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Tlio Peanut.
A large ami healthy peanut
I.av eozilv abed,
And it ehnekled. oh. e?> gleefully!
Ami to itself it said:
"There's a great big world before nic
Ami nsv mission yet to do;
And ut> I'll he and doing it,
lire tin- sun lus dried the dew.
"There are greedy buys t<> eoniiuor,
And hungry girls as well;
What a world of jM)\v? r I've bidden.
Within thiei little shell.
Though they >lav me in the battle,
Though tin y crush nie like a tforin,
Though they hflke atnl eruneh my body,
If I can I'll make \ :u M|uinn.''
.nri i:i;- Mr.all i.oy prai.-lwil that peanut
.Villi lie cracked it 'tween his teeth,
lint when lie would have swallowed it,
It c*h"ke<l liiui i 'en to death:
Ami the ]>eanni's wmk was ended
It lia.l fall' it in ihf strife- It
had done its mission nohlv,
"" Thr?n<;li the ?1?cost its life.
--? ?1
AN APRIL FOOL.
Helen vr.s our beauty; there is no
contradicting that. A haughty, highnpfritod
Wanly, almost dark cnongh for
an Asian: lnu so jierfeetly made, with
such a glow on the olive oval, such a
ruddy ripeness on tho lull lip, such a
1 us tor iu tin* great ilark eve. And, like
most- beauties. she felt as if the world
was iac.de tor Ca'sar.
Of course, none of us in the little village
group over thought of denying her
supremacy. Tn fact, we all admired her
too much for that, although I doubt if
any of us loved her. But we all took a
certain pleasure in seeing her arrayed
to suit her beauty; and many was tho
scarf and ribbon and rose given her,
like timid oiiVrings at a shrine, from
Clara and me, and, for the matter of
that, from Alalia and Kmily, and all the
rest of our girls except perhaps Jane,
who had not to much to give and
who never indulged herself in fineries?
a little Onak'. r-like body in her gray
gown, wiih her light hair put back
smom4>lv front her white forehead ; not
pre icy in I'.iosi <yf^-rn-,^ i, imt always so
fair and pure to me. Helen, however,
looked at Jane v.il'a a lofty disdain ;
which Jane appeared to think ail right
and natural, for littlf Jane shared our
popular feeling that Helen's movements
had something to do with keeping the 1
earth in equipoise. And, in fact, I have
often noticed since that anybody with
some one trait of pronounced mental or
physical superiority, well sustained by
a bad temper behind it, can rule all the
world within reach, just as Helen did.
We were, the most of us, better oil',
as tho phrase goes, than Helen, so far
as money was concerned ; for she was
only Mrs. Knowle's companion, and,
except little Jane, who was an orphan,
and had just enough income to dress
herself meagerly and pay her board at
Aunt Elroy's, wo all had our happy
homes. Jane had set out to fit herself
for teaching. She played rather wonderfully,
and sjifi could have spoken to_.
,. ifcte'brtwo difleryi/c Visrgv^es, if
she had not boon always so shamciaced.
As for Clan; and me, we were the hoidons
of the village. Maria was the flirt
1 T* *1 i.V _ til .1
aim r-iunv was uie lengieuse. duc aim
Mrs. Knowles used to have the most
marvelous mornings together, talking of
albs and chasubles and altar pieces and
. candlesticks, winch somehow made
Emily rather interesting to the rest of
us, although Cousin Stanhope laughed
at us about it. if he didn't laugh at her.
^ Cousin Stanhope, be it understood,
-vas the light of our eyes in that mountain
hamlet, so far as connection with
the outside .vorld went. He was, in one
degree or another, the cousin of almost
all of us, for we were all more or less
distantly related. He had a position in
the state department at Washington
that allowed him some leisure ; and, as
we were not a great way from his headquarters,
he often ran up for a Sunday
and brought us news o? that great world,
and occask.na" v brought some one of
the people figuring on its scenes?now
and then an attache of one of the legations
; once in a while a traveling foreigner
; once, indeed, a South Sea island
chief, who boldly asked Helen to go
back with him to Otaheite. A primitive
savage Stanhope failed him; but, if
that were true, the primitive savage was
avcov cairn ana nome gentleman.
" I don't know how von can say so,"
Helen remarked, as we wero talking him
over on Aunt Elrov's piazza, our usual
place of congregation, 0110 bright spring
morning, April Fool's day, as wo had
learned, to our cost, in a scries of Stanhope's
jests through the mail. " A great,
swarthy barbarian ? I suppose it is because
1 am so ilar3c myself; but I haveno
affinity with your dusky-skinned
people."
I saw Dr. Malatestata lower his book
from his own dusky face and look at
her curiously a moment.
"Being a blackamoor myself," continued
Helen, "what I admire is my
antipodes."
<< t t??^ t
jj1111 (jum-, iui ? , aum .1.
"No, indeed. Tliat colorless morsel
! A yellow-haired Norse, some descendant
of one of the old Cimbri, a
blue-eyed and red-haired Spanish
grandee. He would like me, too," said
Helen, laughing and putting np a great
dropping curl,.4'on the same principle.
I expect to fall in with him vet."
" Or fall out with him," said I.
"Nothing less thi:n a Spanish hidalgo,
with a string <-!" titles as long as his
rent-roll."
" Then I oiippo* a poor, swarthy
Roman doctor need never hope to find
favor with those of your way of thinking,
Miss Helen ? " said Dr. Malatestata,
in his smooth English, to which the
slightest accent in the world was like
sauce piquante to flavorless meat.
"Oh," said Helen, coolly, with her
finest air of insolence. "I did not notice
that you were there, Signor."
"But you will notice the hidalgo,
with the string of titles and the rent
roll? Well, hidalgos are often poor."
"Tlion T linvn in net. 4V\i>
them," said Helen.
"Do you moan to say, Miss Helen,
that yon would not marry a poor and
untitled man? What is the matter
with you American girls ? Wuat better
title is prince than doctor? I fail to
see the secret of it. There is a legend
in my land that once the Roman purple
was put up at auction. Diavolo! Is
all this beauty for sale, too, to the highest
bidder?"
Helen stared at him a moment, answering
nothing.
" By the way, Clara," then she said,
entirely ignoring him and his remarks,
" did you see the Spanish lace cape Mrs.
Knowl'S gave Emily? I should have
liked ?; myself; and, indeed, it was not
expensive."
"She made a real April fool of Helen
with it," said Clara; " for when she unfolded
it, Helen thought, of course, it
fir was for her.
"And I had just began to thank her,
when she turned it over to the nun.
However, it is the only time tliat I ever
was made an April fool," said Helen,
with her most superior gesture; "and I
fluff? rmr tr* if onroin n
"Why, Helen ! How you forget!" I
exclaimed. " Little Jane has made you
one every year since she has known
you."
"Oh! Little Jane! Her fooleries!
Sweetmeats under your breakfast-plate !
Yes, if you count that, little Jane lias."
"And will next year too, I'll lie
bound," said Dr. Malatestnta. "At least,
diA ? Ami T n-nc
OHV *?WWAV* 11 J. ?? 4W UllUJUllU
that he wheeled his chair awav ami
round the. corner of the gallery, for a
knew he was going to' say. " if nature
had.not been before her;" and if he had
said it Helen would have had her foot
on all our necks before peace could have
been declared. \
Dr. Malatestata was Cousin Stanhope's
last importation?an Italian gentleman
who was visiting America, a graduate of
some wonderful old university, who perhaps
might settle down and practice in
America if ho had inducement, Cousin
Stanhope said, with a laugh, and who j
had found his way to the Italian legation
at Washington, where Stanhope
had mot him- It was quite unfov
tunate for him that ho foil on the slipi
pen* pavement and broke his ankle; but
Stanhope, who had taken a fancy to
him, had brought him up to our village
as soon as he eon Id be moved, and had
installed hiir- at Aunt Kirov's, where he
was waited on by inches, Aunt Elroy
outdoing herself in fancy dishes, and
little Jane now and then venturing lest
he might be homesick to let him hear
his native tongue aj*ain, while she spoke
a little of her timid Italian with him,
half sure that he was laughing at her,
but willing he should langli if that diverted
the nonr tionfleninii ;mv from the
pain in his ankle.
"As if it wouldn't make him homesick,"
said Helen, high and mightily.
]>nt it didn't seem to do so. He used
to watch little Jane a good deal. Perhaps
it amused him. When she came
back.with her basket on her arm from
Aunt Elrov's errands among the poorer
people of the mountain (and she was
always sure to have one or two cases of
want ;ji reserve as her own property),
he would ask her a swarm of questions
and apparently derive infinite entertainment
from her answers. But ho was
occupied the most part of the time with
notes that he seemed 10 be collecting
and arranging for a book.
" Singular person!"' said Helen, in
her sweetly scornful tone. " What
could Cousin Stanhope have been thinking
of to bring him here? He hasn't
even the manners of a gentleman."
" Why, Helen came a chorus.
"I think he is a consummate gentleman,"
said Aunt Elrov.
"Just about as much of a gentleman
as Jane is a lady," continued Helen.
" Look at her now, bringing in the
eggs. She hasn't a soul above her
lens."
" She gives every egg to the poor and
sick people up the hills."
"Goody! goody! Just my ideal of
an old maid. Scanty gown, puritanic
collar, plain hair, generally drab. Well,
there must always be one such in every
circle."
"One such!" I cried. "I wish there
wero a dozen sucn.
"Oh! well," said Helen, " we won't
quarrel over little Jane. She's too
small, clear."
It was lovely April weather up our
hillsides. Everything was blossoming
into May. All life and the future, seemed
to our hearts as bright as the blooming
world was. We passed the time in
one long picnic?Mother and Aunt
Elroy and Uncle John and Mrs. Knowles
and all?climbing the mountains, catching
the brook trout and broiling them
on our wood fires, and coming back
with our arms full of flowers. At least,
we ail uK I but lit tie Jane. Mie said siic
had not the heart to leave their lodger
alone in his condition to the mercies of
OM Sally ; and she used to do her little
gardening around the house, and carry
her pensioners our flowers of the day before
if we had left them with her, and
be back again at short intervals. And
the last I saw of her one day she had
her davenport on the piazza and was
writing away at his dictation, as if there
were no such thing as May breezes and
flowers and mountain ramble^avA Yffe
wej?.gpqiir%yi noiWfirg -except to make
it pleasant to his swarthy, lean, illfavored
foreigner. But it was only
Jane's way with everybody.
''That is one of the troubles with
her," said Helen. " She hasn't any
identity. She forgets herself in the
next person always. A bit of white
glass?that is all she is." And there was
such an assumption of authority in
Helen's sayings that, after a few repetitions,
one was apt to take them as
gospel. Only Dr. Malatestata never
did; and his polite way of looking over
her and through her as if she were a
transparent* or did not exist at all, was
the only way lie had of moving Helen.
And that did move her. I'resentlyl
tlionght I saw that Helen had determined
to change it; and although she
did not care a sou for him himself, she
could not brook a rebel within her
dominion, and she meant to make
him euro for her. In the full flow
of admiration long received her
pride had sailed upon a smooth current,
without an obstruction. This obstruction
of the oblivious Italian doctor
caused a disagreeable commotion in the
tide. "What made me first think of it
was Helen's picking to pieces a bunch
of yellow blossoms she had brought in
from the woods, and as she passed the
doctor in his chair scattering a rain of
th'Mii nil over him. and then looking
back with a laugh that showed her
glittering teeth and brightened all the
carnation on her olive cheeks and the
luster in her eyes. Well, she was too
beautiful for anything but dreams. The
doctor must have seen what I thought
where I sat in the window-frame, for
piesently lie said to me: " Too brilliant
tor use, is it not? As for me, I prefer?
"What was it Miss Jane read to me today
" You mean
' '.A < :< a'.ntv iti!i tun Wight nu<l Rood
l-W human nature*!* daily lbort?'
That would be Miss Jane herself,"
said J.
"St. Jane," said he.
" i suppose, l saul, " tliut one sees a
plenty of such faces in llome V"
" As Miss Helen's ? Plenty."
" I always thought Helen looked like
a lioman laily."
"Like a Homan peasant girl," saul
he.
But I knew better than to rejieat his
words.
" So your peasant girls have that
golden tinge under tlie carmine V" I
asked him.
" All of tlicm."
In a day or two Helen, who often
came over to Aunt Elroy's, where she
saw a group of us, when Emily and
Mrs. -Kuowles were having one of their
st ances, was standing by a pillar of the
gallery, twisting a budding vine about
herself, and a humming bird came darting
along, and hovered a moment, just
as if he took her month for n blossom.
"We all exclaimed and laughed, even the
doctor; and when the next moment a
saucy robin in the black-heart cherry
tree gave forth a burst of his music,
and Helen opened her lips and answered
it in delicious trill on trill, we felt as if
the scene was something ideal.
"You could hardly do better than this
in Italy," said I to the doctor.
"The robins take you for one of
themselves, Helen," said Aunt Elroy.
"It is one of the wise birds," said the
doctor. " He wants another song from
you, Miss Helen, us 1, indeed, do too."
And then Helen sang again. She had
been cliaiy of her songs before; but
after this you always knew when Helen
was coming by the music that ushered
her, and where she was going by the
sweet sou mis that went, dancing after
her.
"How can he help falling at her feet V"
said I to Consin Stanhope, on one of his
Saturdays with us-.
" He is lame," said Stanhope.
" Nonsense!'
"And thc-n I should have fallen in
love with her myself long ago, if it had
not been for her temper."
" You, Stanhope V"
" Yes, I; and it'?"
"If what ?"
" li I had not fallen in love with
somebody else."
But just then the doctor, who .had so
far improved as to I >e able to use a
crutch, came down the garden-path and
took Stanhope oil' with him. 1 saw little
Jane gaze after them intently a moment;
and 1 wondered vaguely if she
were too fond of Stanhope, and I felt
vaguely disturbed and unhappy, and
went hon.e and practiced a sonata till I
was tired out.
How lair and sweet Jane was in those
.Tune (lavs, as they came! There was
such an unspeakable tranquillity about
her. 1 never looked at her without
thinking of perfect, placid dawnings.
" What a complete lady Jane is," I
said to Stanhope once, as we were walking
in the wood.
" That is because her temperament is
so quiet. It gives her manners repose,"
he answered. " ' All her ways are pleasantness
and all her paths are peace.'"
And I knew I had no right to be vexed
with him for speaking so. AY ho could
be blamed for loving Jane ?
? " Only I never could see," added Stanhope,
" how any man could fall in love
with Jane. I should* as soon think of
J
kissing a statue. But then, I suppose," !
lie said, looking half askance at me, j
"when one is in love with somebody
else?" And he stopped, because two
people were slowly coining through the ^
wood, although they were not observ
ing us. It was lir. Malatestata, who 111
could now walk tolerably with his stick, !
and Helen, whom lie had met.
" Yes," lu' was saving, " I have quite '
eeovered?so far tliat 1 .shall be able to ' '
esumo my journey in a short time. :
And, Miss Helen, shall I tell you ? When K
I go home I hope to take a wife there V
with me."
"Why in the world should Helen j;c
think he means her?" whispered Stanhope.
"Look at her!" For Helen had |.n
suddenly averted her faee, and, thrust- 1
ing her hands out before her in a beau- 0
tiful forbidding gesture, had cried: a
" Oh, no, no, no! I could never leave 01.
America!" _
Dr. Malatestata stopped short in his s
walk, in blank amazement.
" I beg your pardon, Miss Helen," he
cried. " You misunderstand me," he ^
said. "Believe me, I had no thought of
asking you." And then he drew himself ',
up proudly. " I was about to tell you," 0
he said, " that I am the promised husband
of Miss Jane."
But at that time Stanhope, who had J1
been in the secret for some time, could
not forbear a moment longer, and burst ,
into a roar of laughter.
Ami then such an aiigvv man as (
Malatestata was may I never see again, ,
when he began adjuring Stanhope in j
foreign tongues, while the latter leaned
against the tree and laughed on.
" At any rate," said Helen to me,that' o
night li the faet remains that I refused .
liini. He didn't misunderstand me." j
Well, it was the loveliest little wedding
that we had two weeks later on Aunt .
Elroy's broad gallery, with all the j
flowers and vines and birds. And a
grand Italian gentleman came up with
Stanhope, too, who treated us all like
nobles, and delighted Emily and awed p,
Maria. The doctor would have his C1]
wheel-chair present, for he declared Ql,
it had been the bott friend he ever had; 0,,
and he looked at Jane in her white
muslin and jesamines, as if it were too . ?
much that any of us should touch her. '
Anil <linn lu> fnnlr Iter ntV nn tlin innvnnv
j# ./ m
over the continent; "for we will see
America before we go back to onv home js!
in Italy," lie said. :s
So letters came to us from Niagara, es
from a shooting season in Colorado, <?.
from Mexico, from Californian ranches; ar
then from the islands of the Pacific co
seas, from Japan, from India; ami Jane
was going to her home by way of the t (
Red sea and Egypt and the Mediter- po
ranean. j i
"Jnst think of our little Jane!" said
I. " She is putting Marco Polo in the i
shade." !
"It's about time he settled down to
his practice now, though," said Aunt, e'r
Elrov, not meaning Marco Polo, but the
doctor. "I declare, what a gap it j
makes in life to have Jane gone; and cr
now Mrs. Knowles and Helen too. I or
wonder if Helen is having the triumph-1
jyit .tjjaA^rr^lToiied for ftBlUWTerMrs.
Knowles had gone to Home, and
Helen hau been buoyant with cxpectation.
" t[
'Are you speaking of Helen?" said
Emily, coming up with an open letter j ^
from the post. "Slie has seen some xj
very pleasant people. Sho has been a ^
guest at a graml villa, been present at a | _
superb festival in the country and been j .
received by a prince and princess. Do j L.
you want to read about it V" And this j
was what Helen had written on that
page:
" It was just a morning of mornings,
this April day; and Mrs. Ivnowles and I, j at
having left the city and come up here on : Cl
the Apennines, were taking our stroll? ja
a stroll where we crushed the violets at jj(
every step?when we saw that the village
was all allame with Howers and
banners, and the people decked out like ct
a scene in a theater, and there was music, ' jj,
and there were throngs of children, with
garlands, ar.d I don't know what and all. j(
It was the home-coming of the prince jn
and princess, they said. And we had m
time to hear no more; for, as we .stood ~6
just inside the gates of tire lovely gardens,
we stepped aside, to let the low car- ^
riage, with its four cream-colored horses, ftr
dash by. And all of a sudden there was Wj
a cry, and the horses were pulled up,
and two people sprang out of the car- jj,
riage. And oh, Emily! I had reason Sft
to remember, all in a rush, that it was q,
April Fool's dav, and I the merest fool!
that over was?I, who hail actually re- av
fused this man ! For who do you think |)C
the prince was but Prince Malatestata ? ye
And the princess?was our little Jane !" ni]
?Iinkin'iHleHt. |)r
Italians in Xew York. AV(
During the year 1ST!) seven thousand ,n^
two hundred Italian emigrants were \
landed at this port, one-third of which , (
number remained in the city, and there
are now over twenty thousand Italians , ,
scattered among the population of Xew
York. The more recently arrived herd
together in colonies, such as those in
Baxter and Mott streets, in Eleventh
street, in Yorkville, and in Iloboken. ,
Many oi the most important industries
of the city are in the hands of Italians
us employers and employed, such as the P?
manufacture of maearoi i,* of objects
of art, confectionery, artificial flowers; by
and Italian workmen may be
found everywhere mingled with ;l,
those of other nationalities. It is no
uncommon thing to see at uoon some _
swarthy Italian, engaged on a building c ;
in ]>rocess of erection, resting and dining
from his tin kettle, while his brown- th
skinned wife sits by liis side, brave in
her gold earrings and beads, with a red se:
flower in her hair, all of which, a! home,
were kept for feast days. ]Jut here 111 ga
America increased wages make every, nK
day a feast day in the matter of food and
raiment; and why, indeed, should not' '
the architectural ]>rinciplc of beauty . j
supplementing necessity be applied even ,
to the daily round of hod-car- . ;
lying? - :'r That the Italians are
an idle and thriftless people is a superstition
which time will remove from the
American mind. A little kindly guid- col
niwl 1 nficli in? crin nwilil t u>ni inWi IH'<
almost any form, lint capital is the
iirst necessity of the individual. Is it to alt
be wondered at, therefore, that the poor sin
untried souls that wander from their r
village or mountain homes, with no ad- a]j
vico but that of the parish priest, 110 m
knowledge of the country to which they
arc going lmt the vague though dazzling
remembrance that somebody's uncle 01
or brother once went to IJuenos Ay res co'
and returned with a fortune, 110 pecu-' . J
niary resource but that which fesults 111
from the sale of their little farms, or das
the wife's heritage of gold beads, and !
110 intellectual capital but the primitive pa:
methods of farming handed down by go
their ancestors, should drift .into list- <
less and hopeless poverty V Their emi- j]al
gration is frequently in the hands of! C[ll
shrewd compatriots, who manage to land
them on our shores in a robbed and /
plundered condition. ^
On the other hand, the thrifty bour- 0l"
geois i\I10 brings with him the knowledge
of a trade, and some little capital
to aid him in getting a footing, very Sil3
soon begins to prosper, and lay by <
money with uhich to return and dazzle vei
the eyes of his poor neighbors, demor- rat
alizing his native town by filling its in- net
habitants with yearnings toward the El
Dorado of "Nuova York." Such a man, ca]
confectioner, hairdresser or gioeer, art
purchases a villa, sets up his carriage, and SU]
to all appearance purposes spending his
life in elegant leisure, but the greed of '
money-getting which he has brought ,
back from the new world surges restlessly
within him, and ho breaks up his
establishment and returns to New 1'ork ^
to live behind his shop in some damp, (^(J
unwholesome don, that ho may add a v?
few more dollars to his store, and too
often his avarice is rewarded by the j
contraction of a disease which presently aci
gives his hard-earned American dollars mi
.into the hands of his relatives in Italy, ere
?Httrper's hayazilie. oil;
" Why, I'm so glad you've come. Did wj|
yon know that I've been worrying about SOI
you, John, all the evening?" "That's t]1(
jnst what I married yon for. It is pleas- j
ant to think that there is some one home | TttI
worrying about you." Somehow this *
view of the matter didn't exactly coineido
with her idea of marital amenities, i Lo
FOR THE LADIES.
.1 II room Drill.
A now idea in amusements this, and
s inventors were some girls in Lowell,
[ass. Twelve young ladies, comianded
by a captain, gave a public
. 11 il. i n; ii. ?
mi infix piuiii'Ji'iirv in Jiuiuuiiig tiiu
room. The girls wero uniformed in
'd, white and l)lue. Tlio brooms were
scorated with colored ribbons, and as
ie young women marched with the
reamers behind tKm they looked
;ry martial and wen warmly applauded,
young lady, dressed in the national
)lors, was the "drummer boy" of the
room corps. A fan drill is performed
somewhat the same fashion, only the
n can bo used more gracefully and
lectivelv than the broom. But, after
1, perhaps, the best broom drill is the
ie that takes place in the kitchen,
here there is only one broom and no
reamers.
IIotv nn Kiiipron* (JrM Through n Day.
Empress Elizabeth, of Austria, begins
io day's work and amusement with a
ip of cold chocolate, taken at 7
clock. Then she goes to the stable to
e her hunting pet; then receives her
cwnvd and makes arrangements for
mentations, interviews, etc. At one she
kos a beefsteak and a couple of glasses
Hungarian wine, after which her
ily-in-waiting tells lior the news and
ads to her paragraphs from divers
ivspapers. She (linos at six, and then j
)iis her riding habit and goes to the j
i'ge circus which is connected by a j
vered passage with lier private apart- |
ents. Here she mounts some mettle-:
me horse and trains him with wonder- j
1 skill and boldness. "When somo ani-1
al usually wild and spirited is to be
nquered a few appreciative guests aro
vited to come and look on at the darg
empress' proceeding.
A Queen'* KoIicm.
A fashionable modiste ol' ban
ancisco had her parlors crowded one
it ire day with guests inspecting an
it fit which she had just completed per
der for Queen Kaprolam, the wife of
ing Kalakaua, of the Sandwich
lands. Among the manv handsome
bes was one which is intended for a
and state occasion. It is made in the
itive style of the Hawaiian islands,and
termed the "holoku." The design
the same as is known in the South,
pecially in New Orleans, as the
volonta," the robe being in one piece
id gathered into a deep yoke that
vers the shoulders. The material is
the very richest velvet, of a Marie
anise blue, striped with gold and
imbincd with plain velvet of the some
ado. Another was of embossed velvet,
the most delicate peach-pink shade,
Inch const ituted the train and corsage,
iiis was over a petticoat of plain Turk
tin, also peach-pink, and was richly
abroidered with white jet. The half |
seres and high-rolling collar were of
e satin, and thickly covered with jet
abroidery. Handsome white jet j
naments fastened the corsage, which
lS^oiM^^fh^ont and back.^hp,
lost beantiful of tm^^llowever^ras
marine bine satin combined with ecrn
itin and finished with a heavy garniire
of crimson-crushed roses. This
jwn was also made in the " holoku "
vie, with long, flowing sleeves open at
ig shoulders and extending nearly to
ic bottom of the gown, and were lined
ith crimson satin. Each suit had two
lirs of slippers made of the same
aterial as the dress they were to be
orn with.
JnpuiH'NC Factory Klrls
The Japanese have just made another
I > illll U 111 111U1I li-UlUlllUU Ui JJIUU|/Cail
istoms. Up to the present time popur
prejudice lias greatly restricted the
eld for women's labor. In the interior,
ideed, the weaker sex take part in
jricultural operations, l?ut at the great
mt^rs of industry men have monoposed
almost the whole area of remunerate
work. This system appears to be
)omed, an some of the more entcvprisg
manufacturers are offering en; ployent
to women, and so far as the exiriment
has yet been carried these
rilanthropists have no cause to regret
e venture. The feminine employes
e content with considerable lower
*ges, and yet work the same timereive
hours?as the masculine monopo;ts.
Whether they turn out the
mo quantity is not stated, but in
mlitv the result of their labors is said
compare not unfavorably wii.li the
ernge of men's work. So great has
>en the success of the experiment that
veral new factories, chiefly for the
luiiuacture 01 cioui, tire uuimt iu uu
lilt exclusively for the employment of
>men. A factory act will soon lie
oiled, if it he true that the feminine
nds now in eni]>loyment arc kept at
ilk without intermission from 5 a. m.
o 1*. it. Japanese women are not, as
rale, very robust, and such prolonged
lior as this must necessarily impose a
vere strain even on the strongest.
Pnnliion Notes.
The new dolman sacks are shorter
the back than in front.
Batisttr embroidered in colors is imrted
to trim summer gowns.
l\obin's-egg bluo will be much worn
young girls this summer.
The summer pilgrimage costumes have
ivatteau plait in the back.
The short street dress seems to have
me for a long visit this time.
Irish point-lace wrought with gold
read is used to trim cotton dresses.
Basques are to be n lit lie longer this
ison than they were in the winter.
White muslin petticoats are the onlj
rments that are made fuller than for rlv,
['ink tulle, trimmed with holly berries
Hiout leaves, is a new fancy for ball
lets.
j'he lace used on the summer bonnets
very deeply tinted, and is arranged in
tings.
Ihe newest jackets have no hoods, but
liars that cross in front and make a
,'tty trimming. ,
\ New York bride recently went to the
ar with her veil fastened by a horseoe
of orange blossoms.
Che littlo mantles for summer are of
sizes, from a coach nan's collar to a
!i 11 "Untlwr Hiiblmril r-lnnk.
:\11 drossy suits are composed of two
more fabrics which usually match in
or. but contrasts in efifect.
Bright ami positive colors will not be
fashion except in small bits to give a
sh of brightness to a costume.
Shirrings ami mill's ore seen in all :
rts of costumes of cotton printed
ods, where trimmings can be used.
i'lio cheapest materials for really
tulsomc underskirts is satin, which
1 be bought in all the bright colors.
Daisy chains, with a fern foliage mixed
[h the blossoms, are among the llow>
prepared to trim summer bonnets. ;
Fashions in every detail of the toilet
inge so rapidly that it is diilicult to
r what is and what is not fashionable.
Cxold and silver lace and gold and sili
braids continue to form the decoions
of many lovely full-dress bonis.
Bordered robe pattern dresses in per
es, nionne cioins, sarincs and iawns
j soon among the now spring and early
minor goods.
\ novelty in the form of a lace pin is
joldon fishing-rod and silver liuo
iped over the rod, with a gold fish
ngling from the end.
Kerseymeres, beiges, camel's-hair
?ths, English homespuns, cheviots and
lit cloth suitings are the materials for
igue, business and traveling suits.
Many folds of ombre satin straight
oss the crown is one favorite trilling,
while others cover but half the
>\vn, and are finished with lace on the
TPS.
V handsome dress of black grenadine,
:li half inch stripes of satin and of
no open meshed design, his each of
; sides covered with a jabot of black i
anish lace, the jabots being a half j
d wide.
rhere are 10,000 opium eaters iu St. !
uis and 15,000 in Chicago. . i
THE FAMILY DOCTOR.
AccidrntN in the IIoomc. ii
In th 9 household occasional accidents
occur, generally of a harmless character,
' but as they sometimes arc of a certain oj
gravity, we refer to a clever little book ki
entitled, "What to Do First," written w
by C. W. Dulles, which contains, in a p<
small space, a great deal that is useful tl
i to Know m certain emergencies, re
Now, as thore are copper boilers attach- cc
ed to ranges in many kitchens, the fc
i use of oxalic acid to scour them is quite lo
: common. Occasionally we hoar of acci- tc
; dents arising from carelessness when C
oxalic acid has been left about. The ai
writer of this uses oxalic acid iij her ji:
i own kitchen, but with great precaution, te
' The bottle containing it is never given tli
i to the cook, but only a small portion of ri
its contents, and whenever it has been w
I *ised the servant is asked " if all of it b<
bin been employed." If any remains 01
: over it is thrown away. It is the tl:
most stupid of drug clerks that cou- ai
founds oxalic acid with epsom salts, bi
The acid, as Dr. Dulles describes si
it, " comcs in small, heavy, bright- m
; colored crystals, making a clear rattle in vi
a bottle or jar." In case by any accident tc
oxalic acid lias been taken, the antidote si
for it is lime. The chemical reason for b;
using lime is that oxalic acid fgrmswith vt
it an insoluble compound, and its corro- p<
eive action on the coating of the stom- m
acli is at once stopped. " If lime water tn
19 lit llilllU) it juujr uu utv;i>) Vk | uj
whitewash, tooth powder (its base is a
alwavs chalk,) chalk, whiting, or plaster j Ik
from the wall. The latter may be crush- ]3
ed and stirred up in water without re' hi
gard to grittiness, which will not do any fc
harm." sv
For sanitary purposes carbolic acid is p<
now frequently found in houses. The di
cases of its accidental use must be of of
rare occurrence, as its peculiar strong to
odor'makes it recognizable at once. b<
Still, cases of its having been ta-icn in n<
the dark are not uncommon. It. is a cc
most dangerous poison, because, as Dr. w
Dulles states, it seems after \t-ho first
painful corrosive effects "to benumb ! tl
the stomach." At once largo and re- fo
peated doses of oil or milk should be cc
given. Certain cases of poisoning with y<
carbolic acid have been successfully of
| treated, after oil had been taken, by hi
stimulation. But it is a dangerous acid, ai
: and care should be taken with the bot- ?
tie containing it. ! A
Corrosive sublimate is often employed bi
about a house to rid a bed of vermin, m
As it is colorless when in solution, it fa
often escapes notice. " If taken vomit- si
ing must be provoked, and some form w
1 of tannii acid must be given." Tea is vc
the strongest thing which is ecsy at (ii
| hand, and a powerful decoction should tl
be at once administered. Adults rarely ei
meddle with phosphorus, but children b<
sometimes suck this very deadly poison dr
from matches. Very fortunately it'is fo
discoverable in
andH^^^^^^^^^^H|?id. pi
ge
per
9| jhsj
should
Mistakes as to quantilj^^WPMIl he
preparations are by no means uncomj
mon accidents. Such are to bo found, J n
most unfortunately, in wlmt Dr. Dulles i la
very properly calls " the many poison- j w
ou^ nostrums sold as soothing syrups, j tl
pain destroyers and drops for infants." j tl
: There is no expression harsh enough ei
which would serve to brand the woman j pi
who administers such poison to her w
baby. A mother who gives such sub- w
stanccs to her child without a doctor's ni
' advice takes the chances of life or: tc
: death in her own hands. To such, ni
i capable cf seeing their children waste ; sc
away before their eyes, 110 advice j p
would be of avail. TVo address, then, j ri
those who unfortunately may give lauda- j tl
num or black drop for paregoric. "The it
| symptoms are deep sleep, with narrow-1 Ii
j ing of the pupil of the eye to a small m
circle, which docs not enlarge in the I -
dark. Dr. Dulles advises the 1 tamed:- j
ato and persistent use of emetics and to j 01
allow the patient to vomit over and over , ti
again. Particular attention should be j ai
paid to the breathing. "So long as the j ir
breathing does not fall below ten to the j tr
minute there is no immediate danger of j hi
death; but opium is a dangerous poison \ F
and requires all the skill that ean I h<
be obtained to combat it." For- j ai
merly the custom was to walk a patient! hi
up and down, and to slap with wet tow- | ai
els. " What to Do First" deprecates j tl
this, for the reason that it exhausts the 01
patient, who, if very ill, cannot rally, i tc
If physical stimulant is to be used, lay cc
the patient on a bed or lounge, and slap j si
with the back of a hair-brush, or with a in
supper. " JLins is nn tue nursing neces i iu
sary, so long as breathing keeps above si
ten to the niinute. Should it fall below I It
this, or if the breathing should cease, o]
artificial respiration should be employ- si
ed." v(
It sometimes happens that a child j of
gets, through accident, an overdose of tn
wine or brandy. We have known of a !
little girl made dangerously ill from i
having purloined brandicd fruit. It j
was a case of stupor. Tho cure was I
made by means of " What to Do First" j
advises, " hartshorn and water, a tea-1 .
spoonful of the first in a teacupful of i ?'
water." The use of tainted food, such I nj
as of decayed meai or vegetables, some- j T1
times occurs. The treatment is to ex- j ?e
cite vomiting, and to follow this with a | '
dose of castor-oil and powdered char- ' b"
- - I IK
coai. i Mothers
arc very careful, bnt the most j 'a
prudent of thorn, in the experience of j j?
the writer of this, have sometimes made ^
mistakes in the medicines they have ! l)(
given their children. One infallible i
nile in using any powder or fluid, no 11,1
matter what it is, is never to take it up, '
much less to administer it, in the dark ! ?,
"What is the use of having labels marked i ~
" poison" pasted on a bottle, if it be in- ! 7
visible in the dark ? A bottle of modi- i l'1(
cine may remain in one position for j ~s
weeks, untouched, but an hour before it j *n
is used somebody or other may have in- |
advertently substituted something else. *a
If accidents were always locked up less .r
accidents would' occur. There is one
word of linal advico to be given: On the w<
least suspicion of poisoning in a house ?.?
send at once for the doctor, not nocessarily
your own, but the very nearest at Cl1
hand. < Q*
The question is often asked in cast ] S1
oi poisoning as to tho simplest way to P?
provoke vomiting. Lukewarm water in
quantity is good, "but it is better to ni
oilil a InoennAnfnl nf np??Anr?/l ^
imvi I. kv?..rx.v..4.i* V* j *
or a teaspoonful of ipecac, or a table- ] "
spoonful of the syrup of ipecac. Fur- *.
tlier, let it be remembered that there is :1(
no occasion for fastidiousness. Any
water will do. Water in which hands J!1
or dishes have been washed, acts more tl(
quickly than anything else, and if soap
has been used, it will be all the better *
for that, as soap is an antidote for acid 'v
poisons. The quantity used must be ^
large; the sufferer must be urged to ?f
drink a pint at a time, until he can con- t0.
tain no more, and has been made to ?
vomit over and over again." j
? j lb
The " Illack Death." \ se.
The torriblo Oriental plague known s^(
ns the "Black Death," that in former lftl
centuries caused such devastation in 1?<
Europe, and that in 1K7-1 made its re- rei
appearance in Tripolis after men had
1 /-?i? rt /mncml 4 r\ fnn v f Ka tniiUniiAnn <n ! Ikf
luiif, ? iw iotu iuu > ir?itutiuurt, in * still
nlivc, and has recently appeared in TL
Armenia and on the bor lers of the re;
Casjiian sen. In 1870 it showed itself tin
in Mesopotamia. In J87H it crossed
the boundary line of Russia, and cases
that were detected in Nislini-Xovgorod,
Moscow and other places, spread un- aii
easiness throngbout all Europe. Ger- I dei
raany and Austria closed their bonuda- [ art
lies, and cut off all communication, M;
railway as well as other, with the em- | en'
pire of the czars. The oread disease j lea
tlid net spread in Rnssin, and tinallj j tlu
dissppeared from the European domain, j sto
some ray on account ot the energetic ] th<
sanitary and quarantine-regulations oi wo
Loris Melikotf, others because the at- wh
mospheric cenditions happened to be for
unfavorable to its extension. But the prr
Black Death has continued its work
ever since, and has just given a sign of rrenewed
activity by am ihilating a ch<
wholo party of pilgrims from Mecca, om
and crossing the Euphrates to show it- chr
self ones more in Mesopotamia. n*-i
ROMANCE OF A TOOTH.
off a Cheyenne Yonnjr Lnily Obtnine
Dentnl Outllt in Denver.
Tlio particulars of a remarkable tier
aeration recently performed by a w<
nown an<l skillful dentist of Den'
ere yesterday imparted to a Sun
Drter. The operation was so unusr
ic circumstancs so romantic and '
(suit so satisfactory to all pari
uipnrnofl tlinf. tli** nnrrfliinn id r?nl
r. Some months since one of
iveliest and most accomplished dau
(1*3 of a well-known resident
lieyenne was thrown from her hoi
id sustained among other annoying
iries a fracture of one of her fr
ieth. The delicate pearl which flasl
trough " lips within whose rosy la
nth when she smiled the soul was lc
as hopelessly crushed and marred
jauty of the lady considerably.
lly remedy for the injury was to h
ie root of the broken tooth extrac
id a false tooth made to till the lioi
reach in her mouth. In her disti
ie went to Denver, where she
any friends, and sought the
ce of the dentist refer
>. Between her sobs she stated t
ie had read somewhere, or been t
y somebody, that dentistiy had
meed to such a science that it1
Dssible to transplant a tooth from
ontli of another person which wo
Ice root and bloom as it had in
iginal gum. Could he secure for
match for the broken tooth?
2 could, he might name his pr
cauty in distress appeals to the {
.nt dentist never in vain, so he
irmeil the grief-stricken maiden t
it'll operations had been suceessfi
?rformed, but in the present case
iffieulty would bo to discover a to
: such purity, delicacy and beauh
i be worthy to munch caramels i
311-bons in compnay with those wh
jw mourned the loss of their orusl
impanion. However, lie would
hat he could do.
A month or two passed during wh
te doctor was unremitting in his sea
ir a tooth of the proper dimensic
implexion and brilliancy. Big tee
mow teeth, snaggiea teeth, ana te
' every description and condition cn
is way, but never tooth that wu
lswer for the mouth of pretty ]V]
?. At last the tooth was fou
young Spaniard whose v
ashed and somewhat faded hal
ents indicated a struggle vi
te, entered the office to receive so
ight dental attention. His mann
ere those of a gentleman and his c
;rsation denoted intelligence and
moment. When he opened his mou
le doctor could hardly conceal
notion. ^ThUre was the tooth he 1
?en looking for flashing in
tzzling whiteness, the perfection
rm and the acme of purity. It i
deed a 'gem. The subject, was
oached cautiously, but when the jot
mtleman spoke of his poverty the d
ioffered him one hundred dollars
iooth. The money tempted the:
Snious foreigner, who immediat
fered all his stock in trade on the sa
Lsis.
aij>pf)intmeuL. was made for 1
ext daT" aTTiV'S.
.ay miorming nor mat at iasc uie ro
as found. At the given hour the g
einan entered the front ofliee, i
te lady, closely veiled, shortly al
itered the rear ofliee, for it wa
art of the bargain that the gentleu
as not to see the lady. The to
as extracted, the money was i:
id the stranger departed. Then
>oth was carefully cleansed and s
litted to a delicate treatment to j
;rve its vitality, while the doctor
reparing the mouth of the lady for
:ception. It was soon inserted ani
le course of three or four hours ]
nmediately taken root in its new hoi
i a few days the operation was i
ounced a complete success, and i
? became the happiest of girls.
Now for the sequel. With a worn!
iriosity she was continually speci
ng as to whom the tooth belong
id the gentleman in turn was cudc
ig his brain for some means to asc
lin the whereabouts of his tooth wh
ad turned the tide of affairs so luck
or with the money it had brought 1
c made a fortunate purchase of sto
id step by step he had gone on w
is rapidly accumulating bank acoo
id patronized a tailor. Glial
irew him into a select little pa
;ie evening where Miss happei
i bo present, and he commenced
muting his adventure. "When
niled and pointed to the vacant pi
t his mouth where the tooth had o
id its home, Miss gave a lii
iriek and her secret was discover
, is rumored that out of this del
aeration a veritable love match i
lortlv result; and in fashinable D
?r and Cheyenne circles this rorna:
1 a tooth will soon be the all-absorb
pic.?Cheyenne Sun.
Weather Prophets.
Speculations about the weather i
3t wholly useless ii we are to acci
ie testimony of Professor J. Hyt
ho has been engaged for a long ti
. studying the relations between I
iases of the moon and the rainfall
srtain stations. It has Joug b(
lown that whon the moon is full 1
;y is most likely to be clear. Tliis
)'t only the testimony of sailors a
rmors, but nlso of eminent astroi
ers and scientific men. It appei
iat the rays of the full moon have I
>wer to dispel clouds, and it theref<
ems not unreasonable to suppose tl
e moon exerts an appreciable int
ice upon the weather. Profess
yatt's observations have led him
vulo the lunar month, of about tw<
-nine anil a half clays, into eight ]
ods, or octauts, of three ami two-thi
tys each, and he has fouud that ov<
nation is apt to acquire its cluracl
regards raiufall within the llrst i
nt, or within throe and two thii
iys from the time of the new moon,
so appears that the same kind
rather, as regards temperature, clou
>ss or rain, is apt to occur on or abc
e same day of the week, or more i
irately, at tie samo stage in the lui
larters. A number of instances i
ven, extendiuu over a consideral
riod of time, which seems to bear c
e truth of these conclusions with
tirkable accuracy, and it would se<
at if seven-tenths of an inch or m<
rain fulls within three and two-thii
iys of the new moon, tlie entire lui
jn is very likely to be a wet one ; 1:
very little rain falls during that til
e remaining seven-eights of the lui
m will probably bo dry. These c
rvatious verify the old saying tl
e first three days rule the month,
result of observations conducted
o localities, extending over a peri
three years, the rule has been fou
hold good in at least eleven cases c
twelve, aud they would donbtli
>ld good for all places in the lii!
untry botween the Appalachians a
e Atlantic, not too near either t
n or the mountains. Such coucl
ms ar<* only reliable for places sir
rly situated, sinco peculiarities
:ation, elevation, tho prevailing
jtion of the wind, etc., necessar:
ect the result, and tlie.se characti
,ies must be studied for each pla<
io distribution of raiufull is very
pillar throughout the year; two
ree dry or two or threo wet lunatio
3 apt to be grouped together.
"Why do women so often wand
ulessly in the murky solitudes of t
ad past, brooding over the days tli
> forever gone ?" asks a young lad v
leoupin eountv, in a communicati*
titled " Life's Aims." They don t;
ist not in Chicago. On the eontrnr
?y v.'andor around the dry goo
ires of the present, pricing thin
\v have no idea of lmying. Cliicaj
men are not dreamy or poetical, b
en it conies to getting a ?2.01) bust
$1.80 they keep right up with tl
icession.?Chicayo Tribune.
iMi
die man who took a neat in the c
?stra when his ticket was for the se
1 balcony, felt badly at having
m ge. In fact he was moved two tiei
3oftton Post. t
PEXNY SONGS.
d n 1 Extent ol Their Hale?The Kind Tlmt Take
Heat.
^aj | The demand for war songs is con- 0j
sfcintly diminishing, and it is only dur- s0
^er J ing exciting political campaigns that wj
ro_; they sell well. A New York"paper says ^
.?i of the penny ballads: There are about m
(.j^ 11,000 penny songs, and over 50,000
,-es | copies are supplied to the trade eve 17
je(j month, some ot these ciate uacK as
, far as 1798. Sometimes when a new v
_jj. | song comes out, 2,000 copies will be I
0j j sold every day for about a week. Such j
! lias recently been the case with the *...
' j "Bogie Man," "Mary Kelly's Beau,"
ont i " ^st* Wst!" and many numbers ;
1C(|: of the Harrigan & Hart series. Mary nc
Kelly's beau describes his lady love as: j ?r
ist" | Little Mary Kellv,
j A darling, all 111 all, I
J;, ' Makes artilicial flowers a
the i On Broadway, close to Wall. i Gr
av? i Tlio continued popularity of the |
ted ; songs dating as far b?ck as 1798 and a11
T1<*. thereabout is due to the fact that they j
:ess are mostly Irish rebel songs, and have "c
has their interest preserved by tbe agita-, SVl
a"*; tions in Ireland. During the present a,|
ye(' ! troubles . in Ireland the demand has
j been larger than ever before. Among , m
?hl j these songs are some of Tom Moore's |
a"" j best Irish melodies, such as " Aveng- j r0
n'as j ing and bright fell the swift sword of j ra
the Erin," and "Forget not tbe field where cl
i ' * ? i T. -*r * ftll
. ' tiiev pensneu;' songs uyj>ryau luaguiru :
1^s and Maurice O'Connell, and the famous P1
her << "Wearing of the Green." There is i a_c.
. I' also a steady demand for the old Chris-! r1
lc?- j tie minstrels' songs, the most popular ,1U
>i"" of which seem to be the plot of "II < Yc
in" j Tvovatorc," and the verses "I come i j?1
hat | from Alabama," ending with : i *e
? ! I had ii dream the other night,
the When everything was still;
oth I dreamt I saw Susanna el
as A comin' down the hill. 1 lo
md Tim buckwheat cake was in her eye, w
. , The tear was in her month,
1C|' Says I, Susanna, don't cry, m
ten I'm comin' from the South. W
see The most popular modern penny
. songs are those written by Tony Pastor, ;
1 Harrigan & Hart, Pat Rooney, J. K. :
rc" | Emmet, Sam Devere, Tom Barry and j ?'
,ns> ; George S. Ivnight, and brought out at j ei
i their variety shows. "When a song has w
eth ! i)een received with more than usual j
j favor at these performances it is with- m
H.lu held from publication for ft short time r*
[iss until its success is widely known. Then F1
n(l* it is published and eagerly bought up. ^
r.ejl One of the most popular of PatRoonev's ;
songs describes the " Cats in Our Back ! Ai
ith Yard" who play "Pinafore" every;.,.
me night and have walking matches on the j
ers fence, Co
on- They sing alto, basso, and tenor:
re- Oil, they ought to be feathered and tarred! Ai
tii Oh, they lire worse than Haverly's minstrels, 1
jjjg Yes, the cats in our back yard.
ia(j Emmet tells of a man who wants to !
jts reform things so thoroughly that : ci
of Streets would be all paved with bretzela, I
yoo Sclnveizer kase grow on dor trees, . |
He'd make it.a holiday always, j y
l " Und peeble should take of dere caso^ i *o
mg- He'd ?ve every poor man his rights,
oc- He'd make-thejrleh folks ahell out, . k,
for j He'd mako all
[],e and the first verse
tlio I'm iii
Mid T!ie lir.-jt time that I met him,
fter 1 With love I was struck dumb, la
a a And my heart was in a flutter, [ w
nan i ^ ',C!1 Charley played the drum.
0t], ! " The Donkey," words and music by f0
mid '^as* Bradley, has been sung with sue- j ^
t]10 cess all over the country. The donkey gt
' seems peculiar in many respects. Brad- j or
>rc- ley describes some of his peculiarities i 0f
lva3 in the following verse: I ar
its | I've got a donkey; he stands six feet high; in
j jn I'll sell to the man that wishes to buy, j
, i | He drinks Seltzer water whenever he's dry; ~ |
: In a race on the turf he has never proved shy. ! ar
UiVi. !!(.! IljaiiUM UIJUU LIIIIU UUUULUUC 1UI1U a U*VJ , j
>ro- , I'll match him again any stallion or bay. ' sc
Iiss ,o;ib'!lt f"r his country; he's been through ^
the war;
, j I fccil him on herrings, hay-ropo and tar.
ila- " ^vo a *n Kalamazoo" lias also
. l" liacl a large sale. Sarah Bernhardt j J.?
r comes in for the following tribute : j ?
| Have you seen Sarah ? Ain't ehc a teaser ? y<'.
None could be fairer than Miss Sarah B. ' ar
tell Froggies and poodles, claret and noodles, I A
ilv. ; And a lotof Fitzdoodlcs;uh, parly voua qui. I oc
ii>u Among the sentimental and pathetic {
**k> ; songs the best known are "The Little re
iili Green Leaf in our Bible," " Baby, v,
unt Mine," and "Cradle's Empty, Baby's | ^
nee Gone." The last-named sells quite as ^
riv well as the best known comic songs, i j,(
ncd It was written and composed by Harry U1
rfi- Kennedy. The following is the refrain: m
^10 IJabv left her cradle for the golden shore, af
ace OVr tho silvery waters she has flown; j
nee Gone to join the angels, peaceful evermore'
tt]p Empty is the cradle; lmby's gone. : 1113
cd i ~ ? s.r
ltaj The Colors of Flowers and Leaves. As
rill We have generally supposed that the ^
en-1 colors of flowers are due to a variety of ^
nee matters- each color in fact being a dis-1 'j1
ing tinct chemical combination. But Pro
? fessorSclinetzler, of the Vaudois Society f"1
of Natural Science, has proved, by ex-1 to
periment, that by putting spirits of j Pc
wine and adding an alkaline acid to an [
!Vre pfilnr nf n. nlnnt. fill the nnlnvs I'1
0pk which flowers present may be obtained. 1V<
' For instance, a peony flower will with
mc alcohol give a reddish violet fluid. Add
salt of sorrel and it becomes a pure red;
at j and by the addition of soda this red
?en will change into a violet, a blue or a sa.1
;'|e green shade according to the quantity "c
118 of the alkali used. The green coloring
matter in the leaves of plants is called tj1<
110" chlorophyll, and the professor supposes
irs that this is the only original coloriug trn
'he matter in plants; but being modified en
3re by certain agents?for iu all plauts ('?
iat i there are acid or alkaline matters?or "i:
*u" by transmitted light, this chlorophyll T1P
50r furnishes all tints of flowers* and leaves. ar(
It has been ascertained that taunin with
?n" j chlorophyll changes the colors of the "K
Pe"! green leaves in autumn to red. Profes- l)ri
sor Schneztler himself changed peony u"
;17 : sepals from green to red with salt of an]
er sorrel; and the green liquid solution of "1]
3C' soda with tho ])eony blossom and alco- au!
'"3 hoi became red when he transmitted aui
light through it. lie therefore con- thi
eludes that chlorophyll is the only P*
di" i source of color in plants, the others
,u^ being merely the results of atmospheric C01
1C" alkaline action upon that coloring d?:
iar matter. "i(
iro 1 ?
>le ' An Indian lioy's Love-Letter.
iut | A love-letter picked up on the floor ;
re- j of a school with Hampton's views on
?m ! co-education need not inevitably shock jn.
>re oven pedagogic sensibilities. Written 011
ds in au unknown tongue, however, with or
ia- only tho names to betray it, a transla- yyj
>ut tion b;. the private interpreter, seemed ra|
only a proper precaution. If I confide tin
it to the gentle reader, the Indian lov jn,
>b-' ers will be neitiier the worse nor the p0
iat wiser, while some others may find in it tin
As valuable suggestions for similar corre- q'L
at: spondenee. coi
' Normal School, February 3, 1870. au<
* Alius : i saiu x inu: >uu uu
ftiul I want to give you a letter. When- sel
.~.83 ever I give you letter, I want you to Lo
jf answer u>e soon. That's all I want, anil lor
? I will answer to you boon after. When ad<
I jou give me letter, it raises me up. It mc
. makt-s me lieart-glad, sister-in-law., th<
Q1* When I talk T am not saying anything tor
.. foolish. Always my heart \e v glad. I wa
l'1" want yon let me know your thought. I tar
;v always like you and lovo you. I am em
?1" honest about what I say, I always keep Ca
!e" in mind. I want always we smile at
,r" each other when meet. We live happy '
or always. I think that's best way, and ^
ns you think it is and let mo know. And sa?
I say again, when I give letter, keep wh
i nicely and not show to any one. If hiv
or they know it, it no good way. They his
'10 take u; away, nnd that is tlio reason vi?
lftt don't show it. Hear me, this all I am da;
?f going to say. I like you, and I love
'ill T lrnn't mv onr mnrn Alt? ti lmla Oil
it: iiojirt is shaking hands with you. I kiss yh
v, you. Your lover. .
Is ? Harper's Magazine. Th
g?, ; ma
50 Among new devices in bonnet oma- wa
ut ments are three and four crescents inp
lo crossing each other; two and three up,
lie pyramids in graduated sizes; two bronzo Tb
horses jumping a silver hurdle; two ful
little pigs caught in a fence; two wild wit
>r- boars rushing out of a thicket, and ers
:c-; single camels, elephants, beetles, chibs, cuf
to oars, rakes, spades and other gardening am
rs. i and fanning tools in dead and bright, bet
1 silver, gold, steel and red bronze* i the
SUNDAY READING.
Influence.
For good or evil, liow great the pow<
influence! To the companions v
lect in youth?the surroundings ami
lieli our lot is cast?but above all t
e early teachings and example of
rent-how much of the child's afte:
e is to be attributed !
The forest tree, judiciously traine
len a young sapling, becomes a ma:
1 nf ftfto 11 nrfrh n.nrl liorv* * v. tnworin
ovc its eoifipeers ami fulfilling all til
anter's hopes?the bud, raised in tli
I'm, bright sunshine, opens and e:
,nds until its fair blossoms and ric
[or are the glory of that gay partem
it let the young tree be stunted in il
owtli, the arid soil at its root neglecte*
the poor bud shrouded beneath
yless moon?what will be their exis
ice but a blighted and a loveless one
) will it be with the htfman saplir
id the human flower.
What an influence is effected by s
movable, noble-minded father?by tl
;eet graciousness of a gentle motherid
how rarely is the youth led astn
lio has been nurtured beneath tl
oral atmosphere of such a home.
It lias been told of a man, who, di
garding the scoffs of his reckless cor
des flung aside the pernicious win
ip to take it up 110 more, when of
idden the memory of some cliil&if
aver, lisped at a mother's knee, flittc
xoss his mind. And that same heave:
rected influence has come between tl
tending murderer and his fierce r
inge, arresting the weapon that won1
ive dyed his hand in the blood of
llow-man and left upon his soul a y
irker stain.
Who has not felt the calm, holy infl
ice of the sweet Sabbath day? ]
ne country places how it fills the hea
ith its rar loveliness! The simp
onotonc of that village church-be
ill come back, like the remembram
: some pleasant dream, when time ar
stance, have intervened. And even :
le crowded city, the Lush and quietuc
' that seventh day's rest makes a sc
un pause iu the midst of our bus
orking-day life.
Who may detine the limits of th
iglity power ? In the words of a tn
set:
"No stream from its soiircc
ows seaward, how lonely soever its course,
it what some laml is gladden'd. No star ev
rose
id set, without influence somewhere. NY]
knows
hat earth needs from earth's lowest creatur
. Nolifo
in be pure in its purpose and strong in i
si life,
id all life not be purer and stronger thereby
ItetlgiouN Note*.
There are fourteen Presbyteric
lurches in San Francisco.
The English church within the la
ne years has contributed $28,000,Of
r religious education.
The LonAon religious tract sociel
? circulated over 77,500,000 books aD
?*fjt in lori princes find dialects.
o?7? Cfiurolio? Enj
ftd is apprakqd at 960,000,000.
&# On eida Indian Mf 6r3?5w
YorfcJ
eli^^^^wasthaukful that "tl
reator did not give the Indian enouj
nguage to allow him to be profai
ithout first learning English."
According to the Catholic directo:
r 1881 there are in the United Stat
reive archbishops, with forty-eig]
iffragaus, eight vicarates apostolic ai
le prefecture apostolic. The numb
priests returned is 0,402, and the
e 1,170 ecclesiastical students prepa
g for the priesthood. The church
the country have increased to 5,85
id the population is estimated
377,330. The progress of parochi
hools is very rapid. In 2,383 schoo
lere are 123,333 children.
The population of France is byoflici
snsus shown to be distributed as fc
ws on the basis of church connection
stholics, 35,387,703; Calvinists, 467
llj^Iiiitheraus, 80,117; other Protes
it Christians, 30,113; Israelites, 50,00
bout 90,000 persons have no churc
innections.
The practical Bishop of Manchest*
cenlly remarked that it was not mere
7 reading prayers, or preaching se
ons, or even administering sacrament
iat the work of winning sonls woul
5 accomplished. One of the mo
A. - - - J ? -C Al. _ ... L A ,
gent iieeus ui uie prescm uuv wi
inisters of the gospel who were u
raid to live among their people, wfc
sre not afraid of contact with thcpo<
id outcast, and who had the eonrago I
>eak plainly to the rich and highbon
i long as there was in their parish<
nnkenness, licentiousness, profau
rearing, dishonesty, or any of thos
ousand sins which disfigured life i
e midst of all our proudlv-boaste
rilization,there was need forministei
be imbued with as much propheti
iwer and evangelizing grace as in th
,ys of the Apostle Paul, in order to d
e work that was to be done effeci
sly. ,
The Sponge Trade.
A correspondent of the Providenc
ess, writing from Nassau, Bahamas
rs: A very interesting feature of bus:
ss life here is the trade in s2>onge*
c-ry day, except Saturday, the dock a
3 loot of Parliament street, which i
5 recognized mart for this branch o
flic, is thronged with gentleman buy
; of this product of the sea. Th
ck, which is some 300 feet long b
irty wide, is covered with sponges, pn
in strings and arranged in lots, wluci
? numbered and marked. Mr. Higgf
3 clerk of the market, having see:
it each lot is duly labeled with it
3per tag, makes out as many sched
;s of the whole as there are buyers
l1 furnishes each with a list. Upo:
!s the gentleman, after a careful ex
lination of the lots, makes his bids
il turns in the paper at the close c
i market. The offers are then com
red, and the highest bid takes the lo;
ie sale is absolute, upon five per ceni
mim'cuirvn mul flip nmrmnf nf blisillps
ne in this way is quite large durin
2 entire season.
Dancing.
Dancing is one of the oldest of recrea
>ns. Homer speaks of a new danc
rented by Diudalus for Ariadne. Tlies
s was immoderately fond of the ree
faudango iu which the arms mov
th the legs, 'ihe Normans revive*
:her than invented round dauces ii
2 twelfth century ; the Holiemian
rented the redowa; the Poles tin
lka, iirst danced in England in 18-40
? Hungarians the mazourka and galop
ie cotillim owes its origin to th
urtly Due de Lanzun, who, for hi
ilacitv in contracting a clande^tini
triage with the "Grande Mademoi
lr? " wits irrmrisnnpd for ten vears b'
uis XIV. To this now popular am
ig-winded dance many figures weri
led by Marie Antoinette, and sorai
ire by the Empress Eugenie. Unde:
; second empire the post of conduc
of cotillions at the Tuileries ball:
s one of considerable social impor
ice, and was long held by one of tin
peror's equerries, the Marquis dt
u x.
vi ft Dost was Relinked bv a Parrot
^ gentleman living near this village
\s the Port Jervis Union, has a parro
0 knows a good deal more than tin
t allows. Last summer a friend o
, whose name we withhold for ob
us reasons, called at his house on<
A valuable young dog, a pointer
s with him. The two gentlemen sa
the porch smoking, and the parrot,
icli is very tame, was seated in ai
er*tice in the trellis about the porch
e dog was lying on the lloor at his
ster'n fret, and finally his attentior
s called to the bird, which was look
^steadily at him. The dog sprang
, drew on the parrot and fastened
ere he stood, still as a statue, foi
1 three minutes, when the purrot
:h a contemptuous flirt of his feath
, screamed at him : " Go home, jot
ised fool I" The dog dropped tai
1 fars, wheeled round and struck i
dine over the fields for l?ome. Sinc<
it time he has refused to poiut a bird
< ,~>m
Tides.
THE EBB.
Obi bat my soul goes after! * >r
j Oh! but my arms lean too!
e Waves! yours is the mocking, low laughter
^ Of those who are distant and true.
0 : Faint; faint fade from my gazing;
a Slip, slip, glide from the shore.
r" Hear, hark, hear how I bid yon;
mi.?A rnn roof nr/?f
' 1 Uttb nrnvii io tttavu?;? ?
r- j THE FLOOD.
g ! What aileth my Lean? or the ocean? .
te ! Why aro'triy swift feetjstill ?
ie : Tide! Thine is the terrible motion
l- i Of those who shall have their will,
h ; Hush! Ah! hush thine entreaty;
-j ! Stay, nay, stay r?om thy power.
;s Arms, lips, breath, oh! release me!
Thine ia eternity. Spare me an l^our.
,a ?Elizatelh Stuart Phelps
t- iMjg
|g HUMOR OF THE DAI..
m | Cast thy money upon the newspapers iJsj
ie and after many days it will return to you *'?
? fourfold. ; 'figs
iy Sunday may be a very solemn sort of * /;
ie a day, but there's a sadder day comes *
just before it.?SteubenviUe Hrrald.
8* Favorite music for a soldier?A march- '":y.
I X k'l U? jiUUICi XX OVUWWOVUOi A V* umsv-mra
e"' horseback rider?A galop. ? IPafcrtoo J
| Observer. - _ '
^ i A member of the Colorado legislature
n ; m addressing that august body began:
^! " My fellow-statesmen." His bill passed '
e_: unanimously.
[(| James Gordon Bennett has paid out
I ?30,000 for music in Pan. But that's all
et 1 right. He got his money from pan.?.
! Louisville Journal.
11- The New York Dispatch says that the.*- . ;
[n best way to raise chickqns is to chuck * -?j
rt fish-hook loaded with a kernel of corn ?
le ! over your neighbors fence.
i A small boy went to see his grandce
mother. After looking eagerly round ..
the handsomely furnished room where j
'n ; she sat, he exclaimed, inquiringly: "Ob, ?
: grandma! where is the miserable tabli '* *>
1 L Ml T
1 ! papa says you set ?
7> f T<1oa1*i/-mnVi1n ImlKi tporifa Ifnow wVlflfc
. i shade will be the most preferred this ls;
coming summer. Well, the shade of a 7
e big elm tree will be very popular, but t [
at the seaside the shade of a %ig tunbrella
will be much sought after.
j " The digestive process of a mosqui-.^
! to's stomach is so slowly performed
10 when the insect has dined on a . human
e? being, it continues for forty-eight hours
to exhibit blood corpuscles." No?/'4j[v:iU
t9 the human being gets a good
whack at him with a towel he doesn^;.He
merely exhibits a spot on the wa
BostnPost.
in A Hartford man sent a pair of trousers ''
to his tailor to be repaired. The tailor
found 8300 in a roll in the pocket and ; 'a
)0 returned it, receiving the thanks of the |
owner thereof. "When#e send a pair of ,5
l 1 trousers to our tailor to be reconstruct"Oh,
he won't hurt you, Fogg; he's |
perfectly harmless." Fub~ Yes, ^
16 that's what I told Mrs. F. this morning,#* ?
He's perfectly harmless. He began't?,"^~
ry | be harmless just after he ran at me last
es night. I had my revolver in my pocket.;
lit Good-morning, Jonos!"?Boston Trail'
id script.
er i Did you ever notice how things get in **
re ; your way when you're in a hurry ? A
I'": Boston woman told her husband a ran- -0
05 j away horse was going by. He jumped
! so quick he sprained his knee, and in his
a[ j frantic haste fell over two chairs and 5
^ j skinned his shins, stepped on the dog,
nn?ok tli? tftblw with books and a drou
light on it, ran against his wife and hurt
nl | her, and got to the window just as they
?1- were stopping the horse two blocks ;i
s: away, round the comer.?Boston Post.
?* j "What is a cold?" asxs Chamber*,
Journal. Well; sir, supposing you be- <
gin by sneezing so hard you nearly ..
^ break your neck and bite your tonjra^
terribly. Then your nose gets stuffed;.
?r up and you need about fourteen handly
kerchiefs a day and the end of your nose-' v?'
r-1 gets more tender than a boil. And your
s, j eyes ache and are watery and you begin * *
1(1 to corvrh so the folks across the way
st can't sleep, and you feel lame all over/is
as though you had been under a fire eno
gine, and yon'o ugly and kick the dog?? .
to and chase the cat with a bootjack, tell
)r ' your wife she can't cooV; and make the *
:o household a gehenna for tetfoft^SL Then, i.
1 you've got a cold.
?s , -^>*5
(e | Pearls of Thought.
,e ! Even the weakest, man is strong enough $
^ ; to enforce his con\ictions. ,
-s , There is a right and a wrong way of
;c i nibbing a man's mind, as well as a cat's
e j back.
o i The virtue of a man ought to be meas- i
t- tired, not by his extraordinary exertions,
but by his every-day conduct.
The law can never make a maifhonest;
j it can cnly make him very uncomforfc-' ; **
e able when he is dishonest.
?' | There's a sort of human paste that
l* when it conies near the fire of enthusiasm
is only baked in harder shape.
"8 No story is the same to us after the
* lapse of time ; or, rather, we who read it
are no longer the same interpreters. .?!
e What reason, like the careful ant, ?r4
y draws laboriously together, the wind of '*
't accident collects in one brief moment.
h Every man's work pursued steadily
: tends to become an end in itself; and
n so bridge over the loveless cnasm 01 ma
s life.
Angry ami choleric men are as un- .
?? grateful and unsociable as thunder and
u lightning, being in themselves all storm
" and tempest; but quiet and easy natures
5> are like fair weather, w elcome to all.
f
Men do not often dare to avow, even
to themselves, the slow progress reason
has made in their miuds; but they are
ready to follow if it is presented to '. <
,s them in a lively and striking manner,
? and forces them to recognize it.
If the memory is more flexible in raj
childhood it is more tenacious in mature
age; if childhood has sometimes the ' '?
" memory of words, old age has that of
e things, which impress themselves according
to the clearness of the eoncep- K
1 tion of the thought which we wish to
? retain.
' He that {rives good advice builds with
one hand; he that gives good counsel
and example builds with the other; but
. he that gives good admonition and bad
' example builds with one hand and pulls
' down with the other.
e ,
s l Man being fallen from his natural - ^
0 estate, there is no object so extravagant
. as uot to be capable of attracting his
F desire. Ever since he lost his real good,
j everything cheats him with the appeare
ance of it ?even his own "destruction,
e though contrary at this seems both to
r reason and nature.
* A Remarkable Fact.
One of the most remarkable instances
? of phosphorescent light appearing on
3 living creatures is found among the
herons. Among the keys and the extreme
end of Floiida these birds are
found in countless numbers; Mullet
, . fishermen and sportsmen have often not1
ticed peculiar dim lights standing mo2
tionless over the water among the
I 1 mangrove thickets. They were discov-1
ered, however, to depend on the pres3
i ence of the birds, when they were ap.
nroached in the dark, the flapping
t, of wings as a crane flew away
, would lie the last of the >1
lights. The writer has examined many
. of the birds, especially the Ardea Hero<
dias or great heron, and found on the
1 breast a spot about as large as the open
palm where the feathers are covered
; with a thick yellow powder, that is easi.
! lv shaken oft' and evidently exudes from
r the body at this spot as a secretic n, dry,
ing into a powder when exposed to the
i uir. The bird stands motionloss in the
i water, and this spot is undoubtedly
I used for or accomplishes tho end of ati'
tracting tho smaller fishes within reach
i: of the bir'V, and if it is a decoy it is a
. I mosf vpmtu'kable provision of nature.