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r 1. VOL. XLIIa WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10. 1886. NO. 32. * In the Lonely Back I'ew. Th'i sermon was ions' ami tlsc preacher was prosy. The cushion was soft and 'lap corner vra? i cozy; And, musitijr. T knew By niv side in I;:-* j?ew Was a dear little face tir.?: was dimpled and rosy. A stray bit of lace and the cur! of a feather LLay close to my caet-K. ana 1 uiun i curv , whether The service was Or flirting was wronjj In a lonely back pew, we knelt down to } crether. In readinsr the prayers wc had one book be-j tween us; So sweet was h'-r miile that. had nobody eecn j us. r While b^nt on our knees (Oh how Ctmid >K<1 te-isel* I bad stolen a k:ss w.tii a;e prayer book tc j screen us. j In the oriel win-low the >uri!ijr!:t was grieaminsr. In my drowsy old brain I felt love fancies teerninsr; Then my heart trr.ve a thumpBut my head ?<>; a bump On the back of the pew?I had only been dreaming. -Life. | =te ~ A SOCIETY LADY. Jin-jc the Dcrnind; of K:xshi;?n Arc Sat* j Lslicd. ?To-ir> -,i? Morainjj Bath to the Evening Itc<*option. L A LIFK OX LUXUltYA little French ?ilt timepiece ticking ,LU_ vr.n,? of away LUC liuuum m .ill ujyMvi K/uiu I one * of Murray hill's lino residences | strack'tue half-hour beyond 9 o'clock on j a recent morning, and while its deep cathedral note yet echoed upon the air there was a sudden movement among the lace hanging of a brass bedstead standing in a recess of the same apartment, and a .woman's face looked forth. Tin* room was full of wrettv thin<?S. warm with the bl:ix'.* of a hickory lire, j and brilliant with the dazzling winter sunshine, which, filtering through the draperies of the broad windows, lay in ! patches of light on floor and furnishings, but there was nothing oae-lialf so pretty, so warm, or so brilliant, no picture so sunny or dazzling within the four walls, as that made by this same face, the face of a young and lovely woman, which, flushed from the pillow's downy caress, the eyes dewy with sleep, and k-.4\ he rumpled chestnut hair framing the $? -' 'hole in sweet confusion looked out to ? what had awakened its owner. ? "Oh, it's you, you chattering little [dock," as her eye fell upon tiie telltale bands, then, before she .sank back into her nest, she leaned out to touch an electric button within easy reach. A moment and a soft knock prefaced the entrance of a neat-looking middle-aged woman in cap and apron. "Good morning, Barker," came from the pillows. "My bath, please;*' and Parker opened a second door and dis\ appeared. In three minutes she was back standing at the bedside with a \ bath gown of thick, soft flannel and a pair of low shoes, warm and woolly. The young woman got up. suffered the j flannel garment to be thrown over her HHL/ lace and cambric night dress, thrust two white feet into the wadded shoes, and only waited to take from Hons drawers and presses an outfit of 8?sinine apparel, finished with an emSgiidered muslin combing gown whose Ssfbons were of the same pale-pink hue H tinted the silken stockings, before |||e vanished a second time, and the u- jcft to the clock and the fire, ||f with occasional nunT.cd spiashings from >/-*? fnv T*???? /Irknr 1111. [ closed again to admit a tail old n egress, black a Erebus, her head 'oound ill a brilliant bandana. She shuffled ro the idoor of the bath-room and knocked, j "Ez you ready, honey?" xrfif"a moment, mammy," mounded from within: then: "Yon may cor.u now," anil once more the lire and clock had it all their own way in the outer apartment. Next K-rkcr ro:>p:v arcd be::ring a silver tray, on which was a cup < f bouillon with some wafer-like crackers. She had scarcely placed her ir.iy upon a stand and wheeled a luxurious Turkish chair before the crackling lire when the inner door was Sung v.*i;lc open and. fresh from her plunge actl glowing with lrammr's v:crf >7-r>i;s BpautV ipSr carae out. her tlanncl gown wrapped r warmly about lu-r and her beautiful hair still closely snooded in its oilskin * 3.' cap. She sank with supple grace into her .j. waiting chair, the stand with its light refreshment quickly lift.-d to her side; then, as the lire gleamed too ardently on the soft, clear sk;:i, Barker interposed a glas* screen, which tempered - * the flame's fervor, while it took nothing Irom its cheerful licriit * --While the bo:ii!!on was sipped and the nnciicu mammy brought a vo^PmisircsV feet, and with gentle, ?11 -caressing touch pur aside the wadded | shoes and incased each slender ankle I and arched instep in its silken covering, using a silver shoe-horn of exquisite workmanship to spring the little satin slipper to its place. Then mademoiselle -too:' up while the black hands wei't deftly on with the task they loved set well. "Yon's jest like ez if you was a baby yet. honey," the old woman said, patting the lovely 'shoulders which rose smooth and dimpled above the cobweb . chemise: and, "'Deed. I wish you was," as she slipped theeiinging petticoat of knitted silk over her charge's head. Mademoiselle laughed, and the dressing went on till, the last ribbon of the muslin gown tied, mammy was forccd reluctantly enough to esign her nursling to another's care. For Barker had not been idle during the robing process. The bouillon tray C-*-. .? T r\X\~ jlroccinf OUIUU ?? VIU <V IV.' ?? v?*vw.>0 table whose beveled mirror was the perfection of reflective excellence had been turned to catch the proper light, an armless chair-placed before it. arid now, - flanked by her implements of office? rows of silver-mounted brushes and combs, steel pins, pomades, and perfumed water?the priestess of the hairdressing ceremonial awaited her victim. Mademoiselle seated herself, Marker slipped oft' tiie oilskin cap. loosened some pins, lotting the veil of chestnut hair fall in wavy richness quite to the floor, and began her work. As the tirewoman labored her mistress let her eyes stray idly before her, and her glance fell upon :i little crystal vase upon the dressin^-tabk* uhu-ii held .? single fading rose. What did she see in its rusty petals and erurnpletl leaf to call up that curious v cau-rencier iigac 10 ncr kicv, ;iuu ?> u? i should this expression die slowly away | and the proud lines of the exquisite | mouth obtrusively show in its stead? "Barker," coldly, "don't keep ilowers about that axe not fresh."' "Xo, miss,"' said Barker respectfully, j but wonderingly: then her eye, too, fell ; upon the condemned Marechal 2siel. "1 left the rose, m:?s, because you had i it in your hand hist night when you came in, and there was a bit of water in the vase where you put it, so I thought j yea would not wish it disturbed.'' Ditl ;i faint blush mantle that smooth white brow, or was it the wanton tirelight which tilled the room? "Very well, Barker: ii is of no further value/1 And now the hair is done and the muslin gown is doffed for a robe of pale India ea^hmorc lined throughout with auilred satin and trimmed from neck to hern and at throat and wrists with costly far. Then Barker hands a bit of embroidered cambric exhaling a faint spicy fragrance, and draws aside a heavy portiere, through which mademoiselle passe? to a morning-room beyond, a beautiful, cozy apartment full of bric-a-brac and objects of art, an open upright piano in on<* corner, with a banjo, the latest craze, tiltin r its flat sphere against one leg. A sea-coal tire glows in the burnished grate, a tigerskin ra j: sprawls before it, and a breakfast service of transparent china and old silver is set out upon a claw-legged mahogany table near the center of the As mademoiselle enters. beautiful collie leaps forward, fawning against h< r and thrusting his nose under her caressing hand. His mistress pats him a little absently and moves on to the table, where at her plate is piled the morning mail. Letters, notes, cards of invitation, one or two black-edged funeral announcements, for death moves in the b.-sc society, too?she looks them aii over without great eagerness, though her eyes ongnten wnen sue opens one to read that :i prominent man of fashion begs tho honor of leading a coming much-talked-of cotillon with her, nor do ih -v dull when the next note informs her that her presence is desired among a small select party which an aristocratic society matron is arranging to take to her country-house for a winter's lark. She goes on through her letters while a servant brings the breakfast fruit, chocolate, a pair of reed birds, with potatoes a. la ereiue, with an omelette :iux confitiu*es. Mademoiselle eats with relish and appetite, while the dog, on his haunches by her side, his forefeet on the floor, makes with his head in the air a long, silky, inclined plane of his back, which ends effectively in a brush of waving fur. His eyes follow every movement of the fair eater, but his dumb entreaty gains him naught till the meal is done. One letter of her many that morning she has not yet opened. She takes this now. and as she breaks the seal the same fleeting look which the dying rose had evolved comes back. The note is short, a half dozen lines: "I found my orders awaiting me last night. I leave to-night. May I call late this afternoon to say good-bv?" The letter drops from her hancl. The dog sees her cessatb^-fre?>v^wting and comes over to her feet. "Yes, Sultan," she says, stroking his head, "he may come to say good-by. and then we will think no more of this charming young officer with his small pay and slow promotion, and his tempting suggestion of frontier barracks life." One'more letter is quickly added to the number waiting to be 'sent, then mademoiselle hurries to her room, where Barker already awaits her. Twenty minutes later, perfectly dressed in a costume of cloth and fur, whose elegant simplicity equaled its extravagant cost, gloved like a Frenchwoman and shod like an English peeress. mademoiselle enters her carriage, and the tali footman holding the door bends to receive her initial order. She drives to her tailor's where she mounts a wooden horse to have a new habit adjusted, to the jeweler s to select a present for a fashionable wedding; at a nonst s sue oruers a iunenu piece sem to a society house of mourning; she leaves her carriage for live minutes at a picture-gallery to glance at a canvas which her world is discussing; she shows herself at a business meeting of a charitable organization of which she is a member long enough to say that she will stand at the Russian table in a coming festival: she drives to the furrier's to choose her sables, and to hei bootmaker's for consultation over bot tines a hi Sr. Petersburg, anil she hurries finally into the boudoir of her dearest friend: "Just to hope. dear, that you are going down to Oakeliff with Mrs. L. on the 21st Xo? So sorry. And. oh, Xeli, will you kindly lend me that little book oji figures for the gerraan your brother' sent out from "Vienna lust month? Mr. R. and I want some novelties for the Worthington ball." "That-is the last," she says to herself Luti14rv.1u.11j ?? .iV-a * ??.* *..vw? - ? friend, good-by, and ' Home," is the word the footman tak*'* as ho climbs to the coachman's side. It is 2:30 when Barker is getting her out of her outdoor wraps, and luncheon is served, she is told. That meal over, she must give her maid ten minutes' confab over the evening's dresses and twenty more to criticise an arrangement -1 ?v -~.. U,... !?- ?.? f ^/??? inonAr.fiAn liei" urussiuuivci uas bcuujui iu^vv.uuu< Then a few moments to loll among the cushions of her divan skimming the chapters of the last novel before another toilet is in order. At o she is again in the carriage in a sumptuous reception dress, rolling to an "afternoon.*1 Two are down on her tablets for that day, and by nice calculation she gets the cream* of both before, shortly after 6, she stands once more in her own hall and 2earns from the servant in attendance that a gentleman is waiting to be received in the green parlor. In all the bravery of brilliant dress, dropping only the fur-lined carriage wrap, she crosses the hall. Fifteen, twenty minutes pass, then the portiere of the green parlor is put aside and a young man comes out. His face is pale and his lips are compressed, but his bearing is erect and soldierly, and there is a gleam of something in liis kindling eye which ma}7 be a fine scorn when that mist of tenderness has cleared away. Mademoiselle goes lip-stairs a trifle languidly. Her room is brilliant with warmth and light, and on the bed is spread an-evening dress, all lace and silken sheen. "There is no hurry. Barker," she says, briefly; "we entertain at home to-night, ami dinner is not until half-past 8. Help me off with these things; give me a loose gown and fifteen minutes here before the fire."' "Your flowers for to-night,'* says the maid, answering mademoiselle's ring half an hour later, but the young girl ? * - * .*- \? scarcely fiances :u uie nuw uuuij.iv.-t i the woman is bearing. i shall be late, Barker." she says: "make haste to dress mo." There are two hour-; of dinner and three hours of ball got- through with before mademoiselle's day is really done and the petted belle finds her lace * "? ? i t 1 canop:eil couch. J. lie worm nas wren | at her feet, and the expression of triumph and power does not wholly leave j the perfect face even after the fringed I lids are closed and the soft sweet breath I comes regulnHv through the just parted | lips.?-V. Y. Times. - \*m o It is at Los Angeles. Cal., that a woman gives up all her time to forty cats, j / / / THE HIMiAitiAN COKKItS. Something: About tiic i' :;i:M-lNvii!e Keglca and Its Nine *tri!ccr?j. A Mt. Pleasant. Pa.. correspondent writes: Thf Conn.'-iisviJ'n- coka ivjion. wiitre nine thousand men arc striking for increased \va^i->, an;! where a smali armv of demit v .slieritt's ant! directives are stationed to protect prop rty. is comparatively little known outside or wesiern Pennsylvania. The first Hungarian labor in the coke region arrive*'. :it i!? Moi'ewood works in the spring of is>>. li ?Ariisi.-ted of five families. Tiiey uvrc ignorant, li!:hy, and apparently semi-barbarous. They were domiciled in a l?>w shed on the hillside above the Morcwood ovens, and here they lived until provided with frame houses by the company. The wo mull i x i v-: i *1- Ii?v? \tv *** short blue drilling skirl, top boots, and gaudy bodice and kerchief. It w:is a, picturesque costume, barring the dirt. Shortly after the arrival of the first families a little child ilied. Nothing was said about the matter until the superintendent of the mines happened into their abode on business, lie found the parents prep:;ring to ban the infant in a raisin-box. Last week the wife of a Hungarian labor r died at one of the stations on th<- Baltimore and Ohio road. The body was plaeed in a coilin, and, accompanied by thy husband, taken by train to Sunt station. There it was taken from the baggage-car and placed on the depot platform. Just as the westbound train pulled out, the eastern train halted; the Hungarian leaped aboard and went back to his work, leaving the corpse behind. It was buried by some people in the neighborhood who witnessed the occurrence. In defense of his action the man said lie was afraid of losing his job if lie waited to burv his wife. No class of people, except, perhaps, the Chinese, are so grasping in the matter nf monev. Their mirehases at the. company or "pluck-me" stores arc confined to the commonest necessaries of life, such as bacon, flour, and potatoes. They indulge in no luxuries, except whisky tliat cuts like a rip-saw. With the assistance of his wife and a halfgrown son, one Hungarian in three years, at McClnre's works, saved $2,900, and went home to live like a prince. Uccasionauy a ianniy whj go west xo live on a farm, but this is the exception. At Morewood the Hungarians violate the revenue and license laws by selling liquor to friends and neighbors. The same is true at Alice, Bessemer, and other places where they are employed. When fired with whisky they are reckless, vicious, and revengeful, using knife and bludsr^n indiscriminately. Over one-half ot te criminal business transacted by the local justices here and at Scottdaie and Connellsville comes from the Hungarian and Polish contingent in the region. There are cxccptioiis-tp this, however. Here and there a home will -be found that will compare in cleanliness and ap- ] parent thrift with any American citizen's, but such persons get awav from the coke country as fast as they can. There is one feature of the strike at Morewood and Standard that has not Deea spuKeu ui. m 1111; uiiL-ngiyuuu auu out of harm's way when danger threatened, were native American miners, urging on the lawless demonstrations of the Magyars. The English, Jrish, and American coke-workers hate the Hungarians. The English and Irish had the places of the strikers live years ago. and were the club which the operators used to subjugate the home talent. The object of the mining leaders is to urge the Hungarians to deeds of violence and so stimulate public feeling against them that their own success and interest will drive them from the region. Out of the eigateen or twenty prisoners m 3:111 at Greensburg charged with riot it is noticeable that not more than two or three are natives. Regarding the justice of the present demand of the miners and coke-drawers, there is something to be said. When the last cut in wages was made two years ago, eoke was selling at 9;3 cents. Coke is now at least ?Sl. 1/3 on the average, while furnace coke brings as high as 81.25. There has been an advance of from 20 to 30 con s on co'<ce, but no improvement in the wages of the miners and burners. The operators say they can not pay the advancc because they ran their works at a loss for two years just to give employment lo men and keep things moving around the mines. They are just getting out of the snap, and as soon as coke gets up to a better figure, which it will do shortly, they will give their men the benefit of it. In the oast, however, such promises have not been carried out. The cokers were always compelled to strike or threaten strike before they received an advance. P ^ She Was in Trouble. A young woman, befurrcd and eyeglassed, sat near the stove weeping. It was not a hearty, yard-wide weep, but a furtive dropping of half-repressed teai's upon the corner of a scanted handkerchief?merely a bit of a thaw in a cold wind. '*In trouble, miss?'' queried the grayhaired and sympathetic passenger. "Ye-yes." was the sniveling reply. "May I inquire the nature of your woe, young lady? Possibly I can comfort. you." And for answer she snuffled up two > U,./l or mrei' jh m-i hw, h.? h-. u imv her dross pocket and pulled out a crumpled telegram, saving: "Read thai." The sympathetic passenger adjusted his spectacles, hemmed and hawed, turned half round ?n his seat, and cautiously held the ominous missive to the light.- He read: "Come home at once. Your doggie is sick."?Chicago Herald. Xo Show for the Creditor. Rather a strange thing occurred the other day," said a jewelry drummer, a? he lighted a match on his pantaloons; "I went to a town out in Iowa to settle up an account with a firm there that had been running behind on their paynients. The firm, composed of two brothers, was one of the largest in the town, and l luui no tear 01 rrouoie, oui whenl arrived there I found that they had dissolved partnership and closed business." "Didn't lose anything, did you?"1 "Lose anything? Should say we did. One brother took all the stock and skipped east, and the other took all the cash and lit out for the west. What show has a poor creditor got coming in on the shank end of such a dissolution ol oo-nartnershin as that?*'?Chicago Iler aid. ^ m General Lon^strcct thinks that his unck-, \\ imam JLongstreet, oi Augusta, Ga., should share with Kobert f'ulton the laurels of the inventor of steamboats. This ingt nious Georgian was big with the idea as early as 17i>8. but it was not until 1506 that he successfully ran a boat by steam in the Savannah. | THE LITTLE SCIIOOLM.VAJL | "Speakm' of the rural regions," said I an old chap at tbo end .of a bar, who i had trouble in raising a g! > oi beer lo ; lils mouth with bis right arm, "I might | be indooe-'tl \,j relate. a hv'h; adwnte.ro ; which happened to me in Injianv." ! !.. i.:.. i no was I'jmn'Ma imi IM:U na un ! conscience of its burdens. and he conI 1 in tied: I "Well. 1 had hansr'.n* :iround J'ij dianapolis for several weeks, and linailv j the pnliee judjfe advised nie to 'leave j town. 1 su'Ver ari'v with :i poiice jud<fe. : When they come njfin down i? fatherly | advice I accept it and ?A. I left the j town inside of two.hours, and it didn't U(M; III'' k/WL IIL'?ur? %.\/ i^uvii u mile-post ten miles away. About 4 oVlock in the afternoon, as [ was r< stin* beside the highway, a school ;ni*a in passed. Sii? was a chipper leetle body, weigh in' about ninety pounds, :md white-faced, and-when i sort o' riz tip tv? ax her if she didn't have a bite to eat in her basket .-he uttered a woui.-inish yelp and started ofl'ou a dead run. I didn't liev my s waller-tail coat ami standin' collar on that day. and J guess she took me fur ytraiup. "Now, gents, when a feller is ragged, hungry, and out o' rhino, what docs he :U>? lie makes a break, in course-. I walks along for about a mile, and when i comes to a farm-house w.th a look of comfort about ;t 1 steps in and asks if a poor man who h. s lost his i:ttll family m the great Chicago lire can git a bite 10 oat, to brace him up as he journeys toward the settin" sun. The moth -fly old soul of a farmer's wife would hev set out a square meal f?>:* ;u . !?:tt that le 'tie sehoolma'am was there to prevent. I heard 'cm whisperin" together in the next room, and by and by the old lady came back and give me the bounce. A tramp :is has belonged to tin: purfesh fur fifteen years hadn't orler lire up over sieh a trillc as that, but it hit me like a blow below the belt, and I determined on revenge. 4-I went into the orchard and stole some apples, and then laid around to watch. I found out afore darl; that the farmer was an old man, anil that there was only three of 'em in the house. Long 'null' 'fore the lights were out I had arranged with nivself to break in. There was a chance of plunder, and I intended to scare that h-elle school ma'am out of a year's growth. I don't say as I wouid hev laid hands on her, but that very tiling might hcv happened, you kuow. "Well, about half an hour after midnight I begins operations by creepin' up to the hack door. It was shut, but not locked, and I crept in, struck a light, and found my way to the pantry. lucre was com meat, pumpKm pic, :mu bread and butter, and it took uie a good half an hour to lii! up. I might liev got out then, but I wanted somethin1 else. There was nobody sleepin" downstairs, and after pockotin* a watch I crept up-stairs into the old folks' bedJCOOXtt. -Tlu?v was sleepin' as sound as you please,"mid the :iy>on shinin' in furnished all tlie light nee<icrh--'L'.^^mt through a bureau and"got" a "wallet, an^ was searchm' the old man's pants, when 1 heard a step at the door an a voice cried out: 'Surrender or 1*11 shoot!1 'it was that leetle school ma'am. She stood m the door in her night-dress, a revolver pointed full at me, and I could see her eyes blaz?\ I made a rush toseizj her, when 'crack! crack! went the revoi\v;\ and one bullet struck me in the right shoulder and another in the side. 1 went down as if .-hot through the head, and up jumps the old man 211211 pue> ?>.l IU 111'/ J1KU 11 IUI1 U1 Ulll'lk. Tlic little schoohna'am went downstairs alter a roj>e, and then holj>eil tie me hand and foot, ilore'n that, she kept guard over nu: while the old man went oil' for an oliieer, and every time I fetched a groan she had that revolver ready to shoot. "In conclusion, g nts, permit me to remark that th? court give me live years for that littl affair, while the plucky leetle sehoohsm'am received a public purs of *2 >. S.>m.'tinu;s I've felt as if it wa> m\ dooty to hunt her up and mam 11 t, - .\*:tr tor-v nun. Hn Took Ni> Itisks. "Yon say you live with your parents," said a eh in a* dealer who was putting a lot of youngsters through a civil-service examination for the position of errand boy in his establishment. "Yes, sir." "And yon are quick at figures?" "Yes. sir." "Now, suppose i had dropped around the corner to get lunch and a lady should come along who wished to pur-i * - '1^'? o?.l ?it C1KIMJ IWU U'v/A-w v ujn -.?v $1.50 a dozen." - -Yes, sir." "After agreeing lo take the goods she hand-; von a &> note. How much change-would you return to her?" "Two dozen -c-uns und saucers?" asked the boy; gazing toward'the ceiling. ' That's what I said." '-She must be n bordin'-house keeper to " "Never mind what she is.' How much change would yon hand her?" asked the dealer. "A dollar and a half a dozen?'' ' Yes, yes. Now, then!" "Don't you think that's pretty darn high for " "Never mind whether it's high or low. How much money would you return to the lady?" But them five dollars might be bad," nioniiTfitail t!tr> ]>r>i- winkino* ;it the store cat. ' Wo will suppose the bill lo b:> good," said the dealer, sharply. "I don't see what one woman wants to buy nil them cups and saucers for, anyway. "When my sister got married she didn't in) hon-ekospih' with near so " 'r;,r.n v.,N crivf mo. the an swer?" -What?"hour the change?"'. "Ycs, ve?." "Oh!"1' "Come, what is the answer?" "Well," murmured the; boy. shifting to his other foot and keeping an eye on the cat, "I'd just tell the lady to call 'round when you was in and get her change, for the bill might be a bad un, and I don't never take no risks." "You're engaged.*1 ejaculated the dealer.?<Jaliforniu Mavcrick. j An Extra Quarter.?A peddler of tinI ware in one of the mountain counties of this State culled at a farm-house the other day, where the woman wanted to sell him a bear skin. *' 'Tain't worth uo great shakes," said the peddler after looking it over. "The b'asr was killed , two months too early." "How much?" | asked the woman. "About 75 cents." | "See here, stranger," she continued as lihc gave the skin a ruo, **wnea i tea you that this 'ere b'ar clawed my husband to death less'n two months ago, j and that I'm stdl a grievin' widdcr-wo! man, can't you make the price a dol| lar?'' Being a lii-iii of sentiment and tinware combined lie said he <w"Ud.? j Wall Hired ..jG AMBLER RANSOM. How lie Saved :i Man from Ituin and >!a;!e a Family H*;?;?y. I could relate hundreds of stories about his life," said n !*huiing light of the X. Y. Athletic C i::?> >pi-;ikingto a reporter of the X. Y. Mail <? Express about the well-known sporting m?n Charley Ransom, who died recently. "There is r\nn w ii v>l) f!?o nonors I have not published yet. Hmrley and I j j made the acquaintance of what we j thought to be a very wealthy man fit <!:c j Monmouth Beach raec-cours two years | ago last summer. lie \v:>> introduced to us by a prominent olliuial of police headquarters. After the races were over, all three went over to Long 1 Branch. Charley and I came up to t:i:s city on an early train, leaving our new acquaintance behind. I never saw him after that, but Charley one day met him. on Broadway, near Twenty-third street. They went to the l-'ifth Avenue hotel to get a drink. I don't know exactly how it was. but that srnic night both sat down in the room ol' -v neighboring hotel "to play draw-poker. 1 do not wish to i^lose the j^ntlemau'.; nam", be-' cau.-o ac is a good father* now and be-* caus* snch in discreetness on r.'.y part-' migat hurt his present fair ehances; but lie was a confoumled ass for his own ! o.iPlmvlnv iv.ii -ill linnoit t'.il 1 <>-.v however, and he played a square garm. Out new friend dropped $370 that night, all he had in his possession. He made an appointment for the next evening in the hope of getting even, but he again quit. a loser. Tiiis time he threw up his hands to the tunc of Si.200. They kept placing every odd night until the middle of the following December. Our gay friend by that time was minus, according to his own calculation $18,900. Charley wan tod him to give up poker half a dozen times before lie lest this anior.nt, but in each instance he refused. The fellow commenced to, drink like a fi<li orwl r-nnfirlonfi-illv mo he'd be hanged before lie'd sit down with him again. He never did play after that, although the fellow accused him of beinir afraid to render satisfaction. 'One morning about 10 oelock Charley fell in with the would-be sport on Sixth avenue. Hi: was partly intoxicated. and his dissipated appearance denoted he had not seen a bed for several nights. Charley endeavored to get away from him on the plea of business, but it was useless. Our friend held on to the lapel of his overcoat and insisted that they repair to a room and indulge ' "? T2?*f *Na /lni'Il nAnl/1 ?Af JLIX *V XtKW tliU UVMl 11UI have altered Charley's fixed determination and he said so." While both were talking a little boy of about 12 years crime up and touched the leg cf Charley's foolish friend. There was a little snow on the ground, and the little fellow's feet protruded from a broker, pair oi coots. ?ie nau neiiner overcoat nor mittens on, and lie really looked the picture of misery. Turning around, our friend saw'the boy, and Charley often told me lie turned deadly white." 'What ^Te 'lad".'~ 'Oh',U pap a, s taf^"iered " the boy, moving b.ickward^^ggs. afraid, '1 haxcJ^sati^Engall over for you. Aun tlmil mam ma sent me to find you.' This drove the fellow almost UlttU. ilUU UU UlV/tVU SJill, oaths, winding up by bidding the boy to get liome or he would kick him all ovec tlx; street* The lad departed without a vord. but before going !;c cast a most^ignilicant but ailbctionatr look at the man he c alled father. Charley had had enough. and breaking away from the mail's .grasp hu <1 M? ./? l/\?? t S\ 1 l\.?f I >Y ;uj\.i;u ill LXJU Vim LUUU IW liiUL taken by the boy. The father, after a i moment's hesitation, went into a ginmill. When Charley .-aw him di.s:i]>i>ear from view he turned 0:1 his heel and with a (jniek irait shifted aft. r the lad. H(> nvoi-touk him :it Tuvn! v-:!;'lh .street. The boy would not t::Ik for so;n;? lime, but linally lie broke down :tnd told nil; informed him how his f:iiii<-r was fast ruining n good busine.-s down town; how he had mortgaged the house they lived in, on?well, never mind what street, how mother, sister, and self were being - neglected, abused, and starved, ? j?. f,. i UI1U liOW UJUU" UI1CU CUiilKUUiVlU liuuiu was fast going to pieces. Well, the end of that business was that :t sober man entered his home that night, and a weeping wife embraced him. They were tears of joy, I assure you. The mortgage was paid off the next day, a 1 : : 1 .i mon gUUU UIIMIlfW WU> IU?1\CU, anvi imu. who not long before wished to be n sport, sal down 10 dinner with iiis family in his cozy dining-room. No matter how the thing was managed. I promised a dead friend I would never tell any cne about it, but I could not keep a secret, for lie was a good fellow. He may have been a sporting man; may have earned a living by cards, and may have associated with some rough persons, bnt I'll warrant there never walked along the path of life a better man than Charley Ransom. i? Conundrums. People are fr -.1 of conundrums; in font Iinnn":' miv 1ir? ?m;i1 <r> lif> Oil tirelj o"i of date; ihercforo this new system will be "as welcome as the Dowers that bloom in the spring."1 The idea is to propound the answer lo a conundrum and let the suflcrcr guess the question, so to speak. For example, here arc some answers to conundrums: Because one is isinglass and the other is glass in eyes: bccatisc they mew till late (mnltilate); one is a barn-door and the other is a darn bore: hw.tise he metaphysician; one earns his living and the other urns his dead; because he missed UJr. A?A liofna tllA IwtL' O V> f 1 II 17> fliJL *.li ii vuu IUUV..J Uiv wvvi* ?.? ?*? the other baits the hook: because it is a boy caught (boycott); because lie favors a free ballot and a full count. We arc not offering prizes for tlio- correct questions to these ai:?'.vers: tve merely make ! the suggestion to van the monotony of the almanac and mm>ircl conundrums long endured by a patient, public.? Chicago Rambler. The time-honored story of goldsmith's arrest by his landlady and Johnson's sale of the "Vicar of Waketield" seems to be in some danger. It is impossible ? * 4.KJ-. fmm lAhn. lUilk 11115 ilCUUUUl, i iii/m j soil himself,should not be substantially time: yet in his introduction to .Mr. Stock's new fae-simile of "In; lirst edition Austin Dobson shows that it will have to be reconciled with certain in ? ?^ i r_ i convenient iacis. nu ju (_ >? > wk?i> mu j book, its early ;is Oct. 28, 17(32, bceamc the property of three persons, one of whom was Benjamin Collins, the Salisbury printer. This relieves Mrs. Fleming, Goldsmith's Islington landlady, 1 from her traditional reputation for , asperity, as Goldsmith at that date had [ not gone to Islington; and it fixes some time anterior to October, 17G2. for the ! composition of the book?a point hither- | to obscure, Mr. Pobson also gives much new information as to the "tlrst publication of the "Vicar." and shows that its early popularity and sale were by no means so great as generally supposed. * j v The Model for a M"arl>ie Hand. After the restoration of Louis Philippe to the l-Ycnc-h throne, many of Napoleon's soldiers were left in comparative poverty. One of them. :t famous General, had a beautiful daughter whom he wished io marrv rich. hu; who fell in love with a poor young man?an undersecretary or something: of that kind. She married at her father's request a rich Count, bur ivfused at the wedding ceremony 1o allow the rinir to bo placed upon her left hand, upon which she wore ft ruby, put tin-re by her 1 over. Her ioaions husband \va- not Ions: in finding out what was the matter, and, intercepting a 1< Ucr in which the ardent young lover claimed Matilda's hand as his, lTc determiner! upon n.n awful revenge. One night a.-> the celebrated surgeon Lisfranee was returning from a professional visit, ho was captured by a party of men. blindfolded and taken to a distant palace. and led through a labyrinth of passages and rooms, At length his AAniln/?f/?n ?-4 ri> WUUIUJIUI , O.UU. , ??\v hare arrived; rcmov^ -vour bandage."' The doctoi^r!;i>-. f-r-^'had givcn"plaee* iaer. ^esties9'm;rx>s{% T^trer sp=r; prehension, obeyed, and found himself in a small chamber furnished with remarkable luxury, and half lit by an alabaster lamp hum* from the ceiling. The windows were hermetically sealed as well as the curtains of an alcove at the end of the room. Here the doctor found himself alcne with one of his abductors. He was a man of imposing height and commanding air, and his whoie exterior of the most aristocratic stamp. His black eves srleamed through the half mask \ tl;at covered the upper part of his face, and a nervous agitation shook his colorless lips, and the thick black beard that inframed tiio lower. "Doctor/' said he, in an abrupt, loud voice, "prepare for your work?an amputation." "Where is :!:e patient? ' asked the doctor, turning toward the alcove. The curtains moved slightly, and lie heard a stilled sigh. "Prepare, sir,"' said the man convulsively. "But, sir, I must see the patient." "You will sec only tlir> lv-mrl vnn nrr> fr> r-nf nfr'" Tho tor, folding his arms and looking lirmly at the other, said: '-Siryon brought me here by force. If you need my professional assistance I shall do my duty without caring for that or troubling myself about your secrets; but if you wish to commit a crime you can not force me to be your accomplice." "Be content, sir," replied the other, "there is no crime in this," and leading him to the alcove he drew from the curtains a hand. "It is this you arc to cut off." The doctor took tnc nana in ms; nis tinkers trembled at the touch. It was a lady's hand, small, beautifully molded and its pure white set off by a magnificent ruby encircled with diamonds. "But," cried the doctor, "there is no need of amputation; nothing is " "And i, sir! I say," thundered the other, "if you refuse I will do it myself," and, seizing a hatchet, he drew the hand toward a small table and seemed about to strike. The doctor arrested his arm. "Do your duty then, doctor.1' "Oh, act," said the surgeon. "What von? It must be done. I wish it; madanH^shes it also: if necessary she will demarmT^. herself. Come, madam, request the doctor to do you this service." The doctor, nonplused, and almost fainting under the torture oi ms reelings, neara from the alcove, in a half-expiring voice and an inexpressible accent of despair and resignation: "Sir, since you are a surgeon?yes?I entreat you?let it be you and not?Oh, yes; you! you! in mercy!" "Well, doctor," said tiie man, "you or i." The'roso\uion of this man was so frightful, thi' prayer of the poor lady so full of entreaty and despair, that the doctor felt that even humanity commanded of him compliance with the appeal of the victim. He took his instruments with a last imploring look at the unknown, who only pointed to the hand, and then with a sinking heart began the operation. For the lirst time in his experience his hand trembled; but the knife was doing its work. There was a cry from the alcovc, and then al{ "tVIlS bltUIll. i>UUUll" u ;is Hi'.uu uug the horrid sound of the operation till the hand and the saw i'eli together on the floor. Lisfrancc wore the ruby upon his watch-chain. it was seen bv the young lover on his return to Paris, and out of it grew a duel that led to 1 he disclosure of the infamous crime. The morning after the young lovers arrival at the capital he was presented by a man in livery with an ebony box. Opening it ho discovered a bleeding hand, Matilda's, and on it a paper with these words: how the Count of keeps his oath." After the due! the young man ficod to Brussels, where the bleeding hand was transferred to canvas. Hart seeing the painting copied it in marble.?J.cxinr/ton (A"?/".) l.clicr to Cincinnati Enquirer. Judge Albion W. Tourgeo relates this 1 M * .7. . StOi'y 111 till: l'ilisuurg ui; 11 was in Cleveland, anil Henry Ward Jieecher and 1 were stopping at the "Kcnnard House. He was to lecture there the next nigh!, and chanced to room across th;> hall from me. Sam Payne was a reporter on the Press. H? was a green-looking country boy who nature been on the paper long and about as rough and uncouth-looking a citizen as you could well find. Sam wo- i?i to interview Beecher. My door was open and 1 saw him go up to Beeckcra door and knock. When the reverend gentleman opened the door Payne presented his card. Henry Ward glanced at it and said, querulously: 'No; I can't be interviewed. I am tired and busy, and can't be annoyed with any inter viewing/ The reporter looked at mm ?i moment, ami replied with dignity; Well, Mr. Beeclicr, I didn't want to interview you. 1 heard that you were in town, and knew that you would feel hurt if:: genihwar. of my prominence didn't rail a matter of courtesy.1 T;,..r> Jtft :i?i fi-ilwrrtte lt:m\ Ite walked awa.v. ;!?cl >*: -r.y :i word, but stood and \\.i < !?; ! !:;m 11 > went out of si-rlit." A Slate street n;crrh::n! pur a !::m? 1somc plaster in hi- sun-;- window anil prepared hhn^eU' t-> enjoy i! with his A! .nir its i!??* afternoon l!;c \vi!i: ::;s ::r?;st eana- in and notic- ! ed it at i.!?.: !% "Ah. Mr. 15." sii:> saiil. j "that's : > hand-^inc hiriuv in vonr win- ' dov.v' "Yes." replied tin.' merchant. "J. call it s<> myself. i do." "Your taste is excellent." pursued the lady, -and I'm glad to see a love of art developing in commercial circles. What is the figure ?Iiebc?"' "O. no. ma'am: if- plaster of pixis."? Mrrdi'n.'i '' if *"l':?]">, said little Jacob, looking up from his Sunday-School paj>ei\ "here is a piece that savs *15:?er versus Whisky/ c'?" 1 ' ? ?" a .1. i:v>M u?iw in do schtovc. Shaky. I;my mans vot says beer is vorso as vi.-ky ain't lit for nodin;:.s except kindling-rood.'^- Binrjhamlofi Renv.blicn.n. S 1 / V Concerning Typtx. While speaking with Mr. Don Mackenzie about the sale and manufacture of moveable types he said: "Familiar as the subicet is to the average man the methods of production, the styles, and the extent of the business is a sealed book to the general public. Speaking of styles in types there is as decided fashions in types as there is in ladies' bonnets or any article of apparel, which we always associate with the word style or fashion. The growth in type-founding has been almost startling in the C 4 .. t "... *?"/ '! n/'.fJrtrt r>otrr UIWICU OlillO. i IIV pj.ViillUtiVil Vi UVH I faces bc^an about the time of the war. Before that time the style ran to plain, heavy faces, wii h no beauty in them whatever. Suddenly some type genius cut and produced a light-faced, graceful letter, and then began a craze for light-face. Shortly afterward another letter-designer produced a Japanese design in border. It was taken up by every cross-road printer and impossible Japanese storks looked down in haughty disdain on equally impossible frogs from evervthin<r from auction bills to -?v rut ,i < i.m.j note-neat is. liussiyjc 01 wors mueu. i j-fho ilo; of (^'mentation. The I fcYfe^?hang<h&-:n? the horridly grotesque-'-' style of letter, to read which one was almost compelled to stand on his head, or else guess at it. At present the style is a plain, readable letter, with a great quantity of filigree work surrounding it. A line on a business card will be set in this and a vine will wind its way all over the card. In newspaper work there is a great variety of faces. Even in the plain 'body1 type you can have a 'lean' face, where the letters run very close together, or you can have a 'fat' one, where the letters are open, round, mil t-il-o jin rvmsidurable suace. There has been a marked change in the last few* years in the matter of book type. It was all the rage a few years ago to have everything old style, and the older the better. Xow the best books are set up in plain, modern Roman. The history of some of the faces of typo is somewhat unique and quite interesting. Take, for instance, that known as the geometric, in which all the characters are square. The treasurer of the founrliM -tvMr.Ti ivitiMifhd thft face was visiting the Farragut Uoat club in this city and saw there tiie names of the members engrossed with a pen in a very pretty manner. He copied a line and going home had an artist carry out the design in an entire alphabet. Not feeling financially able to go to the expense of cutting the scries of letters (a matter of $5,000) lie wrote to an eastern foundry to know if they would bear half the expense and share the profits. They refused the offer, and he put the letter on the market himself after great trouble. It proved a great success from the start, and in four years the foundry made $50,000, and that one letter firmly cstabtiimn in thi> business. The idea of casting a script letter lay a long time dormant, but when it was clone it made the fortunes of two foundries.?A Rambler i:i Chicago Xcwx. Brazilian "Women. To one who makes a tour of South America before going to Brazil, it seems as if all the homely women on the continent had emjffjy^id there, for pretty 'olterrm;CXt^5HMP^?rcc- Their complcxions arc salloT^^-4iii]on;ddy, and they all have a bilious looEN^Aoothcr oddity is that the women arc invarirffe^, fat. and the men invariably lean. Their complexions are ruined by the climate, and the lives of indolence they lead give them a tendency to obesity, which is augmented by the excessive use of sweetmeats. The women are munching confectionery from morning till night, and scarcely eat anything else, and their time is divided between snoozing in a rocking chair or peeking through the blinds lo see the people on tiic streets. 0:ie can ride about Kio nil day without seeing a Brazilian lady, and the only glimpse a man ever gets of them is during the evenings at the cafes or at the play-houses, unless he gets out early in the morning and catches them on tneir way to mass. At 6 o'clock every morning the streets arc full of women on their way to church, and at 7 o'clock they are "on their way to their homes, and from 7:30 there isn't a petticoat to be seen until the gas is lighted and the houses are emptied into the streets, park, the icecream booths, and the theaters. There they appear in their Paris finer}*, overloaded with jewelry, munch candy, * UU1 /-v a-aocin Vnvf Ia Nnr IliUUIU IVTC?, i.lVAV ?,V complexion, the ugliest thing about a Brazilian woman is her voice. It sounds as if the parrots had taught her to speak, and when you hear it behind the blinds, as one often does, it is always a matter of doubt whether "Polly" or her mistress is tr'king. But the Brazilians do uot call their parrots ' Polly" as we do. The common name is "Loreta." A Brazilian woman never goes shopping. Sen-ants arc sent for samples, and if it is a bonnet the senorita wants to buy, a box or basket containing all the latest Parisian styles is sent up for her inspection. -Most of the purchasing is done in this way, and a woman is seldom seen in a shop. But in all these remarks the negroes are excepted. The streets swarm, day and night, with gorgeously dressed Dinahs, wearing turbans that would shame a passion "flower / 1 1 11.. II iol- color, aim usiuuj^ \uayw us. tw gowns. They chatter like magpies, and seldom seem to he going anywhere or to have any object in life beyond gossiping with the friends they meet. The color lino is drawn* in religion. The negroes have churches of their own, vith colored saints and colored priests, an-,] have separate streetcars*. They do not come in contact with the whites in any way cxcept as servant*.?Rio Janeiro Letter in X. V. Sim, Returning for a moment to the mu- j sical theme, the criticisms tliat one i hears 011 these classical symphony oc-1 casions r.rc sin;ply charming." The historian heard a young lady remark that she ili<l so enjoy dear Del Pnente in j *La Sonmambula," because lie always i wore such exnuisitly-iitting gloves, Her neighbors :it the concert discovered that liie samo young lady Ins a pet aversion to one of our well-known bass soloists, because when delivering an aria he al ways rnes }ir>t on one toe and then on the other in vain endeavors to shake a cent down hi< trousers pocket! It is an ael'.ta! fae* that a swell yonn?r man. after iiearii!^ (.'harks U. Adams sin^lhc part of O iy.?; us :it t!?" <'veilia the other nijrht. \v:'.n risked l:<<w in- enjoyed it, and replied: <). very niueii! I've always known of ("harie* Francis Adams. but I never heard him <ii?jr Uefon!"?Boston Ilcconl. 31. D'Harp has been treating himself I lo a new hat. Proud of his conquest ho i showed his purchase to everybody next i day. -What did you give for it?*' | asked a friend. "It cost mc 1.3 francs." I "But it is marked 16 francs on the lin- ; ing." "True,*'softly replied 31. D'Harp, "that is what I paid the hatter; but I went without my dinner yesterday."? Paris Journal Anmsant. " ' I WIT AND HU310R. It's a chcstnu? ih-it's ovor its primr To remark, as we do in this rhyme, That, if ;mr!f>r a. eoilinir You're standing: or kneeling You're certainly something sub-lime. ?Youkers Gazette. There was a man once on a time who thought him wondrous wise, He swore by all the fabled gods he'd never advertise: But the g.oods were advertised ere long, and thereby hnngs the tale? The ad was set in nonpareil, and headed "Sheriff's Sale." ?Salem Gazette. A WEIGH. She entered the store with a charmimr smile. And said to the clerk: "O, Charlie, say, Have you a moment to spare for me And let me kn.nr bow* much I weigh?" "One-thirty is what tbe fljrures say." "How heavy 1 am I Assist me, please." Ami the grocer saw with bis weather eye The young man ?ive her a gentle squeeze -Who was the girl?" ;:sked the groccr-mau. l"or a moment the young man answered not; Then he softly said in a basbful voice, "0, tbar is the weigh X long have sought." ?Lowell Courier. Jack?"G ra mini a, have you good tooth?" Grandma*?"No, dear:unforuinatelv I have not." Jack?"Then I'll give you my walnuts to keep till I conic back."'?Boston Jicacon. I*" The King of Bavatfef has shot himscif up and refuses to be seen. In this country one, two, or more kings can be seen by any one willing to put up money for the sight.?Nashville Union. A Down East parson prayed in church against progressive euchre, and his congregation, who had never .heard of it before, have been busy learning it ever since, just to see if it was so very bad. Dio Lewis thinks ]>eople should go to bed at 9 and get up at 5. The unsophisticated doctor doesn't appear to be aware that it is between those hours that nil the fun comcs off.?Boston Transcript. In the ante-room of a Minister of State. "Js the Under-Secretary of State in his office?"' "Yes, sir, but when, he is in he doesn't receive anybody." "All right; I'll conic some day when he isn't in."? French Paper. He?Arc you fond of reading fiction? She?Very." He?Are you reading-the serial, "Sweet Birdie Simpson." now running in the Cross Country Magazine? She?Yes, and all the articles on the late war. I think they are delightful.?N. Y. Sun. The newspapers are full of prescriptions foi' the cure of hydrophobia. What we consider the best prescription of all has not yet been published. It is this: Cold lead, one-half ounce. . Directions: " apply internallv to the dog's head.?St. Louis G.-D. A western exenange says: "ryramia Lake, in Nevada, has fallen eight and Mud Lake has risen twenty feet in the last year/' And yet people have the effrontery to claim that Nevada is devoid of excitement and growing dull and unin teresting. ?Puclc. Johnny (just after Sunday-School)? ' Say, Jack, what is * a sockdolager?" Jack?"Why, don't you know? That's what they sing in church when they get ready to go home. The minister gets up aud says: 'Let41s now sing the sockdolager.' ?Boston Beacon. Two card-playing friends were passina^fefe|^a| through a pine forest in-Maine/whaH one asked the other this conunaram: **wny cannon mem of this forest fell his ownjw^ cause no one is allowed? Jiis ourn deal."? portcr?~*m-e^~ "Yes," said Bobby's father, as he stroked his little boy's head fondly, "Bobby is keeping a bank for his odd pennies and nickels." "And how much have you got saved up, Bobby?", asked the visitor." "Twelve cents," he replied, "besides the .$3.25 pa owes it."?A". Times. '-Shine 'em uppa?" said an Italian bootblack to Pat, just landed. "Phat's the charge?" risked Pat. "Five centa." "Begorra," said Pat, as he seated himself in the chair,, "it is a foine counthry, Ameriky, where a po r Oai-hman can get bis boots blacked by a gintleman wid goold rin^s in his ears."?N. Y. Sim. Brown?"I don't see how you can find time to go to church every Sunday. I'm sure I can't, I've so much to do." Fogg?"Yes. I suppose you do turn off a good deal of work Sundays. I wish I could do it; but the fact is, I can't go without my sleep as well as you can." Wonder what he meant!? Boston Transcript. A little 3-year old who has . several times visited the dime museums with his parents, was Sunday taken to church with a member of the family, and after ? returning home was asked by his father lid ctnr Wall ciid tllA vnnrxr ster, "a man got ap and shook his arms and talked: but I didn't like it much, because they didn't let its see the monkeys."?St. Paul Pioneer-Press. "I'm sorry," observed the parishioner, "that I can't pay my pew-rent this quar- S ter." "I'm very sorry too, Mr. Jones," returned the clergyman; "Ipresume you lost vour monev gambling in stocks?" ' r T Art ? ..Tlinn in "i>U, J. u;iu i su> x uiu. xuvu >u . speculating in oil?" "No. To tell the truth, I did not. I attended your churchfair the other evening and got roped into a lottery." "O!"?Puck. Two beggars, who ply their trade in ? Fifth avenue,are taking a leisurely stroll, when they meet another of their guildj^H who lifts his hat to them with great rdfl spect. One of the two is about to the salutation with equal suari|a4| on! ' cries tne otnerj^sn to?" ''VWsjbM with withi-rin^M theFonrth Wa^J An eminent .scie^H markablc longevity o^M recently died at the age^M fact that she never wore a^B in a theatre. Wc also nnd^H the vigorous health of a PiniB man now in his 99th year is due^8| fact that he never went out betwee^B nr-U In M<frnnnmi^nl nTvwvntlaB through a glass.?Xorristoicn Herald. ^Bj Jeems knocks a cup off the mantel, shivering it into a thousand fragments. ^w| His mistress, hearing the noise, rushes in and stands a moment stupefied by the result of her servant's awkwardness. O," she cries, with tears in her eyes, "my beautiful, old Sevres!"1 "O," 'exclaims Jeems, in a joyous tone, a seraphic smile spreading all over his face, "I was so frightened at first I thought it was something new."?Paris Figaro. Tliere is a certain man about town whose generosity is not unbounded. He is quite ready to accept, and even to ask for, favors, but is not so often known to reciprocate. There come to him, however, as to all men sooner or later, occasions when it is impossible to avoid the semblance of hospitality and generosity, even if he possesses it not. A formula of his for such dire necessitv, I /vr-J x-v iiuio in imo ?ii?. ^Jiuutrato)? Td invite you to dinner to-day vandante) but we arc to have codfish today (allegro and staccato, without waiting for a dreaded acceptance) and I know you don't like codiifh."?Boston ?ost. _ i . +. '