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DESKBTED.
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nt spb, far-flooding all the pebbled sand,
:ui& stone to
ae
ty lull
Sound
^murmured to the strand,
“ , lover’s tone;
And yet I kil
ewhere^
of the priceless cups? off the carved
shelf of the Japanese cabinet and broke
it into three piece*.
"Mrs. Whitworth W'alkingham will
commit suicide,” cried Medora, clasp
ing her humh—Mtih^ciianhttHiI linrn
- n ‘^ I inrn* .fo^J'fwear you to eternal secT
Some other shore, as fair,'
hy waves have Icisssed and left It dry and
lone.
right sunshine, gleaming
wall,
on my cottage
Traping the shadows of a|4 ivy spray, ,
low tenderly, thy golden touches fall
On common things to-day;
Yet, beneath other skies
Some land benighted lies, .
qserted by tky glory, cold and gray.
lithe bird, loud-warbling underneath the
eaves
An eager love-«ong passionate and shrill,
My heart is trembling amid summer leaves
With sweet, lesitonsive thrill;
Yet far away, dear guest,
There is an empty nest
fhich thou hast left forsaken, void and
still.
Pair sea, bright sunshine, birds of song
divine,
I too may lose the tide, the light, the lay;
)thers may win the kisses that were mine,
Mv night may he their day;
tat, though the soul may sigh
For precious things gone by,
51 shall have had my rapture, come what
mavl
LITTLE KOSABEL.
me,”
u ^o-
“Of course they don’t want
tid Rosabel Raymond sadly.
[body seems to want me. No home
l seems to be open to me anywhere.
[When papa died he told me that Uncle
Dallas would be kind to me, and take
this vacant place. And he is kind,
[after his odd, abrupt fashion. But my
t Aunt Alicia don’t care for me, and the
girls look coldly on my shabby dress
and pale face. Evidently I am not a
[cousin to be proud of. If I were an
[heiress things would be different.”
Poor little Rosabel! The world
[looked very dark to her as she sat on
| the window sill of the third-story back
r room iu the Dallas mansion, which had
j been unanimously voted “good enough
for Rosabel Raymond,” •and watched
; the dull reds and grays of the Winter
, sunset fading out behind the crowded
spires of the city.
“Oh, Rosabel, are you here?”
It was her cousin Medora’s soft,
sweet voice. She disliked Medora
more than either Augusta or Bell,
[ although she could not tell why.
“We were thinking, mamma and I,”
said Medora, “that you must be terri
bly dull without anything to do, all
these dismal days.”
“It is rather lonesome,” sighed
Rosabel, .wondering at her cousin’s
unusual thoughtfulness.
“And so,” added Medora, with the
* riiniii^tofriinailtfil nim n i mis
ter designing rooms—you always
were an artist, you know, dear—I ex
claimed in that silly, impulsive w r ay of
mine; ‘The very idea for Rosabel.”
And,” added Medora, “Miss Armitage
says you can obtain excellent lioard for
four dollars a week with a wudow near
the rooms, and that would save you a
great deal of time and no end of fares.
So, if you conclude to accept the posi
tion, perhaits you had better come down
into the drawing-room and see Miss
Annstage.”
If there was anything which Rosabel
Raymond loved, it was her pencil.
Here, at last, was the much-longed-for
opportunity, and she arose with alacrity
and followed Medora Dallas down the
stairs.
Mis. Dallas and the Misses Dallas
were openly exultant when Rosabel
Raymond was gone.
“So dispiriting to have her round all
the time, with her swollen eyelids and
l>ale face,” said Miss Augusta.
“But what are we to say if Mr. Bal
lard asks after her?” blurted out Bell,
the most honest and least prolitic of the
family.
“Say? Why, the truth,” declared
Medora,—“that she has left us.”
E'er the secret of Miss Medora Dal
las’ anxiety to get rid of her pale little
cousin, whose mourning was so dis
tressingly becoming to her, was the
fact of Mr. Hugh Ballard’s admiration
of the white, statuesque face, the deep
larkspur-blue eyes, and the features
which were as perfect as any cameo.
Miss Medora had marked Mr. Ballard
f for her own prey, and declared war
upon any unfortunate pretender who
i should come in her way.
The very first evening that Mr. Bal-
I lard called, he inquired for Miss Ray-
■ mond. Medora dropped her long
[lashes.
“Rosabel had a cold, reserved na-
t ture,” she said. “She never seemed to
become fond of any of us, and she has
• gone away.”
“Gone where?” Mr. Ballard was per
sistent enough to ask.
“She said she would write and send
us the address,” said Medora, drawing
on her imagination; “but she never
[did. It quite went to dear mamma’s
' heart. Mamma regarded Rosabel as a
fourth daughter. But Rosabel never
[was inclined to reciprocate our affec-
Jtion.”
Mr. Ballard glanced at Medora with
fan expression which she could not in-
j terpret, but it meant simply;
“If this girl is lying, she is doing it
very artistically. Appearances are
certainly against Rosabel Raymond;
but it would take more than the
mony of one woman to make'me be
lieve her either cold or ungrateful.”
These reflections passed through his
j mind as he was politely accepting Miss
Dallas’ invitation to accompany her to
[Mrs. Whitworth Walkhigham’s musi-
|cal tea, the next day.'
‘It will be a bore,” he said to hhn-
elf; “but Mrs. Whitworth Walkirgham
a genius, and there is sure to be good
insic there.”
“There was good music there, and
Iso delicious “Orange Pekoe” in the
liest of cups, each painted with a
eparate wild flower or bunch of grasses;
ir>pa nnH whi+o ffronoa fr
ie barcarolas and rondfollettaa—and
went merry as a nurriag^ bell,
itil, in turnitg to place a chair nearer
window for Miss Dallas, Mr. Bal
l’s unfortunate elbow knocked one
said Mr. Ballard, laughingj as he wrap
ped the precious pieces up m his pocket
handkerchief and deposited them safely
in his pocket. “If there is a store in
New York, Brooklyn, or Jersey City,
where this precious toy can be matched,
it shall not be left unsearched.”
“You can’t match it,” said Medora
Dallas.
And she proved to l>e right.
In his despair, Hugh Ballard went to
old Mrs. Megarreau, who was exactly
like everybaly’s fairy grandmother.
“What am I to dor’ said he, blankly.
“Do?” said Mrs. Megarreau, nodding
the diamond butterflies on her cap.
“Why, go to the cliina-painting and
decorating rooms, of course, in Ham-
mersly Square. Take your sample,
and they’ll duplicate it for you in
twenty-four hours. Say that Mrs.
Megarreau rant you.”
Mr. Ballard devoutly thanked the
cid lady, and obeyed without loss of
time. Mrs. Baker, the superintendent,
who sat at her desk, took the pieces of
Mrs. Whitworth Walkingham’s doomed
cup and looked earnestly at them with
her head to one side.
“We have that shape in our wares,”
said she; “and I am quite sure we can
reproduce the design—blue iris-buds
and marsh grasses. Miss Raymond’s
designs are, some of them, even more
exquisite than this. Rosabel, my dear,
come here.”
And Rosabel Raymond, pale and
pretty as ever, came unconsciously
forward in her brown linen painting
dress, with a bow of black ribbon at
her throat, and her lovely chestnut
brown hair pushed back from her face.
Mrs. Baker was holding out the bits of
fractured china, whereupon were
painted the blue iris-buds and drooping
grasses, but Rosabel never looked at
them.
“Mr. Ballard,” she cried, her face
brightening with a delight which she
was too unsophisticated to suppress,
“What brought you to this place.”
“Miss Raymond,” he exclaimed,
“what are you doing here?”
“Earning my own living,” said Rosa
bel. with quiet dignity.
• Does Miss Dallis—Medora, I mean
—know where you are?”
“She ought to know,” said Rosabel,
“for it was she who recommended me
to come here. For the Dallases, I
think, were getting tired of me,” she
added, with a sigh. “But I ought to
be very much obliged to her, for I have
acquired a most welcome independence,
and the work here is exceedingly con
genial to my tastes. Is that the pat
tern you wish copied Mrs. Baker?” she
asked, taking a piece of china.
“Oh r whatr an excellent group of
buds! yet I am bold enough to think I
can imitate it successfully.”
“If you can replace that cup,” said
Mr. Ballard, dramatically, “I am your
slave for life.”
“I think I can promise to replace it
without any such condition,” said
Rosabel, laughing.
And Mrs. Whitworth Walkingham
never knew that her iris-oud cup was
broken until Hugh Ballard brought
back its exact counterpart. •
He came no more to Mrs. Dallas’
Tuesday morning receptions and Friday
afternoon teas. Miss Medora vainly
wondered why. But one day she met
him on Fifth avenue, and prettily re
proached him with his recent absen
teeism.*
“I have been fortunate enough to
discover the abiding place of your
cousin, Miss Rosabel Raymond,” said
be gravely.
Medora looked up, with a deep color
mounting to her cheek.
“Indeed?” said she.
“It was very kind of you to secure
for her such a congenial position as
that,” he added.
“Medora Dallas hung her head, and
was silent.
“But she will not remain there
long,” he continued, cheerfully. “I
am happy to tell you that I am engaged
to her. We are to be married in a few
weeks. Of course you will receive ‘at
home’ cards when w r e are finally set
tled.”
Medora murmured something about
“congratulations” and “delighted to
hear of it.”
But Mr. Ballard smiled to himself
when she passed on.
“La belle cousine is not exactly
pleased,” he said to himself.
The Sunflower.
The sunflower does not turn with
the sun, but a recent observer finds
that a majority of the flowers do have
a prevailing direction when opening.
In the case of one of the perennial sun-
flow r eis of sixty-eight flowers, up to
one time all had their heads inclined to
the southeast. Three days after this,
with seventy-three flowers open, twenty-
one among the older ones had advanced
toward the northeast, their horizontal
faces becoming nearly erect during the
journey.
A* Accurate Tline-pieoe.
* * * While on the subject ot Wal
tham watches, we may mention that we
have seen a letter from the Commander of
mi6 (Joi'clvti C%lSil6 {CaaMe iiue of a learn
Packets), who was fortunate enough to
save life at sea, and who for his gallant
conduct was presented in September last
with a Gold Keyless Waltham Watch by
the President of the United States, on be
half of the London Local Marine Board.
Referring to this Presentation Watch, he
says: “When 1 left London the watch
was six seconds fast, and on my arrival at
Singapore it was only three seconds slow,
a moat extraordinary performance for a
watch, as I earned it on my person the
whole time. I compared it every day with
my chronometers on the passage oat, and
it seldom or ever differed one second, from
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Grandma’* Knitting'.Work.
The noisy old mill doesn’t make them
so warm, after all. Does ever the
breathless snapping machine stop to
tepch a bright-eyed urchin to knit a
lit row on a Pair of chicken quilte?
hands, how softly
they patted the cheeks of the romping
grandchild, not half so soft in their
childish curves as the touch of grand
ma’s hands. The stockings grandma
knit; how much love went into every
stitch; how many prayenrwere w r rought
into every round. Somewhere I once
read about a nun who bent over her
needle work, and as oft as a tear fell
from her eyes upon the snowy fabric
she wrought about it and worked it in
with her deft needle, until at last the
strange design wrought out a touching
story of her loneliness and sorrow.
And if we could read all the dreams
and thoughts and prayers that grand
ma wrought with those patient needles
we would wear the stockings she knit
next to our heart rather than on our
feet. For here is a dream of John, and
there is a tear for Chris’ Robbie, and
here is a plan for Will, and here comes
creeping in a quivering strain from
some old, old hymn that is hallowed to
us not because her lips blessed it so
ofteu; see now a prayer quivered all
along this round; here the stocking was
laid down while the old hands turned
over the leaves' of the Bible that seemed
never to be out of her lap; here the old
eyes looked out across the pasture and
the mowing lot down to the wooded
hills where the birds are answering
winds; here the old eyes slept for a few’
minutes, and here is a knot. Ah, yes,
Philie and Annie are home this week,
and the house is full of their children.
There will be many more knots in the
yam before the stocking is finished.
Who is the boy whose fate it is to hold
on his extended hands the skein of yarn
while grandma winds it off after the
romping youngsters who taunt liim with
shrieks of laughter as they desert him.
But never mmd, grandma confronts
him with splendid stories of Uncle
Doc’s pranks when he was a boy and
went to school at Carmichaeltowm,
until the boy wishes the skein was five
miles long. And then he is rewarded
by a great big cooky, sweeter than
honey, because he was such a good
boy. The only thing that took the
edge off this reward was that all the
other children got just as big cookies
as he did, because somehow grandma’s
rewards tot the good boy and girl
managed to include all the other boys
and girls. To grandma, all children
were good; some children were better
than other’s, but there were uo bad
children. A thousand blessings, a
thousand times told, orr the dear" old
face and tire silver hair that crowned
the placid brow; on the wrinkled hands
and the work they wrought; on the dear
lipe and blessed old hymns they sung;
on the dear old book that lay in her
lap, and the Irfe that drew so much of
love arrd faith atrd help from its pages.
The “Expert” UiutneM. -
WINNSBORO. S. 0.. MAY 24, 1883.
certain certificates of stock were six
years old. It was shown that it was
written with a certain variety of ink,
and Piper obtained a specimen of writ
ing over six years old done with the
same kind of ink, which had turned
brown, wirereas the signatures on the
certificates looked bright and fresh.
Blood has proven as great a field of
investigation for the expert as ink. It
was claimed, for instance, by a party
arrested out West for murder, that the
blood on his garments was from a pig
which he had carried on his shoulder.
In human blood the minute corpuscles
are about 32 1000 of an inch in diameter,
while those of a pig, as a rule, are but
about 1-4000 in diameter. It was con
clusively shown that the blood on the
man’s garment lad larger corpuscles
than pig’s blood was ever known to have,
and, the tact being established that it
good as my chronometers, which is a good
dealto say for a watch earned abont end
subject to all kinds of Jolts.”—London,
Jungland, The Watchmaker, Jeweler
and Silvertmith, Fib. 5.1888.
An elderly gentleman with bushy white
hair and whiskers, rather square and
massive features and a firmly knit form
of medium height, clad in an exceeding
ly plain and old-fashioned suit of clothes,
welcomed a reporter in Cleveland the
other evening.
“Is this Professor Piper?” asked the
reporter.
“Please call me Mr. Piper, plain Mr,
Piper,” was the modest request.
Piper is an eminent microscopist and
expert, summoised to examine the signa
tures of a deed conveying certain Pros
pect street real estate from Mr. and Mrs.
W. H. Osborne to C. A. Adams. Mrs.
Osborne claims that her signature to the
deed was written at home without pro
per acknowledgement by the notary,
whose signature and that of her husband
was written dow’n town after hers
had been affixed. And upon this ground
she seeks to set aside the deed. Adams,
of course, objects to the setting aside of
the deed, since he has advanced Osborne
money on the strength of it, claims that
the instrument was signed in legal
form. .
Piper Drought his misroscope to bear
on the signatures and declared that it
was an indisputable fact that Mrs. Os
borne’s signature was not written before
that of the other signers, as she positive
ly states, but afterward. The loop of
the y in Mrs. Osborne’s Christian j.ame
of Mary crosses the H. of her husband’s
signature, and a powerful glass showed
conclusively. Piper claims, that the
lines of the y were written over the H.
Numerous drawings of the letters mag
nified many diameters appeared on Pi
per’s table, together with pencils, brushes
and finely-graded rules for measuring
the smallest fraction of an inch. Piper,
by an ingenious device, threw the sha
dow’s of the signature, magnified many
diameters, on a sheet of bristol board
and then drew them as they appeared.
He has just returned from Philadel
phia. where he was employed over one
hunared days on one case. That which
called Piper into prominence more than
anything else was his connection with
the Cadet Whitaker case. It will be
remembered that it was claimed that
Whitaker himself wrote the note of
warning found in his room. Piper en
larged the handwriting and declared
that it was not Whitaker’s. Subsequent
confessions proved that he was correct.
“I am a firm beljpver,” said the expert,
“in Whitaker’s innocence.”
One of the curiosities of Piper’s col
lection is h ! s wonderful laboratory of
inks, containing samples of almost every
variety of ink made. He has a book
filled with ink tests. A long strip of
paper is pa luted with a certain variety
of ink and then the strip is marked off
into squares. In each square a drop of
a certain chemical is placed. Oxalic
acid, for instance, takes out all the color
of the bright-hued aniline inks, but has
little effect on Arnold’s ink or Stephens^.
Chloride of lime and potash water have
a marked effeet on even Arnold’s inks,
India ink nothing appears to effect. At
slated intervals Piper writes specimens
in certain kurus oi nut wun a aaCO
affixed and lays them sway to show
what effect the action bf time has on
them. In one case on which he was
employed a matter of 8250,000 hinged
on his decision. A party swore that
was not pig’s blood bat human blood
on the garments, went a long way to
ward convicting the defendant.
In order to obtain temples of blood
from various animals for investigation
under the' glass Piper once bled the
whole of Forepaugh’s menagerie save
the monkeys. When the animals ad
vanced to the Itars of their cage the
doctor struck each on the nose with a
spring lance, making a minute little
gash from which a drop or two of blood
was obtained. It is nopdl&ss to say that
Piper didn’t loaf around the lions’ or
tigers’ cages long after he had stuck his
business into their noses, as it were.
Strange to remark that while samples
of the savage lions’ and big boa con
strictor’s blood could be obtained, the
keepers did not dare allow the monkeys
to be bled. It has been learned by ex
perience that such undue familiarity
with a monkey as lancing it makes it
insane and worthless. Tlie blood of the
elephant and the wliale is a little larger
so to speak, than that of a human lieing.
A camel’s blood differs from the claret
found in human veins in that the cor
puscles are oval instead of round.
Taking Tea with the Japanese.
The great pecularity of this tea-drink
ing ceremony consists in the exactness
with which everything is done. A
spoon, cup, or whatever is handled, has
to be taken hold of in a particular way,
set down in a pecular place and touched
in a particular part, and everything is
done with the same strange precision.
What I saw was part of the ceremony
of ‘thin tea-drinking,’ and part of the
ceremony of ‘thick tea-drinking,’ but
the whole is simply a lesson in those
laws of politeness which were formerly
so rigidly exacted in every mansion and
which are still largely kept up in the
houses of the old aristocracy. Origi
nally, the ceremony was of a secret
character, and no servant entered the
house in which it tout place—the mas
ter kindling the fire, ttjfiing the water,
making the teay-s»{? r ^a^Wiort, doing
everything for the guests ; but in later
years it has become a mere ceremony
of an extremely fasldoriable character.
One or two things in this service struck
me as especially strange. Thus, both
host and guests knelt from the time
they entered the building till the time
they left it; and even when the master
had to go to the little back room to
fetch water, cups or whatever else he
might require, he shuffled on his knees
to the slide which served as a door, and,
then, having opened it, shuffled through
the opening till he was well on the other
side, when he rose to his feet; but this
he must not do while in the presence of
his guests. The chief guest, moreover,
is the spokesman for the company, and
no word is uttered save by the chief
guest or the host during the sendee, be
it ever so long. The chief guest also
demands everything—thus he asks for
tea and refreshments, but the particular
moment at which each request has to
be made is arranged by the code of eti
quette. At opportune moments the
chief guest also asks if he may Idbk at
the tea caddy, a spoon, a bowl or the
tea-pot. • Receiving the necessary per-
msssion, he shuffles on his knees to the
place where the object demanded is,
takes it, bows his forehead to the ground,
then rising, touches his forehead with
the object received, and begins to ex
amine it. Looking at the tea-pot he
asks if it is silver; then who made it;
then opening it and smelling the tea,
what tea costs per pound; after which
inquiries he passes it to the next guest,
and makes a remark to the host which
should, if possible, be at the same time
a compliment and a pun. After each
of toe guests has duly inspected the ob
ject, the chief guest shuffles again
across the floor, and returns it to its
place. Object after object is brought,
examined and returned in the same
manner.
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A Costly Small Book.
At an auction sale in New York re
cently, among the books sold the one
creating the most spirited bidding was
an almanac for the year 1686, entitled
“Kalendarium Feunsilvaniense;' or,
America’s Messenger.” This book
contains twenty leaves, not paged and
uncut, and this and another formerly
liossessed by George Brinley. of Hart
ford, an the only ones known to be in
existence, it is esjiecially valuable
from the fact that it is the first work of
the first printer of Philadelphia and
New York, W. Bradford of the former
city who, in an address printed in the
book, says; “Hereby understand that
after great charge and trouble I have
brought the great art and mystery of
printing into this part of America, be
lieving it may be of great service to you
in several respects.” It was sold to
Mr. Stone for 8520. The other books
disposed of include an almanac for 1705,
another for 1693, which respectively
brought 811. and 87; “Anecdotes of
Distinguished Persons,” 88; “The
American Neptune,” in three volumes,
printed in 1781 for the use of the Royal
Navy of Great Britain, under the direc
tion of the R. H, Lords Commis
sioners of the Admiralty, brought 890;
the Holy Bible, with genealogies prefix
ed, printed in 1613 by Robert Barker,
of London, bound i" ♦’-dek boards, w'tli
metal corners and centre, was purchased
for 820 50. A copy of the original
charter of Rhode Island College, now
Brown’s University, presented at the
General Assembly in February, 1715,
brought 820 54.
St. Petersburg In Winter.
People iu America might possibly
imagine that tea-making in this country
is a very complicated and laborious
affair, but it is no more so than any
where else, only people here are so
easy-going and good-natured; time has
so little value, <-ud labor is so cheap,
even though it mav be poor, that about
half a dozen people are doing here
what one person would do with much
more thoroughness in America because
not stumbling over other jieople’s feet.
One of the servants in question was
washing about half a dozen spoons,
saucers and glasses. Men in Russia
drink their tea out of glasses, so they
can admire the amber liquid and at the
same time feel its warmth creeping
through their bodies as they hold the
glasses between tlieir fingers. The
second man brought the tea-canister
and sugar-bowl, and being impressed
with the importance and dignity of his
work he moved about with a slowmess
that was edifying to behold and gene
rated in the spectator a violent desire
to go to his assistance. The third man
was arranging sweet crackers and slic
ing lemons to be used with the tea,
wliile the fourth man’s attention was
entirely absorbed by the samovar.
The samovar, as well as the steam
bath, is a truly national institution.
Take away from the Russian these two
objects of necessity and luxury, and lie
will think life has been robbed of half
its charms. The samovar is an indis-
pensable piece of furniture in ihe houses
of the rich and the poor, the high and
the low r , and not till he is the happy
owner of such an institution does a
young man set about in searcli of a life
partner, willing to share with him the
eomfoits offered by a room somewhere
under a staircase. The word “samo
var” is composed of the pronoun “self”
or. “itself,” and the verb “to boil,” and
literally means “self-boiler.” Tlie samo
var is made of brass, has the shape of
an egg, and holds from one to two pails
of water. The lower end rests on four
feet, the upper is flattened, and it has a
funnel for charcoal in tlie centre. The
top of the funnel is finished off by an
object resembling a crown, and w : hen
the w’ater boils on your tea-table you
fill your tea-pot, put it on the crown to
draw, and your toe, is ready.
The four men were attending to their
duty in religious silence, the only time
they opened their mouths being to in
form me-that there was to lie an extra
meeting on some important business,
and that it was on that account they
were making the tea. Now the gentle
men who compose those meetings come
together at 2, leisurely sip their tea,
relate the latest news, and go home to
their dinners at 4, leaving a kind Provi
dence to attend to their affairs, unless,
indeed, the question be one of politics—
“political unreliability,” as they call it
here. Then these same jovial, easy
going gentlemen will instantly lie
transformed into stern, unfimehing
judges, working day and night and to
the best of their abilities, iu their en
deavor to please the head of the coun
try and thus earn stars and ribbons, or
a more exalted “chin” or rank.
The present Emiieror, in ordering a
revision of the laws relating to the
Jews, has taken one step further on
the road trodden by his father. When
Alexander II. freed the serfs he at the
same time tried to better the condition
of his Hebrew subjects. Previous to
1861 no Jew was alio well to remain in
a Russian town longer than a week,
except in Poland and the South, which
were overrun by them. In Poland
they were even so numerous and no
powerful once that a Polish King was
on the point of marrying a Jewess.
Russians knew only tlie peddling Jew,
by no means the best representative of
the race, as the persecutions by his
Christian brethren had made him un
scrupulous and cowardly and had over-
developed his natural shrewdness.
Even where they were tolerated they did
not dare to betray any outward signs
of thrift; they would not long have re
mained unmolested if they had, so they
remained ragged and dirty, and to all
outward appearances in abj'-ct poverty
until they became a by-word and a
reproach, while in reality tney held the
purse strings of the country. They
carried on a pitiless and most unre
lenting usury, sucking the life-blood
of their victims like so many leeches
and keeping the people, who Haltered
themselves tliat they were their masters,
in the most absolute and humiliating
dependence. And the two races hated
each other most thoroughly. Unce iu
a while the Christian slave rebelled and
inaugurated a love-feast, similar to
those of the Vandals and the Gotlis,
but his resistance only lasted until his
long accumulated energy had spent its
elf, when everything went on as before.
Cheap Eating in Washington.
The daily opposite the Treasury is a
great resort, where may be seeu not only
many bureau officers and men of con
siderable position in the goverment ser
vice, but a great many others w ho do
not want a cheap luncheon, but a light
one, and know that if they once settle
into a restaurant chair the result will he
a spoild appetite by dinner time. Sec
retary Chandler is one of the frequent
visitors, and often nay be seen standing
in a crow'd of Treasury clerks, drinking
his mug of milk and munching his two
cent biscuit—that is it Is two cents if he
takes a buttered biscuit and only one
cent if it is unbuttered. It will be seen
by a slight intellectual effort that the
salary of a Cabinet officer for one year
would purchase 800,000 unbuttered bis
cuits. The Secretary’s future may be
regarded, therefore, as reasonably se
cure. If the Secretary takes a mug of
milk and twp unbuttered biscuits the
total cost of his luncheon is the magnifi
cent sufn of seven cents: two buttered
biscuits will raise it to nine cents, and if
he should take a piece of pie—whicli he
probably. would not do—as he comes
from New England, where pie-making
is a religion and not a sordid pursuiir—
tue cost will icmyi fourteen cents, mis
is regarded, however, as extravagance
only to be justified in a Cabinet officer.
—There are in the treasury 8105 251,
198 in silver and 8179,685,006 in gold..
Purchase the Florence knitting silk.
It comes in all colors. The size of the
steel needles used will depend upon the
fine or coarse quality of silk that should
be selected. Stocking knitting is
easily learned. The majority of old
ladies know’ all about this sort of in
dustry, in a plain way, to be sure, since
art decorating is of rather recent date,
and especially in the manufacture of
fancy hosiery. However, the grandmas
of to-day are familiar with the rules for
shaping a stocking, and when this is
learned the artistic embeilishings are
easily controlled. In personal beautify
ing, doubtless a prettily dressed foot is
quite as much noticed as any other part
of the toilet. And especially is this
the case during the summer season
when fashion's disciples are rusticating
in point lace and diamonds at an ex
pensive watering place, where the ex
travagance of dress is sometimes
extended to the bathing suit, and heavy
silk stockings are worn to protect the
satiny whiteness of shapely limbs.
Knitting silk stockings is a charming
industry, a work easily laid down or
taken up, and when rusticating, the
knitting can be carried about in tlie
dress, pocket, ready for use at any mo
ment, when the occupation may be re
sumed with marked effect in displaying
valuable jewelry—the hands are held up
to view, innocent; of course, of any in
tention of exciting envy, or seeking
admiration for beauty of lands, mani
cured nails, and costly gems. There is
something very fascinating in fancy
knitting, and then there is a great
satisfaction in an industry so lucrative.
A handsome pair of silk hose are well
worth from 810 to $30, the value de
pending upon the amount of fancy
work with which the hose may l>e dec
orated. Domestic made silk half hose
for gentlemen gives a pretty and ex
ceedingly satisfactory occupation for
young girls aiql misses, who take pleas
ure in giving their male relatives pres
ents that are handsome and useful, and
are also such positive evidences of in
dustry and artistic taste. A silk knitted
smoking cap can be richly designed,
showing a rainbow of color effects.
Dressy little silk sacques for babies are
knitted or crocheted in colored cord
forming a very useful aud ornamental
garment.
Embroidery has become so fashiona
ble that it is lavishly employed on
some garments. Now much of this
w’ork is wrought at home, thereby sav
ing large sums ol money, ami still
indulging iu the preferred dress decora
tion of the season. A pocket handker
chief embroidered by a young lady only
“brought out” this Winter just past
coidd not be bought at one of our large
stores for a cent less than $50. A little
schoolgirl of eleven Summers has em
broidered hi colors within four months’
time a lawn tennis apron, a i>erfect
poem of dainty conceptions in the in
termingling of blossoms, buds, and
climbing plants, all so ingeniously exe
cuted, and so exactly copied from
nature, they api>ear to be oidy laid on
the hi.ndkercluef, to be gathered up and
put into a vase of water. One of the
richest pongee costumes that will be
seer at Newitoxl this Summer was em
broidered during this Spring by a
wealthy society lady, noted for her
charitable deeds to the worthy i>oor,
who, however, does not believe in favor
ing both finery aud idleness.
For Summer use in a country cottage
gray-lined curtains with edge embroid
ery are ornamental and afford ‘an
admirable shade to a room exposed to
tlie heat of the noonday sun. A door
curtain formed of tarletan in ample
folds is picturesque, imparting an air of
breezy coolness to the rooms. Edge
the curtain with tinted lace and hang a
holland shade of corresponding color;
to be drawn down when seclusion is
required; loop back the tarletan near
the centre with ribbon bows. There
is another effective style of door cur
tain which is easily constructed. Pur
chase a few yards of dotted Swiss
muslin; between the dots on both sides
of the goods sew tiny spangles; edge tlie
curtain with narrow gold lace, and a
fairy-like effect is given, especially if
two palm plants or itots of flowers are
placed on either side of the door. A
showy piano cover may be secured at
very little expense. Applique ou green
serge or maroon tinted camel's hair
cloth, a variety of quaint figures, not
exactly grotesque, but selected with
taste, and presenting in a pointed man-
mer some sort of suggestion relating to
music, both vocal and instrumental.
Origiiality expressed in designing
decorations for a piano cover is sure to
awaken great satisfaction if artistically
executed, and there must also be given
proper proportion, breadth and reitose
to the work. The designs wrought on
an organ cover should harmonize with
the general characteristics of this in
strument. There should be no crowded
details in needle work, even when the
pattern is large, and the article embel
lished presents' ample breadth for a
decoration of liberal dimensions. In
Order to secure a pleasing effect in
hand-made home decorations, be care
ful that detail is always subordinate to
the design; and above all be sure not to
dei>art from truth wiien me designs are
intended to be copies from lature—
every flower should lave its own foliage,
and the whole made as perfect as possi
ble. Glaring inaccuracies in this direc
tion destroy the desired effect of most
skilfully wrought out productions, and
at tlie same time it is obvious tliat the
fair artist is in i>ossession of considera
ble ignorance.
lari
—There are 18 societies of Shakers in
the United States.
—The dot now placed over the i dates
from the fourteenth century.
—Armorica, which is now Brittany,
was conquered by Cresar 56 B. C.
r —The first recorded plague iu all pails
of the world occurred 767 B. C.
—The celebrated mineral spriiig at
Clieltenham was discovered in 1718.
—There are 1,500 square miles of ice
in the Alps, from 80 to 600 feet thick.
—It requires 10.296 gas and 2,368 oil
lamps to light the streets of Boston.
—A single grape vine at Cajon, Cali
fornia, is said to bear five tons of fruit.
ruarv i
to the calendar by Numa about 713
B. C.
—Conchology was first reduced to a
system in 1675 by John Daniel, Mayor
of Kiel.
—The uractice of using a baldachin In
churches was introduced into England
in 1279.
—The French Government intends to
hold a grand international exhibition at
Paris in 1885.
—The hyssop of Scripture is the caper
tree which abounds in southern Europe,
lower Egypt and Syria.
—Chicago is said to w aste 46.000,OW**"*
gallons of water per day, and Cincinnati
5,000 000.
Paris has 65,000 houses, Loudon
460,000 more than Paris, New York and
Berlin combined.
—The shipmen's of petroleum and
j»etroleum products from this country
for January were valued at 83,056,953.'
—By the new census there are in Ire- /
land 3,951,887 Roman Catholics and 1,-/
198,842 Protestants of all kinds. s'
—The debt of tlie United States p/u>r
to the war was about 890,000,000. /The
debt of the Australian colonies /s al
ready fiveflffld that.
—It is estimated that the 700 luests
at the Vanderbilt ball representMl 88,
000,000,000, or 10 times the total Yalua
tion of Boston.
-Janies I. of Scotland w r as mtuttered
at the Black Friars’ monastery at laerth,
in 1437, by Robert Graham and th
of Athol H
—The revenue of the Dominion gov
ernment for the first nine months o^Mie
present fiscal year was $26,381,685, a?
the expenditures $18,902,149.
—In Western China the mountain
Omi, which has a “halo,” and which is
in height 11,000 feet, is almost exclusive
ly inhabited by Buddhist monks.
—On the Colorado desert a species of
tortoise grows to a weight of twenty-
five pounds, and the meat of this is con
sidered a great delicacy among the In
dians.
—A man recently sold the timber-
riglit on a tract of land in Cambria coun
ty, Pennsylvania, for ,$45,000. He
bought the land and trees a few years
ago for $1,000.
-Pisistratus founded a public library
in Athens 540 B. C., and this is the first
institution of its kind of which history
gives any account. Ptolemy Philadel-
phus founded the second 284 B. C.
—The cost of the Vanderbilt ball is
estimated as follows: Costumes, $155,
730; flowers, $11,000; carriages, $4,000;
hair-dressing, $4,000; supper and extra
servants, $25,000; making a total of near
ly $200,000.
—Ice men of the Penobscot river say
that the present season has been a suc
cessful one to them. They have har
vested some 189,500 tons, and they had
alrout 50,000 tons left over from last
season.
—It is said that Stonehenge, the
ancient monument on Salisbury Plain,
was built in accordance with Merlin’s
advice by Aurelius of Ambrosius, in
memory of 460 Britons who were mur
dered by Hengist.
—The virtues of Peruvian bark were
discovered by a Jesuit in 1585, and it was
used hy members of the Society of Jesus
from that time. In 1649 it was intro
duced into France, and Sir Hans Sloane
carried it to England in 1700.
—A contract was entered into at San
Francisco a few days ago by the Texas
and Pacific Railway Company for the
transportation of seven hundred car
loads, being about .‘W0,000 bushels, of
California wheat to go to Europe by w r ay
of New Orleans.
—The five copper mines in Michigan,
which have declared dividends during
the past year, have a paid-up capital of
$2,500,000; and the dividends paid
amount to $2,900,000. The Calumet
and Hecla, which hasa capital of $1,200,-
000, paid its stockholders in the last year
$2,000,000.
—The Western Union telegraph lines
in Texas have increased from 2,300 miles
of poles arrd 4,600 miles of wire on Jan
1,1880, to 4,300 miles of poles and near
ly 9,000 miles of wire on Jan. 1,1883,
thus nearly doubling its facilities within
three years and still building.
—One of the industries of Australia is
the cooking and canning of rabbits,
which are so plentiful iu some districts
that whole crops are sometinres destroy
ed by them. One firm during the last
season, which lasted twenty-five weeks,
canned 675,000 of the animals.
—In the Second revenue collection
district of Georgia, from December 1st,
1882, to March 31st, 1883, there were
seized 105 illicit distilleries; destroyed,
60; removed for forfeiture, 26. There
were 13,150 gallons of beer destroyed,
and 1776 gallons of low wines and 36i
gallons of whisky seized. *
—The mining receipts at San Fran
cisco for the first six months of the year-
amounted to $16,260,000. of which $2.-
099, 421, was for the month of June. Of
this sum the California sent 81,856,292;
Eureka Consplidated, 81,562,500;-Con-
solidated Virginia, $1,494,571; Rich
mond, $1,200,000, and Oplrir, 8723,000.
—The first annual report of-the New
Jersey railroad commissioners says there
are 1800 miles of road in the state; capi
tal invested, 8214,068,349; cost of road
and equipments, 8168,618,355; gross
earnings in 1881, 831,845,802; net earn
ings, $11,509,911; interest {aid on bonds,
etc., $6,596,338; gross earnings for 1881,
$26,000,000; net income, after deducting
all expenses, $15,000,000.
—It is well known that the wine har
vest last year was scanty in Italy, but
compare! to that of France there is no
reason to complain. In France scarcely
30,886 ? 352 hectolitres were obtained,
while m Ita»y there were 32.562,448 hec-
less by 3,252,383 hectolitres than that
obtained there in 1881, while in Italy it
was greater by 5,023,799 hectolitres, than
the average production, though below
the production of exceptionally gorq
yeata.
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