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At the Gate.
The golden flush of the morning lies
O'er smiling rirer and bending skies;
While o'er the meadow the swoet winds sigh,
And breaths of fragrance blow far and nigh.
And the tide flows by.
A boy stands under the oak tree tall,
At the old gray gate by the orchard wall;
He looks iar away where the blue Bea smiles,
Wondering where lie the Fortunate Isles,
And the tide flows by.
A youth and a maiden pauso and wait
In the sunset light at ihe old gray gate;
They silently gaze in each other's eyes
And dream of the rapture of Paradise,
And tho tide flows by.
Beside the gate stands a careworn man,
; 'Neath a wintry moonlight, faint and wan;
h Ho looks lar away toward the cold, gray sea,
9 With a sigh for the days that were once to be,
W And the tide flows by.
An old man stands by the moss-grown gate,
~ Sorrowing, weary and desolate;
The starlight gleams o'er a distant grave,
And over it soltly the yew trees wave,
And the tide flows by.
Through the old gray gute, toward the shining
west,
Tboy have borne the weary one to his rest;
Thfc new day breaks and the shadows flee,
The tide of the river flows fast and free
Far out to sea!
?Susine W. Aloulton. N
POLLY.
CHAPTER I.
"Dick! you&ro the most provoking !
boy in the world! You've got no re- '
spect for your sisters or anything on this
earth. Give me my letter this instant,
sir! I would not have such work man- '
aging you, my young man, if mamma 1
had only left your hair long enough to '
pull." 1
Dick, rejoicing in a very close crop,
dodges under her arm as Polly makes a 1
grab at his bristly head.
With a "Dont you wish you could
get it?" and a delighted cackle at her 1
I grasping a handful of empty air instead 1
of his auburn locks, he makes his es
. cape, lodging the letter with a skillful 1
twitch on a high bracket which holds a '
bust of Dickens. (
The boys in the Lyons family had
come mostly girls; in fact, Dick repre- J
sented the single male off-shoot, and, 1
like the bad little boy of the newspapers, '
he wouldn't for any money have risked '
being born again for fear of coming a !
girl next time. 1
"Joy fro with you! Good riddance to
bad rubbish!" is Polly's parting salute. 1
and she proceeds to fish out from behind 1
the nl.oster-of Paris coat-sleeve of Mr.
Dickens the apple of discord. And her !
color,'which haa risen unbecomingly dur- <
ing the scuttle with Dick, tones down <
as she reads it.
Supposing Job had received a kind ,
letter of invitation from one of his moth- :
er's kind friends?for the first time, too :
?don't you think it would have riled i
even him, for a brown, smudgy paw,
sticky with molasses, to have seized it,
erking it out of his hands, when he was i
in the .midst of opening it, without so
much as'"by your leave," and toss it up
to the ceiling? I
The subject of this visit had been 1
broached befo.^e: now comes the letter <
bringing mattCiS to a focus.
I "Not only putting in the pee, but i
driving it home," says Kitty.
F " Actually names" the time for you to ;
1 come," remarks Patsy; " and that is more
. than most city folks do. They will
I come and spend weeks with their county
try friends in July, and then tell one to
be sure to call when one goes to the city.
Think of how Mrs. Aytoun treated the
Dodson's, Kitty."
" And you've nothing to do but pack ;
up your trunk and start, Polly," says i
Mrs. Lyons, innocently.
"Mercy on us, mamma! But pack
my trunk and start! 'Unless I get in i
myself I don't see what there'll be 10 <
pack it with. If I depend on my alpaca
i and blue poplin, I'll be leaning on a
broken reed. I am sure; and I can toss
my few things in, and then there'll be
room enough in the trunk for Tootems
and Dot t > play hide-and-seek.
" Come, now, Polly, I am sure you look
nicely in your things. Ever so much
nicer than the Dodson girls, who spend
so much." >
It is one of Mrs. Lyon's firm articles of
belief that her girls look "nicer" than
all other girls at all times. I\ fact, that
as far as tier girls are concerned, there is
nothing for heart to desire.
" And actually," cries Polly, " if I had
my hands stuffed with money at this I
moment I wouldn't know what to get or I
how to make it. That comes of living
in the country on the road to nowhere.
If I were papa I'd move to-morrow and
not hide my talents under a napkin."
'Tut, tut, Polly! Don't quote Scripture
in a fret," says Dick. "Always ;
keep vour temper, my child."
" Mamma, will you please to make I
Dick behave!" seeing that he dodged all j
her efforts to box his ears.
"Richard,my son!"
"Oh, you'll scrape through," says
Kitty, taking up the thread of discourse
where it was broken by the skirmish
with Dick. " We'll all help you out."
" Dot, who was number four, and
always dressed in the others' old clothes,
gave up on the spot all right and title
to any and everything new that she
might, could, would or should have that
winter.
The ^amily conclave was not broken
up till far into the -I0ht. Certain trips
to the neighboring town were planned
nd taken, and many demands made
upon the family purse.
But at last Polly's trunk was packed?
actually packed?with "good clothes,"
there was nothing more to be done.
It was in quite a gushing state of mind
that Polly,bundles herself up in a big
shawl for a farewell walk the evening
preceding the eventful day.
Being December, there were no flowers
to assist sentiment; no nothing much,
except bare brown hills and leafless,
gaunt trees.
" The sheep were in the fold; the cows
gone home;" even the birds gone to
roost. But she would not be balked.
"I'll try my fortune," she said; and,
looking around to see that no one is
nera, she stops before a large tree. A.s
one of France's gifted writers had done
before her, shs takes a heavy stone and
draws very near.
HTfTUjMl.rt corc " if el..>11
?1 1 JUU L> WCC, OUV Oil-JO) XU OUtkll
be a sien that before the month is out I
find a true love. If not?then not."
Like the French philosopher, Rousseau,
she plumps the tree, and experiences
the same feeling of relief and exultation.
CHAPTER n.
" Just to think! I'm really starting!"
cries Polly, ecstatically, bobbing up and
down before the squatty mirror to cet a
good look at her belongings. "Look
out, Kitty, and see if the carriage is at
th'> door.
"Merciful heavens! what is the
matter?" they cry, as a shriek from their
v mothi.r reaches them, and a confused
sound of trampling feet.
They rush down, and find poor Dick
yinc, white and still, on his mother's
bed.
"I knew it." cr >aned Mrs. Lyons.
' I've always said he'd be killed by
horses or guns, or be drowned! And
now he'll believe his poor mother."
Dick, who had insisted upon driving
the ponies, had gotten himself tangled
up with the reins under the horses'
heels, as a boy best knows how to do it.
"Here is a broken arm." says John
^ Cary, the doctor, "and he is a good
deal bruised; but we'll get him around,
I hope. Who will help me with this
arm? I want a steady hand?no flinch- he
ing.v' Ji:
All's. Lyons was so weak she could a j
barely stand, Patsy trembling, and in;
Kitty had cried till sne could scarcely
see.
44 Here, Dot. take these things up
stairs;" and Polly tosses off the spruce
hat and gloves with an irrepressible w'
sigh.
Poor Dick stood the operation like a
man. That dreadful stretching and st:
pulline, and grating together of the l'&
broken bones. hll
Polly, like a woman, exactly, held the ab
quivering limb firmly and gently, helped
*M*n flio locf Konrlorrn cntv flip* Pf?lnr r?r?rr?_ 111?
ing back to Dick'slreckled face, and then till
pave a little sigh herself, and didn't know !
how she got up stairs to her room. P:l
There she was bidden to lie down, com- at
pose herself, even take a nap. You Know
some people pin their faith to "taking tin
naps," and would advise one to "take a
nap " even though the house had just 'e?
burned down. til!
When they were all out, Polly takes off
the "good clothes," her new button w<
boots, the new traveling-dress and all;
putting on her old alapaca) for tears
make ugly spots), she cries all sorts of
tears?tears of sorrow for Dick, of vexa- j ^n
tion with him; but most of all tears of i <'oi
disappointment and pity for herself, j t-'h
When she had wept out all her " little | ?tl
weeps," she went down. John Cary i
was gone, saying he would return in the ! |
evening. . j thi
He was a well-looking, well-to-do, |
bashful man of thirty, or thereabouts, ] Po
and esteemed quite a "catch" in the i kis
neighborhood. Indeed, it was the talk j
r>f tho nninrlih/irVinnrl hnw tlinsp bold i wi
Dodson girls hud thrown themselves at j
his head. j hei
Patsy and Kitty acknowledged in sor- |
row their unsuccessful efforts to attract do
more than a passing glance, and began *
iidvising Polly, as soon as she came
down, to " try her hand and air her new
finery for his benefit."
As Doctor Gary had lefl Dick feeling wa
juite comfortable, the Lyons family
3eemed inclined to celebrate thisuncom- citl
mon event of having an invalid in the .1
house with considerable energy. cit;
The younger members of the house- to
liold, Tootems and Dot, crawled around ne:
the bed in a fever of curiosity to see on
"how Dick's arm was mended;" Kitty <jn(
ind Patsy, having recovered from their I stil
fright, wanted to amuse the patient, and ! I
see him laugh, and Mrs. Lyons was mak- nn:
ing some jelly and cake for "the poor wr
dear." J
Only Polly was as glum as an oyster. ha<
5he knew well that a small imp was at hui
work within her, but could not make up vol
licr mind to drive him out; so she sat try
with red eyes and sulky face, gloomily '
knitting. She didn't laugh a bit over the she
girls'jokes, and Dick didn't see any poinl bee
to them either. cri
44 Oh, Dick, you iust ought to have
been looking when Polly fainted. Doctor
John didn't even stop to look at her.
Why, if it hadn't been for Patsy and me, _ *
die'a have tumbled on the floor. He !
inly said, ' Sprinkle her face,' and went |
on punching you about tlie ribs." ! " i
" He's a slow old coach," chimed in < .
Patsy. " Polly hasn't made much of a-; ?
start yet; I shouldn't wonder if a Dod- j 1 ?
son gets him yet. They are so persever- j
ing. | ary
"Oh, I'm dying of love for him," says ,
Polly, sarcastically; "and, of course, I
shall cry my eyes out for him." (laj
Dick was dozing, but these words of j 1
Polly's caught his ear, and he kept re- | ???.
peating them to himself. He could see i ,
lier eyes were very red, and that she | ll.e.1
<eemed very sad. I_ 1
Doctor Cary shook his head when he | j'(?s
round the family party assembled round i-"1*
Dick's bed and the boy with a high J
fever. sJr'
"Too many nurses entirely. Who
will take the responsibility of keeping
him quiet? Miss Polly, will you attend ''et
to the prescriptions?" ..
Of course Polly would, and she did ,nS
her duty =o well that Dick rapidly im- p 1
proved. He could soon enjoy reading
iloud, and delighted in having Doctor | _
Uary sit with lnm and tell him the gal- \ wc
lant exploits of the Homeric heroes. j m*
lie brought, him Tennvson's " Idvlls of i
the King," and read aloud to him many a :
iiuio'j evening, while Polly sat near, so- jlll!
berly working and listening. j
" Geraint" was one of his favorites, j "
who tin-ashed robbers in armor by the j I
half dozen, as a boy would a walnut j sat
tree; and brave "Sir Launeelot." who j exi
tumbled knights over like so many ten- or
pins. hel
They had been reading ''Elaine," the wli
sad tale of the " Lily-maid of Astolat," 'J
who loved so well and loved in vain, thi
It is often these rattling, rollicking ice
boys who have the tenderest feelings, voi
and at the conclusion Dick was quietly lar
snuffling and bowling 1he tears out of ; sui
his eyes with his knuckles. Polly had | the
slipped out to hide her own. i ens
"Doctor."says Dick, brokenly, "would ; ;ln<
you let a girl die because she was loving | wj
you so?" ofi
"Never, Dick, never! But I am not fro
the slashing kind of fellow girls die tju
/?tt" c?i?a av P?i?ir l?lln?li?n(rvnflior
it*u5?uuaiant^ | re(.
sadly. * 0U|
44 Doctor," said Dick, in a hoarse wins-1 ne?
per, 44 one of 'em's doing it. She cries, j ^
and droops over her work just like the J no1
4 Lily Maid' did; and she's loving you. I fro
heard her say so." j atc
44Oh, no, Dick, you are mistaken!" ^
cries the doctor, blushing furiously. 1 ?t:
44 Not a bit. I'll tell you who she is. j -ns
It's my favorite one of 'em. It's Polly, I
that's who it is; and she can skate as | m(
well as a boy. and make good traps, and j
such taffy! Doctor, would it hurt me to i '
eat taffy now?" j
As I have said, the doctor took in new 1
ideas slowly, but when th?*y once made j '
an entrance into his head, they came to .,
stay. , wl
For the first time in his recollection : a j
sleep failed to visit hi mat his usual hour, i m(
He lay tossing and tumbling, thinking. 0f
folly's pale tace an 1 wistful eyes haunt- (
ed him, and Dick's tearful words: 44 One \ p0
of 'em's doing it, she loves you so." ' Lg
It may have been that he loved Polly a ! {n
long time unconsciously. At any rate, it
seemed to him now that he had loved her j ge,
a very long time. > jc(
He could stand it no longer. The beau-' j8
tiful girl pining away lor him. He i ?
sprang up and wrote her an offer of *n
marriage in the dead of ni^ht. He handed !
this letter to Polly himself as he bade her
44 Good-bye" after his next visit, pre- '
tendedly to Dick.
Polly took it quietly without opening j
it, thinking it to be a new prescription j fr<
for Dick, who, with his arm in a sling, | ed
now roamed at large. i hi
She sauntered into the sitting-room i fir
where they all were. ! en
"Does Doctor John always direct ! m
them to you, Polly?" asked Kitty, open- j eo
ing it. The next moment she screamed I ar
outright, "Patsy, come here! Dick, j CI
what do you think? Doctor John wants 1 tli
to marry our Polly. Did you ever in in
your born days?" [ st
The excitement was intense. 1 hi
" So there's to be a wedding in the j w
Lyons family at last?" cries Patsy. ! p(
"Mercy! the Dodsons will turn green to
with base envy. What luck! Tell us ar
how you managed it, Polly?do, Oh, C
you clever Polly!" R
And Mrs. Lyons came hurrying in, and p<
smiled so blandly, and crowed so triura- A
phantly over those "scheming Dodson tli
,girls,'that Polly was perfectly confused D
She did not get a chance to read her hi
letter till it had been handed around the rn
Tl n.' ,1_ i 3 i._ 11 !i. i.
room, r^ven .luck. ineu to speu it out is
before she could lay hands on it. He c?
considered he had more right to it than h
any one else, and chuckled quietly to d<
himself at the unwonted success of his ai
manoeuver. b<
44 Why, Polly will scarcely have to get p:
any weeding clothes," cries one of the cc
girls; 44 the finery up stairs will come in b<
exactly." si
There could certainly be no objection tli
to the match,- as Polly was eighteen, and pc
Doctor John was plenty old enough to p<
take care of her. Polly preferred wait- t m
ing herself, but44 the girls" would not' ?
?r of such a thing. So when Pc
ode another start to the city, it was
little bridal tour, instead of beau-cat
ECHAPTER
III.
What boy could ever hold his toni
lien he ought to, or keep a secret,?
" Polly, I must tell you," says Di
ter she had her bonnet on, ready
irt. " Come off here?it is a secret,
ught the doctoi * for you, miss; 11<
m how you were crying your eyes <
out him, and how you were dy
ter Jiim. I heard you say so. 01
uiagcd this matter nicely. Nc
sink me for it, miss."
Polly was stunned. If she did not ci
rticularly about John Cary herself.;
least imagined him to be greatly
?re with her. It was too cruel to desti
3 pleasant illusion.
A.nd Dick stood hopping first on (
then on the other, waiting to
inked. She could have boxed nim.
\ moment more and the farew<
re over, and Polly and her husba
re rolling side by side to the stati<
' Polly, aear,1' says her husbai
ve've been in such a stir and bust
d?and even our courtship in su
ifusion, that I'm glad we'll hav<
dnce to get acquainted with ea
icr. You 11 call me John, won't y<
ir?"
' Oh, yes," she answers, coldly. "Ai
ng will do."
' And you'll kiss me, now, won't yc
lly? Do you know you have nei
ised me a single time yet?"
'Some people are coming, and th
11 laugh to see us such geese," si
lly, hurriedly, pulling her veil oi
r face.
' You scarcely feel that, you know n
you, Polly?"
She was crying so she could not t
er. and Doctor John sighed rati
lly to himself.
' 1 don't know much about womei
,ys, I am a/raid."
'Not this year, nor the next oi
her." Dick's words seemed prophet
'oily did not even get half way to t
y. Doctor John had gone to the coo
bring her a cup of water, and wli
ct Polly opened her eyes, she was lyi
her own bed in her own room, dai
;d, feeling very sore and weak a
Bf.
)octor Jolin, looking much older a
xious and wan, had his fingers on I
ist, counting her pulse.
railway accident, of course. Po
3 a terrible time of it getting w(
t she found out what a kind, good. <
led husband she had in those wea:
ing w>:eks of pain.
iVheu at hist, there came a day wli
! could again' be daintily dressed
;oming ribbons, and when once m<
mps and curls were a part of life,
s a great day for them.
' We were married last year, Poll}
's John, looking at her admiring
lereitis the middle of ane*r Jar
'. We've been man and wife ti
g weeks. Quite an old aouple, are
?"
'oily put her hand in his.
'You have never kissed me y
Uy."
' I'll do it now." And she put f
ns around his neck.
'He! he! what fun!" came giggli
m the half-open door, ana JDi
shed off down stairs.
>atsy and Kitty came rushing up
what could tne matter be, and
ity reported, " P0II3 just up and kiss
husband as bold as a lion before th<
," though her face was as pink as t
e on her brepst, and John Cary w
ishing like a girl.
^nd though when Polly got well a
ong enough she gave Dick a go
iking, she thankedliim all the same
> bottom of her heart, and tliev be
ted and made much of the boy, t
tsy and Kitty declared he was on t
:h road to ruin.
iut John proving a good husbar
liy Wiis right. Marrying a man
e eating mushrooms. If you die th
re toadstools, if you live they w<
tshrooms. If a man heats you he i
idstool; if not, be sure he is soi
id of a mushroom, for which
inkful.
ryphoid Fever from Impure Ice
)r. Flint, of New York, has becoi
istiod that a source of typhoid fei
sts in ice. The poison is not destroj
impaired by freezing, but is sini]
d in suspension. The ice conce
lat it does not kill.
Che ScicJiliJic American, in speaking
s subject, says: Whence comes c
supply P Often from shallow res
rs in the midst of neighborhoods
ge towns purposely made to recei
face drainage from all around, un<
i erroneous idea that no harm v\
iue, as freezing is supposed to pur
\ render harmless what might oth
se be objectionable. Great quantit
ice are taken fiom canals, from eree
m stagnant ponds, and from strea
it are either the natural or artific
ipients of surface drainage, of 1
tporins of sewers, and of unclear
is from various sources. The dani
m ice taken from improper place;
t only from that which ic drunk, 1
m its use in refrigerators and presei
>ries, where milk, butter, fruits, ve,
)les and meats are subject to its sat
ng influence as it vaporizes. Seve
ifononc liown fullon nriflpr t.liP Hnnhf
servation where the disease,. by l
>st careful investigation, could not
iced to any other source. If weacc
a fact the statement positively mi
the London Lancct, that it never 01
ites de novo. but proceeds from a s
il and specific poison, which is ca
; of diffusion to a great extent, f
lich preserves its noxious qualities
ong pfiriod, even if buriea for mr
>nths. we cannot Reject the hypotht
ice infection.
3n this theory swamps and shall
nds, and streams in which drainag
rmitted to flow, and ponds drawn
summer, are not only dangerous
e immediate neighborhood, but n
id disease and sickness wherever
i rut from them is transported. T
a new peril which can easily be guari
ainst. See to it that the ice you us
thing but pure frozen living water.
Cariosities of Human Food.
Man has been wonderfully ingpnii
im lii^ infnncv in the concoction
ible varieties. Apart from ba]
mum thighs in iejee, and boi
)?<?rs in Sumatra, there are cert
ilinary fashions still extant, wh
ust be marvelously unintelligible t
invenvionalized appetite. Not tha
pears strange to eat ducks' tongues
liina, kangaroos1 tails in Austria,
e loose covering of the groat elk's n
New Brunswick. Not even that i
artlin^ to see an Esquimaux eat
s daily rations?twenty pounds
eight of flesh and oil?or a Yakut c<
;ting in voracity with a boa-const;
>r; but who would relish a stew of
its in Burmah, a haif-hatched egg
tuna, monkey cutlets and parrot piei
io Janeiro and bats in Malabar,
>lecats and prairie wolves in No
merica? Yet there can be little do
lat these are unwarrantable prejudi*
r. Shaw enjoyed lion; Mr. Dan
:id a passion for puma; Dr. Broo
akes affidavit that melted bears' grc
a most refreshing potion. And h
in we disbelieve, after the testimony
ippocrates, as to the flavor of boi
If squirrels are edible in the E;
id rats in the West Indies?if a si
3 good on the Amazon, and elcpha:
iws in South Africa, why should
jmpassiorate such races as have li
3ef or mutton ? For wo may be qi
ire that if, as Montesauieu affir
lere are valid reasons for not eat
>rk, there are reasons quit;; as un
achable for eating giraffe, alpac
ermaids' tails, bustard" and anacon
Athenccum.
>lly The Pearl Fisheries of Ohio.
About twenty years ago pearls were
discovered in the Little Miami river,
Warren county, Ohio, and since then
the scarch for them has been one of the.
recognized industries of the region. The
, Cincinnati Commercu.1 says that luc
mussels which furnish the pearls are
i found in beds anywhere from the banks
to to t^ie middle ?f the river, and are geny
erally discovered by the feet of the pearl
0|i lisher. About fifty men and boys are
engaged in this work. They wade into
jjT the river from depths reaching from the
<? knees to the neck.
' Witli their feet they feel (he shells,-and
' raise them by their toes to a height
where the hands can reach them withv?
out stooping so as to bring the head un'
in ^er water- Miniature canoes, tied to the
shore and floating out, are used to de'
y posit the shells. When a bushel or
more have been collected the fisher goes
, to tne saore. and sitting down on tne
grass, in some cool shade, lie opens the
,.j shells with a large knife.
nd The pearis are found between a slight
' membrane that lines the shell and the
j' shell itself?a translucent web of tex.j'
ture 'between a cobweb and a film of
icti m'ca- Occasionally the pearl is embed'
(led in the shell so firmly that only an
ch PXPer^ lapidary could safely detach it.
3U This is rare. The number of pearls
' found in a single shell at the Miami
fisheries rarely exceeds three, and on an
average only one shell out of one liundred
and fifty has any pearls at all. It
' is a common experience to bring to
shore bushels of shells with never a pearl.
One may work for days with no :eward;
,Ve agnin, he may make from five to one
^ hundred dollars in a sinele day. The
' uncertainty is probably half the fascination
of the work to the peculiar class of
' men and boys^who prosecute it.
About a year ago a wealthy banker of
ler Waynesville, Mr. J. H. Han-is, began
to purchase the pearls, which had pre,
viously been bought by New York and
European dealers chiefly, and has since
made a large and fine collection. Men
' tion is mane of one fine specimen, the
* Everhart pearl, found in the Miami and
1?_ sold to Messrs. Tiffany & Co.. in New
York, for S900. The Tiffanyg sold it to
a party in France for 81,000, bought it
.1? back for $1,500, and made a final sale of
j it for ?2,800.
The season of the pearl fisheries of the
j Little Miami lasts only from June till
October, as it is necessarily dependent
upon the warmth of the water. The
ji fisher works about six or seven hours
>jr per day, seldom remaining longer tuan
i ' two hours, consecutively, in the water.
It would seem as if the work would be
-j? very unhealthy, leading to malaria and
all its attendant train o? low fevers and
in exhaustion, but it was not spoken
of particularly in that way.
There are pearls found in other parts
' of Ohio, hut are of the milk-white,
, ii owing to the lack of the calcareous dej'
posit that abounds in Warren county.
The pearls of the Little Miami regio .i are
" of a soft, sky-blue, pink, golden tinged,
_n and iron color, with specimens that show,
a pure type of each, and others thn',; are
blendingsof all. The colors, of course,
et are not solid, but exauisite tints and
' shades, changing with the anele oi refracted
light. Tlie size ranges from that
of a mustard seed to the size of a bullet.
Many of the old Indian mound s that
g have been opened contair ;d pearls,
showing how ancient their existence is.
^ These pearls in the mounds lie as if they
had been strung, but ttoey crumble at a
d touch.
' Recently a pearl of the most extraordinary
beauty and brilliancy 'vas accirag
dentally found on the Waynes 'ille side
of the river by Morton L. Roberts, a litnj
tic lad of eleven years, ihe son of Mr. J.
0(i A. G. Roberts, of the Adams Express
jn Company, of Cincinnati. Morton was
ltu visiting some relatives there, and went
in down to get mussel shells to border a
I e flower bed for his aunt. Tliere was a
quantity of these that had been looked
1(j over by fishers and thrown aside, and it
jg was in one of these that the observing
[CV eye of the little boy detected the gem
that promises to be a very valuable one.
" T ? i n f l-\ n f U a 1 n r\ourl OTTOI*
g ^ It 13 3?UU W? liC LUC laigCOb fJUibl I c?U
nie taken from this region, and perfect in its
ke symmetry. It has the brilliancy of the
purest and most intense tints of the
opal. It seems to re*t in an aureole of
colors, so delicate, yet so glowing, as to
suggest to one n dream of color. The
mc pearl will undoubtedly prove one of very
,rer rare value. Its weight is six carats.
red
Dly
als
How an Outlaw was Caught.
0I^ A letter from Columbus, Neb., gives
,ur particulars of the capture of "Doc"
er~ Nliddleton, the notorious outlaw. Sol.
diers, under Detective Llewellyn, from
've Fort Ilartsuff, and a party of citizens
'.e.^ from Grand Island, arrived at Niobrara
river by different routes, about the same
lfy time. The party proceeded immediately
?r" to the house of Miadleton's father-in-law,
where they captured him and five other
persons. The old gentleman was given
the choice of leading the party to Midia?
dleton's hiding place or of being hanged.
"c W itli tears tailing flown 111s iac-i, me unlll_
happy parent led the party, consisting ol
=^r fourteen mounted men. into the high
31S hills to the northwest. Proceeding
3Ut about seven milrs, the head of a deep
rv" canon was reached. Dirge pir. i trees
Ke* filled the gorges of the canon, from the
ur* deep recesses of which no sound came to
indicate that the brigand chiet vvas hid,r1s
den there. The soldiers wer<i quietly
the picketed on commanding points. Richbe
iirdson, Middleton's father-in-law, re*
ept fused to enter the canon, saying the out\dc
jaws wouid shoot him if they'saw him
ig- guiding the soldiers. The party retened
pe- through different defiles that led to the
Pa_ main canon. In a short time the camp
md was discovered. The stillness was soon
for hroken by the ring of the rifles. Mrs.
my Middleton, who was in the camp,
Jsis screamed for a cessation of hostilties.
She came up to the sheriffs of Hall and
ow Howard counties, who told her to go
e is back and tell her husband to'surrender,
off She went back, and soon returned, sayto
ing that " Doc" would not give himself
jay up. Some men worked their way cauthe
tiously into the camp, and it was found
'his to be deserted. The outlaws had fled,
led Middleton was discovered crawling
e is through the grass, and in a moment a
ball came near ending his life. He
begged for ouarter, and was taken with
arms on. He said he was shot by Detective
Ilazen with a Winchester the
Sunday before. The wound only temou^
porarify disabled him. He was at once <
' ?j taken to the top hills, and thence to the
*ed main camp, near his father's house, south
led of the river. The camp of the outlaws
?in contained fruit, sugar, ammunition, bediC'*
ping, nowder, canned goods and endless
0 ,ft knicklcnacks. The tents were piled up
t ^ and burned.
; in
, or
t 'j3 A Carious Family Dispute.
ing A curious case, says a Paris paper, has
in just been decided at Fontainbleau.where
>m- a M.andMme.Missiessy appeared in court
ric- to plead against each other for two of
red their daughters. It appears that this
; in married coupie nave seven cnimren?
3 in five daughters and two sons?and that
or the father had insisted on the three eldrth
est daughters becoming nuns. The
ubt mother offered no resistance: hut when
;es. it came to depriving her of her two revin
mainin" daughters, who were also diskes
patched to a convent in spite of her en;ase
treaties and delicate health, she appealed
iow to the secular arm. Hie court encieavf
of ored to shake the determination ot the
iled husband, but lie remained inflexible, delist,
claring that a voice from above had
oth called upon him to submit, and that his
nts' daughters should remain where they
we arc- The court of Fontainblenu took a
nip middle course, and decided that the two
uite young 'adies in question should be re
ras, leased from th? cloistered convent in
;ing which they have been imprisoned, and
im- sent to the celebrated Convent of tin*
:ha, Oiseaux in Paris, which is not cloistered,
i(i:i and where thoy will be able to receive
the visits of tln ir parents. ,
\
DOWN IS A SILYER MINE.
The Terrific Heat that was Experienced li
the Savage Mine, near Virginia City
We v., by a Party,
Mr. E. R. Cleveland, of Bodie, Nev.
and a Virginia City Chronicle reporte
accompanied Superintendent Gillette int<
the Savage mine to examine the grea
heat issuing from the levels lately draine<
oi not; water, *r iiiic mc paiuv ?ci?
waiting their turn to descend a" mine;
came up with nothing on but a pair o
overalls, shoes and hat, his skin looking
as though it had been parboiled. Thi
superintendent inquired:
" How are things getting on below?"
" Oh, very well, sir; hevry thing is lial
right, but hit is very 'ot there now," an
swered the man.
In a few minutes the party were rapid
ly descending the shaft, which was st
full of hot steam as to produce at first i
feeling of suffocation. The steam come.1
up in a blinding volume, which increase;
in tenperat'ire until the landing place
1,300 feet from the surface, is reached
Here there is still much visible steam
although the atmosphere feels dryer anc
hotter than any yet encountered. A sens<
of horrible confinement from which then
seems to be no escape anc] in which then
must be a constant struggle to keep froir
falling exhausted seizes the visitor and ii
not dispelled until he enters the cooling
room, where the mouth of an air-pip<
coming from the surface strikes him as?
grateful bla^t from the North Pole
"T!"?* ?*?~c *i,:? ti.n
>v H'liuuu leiii'ituj ui luio fwuu buu luuibii
could not work at all. They are obligee
to remain longer in the cooling-rootr
than at Ihe picks and shovels, so debilitating
is any exertion in such a ten*
perature.
After attaining a comfortable condition
in the cooling-room the party enterec
the incline giraffe to go to the 2,100 level
the part of the mine last drained. Th<
iron sides of the giraffe were so hot thai
they could scarcely be touched withoui
burnine the flesh. The heat seemed tc
come fairly out of the rock on all sides
while a perceptible hot draft proceedec
from the bottom of the incline. Eacl
had a large piece of ice in his hand to
use on his pulse. ai*ms, neck or to hole
in proximity to his mouth whenever the
hot air appeared to burn the lungs when
inhaled. Thus provided the giraffe was
run? down. It descended rapidly unti
witfiin about fifteen feet of the 2,10(
level. The heat increased with ever}
foot until the station was reached. Hen
it was so intense that all felt themselves
wobbling when they rose to get out ol
the giraffe. An air-pipe close to the
landing place furnished temporary relief
while a bucket of ice-water near by waj
sought with greater eagerness than evei
?? prominent citizen did the nearest barroom
after a night's spree. The waj
from the giraffe down to the 2,100 leve!
was by a narrow ladder placed betweer
the moving Cornish pump column on
onu suit: unu <i uuimey jjumpuu uic ui-nu
?a position from which, if one fell, lu
must be either killed outright or horribly
maggled. The ice which the partj
started with had by this time all melted
away in their hands.
When the level was reached a stratum
of heat was entered such as might come
from hades itself. The sensation was nc
longer that of general oppression, but o!
the danger ofbeing absolutely burnt;
instead of the feeling" extending through
the whole body it was confined to the
skin and the lungs, which seemed to bf
fairly scorching. When the level was
entered the breath for an instant was
taken away. A nearly naked miner who
saw the party going in cried out: " Don't
stay there a minute. It's too dangerous.''
His warning was unnecessary, for nc
sooner had all entered than one began tc
mak<? his way out. The other at once
followed and lost no time in getting tc
the air-pipe and the ice-water a few feet
above in the incline.
" You think this is hot," said a miner
who had comc there for breath, "but
?r/m mmlif in Imvo lioon 11pro hpfnrn t.hf
blow-pipe was put in."
The drift connecting with the Ilale &
Norcross on this Itvei displays an interesting
piienomenon about midway between
the two mines. The drift connects
with the lightning drilt. running to the
Combination shaft, at the Hale & Norcross
inclinc. There is a strong current
of cool air coming from the Combination
si aft, which meets the hot air of the
Savage at the point mentioned. The result
is to convert the hot air into visible
steam, which tills the drift for about fifty
feet. The point of contact of the twe
currents is as clearly marked as it woulel
be in the case of opposite colors joined
together. The temperature is equalij
distinct. In a distance of twenty feet one
p:isses out of an oppressive hot atmos
pliere to a comfortably cool one, or vice
versa.
The exact temperature of the heated
portions of the mines described has nol
been ascertained since the late increase o
temperature, but the water is said to be
about 150 degrees Fahrenheit. Theeffecl
upon the visitor is to so thoroughly heal
him that when he reaches the surface
where before he descended he was sweating
in the heat of the day, he feels
as though he had suddenly been transported
to the regions of frost and snow
Cold shower after shower is scarcely
suflicient to cool the body. It takes ai
least half an hour and the application o
floods of cold water to reduce the temper
ature to a normal condition, after which
lmwever. one feels more vigorous thar
before.
A Hawk Storj.
A correspondent of the New Yorl
Evening Post, writing from Columbus
Ohio, tells a story about a weasel's es
cape from a hawk's clutches. The in
cinent is similar to one told in old road
ing books. Not long since, says th<
writer, while in a thickly-wooded dis
trict in the northern part of this State
my attention was attracted to the pecu
liar movement in the flight of wha
proved to be a large male Nisus Cooper
or Cooper's hawk. He flew in circle!
just over the tops of trees which bor
dered a meadow land, through whicl
ran a small stream of water. Each cir
cle he made seemed to be smaller thai
the preceding one, and notwithstanding
my presence each circle brought hiri
nearer to the ground. Now and then hi
would take an upward flight, as if doubt
ing the certainty of his prey, when pres
ently he seemed to know that his bes
chance was at hand, and. swooping dowi
upon his victim, seized it in his talon
and darted away. He had not cone fa:
'when he began to descend in a perpen
dicular line, with a tremendous flapping
of his wings, as if something troul)le<
him. Arising to about double the heigh
of the surrounding trees he bemnsiowh
to descend with drooping head; and hi"
tail, which acted so well :us a rudder t(
guide him in his upward flight, nov
seemed to be a useless member, whili
the wings liar! ceased their flapping an<
were spread motionleis in the air. A1
this time I could distinguish something
ivs it were, in the shape of a snake coilec
up in his talons. Notwithstanding hi:
seemingly exhausted condition, ever;
now and then lie would make an effor
to ascend, but his efforts were in vain
In a few moments more he struck th
ground, when instantly from his talon
there sprang a common brown weasc
which made its way to the nearest un
derbush. Upon examining the bird
which was more dead than alive, I founi
that this cunning little animal hatj sue
ceeded in forcing its slender body througl
the tisrht grasp of the liawk's claws, unti
it reached the part on the left side of th
bird immediately under the wing. Thcr
it nibbled a small Jiole ana drann til
blood of this high-flown bird until i
was compelled to di? the death it hai
intended for its victim. The weasel wa
undoubtedly about to take its meal fror
a number of ducks which were lloatin
in the stream near by; but it feasted i
mid-air on the biood of its would-be dr
stroyer.
" I'll take the starch out of you,"as th
perspiration said to the shirt collar.Alcsscnger.
An Arkansas Man's Omen.
A strange story comes from St. Francis
county. In the St. Francis river bot'
toms there lives a man named George
H. Toban. With him live a wife and a
? thirteen-year-old son. The family has
r resided in a quiet way, so far as any one
J knows, until recently. One morning.
J1 just after the yellow fever excitement
1 began to spread over the country, Mr.
\ Tolban, upon opening his door, found a
L* card lying on the doorstep. On the card
1 were written the words, "yellowfever."
? Very little attention was paid to the
3 matter, but when, again and again, similar
cards wore found, Mr. Toban be.
came concerned, and, not being as ^lear
1 of superstition as might be, regarded the
cards as ominouj and as a warning of
an approach of the terrible disease.
Every night he would read gloomy re}
ports from Memphis and every morning
1 found the card, "yellow fever." Finally
i he determined to watch and satisfy him
3 self, and on the doorstop remained all
night. No one appeared; but when the
darkness was dispelled bv the streaks of
| daylight he saw a card lying on the
| step beside him. Catching it up and
| examining it, he saw the words "yellow
; fevtr" written in exactly the same hand
? that had marked the cards before. Then
1 there was indeed anxiety in the family.
5 The fever reports grew gloomier, and the
* family settled into the^elief that Provi}
dence, by a handwriting on cards, had
1 advised flight. The husband did not
know what to do, the wife was fright|
ened into a terror that trembled at every
1 sound as though yellow fever walked
1 1 with noisy footsteps, and the son was
almost dumb and sometimes deaf with
' fright. It was at last decided that vacation
of the place would be necessary.
: But a change came, and the mystery,
1 like mist, clcared up. On the night be|
fore the proposed departure the hus'
band, unable to sleep, sat on the bedside,
* almost terrified and weak with dread.
* Suddenly the door of the room opened
} and his son, in " night attire," stood in
the room. The father, influenced by a
1 sudden feeling, did not speak. The boy
1 advanced to the mantelpiece, took down
! a pencil, went to " the attle table," took
I out a card, leaned over, wrote some1
thing on it, and then, advancing to the
door, slipped it under. The father
j watched breathlessly, and when the boy
started to leave the room the man
' caught him. The boy struggled, gasped
[ and awoke. He did not know, nor could
! he understand, why he stood there
| grasped by his father. The wife spwang
[ out of bed. A few words explained all,
! and when the door was opened there
' was the card bearing the words " yellow
[ fever." The youni? man in his early
youth had exhibited signs of somnnm'
bulism, and reading every day the yelr
l/\t*r foTToi* vonAvta fn fho ftimilv nr? Hmihf.
' influenced his action.?Little Rock (Ark.)
J Gazette.
[ The First Sewing: Machine in Indin.
In the days when the sewing machine
, was in its earliest infancy, a lady resid[
ing in India imported one, and for a long
time kept its mysterious working hid
t from the ken of her native*tailor. This
, functionary was tne very slowest of his
| proverbial slow " caste, and wasted no
[ end of time drawling over hem and stitch.
One day his mistress came to him arm!
laden with yards upon yards of some
, dress fabric. " Dirzie," says she," how
| long will it take you to run those
i breadths together?" " Tree day, missis,"
, replies Dirzie. " Missis, please, plenty
, too much work." "Three days! Non;
sense! Three hours, you mean. You
' are a very lazy man and I'll cut your
, pay. Give me the stuff; I'll do.it my,
self." Then the lady retires to her
, boudoir, from the inmost penetralia of
i which a sharp and continuous click and
fKn no no Mn no n'f
>>'11111 1UU U 111U UVUW1 O UiH O* liv vibii V
make out what the sound is, and
. he is much too lazy to speculate
; on it. He continnes to "chew
. betel," and yawningly to ply needle
and thread. After an hour or
: two "Missis" comes back, and throw,
ing at Mr. Dirzie's feet the raw material
. now fashioned into a completed skirt
i says: "There! See! You wanted three
. days, you sleepy fellow, to finish this,
! and I have done it already." Astonished
; Dirzie turns over the drapery, examines
i the seams, scrutinizes the stitch, and
i satisfies himself that all is Droper and ac.
cording to tailors' rule. He is confound?
eri. It passes his understanding. There
- lira the work done and no mistake. But
> how? He springs up from the mat on
[ which he has been squatting: he kicks
| over the little bniss vessel which holds
r his drinking water; he scatters ri^ht and
> left thread, needles, thimble; he stops not
! to put on his sandals or to adjust loosen?
ed turban and waistcloth. Scared and
bewildered, he runs for very life into the
I bazaar, shouting as he goes along:,
t "Shitan! shitan! (The evil one! the
[ evil one!) rle do tailor business at Mem's
> house. I listen! I hear! He cry'Cleek,
I cleek, cleek!' Two hour time he neber
t stop cry. Den! Plenty too much true
dis word I tell. Ebery bit true. All
. work done finish! I hot go back dat
j bungalow." And he never did.?Cham.
bars' Journal.
r How the Znlus Smoke.
? When the white man " inhales," he
' rarely allows the smoke to pass beyond
his mouth and nostrils; but the Zulu
Kaffir fixes his Hds over the broad
1 mouth of the bullock's horn, closes his
nostrils with his hands, and draws in
the reek of the burning weed till his
lungs are filled. Then, handing the
c pipe to his neighbor, he lays hold of a
? small tambooty reed, and slowly blows
the smoke through it until his lungs are
empty. Thus unconsciously do they
illustrate the lyrical conceit of the time
when tobacco was young in Ensland?
" thay fairly "drink tobacco." There is
? no haste or wildness in the earlier stages
of such a festival; for. sententiously
t talking together as the j)ipe goes slowly
1 round, ana waiting their turn in order.
3 ftiow Mnir nut lif? snifcfcltt from thrfr
" several reeds, and trace in figures on the
1 ground the plans and pictures that give
" body to their talk. But* one such
1 powerful inhalation of the weed is not
? enough for a seasoned smoker amongst
1 the men of Zululand. Again and aeain
2 docs each warrior fill his lungs to repletion,
and blow forth the dense cloud
" through his tambooty reed, until the
powerful narcotic either lays them pros1
trate on mother earth or drives them
3 into paroxysms of madness. "I have
r seen them so excited by smoking," says
" one who knows them well, "that they
> have jumped to their feet and run away
> ?running till they were out of sight;
1 and on one occasion I remember a fellow !
f running at full speed, under the ins
fluence of this excitement, till he
5 dropped down dead." It is clear
7 enough, from this example, that the
J Zulu" knows nothing of the pipe of
J peace, and that he would he a hopeful
1 subject for the philanthropic efforts of
the Anti-Tobacco Society,?New Eng1
land Grocer.
s
Y Tlio TsliudI*
A letter from one of Prof. Nordensk-1
e jold's assistants, recently published in
various Scandinavian papers, gives an
1 interesting account of theTshudi, a pe.
culiar race inhabiting the northeastern
part of Siberia. They look very much
j like the Greenlinders, are small but
? alert, have a brownish-yellow skin, with
i! coal-black eyes and hair, and a singular
j ioyless^almost frozen, expression of face.
e They live in tents, dress in skins, and
c feed on seal-fish. Their women are
e tatooen in the race, in tiieir intercourse
t with the crew of the VjfiKg, they were a
j little shy, but curioui ike penguins,
s and willing to help. Their moral ideas
u were rather naif but firmly adhered to,
ir as far as then went. Of their language,
n a dictionary (Tshudi-Swedish) has been
made, comprising about three hundred
words, and it will, no doubt, prove of
interest i<> the linguists, as the tongues
o ot the Polar races have hitherto been as
- great u puzzle to the philologists as those
of the negroes of tropical Africa.
FOB THE FUR SEX.
White Bunting Drenei and Boitlci.
Among the prettiest day dresses worn
at Saratoga arid other resorts are those
of the thin toile rcliaieuse. They are
woin by ladies of all ages. One lady
with gray hair worn in puffs, with, a
white silk turban, has her white bunting
dresses trimmed with black velvet bows;
a younger lady uses plaitings of Breton
lace on the knife-plaited tlounces, and
white satin ribbon for a belt and sash.
Still younger ladies choose contrasting
colors of silk, especially the pale blue.
The short white skirt has a shell flounce
of pale blue at the foot The front and
side gores are covered with pale blue
brocaded silk set on in box plaits placed
at wide intervals, and ending in a series
of blue ribbon loops. The long white
coat is of the Lafayette shape, with a
shirred panicr vest of blue brocade drawn
' ~4k to disclose a deeper vest of plain
! *ae silk ' Bustles
are again considered necessary
to produce the bouffant effect now
in vogue. When these elaborate draperies
were revived it was hoped the dress
material would be sufficient without
o"wliort flm elmr Qlrirf. ia
oupjJis&U) Kf uu n uvii wtiv ou\'i? >/??<??
worn, tlie overdress seems incongruous
if too many breadths are put in it. The
present styles, however, are not objectionable;
it is only their exaggeration
that is to be dreaded. Many ladies have
never left off wearing a small crinoline
tournure, even during the reign ofprineesse
dresses, and it is this bustle that is
now generally adopted for short dresses.
1 ' A* ? I. AMMk. f
Alie lumitmiug nuustra uuumicuii must;
with plaits, puffs, and flounces of the
wiry crinoline, or else those of muslin
furnished with half circular springs of
tine French steel, so light and flexible
that it is difficult to break them or to
get them out of shape. These are S3.
Other bustles are quite long, measuring
about thirty inches, yet are meant to
wear with short skirts. They have bias
flounces of French corded crinoline
mounted on muslin, in which springs
are run; these springs can be easily re
moved when the garment is laundried.
These cost ?1.50 upward. Some have
an extra ruiHe to extend over the hips
and enlarge them. Longer bustles for
trained dresses are similarly made, with
stiller flounces to support the flowing
train without obtruding itself; these
cost ?2.50 upward.?Harper's Bazar.
ChrJatine million.
The following sketch of the Swedish
songstress, Chnstme Nilsson, is said to
be truthful: On a remote estate in
Sweden iived a Baron Leheusen, whose
wife was very musical. On these Swedish
estates the peasants were, until within
a few years, practically serfs, and are
called Bunde and Torpare.
The Bunde have about thirty or forty
acres, and have to perform certain obligations
to their landlord, such as tilling
his ground with their horses or oxen, etc.
The Torpare are cottagers with a small
plot of ground, for which they have to
pay a certain amount of dagswerke, or
day's work, each week. Their food is
obtained from the vegetables on tliese
plots and from about two shillings per
week for the labor of their free days.
Nilsson's father was a Torpare of
Baron Leheusen's, and the little Clristine
used to run about barefooted, w ith
a short petticoat on, full of holes, coming
down to her knees.
Baroness Leheusen one day heard her
singing one of the old Swedish ditties
winch have been handed down from generation
to generation among the Bunde
and Torpare.
The baroness was struck with the
sweetness of her voice, and ordered her
to come up to the chateau; there she
gave her some elementary lessons in
singing, and then sent her to Paris,
where she was placed under the tuition
of a French professor.
After several years of assiduous study
she made her debut before the Parisians
at?if I remember rightly?the Theater
Lyrique. With the flrst money that she
earned she built up the cottage of her old
father, the Torpare, and made him comfortable,
and he now is a well-to-do
peasant. ,
Maniase of a Prince of Fiji*
The marriage of Ratu Joe, the youngest
son of ex-King Cakobau, litis a tinge
of romance about it which does not
often occur in Fijian marriages. The
parents and friends of this young chief
were desirous that he should wed with
the daughter of Tul Suva, a damsel of
equally distinguished descent and parentage
with himself, and having a liberal
dowry of broad lands with which to endow
her spouse. The young lady, who,
we understand, was by no means averse
to the match, had been lorn? resident at
Bau, and was being literally thrown at
.Foe's head; but our Fijian " Romeo" remained
firm in his refusal, and, on matters
being pushed to extremes, went privately,
accompanied by the fair object ot
his choice, a maiden of comparatively
humble birth, to the house of the resident
missionary and was married. Great
was the indignation at Bau when the
mriPKinrra Vw?r??j mn Vnnwn
CliUlCStlllC lUmil<(QV uv,vi.iuvy li.
That such a magnate should marry without
the usual solevu or feast was not to
be tolerated; but'eventually Joe, who
'.s a favorite, was pardoned by the old
man, and a substantial feast, provided
by the latter, appeased the wrath of the
numerous friends and relatives, who
have now determined to leave these true
lovers to be happy if they can ?Sydney
(Australia) Morning Herald.
Types of Character on Railroad Trains.
There are certain general types of
character which are observable on almost
every railway train, and with
which we are so familiar that we pay
them little attention. There is the man
of many bundles, a family man of course,
who bears in his countenance the painful
consciousness of having lost someffo?
cnmoflnntr anH wlin
tiling U1 JUI^UILUI owiuvuiiiUQ, I?am n >iu,
in a desperate endeavor to recover a
parcel which has slipped down from one
arm, scatters upon the car floor an :issortment
of parcels which escape from
the other, and are promptly "trodden
upon by some h.isty wretch behind him.
There is the mat who is always late, and
who, dropping breathless into a seat
after a brief race with the retreating
train, wipes his perspiring brow and recites
to his neignbor the circumstances
of his detention and hurry. There is the
nervous woman, who after havine
studied all the time tables, scrutinized
the placards on the cars, and harnusseri
the ticket agent to the verge of insanity,
afflicts her feilow-passengers with shrill
and tremulous inquiries as to whether
the train runs through to Albany, and
whether the car she is in is the light one
Hapless and careworn individual! Smal
good does the journey do her, for the
train lias lntrdly started before sue discovers
that she has lost her ticket, und it
is not until she is well alon" toward her
destination and has "oad?d the conductor
into a frenzy and herself into tears
that she finds the bit of pasteboard in
some unexplored recess of her travelinsbag,
where she had placed it for safekeeping.
There is the woman who will
have the window open, and the irascible
old gentleman immediately behind
her who will have it shut; there is the
market woman with gigantic baskets
odorous of herring and onions and other
delicacies; there is the man who sleeps
the sleep of intoxication, and who,
yielding only an inarticulate response to
the protests of the conductor, and disclosing
about his person no trace of n
ticket, is presently bundled oft' by the
brakemen; and there is the multitudinous
infant, weary, wide-awake and vocifer ?ito
?n nhiocf- <-?f 1/vi I'll in r* nnil flptpsfn.
tion to every bachelor in'the car.?BosIon
Journal.
Tin? New Haven Register sees one advantage
in warm weather. At no olli??r
season of the year can you spread ilif
butter on the children's bread so cvenij
and so thinly.
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United States Life-Saving1 Service.
How greatly the chances of escape
from shipwreck along the coast have j
been increased by this service will be
seen by a few figures. When the service
was reorganized in 1871, it was stated,
again and again, by two members of
Congress, that more than a thousand
lives were lost annually upon the coasts
of New Jersey and Long Island alone.
No doubt this was an over-statement. :
No careful account of the losses upon ,
these coasts had ever been kept; it was
known, however, that during the twentyfive
years previous to this time, five hun- ]
I rirpfi and twelve Dersons had perished.
an average ol twenty-five a year; and it | j
was also certain that many more had
been lost of whom no record had been
made. During the five years beginning
with 1871, only sixteen persons were lost <
upon tliis coast, an average of but a little l!
more than three a year. "In other ]
words," says the report, " where twentyfive
persons were annually lost (and 1
doubtless thrice that number) there are 'j
now only,three." Sucti a record as this,
the, general superintendent has a right ,
to say, ' has never been surpassed in the '
annals of efforts for the mitigation of 1
marine disastTT." ? J
Such are some of the results; what are
the means employed to secure them? At
each of these life-saving stations are a
keeper and a ciewofsix aurfmen. By
these the beach is steadily patrolled at
night, men going out in both directions
from each station, until they meet the
patrols from the nearest station on either
side. Each patrol is furnished with a p
red headlight, which lie burns on discovering
a ship in danger, to alarm the a
crew at the station and notify the wreck
that relief is at hand. Then he hastens
to the station to help in bringing up the
apparatus for the rescue. A metallic
life-boat and a small cedar surf-boat are f
waiting there to be used when the conditions
will admit; there is also a neat lit- J
tie mortar (the pattern of which was designed
by Lieutenant Lyle, of the Spring- ]
fieid Armory), by which a shot-line may
be sent over the wreck if it is not more .
than five or six hundred yards from the
shore. The line carries out a hawser,
and upon that the people on board the s
vessel are carried ashore, when the water *
is so rough that the boats cannot be
managed in it. The principal convey- 1
ances that travel by the hawser are the. t
breeches-buoy and the life-car. The
buoy is sufficiently described by its g
name; it is suspended by a pulley to the (
hawser, and one person at a time is carried
ashore by means of it. The life-car
is "a covered boat, having a few air- f
Holes in tne rop (tiiese pcnorauons Demg made
from withm to prevent, by their
raised edges, the water from readily entering),
an interior capacity lor receiving
from two to four persons for its load,
and a ring at each to which are attached
the hauling lines that enable it to be
pulled to and fro through the water between
the shore and the wreck." Besides
tnese are life-rafts and cork-buoys, and
those life-preserving suits in which Captain
Boyton has performed so many
wonderful exploits. A medicine chest
contains stimulants and restoratives, and
the crew are thoroughly trained in Howard's
method 01 resuscitating the
drowned.?Sunday Afternoon.
What Happened in August.
The month of August, although less
crowded with battle anniversaries than
June or July, has had an unusually large
share of the world's greatest events.
On the 3d Columbus sailed from Palos,
in 1492, to discover a new world. The
same day, twenty-seven years later, saw
an exploit of almost equal daring?the
outset of Cortez's overland march upon
Mexico. The 4th gave the first blow to
English feudalism by the overthrow of
De Montfort's revolt against Henry III.,
in 1265. On the 10th, the storming of
the Tuileries, in 1792, consummated the
triumph of the French revolution. The
13th crushed at one blow the dear-bought
supremacy of Louis X.IV.. by the defeat
of Blen!-* im, in 1704. The 16th, 18th
and 19th witnessed the great bathes ot
Vionville and Gravelotte, and the complete
surrounding of Metz, in 1870. The
26th is doubly memorable to France, sis
* !?? r\f tho nrrn?l HpfpjLtQ
IrlXt; nuui V tljdij Ui vuw jjivi.vvww ^
and greatest victories?the battle of l
Crecy in 1346, and the commencement of (
Napoleon's two days' fight before Dresden
in 1813. On the 28th of August,
1631, Gustavus Adolphus defeatea tho
Austrians, under Count Tilly, at Leinsic;
and on the 31st. Hood evacuated Atlanta
at the approach of Gen. Sherman, in
1864. But in addition to all these famous
days, this eventful month has witnessed
the* execution of the Scottish patriot
W;1,: .m Wallace (1305): the establish- x
ment of the Reformed Church of Scot-' %
land (156fl); the outbreik of the Seven 1
YearswWar (1756), as well as three of
the greatest battles, Minden. Zorndorl ?
and Liegnitz (1758-60); the birth of Sir c
Walter Scott (1771); the liberation of 1
the Christian slaves at Algiers by Lord t
Exmouth's bombardment of the" place 1
(1816)andGen. WinticldScott's Mexican
victories of Cherubusco and Sa? Antonio
(1847) \
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A Hotel with a Million Rooms. . \
For the benefit of those unacquainted 1
with the term " dugout," as used in the [
far-West, says the New York Hotel Gazette,
it may "be proDer here to state that \
in the early days of Kansas it was cus- j
tomary, owing to the scarcity of timber,
for tho nnnrpr rl>iss of settlers to make f,
their houses in the ground, generally on *,
the side of a hill or slope, if their claim t
afforded such. This statement may at t
first thought seem absurd, but it is a fact
, well-known to those who have traveled
through the West. Intelligent and well
educated people, who from one cause or
another incident to a lifetime had become
reduced in circumstances, Jwere
not unfrequentlv met with living in these
"dugouts," with as much comfort and
ease as many of their former associates
in ipuch costlier homes at the East.
Much depended on the muscle, ingenuity ,
and taste of the builder whether his t
home looked like a wood-chuck hole or :
- i 1
it JIUlLUlll l/KWitamuu. j
In one of these "dugouts" a certain wealthy
hotel proprietor in Kans:is lirst ,
commenced business ;is a caterer to the (
Kublic. Ilis patrons were cattle herders, ,
lexican " greasers" and railroad labor- |
ers, who were content with the simple ,
fare lie set before them. His hotel contained
two rooms, the " dugout" |and .
the "boundless prairie." In the former 1
was kept the cooking utensils, stove, etc., J
and the latter served as his bedrooms, i
" I have a million rooms," he would say, 1
"room enough for the whole world, 1
and plenty to eat as long as the buffalo !
deer last." His customers, though of a
rough class, paid their bills promptly, j
which enabled him in a few months to 1
lay the foundation of qui'e a respectable {
hotel. A thriving town grew up around
him, and, as money continued toeome in, 1
hemade additions and added new attrac- '
tions, till to-day he enjoys the patronage <
nf as line a class of travelers as visit the
1 West.
Onality of (he Brain.
The American Naturalist has an ac- '
count of a cheerful set of scientists in
France, calling themselves the Societe
d'Autopsie. Believing that the study of
I fln> brain of a man whom we have
! known, not only through his works, hut
in his diameter and faculties, ivi 11 contribute
to the advancement of knovvl- 1
edge, the members of the society bind
| themselves to surrender their brains to
the inspection of their fel'ows immedi|
ately upon death. The lirst to die was
. Jules Asseza, thus losing his chance at
[ any other member. The second was a
M. Asseline, whose brain contradicts in
. many ways important conclusions at
which students of the brain thought they
had arrived. The intelligence of M. Asseline
was of an exquisite finesse that
was pushed oven to subtlety.and yet the
' u>t!Volutions of his brain were thick and
' Iflfiie. Broc.i. the great -mthority on
I was surpri * < ?! to tind it. of a coarse
I. \t1HV
Hope.
I lay in grief,
tad Hope drew near to where I tossed aloo*
Without relief,
\nd paused a moment whon she heard that
moan;
L'hen mised her glowing eye* and met mine
own.
Never a word she said,
i'ct still I gazed and still was comlorted.
[hen bending low with wond'rons gra
She laid her luvnd upon my eyes,
Eler cool hand on my burning lace,
And at her touch bright visions rise,
w<w1a nfrouma flnfl nnfaaiflfalid
skies. . In
softest tone
ilio sang the song that has no elof??
['hitt deathless song which no one knoirt
Save she alone;
['lie song that leaves no memory,
["he song of endless victory
And fatore love;*
lud (is I listened to the voice above,
lelt as one returning from the doad. .
ilowly 1 rose and raised my drooping heed.
?All the Year Round.
,
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
A prowed thing?A ship.
Apopka, Fla., grows three-a.nd-a-halllound
onions.
The Rome Sentinel says a postman is
i> man of letters.
A chicken hawk is the bird to raifi?
thickens.?New York Mail.
The best wire-pullers?Telegraph re- '
>airers.?New York Express.
Stanley the indefatigable is again in
Africa, busy in exploring schemcs.
The probate duty on the will of the
ate Baron Rothschild amounts $4-12,500.
Animated people?those who hare
aken an electric shock .?Modern Arqo.
Our grief may be guessed from the
olace self-deception we resort to.?
lichter. . .
Some of the New York gambling house*
lave been found to be connected by
elephone.
According to an official return, seventy- .
even persons died of starvation in Lonlon
last year.
Disraeli has written his own biography,
to which he is in the habit of addng
almost daily.
Selling introductions to beauties is the
ast method of money-making introduced
it the English fairs.
One Boston firm sold 16,000 panes of
;lass at retail the day after the great torlado
and hailstorm. %
A woman at La Salle, 111., has been deected
stealing prayer-books from the
lurches as a business
The puzzle which careful nu " ?rs try
o solve is how to train the girls ana
low to restrain the boys.
People who struggle to the tops of the
Swiss mountains are those who may be
aid to most enjoy a foreign climb.'
The amount of pin-money required by '?
he married woman depends on whether
ihe uses diamond pins or rolling-pins.
Many a young lady who has a rich p*
s pressed for money. Ask her young
gentlemen friends.?Yonkcrs Statesman
Donald McLeod.a veteran of Waterloo,
lied at Cleveland, Ohio, recently, one
iiindrcd years, six months and twenty;wo
days old.
All should adopt this stirring motto
luring the heated term: Our temper:
t must and shall be preserved.?Kansas
jity Times.
There have been constructed in the
Jnitfcd States since the great crash in , :
i873, and within a periodoi five years,
il.563 miles of railroad.
A child remarked, after gazing earicstly
at a man who was bald, but had
icavy whiskers, " His head was put on
ipside down, wasn't it?"
Canada has 7,095 miles of railroad in
>peration and under construction. Her
ailways represent a nominal capital
>utlay of upward of 8360,000,000.
Green apples have arriven,
And mothers will be given
Enough to do;
For the youngster, they will eat 'em,
And the mother* they will beat 'em,
Then won't they rue?
?Meridtn Recorder.
There are 3,927 churches or places of
vorship in the republic of Mexico, of
vliich twenty-seven are Protestant and
he balance lioman Catholic
A young man has been courting die
;irl live years, and every time he lias
ailed during the past six months sho
lad fed him on pop-corn. But he doesn't
ake the hint?and pop \?Norristown
Icrald.
A newly-married lady w.-u telling
mother how nicely her husband could
vrite. " Oh, you should just see some
>f his love-letters!" '"Yes, I know,",
vas the freezing reply; "I've got a
)ushel of them at home in my trunk."
Tableau.]
The cactus grows to a wonderful size
n Arizona. One variety grows to the
leigh"; of sixty teet, and measures
ix feet in diameter. There are
ire fifteen or twenty varieties, three of
vhieh bear fruit that is highly prized by
he Indians, who depend largely upon
hem for sustenance.
When evening pale o'er de wy vale
A somber shade is throwing,
And twinkling eyes in azure skiea
With gold aru overflowing,
When all is still, and wood and hill.
Proclaim the day's abduction,
Thon do the sinful gnats begin
To double on their suction.
? Wvlt Whipple.
Nothing usually creates more consternation
among the females of a family
han to have the door-hell ring at nine
n the morning while the hired girl is
lown at the grocery after potatoes,
riiey can't make up their minds
whether to show up at the door with no
"inmo inrl nn hi?lt. im t.hpir wranners.
Evait on the girl, or ask " Who's there?"
y^tween the shutters of a second-story
.vindow.? Wheeling Leader.
After the recent death of a Piute chiej
n Nevada, an admiring Indian concluded
;o kill his own sauaw, so that she could
tccompany the chief to the happy huntng
grounds; hut the woman did not
tvish to be sacrificed, and so made her escape.
The Indian then seized a baby,
juried it to the neck in the ground, and
stood guard over it, intending to let it
starve to death. After three days, the
:-hild was rescued by white men.
f There is a large family of Bonaparte?
living in Rome?die grandchildren of
Lucien Bonaparte?all of whom are excluded
from the line of succession to the
French empire by the law disinheriting
the children oi Lucien who incurred the
severe displeasure of his brother, the
first emperor. The oldest of the family is
" it r n
uarcnimi J^ucion louis r>on:ip?irt*% wuw
ives :i very quiet life in Rome
and is universally respected for his pinty
and charity, it is brother. Prince Napoleon
Charles, and his four sisters, all
married to distinguish Italian noblemen.
belong mostly to the Catholic-Conservative
party.
The Transatlantic circus bad a lively
day at Leesville, Ind. Some sharpers
who accompany.the show, failing in their
attempt to swindle a resident with cards,
snatched his money and hid in one of the
tents. Soon afterward one of the women
equestrians stole a watch from a man's
pocket as she passed through the crowd.
Flic robbed men fired into the tents with
their revolvers. The showmen retaliated
by seizing three villagers, dragging them
into a tent, and whipping them soundl'
with r;>whid"s. This incc-iscd thecrowu
and a : neral fight. ensued, in which four
1 I
slmwui. ii ;iT>il <>w vj|!iig>'r won? wounnm
witli Ijij