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^FATHER'S THANKSGIVING.
Why, wife, what is it pleases von? What makes
yon so take on '
You silrely must be erazv, or may be you've heard
from .lolm?
Yet that is hardly likely, as he's been Ave years
away.
And 1 can scarcely hope you've heard from him today.
We never have e'en heard from him, and yet the |
day may com*'
When we can welcome home again our long absented
eon;
And, though there bo no fatted calf, we'd try to
make him feel
That here so long as we've to share, he'd never
want a meal.
Poor boy : how sad he looked that day when bidding
you good-bye:
And, though he spoke quite cheerful, a tear stood
in each eye.
I think lie would have talked to me, but I had
turned to go.
For I was amir.v with him, bnt why I hardly know.
You know that books were ever a great pleasure to
our boy;
It alway seemed that nothin' else could give him
so much joy.
Jest let him get his hands on one, he'd go and hide
away.
Aid read along from morn till night, while other
boys would play.
And, wife, you know that my old dad bad never
been to school.
And many times I've heard him gay It made a boy a
fool.
Th s givin" him book larnin', for they only come to
hnrm
Kor w ou d they be content to stay and work upon
the farm."
And I, 1 guess must be like him; for when I saw
our John
iMt porin' o'er hi* books all day. instead of helping
011
And doin' work about the place, I thought the
boy 110 good.
And so ' 1 did not use him well, as I, his father,
should.
Hut what was worst of all, one day I took away a
hook
Which he had lately borrowed, and threw it in the
brook:
And had you seen, as I did, the look he gave me
then.
You would not wonder why I wish to see my boy
again.
Our .John, poor boy! he thought at last'twas best
for him to go
And find a home away from here, and then he told
mc no;
And 1 was very willing; for I thought, when once
away.
He'd hanker to get back again, and then contented
stay.
Hut years have passed away since then, and we
have never heard
A word of good or ill report; and if my eyes are
blurred
15y tears at times, it is because I do not feel the
same
As once I did toward our boy, for now I take the
blame;
For had 1 been but kind to him we still would have
h m here
To comTort and to cheer us, now old age is drawing
near.
But i;o\\, p rhnps, it is too late, and he may never
comc
To gladden us who long for him and wait for him
at Home.
Ah, well: I have been punished, and sometimes I'm
nearly wild
Whpn ihinL-lri.f how I treated ilim?Our b >Y. OUT
only child.
I know it cannot last for Ion:;, for something tells
lilt' so.
Nor would 1 mind it could I see our boy before I
goAnd
you, his mother, have grown old and gray beyowl
your years.
And, though you try to hide them, yet often I sec
the wars;
An'nothin'seems toplcaso rou now as once it
?>ed to do:
Oh, would that I had died myself ere trouble came
to you:
I saw our parson here to-day. I hone his folksare
well.
He came to make a call, you say? What news had
lie to tell.'
I know ther must be soinethin', for you look more
. pleased to-dny
Than I have seen in ail these years that John has
been away.
He brought a letter, did you say, from him--what !
from our John?
Which says that he will soon be home? No wonder
you take on:
Thank God: for he h s heard my prayer and filled
mv soul with joy.
And taken sorrow from my heart by sendin' back
our boy.
And now let us kneel down and ask that God Ilia
grace may giv<\
And shower his blessings on our boy as long us he
may iive:
And when to-morrow's dawn has come, and John
it> hrre to cay,
We'll thank the l ord who gave us a true Thanksgiving
Day.
THE LOST BILL.
A THANKSGIVING STORY.
Milly Barry and Josic King served at
5 * opposite counters of a great dry-goods
and millinery emporium. That was how
thay made acquaintance in the first
place?nodding and smiling at each
other in the intervals of serving customers.
"When they came to speaking, and
by easy stages to the innocent confidence
of their age theV found they were comprnions
in so many ways?each being
orphaned, poor, lonely and very sociable
?it was natural that they should presently
exchange vows of eternal friendship.
They then hired a little room together,
paid equal parts of its humble rent, and
went partners in their frugal housekeeping
expenses; and when they drank
their colce and ate their Vienna roll opposite
each other, across a dainty little
table they felt as if they had a home
once more.
Milly was a fair, pleasant-looking girl,
with soft blue eyes, brown hair, and a
fresh red-and white complexion; Josie
was tall, slight, dark and pale, with
glossy black hair and large, dark-brown
eyes?a very handsome girl.as was often
remarked by ladies when she served
them, with.a rather queenly air.
The girls were a direct contrast in
personal appearance?another reason for
their attraction toward each other.
lUJiiv and josie iiuu not large s>uiaries
?the firm which employed them was
liot remarkable for generosity; quick
sales, small profits and very small salaries
was the rule, in the "great emporiuni."
However, by dint of incessant economy,
and by reason of sharing expenses,
Milly and Josie contrived to put aside a
small sum weekly toward a little fund
for a great Thanksgiving celebration.
They were both >>"ew England girls, and
in their childhood's days that day had
ever been one of great rejoicing and
much merrymaking in the lioines that
remained now only as a beautiful and
hallowed memory.
But for once they determined to make
it as much of a joyous reality as the
flight of years and the loss of friends and
relatives would allow. They laid out in
imagination quite a sumptuous entertainment;
and on counting up their savings
a few days before the festive occasion,
and finding that they amounted to the
k magnificent sum of ten dollars, both
girls felt justified in inviting a few
friends to help them eat their turkey.
k- Mrs. Hob^on, their landlady, promised
to roast the noble bird, and asked
4 permission to contribute a mince and a
pumpkin pie; while the girls themselves
nn^m-tnnL* Vw* nAnl'infi1 nf fVw? nMnKoi'M'
sauce and vegetables on their own tiny
? . - pns stove?for each felt that half the fun
of the entertaiuraent would be lost unless
they personally superintended a portion
of the cooking.
f -- The great day approached, and it was
Thanksgiving Eve, and of course their
marketing had to be done after store
hours, for neither had been able to get j
tZ leave of absence during the day-time,
the emporium bfinji more than usually |
thronged because of the coming holiday. '
"Come, Josie!''called Millv, from the ;
door of their room, as she drew on her I
. neat gloves, Josie having stepped across
the hall for a moment to ask their rheumatic
neighbor, just opposite, whether
they could do her any service while they
were out shopping.
"les, dear." Josie answered. "Go on,
as*- Milly?I will overtake you at the door."'
Millv went on, as directed, very leisurely,
and buttoning her gloves as she
descended the stairs.
When she reached the lower hall, rhe !
waited for Josie before opening the j
5.V door.
Minute after minute passed, and growing
impatient, she amused herself by
drumming with the tips of her fingers
on the banisters.
L Five minutes passed,and,with a slight
exclaimation, she ran half way upstairs
again.
''Come, Josie?it is getting late!" she
called out, as she retraced her steps.
"We will find nothing worth buying." ,
"Oh, dear, dear!" responded .Tosie, in |
I a voice of mingled distress and per;
.. plexity.
Millv hurried up the remaining stair, i
and hastened into their room.
Josie was wildly searching about the
apartment, moving table, chaits,bureau |
?even the bed?in a state of utter de- j
snair and bewilderment.
Millv could not repress a slight .
laugh, her friend looked so wildly anxious
and distressed, for no apparent
cause.
"What in the world is the matter I
Have you lost anything!"
"Anything? Everything!" was the }
tracrio renlv. with an appropriate tone
and gesture. "The money! Our ten
dollars is gone!"'
"Good gracious!?but is it possible!''
Milly gasped for breath, and sank
into the nearest chair, with even greater
j. despair written on her countenance than
had just given rise to her merriment
v when she saw it depicted on her friend's
face. But Jo-.it; didn't laugh. The
situation was far to serious for her too
see auy comic phase of it.
"So I thought, too, when I first missed
it; but I have searched every corner of
the room, every inch of the carpet,every
impossible and possible place, and the
appalling fact becomes more convincing
?the money is gone!"
H Again and again every article in the 1
I room was moved out of its place, and
8 every likely and un ikely nook and crev- I
ice se.irelitil, but without success.
SS Occasionally a remark was made by j
KB one or the other of the girls, and ab- j
BE seutly replied to; and still the search ,
V went on, until, tired out, they both sat
M down and despairingly removed bonnet, |
B jacket and gloves. ;
There was now no occasion for going
out; the merry marketing to which they
had looked forward with so much pleasure,
was no longer possible.
Instead,"they must find some way of
sending word to their invited guests that
unforeseen circumstances had interposed
to prevent their little festivity.
Josie was quite heartbroken, blaming
herself for her carelessness: and though
Milly tried to comfort her, shft could not
help thinking that she would have been
more careful of the treasure they had so
long and so faithfully striven for.
And, to make everything worse,an unmistakable,
though indescribable, coldness
sprang up between these warm
friends.
"You and Josie King are net such
friends as you used to be," remarked a
second acquaintance to >Iilly Harry, some
weeks later.
The speaker was Kate Weeks, one of
the party who had been invited to the
Thanksgiving dinner which never took
place; and the young girls chanced to be
talking together for a few moments during
the brief noontime.
''No, we are not?though I love Josie
King dearly, and always shall,"' returned
Milly. "The trouble dates from the loss
nf rlvit linfrvrtnniitn ton ilollnrs. You
see, no one else was in the room from the
time she laid the money on the bureau
until it was missed, except ourselves.
And where could it go? 1 am sure the
same thought is in both our minds?not
that either of us really suspects the other
of taking the money?that would be impossible?but
we arc both miserable
from fearing that we suspect each other,
and we have neither of us the courage
to come to an explanation. The idea of
such a thing seems so unutterably mean!
Oh, dear! I had rather have lost ten
thousand dollars than have given way to
the wicked thoughts and doubts forced
on me by the loss of that wretched ten."
A young man, who was passing along
the crowded aisle of the great emporium
at that moment, chanced to overhear
these words; for, in her excitement,
Milly raised her voice, and spoke with
great distinctness.
This young man looked at her with
marked attention, and before he left the
store he had, by much perseverance, and
by assuming his most engaging manner,
adroitly managed to ascertain Lilly's
name, and also her place of residence,
without cither giving ollense or subject
ing himself to a snubbing for his curiosity.
That evening, Josie and Milly were
much startled by the receit of a card
sent up by a gentleman who had asked
for them both, and was now waiting in
the parlor.
"j>ay we will come down," said Josie
to the gaping mald-of-all-work, who
evidently shared their amazement, for
neither Miss Barry nor Miss King had ever
received a masculine visitor before, since
taking up their abode in those lodgings.
'Albert Merton," Josie read from the
card, as the door closed behind the servant.
''Iknowof no such person. It
must be some friend of yours, Milly."
"No, indeed! I never heard the gentleman's
name before. But it's a very
pretty name. Suppose we go and see if
the owner is worthy of his name."
Both girls hastened to the parlor, and
a tall, good-looking, elegant young man,
"quite as pretty as his name," Milly
subsequently remarked, rose to meet
them.
"Miss Barry," he bowed to Milly,
"and Miss King," he bowed to Josie,
"I trust you will not consider this an
intrusion when I explain that I come to
return something belonging to you both,
which has chanced to get into my possession."
"Impossible, I think! We have lost
nothing?at least I have not."
And Josie looked toward Milly.
"Nor I!'' replied that young lady,
emphatically.
"Are you quite sure?" smiled the visitor.
" A certain ten-dollar bill was
blown in my face by a stray gust of wind
last Thanksgiving Eve, just as I was
passing this house, and I have been on
the lookout for the owner ever since.
Something I chanced to overhear to day
led me here."
"A ten-dollar bill?" both girls exclaimed
at ouce.
And Milly added, in self-reproach:
"The window was open, Josie.
I stepped across the room to close
it, and I never remembered it
afterward. IIow wrong of me! It
would have explained everything."
^.nd without a word more, both girls
ruSlied toward each other,and exchanged
a fervent embrace.
Mr. Mcrton smiled and seemed to understand,
although neither of the girls
remembered his presence just then.
"But it may not be our ten dollars
after all."
"That is easily tested," said Josie. "I
exchanged our money for the bill at the
store that day; ana having my pencil in
hand at the time, I wrote on the back of
it our initials, 'M. and J.', inclosed in
a circle.'
"And here it is!" laughed young Merton,
taking a crisp note from his pocket,
and smoothing it out, so that the mark
was plainly visible on the reverse side.
"So like you, Jnsic.''said Millv, taking
possession of the money. "I shall take
care of it this time."
Josie made no answer, but her quick,
artistic eye, noted the strong, white,
well-shaped hand on which the bill had
rested; and somehow, the look of admiration
was caught by the dark, blue
eyes of the owner of that hand.
Josie King blushed violently, :iud
looked so handsome that Albert Merton
instinctively uttered an exclamation.
"Oh, Miss King, you will forgive me,
I know!" he explained. "But I am an
artist, and at that moment the turn of
your head and the expression of your
face, just realized the ideal I have been
engaged on. It is a charming subject?
if you would only grant me the privilege
of a sitting to sketch your head."
.Milly discreetly withdrew to a distance,
and pretended to examine the recovered
ten-dollar bill. Josie did not
grant the young artist's request immediately;
but her refusal was not of a cliarnMpr
tn rpnrlpr liiin linnplf>ss Slip suit.
sequently repented of her lack of amiaability
so far that she ?rranted Albert
Merton innumerable sittings: and, in
the course of the next six months, his
studio teemed with sketches of Josie
King's beautiful head and face; in fact,
lie occupied her spare time so exclusively,
and found her so invaluable as a
a model, that they agreed to enter into a
life long partnership; and on the wedding
day, Milly. who officiated as bridesmaid.
slipped the identical ten-dollar
bill into Josie's hand, and whispered:
"Have it framed and put in a glass
case, dear. You see our loss was a great
yain in the end."
Love-Signs in the Face.
People do not generally think of marriage
in a common-sense way, but unite
themselves with any one who takes their
fancy. Divorce courts are full of cases
based on simple incompatibility of temper.
The nervous temperament should unite
itself with the bilious-vital, which is
known by plumpness of person, dark
linix o lid An OOfll'lflT /\f
nan, vrj? auu cuiujucaiuu^ uunt n y \/l
the nutritive organs, fondness of social
pleasures, etc.
The features of the face indicate a
great deal as> to the activity of the brain
and the peculiar direction of the faculty.
For instances, full red lips, and broad,
prominent chin show great strength and
ardor in the love element. A narrow and
pointed chin is the more exclusive and
monogamic.
The lormcr will usually be accompanied
by a broad neck and expanded
brain back of the ears, while the retreating
chin will be found with a longer,
narrower neck.
Full, round eyes, high in the center,
are also indicative of honesty and purity
of love, while the broad or Hat eye is
more inclined to be loose in love matters.
Low and scowling eyebrows iudicate
subterfuge and resis:ance?a disposition
to shift, evade and resort to many ways
to accomplish a purpose or to avoid dilliculties.
Projecting eyebrows tell of mechanical
skill, a stern nature, with talent
for details.
T??.U on/1 finnlr fnrmorl line hncnpnlc fl
large heart. The perfect mouth is full,
with the upper lip well curved in the
center, nnd with neither upper nor lower
protruding. Such a mouth indicates love
for all that is beautiful and tasty; a
whole souled and generous nature, good
disposition, strong affections, desire for
caressing and kissing, affections both
active and passive. When the upper lip
is thin in proportion to the lower, *it
shows that the affections are not balanced.
Its possessor may receive caresses
and kisses, but cares little about
giving them. Lips turned up at the corners
indicate mirthfulness.
Mr. Bergh has warned the riflemen
that they will not be permitted to hit
the bull's eye.?Jingo.
Forty-four religious denominations
flourish in the United States.
THE CHINESE IN NEW YORK.
PECULIARITIES OF THE ORIENTALS
DESCRIBED.
Their fetiperstitiohs anil Their I'n*
( onqiirrnblc Fatalism?.V Krporter
in a Chinese Hospital.
Soon after the first batch of Chinamen
put in their appearance in New York
they began to surround themselves with
heathen accessories to which they had
been accustomed in San Francisco. Before
three months had gone by they had
several nourishing opium dens, half a
dozen "fail-ton"'games and lottery joints
aud a dozen stores for the sale of
Oriental commodities. Having provided
for the amusements of their daily lives
the moon-eyed strangers set up relations
with the powers above, by establishing a
Joss house, wherein they hang their
prayers with commendable regularity \
and punctuality. Next they set about
encompassing order by the founding of a
Chinese law court, and lastly, and very
recently they completed the social circle
of Chinese life by opening a hospital, or
ninrn nronerlv. a house wherein the sick
may die without bothering their friends
and relations.
Chinamen arc well known to be fatalists.
This trait in their national character
makes Chinamen, who are otherwise
cowardly, meet death with the utmost
stoicism. On the Pacific, slope executions
of Chinamen have been by no
means unfrcqucnt, and in no case has the
victim of the law failed to march to the
scaffold with the fortitude of an Indian.
The belief that what is to be is to be, and
no act of a person may avert a catastophe.
renders the healing art most difficult of
application to Chinamen. Oncc John
becomes really sick, he is pretty sure to
die, because he gives up all hope, refuses
to take medicines, and resigns himself
stoically to the fate in store for him.
lie is superstitious, and places what little
faith he has in curatives not in drugs,
but in queer amulets, funny bags, and
nauseating liquids blessed by the priests.
This superstition afFccts his relations,
and once the hand of death is considered
to have set its mark upon the sick man's
saffron forehead he is an outcast, lie is
no more fit to remain in human habitatation;
for should he die under the roof,
all manner of ills will fall upon the inmates.
Therefore he is hustled out to
die. In San Francisco dying men are
often found upon the streets. Parents
are as ruthlessly sacrificed, once their
nilmont. i? nonqidercd honcless. as the
veriest stranger?and yet the children of
a Chinamen are the most dutiful of any
children of any people.
Hearing that a hospital, or sick-house,
as the Chinese term it, had oeen established
in Chinatown, a representative of
the Commercial Adccrtixer set to
work to find the placc, and explore it if
opportunity offered. From inquiries
made among the white people in the
neighborhood, tiie house was located
on the north side of the street, five or
six doors from the corner of Chatham
street. The entrance was under a stoop,
and opened into a long, dark hallway,
that in turn led into, a blind court
between the front ancl rear buildings.
The drains from the adjoining houses
emptied into thestone-llagged court, and
the sewage lay in littte pools in the
broken stones, sending up an overpowering
stench. Garbage was scattered over
the ground, where it had been thrown
from the windows, and lumber, boxes
and barrels tilled up the intervening
spaces. Picking his way across the
ccurt, the writer reached a deal door
that appeared to open into the rear house,
but which really opened into a long
alley, at the end of which was another
door on which was pasted a red sign in
black Chinese characters. Knocking
produced no response. The visitor lifted
the latch, and pushed the door open. A
volume of foul air and smoke poured
out, nearly stifling the reporter, who
drew back lor a moment, but recovering
he entered. The place was dark, but
gradually the eye bccominir accustomed
to the gloom, it was possible to distinguish
the limits of the place. Not a
stick of furniture was in the place, but a
brazier, made of an old coal oil can,
burned in the middle of the room. On
one side there were bunks, arranged end
for end, and on one, covered by a quilt
made of gunny sacks and rags, lay a
human form. As the visitor approached,
the miserable creature half raised upon
his elbow, and asked in a hollow voice:
"What for?"
"You sick?" interrogated the reporter.
"3Ie vclly sick," answered the Chinaman,
falling back with a groan.
"Hungry?"
"No?no can eat."
"Where are your friends?"
"Xo got lllends. All aronc."
As the poor fellow ceased, a hollow
cough told the story. lie was dying
from consumption, which carriesolT fully !
half of his race in this country. l'oor I
food, insullicient clothing and an unsan- I
itary mode of life soon work havoc with j
the weak physique of the coolie, and his i
vicious habits of opium smoking and i
" amblinc hurrv him on until too weak !
to stand, his friends carry liim to the
sick house.
There was nothing more to learn. John
was dying, and he would do nothing to
help himself, for was not the hand of
death upon him? So, leaving a small
piece of silver in the talon-like haud of j
the sick man, the reporter left. As he j
stepped into the court the proprietor of |
the sick house was coming in with a tin j
plate of rice and a diminutive cracked
cup of tea.
"What is the matter with that man, i
John?" asked the reporter.
"Oh, him die."
"The sickness?" (consumption).
"Yes. Him die to-morrow."
"Where are his friends?"
"Him iliends plenty lich. (Jot'em
store. Payee Sam Kcc plenty money
keep Ah Jim."
"Why don't you get a doctor?"
"Wha* for? Him die. Wha' for
spendum money doctor?"
"Why don't his friends keep him home
where he can be comfortable?"
"All same bad Joss come, he die there.
Ah .Tim all lite. Him die plenty cliek'n
have big tlun'ral. Send'um bones liack
China."
The next day when the reporter called
Ah Jim lay in a pine box. lie had on a
new suit of blue glazed muslin and :i |
skull cap with a bright red button. His j
face wore a calm expression, and the thin !
hands were crossed over his breast. Fun .
eral punk burned and little gilded pa- |
per cornucopias were scattered around, j
Across the street grand preparations were j
making for a great funeral feast, for Ah
Jim had died out of the house and he I
could now be honored.?AV?r York Com- j
mercial Advertiser.
A Far-West Sketch.
"You will have tog.? into the forward |
coach," said the conductor, as he tore |
off a coupon from a second-class ticket, i
"But the tobacco smoke is so bad and I j
have such a headache," said the little
woman, timidly, and the pale face
was raised pleadingly. "Can't help it,
ma'am. Rules of the road require passengers
having second-class tickets to
ride in the forward coach,"was the un- j
compromising reply as he passed on. j
"Hang your rules," blurted out a bitr '
man with a tierce mustache. "Stay I
where you are, madam. You look tired; i
here, let me turn this seat over so you .
can lie down. Put your head on this i
grip. Here's my overcoat; put it so," j
and he had her nicely tucked away
before she could object. "Your ticket? j
All O. K. Take mine; it's to the same i
place, first-class, tinlimited. I love to !
smoke. Always ride in the smoker, !
anyhow." And he went forward. Dinner
was announced in the dining car, and j
the big man came bustling in and in- I
sisted on her having dinner. She ob- i
jected, evidently thinking it improper J
to receive so much atteution from a j
stranger. "Kate Adams," read the big ;
man, looking at the name on her vali-e. !
"Not Dick Adams'wife? You are? Well, |
by George! Why, come here, I'll kiss j
you, my girl! Dick's my youngest
brother! Well, I'll be blamed! Well,
Well. Why, I was just ;roing to see
him. Heard he'd got flat broke, and
kind o' want to set him up again." And
the big man looked happy and the little j
sister-in-law very much pleased.?Minnesota
Bazoo.
Poking the Fire.
Some one has written a long letter to
the queen teaching the correct manner
of treating the fire. It is never to ue |
poked, says this domestic Mentor, as poking
is a waste of caloric. I can imagine
that individual's house, constructing it
from this item of information, as the ;
learned constructed the statue of Hercu- j
les from the foot. The windows are never
drawn up for fear of dust. The blinds '
are never drawn up for fearof the sun. j
The chairs are kept covered in holland !
wrappers. When any one indulges in a j
promiscuous nap there are layers of for- !
eign matter introduced between the
sleepy head and the couch or armchair i
on which it rests. ?London Truth. j
r;-:
- TVISE WORDS.
Great things arc not accomplished by
idle dreams, but by years of patient
study.
They that do nothing are in the readiest
way to that which is worse than
nothing.
Be happy if you can, but do not despise
those who are otherwise, for you
know not their troubles.
If you are going to do a good thing
do it now; if you arc going to do a bad
thing, wait till to-morrow.
Every person has two educations?one
which he receives from others and one
more important, which he gives himself.
It many times falls out that we deem
ourselves much deceived by others because
we first deceived ourselves, lie
who is false to present duty breaks a
thread in the loom and will find the
(law when he may have forgotten its
cause.
Generous impulses and charitable enter
prises arc valuable only as they coincide
with and supplement strict integrity?
never when tliey usurp its place. No
amount of alms-giving can atone for a
single unjust or oppressive act; no, liberality
in one direction can make up for
meanness in another, no effort to diminish
the burdens of life in leisure moments
can absolve a man from adding to
them in his hours of business.
The Art of Cutting Diamonds.
The art of cutting diamonds was not
practiced in this country until 1858,
when Henry D. Morse of Boston showed
what a Yankee could do at it. Since
then the business of cutting diamonds
ha* spread largely from the efforts of
workmen imported or taught by him,
and now there arc many workshops in
America, chiefly in large cities, where
diamonds arc cut to order. The tariff
has been adjusted so as to foster the diamond-cutting
business here. Uncut diamonds
may be imported duty free, but a
heavy duty is imposed on the cut stones.
The modern process of diamond cutting
is much the same as that which has
"icen followed for centuries. The wages
paid the workmen are about the same as
those paid to first-class working jewelers.
Mr. Morse has a machine of his own invention
which he u*e9, and which he believes
is an improvement on the old
method. lie mounts two diamonds in a
sort of double lathe, using one against
tho nflinr This is ft close iinita
tion of the old hand method, in
which the diamonds are cemented each
at the end of a stick or handle, and
rubbed together with a strong pressure,
The diamond dust which results from
this process, and is used in cleaving and
polishing diamonds, is called bort. It is
also made by pulverizing small or imperfect
diamonds which are of little value
for cutting. The ingenuity of jewelers
has been taxed to find use for the small
diamond chips that come oil in cleaving.
Some of these chips are used for cluster
diamond jewelry. Many are used to
represent the eyes of birds or animals.
The rage for solitaire stones of late
years has filled the market with cheap
clippings.
AVhen Mr. Morse cut the big Virginia
diamond in Boston, in 1849, most
jewelers doubted the poisibility of'Cutting
diomonds in this country. But
gradually the inevitable law of trade asserted
itself, and so profitable .a business
could not longer be monopolized abroad.
There are about a hundred workmen
now employed in Xcw York city alone in
cutting1 diamonds, and their wages average
about twenty-five dollars a week.
The expert who decides how a stone
shall be cut does not always perform the
actual labor of cutting, but simply
directs the lapidary how to cut so as
to bring out the utmost brilliancy of the
stone. It happens sometimes that the
first cutting produces a comparatively
dull stone, and that a skilful cutter takes
the same stone, and, although reducing
it in size, increases its value by producing
greater brilliancy. Sometimes a part
of a stoue may be so hard that it cannot
be polished. It is not always the hardest
stones that are most brilliant.
With free trade in uncut diamonds it
is a common thing to send considerable
quantities in paper bags through the
mails between different countries.?JYetc
York Sun.
The Jewels in European Crowns.
The crown of England is believed to
be the finest piecc of regalia in the
world. The lower part of the band is a
row of 129 pearls, the Upper part of 11.1;
between them in front, is a large sapphire;
behind is a smeller supphire with
six others and eight emeralds. Between
the two great sapphires are ornaments
containing 280 diamonds. Above the
band are eight sapphires, surrounded by
eight diamonds and eight festoons, containing
ICG diamonds. In the front of
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II1U crown J3 II1U HUM' {JIVCU IU iuc iJiaua
Prince by Pedro, King of Castile. This
is set in a Maltese cross and forming the
cross are seventy-five large diamonds
Three other crosses arc round the
upper part of the crown, containing altogether
;580 diamonds. Between the four
crosses are four ornaments with four
rubies in their centers, and containing respectively
eighty-four, eighty-six,eightyfive
and eighty-seven diamonds. From
the Maltese crosses rise four arches composed
of oak leaves and acorns, the
leaves containing ?2S diamonds. The
thirty-two acorns are each of a single
pearl, and are set in cups made of fiftyfour
diamonds. Above the arches stands
the mound, containing 548 diamonds,
and above the mound is the cross, containing
a very large sapphire, four very
large and 108 smaller diamonds. The
value of the whole is variously estimated,
but is commonly believed to be about
si.500,000.
The jewels of the crown of the king of
Portugal are valued at 000,000 francs,
and his diamonds weigh over 5.000 carats,
their value being estimated at more
than t'2.000,0<)0. Among them is a diamond
reported to weigh 1,080 carats,
which, if genuine, is the largest of the
kind in the world. It is, however, suspected
to be a white topaz, and the king
will not allow a critical examination to
be made of it.
At the coronation of the present
czar and czarina, two crowns were
made for the occasion, together
with a necklace, and- the empress'
crown is thought to present to view the
most beautiful collection of diamonds
ever gathered in a single ornament, it
is uncertain whether Russia or Persia
possess the linest collection of crown
diamonds in the world, but the honor
belongs to one of the two.
One of the finest collections of crown
jewels in the world is possessed by the
most hopelessly broken down potentate,
the sultan of Turkey. Every sultan
from the earliest times has made a point
of collecting jewels and selling none,
and thus, through the course of ages,
the collection has become enormous. The
jewel rooms of the Turkish sultan resemble
nothing so much as the descriptions
in the "Arabian Nights.''
With Every Point in Her Favor.
It was in an East Boston ferry horse
car. She was slight, delicate anil standing
up. lie weight d over two hundred
pounds and was sitting in the corner by
the rear door. Suddenly lie jumped
from his sent, to ask the conductor a
question. .She (innocent unthinking
creature) thought he meant to leave the
car, and so she slid into the seat he just
vacated. Soon he concluded the interview
with the conductor and began to
back into his scat attain. The little
woman saw the proportions af tiie bulky
form gradually assume frightful magnitude
and a very alarming proximity.
Quickly digging her elbow into the ribs
of her neighbor (whose head and beard
looked like a bundle of saffron), she interested
him sufficiently in the jeopardy
of her situation to induce him to raise his
colossal fist and ' fend olT" the settling
monster. Words cannot picture the
look of horror upon the man's face when
lie received a vigorous thrust in the
small of his back, and turned and saw
this little wee woman in his seat.
"Great Scott, ma'am! Yer a pretty
hard hitter, ain't yer? I hain't had such a
clip as fliat since 1 was strucK Dy a ice
boat. Oh, don't move, ma'am, be just
as easy yer can. You've ev'ry point in
yer favor."?Boston Globe.
A Rain Machine.
Among the last inventions reported
from Australia is a machine for producing
rain-storms. It is intended to force
a rain-supply fram the clouds during a
period of drouth. The apparatus in
the form of a balloon, with a charge of
dynamite attached underneath it. The
balloon is to be sent into the clouds, and
when there the dynamite is to be tired
by a wire connecting it with the earth.
A trial of this novel contrivance is to be
given upon the dry districts of New
South Wales, and the result is looked
forward to with interest by some of the
J residents of that colony.
V
IN THE CZAR'S DOMINIONS; j
WHAT COUHTBY LIFE UT BUSBIA
BE ALLY IS.
3
Visit to a N'ohlcnian's IIcNidcnce?Tlie
]Wanwion?N Surroundingx-How the
Peasant* oil the*E*iatc Live.
The remark that "he knows only St.
Petersburg and Moscow has not seen
Russia," was accentuated in my experience,
when, on my way to Central Asia,
I accepted an invitation to a nobleman's
seat in the Russian interior, writes a correspondent
of the London Times. Previous
journeys to the extremities of the
empire has brought me in contact with
diverse races along the high roads, but
I was anxious to sec what the peasant
was like, not when shouting ''Long life
to the Czar" under the walls of the
Kremlin, but when buried at home, out
of reach of steamer and railway whistle,
and miles away from a post road, a telegraph
station or a post-oflicc. With interest,
therefore, after driving over dusty
roads the whole of a summer night, I
found myself in the early morning approaching
my destination. "You must
not expect to find anything peculiarly
Russian about the house," my friends
had said, "for it is a new structure, of
Elizabethan architecture." And so from
the outside it was. One might have fancied
it a Ivcntish mansion, purchased for
i'oO.OOO and set down in the middle of a
Russian estate.
The interior of the house was somewhat
more adapted to Muscovite ideas in
that the rooms opened one into the other,
and the sleeping apartments of the
family could be cut oil from the rest.
The materials of the house had been obtained
for the most part on the spot.
The bricks were burnt on the estate, and
the handsome carving and wainscoting
of the hall were of indigenous timber.
Some of the ornamentation, however, was
from abroad. The panels on the drawing-room
walls were filled with immense
Italian paintings, and the room of my
hostess was hung with large photographs
of the masterpieces of Raphael.
In keeping with this was the intellectual
culture of the family. English
was spoken by parents and children all
day long, and French, German and Russian
when required. In the morning we
read, wrote and took horse exercise, and
in the evening were enlivened with
classical music, alter wmcn h was uui a
step out of the drawing-room doors on to
the spacious terrace to look in thegloaming
over one of those vast Russian plains,
which can hardly be called beautiful, but
which are striking to an Englishman by
reason of their vastness and unlikeness
to anything he sees at home. The
mansion was built on a hill at the foot of
which a river meandered, containing
trout and perch; and intervening were
terraced lawns and grounds, covered in
their seasons with homely buttercups
and 'daisies, as well as forget-rne-nots,
wild roses and lilies of the valley. The
grounds were planted, not indeed, with
conifers (for there are none on the
estate), but with tall poplars and sturdy
oaks up to two feet in diameter, clusters
of pliant willows and graceful birch, together
with lime, beoch and elm. These
trees are a refuge for the cuckoo, thrush
and nightingale, while a little further oil
in the forests arc to be found, among
birds, rooks and crows, ravens, hawks
and eagles, and among animals, hares,
foxes and wolves.
Hut it was not the mansiou that interested
me so much as its surroundings.
The estate consisted of about 25,000
acres, of which one-fifth is forest* and
one-twentieth pasture, tlic soil varying
between good black earth, loam, sand,
loam and sand with clay beneath, and in
some parts of alL clay. It furnishes no
p^nn Utif nlnntv nf nlfihnatn!
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which remains, however, unworked.
(trowing wild were to be found horseradish,
raspberries, strawberries, black
currants and fruit called rebina; while
on the cultivated lands wheat was
said to thrive (but not barley), and buckwheat,
rye, oats, peas, llax and hemp.
Beans too are grown in gardens, and tobacco.
I inquired, of course, the cost of
this produce, and found that on the spot,
for the pood of thirty-six English
pounds, wheat and buckwheat sold for
'is., rye, Is. yd.; oats, Is. 4d., potatoes,
Td. a bushel, and hay from 2. to Id.
the pood, this last being of tolerable
quality, but not comparable to English
fodder. Ordinary land yields from
twenty-five to thirty-five poods of hay
an acre, and the better sort from fifty to
seventy poods, with sometimes a second
crop.
The estate was inhabited by about
1,000 families, living in wooden,thatched
houses, usually of two rooms only, built
often of willow, of which a log thirty
feet long and ten inches in diameter
casts a couple of shillings, the outer bark
of the tree used forrooling and the inner
bark for matting and ropes. The houses
were furnished only scantily. Twenty
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possess a bed, but not one of tlieiu ii bed
and bedstead, too. It was common,
however, for a family to possess a cow,
one or more horses, and three or four
sheep: a good specimen of the last
weighing lorty to fifty pounds, and its
wool selling from 4i to 3d. per pound.
The food of the peasants was extremely
simple, consisting of rye bread and
stchee, or soup of cabbage and fat:
soaked and boiled buckwheat eaten with
hempsced oil; mushrooms, curds and
onions. For drink they consumed kvas
(small beer made from rye bread) and j
here and there tea, though this latter has
not become general among them. Beef
was a delicacy and cost '2d. per pound,
mutton lid., and pork 2Ad. Chickens
sold from 2id. to 4d. each, ducks from
3d., geese fur .20d., while extravagant
persons feasted on turkeys at 2s. each.
The clothing of the peasantry was in
keeping with their food. A man's summer
suit consists of a cotton shirt, a
pair of linen trousers and shoes of limetree
bark, the last costing 3d. per pair.
If a peasant aspires to high boots they
co;t lntn from 12s. to 14s., and he pays
olmiif tlin enmn lirifn fnr his linmnsmin
kaltan, while in winter his sheepskin
shouba or coat may cost him from JO
to aOs.?dearer, I may remark, than 1
paid at Khiva, where common shoubs
could be had for 10s. each.
A Town Where no Birth or Marriage
Ever Occurs.
"Haggion Oros," the holy mountain
of all who profess the Greek faith, occupies
a most commanding position on the
western shores of the -Kgean Sea. Rising
abruptly from the water to a heighth of
IJ,200 feet, at thcextrcmity of a longnar
row peninsula, it seems to be keeping
watch and ward over the sea path to and
fiom Salonica and the approach to the
Dardanelles, much as Gibraltar does over
the t traits leading to the Mediterranean.
The peninsula is about forty miles long
and has an average breadth of six. It is
UUUIIUUIUU Willi 111U liiu.it V.uai^uuuiuii
Peninsula by a narrow neck of sand,
through which the Persian monarch
Xerxes cut a canal for vessels of light
draught, vestiges of which yet remain.
Beside "llaggion Oros'' is Mount Atlios,
Even bcifore the days of Christianity
Mount Atlios had its recluses, for the solemn
grandeur of the great I 'are peak and
the weird aspect of its surroundings are
well calculated to harmonize with minds
Jvcnupto wild and mystic thoughts.
The new doctrines gave a great impulse
to this desire to withdraw from the
world, and in the course of time the
whole peninsula came to be occupied by
Greek monks, who, under the Byzantine
emperors, enjoyed the privilege of governing
themselves and their possessions
without the interference of any secular
control whatever. There was thus formed
a sort of ecclesiastical autonomy that
has endured to the present day. Tiic
only indication of Turkish authority in
Mount Athos is the presence of a '*caimakam,"
who, however, en joys not the
slightest power, his functions being limited
to that of a mere observer. This
otiicial has two "zaptieths" (gendarmes)
under his orders, but they are more to do
honor to his position than to represent
any force at his command, the communiity
having its own police in the shape of
a body of stout Albanian guards. 1 ne
administration is carried on by a Council
of Representatives, presided over by one
of their number, who is termed ''Proteros,"
or 4'the first man of^Vthos." This
office is held by each of the members of
the council in succession for a period of
three months. The monks follow the
rule of Basilius. No woman is allowed
on any pretense whatever to set foot in
the district. The prohibition extends
even to female creatures of every kind,
so that not a hen, cow. she goat or any
other animal capable of giving birth to
its kind is to be found at Mount Athos.
There is but one village, where a fluctuating
body of seculars reside, who assist
the monks in their agricultural or ether
labors. It is the only place in the world
resembling a town in which no marriage
or birth ever takes place.
In September, 1774. the first constitutional
Congress met at Philadelphia,
and Peyton Randolph, of Virginia, was
chosen President.
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NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.
Brown furs of all kinds are in fashion.
Red squirrel skins are in favor for
cloak-lininga.
Fur waisrtcoats appear in some of the
cloth jackcts.
In silver tea sets the preference is given
to low, flat shapes.
Reed birds' nests and eggs are used as
trimming in millinery.
A young lady in Gaddistown has hair
nearly six feet in length.
Dress skirt3 are trimmed with rows of
braid in graduated widths.
Fur and ostrich feathers have taken
the place of marabout trimming.
Olive and pale blue constituie a favorite
combination for fair haired girls.
The head clerk in a Western recorder's
ofticc is a beautiful girl of seventeen.
A sort of recording angel, as it were.
All the women of Ceylon wear an inordinate
amount of jewelry. They have
rings in their noses and silver plates on
their toes.
Lamps are more ornamental than ever,
and arc much used for a ccntrc table
with wax candles burning in handsome
iirnaa r-inrllnstirks on the mantel.
There are in Chicago not less than
from 40,000 to 50,0:)0 women, girls
and children, who perform varies grades
of labor which were formerly in man's
province.
No Norwegian girl is allowed to have
a beau until she can bake bread and knit
stockings. The bread and the stockings
that fifteen-year old Norwegian girls can
make are unsurpassable.
Six gathered ruffles of satin, set in
groups of three, fucing each other between
velvet facings, all of them coming
to a point at the waist, is a pretty substitute
for the waistcoat.
Whenever a farmer gets a labor saving
implement for himself, let him think if
something to save his wife from kitchen
labor cannot also be secured. If so, he
might postpone the day of his widowhood.
A French bonnet has a crown of embroidered
camel's hair cashmere and a
pulled brim of nut-brown velvet, trimmed
with birds' wings, a monture of nodding
ostrich tips and strings of narrow velvet
ribbon.
A stylish capote of black velvet is embroidered
in a design of begonia leaves
in fancy colors, the brim smothered by
a rulile of black chenille lace set with
leaves of jet and gold beads, finished
with lace strings.
An eveninc dress of velvet brocade and
ottoman satin in fresh-rose color has the
skirt embroidered in crescent designs ol
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peari ueaus, auu iuu unipir
with elegant fringed passementerie of
pearl beads in rose color.
Mrs. Warren, of Powhattan, Ohio,
owns a farm. A railroad desires to cross
her land. After she had chased one of
the surveyors about four miles with n
shot-gun, the company took into consideration
the proposition to cross the next
lot.
A Washington lady says it is mock
modesty that prevents the women from
riding the tricycle. They object on the
ground that a woman would appear undignified,
but the female expert maintains
that a woman on horseback is much
more undignified.
An imported carriage dress of black
silk sicliennc has the drapery trimmed
with rich jet fringe with netted heading,
supplemented by a polonaise of plain
black velvet, with reverse fronts set with
triplets of jet beads opening on a
pointed vest trimmed with jet garniture.
A correspondent writes to a London
paper to say tnat there is a female firm
of architects doing a flourishing business
in that city, founded and superintended
by a daughter of that giltea lamuy
which numbers among its members Mrs.
Dr. Garrett-Anderson and the wife of
the postmaster general.
Over 100,000 women and girls, it is
said, make a living in the streets of
Paris. They are licensed by the government,
and sell different articles. Thirtylive
thousand of them are under eighteen,
seventeen thousand under fifteen,
and five thousand of them little girls
under thirteen years of age.
Victoria's wedding gift to the American
belle, Miss Ida TherefC Footc, of a
diamond bracelet and a gold breakfast
service is fairly extraordinary, since the
queen's usual present on such occasions,
even to daughters of nobles, is one of the
camel's hair shawls sent to her by the
bale every year from whoever may be
viceroy of India.
.Long draperies for skirts remain in favor,
partly because they are economical
and not heavy A facing of the dress
material, with or without a band of velvet,
is all that is needed on the underskirt,
and two Ijreailths will make the
draperies, one forming the apron and the
ot-iior tlip imfTs nnd nlaits in the back.
Sometimes the overskirt opens both in
front and behind, to show a band of
plain velvet, which is ornamented with
braiding or frogs in front, so as to look
as if the overskirt was fastened over it.
SCIENTIFIC ANI) INDUSTRIAL.
Aimc Girard, a French chemist, finds
til.it the husks or bran of wheat is largely
composed of woody or non-nitrogenous
matter, and is therefore not available for
food. lie thus claims to have exploded
an old theory.
In the Province of Viatka, Russia,
there are produced annually 72,000,000
pounds of tar, .1,400,000 pounds of pitch,
and 2,100,000 pounds of turpentine oil.
It is stated that the annual product of
birch oil amounts to 144,000,000 pounds,
(4,000,000 poods,) an indication that the
demand for it is now great.
As to the depths reached in sounding
the ocean, Lieut. Uerryman obtained bottom
at 4,5*0 fathoms a short distance
south of the Banks of New Foundland.
The depth of the sea is commonly exaggerated.
People used to think that it
ranged from 7,000 to 8,000 fathoms. The
average depth is 2,500 fathoms in both
the Atlantic and the Pacific.
Experiments arc now being made,
both in this country and in England,
with the view of determining the relative
values of oil, gas, and electricity as illuminants
in light houses. The London
Shin,km/ says that the experiments m
Knglanrt have already shown that ''by
means of concentric lenses a light nearly
as powerful as the electric light can be
obtained without the same risk of failure
aud at a comparatively small cost."'
The latest theory of malaria is that the
principal source of the fever and exhaustion
is to be sought in the slowly, but
cumulatively poisonous influence of the
relatively large amount of carbonic acid
in the atmosphere of malarious districts,
generated by vegetable decay, by evaporation
of soil moisture laden with it, or
bv upturning of earth saiuratcd with that
compound. Recent measurements of the
carbonic acid in the soil, as compared
with the amount present in normal atmosphere,
have shown that their relative
proportions are as 2">0 to one.
Elephants Moving Timber.
Anchotcd abreast of Aga Synd ?.bdul
Hosein's timber yard, and within bare
swinging distance of the shore, I had
ample opportunities of minutely observing
and recording the marvelous illustrations
of the elephant's intelligence.
These animals are largely employed in
the timber yards, and their functions
consist in helping to embark and disembark
the huge teak logs, or move I hem
about the yard; in fact, witlnut them
work would be at a standstill. What
struck me at once was the wonderful
I combination of enormous power with
the gentlest, most loving docility.
Here were the huge logs being moved
about as if they were matches, and yet
with the utmost regard to any one in the
way. A case in point. We were landing
one day at the Aga's wharf and
found that the ebbing tide had left a
thick layer of treacherous slime on tlie
wooden slope, rendering it impossible
for a lady to land. Seeing this, the
manager called out to a mahout or
driver, and in a moment his elephant
pushed a log down the slope, just stopping
short of the boat, and alTording the
lady a dry surface to step out upon.
There must have been intellect in this
act, for the same great log was not
pushed down at random on the wharf,
nor into collision with the boat, but exactly
at the right spot and into the
right place. ? Ch<<Joumai.
A Mean Employer.
''I shall be compelled to reducc your
salary, Mr. Johnson, until cold weather
sets in, said a mean employer to his baldheaded
book-keeper.
"Why?" asked the old fellow, with a
I sinking heart.
"iiccause I notice that a large portion
of the time which should he clcvotcd to
my service is spent by you in lighting
Hies oft the ton of your head."?Detroit
Post.
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THE SURPRISE.
Joy met Sorrow In a place
Where tha branches interlace,
Very secret, still, and sweet,
Safe from all profaning feet.
"Why art thou hero?' Joy, startled, cried;
"Why art here?' gray Sorrow sighed.
"I camo hero to weep," said Joy,
"Tears are ever my employ,"
Murmured Sorrow, "yet I see
Tears as grateful were to thee.
Come, young novice, and be taught
How to ease thy heart o'erfraught."
Joy sat down at Sorrow's feet,
And was taught a lesson sweet.
Fain would he make kind return:?
"Sorrow, art too old to learn.'
Nay' Then tarry yet awhile,
Till I've taught thee how to smile!"
Since that hour the two have been
Bound as by mysterious kin;
Since that hour they so exchange
Tears and smiles, 'tis nothing strange
If sometimes a puzzled heart
Scarce can tell the twain apart.
?Edith M. Thomas, in the Current.
HUMOR OP THE DAY,
An old timer?Grandfather's clock.?
Jloxton Post.
Wcll-matched pair?A horsey man
and a nagging wife.?Life.
The Yassar girls do not swear. They
only say '"buy gum."?lb/zoo.
Wc are asked when a vouncr ladv is of
age and we unhesitatingly reply, not until
she is married.?Merchant- Tcaveler.
"What did you kill?" inquired a pedestrain
of a sportsman on horseback.
"Time," was the sententous response.?
llatchet.
It would seem but reasonable that
equal partners in a wool-growing enterprise
should "shear and Bhear alike.?
Chicago Sun.
A "Wyoming man named James Agon,
was recently married. A few weeks
later he petitioned the court to add a "y"
to his last name.?Graphic.
"Did you ever kis9 a pair of pouting
lips?1' asks an exchange. No; but wc
have received a pout from a pair of kissing
lips.?Boston Transcript.
There is a female band in Baltimore.
The proper band for a female to belong
to is a husband. She can usually play
him for all he is worth.?llatchet.
! The cold winds remind the farmers
fliof ?* ic frimr> i\nf frVmir lmHnr
1 cover. Yc, who have steers to shed, prepare
to shed them now.?New York
Journal.
J It was an employer who kept his men
I at work from daylight till after dark, of
whom it was originally said that ''time
: hangs heavily on his hands."?Boston
Transcript.
Sitting Bull cleared $30,000 byexhib(
iting himself in New York, - and has
doubtless learned that it is better to
bleed the white man than to kill him.?
Oil City Blizzard.
; "Mr. Smith, do you dye your hair?"
asked the small boy. "No"; why did
you think so?" "Oh, I dunno, only it's
black, and sister said she reckoned you
wa3 light-headed."?Boston Post.
Ouidasays: "A girl's love must never
be begged, but conquered." That's all
very well, but how to subdue the thicksoled
parent of the period, is what's
bothering our young men just now.?San
Francisco Post.
"I don't know about your religious
novels," said Deacon Brownsmith; "the
Bible is good enough for me." "Yes,
replied Brother Broad, "but are you
good enough for the Bible, deacon?"?
Boston Transcript.
It is a pretty healthy man who can
read a patent medicine almanac without
suddenly discovering that he is afflicted
with about one hundred and fifty of the
two hundred diseases described therein.
"Western girls seem to have as keen an
eye to the main chance as their Eastern
sifters. A prairie pansy, summering at
Waukesha, was asked by a Texas sunflower
if she would share his lot, and the
pat reply was: "Yes?if it is a corner
one, and you will build on if"?LouisriVe
Timen.
"Oh, Lucy, if you knew the depth of
my devotion! Lucy, if you do not return
ray love I will kill myself." "Bless
you, Augustus, I will return your love."
"Oh, will you, will you? Then I am happy
beyond " "Yes, Augustus,. I will
return it. I have no use for it."?Chicago
News.
The First "Blue Stocking."
it will probably surprise those not already
jrware of the fact to learn that the
first person to whom the opprobrious
epithet at the head of this paper was applied
was a man. lie earned the title,
not by a studious life, nor by stores of
knowledge he professed, but simply by
his partiality for hose of this celestial
hue. The story, as usually told, is thus:
In the year 177-i this gentleman was a
constant attendant at the receptions
given by Mrs. Montague, and invariably
'??ra lilnn otnnlfinira wViifh thf? mininf
" vr.v, "1
dress of the time displayed to advantage,
and which won for him at the time the
soubriquet of "Blue Stockiugs.'' Mrs.
Montague's receptions began to be associated
with him in the title, and the
"Blue-Stocking Club," as it was called,
became widely known as the haunt of all
the wit and learning of the day. Had
Mr. Benjamin Stillinilcet known that by
liia fatal fonduess for blue stockings he
was founding a term of reproach for inoffensive
students in ages to come, and
that accomplished women?the very race
whose society he so much appreciated?
. would be the objects of the nickname,
he would undoubtedly have stifled his
cravings after that ill-fated color, and
worn hose of pink, green or yellow; he
would have encased his nether limbs in
parti-colored garments; nay, his generous
nature would no doubt have cheerfully
consented to go without any hose
at all, rather than work the fell deed of
which he was unconsciously guilty.?
American Queen.
Uncle Esek's Wisdom.
You can encourage the timid, restrain
the bold, punish the wicked, but (or the
weak there is no help.
The most reliable people we have are
those whose brains are located in their
heads.
There is nothing like necessity to
quickcn a man?I once knew a man who
was the laziest fellow on earth, until he
lost a leg by accident, after that no able
bodied man could pet around the village
as quick as he could on one leg and a
crutch.
Don't go back, my friend, after many
years, to your old home expecting to be
made lmppy; for, if you ever happened
to commit au indiscretion in your boyhood
days, people will remember nothing
but that, and most of them will remind
you of it.
What the world wants most is novelty
aud dispatch. Civilization has so
quickcncd all tilings, that, before
another hundred years rolls around, we
shall require a quicker kind of lightning
than we have now to do our telegraph
business with.
There are those so pure that they arc
continually repenting of sins they haven't
the pluck to commit.
Learning seems to be rapidly driving
all the common sense out ot the world.
? Century.
To Increase the Pleasure of Eatinjr.
In his essay on "The Pleasures of Eating,"
Count llumford says: "The pleasure
enjoyed in eating depends?lirst, on
the ngreeablenessof the taste of the food;
and. secondly, upon its power to allect
the palate. Now, there are many substances
extremely cheap, by which very
agreeable tastes may be given to food,
particularly when the basis or nutritive
substance of the food is tasteless; and
the effect of any kind of palatable solid
food (of meat, for instance), upon the
organs of taste, may be increased almost
indefinitely by reducing the size of the
particles of such food, and causing it to
act upon me paiate ova larger suriace.
And if means be usc<l to prevent its being
swallowed too soon, which may easily be
done by mixing it with some hard and
tasteless substancc, such as crumbs of
bread rendered hard by toasting, or anything
else of that kind, by which a long
mastication is rendered necessary, the
enjoyment of eating may be greatly increased
and prolonged." He adds that
"the idea of occupying a person a great
while, and avoiding him much pleasure
at the same time, in eating a small quantity
of food, may perhaps appear ridiculous
to some: but to those who consider
' the matter attentively will perceive that
it is very important."
The Mason & Hainlin upright pianos are
j pronounced to be, like the organs of the same
! company, the liest ot their kind. _ lho lvlino|
ment and purity of tone attained in them are
i especially commended.?Boston .loitnutl.
It is estimated that an nvera40 of 1,.'>U>
j thimbles are swallowed annually <>y the
1 babies of the United States.
POLITICS AND POWDEE.
What It C?iU t? Baa a. Ctapal(i-Ojli{M
of a Fireworks Maker*
(Rochester, 2IT. T. Dmoont)
"Five million dollars I"
"Yes, sir, fire million dollars, of which two
millions are spent for fireworks and three
millions for uniforms, eta, eyery presidential
campaign."
Thus said Mr. James Palmer, the Rochester
fireworks maker, to our reporter's Inquiry.
"The average spent in off yean for fireworks
is ovdr one million dollars."
"Do we import the bulk of our fireworks}*
"No, sir, we import nothing but firecrackers.
We make the reet in this country.
There are only ten fireworks establishments
in America."
Upon invitation of Superintendent Frederick
Fitz Fichner, the reporter inspected the
Palmer establishment not without some fear
and trembling at first. When the superintendent
said he had been blown up twice, the
reporter furtively asked:
' Is not this business a little risky?"'
" Yes, I suppose it would be so considered
by outsiders, but I have encountered greater
dangers than any I find here and don't feel
concerned."
" I don't quite catch your meaning?"
" Well, I nave been in thi3 business many
years and the constant though unconscious
nervous strain has caused greater suffering
than the explosions I have 'taken!' Many
a day I would be very dizzy, and everything
would get dark. At other times I could
scarcely breathe from choking sensations.
Then my appetite left me and I grew thin,
weak and lifeless. I was drowsy by day ana
wakeful by night. My side pained met my
back ached, my limbs burned, I bloated fearfully
and one leg got paralyzed. For ten
months I suffered desperately, and two prominent
physicians gave me up for a dead
man, sure."
"You don't look it now ?"
"No, that's so, but it was a fact, just the
same. When I found out my trouble, I at once
resorted to Warner's safe cure and a dozen
bottle* put me in possession of the best health
lever expected to enjoy, and I was pronounced
incurably sick with Bright's disease.
Jt is the most wonderful medicine in
the world."
"Indeed. You area fortunate man. Ii
there any falling off in the fireworks business
this year V
"Not at all. On the contrary it grows
more popular every year, and this year we
have aone an extraordinary business. The
American people are getting quite as fond of
display as the mercurial Frenchman, and they
manifest it by rockets and volcanoes, political
banner, campaign uaiforms, etc. I reckon
that $10,000,000 won't cover the incidental
political expenses of a presidential campaign.*
It seems that witch-doctors still flourish ii
Scotland.
" Over and Over AcbIb."
Repetition is sometimes the only way to
impress a truth upon the mind. Accordingly
take notice that Dr. Pierce's " Pleasant Purgative
Pellets" (the original Little Liver
rills) continue to be wonderfully effective in
cases of sick and nervous headache, constipation,
indigestion, rush of blood to the head,
cold extremities, and all ailments arising
from obstruction of the bodily functions.
Their adton is thorough yet gentle, and the
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Alabama's coal fields, as yet practicallj
untouched, are half as large as those of England.
A carriage, the whole upper part of glass
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Ladies of all ages whosuffer from loss of ap
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and nervous debility, may have health re
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dla E. Pinkham's remedies for all compiaintc
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A home for poor working girls has beer
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Hobseshoes mode of the horn of sheep are
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When everything else fails, Dr. Sage's Car
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A tree in Florida bears from 10,000 to 12,000
oranges^every season.
HsmnrAR'a Peptonized bee* toxic, the onn
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force generating and life-sustaining properties;
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or acute disease, particularly if resulting
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A 8!ory.
Mi*. Tnu C, rhnnimn. Arucrcrhtt. New
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ten years sold several gross of Dr. Wm.
Hall's Balsam for the Longs. I can say of It
what I cannot say of any other medicine. I
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to praise its virtue in the highest manner. 1
have recommended it in a great many cases
of whooping cough, with the happiest effects;
I have used it in my own family for many
years: in fact, always have a bottle in the
medicine closet ready for use."
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was so afflicted with Kidney Complaint tha
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and at once began to grow strong and was re
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"I know I have been cured by Kidney-Wort.
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"Rough on Itch" cures humors, eruptions
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In Massachusetts last year there was on
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Catarrh
Is undoubtedly caused by Impure blood. Hence i
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the disease and opens the way for a thorough core
This is exactly what Hood's Sarsaparilla does, and i
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"I had been troubled by t oeral debility, caused b;
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"I suffered with catarrh fifteen years; tried all th<
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I a change of climate, when I took Hood'a Sanaparilla.
| I would not take an; money consideration for th? gtxx
one bottle did me. Now I am not troubled any wltl
{ catarrh'"?I. W. Lir.l.is, Chicago, HI.
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From 228 lbs. to 1201 I had been doctoring H
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