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AN HUSATIAN LABICKF $ _ he. frotA bus>ne«s f ree. Like the merry men of old, ho tills hie land with hi# own And knows not the Inst of gold. ,, Xb sailor he on stormy sna, ; No eolrlipr, trnnipet rtirred; . , i . ' •--•li? -at"1 he shuns thf town and the bingbtjr Irowm . *' • • "jQI the eJttteB' fawning herd; • •--- he bid* the vine with her tendrils INHUI. Around the poplar Ull; - ,; „ he adds a gr*ft. with a gardener's cgjfej e tree that climbs his wall. " *. •1. •"is To the tree a grazier keen, on the pasture# green He sees his oxen feed ; _ Or he shears hie flock, or he brew# a stock • Of his nwtic nectar msad. * ; And when autumn at length, in his manly rfHUnIll Has raised his fruit-crowned head, He plucks the pe»r with it« flavor raw. " And the grape with its clusters red. With his knee on the sod he thanks his God For His mercies and His favors free; And he lays him along, while he list# the #o«g Of the thrush in the old oak tree; While the waters, jjlide with the rippling tide, - , And the zephyrs Foftly creep OVr the quivering leaven, "midst the murmuring trees, And lull the senses lo sleep. jut when thwnderirg Jove from his store# above Sends wintry snows and rain, And rock and wood, and field and flood, Lay bormd in his icy chain, With many a oound, in the wood# around He hunts the grizzly bosr; And ere daylight fade hi# gleaming blade I# red with the monster's gore. When the sua has set he (spread# hi# net. And the partridge, fluttering, die# ; He takes the hare in his crafty snare, And the crane--a goodly prize. •Mid joys like these what ill# can teas®-- Who could remember paiu ? • - Be fee)# no wrong, and he laughs At the throng Of the cue# that swell love's train. ' If a loving wife--beet staff of life- Be hi#, and children dear, - The fire burns bright with its ruddy light, His homeward step to cheer. At the cottage door, when his toil I# o'er, 8he stands with her emile #o sweety And holds up her face with a modeat graoft, His welcome kiss to meet. And children elad Fwarm round theiT dad. But the hungry man must dine; go she spreads the cloth, and he sups hi# broth, While she pours out her home-ivaae wine. --Blackwood* Magazine. REMINISCESCES OF 1818. Ab Bye-Witness' Account #1 the War on the Border and Surrender of Detroit. The Maumee Valley Pioneer Associa­ tion met at Perrysburg, Ohio, recently, "•aid a number of addresses were made mid papers read by old settlers. Among the number was a paper by Gen. John SI. Hunt, extracts from which we give erewith: Judge Thomas Dnnlap then read the following recollections of the olden time, entitled "Sixty Years Since," ~ "(Dibzscnig mainly rcmiiiisCcii Ce» uom Gen. John E. Hunt's experience. On the march fr«m Miami to Monroe, when about half way, news reached us of the declaration of war. ' The British got the news before we #ho took it by express direct to Canada. • The Canadians might have taken De Itoit by surprise before Hull got there. Hull stopped two days at Monroe to make a display of his troops. Thence we marched up the Hirer Hu­ ron ; there we camped in an open prai­ rie. We could see from our camp the Blasts of the brig 20-gun ship, Queen Charlotte, which lay in the lake off Mai­ den. Some Indians were observed at a distance. During the night we were •roused by a false alarm. Hull's appre­ hension of an attack by a force which might be landed frorrj tiie Queen Char­ lotte gave color to the alarm. It was afterward learned that the Indians were Wyandotte, who offered themselves to us as allies at Detroit. Their services were not accepted, as our government's orders to Hull were to have nothing to do with them. At that time there were no British troops on board the Queen Charlotte. On the occasion of this false alarm it was whispered in camp that the old man Hull was a good deal frightened. The next day we went into camp at the River Bouge, seven miles from Detroit. We marched in great disorder, strung along -five or six miles, Hull halted there «ght or ten days to prepare his men to Jnake a display through the streets of Petroift. Detroit was then a town of from ten to twelve hundred people. Then lie marched his men through De­ troit and bfick twain t« camp on the Jtiver Ronge, After some days he moved up and crossed the Detroit Biver M- batteaux l.tl -w Be'Ia Isle. 'One beau­ tiful morning they crossed without op- and a fine display, march­ ing down opposite Detroit with colors- flying and music playing. There they Blade a fortified camp and remained. A two-story brick house in the center of the camp was the General's headquarters. Thf-re 1 fin* saw Gen. Cass, then a Colonel. It was a warm July morning,, and I was taking my breakfast at a boarding house kept by a man whose name was Deputy. At the table sat Maj. Munson, of Zanesville, Ohio. A red faced young man with a morning gown on, came in, and, as he took a seat alongside of Maj. Munson he said something severe against Gen. Hull. Maj. Mnuson said: "CoL Cass, what is the matter with you?" Cass replied he had been two hoofs .with that old fool and could not get him to make a push on Maiden, all he could do. " He has agree4 to let me go down •with my regiment and two companies of the Fourth United States Infantry, and if God lets me live I'll have Maiden be­ fore I get back." Tt e British itad a two-gun batteiy at the River Canard, four miles above Mai­ den, so posted as to rake the causeway and bridge at that point. A day or two before a regiment of our militia had been driven back from there. Cass sent two companies of th< United States Fourth Infantry, under Capt. Snelling, to ford the stream above the battery. When Snelling made Inn appearance approach­ ing the British tn their flauk, Cass moved forward with hfc main force upon the bridge. The enemy opened tire upon him, but when they discovered fcnelling on their flank they retreated. Cass followed them to within a mile and a half * of Maiden, when it became so dark he thought it prudent to go back to the battery at the bridge. Fr^m thence he sent an express to Hull for re­ inforcements, so as to attack Maiden the next morning. Instead of doing so, Hull sent his aid to CoL Wallace, of Cincin­ nati, and ordered Cass back. Cass had frequently told me that he ha* alwnys regretted he did not disobey orders and march on Maiden. He after­ wards learned the British had all their ArUuables ready to leave, and loaded on tx>ard the Queen Charlotte. If he had 'liimle his in lbs sacming the Jiritiah would have blown up their fort and sailed away to Niagara. This would have prevented •& Indian war and Raved Detroit. Cass returned to camp, |jmd a few days after Hull, on hearing of tue uuvMiw of Gen. Brock, retreated across the river to Detroit, where he oc­ cupied Fori Shelby. This fort was sifli- . -*ted light about the center of the pres­ ent city of Detroit, about the fourth Street wick from the river. Gen. Brock, at Niagara, had over­ reached Gen. Dearborn, another super­ annuated revolutionary officer, who was then in command of that frontier, and liadfoncluded with him an armistice Of thirty days. This gave time lor the Queen of Charlotte to sail from Maiden to the lower end of Lake Erie, and re­ turn with himself and force, which cap­ tured Detroit. Soon after Hull crossed back, Brock moved the Queen Charlotte up the river and anchored off Sandwich, covering witli her guns the crossing to Detroit. While the ship was stationed there, Capt. Snelling asked Gen. Hull, in my presence, liberty to take two twelve-pound guns down to Springwells and sink her or start her from he* po­ sition. Hull said, "No, sirf Jroo catt't do it." BTOCK had built a battery on the Canada side, opposite Fort Shelby. As soon as it was finished, when the sun was about jin hour high, he opened fire on us. During the night shells were thrown at Intervals. At the dawn of day a heavy /fire of bombs and solid shot was opened: 1 was taking a drink of water at the door of one «f the officer's quarters, in company with a boy of my age, who afterward became Maj. Washington Whistler, United States army and died •to Russia of cholera many years after. At the next door to us, and about, twelve feet from us, four of our officers were standing together. They were Capt. Hanks, Lieut. Sibley, Dr. Blood, and pr. Reynolds, of Columbus. A thirty- two pound shot came from the enemy's battery, killing Hanks, Sibley, and Rey­ nolds, and wounding Dr. Blood. They were knocked into a heap into a little narrow entry way--a narrow, confined space. Their mangled remains were a terrible sight. Capt. Hanks was lying on top, his eyes rolling in his head. Directly came along Gen. Hull, • who looked in upon them and turned very pale, the tobacco juice running from the corners of his mouth on to the frills of his shirt. In a short time after the white flag was hoisted, that ball seeming to unman him. After these men were killed I left the fort of to reconnitre. On the street in front of Maj. Whipple's house, a quar­ ter a mile in front of Fort Shelby, I found two 32-pound guns in position. Capt. Bryson, of the artillery, had placed th«m thprA to rake the British column ©f 1,500men, who had mad© a landing and were approaching the city by way of Judge May's long lane. They had landed at Springwells and were march­ ing up the lane to reach a ravine which crossed it and through which they could file and be protected from any battery we had. They were marching in close column, in full dress uniform of scarlet, in per­ fect order, at a steady, regular pace, without music. As they came on, fol­ lowed by their Indian allies and some twenty whites dressed as Indians, my boyish fancy was struck with their ap­ pearance, as I expected every moment to see them torn to pieces by those thirty- two pounders double eharged with canis­ ter and grape. My brother Thomas stood ready at the guns. In bis hand a lighted match was held up in the air. He was in the very act of firing, when Collace, the aid or Gen. Hull, came up and said, " Don't fire, the white flag is up." Aud that in­ stant Capt. Hull, who had been across the river with • a flag of truce, fell in with us on his return. Col. Wallace said to him, ** It's all up, your father has surrendered." Cnpt Hull exclaimed, " My God, is it possible ?" Capt. Hull afterward showed great bravery on the Niagara frontier, where he was killed. During the British occupation of De­ troit the loiiowing incident occurred be­ tween the British officers and myself, at the houap of Mr. Mcintosh, in Sand­ wich. M?!-t03h was tho agent of the N. W. Fur Company in Canada, and by brother had married a sister of his. I had been in the habit of going over to spend Sunday and going to church in Sand­ wich. The church there was the only Protes- tant church in that part of the land at that tune. ^ There were also some nice young ladies there, the daughters of Mr, Mcintosh. On the Sunday after the surrender I went over with my brother. To my surprise I found Gen. Brock with his staff offioers dining with Mc­ intosh. The host called on aB the offioers pres­ ent for toasts, beginning with (Jen. Brock. Toward tea time the old gentle­ man called on mo, putting his hand on my shoulder, saying in his broad Scotch: " Come, my lad, give us a toast." I had become kmnch attached to Capt. Hull, son of the General. On the trip to De­ troit he had shown me much attention on account of my family connections. So I shoved my chair back, stood up, and fave them " Capt Hull." Whereupon (rock slapped iiis hand on the table, saying, "By George, that's a good one." " Well, gentlemen, we will drink to a brave man if he is an enemy." He had heard the day before of bapt, Hull in the irigate United States taking the British frigate Guerrierf. The joke was I meant Capt. Hull of the army. They drank the _ toast to Capt. Hull of the navy. I did not disabuse their minds because I thought the taking of the Guerriere pretty good offset to our surrender at Detroit. M'dntosh clapped me on the shoulder and said, " That's ri^ht, my boy, always stick to your country." Col. Cass, with the officers taken at Detroit, went on board the Queen Char­ lotte as prisoners, sailed down the lake wid were landed at Niagara. Gen. Brock being aboard the name vessel, T uOW he 00111(1 hav« , . 6>ht of sueh a thing as coming up to troit with the small force he had. 8Ir» he, " I knew there was something the matter with your army. I could not tell whether the fault was in °r m ?e K^eral. It was a forlorn hope with me ; unless I could conclude m armistice with Dearborn, bring my whole force to Detroit, and succeed l»« takinsr it. I knew wta should lose upper Canada." During the succeeding winter I lived •fc Sandwich and went to schooL Proc­ tor's headquarters were there. THE DIAMOND JUS. Iltteh a sight may never be seen m De­ troit again--twelve diamond pins artisti­ cally arranged on a piece of white card­ board--twelve glittering, glistening, sparkling, resplendent diamonds, not one of which would have looked out of place on the shirt-front of Duke Alexis. The diamond merchant was not a young man; neither was he old and uruken down. He ««4 J UOW snuvu t el enough to sell diamonds, and just about seedy'enough to make folks believe he would discount a thousand dollars on each precious stone for the sake of ob­ taining cash down. He first tackled the special policeman at the Central depot. He held ujp the card, flaabin^ twelve diamonds intne officer's eyes, and sweet­ ly said: . "You are a noble looking man. I've visited the principal cities of Europe and Africa, and I saw a more no­ ble-looking officer than you are. There is only one thing lacking--you should have one of these diamonds. "Can't afford it," said the officer, feeling to see if the lone $2 bill in his watch-pocket was safe. " These diamonds are being sold by all first-class jewelers at $500 each, whispered the man; " but I tell you what I'll do. I took 'em on a chattel mortgage, and I'll let you have one for $25. " Snide," replied the officer, as he ex­ amined them. " Snide ! Dear me 1 but I thought you were a keen, sharp fellow. Go with me to a jeweler, and if he denies that these are diamonds of the first water I'll give you the whole twelve." The officer oouldn't buy. The man came down to five dollars, and at last dropped to two, but it was Saturday, and a polioeman loves ohicken for Ms Sunday dinner. There was a great many hackmen around the depot. The stranger went out among them, selected one whoso make-up betokened good taste, and drawing him away from the rest he asked: "You wouldn't go baok on a poor man, would you ?" " Never," was the earnest reply. " Here's some diamonds I stole in Paris," whispered the stranger as he pulled out the card. *' I'm hard up, and will sell one or two=" The hackman gazed on the iewels for half a minute, handed them back, and began to unbutton Ms overcoat. " You have had a good bringing up," whispered the stranger, "and you can ww one of these diamonds and be con­ sistent. There are men in De----" "I'll hurt you if you don't go away !" growled the hackman. " As 1 said, I stole these diamonds in Paris, and I've got to part with one or two to pay current expenses/8 continued the peddler. "You keep right away, or IH make a sand-bar of your nose," replied the hackman. When I want a dollar diamond I'll whittle one out of basswood !" " A dollar diamond! Basswood! Whit­ tle I Ib there no taste in Detroit!" The hackman rushed at the peddler, and the peddler had to leave the neigh­ borhood of the depot. He went over to where a city expressman sat on his sleigh, waiting for a job, and such a soft, tender, pie-plantish smile as he smiled would almost make oabbage plants sprout in January. " It isn't very often that one Bees a man of your stylish look driving an ex­ press wagon," remarked the stranger. " Take your trunk up, sir ?" asked the driver ; " any part of the eity for fifty cents." " Your looks go to show that you once moved in high circles," continued the stranger, and I have no doubt that you onoe wore one of these." , "Ah! those are beauties," said the driver, as he saw the card of diamonds. "Guests they are beauties. One of them on your shirt front would look well." "It would, that." " And, owing to tho way I gotbold of 'em, I can sell you one cheap, I I«;uiid 'cm on the street in New York city, where a thief dropped 'em, and I'm hard up, and will sell you one almost at your own price." " And I must have one," replied the driver. " Do yon warrent 'em real dia­ monds?" "Of course I do." " And the pin is gold!" " Pure gold, sir. " And you want how much ?" "Well," whispered the stranger, as he looked all around, "if yon won't blow on me I'll let yon have one for seven dollars." "Seven dollars," yelled the driver, " do yon think I cin find food for a horse and nine children, and pay rent, and buy clothes, Mid spend seven dollars for a diamond ? Why, I can buy diamonds for two shillings!" " Oh, no you can't. If I wasn't hard up I wouldn't sell one of these for less than $500." " Haven't I driven an express wagon in Detroit for fourteen years ? Don't I know the price of diamonus ? Wasn't 1 in the army for three long ye&re ? I'll give you twenty cento and ho more."8 "I couldn't do that." "Then leave me alone, you swindler you! I believe you came here to steal my horse-blanket!" The two had a fight. It was a one­ sided tight. The stranger had his head jammed into the snow and his breath shut off, and when he got up his twelve diamonds were missing. Although val­ ued at $6,000, he did not stop to look for them, but with thumb and finger down behind his coat-collar to pull out the snow, he made haste to be somewhere else. The driver borrowed a pin to take the place of a shirt button, and feelingly remarked: " When they runs diamonds up above twenty-five cents, they touch a tender chord in every poor man's heart/' Detroit Free Prem. A LUCKY LOCKSMITH.̂ Wrvm Altfeet Porerty to a Coroa«4 *lMI a Tui ?srtuss is ths --A. ftthcr's Deatb-bed Bepentanee. The New York Mercury prints the following story ; One year age Jacob Heydebrand was a poor locksmith at No. 116 Hester street. One day, while on a Fulton- ferry boat, he met an acquaintance, who asked him if he was the Jacob Heyde­ brand whom the Austrian fJonsralate was advertising for. His friend had some difficulty in persuading him to go to the Consulate and ascertain whether or not he was the person wanted. At the Con­ sulate he was asked if he had been in 1850 atBockenheim, near Frankfort-on- the-Main. He replied in the affirmative. "Did you board there with a family named Schoen, and did you meet at then1 house &n Austrian officer?" Heyde­ brand replied again in the affirmative. "What was the name of that officer?" "It was Count Jacob Von Heydebrand. He was captain in the Kinth Regiment of Austrian Hussars," he answered. "Well, then you are the man we want." So saying the Consul handed the astonished locksmith a bundle of documents, which he said he had better have examined by some German lawyer, and he also in­ formed him that he was instructed to pay him the sum of $2,000. The Germain lawyer to whom • Heydebrand gave the papers was greatly surprised at their con­ tents, which were to the following effect: Count Aloysius Von Heydebrand, a wealthy nobleman, had died in 1872, having confessed on*his death-bed that the Austrian offioer, Colonel Jacob Von Heydebrand, who had hitherto passed as his only son, was only an illegitimate child, his real son and heir, who had borne the same name, having been set adrift in the world after his mother had died, by his mistress, Bernhardine Hoel- zel, who had borne him a son about the same time. That wicked woman had possessed such a power over him that she had wrung from him the consent to substitute her son in the place of little Jacob, whom she had taken to her relations in Darmstadt. The old oount implored his illegitimate son, the Austrian colonel, to leave nothing un­ done in order to make amends for the great injustice that had been done to his legitimate heir, and to restore to him, if he should be able to ascertain Ms where­ abouts, his paternal, estate. It was then that the colonel remembered having met at Bockenheim, twenty-two years before, a young locksmith, whose acquaintance he had sought because the latter had borne the same name. So he applied to the Schoen family, who were stilt living st' g,nd tlist- fes obtsiii- ed the information that the young lock­ smith had left that place many years ago for America. The colonel thereupon applied to the Austrian legation in Wash­ ington, and Jacob Hevdebrand was ex­ tensively advertised nnHl fnnnd in Mew York. Among the papers was an autograph from Ms illegitimate brother, the colonel, offering to restore his pater­ nal estates to him, and expressing regrets at the injustice that had been done to him for so many years. Meanwhile Hey­ debrand had married a poor German servant-girl, who had borne to him sev­ eral children. The wife was overjoyed upon learning the unexpected ohange in her husband's fortune, and she prevail­ ed upon him to go with her immediately to Irmsprack to enter upon the enjoy­ ment of his new position. At Innspruck his right as the sole heir of Oount Hey­ debrand was formally recognized, and the poor Hester-street locksmith is-now one of the wealthiest magnates of the Austrian Empire. His wifeP the former servant-girl, was ennobled by m special decree of the Emperor. within their limits. Definite statements Ml to their suooess are rather rare, but they are succeeding better than the av­ enge of railroads, and wherever the cir­ cumstances of any new project throw doubt upon its ability to pay, the narrow gauge has surely a claim to considera­ tion. As we get over the "through hnsinpR*" mania, which has pervaded and distracted all OTIT railroad enterprise, and realize that the great majority of rOMR must- non#>nn on f.neir local busi­ ness to make a profitable return on their first cost, we shall be more ready to moderate our ambitions, and t" r»duoe that first cost to its lowest tfi\^, even at the risk of not furnishing the "miss­ ing link " in the grand line from Liver­ pool to Pekin. WHAT MADE THE SDK SET! NARROW-GAUGE. AT the marriage of an Alabama wid­ ower one of the servants was asked if his master would take a bridal tour. " Dun- no, sail; when old missus's alive he took a paddle to her ; dunno if he take a bridle to do new one or not." Advantage of the Narrow-G&nge Ore the Full-Gauge for General Railroad Purpose*. The Springfield (Mass.) Republican of a recent date says : There are now twenty-three miles of narrow-gauge rail­ road in Massachusetts, and the Boston, Revere Beach and Lynn Railroad, which cost exceptionally high, on account of tunnels and bridging, closes its first year with a dividend of 8 per cent. The Wor­ cester and Shrewsbury Road, two Mid three-fourths miles, cost only 1185,000, is ran nt an expanse of $10 a tlay, and 'p»/a dividends. The of tilers roads, for city purposes, are their cheap­ ness, their adapuitiGu to diiUcult grades and sharp curves, and their speed as compared with horse cars. There has not as yet been much trial of narrow- gauge as a rural railroad in New Eng­ land. The most promising attempt to lay one was the scheme for piercing and connecting & series of interior valleys of the Green Mountain range, extending from the Deerfield valley in Massachu­ setts up through Wilmington, Sher­ burne, Rochester and Moiretown, in Ver­ mont, to the Vermont Central north of Montpelier. The towns were just be­ ginning to bond themselves in aid of this project when Bow* Smith killed it, by drawing the towns in the upper val­ ley of White River into support of a scheme for a branch railroad to join with the Vermont Central at Bethel. Whether this branch is ever built may be doubted, but the proposition served its purpose in knocking the other schme in the head. The advantage of the narroi%guage for general railroad purpose is, that, for nearlv all agricultural regions where travel and freight are merely fed to a through route, it meets the whole neces­ sity of the case, without requiring more than half the outlay of a iuil-guage. Compared with the regular gttage, the oest of the three-foot guage is said to range as follows: Cost of road-bed, as 30 inches to 56J; cost of superstructure, from one-half to three-fifths; the cost of equipment) and operation are much less, owing in a great measure to the saving in the transportation of dead weight, in comparison with the live weight or pay­ ing freight Wherever there is a large freight in coal or articles in bulk, of which the transhipment would amount to more than the cost of freighting, the necessity of breaking bulk at the junc­ tion of gauges would violate economy, but this is not the ease with many roads, and the extent to which it should offset the obvious advantages of narrow-guage is a matter of calculation and experiment in each case. Narrow gauge has been tried more fully in California and Colorado than else­ where, three-fourths of the 2,250 miles in the country probably being located Samuel Sullivan Cox and the Orb of Day. There are a great many people who do not know Sunset Cox's real Christian name, and wonder how it was that he came to sport such a wild title as that which is given to the declining of the glorions God of Day sloping slowly over the Western hills. He was not always called Sunset. When a prattling chad he was named Samuel Siiliivan, and not until he became the prattling editor oi the Ohio Statesman, in 1853, did he win his gorgeous epithet. He is an able man--quick witted, lively, and provo­ cative of criticism -and sound when he chooses to be, but it was for no brilliancy that he gained the title of Sunset On May 19, 1853, the following magnilo- Suent description appeared from him in le Ohio Statesman, and then he bade adieu to Samuel Sullivan, and ever wmw has been known as Bunset--uname which is his not without desert: "What a stormful snnset was that of last night! How glorious the storm, and how splendid the setting of the sun ! We do not remember ever to have seen the like on oar round globe. The scene opened In the west, with a. whole horizon full of a golden interpen­ etrating lustre, which colored the foliage' and brightened ©very • object, in its own rich dyes. The colors grew deep©* and richer, until the golden lustre wag transformed into a storm cloud, full of finest lightning, which leaped in dazzling zigzags all round and over the aity. The wind arose with fury, the slender shrubs and giant trees made obeisance to its majesty. Some even snapped before its force. The strawberry beds and grass plota 'turned up their whites' to see Zephyrus march by. As the rain came, and the pools formed, and the gut­ ters hurried away, thuuder roared grandly, and the fire belle caught the excitement ana rang with hearty choitis. The south and east re­ ceived the copious showers, and the west all at onoe brightened up in a long, polished belt of azure, worthy of a Sicilian sky. Presently a cloud appeared in the azure belt, in the form of a castellated city. It became mora vivid, re­ vealing strange forms of peerless fanes and a.labsp.trr' srloriss iH-TB In this mundane sphere, "it reminds us of Words­ worth's splendid verse in his ' Excursion The appearance instantaneously disoloaed Was of a mighty city, boldly say A wilderness of buildings, sinking far i And self withdrawn into a wondreua depth, Far sinking into splendor without end! * iJrtb *•-«» UMJ' »BUMBO.WL» uuijr giVS piSCS anet-her Me, where the most beautiful forms of foliage appeared, imaging a paradise In the distant and purified air. The BUU, wearied of the elemental commotion, sank behind the green plains of the west. The 1 great; eye in heaven,' however, went not down without a dark brow hanging over its departif^ light. The rich flush of the unearthly iignt had .passed and the rain had ceased: when the solemn clrareb. bells pealed, the laughter of children out and joyous after the storm is heard with the carol of birds, while the forked and purple weapon of tl e skies still darted illumination around the Starling College, try­ ing to rival its angels Mid leap into its dark windows. Candles are lighted. The piano strikes up. We feel that it is good to have a home--good to be on the earth where such revelations of beauty and power may be made. And as we cannot refrain from reminding our readers of everything wonderful in our city, we have begun and ended our feeble etching of a sunset whioh comes so rarely that its glory should be oommitte 1 to immortal type." -J4 leopards, leap all yon like fiat Jpions, tigers, every one; S . v Panthers,, pomaa and jaguars, ? * --1 "^eap--if-bnt against you*- bara* ̂ : „ • Horses, carrying men to bounds. - .~„_r,jaLeap all intervening bounds. I .Fences, hedges, brooks, and dykes, . pj ,SP4™> ̂ Palings crowned with spikea. eareerin8 in the race,. .. . g. • Anecdotes of Charlotte Cushniaii. The Philadelphia Times has culled the following recollections of Charlotte Gushman from actors in Philadelphia who were professionally associated with her : Owing, perhaps, to the fact that she had no great pretensions to personal beauty, she once (in 1845), experienced great difficulty in obtaining an engage­ ment by Maddox, a Hebrew, who man­ aged the Princess9 Theater. But she had energy and perseverance, and hav­ ing been often repulsed, but never oon- quered, she applied again, and ex­ claimed: "I know I have enemies in thi& wUiitxy , _ .jo!£ CTI !»er ^nces, wsmtig her slwbed hands aloft) so help me God! I'll defeat them!" She uttered tlda "with the ener­ gy of Lady Macbeth and the prophetic spirit of Meg Merriiiea. ' * Hel-ho 1" said Maddox, "s'help me! she's got the shtuff in her I" And Maddox engaged her. So mnoh for her pluck. She was in the habit of saying "my dear/' when addressing the ladies of the company. When I, says Mr. Pugh, brought her to act at the Chestnut, the whole company was demoralised. But she soon brought order out of chaos. At first it was difficult, but when they saw her acting at rehearsal as real as if she were before a crowded audience, they soon imitated her. I remember once when a page was unable properly to approach her throne as a messenger in «Hemy VIII.," when she performed Queen Catherine, she finally descended from the throne and acted the page her­ self, in order to instruct him, with as much grace and dignity as in her own character. But the most amusing inci­ dent was at a rehearsal of the little com­ edy of " Simpson & Co./*at the Walnut, when her acting was so ludicrous and she was so brimful of fun that her sup­ port were hardly able to utter their words for laughing. One little French lady, particularly, could not look at her without bursting into a laugh, and Man­ ager Halls who was present, had to leave the theatre whenever he saw her acting in that part, as he could not restrain himself from laughing at the remem­ brance of the rehearsal. She had a fund of humor, was brilliant in conversation, and took and enjoyed a joke hugely. I remember when we were traveling on the Pennsylvania Railroad at one time, she was taking a sip of iron water through a tube, in the cars, how she en­ joyed a joke of mine, that "if she kept on drinking iron water, she would cer­ tainly have an iron constitution." "And become an iron-clad," was her merry reply, and the idea tickled her for some time afterward. FRESH--"I wonder why my mus­ tache doesn't grow under my nose as well as at the corners of my mouth?" Soph--"Too mnoh shade." (Cries of more.) URN OJf L.1CAP TIAt, • mttti; JXark! I hear a sound of croaking i fvoRi, in one attempt at joking 'ftoiniag all their voices, eay, leap-year, -'amti sway! f'Thla I'Leap, ye various deer and stags, Iphamoia, on Helvetian crags, pap, ye goats, upon Welsh mfmntaiiWfc Jkefcp, ye catamcts and fountains. l*ap, jall monkeys and babooftt, -~uut6w, jHwtiujii uiu ncuuuii. telopea, gsselles and guns, MU; thy rider risk his neck. ( > t^eap' ** 'aJmon, and ye troA From the purling i<np oat* ye grasshoppers and flew; ' Hop and skip, ye mites in cheese, ^ Yah, ye toads and tritone all, ' , He wta and slow-worms, creep and cnrarl; eug and snail and spider too-- tap-year's not the year for yoat* ~ Pith and Point. W AIIWATS open to oenviction--A thief. SOMETHING that always soota--A chim­ ney sweep. Wa learn from the New Orleans Re­ publican that kettledrum entertainments are popular in Southern society. A EMNDE girl, deserted by her lover, silently pines away and dies, but a bru­ nette fives on to make it a hell upon earth for the man who deoeives her. IVyiNG is trying to hide in a fog--if you move about you are in danger of bumping your head against the truth; as noon as the fog blows up you are gone anyhow. ' It is the wife who has the of a man's home says an exchange. True, and now and then she makes his wig warn, too.--JSew York Commercial Ad­ vertiser. Pious Mrs. Spilkins has stopped pray­ ing for her husband because, as she naively remarks: "I have prayed so long without effect that l think the Lord*has just as poor an opinion of thfitmfln as I have I" AM editor onoe received the following: 46 Dear Sir: I have looked carefully and patiently over your paper for six months for the death of some individual I was acquainted with, but as yet not a single soul I care anything about has dropped off. Yon will please to have my name erased." " SEEMS to me as though all rich men Were made and set up in business afore my time," was the remark of a sad-eyed man, and then, with a deep sigh, he added; " There's no use sn tryin'. Noth- left for a feller nowji-days 'cept to start a monument fund and be freasorer of it." THE new' governess (impressively) : " Oh, Tommy, when I was a little girl and made a blot oil my copy-book i used to cry." "Tommy (earnestly): "What! really ?" New governess (still more im­ pressively): "Yes, really cry." Tom my (still more earnestly): "What an awful little duffer you must have been." --Jt*unoh. " PITT the poor Treasury girls, pity the poor Treasury girls," is the familiar • echo ofthe Washington correspondence. Better pity the aged and unprotected Senators, who, far from the restraining influences of home, are exposed to all the blandishments of gay and beautiful women.--CAtoa^o Tribune. HABITS Or SHKKP. Never Jumps a sheep that's frightened Over any fence whatever, Over, wall, or fence, or timber, Bnt a second follows after. And a third npon the second, And a fourth, and fifth, and so on, When they see the tail uplifted-- First a sheep, and then a dozen, Till they all in quick succession, • One by one, have got clear over. BANK catechism: "Papa, what's a safe?" "A safe, my child, is a chari­ table institution, in which benevolent old people und orphans lay up their money for the use of sickly burglars in hotel bills at Saratoga!" "t's a cashier?" "A m«hier, my child, is a sign-board established by n . Y . . A I iiLni. »- w the -.ray into the safe 1' " What's a detect­ ive?" " He's a burglar's biother-in-law and ulv«ajb boards with his rich rel­ atives." RivviVAMST (to rural "visitor at hippo­ drome)--" My friend, did you come here from curiosity?" R. V. (slightly deaf) --•" No, sir, 1 didn't; I came here from Staten Island." Revivalist--"You don't understand me. Did you oome from curiosity alone?" R. V.--"Yes, came alone ; the old woman's got corns and had to stay at home." Revivalist (rather impatiently)--No, no, my good sir; what brought you here to-aay?" R. V. (smiling)--" O, 1 see 1 Why--the horse-oar did."--New York Advertiser. The Living Dog and the Dead Lioness* The death of the lioness " Old Girl, " so well known to Dublin folks, was at­ tended by a touching incident. When dyings pld lions are much tormented by rats gnawing their tails. During health they rather weloome the vermiis,. and lie blinking at them as they frisk about their cage, nibbling the bones left from their (the lions') dinner. To prevent this an­ noyance, a terrier was put into "Old Girl's" cage. At jftrst she growled, but when she saw the dog " fetch " the first rat, toss it up Mid catch it in a profes­ sional manner aoroes the back, with one quick, fatal snap, she drew the brave an­ imal to her, lioked it and fondled it, and in her shaggy breast it slept every night, her great, protecting paw over it During the six weeks of the lioness' illness the rats had rather a hard time of it. " Old Girl" had borne fifty-four cubs, and had reared fifty, bringing in by the sale of her progeny £1,300 to the Gardens. She was the handsomest lioness ever reared in the oouutry.--Londmx Letter. THE Philadelphia Legislature has hit upon a novel wad ingenious method of curing abuses in public institutions. Having become satisfied that there Vma been gross cruelty practiced at the State Reform School it proposes to deoline any further appropriation of funds for carry­ ing on the school until there is a change in the officers of the Board having charge of the institution.