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I NOT TO-DAY. Not to-day the golden fruition Of the hopes that lieckon on. For the joy of attainM ambition Flashed not from the eyes of dawn. Not to-day the vessel riding In the port of Happy Isl.-s, Where rapture is ever abiding And illusion no more l>eguiles. Not to-day theliloom of the lotus To gladden seasick eyes, And a glory like that of ("auopus On the evening's tropic skies. All of these for evasive to-morrow. But to-day desire'* unrest. The toil of endeavor and sorrow For the slow, uncertain ijuest. ?Mary /.. Ciixulrirh. v\m\ nvn> Tiir sr\ I liv/l V ! I > II 111IJ ru.u "Sandwich Inlands I" The Avoids, uttered in a chorus of high, childish treble. rang out clearly through ?* the open transom above the stout, oakEp grained door. ' Am I to hear nothing hut the Sandwich Islands this morning!" >lie exclaimed p > half aloud. In r impatience breaking &/ through the guarded reserve >lie usually E*. maintained even with herself. "That is the third time the baleful place has been f thrust upon me since I awoke, and to day, too, of all the days of the year."' Whatever fault was to be found with the day must have lain entirely in .Miss Martha's own mind, for certainly its outward seeming was as perfect as could - well be expected in a world we are accustomed to find so full o! imperfection, : and this she was forced to confess to herself as she sank into a fortuitous chair before the great hall window. The sun shone |?.. with brilliant but tempered ray. and the pr> cool, fresh wind that b'cw in her face jfjr- made full confession o: wect dalliance among the lilacs. Immediately beneath the window lay the well-ordered <rjirdon. its white, curvinir walks out lined with ranks of gorgeous tulips; beyond, the straight village street, wide, unpaved and lined with elms in their first splendor of tender green, opened a vista of furrowed field and purple hills, intersected by the lustrous gray band of the full-banked river, that was well calculated to call up those vague, nameless emotions made up of heartache and hope, of regretful memorie* and longing anticipation, to which the sensitive spirit is so subject in the spring. For Miss Martha the heartache and the regretful memories were in the ascendant; for it was licr thirty-ninth anniversary, and at at thirty-nine hope and anticipation arc no longer very vivid. These regretful memories of course, included, and indeed centered upon, a masculine figure; a lithe, slender figure, a pale student-like face, with earnest, dark eyes that always seem to demand something of her. As she glanced down the elm-lined street this .May morning, the apparition of a slim,dark-coated figure, surmounted by a straw hat, almost brought back the girlish fiutter at her heart which something such an apparition had aroused there twenty years ago. But.no; howmany years was it now that she had been accustomed to dwell upon that air-drawn picture made up of sparkling sea and gleaming sand, a group of feathery palms in the foreground, in the distance three mountain peaks, calmly exhaling clouds of gray smoke upon the still air; to see standing beneath the palms, sur- j rounded by a group of half-clad, yellowskinned natives, the lithe, slim figure, the earnest eyes, lit by a tire like that which shone in the faces of the first | ( apostles? How many years? She could hardly tell; for at that time something in Miss Martha's heart had seemed to run down, as the striking portion of a clock's apparatus sometimes does, while the rest of the machinery ticks uninterruptedly on. "Thirty-nine, thirty-nine,'' her musings ran. "My life more than half spent, and yet I have not lived."' Then she hid her face in her hands, and a gust of teat less sobs shook her, like one of those sudden little dashes ol wind that sometimes swoop down upon the late September roses. Poor Miss Martha! Anrl x-nt Vinr frinnds wmild llilVfi thoilffht strange to hear her say she had not lived. Outwardly few women appeared to live more intensely or more actively. The little episode between her and the young professor of mathematics who had inducted her into the mysteries of algebra and geometry in the same school, had been so skillfully managed by her parents that few outside of her immediate family had known anything of it: and her sudden resolution to leave home and accept the position cf primary teacher in the school in which she had been educated, in reality an act of indignant though useless rebellion again t their treachery, - was regarded as a mere eccentric whim, 1 which her aristocratic family permitted j her to indulge. Later, when the war had swept away the family fortune and the two sons who might have rein? stated it, the eccentricity assumed the guise of a providential leading. For the school in the sheltered Ohio Valley went on undisturbed, and it was to Miss Martha that the frightened and helpless mother and sisters had fled when the an?j"' cestral home on the James was laid in ashes. Mother and father were dead now, and ' s the two sisters parried, but Miss Martha still went on in the old school, rising grade by grade, until now she reigned augustly as principal. It was perhaps a sudden sense of the narrowness of the bounds that hedged her in, as contrasted with the wide ocean 'and the long years that intervened be 1 \C 1 1 4*. iween uerseu ituu uijn tiuum n^uit- iiuu event of her life, which had called forth the exclamation recorded above. She, resolved to remember, had chosen to remain where everything should remind her of him; he. as if equally resolved to forget, had tied away across the ocean, that wide, wide ocean, whose multitudinous waves seemed adequate for the washing out of any rcscmblence, however deeply stamped. No matter how carefully or wisely we order our lives, it is probable there will still be moments when the things we might have had will seem of far more value than those we have; but it was something new for the busy principal of the Seminary to sit idly before a window of a morning, indulging in melancholy reverie. On one's birthday, however, some indulgence may be allowed, and Miss Martha, screened from observation by a huge, easel-mounted black board, did not stir until the sound of a large bell swung by a willing hand, and the simultaneous opening of many doors, announced that 12 o'clock and recess had arrived. Peeping past the blackboard, she saw > the class of little short-skirted geographers file decorously out of their recitation room, each turning at the door to courtesy after the old-fashioned manner tradi- j tional in the school, and which Miss Martha insisted should be punctiliously observed, then bounding away with k monv on imnrnnintn twirl nnrl .... , , ? A "Dear little hearts," murmured Miss Martha, rising and taking up again the book and pencil she had dropped, '-for them the Sandwich Islands do not exist." Miss Martha stood upon the platform before the assembled school?sweet Miss Martha, adored by every irirlish heart in the room. Tall and slender v as slio, clad in 8 soft gray gown of some spring-like fabric, the full bandeaus <>f waving auburn hairparting in an enchanting double curve over her smooth, white forehead, starry hazel eyes, with long, rav-like lashes, a dainty, clear-cut, oval face, red, mobile mouth, and a faint sea-shell tint in the cheeks; not at all like the ideal schoolma'am. "I have a note here," she said in that clear, vibrant voice that never could be tamed to the'conventional monotone, '"inviting you all to the sociable at the [Methodist churdh t>night. .Mr. Howell informs me that an old classmate of his will be present, and will probably be induced to tell the company something of j the mission schools in the Sandwich Islands.'' Miss Martha, looking at the note as if not quite sure, hesitated a little before pronouncing the last word, then tore the sheet of paper to atoms. "You may find it interesting to go," " she added, with a nod to her assistant to indicate that she had finished. The assistant struck the bell, and the room was tilled with the rustle of a wellordered rising. Another stroke, and the girls began to move slowly in single file ; toward the door, while .Miss .Martha, seated in her armchair, gravely received j their parting salutations. At the gate a gentleman, who seemed about to enter, stepped aside, and, lean- j "irig an arm upon the fence, watched with a benevolent smile the outgoing tide of : youthful loveliness. The gentleman, tnc girls decide, j was of very striking appearance, by j reason of the gray hair that framed a face still youthful in contour j and coloring, and, from his clerical coat , and tic, they at once deduced the Sandwich Island missionary of the evening. They passed on in groups and pairs, jostling each other and exchanging whispered comments, accompanied by many covert backward glances. Waiting until the last pair was well clear of the gate*, the stranger carried out his original intention of entering. .Miss Martha, still seated in her armchair, her face tinned toward the door, i and the fragments of the note held loosely in her hand, heard the slow step upon the cemented walk, but supposing it to . .1 . < ,*.1, 1 DC mat Ol ?? JlSUlllJitUII, lilt miuim j.H.itor, she did not stir. "Miss Dabney!" She looked up. "Oh!" she exclaimed, rising with a startled look, while the hits of paper fluttered unheeded to the door. "Why ?it is?a-Mr. Heid!" "Yes." he said, drawing a step nearer, hut still hesitating, as if not ipiite certain of his welcome. Hut by this time she had recovered her self, ami was once more the self possessed | person she usually appeared. Stepping j down from her platform she advanced to ! meet him with outstretched hand, and a ! manner that struck just the proper bal- j ance between pleasure at meeting a long- : absent friend and the reserve naturally ! incident to long separation. *l a::: very glad to see you. 1 didn't j know you were in town. When did you j arrive?" "This morning. I only meant to stop ! over one train, but Howell caught me j and?" Whether courage or inclination failed he broke oil", leaving the conjunction to | hang like a broken link upon the end of his unfinished speech. "lie wouldn't let you go, of course," said Miss Martha with ready tact. "He wrote me a note this morning, inviting the school to hear you speak to-night, j but he neglected to mention your name. He is exceedingly absent-minded." "You are very little changed," he said, abruptly. "I should have known you anywhere. It seems strange that we should stand together again in this room." "It does, indeed, especially when we think how widely separated we have been for so many years. "Has the distance seemed great? Have the years seemed long?" "Won't you sit down?" she asked turning with suddenly awakened hospitality toward a group of chairs. "It is plcasanter here than in the parlor. I hate the parlor. It is always haunted bv the ccho of patronizing voices ex: < ? ?r plaining tltc peculiar sensitiveness ui Marv Ann and the wonderful aptitude of Maria Jane." She threw bapk her head with that bright little laugh that had always been hers. "It is wonderful how little changed you are," he said again, "lam an old man and you are still a girl." "To be sure." she answered, merrily, marshaling, with a woman's delight in appearing young to the man she loves, all the resources of gayety the years had left her. "Growing old is supreme folly. People turn their heads gray with solemn study, and fancy they arc growing wise. To keep a light heart is the only wisdom." "I wish I had it," he said, with the old wistful look in hiscyes. "Hut it is hard to keep a lonely heart light " "Iiut the way is not to have a lonely heart," she replied, rising to draw a tlappinsr shade beyond the reach of the wind. What could he mean? I Fad he really not forgotten, then? ller own heart and head grew light to giddiness; still she 1 must take nothing for granted. "And the Sandwich Islands," she said, resuming her seat, and bravely attacking ' the name that had so haunted her all day. 1 "Tell me about the Sandwich Inlands. ! Life must be very interesting out there." "Very." "So free from conventionalities and stupid formalities. I don't suppose you have church sociables and set tea-drinkings out there now, or that you feel it necessary t<? know the very latest utter- 1 ances of the great leaders of modern thought ? 1 dare say that in the absence t of adequate leaders of late date, one i might venture to do a little thinking for one's self, eh?" 1 She rested her elbow on the arm of her < chair, and laid her pointed chin in her pink palm with a distractingly attentive i air "Yes," lie said, feebly, his eyes glued > to her face, but no appearance of understanding in his own. < Vnfl tWn the sea all around vou. Well, I don't know cither that I am ' very fond of the sea. The sea is alien c and inimical; full of treacherous things; J no, decidedly, I don't like your sea." 1 ' Ah! but you would learn to like it," he exclaimed with anxious warmth. "It ' is really beautiful; mysterious and awful 1 at times, it is true, but at other times joyous beyond anything you can imagine on land. To see it sparkling under the I morning sun, rocking and swaying and clapping its hands a* if it had some secret and unfathomable reason for bein<: j glad!" t "Only a surlf.ee gladness," interrupted t Miss Martha. "At heart I am sure it is profoundly sad." c "Ah! don't say you will not like it," J he said, leaning forward, and seeming to ? make a personal matter of it. i She shook her head obdurately. "I a owe it an undying grudge. Beside, it must be very lonely." c "For one, yes; but if there were two?" } He leaned nearer; she drew back, half rising; but he caught her hand. l "Martha, dear, you didn't marry the \ man your father promised you to. Tell me. was it your love of me?" "Well," she said, looking at him with a tantalizing smile, "what do you think about it?" i "And you are right sure you never for- r got me for a single instant:" v "Quite sure. And you will go with me, dear?" * c "To the sociable this evening? Why. j certainly." 1 "Ah! you know I don't mean there, j He took her face fondly between his hands, looking down into the starry eyes. "Well," with a sigh of deep content, "I suppose?if nothing else will satisfy . you?I must even go to the Sandwich ; Isl.Mllds c A Foolhardy Exploit. s When in Garibaldi's IJritisli legion at c the bombardment of Capua, a soldier, 1 who afterward became Hrigadier General ? Maclver, was challenged for a basket of ] wine to show himself over the breast- * works "for one short minute." The next c minute he sprang on the parapet. Zip? ^ zip?zip ? zip ? whistled the bullets ' around him, and there lie stood as calm- N h' as if on parade, tiring and reloading, tiring and reloading, and still without s ct sat ion the zip?zip?zip of the leaden t messengers of death sighing around him and even striking near him, like a iierce * storm of hail. Ere long his cap was shot olT his head, his loose red (Jaribal- f dian shirt was perforated, and his body actually grazed in many places, and yet ] he kept his stand. Each instant his com- ' rades expected to sec him full back dead or mortally wounded, but he never ' flinched nor stirred even except to load 1 or discharge his rille. Most of the ofli- 1 eers were almost paralyzed at his temerity. but at length one of them called 1 out: ''Forheaven's sake, Maclver. cotnc down! You have tempted Providence 1 too long.'' Thus adjured, the young 1 Highlander tired a parting shot from his rifle, and then coolly lighted a cigar with his face still to the enemy. Then lie turned deliberately round and jumped among his astonished companions, having been five minutes on the parapet. The Utility of Pain. The utility of pain is seen in the membrane which sweeps the surface of the eye, for instance, in several animals, whenever any irritant particle is brought into contact with these delicate structures. The pain caused by the foreign body sets us rellcxly a muscular contraction in this membrane, and thus it is brought across the eye, sweeping the surface, and so the offending matter is removed. AY hen the foreign body is too fixed to be so removed, disorganization [ of the eye follows, and amid a general destruction of the organ the irritant matter is got rid of. Destruction of the eye in these animals would be a common occurrence if it were not for this muscular arrangement, and pain is the excitant; it is, as it were, the linger which pulls the trigger, and so the machinery already i provided and prepared is set in action -thereby. In man the suffering caused by a foreign body in the eve calls the .attention to the part and leads to its removal. If it were not for the pain so produced , irrcmedible mischief would often be permitted to go on unchecked, because unnoticed. Not only does pain so defend | the eye from the injurious effects of for- ' eign bodies, it often serves to protect the delicate organ from overwork; and where pain is so produced rest is given to the part, and recovery is instituted. Do they ever bury a dead calm ?? j Derrick. i FIVE MINUTES OF FUN. HTTKOBOUS STOBIES THAT WILL RAISE A SMILE. Too Thin?Koiv lie Wanted lo be* slmvi'il?Kluckiiii; I lie Yellow Fever ?Toucher Tliun I?ic-C'ru?l. "It is astonishing," remarked Sam Colly at the breakfast table, "how extremes meet in this world." "To what extremes do you refer, Mr. Colly?" asked the widow Flapjack, who was pouring out the colTee. "Well, you, for instance, arc very stout, and the colTee is so very thin," and he stirred up the mixture, and smiled in a sickly sort of a way. "It's not as thin as your cxcuses for not iiuvin<r vour board reirularlv." Sam has not sai<l "colTee" since.?-Sij'ting*. How lie Wanted to Be shaved. The following incident lias been reluted before, but the Boston G'loin thinks it will be enjoyed at this time: The late . Charles OX'onor, soon after he took up , his residence at Nantucket, had occu- | sion to visit one of the barber-shops in the town. The tonsorial artist, elated at I the honor he enjoyed in the patronage I of so distinguished a citizen, greeted | Mr. O'Oonor in the following garulous manner: "(Jood morning, Mr. OX'onor. Fine morning, sir.'' No answer. "Think the weather will continue line, Mr. O'Conor." No answer. "We've had a good deal of rain, sir." No answer. The great iawyer sat in the chair. "Iiow would you like to be shaved?" inquired the barber, placing a towel about his new customer's chin. "I;; silence, sir!" was the stern and solitary reply. Blacking the Yellow Fever. Mental confusion is a phenomenon to which every one is liable who can be badly scared, and it takes but very little of it to turn a tragedy into a farce. Some ' " ipe ?im \vlw>n the terrible "Yellow Jack'' was in Savannah, Judge B , I of the supreme court of the Mate, was I holding session in the upper county, hut I within twenty-four hours' run, by mail, of the infected city. Quite suddenly, late one afternoon, he was seized with a head-ache, pain in his back, limbs, etc. Having heard that these were the salutations which Yellow Jack extends to his victims when approaching them, the judge, in great consternation, applied to a friend, who was "posted," for advice. A hot mustard bath was ordered at once, and the judge was soon laving himself in the irritating iluid. Presently he felt better, and finding a cake of soap in the bath tub, ho began to apply it quite freely upon his person. After some pleasant exercise in this way, he looked down for the first time on his body and limbs, and to his horror discovered that he was turning black! His friend was hurriedly sent for, came in, and declared that the symptoms were intensely expressive of yellow fever. "But," said the judge, "I feel no pain; [ feel well.*' "So much the worse: the absence of pain is a marked symptom" "Oh," groaned the judge, "what shall I dot" "The only hope is ill mustard; rub iway," was all the advice his friend could give. Ami he did rub with a will. On examination, lie was as black as a crow, and the "soap," which a careless servant had Iropped into the tub, was discovered to l)e somebody's patent paste blacking. The judge survived. Tmifrluir 'I'llJill "That horrid Mrs. Sawyer!" said Mrs. | Jones, the other day. '" I wish she j ivould move out of the neighborhood." "Well, what do you run there all the :ime for? 1 told you how it would be," etorted Mr. Jones. This was not the kind of sympathy Mrs. Jones expected, and she became nninouslv silent. " What has she said about you now?" inquired Mr. Jones. "Oh, it's nothing about me," said : \Irs. Jones. " Who is it about?" asked Jones, with 1 evident anxiety. 1 "It's about you," resumed Mrs. J. 1 ' She says you're no m-irc fit to run for j ! )fticc than a brindle cat, and that if Saw- ' ,-er votes for you she'd never sneak to 1 lim again. She says"? " Never mind," said Jones loftily. ] 4 I'm not the least interested in what a ' ceble-ininded woman says." But the flat iron had struck home, and Tones left the table with a look on his ace that boded no good. 1 It was baking day at the Sawyers'. If there was anything Mrs. Sawyer 1 jrided herself upon it was the tender, I laky quality of her paste. Jones knew ( his. 1 Mrs. Sawyer was just rolling that ten- ' ler pie-paste into great sheets of trans- ] >arcnt dough, when there came a knock 1 it the door. Mrs. Sawyer answered it, ] olling-piu in hand. It was Willie Jones 1 vho bad knocked. 1 "Please. Mrs. Sawyer," said the inno- j ' ;ent child, "pa would like a piece of our pie-crust." ! "Certainly, Willie," said Mrs. Jones, nuch flattered, "but it isn't baked ' ?f ? | ] "He doesn't want it baked." 1 'But lie can't eat raw pic-crust.'' * "He isn't tfoing to cat it." 1 "Then what is he going to do with t ?" J "He said he wanted to mend the har- ] less, and make hinges for the barn door ' vith it, and" The rolling-pin hung fire, and the boy , scaped, but" the barrier between the louses of Jones and Sawyer can never be ] roken. It is tougher than pie-crust.? | 'Jetroit Free J'raa. lircakini; up a Refrigerator ITInn. ( "Fifty dollars to the man who can >rove tliat any two things put into this j ce-chcst will taste of the other." lie had a refrigerator run out to the curbstone, hung the above sign over each ( ide, and retired in-doors to await the ixpected run of customers. People jasscd up and down the street, jostled ^ iach other in their hurry, glanced at the ce-box and its sign, and?went on. Afer some hours of disappointed hones and ixpcctations the dealer saw a pedestrian lalt, calmly peruse the wonderful anlouncement, and rather hcsitatinglv ad- ' ? tlw. ,1?nP 1 'Do you mean it?" he inquired in nil ] inxious tone, pointing over his shoulder j o tlie sign. "Yes sir-ec," emphatically responded ' lie dealer. ( ' Put your money up," insinuated the >t ranger. "No, sir," replied the dealer in a , pompous style; "my word is as good as ! lie cash." I "All right, I'll take you." responded the stranger, as he departed. Some time ifter he returned with a box under each irm. "Stick to your agreement?" he queried. "Of course I will," answered the dealer, wondering what in the name of Christopher Columbus the man had in view. Tne stranger set his boxes down on the sidewalk, and a crowd began to collect. He told the dealer that he was afraid that he (the dealer) would back out of the bargain, but the latter asserted his readiness to put up the stamps if necessary. The stranger opened a box, lifted a cat out and placed her in the refrigerator; then lie opened the other box and took therefrom a wire cage containing a large rat. "Now, mister," said he. "you just shut that door in a hurry when 1 Hop the rat inside, and I'll go you another tifty that one will taste of the other in less'n five minutes." The crowd yelled, and the dealer slammed the refrigerator door and slid into the store, with a remark about fools r??#i ..I We Iff* ?till refuses to recoir ni/.e the stranger's claim to the $.'50?but has taken his signs in.?Denrcr UepubliCHI). One of the Largest Families. Near this place there lives one of the largest families in the United States. Mr. Joel Vaughn has heen married four times. His lust three wives were all widows, all of whom had children by previous husbands, respectively, eight, seven and four, a total of nineteen. These four wives bore Mr. Vaughn twenty-seven children, which, added to the nineteen step children, gave Mr. Vaughn control of forty-six children. The old man is now eighty years of age, and his youngest child is but an infant. ? Cincinnati Inquirer. Mary Allen, of Decatur, Iowa, has captured fifteen young wolves. There is nothing sheepish about this young women. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. Compressed paper pulp is stated to 1>c one of the least inflammable of substances and to make an excellent material for lire-proof doors. Silk, which is carelessly treated in dyeing with some artificial colors, loses much of its luster, as the workmen say, it is no longer silk, ''it is changed into cotton/'This can be avoided by the addition of soap to the dye bath.? Tartile ItcconUr. M. de Fonvicllc has suggested the following method of detecting infernal machines: All luggage to be placed 011 wooden tables supported by iron feet, but not nailed to them. A microphone to be placed on each of the tables, when any ticking or ether noise proceeding from the luggage would at once become audible. Mr. J. K. Cowell, of UufTalo, points out the remarkable freedom of the but ternuts from the insect attacks. The oak is preyed on by some 230 kinds of insects, the elm by -IT. the nine by 110,the willow hy till, the maple?the most l'rce generally of all trees, by :i8: but the butternut receives the attention of only about 20. (Jlass is now given the appearance of marble by applying a mixture of varnish and oil to the surface of a basin of water, and blowing or spraying it with dry-colored powders to represent the mottled or veined aspect of marble. The glass after being coated on one surface with varnish is placed face downward on the water-film, which immediately adheres to the plate and is fixed by the varnish. In Italy an extensive business is carried on in drying tomatoes to use during those portions of the year when the ripe fruit cannot be obtained. Tomatoes arc raised for the most part between rows of grape vines: so that the land for their culture costs nothing. Sometimes the tomato vines arc trained on the lower OarS 01 U xrcilis 10 WHICH KrujJi;:> uiu iiutached. The tomatoes are allowed to remain on the branches till they are quite ripe, when they arc picked and pressed in bags made of coarse cloth, which allows the pulp to pass through, but which retains the seed and skins. The pulp is then thinly spread out on cloths, boards, or in shallow dishes, and exposed to the sun to dry. When it has become quite dry it is broken up fine or ground and put into bags or boxes and sent to the market. A large part of it is used for making soups, but considerable of it is employed as we do tomatoes that are preserved in tin or glass cans. It is soaked for a few hours in warm water and then cooked in the ordinary manner. Large quantities arc used for home consumption, and considerable is exported. A (iiiTs Horrible Fate. Henry Carson and his daughter Kitty lived in the wilds of Wautauga county, X. C., half a dozen miles from any human habitation. Old man Carson raised tobacco and cotton sufficient to support his household with the necessaries of life, and ull his spare time he spent in hunting bears and other game. Miss Kitty was a pretty girl and smart, considering the disadvantages under which she had always labored, and was a general favorite among the backwoods swains, half a dozen of whom were always at her foet. One day recently Miss Kitty disappeared, and these were ugly rumors in the air to the effect that she had eloped with a young man fmm Murphy, who had been frequently seen in those parts and against whom it was known old man Carson had a "grudge *' of some kind. When her father was asked what had become of the young girl he simply remarked that he supposed "she had skipped." Carson was tramping through one of the great nameless swamps of the county one day, following some bear tracks, when a sight met his eyes that transfiAd him with horror. In a depression of the swamp from which the water had recently receded were the remains of a human body, the entire upper part of which above the waist had been eaten away by wild animals. From the remains of clothing Carson recognized all that was left of his daughter. Crazed with grief, he carried the news to the nearest settlement, and a party of neighbors assisted him to bring the mangled remains home. It is supposed that Miss Kitty became entangled in the mire and was unable to extricate herself, inrl that while in this utterly helpless position bears or other animals had killed iier and eaten as much of the body as then remained above the water. Evidences of a severe struggle were present in the trampled down bushes and torn ind bloody clothes. The Zodiacal Light. The cause of the luminous phenomenon known as the zodiacal light has long been the subject of speculation, and numerous hypothesis have been suggested to account for it. A corrcspondLiut Cotww ilea Months regards the entire phenomenon as one of the reflection of light. What \vc observe is nothing but reflection of that part of the earth which is illuminated shortly before the sun rises and after it sets. In order to understand this wc must assume that [he earth is surrounded for a certain distance by a comparatively dense envelope of gas, beyond which the latter exists in a state of great attenuation. \Ve therefore have two media of different ilensity which influence the rays of light in the well-known way, refracting them up to a certain limiting angle of incidence, beyond which total reflection takes place. If we imagine the sun a little below the iiorizon. a part of the earth directly in Iront of us will reflect the rays of the >un at a very obtuse angle; these rays meeting the boundary of the media at a very obtuse angle, will be totally reflected. and it is these totally reflected rays which wc see. This explains the appearance of the light in the shape of a cone whose line is always inclined in the direction of the ecliptic, and whose base is toward the sun; it also accounts for the fact that the changes observed in its appearance follow a reverse order in the evening from hat in the morning. The reason why the :one is longer in the evening than in li/i mni-ninir ic tlif. lnVVT nf tTlO. floilSn itmosphcre is expanded by reason o( its exposure to the sun's radiation through ;hc entire day, whereas in the morning t he reverse is the case. The (.reeks of 01<1. The physical superiority of the antcMexandrian Greeks to the hardest and most robust nations of modern times, is perhaps best illustrated by the military statistics of Xenophon. According to the author of the A/kiIhuiLi, the complete accoutrements of a Spartan soldier in what we would call heavy marching >rdcr, weighed seventy-live pounds, exclusive of the camp, mining, and bridgeImilding tools, and the rations of bread ind dried fruit, which were issued in weekly installments, and increased the burden of the infantry soldier to ninety, ninety-live, or even to a full hundred pounds. This loud was often carried at the rate of four Knglish miles an hour for twelve hours per diem, day after day; und only in the burning deserts of Southern Syria, the commander of the Grecian auxiliaries thought it prudent to shorten the usual length of a day's march by onefourth. Ti e gymnastic tests applied by the systanchus, or recruiting olKcer of a picked corps, would appear more preposterous to the uniformed exquisite of a modern "crack regiment." Kvcn tall, well-shaped men of the soundest constitution, could not pass the preliminary examination unless they were able to jump their own height vertically and thrice their own length horizontally, and two-thirds of those instances in full sirmor; pitch a weight cijiuil to one-third of their own, to a distance of twenty yards, and throw a javelin with such dexterity that they would not miss a mark the size of a man's head more than four out of ten times at a distance of fifty yards, lieside other tests referring to their expertness in the use of the how and the broadsword.?Pojittlur Science Monthly. An Instructive Table. Dr. Lauder Hruntoa speaks very forcibly on the subject of intemperance and points out the evil effects of stimulants upon the health of the persons who cannot be called intemperate, yet who are in constant habit of taking very small quantities of wines, beer or spirit at all hours throughout the day. The following table of comparative mortality is instructive: An intemperate jhtsoii's A temperate ix-i-son's chance of living is: chance of living is: At 20?15.0 years. At 20?44.2 years. At HO?1H.K years. At HO?.'Jti.5 years. 4 ^ 4<i 11 i* Af 1/1 ?)WC /ax -iii?li.u y urn's. nt -tm?jiui At 50?10.8 years. At 50?21.25 years. At 50?8.y years. At t>0?14.285years. An exchange says that the famous monkey of the Jardin des Plantes has "joined the great majority of Monkeys." Become a "dude," we presume.?New York Graphic. MANY TEARS Iff A CAVE. CABEJ2B OF A PENNSYLVANIA HERMIT. 1 Story off a Sirnujro MIc?llwtcncd a From SlnrvuliiMi Only to Ucdim \ lo tliv Old llniuilN. I A recent Milford (Penn.) letter to the \ Philadelphia Timet, says: Six or seven \ iniles uj> in the mountains back of Rris- f coe's hotel, near Dingraan's, Pike county, t lives a hermit, long known as the "Leh- i nvm " Anstin Sheldon, the sub- i ject of this skcteh, and no doubt a nuin that has furnished more news articles for the press than any ten men in I ennsylvania, came to Mil ford about forty-live years ago. Where he came from was a mystery to all, us he was a most quiet and reserved nihil, seldom or never mingling with the residents of that (piaint old town, and never on any occasion speaking of himself. He soon purchased a small farm in the vicinity of Rlooming Grove and worked the same alone, living a most retired life and having no intercourse with the outside world, lie rarely cani3 to Milford and when occasion demanded his presence at this place he transacted his business and immediately left for his little farm. He was never visited by relatives or friends, and held no intercourse with passers-by. That he was an educated man, any one coining in contact with him could tell, as lie used the best of language whenever compelled to speak. lie soon tired of this farm life, and disposing of his property took up his residence in a rude cave on the side of the mountains. Here he lived on what he could get by fishing and hunting. The mountains in these parts are wild and rocky and have long been the haunts of huntsmen. Many mountain streams also abound, and Sheldon has been seen by hunters in the pursuit of game. One dreary winter he was found by a party of hunters in his miserable abode nearly starved and suflering from a low fever. J He was conveyed down the mountain 1 side, where he received the kindly atten- 1 tions of the Dingman's people. Kma?L- llfn ho onnn tnnlr nn 1 JJl l/d^llL UltVsIX LW I1IV) UU UVVM .... his abode among the hills in the old cave I where lie had passed so many dreary 1 years. He never could be induced to 1 speak of his family or friends, even by j those who had restored him to life, and when the subject was broached in any manner, that moment was a signal for his departure. Hut a few years ago, comparatively, his friends got traces of him, and, after arriving at his miserable hovel, they used every inducement anu every argument to get him to again return to i his native home, take up his residence , among them and again be welcomed back ! to the life that was better suited to him. : He flatly refused to do anything of the sort and the relatives had to return to their Eastern home without him, after j amply providing for his wants. When , in this village the relatives disclosed a ( few facts that cleared up, in a measure, , the .strange man's life. The relatives . stated that Sheldon was an educated j man, of Connecticut. When pressed as . to what part of Connecticut he belonged, they said that they preferred not to men- ] tion the town. In speaking of him they , told the following story of his early life: , Sheldon, when a young man, had ( married a most beautiful young girl, and , before the honeymoon was fairly past the j young man,who idolized his young wife, ] was suddenly bereft of reason by her sad ( death. lie was from home one day a , few weeks after the marriage when a ( terrific thunder shower came up. Great . streams of lightning darted across the , heavens and the thunder and lightning , were terrible. The young wife, alone in < her home, was prostrated with fear and ] shortly after her reason became de- ( throned. All that medical skill and , loving attention from husband and friends could do availed nothing, and , the poor wife died a raving maniac a j few weeks after in a mad house. , From this time forth Sheldon was a ] changed man. He never spoke lo any . one and was barely civil to his family. , He disposed of his business and prop- ] erty in Connecticut, and, with a team of horses and an old wagon, sought a home in the wilderness. lie found the retreat he so eagerly sought in the Pike county hills, where lie has lived and made his second home for forty-live years. Having no one to communicate with, his ! mind now becoming unsettled, he took to studying the Riole. So expert has he j become that he can recite whole chapters of the Sacred Hook without the dis- ' placement of a word. Selections quoted from the liiblc will be located instantly, J as soon as spoken. His whole talk was ' on religion and religious topics, and he would talk on no other subject. Last autumn the old gentieman had another bad sickness, and alone and in ' his miserable hovel, without even the 1 necessaries of life, he must have starved ; had he not been found by a party of ' sportsmen and again conveyed to Ding- ' man's, where the good people received him. and communicated with his sister in a Connecticut town. The lady was J prompt in coming on, and nursed him ( with a sister's devotion. He was very feeble nnd emaciated after the fever left ^ him, and the sister, with no little persuasion, backcd by gentle force, sue- j ceeded in getting the poor fellow to ( accompany her to her Eastern home. ^ Here he again met with the kindest care , and,attention, and although he was now ( past seventy-live years of age, the change j in air, surroundings and diet worked 1~ r?_ 0 ???. mnn 1 inarvuis iui imii, uuu uu ??<?o c% uuh uu*u j once more. No sooner had he regained his health than the longing for the old life back in the mountains, in the dreary ( cave, seized tipon him. He was constantly annoying his relatives to bring j him back, so that he might end his days , in the adopted home among the hills. Every one he came in contact with had to hear the old story over and over again. At last, worn out by his entreaties and supplications, the sister was won over and promised to ! bring him back to Pennsylvania. A few days ago, dressed in a new 1 suit of clothes, cleanly shaven and 1 accompanied by the faithful sister, he ' arrived back in Milford, on his way to ' Dingman's Ferry, there to return to the 1 wild, savage life that seemed to suit him 1 so well. His eyes fairly danced with ' delight as he beheld the familiar out- ' lines of the Pike county hills and trod 1 the heath so welcome to his weary feet. 1 So anxious was he to take up his abode ( in the old hut that lie could not eat the ' bountiful repast spread for himself and \ relatives at the Saw Kill house, in this borough. He paced restlessly up and 1 down the streets, eagerly awaiting the 1 stage to carry him on his journey "home- 1 ward," as he expressed it. He grasped the hands of some of the old settlers of \ this quaint old town and nodded to many more whom he recognized. Soon the grent lumbering: stage for { Dingman's arrived in siffht and the old man was the first to board it. ^ lie now J chatted to his sister and the other occupants in a lively vein until Dingman's was reached, when he v/as let down and j again found his way to the old spot. Arriving here, lie fell on his knees and ' thanked his Maker that He had spared him to again enjoy the old haunts, and with a solemn vow never to leave the place until convcvcd away dead, he took an affectionate leave of his beloved sister. The parting, as described by ' witnesses, was a most affecting one, and ( drew tears from all present, it is safe to ' say that if he has his choice be will ' never again return to civilization, but ' will die as he has lived for forty-five ] years, a hermit among the wilds of the 1 I'ike county mountains. The Schoolmaster's Promise. "Boys," said an old schoolmaster, . smiling, one day, "I am about to bargain | with you for good conduct, I desire that j you will behave yourselves with decorum | for one week, and 1 will promise to show j you a curiosity?what no man ever saw, ^ and, having shown it to you, what no ( man will ever see again. An anxious ^ week followed?a week of curiosity, bewiklermcnl, hope, and pleasure in em- ( bryo. Out of school it was all the talk? j "What could it he?" Another and another day, until the last Saturday dawned j upon our gladdened young hearts. Nine o'clock came; every urchin was at his j post; books and slates all in readiness; ^ every task committed to memory. Altogether a charming state of alTairs. 1'Tinkle, tinkle!" sounded the bell?that bell had a voice as well as a tongue. .Mr. Birchen entered, seated himself, then raised the lid of his desk, and drew the ' wonderful thinir forth?adjusted his oin- r inous-looking spectacles astraddle his nasal protection, and proceeded to the solemn ceremony, saying, "The hour has at length arrived. Behold in my upraised a linger a single filbert. In this lilbert is a 1 kernel," ceremoniously breaking the r shell, and exposing the tiny thing to view, n he continued: "This no man ever saw;" then opening his capacious jaws he thrust in the mysterious kernel, crushed and ' swallowed it. "Jioys!" exclaimed lie, with r great emphasis, "boys, you will never?I shall never?no mau ever will see that kernel again! To your lessons, you ras- ' cals, every one of you." 1 Yellowstone Park. This park?wonderland as it is called -large as a European principality, has >een but partially explored; and new dis:overies arc sure to be made. I have the .ssurancc from competent and trustvorthy men, that, since shooting at game is irohibited, the lakes will soon be alive vitli wild geese, ducks, swans, and other vatcr-fowl, and the meadows and plains nil of Buffalo, deer, antelope, elk, and he wild big-horn sheep, with bears also, mlcss they arc excepted from the order )rcventing the killing of game. The present roads arc to a lnrge extent lnt/1 /-\nf fkn /tnrrSnnnnncf vorv I1IW13C1J IC4IV* UUV, bU\y *~?J Icfcctivc, and tho constniction atro:ious; but the government has lately put he roads under the charge of Lieutenant vingman, who is said to be a very com>eteut engineer. We met him in the >ark. He is a young man of agreeable nanners, intelligence, and energy, and nuch may be expected from his NewEngland industry and ambition of suc:ess. There can be no doubt that increasing lumbers will visit this interesting region is the facilities of transit and hotel ac:ommodations increase; and it is to be loped that scientific men will be able be'ore long to satisfy themselves and the ,vorld as to whether the geysers and boilng pools come of the chemical action of ivatcr upon lime and other minerals, or "rom internal fires kept burning in the :arth. As you drive through the park you A'ill see miles upon miles of thick, tall forest, covering an area of more than a hundred thousand acres, in which every :ree is dead, not a living branch or leaf ippearing. The trees stand thick and lpright, their limbs firm, and the fine bushy spray nearly pcrfccl even to the ;nds of their branches; their color is ashy white, and in the moonlight they seem ike forest corpses standing erect where the blast of death had struck them ?11 at )ncc. On many hillsides you will see Forests longer dead, prostrate by the winds, covering the ground thickly as ivheat-straws on a cradled field. You need not travel to Yellowstone lake to catch trout in a cold stream, and boil them in a pool, without changing your tracks: you can do it on the banks of the Gardner river, within two miles of the Mammoth Hotel.? 1 'Fifth Avenue to Alaakft." The R080 Farms of India. "Genuine attar of roses," remarked a New York chemist, -'which is made in India and Australia, cost one hundred ilollars an ounce at the places of distillation. It takes oO, 000 rose blooms to yield in ounce of attar. They are the common roses, and grow in great profusion in California, where the distillation of attar :ould be made a very profitable industry. 1 have seen hedge rows near Samona, in that State, so dense with these roses that the odor from them on a warm, sultry lay caused a feeling of peculiar faintness md oppression in the passer by. This is the effect of the attar that is distilled by the heat aud moist air, and is held suspended, as it were, in the atmosphere. "There is money in that causc of faintness and indolence, but in this country not only the sweetness, but the great value of the flowers, is wasted on the lesert air. In Northern India the roses ire regularly cultivated. They arc planted in rows in lields, and require no particular care. When they begin to bloom they ire picked before mid-dav. The work is i . -i ?i.: i A 0??m _ione i)y women jiin.* uuiiuibM, uuw to regard it more its a plcasujc than a pursuit of labor. The rose leaves are disrilled in twice their weight of water, ivhicli is drawn off into open vessels. These :ire allowed to stand over night, being covered up with cloths to keep out lirt and insects. In the morning the ivater is coated with a thin oily film. This is the rare attar of roses. It is skimmed oil with a fine feather and dropped into vials. The process continues daily until the bushes cease to l)loom. So it may well be imagined that my cssence of oil that requires the distilling of 0,000 roses to fill an ounce vial 1:1s a right to have a good price set upon it."?Ncio York Sun. Diet for Athletes. In Doctor Sargent's recent lecture on ''What Shall We Eat to Get Strong?" he said in the course of his remarks: "It lias been customary to train athletes in lean beef and mutton, but he thought this a mistake, as tissuc-makipg food should be used in combination with these, and the diet should be so changed is to meet the requirements of the organism of the person using it, for to establish one diet for all persons was ridiculous. Beef alone is not superior to meal, beans, or other farinaceous food, ind the size of the muscles of a man is not indicative of his strength. Farinaceous food tones a man down, ind will tend to give him more eiulurince. A man who can strike a blow uqual to four hundred pounds would be called a strong man, but this strength cannot be kept up for any length of time on animal food, as it comes from the base of the brain, and endurance must be sought for in other kinds of food. To reduce the weight of a man in training lean meats may do, but when lie is down in weight he must go back L" r rnrtrn nnrKrm onnll AC I L>U 1UUU. UUU WilLlIU^; 1UU1W t.(ti vviij DUVI4 ham and sausages, which should always be eaten cold. Three years ago this would have been considered ridiculous by trainers, but for a diet for running, walking and rowing it has been found that saccharine food, with beef or mutton is the best; tea, coffee and aljohol. as well as condiments, are objectionable; indeed, it is not the quantity af food a person eats that strengthens tiiin, but the amount assimilated and worked into the organism.?Harvard Ucruld. Galls' Eggs as ft Food Dainty. Judge Sawyer has dccidcd that the ejectment by United States Marshal Poole of the egg-gatherers from the South Farallon Island was right. Gathering of gull eggs is now confined to the two smaller Farallones, the gatherers not being allowed upon the larger, where the eggs arc the most numerous. This makes the supply here much less than the demand. The season for gull eggs Jid not this year come in before the first sf June. The value of gull egirs in this market is about thirty and thirty-live icnts per dozen, or the same as chicken ?ggs. From ten to twelve hundred dozen a week arc gathered in the season. These are sold not altogether to hotels ind restaurants, as is supposed, but are extensively used by individuals. They ! ire a very strong food, and therefore niluablc in cooking, though many have tastes too sensitive to successfully cope with the gull in an egg state, even when t J...i ii sUrOUUCU 111 IUU misiiiicn ui it jiistird or a German pancake, "There arc many ])ioneers who lived an gull eggs in the early days," said a ['lay street dealer, "and they look for the egg season to open with the same impatience as a young girl awaits a new jonnet. These eggs are their mcdicant ind they would have boils and spring fever if they coulil not get them."'?Sun Francisco Past. A Mexican Pyramid. Fresh proofs are reported to have been liscovercd of the existence of an ancient civilization in Mexico. In Sonora, about sixty miles southeast of the town of Madeline, some explorers have found in be heart of a virgin forest a pyramid, tvliich is feet around the base and MO feet high?that is to say, nearly lonblc the size of the great pyramid of Jlieops. From the base to (he summit here is a roadway 011 which vehicles can ravel round the vast erection in a spiral. The outside walls are built of granite docks carefully tooled and bedded. A ittle further olT is a hillock, with liindreds of caverns or chambers cut in t, from live to fifteen feet wide and ten 0 fifteen feet long. They have no winlows, and arc entered by the roof. The vail are covered with hieroglyphics and unions pictures with the feet and hands if men. Stone utensils have also been ound there. Who the builders of these mcient monuments are is still unsettled, >ut according to El Liberal, thev probibly belong ti> Mayos. who formerly inhibited Sonora, and were a different race havirtf blue eves, a vhite skin and blonde hair. A Regiment. "J'a," said a little Kentucky hoy, 'what is the title of a man who comnands a regiment?" "Colonel, my son. "Do you command a regiment?'' "Yes, somewhat. 1 don't command { . regiment of soldiers," the colonel ex- J daincd. "We are having times of peace low, you know. I only command your namma." "Is my mamma a regiment?" "Yes, indeed," lie replied with a sigh; ! 'your mamma is a regiment?a whole j egiment."?J'/ii/whl/ihi<i Ktinimj ('nil. II is noted as an interesting fact that I iie wages of sin have not been cut down I o any perceptible extent. I THE SIGN. "When you are dead, ray darling, When over you has grown The grass to liide your face away Beneath a grave's white stone? When, where your dear feet often trod You may not tread again, And you are in the world of (JoI And I the world of men; Oh, then, if by your grave. doai-r I speak some loving word, I pray you, givo some sign to me To tell me that you heard." "Dear, if you kneel beside mo And whisjx?r, thro' the mold Alwve me any tender words I loved to hear of old? If 111 the grasses growing Above my place of rest Some little flower should blossom, Some flower you loved the liest, The while you kneel lieside me And sjwak your loving word, Oh, you will see it, darling, And you will know I heard!" ?Eben E. Harford. HUMOR OF THE DAY. l -M-1 J. Miorc meatcr?a uisnonesi wnuiui. i Men who hutc long sentences?Criminals. Straw hats show which way the wind blows. Batter is so cheap that the poorest people can make a spread with it.?Picayune. The hand that rocks a cradle is the hand that can't stone a hen with any success.?Nctc York Journal. C'urlylesays: "Laughter means sympathy." This will bring comfort to the man who has inadvertently trodden on a banana peel.?Boston Pont. "Trust men and they will trust you," said Ralph Waldo Emerson. "Trust men and they will bust you," says an ordinary, every-day business man.?Saturday Night. "The female giraffe," says the Bismarck Tribune, "has a tongue seventeen inches long, but she can't talk." Now we know why a giraffe wears such a sad and subdued expression. how oleo is made. "My name is oleomargarine, I'm mighty nice to handle; And when they want to make mo They milk a tallow candle." ?Merchant-Traveler. Queen Victoria is said to have nineteen granddaughters. When the old lady and her erranddauirhters get on a street car a good many loyal Britons have to hang on to the straps ?Courier-Journal. A Vermont woman, who was thrown out of a runaway team, was found in an apple tree uninjured. This is the first time a woman was ever known to climb a tree under the influence of fright.? Burlington Free Frew. THE APPLES GREEN*. \ The small boy looks with longing eyes Uj)on the apples green, Ho will not touch them if he's wise, For lurking at the core there lies Colics and cramps unseen. ?Chicago Sun. "Arc you having much practice now?' asked an old judge of a young lawyer. " Yes, sir, a good deal, thank you." "Ah, I'm glad to hear it. In what line i9 your practice particularly?" ' Well, sir, particularly in economy." "Did the lion and the lamb ever lie down together?" asked a young hopeful who had just returned from Sundayschool. "Ye, my son," answered the father; "but the lamb was out of si^ht." The boy was satisfied.?Peck's Sun. ABOUT THE SIZE OF IT. There's a street in New York known as Wall, c e rrn 11 rur iiiiinjuA iwi r>uiutuiuiv? b>ui. Where men who go in Intending to win Come out with just nothing at all. ?Louisville Courier-Journal. "Ah!" exclaimcd an old miner who went up in the air on the wing of a prematurely discharged blast, "this makes me feel homesick." "Howao!" gasped his companion, who involuntarily accompanied him. "Because it's the biggest blowing-up I've had since I left my wife in the States."?New York Journal. It is said that just before a Hindoo woman dies u cow is brought in that she may take hold of its tail as her life passes away. Anybody who has been yanked over a two-acre lot of newly-plowed Jiind, deathlessly gripping the tail of an impulsive cow, can understand how the heathen rite is supposed to typify the longing of a person to die.?llockland I Courier. \ 'Milk, in the manufactured ice-cream, j is first boiled and afterward partially I congealed. In the boiling a lacteal acid j of baterhu is set free that, uniting with i a hvpo-sulphide of buteric oxide, again solidities iis a bi-sulphide of stumakake in the congealing. This, when taken into the system, produces cramps, frequently ending fatally. (Show this to your girl.) Forks. Some of our readers may be surprised to learn that the use of forks at the table was not introduced into England earlier than the reign of James I., and that this piece of refinement was derived from the Italians. The fact appears from the following curious extract from a book entitled, "Coryat's Crudities, hastily gobbled up in five moneths-travells in France, Savoy, Italy. Khsetia, Helvetia, (Switzerland), some parts of High Germany, and the Netherlands." The book was first published in 1011. "Here I will mention," says the traveler, "a thing that might have been spoken of before in discourse of the first Italian towne. I observed a custom in all those Italian cities and townes through which I passed, that is not used in any other country that I saw in my travels; neither do I think that any other nation of christendome doth use but only Italy. The Italian and also most strangers that are comraorant in Italy, do alwaies at their mcales use a little forke when they cut their meatc. For while with their knife, which they hold in one hand they cut the meatc out of the dish, they fasten their forke, which they hold in their other hand, upon the same dish. So that whatsoever he be that sitting in the company of any others at meale, should unadvisedly touch the dish of meatc with his lingers from which all doe cut, he will give occasion of offense unto the company, as having transgressed the laws of good manners; insomuch that for his error he shall be at least brow-beaten, if not reprehended in words. This forme of feeding, I understand, is generally used in all places in Italy, their forkes being for the most part made of yron or Steele, and some of silver; but those arc used only by gentlemen. The reason of this their curiosity is, because the Italian cannot 1... '.0..0 Siirlnrn fr> Imvn his dish touched with finyers, seeing all men's j lingers are not alike cleane. Hereupon I myself thought good to initiate the Italian fashion by this forlcl cutting of mcate, not only while i wns in Italy, but I also in Germany, and oftentimes in England since I came home; being onci* I quipped for that frequent using of my I forke by a certain le:irned gentleman, a familiar friend of mine, one master Laurence Whitaker, who in his merry humor doubted not at table to call me Purcifer,* only for using a fork, at feeding, but for no other cause." The use of forks w;<s much ridiculed j in England, as an HTeminate piece of j linery; in one of Heaumont and Fletch- j er's plays, ''your fork carving traveler" 1 is spoken of with much contempt; and i Hen Jonson has joined in the laugh against them in his ''Devil's an Ass." Meereraft says to (iilthcad and Sledge, "Have t deserved this from yon two for all My pains at court to get you such a patent? (tiitlieail?For what.' Meereraft?U|xjii my project of the forkes. Sledge?Forks.' What be they.' Meereraft?The laudable list- of forks. lirouglit into custom here as they are in Italy. To the sparing o' napkins." '"I'lireifer literally meant a slave, who for pMillSnmOllG <>I M'llll' I.lllll, na-Mimm- ii.iau; (i fork or gallows upon his neck through the city, with his hnnils tied to it, hence it came to signify generally n rogue; a villain.? L'hictiijo Eye. Chinese Nomenclature. 'The names one sees scattered over town projecting on shingles from the Chinese laundries," says a writer in the Philadelphia Tim?*, "arc not the names of the proprietors, as many suppose, but of the laundries. They try to get a high-sounding title, just as people in this country I do with a new hotel or other enterprise, j 'Sam Wall' means the three harmonics, which is the leading idea of Huddhism? heaven, earth and man. 'Sam Hop' means the threefold union. 'Sam Lc' means the threefold profit. 'Van I,c or Li' (they vary in the spelling according to the district they come from) means profit a thousandfold. '1 pun van li' means '1 capital, 10,000 for profit.* 'Hop i Li'means harmony and profit. Few, if J any, of the Chinamen in the Kastern i cities have any name. They are of the I vagrant class, the lowest of the low. I THE 8TAGE-DEITEB'S STORY. How General ficotfa Life wu Hared and How Hla Driver Twice Eacapcd Death. The traveler of the pnsentday, as he is hurried along by the lightning express, in itB buffet cars and palace sleepers, seldom reverts in thought to the time when the stage coach and packet were the only means of communication between distant points. It is rare that one of the real old time stago-drivers is met with nowa-rlnvH. and when the writer recently^ ran across layette Haskell, of Lockport, N. Y., he felt like a bibliographer over the discovery of some rare volume of "forgotten lore.'" Mr. Haskell, although one of the pioneers in stage driving (he formerly ran from Lewistonto Niagara Falls and Buffalo), is hale and hearty and bids fair to live for many years. The strange stories of his early adventurea would fill a volume. At one time when going down a mountain, near Lewiston, with no less a personage than General Scott as a passenger, the brakes gave way and the coach camo on the heels of the wheel horses. The only remedy was to whip the lenders to a gallop. Gaining additional momentum with each revolution of the wheels the coach swayed and pitched down the mountain side and into the streets of Lewiston. Straight ahead at the foot of the steep hill flowed the Niagara river, toward which the four horses dashed, apparently to certain death. Yet the firm naud never relaxed its hold nor the clear brain its conception of what must be done in the emergency. On dashed the horses until the narrow dock was reached on the river bank, when by a masterly exhibition of nerve and daring, the coach was turned in scarce its own length, and the horses brought to a stand still before the pale lookers-on could realize what had occurred. A purse was raised by General Scott and presented to Mr. Haskell with high compliments for his skill and braNotwithstanding all his strength and his robust constitution, the strain of continuous work and exposure proved too much for Mr. Haskell's constitution. The constant jolting of the coach and the necessarily cramped position in which he was obliged to sit, contributed to this end, and at times he was obliged to abandon driving altogether. Speaking of this period ne saia: "I found it almost impossible to sleep at night; my appetite left me entirely,andIhad a tired feeling which I never knew before, and could not account for." "Did you give up driving entirely?" "No. I tried to keep up, but it was only with the greatest effort This state of things continued for nearly twenty years until last October, when I went all to pieces." "In what way?" "Oh, I doubled all up; could not walk without a cane and was incapable of any effort or exertion. I had a constant desire to urinate I both day and night and although I felt like passing a gallon every ten minutes only a few drops could escape and they thick with sediment. Finally it ceased to flow entirely and I thought death was very near." "What did you do then f "What I should have done long before : listen to my wife. Under her advice I began a new treatment." "And with what result I" "Wonderful. It unstopped the closed passages, and what was still more wonderful regulated the flow. The sediment vanished; my appetite returned and I am now weu ana good for twenty more years wholly through the aid of Warners' Safe Cure that has done wonders for me as well aa for so many others." Mr. Haskell's experience Is repeated every day in the lives of thousands of American men and women. An unknown evil is undermining the existence of an innumerable number who do not realize the danger they are in until health has entirely departed and death perhaps stares them in the face. To neglect such important matters is like drifting in the current of Niagara above the Falls. In a letter to the Brituh Medical, Journal, Dr. Armitage refers to the occupations of blind persons as being, in many cases, of an extraordinary character. Among these specified are six painters (artists), two dentists, one photographer, twenty-nine coachmen, one hostler, one fisherman, one sculptor and two loaders of wagons. He knows a blind man who buys poultry on commission, and knew one, now dead, who was a dealer in horses on a large scale. "I am using Dr. Gravee' Heart Regulator with great results; had Heart Disease for nine years, so bad could not lay down.?John McGuff, Pike Station, 0." Tne Heart Regulator cures all forms of Heart Disease, nervousness and sleeplessness. A secret society of French, Irish and Arabs meet daily at Cairo: Many ladies who for years had scarcely ever enjoyed the luxury of feeling well have been renovated by the use of Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The conductors of horse-cars in Valparaiso, Chili, are women. Dr. Graves' Heart Regulator cures all forms of Heart Disease, nervousness, sleeplessness. The Boers have made Cetewayo's son king of Zululand. Nothing Like It, No medicine has ever been known so ef fectual in the cure of all those diseases arising from an impure condition of the blood as ScovilTs Saraparilla, or Blood and Liver flia nnitrnraol romoHw frtl* t.ha ntiro nf uW ~vr scrofula, white swellings, rheumatism, pimSles, blotches, eruptions, venereal soros and iseases, consumption, goitre, boils, cancers, and all kindred diseases. There is no better means of securing a beautiful complexion than by using Scovill's Sarsaparilla, or Blood and Liver Syrup, which cleanses the blood and giyes permanent beauty to the skin. "Rough on Palo." Cures colic, cramps, diarrhoea; externally for aches, pains, sprains, headache, neuralgia, rheumatism. For man or beast. 25 and SOc. Ely's Cream Balm, for Catarrh, Cold in the head, Hay Fever, etc. By its use I have overcome a disagreeable discharge from my nostrils: am free frompain in my eyes and head. ?John W. Lane, Hardware Merchant, Newton, N. J. Not a liquid or snuff. I have been a sufferer for years with Catarrh, and under a physician's treatment for over a year. Ely's Cream Balm gave me immediate relief. I believe I am entirely cured. ?G. S. Davis, First National bank, Elizabeth, N. J. The Hope of the Nation. Children,slow in development.puuy,scrawny and delicate, use " Wells' Health Renewer." See Here. Young Men. that girl of mine is twice as handsome since she commenced using Carboline, the deodorized extract of Petroleum, and I would not be without it for a fortune. Piso's Cure for Consumption does not dry up a cough; it removes the cause. Rheumatism.?"Wilson's Wonder" cures in 8 hours, or money returned. Sent on receipt of IS. Medicine depot, 99 Park street, N. Y. Night .Sweats. Headache/fever, chills, malaria, dyspepsia, j cured by "Wells'JHealth Renewer." #1. "Rough on Pain" Piaster. Porous and strengthening, improved, the beet for backache, pains in cheet or side,rheumnHtm TiAnrft]p-ia. 'JSn. Druggists or mail. Fob dyspepsia, indigestion, depression of spirj its and genoral debility in their various forms, also as a preventive against fever and ague and other intermittent fevers, the.uFerro-Phosphorated Elixir of Calisaya," made by Caswell, Hazard <fc Co., New York, and sold by all DrugJ gists, is the best tonic ; and for patients recovering from fever or other sickness it ban no equal. I Glass floors are l>eing laid in the stores of I Hot Weather Is now here, with all its depressing and debilitating effects, If your blood has not be?n purified and your system strengthened by the use of Hood's Sarsaparilla, tike this reliable medicine before it is too lato. It wilI correct biliousness, cure dyspepsia and drire scrofula from the blood. "Tired All the Time" "I had no appetito or strength and folt tired all tho time. I attributed my condition to scrofulous humor. Hut an soon as I had taken half a bottle of Hood's Sarsaparilla my appetite was restored and my stomach felt better. I have now taken nearly three bottles and I never wan so well in my lifo. I would not be without Hood's Sarsaparilla for twice its oost."?Mrs. Jessie V. DoldeaRK, Pascoag, R. I. "1 am having a good sale of Hood's Sarsaparilla this spring. In fact, it ix ss staple as sugar and tea."?R. S. MEACBAM, Fittsford, Vt. Hood's Sarsaparilla Sold by all druggists. $1; six for $5. Prepared only I'jC. I. HOOD <t CO., Apothecaries. Lowell. Mass. 100 Doses One Dollar <i?gau SUPERFLUOUS HAIR. ' Molei, Wart*. Frtckltf, Moth Patrhe?, Erii|??io. I Scar*, and all Dtiti^uremmti and hnperfrt ti? i>j *. VL* ***? Yaotf ILuidt ami Feel, *o4 their treauurtil, ly fJLt & Dr. JOHN H. WOODBURY, tfawgfi Send 10ct4, for book. 37 N. FearlSt.^Albaajr, N.V )EEDSOFDARlMGfa BLUE&GfcftYil TkepreatcolleetlonofthemortthrillirijperaonaladTenttirtt, exploiti of icouu and ipin, forlorn hopei.htroie brar* ry.lmpruonmrntf and hair-breadth e>cap<i, romantic Incident* hand-to-hand atrtjjrjfVpa. ptrilouaJuurn*y?,dariniraidltnd bold drrda ON hotii BlnlHduring tlieOrrat Ciril War. No book like it. PROfUSElY ItlUSTRATEO.OuuelUall. Aiidre* SCAMMKL A CO., Boi <134. Philadelphia or St. Louis ZGOOD NEWS TO LADIES! Greatest inducements ever ot fert'd. Kow'syonrtinw to gi-t up order* for our celebmted TeiU and Coll cru.and secure a lmnuti* ful Giild liana or Moss Ron* China TenSet, or Handsome Decorated Dinner Set, or (iold Band Mom Decorated Toilet Sot, For full particulars address THE GREAT A MICK I CAN TEA CO., ^ P. O. Box 289. 31 and Sj Veboy St.. New York. Jfc M PAYS for a I.ife<ficholar*hlp in the V Mm i'olcmnn ItiiMincHN Cnllt'ffc, ^ -? Neivnrk. Xn .InrM'V. Positions tor 11 ^ K'r.iiluntcrt. National patronage. Write lor Circulars to 11. COLKMAN A CO. AGENTS WANTED r.r the lives ?. BLAINE ANQ LOGAN By Col ihdj. WTkxox. Out?ll? *11 other* HI to 1. Authorized, Authentic. Impartial Complete, the Jiett and ChraptM. f,0? pw fl.ftO. Ssib Ide tnllfire. 50 percent, to Ai;ent?. Outfit t'rtc. Freight*pa*l- ."end for Eitralrrmx, etc., lo HAUTFOKD I'l'ltLlHllUS CO., Hartford, Conn. ("1 It. INSTITl*TK? Austinhiirj;. O. ilj y'rs < T# (treat success. Academic, Normal. Music, Com' and Telegraphy. Hoard and Tuition, $:! > for :i m-int hs. I CAR II Telegraphy or Short-Hand and Typo LHnil WrilliiK here. Situations furnished. B Address VaLKNTISK Hlios., Janesville, Wig. to Soldiers A Helm. Send statin: rPllClnnC ,m Circulars. COL. L. HIM. Pllwimiw HAM, Att'y, Washington. I), i'. A aents \\ iilltrd for the Best and Fastest-Bellio* ' i\ notorial Hooks and Bibles. Prices reduced XI i>e.cent. National Puiimbhino Co., Philadelphia, Pa. A TfftlVO Send Htampfor our New Book on | VH I UN I X Patents. I,. BINGHAM. P.,i 9 H I kl? I W ent ljtwjer, W.i.shiriKton, I). C. j dSiliEljlfeMsliiiMisliiB tx4 e?ES WHERE All ELSE FAILS. ffl U Best Couch Syrup. Twitex good. H I / IW IT?? in tima. .Sold by druggiato. fmj ^ BBtSa ikrl I 4 res _____ ' * i joSofnd ~*'. T^SuSofd. ~ A " ssif Mi H?i CtTEZg By tho u?e of this at.t. REMEDY, the BtAttmni?i aohend Bow?jl? ~ " epeedlly regain their ?y etrength, end the TKJ! blood U purified. P BDnmi It 1* pronounced by t.i v in hundred* of the beet BZ^KB OT^ZrY wn^ol Kidney Dto. OEOllTB jt ii purely vegeDBOP8Y tableland curce when GEAVEL other medicine* fklL EIAB1TZS It 1* prepared ?iKBIGEfT'8 preeely for theee die* rmmiw eeeee,end hee new T> a -mra been known to fell* ^ir One trie! will oonTtnoe you. Tor eele BAT* I br**! drown*. mot L 0B ML Bend &r BTD1 /Ck Pamphlet immvoxra a|Ky TtTHHAWTH KHTKNTIOar HPNT?8 OS // W REMEDY woN-affl'jEaTxoir Wr\JIm CO., 4 TOOT. * k. l HUNTS (Kidney and Liver) REMEDY li<ui nared from lingering disoaae and death handled* who here boen given np by physician* to die. NYN U?20 * ..LYOIA B. PINKHAM'See : jpfk VEGETABLE COMPOUND ISAPOSITIVB CDEZrOE*** * Igs ,1* All thono painful Complaint* * and Wraknemea 10 common* * * *** to our beat * * FEMALE POPULATION.* / FHm $1 la IlfiM, pin ?r basaft&nh It* purport*! it tolelu for the legitimate healing of ilUrate aiul the relief of puin. and that it doet ail it claim4 to do, thousands of ladle* can gladly testify. It wlLl cure entirely oil Ovarian trouble*, Inflammation and Ulceration, Filling and Displacements, and cmtequeni Spinal Wealfnem, and If particularly adapted to tho CTianco of Life. ? * It removes Falntnesx-Flatnlencr, destroys all craving for stlmulmtj, and relieves Weakness of the Stomach. It cures Bliatlntj, Headaches, Nervous Prostration, General D*blllty, Bleeplewness, Depression and Indl flexion. That feellnsrof bearln? down, causing pain, and backnciic, in al ways permanently cured by lta use. Send Bta-nn to T/rn% Mar*., for pamphlet Letters of irojulr^ cor.?. ;"'^t |al|yFor safe at d rv Among Railroad Men. Popularity nnd UnernlneM of Dr. Kennedy' Favorite Remedy?A Thrilling Letter from it Master Mechanic. M a ster Mechanic's A Supebwtendent'b Omae,) Lowell Repair Shops of the Boston A Lowell R, R., / Lowell, Miuw- , March 25,1884. ) Dr. David Kennedy, llondout, JV. Y.: Dear Sib: I think it la due to you tbat I should make the following statement, and I makeitvolun. .. J^v_ *.L _ J?L J-- rH.A loot lamy ana willingly: un iue nuuity uiouuc, mot, I wu taken with what was called paralysis of the bowels. The seisnre was unexpected and terrible. The stomach and other organs seemed to sympathize with it and to have lost all power of action. For a Ion? time my life was despaired of. bat at length 1 recovered so far as to be able to ride oat By the advice of my physician I vlalted Poland i Springs (Vt), hoping to benefit from the waters. But they did me no good. Neither were the best physicians of Lowelland Boston, whom I consulted. able to afford me more than transient relief. I gained no strength and my case appeared almost hopeless. In the Fall a friend advised me to try KENNEDY'S FAVORITE REMEDY. and although opposed to patent medicines, I made the trial To make a long story short?FAVORITE REMEDY, in ray opinion, saved mv life. I consider it the best preparation in the world for stomach difficulties, as well as of the Liver and other organs. I am glad to say it is in general use among the R. R. men in this vicinity. Yours, etc., A J. GIFFORD. Mr. Gilford is the Master Mechanic of the Lowell . division of the Boston & Lowell Railroad, and his -t: Illness and recovery arc known to many who can testify to the facts in his letter. Use this medicine for all diseases of the Blood, Kidneys, Liver, Stomach, Bowels, and Skin. It may save you or yours from pain and death. Address, If desired, Dr. David Kennedy, Roan* dout, N. Y. I />A1IU 1 Health andJappiness. ytp O DO AS OTHERS (yocrur $ have DONE. B Are your Kidneys disordered? "Kidney Wort brought me from my gr*?e, as It were,afterlhad been given np by 13 beet doctora la I Detroit." M. W. Dereraux, Mcchsnlc, Ionia, Klch. I Are your nerves weak? "Kidney Wort cured me from nerrooa weakneas Ac., after I was not expected to live."?Hrs. M. K. B. Goodwin, Ed. Christian Monitor, Cleveland, O. Have you Bright's Disease? "Kidney Wort cured me when my inter was just like Chalk and then lUco blood." Frank Wilson, Peabody, Uim. Suffering from Diabetes ? "Kldn^y-Wort U the moat successfulremedy I bar* 1 erer used. Olree almost Immediate relief." Dr. Phillip C. Ballon, Monkton, Vt I Have you Liver Complaint? "Kidney-wort cured mo of chronlo Llrer Disease* after 1 prayed to die." ? _ Henry Ward, late CoL (9th Nat. Gucrd, N. T. Is your Back lame and aching? "Kidney-Wort, (1 bottle) cured mo when I waaao lame I had to roll out of bed." . a 1L Tallmage, Milwaukee, Wla. Have you Kidney Disease? "Kidney-Wort made mo sound InllTer and kidncrs after year* of unsuccessful doctoring. Jtg worth $10 a box."?Sam'l Hodges, WUliajnstown, Wert Va. Are you Constipated? "Kidney-Wort causes easy evacuations and cured me after It years use of other medicine*." Kelson Falrchlld, 6t Albans, Vt TToTra trmi Malaria1? Bxj.ctvu jiwu mw??.? . "Kidney-Wort baa done better than any other - remedy I bare orer used In my practice." Dr. It. K. Clark, Booth Haro, VL Are you Bilious? "Kidney-Wort baa done ma mora good than any othor remedy I hare erer taken." Mrs. J. T. Galloway, EUc Flat, Oregon. Are you tormented with Piles? "Kidney-Wort permanently cured me of bleeding plica. Dr. w. C. Kline recommended It to me." Geo. H. Horst, Cashier 1L Banlc, Myerstown, Pa. Are you Rheumatism racked? "Kidney-Wort cun-d me, after 1 waa riren np to die by physicians and I had iufferod thirty years." Elbridgo Malcolm, Weft Bath, Maine. Ladies, are you suffering? "Kidney-Wort cured me of peculiar tronblet of several year* standing. Many friends use and pnriae It." Mrs. EL Lomoreaui, Isle La Motte, Vt If you would Banish Disease 1 and gain Health, Take ifleEEBEEEP | The Blood Cleanser. mi awnii New Machines Guaranteed positively new JCTflKa and thoroughly first-class in fffr^lHIl evenrparticular. Warrant- | Vr e<l for 5 jrs. Can l>e returned / 2A JVV , at ourexpense if not as repre- -UtDufarraiJmX sented. Freights paid to all points. Established 1878 A. C. JOHNSON, 37 North Pearl St., Albany,N.Y. Walnut Leal Hair Restorer. It is entirely dlfferent from alI ot hen, and aa its nam* Indicates is a perfect Vegetable Hair Restorer. It will immediately free the heau from all dandruff, restore gray hnir to Its natural color, and produce a new CTowtB where it has fallen off. It does not affect the health, which sulphur, sugar of load and nitrate of silver prepaid ? at ions have done. It wilt change lUrht or faded hair in* few days to a beautiful glossy brown. Ask your druggist for it. Each bottle is warranted. 8mith, Kline 4 Co., Wholesale Ag'ts, Phila.,Pa., and C.N.Cnttenton,S.Y. DR F00TE's Original METHODS ni n CYCQ Made New without doc- OF ULU LI CO t orx,medicine orglasses TT A If fl RIIPTIIRF pUIMfKI? furcd wlthontcntllnp;f|f TilfflI rnimuoio iiew.painless.safc.surc.lilIn tli I NFR\/ni!Q Debtutv. etc.: can^^l"*! MLnV UUO ami jat'onal tmitmcnty **T? CHRONIC S,1"'"" "!?*" Address Dr. E. B. FOOTK, Box 788, TV. Y. City. Jmportnnt Reduction In tbo price of VASELINE (PETROLEUM JELLY.) One Ounce bottles reduced from 15c. to 10c. Two Ounce bottles reduced from 25c. to 15c. Five Ounce bottles reduced from 50c. to 25c. The public mast not accept any bat origin*! goods bottled by as, as the imitations aro worthless. Chesebrough Manufacturing Co., New York. 30 DAYS' TRIAL |%jdye'sL?i i (bf.fokfc.) uktlk.j T.1I.ECTKO-VOLTAIC BELT ami other Electbio It Al'I'l.USCRfl are sent on .'M Days' Trinl TO MEN ONLY, YOI'NG OR OIJ), wlin are suffering from Nfbvouk Demlity, Lost Vitality, Wasting Weaknesses, anil all kimlreJ diseasitt. Speedy relief an>l complete restoration to Health, VigOB and Manhood UitahaNTKKD. Send at once for Illustrated l'amphlet free. Address Voltaic Belt Co., Marshall, Micb WDY AGENTS permanent s?~Sin 4 employment and good Milftrj (>*5%)?selling Queen City fciklrtand ^ PS StocklnaSupportenietc. Sam- 4 PlooutlUfree. Address Oucec ^CHy Suspender Co. i ciadnaiU, o BEAUTIFULLY CONTRASTED COLORS On -in plain cants 10e. Send tor Samples. 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