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* •.U=*J SLIPIURT WE AT X IMW • story ntd to tell, A ttle tr> grif \ <> your ear; It happened only yesterday. Just round tlie corner her Upon the ice my foot did uli And I fell down and cut my But that's not »U I have to toll, Pathetic though it be; A dire misfortune happened to • The friend who was with me. f# Her feet got tangled in my clothes. *•* # And sl»> fell down ana broke her noS* I1- My husband rushed Borocc tbe i'o pick his loved onfe tip, ^ Bat worse misfortune greeted htm, He flipped njion a cup, • And rescuing his wife from harm Alas! he fell and broke bis arm. Two workmen on tbe other side, Our troubles chanced to see, And both of them came running up Aa fast as fast could be; r But one man stumbled o'er a keg And be fell down and broke bis leg. X The other met affliction wowlT!: Than cut or broken limb, A sorer far calamity • •* ^ Did happen unto him. They took him from the ground half For he fell down and broke his head. Policeman round the corner rune , With pity in his eyes, And of our shipwrecked company To make a rescue tries; Only to meet comploter wreck For he fell down and broke his neck. There is a moral to my tale; I'm sure you'd never guesei-;-.- ~ , The wisdom t--o "coj? "i'*f4os . My story d; th express: • ^ If you would keep your limbs together," Stay in the house in slippery breather. THE SECRET BOOR* A Strange Story of the Sequel to m Crime. The police of Paris have recently stumbled across the sequel to a very re­ markable tragedy which occurred over twenty years ago, and has remained un­ til the present an impenetrable mystery. To bring all the facta of the case fully before the reader,, it will be necessary to go back to a comparatively remote pe­ riod. At the beginning of the year 1852, a family named D'Eimer became the own- era of the Yertneuve estate, on the Sa- one, between Chalon and Dijon. Cha­ teau Vert, the residence, was a very large old mansion, situated on a rising ground on the right bank of a small tributary of the Saono. The locality was romantical­ ly beautiful, and the new tenants, who were wealthy, speedily resuscitated the gardens and transformed the decayed and deserted dwelling into a comforta­ ble and attractive homestead. The D'Eimer family consisted of Mons. D'Eimer, a gentleman of about fifty ; Madame, a motherly lady of about the same age, and three daughters and one son--the latter a boy of fifteen, and the youngest of the family. Within three months of their settling at the chateaa, the three daughters and the mothef died of typhus fever. Mons. D'Eimer was sunk in profound grief, and some time elapsed t>efore he was able to leok after Ins affairs. The fol­ lowing year young D'Eimer formed an acquaintance with a very beautiful but uncultivated girl, named Jeannette Foille, the daughter of a charcoal burn­ er, to whq£i Mons. D'Eimer had rented » tract of woodland. Foille was a< stran­ ger in the locality, but appeared to be industrious and honest. He was a wid­ ower--so he said--and his daughter had charge of the small dwelling in which they resided. Charles D'Eimer, the son, spent much of his time with Jean­ nette, and the fact came to his father's knowledge. He expostulated with his son. and an estrangement was the result. After this Mons. D'Eimer was frequently absent from home, and in the autumn of 1854 he returned with a young wife, whom he installed as mistress of the chateau. After this his behavior to his son was as kind as before, and he sup- Elied him liberally with funds, although e knew that Charles' acquaintance with the daughter of the charcoal burner continued, and that she had given birth to a child. On the morning of December 27,1854, Hons. D'Eimer's domestics found liim and his young wife murdered in their bed. They had been stabbed in several places, and the crime had evidently been perpetrated while they were asleep. In­ vestigation# disclosed certain extraordi­ nary facts. 1. The door of the bedroom was fast­ ened on the inside. I 2. The windows of the bedroom and the adjoining dressing room were also fastened within, and were, moreover, at J east fifty feet from the ground, whit-!, oloped' abruptly to the river, and afforded scarcely sufficient foothold Cora goat. 3. Nothing was displaced in Mons. D'Eimer's apartments, and no marks of any kind existed to show which way the murderer had come or gone. In the bedroom, however, was another door, which led iuto a suite of apart­ ments occupied by Charles D'Eimer, the room adjoining "Mens. D'Eimer's bed­ room having been used as a library •ad the o$e beyond that as the son's sleeping ajiartment. The door leading into the library was locked and the key could not be found. Charles' bedroom opened on the corridor, and the door of that was also locked. The butler, how­ ever, produced the key, and acknowl­ edged that Charles was in the habit of leaving it with him when he went to the charcoal burner with the intention of remaining all night, as he had done the previous evening. While the first investigation was in progress Charles returned home, and was stricken with horror at the scene that awaited him. His amazement and grief were very great, and, later on, wiioxi the authorities made a searching inquiry, and he was conscious that theV suspected him of the 6rime, his indigna­ tion wua deep, and his denial of any par­ ticipation in the dreadful deed almost contemptuous. Suspn i< n next fixed itself on the but­ ler, who had tiad the keys of Charles' room in his keeping, but Charles point­ ed out to the police the utter absurdity of supposing that the bedroom had been entered from the study, as the dust around the door was undisturbed, and tiie lock had not been used since his father had purchased the property. In addition to thia, it was shown that the butler was nearly eighty years of age, and had been in the employ of Mons. D'Eimer and his father before him for over sixty years. The autnorities were greatly puzzled to fix the crime on any one, or to dis­ cover a clue to the perpetrator. The prevailing suspicion was against Charles D'Eimer,'and the fact of his having been on bad terms with his father for a long time, and'the probability of there being a new family of children to share the patrimony with him, were considered as presumptive evidence against him. He was not arrested, hewever, but the neighbors, who had before been on friendly terms, began to shun him, and even the domestics quitted his service. Within a reasonable time after the mur­ der, Charles brought Jeannette to the chateau and installed her as mistress, giving out that they were man and wife, which turned out to be act ually the case. At the same time the charcoal burner disappeared from the neighborhood. After residing for about six months at Chateau Vert, Charles D'Eimer and his wife discharged their domestics and removed to Neufchatel, in Switzerland. The chateaa was left in charge of a stew­ ard, and was only once visited by its owner in twenty years. As before stated, the sequel to this al­ most unprecedented tragedy has just been disclosed, and in order to complete the story it is necessary to give the par­ ticulars of a crime of a later date. On February 24, 1875, one Monsieur Leooq, a wealthy bachelor of Avignon, disappeared under singular circum­ stances. He resided in a small detached house in the suburbs, and kept two do­ mestics--an old woman and her daugh­ ter. He had been a resident of Avignon about seven years, and had come there, it was generally supposed, from Paris, where he had been in business and amassed a fortune. On the day named, two men called at his house and were closeted with him for an hour. He di­ rected his housekeeper to prepare a va­ lise, and then quitted the house with the strangers, saying he might be absent a week. Half an hour after he had left, one of the two men returned and in­ formed the housekeeper that he was a detective, that Monsieur Lecoq had been arrested for a crime committed in Paris many years before, and that he had come for certain documents in Monsieur Lecoq's possession which would tend to establish his innocenoe. He showed the keys which Monsieur Lecoq, he said, had given him, and said his directions were to place the house­ keeper and her daughter in a secure place until the next morning. He con- conducted them to an upper room in the rear of the dwelling, and fastened them in. There they passed a miserable night, and waited disconsolately until noon the next day for deliverance. Weary and hungry, they then managed to burst open the door, and on descending dis­ covered that their master's bureaus and safe had been rifled of every thin g of value. Their suspicion of foul play was for the first time aroused, and they gave the alarm. It was soon clear enough that the arrest of Monsieur Lecoq and the pretended search for documents was the scheme of expert and audacious thieves, and measures were taken to se­ cure their capture. Thejr had nearly twenty-four hours, however, in which to make good their escape, and there was little hope of their immediate arrest. It was likewise difficult to get any accurate description of the men, and the police had to work on the most meager informa­ tion. There was little doubt, however, that the men would seek refuge in Paris, and the police of that city were soon in possession of all the facts, and occu­ pied in seeking for a clue to the perpe­ trator of the crime. Nothing, however, was heard of them or Monsieur Lecoq for over three months, when the old gentleman unexpectedly made his ap­ pearance, and learned for the first time that he was the victim of a conspiracy. It seems that in 1840 he had in his employ, as clerk, a man named Dunesme. This man had a very beautiful wife, of whom Lecoq became enamoured. He dispatched Dunesme to Russia, as his agent, and in his absence endeavored to seduce his wife. He represented to her that Dunesme had robbed him of a large sum, and that unless she acceded to his desires he would send her husband to the galleys. She yielded to save the man whom she loved, but overcome by remorse she lost her reason, arid Lecoq awoke, one morning, to find the woman by; his side a corpse, with a stiletto in her breast. He paid the woman who acted as Madame Dunesme's servant a , heavy bribe to keep his presence in the I house a secret, and returned unobserved to his own residence. Hie evidence showed that Madame Dunesme had taken her own life, and the terrible news was sent to her husband. Immediately on his arrival in Paris he was arrested for embezzling his employer's funds, and afkr a speedy trial sent to the galleys. The woman who had been his wife's servant took care of his only child, and Dunesme served out his ten year's sen­ tence. On his liberation he found that the woman had a short time before mar­ ried, and turned over his daughter to his sister, from whom ho claimed the child but the former custodian could not be found. At the close of last year Dunesme sud­ denly came upon the person whom he had given up all hope of ever seeing again. She was in poverty and he aided her, and in return she told him the story of his wife's wrongs, and gave utterance to the .suspicion that Lecoq had himself murdered her. Dunesme, who was a lawless man then concocted the plot which has been already treated of. Two of his compan­ ions played the part of detectives, and arrested Lecoq, as they said, for the murder of Madame Dunesme over thirty years ago. Fe was taken to Paris and kept there in seclusion, the supposed officers assuring him that, for a large sum of money which he had drawn from his bankers, they would secure his ulti­ mate safety. At length he was released, and returned home, having been assured by the sham detectives that his innocence had been established to the satisfaction of the police, and that he would suffer no further molestation. When the outrage perpetrated on Mon­ sieur Lecoq was made known to the po­ lice, the most strenuous exertions were put forth to capture the offenders. Ler coq was summoned to Paris, and after several days f-peut in perambulating the city, he at length fixed on a street which he behoved was that in whioh he had been confined. The police watched it thoroughly for several days, and ulti­ mately arrested a man of suspicious be­ havior as he was entering oue of the domiciles early in the morning. Lecoq positively identified him as one of the sham detectives, and a room into which he was going when taken as the apart­ ment in which he had been imprisoned. There was a memorandum written in pencil on the wall by Leooq, which left no doubt as to its being the place. There were letters on the man arrested whicjjled to the securing of the other sham jfletective, and finally to the cap­ ture of Dunesme. The latter was in the last stage of disease, and made revela­ tions of an astounding nature. Among other things he detailed the facts respecting his wife and Lecoq al­ ready given, but his most important con­ fession related to the dreadful tragedy of which Chateau Vert was the scene. After his discharge from the galleys and the restoration of his daughter he rented a tract of woodland from Mon­ sieur D'Eimer at the Chateau Vert, There he went under the name of Foille. It was he who encouraged the visits of young D'Eimer to his dwelling, and pro­ cured his marriage to his daughter Jean­ nette. When Monsieur D'Eimer brought home his young wife. Foille saw the hope of one day seeing his child the mistress of the chateau and the mother of children who would inherit vast wealth cut pft. The thought preyed upon his mind until he became almost demented. The woodland which Foille rented was in the rear of the chateau, and within it were the ruins of a small chapel. While searching them one day he partially re­ moved a large slab and saw a deep hole underneath. He raised the block, and a flight »f stone steps was discovered. Procuring a lantern and a flint and steel, he explored the subterranean epemrag, and soon found himself in the vaults of 1 the chateau. More than one skeleton lay around, and here and there rusty bolts and chains, which showed that the Elace had once been used as a prison. a one corner of the vault he discovered an opening and winding staircase, whioh he ascended. After a while it became narrow and straight, and evidently ran inside the walls of the chateau. Having ascended some distance he came to a landing, and to the right saw what re­ sembled a wooden door. He gave it a gentle push and it sho«k. A careful search disclosed a small knob in the wood, and a slight pressure upon it sent the door ajar, and a flood of daylight poured in. He was somewhat startled, and drew the door toward him. Hear­ ing no indication o any one's being on the other side, he opened the door, and saw that he was on the threshold of what he knew at a glance must be Monsieur D'Eimer's bedroom. The door was a panel of the wainscot extending from al­ most the top of the room to within a foot of the floor. He retired and closed the door, and thought little of the dis­ covery until the dread of his daughter's children being robbed of a splendid in- inheritance dwelt on his mind like & hor­ rible nightmare. To shorten a horrible confession, Foille resolved to murder the elder D'Eimer and his young wife, and enter­ ing the room by the secret stairway, ac­ complished his design only too effect­ ually. As soon as his daughter and her husband were securely domiciled in the chateau Foille disappeared, his son-in- law having first made arrangements by which he was secured an income amply sufficient for his ordinary wants. Foille, however, became a gambler, and finally got mired up with a lawless gang, who assisted him subsequently in carrying out his designs on Leccq. Has died within a month of his confession, and the two sham detectives are now under­ going a fifteen year's sentence, ^ There is every reason to believe that® neither Charles D'Eimer nor his wife ever had the slightest suspicion of Foille's having any hand in the long un- explained murder of the elder D 'Elmer. Unmitigated Millionaires. When one reflects upon the immense wealth now possessed by the four prin­ cipal owners of the incalculably rich bo­ nanza developed in the Consolidated Virginia and California mines, at the north end of the Comstock, the mind is dazed with wonder, and figures after fig­ ures are added to the already long array until they shade off into the misty realm of the fabulous and incomprehensible. The wealth of the Rothschilds, the As- tors, and other rich men noted in history and known of at the present time could be counted, calculated, and defined by regular estimates based upon proper fi­ nancial grounds and established princi­ ples. But in this instance, when we get to counting by the hundred millions, and see hundreds of millions beyond, with very possible billions in prospec­ tive, and no defined or understood or even guessed-at limits to the great bo­ nanza or source of this immense wealth, all figuring and calculation is lost in a glittering, golden-bued and silver-starred firmament or boundless wilderness of in­ comprehensible affluence, the materiali­ zation of a vast golden dream, compared with which all others pale into utter in­ significance. Croesus, Aladdin, Monte Christo, and Sinbad the Sailor were mere paupers as compared with Mackay, Fair, Flood & O'Brien.--Oold Hill (Ntv.) News. "The Great Unknown." The following conversation about the Presidency is reported in the regular correspondence of the New York Trib­ une: Judge Jeremiah Black, meeting ex-Speaker Blaine one day, asked him if he felt apprehensive th«*t Senator Mor­ ton would defeat biwi- " Morton will have fair strength in the Convention," replied Mr. Blaine, "but it will not represent a single electoral vote. You see it would never do to nominate such a candidate. I'm not at all afraid of him." "Are yon afraid of Mr. Bristow?" "No; Bristow has a good deal of strength among the people, but it iS"not organized. I don't see how he can pos- Sl"ly get a majority in a convention. "WeU. are you afraid of Senator Conkling?" asked Judge Black, going on with his catechism. " He cannot carry his own State in the Convention or at the election, and candidacy is an absurdity. No, I'm not alraid of hin>. "Is there anybody you are afraid oi?" Yes; there is," replied the ex-Speak­ er, with a serious air. "Well, who is it?" "The great unknown." RUS«A has only 18,000 miles of rail­ road, and proposes to add thereto by constructing several long lines, among them one to span the empire from east to west, connecting European Russia with the Pacific by the way of Central j incomes who almost _ Siberia. This will largely increase the { clothe their children in order that they demand for American locomotives. ' may appear fairly in society. They i WANT AT WASHINGTON. A l̂ iheartenlng Picture of Cleric*! Life at the Capital. fWashington Cor. Cincinnati Commercial.] Not long ago a Congressman from Ohio, serving his first term, asked me to assist him to get an appointment in one of the departments for a lady living in his district. She was the widow of a man who was my comrade during the late war, and in consequcnce the appli­ cation came to me with peculiar force. Finding, however, that she was in re­ ceipt of Su luvOSiG which, by the closest economy was adequate to support her and her children, I declined to take any action, and asked my friend to write her that she was a thousand times better oft out in Ohio with her limited income, and compelled as she was to exercise the most stringent economy to enable her to feed and clothe her children, than she would be if she should come to Wash­ ington to accept a position in uue of the departments on a salary of $900 or $1,200 a year, for the reasons that her expenses here would be three or four times as great as they are in Ohio; her common every-day wearing apparel here would have to be better than anything she wears at home; she would be com­ pelled to pay for her house or room-rent five times as much as in the village in which she lives, her board here would cost her twice as much as she would pay in Ohio. If you know oi any person who is longing to fill a Government office in Washington, dissuade him by all means. He will live a life of constant alarm and uneasiness, and whatever salary he may receive he will find it as much in­ adequate to the requirements upon it as his present income in Ohio may be. I am not in position to see much of the distress prevailing in Washington, but in my limited view I have seen enough to drive sleep from my pillow. I know of a widow woman, formerly a clerk in one of the departments, who has a number of children dependent on her for support, who has besieged the doors of the departments for weeks to secure an office wnich would enable her to earn her living. Three days ago she had $4 in monev, nothing else available or that could be turned into bread, with little or nothing in the cup­ board or coal-bin, and a month's rent nearly due. She will probably utterly fail to get the position she seeks, as eh© has not great political influence and there are no vacancies. What then I Within the last two weeks two young girls, orphans, from the States, lately in office, have been literally frightened to death because they have lost their posi­ tions, and have no hope of securing them again. Their scant earnings sufficed to keep them for only a few days, land­ lords and boarding house mistresses grew importunate for money due them; the prospects presented only two solu­ tions of the difficulty. They could pros­ titute themselves, and make then only a stinted living, for, commercially speak­ ing, the competition in this line is as great as in any other in Washington-- or they could die. They died. I had the case brought to my atten­ tion, yesterday, of a man Who came here from a comfortable home in one of the States, a few days ago, to accept office under the Government. He is a lawyer by profession, and had a fine law and miscellaneous library. He lost his posi­ tion and went into the practice of the law here, but that profession is, of course, crowded. For weary months he lived in hope. Then he began to sell his library, and a few days ago parted with the last remainder for five dollars. He has noth­ ing in the world and a family to support. What will he do ? I know that three or four days ago an artist of world-wide celebrity was glad to accept the loan of ninety cents from a friend who was willing to part with one- half his available assets to relieve as far as might be the immediately pressing wants of a hungry man. A few months ago a young man, with nothing in the world but the consump­ tion and a family, holding a clerkship in one of the departments, was unable to pay a debt when it fell due, and, although he was an efficient clerk, his unrelenting creditor had such influence with his im­ mediate superior that he secured his dis­ missal. The man was a stranger, in a strange land, with no resource whatever, except a friend or two, who were fortu­ nate enough to secure through the head of the department his reinstatement. But he lives in daily fear. He is dying by inches, but is menaced with the prob­ ability that before he dies he will be thrown upon charity for his maintenance and that of his family. It would be a waste of time to go further on this line. I could fill the columns of your paper with similar il­ lustrations of this one phase of Wash­ ington life. The recent cessation of work in the treasury bureau of printing and engraving (which was occasioned by a lack of funds, the appropriation to carry on the work having been exhaust­ ed j.'tlirew several hundreds, possibly a thousand, of women out of employment. Columns of the Republican of this city , have been filled with statements from these people, recitals of sudden want and hardship, forced upon them in this way, so pitiful that in very self-defense one is compelled to pass them over with­ out reading. A few facts of a different character by way of filling up this necessarily crude and hastily sketched picture : A lawyer, who has lived comfortably and decently for ten or fifteen years on an average yearly income of probably $5,000 to $7,000, well and fairly earned, two or three days ago suddenly came into a cash fee of $120,000, having gained a case before one of the mixed or inter­ national commissions sitting here. Ladies' costumes that cost from 8150 to $2,000 each, without reference to dia­ monds and other oostly jewels, can be seen by the hundreds on fair days on the streets and avenues,at receptions, church services, etc. , It is not unoommon to see a child of six or ten years of age with seal skin eacque and rich costume, the cost of which fairly represents three month's earnings of a female employe of one of the departments. It is also quite common to see some of these same female employes wearing cos­ tumes that have cost an amount of mon­ ey equal to their pay for three or four, or even sometimes six months. There are families here with moderate starve and half might live decently and comfortably but for their foolish desire to shine socially. There are probably, at this writing, 300 dwelling-houses in process of con­ struction in the city, averaging in cost from $1,500 to $10,000 each, and there will probably ^ be 1,000 such structures oompleted during the coming season. Not one department official in five, of rank or respectability, lives within his. salary. Many Congressmen, who have p»ifl from $5,000 to $50,000 by way of " elec­ tion expenses" to secure their seats, live here at an annual expense of from twice to four times their salary. Two thousand dollars are occasionally paid for the flowers alone to adorn * mansion for an evening party or reoep» tion. Coffee Making. " To an ounce of ground coffee, allow a pint of boiling water," besides the half pint of cold water you moisten and mix the coffee with, and the half gill of cold water you settle it with; this amount of oold water you require with any propor­ tion. Put the ground coffee into a bowl, add one egg, shell, yolk and white, and half a pint of cold water. Rinse out the coffee boiler with boiling hot water, put the coffee in and pour over it the required amount of absolutely boil­ ing water, close the spout and boil for fifteen or twenty minutes, then pour in half a gill (same as four tablespoonfuls) of cold water. Let it stand for a mo­ ment where it will not boil, then serve. A heaping tablespoonful of ground coffee weighs half an ounce, and is a liberal allowance for one person. The "two-gill measure" of ground coffee level full (that is, not heaped up) weighs three ounces exactly, and will require three pints of boiling water. This pro­ portion may be too strong for some families, and too weak for others. An old rule is, " to one measure of ground coffee allow seven of the same measure of boiling water;" then the two-gill measure of ground coffee level full, weighs three ounces, and seven of the same measure of boiling water would be three pints and a half. If families would experiment on the making of cof­ fee until they get the proportions exact­ ly right to their fancy, then have tin measures made for the required amount of ground coffee and boiling water, they would be greatly surprised at the im­ provement in quality, and the great sav­ ing in quantity, over the haphazard style of making. Keep the coffee boiler wiped clean and dry inside; a damp tea or coffee pot acquires a musty flavor that spoils the best tea or coffeo. The grounds should never be left in a mo­ ment longer than needed. The boiler should always be kept perfectly clean; well scalded and aired after being used. Every now and then put some washing soda and boiling water in it, and let it boil for ten minutes. Occasionally have a new tin bottom put in the coffee boiler, for it is impossible to make good coffee in a boiler from which the tin is worn. Have the boiler made tight, with tight fitting lids over spout and all, otherwise the kitchen ceiling receives a delicate aroma and essence-laden vapor that escapes during the boiling. Many fam­ ilies will not decant their coffee, but serve it in the vessel it was made in.-- Country Gentleman. On a Visit. , John Anderson, a great big tlireo- fisted chap, with a'neck as big as a nail- keg, slouched around in frant of. the desk and remarked : " Good morning." " It is a good morning for the guile­ less and free," replied his honor, as he signed his name to the warrant. " That's just what I am, Judge. The boys brought me in here for fun."- "Yes--ah--yum. You. deny being drunk?" "Ido, sir." The officer set forth twenty-one differ­ ent statements of facts, one being that the prisoner was dead drunk, and another being that the prisoner was lying in a gutter unable to even shut his mouth against the snow storm. " Looks like a plain case," remarked the court. "Judge," replied the prisoner, in a quavering voice, " I oame to this town on a visit to my wife's relations, and it isn't right to treat a stranger in this way. When I woke up this morning I was bent all out of shape, one heel digging into my back and one of my knees jammed into my ribs. I was cold, all whitewash and mud, and I've been dam­ aged over a thousand- dollars. I ain't used to being piled up like stove wood and flung around." " There's a man at the House of Cor­ rection who will doctor you up," said the court, "and thirty days from now you will come out blithesome and gay and full of ambition. It makes my mouth water to think of how fat and handsome you will be." "But what about the damages,"asked the prisoner. "I can't be used this way for nothing." ^ " As soon as you get up there draw on me for a thousand dollars," was the bland reply, and the prisoner hadn't been seat­ ed on the saw-horse over ten seconds when he began to whistle " Mollie Dar­ ling."--Detroit Free Press. The Silver Deposits in Texas. Rich and extensive silver deposits have been discovered on the right bank of the Colorado river, whioh promise to Texas an experience similar to that of Nevada and Montana. The veins lie in an undulating, well-wooded and watered country, the climate of which is described as perfect. More than 1,000,000 acres of land have been located this year, and many shafts have been sunk, which yield from $18 a ton upward, and grow richer as they descend. The Galveston and Austin railroad has been surveyed through the region to strike the project­ ed Southern or Texas road, and a con­ firmation of the present promise will lead to the exploration of all this great territory between the Colorado, Pecose and the Rio Grande rivers.-- Nashvilie American. A Warning to Gum-Cliewers. One of the girl operators at Crane's paper mill, Westfield, Ms-ss., suffered a Bevere attack of the lockjaw one day last week, in which the jaws were set for more than an hour. The attending phy­ sician gave it as his opinion that the disease was the result of a long and daily practice of chewing gum, and that if the young lady persists in chewing the article a fatal return of the disease may be expected. JHOME COMING. . * When brothers leave the old heartliMtlW. - And go, each one, a separate way, We think, as we go on alone " fe Along onr pathway, day by day, Of olden scenes and faces dear; Of voices that we mi«s BO much, it- • *' And memory brings the absent near,p - Until we almost feel the touch ' Of loving hands and hear, onoe more, The dear old voices ringing out, As in the happy time of yore, Ere life had caught a share of donl)|4 should place against your ear • The shell you plundered from the HM, Uown in its hidden heart you'd hear A low and tender melodv, A murmur of the restless "tide, 4 j yearning, born mi memcry-- ornl longingB be denied, The shell keeps singing of the sea. And sometimes when old memories I'lke ghosts, the chambers of our We feel the yearing, deep and A longing we cannot control, To lay our cares and busmesa by ' * To seek the old. familiar ways r And cross home's threshold, and'ait i With comrades of our earlier days. • °"r I***!^ ""adered wide, We feel that we are brothers yet, And by and by we turn aside From lu rrying care and worldly ttt/L And each one wanders back to meet His brother by the hearth of home; I think the meeting is more sweet » Because so far and wide we roam. We croea the lengthening bridge of years. Meet outstretched hands and faeei> trua • The silent eloquence of tears ' Speaks welcomc that no words But ah, the meetings hold regret ? Tho sou, aad Biory, often told, Of hands that ours have often met, Olose folded ujder churchyard mold-- . Of eyes that smile into our own, Closed in tlie dreamless sleep of Ood ; A sweeter rest was never known Than theirs beneath the grave's whita sod. A tender thought for them to-night, A tribute tear from memory; Beneath their covering of white Sweet may their dreamless slumber <b4. Pith and Point. A DUAD- IJATCH--that cm a oemetery gate. COMPANION to the learned pig--a spelling bee. THE treasury girls a " Bab" until he is forty-seven. WHISKY is more easily rectified the mistakes it causes. THE more our girls are pinned back the more forward they seem. 1 A CANDID old bachelor says : " After all, a woman's heart is the sweetest in the world ; it's a perfect honeycomb-- full of sells. WHEN two women in a family are try­ ing to tell the same ••hing at the wtma time, it is an auspicious opportunity for the men folks to vanish. WHEN a Wyoming woman is up­ braided for selling her vote for a stick of gum, she politely but firmly informs her ani^oyer that she shall do just as she chews.ii "IF I use it I'll be just as dirty after it's gone ; if I sell it I eap have pea­ nuts and ride home, too," soliloquized a bootblack when he found a oake of toilet soap. "CAN you see me, dearest?" said a Chicago man to his dying wife. " Tell me, can you see me?" "No," shp faintly whispered, " but I can smell your breath." WE once asked the veteran punster, Catlih, why it was that a certain point on the Mississippi was called Maiden's Bluff, and he innocently answered: "Because it's a virgin' on the river." --Brooklyn Argus. SAID a teacher: " What do the vari­ ous objects that you behold upon the earth all display ?" To which a boy of the "fust jography" class replied in breathless haste : ̂Wisdom 'a' good­ ness of th' equator." A BOY was asked which was the great­ est evil, hurting another's feelings or his finger. "Thefeelings,"hesaid. "Right, my dear child," said the gratified priest; " and why is it worse to hurt the fold­ ings ?" " Because you can't tie a rag round them," exclaimed the child. MB. MOODY says man is a failure. Probably Mr. Moody never saw a young man play base ball all day, and billiards half the night, and get up in the morn­ ing and jaw around an hour because his mother didn't put more stiffening in his shirt-bosom. Man a failure, indeed I-- Norristown Herald. SO WAGS THE WOBLD. Memory cannot linger long; Joy must i?the death ; Hope's like a little silver song Fading in a breath. So wags the weary world away Forever and a day. But love, that sweetest madness, Leaps and grows in toil and sadness, Makee, uneeeiiig eyes to see, And heapeth wealth in penury. So wf,ga the good old world away Forever and a day. BROWN came homo late the other night, says Hohokus, and Mrs. Brown, looking out of tlie" bedroom window, ob­ served, " So you've been tipping the glass again, have you?" " Glass," said Brown, " (hie) 'tis a funny word ; take off the ' g' and it's you, my dear." "Yes," answered Mrs. B., "and then take off the '1' and it's you, you wretch," and she slammed the window down with a bounce.--New York Ad­ vertiser. IT is generally accepted as a good sign when a sick |gtoion is cross and peevish --a sign thatlie is on the gain. A Fifth street man was taken down with lung fever some weeks since, and his wife has watched over him and seen him so near death so often that she was about dis­ couraged. She, however, rushed into a neighbor's yesterday in great joy and excitement, crying out: "He's better --he's better--he's on the gain !" They asked how she knew, and she replied : " Because he's cross 1 It is only a min­ ute ago that he threw a fork at me and called me the biggest liar and meanest woman in Detroit!"--Free Press. Fretting. He who frets is never th# one who mends, who heals, who repairs evils ; he discourages, enfeebles, and too often disables those around him, who, but for the gloom and depression of his com­ pany, would do good work and keep up brave cheer. The effect upon a sensitive person of the mcneighborhood of a fretter is indescribable. It is to the soul what a cold icy mist is to the body --more chilling than the bitterest frost, more dangerous than the fleroeat storm. And when the fretter is beloved, whose nearness of relation to us makes his fretting, even at the weather, seem al­ most like a personal reproach to us, then the misery of it becomes indeed sup. portable. Most men call fretting minor fault--a foible, and not a vie There is no vice except drunkenne which can so utterly destroy the pea the happiness of a home. If * J ^