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$'v5_ Waiting. Wnen all the happy woods and hilla Are filled with tmmmor's melodies, "When the oold hand of winter stills The rippling streams, tho whispering trees, ' My heart uuchange<l 6ings still one song, "My love, my love," tho whole year long. For all tho inystory of life, Tho hopo of dawn, tho night's despair, The greed ot gain, the luit ot strife, And grinding want and gnawing care, Lie drowned beneath tho sunlit sea kji my groat joy?bIio lovotli mo. WC.' Tho summer winds tluit corao nnd go, r IV Laughing about the shady ways, Tho wators in thoir ebb and flow Havo still 0110 voioo through nil the days: "Love mocks at time, love laughs at i'alo!" 7 -. ' I wait, because who bids ine wuit. Nor would I wondor il" she came, In any place, on any day, From out the sunset's orimson flame, Or down the morning's misty way ; Nor dream it more, nor find it less, The marvel of her loveliness. ?Longman's Magazine. p ======= <t J V THE DENTIST'S STORY. W f An up-town dentist was surprised one morning last week as he entered his office from an adjoining parlor by the apparition of a weary-looking young man in a dress suit, who was reclining in the capacious operating chair, and smoking a cigar. The dentist had been nrenareri bv liia sflrvnnt to see a professional visitor, but he was totally unprepared for the visitor's luxurious, free-and-easy attitude. As the young man recognized the dentist through the aureole of smoke he remarked, with the tranquility of one who is used to that sort of thing: "Doctor, I want a tooth filled." The professional gentleman, who idso looked a little weary, took a needle-like instrument from a marble shelf with his right hand, and, with his left, gently pulled down the young uiun s ciun, disclosing an interior that . fairly glittered with gold. As the ^ . dentist put his head closer to the young man's mouth and tapped gently on the only tooth that seemed to have any of its original structure left, he became aware that his patient had ( ; lieen drinking. As the dentist made ithis discovery, which furnished him with a reason for the unexpected visit and attitude, the young man found out that the dentist was not a prohibitionist. "I suppose," said the dentist, tapping , the tooth again, "you want gold put - in this?" v The young man nodded aflirmatively. The dentist noticed, as he tucked |" a lowei unaer tne young man's chin, I i that be wore a massive gold watch j B - chain, diamond shirt studs, and a big I I solitaire ring. He mentally concluded 1 that the young man could afford to pay $50 for having his tooth repaired. An energetic agitation of a little H Bteel probe in the hollow of the bad Nfcooth dispelled some of the young I nHm's weariness. I sfiould say," the dentist observed, ; I as he inserted a revolving tool, opera| by a treadle, into the cavity and | Worked it around with great enthusi|asp\?"I should say that the gold in your head is worth a snug little sum ?" The young man made a sound indicating that it was. The dentist's liquor, apparently unlike the young man's, was speech-provoking. "Who filled them?" hfi inmilro?l oa r ; - he withdrew the tool and let the pal tient spit out some part of the superL fluous tooth. The young man languidly answered, Pi as if the dentist were boring him as ' well as his tooth, that it was a certain well-known dentist. k "Is that so?'' said the tooth mender, H with a surprised expression. "Why, r he and I were partners less than eight years ago. He's a good dentist; one of the ornaments of the profession, sir. I once had a very funny experience with one of his customers?very funny." A look' of distress came over the young man's face. But the dentist's - ( liquor spurred him on, and he began in the style of a man who had told the Btory before: "I was crossing Broadway at Twenty-eighth street one rainy summer night about live years ago, when a cab came dashlDg along, spattering the mud right and left. Just as it bounded over the crossing the head of a? does that hurt??the.head of a pretty VOIlItff woman nrnfriula*? frrwnr. ?? ? o """* 'Ouch 1" exclaimed the young man, .Starting up in the chair. "You struck & nerve. /Why in the deuce " "I beg your pardon," said the dentist, backing away as if he expected i the young man to pitch into him. "I? gv V*?I?think not?I don't believe the ne>ve is exposed. But if yott will be calm and permit me to look, I will find out;!' and the dentist introduced a little ^ r>look|lng-glas3 into the young man's feputh and examined the tooth. "No," aaid the dentist, confidently, "the nerve is all right." Then he got to werh With the revolving tool again, ' ' \ ^ , i , * V';,' j v ^ and resumed his narrative, notwithstanding the frown on the young man's face. "As I was saying, just as she put her head out of the window her teeth, an upper set, fell out in the mud. I saw her handkerchief raised to her mouth and her head disappear in the darkness of the interior of the cab. I picked up the tedth, and, after wiping them off with my handkerchief, put them in my pocket." TK/n * -i "? ' ? jlmu jUUUJ5 niiiii n nice snoweu, lor the first time, a glimmer of interest in the narration. "Of course," the dentist went on, "I expected the cab to turn around directly, and I waited on the corner to have the pleasure of handing the teeth back to their lovely owner. But I was disappointed. The cab rattled right on. 1 took the teeth home and examined them attentively. I recognized them as the handiwork of my former partner and myself. They were a valuable set, and as I turned them over and over under the gaslight I recalled the face of the young lady for whom we, my partner and I, made them. It was the same face There, I guess that will do." And the dentist withdrew the buzzing tool, and going to a little cupboard took out some cotton, a box of gold foil, and a little automatic rammer. As he returned to the young man's side and began the final work of filling the tooth, he noticed that the look of weariness had almost vanished from the young man's face. He constructed this as an invitation to to sume his story. lie ventured to ask the young man where he had left off. ' 1 think," answored the young man, "that you said it was the same face?" "Oh, yes. It was the same face I saw at the cab window. I went to bed and dreanud about the young woman." "What?" exclaimed the young man, starting up in the chair. Then noticing the interrogation points in the dentist's eyes, he became 'calm, and remarked, "Excuse me, but that nerve gave me a tremendous thump." Well," continued the dentist, sis he rammed in the gold, "the first thing that 1 heard after breakfast the next morning was that a young woman was waiting for me in the office. I had an intimation that I would see the owner of the false teeth, and when I opened the door leading to the office I saw her sitting there, a vision of perfect womanhood, except a set of upper teeth, j She was in a tremor of excitement, j Shef said she was (hold your head back a little) driving home from the theatre with her young fellow (that didn't [ hurt, did it?) when she lost her teeth, j Her young fellow (keep your head steady, please) had never known that she wore false teeth, and she feared to let him know under such circumstances, so she clapped her handkerchief over her mouth, pretending that she had a sudden attack of neuralgia, and kept it there until her young fellow left her at her door. Living in the next block, and knowing that I had helped to make her lost teeth, she decided to come around, and, if possible have another set made before night, when she expected her young fellow to call on her again. I made a hurried cast of her mouth, and told her to come around four hours later. While she was absent I polished up her teeth a little. When I handed them to her that afternoon she said: 'Why, they look almost exactly like those I lost. 1 wonder if they will fit as well.' I advised her to try them and see. She did, and I never saw a woman look more delighted. I never told her that they were her lost teeth, and (Don't get impatient. I will be through in a second. 1 Icruess she never will knnw " "Oh, yea," said the young man, cheerily, as he got out of the chair the dentist having completed the process. "She will know to-morrow when she returns to the city." The dentist looked as if somebody were about to pull all his teeth out. "By the way," said the young man, "you didn't finish that story. You forgot to mention that you charged the lady $150 for the teeth. I don't know what this job is worth, but, whatever it is, you may charge it to my wife. I'm the young fellow you spoke about." The dentist stood in the middle of the floor gazing in a bewildered way at nothing as the young man picked up his hat and walked toward the door. He bowed politely before going out, and remarked: ''Doctor, allow me to make a sugges?Ia? -f: t 1 ? " uivu an jmibiug; uy nnepiag ine oranay out you will keep your professional secrets in. Good dayl"?New York Sun. Gloucester fishermen from Newfoundland aver that on several, occasions this season they saw a spectro ship skurrying over the water. She was of strange build, her sails old and not a soul to be seen on deck. Once when about to strike a rock she suddenly disappeared from sight. They were very much alarmed at the apparition. ii'-- i>f.. lQ> v'm vj; Ajfjl I I .1 I USEFULNESS OF BIRDS. Information for Farmers and ; ; Fruit-Growers. An Investigation of the Feathered Tribes j of the United States 1 The ornithological branch of the ag- J ricultural department, recently established and put under the charge of Dr. C. Heart Merriam, is beginning to arrive at results. The idea is to obtain exact and reliable data about the food and migration habits of different birds, so as to furnish information which will be of advantage to farmers and fruit growers. One thing that is being established is a grand route map, showing the movement of different kinds of birds. It has been found that the great number of birds in nass ingover the country do not spread over a wide area, but that' they have certain beaten tracks, so as to speak, that they always follow. They have established routes which their ancestors have been traveling over for hundreds of years, and have regular places to stop for refreshments. They generally follow the low lands, keeping by a river when they have one in their course, or go along the coast, and they tuwitys louow exactly the same course, year after year. Here comes in the investigation of food habits. Stomachs of birds are being received by I the thousand and examined. The professor says: "The most desperate criminal we have had to deal with is the pugnacious little English sparrow. He makes no defense whatever, and he has been convicted and sentenced to death. He has been caught in the act of committing most terrible depredations, and upon examination his stomach has been found to be overloaded with stolen provisions. He is the worst of all the feathered criminals. His conviction was upon verj strong evidence, but more damaging testimony is coming in every day. Here is an affidavit which sets fortli that an immense oat-field has been completely stripped of its crop by immense bands of these impudent little J robbers. "The crow has appeared in his own defence, and has made out a very good case for himself. He is very intelligent, as are all the starling family. He pleaded guilty to eating corn thai has just been planted, and acknowledges that he steals a chicken occasionally and ea^ts eggs, and that he has even gone so far as to steal silver spoons and bright, sparkling jewelry, of which he is very fond. But he protests that he makes ample returns for all of these depredations by clearing out bugs and worms and grasshoppers, that if left alone would do much more harm than he does. He claims that he is working the farm on shares, and asks for his own subsisteuce only u very small part of what he saves to the farmer. lie is a very profound bird, and seems to have the best of th 1 case. An analysis of his stomach 1 shows a very small percentage of grain. In fact, the English sparrow," 1 continued the professor, "is the only one that has been convicted. All the rest compensate in some way for their wrong-doing, and in the balance oi good and bad the good outweighs the bad by a great deal. "The robin ia an invaluab le bird and the meadow lark is harmless and happy, his sweet voice cheering the 1 early-rising farmer. When all the ' cases on the docket are tried it will be I found that very few birds could be ais- ; I pensed with. Too many have already I ' been condemned on circumstancial ev- I idence. Farmers see flocks of birds in 1 their grain-fields and at once conclude that they are eating tho grain. In : this way they accused the bobolink. 1 i went into Virginia with my gun not long ago. The Farmers told me < bobolinks were devouring their grain. I Great numbers of the birds were in thf I fields, apparently eating the grain, I but I shot about forty of them, and when I examined their stomachs 1 found not a. sign of grain, but any , number of insects. They were not j eating grain at all, but freeing it from , destructive insects. However, when they change their feathers and become j rice birds, they change their good hab- j its, also, and become very destructive to , the southern rice plantations. Iq large , rice fields it keeps two men busy shoot- ] ing them all day long, each man using , UD sixteen Tionnda of nnwdar In a week." , "Herr Professor." "Why don't you address the profes- 1 3ion with mister?" inquired a long- 1 haired German of an American friend who iiad just greeted an acquaintance with "Hello, Professorl" "Now in my country we always say Herr Professor." "Hair professor! well by jove, that accounts for your professors being so well supplied with it."?Arkaiisaw \ Traveller. r i.ir \ . v - V? y . < ' ' v." ' . i ; ' ? - ' > ^ I . > - *' ' c. .. ' v " * * * - ) ' J. *. ' % ~ TOPICS OF THE DAY. According to the statement of a Madrid music journal, no professional pianist became a victim of the cholera epidemic in Spain. One can easily understand that souie piano playing would scare off even the cholera. European sugar refiners have lately discovered in Central India a forest tree which seems likely to come into general use as a substitute for the cane and the beet. It is called the Maheva, and abounds in Southern Hindostan. Its blossoms yield an immense amount of juice, which is easily converted into sugar of an excellent quality. In a paper on the rule of the road, from a scientific standpoint, Sir George Campbell, a member of the English parliament, maintains that tlm mo?*t natural and convenient method for all right-handed people is to turn to the left on meeting others in the road, as is done in Great Britain, instead of turning to the right, as we do in this country. He opposes the proposition to make a change in England. There are seven sisters in New York who possess 608 inches of raven hair, and a statistician recently computed that their combined hair, if placed in single strands, would reach over 160 miles.They put their hair in silk bags at night to prevent it from tangling. The father of these girls, Itev. Fletcher Sutherland, ha3 been pastor of Methodist Episcopal churches in Geneseo, ajvuiis auu ijocKpori, . l'., and is the only survivor of President Buchanan's inaugural dinner given at the National Hotel in Washington, at which some forty guests were poisoned. The statistics laid before the National Butter, Cheese and Egg Association at its late meeting in Chicaco must have made its members feel that they were something more important than llies on the country's coachwheel. It was asserted in those statistics that the annual value of dairy products in this country was $100,000,000 greater than that of the entire wheat crop, and $120,000,000 greater than that of the cotton crop; while the amount of capital interested in cows was said to be greater by $40,000,000 than that invested in bank stocks. According to the latest official statement published by the authorities of Russia, there are in that country not less than 14-00') snn**r? miluo /-.?i - ? , 1"'"" ""*vg "* u" producing land, but of this vast territory the field at Baku is the only one i worked, and even this covers only the limited space of some threw and onehalf square miles. The output is enormous, and the fact is stated by one who witnessed the opening of a ! well in that locality that a column of oil spurted to a height of 100 feet, carrying great stones with it, the flow continuing until a large lake of petroleum iras formed. The product is refined on the spot, the residue being used as fuel for steamers and railways. In the cotton mills of the United States in 1870, there were employed 134,860 people, men, women, and children combined. The amount paid in wages per head, on an average, was $288.10 for a year's labor; or at the rate of 92 cents per day for 313 days, the number of working days in the pear. In 18S0 there were employed in the cotton mills 172,544 people, and they received in wages for their year's labor $243.65, or $44.45 less than in 1870, or about 80 cents per day. Now, If we allow for a 20 per cent of a reduction in wages since 1880, it would leave the average wages of each operative 64 cents per day; while the consumption of cotton between the two periods of 1870 and 1880 had Increased 40 per cent per head. Tt ?jf. uttiuimtsuijr ul irans is or opinion that the symptoms of hydrophobia in man are mainly due to the imagination and the irritability of the patient. He himself had introduced his finger into the throat of a mad dog and drew it out covered with frothy saliva; In irying it he observed that he had a slight excoriation on his finger. He lightly cauterized it, but, ten days after, he experienced a sense of constriction about the throat He felt alarmed; the difficulty of swallowing increased until he could not drink anything, and the sight of water caused spasms. The will, however, was strongly exercised, and at the end of three weeks the attack was inast tered. This is not an unsupported experience, there being at least one other notable euro by sheer willpower. "Will-power, by the way, has also been successfully exerted to overcome the effects of a venoraoos reptile's bite. >?&? "' '?<fe-f &\':-i .v.'V': ,V * V'' vV ^ V- \ " ' i ' y v . : i \ "'v./-' < . | A village in Switzerland, more than five thousand feet above the sea-level, and surrounded on all sides by snowi clad mountains, with a climate where the thermometer often stands at twenty degrees Fahrenheit in the day, and below zero at night, does no1 seem to be quite the right place "foi consumptive patients to winter in. Yet, such is Davos, where, for man; seasons recently, doctors have beeD sending their patients with the best ' results. These results are due to the extreme dryness and purity of th? air, the dryness removing catarrh of the bronchial tubes, and the absence of organic matter in the air preventing irritation and breaking-up of lung tissue. Patients are recommended tc begin their stay in the place during the Summer, so that the coming Autumn may acclimatize them and enable them to bear the cold of Winter. The Plftfifi haw nlpnfv nf umnawmonfa r , -J ? and the only fear is that it may become over-crowded, when its benefits must surely disappear. Type-Writing. The type-writer is generally sup- J posed to be a machine of recent in- i vention, but it really dates as far back as 1714. One Henry Mill obtained in that year in England a patent for a device that would "write in panted characters, one at a time and one after the other." There is no description of his device to be had now, but it is no doubt true that Mill's invention was the parent of the present type-writer. The idea seems to have lain dormant for over one hundred years, when it was taken up again by various inventors, who sought at sun- I dry times to embody it in a machine | that would work satisfactorily, but j apparantly without success until 18G7, i when a firm in Milwaukee made a type-writer that was actually used. To such perfection has the machine been brought that even the most detailed and intricate statements, containing column after column of figures, can be readily made with it, and in a neat and business-like form that is impossible with the pen of the average writer. Its use has opened a field for women who have to earn their living that never existed before. They are naturally expert and skillful in using the fingers, and they readily learn to use the type-writer with great speed. A number of schools have added it to their regular course, and 3'oung men who learn to use it find it far easier to obtain situations. Charles lleade said : "I advise parents to have their boys and girls taught shorthand writing and type-writing. The shorthand writer who can type-write his notes would be safer from poverty than a great Greek scholar." The speed with which an expert operator can rattle off words and sentences is wonderful to one who has never tried to use the machine. The fingers play with a swift and ceaseles motion over ths keys, accompanied by the monotonous "rat-tat" of the machine, ami sheet after sheet of neatlywritten manuscript is taken from the roller, from two to three times as fast ! as an average penman can produce it. : Few people write with a pen faster t.h;ir? twnnt.V nr fhirfrv mnrrla o mlnnfa. | an expert will bring out of the typewriter fifty to eighty words in a minute. "What, then, must be the value of a clerk who is an expert at both shorth and and type-writing Chicago Times. A Good Itemedy. Ho3tetter McGinnis met Dr. Perkins Soon over a few days ago on Austin avenue. "I am much obliged to you, doctor, for that tonic you gave me," said Hostetter, taking the learned physician warmly by the hand. "So it helped you, did it?" Helped me? Well, I should say it did. I never had anything brace me up as that tonic did." "11 ow many bottles did you take?" "I didn't take any myself. Catch me putting such stuff down my throat. "When I want to commit suicide I'll go at it in a different way." "But I thought you said you experienced beneficial effects from it." <kSo I did. I gave the stuff to my rich uncle, who had just made his will In my favor, and now he is no more. One bottle of your tonic knocked him cold."?Merchant Traveler. Can't be Cremated. You can't destroy a false set of teeth in the retort of a crematory, says an expert This I deem one victory of art over nature. Our own teeth we can reduce to ashes with tl e rest of the body, but false teeth and gold plate hold their ojvn. Silver plates or any other substance used by dentists will disappear, but 4.000 degrees of heat have been turned on artificial teeth without destroying them, and the gold rivets in the teeth after that hen- has been applied will also be found intact ' i CLIPPINGS FOR THE CURIOUS. An Indian and a Chinaman are partners in the stationery business in a Nebraska town. A foot-pound is a force which will ] raise a pound one foot, and 33,000 of . these foot-pounds make one horsepower. A new industry has sprung up at New Orleans. Heads of large fish are dried and sold for table and mantel ornaments. t A pearl as large as a pigeon-egg was shown in Paris recently. There were 114 others in the bivalve from which it was taken. } Prof. Binz finds that coffee is an ab! solute antidote to alcohol, if it betaken j in a sufficient quantity. Dogs saturI ...Hi- ? _ - - niru wiin caueine coma not ue made drunk. The divining rod is still believed in, and used in some parts of England. It is said to have been successfully used a short time ago in finding water on the premises of a brewer, where digging boring had failed. An Italian astronomer declares that the planet Mars is peopled by intelli| gent beings, who are trying to attract | attention from dwellers on this planet, j He is now engaged in making experiI ments with a view to discover what i the messages mean. j Statistics show that dogs go mad no oftener in dog da>'s than at anv other time. If anything, the number of cases is somewhat greater in spring. The bite of a rabid cat is more surely fatal than that of a rabid dog. It is a mistake to suppose that a rabid dog fears or shuns water. In the early stages of the disease it drinks freely. Later it delights to seek the water and plunge its nose in, but is unable to swallow a drop. A joint or gimmal ring was anciently a common token among lovers. It was generally made of two or three hoops, so chased and engraved that, when fastened together by a single rivet, the whole three formed one design; the usual device being a ring. ** "When an engagement was contracted, the ring was taken apart, each spouse taking one, and the third one being presented to the principal witness of the contract. Cattle on the Track. "Do we try to avoid killing animals? We do when it is possible," said an old engineers "But if it is impossible to stop the train before reaching them it is dangerous to lessen the speed, for when a train is moving slowlv a biir. w w "D? healthy steer is sometimes enabled to derail it. If I see 1 can't stop before reaching the animal I pull the throttle wide open and let her go. In going around a carve one night eight miles from Davenport, on the Rock Island. I saw a steer standing on the track. He did not move, but looked straight at the headlight. I opened the throttle and the next moment hit him. I felt the jar. He was literally chopped to pieces and the particles of llesh covered the headlight, so that I could not see until the next station was reached. The engine svas covered from the pilot to the tender with blood and pieces of fiesh." "The worst animal to encounter on a railroad track," continued the engi- ' neer, "Is sheep. Even if they are on the outside of the fence they will venture on the track when the first opening is rfinphp.fi- AnH t.lio Ann ??v vau uuuu muoo bUC lead is followed by all the rest. Ilogs make a bad mess. I hit a drove one clay while runoing fifty miles an hour. Realizing I could not stop before reaching them I let the engine have all she could take. There was a slight jar and a moment later the porkers were flying in every, direction to the sides of the track and over the engine. * As the animals began falling the fireman sarcastically remarked, 4Pork is coming down.' That engine was the bloodiest and dirtiest ever taken to a shop. They were two days cleaning it."?Davenport (/a.) Gazette, Cotton's Many Uses. Nothing about cotton need be wasted. The fibre having been separated, the seeds are apAn "linted," all the cotton adhering fothem beinc removed and Bold to the cotton men. Then the husks are removed and used for fuel in the furnaces on the pffemises. After the seed is ground, cooked, and pressed, the oil being extracted, the refuse forms an oil cake, which is shipped in large quantities to Great Britain for food for cattle. Last of all. the a3hes have a virtim nf thAin own, and are sold at a high price. The oil goes to Chicago to make butter and lard; to Cincinnati, where an illuminating oil is made from it, and to an Eastern city to bo made into pure olive oil for sdlads. It is already taking the place of lard in cooking, j greatly to the advantage of everybody. Inferior grades serve as the batii for the best soaps.?New York Sun. V\l x \v, > - v -v-i