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For every vale a shining height; A glorioud 4 , * )ht; And birth1 &of labor i t.roe . :For sgov'q wbito;wing a verdantS.fleid; A gain for lo$s.' ,.:i - : 1'!'r P For buried seed, the harvest yield: For pl1fi, ast#obktli; b joy rbvealed, A crown for every cross. THE NOBLE RESCUE!' "/ ThliII glish shipi Coiifdcius, home w ir ognd from .Cape Towp out ith uig alo d"fPr Vtirolm n e coast 's sa astern. As the vessel had a good breeze-al most a gale-she had sunk Table Moun tain so low that its suunit resembled the head of a huge white whale, thrust upward from the sea. The fragrance of such plants as the x t u?tFapl d ,"} e niuz WI . i66l 1 r,)Vl dW B the breeze from shore, while silver leaves blown from the protean tree, were seen floating here and there upon the waves. The gale kept increasing, so that by night the captain took three reefs in his topsails and furled the jibe The ship rollgd aand pitched, heavily, her masts cracking and jerking, as if about going by the board, and her rigging humming like at discharged bomb-shell. Through the darkness, which was intense, the light of anotIer craft was seen, far ,a myof1( Yoe dath, jl)9t, b t only r a oiy it t :'j W lk haz ijAlt past the vessel, obscured it,- wrappilg ship and crew in an impenetrable cur tain. "Go below, one watch," now was the odr t sa d b t? tu nbl up at a "Ay, ay, sir," was the response; and the men descended into tl forecoastle -all lnto' Wf io ~Ered %Rieyink-in t ,varnt weather ,in ,.ho forohold.1 i o man had a pipe in his inouth, pdrceiving whieh the skipper rushed forward, angrily, ordering him at once to put the instrument away. "Pity if a man Ain't allowed to smoke when it's his watch below," grumbled the fellow, as he obeyed. . - "Ay," 1nswered , the. captain, "but don't you know, you lubber, that there's 1 petroleum in thtt fore-hold, and tliat a spark.might send us all to eternity." So saying, he walked aft, leaving the sailor stretched at full length upon I some canvas in the fore-hold. "What m tprm' lie ilegrp,uttered; "the cap won't know it, and there'll be no danger, if I'm careful," iIN'reilled the pipe, and lighting it, was soon enjoying a comfortable smdk~e.' Suddenly there was a tremnendouis ext plosion; the man was thrown upward, blackened, scorched, and dlying; the1 fore-hatches flew from their comnbirgs and a dense volume' of thick, black smoke, mixed withl flame, wvas belched forth. "Great Heaven I" exclaimed the ofi cer ;pbJe;ivpygebh b "#m0Veeteth -ha' . exploded!" Now a half stilled scream wvas heard, and-py,sqty-t.ho -sco.rehed body of hIm1 who had disobbyed orders, emerging from the smoke-cloud, rolled over one of the hatch combings. Hie lay upon deck, writhig in horri ble pgipsyd.goediqathoeds hIs last.'s aT he q of.f e rng sl ai lly5 a il up Boon at work, but the dlames wvere mak ing suc iggggu fpnyp M4at nothing seemed capable of -stopping them. The seamen exerted thertselves wiae.Th ceib,lps'qirgycrpaesing, n rl ing swiftly along, and finally shooting up the shrouds. Soony all these were ablaze, ' wheni the' ship was' 'one' great mass of fire that crackled and roared, ascenJing> almost to the very heavens.' Soon down went the foretlagt, 1crash .4., ,, ing $n1iissin* hifo tihe water, qufc'lay followed by thi/ psiingst: Then from one of the passengers teen-broke forth ag ik Her little1AdtMrf't nre ward bound fWpllis ifaphmqiswegiment at Caipe Town, In charge of his beautl fuister vfbdlenh her grasp and runi forward, was now hidden from 1WardMt'Myriad showers of appalling A young iloI ,iamed l4ryy Wilmgnt,4ho t1rd -mate, heard the shrielcof, Clara iRoper, .and at once divining the Catse, daAlted 'heedles,l) Into the fiery syh 1kmo1 amidships. y'h4 ?oung gi'l,(41th clasped hands and bated breatl} stood waiting his rea p pearhnCe'"Yaitih in vain-until is16 v, nA fofged from the quartei dek into one of the boats which had been lowered-alongsid'e. 1f t*il th ec 1 ho e3 davor lt,1p o le ,1)j ,3e, b9til oppr- i} 4 kel i ' Q) eaye! Qh,,iLeaveni?r,p And, sinking down' upn" th6ithwart (seat), she bowed her' white face in her hands, and sat the very picture of de spair, with her beautiful hair falling all about her shoulders in careless confu ; rCef i}pjI' said, th}eI,iit sate. 1Per liaps they may be saved, after all !" At tha p jnt, glceq\'a. h was heard, as the blazing mizzeinnast top pled and fell over the side. Clara uttered a low moan, while ier eyes rollin wildly, seemed to betoken that 4easrr4k;~o~ ait of sparks as thick as rain, the flames, rolling along, wound themselves round the ship, wrapping ifer, as it were, in a fiery shroud. The boats now were pulled away from the scorching vicin ty pf the fl'6, ho, m'e10'ekett9g henisel+eh ilith' at ill at the oars. Wh' a sufficient ,distance from the Ifie lg r rts Utey wrv O dofedt td top' ullmg. 'hen the rested on thei' Mrs, watching the craft until she was ihnnst.devoured by thq }ag'ng lement, until ;o(li'ifo 'lie'r rei tha except her smoking keel, emitting here and ;here a flash of light from a few re ratu'irgfsparksi . . 1 01 t 1 Clara still sat with her face bowed, fer whole frame quiverbng, and convul dive s,obs rending her bosotn. The kind-hetarted .captain and mtlte rainly endeavored to console her. She )nly shook 1 er head and ref se tq be .omno1ted.t t be Suddenly there was a shout from the lien in icu'ate pat, w vas iehrAstito ie flotdl 6ee1.' c,FFodinhCll:fouudl" ex'claimed ah heart# roice. "Heaven be prpised't'!. i Clara lifted 'her head and started up, for eys.gleaming,wildly; ) "What .is it, thley have fomaci," ahe Ixelaimed, in a voice that thrilled far >e} the waters. ''ie boy! W? lhave found the little )oyl" was thb answer. The noe)t moment the quarter boat aie dashing alongside, and Cfarlt's )rother was clasped to the bosom of his eautiful sister, who kissed him again Ind again. "We found him floating along fast to i spar, miss," said one of the sailors, "to which 50 1)9dk?l41 l i1'e him!" "Yes," said the boy. "I was right n the milst of the fire. There was fire 11h aroulnd me, ansi I thought I wvas go ng to be burned up, whien a saiior came o me with a jump, took me up, fasten md me t.q,a, spar, amgd thenyhle couk)nutt lo any other way, b)ecause theO fire wap iow rushing all'aroluid usat4hrew ine nito the sea." "Arid what bcarn'te of thle sailo o" luerled tile mnate. "I don't know," said tile boy slhak ng his hsad, sadly. ' "Hie W5s notfa ~rop)~ m IM sAnre, p)ecause. I'lliard is 01ic9 cheering.mle up aftpr I str,uo tJe vaier. Ju'st then 'tile other, mnat fell, ight on top Of itn',C tijnik, f r4 in't' 31ara "let us look for hlii ! I q ay "I think it's doubtful, miss," said bhe mate, shaking his head sorrowfuliy. "Still we had better look." boward the sinking keel. "Look sharp, lads," said the mate, us he held up'thie/hdztilthter4.i T' Tile men obeyed, 'but nothing was visible until they had pulled further, Ing through the darkness, some dark bject afloat on the water. "1gull1W gi,ed .thp mate, in a hoarse voioe;'pull withi a will I" ,The sailors did so, and Au inouiher~ ater thd3 *erd -alonditl thle objeocQ which proved to be lYarr-y ,Wlmont, i shed.1tQ a board.. Smoke' begrimed, i ruised and bloddy, 'lielayr notiple ueroftlie' t1f4hki311d wherly pulled into. Shle boat shlowed no signs of,life. "A,poor, brave followt" 'cried' Jlara, as' she' bent bvar, hile, and with mer owe rhands.washedutebodfo 4*j face. ' , the blo fro 8110owas k'ght, for Hi been stunned by a blow from the edgt of the e s~p wvI7n ti fell1 ov ?pened his eya a faintl a e he was. ' e Soon, fully restored to consciousness, his first question was if the boy had b43okivchedi .'y h'noble conduat, Clara' loved him from that moment, and months afterward, the party having safely reached Cape Town ,and taken" passage in another craft, she gladly qon-. setited , hen he' asked hdt: 'to ' bbdie wife. Ti tivtii e'noi lvlig'hiiRppy' ind: contentpO,pAe9. ,r9 Igith,.+ +nglalid, in a cottage overlooking the sea. Pretty NOw York. Womhn. This is a good story about one of -our pretty 96* Ydtke wolhehi ?*o itFried an 1'nglishn ain, aid, .was rocqn lx pro-. seiitel' to th? ice'c i Whi,. When it was duly announced that she was, to be presented to the prince, she was taken Iin hand by'a disthhigished-ddw agor, who proposed t coach in the fdl'iiitfet N'yhiibli' nidcoiflj o so portentous 3 oejit; One Qf, he form alities was the 'kin1 d curtesy that a woman make.. wien i she Meets- the prince for the first time. "My dear," said' tlie'dow gbr, "y'it ndht 'boiv veriy low and very softly, bonding your legs gradually, and dropping one behind the other. Xoi must sinll iaturally and with perfect grace." Whereupon the young lady replied: "Oil, I have learn ed to bow in that way. .I was taught in New Yoik' by bddworth." She made the bow, much to the delight of her instructor. On the following day she was presented to the pi Ince. She was 9tanding at the edge of a platform. Duchesses and elderly ladies of the court suroulded .her. _' he occasion n h% 'im 8sifig!th i, (1 i,Miig . -'A1'1r-9 dowagers were nervoi, for t}ipy feared that the Aiericin girl iniglht be guiily of soma reggh,.Rf: gtiquette. There was a moment of painful suspense. The prince arrived'.' 1-6 began to' asceid the steps leacing to the platform. .As he reache(1 i, oir young'ilady' bean to make hierssolemie b,og. , niclgily, sthe~ was on the edge of the platform. One!" of her feet.des-ended :into space, Ah' she would have fallen backward if th prince lihd'hot"'been so d;tb to'htrI t alance ' 6hi h giibb ime p1nd by .tll ,arm, and .with. his assistance. got to her feet. The dowagers nearly died of mortificatibi. But the prince latugh ed good-naturedly,. offered ,hisgrn, o the la'dy, and'they tnt moriijy together into,tho dhcing-i;o. A Yout furProp., " What's this ?' thie Managhg @ditor. and proprietor inquired, as his critical eye swept the neV, r young 'reporter's copy, and rested on an item at the bot tom of the pagd! The new fothg 'r-. porter, with a ,tr?mble in his voice, sldwly said': " Hez uckley's old plug got across a picket fence yesterday,,and: the hired-man had to lilt him in the head with an axe.N' L rhait'evor #i do at all," said th ,runanagiig edtgr, p verely, ani 'frai,n his pen deftly through the obnoxious item, . hie wrote on the margin below : " We regret to say that a valuable horse belo'n'gif our esteemed fellow-citizen, Hlezokiah WV. Buckley, Esq., met with a severe accident last week, necessitating put ting'the animal' out of the way, wvhich was done as gently and considerately as possible," "But, sir," expostulated thp.new. young reporter, gasping sliglit ly, ' the horse, ya'm}'t! Worth mnore than the mnanair)g editor rp4urnedi ,lliglyt fluen~e wilth the County Board. Byl. the tim (p'gvrpp a 9puijtry paper as lonitt Ihave,4young muan, you'll understand that nothing but a ' valua ble ' horse liver hg. .And when tihe Paper~ came out Mr. Buckley called in and had ten extra copies done up in wrappers. f gf0:iTI No Lagging. ly make up the season's multitude at the famous seaside resort~ A 4ozen mnen, lackB1t QJotI ih Ehd Mnoldn car of the crowded train, went to enjoy their cigars in the baggage car. er waa je p4b3 g4fr,41 jly)n~ jon ,itf "thus brihging one whieel uppermost and horizontal. Not a minite had elapsed before a brok%. w,rpped' ai bit of paper around a spoke. "Now, gentlemen," he said, "stand around the wheel of fortune while I whirl it thus" and he ga.ve the wheel a turn. "It casts'yon 9h5 cents apiece, and the man in front of, Wito e makellp estops *wleLis er.ey,olyIZ.gal~ I)uin~ the ride. 42b an hotfr and a half, the ~proridi gatdidh64fo'attinkdnIdg. n thn theEt - Reidis of , sol em(Nggev t.j the dise canment begins, before you are afit i': nudef ite mighty shadow. The traii4.ij Civita Vecohia hal. makes the:diuit. of :t1. walls liefore iiinnng ito';the 'grat' statioinhAntl Qdrinal. Antlji' the semite1rclai' cbtY'e we pass tlhrbugh}.sad panoi'atna of ruthlees de ioltions and scanhlous reoonstruc tions. Here s a svenerable kuin cut clhe wvo, the aning windOws and s@f ; 5lese a\iviing p tu ' he sol eit WY gdk to tt 6t ok b le1a ax '.. here;IS q ta wf y,fvith t. oking cll mneys, as you see them in Bermondsey or on the Plan bf'8.. Denis while hard by is the spruce ,habitaUon of the prosperous owner, who, no doubt, duly pays his high rates and taxes and is a zealous :4 docato of. architectural ' reform. :Emerging among the clamorous omni "bus ca4s from the railway statioi,which ,la eftectuilly thrown into : the back ground the neighboring Baths of - Dio 'aXetian, you see that the capital associa ted;with enterprise has bean enorgoti o&ly at work. The Quirinal, in spite o the steepness of its 'gradients, has been covered with the building$ of a and new quarter, and with boulevards ,at may vie In heighth ani breadth with those of Paris or Vienna. Heaven lly kno vs what antiquities have been 1vep ou of the way, to give place to such landsome shops and hotels as you may find. all, the world over,... -Take a .stroll along any of the unlnished side treets vhere building goes briskly for aId and you may ecC republican brick Ivork . laid bare and : subterranean Ftches half 'demolished, which would rake the fortune of a town on the rptok of the tourists anywhese to the Otgrth of the Alps. 'I'lie price of ground. a gone up fabulously, the "boom " as been spreading to the Lateran, to ,the Forun, to the Pincian, and there Is : o saying wher( or when it may stop. As family hotels " are being opened lose'by the Pantheon, so the lines of mtQmbs along the Appian Way may give Vlace to rows of snuti semi-detached villas ..Tlh4fe ,L_: ado before the Church of St. John La teran used to -be the noblest and mbSt! romantic within the walls of Rome, that from the dome of St. Peter's not excepted. We went to enjoy it in the freshness of ea'ly morning the other day, and looked- hoioss to the Alban Hills over the roof of a factory, through the blak clouds hanging roupd the loty,.chimneys that certainly did not consume their own smoke. A venera ble building in a semi-square of massive cloisters was b4ng blocked out by some hideous houses being run up against time. Yet it would be unfair to de nounce the municipal duthorities'as de structivg rather than conservative. We naturall + bent our steps to the Coli seui, and if the fate of Rome be bound up, s tholdprediction has it, with therofe oolossal 3mphitheatre of TI tu,teecan assuredly be no immedi ate prospect of the decline or fall of one or tihe other. The amphitheatre has been buttressed by stupendous struc tur,es of the best modern brickwvork ; the crumbling walls have been rebuilt and newly faced in many places, and ostentatiously pointed with glaring White mortar ; the rich luxuriance of vegetation that overgrow the vaults and the vomnitoria has been trimmed or shiven awvay ; as the stones' seem tQ liave been polished with soap an4 water wvhere' the mos~ses have been scraped from.the seats and slabs they used to cushIon. And the Coliseum, in its most impressive trai ornations is tihe sym bol' of tile modernized memorials of democratic Rome, .whgre the .tram,cars p$'fpgf in blir$ciibs irnikd cit4tdatioA easy for bustling deputies and the new Immigration of busy workpeople and for; flyig parties of birds of pgsp e personally conducted. Roba dif 1ton is becoming an exploded -book, and 'Ha"wthorne,. who loved the old city so well, inight have noW gitren us another and sadder " Transformation.". THlE CH1Nl|URU0,ElB BRIDE. How the 0,rest Oelest.ial Selected His Little MongolIin Ielpmeet. It jooks very in Ihii the year~ of our Lord :1880 Will be nioted In history as remarkable for a kind of Spden)tg w 11ee Presiden\ 9)e phi ~smibgton, d(nd noir the ponderousj festivitios of a~ Celestial wedding .are abot .to unite Kwang Zu, the young emperor .of~ China, to the darmel of his choi9 . Tile latter is kiid td be the MmgW of Wa inandatin named Tao-Tai,'o thb6i'& vince og Tohen Kiang, and it, is assert. ed by competent authorities that she is exceedingly lovely and clever.- At any 1ato the ybtihg indharch'of" 400,000,000 subjecte 'will be alone to biane if she is not; tor lle personally selected her from among' about a hundr6d and twenty girls who' had been gathered together from all parts of China for - his iispec tion. The latter took place at the end of April.'last, and, as it was somewhat curious, a short description thereof may prbv? of interest to all, those who are in any way matrimonially inclined. Since the bdnniy of the D'andoiw dg1/asP in. Chia i it 'ha alaya een' custont}ry thatt the "emperors should so let their wives and concubines from amonk th daughters ;of -those familles vhob belong to thoIaQhi+Cli"tin. 1!iese i the cedieidnt?diF tie wt'' ilors who took part In the Tartar inva-. sion of China 200 years ago, and who subsequently settled in the country. A list of thesq families, carefully written up to date as far gs births, marriages and deaths are concerned, is kept at each provincial capital, and in. March last all the members thereof who had daughters between tile ages of twelve, and sixteen were ordered to bring them* to Pekinfor inspection. On the night before the day fixed for the inspection the long processjon of covered carts, in which the girls were seated with their fathers, was set in motion, and at day break reacligl the northern gate of the Imperial Palace. Shortly afterwards the young Emperor, accompanied by his mother and attended by a large' body of eunuchs, entered the court-yard and, took up his position near a table on which were placed a number of wooden sdips, each marked with the name, age and clan of the fair candidate. The Emperor, taking one of the slips, reads out the name written thereon, where upon the girl in question was led up to him by the eunuchs, while her father, with the Govoi-nor and Deputy Gover nor of the province to which"'she belong ed, threw themselves on the ground and remained prostrate until dismissed by their Imperial master. The girl stood upright, divested of her garments, while the Emperor inspected her closely, talk, ed to her, and questioned her father and the Governor of the, province about her. If she did not please him he merely k Itatwn1 o a waste-bas etanc nluoe JIV a 3'flLl-r-.... of the hand. In the cases, however, where the young damsel 'obtained his npproval he placed the slip with her name carefully on one side, having pre viously marlked it in red ink with a one, two or three, according to the measure in which she had pleased him. After having all been duly inspected in this mannei ' the girls re-entered their con veyances and retired to their. residences in the city. Four days later those who had not been favored with the Imperial approval were notified of the fact and permitted to return to their domestic hearth, while those named on the selec ted tablets were spbmitted a few days later to another and closer examination. It was on this occasion that -the definite choice of the Empress was made, while two principal concubines, named re-i spectively Pin and Fe, wvhich mean Deputy Empresses for the East and for, the West, and a number of ordinary concubines, making a total of thirty-two representatives of the youth and beautyv of China, wvere likewise selected. The position of these concubines is most honorable, and should the EImpress eith.. er die or have no issue they stand a fair chance of becoming Empress. None ot the girls belonging to these Pa-Ch)i-Chi-Jen families are permitted to malform their feet, as the women fre quently do in China with a viewv of ren dering them,abnormally small. As a rule the parents appear desirous of evading the honor of surrenderin their daughiter to the severeign, for family affection Is strongl developed in China, anid 'Yje once 1jgirflias cros sed .the threshtfdof 1f6Valace, either. as Emrpress or Concubine, spe is c t.off forever from"p n &po4serni jIr familii in edles,ta is obl,iged to obey the Irnperil suiirnmon, ki1d only iecura ble disease or malformation duly certi fied after personal inspection by the Gdver'nor. di the province carn: excuse a father from giving up his daughter to the Emperor. It may be spated irz coi., elusion that the latter is between lifteen. and sixteen' years of a g6.' A Present to a Blride. Aniong l~ e presents received by a titled bride at a recent Englishavedding Ie who ha dlars toF Ws m bjects. Is, 'btoitun y~, jie int o~ most hecharacter thatneslaw to mend it is hardly worthithe tinkering, . HiOORIA AND EYES. The Ingenious Maohines Used in Their . Manufavture. I For more than a dQzei years the manufacture of hooks and eyes for wo mnen's and children's .dresses may be ;aid to have been dead, buttons having niperseded them. But there are indi gations that hooks and eyes are again to come into use, at lcast to a consid srable extent. If this should prove to be the case, it will gladden the hearts Df some who have preserved their ma ehinery from the scray let p. Thirty years g9,.ge State of CQnnecticut had inanufaotories within her territory piat produ e se little articles $ the alue o 2,000. annually, at fifteen nept8 grose Jievious to ;1880, or biereabot -hooks and 'eyeh .1r-lo by 'hand-and'sold at $1 0 per gross. The macliines foi' maling hooks and ayes are quite ingepiouq, tiose fbr the books being capable of making ninety per minute and those for the eyes one hundred and twenty per-minutei:i Tliat for making the hooks takes the wire frbm a reel through a straightener, cute Dl the wire to the exact length, when a blade strikes the piece in the .middle Vf. its length, and two sile blades mnoving simultaneously ben:l' the wire double, liiying the two halves of its length close together and parallel. Then two pins rise, one on each side of the ends of the wire, to form the eyes of the hook, and two semi-rotating push Drs bend the ends round the pins, mak big the eyelets for sewing, the hook ozz to the fabric. The unfinished hook is still perfectly flat, when a horizontal pin and a vertical bender working up ward, curve the double end of the hook, .nd a presser flattens the end to a "swan bill." The eye is formed in another ma chine, but by means of similar appli inces. Brass wire is used for silvered liooks and eyes and iron wire for the black or- japanned goods. The silver Coating is made by mixing an acid pre 3ipitate of silver with comnon salt and the cream of tartar of commerce to produce a paste. Certain proportions f this paste and of the brass hooks and eyes are placed in a tumbling barrel, and by attrition and affinity the brass %nd silver unite. The articles, as they 3ome from the tumbling barrel, are of hijjngt i tgro,1ol,sii d... bar soap and rubbed with hot water un fier the the vibrating arm of a washing machine. The Seine Washerwomen, The French Ministry have decided to :lrive the washerwon;en from the Seinle, mnd they are likely to have a much live Lier time with them than they had ex pelling the French Princes. A Berlin letter says : The Government has now determined oo get rid of the Seine washerwomen mnd of the washing-ships moored along hie banks of the river. Them;e are over fifty of these huge barges, which are made use of throughout the year by no Less than 88,000 washerwomnen. The Government.has been impelled to order their removal by the fear that as all the drinking water at Paris is drawn from the Seine, disease and bacilli might be engendered by the wvashing of so much dlirty linen therei. The women, how sver, are up in arms. They refer the Government to some old charter of rights and privileges granted themi two centuries ago by King henry IV., 'of glorious memory, and thi'enten that if the measure is persisted in they wihll all march in procossioli to- the Ministers armed with the battoir, which they use for beating the linen. They also deClare they will resist by force any attempt'on the . part,: of the authorities . to board their ships. According to the latest in telligence received from Paris, Gen. Boulanger is conferring with the Minis.. ter of starine is to the possibility of a combined movement. on the part of the land and sea-forces, while the Minister of Pub~lic Works has been consulted as to the possibility of temporarily divert-. h}g the Seine into anothpr chann6i agnd thus taderug theenUmy's Afeei. The Game of Chess. Many tales are told,of the invention of thme game of chess., The HIirdoos say that it ja the inve44~n of an astrologer ghio lived nore ttman 5,000 years ago, and was possessed of Supermgt ral linowlQd eAnd~ acutencas. Greekh4etori 'ans' assert that 1thogatio wais invepte~d to be~gUill tleo ,teditin of , thme pidgp of Trbf, 'tThe Arab 14genid ifs tI14t it wa dei 'ot 'by Ifia thther, a 1Ahrhied' Airah 218 od h4btlthda akhi, no upon his su ijcts top safety, ~~~ hboug ir