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FiiOts hare been known to recover af­ ter having been immersed twelve months m wine. IN THE COUKTBY. >.»* MJUMK FOBBR tUTK "To let?" said the agent "Ready frfmished? For a month? Eeally, ladies. Fin very ranch afraid I haven't any prop­ erty in my hands--not at present, at least--thfii will meet your expectations. IVe plenty of unfurnished houses, and ptftnty to rent for a year. But for this month ? There isn't any such real estate in the market--there isn't, indeed." *^e don't wan tan unfurnished houM," ttid Angela Frost. "And we have no occasion to use a house for a year," added Josephine, her tsH. blooming vonng sister. The agent bit the end of his quill-pen, and looked at them dubiously, from be­ hind the ink-splashed rails of his desk. " We are school-teachera," Miss An­ gela explained, "and we have just a mouth's vacation; and we want to spend it in a healthful country resort, where I can botanize, and where my sister can sketch in water-oolors from nature." "Ah!" said the agent--"ah! Indeed, I'm very sorry, ladies, bnt I don't think there's any property in the market here­ abouts that will meet your ideas." >TYhat time does the evening stage leave lii.6 hotel?" Josephine asked rather despondently. "At five, I believe," the agent re­ plied. And the two ladies went slowly out of the stuffy little room with its high d«aV> its floor covered with cheap oil-cloth, and its general atmosphere of stole to- bsecn-smoke. "I'm so sorry, Angel," said the younger. " The air of these pine-wooded glees is the very thing for your asthma." "And the little river in the deep gorge is such an exquisite study for vour iwiatiugs, Jo," said Miss Erost, fondly. " Couldn't we live in a barn ?" sug­ gested Jo, with a comical arch of her •ye/brows. " I'm afraid not," sighed Angela. The real estate agent in the meanwhile, had hardly smoked a pipe and read the local paper before the door burst open, and a short, stout lady, in a pink hat and leathers came in. " Mr. Muggeridge," said she, handing him a key, "you may let Ivy Glen, or joa may sell it--ready-furnished, with a oow, a poultry -house and the pony-chaise thrown in." Mnggeridg,, b* tsI m tired of it," said the lady. "Su- «e and Jennie are homesick to get baok to the city, and so am I. I've been with­ out a servant since Monday, and now J™ going to take the evening stage to town, and meet my husband before he •tarts for Ivy Glen. I dare say he'll be vexed, but I can t help it. And I've left word at the Dairy farm-house for mv brother Duke to follow "* " "You couldn't let it for experimentally hazarded 88^?fleti* lady. " I could find you tenants for a month " •Mid the agent « And, perhaps, at the »«M^of that time, something else And away she went; and Mr. Mug­ geridge clapped his hat on the back of his head and setoff, in hot haste, to the hotel, for an interview with the two joung ladies who had so reoently kft ft month?" Mr. Mag- three days," Mid the -And so it happened that Jo and Angel Frost took triumphant possession of Irv romaatio cottage, half covered with the dark green, glossy leaves of the vine from which it derived its name, witn a boudoir, piano, and all the pictures garlanded with pressed ferns and dried autumn leaves, and a library of novels. . "Mb, Fitch mum, have bean a very Btefary person," said Jo. "AIM! musical," added AngeL "As for a servant, one wonld only be a MdaaDce," said Jo, 'I'll groom the pony myself," said Angel "He's no 1>igj$r than a New­ foundland dog--the darhiig." "And 111 milk the riSw and feed the dear little chickens," declared pretty lit­ tle Jo. "It's really an eartfflj paradise," said the elder sister. "Beit is," assented Ja two sisters passed ttm daya of unmitigated happiaess in the deep ravines and cool, flower-enameled woods that surrounded Ivy Glen. _ Angela made various valuable addi­ tions to her herbarium, and Jo sketched leafy nooks, bits of falling water and eunset effects to her heart's content, until finally a good, old-fashioned rain­ storm set in, of a July afternoon, and prisoned them in the cottage parlor. "How* stupid this is!" saw Jo, starting up L orn her book, as the tw ilight shad­ ows brooded darker and darker in the room. "Let's go down to the barn, and •talk to Dick and Frizzle. Poor dears! •they must be as lonesome as we are." (Now, Diok was the pony, and Frizzle -was the. wt; and Jo .and A"fjH were' •already upon the most affectionate terms •of intimacy with them.) It was quite dusk, when Marmadnke Tramingham opened the hall-door and tetrode in. shakinsr the rain-dropa from trie shoulders as if he had been a hujre moment, a clear, flutelike voice sounded below stains "Gomo in; Angel, quick! Goodness, how the nun drives in at the door! What's this in the hall ? A--man's coat!" "Burglars!" shrieked Miss Angela, who was not strong-minded in practice as she was in theory. "And there's a light np stain!" cried Jo. " Preserve na!" said Angela, begtonlng to tremble; "the house is on fire! Jo, Jo! don't stir a step! I insist that yon shall not go up stairs!" But Miss Josephine deftly evaded her Mster's grasp, and rushed direetiy up to the httle apartment which she M fistioated to her own use. "Who are you, sir?" she sternly de­ manded, as standing in the doer way. her gaze fell upon Mr. Mnrmadnk* Fram- ingham. "I--I beg yonr pardon," began that gentleman. v " Leave the house!" said Jo, in the imperial accents of Queen Elizabeth con­ demning one of her courtiers to death. "Jo, Jo, don't?" pleaded Angela, who had crept up in her sister's shadow, and was now tugging at her dress. "Per­ haps he's got a band of accomplices out­ side--perhaps he's a crazy man!" "Ladies," said Mr. Framiugham, "if you will only permit me to explain--" "Nothinfj can explain an intrusion like this!" declared Josephine, "My sister, Mrs. Fitcli, the occupant of this house--" " IPc are the occupants of this house*" inexorably interposed Miss Frost. "Mrs. Fitch has left the premises these three days ago." " I assure you," said Marmadnke, "that I waa quite ignorant of any such change of arrangements. I have been on a fishing excursion up the lulls, and supposed, of course, that my aisteT was ("fm*quite sure he is a crazy man!" isterposed Anfrel, sotto voce.) " And as it is sucli a stormy night, I beg only to be allowed to pass tlio night in the barn," concluded the supplicaniL "Your sister left word for you at the Ddiry Farm," said Jo, severely. "But I came aroHnd by the other road," said Mr. Framiugham, abjectly. The humor of the thing was too much for Jo--she burst out laughing. "Angel, do stop twitching, my dear," said she. "Yes, you may sleep in the barn, Mr.--Mr." "Mr. Framingham, ladies, at yoni service," said the disciple of Iiaak Wal­ ton. "Mr. Framingham, then," said Jo. "But you must have some tea with ua first. I am going to cut some cold tongue, and Angel will make fritters, and we have M. Blot's recipe for choco­ late. I'm really sorry that I minWA you for a bnrgler. "Or a crazy man," said Angel, apolo­ getically. "And we will entertain you as hospita­ bly as in ua lies," added Jo, with a mis­ chievous sparkle in her eyes. Mr. Marmadnke Framingham waa af­ terwards heard to Bay that he never spent so delightful an evening in his life. He engaged board at the Dairy Farm the next day, and instead of following lii« sister to the city, strayed down among the glens and braes. And when Josephene Frost's month of vacation expired she went back to the city to resign her position in the gram­ mar school. "1' a.m going to be married," she con­ fessed, blushing very prettily, when the mistress asked the reason why. So Miss Angela Frost went on alone with her career in life, and Mrs. Marma­ dnke Framingham settled down for life at Ivy Glen. •SFor," said she, "I think it is the sweetest spot in all the world." 'flo do I!" said her young husband. PKABM are sometimes so numerous in the pearl oyster that the animal cannot shut his shell, and so perishes. La VAIM,ANT says that he heard a parrot repeat the Lord's prayer from beginning to end in the Dutch lan- guage. A TAMX owl haa been known to hop abont upon the keya of a piano, ap­ parently delighted with hi* perform­ ance. , THB sense of smelling is less perfect in the lion than in most other ani­ mals. He hunts rather by sight by smell. w OOMPBHHKP air as fax), and said: "Wait a little, General; I want to show you something." She went into the next room. On her re­ turn, she held a long pipe already filled in one hand, and a burning wax-light and a "spill" in the other. Handing the pipe to the astonished old man, she aaid: "There, my old General, make yourself comfortable; this time you shall not desert ue." „ »„ * has ran a re- Opening Oysters. There is just as roach difference in the maimer in which two men open sheB oysters as there is in the wav they go to church or walk on the street. Who has not watched a thorough oyster-opener at an Eastern oyster market, and observed the tender manner in which he takes up th© shell and looks at it, as though it was a friend of his. He inserts his in­ strument between the shells as delicate­ ly as a dentist will probe an aching tooth, and by a little turn of the wrist your oyster is uncovered reclining upon the hall-shell plump and juicy, in- viting you to lire him down your neck. How different it is when an amateur at- tempts to open oysters. He commences by getting red in the face, and knocking off an inch of the edge of th© shell, and letting all the juice ran out and drip down betweat his fingers. He knocks some skia off his thumb, and that bleeds, and your heart Meeds lea- the oyster. He inserts an iron that looks like a stove- hook into the shell, then pries and grunts, the shell opens and th© oyster sticks to both sides of it and splits. He saws off the mantel-piece that holds the oyster to the shell, and hands you the half-shell with something on it that looks like scrambled oyster. The dirt from the shell gets on the oyster and it is about as much comfort trying to eat it as it is to eat a hickory nut that has been cracked by laying it down on the side and mashing it with a hatchet The oyster opened by an amateur looks ragged and discouraged, and the who opens it looks about the same, while the oyster opened by a man who understands his business looks as though it enjoyed life, and the man who opens it looks like a thoroughbred who is not ashamed of his business, and knows he can do it as well as anybody. The . sworiti is full of men who do. everything the way an amateur opens oysters. They try to do tlurfc for which they are not titted, and it is hard to make them be­ lieve they are not doing what they at­ tempt to do well, but they always act as though they wanted to* apologize ' for p ur as a motive power recently been wed in lE»»|fiM»4 to ra locomotive. The garded as a saceess. Br English law a Iwy is miurriageable at 14 ana a girl at 12. A Frencnman cannot marry at any age without the consent of his parents, H living. A KtiHA will eat ten times its own weight of provisions in a day, and will drug after it a chain a hundred times heavier than itself. It leaps a distance of at least 2QQ(Hmes its own length, Two CROWS built a nest in one of the two fine plane trees in the center of the city of London, inside the archway in 8t Paul's Churchyard. The plane trees in question are remarkable as the home each night of from 5,000 to 6,000 of the Londan sparrows. NERVE impulses are conducted along the nerves very slowly in comparison to the speed of electricity along a copper wire. The latter travels 16,000,000 times as fast as a nerve impulse, H yet the nerve impulse travels with the speed of the fastest railroad train. THB waste of material in coal is enormous. It is estimated that only two-tlikds of the coal in workable veins is taken out; there is a further loss of 515 per cent in the preparation and de­ livery. The Reading Kailroad Company has spent $300,000 in the attempt to utilize waste eoal by burning it in loco­ motives constructed for the purpose. THERE are 50 injurious insects in our vegetable gardens, 50 in our vineyanls, 75 attaek our apple trees, more than 100 injure our shade trees and more than 50 our grain fields. Seventy-five million* of dollars was the damage done to the wheat in Illinois in one season, and near­ ly ten years ago the loss in the United States, from insects alpne, was 4400,000,000. AT A meeting of the Maryland Acade­ my of Sciences Dr. Theobold showed a species of beetle and gave the follow­ ing figures: Weight of beetle, 2 grains; weight moved by it, 5J ounces--2,540 grains, or 1,320 times the weight of the beetle. A man weighing 150 pounds, endowed with the strength of this insect, should therefore be able to move 198,- 000 pounds, or nearly 100 tons. IK Jessamine county, KY., a man by the name of Bowen would never enter his house except by the back door, and never leave except by the front He selected early in life the spot for his bnrial, beneath an old oak tree, remote from all other graves, in an open field, and there was buried. Mr. Mackej Duncan, of the same county, whose oc­ cupation, that of a carpenter, is alto­ gether unfavorable to the pursuit ol knowledge, is one of the most learned men, after a fashion, in America. He knows the date of every important event in the world's history, year, month anc day, and, when essential, the sainute His knowledge of the family hfctany ot all prominent people is something velous. "Newfoundland dog, and flinging his f&L- j ?omething being wrong. This oyster ing-ereel and tackle on the table, "Lou!" he called, all over the house, . Ja a cheery, stentorian voice--"Louisa!" ' Cut, as might be expected, no answer Was returned; sad he went up to a cer­ tain pretty little circular-walled room where he had been wont to keep his sLip- pers, gun-case, and sundry other mas- onliaa appurtenances, when sojourning With his sister, Mrs. Fitch, at Ivy Glen "Itfs as quiet here," he muttered, un­ der his breath, "as an enchanted castle W1 lere is Lou?--where are the children'" But he paused on the threshold Even by the waning twilight, lie could per- «sive that a general transformation had taken place. A pitttty easel stood near the window «>e tall standards of the old-fashioned dressing-bureau were knotted with blue sibboas, the chairs were freshly draped with chintz, and a fairy work-basket atcmi Iwjside the sola, while upon the I tal»le lay a flower-twined gipsy-hat, a •bunch erf wild-flowers, and a pair of the tiniest gauntlet-gloves that Mr. Framing- flMm had ever set eyes upon. busiufe«8 is a little out ol season, but vou hav# #tl noticed how it ib.--Peck's tiun. ' A Conondram Answered. * sphere is a csrtain Galveston family that does not attend church as regularly as they should, but thev send tfhe oldest boy evetr Sunday, to keep up appear­ ances. Last Sunday the head of the family said : "Go dress yourself, boy; it's time for you to go to church." "I would like to know," responded the boy, sulkify, "why I am the only one in this family who has got to be re­ ligious ?" "Because you need it most, you scoundrel--that's why !" thundered tlie stern parent, feeling for the young mar­ tyr's hair.--Galveston News. TKR had been at the masquerade, where she recognized him at once. ' 'Was it the loud beating of your heart, my darling, that told you I was near.?" mur­ mured he. "Oh, no," she replied, "I recognized your crooked legs." The Poison Habit, Under all circumstances, make a fins stand against the poison habit. It is best to cull things by their true names. The effect upon the animal economy of every stimulant is strUtly that of a poi­ son, and every poison may become a stimulant There is no bane in the South American swamps, no virulent compound in the North American drug stores--chemistry knows no deadlier poison--whose gradual and persistent obtrusion on the human organism will not create an unnatural craving after a repetition of the lethal dose, a morbid appetency in every way analogous to the hankering of the toper after his. favorite tipple. Swallow a table-spoonfulof or a few grains of arsenions aeid every night; at first your physical conscience protests by every means in its power ; nausea, gripes, gastric spasma and nerv­ ous headaches warn yoit again, and again; the straggle of the digestive organs against the fell intruder convulses your whole system. But you continue the dose, and nature, true to her highest law to preserve life at any price, finally adapts herself to an abnormal condition --adapts your ayBtem to the poison aS whatever cost of health, strength aiul happiness. Your body becomes an opium machine, an arsenic mill, a physiological engine moved by poison* and performing its vital functions only under the spur of the" unnatural stimulus. But by-and-bj the jaded system fails to respond to the sjmr, your strength gives way, and, oJarmed at the symptoms of rapid deliquium, you resolve to rem­ edy the evil by removing the muse. Yon try to renounce stimulations, and rely once more on the unaided strength of the vis vitm. Bnt your strength is almost exhausted. The oil that should have fed the flame mf life has 1>MU wasted on a health-consuming fire. Before you can regain strength and happiness, your system must readapt itself to the normal condition, and the difficulty of that re­ arrangement will be proportioned to the degree of the present disarrangement; the further you have strayed from nat­ ure, the longer it will take you to re­ trace your steps.--Popular Science Monthly. How Qoecn Loniae Kept Her Guest. It is related of Queen Louise of Prus­ sia. mother of the present Emperor William, that one of her frequent vis­ itors, a special friend ot her husband, was an old General called Koclieritz. This old soldier, after having dined with his royal friends, always manifested at a certain time a peculiar nervousness and restlessness, as if wishing to depart; while at other hours of the day he was only too glad to stay and have a friendly chat. But after dinner he always showed tills great anxiety to get home. Louise was puzzled at the old man's strange behavior and resolved to find out the cause. She made inquiries of his steward, who, after a few questions, explained that the old General had in­ dulged for so many years in the habit of smoking a long pipe after dinner that now he coiihl not possibly do without it The next time the old General came to dine, he exhibited, after the repast, the same nervous restlessness, and rou to take leave. Whereupon, Louise rose htorrlewfaqr. Interviewing has reached its lowest depth when we find newspaper reporters dancing attendance oh a cars-meat man. Yet this is what has happened in Amer­ ica, and we are compelled to confess that the reporter found the purveyor of skewered victuals far mme interesting than most of the notabilities who are interviewed cm- the public behalf. The particular "cat-man " was indeed some­ what of a hero--one of tks self-made men of whom cities are so proud when they die. It appears that when he be­ gan catering fo* pussy he went his rounds himself, but he haa now grown so prosperous that four assistants carry his baskets for him. His cat customers do not heed the change, for they remark only the quality of the meat purveyed and not the quality of the: purveyor. Left to themselves, the animals, though having the run ol large warehouses, would starve, Hot American rats and mice will not remain in drj-opods stores, which are lean livings, so hang as they have choice of fatter incumbencies; but, mice or no mice„^he cat is an* institution, and so the "cat-man " drives a thriving trade. A wicked rival tried to ruin our hero by hawking fish instead of meat, and pretending, to pussy's owners that, as, fish contained much pk»phoru8, and. phosphorus made brains,. one could, expect to have a really-smart oat that wast not fed upon fish. But the "cat- man " promptly checkmated his rival by distributing a handbill to the effect thati fish made cats mangy, whereas meat gave them sleek and glossy coats. As proved in the sequel, the New Yorken prefer fat cats to smart ones, and ttu> tish fellow had no chance against his an­ tagonist --.London Telegraph. The Secret of Jenny land's Success. In the concert-room, whether in the classical masterpieces of Handel, Mo­ zart, Haydn or Mendelssohn, or ia the lighter style of aria* and songs, B1V» al­ ways demanded of herself the highest standard ef excellence. When tastum- ing the first soprano part in " Ihe Mes­ siah," "The Creation,""Elijah,"'"The Requiem," the melodies of Schubert and Schumann, or her own Ttatirmni songs, the earnestness and zeal, the total abstraction from all that surrounded her impressed and fascinated th® hearers quite as much as her dramatic perform­ ances had done. I remember that at a concert at Natchez, on the Mississippi, when the steamer stopped to take fuel, she sang before an audience of about 1,000 persons, composed of a small nufn- ber of planters and their families, the great bulk being colored people. There, as in another place, Memphis, and at the usual hour of 11 o'clock in the morn­ ing, B1I« executed her solos" with a finish and perfection which would have aston­ ished the frequenters of Her Majesty's Theater, in London, c* the Academie'de Musique, in Paris. When I compli­ mented her and expressed my suvprise that before so many who probably heard for the first time an artist of her renown, and would liavo been satisfied with even an ordinary performance, she should have taken so much paius to do her very best, she replied : "I value my art too highly to degrade ft even occasionally by any willful disregard of what I con- aider doe to it" A Natural Feeling* Translated from the omnibus: A lec- turess upon women said in one of her lectures: "I have neyer a beautiful girl, upon whose cheeks roses bloom, seen, without the desire to feel her in my arms to clasp and to kiss." This was to much for a masculine auditor, and he cried: "To me goes it just sol" (Stormy applause.) Floral Offering!. I chanced, not a thousand years ago, to be in a theater where an artiste was planting her shapely foot on a solid round of the ladder of success. She was poor. For years she had struggled for a 'chauce." That's what we all seek. Give me, says Wharton Baker, Esq., "a chance" at the Interior Department, and I'll show 'em. Give me, says the tyro, a '•newspaper chance," and I'M make the world my slave. Well, this girl, after pawning everything but herself, found a great, grim wolf standing right in front of her attic dear. The wolf's name was Hungqr, and made himself uncomfortably at home with her. Accident--and acci­ dent is the moving potentiality nine times out of ten--secured her ' 'a chance" in a venture. She took the chance with a petty weekly salary and went to work. Her head was hot, her chest was sore, her arms and legp were thin for want of food. She strained every nerve all the time, and made the venture a success. The manager took in money fast. The girl became all the rage. More salary ? Not a cent more. Why not? Because she had contracted for a petty price and managers never break contracts --do they? • But she got applause and flowers? Flowers? Yes, and the night of which I speak (it was just a week ago in this ciiy), with her red eyes inflamed with tears because she hadn't an extra cent in her wallet, with her heels sore with the rubbing of shoes she could not replaee, she went smirking and smiling to the footlights to take with trembling hand from the leader of the orchestra two immense floral tributes, one of which cost $100 and the other $25! What mockery! Twenty-five dollars in money would have been a God-send. Twenty-five dollars in cash wonld have bought her the underclothes and the shoes she literally needed. Twenty-five dollars would have enabled her to get beef, Iron and wine, which the physician had ordered; but which she hadn't the spare dollar for. Of course, you won't think I advise the sending of money instead of flowers. That would be an insult quick to be re­ sented. I am narrating facts, not ten­ dering advice. A few dollars spent in cut flowers, or evon for a choice bononet, can do all the most extreme admirer should seek to do in public. It's the thoughtfulness, not the extravagance, that produces an impression. If I cared to cause a real lasting happiness--happi­ ness that would start a tear or so of gratitude--I'd find out quietly and ex­ actly the party's status, and ia some proper and delicate mode send her what she most needed. There are times when a ton of coal, two suits of flannel uuder- clotlies, a bird cage, a pair of shoes, a small box of tea or three or four tickets for a Turkish bath would do much more toward wanning the inner cockle of a young woman's heart than a hundred dollars' worth of flowers. Send flowers, too. Send, however, flowers that can be gratefully received and easily carried np the stage.--Howard's Philadelphia Times Letter. Aaeedotes of the Late Johns Hopkte. He left $9,006,060, a moiety of which wae divided between eighteen relatives, and the bulk retained for a university and several hospital*. The nephew who waa often at variance with him received almost twice as muoh aa his brothers who never oontradicted him. Mr. Hop­ kins never maaried. The daughters of Epaminondas were that hero's famous victories. The children of Johns Hop­ kins are the splendid institutions he has left to learning, to mercy and to sci­ ence. There never was a stronger man. He started life with $100, and built up, by his own exertions, a celossal fortune. I From the beginning he declared that he had a mission from God to increase his I store, and that the golden flood that! poured into his coffers did not belong to him or to the hundreds who sought to borrow or beg it from him. He declared that a supernatural power prevented him from taking money from his pocket to bestow foolish alms, and that some day the world would know that he was not the grasping, avaricious and narrow-minded man he was accounted. He nevertheless helped secretly many worthy persons, and after his death it was discovered that not a few merchants had been saved by him from financial embarrass­ ment and sorrow. An uncauny old tramp used to station himself under a giant aak that stood sen­ try by the lodge of "Clifton." This made Mr, Hopkins nervous and became i a mortal offense. He told one of his nephews of it and said he did not knoir how to abate the nuisance. " Why not pay him, uncle, and send him away?" queried the young man. "Pay him money !" Mr. Hopkins shrieked,* while his long arms flew about like windmills; "pay him money! God forbid ! When I do that there will be a hundred vaga­ bonds here instead of one!" " Well, then," added the nephew, "if I w<ra you, Uncle John, I would kick him out." "I cannot do that," the old man pleaded, "I am afraid!" " What!" the nephew retorted, "are you afraid of suoh a cur as that ?" " No, no !" Mr. Hopkins whispered hoarsely, •' l am not afraid of him, but airaid of God. Did you never read in the Bible how Dives treated Lazarus ? Would you have me repeat the story and burn in hell for ov­ er '{" That ended it On one of the last days of hie earthly existence Mr. Hopkins called his de­ voted gardener to him and said : " I am beginning to hate tlas place, because it does not bring in money. I hate every­ thing that does not bring in money. Did you ever feed hogs ? Have you not observed that the strong animals bear away the ears of corn and that the weak­ er ones pursue them squealingly, in hopes that all or some of the treasure will be lost or dropped f The gurdener replied that the sketch was a true one. " Well, then," said Mr. Hopkins, "I am that strong hog. I liave that big ear of corn, and every piggish rascal in Baltimore is intent upon stealing it or wresting it from me 1 Sir," he said, turned brusquely to the gardener, "do you think a very rich mao is happy T The gardener answered : "The extreme of poverty is a sad thiug. The extreme- of wealth, no doubt, bears witli it mauy tribulations." Mr. Hopkim rejoined:. "You are right, my friend; nenct to the hell of being utterly bereft of money is the purgatory of possessing a vast amount of it I have a mission, and un­ der its shadow I have ea u.nnla.ed wealth, but not happiness." Precocity a Sign of Inferiority. M. D. Delaanay, in a communication to the French &'ociete de ffiblogie, has advanced the opinion that precocity is a sign of biological inferiority. In sup­ port of his position, he adduces the fact that, the lowsr species develope more rapidly, and aae at the same time more precocious than those higher in* the scale. Man is the longest of all in arriving at maturity; and: the inferior roses of men ar,® more precocious than tl» superior, as. is seen in the children of the Esqui­ maux, negroepy Cochin Chinese, Arabs, Japanese, etc., who are, up to a certain age, more vigorous and more intellectual then small Europeans. Preeociousness becomes less and less, in proportion to the advance made by any race in civili­ zation--a fact which*is illustrated by the lowering of the standard for recruits, which lias been made necessary in Fiance twice during the preaent century t y the decreasing rapidity c£ growth of. i&e youth of the country. Women a/e more precocious than men, and in all domestic animals the femalb is formed sooner than the male. Ptom eight to> twelve years, of age a girl gains one pound a year on a boy, and in mixed: schools girls obtain the first places up to. the age of twelve. The inferior tissues and organs develope before the higher ones, and t;ii» brain is the'slowest of atf the organs to develop. M. Delaunay concludes, his paper by stating that the precocity ©f organs and onanisms is ia an inverse* ratio to the extent of thasr evolution^--<&miiarian.. A Sea TTStff. A very curious anecdote is told, con­ cerning Admiral Bvtliesea, V. C., C- H, who retmnl from the service, after Hav­ ing for many years tftlod the post of, Con­ sulting ISaval Officer to the Government of India. It is stated! that the Admiral was pkked up, when, an infant, far out at see, lashed to a tbale of goods* A lady--fHesnmably hia mother--was with him, bat she was dead, and there! was no evidence of any kind; by which name of the waifs could lie traced. The offi­ cers. of the man-of-war which jjieked up the po@r little infa&t did all tlrej could by advertisement and inquky to dis- cmsa# his relatives^ and, ftndinp all their attempts futile, they determined to ade§>t the ohild„ to which they gave the name of " By the Sea. He was sent to a naval school* and, when old enough, joined the navy. By a lmppy ° coinci­ dence the firot t&hip in which lie served was the one which had saved his life as an infant. He took to hi« profession, and during the Crimea war distin­ guished hiineelf at the Inland of Wardoj, where he earned the Victoria Cross the doc®ration of C. K Later on his services ia India gave him the Compan­ ionship ot the Order ctS the Indian Em­ pire, and he retired from the service with thtj yank of Admiral--a consumma­ tion little dreamed uS by the kind-heart­ ed offioeni who rescued and eduaated him. Jfttefces. - The invention of matches waa a hap­ py thought, and is thus told by the in­ ventor: "I used to get up at 4 o'clock in the morning to pursue my studies, and I used at that time the fliut and steel, in the use of which I found great inconvenience. I gave lectures in chem­ istry at the time at a large academy. Of courae I knew, as other chemists did, the explo-ive material that was necessa­ ry to p: o 'uce instantaneous light, but it Wis difficult to obtainalight on wood by t mt mixture, and f1 mi to put sulphur i so, and told about my next lecture. man in tho room I was trged to go and take < ut a patent immediately, bnt I thought it so ss&all a matter, and it cost me so little labor, that I did not think proper to get a pat­ ent, although I have no doubt it would have been very profitable." The of this inventor of matches is Mr. Hid­ den, and he is an Englishman. , The .Romance ®f a Tramp. During the Centennial year, among the thousands who went through the Centennial buildings one day in July waa a tramp named George . AM he was passing down the steps, after an inspection of the building, he stumbled and fell, breaking his arm. A Capitol, policeman picked him up, and after pre­ paring a cot sent for a suigeon, who set the arm. This over, the tramp asked the privilege of setting around in the Capitol Park until he got strong enough to go about again, saying he had no money, and knew that habitual loungers were liable to arrest on a charge of va­ grancy. The desired privilege was grtotecl; and, in addition, an arrange­ ment was made by which he was given a comfortable sleeping plaee in the build­ ing. The officer aim managed to bring enough food from his boarding-house to supply him. In about two weeks the tramp gave notice that he wonld start West. He was exceedingly thankful for the kindness shown him by the of­ ficer, and said if he ever got half a chance, he would endeayor to repay it. The tramp met a Centennial tourist' from Salt Lake City who happened to know his father. After talking, the tourist offered to take him West if he wanted to go. The offer was accepted, and the Capitol policeman, Arthur Thomas, went to the depot with them and bade them good-bye. Now let four years pass and the rest of the story comes in. Arthur Thomas, who was a Capitol policeman in 1876, is now, and has been for more than a year, Secretary of Utah Territory, having been appointed on the recommendation, of a number of leading men, Republicans and Democrats. Some weeks since a man named George entered Mr. Thomas' office in Salt Lake to ascertain something abont the boundaries and survey of certain sections of mineral lands. They recognized each other and had a long talk. The tramp had pros­ pered. Besides having a wife, he can draw and have honored his check • tar $100,000. Everything he has touched since he has been in the Territory has turned into money one way or another. ; . >--r»- - •--n'tn, aaljjf WHAT THE DOCTORS SAYI far all Dhnue* of tko 1 OhNKii »f Thrnpt I<1Mt (Jf ilm M M EXPECTORANT IT HAS IT CONTAINS NO 01 EQUM. vIN ANY A Belie of _ An old walnut cabinet of antique de­ sign has been discovered in the store of Frank Wnro, a second-hand furniture dealer in Staunton, Va., to which on- usual interest attaches. In moving the desk Ware- turned it up and his eye fell upon a singular looking inscription, to decipher which he called ia the aid of several gentlemen, to make it out as fol­ lows: "Tb' George Washington by D. Webfter ia y» year 1777," and in another place: "Ye-sJesk was presented to George Washington in ye year of ye Lord 1777 by D. Webfter." The inscribton is- quite distinct, except the "D" preceding Webster. The cabinet was bought re­ cently at ai sale of the effects; of the widow Of the late Samuel Clark, a former Mayor of Sfewraton, and is about three feet long and cue deep and stands upon four slender crooked legs. A drawer runs the whole length of the cabinet at the top and there are smaller shallow ones beneath thas, with an old fashioned brass handle.. It has been foraid that Samuel Clark, married a daughter of Sampson Matthews, who was the first man who ever kept a tavern in Skmnton. His tavern, whiith has long since disap­ peared, was a rendezvous for Continental soldiers. General Matthews, a brother ef tho tavera-keeper, was a friiend of General Washington and was Governor ef Georgia after the war. The olid, desk evidently passed; from General Washing­ ton into the hanoia of Governor Matthews, and so into hia> brother's family. Its- identity is much strengthened by the strong resemblauce between the inscrip­ tion upon it and the handwriting of Washiagton as seen upon an old auto­ graph letter of his which has 'been hunted up and compared with it.--Phil­ adelphia Timen. I. If. HARRIS ft CO, CINOmWATI, o. FOR SALE BY fttl DRUeSllTl ̂ kirn HOLMANS PAD CURES A Without (ttfi MEDICINE I/MM. nuDsauBKi The Only True Malarial AntiflotC" D*. HOLMAK'S PAD It ao guesswork remody-tt ao fceM* i»*uthr« experiment--no purloined * %odg« pMf?« -4 aotn* faurentMP'sMea; U1$m' the original and only gjennlne cut. < ? •tlve Pad, th« enlj ren«dy that ha* an hoaj. ' . estly-acquired right to u«e the title-vrprd **t*S^(% . fa connection with a treatment for chioak diacMiB ef the Stomach, Uwr and Spleen. r¥?lp: By a receatly perfected improvement DR. ' KAN haa greatly iacreaaed the aeope of the usefulness, and appreciably augmented inactive cm rati vc power. Thi» great improvement fhrea Houux** PA+f> (with iu Adju*attt»> mch complete and i»Aiii.* control over Ihe moat persistent and unyielding forms of Cbroaalc IMocaae «f thf**' Stomach and Urcr, aa well as- DXala* rial BloodrPofaonlngr, aa to' ampt^ jnstify the eminent JVafeMor Xaomla' Higft en­ comium: "I(rr»HEAii»is A UNIVKMALPANACKA ' IVAN ANYTHIftd IN MlSlCINt 1" The sticce** ai SOCMAN'S PADS hag inspireeTim. iBMors who offer Pad's similar in form •dor to the gcanlac HOLMA^ •ewsre ef tttse Bogoa and Bat* tatlon Pad*, gotten np to sell «t the reputation of tlae OEMVIXS laOXrHAN PAR. Bach Oemdne Holoun Pad bear* Private Revenas Wsiiin of ra* HM.MAN PAD COMPANY with tha a!t»«e, Trade Mark pnirted'ai gittt. FOR SALE BV ALL DRUGGISTS, Of seal by maslvposfc paid an receipt of fM®» iiOLRAAIf PAD IF.. O. Bat 21ia.] ; KuBMTED am a light tjgSgaea. mh, WKe ft occurred to ture. X did liowed it in as a young father was a chemist in Loudon, and he at onco wrote to him about it, and soon afterward lu- cifer matches were issued to the world. Qjiftenh And, although it has* beeat doubted that an oyster had been so far subju­ gated as to "fallow its maater up and uown stairs^" a oonsumieation which might be accepted as positive progress­ ive steps is, the rise towsad ultimate ei-«- ilization, at least according to " Lewaa Seaside Studies," oysters are suscepiei> ble of being educated to a small extent. In the great establishments on the coast ot Calvados, the merchants teach oys­ ters to keep their shells closed when out of the water, by which the liquor re­ tained keeps their gills moist, and they arnvo lively in far-distant Paria. The process may be worthy extensive pub­ licity j it is this: No sooner ia an oyster taken from th© sea thou it closes its shells, and opens them after a certain tomf~it is said, but more probably because the shock it received bv removal into the air, causing its mus­ cles to contract, has passed away. The Calvados men take advantage of this to exercise the oysters, and make them ac­ customed to be out of the water, by leaving them daily in th® atmosphere for longer and longer periods. This has the desired eft'eet; the well-educated mollusk keeps its door closed at least lor many consecutive hours, and BO long as the shell is closed its gills are kept moist, --All the Year Hound* Wl»y SMlfer Xe^dleaaljr With tha oonvui*i:i» •paimodio torturM of ietev md •Has, and biltoua moeittent, when Hoetottor'i Storaouil Bitten, aoknowladsad to be a real onratlraof malarial much iHsffeEsfg. . attentive in ouaa ot constipation, dyapapala. Dm compkinf, ftimustfttiiKMt and In aeneralldfebUllr and narrono waiksw. frgoria^a Sheep, thai Dive front COMb. John Muir, the naturalist of, the Sier­ ra, writing olthe wild sheep of the Siaiv ra and of theia well-authenticated habit of diving fmm precipices and alighting on their horns, relates the following an­ ecdote : "At the base of Sheep sock, one a£ the winter ateatigbolds of the Shasta. flocks, there fives a stockraiaer who has the advantage of observing the move­ ments of wald sheep every winter, and,, in the coume of conversation with him , ^ OUJM) of on the aubgaaiof their diving habits, he; j. Noi»«eSeeu«-i. this bmicnmt, pointed to. tba front of a lava headland* about 150;fe©4 high, which, is only 8 oc 10 degrees out of the perpendicular* •There,' said he, ' I followed a band of them fellows to the back of that rook. yonder, and expected to, capture them all, for 1 thought I had a. dead thing on them. I gpt behind tham on a namaar bench that runs along, ̂ he face of ttie wall near the top, and aomes to an end where they couldn't gj»& away without falling; ana being killed; but they jumped off, and landed all right,, as if that were the regular tiring with them.' " LWhttt t' said I, u jumped 150) feet! Did jou see them do &? * " ' No,' he replied* ' I didn't see them going down, for I waa behind them; but -t saw them go off over the brhak, and then. I went below and found their tracks where they struck on the loose debris, at the bottom. They sailed right ofit &ad landed on their feet ldglit side up. That's the kind of animal they is --bea&H anything, else that goes on lour TONI of ProtomWe of IMM, Phosphatea, associate* Aromatics. Endorsed by tha- Profauibiu and reooamtaded by ttiesr tor ^ieaeral DeMlltr, P< ^aalarvitallty,l(er Is a pn Bark ••get or Bans* leBfta* »>is» |>w»» Maerrea ty TInjfr-tak T,ry tralfca. OsavalcHsaee freat aadChrsaleChlllaaad •very patpose where a. Toxic Is eblOtjr (a-aach an extent J" »a«da--aani to me. nihiingfrom general thatoaylaborwasexeecdiugly £vacation of a mcath did not glva at a>uch re C, bat oa the cjontrary. was feCtewod by In-mased prostration and shtlsSag chats. At ehle «BBM 1 began the ene of yoicr totos TOMIC, ta watch I realta'i! almoct immediate a>d wonderftil results. The old energy rctoraad aakd 1 found that my natural FORO.^ WAS not ntrauMnUjr abated. I hare used three bottles of iWTOirfC. Since nstnf It I li.ivc doiio ts'Jce tlx! i-.tsor that 1 erer did In tha same time ilui-fase mv liliMya, aud with double tha i. With irantjuil and Tlgofofbody, eosue alma elcanmss ot thought never bemra If she TONIC h.is not done the work,! s£E . Iglve it thecrwUt. 2, UC9- Pastor OiiiUan Chanfe. For Salo by Druggists snd Genacal Daalers Everywhwa yed. w not what a»oy,0 , Jan. POND'S EXTRACT. »Mim Ai/tammatfoa, Atmt* amt Ckrvmie, , INVAt Catarrh. ffMl-ifnrr fn/tammatfmt Controls M Ae*t* and Chrtmtr. . Venom and Mttma. 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