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ILLINOIS '|£;. * h ' ' ;ts ' « O THK n|ADOW BEACTT. BT MRS. X. A. PAO& IWt fenny Dean came down the lain ' Just m the dew wu falling, And o'er the mesdpw one could hear Her iweet young twice a-o»lling: "Co-bofs I oo-J>ot81"--her golden hair Was o'erherttacalders Sowing; "Co-boRi! co-boss t"52%H« clover thi^k Was all about her blowing. j The pearly bloom of her fair face Was flashed with earnest mranffig The sun, with slanting beams afar, Was lost in golden gleaming; And still she cried, "Co-boss! oo-boes You heed nor lads nor lasses, ? With head so deeply buried in . ,i The tender meadow grasses." , 5 S, • * • She turned to think of Bomethteg •»*>% With which to coax the beauty, »3 For Jenny never failed to do A loving daughter's dnty-- When, lo! their neighbor's liandsortt# M%, . V*»a tniirnow Bhnr+At" U'ri*'$ To >nake his journey shorter. Had crossed the field, and stood betfonfc The farmer's sweet young daughter. . Her father watchful-eyed had Ben, ' •' And lavish in his teUin :; He did not wish to have the lads 'J* ; Come aft about his dwelling, t Be thought, as fathers often think, y ! h With wisdom great in meamtr©, ^To always be at mother's side ' i , ' Should be a daughter's pleasure, r|»' -v" ••. , t So Kobert, rogue, had double ana -i „ In coming through the clovers A II4^1A tfhi m •>! 11 < Ke had a little ple», to frame, r.fj And longed to have it over. > > < * ij.He longed to know if Jenny With power of fine discernini , gjHad e'er descried the sacrifice V , ^ Within his bosom burning. | a '"Forego for once your evening *?' i*" *, f s He said, with head averted; v. I- / "I have a little boon to ask, ' • f ' A right to be asserted. <»> |V 1 4; * *V '"T0 yonder highway, waiting netc; "ff iv > > We'll walk, for no one ] *3* . •$.p T»tJ II » (UK) lUI I1U UUO |NWBrH; < • t-Vv. "/The dews are falling thickly ha '. * Upon the meadow grasses." < ' ®° Jenny, wrested from the plMe v Xp •< »• Where every evening found ntt, fU1-1 'Learned occupation far more sweety v And words that were profounder. , •,'« ' Tor once her song, "Co-boss! co-boss 1" " _ f , In mystery was bated, *; And Bess beside the meadow bant s w i p/'f* •» For once was found belated.': \ ' ^ How long they wandered in thd ftifo* " • How sweet he told the story, A , ' * 'Whether she answered yea or nay, . • I cannot set before you; j •> But in the morn her father said, ^ •X&-'vp o-.J With grave and solemn duty, "Hereafter"--nodding his gray head-- ft | it "I'll call the Meadow Beauty 1" l r at- BETSEY BLIVEK t • • , fv' : • pp.-" Vf : ' hS Sir. %Yes," said Betsey Bliven, "I'm a ' Wline girl, and I calculate that I can earn my own living if anybody can." Miss Bliven was tall, erect, and com­ posed. She had seen the world, and she wasn't afraid of it "Bnt to think of a Bliven going out as a hired girl!" said Mrs. Midget, a feeble, pink-eyed little woman with chronic catarrh and a dejected sniffle, who had been born Matilda Bliven and attached superstitions respect to the name. "What's the odds?" said Betsey. *Tve got my living to earn, and I mean to earn it. Now, yon, 'Tilda," with a compassionate glance at the pink-eyed aristocrat, "you're made to work with­ out any wages. Just for the satisfaction of being called Mrs.!" And Betsey picked up her bag, shoul­ dered her umbrella, and stalked out to meet the stage, whese rumbling wheels were beginning to sound upon the road like distant thunder. Miss Bliven had visited a Boston In­ telligence Bureau, and there they had obtained for her the address of a house In the northern part of the State where a reliable girl was wanted in the capac­ ity of table waitress and chambermaid. "Wages ?" demanded Betsey. "Fourteen dollars," replied the gen­ tlemanly man who stood smiling behind the desk. "Privileges?" questioned the young woman. "A whole day to yourself every month and every other Sunday afternoon," re­ plied the man. "Any other girls kept?" asked Miss Bliven. "Four," said the man, complacently. *Hutnph!" commentedBetsev. "Fam­ ily large ?" "Well--rather," admitted the man. "And the situation is very lonely, and so--" "I don't care anything about that," interrupted Betsey. "I'd as soon keep bouse for a hermit, or go on a desert island. "I'm not very young, and I've no followers. Let me see--Grand Trunk Railroad to Black Gorge, stage eoach to Bleak Hall--yes, I've got the <firection£ all written down." And Betsey paid her fee, took her card and creaked out of the room in a pair of brand-new calfskin boots. Miss Bliven traveled comfortably. She carried her lunch in a splint bas­ ket, aUd ate comfortably on the road; she beguiled the lagging hours with a newspaper, and was not very tired when at last the conductor flung open the door and yelled out "Black Gorge," at the top of a stentorian pair of lungs. And Miss Betsey found herself stand­ ing on the platform, surrounded by dark pine woods. "Where's the stage?" she exclaimed. ft^'Lady for Bleak Hall?*' demanded •B insinuating voice close to her ear. And the next minute she found her- aalf lifted politely into a close, 6ark wagon, with leather-cushioned seats. "Where are the others?" asked the ftjiver. 'j/*'What others?" said Miss Bliven. v "Two gentlemen who were with you." "There were none,* said Miss Bliven. *1 came alone." "Alone," said the driver, glancing •mieasily around. "All the way from . Jloston?" "Yes, all the way from Boston!" said Miss Betsey, a little impatiently. "Why Shouldn't I?" You d^n't-auppose I Seeded keepers, do you?" "Oh, no, ma'am; certainly not," Womptly responded the man, as lie pumbed into his seat and took the reins, j _ He drove circumspectly, along a lonely road, Miss Bliven observed, up to the very door of a great, dark stone liouse, hedged about with funeral-look- Wg spruce and cedars, as Betsey could discern in the star-sprinkled darkness, I *®d a narrow door was opened. "I've brought her," said the driver to • respectable-looking man in black, whom Betsey at once concluded to be the butler, "all alone." "Alone! Bless my soul!" cried the ' 5 h°P® y°u didn't have any -,.U trouble?" "None in the least," said the driver. ^She's as quiet as a lamb!" "Well, I never 1" said Miss Bliven. . !**Do they take me for a raging lioness, * % wonder?" In an instant her arm was drawn Uxrough that of the respectable man in l»lack, and she was conducted along a ^ dark, stone-paved passage, lighted only ? by a swinging lamp which hung above their heads. "Very polite they are here, I must ••J," thought Miss Betsey to herself. ift herself fcm raddealy, into , Mttdroom With circular walls, windows high above Iter reach, and the scantiest allowanoe of furni­ ture that she had ever seaLio her life. And, to heir amazement, thef>olite but ler was accosting her through a grated doorway, as if she were a will crim­ inal. "Eh!" said Betsey, "What's this? Let me out, will you?" # "Quiet, ma'am, quiet. These's a dear I" said the respectable personage. "You will have some supper directly if only you will compose yourself." "But I want to get out," said Betsey, rattling at the door. "Quiet, quiet, qui-etl" shouted the man. "Don't, pray, excite yourself! "What on earth is the meaning of this ?" said the bewildered woman from Maine. "Now, pray, be calm," said the bug­ ler. "Quiet--quiet, that's the way." / "But I won't be quiet!" said M{ss Betsey. "I'll tear the walls down. lM shout for help. What have I done/to be shut up like a prisoner or a mad­ woman ?" "Gently, gently," urged the respect­ able man in black. "Jonas, I'm afraid vou'll have to bring the straight jack* etr "The--straight jacket?" Miss Bliv­ en dropped down on the little stone bench that was screwed against the wall, as if a bullet had struck her. Was it possible that they believed her to be mad? "Stop!" said she, trying to calm the wild, incessant beatings of her heart. "Don't put on that thing. I will be quiot." "There's a dear souij" said the man in caressing accents, a$*if he were rea­ soning with a fractious infant. "It's a great deal the most sensible thing you can do." "But there's some mistake here," pleaded poor Betsey, on whose brow, in spite of the chilliness of the night, great drops of perspiration had broken out. "I'm not mad." "No, no," said the man. "Of course not. You shall have some tea directly and a slice of dry toast, and--" "Bronson," called out a clear, dis­ tinct voice, "you're wanted! Where are you ? What are you doing?" "I'm with the new patient, sirr" an­ swered the respectable man. "She's quieting down very fast, and--" "What's the man talking about?" in­ terrupted the voice, shrill, sharper and more distinct still. "The new patient has jnst come by special conveyance from Warren town," "Then who is this?" gasped the re­ spectable man, his lower jaw falling like that of a fish. "I'm Betsey Bliven," said our heroine. "Let me out, I say! Betsey Blivjn, from Maine. I'm the new waitress and chambermaid at $14 a month, and they've taken me for a madwoman." "Hush -- hush -- sh! For heaven's sake!" whispered the respectable man in black, as he made haste to unlock the door. "Nobody is mad here-- they're only peculiar. I'm sure ma'am, I beg your pardon. But we were ex­ pecting Mrs. Lamarque, from Portland, and you correspond almost exactly with the description, and we didn't know that, the new waitress would be here until to-morrow. And Mrs. Lamarque is subject to dangerous turns,'and-- and I hope, ma'am, you won't mention this to the superintendent." "No," said Betsey, with a grim chuckle; she was beginning to see the humor of the thing now. "So this is a --madhouse, eh?" "It's a private sanitary retreat," said the respectable man. "Very select and exclusive. I'll introduce you to the housekeeper at once, ma'am, if you'll step this way. You'll find her a most lady like person, ma'am." "She ain't mad, is she?" asked Bet­ sey. "Not at all," said the man rather shortly. "Ah," said Betsey, "I didn't know but that everybody in this establish­ ment was a little cracked in the upper story. You must be or you never would have taken me for one of your­ selves." To which taunt the respeotable man had no answer prepared on the spur of the moment. Three months afterward Miss Betsey Bliven wrote to her cousin, Mrs. Mid­ get "I'm in a mad house, Matilda, my dear," she expressed herself, "and re­ ally, except for the name, I find every­ thing very nice and comfortable. We're very select, and on the whole I find so­ ciety here a good deal politer and more ceremonious than it is outside the walla. And I suppose you'll say that I am as mad as the ladies and gentlemen that I wait on, when I tell you that I'm en­ gaged to be married to Mr. Babcock, the head keeper. But I'm getting rather partial to insane people and re­ ally I see my way clear to doing some good in the world if I conclude to stay here permanently." So Miss Bliven found the place a life­ long benefice, and when Mrs. Midget was asked by the cousinhood, "what had become of Betsey," she was wont to answer in a nasal whine: "Poor dear! she's gone into a lunatic asylum, and she's married to the head keeper, and I don't know but what it is as bad as being crazy one'B self. But Betsey seems to like it. Betsey always was peculiar." Shetland Peny and Percheren. It is a difficult matter to believe that those magnificent specimens of equine power, the Percheron and Clydesdale draught horses, should be derived from the same original stock as the Shet­ land pony. These little, hardy, obsti­ nate, good-natured pets have been un­ dergoing, during.a number of years, a EroceBS of phyiscal degeneration, which as reduced them to an average stature of forty to forty-eight inches, and often much less. They, like the oaks and firu of the Island upon which they have been reared, have become stunted in their growth by the peculiar conditions of their environment; while the other branches of the family have been inter­ bred, and selected, and improved, with a view of producing the magnificent thoroughbreds which we now so often see in the business parts of our cities, and which are so often the pride of onr State and County Fairs, and horse shows. In point of strength the pony probably stands ahead of the Perche­ ron in proportion to its size, and won derful stories are told in their native Isle of their wonderful endnrence and power. Creditable to the Manufacturer. Landlady, handing bill to boarder. "This is the forty-seventh time, Mr. Jones, I have presented--.this Boarder, taking it from examining it bill.' her hands and critically: "Is that so, Mrs. Sweet? Well, it don't show the wear and tear at alL Have you any idea who manufactures this paper?" -- Cincinnati Merchant Traveler. Row XJM£» IrtafcMMttMlriaHew .... „~ ..-w * : cited illus- trating tlM President's remarkable tact and skill in smoothing Oter difficulties which were likely to onlminate in pe­ culiar trouble. At one time there was great dieoontent among the laboring classes in the city of New York, espe­ cially among the Irish, which was hignt- ened by the draft reoently ordered for the prompt filling up of our depleted ranks. This discontent had assumed such proportions as to threaten the peace of the city and imperil the cause of the country. In this extremity^ Mr. Lincoln conceived the notion of raising an Irish brigade in New York, to be otlieered exclusively by Irishmen. The difficult question was how to organize it and who could be got to do it suc­ cessfully. After thinking the matter over Mr. Lincoln wrote to James T. BradLy^ the brilliant and influential Irish er, asking him to come to Wash­ ington on a matter of public business. Mr. Brady promptly obeyed the sum­ mons and was dumbfounded when he was informed that the mission to be imposed on him was to raise and officer an Iiish brigade in New York City. He protested earnestly that he knew nothing of military matters, such things being entirely outside of his experience; that he had not the most distant notion how to go to work at such an organiza­ tion, and no confidence in his own judgment in the appointment of officers. The President's shrewd reply was: "You know plenty of Irishmen who do know all about such matters, and as to the appointment of officers--did you ever know an Irishman who would de­ cline an office or refuse a pair of epau­ lets, or do anything but fight gallantly after he had them?" The upshot of the conference was that Brady undertook the mission, re­ turned to New York, and raised the brigade without difficulty, officered by Irishmen, as Mr. Lincoln had sug­ gested. When that magnificent body of 3,000 Irishmen marehed down Broad­ way, en route for the seat of war, the smouldering discontent among the Irish, which had threatened to burst into flame, was replaced by an ardent enthusiasm which made the air ring with shouts and huzzas. Mr. Lincoln's immediate object was fully realized by the exercise of that keen, prattical in­ sight, and knowledge of human nature which shone so conspicuously in him. I have given the. above fact exaotly as it was related to me by Mr. Brady at the time. I was present on the occasion when Messrs. Sumner and Wade and one or two others called on Mr. Lincoln and asked for the removal of a prominent official in one of the departments in Washington. While urging their charges with much vehemence the President listened attentively, with his head down. At the conclusion he looked up with a sorrowful expression of face and said: "Well, gentlemen, it does seem to me that wherever I have a particular friend in office every­ body is down on liim." This ended the matter, and the officer was not re­ moved. During the War much complaint was made that Mr. Lincoln was too lenient in enforcing discipline in the army, bv directing the executions of the judg­ ments of covrts for the trial of milita­ ry offenses. It was claimed that he would not approve of the death sen­ tence of a soldier for desertion if he could find any possible excuse for his rejecting it. This it is'claimed by many tended to weaken the discipline of our army, and to encourage deser­ tion, as there seemed to be no chance of enforcing the decrees of the courts punishing that high military crime. Yet this clamor against the President by many officers high in command made no impression upon him. One day in the summer of 1863, I think, I called on him on business, and as I en­ tered his room Mr. Lincoln said: "I have here some papers (putting his hand upon a large tile of papers) wh'ch I started in this morning to carefully examine. They contain the entire proceedings of a military court for the trial of a young soldier for desertion. And they contain minutes of the testimony taken on the trial, together with the conviction and sentenced to death of the boy. I have read just three pages of the testimony, and have found this: 'The boy said when first arrested that he was going home to see his mother.' I don't think that I can allow a boy to be shot who tried to go home to see his mother. I guess 1 don't want to read any more of this." The sentence of the court was disap­ proved without further investigation. p It WM the tender sympathy which Mr. Lincoln felt ior the inexperienced young men who, without any idea of the hardships of army life, had volun­ teered to defend the Union, that ren­ dered him so popular with the private soldiers in the army. They all felt that they had a friend in the President.-- W. S. Wilkinson. Kansas Sheep. Sheep there were, indeed; thousands of them, objects of unfailing concern to the gentlemen and delight to the ladies. What is that stone wall?" asked, one afternoon, a lady sitting on the piazza with her opera-glass. "That stgno wall, madam, answered a Harvard graduate, politely, "is the fheep coming in to the corral." To see the sheep go in and out, night and morning, was a never-failing amusement. Sometimes the ladies wondered down to the corrals at sunset to see the herds come in, and you would have supposed thrm to be waiting for Fourth-of-July procession with banners from the eagerness with which they exclaimed, "Oh, here they come! there they are!" as the first faint tinkling of the bells was heard in the distance. If two herds appeared at once from opposite directions, the one with lambs had the "right of way," and Sly, the sheep dog--not the only commander who has controlled troops by sitting down in front of them-- would hold the other herd in check till the lambs were safely houaed. The lambs born on the prairie during the day frisked back at night to the corral Iwside their- mothers, a lamb four hours old being able to walk a mile. When shearing-time came, they went into the sheds expecting to see the thick wool fall in locks beneath the shears, like ̂ the golden curls of their own darlings;' great was the amaze­ ment to see the whole woolly fleece taken off much as if it had been an overcoat, looking still, if it were rolled up in a ball, like a veritable sheep, and often quite as large as the shorn and diminished creature that had once been pprt of it One very hot day they braved the heat themselves for the sake of going out on the prairie to see how sheep keep cool. Instead of scat­ tering along the creek, seeking singly the shade of the bushes or the tall trees only to be found near the creek, they huddle together in the middle of * the sunny field more closely than ever. field of woolly ported iwj* small foreetdf little legs. --Alice Wellington Rollint, i per'8 Magtuine. •Ilk and Eggs as Fee#. 'v Average eggs weigh eight to the pound. Thus a dozen eggs weigh one and a half pounds. A pound of eggs contains more nourishment than a pound of meat and bone. Hence eggs aff 24 cents per dozen are as economical a food as beefsteak at 16 cents per pound. There is no flesh food that may be served in so many palatable ways as eggs, nor so easily obtained by farmers. They may be boiled, poached, scrambled, fried, made into omelets plain or mixed with herbs or salted meats, and used in a great variety of ways in oakes, Indian bread, and other oookery. Thus there are few seasons when it will be good economy in the farmer's family to stint themselves in this easily assimilable and nutritious food. Every family having an ice­ house or other food storage should preserve a good supply to be used when they are scaroe. They may be kept fairly well in a cold cellar if put down in the autumn. One reason why persbns suppose eggs lack nutrition is that they are in a semi-fluid state. Yet heat readily converts them into a solid by coagula­ tion. Like milk, eggs are a perfect food, containing all the constituents of nourishment, and like rare roast-beef, soft boiled eggs aro digested in three hours. Milk, like eggs, is capable of great variety in the cooking, and milk and cream should constitute a consid­ erable portion of the diet in farm life, especially in the preparation of pud­ dings, sauces, and the many dishes that form palatable accessories to table en­ joyment It is, therefore, bad economy for the farmer's family to Gtint them­ selves in milk, cream, and eggs, on the ground that they are not solid food. Salt pork, bacon, and ham are indeed solid food in the sense of indigestibility. It takes five hours to digest either, and only strong stomachs can bear them. They should be used more as relishes than as true food on the farm in sum­ mer, as they are everywhere else. It should be remembered that it is simply the juices of any food that serve the purposes of digestion. It is only that portion of any food that is soluble in the fluids of digestion that is assimilated and taken up by the system. Fresh meat is largely water-- about 71 per cent, and that of eggs about the same, or about that of blood, which contains 3 per cent. more. The marketable meat of the ox contains 10 per ceut bone, so that this again would bring eggs fully up to the standard of lean meat The fact that the farmer is obliged to depend so largely upon salt meats in summer, and the added fact that milk, cream, and eggs are especi­ ally valuable in the preparation of salted-meat dishes, render careful thought on tho subject all the more necessary.--Ch irago Tribune, tiround-Hog Day. It Is quite impossible to say in how many countries our old friend, the ground-hog, or some of his kind, per­ form on Candlemas day. We all know his program, how be wakes up and comes out of his winter bed to look around the world again. If he cannot see his shadow he plays about, knowing that his winter sleep is dene, for spring is near at hand; if, on the contrary, his shadow is visible, he crawls back again into his hole and covers himself up for another six-week's nap. In Germany it is the badger who goes through these gymnastics; in France and Switzer­ land it is the marmot; in England the hedge-hog. The Scandinavian fables the bear waking up in like manner, and seeing the sun shining into his den, ^hereupon he turns over and goes to sleep again, knowing the winter is only half gone. There are no persons who believe in the ground-hog superstition more firmly than the negroes of the Southern States, who seem to have brought the fable with their tales of "B'rer Babbit" from the shores of Af­ rica. It is a curious question, how a natural-history fable like this could appear simultaneously in three conti­ nents, and repeat itself interminably through the ages. It is not because it has a foundation in exact truth, as one may easily prove by noting absolute weather conditions on this and suc­ ceeding days for a few seasons. And people go on believing in the fable, and repeating old saws about it, such as "The farmer would rather see a wolf in his barn than the sun On Candlemas Day." "As far as the sun shines in on the 2d of February, so far the snow will drift in the 2d of May," and so on. The only real foundation for this pop­ ular belief seems to be the general truth that pleasant weather in February in temperate latitudes is apt to be fol­ lowed by a change and a chilly spring. Such an occurrence rouses the canny Scotchman even to some not over pious utterances, for he says: "Of a' months in the year, Curse a fair Februeer." And his cousin of Wales is even more emphatic in the matter, saying: "The Welchinan would rather seo his wife on her bier. Than a fair Februotr." --Inter Ocean• • i f . ^ . Arab Women as Fighters. From the earliest period of their his­ tory the women of the desert tribes were as celebrated for their skill with lance or bow as for that bronze beauty which the composers of the quasihah or the maoliakat were never weary of de­ scribing. Before Islam it was the boaBt of many Arabian tribes, as it was after­ ward of certain Tartar hordes, that their women could fight as well as the men; the Himaryites were among the most famous of these. All through those ancient Arabian poems, to which Mahomet is said to have referred his final authority for the meaning of cer­ tain words or phrases in the Koran, one finds legerds of Arab girls cele­ brated for their equestrianism, their dexterity with the scimetar, and even for the number Of men they have over­ come in single combat. Islam, by subordinating the woman to the man,, and destroying the idea of male and fe­ male equality, did much to extinguish the warrior spirit of the fair sex throughout the greater part of the Orient, but in the deserts of Arabia and northern Africa, something of those an­ cient ideas still prevail.--New Orleans Times-Denocrat. "HAVE you," asked the Judge of a re­ cently convicted man, "anything to offer the court before sentence is passed?" "No, your honor," replied the prisoner, "my lawyer took my last cent" FALSE friendship is like the ivy, de­ cays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it support*.-- Robert Burton, tlgsm to 81»oir Hoax CM SM U p It will doubtless open the eyes of some younff society people who have recently tried housekeeping after the most approved modern plan, to learn that this can easily be done for $55; and-that, too, with only a small part of the total cost in pocket, if the time- payment privilege should be taken ad­ vantage of. On this basis $75 will clothe, pay wedding expenses, barring a tour, and will start a young couple in good style, and marriage dwindles from a mountain to a mole hill. Having se­ cured two pleasant rooms in a respect­ able neighborhood, the first thing the pair will want will be furniture. If they keep their eyes in one direction they can get it, and out of a furniture shop at little cost, they can purchase a substantial imitation walnut bed for $2, a mattress for the same price, and a spring for $1; six chairs will cost $3, a washatand $2, a dining table $2.50, bureau $7, kitchen table $1.10, two pillows $1.20, and a center table for sitting room, $2.50, making a total of $24.20. Of course this presumes that they are beginning at this time of the year, when no preparations for oold weather will be needed, and also that the lady has been indus­ trious enough to provide herself with linen and covering. The next impor­ tant consideration is the kitchen. A gasoline stove can be obtained for $5, or a cook stove as low a9 $7. At this time of the year the young woman will take a gasoline stove as far the more comfortable and convenient at the two. This, with the necersary utensils, will codt about $8. China will be the next thing to be got. By a due attention to details it, a set of china large enough for a family of two or three can be ob­ tained for $5 and a set of glasses for 25 cents. A toilet set will cost S3.25. Those are all of good ware, not chipped pr broken, but new and sound. A half- dozen each of tea and tableepoons, sil­ ver plated, will cost $1.50, and a set of knives and forks with carvers wili cost $1.75. Very cheap carpets can be bought, but as neat and comfortable a substitute as can be found will be taste­ ful ingrain rug, and the young man can spend a leisure hour painting the floor around it This rug, large enough for si moderate sized room, can be had for $9. This will complete the list of abso­ lutely necessary things, and it will sum up as follows: Furniture, etc $24.20 China and glassware..., 6.25 Stove and utensils 8.00 Sixxms 1,50 Knives and forks .T...... 1.75 Bug 9.00 Toilet set....M,t„• 3.25 sundries .....;...............;.......... 1.05 Total *955.00 The estimate, of course, supposes that both rooms have closets large enough for clothing and household articles and supplies, if such is not thu case, a commodious wardrobe can be supplied fjpr $6.50, and a kitchen safe can be ad­ ded for ^2.50. This will add a total of $9, making the total cost $G4. To most young poeple this will be going to housekeeping on a vory narrow margin, probably too narrow for the majority, but it can be done, and there can doubt­ less be an immense amopt of solid com­ fort and happiness enclosed in the lit­ tle house. When Our Ancestors Called the Drinks. The Celtic "isca," or "uisca," origin­ ally signifying water, Was afterwards imposed on other liquids; there being at first no pther word whereby readily to express them, they were called "isca," water; so whisky is nothing else than a corruption of the ancient "isca," or "uisca," water. Isca, or uisca, too, is found in Ireland in the word "usque- bagh," to which time has added the ep­ ithet "bagh," i. e., "strong," and so making it a "strong water," by way of distinction from common water. In the same way "beer," as applied to the very common beverage, has been handed down to us from times of the remotest antiquity, and is of an origin the reverse and wholly unsuggestive of anything noxious and disgracing, for it was the one general and oriental name for "a well," or "water," and was, no doubt, brought'over into Europe by its earliest settlers. It is still found there in both its primary and translatad sig­ nification for "water," and for "beer." Referring to the origin of the word beer, a writer says: "In Hebrew Bible we read (Gen., xxix. 2): 'Vagare vehin- neh beer,' and in Chaldee,' Vachazave- ha bera;' 'He looked, and, behold, a well.' Water was the first drink of mankind, and, no doubt, the same name was given to other drinkables as they were found out, the great simplicity of ancient languages and times not afford­ ing any other term than beer. So we apply the word 'wine,'(once, perhaps, used onely of the juice of grapes) to drink made of other fruits. And here, though the copiousness of modern lan­ guage distinguishes these, which the poverty of the ancient did not, or not early, yet they retain the name of wine still. Hence beer, though originally a word for water, became expressive of some liquors produced from vegeta­ bles, because they became a beverage, and 'bir' is still used for water in some parts of Ireland."--St. Louis Globe• democrat. Sculpture a* a Profession. It takes years of study and applica­ tion before success crowns the sculp­ tor's efforts, but when it does, wealth pours in upon him by the thousands. His fame is made perhaps by one statue, and orders come in for four or five more which will probably consume that many years in finishing. Proba­ bly not a single statue will cost under $20,000. A salary of $30,000 a year is very large; it is a fortune to commence with almost.. An unsuccessful sculptor perhaps will not make that sum during his life. Unsuccessful sculptorJ^are few. If they do not succeed after sev* eral years, tjaey drop out and follow some other profession more fitted to their talent. American sculptors arc perhaps more famous than American painters, and their works more appre­ ciated in Italy and France.--New York Mail and Express. A Watch that Winds Itself. A watch that winds itself by the motion of the wearer is the latest won­ der of Europe. The prime feature of the watch is the automatic self-winding mechanism, which attains the object in view to perfection. On the side of the watch that the arbor of the winding barrel is exposed, an arm, secured at one end, and with a hammer-like at­ tachment at th4 other, moves down­ ward whenever disturbed from a posi­ tion of absolute rest. The force of a spring adjnsted under the arm furn­ ishes the reaction, and the oscillation is repeated with every step taken by by the wearer. NATCBE never makes men who are at onoe energetically sympathetic and minutely calculating.--George Eliot. Tax wear and prevents a man White Hall Times, A MAN who is brandied in the stom­ ach, may become branded on the nose. Meratlion Independent, BE discreet and never take an intoxi­ cated politician at his word, or home to his mother-in-law.--Barbers' Gaeette. A TEAB of eharity dimmed hef eye, When she saw how the room was leapt, She put out her hand with a sad, sad sign • Then fell on the broom and swept. --Merchant Traveler. THE world believes that, in the mat­ ter of fabrications, the average lawyer needs no allies because he is all lies himself.-- Yonker's Gazette. "WHAT shall we do with our calves?" asks a farmer's paper. We would sug­ gest that you give them a pair pf cow­ boy's pants.--Si. Paul Herald. DYSPEPSIA is said to be unknown in Japan. That's because the Japanese never rush from the table to catch a train.-- New York Morntng Journal. _ "THE Scotch are an exceedingly mu­ sical people," says an exchange. Per­ haps this is because they live princi­ pally upon a note meal diet--Boston Courier. A CHAIR has been invented which can be adjusted to over a hundred different directions. It will be a handy piece of furniture to introduce into a church pew. --Texas Siftings. ' SOME of the butter need in the res­ taurants of Chicago is so old and salty that it makei one believe that it was made by Lot's wife after she was turned into a pillar of salt--Carl FretzeVs Weekly. THE California Chinaman hit 4t plumb-center when he said: "Your churches spends millions of dollars to teach us the Gospel, and then your Christians use us like dogs if we seek homes among you."--Detroit Free Press. WHAT this country needs is more book agents--loquacious And pertina­ cious book agents--and lightning-rods. It is hardly necessary to state, however, thatthe lightning-rods should be stuck into the book agents' galls.--Newman IndpendenL IT ia a belief among a certain religious sect that a human being turns into a cat after death. If this is true how much pleasure a man would have in shying a bootjack at a cat with the ex­ pectation of striking his dead mother- in-law.--Brooklyn Times. DON'T scorn the good-looking young man who earns his cigars and clothes by teaching young ladies how to skate, leaving his poor old mother--who takes in washing, to provide him with food and lodging. He might do worse. He might marry one of the girls and make her keep him.--Fall River Advocate. A NOHKISTOWN angler bought a new book entitled "Fly-Rods and Fly Tack­ le," and absorbed the contents from preface to finis. Then ho went fishing with $50 worth of tackle and came home with 50 cents worth of fish purchased from a barefooted boy with a 10 cent fishing-rod and a sore finger.--Norris- town Herald. "COME here to me, you good-for- nothing thing," exclaimed a pious farm­ er, addressing his son. "You ought to be ashamed of yourself, going fishing on Sunday." "I didn't go fishin', pap. I Only went down the lane to throw rocks at them nigger boys." "Oh. well that's all right, then. Becollect, my son, you must never violate the Bab- bath."--Arkansaio Traveler. IN Patagonia the laws are quite strict, and it is very seldom that a murder is committed there. If a native flogs his wife too hard and she happens to die, he is fined two goats; ancl in case he cannot procure the goats the law insists that he shall marry again. It is said that the laziest Patagonian will just hump himself, and work real hard to get goats enough to pay his fine, rather than take the responsibility of getting married again.--Peck's Svn. HOLITICAL N6NSENSE. " Tis sweet to be remembered," Is what the poets sing; But when you come right down to proi It's quite a different thing. For instance, If the court in search of jurors Should not call you to its mind, The fact would not oppress you Nor sour you on mankind. Or, If the magistrate who fined you For a night out with the boys. Should not know you at a party, . There'd be no cause for noise. So, The truth is that these poets . Often write a deal of rot, Which, in lieu of sweet remembrance, Had much better be forgot. --Brooklyn Union. Coats of Mail Worn by Arabs. Coats of mail are still in use among some of the Soudanese Arab tribes. Whether original or a copy, says Col­ onel Colbourne, in speaking of one of these coats of armor, it was undoubt­ edly the dress of the crusaders. The hauberk of mail was fastened round the body by the baltan, and formed a complete covering from head to foot. The long, two-handed, double-edge*} sword was borne between the leg and the saddle. The wearer of the mediae­ val garb was Sheik Mohammed Sebekh of the Halawin tribe of Bagarra Arabs. His armor had been in his family 310 years. The horse's head was encased in steel, and its body covered with a quilt thick enough to turn a spear. It was shaped like the armor one reads of in Froissart It h&s been asserted in connection with this curious subject that the prac­ tice survives in the Soudan alone. It may, therefore, be well to state that it is also found among the Khevsur peo­ ple of the Central Caucasus, who still habitually weai ceain armor, shields* and holmets, like ipediieval knights. In fact, it was formerly general among all the Caucasian tribes, and the Che- chenzes of Daghestan still wore coats of mail down to the beginning of the present century. The armor does not appear to have been forged by these people them­ selves, but was handed down, as among the Soudanese Arabs, as an heirloom from generation to generation in the families of the chiefs. Hence the in­ ference that this armor dates every­ where from the times of the <;rusades, of which it may be regarded as a re­ markable reminiscence.--Exchange. ' Preserving the Unities. A prominent army officer dropped into a photograph gallery to have his picture taken. The artist brought out some books to place on the table be­ side which the officer was to sit during the process. "Here, none of them," said the officer; "books have too much of the civilian look about them." "But, my dear sir, it will hardly look well to have the table bare." "It won't, eh?" said the officer; "then put a pack of cards, a bottle of whiskey, and some glasses on the table, and, re­ member, there must bo only a very little liquor left in the bottle. I wgmt to see the unities preserved in the picture."--Texas Siftings. Orat -- IN!! Umbe,his line ereasewfcieh loeksinto eqttissctKws on eitbarifrft> <rf his font gingnwi*, in instant The managing editof, «n earthly creature, howevsr, had fefo doubts about the ethereal young man, but, as the music critic had come well recommended, the managing editor stifled his doubts, and showed the young man to his desk. The first job the young man was to do was the opera on the openingnight. He sallied forth in evening dress with a full score un­ der his arm, and his ear bulging with melodious anticipations. Returning, and having finished his critique, he took it to the managing editor, who bade him to sit down ana read the stuff aloud. The young man's soul was ter» ribly shocked that his splendid compo­ sition should be called "stuff." How­ ever, he began, with a? good grace as he could under the circumstances, as follows: "The tuneful sweetness of the meastro's chef-d oeuvre was never interpreted with more engaging esprit de corps than by the artist in this melodious aggregation. The chromatic tints were laid on with a prodigality of fervor that sublimated the apoggiatura and apotheosized the contrapuntal tone-waves--* "Holdup!" exclaimed the managing editor. "What do yon mean by all that?" "Mean!" ejaculated the "musical crit­ ic. "How do you suppose I know! I've done work for the great dailies, an body ever asked what I meant Shall I go on ?" The manaiging editor nodded, and the young maVproceeded, "and apothe­ osized the conntapuntal tone/waves with dynamic e^pulson. Jeignora Screechowl, the primest pripaa donna, was in her best voice, improved as it was by a slightly catarrhal shading, which eradicated those incisive mur­ murs which tickle only the ears of the amateur lover of the warbling-muse. Her embonpoint was grandly effective and no words can hope to depict the cataclysmic effort of her do Ice far niente in the bravura passage in the seventh bar." "I can't make it out a bit," sadly murmured the managing editor; "but as you have worked on the great dailies I suppose it's all right.,r The young man said "yes," and went on: "Signor Macaroni, the tenor asso- luta,attacked with consummate aplomb, advanced in column by division, closed in mass, and carried the works of the great maestro by an adroit movement in echelon." "Was there a battle-scene in the op­ era?" innocently inquired the managing editor. "Battle-scene!" exclaimed the young man, contemptuously. "No, sir, no battle or other than the forceful con­ flict of lyrical acoustics." "Ah ?" said the managing editor, "I understand. Proceed." "But the climax of mellifluous grand­ eur was attained when Mulle. Lotoni, the ultracontralto, entered the lists. The coolish freshness of her tuneful tongue was something astounding in its castadivan effects. The chiaroscuro of her andante-adagio was complemented perfectly by the middle distance of her adagio-andante, and the two achieve­ ments together coruscated through the house with all the grace and witchery of the gemini of astronomical famil­ iarity. "I guess that will do," said the man­ aging editor. "I don't care to hear any more to-night. I'm not feeling very well, und a few more lines might send me into a brain fever. Your crit­ ique is a splendid one--the liest by far I ever heard, of the kind."--Exchange. Noo-Gloo-Took, an Eskimo (Same. ' Another game, called noo-gloo-took, is played by the Eskimo men and boys. A piece of walrus ivory, about as long as the forefinger and probably a little larger in diameter, is pierced near the middle with holes running entirely through, and as thickly pla ed as can be without cutting it in two. Through each extremity is passed a stout sinew string, one end of which holds it fast to the roof of the igloo or tent, while the other is tied to some heavy object, as a walrus' skull or a stone, which acts as a weight and keeps both strings taut Some member of the playing party then puts up something as a prize--a pair of walrus' tusks, or, perhaps, a reindeer coat. The players who stand in a circle around the perforated ivory cylinder, arm themselves with long sharpened sticks, with points small enough to enter the holes (such as seal- spears with the barbs removed, or iron ramrods), and are then ready to com­ mence ; and as the prize-giver gives a sudden shout of "Yi! Yi!" they all be­ gin jabbing at the holes. Finally some lucky fellow succeeds in thrusting the point of his stick, spear, or ramrod through one of the holes, when he loudly shouts "Yi! Yi!" and pushes the cylinder aside to show that he is win­ ner, and the jabbing ceases. The vic­ tor now puts up some new prize--a musk-ox robe, or a sledge dog, or a sealskin line,--and the game goes on as usual until all are ready to stop.-- Lieut Frederick Schwatka, in St. Nicholas. Potter Palmer's Piano. One of the finest outfits ever brought I to Chicago is the parlor set that will furnish the Moorish room in Mr. Pot­ ter Palmer's lake-shore residence. The most important articles in the suit are the piano, cabinet, and divan, made of maple and inlaid with brass, ebony, sandal. Brazil-nut wood, and mahoga­ ny. The body of the piano is inlaid with dark wood, and ov«r the keyboard is a trio of horshshoe panels beautifully carved in open patterns. The sides of the box are filled in with matched woods and seamed with bands of fine wood-carving. The standing cabinet, which is formed of two alcoves of varv- ing sizes and divison of arches, each locating a separate compartment, is very complicated in design.--Chicaao Tribune. Inventive (festal in Nevada. < v The Anti-Treating Law in Nevada has awakened the inventive genius of Carson City. A huge chunk of ice is slung in the center of a revolving table, and beverages, beer, whisky, etc., are placed all over it The citizens draw up their chairs all around, call for their drinks, and the game commences by the twirling of the revolving wheel or table. Whatever stops in front of each one's chair he must drink, and whoever (ails to do so has the whole circle to pay for. The excitement grows more ana more intense as the game progresses, and many a Carsonite goes home to bed drunk. WHEN you go forth to do a good deed put on tho slippers of silenca--F. B. Giniy. .