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I'' Son? ot the Steam, Harness mo down with your iron bands; Be sure of your curl) and rein; . For I scorn the power of your puny hands, As the tempest scorns a chain. How I laughed as I lay concealed from sight For many a countless hour. At theehildifh boast of human might, And the priile of human power. When I saw an army upon the land, A navv*upon the sea". Creeping along, a silail-like band, Or waiting ths wayward breeze; When I marked the peasant fairly red With the toil which he daily l??re, As he feebly turi.ed the tardy wheel. Or tugged at the weary oar. When I measur-. ' tl-..- ranting courser's speed, The flight of tl:-- e irrier dove, As they bore the lav. a king drcreed, Or the lines of imputi*. nt love, I could not but think how the world would feel, As these were out.-tripped afar, When I should be bound to the rusliing keel, Or chained to the living car. Ha ! ha! ha ! they found me at last, They invited me fi.rth at length; And I rushed to my throne with a thunder blast, Anil laughed in my iron strc ngtli. Oh, then he saw a wondrous chenge On the earth and the oe an wide, Where now my fiery armies range, Nor wait for wind or tide. Hurrah ! Hurrah ! the waters o'er The mountain's steep decline; Time?space?have yielded to my power; The world! the world is mine ! The rivers the sun hath earliest blest, Or those his Warns decline. The giant streams of the queenly west, Or the Orient floods divine! The ocean pales w here'er I sweep'; I hear my stivugth re joice; And the monster.- of tin briny deep Cower, trembling, at my voice. I carry the wealth and the lord of earth, The thought of lus god-like minil; ? The wind lags niter inv going forth, The lightning is left behind. In the darksome depths of the fathomless mine My tireless arm doth ]?ln v: Where the rock* never si-c the sun decline, Or the dawn of t':c- glorious day. I bring earth's glittering jewels up From the hidden caves below. And I make the fountain's granite cup With a crystal gush oVrflow. I blow tlio Dellows, 1 foige the steel, In all the shops of trade; I hammer the ore and turn the wheel Where my arms of strength are made; I manage the furnace, the mill, the mint; I carry, I spin, I weave, And all my I put into print On every Saturday i ve. I've no muscle to weary, no breast to decay, No bones to be "laid on the shelf," And soon I intend you may "go and plav," While I manage this world myself. i>ui uiuuuas iuu u?">j: wiui \wi?i uuu i?uuu??, Bo sure of your curb an 1 rein; For I scorn the strength of your puny hands, As the tempest scorus a chain. ?21(0)uas W. CattiT. The Victim of a For!orn Hope. One morning Mark Devine found a note waiting for him on bis oflice desk? a note without a crest, or monogram, or painted device; the paper pure white, thick, satin smooth, faintly and curiously perfumed, with the mingled odor of violets and frankincense. The handwriting was easy, with the ease of constant, yet careless practice, and the signature that of a woman rising rapidly to fame and wealth upon the ladder of her splendid mind and arduous, welldirected labor. He had known her well three years befo'e, when she bad come, alone and unaided, to pursue her career ' in the busy city. They had met at a pleasant boarding-hon^c, whero there was really a home element, which called ' p h- it. v jii_ c ; iorm iLie jumuj leeungs in us lumaies in their intercourse. He had found lier o always bright, agreeable, ready of speech, full of resource?a companion much to be desired in the enforced intimacy of a transient abode. When she ' had found her level and taken hold, she sent for her mother, and went to her own house, and, gradually, they had drifted apart. He had heard of her late, more and more frequently, and had partly resolved to seek her out and renew their friendship. Struggles and ^^6uecess had separated them, but with ^^^^wr^as wi'h him, he felt sure the memory of the old clays was a pleasant one, and a return to them full of pleasant hopes. Now, she sent for him. The few lines of the note ran thus : 3Iay I ask you, 3ir. Dcvine, to cull 011 me at my lion.se 011 Wo'lncwJav or Thursday evening of this wee ); ? I will not detain you long, and you will before you leave, that you have greatly obliged SELMA. D. I'JRNEV. Mr. Devine sat a moment balancing the note on his linger. Then he dashed off an ai swer. and sent it by the boy. On Wednesday evening?in June and perfect!?he was shown into the dimlylighted, exquisitely appointed parlor of a house far removed from the tiny abode in which he had seen her last. A strange sense of unreal yet familiar surroundings came over him. It was - . liVfl a ennfused drenni. The befiutv. the luxury, the quiet elegance were hitherto unknown in any thought he ever had of her, yet, at once ami forever, *' they became a part of her to him. "It is ridiculous!" he exclaimed, standing before the mantel mirror in its carved and massive frame, and looking at himself with a puzzled air. "But I . oould swear I would have known the joom for hers anvwhere." He started. . She had come noiselessly in, and he saw reflected, her pale face, anid fine, dark eyes over his shoulder. She was not smilinfvbut au expression of infinite, joy struck him as he turned to her. "You are very good, Mr. Devine." she said, holding out her band. "Re* . memboring your habits of old, I scarcely expected you would be at liberty upon the instant. Had you really noengage;; ment for this evening ?" He laughed, and flushed. "The old days, Miss Birney, were long ago. I am not quite so eager in tha Dursuit?of uleasure. shall I sav ?" "It were truer, perhaps, to call it by another nam",' she said, "since the sport was often very like the boys and the frogs, and the pleasure all on one side. Sit down, and tell me, to begin with, what became of the dark little beauty I left you raving about ?" "She?" Mark paused, looked doubtful, caught her eye, with its subtle gleam of mirth and answered, hurriedly, "She is married, I think. Yes, I am * quite sure of it. But I have not heard of her for a year." "Yet I thought that really, the 'love of your life.' Has it not found you yet? No!" as he shook his head in comical depression. "But I must spare you. How easily one falls into old habits, and takes up another's life where one laid it down! Tell me all about yourself _ before i enter upon the object of our meeting. Tell me everything, as you used." She asked it easily enough, but he found it impossible to comply. The pale face and the dark eres, the smae white hand and its dull heavy ring of barbaric gold were the same he had studied in his hours of idle chatter and half-romance, half confidence. But there was something more here than of old. The self-possession, the sense of power exerted and acknowledged, the graceful poise of the stately little figure, the perfect yet unique, taste of the simple,.yet costly toilet, were new to the Selma Birney he had known and counted a "first rate friend." He was used to women, spoiled and petted by them as he had ever been, but to-night there was an unknown field before him, and he knew it. To pour out as he used all sorts of confidences, rhapsodies, confessions and excuses, was a thing impossible, indeed. There was in his hostess a hidden power that moved him to strange new desires and aspirations, that appealed at once to the higher na, ture he had almost ceased to think of as his; that awoke him to earnestness and self-re9pect in a way that thrilled him. In the conversation that followed Le was at his best. Skillfully, steadily, sheled him on from one topic to another, never directly touching upon his own life, but drawing out his opinions, flashing light into his thoughts, putting into words half-formed resolves rendering clearer and clearer fair, yet stern, aspects of duty against which he had often closed his eyes. And always, it was himself, not his companion, who, apparently prompted speech and ennobled . thought. Au exhilaration of mind, such as he had not known for years, pure * and exalted, grew upon him, and was evident iu his sparkling, fearless eye, . his animated words, his full soft resonant voice. Miss Birney sank into the emiV. ' , f ? brace of her bamboo chaise-lounge ant j watched him eagerly, breathlessly, de spairingly, with glowing eyes and quiver ing lips. When lie ceased there wa silence. Miss Birney roused herself an* sat upright. "I promised not to detain yon," sh said, in a slow, clear voice, that h j knew must be the result of an effort fo | self-control, and at which he wondered i "I must keep my word and proceed t i explaiu ruy motives for requesting tlii > interview. You do not know them, an ' you will, doubtless, iindthem a surpris j and shock. I intend to be perfectl frank with you. Let me ask one favo j of you. Do not speak to me until i have told 3*ou all. Promise me that!" "I promise," said he, gravely an ! briefly, awed by her manner, her palloi i and the pathetic sadness of her eyes. She bent her head a moment on ho ! hand and he saw it trembled. The she raised it suddenly, looked him fu! in the eyes, and said: "in less than three months I shall li in my grave. Unless I am restored t health by a miracle ; there is no hop of escape, no hope of reprieve. I hav known it now three months and tw weeks, and am used to the thought a most! I have made all arrangements? far as is possible. I am gathering u the I00.-.C ends and fraved-ont juirpo.se day by day, in the effort to leave m life-work perfected as far as it has gont There is not much to regret in takiu leave of all. Except for the happines ' I never had. I cannot mourn." She paused, as though choosing th words wherewith to proceed. Miiulfi: of his promise ho sat .silent and horroi struck studying her face. Her eyes ha fallen, and ho saw a sudden faint, swil color flash into her pallor as sh thought. I 'The happiness I never had!" sh I repeated, softly. "Mine has been th saddest life possible for a nature sue ! as mine. I have stood always at tli I j-'ate of Paradise, dumb and chained ! while others passed in before my eye I to waste the fruits for which I lmngere ; and thirsted, to trample on the beaut j that mocked for ever my longing eye? j to destroy wantonly the temple upo i which I prayed night and day to be a] I lowed to labor in its building up. I hav j been poor?vilely poor?so poor, I wanted the plainest necessaries of life j and yet my tastes and my desires coul I only have been satisfied by the mot j perfect, the most refined, the dainties i of art's productions. That was mortif I cation of flesh and spirit. It was a Ions j drawn agony. And it is only ende j when it is too late. I have been ill an ' in oain so many years, that I forget th very sensation of rest and case : and ai the time I have been sternly, unflinel1 inglv, rigiilly forbidden the quiet an the absence of toil that would hav made my burden lighter. I have th fondest nature, the most passionate! tender heart, and it has never know one thrill of happy love. Maddened agonizing, defiant, 1 have reached th very vergo of that world, respect fo which, or, rather, the proud determine tion that it should respect me, wouli have kept me silent as long as 1 lieli any part or lot in it. There is nothini now to hold me back from asking forth one thing on earth precious to me be yond all words?I mean?your presence. A silence, dumb as the stars of heaven fell upon them. To neither of there confused and palpitating with hope fear, surprise, passion, was it a dari and hopeless moment. There was in it mysterious t-hadow faint glimmers am sparkles of life that meant?one kne\ not what. Mark bent forward, and lai< his hand on hers firmly, tenderly, ye gently, in its strength. She lifted it t< her cheek like a child. "You always said yon would like t< hold my hand," she said, brokenly. know you liked me, aud I thought?! thought you were so kind you wonh not mind doing such a little thing fo me. I do not ask much, do IV "I will do anything I can for youanything! I am truly grieved?I an more sorry for this than I can tell you.' "Thank you," she said, simply. "I will soon be over, and I do not care, i you will only come to me now and thei ?when no one else has a claim on you.' "I will come as often as you say There is no one who can have a stronge: claim. They are all newer friends thai you are." The happy nature, crushed, wearied breaking down under the lot she hai not depicted darkly enough, ros< I blithely to a gleam of sunshine. Then ? was something inexpressibly arch in tin 1 flash of her eye as she repeated, in i 1 tone of infinite expression : "All I aud stiil their name is legion ?' i "Yps." ho said, crravelv: "and ] ! thank God, Sol ma, no nearer, no mor< | limited bond than a legion of light co j quctries binds me now. I am free, dea: j a lid honored friend, to do your will." ' Oh, Mark!" she said, "and I thanl j God yru meet me thus. Come to me i when you can ; I have two months ye I before the end begins. After that"? j she paused and shuddered?"after thai I will have done with all but the pain: of death. You will never regret that you helped mo to meet them by all tli? j strength that only happy hours eai j give us." The tiny clock on the mantel chimet ! the hour. j "I must not keep you longer," sh< I said, "or you will count my promise a: j nothing. But I could not help it, anc ; I trust you have rot been very muci | uored." "I have had a most strangely sad ant i happy evening," lie answered, as ii? | rose. "I do not know why, but I fee j another man from the Mavk Di-vine o j two hours agj>" "T<i}l" m'cT one thing. Are you?ar I yea sorry you came ?" j "I am not," he replied, decisively | holding in his both her trembling hands and looking down info her uplifted eye: until they sank beneath his gaze. "Good-night," she said, "and com* soon again." "Good-night," ho answered, "and ! will be here?to-morrow V" "If you care to come." "Then it will be to-morrow." And it was. Mark Devinc went hom< in a whirl of emotions. What had hap pencd to him ? What change had conn over her? Was it pity that moved hin to such iufinite tenderness for her' How dreadful the thought of deatl taking her out of his life! Two month: and two weeks before those wonderfu sweet eyes should be closed for ever What a voice she had ! He could heai it when he chose, dwelling with sucl pathos on tho^e words: "The happiness I never liad." Then the shuddering horror of that sentence. "It was a long, drawn agony"; the pitiful regret of "And it is only ended when it is toe late"; or, most sweet remembrance o! ail?Tlie sillKlug aim iremur ui im: pa*j sion?stirred iletiance into, "The on< thinj; on earth precious to me beyont all words?I mean?yonr presence." H( started as he said it over to himself Could it?amid il moan all it was cupa ' ble of expressing from her lips? Hat' I she loved him all this time with a lo^*< j sufficient to prompt this action 011 lie: I part? "As I live!" he exclaimed, "it neve: j struck me in that light when she spoke ; What did I think ? That she still Iike> i me, as she used to say, better than ani i man she knew ; that, in the fear ant j sadness of her past and her future, she I thought of what she used to call raj sunshiny nature, and found relief in it' that our old friendship had simply grown deeper and less frivolous as w( : learned to think higher thoughts. But how much more she might mean by the : same words. Her love would be a won derful thing! There was a man whe had it once, and 1 thought always he would never lose it. But if he has ?" Over and over he recalled their past weighing each word and look and torn j of the years gone by against the ever moving memory of the hours just ended It was wonderlul how many things Ik could bring forth from the shadows tc 1 confront the light. Sometimes Ik thought he grasped a new meaning it sentences spoken, and forgotten by hirr j at the time. Sometimes he recalled i words and careless actions of hers thai ; turned such fancies into irritations al 1 his own folly. lint make what he would 1 of it, he could think of nothing else ! than Selma Birney until he presented himself before her at the earliest peri missible hour of the next evening. This time he watched the door eagerly, and saw her come floating down the lonjj ! staircase and through the curtained arch all in white, and scarce less colorless, j She met him with a timid air in spite ol her cordial greeting, and during the whole visit was so far removed, in liei pleasant grace and cheerfulness, from I the agitated woman of the previous evening, that he could not recur to the thoughts he bad nervously combatted all the day. She was certainly charming. Her conversational powers had alwavs been fine, and study, prnctice, the desire to please those superior tc 1 i herself in years and honors, had so im-1 - j proved them as to render her. the rival, -1 of the much-vaunted "talkers" of his-! s j tory. There was about her, moreover, ! .1 ; that witchery of personal attraction j c< I some women possess to the never-end- j " e ing confusion and ruin of men, and *c t- 1 others?a gifted and glorious exception, ^ r few in number?make use of to lead a] I. them on to the best of which they are 81 0 capable. To be near her was pleasant " s in itself, Mark felt. He left her, j ^ it pleased with himself and her; elated, " e he knew not why, and hoping, he knew a y not what. i c >r ' It would be a needless task to track ri 1 j Mark Devine through the slow advance n i of the two months lie counted, at last, , c (1 j hour by hour. Daily he grew in strength w r, ! and tenderness, in nobleness of thought ? ! and pure ambition as the wonderful w r nature of this woman opened before him. c< n In one of their earliest interviews she ^ 11 had begged that nothing might be said c of the future. "I have said all I need a e to make von understand. Let me be " o something more than a charnel-house ie memory when all is over for us. There " c is another side to death, Mark ! That i P o will lit itself naturally to the best life ~ 1- we can live here.*' From that time no is | direct allusic :i to her approaching death j1 p | was ever made, but in a thousand and ? >s one nameless ways he was aware that * y ; the thought of it was never absent from c ?. her mind, and that she constantly P g labored and planned with it in vain, j c i<? | Yet she seemed very, very happy. A f I quiet look of sweetness and voice and I1 c manner grew upon her, a charm that ; 11 [j | everyone felt lighted her eye and rested r_ j on her lip with each smile. And Mark P t] ! Devine loved her with a very agony of " | love. It tore his gay, proud heart with | 81 0 j storms of jiassionate sorrow when away ; ^ | from her, ard sent him hungering and ^ e i despairing to learn the joy of her dear ^ e | presence anew, and add yet keener ! " l! | pangs to the consciousness of his ap- : " P | proaching wreck. [ i The last day of the two mouths came I 11 s ; and passed. The last day of the two ^ (| , weeks that were to have seen tho end ! *\ v j was over. The full three mouths had J " ; drifted into the abyss of time, aud still j " ^ j Selrna Birney lived. More than that, [ [. i the color had come into hersoft cheeks, 11 e | and strength she had not known for ? I years into her fair roiind limbs. Mark, " > | trembling in hope, was shocked to find j 11 a shadow of another sort falling upon * t hispath. Unmistakably she had changed a toward him. Their close and happy : a [. | intercourse was sadly marred by a i 0 r. j reserve he strove in vain to surmount. ?: (] At last, in a passion of hurt feelings, u j disappointed hopts and vague tortures, i P e lie burst out one evening : j ^ [j "Selnia, I can bear it no longer. I j ^ ??>'.</ speak in spite of your wish. What . ^ L] has happened V Now that I almost dare j " c to hope, now that you have been : M e spared to me even a little longer, oh, j s: v my darling, what has turned our? j ^ n friendship into pain to you?" j & l( She did not speak, but he saw her j 0 q i knit her fingers in a close clasp, and ho | " r i felt her tremble as he leaned upon her j j chair. i ^ 3 | "Listen to me, <,lien, since you will J ? L] | not speak out!" he cried, almost;11 rr' angrily. "In these months I have come i c e i to love you as never a man loved woman j j ?yes! I am sure of it, for never did 1 ^ ? | man learn the sweetest of lessons with j ^ l( ' such a fate impending and unavoidable, i ? i] | I have not dared to tell you lest I dis- j " , turb your so much-needed calmness, u t j but I cannot, I cannot bear it in silence. 1 8 s j Unless you hate me it cmmot pain you : 8 } -to know I love you. And, oh, Selma, , r] v I you do not, you surely do not hate me I 0 ] ! ?you must love me a little ?" I 7 l Then she rose up quickly, and turned ! 11 3 j toward him flushing, paling, trembling . a in tears and laughter, and crying, | 6? 51 softly: r . "Oh, Mark, Mark, why did you not ' [ ! tell mo sooner ? How could you help ; . j ; it ? How coubl you keep it ? For I love j sJ r j yon?I love you with my whole heart, j w | ami?and I am not to die, after all." _ | There is a goodly number of people I ft j ! in this world who will conjecture at ^ " I onco what was done upon such an it t i avowal. There is no one oiic of heaven, j f perhaps, who can realize what was felt, j tl \Vhen Mark Devine folded her to his < lc ' passionate, so long-tortnired heart, when ! e: he looked into her sweet face, with no j r! keen arrow 01" rankling fear tearing the ; (] ! i depths of his love, there were no words rj j to tell his happiness. For her, she gave | ^ t | one long sigh of perfect content and j ^1 j | rested. g | "You do not ask me what has taken i 2 j away my certainty of death," she said, j 1 j looking at him with the fondest eyes he ^ x j ever.imagined. ! ,1 I "Love, it is gone. I care for nothing i besides," he answered, stooping to kiss | [ | the soft white lids. "You are mine, and j s' j ! I am content.' ^ . ! "Yes, that is like you. But, for my j r j own sake, if not now, then in the future, 6* j I wish you to go to Doctrr Henson, and P' j ! he will tell yon the truth." ! "Very well, I will go. To-night, let a t me think only of the future." . tl Doctor Henson listened to his request ! si t nest day with a grim smile. He was a oi j stern old man, whose fiut no one ever ac t disputed, and he at onco admitted he gi j had told Miss Birney six months before I ! | that, according to the judgment of man, (| her days wera numbered. 1 ^ 1 "Miss Birney, sir, has been my pa- ! b, tient for years. Hers is a peculiar or- ] t,: 3 ganization, highly susceptible nnd ner- CI 5 vous in the extreme. For some time aj 1 she has been bearing a burden of some ! description entirely too heavy for her 1 ,, 1 powers. Latent disease of the nerves? I \ ; nothing else?catfie to the surface, and 1 ^ 2 I could see- her dying by inches, with j , 1 i no power to save her. I probed the | . f ; wound in vain. One day 6he came to i : me, and asked me in all seriousness and ! B : earnestness to tell her the exact truth j j' ! with regard to herself. She assured j ^ ! me, in her own inimitable manner, that j 'f | her happiness for time and eternity de- j s i pended upon it. Sir, I told the truth, ! etalked plainly to her, and expressed my j a' j lirm conviction that nothing short of a | 1' miracle could save her. That miracle 1 " - I 1 l.i. Tt7K?* ! OI [ I you IlUVe wruugiiu >y Hill tiic; uiaibiutj j I was between you, you know and I do . *c I not?don't want to know, lieturning j af happiness, with a nature such as hers, i ^ 3 means health and life. I see now no I J* . reason to apprehend an earlier death 1 '->l ; than the average. She will always be a 1 , frail casket of a strong soul. Take care p of her, sir. She is worth it. Good- D] \ morning." j ? , Mark bowed himself out and went to < ni 1 Selma. His questions were answered ; now. She hud loved him "all this : ^ r time." With tenderness inexpressible, ! u, ! with gratitude, and what evidences of ; n;| , j his own love he told her all he knew, ! w , i and thanked God for it, and for her ^ ' I courage in sending for him. jJ( 1 ! "Mark, I could not help it! And j ^ > j everything else seemed so worthless, so [ beneath mv notice! 1 could not die . | without one sight of your dear face at j cl i j l^ast. But when I came into the room ; m I : that night, I had not made up my mind :0 > i to ask you. 1 feared to do it, and I had t another trifling reason ready to cover J jj . i my request. It was only when you n I eame out in your true colors, dearest j w ; and best of men, that I felt I would ! ftl r | rather risk and lose all than let yon j w ! pass away from me when I wlight hold ' c: r you. When I found I was to live, I jjj j suffered! That made me seem cold. *c I: I did not know you felt more than pity j * r j for me, and I dreaded your thinking? sr I oh, I don't know what?some sort of ma- jj i j neuvering; and that 1 am incapable of, r? 7 i I am sure." j j j "It was the desperation of a forlorn | ^ ? hope, my darling, and it met with its j ' ? reward. Purity, truth, sincerity such ^ as yours, could not but win when the 1U J outer barriers of conventionalities were . surmounted. But for your courage I j * , would never have known the depths of | ^ } my own heart, or the priceless sweet- ! ncss of yours. If women risked more ^ fearlessly they would gain more, and , c] I men would have cause to bless them as | j? . I do you." j jjj He' was wrong. Let no woman try I gl > Selma Birney's plan who has not her w ) ! magic power. There must be purity j r{ > 1 unshadowed, truth unvailed, sincerity m , unflinching, added to grace of mind, js ! strength of passion, and the higher arts i ^ I of a cultivated niuuner, and perfect j ^ > toilets, to carry one successfully through j such an ordeal. But any woman may ; [ labor to acquire these things, which are : , the basis of conquest, and in proportion [ as she labors will she find her full and j . sweet reward. a . ?- oi We know a cat who is a famous hunter : He is rewarded for killing mice I f1 i and punished for killing sparrows. in ; When he kills a mouse, he brings it in j c| and exhibits it to his mistress with . > pride and satisfaction. When he bags ' a sparrow, ho sneaks up the back stairs j 1D i j and devours it under the bureau.? ^ ' ; Philadelphia Uulletiv. ' [ I FalstafT asks, "What's honor?" as I w . I though it was hard to tell. But let one p< 1 ! woman sit behind another in chusch, rc , j and she'll tell what's on her in loss than j is >! two minutes. ' d< ??? FOR THE LADIES* A Snltnnn'* .Unrrlncp. The following description of the re ?nt marriage of Naile sultana, one of le two imperial brides, was furnished ) the London Standard by an English idy who was an invited guest: On our rrival at the house, a lurge building tuated up a steep, narrow street not tr from Dolma liaghtclio palace, we ore ushered by half a dozen eunuchs irough an ante-room in which lounged few atterdants, into a lino apartment rowded with slaves. There wo were pquested to wait, as the Sultana had ot yet completed her toilet, coffee and igarettes being placed before us to liile away the time. We were just beaming to tire of watching the throng, lien the stir without proclaimed tho oming of the bridegroom, a man of venty-four years of age, short and inlined to stoutness, but not wanting in certain comeliness. Naie Sultana ad herself chosen him at the Friday's 2lamlik. This power of selecting a usband, by inspection, as it were, is a livilege of princesses of the house of Ithmau, and is carried to such an ex?nt that even if the favored gentleman Iready posseses a wife he must divorce er and wed the sultana. Cases of this ind are rare; but one at least has ocnrred during the latter half of the resent century, when an officer was ompeiled, mucli against ms win, 10 omply with the custom. Being rich, owever, he sought consolation in keepig his discarded love in a separate es- ' iblisliment, a proceeding which is suposed never to have reached the ears of is royal partner. In the present intance, on the contrary, Mehemet Bey as quite ready to embrace the chance liich fortune offered him. Poor and ithout interest, a simple aide-de-camp ncertain of promotion, he suddenly nds himself the husband of his sovreign's sister, a general and highness 3 boot. His appearance was the signal >r a frantic rush, to which he reponded by scattering quantities of siler piasters (in olden days they would ave been golden liras) among the [aves. The bridegroom having passed jto the sultana's presence the ceremony f marriage was immediately performed, lit only witnessed by the sultana's lother. It merely consisted in the mam tying them together with rope and declaring them man nd wife. Directly this was ver, Mehemet Pacha escaped by a side ntrance to avoid being mobbed and uffeted, according to the comuion ractice of the slaves, wlio must nave een appeased by unlimited bucksheesh. .s soon as the doors were thrown open lio whole mob poured hclter skelter ito the inner chamber, where the bride as sitting in state, with a sister by her ide. All the slaves, and also the few .rmenian ladies who had been invited, ent humbly down and kissed the hem f her garment, but with us she shook ands without ri?ing, and motioned us ? chairs very near her. A fair, sweeticed woman of some twenty-two sumlers is Naile Sultana. She was dressed i a loose-fitting Turkish robe of rose olored silk, slashed with gold, while a jng white gauze vail, likewise emroidered with gold, drooped down rom behind the little cap that surlounted her tightly drawn-up hair. On er hands and bosom sparkled magifieent diamonds. Her single-button loves had burst in fastening, and altoether her toilet was far less perfect and ich than vo had expected. Thronghut there have been no amusements beona a band playing European music 1 the court-yard. The whole affair was confession of the economy now necesirily reigning at the palace. Fn?thlon Note*. Dresses of tinted mull, over princesse lips of pale pink, light blue, or cream hite batiste, are stylish and becoming. A sunshade entirely covered with 'athers is the latest fancy. Either pea3ck or canary plumage is used to make When little girls servo as bridemaids lere is a pretty English fashion of al>wing them to carry an armful of floors instead of a set bouquet. A pretty way of trimming a child's ress is "to have a cascade of lace and bbon running from the left shoulder ) the right side of the skirt, ending iere in a large bow. Jersey bodices of ciel-blue, rose color r mauve-tinted silk stockinct, are worn ith white surah skirts trimmed with nted Spanish lace, corresponding with le color of the Jersey. When lace shawls are uded for over- ! arts this season they are bordered [ ith a rather scant lace rullle, and are I raped in Hie back with loops of the uff composing the dress skirt, the oint falling in front to make an apron. A new shape in morning caps is in the iactt style of the headdresses worn by ic Neapolitan peasant girls, and another lape called the "Russian" cap, is made j ; white surah, with bayadere stripes j ross tho fabric in bright colors of j reen, gold and scarlet. Stylish and inexpensive walking j resses aro made by adding a plain '\oi' kirt of black satin to a Jersey Ddice. A simple scarf of the satin is iitped over the skirt, and n shoulder ipe of the same fabric relieves the plain ppearance of the bodice. Ombre weddings are actually in order: lat is, the bride wears of course the hitest of roses ; and then, out of six ridemaids, the smallest or the young>t wears pale pink rosebuds, and the illest or the eldest wears the deepest imsoa roses, while the four intermeiates shade upward. This novel effect ; repeated in ilowers of other color and >rra. Skirt drapery has become a matter of cceeding complication, and requires .most as much adjustment after it is ut on as it receives before leaving the ressmakers hands. In theory one has nlyto fasten the skirt belt and walk irth with each puff and loop hanging >it should, but the woman who entertins this theory is not a spectacle for le contemplation of those en pleasure ent. Opposites in Matrimony. Theodore Parker wrote : Young peole marry their opposites in temperannt on/J rronnrnl and KllC'h arriages are generally good ones. They 0 it instinctively. The young man aes not say, "My black eyes require to 3 wed with blue and my over-veheenee requires to be a little modified ith somewhat of dullness and reserve." 'hen these opposites come together to 3 wed they do not know it, but each' links the other just like himself. Old 2ople never marry their opposites; iey marry their similars and from calllation. Each of these two arrangeents is very proper. In their long urney these opposites will fall out by ie way a great many times, and charm le other back again, aud by and by iey will be agreed as to the place they ill go to, and the road they will go by, id both become reconciled. The man ill be nobler and larger for being assouted with so much humanity unlike imself, and she will be a nobler woman ?r having manhood beside her, that ;eks to correct her deficiencies and lpply her with what she lacks, if the iversity be not too great, and if there be sal generosity and love in their hearts 1 begin with. The old bridegroom, iving a much shorter journey to make, ust associate liimsolf with one like imself. A perfect and complete iarriage is, perhaps, as rare as perfect ?rsonal beauty. Men and women are arried fractirnally, now a smnll fracon, then a large fraction. Very few e married totally, and they only, I link, after some forty or fifty years of radual approach and experiment. Such large and sweet fruit is a complete arriage, that it needs a very long immer to ripen in and then a long inter to mellow and season. But, a :al, happy marriage of love and judgment between a noble man and woman j one of the things so very handsome I iat, if the sun were as the Greek poets j bled, a god, lie might stop the world j i order to feast his eyes with such a >ectacle. A Watch in a Shirt-stud. A watchmaker in Newcastle, Pa., ->ays i Pittsburg paper, has completed a se* i three gold shirt studs, iu one of j hich is a watch that keeps excellent j me, the dial being three-eighths of an J ich in diameter. The three studs are mnected by a strip of silver inside tho lirt-bosom, and tho watch contained i the middle one is wound up by turn- j g the stud above, and the hands are >t by turning the one below. But perips the most remarkable thing about ie lilliputian machine is that it works ith a pendulum, like a clock, and the j sndulum will act with ease and accu- j icy in whatever position the timepiece ; placed, even if it be turned upside i :>wn. I FACTS AND COMMENTS. j There were 14,432,068 acres of land planted in cotton in the United States last ysar, and from these the crop was 5,732,969 bales. The acreage this year is estimated at 15,523,116, an increase of i 91,108 acres; but the opinion prevails, t says the New York Graphic, "hat the t crop will not be so large as ths.t of last i year, owing to unfavorable weather. j The latest addition to agricultural c implements in England is the " steam- ^ digger," which is a combination of the , plow and spade. In the short space of , an hour, and at a working cost of five shillings, it will turn over an acre of < ground, and that too in such away as to , produce superior cultivation. The in- j ventor claims that it will do us much work as 170 men in a day. It appears i to have withstood very exacting tests. ? i As soon as the death of the late "^-n- i press i/uwayer hum huuuuuicu ju uuiuu \ the mandarins ami all high officials of the empire put on garments of pure , white, and these were worn for twenty- , four consecutive days. Tiie regulations , which prescribe official mourning also require that the red buttons upon their j caps shall be replaced by blue buttons. , On the twenty-eighth day they put on ( black clothing, which must be worn for 100 days. The same restrictions as to marrying and indulging in social pleas- c ure3 that apply to the higher classes c apply to them as well. ' A few years ago a young man named 1 Gardner, living at Toledo, Ohio, in- ' herited some money from his father. " i j 1 .1 lie naa oeen tinnering nrounu iruiu boyhood -with a firearm that he was anxious to patent. When he obtained ' his patrimony he went to France to improve his implement. His was the ex- 1 perience of nearly all inventors. His ( money was soon exhausted, and at times he was reduced to the greatest extremity. But he never lost faith in Ins J rifle. Finally he interested some capitalist and the implement was carried to perfection. In due time the French government was induced to adopt the repeater for the army. The British gov- t ernment has just done the same thing, t and the Toledo inventor is preparing to J roll in wealth. His arm is said fo be j the most magnificent repeating rifle in the world. Sitting Bull announces that he is anxious to secure a reservation in Canada so that he and his people may live in peace with the whites. His spirit is said to be broke:a, although a j recently successful device to obtain a supply of provisions from the officer in r command of Fort Walsh indicates that he has not lost his cunning. It seems that even an Indian chief is not free from the machinations of would-be sons- * ? 1" nf 4- V* ? o mAmonf. RiHinnr t 1U-114 >T r?j 1UI Ul> I'Ui J mviutuv Kyitviu^ UAX is grieving over the loss of a young ? daughter who has run away with a brav* of his own camp, negotiations for her purchase at a large price in horses having failed. He has left a still younger daughter, a pretty little child about twelve years old, whom he watches very closely for fear that he shall lose her tco. A San Francisco correspondent of a New York paper writes a ral her alarming account of the spread of opium-smoking among the American population in that city.. He says that the bane of opiumsmoking in California is seen in the younger generation. Califc rnia children are very precocious; they neern to have an exaggerated desire to indulge in even-thing which is forbidden. Every Chinese wash-house throughout the Stite is the center of evil. Young boys learn there to smoke opium and contract the habit which ruins them body and soul. The vice is most prevalent among the hoodlums of the city and the ' wome:a of the town, but police ofK ^ers 1 and detectives, whose word may he relied upon, declare that the practice is r spreading with great rapidity, and tint v the law will soon have to be invoked to : chock it by heavy fines or other penal- I ties. The correspondent says the most 1 noted Chinese opium den in that city is t owned by a retired American missionary , to China. e The emigration statistics of Germany ] are engaging the serious attention of the c imperial chancellor, who has submitted , to the Bundesratli tables showing that { during the year 1H80 no fewer than 11,454 young men liable to military service " quitted the fatherland for America. As ' the exo;lus during the past year was notliiner bevond the common, whereas this season the numbers are assuming 1 alarmiDg proportions, it seems likely ' that the military service will be deprived of at least 20,000 young men. The J worst feature of the case, of course, is 1 that the emigration of this class means < a twofold loss to the countey?the < sinew and backbone of the land are f leaving it, and the aged, infirm and children are left behind. The chief i exodus seems to be from Prussia, i Bavaria, with a population equal to oneninth of the whole of Germany, only supplies one-twentieth of the emigrants, seeming to demonstrate the fact that life in the south is not so unendurable as in Prussia itself. , The Chinese government has come to ] 41-tnf ifa onrro-nli lirma i III; l'UULlUOiUU iuuu ito ucivgiwjiyu aamvw j might better be under its own manage- t ment than in the hands of enterprising foreigners; and the preliminary steps to '( that end have been taken in the esfablishment of a school of telegraphy in Hartford. Tlio Chinese embassy at Washington recently received instruc- * tions to form a class of forty from among 1 tho Chinese students in Hartford, and Mr. Yung Wing has just chosen its ' members and placed them under the 1 charge of Mr. Hubbell, late manager of 1 the Hartford office of the Western Union ( company. A class-room has been furnished with every requisite appliance, 1 and Mr. Hubbeil expects that within t two months the students under his in- c structions will be competent to teach i others. As soon as they have attained i the requisite proficiency they will be ( ordered hone, and probably accom- ( panied by a few skilled Americans to < superintend the construction and oper- , ation of new telegraph lines. c The Cincinnati Commercial publishes j an interesting diagram showing the , changes in the center of population (i from 1790 to 1880. In 1790 it was twen- , ty-three mites east of Baltimore ; in 1800 it was eighteen miles west of Baltimo'e ; in 1810 it was forty miles north- j" west by west of Washington ; in 1820 ! *' ? -1 Wftnilof I ' It was sixteen uiucauwi m ui uuuo^n, in 1830 it was nineteen miles west by ' southwest of Moorefield; in 1810 it was * sixteen miles south of Clarksburg ; in 1850 it was twenty-three miles southeast of Parkersburg; in 1800 it was twenty miles south of Chillicothe; in 187v, forty-eight miles east by north of Cincinnati, and in 1880 eight miles west by south of Cincinnati. It is a curious j * fact that in these changes the center of I t population has varied only a few m:les j t from the line of the Baltimore r.nd I i Ohio railroad, and has now traveled its whole length from Baltimore to C'in- ] cinnati. The center is now located in { the State of Kentucky, and it is prob- ( able that its line of progress for many ( years to come will follow close to the j Ohio river. E Mr. Loe Chin, a Chinaman residing ' in the Territory of Wyoming, and a white woman, also residing in tho same i Territory, recently wont into Colorado for the pm pose of being married ; and, | ' after tho marriage, they returned to their former residence and lived | ; together as husband and wife. Tho laws j J of the Territory forbid intermarriages I ( between whites and Chinese. There J < are, however, no such laws in the State j < of Colorado, and, hence, tho parties ; > went there to havo the marriage cere- ! i monv performed. Iteturning to the Territory, they were indicted on a crim- j inal charge. The judge before whom j , tho case was brought for trial sustained i J the marriage, as being legally valid in the Territory of Wyoming, and quashed ( the indictment. ' Tho ground upon j which the judge proceeded in thus dis- ( posing of the case is that a marriage j valid in the State where it is celebrated is to be deemed valid in every other part of the United States, 'lliis marriage was lawful ir. Colorado, though if J it had occured iu Wyoming Torritoiy it would have been unlawful; and being ' lawful in the place of its celebration, it must be held so everywhere else. The ' supreme court of Massachusetts some years since affirmed this doctrine in a memorable case. The courts in some 1 of tho other States havo denied it. j 1 llenco tho question cannot be regarded ' as settled and will not be settled until ! ' Feme case shall bring the point before j i the supreme court of the United States. | : - > ' raws OF THE WEEK. East and Middle. At a caucus of sixty-three out of the 10G Remblicau members of the New York legislature i letter of withdrawal of Cliauncey M. Depew is a candidate for United States Senator was ead, and Elbridgo G. Lapham and Warnei ilillcr were nominated as the candidates foi 'enators. The lorty-threo absentees from the aucus consisted of thirty-one men who have rotcd f<>- Mr. Conkling and of twelve others vho have divided their votes between various ninor candidates. Km.u.U'ox is raging to such an extent at iVilmington, Del., that the board of health has cquestefr the Sunday-schools to close and tc told 110 picnics or excursions. Governor Counku., of New York, vetoed the Jill prohibiting tho adulteration of syrups, uigar, lioncv, etc., on tho ground that it niauoa Merchants guilty of a misdemeanor who may nadvertently or through lack of Information riolatc its provisions. Tin-: American dental association hss held ts twentieth annual convention in New York lentists from all parts of the country being in ittondance. DruiNo a thunder-storm tho houao of John 3rairlt near Cillicnon Depot, X. Y.. was struck ly lightning and Mrs. IJraudt was instantly tilled, hec.body being horribly mutilated. Mrs. John Jacob Astor every year pava the >xpeuses of the trip westward of 100 homeless ihildren, selected by the New York Children's Lid society. General John C. Pembertox, the oflicer ,vho commanded tho Confederate troops at tho liege of Vicksburg, died a few days ago at Penllvn, Pa., aged sixty-four years. At Portland, Me., Justice Clifford, of tho L'nited States supremo court, underwent ammtation of tho foot for gangrene. A eiiie at Potsdam, N. Y., destroyed eighteen louses and i!, 000,000 feet of lumber, causing an stinntcd loss of $100,000. John A. Aitleton, of the well-known New i'ork publishing house, is dead in the sixtyfifth year of his age. West and 9outh. Gove?nor Foster, of Ohio, pont a dispatch o the governors of the States and Territories, uiggesting that proclamations be issued sotting ipart a day of thanksgiving for the deliverance Vom dr.nger of President Garfield, and naming he governors of New York, Pennsylvania, ICenueky, Man-land and Ohio as a committee to is upon a day to he so observed. A terrible mistako was committed the ither day at Lyons, Ohio, by Postmaster C. E. 7arman, who thought he saw a burglar on the oof of his house, fired, and discovered he had willed his fourteen-year-old son. Thomas Harper, a cowboy, was hanged at Tucson, Arizona, for the murder of John Tollidfty. Hon. Phineas W. Hitchcock, ex-United States Senator from Nebraska, died the othe lay at Omaha, aged fifty years. He had been i classmate of President Garlield. A loilcr exploded on Edward Sheehan's arm .iear Easton, Md., killing four men and icvert ly scalding five others. Heavy rains at Marshalltown, la., culminated n a waterspout and in tho rise of Linn creek o such an extent that about forty houses were ...x - a ? l ?.1 ~ rxf Hmrrt un-flnf /Intrn tVl A Jill HUUttt, UUU OUUiC Ul U 1U?U onv-j,. itream. The loss to property is estimated at 200,000. UspKECEPrsTEDLY liot weather is reported rom St. Louis, Cincinnati and other Western ;ities. Within a few days Baltimore has had eight atal eases of lockjaw arising from what apjearod to be trilling burns received by children vliilo handling toy pistols. John H. Giuscom, of Chicago, has beaten Dr. Tanner's forty-day fast by going without food ir drink for forty-fivo days. At the end of the forty-lifth day Griacom weighed pounds, ivhich was 49.%' pounds less than when ho be,T.n his fust. The Wisconsin Greenbackers at their State . onvi'iition in Milwaukee nominated a full :i -kot headed by E. P. Allis for governor. The Ohio Democratic State convention, held it Columbus, put in the :ield a full ticket with r. W. Bookwalter for governor at its head. I'he platform favors " the equality of all people jefore the law, equal taxation, unpolitical egislation and a free and pure ballot as *ho orner-stone of free institutions; opposition to nonopolies and subsidies of all kinds; the ilrirtest economy in national, State and local idministratioDs, that labor may be lightly mrdened; the maintenance and advancement if the common-school system;" denounces rdior competition iu State prisons; declares or civil service reform, u tariff for revenue iijd a commission to reform the taiifl, aud loplorea and denounces the recent attack upon 'nsident Garfield. At the meeting of the American Hebrew inion in Chicago a resolution was passed to aise JiiOO/HMJ for the endowment of a college. William Dodson, Pleasant Adams, Richard Bates and Joe Benton, four colored men conricted at Greenville, R. C., of burning the Vcadfmy of Music at that place on December r, IST'J, have been sentenced to be hanged on September 0. IEevouts from the Hooded districts in Iowa eport unprecedented damage to crops and nilroad property. From Washington. ? it. Secretary ulaixe receiveu mo ivuvniug fit-patch from Cyrus W. Field at New York *T1 is moment received the following from T. i. Wells, London: 'Mr. John Bright and the !)can of Westminister join with ns in thanks "or message, and are full of grief and doep sympathy. Prayers are daily offered up in the ibbev for the preservation of that precious life. "Jod grant that these earnest petitions may be mswered.'" Professor Riley succeeds Professor Comitock as entomologist of tho agricultural deMirtmen". A laroe reduction in the clerical force of tho icnsion office is to be mado, Commissioner hidlev having recommoadol tho discharge of ,00 clerks and a reduction iu pay of fifty moro in the ground of a lack of appropriations. It is estimated by Cliiof Fletcher, of the oan division of tho tr- asury department, that lure are about $30,000,000 registered the per cut. bonds outstanding. Those bonds arc releeiuabl? at once, with intoiest to the date of ncscntation. They ceaso to bear interest on )ctob*r 1. There are upward of ^12,0110,000 of ioup-'ii five per cent, bonds outstanding which :easu to bear interest August 12, and are releemable after that date. rosTomcE statistics show that the number if ordinary postage stamps issued in 1?80 was 175.081,970, valued at $22,414,923: in 1881 the lumber was 954,128,440, and value $21,040,113. The per cent, of increase is # 9 iu numier, and 7.2 in value. The total number of >ostage stamps, newspaper and periodical tamns. stamped envelopes, nowspapi r wrap iers, postago line stamps, and postal carda ssued for sale to tlic public for the year mini,' June 30, 1880, was 1,303,121,052. value 31,032,^18.98, and for the year ending June 0, 1881, was 1,400,773,508, value f34,-183 '".09. Foreign News Tiik destruction of property in East Lancahire, England, from a recent storm is very treat. Over liftv mills have stopped work and nnny thousands of people are thrown out ol .mployment. Tin; international monetary conference, at ^aris, unauimoii-ly adopted a resolution pro>osed by the French and American delegates ixprcssing a desire that negotiations shall be >pened between the states which participated n tho conference, and that tho confcrcnce be mtnmoned to meet on April 12, 1SS2, to settle he details of a monetary convention which, it vas llOJK-d, would be concluded by that time. The confcrcnce then finally adjourned. The following message from Loudon, adIressed "To the President of the United States, iVashington," was the first one sent by the new American cable: "Siemens Brothers, having ust completed wicccssfiilly the lirst Atlantic able c'lnstiucted on American account, desire o make the tirst message through that cable :onvey to President Garlield Siemens Brothers' tincire sympathy and hearty wishes for hit speedy recovery." 'J'hk daughter of tho English Major-Gcne.a! Pvcrs fell into the s'-a at Hyeres, France. The ;cn' r.d's wife and two other daughters souglit o rescue her, and all four were drowned. Tin: man Lefrov, tho companion of Mr. Gold, lie Englishman whose murder in an Knglish nil tray carriage a short time ago created exinordinary excitement, has been arrested and las made a full confession of having ei-mmittei' :he crime, A u::vor.t against Austrian conscription ieiiortel in Herzegovina, the mountaineers lavitu: raited their own llag and estaMislic 1 a >r<ivi.?ioua! government. Oxr. fir. ti.'in was instantly killed and ainehfv atally injure ! bv a filling wall a: a tire in lloiitr- al. A sin* ease ol" piracy has been d s oveivd in Saigo.t, i'n-sich Cochin China. A inlivo xss 1, driven ashore in a sirc-s of veatlur, vas searched for contraband opium. Hid coiuvalo I i:i the hold were aiwe.it liuy 'einrde children, whom investigation pvu ; r > jo intend for sale. The roof of a church at San Mateo, Mexico, i was undergoing repairs whon it suddenly fell | in upon the worshipers below. Twenty work. men and about thirty worshiper*?all of them ( women?wore killed, and others fatally injured, j L. K. Paan, son of ex-Senator Pugh and a ; son-in-law of ex-Governor Hendricks, while ! traveling in a stage coach in Mexico was captured by Apache Indians and tortured to death in a terrible manner. TnF. Austrian harvest promises to bo fully up to the average. | Titu Egyptian ministers concur with the | khedive's wish to decree tho abolition of i slavery in Egypt. Reports from Muscat, Arabia, say that the ! whole of tho Oman country is disturbed by j inter-tribal wars. In a recent fight 150 pori sons were killed. A dispatch from St. Petersburg gays that tho I Jewish inhabitants of Novo-Tcherka?k, on tho I River Don, havo been ordered to quit the town i by September 13. j Tim:re are now 200 persons imprisoned in | Ireland under tho coercion act, including one : member of parliament, ono priest, one magistrate, several town councilors and many poorI law cruanliana. The celebration of the anniversary of the battle of tli3 Boyne was attended in several I [liases in Ireland with serious disturbances. Gi.nkiiai, CiAi-Bixr, the Italian ambassador to Franco, has presented bis letters of recall. It is said that owing to the feeling between i Franco and Italy a successor to General C'ialdini will not now be uomiuated. The alleged murderers of tho late sultan of j Tut key have had their death sentence commuted. Keeeiit Postofflce Rules. Feather beds are non-mailable. Eggs must be sent when new. A pair of onions will go for'two scents. I Ink bottles must be corked when sent by mail. | Over three pounds of real estate are | not transmissible. Parties are compelled to lick their own postage stamps and envelopes; the j pUStlUilOkCl VUUUVU KfXJ UUIU^VA^U wv v*w I this. An arrangement has been perfected I by which letters without postage will i be immediately forwarded?to the dead j lotter office. j Parties are earnestly requested not to send postal cards with money orders inclosed, as large sums are frequently lost in that way. Nitro-glycerine must be forwarded at risk of sender. If it should blow up in the postmaster's hands he cannot be held responsible. "When letters are received bearing no direction, the parties for whom they are intended will please signify the fact to the postmaster, that ho may at once forward. ! A New York reporter's attention was j attracted to ::n odd advertisement, I which sf;.'.til that "ladies desirous of j purchasing articles from the wardrobe of Queen Victoria can do so by calling on Mrs ?, West Fortieth street." The reporter, desirous rather for information about Victoria's cast-off clothes than to i Tvniv?lman rallAil liDon the ladv. who showed him a great variety of articles of ladies' wear, of apparently extra fine quality, and with the initials "V. R.'' surmounted by a crown woven upon them. This regal stamp, the reporter was informed, is permitted only npon articles for the royal wardrobe, and its , presence, like that of a dnly authenticated trademark, attested the genuineness of the articles. In explanation as to how the clothes came into her possession the Wouian, Mrs. Martin, in: formed the rei ?rter that every three months there is a complete renewal of Queen Victoria's wardrobe; and notwithsi-ading much of it is almost unworn it must give placo to the new supply. The cast-off garments fall the perquisite of the maids of honor, who, according to Mrs. Martin, receive no ' other reward. These mercenary ladies I of high station sell it in a lump, and J divide the money it brings among them. "While the reporter was present a car} riage with a liveried coachman drove np, I and a lady richly and fashionably dressed I came in, with an evident eye to pur! chasing some of the articles. The story ! is probably either a reportorial inven! tion, the newspaper man has been imj posed upon, or the pretended royal j wardrobe was a fraud. [Port Huron Commercial.] j Charles Nelson, Esq., proprietor NelI son House, sj.eaking to us recently, ob! served: I suffered so much with RlieuI matism that my arm withered, and | physicians could not help me. I was in I despair of my life, when some one adJ vised me to try St. Jacob3 Oil. I did so, - - v n/virt T moo inolonf Iv ro. 1 UIJU 11 UY /. lgJVy X vim* iiiuuiiiwj j iieved, and y the continued use of j the Oil enti. ,iy cured. I thank heaven for having jed this wonderful remedy, I for Us "Mfflj/ li/e. It also cured my j wife. Story of the Old Red Cent. As the old 1 'red cent" has now passed I out of sight, like the "old oaken bucket," I its history is a matter of sufficient interJ est for preservation. The cent was first i propos?d by Robert Morris, and was ! named by Jefferson two years later. It i made its appearance from the mint in j 1792. It bore the head of Washington on ; one side and thirteen linfis on the other, j The French revolution soon created a 1 rage foi French ideas in America, which i put on the cent instead of the head of Washington the head of the Goddess of i Liberty?a French Liberty. The chain I on the revei se side was displaced by the j olive wreath of peace; but the French I Liberty was short lived, and so was her i portrait on our cent. The next head or ' ^ iv-i -i--i ! ngnro mm suuuueueu ime?lud chuiu, I classic dame with a fillet around ber ; hair?came into fashion about thirty or i forty years ago, and ber finely chiseled 1 Grecian features have been but slightly affected by the lapse of time. i ? ? [Fort Wayne (Ind.) Sentinel.] When about twelve years old, said j Mr. Geisiuan, of the Globe chop house, ! to our representative, I met with an acj c:dent wi h a horse, by which njy skull i was fractured, and ever r-ince I havo ! suffered with the most excruciating i rheumatic pains. Of late I applied St. Jacobs Oil, which has given me almost ' total relief. i OrrvfF. Seed.?Ouince seed is cood ! for soro and inflamed eyes. Take about | one-half dozen quince seeds, put about 1 a tablespoonful of scalding water on , them ; let them stand till cool, and bathe the eyes just before going to bed j and in the morning. .tlul:irl:il I'Vvor. Malarial l-Vvc w, tori dtiity of the liver :uul ki.lui'va, genera! debility, ncrvoiiHnt'sH and iii'iir.ilgii* ailments yield readily to i tbi?{;reai disease e-'n<|iieror, ilopll:t!er<?. It re pair* the rav;!i;c4 of disease l?y converting the tood into rich blood, ami i: given new lite and vigor to tlic aged and iniirm always. See "i'roverlw" in other column. The government lias spent $25,000 in i investigating the locust, army worm and grasshopper, and the only result thus far reported is that none of them wear spectacles.?Puck. | Vegetine ! For Neronsness, Sleepless Nislits. \V.*MtisinnN. D. March 12, 1ST". H. It. STCVDNS: I'KarSi:r?1 do not l?:i>-v.- i;t l Ullilc,*, uor would ' ' ::cl..p:" 11111]] 1 <:;^. '.ii. I i'lj r i! li<> more timn n il jw-1in-;, .is v.( il nf V:. i.::si:. I etirvinj* ii to I, .i.i .-t.vili'i:! !i!i-.iii-iii-. I liavi' its.-d -everal hotiles i>l'i'! > :u\ entireami en at relief tr.>m ..i: iii.-\;!i- it.NVn'MMhw wl.irli had catts'd me i r. :t ri;: r and s!ee|v ss nip lit.-: have wa!!;etl i lc tli...r ami r. sort-il ! > iM!er-nt methods tor relief. toiiMi';ir;?>*'e.l iin:i!l? tiii>ii;dit iw..ulil:.'ivcVi:oKi:M: i v. ith iitt!" t.tltli. I n?;T! ::ii;iiit; l-ut to inv -:ir; i\-> ;oi l ! o> :. :i ti ? .!.. <-ie..:i incedmethal I I had eel hol'l ..i the tl.il!;; lor luy ili'.ttciittv. It , i-nt mt tiiniior from it IiIimmI that, I ha\e no itirrilil. v.:is tne i\ii|:<e nt t!|.'mis, . 1 i n jured. .Slid I ! towni r- ! iei a? mm as .1 i-1> I i.-i :i.< eoitM relieve a i!ia; a--o; that kind. When i i.e.;an it*tt>e1 seldom trot 1 a 11 i.-1.?*.- -Iceji. or hr.lt a out. ami in;. aM-etite wn* ; msil. as a consei|iience. I wax riinnint,' down r.:, : !' . l et alter:, few I a r: lical change o r. wiiv. and ;;m 111 < r..:.^111 \ saiSii.il v.itli Vi; 1.ill ' atl'l IVi-om. Iiil it toaiM I.I rs.iii-til'iirill;, a- I did. Kesl'e.tlliilv. Mb*. .1. A. Johnson. I t < w.k. Wr u;\rss....\'i iiirriNK aets directly nj on . t!i.T,a:vn of tie- nr. I.aiiit.'. It in\icotate.s and ' 'ii i;-if.-us tlii whole vvi.-m, a ii|.iiii tie- serretiv.-.T ;iiih, a'l-tis i!iil:t:ii;ii:.iinii. eli-anseMiiid cures n'.i . ;Mtiou, 1 in-. coiiiiioation. n jiilales the liowels, : !l tell, ami |<lilis ill llle liaek cease: ill lact there 1- no il.si-a'^e iiiplaitit when the v'mn tsi: i^ive.s o i|iilel; r-liet. ami is >o . ll. ctivt: in its cure, as in 1 what is t' nneil female Weakness. I i has never failed in one in- taiic . Yegetine. Oiszincss, Liver and Kidney Complaint. Civ isnati. Ohio. MI:. II. It. STMVC.NS; In >11 S!i:?| havereceiveil(rri'ttt benefit from tho 1;., .. 1 ||i- Vrci.nvi:, an I can tal. lv rec-inimend it li-r I'i/^iliess, riii-h nl !il 1 lo the head. ::ii I a Celi ra! iliood j-iiriiii-r. If ha-also Ih i n n-'d hy other i.i' ii'.l i f- 01 'it;, t'.imilx i"i l.iver :t:;d Kidney eoiuiilait.i"-. Mi:.. A. I'l.ttn si, J'?i ltai miller Street. Vii;i:tisk is the rjfal health ivstuf r, eonijosed 1 yli:-i'.i |y nt l.ai'k-. riots and ln-rlis. it is wry 'jie.:?,:iit in lake; 1 iet;. i !ii;d isk?? i 1. VECi S:TL\E. l'iti'.rAUEU uv : H. R. STEVENS, Boston, Mass. i I'eaetimt in *o!i1 l/u All Druaalste. A Rraiedr of Matfy Uso?. I Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, while it is not , a catholicon, achieves a host of good effects, and is useful in a variety of cases. By invigorating tho organs of "digestion it overcomes dyspepsia and its many and complex symptoms, imparts vitality to the physique, promotes appetite and sleep and overcomes j tho despondency which is a mental, symI pathetic accompaniment of dyspepsia. It is an ! admirablo remedy for disorder of the liver, j rousing that organ when dormant, and promoting tho secretion and flow of healthy bilo I into tho proper channel.. It relaxes without | weakening or convulsing ihe bowels, and ! checks thi ir irregularity. It arrests a growing | tendency to rheumatism, depurating the blooa i and increasing the activity of the kidnoys, and ! it is the best remedy in existence for chills and j fever, and bilious remittent, as well as a tried | preventive of those maladies. , The little village of Abilene, Kansas, i is noted for "having six churches. It j has only one newspaper, and that is a I weekly; bnt Abilene is nevertheless j ahead of all other towns in this season's competition in the matter of warm weather stories. A farmer living near Riley Center?so it is printed?started for Garrison with a load of hogs; but the sun was warm, and the hogs were fat, and when the farmer arrived in Gari rison, his eighty-five dollars worth of | pork had melted, and leaked through j the bottom of the wagon box. Indigestion. The main cause of nervousness is indigestion, I anil that is caused by weakness of the stomach. ! No one can have sound nerves and good health without using Hop Bitters to strengthen the stomach, purify the blood, and keep tho liver and kidneys active, to carry off tho poisonous nun wusiu uiauci ui uiu o>ow^u?. columu. It is happily ordained that grandparents ihall always take the part of the little folks, and the little folks know it. Down in Salem the other day a bright little girl was sent to get some eggs, and on her way back stumbled and fell, making sad havoc with the contents of her basket. " Won't you catch it when you get home, though I" exclaimed her companion. "No indeed, I won't." she answered, " I've got a grandmother."? j Boston Budget. "Tbr (IoiJh Help I Those who help themselves," and Nature inI variably helps those who take Warner's Safe ! Kidney and Liver Care. There is a colored man on Mr. G. M. | Ray's plantation,at Rockfish,N.C. who is a j real wonder to his neighbors. He has j lived with his old master ever since the war, and has never asked for money, has I Tipvf>r missed a dav's work, has never left home, has never associated with his own race, and has never been known to do a culpable act. Cents Will liuy & Treatiso upon the Horse and Lis Diseases. Book of 100 pages. Valuable to every owner of horse*. Postage stamps taken. Sent postpaid by New York Newspapor Union, 150 Worth Street," New York. Veoetine is now prescribed in casea of Scrofula, and other diseases of tbo blood, by many ( of the best physicians, owing to its great success in curing all iisoases of this nature. Pure Cod Livr.n Oil made from selected livers, on the seashore, by Caswell, Hazard A Co., New York. It is absolutely puro and sweet. Patients who have once taken it prefer it to all others. Physicians havo decided it superior to any of the other oils in market. Bed-niiKH, Ronehen, Rats, cats, mice, ants, tlies, inscots, cleared out by "Rough on ltats." 15c., druggists. We can insure any person having a bald head or troubled with dandruff that Carbolint., a deodorized extract ofpetroleum, will do all that is claimed for it. It will not stain the most delicate fabric and is delightfully perfumed. HOW TO SECURE HEALTH. It Is strange any one will suffer from derangements brought on liy Impure blood, when SCOVIF.I.'S SAI'.SAPARU.I.A ANDSTtl.l.IN'GIA.or 1JLOOD AND I.IVElt SYKL'P will restore bealth to the physical organization. It Is a strengthening syrup, pleasant to take, and the ItKST IU.OOD PI'KIKIKU ever discovered, curing Scrofula. Syphilitic disorders. Weakness of the Kidneys. Erysipelas, Malaria. Nervous disorders, Debility, Dillons complaints and Diseases of the Blood, Liver. Kidneys, Stomach, Skin, etc. Tanner's (.'eriiinn Ointment cures Burns, Cuts, Wounds, Sores. Sprains, Chilblains, etc., soothes Inflammation, aud relieves pain in the side, chest, j shoulders, etc. WARRANTED FOR 31 YEARS A.XD SEVER FAILED [ To Ct'ItK Croup, Spasms. Diarrhcpa, Dysenter? aud Sea Sickness, takeu internally, and GUARANTEED perfeetl. harmless; also externally, Cut", Bruises, Chronic Rheumatism. Old Sores, Pains in the limbs, back and chest. Such a remedy is Dii. TOBIAS' VENETIAN LINIMENT. riTNo one once trying it will ever be without it; overturn physicians use it. 25 Cents will Bay n Trentise upon the | Horse and his Diseases. Bock of 100 pages. Valuable ' to every owner of horses. Postage stamps taken. Sent postpaid by NEW YORK NEWSPAPEK UNION, i 150 Worth Street, New York. i = PERSY DAVIS' Pain-Elk A A SAFE AND SURE REMEDY FOR Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Cramps, ijlj ^ j| Sprains ^ DK ITOfilST?*. X Y N U?Ji? WfrTrs^Foi' Hay Fever, ! MCRFM r^lW^Kwv'SME ; , I ? l.^TAPWALH:irT7' Jj lif aths thr.i\:i:li tin* |no?o. It will ho nb- 1 yHrS-' , fi?N!xx?rtKMl,cleaiwiiiK ami >SA1.P* 5 {?/fi^"",m,'rin0For Deafness, 1 l!i" car. rtllibiim' iu 1 ELY'S CREAM BALM ! IT.10 1v?. tfci rfltnttliinti /l th*' l'W.1 oi othi'r iibr rciniHliiw Willi niy custoini.Ti nntl i >-< "!]! tantlv ?uil rai'i<Uy in<Ti'i:>:iiiK it''Though op- j J rcM><l to ri-('i)iniunMiliii^' I'iiii'iit lni'iiliMiic." as ,i rlo!-*. I lnako tli'soii''of;?!' .? i'Xr<-[.|ioii<, am! uff.'rit tomy j I !ri?-ti>lH ainl customers ;i> tix- best rum ily fur its purI iiose that I hiivi-fVi rxoM. 1 W. A. C'oXyvKit, Drup-rift, Newark. X. J. , Price?50 cents. Oil receipt of 50 cent# will mail a package free. Send fur circular, with full information. ELY C1JKAM MALM CO., Owcgo, N. Y. Sold by all Druggists. At Wholesale in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Syracuse, Boston and other cities. J E DOZEN Sllvi'T'l'Intdl KiiIvi-h nnil Forks tor *:f. put up in n hanibome case, scut i c. t?. 1'.. with i ri>ih*?;o ot n-tunon;: at our < xn>nso ; It not wuiMa-tory. JOHN II. IIA 1'TISTE, > 138 Division Avenue. Uraoltlyn, New York. Euirlnnri <??u?ci'vntai'y .-iii'i C?dlcsre ol .Xiisiu j i>V< nt Mtl-.S:. A| ply to i.. Tdi'lMI'.K, Hosion. Miiwt j I $5to$Mja?teg5itesit?te ' dr. :jt:ttait.s nr.adarrr^ r~ short time both SICK and NERVOl" ; tho nervous system, cleanse the sto | regular licaltliy action of the Lowe A full size box of ibrse valuable ' plcto cure, mailed to any ndilrr--1 <: stamps. lor calo by all druggists r BROWN CII 1 PETROLEUMS I Used and approved by the leading g CIMS of EUROPE and AMERICA. I The most Valuable I Family Remedy^^^^^W P,known. qshl S&S? catarrh, hemorrhoid; Congha, Cflds, Eore Threat, Croup aa WTry them. 25 and 50 cent ?ize? oI vrand medal. at the philadelpi314 BILTKB h?dal at tu pak10 kx1 -r !? ""* "T^" ' * ? ?. || 6reat8erman REMEDY ' bheumtish, " r neuralgia, sciatica, ismiilil lumbago, |i^h backache, Q<>TTT'" jpdin""^^ soreness chest, jn!lippi,,,,~,,e^is isore throat, Illlllllllll 1 QUINSY, 111 SWELLINGS ill Jic11 1111c Zm sprains, J frosteo FEET I | e^d8 I Bunnrs I illilil I SCAI<Z>Sf I I Q General Bodily PalM, " lib J yl TOOTH, EAR I I It ^11 HEADACHE, Lj,i# JUL DTD PUIS aigggggy AC?ES. No Preparation on earth equals St. Jacobs Oil u a1an, scrk. simplc and ciikap External Remedy. A trial entaili but the comparatirely trifling outlay of SO Cists. and e*?rj one luffering with pain can bare cheap and positive proof of ItJ claims. 01RJtcTIONS ls ELETES LA5GCAGL8. SOLO IV All DIU0OISTS AND BEALCBS ID MEOICIKt A. VOGELER & CO. Baltimore, Md? V. 8. A. Card Collectors! * 1st. Buy seven bars DOBBINS' ELECTRIC SOAP of your Grocer. 2d. Ask him to give you a bil] of it. 3d. Mail us his bill and youi full address. 4th. We will mail YOU FREE seven beautiful cards, in six colors and gold, representing Shakspeare's "Seven Ages of Man." I. L. GRAM CO.," 116 South Fourth Street, PHILADELPHIA, PA. \'Ur ii nil Mbh iiin?11' ?f of business,weak- man of let ened by the strain of UT tors toiling overman votir duties avoid W nigbt work, to res stimulants and u?e V tore brain nerre and B Hop Bitters. waste, use Hop B. I If you are 700117 and I suffering from any indiscretion or dusipa B tion; IT you are married or single, old or young, suffering^ from poorhealth or languish Bine on a bed of sickness, rely on Hop!B TtterS. Whoever youare. A v whenever you feel {I Jf!?? that your system IIMJI rw or JLIa n.e* needs cleansing, ton. <k?nr' log or stimulating, ] have been prov en ted without intoxicating, jS-1 by * timely use of take Hop HopBltters Bitters. Have you dy?pepsia, kidney 0. 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PILLS ELLOp^j the Vaaeiiae Cold Cream, tnT^^n wa Vasclina Camphor lea, Q^Trrr^AT>To' Vaseline Toilet Scars, 3t CHJLXJBLAXNS, ar? inperior to auj eleiilAT VASELINE COXFEClF'l d Diphtheria, etc. An arreeablo form of t '> all our goods, ing VaseLne intern:.."'". 25 CENTS A POV. l EXPOSITION. .?? ?? rouTiox. COLGATE & CO.. E. &