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NO. 47.i2. Sint< ,ams came stone-paved _ilk and croan .rderly array; groa under the shelves, an ..At churn was already .a the table for service. Botlendon was justly proud o "is dai-y. Not a chance guddt aamo t the house but was invited down to so< it; not a housekeeper in the neighbor hood but secretly envied its many,con vonIonus -and exquisite neatness a. "And It 'sn't the dairy -'alb'o,"'tri umphantly remarked Matthew Bellen don. "And you may go through the house from garret to cellar, and you'l never find a speck of dust or a stain o rust. Thore never was such a house keeper as my wife!" Mirs. Bellenden was young, too scarcoly throe':uid-twenty. Sho- ha been delicatoly ronred and quite igno rant of all the machinery of domestic life, until she married Matthew Bellen den. "It's very strange," Lucy had writ ten to her father. "The farm is beati fful. You never saw such monstrou: old elm-trees, nor such superb roses and the meadows are full of red clover and the strawbcrries shine like jowel on the sunny hillsides. But nobody sketches or reads. I don't think ther Is a copy of Tennyson in the whol< neighborhood, and no ono ever hcard of Doro or Millais. All they think of it how many dozens of eggs the hens lay, and how many cheeses they can make in a year. And the woi:u who has f now receipt for home-made wine, or m new pattern for patchwork quilts, is the lender of societv." But presently young Airs. Bellendc herself caught the fever, and btcame a model housewife. Example is all-pow orful. and Lucy began to believo thai the whole end and aim of life was do mes ic, thrift, money-saving, and th< trea ,ill of work. "Ay dear," said Matthew, "if you thought you could get along without a servant this year, I might bo able tc all'ord that new~ reaper beforo the oat crop) comes in."' "'I'll try,'' said Lucy. And after that shec rose before (lay breauk, and worked later In tile nigh thani ever. "What is the( miatter wvith your' hands, LucyevP" 'hetr hulsbanid asked, 0on0 day. 'iihoy are niot, so white and beautiful as the'y usedt to be.'' Lucy colored as Silo glanced down al the members In question. ."I suppose it is making fires,'' shtc said. And then she took -to wearing kid gloves at her swooping and dustinc' and digging out of ashes. -"My coat is getting shabb)y," Mat thew one (lay remarked. "$thy don't you buy anoilier one?" asked his~ wife. Mttthew laughed a short laugh. "What do you think l\rs. Higgins has donio?'' said h10. 'Slhd rlppedi up her husband's old suit and cut a pat tern by it, and madle a new 0on0 anld saved him two poundls.'' "'I could do that,'' saidi Lucy, with sparkling eyes. "I will try it.'' ''Youl can do aniythin;;, my dear!" said Mr. 1lelladen, atdmiringly. And Lucy felt that siho had her rih reward. Company began to como as soon as nice weather sot In. All the affectiQuato relations of Mr. Blellondon soon discoveredl thlat the f arm-hi so wag cool andl shadity, that Lucy's' oking was ox collont, andt that tile b)edrooms woreoIneatness Itself. Some of thoem wore even goodt enough -to-invite theoir relations as wveli; antd so $the ho#so8 Was full from April to D).. comber with Visitors who brought their carpet-bags and valises with tihat faith in human hospitality ivhichl Is one of Mrs. Bellendoln's fdmno WOint abrbadl among tipo Dorcasos of tile 11eighbor hood In the matter of butter and1 Ollse she took prizes in theo domestic tdepart no~ints of all the agrip ultural fairs, antd 'tho adjoining houh ewivos took no0 trouble to make things that they couild borrow of Mrs. Bellene,"uta well As not." -~ e,"uta Anti one tiay, wheon poor1 Lucy, under the blighting mflullOec of a horrible sick headache, was endeavoring to at un three or four gallons of milk Into th, bi.ning pans, the news arrived thlat hOA husband's Uncle Paul was coming 1.o tihe farm. "Another guest!" said Lucy, despair ingly. And then she uttered tile proverb ..Oat heads our sketch. "Oh, it's only Uncle Paul!'' said Mr. Blellenden, "D on' t fret, Lucy! HIo's the most peacosiglo 91ld gentleman in tho world. He'll make no more trouble than a crd.: J?n' wf t..gh .J10 s1 .t't furn. .i easily sew a those old p,ieces 1. room; and its no trot .L muslin curtain to the wi. .t in a stump bedstead; and yo. just tack together a mattrass a,. whitewash the coiling, and-What's that, Lucy? The cows in tho turnip field! Dear me! everything goes wrong if I step into the house for a moment. And really, Lucy, those things are your businoss, not mine!" he added, irrita bly. Lucy could not help laughing, all by herself, as her husband ran up the Stops. But it was a very sad little laugh, and soon changed into a sigh. "I wonder," said she, in a whisper, "if niy poor tired-out ghost would haunt these stone pavements and scrub bed shelves if I wore to die? I never heard of a ghost in a dairy before, but I should think that it might very easily be." But the little bed-room was fitted up, for all that., as fresh as a rose, and Uncle Paul arrived, a dried-up, yellow comiplexioned old man, with an old fashioned cravat, tied in many folds around his neck, and a broad-brimmed, low-crowned hat and fine, gold-headed caLIe. Ie had the polite way of half a cen tury ago, and Lucy thought she should like hlim very much, if only she had time to get acquainted with him. But she was churning ten pounds of butter a day, and thore was the baby, and the company, and the young chick ens, and the baking to do. She was almost too busy to sleep. But Uncle Paul was watching her quietly all the time. 11e came out, one day, to the barn, where his nephew was putting a new handle on a sickle-blade. 'Pretty busy tilnes--eh, Uncle Paul i"' said the farmer, scarcely taking the leisure to look up. "Aye,'' absently answered the old man. "Did I tell you, nephew Mat thew, about the reason 1 left your Cousin Joseph's?" "Not that I remember," said Ma thew, breathinig on the blade, and pol ishing it with his silk hanilkerchief. "Dorothy died--his wife!" "Oh, yes," said Matthew. "Low fever, wasn't it?" "No!" bluntly answered Uncle Paul. "It was hard work. That woman, nephew Matthewv, (lid the housework for eight p)ersons. Joe dlidn't even lot her have a woman to help with the washiing and the ironing!"' "Muist have been a regular-going brute," said Matthew, tighteining the handle a little. "'All tihe sewing, too,'' adlded Uncle Paul-"'the mending and making. She never went any where except to church. Joe didn't believe in wvomen gadding about." "The 01ld savage!" said Matthew. "She was fondI of roadilng, but she n'evor got any time for it," said Uncle Paul. "She rose b)eforo sundi(awn, and never lay dlown until eleven o'clock. It was hard wvork that killd that wo man, and .Josep)h coolly declared that it was sheer laziness wheon she couldn't drag herself about any longer. And when she dlied lie rolled up his eyes andl called it the visitation of Provi "Why didnt' the neighbors lynch him?'' cried Matthew, fairly aroused to indignation at last. Uncle Paul took oflf his glasses. wiped thiem vigorously, and looked his nephew hard in the face. "Why dlon't tihe neighbors lynch you?" sauid he. Matthew dlroppled the sickle, and stared. "'Nepihew Matthew,'' said Uncle Paul, ipressively, ''thou art the man! Are you not dloing the very same thing?" "1P" gasped Matthewv. "Ycur wife is doing the work of a household of sixteon people,'' said Unce l'Paul. "'She is drudging as you couldi get no stranger to drudge. She is rising early, and lying dlownlao she is offlerinrg u p hier life on the shriine (of your farm and( its requi-ireents.I have seen her grow thin and palo0 even during the few days I have beon here. I have seen her carry up Mrs. iBelford's break f ast di aily to lier room, because Mr s. I efuuird preferred to lie in bed; aind coonkinig dauinity dishes for Hlelein Patterson, heeaus~o Ielen wouldna't cat what thle rest, like. No galley-slave eiver wVorked( ias she des. And you, -withi your farm hiand(s-whoso b)oardl only adds to her ear-es, and your array of labor-saving machriniery, stand~ cooilly by and1( see her commiiit slo'w suicide. X s, nephew0~ Matthew',, I think It is a ease for lynching!" Matthew had grown ple. "I--I never thought of this," mai he. Why didn't some one tell me'?" "Where were your eyes?" sauid Unce Pau,l. Matthew BelIlendon rolled do iwn his shirt s1ooves, put on his coat anid went into the housoe. lHe told the iselfords and Pattersons that it "'.s Inconvenient to keep thiemi any longer, lie gave Cousin Susan to understandt that her room was needed. Hoe mnade arrangements to b)oard oult tihe farnm andan( nae( tu n lit to Mai Senla scets, paign . dirtiest been set )arturo i rho Sena. and advan. Greciey's s;. fronted by 1 "Where an watchdog. "I'I n(oiltlt to Senator replied. ''Not much yo; elevating his voicL self solid with IHorn here, or I'll help you General Wilson u. His face, usually red, by Ben's manner. "Won't you be so kim name inl to Mr. Greeley ? Ben looked hard at hin. his name, "Wilson," was ''Vell," said Ben, "I'll if hie wants to see you." Ife returned in forty see, aggressive than ever. 'It's just as I told you,'' i "IIe won't soo you; now, d out o' here." Wilson turned to Amos '2 night editor, who lay back chair, bursting with supprosseu tion. "What's the matter, General?" asked. Senator Wilson, explained, while Ben looked on in astonlisluent. "There must. bo sonic mistake," the night editor renark,d, "and I'll take you in and introduco you to Mr. Gree 03y. They entered.the great editor's sanc tun together. Horace sat at his high desk, with eyes close to the manuscript, scratching away like a hen on a fresh sand-heap. "Mr. Greeley," sait. Amos, "hero's Senator Wilson. You refused to see him just now." TIhere was a moment of silence. IIorace scratched away without look in' up. "Well,'' lie piped in a shrill alto, without removing his p)en, '"the bo said that a d-d old bunm named i sonl wanted to see me, and I thought it was Billy' Wilson.'--The1 Journa tst. F'acetiousnsa~ of' IFurnituire. "'I must haivo someO rest this sum mier,"' said the clock; "'I'm all run down." "I think I need a country scat," said the easy chair, leaning on his o1 "'I'm gettingv played out,'" said the piano; '"a little~ fresh aiir would bo a g~(ood thing' for me.'" *"Thant' whiat I want,'" saidl the sofa; "'a little fresh air at tihe springs.'' ''1 shiould like to go with the sofa and lounge in tho woods,'' said the foot,. stool. "if my legs were stronger," said the table, "I should go to the country for soine leaves." ''Country board is always so plain,'' growled the sidleboard; "n1obody that is knobby or polished ther'e.'' "Le1 t men relleet,'" said the mirror; ''thliy have very plain-hooking lassicsa therek,, too4, do they nhot?'' " Yn m,1iiake miei plush1,'' said! the dl v:ilk-uial here the hiouisemaid closed lihe fol ig-dor 0 andcit shiut toeem all up. Whlat Wasu the Lilnemian's Greatest Feat. '"What do you consider as tho great ost feat in the history of the linemen?'' The old linieman thought a mloent and then satid: "I think it occurred when G;eor'ge Itiley wVas ordered inl a hurriy to car ry at secret wire from a di rector's r'oomk- -- to hide it, underist andi. lie looked over the room and found a speakinkg tube. After trying vainly to push51 the wires dowvn th rough the an.. ales of the tube, lhe went into thlo cel Ia,set a trap anid cauzghit a mouse. Ie then tied a string to the mousok5's tail and( sent the imouse safely down tho tube. When the string wats through ho made thie wires sing to it. 'They were thIen readily drawn through to the room, three stories below, wvhiro the term inus1 of thke tube was." The old lineman didn't laugh and the replorter didn' t dare to do so. -- 2 '/iladel phi a Ti'mes. Thie town of Atk iinson, M~e. , has aL man11 wvhose p'rin cipal trade Is bl1ack - smithbing. Ihe has ilk onie (coirner of his Shorp a denltist's (chair, and wvill'step at any t imlie to irelievye alny one iufl'oini' fromII toothache. Whlen busi ness i sdu1 ini thesekC two branches, lie is transformnedi inkto a lawyer. In adldition, lio is a vervy good1 cabinetmakor. il 1: Tihe KAr/h Au,rlean~t: /&K rU'' pl1lb' a p)aper treating1 of the0 lluiions of " memory. Thle suibject is halndledl in a masterly mn ner, t elIling of thle st rang'e ih n~ ~impress ions wve s Iinutimnes feel in look- w ngotover ai haiiscapio never beforo it' seen by us, yet, .sudde'nly there comies :in a fl ash of indistinct recolh.ut ion as if, im years ago, back to whlichi time menmor y up, refuses to travel In a dIirect li ne, woe. looked upjonl the scene .5Some inlvest i- set (2 gators have thought th at a muan duringthr 1 a certaim men tal condit ion, cnn look at from :t strange objet' and1( th2at only I on1 hem- wi isp)here of hi s mind1( r"ecives10 the im- jdb piressioni. Sudden('ily thle other hri-- im sphere receives it, and still retainincr ll r the impr)essioni taken by the first hem 1 t th sphIere, ho rieembers to have seen the ter' object before. No man has satisfactor- be n. ilyexptind tisillusion, but theoro ro coal illusions of menory which can beoex-. liv' p)lained(. For instance a man goes Carl, bomo after a day of toil, andl says toso his wife: 1-f' I ''Saw our old friend Jackson to-dlay. \. [Lookinig fine. Said lhe was never in hin better hecalth in his life. Asked about I ra you. If business doni't go better, I l~ e don't know whant wo are going to do. pl By the way, i saw ouri olud friend Jack- pe sonl to-dIay. Looking~ fi n. Saidl ho~ lur wvould li ko ver:yi much to see you. I ;idn am1) tiredl. Such a rush of business that uif 1 h I haven't hadl time to sit (down. WhTloml /l. dio you suppos1e I saw to-day?'" ''Jackson,'' repIlies his wife rather . severely. 'What! (lid lie comoi up lcit hr? Said1 he would like to see you. I want "I to get dlownf town early to-morrow. I (one( forgot to tell you that I saw our old1 bootk friend Jackson." 'v'ohn1 This illusion of muiemory has niot him bafiled scien tific research. 'l'ho genlt!. wt'ent~ rnan is drnuk. Thero is also ani illu-i- j)oun sion of oyo-sighlt, whoero objects take entr louble impressions. Any one thius~ "''er~ f1licted Is also dIrumnk. -f1rkansaw th TJraVdic?. thie I The Party Call. . a "lJ)on' t yout think 'germans' aro an iw fulI bore?"-'asked y oung P ilk ins, af-'111 or a silence of teni Illiues' duriation. 1 "Someitimets,'" sighedt Mans Cotillion,iit vithi an oh-do-t aku-him--away loo(k inhi eri deep blue e'yes. "'1Ia.e you beenI to "Iv' :iah, hujl :bout si\:eni this win ion, dowesihy. "du't one1 for everyb earlI of your ag4;'' aint then there (I n- 111 unde' aotIher luIn', dlieious paus e, (n w',hiili' thie 3tlunii rm regarded'u his I pat-- I ltely counrtedl ''b.vI'. I-p. In a recent trial on1 thle li Tames~ of t in electric launch forty filet Ion', wvith' storage battery, am spedo (ite Ii <nlots an hour wvas attained. The speed * >f a steami lan ch, with en iginle, hoilei. vater and coal su Ilicient for asi ((ours' runl!, would( hav been1)01 fromi onei A util a half to two ilebs an hour vreat- Aiiel Co (nnililg tIil2 (leetri'al A)'I SIn 111 with steami, the o1(1vantag2.s of electrie h ty n.rc ent ire' abseo o0(f Hoise, trrea t ' 31eanlinoss, and veItry smnall roomilI ee. ig d for uchinrery ; and when once " Y abarged it is ready in a muomieni. 11111 1'(111 fro t" I l ; ii lll: 1 t 'ut:l, of (!: n wh l,te ru,ult of I Vor' of 1 i : t ls it)' ht)th I:5s r!.. l 104 ;tl:l1 fi: igit. L:il;s. - i:l:treeU . ( L 1 :1li ! 4. I4li,rt i 41w ie; of thli- town, a jOuir h1a1 :' tl')l\ . ,11(1rl:d fori a wee(k 1 ;ounn.Ee\psibloe^ i: rt . r tO wi.l ut. relief. y one of lie bh pia:t's i1nform'led(1 that l . lit W rilkes liviri in tlu An r t U tt Isn l tret 1>isL r Oni o d e1h IL Ii: 11 i o 1tl1 j I 1 I t i it wtii>it fIl. Acci ng1 it l (rtli a htttolinal th :IInan who p,Iosessed Gr an:n'enlt thatI i 13 " ou i reliev h1. ( im hIi ut hl sui:L ing ] llr... W ifkes, e o rnp tio is a 'u-i er, rec i i~ i. ( luntialy :\I at omIasu e n " M ede -1l hi chthey en :i A lr \V1( iike ti l ledIiIJ .u t fom~~ le IIFo te boxi hetok 11411 k. Sane asihIt )I 11 ilt1 may lu. A t l r.ILI Wie. also1IL 1 fmes lI us4ri Lt swelin inl Ih stu114 way.i ."M lin th utiler on I :114 pin/-i.. WI i nm leetily which-- - . . p io ilo\l -ted1I inlo this wayI'44. ihe wrIit,ier 1. thatII thi ain00 tt ( is f 14,tned t l 11111t.iXn iLlby he horrido applicat in.~ )CI.of JI'14t,IL. s( t'll s ) Qt'tt. wt nhit ilari(e sthuiks r E Bit>y. couple in this 'rec Press, who xchange where mo superfluous luds, or, rather, e the hand Is -ewelry. There 1 illy, and beforo -eceived asnmall 0upon oponiing ig with "WVel ngravod on tho ' for tho bab 4ugh to fit ine, plaintively; but t would keep sho ated a letter of baby's aunt sont it 1 no' set in pearls, ar od on the Innerr Imother sent it a ring veo of gold found in Pocket after his death, cets of initials and a 13i ed on it. ring was from a schoc' . a wido band of goldc dollar bangle hung by a the sentinent ''Of such 1 of Heaven,'' was col qluito discernablo with a 1 >wever. >y's uncle got honio froml I when ho had kissed the took something out of .o Ia thing to got the ki4 lie said, as ho open ox. "I knew nobody of giving such a little 40 [ rot one. Hello, sis, I ter!' other had fainted. But r in time to see her ut.., who had stopped to the Pacific Coast to baby. i her dear, sweet littlo < I old lady. severely; 1 ili't forget her tootsey .1 she slipped a camoo .nall red finger. It had engraved on it which the postmnan's ring," said ne day as she looked out of ringing another oil-ring to the noW it," said the pale, young .ly carry them to another room .ier: they are numbered, sorted ad pit. away in regular order, .ng Ilneuieloes of tha awful want 'riginrdity, whil is usually poasess b'y the friend:: of a first baby. 1 Vhon Greeley Got swearing Mad. 1 wcorge W. Smalley, London corres 1cent of the Tribune, is it son-in-law Wendcll Phillips. lie graduated m Yalo College and won his journ tie spurs by writing in1 a ba-age a report of the hatthle of Altietain. 1 8t7, while John ltuse ll Young was of the city, Smailley was temporarily I llharge of the Trdune. Aiuos J. t 11l.i1;-, was night editor. Greeley I written an editor:il articlo on lt, amuit having an ilgag(lnelent to 1 Lure before a Fatiir A\ athew society, I left th1 otli-e without, readting; his of sheets. lie asked Cnuillning;s t o Over the revise proof. Amos did so, I1 Iiobinson holdin,g the ianueript. rythiing was all righit, but when Os went up-stairs to mak11o up the forial page he found a surprisin<r k oil the revised proof-sh1et. :ely had referred to 'Syme, s' Ili " is ar13lticle., andi Simailley, who ha<1(3 or hleardi of "Symes' IHo,'' had >eked out the wo' ird "Symiles" anid rked iin "Ilohnies' I loe.'' Amllos It dIownr-,t airs and3 exp ostuilatedi wvit h i h, ut Yale College was not. to 1)3 f ighitened by) a boy whoii had gainied ' cation1 in ia pint) ing ofice. "I1 am,f niagingr editor here, aind am respon- V .e,"' said Sinialley, in a freezing toine, tinig short all1 explaiiations, and1( t ohnes' 110131' it, relinained1. Horace v ked upj to Amos' <tusk at G p. in. onL following daiy, saying in ia piping C ': "Did 3031 r'ead mly revis(o last r hit?"' "I did,'' was the reply. 3l,'' sai lie grreat edlitor, thirow- a la s hat. Oin the floor, "'yolu're a di--- d -t akhad3." ' Th''le niighit editor pro- i'i edl thie p)roof-shieet, with the al1tera- I 1ii iin ialley's hanuidwvritiing, and13 told d stotry. 1lornce stood like one( doazed. it eli, Amios,'' lhe finally blurted, "'I it yon to undOersltanld from this timo s ard that I'll never allowv aiiy d-d 1' dly-ha:iredl Yanlkeo to alter1 imy (edi-A aul.".' Smialley wa1s qicikly relieved, 31 nver augainl flil 1th( managing Lor's chiri.. -N. . World. A a'e D)ropped I'ouir St orica. uddltenly the workman(I oni the3 win I silll-Ernecst Sainger was his namno aLvo a piCRciig and( algonizing shrie3k startl13ed all who hleard It., and3( ar- mc 0(1 the3 footstep: (een of tho bu(sy .chants. and33 brokers w3%ho( had not idl temselves to look at anIythline omiiiiinplaeo& as a safe hoisting foat iiglo gilan11o at, the writhing foria of s workmanOi, whoi( groanied and3. h unwd w( 'ithi pain, wasO enouighi to be V wha:t hadl hiapplened. Sanger had -n hol of the pull! ey to sw3ing the ,aind his fingers had13 beenl ciaughita 30 rope and3 had(1 been d rawni into shieaves4 of the bloc0k. 1 is follow. n kme un03 3iderst' 33d the situIIation at a 3' ice1. They kne1w that to turn the A elh, either hoist or to lower' the 1 mit( reslt in crushing thle poor c w adinto a( pulp1. Theure was hi one3( thing to do--hlo ropes must 3 uit. ande the safe allowed to drop to siewalk.p s quickly ats plossiblo thu sidewvalks d auth sides of the street and the a livay also wereo cleared of peodes- ~ 1as and( vohiclos. Two stout follows ' out upon01 the sill and1( hold tIhe bodly heir sull'oring coinirado so that ho C II d(1 not becarriedI down with tho l '[lhen thle ropeos woro qutickly jl red close to tile block. Sauger's dI was relbeased1 and 1h( was drawni 1 fainting into tile roomi 1and. catrried J SSurgeon's. lhe big safo crashed3 thiroeugh th133 c rwalk, .smiashinlg a heaOvy ilaigstone C >powd(er, and( buried Itself inI the t Lihy floor of a vault unader the s4treetL F ondt haviing its bottoinl bont, in, theld 3 was uniniured.J GLEANINGS. The King of Slam has 263 children. Rowell has made $80,000 out of walk ing matches. A Georgia paper extols "the natural advantages" of the Fort Gaines Core cry. When a man boards a wrong train f thought ho is liable to run off the rack. Mrs. A. T. Stewart is eighty-four roars old and the richest widow in the vorld. At the Carlisle Indian school there ire at present 455 pupils-325 boys and [30 girls. Paper is now used In Germany in stead of wood in the manufacture of cad pencils. These are the mornings when the -oses kiss the girls on thu checks and orget to go away. Two new Cunarders are now being milt with the object of beating all pro rous records in crossing the Atlantic. Rlobert Griflin, of London, says the vorld will not be largo enough to hold in population in a thousand years ro 1 1low. W.'all street, is an attractive place vbere a mlan can losc $9,000,000 in our years without half trying.-Noris itlowl i er<dd. There are 124,000 miles of railroad. in the United Statos, or seven times as nany miles as there are in the United (migdom of Great Britain. Tho stained-nlass craze In fashion. Lblo househol'Ps is waning, and the opinion of intelligent people is that vholesale imitation killed it. Darby Green is a Connecticut Yankee vh,) was seven years old when the Dc laration of Independence was signed. 10 ;s still vigorous and happy. The Kentucky House of Reprosenta i es has passed a bill prohibiting bicy msts froml using the public roads of uoat of the counties in the state. New York's Legislature has exempt d from taxation the property of dis bled ministers and priests over 70 eanrs old, to the lmount of $1,500. Charles Rondo knew that ieath was onuing and refused absolu.ely to meet t at Cannes. ''No," he said, ''I feel nyself hreaking up and I wish to go soine to die.'' Eeelesiastical clocks for bedrooms re(l the newest. They are made of iv wood in the form of a cathedral, Jid in the steeple in the clock, sweet hilmes designating the hours. IAlay hipon and Lady Hobart, Miss. t e :nd Ms Me1?herson, have aided pword of teln thousand men, wonon uld ehildlren to emigrate from England o the colonies or this country. .iinese laundries are springing up vith wonderful rapidity in all the outhe n ('Ities, and the competition vim ch they hive excited has, in many nlstancecs, resulted in street brawls. Matthew IRankin, of Lewiston, Me., ins been confined to one chair for hirty-three years. lie has a conbina. ion of mirrors by which ho looks out f the window without moving his cad. The Astors own certainly a stxteenth f the real estate of New Vork. And hey are the very best of landlords. 'heir prices are moderate, and they ever refuse any reasonable demand >r rep:irs. Allen Gifl'ord and wife, of Easton, asington county, will celebrate at bristnmas the seventieth anniversary fthe ir wedding, if life is sp)arod to xem till then. lie is ninety-threo ears ol and she is eighty--nine. In leighi lichmond's adiclo to his auughters, lhe wrote: "'Girls, be cheer .11, but, lnt grigglers; be serious, but ot, dull; be communicative, but not rward ; be kind, but, not, servile. Be anrc of silly, though tless speeches."' A genitlom an who has given a good enl of stu'dy to the subjet says that 'bile Philadelphia has a greater numi er of benevolent institutions than any ity in the country, the pocrentaigo of au pera to th ~"pop ulation is also lar'ger. A New I Iven man has invented a ow kind of a pairachuite, which is fas nhedl aroundii thle conitor of the balloon self, and it is expected to bring the 'hole affair, including the acr,onaut own safely If any accidlent happens to Im hallooni. Statisticsi show that among 1,000 doe trs the niiuber of deaths annually miges between lifteen and twent,y-five. I this rate the nxumber of deaths an utally aniong the 90,000 medical men fthis country would be, on an aver ~e, 1,800. Mr. Case, a watchmaker of Franklin, a., has comiplete(d a locomotive and md(or six inchies 1lon gall told, that has ery, part comp1leto that Is found in a orking engine. It is made of gold, iver' and steel, andl is destined for the ow Orleans exhibition. Laast summer a Philadelphia gentle. an dug out a sand crab on the Jersey ioro, which lie took home and put in a cellar. Up to (late lie says it has mught 112 rats. Trho rodents smell its 'oath, andl whieun they go to investigate ecy are ilped and held until the dlog -rivyes. Mdost of the ico used at Calcutta is >w manufactured. Up to four or five tars ago it was shipped from Boston. Ithough the manufactured Ico only ats half as long as the natural ice, it ta be made so miuch cheapoer that it sa driven the Boston ice out of the ark et. T.wo anecdotes of Seney, the Metro olitan's ex-p)residenit: WVhon, in the ays of his purosperity, lhe was giving much in benovolence, a bright aughiter said to him: ''Papa, I wisha I 'ere a charitablo Institution.' While eneoy ana his son-in-law lit ye been leaned out, another soni-in-.laTr, who Is bear, is said to have scooped in largo rofits. Mrs. Lam bert, of San Jose, Cal., is a hxysician and a firm believer in wo. an's rIghts. In a criminal trial she as cailled as a witnosli for the prose ition, but she refused to go on the andl, saying that as she was. denied o right of citizenship she would as me itone of its duties. The court iledl to accept, the reason given-.a lid, and sent the witness to jail o ntomnt-.