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4 Kiriahi-a lkap at altbitawb.. n BBUBY ■ncWLBY. “ The (oaman h*lh find Uu fftto, man of mtm, And Um water U apent and dona, Bo brine “• tha anp of Um red Aar wine— I ahaU narar drink bat tUa one ** I’ra atood my time, I’re fought aap fight, I’re drunk my ahara of wine; Trom Trier to Kotin waa narar a knight laired a merrier Ufa than mine. “ Thoee Joya hare fiad, to rotun bo mora, Tat, If I rouot die on a tree, Tha old aaddla-trea that bore me of yore L la the propareat timber for ma, — . )f ' And now to ehow burgher, and Uahop, and petaot How the Alienahr hawk can die; If they amoka tha old faieoner out of hla Beat Hs muat taka to hie wlnge and fly. u Mo aaddla naa op nay atd war hena. And lead him round to tha door; Ha muat taka to-night ruefa a leap parfaooa Aa Barer man took before." — V They aadd'ad him up In warlike ahiao; Tha knight atood la tha door, •And ha took euoh a pull at tha rod Aarwlno Aa narar man took before. Ha lad the hone np tha rtepa high and And aparrad him orar tha waB— Out tale tha atone, out Into tha sight, Three hundred feat of fall 1 They found him neat morning In the | And not a bona In him whole; And may Ood hare matey far i On auch a brara ridar’a aouL CHARLOTTE CVSHMAWS PRAIRIE RIDE. Whil« en root* to the Whit* moont- , we made a abort ataj in Boston. Among the rarioaa objeota ol interest Tiaited was Mount Anbarn, the !amoaa bnrial-plaoe of that city and the oldeet garden cemetery in the United Aa we were alowlj riding through one of the beautiful arenoes of thia grand the glare of who in her day waa one of the greatee of bring a alike lot her intellectual riMt to Mount Ao- plaee of thie queen of tngedj waa aim- ply oorered with long. dark, ahintng •prayn of myrtle. But there M aonu to be erected oeer her grave en obeltak of a Needle, ae it Oeeof our party was the Sapsrini eat of e Western railroad, itolM e locomotive engineer. Ht i greatly interested in visiting Cher Tfi grave; ami, after we I to our hotel ia the eity, he gave oa the following > of thia remerkfible I waa running e oa the Chicago and Ortwt Fan tern rail road, I received an order one day to have myeagiae, (he ‘ Hercules, ’ reedy to take a apeoial train of two oera, ooa (Wnuaii, her logga*# from Loganeport to “The greet tragedienne had lost a connection, end wae very anxious to go in the shortest possible time by a special train. It waa a cold, rough afternoon, e bed day for railroading no the prairiee in any event, hut particularly so for a ‘special' that had to ‘ make time,’ with the fierce winds beating and howling over them, ae I believe they never do anywhere else where railroad tracks are laid, except off Lake Michigan. But I had my imperative orders to pot the train through with this om fastest en gine, so that Mias Onahman might be in, season to fill her engagement that night in Chicago. “ The train bad arrived at Logansport Len minutes behind time, and we started out with the least delay possible. I bad carefully inspected my engine, and for my fireman I selected the very best man to ‘ make steam’ that oottld be found in the railroad corps el that city. Bat, in ■pita of these precautions, about 4 o’clock in the gray November afternoon we came to a dead halt out on the open praine. I jumped down from my cab, with oil-can in hand, but the mighty gusts of wind that swept against me made me glad to crawl back into the shelter of my cab. “ Presently one of the brakemen, with his cap tied on his head with a stoat scarf, came forward to tell me that Miaa Cushman desired to see the engineer in the passenger car. I sent back word that I could not leave my engine—that I would do the best I could with our train, and that nothing could be said or suggested, even by the distinguished passenger, which would make the least gain in our headway. “ The brakeman took himself off, and I was not at all pie*-"'* T confess, when Jake, my fireman, who was at the moment looking out of the cab window, down the track in oar rear, shouted, above the gale: - “ ‘ There ia the lady heraalf coming now to Um engine. . With bar skirts and things, ska’ll bf surely blown across the prkiriel' J •'Bora enough, than tha was, look ing aa if aba were Urn spin* <4 tha wind. At lint aha walkad resolutely and ma- jast'ealty forward, the wind-storm seem j af to»akaa erect figure. Soon, however, the queen ly form Hnocnmbcd to tha sweeping wind, and she began to ding to tha sides of the oars. , . '— “After wa had dragged her up into the cab and she was sheltered from tha gusts, she stormed about the delay enough, it appekied ko m^-k> fiabdue any or ill of the element*^ She tried high tragedy on ma and my good en gine, ‘ Hercules,’ until she saw it hadn’t the lehst effect. 7 ‘“Rest assured, madam,’ I said to her. entirely unmoved by her excited and rather-vehement manner, ‘that I shall do everything that can be dona to get this “ special ” into Chicago at the required tune. After “ Hercules ” has bad time to breathe a little, I think he will pull us along in good shape ; but I imagine he will find working ahead of old Boreas, in his present temper, to be a harder matter than any of the im mortal labors his great namesake under took.’ “The great actress, somewhat ap peased now, smiled graciously, doubt less over the fact that a enan of my call ing should know anything at all of mythology and its heroes. She now changed her tact and demeanor. The sgrosabie beamed from her countenance, and the low, soft tones of the woman’s vetac appealed to me la their honeyed, moving persuaaiveneaa. I began to fee) the wonderful power of her personal My fireman gaaed at bar in round-eyed amazement. She had put new Ufa into me, and it seemed as if the Hercules * drew strength from my touch, for the steam gauge ran up to almoat blowing-off flguroa. “ I told Btfy distingntahed passenger that, if she would now return to her oar, I would try to sea what progress I oould She begged ms to permit her to ride oa tha locomotive, at least e few but, as I was inexorable in my (for I had beoane a Utth over the state of of my engine, for one of the rules oa the line wa» should ride on our loan motiaea), she had ao other alternatm bat to ’ 1 Whan first introduced tea waa not an universal favorite. It waa moet vehe mently abused aa an immoral, unwhole some decoction, from whose use the wont of results must be expected to fol low. In 1633 a learned German decided that it wa* nothing better than black water with an acrid taste ; and, a few yean later, a Russian ambassador at the court of the Mogul declined a large present of It for the Czar, his master, “ as it would only encumber him with a commodity for which he had no use." The Dutch were wiser men. They ex ported large quantities of dried sage, which pleased the Chinese so much that they gave three and tori pounds of tea for each pound of sage, until the Dutch were unable to provide the material in ■officiant quantities to meet the home demand for tea. For a long time En glishmen drank sage tea in preference to the genuine article ; and to this day the use of sage and other herb teas ia still frequent among the agricultural poor of some districts in England ; and the “tiaanues” of the French and Swiss have bean In to way replaced by the more costly leaf. Morocco combined tisanne with tea, putting sugar in the tea-pot, and tansy and mint, the flavor of which would, doubtless, considerably disguise the tea, rendering the decoc tion as unlike that agreeable beverage as was the liquid which issued from the classic brown teapot of Meadames Gamp and Prig on the fatal night of their quar rel Thibet kept clear of the admixture of other herbs, but had its own peculiar way of consuming its tea. This was by boding the leaf with water, flour, batter and salt, and devouring the resulting bodily. In China, the add ginger and salt to the bever age. Tha word tea, it may be for the leaf of the kaa-i of her ea/ with poo (he plat We etartrd. I clapped oo all The ‘ Hercules' nobly answered to the throttle, sod presently we were fair heed way against the yet-re- aie. As my engine was nos regularly laboring alueg I glanced bank to tbs train, and saw Mias Cushman •tootling at toe forward end of the oar nearest us (which was half baggage and h.tlf smoking oar), watching us intently ihriNtgh the top window of tha door. “ Bhe nodded and smiled whenever I looked that way, still remaining at her poet its we shot along with increasing speed. Her great, speaking eyes were .igleam with excitement; and there was x look of suppressed power in her face that I never saw on any other human .'ounlenanoe. I felt that she oonM, if she to pleased, have carried us a)out by * * 'he force of her own will “ We reached Chicago at 7 A0 p. m. After descending from her oar, instead of immediately entering her carriage that stood waiting for her, she cams, transformed now into tha gracious, ele gant lady, to the engine, thanked me heartily for my efforts in her behalf, told me she should expect me to attend the theater that night to see how aha played after her * adventure,’ and, ask ing me to give her the street and num ber of my boarding-house (which I no ticed she made no written note of), shook my grimy bend as cordially aa if it had been dressed in immaculate kid, and bade me good-by. “ Half an hour afterward, while I was hurriedly eating my supper, a messen ger from the theater called with a note for me, in Miss Cushman's own hand, containing an order that I should there after be admitted free to any theater where she might be playing an engage- ■MOfc-. _ ^ _ “ You may be sure I went to hear her that night in the crowded theater, wheie, in one of the beet seats near the stage, I was honored by a glance and nod of recognition from the great woman whom the throng waa loudly applaud ing. “I aaw her at different places after ward, and she never failed to greet ma cordially, calling me by name, and re ferring pleasantly to that trip across the praine and to the brave ‘labor’ of the old ‘ Hercules. ’Christian R«giM«r. Thiy have established a “school of joamaliam,” in B<»u>a, where young m n are to be taught in three weeks bow to edit a paper. What’s the i of thia, when everybody knows by i»- ■tioct bow to rasa aewspaper, except— well, except the men that do it 99 KITH LOITO AM 9 —ffJUPJC. A New York Sun reporter visited Mr. Peter Cooper to ask two interesting questions. One wa* how he had man aged to life ao long, and tha othar how he got rich. . ' ■ In answer to the first queetion Mr. Oooper aaid: “I should put ii in two words ! Live soberly and righteously. We are required not to eat too much, nor to drink too mooli, nor to work too much, nor to play too much. We are living on earth under beautiful and beneficent laws, laws designed in infinite wisdom for the elevation of mankind. I infer that just in proportion as we live in obedience to these laws we shall have health and comfort. If we dis obey these laws we shall pay the penal ty. The penalty of disobedience must be paid somewhere, somewhere at soms time7’ — “ How did you get rich f* “In the first place, I learned three tradee. I learned to be a brewer, a coach-maker and a machinist, [all before I was 21 years old I worked three years st $1.60 a day, and I saved enough out of that to get a start in life. I was making maolunee to shear clotb. Then I bought the patent right of the machine and made them for sale. That waa be fore tha war of 1812.” " What general rule have you adopted in business Y‘ waa sakoi “One ea* that I ^tarmined to give the world an equivalent in some form of useful labor for all Bud I it I went a all the while keeping out of debt I not recollect a time when I pay what I owed any day. I would not 1 earned it Aa rule I had wee to keep dear of tha I never got them to dieoount I did to* any otiUgnmon without a eartotnty of rule wea: Pay a* yen go. I aaa t re- toe asking what I All the money I ever made wee in PATMOLLIM9 TMM OOMAM. , _; f . < Has not the time some for the Govern ments of England and the United States to taka some action to diminish the risks of ocean navigation ? Every municipal government patrols its streets, and there ia no good reaaon why the great ocean highway should not be petroled. 1 Were England and the ttnited States each to provide two steamers the route between New York and Liverpool oould be thoroughly patrolled. These Govern ment steamers oould remove sunken wrecks, warn passenger steamers of the locality of icebergs, and afford relief to shipwrecked vessels. A steamer with her machinery broken down would be towed free of charge by the patrol steamer, and would not, aa ia now too often the case, A—dlw assistance in or der to save $80,000 or $40,000 of salvage- A shipwrecked crew compelled to take to their boats would have a reasonable de gree of confidence that in two or throe days’ time a patrol steamer would pick them up, and toe owners of a missing steamer would have good reaaon to be lieve that, were she in danger or distress, help would be not far off. The coet of patroDing the ocean high way would be inconsiderable ia oom- pariaon with the benefits that would be secured thereby. Part of it might be paid by a light tax on reasels in the At lantic tirade, and the payment of such s [ tak would probably be more than bal- by the decrease in which would follow. We compelled yearly to send naval to young students of the Nsvul gaadsmy we to ma uixtm TBoaa. Gilroy hot springs by eoaoh was asksd to exchange eeata with a lady who found riding inside disagreed with her. Aa h* waa making his way to toe inside berth, she bade him take especial eare of two bottle# of Gilroy water, which ah# was carrying to her husband. A* it hap pened, the lady had contrived to mako herself very disagreeable to her fallow- visitors at the springs, and the paaeen- ger she had ousted from his Mi deter mined to have his revenge. Opening each of the bottles, he poured out half the contents, and filled them up with whisky. Before many days elapsed the proprietors of the Gilroy springe re ceived the following elegant epistle, dated Ban Francisco, Aug. 80, 18T»t “Sirs—You art a precious lot of scamps, you are l My wife paid a visit to your confounded place, and brought back some spring water. I drank about a bottle of the miserable stuff, and went to the Good Templars, sad had not been in the hall more than fifteen min utes before I waa as drunk as any you ever saw ; disgraced myself sad the lodge, end this morning I aa on a sick bed. My impeeamoo » that any act of men who will run an Institution of this sort ought to ba soused into hot-water springs until Tromaoript^ rmm dm. ow ram pacific ocmam The popular balief a to the compara tive shsllownam of may have to ha modified by to Doaa oood We do not suppose there to anything tost HMD buy which give* them more to using good stationery, especially to ptitate oor- ba obtained by the us* of a poor article, however it maybe manned. The value of good stationery to bu»iu«-ss men is, rarely sp predated by even those who are in th* habit of using it. A letter always cre ates an impression. Especially to this true when th* lettar to from a stranger. Accordingly it to wall for every due who writes tetters to consider what kiud of an impression his epistle to likely to *reate in the mind of tha person 4, whom it to addressed. 4 4 The most important element in creat ing a favorable impression by the Ictteri one writes is in the style and quality of the paper and envelope, the character of the printing forming the letterhead, and die taste displayed in toe general ar rangement. If the whole be done in a way that indicates taste, a faverabls im pression is almost invariably made. On the other hand, if the general style of paper and printing be slooohy, an im pression quite the opposite of favorable w ill be created in the minds of the per- tbe bwfaaae man umb to vM*r* a bad paitoy aa tha i ia hit h» «7 He may pay bis clerks half will ba very aiek if 1 coons of whisk they will do this for the purpose of • to place of the honest advice to fast for or two days, to take rest, and to stop drinking and smoking, if they an ad dicted to these vioaa. In nine oases out of ten this would he far better. Tha lawyer of this class makes his client be lieve that he has been wronged, and the doctor makes the patient believe he is very aiek. They all have their own profit in view, and play upon hu- hich in some individ in com bail veneaa, in others in imaginary weakness of body, and in others again in conceit about their men tal acoomoliahmenta. And aa, unfort unately, then to no profession author ised to point out th* follies of man, men will go on being humbugged to the end. • OaiMMLT MMUIM" 9*TM TIQUT. A half dosen prospectors camped one winter's night in the Sierra Nevada, El dorado county, California. The ground covered with snow, and when about midnight a grizzly bear approached the crunching of his feet aroused the whole camp. The bear trotted up to within a few feet uf the fire and seized the near est thing that oould be reached—a bag containing a few such articles aa bread and sugar and a demijohn of the hottest whisky manufactured on tha Pacific coast The prospectors fired several shots at the grizzly, which caused him to seize the bag and scamper off. Re lieved of the unwelcome visitor’* pres ence, the party dropped off to sleep again, to be aroused about dawn by loud and long roar* in a neighboring ravine. The men approached the ravine cau tiously, and were delighted to seethe grizzly uproariously drunk and rolling in the snow. The bear had broken the demijohn and lapped up the whisky with an appreciative tongue. His antics wera very funny, “ as good as a circus” one of the prospectors says, and they were kept up until long after sunrise. He tried hard to climb up the side of the ravine, and made ferocious dashes at the men, but every time he rolled down. At last the spectators shot him and moved on. an anti-slavery of th* apathy toward tl After a time a with a whit* neckcloth and a face mg with tha axcatrmeat of ia his that was an occasion whaie free was to be “Of couiee it to,~said Mis. Child; “ free speech to just what we ourselvea, and want other* to an joy. Ii you have anything to say, oome np hers on the platform and say it ia wal- oome." The invitation waa accepted, and the gentleman, after one or two vatn eflorta to choke down bis rising wrath and a*- Hume an appearance of calmness, re marked : “ I am aa orthodox minister of the gospel I came here this afternoon to hear some of the eloquence and wit which I understood were so abundant at these meetings ; but, instead <4 that, I have thus far listened to little save in sults heaped upon the clergy. It is the first time I ever thrust my presence upon you; it will also be the last I can find a better nae of my leisure hour* than attendance upon gatherings where the only speakers are women and jack asses t”*» He paused. There waa dead silence for a moment through the hall Then a Degress, black as the ace of spades, slowly rose from one of the rear seats, and addressed the chair. “ De gel’man tells us he’s a minis ter ob de gospel,” she said, “ and ao he probly knows what’s ia da /criptore. Dere was anudder minister long time ago named Balaam, He got mighty mad, too, at an ass dat spoke. But Missus Chairman, I’d like to remind de geTman dat it was de sas, and not ds minister, wot seed de angel” be the < •To whatr with a look of feigned 1 Apart of the boos, or I 'Judge, I don’t know what yon 1 I see no turkey. Will yon have food F* “Well, yon psther have me," the Judge, with a good-natured laugh; “but yon muat recollect that there's a wide difference between a turkey in an indiotmant and ana on the dinner-table.” A cut a ik priest preached to his tie o ugrngatiou in favor of a contem plated railway to their remote province. “We do not need a railway to get to Paradise,” objected a psassnt. enough," responded the prisal; fit. Fetor will “Tna "but AMBMMOmia. The largest lump of ambergris known was in the possession of the King of Tidore, and purchased of his Majesty by the Dutch East India Company. It weighed 182 pound*. Another enormous piece of 130 pound* weight was found inside a whale near the Windward islands, and sold for $2,600. The tra* ambergris, which to a morbid secretion of the spermaceti whale, gives out a fra grant smell when a hot needle ia thrust into it, and it also metta like 1st, but the counterfeit often sold instoad ol the real thing doaa not pnwrnt these features. Men mgaged in whale fishing am on the lookout Mr ambergris, and usually find mow to DMaaa with taste. The art of drees comprises color, text ure, form and ornamentation. The first consideration should be directed to col or. The accepting of fashionable shades, without any regard to the claims of com plexion, ia a great error, and the result is randy correct. By chance one may sometimes make a good hit in such mat ters, although by accident some of the best things in existence have come to light Red, this season, to quite s fa vorite, and can be worn by the blonde and the brunette, but the former must exercise a little discretion in adopting to any profusion this tolling dye. The blonde who can beflttingiy adorn her self in scarlet trimmings, and especially where the hne is in close proximity to the complexion, should be very fair; a clear white akin will beautifully reflect the brightness of the scarlet; whereas, a face that has a yellowish hue, or a rather florid aspect, should never ap pear to favor scarlet; if this odor is worn at all by such, let it be far away from the faces, except when arranged in an evening toilet^ A brunette can. not wear pale green, which to most be coming in the fair beauty. Orange ia the brunette’s own color; but if the ^ ^ dark belle has blue eyes this dazzling I ^ rai ^ ‘ will not enhance her appearance. 1 odor of the toflet should be of that nature to impart a healthy tone to the complexion. Thia idea, when effectually produced, ha* a very satisfactory result. Avoid wearing thoaa colon that height en or destroy either the rod, yellow or white fa Um natural flesh tints. Do you know that Um story of Cinderella to one of the oldest stone* in the world t It ha* been told to delighted youngsters for thousands of years, and by 1 ail races of people. There are, of < some little difference# in the story, as told by different peoples; the for instance, have a oow for the good fairy, and when the animal was about to be killed she told Cinderella (or rather Oedrensetto, which to bar French name) to collect her boose into her hide, and to wish over them for anything she wanted. Aa the Scotch toll it, a dying Queen gave her daughter “ a little rod ealfy,” which was killed by the cruel Ht.«p-mother, and over it* boSfathe child, Rash in coat as she is called, wished for her throe dresses.—.New Jerutalmn M—- * tee aMMh far the dignity ef He slopped, shut up hi* aer- toglaf* at the Mmno- DAMIBH LOTTS MI E3. A great institution at Copenhagen to the State Lottery, drawn in two aeri at aix months each, and very popular with all elassea. Th* drawing of thia lottery and payment of prize* are con ducted with admirable method and fair ness. Nothing better exhibits the calm and unexdtabte nature of the D than the systomatio way in whioh will take hto tickets for thirty without drawing a prize, and newer fret or even mention the matter; while an other wins the grand prize, ruins him self, and commences afresh in the quiet and matter-of-fact do you know what — — .— , my to all those who ooa* lumbering m et of it fa th* torpid, took or •long to Em gates fa carte? He will ray I lean tat, ooneequeatly it would you aro tobasokag ou thaftoba, what aD medica' I - V: I It fa tha prodact of a ■n cnarm a whole c ; ^ and at the age rf SO has no the i laiwfaa of so and, I pay add, a vary fartaaata, man. | mEMchniqck." An engaged young man is late in pay ing hto regular vitot at the dwelling of hto musieaily-inclined betrothed ; 1 youB( tody to anxious; Aha family sym pathizes with her anxiety. Suddenly the bell rings, and the calm hlnsakj of peace reappears fa the young girl’s ayes a* ah* rxclaims rapturously but un- ran, mtlrtBlIv “That’s him? How exquisite hto technique to oa the bell-pull, and oh, ■' to hug i* “Thefatter retoed fa while the rest of the 1 gation looked to ae* how this singular duel would and. “The silence became protracted, till, all at once, it appeared to occur to th* individual who wa* tha cause of it that it was worth white toausertafa what it was all about “He roaaofud hto kaniikmekiaf sad looked up, only to find htoaetof fixed by the glittering eyeef th* preacher, and by the eyes of everybody else 1 “With a oouTnlfarostart, ha aban doned all thought uf u nap that day, and the sermon went eo. In fact, it wae a pretty lively eougrogatiou for a hot Sunday.” ■' nr mrit able. As we progress in 1 etas change a* well, < of friendship. . Thar* aru mm and men in public life whose pathway to marked by the “remains” of whilom friends whom they have squeezed dry and sucked oranges. In polfttos it to mdd of *uoh a man that he to kicked down tha ladder by which he climbed. In literary or othur walks | the human sponge often swells np with the *w he has “ outgrown”, his humble friends of other days. In private life the sdf-eonmanus soul oon- itsclf with becoming more and man the eeutot Uf tta Write efamunfer- enoe, taking non* within its orbit who will not consent to waolve areamd it and emit light and it to too receive real, laatfag