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D TETOPULITNJI 0&k, RAMY IMUCASMN AND TOTHE GERIN T ETOFTEUUTY ByDo- F RALY 0.PCKN, .C., TH-auRS1DAY, J UN1,is O.X O 4 21-~ WEWS GLEANINGS, San Antonio is s hiipping Ihe('re t lfrance. The pioneer ()tltm mill of Memphdi is is nOw an ajsut"vd fact. Since Jne 1 st., $46,000 hasI bI heeuI paid out, for sponges. in Key WVes. Six papers publishcd by colored men in North Carolina favor prohibitioi. A n.igget. of gold, weiging tlree and one-half Oinces, it ik reported, has been found in Putnam comity, '[(n1n. Covingtonl, Ga.. bats two e(dAIred mien who call mould each 61,000 bricks in 11:11 i day. The average daily atteinidnce (in the public school.9 of Rtichmiiond, Va., is .5,531.5. Andrew Johnsoi's liei;s are. now in litigation over tfhe distribution of hi; property, whieb is valued at $100,)(0. A wihite woman in Newton coun11ty Georgia vas recently ti lrownm into co'n Vnllsiovs from eatinig pork Falad, and died in a few hour,. DaIvid lumphreys, if Co:rte's (dnot. 'Tennes.e'e, hns hc en marriet itwenty* six years, and is thlie faii of4 twent y-two cli ildred. A &at bit n little girl named Annie Webster, near Whitenrg. (hi., oieda Inst week, and dt h s SIn e l d(i wil all the syniptoins of hydrophobia. Covington (Ga ) Star: "A conini light of this country is one he np hibition aml Ohe snakcs, Tf pr(ihibitin wills, will have nlu remey( for sniake ,bites. If the snakes winl, e-ood Ileavenls. we will all bQ inake bit. It ik fcarfuli ain't it ?" The Indic, of Winchester, Va., have nudertaken'tfa ji.h of erceting mairnble heatlstones :t the graves of the Win (Shester solier who were killed in the 1at6 war, or Who have dicl since, and - who are buried in Stonewall :mid Mount, H febront (cmeteries. The uminbrellalChina tree, it is- said, ou tside lof Texat, Is oil fomid in East ern Texas. Th11 presence of the tree was occasioved, 110 doubt, by captive slaves whi. seat teried on the "slave rai l' the seed s of this 1eantiful tree iwhich i they 'had brought over to) plant with secret rites of voudoo Worship. A Mexican at Las Vegs, New Mex ico, tied his iw ife firmly to a hoard, leanted her thus hel pless against a fence, took a positIion .i fit y feet away, and1( ulsedl her as a ta.'rget for rifle pract ice. He did niot li her, his obj''ct bling' to' frighiton her by embedding the buillets 'in the boardl close to hier head and body. She fainteld uimler the frightfu ord 04eal. What Shte Saw in Church. IHe staid at homoi and she went to chWrch; after dinner he asked her: "What wvas the text, May?" ''Oh, something, somewhere in Gjenor :ntions; I've forgotten the chapter and 'verse. Mrs. Hiugh sat right b~etoro meW with a Mother Hiubbaurd h)onnet oin. How could I hear anything when I could not even see the minister? I wouldn't havo. worn such a looking thing to church, if I'd had to have gone bare headed." "How did you like tihe new miniister ?" "Qh, he's splendid! and Kaite Darlin ~was thero in a Spanish lae capo that never cost a cent less than .5(); andl 'they can't pay their butcher bills, anid I' wa cotton lace or go without any "Did he say anything about the new mission fund ?" "No, and the Jones girls wvere all rigged out, in their yellow silks made over; you would have died laugh Iing to have seen them. Such taste as thoso~girls have; and the minister gave out that the Dorcas Society will meet i a BiterJons'residence-that ldpoky place. "It seems you didn't hear much of the sermon." "W~el1,- I'm sure its bettor to go to church, if you don't hoar the sermon, than to stay at homo and road the p~a ore; and oh, Harry! the new minister iia lovely voice; it nearly put me to Ssleep. And did I tell you that the Rich's are home from Europoe, and Mrs. Rich- had a real camel's hair shawl on, and it didn't look like any thming on A long 0ilence, during which Harry thought of several things, and his wife 'was busy contemplating the sky or view, when she suddenly exclaimed: "There! I kriew I'd forget to tell yon 4 something. Would you believe it, Har ry, the fringe on Mrs. Jones' palrasol is an in'ch deeper than mine, arnd twice as heavy! - Oh dear! what a world of trouble this s."--Detroit Post anid [Tri ~'buno. " Cors, doctor, it's 10 o'clock, anid I think we had better be going, for it's time honest folks were at home," said a lawyer to a physician1 one evening re oently. -"Wll, yes,' was the reply. "I unttba oft,'but you needn't go ,in A UELLIL She WAs the Oettlest giri, I ween, hat nortal eye bild ever acen Ater name was Anabel Christine. 1Her bangs were curled with b:mloline, 11er cheeks were smoothed with vasalinte, Ior teeth were brushed wit iino dentine, 1[or face wis washed in coaLine, H1er gloves were cleaned wit.i ga-olinu, She wore a dress f ftreinadlile, Looped ove' A shdrt of btrilliant.ino, M t ptticoat was bolliblid ti-, lier foot was shod with kid bot Line, iter wottais were healed with costu'olife. She sailed away from Musc:tine, In a tOil they calledt a brigautinw. She flirted wit-h a gay na1.uricit' . 'rII they reacheul thi' 1,ipuibl e A!,;entine, Where they vrcro iIarriei by a dean, Ard lived on olcomargarmie. ' -- Bloom ing~ton b No. Olympus. bid ever a lellene, sihiel ierd. priest or King, daro to elimb ip nt.o siopes of Olympus, aw '- ibovcel the lofty pastures of iti dal(?s aun crests? Did even one only venture, by placillg his foot, upon the great pcak to it!d himnse1lf suddenly in the presence of these terrible gods? Ancient writers tell us that phil msophers are not afraid of scaling Mount Etna, Althouph muh110 higher thnit Olym pus; hut they never muelntiOn 1qne Zsiigle mortal who has hittd. the temerity to ilscod th mollutnin of the god,' not Dven in the days of science, in th t nge. when hil(osoph iers taiight fluit Zisi ant [Ile otler itimwirtalr wr mere cotcep nilu; of the I1imnt111 min(d. Liater on, other religious, dissemiinafed imonig the varisus peol) living in the ilrrounding plains, took possessin (if the sacred moitutiin ami1 cotsecrated it to nlemw divillities. There the (reek Dhristians worshiped the Holy 'riity mlstead of Zeus; they still l)ok upoi it's lhree principal peaks as t'he tihtree great. thrlones of leaven. One of its lot tint doints, which formerly, irhaps, b~re a empl( i Apollo, isi now surmounted by monastery of Et. Elias, one of its dales Wherein liii' IhAeelnites were wont to ng "lvoe!" inl honor of Dionysos or lineehus. is inhabited by the lionk-S of St 1eny1. Priest i have snieeeeded to r)1Wst5, and the superstitions respect (f tlodern times to the worship of the icient; but perhaps the highest sum mit is yet untrodden lby nunan steps; the soft light, resplendent above its rocks and snow, has not beanned 1 1upon ruly man silce the Halleniic gods took their departure. A few years ago it would have been liflicult for a European to attain the sunilit of I m10 Thouintaini, for the e lelenie 1}(>hites, unerring shots, occlpicd all its gorges; they had intrenched thtemti ielves in it, as within all enormotis cita lel, and thence, recomme1lne cilg the c0on [iet of the gods agailst the Titans, they set out upon their expeditions agatinst le Turks of Motuit Ossa. Proud of Aheir courage, they believed themselves ivincible as tihe miiouniitain uon which :hey lived; they endowed Olympus it ;elf with life. "I al," said one of their songs, "I am Olympus, illustrious in all iges, and renowned amid Na4tions; forty awo peaks bristle upon i my brow; sevNentI Lwo fountains flow down my ravines md tml eagle is ptehed upon01 my highest nutnmit, lWaring inl its claws thle head of L valimit hero!'" Thiis eagle, no( donhlt, vas that of the ancient Zeus. Even wow-a-days he feeds on main, by mnan lestroyd.-I/itory of a Mountain. Trees and Ilealthi. Everybody knows that trees take the aarbonie acid thirowvn out in the breath >f men and animals, separated into cohm. [lonenht pairts -carb~on antd OXygel-give back the latter to be used over agin, eid work up the former into wood and1( fruits. It is also coming to be generally un :lerstoodi that forest trees do import ant I service in promoting rainifalls, anid in hlelpinig to retain the surface water for springs, streams anmd general use. It is also knowvn that certain species planted in malarial localities, help to conder the latter healthy by somnehiow using up the deadly miasma. It would now appear thlat trees grow ing near drains carry off tile sewerage wvater. A gentleman, whose cess-drain was constructed just liko his neighbhors' and in the sanmo kind of soil, had found it. untnecessary to clean it out, while the othlers had to be cleaned out frequtl. Aln examination showed that three large trees, whose roots had penletratedl into the vicinity of his second, or waste aess-p)ool, were clearly channels through wihich thle wasto all ('eaped. Whether it was changed into plant food1, as is likely, or was exhaled through the leaves, in either caso it waIs disposed of with equal safety._ Tile Herolines of Nihilismi. TI1hey are mostly daughters of poor army oficers, or)etty civiloicro even of shop-keepers, wvho feeling the influence of mnoderni t imes, aire anxious to rise above the level of their parents, coarse, ignorant people ini the main. Either by their own talents or by tile aid( of influential patrons, the girls gain scholarships, and etnter some high school whe their brints are crammlled with a heterogeneous mass of knowledge. At 19 they leave, and in turin become teach OrB. Finding their parents unlcomUpan1 ionarble, they abandon home for somle wretched lo'lgings, antd eke Ont a mUiser ablo existence by giving poorly paid les sons. Food is scarce, the feminine pleas ures of (1ress are impossible, the restrini ing powver of family affection is absent, they grow hop~eless atnd discontenttedl, whten some day they form socialistic acq1uaintances, rapidly adopt their ideas, and, having found an object for their life, wvith feminine rashnessOB dev'ote them solves to the cause, even to the very death .-Paris Figaro. CAMPANINI is worth -$150O,000. Hie -got it all for ai song-Boston ra n ur ip /. And is still pursuing the event tenor of hia way. Grecian Beauty. Much has been said in praiso of (recian beauty, and the men are hand. Som11 in every sense of tho word. We might well imagino. theim tI have hteti .the (o.elq (f Phidiats and Praxitcles. Their large eyes, black as jet, sparkle with glances of fire, whilo the long, silky, (1yeulalses soften the expressioi and givo a dreamy appeirance of rnl anelholy. Then: teetl are smi-ll, wiite "'t%11 Well Pcl; a fino regular profile, a pilo-olive complexion anid a tall, elegaiit figuro realizo an accomplished typo of distiiction. As to the women, they ROeM to havO left lh.ySictl 1pCrfeCtiOl to the mien; some possess fino eyes aiid hair, but as a ulo tlhcy have bad figures, aiid somo defect inl the faco generally spoils the good features. It is aimig them, however, that the o1l Oriental cuistoimis aro iiost strictly preserved while the mon aro gradually undergo ing the process of ciViliZLtiOl they, in a moral point of view remain stationary, anid are just as they were fifty years ago. It may, iideed, be said that, with tle exception of Atheiis, the women Possess 110 individual cxistene, aInd ceeiunt as not.hiniig i society. The miei have reserved overy privilego for them Aelvea, leaving to their helpmates the care of the honse and famuily. In the towns, where servants are kept, they aro of the poorest class of peasanlts, who know Iothiniig, and receive miseralyoe wages. The families are generally large --StieVen1 or eight little children demand at mother's coistant atteiton. The morning begins by directinig the work )f each servailt, repeatingg the anic titiiig a hundred times, scolding, screamlin, g, evell beating thelim, to 1e understooda. In the evelning, when t he childrei are sleep ing, if there rellai " ome little iti, the p -or, worn-out mot hr sits dlown to her spiniiigwheel to spin. silk, to sew or knit, if it be simner-tiime, to look after her silk-worms and cocoons, happ*y if she his n1ot to do the work of her in competent servaint; over Igaiml. Cultivation of SeIMlf-espect. A child that is uniformuly treated with coiurtesivy, with cosl1Sideratitonl, witl jus tiv(, A ill u1conscitly deI(111 himiself worthy of such t reatmeint, mail will hv come worthy of it, unless It is by natilre wholiy base; an1d he0 will uncoli1scioulyN treat thers as ho is tratIted. It is a fvea ful thing o giv IL chill tht lie, to neense itm (if stealing, to aceentoIm him to unll expected an1 unmeltwritoed blows anud eulfs. He may Ineiit pulnishmnrit, but the wise pIreit never will admit into the house hld vtoal irv the terrible wrd 'liar" and1 "1thif ," ina will niever permnit inl himl 'f or Others the Iihstv hhIv, the bi)tte-r taunt, the sting"Iingy epithet. The ref1ined alndt eaitot p Iiart can itver tolerate snch langunziage as we have indli eated. 1)itter words a.re nmre ernalI thani blovs and illiet more lastinig injuries. Care inl the choice of associates -will do much to foster self-respect iii a child. Sono1 miothers think their sons and aughters can go where they chtooe 11_A play with whom they pleatse, anid comeI out all well ini the endt. There never waZs a. grtetr miistaIkt. As well might one thuiik it no tdiflerence what air we 1breathle. (Chiildreni are quticker thian we0 to catch Itihe toune of associates, to pick up slanug words, bad1 grammar, vulgrr itdeas these ofteni seem to 'be taken ini t bro h 't hle very pi rrs, as typhioid poison01 is, whon least eixpe(ctedt. Caro inl te chi of readhing will do1~ mnel to1' ftoste tdtu wifl-respect iln aL child. Th'Ie hiov wholt growl~s upj with Ia fatmiliar knlWedlg (f W\ashtington, of Franklin, of Linl4ln, and1( 'thter great men'I who have b)een the glr of the nt [is ill whuich t hey have 1been1 0 consienou~'s, will 1)0 far more i lkely 10o tind hijs mind14 tilled will noble1 imat~go', witlh high ideals, withI lofftyP1111 ambi1on, t han one0 wvho reados sen'saltional newspa ]nae. Anly soil thlat yields almut~dantly must (conitain in itself elemnents (of fer I ility, anid barren soil mayL have elements artificially suppJliedl to them. 'W onm in IRoard hig..Houi', Differences in families no ited by mar. riage aire most81ly on ithle sideI of thle wo men. Wvomant fils in tinet t) preser've the amiti it's of the heatrth. Thil soft antswer 01r 11he rtepressioII whiich (vades an isu 1501 it more ton lte); iat of the ma~n than11 thei wile. Youn wonwn( 2141 manalge their lov'ers, 1buit t lo:,e ihi ir skill to ma.. ago t heir hutsbanids. Woimeni m4141 the (e1i11ues in congregations, churtich socie lies, fiily hoteohs, b)oardinhg- 101ses, an~d wh Oeee lovely woman11 I pre'dtominates. Laj~ck of tact maiikes the traditionial umother-ini-lawv. F'atherr.-in-lawv have too mn110h tact to be futssy andl~ irritating in matters that shonh11 heu left alone. Men live haIrmlonioulsly ini clubs; women can unot livo in clubs without getting into hostile divisionis Tix Pekin Tinmes gives the following: ''A young lady of this city, who has1 a young genitlemian friend ini Peoria, caled'~ 1hi1m over the telephone, wIhich isi lented ini the oflico~ of thie yountg fellow's fatheIr. The required 'hello!' came~t 1)ack overP t he wire, anid tho dear creature prtoc* tldd to lay herself out in 'taffy,' which she( sent to the listening oar in vast gnan41ti t's. While she was stopp~)ing to take b rteath, a gruft' voice ill the tt'elponie st artledh her with the following H'entee: 'I guess you've madoc a mistake, myi d1eahr girl; P'm Georgie's father.' Whent she re('ove'red she founid hlerself at horno0 Tnm tenor Campanini is pronounced "p1erfectly splendid and just too awfully too too for anything)" by the banig wearing ladies of Now York.--New Or leansq Pica//unci. Awfully too too what? Campilanini is a wocalist inot a toot t(oot ist. But as Too/R wou~ld say, "It's of no consequence."--N. Y. Com mnerciaL. How Long Man May lAre. It was Professor Hufeland's opinior IAt the limit of possible hunmn Jiff wight b,) set dowi at 200 Tearvi: And thil on the general priicipl thiat the life o a creature is eight times the years of itj period of growth. That which is (iickil formed quickly perislhcs, anid the itrliei complete developienit is reiched tlh( Fooner bodily decay ensues. ilioN woicii reach old age thain mnii, bui more men attain remarkable longovit3 thini wolieli. Somo10 aniimils grow to bN very old. Horned animals live shortei lives than those without horns, liere longer thni timid, antd amllphibiois longel thai those which ihlabit thi air. Th<l voraciOuls )iko exists, it is iidt, to anl ag( of 150 years; the turtle is good for 10( yt ars or more, aid aiong birds the goldel eagle is kniowin to have lived nearly 200 years, while the sly and11 som. ber crow reaches the venerable age of u century. Passing up in the scale of lift to mau, and skipping tihe patriarchs, W( find imany recorded instances of longevity among the classic Greeks aid Romans,. Plii notes that in the reign of the Em peror Vespasian, in the year 76, ther( were 12 t mien living in tlie limited areni between the Appeiinines and the Po od 100 years and uIpward, three qf whoni were 140 and 4 over 1935. Cicerio's wife lived to the ago of 103, and the Roman actress, Luceeja, played inl public as lat ats hr .l21th year. Colillig down) te More rV(!((ecfe tilleS, tht iiost Intiic auitheitic instance of great age is that oI henry Jenkins, of Yorkshire, Eiglant, wo died in 1670, 169 yoars old., 1( was a fisherman, and at. the age of 10( (asily mwai across ralpid rivers. An. other historie case is that of Thomitar Parr, of' Slropshire, a day laiborer, wh< lived to the age of 152 y'ears. Whei more thaiin .120 lie married his seom1i wife, antd till 130 he could swing the. scythe aid wield the flail with the best of his felltow-laborers. li his E 52d vcm Parr went up1 to Lowlon to exhibit iiium. self to the king. It proved a1n iunlickY visit, for, viilating tile abl1stcmiols habil of a century and a hl1f, tihe old mar feasted so freely on the royal victual that he soon die(1, mrrely of a plethora Ol )afintion hi internal (rgin proveid to be inl excellent condition, all here wvas no reason why he should io have lived much longer save for this un fortlite t asto of royal hospitality Professor lnfeland's roll of centenariaili includes many more remarkable cases. DIrugged Wines. As Franco has kicked up a row aboul A mericani hog meat, which extenlded evei to ringing bells through the villages warning thi e citizens, it is entirely fair te warn the American people against the drugged wines of France. The Parisian it paper printed ill n English in Paris, gives a brainch of the history of this manufacture of -wines sold fraudulently untder the names of tie choicest brands ( 'rench wines: 'T'he wine crop of 1870 was abot)ut 25,000,000 or 30,000,000 hce tolhiters below the average of the last ten years. The annual (conlsumpt ion in Franee is from 4l0,000, 000 to 45,000,001 heiti't ~ ters. EvAery body expected a rist ini the p~rico of wine, anmd somol 'onsecli tiouIls dealers laid in a stock from abroad, The rise in price, however, never camne, antd the marokets remnained well supplied. Thet reason wa':s thatt the natu iral dleficil was5(' complensated for' by artificial means, Wiewas immunetumred out (If dr', grapes. All thme raisins to be found ii mianuflacto~ries spranig ump all over thet cot1111ryv. Ar(ound Paris alone there arl' seven steam-power wineO manullfalctories. Tht cost oIf a cask of raisin wine is aboui1 50 frane is, and it was sold( at 100) franies, thus giving a profit of 100 per1 cenit. Bli thle c'ompiletition hains niow become such thatd the price of raisins hats risen fron twelve francs to seventy-five francs tin 100) kilograms. T1he cs lequnceiC is thma that raisins have beien alnidonied. ant wine is niow ,manufactumred out of glu cose, a sugaryV matter obI taine(d froumlih p~otaito, out of thet residhie of moldasstes out (It rol~ften applles, dried prlune's, (dates figs anid all kinds of refuise fruit, ali .een ouit of beet-root. Thieste abi 1nia 11b leliidls are. colored artiticjilly ani mixedl imor'e or less with Spanish wiine or whiilte wine. The adulerationi ai mnanufnuet ure of winoe Ints attainmed such: va:st p r oortions1 that the p~rinicipail deal ers who h~ad taken measures to suppl:) the majirket loyally with hmrvest win< from for'eigni lounlties have~ talken stein to pult a stop) to this gigantic fraud. T1h iimposture' 1has reachied such a piteh thIa not one-third of the winie no0w dranik ii Paris is real grape. 'The revelationis () time nmaniufactuirt of French brandy am< no0 less convincin~g of the wholesale charn acter of the friands. French brandy a~ this (lay is dlescribed~ as an inferior spiri distilled from P"mar1, p)ohl.hes, Iniait corn and whisky distilled from barley and this is the stuff implosed upon th< people of this country. It would be nautionail blessing if theire was an author itative analysis made of the various se called Frieh wines and1( brandoies fraud ulhentl y puishetd off upon the A mierical peo ple by tho wino mannfacturers France. Thie drugged [and( poisononl st11f11s, in adition to1 heinig a commere'ii fraud, also most deleteroums to hmealt an life, and its im~fpor'tationl shiould b1 disconstiniued. No pIure wines or b~rar (lies are now expoIrted( from France. A GENTLE~MAN and three ladies wh must have had a great dheal of spas time have found by cmut that a blontd has about 140,000 hairs on her scalp ; brunette, 109,000 ; and a red-haire h elle only 88,000. This last p~rovisio of mnture is undoubtedly to prevent ir v'oluntary incendiarism. INDIfANS never drilik to drown Rom'roi When they can' got aniytiniig to driln they have no0 sorrow to dirownm. -BrToo, I u~n Eaal. A Fanango at La Veitta. it Ro happened that we reached Ta V Venta on a festive occasion. A fandango was in full blast but a short distaneo from our (plarterm, inld a large number i of strange .ndians from the sirroutding country were in the village. Our advent hl caused at temporatry susplsion (if the festivities, itt the pIwople s bI 1le ilan to drift that way again, and by the time we had fiuished our supiwr the music of himrp and blfdo/on coul be heard, and the dance was once more iml progress. Alejandro told us that the village would probably grow lively to ward mli(llight as the (bille continuiied, for the Indians were drinking a good deal of 'mrseal, and iany of them were I still coming inl from the cointry. He informed 111 that the Alcaludo of the town had already hid(en himself, as is the custom on such oecasions, and tiint we must be on our giuird, for the Indians were bial men when drunk, and inclined to dislike strangers. Wo were all armed to the teeth, however, antd felt no ap prehiensionls. After super, 'Marion anid I Sallied Out into ithe (ltrk street, atnI, following the sound of the music, soon found ourselves in the midlst of the cro)wd of wild, h:l1f-naked revehrs. The (aining was carried on und(er the shetl wich was lit 111) by pine-knts, hrowing out a wierd glare over the dusky crowi. A number of itien anad women widl 4jt(1ip into the opel mpaco an1d shu11e sowhmWly airun0dll, eahilfl ong ippirently OI his oin responsibility, and with no regardI io figlre. .in the Illealillitne tho.se who w vere n-c.t OnlIEing" id squat. ill a cir Iel around the open space, minl sing mlioiiolnonusly inl him'" w ith th'e 1111sic of Itho ilstrmlilents. The danilc'.ers nolh linlly ret ire, andi( otihers (akI I heir p~hiI-es, the process beiln Ig reptedi withl li tle ()Ir no variations". Buit i1. was 1,1 the muter rill of the circle that the real 1:mt stweid to) be going" on. Lit tle grup wT1 )SNO:* gathered hiere andI there, 1rinking, sing ilg and carlising, aid, as w lft the crowd and picked ou1r way back to ouir ltodgings, we niotit'ed 010 of our1 mnl, Ponlcianlo by 11nun1(, elin uk maiden, and treating her to ai drink of orchata.-D. S. liclrd.mn in (hdi foIrnian. 1. ,t - . t ' Life's Brightest. Hour. - Not long since, I met it gentleman who is assessed for one miillioi. Silver was ill his hair, ere 111)111 his brow,' aiI he slightly stooped beneathe s Ii hi buin1rdei if wealth. We were s'peahing 4f the period of his life lie had i reachied the imost perfect enjoymint, 1or rat her, when he had found haippiness to be iieartst un-. alloyed. "I'll tell you, Salid the millionafire, "whnN-11 waIs the Imlppicst. hour (d mnyli. At the ago of ie aiil tweity I. lai 8aved $800. I wis earning . t year, and my father di(l not take it from ime, only requiring that I should pay lmy boarid. At the age of t weny-two I. secured a pretty cott.tage just outside of the city. :I wais able to pay two-thijrdsI of the v'alue down. and aliso furnish it . resp)ectablly. I wias marrliedi on Mndayn ~ -a unday in dmuiie -a-t my father'sx house. My wife laid comtie to) meP poort er' V ooft, Rid O)11 Moi'huty lluoriliiig f: wvelt to my work, leaving lot her ind sister t4) llelp inl preputinhg liylt hlle. 'On Moniday evening, wlluel l ie laihtIrs of thet day were donie, I went, not to the paiternail shielter', b)ut to my ownI houl~se - miy own'i hiome. 'The holy atmosphtre of tituit hour seemuis to surroin)tl m ie even njow in the mlemnory. I openedt the door of my cottage and entered. Iiil laily hat on the little stanid ini the aId, and passed on to the kitchen--our kitchenlu and1( dining-roomi we're all onie thmen. I puslihed openl the kitcenm door andt wats in -heavenI'4'i! The14 table waus set atgain1st the w~all--theo Aeeinug meahll watS ready~ preparedi~( biy the handits of her who had (come1 to be my helpmneet in deed as well as ill natm-anid by the te'a-tabtle, with a throbbing anid e'xpectanit looki upon her loeyand loving face, stood my wife. Icouild only clasp Ithe waitinig anigel to my bosom, thus shtowinig to her the ecstatic burden of my heairt. '"The years have passed--long, long Iyears--anid worldly weallth luits ltii upton me, and I ami hioniored and ened -bu~lt as true as hieaven-I. would give all --every dollar, for the joy of that June eve'ning, in the long, long ago." SExcchanae._ _____ hIC I)(eniCed It. The11 locomo'tive of Ia Unrhemi milk train struck at man who w~as lying er4)ssw iso ontetrack. T1hie train waMtoppled and backe d upj, andi intsteatd of the manigled rem ins th enginleer founhd a -nan1 stanld ing on thet track amid look ing~ 1 01und wit h a aeof curiosity. "' Where is thait man?" said the engineer. "' What uman?" saidi the tramp). "The mani I strucik," r'etor'tedl the (engi'I"r. "' I don't know. -Did you hit a man?'" saidl the fellow. " ' Yes," sanid the engineer. " I k niocked4 -arman off right here aind he4 went, up against that f'reighit ear.'" " I )in't see him. When d1id it hasppei?" "J .ust. Snow. Aren't you the min?" " N tas I remember."' "Didn'lt I knockeh you offt the track ?"' the enineec4r persisted. "' I (I dlon't thlink you did, but you'i can (exam ine me and see."' 'VT fellow's hleadI and shioubler were severely brulised and o 'bleeding. WVhen aiskedi how he4 re'eived4 ethe injuries he said : " Well, I don't 0 exacttly know, bult I thught I fell off! the at freight car. Ouess I am niot hurt much lanyhiow." As lie wvalked away he sang out-"-'Much ohbliged1 to you for telling -11e hOW it htappeneid." - r is wise to keep in mind the fact that -souls may hr wonl to the cross by a ljif k oni la Siek'h1ed just as well as byV at life iit good na8 going on a foreign ml1iinn lIUMORS OF THE DAY. Cnho'.s roads arl most apt to be had. AuxANSAS women love to whistle. Alnd what is more lovely than tulips woll blown ? TRnlix,; light as hair sometimes turn the wholo course of a man's appetite, saym the New Orleans Picyunevm. AN l1rLTINOIs girl's toast: "Tho young men of America-their arms our sup porters, our arms their reward; fall in, men(11, fall in." Jo HAPS that the best lip salve in crea tionl is i kiss. The remedy should ho used with great care, as it may bring on an affectioi of the heart. A rALTIMORE man remained in a I ranceo for three (layS reentlv, and they finally had to vell "dog light" under his winidow to roniso him to life. MUs. SLuwmrr a:.: mn Srows thinks it very inartistic to kait mon's foot gear straight. Doesn't it depend, Harriet, on1 whoso socks it is that is gored. A NEnnASKA imionuflmenCit to a horse thief is siiply a statke at. tho head of the grave an1id a sign reading: "It Would havo heei cheaper for him to go afoot." A YOVN ma1 has generaly got the winnin cards inl his hal(d when, on poplping the 4luestion, he sees a " 'flush" inl his sweetheart's face.--Somcrvitic Unun)Er (wdho has discovered the car pet sweepel) : "I"uk it the mutisio box, now, wvid the long handle! 1 wantder how they plays on the inst.hruimint!" lioSton eneril AN EXCIIANnE says: "If a minister can rec(eivo the i itle of 'Dr.' why cannot a physiciani have the title of 'Rov?' Hevaluse peoplo mayhin:3 flua k it meant Revelations, aid doctors kiiow a good deal. Si i) little Elith to her doll: 'There. dont, uasWer liito back. y(oa mustn't be s; .ney, 110 ltiter Iow hateful 1 am. I. am your mother!" Straige what curious ideas children get iiito their heads some ti ifes. "WH IAr pitt.y eidlireii, and how miuch they look alike," says C, during a first visita it a friend's honso. "They are twins," his friend explains. "Wailt! hoth of 'em?" exclained C, greatly in teres.ed. Tnavm. is a knock at the front door, anI the colored person says to the lady of th le ho 'use: 'Is you de white ooialn what told a colored geiiani you was lookii for a colored lady to wash your Clothes by the mumif ?" "'Y.:s," said the tramp, '"they talk about the ciaritable institutious of .Box ton. Now, a man en go down to the H1awkins Street Homo and get a suipper and lodging, and lie's got to saw at foot of wood to pay for it. By snakes, sir, .1 don't call that charity. "-Boston /Pos/. A NI'w aulor, who ilteIds to make a living by good dlvice, says: 'Never leave what vou un dert ak until you enn reach your arms aroun d it and1( clinch your hands oni the otlier side." Perseverance, and1( atll that sort of thing, in the right direc ti m, is well enough, anid even coimmuend adbde; bunt if the unow author's advice is car ried out, one is likely to get his ears A Cmercoo young man broke into tho room of the girl hie loved, to carry her aiway, as she refused to marry haim. She wans absent, bunt left the hull dog asleep on her bedl. Tho11 room was dark. '.I'hoe dog didn't b)ark, butt worked. In aibout seveni mnumtes the( remains of the younig man camne ont :id saidl that lhe wouldn't muarry thait girl for $70,000. The Pope's Peculiarities. His Holiness Pope Leo XIU. appears to be a dlecidedly enigmatical personage, if we may trust the account given of him by the Romani correspondent of the Colo gnoe Gazetic. TIhie most striking fact about hinm so far appears to he the slight extenit to wvhiich his character is known eit her by the faithful at fairge or by the in mates of the Vatican. Evory one knew Jar .v Pins IX. lived; his hours were alloted beforehand, and the same duties alIways performed at the same moment. Thiere is a total want of this regularity in his succ'essor. Hie keeps~late hours, and h as somnetimes~ beecn found by his ser vanits at his desk in the early morning half dlazedl after writing through the unight. Hie hats all his meals served to himit ini the greatest privacy, is much mo( re sparing of audiences than was Pius, and even his State Secretary and the C~ardials can only see him at irregular injilervals. T1heo great innovation. he has mado~l hats been his partial supersession of the abiove mnentionied ofilcia l, who uni (j'r Pius IX. practically administered the atihirs of the the Papacy. He has set on foot a chancellery of his own, con sisting of three Private Secretaries, and conducts his affairs with their aid quite aindepenidently of the State Secretary, and( often)l over his head. It not unmfre uacntly happen" 'hat orders go down to tai he isihpries is .a the State Secretary, and re ennled inA a dlay or two by dif feret orders from the Pope, or that the Secretary brings papers to His Holiness iad tells him that he has settled a par t ieular matter in such a way, merely in order to lbe told that the Pope himself hand already sattledt it in quite a different way. One ithing is clear, that Leo XIUI. manus to be iuister in his own house; lit tthe exact aim and tendency of his poliey is by no meanis equally evident. SBut Leo comes from the country of the Cioccari, and it is believed in Italy that a man from that district is commonly rather deep-a notion which appears also to he strongly entertained by thes correspondent.-Pall MalU Gaiette. , smNoAoED lovers may be described as express companies.