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upon*
tip* end eyes,
the Wrsr'i sighs,
so long ego ?
i city etreets
ego?
i with feoee meek,
i ego ?
log tele
friol,
thet work'd
I brother's hart;
where are plots end sneers,
} men's hopes, the rich men's fears
Thet lived so long ego ?
the gold cross.
Vfu'J.ou nan hardly oonsider it a gift,
and 1 8ha11 8plit ifc ^ two,
half for myself."
_ G*orge Wayland looked straight into
Carroll's brown eyes as he
?poke, and saw the sndden glow of love
on them, as they met for a second his
th,en hid under their
blue vexled, silken fringed lids.
I shall prize it highly, George, and
!5?mrthe ,Mt that yon wear
? half while I wear the other."
But will yon wear it always, under
all circumstances?"
*' Always, under all circumstances "
??? repeated merrily.
?He neatly severed the narrow, thin
^ faat?ned one section to his
watch chain and the other to the piece
n"??iw velvet Maggie had brought,
white-throat "" h" "?<md her
**I like it better than a ring, George, "
L ^7 J '* " b??anse every one
ifthWt h^lT^ ^
\r" j1 wouldn't like every soul in
Meadowside to know I had won you,
my shy, brown-eved darling. I am
on*7 too proud and too happy."
Jf^gie interrupted him, playfully?
^Jl?, *ady, who considers me a bold
q^"an'a foolish
wadow passed over Mamie's
{?J6' an<| instinctively she clung fo her
iuver s arm.
WOh George! I am actually afraid
? u? rJ 0nly ^ he
m W Td be sorry yet that I refused
3 ? "? moro#e and sullen sinoe
She blushed a little, and George mag
nidmouslv helped her through.
'Since I asked and was not refused
?nose sweet lips. Never mind Ned
?rfe. Naturally he feels jealous. 1
" ?jaeif, Under reversed circum
?a. But all this has nothing to do
our promise to wear the little gold
Fhtle we are separated for these
j months that are so dose at hand.
Bttt, maggie. my little girl, if ever the
TV*6. *h?nM oome?mind, I have no
idea that it will?but if it should come,
that you want to be released from me,
all fou ve to do is to send your half of
the cross lo me. It will be the mute
token of my misery."
Maggie smiled up in his faoe
cheerfully.
44 If all the misery you ever antici
pate <?me? by means of this little mes
ae?fer, and she hid her hsnd lightly
on *Ve glittering trinket, " rest assured
youll have little of ifc. But, 8ir Knight,
thPPr8 yOU WhAry ot mj oolors?what
He folded her tightly in his arms and
Kissed her.
7 As if I oould ever ohange ?"
V two, in that blissful, painful
I iUJAt- -eeetfted ages to them, re
iheir vows. The old, old story
_r new.
cheerful rays of the astral lamp
round, crimson -covered table
d over Maggie Carroll's white
?, and flashed like a spark of
Sliver on her tiny thimble and
"4 needle, as her hands flew
<m her work.
?ad cleared away the tea dishes,
r parents had gone to a friend's.
Bessie lay sleeping on the
with the liffht shaded from her
" Maggie, with a garment she
one of her bridal out
I happily, dosfly down
_ ? thinking with
?tob she tstof George Way land,
Ljjbs sway eut in Omaha, where
i gain a good many hundred
the machinery in a
Uiat would start them
rsverie was dissi
dent rap on the sit
followed, before she
KSafctSai
ana open lt^ by hob
I've
He drew his chair away from the
fire, and near the table where Maggie
g&fc.
" Wei?, Ned, here I am for you to
see."
She was determined not to allow her
annoyanoes to escape her, so she as
sumed from the first a friendly, olieery
tone. And it mollified Ned as she in
tended it should.
" I was a little rough on the old folks,
Maggie; but the truth is, sinoe?sinoe?
you and that Wayland fellow have boen
srrch friends, I see precious little of you
anyway."
Maggie could have bitten her tongue
to have prevented the blush she felt
surging over her face.
"I would naturally see more of my
betrothed husband than merely a
friend. Ned, please hand me the scis
sors."
She did not lift her eyes, but slipped
her thread silently, and went on sew
ing, while Ned toyed with the scissors
moodily. Finally, almost abruptly, ho
spoke:
" I'll get out and leave you in peace,
Maggie, if you'll give me one of your
curls to remember you by."
Maggie smiled indulgently, secretly
thankful at such a cheap release.
"Ton may have any curl you want,
Ned, and weioome. Only, you must
not take it as a pledge of banishment,
Ned." And now Maggie laid down her
sewing, and looked into his moody half
scorned face. " I wish for your sake
it had been as you so desire. But as it
is not, as I am so content, let it all be
forgotten. Which curl will you have ?"
She leaned her head toward him ooquet
tishly; and he awkwardly, tremblingly,
cut one off close to her neck; so close,
the oold steel made her start.
The moment he had severed it, he
threw down the scissors, thrust the
curl in his pocket in a wad, and arose
from his chair.
"I said I'd go. Good by, Maggie."
Almost before Maggie oould reoover
from her surprise at his wild, abrupt
way. he was off, his footsteps ringing
loud on the frozen ground.
His eyes were brighter than usual,
and his faoe fairly worked with exulta
tion as he drew the tangled blaok curl
from his pocket, and with It a band of
blaok velvet, to whioh a tiny, plain gold
cross was attached.
Little did my lady know I out the
velvet with the curl, and only begged
the hair that I might secure the cro&s.
Little did the lovers?curse 'em?know
I overheard their sugar-oandy romance
about the token of the cross B*t ff
George Wayland don't get this baok be
fore rm a week older, itH be strange.
Trust either of them for an explana
! tion ; they're too plaguey proud.
And Maggie went on with her eewing
for another hour in blissful unconsci
ousness of the loss of her treasure.
Afterward she and Bessie had a gamo
of romps befere Bessie finally went to
bed ; and still later, at half-past nine,
she and her brother Ben went down to
the last mail to see if there was a letter
from George.
It was not until she bad retired to her
own room, and stood before her dres
sing bureau to arrange her hair for the
night, that she missed it, and then she
missed it at the very first glanoe in the
glass.
It was down stairs, oi oourse, on the
floor, where it had fallen when she and
Bessie had their game of fun ; or, O!
suppose she had lost it on the street on
the way to the post-offloo! It was very
probable, very, and when she had orept
softly down stairs, lamp in hand, and
thoroughly searched the sitting-room
in vain, sne knew it was really lost in
the street. What would George say of
her carelessness ? How oould the vel
vet have oome untied? and with a little
fit of crying over her loss, Maggie went
to bed and dreamed of wading ankle
deep through gold orosses.
George Wayland, on his way home
from a hard day's work, stopped in the
post-offloe in the far off Western city for
the long delayed letter from Maggie
Carroll. It had been a fortnight now,
sinoe he had reoeived the last, and a
worried sort of feeling took possession
of him at the delay.
Was Maggie ill ? away from home?
or?George hated himself for the ugly
thought that more than onoe flitted un
bidden across his mind?Morrison's
heirship to a long disputed estate, that
Mag gie oould have changed her mind T
Yes, it was barely possible, and that
was all, George decided : and when the
mail was at last opened, and the rush
at the boxes were leseened somewhat,
and Georgo aotually saw there was one
for him, he felt it was very impossible.
But he shook with surprise and sick
fear to see Ned Morrison's hand
writing. What was the news in the
sealed envelope ?
He tore it rudely open, and, wrapped
in a tissue paper, dropped in his tremb
ling h?nd* Maggie's gold cross I
Not a word ; only this mnfcr sign -
the very token he had suggested ! How
oontemptnons the blank piece of paper
seemed to him,, and how unutterably
osocking did hie name, In Ned Morri
son's handwriting appear.
Bo, not only poanible or probable that
Kfegi" oould throw him over, but ac
tually undeniably the fact, that she had
done so. And be away out West, with
but one friend?hie companion in lat>or.
cousin Jim?and stinting to
.2?J^Xfc.'nd
OI was it any wonder he gnashed hia
tee*? in ? rage ef grief t He crrmhed
hie letter Into hie pocket and drew his
oftp down over hia syes end strode on,
rnimb from the blow, nevwr seeing.
1 * JIM Oarroll, who h*d got
lad having rendu,
to del** Messages to
" What can ail this man ?" thought
Jim, with wonder, and started after,
and stepped on some little, hard object
as he pnt his foot down. He stooped
and picked np the little golden cross.
44 George has lost it off his watch
ohaic. I suppose."
He uut it in his pocket and went on^
intending to overtake Way land ana
give him his lost trinket. But, bj dint
of fast walking, may-be, George was
out of sight. And on the morrow one
of the hands gave him a pencil note
from Way land :
44 I've a little business to attend to
further down for a week or so. Keep
things going on. Back soon as I can.
G. W."
Then, when Jim started off on his
day's work, it suddenly ooourred to him
that, as George would be away prob
ably more than a week, he would send
his cross home to Maggio for safe-keep
ing. He knocked around so among the
machinery, that it might get broken or
lost, and he knew George prised it
highly. So?the fates willed it that he
had no time to write a note?he thrust
it into an envelope lving on George's
desk, already directed to Maggie, and
sent it on its ill-omened message, all
unoonscious of the mischief he was
brewing by the act.
The long winter has passed away?
somehow or other, but Maggie Carroll
nardly knew how. It was enough for
her that she had been very wretched
and unutterably miserable sinoe a day
months past, when, without a word of
warning, she had reoeived from George
Wayland the cross he had solemnly
sworn to always wear for her sake.
Ned Morrison, too, had seemed so
delighted when he learned?how such
pitiful faets do leak out?that it waa all
over with Maggie and George, and full
of pomposity and self-importance over
his inheritance, had tormented Maggie
half crazy to aooept him.
And now, when even his dull head
had been made to know it was impos
sible, and he had transferred his atten
tions and affections to Amy Harrow, he
was to be married, and George Wayland
and Jim Carroll were ooming home on
the same night.
Now it was sundown, and in an hour
they would meet, for George was
obliged to see Maggie's father on busi
ness at the earliest moment. And so
she dressed in the self-same suit she
had worn that night George had.
TpalnfuF mem'
ory of that dear past, fastened the
cross in it* old plaoe. George Way
land should see sne had kept ner word
if he had not. She would let him know
that though carelessness lost her hers,
still she would be true to him no mat
ter how false he was to her. 4.nd so,
when her ffcther called her down from
her room, she went with slow, listless
footsteps, and wildly throbbing heart
that would not be still, to meet the
man she loved so dearly, the man who
had ceased to regard her almost as
soon as he was out of her presence.
She had heard her voioe so round
and full,and sejsweetto her hungry ears,
before the door that stood aiar. "Ned
Morrison to be married to-night to lit
tle Amy Harrows 1 Why, I thought?"
and that very moment Maggie walked
quietly in, her faoe pale as death, her
blue eyes burning like stars.
" George, I am glad to see you. How
do you do ?"
She extended his hand and looked
him frankly in the face. And why
should she not ? Ma?gie had naturally
supposed that he would have been per
fectly careless, utterly indifferent, and
here he was actually trembling like a
man with an ague.
Had he been opnscious smitten at
sight of her loyaltxflaunted so openly in
the very face ef Mb treaohery ? ?? Yes,"
Maggie was deciding, " it was the cross
that made?" and then Georgie's voioe,
thiB time low, intense, addressed her :
"Maggie, can you explain away this
siokening mystery ? I find to my utter
demonstration, that Ned is to be mar
ried, and not to you. And yet theoross
name to me in his hand-writing."
All over Maggie's faoe flamed the red
Burses. Her lost treasure found by
Ned Morrison, and sent?oh, so mali
ciously 1?to George Wayland. And
then a giddy, blinding rush of happi
ness almost ohoked her.
"O, Qeorge I I lost it somehow,some
where. I never knew. Do you think,
really, I oould kave been so?so?"
Her tears welling thick and fast, al
most ohoked her.
" But this cross, Maggie, that you
have on }"
" It oanie in a blank letter one day,
two or three weeks after I lost mine
and I supposed you wanted to get rid
of me. xou know what you said."
Wayland looked utterly thunder
stricken.
" I have mine at this moment. I
have been an true as steel. See I"
He threw back his overeoat ; there
was the tiny cross attaoh'ed to his watoh
chain.
" Oh, George I"
" Maggie, my own darling I"
I' WM utterly incomprehensible to
them, but they loved each other, and
what did they ear* f
That evening, when all the family,
with the two gnosis, were sitting .round
the fife, Jim Carroll aaked M^gie if
ahe ever reoeived the Utile cross he
sent her, and then it wee as plain aa
sunshine, although none of them ever
knew of Ned Morrieon's theft, nor in
their new bHeefnl happiness did they
eere.
. Show me the mantelpiece of a house,
?*ja * ?*e. eod I will tell yon what
manner of persona reside therein.
~Atoaa Sacrifice.
HomAB -Acrifioe vu instituted bj
the peof^^Hfcexioo daring the fonr
tee nth odv, and from being quite a
rare rite, ?the growth of their civi
lisation iaaftaaed until the activity
reached to Mfearfnl height. Their cus
tom was Wye some fine young man?
generally fl^BMmy taken in battle; and
then, for (^Binaoe of a whole year, he
was treate^Mth every respect and dig
nity; rioh ttd, flowers, and dress were
lavished awn him; four beautiful
maidens wt&t selected to be the com
panions of Iris captivity; music, feast
ing, and viiping at the abodes of the
principal Aye nobles passed his time
away. Attended by a oourtly train
upon passiiw through the streets, de
ferred to aal regaled with inoense, he
was creatotialmost with the worship
that would jfave been accorded to that
of one of tfattr gods whom for the time
being he wii supposed to personate.
But the fbar. of pleasure drew to a
close; and ^ctobtless, not being igno
rant of the-.fate in store for him, this
knowledge 4tiat often have embittered
the gayest festivals?the richest ban
quets. Devoted to the sacrifice, there
was no escape for the captive; and on
the expiration of the time he was de
nuded of alldris gay trappings, seized
upon ty the priests, and conveyed
across the^ike to an island, where,
about a league from the city, rose tow
ering up oner of those huge pyramids,
standing to &ia day as monuments of
the industry and civilization of these
people. TheK asoent to the flat top of
the pyramidal temple was by a slowly
" t of steps, oontrived so
ion during one of the
feasts might be seen
! -the city, winding up to
>riests were standing
altar?these fearfm
performed in the open
made imposing, and
the assembled thou
>us city, who watched
ritement and a feel
the Moent of the vio
was received by six
I strange-looking, with
red robes, and long,
halt. By them
block
of iaeper, slightly rounded at the ton ;
and upon tULMM uppermost, the
upon
victim
_____ ith a
knife of obsidian?a volcanio glass?
the ohief priest out open the sacrifice,
tore out his heart, held it up towards
the sun. and then threw it at the feet of
the idol to whom the temple was de
voted. This soene was awful and im
pressive, and viewed in silenoe by the '
assembled multitude, ready to throw
themselves down in adoration of their
savage deity, as this last act of horror
was performed by the priest of the
bloody rite. But not only were men
offered up, for there were instanoes of
the other sex being sometimes selected
for the abominal offerings; and at
times, when rain refused to visit the
earth, the great god Tlaloe had to be
appeased or supplioated by the offering
up of beautiful infants, whioh were
borne in festal robes in priestly proces
sions, their pitiful wailings being
drowned by the chants of those who
formed the train. The saori floes were
at times appalling in their number, at
great feasts or <|edioations of temples.
For such occasions #ie prisoners of
many petty wars would be reserved,
perhaps for years, and then broaght
from all parts to the oapital, and led in
long prooessions to the great temple.
At the dedication of the templo of
one deity, the ceremony lasted for six
days, and seventy thousand victims are
said to have perished ; and this aston
ishing computation is attested by the
most trustworthy writers.
Hydrophobia In Pennajlrania.
The Allentown (Penn.) Chronicle
nays: "A few weeks ago we notioed
the faot that Andreas Wert man's dog
had been attacked with hydrophobia
and had been killed. Two weeks sub
sequent to that occurrence, a dog be
longing to a nephew of Andreas showed
unmistakable evidenoe of hrprophobia,
and was also killed. A heifer belong
ing to Reuben Bittler showed symptoms
of hydrophobia, and soon the effeote of
the malady were so riolent that the
sufferings of the animal were pitiful to
behold. She frothed at the mouth, and
butted her head against every obstacle
within her reaoh within the enclosure
in whioh she was oonflned, and when
the paroxysms became most intense she
was thrown heels over head oomple*ely
upon her back. Her owner had her
-killed upon the same day. A cow be
longing to Mr. Donaft, rewirlina newr
Btinesrille, was attacked with hydro
phobia on Hunday, and when the fact
was settled she was promptly killed. A
cow belonging to Jeremiah Clingaman,
near the same Tillage, was bitten by a
rabid dog, and the dog was killed. A
large number of dogs hare also been
bitten and they are being killed.
A Ooot> Twiko.?Mr. Patera pro
poses to render worm fabrics non-in
flammable by using, instead of sodio
tungstate, a mixture of foar parts borax
with three parts msgaeais sulphate.
One hundred grammes of the mixture
are to be dieaolred in throe hundred
to four hundred oubio oentimetres of
water, and la this solution the fabrics
era placed until soaked, then wrong
out, dried, and ironed. Aftother mix
ture proposed for the psrpose is that of
ammonio sulphate i
Shipping Seamen.
When a sailor wants a ship, sayB a
sailor writing of snoh matters, he ap
plies not to the owner or the captain,
but to a shipping master, an agent who
undertakes to secure a crew for the ship
without trouble to the owner or captain.
It is the shipping master who engages
the seamen, selects them, pays them
their "advanoe," and holds them in
hand until the ship is ready to sail. It
is the sailor boarding-house keeper
oftenest who deals witn the shipping
master, supplies him with men, ana re
ceives the greater part of the advanoe
money. Oftenest the owner never sees
the crew on whom depends in a large
measure the safety of his ship ; and the
captain does not see them until he ocfmes
on board as the lines are caat off. Sup
pose they oome aboard drunk ; suppose
a large part of them are inoompetent,
and others of them diseased ? It is too
late then to remedy the matter; the
ship puts off to sea, and the captain,
enraged perhaps at the cheat for which
his neglect is chieflv to blame, falls to
abusing his men. 'The greatest atroci
ties have been oommitted, and, indeed,
are sometimes still perpetrated, in the
shipping of men. It is but a few months
sinoe a mechanic in Baltimore, an in
dustrious man, with a family depending
upon him, was kidnapped, put on board
a vessel which instantly sailed, and only
returned, after serious suffering and
long detention, to find his family in
want and himself mourned as dead.
Our author mentions another case of
the same kind which came under his
own observation. When freights are
high, and seamen scaroe, extraordinary
and oriminal means are fiequently used
to procure crews for ships. In New
Orleans some years before the war it
was no uncommon thing for a ship to be
towed to the Pass witn a whole crew
kidnaped and lying in the forecastle
stupefied by opium, with whioh they
had been drugged. There was a Btory
there of an unscrupulous sailor board
ing-house keeper to whom had come
the day before an uncle from Ireland, a
venerable person in knee-breeches.
Him his nephew drugged?being com
pelled to make ud the tale of a ship's
crew?and stuffed him into the forecas
tle as an able seaman, pocketing in his
name the hundred and fifty dollars ad
vanoe money whioh was just then paid
for the "run" to Liverpool; and thus
the poor old oreature spent but a single
day in the pountry. before he was
4>orne back to 1
A Remarkable Trio.
A St. Petersburg correspondent of
the Hartford Pout thus speaks of one of
the remarkable features of the late royal
marriage in Russia:
' The most striking trio of all were
the three princesses?one the future
queen of England, another her sister,
the future empress of Russia, and the
third, the sister-in-law of the first?tne
future empress of Germany, The faces
of all three expressed gentleness, intel
ligence and refinement. The Grand
Duohess Maria wore a dress of silver
heavily embroidered, and from her
shoulders bung a train of claret oolored
velvet, lined and edged with ermine.
On her head was a tiara and a small
crown of diamonds, from whiob herns' ?
point lace veil; on her necV tue largest
diamond necklaoe in Russia, oomposed
of lar&e, perfect diamonds, each with a
large drop attached, the whole valued
at twenty millions of dollars. The
front of her waist was oovered with dia
monds, and down the front of her dress
were rows of pearls. The bridegroom
wore the uniform of a Russian offlc"
The dress and train of the Empreus
were of gold oloth, her tiara and jewels,
sapphires and diamonds. The crown
pnnoesses wore velvet trains embroid
ered in gold, and their jowels were only
surpassed by those of the bride."
Ronnd Hats.
The quaint piotnresqne shapes of last
year are retained for the round hats
that will be worn in the morning in
town, and all the day out of town.
Orowns are higher and more sloping
while brims are wider and, if possible,
more oapriciouslv shaped. One is of
black chip, with high round crown, and
brim rolled npward on the sides. This
brim is faced and widely bound with
black gros grain ; folds of the same are
around and over the orown, while on
the right side are three demi-loug
ostrich.flumes, and on the left only a
bit of a phesant's breast for a touch of
oelor. A country hat of marvely fine
ohip, with soft brim, not lined or faoed,
but with a wreath of white violets be
neath ; outside is a twist of blue rib
bon, and a long veil of blue tulle. An
other has brown velvet facing on the
brim, with a rose wreath under one
side of the brim, and olimbing up tho
front to the right side of the orown.
Leghorn flats are in the Charles IT.
style, with wide brims caught up with
dusters of long-stemmed violets and
English hedge roses. Bometimes full
wreaths of roses paes under the front
of the brim, turning it np in most gro
tesque fashion.
Not Wobthv of th* Plac*.?The
Dan bury New* man says : " Mr. Hen
derson, of Danbnry, was appointed con
stable the other afternoon. 1 n the ,
ev? ning he officially interfered in a
fight in the sad die-factory tenement,
and within the spaoe of three mianfcta
waa knocked down, dragged over a
rough floor on the back of his Mad,'
kicked down two flighteof stairs, bitten
on the btekpt Ilia naok, lost two teeth,
and waa shoved through a fence b Ma
shirt sleeves. Ha resigned the4 not
ifcbrhing. Ha (aid h? waa afraid be
wae too nnobtnMve in hie na*nr? for
? he office."
Items of Interest.
Johnny assures na that a railroad
conductor pnnohea a hoi? in your ticket
to let you pass through.
It is stated that in- New York there
are fifteen preachers whose salaries
average 815,CKX) per annum.
Lately not a death occurred in the
city of Bath, Mo., for eleven days?an
unprecedented lack of mortality.
Summer-resort hotel keepers have
commenced preparations for the com
ing season by intimating a reduction in
prices.
A suspicious wife, on being asked
where her husband was. replied that
she was very much afraid that he was
Miss-ing. '?
A young lady'H excuse for not taking
supper at a recent donation was, that
she didn't want to run the risk of injur
ing her corset.
It is written on the sky, on the pages
of the air, say the Orientals, that good
deeds shall be done to him who does
good deeds to others.
They who are most weary of life, and
yet are most unwilling to die, are such
as have lived to no purpose, who have
rather breathed to no purpose.
Mrs. Putnam, the wife of the man
who was killed by a New York street
car conductor with a car-hook, is sew
ing for the stores to support herself.
Nov comes Altoona, Pennsylvania,
with a case wherein a son marries his
mother. The son was a clergyman,
however, and married his mother to a
farmer.
It has been ascertained that 252 per
sons were rendered insane by the Chi
cago fire, and every one was poor at the
time and only lost sense where 9thers
lost dollars.
" Experimental philosophy?asking a
young lady to marry you. Natural
philosophy ? looking indifferent and
saying you were only in fun when she
refuses you."
The largest tree in Brookline, N. H.,
has just been cut and sawed. It was a
pine, 130 years old. The first log, 12
feet long, made 800 feet of inch board
ing, the whole tree, 3,317.
Ooleridge, when lecturing, as a young
man, was onoe violently hissed. He
immediately retorted: " When a oold
stream of truth is poured on red-hot
prejudices, no wonder they hiss."
" I think it is the most beautiful and
humane thing in the world," says Pliny,
" so to mingle gravity with pleasure
that the one may not sink into melan
choly and the other rise up in wanton
ness."
If you have talents, industry will im
prove them; if moderate abilities, in
dustry will stipply the deficiencies.
Nothing is denied to well-directed la
bor; nothing is ever to be obtained
without it ?
No man's life is free from struggles
and mortifloations, not even the hap
piest, but every one may build up his
own happiness by seeking mental plea
sure, and. thus making himself inde
pendent q/ outward fortune.
A Nevada paper says: "There was
no regular trial in the case of Johu
Flanders yesterday. He had an inter
view in the woods with a few friends,
howe/er, and it is perfectly certain that
John won't burgle any more."
" Does the razor go easy ?" asked
the barber of a victim who was writhing
under a clumsy instrument, whose
ohief recommendation was a strong
handle. "Well," replied the poor fel
low, " that depends upon what you are
"doing. If you are skinning me, it goes
tolerably easy ; but if you are shaving
me, it goes rather hard."
Thirty-seven of the seventy-tw? Sena
tors in Washington are accompanied by
their wives, and nineteen havo their
daughters "with them. Of the two
hundred and ninety-eight representa
tives and delegates, one hundred and
twenty nine have their wives with them,
and many of the others are acoompani
ned by daughters and lady friends.
It may be of interest to the pork
packers of Louisville to know that
Bergh denounces the usual method of
hog-killing an oruel and inhuman. He
has brought the matter into the courts
of New York, and reoommends that a
cap be made having a nail in the centre,
so that, when placed on the hesd of a
hog, one blow from an ax will termi
nate its earthly career, without letting
the animal know what struck it.
Statistics,
Among the oanses of death la*fc year
in Massachusetts, we find that one man
between sixty and seventy war killed by
the bit* of a horse. Consumption
oarried off 2,544 males and 8,012 fe
males, of all ages from nnder fire to
orer eighty. Deliriam ttemons wm the
death of forty two males and three fe
male*. Of fleaths by drowning, there
were one hundred and eightr-tbre?
male^and thirty-three females. Sixteen
males and twe females Were ri&ima of
hominido IJine persona ?wa*e struck
by lightning Of mAlee aeren, ^pd of
femaXia five, died "suddenly," whfcfrrrai
that may be. Kighty-#e>en m^n ?Qd
tfiirtjf women oommiated snioide* By
^?eiaent or negligaa? sermi hundred
lad thirty-two peraona Igfct t%air Urea.
~J~ t, * - rJiiifct.
Stwarrswa.?In making Si
pllater. nae no water wfc
ttfai thf mtiatard with "
SB
*nd the r*snlt wvJl ?>o
will draw
an infant, I
lowed to remain