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the im and rofTnrtb, i «f the brain IMTOf grain. dHtrtjilli it MM BMIW notf it* day b In bis eye, 1 hurried by, J Made of the faithful bo* t the eartfc <tf tfeeleeweorn raw > Mad their feathers leerop was--loct. 1 on (in angry bay ̂ »heavens entombed the fneeoftheday; n* Wtad arose like a beast In pain, And abook on the pillows his angry maine: The Motia beat down aa if carted the cloud. And the wave* held tip a dripping "brood- Bat, hark! o'er the ntm that wildly raved Game a word ol cheer, and be fit saved. A poet passed with a song of God t Bid in his heart like a gem in a clod. . His MM were framed to pronounoe the ttaoSnBt And tne music of rhythju its magic wrought; Feeble at first was the happy triU, Low was the echo that answered the hill, But a jealous friend spoke near his side, And on his lips the sweet song--died. A woman paused where a chandelier V * r in the darkness its poisoned spear; ;\ Weary and footsore from journeying long, A* had strayed unawares from the right to the wrong. Angels were beck'ning her back from the den, Bui and its demons were beck'ning her in; The tone of an urchin, like one who forgives, Draw her bask, and in heaven ihataweet ward --lives. Wards I Words t They era little, yet mighty and brave; They rescue a nation, an empire save-- They close up the gaps in a freph bleeding heart Thai sickness and sorrow have severed apart, They tell on the path, Hke a ray of the sun, re the shadows of death lay so heavy upon; lighten the earth over oar blessed dead. ~ that will comfort, ohl leave not unsaid. •&W0MAN AND A BURGLAR. . i C H A S . W . CHESNUFT. £V .;' , rri&' itea was ^wstiing shriny wtMtia the corners of the house, sobbing and •fetog through the evergreens in the yard, and howling dismally up among the chim­ ney-tops, as Dr. Bnird, one winter evening, turned up the collar of his overcoat, drew on his gloves, and palled his seal-skin cap down over his ears. *1 shall not be in again until morning, Mary," he Baid to Mrs. Baird, who sat by a low table in front of the grate, reading a newspaper by the light of a shaded lamp. "Mrs. Murray is no better, and reqnires constant attendance. Dr. Graves has been with her all day, and I mnst relieve htm to­ night. Her condition is quite serioaa, bnt J think she will pnll through. However, the crisis will hardly be reached before to­ morrow noon." Mrs. Baird laid down the newspaper, and sighed. Twenty years of wedded happi­ ness had not fully reconciled hear to the conditions of a busy physician's life; and she often longed for the time when her hnsband could retire from the active prac­ tice of his profession. Bnt as Dr. Baird was still what is called a young man, and no means as rich as he hoped to become, Mm. Baird had resigned herself to the inevitable, and endured the discomfort of irregular meals aud broken sleep without murmuring. So she merely looked up and sighed as her hnaband made this announce­ ment. "Have yon set the burglar alarm?" she asked. "Yes, for all the lower floor except the Side door to the library. I shall take the key to that door, so that I can come in without disturbing yon. I shall try to get back by six in the morning. Good night." And the Doctor took liis way across the grounds, toward the sanitarium. The burglar alarm had been placed ̂ in the boose a short time before, at Mrs. Baird's suggestion. A man-servant had formerly slept in the house*, but he had moved to a room in the sanitarium; and in view of the Doctor's frequent absence from home, Mrs. Baird had persuaded him, to have a burglar alarm put into the house. The Doctor had laughed at her fears, and had to be reminded of the burglar alarm, or he frequently forgot to idjnst it. She would not touch it herself; it made her nervous, she said. The sanitarium was a local institution, in which the people of the village of Welling­ ton took a great deal of pride. It was owned by a syndicate of wealthy men, who had selected the town on account of . its healthy location, pastoral surroundings, snd ftne scenery, as the site of a large hotel, which, by virtue of these attractions, sup­ plemented by a competent medical staff and judicious advertising, had become quite a popular health resort. Dr. Bakrd was resident physieian-in-chief of the es­ tablishment, and with his family occupied • cottage on the opposite side of the exten- ' sive grounds, ana several minntes' walk from the main building. Mrs. Murray was one of the nurses at the sanitarium, who had herself been taken ill. Dr. Baird entered the sick-room and Wt̂ P&ugh, a mistake that had nearly 'SH&KdlrfkMl. Inquired of Dr. Graves: "Bow is shenow?" -Sinking rapidly," was the reply. "I do M>t think she will live until morning." A short consultation followed, and it was xiecide ̂that both doctors should remain by ttw patqmt's side until then was some further onangs in her condition. After the Doctor left, Mrs. Baird fin­ ished her newspaper and then looked over the latest fashion-plates with her daughter Mollie, a trim-lowing lass of sixteen sum­ mers, who was trying to solve the impor­ tant problem of bow- to make a new dress. At 9 o'clock, with a caution to Mollie about the fire and lights, Mrs. Baird went up stairs to bed. Mollie dawdled over her fashions a little While longer, and then sought her roOm, which was a small apartment on the lower floor, and opening off the sitting-room. " About midnight the burglar-alarm went off with a great racket and woke lbs. Baird from a sound sleep. ' She realized, of course, that some one in the bouse, or attempting to gain en­ trance. Her secCnd thought was for Mollie's aafety. Mollie was down stairs, mid bar room one which a burglar would he most likely to enter in any search for . valuables. Hastily opening a drawer in the chiffonier which stood in her bedroom, Mcs. Baird took out a revolver and glanced it it by the light of the night-lamp to see if it were loaded. Weapon in hand, she „ went softly and swifily down the stairs, her heart a prey to a thousand apprehensions. Every instant she expected to hear a scream. Suppose Mollie should cry out, or resist the burglars? Suppose her youth and beauty should tempt them to a worse crime than burglary? As she neared the foot of the stairs she heard voices in the parlor! Horror of horrors! the burglars were really in the house! They must have v. known beforehand that ber husband was . away. • A few steps farther brought her to the parlor door opening upon the hall into Which the staircase descended. It stood partly open, and looking in she saw that the folding doors which separated the par- >l$r from the sitting-room stood open, and 1 beyond off the sitting-room she could see •Ihe open door of Mollie's chamber. • . But what riveted her attention and froze - ber blood was the scene she saw in thepar- " Jor. Two men were standing in the mid- fle of the floor, and bending over a white- <6l«d figure which they were laying on the floor. Was her daughter dead?' Had she j fainted? Had she been chloroformed? Had te fiends--she raised her revolver and fired at the nearest man, and then heir over- jmwught nerves gave way, and with a Jrild Shriek she fell fainting to the floor. ,.v;. When she recovered consciousness, It Wap to see her .husband bending over her, %ilh fc_vinaigrette in his hand, from which ~ been administering a restorative. Mollie," she gasped. i . mamma," and SCollie was at her a#re and well, and showing no sign except concern for her mother, "rd had Recovered mifS Tbe two doctors had remained by the bedside of the sick nurse n&ttt altar mid­ night, when she took a mddwi turn for the worse and died a, few minutes before 1 o'clock. The two of them had wrapped her body in a sheet from the bed, and . pfceing it on a shntter, had brought it to Dr. Baud's house to be laid out. Funerals were never held from the sanitarium, and though some­ times a patient died, the body was gen­ erally taken away as soon as poesible.be- cause of the depressing effect which the presence of a corpse in the house would have upon its inmates. The two doctor's had brought the body to the front of the cottage, which was the entrance nearest the sanitarium. The key to the side door would also unlock tbe front door. He hardly thought of the burglar alarm, knowing of course that his presence in the house would be known immediately, and not anticipating any such heroic measures on the part of his wife. They had borne the body through the hall into the parlor, and were just & the act of de­ positing it on the floor, when Mrs. Baird, seeing them in the dim light from a shaded gas-jet turned down low in the adjoining sitting-room, had mistaken them for strangers and the white-robed body for the unconscious figure of her daughter Mollie, and had fired her pistol. ' But the excitement of the moment had confused her aim, or the dim light had rendered it uncertain, and tbe bullet, which at such close quarters would have been dangerous coming from any hand, had sped on its way without further dam­ age than nipping Dr. Graves' ear, and shattering a fine serves vase which stood on the mantle opposite the door. It was a close call, however. Dr. Baird now has great confidence in the efficacy of burglar alarms, and has since applied to them the old maxim about playing with edge tools. He has also secretly substituted blank for ball cart­ ridges in Mrs. Baird's revolver, as his business still calls him out at night very often, and he does not care to run any un­ necessary risks. On the whole, his vi^w of the matter is a very sensible one. Pleasonton at Chaneellorsrille. Major Clifford Thompson, aide-de- camp on Gen. Pleaaon ton's staff, gives the following account of the fight at Hazel Grove: "Gen. JJleasonton rode from gun to gun, directing the gunners to aim low, not to get excited, to make every shot tell; the staff-officers, catch­ ing their cue from him, did the same, and while at first there had been con­ siderable excitement and apprehension among us, it soon quieted down, and every thought and action was directed to getting the best service out of those gnns that they were capable of render­ ing. Recovering from the disorder into which Keenan'B charge had thrown them, the enemy could be seen forming line of battle in the edge of woods now in our front. They were scarcely 200 yards distant; yet such was the gloom that they could not be clearly distinguished. Gen. Pleas­ onton was about to give the order to fire, when a Sergeant at one of the guns said: * 'General, aren't those our troops 1 I see our colors in the line I' This wa* true, for where he pointed our colors could be seen--trophies picked up on the field. Gen. Pleasonton turned tc me and said: " 'Mr. Thompson, ride out there and see who those people are.' "For myself, I was not at all curious about 'those people,' being perfectly willing to wait till they introduced themselves. Biding out between our guns, I galloped to within thirty ot forty yards of them; all along the lint they cried out to me: 'Come on; we're friends!' It was quite dark and I could not make out their uniforms, but 1 could see three of our flags, and these caused me to hesitate; I came to a halt, peering into the darkness to make sure, when a bullet whistled by me, and thefc came 'the rebel yelL' The line charged up the hill toward our guns, and I led it! Lying down upon my horse's neck, I gave him tbe spur, and the yells of the 'Johnnies' behind further stimu­ lated him, so that we got over the ground pretty lively. But with the re­ port of the first shot fired at me, Gen. Pleasonton had opened fire, and those twenty-two guns belched forth destruc­ tion at a fearfully rapid rate. Although lying down on my horse, I kept an eye on the guns, and guided my horse be­ tween the flashes, and in less time than it takes to tell it, I was on the safe side of them. It was load and fire at will for some minutes; the enemy was mowed down in heaps; they could make no headway against such a cy­ clone, and ran back down the slope to the cover of the woods. But still the canister was poured into them, and a second attempt to charge the guns failed. Soon Sickles' corps moved from its advanced position and inter­ posed! between us and the woods; par­ ties sent out over the field which had been swept by our guns found the dead and dying lying in heaps. Old artil­ lery officers have informed me that they never before heard such rapid firing as occurred at that engagement; the roar was a continuous one, and the execution terrific. After it had ceased I rode up to Gen. Pleasonton and said: " 'General, those people out there are rebels!' "There was a grave twinkle in his eye as he held out his hand and replied: " 'Thompson, I never expected to see you again; I thought if they didn't kill you I should, but that ^ras no time to stop for one man.' "I should have agreed with him more cordially if that one man had bqen somebody else. \ • When President Lincoln visited the army a day or two after this fight, Gen. Pleasonton chanced to call at Hooker's headquar­ ters, when that officer said: "'Mr. President, this j# Gen. Pleas­ onton, who saved the Army of the Po­ tomac the other night.' "The President acknowledged the service in his usual grateful manner. Only inspiration, or the instinct of a natural soldier, could have enabled Pleasonton to accomplish so much in so short a time with so small a force. The fight at Hazel Grove was one of those sharp and decisive action* preg­ nant with great results."--The Cen- twy. • » rtentty to listen, her husband explained to !0« *iu* hadtiĵ ptap0. There had been Hadn't Heard of It. I First Citizen--Just come from Mex­ ico, have you? Second Citizen--Yes, just arrived. "I suppose you can tell me all abput the halls of the Moutezumds, then ?? "The hauls of the Montezumas! didn't hear of it at all. How much did they get away with?"--Tid-Bits. IT is estimated that the varied ma­ chinery of Great Britain now operated by steam power is capable of perform ing more work, and hence producing more products, than could be effected by the labor of 4()0,0()0,000 able-bodied men, a greater number than all the workingmen on earth. WHEN a man gets to be a leader of workingmen he is able to quit work. Philadelphia North American. THE oldest strike on record was when Adam was on Starts bmntjM- ChaWelM* ttsuwMi . Sacrifice* bjr Savage Kntois. MI>caring_the stay of thirty d^prat the Gonrt of tJgaada m the pdatMly goes! olMteaaS wrn ooamtanfybfoogfettBoe to face with hnmansararittONl"ttid Col. Charles Chaille Long to a New York Herald correspondent "Never a day patted that some such horrible exhi­ bition was not given. I protested in vain to the king, who invariably re­ plied: 'Ton do not know these people aa I do or yon would resort to the same slaughter.' However, as every visit to the palace was attended by this horri­ ble slaughter my BOUI sickened and I stayed away as much as possible. "Frequently as I sat in my doorway I saw men leading their wives with whom they were discontented to the king to receive permission to slaughter them. In Uganda only the king has the power to condemn to death. A cabinet minister is limited to mutilation as a punishment. Even my permission to visit Victoria Nyatiza was granted only after the sacrifice of seven victims, unknown to me at the time. Every event of importance in that country is accompanied by a sacrifice. It is in this way that Mtesa impressed his authority. His people, strangely enough, were attached to him. Fancy, if you can, the wanton slaughter of life there, for when I left the court on my return to reach the river, a guard of 500 men were ordered to accompany me as an escort. Unwilling to have me go, afraid to pass a hostile territory of Unyoro, they resorted to murder of their own people along the route, strewing the road with mutilated bodies, telling me it was the enemy whom they had met in the battle and that it was impossible to proceed. It was, in fact, their own people, and they resorted to the butchery in order to deter me from proceeding." At this point the Herald correspond­ ent asked Col. Long for a description of the present king of Uganda, Mwanga, the son of Mtesa. He said: "Mwanga was a boy at that time, scarcely larger than the princess whom the king gave to me, and whom I took to Cairo and placed iu a convent. It was ten months after my visit that H. M. Stanley arrived at the court of Uganda carrying the British flag. He arrived there from the east coast. I was astonished to read in his dispatches of that time that he had converted to Christianity the savage brute Mtesa and translated the Bible in a few days. was the more astonished because Stanley must have known in ample time to have corrected the impression he sought to give that Linant de Belle- fond, my secretary, had been sent after my return to Uganda. My secretary met Stanley at the palace, and said that subsequent to Stanley's departure and after this pseudo conversion to Chris­ tianity Mtesa one day, boasting of his accuracy of aim, leveled his gun delib­ erately at one of his favorite wives and blew her brains out, and said: 'See what a good shot I am.' It was then that I read Mr. Stanley's appeal to the religious societies of the world to send out to Uganda missionaries for the evangelization of this people. "My prophecy, then, of the fate of the missionaries in reference to any such movement will be found in my work entitled: 'Naked Truths of Naked People.' In brief, I stated that central Africa is no paradise, but a plague-spot, and that the negro, the product of this pestilential region, is a miserable wretch, often devoid of all tradition or belief in a deity which en­ thusiastic travelers heretofore en­ deavored to endow him with. This is the naked truth that I would present to the reader in contradiction to all those claptrap peeans which are sung of this benighted country. The humani­ tarian may pause to consider the cost at which he sends his emissaries in the laudable effort to humanize and civil­ ize a country where nature has placed a barrier not alone in the poisoned arrow of the savage but in tbe more deadly poisoned air. Mr. Stanley said in a Letter dated the 14th of April of the presen year that he flatters himself to iiave shaken very sensibly the faith of the black monarch in Mohammedanism. If„ as I can scarcely believe, such lan­ guage was actually used by Mr. Stan­ ley he was either the dupe of the artful savage or appeals to the pseudo-phil­ anthropy which in Europe elevates the African at the expense of truth. Hav­ ing already made one step from fetich- ism to Mohammedanism, the attempt to shake that new faith would only cause him to grope hopelessly in a con­ fused labyrinth of gods. King Mtesa had recently adopted the Mussulman faith when X-^entered the country. Being a soldier, and not a missionary, I did not attempt the work of conver­ sion on this savage which would be utterly useless, in my opinion. His character and eonduct, as I have de­ scribed him, in my humble judgment, rendered him a very unfit disciple of the meek and lowly Jesus. Besides, I felt conscientious scruples against ad­ vocating the sending of missionaries into a country which I believed would only devote them to misery and a speedy death, without any results that coqld justify that inevitable martyrdom. Cer­ tainly this has been the sequel of All the attempts made by those brave men of the Austrian Catholic mission under the apostolic vicar, Mgr. Camboni, at Khartoum, who has endeavored to plant missions along the Bahr-el-Abiad and Khartoum, with but one result-- they all succumb to the inevitable and fatal fever." flpmor In Children. At what £gc is a sense of humor usually developed ? It very rarely exists in children under twelve.. The funny things that small children say are not funny to them; the odd and startling questions they ask have to them no element of the incongruous. It is usually only when they lose the faculty of making odd or deep observa­ tions that they begin to see any humor in them. Much of their apparent brightness comes from ignorance of the true relation of things. A couple of in cidents illustrate this. A gentleman in Massachusetts who was bom for a soldier, but had never the opportunity to indulge himself in this capacity, was made a member of the Governor's staff. He at once procured a uniform that for gold and gorgeousness surpassed any­ thing ever seen in the militia. Arrayed in the dazzling costume, he called one evening at a house to accompany young lady to a reception. The little girl of the family, who was above-stairs watching the progress of her sister's toilet, ran into the balustrade and neeped over when the bell rang, and saw this resplendent being enter the hall. "Who is it, Joe?" cried the sister. "I don't know," replied the apprecia­ tive child--"I don't know, but think it is God." The other incident may. be called more subjective. \ lady one day drove oi * clergyman who served coaokttftXi took np one of the driklrftn ol tbe faitt&r, a boy of and ctawi round the square. When)» WM set down, the boy marched into the parlor, and, bv way of acknowledge­ ment, said to the lady, "Aunt Lu, JTve been rid in' in your funeral. ifar- per's Magauine. Bulgarian Cofttnmte. In this land of Bulgaria, so unlike England, exoept in its green beauty, incongruous reminiscences of Henley regatta and Lord's ground are brought np every moment by the holiday dress of the peasantry, which at a short dis­ tance looks like that of our cricketers and oarsmen, writes a London Timis correspondent. The men wear trousers of white chaiak, or woolen homespun; red sashes, Oxford blue jackets, and scarlet skullcaps. A group of them on a grassplat makes one look round for the familiar tent, the wickets, and the rival eleven fielding out. The women have a graceful head drapery of Turk­ ish lawn, and their dresses are pro­ fusely embroidered with that beautiful crewel work of silk-or wool which the Turkish women used to make, but which is made no longer since they left the land. These embroideries are still to be bought fairly cheap; but in a few years the railways will have carried them all off to the West. Already th§ Bulgarian women are beginning to un­ derstand their value, and are putting them away for sale, along with the Turkey carpets, mats, and rich bed- counterpanes which make the interior of so many Bulgarian cottages con­ trast marvelously with the outside. It is quite a common thing to find in these hovels, grimy with smoke and infested with vermin, hangings and dresses which could be sold for a guinea the square foot in Regent street, and the color of these stuff's is so fine, the ma­ terial so pure, and the work so good and firm that a little cleaning will make fifty-year-old embroidery look like new. Alas, some apostles of civiliza­ tion in the form of German bagmen have latterly taught the Bulgarian wo­ men that they can mix a little cotton with their wool, and use cheaper ma­ terial for their dyes, so that even the comfortably white and blue cliaiaks, which were warm in winter and light in summer, which kept out rain and rheumatism, which could be darned and redarned and worn down to the thread, are now yielding to textures which, for trade' purposes, bear the same name, but of which the proper­ ties have nothing in common with the original. It is the German bagman, too, who has brought to Sophia the suits of shoddy that shrink at the touch of water, the printed cotton atuflfe of which the colors are warranted fast-- that is, fast to disappear; the watches guaranteed for a twelvemonth, and which go for just that length of time-- no more; and the gimeraclc furniture which limps, turns scaly, will not lock, and misbehaves itself in a dozen other ways in the new houses of the European quarter. . ; Inspiration of an Indian Girĵ 4 J I was told this story at the Howard University: A little Indian girl, a wounded and terified little thing, was brought in here from the Sandy Creek massacre, Colorado--they call it a battle out there--and placed at this school. For the first year she was mute, moody, entirely silent and un­ approachable. What in the world could this ungrateful little savage have been thinking about? But finally she made a friend or two and then she began to talk weird and wonderful things. She seemed in­ spired. She laid her fingers on the key and played the piano almost in­ stantly and, incredulous as it seems, perfectly. But she was falling away. flower that had been gathered from the wild West in the fashion she had been gathered could only droop and die. Yet, having touched the keys, she could not let go. She played and played almost constantly and entirely by ear and inspiration. At last she was too ill. She could only lie in her room and wait for death. But a special occasion was approach­ ing, a birthday party among the younf; girls of some sort, and she was en­ treated to play, for the hall would be filled with famous people from far about who had heard of her, and would come only to see and hear. Of course site declined; said it was impossible; she should never play any more. But in the midst of the entertainment, and precisely the time desired, she came gliding down, and all in ghostly white. She was wearing her shroud. I do not dare repeat the praises that were showered upon her. Suddenly she arose, glided silently away, and on and up to her room. They found her a little time after in her room lying on her back very still, her loving little hands across her breast, her great black eyes forever closed. She was dead. And they buried her as she lay without even so much as dis­ turbing a lock of her heavy raven hair. --Joaquin Miller. A Question of Color. , "Say, have you seen a colored pass this corner lately ?" "What color was he?" "What color?" „ "*• ^4 "Yes." I "Why, I mean a colored man^. f "Yes, but you don't say whether his color was white, red, black, brown, or yellow." "I mean an African, a negro." "Oh, I see. Yes, I saw one pass a few minutes ago. You should be more precise, my friend, in your inquiries when you want to know something." "I think you'll be cutting yourself some of these days if you continue to be so sharp," was the rejoinder; "and I guess you're out anyhow, for there are not so many colors as yon have men­ tioned. " "Oh, yes there are and more. Why I've seen a man looking blue and there's a druggist round the corner, he's Green, and the grocer he is Gray and--" But the inquirer for the colored man turned on his heel indignantly and strode on.--Boston Courier. man A Disappointment. "Here is a book mentioned in this paper entitled 'Hints on ljusbandry,'" said Miss Smiggle; "I think I'll go down town and buy me a copy." Her brother, to whom the remark was ad­ dressed, smiled and said nothing. That evening at the supper table he inquired: "Did you get the book you spoke of to-day, Miranda?" "Ye-es," was the somewhat reluctant reply. "And how did you enjoy it?" "Well, I reckon it's a good enough book, but the title is kind o' disappointin'." An eloping couple left the following terse note behind: "We're eloped. Forgive us if you can, but if you can't, what will you do about itt* gar*M i« Washington there be®» iwgatly got together atfal eoiaptoU sat of insectivorous so called from their being so oonstruoted as to attract insects, cap- tare them in various ways and feed upon them. A few of these plante have been gathered from their native hab­ itats in the swamp lands of North Caro­ lina and California, and others have been sent from India, Australia and Madagascar. Perhaps the best known of the group, and certainly the most wonderful, plant in the whole vegetable kingdom is Dionaeea mnscipula, commonly known as Venus' fly trap. The leaves vary from one to six inches long, and at the extremities are placed two blades or claspers, the shape of which may be said to resemble two hands placed to­ gether between the palms and the wrists, and the fingers held backward. The palms of the hands represent the inner walls of the trap, while the fingers represent the marginal hairs or teeth. On the inner walls of these claspers there are placed six irritable hairs, any one of which receiving the slightest touch from an insect is sufficient to bring tbe two blades together with such rapidity as to preclude any possibility of the fly escaping. A correct idea of how the trap closes on its victim may be obtained by bringing the two hands rapidly together, the fingers of the one being firmly pressed between those of the other. This plant readily discrim­ inates between animal and other mat­ ter, thus if a small stone or piece of wood be dropped into the trap, it will instantly close, but as soon as it has found out its mistake, and it only takes a few minutes, it begins to unfold its trap, and the piece of wood or stone falls out. On the other hand, should a piece of beef or a blue-bottle fly be placed in it, it will remain firmly closed until every piece of organic matter is absorbed through the leaf. It will then unfold itself and is ready for another meal. Next in the interest comes Sarracenia purpurea. This species is popularly and appropriately called "The Vege­ table Whisky Shop," and it captures its victims by intoxication. Here is a most excellent theme for temperance advocates. The entire shop is shaped after the manner of a house, with the entrance projecting a little over the rim. Half way round the brim of the cavity there is an immense number of honey glands, which the influence of* the sun brings into active operation. This sweet secretion acts as a lure to passing insects, and they are nearly sure, Bhould they come within its influence, to alight on the outside edge and tap the nectar. They, however, remain there but a brief period, as there is something more substantial inside the cavity in the shape of an intoxicating liquid, which is distilled by the plant. The way down to this beverage is straight, there is no creeping over/as the entrance is paved to the bottom, and should the fly walk crooked, its feet become entangled in them. When the fly has had its first nip it does not stop and fly right out, as it could do, but it indulges until it is more than "half seas overit then comes stagger­ ing up and reaches that portion where the hairs begin; here its progress out­ ward is stopped, owing to the points of the hairs being placed against it. The fly is now in a pitiable plight; it at­ tempts to use its wings, but in doing so only hastens its own destruction. It inevitably reaches the bottom, gets immersed in the liquid and dies drunk. --New York Mail and Express. Matthew Arnold's First Buckwheat Cake. It was at Cincinnati that Mr. Matthew Arnold had his first experience with the American buckwheat cake. He .was late for breakfast his first morning in Cincinnati, which was in itself an ami­ able not to say elegant fault, only in this case it gave the excellent Porko- politan with whom he stayed two hours of dread lest he had outraged the fit­ ness of things by setting the meal hour too early. Finally Mr. and Mrs. Arnold did appear and the first thing that greeted their eyes was a pile of buck­ wheat cakes. They gazed at the wooleny-looking tilings with half con­ cealed horror, and no doubt made in­ ternal comparison between them and the material of the gray flannel shirts which the traveling Englishman de­ lights to wear in countries which he deems barbaric. In vain the host pressed the cakes upon them. They would have none of them. Finally the Cincinnatian burst out: "Beally, Mr. Arnold, you must try one. They're the national dish. Come, now, I'll butter one of them for you myself." And, suiting the action to the word, he began the greasy operation, and in a trice had popped a smoking cake on Mr. Arnold's plate. Envying Clough his early death, Mr. Arnold extracted a segment and raised it to his mouth. The Cincinnatian regarded him with awful doubt and expectation. It was only for a moment. The master's rigid face was wreathed with unctuous smiles, and, turning to his wife, he said: "Try one, me dear; they're not half so nashty as they look."--Philadelphia Press. The Buttonholing Here. The buttonholer is an *arch fiend. Just make an engagement with a friend at a particular time, and when you know he is impatient of the least delay, |and step briskly out of your office and go waltzing down street. Just as you turn the corner a buttonholer looms up in smiling majesty just ahead. Too late io turn back, no chance to avoid him, and in sheer desperation you un­ dertake to turn aside in another direc­ tion. You glance hurriedly at him and he catches you eye, and beckons with his hand and cries, "Hold on a minute." Then he transfixes you with that fatal finger. You wiggle and squirm and writhe, and make inappropriate answers to his assertions, agree with him when he desires you to dissent and dissent when he wishes you to side with him. Ten minutes after you have rendered yourself hopelessly nervous from anx­ iety you look at your watch and find that you are five minutes behind your engagement. "Well, I must be going; good-bye, old boy," he cries; "lhave an engage­ ment Ah! say, have you heard, etc., etc." You make a wild dash for liberty, and in your wake comes the yell: "Just a minute; 'nother thing I wanted to ask you about," and you re­ sign yourself with that peculiar dis­ heartening resignation that doubles a man up when he sees a train move off just as he rounds the corner two blocks away.--Atlanta Constitution. MR. TALMAGE protests against the practice of shooting birds for ladies' hats. He ought to advise the ladies to shoot the hats, especially the fall ones they persist in wearing to the theaters. • T m m , "*vl \ 1/ '• EASO.T ruffled--a woman's dress. A raoinr question- -who lynched him? HIGH noon--twelve by the draroh clock. Dmnwa a bargain--exercising a new horse. TBE floral bell is getting to be rather stale for marriage ceremonies. Why should not some enterprising couple be married under a pur tree ? BOSTON has a man with two hearts. He ought to divide with some other Bostonian and there would be two men in the city with a heart each. "I'VE run a piece of wood under my finger-nail," said an old man to his wife. "Ah," she sneered, "you must have been scratching your head." JOHN HF.NRY, at four, eating green corn, was bothered with the silk. "I wish," said he, "whoever made corn had pulled out all the basting- threads." JEWELER--How do you like your watch? O'Kelly--Slmre an' its a gude wan, sur! It kapes good' time, and niver runs down; except whin I forget to wind it. IT was Thackeray who said, "Amer­ ica is a country of homes." We never read a poem by Oliver Wendell with­ out feeling that it is the country of Holmes, and without feeling proud of it.--Boston Courier. JUNE--Does Cheex, the young law­ yer, get any practice ? Koon--No. All the boys call him the flower that blooms in the spring. June--Why do they call him that? Koon--Because he has nothing to do with the ease. Tra-la-la* Detroit Free Press. TAGGS--I see that ballet dancers aren't going to wear skirts any longer. Baggs--Heavens! Is that so? Taggs --Yes, they're long enough already. Baggs throws his chestnut-bell into the gutter, takes Taggs by the arm leads him into a side door. HAPPINESS. How sweet along the tUvery sand to stow*, When balmy night succeeds the golden daft And Hesperus is glowing In the west, A golden head reclined upon your breast A soft -white hand within your own caressed. Bach hours aa theso to human kind are given, A foretaste of the sweet delights of heavw* --Boston Courier. A FORTUNE IN A FROCK. Jler pretty hands were slim and bxowfkv ' • And tenderly she fingered jT ' _ •he frills upon the gingham gown 4 •' On which my glances lingered. ,y.A . } •A simple frock?" Icried, with mirth >?••' . ' That Fashion grants her scholars-- V" """• #You stupid Jack, 'twas made by Wortfej ' And cost me ninety dollars!" 1 '£• i PAUSON--Well, sexton, how do the people resume their religions duties after the summer vacation ? Do you thiuk they have the true Christian sen­ timent in their hearts? Oh, yes, sir. I'm quite sure of it. There wasn't but one button and one plugged coin on the plate this morning. "I HAP a bad attack of stage fright once," began Snooper. "What!" re­ plied Sniggins, "I didn't know you ' ever appeared in public on the stage." "Oh, yes; you see we were traveling over the Rocky Mountains, when a couple of armed men stopped the stage, and put their pistols to our ears. O^, yes, it was a bad attack of stage frighti" -Tid-Bits. ; Two CHICAGO tourists having, at the expense of a good deal of exertion, climbed the Washington monument, naturally felt the need of a stimulant. First C. T.--Tom, give me a drink. Second C. T.--The bottle's empty (holding |aloft the discharged pistol). "Whew ! we are altogether too far from our base Of supplies. Let's go down." "All right. It strikes me we are some­ what like a stranded vessel." "How so ?" "We're high and dry."--Chicago Ledger. "MY physician has told me," re­ marked Dumley to the bar-tender, "that I must neither drink nor smoke, but I guess a light gin cocktail won't do me any harm." "No," assented the bar-tender; "it won't hurt you to drink occasionally; but if I were in your place, Mr. Dumley, I wouldn't smoke." A little later Dumley informed the cigar store man of his doctor's instruc­ tions ; but thought that an occasional mild cigar might be indulged in without serious risk. "Oh, I think so," the cigar dealer said; "bnt, Mr. Dnmley," he added, with earnest caution, "if I were you, I wouldn't drink."--Puck. h :T. •- yy "v-"-- •**> Pngs and Fags. Why any one should see any beauty in those snub-nosed, monkey-faced animals named pugs is what no philos­ opher can .find out, but the more wrinkles over the tip-tilted snub-nose* the more moles and freckles on the pudgy cheeks, the more insane the ex­ pression on the little beastie's face, the more ladies will love him. The above is a long sentence, but it does not ex­ press half that is understood about pngs. A pug--if a pure-bred--costs from $15 to $50 to begin with. It must be a stone-fawn color, with jet black ears and nose. The latter should be set directly under its eyes. Its tail should curl like a small porker's. It should have two black moles on each cheek. It should have wrinkles. And bulgy eyes that resemble the glass imitation. And it must be accompanied by a pedigree. A pug's owner lives in a state of con­ stant trepidation lest the little wretck should be stolen. It is usually carried off bi-monthly for the sake of the re­ ward offered for its safe return. There are a number of families in this city who make a comfortable living in this way. A pug's bath includes sulphur soap, white cream, arnica jelly and a stout stick to prevent it from drowning itself in its tub or raising the neighborhood by its cries of murder. Its toilet consists of blankets in dif­ ferent colors, some embroidered with monogram, others fnr-trimmed. with a pocket for the pet's handkerchief; a harness, composed of straps and bells, and a silk leader which is fastened to the owner's hand. It is not en regie for the pug to wear a collar, its neck being the same size as its body. The fox terrier threatens to super­ sede the pug in fashionable circles in England as a pet, but here it is as popular as ever. Dr. Saunder's Gipsev is one of the puggiest pugs in Detroit, but Toby and Piccadilly, Mr. Fred Thomas' London imported pugs, are specimen pugs and pets that challenge competition.--Detroit Free Pres$, l At the Corpse's House, ,• w; An Irish aborigine not only serves in Mrs. A 's kitchen but diverts the whole family with her perfectly original remarks. When Mrs. A 's grand­ mother died, and she had gone to assist in the last sad offices, a lady friend called during her absence. Ellen opened the door, and the lady said, "1% Mrs. A at home ?" "O, no, mum," replied Ellen; "her grandmudther's dead, and she's to th§ *<MPXNr«'«. toNMrn«' •>*. '•' v, k >•*. J ** (A. 't Vvw* * . • • the flay. aSe wew swtffest fa tiy •opfeme Govt tin. .1* a t IWIflfPi Jww 0K laaoewaf " ~ Cralitree, eattuolMee . Beo- into the Clark * Senate bills 1 MI4 3. . . r , sion IS of an act to revise the la*T ia vgation to criminal iorisprodence, approved Itech 37, 1874, and the seeood to iiqead, eeettewi fcand 5 of aa aet is relation to laoylgiia of real and personal jtopMtjr, 27, M74. Secretary of called the Honse of _ to order predMly at noon. James H. Fadfl eauad toe roll, and 148 members responded to their names, the' absentees Mug XMet of Marshall, limn <jt Washington, and- Hei- mann ot Clinton, Mr. Patrick, ot Ford, having died sine* tbe election of November. Mr. De­ ment said Hqilmann waa sick and eonla not be here. Mr. Vlokers, of Johnson, offered the cus­ tomary resolution tor the temporary organ­ isation of the House. The mutton pre­ vailed, and Representative Fuller, In a abort speech, nominated for temporary Speaker Joseph B. Messfek, of St. Clair, Brown, of Johnson, seconding the proposition. John H. Baker, ot Monltrie, on beniuf of the named Kobert L. SoXialay, of seven labor men refasad to vote, ir suggested to them the name of Thomas L. Kemtt as a suitable candidate. Mr. Dement declared Baker oat of aider, and Bailey, on behalf of his contingent, aesponded that the Labor people had plasty of material, bnt "were in the minorityand did nofcjoii* to delay the proceedings. The result waa announced as fol­ lows: Total vote east, Mt; Messiok, 79; Mc- Kihlay, 68. A eemmittee on credentials was appointed, consisting Of Bogardns, Collins, Eeton, Allen of Vermillion County, John­ son and Merritt. The offioial list of members as reported by the Secretary of State, waa adopted by tbe House, and Bon: L. C. Collins, as Speaker of the House and one of the Judges of Cook County, administered the oath of office to the members. On motion, the House proceeded to the election of a permanent Speaker. Three candidates were nominated, namely, William F. Calhoun, of De Witt, He- publican ; Clayton E. Crafts, of Cook, Demo­ crat Charles G.. Dixon, of Cook, Labor. The vote resulted as follows: Calhoun, 77; Crafts, 69 j Dixon, 9. The Republican caucus nominees for the offices of the House were elected by a party vote, and the House waa deolared organ­ ized in accordance with law. BUT little business was done In the Legisla­ ture on tbe 6th inst. The Governor's message was received and read in both houses. The Senate adopted the following resolutions: "Whereas, In the providence of God, John Alex­ ander Logan has been summoned from this life to the life beyond; therefore, be it Besolved, By the Senate, the Honae concurring herein, that in his death the State and the Federal Union have lost a devoted, loyal, talented, and serviceable citizen. Besolved, That in the death of Senator John A. Logan the State is deprived of one of its distinguished, wise, pure, and ef­ fective legislators, a statesman who will live in history with that brilliant galaxy that will shine on forever, composed of Linqoln, Douglas, Yates, and Grant. Besolved, That in the death of Major General John A. Logan the surviving veterans of the volunteer army have lost their most gallant comrade and ablest commander; that, as a citizen, as a civil officer, as a soldier, he was generous in thought, in- corruptibly honest, unshaken in his friendship, and undaunted in his bravery in the field and forum, his manhood challenging the admiration of the civilized world." Mr. Reinhardt offered a resolution indorsing Senator Cullom's inter­ state commerce bill, but the Senate refused to suspend the rules for its consideration. The House fixed the fourth Wednesday in January as a Logan memorial day. A eemmittee, consisting of the Speaker and three members and the President of the Senate and two members will prepare and announce a pro­ gramme. Seats were then drawn, the Labor members being allowed to sit together. A reso­ lution was adopted fixing' upon the 18th for the meeting of tne joint convention to elect a United States Senator. The two houses met in joint session and canvassed the votes ot the last State election, and declared John R. Tan­ ner elected State Treasurer and Richard Ed­ wards State Superintendent of Public Instmc-Mnn - "-vwy,- * i , ' I h>,v . ' ' Nature's Fortress. $ 4 >• It seems scarcely possible that in any part of the habitable globe there should be a natural refnge wherein criminals can openly defy the law, and where it is impossible for a crime to receive punishment However lax we may be at times in our judicial proceedings, still we know it is possible to lay hands on the evil perpetrators, even though we desire not to punish them. In the Island of Formosa, however, nature herself has forfned a fortified home for bloodthirsty criminals. Formosa is an island about ninety miles off the coast of China, from which country it is sep­ arated by the channel of Fokien. It was unknown to the" Chinese until the year 1403, and in 1634 the Dutch es­ tablished a settlement there, but after twenty-eight years of peaceful resi­ dence they were expelled by the famous rebel Coxinga, whose successors ruled the island until 1683, when the Chinese took full possession. Then the popula­ tion was from 2,000,000 to 3,000,000; now it has dwindled down to little more than 190,000. Although only 250 miles longhand eighty miles in breadth, nothing is known--by civilized beings-- of the interior portion, for it is inclosed by an enormous volcanic range, and it is within this that all the aborigines now herd together. These natives have a slender form, olive complexion, long hair, and blacken their teeth. They have no written language, and their re* ligion is confined to a superstitious be­ lief in demons and sorcerers. No won­ der, then, that they are easily governed by some of the more advanced descend­ ants of the rebel Coxinga, many of whom have taken up their abode with them, and a wild and desperate life they lead. They take advantage of the asylum offered by this belt of country to make organized expeditions there­ from for purposes of pillage, and even go so far as to arrange defensive oper­ ations against the dwellers on the sea- coast as a pretext for the levying of money. More than 1,000 cases of mur­ der are committed by these people every year, and the Chinese authorities are completely set at defiance. The mountainous nature of the coun­ try, and the large numbers to be dealt with preclude all success of the Chi­ nese soldiers against them. The brigands know every loophole, and get outside, while the others are unable to find their way in. The policy of the present Governor of Formosa seems to i Aii UO HV uaavi ma* vuv u«M(m vueome AUIA away from their associates. This plan has partly succeeded, but there are still at least 100,000 natives leagued with the brigands, and nature's lofty volcanic walls still remain a fortress impossible to storm, but easily held by these red- handed desperadoes.--Sari Franciuoo Call. . For Sleepless People. A lady who took exception to her husband's habitual wakefulness is cred­ ited with the invention of a mechanical device that it is promised shall do more to induce sleep than all that opiates, chloral hydrates, and even raw onions have ever done. The machine looks like a very long S, and is made in hard rubber, with a pad on one of its inner curves. At one end is a soft leather strap; at the other its curve forms a handle. In use the left hand pulls down the strap--after the instrument is placed on the neck--and the right hand laid on the handle presses down firmly, but not too firmly, the pad which rests on the carotid artery, so as to diminish the flow of blood to the brain. During sleep the brain is com­ paratively bloodless. A rush of blood to the brain creates insomnia. It was not remorse so much as an excess of blcod in his head that kept the Thane of Cawdor awake. The "somnolizer" keeps back the blood, and sleep ensues 7 wfttnralW » *-wwmmm :<• ' % cjjff* t-' \ '•> • "> > •", A