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BY HUGH WILSON AND H. T. WARDLAW. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 1881. NO. 5. VOLUME XXVI. |
1 ' I V-?..?^ - V 4!.? VI..I.*
Soiijj of the Reaper.
My grandfather was right little and old,
And crooki' 1 and worn was ho ;
But his teeth .>;trc good, and hia hfai t was
bold,
And he swam the aves of a sea of gold,
But lie couldn't up with me?me? me?
Couldn't keep up \.:t!i me.
Then hie ! away to tin golden plain !
We will crash and dash through glistening
grain,
And gather the wealth of earth and sun,
And the world will eat when our work is done.
My father he was bent and can,
Bat a widespread hand had he:
And his lingers they were long ami clean,
And ho swung his broadsword bright and
keen.
But he never conH fight with me?me- me?
Never conl 1 fight with nio !
Then hie ! away where the sunlight sleeps,
And the wide-floored earth a granary keeps;
Wc will capture its bushels, one by one,
And tho world will eat when our work is done
The grain stalk bows an bristling bead
As I clatter and clash ulc.it;,
The stubble it bends beneath my trend,
The stackers' yellow tent is spread,
And the lulls threw back my song?my
aosg?
The hills throw back niv song !
Then hie ! where the food of nations glows,
And the yellow tide of the harvest tlows,
As we dash and crash and slide and run ;
And the world will cat when our work is done !
? Will II. Carl* ton, in Harper's 11\tklj.
MY FRIEND HARRIS.
" There, Emily, I had nearly forgotten
it!" I exclaimed, as I arose from
the breakfast-table. "I have invited
an old friend to dine with ns this evening.
Let us have those ducks which
' 'were sent here yesterday, done iu
cookie's best stylo."
" Gecrge, you are the most inconsiderate
man ! " returned mv wife, with
a rebuking smile and shake of the head.
"Where my heart has gone my head
has followed," I replied, reseating myself.
"You've got both; I've been beside
myself ever since I married you."
I would here say to the reader that
this was the first week of our housekeeping,
aud that we had just ended
our wedding tour.
" You are not always beside yourself, 1
sir. You are frequently away from me,"
Emilv declared, recognizing the fact
that she was indeed my better-half.
" But I can't think of any one but
yourself, or I would before this
have told you of my meeting Harris, a
dear old friend, whom I had not seen
for five years. I know you will like
him. I was in a frreat hurry when I
found him, came near passing him, but
a well-remeiubered limp ho has made
me stop. He was much changed in appearance;
he Mears a full beard now, but
his eye had the same merry twinkle. I
asked him when he had got back from
Europe, but didn't await his answer, and
commenced about you, and then gave
him our address. He'll be here tonight.
You've heard me speak of
Harris?"
" You've so many friends, George?"
" "Well, you'll like him, any way, and
now I'm o2". Business?detestable
business!"
Upon my walk home at four in the
afternoon, my memory was employed in
furnishing me with anecdotes in which
_ my friend figured; that sleighing party
?ha! ha!?in which Harris had proved
himself a hero; that escapade of his on
a fishing excursion.
But as I arrived within sight of my
house my purpose was changed. I
would not do any talking save so far as
to draw him out. He had a fund of
humor which could not fail to delight
my wife. I must make him speak of
his European travel ? how well his old
talent ot mimicry would serve him in ,
describing oddities he had met abroad.
Above all, I must not let him leave
without getting a pencil sketch from
him of my darling Emily. Among
other accomplishments Harris was a
very clever draughtsman.
Emily met me witli a kiss, as was her
wont, but immediately left my side to ,
: superintend preparations in the kitchen, .
and after a change of my attire I
entered my parlor, where I soon became
interested in the pages of a new book. (
I wa3 roused therefrom by the ringing
of the front door bell.
I rushed at once to welcome my (
friend. Despite my novel dignity as ,
householder I had no thought of stand- \
ing upon any ceremony with him.
Clasping both his hands in mine I {
"v- fairly dragged him into the parlor, and
then thrust him into my easiest chair. ,
" You must pardon my leaving you ]
so soon vesterday. I had an imperative
"?* t
Cii^a^CUiCUi ? 'icii A j wu. vuavivuo,
man! how bald von have become?"
This final exclamation of mine was
occasioned by my visitor's removing his
hat, for which lie had had no previous
opportunity.
"Care, dull care," returned my friend,
iu a melancholy tone, and I then was
nearly guilty of a surprised remark on
the seediness of his attire. His linen,
which he had concealed as far as possible,
was ragged and even dirty.
Had Harris run through the large
fortune which he had inherited V Some
mischance had evidently befallen him.
Mingled with my desire to offer liim
- sympathy wero saddened reflections
v upon the impression he was likely to
make upon my wife, an impression so
different from that I had pictured to
myself. I hastily strove to turn the
current of my thoughts by the remark:
"Well, I believe baldness improves
you?you have a portentously intellectual
aspect because of it. I have
another reason for being pleased with it.
I see more of you. But?come, tell me
about yourself."
"Not just now, please. I hud rather
hear you talk of yourself."
I proceeded to oblige him, but was
constantly disturbed in my narrative by
singularities and even vulgarities of
manner on his part. How Harris had
changed.
Poverty and presumable low associations
had evidently demoralized hiin.
I was fairlv beginning to think of some
decent excuse for ridden myself of liirn.
I did not wish to present him to my
wife.
But before I could excogitate a plan
Emily came in.
I rose hastily, and .stammered as I introduced
him.
" I have heard so much of you, Mr.
Harris," said she.
" I can return tho compliment, madam,"
he replied, seating himself upon
the edge of his chair. "Fine weather,
we're Laving !"
My wife glanced surprisedly at me, j
and my friend, affecting ease, threw t
himself back, so that his body and legs
made a straight line at an angle with |
the floor.
And this was the man whos? refine-;
ment I had lauded! Harris was un- i
. doubtedly under the influence of some
drug.
A fall minute of silence succeeded,
and our guest again spoke, as to our re- j
lief he assumed a more becoming posi
tion.
; ?nt's a very long time since your hus- i
band and myself were together," he i
said, with what was now to me a repul- j
- sive smile.
" You have been a great traveler, I
understand ?" Emily responded.
" I may say I have been in every State !
in the Union, North and South, East
and West."
"I thought Europe was the conti- j
nent you loved best to roam in ?"
" Been there, too?Africa and Asia?
bnt I have never met before so beautiful
a lady."
Such gross flattery was as displeasing
to me as to my wife, who replied:
"Is it possible, sir, that not even
among the Hottentots exists my equal?"
"Madam, I assure you, not even
there," returned Harris, with seriousness.
"Emily, dinner must be ready," I
interposed, disgusted with the vanity
of my friend, whose intellect was truly
under a oloud, but whose eye visibly
brightened at my suggestion.
, . 'A
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" I will see," said my wife, as sberose
to leave us.
When, with my friend, I rejoined her
at the table, I was as depressed in spirits
as he sec-iued to have been. Now, however,
thera was decided animation in his
expression and movements, certainly,
in the way he plied his knife and fork.
He was voracious, and pity for him
succeeded to the vexation 1 had experienced.
He ate like one who had
fasted for a week. The secdiness of
his attire, too, was conspicuous under :
IwiilSonf lirrllfc <"if tlin
u""'""v *'b
Emily's oye met mine with an expres-1
sion of* interrogation and compassion.
Conversation flagged.
I determined to broach the subject of >
his altered circumstances as soon as we ;
w ore alone together, but was forestalled '<
by himself, to whom a plentiful dinner i
had furnished courage.
As we entered the parlor, he said :
" I suppose I have surprised you by !
my appetite? !
"I was glad to see yon enjoyed your i
dinner." >
" It's the first square meal I have had !
for two days." He now drew closer to 1
mo, and continued : " Can't you lend 1
me some money V"
"I'll write you a check at once for
fifty, if it will servo you. Is it possible 1
you have run through your fortune?" 1
" You've not heard, then, how I lost 1
it ? I supposed you knew all." '
" I've heard nothing. You were re- 1
t-mfPil worth a million."
" All gone with the smash-up of a 1
bank?Bowling Bros. Bat I have 1
promise of employment, and will repay '
you."
" I will write the check at once." 1
With these -./ords I entered the '
library, leaving him alone.
I sought my wife before I returned
and explained the situation of my un- 1
fortunate friend, concluding with the J
remark that he hail certainly suffered in c
his wits by the loss of his property. t
She refrained from expressing a single f
wonl of the abhorrence with which he t
must have tilled her, and was profuse in i
kindly sympathy. c
"Don't come in for a few minutes j \
after I have brought this to him," I a
said, in conclusion, showing her the i
check. " "When you do, we will try to ?
make him forget his losses by asking a
him to sketch your portrait, he admires r
you so extremely, and you will wonder t
at his skill." c
He started as lie again saw me, and i
seemed even less at his ease than here- i v
tofore, turning toward me with both t
hands in his pockets, while hi:; wandering
eyo refused frankly to meet
mine. r
But as I presented the check he sera- t
tinized it eagerly, and then was almost v
nauseous with thanks. . <]
lie did not resume his seat, but g
almost immediately stated that he e
thought he had bettor leave, it was 1:
getting late, and ho muttered some t
other unintelligible words. a
" My wife will be herein an instant," X L
answered, to detain him; and, as I a
spoke, she appeared. "I have prom- 1
iscd her that you should show your j
skill as an artist," I contiriucd. r
" And I have brought with me paper a
and pencils!" she exclaimed, extending t
flmm fn 1 nm
But his humls again sought his pock- c
ets, as he bowed and stammered: n
" I?I am entirely out of practice." v
"Only my wife's likeness. Come, f
now, it wou't take you live miuutes."
"Impossible, impossible!" said he.
" I could never do such beauty justice." a
""Well, then, sketch me," I demand- d
ed. i '
"I really could uot at this time. ; r
Some other day. I really am not in the 1
mood, not feeling well, in fact. You r
will excuse me. I?I am delighted (t
with my visit, but I'd better go now. o
You will soon see me again;" and he v
passed into the hallway with these final I
words. v
I followed to give him a farewell i
shake of the hand, and then watched v
his linking gait until ho passed out of a
sight. v
.1 then saw Emily beside mc. a
L oor iiMiow . suui ?ut?. t
"I could not Lave judged such a ii
perfect change possible," I answered. J
" Would von believe that that man was n
once the light of the social circle, a Ij
wit, the glass of fashion?almost our s
Admirable Ciichton V" b
"I could not, indeed," she replied, f;
lemurely. ' p
"We returned to tho parlor, and I
lighted a cigar. Emily at once proceeded
to the mantelpiece to place be- {,
>ide me a silver ash-receiver which' e
usually stood there. 0
"George, where is it?" she soon frisked,
with a startled look. !
""Where's what? Cousin Tom's a
present ? Oh, upstairs, I suppose," I ti
replied. t]
" It was certainly on the mantelpiece p
vhen we went to dinner," slie returned, f,
md then advanced to the center-tuble r,
jeside which I was sitting. (]
Afier a rapid glance thereon she com- p
neuced turning over the hooks and t]
3ther articles it held. f,
"And where is my gold card-casc," ^
;he now exclaimed. a:
" Emily, you are too suspicious," said j;
[, more in response to her expression of n
faco than of words. i i?
But the two presents were still miss- tl
inp;, when a week after I encountered an t]
Did chum of both Harris and myself. j jr
" Poor Harris !" I exclaimed. " How t.]
lie ia changed! Have you seen him 0
[atelv ?"
"Seen him? No! How could I?
He's in Paris, lucky as ever. I had a I
letter from him yesterday. Ho informs Z(
bo of his approaching marriage with jr
:he only daughter of his father's former 0
business partner, a young lady whoso j,
lebut in society recently made a sensa- f(
[ion, and she is as amiable as accom
plished, and as accomplished as beanti- ?
Fill. "What do you moan by poor Har- j,
ris ? Why, he's about to secure another n
fortune equal to his own. Here's his I <<
letter." n
I stared at it and read with wonder, 0
but. was Wholly unable to respond to my j,
friend's query. ; u
There was another in my mind which e
I propound to the reader: "Who was c
my friend Harris?" ! s
Cremation in Siam. y
The Princess Suntariat, one of the j s
favorites o: the king of hiam, and her L
infant daughter were drowned last year d
about forty miles from Bangkok by the v
upsetting of a large barge. The remains li
were embalmed and kept about nine v
months, when they were cremated with v
imposing ceremonies at an expense of li
$3(10,000 in decorations and the pies- a
ettation of gifts. A correspondent of g
the Louisville Courier-Journal says that 1
the rite took placo in a cross-shaped j t
building, 200 foot in length, covered a
withiu and without with gilded cloth. ; r
All the principal people and the foreign 1
representatives were present, and tine . p
quarters and a free restaurant were pro-j \
vided. The fire was lighted by the 1
first king, the second kiijg also being 11
present. After the funeral pyre li&d j 1
been consumed there were fireworks, I \
athletic sports, etc., for ten successive j j
nights. Among other representations j
was the lotus dance, participated iu by | r
fifty men swinging colored lanterns. i 1
During the entertainment each day, i
limes, a species of lemons, containing 1
small silver coins and also tickets to a \
lottery, were scattered freely among the | 1
spectators. Many beautiful prizes were }
drawn by both natives and foreigners. ?
The Buddhist priesthood were the prin- ^
cipal gainers by this cremation. One ;
hundred thousand dollars were ilistrib- f.
utcd in gifts to these gentlemen of the ;
yellow cloth. This was done to " make '
merit" with the hope that some might <
reach the spirit of the dead Princess i
Sun-an-ts-rhat, as she wandered through j i
the long travail of births and deaths 5 1
that await her before she can find rest, j I
When the crematory ceremonies were : ]
over the ashes aud a few charred bones :
were tenderly gathered up and place;l 1
in a golden urn prepared to receive]
them. This urn -was made almost en-1 1
tirely of the jewels of the dead princess, j
and a smaller one received the remains
of the royal babe. j
Mrs. Bayard Taylor is to publish her ;
^ hnsband^iography. |
FACTS A >I) COMMENTS.
The mayor of Quincy, Illinois, is very
fund of tit'tcen-biill pool; and his sister
is trying to wean him from the game.
Sho went to the hi liard saloon when ho
was engaged in it, the other day, and
gave him her opinion of him, of the
game and of the company in which she
found him, and, this proving ineffectual,
she dropped upon her knees in prayer j
for her sinful brother, whereupon the
mayor fled through the back door. Even
mayors are mortal.
The movement in tho industrial
world now seems to be toward obtain- '
iner substitutes for wood. The disan
pearance of our forests is feared to be
an event of the near future, so that
any substance that can take the place of
wood is welcome. It is proposed to replace
wooden sleepers with steel; slate
already has largely usurped the place of
shingles; cotton refuse is compressed
into building blocks; gum is made into
a substance resembling black walnut;
sawdust is pressed into a form which j
only experts could distinguish from the
original lumber.
An ingenious farmer, sticking a few
nails into a clothesline to keep his
neighbor's cattle out of his pasture, j:
went about his other business thinking
no more of the matter. A sharp fellow
:\ame along, saw the rope and began to
:hink about it. He evolved the " barbed
Evire " fence, and the very farmer from 1
vhorn the fellow got the idea has to pay
lim a tribute for an article which he
linmnlf nnVinnllv dfisitrned. And the
ncome of the monopoly is estimated at
>100,000 per month. 1j
Dr. Jame-, of Harvard college, ;
jrothor of the novelist, Henry James, :
Fr., is lecturing to the medical students
>n the use of alcoholic drinks. He 1
hinks the evidence, on the whole, is in '
avor of total abstinence. Alcohol takes
lie place of food by temporarily reduc-.
ng the normal demand for it, but "this I
i fleet. is not desirable" or consistent j
vith perfect health. The elTect of
.lcohol on the circulation is to create an J!
Uusionary feeling of warmth, while as
i n atter of fact the thermometer shows ; ]
. decline of the bodily hrat. Any task j
equiring more than half an hour can I
iotJ.be done as well with alcohol as with- j(
>ut it. As an assistance to digestion 1 j
ts real value, h*i says, is that of a flavor j
[ ln'i.li TVI1T7 nnnnllr Troll BPOlirPfi liv 1
lie use of fruits.
|'
An excellent charity lias jusfc been
stablished in London. An organizaion
lias been formed of benevolent j
rnmen to provide homes in the various
[istricts of the British metropolis for
[iris and young women who are earnstly
striving to gain an honest living, I
iut who are homeless; at the same time j
o afford them profitable recreation,
nd above all to surround them with |
icalthful influences and friendly guid- i
nee at the most critical period of their j
ives. The rent of a bedroom com-j
rising the use of dining and reading- i
ooms, supplied with books, magazines
nd newspapers, is from sixty-two cents
o Si a week. Board, consisting of
trcakfast, dinner and tea (Sundays inluded),
is charged at the rate of 81.12
week, while separate meals are proided
for those who do not require the
ull weekly accommodation.
f
A Canadian paper, whoso editor prob-,
bly believes that Friday is an unlucky '
lay, prints the following paragraph:
Are not such facts as these enough to
oake one ask, ' What's in a name ?'
?he small excursion steamer that car- j J
ied nine persons to their doom at Gaitj1
hree years apo was named the Empress j1
f India. The excursion boat that | c
rent down in the river Thames, at j(
jondon, England, in the fall of 1878,
rith about GOO souls on board, was ! 1
;nown as the Princess Alice. The ship jc.
rhicli fouudered off Spithead in 1872, j
nd swept GOO passengers into the other
rorld, was called tlio lioyal George; ; ^
nd last, but not least, the steamer Vic- | f
oria, that jiarted to carry desolation j
uto thousands of Canadian homes find j c
rape our land in mourning, bore the | T
ame of our beloved quec-a, upon whose j ?
lirtlulay the boat gave up the ghost, in ':
ight, wo should also say, of the sister 1
oat, the Princess Louise. Strange j 8
itality! Stranpe enough certainly to "
nit serious thoi ghts into one's head." J1
! C
A couple of boys iu a New York town 1
earning that the odor and noise of sev- ;
ral pigs were disagreeable to the j
wner's neighbors offered for a small j
nm to abate the nuisanco. Whether B
lieir offer was accei>ted or not does not K
ppear. At any rate .they proceeded E
5 business by buying two papers. With c
iiese they properly prepared the apples, j ^
otatoes aud other garbage which was j c
?d to the animal with most successful c
;sults. The swine went into a rapid j n
ecline and had to be slaughtered. The j,
arents of the boys were obliged to set-' ^
;e with the owner, but the neighbors j
;lt relieved. Of course the reader will!
e curious to know what two papers '
re useful in killing hogs. For if once j
nown there are stray curs and mid- ,
ight cats enough to insure them a j;
irge circulation. To know also where
idt nm nnYJisliPil. nrwl wliollipr Hifiv nro
aiiy or weekly. Perhaps without giv- S
lg nanie3 it will bo sufficient to say I
jat one was a paper of phis, the other i u
f tacks. !11
A Lovc-Loru Hermit. | ^
Thirty years ago Gilbert Francis Vert- ! j"
en, a Frenchman, drifted into * small; j
'rench colony, about three miles west |J
f New Albany, Ind. Ho was unhappy
i tlio society of human beings and ,
3und a cave in a contigu jus wild re- i
ion called the " Knobs." He procured | .
chair, a box for a table, a pewter j ^
late, a tin cup and two quilts, and j
lowd into the cavo and became tho ; j
hermit of the Knobs." How he lived ^
o one knew, as his only visible means ^
f support was picking berries and sell- .
:ig them in the town during the sum- j1
aer time. It was observed that when- j ,
ver he appeared in public he always
arried with him a small leather pachel, { ?
trapped to his side and closed with a f
lasp. The use of this leather pocket
,-iis not apparent to anyone, Curiosity
onietiines took people to the neighbor- 1
iood of his cave, but he seldom ad- j
uitted any one, and was averse to conersation.
The only communication ?
io hold with anybody else's thoughts j k
ras through a few old French books, 1
rliich he read constantly when at I
lome. About ten years ago, however, 1
himpper-up of \incousidered trifles !,
;ot a little ways into his con- , J
idence and gained from him some par- j
ieulars of his life, which were printed j ^
t the time, but have a fresh interest 1
tow that the hermit is dead. He was j ,
)orn in Versailles, France, in 1810, of i
food family, and went to college. |
>Vliile finishing his education he fell in |
ove with a girl "above his estate in j ^
ife, although in his veins ran noble
>lood." The parents of the girl, who !1
ras well inclined toward tho student,
>ut a stop to the association of the
jair, which was ripening for matri- J
nony. When he knew that she was j
ost to him forever he had nothing I
core to do in the world. He left col- > !
egeungraduated, and .scraping together j
vliat money he could ho wandered. !1
3e drifted uii the current of time some 1,
rears, and finally lodged at New Albany
md thence to his cave iu the Knobs, 1
ivhore every beat of his heart for thirty ,
years was a pang. He had not been j
icon much of late, for the weight of his
. ears and sorrows was heavy upon him. '
The other day he was found dead in his ;
ave by some rhance-callers at his open ;
loor. The secret of tho saeliel was !;
revealed. Within its clasp, wraj>ped in i
hick ]?aper folds, was the picture of I j
:he beautiful French girl, whoso loss ,
iad blasted his life fifty years ago.
Tho teacher had grown eloquent in I
picturing to his little pupils the beauties
of heaven, and lie finally asked:
"What kind of little boys go to heaven?'
A lively little fourteen-year-old boy
with kicking boots, flourished his fist.
"Well, yon may answer," said theteaclier. :
"Dead ones," the little fellow shouted j
at the extent of his lungs.
PROGRESS.
New Invention! and DiscovrrlrR.
Tho present ago may properly bo
characterized as the golden age of inventors
and discoverers. So fully convinced
is the commercial world of the
utility and value of scicntitic research,
that the investigator or inventor has not
long to wait for a golden harvest if he
has anything to offer which is new and
adapted to supply a want. The rapidity
with which new devices are adopted
in business and domestic life is wonder-1
fill. Five years atro not a single tele
phonic circuit existed in the world
which could bo used for practical or j
business purposes; now there are 156,- i
/)00 instruments in use in the Lnited j
States alone, and there are only six or I
eight cities of 10,000 inhabitants which ;
are without a telephone exchange. Prob
ablv more than live millions of people j
in this country make daily use of the J
telephone for business or other purposes. |
Thousands are hourly holding conversa-!
tions between distant points, over single !
wires, and by means and appliances,
wholly unknown to science at the close '
of General Grant's last term of office.
Up to the date above indicated (187G)
not a single investigator in the depart- i
mnnf r\C n1 n/ilvlrt ^nf\ /invrii\t\ ifcj
iiiv'u v \ji litvu vauiuvi na ;
results beyond the stage of experiment, j
No actual practical business test had ;
been made, no effective dynamo-machine j
had been constructed, or form of lamp j
devised. Now, one iuventor has in;
practical use over (5,000 lamps, distribu- j
ted in part as follows : 800 lights in !
rolling mills ; 1,340 in cotton and other ;
factories; 430 lights in stores, hotels, j
etc.; 300 lights in parks, docks, etc.;
300 in railroad depots; 200 lights in :
mines ; 1,500 in f-tations for city light- i
ing. There aro other devices, of perhaps
etpial utility, at work in all parts j
of the country, and the call for the ap-:
pliances for this method of lighting is j
far beyond the ability of manufacturers i
to supply.
Twenty years ago the only available j
igent for the supply of explosive force i
svas gunpowder. The army of miners |
xnd excavators, employed in digging for i
:he precious metals or in cutting through !
mountains for railroad transit, felt the
need of some more effective and powerful
agents to tear the rock masses asunler
; but it was not until some accidents
5n shipboard startled the world by the
;errifie nature of the explosions that it
ivas known that chemists had discovered
litro-glycerine, an agent possessing a
"orce ten times greater than gunpowder,
fhis substance has now almost entirely
lisplaced gunpowder in all groat min- j
ng and engineering works the world :
)ver, and it would be difficult to dis-1
?enso with it as an article of every-day 1
lse for many purposes.
Nickel is a metal long known to cliem-!
!sts and metallurgists, but it was re-1
yarded as exceedingly unpromising in ;
ts industrial applications, and treated :
vitli neglect. It is less than a scoro of!
rears since one of its salts, the double j
sulphate, was prepared, and from its '
solution the bath which made possible j
ho deposition of the metal by the elec- j
;ric battery. This despised metal is i
low of inestimable value, as it affords a
surface more beautiful and enduring;
han silver on implements and utensils j
)f the widest jange.
Tho discovery by Bessemer of a cheap, \
piick method of making steel is quite |
ecent, and yet we know that it has rerolutionized
track construction on rail-,
uads. No road with any considerable
imount of traffic can aflord to use iron :
ails; and, indeed, so important is this ;
liscovery that it would be impossible to
lay dividends on most roads without an j
ncrease of traffic rates, if iron alone was ;
ised. Steel, by the Bessemer method, !
an bo made as cheap as iron, and the i
Inference in price is now inconsiderable. '
In agriculture the discovery of the |
nineral food of plants led to the dis-'
:overy of vast beds of phosphatic rocks j
n tho ancient sea basins of Charles-1
on,'S. C., aud an industry was de-!
eloped which is of great magnitude
Lnd importance. We could ereatlv ex
end the list of important discoveries j
md inventions which havo been made j
vithiu the memory of most persors oi,
idult age, all of which havo given for- i
unes to tho parties interested in orig- j
nating and developing them. The,
ilow appreciation of new discoveries in 1
. former age has passed away, and no !
onger do the many decades' of years '
(lapse before they are turned to practi* j
al account.
Henry discovered the electro-magnet j
n 1819, and it was not until 1844 that!
t was utilized in the construction ol' the ;
elegraph. Faraday discovered electrouaguetic
induction in 1831, but it was !
lot until 1851 that a practical dynamonacliine
was made of small dimensions.
Since 1850 the world lias progressed ,
rith giant strides in the practical appli- i
ation of the results of scientific dis- i
overy, and it is probable that no dilunition
of interest w ill be experienced
ti the course of the centuries which are ,
o come.?Boston Journal nf Chemistry.
A (Juiet Boarding House.
"I have come in answer to your adver-'
isement for board," said a nervous old
idy to a pert miss of thirteen, as the ;
itter showed her into a parlor of all the
omforts of a home establishment on :
lenry street. "And I won't come here :
nless your house is perfectly quiet, ,
iow remember that."
"Quiet! well, you may smile," replied
liss. "That noise you hear now is the i
lentist in the basement, pulling out a 1
ooth, but he'll get it out, if it takes ;
am a month. How much can you af- \
ord to pay ?"
"I think I hear some one upstairs,
houting," said the old lady.
"That's only a young lawyer practic- j
ng a case. You'll get used to him.
fobody liked it at first, but we've all;
^ot used to it and don't mind it now. i
lot any children ? Wo don't take cliil-!
!??? l.mnnfA Aim l^olo'ncj finrlif 'nm cn " 1
Lit'ii, uaauou uiu uauiv.o n^nu v?u ?ui (
"No, I haven't. Who's that yelling |
n the next room V"
"That's the landlord trying to collect ;
he rent. You know pa is very (leaf, ;
ml you've got to howl at him. You'll!
lave to pay in advance if you come!
icre."
"Good gracious! What's tljat ?" ejac- j
ilated the old lady, as a furious din I
.wept through the lower regions.
"I guess the cook is driving grandma
>ut of the kitchen with the clothcspole. '
>he often does that. Have you got [
nuch baggage?"
"Sakes alive ! Somebody is being |
nurdered upstairs ! Who is it V"
"Oh! that's a literary fellow on the
op lloor. Whenever he writes anyliing
he squeals like a pig. But he
generally writes at night, and you
leedn't pay any attention to him."
"What are your terms ??good heaven,
he roof has fallen in 1"
"Xo, it hasn't ; that's a college pro- j
essor, and that's tho way he goes up |
md down stairs. If you listen you may j
iear him break his neck ! Can you give I
my references V Anybody know your" '
"Certainly ; if I?was that a gun?" j
"I guess so. My cousin has got a
irairie down cellar where lie hunts In- i
li.ins and buffaloes and things. Some- J
imes he's a road agent, and then he i
obs us oil t Ixo stairs. We always allow ;
'or it in the board, so it evens up. Got t
my money of your own ?"
"Never mind whether I have t not;'
[ don't think I want a room lieu, any-1
vay. Let me out, please."
"Couldn't let you have one, anyhow;"
retorted miss, preparing to slide down j
:he balustrade. "There's only one
jmpty one, and that's too high-priced
"or you ; besides, you don't wear very
<jood clothes, and wo prefer not to have !
you around." And down the slide she l
ivent with a whiz-/., while the old lady I
pattered otV after another home-like!
liouse.?Brooklyn Emjlp..
' ~ i
The New York Sorosis has been dis-!
cussing the question, "Which woman i
did the most good in the world, Jane i
WelchCarlyle or George Eliot? Tho I
question was decided in favor of tho !
latter, because she was a master creator, |
etc., while Mrs. Carlyle was only an '
assistant to a master, and of such aa i
whom there are thousands to the single j
George Eliot.
THE WEEPIS4J WILLOW.
\ How ii Proline! of I lie (Jnrilrn of Eilru Eiii!
grilled ro (IiIn Country.
You have soon uml ail mi red the weep
ing willow tree ?the Salix Babylonit'i
?upon which the captive Hebrew
hung their harps when tliey sat dowi
by the rivers of Babylon and " wep
when they remembered Zion." It is i
native of the Garden of Eden and noto
America, and 1 will tell you how it emi
grated to this country.
More than 150 years ago a morchan
lost his fortune. lie went to Smyrna
a seaside city in Asia Minor, to recove:
it. Alexander Pope, one of the grea
poets of England, was the merchant'i
wa/m friend, anil sympathized with hin
in his misfortunes.
Soon after the merchant arrived ii
Smyrna he sent to Pope, us a present
a box of dried figs. At that time th<
poet had built a beautiful villa a
Twickenham, on the bank of the rive:
Thames, and was adorning it with trees
shrubbery and dowering plants.
On opening tliw box of ?gs Pope dis
covered in it a small twig of the tree
It wa a stranger to him. As it c.-m<
from the East he plan ed the twig ii
ihe ground near the edge of th'i river
close by h s villa. The spot accidentia
chosen for the planting was favorabli
to its growth, for the twig was from th<
w< eping willow tre , possibly from th<
nonlr n r\ f < < f l-\n ti v nra nf T^<lwlnn '
?which flourishes best along the bor
tiers of water courses.
'Ibis little twig grew vigorously, ant
in a few years it became a large tree
spreading wide its blanches and drcep
ing, graceful sprays, and winning th<
inspiration of the poet's friends as wel
as strangers. It became the ancestor o:
a 1 the we.-ping willow* inE gland.
'I here was a rebellion in the English
American colonies in 1775. Britisl
troops were sent to Boston to put dowx
the insurrection. Their leaders ex
pected to end it in a few weeks aftej
their arrival. Some young officer;
brought fishing tacklo with them to en
able them to enjoy sport after the brie
war. Others came to settle on the con
fisc.nted land of the "rebels."
Among the latter was a young office)
on the staff of General Howe. Ht
brought with him, wrapped in oil silk,
a twig lrom rope s weeping willow ai
Twickenham, which he intended tc
plant on some stream watering his
American estate.
Washington commanded an army before
Boston, which kept the British imprisoned
in that city a long time againsl
their will. On his staff was his stepson,
John Parke Curtis, who frequently wen!
to the British headquarters,, under the
protection of a flag, with dispatches foi
General Howe. He became acquainted
with the young officer who had tho willow
twig, and they became friends.
Instead of "crushing the rebellion in
six weeks," tho British army at Boston,
at the end of an imprisonment of nine
months, was glad to fly by s;ea, for life
and liberty, to Halifax. Long before
that flight tho British subaltern, satisfied
that he should never have an estate
in America to adorn, gave his carefully
preserved willow twig to young Curtis,
who planted it in Abingdon, his estate
in Virginia, where it grew and flourished,
and became a parent of all the
weeping willows in the United otatos.
Some time after the war General
Horatio Gates, of tho Revolution, settled
011 tho Iiose Hill farm, on New
York island, and at the entrance to a
lane which led from a country road to
his house ho planted a twig from the
vigorous willow at Abingdon, which he
had brought with him. That country
road is now Third avenue, and the lane
is Twenty-second street. Gates' mansion,
built of wood, and two stories in
height, stocd near the corner of
Twenty-seventh street and Second avenue,
where I saw it consumed by fire in
1815. The tree, which grew from the
twig plauted at the entrance to Gates'
lane, remained until comparatively a
few years ago. It stood on the northeast'corner
of Third avenue and Twentysecond
street. It was a direct descendant.
in the third generation, of Po^o-'s
willow, planted ut Twickenham about
1722.?lien.inn J. Lor-sing, in Harper's
Your,'j People.
An Indian's Tussle With Hot Soup.
Tho Uncompahgre Utes, writes a
Colorado correspondent, know how to
drive a good bargain, and it is muinly
through their efforts that so fiue a treaty
has been made with the United States.
These Indians are half-Spanish strollers
who have had dealings with tho Mexicans
for more than 200 years. Next
eome tho White River Utes, with
Douglass and Jack for leaders. Jack i i
a shrewd scoundrel, and having lived a
long time on l'amoah or Bear River, ia
frenuentlv called Yamoah Jack. He
speaks English enough to make his
wants known to the Great Father, and is
by no means bashful about so doing.
If he wants a crimson brow-band for his
bridle he forthwith pleads with that
high functionary, and in a few days
brow-band, bridle and pony are all
forthcoming.
H6 then,?sits down and thanks the
Great Manitou for having cast his lines
in snch pleasant places. Jack is a great
gambler and has pioved himself a good
tighter. He likes everything tho white
man has, from hot soup up. He was
complacently dining with a white man
on one occasion when some exceedingly
hot soup was placed before him. He
didn't know very well what it was, but
determined to "chance it" nnway. So
he pat a huge tablcspoonful in his
mouth, when a more astonished Indian
lias seldom been seen. We all knowhow
hot soup can got sometimes, and
that soup was about as hot as any that
was ever made. Jack sprang out of his
chair and went to dancing around the
cabin as if he was bewitched. He howled
with pain, and it was sometime before
he could be quiet enough to make an
examination, when it was found that the
inside of his mouth had been entirely
scalded away. " Ugh!" said he. " Injin
lie no like um soup !" This was jrreat
sport for the white men who were present,
but they look pains to conceal it
as best they could. I belie re no greater
scoundrel than this same Jack can be
found in the limits of Colorado, which
is saying a great ileal or him.
A Nevada Snake Story.
Probably there is no animal on eartb
so intelligent and humane as a Nevada
rattlesnake. A little girl, four years
old, belonging to a farmer, was run away
with in the mountains the other day
while her father got out of the wagon to
get a drink?at the spring. As she was
one of twelve (laughters ho hated to
spoil the set, a id so pushed on after
her, but with little hopes of overtaking
tho fiightened animal. Presently he
found the horse right on the edge of a
precipice unable to move an inch. One
end of a strap had caught around his
fetlock, the other end around a tree,
and held him tight. "When the farmer
went to pull on the strap he jumped
about ten feet, for a rattlesnake was
holding tho horse. It had wound his
tail around the horse's leg, its ntck was
turned three times around a sapling
and its teeth were fast in the wood. It
was twelve feet long, for tho farmer
measured it. A few i>ounds more strain
would havo snapped tho snake clear in
two. The snake wasn't over five feet
long really, for when the farmer took
the strain ofl' it came right back to its
natural size, for a snake is a very elastic
animal. The child wasn't frightened in
the least. This story must be true, because
tho farmer was there and saw it
all, and says it is true. He wanted foui
copies of the paper- the Carson Appm,
?if it published the item, to send tc
his relatives in the East. \Vo take the
liberty of extending tho information tc
his acquaintances in the other parts ol
tho country. Those who know bin;
best and admire him most will be ghu'
to hear that ho is dcing so well out ir
Nevada.?Detroit Free, Press.
A fashion exchange says that "smal
ostrich tips trim the new hats." Tliat'i
a blessing. We've always been com
polled to pay the milliner for trimminf
them. Truly this is a progressive age
?Keokuk Gate City.
j FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Expelling Hots.
" j If I remember right, Dr. Homo some
where slated that tliere is no way of ex
polling bots from n horse. I have been
\ j in the habit of giving horses a strong
s j decoction of sage, well sweetened, which
i : Lad the effect of expelling the bots. It
t | was supposed, when I was a boy, that
i j sage tea acted as a cathartic, and that
f the bots were fond of sweet, and would
- let go to take a sip of tea, and while sipping
tea. would be carried along the
fc intestinal canals and the horse would be
, relieved. A few ashes help them along,
r I write from experience ; no guess-work
t about it.
!?
Spare tlir Cnlves.
Ao Knrilir* is nnw llfirfi Wfi would
:i again caution farmers against the indis,
criminate slaughter of these innocents.
: The considerations advanced by some
I; farmers in favor of this practice are
i* purely of a mercenary character, and if,
f generally adopted would aoon put an '
end to one of the most important.
. branches of rural husbandry, and could |
, be likened to the fable of the foolish 1
> mnn who killed the goose that lay the j
i golden egg.
t It requires but very little trouble to j
t raise a spring calf, and what little j
j trouble there is is confined to the first j
; few weeks of its life. The better way J
> is to put the calf in some convenient |
' grass lot separate from the cow, and \
. allow it to suck its mother every morn-1
ing and evening, gradually diminishing !
I its allowanco as the grass makes its ap-;
pearance and which it will soon learn to
. eat. At the end of five or six weeks itj
3 can bo easily taught to drink out of a j
1 bucket, when skimmed milk, mixed with j
f a little corn -nd oats ground toge^^j-,:
and a little flaxseed boiled to a jellv. can ;
. be substituted for its usual diet of new
! milk. Calves fed in this way seldom j
t get the "scours," but should a case of j
. the kind occur it can easily be stopped
r by giving the calf a little boiled fresh j
3 milk, and mixing therewith a table- j
. spoonful or so of powdered chalk,
f When the calf is some three months |
. old and the grass well up, it may be j
turned out to some good pasture where j
r there is plenty of water, but not within i
? reach or hearing of the cow. The!
trouble is then all over, as the calf will
t shift for itself.
> '
j Carbolic Acid lor Insccin.
The time has almost come again when
"the little busy bugs" will open up their;
summer campaign and dispute with the !
. "lords of creation" for possession of the 1
"fruits of the earth." Allow me thus
I early to call attention to an article, the !
) merits of which eveiybody knows, but
. which many dare not use?I refer to !
L .carbolic acid. Prepared as indicated it'
cannot, I think, hurt the most delicate ,
house plants, and it is sure to kill in-j
j sect life. My plan of preparing is as j
follows: I obtain crude carbolic acid ; I
( U3e it in this form because it is stronger j
nr?<J a -wvn imaoa rtac'fo l\nf .
k iVLllil UCtlCIiUi tHO I^UI^UOC unu vvobg 1/C4.C
' very little (about twenty-five cents per '
| gallon, I think.) I pour a quantity of
( this dark crude acid into a quantity of
. good strong domestic soft soap ; stir
well together and allow to stand for a
, few hours. I then test the compound |
' by mixing a little of it with soft water.'
, If too much acid has been added, oily particles
of carbolic acid will be observed
floating on the surface. This shows I
| that more acid has been put in than the \
. soap will incorporate or "cut," and more
soe.p should be added to balance the ex|
cess of acid. No more definite rule can
be given, as so much depends on the
| strength of the soap. Two or throe!
tablespoonfuls of the acid to a quart of
, soap may be first tried. I prefer to make
' as strong with acid as the soap will per- i
fcctly cut. A very little practice will!
enable any one to compound it correct- j
ly. The refined acid may bejised when i
the crude is not at hand. When pre- j
| pared as above make a moderately strong !
' suds and apply with syringo or sponge, f
In using on very delicate plants, should
any fear be felt for the plants, they can !
be riused off after a few minutes. My
first and eminently successful use of this j
compound was some years since on a
' block of 'voting cherry-trees sonic fifty
' thousand in number. !,hel>Tuck aphis '
"came down like the wolf on the fold," j
only "they came not as single spies, but j
in whole battalions." It soon became an
interesting question as to who was the
proprietor of this particular block of
! trees?myself or the "bug Ethiopian.'
A disinterested observer of judicial turn
of mind, judging from the general appearance
of things and the very "at
home" air assumed by the bugs, would
have said they had the best case. He j
would, at least have been compelled to ;
admit they had "nine points of the law" i
(possession) in their favor. I never saw |
the like before.. The trees were alive ;
with aphis. The only pcarce things on ;
the trees were leaves, there being hard- J
ly enough to afford "standingroom" for j
all the duslcy guests. However, no.11
being a convert to the doctrine of:
"squatter sovereignty," I declared war, ;
and failing to decrease the number by j
ordinary means I compounded soft soap !
and carbolic acid, and with a single ap-1
plication exterminated the enemy.?T. j
T. S.t in Gardener's Monthly.
Ileclpcn. !
Egoless Cookies.?Two cups sugar, |
one cup sweet milk, one cup butter, one- j
half tea3poonful eoda. Flour enough i
to roll. Use vanilla, lemon or nutmeg !
for seasoning. They are very nice.
Ec-gless Cake.?One and one-half'
eups sugar, one cup sour milk, three j
level cups flour, one-half cup butter, i
one teaspoonful soda, one-half teaspoon-1
ful cinnamon, one-half teaspoonful grat- j
ed nutmeg, teacup of chopped raisins 1
Tildes Cake.?One heaping coffee j
cup sugar ; one-half teacup butter, one
and one-half teacups sour milk ; one |
teaspoonful each of cinnamon, cloves i
and nutmeg; one cup fruit; one teaspoon- j
ful soda. Stir in flour until it will just i
i drop from tlie spoon.
Salt Rising Bread.?The earlier in 1
tlio morning it is set the bettor. A most!
convenient hour isfi o'clock. Take one j
pint of water, one-half teaspoonful of |
i1 salt anil one teaspoonful of sugar;
' stir to the thickness of pancake bat-1
' ter. The water used should be as j
warm as the hand can bear. Placo the i
esseljcontaining this batter into water!
of the temperature of that first used, !
and let it stand for three hours. In
, thai, time a water will arise to the stir-;
, fncr-; then thicken with Hour until tho
i batter is as thick as it was in the commencement.
Let it stand three hours
longer when it will again rise, making a
i toti.l standing of six hours. Th?n get i
what flour you need for your baking,
scald about one pint of it, ami after it is j
cool mix the rising together with warm
water and mis to a stillness to knead on 1
a warm board. A great deal of kneading
is required. Placo the dough in \
your baking pan, set aside until it rises t
to twice its original size and then bake i
in a quick oven. If you are successful, \
and a earcful following of these direc-1
tious will make you so, you have the <
. most delicious bread that has ever eni
tercd mortal's mouth. If you have a
large baking the ingredients are lo be1
proportionately increased.
( 'loomy Weather.
Why force them to do that which they
dislike? It is seldom that any good is
; gained by such a course. "Why should i
; your little boy be made to eat the fat of
i his meat if ho loathes it, or anything, j
i no matter what, that is repulsive to him V :
i Or whv make a child miserable by fore
ing it to wear articles of clothing which
; its taste does not approve or at which'
other cnildren laugh ? I think that
I little girls suffer more from this than
> from any one thing. Almost all of us
i have some such memory. I know a lady
> whose childish life was made wretched
F for a year by an obsolete old bag in
i which she was forced to carry her books ;
I to school, and another whose mother \
l forced her to wear some old lace, which, j
though costlv, was laughed at by the |
ignorant children who made her world, ;
1 and declared that she actually wished ;
9 herself dead until that lace was banished 1
- from her wardrobe. If yon can j
j manage it, bo wise, and consult your
. children's tastes in these unimportant
matters
FOR TIIE LADIES.
DrcMxInc ilic llalr.
A book that should give the full history
of tho feminine headdress wonM !
be a book full of interest. IIow niaty j
long and patient researches its author j
would liavo to ruako to give even a J
glimpse of the thousands on thousands I
of transformations that the natural |
ornament of tho humau skull has un- j
uergone at tne twining oi taste ami 01
caprice!
During tlie opoch of paganism the
priestess of Bacchus appeared in public
with flowing tresses, while Diaua and
hor nymphs are represented as knotting
their hair on the top of their heads. The
coiffure of the ancient Greek ladies, as
also of the Roman dames, was of an extreme
simplicity ; they parted the hair
ou the top of the head and braided it in
long plaits falling down tho shoulders.
Very often they made with these plaits
a twist behind the head, which was kept
in place by meaus of a bandelet. The
Roman ladies, whose slaves were counted
by thousands, employed many of these
solely in dressing their hair. Woe to
the slavc-s if tho coiffure became disarranged
! Patience was not one of the
virtues of the fashionable women of
those days. They diverted themselves
by thrusting long pincers into the flesh,
of their improvised hairdressers.
Even at that time the hairpin was already
in use; for w;e know that Flavia,
V?rr tttott r\t incnlf rt nnrncn nf flinorft
KJJ n?J Vi UlOUlUiU^ CUU W* v/J. V?w? V)
drew a hairpin from her locks and thrust
it through the tongue of the illustrious
orator, as though thus taking vengeance
for the sarcasms that tongue had hurled
at her. The use of Jj^tf-Jfowtk^was
also known, siiics-Foppea, the secofttL
wife of Nero; never allowed herself to
be seen by lier lord and master until
she had first covored her locks with a
powder of gold.
During the middle ages fashion did
not get any further than the plaits and
bandeaux until the Crusaders left an
Oriental imprint on the art of hairdressing.
Toward 1660 a revolution
suddenly broke out among the ladies
who set the pattern of elegance. Curls
became the fashion and graciously
shaded the charming features of the Le
Vallieres, the Sevignes, the Maintenons,
the Ninon de l'Enclos and the other
beauties who adorned the reign of Louis
XIV. A little later the pyramidal headdresses
corao into vogue and grew to
ridiculous heights. So absurdly high
were they that latlies going to the ball
were forced to kneel dowu in their carriages
or to thrust their heads out of the
windows. In caricature of the period
hairdressers on the way to the houses
of their patrons are represented as carrying
ladders upon their backs.
The revolution of 1789 was a terrible
blow to the artirts of the profession,
ind the disuse of powder atd of wigs
forced them to sensibly modify their
art. It was at this time that a hairdresser
named Michalon inveuted and
brought into fashion the practice of exhibiting
different styles of headdresses
on the heads of the wax figures which
still ornament the windows of his successors.
The reigns of Louis XVIII.,
Charles X. and Louis Philippe conr?/-vf
! ? ir? rr tlifl lncfrtVtf r\i llOll*- i
dressing, except fashions that nowadays !
would be considered eccentric.
With tho advent of the Second Empire
we outer the domain of modern
hairdressing. Felix Escolier, hairdresser
to the Empress Eugenie, composed
for the wedding of that sovereign a
coiffure consisting of two bandeaux in
front; the one in the Marie Stuart style,
the other rolled, beginning at the top
of the head and falling gracefully down
the neck iu little curls. This dresser ;
of crowned heads was before everything
else an innovator. For many years he i
created the new styles. His profes-1
siooal brethren could not succeed in ;
imitating him, and they employed all!
sorts of stratagems to discover his se-1
crets. One day as he was dressing the i
hair of the wife of a great uignitarv of j
the Empire he perceived one of tliese
rivals who, disguised as a valet, has
entered the shop to spy out tho new
style, in order to employ it on tho head
of one of his own clients. Felix, pretending
not to see anything, dress?&.
madam's head in the_j^jt-4ffiighable
anil g^ctJirtr'rtif'iasEion that he could devise.
As soon as his rival had gone j
away he undid all that he had done and ;
constructed a scientific and novel coif- j
fare. As for the rival, he imitated with j
imnlimt. fnnfiilnnpA tell at lif> had seen. I
filled -with enthusiasm, he dressed the
liair of his client, a lady who was to j
pass tho evening at tho Tuileries. Her !
entrance into tho imperial ballroom {
<vas the signal for laughter and jests on |
/II sides. It was the ruin of the un- J
lucky hairdresser.
Fnttliion Fnnclen.
Dotted mull scarfs are much worn.
Red parasols are striking novelties.
The fashionable parasol is very large.
There i^ a rage for tan-colored
gloves.
The obelisk is a novelty in rough
straw hats.
All sleeves are half short and all j
gloves very long.
Red abounds in summer dresses, hats
and bonnets.
Box-plaited and shirred corsages grow
in popularity. ^
The obelisk hat has a tall, tapering
crown and a wide brim.
Plain black grenadines, trimmed with i
black laces, will be much worn.
Corsage bouquets of pure white!
flowers are the fancy of the passing !
moment.
There is a decided tendeucy to make ,
BKirts iuner ana men urtt]Jcnt-o xuuiu t
bouffant.
The wearing of a frill of lace around ,
the edge of the briru of hats and bon-1
nets is revived.
Obelisk hats are trimmed profusely
around the crown with long, rich, heavy !
ostrich plumes.
There is a revival of black and whito
striped silks for parts of costumes and j
for underskirts.
Fancy bracelets and necklaces and ,
pins, mounted with insects and odd designs,
are much worn.
Pale tinted mull muslins are as much :
worn as whito and cream, and make
more dressy toilets.
Whito jonquils and stock gillyflowers
are w< rn l'or corsage bouquets by ladies
iii second or half mourni. g.
Niw scrap bags are shaped like a
great \ase, and t ri > med with acorns,
bows, and ! alls of many colors
Pale rose, blue, and cream white s a- !
sid zephyr do In will b.; ag in us d i
for inexpensive and garden-party!
dresses.
C air stripes, sofa pillows, mantel
lambrequins, and tidies of blue satin,
worked in bright colors in silk and wool,
suit any kind of furniture.
Decorative needlework designs on j
table scarfs, piano covers, curtains, vala
ces, tidies and mats i- the fuvorit.
fancy wo k of women of leisure for the
summer.
Pretty and easy fancy work fer summer
afternoons is that done 011 linen j
doylies or linen or moruie cloth strips j
and squares, in outline designs, stitches i
with blight red or black or varieolor.-d 1
silks.
An eccentric fashion is to put white
and lilac . ostrich plumes 011 opposite
sides of t e t rim of a black chip hat. |
separate bv a bow of whit* satin over !
white Spanish lace, while the brim is |
lined with w. ite satin and white Span-!
i.>-li lace frilled in and held down with a
row of large cut jet beads.
Striped go ds aro used by th? best J
dressmakers as trimming rather th 11 to !
form any important part of the dress. :
They make the flounces, which are half
concealed by the G eek fret on the j
border of the overskirt, they form the
plaiting bout the 11 ek and sometimes
t. e cull', but they do not make the dress
too gay.
Man too easily cheats himself with
talking repentance for reformation, resolutions
for actions, blossoms for fruits,
as on the naked twig of the fig-tree
fruits sprout forth which are only the
fleshy rinds of the blossoms.
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HEALTH IIIM'S.
English physicians report the obtai:
ing of purgative effects from the exte
nal application of castor oil over tl
abdtmen.
Rare-cooked fresh meats are far moi
easily digested, and furnish much 11101
nutiiment thau ihoso well done. Hul>
will make one enjoy the rare-cook(
steak as more juicy ar<! v datable, a::
it is certainly better as food.
If the skin of the head becomes vei
tender during, confinement to the bt
make a narrow pillow, cylinder-shapei
o>)i1 no n
UUIl nunc Vlity 14 V. I a. v.
on such a pillow and the car not con
in contact with tho surface. The ea
suffer most when the skin of the head
tender.
Sprains are always promptly reliev<
by allowing the ccrtdest water to fa
upon the part steadily, until no discor
fort is experienced. Repeat as often :
necessary; keep the sprained joint el
rated, if about the hands, and horizo
tal if about the feet, so as to promo
the flow of blood from the parts 1
gravity; and live for a few days on frui
and coaise bread mainly.
Senators and Congressmen.
There are seventy-six members of tl
United State^Senate, iifty-nine of who
are practicing lawyers. Of the 293 mei
bers of the House of Representativ
219 are lawyers. The President ar
Vice-President of the United States a
both lawyers, and nearly all the gover
ment departments, from highest
lowest, are headed and directed by t]
same profession. In the Senate, e
pecially among Senators themselve
si^h member's ability is guaged by L
ran^Xja lawyer. When the status
an incoming Senator is under discussi<
the remark infrequently heard: " I
is a fine lawyer, fiud will make a got
Senator," the generak^upposition beii
that because a man is a legal light ]
must, therefore, be " trimmed ai
burning" for a first-class cifltesma
Why the people of this model?repub]
give such marked preference to the oj
particular profession in selecting the
legislators and rulers is a conundru
not yet satisfactorily answered?unle
it is because persons bred to the h
naturally become expert wire-pullei
and know how to help themselves.
In the present Senate there is but o:
physician; in the House only four. 1
bring the Senate down to a fine poir
statistically, there are in that augii
body eight merchants, two planters, t\
farmers, one bauker, one mine operate
one editor, one doctor, one with no bui
ness whatever, and all the rest are lim
of the law.
Senator Hamlin is the oldest memb
of the Senate, both as to years and
point of service, counting from his fit
election. Senator Anthony has be*
longer in continuous service than ai
other. He first took his seat in 18i
and has been regularly re-elected at tl
end of each term. Mr. Hamlin, who
now about seventy-one years of age, fir
came into the Senate in 1848, but ]
subsequently resigned when elect*
governor of Maine. He was, howeve
re-elected to the Senate immediate
after being inaugurated as govern c,
and afterward again resigned tobecon
Vice President of the United Sfatt
Blanche II. Brace, of Mississippi, who
time has just expired, was the younge
Senator, being yet under forty. How
the last of his race in Congress, but
consoled by having been called to tl
present administration as register
the treasuiy.
Senator Edmunds, of Vermont, isl
many supposed to be the oldest Senat
by reason of his appearance, but in fa
there are but few younger than h?. I
is not yet fifty-two, but his stoopii
posture and his hair and# beard of s
very whiteness, make Him look mui
older than he is. Senator Thurman,
lately deposed, was ranked with E
mumls as the best lawyer in the boi
politic, and in their respective parti
aro usually accepted as authority upc
questions of management and policy.
Besides the 219 lawyers in the hous
there are twenty-live merchants, li1
bankers, live capitalists, hvo
teachers, twel'
farmers, four physicians, one arehite
and builder, four editors, two minister
one stone-cutter, one insurance agon
two millers and three owners and oper
tors of transportation lines. It will 1
seen by this showing that the pulpit
more scantily represented than tl
press, for the reason, no doubt, th
editors are too poor and ministers tc
pious to meddle much in politics.
The oldest member of the House
Mr. Waite, of Connecticut, seven
years of age, and the youngest is M
Frost, of St. Louis, who is twent
eight. The late Fernando Wood was
member of the Honse longer than ai
of his associates, and the next in poi:
of lengthy servico is Judge Kelley,
Pennsylvania. Alexander Stephens,
Georgia, (ex-vice president of the Co
federacy) is generally spoken of as tl
eldest member, but Mr. Waite w
ushered into this vale of tears about oi
year ahead of hi a.?New York News.
A Telescope Story.
Tho San Francisco Call tolls an extr
ordinary story respecting a monst
telescope made by Professors Lefovr
and Longtour, French scientists, ai
erected at San Francisco. The lens
are twenty feet in diameter, and tins
what happened when the astronome
and their friends turned the instnimei
to the heavens: M. Dufrere was tl
first to apply his eye to the eyepiece <
the telescope. For fully five minuti
he looked on in speechless amazemen
then, wiibout a word, turned away 1
hide his emotion. One by one the gei
tlemcn present tested the telescop
exhibiting their astonishment in varioi
ways. The planet which happened !
cast its beams upon the great specului
was Mars, and the revelation is too woi
derfnl for credit. The eyepiece of tl
lowest magnifying power was first place
on, when the planet presented a mo
astouudiug sight. The powerful lei
brought the surface of the planet near*
than that of tho moon has ever bet
brought by the most powerful telescop
The green of the sea was brought out i
unmistftkuble color, and ojo coul
almost imagine that could see ti
waves u] on the surface. There befoj
tl<n nvn V >a aurnnd fillt ft Snleildid Vaill
rama of hill and dole, dark patches tli:
raust be covered by forests, great
lowish patches that looked like autuir
fields, silvery threads that must 1
rivers, and several unmistakable vo
cauoes in action.
Does Pleasure Pay'
With the above words an Engli?
society journal opens an article on tl
current lmbits of good society in seari
of pleasure. It is unnecessary to s:
that pleasure, if it can be taken only :
many fashionable people take it, is 11
worth the time and money that it cost
No one enjoys this world's diversions !
little as those who pay most for the
fun and devote most time to it. At tl
theater and opera the people who a
pear most pleased are those who sit
the cheapest seats and wear the poore
clothes, and elsewhere the rule is tl
same. All else being equal, the m;
who has the most money to spend c;
secure the most enjoyment in tli
world : but one thing that thousands
people seem to forget is that with t
things with pleasing possibilities a coi
mon rule of the table holds good?it
of no use to eat unless you have au a
petite. The most forlorn diner-out
New York is the man who eats sever
dinners daily, and the most unhap]
man at the theater?the man who fin
fault with everything and enjoys not
ing ?is he who goes to the theater eve
uight. Pleasure is like dessert?ve
good to take after something substn
tial, but the most unsatisfactory of i
things when taken as a steady diet
During the last year the Baptists i
creased 163.524; the Methodists, 5:
020; the Lutherans, 10,22:3: the Epi
copalians, 20,840; the Presbvteriai
10.248. The Baptist gain, therefoi
was nearly double that of the oth
four denominations combined. T
| Methodists, North and South, howev<
j outnumber the Baptists.
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KIKT.S (II l!H'
It was late hit nig'.it when yon retired !" .
ft- "Yes, papa,'1 I said, with a yawn
1'- Behind my fan, "for the horrid man
10 Ho Just talked on and on. . >
The more I hinted the more he atayed;
re I knew you were wakeful, too,
r." And X told him xo: but ho would not go ?
l"- An/I u-Vinf cnnld i> nnnr trirl do?"
id r? ,
iJ " It was very lite when you retired!"
"Yes, papa:" I frankly said,
r,1 "For the man, vcv. see, just talked to me,
'fl Thongh I yawned till my eyes were red;
il, And I went so far, when the clock struck twelvo,
st As to count the strokes ail through;.
But?1 he st .pid!?ho just wouldn't eee? . t
ra And what could a poor girl do? "
is
" It was worse than late when you retired 1"
?(1 " * tc*' ou' P:l
jj " If I hinted once to the tiresome dunce,
n_ 'Twas a hundred times beside I
,l3 Why, I even said you'd bceu in bed .
e. For at least fivo hours I knew; , mi/M
n. Bathe tipped his chair, and still sat there- ?e
So what could a poor girl do
}7 "Well, the jeemsea-gosh 1 was you up all
ts night!"
" Why, papa I" I humbly plead, ~
"Don't thunder so! there's a man below;
And he's sent you his card, and said
ie That the reason why he stayed all night
m Was, that he wanted to see you, too,
n- That he might ask for the hand I gave?
es For what couid a poor girl do?" ' *
id ? m
re
n- * HUMOR OF THE DAY.
g0 Out of season?An empty spice-box.?
( Yawcob Strauss.
is The retired theater star is always an. - 3
of ex-acting creaiure.?vusivn x ruiumrij/t.
)n "Love lightens labor," as the man
le said when he saw his wife doing his
)d work for him.
1S When a man applies for a situation 1%$
as a policeman it is supposed he has a -jj
taste for a club life.
Sore financial distress?When you1C
haven't got money enough to buy oint*
ment for a wound.?New York News.
kir *
m A canal differs from most things in %
ag one respect?it is always filled before it . M
IW is opened.?Syracuse Evening Herald. - *
:Sj Gate posts should be set out firmly. * |j
A great deal may hinge upon them
3e your girls grow tip.?New Havn.
it. Some one has said that parks are the; * 3
ist breathing-places of a city. Nocne
v'o said that parks are the sparku,g-plac"&v
>r, of a city. ? _
3i- "When yesterday I asked you, love, ?
bs one little word to say, your brother in
terrupted us; 30 please say yes ter day. *
?r ?Toronto Grip.
A woman requested her husband not
s to associate with a certain man who was
eD. a hard drinker. "Why;" he exclaimed,
fjy "he s my boose'm friend." ,
[|g An Irishman, wJ> > was found guilty
jg of stealing coffee, * as asked by the mag,st
istrate what he did with it. "Made tay "
Je with it," was the Hibernian's reply.
;d Wasn't it rongh on Ella, just as she
;r, was telling Frederick, at lunch, how
ly ethereal her appetite was, to have the
,r. cook bawl out: "Say, will ye have yer
ne pork and beans now, or wait till yer fel!8.
lev's gone?"
se "Which side of the street do you live
ist on, Mrs. Kipple?" asked a counsel,
as cross-examining a witness. "Oh, either ,
is side, sir. If you go one way, it's on the
right side; if you go the other way, it's
of on the left. 'Jx*
The best runs for poultry are where *
grass and gravel are plentiful. Grass r^.
runs are of great value where they can
" be had, but tnev muse oe large u iuwm
ie have constant access to them or the ;'.4V
?2 grass will soon cease to grow.
>h A lawyer's brief is very long,
" And Mr. White is black ;
j A man is dry when lie is green,
d- And when he's tight he's slack,
ly ; A lire is hoi when it is coaled,
es : A lamp is hoavv^tj^u^ft ifa lig'dt} 1 - ?|
)n ! S*10C hen it is sold,
A mjsa can soe when out of sight.
e, I __AJ^81iaon servant girl is represented
^"Iffsaying: "Hard weather, indeed, sir. '
s, I wish the Lord wonld take the weather 4
re in his own hands again, instead of trustct
ing it to them Yankee probability men.
b. We might then get something lit to
it, live in."
a- A school-teacher, discharged for using
je the rod too freely, applied for employ- >j
is ment in a dressmaker's establishment.
le "Have you liacl any experience in sewat
ing?" asked the dressmaker. "No," was
)0 the reply, "but I have a thorough knowledge
of basting."?Somerville Journal.
1S A sleeper.is one who sleeps; a sleeper
v is also a place "where a sleeper can sleep;
r* and a sleeper is, too, a thing over which
runs the sleeper in which the sleeper
a sleeps; so that the sleeper in the sleepe??<_*.
sleeps while the sleeper runs on as well
as sometimes leaps off the track.? Wit
?; and Wisdom.
He and she sat in the parlor. They ^"
." had been s tting there five mortal
hours. He was happy. Sh^ was tired.
aa After a silence of some minutes he r.
16 asktd if he might sing. She said he '* .
might. Then he lifted up his voice
andlegan "Ever of thee I'm fondly
dreAMug," and sh? forgetfully rea*
ma^^fek^ierself, "Whv don't he wake j
er! H? heard iL He- ^
e? wakecff^^^J^^fctakcine. He did not
1(* return. Sheno^^^Hfc^eu nights ^
in the week with ancHQ^^^^to^ian. mg
13 Possibly it is better^S^^^Bfc^^^
rs knows ??Steubenvilie Hcrahl.
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of The Worst Section of Paris. - ^
es Like all the out-of-the-way parts of
t, Paris, Quartier des Epinettes is lighted
to bv oil lamps, slung on ? ire's across the
a- street, or hanging at the desolate core,
neis from a sort of wooden gallows,
is i The back streets of thi quarter (chiefly
:o J composed of low stone huts with flat
ai ! red tile joofs) have a great resemblance
i- to the old streets and lanes of the southle
I crn French towns?ares* mblance which '<?j
id I is. not a little strengthened by the unst
savory odors which prevail in this unis
fortunate district, which has acquired
?r the worst reputation for villainy of any
>n in Paris. Nor is this to he wondered at.
e. 1 The endless labyrinths of small pass1
" ?i i - :iL l -U i..
in . ages, me ramming no a.so ? uu unit a
Id: dozen entrances, and the numerous j??
le courts or " cites" which abound on all
re J sides, make it a splendid place to hide
>1 in, or to escape from if pu sued
it i These "cites" aro many of them
1- of recent construction, and certainly re
in tiect no credit on the persons who suf- jm
>e [ fered tliem to be built. The space be
1- tween what must by courtesy l e called *
j the house.-, although they are ?? r more
| like cattle stalls, rarely exceeds four
j leet. No provision of any sort what>li
ever exists for drainage, at d Lere on .. j
ie 1 either side of the foot way some of the #
h j most abandoned ruffians of Paris may
iy 1 e seen in the daytime taking their
as j e.ise in their chosen abode?which they
ot, mostly do in sunshiny weather by lying
s. on their backs on th; licors of tbeir
!o dens with their feet proj? cting throagh *
ir. the doors?forming an avenue of boots
ie i which might be monotonous to the eye
}>- i of a spectator l>nt for the interposition
in ! of a bare foot or two. As a rule they
st i seem to left completely to their own
ie j devices?the police contenting themm
selves with making a r id in force
in . from time to time, on which occasion
is the Sergents de viile pav dearly for
of | such victories as they may win. In a
ill recent attack on the Cite Villa des
n-' Fleurs, the members of that body which
is M. Victor Huaru abhors barely esc iped
p- | with their lives.?Loudon Saturday Re~
in view.
al ?
>v So Experiment,
ils A very rich old man had married a
h- young wife and died suddenly, on
ry j which the widow raved like a maniao
ry ! and exclaimed to the doctor who stood
li- j by the bedside of the deceased : "Oh,
ill i I'll not believe that my dear partner is
] dead ; he could not die and leave me !
1 No, no! he's alive?I'm sure he's a'ive !
n-, Tell ne, doctor, don't you think so?"
2,- j "Ma him," replied the medical man,
is- I with inch gravity, "I confess that it is
is, ; poss> le that henniy he revived.. I will
rf, apply the galvanic battery." "Oh, no,
er uo i" cried the grief-stricktn widow,
he "Hard as it is to I ear my fate, I will
*r, have no experiment against the law of
nature. l et him rest in peace."