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A TRIO. WISDOM. Boses fade and loving passes; Knowledge only hides away; Downcast eyes of witching lasses Steal thy jieaco of mind away. I.OVK. Minds forget and books grow musty; Love alone takes care away; Hearts are young when brains are rusty, Love 1 will while love I may. DEATH. Foolish world with foolish guesses, Books are idle, love is clay; Yet to still the doubt that presses, Guess 011. guess on. till my day. THE cum TALE. j It was a suffocating evening early in \ August, and I lc/t my work at the Foreign otlicc to plod home to dinner through the dusty parks in the worst spirits. The i wrongs of a junior clerk whose long prom- , iscd holiday had just been snatched away j from him on the eve of fulfillment were j boiling in me. f felt that they cried out ' for justice in a free country. Everything was prepared for this month's leave, . wnicu was to nave negun next uay. ,uv father had taken :i house on one of the ! most attractive slopes above Grasmere. ' * and the family residence in Lancaster Gate already bore that denuded and forlorn appearance which precedes a general domestic llight. We had breakfasted : gaylv, picnic fashion, with old and inadequate implements, we had prophesied, 1 with unabated cheerfulness, dining with ! still fewer of the appliances of civilization, the family plate being not lost but gone bef ire to Grasmere. The house was in as uncomfortable a state :is much packing and putting away could make it. for mv people intended to spend between i two and three months at Kmerald Bank. Here was 1, with my wings out- ! spread for llight. caught back and j doomed to remain in solitude, with dismantled rooms and furniture lurking un- | der dust sheets for company, and all be - ! cause an unstable senior clerk suddenly ' declared that his health demanded in- i Instant change of air, instead of waiting to i ?^take his holiday later on, as he had in^tended. The tale of woe is not com<|f;!plete, for Olga Fielding, to whom I had . jj&becn but three weeks betrothed, was | Kg coming with us to Grasmere, and we had promised ourselves a mouth of unalloyed Kvx- bliss among the AVestmoreland hills before she was obliged to go back to her rajy. filial duties in Copenhagen. There, as ^cr mot^er was 'lead, she had to preside over all matters, social and domestic, in v^Urr father's extensive establishment. Great heavens! what an ill-arranged ulnnct ia lliiv nn.l wli.it a <1 isnrcrftnizfd I I constitution was that miserable T.'s to choose such a moment to be out of repair! In the first week of September <>lga would have to follow her father, who 1 had returned to Copenhagen, and we j should meet no more till after Christinas, j Was it not enough to make a worm | blaspheme? and the bang I gave the hall ! door on entering covered a vigorous expression oT feeling. "Well, the news was broken to a dismayed and sympathetic circle. Olga, who had hitherto professed to consider me as likely to prove a very small addition to the natural features of the lake scenery, was quite overcome; there was some small balm in that. My mother was very unhappy. Even Barbara, the youngest of the family, and strong in the scorn of seventeen for matters of centimcnt, j forebore to jibe, and gave utterance to | I violent exclamations of regret, coupled with equally violent abuse of vague persons unknown. My father, after the first natural shock of disgust, endeavored to console me with unpalatable philosophy and the cool light of reason, remedies which always seem an insult offered to affliction, when applied to one's own case. "It's hard on l you, Harry, my boy, no doubt, and I'm i sorry for it,"' lie said, in that sobering | tone which strikes a chill through the j greatest moments of excitement, and j makes all previous emotion appear annoyingly ridiculous; "but now you have \ entered 011 the serious duties of life, you can't learn too soon that work and not | I>lay is the object of a man's life. I'm 1 not at all sure that?" ''Ah! how horrible,'' broke in the soft voice of my be- ! trothed, with the pretty, careful intona- j tion and long-drawn ripple of the r which she had inherited from her Danish mother. "Dear Mr. Richardson, do not let us be reasonable to-night. No, that poor boy is very badly treated, and it is all fr-r-riglitful 1" And my lady, unclasping her eloquent hands, approached the 1 iron-gray parent for whom our affection had always been largely tempered with respect, and flinging one arm tightly round his neck, laid her pretty head with its crown of bronze ripples confidingly 011 his robust black-cloth shoulder. My father no doubt experienced a slight shock; he was unaccustomed to such audacious treatment from the young. But he liked it, he certainly liked it; and nlantimr a firm Darental salute on the breezy coils he left us to pour out our mutual woe at leisure. That night I found it impossible to sleep. The atmosphere was so close and oppressive there seemed to be no air to breathe, and a dull feeling of undefined apprehension haunted me persistently through long hours of wakefulness and miserable brief dozes, refusing to be charmed away by the voice of reason. Haggard, unrefreshed.and still conscious of the same vague foreboding clawiug at mv heart, I left that bed of suffering at an unwonted hour in the morning and descended to the library, now a desert of bare boards, dotted al>out with precipiItous islands under dusty cloths. Here a ijhjpc. that unfailing comforter of dejjeckud manhood.restored some balance to jwyvlisoidced mind, but I still felt very deprc^ed. oud was preparing to go forth and scv?k an early swim, when the door opened.) .uvl to my amazement Olga glided ijito il'e room, pale and drooping, with daijrk lines under her brown eyes. After mutual exclamations and greetings I demanded the reason of her wan and dejected appearance. She did not answer at first, but turned her face away and tormented the braid on her traveling dress in silence. "Well, if you will know, dear friends,*' she said at last with a charming gesture of resignation, gffe "1 think your old foreign office has bewitched me. Xo, it is not that unhappy IgV T., who has the evil eye, for I have a feeling as if some danger was hanging over you. and I could not sleep all night for it. Oh, Harry!" continued the impetuous damsel, suddenly throwing aside j rlimutv witli wliU'li elm wnc wnnt tn ! 4.AAV M..V ' " treat me, now that the worst was out, ' conic away with us to-day. Never mind a thousand governments and clerkships! I will not go without you. Something dread fui will happen;you feel it too. You look fit for the hangman yourself." It took me a long while to restore Olga to calmness. I laughed at her prognostica/ tions and was careful to betray no similar feelings on my own part. She was more or less convinced at last of the utter ruin it would be to my future prospects to desert my post, and we';were reasonably resigned if not cheered by breakfast time. Well, 1 saw them all off from Euston station, and trailed away, a hapless victim, to my dreary task in the exalted gloom of Whitehall. That day seemed interminable, yet there was nothing to look forward to at the end of it, and still with the previous night's weight on my spirits. I started on my way back to tlic howling wilderness in Lancaster (Jatc. I Near Hyde Park corner, where very few carriages remained to make hay of I the dust, 1 was startled from melancholy | reflection by a great bang on the back. ^Turningsharply round, I confronted that athletic giant, Jack Oliver, who had been at the name college as myself, and whom I had not met siuce we took our respective degrees at Oxford three years before. At Oriel I had been wont to write Jack down as an ass, because his invariably boisterous spirits and perpetual athletics were at times a oerfcct nusiance. but in my present forlorn condition his jolly face and infectious laugh were a real God send. We dined at the club together, and afterward went to the theatre, then smoked a pipe or two in company at V Oliver's lodgings, so that it was toward 1 o'ciock when I left him to return to Lancaster Gate. Walking along under ; " the park railings, the trees made occa- . sional ghostly rustlings overhead; the ; air was very still and heavy, in expecta- i tion of a traveling thunder storm. The ] tall shut-up houses facing fhe park < looked as forbidding as so many mauso- < leums in the moonlight, and only the t footsteps of a stray wayfarer here and j t X. there, or the welcomc rattle of an occa- j < sional hansom, broke the strange still- j f ness. ? j < All the uncomfortable feeling of the I 1 past twenty-four hours, temporarily i thrust back by Oliver's cheerful company, i returned with overwhelming force. In- : < dignant at being so befooled bv what I t ' i- declared 10 myself must be a dispeptic imagination (though my acquaintance with dyspepsia was happily of the 1 slightest), I argued tierceiy with my | ] : own folly; but all in vain, that inde-1 scribable dead weight of apprehension j still crushed my spirits. The senseless ; sense of unseen danger grew stronger at ; every yard. 1 was ready to roar for very ; disquietude of spirit. '"Confound it all," j I almost shouted, "this is beyond a joke! "What an abject piece of imbecility for a man who has always flattered himself on having too much reason to fall a prey to any superstitious delusions whatever! I must be ill; if things go on like this tomorrow I shall give in and ?*o to old Burrows (the family .Ksculapius) to be put together again." Meanwhile every step forward appeared to grow more and more difficult. A sudden sound of footsteps close behind most unaccountably paraylyzed my powers of locomotion, and tilled me with a horrible dread. This was monstrous; with a kind of groan of disgust and misery over my own decrepitude, I resolutely turned around and waited till the steps reached me. Merciful heaven! What was this that canie up, brushed past me. and went on.' . ? ??i,i Jiy oraiu ruciuu, a < um broke out on my forehead, for frantic as it may sound, it was myself that I saw go by. My exact image and counterpart came toward me. looked me full in the | face with coid. indifferent eyes, differing I from mine only in their expression at the j moment,and passed on.brushing me with the sleeve of a flight overcoat exactly! like the one I wore. I noticed with despairing recognition on the creature's j left hand, which was raised, holding the unbuttoned flap of his coat in front of him (a favorite trick of mine), the very I ring Olga had given me a week ago, and which was also on my linger at that mo- j ment. For one long minute I stood stupefied with horror; the next I darted forward after that terribly familiar form, which I crossed the street and went on toward our door. 1 felt sure that 1 must be mad, j or in the clutches of some hiddenjnightmare. Oh! for some power to shake it off and awake. Hut no! the area rail- j ings had a firm and chilly reality when I touched them. My footsteps and those of others sounded all too solidly on the j deserted pavement. 1 even caught myself deliriously smiling at a peculiar trick of walking in the thing in front, with which Barbara had often taunted me. It was an extraordinary opportunity of seeing oneself as others see one, but what mortal could have availed himself of it ; under such circumstances? | I staggered on behind him, unable to diminish the twenty yards or so that - i t.? ?f o?.l> I separateu us. i? uum m. ??. Tlic suspense was almost intolerable. He disappeared through the door, though the only surviving family latch-key was in my pocket. When I reached the door it whs shut, and bore no signs of any unusual treatment.' I could not go in. I could not follow into the house and run the risk of meeting him on the dark stairs. A horror unspeakable had taken possession of my senses. 1 turned and lied, and spent uncounted hours in walking about the silent streets aud squares, unconscious of the lapse of time. The early sunshine aroused and cheered my scattered wits. Gradually the sounds of common life awakening brought back my reasoning faculties. The discordant cry of that bird of dawn,the early sweep, was as music in my ears and seemed to make the dreadful night fade into remoteness and unreality. I made my way back to Lancaster (late, footsore and exhausted. The milkman was driving merrily up and down: when I reached our doorsteps, it seemed a year since I had i?TSt ascended them. I rushed up to my room; it was,of course, empty, the bed untouched. Hut on the pillow and turned down sheet, exactly where my head and shoulders would have been in the natural course of things, lay the ruins of a large bust, tin; Hermes, which had been wont to stand on a bracket over the head of the bed. This bracket my mother had frequently entreated me to replace by a firmer support; it had given away at last under the ponderous weight of the bust, which, striking against the iron rail of the bed. had broken into the two or three murderous portions that reposed on tin' nil low and sheet, the bracket onlv ! having chosen to glance olt on the floor. I Had 1 been there Hermes must certainly have crushed my skull. Thrilled with fresh emotion, but too exhausted then to meditate long over the event, I went slowly down to the diningroom and fell asleep on the sofa. The old charwoman, who appeared later with my breakfast, told me she had been startled by hearing a loud crash in the night soon after the clock had struck, but havini: been only half awake at the time,she concluded that it was the thunder of my boots being thrown out to i await the morning's cleaning. She was j now, however, much excited about it, j and disposed to revel in a tragedy. I ; told her that I found the statue fallen on my bed, and that, as it took three men to move it in a general way, I had been obliged to content myself with the sofa. The brief and matter-of-fact tone of ray explanations quite failed to quell her exclamations of wonder and amazement, and she was not to be debarred from the pleasure of gloating over all the details of the tragedy which had been averted. Since that night all has gone well with us. My blessed chief at the foreign oflice found means to let me go in a day or two, and our time at (irasmere was nil we had expected it to be. After Christmas, to our great joy, Mr. Fielding gave up his house at Copenhagen and came to London. Olga and I were married the following summer, and we have never again been disturbed by presentments, apparitions or any other subjects worthy \ to exercise the industry of society for ! physical research.?l/>ngman's Magazine. Short *'ish Stories. At Jacksonville, Fla., a sawfish was captured which measured fourteen feet in length, with a saw three feet three inches loug and seven inches wide. Atlantic coast fishermen were recently surprised by catching a species of pompano weighing from ten to twenty-live pounds, which is larger than they had ever seen or heard of. if you happen to see an amateur sportsmau testing the strength of a iishinir rod by grasping the small end and bending it, you can make up your mind that heis trying to figure out how colossal a lie he can tell when exhibiting the rod to a group of admiring friends. At Madison, Ky., Thomas (Jentrv's dog caught a twelve pound pike in the river, and brought it ashore in his teeth. It was alive and thrashing as lie came wagging to Mr. Gentry with the prize. California net only leads the world in vegctableand fruit stories, hut fish stories as well. Here is the latest about clams: At a recent meeting of the California Academy of Sciences, K. E. C. Stearns, Ph. 1)., spoke of the rapid increase of the soft shelled or lonir-neckcd clams in the Pacific bays. Some Oregon clams weighing fifteen pounds, with necks three feet long, require three men to dig them. They are only accessible at extremely low tides. Their delicate white meat, when boiled, cut in strips and fried in batter is extremely good. This is just the right season of the year; and if you listen sharp at about the hour of 11 at night, you will hear the shrill voice of the woman of the house, at your next door neighbor's, keyed up in something after this fashion: "And so you've jrot home at last, have you? Keen a-fishing. Oh, yes, I know all about these fishing excursions. What did you catch? Oh, didn't have good luck, did you? Fish didn't bite, did they ? Well, sir, I want you to understand that the next time you go fishing, I go too!"?Chicago Sun. A Walking Slick that Has Traveled j Colonel William Krneston, a bronzed ! veteran of the Hritish India service, I who passed through Philadelphia re- j cently, carried a cane that is a memento of great events. It is made of nine longitudinal strips of wood; the head is a highly-polished bit of bone from the river drift deposits in Devonshire, j England, and the ferule is a fragment | of a gun used at the battle of iileleg- j nano. One wooden strip is from the I Mount of Olives, at Jerusalem, and of i the other eight one is from Nelson's ship, j the Victory, one from the American sloop of-war Cumberland, one from the Alabama, but before she left Laird's shipyard; one from the licllrophon, Napoleon's prison ship; one from the Ville de Paris, Admiral de Grasse's flag-ship in ; 5ur revolutionary war; one from the floor >f the black hole at Calcutta; one from he grove surrounding Taj Mahal, and :hc last from the wreck of the Koyal Jeorge. (.'olonel Ernest on has written a >ketch of the circumstances under which ! ;ach piece of the cane was obtained, and ! ;he whole put together, and on his death i t. and the manuscript are to be deposited j n the South Kensington museum. Kach ! circumstance regarding the gathering of he pieces is properly attested. Dry ashes applied to a cut will slop :he bleeding, and will, if left on a few nours, hasten the healing process. - iai THE CURIOSITIES OF DRESS. COSTUMES WHOSE CHIEF MEEIT LIES IN THEIR COST. I.ive llmUTl'licw on Iloimt'ts of llcnl Flow*'!**?Soim- Tricks in 11 ICc? mnrkiililc Trade. ' Don't sit there; there's a big beetle J on the chair. Here, I'll get you a scat, j What, something there also? Oh, that's only my big spider. Here?I'll soon flip him oil.'' 80 spoke a worker in feathers to a New York Situ reporter he had invited to look at what he called a new folly in dress. He took from a band-box a diminutive bundle of roses, from which the possessor was willing to take oath was a bonnet. "As it appears now there ' ' ? 1 i?,t ;i ;a is 1101 fillip rciuurKiiiMu niiuiiv ji, -/in i. nt>t ready vet. One moment, and I'll show yon," and from a box on a shelf he took out magnificent butterfly, and by a dexterous movement attached it to the flowers 011 the bonnet, that now looked like an ordinary bonnet with the butterfly on the flowers. "I am only experimenting," continued the man, but when this bonnet goes home it will be ready for use, not with di-ad insects, but with live ones. Under the petals of the roses 1 have a very delicate set of elaspers, each lined with a soft wax, into which the feet of the insects lit. so that the animal is not hurt in the slightest. When the bonnet is used the insect is put in, and during the ride rests naturally, raising its wings as in nature. In fact, the bonnet, when ready, will lie made of fresh flowers, set in and caught by the springs of the frame. Oh, J yes, they arc extremely fashionable. You see every lady can have her bonnet of violets entirely, and I have a butterfly from South America that will cost to go with it as an exact match. "Alive? Of course. I have the cocoons of almost every kind you can think of, and can bring them out whenever I wish by increasing the temperature ol the hatching box. A rich spring bonnet is made of daisies, and I have seen one made of buttercups. It had two sulphur-colored butterflies upon it of the genus C<<lias. You see the bonnets are j fin- cither a single drive or for an evening | entertainment where the head dress is to be worn. Some cost- more tnan just for one night, and you can make them cost :is much as you wish. Yes, animals of one kind or another arc always in fashion, and the more they cost the better they suit. You know, among I the people who make money suddenly I the majority judge everything by this standard, and when I get one as a customer I always make till I can. "A lady of this sort called on ine some time ago. I knew she was a little fresh with her money; so when she asked me what I would make such and such a garment for. I bowed,and said ifoOO. This was $?50 more than it was worth. As I expected, she demurred and I immediately begged her to pay what she wished. 1 made the garment, sent it home, and received a check for 100. I made, as you see. ?150. There arc thousands like her. They won't wear anything unless it is expensive. Last winter a lady came to me and said: 'Mr. I{?. there is going to be a masquerade in Cleveland next month, and I wish to have the handsomest and most original dress there. Can you j promise to supply it?' 'I can,' said I. What will be tlie character you would | suggest?" said she. 'I think,' said I, 'that Madame?would?look well in a bird of i paradise costume.' She gave me the order, and I made a train dress of the feathers of the red, superb, king, and other famous birds' of paradise that cost $300. That is. it cost her that. 1 had bought theskins the day before from a man who got them from Mr. Holland at a loss. I Between you and me, they cost me siw. But after all I came near losing her I as a customer. She had a friend who I imagined was something of a rival,and several days after 1 received the tirst order she came in and told me about the same story, and also wanted the best costume. ' You know what some of the | costumes are to be, don't you?' she askI ed, looking me in the eye. I confessed i that I did. ' Well," and here she handl ed me a bill, and a big one, ' this is a retainer that I am not outshincd. You can wager she was not." " What was the costume^'. the reporter asked. ' It was made up entirely of the breasts of humming birds, was a rich metal purple, and 1 don't know how many skins I used in it. But it was considered the prize costume. Of course the other lady came to me in a rage, and the only way I saved my hair was by telling her that her dress cost the most and was the richest and in the best taste. Feather dresses, of course, are not common, as the cost is excessive. The emperor of Brazil has a robe of state that cost nearly $10,000, so I have been told. On one tide it is made up of the selected feathers of the cock of the rock, and on the other of feathers from a hummer, so rare that there are hardly ten specimens in the United States. "1 occasionally get an order for trogon feathers. They are found in South America and Mexico, and arc of a mng i Hence the inference is that tlie art of I playing carillons has sadly declined, with 1 small prospect of ever recovering the lost ground.?AthaUk Monthly. Menageries. The popularity of menageries has al 1 ways been great, yet, although there are i now menageries at the East-end, they ; were formerly the luxury of princes. In j Russia, for instance, loU years ago, the j grand menageries at St. Petersburg were i kept solely for the court. Many of the I animals were caught alive to be used at 1 the hunting festivities of the imperial court. The Km press Anna Ivanovna was passionately fond of hunting; she kept :jl!> hounds, and was a capital shot. On one occasion (August 2(?, 1740), she killed one wolf, four wild boars, nine stags, sixteen turkeys, :571 rabbits, sixty-eight ducks, and several large herons?a magnificent bag even for an empress. The numerous elephants in her menagerie were expensive pets, for they were fed on sugar, butter, wheaten flour, wine, and salt. One of them required a large daily portion of brandy, and the keepers were sent to Siberia if a single ^ill was abstracted from the elephant's portion.? l'all Mdl Gazette. The Telephone Fifty Years Ago. A little more than fifty years ago the employes of the Arms Shoe manufactory ? A. t? lu 1 11-1 Al. . 1 * iiioiiuiu ivueiir-iu nugunuu uieir ieisurc lours by kite Hying. Kites large and small wen; sent up daily, and the strife was to see who would get the largest. The twine which held them was the shoe thread spun and twisted by the ladies of the village. One day to the tail of the largest kite was attached a kitten sewed in a canvas bag, with a netting over the mouth to give it air. When the kite was at its greatest height?some nine huudrcd feet or more?the mewing of the kitten could be distinctly heard by those holding the string. To the clearness of the atmosphere was attributed the hearing of the kitten's voice, and no telephonic patent was applied for.? UprinyfUUl (Mass.) ItepublUan. FASHION NOTES. I Scarlet bonnets arc fashionable. Wide sash ribbon is in demand. Foulards were never more popular. Steel-beaded lace fronts are very showy. JJlue and red combinations are seen everywhere. Some long silk gloves are pulled from the wrist up. Plaid ginghams come with embroid crcd flounces. Two kinds of straw mixed in the same hat is very ugly. Dressing sacques arc very elaborately trimmed with lace. Small blush roses are embroidered all over a pale blue chambery. Yokes arc immensely fashionable both for young ladies and little girls. "While poke bonnets and parasols are painted to match the dress panels. " 1 e - I'rnnfc ni'ft OIU-IHSIUUIIUU JlliUlCU Wlllliluil.g ...V, oncc again becoming the wrinkle. Long Chant illy lace scarfs are fashioned into mantles, to be worn with black dresses. Fedora front redingotes and garments for little girls arc as popular as for grownup women. I.acc rullles should trim ll?;lit summer silks, foulards, all India silken stulfs, and surahs. High buttoned boots in French or Dongola kid are the corrcct day wear for little women. Little girls carry parasols ornamented with one or more Katetireenaway figures on the gores. Pongees come with very elaborately embroidered fronts or panels in dark and bright colors. Ladies' high walking shoes have the " l.l?l, ..l uppers in reel ana me vamps m maun alligator skin. All white goods are heing sold at greatly reduced prices, and offer bargains to housekeepers. Kibbon beds on lawns arc usually circular and formed of concentric circles of foliage plants. Tucks arc alternated with lace or embroidered flounces, and continued up to the waist or skirt. Wreaths of grasses dotted over with al sorts of gay insects are worn on country hats by Parisians. White Chinese silk dresses, embroidered in gray and blue, are pretty, but unassuming for evening wear. Heal duchesse or point lace is made over transparent frames is the popular wedding or reception bonnet. Manilla is the latest color in vogue. It is a shade lighter than ecru, and is tastefully mixed with all other colors. Straw sailor hats with large, round crowns drawn in ribbon bands the size of the head, are fashionable for little boys. Many of the new white dresses for misses arc made with the new shirred waist, known as the "Josephine Waist." The jacket or casaipie opening over the waistcoat or gathered or plaited plastron is a decided feature in early summer suit-;. A large blue rough-and-ready straw hat has poppy-red crape bunched around the I crown, with a number of wings in front i of the same color. Plat scarfs, like those worn by gentle| men, are patronized this season bv ladies j who wear them with tailor-maae suns, ! which arc open at the throat. The largest number of wash goods dresses made up in one particular style are those in the form of what arc incorrectly called Mother llubburds. Wide leather collars and cufTs with the i edges studded with steel are intended to j be worn on the coats of small boys, who I have belts and pouches to match. I Some jerseys cost a hundred dollars, I but they are masses ol beads and cinj broidery with lace stripes, and are. not | any prettier after all than some that cost | only a few dollars. ! The momentous question of the femi! nine American mind at present is not I whether to vote or not to vote on the j coming presidential election, but how to I keep the bustle in place. The fancy of wearing a velvet basque with a white or light goods skirt is not so comfortable for the headed term as that of the muslin or lace spencer with a col niticent green, i made an opera ciouk of them for a Mexican lady last winter. We have found a new use for the English sparrows. They are sold for about a cent apiece. The body sells as reed bird, and we take the wings, dye them red, yellow and sell them as South American birds. No one would know the difference." Chimes, and How Tlicy Are iluii?. Hells may be rung in two ways: first, by swinging them with rope and wheel; and secondly, by striking them either upon the outside or inside with hammers, the bell itself being stationary. In England the former method of rope and wheel | wasalinost universally adopted,requiring I a man for each bell. From this method | we get the interesting and peculiarly English kind of chime music known as the "changes," which gave England the name of the Ringing Island. In Helgiutn, however, the stationary method was used. Chimes played in this manner were rung by one person and were called carillons, i because the Italian t/mclrii/lio, or ?juar' drille. '-a. drearv kind of dance music." ' was the first, ever played upon them, j To play upon carillons the performers i used an instrument known as the "clavecin," a kind of rough kev-board arranged in semitones. Kach key was connected by wire or rope with a hammer, which struck the bell when a sharp blow was given the key with a gloved list. This machine was necessarily extremely crude at first; aud since chimes have j never been played hall so well as in the I days of this invent ion, it is all the greater } wonder that the art ever progresse I at all. Recently some great masterpieces I in chime music have been found, which I were composed and played at Lou vain I in the latter half of the last century, by i the most skillful and wonderful chillier | who ever lived, Matthias van den Ghcyn. j No one in Kurope or America can now ; be found who is able to play this music, I which rivals in the depth and subtlety of its composition sonic of the finest j works of Bach, Mozart, or Beethoven. orcd or black silk or wool skirt. Very wide sashes are again in vogue. ! They pass around the waist, and arc tied ! in a big bow in the back. Thev are ! specially pretty with full tucked skirts and full waists with or without yokes. Big gilt darning-needles and big giltheaded pins arc the latest fancies in bonI net and hat decoration. Two are thrust | diagonally through one side of the crown i and at right angles, forming a sort of I cross. The Circassian jacket, quite short at the waist, square cut in front, opening over a Russian waistcoat and belt, and worn with a full trimmed or untriramed skirt, comes to us among other Parisian ! uovelties. Pelerines are made of the same material as the dress. They arc cut high, though not exaggerated, on the shoulders. ' Many have long panels down the front, i J shirred at the ends and finished ofl with j i ribbons and tassels. Origiu of Musk. One of the most common perfumes is ' that of musk, which occurs in both the vegetable and animal kingdoms. Everybody is familiar with the musk plant, which grows in our gardens, and which ladies are so fond of having in their ro.->ms. Beet has a musky odor; but there arc two species of plants which grow 011 the slopes of the Himalayas, one j at the great altitude of 17,000 feet, | which smell strongly of it. Among animals there arc a musk beetle, cuttlefish, duck, shrew, mole, rat, ox and deer, all of which owe their distinctive title to the fact of their having that odor in a greater or less degree. The musk rat or mustpiash, however, and the musk deer, are the only animals which secrcfc the musky substance in a special receptacle, j from which it can be readily taken as a commercial commodity. The best musk is obtained from this deer, which is found in Central Asia from the Himalayas to Pekin, at elevations above 8,000 feet. Unlike other deer, they arc without horns, and a peculiarity of the male is that it has two long and slender teeth which project from the upper jaw, with an inward curve, in the form of tusks. The female is of little account to its human foes; but the male is much sought after on account of its musk pouch. This is a bag about the size of a small orange, situated on the lower part of its body, and containing from half an ounce to two ounces of the precious perfume. In 1JS81 China alone exported 2,503 pounds, valued at 1'44,">01, or nearly one guinea per ounce. 7,000 ounces arc said to bo exported annually from British India, while quantities of an inferior kind are obtained from other countries. As a perfume musk is remarkable for t lie diffusiveness and persistence of its scent; everything in its vicinity catches and retains its odor. For this reason it is not a desirable article of cargo on ships j that carry anything intended to be used as food. In the East it is held in great repute for its medicinal properties, being one of the most powerful anti-spasmodics known. It owes its value to its extensive use in perfumery. Mixed with highly volatile vegetable scents, it gives them greater permanence. Large quantities of it are used in the manufacture of toilet soaps. Of late, owing to the expensiveness of musk, and to its being so j much adulterated by dealers, wluit is called American musk has come into con- i siderable use as a substitute for the su- I pcrior kind. This is obtained from the ! musquash of North America, a small I beaver-like rodent, millions of which are | killed annually for their skins, which are made up into cheap furs. The musky I secretion obtained from this creature has proved an excellent substitute for true I musk in the scenting of toilet soaps. If . a cake so perfumed is retained for a j month it would require a very skilful perfumer indeed to distinguish the odor from that of the best Tonquin musk. It J is also used in the cheaper essences, although here the result is not so satisfactory. llow Confederate Money Dropped. When the first issue of the Confederate , money was scattered among the people j it commanded a slight premium. It then | scaled down as follows: Date. June, Decern Iter I, 1WS1 Decenii>er l.*>, 1*<>1 February I. 1-SKi '7' February t< .Jlint', lHli-I .Ifiimary, 1 W| ? Novcinhcr, IW4 11 ji.laminry, lsu.j 2,6'c April 1, 1805 I t.jc After that (lute it took from $NOO to $1,000 in Confederate money to buy a one-dolls!- greenback until the end came. LIFE IN SOUTH AFRICA. A VISIT TO CAPE TOWS AJTD THE DIAMOND FIELDS. c ] How the People IJvc?The Cost of IjIv? 1 Iiijj?'Working the Diamond Jlliit'!! r ?A Hot Place In Summer. t A Brooklyn (N. Y.) traveler thus dc- g tniis his experiences during a three years' t rcsidcnce in South Africa: "I landed at s Cape Town," lie said. "This is a placc r of 40,000 inhabitants, three-fourths of whom arc blacks or Malays. The May- ( lays have seven wives apiece; that is the a most interesting and unfortunate thing j that can be said against them. The other ( quarter of the population is European. ? A small cottage there containing four or c five rooms will cost a month; agood- i sized dwelling will cost three times that i sum. Coal is $15 a ton; meat from 15 j t/. >-, M.nlc II nnniwl wlliskv is 20 cents ( a drink; imported ale $1 a bottle. At t the restaurant a good meal can be had t for 2"> cents, consisting of such things as I roast beef, mutton chops, soup, bread, i butter, coiree, rolls, etc. In October, November and December there arc ter- < ritic gales that sweep over the town. The 1 drivers of Vehicles wear green spectacles i on account of the dust, and the women 1 at the approach of the hurricane, sit j down promptly for fear of sailing sky- j ward like so many balloons. ' I went to South Africa as a trader, } speculator, and spent much of my time? i in fact the best part of it?in the back < country. Of course, I visited the dia- j niond iields. They are in the hands of the two companies, English and French, i wlio have from the government the priv- i ilege of working the mines. They are i not doing much in them at the present i time on account of the prevailing dull- i , ncss in the diamond market. The mines j are worked by blacks and 1 suppose ( there arc about 2,000 at work at the pres- i cut time, about a quarter the number that could be found there when times < were good. The superintendents and better class of worleers live in houses < made of sheet-iron; the common delvers i in small brushwood houses. Some of the j houses have three rooms and a kitchen; some have only sleeping places or bunks. The Zulu Kaffirs live in the meanest kind of huts. They only work long enough < to earn some money with which to buy < guns; then they go back to the country, four hundred miles away, and engage in warfare with some of the branches of their tribes. There are twenty-one tribes of Zulu Kaffirs. The workmen have few chances to steal diamonds themselves, but they have bce:i known to sli|> one of the valuables into the pocket of some visitor in the hope of seeing him later ..xnmmn.r him na to its' sale. <11111 <11 Illll^Jtlg " * and the visitor has had the diamond found on him by sonic of the officers and been promptly sent oil to the western coast, there to work from ten to twenty years on the breakwater they are building in that section. The workmen were once paid $1 a day; now they do not get so much. The officers who oversee them used to get from !f2.1 to $50 a week now they get from $ 1 o to $2."5. 'T rode into the back country on a cart, keeping the west coast and endeavoring to trade with the natives for skins, ostrich feathers, and other goods, which 1 would dispose of to the arriving vessels at Cane Town. The country is dry and barren; there arc plenty of stones, but no trees, the tallest bushes are not over four feet high. At the numerous rivers, where they cross the roads, you will now and then find a tree or two standing together near the banks. You will often meet wild animals, tigers, leopards, hyenas, jackals. monkeys and elephants, buf" they will I not molest you unless you attack'them; | on the contrary, they are afraid of a human being, and will, unless ravenously hungry, run away from you. There are plenty of poisonous snakes there six feet long, which jump at you and bite you quickly, if you arc not on the lookout for them. The natives eat the meat of the buffalo and the buck, and hunt the wild animals fur the sake of their skins, tiger skins tanned being about $9. "It is very hot there in the summer season, and in some parts there is a great scarcity of water. Within one hundred miles of Cape Town you will find a nice " --1- I-..* t ?i I country ana water enougn, uui wjuuu that it is very dry. In the winter time, when the rains come and swell up the rivers like a flash, as you might say, you would think you would be drowned. The water comes quickly, and at the moment wines away everything within its immediate reach; but the. country is as dry as ever within a few hours. In the hottest season it is 1'2<> to ltfO Fahrenheit; in the shade? that is,such shade as there is?where the sun's rays strike directly it is from 150 to Ml. The moment the sun rises it is hot; the moment it sets it is cool. | People cannot, of course, work all day in such weather; they stay in the house from 10 to :j, but of course the heat does not effect them so much as it does a j newlv-arrived foreigner,and after awhile, if he is strong and healthy, can stand it pretty well. "The country is sparsely populated, I mostly by the Dutch and Germans. The | Dutchmen do not till the soil, but conline their attention to the raising of sheep, oxen and ostrichcs, making it a , special business. | 4*If a farmer is rich the children get their schooling from a private tutor he hires to live on the placc. Of course there are no public schools, and the J farmers are generally many miles apart : ?at a distance say of half a day or a day's walk." *T 1.1..,. i no r ijmir jiiiciiiiiv ?. loun m. Mr. Paul Mayo, of Lausanne, Switzerland, hiis lately printed a monagraph on "Sustaining bodies in space by motive force," and writes as follows on the subject: "The wings of the common fly vibrate at the rate of &J0 strokes per second; those of the mosijuito about 2,000 time* per second; therefore, according to the formulas which 1 have established, a number of common flies, weighing altogethcr twenty tons, and 130 tons of mosquitoes would require about one-horse power to sustain themselves in the air. It is encouraging for the many whom the [ question of the (lying machine interests I to know that in certain conditions an enormous weight may be kept above ground by means of a very small power exerted, as in the case of the mosquito, the lly, etc. These conditions can bo easily obtained, and in this respect we are placed in as good a position as nature. Any on<! can obtain iron in such a form that it will float on water. A very good size of wire to construct floating iron rafts is one-twentieth of an inch in diameter. The wire is to be scraped with sand-paper and well washed with soap water. In this wise rafts are obtained which can bear a charge nearly twice their own weight without sinking, that is, much better than poplar would doone of the lightest of all species ol woods. "Durincr the study <>f this question of sustaining forces in space, I came many times to what seemed to me a strange conclusion; for instance, that any piece of heavy metal must float on perfectly still water. Hut as it is impossible to have perfectly still water, the property is subordinated to certain conditions.'' The Pecan Tree. The pecan tree is found in a wild state in the woods of various sections of the South and West. It grows to a very large size, and bears yearly many bushels' of fine-flavored nuts. Though little or no attention has been paid to these valuable trees, cultivation greatly improves them, the nut growing much larger and 1 improving in flavor. The pecan tree lives 1 to a great age, and continues long in bearing. There is no good reason why it should not be grown extensively in all Darts of the L'nitcd Stales. It. is well adapted to almost any kind of soil, doing well even on rocky hills and waste land. ' There is no nut or fruit tree more vahi- j able and requiring so little attention. ! Kvery farmer, in my opinion, should have | his nut orchard, and cultivate especially | 1 tiie pecan for home use or sale. The nuts ' 1 always lind ready sale at fancy prices. ' in planting the trees the only ob ject is to j 1 obtain <,'oo(l Iresti mils. an<i 01 a jjumi early variety, <>l" large size, from which 1 1<> <rrow the trees. If it is preferred to j set. out the plants, got healthy trees of :i 1 good variety, one to two years old.?./. : C. Wilton. ! 1 I I A Sudden Change of Opinion. | i A young member of a village debating ; I society who talked more than half an I hour on the allinnative side of the (pies- i < tion, "Is the world growing better?" was j i as mad as the mischief when he got j I ready to go home and found that some ! peison had carried away his new silk ' . umbrella and left a seventy-five cent cot- j 1 ton affair, with two broken ribs, in its ; place, lie says if that question ever 1 comes up again he wants an opportunity 1 to make a few remarks on the negative ' "v side.?Midi/It town 'J'ranxrri/il. Calming off painted sparrows for can- I aries is a fraud frequently practised by 1 the bird fanciers of London. i i Some Freaks of Natnre. ] A cat had caught a mouse on a lawn ind let it go again in her cruel way in ^ >rder to play with it. when the mouse, nspired by despair and seeing only one lolo possibly to escape into, namely, the ? ound, red throat of the cat, very visible hrough her open mouth, took a bold pring into her jaws, just escaping beween her teeth, and struggled and itufFcd herself into her throat, with the esult that the cat was sullocated. ^ There is a negro woman in Marietta, t ??1ia Jo r*?*o/Innll tr hirnlnrr \vhifp._ .Til., nuu 10 5...V.U.W. J vv..~w.0 vhite spots covcr her face and other iarts of lier body. This bleaching pro- ( :ess of naturo has been going on for ionic time. Tlie woman is working for ] )nc of the best families of the place. .She , s apparently in good health, and the * ,vhite spots, which keep enlarging and iprcading over her body, cannot be ac ountcd for upon any other hypothesis han that she has a peculiar skin disease j hat is working out this wonderful trans- j 'ormation. It gives her no uneasiness , whatever, because it is painless. A very good spidcr-nnd-fly story is told in the authority of Mr. Thomas Bell, the laturalist, who witnessed the act. "A j rery strong, loud, blustering fellow of a j jlucbottle fly bounced accidentally into 1 spider's web. Down rushed the old ipidcr and threw her long arms around his neck; but he fought and struggled, md blew his drone, and batted and tore :he web into holes, and got loose. The spider would not let go his hold, and the ly Hew away with the spider!" When snakes are shedding their skins ' hey will not cat at all. as they go blind, 1 ind a snake will not cat anything it can- ! lot see. When they are about to shed ' their skins they give a great blow at their mouths and this loosens their skins, and 1 it comes oir from the head and they -rawl out. Then they arc very hungry md will eat anything. Some snakes won't cat in the daytime; others won't L-at when there is a crowd looking 011. In the'Travels in Spain,' by the Marrpiis of Zangle.he speaks of a parrot that retained a (piantity of things?an incredible number of stories and anecdotes? which it related and articulated without hesitation. It spoko Spanish, murdered French, knew some verses of Racinc, could say grace, repeat the fable of the crow, and count thirty louis. They dared ltnnf# s.arr/t nf fhn Win/lflVS ?UillU?;i#y IM uuiig no ^**0^ l%v for when it was there and the weather was line the parrot talked ceaselessly. It said everything it knew, apostrophized all passers-by, except women, and talked politics. To one of these birds Prince Leon owed his life. He had been condemned to death by the father, and the parrot took it so much to heart he kept repeating, 'Alas! my master Leon,'and the sorrow of the bird made such an impression on the brutal father that he released his son. A vessel has brought North epiite a curiosity. It is a double turtle; or, in other words, two turtles connected, a la Siamese twins. The animals are joined together at their extremities, and where the connection is made the llcshy part is nearly as thick as at any other portion of the body. There arc two separate, nearly circular shells on the back, and at each extremity of the combined animal a little head projects, while there are three legs on a side, making six in all. The entire length of' this monster is about four inches, and it I is, approximately, two inches wide. A Hat tie With a Turtle. A New York traveling salesman named Fry stopped for a few days at a farmhouse, near Star pond, one of the 230 mountain lakes of Wayne county, Penn. One day lie rowed out to the middle of j the pond to fish for pickerel. Suddenly i he felt a strong tug at his line, and shortly afterward a large snapping turtle eame j slowly to the surface by the side of the i boat. When the turtle saw the fisherman ] it turned to dive down again, and Fry j grabbed it by the tail. With great diffi- I eulty he lifted it into the boat. His hook I was fastened in under the turtle's fore- j shoulder, it having accidentally hooked : itself. The turtle no sooner found itself; a prisoner in the boat than it turned on i Fry. Raising on all fours, it shot out. its I great head, and advanced with open jaws : upon the tisherman. lie retreated to the bow of the boat, and the turtle followed him. Fry then jumped over the turtle and ran to the stern. The turtle chased him and would not permit him to rest a second in any one spot, but kept him jumping and running from one end of the boat to another. Fry had nothing to defend himself with, as the paddle with which the boat was propelled he had used in aiding him in getting the turtle into the boat, and he had thoughtlessly let it lie in the water, and it had drifted out of reach. Fry shouted lustily for help. The wife of the farmer with whom he was stopping was the only one at home, and she heard his cries, and put out in a leaky Hat-bottomed boat to his rescue. Hy the time she reached his boat hers had several inches of water in it, and it was entirely out of the question for it to be used in safety to carry them back to the shore. Fry's boat was anchored by a large stone tied to the end of a long rope. The farmer's wife jumped into his boat and began pulling up the anchor with the intention of dropping it on the turtle. Before the anchor reached the suriacc it slipped from the noose in the rope and sanlc to the bottom. The turtle had kept up its chase of Fry, but, on seeing the woman in the boat, turned his attention to her. As it approached her she struck at it with the rope. It caught the rope in its mouth, and as a snapping turtle never releases ? ;tu US I1U1U Oil illl V Ulilll?? 11 W1M.1 niuiin mouth, even if the head is .severed from the body, the farmer's wife wound the rope taut nbout the post in the bow, and the turtle was secured. The boat was paddled ashore, and the turtle dragged out on the land by the rope. Its head was soon afterward chopped from its body with an axe. The next evening Fry took a train for New York. He carried the head of the turtle by a piece of the rope which was still held in the mouth. The head had been separated from the body over thirty hours, but was still alive, the eyes rolling and glaring fiercely whenever any one approached it. The turtle was the largest one ever seen in the region, its weight being forty-seven pounds, the head alone weighing nearly ten.?yew York Sun. Iiicc Culture. The best rice is that raised in South Carolina, where the rice is sown iu trenches, which are eighteen inches apart, and flooded to a depth of several inches. The water is then drawn olfand later, the fields arc flooded again, to kill , the weeds. The water is allowed to j stand nearly two weeks this time, and is | not again turned into the field until the | gr..in is almost ripe. Marshy places are | not so good as well-irrigated land. .Most of the rice used in Europe is imported from India. There, and also in China, the hills arc chosen rather than the : plains, and are so well irrigated that often j it is only with the greatest diliiculty that 1 the fields can be weeded 011 account of j the water. In some districts canals are 1 carried along the hillsides. Upland rice j is a species cultivated in Ceylon, Kara , and Hurgary, which requires dry land, | rotting if placed under water. The only States of North America which cultivate rice for market are South Carolina and Uforgia. Rice will not if row as far north as Minnesota. What the Indians use there is Canadian or wild rice, which grows abundantly iu the Northwest, in miry places, and often on the margin of j I he lakes. It reaches I lie height of seven in* eight feet, and the long and narrow ; seed makes a nourishing meal, of which j the Indians are very fond. (.7//> </</.? j hihr- OiTitii. The President's Daughter. Miss Nellie Arthur reigns supreme in ' llic While House, with French lutorsand j waiting-maids her only encumltranccs; j md her merry laughter and clear, silvery I'oice often ring through I lie spacious rooms and halls. I.idle Mi*s Nellie is not an aristocrat; in a hew of playmales she is almost as conspicuous as the most plainly allired. Her toilet is always , Icsigned with a view to stand the rou^h isage to which its soinewhai impel nous I I'...... III,. Invn leu - i I ivearer mii>juri* n. i .... . lis grounds .Miss Nellie is in her element, i i mil proves herself a graceful and m-com- ! i dished player. In all the charitable cit- j i ertninments and movements in which j fashionable little folks can take |iart the : I ['resident's daughter is prominent, and in i i lie gatherings amon<r the children of the j aliinel, the diplomatic corps and promi- i n ut ollicial circles "Little .Nell" is a j i eadiug spirit. ? I&iuM-r. A corduroy roa.l has been discovered i ( n Lincolnshire, Kngland, at a depth of [ j seven feet below the surface. It lies be- ] jeath a Roman road, and is therefore j illicit older than 101)0 years. Geologists ! ;ay that its timbers, which arc of oak, j : vere laid down lit,000 years ago. j ( Smoking does not agree with some j l icople, but it always seems to soot the j t :himucy.?Boston bulletin. | I m THE LOYERS OF FUN. s I BATCH 07 - ST03XE8 THAT WILL SAZSE A LAUGH. 1 ilic Will Cio It Alone?They Were Sn- I perfluous?He Han Tried It?Coining to Piece*, Etc* c "Arabella, you do not doubt my love?" "No, Alphonso, why should I?" "Listen, then; I have taken a solemn 1 row, and you must aid me in its fulfillnent." . 1 "With all my life. "What is it?'' "I have solemnly sworn to eat no ice 1 :ream this season, Arabella." "Ah, Alphonso, you shall not find me 1 acking courage. I will aid you to keep four vow. I will eat it for us both."? Pittrfturyh Chronicle. Tlicy Were Superfluous. J "Why do you always wear a bunch of lowers in your buttonhole?" inquired Miss Fussan feather, whi e Mr. Titepants was calling the other evening. "Oh. it gives one an air of freshness," responded the poetical young man. "Well," replied the young lady, frankly, "I don't think you need any artificial means to prove your freshness." And them Titepants went out and sat , 3n the hitching post to think it over.? lialtimorc Eccry Saturday. lie Had Tried It. Two Kockland citizens were toddling ii]> street the other day, and the close md earnest manner in which they were seen to be iu conversation clearly betokened that they were exchanging their experiences with dyspepsia. "And did you ever try the hot water cure?" asked the thin man,as they paused at the mclaneholy man's gate. "Did I?" repeated the melancholy man iii a tone of sarcasm; "well, 1 should say I did. I?why I've been married fourteen years."?Iiockl/tntl Courier. Coming to Pieccw. Mark Twain once made a very funny story of a man who was engaged 1o be married, who lost first a leg, then an arm, then ;in eye and so on. lie ollcred to release the lady from her engagement, but she bravely said that she would marry what there was left of him. The following Scotch story has the same idea in another form: Before the erection of the new pier at the Castle Rock, passengers from Dumbarton had to be conveyed down the Leven to the Clyde steamers by a ferryboat, rowed by two sturdy and generally elderly ferrymen. On one occasion an English commercial traveler had seated himself on the gunwale at the stern. One of the old ferrymen, aware of the danger lo any one so placed when the rope of tho stMmi>r snntild be attached to the bow of the boat, took occasion to warn the man of his danger. "Noo,my man, come down afl that, or ye'll coup ower." The traveler replied by telling him to mind his own business, and trust him to take care of himself. ""VVeel,'' said the ferryman, "mind I've tclt ye; as sure as ye're sittin' there, ye'll coup ower." No sooner had the rope been attached and the boat got the inevitable tug from the steamer than the fellow went heels , over the stern. " I tell liim that!" However, being in the water, it behooved that every effort should be marie to rescue him. So the ferryman made a grab at what seemed the hair of his head, when a wig came away. Throwing this impatiently into the boat, lie made a grip at the collar of his shirt, when the front came away. Casting this from him with still greater scorn, he shouted to his companion : "Taams. come and help save as mucklc o' this man as ye can, for he's comin' away in bits." The Voun? ?Inn With a Hscomincndatlon. Many years ago, Colonel lloxie, who has recently been connectcd prominently with tho Gould railroad system, was manager of a new railroad line in the south, and lived in excellent style in a little | Southern town, almost as quiet and sleepy as Dubuque. One day a very dudish young man pushed by the servant at the entrance, presented himself at the door of the reception room and cxclaimcd with a pronounced New York air: "Is this Hoxie's room?" "Yes, sir, it is." "Arc you lloxie?" "I am." "Well, here is a letter for you." Colonel Hoxic took the letter and after carefully reading it, turned to his visitor, and said: 'Young man, I find this letter is u recommendation lor you from a very warm friend of mine, and if you had approached me in a gentlemanly way, knocked at the door, and addressed me as Mr. Iloxie, and presented your letter I should have said, 'Young man, how can I serve vou?' As it is?" "Give me that letter!" exclaimed the voting man, as he darted out of the door, evidently knowing that the fat was all in the lire. Presently there was a hesitating knock at the door, and the young fellow re-entered. is Mr. Hoxie in?" "lie is." "Is this Mr. Iloxie?" "It is." "Ah, Mr. Iloxie, allow me to present you with my card, and a letter of introduction." frkrtlr fho Infff*.-. nrrftvnlv OU1UL1UI 11VA1U IVUIV tMV >wv. w>, read it. and said: ''Young man, I observe that this is a letter of recommendation from a mutual friend; allow me to ask what I can do for you?" "Well, Mr. Hoxie. you can oblige me by going to (he deuce!" exclaimed the young man as he skipped out of the door just in advance of the colonel's toe. It is a matter of record that Mr. Hoxie chased the young man four blocks, but being lame, the rascal got away .?Cedar Chat. Texas Cowboys. A writer says in the Sua Fruneiseaii: A few months' sojourn on the borders of Northwestern Texas has brought me in contact with the above representatives of the broad sun-kissed prairies?including the extensive Staked Plains so famous for their deceptive appearance, and for many decades supposed worthlcssness? and given me an excellent opportunity for learning much about the noted cow-1 boy, the roaming herds ol buffalo and the beautiful bands of wild horses. The cowboy, of which so much has been said and written, is nothing more nor less than a specics of the genus humntuim, of patois dialect, with remarkable peculiarities and extraordinary habits. He is neither brave nor cowardly, Out u kind of u cross between an old Western farmer and a desperado of the frontier, with an inclination to ape the latter. His greatest ambition is to possess a line liorse, saddle, bridle ami a Colt's revolver, caliber forty-live. His wardrobe, is limited, of course, but of a peculiar class and manufacture, especially that usiul upon the head and feet. The boots are selected with much careheels high and lops fanev, which are al ways in sight, as the leg of the pants is invariably nicely tolded around the ankle ami kept from soiling by the boot being drawn gracefully over. After the boot is selected comes the hat, which is usually a Stetson, ten-ounce, heavy leather baud interlaced with galloon. Compared with the foot and headgear the remainder of the cost nine is somewhat trivial. I'ants run inside the hootsand are covered by the line calf-skin leggings; any defect in til or the material from which they are manufactured is easily con- I ccaicd. Only a fow more articles and I (lie wants Dl (ll(! noit'll nnvmn III!' salislictl - of which a pair of spurs and a cartridge licit |11I<m1 with proper aininimilion are tin- most essential. Thus attired and mounted lie is ready for aetivo service, li:i\ in_*x l?ut little thought or concern fcr the inner man. lie sleeps with his saddle for a pillow wherever night overtakes him,eats at any eainp where favor or fortune drives him, and in turn is ever ready to assist or divide with his fellow-man?who perchanc e drops in ou him resting at his i-ahin or beneath the shade and shelter of some tree, as the case may be. The gennine Texas cowboy was hardly ever known to do a mean or cowardly act. hut his reputation has been infringed upon?in fact, ruined?by desperadoes who know but little of cowboy life and magnanimity, but palm themselves oil upon an unsuspecting public as man-eating. man-destroying cowboys from the Diit posts of Texas. Of course, the kniffht >f the lariat, when under the influence of litpior, is noisy; aside from this he is a liarmless creature. A reader writes us: ''I am very thin ind would like to get fat. What can I In?" This is easily answered, lie can .jet it at any butcher's, but lie can bet that the butcher will charge him just the same for it that he does for the rest of the steak.?EoaimoilU Arguv. LAST JXJL.Y. Jhe's barely twenty, and her eyes Are very soft and very blue; I ler lips seem made for sweet replie ? Perhaps they're made for kisses, too; ler little teeth are white as pearl, Her nose aspires to the sky. She really is a charming girl, And I adored her?last July. ?Ve danced and swam and bowled and walked; She let me squeeze her flnger-tips; Entranced I listened when she talked, And trash seemed wisdom from her lips. [ sent her roses till my purse Was drained, I found, completely dry; [ longed to sing her charms in verseBut all of this was last July. Df course at last we had to part; I saw a tear-drop on her cheek; [ left her with an aching heart, And dreamt about nor ror a wee*. But out of sight is out of mind, And somehow, as the time went by, Much fainter I began to find The memory of last July. July has come again at last; With summer gowns the rocks are gay; It seemed an echo of the past To meet her on the beach to-day. She's even fairer than of yore, And yet, I could not tell you why, I find the girl an nwful boro? So long it is since last July. ?Sophie St. O. Lawrencc, in Century. HUMOR OF THE DAY. A sandwich?An African belle.? Life. An Ohio newspaper speaks of a man being bruised by the emphatic gesture of a mule. "This is a warm wave," said the man whose irate wife flaunted a hot fireshovel in his face.?New York Journal."Heigh-oh!" said Mrs. Sprigglns, "I ! see that noor old Mr. AVilkins has died intestate. I alius said high livin would ruin his Innards."?Life. Love, some one says, destroys the appetite. That man evidently never was in the vicinity of an ice cream saloon with his best girl.?Jio.if.on. Budget. "Wives are very presumptuous creatures. They arc always asking for a lock of their lovers' hair before marriage and taking it without asking afterwards. A New York paper says "heels arc lower this season." Heals are high as ever here; the doctors charge three dollars a visit.? Boxtou CommereiuL Bulletin. A youth may be iirmly convinced that love is blind, but it will be just as well for him to avoid ice-crcam saloons when he is out walking with his girl.? New York Journal. Girls, never allow even a lover to have his arm around you. The papers daily show that thousands of our brightest young men arc going to waist.?Philadelphia Chronicle. Mr. Morse, of Hartford, has taught school for sixty-one years. Mr. Morse thinks that birch trees make the best shade for aschoolhousc front..?Louisville Courier-Journal. "What is the most momentous question that has agitated the women of our country since the first blast of freedom swept over this land?" screams Lillie Devereaux Blake. If you want our candid opinion, Lil, we should say it was whether they shall wear a Jersey or a Mother Hubbard.?Bradford Mail. Lydla E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cures dyspepsia. A ship recently left Philadelphia with 05,I 000 cases of petroleum for Japan. A Core of Fneamonla. Mr. D. H. Barnaby, of Ogrego, N. Y., says that his daughter was taken with a violent cold which terminated with pneumonia, and all the best physicians gave the case up said she could live but a few hours at most. She was in this condition whan a friend recommended Dr. Wm. Hall's Balsam for the Lungs, and advised her to try it. She accepted it as a last resort, and was surprised to find that it produoed a marked change for the better, and by persovering a permanent cure was effected. Beware of the incipient stages of consumption. Take Piso's Cure in time. 25 Cents Will buy a Treatise on the Horse aitd Ha Diseases Book of 100 pages, valuable to every owner of horses. Postage stamps taken. Sentpostpaid. New York Horse Book Co., 134 Leonard Street, New York city. "Rongh on Dentist" Tooth Powder. Smooth, refreshing,harmless,elegant,cleansing, preservative and fragrant. 15c. Druggists. Ely's Cream Balm has cured me of .catarrh. Was afflicted ten years. I tried almost every remedy recommended; none proved so effective and thorough.?s. K. Aike.v, wLo esaler of shoes, 143 Federal street, Boston, Ma^s. After a thorough trial of Ely's Cream Balm I am entirely cured of catarrh, as is also a member of ray family. The Balm stopped a roaring in my head which had continued for more than a year.?James E.Crosson,Sexton at the Tabernacle, Paterson, N. J. [See adv.] Higher Price* for Bauer. All dairymen who use Wells, Richardson & Co.'8 Improved Butter Color, agree that it increases the value of butter several cento a T*. 4a hai-mloCG /V1T1VPTIT ATlfc UUUUU. XV u puio auu JUUX ? for instant use, has no taste or odor,and gives a clear, golden richness to the butter. It is the very best butter color obtainable, and is not expensive. In every State in the Union the demand for it is increasing. Mother*. If you are failing; broken, worn out and nervous, use "Wells' Health Renewer." $1. Drgta Young Men!?Rend This. The Voltaic Belt Co., of Marshall, Mich., offer to send their celebrated ElectroVoltaic Belt and other Electric Appliances on trial for thirty days, to men (young or old) afflicted with nervous debility, loss or vitality and manhood,and all kindred troubles. Also for rheumatism, neuralgia,paralysis, and many other diseases. Complete restoration to health, vigor andmanhooa guaranteed. No risk is incurred as thirty days trial is allowed. Write them at once for illustrated pamphlet free. Thin People. "Wells' Health Ronewer'restores health and vigor, cures, dyspepsia, sexual debility. $1. Nature is the great teacher. She clothes the fowls and animals with warmer clothing for winter; helps them to cast it off in summer; makes the best hair oil, Carboline, which is petroleum perfumed and sold at $1 a bottle. Beil Boffl, Flies. Flies,roaches,ants, bed-hugs, rats^mice,chipmunks, cleared out by "Rough on Rats." 15c. There are 40,000 bicyclers in the United States. Biliousness Is more prevalent at this season than any other time. the symptoms beintr bitter taste, breath offensive, toofruo coated, sick headache, drowsiness, dizziness, loss of appetite. If this condition is allowed to continue. serious consequences may follow. By promptly taking Hood's Sarsaparilla a fever may bo avoided or premature death prevented. Permanently Cured "While Ruffrrinc from a severe bilious attacl In March. 1883, a friend in Peoria, 111., recommended Hood's Sarsapanlla. I tried the remedy and was permanently cured." J. a. $um*Aiu>, Fulton st., Now York. "I am subject to severe bilious attacks. Last spring I used Hood's. S.irviiwnlh anil was much benefited by it. I think it very eicelleut medicine, and cheap, fully iwommeud :t t.>r biliousness and all impurities of the blood." Mits. j. W. olkmkst, Franklin, n. h. - - ..?ii _ Hooa s sarsaparina Sold tijr all UriiKK<?t*. * I; al * for #.V Mada only by 0. I. HOOP .t CO.. ApcvUieoariM, U>*r?ll, Maa?. 100 Doses Ono Dollar NO AGENTS.^^^ rt.C. J OH iso'\. 3 7N or'th Pairl SI.. *lbany,H.Y. J M:SEEDSOFMRTK^ ( 11 gam e & sra\s I f rhccrrtSoollrftlnnrfth?"no?tlhrll! n&iwr?onal*dTcntr^l, . rxploitiof rimtiand-pir?. th h.>(?;?,heroic brartrv, i.opritonini ntt ami hair-hr.n.'Ti <,?rnpi?, romantic lneiilfnu, j hand-to-hand atruggVs, riou?j...irncv., darinjr raids anu ' bolil iliv.li on hot 11 otoi (i during fieCrrat Civil War. No Dookhkcit. pgOfUSt'YIL- (><itaell?nll.A>i>lrp? I sCAMM KLA (:0. , H;.t 41.H. Phili.l-lphia or St. I-niiia 11 M _ Thoitm* P. Slmpoon, WMhinif. IE PfttOlltC ?">, D.O..PATKNT I.AWVER. | CliPIIIO Wnto fur Iuventora' Guide. ^ IjfcT.MWiijjnaHh > CORES WHERE ALL ELSC FAILS. P3 t BesK'ouKhSyrup. TaitwRood. PI * IJmm.uiiuh. Sold hy ilrueRists. ^HaaZEEiEBpi | HORSEMEN AJ / J&Srs F0R yffl/25c /A In stamps wo vril Viy postpaid, a verj /%/HORSE /tfyyr ^escrlblnc the diseases apt t ^rSPjv^rgivlnR the most approved renu telline age by the teeth, how t< y^>ther Information of great Yaltie to JIo / v H6RSE BOSK PUB. CO., 134 i m firriwy IImTI' ^ IpQMHW IT ISA SPECIFIC JlITISRELIABLE *?? v.lft mi*n ouria* Kidney & LiverBright'* si**' Troublflt. P*ta? la' 11 Batik, loam Bladder, TXrinarjr arffidee, Bet?nand Iilrer Miiuii, jBr^a /tlan or ITonDTopey, Gravel and T^^jfiZRot atiffll_o< HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. / It egret Blllonmow, Headache, Janndloe, Sonr Stomach, Dyrjopeia, Constipation andPflae. IT WORKSPROMPTLY and curea ~ntnnper*noB, JTervoni DlMMfl, General Dablllty, In? aad Female Weatoeea. | IIRP IT AT 3NCE It restore* ths KXD27XYB, LIVER and BOW- ' XLS, to a healthy action and CURXS when all othermwdlrrfnesflUl. Handreda Kavs been saved who have bees given tip to die by friend* ami physician*. Price 41.26. 8end for Illustrated Pamphlet to, HUNP8 BEHEDY CO., Proridenee, B*?\ K SOLD BV A1X DKUGGD8T8.' HUNTS (Kidney and Llrer) REMEDY. an courages sleep, creates an appetite, braces op the ijstem, and renewed health is the result. * # . LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S : vegetable compound ' IS A POSITIVE CUBE FOE?#* -J ! yfl All those palnfnl Conplal?t? f J? * ?"tl Weaknesses to common * * * onr bett ?? * FEMALE POPULATION / PrW? |1 U liquid, pin or !<? ? Uru. It* vurpote it tolelv for the legitimate htaUng of diteaM and the relief of pain, and thatit tto? aJtf it claim* to do, thousand* of ladle* cm Qladly tMttff.' It will core entirely all Ovarian troubles, Infltmm*^ tion and Ulceration, Falling and Displacement*, and consequent Spinal Weakness, and to partteutony adapted to the change of life. ? It romoTes Fsintness. Flatulency, destroys aU cravh* for stimulants, and relieve* Weakness of theBtomacju It cures Bloating, .Headaches, Kerr on* Prostration, General Debility, Bleeplewnes*. Depression and Jtodfr gestlon. That leellng of bearing down, causing win* and backache. Is always permanently cored by Its me, Send stamp to Lynn, Mass., for pamphlet. 4 Letters of Inquiry confidentially answered, for taUatdrmgguta, WYTT U?>8 _____ Remarkable Recover* Of* Lady ofMlllvllle.N. J., Who wu Pr? Souncrd Beyond Hone of UsosTWJw low IC was Accomplished. Wrs. S. C. Dougherty says: "I bad been a suffer*! from Dyspepsia from the time I was sixteen yean old. I bad consulted various physicians and bees tinder their treatment daring most of tbe time, bat finding no relief, had given up In despair of eras having my health restored. A friend recommeadetf Dr. DAVID KENNEDY'S FAVORITE REMEDY. which I tried, and have been cared. It's t>e beat medicinc I ever knew of, and worthy of the greatest confldence.r J* The above Is bat one of the hundred facta whid prove that Dr. DAVID KENNEDY'S FAVOBITB REMEDY la without an equal as a care for diseaaea peculiar to females. But, 1 f tbe reader desires men evidence, read tbe following proof from Mrs. Carrie Key, tbe wife of Sergeint Key, Co. 0,3d N.J. 2e?, who saya under date of March 1,1884: "Two years ago my husband came home la the nrlnff from Virinnla. where he had been 1b chacca of a schooner. He wu taken down with MtHmifk fever. We were both sick with it. After consult-.. Ins oar family physician and finding no permanent relief we tried yoar FAVORITE REMEDY, and 1 can sav that it completely cared as of malaria, an! Is the nest medicine of Its kind I ever heard ot Dr. KENNEDY'S FAVORITE REMEDY lsapofr ltive carc for all diseases of the Blood, and habfaui Constipation. As proof of it E. J. Sears,of Yln? land, says, under date of March 3d: "I have used / Dr. KENNEDY'S FAVORITE REMEDY and I an willing to acknowledge It the best medicine in tlx world for the bowels I ever used, and KAVOBITB REMEDY Is a most excellent preparation for Uu ,-5-" j Blood." These are facts which can bat convince " the most skeptical that Dr. DAVID KENNEDY'S FAVORITE REMEDY Is an honest preparation which no family should be without It la the retail of the scientific knowledge of medicine attained onlj by the years of experience of an educated physician. It is a positive cure for Malaria, Kidn*y ana Lint Diicas*?, and all diseases pccnllar to females. Pries H.OOperbottl" " t IMMM-Ayjiyjiaaas THE SURE CURE 1mmmmm FOB mmm KIDNEY DISEASES, LIVER COMPLAINTS, I CONSTIPATION, PILES, AND BLOOD DISEASES. t | PHYSIC1AHS EHDOBSE IT HEAHTILY. | "Kidney-Wort la the most suooeasftil remedy I ever used." Dr. P. C. Ballon, MonVton, Vt. "Kidney-Wort Is always reliable." / ^ Dr. B. N. Clark, 80. Hmo, Vt "Kidney-Wort haaoured my wife alter two yeai* suffering." Dr. O.K. Sum merlin, 81m HOI, 0*. IN THOUSANDS OF CASKS it baa cured where all else bad Ikilad. Itlsmfld, but efflaient, CERTAIN' EV ITS ACTIOX, bat barmleaa la all oaaaa. CTIt eleaaaee the Blood aad Streactkeaa n? glree New life to all the important organs of the body. The natural action of tho Kidneys is ' restored. The liver ia oleanaed of all dlaeaae, and tho Bowels movo freely and healthfully. In this way tho wont diseases are eradioated from tho system. g FE2CZ, 9100 liQUID OS DOT, SOLD BT DEUTOMm Dry bo icnt by WELLS, RICIIARDSOfr ii OO.BarUagtoa Tt laggga^Bis Wain at Leal Hair liesterer. , ^ It Is entirely different from all others, and as Ha naJBg Indicates Is a perfect Veg*Uble Hair Keatortr. It will Immediately free the head from all dandruff, restore gray hair to its natural color, and produce a new growth where it has fallen off. ft does not affect the health, which gulphnr, sugar of lead and nitrate of silrer pr?par> stions have done. It will change light or faded hair In a few dajra to a beautiful glossy brown. Ask your druggist for it. Each bottle is warranted. Smith, Kline A Coj, Wholesale Ag'ts,Phila.,Pa., and C.y.Onttentou.If.I. ETEEY ONE Who^WA^ I CANOPY TOP.* Koldanp 1 A like an umbrella. Weighs tin I,, {4 less than lit Iba. Can be SfciaLAis?L taken off or put on in 3 mia1 utcs. Made in sixes to lit k\ CTMMIBIBTa business wagons, pleasure > I ywlOnri 1 wagons and buggies. Bend for Illustrated circular and prioa V/IvUl^y// A/ list. Agents wasted ereryi \JJ?- V/ WKJ where State where yon saw Nj*' this. D. O. BEERS <fc CO..Patonteeand M'f'rs, Sandy Hook, Conn. AGENTS WANTED for the urn i mkjnu mn ized* Authentic. Impartial Complete, the Best aad Cheapest. GOO paces 91 >50. Sell* lile tcihijirr. 60 percent, to Agents* OuUit hWt. freights lxxid. ?*end lor Extml'eruu. etc- to uiuTuinn ni'Ui unr\<: rn run?. SGO OD^NEW^S Greatest inducement* erer of. fered. Now'g your Una to get t) orders for our celebrated Teas and Cott'eefeand nccure & beautiful Gold Hand or Mom Roae China Te*Set, or Handsome Decorated Oolu Hnnd Mom Kom Dinner Set. or Gold B*nd Mom Dec.rated Toilet Set. i-n" THE <>REAT AMERICAN TEA CO- . P. O. Uax SI and ig Voaey St.. New YoHc. ' AGEXTS WAXTED to icll Thirty-Three Yt*r?aMoitrOrKWIU( INDIANS bj Gena. DODGE and SUKKMaX. OJ-TO.OOO sold. Agenta tell 10 to SO a day. ar-^nd for Krtm Trrru, Sreclmtn Plate, etc., to >. D. WOKT1UNUTON X CO., Hartford. Co?. SUPERFLUOUS HAIR. Mot**, Wait*. Fr*olU?, M*>th Pntcbei, Eroptt*oSj Sc*r?, and all l)i?fifurrmr-DU an.I Jmp?rrfectJoc? Ol 1"^ 9 & lUt Kk?, Mantis a.d *'cri,aaU their treatment, by fjfcr./p Dr. JOHN H. WOODBURY, ^ A.M -...i., f.riwok. XT .\. I'rarlSI., Atbuy,V.T. ^ m foote*8 original Methods i ni n CVCO M?de New without doc- OF . ULU LI CO torwuedlcino orglass?? IT A If fjVs>' RUPTURE or uiicomfortabie truss. PUIUnQIQ Cn?*d vitbont cutting;TITDBI rfllmUOIO iiow.i'nliiU'fls.sufe.stire.lJ n r. I NERVOUS ami r.irfonal treatment. f CHRONIC no-rallrtl "Incurable." lOc.eiitlu) Address Dr. E. B. FOOTE. Box 7SS. X. Y. City. UDCC^ESMrU Send tor circular of oar NBW Tnnho'icn.flLMi steam thresher. S C OilN lilt OS. A: CO , Canastota, IIPPXC B-?t work in th? U.S. for the money oUUdlCd KXTKKPKISE CARRIAGE CO.. ?J ,.o nn.'ti. O. Write tor Cat uogue No.. 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