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UPWARD. Upward, still upward, the fountain is springing: Upward, far upward, the songster is winging; Up to the blue dome delightfully fair, Roofing the scent-laden ocean of air. The bird's dainty throat is o'erwelling with ?. glee, Tba fountain exultantly shouts: "I am free," Thoy sing of a life all untrammeled with care, Unto ma Howard, still upward the forests are grow in?. Upward, far upward, their budding twigs throwing, ? Up to the untrammeled regions of space, Where waits for each tiny corner a place, Proud of its brood is each doughty old tree Anxious a prosperous future to see: v A gentle peace shines from the broad woodland's face Upon me. Upward, still upward, the daisies are creeping; Upward, yes upward, the blue-belis are peeping; Up from their dainty pedestals of green Reflecting the sun with a glorious sheon, Crowded for love o'er the leagues of the lea Till shines all the plain like a flower-crested sea fraught with all manner of pleasure serene Unto me. "Upward" the plea of the daisies demure, "Upwards," the song of the fountain so pure, Up from the baser low levels of earth, Striving each other from the moment of birth; I would that no harsher thoughts ever might be Than those that arise, gems of nature, from thee. As I watch you exhaling your treasures of mirth Upon me. t' ? C. M. Harger, in Current. JOHN'S HEROISM. Handsome, plump Mrs. Archibald Steele wrote the following paragraph in ?ne of her letters to her husband in Hew York the other da}': John must coine down here at once, whether you can spare him or not. Our dear little Laura is greatly taken with a tall, thin young nan, with a hooked nose and thin lips, called Stuyvesant It is whispered about the hotel that he is a very good match, and has the veritable blood of the o'd Dutch governor in his reins. I must say that it has a queer way of showing itself, for the young man is as pale as a specter; and dressed in that white duck, with his sunken eyes and bilious skin, is anough to frighten one. I have grown to hate him, while Laura is growing to be quite the eontrary, I am afraid. All the evening he leans up against the wall, never dancing or pening his mouth, save to give vent to tome hateful, sarcastic criticism upon the scenes around him, aud yet dear little Laura's yes?as, indeed, all the other pretty eyes bout?are perpetually beseeching him for attention. In the daytime he is always with a long black horse, that covers more ground with its legs while it is going than any other animal that I ever saw. When Lanra goes out to drive behin I it, and vanishes out of sight with the bony creature. I tremble to think how dreadful it would be X our dear little girl would ever be part and r?l of this wretched man and his beast. I think John had better come down at ttiCQ. 1 quite long to see his handsome face and hear his honest voice, and I think it is about time that John should tell his little tory to Laura and have thing settled comfortably. Archibald Steele smiled when he put the letter of his wife in his waistcoat pocket, and, picking up the morning paper, scanned through his goldjrimmed spectacles the news of the day. Finding nothing therein to refine the xcecdingly satlsiactory coucuuon 01 ms affairs, he put it down, smiling as only a prosperous, contented down-town merchant can smile. He was one of those happy exceptions to the ordinary rule of mortals, with whom everj thing went well. His who'e experience was an exclamation point to that effect. If he entured a little hazardously in trade, fortune trimmed her sails to favor him. If he set his heart upon anything relating to domestic felicity, all the elements of art and nature conspired to bring it about. So when he stepped to the door of his office and beckoned to a young pan with a strip of commercial paper in lus hand and a pencil behind his ear, with the general air of briskness and shrewdness about him that betokened a successful down-town merchant embryo, Mr. Steele smiled the third time, with the air of one who was not at all afraid of any bilious, blue blooded obstacle that mignt L>e tnrown in ine paiu ui ? domestic happiness which he firmly igreed had been arranged by an Omnipotent hand. "John," said Mr. Steele, closing the door of his private office, and looking opon his young clerk benevolently, "I've got an order from Mrs. Steele which I wish you would attend to " "Certainly, sir,''said John; "shall I go out and get the articles myself r" "Why, the fact is, John," said the merchant, enjoying h:s joke more and more, "it's only one article ?a rather bulky one. It was baigained for a long time ago. 1 think you will have to go down with it, John." "Down to the seashore!" said John, getting a little hot aud flustered; "is it a rery valuable parcel, sir?" "Well, perhaps your natural modesty may depreciate its worth,- John. Mrs. 6teele and I think a good deal of it. and Laura, too, I am sure does. The commodity is yourself, John. Mrs. Steele wants you to go down and take a little holiday there." When the name of Laura was mentioned the young man's face grew more iustered and hot than before. "You are very kind, sir," he said, and Mrs. Steele is more like an angj] than a woman." "Rather solid and pluinp for that," interposed Mr. Steele, b it liking the phrase nevertheless. "But it is a simple madness,'' pursued John, "to dream of further happiness than I en;oy now?your alfection and that of your wife?my position here; ] don't dare, I cau't hope for anything more. Oh, Mr. Steele, I can't tell hei my story. She would turn from me with horror and avers on. She is so young, so beautiful. l et me at least enjoy the present." "And-in the meantime some cadaver us, bilious, blue blooded scoundrel will carry her oil from us all.-' Then John's iacc grew pale aud stern. "If there is the slightest feeling upon hei part for?for any oik; el c, then, indeed, Mr. Sleeic, my case is hopeless."' The commercial paper fluttered from his haud, the pencil fell from his ear, and he leaned his head against the desk and trembled. 'Why, who would suppose you coulc be such a coward?" said Mr. Steele, im petuously. <;You shall go down witl me this very day." All the way to the seashore John'! face wore the look of one who had re solved to storm a deadly breach, but wh< did not hope to survive the attempt. Even the -ocean, when it confrontec them, wore a threatening look. Upor the horizon a pile of clouds formed * background, wan and gloomy, a greai black mist lay in the zenith, and ( g&j . " rvV: >' ' + " \ - . ./*'* J -1 ' *-" dense, red vapor almost touched the water. "A very nasty sea," said Mr. Steele. John snuffed it in, his eyes dilating I and his head high in the sea-scented I air. A tramp on the hard, wet sand, and, | like a meteor, a long black horse swept j j by. disappearing in the mist, leaving for ; I John the memory of a charming head, ! j crowned with blonde curling hair, two i | kind eyes bent upon his own, and a ! ; white waving hand extended in saluta- J | tion. "Johu," said Mr. Steele," did you sec the face of that m&u? I count upon : your saving Laura. Lna you see ms . thin, crucl lip3 and teacherous eyes?'' j "I only saw Laura, sir," said John, simply. i Later on Mr. Archibald Steele and ! his plump, pretty wire were alone ; together in their private parlor. Her! dimpled hand lay lovingly in his, and j her shapely head, fres-h from the hands I of the coiiTeur, rested recklessly on his ' shoulder. Suddenly the door opened, and there was heard the rustle of silken drapery. A J j still shapelier l'ttle head, and fresher ! i from the hands of the coiiTeur, all unj rumpled by the audacious hands of mor- j j tal, peeped in at the door. Laura was j pale: her little white hands were clasped ! together and her musical voice trembled. 'Oh, papa, maiuma, come directly? Mr. Stuyvesant ventured too far, aud? ; J and?" ' -'Was drowned?'' said Mr. Steele,with ! a queer combination in his voice of pity and relief. 1 "Xo, no; how can you suppose so ! dreadful a thing? lie was rescued, but is very weak and ill. He has asked for me. aud may I go? Will you not come with me, m :inma? Oh, do, I beg of you. Can't i'he, papa?" Her blue eyes filled with tears: her i:nu tvnnfinrr t:n tlv thrOU??ll Ill civ? icui acwuit.v( ?j w : the corridors. "Certainly not," said Mr. Steele. ] "Let him wait till he is able to come to you or me. Either the man was drowned ' ! or he isn't. Because he was imbecile j ! enough to risk his life, that is no reason | for your being the talk of the hotel.'' i Laura raised her eyes proudly. "No danger of that, papa; and besides, every one is occupied now with the one that rescued him." i 4'And what madman was that?" said poor Mr. S eele, who cou'd not reconcile j himself to the present condition of affairs. ' "I don't know?a stranger, I believe. ' ! I was so interested in Mr. Stuyvesant I forgot to ask." I "JJah!" said 3Ir. Steele, getting upon his feet and walking to the door. "I'll go and find out all about it. Do you stay here till I return." Before he had gone far, Mr. Steele heard from the excited guests several ' different versions of the atTair; but one aud all agreed that the rescuer could be nothing less than a champion swiin. mer. "A regular water-dog!" said one gentleman to Mr. Steele; and as the mer chant had heard this epithet but once before in his life, and that on an occasion of vital interest to himself, ho nought out the hero of the hour, and fouud, to his unbounded astonishment, it was John Waters himself! He was quite enveloped in the tiounces and furbelows of , pretty and sympathetic women, who in- 1 : sisted upon knowing every half second if I he was sure he felt strong and well, and how in the world could he buffet those j dreadful waves in that grand, heroic way, and how did he manage to drag poor Mr. Stuyvesant to the shore? j .John, like any other hero of the hour, enjoyed this adulation, but looked anxiously at Mr. Steele when he approached. "Hum," growled that worthy merchant; "a pretty fellow, you, to interfere with other people's plans! How do you know he wanted to be rescued?'' "He appeared anxious that way, sir," said .John. "He wrapped himself about ' me like a devil-fish. I thought at one j time we'd both go down together. There oujrht to be a school for teaching people how to be saved. It's the easiest tiling in the world; the water itself is an accessory, if you manage it right.'' i "Oh, do tell us how, Mr. Waters, please," chorused the pretty and sympathetic women; and as John began his lesson Mr. Steele slipped away. ,:Oh, papa," began Laura, "how is Mr.'Stuyvesant?" * ' "I don't know?I didn't ask,'' he replied. "I wa3 interested in the fellow that dragged him ashore. He's an old friend of ours. The way we made his i acquaintance was on. such an occasion; i he saved a lady from downing." | "Why, papa,"said Laura, he must be 1 a splendid fellow." "Magnificent!" said Mr. Steele. "You t: see, we had traveled over considerable of the world together, your mother and | I, while yoa were yet a baby; and we fouud it rather odd one morning to discover thai having crossed the ocean and the Alps, loitered in the Highlands, j traveled thence down the Mississippi valley, across the American desert to California, and hack again by another route, your mother had never been up the Last river as far as Morrisania. It " ? seemed so aosura to nave negicuuuu mm home excursion, that we determined upon it at ^nci. The morning was wet, but we didu't mind it. Your mother looked piettier in a water-proof and rubbers, with a shovel hat tied down under her chin, than most women would in a i j ball dro-s. She wasn't a bit afraid of j rain or mud. She was a little too reckj less; for, getting ashore to see the institution for vagrant boys, her foot s slipped oft the plank, and she dit-ap? paired." , i Mr. Steele stopped a minute; his voice i faltered; the plump little hand of his wife slipped into Irs own; he clutched ' it, and went on ayain. (' "Jne minute I saw her as neat and tiim a little figure as ever graced a water1 proof and shovel hai, aud the next she i was gone." L "Gone!" cried r.aura. "Gone where?" [ "Iuto the water, child: into the hun ' Sr7 El'ccn waves tliat surged up to take ' her away from the fondest heart iu the i universe; and if it had not been for one ] of those very vagabond boys, who had ' : been lurking there for a chance to escape ! from the island, you would have lost us i both, ray dear; for I made an agoni/cd L plunge after her, though I am ashamed to say I cannot swim a stroke, and should only have gone to the bottom like ' a plummet of lea l: but an oflicial standing by caught and held me, aud cried out that-Johuny Waters hud her sate; i aud presently that vagabond boy came i up with your sweet mother on the oth-r : side of the boat, and the o.iicer cried out: 'He's a regular water dog, that I; Johnny Waters!' and these were the very words a gue3t here used in relation to i John a minute or so ago." "John!" cried poor bewildered Laura, ' "our John, mamma? Wns John the boy? And is it John, our Johb, that saved > poor Mr. Stuyvesant?" "The very same John, our John; he is I always on hand when there.is any trouble t or danger." i "Oh, mamma! mamma!" cried Laura, t forgetting all the years that had passed i since the accident, and crumbling both the coiffeured heads in the most reckless manner. " Papa," she then said, "we must go and find .John; I want to tell him how much?I " "Yes, dear;" said Mr. Archibald Steele.and all the way through the corrida rand into the parlors of the hotel, with his plump and pretty wife on one arm and his beautiful daughter on the other, he sailed. But John was still surrounded by the pretty and sympathetic womeu, who had cruelly deserted the blue-blooded descendant of the old Dutch governor, lying in his most graceful and languid of attitudes on a neigliboriug lounge ? the descendant, not the governor?and had tio.ked, one and all. to the handsome and heroic founder of the new school for teachiug people the way to be rescued from drowniug. John was almost hidden iu flounces and laces; but when his eyes met 1.aura's he plunged out of those costly billows j with his u3u.il ease and trepidity. There | was something iu Laura's eyes that he had never seen there before? a tempt- j iug languor, r. bewitching shyness, a bewildering splendor that steeped his soul in a mnd, sweet hope. Laura stopped one moment I o whisper to her mamma, and John gasped out to Mr. Steele: ' If I dared?if I only dared to tell her " "I have told her myself!" said the merchant. ' That I was a pauper, without home or friends?" ,:I told the st< ry in my own way, John," continued -Mr. Steele, "and I flatter myself I told it successfully; do not spoil it, if you please. I have managed the past and the present; do you look out for the future, John." And John did. I.aura walked through the parlor that night the envied of all the pretty and sympathetic women and brave and appreciative men that congregated there. A Shroud Factory. New York, says a correspondent, is the recognized headquarters for the clothing of the dead as well as of the living. There is nothing about a shroud fuctorv to indicate the character of its product. Even the rows of coffins and enticiug varieties of caskets in the wareroom below seem to belong to another business altogether. The showcases that are visible from the head of the stairs, with their display of the latest styles in shrouds, appear to have been left there, perhaps by some previous tenant, and bear no possible relation to the use the room? are now being put. It is very difficult to imagine that these lighthearted girls who chat so merrily over their machines, are turning out burial robes by the dozen, but such is the case, and to them the work is no more dolorous than the making of shirts. If you are curious, come with me to one of the largest factories in the city, within a few blocks of Cooper I'nion, in tlie Bowery, and see for yourself. As the door of the shop opens the noise is almost deafening. Between the clatter of the machines on the one hand and the chatter of the girls on the other, one can hardly hear himself speak. It is 10 o'clock?early for us, perhaps, but not r? ?i.? Thnw havfi been at work iur iuu jl uvj ?w. since 8 o'clock, and one-quarter of their day has already been spent. In the ccnter of the room is a double row of sewing machines, varying in size and power, and all fastened to two long and narrow tab'es with little round places cut in the sides into which the operators snugly fit. At the oth'T end of the room are several counters forming a quadrangle. "Within this square sit a do en young women chatting und sewing, while a tall, middle-aged, motherly woman snips out of yards upon yards of black, white and brown cloth patterns of shrouds. Shrouds with long skirts, shrouds with short* skirts, shrouds with no skirts at all. Shrouds for the rich and shrouds for the poor. And such patterns they are. Th:s elaborate design in white satin, with soft ruching around the neck and tfeecy rurllcs iiround the wristbands, is modeled after a wedding gown as nearly as is possible, considering the dilferent use it is put to. It will grace the funeral of some rich patron of a fashion able undertaker. This plain oiac-K garment, with a false shirt bosom and a collar which ties behind with a cord, is patterned after an evening suit. It is quiet aod eminently respectable. It is intended for a man of middle age, and costs quite as much as a suit worn in life. Besides these there are robe3 of brown and combinations of brown and black, some faced with white satin, some with silk an 3 others plain even to severity. These form the cheaper grade of goods and are worn by men or women of advanced years. The white robes are all intcuded for the young. Some of these arc marvelous pieces of work, and if embroidered by hand would cost a small fortune. This little gown would hardly reach from your hand to your elbow. The tiny neckband is ru lied and -tied together in front with a white satin bow. The little sleeves arc covered with embroidery and the skirt is elaborately trimmed with lace. It is a baby shroud and is th*1 smallest that is made. The styles iu shrouds are continually rimnorinor Everv fashion used by the W a _ living contribute to the robbing of the dead. Every large factory lias its special designer, and not even death can still the competition between them. Immortal Sally Lunn. There are numerous instauces in the language of common nouns derived from proper names, the h:story of many of which is quite interesting. That very delicious tea cake, Sally Lunn, has conferred an immortality of fame upon its illustrious author, Sarah Lunn. This renowned lady was a humble personage living at Bath, England, near the close ! of the last century. She peddled her bun cakes through the streets morning and evening, carrying them in a basket, ller cakes soon made her popular, and a musical baker, with an eye to specula tion, wrote and set to music a song in her praise, and then bought out her trade and her recipe. The song proved an excellent advertisement, and the enterprising baker sent barrow loads of I "Sally Lunns" through the streets night and morniusr. The result was that in a few years he retired ou a fortune.? C'lii't g > lie raid. A Venerable Turtle. ! It seems that in 1810 Henry Mogul, father of the present Treasurer of Highj land County, Ohio, caught a turtle on \ his farm in Center Township, that county, and cut into its back the initials, "H. M., 1810." He let the turtle go, J but related the circumstance to his son. Recently the County Treasurer was out walking over the old farm, when he accidentally came across the identical old turtle upon which his father had carved his initials seventy-eight years before. The turtle was alive, and as active as ever, the inscription on his back being almost as distinct as when first made.?Cincinnati Enquirer. " .7 - ; ... K ^midgeOFFUNT" HUMOROUS SKETCHES FROM VARIOUS SOURCES. Her Wit Was Her Fortune ?An I'iinot iced Effect?A Sedative for His Wife ? A Contemplated Mark. "Where are you going to, ray girl, tailormade?" "Oh, I'm going to Newport, sir," she said. "And what will you do there, my girl,tailormade "Why, fish for a husband, good sir," she said, 'But where do you come from, my girl, tailor-made'" I "Oh, I come from Vassar, good sir," she said. 'Where is your baggage, my girl, tailormade;" "It's there on the lighter, good sir," she said. "How many boxes, my girl, tailor-made?' ' I've thirty-six trunks, sir," tuo maiuen said. "Why, a boat couldn't carry them, my pretty maid!,: I "Then I'll charter a couple, good sir," she said. "But what have you in them, my girl, tailormade?" "My bonnets and dresses, good sir," she *aid. "But you can't wear th?m all,my girl, tailormade.'" "You can bet your sweet life that I will," she said. "And is that your ?ortune,my pretty maidi" "My wit is my fortune, sir," she said. ?The Ocean. An Unnoticed Effect. "Your singing is delightful, Miss Ethel," said Mr. bore. ''It fairly carj ries me away." "Indeed?" returned Miss Ethel, with | i yearning glance at the clock. "I I hadn't noticed it."?Harper's Bazar. A Sedative for His Wife. Mr. Caudie?"Doctor, I want you to - 1 ?? ofl/lofifra far mu wifp I put up il (JUWCIIUI KUHIIIU ?vy* ...J give me the best specific for insomnia pou know of." Doctor?"What's the matter? Can't 9he sleep?" Mr. Caudle?"Ye3, I guess so; but I can't."?Burdetle. A Contemplated Mark. Little Constance (to Bagby, who is a eery desirable catch)?"Uetter shoot carefully to-day, Mr. Bagby." j Bagby?"Why, Constance? Is your sister such a capital shotr" Constance?"Oh, I don't know about 'that; b;it she said to papa and mamma I that she had a good beau, and intended (to shoot for the gold in earnest."? Judge. A Timely Suffffestion. Customer (to photographer)?"I want \ picture taken with my beard on as it I [3, and afterward I will get shaved and j have it taken without the beard." Photographer (rushed)?"Well, er, as I there are two or three ahead of you, I would suggest, sir, that while I am taking them you might skip out and get shaved now.''?Philip II. Welch. Hard on tlie Doctor. I Old man to vouns doctor.?"Good morning, Doctor. How d'y'do? Don't you attend old man Jones?" Do;tor.?"Yes, sir." Old man (Innocently)?"How is he getting along? My wife has been look: ing in the paper every day for six months ; to see his de:ith notice." Youug doctor collapses.? Waahinqton 1 Critic. Just the Diflerence. Gubbins, in one of the rare moments ; be devotes to the cultivation of his in! tellect, was reading aloud from a work ' on natural history. "The camel is an animal that can ; work a week without drinking." "And I," remarked Gubb ns, com; menting on the text, "I am an animal ; that can drink a week without work ing."?Judge. And Mary Didn't Refuse. Mary. ? "Don't you dislike to have a man talk shop when becomes to see you?" Jennie.?"fudeed, I do! Who's been t I*llrinra OKAH f A VAl! lUIMU^ OLA 'J' wv jw.?. Mary.?"Oh, my young mrn. He's a street car conductor, you know, and 1 nearly every time he comes to see me he gets off his shop talk." I Jennie.?"What doe3 he say?" j Mary.?"Sit closer, please."?Birlington Free Press. In Hard Luck. "How are you coming on in business?" asked a gentleman of a Dallas merchant, j "I am having a hard time of it. Luck is against me." "How so?" "Didn't you hear how burglars broke open the store and robbed iny rival over 'the way.' Just ;hink of what a lot of j free advertising he gets. I don't want to fail and get rich, but I'm being driven ' to it."?Texas Sift inya. One Serions DefectYoung Lawyer (to pretty cousin)? "Yef, Maud, I think I have perfectly appointed office. That desk alone cost one hundred dollars." Pretty Cousin (looking about with evident admiration)?"Yes, Charley, it's a lovely room; but I notice one serious defect." Youncr Lawyer?"What's that, Maud j" Pretty Cousin?"The absence of clients."?Drake's Mag nine. He Was Used to It. "What makes you wear that oldfashioned felt hat?" asked one man of another on Clark street. "Well, you see, my wife fancies that style of hat, so I have to get it." "But I wouldn't be dictated to in that manner." "You wouldn't be dictated to?" "No, sir." "Well, in my business you get used to it and don't mind it." "What is your business?" "I'm a stenographer."?Merchant Traveler. One of Fortune's Favorites. 41 Young man," he said, "do you respect the fair sex, as all young men should?" "I do, indeed, responded the young man, with emotion. "And there is one of the fair sex, sir, whom I not only respect but adore, and she adores me." "You are fortunate." "Fortunate is no name for it, my venerable friend. Why, in the summer time that girl clerks in an ice cream and confectionery shop, and in the winter she is cashier in an oyster saloon."? Epoch. Two Sides ot Humanity. Omaha Miss (at a seaside resort)? "What a lot of wedding parties there are here 1" Experienced Dame?"I thought so at first, but I see how that I was mistaken. Most of the couples are only engaged." "Omaha Miss?"Why, how can you tell the difference so quickly." .Jt V , .. v v^v.v Experienced Dame?"Where a couple are engaged, my dear, the gentleman looks after the comfort of the lady; when they are married the lady looks after the comfort of the gentleman.? Omaha World. Misinterpreted the Prof \ssor. "Go with me, Miss Laura," said the professor, glowingly, "to the vineclad hills of l-'rance " "Do you mean it, professor?'' exclaimed the delightjd girl, preparing to throw herself in his arms. " In imagination. Walk, as I have walked nmong the simple heirted peas| antry of Normandy. Converse with them i in their native tongue, and then argue, j if you can, that poverty is in itself a curseI" "It is all quite charming no doubt," ; asserted Miss Laura, relapsing into dreary 1 apathy. ? Chicago Tribune. Johnny Was All Right. "You don't eat a great deal, my little ; man," said the minister, who was taking ' dinner with Johnny's parents. "No, sir; don't need to." | "Perhaps you arc training to be another Dr. Tanner and fast forty days." "Forty days ain't nothing." "Johnny, don't talk nonsense," inter: posed his mother. "Why, ma, it ain't anything all.'' i Then, turning to the minister, "I've got an uncle who lived over a month on i waier." "Why, Johnny," said his mother again, "if you don't stop telling stories "But it isn't a story. It's my uncle Ned, who is captain of an ocean steamer. I gue3s, ma, he's lived on water more'n a month often."?Merchant Traveler. A Fatal Mistake. Mr3. Jacob S , an estimable woman ' tiffins* ir> a omoll tnwn in t.hfi West, dis I 14 * AllO ** W.4*l*** "W " - / I 1 covered early in her matrimonial career j that she had not beeu fortunate in her choicc of a husband, for Jacob proved i to be excessively lazy and shiftless, doing almost nothing for the support of his wife and the round-faced little children. Several years after her marriage Mrs. S heard of the approaching marriage of Jennie Krale, the daughter of a ' neighbor, and meeting the girl one day she said: 1 "Veil, Shennie, I hear you vas tinkin' 'bout getting married. Vas dat so?" j The girl, with becoming blushes, admitted the truth of the rumor. j "Veil, Shennie," said Mrs. S , "it would be veil for you to dink dwice before you imrry anypody." I "Did you think twice about it when you were married.'" asked Jennie, rather , resenting the intimation that she had j not made a wise choice. I "Veil, yes, I did," replied Mrs. S , after some little hesitation. "I did dink dwice, Shennie, but I made von grade raeestake, von grade meestake, , Shennie. I did not dink der second time until after I vas married."?Detroit ; Free Press. Grasshoppers' Language, i Grasshoppers, as if aware that their i beauty resided in their wings, rise in the ' --- A- fFk/* nAiofl id rr?qrln Kr rnh. i air iu mu^. xiao uviqv bing the upper edge of the true wings aginst the under surface of the wing covers. I have often watched them ! while in this aerial position, and won1 dered if the song was always a love call. If behavior means anything among grass* hopers, they have at times, especially , late in the season, other business aside from lovemakinjr. Many times I have observed one of these creatures mount up a few feet above the ground, calling, : calling, until soinctimes half a dozen or ' more would congregate beneath him, when he would drop down in their midst and touch the head of each as if consulting about some grave matter; then the little flock would disperse and the musician or orator, or whatever he was, would go to another place and call another crowd, and after the harangue ne wouia agaiu alight and communicate with each individual. As far as I could see there was no lovemaking connected with this ; affair. 1 Entomologists who have made thebrains of insects a study, te'.ls us that the orthoptera, especially the grasshoppers, have a good aevelopment of brain, put not equal to the ants, or to the social bees and wasps. Another class of grasshoppers remain on the ground to play. These are the violinists among the musicians; they use J their hind legs for bows, which they draw across strings situated in the wing | covers. The Hooky Mountain locust) j (Coloptenus spretus) belongs to this class. And here is an instance where an insect ceases to be insignilicant and becomes a great and mighty power in the (land, compelling the Government to supj p'y men and means to try and thwart i the vast armies that sweep over sections of the west, devouring all vegetation before them.?C.'iautaujuan. Parisian Statistics. The first census even taken at Paris i was in l:i38, when there were 25,000 in ; habitants, and it was more tnan 4;>u I years later before the number exceeded j 250,000, in 1801 the population was .517,7.31*, and the entire department of the Se ne contained but 631,585 souls. Since then the number has increased, in the city, to 2, '250,000, and in the department to about 3,000,000. Certain quar, ters, those in the center of the city,"can 1 be considered ai having reachcd their maximum, and as a matter of fact the las), census, taken in 18S0, shows a j slight falling off in them as compared , with the census of 18^1. But in all I other portions of the city and in the suburbs the increase is npparent But tho number of French born persons has not | increased, however, and in 1881 they ; were 2,037,02!', while five years later ! they numbcre:! but 2,057,8911, so that ; the whole increise, 180,253 in lJ-8 5, r 11 - r ? - ' /?nf Vn J C0IHC3 irom tuc lorui^u cicuuue, v . J tinental city contains so many foreigners as Paris, and nowhere outside of America is there su; h a r.ip'd increase in that class of the community.?Pi ayuiie. Stones in Vegetable Growth. It is a singular and as yet unexplained fact that in certain species of vegetable growth there are found a variety ot j stones supposed to lie formed and dei posited in their tissues from the silicious and calcareous juices circulating in their organisms. Thus, in the bamboo a round stone is found at the joints of the j i cane called "tabashcer.'' Another curiosity of the sort is the "co.oanut stone," found in the endosperm of the cocanut 1 in Java and other East Iudian islands, j Dr. Kimmins describes it as a pure carj bonate of lime. It is sometimes round, : sometimes pear-shaped, while the appcari ancc is that of a white pearl without ! much lustre. Some of the stones are as j large as cherries and as hard as felspar ' or opal. They are very rare, and arc regarded as precious stones by the Orientals and charms against disease or evil spirits by the natives. Stoues of this ; kind are sometimes found in the pome? granate and other East Indian fruits, j Apatite has also been discovered in the I midst of teak wood. WHALE-FISHERY. HUNTING THE LEVIATHANS !N FROZEN ZONES. The Hardy Seamen Who Follow This Exhilarating but Dangerous Calling?Methods of Capturing the Various Species. The finback whale, says the New York Teltjrnm is so called from a fin located on his back about a third of the distance from the flukes toward the head. He is a lean, athletic fellow capable of enormous speed. It is said that he can go through the water at the rate of a hundred miles an hour. He is not sought for by whalers,, because it is difficult to capture him, and when caught there is little profit for the captors. He has but little blubber, which is the oil bearing | tissue enveloping the body under the j skin, and the bone is small and worth j but little. It is short and frowsy, and | useu cuiuiiy iui mu&iug tuuisu uiuuuo, It is worth only about twenty-five centa a pound, while that of the bow head, the whale of the Arctic seas, sells now for $2.75 and $3 per pouud, while sales have recently been made as hieh as $4.80 per pound. \V ithin a few years it has increased in price, as a new held has been opened xn its application to some of the * electric light systems. While the finback whalebone, that is located as a fringe around the lower jaw, is only about two feet long, the bowhead bone, that grow3 in the upper jaw, is sometimes eighteen feet in length. This is the valuable quality. The bowhead is also the largest whale as well as the richest in bone and oil. One is on record as having yielded 320 barrels of oil, and those of 150 and 200 barrels are not rare. The most valuable bowheads are caught in the Arctic waters of the eastern coast of America, as the proportion of bone is the greatest, averaging about twenty pounds to the barrel; while those iu Behr.'ng Sea and to the northward thereof yield only from ten to twelves pounds. The oil is of little value and is used mostly to mix with other oils for painting. Sperm whales are found in any seaa between the Arctic andjAntarctic waters, and are sought for on account of the excellent quality of the oil, which is unsurpassed as a lubricant for tine machin - 1 ?,;fU cry. muy nit? uuii oupjjiiuu. iiibu whalebone, but their lower jaws contain teeth that tit neatly into sockets in the upper jaw when the, mouth is closed. They live upon squid, a jelly-like living mass, which they swallow in parts as it breaks off, and then dive for again until they finish the entire lot. The finest oil and the greatest quantity is in the animal's head and is called the "case." A sperm whale that would yield 100 barrels, would have sixty barrels of this in its head. "When a whale is brought alongside a ship the head is cut off and hoisted aboard. The oil is then baled out with buckets. The sperm whale is a fighter when attacked and many are the thrilling adventures that are met with by the brave men whose lives are devoted to its capture. It is exhilarating though and the iron nerves of the hardy seamen are additionally braced with the reflection that a whale represents a big pile of money and each has his interest, or "lay" as it is called. If it were not a commercial pursuit whaling would be the grandest sport in the world. Many ambitious hunters go to Ceylon and India to kill an elephant. An elephant is a big animal a large one weighing perhaps ten tons, but how small he is in comparison with a whale. When a n/Violn io-oodn annrfintr in the distance the man at the ma3t heacf calls out: "There she blows!' All is now activity aboard. The vessel is headed toward the spot where the spout was seen, and soon the boats are lowered, each containing five men and an oiiicer. The bow man is called the " boat steerer," because after he throws the hnrpoon into the whale he exchanges places with the officer, who is called "boat header" and the latter goes to the bow and lances the whale until he is dead, or shoots a bomb lance into him from an iron gun with a barrel about three inches in diameter. The gun is heavily charged with powder, and the recoil frequently kicks tne boat header overboard. This is a contratemps not to be con* sidered if the bomb does its work. It requires some resolution to come up alongside of a whale which looks as big as a ship up.'-ide down, and stick a sharp lance into it repeatedly until it spouta blood. When struck with a harpoon the whale usually darts off at full speed, dragging the boats after it at a rate ol speed that takes away the breath of the crews. They care little for this, or the long row back towing the mammoth carcass, as long as he has been caught. When sitting in their scats with oars nntstretchod. waiting for the whale to ri.se and the harpoon to be delivered, no thought of danger enters the head of the sailor. He only wants to be prompt in response to the order "Starnall, foryoui lives," that comes the moment the blow is struck. Safety depends on getting back out of the reach of a blow from that enormous fluke. Perhaps the boat is struck and all hands arc tnrown out into the water, but the other boats do not come lo the relief of their unfortunate comrades until they have either caught or lost the whale. The tlnback is not caught in this manner, for it is very difficult to harpoon him at sea. He swims so rapidly that, when he comes up after going down &s he blow?, he may be many miles away, j They arc sometimes caught off Long Inland and Cape Cod by gcttiug into shoal wa'er aud grounding, when they are harpooned aud shot with a bomb lance. The whaling interest is very small now compared with a few years ago, when from Xew Bedford alone, there were 500 whalers at sea, and from 2s ew I nnrlnn a n d IWnvMlfl's YillCVttrd 200 each. " { Whales are scarce, too, and will soon j become extinct unless a syndicate should be formed to charter Hudson's l.'ay as a whale ranch. This may sound ridiculous, but only a few years ago it was seriously considered to bring some of the valuable fur seals from the ??outh Shetland Islands, southeast of Cape Horn, and breed them in Ucpulse Bay. the northern arm of Hudson's 15ay, which is well adapted for such an industry. The ancient Roman, and especially the IJomau Senator, was the ideal, the standard of wisdom and statesmanship, combined with simplicity and freedom cMm afiif.seeking. Loudon has fewer inhabitants to the house than any other of the great cities of Europe. Vienna has the most persons to the house, having five times as many as I.ontlou. At thirty NaDoleon was not only one of the most illustrious generals of all time, but also one of the great lawgivers of the world. At forty-six he saw Waterloo. 1 POPULAR SCIENCE. The direct action of steam at 212 degrees is sufficient to destroy all sjerms. . Chloroform may be detected in the} lungs of auimals four weeks after death. According to the naturalists, wasps remember the locality of their nests just ninety-six hours. Waste silk- has been shown to be the 9 most effective non-conductive covering for steam pipes. The price is high, but the demand is very great. There has been invented for the use of the trumpeters in the French army an . instrument which at will can be turned to as to throw the sounds backward. A human subject without collar bones lias been met with in a St Louis dia* iccting-room. This structure is that of most of the vertebrates, such as lions, bears, etc. . Without taking into account the small */ variations due to refraction, etc., the '0 days and nights are always of equal length at all points on the equator, with- ^ out regard to the position of the ecliptic. > The atmosphere on the English Channel' was recently rarefied to such a degree J that objects between thirty and forty miles from Dover and Folkestone couta clearly be distinguished with the naked eye. Tests of various kinds of coal have shown that only coke is a sufficiently, good electric conductor to be used as' an earth collection for lightning rods.' Specimens of anthracite ana bituminous coal and charcoal were mostly lacking in conductivity. A natural soap well has been discovered | aear Buffalo Gap, Dakota. The soap is skimmed from a boiling spring and hardens by exposure to the air. It is a mixture of borax, alkali and 01L The quality is excellent, anil the supply is believed to be inexhaustible. A remarkable strip of the new South* American railroad, from Buenos Ayresto the Andes, is probably thi longest tangent in the world, extending 211 miles without a curve. It is further notable as having no bridge in the entire distance, and no cut or fill exceeding about a Yard in depth or height. - J A new metnoa or weatner prediction has been discovered by a French. phv? 'fj sk-ist. He has observed that the scintillations of stars increase before many storms, indicating disturbance of the . upper a'mosphere hours b.'fore* tile meteorological instruments show any change. The fiercer the storm, the ? more is the strength of the scintillations r increased. . "i Eighteen years ago, when the ai?? brake was, it required eighteen seconds 5$ to apply it to a train 2000 feet long.. v : ' Four years later the time waa reduced to four seconds. Recent experiments ^ with the air-brake on freight -trains . |ji show that it can bo applied to every car in a train of that length running at the , rate of forty miles an hour, and that this train can be stopped within 500 feet, or one-fourth its own length, and all this without any serious jostling. ? ^ When the first electric telegraph Was ' ? established the speed of transmission ; j j was from four to five words a minute with the five needle instruments; in 1819 the average rate for newspaper messages wai seventeen words a minute; the pres- . ent pace of the electric telegraph be- v tween London and Dublin, where thd Wheatstone instrument is employed* ' Tf reaches 463 words; and thus what waS . Regarded a9 miraculous sixty years agoj ? has multiplied a h indred fold in half flj Century. Z Primitive "Woman's Island." A little way north of Cozumel and I about six miles from the Mexican coast' I js Isla Mujeres (woman's island), which: ] is only about six miles long by half a mile wide. Some of Cortez's soldiers 'V went ashore there and found four tem- 3 pies in the town, the idols in which rep- ' resented female figures of colossal sizehence its name. I wish I could picture to you, exclaim* a writer in the Philadelphia Record, the singular beauty ol this bit of land encompassed by the blue green water* Of the gulf. Imagine a small sandy beach, ; with a rocky coast on either side. Man- ^ grove and cocoauut trees grow to the * water's edge, exccpt where broken by tiny ^clearings, surrounding the pfrim leaf hut of some lonely fisherman. We . ? approached the nearest clearing, and found a sun-dried Ind an squatted under an arb or thatched with palm, busily repairing an old net, while his wife and half-grown boys were weaving new ones from i-isal heinp. It was intensely hot, and millions of sand flies made life intolerable. The family we had raided charitably gave us a hammock to rest in, a leaf of palm with which to defend ourselves, a fresh-picked cocoanut and ft drink of tepid water from the near-by spring. Thus refreshed, we lay at eas6 and looked about us. Near the shore were immense Hocks or seaoirns percuea on the piles of a turtle inclosure, and over* head hovered a cloud of snow-white ibises. All along the beach were strewn the rotting carcasses of turtles, covered with swarms of flies. "3 ^ Turtle catching is quite a business here. Three kinds abound in these waters?the Cahuanio, whose eggs serve for food, and which is useful besides only for its oil; the Tortuga, of which the meat as well as the eg^s are eaten, which also produces oil, ana whose shell is worth twenty-five cents per pound, and the Knre, whose shells sell for IS I per pound. The airy casa of our host was hung inside with a miscellaneous collection of old nets, sails and other adjuncts of his profession. Under the eaves were ranged a row of oil jara and bundles of turtle shells tied up ready for shipment to the markets of Cam- , pechc and Progresso. From the rafters depended strings of turtles' eggs and other parts that serve for food and oil, some of them yet warm and quivering, the sight, as well as the smell, being by IvdtJnff a taqf#* no means cuuuuckc iv _ for the delicacy. B Japanese Water Pipes. I The water supply of Tokio, Japan, is I by the wooden water pipe system, which B has been in existence over two hundred H years, furnishiug at present a daily sup- 8 ply of from twenty-live to thirty million I gallons. There are several types of water pipes in use. the principal class being m built up with plank, square, aud secured H together by flames surrounding them at I close intervals. The pipes leas than six inches consist of bored logs, aud some- * what larger one? are made by placing a B cap on the top of a log in which a very I large groove has been cut. All the con- 9 ucctiouiarc made by chamfered joints, fl and cracks are calked with an inner I fibrous bark. Square boxes are used in I various places to regulate the uniformity I of the How of the water, which is rather Sj rapid, for the purposo of preventing B aquatic growth. The water is not de- fl livered to the houses, but into reservoirs fl on the sides of the streets, nearly 1.7,000 fl in number.?Scientific American. 9 A iaige apple tree near l'olo, III, I which has borne for fifty-one yo.-irs, had I upon it last year forty-live bushels, fl wnich were sold for $l.Jjper bushel. fl