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TOE CHTKJMMSKi ttmm WK *** urn or ovABiM ^ RIB W*M : fflm tfca to--on* and taaka are mil « Awfl the school for the day la dlsmti ii| AM UM UttMooa* fpttxr around EM *> To Wtta^frood-Bight" and be kll Ofe.thaHUfe white arm* th»t onotroto / * Mr neck In a tender «nil«rsrf! M Oh, the milieu that ar* haio* of heaven, * 'V ^ fibedding RuneLiue and love on my faeal ' And when they ape gone T alt dreaming Of my childhood, too lovely to last; :? Of lovo that my heart w 'lt remember, iia;'T "VVhiu jt wnkps to the pnl«> of the past, '* '* . Ere the world and Its wickndneea made n* A partner of Borrow and Bin, . ' ; When the Rlor.v of God was about me, And the glory of gladness within. V Oh, mr he*rt RTOWB weA a* a wmnaaX ? V And fountains of feeling will flow, When I think of the paths fteep and stonr Where the fcr-t of the dear ones moat K"/ Of the mountains of *lu bsngine o'er th*, Of the tempests of fate blowing wiM; Oh, there'* nothing on earth haf » holy As the innocent heart of a child I They are idols of heart* and of household^ They are of God in diapuieo. Hi" mmliKht *tiU p'ecps in their treFsea, His glory ati'l beams In their eye»; Oh, thoee truants from earth and from IMMB, They have niade mi* more manly and nU, And l"know how Je-ms oonld litaR The kingdom of God to a child. Seek not a life of the dear ones, All radiant, a<> others have done; Bat that life may have Jnat as much shadow To temper the glare of the mm: I would pray God to gnard them from wfl, , But my prayer would bound back to mysslf; Ah I a Feraph may pray for a sinner. But a winner must pray for hnnaalf. The t=rig is so easily bended, I have banished the rule and tbefod; • I have taught th-m the poodncw of knowledge, Th^y have tan^iht me ti e fjoodneaa of Goo. My heart is a dungeon of darltnoea Where I phut them from breaking a mis; My frown is sufficient correction. My lovwia the law of ths schooL I shall leave the old house in the antaaaa. To traverse its threshold no more.' Ah! how 1 Rhall siph for the dear ones Th»t meet me each morn at the door. X shall miss the good nights and the kiasta, And the gusfl) of their innocent glee. The group on the green and the flowers That are brought every morning to me. I shall mis« them at morn and at eve. Their soup i:t the school and the street. I shall miss the low hum of their voices, And the tramp of thpir de'.icate feet. When the lesaous and tasks are all ruded. And death nava the school is dismit-sed. May the little one* gather around me. To bid me a good-night" aiwl be kissed* LOVE AND LUXURY. " If ever I marry," Katie Yale used to lav, half in jest, half in earnest-- " if ever I marry, the happy mm--01 tlie unhappy one, if you please--ha ! ha !-- ehall be a person possessing these three qualifications: "First, a fortune. "Second, good looks. "And thirdly, common sense. " I mention the fortune first, because I think it the most needful and desirable qualification of the three. Although I oould never think of marrying a fool, or • man whose ugliness I could be •shamed of; still I think to talk sense lor the one and &liine for the other, with plenty of money, would be preferable to living obscurely with a handsome, in­ tellectual man to whom economy might be necessary." I do not «ow how much of this aontinient came from Katie's heart. She undoubtedly indulged in lofty ideas of station and style--for her education in the duties and aims of life had been de­ ficient, or, rather, erroneous; but that she was capable of deeper, better feel­ ings none doubted who had ever obtained even a partial glimpse of her true wom­ an's nature. And the time- arrived, at length, wlion Katie was to take that all-import- •nt step of which she had often spoken BO lightly ; when she was to demonstrate to her friends how much of her heart jMBs in the words we have quoted. s- At the enchanting age of 18 she had fmnj suitors; but, as she never gave a •erioos thought to more than two, we will follow her example, discarding all «scept those favored ones, and consider their relative claims. If this were any other than % true story, I should certainly use an artist's privilege, and aim to produce an effect by making a strong contrast between these two favored individuals. If I oould have my way, one should be a poor genius and somewhat of a hero; -the other a wealthy fooi and somewhat a knave. But the truth is : Our poor genius was not much of a Bfenius, nor very poor, either. He was y profession a teacher of music, and he oould live very comfortably in exercise thereof--without the most distant hope, however, of ever attaining to wealth. Moreover, Francis Minot possessed ex­ cellent qualities, which entitled him to be c tlled by discreet eld<?rly people a ** fine characterby his champions a ••noble, good fellowand by the ladies generally a "darling." Katie could not help loving Mr. Frank, and he knew it. He was certain die preferred his society even to that of Mr. Wellington, whom aloue he saw fit •fa) honor with the appellation of rival. This Mr. Wellington (his companions called him the/" Duke ") was no idiot or Slump-back; as I could have wished him to be, in order to make a good story. On the contrary, ho was a man of sense, •ducation, good looks and fine manners, And there was nothing of the knave •bout him, as I could ever ascertain. Beside this, his income was sufficient to enable him to live superbly. Also, be was considered two or three degrees luandsomer than Mr. F. Minot, Therefore the only thing on which frank had to depend was the power he gwssessed over Katie's sympathies and affections. The "Duke"--although just fhe man for her in every other sense, tbeing blessed with a fortune, good looks •Jid common Bense--had never been »ble to draw these out, and the amiably Conceited Mr. Frank was not willing to believe that she would suffer mere worldly considerations to control the aspirations of her heart. However, she said to him, one day, when he pressed her to decide his fate-- •he said to him with a sigh: "Oh, Frank! I am sorry that we have ever met 1" "Sorry?" s "Yes--for we must part now--" "Part?" repeated Frank, turning pale. It was evident he had not expected this. " Yes--yes," said Katie, castirig down her eyes with another piteous sigh. Frank sat by her side ; he placed his erm around her waist, without heeding i tier feeble resistance; he lowered his voice, and talked to her until she--the , uroud Katie--wept--wept bitterly. ; "KMtie," said lie. then, with a burst Of passion, " I know you love me ! But " . you are proud--ambitious--selfish 1 Now H fa you would have mo leave you, stgr the • word--and I go!" " Go t" murmured Katie, very feebly f "You have decided?" whispered JFrank. "I have!" " The*, love, farewell!" - He took her hand, gazed a moment j'̂ Jftenderly and sorrowfully upon her beau­ tiful, tearful face; then clasped her to • &is bosom. She permitted the embrace. She even we way to t!*e impulse of the instant, ~ twined her arms at>out his neck, in ftjpQment-her resolution come to her aid, and she poshed him from her with a sigh. " ^ " Shall I go? " he articulated. A feeble " yes " fell from her quiver­ ing lips. And an instant later she was lying upon the sofa, sobbing and weeping psRaionately--alone. To tear the tenacious root of love out of her heart had cost her more than she could have anticipated ; and the certain­ ty of a golden life of luxury proved but a ppor oonsolatiOn, it seemed, for the sacrifice she had made. She lay long upon the sofa, sobbing and weeping passionately. Gradually her grief appeared to exhaust itself. Her breathing became more regular and calm. Her tears ceased to flow, and at length her eyes and cheeks were dry. Her head was pillowed on her arm, and her face was half hidden in a flood of beautiful curls. The struggle was over. The agony was passed. She saw Mr. Wellington enter, and arose cheerfully to receive him His manners pleased her; his sta­ tion and fortune fascinated her more. He offered her his hand. She accepted it. A kiss sealed the engagement--but it was not such a kiss as Frank had given her, and she could not repress a sigh I There was a magnificent wedding. Splendidly attired, dazzling the eye with everything around in the atmosphere of fairy-land, I£atie gave her hand to the man her ambition--not her love--had chosen I But certainly ambition ootjld not have made a better choice. Already she saw herself surrounded by a magnificent court, of which she was the acknowl­ edged and admired queen. The favors of fortune were showered upon her ; she floated luxuriously upon the smooth and glassy wave of a charmed life. Nothing was wanting, in the whole circle of her outward existenoe, to adorn it, and make it bright with happiness. But she she was not long in discover­ ing that there was something wanting within her own breast! Her friends were numerous ; her hus­ band tender, kind and loving; but all the attentions and affections she enjoyed could not fill her heart. She had once felt its chords of sym­ pathy moved by a skillful touch; she had known the heavenly charm of their deep, delieious harmony ; and now they were silent-- motionless--muffled, so to speak, in silks and satins. These chords still and soundless, her heart was dead ; not the less so because it had l»een killed by a golden shaft. Having known and felt the life of sympathy in love, she could not but mourn for it, unconsoled by the life of luxury. In short Katie in time became magnificently miserable, splen­ didly unhappy. Then a change became apparent in her husband. He oould not long re­ main blind to the fact that his love was not returned. He sought the company of those whose gayety might lead him to forget the sorrow and despair of his soul. This shadow-joy was unsatisfac­ tory, however; and, impelled by power­ ful longings for love, he went astray to warm his heart by a strange fire. Katie saw herself now -in the midst of a gorgeous desolation, burning with a thirst unquenchable by golden streams that flowed around her ; panting with a hunger not all the food of flattery and admiration could appease. She reproached her husband for de­ serting her thus, and he answered with angry and desperate taunts of decep­ tion and a total laek of love which smote her conscience heavily. " Yon do not care for me," he cried, " then why do you complain that I be­ stow elsewhere the affections you have met with coldness?" "But it is wrong--sinful," Katie re­ monstrated. " Yes ; I know it! " said her husband, fiercely. " It is the evil fruit of an evil seed. And who sowed that seed ? Who gavefme a hand without a heart--who became a share of my fortune, but gave me no share in sympathy--who devoted me to the fate of a loving, unloved hus­ band? Nay, do not weep, and clasp your hands, and sigh and sob with such desperation of impatience -- for I, say nothing you do not deserve to hear.*' "Very well," said Katie, calming her­ self ; "I will not complain. I w ill not say your reproaches are undeserved.r But granting that I am the cold, deceitful thing you call me--you know this state - of things cannot continue." " Yes, I know it." "Well?" Mr. Wellington's brows gathered darkly; his eyes flashed with determina­ tion ; his lips curled with scorn. " I have made up my mind," said he, " that we should not live together any longer. I am tired of being called the husband of the splendid Mrs. Welling­ ton. I will move in my circle ; you shall shine in yours. I will place no restraint oil your actions, nor shall you on mine. We will be free." " But the world!" shrieked Katie, trembling. " The world will admire you the same -r-and what more do you desire ?" asked her husband, bitterly. " Tha marriage of hands, and not of hearts, is mockery. We have played the farce long enough. You know the conventional meaning of the term husband and wife ; but do you know what it should mean? Do you feel that the only true union is that of love and sympathy ? Then enough of this mummery ! Farewell. I go to con- siilt friends about tho terms of separa­ tion. Nay, do not tremble and cry and cling to me now--for I shall be liberal to you. B As much of my fortune shall be yours as you desire." He pushed her from him. She fell upon the sofa. From a heart torn with anguish she shrieked aloud : " Frank! Frank ! why did I send you from rae ? Why did I sacrifice love and happiness to such a fate as this ? Why was I blind until sight brought me mis­ ery?" She lay upon the sofa, sobbing and weeping passionately. Gradually her grief appeared to exhaust itself; her head lay peacefully upon her arm, over whicli swept her disheveled tresses--un­ til, with a Ktart, she cried : "Frank 1 oh, Frank, come baok 1" " Here I am," said a soft voice by her side. She raised her head. She opened her astonished eyes. Frank was standing before her! " You have been asleep," he said, smi ing kindly. " Asleep ?" " And dreaming, too, I should say-- not pleasantly, either." "Dreaming?" murmured Katie; " and is it all a dream ?" "I hop;) so," replied Frank, taking her htind. "You could not mean to send me from you so cruelly, I know! So I waited in your father's study, where I have been talking to him all of aa hour. I came back to plead my cause once more--and found you here where i left you--asleep." "Oh, what a horrid dreamP mur­ mured Katie, rubbing her eyes. " It was so like a terrible reality that I ahud der now to think of it 1 I thought I was married!" ^ " And would Chat be so horrible?" aslced Frank. "1 hope tfcen yo» did not dremn yon were married to me I" " No--I thought I gave my hand with­ out my heart." " Then, if you gave me your hand, it would not be without your heart ?" "No, Frank," said Katm, her bright eyes beaming happily through teacs-^ " and here it is." $ She placed her fair hand in his--he kissed it in transport And soon after there was a real mar­ riage ; not a splendid, but a happy one ; not followed by a life of luxury, but hy a life of love and oontentment; and that was the marriage of Frank Minot and Katie Yala. INTERESTING PARAGRAPHS. A VBRMONT railroad oompany has paid a passenger who lost an ear in an acci­ dent $1,500. OVER twenty-five thousand tourists have visited the Yosemite Valley since its discovery in 1863* FRENCH railroads xlo . only one-third the passenger business that is done by English lines. THE man who oomes about solely to kill time should ooufine himself striotly to his own time. ST. Louis girls object to rubbers, "they dvaw the feet so." It must be an awful load, even for India rubber. ADJECTIVES are the millinery of litera­ ture, and like the trimmings of a dress, they should not be allowed to obsoure the original fabrie. IF Americans would sit longer at din­ ner-table and be happy while they eat, they would have less dyspepsia and a more cheerful religion. IT is a great pity that some people grow bitter as they grow old. It seems as though the more teeth they lose, the more they want to bite. JOAQUIN MILLER thus describes a remi­ niscence of an old California friend: "Dear Dave Colton. I hear he is dead. We first got acquainted one night in Yreka while shooting at each other." A MILWAUKEE clergyman, asking a cor­ rection in a published report of one of liis sermons, remarks: "I do not mind so much being taken for a heretic, but seriously objeet to anything which will condemn me as a lunatic." A BRIDGEPORT carpenter, while in a fit of anger, threw a hammer at a fellow- workmaUj aad swallowed a screw he had' in his mouth. It was an uufortunate af­ fair, but it was better than throwing the screw and swallowing the hammer. "YES," remarked a musical critic re­ cently from Kansas, "the tiddlin' was bully, but I tell you, when the fat chap with the big mustache laid hold of that bass fiddle and went for them low notes in the violin-cellar, I just felt as if a buzz saw was a playin' 'Yankee Doodle' on my back-bone." A TEXAS girl wouldn't cross a river to reach the only minister who could marry her and her lover, and the minister on arriving at the brink of swollen stream refused to cross to them. They there­ upon joined hands and they shouted the service across the river to one another. That's the kind of "high-toned" wed­ dings they have in Texas. A TRAVELER out Wesf stopped at a farmer's well to get a drink of water. The water was warm and brackish, and the wayfarer remarked to the farmer that the well was not a very good one. •'It's well enough for me," replied the granger, somewhat gruffly. "Then I guess I will let well enough alone here­ after," was the traveler's rejoinder. MR. BEECHER says that one-half the human family are eaters, not producers. Speakiug of immigration, he says that there is no fear so long as our institutions have the assimilating power, and when the lion eats the kid he does not turn into kid, but the latter turns into lion. When the children of immigrants get through the public school they are all Americans. The greatest needed revival is not of religion, of temperance, or of commerce, but of common schools. THREE ootton mills near Augusta, Ga., have during the past four years, with a capital of #1, GOO,000, paid their opera­ tives in cash $1,568,000, and their stock­ holders $540,01)0 in dividends, besides expending $5,G73,%)6 for tlie purchase of cotton and other material for manufac­ turing purposes. Such substantial figures as these ought to attract not only capital but intelligent laborers from points where work is scarce. The Collision Between Benton and i'oote. Mrs. Swisshelm gives a graphic de­ scription, in the Chicago Tribune, of the scene between Senators Benton and Foote, in April, 1850. The insult was no sooner given by the latter than there was a scuffle off to the right of the Speaker, and the scuffle soon came to be a perfect hurly-burly of overturning chairs, men springing over desks, crying "Order! order!" and above all the roar of the lion, "Unhand me! Stand off, gentlemen!" AH eyes were turned in that direction, and all members seemed anxious to gain the spot where Benton was roaring and struggling to get away from as many men as could get hold of him, his coat turned back fiom his shoul­ ders, and he trying to leave in the hands of his captors. In spite of all they could do he got into the space around the seats, and made some progress toward the place where the foe stood, on tho edge of the middle isle, near the door. Nobody held Foote, or tried to hold him. Indeed, he seemed to be forgotten, and stood craning his neck to keep an eye on the enemy, until it seemed as if Benton would get away from the whole crowd and through the fast filling space be­ tween them, leaving his coat behind him, when the doughty little man started at double quick down the isle toward the Speaker's desk, drawing out as he went the largest sized pistol. !As he ran he looked over his left shoulder and back­ ward with pale face, and when two or three feet froiji the railing turned parti­ ally, and stood with' the pistol pointing downward and his finger on the trigger. Foote tnust have stood ten miuutes, if not longer, almost unnoticed, pistol in hand, finger on trigger, weapon against the outside of his leg, watching the movement of the crowd. He still stood there, still held the pistol, when order was restored. He then uncocked it, placed it an inside coat pocket, and stood asking to make an explanation. In that explanation he said: "I saw the gentle­ man coming, and advanced to the Speaker's desk." He had wantonly pro­ voked a quarrel and then "advanced" with his back to the foe to take position behind the heaviest part of the rampart which separated them. The oase was one of many instances in which the in­ solence and bullying of tho slave power quailed before the spirit of freedom. Mrs. Swisslielia was in tho gallery at the time, and described the soenfe for the Tribune. GILHOOLT, who was in a restaurant freezing over a cup of coffee, spoke up aud aaul to the watter: "Ixx>k here! If you can't put fire in the stove you might ke« p the stove-door closed. There is an awful cold draft earning oat of it." i --Gabofston Neiva. A TRAP FOR SEVEN. A» Iscident ef Trsvoi *n the FiMtier. Catch a rat in a trap and he will fight. Trap a man, and--well, you can't rely on him. It is according to the trap. In the heavy stage-coach, as we roll out of Leadville, are seven men. One is an army riffioer who has half a dozen scars to (trove his bravery. Cut off from his command on the plains last summer by a score of Indians, he intrenched himself and fought the band off until help ar­ rived. Two of the others are despera does, who have killed their men. Three of the others are stalwart miners each armedywith two revolvers, and they look as if they would prove ugly customers in a fight. The seventh man mi^ht do some shooting on a pinch, but he hopes there will be no pinch. In the crowd are ten revolvers, two derringpers, three relat­ ing rifles, and four or five bowie-knives, and there is perfect good feeling as the stage rolls along. It is tacitly under­ stood that army Captain is to assume command in case the coach is attackM, and that all are to keep eool and fire to kill It is 10 o'clock in the morning. The windows are down and the passengers are smoking and talking and seeking for comfortable positions. The coach has just reached the top of a hill, when every horse is suddenly pulled up. "If it's ab'ar, we'll have some fun," growled one of the miners, as he put his head out of the window. " If itta a robber, gin me the first pop at him !" whispered one of the despera­ does. No one could say what the trouble was, when a wiry little ehftp about five feet six incl e i tall, with black eyes and hair, clean face aud thin lips, app ared at the left-hand door with a cocked re­ volver in either hand, and said: " Gents, I'm sorry to disturb you, but I've got to make a raise this morning. Please leave your shooters and climb down here, one at a tin e!" It was sudden. It was so sudden that it took ten seconds _to understand the drift of his remarks.' Then every eye turned to the right-hand door, and the two revolvers held by a second robber were seen at the'open window. It was u trap. The rats were caught, and would they fight ? " Gents, I'm growing a leetle impa­ tient," continued the fijjst robber, "and I want to see the. procession begin to move." Let's see. Tho Captain was to lead us, and we were to be cool and fire tu kill. But the Captain was growing white around the mouth, and nobody had a weapon in hand. The rats were not go­ ing to fight. One of the miners opened the door und descended, and the other six humbly followed. Tho seven were drawn up in line across the road, and while the robber held his shooter an tho line he coolly observed to his partner : "Now, William, -you remove the weapons from the coach, and then searuii these gentlemen." As William obeyed, every victim was ordered to hold his liancls above his head, and whatever plunder was taken from his pockets was dropped into Will­ iam's hat. Four gold watches, two dia­ mond pins, a telescope, a diamond ring, a gold badge and $1,200 in cash changed hands in ten minutes.. Not a man had a word to say. The driver of the coach did not leave his seat, and was not in­ terfered with. When the last man had been plundered the genteel Dick Turpin kindly observed : " You are the most decent set of men I ever robbed, and if times weren't so blasted hard I'd make each of you a present of $10. Now* then, climb back to your places and 4^3 coach will go •on. ... ^ •• The crowd "dumb,* and the vehicle resumed its journey. Not a weapon or a timepiece or a dollar had been saved. Seven well-armed men had been cleaned out by two, and not a shot fired or a wound given. Each man took his seat without a word. Mile after mile was passed in silence, and finally the seventh man--the one who might fight on a pinch, but didn't--plaintively suggested: "Can't some of you gentlemen think of a few remarks which would be apro­ pos to the occasion ?" No one could, and the silence was re­ newed. Shot-Making. There is a shot-tower in Baltimore, and the American describes the process of maiding shot. One of the "secrets" of the manufacture is the mixing of lead with a certain proportion of a combina­ tion of mineral substances called "tem­ per," The "temper' is fused with lead, aud gives the molten metal that con­ sistency which makes it drop. If it were not for the "temper" the lead would be moulded by the sieve, and would form little pencils instead of round shot. When "BB" shot, for instance, are to be made, the lead is poured into a pan per­ forated with holes corresponding to that size. The little pellets pour down in a continuous shower, ayd fall. In their descent of two hundred feet they be­ come perfect spheres, firm and dense, and tlicy are tolerably cool when they strike the water, although the swift con­ cussion makes the tank foam and bubble as if water were boiling furiously. The shot must fall in the, water, for if they should strike any firm substance they would be flattened and knocked out of shape. It is said that this method of making shot spherical was the invention of the wife of a poor European workman in metals, who had spent months in try­ ing to find how to do it without mould­ ing. To get tho little pellets perfectly dry after they have been in the "well" is the most difficult and troublesome pro­ cess of the whole manufacture. An elevator with small buckets, very much like those used in flour mills, car­ ries the shot up as fast as they reach the bottom of the "well" and deposits them in a box sixty feet above the first floor. The water drips from the buckets as they go up, aud not much is poured into the receiver above, although it is intended to be a sort of dripping machiue. From this receiver tho shot runs down a spout into a drying pan, which greatly resem­ bles a gigantic shoe, made of sheet iron. The pan rests at an angle which per­ mits the wet shot to roll dewn to the eliauil>er below, and the pellets become perfectly dry as they pass over the warm sheet-iron. settlement there, and, one by one, got neighbors. Among the earliest were two gentle­ men whose names are household words in tho city--Byron Kilbourn and George H. Walker. They had enterprise and knowledge and money. Kdbourn took up a tract on the west side, and Walker south of the Menomonee, and for many years after these quarters of tha city were known respectively as " Kilbourn- town " and " Walker's Point." In 1834, Milwaukee county was set apart from Brown county, which has since been similarly subdivided a score of times, un­ til its former ducal proportions are re­ duced to a mere hand-breadth at Green bay. This act showed the enterprise of the pioneers, for there were then not white men enough in the region to fill the offices provided for by the county organization. More kept coming, how­ ever, from Detroit and Buffulo and New England, and the wheezy steamboats of that early day in lake navigation began to make the straggling village a stop­ ping-place. Juneau's log warehouse was the head­ quarters fox1 gossip. "Here were wont to congregate," says the chronic'e. Wheeler, "pioneers and sailors to hear long-expected tidings which had floun­ dered through mud and forests and over prairies for weeks before they reached the settlement; on the same spot the merchants and multitude generally now read from a bulletin the news of the world, which eomes fresh and quivering over the wires from every point of the compass once a day. " Such was the irregular, mudly, pro­ saic beg nning of this great and attrac­ tive lake port.--Harper's Magazine. HUMORS OF THIS DAT. FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS. FIFTY years ago tomatoes werecalled love apples and were considered poison­ ous. lT,is calculated that sixty tons of steel are annually consumed in the manufact­ ure of steel pens. ONE of the wonder of the Cathedral of Cologne is the chapel of the three Magi, which contains the skulls of the "three wise men of the East," set in precious stones. THERE is no tide perceptible in the Mississippi river after you have passed up about thirty miles from its mouth, and the tide only rises from one and a-half to two feet at Balize. The num­ ber of tributaries (the Ohio, Missouri, and so on) which help to flood the Mis­ sissippi and swell its volume of water, gives it that downward current wliioh overcomes every resisting influence, even the tidal. CATGUT, it is stated, was used in the earlier watches in place of chains, the latter, it would seem, being first at­ tached to such mechanisms in the golden egg or acorn-shaped watehes of Hans Jolins, of Konigsberg. Some ©f this maker's timekeepers had small wheel- lock pistols to serve as an alarm, an ad­ dition that would go far to upset the equalJe temperament and delicate sus­ ceptibilities of a modern chronometer. COL. IRONSIDES, who lived in India early in this century, relates that he met in liis travels an old white-haired man, who with one leap sprung over the back of an enormous elejJhant flanked by six camels of the largest breed. A curious French work, published in Paris in 1745, entitled " The Tracts Toward the His­ tory of Wonders Performed at Fairs," mentioned an Englishman who, at the fair of St. Germain in 1724, leaped over forty people without touching one of them. IN 1856 Sir Henry Rawlinson carried with him to England many relics of ancient Babylon, all of which are now in the British Museum. The town of Zitlah, with 7,000 inhabitants, is now considered the modern representative of ancient Babylon. As for Thebes, the ruins comprise nine townships. Recent excavations have brought to light these constructions of the eleventh dynasty. The Nile flows through the midst of the ancient cfty. It is now inhabitad by a few Arab families. Tyre existed, amid all its destructive experiences, until A. D. 1516, when tiie conquest of Selim, together with the newly discovered route to Asia by the Cape of Gool Hope, put an end to its wealth and commeroe. Among its ruins from 3,000 to 4,000 in­ habitants now dwell and earn a liveli­ hood by exporting tobacco, cotton, wool and wood. Ninevah was destroyed by tire about 605 B. C., and the slabs anil statues found there show the effect of intense heat. The excavations exhibit many bas-reliefs representing war and hunting. The discoveries of Layard and others m the neighltorhood of Mosul, the supposed site of Ninevah, since 1830, have in a manner disinterred and re-peopled a city which, for centuries, had seemed to be blotted from the map of the earth. The B< glnnings of Milwaukee. For several years Juneau was the sole white inhabitant of that region, only oc­ casionally visited by a wandering trader, tmpper or missionary. The nearest post to him was a "miserable settlement called Eschikagon, at the mouth ol Skunk river, some ninety miles across dons» for -sts to the south." All sup plies came by water from Mackinac, the headquarters of the American Fur Com- p try, and the settlers lived a far more tM)latrtd and truly fr< >ntier life than it i*. • oa-uble to do now anvwhero in the United States exoept in Alaska Ju ieau WHS sharp, and, in 1831, se­ cured from the Tndi ns a cession of all th'i region, elaim'ng for himself a larg* iract on the east side of the river. Then he began to advertise the advantages ol The "Headrest" Abolished. What is known as the instantaneous Erocess is by no means new, and I be-eve that the most remarkable result, in the way of taking horses under full trot, has been brought to its greatest perfec­ tion in California; but it has never been widely used here until now. I saw last night some wonderful photographs of men and animals in motion, which makes a painter's work easy. The new plates are made of gelatine instead of collodion. Tho gelatine covering makes so sensitive a plate that new methods of opening aud closing the aperture of the camera have had to be devised, because the hand is too slow. A pneumatio rubber bulb is now used to throw up and bring down again a disc of black velvet placed over the lens of the camera. Attaohed to this bulb is a long tube, which allows the operator to walk about tho room, and when the sitter least expects it, to get a good picture in the fraction of a second. Taking children is the easiest thing in the world; it is not even necessary for them to keep still. Out of doors the photographer has taken horses trotting, ships under sail, with each wave showing as if the water had frozen at that partic­ ular second. Children at play make capital pictures; people talking, laugh­ ing, yawning; in a word, this new pro­ cess does away with the stiff, unnatural expression wliioli most people put on when in front of a camera. The new pictures look as if the person represented could almost talk. A sculptor, whose terra cotta groups are knowu widely, got some pictures of wrestlers from whioh he could work. The athletes came and went to wrestling without regiird to the preseuoo of the photographer. Their instructions were simply to wrestlo as if iu a match. The sculptor held tho rul>- bcr bulb in his hand, and when he liked the position that the men were in he squoezed the bulb and the picture was taken. At the eud of the bout he had a dozen excellent pictures, whioh qmld he taken by uo other process. Painters have within tho lust month had pictures i taken of cows grazing or walking, and of pigs feeding from troughs. Photograph­ ers say that the old prooess of U king pictures is doomed. This photographer has already sold his heud rests for old iron. It is no longer neoussaiy to keep still.--Aou* York^Lcttcr. A &LA0K subject--the ooal question. WHAT burns to keep a secret?--seal­ ing-wax. ELECTRIC belles--female telegraph operators. r* THE spot for husbands with soolding wives--Sinews-bury. WHEN would a volunteer corps most need a cook? When they have got a range. i'- EVEN dumb animals exhibit attach­ ment The horse is always attaohed to the vehicle which he draws. AN old farmer on being informed that one of his neighbors owed him a grudge, growled out: " No matter, he never pays anything.*' A rAPER, in giving an account of a shooting affray, says the wounded man is expected to recover, as the pistol-ball lodged in his "dinner-pail." A STEAMBOAT captain, in advertising for an excursion, closes thus: Tickets twenty-five cents; children lialf prioe, to be had at the captain's office. "EMPTY is the Cradle, Baby's Gone," is the tittle of the latest serio-idiotio songk It will probably be followed by "Empty Is the Bottle, Papa's Full." "PUT upon my* tombstone," said the dying man, "an epitaph stating that I was a scoundrel, thief, and brute. Then people will think I w-as a good man. Epitaphs always lie so." " I believe the jury have been inocu­ lated for stupidity," said a testy lawyer. "That maybe," replied his opponent, " biA the bar and the court are of the opinion that you had it in the natural way." LIEUTENANT COMMANDER GORRINGE says the obelisk will endure in our climate for 8,640 years. We advis^ our readers t to remember this. They may get the laugh on Gorringe in the year 10,440. "ABE you a good rider?" asked a liv­ ery man. "I am," replied tho customer, aud just then the horse snorted, stood on its hands, came down and bucked. And the customer went on, from his high seat in the haymow: "See how easily I get off" "To what degree," asks an inquiring friend of Mr. Beecher, "may a person at tho present day be ignorant without being guilty ?" "That depends on the person," replies Henry Ward; "some people are born with a genius Sot ignor­ ance." s HER lips were like the learr*, be salj. , By Autumn's crimson tinted; " 8ouie people Auiumu Iwiven preserve Bv pressim* theiu," slic hinted. The meaning of the gentle hint The lover did discern. And so he ctu»i»<d her round tlie neck, Aud glued liis lips to lier'n. A LITTLE five-year-old boy astonished his mother one day by urging her to see if his chin whiskers had not commenced to sprout. Another, standing before her and looking up into her face, inquired, "Ma, what's the reason I ain't a man now ? I've got a jack-knife and a pocket- book." FREDDIE went to a funeral. When he returned his mother asked where the text was. He couldn't tell where it was, but he knew what it was, and lie re­ peated it: "He's dead, and they went up the road." The text was, "Man gooth to his long home and the mourners go about the streets." "I SHOULD like to know," said little Allie, after church one Sabbath, "what makes the minister say what he does always when he reads a hymn." "What does he say?" asked mamma. "Why, he always says "short Peter,' or 'long Peter,' or some other kiud of Peter, when there isn't a word about Peter in the whole hymn!" ' TBE TtnntKY. Proud bird of the barnyard, blithesome and free, A murderous bludgeon is hovering o'er thee-- „ A fl<et-footed urchin, n haid-liearttd bub, Will hit you a rap with ntoro'ii a stuffed club. Make the most ol thy time, for soon thou'lt be caught, Aud thine own precious head to the block'll be brought. 1 Then sobliie! and gobble! and gobble away, Thyself will be gobbled at no distant day. A rrst to thy wvul nnd penoe to thy nshes, A dumer thou'lt ni^kc und chenpeundry hashes; A bre»klH3l, perhaps, and H fight «up)>er, too, And then be dissolved iu a thin, CJUCUOS stew. A YOUNG lady at an evening party found it aprojms to use the expression, "Jordan is a hard road to travel," but, thinking that to be vulgar, substituted the following: "Perambulating progres sion in pedestrian excursion along the far-famed thoroughfare of fortune cast up by the banks of the sparkling river of Palestine, is, indeed, attended with a heterogeneous conglomeration of un- forseen difficulties." AT a lecture, the lecturer had occasion to speak of the style the Turks have of shaving the head all but a tuft on top, which, he said, was probably left to as­ sist the resurrection angel in bringing them up «t the last day. Johnnie looked up at the smooth, shiny head of his futher, and then whispered to his mother: " Pap won't have any kind of a chance, will he?" Full of "Specs." The real old-fashioned Yankee is still a fixture among us, though some writers would make us believe that he has been dead for years. There was a genuine specimen in the Erie depot yesterday, and he was explaining to several inter­ ested parties: "Fathei in-law lives here in Jersey City, and I'm on a visit like. Thought rd bring along a few traps and things and get up a dicker or two. Any of ye like to invest in that ?" He put out the model of a rat trap and said: "This trap not only catches the var­ mints, but it chokes 'em to death, throws the body out of th&t back window, and then resets itself. In the top is an alarm, to go off any hour you waut aud wake up the family. Here's an apparatus on this side for grating spices. Any of you like to buy county rights ?"' No one did, and he then placed before them a vessel, about which he ex­ plained: "This is now a water-pail By plac­ ing thip iron cover on the bottom it be­ comes a kettle. By inverting the cover you have a spider. The pail is a half- bushel measure to a grain. Once around it is exactly a yard. Its weight is exactly two pounds, and I sell the county rights for $50 eaoh." The next was a boot-jack, whioh could be transformed into , fire-tongs, press board, stove-handle, nail-hammer and several other things. He had au auger which bored four holes at onoe, a gimlet which bored a square hole-; a washnig- macliiao which could also be made to serve as a tea-table, and one or two other things, aud as he reached the last he said: "Gentlemen, I am full of speeulatkms. I'll invont anything you want 111 sell anything I've got. 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