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As a Motlior.
A sudden, piercing wail of pain,
A rush of pattering feet,
In blind, impetuous baste to gain
The mother's solace sweet?
J, A comforter, who stills tho cry
j With kiss and soothing song,
' "You'll feel all better bye and bye,
Hush, dear, 'twill not ache long."
And soon tho magic word and kiss
Distil their healing balm;
Tho sobbing, frightened outcries cease?
The spell has wrought its charm.
Tho restloss darling slips away,
His trouble quickly flown;.
But while his voice rinirs out in olav.
The mother sits alone. ,
Her busy needle falls unsought,
As come, in shadowy t rain,
T)im messengers, with haunting thought
Of grief, and loss, and pain;
Of nn xions hopes too long deferred,
Of gold, proved only dross,
Mysterious depths of anguish stirred?
Life's unseen, crushing cross.
The mother bows in grief alone,
With heart no longer strong,
While throbs life's mournful undertone:
"Howlong^O Lord, how long?"
When lo! the heavens new radiance shed
As falls this blest decree:
""Behold, as thou hast comforted,
The Lord will comfort theo."
-?Georgia A. JWk, in Good Housekeeping.
SENOEITA LOPEZ.
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THE HANDSOMEST FEDERAL SPY.
When the Scnorita Maria Lopez made
'her appearance in Atlanta during the
siege she created a decided sensatioh
Among t he gallant officers who were fighting
all day and dancing all night. The
senorita was pretty. Her flashing eyes
seemed to look right through a man, and
her manner of fluttering a fan was too
eloquent lor anything. .Just where the
Senorita Lopez came from no one knew.
She said that her father, a New Orleans
'refugee, was i ) Richmond, and that in
returning from a visit to friends in Charleston
she had received instructions to
await his arrival here. Of course this explanation
was satisfactory, and if there
liad been any doubt the young lady's
glittering diamonds, bright eyes, and ardent
Confederate principles would have
"won the day.
We were not entirely given over to
* sackcloth and ashes during the siege.
Balls and receptions took place almost
-every night, and there were various amateur
entertainments. In all the festivi
ties of the time the charming Spanish
tsenorita bore her part. She was the acknowledged
belle of the siege, and her
almost rccklcss daring completely fascinated
the officers, from the general
down. One thing about Maria Lopez
delighted us. Federal shells had no terrors
for her, and when other ladies
shrieked and ran oil unceremoniously
from their visitors to plunge into.a bombproof,
this brilliant and fearless creature
^Adwld simply clap her hands and make
scornful remark about the wretched
aim of the Yankee gunners. After our
riuiLiii^aiiwii.t aiuuiiu niu I;ILv uuu uui'U
nearly completed, the senorita rode out
<".very day with some of her military admirers
to view the works. This was
rather perilous. Stray bullets and shells
were always whizzing l?y, and it was a
common thing to see a general or a colo..
nel dodge behind a tree. Hut it was
soon noticed that the senorita never even
<lucked her proud little head. She would
sit her horse like a statue, and laugh in
derision when her escorts proved themselves
unable to stand the racket.
4,Oh, I would give anything to be a
soldier!" she said one day, after looking
through Colonel Blank's field glass.
"I would glory in the opportunity of
showing men how to fight and die for a
great cause.'1
Perhaps this was too intense, too bom
bastic, but in those clays everything
that we wrote and spoke was in this fervid
strain. So the senorita's talk provoked
no comment, except a tribute of
admiration.
One day our heroine passed me at a
gallop on her way back from the breastworks.
Something white fluttered down
. from her riding habit. I picked it up,
but the lady was out of sight, riding like
the wind. Thoughtlessly I allowed the
paper to come open. What I saw troubled
me not a little. I saw traced out in
detail the plan of fully half of our forts
4ind trenches. The paper also contained
the location of certain Government buildings,
and an estimate of our forces.
There was but one thing to do. ]
bated to get a pretty woman into trouble,
but I had to do my duty. In an liour'j
lime the paper was in the hands of the
f>iv?vost-marshal. The next day I was
brought face to face with Maria Lopez
Tho hearing was in private, and a circh
of colonels and Majors sat around the ac
cuscd, frowning at me as if I had heei
guilfy of aim* criminal act. When I re
latcd the c:rcQin'irtnccs attending th
finding of tne paper, the little Spaniart
looted at the oilicors with a merry smile
th ink.11 said she, "that you don'
y VCW?. to, hear from me. I will say, how
y' tfcit I never saw the paper, ant
Cbdvifpie,fconUl not have dropped it
man nerhims found it. lint, hi
cn^^-;vvi|4?iiave seen mc drop it." Shi
on the provost-marshal
/ <?lgg||feUhat individual. "Then
lnust^^HJBflfcfli.stakc here. We do no
doubt^^^V^Bity, sir, but we had bet
ter heanj^HflHj? this."
I waJKjHfeded and abashed
Knowing^BHHHBk about the ways o
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the world, I hastily retired, thanking my
stare that I had saved my head. In a
day or two the Senorita Lopez disappeared.
Her lovers did not have time to
mourn her loss, because Slocum's corps
crossed the Chattahoochee, and our forces
lllirl tn 11-nf nnf in Unnmr T ????o
destined to see the senorita again.
Many of us failed to follow Ilood's
army south. We were whirled about in
such a vortex of confusion that we were
glad to escape with our lives. Among
other flotsam and jetsam I was thrown
beyond the Federal lines. Stranded in
, Nashville, at that time a vast military
camp, I felt badly enough. I could not
go South, and I could not get a pass to
go North. One night I went to the
theatre. During one of the scenes there
was a buzz, and people stood up to look
at a man in the dress circle just above
my head. Finally I rose, as somebody
said:
"lie is the most successful guerilla and
spy on the Union side."
I stood up until my face was on a level
with the railing of the dress circle.
It was a wonder that I didn't faint!
Looking calmly, mockingly, into my
ej*es was the handsomest man I ever saw.
He was dressed in a glittering uniform,
and wore diamonds. That clear cut,
dark face, those burning eyes, the slight
scar under the left ear?there could be
no mistake.
I seized my overcoat and rushed out of
the door just in time to hear the alleged
Senorita Lopez say in a voice like a
bugle:
"Arrest that man."
A wave of darkness came over me.
An officer caught me bv the arm. I felt
that I was lost. If the senorita was not
only a man, but an enemy, I had no mercy
to hope for.
There was a sudden tumult, a wild cry
of fire, and then a crowd surged down
the stairway. When I picked myself up
the "sfficcr who had arrested me lay on
the .ridewalk with a fractured skull. I
limped quietly away, and took the outgoing
train for Louisville. I had no
passport and trusted to luck.
"Passes, gentlemen," shouted a sleepy
lieutenant, as he passed through the car.
I kept my hear] bowed down, with my
hat over my eyes.
"See here, show your pass," said the
officer.
A grull man behind me spoke up and
said:
"You don't want to see it twice. He
showed it to you a minute ago."
"Beg pardon," said the soldier, slightly
confused. IT> w.nt on, and I was
safe at last.
I have never seen the senorita since,
and I have no desire ever to meet her, or
rather him, again. He would have had
me shot as a spy beyond a doubt if it had
not been for my lucky escape at the
theatre.?Atlanta (On.) Constitution.
Teaching Deaf Mules to Speak.
Deaf mutes may be taught to speak
and to understand articulate speech by
merely watching the motion of the vocal
organs. This method is by no means
novel, as it has long been practiccd in
some of the schools of Europe, and the
earliest attempts to teach the deaf and
dumb to speak appear to have been as
successful as those in modern times. It
is recorded in history that a deaf man
was taught to pronounce words and sentences
by an English Bishop in the year
685, and from that time isolated cases of
the same sort arc mentioned till the latter
part of the eighteenth century, when a
j school for teaching of articulate speech
lo muLcs was Muiricu in ucrmany. i nc
method of this touching is very simple.
It consists merely in training the pupil,
by imitating the position and action of the
vocal organs of the teacher, to utter articulate
sounds. This, it is found, is not a
very difficult task for the pupil, but it is
extremely tedious, requiring long and
unintermitting practice, and the greatest
patience on the part of the teacher. In
Germany this art of lip-teaching has been
much more successful than it has ever
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cause the German language is more-adapted
than the English to acquired speech
on this plan. It seems to be generally
admitted, however, by all schools that
i have tried this method of instruction,
that though it is often highly successful
in special cases by the help of much individual
teaching, it cannot be used to
[ any effect in large institutions where class
instruction is absolutely necessary. Ani
other system, however, has been intro5
duced of late years into English and
* American schools. It is called visible
. speech, and was invented by A. Melville
J Bell, a professor of vocal physiology in
- England, about 1848. It consists of a
? species of phonetic writing, based not
- upon sounds but upon the action of the
i vocal organs in producing them. The
1 characters of this universal alphabet reveal
to the eye the position of these ort
jjans in the formation of anv sound which
- the humnn mouth can utter. In 1809
i this alphabet was first applied in England
to the instruction of deaf mutes;
g and in 1872 it was introduced by Profese
sor Abraham Bell, the son of the invent
or, into the Clark Institution at Northg
ampton, Massachusetts, where it is now
t the only system of articulation teaching
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usca. rruicssur dbh wjou uitcr opened ?
school for instructing teachers in this sys.
tern in Boston, which, we think, is still
f carried on.?Inter-Ocean,
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Mad Fishes.
The South American and African mud
fishes live in streams where the water
dries up in the hot season, and were it
not for some such provision, they would
soon become extinct. When the watei
gives signs of failing, they descend into
the mud, and encasing themselves in
balls lined with some secretion, patiently
await the coining of the waters again.
For some months they exist in this fashion,
hermetically sealed up, as it were,
and in some cases in Africa they have
been deprived of water for two seasons.
A party of travellers once encamped
ever such a dried-up pond in Africa, that
gave little evidence of ever having held
water. Soon after a terrilic rain-storm
came on, filling the place so that they
were obliged to move to a higher location.
One of the men returning, however,
for some reason, in wading to the
side of the camp, found, to his amazement,
thai; * the water was alive with
fishes. Opinion was divided as to their
origin; part 01 uie men tiiougnt it was a
case of spontaneous generation, while the
majority felt positive that they had rained
down. The truth was, that the rain
had soaked into the imprisoned mud-fishes,
releasing them from their baked cells,
and surrounding them once more with
water.
The air-bladders of these fishes arc divided
into compartments, and have all
the requisites of a true lung, and they are
as truly amphibians as the frogs and
toads.
Other amphibians have different methods
of withstanding the drought. Thus
the llassar, when the water begins tc
dry up in the pools and streams, does
not encase itself in a mud ball, but leaves
the heated and fsist disappearing liquid,
starts overland in search of a better sup
ply.
On the coast of China, and in various
other localities, is found a lish that is so
lively on dry land that it. is ax difficult tc
capture as a frog or toad, leaping alonp
the rocks from stone to stone, and where
it is particularly sl;ppery, avoiding its
human pursuers?YoutWa Companion.
Crests for Americans.
Since a well-known heraldic stationer
and engraver of London has established ;
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coats-of-arms, mottoes, crests, family J
pedigrees and genealogical arboreulture |
has become a fashionable craze among
many who have more money than brains.
Those who have no family worth mentioning
have suddenly acquired a strong
interest in their ancestry, and even those
whose forefathers, centuries auro, were
proud to belong to the family that recognized
"the lion of the tribe of .Judith"
as its national emblem are. now seeking
for more modern insignia with which to
^decorate their silverware. In brief, "nobodies"
are trying to be somebodies, and
large sums of money are being spent to
gratify uncultured vanity and ignorance.
Aided by this imported adjunct to
family distinction the ambitious New
Yorker may have his coat-of-arms "emblazoned"
on vellum for as many dollars
as it would cost him shillings in England.
If he desires a crest he can get it at the
same proportionate figure, but if he
wishes a "genealogical tree" the expense
is increased by the time required in
searching out another family pedigree of
the same name. Should a motto be
wanted he can. choose his own and have
it done into genuine Latin for a small
amount. In any case the once-honored
family Bible, with its record of births,
deaths and marriages, is threatened with
extinction,?JV<w> York Commercial.
A Clever Capture of Thieves.
James Andrews was chargtu with
stealing meat from his master, Mr. Chapman,
a butcher 011 the Mile End road,
London. There is nothing extraordinary
in this, but the method of detection was
something new in the way of thief-catch
ing. Mr. Uliapman ma himself In a box
and watched the accused, who was his
assistant. He found that he gave away
large quantities of meat to different parties,
who presumably paid him certain
amounts afterwards for doing so. Mr.
Chapman arranged an electric light at
the top of his house, the wire of which
was eonncctcd with the box. Two constables
were % nlacnd oiitsiflo ?nrl wlion.
ever one of the thieves came in and was
served Chapman switched on his electric
light as the thief went out the door.
The constables in this way captured thief
after thief until somebody gave their accomplice,
Andrews, a hint, and when he
tried to escape Chapman blazed on-the
full force of the light antf he was gathered
in.
Nor To-night, George!
?"Darling, I riw to a question of
privilege," said George, as he left his
seat and approached Miranda's chair.
| . "Not to-night, George," and she shrunk
back from him.
4'Ah, Miranda, do not say those cruel
words. Give me but one kiss 1"
"Reflect, George?oh, reflect, I would
save you from an awful experience."
"Darling, I can not accept your noble
sacrifice. Why not to-night?"
"If I yielded, it would drive you from
my aide forever. No, George, no," and
the gold in her front teeth glistened, as
she whispered with intense dramatic effect,
"I ate onions to-night at the curfew
hour."? Tid-bit?.
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PARTIAL TO PIGEONS.
Persons who Find Diversion
in Training the Birds.
Peculiarities of Pigeons, and Prices Paid
for the Best Varieties.
Leading pigeon fanciers say that there
is increased interest in the raising of pigcons,
particularly among the ladies, who
earc for them at odd moments at home
and obtain from the sale of the birds considerable
pin-money. Mr. Benton I lankins,
of New Jersey, who is one of the
lw.?* : r "i
utot-nimn 11 {iiguou lunciers oi mis country,
nnd whose loft of nearly 500 birds
includes some of the handsomest and
most valuable in the world, says:
"Every one of my birds knows mc,
nnd whenever I enter the loft they flo^k
nround. Most people have the idea that
pigeons must be bred in the dark. This
is not the case, for it makes them wild.
All mine are bred in the light, in glass
boxes painted white, about six by eight
inches in size, and with hay inside for
the nest. A curious fact 1 have noticed
about pigeons is their loyalty to each
other. Let a pair be once mated and
they will never forsake one another while
alive. How long do they live? Twelve
years, and keep up their full vigor for
that period. "VVc feed them on Canada
peas, wheat, cracked corn and occasionally
a little liempseed. The weight of a
pigeon varies from three or four ounces
to several pounds. The biggest figure I
have heard that was paid for a pair of
pigeons in this country was $500. It
was given for a pair of carrier pigeons."
"Will you tell me something about the
different kinds of pigeons?" Dr. McCook,
a noted lover of the bird, was asked.
"Any one having owned pigeons of
any kind will know what is meant by
common pigeons. They are not of any
distinct breed or color. There are but
very few common pigeons now in which
some traces of the higher classes cannot
be detected. At the same time I believe
that were a ilock of the so-called common
pigeons kept entirely to themselves for a
number of years, color-markings and
other characteristics of the higher classes
would entirely disappear and the birds
' would be more likely to resemble in color
and shape those they originally came
from?the Blue Rocks. Next to a common
pigeon, perhaps the best known, at
least by name, is the Homing Antwerp,
which is the carrier pigeon, so called.
It is the bird known to make long flights.
The fan-tails arc special favorites. The
white ones arc the most common and
easiest to breed, but they are also to be
had in black, brown, blue, red, and yellow.
The two latter arc rare, and easily
bring from $10 to $30 a pair. Fans,
with fowl feathers, mottled or checkered,
are not of much value. No breed of
pigeons has so many varieties and subvarieties
as the tumbler pigeons, nor is
there a vrriety so well-known that i.> as
yet so little understood by pigeon breeders.
Many who own them expect them
to perform, whether the birds are given, a
chance or not. Usually they are kept
with a lot of other birds and are flown
with them. There are also many tumblers
who do not tumble at all. All of
the short-faced varieties are not supposed
to be performers, although I have seen
some tumble very well. Pouters are the
first selection of many prominent pigeon
fanciers, and rarely is this bird entirely
abandoned for other varieties. Mr.
Becker, of Baltimore, who is an enthusiastic
breeder of pouters, has at present
probably the best birds of that variety in
the con A try. They are somewhat difti.....I
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high prices. Fifty dollars for a
pair of tirst-class birds would not he extravagant
in this country, and in England
perhaps the same birds would bring
twice that amount aud more. I remember
that Mr. Schell, of Brooklyn, had
one he refused $230 for. They can be
had in pure white, black, red, yellow
and Isabella.?New York Mail and Express.
To Suceed in Lift).
Learn your business thoroughly.
Keep at one thing?in no wise change.
Observe system and order in all you do
aud undertake.
Never fail to keep your appointments,
or to be punctual.
Be self-reliant; do not take too much
advice, but rather depend on yourself..
Never be idle, but keep your hands or
minds usefully employed except when
sleeping.
Use charity with all; be generous in
thought and deed; help others along life's
thorny pathway.
Accustom yourself to think and act
vigorously, and be prompt and decided
for the right ngainst the wrong.
' Make no haste to be rich, remembering
that sinuli and steady gains give
compotenoy, with tranquility of mind. ,
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the truth, and nothing but the truth;
aiul in your business relations be guided
by strict integrity and unflinching*honesty.
Develop a wealth pf character by personal
courage. Possess the courage tb
speak your mind when it is necessary you
should do so, and to hold your tongue
when prudent you should do so; to acknowledge
your ignoranco rather lhar
?cck credit under false pretense*
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PEARLS OF THOUGHT.
Pilcnco does not always mark wisdom.
Sooner or later a man's thoughts will
come into fruitage in deeds.
Too much overcharges nature, and
turns more to disease than nourishment.
Thou may'st -as well expect to grow
stronger by always eating, us wiser by
always reading.
'Tis thought and digestion that makes
books serviceable, and gires health and
vigor to the mind.
Ten thousand of the greatest faults in
our neighbors are of less consequence to
ns than one of the smallest in ourselves.
Inquisitive people are the funnels of
conversation; they do not take in anything
for their own use, but merely to
pass it'to another.
The adversaries of a good c?hse are
like men who strike at the coals of a
large tire; they scatter the coals and
propagate the lire.
Character is proof against the scoffings
of ridicule, and the consciousness of
doing right takes the sting *>ut of the
most envenomed jest.
When we are in the company of sensible
men we ought to be doubly cautious
of talking too much, lest we lose two
good things, their good opinion and our
own improvement, for what we have to
say we know, but what they have to say
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Coughing*
A hair tickling the throat will keep up
a spell of coughing, if not resisted, as
loii? as the presence of a large accumulation
of the products of disease. "VVo
heard Brown-Scquard say in a lecture:
"Coughing is a natural, reflex action,
wholly unintelligent. Not much is needed
when it can do any good at all.
When it cannot do any good it should
he resisted." In nine cases out of ten it
can be resisted by diverting the attention,
becoming absorbed in something. A
simple refnedy, important to all invalids,
is, when the spasm is coming, to resist it
by obstinately inhaling a long breath and
"paying it out" slowly. Useless cough
irritates throat and lungs, and can itself
produce or perpetuate sore thmat, etc.
In church it is often epidemic. An English
exchange says: " 'Do not cough
the preacher down' is the much-needed
advice given in The Sicord and Traicel.
If people have bad colds they had better
nurse themselves at home, or at least restrain
their coughing, when attending
public worship, ;?s much as possible.
Even Mr. Spurgcon, we are told, sometimes
feels that he is nearly barked down
by the thousands who respond to his appeals
of love by peals of coughing. The
late Lord Ellcnborough once remarked in
court, 'Some slight interruption one
might tolerate, but there seems to be an
industry, of coughing.' " Coughing is
unpleasant to all who hear it. To the
cougher it is like medicine, of which the
wise man's rule is to take as little as possible.?ATac
York. Witness.
Artomno IVni'il ViltfAwa
n> otiuiiii 11 in 'i via JUUlbVl D? !
Artcmus Ward, speaking of editors, j
says: "Before yon go for an editor,
voting man, pause and take a big think! |
Look around, and see if there is not an
omnibus or some meat cart to drive,
some soil somewhere to be tilled or a
clerkship to be tilled?anything that is
reputable or healthy, rather than going
for an editor, which is a bad business at
best. AVc arc not a horse, and consequently
have not been callcd upon to
furnish the motive power for a threshing
machine, but we fancy that the life
of an editor who is forced to write,
whether he feels like it or not, is much
like the steed in question. If the yeas
and neighs could be obtained, we believe
that the intelligent horse would decide
that the threshing machine is preferable
to the sanctum editorial. Thtf
editor's work is never done. He is
drained incessantly, and no wonder that
he dries up prematurely. Other people
can attend banquets, weddings, etc.,
visit halls of dazzling light, and enjoy
themselves in a variety of ways, but the
editor cannot. He must tenaciously
stick to the quill. The press, like a
sick baby, must not be left to run by itself
even for a day, or somebody indigj
nantly orders the carrier-boy to stop
bringing 'that paper. There is nothing
in it; I won't have it in the house.'" ,
To Clean Glass and Silverware.
Egg shells crushed intc 3mall bits and;
shaken well in decanters three parts lillcd
with cold water will not only clean them
thoroughly, but make the glass look like
new. By rubbing with a flannel dipped
in the best whiting the. brown discoloraj
tinn miiv hi? tjikcn off muva in whiph n?ia.
tards have been baked. Again, all of us
are aware that emery powder will remove
ordinary stains from the white ivory I
knife handles, and that the lustre . of
morocco leather is restored by varnishing
with white of egg. Nothing, it is said,
is better to clean silver with than alcohol
or ammonia, finishing with a little whiting
on a soft cloth. When putting away
the silver tea or coffee pot which is not
in use every day lay a stick across the
top under cover. This will allow frfcsh
air to get in and prevent the mustincss of
fc'io contents familiar to boarding house
mffercro.?Art and Decoration.
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? L.OVO Now.
You will lovo mo tho day I lit) dying,
Oh! love 1110 thou living,
"While yot from a full heurt replying,
I give to your giving.
What gain hath my lifetime of loving,
If you pass it all by
To give 1110 back treblo my loving
In the hour 1 <lie?
All anguish, all maddest adoring,
Will be vain in that day,
Though you knolt to mo then with imploring,
What word could I say?
Oh! love me, then, now, that it quicken
My heart's failing breath.
Why wait till to love ia to sicken
At tho coldness of death?
?Independent.
HUMOROUS.
A very expensive cane?Hurricane.
A poor rillc?Picking a pauper's pocket.
The thermometer gains notoriety by
degrees, so to speak.
Is there any difference between a traveling
dress and u walking suit?
The letter-carrier that gets around
quickest is the cylinder of a printing
press.
Some women swallow flattery as babies
swallow buttons, without any idea of the
trouble that may follow.
The evil consequences of smoking are
illustrated by Mt. Vesuvius, which constantly
suffers from eruptions.
"Is the tide going out?" said a sailor
to a gentleman who was passing a house
where a marriage had just taken place.
"We never hear anything more of tho
phonograph. It has probably gone into
a barber shop and been talked to death.
Larry Lazybones (who had been told
to start in to do a week's ploughing): "I
wish I were dead?that's what I wish I'*
Humorous grandfather: "Yes, Larry,
that's jest like ye! Ye want to be lyin'
in yer grave, takin' it easy all the rest o'
yer life."
Looking out of the window one evening,
a little girl saw the bright full
moon in the eastern sky, and, apparently
only a few inches from it, the beautiful
planet Jupiter, shiningalmost as brightly
as tho mooil itself. Gazing intently, on
them a moment, she exclaimed, 4'0 papa!
mama! see! The moon has laid an egg!"
The Ball that Wounded Hancock.
Dr. Lewis W. Read, of Norristown,
thus relates the circumstances of General
Hancock's recovery from his wound received
at Gettysburg: "I was medical
director of *he Pennsylvania Reserves,
and just before the 1st of November,
I860, I came home on twenty-four hours
leave of absence. I called to see# the
General, who was in bed at his father's
residence. I found him very much disheartened.
I-Je had grown thin, and
looked pale and emaciated. He said ho
felt as if he was going to die, and that
he had been probed and tortured to such
an extent that death would be a relief.
I endeavored to cheer him up, and as I
was about bidding him farewell he said:
'Good by< Doctor; I may never see you
again.'
"I had my hand on the door knob of
his chamber when?he said: 'See here,
Doctor, Iwhy don't you try to get this
ball out. I have had all the reputation
in the country at it; now let's have some
of the practical.'
"He was lying in the bed with his
wounded limb actually flexed, and all
the probing ha<l been (lone with his leg
bent at right angles. The ball had hit
him just below the right groin, within
an inch of the femoral artery, while he
was sitting in the saddle with his legs
distended. I went down to my office
for a probe with a concealed blade, and
on my return Dr. Cooper and myself succeeded
in straightening the limb and
placing it as near as possible in the position
it was when the ball struck him. I
inserted the probe and it dropped fully
eight inches into the channel and struck
the ball, which was imbedded in the
sharp bone which you sit upon. In ?
weeks' time the General was out on
crutches, and in two weeks more he attended
a Masonic gathering at Odd Fellow.V
Hall. I forget the caliber of the
bullet, but it was a big Minie ball."?
Philadelphia Time?.
Had Beeome Monotonous.
A New Yojker lately, met one of the
"American colony" in Canada, and in
course of conversation asked him the
cause of his seclusion. <
"Why, I was a county treasurer in Jl
linois, and was $18 short in my accounts,"
was t]io frank reply. *
"You didn't have to skip for $13 did
you?"
"Yes, sir."
4tI should have thought you could
raise that among your friends."
"Yes you mny think so, but if you had
seen 'em put up $2,700 tif save mo on the
other term you'd understand that. the
thing had become rather monotonous."?
Wall Street Netot.
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C(tn*e and Effect.
Husband (turning up hit colla w). ?
"There's another cold wave coming in a
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VLTIJ IOW lUlliUI'C.N
Wife.?"AVhy, Charles, h.>*r do you ^
know?"
H\Ssband (teith a thiter).<?" 'Caiis* I
forgot to bring hfeme that now UtnaU for
you."?Puck. *, ^