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some find him soon, rose in May, |H^^R|^H^^R^Ke nightingale in June, when gray to some with smiling eyes, comes with tears to some, some Love sings, for some i/ove sighs. For some Love's li{>s are dumb. How will you come to me, fair Love? Will you come soon or late? With sad or smiling skies above, By light of sun or moon' Will you be sad, will you be sweet, Sing, sigh. Love, or l>e dumb, Will it l>e summer when we meet, I Or autumn ere you come? ?Pakenham Bccitty. OUR EXPERIMENT. "I'm sick of it," said Kate, dashing a m handful of hair-pins upon the table, and W letting a big brown braid go tumbling r down her back. "So aiu I,"' said Beth. "So ab I!" said Nannie, who was suffering with a dreadful cold. "What is it, girls?"' said I, turning my book face down in my lap. "It's the suppers," said Beth. "It's the everlasting gossip," said Kate. "It's so differed from hobe," said Nannie, to whom boarding-house life was a new experience. "It's all three, and much more," was what I wanted to say, but being the oldest of the four, it seemed ray duty to . make the best of things; so I said, quite cheerfully, "I didn't sec anything unusual about the supper to-night." "That's the trouble," groaned Beth. "It was altogether too usual. Iam so tired of bread and butter and apple sauce and dry cake that I feel like gnash^ ing ray teeth at the sight of them. 1 should like a slice of toast or a bowl of bread and milk occasionally, without being made to feel that I had disarranged W- wk?lc internal economy of the house." ''The suppers are bad enough," said Kate, but they are nothing to the gossip. I'm tired of hearing it whispered round | that 'Mr. Johnson and his wife had a quarrel in their room last night,' or that 'Miss Robinson has worn three new dresses this month,'or that'Mr. Jewett came in ever so late the other night, and it sounded as though he fell upstairs.' Bah!" and Kate locked as scornful as a round fuce with a dimple in it would ^ "i could staa everythig else,7' said Xannie, "if it was odly hobe-like. Oh! if I could odly sit dowd in a dead kitched, with by feet in the stove oved, ad see a bruided mat in frod of the stove with a dice cat od it, I should be pcr,fegly happy." >Ve all' laughed at this idea of bliss, but after thc laugh there was a sudden y silence, for each one of us recalled sucn ' a kitten, and the presence that had made it home-like. We were not sisters, or even kin to each other, but meeting as strangers .in a city boarding-house, a strong friend snip nau grown up ueiween us, stalling, I thiuk, iu the fact that we were each orphaned and had our living to earn, and strengthened by many congenial tastes. We were doing our dnUv '1-itic^ in rat hia brave, cheerful * '* ' complaints, bur a cloud. Outs' lashing the [ b r?. . more thi ?so we sit tliere quite still Tor awhile Finally Beth spcivc: "I suppose w light make these rooms look a ?>: little 1 leasanter. We each have a few ?Vi' ......1 , . . . .. pictures aau KDiCKnacKS." "Do you suppose I would hang my few pictures against this awful paper ?" said Kate. "Besides, what would be the ?> use ? Just as we got everything nicely ? - fixed, some man would want the room, and we should be invited to go up higher. I've boarded iu this house two ;; - 2 years, and iu that time I've advanced He from the first floor ",>ack to the third floor >?/ * front, and two moves more will take me out on the roof." "We bight go subwhere else," said HH "Oh! you poor little innocent!" Wtj; R laughed Beth. "You'd 'change the place and keep the pain.' They're all about alike." gsH At this Nannie lifted such a woe-beprv 9 Sone *ace ^ something must be * "Girla!" said I, in my most impressive y- '-HeiS school-room manner. m:W& But here there was an interruption, for Nannie'left the rocking-chair and rushed i toward the bed. Bra Oh, Nannie !"cried Kate, "don't muss the k?-'d; aard enough anyway." But W"'<" B 8^e sP?^e too late, for under the comg.? bined influence of homesickness and influenza, Nannie had flung herself on tbe bed in a forlorn little heap, and was lifting up her voice in a hoarse cry. }* " This was simply dreadful. Beth and I purred over and cuddled her, and Kate slipped downstairs and i&t . coaxed the cross kitchen girl iuto making abowi of sage tea. and by the time ^' she was back with it the invalid was K- . somewhat comforted. AVhen quiet was restored, I spoke again. "Girls! let's go to housekeepBp'y ing." Nannie stopped the bowl half wav to her lius. Beth sat unrioht on the KP ink, and Kate dropped the stick of lod in her hand back into the box. " Wnere's the furniture coming from?'' "Who'll pay the bills?" said Nannie. "Who'll do fhe work?" said Beth, 10 was born south of Mason's and Dix" We'll all do it," said I. answering ) last question first; "and as for the nishing, that needn't cost so very ich; and about the bills?Kate, how ich do we all pay a week?" "Four times five is twenty, and two liars for washing makes twenty two," d Kfte, with bookkeeper promptness. " Why," said Beth, beginning to be y eager, "lots of families live on less than that, and pay for everything out of it? clothes and doctor's bills and cvery. thing." . Well, we talked till midnight, and the more we talked, the more feasible the scheme seemed, and it was decided that we should commence tenement-hunting the verv'next morning; and after Beth and I had gone to our own room. Kate came hurrying across to say she had some spoons and forks which had been her mother's, and that Nannie said she knew how to make lovely waffles. We expected a tedious time finding a rent within our means; but it is aston ishing how fortune helps those who try to help themselves. That very week a nice littk) scholar of Nannie's stopped after school to say that her parents were going to move out of the city. We knew where she "lived?a pleasant house in a respectable locality; so after supper Kate and I hunted up the landlord, the next day we went in a body to inspect the place, and the bargain was concluded. Between that time and our departure pi we bade fair to lose our reputation of being the quietest boarders iu the house, gj-/ for every night there was talking awl laughing in one room or the other, while we stitched and hemmed and figured? , . this last the hardest of all. Kate, with a confidence born of much handling of money, made out a list in a 1 twinkling, which list was perfectly sat- J M?>; isfactory to all of us?until we inquired prices. One thing we were agreed upon, &*: and that was, rigid economy, so we cheapened this and left out that, until it j4& " looked quit? reasonable. ; ; . Well, ine first day of December found V" up in "our own hired house," and as Beth turned the key in the hall door, we felt that we had burned our ships behind us. The outgoing tenants seemed to regard Bgv our experiment in the light of a huge 8r joke, which they were willing to help along, so they gave us a number of housekeeping things, among others a braided mat, and a half-dozen plants {.11 in blosKgpV som, and sold us their raugc at a very ?Si- low Drice. Beside this, we had a couple Icdsteads'with the furnishings, a few les, our trunks, and a half-dozen ring boxes of different sizes. lie next fortnight was a busy one. We early and went to bed late, and lived )icnic fashion, while we painted and ided, and planned. We were in a s of mind where we wished for no ce, much le3s help, from anybody ide; but after jamming considerable ier from the walls, and skin from our :kles, we decire 1 there were times i a man could b m:ide useful, and Dannie's suggestion a certain young itect from the boarding house was a into our confidence, and did valserrice in putting up shelves and ie Friday night, with the last screw e kitchen clock shelf, the work was done, and I doubt if many brides, going f Into houses luxuriantly appointed with- i out care of theirs, feel half the satisfac- t tion that we did in looking round on the result of our ingenuity and hardwork. i And it was a right cosy little place. There I i was a good-sized si ting-room with two i sleeping-roo'us opening from it, a kitchen adjoining, a store-room, closets, etc.,and 1 as the house was on a corner, we had the sun most of the day. < Kate and Naunie painted the floor of i thoir room soft gray, and covered their dressing-table and wash-stand with blue ; and drab chintz. The one window was i draped with full curtains of uublcached ! cotton, trimmed and looped back, with bands of the chintz, and a low cushioned chair and ottoman were covered with the same blue and drab covering. A low painted bedstead and chest of i drawers completed their furniture, and strips of blue and gray carpeting before Vin l.irrror niopoQ tnnk JlWflV ftDV SUSliicion "'"fa" l'-~~ ., J ! of bareness. The room Beth and I shared was precisely similar, except that our floor was painted a bright warm brown, and our cretonne covers and bits of carpet were scarlet and white. But it was on our common sitting-room tliat we lavished our greatest skill. The three windows were curtained with full draperies of cheese-cloth, over cream colored shades, a big crimson bow at the top of cach window where the draperies parted. Nannie, who was not in the least aesthetic, pleaded to have the whole lloor covered, but as this meant twenty-five yards of carpeting, sue was vorcu uown on the score of economy as well as of art. A wide margin was staiDed a most delightful dead-leaf brown, and nine yards of crimson and wood colored carpet made a square large enough to comc well out around the center table. And the table?we saw it one day in front' of an auction-room. The top looked as though opposing forces had fought across it, but the standard was good and solid; so home it went, and when it was covered with Beth's old gray shawl dyed crimson, and the student-lamp set over the darn in the middle, the effect was all that could be desired. Then we had Beth's piano and the plants, and nobody knows until she tries it how far a piano and plants go toward furnishing a room. We had a comtortable lounge, bought "in the cloth," and covered by our own hands, a big Shaker rocking-chair, and two or three smaller rockers and camp-chairs. The wall-paper was subdued, and our few pictures and brackets made quite a show, and when we had scattered our books and trinkets about the room, it was a decided success. "There, Nannie," said Kate, when we reached the cozy kitchen on our tour of inspection, "you can tuck your little feet right into the oven, and feast your eyes on the braided mat, and if the cat was only here, you would have reached the climax of earthly happiness." The young architect looked inquiringly, and Nannie's ideal of bliss was ex! rviaJnwl tn him. He made no comments. but looked at her with a peculiar ev | presion in his lvm.' -irnc eyes, an J I fei that the ?ial>i,: fho socicty was | V- | -c sit in" ' I she said, turning on I eproachfully, "I hope you are not ) ; ^ t..g to spoil everything." But Nan- ! nie was busy tilling a saucer for the new ' comer, and made no answer. T .-.Of no n.oll OQV hurl" fhslf RDOIT Jlfter. t * u. . , , the young man came to rac in a very straightforward way, made known his I intentions in regard to Nannie, and asked permission to visit her. That night, while she was gone on an errand, I laid the question before the otlicr girls. 'I move," said Kate, who was rather given to sounding phrases?"I move .s that he be granted leave to withdraw." 1 "Oh, let him come!" said Beth, with s true Southern obliviousness of consequences. ( Well, he came, and came again, and 1 the little romance unfolded in a kindlier ! atmosphere than that of a boarding- 1 house parlor, and after a while 1 think J we all rather enjoyed him, as he was a high-minded, intelligent young fellow, who conducted his wooing with very little nonsense. Some evenings he ] would come in with his drawing-board under his arm, and establishing himself at our kitchen table, put in his mar- ? velously tine lines and figures, with Nannie sitting beside him with her sewing, making quite a Darby-and-Joan ^ picture. XYUirt: suiiiCLiiiicd OIIUUIV uvi uou at him from the covert of the sitting- J room, Dut she usually ended with "Bless the children!'' But to turn from love to figures. IIow " much did it cost? ^ Now, I do not expect to be believed when I say that our entire furnishing, from the small mirrors iu our bedrooms to the big iron spoon in the pantry, cost exactly ?128.03; nevertheless, that was the exact total. It may seem more cred- ? itable when it is understood that our : dressing-tables, wash-stands, and otto- j mans were packing-boxes, and that the ' inviting cushioned chairs were originally ' barrels. Of course our bedsteads were 1 not furnished with hair mattresses and ' rose blankets, but we had warm coverings, and clean straw-filled ticks, which 1 were simply luxurious after boarding- 1 house mattresses Our table, was not set forth with cut- J glass and silver (except Kate's spoons : and forkd), but it was clean, and the J food wholesome and varied. And about the cost of living? We * elected Kate treasurer, and every Saturday night each of us put five dollars and * a half into a box kept for the purpose, ( and she paid for everything out of it. 1 "We questioned her often, during the first - * i -u: i I montn, now ine money was iiuiuiujj out, but she made no satisfactory answer. ; The first-day of January we each found 1 on our plate at supper the following no- fi tice: "The first monthly meeting of the !! Home Co-operative Society will be held * this evening in the kitchen, as soon ' as the dishes arc done. A full attend- 8 ance is desired, to hear the report of the 11 treasurer." ' * Every member was present, and the 8 treasurer read her report. After setting forth at some length the origin and ob- c ject of the society, she presented the ? following figures: In Accoust with Home Co-operative Society. Dr. Cr. . To Cash $t7.43 By ton coal $ 7.5 ) " (jroceriusi 22.00 t " meat unci vege- t tables 10.75 " milk 2 50 u lnhnr KvftMhiriir. f ironing and . cleaning)... O.i'O " rent. in. 00 $72.75 " balaucconhand 5!4.08 $97.43 $37.4 i ""Which means,"1 said Kate," dropping her official manner, "that we have had all this good time, and den't owe a cent 1 for anything, and have six dollars and seventeen cents apiece coming back to u.s;" and she counted out four little piles 1 of money. < "And coal in the bin, and food in the 1 larder," added Beth. ] The next month we paid five dollars a i week eaeh, and had a surplus, and after j that, four dollars a week usually covered j all expenses. < "When we started, though wc asked no ] advice, we had floods of it, and no end of dismal predictions. "You'll quarrel," "You'll run in debt," "You'll find the work too hard," "You'll get tired of it," and, most dreadful of all, "You'll be , talked about." j "Well," said Kate, when this was , brought up, "if a good name in the past, ( and orderly living in the future won't ] ? ? ? ?? 1tKom foil- Thov mncf CHlVe US, VVJUjr, tvi iuv.u? uuu. , talk about something, and while we are { under discussion somebody else will es- s cape." So that was disposed of. And , we did not run into debt, and wc did j not quarrel. It would be too much to ( say that we never differed, but our dif- ^ ferenccs were never bitter. j "We used to think sometimes that Beth t shirked her share of the work, but she j was the sweetest-tempered creaturc liv- j ing, and always willing to makenmends. \ Then we had to hold a tight rein on ^ Kate, who was apt to want luxuries out ( of season, at exorbitant priccs; and I was sometimes a trial about cooking, being absent-minded, and apt to "burn things up. As to Nannie, she was never I anything but a comfort. We didn't keep s her long, for one day, toward our first * Thanksgiving, there was an unusual t flutter in the house. We trimmed the e rooms with flowers, and tied a white j ii satin ribbon on The Climax; the minis-! ter aad.a few friends came in and almost j ' before we knew it, Nannie and the young ' 1 irchitect had gone off together in a hack, .vith The Climax wailing in a basket on :hc front seat. But this did not break up the society, for another good friend stood ready to ill the vacancy, and stepped promptly in. And did we not -find the work too hard? Well, sometimes it seemed a bother, but, divided among four, it was not oppressive; and if the larder got jmpty, or other work pressed, we took 3ur dinners out for a day or two. And we did not get tired of it, but nftcr a three years' trial of the plan, arc more and more satisfied, for it is home. We leave it in the morning with regret, and return to it gladly at night, feeling that it is ours, that we are not there on sufference, but by right. And this sense of security and permanently encourage us to add comforts and even luxuries to our surroundings, and I think you miijht hunt up and down the city and not find a more contented and comfortable set of people than the members of the Home Co-operative society.?liar(icr's B'izar. The Y?ar Without a Sninmer. The year 1810 was known thoughout the United Siates and Europe as the coldest ever experienced by any person then living. Very few persons now living can recollect it. June was the coldest ever known in this latitude; frost and ice were common. Almost every green thing was killed, fruit nearly all destroyed. Snow fell to the depth of ten inches iu Vermont, seven in Maine, three in the interior of New York, and also in Massachusetts. There were a few warm days. All classes looked for them in that memorable cold summer sixtyeight years ago. It was called a dry season. But little rain fell. The wind blew steadily from the north cold and fierce. Mothers knit extra socks and mittens for their children in the spring, and woodpiles that usually disappeared during the warm spell in front of the houses were speedily built up again. Planting and shivering were done together, and the farmers who worked out their taxes on the country* roads wore overcoats and mittens. In a town iu Vermont a flock of sheep belonging to a farmer had been sent, as usual, to their pasture. On June 17 a heavy snow fell; the cold was intense, and the owner started away at noon to look for his sheep. "Better start the neighbors soon, wife," he said in jest before leaving; "being in the middle of June I may get lost in the snow." Night came, the storm increaserl, and he did not return. The next morning the family sent out for help and started in search. One after another of the neighbors turned out to look for the missing man. The snow had covered up all tracks, and not until the end of the third day did they find him on the side of o hill, with both feet frozen, unable to move. A farmer who had a large ^ n Toti'LrcTMirir Kill If. firn.Q 1JC1U VI tuiu 1U AVT?1?WU*J | around it to ward off the frost; many an evening he and his men. took turns watching it. lie was rewarded with the only crop of corn in the neighborhood Considerable damage was done in Nc ' ms v.oiiseq''{nce of cii- un>;d r' rv-r; lossibh, .< the sum- .cT hioritiu waica irccccdt-a it. Ice was formed lmif an nch in thickness. Indian corn was so rozen that the greater part was cut down ind dried for fodder. Almost cveryjreen thing was destroyed in this counrv and in Europe. On the 30tli snow 'ell at Barnet, forty miles from London, 'apers received from England stated 'that it would be remembered by the )resent generation that the year 1810 -vas a year iu which there was no sumncr." Very little corn ripened in New ingland and the Middle States; fanners mpplied themselves from corn produced n 181.) for seed in the spring of 1817. It old at from $4 to $5 per bushel. September furnished about two weeks >f the mildest weather of the season. Soon after the middle, it became cold ind frosty; ice formed a quarter of an nch in thickness. October produced norc than its share of cold _wcathcr; rost and ice were common. The suinner and autumn of 1810, cold, rainy, ind ungeuial throughout Europe, were jeculiarly so in France. Constant rains ell during the months of July, August, md September. But for an abundant lotato crop, famine, with all its horrors, vould have been her lot. The minister >f the interior established granaries hroughouf. the kingdom, where corn vas sold to the destitute at a reduced irice. Prices rose, however, to more ban double, and hundreds perished of ictual want. November was cold and clustering; snow fell so as to make good sleighing. December was mild and comort a ble. ?Boston Transcript. The Cowboy's Favorite (inn. I dropped into a large store on El Paso street, which enjoy3 the reputation of selling more arms than any other house n the city, writes a correspondent of the >t. Louis Globe-Democrat. While inspecting the glittering array of pistols of ill kinds which filled half a dozen show:ases, a young fellow of about twentyhree entered. He was dressed in approved frontier style, sombrero it would ake three days to walk around the rim>f, white handkerchief tied loosely round lie neck, blue shirt, pants stuck in his joots, and large Mexican spurs upon his molo iinrrlinnr n? Via Tin wished i *VV4U> j?"v MV :o buy a "gun." In the expressiveness ind laconic tongue of the frontier a 'gun" is a revolver: a rifle is called by he name of the maker; and the weapon )f the sportsnwn, uncurtailed of its fair iroportioiis, is known as a shotgun. Selecting from the case a handsomely nounted Colt's forty-live calibre rcvoler, the clerk said: ''How would you ike this? It is the newest thing out? idouble-action forty-five." "Ain't worth t row of beans. No man 'cept he is a enderfoot wauls that kind of thing. Jive me old reliable all the time. You ec a man that's used to the old style is ipt to get fooled?not pull her off in ime?and then he'll be laid out colder'n t wedge." He was handed a single-action Colt's ?f the same model, which, after carefully ixamining, he proceeded to cock and ire, twirling the pistol around his foreinger and pressing the trigger the monent the butt camo into palm of his land. After some little 4,kick" about he price the weapon was paid for and he customer left the store. "There arc few men," observed the :lerk, ns his customer left, "that can do hat trick. I have been ten years on the Southwest frontier, among the worst tlasses, and don't know more nor half a lozen. 'Hill the Kid' could do it; so an Pat Garret, former sheriif of Lin:oln county; so can Dan Tucker, deputy rwi.r nil) >111 I III vi it best of the lot, and that's Low lie tilled Sheriff White at Tombstone. "How was that?" "Well, you see Curly Bill was trying ?o paint the town red, and White heard ){ it, and going up to him, covered him ivith his six-shooter, and told him lie iiad got to give up his ?jun. Bill handed !he fjun out butt first, but kept his finger inside the guard, and as the sheriff reached for it he gave it that twist you've seen, turned her loose, and the sheriff passed in his checks." The Jumping1 Bean. Mr. Fred. Frclinghuysen, son of Sec etary Frclinghuysen, possesses a numjer of Mexican jumping beans, which he procured from the United States agricultural department. According to Mr. ^mlinrvlinvDon timer* anrnhntift hponfl nrA ,'ery rare. They are certainly considered i great currosity by all those who have see them, and no one yet has explained .vhat they are. Each pod contains three iernels. Each segment is rounded on )ne side and A shaped on the other, jreenish yellow in color, and in circumference about the size of a silver thrce:ent piece. When placed on a table hey roll over and skip about, sometimes umging a couple of inches. "When held >etween the thumb and forefinger hey are lelt to beat as strongly as the hrobbing of a strong man's pulse. Old man Pettigrew, of Austin, is very irecise in his statements, and is also a trict constructionist. One morning a leitfhbor rushed in on Pettigrew, while he latter was eating his breakfast, and xclaimed excitedly: "Your house 3 on fire." "Sir?" "Your house is turning up." "You are wrong sir." 'Wrong?" "Yes, sir, this is not my louse. I only rent it."?Texas S if tings. I FORTUNES WON AND LOST. WHAT A NOTED GAMBLES SATS | ABOUT PL ATI H" Q. ( amblcrM \cvcr Fitted for Anything j EImc?(iaiiiblliig; Endk in Di??tpa> , lion. Quite earl}- yesterday morning a rather young-looking man of about thirty-five ( entered the Hoffman honse and greeted ] those present with a pleasant good-morn . ing. lie was dressed in a neat-fitting ! suit of some light material, and appeared ( as bright as a new gold dollar. He ] chatted pleasantly a few moments with , those about him, and then went to breakfust. This man was Billy Dcutsch, at one time the manager of Booth's theatre, ' and Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Florence. Billy Deutsch is quite a celebrated | man in his way. He was known, and is ] yet, as a mighty gambler. He has gained a certain kind of fame as a noted bacea- 1 rat bank breaker, and mentioned in Paris j as ''The King of Baccarat." He is almost six feet tall, and wears a black mus- ' tache. After breakfast Mr. Deutsch indulged in conversation. Of course, gambling ' was mentioned. In his long experience " i xl i he ha<l come to tne conclusion mm muse who touch cards or gamble arc almost lost. However intelligent a player was, after he had won a few times he was unfitted lor anything else but the life of a gambler. He stated that bis favorite game was baccarat, at which he had lost over$.j00,000, which result all could expect if they continued to follow the game. On one occasion, being out$)0,000 on the game, he bet $20,000 on the turn of a card and won. The title "The King of Baccarat" was bestowed on him in Paris. Some time ago, for twentv-cight days in succession, he won $340,000. The smallest he won during that time was $:i,G00, and the largest $02,000 in one nicht. He had often made bets of $0,000, and other lame amounts. In playing he always remnfiio nnrl novnr lnsnshis head. Mr. Deutsch played thirty games of cards and M on $1,000 on Foxliall when ] he won the Grand Prix de Paris. Mr. ( Deutsch claims that he is not a profcs- . sional gambler, and only played for ( pastime. { His experience had taught him that a ] mJn who wins money on cards simply , squanders and dissipates it. He also , forms habits which unfit him for any le- j gitimatc business. Gambling was the ] cause of a majority of suicides. t Gambling in London was not allowed f as it was in Paris. In France every ope , plays, from the highest to the lowest. ( Gambling there is looked upon as a pastime, and not as a vice. Mr. Deutsch stated in conclusion that he had sworn never to touch cards again, and would go into the brokerage or the- , atrical business, probably the theatrical, j ?New York Truth. " ken in London. < 0 m every " public house " 01 ' ^.n pulacc," and in every one you pass you c can see women'drinking. F Sometimes there may be otrly a few, e and sometimes they form a large share a ol the crowd. You will often sec re- a spectably dressed women, apparently f well-to-do, walking openly into these j1 places, and evidently thinking nothing ^ of it. They may be goimr in merely for ]? a glass of beer, but their "less prosperous 11 sisters are more likely to be taking gin. Walking through Drury lane or some A other squalid street at midnight of a Saturrlnv nif*ht vou see a snectacle of n wretchedness an J vice that is fairly dis- H heartening. The street swarms with s dirty, half-naked children and gossiping, v tipsy women, some of whom not even 1 gray hairs will keep from cursing, quarrel- t ing and fighting. Whether the presence j] of the bar-maid behind the counter en- I courages the women to come in and drink c or whether she is put there to encourage the j men to come in, or simply because her d labor is cheaper than a man'*, ia a prob- a 1cm. She is there to stay, apparently, v and seems to be regarded as one of the c established institutions of the country, j It is the custom to. speak of her as the a "pretty barmaid." Perhaps this was p true of the first generation of barmaids, t but it is not easy t- "?nd the justification d for it now. The barmaid of the period t has a business-like, resolute look, as if J she could exercise the functions of an c American "bouncer" on occasion, but I those we happened to see were certainly f not beautiful. The one making most s pretentions to prettiness was a modest- c looking girl in the foyer of the handsome a new Empire theatre. She tried to open I a bottle of soda water for us. The cork t was obstinate. "When she put the bottle i between her knees ancl began to tug with a all her strength, I confess that my v American instincts overcame. I took I the bottle away from her and pulled the J cork myself. Probably this was a very I ridiculous thing to do. Sir Lepel Grif- s fin says the degree of defference paid to I women in Amcrica is absurd or some- \ thing of that sort. An American (from e Wisconsin) told an Englishman, with g some Western intensity, that in America a the man who put a woman behind the i bar to sell his whisky would be lynched n by the men who drank it. The English- i man seemed very much amused. i ? s Swordsmen of the Deep. s Imagine whales fencing with one ? another for amusement! It seems as if such a thing could not 11 be; and yet there are whales of a certain e species which not only fcnce with one 0 another, but use their teeth for swords. s It is the narwhal that fences. One of 1 the teeth of the male narwhal always grows through the upper lip and stands 8 out like a spear, straight in front of the r animal. ? It seems as if all the material that t should have gone to fill the narwahl's e mouth with teeth had gone to the one " tooth that grows out through the lip; for 0 ^ *1-? sometimes uii.-j luuin is itci luu^. The animal itself, from head to tail, is seldom more than sixteen feet in length. Of what use such an enormous tooth c is to the narwhal no one knows. Some s persons say it is used for spearing fish; j others, that its use is to stir up the mud , in the bottom of the ocean in order to y scare out the fish that may be hiding j there; and one man says the tooth is for the purpose of breaking holes in the ice ' in winter; for the narwhal, like all t whales, is obliged to come to the surface 0 at intervals to breathe. 1 Whatever the tooth is intended to be s used for, it is certain that when the nar- ( whal wishes to play it finds another nar- a whal of a like mind, and away they s charge at each other till the long tooth- f swords clash together. They nre active ns well as frolicsome. < and sailors tell of seeing them crossing j ewn-rls in tliis wnv. thriistiiifr und nnrrv ing, and rolling and darting about with ^ marvelous agility and grace. j The narwhal is light gray in color, and v covered with black spots. For a great g many reasons it is valued by the Green- g landers. It furnishes a very fine quality c of oil, its ilesh is used for food, and its t skin, made into a jelly, and called mattnk, ( is considered a dainty too choice for t ordinary occasions. s This "swordsman of the deep," as I j have callcd him, is a warm-blooded ani- ^ mal, and must not be confoundud with 8 the saw-fish or sword-fish, both of which are entirely different from the narwhal.? John li. Coryell, in St. Nicholas. The Cost of Royalty. ? As a sample of what royalty costs the 1< -/ ^ ~i _ people Ol ureuw duiuiu uiuuu, nun.ai\u i v tjives the following annuities to the royul a family: k Her Majesty? ii Privy purso ? 60,000 a Salaries of household 131,SCO i. Expenses of household 172,500 Royai bounty, etc 13,500 Unappropriated 8,540 C ?385,000 b Prince of Wales ?40,000 Priucess of Wales 10 000 Crown Princess of Prussia 8,000 Duko of Edinburgh 25,000 Princess Christian of SchleswigHolstein 0,000 Princess Louise (Marchioness of Lorae) 6,000 n Duke of Comiaught 25,000 n Duke of Albany 25,000 s Duke of Cambridge 0,000 n Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz? 3,000 . Duke of Cambridge 12,000 11 Duchess of Teck 5,000 a im d The diver is the man who weights for tl the tide. ?New York Journal. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. A plan for lessening the violence of storms has been submitted to the French Academy of Sciences by M. Minard, who proposes to use a great number of lightning rods elevated on telegraph posts and conncctcd with the iron tracks of railways. Mineral wool is used for packing to deaden the sound between floors in buildings, and being incombustible it is now pretty generally used between the floors and ceilings in new houses. Mineral wool is obtained from the slag from blast furnaces, and is produced by throwing a jet of steam against the stream Df slag as it flows from the furnace. Experiments have been made at one of the large collieries in England with compressed lime for bringing down coal from the ledercs. Holes are bored into the vein of coal, filled in with compressed | lime and rubbish and then water is forced in. which causes the charge to expand and bring down great masses os the fuel in solid lumps. The experiments arc said to have been highly satisfactory. The reign of Charles II. of England ivas a great era in science. Sir Isaac Newton discovered the wondrous law .hat holds the sun and planets in their arbits; Ilalley commenced his learned investigation of tides, comets, and the earth's magnetism; Hoyle improved the iir pump and studied by its aid the properties of the atmosphere: Ilobbes and Locke discoursed of the human mind, its laws and relations to matter. When pure platinum is as soft as silver, but by the addition of iridium it becomcs ?hc hardest of metals. The great difti ^ulty in manipulating platinum 13 us ex:essive resistance to neat. A temperatcre tKat will make steel run like water ind melt down fire clay has absolutely no jffect upon it. You may put a piece of platinum wire not thicker than human tiair into a blast furnace where ingots of iteel are melting down all around it and :hc bit of wire will come out as absolutely unchanged as if it had been in an icejox all the time. It is said that an clectric hand lamp lasbecn invented, the illuminating prin;iple of which is generated by some simile chemicals that are redicuously ;heap and easily manipulated. A little sliding drawer at the bottom of the lamp holds the electric spark in the solution, A'hile, by simple touching a button, a nagnificent light is developed or ex;inguished, as the case may be. This amp does not specially differ in appearmce from the ordinary kerosene affair, ind can be used in the same way, but vith a complete absence of trouble, odor >r danger. WTUT.TH HINTS. Do not imagine you need medicine if >ou feel a little sick. Tuke a rest. In nany cases a good bath and a few hours ilecp are all that is necessary. A cucumber, in lieu of ice, is cut in slices and laid upon the heads of *<" " "*? ? in England. The efF'* . atcful and refres clief of eara'li roform in a 1" lgh the stem I Is. ,p , * Commence , Superfluous ha. v>*ud sue- 1 essfully and pei ? oy using a aste composed of water and any prop- ] rly prepared depilatory powder, such as | re put up by all of the leading chemists ] nd pharmacists. Allow the paste to umain on for two minutes then remove ] t, and the hair and its follicles will have ; icen completely destroyed. Pepilatory i iowders are very injurious, however, if ; mproperly prepared.?Health and Ilome i A ti4t/wnA TAIL-h CH11 TTn/ilinn(?nH 1 LU II lll(|UU X V IIU UVAAA V U ViiHittj vmi Why, I saw houses in Nuremburg that ' re not a day more than a hundred and ' fty years old! I was shocked by the ight of a dozen, at least, plate glass 1 andows. There is gas in Nuremburg. 'hev have street cars there. Some of he city wall has been torn down to let ' ti more of the nineteenth century. 5ut hardly a sight or sound within the ircuit of Rothenburg breaks in upon our midiievnl dream. The narrow, iingy streetsare lighted ?so far as lighted t all?by lanterns. Those aro hung Oil 1 rires stretched across the street, and are Irawn in by pulleys nt one side to be re>lenished. Street-rail or gas-lamn there re none. The town is hugged comiletely around with turrcted gates. And i he towers, ns they throw their arms tenlerly about their charge, look back to tid defiance to all modern institutions. Lt some points, the very water in the aoat still sleeps in venerable stagnation. ^.s your omniDus rattles unaer mice or our successive arches into the silent treets, the lingering echoes of iur new era die away behind, ,nd you drop four or five centuries from luman history. You wander through he little city (of not more than 6,500 inhabitants) wherever your feet incline, md pass hundreds of houses, any one of vhich, like a certain old domicile in few London. Ct., or one in Medford, ilass., would be the chief "lion"' of an American town. Most of them were tandiug before the Pilgrim fathers left Tolland?many of them before America vas discovered. With their steep, towring, red-tiled roofs, their sculptured gateways and corner turrets for defense, ,nd gloomy court-yards, they look down n lordly compassion on your freshness nd your upstart nation beyond the sea. lour after hour I roam the streets,, lookng in vain for a modern house. Every freet is paved throughout, with not a idewalk to be seen. The primitive simrmA nnfm-nlnnoo fArt nf Pftf.H IllUltjr UUU U?bUiuiilV00| vwj Vi vitv a.v.M nbergers, are charming. About every nan you meet recognizes you as a strangr, and feeling that the town owes you a ourtesy, touches his hat with a cordial mile. Not a bad example for some of is Americans. It must be granted that he odor of antiquity in some of the bytreets is slightly too strong for the most oraantic. But one can pardon that and ven overlook the torture chamber, under ho Rathhaus (of which the present genration is innocent) in consideration of .11 the wierd fascination of the quaint ild town.?Prof. C. B. Wilcox. Center of Eurthqnake Trouble. rTLM..ML ^awwiKIA nopfKniiaVoo JLIIUU^U ?UIUU IU1UUIU vui viiipwuvw iccur in Europe and Asia, South America eems to be the center of trouble. In 812 the city of Caracas, in Venezuela, vns destroyed in three shocks, each of ihich did not occupy twenty seconds, n 1859 the city of Callao was also comilctely demolished, this being the second ime. The first time a wave came in from he sea one hundred feet high, and without warning burst upon the city. In 822 an earthquake produced some trange changes in tho Andes. Mounains were leveled, others were raised, nd a tract of land one thousand miles quare was bodily elevated about seven eet. It has been learned from old records hat the destruction of Hcrculnncmn and |ompeii was nearly accomplished by an arthquake sixteen years before the ashes f Vesuvius covcred them from sight. Jiblical records tells us that earthquakes _ vure tun jii oyrm m iiiij uiiiu ui ;vuuu, i00 15.0., and nlso in the reign of Uzziali, 100 li. C. In Josephus there is mention >f an earthquake that desolated judea at he time of the battle of Actium, HI H. destroying oyer 10,000 people. Anioch has been visited by some terrible cencs. The worst visitation was in 520, , L I)., when over 200,000 persons were lestroyed. Sixty years later auother hock destroyed 60,000 more. How They Fall. The womau who steps on a banana i eel will be down in a heap and up again : rith a faint little shriek before anybody < mows anything about it. while the man " nil fall the length of the whole block, i e noiinl witvinrr both hands in the air ;icking with both feet, plunging, throw- < ng hat and umbrella into space, howling t every jump, until, breathless aud ex- i lausted, he caroms on an ash barrel at he end ot the run and rings down the i urtnin by rolling downstairs into a bar- i ier shop.?Bob Bunlette. ? ] Absinthe Drinking. < The amount of absinthe drinking which ] iikcs place at Marseilles, France, is ab- 1 ormal. The great street is the Rue Can- ' abiere. which is the boulevard Mont- < lartrc of Paris raised in intensity. The 1 hady side is an almost unbroken series ] f cafes, and from early morning until < itc at night usually the tables in front re occupied by Marscillais, with a little ecanter full of syrup of gum,and two or ; i tirce bottles containing absinthe, from I * rhich they help themselves. J < i BUCKEYE JESSE JAMES. .. \ THE 8T0BT 07 A. BOSBBB VOW XV JAIL. Robber and ITIurtlerer, Then a Respected Ohio Merchant, and Afterward a Robber Again. In a letter from Ilillsboro, Ohio, to the New York Sun, the history of ft notorious criminal is given as follows: Frank Messmer, a young man serving a ten years' term in the penitentiary for robbery, has been pardoned. Messmer waa the pal of Bob Mclvimmie, the Jesse James of Southern Ohio. Since Messmer has been out of jail he has made many disclosures, which, with the known history of McKimmie, make up a t .!e equal to those told of the Younger and James criminals. McKimmie was born thirty years ago near Hainsboro. lie began stealing when a schoolboy, and at fourteen joined the regular army at Columbus. He went, to fight Indians, and de sertecj in two years, xie ucuamc u iuau | agent in Utah, and with companions robbed and murdered stage passengers and express agents. lie, with others, was captured and sentenced to fifteen years in the Mormon penitentiary. In nine months he escaped with Jack Williamson, a fellow convict. The cuard was killed to effect the escape. From Utah McKimmie went to the Black llills. In February, 1877, he robbed the Cheyenne stage. He had organized a gang of five cut-throats who robbed the mail, express and passengers. In March, the gang attempted to rob another stage, and McKimmie killed Johnny Slaughter, the driver. The horses ran away, and the eleven pasgeugers escaped. Later, at the Cheyenne crossing, the same gang robbed three coaches, and soon had over $20,000. A woman dressed in boy's clothes followed McKimmie in his depredations, and overheard his comradcs plotting to kill and rob him. She warned him, and McKimmie, with one companion, tooK the entire booty and went to Texas. From Texa*, McKimmie came to Hillsboro in September, 1877. He was well dressed, had abundance of money, and said he had been successful in cattle herding in Texas. Ho became a peaceful citizen of Rainsboro, and married Clara Ferguson, an orphan girl, against her uncle's wish. McKimmie bought a store and was soon a merchant in good standing. A few months later, M. F. Leach, of Ogalla, Mo., enme here after a Union Pacific train-robber. He had suspected McKimmie, but was mistaken, as the latter had come here the month before the robbery in question. Leach afterward met Detective Bullock, of. Deadwood, and told him about McKimmie's new start in life. Bullock knew the robber from experience, and hud been trying to trace him for some time. He came here at once and visited McKimmie's store. Getting him outside he arrested McKimmie on charges of robbery and murder. McKimmie's lawyers got him out of jail in an hour * immediate!' -ei'Tested. ' ,.anu . | nere foi He 11 hn ad arrange ?? bring DcIx. tivc>, into a certain Chillicothe saloon tliut he might see him for future recognition. He saw the detective through a knothole. He then went to Virginia, met his wife in Richmond, and lived with her in Raleigh, Charles, ton, Savannah, and at Nassau, N. P. There he became bankrupt and was imprisoned forty-one days for a board debt. He worked his way to New York, leaving his wife at Nassau, Coming to Ohio he failed to get money from his lawyers,and plotted with Messmer to rob a farmer named Roads, living near here. They got eighty dollars from Roads. With this money the bandit went baok to his wife, and came bcre again is October, and planned to rob the Bainbridge bank with New York Charley,another noted robber. Meanwhile Messmer hnd been sentenced to ten years' imprisonment for robbery. With other pals McKimmie remained in the country, and jobbed two rich old maids in Pike county. Then he went to New York, intending to go for bis wife at Nassau. He came back, as the ship would not sail for some time, and HVeU 4n-ati old cabin aL Rains)mm? It had been, abandoned for years, and neighbors wore surprised one morning to se? a curl of blue smoke ascend from the old atone chimney. The word was given out that McKimmie was there, and a posse of men found him there ready for a fight. He resisted arrest until shot twice. Efforts were mado to lynch him, but he was taken to the Hillsboro jail, "V-nt,d nininnnfl Thn Wvnminrr uuaiut'u uuu jiiitivMfvt. amv *i j 0 Ruthoritie3 attempted to get him, but he was tried for robbery on several indictments, and got a joint term of fifteen years. His conduct in State prison has been good, and he hopes to get out through a pardon before his term ends. If he does, the "Wyoming detectives will be on the watch and take him to Deadwood to be tried for murder and robbery. He has threatened to kill Bullock and many other enemies if he ever gets out. Changes Going On in China. The Chinaman is clannish and conservative. But he is remarkably free from prejudice, religious or patriotic, especialy in matters of tangible interest. He has a natural objection to alter his clothes, unlike the Japanese, for they suit him better than any other. But he has no objection to purchasing the articlc which he judges to bo the cheapest and the best, wherever it may come from. He is very sensible in his economy, and if he prefers the home-made article, it is because he finds it cheaper and more enduring. Native patterns of cloth, both woolen and cotton, if scrupulously imitated, will find buyers if laid down cheaper than the native article. Though the Chinese arc conservative, foreign articles are creeping into use. Clocks, watches, matches, lamns. red blankets, are now seen not only everywhere in the seaport towns nnd I near the coast, but far inland. The Chinese, contrary to general opinion, have been found to appreciate in a wonderful degree the value of the rapid transmission by wire. The telegraph is being carried from north to south, and from east to west, along the Yangize and Canton rivers. A line is working in Formosa. Begun with such vigor, there is reason to believe that the network will rapidly spread over the land. The telephone and electric light have made their way into China. Although the first railroad constructed in China, from Shanghai to "Woosung, opened and closed in 1876, was not approved by the government?the line being bought and removed to the shores of Formosa, where it now lies?the steam engine is at work. This is on a line to the Kaiping coal mines, a distance of six miles and a half, constructed by Liilung-Chang. Machinery has been in troduced not only at tun lvuipin^ minus, but elsewhere. The ?uperstitions regarding shafts dug through the earth, the " dragon's veins," are giving way. Mines arc being promoted by the Chinese in various parts, but with great rashness, the fact that mines are utterly useless without communication not having been grasped. Gas has long been in use at Shanghai. The flotilla of thirty steamers, with a tonnage of some :!0,000 tons, started by the China Merchants' company, has not been a pecuniary success as yet, mainly owing, however, to maladministration during the late speculative crisis. Insurance companies are at work at Hong Kong and Shanghai, doing an important and increasing business. In military matters while the late Franco-Chinese difficulty has clearly shown the imperfect condi?:? fi,? rtiinnsii forces, important UUU V/I iliw vu??w? 1 k changes have been effected. The most important have been the arming bodies of men with the breech-loader, the drilling of Li's force, the establishment of dockyards,the introduction of torpedoes. Krupp guns, transports, and gun-boats on the European models. The fact that the military organization is still wretched iind the administration corrupt does not vitiate the fart of progress having been made. The native press has made considerable strides. Commenced in 1803 ti,n .<7d/ii. Pnn thnrn are now some Imlf-dozen papers in China. Their influence is considerable and is extending rapidly. As a proof of their enterprise it may be mentioned that the Shun-Pao sent a "special correspondent" to Tonjuin to follow the operations, though he fery wisely thought discretion the better part of valor nnd declined to land on his irrival at Haiphong.?London Times. An observer says most of the ccntcna( ians in America are from Ireland, .hough there an* many among the col jred people. J I knowed a man, which he lived in Jone^, Which Jones is a county of red liillg ifrui stones, And lie Uved pretty mnoh by gettin, of loaiis. And his mules were nuthin' but skin ?M bones, And his hogB was flat as his corn-bread ponds, And he had 'bout a thousand acre* of land This man?which his name it was also JonesHe swore that he'd leave them old red hiUs and stones1 Fur he couldn't make jiuthin' but yeUerish cotton. , And little o' thot, and hisfences was rotten, And what little corn ho had, hit waj boughten, r. j And danged if a liviu1 was in liie land. And the longer ho swore the madder lie got, And he rizand ho walked to the stable lot; And ho hollared to Tom to come thar and hitch, For to emigrate somewhar what laud was rich, And to quit raisin' cockburs, thistles aud sich, And a waistin' their time on the cussod land. So him and Tom they hitched lip the mnlc3, Pertestiu' that folks was mighty big fools That 'ud stay in Georgy their lifetime out. Just scratchin' a livin' when aji ot *>;n? nought VJCL|iiauD in XUAUA, >ru<ii uuufcuu WOUul RpiuUL "y tho time you could plant ia thb fitttdg And he driv by a house whar a man namedj Brown Was a livin' not far from tho edge/ftf town, And he bantered Brown for to buy his plaos And said that boin' as money was akace, ' And bein' as sheriffs was hard o' face . 1 Two dollars and acre would git the landiSThey closed at a dollar and fifty cents, And Jonee ho bought him a wagin arid tents, And loaded his corn and his* wiuunin and truck, And moved to Texas, which it tuck v " His entire pile, with the best 'o luck. To git thar and git him a little land. '1 But Brown moved out on the old Jones farm And he rolled up his breeches and bared his arm, And he picked all the rocks from ofTn tho groun', And he rooted it up and plowed it down; ! Then he plowed his corn and his wheat in the land. Five years glid by, and Brown, one day (Which he'd got so fat that he wouldn't weigh), "Was a settin down, sorter lazily, To the bulliest dinner you ever see, "When one o' the children jumped on his knee, And says: "Yan's Jones, which you bought his land." I And thar was Jones, standing out at the fence, \nd h? V-'ln't ^o wp<rin. v ~ to .>?111' hot, xisself and the flow . sliarp and riz and swore men's land wns rich or poor, . as more in the maa than thar was in the land." ?Sidney Lanier, in Southern Cultivator. HUMOB OF THE DAY. The butcher who trusts loses flesh.? Boston Post. Babies know nothing of politics, yet they are fond of crow.?Puck. A door is sometimes a jar and an earthquake always is.?Loicell Courier. "The work of reclaiming the Potomac flats is rapidly going on," so says an exchange. "This must be pleasant reading for "Washington dudes.?Burlington Free Press. A boarding-house cook has been'5 awarded $450 for the invention of a new and improved chicken soup. Perhans the improvement consists of put ting in some chicken.?Derrick. "At great heighta, dogs lose tlieir power of barking." It is ft fine scheme, then, to keep your dog in the garret, or tie him up to the swaying limb of a tall and lonely tree.?Hawfoye. SHE AND ME. She held him fast in her soft white arms And kissed him warm with a yearning bug, For she was a girl of tliff Ttp|jcr ten,' And he?well, he was a dogoned pug. ?Mcrchant-Travelcr. Maud?"Isn't this a queer title for a book, mother: 'Not Like Other Girls ?' I wonder what she can be if she is not like other girls?" Mother?"I don't know, unless she goes into the kitchen and helps her mother instead of staying in the parlor to read novels."? Life. A horrible example: A Parisian doc-' tor precribed for a lady who had objec tions against growing stout: "Take.exercise, my dear lady. Consider the trees of the field; they never take exercise, and as a consequencc thev go on growing bigger and bigger every year."?Boston Journal. SELECT SIFTINGS. The bread eaten at' table in Tnrin is a yard long and in eighth of au inch in diameter, of a pipe stem form, very crisp, and exceedingly palatable. It is called "grissiui," after the doctor who invented it on hygienic, principles. The business of monarchy promotes longevity. Witness the ages of the following rulers: The emperor of Germany is eighty-seven; the king of the Netherlands, sixty-seven; the king of Denmark,' sixty-six, and Queen Victoria, sixty-five. /it i, i?~ Viiuruii uuna 11u1u a uaiuuiuiu iwuuuij [ are in demand in England. Already China, West Africa, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, the West Indies and parts of South America have drawn upon the same establishment for its silver-toned bells. In 18G0 we imported half the woolen goods consumed in cloth and in wool. Now we produce about four-fifths of the consumption, and the small proportion imported is largely carpet wools of too low a grade for civilized agriculture to produce. A great plague, called the "black , death," beginning on the plains of Western Asia, swept over Europe during the years 1348-1351, destroying probably onethird of the whole population. This, by diminishing the number of people, doubled the price of labor. In Alabama is a China tree ten feet in circumference. Its top was torn away by a storm; but six feet up the trunk two more trees have taken root and grown up as high as the old tree is. Half way up the trunk of the original tree a peach tree stands out. It is said that no watch will keep the s.imn time with two ueoole. This is ow ing to the temperature of the wearer, anil it is claimed that even the mere physical difference in gait and movement between different people will-affect the time-keeping of a watch, which is probably also affected in some degree by the magnetism of the wearer. The origin of the trade dollar is thus explained. The Chinese are paid for their tea mainly in silver. In 18~:i the United States coined Uo.uOO.OOO of the trade dollars for use in India. Previously the Mexican dollar had practically monopolized the field. The American dollar was heavier and possessed more intrinsic value, but it was found that for some mysterious reason the Chinese merchants preferred the Mexican to the American coin, a fact probably due to their hered:tary dislike of novelties, and now 110 | trade dollars are shipped to China. The The Chinese heard some years ago, that our government intended to redeem these dollars at par, and being shrewd enough to see an opportunity lor speculation, they hoarded the coins and sent j them to this country. At all cveuts, I they are said to have disappeared in J China as well as in this country. A Circus Elephant in a Rage. _ Cole's huge elephant Sampson severed ; his chains at Ilailey, Idaho, and started I to pulv'erizc his keeper, who made a j hasty retreat. A cage of lions stood in ! the way of the infuriated animal, which I he picked up and hurled to one side, j killing two horses. The fircus people ' called on the crowd to shoot the monster, and a lively tiring began, but without appreciable effect. Finally a party of men succeeded in roping the beast and he W;:s quieted. Thirty bullet holes were found in his hide. The damage done by him amounted to $10,000. Adolphus?"Why is it, don't you know, that all the young fellahs sit dowu on me so?" Mary Jane?"1 don't know, Dolly, unless it is that they like a soft scat."?Boston Transcript. ^ C?rn(ii.s ,irn of very inciciitusc in/^^ I East, hut were nolknown in EurdqfflW cfjtmtfics until comparatively rcjfct times. U?eu up to the time _of Qyn Elizabeth, whe.n there was such prc*#il richness in personal adornment, foe nouses of the wealthy, in England, ifere scantily furnished and lacked of the simplest appliances for healthijnd comfort, The tloors of beaten and J^rdcned earth were often covered vritaApi!^ ing warmer than a layer of matted/i/aw, an<i none of the early chronicled hake mention of caq~;ets. infinite toil would not enable you to sweep away a mist, but by ascej'dinj? a little you may ofteh look ovcij ft altogether. So it is with our moral improvement; we wrestle fiercely wit h jfvicioua babit which would have no iioi<jupon us if we ascended into a higherBoral atmosphere. j; - In the midst of all the efcitement concerning it, the north poll remains perfectly cooL?Blizzard. f f'It Knock* the 9p?tf r and everything in the nifcure cf eruption?, blotches, punpies, ulcers, scrofa'fos hnmors, and incipient consumption, whlcj is nothing more nor less than scrofula of twangs, completely out of the system. It subulate* and invigorates the lirrr, tones up Joe stomach, regulates tho bowels, purifies ug blood, ana up the weak places of tiujhodv. It is a purely vegetable compound, an# wfll do more than is clairnod for It. We retef-o D* Pierce's "Golden Medical PiacoTery." | Gsbiuxt expends 180,000 a/nually for the maintenance of experimental prcat stations. LydiaE. Wnkham's Vegetable Compound ;a to be had at the nearest dn/r store for a dollar. It is not claimcd that bos remedy will cure ev&rv HI?a?k/i nnii?r thi mm. bat that it does all that it claims to ,do, thousands of good women know and declare. The New York horso cars last year Ml tad ! twenty-four persons and injured eighty-nine. L-- 'AsGoodaaNew,'' lar.Uho words used by a lady, who was at one wM given np by the most eminent physicians, ^and left to die. Reduced to a mere skeleton, pale and haggard, not able to leave her bed, from cil those distreesisg diseases peculiar to Suffering females, such as displacements, leu1 lorrJIoea. inflammation, etc., etc. She began taking Dr. Pierce's "Fsrorite Prescription," iodrnlso using the local treatments recommended by Lira, and is now, she say?, "aa Rood as new." irice reduced to one dollar. By druggists. iNlMT. hwlq hftfnor f/ninri in NVvjlHa i 25 Cent* vir, bay A TBXATISK ONTHJC HOBSS AJTD HIS tostASM Book of 100 pages, valuable to Srw^oatpaid. ^EWYOMB^RSI BOOK CO., 1|4 ^eooard Street, New York city., ffgyyefof^tho incin^4- ? wlmt>w mnontly cure wlujut the use stfcsifor pamj\ p^dan L '^overed, *. metal rescarcii, a rwnie*iy io>- <?of tiie j tnwit, cnest an>i iun?^, wmon was 01 sucn woiierful efficacy thnt { . soon gained a wide repletion in this country. The name of the mediineisDr. TVm. Hall's Balsam for the Lung, and may be safely relied on as a rpctfy and positive cure for ooughs, coldi ior* frroat, eta :? "Ronah on Pain." Cires colic, cramps, diarrhoea; externally for tyhss, pains, sprains, headache, neuralgia, rheumatism. For man or beast. a5 and 50c. _. Toon* Men !-Read TbU Thj- Volt aid Bki.t Co.,c? Marshall* Mich., offer to send their celebrated EueciBO* Vol?no Belt and other Euronuo Appu,u?cnuwn trial for thirty days, to man (young or oW> afflicted with net0kms debility, loss of Titalicyand raafihood.andall kindred troubles. Also Mrtraunalasm, neuralgia,paralysis, and many ?iASr diabases. Complete restoration to health, vigi*.&ndmachooa guaranteed No risk is blurred as thirty days trial is allowed. Write than ?t once for illustrated pomp&let 'Itonffk ob Fain" Plaitw* Porota tnd strengthening, improved. tha best for br.ckacho, pains In chest or side, rheumatism, Qjuralgin. 25c. DraggaOof xnaiL Uw lie.ft flatter Color. Thegreatunaxiimity with which dairymen of high re^ut-stion have adapted, In preference IAI CUX YMJ4?I?- ?JW, mo XIUUIVIOU JL/UbK.? WW* I made by Walls, Richardson &C^.,of BariiMton. Vfc, is rtenarfcable. It. show* that the chuma of Imitative colors are baseless; wiae dairymen *k Jl nse do other. <^ldrc^U?^Svelo^^n^anyr?ar?Tray and dajjfejfo ue ''Welb'^^^mewflr." H?y$Wvr a aty]>eof catarrh ha-riaff pewiuu uvjn^trtoa it is attended by an inn&uied conditio of tho linine membrane cf the nostrils, tatf-ducts and throat, affecting , the lungs. An acrid mucus is secreted, the. discharge is ac^mpHofcd with a burning ?osation. There June suvere spasms of sneezing, frequent atta^i of hcadache, watery and inMifll (' fAHtVt Ufllm ID n twwiH founded ou a oOTect diagnosis of this disease, and can Ui depe uied upon. CO eta. at drag* gists; 60 crs. by iyail. Sample bottle by mail 60 cte. Ely Bnti j Dmggiatg, Owego, H. Y. A baldhcaded icon, who has heard'that the hairs of a man'; tend are numbered, wante to know if there ia xat some place where hfi can obtain the back mumbers. Carboline will supply tho demand _____ i Headache.fever chills, malaria, dyspepsia, cured by "wells' Health. Rcnewar." |L Nebraska ho? nearly 250,000 acres of planted forests in jjod condition. 100 Doset One Dollar Can be applied trctbfullyto Hood'i Sorttpadlla oalr, andlttoaaunanBWtmblo.nd eoarisdng MiaxMBtu to the strength and nti economy of thia great modletoe. Hood'sSaraaparillais mcfi) of roots, herbs, btrka, etc.. Ion* and itrmbly known f* thtir power ia sriB?au2fc dltaaae from tho cjitom and pnxl&faw blood Restored to Health "During the tnmm?r I bare beemdtftewhat debilitated or run down. 1 tare takes Hood*' SawaDinlla. which b?v? me n?w lift and zadtt?da? to tnj wont6>l health ud H. OLOUOH, Tilton, V. H. llsT Given an & >ttte "Wilhin a week after SimpvtUt my pprtite began to improvo, inj^B\o hit ma, my strength wjtmfld to be rcae-.v.^HL Jk bcttar in very part of my body. I rejolcff^Srf think of the good Hoo-J'e Sartip.-uilU has diA me."?OKtnrJBi L. Babbitt, Syracuse, n. T, w Hood's Sarseparilla SoMbyalldr .'KKuts. 91:alzfor$l. Preparad only fay 0.1. HOOD A CO.. Apothecaries, Lowell, Haas. 100 Poses One Dollar. ie spy tite rebellion by allan pinkerton, Who was Cuief of the 0, S. S?cret Bwvkse. il T'' W^Z~Agents Wanted for our Mow Book, Tl:? 4i.S PA'" i? now selling by the Trnt o/JTiovtcrutit Noc>>m:>t<iiitop. Uloar territory. Only nook of Kalaatl, Tho '4y I* V" rwTeslsmanrjr th? MuaMt before in.tiii!?hwi, 'iiiri'iiu^ DArratirea o( PlSKp.Toa'* SPIES, //.'>: nettyed tit' action t q/ our ffjari .'(<??<>?; a graphic 11" ouct of the oonnplrftc/ to aMarjiWo Lincoln. t'erilooa pip.irion-osot oor RUBRALbltii ic the Kot>(>: C'splt*!; thtlr forlorn hope* aaa heroio bravfo fuiijrri-miintedui tbaM ririd ?ketebos;?Uriie mont flirllMnjr n?r hook ever publlubn. Eadora.nl br l.undr.iin of Press ulAcmia' taatmlaWla. A laiv.v handrume book; 6<)0 pagta; CO illustrate Varefold only by fttir A rent a. Uaa not Iwfoand In bo-'l'Stoius. Snlla to merchants, farmers, mojianlcs and 'V- rjlotiy. We iwnt one agent in e*?iy Urand Army I'-ct and In o?ery county is the U. 8. SSr fnll particular.- and medal trrmt to agent.' nddreaa i O. W ('ARLETONAOO., Publisher!. .WTork. Thin ulvi!i'.i-?ement will appoar butonoe?cnt it out. AGEVTS WAXTED forth*urxi* BLAINE & (CLEVELAND & UMN.j HENDRICKS, In 1 Voi. b> T. V. K.?o.x I In 1 Vol. by Uos. A. Bakiciv. AuOiorlrcil, ABtlimtia. Impartial. Complete. the .1ft ?ad Chemist The iculinic runpalgu b->oki of 1334. Qutadlali othe-f !0f> l. 19"Kth tlioiisand in press. Esch vol., 000 parr i. ft.50. 50 lier'Mit.jn Ajreou. ucm: rrrt. rrt-.fjna pairi. / ARcnta 'ain $in to ti.f a day. Now t? the i.'me to make mt'uc? f?if Send !c Kxtra Ttrna, at one*. fc> fljurrroku pobaibhlw cc., lUrt&ni, Ajjcin* Wanted tot tbo Best and Kn?ti-?t jelling i'i. ujriiti i looks and Bibles. Trices r<duo?d 33 per cent. J?a-:o><? PPBUBHisa Co. Pbilndelph'^. Pa. f* ATA? H iiayfeteu. I aii wccmnirrdWy' Cr-am BaItq to alt I?aj- I IwWFAM RM.V1 tl Fc!rr nffoww.H bel3RHlC^* il (PQVU* il! ay founded B POsplfrri'M 7Z IN J "P-rtence ?d ? ? ,n HEAnl 5 ocur*'lwM aflU?t^ 2rjwf*fc.K??JWwr /or | EVER r*n. ?J ! <5TiflB8 dyer before found p*r I ,v~ fifca 'r'ut,nt relief. ? Web- J jjjjwf A>r H. Hnkiat, Mirth i i:rean> Biilm ii j K'"Hiy fonuded on a WV&S; ^ ll.SJl, [ brnct diagnoiJi of thij ; gp^/p?1 py .?!?? ""d c#c be ?ie. ! ffl?? ???-I* pnovi upon. out;* at droKmia: set. by mnl!. Sawyh Iv.ltle hy moil, Iflo EL* Bjv: . ?Jruss:?;i Owc?o.T. Y. PATENTS! ITS ^?8 XtfP&i i-'itri ob'iiifn-'rt- Writ?iorISV rTTO:t (j (iUinn. ( Nervous Debility UruUf'Ct./, | fJFSSEBOTaBElJb CURtS WHE8I ALL LSC FAILS. C3 Wwicouict^ynip, feAM*mx><i. M Tie to time. SofiMrucifnti. t?f i gBBBBEGSiEI^p j . dmfc'lt'* i*gjk TTHTWIBT a <J3 -R.Vi.ai3i ? ? '* * * ? *? i laissMSIi^S S2SSMK %r * X > \ ...a disordered? uv or< ?i "' iiio from my h?d_b.-* *i 0-Vcn up by 13 b tt qytggrp Ui?iM VL WVPoreraux, Mechanic, IoniA?l?p? J your nerves weak?..? "Bc? /ort cw*J ma from ner?og? yn*)Bjm to.,alter 1 ?ms not fxj/ccted to Ut*. ?JU* ~ *B; GoodYis, Xd. ChrUtiCM Monitor. CtoT?l#nd,<X T* Have von Blight's Diseaajg "KldnBT-wort ca-?<i ? when MT w?e*r w#? uto Sffi ?* Suffering' from Diabetes? "Kidney-Wort fathomost mcccMftil ?rtr uwd. Have you Liver Coinplain*g nwy.^rtciyd mo of chronio Lirerw*?| To womtn who ?ufler from aajr ?1 tt i Kb to their MX it i* aa ^nfaillsrmHr Aif Drny?i4j.^a4or-'^gy Dti CONST! PiKWml ' "I nrirewd from Paralysis of tb? Boir*!tJt&&L! w Jomptsict I Anally urfed DR. DAVJl>KBBDi5!DYH" fAVOKITE R[iMEDy\sn4Ln my OfitatMflftsTed : ay life. Yonrs, etc. A. JVX^ro^tp.0 Mr. Olflord is tmbtier VccfentiSf ng&irafi IItWoij of the rtwfl A Lowtii his line-* and rt-mvrryxn kaovrji to ?ibt, ore cm ior oar vwawnmu l>?ccr?lr^: TnM H seu LADY flGEMTSSffiSS1! igtaM GaanntMd jxWtirdr no* ad thoroughly flrst-cU?t is er?ry particular. Warrant' " i-d f :r 5 yrs. C*u h* r.'Wrnoii i ill ?M8 BMW *t oureimoM if not ** repr-u point*." E^ 'toV"" Jj^lS'TS Nicholson'* Imprc.voJ j-V-r onlr nuro. eurind mUMn dorii-?u?n-l :r. iSHHB Bsropa aod Arawlea. Write for free lHrinjS^nEiS tive book to J. H.??ichwI?on, 7 .Marta? t?o?. H>nj!? *adt'M^^ndMtoifa treat. CI jta So Coleman BimIdcm CtflUh Tk. rw M h Newark, N?w Jirwy. PnilBii {am mBW l|\IV %J irtdoilM. National uatnjau|?Writ4 l|p Tot OircuUra to tl. COLBKEfljOQj PflTFNTS?^mpi^3OTfea BH I H I til I W ont L*;?jcr.W,jjung?^bTflP I ClPii T?lt?r*ptiy w8UorMUa4miy I CA(In Writing lirre. bituaUana tarnkfr^ hi Addrew ViUBiTOt Hm. JaacwiU^JBET^ A S^B n ~ ^ to Sokiiars A H?!rm. tli?|ilil?i?iii ' Pensions wtti Milnii r *' ' ????iv'-i?"--1?ftltff n| m ! noudcnttlnr?iDi?>imfintor matrimony wSJK.?_ I copy "W?l&5rB?Ha7* P. O. B,>?a,889. HAZygff ClUrarek (N. T.) Co'le**.?$30 & ;var Every Farmer and Ilorscm&i^/a nbould own a book descriptive M cl the Horse, and the Diseases H to v-hich the noble auimal ig liable, that sickness may bo recognv.ed in lis inrinitney and H relief promptly aiTcd-l. Oral* TB MB book slnuM bo iifj li^adg ol $ 8 H every Hors^ o'vuer. us the knowl- nB ' * J " wee u contains may be *ortfc|S - H hundreds of dollars .it any aao-'jj^^. 1 I mom. If you want to know alt abc.it your Hone, how to Teli bis Age, how to Shot: him, send SWc, in ntaiups, and Yectt$Y%. tbobook, post paid, from ' HF.W YORK HORSE BOOK G0S?i|j^^H '