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^ t ^ LVKE XVII. ' ' W MtIHE OI«U«|l"i ",'. * miUten tempent thunder pent' The very heavens, whose wrath WM apfllil In one f-pontaneous tmtvt of power. •'&*?' Then stillness all, and leaf, arid flower, - With deluged face 'neath rainbow eU&fe •'• Smiled out its tlitnkn in glad surprise. 5 •• The heavy thunders rumbled far -vL " . Till distance »til!ed the noisy car, And sleep, sweet soother of our woes, Sen,it wrapjx d the earth in Boft repose. And then I dreamed--though not a dream, .j So real did the vision seem, So perfect and so finely planned, • That, were the language at command, ... I fitilf pbolilrl wnnt ait ftpfict's r^D To paiat the beauty of the scene. Twss not a flash, though instant willed, From God's own flat seemed distilled, J That all the noxious things of earth 5 Had disappeared, as if their birth " Had never l>wu. Earth, eir and sea* Held ua'.ight but luxury and ease, But man, solo monarch of a will. Alone had power for good and ilL In mate thanksgiving I surveyed | 1 A world so grand and perfect made. Reflecting, as I'm wont to do, That 'twould be natural to pursue The course of ris*h.t, and upward tend To where true pleasures never end. But ah I my transport hour was brief; Full soon I found a source for grief. Though with a fair and faultiest) realm, Frail man still guided at the helm, And still his bark would wayward prove, Though sailed o'er rippUng seas of love. Prone still to wander from the right. He seeks to group in error's might, And nurture all the lunts of sin His time-taught nature holdB within. The morbid thirst for draughts of fire, With ail the curse did not expire ; And foul delirium burns the brain That seeks ah autiuoto in vain. The miser with his golden store Counts ail his treasures o'er and O'er, 1 Yet finds no iucreose; may not lend Where fate contspires to be the friend To rich and poor, ami none may feel A eeaiae of waut, save those who will. But some there are who ever crave A namelesH happiness. The slave To voidless longiugB knows no rest, Though formed by nature to be blest. And thus, amid this boundless space, ith naught to vex, annoy, no trace Of taint or crime, or sin or stain Man's bosom still the curse retain, And proves beyi.nd a doubt, a shade His weal or woe himself has made. AMXTA, Iowa. STRAY LEAVES FROM A LIFE. BY MAUDE POWELL. "Tom surely are not in earnest, Mar- jorie ?** "Why not?" asked that young lady, standing on tip-toe to reach a bunch of apple-blossoms just above her head; "is it anything unreasonable in me to prefer being Miss Melrose, the talented young authoress of New York, instead •f a country minister's wife and help­ mate ?" "But, Marjorie, do you think I ex­ pect or desire you to bury your heaven- born talent ? God forbid! Come to me, and, surrounded by the friends who have known and loved you from child­ hood. and, under the shadow of your favorite apple-blossoms that you said were your first inspiration, write as much as you please." "No, Willard; what you ask is im­ possible, for I am not the least bit in love with you. Besides," she continued hurriedly, and not seeming to see the look of pain in her companion's eyes, " I could never be happy in the life you describe. I Avould be miserable in chains, even though they were the flowery chains of love that bound me to my jailer, and my repinings and rebel- Ion would soon make us both unhappy. I must have excitement and active work. I must be in the thickest of the battle •f life. I long for power, influence and feme; but, even if I cannot " Be a hero tcf the strife." I mast1 be on the scene of battle, and do all I can. I shall write no more poetry, though the eulogiums «f the public on my little book were more than I. ever dared hope for. Henceforth I intend to live upon my season, and not even waste sentiment on %«e. But with politics, philosophy, •r some other literary weapon, I will conquer the fickle goddess fame, steal a lew laurel leaves for my brow and a key " lb her temple." "And do you expect to be happy? Ah ! Marjorie, there is a mighty lactor you have omitted in your calculations. Tour brain will be busy, your intellect expanding; but, even if fame should shake the choiccst bonbons from her stoiv your feet, your heart will be starving, and you will be miserable." " Pshaw I" said Marjorie, recklcssly ; * let bnt the gods endow me with tlio 'girts I crave, and Cupid may keep his Kill try arrows in peace. My heart has een too highly educated to sigh for so •hildish an article. For this mueh- talked-of love is morely a diseased imagination, common to youth, like measles and whooping-cough, and which we get over in time, just as we do with Annie Leigh. As old Mrs. Andrews would say, I feel it in my bones." Marjorie gained her wish. A few months after her arrival at her uncle's Fifth avenue home, she had, like Byron, waked to find herself famous on the publication of her first prose work. Two others followed in quick succession. But just when my heroine felt she had almost climbed the height of literary re­ nown, when the praises of an admiring public were wafted to her like incense, with only now and then a criticism, which she insisted only spiced the other­ wise insipid ovation, that eccentric young lady suddenly declared her intention of devoting her time to American politics. So thorough was her study of the sub­ ject that she now (six years after von lirst met her) virtually stood at the head her uncle's widely-circulated and in­ fluential daily. She had indeed climbed to ii dizzy height where few women ever ventured. Her editorials were copied everywhere, her opinions quoted trom "Dan to Bocrshi ba," but was she happy? *ome one asks. Was the mountain as purple and beautiful as when she gazed longingly at it from the sweet valley of youth ? or did she find it but common earth after all, and the mysterious beauty lay in the misty valley of girlhood slio had left behiud ? Marjorie dropped her pen with a short, impatient sigh. " It is strange that lit­ tle Nell's words should haunt me so to­ night, ringing in my ears, and waking echoes of that still, small voice I had hoped was forever stilled. What does tliat child of 18 know of the heart, that she should assert so confidently, ' Ambi­ tion, even gratified ambition can never satisfy the inner sanctuary ot your soul; you will never be happy till you love.' Are the words of a child to undermine -tlio foundations of my theories of life, love and happiness that six years ago I boasted were built on the solid rock of reason instead of on the shifting sands of human affection? And yet -- have fiiey brought peace to me after all ? I would freely give jjower, fame and am­ bition for the look in Nell's blue eyes as she talked of her husband. Ah ! child, with only your trusting heart to guide you, you have found and gathered the little wayside flower, happiness, which in my selfishness and pride I have missed. Across the chasm of years, eomcfi a faint yet never-dying echo of ftio same words. "Willard, you at least truly loved would have saved me from my­ self, and I would not, and now it is for­ ever too late, for the fire in my heart has burned so low that there is now left only a faint, tender strain of regret, and the white ashes of memory. I have in­ deed passed the Rubicon of youth aud hope, and for me there is no redemp­ tion." Little Joe Harris, Marjorie's special errand boy and devoted slave, after ar­ ranging to his satisfaction the furniture and papers in her private sanctum in her uncle's large establishment, had placed a tiuy bunch of apple-blossoms on hi J idols desk, and now stood half bashfully watching Marjorie, as she came in, pale and weary looking from last night's vigil, and sat down to write. Seeing the flowers, she drew them to­ ward her with a look of pleased surprise, but, as she inhaled their fragrance, gradually there stole over her face a shadow, marring its brightness, as a cloud crosses the face of the suu. The breath of the flowers was laden with old associations and memories of her happy home at Appledale farm, of her grand­ mother, who had long since crossed that mystic river whose tide never ebbs to­ ward the shores of time, and wafted on their sweet breath came her talk with Willard Lester in the sun-lit orchard on that afternoon so long ago. Then a full knowledge of her mistake swept over It was hard to tear herself away from her business engagements/and duties, harder still to persuade h£r uncle that her, and, laying her cheek against the pink petals, she burst into a passion of tears. Poor Joe, utterly amazed at such a reception of so paltry a gift, started to her, then stole softly from the room, and stood guard outside to prevent in­ truders. Like the smitten rock at Horeb, the tears burst through the icy wall that was gradually forming round her heart, and, when the flowers whis­ pered to lier of Willard's solemn " I will wait for you always," the white blossoms of hope sprung into bloom. "It was all wrong," she whispered, in return; "I wandered into the wrong pathway, and my palace car of ambition has only brought me to the gates of dis­ content, but I will go home and begin over again, trusting to Heaven and my awakened heart this time." our fancy for dolls and tops, and our be­ lief in ghosts aud fairies." " You are doubtless sinceie in your be­ lief now, Marjorie," said her companion, a little impatiently, " but the time will come when, even in the zenith of your success, you will be willing to barter it all for a heart that is tender and true." "Your prophecies are certainly like Cassandra's in one respect, Will, at least, for I don't believe a word of them ; but if I am erring, and they ever come true, why, I'll come back to D. with the aforesaid WTeath and key, and you shall teach me to love. Is it a bar­ gain ?" " I will wait for you always, my dar­ ling !" said Willard, solemnly. " It is unkind in you to say all this," said the girl, with sudden resentment, j " just when I had boasted in my dial*} that we were a living illustration of dear [ old Plato's theory ; but you always were I thoughtless." J " You are coming to see grandma ?" i she added, presently, as the supper-bell | sent a cheery invitation through the orchard ; " she will never forgive you if I you slight her," and, seeing that her companion hesitated, "if you do not come, I shall think you are offended, and angry with me." "Would you care, Marjorie, dear?" Willard asked, eagerly. " Of course it would make nie very unhappy to think that we, who have been friends from our eradles, should, on the eve of my departure, l>e estranged about such a trifle as love; something that you will forget before this fruit blushes 'neatli August's kisses ; and, be­ fore apple-blossoms come again, there will be a pretty, blue-eyed wife at the parsonage--Annie Leigh, perhaps--who will fill the position so much more worthily and gracefully than L" " Stop, Marjorie," in terrupted Willard almost sternly, " Heaven knows I have borne a great deal from you, but I can­ not endure this unkind jesting when you well know that ' as long as life hath shadows, as long as the heart hath woes, I shall love you, only you.' " " Of course, that is the proper speech to make just now, Will dear, but I pre- di«t you will console yourself very soon he could certainly spare her a while, and that she really needed a rest; but her indomitable energy enabled her to ac­ complish them all, and one week later found her sitting on the old, familiar porch gazing at the lovely scene before her and listening to a perfect tirade of gossip from her mother's only sister, who now lived at the farm. Marjorie was longing to ask for one old friend iri particular, yet something in her heart choked back his name, aud she sat won­ dering at her own reticence, and why Aunt Lizzie did not speak of the min­ ister, when two figures came through the little wicket gate and up to the porcch, where she now rose to welcome her guests. " Miss Melrose," said Willard Lester --for one of them was, indeed, he--"I am most happy to welcome you once more to D., where, I assure you, you have always been missedthen, turn­ ing to his companion, he continued, "I hope you will need no introduction to my wife, whom you once knew as Annie Leigh." For one moment the earth seemed slipping from under Marjorie's feet, and the fair landscape looked black before her startled eyes ; but, before Mr. Lester's voice died away, the woman of the world givoted his wife in her culm, clear voice and most winning smile. Marjorie stayed t wo weeks at Apple- dale farm, and theu, in spite of their remonstrances, went back to her old life and work. To her aunt's pleadings and Willard's arguments, who pointed out to her the good she could accomplish in the village with her wealth, energy and culture, she made only fine reply. " Busy myself as I will, the range of action seems monotonous and confined. I began too soon to draw around me the large circle of literature and action, and •he small sphere open to me in D. seems a sad going back in life. No, the wan­ derer's ban is again upon me, and I must turn again to the land of excite­ ment." Her city friends saw no change in their queen, when she was again among them, exe pt, perhaps, the lines about her mouth were a trifle deeper and the shadow in her wonderful eyes a shade denser and more impenetrable than be­ fore. "But," they argued, " of course Marjorie had been inexpressibly bored by that duty visit to her aunt; she would be her old self after the anticipated trip to Europe during the summer." As for her, burying the dead blossoms of hope from her sight and heart, she turned resolutely to her work again. Was her l'ate an exceptionally hard one, after ail ? "All, well! for us all, some sweet hope lies deeply buried from lmnan eyes." ALL SORTS. CALIFORNIA girls prefer runaway mar­ riages. A BTONK in approach the ChicagoaniThave to mistle­ toe. A- ST. LOUIS firm is building a steam­ boat for the exclusive use of its com­ mercial agents. INGEUSOLL says: "You have got to fight for everything that is good, and the work is never done." Tktc New Orleans Picayune tfrmlrn that in this country professional beauties are crowded out by amateurs. THERE are two distinct kinds of boys in this world--the human boy and the boy who exists in Sunday-school books. poor fellow, recognized at once. 4' Belle's gone out," said the little Sister j The Tillage Hotel Veranda. J A Defense of Cleopatra. J , . .. I After supper we march into the office I Allow me to inquire here, parenthetic- an 1 *>. J? i i r, . I in Indian file, arm ourselves with poplar j ®lly, how it happens that the queen of come down .^seeherlKau This i toothpicks, and then all march out and ! Egypt has come to be regarded a* an ex- broke up the intended mateh.pirtan ^ | take seats on the hotel veranda and hold | ample of extreme inconstancy. She has i to sonnet-writing a _ ague, l°v - | a convention. If you have never taken been grossly misrepresented. History j tells us that she was married to her ' ! "' ~' veranda of a village hotel yon have missed i hither, Ptolemy XII, by the will of her The audience includes j to | ££? one bachelors.--Sophie Sparkle, York Mail. Xrm Pleasant Life b Bengal. The daily life of the family is a series of pictures of Arcadian simplicity. .At daybreak, when the crows begin to eaw, the whole household is astir. The two j a good thing. : every phase of human nature. j The discussion usually opens between f the village blacksmith and a fanner, and I it starts on the weather. • The blacksmith asserts that we have ! had too much rain. The farmer can't i agree. The undertaker, who used to > farm it, then joins in with the remark father after his death. The union was merely an arrangement of state; had no binding force, and was not probably, ever consummated, as the conple were minors. Fompey was appointed their guardian, and it has been intimated that he was her lover. There was no authority whatever for this, indeed everything points to the contrary. He was not elder brothers are off to the fields, while j _ . Gavaram is seeing after the cows. The ' that he has . seen seasons when we had j merely chaste, he was almost passionless, women are busy in the huts and court- • more rain, aud seasons when we didn't j 88 Cicero has testified. When Ciesar had T>rrnvo ti,.. tw«.tv fivi ! .vard- Sometimes the men come home j have as much. This calls out the shoe- | invaded the country, and Pompev had i to their mid-day meal, and sometimes it maker, who can remember one vear when i been murdered, he was fascinated by is carried to them in the fields. At sun- > it. didn't nun from the 20tli of' March to her, and she became his mistress, more set the lalxirs of the day are brought to j the 1st of October. While he is trying j front love than interest. Then, in order a close. A mat is spread in the court- ! to remember what year it was, the cooper ; to give weight to her sovereignty, she sixty persons have gone over the Ni­ agara Falls, and been washed into eter- } nity. i THH people of the United States con- • sunie more coffee than those of any other ; country -- some 333,000,000 pounds j yearly. A SCIENTIFIC man will study all day J oyer a poor little worm's work, when he might get at the hole thing in a nutshell by eating a few chineapins. THOSE troubled with flatulent dys- J pepsin may'do well to replace the sugar | ; in their tea and coffee with glycerine--a 1 tea-s{K>oufid or two to sweeten it CORSKTH are said to have originated i i from an iron waistband, in which tryan- j I meal husbands in the early liistory of ! ! the human family encased their wi ves. } COLONEL BOB INGERSOLT. says that: ! when a man smokes or chews he" should : ! confess the^fault to his intended wife, '! and if after that she accepts liim, he ' " has the dead wood on her." , I CHVSTALIZED water or ice has hitherto ; furnished the only good surface for skat­ ing. But by a mixture of a carl >< mate 1 and sulphate of soda an Englishman has l>een able to make a new skating surface ! which can be easily made and repaired. ; AN old bachelor out West, who years 1 agoue was jilted by a woman, became such a woman hater that before he died, recently, he ordered that none of the fe- i male sex be permitted to attend his j funeral. It was a terrible revenge.-- JTorrinfotvn Herald. i JOAQUIN MILLER looks tamer than he ; used to. His hair is no longer spreading i [ over his coat collar, and his costume is ' I quieter than it used to be. But. he has ! the gloomy, dreamy aspect of old, and i lie is one who cannot pass unnoticed j ; along the busy streets. j AN English curate happened recently j ! to preach on the wages of sin. and to | make some uncomplimentary references j : to the Prodigal Son. A young scape- : grace in the congregation fancied that | the sermon was aimed at himself. He j : horsewhipped the curate the next day. i WE are pleased to learn that sealskin | ; dolmans, forty to fifty-two inches long, ; i trimmed with hair in beaver, about ' seven inches deep, will be the fashion- , able tiling in furs this winter, ;xnd will 1 | retail at $500. We were afraid they i j were going to be dear.--Xorri*fon<n! ' Herald. i A FATHER gave unto his son $1,000, I j and the latter went to Chicago to enter ' j business. In six days he returned with- ! out a cent. "You found the Chicago, j people pretty smart, didn't you, Peter?" | | said the old gentleman. " Yes," replied j i the son; "but what you call pretty smart | ! in Chicago, we call d--n mean here. " j IT is related that the Chinese women i about the year 1200 attempted a rebellion, j ! whereupon laws were passed that girl j babies should have their feet bandaged j ' to prevent their growth. In this way it : I was proposed to thwart all future re- ! | bellious on the part of women! For auy- i | thing like positive action good under- j j standings are quite requisite. | j THE N o r w i c h s a y s : A v i o l i n - j I ist in this city has a fiddle manufactured i ; in 1615, which under his skillful manip- ! ! ulation still imitates with thrilling effect j the voices of nature, and sends forth ' soul-in spiring melodies. How many i hands have c#mmanded its magic tones, ; i or how many feet tripped to its music in ] I the past two centuries and a half no one ' | will ever know. | Champagne. ; I Champagne is a modern wine. The j sparkling beverage now so extensively | known is a comparatively recent diseov- i ery. Its origin hardly dates beyond the j eighteenth century; and even in 1780 : Moet and Chandon, the chief manufaet- yard and the men sit down cross-legged and smoke their hubble-bubbles: and at such times it is the joy of Badan's life to listen to the childish prattle of his little daughter Malati Occasionally the brothers pay visits to their neighbors, or Height K>rs drop in and join in the smok­ ing. The conversation is nearly always the same--the weather, the bullocks, die crops, and the cows; the plowing, har­ vesting, sowing or irrigating. But money is ever the burden of the talk; rupees, annas, and pice; the aemindar's rent; the interest paid to the money lender; the cost, profit or loss of every ; transaction connected with the farm or ' household. The whole family is relig- ions; indeed all Hindus is religious. ; They may be everything that is good or 1 bad. but they are never wanting in fear of the gods. They ore constantly utter- | ing the sacred names, and they offer a | portion of every meal to the gods of the ' earth, water, and sky. They see deity ! in everything that exists, and omens of i good or evil in everything that moves. ; If they meet a cow or a wedding they re- : joice over theu- good fortune: if they see 1 a widow or a funeral they are down­ hearted at their ill luck. They engage in no business, or journey, or transac- j tion of any sort or kind, without a pray- j er to the goddess Lakshimi or an invoca­ tion to the elephant-headed Ganesha. ' Every family or group of families has its I own Purohita, or domestic Brahman, who performs endless ceremonies of propitia­ tion. consecration or purification at births, deaths, marriages, feasts, festivals, re­ ligious celebrations, and family incidents of every kind. In return, the Purohita receives all the offerings of rice, fruits, I tilts back his chair and asserts that lie i waH given in marriage to her second \ i can distinctly recall a year in which it j brother, a child of seven years--her j | rained every day from the 1st of May to | other brother, Ptolemy XII, having been ! : the middle of November. He can re- j drowned--and the foremost man of all | ' member it all the more distinctlv because ! world lived with her until he re- < ; his father believed that a second deluge i turned to Rome, carrying with him the was coming, and spent two months try- ' woman who was the most splendid part ! ing to make a watertight Noah's ark of ! his splendid conquest. When he i j the horse barn. He can't tell the exact I went to his last campaign in Hispania, I year without footing it a distance of six ' saw him for the last time. miles to examine some old documents ' At Antony's meeting with her, Caesar ; but rather than have his word disputed | had been dead nine years; so that her re- j he would willingly go to that trouble. ' lation to him was no disloyalty to her ! No one doubts liim. however, and he sits former protector. They were the only j down to give room to the man whose i men cf whom she ever pretended to be | three-year-old colt has been impaled on and she was devoted to them in • a fence-stake, and who wants a cure for ; mind, heart and soul. The opinion that j the wound. He follows a discussion on 8^e accepted Augustus (Octavius) Cassar > horses, lasting fifteen minutes, and it is has no basis. Shakspeare gives this irn •<!'* ; j ^c v •§ : -•f1 about to cross the line and tike up mules when an old man spits over the heads of three boys in line and says: "I don't know much about bosses, but if I had one, and he should thrive a fence- stake clear through liim, I believe I should grease the stake and pick off the slivers before I pulled it out! I tell ye, horses can't stand everything, no more'n a man can." , Whatever new discussion might be created by this bold assertion is barred by the appearance of a villager who made the trip to California iu overland days. No one knows just how much money lie brought back. The estimate runs ail the way from two sliilliugs to $20,000, but he is discreetly silent as to the exact j amount There is one thing certain, I I however. He killed upward of fifty In- > dians, a dozzen grizzly bears, and over a j I hundred bnffalos while he was gone, and pression, but merely as a poetic license*. Cleopatra,-therefore, instead of being an incarnation of disloyalty, was a ni«xlel of loyalty .especially for that time.--Chicago Times' Long Branch fatter. IHE COOAT eiuux BLOOD PURIFIER* . CURES DYSPEPSIA/̂ i/rar Complaint, Cosfivenesn, Bilious tacks, Indigestion, Jaundice, Loss of ' Appetite, Headache, Mamm, v<' Heartburn, Depression of Spirits, So/Wt-"' Softs, Pimples, Skits Diseases, Erup­ tions, Foul Breath, and all Diseases arising from Impure Blood. Hamburg Drops "are recommenced m befog th® tost and cheapest Family Medicine offenL »nd ar» gold by Druggists and Dealers at U Ctili • Sottle. Direction® jo K!@¥eB Qonitai "MORE food and less medicine, more of near- j the fao-sfmite etenahire, md"priTm»« proipl^ ishmont and strength, less of the debilitating in- ( ^ «t*mp of A. VOtiELEB A CO., fluence of drugs, is what onr exhausted consti­ tutions require, said Baron Liebig, when he perfected the composition of the "Malt Bit­ ten," prepared by Malt Bitters Co. ' THEKE are no professional beauties in < his country ; beauty is so common here i that brains are considered a better mark ! of distinction.--Huffalo Courier. ) Are Von Mot In Good Health * If the Liver is the source of your trouble, yen can tind nn absolute remedy in DR. S.VNFOKD'H LIVKK INVIOOII.VTOR, the only vegetable cathartic which aet« directly on the Liver. Cures all Bilious diseases. For Book address DR. SAM- that settles the c pies tion of his being en- j roBD> 162 Broadway, New York. makes his appearance to receive his sliil- j lects that old Uncle Jerry is lying at the ling fee from every household, aud to confirm younger neophytes by whisper­ ing into their respective ears the name of the god that each one is to worship as his own individual deitv. This name is point of death. Everybody seems to feci bad for a moment, and then it is remem­ bered how he made his wife go barefixited in winter, lent money at fourteen p -r cent., and whipped a yoke of steers to and vegetables that are made to the j titled to command the parade on the : xhe woif_|c r_ wlrh gods, with occasional presents of a like ; Fourth of July A move is about to be | Will ^ U)eir Fjectro.v^taic ^o the J. cliariutei. E\er\ year the Guru, or re- . made to draw him out on wild Western j flicted upon thirty days' trial. See their adver- ligious teacher of the sect or district, scenes, when somel>ody suddenly reeol- i tiaement in this paper, headed, "On Thirty i Days' Trial" ; VKOETINE. -The great snccess of the VBOK- j TIKE as a cleanser and purifier of the blood ia ! shown beyond a doubt by the great numbers who have taken it, and received immediate re- ; lief, with such remarkable cures. j Da. C. E. SHOEMAKER, the well-known aural surgeon of Beading. Pa., offers to seud by mail, free of charge, a valuable little book on deafness and diseases of the ear--especially on running ear and catarrh, and their proper treatment-- giving references and testimonials that will aatisfy the moat skeptical. Address aa above. VEOETINE will regulate the bowels to healthy action, by stimulating the secretions, cleansing and purifying the blood of poi>onons humors, and, in a healthful aud natural manner, ex­ pels all impuritu s without weakening the body. known as the "seed prayer," and is to be ; death, and the tide slowly turns. There uttered by the worshiper one hundred and eight times every day until the. end of his earthly career.-- Alacmillan'# Magazine. Our I'ostoffices Compared with the En­ glish Department. Following the example of the English Postofiico Department, the department at Wasliington has made an attempt by counting the mail matter for one week to get a rude guess of the number of pieces annually mailed by the United States. The first seven days in Novem­ ber was the-week selected, and the re­ turn then made, multiplied by 52, gives the total mail of the country for one year at 2,217,008,1£9 pieces. The En­ glish postal system is simpler than ours, affording only three varieties of postal matter; a comparison between the re­ turn now made for the "original" post- ollice business in this country aud that in England, for the year ending March 31, 1879, is as follows : I'niUd y/ati-K. Vrcut liritain. I .others 808,493,67-2 l,<W7,(iuo,tKW l'o-itHl-cartis ^76,440,711 111,000,(100 Newn[»ai>er» aud print­ ed matter l,04Y,41»;L,3S0 :f'2S.OOO,(KiO The last item in this country, besides newspapers mid magazines, iucliules, under "books, circulars and miscellane­ ous printed matter, ' 300,845,-ISO pieces, of which much the largest share are cir­ culars, reckbned in the English return as letters ; so that the number of letters is about the same in the two countries.. The return of mail matter for the United States includes, in addition to the items given above, " articles of merchandise " YOUNO men from all pnrts of the United States go to II. B. Bryant's Chicago Business College. Its.- . i classes are always large and full of interest. AMUSE the children with the Puzzle Canls. See advertisement in another column of this paper. EVERY farmer and teamster should know that Frazer axle grease cures sore necks and scratches on horses. 25c. buys a pair of Lyon's Heel Stiffenera and make a boot or shoe last twice as long. REAU the Puzzle Card advertisement in an­ other column of this paper. WILHOFT'S Fever and VR NE Tcnic. This oil tollable remedy now sells at ooc dollar. PUZZLE CARDS, new and novel. Bee adver­ tisement in another column. urers, whose present annual sale ! to the amount of 22,(!31,4f)(). The ten DURING the past fifteen months about 10,000,000 acres of Government land were sold under the homestead laws--a more t>*n usual heavy amount. amounts to over 150,000 dozen, thought it a bold venture to have made 6,000 : bottles in the year. The royal monas- i tery of St. Peter, in Hautvilliers, gave j to the world a monk named Perignon, who was the original discoverer. His i chief duty was to take charge of the ex- | tensive vineyards of the monastery, to receive the eleventh barrel of all the 1 wine made in the district, and to make i the wine of the establishment. " Dom | Perignon, born a taster, and strength- : ened by constant practice, became so 1 expert that, when in the decline of life ' he was blind, no one of his holy breth- I ren, even with the aid of his eyes, could compete with him as a judge of wine." | Dom Perignon, says an old chronicler, j being blind toward the end of his life, j ordered the grapes of different vineyards I to be brought to liim, recognized each I kind by the taste, and said, "You must ' marry (mix) the wine of this grape with i the other." In the course of his wine- j mixings and experiments, the worthy ; Dom discovered the effervescing wine, now known as champagne. The M *eret j was, however, kept to himself, and the wine for the brotherhood, sending, how- , ever, an occasional bottle to tlio King. ' Dom Perignon is said to have died in the full odor of sanctity, gratefully re- ; membered by his convivial and holy j brethren, and his name should be ?m- j balraed in the memory of everyone with- ; in the sound of a pop of the champagne j bottle. Among his other virtues, lieav- ; enly and terrestrial, there is not only the i discovery of champagne, but that of the c >rk, wliich he was the first to put : into a bottle, tor, before his time, the j only stopper used was a bunch of flax 1 soaked in oil. i Those' Golden Tresses. ' He said he onee fell desperately in I love with a pretty blonde, who had the ! most bewitching ringlets that ever en- ! snared the heart of a man in their j meshes. That he raved like a lunatic ! over these golden tresses. That lie wrote i sounets to their beauty and luxuriance, and even wore a tiny love lock, which he stole from them one starry night, upon his head for six long months. And that, in fact, he was so much entranced by the ringlets that he resolved to many their fair owner. And so, one evening, when he had fully made up his mind to propose, he set oif to visit his inamorata, quoting poetry as ho went along, and wondering how a fellow set about, any­ way, when he really wanted to marry a pretty girl. Unluckily, the fair one with the golden locks was not at home when he called that night, and her younger sister came %altzing into the parlor to meet him. And, O ! horror of horrors ! she had pinned on her little head a mass of golden curls, which the States in which the largest amount of mail matter originated are as follows : New York, 538,i)50,724 ; Pennsylvania, •207,1 AG,0KO ; Ohio, liiS,5(>;»,500 ; Illinois, 167.94-1,808 ; Massachusetts, 145.973.304; Missouri, 92,057,580 ; Michigan, 64,753,- 364 ; Iowa, 57,297,050 ; Indiana. 51,922,- 208; aud Wisconsin, 47,943,064. Near­ ly 50 per c ut. of the mail matter report­ ed " originated" in the fifty principal cities of tlic country. The Oyster. According to Mr. Frank Buckluijd a great deal has to be said in a physiologi­ cal view in favor of the oyster aa an arti­ cle of food. There is an average of about two and a half ounces of meat to every twelve ounces of shell in each oyster, and its constituents include much phos­ phate of iron and ozmazone, or creative matter similar to essence of meat, and also a certain quantity of gelatine or mucilaginous matter, and another ma­ terial of which phosphorus is the main ingredient. It is the principal brain- giving food that can be taken, and hence < LS so largely used by those fond of liter- I afy* pursuits, and in this manner has be- ! come an almost essential element of diet to intellectual men. The annals of the University of Paris shadow forth that when scholastic disputations were more than usually rife and boisterous the stu­ dents were in the habit of rehearsing then- debates over oyster suppers. Louis YIIL, who'died in 1226, loved oysteis so well and thought so much of his cook for the savory manner in which he lurnished them up for the royal tablet, hat he in­ vested the chef de cuisine with a patent of nobility and made him a handsome an­ nual allowance. The members of the College of the Sorbonne were invited by Louis XL to come once every year to least upon oysters, until on one occasion a dist inguished theologian came to an un­ timely end by drowning in the River Seine after the symposium had con­ cluded. THERE is at Brussels a curious case of chronic drowsiness. A man about forty- five years of age, apparently in perfect health, has lately been attacked by an irresistible tendency to sleep. As soon as he stops walking or seats himself even to eat he falls into a deep slumber. All the remedies prescribed by the leading Belgian physicians have failed to produce any effect upon liim. This is said to be the first case of the kind in Em-ope, although such cases axe by no means rare among the negroes of Guinea, who call them Nelavan. > THEATER-GOERS, club-visitors, late supper-1 takers, and patrons of the horse-rui'road owl- trsfus, should all certainly have a bottle of Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup convenient. Gentlemen, yon will need it is one question, however, on which all , are agreed. Uncle .Terry, during his I palmy days, once shouldered a barrel of j eider and carried it forty rods. | " Yes, and I seed him do it," sighs the ; old man behind nic. "Fact of it was, it : was all on my account, and I beat him pretty bad. I was up to Fuller's eider-• 11 . 1 1 1? A1 A 1 ' B,IU FU1"," "£• U1V wivrwi vn iit(iuu(i)t j mill arter a barrel of the sweet, wlieii t and, in a healthful and natural maimer, ex- i Uncle Jerry came along with a bouncing ' " ' j three-year-old steer. We got to banter­ ing, and we finally agreed that if I could | lift his stee» I was to have him, and he i was to have the cider if he could shoulder j it. 1 don't keer to brag around now in J my old age, but I think I lit ted that steer j without even growin' red in the face. Un- | cle Jerry turned as white as a sheet, audi j thought lie'd faint away, but he stuck to | his word and I took the steer hum. He j got a heap o' credit all over the county I for liftin' that cider, and never let on that I 1 lifted the steer, and that's one thing j I've kinder laid up agin the old man." Then the next man lies about the num- t ber of crows he saw in Kansas, ami so we go until it is sharp 10 o'clock and the ! mosquitoes begin to hunger for evening I lunch. Then they bid each other good- ' night, and separate to meet and lie agaiu. I --.V. Quad. j The Care of Drunkenness. ! The Churchman, discussing the re- i suits of the treatment of inebriety at the I Kings county (N. Y.) and other asylums, I says: Whether drunkenness be eon- j sidered a disease or a vice--and it is un- ! doubtedly both--it does not appear on j the face of it why it may not l)e treated | with as successful results as insanity, for instance. It is not pretended that all j cases of insanity can be cured, being ! sometimes hereditary, and in other in­ stances superinduced by causes, and J come to a degree to which no skill of | man is equal. It is enough that the i number of permanent cures ranges from I 50 to 80 per cent., while others are I largely benefited. This seems to be ' about' the state of the case in the treatment of drunkenness. There may be cases enough in which the vice or dis­ ease has been inherited from the second or third generation, or in which the nervous system has become so utterly shattercd'that nothing can restore it. This st.uids to reason. But in other, and, it will be seen, the majority of cases, either there is no especial appe­ tite for strong drink, or, even if this ap­ petite amounts to a passionate craving lor it, there is still such a basis of phys­ ical and moral power to build upon that bv a few months' treatment a man may igain l>ecome his own master. A Lost Occupation. The Hon. John Wentworth compre­ hends the present condition of politics. He says that the newspaper has made the orator a tiling of the past, and de­ stroyed the usefulness of mass meetings and other clap-trap accessories or cam­ paigns. 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