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two children nrjr breast, ifrom the evening aky, ' And the amber feats stretch over the west. «i|§ "oft green d#?l by the breeiy shore, j v •../ A Ntilor tod and a maiden fair; 4. » Band clMtped in band, while the tale of |4ll Is borne again on the listening air, ? 4 or love is vonnc. though love be old, And love alone the heart can till; . And the dear old tale, that has been told ' In the days gone by, is spoken still. i". A trim-built home on a sheltered bay; I A wife looking oot on the glistening s«i; ;i A praver for the loved one far away, • I' And prattling imps'neath the old row-tfM; I A lifted latch and a radiant, face ~i ' Hv the open door in the tailing night; % X welcome home and a warm embrace -% From the love of his youth and his children ' / bright A • " An aged man 1n an old arm-chair; A golden light from the western sky: " •"4-Hiswife by his side, with her silvered hair, '*•' And the open book of God close by; il'.^weet on tl»c bay the gloaming falls. v- And bright is the glow of the evening i6W» - * Snt. dearer to them are the jasper walls „ , And the golden streets of the land afar. An old churchyard on a green hillside; :•*!Tvro lying still in their peaceful rest; . : Ihe flsl-erman's boats going ont wli li tlK lfcb i In the flerv glow of the amber we*'. ' i Cliildren > laughter and old men's sighs* , W «The night that follows the morning clear, . A rainbow bridging onr darkf iu-d skies, ;V.. 1 * >„ Are the ronnd ot our lives from yea* to ycad • ^Chambers'Journal ' '• LOVE AND fit Was a wild and rocky coast, «1<mg irbich ran the path that led to the home M old Martin Frere. At ordinary times v fee cottage would have possessed l>ut little attraction for a bold, stirring youth like Owen Glen. But a visitor i#?*ad of late brightened tip its precincts ^_a young girl named Annis. after the •|ged grandmother who dozed by •he hearth through the long evenings, content to watch the bright flames as fhey shot up from the broad fireplace, And perhaps to see visions of the past m-ith her dim eyes. ,.A Dame Fnere was a sharp-voiced, bust- ,|ing woman, long past middle age, and |>ot having the name of possessing a Very sweet temper, bat she had a soft j>lace in her heart Tor granny, and it iras to please her that she had invited lier pretty name-child to come to visit •> 3*tliem for a few months. * t Annis was a tall, slight girl, as itraight as a pine tree and as graceful As a fawn. Her yellow hair hung in a terfect mane of shining curls all about er shoulders and far down below her; ^•-'^caist. Imagine a sweet, innocent face . lighted with great lustrous dark eyes, .And a red mouth almost always curv- ing into smiles, and you have some idea ' of Annis. Most of the young girls in the vicinity irere buxom, merry lasses, with hair and eyes to match--both of an intense •triackness--and with more or less of the Ixoyden in them. Their laughter was , *loud and hearty, and their ways more "frolicsome than refined. So it is not , strange that when this graceful, quiet •tranger came among .them, with her ihy ways and blonde coloring, her swift changes of expression and native ease <pf manner, she was at once taken into " the hearts of all the young people in the neighborhood. It is a great mistake to think that one fcirl is insensible to another maiden's !>eauty. Sometimes, to be sure, she •£^$nay have a feeling of jealousy with re­ gard to it when she is naturally of that (Disposition, but oftener she loves the jpbject of her admiration all the more ! ^'fjecause she embodies that ideal which ^Exists in every human soul to a greater or less degree. . / Owen Glenn had fallen head over $ieels in love at his first meeting with " Annis, and had not missed an opportu- * Jiity of meeting her at the various rus- ^^$ic gatherings to which she had been ' Invited; and to-night he was going to j his fate by telling Annis that he '4 'loved her, and ask if he could hope for & response to the ardent feeling with which he had been inspired by her. Owen was not at all certain as to the success oi his suit, for there was anoth er who admired Annis, and who was far above him in worldly station and wealth, and as Owen, in his freedom ' from vanity, also thought, in good looks and in other qualities calculated - te win a girl's heart. Annis had received the pleasant little I- courtesies and attentions |of both in a I 1 way calculated to wound neither; f- though, as to that, it would have been *** ?Jan impossibility for her to be other than . a>*}so sweet and gracious as not to enkin­ dle hope in each passionate young heart. Thus matters stood as Owen started from his home to take the long and te­ dious walk over the cliffs which must be traversed before he could reach the cottage which sheltered the object of his love. It had been raining steadily all day long, and as night came on the wind .' had risen to a gale. But, wrapped in his waterproof cloak, and lighted on his way by a lan­ tern, Owen cared not for the threaten­ ing elements, and walked along whis­ tling softly, now and then pausing to shake himself, after the fashion of some huge water-dog. Then he would trudge on again, thinking what a terrible night it must be at sea, and breathing a prayer for "the wave-tossed mariners far from home. Suddenly a dull, booming sound reached his ear. It came from a seaward direction; but, at first, he kept on his way," think­ ing: Thiftjs nflt the harbor, and every one wtjflfeas the slightest knowledge of the locality will be sure to avoid so dangerous a coast; so it's no business of mine." , Again the sound came. " This time Owen stopped and listened. * A thought came intoliis mind as he did so, but it militated so directly against his inclinations to give heed to it, that with an impatient "pshaw" he started on. But he could not rid himself of it. It was this: "If a ship is in peril and has , lost her way, the only thing that could possibly save her would be a huge bea con fire to cast light upon her surround­ ings." To build a fire would be a work of time and of hard labor. To keep one up long enough to do any good w ould take hours of watch­ fulness, and he would have to abandon all hope of seeing Annis that evening. It was a hard struggle, but inclina­ tion proved to be made of a material which could not hold its own against his strong sense of duty. * He gave up all thoughts of the pleas- ftnt iliweting lie had been living upon fwijbis h^art all day long, and set liim- atfTto work to gather fuel for tbe bea- '4(6n fire. After several hurried journeys to the woodland, which lay a little distance away, he succeeded in accumulating a pile of branches and of dried twigs, whicty ho had raked out with his hands from a deserted hut which stood on the confines of the thicket, and had evi­ dently been gathered together forsome purpose, but under the circumstances Owen felt himself justified in taking it, as it would have been almost impossi­ ble to have kindled a flame of green wood, Just as he had succeeded in coaxing a splendid blaze into life a voice cried: "Hallo, Glenn! is that you ? What in-thc name of wonder are you doing?" "I am answering to a signal of dis­ tress. Hark!" as a dnll sound came again from the sea. "Well, old fellow, I wish you joy of your post, and hope it'll do all the good you expect. For my part, I'm off to old Martin's. I hear little Annis is going away to-morrow, and I didn't want to miss a sight of her beaming face to­ night. It's bright and sweet enough to be a man's beacon light for all his life. Good-by, and good fortune attend your work. It's lucky all are not such sel­ fish fellows as I am." It was as if a thousand fiends were tugging for the mastery in Owen Glenn's heart as he listened to the rat­ tling talk of the gay, light-hearted youth. Should he give Bobert this chance of seeing Annis, and of perhaps asking her to be his wife, during this very night, while he stood and worked to do good, and in God's providence tried to be the means of saving the lives of peo­ ple who were nothing to him. Thus his thoughts ran, over and over again, repeating themselves like the voices of mocking demons, while out­ wardly he labored on as unmtermitting- ly as though no influence of the kind was at work, piling on fresh fuel for the flames, or pushing some burning log in­ to a better position; and in thai way he won the victory. Peace succeeded the wild storm of agi'ation which had momentarily threatened to engulf him. Thus the night wore through. With the morning came a great calm. One would not have thought that the sun-flecked waves, that came leaping in, white crested and tumulutous, to meet the stern barrier of rocks, and crawl up, up almost to their summits, could be aught but playful in their force. Ah, it is a treacherous beauty--that of the sea. Too tired to notice the beauty of the transition from storm to sunshine, Owen walked slowly home. Hia work was done, and he must rest. Late in the day he started out for a walk. He was in that miserable state of mind which oftentimes follows some great exaltation of spirit. The thought that Annis had gone away without his seeing her again weighed upon his mind like an unwelcome incubus. At the voice of Robert Hunter, who stopped to accost him, he shrank and trembled as though in pain, but he listened as intently as though his life depended upon what he was about to say. Had he proposed to Annis, and had he been accepted ? Glenn," he began, "I wish you and I could change places about last night's work." "It's rather late for that now,'* was the quiet answer. I am fully aware of that fact, and that's what I regret about it. I'm afraid I'm dished in a certain direction." "What do you mean?" asked Owen, with sudden interest. "Why, if you believe it, I might have just as well left my visit unpaid last night; indeed, I had far better have done so. Annis was so interested about the chance of there being a ship outside in distress that it was all I could do to prevail upon her not to face the storm and 'come and help,' she said; and she gave me some pretty hard rubs, I can tell you, about leaving you alone to do 'the good work,' as she called it. I don't believe little Annis'll ever look at me again without a thought in her mind of what I .ought to have done and didn't." Such a tide of joy rushed through Owen Glenn's heart that he could hardly speak, and while he was strug­ gling to hide his emotion Robert went on with his revelations, little realizing the effect of his words: "She's not going home to-day on that account. She told me to tell you to come and see her and tell her all about it.. Women are great on any one who touches their feelings. You ought to have seen her eyes snap and sparkle when she was lecturing me about not staying to help you. I never saw her look so pretty. But, hallo! what has come over you?" For Owen was hurry­ ing off in the direction of the cliffs. As he went Robert caught a look upon his face which told him more than Owen intended. He stood staring after him, thinking to himself: "I see it all. My failure will be Owen's opportunity. Well, he's a"good fellow, and as long as I can't have her what odds does it make? And I saw last night she cared no more for me than if I had been a stick." When Annis caught sight of Owen approaching the cottage she ran out with an impulsive "Oh, how glad I am to see you! I do so want to tell you what I think of you!" Then she stopped short. Something Owen's face filled her with confu­ sion. But her outstretched hands were already within his clasp, and his low murmured words of love were sounding in her ears: "I am as glad as you that I have done something to please you; for, oh, Annis, I love you so dearly that I would do or dare anything for your sake." And then sfie never knew how it came about, but his arms were about her and his kisses were upon her lips, and she found that she loved him so well that she was willing to promise to be his little wife whenever he should be able to earn enough to make a home for her. They were bo(li young, and it would not be hard to frait, as they were so sure of one another's love. The prospect at first was that several years might elapse before their mar­ riage ; but suddenly all was changed for them as if by magic. A letter came from abroad within twelvemonth. It was addressed to the minister of the little seaside village, and asked for information as to the per­ sons who had kindled a beacon-light in answer to a signal of distress from sailing vessel on the night of -- giving the correct date and time when Owen had sacrificed inclination to the dictates of duty and of humanity. The light had saved a valuable cargo from being lost, and the writer pro­ posed to giv9 hah of thi proceeds to ilia putiMYto kad teen instruiambl ia •1 the matter. Also a medal Iras to be struck off commemorative of his grati­ tude that the lives of all on board had been preserved to their families. Owen became at once the boast of the village. For when a man's fame has reached foreign countries his own towns- peple are always sure to re-echo it. The wedding-day was set for the first anniversary of the evening when his good fortune came to him in the guise of disappointment, and Robert Hunter was among the first to congratulate the young couple. "Who'd have thought," he whispered to Owen, "that the tables would have been so turned ? Truly, there's a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortnne,' and you took it, my boy." rAB rati On a Japanese Railway Car. The Japs are peculiar. On a cold, Tainy day they go about with their dress skirts caught up to their waists, and the water streaming down their base legs. Skin does not cost as much as cloth, you know. In the car we can see this native dress; a loose robe with no but­ tons, but folded over the breast and fastened by a sash. This is the dress of the men as well as women. • Some of the dresses are very rich indeed, being made of beautiful silk. One-half ie longer than the other, which allows for pulling up above the sash, and then hanging down in front, making a pouch. This is the pocket where nearly every­ thing is carried. There are also pock­ ets at the bottom of the large square sleeves. Suspended from the sash is a little box and a leather wellet. Some­ times these articles are exquisite and very costly. The box contains the to­ bacco pipe and the wallet contains the tobacco. The box is frequently made of ivory or bronze, finely worked. Japa­ nese tobacco is very, very mild. The average American smoker would dis­ dain to use it. The pipes consist of a long slender stem, and a tiny brass bowl not so large as an acorn cup. The smoker opens his wallet, takes out a very small quan­ tity of tobacco and fills his pipe; then he takes out his box of matches, which are like the "parlor match" in Ameri­ ca, contained in a sliding box (that hor­ rible nuisance, a sulphur match, doesn't exhist here); closing the match box about two-thirds,the pipe is lighted and three whiffs of smoke taken--very sel­ dom more than that; the ashes are then emptied into the open third of the match box, the pipe refilled and lighted from these ashes. Frequently the ashes are dropped on the floor until the pipe is relighted, when they are ex­ tinguished. A pipe is seldom refilled more tiian three times, when it is put back into the case. The whole amount of tobacco imbibed would not be equal to one puff of a strong cigar. But the amost universal practice here is to draw all the smoke up, expelling it from the nostrils instead of the mouth. Women smoke as well as men. Every one in the car has a morning paper. Most of the passengers are sit­ ting on their feet, which are crossed under them--a favorite posture. It is generally the custom to read aloud. The reading is very peculiar, being mostly in a monotone, with oc­ casionally a rise and fall in the tone. Some of the people have a very disa­ greeable habit of sucking the breath between their closed teeth. The noise thus made with unceasing regularity is almost unendurable if one has any nerves. The Japanese are not a meddlesome people, and traveling with them is at­ tended with almost no risk. A single lady could travel with a car load ol Japanese men, and there would be not the slightest improper word spoken 01 aoieowmitted--Letter from. Yokohama. He Saw the Point. It is related of a wealthy Plittadel- phian, who has been dead these many years, that a man came to him one day and asked for help to start in business. "Do you drink?" inquired the mil­ lionaire. "Occasionally." "Stop it! Stop it lor a year, and then come and see me." The young man broke off the habit at once, and at the end of the year again presented himself. "Do you smoke ?" asked the great man. "Yes, now and then." "Stop it! Stop it for a year, and then come and see me." The young man went away and cut loose from the habit, and after worrying through another twelve months, once more faced the philanthropist. "Do vouchew?" "Yes." "Stop it! Stop it for onew year, and then come and see me." But the young man never called again, When some one asked why he didn't make one more effort, he replied; "Didn't I know what he was driving at? He'd have told me that, as I had stopped chewing, drinking and smoking, I must have saved enough money to. start my­ self. --Christian Leader, • . How iTRctulAr Ofltoer Wfm% Thumped Into Bwpwt For The Volunteers. [Indianapolis Journal.J It happened at Louisville, and Gen. Wallace and the late Gen. £. O. C. Ord and his son (who acted as one of his father's aids), and Maj. James R. Ross, of this city, who was at time act­ ing as Wallace's aid-de-camp, were the parties interested. There was always an air of superiority worn by the officers of the regular army towards those of the volunteer service, and this feeling was so bitter on the part of some as to be the cause of a feeling amounting al­ most to a positive hatred. Ord was a General of the regulars, and his son w a? a Lieutenant in the same service, of equal rank with Ross, a volunteer, and young Ord frequently took oocasion to snub his comrade, but the latter was not the kind of a man to toady to any one. It was after the battle of Shiloli, and a number of general officers and members of their staffs were at Louis­ ville, with headquarters at the Louis­ ville hotel, among the number being Gen. Ord and his son. They never omitted an opportunity to speak sneer* ingly of Gen. Wallace--or, for that matter, any volunteer officer. One night young Ord was engaged in play­ ing billiards in the billiard-room of the hotel, and his father was in the corridor talking with some other officers. It was proposed that the party take a walk about the city, and as the night was cold the General turned to Maj. Ross, and, in a tone of command, said: "Lieu­ tenant, go to my room and get my over­ coat." The young officer turned sharp­ ly, and, without offering to obey the command, replied, jerking his thumb over his shoulder in the direction of the billiard-room: "There is an artist in there, sir, who can act as your servant." The General said nothing, but was forced to either make his son stop play­ ing to do the errand or climb the stairs himself, and chose the former course. After this -young Ord was even more overbearing in his demeanor toward Ross than ever before, and the feeling of animosity between them was greatly embittered. One night shortly after­ ward Gen. Wallace was standing in a group of officers at the hotel, and near at hand was young Ord with a mixed party of soldiers and civilians. Some one in the party singlea Gen. Wallace out, and, addressing Ord, asked who that officer was. "Oh, that is Lew Wallace, the man who tried so hard to lose Sliiloh," answered the Lientenant. Scarcely had he finished speaking when Ross, who had inadvertently overheard the remark, stepped briskly forward and struck his commander's slanderer a sting ing slap on the cheek, following it up Avith a blow which sent the young man sprawling on the floor. "You have (thump) slandered Gen. Wallace in particular (thump), and the volunteer soldier in general" (thump), shouted R o s s , " u n t i l I h a v e ( t h u m p ) s t o o d a l l can of it,(thump); and now (thump) I propose to show you (thump) that there is at least oneVvolunteer officer (thump) who is more 0® a man than a regular of equal rank," and bumpety-bump went the young man's head against the floor. The thumping process continued until the bystanders pulled Ross off and al­ lowed the other to escape. After -wiat there was a greater degree of respect and deference paid to the volunteer arm of the service by at least that portion of the regulars. I was an eye-witness to the occurrence, and can certify to the truth of the story. A Sea Serpent Made to Order. "Wall, naow, ye put a leadin' ques­ tion," replied Capt. Perkins, of Maine, when asked if he had ever seen a sea srpent. "I'm 'bleged to say I liev; but it wasn't eggsactlv the kind o' sarpint yaou mean. You've all heard tell o' my brother Tom, what accumulated puch a fortune in tavern business? Jest so. Wall, when he started in he lied a little tavern on the beach-- held about twenty, I calkilate--and every summer be got addiu' on and addin' on till he got quite a large place, big enough to hold all he could get in. Then he went tew work devisin' liaow tew make folks come with a rush. He lied boat racin' and tub matches and eech tew bring crowds. One day I kem in. I was a-fishin' for the haouse, and he sed tew me, tippin' me a wink: 'Bill, you've seen that sea sarpint what's been raound here, haven't ye?' 'I be­ lieve I hev,' sez I. 'Wall, sez he, 'if $50 is any inducement for that old cuss to hang off shore here for a few days next week I know who'll provide the cash,' 'and dew yaou know," said the Captain, stirring up the fluid with the stem of his pipe, "that the sea sarpint did ap­ pear jest at that time, and the crowds that kem down tew see it abaout eat and drinked up the hull place. The hull place was black with folks, swear- in' mad 'cause they couldn't get no boat tew go aout and harpoon the critter; for there it was abaout a mile off shore, about a 100 feet long, a rollin' abaout-- pee it as plain as notliin' in the glass. "Haow was it done? Wall, I know it won't git about here, bein' all neigh­ bors, so I don't mind lettih' on and givin' the rec-i-pe. Tew make a sea farpint yaou want about 100 barrel hoops, and about 200 yards o' tarred inuslin. Hev yaour muslin sewed into a funnel abaout sixty feet long and two feet across, and brace it out with hoops. |?int off the ends, rig a mane on the head of kelp, put abaout twenty sinkers in it at reg'lar interwals--that ery and wickedness through which h< had to pass never banished her for s single hour from his waking thoughts for the following seven years. When ho lived in London, he would repair twich a week to Shooter's Hill, and from the top of that eminenee com­ fort himself by a distant view of the district in which his loved one lived. Not that he could see the spot itself, which was in reality too remote; but it gratified him even to look toward the spot. She eventually became the bright star of his life. Unsolved Mysteries. But there are some unsolved mys­ teries in the great problem of life that give me cause for reflection and anxiety. If I were rich I believe I would build me a louely cell somewhere in Clifton or some place like that, worth about $90,000, with a store-room like a whole­ sale grocery, where I might have plenty of help in studying intricate problems in otir daily economy, or extravagance, as the case may be. " For often and of­ ten I wonder and wonder: Why you always put teaspoons into the vase upside down ? Why the pantaloons of a godless atheist who never said a prayer in his life bags at the knees just as quickly and decidedly as the breeks of the saint who spends half his days on his knees ? Why it is so wrong to eat pie with a knife? 1 - What Washington said to General Lee at the battle of Monmouth ? Why so many Generals in the army have been privates ever since the war? How the directory of a railroad com­ pany can get rich, while the stock­ holders gradually starve to death? How a receiver prospers and grows fat on a business that ruined the mer­ chant ? Why a man who "hfis gone*' out of politics" never misses a convention, and always keeps "in the hands (and also the pockets) of his friends?" What the State would do for peni­ tentiaries if all the rascals should sud­ denly step up and confess ? Why a woman falls like a flash not two inches from the banana skin she steps on, while a man falls like a cy­ clone half way round the block, howl­ ing like a demon at every plunge, and at last climaxes with a crash under a peanut stand on the other side of the street? Why "pure bear's oil" is always cheaper when pork is away down, and booms up like a baloon in the cholera years? Why, when spring chickens are so small you have to eat them by the dozen to taste one, the price is so high you have to buy tliem by the chicken? Why a man frequently tries to make himself necessary when he would serve humanity much better by making him­ self scarce ? Why it is so much easier to lose half doxen bets than it is to win one ? Why Tom Thumb was always billed as "23 years old" until the day he died. lien he made a jump of more than his lifetime ? Why some people "remember the Sabbath day" "as though it was only a parlor-car porter, and give it a quarter in full of all demands ? Whatever became of the "blue-glass'! remedy? And what went with all the archery clubs? I don't believe in philosophy wasting its time on trifles. If the wise men ant something useful and practicle tc ponder over, here are their problems. -- E. J. Burdette. The Chinese Peasant. A writer in the London Times gives this as an example of the condition ol the Chinese peasants: "A family con­ sisting of eight persons own an acre and a half of land. The land was bought by the grandfather of the pres­ ent head and has never been subdivid­ ed since nor added to. He grows about seventy bushels of riie and thirty-five of wheat, and some vegetables and cot­ ton besides, worth altogether in money about $50. He has two nephews who work outside and bring home some­ thing to help, and in that way they get along, but they are very poor. He and A Snarler. Marshal Sonlt had a rough tongue, which he freely used. If he heard any one praised, he straightway snarled at him, yet his bark was worse than his bite. He was once breakfasting with Ber- tliier and the latter's aide-de-camp-r- a grave voung man, who did not utter a word during the meal Afterward, ke8 the bumps; then hire up all the while coffee was being taken, a discus- fthftnnf nnnfi of £ftinwR_ sion arose between the Marshals as to the color of the facings in a certain regiment during the Consulate. Berthier pointed to his aide-de-camp. There's Garaud can tell us; he served in that very regiment;" ajtd the officer thus appealed to pronounced against Soult by the one word, "Red." Years later, Garaud's name was men­ tioned before Soult, upon which the veter.TI remarked,cooly, "Ah! I remem­ ber Garaud; he's a chatterbox." Who Were There. Two dogs, which ought to have known better, got into a fight in the al­ ley in the real of a hotel-, and in two minutes there was a jam of people around them. A servant in the third- story window raised a sash and upset a pan of flour with such aim that not over four or five of the crowd escaped mark­ ing. Among the "floury" afterward identified on the street were two judges, two doctors, three lawyers, four city of­ ficials, five merchants, two insurance men, and a banker. Detroit canines having a mill in prospect will be rea­ sonably sure of a respectable crowd in attendance.--Detroit Free Press. IT is said that the sum of $30,000 is annually contributed by American ocean travelers to British charity insti­ tutions. boats abaout so't none of these ereinves tigaters kin git at it, and anchor it off shore in a long line, and ye'll draw the hull country raound; that's jest what old Capt. Bob did."--Correspondence Philadelphia Times. Seven Years' Courtship. Mr. Ruskin, in "Lost Jewels," the latest of his "Letters to the Workmen and Laborers of Great Britain," dis courses on "the annual loss of its girl wealth to the British nation." Most of the letter is concered with courtship and marriage. "The whole meaning and powers of courtship," says the au thor, "is Probation; and it oughtn't to be shorter than three years at least- seven is, to my mind, the orthodox time." The courtship of the celebrated Rev John Newton, who in early life was a seaman and slave-trader, would doubt less meet Mr. liuskin's approval: John Newton fell in love with a Kent ish maid at first sight. The girl was under 14 years of age; but such was the impression she made on young Newton that his afl'ection for her appears to have equalled all that the writers of ro mance have imagined. When in distant parts of the word the thought of her checked him in profligate career. When sinking on the coast of Africa into a wretched state of slavery, and when ready to put an end to his life the thought of her aroused him to en NEW HAMPSHIRE citizens <0 the num< ber of 125,505 are scattered throughout 1 Qrgy and inspired him w ith hope, the States. I All the oppression and qeenes of mis Lost Their Notes. The custom of "reading" sermons has given rise to many amusing anecdotes illustrative of,the bondage of those clergymen who cannot preach without a manuscript. We lately met with an incident which shows that the preach­ er, to save himself from embarrassment, must not only lay his manuscript be­ fore him, but must also properly ar­ range it. A "candidate" suddenly stopped in the midst of his sermon and began to turn the leaves of his manuscript over and over. The preacher was near­ sighted, and his defective visibn inten­ sified the nervousness of the congrega- gation, as for ten minutes the self-pos­ sessed man calmly looked for his mis­ placed page. At last, he resumed hie discourse with the remark: "Brethen, I hope you have not mean­ while forgotten the last point. We will now proceed with the text." They were unable to proceed far, for the manuscript was so ill-arranged that the sermon was obliged to be ended with a lame extemporization. The candidate received commiseration, but no call from that church. A lecturer, alighting from a stage­ coach in a country town one evening, took the valise which the driver handed him and hurried into the hotel. Some time afterward, wishing to look ovei his lecture, he was dismayed to find that, the valise was not his, aud that big in which was the lecture, had gone on with the stage. As he could not speak without his manuscript, there was nothing to be done but to pursue the stage, although it was a cold, rainy night. The President of the society, under whose auspices the lecture was to be given, procured a fast horse, overtook the stage after a five-mile drive, and brought back the precious manuscript in time for the delivery of the lecture. An amusing episode occurred at a service conducted by twin brothers, both clergymen, who were so much alike in appearance that only intimate friends could tell them apart. One brother led the introductory exercises, but the other brother, rising to preach, thrust his hands into his coat-tail pock­ et to draw forth his sermon; a perplex­ ed look came over his face. He hastily explored his other pock­ ets, the hymn-book and the Bible. Suddenly a happy thought struck him. He whispered to his brother, who, on plunging his hand in his coat-tail pock­ et, produced the missing manuscript, to the amusement and relief of the con­ gregation. Jwst before service tl^e twins had accidently changed coats.-- Youths' Companion. « An Indignant Parent. "FKrhats this?" asked a Brooklyn pa­ rent as his daughter brought to him e printed slip denoting the new school books required. "Those, paw? Why, those are tufc new books I shall require ere I finish my course of studies." "Fwatsthis?" he asked, pointing tc the first. "Xuat's a book on mineralogy." "An' fwhat ther divil'sminnerologv?' "It is a science that treats of the earth's substance, stones an so forth." "An'fwhat the divil's this?" "Thai's botany. That treats of flow­ ers." "An' this?" "That's musio. I could never learn to play on the piano without this." "A-eh?" "I must have that to be perfect in music." "How many bricks in a pile tin fate long, an' tin fate tick?" :- "Oh, paw! what do I know about hor­ rid bricks?" "How many pails ov water in a cis­ tern three fate deep an' tin fate in dy­ namiter ?" . "I really do not know, paw." "How mooch is flour a barrel?" "Really, paw." "Which is the best--chuck steak 01 biled corrun bafe?" "Now. paw, you really unstring my nerves!" "See you here, Mary Ann. O'ill have no more av ye're going's on. Do you set doun there be the cradle an' rock all his neighbors wear native blue j Patsey pliile ye're mother do be rockin' cloth, spun and woven in the family by > the other baby, an' thin do ye go aout the women from cotton grown to the poomp an' bring in wather fui by themselves. He never wore the day's washin*. Bottomy, o-hol foreign cotton. The coat he Strominy o-ho o! An' ye wan't to know had on (a well-worn affair) had been the name av flowers, an' all abaout the made two years previously, and it heavenly bodies, an' abaout stones an' would last two years more. It served • drorin', an' the planner. Mary Ann, ye're father's a hod-carrier, an' ver mother's an honest ould washerwoman. PITH AND POINT. him at night as a coverlet as well as a coat by day. f Hereafter ye'll learn the price of flour, git up an' watch ther sun roise, ascer­ tain the contints av a moonkey o' bricks, % Hard Lines. Lord Surrey, who was beheaded in 1547, gave our ordinary human nature a an' if ye want ter know onything about pretty hard hit, and the lines he wrote music ye can listen till me play on ther on "How no age is content with his own flute. Mary Ann, af ye dy be cuttin' up estate" are unfortunately as applicable . any more av yer highfalutin misanthro- now as they were when the axe fell on pes around these premises oil jump an the poet's neck: ye're head, so I wull, an' don't ye furgit saw a little boy in thought, how oft that he j it. Faith ye're a foine leddy. * Be hev- Did wish of God to 'scape the rod, a tall young yjug oi'm so mad oi do be tliinkin' oi'll The young man eke, that feels his bones with ' go oyer to Riley s an swell liis head fur pains oDprest, a drink.--New York Dispatch. How he would be a rich old map, to live and lie at rest, The rich old man, that sees his end draw on so fore, How he woiild be a boy agfrin, to live BO much the more. „ ^ » » - • W h three tUl1 °ft 1 8miled to 806 how ^the8e ' tunity lie has for diffusing sunshine at From l>oy to man, from man to boy, would chop The Husband's Opportunity. Tt is doubtful whether the male liead of a family often appreciates the oppor •from the Fort Wayne Hooeler.I ' * Tafe refined way of saving "I'm Hot a * hog" is "My natural desires are limited " to a sufficiency." JONES says he never needs to pay fori a warm bath. His wife keeps him con- > stantly in hot water. THE poorer the preacher and the less he is able to say "words that burn," the more he preaches of Hades and eternal scorching. SOMETIMES a judge is confounded by a complicated case, but oftener he is confounded by the parties who lose their case. "BROKEN English" is what they called it when a Webster's dictionary fell out of a third-story window and flew to pieces on the pavement. "OH, sir," said a little beggar, "won't you give me a nickel ? My parents are dead, my father can't get any work, and my mother is awful sick." "HE never pays anything," some one said of a young man about town. "Oh, yes he does," said a citizen; "ho pays his addresses to my daughter." WHEN the first Atlantic cable was completed, it gave some paragraphs an opportunity to inquire if news thus sent through salt water would be fresh? AFTER describing a hunter's struggle with a grizzly bear, during which all of the hunter's clothes were torn off, a western paper says he barely escaped with his life. ' . • * "HELLO, Jones, I'm glad to see you^te Jones, pretending not to recognize Smith for fear he'd tap him for a lean "My dear sir, you have the advantage . of me." "'Yes, 'most any one has who possesses ordinary intelligence." "BRIDGET," said an East Wayne street lady to her domestic, "where is the dust­ pan?" "With the broom, ma'am." "And where is the broom ?" "With the dust-pan, ma'am." "Well, Bridget, tell me--where are they both ?" "They are both together, ma'am. 'Pears like you're almighty particular to-day." [From Peck's Sun.1 A MAN in Ohio paid $250 to secure the nomination for constable, The Ohio man is always looking out for a stepping stone to the Presidency. WHEN a man gets so low as to steal his grandmother's false teeth and try to pawn or sell them, as did a Buffalo young man, his days of usefulness are passed. Such a dastardly trick is next to murder and he who would be guilty of it should be compelled to have his teeth knocked out with a cold chisel, and be compelled to chew beef for his grandmother. IT is alleged that ' a man in Georgia has a rooster that "strikes the hour." He crows twelve times every night at 12 o'clock, and is sure not to very a second from the correct time. Let us see. The Apostle Peter hactaometliing to do with a night-crowing rooster some years since. His rooster crew thrice, while the Georgia mans crows twelve times. According to this, it i3 calculated- that the Georgia man can prevaricate four time to Peter's once. Tally one for Georgia. AN English magazine is speculating as to "the kind of clothes ghosts wear." Such a profound and very important subject as that should be most carefully and prayerfully considered. Too much attention cannot be given as the cut of of ghosts' clothes. If cut on the bias the ladies want to know it. If cut goring, why, that too should be known. If the piother hubbard is worn there may be some consolation in that, but above all things don't let the public be deceived JI believing that ghosts' clothes are aotliing but spirit wrappers. This is ndeed a most important subject. A. PRISONER just after being sentenced by an Albany judge, remarked to the I'udge that he would like to murder tim. "I hope you will rot in your grave." The judge added another year to the sentence. There is a similar jtory where a prisoner got more than le bargained for, by talking back to ;he court. A Michigan judge who felt ;he great importance and responsibility 5f his position and determined to main­ tain it, once sentenced a man to be con­ fined in the State's piison during the natural period of his life. "Thank you, your honor," replied the prisoner after sentence was pronounced. "What's that?" demanded the judge. "Thank you, your honor," replied the prisoner. "See here, old man, I don't want any back talk in this court. I sentence you to five years more," solemnly remarked the judge with an air of dignity that froze out all sense of the ridiculousness of the sentence. and change degree. home, or comprehends how much of gloom he can bring with him in a troubled face and moody temper from the office or tbe street. The house mother is within four walls from morn- Ink of the Devil Fish. A naturalist, who went to the West iuui Indies to collect specimens for his cabi- "tm "dinner" time,"with 'few excep- net, was drifting along the reef at Nas- ^ong> an(j muat bear the worriments of sau, one day, and saw several squids ^ fre^uj children, inefficient servants, just below the surface of the wateT. 11 weajc nerve8 and unexpected callers. And she must do this day after day, with monotonous regularity. The hus­ band goes out from the petty details of home care. He meets friends. He , i..l . . ., .. , feels the excitement of business com- was indelible and still stains the linen j petition. He has the bracing influence that I then wore. _ Squids are a species ; outdoor walk or ride. If he will of cuttle-fish, having one bone in the , come }j0me cheerful and buoyant his body shaped precisely like a pen. Thiii i presence me a refreshing breeze, has a little bag on each side in which ^ jn ^ pGwer to brighten the the ink is carried.--Congrega tionalist. h0nsejj0id life, and add to the general in a way that no man has a put out my hand," he said, "and in a second my dearest friend would not have known me. I was literally drenched with ink, which was thrown a distance of at least three feet. The ink Cheap Postal Service. The cheapest postal service in the world is that of Japan, where letters are conveyed all over the Empire for 2 sen --about 7-10 of a penny. This is more wonderful considering the difficulties oi transit over a mountainous and irregii- happiness right to forget or neglect.- -Onting. Deadwood. Some unknown archive manipulator has suddenly discovered that the name of "Deadwood," a city in the Black Hills, was taken from a peculiar inci- ular country which has less than^lO'.: dcnt 'thftt happone,i in that town. Ac- * 1 A" " " "" ' cording to this "origin of names" sifter, a certain miner lost his wife by death, and ordered a first-class funeral,and dur­ ing the interment a piece of the coffin was chipped off and was handed to the bereaved husband as a relic. A short time afterward the man was sued by the undertaker for his bill, whereupon he produced the aforesaid chip and ex­ claimed: "I've got the deadwood on you; it's not rose"wood, as yon have miles of railway, while wagons can onl pass over a few of the chief roads, aud the steqjners connect but a small num­ ber of coast stations. A- SURE means of overcoming a dis­ like which we entertain for any one is to do him a little kindness every day; and the way to overcome a dislike which another may feel toward you is to say some little kind word of him every day. AN Indian recently died at Tweedy's charged me, but pine." rinch in California,leaving nine hoi>es. I , • - /--7~T. . . The dead brave's relatives killed t ie THE death rate of Dayton, Ohio, horses, jerked the meat, and will eat it: the smaHest of any city of its size in the during the coming winter. I United Stalp. Where Young Snakes (Jo to When Swal­ lowed by Their Mother. About twenty-three years ago, in* Beebe^Ark., I had a guinea hen sitting near my house, in the garden. One day, while hoeing, in the garden, I noticed the hen flying, fluttering, and apparently fighting something. I walked, hoe in hand, carefully up to the nest. Curled up in the nest lay a blow snake, or what some call a bull snake. I carefull approached her, and when she straightened out to run, with one blow with the hoe I cut her head clean from her body. I straightened her out and was examining her,and preparing to take her lengthy when a young snake about six inches long, and about the size of a common lead pencil, made its ap% pearance. I cut its head off, and others followed, until I had cut the heads off of twenty-seven. Some of them re­ mained dead in the cavity of their mother, so that I know that they did not occupy a place in the stomach. The snake had swallowed twelve guinea eggs, which I proceeded to eject by squeezing from her stomach and throat. The eggs I found came from one appartment, and the young snakes from another. This induced me to examine the head and neck which 1 had cut off. I discovered that there was an opening under the tongue, through which the young snakes entered the cavity in which they were found, and tlxit that cavity was seperate and distinct from the stomach where the guinea eggs-were found. I took two smooth sticks, I ran one down the throat from above the tongue and the other through the open­ ing under the tongue. Both came out, but through separate and distinct pass­ ages. Hence I say snakes do not swal­ low their young, but something like the opossum or kangaroo have a sack or pocket for them, which is entered through the mouth and under the tongue. Some one may want to know what was done with the guinea eggsfe t answer, I put them back in the nes% md in about a week twelve young guinea chicks were hatched from them, --Correspondence AbieiHcan Field. To KNOW how to be occupied, an<| never have to ask one's self, What aift I going to do ? is the most useful sci? ence for happiness and firttta» ' .