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.. "T" ? . i ^ m ifLfe, A r-stfe 44 /?K-5 ?_^/ 4 W ":V ^ 1 -v< VOL. XII. TC&3, 1885. NO. 44. A Memory. An old-world oouu'rv pat den, whoro the hours I.lko winged sunbeams In nlory by. AuU wliorc tho teent of tannine, old-fashioned tiowers IIiIukh buck ti tender bygone memory. 'J'he walks are strulKht, and patterned with w>" - ttone. And pacing there with reveroutlul tread, 1 dream o*eo more I hold within my own The soft warm Angers of the child who's deft*? The chlH whoso dainty footsteps vied with inln*. As wo too chased ttao gdlden butterllles? Tho child who rovoled In the bright sunshine. And shrinod hor gladness In her IuukIiIiik oyoil We used to linger In tho Ionic soft Krass. And when a sun-ruy kissed iier dimpled hand, Wo told enoh other 'twas a fulry pans To read tho secrets of our Kuli-ylaml: And, holding. surely In her nullum face That happy sparklo, we would run to peep If dowdrops trembled In the self-suftie pluo<'. Or last night's bud hud blossotftod In Its sleep. I throned hor In my linns when tired of play, And .vhlfpercd love-names In tho baby ears; She made tho glory of the Hummer's day. My weo liege ludy of but llvo short yoursi Aryl now? Small won<lor that the roses llo In petted fragrance by the daslc.*' side. For sunshine vanished with hor last soft algh, Am! skies arc if my or slneo our dUrlliiK dlou. ? Chamber's Journal. .vlTTLK NAN'S FOHTUNK. "Como in," called Miss Morrin in her pleasant voice. So the door opened and Little Nan, Bo?g-and-danco artiste, appeared on tho threshold. Her thick rod hair was twisted in a light knot on tho top of her head, a row of curl-papers fringed hor fore head, littlo dabs of powder wcro loft on her cheoks, hor calico Mother Hub hard (Vas faded, ;.nd thero was a long rent in tho skirt. .She canio timidly into tno room and laid a largo whito envelope down on tho tablo. "It's fur you," sho said, quickly turning away. "I heard you tollin' Mrs. Spratt'twas your birthday." Thon tho door closed upon Littlo Nan. Miss Morrin laid down Emerson and took up tho nttractivo whito envelope. It contained a birthday card, a very protty card. On one sido woro a laud scapo and a solitary bird on tho branch of a treo, and on tho other wero printed tho following versos: There's gloom without, but there's cheor within. ltolllclonir Bhout and rattling din. Thcv kiss, . -ood kiokl with a raro good will! liuoh lucky Jack has a darling J til. 11*6 n trillo hard, (as I think you'll see), ?Ou'tt lonely, scarr'd old bird like me. "A lonely, scarr'd old bird liko me!" rcpoatod Miss Morrin to horsolf. "Yes, I am getting to bo an old bird. L urn 35 to-day and Jamos is 38. Wo aro both growing old and aro no nearor being marriod than wo woro ton years ago. Twonty-ilvo is rathor lato in lifo to ontor upon along ongugomont. But 1 would rnthor wait for Jamos than marry a millionaire. Dear Jamos! Ho thinks it is his duty to stay in Maino and proaoh to thoso poor, uncducatod ;|)ooplo when ho might bo pastor of a rich church with a salary largo enough g* to support us all. Of couiso it is bU first duty to Aaro for his mothor and alitor. Unfortunatoly I am poor too. > fow hundred dollar* to ib^atnko eonie o*a pick and go up on "tho motion ...ii fthd dig; but boiug ft woman ftU can do is to wait. I wonder what luado that child glvo mo this oard. I novcr spoko to hor until this morning. Thoy say sho dances at tho theatro, end with a shudder at tho thought Miss Morrin wont on roading Emorson. Downstairs in tho otUco of tho Grand I Hotel old llilly was smoking his pipe, llo woro long boots that came to his | knoos, corduroy pants, and a llannol shirt. His lu-oad-brimmod folt hat was tipped ovor his oyos. Ho had tilted his arm-chair against tho wall and thrust his hands into his pockots. "It's hor birthday, and I givo hor a card," Littlo Nan was sa^ng. "Sho said good mornln'when I mot hor on tho stairs. Hain't sho sweotP Hot your lifo! It was a stimuli)' card. Ihoro was a bird on a tree and tho bird was savin' po'try. It said somothln' 'bout boln' a soarr'd old bird." "By ginger!" oxclaimod old Billy "you vo wont and dono it this tlmo." Then ho chuoklod. ."Didn't you know sho was nn old maid?arogular Yankoe sehoolma'mP Why didn't you pick out n nioo ploco 'bout young lovo and for got-mo-don'ts, and all that kind o' thing." ??It was a mighty protty card and dirt chimp," answorod Llttlo Nan dis consolately. "Sho wouldn't think 1 was pokin' fun at hor, would shoP" looking up anxiously. "Itookon not," snid old Hilly, "you wouldn't lind It out if sho did. Site's un un and down lady. Tldn 'oro caiup s no placo for hor. Thoro hain't another olio of hor kind to kcop hor company. Ought to sond fur hor ali tor, or eousln? or somothin.' Don't boo what hrung hor way out hero to koop school." Littlo Nan gazod In tho flro with hor largo bluo gycs. "Sho hain't llko us," sho said slowly. "Sho hain't a hit llko us." Tho ftohool children woro troublo iortto the noxt day. Miss Morrln triod coaxing, thon scolding, and finally was strongly tomptod to resort to oorporal Minlsnmont. Hut Iho was slight and trail, and thoro wore somo largo bnyd in tho Aohool. On hor way homo at noon sho dooldod she was still far from being fit for a minister's wlfo. There Woro lottors from Maino on hor tablo. Old Mrs. Jones had diod at last?sho was 08?and thoro had boon a ohuroh noolabto. Bister Mary had savod onough ogg-monoy to buy horsolf a black oashmoro dross. Sho. thought of having it mado with a klltnd skirt and a polonaiso. It was a long time sinco Mary had bought a now dro^s, Miss Morrln romomborcd. Just then a wo man clad in volvot and soalskin passed tho Or&nd. Six months before, this sumo robust fomale had boon triad to wa?h As alio loft tho room old Billy put bis baud on Miss Morrill's arm. For a moment bo was quite himsolf. "Pleaso git mo a pencil and bit of paper," bo said eagerly. "Quick!" Silontly Miss Morriii roso and crossed tbo ball to bor room. Wbcn sho re turned si.o banded a slice' ">f tinted note-paper and a long Faber i.ojcil to tho sick man. Witb an effort old Billy raised big bead and Miss Motrin piled up the dirty pillows behind him. lie wrote a few linos feebly; then tbo pencil droppod from bis band. IIo thrust tho bit ot paper under tho pilo of pillows and drew tho patchwork quilt well around his shoulders. Still ho shiv ered slightly. "I'm so cold and th*cd," ho murmured. Then a sweet ponce seemed to steal over his face. His eyes closed and ho fell gently asleop. lint ho never woke again in this world. Tho day of the funeral Little Nan came to Miss Morrin's room with a basket of bright llowers on her arm. "Will you pleaso help mo to lix tho flowors?" sho asked whilo tbo tears camo to her eves. "I want to mako a wreath for old Billy." "Sit down," said Miss Morrin, kindly and drew a rocking-chair toward tho lire. Thon sho turned to her trunk, and, after some search, camo back to her visitor with a roll of lino wiro in bor hand. Tenderly sho lifted tho ilow ors. There wero rod roses, and pink and scarlet geraniums, and a few sprigs of green. "Old Billy liked blight flowers," faid Little Nan. "Ho used to throw 'cm to mo often." "What do you do at tho theatre?" asked Miss Morrin hesitatingly. "I'm a song and danco artiste," an swerod Nan proudly. "I sing songs and danco." "Do?do ladies attend?" "No, ma'am; only men." Miss Morrin shuddered. "And jou like to sing and danco bo foro tliomP" sho said scvcroly. "Not much, ma'am; I git awful tired somctimos." "Then, my child, why not earn your living boiuo other wayP It would bo bottor to Bcrub floors Ml day long." "But they wouldn't pay mo nothin'." "What mutter?" began Miss Morrin virtuously. "But 1 send my money homo, protty near ovorv dollar," said Little Nan. "Thoro s six of 'em besides me. My motbor's dead. Fatbor don't git but half-wages now. I'vo earned a heap tho last two yours, sinco Fvo bin dan cm'. I'm tho oldost ono. I'm 18. Thoro's two dead between mo and Willlo. Ho'8 12. Jeunio, sbo's 10 and the baby's 2. Jonnio has an easier time than 1 had takin' caro of 'om. Thoy'ro up and out of tho way now." Tbo wroath was finished beforo Miss Morrin spoko again. "Who taught you to dancoP" sho said suddonly. - "A man my fathor know. Ho had a thoatro. Fvo a standin' engagement at tbo Contral. Old Billy was awful good to mo. 1 nover saw film boforo I ^ "* lor took to mofc the monntaln^mt l guoss ho< _. struck It. Ho never sold much old, I anyhow. Halnt that a boautlful wroathP i Billy would think it was stuonin'. Ho I always likod ovorytbing bright. I When tho funoral was ovor and thoy had all rotprnod to tho Grand llotol, Little Nan throw herself on her bod and criod pitoously. Miss Morrin hoard bor sobbing, and, ontoring bor room, tried to comfort her. Presently Nan sat up. ??l must dross," sho said, wearily. "It must bo late." Iler long hair foil around hor and silently Mm Morrin took u brush and bogan to smooth its bright strands. Thon Nan put on hor shawl and hood. "I'll git 0111 mo shig 'Under tho Daisos,' " sho said, suddenly. "Old Hilly always liked it. llo used to clap until I'd como out and sing it fur him. Maybo lio'll lioar it to-night." "Maybo he will," answered Miss Morrin with toars in hor oyes. "I'm suro ho will!" * ? ? ? ? ? Spring canio. Tho snow that had lain for months on tho mountains bo gan to'molt slowly and prospoctora talked o( grub-stakes. Old Hilly's claims had not boon disturbod since ho diod. No 0110 supposed them of any value. It was known that ho was with out wife or children. Ono day tho chambormaid of tho Orand found a shoot of tinted papor be hind tho bed in tho room that had once been old Hilly's. Sho was a lazy, caro loss girl, ami tho papor had lain undis turbed for more than threo months. As she could not roud writing sho carried it to Littlo Nan. Hut Littlo Nan horsolf could not road writing readily. Hho glanced at tho few linos on tho papor and spoiled out tho namo William Struthors at tho bottom of tho pago. "Maybo Its somothln' 'bout his olalms. I'll tako it to Mr. Nickloson IIo oan road it right oft'." So on hor way to rchonrsal Nan stopped Into Mr. Niekleson's oflloo and handed him tho littlo sheet of pink-tint od papor. It took tho smart lawyer from Bos ton but a moment to diseovor that he hold old Billy's last will and tostaraent in his hand. "Did you road it?" ho askod, glanc ing keenly at Littlo Nan. "I didn't havo tlmo to spell it out," answered Nat*. "Thoro'?'hothln, 'bout mo in it, is there?" "Ho's loft ids olalms to you," said tho lawyer. "They may not bo worth muoli, but thoy aro yours. I'll lind out about them and let you know;" "Don't hurry yourself," callod out Nan a* sho shut tho door. "Dear old Hilly!" sho thought "Ho did nil ho oould (or mo whoti ho was livln' an' >0111 hotel in Int 'That's a heap o' money," said Nan 1 coolly. "Think I could git any morrf fur itP" ??Well, you'll bo gottlug a fair sum," auswored tbo lawyer dryly. "It would tako you several years to earn us muoh. I think you had bettor accept thooffor." "I don't have to divide with you, do I?" said Nau shrewdly. "Sco hero. Givo mo $300,000 and I'll soil. You'll mako a lot out of it. sorno way, bot your life. Hut mind, I want it all in tnonoy. I won't have no chocks. Thoy mighn't bo good." "In money!" gasped the lawyor. "Havo you any idea how big a pilo $300,000 would mako?" "No," snid Nan," but I roekon I could lug St oil'some way. But I won't take no chocks until 1 find out whethor they'ro good or not. There's noboby c heats me and old Billy!" "Como tomorrow," said tho lawyer, "and I'll havo tho papers ready to sign." Tho next day at noon Miss Morrin had just seated herself to read a Maino paper when thero.camc a knock that had grown familiar. Littlo Nan walked in quietly, and seating herself rocked restlesly back and forth. "Is your father rich?" she asked, suddenlv. "No,'"1 answered Ml.-s Morrin. "He's a poor farmer, 'that's why I'm out here teaching school." "Like to teae!>?" "1 got very tired sometimes," sighed Miss Alorrin. "The children aro so troublesome." "You know a iot about liggers, don't you?" said Nan. "Three hundred thousand dollars i? a pretty good pile, liaiut it?" "Well, yes," suiiied Miss Morrin. "We would call a man with as much as that very rich out iu Maine." " 'Taint much fur horc," said Nan a littlo contemptuously. "You don't call $'Jo,000 much, do you?" "It would bo nieo to liavo," said Miss Morrin. Then sho sighed, llow happy thai moilest sum would mako her and Janice! "Do you ^'it mut'h fur loachinP" asked Little Nan. abruptly. "No, but 1 mau.'go to get ulong and send some money home, just as you do." Nan rocked back and forth?back and forth. "I'm goin' homo to-night," sho said, suddonly. "I reckon I'll tako tho 18 o'clock train. I shanU ucver forget you," she added s ?ft'?y. "I took a shine to you the day you t>poko to mo on tho stairs. There hnint many iHdios in this 'ere camp, and nouo of 'om speaks to mo. Old Billy liked you, too." Sho rose and crossed tho room, then pausod. "Thank you fur boin' kind to mo!" and for tho lust time tho door closed upon Littlo Nan. During tho frllowlngduy anonvolopo bearing tho stamp of tlio Urst National Bank was handed Miss Morrin. She hastily toro it open, and thoro foil cut a oheok for $26,000. But although sho followod up orory olow she oould never disoovor the #horoabouts of tte sondor. James Wothonll, who Is still a poor minister In Malno. Boon In Kromlln. I hoard and road a great donl about tho Kromlin, but had no distinct idoa of what it was liko until I saw it. I had no idoa of its vast oxtont; that within its walls woro containod palacos, churohos, monastorios and arsonals. Tho walls surrounding all thcso struct ures aro of vast thickness. At frequent intervals aro watch towors of fanciful design, and tho battloment aro nil loop holod for tho discharge of missiles. In Bido is tho Red Sauaro, so oalled from tho thousands of judicial murders thoro committed, and in tho con tor of it is a group of statuary callod "Tho Prlnco and Moujik." 'Ihoro aro many outran C09 into tho Kromlin, but tho pvinciprd ono is tho Iledoemor Gate, which is considered a holy placo, on account of a cortain famous statuo which finds lodging in ono of its nlohes. When passing through this portal ovory ono is supposod to tako off his hat. Tho Convent of tho Asconsion is a strango froak of architectural fancy, but boau tiful withal. Noar it is a placo whoro tho holy oil is manufncturod, with wliioh all Russian childron aro baptized. Around tho arsenal aro hundred of can non taken from tho Fronoh, and thore I saw that immonso piece of ordnanoe oalled the King of Cannon, but which, liko tho King of Bolls, also in the Kromlin, is fit for nothing but show. Tho Ivan towor and tho oathodral, with its numb "loss costly thrones, aro both monuments of human skill. It is in this cathodral that the Czars of Russia crown thomsolvos, no othor than their own hands boing considered fit for tho holy olllco. Tho palace, whioh has an unpretontious nppoarance outsido, being coated with stucco, is of S:eat extent. It contains tho St. eorgo's Hall and nuinberlosa suits of apartments for tho guests of royalty. The tbrono of tho Czar was shown to me, and as I stood looking at it I al most tromblod as I thought of tho un dinputed sway, of tho limitloss power of lifo and doath ovor a hundred millions of pooplo, which ho who had oocupiod it a fow days boforo held.? John L. Stoddard. After OottyrttHir-vr. Aftor tho battlo of Gettysburg, whon tho battled confederates, worn, wonry, hoartsoro, woro recrossinfj tno Potomac at dusk, ninny woro grinning, norno woro cursing, whllo tho majority felt too unhappy to ox proa* tliotmolvoft bolntorounly. Finally they wont into camp, cooKotl their frugal men), and sottlod down to a grim quarrel with fortune or lamped Into sullen nilonoo. All at onoo, swelling melodiously through the summor nlr, o:?pio a noble, rosonant trnor voleo Ringing "Give Me ^^Otln tho Vnlloy I Love. The sol utimiiui wiin rapuirn una tno W of homo tumod tho blttor honrt? to Kwonlnpgn ami l^blnHplioniy, ntitMtr nnd un ly/Httllsl1 cowoa ! liy the Uonoomloil Upon lr bosom, find Into an coho, n? if nn THAJLN TALK. A young man who bad introduced himself to a lady by raisin? the win dow for hor w&8 glibly talking of bis travels. Ho bad bcon In a good many placos during his life-time, hadn't for gotten any of them and didn't seem to miss one in his account. Ho was bo . much interested in his conversation*] that ho failed to notico tho lady's fro 3uout yawning and other palpablo ovi encos that sbo was feoling bored. "As for tho wator," ho ?aid, "I just love tlio wator. I am a splonuR! sailor. Novorhavo any troublo at all. Ncvor gOt scared. They usod to call me ^ regular old salt. I?" "But you never sailod on the saltwa ter, did you?" "Yes; yos, indeod. Many a time. But why did you ask?" "Oh, I was uiorely thinking that you hadn't." "Hello, old man, whero aro you boundP" inquired tho conductor of an acquaintanco in tho smoking car. "Going back East," was theresponso, ratiior sourly. "Have you quit railroading out iu Idaho?" "Yos, I have." "What's tho mattorP" "Oh, 1 don't want to run a looomo tivo in a country whero towns dio off so fast that iu tho placo whero we got our dinners one day tho uext day wo stop as usual and look all around, but not a shanty is to bo soon. I like my dinnors regularly, I do, and no more Idaho in mino, pleaso." Tho smoking car of an incoming train was full of passongors. It was also full of hot air. "Hoar wo'ro goin' to havo cholcra this summer," remarked ono passongcr to his soat-mato. "Shouldn't wonder.' "Woll in that caso I think it is every man's duty to cloan up an' git things in readiness to fight the scourge." "Do you moan to do that yoursolfP" "Yos, I do." "Very good. Don't lose any timo about it, elthor. You will fiud a bath room right aoross the street from tho depot." "Hero's an item in tho papor," re marked & Wisconsin farmor, "that says it costs 42 cents to stop a train." "Yes, sir, that's what tho tlguros show on careful investigation." "Well, if that's tho figure most of tho roads get off ohcap. Up our way a train is stopped every fow nights, and . it always costs tho company from $60^ up. Niocst way for us poor furmors to j work off sick oows or played out horses cvor you saw." "Moro Afghan troubles, I soe," re marked a passongor from St Louis; "and that reminds mo of tho first Af ghan trouble I can romembor." - " "When was that?" "Many years ago. n ?ou^el WI!Ir VKHfWpjj,I,l'WPSr England ] should send oloar ovor to Missouri to j buy mules lor uso in the Soudan. ' 1 wonder what that's forP" ??Tactics, my doar sir, taction," Vov filled a military looking man. "Kng and's policy in Egypt is to got upeloso to tho enemy and tlion turn tail and re* troat slowly and in good order. Hero is whero tho mule is oxpoctcd to got in his work." "Woll this is mighty discouraging," said a young man us ho looked up from' his paper. "1 road hero that old, bang od-up, broken nosed pitchers ftr.i a drug in tho market, and aro worth only 80 conts apiece." "What's that to you? Have you boon speculating in decorative relics?" "Relics! Thunder, no! I'm a base ball pitcher."?II \Lman in Chicago llcrald. Home of ?' o CnnlllT Glntits. Tho city of Moborlv, Mo., is stirred up over r woiidui ful buriod city, wbioh vrns dlscovorod at tho bottom of a conl shaft 800 foot doop, whitth was being sunk nonr Moborlv. A hard and thlok stratum of lav* nrchos in the buriod city, tho Btroets of which nro regularly laid out and enclosed by walls of stono, which is cut and dressed in fairly good, although rudo, stylo of masonry. A hall 80x100 foot was discovorod, whore in wore stone benches and tools of all dosoriptions for mechanical servlco. Furthor soarch disclosed statuos and imagos mado of a composition olosely rosombling bronro, lacking lu9tor. A Btono fountain was found in a wide oourt or stroot, uud front it a stream of porfoctly puro water Was flowing, which, upon boing tasted, was found to bo strongly impregnated with lime. Lying besido tho fountain were nor tions of tho skoloton of a human botng. Tho bonos of tho log moasured, tho fomur four and ouo-half foot, and tl)Q tibia four feet and throe inolios, show ing that whon alivo the figure was throe times tho size of an ordinary man, and possessed of wondorful mus cular power and qulokness. The head bones had separated in two plooee, the sagittal and the coronal suture having boon destroyed. Tho implements found ombraco bronze and flint knives, stone and granite hammors, motalllo saws of rude workmanship bnt proved metal, and others of similar oharaotor. They aro not so highly polished nor so accu rately mado as those now flnishod by 1 our best mechanics, but thoy show skill and an ovhlonoo of an advanvod civill sation. Tho soarohing party spent twelvo hours in tho dopths, and only gavo up explorations bocauso of tho ollln thofr lamps being low. Theso facts are vouohed for ny Mr. David Coates, the rooordor of tho olty of Moberly, and Mr. (Joorgo Keating, oitjr marshal, who woro of tho exploring party. A further oxtonded search will be made in a day or two.?N. Y. Hun. A few weeks ago tho cashier of a Western bank wroto to n distinguished resident of Canada a?? follows: I>oar sir: 1 havo a splendid opportunity to gobble up $60,000 and Join you in Canada. Can 1 hare fun enough to offset tho sacrifices of reputation, liome e oiroio of Irlends?" Tho tmaliliknf IaiI !??# iu|fhuu wj iiuav id wroto "in ^on't yon do it. mora HWftg A a r?nnnt It A Leonid Thursday. tK.o>0 i? no uUcdtion about it. Tho P?MKujatl caught him iu tho very aot ofjifiemplhigto pay for ft froo lunch in a CR|tbAm stroot collar, and was innnocHfcy^ Arrvslc,i. (jn 1'iidav niornftig W,^j|A*tor proton tod a sad dcne^l anduL^^od jaCd ig iho jus Lcoidd^Jfcji^^pj' queried tho jus tico, looklnlgffer ? h$ft. .glasses at tho "Yo?t l^hnmbly ^^>llod that indi cia ^mtjSit-right namo?" "Yds, ?to'r0rfi?oudoil%tho prisoner, with digi^C^ "Yotol d<#Lt thiuk I would puv^K^y tricks on tn^, court I ??You "^M^iosod of being In** state of intoxlCMKR ?>f?aterdiiv afternoon. Policoman ^{nlth attested you in Chat ham ?g^^*|Vhat have you to say for "Truo, ySc** honor. I was intoxi cated; but Ps^ad an ofccusc. Listen, boforo you WU4 nio Up, | am rt restaur ateur bY prj^iio,,. I onco owucd an oatiug-lioiu?^^ glxtii nvonuo; but I was unforUlt^jQ^ i cp.uld not pay the rout, and to- mo^> into lJleeeker street. St^n^y hifi luok pursued uio, and I was (mL^ t0 niovo again. This , tlmo I V0D|?f*(rqom in Chatham stroot. 1 hfifv^ry Uttlo monoy, and it was nocoaay^ ^ mo j0 got quick ro turns frotojSj Investment. Chatham stroot bUBjOfcthothods, I neod not tell your honoiKE^ ))0t what I was accus tomed to;lJRyon know tho old maxim, ?When yoijSj^ laJorusalom do as tho Jews do.4 Serosa the street from my place is ftD Wpii]r-don kept by a shock haired, '^^EymLlo^Btcr, who, if I might offornjl^ suggestion, ought to bo on tho isMW^Hu Las boon, my banc, my ourio.-'B&fr-' > - ??Well," feotruptod tho justice; I am in a httwry, "One longor, your honor," replied^! tKJiprlsonor, "and 1 am throueh. *?had boon running my plan ortffreokfjjlfound that my cx ponsos vorW|w andtay receipts $17.43. I bad ^^puK) loft. 1 had to make a stir sonife-frhlrod a young man, bought hlnHL^gt 8Ujt of olotlios, ami started bhi^ES^rith a big placard fastened tofifiaoat, whloh road: " 'I eat ut Baxter's Palaco rostauran* "AiJio tracte$ \ noss" notl ?Ss m ?'Then I^turtod them down tho street arm in ?vl{. Tho olYoct was prodigious. Crowdsfimtiwod in their wako. And tlto popumce at.ongo began to inquire: 'Whore iJflwxtOr'sP' 'Lot us go to this wohdorlul^staurant.' I was in ecsta sies of j y, ' I contemplated renting tho next; on in and hiring ten new wuit ors. Wt 'h I was in the midst of tliis dollrium >f dolight I was again brought face tb'Ji CO with despair. From the summit <F my prosperity I was linrled into the i optha of ruin. A dopi ty ahorift' came in ind closed my dooft^hon, your honor, I look to drink M drown my sorrow. Hut I shall berevougod on tho lobster." "Whnf did he do to injure you this tlmo,F^jpqulrod tlto justice. .VWiUt'tlkl ho doP" repeated the jrlsonoA^ "Ho changed tho signs!"? Itiilo Hy Niffht. ?0t<^frOU ovor know how Booth fassed the plokots on tho bridgo of tlio otomnjo,tfmt. fatal night''" said my friend. "I Will toll you as it was told mo by tyo old sontlncl who was that nlglit/o jlodoty t-hero. A half hour bo fore thi tlmo agreed upon by Booth to meet E arold tho lattor. who had lived in the ; telghborhood of tiio bridgo all his life and who was across tho river Jp the ittle Viilago of Uniontown thon, crosset too bridge to couin over on tho Washington sldo. 'Who go.* thoro?' Maid 1 lie sbntinol on tho bridgo. 'A friend, ?"/going for a doctor,' ropllod Haroli'Pass,* said tho sontinol. Ho quickl r rode up Eleventh stroot to Pcnn sylvat la avonuo and Eighth streot, and tliero n the darkness waitod until tho thund frtag hoofs of Uooth's horso woro heard fc.pomlnrr down Pennsylvania avenv % Th?> two horsomon thon start od Jl ?Wn 'Eighth streot toward tho brld?) On that rido for thoir lives, Whl0 ended in Oarrott's burning barn In VJ'ginia, a hundred milos away. ?Whojgoos thoroP' rang out on tho air frott the fltartlod sentry as tho two hor?< s oamo rushing toward tho bridge. Hate Id Was ahoad and orlod out, 'A frlen I. With tho doctor.' Tho two ninn C" ( d oyer tho bridge, and It was por i sovoral hours nrtor tho 'roverbora tloni of tho horAoa hoofs had died away beiO o tbe sentry know who tho men in such a hurry roaiiy woro, and whon ho fotH A 11 out ho was nearly scared to deal i for foar ho had failed to do his dutj?Philadelphia Times. >V , / K lltors will havo thoir peculiarities as v ell as othor pooplo. They praotico and ineuloato brevity, which is a vir tu*. They aro absent-raindod, which Is a failing. It is not strange, thon, that one Should sond a noto to his lady-lov like tho following: "Doarost, I have ear fully analyzed tho fooling I entor Uli for you, and the result is substan tia y as follows: I adore yonl Will yoi bemlneP Answer." Then, after a km mont. of thought, ho added in a dr amy, absont way: "Wrlto only on on i sido of tho paper. Write plainly, an I give real namo, not necessarily for pti ilioatlon, but as a giurantoo of good fa! ih.?"Buffalo Courier. ? . Patents in Moxtoo cost from $10 to I DO, acoording to the idoas of tho of flc e there as to tho importance of tho in mention covered. '1 he usual rato Is but an onterprlslng Chicago firm hi e been sanding out circulars propos iti g to obtain a Moxicsn patont for tho k [[form foe of $40. c growth of Hooinllnni In Oroat ^^yiot Inexplioable. In that l^than 10,(XX) landlords, (; ] ?king, rocolvo from the Blao am mnoh nx tlm to. fee,1 labororn for rough the Anoccloto ol" <?c* \oral Stager. "Tho death of Ceneral Anson Stager, reminds lue ul how ho took the first ^olograph message by sound, in this oily, about forty years ago." 'l'hc speaker, says the Pittsburg Times, was one <>f tin- **<-rv oldest news* paper meu in Pittsburg, ;>mi who^o tuomory goes away back, from tho present '.o tin* time when Mount, Wash ington was but a in>l iu tlio ground, auil covers even thin.: between. "T ore are various claimants of tho honor of being the lir?t to take by ear," he continued, ? ? l_>nt 1 do not think any of t'.o other-* o <ek a-, far as tins, it was about l ?:tv years ago when the O'Keilly 1 im?? wa-. the only telegraph wire into Pittsburg. Tin* oll'ice was in the second story of the Odeon building, on Fourth avoisue, over the old Mayor's ollice. i>.',\ .d 15t'i>o!? -. wlio is now lead in;.: the underground-airo lix''t before the 1. -gislatuii', w ;s manager, and An son Sta_->;r, wii > has just died. ex-Pres ident of the Western I'uioii Telegraph Company, wa? t..e operator. Andrew Carnegie, the iron pr nee; Kobert Pit e.iirn, of the Pennsylvania railroad <\>mpau\: City Attorney Morcland and Ge irge .M;-!? iin, cx-SuperitUondent of Fire Alarm Telegraph, were messenger boys in roundabouts. "There was but one instrument, r.nd wiien it got out of order business had to stop until it was rep, ire i. There were no special dispatei.es to news papers ami no delivery of press mes sages. Kach paper sent a reporter around to the telegraph ollice, who copied what he wanted tor his paper. Tho amount of foreign news was limit ed to l.oU'J a niiriit. and other reports iu proportion, the charge to each pa per being *51 a weeK. Regular tele graphic tolls at that time were 40 cents for ten words ami t cents for each ad ditional word. "One night when we called to copy the report wo found everything quiet and Stager sitting at tnc table that held tho instrument reading, lie told us there would be no news that night, as as that part of the instrument winch printed tho characters on the paper was broken. We so reported, and tho editor poured fresh oil on the gudgeon of the sc'.sjors and mado the best ar rangement I hey could to get along without any telegraphic news. "Between 11 o'clock and midnight Stager canto into tho ollice of tho Com mercial Journal with a bundle of man* uscript in his hand, llo said that while sitting by the instrument and listening mechanically to tho clicking it scorned to him that ho could make out what it was saying by the sound. Ho had written it out as it sounded to him. Iloro it was. If wo would tako tho risk on its accuracy wo wero welcome to aso it, and found on comparing with Eastorn papers which camo throo days later, that thoro wore very fow mistakes in it. Tho "scoop11 tho Commercial Journal thus obtaiuod over tho Dis patch, Post, Gazette, and Union was tho lk of tho tawu for sovoral days. tho lustrumonfc ?r"obt b&ok to tWold - maKQ ovorta ' tRlke ? Fjf"* >yUut, after nil, sho Usodto bo to a 80ti who salil this ,<Ji n mother tvbom somo'litffvoMy. .moJAdy had ovortakon and who was certainly a vory serious trial to her family. j Tho young man's life, too, was a weary ono. llo was hard-workod through the day, anil it was depressing to go homo at night to fault-linding and frotfulncss. Harder still was it to sleep, as this son did, week after week nnd month after month, with nil his senses half awako that ho might hear his mother's footsteps if they passed his door, and hurry after iier to keep her from wan dering out into the night alone, as her melancholy half-madness often led her to try to do. Strangely enough, she had turned against her own husband and her daughters. Only this one son had any power to porsuade her for good. His work by day and his vigil by night woro on him sorely, but he never com plained. One day his sister asked him how ho could bear it and be always patient, when sho?mother though she was? was in tho house only as a presonco of gloom and foreboding anil unrest. And the answer came: ?Iiut, aftor all, sho used to bo good to us." And then the thoughts of all tho group went back to tho years boforo this nervous prostration en mo upon her, when sho had nursed them in ill noss and pelted them in childhood? when she had been "?ood to thorn," ono and all. "I know," tho boy said, thought fully, "that I was a nervous, uncom fortable child myself tho first threo yoars of my life. Father said ho thought they'd never raise me, but mother said: 'Yes, she would,' and sho tendod mo day ami night for throo years, till I began to grow strong liko tho rest of you. I owe her thoso throo years, nny how, and sho shall havo thorn." And so ho girded himself nfresh for tho struggles. It will not last forever. Thero are signs wldeh tho doctors can recognize that tho cloud is lifting some what, and no doubt before long ffho will be her old self again. And then will como hor son's reward. Ho will feel that ho has paid a little of the dobt ho owed to tho love that watched over his weak babyhood. To many mothers, worn by long care, such years of melancholy and nervous prostration must come. And tho sons and daughters who find their homes saddenod\by such a sorrow should lovingly romomlier tlie days In whioh they woro helpless, and mother was "good to them." '<? t'rnncitco Call. Intorcst in polities increase* in (Jor ranny. Thoro wero197 morn vot ers, nllowing /or all increaso ?'.? popu lation, who wont to tho poll ii loHt tli 11 n in 1HS1. Of this increase th ? So cial Democratic party polled 248,029 votes. Orin of tho groatost libraries in this country is tlint of Adolph Sutro, tho borer of tho famous Sutro Tiinnol. Mr. Hutro has scoured Kuropo in search of raritios, and has now stored in San Francisco onough books to bring tho titles alone up to lf>0,000. Young man, If you are ambitious don't try for a clerkship at Washing ton. Tako warning from tho career of tho oldest Clerk in tho Treasury De partment. Appointod In 1H17 at a sal ary of $1,200, ho is now getting $1,400 ? a rise of in thirty-oight yoara. A Parisian oxporimentor has discov ered that man is more sensitivo to tho effects of morphino than is any other animal. A dog can take five times as rimoh of the drug and ft monkey fifty tlmon a? much In proportion to their roflpootlvo wolghta aa ft human boing LJrljcuoli'n AppotiCe. It has always beon a very painful thought to mo that hoavon-bciu tonors eat. Nothing is further from uiy idea of a horo of Italian opera than eating. Driuking is rather natural, although ono always associates the tenor with chauipagno and dolioato wines. But I know that Cardinali eats. I have seen him. IIo is not a poetic cater. I have had my eyo lixed on tho Adam's applo of Uianuini's throat, but I bolicvo it is not good manners, while ho has swal lowed a toothsome morsel of macaroni. It is dreadfully dostructivo of Ernani, Radames, and Faust to know that tho sweetness of their music is proservod at tho expense of all romantic ideal. Brig uoli was tho boy to oat, though. IIo discounted tho modern champagne and oyster tenor. Ho belonged to tho old school of feeders and ho fed like other lions. Tho higher a tenor can sing tho moro ho can eat. It is tho bal anco of art. Joo Polk used to give an amusing ac count of Brignoli's supper*, which were like sovoral dinners of an ordinary mortal. Ho used to frequent Morotti's in New York, a favorite Italian restaur ant. It was Morctti himself who stood sadly on tho shore and saw tho great tenor sail for England. "Au rcvoir," I tho silver-voiced tenor cried, and waved : his fat hand to the restaurateur. "Signor, $3,000!" cried Morctti, pit- i oously, and tho words wero exchanged i on both sides till they were out of hear ing of ouo another. lint Briguoli would go to Morotti's after a performance. "Signor, good eveuing. How do you feel this evening?" said tho waiter. "How I feel? Ah, can you not seo? 1 am secck; I am very scoek." "What will you oat, siguor?" "Eat, can you not seo I am sceek? I am scock? 1 am not well. 1 cannot oat." "Wo have some very nice oysters, signor.". "Oysters? I havo no appetite. I am not welL I am secck. nut I must cat. My doctor say I must force mysolf to eat. Bring mo two dozen. I will try thoni." The oysters aro brought and demol ished. k'Signor, how do you feel now?," "Whit for you ask mo how I fcol? I am not well. I cannot eat anything. "Wo havo some lino fish." "Oh, I must oat. My doctor say I must oat Bring mo a pound and 1 will taste it." Tho fish follows tho oystcrS. "Signor, how do you feel now?" "Fool? I feel very scock. 1 can cat nothing." "Wo havo soniu very nico chops." "Chops? If I could ,onlv oat! well, I must foreo my&ew to will try six or so von." lho chops follow (ho fiab.j "Slguor, how do you fool J "Oh, am so soock?so seo( no appotito." A "Tnoro's some good mao] VAh, well, I supposo I '"fjJn tho macaroni. I li follows the again. Mrlng In your b!lf of inffi Brignoli will dlno."?San Francisoo Chronicle. "Tim." Thoy said the train was an hour bo hind time, and that Information niado us all fool put out and annoyed. There fore, when a hoy of about 11, poorly drossod and having a trampish look, carao along tlu: platform asking for finaucial aid to get him down to K on tho train wo were waiting for, it was but natural that one and all re plied: "If you want to go to 11 take tho dirt road! You look as if you wero used to tramping!" lie had no snuey word in reply. When he wont and stood in the light of tho window, and I saw how lie shivered in tho cold wind, and how worried and anxious ho seemed to be, I grew ashamed of my grufV words. I saw two or threo others look him over as I had done, and I had no doubt that ihey felt as 1 did. 1 ought to have walked up to the boy and said: "More, my lad, if you really want to go down to 11 , l*m willing to help you. Tako this half-dollar. How happens it that a lad of your ago is cold, ragged, hungry and away from homo ami friends? lint I didn't. I edged towards him, ashamed, and 3'ot not quite ready to ac knowledge it to him, and all of a sud den he disappeared. I reasoned that ho had gone up the hill to the village, and that his pretending to want to go to it??? was all a trick to beat honest man. When you reason that way tho hoart grows hard pretty fast, and you fool a bit revengeful. We talked the matter over?four or five of us? and tho conclusion was that tho boy would die on tho gallows. Well tho train came along after a while; and it was moving away, after a brief. stop, when a piuroing shriek, followed by shouts ami calls, brought us to a stop. "Somebody's boi-n run over!" called a voice, and in a moment, the coaches woro emptied. Yes, somebody had been run over bad a log cut oil' above the knee by one of the cruel whools. Who was itP How did it happen? It was our boy? the hid who was to end his days on the gallows. lie had crept under tho coach to steal a ride on the trucks. Thoro ho was, having only a fow min utes to live his foro as white as the snow-banks?hU oyes roving from face to faco?his lips quivering as twenty mon bent down and spoke words of sympathy. "VVho 1 are you?" asked the con ductor. ??Tim!" "You .shouldn't lnvo tried il." "Iiut I wanted to got to K so bt\d! I was up hero to find work, but nobody would have mo, and yesterday I hoard tli.it mother was dead!" "Hut anybody would havo given you sixty cents to pay your faro." "Oh, no they wouldn't. I asked lots and loth of inoii and fbey said I ought to tin iu jail. I I-- wanted - ?!" Thorn wo woro tho half dozen of us who had ropollod hint with insult wrung his yotitrj honrl Rtill more sont him to this horriblo donth under tho whools! Wo darnd not look into his face wo evon shunned oaoh other. If it could only come to pass again if hoavon would but send him back to oarth and lot him stand boforo us as ho did that winter's night but it is too lato! Detroit Free i'res*. Curio parlors is tho latest namo for dimo museums in tho West, whoro at tompts at rotinoinonts of language often scorn to bo in invorso proportion to popular tasto and oultura. (i m:\nings. Kaw o\*te;s arc highly recommend ed as a cm:re for hoarseness. France is now getting largo supplies of canned frogs froiu this country. Before 111>? war only the sweet potato ivas grown in the Southern States. Ostium Digm.i i< noted for his dash anil impudence. His mother was French. Of the joiiii'.' ladies in the Normal College in New Yon* -0 per cent aro J ewi.<!>!??. Mr. tM'oi^e II lYudlcton's grand father wu- 1 lan.i.tun's second in the fa tal duel with Aaron l.urr. Teun\sou's salary as a poet is but I $180 a year, hut he has tho traditional tun of wine and the prestige. [ 1-indscv Muse, the \derail doorkeej* j er for the > cretary of the Navy, has ? served n: th it capacity for lifty-scvon ' years. I Amotiir the l/Jito laws regulating the French i r< ?s is our,centuries olil, which threaten-, t.ie proof-reader with death I for even one I hinder. An entomologist has reported having i found 7:M species of noxious insects iu i tho trees, shruhs and plants of tho New I York parks last year. I John L. Sullivan's younger brother is some day expected to knock out Jumbo, and possibly may aspire to a round with Joint himself. The latest puz/.io now vexing some persons is how to place eight checkers on a board so that no two will bo eith er ou a straight or diagonal line in either direction. The highest chimney in the world is said to be the circular ono built of brick and stone at l'ort Dtindax, noar Glasgow, Scotland. It, towers to a height of 45G feet ubovo ground. Caterpillars aro eaten in Australia and at the Capo at the risk of woful pains in the stomach, and even spiders, abhorred by every other race, aro eat en by the Hottentots and New Caledon ians, with the same liability. Tho wife and daughters of Hob In fjersoll dress plainly and comb their lair naturally, and are described as looking for all the world as if they had stepped d6wn and out from somo of the canvases in a gallery of beauty. A curiosity in the form of an orango weighing twenty-four ounces is oxcit ing no little interest in Lovy, Fla., wltero it was grown. A resident noar Brooksvillo boasts of having gathorod front his grovo S()0 oranges winch avejv aged in weight ono pound, grovo is a oom])j this boi ?rmpL reptile'a fftriga, Tfnt sent. Sho taught tho miaUo to jHQ at n rod haudkorchlof. Obtaining proof of her lover's infidelity sho spread a rod silk handkerchief on his fnco while ho was asleop, and tho oobra struck him repeatedly. Ho died with out speaking. Hattio Kotchum, tho livo-yoar-old daughter of a farmer and tobacco grower near Weodsport, N. Y., is said to bo hopelessly addicted to tho uso of tobacco, and has boon sinco sho was two years old. When between ono and two years of ago tho girl was artlictod with colic, and at tho suggestion of a friend tobacco smoko was blown into milk and given her. This romedy proved cft'octivo, but created an uncon trollable desire for tobacco, and by various subterfuges tho child has ever since found means to satisfy her crav ing for the weed. Most of Mr. Arthur's Cabinot ofllcors were good smokers. Mr. Frollnghuy scn did not uso tobacco, though tho Assistant Secretary of Stato, Air. Da vis, liked good cigars, and plonty of them. Tobacco was the only thing that over made Secretary Ch and lor turn palo. Hut (Jen. (Jrosham was a groat smoker. Ho smoked on the public streets, at his work, and whorovor ho could. Secretary Toiler liked a cigar that would lust :v long timo and was not very ?trong. Secretary Lincoln smokes a good many pretty stift' cigars overy day, and Atlorney-(Jenorul Hrow ster liked ono with body to it. Somo years ago a story was current of a woman who applied at a London hospital for treatment of a nervous af fection. After listening to a recital of her symptoms, tho doctor mado hor shut her lips upon :i clinical thermome ter. Upon removing it, tho patient exclaimed: "Why,I declare it ha>dono mo good already." Tito doctor humor ed her delusion, and refrained from !iny other treatment than a fow more applications of the magical glass tube. Sho was soon cured. A parallel ease is now cited by the 1'hiladclphia Medi cal \i urn, au hysterical patient having been cured by magnetism. Tho mag net was of wood, just capped with niot al, so us to seem cold to the touch. "Pot liole>" have, recently been dis covered on (lro.it Island, Me., and somo persons h.?\e considered them of mysterious origin. A correspondent who lias often seen similar excavations along the Columbia Kiver, in Oregon, says they are due to the swift current in the ovorllow of the rivers, which forms eddies and small whirlpools, causing a motion in a loose bowhlor, which acts as a drill, and it\ course of timo bores a smooth, round "pot" in the rock in which it lies, the loose stones becoming lound in the process. Any number of the round stones may he found in the h ,!? ' >*ul lying among loose stone* oil till bea ,i. The f'11iti?*<?? Know the valueof adver tising. lion; in tho "ad" of an ink manufacturer <if ('unton, trmifllfttod: "At llio whop Tan-sing (prosporon* in tlio oxtromo) very good ink; lino! flnol Ancient shop, groat grandfather, grand father, fathor, and solf make this ink; lino nml linrd, vory hard; picked with oaro, noloctod with attention. Thin ink is heavy; ho in gold. Tlio oyo of tlio dragon glitters nnd dn/./.lon, .to doo* this ink. Noono makes liko it. Other* who make ink mnko it for tho snko of accumulating huso coin nnd client, whilo I mnko it only for n nnmo. I'lon ty of A-kwnntsnos (gontlemon) know my ink?niy family novor cheated? I hoy hrivo nlways horno a good niimn. 1 mnko ink for tlio 'Son of llonvon' and nil tlio Mandarins in tho Kmpiro. A* tlio ronr of tho tigor extends to ovory Itlnco, ho doos tho fnrnoof tho 'dragon'* owol.' "?N- y. '>V?''tun.