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.40 V"ooto T II-E.L.EIIN INBR,S . ETME 1 Lna Wi FAIX KTURT. d A mother kissed ier baby, Hooking it to rest. And gently o'asped within her arms, Yt nestled in her breast. v The old fair story, Set round in glory, il Wherever life is found; y For oh I it's love, it' love, they say, That makes the world go round. 0 A fair faced boy alid maiden Passed through the yellow wheat; And their ha'ids were clasped together# t And the flowers grow at their foot. The old fair story, Set round in glory, Wherever life is found; For ohI it's love, it-s love. they say, That makes the world go round. 1 An old man and a wrinkled w;fe, Amid the fair spring weather; "We've shared our sorrows and our joys, God grant we die t -gother."[ The old fair story, . 5 Bet round in glory, Wherovcr life is found; For oh I it's love, it's love, they say, That makes the world go round. A Noble Girl. t f Nc. my dears," remarked Mrs. Bendel pool, seated in her dressing-room whith one fJnger pressed critically to her lip, as she turpected two ball dresses of blue and nauve, "I really think you must have new ,snes for such an occasion. A girl's whole fortune is often ruined turough an unbe -oning toilet, or a faded or an ill-assorted c ribbon. This blue looks anything but fresh in the trimmings; and, Nora, my love, though the mauve was your choice, I never did think the color became you." Nora and Clare Bendelpool were by no means loath to agree with their parent new ball-dresses being in perspective. Only Clare, bending forward, her chin in her hand, ivistfully suggested: *'But what will papa say to the expense, f luamma Y" "Leave that to me, dear. To use his own words, 'he'll never spoil the ship for a ha'porth of tar.' On such an occasion lie would not have you appear worse than your neighbors. You, Nora, are 21 ; you, c Clare, are 20. It. is high time you should be established in life ; and why should not q one of you be Lady Stockinham as any- f body else?" "They say," remarked Clare, thought fully, "that Sir Archie is very handsome." "Very: and so nuinly. None of your insipid drawing-room dand'es," said Mrs. Bendelpool, conten'ptuously, of that class among which, for the last two years, she had been angling to land "suitable estab lishments" for her daughters. "ie has traveled until they say lie is as brown as a bun." "Bronzed, I fancy they said, imaniina?" c "Well, bronzed as a bunl. lie has been all over Africa, shot gorillas in the Moun- 8 tains of the Moon, hippopotami oi the 9 Nile, and, cear mun, been nearly twice eaten alive by lions. Now he comes home 8' to find a wife." "The unheard-of dangers lie has passed through having given him sillicient cour age to undertake so perilous an enterorise," ' broke in a mery voice. "Pray, aunt, was it the lion's claws that suggested to him matrimony ?" The speaker wns a young lady, who had entered unheard, and now stood, the skirts C of her riding-habit, in one hand, while with to the other she fanned herself with her u Gainsborough hat. "Vi, how incorrigible you areh" ex elaimed Mrs. Bendelpool, looking round. "As to ever finding you a husband, I do spair; you frighten every suitor away by your outspokenness." c "Because, aunt, I never have come 0 across one I caredi to .keep, " laughed the I girl, dropping into a chair. 'Pray take no trouble about me ; I am 24, so have set, a myself clown already as an 01(d maid. t 'Ilk a laii has a ladd:o, No or a anoe ha' I,''" she began singing ; then, concluding with si ikn "et cor' r'a, et amifcra," she ad(ded : ri "But pray, aunt, tell me about this Amadis il do Gaul, or of go)rillas andl hippopotami. 'I I confess 1 am curioust,o learn of one whom 1b all Bhallowtown'is talking. Remem ber, I S am almost a stranger here myself." C '"it, Is simply tis, Vi: Sir Archibald 8tockinhiam, on inheriting the Hall at his A father's demise, b,ecom.ing his own niaster, 0 arousedl by the explorations of Livingstone, b determined to do AMrica. lie has done n) AirIca, andi Is inow returning to settle dlowin ri ' at Shallow town." hi ''And find a wife," broke in Vi, laughi. lng. "I wish him every success." A "And Vi," smiled Nora, "may p)robably carry off the baronet herself." "'Whol I .?" was the rep)ly. "NIo, in- ih deed ; give ime a real-born Englhshman, t not a half-baked African, Norai oi' Clare ti must win hin, and I'll chance at the g bridal." n "I would," remarked Mi's. Blendelpool, with a sigh, "the thing were probaible; but there's a mystery about, the baronet's a selection of a wife." y "A mystery I" and the three young faces were turnled (quickly towardhs the c speaker,.f "No less," p)roceeded the elder lady. t< "You kniow lhe c.odnes hack with young a George Buner, of the abbey, and that it's the Sumners wh'o give this ball as a s1 welcome homne to him."'h "Yes, yes-exactly. Goc on." "Well, this miornhing, when Mrs. Sum- bi ner was tellig me all about it, she reah Y me her son's hotter, and in it, he writes, ini bus lively way, you know, that the bar'onet g 1s coining to seek a wife, hut that the girl lie selects nmust possess one ncculiarity, t' rarely to be foundc in fashionable young in ladles, If she fail in this, lie she as h:veiy ri as possib)le, or--" fi " 'lo she fairer thanm the uday, 5 Or the llow'iy merads m May,"' b chimied in Violet. "Just so, lie lhas vowed never to wedi n her." r "But what is this peculiarity ?" de. g manded two voieces. r "T'hat lie keeps a prcfound secret. l Even George Sumner is not taken into his S confidence. further than lie kniows this hi whim, or what you will, was formed while *in Africa." "Bah I" remnaiked Vi, rising and tossing ~ back her brown hair. "The poor man has I - had a suanstroke, or his braini is addled by t the heat of the tropics, which hatches t ostriches' eggs. In my idea the man isi contemptible who shoiA his conceit by im.. umrinimr that ho hants int walk into .a a'- c en of blooming English girls and select lst which he pleases. '? "My dear VI," said Mrs. Bendelpool, rith sententious wisdom, world acquired, 'when the man Is a baronet, young, and rith a large rent-rool, and the blooming I inglish girls are portliless, that is very nci just what it is. It Is different with "Who have a poor three hundred of my Wn," laughed Violet. "Well, true, aunt. 'o an independent spirit, it wilU afford a Irl to be independent of taking a husband mie doesn't love, and make her brave enough > face the world as an old maid." And the speaker wandered away, sing ig, leaving the trio to further discuss Sir Lrchie and his whim. Violet was the niece of Mrs. Bendolpool. ,cft an orphan, with an income of ?300, or aunt had offered her a home-a very appy one, where she did pretty much as lie liked. She was dark, small-featured, nd not particularly pretty, save in the leasant, mirthful expression of the counte nce. The Misses Bendelpool were hand Dne and never regarded Vi as a rival, for liough she liked male society, she ab orred and speedily stopped flattery or entinient. The evening of the Summer ball arrived. 'he Bendelpool house was in conunotion ; lie unfortunate lady's-maid was summoned ron dressing-roem to dressing-room, until he was tired out of her life. As the last atches were being given, Mrs. Bendelpool mered, smiling, holding two pasteboard 'oxes In her hand. "Nora, Clare," she said, "papa had icant these for Christmas presents, but he ,as forestalled them for this evening." The boxes opened, the girls gave a cry f delight-each contained a pearl necklace ?ith pendant and earrings to iratch. 'hey were speedily placed, and certainly 'the Bendelpool girls" looked, to use a oung Oxonian's words "no end of stun ing." "Where is Vi ?" "Here, my dear Nora, quite ready to dmire you," answered Violet, entering, istefnlly attired in an amber, gauzy, lacy abric. "Clare, Sir Arehie will feel like--" "Don't say a donkey between two bun les of hay, VI." "No; like Macbeth, 'How happy could be with either;' and descending to,the arrdage they drove to Sumner abbey. The ball was, indeed, a grand one, and ir Archie Stockingham, a broadshouldered tir, brown-haired, frank, handsome, ronzed y ung English gentleman, was the on of the evening. "Which is but fair," whispered Vi, considering the lions had it so much their wn way in Africa." Vi quizzed him, and said he was very Utertuiniig, and even, possibly, would uprove on acquaintance. The Bendelpool girls, and all the other andsome girls, danced with him and de lared he was divine I Sir Archie certainly seemed to have the une opinion of his partners. lie was raciousness itself. "Arn't the Bcndelpool girls jolly hand >mi, Archic?" whispered George Sum er. "Yes-very, 'ndeedIl" "Well, now you have seen the beauty of hallowton, how about your selection of a ife ?" "It is made," was the reply. "Made ?" "Yes, if the lady will be only kind iough to have me. I shall ask permission i-to improve our acquaintance, with the IterIor idea of partnership, to night." 'Never ?" "True."1 "But-but, the peculiarity ?" "Out of all the crowd here," remarked ir Archie, "only one possesses it. Of >urse I am not compelled to marr,y that ie; but as circumstances turn out, I think should like to try." And with that Sir Archie strodled away, dance forming, to find the lndy on whose blots his name was down. Thmatjlady was 'molet. T1hmey had a very pleasant and chatty >ini just twice around the bal--room--Vi| ~marked that dlancing, like other good] aings was to be taken in moderation. 1( 'len they stood aside, wvatchilng the rest.< era, leaning on time shoulder of George < umner, whirled by; soon after came] lare, with a Col. Hanley. "A pretty, graceful scene,' smiledt rchie, "esp)ecilly to one from time wilds I Africa, though even here I find resenm- l lances. 'The gems and gold of the orna- I aents in time ladies' cars, as they flash by, nmmd( me of the fire-flies as they darted< arough the dat k tropical night." "D)o they recall to you nothing else, Sir f rchibald?" inquired Vi, roguishly. "How do you mean?"t "Thait, there is a fuirther resemblance ; I d(eed, there is not much difference be-] neen an African lady who wears a ring I trough the nose or lip andi a European irl whlo wears one through her car.,l i It ot a remnant of barbaim r' Vihe Baronet gave a great start. "'That decides me," lhe exclaimed, half oud. "Miss Fortescue, may I lead on to take an ice ?" Before that ice was consumed Sir Am'-< .ie hmad asked permission, very humbly, a >r it was really a case of love at first saghat I woo Vi, and after a wvhile had obtained< half consent. "But," said Vi, shyly, as they returned i owly to the ball-room, "I understand the I (dy you int,end to honor--" "Must have a certain peculiarity ?" he roke mn. "True, Miss Fortescue, anid I ou have it." "I ?" ejaceulatedi Vi, starting. "Good] racious I" "Yes," lie replied, sumiling. "'When aveling thro.inh Afriea i saw the hideous ess of the nose and lip-rings worr by its a ices. The ide occurred to me whether my uir countrywomen considering theoir l iperior cultivation, were any better or less arbarouis tham they. And there and then I vowed never to wed a woman who had ot the courage to mesist fashion, anid to reserve the prettiest ornameni nature had Lven her sex, and he looked down at Vi's erfect shell-like ear unmutilated. "Miss1 'orte3scuo, I haive found that lady ? my reatest trouble now is whether I may ever ope to win lher." Vi did not give her answer then.; but year after, certain it is, ushe became Lady tockingham--a reward she used laughing f' to aver, for lhen superiority in civliza din over the other fair ladles of Shallow.. >wn. '-Eaoh English naval cadet cost shis ountry $1250 a year, Midnight Duel. It is not generally known that Wil 3oleman, William Cullen Bryant's p, :essor on the Evening Poet, was a pi )al in a fatal and mysterious midi luel, which created great exeitemei Journalistic and political circles here m y-five years ago. Coleman was a in ntellect and character, an extreme 3ralist, and of such intense prejudices taving once formed an opinion, nol 3ould change it. At the beginning o entury party spirits burned at white : td newspaper controversies were cot ed with most intemperate zeal. Coloi ,hief political opponent was James U iam, of the American Citizen, and wo were constantly at war. Althougl N0vening Post editor used violent langi is was the custom of the day, and he Donscientiously averse to duelling. and Aften so expressed himself in his edil ,lolumns. Nevertheless, Cheetham, % bitter contest of words, challenged nan, who accepted the challenge, as Df his anti-duelling principles have < one before and since. The meeting fot take place, however, because J Brockhoest Livingstone, in his ofilcial i %1ty, caused the arrest of the princil 'he arrest was interpreted unfavorabl Doleman by his political enemies, oij whom Captain Thompson, Harbor-mi Af New York declared publicly that the %ditor could not be driven into a fight; lie was an infamous poltroon. Such guage could not at that time be bro( iubmission to it involved loss of influ ind social caste. Consequently Coh letermined, with the advice of his fri to call Thompson out, and did so, V ington Morton acting for the journahial Dheetham for the Harbor-Master, No interference could be tolerated this I md the affair was managed with the p st secrecy. One summer morning fc Lean a well known surgeon, recc k i anonymous letter to the effect thi Leven o'clock of the same evenin would find at the foot of Broadway Ihe south side of Bowling Green. a I md gig. -He was requested to drive hese to a spot designated, on the ikirting Potter's Field-the neighbor: >f Washington square at present-m ie would meet some friends anxious t iim. He followed the directions fait] y. On arrival he heard four pistol-s md by the moonlight he observed ooking over the fence, one man sup ng another, and two other men at a listance. "Are you Dr, McLean?" .eiving an aflirmative reply, the man 'his gentleman is wounded. He r rour aid. Take charge of hin please, uarry him to his fritnds." Then lie g< aid the wounded man on the ground went off with the others. The D< -ecognized the gentleman thus strat :onsigned to him as Captain Thoml with whom he was intimately acquali rhompson was severely hurt, having a et-hole in his side, and was bleeding !usely. The Doctor stanched the wi as well as lie could, and drove the pa o his residence, nearly two miles a Ele left Thomipson at the door. rang )ell, and hurried away. The membe he family came; were terrible shocke lnd the husband and father they had .heerful and vigorous a few hours b )leeding and helpless. They took hii is chamber, and. in tears and distrest luired the cause of his pitiable plight. efused to say any thing more than thi uad fought a duel, and had been hoi ly treated, and begged that no e hould be made to discover or punish dversary. whose name lie would not lose. Though he had the ablest surg< te died, after lingering two or three i vith his secret unrevealed. lia pet vas religiously respected. Nobody o molest Coleman, whose share in the iecessarily soon becikme known; no 4 aent was ever made in the press; ditor of the Post returned to his desk, :o the strange tragedy ended. An Hlistoric House. The year 1776 found the colonisti ,rms against the mother country, U mlorris a Colonel an the British army leorge Washington Commander-in-C 'f the forces of the coloinies. Mrs. M ccupied her home until the attack of iritish on the city of New York, in ust I776 when finding that it was 1I o become the theatre of war, she le astily and found refuge with the 4eople among the Hlihlands. A few iter General Washington arrived and lhe mansion his headquarters durim perations on the Island, holding a ouncils of war in the drawing-room o ormer mistress of his heart, and dev< o the rep)ose of martial thiews and ir lie downy beds andi silken canopies mad been intended for far daintieri 3ut this military occupation lasted on hort time, although the mistress of nansion never returned to her charmin reat. At the close of the war her es Yore conflscated, and she went with musband to England where she lived ~ood old age. Fourteen years later; in 1790, WasI on, with a good number of dames avaliers, paid a second visit to the nansion.1 t In his journal he gives us ailed account of the event, Hie says ui late of July 10, 1790: "Having formed a party consisth he Vice President, his hi,dy, son and I kinith; the secretaries of State, Trea nd War !nd thme ladies of the two ha ith all thme gentiLumen, we visited the >osition of Fort W.shington, and a wardl dined on a dinner pr!ovided by iI'.rner, at the house lately Colonel R dorria', but confiscated and now hi >ogsa ion of a common farmer." Ths Captain Mariner was a noted icter in the revolutIon, and was eng with Captain Hyler ini the somewhat rated "whaleboat warfare," which isted chietly in making night descen he enemy's coasts, and making prisone ucli prominent persons as came in way. After the war he kept a taver: IVard's Island and at Harlem, and be< noted caterer. It was in this capa hat lie was employed to prepare the di or as imposing a company of guests a nansion ever entertained. In 1808 Morris' was again In the ma md for a time it seemed probable Dolonel Aaron Burr, who was then 1I a princely splendor at Itichnmond would become its purchasor. in No ber of this year lie wrote to his dauj rheodosia in regard to the exchange. letter in reply dated Clifton, B. C., De ber 10, 1808, is interesting aise what one of the most oharminn and complished women of her day thought of the mansIon. She says: liam "rhe exchange has employed my ede- thoughts ever since. Richmond Hill will, -luCi- for a few years to come, be more valuable light than Morris', and to you, who are so fond it in of town, a place so far from it would be Men- useless; so much for my reasoning on one in of side, now for the other. Richmond Hill Fed- has lost many of its beauties and is daily that, losing more. If you mean It for a residence, .hing what avalls its intrinsic value? If you sell f the part you deprive it of every beauty save 4eat, the mere view. Morris' has the most com idue- manding view on the island; it is reported ian's to be indescribably beautiful. The grounds, ieet- too, are pretty; how many delightful walks the can be made on 130 acres; how much of I the your tasto displayed I In ten years or lage, twenty years hence 130 acres on New York was Island will be a principality; and there is had to me something stylish,elegaut respectable ,orial and suitable to you in having a handsome after country seat. 8o that, on the whole, I lole- vote for Morris'." men But Colonel Burr did not purchase the ften mansion at this time, though thirty years did later he married its mistress, and resided udge there for some time, and met a class of apa law students in the room formerly occu pals. pied by Washington as his sleeping apart y to ment. The later history of the mansion is e of both varied and interesting, but it is so ister near our own times that it is scarcely Post necessary to repeat It here. that An account of the visit which the writer lan- made to it recently, in company with a -ked gentleman familiar not only with the place ence but with its history as well, will no doubt 1n1i prove more acceptable. The main hall of ,nds, the mansion, which one enters from the rash- pillared porch,is, with its ancient portraits, ,and its polished oaken Iloor and great depth legal and roominess, the nearest approach we ,lime, have perhaps to that of an ancient baronial reat castle. This hall opens by folding doors Dr. into the drawing room of the mansion-the ived same that was used by Washington as a t at reception room during his military occu Slie pancy, Here he received his visitors, lis on teued to his orderlies' reports,and dicta iorse ted his *answers, and here at the last was with held the council of war which decided road that Manhattan Island shouldbo relin ,iood quished. here The floor of this room, and indeed of 3 see eveiy apartment in the house, is of oak, iful- and so highly polished that it affords an lots, insecure footing to one used to carpeted by rooms. The wall paper has a ground work port- of green, with raised figures of vine and ittle leaf having the appearance and texture of Re- velvet, and its coloring is as fresh and Mid, vivid as though nearly a century and half cods had not passed since it left the hand of the and artisan. In this room also hangs a beauti ntly ful chandelier, which was formerly the and property of the unfortunate French Gener )ctor al Moreau. A winding stairway at the 1gely right (f the hall leads the visitor to the son, suite of apartments above, and ushers him 'ted, first into a hall directly over the on below, bul- and of about the same dimensions. From pro- this hall one may ste p out upon a balcony )und which commands a magnificent view of tiont city, river and sound. Washington's bed way' chamber was on this floor, at the rear of the the hall and directly over the drawing rs of room; there is nothing noteworthy about it to except that it contains a number of secret seen doors and closets, not all of which are ,fore known to the present residents. Two small n1 to ante-chambers, one on each side, were oc in- cupied by his aids, one of whom was Alex he ander Hamilton. The old oak bedstead on tt he which Washington slept is still preserved ora- with other treasured relics in the attic of ifort the house. his Having seen all the objects of interest that dis- the old mansion contained, although but :ons, very few of them are included, in this do l'aye cription, we were Invited to a walk in t the grounds, which are extensive, coimpris duel ing about 130 acres. Even hero the anti quity of the place is apparent. The great Om locusts that line the main approach to the th mansion are dead at the top and hoary with adage. Musical Acoenit.. In At a trial in the Court of Kings Bench, oger June, 1838, between certain Tweedledees, aslc toa alleged piracy of an arrangement f"TeOld English Gentleman," T. J. nrris -Cooke was supponiaedl as a witness. the On cross-examination by Sir James Scar ke - lett, that learned counsel rallier flippantly keysaid it "Now, sir, you say the two melodlies are oythe same bu ifferent. What do you meys an, ut di ao"Tom promptly answered : "I said the isnotes in the two copies were alike, but with tern different accent." .the Sir James-" What is a musical accent?" iting Cook-"My terms arc a guinea a lesson, ir." (A loud laugh.) ass "Sir James, (rather rnflled,)-"Don't '-in our terms here; I ask you what is yamusical accent?i Can you see it i" th Cooke-"No." g re- Sir Jamnes-"Can you feel it ?" atea Cooke-"A musician can." (Great laue tr. to a laughters, (very angrily,)--"Now pray, msir, don't beat about the bumsh, but tell Ills g- Lordship and the jury the mecanining of 01what you call accent." Cooke-" Accent In music is a stress laid ider on a peculiar note, as you would lay a stress on any given word, for the purpose of being better understood. If I we re to lisay you were an ass8, it rests on ass but r'were I to say you were an ass, i rest on sur you, Sir James." tter Reiterated shouts of laughter by the 01er- whole court, In which the bench jomhid, fter- followed thi's repartee. Silence being ob og. tained, Lord Denan, the4 Judge, with much gravity, accosted the chap-fallen counsel--Are you satisfied, Sir Jamies ?' Sir James, dceep red as ho naturally was, dLr had become scarlet in more than name, and in a great huff said : "Thue witness may con- go down." is on rs of The Manuraetuire of Coal Tar Dyes. their i at The extent to which the manufacture of mamne coal tar colors is now carried is shown by icily the following statistics of labor and pro. nner duction at one of the prinoipal coal tar a time color works in Germany. There are em ployed over 1,000 workmen, in addition rket, to forty overlookers and branch managers, that twenty-five chemists, one engmneer, and ving thIrty clerks and accountants. The yearly 1111l, consumption of coal amounts to 17,000, vemn- 000 kilos; anthracen, 825,000 kilo.; naph. ;hter tha and benzol, 050,000; chromate of' pot. Hecr ash, 280,000 ; caustic sodo, 1,245,000 ; sem- sulphuric acid, 2,250,000; muriatio acid, wing 4,060,000; nitrIc acId, 825,000; alcohol, ac- 91,500 ; and sundry chemicla, 8,560,000. Oive In a now. "Please, sir, give me a bow?" The child was siting on a lower doorstep. Her eyes sparkled and her tiny fingers played with the stub of a lead pencil. A straw hat was shoved back on her head, and the breeze played with the bows of colored ribbon. Near by sat a demure little miss,who looked with amazement at hercoin panion, who) had dared to address a stran ger. The neighborhood was respectable, and the children were well dressed. "A bow?" "Yes, sir, a bow, like this you know." The child nodded her head, her long tresses dropping forward and kissing her rosy cheeks. "Why (10 you want ie to bow to you." ,,Oh, 'cause I want everybody to bow to me." "Everybodyl" "Yes, sir, eveiybody." 'But, if everybody should bow to you that would keep you busy bowing in re turn." "Yes, sir; I know that, but--'' "But what." "But that's what I'm willing o do if everybody will only bow to me," sie re plied, putting the stub pencil between her lips an( smiling at her companion. "Why in the world do you want every body to bow to you." "Cause I can get a hundrede bows. Don' t you see?" "Of course. But why do you want a hun. dred bows." "'Oh, 'cause." ' ICause is no answer. " "I know tian't, but_ " "Will you tell me why if I will bow to you?" "Yes, sir," she replied reluctantly. The bow was given. The stub pencil was i use a second afterward. The child bent forward, and after unfolding a slip of paper that she kept out of sight, smoothed her dress over one of her knees, and hold ing her paper on the smooth place, wrote 1. There were other 1111 on the slip; and the child compared theni with those on a slip held by her companion. "What are those marks for?" "That shows how many bows I've had," she replied, holding up the sill) of paper. "Did you have to ask as many persons to bow to you." "Oh no, Sonic bow to Inc even if I don't ask them, like papa and mama." What good does it do?" "Lots?" "Yes, sir, 'cause if I get a hundred I can make a wish." "Wish for whatl" "Anything. Don't you see?" When we get a bow we mark it (own until we get a hundred. Then we fold n the paper and bury it in the ground. Then we make a wish for something." "Do you expect the paper will turn into what you wish for?" "Some do, but I don't. Sonic girls nut it in the ground and go and look at it, every day. Their wishes don't comie true someltimes. I just vut it In and wiit." "Did you ever get anyciing?" "Oh, yes sir. I had a gold locket locket last Christmas that I wished for." "And how niany bows have yo.i marked on that shpl" "Eighty, eighty-one, eighty-two, eighty three. Eighty-three, sir." "Can the same person bow to you twice?" "Oh yes. But not the same day." "What do you intend to wish for." "I don't know yet. Something nice though." "I hope you will get it," "Thank you. sir,'' replied the child. ,,Ain't you going to bow to me?" caie from behind the railing, as the demure lit tle miss looked up shyly. Again the request was granted. "Thank you, sir." D)run,k on Cofree. An Italian statueseller, going on his rounds in the Pais streets and carrying a tray of plaster casts on his head, stumbled uploni a wellstuffed leather portfolio lying in thme road. As It, contained $2,500 in bank notes, it was a perfect bonanza to a gamin. Wh at, could lie not buy wit h it ! But there was one tihing for which lie cared above all others. It was strong coffee. IIis first thought was that lie could driink a dlozen cups of coffee a cday, if lie chose, lie rushed into a cafe andl swallowed, one aufter another, six of Gaim betta's favorite "'monograms" and nine "glorias"-cups of strong coffee with liquor. The next day he paid a second visit to time restaurant and1( indulged In a fresh debaucht; and lie returnedl on the following day to order coffee with time same recklessness, is continued revelry excited the suspicion of the poli1c, andl he was flially arrested. TIen bank notes were l ound in his p)ocket. A hundred francs had lasted himu several days and lie was evidlently congratulatinrg hi mmself on hiavinug resources wherewith ho could buy amnd drink gallons of stronig coffee durinig the .vmt er. Amntiuity of Mhan,. Believers in the Mosaic account of time antiquity of man may derive seine comfort from the fact that the ablest geologists and antiquarians have varied in their computa tions as to the age of man not less than 600,000 years. Sir Charles Lyell, for ex aimple, first pt.need the appearance of man on earth about 800,000 years ago ; his later comiputations rediuce this p)eriod to 600,000 years ; others formerly tassigned 1,000,000 of years as t,he age of main; more recently the supposition of many scientists reduced this to 20,000 years. D)r. Fowler's Red Indian found buried sixteim feet in Missis sippi mud was believed to be 57,000 years old, but Mr. Fomtaine found a skeleton in the same neighborhood uinder fifty feet of earth which had been buried only four years I United States engineers by careful calculation find that the whole New Orleanis delta to the depth of forty feet is the pro duct of a little more than 4,000 years. Professor Aiidrows gives the probable gla cial age at Lake Michigani as about 6,000 to 7,000 years, which other scholars are adopting as the antiquilty of the ''ice age.' Man, according to geologists, came after the ''ice age." --Of sixty-eight prizes in the Uni-l versity College, Lonudon, sixteen were taken by women the lastiin session. -A man on the Peninsula railroad in Florida, gathered 10,000 oranges from one tree last fall. -In 1879 the number of persons who ylsited Vichy was 83,805, of whom A merica contributed 517. An Orchestral Squabble. There was a pause in the rehearsal, and "the gentlemen of the orchestra" went out to seek refreshment and to stretch their legs. The instruments, finding themselves by themselves, Indulged in a little badin Age; and to the Double Bass, who is a ood hand at taking down notes, we are indebted for a report of the proceedings. It appears there had been a good deal of ill-feeling among those preson. in conse :4uence of the numerous airs the First Vio in had indulged in during the engagement )f its proprietor, a famous soloist. and the mubordiuate intruments, feeling aggrieved, xprcssed their sentiments in characteristic rashion. "You think yourself everybody," grum )led the Clarionet,- and the Hautboy (an ustrument of very much the samc order of nii) backed up the assertion. "1 tell you what," coolly replied the First Fiddle, "you're an obtrusive humbug this to the Clarionet]. Your remarks are iot worth a rush (or a reed). And as for /ou, [this to the 11autboy,J if you don't .orreet a growing tendency to sing through (our nose, you'll be put down as a nasal luisanco.' "No personality I" blurted the Ophi leide. 'You take advantage of your osition." "As for .you," leftily replied the First Ipiddle, "you're a mass of brass. You're a latant nuisance I" "Well, I'm blowed I" cried the Cornet. "Moderate your language, " said the gen eel First Fiddle. "If you have had the nisfortune to pass your early existence out oide taverns, you should remember you are iow among respectable company. "Well I" burst in the Drum, "I don't hink in argument you are--" "Pardon me I" Interrupted the First Fid le, 'don't venture on the question of irgument. Itemmuber you wore born to )e beaten." "As an old friend of mine," sharply 6vhistled the Piccolo-merely a fife with teys-"l object to this personality." "Oh, dear I oh, dear I " rejoined the sea ntive First Fiddile, putting his bow to hi; ara, "Oh d, dear I o, (eAr I Piccolo, you re so sharp you might Le Piccalilli." "Gently, gently," interposed the Flute, 'you are rather hard upon my younger rother; you--" "Silencel you double-tongued lupos or " aigrily broke forth the First Fiddle. "And as for that snake in the grass, the 3erpent, and that three-cornered-tempered ittlic toad the Triangle, and that jangling ld pa:r, the Cymbals, and that idle old Irone, the Bassoon, I despise the lot of you. l'here's only one instrument among you all ,hat I admire." 'And which is that ?" shouted the whole Irew. I"Violat" replied the First Fiddle-"one who always backs me up, and who says in he play-'Twelfth Night,' you know 'Save thee, friend, and thy music ; dost liou live by thy Tahor?" "What say you to that, Drum? What 4 lucky thing for you that your master has i second-hand clothes business to fall back ipon in the daytime I" "A wretched instrument without any liatinctive characteristic," snorted the Trombone, "My dear- Trombone," gravely remarked ho First Fiddle, "you really (o go to such engths I" Here the musicians came back, stumb ing over the stools, and the instruments being taken up, harmony again prevailed. Medicinal rinta in California. It has long been k nown that the climate if our J?acillc States offers singular advan tages for the cultivation of certain foreign plants from which valuable medicines are mxtracted. It is only quite recently, how aver, that the flora of that coast has been ,pecially stifed with a view to ascertain the ecoinomiic value, for medicinal purposes, of the native plant,s. A chemnist of Cali fornia has given this subject special atten tion, and finds that there are many plants; there whole p)roducts are called for in mod ern pharmacy. Tlhe JEucal,yptus globultus, the Ycruba buena, and the Cancharlagua, ire already widely knowvn. Tihe Grindelia ro)bunta, which grows throughout the St ate, suppl)ies a balsam of t,he resinous chmaracter, most abundant in the buds, but, found in all the juices of t,he p)lants. As a cure for the erupltion occasioned by con tact with the "'poison oak," the balsam is Iiecounited almost, a specific. It is also in demandl in the Atlant,ic States as a remedy for asthma and bronchital affect,ions. The leaves of the eucalyptus, serving as the stulhiig of a pillow, have been found bene fIcial in relievingi neuralgic headaches; and a tincture prep)ared from the leaves has a vatiety o,f uIseSii inmedlicine. 0One of the newest of vegitable drugs Is obtained from Yecrba san/a, a shrub known also as gum weed mountain balsam, wild peach and bears' weed. The leaves contamn a resi nous substance highly spoken of as an In gr(didenit, in cough mixture, andl for the cure of bronchial aand laryngeal disorders. The colletion aiid dIrying of medicinal plants In Ualifornia, for shipment, to manu facturing chemists at the East, Is gradu ally becoming a business of Iiportance. In 1804, whieni the distribution of Impe ial Eagles to the French army took place n Paris, the Colonel of the Fifty -seventh Regiment, when the mioment camne fr hhin o give up his colors, refused to part with hem, and persisting in his refusal, was meat to Napoleon at the Tuilerles. There ho Emperor himself repeated the order. "Sire," replied the Colonel in a voice trem uliing with emotion, "I entreat you not to usk inc to give up the colors. They are ha colors of Montenotto, where I thought ~hey would serve me as a winding sheet. i'o pairt with themi will break my heart." The Emperor, however, was firm, and mothmng was left to the Colonel but obey. Jn the (lay of the distribution, when the same of his regiment was called, the Cole eL advanced sadly to receive the new col 3rns. Napoleon himself, took the latter, tianded them to the Colonel with the single word "Voyezl" Looking as directed, the LColonel saw that the remnants of the old colors had been skilfully joined together ud worked into the new tricolor, on which was Inscribed in letters of gold, "Fifty-seventh, A Montenotte, 111lut sur nomme Le Terrible." -The ECarl 01 Roslyn thinks that goats might be very profitably raised In the Alleghianies and Rocky Moun.. -The official census returns giva Boston a population of 8d3,665, an in~' crease of 71,066 In ten year. NEWS IN BRIEF. -The Empress Eugenie remained alone all night at the scene of her son's death. -Barnstable County, Massachusetts, has less population than fifty years ago. -At Manassas, Va., one oat sed produced stalks which yielding 1000 perfect grains. -The tobacco crop of Lancaster, Lebanon and York counties is in a fine growing condition. -The Marquis of Ripon has issued an oruer abolishing ofilcial work on Sundays in India. -Ex-Empress Eugenie has arrived at Plymouth, Eng., from her South African trip. -The excess of American exports over imports for the year ending June :0 was $107,908,359. -American re8idents in Londen pur pose erecting an Episcopal church at a cost of $75,000. -About one hundred millions of roubles are yearly spent by Russia f or improved works of art. -The census returns give the popu lation of San Francisco at 233,066, in cluding 20,549 Chineae. -The receipts of nails at Cincinnati since Soptember 1st, 1879, to July 24. 1880, were 465,510 kegs against 462,322 for the same time last year. --There are two million hives of bees in the United States, and the annual product is estimated as worth $14,000, 000. -The Adams express company alone receives and disburses in New York city 14,000 packages daily, employing 918 horses. -The earnings of the New York Central railroad for the nine months ended June the 30th show an Increase of over $3,555.000 over the same period the previous year. --The United pipe lines are building in the oil region of Pa. tanks large enough to hold 2,700,000 barrels of oil, at it cost of $1,000,000. -As many as 32,000 emigrants left Hamburg during the first six month of 1880. The number for the correspond. Ing per lod of 1879 was 12,000. -The ofiloial returns give the value cf diamonds exported from the South African diamond fields in 1879 as X3 - 685,610, the value of those in 1878 being X3,084,711. -Last year's ejectments in Ireland for non-payment of rent are o0lolally given as 2077--928 more than the year before. -The chestnut crop in New Jersey will be larger this season than it has been for several years past. The trees are very heavily loaded. -The Tresury Department has pur chased United States bonds to the am mount of $237,700 for the sinking fund of the Union and Pacific railroads. -The planting of the eucalyptus tree in the Malarious districts of Algiers, Italy and the south of France has ren dered the neighborhood healthy in every ease. -Brooklyn's population by the new census is 560,930, a gain of 84,493 since 1875, and of 170,831 since 1870. The population of' Kings county Is 599,796, a gain of 179.875 since 1870. -Chicago had but 1I,200 inhabitants in 1804. and was then the eighth city in the Union. It had 298,977 in 1870, and was fifth in rank. It now has495, 000 and Is fourth. -Kansas has a population of over 1, 000,000. Ten years ago she had 364,. 399. On the same ratio as the last ap por.-ionment, she will have eight mem hers of Congress. -Receipts of grain in Chicago am-. ouintedi to 475,708 bushels of wheat, 3,056,913 bushels of corn. 272,592 bush els of oats, 50,695 bushels of r.ye, and 5,998 bush'elsoi barley In the week end ing on *he 24th of July. --A Memorial window to Sir Walter Raleigh is about to be erected in Can on Fararr's church-St. Manrgaret's, Westminister. Americans, London Tnu ru asserts, have contributed large ly to the fund. -P'rofessor Haas, the renowned church historian, has just celebrated the fif'.ieth anniversary of' his nomina tion to his professorship at Jona. Tlhe letter appioinited hinm was signed by Goet,he ne, Minister of Art and Science of Saxe-Wiemiar. -The Nowbray Nitro-Glycerine Works at NonribAdams. Mass.,have been been blown up t .ree times, 0Of the teni successIve sup)erinttb:dents, eight have been killed by explosio.'is, one is blind, and tihe other is no0W in charge. -Tfhe Calhfornia Magnates arc credfi ted with an amount of wealth whichI would comfortably support a small country. Mr. Charles Crooker is stat ed to be worth $31,495,458. Mr. Le land Stan fordl $31,643, 308, and M rs. Ma ry F. 8. Hopkills $25,280,972. -Bishop Scherschewsky, of the Pro testant Episcopal Mission in China, has held the first ordination of natiyes. Three Ohinese were admitted to the of flee of deacon and one to that of priest -On the 12th, Houston received the first b,ale of new cotton of the season It was sold at the Houston Cotton Ex.. change to Mr. W. D. Cleveland, the well k nownt cotton factor for the hand some sum of $305,00. -Mr. Oliver Dalrymnple, the great Minnesota farmer, intends to cultivate 30,000 acres of wheat in 1880. HIe will have twenty steam threshers in opera tioni with 185 reaping machines. Ini 1879 he employed 600 laborers and in 1880 increased the number to 700. -H err Irminger,of St. Gallen, S wit z erland, has a medal which belonged to his great-grand uncle, Henry Irminuger, the leader of the lamous party that stormed the Bastile. It was cast in honor of the event, and beats on one side a half figure of the victor wIth the inscription: "Henry Irminger, chevalier et capitaine, vainqueur de la Bastille." -An entire division of the Belgian army, provided with a comipletetouap. meat of train ambulances, and so f orth, is this year for the $rst time ascemb lhng In the abpof Instructio) at Beverloo, the topisn 12,000 '' men, 2 500 lhorat'i einy-four guns, and 1(A wvagoa. oCam p is de scribed by they enMa Minister Qf War as apre