University of South Carolina Libraries
???ri <n i --? m ii i _ Mv cottage st un? - njion a rctillf Where. daisy-s:ii.M?i. >l"P"-.n And at its foot danefs a huij&inx ril^H S;njrin;r its to th<- smiir&e^Kgi Sinjrinjr its vesper hvtnn. :ts iti the wcSH Ov-r my Icr iiy n<-i >r*s wooded n:::WH , The royal sun sin"<s siowlv t'> the* v.vst. toWMB ' And the stars throb and throug^j^a Ovfr mv cottage. in :< tangle ric'i. ^ Koses and je>s/tn!ine and cif-mans | Cii"'b, filling jealousevery fit:!-* niche. m;r sweet blossoms to the breeze's kiss; L And all the day the wild birds, winter-fed. I. . Warble and trill and jrunjle 'mid the trees. While the brave skylark, lost in blue o'erhead, Pours waves of tnusie o'er the sunny leas. Kf Inside my cottage memory holds her sway ? In pictures, speaking of the loved and lost; In books, the faithful friends of every dav; ||P In trifles, love apprised at countless cost; HgiL And, flinjrinjr Time a piy defiance. Son# Epffft .^lucinurs "The spirit tlays, tbe fire gTOw; | Yet, since both and aand nay?>6erve<i I Your eottajre elain)S^fc^*,plarn9r. as of old." ?All the Year Round. i THE CANDELABRA. It is surely more blessed to <rive than to receive. Arthur is decidedly not of that opinion. I would give you hit. entire name and the name of his friend, the general, but you will readily see why j . I had better omit them. Arthur is high- j -^Jj^disoonten^t'. Poor Arthur! The g?nerahtnd the general's wife and Arthur | are as much one as the fingers of the j hand. Whoever see.*- one invariably I |s 1 sees one of the other two almost immediately after. P>nt. by a singular chance, j one sees Arthur and the general's wife j together more frequently than Arthur; JlgS and the general. It is evident that one SB must help fortune a little, and then she j The general's wife is 2$. Such a bcauH| tiful age! Willi her intimate acquaintances slie answers to the charming j name of Genevieve. She had served rive i years in the great army of married peoBftjSjfB pie b fore she knew Arthur. She was mnmnil nt 90. Five and three are cisrht. Km The last three years may be counted as |fl| spent in the reserve corps. As her birthgy day was near :.t hand the general took S|r his friend Art hur aside and said to him: HH "My young lriend, if I do not prevent it you may perpetrate th? sann* folly this g|s| Tear that you did last year, by reiuemggfl be ring my wife in a senseless extravagant manner. That would be highly HI disagreeable to me. We are on too H friendly terms for nie to hesitate to speak. m mv mind plainly to you. are we not? Last year you gave my wife a magni-i& cent vase, set with rubies, valued by glL connoisseurs at 2,500 francs,at the least That is too much." "But my means warrant " B "Something handsome, but not exKBfflF +ro tto rro n r?r? J wguuvv. ^7 . "I assure yon "As an intimate frieiid of the house you have a right to remember a birthday with the usual conventional politeness by some substantial iiift. I consent to that willingly. But I do not understand how it comes that you should repay tenfold the little dinners and suppers you have received at our house." "And the kindness and affectionate consideration that surround one in your home! Do they count for nothing?" ? "My dca?i>o}V" that is given freely, pu wouM not wish to pay us for that? at, in a word, I do not wish you to spend more than 300 francs for my >T JLlAtlV JO (V Jn,cyvnctv^' "You put mc in a very embarrassing position.. Nothing respectable can be for that amount It is a beggarly Hp" ' never spend more for my sisWm cer. and w\at is good enough for her Ip?- will do for my wife." "Let me go as his:li as 60) francs at 9 ~ least" "No?" "Five hundred then?" "No! No!" "Four hundred and fifty?" "Four hundred: that is the utmost; if your present costs 450 francs I will re^ turn it. If it costs 500 francs. I shall be py angry. If it costs more than that, it will bs the last of our friendship." * ? ? * * Genevieve continually discovered new fallings in her husband. She had long had a consuming desire to possess a beautiful little bronze candelabra that cost 1,800 francs. Indeed, her. husband carried his authority a little too far. r What right had he to meddle with her 1 private matters? Did she trouble herself about the payment of the soldiers in the brigade? No! Then why did he not observe a similar discretion in regard to her affairs? Was she not old enough to decide what she should receive and what lvfuse? On this ground she paid no attention, but dealt with her friend as if her husband had treated her wishes in the most congenial spirit. ^ "Do you remember what I said to you last year wheq you gave me that exquisite little present? 'Dear Arthur, you go beyond all- reason." Those were my very words, were they not? I have been afraid you would repeat that folly, and so I have in vietr something more modest, that you might pivsent to me if you are bent upon doing something." S "This thought fulness was entirely unnecessary. My affection *' "Your afil'cnon needs no proor or mat kind.'" "Genevieve, O Genevieve!" "Arthur." "Tell me what you have in view." ? "UVil i>iy friend, after long search, I found-at last a little candelabrum at Barbizon's; a candelabrum, mind, and it is a superb piece. Louis XV. style. And, just think, it costs only 1,800 francs. You see my husband's interference was unnecessary. I am reasonable myself: but, if I do not mistake, the general went still further. He fixed the limit for you, did he not?" "Yes, 400 francs." "That is certainly modest, but?more than enough." Arthur declared he would revolt against the general's order, but she ft I would not hear to it. However, he held rto his resolution in spite o? iier opposition. Finally thev came to an agreement. It was settled that he shonld send the candelabrum to his dear Genevieve, but should assert and maintain to the general that it did not cost over 400 When Arthur made his call of congratulation on the birthday of the general's wife he was angrily received by the general. "You seem to have forgotten our recent conversation entii-A^1' "Why. what is the ?Rer. general?" "Ah! And this candelabrum." '.'Well, what of it? Perhaps you don't r - believe?This candelabrum did not cost A HO ffonAC " ** CVU V? Ci 1VV nuavo. "Nonsense." "It is as I tell you. It cost me trouble enough, though.to Unci them: I swore at you not a "Impossible: where did you rake up such a fabulously cheap thing?" "At?but it is of no importance." "It i&a pure curiosity?where?'' "At TJarbizon-'s." "And. yet people say that Barbizon is the dearest bronze-dealer in Paris. Four / / . w*m^: Hmeth:n<r^H ?fc?! HoHHViiLr annivcrs5^H^k\ ^^ote on the * Baron." . jflRtleman is coming to you whr? | order one like It. Vou must I him thnt you have no more in the store.1' "Impossible, sir: we have three for sale." "How unfortunate! But listen. I have r. request. You must rentier me a little service. A singular circum stance, which I have no time to txplair, compelled me to (let-litre to th )>vrsou that the candelabrum bought i.* re et>sl only 400 francs." "Arid he believed it?" "Strong reasons?you hear?verj strong reasons force me to conceal th truth. If he wishes a similar candelabrum do not charge him more thai 20 loais d'or: I will pay the difference.' "That is satisfactory." * * * * * Ten minutes later a gentleman en tlifi store anil wished to buv oil' of the three candelabra. Faithful to hi? agreement. Barbizon asked only 40C francs. The purchaser looked very much astonished. "Four hundred francs! Please send me two." Barbizon trembled at this unexpected double order, but he remembered Arthur s anxiety, and wrote down the order in his book. Fifteen minutes later the general entered the shop with his sister. "Out'ol my friends bought a candelabrum of you yesterday. I sec voh have moiv ot the same kind. My friend told me he paid 400 francs for it. Is that right?" "Saperlot!" thought the dealer. "I have got myself into a nice lix. The purchaser who was just here was not the baron's-man. So much the worse for him. How could I know?" "Yes. sir," turning to the general after his brief monologue "It is right. The candelabrum costs 400 francs." Wonderful! Very wonderful! Will you have the goodness to send one ol them to-*my sister? She will give you her address. "" "Yes,"1 said the lady, much pleased, "and 1 will take the other two with me into the country." "The other two, madams? They are sold," replied the Barbizon. "There is no hurry. I have time. II you can have them in five months it will* do. By that time you can get some more." . "We wish to present them to our friends, Herr Barbizon," added the general. "The French industry must be encouraged. You can safely order five or six. I pledge myself to take them." "But?at that rate the order stands seven candelabra for the Herr General and two for madame. Have I understood you correctly?'' _ _ "To make an>even amount I will say ten: that makes only 4.000 francs!*' * * * * * Poor Arthur! During the following week he went back ana forth between the general's hotel and Barbizon's shop oftcner than ever. The orders fairly poure-i down. The story cost him not less than 35,000 francs. T ?* i u JL UO iiul K.HUW wuuuia wiiuvicvx; a infection was really worth so much to hira or not.?Translated from the German by Margaret G. Polk. Mark Twain's Difficulties in Becoming a Confederates In his paper in the December Century, "The Private History of a Campaign that Failed," Mark Twain says: "Out West there was a good deal of confusion in men's minds during the r\f ]-?/* rrrr>ot *1 CTrtAfl iiidt UIVUUIO Ui t i*v- V.44.L, IV ^ deal of unsettledness, of leaning first this way, then that, then the other way. It was hard for us to get our bearings. I call to mind an instance of this. I was piloting on the Mississippi when the news came that South Carolina had gone out of the Union on the 20th of December, 1-S60. My pilbt-mate was a New Yorker. He was strong for the Union: was I. But lie would not listen to me with any patience; my loyalty was smhehed, to Kis eve, because mv i?3 T ;? iUiiitT iiuu unuvu ouuw. x o?.*iv4, it* palliation of this dark fact, that I had heard my father say, some years before he died, that slavery was a great wrong, and that he would free the solitary negro he then owned if he could think it right to give away the property of the family when he was so straightened in means. My mate retorted that a mere impulse Y> cic> uucuiug?any uuujr wuivi ulvjivi iv a good impulse; and went on decrying my Unionism and libeling my ancestry. A month later the secession atmosphere had considerably thickened on the Lower Mississippi, and I became a rebel; so did he. We were together in New Orleans, the 26th of January, when Louisiana went out of the Union. He did his full share of the rebel shouting, but was bitterly opposed to letting me do mineHe said that I came of bad stock?of a father who had been willing to set slaves free. In the following summer he "was piloting a Federal gun-boat and shouting for the Union again, and I was in the Confederate array. I held his note for some borrowed money. He was one of the most upright men I ever knew; but he repudiated that note without hesitation, because I was a rebel, and the son of a man who owned slaves.',, Modern surgery has achieved a great triumph in Germany. Eleven years ago Professor Nussbaum. of Munich, took /vf rt Vvat* crv o7on/1 /?rit\_ CiliUgU Ul <b WJ c*/ iinuiMiiiivvi auu vii|rpled that he was obliged to crawl about on all fours. Nine serious operations were performed, four crooked bones were broken, three stiff joints forcibly extended, several sinews cut through and nerves stretched. Weights were then attached^ .certain mus.-Ies. and by means*ofmassage baths, ointments and electricity so much-progress was made that in a. .few years the boy was able-.-t<xVwalk erect with; the kid of eratchfi.vdJKl a specafrrrpparalus fastened to/: his feet. Safcs^uentiy .'he was aole:to threw -i way this apparatus and exiefis^ge^iiis crutches for a -cane, and tdMJ&yhe is a healthy, vigorous youth, ; able tifwiOk, dance and ride on horseback. " The SjaJi -oif Persia appears to be a great and severe art critic. Hie story circulates in-French papers that one day nes." This head did not seetu .sofficiently realistic to him. so he summoned the artist and in his presence took his sword and chopped off a slave's head, which he then bade the artist examine so that he might be better informed in future. \ I v FALSI-; s>:: A'ILS. i 1 Thc\^ri;)is m of ?!? It ? of "Slauu- ) <.f Tin- .? i:r.i :i.i :n (inns. |v The ^Mrkrcosv of the pearl-blower, K Says S::r.:',v j,:s -ft hiss-Ma ki:i? in . j All A^i-s. V, .< i?s..(.(i. ix most simpk\ It is comp'js. >1 ,;f small table :inom a ^ vanl in ..;1 ujrc'i is placed a \inip with :: wick. This Ian.]), fed either wiili <riVes a long , jot <">f flam:: l.'SdWii \,y :l of bellows un<!??r the lalii'*. w;i!?.-5i put in motion with the foot. g|b-lny''''- table are plaivd tubes of holmon glass. , -rr*c- .^manufacture of ; (>:::;;g?Tiiothers. of a slightly iridi'scent tint approaching opal, are only employed for the finer nenvls. <lf>>if-n:ited in commerce Oriental 1 r pearls. The secret of the composition of this latter jrlass. due to the researches of M. Pierrelot, a chemist who died a few vears ago, now belongs to the firm of Valez & Co. BLOWING PEARLS. The first material belli? known, let us now seek to understand by what means from a tube of hollow <rl::ss, in every respect like those which children use as pea-shooters, the makers succeed, without usinjr any mold, in making pearls of ail sorts, from the most common to those which in shape and opalescence imitate perfectly the most splendid pearls of tin.* Hast. (The only exception to this ! < f'u- the pearls called fluted, whlrii nm-t b.* done in a mold. As thi'v an? now ou'. of fashion, we shall say nothing more about their manufacture, which belongs more to the subject of blown and molded glasses.) Tiie blower seated a; liis tabic has his lamp before him. and at his right hand arc placed t of about one-third of an ineh in diameter and one foot in length. The thickness of tlic tube to be employed 1 n-Inir necc.-sarily in proportion to the- >!/. of tin- pearls to be made, the first labor of the blown- is to draw out the tube ?that is to say, to increase its length by diminishing its thickness. When til-* tube is made of the size desired lie break- it in fragments of from four to six inches: ait rward lie takes one of these ami brings one end of it to the lamp. As soon as the glass begins to unit he blows gently through the tube, which, aIs.hough drawn out, has always preserved its internal bore, and. the air soon dilating the heated extremity, a ball appears. It is this ball lltrit- is to become a near!, but it is still only in a rudimentary slate. Three operations arc necessary to make it a pearl: First, the piercing of two holes for round pearls intended to form a necklace, or of a single one if they are round or pearl-shaped, to be set cither for necklaces or earrings, or for buttons or pins. etc. Second, to give the form, round or pear-shaped. Third, the interior coloring. The double piercing, indispensable for the coru to pass through which unites the pearls and forms a necklace, is done at the moment when the spherical glass adhering to the tube is still ductile. The lirst hole is made in the lower part of the pe.irl by tfc*fc.reath "only?of the workman, and the second is naturally formed by the opening to the tube when i ue pearl is separated from it by means r\ f o liorVif hlntl' * ?"" " ORIENTAL I'EAKLS. This work is required in the preparation of all beads; but, before passing on. we would call the attention of the reader, and especially of ladies, to one kind?we mean Oriental pearls, which, as their name indicates, must be the most exact imitation possible of those produced by Nature. Although made in exactly the same manner as the m >st ordinary beads, these pearls are yet distinguished from them, not only by the employment of opalescent gia*--, but still more by the care the blower takes in their formation, a< well as by the different coloring they receive in the in""rlor. As for the shape, every one knows how rare it is to find a pearl without defect, and defects not in material but in form, anrl still more in color. A single example will suffice to show how difficult it is to lincl many pearls almost alike in form and tint. The pearl necklace bef,. +1,,. ,lv_V,ii:iw.?c rvf tli?> Froneh - is composed of only thirty-three pearls, and. in order to complete this limited number, it is scarcely possible to l;-:lieve that, after having chosen from among all the most perfect ones French merchants eo::!d o:i' r. it was -eessary to have recotns.' to those of England. The work of tlx* blower bei:i?r, as we have said, to imitate nature as much as possible, his talent consists not only in destroying the exact regularity obtained by the blowing, but also in producing on the false jx-arl the defects usually found in natural ones. This work requires much practice, and is only the fruit of Ion;: observation. The good blovwr. the artist, should be sufficiently acquainted with natural pearls to execute on his own only the defects which mav increase the value of his work by SKiiiiuiiv prcparcu reuecuo:i>. jlu %jutain this important result, the blower, profiting by tin: moment when the pearl still adhens to the tube, takes a very"! small iron paler, with which he stinkes* lightly certain parts of the small malleable pearl, and it is only by this last operation, which places here a protuberance, there a flattening, both almost imperceptible, that he succeeds in producing a pear! which, losing its mathematical regularity, becomes the perfect imitation of nature. There the work of the blower ceases; for it is then that the pearls?which, it should be remarked, arc still only objects in colorless glass?are to pass into the hands of workwomen charged to color each of them. But, before dismissing the blower, we must be allowed to go a little into statistics. The reader, lir.it-t.iw itnni 1 r>nt t?" >! nrmPfi ! Wfi shall hi' very brief. We merely wish to say that :i good workman can make 300 pearls in a 7l;iv. and i-; paid from 2s to 2s Gd thuhtuvircd. COLORING OF IWI.SK PEARLS. Although 1 *i< work of coloring of which we are about to speak is the same for all pearls, ii will be easily understood that, si net' pearls are divided into ordinary and Oriented pearls, it is necessary to have t'.vo sets of workpeople. This labor is generally intrusted to women?some .-p'-cialiy employed in coloring tiie common, and others the finer, pearls. We shall only occupy ourselves with ! the work of the latter, which, we re! peat, merely differs from that of the i ! other from its greater finish. Each workwoman has before her a ; series of small ct mpartments, eontaini ing altogether several thousand pearls, i arranged so that each of them should present the side having the orifice i pierced !>_? the blower. Before introducing the coloring substance. which would be too easily de tached from the glass if it were not by some means more firmly fixed, every i pearl has to receive inside a very light coating of a glue which is perfectly colorless. being made from parchment. This layer being equally ^preadrayc^thc interior of every -pearl; ^votiivrom)di. takes advantage jof"the moitrent-Trben" th.. dnnm Saffd'besots ta3 j work of coloring, .proj^eiiy so^SccLAfter huvin^Takcn- Tjp "the thin an.4 hollow tube, and soaking it in the bleak paste, the workwoman introduces a certain quantity into each of the pearls by her breath; and would you know how many she must do in a day to enable her "to earn the modest sum of ' with th<? naste is onlv Daid at the rate Oi, ? - - ? A about one penny. Colored beads are done in exactly the same way: but, instead of the bleak paste, a paste of the color desired is blown into them. Piute Religion. The Piute Indians have pretty good religious notions of their own. They believe in a heaven arid in a hell that would satisfy even the most orthodox and exacting Methodist preacher. The ruler in heaven is "Psh-Ah," and the Dresidintr erenius in the other place is called Avea^Dagii. In the Piute" heaven the water is pure and sweet, game is abundant, and there are plenty of pinenuts. The hell is a burning alkali desert, walled in by rocky hills. Those condemned to suffer punishment in this place are continually tortured with thirst, but the only water they can find is saturated with salt and alkali. When they approach the bordering hills in their efforts to escape they are -driven back by devils, .who rush out from among the rocks and thrust fire-brands against their naked bodies. They have among them, writes a Cincinnati Entnrirrr oorrosnnndenfL nrpa/rhors of thfiir own, who from time to time make "good talks." Not long since their old preacher died. He was a man who had much to say against killing, lying, and stealing. "Pokc-r Jim" is a son of this old preacher. Like most preachers' sons. Poker Jim is a "little wild;" still, the Piutes have great hopes of him, and most of them think that he will some day fill the place of his father as an cxhorter of the people to better ways. "Johnson," a-Piute in some way related to the family of the old preacher, speaking of "Jim the other aay, said: "We ihink lie bejtfn to make ?;ood preach yoco ticmpo. nim now good deal in the Tuition. Ali*p:idv he sometimes give people some talk. Him not yet say much 'bout for not to lie and steal, bat him make pooty good talk for not drink whisky. Our people think poco ticmpo him make some good -talk for not lie and steal, all same like ole father, and some good talk 'bout heaven? too; but you see him no can do it now." "Why not give talk now?" I asked. "Well," looking a little ashamed, "now him play all the time too much poker. We think poco ticmpo quit poker and give plenty good preach, all same like was he dead father." A Good Illnstr&tioii. A Marietta, Ga., correspondent write?-? to the Atlanta Constitution the following: Cobb superior court met here last T.-sJ T 1 JJAUUUZ*V t t^UUKC UUWUjWMMMWiy vt iwrmr^ presiding. Judge Brown was disqualified from presiding. Judge Branham has won many golden opinions from our people by the impartial charges to the juries and his just but lenient sentences. The charge of Judge Branham to the grand jury was strikingly forcible, and particularly so in expounding the duties of working the public roads. In regard to breaking up the practice of carrying concealed weapons, he gave an illustration that came under nis observation while a practicing attorney in Rome. He had a clerk in his office who was in the habit of carrying a derringer pistol in each of his Vest pockets. This he tried to persuade him not to do, but he was persistent in his purpose, A client J _ 1- i.L? IlKiUC U rtJIIililK. IV U1U U1C1T&. iXlUCL 11U (IJj-anham) had lost his case that he made no effort to do his duty in the matter. On accosting the client about it he denied making the statement. The clerk and the client and Judge Branham all met in the law office, when the clerk wanted to know of the client if he denied making the aforesaid remark. The client emphatically denied it, when the clerk, who was seat :<* at the table writing, looked up and sijnply remarked: 4,iou have lied, that's all." The client, who was a large, muscular fellow, picked up the tongs and was intending to brain the clerk, when the aforesaid clerk placed his fingers in his vest pocket and pulled out a derringer, and. without ffettingr up from his seat. rested his hand on' the table and exclaimed: "You put down those tongs!" The man very prudently put down the tongs. When he had left the clerk said to Judge Branham: "You have always insisted that I should not cany a pistol, as I would have no need of it Now, suppose that I had not had that weapon that fellow would have killed me with those tonjfs." "Not at all probable," replied Judge Branham. "Why?" interrogated the surprised clerk. "Because," replied Judge Branham, "If you had been without a pistol you would not have called the fellow a liar." This was a revelation to the clerk, and he abandoned the practice of carrying concealed weapons. A Born Drummer. "Do you think you are fitted to become acanvasser, Walter?" "I do." "Well, suppose you were calling on a customer, should you consider it a hint to leave ll tie oraerca you to clear out 01 the room?" "I should consider that an invitation to remain." "Suppose he kicked you down-stairs?" "I should regard that as a pleasant introduction." "What should you regard as a hint to leave?" "I will tell you from my own experience. Last "winter, wishing to study Greek, and having no money, I cast to remain at the Presbyterian hospital 3S an invalid. As ill-luck would have it I grew so fat in a fortnight that, groan as loud as I would, they told ^ to leave. T 1 _1 : xl. _ .1 A ^ L* tL jl oniy cmng ine closer 10 my uerui. The good doctors then kicked me out of the door, but I climbed back though the window. At length they told me that all the beds were taken, and that I must sleep in the dissecting-room. I slept like a top for a week. But one day a drunken student came into the room brandishing a huge knife, and cried out: "Where's that new subject?" I lay still till he had thrust his knife two or three inches into my side. Then, fearing that all my members would secede unless I did something desperate, I cried out 'I take the hint,' and skipped." The people of Ceylon use honey instead of salt for preserving meat A traveler says meat so preserved is of exquisite flavor. It is kept in earthen pots and remains gooa for several years. | THE PLUMED FyiGHT* ? Hastily Scribbled Ingersoll'g Noted Speech Atination. AfterX^uc^Pr^i^ correspondA Cjg fflthe making of T r) i rmVI m to thr.t-^fflSSS?S||^Boi Peoria, 111. He wr>jHHEB8BHBWpn ?f l876> to the cSHBHH^raR Hc arrired ;*ndJ1 er Illinois in Cm<?mg|HB^^E^^Kre the eondele^ai|^BHH^H| was full of ventio^MH|^K?nHH^'ing a high oid^mKBBaBm'aCi meet" ings evSTffiS^^^^^mythino: in their poorer to "boon^^B^^nt'I(':lte* It wasonally decided to have TRT^w^rf=v nating speech made by some Illinois man, and the Illinois delegation settled upon I^gersoll. Therv was present in the city Bob's favorit brother, who died a few years later, iLid at whose grave the great atheistff.'?!ivered his world-renowned oration? ife immediately told his brother of the, selection, and that he had promised "to? deliver the speech. The brother, Who was somewhat nervous, tried to persuade him not to try it. "You are not famous enough," he persuaded. "You arc getting alon? and making; a fair reputation, but this is too big a tiling for you. I fear you will make a dead failure of it" But Bob had promised and would not back oat "Well,," if you are determined to do this, y^i must do your best. You must make a success." To do this you must get a? it immediately. Don't wait a miniz(f. Go into that room and lock the door; jad begin the speech." "Oh^ -to-morrow will do," urged Bob, "and, besides, I have promised to go with t5e boys to-night" And away he went The next day passed, and, although his brother spoke about the speech several times, Robert did not touch it. And so the time passed till the night before the convention. The brother, meanwhile, had got nearly frantic. Robert came in late that night, and in answer to his_brotlier's solicitation, said: "Oh, bother; let's get a good night's sleep.'' And so they retired. Ingersoll says that he never slept so soundly in his life as he did that night. Finally he woke up suddenly and felt perfectly "refreshed. He got up hastily and looked at his watch, it was 3 o'clock a. m. He went to the adjoining room very quietly and clpsc<! the door, so as not to disturb his brother. He turned the light down, and, closing his eves, imagined the * ? i -fi j L:. J: great convention nan, anu nis auuiuucc before him. Then he began to think of Blaine. Finally he began to say his speech over to himself. When he had finished he took up pen and paper and wrote it out carefully as he had said it. He laid it away in"the drawer of the bureau, and went back quietly to bed. It was now past 6 o'clock in the morning. He very soon was fast asleep agair> and did not wake up till past 8, "^^^L^^brol^rwas^stand i ng over -k-hfi; - -"Bob, get up, get up! It's""8:30, and theC convention assembles at 10:30. I thought you were to get up early and get your speech ready. It will be a dead failure, and we shall all be disgraced. Blaine will not bo nominated. It is too bad, too bad.'" Bob slowly waked up, and, rubbing nis eyes, urgea mat lcwoum oe oesi iibi to get their breakfast. But the brother insisted that he should not leave the room until he had got down to business on the speech. By this time Bob had donned nis pantaloons and remarked: "Well, you be the audience and sit over there, and I will see what I can do." He then started in and delivered the famous speech, word for word, as it was given that day in the convention, beginning: ' Massachusetts is proud of Benjamin H. Bristow; so am I, etc. He went on easily and rapidiy until he reached the following: "This is a orand vear?a vear filled with the recollections of the Revolution; filled m ith proud and tender memories of the past; with the sacred legends of liberty; a year in which the sons of free dom will" drink from the fountains of enthusiasm; a year in which the people call for a man* who has preserved in congress whitf our soldier* won upon the field." "But the real climax of the speech was the following: "Like an armed warrior, like a plumed knight. James G. Blaine marched down the halls of the American congress and threw his ,-hining lance full and fair against the brazen forehead.-, jf the defaraers of his country und the maligners of his honor." It is perhaps needless to say that the brother was completely captured. When Bob had finished he rushed to him, and, putting both arms around him. embraced him in the most enthusiastic way. "It is simply ".Mime!" ho cricd; "but when did you prepare it?" "Oh, I scratched it oil' last night when you were asleep. Go to the drawer there and you will find the manuscript. While I dress please read it over and see if I delivered it correctly.1' The great point with Ingersoll, my friend continued, is that he is always self-possessed. He never gets rattled. Some of the greatest orators in this country have trembled before so great an occasion as this. Bob Ingersoll never said anything that ^ave him so much reputation as that hit about the "plumen knight." It has been quoted ever since, both by Blaine's friends and enemies. The convention went wild over it But it could not make Blaine president. A New Loom. The Hunt loom, now in operation in San Francisco, if all that i3 said of it is true, is a most important contribution to labor-saving machinery. As described by a-correspondent of the Baltimore Sun, the loom is noiseless, has ro_ shuttle, and weaves, material four yards wide, of any kind of goods, with the same hands and steam power now required to make one yard. The labor is so lightened that it is better adapted to women than to men, and women are enabled to weave more ana produce Getter work than men, with the great advantage that the most delicate constitutions need not be impaired. Cloth woven three yards wide is made so that it can be cut apart after beinjg woven, making three separate ana distinct pieces of cloth for market The quality of cloth is said to be superior and easy to recognize. The loom is now in practical operation and does all it promises, but "has every now and then little breakages, so far easily repaired. Experts and business men are divided in sentiment. All agree that it must be all right, but it may take more time than calculated to assure against the breaking r\f email but afiip.ritjal narta." GKESF. Interest!:!.:; |?u!:Us of s;n {iiN-re-il Inj; Hird ? Their I'tilityasu J::;:v.!i:cier. One of the unchallenged declarations of the gospel of onr Xew England folklore, as applied to the changes of the seasons, says the Hartford Timet, is the saying that when several ilocks of wild geese arc seen heading southward in the late fall it is a sure sign of speedily corning cold weather. and it is apt to "be so. It was the belief of our forefathers, as it is of thou* descendants, that the spring and autumn migrations of -these great birds unerringly heralded the real change of the seasons?the former proclaiming the approach of spring-weather and the latter the coming down of th? ^rthem winter. The Canada goose is "crecTited witlWmK^acter of a weather prophet, a part which .iT rrm^.be admitted, he sustains more creditably tTiah" some of the weather prophets among those other geese who, without wings or its intelligent forewarning instinct, continue to put forth their meteorological predictions for e:ioh coming year. For the flocks of wild gce.se. in their last and heaviest southward migration, do undoubtedly foretell the rapid coming of wintry weather. True, they begin that long southward journey, many of them, in scattered, earlier Hocks that are seen at intervals in some years all through the month of October, but the later and larger companies generally come sweeping down from the far north through the cold and leaden skies of late November. Wilson, the ornithologist, says of this bird: "Their first arrived on the coast of New Jersey is early in October; and their first numerous appearance is the sure prognostic of severe weather.'' How far do they go in seeking a nesting-place by the shores of the northern seas? And* how long or how far, in their return southward. flo tlicv !iy m a single day? Ornithologists toll us that the wild goose (Anscr Canadensis), as the rule, "breeds in the most northern portion of the continent." passing the season of incubation beyond the boundaries of the United States, and generally along the cold shores of northern Labrador, of Hudson's bay. of southwestern Greenland, and tin; shores of both sides , of Baffin's bry. almost on the edge of ! the unending lee and snow. Instances of its breding on the New* England . coasts (it is said, at Martha's Vineyard) have been reported; but such statements * seem to need confirmation. Wild geese i have a wider range. Their habit is to ! breed in the far north, though -some of , them do not go further south, oil their < return, than the bays and sounds of the North Carolina coasts. How far they fly without resting may be a less easy , CJuraUUil LU ttilavvci. -LUC puVJl* i-'iwuu, , who was a good observer, savs: All day thy winjrs have f::nn'<l At that fur height, the cuid, thin atmosphere, ' Yot stoop not, weary, to the welcome land, 1 Though the dark night is near? , which would imply that they fly. day ] and night, till they reach their resting- . place in the 'summer home" they seek, ] and where (the poet continues, addressing the goose) "reeds shall bend, soon, o'er thy sheitej^BB^-v^I'liis is_nvoba fc^,*w,eu 1 rhrg tin; wild go3Si^^/^C great powers of lligiif. lie does, pans.' at tini^s for rest, foot^^^fc recreation, in some open water, dis^J cerned, from his "Jar height," beneath him in the land over which he directs his flight: and the best testimony seems tn V>o that liio'lif nftvni' eo'ntiimrd. unless is happens to ho under the procure of very rare circumstances, beyond '21 hours :it a time, and generally not much beyond 12. It is true wild geese often do fly in the night: hut there is reason to believe that when they do they rest in some river or bay for a few hours during the day. They seem to know, even in the darkest night when they arc over a river. This was shown once in a wild November night of storm and sleet, when a lio.-k of these great birds, \ finding1 their wings laden with the icj J that froze upon them, descended with ( great clamor into the Park river in Hartford, just north of the Ford stree' ! bridge, where iiiuiilst tiie missiles of the 1 ottaches of the old ja'.l (which stood near the bank) and of other assailants they contrived, with great din o: screaming and floundering and diving to clear their wings of icv. and rise again into the night, and go sailing 011 toward brighter skies. Their rate of speed varies somewhat under different eironmst;>ncca, and , seems not to be very nc -nratoly known. . But. though their lliizhl is heavy and i laborious, it is generally swit'r. Watch- , ing a flock of forty or iif!y o? Ihrse large < waterfowl as they went living over this city Sunday morning on their journey toward the "land of cotton," their mo ] tion, as well a^ tir.'ir wild goblin cries, i swv?i1s1 1-v^ il T!w? llrwlr tvillll Il.i.UIV XI. JL4I.. iivv.w J which was not formed in the customary ] triangle, but in a great irregular etinv. ^ was still led by the old gander, anil his deeper note could occasionally i?:> ii- ard amidst the din of the wild, reedy vole; s ] of his gabbling flock. He in ay liave ( been cautioning ihem to keep well to- \ gether, and promising a go< :d time j ahead if they all k: pt bravely to the work?and the ladies of the eon many. < as is apt to be the case, were all talking \ at once, anil eagerly giving all sorts of ] goosy assurances. Hut the .interesting . thing to note was the speed of the llock. | They swept on through the scowling } sky at a tremendous rate; much faster, i apparently, than that of the fastest rail- 3 road train. In making such an estimate < allowance must be made for the absence , in the sky of all standards of compari- , son, like those which, in- the shape of . hills or cities, or other tem-stial objects, ] afford in the case of the express train ^ sore? means of realizing its rate of ] speed. And these loquacious geese ] swept on like the wind?their long necks 3 stretched out straight ahead, and their gurgling, reedy cries sounding almost continuous. Those cries, perhaps, only three days before, had blended with the tierce . trumpet blasts of the shrill northwester 1 as it swept far and wide over the now ' frozen wastes along the shores of Hudson's straits?or even, it may be, of the J lower part of Baffin's bay: for there ' seems to he no reason to doubt that 1 these large, strong birds, in their long 1 migratory journey, ileeing from the win- j try wrath to come, do really accomplish five hundred to six hundred miles a day. ! Looking at the great continental flight of the wild goose, one is tempted to ap- ' ply to him some such hyperbole as that , which the enthusiastic Frenchman, . Michelet, applied to the frigate-bird: ! "He sups in Senegal and breakfasts in ' North America." In a similar spirit it might be said of the wild geese?they ] take breakfast one day on the shores of * Labrador, the next on Long Island 1 sound. They tly from the realm of cold and , <l.n-l-nn? Ant nf tlio Klfvilr wnrld fit on coming winter, with its ice, its chill shadow, its piercing blasts, and the j reign of nature's death, they speed on and away, flying f:ist<-r than the wind. 1 and heading over to the land of light and life, where the sun broods bright i and warm all day on the still lakes and ] lagoons of Florida, or the gulf shores of western Louisiana or Texas. What an * instinct is that that driv^B i'1-ringly on!?and hows it' we, loo, could travt^B ncnt-swocping wild gojgj the northern winter fafl almost in a day. to thd^ sunshine and warm'JB Mountain? Not long sincc JjH dashing trout-str^B up the mountain. ML Nature seemed^B to protect the the dark deep fl higher I climbfB more fish I fou?| succession of three feet or iji in its track fl mountain.?.*? ^ ~ iS I LIU 11MI Tn the viilm the on the same strcamTll^^^SPq that the fishes' ascent was a puzz^^H him. until one day his boy tailed him out to the dam, where the riddle was solved. The dam was nearly four feet high, and to relieve the stream, .several auger-holes had been bored in it, allowing a small stream of water to jet forci bly out and go splashing down into the clear pool below. As my friend approached the spot, and looked through the bushes, several large-sized trout were moving about under the mimic fall, evidently in great excitement, and darting into* it as if enjoying the splash and roar of the water. Suddenly, one of the fish made a quick rush that sent it up the falling stream. >u unu u uiinusL gamuu iuu u>p; uui uy an unlucky turn it was caught and thrown back into the pool, where it darted away, evidently much startled. Soon another made the attempt, darting at it like the first, and then rapidly swimming up the fall, but only to meet the fate of its predecessor. This was tried a number of times, until finally, a trout larger than the others made a dash, mounted the stream, and entered the round hole. The observers were almost ready to clap their hands, but it was not successful yet As the water stopped flowing for a moment, they saw that though the athletic trout hacl surmounted the fall, the hole was too small for it to pass tlirough, and there the poor fish was lodged. The lockers-on hastened to relieve it, and found that its side or pectoral fins were caught in the wood, but by pushing the fish ahead, which you may be sure they did, they liberated it, and it darted away into the upper pond. Here, then, was the explanation. The trout climbed the mountain by swimming up the falls, darting up the foaming masses, and adopting even* expedient to accomplish their journey. For these fish deposit their eggs high up stream, so that the young fry, when hatched, may not be disturbed by pred- j ntory fish and other foes living in the lower waters.?C. F. Holder, in St. Man for 3faster. A ?c*>d story is told about town at this : side of a fashionable door Paris, Berlin, or the eity'trom whence ' they came, are here lionized to a degree . that makes their heads swuii. They are j naturally delighted with America, and float alonjr on the surface of the fashion- , able current of Washington as big as Newtown pippins. Some of these fellows actually-live on their invitations to rlirmnv rttilv nivinnr -fnv t1w> lvrnnlrfnst: ;lt ' some cafe. Well, tlie story goes that ] one of them was asked to dinner by a family, the heads of which were total strangers to him. He knew that invita- J tions had been extended to others of his ! set, v.iio had declined, so he was quite ! certain it was not his person that was 1 wanted. -Meeting another young fellow ! the latter suggested that an experiment be tried. < ' Give it to your valet," said his merry i friend. 'Til wager they will never dis- : cover the difference; he's such a bloody < Englishman. They don't know you. j All they want is somebody there, you 1 know. By Jove! what a lark!" 1 'Til do it," said the other. And he < lid. Instructing his valet, who is fully < as polite and genteel looking as his 1 master, the latter posted off to the resi- 1 ilenee at the proper hour in the legation < carriage. Whit trrin<snir/>d thoriv mnv hf> imrto ineil, from the fact that among the din- < ner guests given in the society papers ( svas the name of the young secretary, < ;ind from the account of the affair which , I::t3 leaked out through other servants , to whom the valet confided the story, it ( svould seem from the latter that the . ralct got along very well until the wine began coming around to him too fre- ' juentlv. He know all about his mas- ] 'crs affairs, and discoursed on diplo- \ matic matters with exceeding volubility. < ,\s lie got mellow, however, his dignity ] javc way, and his 'gossip became, that , interesting stuff retailed by servants below stairs. To anybody who had been Accustomed to move in diplomatic socie- ' [y, his talk would have betrayed the ^ real state of the ease: but the parvenues ' ivlio were entertaining him were igno- { rant, and accepted his vulgarity as the ' :ceentricity of foreigners. They piled ivery courtesy upon the valet until he ' jould no longer bear them, but was fin- ! xllv interrupted in the act of making ; iovc to one of the ladies of the house, | put into his carriage quietly, and sent , iiome. To the credit of the family, it may be added that the young secretary | never got another invitation. i 1 A Natural Salmon-Trap. i The salmon, the cousin of the trout, J s famous for its method of going up , stream: it darts at falls ten or twelve 'cot high, leaps into the air and rushes J .ip the falling water in a marvelous nanncr. So determined arc the salmon i :o attain the high and safe waters, that n some localities nets are placed be neath the falls, into which the fish tumble in their repeated attempts to clear the liiil of water. Other than human hunters, moreover, profit by these scrambles up-hill. Travelers report hat on the banks of the Upper St John [liver, in Canada, there was once a rock n which a large circular well, or pothole, had been worn by the action of :he water. At the salmon season, this :ock proved a favorite resort for bears; md for a ^ood reason. Having an esxxrial tasv for salmon, the bears would .vatchatthe pot-hole, and as the salnon, dashing up the fall, were thrown :>y its force into the rocky basin, the aears would quickly scrape them out of he pot-hole, and the poor salmon would je eaten before they had time to won.ler at this unlooked-for reception. The Dominion Government finally auinoriz;d a nartv of hunters to destrov the )ot-holc, anil thus break up the bears' ishin^ ground.?C. F. Holder in St. \~ickol<UL yellow. Mr. John Henry Grimes, a native of Nova Scotia, resident of San Francisco, has four perfectly developed and serviceable ears. A subterranean outlet to the Great Salt Lake of Utah has recently been found. The lake was discovered by Colonel John C. Fremont in 1846. Mrs. Livermore thinks the future of New England is behind her, and that the hope of progress now lies in the Western States settled from New England stock. . In 1883 an American farm was estab lished m Corea, whereon nothing was to be grown but American vegetables. A recent report says the enterprise has * proved an entire success. A Chinese banker, Han Qua, of Canton, is said to be the wealthiest man inthe world. He pays taxes upon an estate of $450,000,000, and is estimated to be worth $1,400,000,000. Some one wrote Gen. Sherman a 'let--. ter requesting a lock of his hair and an autograph. In reply the general said: . "I regret to state that as mv orderly is bald, and as the man who formerly wrote my autographs has been dismissed. I cannot comply with your request" This was mailed without his signature. At the recent meeting of a philosophical association in New York, the president, Mr. Latimer, read a paper on the "Migration of Races," in which lie maintained that the Anglo-Saxons are the remains of the lost tribes of Israel, though he acknowledged the proof of the statement to be a little difficult of comprehension to the ordinary mind. j. tie late Dr. Humphrey Sandwith, of ? Kars, when he stood for Marylebone ' some years ago, was told at an electioneering meeting that he wasn't a work ingman. "I don't know exactly what you mean by workingman," was the cheery reply, "but I have worked hard all my life. For several months I groomed my own horse, and, what is more, I ate him afterward." Some men while fishing^ in White river, Indiana, one night recently, a_?iV? ncilrwr f/-.y ? J-? 1 ol.'lCiCT rather transversely across. Investigation revealed the fact that the "backlog" was bone?a huge femur of a mas- v ? todon. In a paper on the rule of the road, from a scientific standpoint, George Campbell, a member of the English parliament, maintains that the most natural and convenient method for all right-handed people is to turn. to tho left on meeting others on the road, as is done in Great Britain, instead of turning to the right, as we do in this country. He opposes the proposition to make a change in England. Tn jvnr>iertfc times /vmhlprs mnrip shrkfls ant of hides, flax, silk, cloth, wood, iro:>. silver and gold, and in great variety o! shapes, plam-and ornamental. In" the eleventh century the upper part of the shoe was made of leather and the solo n-oocL The Saxons wore shoos with thongs. In the year 1090, in the reten ? Df William Rufus, the great dandy Robart was called "the hornet," because he svore shoes with long points, stuffed, turned up and twisted Ske homs. The :Iergy waged war on this fashion until it was discontinued. The man who gave John Husch, of bt. Louis, a loaded cigar is now invited \ to come into court and answer in a ?o,000 damage suit Mr. Husch sat .iown at home to enjoy his cigar, and, . to add to the happiness of the occasion, took his wife on his lap. The cigar exploded, and Mrs. Husch was severely injured, We have no wish to interfere in :i matter that in no way concerns us; but, when a man so flies in the face of the social usages of his town as the St. Louis man aid in taking his wife on [lis lap, it seems to us that he ought to abide by the consequences. An acquaintance of Walt Whitman says: "I never knew a man to be more . popular with the ladies than the old "> % poet, and especially with English ladies. He is constantly in receipt of ipistles from them praising his verses. ?^fl Hie old man, by the way, while not 11 rolling in wealth, is still coming on ; ffij quite comfortably. He has a steady, if small, income from his books. His ^w| receipts from England are larger than ^ those in this country. A short time ago n he got $160 for one article, in an En- 1 jlish magazine. As his wants are simple, it doesn't take much to satisfy him." Clerical starvation is little less than a " : in thr* T. ic/v/\y>o 1 tkl< AUVV a >4 V liV J. 4 vvvcvuiiv A>Jk/i?JVVj^a4 L'lmrch, according to the assertion of the Church Press, which argues that | ivhen a man lias been duly ordained to the cure of souls lie is entitled to an adequate support for himself and family from the bishop by whom he has been ?et apart, and from the parish in which. lie toils. The editor tells of a clergyman who was induced to relinquish a mercantile position worth 84,000 a year, and during ten years of ministerial life has never received more than $500 a . 4 rear, and now he has a wife and four bhildren: yet he is strongly indorsed by his bishop and approved by his parishes. Another case taken as an example"!^ that of a man earnest and devoted to , the work, a good reader and a fiir preacher. He has a wife and six children. He is promised $500 a vear. and furni.-hes his own house. In point of fact he received last year less than $400 salary. He has had parishioners at summer resorts who have not contributed one dime to their minister s support _ An analysis of some of Lord Randolph Churchill's recent speeches shows that he has spoken of Mr. Gladstone as: "An unkenneled fox"'; "a purblind and sanctimonious Pharisee": "that. moonstruck Minister"; fthe Moloch of Midlothian." ? ?