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END OP THE FIRST AOT. The lights burned-lower; a fainr perfume Stole its way through the crowded room. The boxes were filled With fair women, who rustled in silks and . laces; Who looked and listened with eager faces As the singers trilled Their melodious numbers and played their parts, And made sad havoc in some soft hearts, For they sang of love. Oh, what u theme . To make the young and beautiful dream; So they sang of love, And this was the scene: The Burgomaster, with brow serene, Slum! lered and dreamed In his high-backed chair While his daughters stood in the moon light fair That streamed through the casement and touched their hair, And round their waists were the circling arms Of their soldier lovers; and all the charms Of the moonlight, the music that rose and fell One cord o'er the other with dreamy swell ?Pthe heart of the listeners wrought a spell For the moment divine. Was it mine and thine? This passion they counterfeit there , as well? Thus we once swore with many a vow Many a kiss unremembered now. Since then Love's story must sure have grown old, Soof ten you've heard it by others told.' Our love grewcold As our minds grew further and further apart, .. Until at the last Our passion had passed And left us each with an empty heart. Einpty, and yet I felt the agony of regret As for a moment that sweet love song Swept with its thrilling measure along. And I remembered a moonlight scene With you and I in the window nook, And I was saying, "My life, my queen!" While your father dozed o'er a dreary book. Was it a wonder that real it seemed? Was it a wonder I dreamed Till the curtain fell, Breaking the spell? ?Phil L. Barker. Yet They Uphold the System. Everybody iu England knows how a lord is made, that barbers may become lord chancellors and brewers get baronies; that political service or trickery, or wealth ob tained often by questionable means, can Bspure that nobility which is denied to science and letters and art. Yet Froude and Lecky and May uphold the system, and journalists with more power than any duke in the peerage, grovel in their col umns at the mention of a lord. Nine tenths of the literary men in England feel themselves honored when asked to the tables of persons with less education or icter or ability than their own. 16 people who use the pen, inueed, do more for the continuance of the aristo cratic system and the development of its pernicious influence than any other class hi the community. They spread the doc trine and intensify the sentiment which Bupport an institution more hostile to the greatest good of the greatest number than any other that exists in civilized so ciety. If the men of. letters fought the lords, the lords would go down. But the men of letters serve and follow the lords; apd the aristocracy flaunt their insolence La the face of the world, and take their superiors La their train to proclaim their magnificence, to illuminate their feasts, and to celebrate the splendor they may not share. They deserve the place they , accept. They recall a description 1'long ago read of a Russian serf carefully hold ing the horses of his master who stood on the shafts while he horse-whipped the slave.?Adam Badeau's Letter. The Humor of an Author. Who shall ridicule the fancies of women as to dress, no matter how senseless they may seem, when so illustrious an author an Edgar Fawcett fits his apparel to his employment. Fawett is rich, and can af ford to write according to his humor. I went to his residence once to seo him. Thence I was sent away across town into the tenement house district of the greac east side, where I found him in a top-story room overlooking Tompkins square. He s^id that he was engaged on a portion of a novel located among the toiling poor, and so ho had temporarily hired that apart ment, in order to breathe the atmosphere of his subject. Moreover, he wore a cheap suit of clothes, and the furniture was such as might have appropriately been in an impoverished family's home. When he set out to compose poetry, hb inclosed him self in an elegant study in his own resi dence, put on a dressing-gown, simple or gorgeous, according as he meant to write naive or florid verse, and thus costumed himself for his task. With such msthetic authorization, why shall not our girls in dulge in niceties and caprices of garb?? "Uncle Bill's" New York Letter. The Boy n:nl tho Hornet. A Boy he Stuffed his ole Clothes with Straw and put the Dummy in a fence earner of the Medder. Bimo-by an Old Hornet came along on his Way homo from Btealin' Wool, and as Soon as ho set Eyes on the Boy he said: "Looks like a Thunder Shower off there, and it won't do for this Boy to get Wet. He seems like a Boy anxious to get up in the World, and I guess PU Lift him." He lit down on the"6traw-stuffed body and Jabbed in his Ole Stinger for keeps, ?end he was expectin' to hear Screams of Agony, when the Boy who had put up tho Job looked threw the Fenco and said: "You needn't be iu any hurry to go on my Account!" "Dum my Buttons!" said the Hornet as he made off; "but that's the last time Pll try and help a Boy, up!" Moral?And a Feller could have any Amount of Fun with a Cannon if it wasn't for his mother, who thinks he'll be Busted.?Detroit Free Press. Itoiul Across the Entire Republic). The origin of the Swiss Confederacy dates back to 130S. But there is a repub lic named San Marina, in northeast Italy, which sprang into existence in 441, of which little thought has ever been taken. The country would not now be noticed, only that it has been ostentatiously staled a railroad is to be constructed which "will traverse the entire republic." This is not .so stupendous au undertaking, as iniglut be thought, since the length of tho road will be only twenty miles.?Chicago Her ald. Now Undertakings iu the South. it is estimated that fully ?36,-O(X),00O oi northern and English capital was invested in new undertakings in the south in the fjrst three months of the current year. "Ebo JFnto of a Call? EJly. There was just a touch of the pathetic as well as humorous aide to a story told by Col J. H: "Woodward, of San Fran cisco. It was an occurrence of his last trip from New York to the Pacific coast. In the car were two ladies from Boston? "old maids" of tho New England school that is, charming, educated and refined women. They were going out to the coast to teach school or get married, and it probably had not occurred to them which they would prefer. Among their baggage-was a little pot with a calla lily in full bloom. The plant was not above eight or ten inches in height. They cured for the liower as tenderly as if it was a first-born baby. It was bitter cold in the east and there was snow on the ground. The ctdla made a bright spot in the car, and they were proud of it. The train sped along day after day, until one night when they retired they were told that the next morning would bring them into the beautiful San Joaqnin valley. When morning broke the train seemed to have been transported into a new coun try. The air was warm and balmy. .The face.of nature was entirely changed^ The bleakness of winter had given place to the warmth and bloom of spring. The Boston maidens were awake eaiiy.- They did not tire of the scene, but" they discovered something that called them together in hurried consultation. They observed every few miles great growths of tall, white flowers. They were strangely bke callas, only they were three and four feet taU and the flowers were simply enormous. They whispered more thau once over this spec tacle, and it was finally understood that they recognized tho flowers as .callas. Then they began tod?ok furtlvoly &t<$heir Uttle plant in the pot. It was insignificant enough beside these queens of the west ern slopes. Suddenly one oi the women raised-the window; while, the other with a quick movement seized the pot and quickly dropped it out of the window. It was all done in an instant, and no one but Col. Woodard saw it, and he had too much feeling for them to say anything about it. ?Cor. New York Tribune. The Uproar .of the Musketry. Everyone is familliar with the "long roll," as beaten by a skillful drummer; but the roll of the artillery tiiunder at Gettys burg was more rapid thau any pair of drumsticks. It was not a series of peals; it was one long roar without a break. Talk of Jove's thunder? The gods of Mount Olympus would have sunk down with terror had they heard such a sound. Nevertheless, the monotonous din had a somnolent effect. The writer und num bers* of his men who were lying low in tho Emmitsburg turnpike, between the op posing lines of altillery, fell into a sound sleep during its continuance and while awaiting the expected charge of the Con federates. Yet, heavy aud sustained as was the artillery fire, from the time, shortly after, that tho infantry became engaged the sound of the cannons was completely silenced in the still greater up roar of the musketry. Through the smoke we, who were con tending with the flank of Pickett's Virginians, could see our brave cannon eers, iuany of them stripped to the waist and with handkerchiefs bound around their heads, turning the sponge-staff, loading their guns, pulling the lanyards; we could see the white clouds rising from their guns aud the Confederate shells ex ploding around thorn, and could see the Confederate artillery also during this bloody melee between the contending infantry, some of their batteries which had gallantly accompanied their charg ing lines, unlimbered within 200 yards of us and blazing away furiously. Yet not one sound of that fearful'artillery play did we hear during the persistent rattle of the small arms.?T. F. Galwey in Chicago Times. A Tradition of the Maatodon. The Pyramid lake region has forages and ages been the favorite haunt and home of ..the Piute Indians. The have many traditions concerning the fantastic rocks in the lake, its. finny inhabitants, and the caves and canons of the surround Iug mountains; also of great earthquakes and volcanic eruptions that caused the ground to spout water to an immense height. They have a tradition that the country was infested many generations ago by huge animals that tore down and rooted up the trees of the nut-pine orch ards and in other ways made themselves obnoxious. These animals were of the size of an elephant or mastodon. The In dians constantly made war upon them, and finally the last herd was driven into Pyramid hike and drowned. To this day when there Is a heavy storm, and big, black waves are seen rising and sinking out toward the center of the lake, tho Piutes say it is the backs of the great beasts that were driven into the lake in the olden time. The many tracks of ele phants found in the state prison stone quarry at Carson City would seem to show that there is some foundation for the tradition. At the same quarry are found the tracks of tigers, wolves, deer, large birds, and also tracks supposed to bo those of prehistoric man shod in mocca sins made of uutanuod hide. All these tracks arc in one stratum, under about twenty feet of superincumbered rock.? Dan de Quille in New York Sun. Manufacture of n Terra Cotta Lumber. A terra cotta lumber has recently been added to the list of mineral building materials. A kaoliuite of good quality is mixed with sawdust , worked by machinery into slabs, and is then burned, sawed, and dressed. It is, in this condition, ready for market, and is said to be indestructible by lire, water or gas. It is a poor conductor, and suffers but Blight expansion or con traction by changes of temperature. Its weight is put down at one-half that of brick. It can be worked with edge tools, bored, and sawed, and holds nails as readily as timber. It is also made Into hollow tile and fireproof casing.?Scehtific American. Good Manners of tho Itostonlans. It is the little courtesies of every-day life?no matter where (need it be only at home?), in the streets, the cars, the churches, the shops, that make a people delightful and leave an inpre-ss on the stranger. They say about the Boston!ans that, there is something about the east ?vsind that demonstrates itself in their ex terior, and an American lady who had lived many years in tho south of France, upon receiving a call from a Bostoninn, wrote: "The moment he entered I felt the old Boston east wind in his manner, but after a while it wore off and he became quite genial."?Boston Transcript. T? Distribute Among Ills Constituents. Each congressman rs entitled to U.ouo paper packages of vegetable seed, 500 of flower seed, 300 of tobacco, fifty quarts of grass, thirty-two of cotton, twenty-eight of sugar-beet, and twenty each of corn and sorghum, to distribute among his constitu ents.?Chicago Tribune^ E?OISCMMiYIA. -- STURDY PEOPLE WHO HAVE OVER . RON SEVEN WESTERN STATES. They Make Admirable Citizens in Many Wayn?The Majority Are Farmers Churches and Newspapers?Peculiari ties of Swedes and Norwegians. Neither Jan Printz in his stronghold on tiie Delaware nor Jan Claudius Kisingh, the commander of Fort Casimir, had such strong reasons for calling their settle ments New Sweden as the people of many a town in Minnesota have. The immigra tion to the northwest from Scandinavia has been enormous. Beginning a few years befora the war of the rebellion, when Minnesota was the main hunting ground of the Sioux Indians, it continued small and irregular until I860, when it began in a mighty volume, and since that time it has continued without serious interrup tion until now there are in this country more than 400,000 Swedes and Norwe gians, the great majority of them being residents of Minnesota, Dakota, Wiscon sin, Iowa, Illinois, Nebraska and Kansas. For forty years previous to the war they camo at the rate of from 100 to 2,000 a year. Since the rebeUion as many as 80, 000 of them have arrived In one year. B linois has 58,000 of them, mostly Swedes, one-half of the number being in Chicago. Iowa's 40,000 are about equally divided between Swedes and Norwegians. Kan sas has 12,000, principally Swedes, whUe Nebraska has 12,000, the majority of whom are of the same nationality. In Wiscon sin there are 57,000, mostly Norwegians, which is true also of Dakota's 25,000. Minnesota heads the list with about 125, 000, most of whom are Norwegians. LITERALLY TAKEN POSSESSION. Men of middle age, who remembered that ns boys the picture in their school books of "a Norwegian killing a bear" sug gested a country and a race that were then as remote from us as the Soudan and the Soudanese now are, will be amazed at these figures, but they do not tell the whole truth. The Scandinavian has liter ally taken possession of whole counties hi the northwest, and the civilization which there obtains Is that of Scandinavia, with some modifications and improvements, rather than that of tho United States. In Minnesota, more than in any other state, the Swedes and Norwegians have im pressed themselves upon business, society and politics. At the last census the na tive voting population of this state was 88,000, while the foreign-rborn voters num bered 123,000. In only two other states does this condition of affairs prevail, viz.: Nevada and Wisconsin. The foreign-born voter predominates in every congressional district In Minnesota, their smallest ma jority being 3,000 in the First, and the largest 13,000, in the Third. In the first place it may be said that as a body the Scandinavians are industrious, thrifty, honest, and pious. They are more clannish than the Germans, and more docile than tho Irish. The great majority of them follow agriculture, although there are many in the pineries, not a few are (if possible) engaged as sailors on the great lakes, and several thousands of them are carpenters and masons. Of a Scandinavian family every member works. The man and wife who own and operate a farm in Minnesota, Iowa, or Wisconsin -will have daughters at domestic service in some adjacent city. Thousands of the -best house servants in Chicago are froci-the families of Scandinavian farmers in tho northwest. This industry, the close economy which is usuaUy practiced by young and old of both sexes, the absence of spreeing habits on the part of the men as a rule, the tendency of aU to attach themselves to the land, save as they can better their condition in the cities, and the kindly and helpful disposition which they show toward each other, are all hav ing the effect of lifting these newcomere to independence and wealth. TnF.IR CHURCH ORGANIZATIONS. They have their own churches, mostly Lutheran, although there are many of the Methodist and Baptist denominations; and rlfty newspapers and periodicals, more than half of which are published in Chicago in their native tongue, sup ply tnem with suitable reading. No Scandinavian community, no matter how small, Is without is church organization, and where there is not wealth^nough to support a clergyman, that functionary works on week days at the plow, or at tho bench the same as other people, and pre pares for his Sunday labors during the evenings. Singularly undemonstrative, unobiitrusive, and taciturn, the Scandi navians, notwithstanding their large numbers, are not conspicuous. Their go ings and coming are all cpiiet, their pro ceedings all orderly. They do not, as a rule, figure in any organizations outside tho church. In the cities they are not turbulent or excitable. If by nny clrmce during a political campaign a.few scxres j of them can be persuaded to march iu a I procession, they are as demure in their de portment as if they were in attcnlauco at a funeral. Not given much to hilarity, J indulging in it in no Sunday parades or ! plcnlas, and caring little for beer, such of them as have an appetite for intoxicants I are satisfied with nothing weaker than al coholic spirits. But the bibulous Scandi navians must bo comparatively few in number or else very circumspect when under the influence of liquor, for the po lice records have very little to say about them. One peculiar thing about these two kin dred people from the great northern pen insula of Europe is the sublime contempt in which the Swedes profess to hold the Norwegians. Nothing hurts a Swedish young woman more than to be taken for a Norwegian, and she is not slow to rebuke the person so offending. The Swedes are generally fairer and taUer than the Norwegians, who are apt to be short, stooky and swarthy, like many of the Danes. Swedish girls who have had the benefits of good home training are highly prised by American families, and they master tho English language so easily that, with their fair hair and complexion, it is often difficult to recognize that they are newcomers. What is true of them is true of members of both races as regards their lingual accomplishments. A Scandi navian soon divests himself of every trace of his own accent, and speaks English as fluently as anybody with no greater ad vantages than he. While most members ; uf the race in this country cherish a nat j und affection for the old country, their un . emotional natures render them free from '. a desire to parade their nationalistic pre judices, and it can not be doubted that they will be assimilated, in spite of their clannishness, more readily than the people of some other nationalities, who bring their old-conutry pride and prejudices here with them and transmit them to their children.?St. Paul "Cor. New York Sun. A two-foot rule: Keep your feet dry. BILL NYE ON GALILEO. Bomo Hitherto Unpublished Facts About This Inventor from Wayback. Galilei, commonly callod Galileo, was born at Pisa on tho 14th day of February, 1564, He was a man who discovered somo of the fundamental principles underlying the move ments, habits, and personal peculiarities of the earth. Ho discovered things with mar velous fluency. Born, as he was, at a time when tho rotary motion of the earth was still in its infancy, and astronomy taught only iu a crude way, Galileo started in to make a few discoveries and advance some theories of which ho was very fond. He was the son of a musician, and learned to play several instruments himself, but not in such n way as to arouse tho jealousy of the great musicians of his day. They como and heard him play a few selections, and then they went homo contented with their own music. Galileo played in the band. At tho age of 20 Galileo began to discover. His first discoveries were, of course, clumsy and poorly made, but very soon ho began to turnout a neat and durablo discovery that would stand for years. It was at this timo that Galileo noticed the ? swinging of a lamp in a church, and, ob serving that tho oscillations wero of equal duration, he inferred that this principle might bo utilized in the exact measurement of time. From this little accident, years after, came the clock, one of tho most useful of man's dumb friends. And yet there are peoplo who will read this little incident and still hesitate about going to church. Galileo also invented tho thermometer, tho microscope, and tho proportional compass. He seemed to invent things, not for tho money to bo obtained in that way, but solely for tho joy of being first on the ground. He was n man of infinite genius and persevor ance. Ho was nlse very fair in his treat ment of other inventors. Though he did not personally invent tho rotary motion of tho earth, ho heartily indorsed it and Baid it was a good thing. Ho also came out In a card in which ho said that ho believed it to be a good thing, and that ho hoped somo day to see it applied to the other planets. He was also the inventor of a telescope that had a magnifying power of thirty times. Ho presented this to the Venetian senate, and it was used in making appropriations for river and harbor improvements. By telescopic investigation Galileo discov ered tho presence of microbes in tho moon, but was unable to do anything for it I have spoken of Mr. Galileo all tho way through this article informally, colling him by his first name, but I foel so thoroughly acquainted with him, though thore was such a striking difference in our ages that I am almost justified in using his given name while talking of him. Galileo also sat up nights and visited with Venus through a long telescopo which ho had made himself from an old bamboo fishing rod. But astronomy is a very enervating branch of scionce, Galileo frequently cargo down to breakfast with red, heavy eyes, eyes that wero swollen full of unshed tears. Still he persevered. Day after day ho worked and toiled. Year after year he went on with his task, till he had worked out in his own mind tho satr'bt ->s of Jupiter and placed a small tin tag "ch one, so that he would know it readliy when ho saw it again. Then he began to look up Saturn's rings and investi gate tho frecklos on tho sun. Ho did not stop at trifles, but went bravely on till every body came for miles around to look at him and get him to wTite something funny in their albums. It was not an unusual thing for Galileo to get up in tho morning, after a wearisome night with a fretful now-born star, to find his front yard full of autograph album*. w$m? Galileo's book sold well on the trains. Galileo was tho author of a little work called "I Discarsi o Dinias-Trnzioni Mate maticho Intorus a Due Muovo Scienze," It was a neat little book, of about tho medium height, and sold well on the trains, for tho Pisan newsboys on the cars wero very affa ble, as they arc now, and when they came and leaned an armful of these books on a passenger's leg and poured a long tale into his ear about the wonderful beauty of the work and then pulled in the name of the book from the rear of tho lost car, whore it had been hanging on behind, the passonger would most always buy it and enough of the name to wrap it up in. Ho also discovered the isochronism of tho pendulum. Ho Faw that tho pendulum at certain seasons of the year looked yellow under the eyes, and that it drooped and did not enter into its work with the old zest. He legau to study the case with the aid of his new bamboo telescope and wicker covered microscope. As a result, in ten days ho had the pendulum on its feet again. Galileo was inclined to bo liberal in his re ligious views, and more especially iu the mtit:er nf the Scriptures, claiming that there were passages iu tLo Bilde which did not lit erally mean what the translator said they did. l Iiis was wln'iv Galileo missed it So lun^ as lie discovered stars find isochrouisms and such things as that lie succeeded, but wIm-m Iu? l<egan T<> ton! with other people's frcligiotts l"dief.? he got into trouble. He was evil i ISv from I'.sa. ire are loid by the historian, ;-irl we arc assurwl ;.l the samo tini.- that Galileo, who had always been far, f?r ml of nil competitors in olhor things, was ? qunlly sin cpssful as a fleer. 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