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MIA mocMiMMt nf i, hvnifbt I tuii.fc of rwi, kMHitif wl«.ds I »0 boat the « teapa f^jaurt the sea, _ _ .1» «f gl<* ring Kwrrtly, 'Mikr- me* music ft"«r nud o'a*. hota ywtoKhjf I aaw|Xr Uy cSsuwiatw aa nf Old; v &aoh rp.nre^ontine. by soinefMfc -4^ka_iareB; --- --- f * recollections of the past, ' Cone bad: sod signal IUO-^ i I <»ward, march, and, manning fas* ' I Wtfw® ifiret, I leave the last, W Wfttakatt'i survives the turbid aaal Onaa Iwaa yoosflw by «o®« ware, And, tNteK^oanK, was n>ad-- ' * • "miqp&t<rf my feaca, liberally would •mp* 'tissee i|#W" twill not Th« thought ,,JjM mm remo.ee and bitter tew*, , Mad at my faults, and of tkM aadf • , v.:': t»-d*y I'm older, older atiU-- " < triumyi'.ant Justice deato with »B{, J IMoraatHl tnra» (he grindingmill.,, And, grinding slow, yet grindawtth*^' Cli* product* for a dusty paU. lb thoughts tan buck; I think of fM A.p when we mot With social aims; '* If* am thinking you aw true; I will not " lean old friend# for nwrS"**; t mjj^ frigid heart quite taaata :®%-nlgbtl weep, the moon to high, V"Jfv parent;-, lie entranced in Bleep, The (tors look downward from the «*»» ... j»d.e»toli tho twinkk of mine eye, - L while thoughts into my brain do amp! Devon nixiember that on? year We sjrtrat at school upon the hi!!, 'Where |l«w the nation, rose end (grow Uie grasp, and withered MM ~ ' auli^in by toe old gray mill ? j ^ v TNTOH Ihea we met; *j>*rtr there ,. " Brought us together in the light; <*vV, * 1 The jokes were saiA»*nd wings qniteWarv •Keg through the hall and oa Iha all!" '* Of that initiatory night I Ah! many a tinn* my mind ^everta , rf To al! those happy h iure waspeBt,^' t And 'through my heart it oftaaaerte sAiJ-t •? Ike hajjjiy thought, which never htul| « •: The buoyant mind to give tenant I v.- ' ted do yon yet remember weH v * *. The ovenings in the gray old^fcall, "i§ai" m» learned, A by some magic i To talk and road and often tell Xcoh other of the author1* Mil Wa talkrd of Byrnn, Bhakflpaat^VoKkf Of Milton, Tennyson and Barna, P"'-" or IMckr-ns, 8oe aad Roe-- ^ i •, b fact, of all jow know, . And, natiiraUj-, we talked by •oraa|;-V.:. BA^me changes all things, fma aeafe" . Those happy days were most forgcH Wa " settled down,7' like Lew Xm^ To st&dT yet at P. and B.-- i To labor, and await our tot. J :M That gives out hopea few one and aBL As longer in this life one goea! Vie labored hard, and etriveo long lEnongh to wea, a King's bright c P«B labored, striven with that throng Wfcioh ever had for its grand song: * Down, down with ignorance, dova. Aad yea have labored 1 tl~ F,.„ l bnvuai I- .... Bare penamed down io this honf|, •are never oeaaod to er^nte cry ®, nat manhood'a evils never die, ¥•. jpat onght to lessen in lta power I &j, ; : Wi read oar lives in Nature's book, |f|5 . Andnn the brilliant, retting BUB ; - ' W* see our ousanes in the brook, t • Aa downward into it we look; We sdb a face that's lost or > Uaton of hearfai, ia deptfi of wisdom brig Wa read the 1 Anda!it3»< When wc quite know divining arta Of ail c-i iancy'a pleasact darts-- Tho fiaeh of kindly eyes made 1 : SMBtH you remember, girl, of all ,, ;f. jpie lessons over whidi we poi Some proved a joy, while othva So very like an unsca'ed wall, Or deep canoe uncared? And now 1 lea»« tbec, all a!oaa to thtt And wan«Sar«*w &oc&Ge long putn*- To wauder by ttal brook's »teep brink, ' ABd we d the diort^diwievcrea link-» The numumt strop* aad faatl jtorrow. IlL y-' TIE LITTLE WAIF. 'r. , ! ** r . f-J < '* *r. ^Tacob Pmkliam fad Ifcw. Male Bronson were near H«dghbort, and, aa Jacob was a bachelor aid Adete me a widow, and both were about of an age, many thougM it a little nipning they did not marrj; others thoagbt it would be still more cmrpriaiBg if they did, as Jacob wag, in their opinion, a confirmed bachelor. To be aura lie waa ye* in the forties, and looked yconger than many others of his age, but bis habits and tastes were those of a neolase, and the •olemn, morose, old housekeeper who bad lived with him ainoa the death of bia Mother, ten years before, was calcn- ; lated to repress instead of enooorage ! M&y attempt of sociability, ' l̂ e.waa well aware that bis neighbor, fee^brighi, cheerful, little -widow, was " r'tlie opposite of that old ogre, and snia lie had passed in her oom- ' he recalled aa pleasant ones, still . ' .1 never put himself out of the way in tike least to meet her. Once or twite b0 bad overtaken her in a rain- storte, sod ofiiBred her the greater share of Ms nmfcwalla, and they had ea joyed a obat, the Abrupt endixTg of wliiqh, as | *bey re-ruJî d b^r gate, lie greatly re­ gretted. Indeed, to have , continued walking in the rain all day in such comfflnjonabip would have been agreea­ ble to liim. ' Bat;|ie irent homo and set­ tled down in old routine to which he had 'iti Jong accuBtomed, and the cheerf ul eourae, vor of the oth«*. daily, and somel in a day, and tbej the same as to other in her own Seeking the fa- jMMped bar house " "nberof times to eaoh other but seldom exchanged a word ; alid, if amy one ha<l hintWi is> aithy thw m <me day become intimately ao^priwted, the possibility of such a thing would have been denied. But, in spite of. Ifeair incredulity, such a state of affairs was brought about in the following way s One day a terrible railroad accicent oo- «irred in the city, canoed by the engine w one train running fofai thA rear e&i' of •nothers and killing and mangling thirty iw forty persons. Jacob happened to be WM by at the time, anyd made himself Mljoaeful in caring forthe unfortunate. *P fee midat of it all a lovely babe was "Wsrt into his arms, and there it clung wottt his neck with a tenacity that compelled Mm to ease for it The teaia bands said it belonged to a lady ^#n4 gentleman who then lay dead at tbeir feel The sight of the mangî 'WfoB of the parents and the helpless liMe ereature tliat bad seemingly come to him for protection, awakened his pwpfcthy, aad he believed it his duty > do all hi »oonld for tk , **I will^nke it right home," he said, ? lp» it with my housekeeper until lesa hire some one to odma into the fc«î :i|ke care of it," be wslked home wit%tbe babe in r ft curious proceeding bethought, aad, when 1 ttjis doff, U* housekeeper with aaytiiinff tmt & pleasant oi thai little 'norooaldllfve in the M bss nothing In particular tfndit won't huxt her to trite care pps a dilumma. He eoold not line the ibdd tatter, nor foc a Btes did he thiak money oonld jm to take it over to the widfrn-. ft wm i& • burty to gp bsek tp ffis . v * , him she would W delist tod to take iK She hRd tltonght ^omt^tiiike of adopting * child, and her only lew was, in tins case, that after she becamo greatly attached to it some one would claim it Mr. Brons<m was quit© p! oared to find so good a iiarbor tor ihe iiriie stranger, still he did not like the idea of giving it up entirely. He was conscious that ho had conceived something of a liking for it in the few moments its little arms had clung so lovingly about his neck; so he said, with a blnifli and the faintest at­ tempt at a laugh, " I do not know, Mrs. Bronscn as I can quite renounce my claim." " Well, yon have really the best right to it of any one," said Mrs, Dronsonj "and you may claim just as large a share as you choose." Whereupon the child reached out its little arms to him, with a look which seemed to say, " And it shall not be a very small share either," " How old a child should you call it?" he asked. "About 6 months, I judge, and now, come to think, she must very soon want some sustenance; and pray, Mr. Jacob, by whom am I to send for a nursing- bottle for her. I cannot go with her in my arms, and Jane, my girl, has gone home for the day." Ah i I am going down street, and I---ahem--can get one, I suppose." Then toe thought of a bachelor of his standing asking for such an article caused him to blush quite to his eard, but duty again forbade that he should do otherwise, so he hastened to the near­ est store, purchased one, and immedi­ ately returned with it By this time the babe was screaming with hunger, and he stayed to witness the first feed­ ing, which was done amid a great deal of struggling and squirming. Through the whole of it, the new mother mani­ fested so much patience and good nat­ ure, Jacob was lost in admiration, and almost forgot his hurry to return to the wreck, and, by the time he did, most of the dead had been removed to the morgue, and the wounded cared for. When evening came he could hardly re­ frain rrom going to see his little protege, but finally waited till the ensuing day, and then asked Mrs. Bronson what' name she proposed to give it. She said she had found the word. Mabel engraved on the blanket-pin, and thought that might be the name its parents had giv­ en it "I think very likely," he replied, " and doubtless that was the mother's name, too, for I saw her at the morgue to-day, poor thing, and across her fore­ head, which was badly cut, was bound a handkerchief on which was written Mabel Harmon. Oh! she was dread­ fully mangled, and the father, too, and how the child escaped injury is the most wonderful thing imaginable." "Well, if no one claims the bodies I hope we may have the handkerchief and every other relio to keep for little Mabel." " I will see to that, Mrs. Bronson, and there's a trunk among the baggage marked H. L. Harmon; that, too, un­ less there is some other claimant, We must have." Here Jacob paused; "how droll it seems," he thought, " to be speaking in the possessive case; hereto­ fore I have only found use for the pro­ noun L" But, as droll as it seemed, he could think itnore the less pleasant. So he got to speaking in this way a great dew, as his visits to see the child were frequent, and in course of time quite lengthy. So much so that Mrs. Baseett, his housekeeper, became alarmed lest afee should be supplanted by the widow. " I "did not think when I sent him over there with that young un," thought she, "that he'dhave to spend halfhis time there. Perhaps he thinks he can bring the m both here, and I'll stay and wait on them, but I have been my own mistress too long to do that She is a little upstart of a thing anyhow, and I believe she has been ang­ ling for him some time; there's them in the neighborhood that's seen her walk up the street with him as lovingly as could be under his umbereL" Then the neighbors beoan to ramark upon the frequency of his visits to the widow's house, and most of them were glad to see him go, and hoped something serious would come of it, for the match would be such an eligible one. But the two principally concerned kept their own counsel, and it was a long time before any one found out anything definite in the matter concerning them. As no one claimed the bodies of little Mabel's parents, they were buried st Jacob's expense, and the trunk above alluded to was taken charge of by Mrs. Bronson, and was evidently, with its owners, quite recently from London, England. So little Mabel was an En­ glish girl, and not of poor parentage either, judging from the contents of the trunk, for therein was found money, valuable jewels, the finest of laces, and costly wearing apparel for both mother and child. The parents were quite a young couple, and must have had friends somewhere-- so thought the two now in possession of the child, and they were daily in ex­ pectation of hearing from them. But six months passed without hearing any­ thing from any one, and Jacob then said, " Now, let's call the child a year old about next Thursday, and celebrate its birthday by getting married." "It shall be as you say," the Widow replied, "and then you can have little Mabel constantly with you." " And you, too," he answered, " not- with standing the rumors of my con­ firmed bachelorship." So they were married, and Mrs. Baa- sett went to live with her grandson. For years they daily feared Mabel would be claimed by some relative, but they were happily disappointed in this, and she grew up with them as their own. PrrraratLB, Mass. to l«5 mo other lady in Bng^md, b<i they Xkil̂ isli or foreign. By the sue oi prafeasdana] beauties, she standi opt boldly from them all, a star pre-eminent, both in woman!; qualities, the grace of mother­ hood, »uiu her own fjUftenVy beauty. She AO ATCOU MO m OCC5XL£* TIUCOH scions of her charms, and the admiring gaze of crowds never seems to disturb her equanimity. Her last costume, worn at Pulham, was of peacock green, studded with golden disks, and the sun­ light falling upon it made it radiant and sparkle like gold cloth. The bonnet was made to match, with m trimming of silver beads. "lair." As a rule, women are active and not afraid of labor. They are, indeed, prone to exceed the limit of their ability. Therefore, when yon, an habitually in­ dustrious woman, feel a "lazy fit" coming on, you should rest awhile. Perhaps a day cannot be spared, but why should you so grudge an hour for an afternoon nap which you may so greatly need, or a half-hour for a book or paper you would GO much enjoy ? There are women to Whom it would come almost like A new revelation to know that it was "right" to stop in the midst of the busy day and listen with rapture to the oriole's song in the plum tree, or drink in the beauty and fra- graat'-e of a bed of pansies, or watch musingly the dripping rain-drops among the foliage of the maple by the window. They put back the sweet thoughts that come like strains of musio to the soul, and tarn again to their cumbering cares, with the unspoken thought that "time is too precious to be thus wasted," thus "driving nails in their own coffins." Men can peldom be accused of bein? over neat; but the over-neat woman IP to be found everywhere. She makes her husband exchange his boots for hi? slippera on the door-step. No matter how low the thermometer or barometer, the poor fellow must doff his boots on the porch. Is he wet ? He must stay on the stoop until ho is done dripping. Consumption ? What is that, compared to a soiled carpet? The small boy. what a life he leads with such a mother! Followed about with a dnst-pan and brush, and a scolding voice--the hyper- neat woman is always cross--all of childhood's days, he early runs to a club-room or a beer saloon where he can see a little rubbish and find tho luxury of dirt The over-neat woman dislikes to entertain company. "Guests are so dirty, you know." The parlor is kept dark and unused from year to year. The carpets would fade and dust would gath­ er. We once knew a woman who re­ fused to open her parlor door for the wedding of her daughter. " The streets are too dusty," she said. It is nothing to her that sho makes other people un­ comfortable. She will have hor way, whatever the consequences ; and some­ times they are bitter enough. We have_ seen the lives of good men embittered; we have seen boys driven to ruin, and girls imbued with such hatred of clean­ liness that they became very slatterns by over-neat wives and mothers. of pntt# Screaming Women. The woman who screams at every­ thing, from a mouse to a cow, is of little practical use. How will the wife who screams at nothing deport herself when her husband is brought home with a broken leg, her child has a fit, the fam­ ily fortunes 30 to sudden ruin, the house catches ft#6, "the ceilings fall in, the pipes burst, and, to use Shakspeare's expression, "all is in extremity?" The little scream, so feminine, and to some ears so appropriate in the days of white muslin gowns, dainty little hats, and rosebud cheeks, always blusliing, will have a very different Bound for the har. assed man of business, the long-suffeiing husband, the anxious father ; he will look with envy on those happy fellows who possess wives who do not scream. Properly considered, this question of screaming should have great weight in a man's choice of a partner for life. The little scream is invaluable as an index of character. No really well-bred woman would dream of Bcreaming at a cow any more than of losing her temper with careless servants before company. She has been taught self-possession under emergencies as a duty owed to society, and it becomes a matter of course. A man, therefore, in choosing a wife, should ask himself whether such a calm, dignified bearing, presence of mind, and a reluctance to inflict dis­ comfort on others, are not qualities that outlive mere beauty. Partly, therefore, to vulgarity, and also partly to vanity, must the scream lie attributed. There are girls so helplessly addicted to self- adulation, women so morbidly anxious for notice, that they will do anything short of committing murder in order to attract attention. What they cannot effect by good looks, spirit, or even an attractive appearance, they contrive by the scream. A scream grates ; a scream is odious ; a scream has no meaning, but it makes the bystander stare; it awakens a spurious sympathy for the moment All we can say is that, all things con­ sidered, the man who marries a woman who screams deserves the misery which is in store for him. mora < Wmmmmrn MMirt VI una. Walking kmg itiliWHiii. even miles, is very commoa' to women and those in other parte ofEurope, bat is al­ most unkuown In America. In Europe A*A sip +A summer outing in this way, and it's not only the young people who go, but the husband and wife, parents and children, brothers and sisters, or a group of pleas­ ant acquaintances. They make a pedes­ trian trip through some chosen bit of their own or some other country, stop­ ping at wayside Inns for a longer or shorter time, oUmbing hills and explor­ ing valleys, mixing with the people through which their paths lie, and gath­ ering at once freak health, new life, keen perceptions, and a knowledge of the manners .• nd customs of the country that, they could not possibly have gotten otherwise. Through Germany, France, Italy, England, Ireland and Scotland one is constantly meeting these jolly and bright people. These parties equip themselves with little expense and trouble. A stoat knapsack is strapped upon each individual's back, whatever the sex, a heavy cane, strong shews with thick soles, a short flannel costume, broad hat, and a cheerful, merry dispo­ sition are the essentials ; and, though in Our country a party like this might be looked upon as tramps, the country peo­ ple would soon grow accustomed to the si^ht of these pilgrims, and the weak,, slight Americans become as &tcujb , {t8 their English brothers and sisteejK;' YERI SAD AFFAIB. Maw Wp» Awabsaalfoj fey A Rooklond yv»ntf:iiiBi"was courting a fat jpxl st the J^otw lMd and hnd pro­ gressed very favorably with bfo suit, ^nejffveiiing he dressed up .in bis best clothes, carefully combed his hair, ar-d started out to make his tri-weekly visit to his fair one, who is waiting in her parlor with fotid oxpecHtlion in her heart, and a - •» "» 1- - *1 .. 1 • 1 . .1 I it.« OUlU AAA 14^1 AAC«M4, «IjLiUUOttU viAO fluctuating weather. This was, as you might say, the prologue to the tragedy. It appears, moreover, that the fat gin's father--who is worth many thousands of dollars in good, sensible bonds, and as a' consequence is an object of the youngr man's tender regard--had for several nights previous been the victim of some unknown miscreant who had raided on his hen pen with disastrous effect Sick of such foolishness, he had prepared a ghastly retribution for the fowl villains, and to this end he filled a big garden syringe with about a gallon of ancient beef brine, seasoned with garlic and flavored with asafoetida, and waB lying in ambush behind a box, where he could sweep every approach to the hennery. The young man who is pretty well ac­ quainted with the whole family, thought he would surprise his girl by entering the the sea is not di; The crest of & of iiiipswKk. ainlTtil The 1 quftHeri with boarded at hotels. MS n| are Shij When a vtssgl buried in a wave it is not wrapped in its bhronds, and when she is hogged she is not necessarily laden with pork. The bow of a ship is not an evidence )f po­ liteness. A sailor's stockings are never manufactured from a yarn of his own spinning. xi»e cat-o-nine taiis is not a lums natnroe of the feline species. The sails of a ship are not made by an auc­ tioneer, nor are the stays construct jd by a milliner. rr*- , • > » ; 9 V Spending Money. No doubt it is pleasant to spend mon­ ey; but there i* a solid satisfaction in saying it. One of the best uses to which money can bs put is to save it for the needs of illness or old age. Expenditure should be made rigidly subject to in­ come and well within it, BO as to leave some margin of saving. Some people are doing it, and many, too, whose in­ comes are very narrow. Looking along the column of daily deposits at one of our savings banks, we find bums from one dollar to ten dollars more frequent th»T) any other!' the weekly or n onthly mickle delved by honest toil, 1 escued from consumption, and brougl t in to add to the muckle by the 8r r>. ant-girl, the teacher, the mechanic, tli<- labo>er, the clerks and others on small salai y. In days of prosperity we should pmriw for days of adversity. MRS. OTJEAKY and her son, of Chica­ go, deny that the great conflagration in that city was caused by a cow kinlting over a lamp in her bam and setting it on fire. But that has not the slightest effect upon ns. We believe in that cow, and refuse to be eow'd into any other beliet --New York Advertiser. „ Physical Endnnaea «C Wa A correspondent traveling through the East writes at length of the work that iB done by seemingly-slender and frail women, who at the same time keep up with events of the day, have well-culti­ vated minds and are an ornament to any parlor. He says that he has in mind six of these women. Even those not travel­ ers can call to mind scores of women who do their own work, take care of a large family, and at the same time culti­ vate some especial talent, as that of music or painting. The traveler cites the case of lik landlady, who made all the pastry with her own hand, and says: " Now when you learn that every day we had five different kinds of pies, be­ side a pudding of some sort, and that there were never less than twenty-five and often nearer forty people at table, and you may form some idea of the work she nad to do. Yet when she took her seat at table, often with the guests, ?rou could not have distinguished her rom the city ladies who sat near her. This same pie-miker bad been the lead­ ing.spirit in * successful movement to get up a town library of some 1,600 well- selected volumes, anu on the days when it was opened to the public assist­ ed her niece in discharging the duties of librarian. The lady who m tranquilly went back and forth'betweei) the dining room and the kitchen, though not her­ self literary, was the sister of an au­ thoress of some distinction in the North. Half a dram or more of her books, in prose andverse, were on the shelves of the etagerie in the parlor. And even the lady who did the family washing complained, while playing on the organ, that on Monday mghts her fingers were always stiff, and that she never felt in the humor for singing. She has an Military Balloon. The military aeronaut is not to have matters all his own way, it seems. Wo have lately been entertained with a good many accounts of the marvelous things scouts in the air can accomplish, rising swiftly over the head of friends and foe to a point of vantage whence every man­ oeuvre is to be watched with Facility. Meanwhilo, however, it lias occnred to the committee who are "intrusted with inquiring into the subject, to try whether any danger is likely to arise from an en­ emy's fire, supposing a hostile battery to be placed within a few thousand yards of the balloon. The experiment came off at Dungeness a few days ago. An eight- inch howitzer, which is simply an ordin­ ary siege gun, and by no means endowed with great precision, was the weapon chosen, and with this it was proposed to stalk the balloon as soon as it had risen. No doubt an aeronaut could have been found plucky enough to take a seat in the ear, but fortunately, as the result showed, the balloon was sent into the air empty. It was, we are told, one of the ordinary service balloons, such as Would serve for the ascent of one or two scouts, and it was permitted to rise to a higlit of 800 feet The howitzer was placed at a dis­ tance of 2,000 yards, but tne gunners, we are informed, were not instructed as to the precise range, but were required to find it for themselves. An eight inch shell was accordingly fired into the air as a trial shot, and this, despite the novelty of tlie target, sufficed to supply the gun­ ners with the necessary information. The next shot brought down the balloon. The projectile was a shrapnel shell, it appears, and the fuse had been so well tuned that the shell burst just in front of the balloon, projecting something like 300 bullets through the fabric, and caus­ ing its immediate descent. What effect this experiment will have upon military ballooning wo know not, but it is very evident that scouts in the air cannot con­ sider themselves aafa wl^m within „ the ordinary range of a field-pHce.--London Standaj-d, . . ^ Ancient Form of Dress. ' .* ,1- - . How did we come to possess ottf preB- ent form of dress? This is one of the many questions answered by a reviewer in the Nature. Clothing at first was al­ most entirely ornamental. The excep­ tions were such articles as belts from which instruments of various kinds could be suspended so as to be ready for use while the hands were left free. A savage does not enjoy the luxury of a pocket Even at the present day a Japanese has to sling his tobacco pipe and pouch from his belt, and the only pockets he has are in his sleeves. The simple cincture was the germ, so to speak, of the clothing we wear. After some time a bunch of pan- danus slips was added in front, and this was gradually extended until it made a complete fringe around the body. When tho arts became so far advanced that man could make paper cloth or some woven material these latter were substi­ tuted for the primitive fringe, and the kilt was thus developed. Curiously enough, the dress of the Scottish High­ landers embodies these two Btages of progress in thp kilt and the sporran. As man advanced there were inconveniences attending the use of the kilt, which were abated by fastening that garment at one point between the legs, and the human mind was then fairly set upon the path to arrive at the attainment of a pair of trousers. When the back and shoulders needed protection tho savage used the skin of some animal, and it is from this sort of covering for the upper part of the body that we have derived our coats, vests, shirts, &c. But the ancient cloak form is even yet retained, not only by such people as Zulu chiefs, but in all robes of ceremony by dignitaries of Court and college of the most highly civilized nations on the face of the earth. The elaborate and varied bead coverings of the present day all sprang from a very simple original typo. Betting. I met a student toiling up a mountain. His face was' flushed, and the perspira­ tion was starting from his brow. " Wiat ars you doing here?" I said. "Besting," was the reply, and he was not jesting with me. He mcuut what he said. He was brain-weary. He was tired of books and of the narrow walls of fyis study. He wanted to be in the open air, to develop his mtifleles and rest his nerves. The very toil ci climbing relieved the pres­ sure on me brain. Physical exercise tattled the throbbings of thought and cam, and gave him aa exquisite feeling ol relief. The Patient Animal. "Ladies and gentlemen," said Bar- num's showman, "the elephant is ac­ customed to bear the greatest burdens without complaining." A property-owner spoke up : " Oh, show us something strange ! We Gal­ veston taxpayer have been doing that ourselves for the last ten years. We have seen the elephant ourselves. Trot out your painted mule or zebra."--QaU veston News. A is the hennery; 5 is the old man, and c the syringe; d is the yonng man lightly turning to thoughts of lore as well as the corher of the fence; e is the house itself, painted brewn, and / is the fat girl sitting by the piano and singing "Father, dear father, come home;" fjggg is the gathering darkness. Gaily up the back yard the young man Comes. Silently in ambush the ola man lies. Qheerily the fat girl warbles. Quiet but awful is the syringe. In the uncertain light of early evening the old man sees a figure stealthily drawing near the pen. With bated breath he waits the onslaught. The syringe sounds its dreadful "wh-s-s-p" and its deadly con­ tents fly through the air like a wild and mad avenger. A yell that tore the azure robe of night, fairly knocked the fat girl off the piano stool and curdled the old man's blood, followed the discharge, and when the neighbors rushed in, under the impression that the Grant boom had bursted right in the neighborhood, they found the unfortunate young man paw­ ing the ground, and screaming out awful Mexican words terrible to hear, while the old man hovered over the scene with a syringe in his hands, looking like an ani­ mated figure escaped from an allegory. Sympathizing arms bore the young man into the house, after their owners had stopped their nostrils with cotton, and it required the combined efforts of the fat girl and eight friends to bring him to, and it was some hours before ho was able to fairly inquire if the meteor hit anybody else when it struck. That night, beneath the darksome shade of a cypress tree, whose thick branches the struggling moonbeams vainly strove to pierce, an old man's tot­ tering! form rested npon a spade, and silently viewed a new-made grave. He had just buried the syringe. -- t?1 «. Diphtheritic Sore Throaty As diphtheria is one of the most ter­ rible maladies, a person is often startled' on being told by his physician that lie has diphtheritic^ sore throat The dis­ eases, however, are not the snmec Neither is the latter a lower type of the former. • In diphtheria, while the - disease lo calizes itself in tne tonsils--and may ex­ tend down through the air-passages-- there is a general poisoning of the sys­ tem, which shows itself in a peculiarly- depressing fever. In the diphtherltio sore throat the disease is confined to the tonsils and adjacent parts, with only a slight general disturbance. In diphtheria, tho exudation which covers the tonsils--and may cover other parts--is of a leather-like consistency (whence the name from the Greek word, diphthcra--leather), and adheres to the substance of the flesh ; in diphtheritic sore throat, the exudation is simply a curd-like substance which is poured out from the glands of the inflamed tonsils. At the first glance, however, it resem­ bles the real leathery exudation of diph­ theria. In removing the diphtheritic mem­ brane, the skin is abraded and bleeds; but the removal of the curdy matter from the tonsils is like removing putty from the hand. Diphtheria is always infectious; ordi­ nary diphtheritic sore throat is not The symptoms of the latter are enlarged tonsils, very red, with spots of cheesy secretion at the mouths of their many glands; cutting pain in swallowing, anil some fever for a few days. In most oases only one tonsil is affected; still, even this may be so enlarged as to ma­ terially encroach upon the fauces. The disease is what is now termed "a filth disease," and is due to contamina­ tion in the water or air. The most fre­ quent source is sewer-gas, from imper­ fect house-drainage.--Youth*a Compan­ ion. A YOUNG man with an umbrella over­ took an unprotected lady acquaintance in a rain-storm, and, extending his um­ brella over her, requested the pleasure of acting as licr rain-bow. "Oh 1" ex­ claimed the young lady, taking his arm, "you wish me to be your rain-dear." Two souls with but a single umbrella, two forms that stepped as one. Free and Easy Manners. When girls assume a swaggering man­ ner upon the street, use coarse expres­ sions, and greet each other with a rough "hello!" they cannot expect much de­ ference from their male friends. A lady's manner always controls that of a gentle­ man; and if she does not respect herself he will not respect her. When boys and girls, young men and maideus, are al­ lowed to fall into the absnrdities of low, foolish, meaningless talk, it seems to dwarf them intellectually; they can find nothing, of interest or importance to say, and therefore make up for sense by fill­ ing every sentence with needless exclama­ tions, exaggerations, or misused adjec­ tives. It requires much patience to be compelled to listen to half a dozen folks and near the strange, inappropriate use of language. They will assure each other that it is "awful" warm, or the concert "awful" nice; the sermon "horrid" dull; a young lady is "awful pretty," but her dress "horrid ugly;" the teacher "horrid strict;" such a young gentleman who called had an "awful swell" team of fast horses. If young people could hear themselves as others hear jt might result in their reformation. Facts for Land-lnbbcrs. The stern post is not an evening paper. The berths on board do not ne­ cessarily add to the census. The hatch­ ways are nc t hens' nests. The way of the ship is not the extent of her avoir­ dupois. The boatswain does not p'pe all hands with a meerschaum. 'Ihe ship does not have a wake over a d ad calm. The swell of a ship's sides is not caused by the dropsy, nor is the taper of a bowsprit a tallow candle. The deok is not a pack of cards. The hold is not the vessel's grip. The trough of American Pluck at ffeidelberfr Kremer's Rattway Guide says among ihe sixty or seventy American students j at Heidelburg none of them belong to the ! fighting corps. They are not cowards, j either. It is known that if occasion re- auires they can fight their own way, but ley have no desire that their gootl-look- | ing faces shall be hacked and chopped X! like dogs' meat and be disfigured ever r. Not long ago an American stu­ dent had a slight quarrel with one of the fighting corps and received from him a challenge. Being the challenged party the American had the choice of weapons. He sent word to the German by a friend that he would meet him the next morning at 3 o'clock at a place outside of the city, and the weapons should be navy revol­ vers (he had a good pair) at ten paces. The German and his friends concluded it would not be a good day for duels, and the matter dropped. A student here was reading me an extract from a letter he had recently received from his father in Kentucky. As near as I can remember, this is the substance of it. "DEAR BOB--I hear that they have sword duels in Heidelberg, ana that many of the students engage in them. I do not believe in the barbarous practice of duelling, but there are times when one has to fight or be branded as a cow­ ard. Ton know that our family does not belong to the latter class. Should oc­ casion require, which I trust will not happen, never choose swords--only cow­ ards and Frenchmen use those weapons. Choose pistols or rifles, which mean busi­ ness. Never show yourself in your na­ tive town with a sword scratch on your person. From your affectionate "FATHER" \ The young man asked me what I thought of that doctrine. I told him I did not believe in either the sword scratch or the hole made by the pistol ball. A Diver's Training. Before a man becomes an expert diver he must undergo a course of severe phys­ ical training. The atmospheric pressure on the surface is fifteen pounds for every square inch of the lxxly, and on the av­ erage man is something like fifteen tons, but the outside and inside pressure being equal, this immense weight is unnoticed. At every thirty-four feet of descent under water this pressure is increased one at­ mosphere, or the additional pressure of fifteen pounds to the square inch, aud as it is absolutely necessary to have the air pressure in the armor fully equal to that of tho water, some idea can be had of what the diver must withstand, even at the moderate depth of thirty-four feet, although the inhaling of this compressed air in a measure relieves the unpleassut sensation. When the distance is in­ creased to a hundred or a hundred and fifty feet, the sensation Incomes almost unendurable--the blood starts from the eyes, ears, mouth, and even from the P»r6s of the skin, and on returning to "the surface extreme exhaustion is the re­ sult Some men are so constituted phys­ ically that they cannot remain under rwaJ*?r »t all. Tlw? greatest depth that is ever attained is one huudred and fifty feet, and then the most experienced diver can remain at this point but fivie or six minutes without serious injury. Divers go to this depth only to sccure ar­ ticles of great value, remaining long enough to attach a chain or rope. At a hundred feet an old diver can remain about an hour, and at, fifty feet from four to six hours, according to tho strgngt^ of the diver. How Fashions Originate. i Most of the fashions of past times were due to the anxiety of some reign­ ing beauty either to conceal a blemish or display a charm. La Belle Ferron- niere had the misfortune to burn her forehead. The accident left an awk­ ward scar,.which the famous beauty craftily covered with a gem, and from that time all the ladies of the French court, who were not ugly and venom­ ous, wore precious jewels on their brows. Anne of Austria had lovely arms and shortened her sleeves to show her charms, and all the artists of the day had to paint wrists and elbows as well as hands and faces. Mme. de Pompadour was little, so she thought it best to wear high heels. But Mme. de Pompadour was also a great invalid, and so she introduced these beautiful dress­ ing gowns knotted with lace ribbon, which soon were worn at every court in Europe, Poor Marie Antoinette, in her anxiety to display hej* lovely blonde ehevclure, piled her flaxen locks upon a cushion and wore tho crown of FVance •several inches above her head, while the Empress Josephine, " to exhibit her figure, at once Greek and Creole," in­ vented cachemire, and brought its use into fashion. The Princess of Wales wears on her swanlike neck, as the new fashion, ruches of lace and velvet collars ornamented with silver carving*. Signs of the Times. " No," said the vagrant with a sigh, "times are getting better; they're not what they used to be. A man's offered more work than wittals." * " Havent you signs among you so that you know where to go, and how vou will be treated, and all that sort of thing?" " Well, we each have signs of our own. HI see a big, powerful bull-dog hanging around the front door, I take that as a sign meaning ' move on.' If there are a few stout men in the next field to the house, that means ' too much gristle and too little meat* If a large pile of cord- wood stands by a house with a bucksaw reclining against it, that's a sign for 'saws-edge.' Oh, yes. wo have Tots of signs--good, reliable signs, too." A SA.VAGB black wolf has captured Montgomery county, Pa. He escaped from an exhibitor's cage and took to the woods. Ho emerges at night and feeds liim&if on hens, having stolen altogeth­ er 250 from one farmer. He has whipped a great number of dogs, notably a most- ferocious and powerful bull-dog, which had been confidently set on him. Hnnters go out to slay him, but are too nervous to aim well, and he has not been hit • Isr a coffee grinding mill in Chicago i maiden of advancing age plaoed in several packages of coffee a card saying that any gentleman matrimonially inclined might address her. A rich and old Milwaukee widower quarreled with his housekeeper, and while preparing his lonely breakfast found the card, atn now the maldton is Mrs. Milwaukee* ar; K • • ' '*•. KIDNF.VS. DISEASE OF as « mWSSSM££ of thahaai^ of th« daaasseof tba dlatordM. fthaaoamrialted toaava - .-t ana tanjI»8?M.'<Kraa> ..., w rth<HSown wwaSSawSS pr»--ly for thto dtoea--» DDE! CMPUHTS. „ „ _ Owcnnuxi, O.. Kansk », Wtf. H. B. Slims: . Dear Sir--I h»v© used Wt Vaonnil for aatna tlim, and can trathfnlly nay it haa been a great beaeSt to) from dlM and to tnosa raaenna 1 cbaarfaH? reo unamendIt Respectfully, •stbtarfltaiaK of tba Udnearal O.H. SMITH. At^edto.hylC-B. 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