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| WHERE THE TREASURE IS." ;
^ A Slimmer sky and n balmy wind,
And a swallow swiftly flying;
A v.ee t> own r.tsl in t' > leaves entwined, |
And somed>wivy birc.k-ts lying,
And swift to that nest, in ihe leaves en- ;
twined,
The mother bird wns flying.
A Hickcring liglit-an 1 a hea;> of col 1,
And a miser counting slowly;
A lonely home and an o:n:>ty fold,
i And a heart i:i > !f wra;>t whol'y;
i And nothing to on-er that empty fold
' But t!:e cold Sikiji, g owing slowly.
A warring sea and a storm-black sky,
And a creaking vessel sailing:
A captain watching with troubled eyo
While courngo sore was failin g?
And he looked taward home with a longing
eye,
As to death lie fast was sailing.
A gnef-tn<irl;eu tfr.y Hilda darkened room,
And a childless mother lying;
An empty ucM. and a shin in doom;
Life i_-o!d from rin .'lets dying,
And God's crown jewels safe from doom
In tho many mansions lying!
.111i: \BHAr.S .JEST.
l Xot far from Limoges, capital of the j
French prjvince Limousin, .stood the j
castl? of Count de Saillant, widely I
U^r known throughout the last third of
the eighteenth century asa gay place of I
I assembly for convivial, congenial spiri
its?old-time French hospitality offer ?
ing a hearty welcome to all who could
boast an untarnished ancestral name.
Count de .Saillant had married the j
sister of the Count Honore Gabriel i
Victor Mirabeau. afterward the worldrenowned
hero of the French revolu- !
tion, and at this time known all over j
France for his wild a 1 ventures and mad j
pranks. Ilis brother-in-law and sister j
were at present expecting a visit from j
liini nf tli- <r:iv :ind here lie I
finally arrived one day in autumn of j
the year 17SO.
At this period Mirabeau was in the '
thirty-lirst year of his age: a muscular, j
beautifully-formed man below Iiis
massive, disproportioned head, dis-!
ligured by the large mouth, immense
nose and a countenance distressingly j
marred by smallpox, but from which i
glowed a pair of liery, expressive eyes. I
In every direction were the buhl, reck-1
less adventures of the young count
known?wild tricks that had more
than (.nee cast him into prison?and it
is not surprising that it was with considerable
i'tar and anxiety that the
simple, timid country people of
Limousin awaited the advent of this
intrepid character in their midst.
But never did preconceived impressions
appear more unfounded, j
-Mirabeau aljo.le quietly at the eastie
of his brotlrr-in-!aw, just as did the
If other pleasure-seekers, guilty of no ex^
travagances or follies, till Count de
Sail!ant and his wife were forced to
expre.-s their admiration of his exemplary
conduct, ant almost believed
that the "i.uid-cap '' had at last grown
wise.
i It was on one of the early day.; of
^November that the monotony of the
castle life was interrupted by an existing
sensation. A bold and daring \
robbery had been committed within its !
immediate precincts. Just at twilight. I
as a neighboring nobleman, a frequent I
guest of the house, was traversing
/ the customary roal through the for.est,
a gun-barrel was suddenly thrust
between the thick bushes, while adeep,
hoarse voice cried sternly:
"Unit- t Vnnp mnnov nr vrilir lifp I
""" VV. J ~ . |
Feeling no desire, us the nobleman
afterward explained, to lose his life for |
tin; sake of a few louis d'or, he in
j tantiy threw his purse upon the!
ground, and da>hed off without ven-!
tur.'ng to lo;>k back.
Robberies or serious crimes of any
kigd were of rare occurrence in Liinou-;
^in, and less frequently still were they !
ever traceable to the quiet inhabitants, j
but almost invariably to highwaymen
from a distance, passing through the
province. It was at once surmised, j
therefore, that this audacious deed |
must be the work of some such in- J
truder, and Count de Saillant gave |
wholesale instructions to spare no ef-;
-<* - * i- - r ? v .1 I. !
Ilun in ilie uiscoverj ui uitruejncuawu,
but all in vain. Xo trace of the bold !
maiauder rewarded their search.
lint what was the astonishment,i
alarm and consternation of the whole j
community when, in quick succession, |
robbery after robbery, of the same na-!
tur.\ followed, each and all committed i
in the s:ime mysterious manner, always :
at twilight, on the forest road, and the I
b;ise attack always confined to the i
wealthy, intimate frequenters of the j
castle. Within a fortnight no less
" than eight of these fearless assaults j
had b?en successfully accomplished, as
gu.-ts went to or from the count's J
residence, the closest investigation and j
vigilance proving utterly futile to dis-!
cover the expert highwayman.
Count Mirabeau laughed heartily j
over the stories of the bandit, and ;
linnwiiirt'fiil't' f l?n 1
IUUCU UIUIIUIV i Hi.%? VIIV l(ujjv-nv,wivx.? j
knights of Limousin for thus permitting
themselves to be plundered; but
they resolutely rejoined that he would i
prove no more courageous than they,1
if once attacked. In vain Mirabeau
assured them that he roamed t!ie forest
daily, hoping to encounter the mys- j
terious freebooter, and that nothing
would afford him greater pleasure than !
a meeting, when he would engage to i
deliver him a prisoner at the castle.
Meanwhile the proper authorities
were by no mi 'ansdilatory or negligent;
every e.Tort was diligently employed
to discovi r the author of the outrages, |
but in vain, lie remained enshrouded
in impenetrable mystery.
It was late in the evening of November
15 that the Marquis of
('hurras, a worthy noble.nan, of middle
age, rode slmvlv on his way to Castle
Sail.'anfr. Twilight had already fiillen ;
t on the fur.-st; it was perfectly still,
the stars shining serenely overT)?al,
while the full nio:n rose in!
X majestic beauty, lighting the trees with
fantastic splendor, as the falling leaves !
lloated silently fro:n the dying bran lies. ,
" The insecurity of the path he traveled
was well known to the marquis, and, j
advancing deeper into the woods, he j
spurred It's hir.se to faster speed,
inwardly wishing that he ha 1 not1
ventured thus into the solitude alone.!
Xor did the wish j rjve a needless
one ; scarcely had he proceeded a hundre
1 step.4 further when the click of a
gun-hammer startled him, and the
next inst mt the muzzle of the weapon
was bearing close upon him, while a '
dark form suddenly appeared beneath j
a towering oak, and in a calm, resolute :
voice ordered :
? 11alt! Your purse, my lord, or you
stir not further!"
Instantly the marquis realize'! that
he stco.l face 1 by the same dilemma
ruthlessly forced upon many before
him ami' mute as reluctant {is they to
?a3r:fiee his life for the small sum he
carri d, scornfully cast Irs purse upon
ihe ground, rid'ng slowly forward, but
saying, as bo did so :
"You fol >w a risky trale, fellow ;
I warrant it will yet bring you to the j
gall >ws!"
"That's my risk," replied the high- '
way man, coolly advancing from the
shadow of the oak into the clear moonlight
to seize the purse.
But. just as he stooped for the prize
the fastening of his mask suddenly
snapped, and it dropped to the ground,
leaving his far*e clearly revealed; at
the same moment the marquis again
j; looked back and the woods echoed with j
a startled cry of astonishment.
"('an it be possible?" he cried, gaz-;
ing as though par ilvzed with bewilder- j
[ inent. "Who could ever have suspected
this? Despicable man, you are at last i
discovered, and now an end to your
rascally deeds."
The bandit, with no show of confusion,
however, merely smiled, and
[ pointing his gun threateningly at the
a
I I
marquis, the latter j ut spurs to his.
hois.* and sped onward to the castle.
"And now this fine sport must really
come to an end, I suppose," said the
robber, quietly. " How unfortunate.
It has a Horde I me infinite amusement."
And turning a by-path heals >directed
his steps to war 1 th- castle.
IJreathless, the excited marquis arrived
at the house, but finding the
count absent pr ?ceeded as quietly as
he could to the salon, where a number
of his acquaintance s were assembled
around the host *ss, who was grace-,
fully doing the honors of the house.
Although car; fully repressing all id-1
lu-i n to ids recent adventure, liecould i
not escape remark upon Ids abstracted
I silence, and s ?me joke.l him up >n his
hum r. but he could only cast sad,
compassionate glances toward the
countess, as she chatted gaylv, utterly j
unconscious of the cloud above her.
Kinging at la>t for a servant, she inj
quired if her brother, the count, had
yit returned from hunting, and re-l
ceived in reply the information that
he had but just arrived, and had gone j
to his room, leaving his excuses on the !
plea of severe headache. An hour later '
Count de Saillant returned, and had i
sf!iri-i?lv finished his cordial ."Teetin'j\s
when the marquis requested an inter- j
view, and the two withdrew to an adjoining
room.
' Now, what is it, my dear Char- i
ras'r" inquirel the count, serenely, "it'
appears to me you look somewhat!
downhearted."
"And, truly, my dear friend, I have {
sufficient cause to look so," replied the
marquis, sadly; "for it grieves me inexpressibly
to he the bearer of had
news."
" Then, for heaven's sake, Charms,
don't keep me in suspense; out with it |
at once," cried the count.
"Not two hours since, wh:l> riding
through the forest, I was attacked and
robbed; I was forced to surrender my
purse to preserve my life."
" Upon my word, I am truly sorry to
hear that you, too, have b.-en subjected
to this villainy on my grounds," exclaimed
Saillant; "but others have
been likewise unfortunate, and I hope
your loss has not been great."
u An,l L-iitmncn I nin irri'tivirwr
uu 1 \J 11 nu 1 UUI I
for a few pieces of gold?" interrupted j
his friend. " My dear count, the worst j
is I have discovered the bandit."
" Wliat! you have recognized him !
That is, indeed, good luck. Now,
then, the bold rascal will be secured
and at once brought to the gallows. I
will immediately?"
"Xo, n<>, my dear friend, do nothing |
yet," interrupted the other; " this i
affair must remain a secret in order to |
avoid, if possible, the disgrace of a'
highly-esteeme I family. You have |
not yet learned the name of the
bandit."
" Well, who is it?" demanded his
friend.
"It is?"
"Why do you hesitate? It is not?I
trust?"
The marquis came nearer. "Alas"
v." I .
?<UU lie, J VI14 nv/iOK 1UUO ftic V/UllCV/l,
the mysterious highwayman is none
other than your own brother-in-law,
the Count de Mirabeau."
Count ile Saillant became deathly
pale.
"Ha! the scoundrel!" he murmured;
"has it come to this? You are sure,
marquis?"
"Only too sure, my poor friend."
"You recognized him beyond all
doubt?"
"Beyondall doubt; as he stooped to j
take the purse the mask fell from Ins
face, and in the moonlight I could not !
fail to recognize the young count."
" Did he perceive that you knew
him?"
" Undoubtedly; I spoke a few threatening
words to him that must have
convinced him of it."
"What did he do then?"
"He coolly laughed anil aimed at me
again with his gun, but I escaped. lie
arrived at the castle a half hour after '
I did, and, I hear, has gone at once to
his room."
" You have spoken to no one else of
this?" askedSaillant.
"Xo one."
" The villain !" cried the count, beside
himself with rage. "Hut lie shall i
not escape punishment; he shall be at J
once apprehended and imprisoned for j
life, that no further disgrace may be ;
brought upon his family."
Tti<? nT.irniii? inprplv limvpfl ii silent '
A.1 4^ 1 J I
approval, adding, compassionately: "I j
will go back to tlu: company, my
friend; it is best tli.it no linpleasant i
sensation be excited until the matter is I
further investigated."
" You are right, my good Charras,"
replied the count, "and I will go at J
once to the wretched man."
While his guest returned to the salon, !
the host endeavored to collect his be- j
wildered senses, and repaired to the
apartment of his brother-in-law.
Mirabeau lay sleeping soundly; a
night lamp burned dimly on a table
near his bed.
Koughly and unceremoniously his
visitor shook him by the shoulder, |
until, rubbing his eyes dreamily, the,
sleeper awoke.
" What on earth do you want?" he
asked, staring at Saillant; "what are;
vim w.'tkinor me for at this time of
?' ' " o
nightV is the castle on lire or what?" (
* What do I want?" repeated the I
other, with smothered rage and scorn: i
' 1 want to tell you that you aru ;i
miserable, sneaking." cowardly scoundrel.
That's what I want."
" Well, that's a line compliment, to i
be sure," replied Mirabeau, coolly;;
" are you drunk, Saillant, or do you i
think it polite, now, to waken a man
out of thi sweetest slumber just to
speak so rudely V Why can't you let a
fellow enjoy the sleep of the
righfc oils?"
And with this he quietly turned
over on hi> side.
" The sleep of the righteous," cried i
tiie count, in uncontrollable wrath, j
" How can you pretend to sleep, shameless
fellow that you are? You are the I
dastardly rogue that has been haunting '
my forest.'
" Well, that's true enough: I am the I
man; but is it for a little tiling like j
' ' '? 1-; ..i? 1
Hint Hint you urc huikiu^ ?ui iuis ?u* ,
timely fuss?"
"A little thing!" shrieked Saiilant. [
"None of that, sir. Vim tliiuk, perImps,
that your highway robberies will j
be regarded as an idle prank; this very j
evening you have robbed my lriend
Charras; lie has r tognized you, aid
your shameful story is known, and cries ;
aloud for punishment."
"Well, for heaven's sake, brother, j
why couldn't you wait till morning to
confide to nie this pleasant informa-1
tion?" asked Mirabeau, with undis- |
turbed coolness. "It is true I have j
robbed your friend Charras and the j
eight others, but what does that prove '
against me?"
" And you can ask such an idiotic i
question," cried Saillant. "For iny
part, I should say that it proves you a
good-for-nothing scoundrel."
" I fail to see it just in that light,
dear brother," answered the other,
meekly; "but I think jour conduct
proves you a senseless fool. Can you
really pretend to believe that I have
robbed these cowardly noble.} for the
sake of a few paltry louis d'or. It
was simply an experiment; 1 wished to
prove their courage and my own also.
It is true the experiment was a risky j
one, but has been thoroughly satisfac-!
tory on my side, while proving your j
friends miserable cowards, who would,
in truth, succumb to the very first
struggle with the canaille."
Taking a key from the table near ,
him, he now presented it to the count, 1
saying:
" Open my desk there and remove
the second drawer."
Utterly bewildered by Mirabeau's
imperturbable nonchalance, Saillant silently
obeyed.
Within the drawer lay nine purse?,
a paper affixed to oacli bearing the |
name of the former owner.
"J'erhaps this will satisfy you that
it has never been my intention to inrich
myself through the possessions of
others," sail Mirabeau, scornfully. "It
was my full determination to return
the purses undisturbed to the original
owners and which can easily be done in
the morning. Assemble your friends
together and I will give them a full
explanation ueiore taiung my acjiariurc,
important letters already calling
Ui" elsewhere. And now, brother, if
you are satisfied, I would like to say
good-night."
Count de Saillant answered not a I
word; bewildered, lie quietly left the
room, convinced, at least, that his relative
was noordinaryhighwayman; but
he had a'so caught a full glimpse of
the daring, relentless spirit of the man
who afterward became the Titan of
the French revolution.
On the following day Mirabeau took
leave of his Limousin friends in the j
following manner:
"Gentlemen," said he, with inde- i
scribable sangfroid, " pardon the little !
experiment I have tried on you in
order to prove my own courage; your j
property has been returned and my j
brother-in-law has given what, I hope, !
is a satisfactory explanation; if it lias !
proved otherwise, however, I am quite 1
prepared and willing to offer honor- 1
able satisfaction to any one desiring j
it. I regret to say that this dull coun- |
try, forcing one to play bandit to relieve
the stagnation of life, is no longer
congenial tome, and as I am now about
to enter the more exciting pleasures of
the political arena, I wish only to bid i
you farewell."
It was quite evident that none j
present desired to cross swords with j
the grimly humorous count; the gentlemen
stood somewhat abashed before i
kin* ????,! fK/uf foil InQ in- !
trepid gaze. The Marquis of Charms,
finally furring his features to assume j
a smile, blandly remarked that the i
whole affair was regarded as a very |
good joke, and his companions ma le I
no objection to this settlement of the I
matter.
Quite satisfied with his own part, j
Mirabeau went on his way to become i
eventually the world-famous hero j
painted by history.?Modern Aye.
L ?^
Beverages Six Centuries Ago.
The poor man had little to sweeten |
his lut. The bees gave him honey; and
long after the time 1 am dealing with i
left not only their hives to their child- j
ren by will, but actually bequeathed a ;
summer llight of bees to their friends; '
while the hive was claimed by one, the j
next swarm would become the property
of another. As for the drink, it was
almost, exclusively water, beer and
eider. Any one who pleased might j
brew beer without tux or license, and |
everybody who was at all before the
world did brew his own beer according
to his own taste. Hut in those days
the beer was very different stuff from
that which you are familiar with. To
begin with, people did not use hops.
Hopswerenot put into beer until long '
after the time we are concerned with.
I dare say they flavored their beer with
horehound and other herbs, but they
did not understand those tricks which
brewers are said to practice nowadays j
for making the beer "heady" and
sticky and poisonous. 1 ani not prepared
to say the beer was better, or
that you would have liked it, but I am
pretty sure that in those days it was
easier to get pure beer in a country
village than it is now, and if a man
chose to drink bad beer he had only
himself to thank for it. There is no
such monopoly as there is now. I am
inclined to think that there were a very
great many more people who sold beer
in the country parishes than sell it now, '
and I am sorry to say that the beer- !
sellers in those*days had the reputation I
of being rather :i bad lot. It is quite j
certain that they were very often in
trouble, and of all the offenses punished
by line at the manor courts none is
more common than that of selling beer
in false measures. Tobacco was quite
unknown; it was lirst brought into
England about three hundred years
after the days we are dealing with.
When a man once sat himself down
with his pot he had nothing to do but
drink, lie had no pipe to take off his
attention from his liquor. If such a
portentous sight could have been seen
in those days as that of a man vomiting
forth clouds of smoke from his
mouth and nostrils, the beholders would
undoubtedly have taken to their heels
and run for their lives, protesting that
the devil himself had appeared to them,
breathing forth lire and llames. Tea
and coffee, too, were absolutely unknown,
unheard of; and wine was the
rich man's beverage, as it is now.
The lire-waters of our own time?the
gin anil the rum, which have wrought
us all such incalculable mischief?were
not discovered then.?Nineteenth Ceil'
tury.
A. Freak of the Flood,
One of the strangest freaks of the
recent Hood is reported l'rom Whitewater
river, a few miles above Lawrenceburg,
Ind., where Farmer Jlunt
lost forty acres of land and his neighbor.
Fred. Xewhouse, had a barren and
rocky mill-site converted into ten acres
of as rich land as the fertile valley
affords. The land along the Whitewater
is as rich as any in the West.
An acre of ground here is an independent'
for a gardener, and ten
acres are little less than a bonanza.
During the llood the Whitewater bot
toins were overiioweu lor nines along
the stream, anil the extraordinary
height of the water created currents
that had never been known before.
Since the subsidence of the llo:>d it has
been found that forty acres of Farmer
Hunt's richest soil have been carried j
away, leaving that portion of his farm
practically worthless until restored by
a system of tillage and fertilizing.
Fred. Xewhouse, who recently removed
to the Whitewater bottoms
from Aurora, owned a mill-site just |
below*" Hunt's farm. Xewhouse's |
property consisted of ton a'-res of bar- j
ren land, unlit for farming purposes.
A portion of this was a largo mill- |
pond. The millpond is now lilled to i
the level of the breast of the dam with i
the richest soil in the valley, and Mr.
Xewhouse's remaining acres of unproductive
rocks are covered to the depth
of several feet with the same rich deposit.
Instead of being a loser by the
Hood he is ahead the value of ten acres
of "Whitewater valley land, which,
when there is any of it in the market,
commands from $200 to $500 an
acre.?Cincinnati Enquirer.
An Unknown Speaker.
In the House lobby back of the speaker's
desk is an incomplete collection of
portraits of speakers of the past. All
are labeled with the correct names except
one. This is the second picture
on the right hand side of the lobby as
you go in from the west. No one apparently
knows who this represents
beyond the fact that he was once
speaker. The oldest citizen has vainly
struggled to identify him. Unknown,
the face of the man who once held the
third highest ofiice in the United States
gazes calmly down upon the procession
passing him in a maddening rush
for political fame.? Washington Herald.
A "Draw."
" How's trade?" he asked of a dealer
UU JllUU.grt.. OYCU..V.
"Rather dull just now!" was the
reply.
" Do you want something for a draw
during dull times?"
" I might go into it."
"Give me Hftv cents and I'll give
you the greatest draw on the books."
" I'll go twenty-five."
The money was handed over and the
I grocer was presented with a ten-cent
1 corkscrew.?FriC Press.
I
FACTS AND COMMENTS.
The cotton factors of St. Louis have
i united in a circular addressed to the
j merchants, farmers and tenants of the
I cotton belt, advising them to abandon
the credit system and to discourage the
planting of a large acreage in cotton
this year, and to devote their labors
first to the raising of grain, cattle and
hogs, giving a smaller portion of their
time to the culture of cotton.
Drunkenness has been investigated
hy Professor Yerga, of Milan. According
to him, men or women given
to intoxication are, strange to say, seldom
giv.'n to kleptomania or suicide.
A woman is loss apt to take to liquor
than a man, but when she does she can
hardly be reclaimed. She becomes
shameless and abominable, but seldom
dangerous. Cold weather seems to
cause men to take to strong drink and
mild weather has the same influence
upon women.
The son of a Baptist clergyman of
Philadelphia went into the army and
served through the war, faithfully as
an ollicer and uprightly as a man.
When he was discharged, to the
astoundment and horror of his friends,
he promptly and deliberately became a
thief, and follows that calling, serving 1
one sentence after another in the J
penitentiary, reJ'u-ing to return to his
friends and respe lability, declaring
that he prefers his present mode of 1
life to any other. The case is one 1
without recorded precedent or parallel. ;
The swindle planned by a Cincin- 1
nati showman consisted in advertising
for a treasurer for a minstrel show
and getting $500 from a candidate as
pretended security. A country grocer ^
was caught by the prospect of making
a tour of the country on a salary of j
$25 a week, with all expenses paid, and
he supposed that he was safe against
frail I because a company was ready to
.? *.4-?... 11/Mif 1 ? 11 # f V-* ixnrl'Mriiuira
Ul'LIIUUY SUM b Ulll'. JJlll mi; I'l nwi IIII-I .> j
were amateurs, lured into the affair at
no cost to the managers, who (led with ,
all the money after the first perform- .
anee. The grccer committed suieid1. j
An international exhibition of a '
novel character is projected to be held
in Paris next autumn under the j
auspices of the Soch-te Protectrice des (
Animaux. The catalogue is to include ^
all apparatus, furniture, etc., connected ,
with the breaking and use of horses. '
It is possible that the exhibition may '
become extended so as to embrace ap- '
pliances employed in the relations of '
mankin<l with other animals. The
corporation of Paris have granted the ,
use of the Pavilion in the Champs
Ely sees for the month of September j
next for the exhibition. The society
referred to, which has been established
over thirty yours, now numbers some !
0,000 members, and, thanks to its j
efforts, in few countries is more done
than in France for the protection of
the animal world.
A specimen of the "angry tree," indigenous
to Australia, is growing on :i
farm in Nevad i and is now eight fe.-t
high. When the sun sets its leaves
fold together and the ends of the ten- '
der twigs coil up like a pigtail. If the (
twigs are handled the leaves move un- *
easily for a minute or more. A sin- 1
gular thing concerning the tree was its '
apparent resentment on being removed f
from a p;>t, in whicli it had matured, *
into a much larger pot. Ilardlv had it '
been placcd in its new quarters before 1
the leaves began to stand up in all di- t
rections, like the hair on the tail of an *
angry cat, and so;>n the whole plant '
was in a quiver. At the same time it 1
gave out a*i odor most pungent and '
sickening, resembling the odor given '
oil by rattlesnakes and other kinds of *
snakes when teased. So strong and
offensive was this smell that it had to i
be removed from the house for several 1
days.
Atlanta has gaine 1 greatly by her \
cotton exhibition or JLWSJL mere nas
been a continuous inflow of people and 1
capital, and real estate has been in c.>n- '
stant demand lor residences and iner- t
cantile purposes. A grain elevator J
and cotton compress lias been built; a '
spinning company has completed and '
nearly filled its capacious building '
with machinery, and is preparing to r
double its capacity; iho great fair A
building has been purchased by a com- x
pany with a capital of $2;'?(),UCO, and is s
half filled with machinery; companies 1
have been formed lor building apparatus
to prepare cotton for the spinner; 1
fertilizer and other manufactories have
been established in and near the city; (
and a concern has been organize I for s
t he manufacture of oleomargarine, t
The aggregate capital invested since c
the exposition in manufacturing enter- I
prises is about $1,500,000, employing 1
no fewer than 2,000 operatives, and Jl
paying annual wages approximating ! 1
$800,000. ' r
I!
According to Professor Langley sci- ^
entitle men are convinced that space is 1
not an utter void, but that it furnishes J
the carbonic acid gas by means of j1
which plants and animals grow. It is 1
calculated that the earth has absorbed 's
the carbon of the a'.mt sphere one hun- j *
dreel times over, and that i!s replen-1 ;
islnnent comes from within the spa-e i1
between the planets. Xewton hinted 1
at this, but did not fully comprehend ;
it, two hundred years ago. Once in |
thirty years the earth is j.Tv'cipitated j .
into meteor streams. These have been i \
identified with comets. These me- j(
teoric fragments, which undoubtedly
come from the head of comets, are i(.
composed of real sandstone, like that J
which holds the copper of Lake Su-1 s
perior. It is manifest, therefore, that i 1
these come from worlds not unlike
our own and that meteors and cornels J <]
are portions of demolished out-worn j t
worlds. This, if true, remarks the t
Detroit Fr<e Press, is what the inhab- i
itants (1 the earth mint look forward to,
and which, though not quite so }
definite, is far more formidable than t
Wiggins' storm.
The Noimjo. W'rendu, of St. Peters- <
burg, recently gave an outline of a re- j
mark.tbly drastic law which it is pro- t
pose I to ena'Jt to lessen the evil of ir.-,
temperance in Russia. First it is pro- j:
posed that no drinking-house shall bj j l
allowed to be erected in the neighbor- j
hood of factories and workshops; that j i
no selling of drink for consumption on ! i
the premises shall be permitted except j
in a limited number of places in the .
more public and general resorts; that j!
if drink is sold to children and! \
minors, whether with or without their \
jicll Cilia tUU>Ulll| IIWHUU t?v ?
which this was done shall be closed b> 1
the police. Secondly, among the
clauses dealing with the customer, j
there is one which proposes that " every ,
incorrigible chronic drinker" shall '
forfeit the rights of a father. His I'
children are to be taken away from
him and regarded as the children of
the state, by which they will be placed :
in some educational institute, where
the father will be prohibited from ,
interfering with them. In the ease of ,
an incorrigibly drunken husband the | J
project suggests that the courts shall
be allowed to grant his wife, up >n her :
own appeal, a species ol" conditional 1
divorce, with a guarantee) of exclusive |
right to her earnings. Similarly at;
the request of a husband whose wife <
is an incorrigible drunkard, it is pro- j
posed that he be freed from the obliga- i
tion of maintaining her and living i
with her. In neither case is this i:
separation to be counted as a legiti- j
mate divorce, enabling the spouse of j
the incorrigible tippler to contract a
second union. We hear that the
special commission included a large
number "of medical assessors.
A Kentucky hunter affirms that he
killed 9,160 rabbits last winter. ,
IIWM
THE FARM AX? HOUSEHOLD.
Culture of FurhMn*.
The fuchsia requires a light, ri.'h
soil. Sprinkle often and giv> plenty
of light and air. The usual plan is to
obtain plants, llower them In the house
during winter, and then consider them
useless. This is all wrong. If you
have any defective spot on the nortli
side of the house that you wish corictaV'i
during the summer, nothing
will answer the purpose as beautifully
as the fuchsia, l'ut out the plants in
early summer, sinking the pots a little
deeper than th? rim, and before the
first frost remove the plants to the
house, and they will make you glad all
winter, and be rea ly for service in the
garden again next summer.
Vftliie of Con! .\*hM.
In answer to A. II., I would state
that for years I have spread the coal
ashes from my stove under the droptvnnru
in tlm lion-lwinco Ai'nrv mnrninrr
The hens scratch in this for the hard,
white pieces of ashes, thus koeping
the droppings loose and dry. This
mixture 1 spread on the meadows
in the spring, and lind it an excellent
manure. The lirst year I spread a
[ art-load across the center of a sandy
li t, and in .1 uly you could see the rank
screen stream as far as you could see
the lot, the remainder being dry and
brown. The using of coal ashes'in
the hen-house is of great benefit, as it
takes the place of shells, and also furnishes
a dusting-place for the hens.
My hens are not troubie.l with lice,
md have laid eggs all winter.?D., in
Country Gentlemen.
Shoulder Uallt
So long as the cause remains in operation
no cure is possible by any
means. It may be necessary to use
:>ads, so arranged as to prevent bearing
on the sore places, or some of the
>t.tilling of the collar may be removed
it the places where the pressure causes
injury. It will also be necessary to
ieep the parts ot the harness that
. ome in contact with the horse, as
well as the horse's skin, free from sweat
ind dirt by the use of soapsuds and
. olcl water. This should be done [
ivery noon and evening, especially
luring warm weather, and the parts
should be afterward dried with a sort
loth or a chamois skin. After such
leaning apply in the evening a por;ion
of the following lotion : To
ibout two pounds of unslackcd lime
idd two quarts of cold water, and,
ifter they have intimately combined
ind settled, pour off the liquid into a
lish or pot : .add thereto half a pint
)f linseed oil and three ounces (Jouard's
extract of lead ; stir well together
an I, when not used, keep ktlie
jiixture corked in bottles. It would,
>f course, be preferable to liberate the
inimal from work; or, if it cannot
>e spared, to use a well fitting breast
larness for awhile. Old callous tunors
or indurated swellings are best
emoved by dissection. ? Breeders'
.f azctte.
Artificial Fevtili'/.erB Tor Frnlu.
Dr. James H. Nichols, in a paper on
' The Sweet Principle of Fruits and
lnnts." read before a recent mett'ng
>f the Massachusetts Horticultural
society, gave expression to many ineresting
statements, some of which
ire here presented. Xo one of the
'ruits in their wild state hold enough
sugar to make them a -eepiable to the
miiiiin palate, but the sweet principle
nay 1> largely inert ased by cultivaion
and fertilization. Jn increasing
lie sugar in fruit other desirable qualties
aio also in r< ased. The beet,
inder ordinary conditions, will afford
roni four to si\ per cent, of sugar,
jut by seientilic ail 1 generous culture
he perc< ntage can ie nearly double I.
Touching on the subject of fertilz<rs,
J)r. Nichols said thai nitrogenous
Manures are not required in orchards
o any extent, the supply in the soil
>eing equal to the sn ail amount deilanded
by the growing fruit. 1'otush
s the mo?t imp riant elunnt in se uring
a (lourisliing condition of
ruits. J loth the vine and its fruit are
jr.at consumers of potash, as are also
no.st of the small fruits. Wood ashes
san excellent manure combined with
inely ground bone. Wood ashes and
jone meal are excellent materials for
ct laiining ;i worn-out grape border, as I
veil as desirable for new borders. It
vas advised to p'ace the fertilizers in
uccessive layers rather than in the
isualform of a mixed leap,
"Wood ashes art' t!:e 1 est source of
)otash, in Dr. Nichols' opinion, an 1
text come the German chlorides. The
Jerman Kainit salts he thought poionous
to soils. lie recommended as
he best fertilizer fi r fruits and most
ereal crojis a mixture of linely ground
tones and g.iod wood a dies, in the pronation
of six barrels of the former
nd twelve of the lattt r, to be well
nixed together, adding during the
nixing twelve buckets of water and
me barrel of gypsum or piaster.
iVhen the German chlorides are em>!oyed
in place of ashes the compost
nay be extended with humus, fie
ias used the Charleston phosphate
loduk s, ground line, with considerable
uceess, in p!a<:e of ground hone. Mar
ha'l P. Wilder, who approved ot nr.
Nichols* paper, believe 1 the combinaion
of wood a<hes and powdered hone
if great value.
I'nrui nml <<nrilen XoKin,
]>y vaporizing two quarts of toba-eo
uire over a slow lire Han n Kothshild's
gardener at Paris destroys all
lie troublesome inserts that may he
ontamcd in the hothouse in which
lie operation is performed. Ileeoniderstlie
remedy infallible, and says it
arely injures thetenderest plant -.
The ii '.vantage of grinding the eoh
ind etrn tog( tlier is not altogether in
lie nutriment of the cub, hut because
he cob, being a coarser and a spongy
Material, gives bulk, and divides and
toparates the line m< al, so as to allow
i free circulation of the gastric juice
,hrough the mass in the stoma h.
In pruning trees all stems half an
rich or mure in diameter should be
rovercd with some waterproof subitancc
like grafting wax or shellac, of
1? .>(' 'Ph,. I .irL
/Ill* I'UJlJMrat inw? < nam. jni> wm
mil outer wood will thus be preserved,
mil the wound will in ;i season or so
ie covired with new bark. If this
irecaution be not taken, the end of the
uanch will decay from exposure to
>vind, rain, heat and cold.
White worms, which infest occasionilly
nil soils where plant* are kept in
-,ots, may be removed as follows: Lime
ivater may be sprinkled over the soil,
3r a little slaked lime may be sprinkled
ilso on the earth and in the saiccr of
;he ])ot. Lime water may easily be j
ma le by slaking a large ]>iece of lim
in a pail of cold water, lifting it settle !
ind then bottling for use. (live each j
pot a tablespoon! ul twice a week.
There is more lo-s in storing pota- j
Lees than in storing any other crop.
Barring all wastes I'roiu rot there is a
lieavy shrinkage both in quantity anil I
weight. A bin holding 100 bushels |
will shrink in :-ize ne; rlv one-tenth, j
' - *? ? A !
Ul'SHH! it lira III .... I
Imshel basket full that will weigh
fully sixty pounds in October when
Laken from tho soil will not weigh so
much after being st tree I in the cellar.
A correspondent of the New liv;/land
Homestead says : For forty years
I have bPi n employed by my neighbors
who have had cows with stoppages
in their teats to lance the obstructions,
and have been successful
in curing many bad cases. I was at
first troubled to hit upon a plan of confining
a cow so a? to be in no danger
myself and at the same time not hurt
her, but at last succeeded. I used a
strap three quarters of an inch wide,
six feet 1 mg, with two loops and a
buckle ; one loop quite large. Now I
loop this on to the right leg above the
gambrel, pass the strap around the
other leg, then cross it back and forth
a few times and buckle snugly and it is
done. Such a strap is very valuable
in breaking heifers to milk.
itcclpcs.
Scotcii Scon lis.?Mix thoroughly a
pound and a half of flour, a pinch of
sail, a icaspooiuui 01 auu;i iiuti tin;
same of crcam t:irlar. Mix to a light
paste with a pint of sour milk, knead
the dough a little, roll it out till about
one-third of an inch thick and cut it
into three-cornered pieces, each side
being about four inches long. Put
th" seones on a lloured tin and bake in
quick oven.
Cherry Pudding.?Make a crust
as lor 1 aking powder biscuit; roll it
out till it is about two-thirds of an
inch thick. Stew enough cherries
so that when they are spread on the
crust they will cover it and be deep
enough to make a good layer of fruit;
roll tiie crust up then, taking care to
keep the cherries from falling off.
Wrap a cloth around it; sew it loosely
with a coarse thread, which is easily
pulled out. Allow plenty of room for
the crust to rise. Lay this on a plate
and set it in a steamer, t^team it for
an hour and a half. Serve in slices,
with sauce. The object in stewing the
cherries is that the juice will not be
soaked into the crust.
Fried Caulifi.oweh.?Lav tlie
cauliflower root upward in plenty of
cold, salte 1 water, for an hour, to remove
the insects from it; trim off the
leaves, put it into a large saucepan
with boiling water enough to cover it,
and a tablespoonful of suit, and boil it
just tender, but do not let it boil too
soft; drain off the water entirely by
laying it on a sieve; dust it on the
blossom surface with Hour, peeper and
salt, and fry it in sufficient smoking
hot fat to quite cover the floured part;
serve it hot. It is rather difficult to
avoid breaking the cauliflower, and a
novice in cookery will best succeed
with this dish if sli3 cuts the cauliflower
in branches before boiling it
and flours the pieces all over before
frying them.
Tea Soup.?Pick over one quart of
split peas, wash and soak over night.
In the morning pour into a large
saucepan or soup-kettle three quarts
of hot water, add the soaked peas, one
onion cut in small pieces, a little cayenne
and two salted pork hocks. The
hocks must be laid in warm water two
or three hours before cooking, otherwise
the soup would be too salt; these
are more aesiraoie xor a soup <ia uieru
is less f?il than there would be in a
plain piece of salt pork, and there is a
great ileal of gelatine which makes a
nice addition to the soup. Boil gently
three or four hours, stirring often to
keep the soup from burning. When
cooked, take out the meat, strain
through a sieve, pressing the peas
through with a wooden masher. .Serve
hot, with some fried bread cut in dice.
Hoimrliold IlintH.
When the skins of potatoes break
pour off the water and let them cook
in their own steam.
In making any sauce put the butter
and flour in together and your sauce
will never be lumpy.
To clean copper tea-kettles, use turpentine
and line brick-dust, and rub
hard with a flannel, and polish with
leather and dry brick-dust.
To clean hair brushes, use ammonia
and hf.t water; after washing well,
shake the water out and dry on a coarse
towel; they will look as good a 3 new.
A French chemist asserts that if
tea be ground like coffee immediately
before hot water is poured upon it, it
will yield nearly double the amount of
lis eximaiiuiujj-<jiuiulic->.
For His Mother.
A poor little newsboy while attempting
to jump from a city car fell beneath
the car :ind was fearfully
mangled. As soon as the child could
speak lie called pitcously for his mother
;ind a masvnger was at once sent to
bring her to him. When the bereaved
woman arrived she hung over the dying
buy in an agony of grief. "Mother,"
whispered he with a painful effort;5 I
sold four newspapers and the money is
in my pocket." With the hand of
death upon his brow the last thought
of the suffering child was for the poor,
hard-working mother whose burdens
he was striving to lighten when he
lost his life.
Russian Religion.
A noteworthy phase in Russian life
which impresses the attention of the
stranger is the excessive and continual
exercise of religions forms and observances.
There are numerous chapels
and shrines in the streets and thoroughfares,
before which the people throng
and perform their devotions. The
l.i>v<>ctrMfiMrw nrnasinirs ;ind
nuctllllfti., 3- other
rites are incessant. The cabman
removes his hat and crosses himself as
he passes a shrine or chapel. The
countryman in his cart, the porter with
his load, and the poorer passer-by
generally, stop to recite their prayers
and kneel or prostrate themselves before
some icon, which they firmly believe
is endowed with miraculous
powers. Before going on a journey or
making a bargain, or any other com.
mon event in his life, the Russian
recites his prayers, bows and crosses
himself with great rapidity and vigor
before his favorite shrine. Rones of
saints and other relics are exhibited in
churches and kissed with fervor and
invocation by the poor worshipers.
The priests, however, do not seem to
have any close relationship or influence
with the people.?b'ortniuhtly Jiecirw
Difference of Time.
At 12 o'clock noon, Saturday, at
Washington, it is:
]2:12 r. M. Saturday nt Now York, United
States.
i'* '>i P M Snturclav at Boston, United
States.
4:1511?. m. Saturday at Lisbon, Portugal.
4.-/v5 p. m. Saturday at Edinburgh,Scotland.
MYi v. m. Saturday at London, England.
f>:17 p. m. Saturday at Paris, France.
f,.r?K r. m. Saturday at Home, Italy.
(>:C21>. m. Saturday at Berlin, Prussia.
0:14 i>. m. Saturday at Vienna, Austria.
(!:22 p. m. Saturday at Cape Town, Africa.
7:04 p. m. Saturday at Constantinople.
11:01 p. m. Saturday at Calcutta, India.
12:54 a. m. Sunday at Pekin, China.
2:48 a. m. Sunday at Melbourne, Australia.
4:fll a. m. Sunday at Auckland, New iZealand.
8:f>8 a. m. Saturday at San Francisco, United
States.
!i:40 a. m. Saturday at Salt Lake, United
States.
11:08 a. m. Saturday at New Orleans,
United States.
11:18 a. m. Saturday at Chicago, United
States.
12 noon Saturday at Lima, Peru.
Swopping Pistols.
Arrested lor carrying ;i pistol, was
he?" asked a magistrate of an officer,
referring to a gentleman who bad just
been arraigned. "Let's see the pistol."
The weapon was produced and handed
to the judg1, who examined it and
asked :
" /liil <r<if if '3 "
* >t 11171 1" Uiu MM? V .w .
" Houglit it at a liiinhvare store."
What did it cost?"
" F fteen ?1=?11 .r.s."
" Fine implement. IIow'll you
swop?" and the judge drew out a
pistol and handed it to the prisoner.
" Take ten dollars to boot."
" All right. I line you ten dollars.
Tiiat makes us even."?Arkansas
Traveler.
Kot a T ar.
A girl seven or eight years old
slipped down on Woodward avenue
tr.e other day, and as she was picking
herself up a pedestrian said:
" Don't cry, sissy."
"Who's going to?" she sharply demanded
lis she rose up. "I guess
when a girl has got her mother's shawl
on she ain't going to let anybody know
she's hurt 1"?Detroit Free Press.
AN INTERESTING- PEOPLE.
TEE ISLAND OF MADAGASOAB X3STD
ITS INHABITANTS.
Something About a Land Larger than Ten
Stntri?<Tli? Envoys Who Came Hero to
ltnt'.iy u Treaty of Peacc.
Kavoninahitriniarivo and Ramanira'ci,
the envoys frum Ilanavolana,
queen of Madagascar, sent to this country
to ratify a treaty of peace with the
United States, gave a New York journalist
some interesting facts about the
large island olT the east coast of
Africa. The writer says as an introductory,
to his interview that "during
the last twenty years Madagascar has
risen from a savage to a civilized
nation, h;is ex .-hanged] harsh slavery
for a mild servitude, has superseded
the pagan worship of the j twelve
mountains and the twelve kings with
Christianity, has substituted the 'modern
improvements' and complicated
vices of Paris and New York for the
former undecorated r ijs, and has shed
the gunny bags of the wilderness and
put on the plug hat, silk polonaise and
claw-hammer coat of fashionable society?I
allude to the better classes of
the ruling tribe (the IIovus) to which
these two ambassadors and their secretaries
and their attendants belong ;
the avenig inbaV'ait of the island
still kneels to the imaginary ghosts of
the twelve kings, in a single garment
made of a coarse bag which leaves the
most of his person exposed to the
festive scorpion and the night air."
The writer, to his surprise, discovered
that Madagascar if laid down across
our States would reach from Boston to
St. Louis, and completely cover up all
of the States between Massachusetts,
Hho.le Island, Connecticut, New York,
Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana
and Illinois. The ambassadors were
described as short, stumpy men, with
broad heads and brownish-red complexions?about
the tint of New
Yorkers a week after they go to Newport
in the summer. Their hair is
wavy, their upper features like Asiatics.
the lower somewhat like the
African. Continuing, the writer says:
I had been introduced by Colonel W.
\V. Robinson, United States consul at
Madagascar, who is a sort of honorary
member of the embassy. He is a
large, hearty, frank man, with hair and
side whiskers turning gray, and evidently
much attached to the interests
of the people to whom he i.s accredited.
" What about the French claims to
m.t up a protectorate in Madagascar,"
I inquired.
' They have no rights of any kind,"
he said, "and never had any. There
uiv ten times as many English and five
times as many Americans there as
there are French, impudence is the
chief card of the French. They claim
to have riglrts conveyed to them on
the northwest coast by the Saka'avas,
a tribe conquered by the Ilovas (the
Ilovas are the tribe ruling the island),
but never rendering allegiance to the
queen. So they have raised flags and
built forts on the main land' in violalion
of sovereignty."
"Madagascar has changed greatly
during the last few years?" I inquired.
"Oli, yes, tremendously. There are
now thousands of churches there;
thousands of schools; and education is
made compulsory by law. The Ilovas
dress and live better than ever before;
the nobility, officers and well-off
people like Europeans. The queen
requested mo awhils ;igo to attend the
wedding of the princess, her niece,
who will probably succeed ti. the
crown, and of course I went. I found
just such a wedding, procession and
party as won la be found in New York
or Huston?the bridegroom in doeskin
pantaloons, swallow-tail coat, gold
Witt h, standing collar just tipped at
the corners and a rose in his buttonhole,
Unshod and expectant, and the
quite pretty bride, in a corn-colored
gros grain silk, en train, trimmed with
point applique, cream-colore I gloves
and a bouquet of the rarest (lowers of
the island?the queen and her husb.ind
looking like any aristocratic
couple here about to give away their
daughter. I had been invited to witness
ih?* ceremony, and I signed the
register with the king."
"How does it happen that Madagascar
takes so kindly to women for
rulers
"Weil, they tried men and didn't
like them. Men are too independent
and unreliable. They think female
sovereigns mure likely to carry out the
wish of the people."
' Hut Hanavala wasn't much of a
queen," 1 suggested; "it was she that
banished Europeans from the island."
"Yes, but even that was in accordance
with the will of the people. Her
son. liadama I., when he came to the
hronein 1862, got drunk and gave
away his realm to the French. He
was executed, and they tried a woman
again?his widow?and under her administration
there was great progress
and development in every direction.
The present queen succeeded her.
When I was at the capital last the newcollege
building was dedicated, and it
was an edifice that would be creditable
to New York city. The style of houses
has much improved lately as well as
t! e style of d ess. The work people
still wear little more than a sheet, a
sort of cotton toga, thrown over one
shoulder. The oilieirs often wear the
silk laiuba, with live broad colored
stripes, over the shoulder?the badge
of the Ilovas. The coarse cloth used
by the laborers is woven fiom a thread
taken from the line leaflets uf a kind of
palm."
Thetravel r'stree." suggested the
second ambassador. " is ol gn at value.
Our people eotil l no'. g< t along without
it. When traveling it always
yields pure and delicious wat- r which
is caught and kept in ;i little cup at the
pi ici? where the great leaf joins the
tree. Hy.-tabbing this with a spear
water will always run cut, a quart or
two sometimes, cool and nice. The
lurk of this tree the people pound out
tint for their doors, of the body they
make clapboards and partitions; tlie
spin.s of the leaf Income excellent roof
b ams. and the leaf is used to shingle
.t with, on" laid on another till they lie
a foot thick or more. Theyaiv watertight.
You would tliink they might
n.'t. quickly: no. I have si-en roofs of
that kind more than forty years old?
mostly the very s une leave.* put on in
'he beginning. The leaves of tl.is tree
ire much used for wiapping paper,and
also for table-cloth*, while a little twist
with the linger makes them serve as
plates, tumbkrs, cuj's and spoons for
the poorer classes. Itisa valuable tree,
you see."
After a few more unimportant questions
the interview with the representatives
of an interesting people closed.
A Ho|((Wfl!k.
At the ropewalk in Hath, Me., the
spinners wind iiuge skeins of manila
hemp ar. und them, catc!i a thread or
two of it upon the hook, and as the
spindle whirls walk slowly backward
down tin? length, spinning as they go,
and leaving before them a long twisted
strand. Kvery twenty minutes they
disappear from sight, and are seen as
far as the eye can reach coming into
view down the dimly-lighted walk
nearly a mile away. Thirty or more
trips a day make a wand, and every
wand is a half mile, and every clay
eacli spinner walks fifteen miles and
spins seven miles of strands.
An eminent physician, acquainted
with Prince Bismarck since 1H59, says
he is good for at least twenty years,
and that his nervous system and constitution
are in excellent condition.
It is estimated that in the two Carolina*,
Georgia and Louisiana, a total
population of about- 2('0,00U people,
white and colored, are dependent upon
the eulti\ ation ol' rice.
FASHION NOTES.
Joule cloth is a rival of cheviots and
twee .Is.
New half-fitting wraps are cut with
Japanese sleeves.
Postilion backs and points in front
are the rule in basques.
Velvet ribbons are revived for trimming
cashmeres, silks and novelty
fabrics.
Several or two rows of small buttons
down the front of the dress remain
in favor.
Terra-cottas are prominent in the
shades for spring, and an innumerable
variety of colors bordering on this shade
exist.
Valenciennes lace is returning to
favor tor evening wear, the new Normandy
patterns being very delicate
and tasteful.
Quaker gray, dove and cl nid grays
are the principal shades of gray which
are represented in fine wool materials
for spring costumes.
The spring visites are more frequently
halt' lung, and elaborately trimmed.
The tull-length garments take the
form of reiingotes and pelisses.
Cat-tails, reads and swamp grasses
trim the wicker basket hats that are
imported for summer us?. Heads of
wheat are made into bows for such
hats.
The latest importations of brocaded
silks show Ottoman grounds with satin
and plain silk designs, flowers, leaves,
and conventional, mediaeval and oriental
figures.
An exquisite fabric just brought out
is the Wat'.eau raye, a silk and wool
fabric in vanishing cross stripes on a
changeable, lengthwise striped ground
hi oriental colors and effects.
Tlie white India cashmerc robes,
with India cashmere palm leaf ant1
other oriental designs, are the costliest
woolen stuffs brought out this season
They are priced at $100 a robe.
A stylish spring bonnet in "Queen
Mab" shape, which is of the poke order
of bonnets, is made of amber-colored
straw. About the crown is draped a
wide pattern of gold lace, which partly
veils a small wreath of scarlet roses
and mignonettes. The inside of the
bonnet is faced with crimson velvet,
and upon the extreme edge is set a row
of pale amber beads.
In many New York stores devoted
to the sale of elegant lingerie is quite a
display of Elizabethan and Mary Stuart
ruffs. Some aro made of lace and
others of the sheerest of India muslin.
To keep them iin an upright position
rt inirlellilu nof linirif* ia lierwl
(4 DLlllj 1H Y lOIMJO in iitfvvi*
Roman pearl beads, large and small,
according to fancy, are sewn on the
edge. To suit this style the throat
must be long and slender or moderately
so, and the hair of the wearer dressed
high.
The fashions for the present season
are to b.) singularly eclectic. Skk,
satin, vclvit, plush, pekin, faille, brocade,
are all worn to some extent, and
are all in '-good form." .So, too, with
the colors; dark greon, dark blue, garnet,
ruby, bronze, olive, terra-cotta and
seal brown are all equally fashionable
for street wear. Long cloaks are as
much seen as the jaunty Newmarkets,
and hats and bonnets can hardly be too
large or too small to be considered out
of style.
XoreUicain Shon* and Stocking*.
The rage for novelties in shoes and
stockings, says the New York Eteniinj
Pot t, is quite as great as ever._ There
certainly never was a time when
women with pretty feet could display
them to greater advantage; or, on tTte
other side, when wom;;n with ungraceful
ones could hide them so successfully.
For the former are styles and
colors beyond enumeration. For the
latter are exceedingly low cut sandals
and slippers in bronze kid, black satin
or Mack undressed kid, with a bit of
embroidery or beading upon thepointed
toes; theie to be worn invariably
with stockings of blavk or some
dark shade, the pale tints being
left for those who.se delicatelyshaped
feet can best venture to display
them. Among the novel fancier
lor these favored ones are Charles IX.
shoes of silk, matching the costume,
and Watteau shoes of white Suede kid.
The latter usually have the toes handpainted,
this ornamentation often being
don:* by the ladies themselves after
purchasing the plain shoes. Although
this material is easily soiled, it is very
easily cleaned with clay pipe powder.
Sandals of gray kid or bronze are worn
with home toilets over stockings of
cardinal silk, this being a particularly
elegant combination in foot dressing.
Pale silver-gray silk stockings, embroidered
on the instep ,with delicate
mauve tlowers, are aiso me neignt oi
elegance; the.-je are worn with low cut
slippers of pale gray kid, worked on the
toes with cut steel and fine heliotrope
l??ads. Black shoes, that a short time
ago were so fashionable for dancing
and evening wear, are quite discarded,
and the sandal or shoe, like the gloves
and the fan, must always match tlo
toilet.
A. H. Stephens' Dogrs.
Like Sir Walter Scott and Henry
Clay, Stephens had all his life been fond
of dogs. lie owned one which he
named "Sir Hing> Binks," from one of
the chara -ters in Sir Walter Scott's
"St. Hunan's Well." Another, whc
was his constant companion for years,
was named "Bio," a poodle dog. Upon
his death he was buried in the garden,
and over the red-clay mound a marble
slab was placed, which, in the following
epitaph, written by his brother,
Mr. Linton Stephens, records his
worth:
: Here rest the remains of
: What, in life, was a satire on the:
: Human race, :
; Anil an honor to his own, :
; A Faithful Doy. ;
(loldsmith used to write and teach a
pet dog to sit on his haunches, and Mr.
Stephens, wifeless and childless as he
was, lavished on his pet poodle all the
warm affections of his nature. The
lirst thing in in the morning he romped
with his dog. He slept in the same
room with his master, and when lie
was sick the faithful brute never Mt
the ro >111, save Tor a few moments, for
days and weeks together. The dog
accompanied his master all over the
State. When left behind he watched
the arrival of the trains at the depot,
going through all the cars in search of
him.
One Poisonous Lizard.
A paper recently presented before
the Philadelphia College of Physicians
stated that in response to inquiries two
letters had been received from Arizona,
one of which described the lizard
as more peaceful and I armless than a
young m's.sionary, while the other de?
dared it to be "worse then a whole
apothecary shop." Recent experiments
made with captive specimens of the
Gila monster, however, seem to demon-'
strate satisfactorily its poisonous nature.
Small animals and birds were
killed by its hi e. It has numerous
small teeth, and when it bites a quantity
of saliva is discharged. This
saliva or fluid is found to be an active
poison of very peculiar nature. It
causes no local injury, but seems to
act directly up in the heart, arresting
its action in diastole. Its efl'ect is entirely
different from that of the venom
of serpents, which causes local hemorrhage.
Dolly Madison is the oniv woman i
who was ever offered the privilege of
the floor in the l"nited .States Senate.
Peeresses and the families of peers are
admitted to the tloor of the house of
lords, but no woman ever sets foot in
the house of commons. Here, on the
other hand, women ar; often admitted i
' to the Hour of the llousu. J
THE BLACKSMITH'S SONG HMSB
MtfPR&l
Through the casement, roseate Dawn >
Already steals with cheering ray; ? *.
Let's to the forge, and wake the morn
With boist'rous voice and jocand lay f 1
Bellows, blow; and furnace, amott *
Bend the glowing metal soon; 'h
Hammer, fall with telling stroke!-? - -J
Sing to my anvil's, merry tone,
" Strike while the iron's hot" .
With lusty strokes my hammer rings:
Strike hard! 'Tis for your chubby boy slP?
Who to his mother fondly clings, : 'jaH
And trills his cooing notes of joy.
Thanks to the sweat that bathes my face y$||
The pathH of learning he shall treacl, aS
And Knowledge make9 her dwolling-plac# , -<3^?
Within my darling's fair young head J
Labor nnto the heart gives ease, ,
And will our daily bread supply; ' "yjffi
tt decks the charms of my Thereeo,
My wife, my household deity I -X'i?
Our hands were never formed to make Muskets
or sword-blades, bolts or chains;'
God gave us arras for labor's sake;
Our minds He for I/ove's work ordains!
Now all who day by day pursue ?
Some darling hop?, some cherishad end? . . fjM
Old hearts, who have but power in view;
Young hearts, who Love's soft call attend. J-,
Men who would wield the sword or pa??
Sages and fools?peasants and kings?
If you'd succeed, take as the word
Of wisdora,what my anvil rings: , 3
Pong, Pong, Pong!
"Sfrike while the iron's hot."
?Old French Song.
HUMOR OF THE OAT. , ?
West Pointers?Weather vanes.
A put-up job?Building houses.
Subject to fits, and pretty bad one?
sometimes?Tailors.
The most humorous member of a dog
is the wag of his tail.?Burlington r
Free Press. v '-*fi
It is said that deaf and dumb people - J
always take a hand in conversation.?
Ecansville Argus.
The tramp is not, as a general thing,
wealthy, but he can afford to spend
his summer in the country.?8iftingi.
Fish are not good conversational- ' ,j|
ists; but if you strike the right line
you can draw them out.?New Tor!: ,,
Journal.
"How can I expand my chestV
asked a stingy fellow of a physlciao.
"By carrying a large hsart in it/' was
the reply.
A second-hand clock won't bring
much, yet no one would want a clock
with the second hand omitted.?Satnrclay
Niyht.
There is one thing about ilunchau- ' -j
sen, says a Philadelphia paper, to his
credit. The baron never tried to be a
weather prophet.
A New York paper has been publishing
the "Horrors of Sing Sing." ' .jgfl
Nothing is said in the article about
" Pinafore " performances.?Picayune.
A small boy who was playing truant
the other day, when Jisked if he '
wouldn't get a whipping when he got
home, replied: " What is five minutes'
licking to five hours' of fun."
They are building tencmenthouscs . .r|g
so high in New York that the man who /|?S
occupies the top floor is obliged to start
for home about 9 o'clock in the evening
in order to reach his bed after midnight.?Nor
mtown Herald.
"Is iliss 131auk at home?" asked a
faultlessly-attired bore of the new girL
The girl took from her pocket a photograph,
carefully scanned it, and after ^
another look at the features of the .iJpS
visitor, answered: "No, sor; she lias
gone to Europe." lie left.?Phi'aielphia
NiWi.
Landlord (.to tenant): " Good-mom- '
ing, sir, fine day, sir; justcaJJed round - '
to see if it would ue convenient, mr
you to settle your quarter's rent, sir." .
Tenant: "Did, eli? Do you know,
landlord, that nonerof the doors in the
house will shut?" Landlord: "NeW
house, sir; new house, you know; takes
time to settle, sir." Tenant: "Ah!
then there is a pair of us. I'm anew
tenant; it takes time for me to settle,
too. Good-morning. Call again."?
"Can you give me ten cents, sir?"
ini])lored a nigged chap, accosting a -:
gentleman on the street; "I haven't'
ate anything for a week." " What do
you mean by telling such a story ai - :jH
that.?" asked the gentleman; "I saw
you at dinner in an eating-house not r t$S
an hour ago." " Ah, but you misunderstood
me," replied the tatterdemal- .;vH
ion; "when I said I hadn't ate any- - Jp
thing for a week I meant next weefe" '
He got his ten cents.?-Boston Tran
A LOVELY SCENE.
We stood at the bars as the san went dowa
Behind the hills oil a summer day. ''-jm
Her eyes were tender, big and brown, . $9
Her breath as sweet as the new-mown hay
Far from the west the faint sunshine ' Sg
Glanced sparkling off her golden hair,
Thnsfi calm, deeo eyes were turned toward
And a look of contentment ilfeted there,
I see her bathed in the sunlight flood, ^
I see her standi tig psacaf ally now; - ^
l Peaceful Ij' standing and chewing her cud,
As I rubbed her ears?that Jersey cow.
?Harvard Advocate. ^
The Bad Jioy and the Grocery Man.
"i-'av, do you think a little practical ^
joke does any hurt?" asked the badbov_
of the grocery man, as he come in with
his Sunday suit on and a bouquet in his
buttonhole, and pried off a couple of
figs from anew box that had been just
opened.
" Xo, sir," said the grocery man, as he
linked off the syrup that dripped from
a quart measure, from which he had
been tilling a jug. " I hold that a man
that gets ma 1 at a practical joke, that is,
one that does not injure him, is a fool,
|,ii shunned hv Jl.il de
itllU 11C uu^in bu uiiwumvm
ccnt people. That's a nice bouquet you
have in your coat. What is it, pansies V
Let me smell of it," and the grocery
man bent over in front of the
hoy to take a whiff at the bouquet.
As lie did so a stream of water shot
out of the innocent-looking bouquet
and struck him full in the face, and
'ran down over his shirt, and the grocery
man voile 1 murder, and fell over
a barrel of ax-helves, .-cythe snaths,
and then groped around for a towel to jwipe
Ids face.
' You blamed little rascal !"ye'led the
grocery man at the boy, as he took up
an ax-helve and started for him,
" what kind of a golblasted squirt gun
you got there? I will maul you by .
thunder," and he rolled up his shirt
sleeves.
" There,keep your temper. I took a , k ;
test vote of you on the subject of practical
jokes before the machine began to
play upon the conflagration that wa*
raging on your whisky nose, and you
aid a man that would get mad at a
joke was a fool, and now I know it.
Here, let me show it to you. There is
a rubber hose runs from the bouquet,
inside my coat to mv pants pocket,
and there is a bulb of rubber that holds
about half a pint and when a fellow
smells of the posy I squeeze the bulb,
and you see the result. It's lun where
you don't squirt it on a person that gets
mad."
The grocery man said he would give
the boy half a pound of tigs if he would
lend the bouquet to iuni ior nan an
hour to play it on a customer, and the t |
boy fixed it on the grocery man, and . A
turned the nozzle so it would squirt- JP
right back into tlu> grocery man's face.
lie tried it on the tirst customer that
came in and <,'<>t it right in his own fa?.'
and then the bulb in his pants pocket got
to leaking and the rest of the water
ran down the gi ocery man's trousers t|
leg, ami he gave it up in disgust, and J
handed it back to the boy.?G. W. Pecli. I
An average of 300 miners are killed
annually in Victoria, Australia. '
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