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' - " IMH 'Bftfiict. * jSi-'-A: . that i* J***,; %'tlh a Imby el&Jta, TbMlWfc thp iVowdv girl, A«4 the n>w>iy girl, And tbljltl that in alwayt tyiwfi the girl of style, «. • f i •- • .Ami tbe fflrl of wile, «>• ^ lj:;> 1st UM girl with the mlnclaggalfc, the t«c<!'etr girl. And the slander girl. And the girl that myn her prnm: There'* the taoghtv girl. And the naughty girl, And the girl that put# on ainfc . W>«rn'g the tolu girl, ' ^ *-fh And the "fool von" girl. • j : £• And the girl that bet a on raotij N There's the cnndv girl, And the dandy girl, * <• And the gtrl (hat has two (MM, . ^fcpre'B the well-bred girl, a Alxl the vrell-read girl, Andtha girl with a sense of dsty; There's the dainty girl, v And the 'falnfv" girl, . , : * : And the girl t hat has no There's the hwy girl. r And tho "daitty " gjrl, And the girl that's n merry joker; Tlwre'B the girl that's fchy. And the girl that's fly, L'-f And the girl that bluffs at • * < Inhere are many others, - O, men and brothers, man Vureuamod In this narration; There arn girl a and girla, And they're »!i. of them pearls, They era the best thing in. creation. £ r * JEATH-BEAR1NG STONES. ' ^ . • M AUEX mTRE BADLXE. Ki The account in a Southern paper, of • the terrible murder of a lady, "posses- ; sionof her magnificent diamond neck- taoe being the tempting bait which at- V traeted fln robbers, who was obliged to $ km her in consequence of her evidently W-dgsperate straggles,"--this account, I as 1 read it, recalled to my memory a strange story I once heard regarding those same precious stones. It was at the last "grand" wedding I f0 attended, some years ago, in a city far South. The happy groom was a former }••> comrade and a fine fellow, young in f" * ears, though an old .and true soldier. le had won a dainty bride; a sweet, ;> honest, warm-hearted Southern girl, !;' down in that land where he had oast his V lot after the civil war ended. My friend's father-in-law was "land :poor;® he had acres innumerable, but the fortunes of war had left him without "'i means to work his plantations, and he f - was too proud to part with an inch of ' ground. Tom, my comrade, intended to invest s the necessary money to produce returns 5 from this vast estate, and we knew that ; his Yankee thrift and skill would soon . . make dollars grow where rank weeds ulj then flourished unchecked. He ex- > pected, wanted* no dowry with his wife--she was treasure enough in her- :^r sell j uub ui his surprise, nbCut a Vi£6« : before the wedding. Ethel's father, one i" evening, entered the room where the ^ two were sitting, deposited an old-fash­ ioned jewel-case upra a table near by, and remarked: • - "This is all, except my blessing, and s my barren land, that I can bestow upon my daughter," then hastily left the room. Tom move4 his chair to the table, ,•:** opened the case and beheld the most ! magnificient necklace of diamonds his , r «yes ever looked upon; and he was more C than a usually good judge of sucli ar- ;« tides, too. Their value was "way up" . . in the thousands, he knew that at a iJ glance; old-mine btones they were, of purest water and remarkable size; in quaint, ancient settings, but a prize to make a queen's eyes glisten, though she were the greatest on earth. My friend, after recovering frcm his first surprise, glanced toward his be­ trothed. He saw her, lying back in her <?hair, pale as death, a frightened look upon her face and her eyes turned from the dazzling beauties that had so fasci­ nated him. In an instant he was at her side.. "Ethel, darling, what is it? Your father has astonished me with a gift to you that is more than two fortunes. I did not think such stones, so many to­ gether, were in existence, and yet they seem to terrify you!" "Tom, I would die before I would wear or own those diamonds. I should die, I know, if I did either own or wear them," she whispered, as she hid her eyes upon his sleeve. • "Ethel, dear, is this not a little bit of waraanlyox girlish nonsense?" "No, \Bbm, it is not. I never saw that necklace before, did not know where it was; but I do know its history; from my ©Id nurse I learned it long ago. Those are the 'Diamonds of Death f never ask me to touch them; willingly I shall never look upon them. "My great-grandfather, a French refugee,, came to this country with much wealth, principally in precious stones, as more convenient to carry, for he had to leave a great fortune behind, in his native country, when he fled from the -horrors of the Revolution there. "Those were times when men were rather anscrupulclis, and (I tell you only dear) it was said that my ancestor did not obtain those wonderful stones in the most honest manner, and that the rightful owners had uttered a -curse to follow the possessors of the "When my grandmother's sister was betrothed to one she had known all her Ufa, the son of a near neighbor, that necklace was presented to her by her father. She wore it at the ball given In honor of her engagement. The groom, that was to be, had loved her onoe, but during two yeans absence in 'tile city lie had formed an attachment for and married a poor girl. To tell 'his father this would mean disinherit- ment and ruin, consequently he hid his secret and trusted to time for relief. "The night of that ball he paid all at Mention to the fair girl who loved him welL It was she who proposed a walk through the wide grounds, when both were fatigued and warm from dancing. "They wandered away from the house '•toward a deep, walled fish-pond. He carried a heavy shawl upon his arm in owe the night air should chill her in Iter slight ball costume. No one had •een them slip away from the throng. "Her endearments seemed to madden liim; her talk of '&fter our infuriago/ only recalled to his mind the wife he loved, waiting for him then, in her inaiUe city home. "He returned to the house and d*nr>ed, " wildly, talked with feverish gayety, un­ til, in about half an hour, there were inquiries for Louise, that was her name. She oould be found neither in her Mom or elsewhere in the house. Search was made. In the fish­ pond, her head enveloped in » heavy tfikvl, they discovered her body; the diamond necklace was gone. "Ofoourse robbery ws supposed to be the cause of her death. She had evi­ dently wauderefi out to enjoy the cool air m some skulking villain had sprung u^oosand overpowered her;--that is what " Victor, who seemed utterly prostrated! with gifel, returned to the city-endl* wife. His extravagance far exceeded. the liberal allowance made him %• his | lather. He grew daily more reckleas, I moody, and unsettled. The old estate, the fish-pond where Louise's body had l>een fonnd, seemed to hare an irresisti-1 ble attraction for him. "He sold two very large diamonds to fcbtain money for payment of a gambling flebt. He did not dispose of them to a reputable house, but to a merchant who tvas known to deal with thieves. Eyes that he knew not of were on him when he selected those two stones from the many he had in a small bag. He left the low place, went to his club, paid the debt, then, through fate or whim, took Coach and was driven to the home of Ixmise's father. He did not make his presence known, but wandered through the grounds. ! "Some ond' must have followed him Irom the city. * "It was alter dark, when, from the fmfrequented portion of the plaee in |vhich the fish-pond was located, there rame a cry of 'murder! help!' "It took some little time for the serv­ ants and master to arm and go in an- ewer to the call. When they arrived they found Victor's body still warm, under the dear water of the frond,, a ghastly wound in the back of his head. There was evidenoe of a terrible struggle about the place. The murderers were certainly frightened ofl before securing what they sought,for on Victor's body was a small bag, contain­ ing a diamond necklace, necklace of which no duplicate existed, and two stones were wanting. "Then only was it known who killed Louise. "The missing stones were sought for, found, purchased and replaced. My grandmother was next possessor of that necklace. She first clasped it about her fair throat on the night of my mother's christening, a beautiful young bride she was then; her attendant maids had just completed her fleecy, airy toilet; the white dress, with its splendid lace exactly suited her delicate form and beauty; the flashing diamonds about her neck pleased her most. She turned quickly before the long mirror to note the rays of light dart from the great stones, the flame of a wax candle caught the flimsy texture of her dress; almost in a second she was enveloped in flame; in thirty minutes she was dead. The diamonds escaped uninjured. fcMv own mother tempted fate by owning and wearing that necklace. During Carnival time she appeared at the grand ball with it. The next night burglars entered our home, com­ pelled quiet of all the inmates while they searched the house for the treasure. It was then safe in the bank vault. But the shock to my mother caused her death. - "My youngest aunt next risked the wearing of those fatal gems. Though extremely delicate, she dressed, in win­ ter season, for an entertainment, in the only manner in which such jewels can be displaced. A few weeks afterward she died of lung disease, then con­ tracted. Then my father swore to sell the death-bearing stones. Those who told me their history thought he had done so, but now he brings them forth. I cannot, will not, wear, own,' or look at them!" Tom's little lady, gentle and yielding in all things else, was firm as iron in this resolve, and my friend loved hex too well to urge ner to any action against her desire. But her cousin, a gay, dashing, cool woman of the world WHS willing to set display against fate at any time, and she procured the diamonds as a loan from Ethel's father. Well she knew their history, but wonderfully they became her beauty as she wore them at the wedding, when I first saw her and the jewels. While I admired the lady greatly, I had much more to say in praise of the marvelous necklace about her exquisite throat,. So Tom told me the story that I have here written, as he heard it from hie pretty Ethel. That was two years ago. Mrs. wa3 allowed to retain possession of those jewels and now I read the account ofhei death, murdered for the Diamonds of Death. May they disappear forever. I am not superstitious, but I would not take them as a gift. How Mr, Bright Was Taken In. Mr. Bright used to be fond of salmon fishing in the Highlands. One evening lie and his party were returning to their inn after a day of poor sport to all ex­ cept himself--and he had a brace of fine salmon. By the roadside on a heap of stones they passed a wretched looking man weeping, with his hands on hie face and all in rags. In answer to Mr. Blight's inquiry he told a piteous tale of starvation at home, a siclc child and five hungry children. The tribune put his hand in his pocket, but unluckily had no change. "Never mind,, take that," he said, offering a salmon. "It will at least make a good dinner for you once." T he sequel was as folio ws: After wash­ ing his hands Mr. Bright was coming down to dinner when a girl happened to be crossing to the larder with a fine fish. "That is my salmon," said Mr. Bright, "I know him for he was hooked on the outside. Where did you get it ?" "Oh, from Sandy," said the simple Sootch lassie, "and he is in the taproom." Mr. Bright, looking rather grim and stern, forced his way into the taproom, where his lachrymose friend sat with a number of cronies taking his "nip," in full glee recounting his adventure. Nor was he a bit abashed at the stern face of the people's tribune, but had begun a long explanatory statement when the glance of scorn which had electrified parliaments and audiences swept over him. Without a word Mr. Bright re­ turned to his place. Afterward he was not so lavish with his fish.--Cincinnati Commercial-Gazette. . won iwa«S»L i4& ^ A- /*> •'* • - ••• • " •• J " Too Witty. "What's the charge against the pris­ oner?" "He malt-treated the complainant, your Honor." "Abused him?" "No, sir; got him intoxicated, and tried to rob him." "Is this so, complainant?" > "Yes, your Honor; he was feeling fox my pocket-book. He said a fellow feel­ ing made him wondrous kind." " What's your business, prisoner "A counter-fitter, sir." "Ha! a counterfeiter, eh?* "No, sir; a joiner." _ . " Well, you can join the prison oorps for thirty days."--Chicago Ledger. Iismm BRIDGET--Is all the elections ovei fur this year, Patrick ? Patrick--Oi'm thinkm' they are, Biddy. Sorry a one o* the political swells hez lifted his hat to me fur a wake. -- Philadelphia -"TV: Be Otwas • Banding frsm Work. At the Academy of Mauric. in Balti­ more, recently, Mark Twain read an ua- Eublished work nbput a wmn who was nocked with a crowbar from the nine­ teenth century backward into the sixth oentury. Mr. T wain said: I've read in Baltimore at different times about all I've ever published, so I'll try a chapter of my new work aud Bee how it takes. There are thirty-five chapters of it. If you like it 111 stop at the end of one chapter. If you don't treat me right I'll read you the whole of it. You hear of King Arthur's knight's of the Round Table and the magic of those davs. Take a live Connecticut Yankee like Peters of my story, a me­ chanic and foreman of fire-arm works and show him back into King Arthur's time and magic won't have a show. I'll let Peters tell his own tale after the crowbar incident: "I found myself sitting on the ground with a landscape before me and a man riding down upon me with a helmet like a cheese-box with slits in it upon his head. He said, " Will ye couch me a lance ?" I said, "this is a dream" of 200 years ago, so I replied, "Get back where you belong, with the rest of the dream." He allowed I was his captive, so he took me along to some place, and I con­ cluded it was an asylum. I asked how far is it to Hartford, and he made an answer that I took to be a lie. Then we came to a fortress and suggested " Bridge­ port?" Oh, no, Camelot. I met a fellow in yellow tights, who looked like a double carrot. I asked who he was. I wanted to see the head-keeper. He said he was a page. "Pardon me," said I, "you ain't a paragraph," and I asked, " When were you born ?" He said in the year 513. I stopped and said faintly, "Say it slowly, maybe I didn't hear you rightly." He repeated it, 513. "Good­ ness, you don't look it. Where am I?" "The King Arthur's court." "And what year is this?" "528, the 19th of June," he answered. And I groaned, "Oh, Lord! then I'll never see my friends again, for I'll be dead before they are born." Anyhow they stripped me as naked as a pair of tongs and threw me into a dungeon. There the page came to see me. I had gone to sleep, think­ ing still it was a dream. So when he came I said," Clarence, or whatever your name is, let the dream go right on." "Ah," said he, "you are to be burned at the stake to-morrow." He told me of Merlin, their great magician. So to get respite I said, "Clarence, I'm ar­ ranging a little calamity for your nation that'll make the fur fly." I didn't know what calamity I'd bring, but Clarence went and told the King, and when he came again I recollected how Columbus played the eclipse on the people. I knew this would be original with me, because I could get in my eclipse 1,000 -years ahead of Columbus. So, knowing the eclipse would come, I said, "Clarence, tell 'em I will smother the world in the darkness of midnight." I heard foot­ steps. I said, "Here comes my deliver­ ance." i> lit HO. The iQ6u-itrnrui5 Said I was to be burned that morning before I could have time to work my spell. They placed me at the stake with 5,000 people around, the King and Queen be­ ing the most prominent. Just as they were to burn me it got darker. Sure as guns, there was the eclipse. My eclipse. Every eye was fastened on the sky. I knew every gaze would next fall on me. I assumed a commanding attitude like this, with my finger pointed toward the sun. I made a magnificent effect. Then they looked on me and besought mercy. I said: "If any man moves, even the King, I will blast with thunder and consume with lightning." The King agreed to give me half of his king­ dom if Fd stop it. I'd taken it in a minute, but you know I couldn't stop an eclipse; I could start one with any­ body. Well, I wanted time to oonsider, while the eclipse grew darker. I said: ' I will let the darkness proceed for a lesson. You shall make me perpetual prime minister and give me 1 per cent, of the increase of the revenue." "Well," continued Mr. Twain, the other thirty-five chapters run on like this." The Villain Still Pursued Him. The following story is told of a Mass­ achusetts school-board inspector: • The evening before the day on whioh he was to pay an official visit, his wife ppt a new flooring in his pants, and ac­ cidentally left the needle where she had done the work. Arriving at the school, he stiffly re­ turned the salutation of the polite teacher, and majestically settled into the "company chair." It didn't seem to the most acute observer that he had but just touched the chair, when he at once began to ascend. A wave of perplexed pain passed over his face, as his hand soothingly parted his coat-tails. The look of bland surprise from the teacher drew from him the blushing explanation that he never could sit on a"caneseat." A wooden chair was at once offered to him, into which he dropped almost as swiftly as he got out of it. The instant ho struck on his feet, he shook his fist angrily in the face of the astounded tu­ tor, and shouting, "I kin whip the pew- serlanermoua man what stuck the pins in them cheers," he caught up his hat and fled home. "Lor', Eben!" exclaimed his wife, as he tore into the house, "what's the mat* ter with you ?" "Matter!" shouted the infuriated man, as he snatched off his coat and flung it out of the window. "I have been made the fool of the entire district by that sneakin' teacher," and his Sunday hat flew through another window. "Pins stuck into my cheer as I was a settin' down as onsuspishous as I am settin' down in my own * "Lucretia!" he howled, a* he sprang out of that chair and spasmodically went for the wounded pari with both hands. "You're fooling with vour best friend now, and he ain't in a humor to stand the trifling." In an instant it flashed into the good lady's mind what the trouble really was. In the next instant Eben's nether gar­ ment was over her arm and there-- there, in the midst of the repairs glis­ tened the source of all the annoyance. The unfortunate man gave one brief stare at the evil thing, and falteringly remarked as he thought of the future: "I'd a gi'n $20, Lucretia, if you hadn't found it." A Strange Story About Mr. Stanley. A writer in " The We#er Zeitung" places Mr. Henry M. Stanley by the side of Ulysses and Eneas, and implies that in the wanderings of the modem American, as in those of the femeieut Greek and Trojan, there was a woman in_ the case. Mr. Stanley's Calypso, or Dido, was a young English lady wkoia he met in his four-fourth year, when he was living in New-Bond street. The hero who has faced such stupendous difficulties was too modest or shy to tell her of his love, bat Confided li t© her brother, requesting him to be jKwpsOT* •• "»' yss nor aooepjk fpSlover who had not joou .̂ age toSpeaTfor himself," bttpM to thihk over the problem. Whiter she was thinking oamc the call to Stanley to march oft to AMca for the liberation of Emin. His old love for Africa revived, and he left the ..English Calypso delib- eretang.--Pall Mall Gazette. ^ - ^ < ̂ Defying a ttorernoiV s 1 • r I lijng before the war by wluoB thirteen American colonies became ind pendent States, they were often engaged) in struggles to prevent royal governors from encroaching on their rights and privileges. In the autumn of 1693, Gov. Fletcher, of New York, went to Hartford to assert there his authority as eommander-iu-chief of the militia of Connecticut.. The royal cominission hid entrusted him with large powers over the militia of the colony, ana he ordered it out, though the season for parades had ended, and the charter of Connecticut denied his jurisdiction. "I will not set my foot outside of this colony," said Fletcher, haughtily, to the Governor, "until I have , seen his Majesty's commission obeyed." The Connecticut Governor yielded so far as to order Capt. Wadsworth to call out the train-bands of Hartford. The result is described in Lossing's "History of the Empire State." When the troo}>6 were assembled, Fletcher stepped forward to take com­ mand, and ordered his aid to read his Excellency's commission. Capt. Wads* worth ordered the drums to be beaten- " Silence!" angrily cried Fletcher, and the aid began to read. ,, "Dram! drum!" shouted WadsworVh, and the roll of the drums drowned fche aid's voice. " Silence 1" again cried the engaged Governor, and threatened the Captain with punishment. Wadsworth stepped in front of the furious Governor, rested his hand on his sword, and said, calmly: "If my drum­ mers are interrupted again, 111 make the sunlight show through you! We den/ and defy your authority." The Governor folded up his commis­ sion, returned to New York, and com­ plained to the TCing of his treatment; but nothing came of his complaint.-- Youth1* Companion. » -- '• ' Wood Pulp. • At the t>egining of the past year £h"e Paper Trade Journal, it its statistical columns, divided its record of the ar­ rivals of ground and chemical wood, giving the amount of each in tons. The importations prior to that time had been given in gross by bales. For this rea­ son no fair comparison of the arrivals of last year with those of the previous year eau be made. Certain it is, however, that the im­ portation and the use of wood have in­ creased, and the total for the year reaches the aggregate of 12,591 tons of ground wood. The fluctuations in the market have been slight. A very steady call has beed maintained, and the range of values has been about the same. In domestic makes the opening prices were If to 11 cents, delivered. The figures were maintained for a long period, varying only according to die place of delivery. Gradually, however, concessions were made, and at the close the range had been lowered to If to If cents, accord­ ing to point of deliveries, with l£ cents bid and declined. In foreign grades the year opened with 1.50 cents quoted for 50 per cent, wet ex dock, and 1.70 cents for dry. Some advantage was gained in the following months, and in May, under temporary influences, the market went to 1.65 cents, but during the summer re­ lapsed to the old value. During September and October ar­ rivals were almost entirely shut off, and the market was steadily held, closing at the opening figures of the year. The "Sentence System." Charles Dickens, while visiting the Massachusetts school-ship, was called upon for a "speech." He responded by saying, "Boys do all the good you oan, and make no fuss about it." ^ Mr. Dickens, as his novels attest, be­ lieved in the beneficial effect of a pithy saying and a striking proverb--pointed words which would fasten themselves in the memory. The conductors of the "Netherlands Mettray," one of the model reform schools of Holland, use this "sentence system" as a means of moral education. They hang on the walls such sentences as these: "He who seeks himself will not find God;" "A poor man he who has nothing but money;" "He is a fool who lives poor to die rich;" "Labor has a golden bottom;" "Care for the moments, and these will care for the years." Sometimes a boy is made to learn a sentence by heart. One boy was over­ heard using foul speech to a comrade. Ho was ordered to read to the boys eveTy morning for eight days' this sen­ tence, "It is better to be dumb than to use the tongue for filthy talk." It made him clean in speech.--Youth's Com- panion. • When "John" Took to Washing. There are no laundrymen in China. No linen is worn there. The rich use silk and woollen undergarments, and the poor wear woollen or cotton. As starching and ironing are unknown, the female servants do all the laundry work. The reason of the great number of laundrymen here is that when the Union Pacific Railroad threw hundreds of Chinamen out of employment they cast about for something to do, and as there was a great demand for washerwomen, and a scant supply of them in the West, the Mongolian turned his attention to her trade. He learned it so quickly and so well that he stuck to it, and made so much money that the calling soon be­ came popular. Gradually the laundry­ men came East, and no city, and now few villages of any size in the whole country are -without a Chinese " laundry." --San Francisco Call. laeMirii. l ean see the hern now, just as it used to stand under the hill with its reddish- brown sides basking in the fiery sun, and its great doors standing wide open and pinned back with a st iek or an old rake handle. On one side were the stalls for the horses and the other side was used for the wagons and the thresh­ ing machine. Over eaoh were the great mows that held ever so many tons of hay and where, on rainy days, I used,to hunt for eggs or lie a-mooning and list­ ening to the rain pelting - on the shin­ gles. Sometimes I would take my "Arabian Nights" up there, and then-- presto!--I was thousands of miles away with Sindab the Sailor in the Valley of Diamonds; and I saw everything he saw, the great birds und the diamonds and serpents, and I always felt hungry when he did and w»« ready td cry with vexa­ tion at every fresh mishap. Then there were the huskings. Some­ how I can't find in any baker's shop a nut jpake as good as that we used to get when huskings were over. I came pretty new it one day, and then discov­ ered I hrvd forgotten the cider that al­ ways accompanied it. Real genuine cider, I mean, made from ripe sweet apples and put away in a great barrel in the cellar among the turnips and potatoes. I'm .sure I've forgotten now whether I preferred the husking or the eatables, but I fancy it was the latter; for they used to say I learnt my lessons I etter. if I were promised a piece of take. What jolly times we had, to be sure! I remember it was at a husking in our barn that Tommy Clark and I fell out over his attention to a certain little girl with large blue eyes and a sadly freckled face. Tommy's mouth and eyes suffered a great deal in consequence, I'm afraid. But I can still feel his shoes banging away at my shins, and I remember dis­ tinctly that he struck me twice on the nose and once on tho ear. 1 believe Tommy married that little girl eventu­ ally, and I think she got a divorce sub­ sequently. I wish I were back on the old farm to-night and not here, in a third-floor back, with the wagons rumbling in the streets and everybody rushing round and making as much noise as they pos­ sibly oan. Mother wouldn't be there, though. She died two years ago; and father and Kate and Joe keep house at the farm. And the old barn is still there. I suppose the horses wouldn't know me, and I would have to get ac­ quainted with the dogs. Yes, some­ times I wish I was a boy again, running around in a pair of very large pantaloons and a jean shirt, and with nothing to do but climb up into the haymow and read my "Arabian Nights," while the rain rattled on the shingles of the old barn. --Salisliwy Green, in Texas Siftings. ms Thoreau. Never was there a truer admirer of nature than Henry D. Thoreau. Not only did he admire her beauties; the grandeur of the mountains, the blue of the sky, or the clouds reflected in the lakes, but he looked within them and read the truth they contained, which pointed out to him the noblest paths of life. He believed that one day in the week should be work day and the other six "Sabbaths of the affections and soul," in which to wander through na­ tures realms and receive her "soft influ­ ences and sublime revelations." This plan he followed, working six weeks in the year and devoting the rest to study. In the pine woods of Maine, in the deep waters of the Concord and Merrimac, about his hut in the forest by the side of Walden Pond, he communed with nature and profited by her teachings-- the teachings which are written down in his books. The philosophy which appears in his pages was the guide to Thoreau's foot­ steps. Like most philosophers he ex­ hibited a self-denial--and practiced it too. He wrote that there was some­ thing exalted and noble in giving up one's own interest for others. He be­ lieved in a true greatness--one whose object is not fame, but the acquire­ ment of some set object; regardless of brambles thrown in tho "way .qv fruits to be had t>v turning aside. His greatest ambition was that he might not disap­ point himself; that his weak deeds might be consistent with his faith; that his prac­ tices might be more than his sayings; that his writings or low conduct might not show that he did not understand God's purpose or overrate his designs. He accomplished his own ambition. For no man ever lived up to his convictions better than did Thoreau.--C. Lauron Hooper, in St Louis Magazine. The Women of Great Britain. There are 3,000,000 more women in Great Britain than men. Thirty-seven per oent. of all the women of marriage­ able age in England are unmarried. Fully one-half of the women of the edu­ cated middle olass--gentlewomen --of marriageable age are without husbands. Economy is the watchword of the day abroad. British fortunes are shrinking. Ways and means of contracting expen­ diture are every day topics in British papers. Estates will no longer stand the charges upon them involved in the maintenance of such a horde of maiden sisters. Women unused to lifting a finger for themselves are being thrown in ever increasing numbers on their own resources. They have been brought up to no remunerative occupa­ tion. The have no business experience. They have no business ideas. They shrink with a painful sensitiveness from contact with a rough and tumble world. There are thousands on thousands of them.--Philadelphia Times. V t : j ( The Frog and the laak A Lamb Who lay down beside a Pond for Rest and Sleep, found it impossible to close his Eves on account of the Croaking of a Frog. Out of Patienoe at last with the Interruption, he sprang up and demanded : ' "In Heaven's name,, why do you keep that Noise going F* "It's the only Noise I oan make," was the Humble Reply. "Yes. But why do you make it at all?" i "If I kept Quiet, Who Would know J that I was on earth?" . j Moral.--Men of Blad are excused on , the flakae grounds.--Detroit Free Press. T--- ( WHATEVER is said to the chemist he ' ought to always be ready with the proper retort.--Boston Bulletin. j • IF length of days be thy portion, make it not thv expectation.--Sir T, Browne. Bnsiness Second Nature to Him. Mr. Rylands, the great Manchester manufacturer, almost up to his death, at nearly ninety years, insisted upon con­ ducting personally the ooncerns of his business, which he founded nearly seventy years ago. Every morning he would be driven to his office, and with the kindly connivance of his managers and head clerks made believe to direct affairs as he used to do in former years. One day when the end was growing very near, he was driven as usual to his office. When he was helped out of his carriage and looked up at the building he turned to re-enter the carriage, ex­ claiming pettishly: "No, no, I want to go to my own place." He did not know the palatial building in which his later fortunes were cared for, and his failing mind, suddenly turning back for sixty years, saw the modest building in which he had started. Hard at Work. "Bob, where is Tom?" "He is cutting wood, and has been working like a nigger." "How is that?" " Why, he is setting on a box whittling a stick. --Arcola Rf-cord. MONET talks in this countiy, and even in Italy it is something of a lyre. The men leads to the ooUdusfon that msAj mental culture is not necessary to pro­ duce the highest power of jninoL There issearoely an instance of a gnat man, one who haa accomplished gnsat results, and has obtained the gratitude of man­ kind, who in early Hie received an edu­ cation in reference to the wonderful labors which he afterward performed. "I was brought up among the high­ lands of Connecticut," said Chancellor Kent, "and was never kept on the high* pressure plan of instruction. I was roaming over the fields and fishing, and sailing, and swimming, and riding, and playing ball, so as to be but superficially learned when I entered college. I was not in college half the time. I was at home, at leisure, or at gentle work, and much on horseback, but never in the least dissipated. When I went to study law I had my own leisure, and great ex­ ercise and relaxation in enchanting rides, and home visits until I got to the bar. I lived plain, drank nothing but water, ate heartily of all plain, wholesome food that came in my way, was delighted with rural scenery, and active and healthy as I could be. It was not until I was 24 that I found that I was very superficially taught, and then volun­ tarily betook myself to books. The ardor and rapidity with which I pursued my law and literary course were great aQd delightful, and my health and spirits were sound and uniform, and neither has faltered down to this day. Herbert Spencer says: "The ordi­ nary treatment of children is in various ways seriously prejudicial. It errs in deficient feeding, in deficient clothing, in deficient exercise (among girls at least), and in excessive mental applica­ tion. Considering the regime as a j whole, its tendency is too exciting; it ; asks too much and gives too little. In the extent to which it taxes the vital energies, it make3 the juvenile life | much more like the adult life thin it should be." | "The educational abomination of deso­ lation of the present day," says Prof. Huxley, "is the stimulation of young people to work at high-pressure by in- oessant competitive examinations. Some | wise man (who probably was not an early riser) has said of early risers in general that they are conceited all the forenoon and stupid all the afternoon. It is too often true of the unhappy chil- ' dren who are forced to rise too early in their classes, they are conceited all the forenoon of their life, and stupid all the afternoon. The vigor and freshness, which should have been stored up for the hard struggle of practical life have been washed out of them by precocious mental debauchery, by book-gluttony, and lesson bibbing. Their faculties are worn out by the strain put, upon their callow brains, and they are demoralized bv worthless childish triumphs before the real work of life begins. "--Shirley Dare. • '• The Name "America." The bulletin of the Paris Geograph­ ical Society contains an account by M. Jules Marcon, of certain further re­ searches which he has made of the name "America." As far back as 1875 he published a paper on the same topic which attracted much attention at that time, and he has since devoted much labor to an investigation of early his­ torical documents in which the* New World is named. The popular notion that America was so called from the Chrutian name of Amerigo Vespucci is, he says, wholly unfounded, and he sum' up his conclu­ sions in this way: ; 1. Amerique is the Indian name of the mountains between Juigapa and Libertad, in the Provinco of Chontales, which separate Lake Nicaragua from the Mosquito coast. The word in the Maya language sigt# fies "the windy country," or "the country where the wind blows always." 2. The Christian name of Vespucci was Alberico in Italian and Spanish, Alberi- cus in Latin. 3. This particular name is subject to an enormous number of variations, as the nomenclature and cal- anders of Italian and Spanish saints of the period show; but nowhere is there any such variation as Americus, Amer­ igo, Amergio, Amerigo, etc., and none of these is either a diminutive or a vari­ ation in use in Italy, Spain, or France for Alberioo or Albert. 4. Before 1507-, when Jean Basin, of Saint-Die pub­ lished the name it was not to be found in any printed document, nor even in any manuscript of recognized and in- contestible authority. M. Maroon claims that his theory of a native origin for the name Amerioa has been accepted in Spain, Spanish America, and with some exceptions, in the United States; in France, Ger­ many, and Italy it has excited doubt and surprise,but in the last named he has the support of the eminent Turin geog­ rapher, M, Guido Cora. There is no doubt that Columbus and Vespucci went along the Mosquito coast at the feet of Siorra Amerique, and that the same was reported by the officers and men of these expeditions, and Schoner, the geographer, declared in 1515 that the name was already popular in Eu­ rope. It is beyond question that one edition of Vespucci's letter on his third voyage has the name Amerigo in the place of the Christian name; nineteen editions had Albericus, and subsequent Italian editions had Alberioo. The one with Amerigo on the title page was pub­ lished m 1506, but M. Marcon suggests that this was never intended to be a variation of Alberioo, but rather the adaptation of Amerique, the name al­ ready known and applied to the new world, to Vespucci's name to distin­ guish him, as we say now "Chinese Gordon," to distinguish tho particular Gordon by suggesting one of his great­ est feats.--London Times. The Theory Demonstrate ̂ "Do you believe in that theory of the power of mind over matter?" asked one traveling man to another. , "Oh, yes. I've tried it." "You have?" ^ "Yes. I met a very savage bull-dog not long ago. I hastened away with all possible speed, but dropped my new silk hat on the way." # ^ "Yes, but what has that to do with the subject we were discussing?" "Nothing, except that when the dog made up his mind to dislike the hat it was astonishing to see how promptly the matter jUMied.--Merchant Tramkr. - . HIS MA6IC WT MMM* ' ' .V ' TFEBTNT^-MWIS atia&flilrijr ID hav» at your finger EADA.- ^ I HTFWIW JPueki 1 WOULDN'T itbe fanny to an* • • aH#!?| manned by women^~ ITO<TFC»TOL J»oe|. Express. MOTHER HUBBARD oook-beoks a«f\ said to be proof against smaU waist*-- ' .: Rochester Post-Express. A GIRL always wants & fellow to TIE/'""; a true lover's knot when efte geta htm < on the string.--Boston Gazette. ,. YOUR washerwoman may HE a good"44 soft-soaper, but she is SET always white washer.--Yon kers Statesman, V "I WA5TT to buy a hat." "LEW crown or high?" "Very tulL" "Silk?" "No. ' ; cloth: a kind of long-felt want."-- £ Chicago Ledger. g A WOMAN was caught smuggling run» £ into prohibition Maine in her MUC : She marched like a military FUNERAL, ^ with muffled 'rum.--Texas Sijkings. { F MRS. GABB (reading)--Wakefield ha« a millionaire who sleeps In the barn . with hi* horse. Mr. Ga-BB (brutally) - Well, horses don't talk.--I^Uadelphieir^M Record. % DIGBY--AwVe jawst thawt awf aw scheme taw keep thaw mwwtha awt awf J\ maw clothes, daw yaw know? Bigby--- * Whawt is it? Digby--AW--give awia awway--haw, haw!--Life. . ; "COURT the fresh air day an£ night, says a medical exchange. THAT'S goo<| * : advice for the girls, but if YOU are young man you had bettor court the ".0. fresh heiress.--Danville Breeze. ^ Roscius--What was the mine of that: play you started West with, Romeo F Romeo--"On the Trail." Roscius-- How did you get back? Romeo--0»V;; • the T-raflL--Terre Haute Express. THE champion absent-minded man has been found in a lawyer. He walked up his own stairs the other day, and seeing a notice on his door, "Back at o'clock," he sat down to wait for HIM? self. O- | TERRIBLY Broken--"And are yo|F IT really so badly broke, my friend," hf said, as he tendered the tramp a penny, "Broke?" was the bitter response, "RI^IYG as badly broke as the TEA ©ommandc 7 ments."--Life. •. "I'M hunting for something I canl find," said a professional humorist to hie wife, as he pulled his hair out by handful. "You'll never find it, dear,* she sweetly replied: "that is, if you're looking for an original idea." : NASALITY. Rev. Mr, Brimlet--Fv» accepted that call. You know; Thomas, seven thousand a year is not to be sneezed at. Mr. Razzler (LA pronounced layman)--No, indeed, old man. Yon ought to snuffle along on that very well. ^ --Time. f "I'VE been working like a hosse, all " •: DTQR," growled Fogle, as ho sat down TO the supper table with a lotfk of gloomu ' ; Mrs. F. remarked very quietly: "I'M , sorry to hear you say so, dear. Horses^ "' you know, never work unless they ar| % clriven."--Boston Transcript, ^ Miss LONGPURSE--Why, OF oourse, : Helen of Tory was beautiful. Do ydu / suppose there would have been twenty-year war over her 3 she hadnt been beautiful? Mr. Shortoash (forget* ting himself)--O, I don't knew. Maybe she was rich.--New York Weekly. FIRST Young Lady (at Bread Street Station)--These young men are SORUDESIF'^ Tve a great mind to complain of them. - Second Young Lady--We might go into the big waiting-room and sit down. • "O, it's so stupid in there. WA reserved ; exclusively for ladies."--PMtotdelphi* Record. v.. DRESSMAKER--There is not sufficient F material, madam, for a train nine feel 1 long. Customer--Indeed! How much , is wanting? Dressmaker--About hall a yard. .Customer--O, well, make th« corsage more decollete and you will get, ^ "enough out of it for the twta.--Pari$ Figaro. . - TRACKMAN (to tramp)--Store, yez HAD batter get off the track, the fasht mail is due. Tramp--Say, boss, yer don't : tink I'd let it run over me> do ye! "Begorra, it isn't that I fbar, but th« •. , engineer will tek that nose of yez for red light and shtop the train"--Texan Siftings. " HUSBAND (coming home from ehuroh) . --You seemed unusually thoughtful during the sermon, my dear. I was. impressed, too. There seemed to BT.;V'•% something genuine about it. Wife-* «£ Well, there isn't. I'm perfectly SUR^S? it's only seal plush, for ALL Mas. Veneei , - gives henelfsuoh airs ovarii--Harper** ' I Bazar. s.-^ "BANGS is a great musoian, Jones. "Indeed? Td be delighted to heat ' him sing some of the old s»nge, such at V 'Cabin Home,' 'Hold the Fort ' * | "We did that. He don't singf-'but oh>R how he plays! We had to held the ^ forte for over an hour while he played!; • •The Storm,' last night."-- Chicago: Ledger. "J A WOMAN went into a Boston store and inquired for a cravat. "Do yoti > want a simple tie or A Windsor, N Harvard, a four-in-hand, or WHAT?'^'I| "Any one will do." "But gentlemen ' have some chotoe in neckwear." "NEVE* . '^ you mind; the man this is for will WEAT& 5 it and say nothing. He's dead."--Shot^M and Leather Reporter. .\f AN Augusta store: Genial and jooose ;: proprietor. Enter lady--"Is Mr. A. ^ "" * """ •Do in?" "He is not, madam. know when he will be in ?w "I do not. "Will I find him at his house if I calf there?" "Do you take this for an in­ telligence offioe, madam?*" asked the proprietor. "Not after I look at your face, sir," and the door dammed after a willowy feminine form.--Augusta {Me.} Journal. tt TOO POLmS. He ni a very courteous m&tt, "" J With manners perfect ' - * No one was ever more urbaiMt Or could be more polite. . To hear him murmur. "Thank jtm. Wan really quite a treat; Tn nnn Tilhi i 1 ii ii _ ill liilini•iigjaim, Wm havpiueBB completer I r* But though a man be moatpoMt% Some time he's sure to gfifc , From grace, and once a cruel let* Made even this one trip. For one day a svrcsfc girl »aM "T>S," (How strange are Cuirid'e pranks) And then he lost her, once Mr all. Because he murmured "Thank*(* --BomervWe Journal. 1 .. wh f.pm I7 he He Dropped. KDid any one in this oar drop money?" called the conductor as opened the door. There was a painful silenoe for half a minute, aad then a man held up his hand. "How muoh was itl" asked the con­ ductor. "I dropped $45 at Xaro last night, but I cant expect to get it all back. Give me $35 and let the rest go to experi- There Was Quite an Intimacy* f A novel definition of what constitutes ̂ Ihtimaey was given the other day in the Supreme Court. All the Judges were *,';y dozing while the counsel in some inter-jsJIp minable case was reading from the "'tea^jp timony. Bather unexpectedly one of. the justices roused up and asked the ..'.fj lawyer if he elaimad there was any in- v»# timacy between the parties, "I do, your honor," said the lawyer. "I will read the testimony again on that v:. * point." ' And he read the question as follows: "Were you on intimate terms with*, I the prisoner?" / • Witness--Yes I was. He/»ften called me a darned fool. r' The Court looked surprised, but thaV iwifchhisai i. -/ -1, . t. . « &.%f: te. ,'..i » J....w . i >L* . . . J.1&