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: MOURNERS 3Y THE SEA, By th? aHo of Sie sett throe mooni era pale lat Idly watching an Idle saiL .Where sankyour ship?" One turned her head. "Bj the sweet Spice Islands lt lies," she" said. "And often I fancy'oa days like these rh o?r breath floats to me o'er southern seas." ,. "Where sank yourshipT" "By tempests tossed, On a shore of amber and pearls'twas lost "Oh, often I dream of its beautiful bed j And tho rainbow gleams that are round lt -shod!" ?Where sank your ship?" Oh, wan,'white face. Does she know not, then, her loeT love's place? "Myrthip sank not," she said, and east ' A tiny shell on the waters vastT No halmy odora-nor gems of price Her dreams to its restingAplace entice. Her ship lies frozen in arctic ice. ; - ' -Christian Register. . _._______ TWO PATIENTS IN A DISPENSARY. i- ' ' > A Small Newsboy and a Big Fireman Each Undergo an Operation. Late t3ne evening a man was seated in the receiving room ot one of the dispen saries in the lower part of the city. He waa talking to a young sturgeon who had charge of the room-, and the conversa tion turned to the subject of the courage shown by young folks as compared with that of adults. ."It's all bosh," said the visitor, "about a child standing pain better than a man. , Why, it stands to reason" . 'HulloP says the surgeon. "What's this?" "It's me." r The visitor turned and saw two bare footed urchins, one"about eight, and the other perhaps a year younger. The elder came in carrying his companion, whom he carefully laid on the lounge. Then he raised himself and said: "Me and Dannie 're newsboys, and just now he stepped ou a busted bottle in de park end cut his f oot. " "And you carried him all the way from the park here on your back?" . : "Yep." The doctor had washed the blood from J: the foot and disclosed a deep, ragged cut ? about three inches long. He carefully washed and dressed it and was about to thread his, needle to take a few needed stitches when the patient spoke np for the first time: 4 'Are you goin to sew it, doc?" "Yes, my little man. It can't beal without it." s . "Oh-h-h-h!" He lay back, and after one suppressed groan the tears which trickled down his cheeks alone told the story of the pain. The sole of the foot of an ordi nary New York newsboy is not a very easy thing for even the sharpest needle to"pierce, and the pain of toe operation was much increased. While it was go ing on a member of the New York ' fire patrol entered and sitting himself in a chair waited with evident impatience for his turn to arrive. The sewing fin ished, the foot was bandaged, and the young Styrax took np his burden. "How far have you to go?' asked the doctor. 'iDver to Oliver street." It was a full half mile to Oliver street, ' but the youth took np his burden cheer fully. "Weil, sir, what can I do for you?" said the surgeon to the man. The patrolman was a magnificent specimen of physical manhood,. tall, broad and muscular. ' "Well, yon see, I waa hitchin up the hosses, and they started and threw me dewn. I fell on my hand there," he added as he held out the member,. It was considerably swollen. To find the cause of the swelling the doctor beg?n to run bis fingers along the injured^part, but hohadhardly begun when bia-wrist [was seized in a grip like iron. "Hold an thsre, doc; that hurts f* " "Of course it does, but I have to find out whats the matter." Again he tried, and again he was pre vented. "How do you think I can fix your hand when you wont let me find out what's the matter with it?" 'I know that, but I can't stand it," he ^began. "Hold his arm, a couple of yon," said the surgeon to the attendants, who had come in, attracted by the noise. The man's arm was held, and it was found that the hand had been merely sprained. -New York Tribune. The King and the BeidUts Powder. On the first consignment of seidlitz powders to the capital of Delhi the monarch was deeply interested in the ac counts- of the refreshing box. A box was brought to the king in full court, and the interpreter explained to his maj esty how it should be used. Into a gob let he put the twelve blue papers, and having added water, the king drank it ' off. This was the alkali, and the royal countenance expressed no sign of satis faction. It was then explained that in the combination of the two powders lay the luxuiy, and the twelve white pow ders were quickly dissolved in water, andas eagerly swallowed by his ma jesty. . " With a shriek that will be remem bered while Delhi is numbered with the kingdoms the monarch rose, stared, ex ploded and m his full agonies screamed "Hold me down," then rushing from thc throne fell prostrate on th? floor. There j he lay dr ring the long continued effer vescence of the compound, spurting like 10,000 pennyworths of imperial pop, and believing himself in the agonies of death, a melancholy and humiliating proof that kings are mortal-Indian Mirror. The Dowey System. The Dewey system of cataloguing a library wis devised by Mr. Mel vii Dew ey, at prissent director of the state li brary. In it all books are classified into a certain number of principal subjects, which, in alphabetical order, receive . cambers; for instance, astronomy may be 1. Then the subjects are divided, and each division receives a' decimal; . for example, history may be 1; thus ..the histoiy of astronomy is numbered 1.1. The divisions are further subdi vided, anti each subdivision receives a number expressing hundredths. Books on the history of astronomy in America might be 1.12. After these come, when necessary, further subdivisions still, and then, in practice, come the shelf marks, which show where the-book is to bo found. The system, theoretically, is perfect; practically it is cumbrous, and, except to the cataloguer, unsatisfactory. Adapt ed in various ways, it is used in many libraries, however.-New York Sun. Money Spent In War. It costs $7,000 to kill a man. From the Crimean war down to that of 1870-1 the civilized nations of Europe and America spent in destroying one another 131,000,000,000. The wars of the hst 100 years have cost $140,000,000,000, without counting the sorrow, the loss of men and other results.-Cincinnati En quirer, 4 Angle? In New Telescopes. In the new form of telescope for stadia work spider lines are entirely omitted, and instead a prism is placed so as to cover one-half the objective of the tele scope, the consequence being that the rays passing through the prism make an angle with the rays passing through the j unobocured half of the objective, and this angle is constant whatever the dis tance of the object oDserred.-New York Times, LimTG0NL9WWAGE. ^rlOW TWO YOUNG FELLOWS MAN AGED' TO EXIST IN ^IEW. YORK. Twelve Dollars a Week Doe?: Wot Go Very ?ar In a, Bl? City, but These Two Economical Men Slade Their Honey Go a Pretty Good Distance for a Time. A magazine "writer, who. claimed to have, investigated the subject, recently stated that there are several hundreds of young and old bachelors in this town who spend all the way from $10,000 to $75,000 a year for their personal comfort? There is a certain delirious excitation even in leading the details of how these fortune favored chap3 get rid of the time and enrich the community. To an ingenious yo?th who earns twenty dol lars a week, for instance/the account of how a $75,000 per annum bachelor wards c ff ennui and retains his flesh reads like a saturnalia. I know the effect of all this on a $20 a week man, because I myself belong to j- the $80 a week class. Twenty dollars week is about $1,000 a year, and I have had a lot of fun out of life for. the past three years on that sum. I know a lot of other fellows who do the same thing, for $20 a week is about the average in come of half the neat loosing chaps wearing chrysanthemum pinned to ker sey top coats that you run across in the course of a day. When I came to this town from a farm in western Kew York, I thought the man who offered me a permanent job aa salesman at a salary of $12 a week was widely extravagant, for 1 had already learned some scrimping lessons. It did not take me long to find out my mistake, and so I devised a system of expendi tures, and though in five y eares my'in come has increased, as I have told you, 1 have stuck to it ever since. Here it is: I discovered to my complete satisfac tion that a single man can's get-any sort of nourishment', comfort or repose in a boarding house in Few York city for leas than eight dollars a week. Even the eight dollaj? variety of New York board is not in all respects desirable, and when some dismal experiences had hammered this knowledge into me I set about to find a better scheme. In the same store with me waj $V>&er young fellow, who was contributing, his col co sal intellect and energies for twelve ?c? lars a week, and we entered into a con spiracy to ehaka off forever the lani ladiea.who were getting most pi OBJ pay. We decided to hire & roo? together and to get our meals in pot luck fashion -."hustle for our grub on the outride," as my chum put it. After a pretty care ful search we hit upon a large, comfort able ground floor rear room in the home of an elderly widow fn Harlem, whom we soon jollied into the belief that we were the salt of the earth, with the re sult that she couldn't take too good care of us. We agreed to pay her five dollars a week for that room, which took $2.50 of my wages. When we had stuck up on the walls the cabinet photos of all the girls we knew, and had distributed the knickknacks which these girls had given ns, the room looked simply im mense. The eating problem was then to be overcome. .After sundry experiences we adjusted it 'on this batos: Breakfast of rolls and good coffee in a little shop a block from where we lived, 15 cents*, luncheon of a sand wich, glass of milk ??5? pie??~?t pi?..inalunchroom Saar I the store, 15 cents;-first class entire din ner, from soup to Fnmcb, coffee, in a neat little;, obscure restaurant which we Kin .across, 85 cents. Total fer day's; OB.tmg, : cents; for, the; week (of six' workmg days), $8,90. On Sunday we stuck tb the'week 'day programme as far ail breakfast and- luncheon were con cerned, and paid fifty cents for a good Sunday dinner.- Thus a week's good, substantial food costs me $170, which, with tho $2.00 room rent, amounts to $7.20. It costs me sixty cenls a week to ride to and from my work. Figuring at ten cents a week for my Press, seventy cents is added^ to the $7.20. My smoking is confinedxto a couple of pipes every even ing, and a ten cent package of tobacco sees me through the week. Total, eight dollars. I have a permanent arrangement with a Celtio lady to do my Trashing fer fifty; cents a week, and I hare my collars and cuffs polished at ? laundry at a weekly outlay of twenty-five cents. Total, $8.75. Once every woek I invest one dollar for two balcony seats at a first class theater-$9.75. I invariably lay aside two dollars a week for raiment of all sorts, fixed on this basis: Two dollars a week is $104 a year. I have two snits of clothes every twelve months, each suit costing me twenty dollars, and I o an get natty clothes made to order at that fig ure. I don't get a new overcoat every winter, but when I do I get a good, well made heavy one for fifteen dollars. Call it fifty-five dollars. Two pairs of shoes at four dollars a pair get me through a year, and two hats, also at four dollars each, are my allowance for the twelve months. Two pairs of gloves ? winter, at one dollar a pair, keep my hands sheltered from the blasts, and eight fifty cent cravats axe enough for th? year. This figures up seventy-seven dollars, and the remaining twenty-seven of my dress allowance of $104 a y ear are spent in collara, cuffs, underwear and soon. The $75,000 a year bachelor will be astonished to read that I am frequently referred to as a man who "looks as though he ha? just jumped out of a bandbox. * When I'have laid aside the two dol lars a week for dress I have just $8.25 left for hilarity and tempestuous plung ing into the boisterous stream of New York life. It very frequently happens that I have some of this still in my right hand pantaloons pocket when 1 get through the week. That's tibe way I ?ve. I do it because it's a case of must, although I never have a poverty stricken sensation.-New York Press. The Gold Cure Is Very Old.. The precious metal has been employed both externally and internally, in the metallic state, in solution and by sym pathy, for a great variety of the ills that flesh ia heir to, for over 2,000 years. Th? trahi of thougnt which led the ancients to employ this highly prized material can be well told in the quaint language of the distinguished Dutch physician and chemist, Hermann Boerhaave* writing about 1725, he says: "The .alchemists will have this metal contain 2 know not what radical balm of life capable of re storing health and continuing it to tie longest period. "What led the early physicians to imagine such wonderful virtue in gold was that they perceived certain qualities therein which they fancied must be conveyed thereby into the body; gold, for instance, is not capable of being de stroyed; hence they concluded it must be very proper to preseive animal sub stances and save them from putrefac tion, which is a method of reasoning very much like that ot' some fanciful physicians who sought for an assuaging remedy in the blood of an ass' ear by reason the ass is a very calm beastP Professor H. Carrington Bolton in Pop ular Science Monthly. An Butinent Polltictuu. . Hov-any one Vhould ever de3ire to De oome an eminent politician passes one's comprehension, It is amazing. He is everybody's slave. He is the slave of his party, he is the slave of the-wiro pull er 9, he is the slave of the press, he is the slave of the great British public, Let him refuse obedience to any one of his owners, and before he can say Jack Rob inson he is out of the running, smashed, done for. We are told from the house tops that the great Mr. Blank is going ' to make a declaration of bis policy-his policy, mind. I doubt if the great Mr. Blank has very much to do with tho declaration or the policy either. It is the party which wants tho policy; it is the wire pullers who inform him that the mo ment is opportune for its declaration; it is the press which has warned him of the direction in which the'wind is blowing; it is the great British public from which he receives the doctrine, hot pressed, cut and dried, which he is to preach. One may venture to doubt if he ever had a policy which he could legitimately call his own. He would scarcely be the great Mr. Blank if he had. It is the rank and file of the party who have policies, ideas, theories of their own. " The great Mr. -Blanks are like sponges. They are sodden with moisture which they receive from every side; It is-rainod on them from a thou sand waterspouts. This mixture of all the rabal Of all the heavens, when squeezed out by their several proprie tors, drop by drop, is called their policy . Surely an eminent, a truly eminent,' politician is the'most wonderful work of man.-All ti? Year Round. Tho Mal Ur of Car Fares. Speaking of embarrassment in the matter of car fares when a male friend going the same way as yourself is en countered en rout* to bridge or ferry, a Woman says: "il really wish there was on inviolate rule, as there is among Eng lishmen. I remember noon after my ar rival in England happening to meet as I was boarding an omnibus an English friend, to whose house I was bound at the" moment by appointment with his wife. He was a reserved and distant man, though seytxpultpusly courteous, and I wondered whether I ought or ought not offer to pay my fare through the three changes of tranBportatioa we murfc make to peach ou? destination. 1 "A1? doubt, however, was quickly re moved by the eause himself, who leaned over, after finding his own coin, with ? the inquiry, 'Oct your tuppence ready?' I found over there that even when ? man w? taking 7<m M by invitatio? j car fare?, eto" were to be individually looked after. I wish the matter were so absolutely fixed here." . It would seem as if the question is readily settled in a doubtful case by leaving it to the man. Part of the mat ter is . disposed of absolutely. N? man in America would think of asking to es cort a woman on a trip about the city without assuring all its expenses. In ; the matter of a chance encounter there , can be no harm in making the effort to pay one's fare, which, if tba man pre? fers to do, may be permitted without protest.-Her Point of View in. New York Times, The Heart of England, In the midst of the old city of London, where" the heaj* {,? human hf? boats fastest, stand? fae church of St. Swith in's, an old edifice rebuilt by Wren upon its ancient foundations, but recently re duced by mod ar a taste to, a most com monplace air of comfort and newness. If'tho curious traveler will step out of the passing thxiong! and edge, his'way ? thro?gii'the and stale fruit squatted around the church, '{ he WU! find imbedded in the bluish Blabs : of its foundation a large oblong stone as gray as the be ar I of Tim e himself. This is London stone, erected by the Romans half a century before the birth of the Saviour as the central milestone ' or point of their positions in Britain. From it all roads, divisions of property and distances throughout the province were measured. It has been recognized as the heart of England, from which all its articles flowed, "by every historian, dramatist , or antiquary known to English Utera- ? ture." A feeling han always .existed among Englishmen about this stone which was j not altogether superstition, that, aa all , distances were reckoned from it, so it < was in a'certain way the base of the , stability of England,-Youth's Compan- . ion. ? . . Gallery Audiences. "Gallery audiences," said a veteran J attache of one of Philadelphia's theaters ' recently, "are made up of some of the 1 most intelligent playgoers in the city. * Young men of moderate incomes pre- ' vail, but often wealthy youths go among the gode, as their elevated station af- , fords in many respects the most advan tageous place'from which "to view the j stage. The receipts from the gallery, moreover, are a veryimportantitem, and tiie p?opl? in it ' do good work in leading ( the applause. Edwin Booth always be- , gins an after the play speech by gazing j up at the gallery in recognition of its en thusiasm in greeting him. "Lawrence Barrett was always popu l?r with'the godfiinPhilidelphia, and he med to say their applause was as a re freshing', drink to him For the most part the' gallery audiences were well be haved ^ critical and intelligent, and for my Bell ? "should feel sorry to see them relegated, in" thia city anyhow, to the .pit?is'theEnglish call the parquet*' Philadelphia Press. The Mandolin. The stringed musical instrument which is peculiarly suited to ladies is the mandolin. It comes from Italy and was introduced here by the Spanish stu dents, who made so great a Buccess at Booth's theater so many years ago. Mrs. William Waldorf Astor was one of the Bret ladies to learn to play the mando lin; her ability, however, with this in strument was not made known to any extent outside of her home circle.-New York Press. A Laughable Superstition* "A curious illustration of the value of superstitions," said Mr. Kunz, the dia mond expert for Tiffany & Co., "was afforded the other day by a lady who brought a sot of opals here for the pur- 1 pose of selling them. She felt obliged to part with them on account of a series of misfortunes in her family which she feared were attributable to: the gems, BO notoriously rm lucky. On examining them I found that they were merely im i ta tiona. ' A few weeks ago ? had in my possession three seashells- which had b??n trioBf?rm?d into opal. Their orig inal limy material had?been dissolved, out of the rock by which they were in closed, and the precious substance was deposited by water in place of the lime, retaining the. form of the shells. A graduate of Harvard college bought the curiosity and presented it to that insti tution.''-New York Sun. A laborer in a rough reit nat ano long smock "Walked the other day into the Shakespeare library, and after looking attentively for some time at one of the custodians, went up to him and said, "1 tay, isttr; ber y On Mr. Shakespeare as I've heer'n speak oyV The ; custodian ex plained to Hodge that' ho was not the gentleman referred to,-London Tele* graph. The Action of a Spinet. The spmet instrument was an improve ment upon what was known as the clavi chord, the tone of which, although weak, was capable, unlike that of the harpsi chord or spinet, of increase or decrease, reflecting the finest gradations of the touch of the. player. In this power of ezpression.it was without a rival until the -piano waa invented. The early his tory of the clavichord previous to the Fifteenth century rests in profound ob scurity, but if is said that these is one bearing the date 1520 having four oc taves without the D sharp and G sharp notes. The spinet was the invention of the Venetian Spinetta. The action is unique. The instrument is similar to a small harpsichord with one string to each note. The strings are set in vibration by points of quills ele vated on wooden uprights known as jacks, and the depression of the keys causes the points to pass upward, pro ducing a tone similar to that of a harp. Springs are used to draw the quills back | into position. The keyboard is arranged in a manner after the present modem piano.-Providence Journal - Similarity in the Names of Peers. W^] Several peers have names nearly alika. There are Lord Amherst of Hackney, and Earl Amherst. There are two peers with only the difference of a letter in the spelling of their names-the Earl of Lindsay and the Earl of Lindsey, the former being a Scotch repr?sentative peer and the latter an English peer. There is only the difference of a letter also in the names of Viscount Midleton and Lord Middleton, but there is a dif ference in rank which makes the dis tinction easy. There are several instances in wh?% the territorial title is necessary to distin guish peers, the more notable being Lord Stanley of Alderley and Lord Stanley of Preston, and Lord Howard de Walden and Howard of Glossop. Formerly Lord Willoughby de Broke and Lord Wil loughby de Eresby sat in the house, but the latter has been made an earl, and will henceforth be known as the Earl of Ancaster.-London Tit-Bits. The Titles cf Books. A book title,, like a woman's face, ought to be pretty. And if a bewitch ing, diaphanous veil, in the shape of a Blight curiosity rousing cloudiness of meaning can be thrown over it, so much the better. Readers delight to bei half taken in by books, just as mon do by women, so long-and this is a most im portant prQYisjO-so long as their vanity i? not piqued. The object of a title should be to seem simple, artless, noire and quite naturally charming, butthis as in tho cas? of so many of its feminine analogues-is often to be attained only by the most consummate art.-Black wood's Magazine. Tuv Greatest o' Stump Collectors. The two greatest' stamp collectors in tho world were M. Philippe Ferrari, son of tho late Duchesse.de Galbera, and the czar, whose collection is said by experts fcq be worth 3,0QO,QQQ franos, He began to mako it when he was czarowitz, and has been adding to it ever sincej^ Ferrari, who-3??l' ^Tr^^?Xone, or r&ln?r several fortunes which he: con ceived to be til gotten and said he had no right to inherit, hoards stamps as misers hoard money, He has quantities, which he says will be valuable to his heirs should he Uve to a great age. London Truth. The Taine of ? Russian Beard. % The Russians had, an old law by which any one who drew hair from another's beard should be fined four times as much as for cutting Off a finger; and ! the !" lul Dortance and value of the appendage is further iUustrated by the -fact that, although the loss of a leg was estimated at 12 shillings, the loss of the beard was estimated" at 20.-English Illustrated Malagine, Jj A Girl Colonel. ' Little Dot - You think girls isn't brave. The queen of Holland is a little bit of a girl, and mamma read in the paper that she was a colonel-so there! Little Dick-Huh! The -paper said me was only a colonel of infantry. Mus' be a baby regiment.-Good News. . Some curious pipes have been found in the vast guano deposits of Peru, the late of which is fixed by scientists, to whom they have been submitted as co equal with the famous Peruvian pot tery, the Eleventh or Twelfth century. If the sun gave forth sounds loud mough to reach the earth, such sounds, [nstead of reaching us in the space of ibout eight minutes, as light does,would ml y arrive after a period of nearly four teen years._ A New England college numbers ?nong its students scholars from Kioto, Tapan, Thessalonki, European Turkey ind Iceland. Henry of Navarre was saved from leath at the massacre of St. Bartholo new by hiding under his wife's immense lardingale. Doors, Sash, A SOLDIER HERMIT. General Pleas?nton's Life of Utter Secta? . lion In a Washington Hotel. "Alone in a great city; practically a hermit amid the throngs of the nation's capital; living a life of comfort and con tentment, but a life of seclusion and ex clusive retirement." Such was the answer given in reply to an inquiry ? few days ago regarding the welfare and whereabouts of Major Gen eral Alfred Pleasonton, whose name and fame a few years ago were on the lips of nine-tenths of the American people, and the records of whose exploits as one 1 of the greatest cavalry leaders of our late war would fill volumes of graphic history. ? Apparently in the full possession of all h ja mental faculties, and with no serious physical ailment, this man of genius, a . soldier of two great wars, and explorer nearly fifty years ago of the then un known domain of our great western ter ritory-an Indian fighter of great re nown, a traveler whose face and figure were at one time well known in every court of all the great powers of the Old pWorld, a scholar, bon vivant, wit and most companionable of all the agreeable -public men of his day-voluntarily be took himself to his private apartment in a sung little hotel in the very heart of Washington on May 15,1800, and has ; not since been seen or talked with by, all told, more than a dozen of his fellow beings. And, with two or three excep tions, those who have seen or talked with him since that date have been of those necessary to him in administering to his personal wants. There was a bill pending in congress to retire him as a brigadier general. He felt that, so much as that recognition was his due at the hands of the country be had served so faithfully. He had been a major general in command of the cavalry corps of the Army of the Poto mac; he had fought the first real cavalry fight of the war at Brandy Station, June 12,1863, and then and there proved bis superior abilities as a dashing and al most invincible commander; bad met and thwarted the advance of the enemy upon Gettysburg, holding Lee's armies in doubt and abeyance until Meade's in fantry came up to fight the decisive bat tle of the war, and bad never been found wanting when duty and patriotism re quired his presence either in camp or' in the field. The canvasback, the terrapin and all the dishes he relished go highly in days of yore have been abandoned, but he hos everything his appetite may exave, and with good digestion waiting upon it he eats to live and contentedly remarks that he no longer lives to eat. In other matters his habits are regular, for, like clockwork, he gets all the daily papers, keeping well podted regarding the affairs of the world of whict?"ho isp?rtand parcel, but which he holds away cff at arm's length, and with which he asso ciates as little as possible. No one of the few who see him ever t thinkB of asking him a reason for kbit . most marvelous change in V . - of living, for they ki useless. Injfiu&bn_has. : ix^?^drt^?of that kind in . . . as to show that they are : r tasteful to him. Gen. wrote to him ahont a y ago asking about his he questions that any old tim be apt to ask, but he did noe answer the letter for months.-Washington Star. \ Character In the Walk. 1 To the attentive eye none of the ordi- ' nary gestures or movements betrays pe- . cu nanties of individual character moro 1 plainly than the gait-the sailor's; roll ing, the soldier's stiff, the countryman's Jolting gait are immediately recognized. Slow steps, whether long or short, s?g- t gest a gentle or reflective state of mind, | as the case may be, while, on the con- ( trary, quick steps seem to speak of agi* tation and energy. Reflection is revealed 1 in frequent pauses and walking to and 1 fro, backward and forward. The direc- J tion of the steps, wavering and follow- ' ing every changing impulse of the mind, * inevitably betrays uncertainty, hesita tion and indecision. I The prond step is slow and measured; j the toes are conspicuously turned out, the leg is straightened. In vanity the ( toes are rather more gracefully turned, c the strides a little shorter, and there is very often an affectation of modesty. J Tiptoe walking symbolizes surprise, c curiosity, discretion or mystery.-Pall Mall Gazette._ General George B. McClellan, who was a prime favorite with bis man, be- . came endeared to them as "Little Mae.1' Aa Absentminded Journalist. Jim Faberpusher is one of the most industrious journalists in New York. He thinks of nothing but bis professional duties. J One day his wife (to whom he waa re cently married) said to bim: '. j "Ton don't speak to me any mon?. Have you ceased to love me?" ( "Oh, no, but I just cant find time. c rm pressed for time." s t "Yes, but I don't get pressed at all,"" -\ responded the neglected wife. This well merited rebuke reminded the journalist of bis obligations to his better half. AUGUSTA LUMBER CO. Mouldings, Rough *? Dress? ORNAMENTAL WOODWORK. [It Costs You Nothing. We are pleased to announce that j we, have made arrangements hy which we are prepared to supply free to. each of our subscribers year's subscription to that well, known monthly home and farm Journal, the American Farmer published . at Springfield and Cleveland, Ohio. We make this offer to each of our subscribers ? who will pay up ?ll arrearges on subscription and one year in ad vance, and to all new subscribers paying one year in advance. 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