sit by a bed with a marvelous fear? Disney waits ,'r And clasp a band, patience and pp J y Growing cold as it feds for the spirit land? r6ply. Darling, wmcno e? * comes ver jap*' thy's pretty hp; One of us, dear- . Her bead is Bat one? hands lie passrv Will stand by the others coQu bier, " How can I i I |RK . And look and -weep, in distinct but" L ? While those marble ips strange silence keep? jet whv shouli Darling which one? mind? Truth is H has long been One of us, dear? you "wish it, it i WC* But one? It is too muc] By an open grave will drop a tear, turns away, nc And homeward go, words evidently The anguish of an unshared grief to know? hear. The dr Darling, which one ? come! All his been shattered One of u*, darling, it must be, and p^uHy-i [v. It may ^ you will slip from me; Dorothy?his" li Rjr Or perhaps my life may first be done; lieved " as trn "Whichone? * juuiimig mure i _ practiced flirt a LADY RODNEY'S PLAY. *" ??> His first thou; 5 "I wish you wouldn't Dorothy." heard somewher | :Wouldu% wh^t?" S"01SfC K "Toulmow very wett." oat t0 bitt iiw ir-r r > t loathsome play "Well, u I must De more explicit, I ^ tell hJwhs wish ycu would Dot act with tnat Pon- ^ow s^e ^as wj| sonby. The way he stares at you, az:d md hig jfixes you with his eyes, is enough to ^ <3^3^ jje *orSf Q1S nMunera. - her; but, everrl ^ _ "MJ dear Cyril, you cau t be serious, exceedingly col W I nave never beard you so unreasonable notiCed by aU < vi r AT J it n S*16 cann?t misl . Unreasonable! My dear girl! Con- whole demeanor W7 sidenng we are to be married so socn, nTilt(m.0 Af and a!! that, I really thought you tome< would not object to a little advice from at ajj jf Vje js m^u\t < TC T r-u 'i t V, 11 thoughts? The: I "Oi course not. If I like it, I stall fort in &e teme t. always foUow it Ton know thai." not ask him to r< F '^ut surely, Dorothy, it can t be a But ^hat has r^X pleasure to go through rehearsals with ^ business ?' r in such hot hast* "Wellycu *ee, I am bound to act He car6ful]v a now. This is the sixteenth, and the gji tve evening theatrical? come off on the nineteenth? hrpatfasf i<; if m 2*1 *><" <-?W ?a ?0?M 1^7 cSS a^'totam jwyx. fr1 6,.;11 ??* She is sadden *"?* ^ lJfs--oe^1 shoraa like to.' bnt rij6 comei j Oh, would ron'^ That, of conrse, iecifeB ^ herse i> ,^2? * ^ ^8,',10n, - ,r ~ , him how little si \ "Why CT.jS.'esclaimsMiwBohoa, iis co]dlless md fee I?a? befiew jciawmlons! Never before, i "I am. I; dots noc make a man par- i-fprroiTiAhl* da > ticnlarly choerful to know that the ^l^ed so ^ woman fcc love* is to be the object of and soirits ; ; another xraus adoration for even an of ber G^n roo: 5* j. - .. . , this Inckless pli But, my ce..r CjrJ, it is only a bitter tear. . x , T> ,v T A' nine O'cloi t- Br- *<; dear Dorothy, I see no ^ ^ 3%, reason why it might not terminate in a seateiBmd OTepar, ^ tr^edy Mis8 Miso B^hnn langhs. Qaiiotic costnm< "Mvftn trafc kiia cavs "wrmld T-ia ^ ? | appears osiore tr better than nothing. This place has j grimacing, a grown so dull since the Stewarts left, ^ imitate a real ] and those men ao Coote Hall." ^ -reality she only s "Lock here, Dorothy, throw it up,' A very inferior soi says Mr. Disney, leaning over her chair, "While Miss Fa and bending his head until his face is who jg in priva very near to hers, "for nay sake." friend, now make PR "Well, if you can bring me some waiting upon hei fever, 1*11 take it; but I don't see where ail<j renders hers you'll get it, as there's nothing of the ^y giving herself Lsort in the. parith, and I'm convinced a"dozen countesse that nothing less could save me from Both are a dis this thing." _ body tries to apj "Then yen are Quite determined not remarks fall light to give it up?" s^ys Disney, coldly, * The faint appla drawing him-elf t; his full height _ ^ hardy veterans, w "I never was determined in my life," have given then Yon vonrself ?t +v^vir Mim Wp ->" have frequently told me I had the cfcance 0f gefctin ?" sweetest nature in the world, and it is green ? sleepily d quite too late to alter Lady Rodney's yo^?? r( - arrangements now." '-Well, I'm not m "No donb; your are right, as you al- that scrfc of tMr ways are. I'm sorry I can't be present neither will get on the nineteenth, but it is impossible, you see mv deai as I shali Lave business that will detain are h0Tn ^jth a me about that time." _ those two-two "Very preying business? oasiiy settled in li "Yes, very pressing business." Then the curt "Ahl" says Miss Bohum.- # # second time> and s TTTU TV I V V 4 X 011 t0 tb? SlaSe When Pinsey has been absent two oril's pulses swi: days, his thoughts undergo a decided *jfc js Dorcthy. .w Vm at.m ora a'j ^5? To have left Dorothy in the manner is a jegree lc he had seems to him now to have been was before. rot only an unmanly, but a most nn- Disney hardly worthy action. progresses. Not There is onb one way out of it. He kn0wn to him; h will write to her, and humbly apologize .^ow lovely she is for his conduct. jg false as fair. The night passes wearily enough, Her eyes are __ and the morning brings him no relief, suddenly some 1 pP He is etill indescribably miserable, and ear?words that r ,i sinks into the belief that there is no scene fraught v B balm in Gilead for his uneasy spirit. He starts and 1 K The next day he grows even more the first time desperate, and finally decides that to- players, morrow, come what may, he will? Ponsonby is on metaphorically speaking?thtow him- He is holding h self at her feet, and implore forgiveness, attitude is as it How slowly the train seems to move, in the conservato and how intolerable seems the delay at ing forth his soi each station to Disney, as the next gant passion. 1 A ?^ A1-1/3 Tlsvrn b morning ce travels uu xiia way cu iuu mw Bromplev. One half-hoar more, and bnt sad, and dev< he is fulfilling the guard's demands for had characterize the shattered retrains of his mutilated hearsal. ticket, and awakes to the fact that he "My heart hi (jrr~ ha^ actually arrived at his destination, keeping, and if WfgfiP Hastily procuring his luggage, and yours." B; engaging the first car convenient, he As she finishes m immediately proceeds to the Hall. Ar- her eyes and fi riving there, he dismisses the man, and, with keenest rej giving his luggage to the inestimable returns her gaz Williams, he enters the house. trition, ^ How good it seems to him being back Then the see WL again, and how small by this have Bohun makes I Dorothy's sins grown in his eyes. After ings loud and de ^ all, how could she help it? He is sure The curtain d. she hated having to do it. And how say, does Disney, could she refuse Lady Bodney, after repents his u: promising to play, her part? And, be- Where shall he ] sides, how many women act in private othy's justly repi ^ theatricals, and why shouldn't Dorothy, Nothing he cai who is evidently fitted by nature for forgive him?of r that sort of sport? And when one comes and as he calls t< to think of it dispassionately, there are that have beer iew things so?so innocent as little upon him like a tableaux, and little drawing-room should beware pieces, and that! love." In fact, when tt'ey are married, he Yet in spite o! doesn't see why they shouldn't have mines to make agy. private theatricals once a month. That lest position. green room at Kingsmore is just the He will go to place for a stage?footlights and drop he follows her tc r scenes, and so on. be knows she mi He is getting positively enthusiastic She is tnere, s XI i.1 4??1~ ?VI.U VI J. 1 over wue lueswucuas, wuiuu suujwii una x/uiutaj ^ carried him as far as the drawing-room, She turns wit! l when it suddenly occars to him that "Can you spa Hg* Miss Bohun is net there, as the rnart "Can't you wj has.led him to suppose. is it a matter c No doubt she is in the conservatory, speaks very coic SET which she so much affects. He pauses. "That your a) He thinks he will give her a pleasant "iiy answer? surprise, and, cautiously moving aside "Yes." Goin & the curtain that he may not too rudely both her hands i break in upon the reverie tiiat is doubt- i in a close clas less filled with him, be gazes upon the ling, I have bee Hp little perfamed paradise beyond. thing unpardo At first iho light dazzles his eyes, could say to 3 BL He draws his breath quickly, and then enough. I wiT ?what is it he sees ? In the distance your forgivenes stands Dorothy?her features eloqaent, it! Did you her eyes alight, her lips half parted, as have suffered J a smile, fond and tender, hovers round "I'm not so e them. "What! I s At her feet kneels Ponsonby?his over like this? hands tightly clasped, his whole "Oh, no, yon attitude betrayij? devotion the most says Miss Bohr iatense * < "But I assm Sl Eveu as Disney watches them, Disney. "L'fe " - - - Ml L |J> etncsen to tne iif art by the cruel pic- wiieous > ou: K t-ure on which ha had so unwittingly ''Well, but,; ?| . intruded, a passionate outbreak of Mr. Ponsonby.1 words come from Ponsonbj's lips. $ To be his m PH "Darling," he says, "I appeal to you "No ; not ex SB *?r last time, and implore you to "Speak qui listen to me. l}o not, I beseech you, tone. "Su?pe adoration of another"? "I have pr< (" That's me," Disnev says, between member of the ins compressed lips) ?" blind you to says Dorothy, the undying love I offer! On you are "And could - ? r hopes ci future bappi- fore?" says Cjril, with a deep sigh of! Wl sentence me to iife-long relief. 7 you will be mine!" "Ho*, could I when you were going i The state with maddening impa- mad?" beating heart for her "Darling! cap you forgive m? .oily?'' Acorn ?coming still nearer to he* as be ance with y nervously from Doro- speaks. White I 5- "There's such a great deal of it, isn't some in1 bent modestlY. and her there?" savs ATiss Rnlrnn Tt. Trill +?tra v^r^ation ely in Ponsonby's. me all my'time, won't it ?" Hayes wt answer yon ?" she says, "Not all, I trust. Spare me a little, of ber sei wavering accents. "And and I shall be more than content." to every 3 I not unburden my "Dearest Cyril," she says, miscbiev- the hous< t always best. My heart ouslv, with a quick glance from under lady of t in your keeping, and, if her long hshes, and a relapse into her iime befo s yours." rehearsal tone, "my heart has long been an almos 1. Sick at heart, Disney in your keeping, and if you wish it, it recovered >t caring to listen to is yours." " loved hea r not meant for him to "My love?my darling !" murmured the assas eadful awakening has Cyrii, passionately. fore, litt i dreams of bliss have And so, " tastes in by this sudden and "Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake was evide mexpected blow, and ,aS?in? , popular tl baa Ko. And all went merry as a marriage bell." * - .. ?w? ?^ ?.w^ - lb i-Liaj e as tire angels-is SomeXarrow Escapes. !? a his eves now than a ,r , the Whit nd heartless woman of "*??? escapes from ti- E . gers. Colonel Wairen, of the Bengal RorvAfi at} Sht is to return to the y, was carriai off, but killed the ti- dimetat > remain. Has he not g?rbT ans of a pistol he had with becameth e "second thoughts are him, I believe; and many oSier sports- cban:zed. s will remain, and see it am,1bfl8 ??<* being severely dfam h at. er end, and when this m^ei- B?' he ?' extraordinary t has come to an end he ?6c?Pe TOS CfPta'n =?"?> who, while di ?, a he thinks of her, and leading a party of pohce, was attacked ,b ; ; lfully broken his heart bya noted man-eater in the *onxaleen a jt ; f , J Hills, and had a standnp fight. The tr. h. n_ lft is compelled to meet pinioned his right arm to his side coff ;8 >ody being present, his P<" J* paws on Hills should rs, and mea] He ^ mnnUn,, stood over him open-mouthed, while +: aTcfrit T)?ltL Weal/ Sill endeavored to strike him with his a . t ,-: left arm over the right shoulder. With uase tne cnange m nis ~ , , requires 1 . Where is the tender ? fiendish growl the tiger mapped down g0Jd beal, hand to which she has onto his victim s neck, who fortunately ?0 maav b _ . . fftll or rno rrtrtm^nt Thric ha i ? war Old He come ,? * j i that trout still filled with bitter apper fangs penetrated, and the tiger ?f the deli re is some faint com- ntJDed ?veA " 00mP1?tf. sommersanlt; teb, ; mbrance that she did ?jd when the mm and tiger faced each Tarioosi3rl )jnirn other again, the biped had apparently . 0l become of the "press- been converted into a quadraped, as he inthe8iok Why has he come back "as on.his kn<*s ?>a hands, fand the m & blood pom 111 g down his face and beard voinme i voids meeting her all "ave him,;i have no donbt, a diabolical d n and next morning at espression-or at all events the ,tiger Garfield re jssible, more markedly pmed to thmk so, for he pnt his tail t d fr( toward her. between his egs and ran for bis life. ; * 4 h( ed acd disheartened; This trger afterward killed a Karen, and ob|erve(J b i to her rescne. She s shot over the body by means of Crumpwil, df that she will show two guns tied near it, with a string at- t ? le has taken to heart Scbed '?,tbe tngeer\ 'a?t6Md; a<?0ES Several te indifference. the path he was expected by To show Presidsmt. >erhaps, as during this ,th,e "dacity of a tiger I may briefly re- t t b, y has Miss Bohun la'e the following: Onr Thirty-sixth f ..jso bright, so fnll of natlTe n1 *? enronte to Berham- ^ G fi and yet in the solitude p0(rJ'(tEIld m,*?' servant-who, thjak m, while dressing for mess kit bad, as is often the ijyjjen , ay, she sheds many a case, preceded the corps to the nest en- ttain bsd a camDment-ground?'was, just at dusk, u-^.- _ ji :k the curtain rises, and close to the mess gnard, earned off * 8 5 themselves in their [he high road by a tiger. An infant he lYesid^t d 3 for anything. bad in h's a"?s Ziea was seized'was ?.iadow.an( arraved in a very q^te unhurt in the awful rush that took , li; e, fresh from Worth, P1"06; ,?atl5 mon ? tie tr?oks1 Mr. Vresic . - rroro fnllnrcoH rw tnrofl orid oa le anaieoce, simpering ,r,,TT," '~vv TTu i 7 Mrs. Garbs ad doing her utmost 'le body had been Tery httle maogled, fleldplaced live conntess, white in rt defe med t0, ' for tier's t() *port j ncceeds in resembling re'arn- Whl!6 ? Inform was be.ng ^ f , abrette. 8lt-,W^ T ?! the f'v S?" bSClS room that" 3 Ikiner, from the Hal!, ,wil11! ?e other two sat a little way off , d t te life ber intimate eat their 1 inch, and their gnn-car- orarse"no s a poor pretense at f .w.er? s^ttered_abonf, collecting d c : as confidential maid, matencls for the machan Wblle thns , T? self ntterly ridicnlons employed the tiger carried off the body . snfficient airs for Half fFom l,helr m "P da{' "?? wintVon." s throngn not very thick brushwood, . by the tinct failnre. Every- without being observed. To follow np >land, bnt disparaging ?'?less, as the body had neither | > p j fly Oil the air. blood nor rags to leave a trace behind, w.rerw was nse brings to life two Tigers were m plentiful clree to the nsrerdiTnl ho for some time past fge town of Pegu, in British Burmah, r g -a-' WMXJirajssGarnetasai t&trt&TO coff- pres]ei ^strnt-snrgeon of her -0, tie wom EoXe'v has a better majesty'sEigbty-fOTrthregiment.pIaccd flomthatti ?.? a dnck and caught a big tiger! An M n0 tim ?T oil tll&Il that ffin in _/v% _ r It.. wll A TT7Q C rawls Number One. ?,mce? lour Honrs < jplies Number Two. sleeping with tbe doors and wmdows of ooald rec0 neb of a judge about ^ bedroom open, had a powerful bull- 0,.0wde<i wi 1(r. w ,-o dog, which was chained to his bed, h <y??r>r off before the other. MUed by a tiger by his bedside I When r(,mirks w( r fellow, when women I was*' Banlong, a poor woman who al beli talent kr acting like sleeping in the veranda of her I(lllow in a tyros, thev don't get ?onEe was ??;r "17 cla"ed bn'b' "Why no' ife." ten or carried off by a tiger. When the b, asked bj aiu draws up for the plams of Sylnet are covered with water, ?Whatis omebody comes slowlv Bprs ascend the hills, and ate very betlleresp, i?somebody who sets Ple^Mtil at Cherra Poonghie, often ,.Ifheli ftly throbbmg. leaving their marks not only within the twentv ? w. She is very pale, and ?>mPO<>nds of th.e h<m8<?* bnt m ,the Thie rei ittle langnia ; but she verandas themselves, and no one dare noTedttos ivelier than she ever venture out at mght without tcm-toms tb and torches. At Shillong we ?.nd the ^oge w^0 sepoys killed several on foot one year. The remart tTsyilable makes^ itself [London Held. ^ he would H ecan onlv tell himself Human Brains, Skin and Hair. P * * looking, and that she The average weight of the brain of e^ae,^ the adult is three pounds and eight close >y ana on the ground; but ounces?of a female two pounds and y ?pe svords strike upon his four ounces. The nerves are all con- aPP *< bring back to him a nected with it, directly or through the ^tanraia rith grief and anger, spinal marrcw. These nerves, together cj tneiuej ifts his head; and for with their branches and minute rami- 1S eagerly regards the fications,. probably exceed ten millions stewara, v in number, forming a -body-guard" his knees before her. outnumbering by far the mighti- P* , er hands. His whole est army ever marshaled. The thereadine ras that fatal afternoon skin is composed of three layers, Jie ev^ BJ ry. He is again pour- and varies from one-fourth to one-eight li ,, VT cd in words of extravar- 0{ an inch in thickness. Its average '"?6' area in an admit is estimated at 2,000 .? thy's voice rises, clear square inches. It performs various v . )id of the warmth that important functions. It is the seat of * >d it during the re- common sensations, and is furnished ?no^Tp with numerous pores or openings, iS long been in your which give passage to the sweat and , you wish it, it is other exhalations. It is in this P . thp. creat regulator of the I !ie*d tv her speech she raises heat of the "body. The atmospheric 1;iiat m&m> xes them steadily, and pressure of the pkin bein? about four>roach, on Disney, who teen pounds to the square inch, a person Tfi e, his eyes full of con- of medium size is subject to a pressure jf a!iy ol of 40,000 pounda. Pretty tight hug^ an(] 0f w0 ne conges, and Miss Human hair analyzed by ^ the aid of -t ja quite ler exit, amid applaud- chemistry is found to contain albumen, yourselves ep. lime, sulphur and magnesium. The jjo^n of rops so, I m?y almost disagreeable odor arising when the hair ;^ran<j ole , How bitterly he now jS burnt is caused by the presence of antiquated Qpardonable jealousy! sulphur. The color is imparted to it ^ables and tride himself from Dor- by an oil, which fills the hollow tubes interesting roachful gaze ? of the hair, the different coloring place. 1 ever do will make her matters containing an excess \ * jn the that he feels assured; 0f the above ingredients. Red place 0f p o mind the happy days hair contains a larger proportion of sul- you wjn j i, "Remembrance sits phur than light or dark hair; the white ^h? tall pj , banhe feels 'They j hair of the aged_ contains^ an excess of J CQWj ana T who charges lay in 1 the phosphate oi lime. J.ne narr nas at- a all times, and by all trades, been con- meE1orate E his despair, be deter- sidered one of the most prominent When an effort to regain his characteristics of beauty. Poets have jfetherlan sung its praise, artists have painted its liberty, t her. Rising suddenly, beauty, sculptors have delineated it in rjch farm< > the ci een-room, where marble. As a mere piece of mechanism with milk dst be. the world nowhere furnishes such a path sevei md alone. beautiful and complex piece of ma- behind s e says, entreatingly. chinery in so small a space. maidens rem^few moments ?' Ancient Mexican Worship. J^sn* lit until the morning, or Of the who.e system of Mexican wor- gjsted Dp( >f life or death ?'. she ship by far the most prominent feature master, v Hv xvas its astounding ferocity. It was i rr,uey wer * " , lt ^ 1 91 -1 .r . 3 1 TnifVk V? T-I r> *-? I * - iswer snaii cteciae. areacnea. m eveij mu uumau the*1, bad ' blocd. Its priests were aa army of gT)r^ad ab g up to her, he takes sturdy butchers, whose highest func- C0Tm in his, at'dhoidicg them tion was to cleave the victim's breast ^rQ p. says, eagf-rly, "Dar- -with the sacrificial hatchet and were ( u a fool, a brute, every- pluck out his palpitating heart; its enemy i0< nable! Anything you devotees wera cannibals who devoured Thus'the ne would not be hard the victim's fiesn in sacramental feast, an awfuj [ go on my knees for and, like the priests of Baal, cut them- rm^- m s, it you will only grant selves with knives and lancets. Each ^ ^arn. know half the misery I month had its festivals of slaughter, and iv^^ed ! am certain you would." m the capital alone 20,000 human vie- iotisE ture that I shalL" tims are said to have been annually af4rward hall die if you throw me offered. From slaves and criminals, j0^s gI I shall indeed!" from prisoners captured in wars undor- | ^ . won't-net a little bit!" j taken for the purpose, from troops m. | of children purchased for sacrifice, j honored 1 h^h_/>a?fir>rrnrir. ! _ '6 VOH 1 Will I exclaims was lUf gunobij uca9u-vvum.Svu. , > would be impossible continually recruited. Some were fat- j ^ {q^ ted in the sacred cages, others loaded | commem rou see, I have promised with honors and sated with sensual de- j -young F " lights to make them the more acceptrife ?" able offerings; some perished on the J in Yir actly that." altar by the fatal stroke of the priest, j jn oystei ckly!" he says, in a low others in the mockery of gladiatorial J Kept at s nse is maddening !*' combat; some were flayed alive, others j product >mised him to become a flnng headlong into mountain whirl-; $2,340,51 Archi'eological Society," pools and lakes. Never was supeisti- | 650,000 tion so sickening with intolerable hor-' Boston ! n't you have said so.be-' rors.?Blackuood s Magazine. : Washing 1ITE HOUSE STORIKS. Scotch FnneraK j When an invitation is being given I stewar^TeiiH Some interests yeibaI1y to a fnneral in Scotland, the ,act"* . person invited usnally asks, "When do i ispondent who has an acquaint- you lift?.. mfeaning) ?At wbat honr does | ar i Mr. Crump, steward of the the funeral take placed" The manner Louso, at Washington, sends of conveving the coffin from the house i,_ .eresung particular?} of con- t0 the place of interment, still followed with him. Crump says Mrs. in Eaglesham, a village in the south of is always studying the comfort Renfrewshire, abundantly explains this fn vants, and moreover attentive ptrase. As can be woll enough underdetail of the management of stood, hearses and coaches are institu- ,-ui iVT*?q ifOrTi CkM tt-q a f ? ^ . ? . .. ?... 1UI< tions Belonging to towns ana cities, lie iVhite House but a short not t0 villages. In tlie latter the coffin ! __f re s:.e was stncken down with ^ borne to the gravij on three poles, st fatal illness, and had not which are passed under it, long enough ere her husband., the be- f0 leave a sufficient ; portion for two - ?? ,^10\ e'|a, to men to grasp on eithe^side. Of conrse, i.lfl sin s bullet. _ She nad, there- ft j8 impossible to plaoe these "spokes" i le opportunity to show her jn position in the housie, so a couple of c?v household direction, but it stooIs are brought cot to the street, plp nt tbat she would ba not less the ccffin is placed japon the:m, and j lan was Mrs. Hayes. when the cortege is ready to go, the _r , bo oi interest to some people Sp0kes are passed undeir, the coffin is ~ he Lours meals are served at "lifted." and the oroijession mcves off. e House. Paring president I feel peisuaded that^fcis one of the nffl. dmmistration breakfast was "things not general*- known" that ^ mu />. t ^ "waking" the dead his-been practiced ^ v ^,en, era in one of the northern counties cf Scot .e host the hours were slightly lland from time immemorial, and is stil ar% Breakfast was ready at 8 30, ^ vogne there. Whee<adeath occurs 3, tea at 7. President Arthnr Qjen Urqnhart, the ^arnfors in- ihe ftT)r^ alar as to any meal except household are never sm?*ed to be :Jone fich, aich is served at 8 o clock m with their dead till the da?rf 1-te fu- ^ ng. He 13 not an early riser, nerai. The body, is not. coffined till the ot uausual for his breakiast 0f interment, for the simple reason olfA te as 10.30 o clock. A cap of that the coffin has topbe made by the .lways relished by him at this village joiner after death takes place, n i rarely resigns _ himself to house with a corps# in it becomes j - f 11 3 or 4 o clock m the morn- for the two or three flays and nights five or six hours are all he that intervene between-death and burial or rest. How he maintains the rendezvous of all' the neighbors, j < )h. UJldBF the lioavy strain of raVm ftit: f.All ftf.nriPS?<y"hnRt ft tori aa ^ VW O """ D6CC ours' activity is a question having a decided preference?ostensibly Yorl >les his friends. Ha is fond to ^eep the bereaved Ijunily from feel- mee cacies of the season, and his jng teri6> ]3nt really for purposes of en- 3>t the least expensive of the tertainment. Such gatherings differ q* iftstipon his purse, from Irish "wakes" ingthis particular? ' ump cap say about the life that tobacco and pipef are not provided an^ room during Garfield's long by the relatives of t&v deceased, each g dd iiiake a very interesting attender bringing hfe own supply of ? [t was asserted at the time, these luxuries; but whisky is supplied fi*es illy believed, that when Mrs. by the family in whose "house the wake t^e , turned on the day of the j8 ^eld, and pretty Jreely <iispensed. ^en >m Long Branch, the meet gucvL gatherings are" favorite resorts of er stricken husband was un- blushing lasses and strapping lad3 who g y any one. The fact is that are COurting, aad are often the sce.no of j ^en lessed the interview, though more laughter than tears. The funerals glat h any choice of his own. ^ this locality present an imposing m' mes during the day the spectacle, often as many as a hundred w:^c isked of the faithful steward meD) decently clad iu black broadcloth, 0Qe his Hide gently fanning his binding in slow procession through the ronder how far on her way valley, in the rear of the bearers who >ld is now ?" "What time do the coffin.. ir,- v l 11I l.j. 1 ? - /"I 1" - snen get n?re orump: But here again we have an illustration 2" ' s-as known that the special 0{ local variations of custom, for though ,, ~rrived, and that the carriage ^ js the habit to invite all the male in- >s. Garfield and Miss Moliie habitants of the district, the nest-door P chicg the White House, the Dejghbor of the deceased would not go , lirected Crump to go to the t0 the fuaeral without ^receiving a direct . 1 observe how his wife ap-* invitation; while over*the hills, in the She is apparently cheerful, adjoining glen, no invitations are issued, 1); . lent," reported Crump, as but everybody is expected to attend. mu Id alighted an>l Harry Gar- C0UrS0j whefc drink is supplied at M. [ bis arm about his mother the wake it is not withheld at the burial, d'Ar< [ier up the steps. It was an(j besides the round served out at the toire those in charge of the sick house, there is another often at the This ir.j Garfield should be al- church-yaid. Enough drink and bread of th set her husband alone. _ Of an(j cheese to supply a hundred men is no the j ons thought of lingering, ^ght weight, and where the cortege has has among the rest, prepared to to g0 a few miles to the place of inter-' whic > President called him back jt is usual to send a small pony am in want you to stay; I may fliA refreshments, after thfi vir.t.ii bei 'and*1PartJ- A jar of whisky invariably forms long< Rono ontwMe r J ie of the contents oi the cart/what- ere* lid to witness the meeting. Si ?f u&U said at that meeting I shall Jhe refreshment proved. The people beha ,q evcent bv uermission nf are Free-Church to a man, but they are reme IdV^LLTo me One from a so iar reswX w>n?5. gfiffifflflfcJMffij-; adeS man that ho rallied eDgaged in asking a "Blessing on the talit^ me on. refreshment about to be partaken, with a ro< e during the first twenty- a bottle of wMsky in the one hand and ehiic syas i d thought the President a gjass other. meal ver. The sick-ioom was ^ gentleman resident in Glasgow, a take th physicians and others who natjye of the district, informed me that East ivileges of the house. All on a recent visit to Glen Urquhart he was ;re in consonance with the took part in a funeral which was very just ief that death^ would surely joggly attended, but of all the com- conv few hours. pany ass embled round the grave he was irate t probe for the ball. woula on]y one who refused to drink the flunj ' one surgeon. whiskey. One. man, nowever naa gron the use to probe? ^cn-d become an absiainer, and a member of look< onse: "he can t live anyhow, j^s farrr;iy having died, he had no an e ves f our hours, he can live liquor at the faneral, but provided an A yo ould be heard from another. abundant supply of milk instead. * The rug nark3 naturally enough an- strict, adherance to his temperance shad lck man. He asked Crump prjucipie8 gave great offence, his neigh- had 10 room and allow in only ^ors universally ascribed Lis conduct turn: se presence was necessary. soieiy to meanness. For his plea of the z that it he lived four hours principiQ they had nothing but scorn, hanc ve twenty, made a deep 1m- "principle had nothing, and could have blad >on tJie sufferer, and it was notiiing to do with it," they asserted, noth 1 those who watched him "The minister had no fcruple in taking "ne neard his remaiks that he 0? j^g ^ramj was going to set my c cted to die. He spoke of himself up as better than the minis- not jhmg' end, and said he was ter ?" So wide-spread was the discon- suaa to go. He talked very much tent that it is doubtful if as numerous all 1 hereafter, ana once waeu ia a party will gat tier tne next web ?u Bpau he cuddenly asked of the interment takes place from bis house. As : jr^mP'y?u ready ^"ie Indeed, at a iuneral which took plac9 actu ii-ted tnat he was not pre- in the north of Argyllshire some time l) then the President spoke oi ago, a feeling akin to this was openly sami iss he feit to meet his Maker. expressed. The deceased, if not a ing '^e, , e s^f^6, ^ben he member of the minister's family, was fam< ath his last. _ 'Put old Jim. at jeagfc one 0? ^-g household, and an by t said in allusion to his loved extra large company had assembled, the ring 'f state, pointing to a place parishoners coming from the remotest indi ) of the bed, and also mdi- corners 0f the parish, out of respect futu ) positions for others who for the clergyman. The hour of inter- beer less him die. He continually ment arrive<3j the shoit religious it, a lame during his illness, and xerciee3 wer6 g0ne through, and the ! horn argeons had issued orders to coffin W:ig lifted by the bearers ; but! to t] f the room all but Mrs. Gar- -still tbere was no sign of anything in j Thi: be nurses, he ^often desired the shape of refreshment, and, in any-1 ishe - 11 - e 1 ?1 3 enotua ce seno xux. thing out an agree&Oie xrunic ui iuuiuj prec the numerous party ranged themselves i eluc ie Milkmaids of Dort. in procession and proceeded toward the the^ t yon ever go to Holland, the burial gronnd. On the way confidential thei oden dykes and wind-mills, communications passed between the kee possible that yon may find mourners, which took the form of such some day* in "the ancient ejaculations as "Horrid mean I" "wish Dort, or Dordrecht. It is a I bad never come a step 1" and others of _ I city. Here among these a like nature. But in the churchyard . I buildings, with their qneer disappointment gave place to expecta- *>irc I great iron cranes, many an iton,.in consequence of an invitatio to *,ai? ; historical event has taken present to return to the manse for refreshment. In tie manse there is eve centre of the great market- little cause to doubt that satisfaction gen rvrt Stands a fountain : and if followed upon expectation. What the ers " micrVif V\G U7a<Z regi look close, you will see upon I nature 01 meieucoamou. ? ramid a relievo representing a stated ; but a good guess may be ^or mdemeath in sitting posture, hazarded from* the fact that few of the *jj? id. They are there to com- mourners reached home that night. A I the following historical fact*: sharp shower of snow fell in the after- Pr: the provinces of the United no<m and evening; and at night the lshds were straggling lor their ^hite country roads presented curious ?: wo beautiful daughters of a spectacles of uncouth figures, clad in ?iy ar. on their way to the tr,*ra black, bobbing up and down, sometimes 1S * , observed not far from their struggling along for a short distances *JQC ral Spanish soldiers concealed zigzag fashion, but in moat cases ome hedges. The patriotic resolving themselves at last into a snoring ^ c pretended not to have seen black heap in the ditch.?[Harpers'. pursued their journey, and as ?* ? ley arrived in the city, in- Ancient Snrgical Instruments. >n an admission to the burgo- Says Dr. Foote's Seatth Monthly: ^ r,r>.f. TP.h left his bed. Some of the surgical instruments found i 0< i nu: e admitted, and related what j in the buried ruins of the ancient city jm: discovered. The news was j of Pompeii, now in the collection of ^a( out Not a moment was losi. ; antiquities in the museum of Naples, e^-( cii -was assembled ; measures j show that the surgeons of that time 8W( mediately taken ; the sluices j were provided with many of the most ^ jiic-d, and a number of the j important instruments now in use, inst tLeir lives in th3 water. ! eluding syringe?, cathetoes, speculer, inhabitants were saved from | bissounes, forceps, needles, etc. The doom. _ I Lancet remarks that the number of inagistrates in a body honored J strumcnts found in one house there will geJ ler with a visit, where they j bear comparison with those possessed SQ] his daughters for the act of! by the average practitioner of the presq whic'i saved the town. They j ent day. HTr. [ indemnified him fully for the I '. : t istaiucd from inundation, and j When the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher fnrv-i/-\r!a It T.a/jfnrofi f.O _ ; distinguished jouni; citizens j was prey?nug mo ^ . a each other who should b9 ! Young Men," he held a long interview t with the hands of the milk- i wiih one of the most notorious gambl* Then, as the years went by, i ers in the country, and then used the ;ain was erected, and the story j information about gamblers and gamoraied in stone.? [Harpers' I bling dens obtained from him in his eople. ! wonderfully realistic discourse on that da ?? __ I subject. After the delivery of the lecginia 14,236 m-sn are employed j ture a " too previous" young man tried th r fishing, and 2,079 persons are ; to turn the laugh on Mr. Beecher, by wi vork canning them. The total | asking him how he could deis 8.237,537 bushels, valued at j scribe a gambling hell so accu- ti: 58. Of this New York takes j rately, if he had never been in one. I in bushels, Philadelphia 430,573, ["If you have never been in one your55,000, Providence 23[),000 and 'self," replied Mr. Beecher, " how do tl ;ton 317.317; ' y0u know my description is accurate?" ^ WOMAN SUFFRAGE. JOBS BROWN. licr? and What Questions Woraea may His Execution Described by an Eye-Wltnest. ^ ote* By the kindness of the gentleman to [n California women over twentv-ona whom I had letters, I was the only s eligible to all educational offices ex- newspaper man inside the guards that )t those from which they are excluded surrounded the scaffold, savs a correthe constitution; in Colorado women spondent of the Cincinnati Enquirer, y vote at school-district election?, who was present at John Brown's exoi may serve as school-district officers; cution. The newspaper reporters were Connecticut they hold the position of placed on a slight rise of ground, in looI visitors; in Illinois they are elig- perfect view, but where they could hear e to any office under general or spe- nothing. The reason assigned for this 1 school laws; in Indiana those women was that Brown had determined to ; married nor minors, who pay taxes make a speech of an incendiary characl are listed as parents, guardians or ter. To prevent this they determined, t n:? .?.. -r - ... .... iuo ui jituiineo, maj yuw au ouuuui lt gpeecn ne made, it wouia be to etings; in Iowa no person is ineligi- tiie military and to the officials by reason of sex to any school office; who would be within hearing distance. Kansas women are allowed to vote at it ^as thonght best that some one of ool meetings, and are eligible by Northern residence in the shape of a jtion as school officers; in Kentucky newspaper correspondent shonld be ows having children of school age, present, to the end that if a speech was jwning taxable property, may vote concocted for Brown, and published as chool meetings; in Louisiana women if he had spoken it, there might be r twenty-one are eligible to school written evidence of its falsity. I haples; Maine limits the eligibility of pened to be the person selected, and nen to certain school offices; Massa- stood within a few feet of the gallows setts allows voting at school meet- when the execution took place. Brown 3 for members of school committees was brought to the place of execution? the holding of school offices: Michi- ?n nnon allotra women to liuMooirooiofflceb, wagon, seated on his coffin. ^He was when they are taxpayers to vote at neatly dressed in his every-day apparel* )ol Meetings; Minnesota entitles fTis long, white beard and his fine aen t > vote at school-district meet- face?for he had a fine one--gave him i and hold school offices; Nebraska a truly patriarchal appearance. No one wb nVm to vote at school meetings seeing him at that moment could supthe same grounds as men; in New pose him to be a bonnd maleapshire they may vote at school- factor on the way to the gallows, net meetings ahd be elected on without hope of a reprieve. None >ol committees; in New Jersey, when 0f the early martyr*3 of the Chris1 twenty-one years of age and resi- tian church ever ""it* death with more ts of the school-district", they may (,f seeming stoical indifference. Brought >me school trustees therein; New up with a fixed and firm belief that he t authorizes the voting at school had been doing God's work, he believed tings by women residents and hold- the course he pursued, the shedding of taxable property in the district; innocent blood, the taking the property ?on limits the voting at district meet- of his enemies, and that the death he to widows with taxable property ^oula die had been traced by an Alchildren to educate; Pennsylvania mighty hand in the beginning, and s women over twenty-one years of nought could change that decree; and the privilege of holding school of- hence he would pass from earth to 1 Tf Tolnr* TTTAm Art in 1 _ _ ? 1 1 .31 3 T _ _ j 3 # >, xvuuuo AOiouu TTv/^cxx iu ilea veil as one LDau uou nau seieccea ior school committee; Vermont allows this particular work, and the change i to vote on school matters and to from earth to bliss immortal would more . the office of Town Clerk aDd Town than compensate him for the pain of srintendent; Wisconsin considers strangulation. The gallows was suri eligible to any school office except rounded in front by the cadets of e Superintendent; Dakota women the Military Institute, the West vote at school meetings; in Idaho p0int of Virginia. They were >ws, or unmarried women of twenty- fine-looking youths of from sixteen to years of age, residents of a district twenty years of age, dressed in blue holding taxable property therein, pants a"nd red flannel shirts. Bevote as to especial district taxes; hind them were picked companies of Fashingtcn Territory women over volunteer infantry, other companies ity-one, residents of the district for forming the sides and rear of the hollow 3 months preceding district meet- gqnare. in the center of which was the and liable to taxation, may vote at gallows. At proper points the artillery ol meetings; in Wyoming Territory *as placed in position, the guns loaded : en have a full right to the elective poiQted at a portion of the field oc :hise and to hold office. cupied exclusively by strangers and ; " ~ ,r " ? ,, those suspected of not being tine to the i nation by 3Ieans of Sheep's Boues. Old Dominion. In case of an emeute or G. Perrot speaVs, in his "Memories kostiie disturbance, the cadets had or- ] eheologie d'Epigraphie, et dlEtis- (*ers t0 shoot Brown, so as to prevent a of divination by sheep's bones, rescue, while the cannoneers and in- : method of penetrating the secrets Gantry were to fire upon the suspected < e future is largely resorted to at crowd. The outlying pickets and a re- ' sresent time, and the Greek peasant serve guard, stationed within proper ] confidence in it as absolute as that distance, were to flank the rescuers, ] h bis ancestors regarded the ex- an<^ cavalry to charge upon them, 1 ation of the entrails of a sacrificial an(* to finish those that the cannon and j m. This practice is, however, no musketry failtd to send to kingdom a restricted to diviners and sorcer- come. _ _ ] )nly; on solemn occasions each ^ Brown anticipated a rescue, a 1 may act as his own augur on glance at the field was sufficient to con'? of himself and his family. I yince him it would be folly to attempt ] mbfir nnc.fi when I tras retnrninc I & That he intended to make a speech I y an excursion into Achaia, new think is more than probable. When the f ffix l J&SUffhliml to ston^iiLtJifi. ,eJe,8 the doomed man took in the full j j for the night. He took me into lor-a moment..1 - intra1 3m where his wife and his four ^is hrow and he was himself again. He 1 Iren were beginning *heir evening stood on the gallows gazing with un- 1 . of which he invited me to par- blanched cheek upon the preparations. | I think it was a few days after He was asked by the sheriff if he wished j er, and the food set before us a handkerchief to drop when he was ] mutton. The children had ready- His reply, in a firm and loua l begun to talk freelv a ..a voice, was: "No; keep me no longer ersation was becoming ani- than is necessary. The cap was drawn j id, when all of a sudden my host over his face, the rope cut, and John 1 ; something violently on the Brown was left dangling in the air. j 3 -.i?!. on/^ oo r His neck was broken by the fall. He j na, strucK uia juicuhiu, uut* ^ *. ed at his wife, seeking in her ejes suffered bnt little, and soon nung a xplanation, she burst into tears, lifeless corpse. The sensation was i ung girl of twenty was lying on a great; no voice spoke and no sonnd at the end of the room, in the ^as heard while the awful scene from < e; I had not observed her. She life to death "was enacted. recently fallen ill. Her father, ing his eyes toward her, picked np The Imperor and the Child. object he had thrown down p.nd A ietterfrom Berlin, Germany, speakled it to me. It ^as the jng 0f the celebration of the Emperor ebone of the sheep. Yon see "William's eighty-fifth birthday, says: mg? perhaps,_ he said to me : Qne hear8 at 8nch a time as this many vertheiess it is written there that interesting anecdotes abont his majesty, laughter is going to die ; she will aD(j j ua3 much pleased by one told by recover. I endeavored to dis- an American friend who was at Ems a e him from this idea, but in vain ; jew weeks since, at the same time the the family were plunged into de- emptor was there to drink the waters, r, and gave way to the wildest grief. During his stay at the watering-place fate would have it, the young girl ^e paid a visit to a large orphan asyally did die a fow days afterward. }am an(j school that was under governaring the war cf independence the ment patronage. Of course the presence a method was employed for foretell- 0f g0 distinguished a personage, as the issue of the struggle, and the might be expected, created quite a sen )us Captain Karaistratris was guided eation in the establishment. Alter he presage in engaging in or defer- listening with much interest totherecian action. Certain conditions are tations of several classes, his majesty spensable to the prediction of the called to him a bright, flaxen-haired litre by the bone, the sheep must have tie girl of five or sis years of age, and i Purchased by the person who eats liffcing her ^ his Jap ^ nd kept alive for three days in his ?Now> my little fraulein, let me see ?e? Ptheiwise the presage applies how weu you have been taught. To tie person who has sold the animal. what kingdom does this belong?' And j WaSj especially cher- ta^iCg ont 0f his pocket an orange, held "V the brigands, but it is to be to her. The child hesitated a sumed that they found some way of moment, and looking timidly up in the lt3+ restrictive condition, for emperors face, replied,r are not m the habit of purchasing ??Xo the vegetable kingdom." r sheep and they have no houses to .,Very good; and to what kingdom p them in. -Nineteenth Century. i do?g ^is belong?" And he drew out oi I a. cold niece and placed it on UiO |/vv?w? V- Q f . A Remarkable Canary. the orange. Again the child hesitated, he power of imitation possessed by but soon replied,? is of the parrot tribe has long been "To the mineral kingdom. iliarly known, and it would not be "Better and better, said the emicult to find nnmerons examples of peror. "fciow look at me, dear child, n well-educated members of the and say to what kingdom X belong. us in this respect. The vccal pow- At question there was an omiof canaries, however, are not usually b?1?8 silence among the teachers and arded as being eqaal to the produc- visitors, who were listening with n^ch i of articulate sounds resembling interest to the royal catechism. Could se made by the human voice. Bat s'u? make any other repiy than to the re is at present in the possession of animal kingdom? The little ona hesiJ. McGrigor Croft, says the (Brit- tated, as if perplexed as to what answer ) Medicul Press, a Jittle songster s^e s^ou^ 8lve* emPe^or this description, which, besides animal? Her eyes sought those of her ing utterance to delicious warblings, teachers, anc schoolmates, -hen s e i 1.,. ! looked up into the face of the aged em .iSO SiUlt tu VTH.U Of - . L precision simply marvelous, peror and with a half-startled, irigm;newhat skeptical of the accounts we ene^ if she was evading the 1 received of this animal wonder, we question, replied,? re, says the Press, throngh the kind- "^? *ke kingdom of heaven. is of Dr. Croft, had an opportunity of unexpected answer drew tears ectly proving the truth of the state- from the emPeror; ... , nts made concerning it. The canary 7es: y little/rattfon, and you js veritably speak, and enunciates a thin* it is time I was there now, do you mber of sentences which are clearly n?t? And the day is not far distant, itative of the voice of the lady who has . r . r 1 care of it since its early youth. The Lnnous case, set, indeed,'produced by the clear, Iu 1856, Henry Morris of Hannibal, eetly uttered sentences pronounced by 3Io., died, and recently the abandon) bird is almost weird at first; but the ment of a cemetery necessitated his un* ling of wonder thus created quickly burial like that of others vin2 ^ 'he res rise to a sensation of exquisite same place, when the body was found jasure, which is deepened as the entirely preserved. The features were -- - i ' - fh a fane retainine the same color tie creature suddenly at tee ena 01 a ?. ^ _ atence rushes off into ecstacy of &s when the body was placed in the ag. As illustrating the exquisite pli- ground. Even a rose that had been ility of the laryngeal apparatus of placed on the breast of the deceased al iall birds, and the extent to which burial retained its color. When the lie lining may be carried in such cases, of the coffin was about to be replacec e tiDy animal is deeply interesting to the body suddenly began to crumble, tysiologists. As a mere curiosity, in a few moments nothing but dust iwever, it is undoubtedly uniqne. remained in place of what seemed but i few moments before to be the body of t Discouraged Pedagogue. The value of gold yearly obtained ii " How many hours are there in a j^gtralia is about 3400 per miner. Th< y?" asked a teacher. number of men who are content to follow "I don't reckon there can be more branch of industry amounts to 28, an twenty-three hours in a day, now," 553^ -^hich, though much less than thi * * -2.n 18 & r,?pT^' i, * ~ 63,787 who were at wor* in 1003, m aiu "Didn 11 tell you more than forty a iarge number in a population of onlmes that there W2re twenty-four hours about 800 000. . a day T* ' ' "Yes, and yesterday I heard you say The body-cavity of the polype am lat after the 21st of June the days jelly-fish is the common organ of dige? ould be getting shorter." tion, circulation and respiration. Wanted His Waterproof, Sowing Wild Oats. ^ "My dear," said Mr. Spoopendyke, The most magnificent specimen of pulling tbe shams off the bed, where is young manhood that I have ever known my?my?where is my?you know what was a young fellow student named HenI mean. What did jou do with it T rv Haines. As an athlete on the campus, 4 'Your shawl strap ?" asked Mrs. as a scholar in the school-room, as an Spoopendyke, dropping the. baby into orator in the arena of debate, he was theciib. "Oh, I know; your dumb facile princeps everywhere and always. bells. Is that what you want 7* We were not so much envious of him as 'Has that shawl strap got sleeves to proud of him, and we fondly fancied that it?" demanded Mr. Spcopendyke, ran- there could be no height of fame orforsackinfc the sewing machine. "Are tune too difficult forhii adventurous feet those dumb bells split up the back and to climb, and that the time would come torn around the collar ? You know when he would fill the world with the what I want, my rubber overcoat echo of his fame, and it wonld be a proud Where did you put it ?" and Mr. thing for any of ns to declare that we Spoopendyke pulled a pile of letters had known him. A little tendency to out ot tue pigeon noie to nis wire s | dissipation wa? uy tsotuw ui u? uuocry desk and spilled them along the floor. | able?a little dash of dare-tfeviltry? "Where did you have it last ?" mur- but this was only the wild-oat sowing mured Mrs. Spoopendyke, with her which was natural to youth and genius, finger in her mouth and consternation and which We did not doubt that after -/ in her eye. years would chasten and correct. "Had it on 1" growled Mr. Spoopen- But the years came and the years dyke. "Where'd ye s'pose I had it ? went, and the young collegiars were Think I had it for lunch ? Don't you seattered through the world, and ever know where the measly thing's gone to? and anon would some of us wonder Spry around now and find it Take what could have become of Henry \ your finger out of your mouth, don't Eaines. We looked in vain for hik ~ suppose it's there I Get that coat before rising . _ idau^ . and 1im? > at .i..M ?rj-n-airyoV- "quasir. aspoop-' tor' iiib coming-V feet. HSome time endyke shook the clock and then peer- ago, for a single Sibbath, X ^as ed into the mantel vases. . preaching in New York. My theme ^ 'I don't believe its going to rain in the morning had been "The Ghost much anyway," faltered Mrs. Spoopen- of Buried Opportunity." un my way dyke, who couldn't remember having to my hotel I discovered that I was '^<?||| seen the coat for a month, "When it "shadowed" by a desperate-looking looks like this it's always going to stin- wretch, whose garb, whose gait, wiese . pg|jj shine," and she followed him around battered, bloated look all tuimidthe room in a flutter of apprehension, takably betokened the spawn of the "Of conrse it is!" snorted Mr. slums. What could the villain want Spoopendyke. " Things are going to do with me? I paused at my door, and just what you tell 'em to. If yon had faced abont to confront him. He a lot of tin figures in front and a paused, advanced, and then huskstreak of mercury up your spine, you'd ily whispered: "Henson, do you only need a sheet iron case and a wire know me ?'' I assured him I did not, handle to be a barometer! If you'll whereupon he continued: "Do you relook along your measly information member Henry Haines?'' "Aye, Aye, about the weather, pr'haps you'll find well enough, well enough, but surely that overcoat at the other end of it! you are cot Henry Haines?" "I am Where's that coat ? Going to let me what is left of him?I am the ghost of stand here and soak while' the moths him," I shuddered as I reached for his ^ picnic that coat into a shad net ? take hand, and, gazing intently into his fa<je, , me by the arm and lead me to the discovered still some traces of my longcoat f" and Mr. Spoopendyke tipped lost friend, still doubly lost, though the sofa over so thao he could see fonnd again. JL.pnt my arm anout mm under it, and then slapped a plaster in biotherly embrace and drew him to bust of Minerva against the wall, under my room, and drew from his lips the the impression that the coat might sad story of his shattered life. I begged have crawled into her ear. him by the old loves and unforgotten "It's the strangest thing in the world!" memories'of better days to go back with giggled Mrs. Spoopendyke, hysterricalJy me to my Philadelphia home, ?n"If I didn't hos?'d it get there?'roar- der new auspices and with sored Mr. Spoopendyke, putting his hands roundings, to strike out for u noble on his knees and grinning in his wife's destiny, which I hoped might still be face. "Sp'ose it hired a hack and drove possible. But, striking his clenched borne? Oh no J I didn't wear it home, fist on my table, he said: " He neon, The last I saw of it, it had its hat over it's no use to talk to me. I'm a deadits ear and a female waterproof on its beat and am dead broke. I'm a burnt arm, piking up Falton street as happy out volcano, and there's nothing left of as an alderman's funeral I What're ye me but cinders now. I have come to standing there for? Got some indis- New York to bury myself out of sight of fcinct notion that the dod gasted. coat all that ever loved me. I know the has gone to get shaved, haven't ye? ropes here and* shall stay here till I rot. Who'd ye give it to ? Been endowing a I live in a muskrat hole near the wharf, metaphysical chair in some kind of an I shall die as I have lived, and I have old woman's home with it, haven't ye ? lived like a dog." Where's the coat ? Develop the coat In vain were my earnest protests and before I vitiate the insurance I" and Mr. brotherly p eading. He tore himself Viia wife's wnrk- from m?. anil tPArtf, Rhamblific to his basket across the room and rammed his den by the whart " ? v am to the shoulder np the chimney. He had sown the wind and was reap, ^p^/fmember where yon wore it ing the whirlwind. He had sown to the last? asked Mrs. Spoopendyke, sudden- flesh, and was reaping corruption. He y becoming calm and analytical. had sown '-wild oats," and the oats were 1 wore it on my back!" protested now yielding a dread harvest of woe.? Mr. Spoopendyke, who didn't remember Rev. S. P. Hanson, of Chicago. whether he had taken it to church or to ^ i hospital. "Maybe you're under the im- ? presaon that Ijied it_ to a_ stick and Talleyrand's Wisdom. aroke his arm pointing out the. attrao- times a disguised impertinence . . iion referred to. "Most folks fit up The reputation of a man is Itkehis ' heir rubber overcoats with a bent wire shadow?gigantic when it precedes him, ind a focus, and wear 'em for spectacles, and pigmy in its proportions when it but I hadn't time; so I wore it on my fotlows. back 1 Bring forth the coat |" yelled More evil truths are discovered by Mr. Spoopendyke, spinning around like the corruption of the heart than by the i top. "Fetch out the measley coat penetration of mind. _ before the proprietor of these premises The rich man despises those wno makes np his mind whether hell build flatter him too much, and hates those a new house here or mortgage the lot J" who do not flatter him at all. ? - .I. - l-.i. jThe imagination of men is often the * "lou wore ic me iaai< Utt V lu xomvu) | ??? vand when it cleared off in the afternoon refnge of their prejudices. I noticed that yon had on your spring The sovereign has a little mind who overcoat, "saidMrs.Spoopendyke quietly. seeks to go down to posterity by means "Great head!" grunted Mr. Spoopen- of great public buildings ; it is to condyke, beginning to feel uncomfortable, fide to masons and bricklayers the task and wondering how it was coming out. of writing history. "With your perceptive faculties and The love of glory can only create a meteorological education, you only need hero; the contempt of it creates a great one more leg and a clear night to be a man. dod gasted street telescope at ten cents The errors of great men and the good a peep! What of it? 'Spose I did wear deeds of reprobates should not be a spring overcoat!" taken in our estimates of their char"And I don't know," continued Mrs. acters. Spoopendyke, "but I think you had it Both erudition and agriculture ought on over your waterproof. If you'll look, to be encouraged by government; wit you may find the rubber coat inside of and manufacture will come of themthe other now." selves. Mr. Spoopendyke growled and snorted Too much sensibility creates unhaphis way to the closet, like a foghorn, piness; too much insensibility creates and found things as his wife had pre- crime. dieted. What I have been taught I have ' ??- !? T-. oo farcntten : what I know X have "Smart, ain't ye j jue ^iuuuicu, ? ?0 , he hauled out the waterproof. "Great guessed. powers of inductive reasoning ! Some Certain acts can be rendered legal, day I'm going to fit you up with a stiff but can never be made legitimate. neck and a pot of beans and start a Con- Life to a young man is like a new cord School of Philosophy with you." acquaintance, of whom he grows disAnd with this threat Mr. Spoopendyke gusted as he advances in years. threw the coat over his arm, and all the In love we grow acquainted because way to Coney Island entertained his *we are already attached; in friendfriend Specklewottle a description of ship we must know each other before his habits of order, "which are so per- we love. feet, sir, that I could put my thumb on A generous man will place the beneanything I wanted, sir?if my wife fits he confers beneath his feet, those would only let things alone I"?[Brook- he receives nearest his heart. lyn Eagle. A narrow-minded man can never ? possess ret. and true generosity; he can whito Waff. never go bevond mere benevolence. OUUUOU II UAW v When the Emperor Leopold was abont J[on agreeable m to make his grand entry into Vienna, the sa3ie*7Ton nm..t consent to be taught old sexton of St. Joseph's cathedral was ^ 10 y?a 9-T ? much troubled iu his micd. Upon . Th.ere are many vices which do not such occasions it had been his custom deprive us of friends; there are many to take his stand on the pinnacle of. tues which prevent our having any. the tower and wave a flag as the im- rbeen told in my perial pageant passed by; bnt he that the love o* glcry was a ^ felt that age had so weakened his Strange msst be that _virtue nerve that he dared not again which requires the aid of every tics. attempt the perilous performance. After There are two things to which we ? thinking the matter over, he came to n?T?r grow accuMomed?the ravages ? the conclusion that he must find a snb- 0 injustice of onr fellowstitnte; and knowing his pretty daugh- . . . .. ... ter had plenty of stalwart suitors, the , must learn to snbmit with grace old fellow publicly announced that the follies which depend upon man who could take his place success - character. . fully should be his son-iii-law. To his 8ncce6d m the world it is much intense disgust the offer was at once ac- more necessary to possess the penetracepted by Gabriel Petersheim, his ^?n to dl3fver wl?? 18 a fooi special aversion, and the special favorite discover who is a clever man. r aam TPjf.h V>Ar " - * ,? 01 Lilt! &UJ, truu oavt UUV ? father's eyes. On the appointed A White Man Made a CMei oj inaians* day Vienna opened its gates to the new- Chief James Baker is the recipient made emperor; bnt it was evening, or 0f a good deal of attention in Denver rear npon evening, when the young just now. He lives in the wilderness flag-bearer welcomed the procession of Wyoming, with no neighbor nearer from St. Joseph's tower. His task per- than for forty miles, and journeyed to formed, Obbriel would have descended Denver the 'other day to shake hands from the airy height, but found his way with his old friends for the last time, barred. Two wretches had done the For many years he was warohief of a i treacherous sexton's bidding, and powerful tribe of Sioux Indians, but he closed the trap-door of the upper never would fight his brother whites. , stairway, leaving the brave youth General Cook says that once Baker was to choose between precipitating himself 8hot by an Indian in battle, the arrow j on the pavement below, or clinging the piercing upper lip. Baker coolly i cold night through to the slender spire, pnlled the barb from the lacerated flesh ; with but ten inches of foothold. He saving: "Is that the way vou rascals [ chose possible life to certain aeatn; Dut p1C? teetn r [ when rescue came with the morning, ^ ? ( his eyes were sunken and dim, his Signor BonceIIi, of the Italian Parti cheeks yellow and wrinkled, his curly liament, has devised a simple and praci locks as white as snow. Gabriel Peter- tical method of voting by electricity, i shoim had won his bride at a fearful Each member of the Bouse has in front cost.?Chambers' Journal. of him a metal plate, bearing his name i or number, on which are three buttons, 3 " Joyous, happy birds" indeed, marked respectively., "ay," "no" and v should those be which fly the air of "abstain." The buttons are connected . Michigan. The game law of that State with a central printing apparatus,which q forbids the killing of u robin, night- prints in three separate columns the j hawk, whippoorwill, finch, thrush, lark, ayes, noes and abstentions, according to 7 sparrow, cherry bird, brown thrasher, the buttons touched. wren, martin, oriole, woodpecker, boblonk, or any other song bird, under a The King of Siam, who has just built i penalty of five dollars for each bird a new palace for 81,000,000, is furnishj killed, and for each nest robbed ten ing it with 400 tons of furniture at a days in the county jail. cost of $500,000.