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- , ... - ... Mortal or immortal. K thou art base and earthly, then despair, Tnou art but mortal as the brute that falls, Birds weave thoir nests, the lion finds a lair, Man builds his halls. These are bat coverts from earth's war and ') storm, Homo3 whero our lesser lives take shape and breath, .But, if no heavenly man has grown, what form Clothe3 thee at death? And when thy mood of penalty is o'er, And fire has burned the dross, where gold is none, 13hall separate life, but wasted heretofore, Still linger on? Ck>d fills all space: whatever doth offenl, From His unbounded presence shall be spurned, Or deem'st thou Ho should garner tares, whose end Is to be burned I It thou wouldst soo the Power that round thee sways, In whom all motions, thought, and life are cast, Know that the puro, who travel heaven-ward ways, See God at last. ?Francis Henry Wood. HOW I PROPOSED. We were seated in luxurious nrm-chairs before the cheerful open fire in Jack's ?* :snug smoking-room, enjoying his excellent Havanas, when my host broke the silence which had lasted for several min- 1 utes with the surprising question, "Did I ever tell you where and how I proposed to my wife?" I nodded a negative reply, well aware as I did so that he knew ho had not told me, but had prefaced his tale with an interrogation according to his usual custom. j "It's quite a long story," said Jack in a warning tone, remembering my. aversion to lengthy yarns as told by anyone 1 but myself. ' "Ah! but such a subject," I answered, 1 settling myself more comfortably in my ^ chair, and drawing the box of Havanas -conveniently near. "I shall bo delighted to hear about it, but what will Mrs. 1 Taylor say to your tolling me?" 1 added, knowing how the partner of my lot 1 would feel on the subject. 1 "She has positively forbidden me ever 1 to speak of it," said he, laughing, "and ? 1 have obeyed her until now?with one or two exceptions?but its too good to * keep." 1 My curiosity was now fullv aroused ( - ' 4 4ind as Jack would tell the story, of course I was obliged to listen; and if you ^ -think that in repeating it I am acting unfairly, I'll stop at once. "It was during my second year at Har- 1 vard," began Jack, knocking the ashes c from his eigar; "how long ago it seems, tout, let me see, its only eight years. Yes, c it was during my Sophomore year, that I * accepted Frank "Wilson's invitation to * spend the Easter holidaj's with him. He ' was awfully good company, and I kuew that I would be sure to mif. in n iniw 1 ? i" """ 1 -week at his place. Besides, there was J another very strong inducement. "I was in love at that time with his cousin, Helen "Wilson, who I had ascertained would be of the party. I believe we used to write to each other. I know s I used to spend the greater part of my time composing verses about her, many of which, however, I had not the courr acre to send. t "When I heard that she was to be at ^ .X I was delighted. I determined to go to New York and see if we could not 0 arrange to travel up together. ^ "When I arrived in that city I went Q directly to her house; but at the door I ^ learned that she had just left for X f: ^ having decided to go a day sooner than gj she had expected. "I inquired how long she had been n gone, ana the servant said about fifteen ^ minutes. Hoping to overtake her, I y rushed up to the Grand Central Depot. There was not an instant to lose. Hasti- jj ly buying a ticket, tore frantically after the already slowly moving train, and, owing to my length of limb, succeeded ^ boarding the last car. "Panting, pesspiring, but exultant, I ^ ' went through each car, in every seat expecting to find the object of my haste. "I had gone through all but one when ^ .we entered the tunnel, and I was begin- ^ ning to fear that after all perhaps she might not have taken this train, when, as I was standing by the door, the ray of sunlight which came in through thn ?? occasional openings in the tunnel re- b vealed her to me seated alone at no great tl distance ahead of me. tl "My heart gave a bound, nnd scarcely ct Tealizing what I was doing, I rushed up tc "to her, and grasping her hand, said: " 'Darling I I thought I had missed ic you.' " 'What do you mean!' she exclaimed, ai in a tone of mingled indignation and ci fright. 'Let go my hand; you have made a mistnke!' m 4 'I obeyed her, thinking that she was ai angry at my mode of address. " 4I beg your pardon,' I said. 4I should not have spoken to you as I did, ri but I was so rejoiced to find you that I did not remember where wc are. But as I have begun, I may as well finish. Dar- d ling,' moving a little nearer, 'will you marry me? You must know that I love h you; I have so for ages, ev-ever since my ai Freshman year." "But the mention of that astonishing k piece ot constancy produced no result ic my favor. She turned her back upoc me, if possible more completely than sh< had done before. But I would not giv< up. " 'Can't you love me a little?' I in quired, tenderly, trying to take her baud But she snatched it away, and declined either to turn her head in my direction or to answer my question. "As the train was making a tremendAlia MA1CA T At A 1 1 ..vwc, jl uiuugui, niut peruaps sue couldn't understand mo, so I repeated my words at tho top of my lungs. Sh< made somo reply, but I didn't catch it. " 'What do you say, dear?' I bawled. " 'I don't even know you,' she answered, in what sounded like a shrill whisper, but tho tone was in reality a shriek. "I thought I could not have heard aright, aud to convince mysolf that it was my hearing which was at fault, 1 planted my glasses more firmly on my nose, and took a closer inspection of her. " 'I tell you I don't know you,'she repeated, bringing her foot down on mine with much energy; 'leave me this moment, or I'll ' "Here the train emerged from the tunnel, and you can picture my amazement, horror, and mortification, when I tell you that I found that the girl to whom I i had been screaming out my love was an utter stranger to me. "Dazed nnd Rfnrlnf T ?rnon ftv-irv. mrt scat. " 'I beg your pardon,' I said, removing my hat, 'I have taken you for someone else.' "Not observing how my apology was received, I retreated to the smoking-car, where I remained until wo reached X , too stunned even to think. "When I left the train, in looking about for some sort of conveyance to take me to the "Wilsons' place, I found, to my increased cmbarrissment, that the ^irl to whom I had so recently offered myself was standing on the platform, apparently waiting for someone. "That she saw me I could tell from ihe expression of not seeing me which jhe immediately assumed. As she would lot Iook at me, I had plenty ot opportulity to observe her, and saw that she really did resemble Helen in many ways, aotwithstanding she was both fairer and imaller. ''But my object was not to admire ler, although I assure you my inclination :vas; so, finding that there was no hope >f obtaining a vehicle, I started on foot, fortunately getting a lift over the greatei part of the way. "Arrived at the house, I was wel;omed with much cordiality by my host ind his family, and introduced to the >thcr guests. "I imagine my feelings when, ia the :ourse of the conversation, I loarned hat Frank'3 sister was expected home rom boarding-school that afternoon by he very train on which I had come. "It was then, to her I had been makng love, instead of her cousin. My disjosition was to turn and run, but I Lnew I should havo to stay and make he best of it, so I smothered my motiication, and when a few minutes later he carriage arrived bringing Miss "Wil011, and I was presented to her, I tliiuk hat of the two she found the situation he more awkward. "The next day the tardy Helen arived, and explained how, returning to he house for something she had forgoto o en, she had missed her train and her esort. "During the entire week I wis impaiently waiting for an opportunity to ffer myself to her, but before I could 0 so I learned that a large diamond ing which she had been wearing for everal months was the pledge of enagement to some other fellow; and, to ly surprise, discovered at the same time tiat the knowledge did not trouble mo cry much. "I suppose you think that I was half 1 love with the sister, but assure you 1 ras not. I considered her too youug for le, although now I think her just right )r me in every particular, and it was ot until several years later, when I met cr firmin n? n rlinrmin ~ ~ 1~J ? -o? ? lat I realized that I had accidentally roposed to the woman whom of all otlirs I would choose for my wife."?Anna erega in Tid-Bits. A Dnrk Cloud on Love's Horizon* "Now, my darling," said he, "Iwould }k you to have somo oysters to-night, at since the Rs have disappeared from lc months oysters are no good; in fact, le scientists say they are hurtful. 0{ >urso you would not aak mo to treat you > anything hurtful." "Certainly not. dear John, but them ia e cream, you know." "I'm aware of it, but, they say that seuic goes into the manufucturo of ice earn." "All the better, dear John. There is uthing better for the complexion than senic." "But, my love " "Never mind, John, I'm willing to sk it." "But if you should die, darling?" "You will take a plate also and wo will ie together." Then John was forced to confess that a had only fifteen cents in his pocket id the engagement was at an ond. Thus do dark clouds loom up on young ve'8 horizon.?Boston Courier. \ , ' v\;/ W: i ! THE PERSIANS. i ! Some Characteristics of An Oriental People. j A Country of Natural Liars and Altogether Hopeless Procrastinators. The modern Farsee is a natural liar, says a Teheran letter to the San Francisco Chronicle. It goes against his grain, , against all he holds most sacred in this j queer world, to speak the truth. It is I born with him, this inveterate love of I prevarication, and it is bred in the bone J for generations and generations. I have j noticed with the interest tho student of human nature is liable to feel iu such cases how astonished the Farseo is when ho has caught himself unaware telling the truth. lie then is out of his role, and feels so abashed and ashamed of himself that he looks sheepish and guilty; much as an American might after getting off an awful fib. Even with such a people, however, where the noble art of romancing is carried to such perfection, moments will arise when it is desirable to know and hear the truth. And for such occasions the stock of Persian adjuration, oaths, curses and appeals seems i almost inexhaustible. One of the funI niest is illii$he mera A'aJJau lierdi!" (Literally, May you put my beard in the ' winding sheet). Procrastination is another besetting sin of theirs. "Foran inilconam*' is their reply when you want a thing done at once, and another great phrase of theirs is C/tason (meaning "By my eyes Til do it"). But that means an hour, next day, next month, or next year, according to circumstances?never at once. To despatch a thing and be done with it, to ' hurry up," seems to be utterly impossible to the Persian, who is lavish of nothing so much as of time. You give your servant, for instance, a tchibouk to be mended, and tell him you must have it back repaired next morning. Your servant knows ho will "get fits" if he docs not attend to it at once, and that he will probably get a little money if he does. The pipemaker across the street keeps a little shop, and has a large and hungry family at homo to keep out of the very slender profit of his trade. He knows, too, lie will be paid thrice the ordinary price if he does the job at once?enough to keep the pot boiling for his entire family for one day at least. Still, so ingrained is the policy of tardiness with both these gentlemen that you are mighty lucky if you get your tchibouk back in a week. The other day I had business at the central post office here. I wanted to register five letters aud buy postage stamps for eight, other ones. I entered the little office?eight feet by ten?in which the registration of letters is performed. Four native gentlemen, seated around a huge table, on which stood a clumsy scale, where extremely busy doing nothing; or, rather, they chatted and took pulls by rotation from a common gliatyan. The chief came in at this juncture?a very handsome but foppishlooking man?to whom I was introduced. The chief sat down and made the fifth in this happy gathering. I told them I was in a hurry and wished to have my letters registered and to buy fourteen kerauns' worth of stamps. Thcjr could not understand how I could be in a hurry. They were very polite and amiable and talked pleasantly, but it took ten minutes of my nlnniicnri' tn itu1iir>i? nnn /-?f tlm 1 IU let up on his glmtyan and tend to business, and it took me just forty minutes to have my letters registered and to buy those stamps. The latter he counted j over at least a score of times, very slowly and deliberately, before he consented to release his hold on them. It was not i cussedness on his pnrt?it was just his i natural love of doing things slowly. His chief sat. t.hr*rn nnrl PffiHnnHw tViAn<.Kt ..v. j ?Uvr..?..v his clerk a very rash and suspiciously active young man. And for a Persian the young fellow had really been quick about it. It is one of the great trials which every foreigner has to go through with after his ^ arrival here?the promiscuous lying go- ( ing on all around him, and the exusperating slowness of people. To see a Per- ^ sian write a letter or sii?n a document is . < a treat. He seizes his reed pen with an 1 awful deal of circumspection, and dips it slowly, hesitatingly, into the ink, then as slowly brings it on a straight line with . his optics and examines it carefully, j if the ink hasn't since disappeared?van- ( ished into thin air, as it were. Having convinced himself that no such piece of , magic has been performed by an unseen power, he gets himself into shape to pen ^ Ilia -firof Inftoi" Tliio mim u?mv iwwt A<tto ivi|uuc9 vauuua ^ painful and violent contortions of the , body, similar to those Sammy Weller, of Pickwickian fame, used to undergo ( when indicting his valentine, and then the paper is seized, again very slowly ^ and unwillingly, and brought to within ~j six inches of his nose. Then a dab is ( made. Tho first letter is done. It i? , taken up and duly admired, whereupon a rest of five minutes is taken, whon the same series of ovolutions and manoeuvres is repeated to give birth to another letter, j and so on. I matched a professional mirza (scribe.) the other day. Ho was a man noted for his quick work. It took him eighteen minutes by the watch to < write his first line. BHnI'"- u.,v\ 4flMRBraMiHMMi ?Sjjfft^? ';|f j *'iffw -A*:^ Moravian Customs. The Moravians liavo settlements not only in Germany, but also in England, Switzerland and America. They hold nearly all the doctrincs of L*ther. Their largest settlement, called Herrnhut is in Saxony, and the Moravians in many parts of Germany bear the namo of Ilerrnliutcr. In each community there are two houses set apart?one for the unmarried men, called the "Brother's house," and the other for all unmarried sisters or widows who wish to enter them. The Moravians cannot marry without tlic consent of the elders of their church,' und in some cases the bridegroom has been chosen for the bride. They seldom marry outside the community, and their engagements are nearly as solemn as the marriage. The weddings arc very simple, the sister wearing but a black dress with a white lace handkerchief, and her pretty cap with its pale pink ribbon, which is changed afterwards for a pale blue ribbon when the ceremony is finished. There are always two rings at a wed,ling in Germany, as there a married man always wears one, which he receives from his bride in exchange for his. The Moravians wear no crape nor mourning for their dead, and they speak of them us blessed, and of dead as "going home." They call the graveyard "God's acre," and they take the greatest care of their graves. But there also is the division, as in the Church, for the men are buried on one side of the cemetery and the women on the other. The Moravians arc all well educated, and the poorer brethren amongst them enjoy the same privileges in their excellent schools as do the richer brethren. Life amongst t' e "United Brethren" is simple and unartiticial love to God and man being their first principle; and many who have lived amongst them bear in their hearts a loving memory of their goodness, and of the pretty little village of Nueditendorf. ? Quiver. The Farms of America. Mr. Andrew Carnegie, the iron manufacturer, of Pittsburg, Pa., in his book entitled "Triumphant Democracy," says of the farms of America: "The farms of America comprise 837,023 square miles, an area nearly equal to one-fourth of Europe, and larger than the four greatest European countries put together (Russia excepted), namely France, Germany, Austria and Hungary and Spain. The capital invested in agriculture would suffice to buy up the whole of Italy, with its rich olive groves and vineyards, its old historical cities, cathedrals and palaces, its Kings and aristocracy, its Pops and Cardinals, and every other feudal appurtenance. Or, if the American farmers were to sell out, they could buy the entire Peninsula of Spain; with all its traditions of mediroval grandeur, and the flat lands which the Hollanders at vast cost have wrested from the sea and the qu-iint old towns they have built there. If he chose to put by his savings for three years, the Yankee farmer could purchase the fee simple of pretty Switzerland as a summer resort, and not touch his capital at all, for each year's earnings exceed $550,000,000. The cereal crop for 1880 was m^re than 2,500,000,000 bushels. If placed in one mass this would make a j>ile of 3,500,000,000 cubic feet, or a pyramid three times n great as that of Cheops. If loaded on enrt* it would require all the horses in Europe and 1,000,000 more (33,000,000) to remove it, though each horse drew a load of 4wo tons. "Were the entire crop ol cereals loaded on a continuous train of cars, the train would reach one and a half times around the globe. Its value is half as great as all the gold mined in California in the thirty-five years since gold was found there. The corn and cotton fields of America form kingdoms in themselves surpassing in size some of those in Europe." Unleavened Bread of the Passover. The "Pesach" festival or Jewish Passover IS t.hfi nnlv fosfivnl in mliioli zos" is the one bread allowed. The bread is unleavened, and there are now four cities in America with unleavened bread bakeries?New York, New Orleans, Chicago and Cincinnati. In order to supply the demand these bakeries begin baking two months before the beginning i>f the Passover. The matzos look like the ordinary hard-tack, except that they are a foot square. They are made of [lour and water, and contain no other ingredients. After the flour has been kneaded into a stiff dou^h, a lump of it containing about fifty pounds is placed jn a great block of wood and pressed into a thick fheet with a great beam which is fastened to the block at one end t>y an iron link and staple. The sheet is a! ? ? ? ? - ? " - ' ivav jjuibcu uuuit uii iron roiier, irom which it emerges into a long ribbon. It passes through several rollers until it is thin enough for baking. It is then stamped and cut into unbaked matzos, which are placed upon a wooden tray laving a long handle and deposited in in oven. In three minutes thoy are done, white and crisp.?Milling World. It Wa* a Match. Ho was practical and had been making love on that basis. Sho was a little that way herself. "Can you cook?" ho inquired. "Can you supply every thing to bo sooked?" she replied. It was a match. ? Washington Critic. i'KAULS OF TUOLUHT. f Tench thy tongue to say "I do not know." A proverb is the wit of one and the wisdom of many. Say no evil of any one but yourself, and do not listen to any. Dcceit is tho oleomargarine that is mixed with the butter of truth. To have what we want is riches, but to be able to do without is power, j If you cannot speak well of youi i neighbors do not speak of them at all. In every ago the vilest specimens of human nature are to bo found among demagogies, Prudence is one of the virtues which were called cardinal by the ancient ethical writers. All nations that grew great out of little or nothing did so by the public-mindedness of particular persons. Poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotion, language. Adulteration of Candy. The adulteration of candy is chiefly by the uso of terra alba, or white clay. This harmful stuil can be detected by dissolving the suspected candy in water, when the clay falls to the bottom undissolved. An ounce roll of cheap lozengG3 will sometimes contain three-quarters of an ounce of this injurious stuff. The coloring of candies is, for the most part, not dangerous, since a picce of red coloring matter the size of a gum drop will color 5000 pounds of candy. Unscrupulous manufacturers, however, sometimes use mineral instead of vegetable colors, and cartloads of such candy have been seized and destroyed by the health officers in New York. For the most part carmine and cochineal are used for red, saffron for yellow, caramcl or burnt sugar for brown, and this with carmine for orange. Green and blue candies are to be avoided. These colorings are used sometimes, however, in "decorating?a surface treatment of fine caudies by hand, in which a watercolor artist is employed to do art work at wholesale according to the model set him. As for this purpose the proportion of coloring matter to sugar is about onemiiliontli, the result of swallowing paint is not so disastrous as might be expected. In flavoring, essential oils are used, about a pound to a thousand pounds of sugar, and this is worked in during the boiling or kneading. Liquorice colors and flavors both at once.?Warper's. Metropolitan Monkeys. The endeavor to make the champanzee at the Central Park Zoological Gardens, New York, tho so much sought for "missing link" is successful to the point of causing the interesting creature to sit at the table and take his meals, cat sweetmeats from a teaspoon, use a knife and fork, and wipe his mouth when necessary with a napkin. At the latter test of civilization, however, he seems to be especially recalcitrant, discarding the napkin with scorn as soon as the enforced ceremony is accomplished. The daily consumption of cod liver oil is another approach to popular custom which marks the champanzce's kinship to the human race. A pet monkey, which taktc its daily airing in the carriages with its mistress within the city suburbs, has created es jieciai remarK irom its becoming toilet, which consists of a scarlet cloak trimmed with dark fur and a little peaked hood, from which peeps his aged but astute face. The passers-by who are regarded with disfavor receive scowls, grimaces 1 and chattering from the monkey, other- I wise they create no comment on his part. 1 The drive at an end, however, he evinces 1 his dissatisfaction in long cries.?JVeio York lie raid. TIta \nrlh Sfnr SM11 Tl>o?? -- .. m^mmrnrn K/i?a? *7* Governor David S. Crandall, formerly 1 editor of the Lock port, (X. Y.) Cour ier, 1 uscil to tell a story of the great meteoric * shower which fell in Novcmbey, 1833. ( lie was at that time living upon his farm, J a few miles distant from Lockport. < Among the men he employed was a < cliore-boy l'> or 14 years old. On the 1 night referred to Mr. Crandall was engaged in writing after the rest of his f family had gone to bed. Seeing through i the window the shower of mereors, he ] aroused his wife, and then the boy, re- { questing them to come to the door. The 1 boy wns at first absolutely struck dumb c with astonishment, thinking that all the ? stars in the heavens were falling through t space. After a little he turned to c the North Star and his courage came c back. "Gosh?" he exclaimed, "the old j dipper hangs on yet, don't she?" f How to Detect Counterfeits. Mr. Tanda of the Coin Department of the Sub-Treasury, New York, says: b "Many good coins lack ring, and many d bad ones have it?especially gold coins t filled with platinum. If a silver coin is t of lead its color will betray it; if it is t filled a sharp eye can always detect the tl joint between the two halves. The o absence of ring is easily explained. \ Silver dollars are stamped from long e' strips, the ends of which strips are apt to get curled in such a manner as to break h the laminm of the metal, so that the c< coins cut from it hare flaws which des- p troy the ring." si Morning. Oh fair, sweet mother of the Southern breeze. Celestial Morning, lo, thou doet awake! And garments of oternal light doth take, And swift thy scented breath comes o'er the trees. Tho pink roso garlands fall down to thy knees, And there, nil glittering with dew they shako Like wavelets on somo molton silvor lake, 'Neath thy bluo eye that smiles across the seas. And from thy purple chnlico pouring flowers Upon the level streams and rolling lands, Across the rich horizon thou dost fly, Arousing all the laughing little Hours, That softly slip away in brokon bands Beneath the moonless and tho starless sky. ?J. Henderson. HUMOItOUS. A wise cow knoweth licr own fodder. Home rule?"Wipe your feet before you come in. Smith?"If you were stung by hornets, Jones, what would you do first?" Jones ?"nowll" "When a miner has been eaten by a grizzly the Western people speak of him as being admitted to the b'ar. A bachelor editor, who had a pretty unmarried sister, lately wrote to one similar circumstanced, "Please exchange." Tradesmen in Madagascar who give short weight are sent to prison for a year. In this country they go to a watering place every summer. Coming home at two A. M., he found his wife dressed in deep black, and inquired the reason. "Mourning for my late husband," she replied. A land speculator, in describing a lake on an estate, says: "It is so clear and so deep that, by looking into it, you can see them gold digging in Australia." An insane tramp invaded a Tennessee farm-liouse the other day and informed the mistress of tho place that he had a divine commission to clean house for her. He dusted. All the world has heard of Bill Travers, the wit of "Wall street. He stutters terribly, but the stammer embellishes, rather than detracts, from his stories. It was Travers who silently surveyed the Siamese Twins for a quarter of an hour, and then said: "B-b-b-brothers, I p-p-ppresume ?" Common Sense and Common Sleep. Excitement, worry and anxiety, which have their scat in the brain, interfere with the functions of the stomach, and in like manner anything that unduly taxes the power of or irritates the stomach disorders the circulation and nutrition of the brain. The sleeplessness often complained of by gouty persons ia due to the poisonous effect of the morbid material upon the nervous system. Excessive smoking, too much alcohol, tea and coffee, often resorted to by overworked persons, are frequent causes of sleeplessness. In all these cases the cause is removable, while the effect may be counteracted by appropriate treatment. Nothing is more mischievous, however, than to continue the habits and to have recourse to drugs to combat the effects. A due amount of exercise tends to induce normal sleep, and such exercise need not be of a violent character. A walk of two or three miles daily ia sufficient and is, perhaps, as much as a busy man can find time for. A ride on horseback, the Palmerston cure for gout, is probably the best form of exercise for those whose minds are constantly at ivorK. it lias been well said that a man must come out of himst-lf wheu in tho saddle; he is forced to attend to liia horse and to notice tho objects he meets. Walking may be a merely automatic process, and afford little, if any, relief to the mind, and carriage excrcise may be practically valueless if the mind is not diverted from what had previously occupiedjit. ?Fortnightly Review. Giving the Countersign. In the fall of 1862 tho One Hundred \nd Fifth Illinois Infantry, of which I was a member, lay encamped at Chicago. 3ne day, having occasion to go into tho nty on a pass, and being detained bc>rond the time of guard mounting, I was juite uneasy about getting back into lamp again without having all tho boy9 enow that I had ovcrstaid my "leavo." Along in the evening I approached tho juard, expecting, as I deserved, to bo narched before the Major; but luckily a roung German who knew me was on juard, and when I presented myself ho laltcdmeall right, with "Who comes T onawflrorl A? - .w.v. - XX 1I1C1U IU tUO juard." "Come on de front and prings he countersign mit you. Say Lincoln, >r you don't get in here to-night." Of :ourse, I said "Lincoln," very gravely, mssed in, and my troubles were ended or that time.? Chicago Ledger. A Slight Misconception. "That must have been a terrible cxhilition of brutality at Union Park yesterlay," said Mrs. Sniggs to her husband his morning. "Why, the paper saya hat onft man dlsd flret T KV M?OV? A 0U|J|/U30 lint's before the game commenced. And ben some other brute hit a fly, with one f those terrible big clubs, I suppose. Vhy, I should think the Humane Soci- . \ ty would interfere." ftij "That's it," answered Sniggs, ''you are a long head. All you seed is ft Duple of new bats to be appointed in lace of the umpire."?Pittiburp Ohroni