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> the lost battle. To his heart it struck such terror That he laughed a laugh of scorn? The mail in the soldier's doublet, "With the sword so bravely worn. It struck his heart like the frost wind, To find his comrades fled. While the battle-field was gaurde.l By the heroes who lay dead. He drow his sword in the sunlight, And called with a long halloo, '"Dead men, there is one living Shall stay it out with you:-' He raised a ragged standard, This lonely soul in war, And called the foe to onset By shouts they heard afar. They galloped swiftly toward him, The banner floated wide; It sank; he sank beside it Upon his sword, and died. ?J?o.*e Hawthorne Lathrop, in Harper. A BONE OF CONTENTION. The first baby is not generally supposed to be ft bone of contention. On the contrary, it is, as a rule, considered a bond of union between its parents. Strange, however, to say, this was not the case with Captain Grant, of the ? tii Hussars and his wife. Indeed it nearly caused an estrangement, and it certainly had to answer for the only quarrel they ever had. There is no doubt that when the infant first made its appearance, Jack Grant was as fond and proud a father as could be found in the United Kingdom, j lie tried to sec the numerous likenesses to various relatives which his wife saw in the irson; he persuaded himself he felt I highly flattered when she declared she sow in the somewhat plain infant a strong look of himself; and finally wound himself up to such a pitch of enthusiasm, he actually made an awkward attempt to j hold the child, and even impressed a fatherly kiss on its small, mottled, red face. This was a very happy state of afTairs 60 long as it lasted, but unfortunately a change was soon to be observed. Gaptain Grant began to wish his wife could 0A?Mn onKinAf nn tA OV. UUU avmu Ublibi jm/jvvv uu u utvi* tv V.? erclsc her conversational powers than "the baby;" he alsocommouced to wouder if it was necessary to talk to the child in the senseless and extremely odd style which she and the nurse invariably used when they addressed it. #At last he was obliged to confcss to | himself that, unnatural as it seemed, he occasionally found his boy, in spite of his numerous perfections, a dccided bore. "You see," he confided to his chum, Jim Iteevcs, "a fellow gets so deuced Bick of hearing nothing but ngoo-andagoo-and-a-bubble-bubble-bubble, which ? is the way my wife and the nurse always speak to the poor little brat. I can't get the idiotic rubbish out of my head: and upon my word, when some of the fellows the other day at the mess wore talking of the new regulations that have just come out, and asked me what I thought of them, I was as near as possible making a consummate asa of myself before them all, by answering, 'Agooand-agoo-and-a-bubble-bubblc-bubble.' I assure you I was within an ace of doing so. If I could have a little senscble conversation with my wife when the child had been put to bed, it would not be so bad, but sleeping or waking 'the babv' occupies all the attcntionr I am supposed to hear of the 'heavenly, sweet smile' that camc over the brat's face I when he saw his bottle being brought to | him, or that he has managed to crawl three more inches on the ground, or something else that appears to me equally uninteresting. It's really awful rough on a fellow." Rather trying," remarked his friend, sympathetically. "Trying!" repeated Jack. '-That is not the word for it. I declare it makes " i me so irritable I sometimes feel inclined to swear at them all round, the baby included.*' "Come," answered Jim, reprovingly, "I call that unfair. "What! swear at a helpless infant, whose only method of retort and strongest language for some time to come will be 'a-goo' and 'a-bubble.' That is fighting upon unequal terms with a vengeance." "Ob, if you are going to chaff me I'll shut up," replied Jack, testily. "I only wish you weie bothered by the same sort of thing, and then I don't think you would find it so amusing." saying which, he turned on his heel and walked away in a huff. It was in this unsatisfactory frame of mind regarding his firstborn, that Jack proceeded to wend his way home one cold winter's afternoon, lie had had a hard day's work, and was looking forward with a feeling of relief to a chat with his wife and a cigar before dinner. True, his mind was somewhat disturbed by the thought that it was possible the tetc-a-tete he anticipated might be broken into by the presence of ^third party. But he resolutely shook oil this gloomy foreboding, and walked on briskly toward his destination. On arriving there and hearing his wife's voice somewhere overhead, lie called out to her he was home and was going to the smoking-room, where he would be clad of her company till it was time to dress for dinner. "Very well, dear," she answered, brightly; "we'll come in a minute." "We!" said Jack to |himself, "who else is she bringing? Surely it can't be the child. She can never mean to turn this room, as well asjevery other in the house, into a nursery. Hang it all, that would really be unbearable!" If, however, he had any doubts on the subject, they were soon to be dispelled, for he had scarcely lit a cigar before his wife made her appearance with the baby in her arms. "Well," thought Jack rosigncdly, "I suppose there is nothing for it but to v grin and bear it." "No, Jack, my dearest," exclaimcd bis wife, gushingly, "I have such a piec? of news for you. You will never guess what it is. It is something almost too delightful for words." "I also have something to tell you, ' broke in Jack, as his wife paused to take breath, for he felt instinctively that the i i. . t:- :r imponant news 10 wuiuu uis wiie referred has something to do with his offspring, and he knew that once that all3orbing subject was started, ail other topics of conversation would be inevitably banished for the time being. "I also In,, have something to tell you. I met ChaljS? mors to-day; he is staying here for a few days with his cousin, so I asked him to come and dine with us some time next fe? week, and I think we might invite one ||j or two people to meet him. Now, on what day do you think we had better w ask him, and who else shall we have?" "I will think about it in a minute," ~.-i. answered his littfo wife, eagerly, "but I ?? must tell you my news first. Fancy! PI Baby is getting a tooth, and he is only !r|jj just four months old 1" "That's capital," said Jack, in a voice ||i intended to express unlimited delight. "There is no doubt that the little fellow is very well ou for his age. I should think now he will be trotting about all over the place before we know where we arc." "I don't think I should feel I was doing my duty by him if I allowed him to do such a thing, even if he could," replied his wife severely. "I don't know if you arc particularly anxious to see /rrnu* T jv/iw "i' ^ oo A can't say I am." "Ah, yes, I forgot he is rather weak in the legs at present," remarked Jack.in a crestfallen voice. "Hut, May," he continued, more cheerfully, feeling he had done his duty bravely, and nothing more could be expected from him for the present, "what about having Chalmers?" "Let mcsee," said May, thoughtfully. Then, appealing to the baby, "what does 'ou think, my pretty? Agoo-and-agooand-a bubble-bubble?" "Come," said Jack, a little impatiently. "try to manage something, as Chalmers is only here for a few nays, and I want you to write to him to-night." "Must we t'ink, my sweet?'" continued May, apparently oblivious of everything but the cxistcncc of her son, and only half-hearing her husband's last remark. "Must wc t'ink, my beauty? Well,then, agoo-and-agoo-and-abub?" "For heaven's sake, try for one moment to attend to what lam saying!") said Jack, sharply. ?'I won't trouble you long, and then you wiil be at liberty to return 10 your very intellectual couversatiou with the child/' This time Mny quite took in what her husband said; but, being annoyed at the ! way he had sj>oken, she determinedly ! took no notice of his request, and staring ! absently into the fire, went on talking to ; her baby: " Yes, my own own, does jour pretty papa want " "Confound it! " exclaimed poor tired .Tack, angrily, "do you want to drive me mad with your nonsense? I have " never yet been considered pretty, nor ifc-. have I any wish to be callcd bo at this time of my life. Can't you find a more suitable adjective to apply to me than that?" "Indeed I can," returned May, losing her temper in her turn; "cross, illtempcrccl, rude, unnatural, crucl, are all words which may be applied to you inyour present state of mind." "Well, I am sure I am not surprised," retorted Jack, "the only wonder is, I don't go oil my head with hearing the flow of absurd nonsense that seems to me to go on, morning, noon and night." " If you call talkingto one's own child, absurd nonsense, I don't," said Maggie, with a great assumption of maternal dignity. " I must say it never struck me that you intended to talk; I thought it was merely babbling, but of course that may be my ignorance. Perhaps you will be kind enough to enlighten me as to the meaning of that much-used word?agoo." "I shall do no such thing, for I can see you are sneering both at me and my child. I must say for a man who sets up to be a gentleman, it is an extremely curious way of behaving. I confess I should never have thought you capable of speaking to me in the way you have." "For goodness sake, don't preach; I I urn miicli tnn timrl to listCU." "Very well, then, if my conversation j bores you, I most ccrtainly won't remain here any longer," saying which, May walked out. of the room, looking very injured, and kissing her son as she went, murmuring tenderly, "at any rate your mother loves you, my darling." In spite, however, of the satisfaction of having enjoyed the last word, as she carried baby to the nursery, .May felt a very queer feeling in her throat, and seemed to have developed a cold in the head in a remarkably short space of I time. Having left baby in nurse's charge, and, much to that worthy woman's astonishment, having parted from him without any of those little endearments she was wont to use to him before doing so, she proceeded straight to her room. "Well, I never did!"' exclaimed nurse, usiug that phrase which says so little, but is intended to convey so much?"I never did! To think she should leave her first born without so much ns a parting blessing! Nevermind, my sweety; if your mother forsakes you, your old nurse never will. No, thank 'Eaven! I tries to do my dooty by you, my haogel, and nought shall tempt my soul to go astray 1" And then, having delivered herself of these lofty and truly elevating sentiments, appropos of nothing in particular, she proceeded to undress and bathe the infant, feeling in that virtuous frame of miud \vc all enjoy when we have been saying anything very righteous and moral, whatever our acts may'be. In the meanwhile the unfortunate object of the nurse's displeasure was sitting in her room weeping bitterly, all her dignity and temper washed away by I her tears. It must be acknowledged that it was some time before May arrived at this state of penitence. At first she could think of nothing but the contempt with which she considered Jack had treated her son; it was this, she told herself, that wounded her even more than the way he had spoken to her. lie had not kissed it when he came in, had expressed no desire to louk at its mouth and judge for himself as to whether the tooth would be long in coming (which was what any one with even ft moderate share of fatherly feeling would have done1!, and, in fact, he had behaved disgracefully. "Yes, disgracefully," she repeated to herself, as she sat by her window looking out into the winter's gloom, with flushed cheeks and eyes full of angry tears, which she was too proud to let fall, "disgracefully; aud so I shall tell him when I see him." J3y-and by, however, her anger began to vanish, and her reflections with regard to Jack were of a milder description. Had she not been a little hasty with him? After all, might.he not, perhaps, have reason to complain? Of course it was difficult to understand any one being bored by babv, with his funny little ways and odd little chuckle; but still, what bad her dear old mother said, when she had told her of her plan of bringing him up from his earliest in fancy to be a great enmmninn to his father, so that he should learn as soon as possible to enter into all bis parents plans? "Take care, my dear," bad been her mother's words, "that you don'tgive Jack too much of a good thing." Well, she had laughed at the time, but was there not some truth in the advice? Perhaps poor Jack had come home tired, quite worn-out, and in no humor for baby's company, so no wonder he had been a little impatient. There was no doubt he was really very good-tempered; he could not have bccu feeling so bright as usual, or he would not have been annoyed. It was nil her fault for teasing him with her nonsense, and she ought to be ashamed of herself. Yes, his health was rapidly being ruiued, and it was entirely her own doing; upon which, having arrived at this melaucholy conclusion, she could no longer restrain her grief, but burst into a tlood of tears." It was at this stage of the proceedings, and while she was sobbing most vehemently, she felt her husband's strong arms round her, as he said, gently : "Don't cry, little woman. I'm awfully sorry for all I said." Then, as she looked up at him with a loving though rather watery smile, he continued regretfully : "I can't think what made me behave to vnu ns I did. I know I was an awful brute, but I was not feeling very fit; not that is any cxcuse for the way I spoke to you. But please forgive me, darling." May's answer to this somewhat incoherent speech was to thro-.v her arms rounil Jack's neck and give him a good hug, as she said, impulsively: "Why, Jack, I want you to forgive me. I am so sorry 1 lost my temper." "My dear, you have no reason to apologize," he replied. "I am sure I wonder you did not give it to me as hot as 1 deserved, and it is only bccausc \ou arc the dearest little giil that ever lived that you did not do so. But let us forget the unpleasant business and kiss and be friends," savins which, he suited the action to word,* and the reconciliation was complete. The only thing that now remained to be done was to pay a visit to the cause of all the trouble, and this was not forgotten, as after a minute or two May and Jack proceeded to the nursery, and as baby happened to be enjoying his bottle, he chanced to be in a very good temper. Accordingly, when he saw his parents, he condescended to look up for a moment from his meal, and give them a most amiable smile?a little rapid, perhaps. but still very well-meaning, so that nothing was wanting to complete the family felicity. After this little episode everything went considerably smoother. May rerealized that a man of thirty, and an infant of four months are not very congenial companions, seeing they can scarcely be said to have many ideas in common, and that the former decidedly objects to be deserted for the latter; whilst Jack on his part began to comprehend what an unfailing source of interest nnd amusement a babv is to womankind in general. | uuifc Jia mutual in j'ai utuiai, utivi a\j learned to make allowances for the raptures with which his wife viewed their child. Having arrived, therefore, at a better understanding on the subject, it never again caused any trouble, and if you were now to ask his parents about him, they would tell you that since that time baby has never been anything to them but a bond of union. Trnc Even Unto Death. That was a touching story told by Mr. Gladstone when announcing the death of the Princess Alice in parliament. She had been cautioned by the physician uot to iuhale the breath of her little boy, who was ill with diphtheria. The little fellow was tossing in his bed in the delirium of fever. The princess stood by the side of her child and laid her haud on his brow and began to caress him. The touch cooled the fevered brain aud brought the wandering soul back from its wild delirium to nestle for a moment in tnc lap oi a moincrs love, men i throwing bis arms around licr ncck he whispered, "Mamma, kiss me." The instinct of a mother's love was stronger thau science and she pressed her lips to those of licr child. And yet there is not a woman in all the world but would say she would not have a mother's heart if she had not kissed her bairn. And so it will be to the end of time. The mother will kiss her child, the wile her husband and the lover his sweetheart, though death in a thousand forms lay concealed beneath the vermilion coloring of the pouting lips.?Ht. Paul Globe. We are in danger of having too much culture in this country. An u-sthetic buff-colored pug recently got mad in lioston because his mistress dressed hiiu in a light green blanket. THE RING AND TDE MIRROR. AJSTD WHAT PAST THEY HAD IH BBIHGING ABOUT A WEDDING. ? A Pretty I'Hile Ronianco of a Dla? itiond King Time Was Found In n Hotel Kooin. "There was a bridul couple put up here a few nights ago," said the proprietor of an uptown hotel last evening, "who owe their lirst meeting to an incident, or rather a series of incidents, which occurred in the very room where they slept last night. It's a very pretty story,all told,and will lay away over nny ordinary feat of the imagination. Through pure luck and active reasoning faculties a young fellow has won the prettiest little sweetheart one could wish, lie is himself smart and handsome and holds a responsible position as agent for a large hardware firm in the West. He has stopped at my house when he was iu town for three years and over. "The first act in the romance I am telling you occurred about a year ago, and the scene was laid in room Jfo. *26, si'f-ond floor, front. A bell bov came to I me on the evening in question and said the gentleman in No. 20 wished to see I me nt my convenience. I went up stairs j an l found Jimmy?we always called liim | by his first name here. I found him sit[ ting on his sofa admiring a neat little | diamond ring, which Hashed in the gaslight like an electric spark. It was a lady's ring and must needs have a very slender little finger to fit it. It occurrcd to me that the ring was for his intended, and that lie was going to tell me all : about it. It is <|uitc natural, you see, for an enthusiastic young lover to make a confidant of a friend. It somehow boils over in 'em and will out. Why, I had a man old enough?but never mind that. I'll finish the first story before I begin another. "I smiled, first at the ring and then at Jimmy; 'Ah!'said I. 'Allow me to congratulate you,' and was about to ask who the fortunate young lady might be. lie laughed pleasantly, said he was cut out for a bachelor, just as all young fellows do. Then he went on to explain about the ring. It seemed he had dropped sonic loose changc on the sofa and it had slid down into the lining. In feeling around for it nc nau nsuuu uut wv uu^. Wc examined it for some mark of identification, but found nothing except a simple letter 41S'* engraved on the inner side. That was certainly rather a small clue to the owner, but we used it for all it was worth. Wc searched our register for over a year back, taking every name opposite room No. 2(5 which began with an S. Wc had about a dozen Smiths, two or three Shorts, a Shanks, and other names to the number of thirty or more. We wrote to each to know if they had lost a valuable ring, and asking them to write and describe it if they haJ. Only about half a dozen answered and none of them had lost a ring. "Jimmy went from here to Philadelphia, and then to Washington. It was about three weeks before lie showed up at the hotel here again. Of course, he inquired about the ring the first thing. If ever we discover the fair owner,' he said, as he started for room No. 2G, preceded by a bell-boy with his satchel and pitcher of ice-water, 'if ever we discover ! the fair owner of that ring, I shall claim ! the privilege of presenting it to her.'" " 'Twenty-six,' said the clerk to a boy ?_ 1 1 !!? ? in rnennnpe tn An W IIU ItilU SlU|l|JbVt U|/ AAA ? ? electric call from one of the rooms. It was after 11 o'clock, and I was smoking my customary good-night cigar in the office. The boy came back down ' stairs a minute later, two steps at a time. I He said 20 acted a little wild and wanted i me to come up right away. Before I could start Jimmy came running down himself. "'Ilavc you got your register for 1S82?' he asked, nervously. I said that I had. "'Then we'll soon know who that ring belongs to,' he added. "We got the 1882 register and he turned to June 3, running his eye hurriedly uj) and down the numbers of rooms. 'James Shepard, wife and daughter' was scribbled opposite rooms No."~25 and 20, with the address in full, a large manufacturing town in oue of the New Kngland States. " 'The letter S in that ring stands for Shepard,'shouted Jiiumy, hilariously. "You see, before going to bed that evening he had made preparations to shave. The mirror before which he was to perform the operation reflected the light of a gas jet on either side. Plainly cut in one corner of the glass ne caugnt sight of the inscription, 'June 3,1883.' From the inscription to a diamond was an ensy step in a train of thought, and from a diamond to the jeweled ring found in the same room was another, it was but a natural conclusion that the diamond iu the ring was the same that had cut the glass, and still more natural that the date on the glass was the date of the cut. It then bccanic almost a certainty that the person who occupied room No. 20 on June 3, 1882, and the owner of the ring were the same. "Well, Jimmy started East the next da}', and took the ring with him. I got a letter from him a few days later saying that iMiss Shepard was the owner of the ring and of a pretty face and most charming manners as well. Her parents, he wrote, were very grateful for the return of the rinc. and had invited him to call | again when in town. I hadn't heard from the boy since till lie stopped here on his wedding trip last week, llis charming young wife wore that diamond ring on the daintiest of little white lingers. As I said at the outset, they would have none but room No. 26. On the mirror just beneath the 'June 5*, 1882,* they left 'February 3. 1885'?their wedding day."?New York Times. ''Oklahoma Territory." The so called Oklahoma Territory is an unknown quantity. It has no geographical recognition on the United States maps. The Oklahoma boomers locate a territory of that name on the western portion of the ceded Indian lands, which they claim to be. public lands of the United States. On the map of the "'Frisco" road Oklahoma occupies an irregular shape south of the Red Fork of the Arkansas, and bounded on the south by the Canadian and on the cast by the Pottowattomies and the Sac and Fox agencies, while the western boundary extends to the Wichitas, Cheyenne and Arapahoe reservations. In a map of the Indian Territory published a few years ago by the Oklahoma association,thev embraced all the western portion of the Indian Territory extending from the Cherokee outlet on the north to the Kcd river on the south, and including the Chevenne and Arapahoe reservations,basing the'r cla:m on the statemeut of Colonel Houdinot, who showed that by the treaties ef 18(50 f]i? I'niti-il tmrcli.niwl frnm tlif? Indian tribes in the Indian Territory about fourteen million acres of land. These lands were bought from the Creeks, Seininoles.Choctaws and Chickasaws; the Cherokecs selling no lands by the treaty of 180G, hence they still hold what is known as the Cherokee strip or "outlet," extending to the one hundredth meridian, lying between the Kansas border and Oklahoma,and which is about ninety miles wide.?St. Imd* Ue^niblkan. Imitation in Birds. I remember distinctly hearing a thruslier often repeating in its madcap song some notes new to my car, which could not be ascribed to any Michigan bird of my acquaintance. After patiently waiting for some time in the glaring sun of a bright June d;iy, I heard the notes so plainly that 1 was thoroughly convinced they were an imitation of the fiong of a Southern bird? the 'chuckwill's widow," so called, a species allied to our whippoorwill, and named?as in our familiar Northern representative of the family?from the words so plainly uttered." This thrush learned, then, the notes of the chuck-will's widow at least .">00, and probably quite a thousand miles from Michigan, and yet reproduced them so distinctly that one could easily distinguish them, and from mere descriptions in books at once tell them the name of the bird imitated. Here, mounting the top of the tallest tree near its nest, it pours forth ecstatic melody, executing the most difficult strains with the same case that it deliv- | ers the simplest notes. All noises are attempted; the schoolboy's whistle, the bark of a dog, or the bleating of a lamb arc equally well executed and issue from its throat in a continuous, harmonious stiain, frequently of an hour's duration. What wonderful mimicry; what a contrast to the best attempts of ventriloquists and imitators, traveling through the country to reproduce before audiences a few mumbled sounds or attempted imitations of the sounds and notes uttered by birds and mammals.?Dr. Morris (r if ill. A woman never uses her husband's meerschaum pipe to drive a nail with more than once. Not if he knows it. ? JScic l'ork Journal. NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN. Irish poplins are again in fashion. Clusters of flowers will be employed for summer bonnets. The new spring liats arc very high in the crown and narrow in the brim. There arc 4.">2 women editors in England and 1,309 female photographers. t'hantilly lace, or its imitation, known generally as French lace, will be much used. It is said that the spring hats and bonnets will be iu bolder and higher shapes than ever. All the materials, designs and colors for scarfs for handkerchiefs are repeated in ribbons. Very narrow vests are preferred when velvet is used, especially if it is of a contrasting color. Ten thousand five hundred women bind English books and 2,40o assist in printing them. Moyenage designs and moyena^e colors arc the new features brought out in spring millinery. One quarter of the women in Germany arc laborers, and do about thiec-cpiartcrs of the work, too. l'olka basques for the house arc very similar in shape to the jacket used over them for the street. (irccn twilled woolens make ui> well with a vest of ecru cloth, trimmed with many rows of braid. Tain O'Shantcr caps are now made of straw in imitation of those made of cloth worn with tailor suits. The short plain basque of bison, serge, or of camel's hair is inlaid with velvet in front and back alike. Satin is not seen except as a background for velvets, or iu stripes or flowers on gauze or etiuninc. (Sold and silver braid and all sorts of gold decorative objccts trim many hats and bonnets for spring wear. A strip of tarred paper such as roofers use, placed under the edge of a carpet, is a sure preventive for moths. Hound hats of straw are made with high square crowus and narrow brims, similar to those now worn in felt. For morning aim daylight wear the favorite colors arc browns, dark blues, Bordeaux wines, greens and fawns. The wool laces introduced last year arc imported in a single color or else inwrought with gilt or silver threads. (Jinghanis are to be had in great vaI rictv in all the new shados, iu medium and small chccks and in shaded effects. Lawns have rosebuds, sprays of delicate flowers and geometrical figures. Some with white grouuds have bright blue designs. Even elderly ladies wear hats, for all the bonnet shapes are very small, eccentric, and suitable only for evening wear or for very young faces. Black silk tulle over black China silk, with pale yellow roses at the belt or upon the bodice, is very pretty and effective for evening wear. The newest and most fashionable evening colors are "houri," a golden yellow; "amo," a light flesh color, and 44 carande," n pinkish lavencier. Many black cashmere suits for spring wear have plain stuff skirts, made in plain, simple styles, kilts preferred, over which is worn a tastefully looped polonaise of cashmere broche. Bright jeweled pins arc worn through the knot of the hair. Ostrich tips and aigrettes are used in full-dress coiffures, while with the low Grecian knot handsome back combs set with precious stones I nrn ir? rrcnnf ftll'Ar U1V III .... Fine grades of seersuckers arc to be had at this season in checks and plaids. The latter have line lines of crimson, quite a novelty. The brown, blue and black stripes, with which all arc familiar, are still shown. Punishments of women in the East, and especially iu Persia, arc very uncommon. There is no women's side to the jails in Persia; and during the last twenty years there have not been six executions of women, probably. The spring bonnets arc of English straw, imitating the Milan chips, and also lighter, split-straw braids. The only chips shown by the importers arc black, but there are many rough straws, and also fanciful braids with a thread of silver or of gilt in each separate braid. Basket-woven straws and those powdered with beads upon the crown and coronet arc shown in dark colors. Ecru, drab, brown, red, porcelain, blue and black arc the colors in whirh these bonnets arc made, and it is said that the trimmings arc to be in contrasting colors, made of the gay ribbons already described, arranged in a large bow on the top of the bounet. Succcssrul Song-Making. 14 "What is the latest popular ballad?" "'Vaniti,'" replied the publisher. "Frank Howard, the author of Til Await My Love' and ' Only a Pansy Blossom,' wrote it; that is, he wrote as much of it as lie did of the others I have mentioned, lie is a ballad singer with Thatcher, Primrose West's minstrels, and his income from song royalties is between $300 and $400 a week. No, he is not a remarkable musician. He understands music and has a nice voice. Hundreds of better musicians fail as writers of tongs. Howard is the son of an Iowa clergyman. Half a dozen years ago Milt Barlow, the minstrel, found the young man t avcling with a liver pad peddler in the West. Howard, by his songs, drew the crowds and then gave way to his partner, who sold the pads. Barlow was struck by the sweetness of Howard's voice and hired him for twenty-Jive dollars a week to sing in Barlow, Wilson, Primrose West's Minstrel company. His voice and his Songs made him popular and he now receives $100 a week salary. The way his songs arc composed would astonish many better musicians. Howard will write the words of a song and then with three or four members of the company will proceed to hammer a suitable air out of ths hotel pianos. They will work hour after hour for days, correcting, changing and culling out bar after bar until they at last agree that all appropriate air has been made. Then it is written out and tried in public. If at all successful, Hnwnrrl sftuds :i coin* to his ntlblislicr and it is put upon the market. There is a story among minstrels that Howard paid another singer, Harry Talbot, twenty dollars for the words and music of I'll Await My Love. If so it was a good piece of judgment on Howard's part, for he has made two or three thousand dollars out of that song alone.? | New York Mail and Etpm*. The Hammer. The hammer is the universal emblem of mechanics. With it arc alike forged the sword of contention, and the plow share of peaceful agriculture, the press of the free, and the shackle of the slave. The eloquence of the forum has moved the armies of (Jrcece and Home to a thousand battle fields, but the eloquence of the hammer has covered those fields with victory or defeat. The inspiration of song has kindled up high hopes and no* bio aspirations in the bos >ms of brave knights and gentle dames, but the inspiration of the hammer has strewn the field with tattered helm and shield, decided not only the fate of chivalric combat, but the fate of thrones, crowns and kingdoms. The forging of thunderbolts was ascribed by the (Jreeks as the highest act of .love s omnipotence, and their mythology beautifully ascribes to one of their gods the task of presiding at the labors of the forge. In ancient warfare the hammer was a powerful weapon, independent of the blade which it formed. Mnnv a stout skull was broken through the cap and I helm bv a blow of Vulcan's wcanon. The jinnies of the crcsccnt would have subdued Europe to tlie sway of Mohammed, but on (he plains of France their progress was arrested, and the brave and simple warrior who saved Christendom ' from the sway of the Mussulman was named Martel?"the hammer." How simple, how appropriate, how grand ? "the hammer." The hammer is the savior and bulwark of Christendom. The hammer is the wealth of nations. Hy it arc forged the ponderous engine and the tiny nccille. It is an instrument of the savage and the civilized. Its merry clink points out the abode of industry? it is a domc-itic deity, presiding over the grandeur of the most wealthy and ambitious, as well as the humble and impoverished. Not a stick is shaped, not a house is raised, a ship floats, or carriage rolls, a wheel spins, or engine moves, a press speaks, a viol sings, a spade delves, or a tlag waves, without the hammer. Without the hammer civilization would be unknown, and the human species only as defenceless brutes, but in skilful hands, directed by wisdom, it is an instrument of power, of greatness, and true glory. ' *. i "* *'. * ; . ' <<.. "V^ii THE EXECUTIVE MANSION. A LOOK AT THE WHITE HOUSE IN ITS VABZOUS BRANCHES. The Great Vestibule and lln Ornamental lou?Tlic East Room aud ItwCostly Chandeliera. The Washington correspondent of the Cleveland Leader gives the following interesting description of the White House: The President's house is a long white rectangular building of two stories, with many large windows in front lookingout at Pennsylvania avenue and the beautiful park opposite it, and with a jmte coehcre, like the entrance to a Greek temple, jutting out over its front door and supported oy a number of Greek pillars as white as the house itself. A long green-house like conservatory is attached as a wing to its western end, and the building stands several hundred yards back from the street, and it is surrounded by twenty acres of lawn and trees. In the front of it the ground slopes by an easy grade down to Pennsylvania avenue, and an iron fcticc with gold-headed points separates it from the wide sidewalk. At the back, the house looks out on the Potomac, and over the river on the hill may be seen Arlington, the home of Washington and General Robert E. Lee. The lawn back of the White House is rolling and it contains many forest trees, a beautiful fountain, and near the house, in summer, gardens and flowers. The wide walks or drives lead in a winding way from the street to the big portc coclicrc, and this is so arranged that several carriages can stop under its cover and their passengers get out with out danger from the weather. The White House covers about one third of an acre, and it lias cost up to the prcscut time about $2,000,000. It is modeled aftcra castlc in Dublin, and the architect, who was a South Carolina man named Iloban, got $"?00 lor drawing the plans. When it was first built, away back in the nineties, it cost $300,000, but the British burnt out its insides, and its cost has since added to that sum about $1,700,000. In it all of the Presidents since Washington have lived, and cach has added to its beauties and its expenses. 1 think it was John Quincy Adams who bought tho first billiard tabic which was used in it. Hut in .John Adams' time it.was only half furnished, and Abigail Adams used to dry her clothes in the big east room. Year by year, however, the furnishing has gone on, until now it is a sort of a museum of art and beauty. Let us enter it. A servant, with a face like a statesman and a form which would have made liim a member of the giantguards had lie lived years ago in Prussia, opens wide the doors for us. They slide back easily ou their hinges of polished brass, End we step in upon the tiled floor of a great vestibule, the back ...^11 io n mnonin r\ f ]\nn 11 fri f 111 Willi Ui WUIUIl JO ? uiuocin v4 i/wuiuum i stones and colored glass, looking much like one of the walls in one of Frederick the Great's palaces at Potsdam, Prussia. There is a room in this palacc of Frederick's walled with sur.h a mosaic of jewels. It cost an immense sum and was built by Frederick to blind the eyes of the other monarchs of Europe to the real state of his purse. lie was hard up and his fellow kings supposed that he was so. lie bluffed them in this way and so kept his credit good, as they thought no one would undertake such au expense with anything less than billions to draw upon. These stone3 in the wall of the White House vestibule are many of them set in the rough, in beautiful shapes, and they look something, so said a visitor, like the broken wine bottles of the White House beautifully cemented together. Tiffany made this wall and the government paid well for it. This vestibule alone covcrs the space which would be covered by a good sized eight-room house, and thirty men could march abreast going from one end of it to the other. It has doors at each cud and in the middle and end of the glass wall. In it the Marine band plays at great receptions, and here gentlemen throw off their overcoats and leave them in the hands of their footmen while they see the President within. At the left is the entrance to the hall leading to the upper story, where the President spends most of his time, and just off of this is the cast room. It is probably the largest parlor in the Unite 1 Tf So s*wrVif\r fnnf Irmrr nnil fnrhv l^lratUD. XI/ IO I.UN* -v. ?t, feet wide, and was origiually intended for a banqueting hall, but is now used for receptions. The walls are of embossed paper of white and gilt, and tbc ceiling is beautifully finished in oils. It is a very high ceiling, three times as High, j as ordinary, and has great girders or beams richly decorated running across it. Massive chandeliers with thousands of glass pendants hang from it. These chandeliers cost $ >, 000 each, and cach contains G,000 pieces of the finest of Bohemian glass. When they are lighted the eight massive mirrors, cach as large as two billiard tables, rellcc), their brilliant rays, and the whole brings out the richness of the fine furniture of old gold satin and the beauty of ,tho moss-like carpet. Between these mirrors hang some fine oil-paintings which arc set like the mirrors into the walls. There is one of Gilbert Stuart's Washington's, life size, and as big as one of the mirrors, which cost two thousand dollars. It is the picture that Dolly Madison had cut from the frame when the British invaded the capital, and carried it oil with her. A little further along is a fine portrait of Martha Washington, which cost $3,000. It is the same size as that of George, and to me it looks fully at well. The cast room is always open to visitors. It is of no use to the President outside of receptions. Just off it at the back is the green room, containing Huntingdon's portrait of Mrs. Hayes with its beautiful frame, and next to it the blue room where the President's lady receives her company and where the President stands while lie shakes the hands of the multitude ut a big reccptiou. The furniture in this room is elegant in the extreme, a'l of blue and gold, and forms the drawingroom of the President's wife in the evening. The red room, furnished throughout in red, is like unto it, and in front of both is a long promenade hall, furnished like a parlor, and containing full length portraits of all the Presidents from Washington to Arthur. President Arthur's portrait is in the right end as you enter and it is one of the finest portraits of the lot. The end of this hail opens into the conservatory, and at a reception one can extend his walk in among the plants and llowers of the tropics. There are palm trees and ferns, roses of hundreds of varieties, lemom trees and orange blossoms, which bloom away under the glass while the wintry j Winus U10W OlllSKIt' ailu uuu wivi liiuuivtui | stands at zero. This conservatory opens | in the dining-room of the White House, j Here all of the state dinners are given i and oceans of champagne,herds of line i beeves, thousands of turkeys, boat loads j of terrapin, and great lakes of ice cream . have been swallowed year alter year for ' the past half century or more. Jefferson was almost a bankrupt from h:s i White House dinners. Jackson spent i upon them more than his salary, and not a President, save, pci haps, Andrew Johnson, came out of the White House with anything more than he went in. Arthur's dinners have cost him a fortune, and each state dinner rost him from ten | dollars a plate upward. When it is re- ! membered that each of these dinners I have about forty guests at the table you I will sec tliata state dinner costs at least I $300, and I am told that Mr. Arthur's ordinary meals, to which he a:wnvs has i several strangers, cost about five dollars a plate. There is always wine on the i table, and this is of a (pialily which I adds materially to the table expenses, j Last winter there were nine state dinners I during the congressional season, and every person of prominence in Washington sat down at the President's table, The usual dining hour is 8 r. m., and i guests sit as lute as 11 or later. While i the dinner goes on the Marine band ; | plays charming music in the vestibule, I and the strains noai in, iu>i so iuuu ;w n> t interrupt conversation, but gently and j pleasantly. The china set in use i9 of j Limoge ware representing the different | flowers and fauna of America. It cost I Air,,000 and contains five liundred pieces. I The light of this dining-room is from ! colored wax candles in beautiful gold | aud silver candlesticks, and there arc ( many mirrored sconces set into its walls. Its guests often appear in regimentals and a state dinner at the White House is perhaps the finest sight in our social world. The upper floor of the White Hoese is ! devoted to oflices and bedrooms. It is j reached by a stairway and an elevator. ! The latter, however, is private. The j cabinet chamber, the private reception- | rooms of the J'resident, and the rooms in j which visitors arc received by his three i or four secretaries, arc all here, and the ! whole looks more like a business office than a home. There 11 :l, 095 Rnglish school teachers I nearly all of whom lire spinsters. tij-'iv.-J--.:': " < i: :$?- . WISE WORDS. Wc have some cases of the pride of learning, but a multitude of the pride of ignorance. In the education of children lovd is first to be instilled, and out of love obedicnce is to be educated. In this commonplace world everyone is said to be romantic who either admires a line thing or docs one. Pride, like the magnet, constantly points to one object?self; but unlike the magnet it has no attractive polo, but at all points repels. Keep your sorrows and trials from the little ones as far as possible. Life should be all sunshine for them; they will find out its shadows soon enough. Some men make a great flourish about always doing what they believe to be right; but always manage to believe ilinf ia rinrlif whiph la fnn tnoiP mvn in. *" " ? "b"v ? " ? - tercst. Those pleasures which depend on ourselves are the only ones a wise man will count; for nothing is ours which another may deprive us of; liencc the inestimable value of intellectual pleasures. To commit the execution of a purpose to one who disapproves of the plan of it, is to employ but one-third of the man; his heart and his head arc against you; you have commanded only his hands. Sealskin mid Seal Catching. "Seal fur will never become cheaper," said a New York dealer to a Mail awl I'Jj'jiresa representative. "They may get higher priced though, unless some new seal hunting places arc discovered in some part of this globe." "Why will it never become cheaper!" "There arc only four seal grounds of any importance in the world?the islands of St. George and St. Paul in Behring's sea, which belong to the Territory of Alaska, and the other two arc the Commander islands, lying 700 miles west of these in the czar's dominions. The first two islands producc the greatest number of seals. During the months of May and June they come to these islauds in Hocks of thousands. Then the great slaughter takes placc to supply the fashionable world with sealskin sactjucs. The Alaska Seal Fur company kill about 100,000 seals annually. They nav the natives fortv cents for each seal they kill and skin. No firearms arc used, as it would drive the animals away and spoil the island as a seal resort. They arc killed with a single blow of a club on the head. Then the skins arc quickly removed, partially cured and prepared for shipment to England, whero they are dressed and dyed. "It takes a great deal of carc and work to bring the fur to the rich and glossy perfection it shows when wrapped around the form of a fashionable lady. First, all the coarsc hairs arc remov.d and then the fur is dyed the shade required. Hut it takes experts to do this, and in London only the art seems to be well understood. Now, the value of sealskins depends entirely upon their successful treatment, and the color and smoothness of a permanent nature attained. It takes three of the sealskins to make a full-sized cloak. They should last the wearer 6cven years without losing their rich color, and at the same time retain their perfect appearance. The best cloaks are worth over $400 apiece. The finest fur comes from young s?als, between the ages of two and three years. When they get beyond the age of four the fur becomes stiff somewhat. At six years of age they arc utterly worthless. Now, the great question is, how long will these seals last? and if they take a notion to desert these four islands, where will Ihcy go? The United States, it is true, has restricted the number to be killed mr? nno v/>h nt this rate will UIIUI.UIIJ thcv not finally become extinct? Some think they increase so fast that this number is scarccly missed. Well, that may be true. But the great danger is that they may take a notion to emigrate to unknown parts of the world. In that case the sealskin sacquc that figures so prominently as an articlc of dress and fashion now will become obsolete and I added to the history of the dodos." Narrow Escape from a Bull. C harles Hyman, an aged farmer, living near Eldcrsville, Pcnn., was leading a I bull through a narrow lane on bis farm, when it suddenly sprang upon him bellowj ing loudly, and neld him pinned to a high broad fence, one of its horns being on one side of his body and the other on the opposite side. The space between the hornjj at the ends permitted his body to just squeeze in, but nearer the base it was so much narrower that he was held as if in a vise, and so tightly squeezed that the breath was nearly crushed out of him. Fortunately, the horns were so long that the bull's head was kept from crushing Hyman, although the maddened animal made every effort to do so. A twelve-year-old son oi inc inrmcr was with him, nud he started back to the house to get a gun to shoot the bull. On his way lie saw a licavy manure fork leaning against an outbuilding. As it was a long way to the house, the boy seized the fork and hurried back to the spot where the bull hold his father, lie reached it just as the animal had backed away a few steps and was about to dash forward with lowered head upou the farmer. The boy met the advance of the bull with the fork, and thrust the two long tinea with all his strength into the animal's side. Both of the sharp irons pierced the bull's heart, and with a terrible bellow it fell heavily to the ground, and was soon dead. With the cxccption of severe bruises on his side and a great nervous shock, the old farmer sustained no serious injury. Agricultural Wealth of Mexico. The quality of Mexican grain has always been excellent, and Mexico took the first prize for wheat tit the J'hiludclpbia exposition. The Mexicans take one crop of wheat and two of corn from the land in two years, and the average yield is twenty bushels of wheat and forty of corn to the acrc. The wheatgrowing region covers about 52,000 square miles, an area larger than England and nearly as large as Georgia. It is believed that one-third of this could be kept in wheat with due regard to the demand for other crops. Corn is, however, the great staple of the country, taking the place in the native diet that wheat docs in the American. It grows in tlio table-lands with wheat and in the hot lowlands as well. The yield for the last available year is estimated by a leading Mexican statistician to have been worth $112,000,000, against $17,000,000 worth of wheat, $0,000,000 worth of sugar, $8,000,000 of beans, $2,000,000 each of coffee, tobacco and straw, and $1,000,000 each of rice and cocoa, the whole agricultural product reaching $177,000,000 exclusive of tropical fruits, of the growth of whicli no statistics have been gathered. Every European vegetable and fruit is found somewhere in the different altitudes and the woods range from mahogany, ebony aud rosewood to white pine and maple. English and American Language. The English have no comprehensive word meaning what our "dry goods" means, and they need one. For "calico" they use the vague and ambiguous word "print." For "mirror" they always say "glass" ("glaws"), though, as there arc a hundred different kind of glass, mirror is the word they sorely need. For "loafer," the English always say either "vagrant." "vagabond," or "dandy," aud a loafer is generally neither. England has thousands of loafers, but not one word to describe them. The English never speak of the "waist" of a lady's "dress," but of the "bodv" of her "frown." which is cer tainly neither more correct nor more elegant. For "bureau'' they say ''chest of drawers," which is employing circumlocution in place of a name. For "caiulv" tlicy always say "s-.veets," which is a similar subterfuge, using one of the qualities of the article to describe the whole thing itself. For "pantaloons" they always say "trousers," which is, perhaps, preferable becausc shorter; but both words had better be retained. For "bakery," "lumber" and "hardware" they have no equivalent words whatever, and have to resort- to phrases and sentences to indicato what they mean.? The Current. What the Sexton Sal?l. Mr. Lewis Edwards, sexton of Mount Vernon Place church, Washington, D. C., certifies that for Beveral months past he had been Buffering with a severe cough which distressed him day and niirht. He was very much debilitated. with constant pains in his chest. After trying various remedies he used the Hcd Star Cough Cure, whi?to gave him entire relief. I'oots were polished a thousand years ago, and there were bootblacks, too, plying their trade upon the streets. ' . ' ' ' V* ' .' /"'* "' /'-*V, '* Scrofula Lurka !o the blood of nearly ere 17 one, ud Is liable, upon (light provocation, to develop In painful and diaagieeable forma. Consumption Isundonbtedlyaerofnl* of the longs. No remedy hta been more aucoeseful than Hood'a Saraaparilla In thoroughly cleansing the blood and eradicating every form of scrofula from tha human system. "Hiring oied Hood'a Saraaparilla the past six or oven months for acrofola and pimples on my face, which I hare bad for 12 years or more, I can reoommend the medicine to erory one similarly troubled,confident that they will be benefited by it."?P. A. DuCBZbne, Northampton, Mais. "I hare taken Iloori'a Saraaparilla and found it ben ficlal for pimplea on the face and impure blood,"? Cbarlzs Oraix, Portsmouth, O. "Foraeren years, spring and fall, I had scrofulous lores come out on my legs, and for two years was not free from them at all. I suffered Tory much. Last May I began taking Hood'a Saraaparilla, and before I tiad taken two bottles the aorea healed and the humor eft me."?0. A. An.mold, Arnold, Me. j c. nuuu a wc Sold by all dnifffigt). $1; lis for 9S. Prepared only 97 C. I. HOOD 4 CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mim. 100 Poses One Dollar Condiments. A brief notice of the various condiments or spices we use on our table or in our kitchen, with an account of their origin, may not be uninteresting. Tho most common is black pepper, which is the ground unripe fruit of Pipor negrum. Capsicum, cayenne or African pepper is an entirely different substance, and pepper is a misnomer. Mustard is the pounded flour of Sinapis alba and Sinapis negro, which both 1_ ii ?>1 Tho nnr. BUppiy IL1C BIVUJU jouuo llv/ui, . r.. est dour is that obtained from the second sitting. Nothing is so much adulterated as mustard. Wheat flour, heated by the addition of red pepper and colored by turmcric, is the common medium of adulteration. Pimento or allspice, so named because it is supposed to taste like a mixture of various spices, is tho unripe fruit of the Piper negrum. Cinnamon is tho inner bark of- the shoots of the cinnamon tree. The bark of the cassia is also used. Ginger is the root of the ginger plant, scalded in boiling water to prevent generation, and then rapidly dried?this is blace ginger. When selected the best roots arc peeled and dried in the sun. they are called white ginger. Rice starch, oxhausted ginger, brick dust, chalk, capsicum and mustard are tho adulterations generally found. Nutmeg is the kernel of the seed of the myristica tree, and mace is tho intermediate coat next to the nut. Cloves nre theunexpanded dried flowor buds of caryophy'.ata. Sometimes those from which the essential oil has been extracted are sold for the dried clove.? New York Analytt. Mistakes In Nomenclature. David Dudloy Field takes exception to the nomenclature of American geography. He says there may be a great deal of fitness or unfitness in names. To beirin with, our continent was misnamed. In selecting the name "America" a great wrong was done Columbus. The continent should have beencallcd "Columbia." Now Americans are trying to make amends by singing "Ilail, Columbia." Just think of some of the wretched names selected for places in the United States. Wc have Tombstone, You Bet, Pop Corn, Cut Shin, Raw Hide, Skunk Lake, Dirt Tub, Jug Tavern, Sawdust, Cow Skin and Cut Off. Almost as bad taste was displayed in copying such old names as Babylon, Memphis, Cairo,Troy, Utica and Syracuse. It would have been much better to have preserved more of the nomenclature of the red men. Nothing could bo more appropriate and pleasant to the ear than Mississippi, Oneida, Michigan, Monongahela, Susquehanna, Mohawk, Idaho and "Wyoming.?New York Telegram. "A little fire Is quickly trodden out Which,being suffered, rivers cannot quench." Procrastination may rob you of tune, but by increased diligenco you can make up tho loss; but if it rob you of life the Joss is irremediable. If your health is delicate, your appetite fickle, your sleep broken, vour mind depressed, your whole being out of sorts, depend on it you are seriously diseased. In all mch cases Dr. Pierce's "Golden Medical DisI will snwvlilv effect a genuine, radi cal cure?maite a new man "of you and save you from the tortures of lingering disease. . Three billion wooden toothpicks are man ufactured each year in this country. "Throw Physic to the Dogn" when it is the old-fashioned blue mass, blue pill sort, and insist on using Dr. Tierce's "Pleasant Purgative Pellets," a modern medical luxury, being small, sugar-coated granules, containing the activo principles of certain roots and herbs, and which will be found to contain as much cathartic power as any of the old-fashioned, larger pills, without the latter's violent, drastic effecta. 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Druggists or mail. It is dangerous to tamper with irritating liquids and exciting snuffs. Use Ely's Cream Balm, which is safe and pleasant and is easily applied with the finger. It cures the worst cases of Catarrh, Cold in the Head, and Hay Fever, giving relief from the first application. All druggists have it. Price ?0 cents. By mail 60 cents. Ely Bros., Owego, N. Y. Chronic Catarrh. The result of 25 years' Catarrh?the bridge, or division of my nose, was about half gone. I obtained a bottle of Wv'o Hmnm Balm: have used four bottles, applying it to the affected parts with a swab, which has about cured up the nostrils. I had previously tried all other remedies on the market without permanent relief.?J. A. Wood, 06 N. High Street, Columbus, Ohio. I find Ely's Cream Balm good for Catarrh of longstanding.?M. N. Lasley, 1934 West Chestnut Street, Louisville, Ky. "Rough on Cough*." Ask for " Rough on Coughs," for Coughs, Colds, Sore Throat, Hoarseness. Troches, 13c. 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IIors> cira, itagoi tod derated railroad to all depots. t'ainilin can lire bettor for Ism mutiny at tba Grand Union Hotel than at any other tirat-clata hotel ia the oitr. Drunkards now form lifty-flvo per cent, of the insane persons in Paris asylums. Red Star 18 trad c\^7 mark: Jniri niinuaiiDr UUUIIlUIifa V v Abtolutely^^^R Free from Ovlatrt,Kw"'*< a'1* *?\\?J}Z A PROMPT, SAFE, SURE CURE For Conch*. Pore Throat, Pw? 60 cSS'IT D?^ ? ?"*Lra sssss sr.??.8.i. eskiri^s !)?lcd 1870. Send 10c. tviBook. I .tojyKil4" I 2??mn??\Z._IlT.'uaiT k n> "ipi'i" !ai?u?,*iu. THDRSTflH'S SITOOTH POWDER i Kcepln* Tortli I'prfcct and (imn.i Ilenlthr. ! CLOCKS CLOCKS VADIOnPCI C M?lm tnr* rnr?. nook lm 1 VrtnIl>UOCLt. ci*uu Afnej, i6irmio* si.,a.t,' E for 25c. is ridiculous; but It derived from a 20c ghteg^H9GMn5|?|j^ to save your Horse'ftSKP4|?ZEggggj??^ [ual to purchasing narter ? Send 35c. IgbUbHa >ur 100-pnge HorsfE^fflnkfldk mation Invaluable tcflH^3fi^H ; tells how to Cure^ and Oare for them id with information. orse Book Co., |^nn? tssst, ?. t. oztt jhibsmih*-' uuNSumrnun. I hate ft posltlt remedy ff?rthe aboredlteaa*;by Itt nsa thnu^ant'a of ca*r? of t !io worst kind and of lonff Handing hivft been curod. I ndeed. matrons 1 a mr faith In Ira fllcacy, that I wl I nwlTWO BOTTLES F RES, together wlm sk VAl.UADl.K TREATISE on thla<?Wo*M to any aa/T^rur. GlroexproM and } O. ?<ldr a?. Pit. T. A. 8L0CL*M, 111 rear 1 St., New Tork. Tj I IfOrSKKKEl'KRS, E A ^ f No Clubs, K X T K A L V A J, V K. Harine najo'iited with Iha Ia-j{i'at t?a import'nT hou.?? of t York tor all tlviir tini'fjrn le Sample Tan*, wr will lo any part of IT. ,S..on receipt $l.'.'6.3 lb*, mixed black or trr?*!?n Tean, a* are retail**.! at i>I and upward a Ih. Kxrr-wAiRo fn>o. .Sample po m l M) ci> ti. POST <"<>., 21 HrrWiunn Strret, Xt*w York. <g?giaBs 5/^C RITC .MniWi only by tlin X. Y. A vCIl I Cj? Havana t/' Kar Co AJ HroadI'lKitir'ly th* /!? ?'. way, N. Y. A.">K FOR JT. THE OPIUM-HABIT j:asii,y<tri:o. advice frki:. Dr. J. C. HOFFMAN, Jefferson, Wis. BRUCE LINE! I Gbangea Kray hair to ita natural color. Heciio.miind?d by leading pfijraician* and diamlfU. Send lor circular i and testimonials. Price. #1. M. BRICK, 22:! Sixth Ave., N?ir York. I /St&K ALL IMPERFECTIONS.-of tno tara, IIidiU 1 l??t. Minerflnms iR'ia? Hair. MoIm Wirt", Freckle*. Moth. Rad 5h~V SI Noaa. Acn*. Bl'k llaad>,>ran. Pitting and ' S.*A?trevm?nt. Dr. .tohn fVoodbnry, 37 oK?UKHm r..Pl Nr.. Alhua*. N. V. Eatah. dmczican DICTIONARY. With 1232 p Prieo $1,150. ptiOSUN 2222: new 0erm?a Qwcticatv POCKET-DICTIONARY. 621 Page#. Price $1.00. piST JTorS?le kjall Eook-and New?vtst D*tlen. CjjeaP^ TAKE NO OTIIEIl. ?. ~nj ^ BOOK PUB. CO., 134 Leonard Street, New York City. FRAZER AXLE GREASE. Bent In th? WorlH. lladconlv b.T the FraiorLubricator Co. a: Chicago, N. Y. & St. Lou la. Sold evcrj/vhere. A HSNDSOME LADY or hnmrlr ladr can make mini-y wiling "Treasury of Thought (Mother, Home, llniTen), The beat homo book oTer published. KlionM be in eiery hirai and road nt rrrry liresiile. IJ cant i fu I-y i llnat rntrd. Contains the brii<ht<s'. th mghtt o: the btat nvn-1*. Eiaily gold, (Jooil pay to Mnn^st worker'. Aitdretw quickly, BRYAN, TAYLOR A CO.. S2G Broadway. N. Y. AAIIAIIIIUTI All tarsal Vlacera. Purely rrreUblo, containing no m??cory, mineral*, or deleter ou* dm**, Prlre. 25 eanta par box. Sold by an drnrridta. ty"Sond alntterataoap loRADWAY dcCO^Nti 3? Warren St.. New Ytrk, tor "Falaa and I'm a." TO THE PCltfLIC.?De euro andaak tor Hadway'?, and aw that the nama "Badway" la on what yog bay, * JRfe THIS PLASTER * 7 Actnllrectlynpo* Qm nro* H HMO ? elae end thanerreaof tM * WW E buck, tketMl tyj pal a. f" JSfe?X.nn* Tronblra, wbather _ _ 1?? or 48eply teated this /CT> tT*? \ plaatfr will b? frmnd to j\ftmlL ? \ glra tnitant relief by apf? *"" ^ ft m.* I.X P'Jln# between the utoaV HVkf at A A# iklU der bi?dt? SHARP In. f A| Kf For Kidney Trouble, |1B I j OLJ RUmmattitn. Kenralpa, Bkeml- ?' Mm! Tiiu m tha Stda and Back BtVlMTCWHI^r 1 Acfie- ,h" *re ? certaia ""pains H 8914 *7 OraiRtfta ffT Hmit 0T Are for SI. HClf Mailed on receipt of Wfki ia>TPwT nlte bjrSmlUi)Vaalit' IPUSTEIff BET IN CHEAPEST! ? ?ii iPIISTETJJyLO JN Or any inflammation of the Internal organs or mural membranes, ?JK>r ei pea are to cold, wot, etc., loee no time, but apply Ratway'i Relief orer tbo p?rt affected with congestion or inflammation and can tbo patient. teaapoonfnl la half a tnmbler of water will in a few mlnnte.< core (Jramp*, Spaaraa, SonrBtomaob. Heartbarn, Nerrouaiuisa, Sleepleeeooea. Sick Headache, Dlarrbcna, Djasntary, Oollo, Flatulency, tad all Interi nal pain*. : MALARIA CURED IN ITS WORST FORMS. There la cot a remedial acent in the world that will core Kerer and Aguo and all other Malailooa. Blltoma and other ferare. aided by KAIIWAY'S f II,LH,ao quick aa RADVtAY'H RKA l?Y KKLIKF. Fifty centa per bottle. 8*14 fcjr DraccUU. It. Raiway's Sarsasarilan Resolmt, THE GREAT BLOOD PURIFIER, For the Cure or All Chrenlc Dlseaaea. I Ohroalo Rhonmatlam, Hcrofal*, Syphilitic Omplaint*, etc. (too our book on Venereal, ate.; price twenty-tiro cental Olaodnlar Swrllln.*, Hacking Dry Cougb, Oanc*r>na Affections, Bleeding of the I,tings, Dyspepeia. Water Braeh, Wh!te Swelling*. Tatnon, Simple*, Blotches, Kruptmna of the Pace, Uloera, Hip Diaeaees, Uo it. Dropnr. Rickete, bait Rhettn, B oacbltls, Conaumption. Diabetea, Kidney, Bladder, liter Complaint*, eto. SCROITTJIjA., Whether tranamlttad by parenta or acquired. la withla the enratlTa range Of the SARSAVaRLLLJAN RESOLVENT. Cures hare beon made where peraooi hare been afflicted with Scrofnla frnm tbeir TOMth np to SO, JUiand 0 years of age, hr I)K. RAD WAY'S SARSA. PARIM-1AN nK.xOI-VH.Vi', a remedy cornpr*od ot ingredienta of extraordinary medical propertiee, wannt.al to pnrify, heal, repair and Invigorate the broken down and waited body. Quick, pleaaant, aafe and permanent In It* treatment and core. Sold by all dioggists. One 4ft>lnr a bottle. Dr. Radwayllepilating Pis For the cure of all dlaordera of the Rtomaoh, lirer, Bowels, Kidney*, Bladder, Ni-rroe* Dlteaaee; Loee ot Appetite, Headaoho, Onalipation. Co*tirrnee, Indlgretlon, Dyspepsia, Btliouaneaa, rarer, In&imraation of the B/ w?l?. Plica and all deranaementa of the In the medicine has been of great value in preventing miscarriage and alleviating the pains and dangers of childbirth. Philadelphia la dies appreciate the worth of this medicine and its great value." R R R S?1 11.11. II.RF| IFF CURES AND PREVENTS Oolda.Oouf ha, Bora Throat,Inflammations, Rlnnmatiam, Neuralgia, KmAmIm, Toothache, Asthma, ZMfflonlt Breathing. CURES THE WORST PAINS is from cmU twenty minute*. Not one hoor ?ftc? r?*dinf thie ?dwtlnant mx>d an7 on* MUFFBR WITH FAIN. RADWAY'S READY RELIEF la a Cnre for Etcry Pain, sprains? Braises* Pa'.ni la the Back, Cheat or Llnki. It iru the First and Is the Only PAIN REMEDY That IniUottj (top* the suit azemetkUnc pain, slUrt inflammation, and euro* Congwtion*. whether of to* Loafi, btomach or Bowel*, or other gland* or organs b7 on* application. II Mixed with tbre*t*a*4 , Humor We eta fire hundreds of Urtlmnnlali A fffpocMvt cures ofiorofaU, lots* ot them mm flren ap as abi? lately incurable. Ttke Hood's StrupirilU and yos will bo secure from scrofula. "Three yea? ago scrofula bt^jke oat on my f?o?> held and ears bo they were one solid sore, my hair fell off, my tight and hearl02 wen impaired, J commenced taking Hood's Sarsaparilla, and In one year wti entirety en red."?Mas. Maby B. PxxOcuf. Dexter, Me. "I have been tronhled with scrofula a (Treat deal, and waa advised to use Hood's Sanaparilla. I hare now taken thrco bottles and hare nearly eradicated the scrofula from my aystem."?W. A. - Pzur, Bourne, Mass. "I had four lorofaloaa torei coma on my feet, which grew ao bad that I could not wear a (ho*. Hotting which I took did roe <njr good tlU on# day I *aw Hood'a Barsaparilla advcrtljed In a paper and decided to try It. I hare takan two bottle* and tha torn* an almoat entirely healed."?m?- Addix Pirn, Booth Potadam, N, Y. irsaparilla Bold by all druggl?t?. 91; ds for $3. Prepared otl by 0.1. HOOD k CO., ApotboctriM, Lowell, Hut, 100 Poses One Dollar Quaker Tetllmeny. Mrs. A. M, Dauphin, a Quaker lady, of Philadelphia, has done a great deal to make known to ladies there the great value of Mrs. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, as a cure for their troubles and diseases. She writes as follows: "A young lady of this city while bathing some years ago was thrown violently against the life line and the injuries received resulted in an ovarian tumor which grew and enlarged until death seemed certain. Her physician finally advised her to try Mrs. Pinkham's Compound. She did so and in short time the tumor was dissolved or caused to slough off, and she is noto in perfect health, I also know of many cases where II1SV vTri;J?7A' ll-3jx. CTTMB *1 th? m of ttto Ata tnaDT.tktSkf 8wi? !?!^iS?2*i5 WH bleoAiapBtffd. #>; xxmrrro ninwi?< ?r, f una hww!r?fc of ?** ?, ..*g5*? SSTSSSfiSS: .= OB?VUfB TilWly WOWT Ufala.a&d<mr?wfcm OlAVXX. other ?dUfaw *U. siabstbs it im vw**& ? HEIGHT'S pr?1y tor ftwdH. gg STiS^TE OM te?*I ?Sj?. SS v ems *?-pw* . (WEVOTTB &??? ?'*f",U xnsxAsn W^T ..""IIMMmuBHoar Huwyji< ? OS //f BEKDT v Koy-BJM'JMTiua WrJ ? Cflu? > 4 VTLDTB. gj?23PZt1''m'L X HUNTS (Kldnar ?n>l Lirer) REMEDY bu MTod from Uncaring dlmM and dwlh handnd* rho h?r? been ginn ap bj phrucuuii to <U*? _ _ ? jrr;u-.i IMMEDIATE RELIEF. tT^URK IBH row owa betUwesi SftggSll B*iU ?tth ftofi cVisetlogn farnixKl3Si3,lSJ!iS?S^T: cb?Tocrth?h?Bnn?i ?o4&mU? Bprvlni sad Brrtaaa, 8m ThfMt tow, nan wtSdi. ?Milrftrir? the ?Tlnf. AMte c?u oda mdvhufflnJJ, S d?r? pMki0ta4 ro?*<n bta ffetufictkx) n v?otMd. SUaptUkcn. B. Q. BICHAEPD, SoU Pwjritor. Trfwfcy OW. Paynes' Automate Engines and Szw-Wl .fli - Wt Ottir to 8 a 1? P. raonnte? ?nftao ?Hh MM. KM*. Mild ?aw, 10 ft. b?ltt*ar. cant-hooks, rig ootapM* for operation, on e?la, 91.19). Enrina Ml iHik tlft leaa. 8-nd for circnUr fB). B. >V. PATNB_4 HONS, Manofaetvrara of aUatrlaa Aitmiaitl?e*> (Ineih from 1 to ID H. P.: alao Pulleyt, Haacm nd Ihiftn*. Elmlrv K T. Box I860. pijowa Inl Iter ttturtrtlH rinr CaUlrfaa, ahawtlif HI W Sao af "Maal," "ttlll?l lnw"aad "Cart inm" r&wa, mtto to all all a?lla. >4ap4r4 tar ail kind* af ??t 1? all ??rtto*a ?Mmraiua- * I'7. Aftafa wantal WUI f'1 all Ttiaa ordara from nr Dallaa Inaa*. p W Iff JUMp sptchi rrk? t? ^*3* .FMMf9S9p9^^Pe.' ADDBES8, ^gp^jgha?MAp?k, The EdmWon & Wadd.ll Co., 351 *353 flnt 3tra* BRUOELTX.E. D..X.Y. - / HowToBuildS plana, vtoir%dmcripSoaa tad rtii-J&L R\flL Maay^ttmodarn hoaM?jmsjiKJ2jJfn^ coarteM a book of thia kl ijdnntally aAJUJIHv. V r eoatatA. Ogmwuc?o.-n.r?Oott.. /?TE?MB3i> "BoK^fo1 ASaOClTfiOlT, flDgSSHSl K Bookman St., (Box S701,) V.T-IKB&oSi^Hi YOU HOP PLASTERSCAN'T BNMM <MNMH4 ?( iMt ill _ _ _ _ actlra medic.na! a?eot* fortbaccn H EAT of poin sad dkuH. A wondorfa] THEM. SS&SSPSI^ acha, Crick. Kidney Troubles, Stitebaa, tklatiM, XtMOa mat lam, Bore Cheat or pain In any part. Acta tnaUatiy ?alwayaaootbea?qulela narronaaooa readjr to apply. AU daalMji. J5r_ I for jl, Sent by matt fot priw, . 7 HOI* PlAstKH CO.. Prop'ra. BottnSMtm. BEST TRUSS EYEII USED. clirulJn t?tho <*Cr;ptlr* KSQfra New York Elastic V f? / Trnss Company, X# V 744B,<hoy, WtwYtrt W# will send jroa FREE ONE OOFTof tbo HEARTHST0NE,FMAART7oii? If jaawlsh EapUramtdluribatiuMvpktwd takiag Tim for p*p?r end Pui-MIUMS we win nbmlt a ynfMltloa f?r tuU(M kx * Mek fH Ma ' $10,$20, and 930 a veekRXZSSl havld eojoj far out math, at least, the twlwwt, km* edited, lllnrtraMd Jeornal la tb? V. 8. OH copy vitfc aar eonpll meats, placet jtra aader so ebllfmfloa*. liMif ?. I. TWMti? U4 ?rtt It.. Wl, tv WE WANT 1000 BOOK AGEHTB avthaonrbookTBXUXY-TUB?JE TEAM UUM OUR WILD INDIANS By Gen- DODGE aod lien. B0E1UUN. Tha fartest adtag book ant Indnaad by Praa't Arthur, Oea'a GruLtkaiW^ ghaitdaa, and thonaandi of &nta*at Jadaaa, ClngM Editors, ate- aa " Tha Rot tmd fmett /7Wna?ed*4fi BookgverPMUJud.'' IttakaiUkavlldfln.andif***# 10 to 20 a day. a^Ti.OOO aold. Iia lirtal itMH and SoUd-Merit make It the b*mhaMj?> AiiuS #R. U. AWARE I Loiillard's Climax Ping I bearing a red tin tag; that LorUlardl Ro?* Leaf fine rat; that Lortllard* Nary Clippings, and that LortUard'a Snail* an the beat ana chcapeat, quality comidered J fTIO introduce and Mil the trade (be weR-knom Mi JL celebrated Quran of the NEW YORK AHAVAKA CIGAR COMPANY. Liberal arrangement*. &UA11 . or Comnibsios paid to the n*ht man. For lortbm particulars and terma addme, at once. The New York & Havana CI far Co*. 37 Broadway, Sew Yarlt. H| HOME BEAUTIFUL.?Mrs. T. O. FABlfHABC, 10 Went Uth St., New York. Cheapeat place in New York for Docoratire Art Materials. Wholesale H rotall. Bond 3c. for catalogue- Plcaaa mention paper. DIaih'a DiIU Great English 6oata?* Dlall S rlllSi Rheumatic Remedy. Ural Hoi, >1.00| ronnd, HQ eta. HHOW to b? Beautiful? Bemore frecklw, pimple*. blemtahce. In*trnctIon8,toUetroclpe<i free. Send s tamp for pamphlet. Dr.Flemlng,236W.MUiBt.,N.Y. LEARN TELE8MWY???22^? ualiom futraql5$d YUentin# Bros., JmwTili?, Wlfc Snuff Eating. City druggistshave very raaiiy glimpse3 in the inner life of their customers. " I want five cents worth of snuff," aaid a little woman, as she bent ov'cr the counter of a drug store this morning and whispered the order in the clerk's ear with a mysterious mien. Glancing furtively around to assure herself that there were no witnesses to the transaction, she added: "It's 'for another lady. I never use the stuff." Picking up a neatly wrapped little bundle in white paper, she placed it to her nose to asauro I i* ii'oii fl?n rrnniiinA IlClOtU liiUt J l# ?? CIO IUU gvutaauv ?* *av?w| then flung down a nickle and hurriedly left the store. "Here, Johnny," said the clerk, turning to a boy who was standing behind the prescription case in conversation with a reporter, "put up some more snulF. All those packages wo made last night are gone already. Hurry! Here's another customer across the street. Yes, our chief patrons arc women. We have no male callers for snuff nt all. The. men chew tobacco instead. Of coursc no woman buys tho snull for herself. The purchase is made for a neighbor or a friend. I have heard women complain of the stuff, which they said they were buying for another woman. The habit, I understand, is very fascinating, and when once begun is more binding than I >! )... s.V.nn.:n? r?r CTnillrilu* Tn l/l ( I1UI ViV II '"o llWUVWV V? WHaw?*a?>^f ? its strength to enslave the will it approaches the power of narcotics." liising* an<l Sinking of Continents Scicntilic men have been disposed to attribute the evidences of changes ou the earth's surface to violent catastrophics in the operations of nature; but Lycll and the more recent geologists say that most of the alterations we witness were brought about by the slow operation of natural forc es, acting through vast periods of time. The several earthquakes which have receutly visited the northeast quarter of North America did something toward either raising or depressing the surface of the region allected. It is known that the Atlantic coast between C'npe Ilattcras and Cape Cod has been steadily sinking for centuries, and it is within the bounds of probability that before 2.000 years have elapsed the cities of New York and Brooklyn may be under water. When the Dutch colonized Manhattan island, 200 years ago, the Indians told them that in the tiiTie of their greatgrandfathers it was possible to cross Hell Hate dry shod from one bank to the other. Professor Guyot estimated that the lowering of the Atlantic coast was twenty-three and a half inches every ecnAt Mw> enmntimo it i^pr>rtnin thnfc the greater portion of the Americnn continent is rising, while the continent of I Australia is ccrtninly sinking. - Av/wJ ett.