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- * - - 2 - -----......-.. ..... .--. - -. . IU-WEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBOR6 S. .. MARCH 10. 883. ESTABLISHED 1848 .)R.ICA1i14U IN THE TRCNUIlES. I picture lier there In the quaint old roolu, Where the fading fire-light starts and falls; Alone in tie twIlight's tender glooln, Wit the ailadows that dance on the aln-lit -walls. Alone; while those faces look silently down Front their antique rittes lit a glini repose Slight, scholarly Italph in his Oxford gown, And staunch Sir Alln, who died for Montrose. Tthere are gal'aills gay in erintson unit gold; TIhere are smiling bjeautiles with powtered hair; Bat si sitel there, fairer.a thousand fold, Leaning dreailly back lin her low ari-chair. And tile roseate shadows of failing light, Softly clear, steal o'er tile fair young face Where a womian's tenderijess blends to-night Witn the guileless pridet of ier kn'glitily race. Her small bands 1It CIapICl it i listless way On tile old roaitntie, whiit iie holds onl her knee, Of "TrIstin,"the bravest of ktilghts in the fray, And "Iseult," who waill. 1,y the sounding sea. Atil the proid, dark eyes wear a softened look, As sle wat,hes t lie dyltig einbers fall; Perhaps she dreams of the knights it tie book, Perhaps of tile plejurs that smile oli t Ie wall I Wiat fanclep, I wonder, are thronging her brain, For her cheeks flush warit with, a crinson glow; Ilerhaps-alt I te, how foolish anl Vaill I But I'd give my life to believo It so. Well, whether I nevr march. liome again, To offer ny love and a stainless taine, Or whether I dIe at tie head of mity 111CII, I'll be true to tile eni all theFame I CUPID'S JUDG31ENT. Dear old grandma Wellington looked over her gold-rimmed glasses at Jack, with a world of loving anxiety in her blue eyes-sweet tranquil old eyes that were as blue as when she was a girl of sweet sixteen. "Are you sure you have considered the matter well-thoroughly, my boy?" Her voice was sweet and quiet, and she herself was the daintiest imaginable ideal of a darling old grandma; slim, trim, always dressed in black silk and a white Spanish lace half-handkerchief in winter-time, and queen's g'rey silk and a dotted Swiss half-haudkerlaief in summer, with puffs of grey hair, on whioh lay a tiny little cap, and a string of solid gold beads around her neck. And Jack, lounging on the sofa at the opposite side of the ro m, was her special pet-handsome, happy Jack, who never failed to make grandma do exactly what he wished her to do. And just at the present moment the highest object of his ambition was to reconcile grandma Wellington to his engagement with Viva Morris, and in return for his lover-like enthusiasm on the subject, grandma had laid down the macque she was knitting for little Florie, the latest grand-baby, and looked over her glasses and put the question: "Are you sure you have~ considered the matter well-thoroughly, my boy?" Jack laughed. "I have never considered it at all, when it comes to that," he said. "I have a firin conviction that such things are settled by a destiny too high for poor mortality to consider." "Bnt 'poor mortality' is expected to auffer if experience proves 'destiny' made a mistake," she said, with a little laughing tw.nkle in her eyes. Then a grave troubled look spread all over her face. the shook her head. "It would break my heart, J'ack, if you didn't marry a wife every way worthy of you." "And you mean you consider my little Viva is unworthy. "What do you call then a 'good wife,' grandma? "I mean11 one good enongh for me, you know--a fitrst-class A 1, no mistake." His splendid blonde head lacy laaily on his folded arms, and he looked with a mischievous glance at the old lady, who resumed 1her knitting serenely. "I mean a sweet prett,y good-temper ed girl, who will be content in her husa band's love, and who can sott.e dowvn resttully to a quiet country life, and not p inc herself away, and torment her husband for the follies of city dissipa tion; a girl who is sensible, economical, not ashamed to do her own work. "1f needs be, who will save what yout earn, and think herself happy. because she is crowned with your love." ~ And you do not believe Viva pos sesses those qual ifications?'' How could shte, unles~s y ou take v exception to the first essentiatls? "She is sweet and protty; but what', that by itself? "'She is her mother's own child, and Grace Moore the girl, and Grace Mor ris, the woman, was vain, extravagant, idle, and a spend(- thrift. ".Like parent like child, if they look alike as much as Viva and her mother. "If you must get married, why don't you marry Betta? "She's the stay and support of the Morrises, atnd as good as gold. Jack could not restrain a little sign of disgust. "Marry Reotta Storms?" "Not if she were an angoll ".I don't like her; grandma. "No ma'ain; lovo goes where it is sent, and it's little black-eyed Viva or nobody, and I don't .think it'll be no body. * Grandma laid her knitting down again, and looked anxiously, thoughtfully, out of the window at the gorgeous clusters of wisteria blooms, twining 4Lroundl the piazza trellis. "I am sorry, Jack-soory-even if the Morrises are your poor dear grandpa's relatives." "I am afraid you are prejudiced,"~ Jack said gently, in his irresistible pleading way. "Viva is as hidustrjous as a little boo, grandma. "She gives musio-lessons. and teaches in the night-school at odd moments. "Aud ,pends: every halfpenny she earns on css, an.d makes poor Jletta work ovo the ironing table to laundry her Swiss salts and lawn wrap1pers. "i've no pat.ienci with her. * .ot are prejudlioed, grandma," lie ei itrated donvincingly. t' "I know Viva wears out all the old . grm)*its the,*, and because she is testy sad stylish you seonse her of extravA h~''oa anthlig rs Atal Ic to 5sa a abillIna nI v thoarn e fr it "And it's more than Retta would do; shOd stay at home forever first." Grandmother smiled-a bright sud den snile. "You've put a brilliant idea in my old head, Jack. "I shall make it my business to prove the assertion you have mate. "You say Viva would do one thing. "I say she wouldn't. "You say Rotta would do one thing; I am sure to the contrary. I'll send them each a -dress-respect able, sensible dresses, old fashioned and pretty-that I wore fifteen ye.is ago. "They can be rematt, and althoigh not in the fashion of to-day, no girl with good sense would refuse to wear either to the lawn-party at the rectory to which Viva and Rotta are invited. "You'll see who is right, Jack or his old grandmother." She nodded her head sagoly, and Jack laughed, his face flushing warmly. "I'll stake my life on Viva. "I'll go further. "I'll concede all you had said, in ease I am not right, ' lie declared positively. "Well, we'll see," grandma Wolling ton said wisely. "Only think of itl "Was there over such lck, mamnima ---Rotta? "Actually a dress apiecu for us from papa's people. 4sn't it superb? "And in time for the lawn party, too." Viva fforris certainly was sweet and pretty enough to have won Jack Well ington's heart. She was petitc, with lovely (lark eyes, and luxurious brown hair, and a rare pale complexion, like a roseleaf, with no hint of color on its pure pallor, and a little passionate mouth, as red and luscious as ripe strawberries. Mrs. Morris, in the easiest chair the little cottage afforded, laid her novel down and looked at Viva interestedly. "A new dress apiece?" Retta Storms, tall, ari tocratic-looking arranging her fair, massive braids more to her notion before the sitting-room glass, turned languidly around. "Do not make . such a sensation over an express parcel, Viva. "Undo it, and we will see the con tents." Viva hastily trought the scissors and gnipped the thick string, while Retta read the letter accompanying it aloud. 'My dear great graudnieces," it said, "I take the liberty and pleasure of snd ing you each a dress for the rectory lawn party, hoping yov will be pleased with them and wear them." It was signed in full: "Mary Augusta Wellington." Just as Viva reached the inner tissue paper Retta said enthusiastically: "Oh, I do hon mine's a summer silk -changeable blue and gold!" "If mine only is a delicious grey J" Viva said. And then the inler paper was remov ed, and Mrs Morris gave a i3hriek of horror that would have done justice to the occasion if the parcel had contained human bones. ,Her old worn-out dresses!" she gasped hysterically. "Second-hand, horiid old things that a beggar wouldn't wear!" Retta cried, in vexation. While Viva, keen disappointment on her pretty face, lifted lip the quaint garments, so full and voluminous, and shook them out. "They are old-fashioned as the bills, but they're pretty, anyhow," she said, the dismay in her voice almost conceal ed by her brave determination to make the best of it. "Really, if there was to be a nmasquer ade, this funny plaid silk wouldn't, be so bad." remarked Uetta. "Bunt there is to be no masquerade; and old Mrs. 'Wellington needn't think i'd make a guy of myself by wearing the east-off clothes. "I'd rather do up your suits all the wveek, at the dollar apiece you pay me, than be disgraced by such a toilet as that would make!" Retta was bitterly madignant, and Mrs. Morris scarcely less so. "It's old grandmother Wellington over again," she said, with what shme su1posed was flume centempt. '9Richi and stingy! "L wouldn't marry into that family again--no, not for all they're worth. "And you'll be sorry for it, some day, when Jack develops the family mean ness." "I'll risk all Juck's meanness" said Viva coolly; "and in the meantime I think I see a very pretty dress for niy self in this lovely pink and silver-thread ed barego. "it's so awfully old-fashioned, I shall make believe it's new--just out. "I'll rip it up and make it over, and put some pink satin bows upon it, and trim my rustic straw gipsy with a wreath of wild brior to match in color." Rletta elevated her nose haughtily. "And be an old--fashioned looking thing, after tal. "Mrs. Judge Mivart and old Miss Bpenoer are sure to be at the lawn party, and they'll recognise the dress, for the~ old lady Wellington and they were girls together. "Fancy Algernon Mivart hearing his grandmother say I was in one of her cast-off dresses. "i'll sell the horrid old thing to the second-hand woman,and buy enough lace bunting for a new polonaise." Viva held her littl6 dusky head on one side, like a refieotive bird, and scanned the objectionable silk. "I wouldn't if I woera you, Retta. "Let me fix it up for you, when I do mine, "A little of the lovely lace on manm. ma's black silk, and a new blue sash "Don't talk such nonsense! "I toll you I wouldn't have Al Mivari know it for all the world." Now would she be persuaded, The very same cday s,he sent for the only "only clothes" woman in the place; and drove the sharpest bilrgain posEible, receiving enough to buy a cheap shows cream. lace bunting, whie Viva. set tc work, ripping and sponfing and press ing tie'told-fsioped pink barege, witi the lustrous silver thread 0ri8s crOssing all through its soft fabric. And at length. on the afternoon of the famous lawn-party in the rectory grounds Viva outshone Retta and every one else in the pure. Fweet, girlish simplicity and becoming lovoliness of her toilot, that brought out to its highest porfeo tion the rich, creamy tint of her skin, and tile dusky shadows in hor eyes and hair. "How do you like my now drcss?" she asked Jack, after ie had escaped from duty to grandma Wellington, the aristo cratic guest of the occasion. "I like it better than an3 thing else in the world," he said, looking straight in her eyes with a look that mado her heart thrill with dolight, While grandma Wellington, and state 11 old Mrs. Judge Mivart and Mis pencer, sitting in stato in the red-and. bluo stripped marquee, near the fouu tain, talked the little matter of Mrs. Wellington's scheme gravely over, Mr. Algernon Mivart was on accidentlat listener. "I ad mit I was altogether wrong, and I shall leave Jnck and Viva fifteen hun dred dollars just because that pretty little browii-eyed girl has diisplayed such good senso." "I really quito envy Jack his good luck; eapecially on little liss Viva's account," Mr. Mivuirt drawled languid ly. "I never took much fancy to the other one-don't like the sit.o-too washed out, you know." "And I've heard, oi good auth6rity, that Miss Storms actually charges Miss Morris for ir:>nitig for her, and that, too, when Miss Morris supports the family entirely. But, dear me, whab a set of old gossips we are. Go, bring us ices, Algio, a lemo:j and an orange and a piie-apple." 'Tho Satute Dienr. The table in ths State dining-room in the White House will seat, by close crowding, thirty-sixpeople. This, then, is the number invited, and usually there are not less than thaty on these oceas ions. Where it is convenient to do so, as many ladies as gentlemen are invited, though at diplomatio diuiers, when all the foreign Ministers here are to be present, it is found impossible to seat as many at the table as this plan would require, so that the rule is not always followed. The .iblo is usually very handsomely ornamented with flowers, a huge floral design of some sort appear ing as a center piece, and smaller ones near the cuds. Two large golden cal. delabra, or branching candlesticks, holding perhaps a dozen candles apiece occupy places on the table, one at ei ther end of the. floi al centrepiece. These contain the finest of wax candles, which are lighted just before the dinner be gins. Near the ends of the table are smaller candelabra, with perhaps a lalf dozen candles apice, each having a little pink 1wed shade at the top sup ported l a silver rod which clasps the candle near the bottom. The plates are placed "right side up with care" about thirty inches apart around the table. On each plate the napkin is laid, and on the napkin a bouquet, for the ladies a flat corsage bouquet of rose buds and sometimes lillies of the valley; for the gentlemen usually a single half opened rose bud. :1esides these is laid a card, one on each plate, and on it the name of the person who is to sit at this place. TUe head of the table, on these occasions, is not at the end, but i the middle. The seat occupied by the President is half way up the side of the table, at the side next the door at which the guests enter. The lady whom he escorts to dinner sits at his right ; and the honored guest on the occasion sits directly opposi to thle President, with his lady on his right. Those wvho ar range the table and the ordecr in which the guests sit, of course arrange so that gentleman and wife do not sit, hide by side under any circumstances. When the arrangerment for sea ting is completed, and each persc n has been assigned to his place, a card is prepared for ceh gentleman and( placed in an en velope bearing his name, On one sidle of this card is a plan of the table with each seat numbered. On theother side is the name of the lady whom ho in to escort to the table and the numbers of the seats they are to occupy. These envelopes aro handed to the gentlemen as they enter by a gentlemanly usher namett Allen, and as soon as the gentle man has. "shed" his outer garments he examines Is card, oases or blesses the fates which have conisigned him to an uncongenial partner fcr the evening, and hies him to the East Room, when, after paying his respects to the Presi dent, he hunts up his lady and prepares for the evening, Meantime, the famous Marine Band has taken its place in the vestibule. Af ter a half hour spent in conversation in the Ea~'st Room, the President gives the signal to an attend ant, who passes it ou to the band, wvhich strikes up sonmc appropriate selection, and the President, giving his right arm to the lady wvhom he is to escort to din ner, loads the way to the dining-room. The others follow, each gentleman giv Ing his arm to the lady designated b)y his card. ''bo President usually takes to the table the wife of the Secretary of State. Thel promenade dtown the long hall to the dining-room is very slow, and is a striking and beautiful spectaelo. The ladies, of course, are in evening costumne, the handsomest that money and ingenuity can provide, and tihe gentlemen in dress suits, the lights brilliant, the hall lined with flowers and tropical plants, and tile muisie entrancing. Arriving at the talo, the guests aPe seated in their or der, and1 the dinner, which is usually in twelve or fourteen courses, with a half dczen different wines, occupies fully three hours, and, It may be added, is good., -A Japanese newspaper states tbat accordng t,o a recent census there are in the limpire of 'Japan 118newspapers, .oneof hhhas a irculation of 19, publisher be Japanese, and that the hief editor be held pecuniarily-rospon ile for slandeorous nubiications. 'An Actor's Tragealy, kr. Arthur E. MilleV,'the well-known theatrical agent., was in the city last night, and as he was in the Ill-fated Newhall 11ou9, and intiimately acquain ted with Gilbert the actor, a reporter had a talk witli film about the tragedy. The story of Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert's married lifo, as henarrated it, in a touch ing one, made moresofrom thromarka. ble devotion noy displayed for each other. "I iave known Gilbert long and intimatoly," Mr. Miller said, "and if I were to live a thousand years I would never forget the occurrence if that dreadful night in connection with him. He was formely a minstrel man, ad was with 8tanly's Allied shows. He had only been a member pf. tho Minnie Palmer Troupe a few wee113 but -in hat time had fully mastered his part, and was a remarkably clover actor. His wife was not on the stage, as many sup pose, but lived with hbr parents at Blood Station, N. York. Gilbert had met her a couple of years before, and had been her swcotheartfor a long time, they having ,been engaged several mouths, althongh lie never breathed a word of it to any one. The w6ek be fore the firo'the company was playing in Chicago, and by a strangecoincidence she bap>oned to be visiting tionie of her relations there at the same time. It was during that week that the young couple agreed to be married quietly, and it was arranged that.6he should ac company the troupo to Milwaukee, re main during the week and then return to her home, until they could be once more united. The day before they left for Milwaukee the marriage took place, and he never mentioned' it until ater the ceremony, when he told the rest of the company. The night of the lire the Palmer company. played at the Grand Opera House, and during the performance I walked carelessly ito the theatre and took a scat in the dress 'ircle. "1 naturally looked all around, and soon observed a lady sitting several rows across from me whose appearance I was at once attracted by. Tuere wa4 no one sitting closo beside her, so I could got a good look at her face and figure, and I rarely ever saw a more beautiful woman. ',She was dressed in black silk, and her rou.d, well-made features wore sha ded by a broad-rimmed scarlet hat w%ith a long feather which drooped down low over her shoulor. Her hair which peeped out on either side of it was black as jet, and when she partially turLed her face I saw that her eyes were of the same beautiful color. In a few momentn Gilbert came on the stage, and she immediately was all attention. She leaned forward, and natiug her el bow on the seat in front of lier, placed her hand against her neck, and rouain od in that position until he made his exit, her e)cs following his every mo tion. "As soon as the curtain fell on the act I walkod behind the scenes a(t met Gilbert standing near the entiance. As soon as the curtain rose lie took me around to the second wing and said : 'I want to show you somothing.' Hie led me close to the edge, so we could look out npon the audience, and, point ing to the beautiful woman I had so much admired, said : That is her-my wife.' "She had been watching closely, as if to catch a glimps of him, and soon her oyo rested on the spot where wo stood, and I could see that he Wis rec ognized by the slight nod winch he gave his head. Whenever lie was off the stage lie took his standi there and watchied her almost coitinually. When the curtain fell on the closcinmg seenie we walked out together, and she wat waiting for him at the <door. "T'hey talked for somne time in the of ~fice with sovem al friends, dwelling p)ar ticulariy on the splen<did time they would have in Europe, as lhe ateinded to accompany Miss Palmier. About 11,30 o'clock they entered their room in the hotel, and at 4,80 o'clock she was lying dead in the Morgue, 'Her body was found, b)ruiso.i and crushed, on the pavomniit, while lie was partially in the gutter, half sub merged in ice and water, crushed, burnt and( nearly frozen, 1 watched by his bedside for several (lays, andt ho gave no signs of returning consciousness, excepjt for a moment t.he day after, His mother came UP to see himi, andl when she leaned over the bed lie raised him self ona his elbow with a groan *of pain and thrdd~ his left arm around 1hcr neck, OA the fourth day after the ftre he was conscious for a short wvhmlo, and the first words that paissed his lips was an inquiry for his wife. He was assured that sano was safe, and with a satiqlied air lie fell asleep. "Hie has improved considerably since then, but has not yet heard that, his wife is dead, When the niews is broken to him, and it will be done gently by his mother, the crilical moment will have arriyed, and if lie survives the shock he wilt recover, Although he is a man of strong will-power, I confident ly believe that his mind will be comn. phetely h at wvhen the full sense of his delaltin breaks upon hiim. I have thought over that sceiie in the theatre a thousand times since, and It will iiever pass from my mind." Oe,vea-ina Ars ears. Thelire died a low weeks ago an old1 man who may be mentioned hero as Unceo Reube. For thirty years he sold his vote as often as there was an elec tion, wlaking iio bones about it and ao cepting the market price without a murmur. One fall, teni or twelve years ago, lie went to the man who had gen oa ally bought him, and said: Mr. Blank, I guess I won't aeli my vote this time." "You won't Why, what on earth ails you, Uncle IReube?" "Well, I want to see how it seems to east a free ballos~ once," "You'd better take the usual two (Yllars." "No, I guess not; I'll try it the other way once, even if it kills me," He -kept to his resoluiomi and cost a free ballot, buthle didn't feel right ever it, and the next election he insis ted oni having foitr dlollars to cover ar hoars in a Lt dging House. Two Italian brothers, with red scarfs round their necks, cneamped one night, recently, in a boarding house of their nationality on Spofford street, Philadel phia. The names of the men wore Lorenzo and Michael Pepitto and they looked as if they had not recently in dulgod in a shave. A couple of brown bears, wYho could dance a polka for a biscuit or on the presentation of a coin elevate themselves unto a waltz, togeth or with the brothers. mado up the trav eling firm. Mrs. Lucoarini grow very angry when told that she would have to tke BrUin as boarders. Atter a great deal of talk abh was myAigled into believing that by accommo .ating them she was performing a patriotio duty. She put them n i a wcodshed back of the house. Next morning not. being very early risers, the brothers sauntored out at about ton o'clock with others of their kin, with whom the neighborhood is fairly stocked. They somewhat cruelly left their shaggy companions in the unintoresting woodshed to shift for themselves. These commenced doing the latter thing by getting loose in the outhouse and chowing coal and licking logs. Evening came on and they did not got more substantial nourishment, nor did their owners come back. A trifle before eight o'clock Mra. LUecal iii took a shovel and wont to got some coal. She opeued the shed door noise lessly and began ecooping the darkliess with the metal implement. It struck bearsteak. In one minute Mrs, Luccar ini was Clasped in impetuous arms and yelling for dear life. The bear held on and she yelled on till a horde of mont appeared in the yard. In a short while, however, she was rescued, but the knights forgot to shut the door. A roar, a flourish of boir claws and paws, a tierco bound and the animals had possession of the field. The terri fled boarders rushed out of the house into the street and listened in groups on the sidewalk. Lvery now and thon an awful bellow echoed from the desert ed place and the Italians, shuddered as they distinctly heard the smacking of lips and the grinding of teeth through soft flesh. "Rosa, Rosa, where is my Rosa?" cried a miserable woman; "they are eating her." Bhe grow frantic as she looked around for her child and woula have thrown herself againkt the door had she not boon proveted. The munching of mot grow more distinct, until the crrshing in of a window frame and the appearance of two large hairy arms caused a gonoral scatter. The bears were trying to get out. Just hon the Pepitto brothers were sighted in the crowd, enjoying the fun. They went into the house, captured their pets and replaced them in the shed. I was found that they had eaten a whole pile of cold meat. Ron wa all right anud rs. Luc carim was furious. A Land Slide. The cable not long ago reported that tLero had been a groat land slido in Switzrland, but gave no particulars regarding the harm done. It appears that the circumstances were peculiar. The disasters occurred near Fort do 'Ecluso, where the Rhone flows thirough a narrow, rocky gorge, bounded on one side by a lofty spur of the Jura and on the other by the' precip)ice of Mt. Vuache. Along a ledge just above the stream runs a railwvay, which tunnels several julttin)g spurs that rise abruptly from the water's brink. One morning early this month a great mass of earth fell from the miountaini directly over a tunnel, while later the tunnel itself caved ini, The1 consequence was a com plete damming of the narrow defile. A grcat volume of water gathered behind the obstruction. For several hours a panic prevailed among the people below, but they had timo to escape the flood, and wh.on finally the bar11er gave way, the lake drained oilf gradually and no great harm was (dono. If the dam had held a few hours longer, the entire val Joy a's far down na Lyons would have been inundated. A Wo"ndes faii Part y at, WIinti3or Uariie. The following good story comes from a quarter where we are assured ''its cor reetness can be vouched for." Many yearr ago, at the time of a great cere mony, Windsor Cauitlo was honored withi the presence of three sovereigns. After breakfast the three potentates walked and talked on the celebrated "Slopes," and were, of course, in ''mufti." They were delighted with the grounds, and presently entered into conversation with a gardener, who evIdently took them for a party of "gentlemen's gentlemen"' out for a stroll. After some little affable talk lhe could not resist the query: "Now who may you gents be ?" '-Well,' said the spokesman, "this gentleman here hal>pons to be the King of Prusia; that one standing by your side is tile Elmperor of Austria ; and as for myself, I am the Emperor of Russia." Thin was earying the joke too far, thought the gardonor. I've seeni a lot of queer fur rn gents here lately, but this beats me:' so he burst out in a rather rude guffaw. "Well, my friend," said the Emperor Nicholas, "you seem amused :,perhaps you will'tell us who you are,' "Oh, cortainly; so taking up the skirt of his coat with the action of a grea~t eagle spreading out his wings, and spinning round on his heels, lie said : 'If you are all what-you sa you aro-why Iam the GreaC Mogul I The three majes ties roared with laughter, and, return ing to the castle, told the story at the lunoheon-table to the immense amuse. ment of the On'4en and Prinnae Alha-t Wariaung flettris And Iffaudwu. 'ome time since, a beautiful young girl made her first appearence on the stage in one of the minor theaters of Paris. Her grace and loveliness attracted admiration, which her rising talent promised to secure. She concluded a long engagement with the manager, giving her services for a moderate rom uneration, but which suffloid for her wants and thoso of an invalid mother, who was totally dependent upon her oxertions. According to he usual eustom a clause in the contract stipula ted that a forfeit of 10,000 franos shoul(I be paid in caseo of its in-fulallmelit y OWther party. One day the young actress ontored the manager's room, and a:mounced to him that sho wished to leave." ' HowI" he cried. "You are the last person from whom I would have expect e(t such caprice." 'Indoed, sir, it is not ca prico." "It is, then, the offer of another en gagement?" 'It is, sir, and one which I cannot refuse. It is from an excollent young in1au, who wishes to marry me." '"My dear girl, I shall want you allso to study your part in a zow fterpiece which I have just received." "Thon, sir you refuse to set me free?" "I must think about it,. At all evonts you have it in your power to break the agreement. by paying the forfeit." 'Ten thousand francs! tis very dear. ''It was very dear when you signed your unme; but now your services are worth more Ihan that." "Als, it will prevent our marriage,' said the unhappy girl, in a voice choked with tears; and with a despairing heart she left the room. Two days afterward the manager was seated close to the grate in his apart mont, tryivg with all his skill to kindle a fro. The cashier enterod with a visage woefully elongated. The affairs of the theater were in a critical state; the receipts had diminishoi; and the pay clay at the ond of the month approach ed. "Yes," sud the manager, "our sit untion is embarrassing. And this pluguy fire that won't light!" Astonished that he could be so in different under the ciraumtances, the cashior retired, As ho wsvi leavitig the room the young actress entered. 'Ah! is it you?" said the malinger; "you are coming from rehearsal?" "No, sir, I have como to return the part you gave me to study." "So it seems you think of quitting the stage?" "I have brought you the foi fUit." "'The ten thousand francs?" "Hero they aro." "And how have you procured this large sum?" "My intended husband gave it. to me."s "Is ho, thon, so rich?" "These ten thousand fr me. are near ly all lie posses8d. 'But,' he said, "what does it signify? We sha, only have to ddefr setting up in business, or pw'naps I may succeed in borrowing the money," "GUoing in diebL,! Ihat's a fine prospect for young houisokeepers! 8o the dowry you mean to bring your husband is wvant and ruin; you take from him the hard-earned fruits of his industry, and you oblidge him to renounce the pros poeCt of honorable independenceo!" "'Piny, sir-pray, dont't speak so cruelly !" sobbed the young girl. "'Have you considered that such a unionu caniiot fail ie bo unhappy I Listen to reason--take back this money and return it to him whoe gave it to yeou; and if you are absolutely resolved to leave the theatro, PIll show you a simple way of doing it that won't cost you any thing. Take this picco of paper and have the kcindiness to put it in the grate." So saying lhe handed her a sheet of paper carctully folded, which she threw in among the sniouldering sticks. Tiheo manager wvatchied it as the Ian guid flame gradually curled round it, and then shot up in a bright ilame, "DIo you know," said hao "'vwat that paper was? It was your signed agree mront. And now I have no longer any claims on your sery:ces, and conlsequent ly can demand no0 forfeit. Go, my girl and enjoy your little capital well, and be happy." Deeply affected by this geiierous deed, this young actress expressed her gratitude as fervently as her tears per ioitted. New ive-(Cent Pleces. The dies for the niow five-cent picoes, designed by Colonel A. Loudon Snow den, Superintendent of the Mint, at Philadelphia, are being prepared, and the first issue of the coin will be com menced en the 1st of February. In the meanwvhile the old five-cent coin will be issued at the rate of 15,000 per day. The new nickel will be smaller in size, but thle same1 wveight of the coin now in use. It will be much mere artistic in device and finish. A classical head of the Goddess of Liberty, -with the in scription of 'Liberty" on the tiara and surrounded by the thirtoeet etars, will adorn one side.. On the reverse side is a I1hman nuqporal, indicating the de nomiation of thme olu, in the -centre Qf a wreath composed of cotton, wheat and corn, the principal prodnot. of thm. country. Tis is surrounded with th~e motto, "EI Pluribus Unnuff" and Unitd States of Anmerica, NEWS LN BRIEF --British statistics satorly compiled prove that the danger of travel by sea is increasing. -Atlanta claims to have a young lady with the finest and prettiest hair in tho United States. -''Less oboir music and more con grogational singing I" cries a Western religious newspaper. -Several high-rooming Harvard stu dents have provided themselves with ropes for a case of fire. --Tho population of Syria and Pales tine is estimated at 2,076,321. Of theso only 6000 are Protestants. -Miss Mary Dickens, eldest grawd olALt of Charles Dickens. ago nineteen, is about to becouo an actress. -The new regulation snare drum adopted for the use of the United States Army is to be 16 inclie8 in diameter and 8 inches long. -The total exports of breadstuir from the United States during the year 1882 niounted in value to 8182,682,731, against $22 1,124,832 during 1881. --From olservations naole in tihe Zoological Gardens, London, it seems probable that the extreme lease of lifo of the hippopotamus is thirty years. -Silk production is said to be in ths following proportions : Italy, 3 / per cent. ; China, 36 ; Franco, 8 ; East .in dia (Bengal), 7 ; .Japan, 2; Persia and the Levant, 4. -Factory operatives in NowEugland are unitedly asking for weekly ptymeints of their wages, while their einployers are as unanimously in favor of thc monthly system. -The rag business in Now York amounts 'to $30,000,000 per annum. There are 5,000 rag-pickers in tihe city. Last year thero was over $10,000 worth of rags imported, --Of the 11.000 grain mills in iol land, 10.000 are driven by wind. Tie bulk of wheat meal is consumot by the public without passing through any flour-lreang njiaime. -]Beof cows are now selling at $28 and three-year-old steers at $35 to $45 at Austin, Texas. Stock raisers are happy and consumers of boof corres poldingly miserable. -The sugar crop of Louisiana proves to be much larger than had been antici pated. It is alleged that of the portion of the crop received at Morgan City two-thirds of it go to Texas. -The English Postmaster-General is totally blind, and Mr. George Richard son, who-has just boon appointed Re ceiver and Accountant-General to the Post 0111co, is totally deaf. -The old mansion built by 1en. Philip Sohuyler in 1760, upon Clinton street, Albany, is ofired for sale in the expectation that it will be replaced by a buihling for business,purposes, -The American Peaco Society las now invested funds to tihe amount of about $60,000, hoving lately cono into )OSseslon of a legOy of $40,000 from the late Rev. Dr. George (3. Bockwith. -Recent tests of yarn mado from different hemps gave tile following re lative average strengths : Manila, 245 ; Italian, 221 ; Ne Zealand, 143 : Rus sian, 128. Manila is evidently the yarn to be hanged with. -Near Piton, Ontario, is aromarka ble froak of nature. Two elm trees btai(l about twenly feet apart, and one, at the height of twenty. five feet, bends over and joins the other, forming a per feet and magnificent tree. It is then perfectly round, and oxtends upward atbout twcnty'fivo feet. ---During the past year 1471 new companies woero registered in London untder the limited liability nos with an aggregate capital of ?210,561,9.26 ; in 1881 the inumber was 1385, wvith a capi tal ci ?167,892,941. -England pays Lord Lyons, her Am bassador to France,0,000) a year, anid makes no fuss about it. If the samlary of thme President of the United States were fixed according to English notions, it would be a million a year, at least. -An Australian Tonm Thumb has been on exhibition in England. His real name is David Johnm Armstrong. Ho was born in 1851. He Is 3 feet 2 inches in height, and weIghs 70 pounds. His limbs are in porfect p)roportonm. He is very intelihgent. -The annual report of the Suipervi. inig Inspector General of U. S. shmows thamt the number of accidents to steam* vessels during the year past was forty one, involving~ a loss of 205 hiyos, being an average of one life lost to each 1, 727,172 passengers carried. -H[amburg Lake, near Lake City, Fla,, a sheet of water of about forty aclues, is being dlrainled by an under ground outlet. The water rises again in a stream six miles from the lake. Another lake near by ran dIry in 1852, but hasw since filled up again. -The ice bridge at Niagara Falls is commonly supposed, by those wvho have not seen it, to add much to the beauty of the winter scobes there. B3utit does not. Instead of a great arch of glitter ing crysta) spanning the stream above the falls, it is an expanse of rough ice across the river at their foot. -All the Prussian Barons, cii or be fore the 1st day of April next, will be required, says a German niewspaper-, to vindhicate their right to their titles, f or the reason that within the past two cen tures many abuses have growvn up. It Is said to have been proved that, in a number of oases, second, and; even younger sons ant daughters of baronial titles, have assumed the titles whIen it belonged only to a father or a brother.. -Hlermian P. Staus, the brave Mil waukee fireman who resoued several lives at the biarning of the Netrhall House, was presented with a goldwmatch ' by the Oliamber of Commerce of tihat city, ,and~ recently was inarried to Miss' Ameolia lIchneider, of MUwu~e * .has declined a. propoaqltehiua t:admrhn citjzeib anyth i01 (do i dr T - sp lyfthe ~~i I1 k