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Whin g ia lokio would groan the. air waves with ti'* . hovr. no A day is a llfm'e"t-witat is death but a sloop W hon mon dote u'er the wine cup 'tis trettoht erons and deap. riruo hato is atoidane-soo not the content ir Ot the throtw einging. songs through a life Tiey riso >;nr from couchos of down in the CO morit And blush '-" %uo sweat-drops of toil that - aidOrr' a Scarcely k..rt< is the wail of the babo at its pr bi"Ll, how a, ynpo tolls of ago to be laid in tbe 'arth. t: F";x tho road of this life death is only a in rolith anbabe to the lad and the lad to the 8P man, be 'roiin proul manhood to ago and from age to lie the hearse, h '"srott tho Iaptisu's sprinkle to funeral oh- m st.rse, WE i4) I sorrow's the stamp on tho brow of the s horn,sh elut the rosvs in graveyards miced no punish- th Jg thorn On slow funerals is fixed the pale infant's g se:he lut tht) e%a of the dead sees eternity blaze-- ye why, then, ertite for a birth,' nd why weep ~ for n tonb? Why the totih in the sunlight? Why closed Oil 0.'eys in the gloon? ml While they di ink round my cradle I smile at fl their toasts; y None know t he true good but the kingdom of ghosts. le en't'r>y to Joy ever one born to dil th For on,e dy"ing for Il'e, ch, how empty the CO rihhm as in aloiei ,r lit causo for ainu's sorrows and on tirs" ot the ct:p nor the <1ano, but 'tis virtue en tttt:t c :"Irs' ch Whben 1oy tine Shall have conic, and Deathi $tait:'rt lit my tI'Ie, ed nmd it efl i lail cover my strength and my il i ie". ave <itncii;ti; aiid 4'ritiking mid laughing and ox F 1A)9he e who toasted m3y birti tear my cofin along. -lariton %viltatms. Wi or TI10' MILLEIR'S MAID. b) 'Ihero is a lonely mill, close beside th ho littlo hamlet of Udorf, near the sp thino yhore, bet.wecn the villages of th, Ir.sel and Ursel, on the left bank be- nu uw Bonn. This mill is said to have cecn the scene of the following story: "I It was on a Sunday morning, "ages (I ong :.), tha the millec of this mill, to nd hit whole fauily, went forth to tear the holy mass at the nearest d( 'hurch, in the village of liersel. The sh ill, whiel was aiso his residOuce, ea ias left in chargu of t servant-girl fu amedi llanichen, or Jenny. a stout leurtel lass, who had long lived with al him in that capacity. An infant child, hi of :il a;o unlit for church, was left in 13 her char e likewise. lhue ,irl ws busily elployed in pre- ul dinner for the return of la or master and his family, whon who ti should eniter all of a sudden but an old 1y wcetouart of hers, named Heinrich m otteIlor. lie was an idle, graceless he fellow, whom the miller had forbidden th his hmuie, but whom Jenny, with the te iniab,le perversity peculiar to her sex, re only liked, perhaps, till the better be- cil cause of iers gave him no countenance. iit She was glad to see him, and she told ti hint :o, too; and although in the midst si of her work, she not only got him thi something to eat at once, but also In .ound time to sit down with him and at have a gossip, while ho dispatched the as food she set boforo him. As he ate, C however, lie lot fall his knife. m, '"Pick that up, my lass," said he, in Pr :a joking way to the good-natured girl. eh \''Nay, lileinrich," she replied, "your - back should be more supple than mine, od lot you have less work to make it stiff. ao go hard with me an I refused to do to more ihapi that for you, bad though d' Tihis w: spoken half sportivoly, and qi half in golu e arniest; for, kind-hearted us the g I/!was, anad much as she liked to sea - race, she was too' honest and ind *ious herself to encourage or se approve (lioness and a suspicious t course o ini anyone else, however dlear to I She stooped down, ac cordingl ' pick tip the knife. As t she was I c act of rising, however, the treacd 4' us villain drew a daggor from undi( ds coat, and cau ht her Ot by the nma \ f, the neck, gripping her throat tirn~ Iwithi his lingers to pro- a6 vent her so mning the while. "Now, lat li ho sad, swivearing out m a bad oath t sam time, "where i is your mal ~'it mp'eey~i'lPl have f that or your Ito; so takie yiour choice.'' Th'le terriiih girl wvould fain have parleyedi with mt rullian, but ho would b hear nothing a4 could say. ''Your mastol a money or your life, ni lass!" was all hoanswer ho vouch stafedc to her eont wutios and adjuratioins. i ''Choose at 0 c,"' wvas the only al ternativolie otlY .d lier; "the grave or the gold!" She saw that ro'i was no hope ofti 'mercy at his hii d(s; aind, ats shte saw It, her tnativ e ie:i ution awoke in her bosom. Lao keli gtnorality of her* sex, she was imib at trifles; a scratch wi 'was a subjoet of har to her; a drop of a blood caused her tb faint; an unWont ed sound fillied he soul with fear it the night. Butt hlon her energies were aroused by 1i adeqtuate cause, a she proved, as hier aix has ever dlone, l that.in c'ourago, in Inaurance, in pros erio of itid, andi in resources for al every emergency, me far surpassed 01 the bravesti and coo at man. "Well, well, He 'ch!I" she said, ro-t signedly, "What Ii to be, must be. But if you take th 4oney, I shall oven ai go along with ye.j 'Ths will be noh home for me any mn e. But Oeae your grip of my neck a l11 la--don't squeeze Yt sothard; I can't mi 0;e you hug me so tight. And if I ca4 tstir, you can't get the money; that' oclear, you know. di Besides, time p)rosse; and if it be W done at all, it m~ust *ao done quickly, Pl as the ho,usohold will shtortly be back 'from Heioel," The rtifflan relaxed his grip sand fin- ft niUy loeiio hlhdld. heor reaseus were hi *Iboogent h~~Mis etpidity, p1 Coid i;"quick!I quick!- dt ~bdeiay. Wb 30016y is in mnaster's w bEtIrqom/ n SIz&Avippd nsteIrs, gally as a lrk; tI .hnefoi ed ~lot .yt ie heels. 8S w led.4mthe I ina hm aster's bedroon), ti and pdilnLe4, 0 i.lh,ffer,din whioh-im hi 5nonOY waai at d.' - Her,"sh) ai ' a~soJp b$ hi; will wrench it open at once; and ile yon are tying it up, I shall just t 1p upttairs to my own, apartment, d get.a 16w things ready for our ,ht, as well as my own little savings a the last five years." lhe ruffian was thrown off his guard her openness and apparent anxiety accompany him. Like all egotists, deceived himself, when self-deceit s most certaIn to be his destruction. -Go lass," was all he said; "but be t long. This job will be done in a inkling." She disappeared at the words. Ho ~ mediately broke open the chest, and LA soon engaged in rummaging its utents. As he was thus employed, however, sorbed in the contemplation of his sy, and eagerly occupied in securin on his person, the brave-hearted giri lo down the stairs on tip-too. Creep g softly aloe ; tha passages, she oedily gained the door of the cham r unseen by him, and likewise un ard. It was but the work of a mo :nt for her to turn the key in the Lids and look him in. This done, a rushed forth to the outer door of 3 mill and save the alarm... "Fly! fly!' she shrieked to the child, r master's little boy, an infant five nrs old, the only one within sight or ind of her. "Fly! ily to father! fly your life! Tell him we shall all be rdered an he haste not back! Fly! The child, who was at play before 3 door, at once obeyed the energetic tnumand of the brave girl, and sped fast as his tiny logs could carry him tho road by which lie know his par ts would return from church. Ilant on cheered him onward, and iuspir his little heart as he ran. "Biess theo. boy! bless thee!" she claimed, in the gladness of her I art; "an master arrives in time, I I 11 offer up a taper on the altar of ] r blessed Lady of the Kroutzberg, ! Bonn." ' She sat down on the stone bench by ] mill door to ease her over-excited F irits; and she wept, as she sat., at 1 o thoughts of her happy deliver co. "Thank God!" she ejaculated, hank God for this escape. Oh! the adlly villain! and I .so fonid of him o!" A shrill whistle from the grated win w of the Chamber in which she .ad ut the ruflian Heinrich. caught her r, and made her start at, once to her "Diether! iethcr!" she heard him out, "catch the child, and come ther! 1 am fast. Come hither! ring the boy hero, and kill the girl!" She glanced hastily up at the case ent from which the imprisoned vil in's head beckoned to soruo one in o distance, and then looked anxious after her infant emissary. 'I'he little essenger held on his way unharmed, >wevor; and she thought to herself at the alarm was a false one, raised excite her fears, and overcome her solution. Just, however, as the ild reached a hollow spot in the next ld-the channel of a natural drain, en dry with the heats of summer o saw another ruffian starr; un from e bed of the drain, and catchin; him his arms, hasten toward the mill, in cordance with the directions of his complieo. In a moment she per ived her danger, and in a moment ore she formed her future plan of oceeoding. Retreating into the mill, o doubly locked and bolted the door the only apparent entrance to the ifice. every other means of obvious coss to the interior being barred by sans of strong iron gratings fixed ainst all the windows; and then ok her post at an upper casement, termined to await patiently either r master's return, and her conse lent delivery from' that dangerous sition, or her own death, if it were avitable. "Never," said she to herself, "never all I leave my master's house a prey such villains, or permit his property be carried off before my eyes by em, while I have life and strength defend It." She had barely time to secure her if within, when the rufian from with .t, holding the hapless child in one nd, and a long sharp knife In the her, assailed tihe (leer with kicks, d curses, and improcations of the ost dreadful character. "Confound thee!" lie cried, apply g the foulest epithets of which the io-speaking Teutonic languages are copious; "oplen tile door, or .I'll oak it in on yel" "If you can, you may,'' was all the ble girl replied. "God is greater all you, and in him I put my trust.'' "Cut the brat's throat,!" roared the iprisonedi ruilan above; ''that wvill ing her to reason." Stout-hearted as poor H-annchion as, she quailed at this cruel sugges n. For a mlomoent her resolution avere(d; b)ut it was only for a me ent. She saw that her owna death . as certain if she admitted the assail it, andl she knew that her master ould be robbed. She had no reason hope that even tue life of the in-. nt would be sparedl by her compi aco. it was to risk all against noth g. Like a dilseroet girl, she conse iently held fast in her resolve to >ido as she was while life remained, until assistance could reach her. "An ye open not the door," shouted o villain from without, accompany g his words with the vilest abuse, id the fiercest imprecations, "i'lt tck this whelp's limbs to pieces with y knife, and then burn thle mill over mur head. 'Twill be a mlerry blaze, I ow." "I put my trust in God," replied the iuntloss girl; "never shall ye set foot ithin thneo walls wvhilst I have life to 'ovent ye." Tile rufman laid the Infant for a mo ent on the award as he sought about r combustibles Wherewith to execute s latter threat. la this search he es ed, perhaps, the only possible clan atine entrance to the building. It its alarge, aperture fai the wall, com unlagtNg'wfth the great wheeol and e othot' tuon er of - $q mill, and es a-poiut *eli, un efected, for< e reaso#a tha.t lrpeooouy~ants idne a e t ut.t fo. tu y overy, the rufli:tn ret trwd to the in. ant, and, tying t:te i aid s and feet of ho little intiocent, threw it onl the rouud even as a butcher will liing a amb destined for the sl:ugh ter, to wait his time for slaying. lie then tole back to the aperture, by which e hoped to effect an entrance. All his was unseen by tho dautitlgss girl vithin. In the moantine her mind was bus 3d with a thousand cogitations. She learly perceived tbat no means would e left untriod to etfoet an entrance, nd she know that on the excluiotn of or foe depended her own existence. I thought struck her. "It is Sunday," she said to herself; 'tho""mill never works on the Sabbath; upposo Iset it agoing now? It can be een afar off; and haply my master, or omo of his neighbors, wondering at he sight, may hasten hither to know he cause. A lucky thought, she ox laimed; "tis God sent it to incl" No sooner said than done. Being all for life accustomed to mill-gear, it was mt the work of a moment for her to et the machinery in motion. A brisk roe. o which sprang up, as it were by tspeJial interposition of Providence, tt once set the sails flying. The arms if the hugo engine whirled round with earful rapidity; the great vlie'! .0 y revolved on its axle; the smaller oar turned, and creaked, and groan d, according as they came into ac4on; he mill was in full operation. It was at that very instant that the uflian Diether had succ-edod in queezing himself through the aport iro in the wall, and getting safely odgod im the interior of the great lrum-wheel. His distay, however, vas indescribable when ho began to be whirled about with its rotation, and ound that all his efforts to put a stop o the powerful machinery which set it n motion, or to extricate himself from is perilous situa:ionl, wtce trutitles. lis cries were most appaliintg; his irieks were truly fearfui; his curses md imprecations wero horrible to hear. Itannchan hastened to the spot, amd aw him caught, like the reptile as lie vas, in his own trap. 1. need not be dded that she did not liberate him. the know that he would be moro rightened than hurt, if he I:ept within 1is rotatory prison; an.l Ahu knew, :l to, that unless lie attempted to esc:ge, .here was no danger of his fallii out )f it, even thourh he wer insetsible tnd in;atitmato all the while. In thu ueantime, the wheel went rou:nd ai1 ound with its steady, unceasing mo .ion; and round and round went the ruflian along with it, steadily and un ceasingly, too. Ii vain did lie promise the stout-hearted girl to work her no harm; in vain dti he implore her pity :n his hapless condlitiot ; in vain did he pray to all the power, of heaven, and adjure all the powers of darknmcss to his aid. 6Ie would not hear nur coed him; ad. t:uhear.l amnsi unhieeded iUf teem likewise, muttering curses, he was whirled round and round in the untiring wheei, until at last feeling and perception failed him, and lio saw and heard no more. Ile fell sense loss on the bottom of the engine, but aven thou his inanimiate body contin ued to be whirled round, and round, tnd round, as before; tho brave girl not daring to trust to appearances in aonnection with such a vilain, and be ing, therefore, afraid to suspend the working of the machinery, or stop the mill-gear and tackle from running at their fullest speed. A loud knocking at the door was ahortly after heard, and she hastened thither. It was her master and his family, accompaniied by several of their neighibors. The uni1accustomued ippearanco of the mill-sails in full uiwing on the Sun iday, had, as sho an ticipatedl, attractedi their attention, [mnd they hiad hastened hom1e1 from Dlhurch for the purpose05 of ascertaining the cause of the phienomienoin. T1ho~ rather bore his little boy ini his arms; Lie had cut the cords whieowithi the 3hild was tied, but waIs unalLble to ob tain any accounit of the extraordinary aircum,stances that had occurred from the affrigh ted innocent. Hlannchon, in a few words, told all; mnd then the spirit which hind sustain rid her so long andl so wvell whlilo the amorgecy lasted, forsook her at once is it passed away. She fell senseless nto the arms of the miller's oldest son, 11d( was with great diflicuilty recov 3red. The machinery of the mill was at moo stolpped, and tho inaimiato ruif innt dlraggeOd forth from the great ,vheel. The othier rulan wias brought hewn from his prison. BothI were lien bound, anId sent oil' to Bonn uni her a strong escort; and, in due course, ~amo tunder the hand1s of the execui .io nr. It wvas not lonig till Ifaun tchien be amei ai bride. The bridegroom was lie miller's soni, whlo hind loved her onig andi wvell, but wvithi a passion pre-. nously uniirequited. 'They l ivedl thece orward happily together for maniy rears, and (lied at a good 01(d ago, suir oilndedi by at ilourishiing family. To lie last hour of lier life, this brave ieirtedi womn wiould( shiuddor as she old 'the tale of her dainger, anid her I eli vera ncc. Whact the Sinir Tolls. Pi"ictor conisiders it a mistake to re CardI the new star in thle Andromeda mebula 'is supporting the nebular by >othosis of La:place, as that colebrated ~ucss at world-origins calls onliy for hianges in niebutlous matter so) slow as o be iminpeceptible. The real tru th aught b)y the suddenct bar.u'g forth of his star is that lhe And romneia nebu a is not, as many a strotinmec: sup >Oso, a vast galaxy of brilliat s:n n listant as not to ho resol.vabio by the nest p)owerfuml tnlescopes, but thazt it is simply a star-cloud forming a part of >ur own galaxy or tuiverse. Anid what s true of tie Aindromneda nuebula is >robably so of others, so that it maiy )O conecledI thatt none of thio niebl)or >r star-clouds1 are external to our own ~alaxy, aund that the other galaxies of which so much has been written (10 not xlst. Among the Sioux Iindianis it is tho uatomi that whent a borrowed kettle is eturned some of the food that haa meen cooked in it be loft. In the bottom. L'fose who diaregard the custom can tever borrow again. A STIKI IN AI CIENT DAYS. A How Egyptian Workmt woe Driven to Revolt. T When strikes are so common in Eu- T rope and America, it will be interest- no ing to consider how the ancient Egyp- e tians managed such a crisis in the con labor question. It was supposed that con strikes were an original outcome to try or our modern civilization; but the do- Fo ciphering of a papyrus in the Museum and of Turin shows how the old >roverb sak that there is nothing now une r the vak sun applies to strikes as well -as to vort many other things. This papyrus, th which is a sort of journal or day-book the of the superintendent of the Thebes te neeropolis, furnishes curious details of cou a wor kmen's riot or disturbance in col Thebes, in the twenty-ninth year of a he King Ramsos, who is supposed to be ma Ramses III. The workmen's quarter POs sent a deputation on the 28th of De- os cember, to HIatnekin, the keeper of still books, and to several priests of the necropolis. The speaker of the depu- ti tation spoke as follows: me "Behold, we are face to faco with be famine. We have neither nourishment, to nor oil, nor vestments. We have no a d fish; we have no vegetables. We have anot t already sent a petition to our sover- see eign lord the Pharaoh, praying him to give us those things, and we. now ad- 'xi dress the governor, in order that he the may give us wherewithal to live." me These facts took place on the 27th ruo of December (first day of the month of rid Tybi). The general distribution of as wheat was then evidently due to the Der workmen, but why it did not take t e place is not known. Perhaps the indi- An vidual who should have distributed the dot food was absent. Whatever was the tbe cause of the delay, the need was ur- be gent, and Hatnkin, with the priests is 1 present, either touched with compas- br sion, or to prevent the affair froi reaching the cars of the governor of exc the necropolis, accorded one day's ra- eO u tions. How the workmen lived in the fo days following is not recorded in the ie me papyrus; but somo weeks afterwards me they were in fuil revolt. Three times ne they forcibly emerged from their quar- ie tors, notwithstanding the walls which surrounded them and the gates which ". closed them in. "We Vwill not return" chi cried a jneftu to the police sent in pur- tin suit of them. "Go tell your chief what on( we tell you; it is famine which speaks pu by our mouths." To argue with them wh was useless. * "There was great agita- me tion," writes the superintendent in his day-book; "I gave them the strangest Un answer I could imagine, but t7eir al] words were true and came from their 0 t hearts." be They were quieted by a distribution a of half-rations, but ten days later they 1s were up again. cel Khons, the leader of the band, press- pt ctl his coinpanicus to provi(lo for thei)- t sc:ve". ''Let us fali," said ho, "upon up the stores of provisions and let the da governor's mntwn go and tell him what An we have done." This counsel was ioi- aw lowed as soon as given. They entered th forcibly into the enclosure, but not into the fortress where the provisions were kept. 'I ho keepers of the stores.Amen. Nextu, gave theni something, and con- yo trived to induce them to return to their ha quarter. bo Eleven days later the movement be- for gan again. The coninandor of Thebes, if passing by, found the men seated on Sh the ground behind the temple of Seti, of at the northern end of tihe necropolis. e Innediately they began to cry: "Fam- go ine! laminel" The eomminander then ter gave them an order for fifty measures his of wheat in the name of Pharaoh,'"who pro has sworn," said he. "an oath that tie[ you wvill have food again.'' Most like- bin ly Pharaoh never heard of the event not and1( never received the petition ad dressed to him a couple of months pre-. but vioushy.-Thte Pilot, out A L~ucky I'rospector. A Catrson, Nevada, correspondent sue writes to the Sacramento Bcc as fol- tha lows: Last winter' and spring there alt. resided in Carson a p)rosp)ector named to T. J. Bradley. When he came here of he had some money, and lie spent it the lavishly, lie owned a mine near Hlaw- roi< thorne, Esmoeralda county, and wvhen ladl his money was gone lhe wvent out to do for his annual assessment wvork. ieo gave hot to Messrs. Knapp & Laws and John lati Forbes, of Hawthorne, 500 feet of the 1,500 feet which constituted the mine, the for a "grub stake." In a short timoer C he uneoveredl a very rich lodge. Last us5 'Ttusday H-. M. Ycrington, superin- vii tendent of thle Virginia and Truekee Tn: and( Carsoni and Colorado. visitedl [hoi An mine, and gave himtu $10,000 for 500 am feet, and the next day Archie Faring.. cvi: toni, the principal ow ner of the rich any andu prioduictive mines of Garfield, gave tic him $25,000 for the romaining 500 feet. is Several explerts haveu visited the prop- teri crty, and they all p hronounceo it the of richest gold discovery ever made in pir:' Nevada. lii" An old resident of Esmeralda county lot tells me that in a little more than six the years Bradley has sold mines in that tioi county for various sums ao'grogating dlr $95,000. lie is reslly one of'the lucki.. pas est prospectors in the world. All that all lie has to (do, apparently, when lie gets ber broke is to go out into the hills and . strike a mine - that brings hira from $2,000 to $35,000. According to his informant, lie differs somewhat from the genorai run of p)rospectors, in that to' lhe p)osseses a little bit of frugality. It ' is said that whenever lie sells a mine lhe sends thio bulk of his money to his mother in ireland, holdhing out a thous and( or so for a big time with the boys. thn lie paints everything in sight redl until his purse is empty, and then lhe ruins in pet debtt for as mutch more as lie pleases. am11 ', lhen lie tiduiks it is time to brace ill pr' he( shoullders huis p)rospeeting tools and starts out in tiuo mountains, and noth- 0pl ing more Is heard of him until lie bas a valuable min a. wa ---- ~----------Inta The Battenboerg family, which is making rather a stir In Europe juistW now, is descended from one Ilauck, a man of smalh education, who was na edhitor of a newsp aper in Warsaw str sixty years ago. Pri nce Alexander of ou1 IHesso married the granddaughter of scl this man, and the result of this union was the nowv faum us "Alexander the tlim Greater," Prince of both Bulgaris; of another son who married the Princess SIt. Beatrice of Eng~land, and a third who lar ise son-In-law of tho D)uke of Hanso. An n A ericalan Prophecy on hn Kltand's Piittire, he American (Philadelphia) writes: he annextion of Ireland by the it profligate oxerciso of base intlu 3s, and the conquest of India by the rd, may have seemed the means to solidate and strungtlien the coun They have proved the reverse. India's sake I he, English have ged into one unju:t war in Egypt another in the Soudan. For India's ) they have been- trembling on the re of a war with the great empire o Slavs and Tartars. For India's r have been obliged to abdicate r just position. in Europe, and to tt as a cipher in the politics of the Linent, where, 70 years ago, they I the first place. And into how iy more porplexiil.s their Indian 3essions will carry themn, it is im 3ible to foresee. In the caso of and the Nemesis for t he past sins is moro visinle. The Union intro ed into the Imperial Parliament 105 ubors, who are and always have a an alien aid a disturbing element :e. These men could not do justico heir constituencies without making sturbance in London. They cai better their constituencies than by ng to it that the disturbanco is as nsive and as offensive as possible. Irish people have no interest in maintenance of the Houso of Con ss; their one hope is to be forever of all connection with it. So long hey are forced to send their mem s to London, instead of meeting in Alin, they are well content to have so members regarded as a nuisance. .1 in the last five years this has been ie so effectually that the English are inning to see that the Treaty of the ion was a giantic mistake. Ireland iko the Scotch fairy, who cannot be ught into the I-louse cxcopt by the rciso of sheer force, ant who, when : in it, will shake it to its very udations before she is done. A use of Commons with 103 Irish mnbers, mostly followers of Mr. Par 1, is beginning to be seen to be at )ossibility il practical polhtics. nce the frank suggestion of som lish Tories that Ireland be disfriii sed. That wou!d be one way of get r rid of the difliculty, but it is not i that England dares take. It would an end to the Treaty of Union ich expressly stipalates for the 105 mbers. The other way out of the iculty is a fr:uk Repeat of the ion. If that be doue without any )eal to arms on the Irish side, the ct on the temper of the people will most beneficial. It is to be done as oncession to threats when England in some great peril, like that of a itury ago, then England will have a inaent, and dan':tious ci eriy. I f ie 1olie a5 the ou i of an' Irish rising when Eigland is inl peril, the iger will be still More imediate. d before this generation has passed ay, it wiil be done after some of so fashions. Charm of'A meicaii Women. L'he frankness of the American ing women, writes Archibald Forbes, in it, on the threshold, a certain vildorment and even embarrassment the British male person, especially ius collars be too stillly starched. 1 has so utter an apparent absence self-consciousness: her mental i)oiso is so serenely stable; her d-fellowship, if one may use the u, is so natural, that he cannot see way easily to the solution of tho blom. I assume him to b a gen. nan, so that his intuition deters from a misconception of the phe nonua that confront him. he flirts; sihe is adept in flirtation, it is a flirtation "fronm the teeth wvards,"' to use Cariylo's pihrase, lieo is fain to own to himself, like fox-hunting farmer we tried un.. cessfully to get drunk oun the claret, t he seems to "get,no forader."' But tough the citadel of the fort, sents tim strangely imnpre nab)le, because the cool, a!ert, selL-p)ossessioni of garrison, I have been toldt by he Spersonus who venttured in thte esca e that if the beleaguer be him whom Lune favors, it will terminate ani orablo siege by a graccful capitu onl. fumain nature is humnan nature all wvorld over, and thtere is noe great irtror than the prtov'alenit, onte amuong that domesticity is not a leading ,ue of American married couplle2. it there is too m uchi of hotel l ifo far erican faiilies I concedle, an d 1 hully conscious of theo faults and .s of the sy'stei, hut that it entails inupairmoent of the higher (domtes virtues I have failied to tIiiscOGver. It ot easy to see how at woman is de..I oratedt as a complanion anid friend n an-as the pamrt icipatotr in hiis as mtions, his tr'oubiles, his stutdies, hiis her Ii Ie-- because her condi tioun re ies her from the dtuty of dlevisin.. details of a dlinnter, from tie i rrita iof dem-'v eal domtIe.' ies, fromt the dgm'' Ca c.wking thet grocer's -, and the sadi teal iz:tion that ba kers aire J iars, ando mostly 3 ro.O ) s as well. lie WVas Coivioerd. 'Johnnty, hurry uip mioii get readly to to schtool or you'll he too) late." 'I ain't goin', miothier." 'otginy! Andh why nout?" *Struuck! Whlat do you mean by 'Why, (lidni' t father re:' I in thle pa - mist niight ab ou t persons15 stikin' I said that it wasi right tot the op ssett to strike?"' 'Anid I hope you dlott't (callI yourself >ressedl, doc you?" 'Of courso I ame. I a fel ler doestt at to uo to I:chooel andl his mother kes him go, isnt't lie oppre.ssed?"' 'So you have strmuck, have you? II, I'll see if I can strike too."' Lund jus't as soon1 asM Johnniuy saw his ther reacing: tot the strap, his lirst ko caine to an1 end(, for huo darted of thle htous.e andit was down i at the ool in a twinkling. t is saiilid n rectale anuthtori ty t mote tiout half a milflei louis willow leaf were shipped fronm mnghai Iast year as greenm tean-a ;c. proptortiont of it comiingv to nAlf Health Hints. For canker sore throat one tabh spoon full of borax in half a pint ( water, used as a wash, will be fount serviceable. The foundations of throo fourths ( all classes of consumption is laid be fore the ages of twenty-live years; i women, during their toons. Do '.ot allow yourself to becom bent over. It lessons your breathinl capacity and chance of long life Walking with the hands behind on will help to correct the evil. For chillblains tho following is r< commended: Two tablespoonfuls < limo water mixed with enough swer oil to make as thick as lard. Rub th chillblains with the mixture and wra up in linen. Wash for removing dandruff: Tak of borax one drachm, rose water on half pint, tincture of cantharidos ont half drachm, cologne water one-ha pint. Mix and apply night and mot niug. - 'hil<dcphia Call. Have the children's teeth examine by a good dentist twice a year, an repaired if they need it. Possibly tooth that is meant to last a lifetime rapidly becoming worthless just for ti need of a little attention now. Bu don't give children sloppy food; the should use their teeth, or they will d< cay. -Boston Budget. The more clothing a man wears, th more bed covering ho uses, the close he keeps his chamber, wvhethor wvar or cold, the more he confines himso: to the house, the more numerous an warm his night garments, the mot readily will ho take cold, under a: circuistances, as the more a thriftlcs youth is helped the less able does h become to help himself. Many persons seriously damage thei eyes by forcibly rubbing them whe drowsy, especially when awakening i1 the morning. ' strengthen the eye is to reieve them when swollen or cor gested, and to remu, e chronic intlaim mation in the eyes, prurient discharges etc., nothinj is equal to bathing thei frequently with water, at fir t tepid but afterward lowering in teinperatur to absolute coldness. Scientilic investigators have foun that the power of the bacillus of col sumlption is destroyed when other bac teria are grown in the same soil. I( cognizing this fact, the new and rt markable idea has occurred to 1i Cantnmi, of Naples, of lighting bacil with other bacilli. If one of the orgar of the body be attacked by a bacillu which is dangerous to human life, it introduces a bacillus which is not in jurious to man, but ings destructio to the dangerous i^eillts. In the cas of a consuinlptiVe paticiit the doctor i1 troduced a harml es organism know as the bacteritn terno, and found th the bacillus tuberculosis gradually di appeared from the patienlt's expect rations. A description of ti:o proct lure is given in the CeAntralb!autfur d ,lcdieiascht,l I Visscnschaften. Cold vater bathiig may prove ben ficial or in.jurious. Aluclh depends upo the Method :aid still moro upon tit person who pr:cties it. A rece writer in the English iMedical Journ lays do"wn the proeciple thatt there :a those wlot a cold bat h will injure ii stead of inivigorate. Th'Ie read ie.,Lt te: of benclit is the glow of free surfac circulation, or, at least, the al:sence < any decided chill after inimersior Those who take to it should begin i sumner, not winter, and so becomn gralually accustonied to its lowe. einpeiaturc. No one shouhI liego over it. iliree 0or four maintutes are aitt p)le. After iimmeirsion the body shout be qulie. Iy anld wvel rled andI rubbeb dumb31-hel 0r (lub eeci.: nuay occtu p~y the neix, t:mv ininnitry, the (lothlin being~~ i:t ly on if theo weat her be col tu.i ireakfaist 'r ai cup of warm tea u co(i shjouihl .Se>ry I OIIOW to p)roveU A Vathualeh Mogo lIn India thin it133on;oos is the gre: ally of the native in his const-mt stril with the sniakes. Of the mon3goos there is a ial e,s sulicienithy famiinsr. dou.bt, ande yet apt in it; alppliQa!i3 just, here. .in ani Amianti railwa carriage there 0oneu31 nouneOe a qii genitlemiani, vivin.v hetween .3 feeti basket, of peciarhI .shape. An imp0i tive stru'er a Io hi:n '.:: th wha3:t is a mao u 0 : ' the -r:u3 qui3 d:. "A man..-o) 0 , ,:3 n3333: replied p i ly "i ; ,n I in3i ht 3)>3 I' mt a3 mon' -o',3'3 o co l.u . to 1 hinu tv '.. '3 11tt!3 too) fn o f 3 an .t )3 wh3ik 1 am3 tain t: a 3n3n 'Oo :o himi 1I stran ger b11:.3 a 33>m--n!. m133 I he le i ni: "' at 133? :r, not330 re:3 sint10s your3 : 0ru enhi-Lawse! know it," rim I in g i o itnc muan, ".1in i 3 o: a reaf mon goose!'"- :1 <n||o In an ar1ti ce on3 the g''ains of author: wichi ha:s rectly1 beeiin rpriinted in ninhiler of new;spapthers, surp is is, 3e pressed~ tha. ick,n shouh(333i not havt' heft a1 larger Iortne133 tha n 18)J, 000. have ain impihression1 that I.)aeus' tol: proert~ly 3 amot)ed ItI 13ear 1ly .L100, t.g but of thatui a conisiderai eopor31')tioJ mu33st ha:vte come3 from3 (ii the (roits of rea1ding. Tnerce iO 13o dtoui>it that l):el 3313s 333uole s(omo3 vetry had oargai ns wit pulbli8herIs in his ear(:31)ly ays, amd knoiw that h iis fiend3( T1ul1urd onc03(e (3a ciulated that during a period0 of liv yeats 133 oughlt to hlave) been33130 recivin ? l0,000) a year for his works; biut on3 (:annot30 form an 33e stin333tta of his tot. "gins"5' from liter3atur3e by the amIiounI of his5 p)ossessions. when3 he3 died. must5 be3 remembi13:eed 11h.31 D)Oie.ena3 him self iiide oveiy shiing3y wiich hie evo. p)osse35sed, and33 hie not) only lived inI 3 vuery liberal style for tIrety years, keep ing upl a considerable esta(bhishment andit len travelintg without much re. gardmi to cost, but heo also brought, up large an.id Ctw)ijv&i f3l'ny.-OL~od ~1'i'id4 It was only a dughp'd T 'honuagust!r tr tu w hite were its handt; It wanted to stay, butt Only n dude, with its Otlrie And it choked on the .knob. as It south; -. Palo was its forehead and slim e They woro made from a gtrtor aunts. Only a dude, in the height of Itsp#, a And it tripped on a hair, and it foll Ied; We searuhod In its pockets for ipne It bad no morO money than t p had brain. It was only a dude, and they laid i aw .'. Rtobed in a tapo-line. it's sleeping Only a d(utle, and it sleeps In the And wil lest till old (arfelsoreol!' Precocious boy (munching the r ' ? of the date-tree): "Mamma, if 1. $ y dates enou!,h will I grow up tO almanacP"' He Wished to impress" a feen neatness upon his olive branches,.an pointing to the surf, observed to them: "You wili perceivo that OvOI the SO Is tiley. "-- IJOston (azette. Ilow much pleasantor this world wou b( to live in were it as easy to go to bed :t night as it is to rensain s there in the m1orning, and as eaey t( get up in the morning as it is to tal1 0 of getting up when you go to bed! The wifo of a politician, who has eye for the main chance, keeps a sot book of ;fif the uncomplimentary th printed about her husband, whic r is to index for ready reference In sons of domestic unpleasantness. f At Dinuor.-Hloratio (thought have proposed to Miss Luoy)--"D 0 you like ginger ale, Miss Lucy?" 1 Miss Lucy-"No, I don't like any . thing that pops. except champagne." ? Aui present (in chorus)-"We thought ao. r A poet writes: "I send you my ? poem, but I fear I made a mistake in not writing a refrain to it." Never s mind, we shall do the refraining for you. The way in which we shall re frain from printing it will finish ti;e poem beautifully.-N. 1. Tribune. A Instead of the old-fashioned "Yes, m''am," and "No, ma'am," which have been discarded by modern l\ adiamoI Etiquet, fashionable children are tallllht to say, "Yes, mamma," "No, papa," "Yes, Mrs. Smith." In the revolving of fashion probably the antique "Yes, forsooth," wlll be th_e ' .next, sub'tittlte. A grocer's boy Complained to his i employer that hie was worked too hard s and did not. get sufficient rest. "I s know, Johnny,'' admitted the grocer, o "that you are kept pretty busy most - of the time, but 1 li see what can be n, done. l'erhaps when cold weather sots e inl I'll lot. you draw mI asses 01100 in a i- while.''--;ostun Journal. 11 Why She Wept.--"I see by a cable t dispatch," said a fashiona1)10 up-towtl lady, very much distressed, ''that the eldest sont of Lord Knowgood is (lead.' 'Who is Lord Knowggood," asked the '% fashionable lady's lusbard. "I only know that he is ai member of the .English aristocracy," she re n plied, wiping away the tears. e Loss of Apj!.tito.-"You look sick. t IVi at's the niattor with you anyhow?" 1 said Gus du Smith on meeting Gil C hooly. "My stomach is in an awful fix. I've lost my appetite for whisky L can't drink a (rop." "Lost your ap. u petite for whisky, have you? Well, I I pity tho poor devil who finds it, unless - ho has credit at thel saloons."--Tcxas 1 'injlugr s. "My dear, look down below," said Grandiose, as he stood on Waterloo Bridge, wvith hlis wife, and gazed at a panltotg tug hlauling a long line- of b)argos, '"such is life-the tug is like a 1r1man, wvorkimg and toiling, while the barges, like women, are - "' "I know,'' inlterrupted Mrs. G., acridly, "the tug (does alil the blowing, and the barges bear all the burden." tThe only stockholdoer that over got a dlividenId out of the old Farmigo (Con n.) Canal 1has just diedTh p)residetnt ~4d him there was no did. (dond, and .~' >rosipect of any dividend, tand jeslingly told1 him to go home and (o mow tile towp)athl for a dividend. Mr. i Munson diid so, taking a 20 per cent. 0 (dovdend inl ha:y from the eight miles II of towpath, and wvent on doing this v with perfect complacency thlereaftter. t N. Y'. Sun. Li Queer P'ets-"Clementina, wat in dcr -. world 30' got -'em1 flies caged for? LI"'elght yO' declar'd ye' wasn't goin' ter keep noe more pets whlen ye' knary bud1(1( died, uri is it somc ob)(1 dechild'en's wor()1k?" '"Lan' a me, pap, (loin hain't pets! D)at's a fly trap wet ye' ketch 1 fles w'i, dean yo' know; w'at Ligo bought dis sumnmah. WVa'al, I won' er yo' hainl't seen decm 'fore now." IIarpecr's Bazar. "Isn't 'Collar-Button' rathler an odd nickname to give your boy?" asked a gentleman of ai friend who had just adldrelssed his son by that iec "WVell, I dion't know," rcpIhed. tl) father, laughlingly. '"It may soulnd Ilittle curious, but it suits the boy firs t rate.' "W~Xhy (10 y'ou tiniIk thle nickname 'Collar-Button' suits the boy?" "Blecause," was the reply, "when he slips out in the evening I am never ab)lo to find hliml.--Philadelphia C'all. A gentlemnan having playfully severed ,a lock of hair from the head of ayoun~g a~ ladly to whom 110 waIs attached, al -though ho had madeono formal doolara e lion, receivedl next day from her a I letter urgently requesting, the restora .1 .lion of the stolen lock. To this he we I, pliedl as follows: ri Uy otne only r(ecom(pens8o can I be lod ~ will, t hIs beautitl ringlet to part; s If f halvo~ 1o restore you (lie lockeof your'lea - - You mtust gIvo mo tho key or your heart - Tho lady immeilcdiately replied w ho forces locks eannot require a kg - Mammia is out to-day from 12to, Working up Trade.-~FisE (to Brown, a gro'cery deale ).4 Brown, I'm after the postofl4 e want you to sign this petitio, ,Brown (signing it)--0~ wvant groceries you know .h. thom11, of course. First Citizen-"You man." Second Cititon-M& . after the postolillee, gti ud1 sign this petition." '~ .kga want anything lrwn aging r& knwohre toos e g jSecond Cito--.