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Al k7m W_ 7 ' kvi * .v~pA 744 ,j j' : .7 4' W . -4' 00. I M TRI-E R -EITIO W NNSO-R-- s (L. 4 AY 69 883 AT SET OF SUN. e sit down at sot of sun count the things that we have done, I counting find One se In act, one word, That eased t e -of him who hearg ' One glance moh * - That fell Iko sunshine whore woI' Then we may count that day well spent. But if through all the life-long day, We've Ased no heart by yea or nay; If through it all We've done no thing that we can trace, That brought the munshino to a faco; No not, most small, That helped some soul, .and nothing cost, Then count that day as worse than lost. * HOW IT WAS WOVND UP. Come, Susie, be a good little girl now, and tell ine you'll go with me to the pi nic to-morrow I The wagonette's all been painted up and I've got the pret tiest new rug--all bright pink and gray stripes. Say yes, SusIe, do 1" Jack Horton looked pleadingly at the blue-eyed golden-haired, crinson-lipped little lady leaning against the honeysuc kle trellis. "I don't think I care to go, Jack," she said reflectively. "What I you'd rather stay at home? And all the young folks going?" "Yes, I would. I'd rather stay at home and read," she answered briefly. And then Jack's big brown eyes sud denly dilated. " To read ? Oh-li, I see I To suit Mr. Fairfax Hamilton, Susie ?" And then Susie flashed a defiant look from those lovely blue eyes that Jack Horton thought - and thought truly, were the loveliest in the worll. * "Mr. Hamilton is a very educated, cultivated gentleman," she retorted. "Whom you have known exactly three weeks. Is'nt it just about three weeks, Susie ? "Yes it is." And you've known ine seventeen years-all your life I" "You are so riiculous, Jack. What if I have ?" , Oh, nothing 11" he answered stifily. "And I don't doubt that Mr. Fair fax Hlamilton considers our 'rustic amusements so much beneath his reflined taste that he has persuaded "Jack I'" Susie interrupted, coloring with vexation. "I did not say so, She did not finish her indignant pro test, for at that very blessed minute, Topsy, the little servant, opened the sitting-room door, and ushered in the very identical gentleman under consid eration. vel," Jack remarked, after a cold exchange of hows, "' I'll not detain you any longer, Miss Lane110. Good night 1" "(,ood evening I" Susie said de murely; and never gave honest Jack Horton another thought during that delightful evening, wNIhen she and Mr. Hamilton sat in the fine August inoon light, on the honeysuckled-trellised piazza, a cool westerly wind playing iround themi. And how enchanting Mr. Hramilton was, as, swinging hazily in the hammock -Susie watching him from her rustic rocking-clhair with fascinated eyes-he repeated delicious scraps of )oetry, re lated enteriaining stories, and, best of all, told her all about the world far be yond Farmingdale. " Ilow splendid I how enchanting I Why, Mr. Hamilton, life must be just like a fairy tale.'' "Well I don't know about the fairy tale, Miss -Lanie, but the enchantment certalinly is to be mijoyemt. " And you ought to enjoy Iti you have just the temperament to riot iml all ele gant luxury and fashionable dissapa "You are buried alive here-no ap precimtio~n, 110 congeniality, 1no sympa thy. I'd rather live amnong the cata combs than spend1( my life in this dead and-alive hole( 1 '' Anid Susie sighed, beginmninmg to be lieve herself one( of those rare b)lossoms (destined to "waste all 11cr sweetness on the dlesert air." * A vague longing rose up in her girl Ishi heart-a yearning for something far and far above her commonplace, every (lay life. She regretted that people-everybody had fallen iinto the habit of believing her engagedl to ,Jack horton. There wvas not one word of truth in it, if Jack had been her familiar all her' life. Anld then anid there, sitting in the moonlight. listening to Mr. Htamiltoni's p'ersuasive tonies, Susie resolved to put an end,l at onice and far ever, to all tile * stupidl nonsense about Jack and1 her. When Mr. Hamilton took his leave, at ten o'clock thmat evening, promising - to call for Susie to take a ride at four the next afternoon, D)eacon Lane cailled Susie into the kitchen, where lhe sat sweeteinig a lhuge bowl of buttermilk for his sp)ecial delectation. " So you ain't a goli' to the pliic with ,Jack, elh? " " No-no, father, I-I've changed my And SusIe made unusual haste in lighting her bedroom caiidlo. "You nleedn1't be In such a hurry, Su san. I've got a word to 'say, and I be a-goin1' to say It," Poor Susie win1ced at thle contrast be tween the rough, honest speech, guilt less of gramimar, amid time musical ac cents which she had lately hieardl. " I don't like this here way you've beenm doin' lately, Susan-a-play In' fast fund loose wilth Jack Hlortoni, the likeli est fellow to be foundl In these parts. "You hadn't ort to fool with him he's wvuth a dlozen 0' them city chaps, 11nd( you'll find It out some1 daiy. "Don't you keryy it too fair, Susani, And -Susan, wIth scarlet cheeks, on which her genltle little mother ha~d sym.. .pathetic comipassion, had to stamd and( -lIsten to it all. - "Susan'lh come out all light, father' so don't be afeard," Mrs. Lane1 said cheerily1 as she mixed 11cr dough for the Gals must be gals, you knowv, and I y let 'em fight their ownl battles. Su inu'1 come out all righ,t. Good night, 0; run up to your bed now-It's nigh to half-after ten." And in consejuence of 'wichl lateiness pretty eyes-Susie was not down to breakfast nutil nearly seven o'clock, and the lrtt sound she heard was the 'wailing Uf Topsy, sittin' on the kitchen chamber stairs her aprbil Ahrown over, her .tM; tw-er iir'roakfig -back and "I didn't took it, Miss. Sus'n-'deed and 'deed, and double 'deed I neber seed it nor know'd nothin' 'bout it! And irs. Lane don't b'leeve me, and I jest wish I'd git drowned or somethin'l" By degreem Susan lea'ned the story that Mrs. Lane's two articles of person al adornment a heavy, old-fashioned, solid gold watch chain and the equally fine massive brooch, had disappeared from the box. in the bureau drawer, where they had lain in their nesk of cot ton-except when worn on grand occas ions-ever since Susie could remember. "I hate like p'isin to charge her with t but there ain't nobody else knowed where mother's julery was 'cept her," Deacon Lane said regretlully. "You'd better tell the hull truth, child, and if you'r sorry, and won't do anything so wicked again, why--we'll say no more about It. But Topsy was firm as adamant in her vehement protestations. "I don't believe she did take them, mother," Susan said. " Because there is a burglar in the village-don't you remember, the night of Mary Morris's birthday party, how the silver spoons and some money were stolen? " "I hate to believe Topsy took. 'em-I ain't agoin' to mistrust her no more I " Father shall put some extry bolts on the doors, and 1'l have Savage to sleep in the front hall o'nights. " Deary me! to think such plain folks as us siould be burglared! " And when the picnic rode by two hours later, Susie, watching them from the front rooi wiidows, nade the discovery that Jack iIorton and his rig were not of the Iarty. For, disappointed and-well, yes, too jealous to be capable of enjoying the out ing, Jack had concluded to run to town on a little matter of business that need ed attending to, never imagining his presiding destiny ruled and ever ruled his going. But the very first person lie saw, as lie got off the train-car in the shabby up town street, was Mr. Fairfax Hamilton. And, strange to relate, that elegant gentleman went straight into a pawn broker's shop. "Upon my word! "Wihat business should such a fine gentleman have in such a, place? "l By Jupiter, if Susie knew it ! And I'll fiid out and enlighten her-yes, I will? '' So he quietly entered the shop, and, with a friendly venetian screen com pletely concealing, him, lie deliberately and with malice aforethought, listened. " Only a fiver! '' lie heard Mr. Ilam ilton exclaim. "Why; man, they are worth twenty, See for yourself-they're such gold as you don't come across nowa(lays. "Ya-as, good-)ooty good. "I gif you thirty shillings. Where you git'em, hey?" "From imiy mother's family-as if the old things possessed any sentimental value to me. "Come now-ho generous, be just. Make it two sovereigils." ".Oh, MoseslI you vould sphoil my pisiiess in 110 time. " You let me see dem sphoons-maybe I gif you more. " Ah-h I Dot letter on 'em Ish Wj a-i-nt it? " Yes M-my own initial. What'll you do, old skinflint? There's the chain and th1e pin, solid and the silver-come, what's your best'i" " Fifty shillings, and it will be de ruin of my p)isiness. Oh, Moses, wh.o is dish I " It was no wonder the pawn~broker's voice sudd(eniy chianged to intense alarm anid anmaemnent, for two strong relent less hands fell heavily on Mr. Fairfax IIamiltoni's shoulder, *and a savage voice LIhund(eredi in his ear " So it was you, wvas it, who stole Mrs, Lane's jewelry, and Mrs. Morris' silver spoons1? Thief, villain, impostor! You're caught in your own trap at last, though. Oficer, arrest him! And the owner of the other cruelly heavy hand, thme police ofilcor whom Jack had silently signalledl as lie passed thle shop1, theme fCminute Jack had caught a glimpse of thme chain aind pin lie 1had( known all is life, snapped t! b)racelets on the elegant MJr. H1am% t's wrists, and ledl himi away to the dice station. WShmile, his p)ersonal bu-,nessq to the city whlolly and entirely forgotten, Jack made a bee-line back to Farmingdiale, armed wvithi the missing valuables. " You must not cry and grieve so, Suitae1" Jack coaxed tenderly. "'Ihie rascal isn't worth one of those tears fr'om your dear blue eyes. Don't .waste 'emn on hlim, Susie, don't! "lit Isn't for him," Susie sobbed p)it cously. "lie may go to prison for all I care for him, but--but, I have been aw fully cross anld cruel to you, Jack, and I don't dlare say I will be engaged to y>ulI I am not half good--good-e-e-nought I" And her sobs weore so pitiful and hnum ble and rep)entant, that somnehow just the very thing to do seemed for Jiick to gatllnr her up in his strong loving arms. "i'm the best judge of that, girlie! You will mnake me thme proudest happiest imn a the world If you wvill only say yes, darling. Say it, won't you, Susie?" H'e lifted the sweet, thushed, tear-stain ed1 face to his, andl waited--just a little second; and then a faint sound( camne to his ears that thrilled him from head to foot. And then lhe kissed her until she laugh ed anid begged for mercy. At ten o'clock It all hlappened, and at three, Jack's wagonette stood( at-'thie farm-house door, waiting for Susie, In her p)retty white suit, to coine do.wn1 and go to thme picn1ic. Anid at five o'clock, there wasn't a daintier, happier guI at Fawnm Woods than she, nor a prouder, hapier fellow than handsome Jack H oi'ton. While. Mr. Fairfax Hamilton, enjoy3 ing the stifling temper'ature of his celli in the station-house, cursed hmiiself and everybody else. And that is the way it yas wounft:mp Watare ts the amste of talent genin~ iste ~mst of nature, A TombstonJuste. "When I was uractleig down at Tombstone," said 0he lawyer, "a friend ofminehad'is ochewedoffoneevoning h~iif put#"wth a prominent citizen who dealt faro. After seeing the doctor he came to me, and under my advice he had the prominent citizen arrested on a ohargeof mayhem. Next day we had the mn up for hi4 preliminary exami nation; My friend was there with his head bandaged, and so were the promi nent citizen and his counsel, and the friends of both parties. The general publio-and it's a pretty tough general public in Tombstone-rowded the court-room. The hour went by,'but the Justice didn-t turn up. The con stable went out to look for him, but couldn't find him at any saloons. We wouted round for have half an hour, but nary a sign of the Court turned up. Finally, General O'Brien, the leader of the Tombstone bar, stuck his head up through a trapdoor in the floor and said m a solemn way* ''Gentlemen, remove your hate. His Honor is here." And he dragged the Dourt up by the collar. He was limber drunk and bad been sleeping it off in the cellar. You never saw such a long adjournment from decency as that or nament of the bench was. He was Dovered with dirt, and even his hair and beard were hchock full of saw dust. There was, I remember, a flat tened quid of tobacco on his cheekbone. We had to hold His Honor under. each mrm as we led him to the nearest barber-shop. A bath and a shampoo brought back some life to him. and he was able to walk without help to the oourt-room. Once in the chair behind his high desk he looked all right and we went on with the case. We had taken the testimony of three witnesses to the row and subsoquent chewing of my friend's ear in the Excelsior faro L)arlors, when General O'Brien and Dolonel Stephens, both on the other side, jumped up and objected to one of my -questions. It was a law point and we argued and quoted authorities for about half an hour. It was a pretty hot iet-to and we were all on our feet when anished and turned round to the Court for a ruling. He was looking straight before him up above us as if he was aleeping with his eyes open. "Your Honor, said the general, after 1 long pause 'we are waiting for your ruling. "There was no answer. Then I 3hipped in with: "Your Honor, will yon be good en )ugh to give us your rulingT" - "Wash that?" he said, trying to bring uAs eyes to bear upon me. ."We want your ruling." 'Court's adjourned," he said, tVing to rise. "We all protested, but his only an swer was to strike his desk with his fist And cry out again that the court was Adjourned. "Won't you fix the bail of this lefendant?" demanded the general. 'No, shir," said the court, who had got on his feet by this time, and was rownigg heavily. "Turn 'im looie. He'd )ughtor chawed the head of that tender 'out, that's what he'd oughter done." "Well, gentlemen, what do you think he Court did next? He just deliber tely staggered over to the trap-door, ifted it, stepped down the staire until nly his head and shoulders were above he.floor, and then passing to glare at he paralyzed crowd of us, growled mt: '-You can all go-' "With that he ducked and let the loor fall, and I suppose had his sleep aut on the dirty floor of the cellar." The Shah of Persia at Home. Not many years ago the Shah never allowed his wives to show even the tips f their lingers to any of the male sex ver the age of twelve. Formerly when bhe members of the harem (the prom sesses and the female attendants of the Shah's household), enveloped in a black sheet with a veil on their face and sit bing in a covered carriage,~made their passage through the streets of Teheran, she eunuchs and the feraches who ac 3ompanied them used their long sticks to driae people away. The Europeans were allo'wed to stay where they hap pened to be at .iheo time, but were com pelled to turn their faces to the wvall, L)uding the last few years, however, and ispecially since his raturn from the see und jouoney to Elurope, Nasser-ed-Din Shah has become more obliging. Since that time the Persians are ordered only to keep out of the harem's path, and the Europeans are allowed to continue their way on the tacIt condition that they shall not gaze too avidiously at the passing carriage. On the eve preceding the late anniversary of the .&rophet's birtisday there were as usual fireworks and illuminations in the alley called Klaban Dowich. -Over the palace door ''Dari Allmassieb",(door of diamonds, so-called because its facade is ornaminu ted with pieces of looking-glass) open lug in o the Khlaban there is a bala khaneh in wich on such occasions the Bhah site to euijoy the sight. At other bumes he and the haram used to peep out through the openings of a curtain drawn bei ore the windows, but on this occasion the curtain was done away with, and the ling with some of the Princesses looked freelyat, thmeliroworks,. As far as can be judged from a ditane of ten or twelve yards, these ladies have in gene&al round faces, very large and flue eyes, and thick and archted eye brows, which are made to appear still thicker by the application o1 a certain dye of very dark blue color, called in P'ersiah "rang," and more arch-like by plncking the hair which may stand out of thie archy line, and cheeks of vermil. lion. Their skin, however, as that of all Pesans, with few erceptions, lacka the delicacy anid whIteness .so of ten oo)nmohl met with in English wonmen. Their ftes o,atr not geerally uzrcsve. di tjecertaoly does not .ha0now in tIcprejuidioe of his oouuttnien regardin~ the $reat,tseat 9f the ,air sex, nid he had 'always bjn far aboyo them as regads religious toleration. A Wind so Strong IVteals a Team. "Do it blow hard here?" answered "Bowie BiL." "Well, stranger, I should say it did. - was a skinnin' mules for Uncle Sam 4t Camp Bowie in '78, and havin' an ,easy time. One 1 evenin' the wagon bot4 come 'round and I Bays, "Bill, you hook Up in the mornin' an' go over to Bayard., "I went right off- and doped my waggin and got evetvthing ready to move soon la the Xornin'. I had I twenty miles to make she first day, and 4 I came to the spring Obout an hour by 1 aun. 1 turned in ekiy that evenin' so's to git a good res and be a rollin' before sun up next urnin'. I'd been grindin' through th6 sand 'bout two hours the second dat, Venh n' to look to the south: 1t,1) ww4ijad a comin' bigfein'ani fore, ahi makin' a noise like A hunre buzz saws. I see it were ' comin' my way, so I put the buokoin Oto the mules an' nearly set 'em afire. " 'Twaut no use. 4 I couldn't git away fr0in the thiniz, so I stopped the mules ad looked at it a comin'. - "Goodnessi stranger, it makes me have rattle Pnakes and centipedes every t time I think of thatMight. There a floatin' round in the whirlin' sand was I horses an' cattle an' doby bucks, not to t speak of jack rabbits, kiotes, an' small trash. It were git!in' tolerable close by this time, and I says to myself, "William, are you prepared to ascend?" i "No," says I: 'I ain't, an''jumped off'or E my mule, grabbed a big soap wAed and 6 fastened on with a death grip.' "I went none too soon, stranger, fcr in a minutg up went my whole body, I my arms an' legs twisting round like rope. I heer'd the soap weed crackin' 1 an' a tearin,' but it didn't let go, an' I didn't. Purty soon the whirligig let go, and down I come. The very first thing I [ looked for the team, and I see it. t Ther' they were swingin' round an' t round an' goin' up, and they kept t swingin' round and goin' up till they, didn't look biggern' a log, an' they went out o' sight. I gethered myself up an' footed it back to Bowie. The very first man I met were the waggin' I boss. Says he, 'Hello. Bill, what's the I matter? I set right down an' told him < how I come so near gom' to .teaven j alive, and after I was done he says, GBill, what kind of. a Rinecaboo play are you tryin' to run on me; you've sold that team.' I told 'em the thing was a dead open an' shuie fact, but they talked so strong about riendin' me 4 to Lawrence that I hulLed out and come down here." Amusements In Persia. On the first day of the year the gov ernors of the provinces make their presents to the king of Persia, at Tehe ran, wbich are accompanied by various i sorta of games and pastimes. M. Tan coign, who was at Teheran in 1880, thus doncrtbcs them: First cane men running on stilts of more than twenty feet high; others performing feats of strength and balancing, turning on the 1 black rope, or carryiug on their heads a pile of earthen po e, surmouited with a vase of floners; then dancing at combats of rams, which were excited against each other. These exerciqs were followed by i rope dancing, performed by two young I children. The rope was of hair and consequently less flexible than a hem pen one; being strained on two trestles oi more than forty feet In height, it as cended almost imperceptibly as high as the top of the king's kiosk. Alter having made several gambols with the assistance of poles, on the part of the rope which was norizontal, one of the two dancers, ton years old at most, mounted as high as the terrace which crowns the pavilion and then descended 1 b)ack ward Irom a height of more than eighty feet. We remarked with pleas uire that several meni placed beneath the cord, followed all the movements of the child, ready to receive him mn a large blanket, if his foot had happened I to have slipped. We did not suppose the Peraians were capable of such an attention, especially i the king's pres ence. These dancers are called in Per- I sian _djanbaz, meaning one who plays or risks his soul. This expression,] contemptuous In itself, intimates that gamea of this kind are discouraged by religion; and is nearly synonymous with that of excommunication, with which our actors were oneo, comphi m,ented. Naked men, armed with maces, and wrbstlers appeared aiterward before the king. 'The first reebe savages; they struck their club$s together with out injuring each etiher. It was not so with the second, their combats hay ing something hideous and revolting. The conqueror, that ns to say, lie who succeeded In throwing his adversary on i back, went to the foot of the kiosk to receive a p ieee of money which the king threw down to him. Fire. works of a splendid description sue ceeded; and the next day was appro priated to horse-racimg.1 Easter Card. An enterprising and beautiful use of Easter cards was made in Boston, when a "card" mission went the rounds of all the hospitals, homes and shelters and distributed pretty Easter' cards In an envelope addressed "This is for you," to all the inmates, young and old. Such a thoughtful custom might well be made ?'hoto of in this city for another year. These oardsi, too outen go to people who have more than enough-oi cards adevey_hing slee. By contrast, the Bso astor-givers found sunshine' and jokes ist unexpected placees on their kounds.' In one ho*gital: "This is Miss W.'s anniversary,' said Miss B. 4'A .'ear ago to day shie broke hier last hip.' "'Ad the unfortunate victim laugheds'merrily as If Mh whole thing whr h etjo e paible. All 'trough life thee are wayside inns, whee mani blay tefresh .hi soul witb lnvej euan thle ltwoay aquench I his tires At rivulets 'f4 by springs from aI$v*. Water Snakes. In the Indian Ocean reside the curi mv sea-snakes which are highly venom ms, and which' possess flattened tails, ierving as a propelling apparatus. But nany land-snakes swim with ease and grace. Adders are not unfrequently een swimming from one island to an >ther on our Scottish lakes. We have een the common British ringed snaki 'Tropidonotue natrix) swim with rapidi y after an unfortunate frog which had ontrived to -obtain a brief start, but which was oise and devoured tu a very hort space of time..' Even the big py 'hons and anaoondas, which crurh their prey in their great coils, swim with ap Parent ease. Very curious must havo een. the experience of a Captain Pitfield )f the steamship Mexico, who, as quot rd by Miss Hopley from an American iewspaper, stated that he had passed hrough "a tangled mass of snakes" off he Tortuga Islands, at the entrance to he Gulf of Mexico. These snakes are lescribed as having been "of all sizes, rom the ordinaty green water-snake of wo feet long to monsters, genuine 'sea erpents' of fourteen to fifteen feet in ength." We are certainly inclined to gree with Miss Hoploy that such a hoal of shakes must have consisted imply of a mass of those reptiles which Lad been drifted out to sea on brush rood by some river-flood or "spate." The "groat sea-serpent," whose an Lual appearances are chronicled with >unotuality, receives full and complete ustice from Miss Hopley, We are glad o find our authoress is' on the side of hose - naturalists who -maintain that here is no a priori impossibility in the ieclaration that giant marine snakes nay and d6 exist. In giant species >f marine snakes we may find the ex )lanation of many of the marine ap earances which have been authenticat id by hosts of credible witnesses. Miss lopley asks, after supposing this theory o be correct, "How long wonld the )oison-fang of such a reptile be l" But here seems no need to make the exist moe or absence of poisonous powers a juestion. What we desire to know in, ,What is the sea-serpent?" With the lain rule before us of endeavoring to nd a natural solution of this query, be ore rushing Into the clouds, It would eem that those zoologists who bellve n the huge development of marino nakes possess a distinct advantage over kll other theorists. Giant cuttlefish, tome of which measure- thirty or forty cat in length, inclusive of their "arms," tre now known in plenty. A few years Lgo, such animals were believed to have een evolved from the fertile brain of Victor Hugo, who makes a giant ' octo us the means of vengeance in his novel, he 'Toilers of the Sea.' It is not too nuch to say that, with the evidence of iew and recent discoveries in cuttlesh ife before us, we should at least be rery cautious in denying the possibility 6ud probabihty of giant sea-snakes be ng also numbered ammg the fauna of he ocean. Making an Aurora. The London papers bring us news -of Sremarkable elecotric experiment. At a >oint in North Finland. just within the tretic circle, Professor Lemistroem con truoted a network of wire on two conical nountains, which wore respectively 1,600 and 8,600 feet high. Hills of his shape were chosen because, as is veli known, electricity egathmers most 'eadily about sharp eminences. The >rofessor knew that to and from these mill-tops electricity was darting; by ox >eriment he deteromined to hasten the >rocess and ronder it visible, in other vords, make artificial northern lights. Jopper wire being an admiirableo con Luotor, lhe connected the summits of the tills with the earth at their base by a ietwork of this material, aia the result vas that instantly an arch of .the aurora vas formed overhead, rising, it was es-. Imated, to some 4300 feet above the nountamn top. Two characteristics yore n'ote-worthy in this result. In the irst place, the currents detected in the vires were what Is known as positive. Kd. Plante some years ago showed me 1ow to produce something like -the au rora In the laboratory without using an ixhaiffted vessel, but by merely causing ~he positive and negative wires of his .)attery to approach gradually a vessel harged with salt water-the sides of ~he jar being also moistened with the Iquid. It was found that he could in his way produce ares and wreaths, and inuous, lines of light strikingly like he Aurora Polaris; but, curiously mnnugh, only at the positive end. It a signmficant that it was positive cur ents which rewarded the Helsilagtors >rofessor for his ingenious labors. A econd feature was that the spectroscope howed the peculiar lines of the aurora. 'he spectrum of the aurora is a greenish rollow line, and if this was recognized is stated there oould .be little doubt as o the genuinesess of the phenomenon. L'ho display lasted puly a short time, mecause doubtless the electrie pressuire >r tenision was soon equalized, and, esides, the ice gathered so rapidly on he wires as to render th6ik uddlems, and hYon to break thornf b? 14 wighzt So atr as it went, ho*eyer, the expetbu1ent ppears emniently #W*ol&fti The Yelverton Scandal. The death of William Charles Ielvei tou, Viscount Avonmore, is announced As Major Yelverton he became notoriou In proceedings brought in Dublin by Mi Teresa Longworth, who claimed to be hl wife The case was decided in favor c Lord Avonmore after a scandalous trial It has been about fifteen years since th cause celebre which so agitated the fash lonable world of Europe was decided Ii the Common Picas of Dublin. blajo William Charles Yelverton, afterwardi Viscount Avonmore, of the Royal Artil lery, was a distinguished Crimean soldier a wearer of the Victoria Cross, "an office and gentleman," and defendant in the cas of "Thelwall vs. Yelverton." On the re cord the plaintiff was a Yorkshire trader and the lant that Major -Yetyerton rf fused to pay for neccessaries isq lied t his wife to the extent of ?187, TMe ani wer was a simple denial of the allege relationship between himself and 111 Longworth. They had met in the Crimea where Miss Longworth had acted as a vo lunteer nurse. The personal charms an accomphshments of the lady conquerei the Crimean hero. As he confessed he )n two occasions, went. through a form o marriage--once in Scotland, per verba di presenti and once in the village of Rosatre wor, in Ireland. By a subterfuge he sa tisfied the clergyman, for it Isstill a felon, In Ireland for a Catholic priest to bless tl marriage of a *Protestant and a Papist They travelled together as ,man and wife but after a time events took the old course 1he Major deserted Miss Longworth au married Mrs. Forbes, the widow of th listinguished Professoro Edward Forbes fholwall vs. Yelveiton was triedl to decid whether in fact Teresa Longworth wai wife or mistress. The jury found for th plaintiff that there was a Scotch marriage ind that there was an Irish nirriage 1ajor Yelverton escaped through a sid, loor, and his wife was drawn in her car rinage by relays of Irishmen, after the man ner in which Dublin does honor to its fa vorites. That was the hour ot triumph o reresa Yelverton, nee Longw< rth 'henceforward her life was a' series o lawsuits. In Scotland and in the Hous Dt Lords her title to the name of wife wa Dontested stop by step, and fought a bravely by her. But though her touchinj letters brought tears of admiration to thi eyes of Chancellors and ex-Chaucellors her motion as "pursuer" was domed. -: T< commence the fight over again was indce pssible, but pecuniarily and physically i was wiser for her to yield, for a legal tri amph wouid have added nothing to thi sympathy extended to her, no more that the victory of Major Yolverton's lawye relieved him from the universal odiun which his course brought down on him Mrs. Yelverton gained some position as i public reader and elocutionist, and mad( a living in that way at home and abroad Bhe also publisbed a novel, of which Rhi was her own heroine. 1ui Litlu was Aiar tyr to Otrcumstancee, but its sucees was only temporary. Of late years Mrs Yelverton lived entirely in South Africa where her fortunes were of a somewha unerWain character. When the ex-E,,n press Eugenme visited Zululand, after th dlath of the Prince Imperial, she followe< her steps and appeared to have in thi yoing man's fate a deep and sincere in torest. She died at Pietermaritzburg i Jctober, 1881. Major Yelverton, whos, leath is now reported, was the tourth Via Iount Avonmore and Baron Yelverton 1i he Peerage of Ireland, and was born ii 1824. He succeeded his'father the thtr Viscount, in November, 1870, and is i ;urn succeeded by Hon, B. N. Yolvorton ivho was born in 1859. The Truly lonmnt Jiurr. Some difficulty was experienced in o1 tamning a jury, and time court was gettin ired of the tedlons proceedings. "Call the next juror, Mir. Clerk, " sal< ~he solicitor, for the hundredth time. The Clerk eailed out the man, and i )id man with an honest face aind a snilt, o ilue jean clothien rose up in his p)lace, andi he solicitor asked the following cuslo .nkrj lufestions. "Have you, from having seen thme crime sommitted1, or having beard any of -thi ividence delivered under oath, formed oi :xpresed( an op)inioni as to time guiit or in ocence of the prisoner at- the bar I'' ' No, sir" "Is there any bias or prejudIce resting m, your mind for or against tihe prisonei it the bar ?" "None, sir.'' "1a your mmdi perfectly impartial be. Gween the State and the accused ?'' "It is." "Are you opposedl to capital punish ment?" "I'm not." All the queslions had been answered and the court was congratulating itself os having another juror, and the solicitor ii solemn tones sa id: "Juror, look upon tihe prisoner-priso oer look upon the juror." The old man adjusted hisi spectacles and peerimgly gazed at the prisoper fo full half a minute, when he turned hi eyes toward the cosirt and earnestly said "Judge, I'll be condemned if I don believe hie's guilty I" It is useless to add that the court wa considerably exasperated at having lost nuror, but the most humorous inclined ha< good laugh out of the old man's proma ~uro candor. WVinter andu Huiimer. One difference between Enghish anm &ineriean hmalts is .that the Ensgllshmia ~akes mutch and hearty exercise in winter a season whcn Americans ride Q'iickly in iorse-cars irom place to place aind seld.m axercise at all, in summer our countrymnei ake their pleasure, cricket, rowing, tennl iae-ball and the athletio games, whici are over even for school-boys, by Noveim icr, whereas all the actIve field sports, anc aunting, are continued, by Englihelio rrom the autumn. throughout the winter, At the season of the year when meals ar lieaviest and more rich food, at enttertain nente especially, more meat is eateni, thn American is hiost sluggish; and this lI recisely the ime when all Jinglishmeri wrho -can aftord. it, are taking' more fredl tir. antgre~arlig .out their ,'tisstes" te at any other, , The siunber .of;. businda non who wrallt in wintUr, to and frost theil ilaces of business, .grows less ovory. you with the hoNocar oonyeniolces. FOOD FOR THOUGH'. The first and greatest of all faults is. to defraud ourselves. Desperation is.sometimes as powerful an iuspirer as gekus, Every man dedres to live long, but no man would be old. D Moral courage is the rarest of quali - ties and often maligned. What appear to be calamities are r often the souroos of fortune. The energy that wins success begins to develop very early in life. He who sees the end from the begin ning will do only what is right. Do not suffer life to stagnate; it will grow muddy for want of motion. To the blessed eteuity itself there-ia, no other handle than this instant. The sympathy of sorrow is stronger than the sympathy of prosperity. It is not life to live for one's self alone, Let us help one another. Conscience is the voice of the soul; passions are the voice of the body, It requires less merit to discover th, faults oz others than to boar' them. - Admiration is a short-lived p ion, - unless it be fed by new discover' . r Feebleness of means is, in 'ot, the 3 feebleness of him that employ hem. There are some silent peopl ho are more intiresting than the be talkers. Unkind language, on the p Iciple oi like begets like, brings the sa return. An apt quotation is like a I which 3 flings Its light over the whol atenco. There is one art of which man 3 should be master-the art of otion. When there iq nieli pretent uch has boon borrowed; nature no . tends. 0 :o single act of indiscretion in mar the enjoyment of a whole exist f once, All mon are liberal; some to those who are in need, and others to them. solves. Perform present dnties, that time may be apportioned for succeeding labors. No metaphysician ever felt the del. ciency of language so much as the I grateful. Something may be gained from every one we moot, no mitter how ignorant the person may be. Fortune is like a market, where very many times if you wait a little prioes aro ibet fal It is not what you see that makes you popular among your friends; it is what you don't tell, Never despise humblb serviecs; when - large ships run aground, little boats a may pull them off. The mai. who Is always boasting of speaking his mind usually has the least mind to speak of. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Take measures against committing a rash act. True humility, the basis of the Chris tian system, is the deep and firm 3 foundation of all real virtue. Modesty and humility are the sobriely of the mind; temperance and chastity , are t.he sobriety of the body. Don't strain your eyes by reading or working with insuffietent or flickering light. It is very damaging. If we really live under the hope of future happiness, we shall taste it by .way of anticipation and forethought. s What is really momentous and all important witn us is the present, by Iwhich the future Is shaped and colored. Money and -time have both their value. He who makes a bad use of the one will never make a good use of the other. Great wealth is a great blessing to a man who knows what to do with it; and as for honors, they are inestimiible to the honorable. There is anguish in the recollection hat we have not adequately appreeia ed the affection of those whom we have lav'ed and lost. The art of conversation :-To be prompt without being stubborn, to re fute without argument, aunti to clothe matters in a motley garb. To tell a lie and then defend it with other lies, is like digging a cellar and making it large enough to hold all iho <iirt that Is displaced. The beauty of our fair ones gives point to our spears, and edge to our swords; their words are our laWi; au(las~ soon will have a lamp shed lustre wheni unkindled, as a knight distinguishes himself b~y teats of arm, having no mis tress of his affections. As the Divine Being is a Being of Sinexhaustible glory, Is it likely that He wvould keep it to Himself, or Indeed could He? For love wishes to comn Smunioate its ownl to another -to give, m ideed, as much of its own as It can, .and what then must the Divine Love do, which Is Infinite. The soul of- man In accord with or I,u spite of his philosophy "cries oat for I God, ror the living God." It will not rest short of this, essentially, In some form whatever it professes to believe or disbelieve, it has something still to take the place of what it calls the great unknown and unknowable.. Peace is better than joy. Joy Is a very uneasy guest and Is always on tip-. toe to depart.. It tirea and wear's us out, and.yet keeps Us:ever fearing that the next momem6' it will eb gnone. Peace is not so. Iticom2es mo?e quietLy, it stays more cointentedly,and it never exas our aitrength, nor ,ives us ~onuxous, fQoieatingto Q hris.~truth or ti e idg auth; b~Q ~ 7r M