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BBg|yire wtJ Peatlii 'ftvi O solemn portal, veiled la mist and cloud. 1 Whore all who'vo llvod throng in, an end loss Forbid to toll by btokvud look or iltn ? What destiny awaits tbo advancing crowd? Bourne crowed but once, with no roturn al Dunib?spootrnl gate, torrostrlal yet dlvlno. Beyond whose arch all power* and fateaoom fr* ?to d l volte noseorils M tbo shrouds loso behind wo atop, and strivo to r la tbo dark, some glimmering whirls oi thought lntont to a faith that grows to sightf whatever may bofaUL i-, tJr lehow boat that comes to all. eh totheJunoOontury. *v Pro and Con. ?hip* Odme over the sea, my Ioto, far tbo shining uaSdena walking a minuet. almented daintily? do they bring under each whito And the orcstol billow* behind tbem swoop, When ships oomeovferthe sea, my doar, Come over the stormy aoa. Tbocordago oroaVs In tbo whistling winds. And the aalla flap dismally t Aivl tbo sallora swear till the raw, damp atr 8? Is visibly tinged with n sulphurous glare. As cror tbisoa, tbo storm?sweptaea,% The ships oome laboring wearily. % ?David L Proudflt in tho Manhattan. THE LAST STRAW. ??It is tho last straw that breaks the camel's baok," said Luoy, bursting into tear*. The pleasant Juno sunbeams oamo ?into the cool, stono-payod rhore pan# of milk and cream .._nged in orderly sgcay; great sipne pots stood under theSflBvos, and **?? i lendon wag Justly proud of No* a ohanoo guost came to but wm invltoa down to see lousokoopor in the neigh bor seoretly envied ita many oon , ? and oxquislto noatnosa. i.ti'n't .?&?? a*1?.. iphantly remarked Matthew Uoiien-. den. "And you may go through tho ' houso fromgarret to nollar, and you'll never find a spook of dost or a stain of wit' 'Si y TZ? ? a hou,e*i ? !?' Bellenden Was young,, too, $, soarcoly' three-and-twenty. Sfco had o rant of all tho maohine#' of domestic 4?ntll sho marrlod Matthow Bollon don. ??It's very strango," Luoy had writ ten tp her father. '-Tho farm is bean ??\.JUoh superb ? roses, meadows are full of rod olovor, and tho strpwberrlos shine like jewels on tho sunny ? hillsides.: But, nobody sketches 6r reads. I don't think there Is a oopy of Tonnyeon iu tbo wholo neighborhood, and no one-ever heard of Dore or MJUals. AU they think of is how many dosens of eggs the hens lav, and how many cIicohos thoy can :o ui? yonr. aiw mo Troman wno nss a new reoelpt for homo-made wide, or a - ? s?rte?*f?hwotk m" Butpresently young Mrs. Bellenden herselfoaught the fevor, and beoamo a roodol housowlfo. Exaniplois all-pow* ?m fthd Luoy began to* believe Pthat tho wholo end and aim of llfo was do* tnostio thrift, money-saving, and tho treadmill of work. ??My doar," said Matthow, "if yon thought you ooiild got along without a 'r >?. Mryant this year, I might bo ablo to aflord that now reaper beforo the oat ' : S orop comos In." ? ??I'll- try," said Luoy. And aftor that sho rose boforo day break, and worked lator in the night tli an flv6r? ??What is tho matter with your hands, LucyF* her husband -asked, Ono day. Tfiittf iVA n/vt. sa wUUa ny.? . of Ut" ? M/jMNWIBy' >' y ? V5 u% "V 4. Sho might havo addod that aho and her husband, arid the baby hadalopt In * hot Jlttlo don opening (nun tho ^^SSrWSl that sho had nover yot had a ohanoo to invite her father to tho farm in ploas ant wonthor. * -? - herlelo^*** "Vgnwiimoua, and hold 2? Ws&ftgftM*** pat |t".v?n"jf Tho &l "i-WUf.' bod ?h?Hno Pavomonts and ipornb oed shelves if I were to diof I nbvor ihonfiUM ln * dairy before, but I should think that it might very easily forriUiht?^0S^??m waaatU)dUP? fi?P?0xiono^old man' with in oil i?n, 2e? crRV;at ^ed in many folds around his neck, and a broad-brim mod* lojr-orownod hat and fln&, gold-headed o"|tv^iffi?ri!fodj'oungohiojl r rnoln PM 1ftJmo,t too busy to sleep. Bat tho tim^U Waa WUt0hing bor quietly all wW?h^a? Ut,K?no d** 10 *he barn, " nophow was putting a now handle oh a slokle-blado. 8 * ._-ij husy tlmea^-eh, UnolePaulP" ??Ar^;ra """")r<Hi,. "".ow th?w.?-K^ vJ1 y?a? ? nephew Mat 1 *ha^?u '^^1. 'wnomber," said Mat* m$ *m0Au"w Ma,,how- "frisk ??It wL biU^Sy an#wored Unol? Paul.' p<* work. That woman m ?>? "onlSCSS wuhlng aBd the IronUigP' Wl"' ,ho *??'" oddod tjnole I never.?!S t g ""king. Sho J<m%7,?H .? l)"vll0,r0 ?*o?pt tootnroh; W WN ln "omen gadding PaX *?Sh?yro"fb.^r "?" w<";k ,h? Wllod that wol denoeT"ed " "><> ?W"UonPef PSS. i?M?iwii* ""? n6l?1>t*>" ;lynph ?t^dtUieW' dropi'011 "10 ?lokloj and SLS on J down late; 1 on tho shrine irements. X I have soon hor oarry up Mrs. Bel ford'8 afe and cooking dainty d!?hes for ' Helen Pat tors ori, beoauso Helen wouldn't eat what the teat like. No^galley-slAVe ovor worked as she does. And you, with your farm hands?whose, board only adds to her bares, and your w*av of labor-saving machinery, ?tsnd<50olly bf andsoo her oommit feloVr suloido.1 Yofc neph^ Matthew, I think It <. . (Lrt*? iome one tell irOT ford> and Pattersons renlent to keep them ire Coriatn 'Bttsan to room was neodod. d out stoat mk ~ to oome to fifote'tkfttaft at naa?*** medlotnV' sh6 4tl? U think ?? nuu iui hut. -4 ? 1 ^raw,?? dhor Joe's ^..J^d^Wm-h^TroHJhi, ' .1 ' |D'|?**? ? * 1 been dlsootered in South ion the ?Ion tss ok a mm Bon Van Houten, Greeley** old boll* boy, la driving a milk wa?roife in Now Jorsoy. Ho was G feet hign when la iho Tribune servlco, end Ho had eye* like goagleq and a hand like tho hand ?' of Providouco. . "Hub," said Horaoe to him, as he on to rod his sanotntn oae night, "I want t9 write for an hour or two, and I don't waqttobu bothered. -Keep all-the bums out of my room.'* "Yes, Mr. Grebley," Ben repllod In a f* "k* Within half aii hour Ben Bruce, Den nis McLaughlin, and several other po litical gadflies tried to bass their way to the old man's room, bnt were sum marily squelched by Bon. Finally, Senator Henry Wilson, of Massaohu soots, entorod. He had been on a cam paign tour In Indiana, and he wore tho dirtiest duster and slouob hat that had beeu soon in New York ainee the de parture of tho Pendleton osoortln 1868. The Senator dropped bis carpot-bag and advanoed toward the open door of Grooloy's sanctum, whonco no was don fronted by Ben. "Where aro you going Pn blurted tho watohdog. _[ ? '; ? - *> , "I'm going to soo Mr. GreeloyP" tho Sonator repllod. "Not much you hain't," roared Ben, elovatlng his voico so as to niako him self solid with Horaoe. "Git right o' horo, or Til help you out" ? Genoral Wilson was dumbfounded. His faoe, usually rod, was made redder' by Bon's manner. ' -? '' - *?' \' "Won't you be so kind as to take my namo in to Mr. Greeley P" he asked. '?> Ben looked'.hard at him and asked his namo, "Wilson," was tno roply. . "Well,' said'Ben* "I'll go in and soe If ho wants t$ see vote" j" < . He returned in forty sooond^ more aggrosslve than ever. /"It's just as I told you," ho roarod. "Ho wbn'tsea you; now, d?n you, git outoMiete." t Wilson, turned to Amos Cummibgs, night, oditor, who lay book in his chair, bursting with suppressed emo tion.' ' "What's tho matter, GoneralP" he askod. Sonator Wilson, oxplalnod, whilo Bon lookod on in astonishment "Thore must be some mistake," the night oditor romaTkod, "and Til tako you in and introduoe yon to Mr. Groo ley." r They ontored the great editor's ssno tum together. Horaoo sat at his high desk, with eyes olose to the mttriufcoript, soratohlng away liko a hen on a fresh sand-heap. m "Mr., Greeloy," said Amos, "here's Sonator Wilson. You refused to see him Just now." Thero was a moment of silenoeC Horaoo soratohed away without look ing up, MWoU," he piped Ip a shrill alto, wlthdut removing his -penr '^tho boy said that a d?d old bum named ' Wil son wantod to ceo mo, and I thought It was Billy Wilson."?JournafuL Illusions of Memory* 91 Tho North Amerioan Review publishes a pnpor treating of the illusions of memory. Tho subject is handled in a masterly manner, telling of the strango tmprosslons we sometimes feel in loOK Ing out ovejr a landscape,1 never before seen by us, yet suddonly thero oomes a flash of inalstlnot reoolleotlon as if, years ago, book to whioh time momory rofusos to travel In a' direct line, wo lookod upon tho soene. Somo invosti gators have thought that a man during a cortaln mental oonditlon, can look at a strango objeot and that only one hem isphere of his mind reoelves the im pression. Suddonly the other hemi sphere reoelves it, and still retaining tno impression taken by the first hemi sphere, he remembers to have seen the Opjeot boforo. No man has satisfactor ily explained this illusion, but thtre are Illusions of memory whloh oan ex plained.' For lnstanoe a man > goes home after a day of toll, and says to ! his wUet , 7 | "Saw our old friend Jackson to-day. Looking fine. Said ho was never In hotter health in bis life. Asked about am tired. Such a rash of buslnMs that "Jaokson," replies his wife rather sovoroljpe "Whft! did ho eome .rip hereP Said he would like to see you. I wint to get down town early to-morroW. I fer<L?i $?tfu 1 ,Mr ?W friend Jackson." This illusion 6? memoqr has not s? - ? . . lown." , - , fj**i think I ne?d a oountryseAC* did the oaiy chair, leAuiAg on his el* rao*ti6dsneee ofr, Fnrftitttye*-?,,.* *?1 must haVe tome rest this sum mer,M aald the clock; 4Tm all run down." Mm* 'fold bow.WWMWlMi^WflllMMMH ??I'm gottlng plnyod out," said the "r *"* ta * ?v i "That's what .1 want,",. said Jho sofa) "a littlo froMh air atthesprlnge." ' "1 shoiild like to go with tho sofa arid lounge in tho tyooas," said the foot* ^ii rny logs were stronger," said tH4 table, ."I phould go .to the oimntry lor wine leaves." . , vfOountry bpard is always so plain',*! growled the sideboard; "nobody thai i knobby or polishod thoro " J "Lot mo r6floot/' said the . mirror; "You nmko inn plush," said the dU h<>ro tho housemaid olosod the folding-doors and shut them all ap. f A PVjw Answer*. T ? "A sago, my son, is a wiso man who knows oxactly HThotT' <*> buy 6r sell jrtoeki. We bury about a doten per month iH this country, but the supply still equals the demand.'7 out of the b*&k ho runs, and drops the sugar in Wall street" "?What is a philosopher?" "He la a ehap who loses his wife's money In buying alitor stock, buOa oroasos hia own by taking a do a? In ^What ii a financial prophetf" "He is * gentloman who states to ate interviewer on Wednesday night that Mi fi ??Do Isdioa ever grow baldf" ?l _ a _ . " tl 1 -y f-: ?TV ?f?u:4? VFVft g?w?r W?uut * ton Gto6? reportor asked %'wcll-known dermatologist ?'Do they eTor grow baldP" Well. X guess so. They do not, howovor, usually grow bald to early in ljfe man. a/hero are Terr few ladies U do not Wear some Who ?ory easy for thom to oc .._. clpfent baldnoar with it or own hair. One thing they are _ negligent about: They do not, as .. rule, pay sufficient attention to the cutting off of split ends. If this,)* done, say three or four tlmes a year, the growth of the hair will bo greatly increased, and it will be far leas lit ~" to break off or 4>ull out when tang! I havo a number of?-what shall I patients, who have followed this u..? tico for a number of rdars and havo been greatly benefited by it," "Do you believe in singeing hair?" No, I do not By so dping a little bulb-shaped cinder is formed' at the end of the hair, which ? Interferes ! the combing out Ii is not well to oold wftcr on long hair, beoauso water * cvapofStlng takes with it _T natural moisture of the hair, add is liable, in warm weather especially, to sonr the hair. It pan, however, be used with impunity, perhaps ttenifit on short hair. Salt water is good ffor the soalp; ithardons It though it Is not well to put.lt on long'hair,'because it evaporates, leaving the salt in*thtf Mir washing hair in champ ??Are strawberry blond?? mado by washing hair in champagner" ^i:^v ??That if,all fiction. I do not bollevo it-will affeot the ? color Of tho hair a partiola. blonde hair that is not made by naturo is made by bloachinc liquids containing w, oxide jojp 'Urahwan. llair dyos are generally Injurious,*tho Instantaneous ones containing nitrato of silvor, less so than the slower-wpHt!' ing so called restoratives, which con tain black sulphur and sugar of ^lead; I do not believe in the uso of cloar oil, clear bay rum, nor pomades, bfat a dressing containing a little alcohol and oil may perhaps be- tuod with benefit as some scalps reouire a little oJl to keep them In a sufficiently moist con dition; and a slight stimulant may prove of benefit romades, as a rulo, are injurious to the hair and. sdalp, and are now comparatively but little used. There is nothing better, Ithink, to pro vout hair from falling off than a prepa ration containing qu initio. "Tho;ous tom of ladies to save thoir oomblnga is now general, and is to be commended? Many a lady can save enough hair in this way to make all the switches, puffd, eta. that alio wants, ancLshd cap Keep in stylo and say truthfully: ?I have not ahalr* on my hej&d that did' not grow there.' ** mon tow do you account for so many on bging baldf Is it intense thought?" ??Well, perhaps that is the cause, in some oases. Many mon beootne baldf by wearing their hats too muoh. ' The dorby and silk hats, suoh as are now worn, fitting* as they do, olesely to the head, interfere with the circulation of the scalp, and oauso the hair to fsU out With some, of course; the tend-* eney to baldness is hereditary, and in others it is tho result of sickness or high living.''/ "Is there anything that ttlll mnko hair grow on a bald hiadf" "Nothing. \y? oaa. o?ly assist nat uro, that's all.. Tho b|dd heads that havo boen covered by thouSe of restor ers have beon ooverod?on paper, nowhere olse. I am posltivo, howovor, that if hair is token Itttimo it can fre quently bo sajred by developing all the vitality of the soalp by brushing, rub bing with the tips of the fingors, fre quent cutting Of tho hair, shaving, etc. The trouble Is, most men are so en grossed with business that'they brush their hair but once a day, in the morn ing, and that is f bout all the attention it reoeives. It Is not posslblo to resur reot a single dead hair, any morel than it te * corpse, but if * hair has any llfo to is that llfo okd, WIM. prdwir o?ro. be preaorted tor n long timo, ts tho life of a human being by oareful nursing, or the life of a plant by iudlolous pruning. Am a solaoe of bald-headed men % wfil say this?what I heard an old barber say tne other dayr*? have nevor yet seen a bald-headed fool.'?? A Gambler on HIS Profbsnlon. K-'ivi ' *? > >v r i ? "..I .. f A raoont writer, who is himself a gambler, is not inclined to bolievb the irofoBglonal gamblers KTSItoong I very ose | bond _ #torts,?o r the prof eg Ity andT.laal InmlfiKtliiV riuinlt lomlnnting rosult in the complete de moralisation of the man. Hon$U tip the whole blatter this way: "A Innt now that is Illegitimate In itself?p?id ness that Li illegitimate in itself and draws to its support orlminals from overy walk in o'rfmo must on Its faoe be demoralising. I do not attempt to say th At ovary gambling room In Boston is tho constant and only resort of ? nijKlMt^h' " '* u"""* 'do wisHto bo und?rs saying in at there is not a game or any other city thai would exdfade *' ??? ?*. ?wfewe^jg?yfr.i ?M^' no matter now obtained* Is tntt'open' ^arr>^:,W ' i1rory Instaftoo. f" ohialonB arrived at III thi$| ,.,r ^ their foundation in solid faot, And SSffitf mat^Ohl bv outcome of mature thought, o f who has made thi^fsubjoot a ?tv from thtf*fiantag? ground of thi ' er*s chair." .= M "Don't yoa ihlnk'Jkotmsni1 lro;< Midi Ix.fot" WteUI jauat Pllkhn, tor a sllenoe of to?\ minutes' du rat' *?Sdmotlmos," sighed Miss Oollll with an oh-do*tako-hlm*away looktf ho* deep bine oyd*. -Havo you boon ah, lod about sixtetfirfh s 1 tor," answered Pilklns, In an o f-h *ppr$rlafo.?? skid ills lion, drowsily. "Just one for year of your ago:" and then th >re luod another Yeng, dollcMu* pi while the youhg msu regarded 1 Is ent-lnather Shoos and tho olhohdel atoly counted eleven.- Life. | .. . i'. ? Mm j i . .I, . "V ' In A recant trial Ob tho Thrifnes of hajtieotrla launch forty feet long, with a storage battery; a speed or seven knots i? hour was attained. The speod hones' rub, would have been froto one Its4 |?K1 eieanllneAs, and very small *t>ori i Seed* 1 \lil l-foV VW>r't::~i i-i-v ? ?j' ?" . !i Break ffcst Table L??oturo. An old gentloman, the other morning J at tho breakfast table, looked up At his ' daughtor, a tall girl with an effort at dreaminess, and remarked! 'St - "Louiso, I was at tho theatre last night, and just as the curtain was about to go down at the end of tho first act, I aaw yon and a kinkey-hoad ed young fellow enter, pranoo along the aisle, and finally, after much an noy anoo to those who happened to bo in tho neighborhood of your seats, yon and your delicate companion succoodcd' in ecasing to attraot tho attention of tho wholo houso." "Why, how you do talk, pa.** ??I only stato facts. Why woro you so late? Was it beoduse the young man did not get hore in timoP" "Oh, no, ho oarao hero in plonty of time.** . * . "Well, was it booause you had soon the play boforo and found it objeotion abloP'V: ? v "No,sIr" "Why, thon, woro you so lateP" "Oh, pa, ?. yon don't understand. Common pooplo go oarly, you know, but peoplo who are supposed to know somothing aro not in suoh a hurry.'* "Supposed to know something," ro> plied tho father, "is vory good, but liko nine out of ten suppositions, is incor rect. ^ You may think that to. studious ly enter a theatre at a late hour?and a few weak-minded pooplo may agroo with yon?is a mark of good breading, bnt in truth it is rudonoss, if not ao* tuallv vulgar. I also notlood that yon nad a wad of gum in your mouth, and that tho young oalithat aooompan paniod you was also chewing a quid. Anothor mark of good brooding, I sup pose. My daughter, you hare a groat deal to learn, and must forest many of your present ways before you oan prop erly appear in sooioty. Yon Boom to think that a lavish mixturo of bright colors and a gaudy flowor constitute tho rig?" * \ ' ' ? !U.f?Rig, paP'V ??.? - "Eig. I call it rig, for I oan think of no bettor term. You think that theso vulgar flashes constitute the rig in Whioh you best appoar, but you make a mistake. You aro a handsomo girl, When you aro natural, but when yon are riot,' you reihifad mo of a choap ohromo. When you aro at homo you dresi neatly, arid, I think, are vory attractive. Vot^t you think that this is rathor prottw' holding up a lily. ; . W ' ??Yes, sir.*' 9 "Now, we'll soo how this improves it," and he tied 9 strip of rod nannol around the atom. "Think it holps tho Wjr's appoaranooP" "Oh, pal" "Of courso not, but it rominds mo of an ovor*drossod woman." "But, speaking about tho theatre, I heard ma say . that she and you often went to tho thoatro and ar> rived late.*' ^That oan bo explained." ^?HowP"' "Your mothor and I woro fools, child, and now recognizing it, I wish to warn you. "?^rfcansaw Trawler. Rigging the Baby. Thoro is one young couplo in this city, says tho DotroltFree Press, 'who aro roaay to opon an oxohango whoro thoy may get rid of somo superfluous jewelry thev have on hands, or, rathor, havont on hand, booaase the hand is quite too small for the Jowclry. There is a now baby in tho family, and before it was a weok old they reooivod a small box from California, and, upon opening It found a tiny gold ring with "Wel come llttlo strangor," ongravod on tho insido. '?It's muoh too largo for the baby and not quite largo enough to'fit mo, said the young mothor, plaintivoly; but on the prinoiplo that it would keep sho put it away, and diotatod a letter of ibuM to tho sender. The next day the baby's aunt sent it a lovely little ring set in pearls, with "Our pet" marked on the Inner olrolo. jg.'.: s. Then It's grandmother sont it a ring made out of a pieoe of gold found ; ra dear grandpa's pooket after hl? death, and it had two sots of initials add a Bl blo toxt inscribed on It > v dented into it,, quite discern ablo with a tbloroBCown howeVor. ,,Then the baby's undo got home from New York, and when he nad kissed the new arrival he took something out of his vost pooket: ' "I couldn't gee a thing to get thofcid oxoopt this," ho said, as ho opon ett a tiny box. "I knew nobody Won|d think, of i giving suoU a little shavor a ring, so I got one. Hello, sis, what's the matterl'p The young mother hnd fainted. But they restored bor in time to see her dear old Aunt LuilUa, who had stepped Oyer on her yrtSf to the Paoiflo Coast to jfee ftat blessed, baby, * CSfot a ring "An her dear, sweet little Band*," said t&b old lady, sevtrely; ?vbjnty Lishy didn't forgot her tootsey >tsoy." Ah she slipped a oamoo * * ~ lall.red ffngor. It had _ ngravod on^jjj which Hreys th^positnan's ring," said "?o one day aTshe 16ok$ out of 2* thorn, tp snotW room ire nnmb?r4d, sorted ' to rsgulttr order* . vruur, ? want) I* of,a;flwt wKSfc&t , a frook, 48 >und, t his b.a ~OOVt>H tftf'lhe ^tmign, pes hlffftoso, loav |e#f^Bf ragged lltt iWhy don't, your mother ont down thato6>t(to fit you?" gome one asks. WOsnA ftainlf idt toy mother," ho h.m old man. , Merchants tell tym to morn on away from thshr doors. 7 S.in paring girls g&gle at hfto as da*. IiS life is lowly and he is acquainted With v*0w. ,7 Fin nil/some one lends him a ing hand, and in nfter ***?? when >le point to kn Institution of learn ing and ask tho name of the founder, some Old M?n, after giving the lllus* trions *m#fcays7j''rknow him when, : < Keeping Hotel in Mleol?IppL V Throo of u walked into the office oi ft hotel in ?little ? town in Mlaaisaipp! one night, and when the landlord. hftd been arouaod from his nap behind tho I tore, a big dbg kicked off the only bench in tho room* and the smoking lamp turned op so that we oould sec each othor, he slaed us np and said: "Gentlonion, I'm a poor landlord but a truthful man. In tho first plaoe, I'l] hare to put tho three of too Into one bed. In tho next plaoe, it'a a bed so dog-goned mean that you'd a heap bet tor lio on the floor." ? "Can't wo ait up InthoroomP" aakod one. ??Don't believe you kin. There's a dozen panes of glass gone, tho rooi leaks, and there's no show to build a Are." "What sort of a tavern do you koep, anyhow P" "Poor?misor ably poor. I'm no landlord, my wlfo runs all to poetry, and tho bulldlug is mortgaged for mor'n it'rf worth." * "How about broakfastP" "Woll, you can count on bacon; 'ta tora and noe-cake, with mighty poor coffee. The tablo-cloth is full o( holes, wo never use napkins, and may bo thoro won't bo forks enough to go round." "Seo hero," growled tho drummor, "you'd better get out of this and give room to somebody who oan keOD a hotel." "I know it?I know it: but where and how shall I goP I couldn't raiso six bits to save my neck, and what town wants mop I haven't got no trado, am too wo&k to labor in tho fiolds, and thia keepin' tavern soems to bo tho only opening for mo." ??Got any whisky?" "Nary." .ir"Any good waterP" i ??Well, it's orook water, and purty bandy just now." * "Any moro wood to koop up tho iireP" ?'Not a stiok, but I'll out somo in tho morning," The four of us stood looking at oaoh other for a long minute, and u was tho landlord who spoke first He said: "Gents, it's no use to kick. I'm sor ry, and that's all I oan do. I'll light another lamp,' bring out a pack of keerds, and we'll play soven-up while tho hired man comes in and fiddles for us. It's only six hourt to daylight and eight to broakfast, and a shilling plug of tobaokor pays tho bill for tho hull threo of you." But when we loft tho- noxt forenoon he. wouldn't oven take tb/* Ho said our society waa.recompqr ^o onough.? Detroit Free Ptm. * / ? - ? "A Miser and 8peculator. Tour misor starves himself and doei no harm to ottars. Your banker who Kam bios into groat sohomos drossosand V08 liko a gontloman?like a groat many gentlemen put together, ana all of them vory rich?and whon ho falls ho drags down with hhu thousands ol weU-to-do individuals, and along with thom' tho business and other legitimate interqsts which give omploymont to thousands of laboring mon and woinon. Evorybody holds tho misor in oon tempt, but evorybody admiros tho Srlnco of tho great sohomo. Tho lattor as stables crowded with horses whioh he novor soos. His difforont country and oity establishments aro maintained at a cost of thousands of dollar* a week. His family soloot their attlro from a homo storehouse as large as an ayorago dry goods establishment. His pleasures aro paid for in diamonds, and his path is strewn with gold. Whon tho misor dios nobody is injurod, and his grave is soon forgotten; but when tho prince falls, there is walling over a wide Bpaoo of territory, for his extravaganoo and fall have takon tho broad out of many children's mouths. It is held, and porhaps proporly enough, that tho law must not say to any man, "You have enough; you must be contented with that; you must not only live, but let live; you must ourb your rapaolty and permit others to have their fair sharo of comforts and luxuries."" What, howover, shall bo done to oheok the passion for great and unoarnod wealth whioh has taken pos session of so many men, who are other wise worthy of respeotP This passion has uprooted' many of tho old systems of business. It has dostroyed safety, and put public and private oonfidonae on tho raok. It threatens a breaking tip whioh will do an unoaloulable dam age. Most oertainly there oad bo not many more oases of wholesale sooun drelfsm on the part of men in positions of trust without oreating ft JJanlo whoso molanoholy effects may run through several years. The gentleman miser must be chooked. The avarice whioh insists upon millions for private use must be stopped. Lorenzo Dow told of an aVarioiohs farmer who,'given the whelo world, wept booause he had not a patch outside to plant potatoes in. Had the farmer been located in Wall etreetv. or at the hoad of a bank, nobody to-day would find anythlng ex trava^ant in tho oharacter. ?New York >1 "God BIom the Babjr.^ A biff man and a smallor one went Into Mr. Harrington's ftoro late last night and asked to look at some oloth * " * ?tt himsolf waited was showing them ? when the door , lenoe In thaL'roar of the store openod and in came on the ran a baby daughter of the Hfcrrlngton family. Tho littio one came In hurry ing to esoape her mother, and fell oror a bos. Mr. Harrington left the custo mer end wonf i '' r After tho little one vM quieted and 8laced on tho floor ho resumed his bus ies*, but in a' minute she fell over another box and apparently hurt her solft He left tho oustomer And i again lookod after tho ohiid. At this the mai{ turned to his com panion and satd: "loot's go oat of here; 1 ain't looking for a nursery," Tho proprietor heard the remtirk and was not slow to respond. Ho said that ho had HVod flftj-two yoara and -done twenty years of Business, and had Bed 90,000 onstoniors, bnt ho had nerer had but two Harrington babies, and this was the only one left He could got along without tho oustomer and the sale of a stilt Of olothes to hlm? but he oouldn't get along without the Har rington baby, and ho didn't card how soon the oustomer "skipped." The man, wh6 was looking ftt the Erletor with a mild astonishment at When the story wae finished had andtyrohlef out, .Was wiping his es and reaching hie hand out to Mr. E x.n.ngton exolalraed, "Partner, God less tho baby." He oouldn't do too much, and it is noodleee to eay they Mitted ae friends.?(Wy. T.) in. turned out to ffsture for the remainder of hie life. The Cost of High Speed. Some experiments have been made lately upon the Bound Brook Route tc ascertain tho difference in the consump tion of ooal botweou an express train running on sohedulotlme and tho same train run at a very low speed, but oth? erwiso under' tho same conditions, the samo five oars and precisely simllai engines being usod. The trains ran In each oaso from Philadelphia to Sound Brook and back, a distance of 11S miles. The slow trip was mado In S hours 28 minutes, 4,420 pounds of cool being oonsumod. Tho train stoppod at tho samo places as the regular oxpress train, tho only unusual featuro of the trip being tho funeral paoo, averaging a little ovor 12} miles an hour. Whon running on sohedulo time tho oonsump tlon was 6,725 pounds, agroolng close ly with the usual consumption ou this route with tho regular llvo-car express trains. Tho saving eft'ectod In ooal by running tho train at a very slow paca was 2,805 pounds. Tho porcontago ol saving may bo oxprossod In two ways: as oomparod with tho consumption at tho normal oxpress snood, tho Blow spocd shows ft saving of 34.2 por cent., whilo tho consumption at tho hlgli spocd shows au increase ovor that at the low snood of 62.1 por cent. Theso figures show that high spood is not so oxponsivo as t* gonorally im aginod. Tno spood of 12.5 milos an hour for a through passougor traiu making fow stops is, of course, imprac tioablo, for various roasons. Probably tho difforonco in coal oonsumplion bo twoen tho lowest speed practically possible undor ordinary conditions and a high oxpress spood is ovon smaller than tho nguros given, which roprosont a lowor speed than is ovor attalnod on an ordinary railroad. High spood to a cortain extont di minishes both tho uumbor of mon and amount of rolling stock neoossary to oarry a givon trailie; and this saving must bo set against tho Incroaso in coal oonsumplion and woar and toar. In tho case undor notico, at a slow spood, tho run of 119 milos would mako a fair day's work for both trainmon and traiu; whereas, at tho normal spood, allowlug for tho nocossary delay at stations, switching, turning and loading ongino, etc., quite doumo tho mtloago might bo mado in a day. As onginomon aro ordinarily paid by tho trip, this would not roduoo thoir -vagos unless sorno ohau^o woro mado l*. tho praotico, but prooably somo ohange would bo mado if runs whloh now ro quiro six or sovon hours wero roduood to four or fivo. Doublo tho amount of rolling stock being roqulrod, tho round housos, etc., must bo larger and the Bidings in which' to store tho cars must do longor. Tho intorost on tho addi tional rolling stock and plant would thus amount to quito a largo iiguro. In somo oasos the slower train might actually bo tho more oxponsivo to ruu, leaving im ono sido all questions as to tho convonionco of rapid travollng and its effect in iuoroasing tho volume of travol. Ou tho wliolo, tho rosult of lh0B0 experiments Booms to bo strongly In favor of high spoods for both passen gor and froJgnt trains.?Railroad, Ga zette. fin Improsslvo ICflTeot fop n Bridal Socno. 4,I wont into Quarltch'8 book store 5no day, and among other curious books 1* picked up an old, blaok-lottor rolumo. It was a work on "Coreiuo aios," with four largo illustrations. I went into tho shop to spond four or fivo pounds; I spent eighty-four or fivo, and sarriod oft' tho black-lottor book on "Coromonios"?all Italiau. I was vat tho timo proparing "Much Ado" for tho Lycoum. In tho picturo of a wod iing coromony I saw what struok mo as a wondorful offoct, and of tho poriod, too?tho Shakspoaro poriod. 'llio of ?oct was a mass of vorgors, or javolin mon?officers of tho oimroh, I should lay. Thoy woro drossod in long robos, ind each carried a halbord. I prossod these men at onco into tho sortice of Shakspearo and his cathedral scene at Messina, and got that improsslvo offoct ?f, their ontranco and tho ybaokgrouhd >f sombre color thoy formod for tho Irossos of tho bridal party. And It is right, too?that's tho bost of It. Not long ago 1 was at Sovillo, and saw a shuroh coromony thoro, whero tho dif ferent partios oamo on in somothing like the fashion of our pooplo on tho itage; but wo novor did anything id Ino In that way as tho ontrancos of tho rlsltors at tho "Capulots" in "Romeo ind Juliet"?the dlfforont oompanles )f maskers, with thoir soparato rotain >rs and torch boarors."?From Irving'$ '?Imprtaaiom of Amcrico." . An Allogod Caro fbr Hondnclios. Jamoft Carloy, of this town, a Jour hatter, rootontly sufforod for a wook with sevoro hoadaoho. Evory possiblo remedy was rosortod to without relief. Finally ono of his shopmatos informed him that D. B. Wilkes, living in tho upper end of Klngstreet District could euro it without fall. According Carloy not out to And tho man who possessod tho panaocn that oould roliovo him from hia untold suffering. Mr. Wilkos, whose occupation is a farmer, rebell ed him cordially and nt onoe assured him that he oould ouro his headaohe. Ho requested Carloy to aeoompany him to the old older-mill, which thoy en* terod, and Mr* .Wilkes pullod out from bonoath the press a box covered with a coal slevo. From the box ho took a llvo black snake and wound it around Carloy's nook. Strange as It may soem, almost instnntaneously the jpain loft hi* hoad and has not returned sinoe. Mr. Carloy and his frlerids vouoh for his cure. Mr. Wilkos also oures sprains and swellings In tho same way. Ho explains the matter on the prlnol-. plo of animal olootriolty, which ho sup poses that tho snako possossos. If a cure Is effoctod in this wa^ the writer thinks that the pain (? frightened out of tho patient by the horridapplloatlot). Banbury (Conn.) Newt. ? A lady writer In the Rural New Ydrb or says: "A mother who allows her boys to grow up Ignorant of wholosomo cookery and tho Hdo art of sewing falls In her duty. Honry Ward Booehor'a mothor taught him at an oarly ago to sow, Mid for lads full of activity, who oannot bo kept quiet* sowing Is an ox oollout pastime for discipline. If boys sewed more and romped loss, the girls *<>wodft)Hs and fompod mora, the gain would bo mutual. Then, too, II every member 6f the family knows how to prnparo a meal tho relief to tho mothor or wlfo Is almost immeasurable." The roo was the boss bird of his day. ;"Siftbfcdf'the sailor," knew something of It?In His mind. Mateo Polo heard of fcfm In Madagascar, and doolarod that It was like the eagle, measuring sixteen paoes from wlHg to wfaur. Bat tho PersianitatfcorltleAgtve the wildest represent him a# car tiLBAiwwM., , Tbo King of 81am h&9 203 children. Howell ha* made $8(^000 rotolif#lk* tug matches. - > i A Goorgia paper oxtols 'the 'natural advantages" of tbo Fort Galnee Ostno tery. ? /** When a tana boards a wrong tfaln of thought bo is liable to ma off .the track. ;v? Mrs. A. T. Stowart is eighty-four years old and tho riohost widow' in the world. TT.1\7T> ;? At tho Carlisle Indian sohool there 130 gi jj1?*0"1 ^ pupils?326 boys and Papor is Low usod in Germany! in s to via of wood in tho mauufaoturo ol load penoUs. vy'TlV/,7*~ -+ Thoso aro tho mornings when. > the rosos kiss tho girl? on the cheeks and forgot to go away. Two now Cunardors are now being built with tho objoo^ Qf boating allpro vions records in crossing the Atlantic. Robort Griffin, of London, says tho world will not bo largo enough to hold * tbo population in a thousand years from now. : .,*> Wall sti cot is an attraotlvo place whero a man can loso t^OOO^OOO in four yoars without half trying.?Iforrii town Herald. Thoro nro 124,000 miles of railroad in tho United Statos, or seven times as many miles as thoro aro in tho Uhitod Kingdom of Groat Britain. ? " i" Tho stainod-glass orazo In fashion* ablo households la waning, and tho opinion of intelligent peoplo' is thai wholosalo imitation killed It* * ? i . T Darby Groon IsaConnoetloutYankoe who was sovon yoars old when the De claration of Indopondonoe was signed. Ho is still vigorous and happy, Tho Kontuoky Houbo of Represent* tivos has passod a bill prohibiting bloy olists from using tho publlo roads of most of tho oountios In tho state. Now York's Legislaturo has exempt ed from taxation tho property of dis abled ministers and priests-ovor 70 yoars old, to tho amount of $1,600. Charles Reado know that death was coming and rofusod'absolutoly to moot it at Cannos. "No," he saitL <1 fool myself broaklng up and I wish to eo homo to die." Eccloslastioal docks for bedrooms aro tho nowost. They aro, ttado of ollvo wood in tho form of a o^thodral, and in tho stoeplo' in the clqok, swoot chimes designating tho hours. , Lady Rinon and BMy Hobart, Miss Ryo and Miss MoPherson, have; aidod upword of ton thousand men,, women and ohildron to omlgrato from England to tho colonies or this country.'** Chinoso laundrlos aro springing up with wondorful rapidity In ah tho Southern citios, and tho cofopfttitlon which tiioy have oxoltod has, in'many instances, rosulted in stroot brawls. Matthew Rankin, of LowistOn, Mo., has boon conflnod to one oha^r for thirty-three yoars. Ho has a oombina tion of mirrors by whioh ho looks onl of tho window without moving his hoad. -.?> / , v,,?1T Tho Astors own cortninly a slxtoonth of tho roal ostato of Now York. And thoy aro tho vory bost of landlords. Thoir prices aro moderate, ' and thoy novor ro'fuso any roasonnblo domand for ropairs. Allon Gifford and wlfo, of Easton, Washington county, will oolebrato at Christmas tho sovontioth annivorsary of thoir wodding, If life is sparod to ' thom till thon. Ho is ninety-throe yoars old and sho Is oighty-tylne. In Loigh Rlohmond's adv'ioo to kJs daughters, ho wroto: "Glrjs; be Choer ful, but not gigglors; be serious, but not dull; bo communioativo, bat not forward; bo kind, but not servlli Be waro of silly, thoughtless spooolMM." A gontlomau wno has glvon ' a good deal of study to tho subject says that while Philadelphia has a greater ttdm- >\ ber of bonovolont lhstitutlons thtfn any J city In tho country, tho porcoqtfLgo of paupors to tho populations*^ larger. A Now Hnvon man has Invented a now kind of a paraohnto, whioh is fas tened around the center of tho balloon ? itself, and It is expected to bring tho whole affair, including the aoronaut down safely If any. aetfdeht happens to the balloon. Statistics show thatamou^ftQ(JO doo tors tho number of deaths annually rangos botweon flfteon and twentellvto. At this rato the number of deatns a.* nually among tho 90,000 medl<l|l men of this country would be, oh k^ave*-v ago, 1,800. < Mr. Caso, a watohmakor of Pa., has oompleted a locom> tender six inches long all told ovorv part comploto that Is fo working engine. It is madb silver and stoel, and is ddstlne^ -y. NewOrloans exhibition. ? Last summor a Philadelphia gentle man dug out a sand ?rab on tho Jersey shore, whioh he took homo and,put his cellar. Up to dato ho s*ys it bas oaughi 112 raw. Tho rodonts smoll its breath, andwhon they gotoInvsstigato thov aro ntppod and held until too dog nrrivoflL Most of the lee used at Calcutta la now manufaotured. Up to four or flvo years ago it was shipped from ? Boston. Although the manufactured lee only lasts half as long as tho natural loo, it oan bomado so much cheaper that it has driven the Boston loo out of the markot. .Henry Labonohore, who Is not only editor of an Influential LondOtt Journal, , but a membor of Parilaiiiwf1^ well* has been going Into unCoffifOrtablo mnthomatlca by showing that tht oost of the royal family, about 11,000,000 annually, would afro a moal to (WO,000 children on 400 days lb the yotr. At Monto Carlo It Is tho ottt&tn to fill tho pockots of suioldce with bank botes so thnt It may bo seed that thoy did hot kill thomselvel oil aooount of lossea. They tried this trlok dh a pre sumably doad Irishtban a sfeott time ago; but ho win not doad at alt and skipped off with tho mpney In tho moat lively stylo- ,, . It Is sal<l that the Invent&t of the process of bleaching elephant** results of whioh arc soon in the menageries of Barnum and Foropaugh, claims that it can be applied without Injury to col ored people, and that It furntshos a complete answor to JobN famous In quiry as to tho possibility of whitening an Ethiopian. Mrs. Lambert, of San Jose, ?al., Is a physician and a firm believer in wo* man'i rights. * In a orimlnal trial she was called as a wltnoss for prose cution, bnt sho rofosod to gb on the stand, saytntf that as sho , was deniod tho right Of o!t!^nship she would as sume none bf Its daw -> tte eonrt failed to acoept the rcaeon given as valid, and sent tho witness ;o Jail for contempt. ^