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am aaoiratA »b<« #. and iheo>j ct»o'»>ack alaarlj iadicattd by necraaaiy net# when Nfairwd. I. Artidf* for publication a&owld ba in a dear, legible band, and on °aiy one aide of the page. 4. /il ehaaoes in adrertuMSMQta nuat i aa Friday. CAjnrotr Jivurm. HU OMirtlof Am Mg foa, ■owMaar priaw gtanto Imib That tia not aliraji fnn. Vor taatanea, vbaa ba** plannad klaita(a, And think* the mladla do, The girl’* diitmitfui parent Show* him a trigger two. And aa with much momentom Ha down the *tepe doth gllda, And oa the picket fence doth land, Ha feel* much mortar-fled. The maiden in the meantime ■aoapee Into the yard, And afaMeks, wifi modi amotion, *- ~vyia Tsa Rna MtArd.” The rotutf man thfnk* it orer, And, though he’ll not declare It, Oooclodea, tince he can’t ballet. That ha win have to bear It MT SPIRIT CELLE 1ER.” “SPOT- On*, two, three—yea, I was ■ore that I had traced a family reeemblanoe in three eery different facet, during the tin me day, and that theca facet had re peated themaelrea at interrala during a period of nererai day a It happened in thia wiae. I waa eon* fewer, which had rendered my morbid, and ao ahattared that it wm toreeomr it by the mildeet meanaand the aknraal eUgre. X dnret not walk , eren of the Ughtretchar- ona of the went nc; ao my ywoag yettal cnahionedeeat without an impingementof my dotty feet thereon, when the oar plopped. I heard the condaotor ex* elaim: “All right, aunty," and the next moment there ambled in a middle- aged woman, who seated herself, pain fully and with heavy breathing, oppo site. She woe* a thick veil, but my eyes were sharpened by much observa tion, and, for the peoo&d time that day, I exclaimed to myself: “ Heavens I what a resemblance l" and fell back on the old work ’>of com- my spintuelle blonde of the morning. Yes; the family resemblance was there—there was no disguising that. If the woman's-hghts woman had been the spinster this woman was the dowager mother. with, it all there was a confusion, a mystery, a con tradiction and defiance, which I tried in vain to understand or remove. Why, of all the face* I had seen that day, thee* three should flit before me, weaving themselves together, growing out of one another like monstrous heads, al ternst mg each with incessant repetition, and mingling their identities like objects re flected infinitely in opposite mirrors, was the moat inexplicable question of all I dreamed about those faces all that night They grew out of my bed posts; they hid themselves in the folds W my net; they sprouted from ay see Hke a tabled they had divvied my them, lor I certainly ferny honest conductors, and report them to the directors of this company. These women, whom I have seen, are all ‘spot ters,’ regular artists in the work.” “And how about the family resem blance ?” “The same face," I replied, “bears an extraordinary family reeemblanoe in itself, when seen in a number of clever disguises. I have Paid these women are artista and do their wort well But there is only one woman in the oaae l My spirituelle blonde is nothing bat a spiritut llo ‘ spotter,’ and my violet-eyed beauty, my spinster aunt and my dow ager another are one and the same per eon. I brushed near her with the eye of a hawk. I saw the paint and patches and powders. It in the beat 'make up/ on or off the stage* I ever witnessed. But I thfab one or two of the conduc tors, from the way they looked at her, are a little auspicious; and I suspect my lady will soon ba obliged to 'spot' on another line." From that hour my aonvuleseeme* wsa rapid, and I ride less than formerly in city passenger railway care. roc caw do rocm mmst. N President Tattle, of Wabash College, dared Mb Baccalaureate with words of inspiriting counsel to tbs class. Wa command them to all y men who may chance to read them irowl yowt ram mac a u alwaTI to rmm mwitt. Night in a great dty. The wind surged and moaned mournful cadence through the Wfiflare treat that stood like gaunt spectate of the night, ever and anon bending low their with ered trunks and neat black branches aa if in mute appPiU to the atom king to not prostrate them forevsr with his cold, merciless breath. Adown a street where gleamed the bright lights of wine bibbers’ haunts, and the baleful glare of the oyster sa loon fell upon the sifomrih, a young man strode with quirt, nervous step and a wistful haunting look in his eye. At a corner where the crowd of eager, jostling pedestrians was thickest he peuaed and looked anxiously around. The soft, low tinkle of a bell was heard. Clasping a bruised nickel in his left hand, tha young man efepped briskly forward, saying softly fekunself : “ My heart has not deceived tim; I am in time.* Adalbert Quirt had oanght the semi- weekly oar on Yen Boren ef e efl e i Ha » ad ^ In the slogantly-fnrntrted parlor of e haixlaomc reddest oa, e feD aad radiant- ty-baaattful girl set aiirtly In feout ef a grate fire, the flames frres whist leaped lightly np the chimney and met a swddy glow on all that seme within tha mage of thru ’-am* ru.patra res the' only dinghtm ef e MMABtro rmaxM sraacawM. It neeau impossible for Senators to mhke speeches say more. They are im pelled by some horrible and resistless force to write essays. The idee that any one can be convinced by a speech has gone oat of fashion. The essays are intended for publication in the. newspapers and the Record, in order that the author’s constituents may know that he remains true to his “prin- Many vigorous men have been deluded into adopting the vicious habit. Evan Blame was ffraduallv becomiotf a captive, end hie beet friends were wish ing that he could be taken back into the House by some fortunate freak of poli tics, in order that he might again ag- sume his place among the strong q^n of Congress. The absence of Oonkling leaves Ed munds about the only strong man on aether aide who has enough oonfldenee in himself to get en his legs and talk an boor or two as (bough he realty were talking to the Senate and not to the country. The lom of Oonkling is a and one in thia respect. He certainly added fe the vigor of the Senate, aad viators to the gallery, who ell dtiHhe written will mias Um Hew Tort Bas fe provide for tha ram wtaa tmbb. No tree has bean the subject of so many ridiculous fables re the upas, ant till quite lately they were popularly be lieved. On the faith of a Dutch sur geon named Foersehe, it was relate* that the upea flowed from a unique end singular tree, which vegetated in the midst of a frightful solitude in Java, “the valley of death." According to thia traveler, no living creature could resist the poisonous vapor* which it ex haled, and for three or four leej^ci only deed bodies and skeletons men and were to be met with. The birds themselves which ventured into the surrounding air fell to the ground as if etrart by lightning. Crim inal* consigned to capital punishment alone eleayed the teak of wresting its in fernal produoa from the tree. Many tried the perilous journey, but very few returned from it We owe the refutation of this fabulous narrative to Lseohenaolt, a recent French . This traveler notieed that the poison is famished by two spe- eien of trees which grow amid the forests of Java. Bo far from sxercteing e date- tenons influence upon all that surrounds them, they are »nonmpassed by a luxu- ivt’? - Qtv* Mb tefl m t AtektaMSi That 4*fM** 7*ur < Woeld aqatp * I Penan Twins, firm known to it*** ^ Not *0110111# far a toed of wood. Bouhd to make a man to tha other tide of tha Ansmooe man—“Is rate for writing poetry? Don’t ares “ doubU mar fere* tike, do, red Wrev you reurebk Ml of eeaki i on credit, be “oaah take ■ fes heiress. It reins I iHksrefes ji ST ofb It he ef ei do M. We< Ms wtie I II her M yen ll la iteaeti ef lbs ear ef s' hair? This was the style of ms a that to me tha Hay was at hand. II was about » o’clock in the aad wa were alone in the our. Hhe look ao notice of me at all nor indeed of anything but the school hook she held open in her lap. I noticed that the con ductor looked at her from tune to time, with an expression which might have meant a good deal had I in the leest sus pected the truth, or met a case resem bling it before. The young lady stopped the oar in the neighborhood of a large red-brick building, which I took to be a young ladies’ seminary, and got out without betraying a contciourneen of my existence, from which I opined that she was afraid of being late for school and didn’t know her lesson. At about 2 o’clock iu the afternoon I found myself riding up-town in the same car. The lack of other ‘means of amusement had rendered me a close ob server, and consequently when the oar stopped and a woman’s-righte-looking woman got in, apparently a spinster of uncertain age, my looks were riveted upon her, and, in spite of the difference in tr- which constitutes personalitj, I claimed to myself: “ Heavens I what a strange family re semblance I I could swear thia woman’s* rights-looking woman was the maiden aunt of my spirituelle blonde. Those eyes, that nose, that chin " -and there upon I sank off into a retrospective rev erie which lasted until I found I he* driven tic hloeke peel B tbefebsr. Tb be Ibt* ami ef a tel white examining one of which he had out down, had to are him hie! to Ms > MM 1 yet ha >of ei m. help the maa. ly I a_ ^ n 4h aaWB. tretefff yuuharete); On fee teal to at toe ef e toB fee * fee < Maftato. **I m^mr. Mu. tea la*/. | lto| Me tote e air. sm. sin JrTl mp. ate., stie.' it I fertt I was a Mite Yen! •U. mj fe on* but to ms, and if, by that time, yon don’t know what a 'spotter* to, I will toll yon." I roe* to go, with returned cheerful- “On* word more," he said, bolding out his hand aa I stood on the thresh old. '• You are not in love with your violet-eyed blonde V' “Ah I She is very beautiful," I an swered, turning away; “ and I think—I don’t know—but I think 1 am in love,” end, disappearing amid the doctor’s merry peal of laughter, I went on my mysterious quest. It wsa several days ere I called on the doctor again. When I did so it was with a dear head, but a heart not alto gether light. I had pursued my investi gations closely in the interim, and was now going to him with the result. asked. “ The girl," I replied, “ has genuine, unassisted beauty, and I pity her from the bottom of my heart that she is obliged to earn her living in such a way. age, attire, manner and everything,I Her spinster aunt is admirably got up. but I noticed that the way she counts is by turning down a leaf of the book she carries for every fresh passenger that gets in. Hie old lady is the greatest snooem of till She takes her notes by pretending to figure her grocer’s account in a greasy blank-book. Bat they are all three first-dam ‘•pottort/ *Bd do their I prey, my fnand,” flaked the N h$w did you arrive of fee deal wwAtamD ei WTti fed aal la fee I Nteav toef at Ni ef ted • •••••• of a got the sympathy ef fee La IMA aa i i at Mnirt Aintenltev, whs had b with Frank, which has famous. Within recast ; has rivaled Mnateh in this art I * v/ss a I ML* of girls 1 Germany and Norway devote themsdvm to the cultivation of their hair as reso lutely aa a farmer does his crops. Once e year the merchant, very often an old woman, arrives in the village, and e brink trade is carried on. The Swim girls make the moat, as nature has be stowed ad them an abundant crop of the blonde color, which is hardest of all to obtain, and the climate is evidently pro pitious to its growth. The pnoe ob tained depends on the length of, the re dundant tresses ; hair eight inches long is worth 25 cents an ounce, while that thirty-six inches in length will bring the fortunate possessor $8 an ounce, and in oases pf exceptional beauty and thick ness even $35 an ounce may be realised By fete time fee bridge wee by fee ll to Jest as “ And what have you to report he nUmbrr of years ago a rich man, as eccentric as he was benevolent, died in Philadelphia, leaving a will, in which he laid a solemn injunction upon his child ren that so long as they lived they should see the old year ont and the new year in at the foot of his coffin. The children are scattered through many States, from Vermont to Nebraska, but they never violate their father’s injunc tion, and last New Year, a few moments before midnight, they assembled, usual, in the family vault in Laurel THH Cemetery. Four of those upon whom this grim necessity was laid are dead, and the survivors constitute a stn and mournful group aa they carry out i eeut to Ireland 14,415 np wife him. Ha had but half a mite to ga Walking teteerely along, he reached fe* rastdance of Btuyvmael McGuire, end as the doer opened Cleo patra fell into hie anna with a glad cry. “ Fate has brought you to me, my darling," she said. "Yon most never leave me again." An hour later the door-ball rang, and Adalbert Quirk was informed by the hired girl that Miss McGuire was not at noma. * Rupert had outwalked the horse-oar.— Chicago Tribune. In a recent lecture Congressman (Sun- i set) Cox my* that while he was on fee Nile, the boatmen, who were devout Mohammedans, would lose their reckon ing, and, not knowing the points of com pass, would not know in what direction Mecca lay, toward which they moat turn their faces in prayer. Having e compass with him, Mr. Cox good-nat uredly corrected their bearings for them, and not infrequently had the honor of running a Moslem prayer meeting. They always passed, of course, a vote of thanks for fee able manner in which hf conducted their religious services. H he bed wanted it they would probably have made a dervish of him. "Yest* areyeu. Amebican pork men have discovered e new wrinkle in the way ef hen riling pork in Europe. They say there to en unusu ally heavy demand for port just now, the orders coming from ftigfland, At Liver pool the meat is repacked wife Eogtis brand*, aad in thia condition finds read ml* to Three* and Germany. Whs asked bow fete could be. to fe* toe* of 'III ‘ and I don't' script, and then stand up on your legs and talk to 'em like a maa." Upon fete fe* other Senator snatched up Vest’* manuscript and * vrted it off; leaving tha Mksrmrian to make an extemporane ous speech. ‘ “ Was it as good aa fee written ons Senator?" “ A sight better," was fe* confession. — Wathington Utter. A pbominxnt hotel on Pennsylvania avenue, Washington, sold over ito bar, daring the peat year, 840 barrel* of whisky, averaging forty gallons to the barrel end eighty drinks to the gallon. It aggregated 1,088,000 drinks I This may, to some extent, account for the brilliant Congressional speeches which electriy our country constituents through fee columns of fee Oongree- titmal Record. “Old Bye” stimulates ntatfuunanshty and ffinhtt the most pro found old potitioal oracles profuse in thter exordiums s»»d perorations. In the Century for December, Dr. Bliss says of Garfield’* fortitude: *' Neither on the day of the dastardly act, nor daring the long history of sor row, agony and death, did be manifest by word or look aught bat feankfulnsm lor attention, and kind coneidmutinn for all about him. I may safely eey feet I ter had such Wk eete ef Buretm 2,454. owned by A. & Der- test' of Enrotee 1,464. wMrt occupied and sis <tey* (ending Gel 15, 1180), she made 771 poumte of bat ter from 7,886 puumk of milk, ever^tag are pored ef butter from torn fere tea pounds of milk. la the mouth of Juae, 1880, ah* mad* aigbty-aighi pounds of batter. The monthly record of Eurotes 2,464 he* been exceeded by Lady Mail second 1,786, owned by Ohartes F. Milk, of Springfield, HI Lady Mtil second 1,796 dropped her calf to March, aad bar milk was kept separate, and fe* cream therefrom churned by itself, from the 16fe day of April to the 16th day of June (sixty-on* days), during which period her cream produced 188 pounds of butter—ninety pounds of butter per month of thirty days — twenty-one pounds per week, or three pounds per day. Lady MeU second 1,796 wee 6 yean old when the test was made, and gave daring fee trial an average of eighteen quarts of milk per day. The beet weekly yields of the above-named oowa have been exceeded by Jersey Belle of Soituate 7,888, now dead. This cow has a well-authenticated record of twenty-five pounds and two ounces to one week. The three cow* above- named have the bate yearly, monthly and weakly butter records, and wa con fidently expect, el no tow data, that the records will be ances, and not fancy points, are the aasantial watters attract tire of the practical Jtnwy fee day, who fate cows In tha pedigree ef t feat he wtebes to i 'ba* wife'fee aid ef teal but almost all hope of 1 fe M. ~ hie wife,were carried out to seel delate, and were not heard of for 1 day*, whan they Grimsby by a North Sea fishing i whtoh had given themselves up for lost; ends man named Saddler, whose balloon blown out over the Irish channel twent jean ago, was rescued by a Drowning k on* of fee greet danfl aeronaut runs the risk of, if he seconds to fee vicinity of a large body of Thirty yean ago fee body of an who weatup from Copenhagen i washed ashore re* small island off the coast, and the area of Mr. who was drowned in Take Michigan,will hei It k a fact of remarkable interest during the year nearly half a European immigrants haws ki the eingk port of New York. 200,000 of these came from fee < empire, which k fast grttiag rid very best of ik laboring people. bring offeemsre who will eonhribwte bj wealth of fe* of fere SwC ■38 ^ a can