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V , <4 MBW IKAtTS TRAQEDX. 4*' & .,»n % KDWABffK. Kiattil.lgyS!?" '̂iss Briggs, on Vfiw Yenrti day. aat waiting" In »line-- youngest of them twenty-eight, the oldest thte- | \ ty-ntne. -... ij ••;. " K. ' ;.• , .. ggMMMs the ptr<»*t tteqr Mi Umb Brown* l»y thescows;"•' •> '-4" ' -HA'? *^S ' lut not a vlsfW* VaA trtod tn«(r p»rlor-floor. 1N» Browns WMS yowag sod giddy &l»ga---tin eldest sevaataen-- *\ " ' -" noisy, fat, and vary rode, tAtk fltav were toll • andieato. , ' «•* - - »»»..*. ^ ' jjp~ Jknd no they sat and gnashed their Utd eyed ' r r* 't \ the cake with acorn, , "»•< \- • kod hated alt the table-fall which they lad spread "* a**ora. ~ .j- » t illiw i I too, ^ dtf! • the blasts r, '.Lfcd, Jbdgone with«t^»& overcoat to piurefcaae ttrtlr j*- V ' ptot. ' '* ;• * " . V *rhey jeered at all humanity, and Seat their darkest I \ ,««J «»wns " p. , ^ Jfceross the street Willi doable force to crash those jjjjS _ ' * * % odious Browns. • f C Itai irfcen nlghtia coming on, ttd they are aid " \_ • ' and sore, c" >•••-.*; • V., „" tatfoan man asc«i*s th* steps and pauses atthe '•'£±*4 *°°r- %',y•.;'v-v • -Wood graciom! liow their pnlsss beat! "^id has I , he come to see? " • f ,|UI of the five expectants wait, believing It is "a&e." <- . ' jfete riBRs thfy bt&, his elfep is heard. Bow manly la hiswaiit! \ .» ' ' ' wp the jjas.,v tip fi^t iKKfle.*' "Tow, ' i " ' rb Mary, s top yonr iaf t!" . . . . \i .y^Sfce yonn^est hastens to the glass and pins aaaw , herwreatti?. • v ' '.- 'tlfce «8de:i< smoaflui her Xalse triaettes and readj«urta hsr t«eth. ' v • ' 'V / . . • JJ . ,̂ fto«rtewl What, a stranger* Ah, he apMk» ,̂. dreadful sonads! ' t tl <• f I bag your pardon--my t&tgtUte. 1 thought Was - , Mr. Brown's." -- ^Aht wfien I think upon his fate my eyes grow V | ; ' - h J u r r e d a n d d i m ; . , , < { ^ ey fell up:n him irttti » ahridt, aad tonihlm f i limb from limb. ,, THE BED LIGHT. A atorp of Vew Temr'a JBw. * New Year's eve. ' Not one of the ideal New Year's ^lrs poets and romance writers, wherein ;;.jihe moon is always at the full, the snow f ^IWways a sparkle, like pulverized dia- ^ I , . ^ .^nonds, and the air always still and cold ' f - >< •y ;|u»d dear; but a stormy twilight, with Jjjthe snow driving heavily from the east, If * : ^ind raw and biting, and the sky-- *rhafc you oould see of it--as black as ,.. * But it was New Teuft eve, all the . , |uune, and Bertha Hooper's cheeks were "<» red as the bitter-sweet berries in the ^roods, as she sat, all wrapped up, in the C" I, laraiis. that was speeding northward, on * "Iber way to spend New Year with her ^ . -Aunt Almira Higgins. New Year in the jcotintfyl ^oBefthri," £••• *ho had lived all her life in the brick v Jewells and stone pavements of a city. ^ \ ^ r^the very words seemed to convey Bome- S„* °f cheer and joyousness. And . iBertha, as she sat with her eyes (dosed, ,, her little gloved hands safely pestled in a gray-squirrel muff; beheld, lier mind's eye, great fires of logs ring np wide-throated chimneys, ;«&nd had hall composed a poem on New ? ' , j .«t?'ear associations when the x' n ^ j.; vi-uthlesa oondmoter came along for her &'-W. i ' • f'M • '&i4. How far are we from Montcourt ftation ? " she inquired, as sh^e gave up * x. J$he bit of pasteboard. ; ^ "Next but one, miss," said the mm, r.' ",^s he hurried on, with his lantern under V . this arm. "Half an hour yet." fffe' She had never been so far from New York in all her life before. The driving |ain in which she had left her home had f^ i <ehanged, as they progressed northward, t's into a steady fall of snow, which flut­ tered around them like a white waving gfhroud. But Bertha Hooper cared lit- itle for this. Had not Aunt Almira ^jjpromised to send Zebedee, her youngest \ . fon, to the station with the pony to fneet her on the arrival of the sixty-four J^jlaain from New York? And was not ' • JZebedee to have a lantern with a red ^ ^ass door to it, so that die oould iden- ' Jify him at once? ;; She was very pretty as she sat there [ |Ut her little black velvet toque, with its . ̂ Burling plume of cardinal red, and the '̂̂ "ferine-red ribbon bow at her throat-- jpretty with the bloom and freshness of *8 yean. She was dark, with large '̂ jjtiazel eyes, almond-shaped and long- •rw f»ointad, a clear, rosy bloom on either 6 «heek, and wavy dark hair hanging in #alken fringe ovw Iier broa4, >ow fore- ;.l,. |̂iead. j "Mont-- court--sta -- tion! " bawled * *he brakeman. putting in a snow-pow- P Jlered fur cap, and withdrawing it again • quickly as if he had been a magnift- ^^Jsent edition of the Jack-in-a-box, where- children much rejoice at holiday time. And Bertha Hooper knew ^ «he had reached her destination. *j^ '4 Stiff and cramped for the length Of ;r fame in which she had been sitting in &t '̂ ̂ ue position, she rose up, with a little 5 t;jWeel-clasped traveling-bag in one hand, ' *nd a dainty silk umbrella in the other, |md made her way to the door. •• All she «ould see whea she stepped , t • " M tout upon the wet and slippery platform ^^was a "blurr of driving snow, through ' of the solitary little '*j' -country depot gleamed fitfully; but the something flashed athwart f-' ' ,r?her vision like a friendly red eye--and v . %>eueaUi the reflection over the station " "-'y^idoor, die saw a tall, fine-looking young 7 iman, in a fur-trimmed overcoat, a seal- '; :̂ |pkin cap set jauntily on one side oi a ..;:#!&|erop of chestnut curis, anda red-lighted ^Hantern ewinging from his left hand, as ; ^s|be stood straining his eyes into the \-r% ; r-i" a!*' * * \ P '/1V4 'e I r *: < /' ktM't •> darkness, as if to catch sight of aCRm teftsliar faoe in the little crowd. Gooflin iSebedee 1" cried Bertha, aloud, and she made one spring into the arms of this blonde-whiskered young gitffet* For bad not she and Zebfedei pliy'cd do2iiiio?P fm" geese together in the days when she wore blue ribbon sashes, and his hair was a closely-shorn mat of carroty red? "Oh! Cousin Zebedee, I'm so glad to see you; and I hadn't any idea jou had grown hall so iiandsome!w , And she gave him a great htig, at the same time holding up her rosebud lips for a kiss. But, to her infinite amazement, the hero of the seal-skin epp seem,ed a little backward ^ responding fa her oousinly advances. *1--1 beg your pardon," said he, slightly reoeding, "but lam afraid there is some mistake. My name is not Zebedee, ann the lady for whom I am looking is some years older than you." Bertha Hooper started back, coloring and confused; and, as she did so, a fat, comfortable-looking old lady came trundling along the platform, in an India shawl and a boa of Bussia sable worth its; weight, in greenbacks. "Charley i" she cried^ "I thought I should neve* find you. Is the carriage hero?'" .; •: >; v j,,,. "All here, and waiting Aunt Effle," responded „ the young man; but he still hesitated a second, as Bertha Hooper stood with averted faoe and motionless figure in the shadow of the building. "Can I be of atfy service to you?" he asked. "If jjrou ar*) e!*pie<iting friends who have failed' to' meet you--" "Anybody here ijy the name of Berthy Hoo-oo-per?" shouted A Sten­ torian voice; and a Ml, raw-looking lad with a lantern--also lighted with red glass--rushed shuflBing around the corner. . (...... . • Zebedee himself! Zebedee, red- haired and shambling and awkward as he had been in the old fox-and-geese days. "Oh! "said he catching up his lan­ tern, so that the scarlet bird's wings dashed out, like a spit of flame--scarce­ ly more scarlet, alas! than Bertha's own face. "Here you be ! I'm a lit­ tle late, for the roads is so all-fired bad and I couldnt start the pony out of a walk. Comeon! Howdedof Be you very cold?" " Zebedee," said Bertha, clinging al­ most hysterically to her cousin's arm, ""Who's that young gentleman with-- with the other lantern ? " ^EJi?" t^ftjJSebedee. v*Tbat feller with ' "cil. '|p3y l«.j fc patchwork shawl?" . -Yes!" ;;v„; " ; c / " It's Charley Hfircourt, the Squire's son," said Zebedee. J^pt: come from furin pacts." n l.> " Zebedee," said Bertha, with a curi­ ous little sound between a laugh and a sob, "put me into the cutter quick; and drive me somewhere. I don't care where! Because--" " Eh? w said Zebedee/ staring hard at his cousin, as he packed the buflalo robe around her before touching up the lag­ gard old pony. " Because," abided Bertha, in a species of desperation, " I took Mr. Harcourt for you; Ta&41 hugged ĝ iu au< him." ",1s tjiat all?" , said philosopl^ical Zebedee. " He. ^on't care!". " No," said Bertha, " but I shall!" "You ain't crying, be you?" said Zeb­ edee, noting tixe quiver in 'his cousin's voice. "How can I help it?" wailed poor Bertha.. " .Twarnt no fault o* younx," sa|d Zeb­ edee, consolingly. N "Of course it wasn't," said Bertha, im­ patiently. "How was I to knew that. every lantern at Montoourt had a red glass to it?" And poor little Bertha cried herself to sleep that night. The next morning--New Year's day, all snowed up into glorious drifts every­ where--Mr. Harcourt drove over to the Higgins farmhouse. The young lady had dropped a fur glove on the plat­ form, and Mr. Harcourt felt it his duty to restore it to her. And, moreover-- here Mr. Charley Harcourt hesitated a little--he hoped Miss Hooper would ex­ cuse him for being so stupid as to allow her to fancy, him her cousin.* "I ought to have explained sopner," said he. • "No, you ought not," <fsaid Bertha. "Hie foult was ail mine." : "I don't recognize a fault anywhere," said he. "And if I am pardoned^--" "Of course you are!" said Bertha, rosier and prettier than ever.. "In that case, I am commissioned by my mother to ask your aunt's permis­ sion to take you over to help us finish dressing the church in time for morn­ ing service. My horse is waiting." "May I go, Aunt Almira? " said Ber* tha, with sparkling eye* "Of course you may," said Aunt, Afc mira. - i" .And so poor Zejbedee was left oat in the cold. t What was tta end of it all? There is but one sequel to stories like this, when /•"v ^ v j f . youth and bright eyes and human hearts are ooaoerned. The next New Year's eve Bertha Hooper and Charley Har­ court were married. But the bride­ groom persists in declaring that did the first of the love making. ATHI BertJm wily hnghs. BBrmt PKRSONM ttribKin BY A 0OMX FIBJB. The suffocation of a mother and her six children in Toxteth Park, Liverpool, has caused much excitement in the dis­ trict. The victims were Anne Cam­ eron, 41, widow of a ship's carpenter; Angus Cameron, 18, who was employed in an iron foundry; John Cameron, 15, who worked in a coal yard; Flora Anna Cameron, 14; Duncan Cameron, 13; Mary Cameron, 10, and Elizabeth Cam­ eron, 8. Mrs. Cameron and her family had lived in the house six weeks, and occupied a cellar and the wretched room where they were found. When last seen Mrs. Cameron was fetohing water from a standpipe after 11 o'clock on Thursday night. She and her family are supposed to have retired to rest at that time, and nothing occurred to ex­ cite apprehension till, about noon on Friday, a Mrs. Lawson noticed that the cellar shutters had not been taken down, though the inmates habitually got up early. She got the key through a brbkeh pane and entered the cellar, which she found in an orderly state, but nobody was there. On going up stairs she was shocked by seeing the whole family lying dead on the floor, the bodies occupying nearly every available inch of space. The appearance of the bodies showed that death had taken place several hours before, and from the strong smell of burning coke which per­ vaded the room it was conjectured that they had been suffocated. An iron bucket containing burnt coke was near the wall about the middle of the apart­ ment. There was not the slightest ves­ tige of furniture, and no means of ventilation, -the window being closed. The room is 12 feet by 5$ feet, and about 7. or 8 feet in height.--London Times. BROKEN-HEARTED. In angry man may do more harm to himself than to the objects of his rage. An illustration of this remark, and one which shows the importance of acquir­ ing, early in life, self-control, is gilen by Dr. Richardson. The person re­ ferred to was a physician. Dr.Bichard- son writes: " This gentleman told me that an original irritability of temper was per­ mitted, by want of due control, to pass into a disposition of almost persistent or chronic anger, so that every trifle in his way was/ 'a oAuse of unwarrantable irritation. " Bometitilies his anger was so vehe­ ment that all about him were alarmed for him even more than for themselves; and, when the attack was over, there were hours of sorrow and regret in pri­ vate which were as exhausting as the previous rage. " In the midst of one of these out­ breaks of short, severe madness, he suddenly felt, to use his own expres­ sion, as if his ' heart were lost.' " He reeled undo: the impression, was nauseated and faint; then, recovering, he put his hand to his wrist and discov­ ered an intermittent action of his heart as the cause of his famtness. " He never completely rallied from that shock; and5 to the day of his death, ten years later, he was never • free from the intermittency. ' I am' broken­ hearted,' he would say,' physically bro­ ken-hearted.' "And so he was; but the knowledge of the broken heart tempered marvel- ously his passion, and saved him many years of a really useful life. He died ultimately from an acute febrile disor­ der."--Chambers' Journal. TRY-LINED STOMACHS. A: reporter of the New York World, 'while* interviewing a chemist, learned something about adulterating sugar in such a way as to produce tin-lined stom­ achs in the consumers: "Yes," said the well-known chemist, "people will have tin-lined stomachs be­ fore long." Then the chemist went to a closet and took therefrom several small bottles, which he held up before a strong light. He exhibited several sheetn of fin which had been extracted from sugar purchased from extensive dealers in sugar in this city. "This," said the chemist, "is what they use in the adul­ teration of sugars, and I am informed that some of the dealers buy tin by the ton. This tin has been out with muri­ atic acid, and was used hi sugars and sirups. . ' "I have here [exhibiting sptne other small bottles] samples of glucose. From 25 to 30 per cent, is used in sugars, and 75 per cent in sirups. Poor starch and flour is also used by some of these wealthy sugar dealers, and I am in­ formed that such adulterated sugars pro­ duce skin diseases. "Here is a bottle [exhibiting a red dish-brown powder] that I cannot de­ scribe. I don't know what it is, but in­ tend to find out.) ]<t was taken for sugar." The chemU»| is yet ak work, and in a short time eftpeets to make his report public. • - ** 1 * j ' .a" mm* HISTORICAL* PAJPBB collars were first patented in 1854. , . -y Louis II. of Hungary was crowned in the 2d year of his life, and ascended the throne in the 3d. In his 14th year he had a couupletu heard; in Lis 15th he married; in his 18th he grew gray, and at 20 he died, wii an aged man. THE fortified castled, with which En­ gland was covered previous to the or­ der of the Long Parliament for their destruction, were chiefly built between the time of the conquest and the reign of Edward HI. It is said that, in Ste­ phen's reign, between eighty and ninety years after the conquest, no less than 1,115 had been built. They were places of security, in which the Norman usurp­ ers and baronial oppressors might in­ sult the people with impunity; and the same thing was done in Ireland so late as the age of Charles L THE "ancients"used toma^the prog­ ress of time by the moving of the heavenly bodies, and for a more brief space by the shadow of the sun cast on a sun dial, certain marks on the dial noting the length of time. In the ab­ sence of the sun the ancients used a clepsydra, a vessel containing water es­ caping through a small orifice in equal quantities at equal times. A floating body in a vessel which received the water denoted the time by its rise to certain numbers on the side ot the ves­ sel. The Romans introduced this in­ strument in the days of Pompey, from Greece, seventy years before the Christ­ ian era. They employed it to denote the "length of speeches^ in the Roman Senate. The sand or hour-glass was an ancient invention, and used in Egypt before the days of Christ. In the early times of Archimedes, the great mathe­ matician, 250 years before Christ, wheel work was made to move by springs and weights, to impel equal motion at equal times. From this motive power first sprung the clock for keeping time, which was used in Europe as early as the eleventh century. FBOM the subversion of the Roman empire to the fourteenth orv fifteenth century, women spent most of their time alone, almost entire strangers to the joys of social life; they seldom went abroad, but to be spectators of such public diversions and amusements as the fashions of the times coun­ tenanced. Francis I. was the first who introduced women on public days to court; before his time nothing was to be seen at any of the courts of Europe but grey-bearded politicians, plotting the destruction of the rights and liber­ ties of mankind, and warriors clad in complete armor, ready to put their plots in execution. In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries elegance had scarcely any existence, and even cleanli­ ness was hardly considered as laudable. The use of linen was not known; and the most delicate of the fair sex wore woolen shifts. In Paris they had meat only three times a week; and 100 livres (about $5) was a large portion for a young lady. The better sort of citizens used splinters of wood and rags dipped in oil instead of candles, which, in those days, were a rarity hardly to be met with. Wine was only to be had at the shops of the apothecaries, where it was sold as a cordial; and to ride in a two-wheeled cart, along the dirty, rugged streets, was reckoned a grandeur of so enviable a nature that Philip the Fair prohibited the wives of citizens from enjpying it. In the time of Henry Yin., of England, the Peers of the Realm carried their wives behind them on horseback wtten they went to London; and in* the same manner took them back to their country seats, with hoods of waxed linen over their heads, and wrapped in mantles of (doth to secure them from the cold. TBB PEOPLE OB AFGHANISTAN. The people of Afghanistan are not given to trade nor to manufacturing. They leave to the Persians, the Arabs and the English all such occupations. They live a free, easy, unsettled life. It is most truly a pastoral country. The inhabitants were divided into tribes and subdivisions; some live in the valleys and others on the plains, and others guard the mountain passes and demand toll from the trading caravans. In appearance they are savages, arming themselves with any weapon, dressing in any clothes, roving from place to place. The cities are usually found set­ tled by the side of some high mountain with a vast and open plain stretching out before them. The houses are gen­ erally of mud, low, flat-roofed ^id plain. Cabul is the city of most importance. It rests nearly at the foot of Baba peak, 8,000 feet above the sea level. From here One may look upon the high, de­ serted, cold peaks of the Koosh range, while soxithward extends an open and fertile plain. ^ The Cabul river is picturesquely crossed by three bridges, the onto leading westward to Khyber pass being strictly guarded. The- houses of the city are of sun-baked brides, low and devoid of beauty. There are mosques and bazaars, and a citadel in the eastern part contains the : " • i' f Governor's palace. The climate is se­ vere in winter, from October to Mnmfr but in summer is delighifuL Transcript. wozvM ix ±EXAS. -T:- In its march westward to the Pacific civilisation has made mighty ktridep, Yet one memento of the "howling wilderness," says a eom,apoii<teiit of & St. Louis journal, has been left still to roam the immense prairies that loom up between the rivers. It is the brown wolf which, with ears erect and thosb traitor­ ous glittering eyes, remains a tenant of the prairies in the heart Of the| thickest- settled portion of the Lone Star State. Not infrequently the horseback traveler encounters his wolfship. on the great prairies between the Colorado and the Brazos; not infrequently ijhe solitary tourist, whose fortune it j is -- Texas fashion--to pass a night on/his blanket in the midst of a twenty-mile waste of grass, has had his slumbers disturbed by the howliugs, sometimes distant, sometimes uncomfortably near, of thia little brown wolf. Imagine yourself sound asleep in a big prairie north of of the towii ' of Victoria* South Texas. Your horse, "hobbled" ap soma distance, can be heard munching the tall grass, whose spear-shaped tips'gracefully bend under the tremendously heavy dews that fall in this climate. Yon are wrapped in your blanket, head and ears, to keep off the hungry army of mosquitoes that thirst for your blood. You listen. There is a howl in the distance. It is a peculiar sound, different from the plaintive howl of a dog. You soon become aware of the presence of some dark objects around you in the grass. You spring up. Instantly the objects seem to scamper off in the direction of darkness. You draw your pistol with the unwel­ come conviction that you are lurround- ed by Texas wolves. Like other wolves, the Texas animal has all the meanness of the dog, without his faithfulness; the sneaking nature of the hyena, without the hyena's sagacity. One of the most cowardly of quadrupeds, he is the most relentless when he gets the advantage, and in this respect much resembles the murderers of TexasC FLOUR $2,060 A BARBEL. A friend has handed us a copy of the Asheville News of April 6,18G5--dated three days before the surrender of Lee, at Appomattox. It is a half sheet, printed on a dingy, yellow Confederate sample of paper. Under its editorial head are its terms--$20 per annum, 50 cents per single copy, and $5 per square for each insertion of an advertisement. Elder Adkin, tild editor, was a Meth­ odist minister, who published & paper, years before tie war. He died about nine years ago.i This edition of the News contains the order of the Confederate Adjutant General regarding the recruiting of the negro troops; "General Order, No. 46," signed by Col. J. B. Palmer, relating to conscription; and a "schedule of prices," allowed by the tithing and purchasing agents of the Confederate States Gov­ ernment, who appeal to the farmers to bring in their produce to feed the army, which they proclaim "is now at last to be recognized as our only savior from the unrestrained and grasping despot- istu of our barbarous enemy." Some of the prices allowed are as follows: Flour, $10 per pound; beef, $2; bacon, $4 50; corn, $12 per bushel; oxen, $1,500 per yoke, and quinine, $30 per ounce. There is an advertisement offering a re­ ward of $4,000 for the apprehension of two negroes, Noah and Edward, who ran away from a mail named Gist, at King's Mountain iron works, and were supposed to be lurking about Asheville. --Asheville {tf. (7.) Enterprise. DIPHTHERIA AND DRAIN A HE. A New York paper tells us that malig­ nant diphtheria recently appeared in a certain locality in Harlem, causing the death of three children in one family. The Board of Health made a thorough investigation of the house and its sur­ roundings, tad several gross defects in plumbing and ventilation were discov­ ered and promptly remedied. Among other obvious difficulties it was found that a ventilating saaft that passed be neath the £poring of the kitchen for the purpose of carrying off any foul air generated in that space had its outlet just beneath one of the kitchen windows, so that it almost necessarily entered the window and pervaded the house. • O^D AND NEW. ' ' Alone I etexxi at the witching hour When spirits walk the earth; The deep-toiled bell from the old church-tower Rang in thti New Year's birth. " Good-by, Qld Year t" I cried aloud, 1 "Ooocl-by!"--borne with a sigh; « And lo! wrapped in his ghostly shroud, The Old Year passed me by. And, In the pale moon's silver^r light, 1 saw hin) bending low * Beneath tlM weight ot burdens great, t, Surcharged with human wo. The vain regret, the broken vow. The sigh, tjlic tear were there-- The hollow moan, the bitter groan. The sad fc-ail of despair. I wiped a tear as the phantom year Evauishtd like a dream, While borne upon the wings of morn The happy N«w Year came. •A NEW TEAR'S MORNING* Only a night from Old to New I Oaiy a night, and so much wrought? The Old Years heart all weary grew? Bat said," The New Year resthaatoiogh ;. The Old Year's heart, its hopes laid down ' ,«*r. .1 As in a frrave; but trusting, said, * . , "Uu» blossoms of the New Year's crown '< Mktoitt irau (Jio mhm of Gic desA." r - The old Year's heart W»B full of graM; With selftsJmcFis it long«A and And cried, " 1 have not half I need; Xy thirst i* bitter and unslaked. "Bat to the Xew Year's generous hall"' All gifts in plenty shall return; IVue loving it shall understand; By all failures it shall learn. "I have been reckless; it shall be « Quiet and calm, and pure of life, X was a slave; it shall go free, And find sweet peace where I * ' ^ 1 » if »V»-' » "i 1 Only a night from Old to New! Never a night snch changes brought The Old Year had its work to do; The New Year miracles are wioaAhft' Always a night from Old to New! Night, and the healing balm of sleep Each morn is New Year's morn some.1 Horn of a festival to keep. -1 '!« All sights are sacred nights to Confessions and resolve and prajMf , ' All days are eacred days to make i;. , New gladness In the sunny air. /rf ' Only a night from Old to New; f - Only a sleep from night to The New is but the Old come true;' • >»' ' Bach sunrise sees a New Ye«r 1 PLEASANTRIES. THE city of Nice is turning tho house in which Garibaldi lived into a monu­ ment to that patriot's memory. ? THE greatest strike of the dajjrr-4,. o'clock. r THE Spaniard's first instinct is* §Ot dancing. v A MAN who has plenty of thyme^The gardener. "W * . A MAN may shedan ox, and yet be un­ able to shed a tear.» FOB the hand of a young lady yolu may become a suitor, if you suit 'er. $ WHAT kind of a pudding does a lawyer pref^K? Suet pudding, of coarse. f WHAT similarity is there between a brilliant young man and a brilliant chandelier? They both sin-till-late. A WOMAN in Nebraska suffocated her baby by rolling over upon it in bed. What is home without a s-mother? A YOUNG man who didn't get out of the way of the omnibus in time says he felt rather stage-struck for a moment. HOOD, in describing the meeting of a man and a lion, said: " The man ran off with all his might, and the lion with all his mane." A DIFFERENCE between an associate of Old Nick and a discourteous act is, that one is an imp of darkness, while the other is impolite. TALK about the angry sea and the mad waves and all that. Humph! you'd be angry, too, were you, crossed as often as the ocean is. GIVK US the girl who is loving and dreamy, rf ' Give us the joke that is pleasant &nd creamy. Give us a cot 'neath a tremulous willow, But give us, ohl give us no soft snowy pillow Which is not more than half filled with faathora. --Flying Leave*. SOME young ladies are opposed to the telephone. They say they do not care to have any young man whispering in .their ears with his mouth twenty miles away. IN a recent publication, a " funny fel­ low" writes some verses entitled M Lines on a Pig." If he will head his next ef­ fusion " Lines on a Horse," it will be more appropriate. A LITTLE 5-year-old, hearing of the " Acts of the Apostles," said he thought the Apostles must have been pretty hard up to have had only one ax among so many of 'em. A LITTLE girl, looking at the stars te they came twinkling one by one through the boughs of the trees, exclaimed, "See, there are the angels' fingers point­ ing at us!" . Bmaught a cold, a horrid cold (They do who go a-flshln'), And this accounts for what would else Have sent bim to perdition. For when a neighbor kindly asked, With voice as sweet as taffy, "Did Java pleasant time?" he said, " Well, yes, a little coughy! * A MAN, when tried for stealing a pair of boots, said he merely took the boots in joke. It was found that he was cap­ tured with them forty yards from the place he had taken them from. The Judge said he had carried the jobs too far. THERE are three things that no can keep--a point on a pencil, a pointed joke, and an appointment with a den­ tist. There are three things no woman can do--cross before a horse, hurry for a horse-car, and understand the differ­ ence between ten minutes and an ' hour. BILL PEABCE kept a bar-room in Bodie, Nev., and was greatly annoyed by men who drank without paying, He resolved to do only a cash business, and posted an announcement thereof. Sam Halsey read the placard, drank a full tumbler of whisky and coolly said: "Put it on the slate." Pearce drew a revolver and killed Halsey on the spot. THE Ameer Shere Ali cannot read, but has acquired much information from conversations with his attendants, who have been better educated than himself, and through a clerk, whom he has main­ tained for many years, to translate arti­ cles from the English newspapers net India. His ideal man is Napoleon. -r A