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[MO* Of all wr *he itMtfiMi of what nu«ht H*rc eaimi> m» • rmMwndudo'arlft ~4f*. Stirrittiddae •• tfcci •*»!I •11 ao long un«««ti, " *l«light A WMHMft.tee*, » moM'i tender touch. Wkittag, whom I loved ao maob, rajr«W& to »cotho MitblMS-- but MWMot uuipoken pr»y'r „it llpa might bftvo uttered iJnR ««o-- _ (tod amvlT tMs ii hard to bear) BetawM I did not hope tad could not know! crumpled alieet that tells it *11, Ing on vour graclons loving word#, sweet hoar my dreaming thought! by whiap'ring leaves and aong Ol And in a green and shady woodland }>l«oe 1 Ma the spring's pale andshine on your hair, The matchless marble beauty of your face,.. JtayttiA all other women's cold andfair* ^ AOTOSB a dreary gulf of years and pain TotttMM, a radiant vision of the past, ' And all unchanged, unwithered. still remain, 0 love, aa when I looked upon you last! Ah, bad I told you in tbat hour, my sweet, Of all the true deep love you could not guess, poured my soul s wild passion at your feet 1 might have beard your soft and whispered "Yes!* But, fool and blind, I did not <iar» to speak; Ho tender glanoe or word would four allow BeeaoM mylove bad made my heart so weak I I wrote my pray'er, and read the answer--now. Mow--And I waited, oh. with what despair In that dead time of bitter loss and sbatue; AMI While I deemed my grief too hard to bear, lot watched and wondered, nud I never came} fiaae wayward chance, some pitiful mistake-- Ab me, eould sadder destiny appear Two lives wero ruined and two hearts might break-- This letter lay among the rosea here 1 Oh, cold and cruel irouy of fate. That, having held most precious gffta unaeen a mocks ua with the bitter worda, "Too late. I hardest taunt of all, "It might have been I* V«F BOW HE WAS RESCUED^ BIXABVB.P.HATCH. "Capital* 11 Now for, jour story, JFred. Four members of the Bicycle Tourists Club were relating their adventured of the past season, and the one last ad­ dressed,* tali, handsome athlete, laughed slightly m he knocked the ashes from his cigitf before replying. "A droller adventure than mine, boys, never happened. There's the pathetic, the ludicrous, the tragic, the senti­ mental, all combined in this story of 'mine, and it's true, every word of it It happened, let me see, just six weeks ago to-day." "I weiit with Clark and Anderson, 1 you know; up to Bethlehem; from f; there to tile white Mountains, then to | Lancaster. "Now just before starting mother said to me, coaxingly: *"lf you go as far4 as Lancaster, don't ^ forget that Janet Harding, the only v eotisin I have in the world, lives in the next town.' "'All right,' I replied. 'Janet Hard­ ing lives in the next town to Lancas­ ter. Ill remember.' « "Janet Harding unmarried would hftve been bad enough, but with, a hus­ band, two giddy girls, and an over­ grown boy of 17, conld I stand it? Mother thought I conld, and mother rules at our house. "When we started on our bicycle trip to Dixville Notch I planned to* see the Hardings; bowl leisurely up to the door, introduce myself to Mrs. H., joke with the girls and then proceed, but Vhomme propose, etc. "As luck wouMl have it, my bicycle broke down and I had to leave it at the Falls, a little village five miles from Lancaster, for repaira. Clark and Anderson went on without me to North _where I was to meet them by I proceeded on foot to the , aometwo miles from the a smooth interval, dotted rds of ripening grain, and the large verandahed house, and great, roomy .barns clustering about it, but not too near, all bespoke plenty, comfort, and hospitality. "Hospitality, did I say? Well, I sha'n't take it back, although'I found the door locked and not a living thing in aight except an old white hen. Mark the exception, for that hen plays an im­ portant part in my adventure. "I noticed her, and in particular marked the proud, complacent step, the conceited 'car-car* she uttered as she looked at me knowingly from the cor­ ner of her eye. Little did I think-- but no matter. Ton will see by and by the golden thread that binds all these points together. "Well, here we were, the white hen and I, but Janet Harding was not, nor the girls, nor the boy, nor Mr. Harding. "I decided to go to the barn and lie down on the hay, the new-mown hay, and await their coming. "For me to think, is to act A few minutes later I had climbed to the mow and ensconced myself under a brace in the corner where the afternoon sun glinted through a long eraek, mak­ ing slanting dust-beams across my breast. "I made a few verses as I lay on the fragrant hay, but I didn't poetize long. I fell asleep and I dreamed, and my dreams grew thicker and blacker and heavier, until at last I dreamed that Janet Harding and her whole family Wgre seated on my stomach, and oh, tub pressure 1 I groaned and waked myself up, but 1 wasn't much better off then, for Egyptian darkness reigned about me, except for the crack where the light still sifted through. "Where was I? What was the mat- tec? 1 couldn't think, the horrible pressure was ao maddening. All about, around, above, was packed piles of oats, not shelled oats, you know, but oalt before they are threshed, on the stock, or whatever yon call it While I was asleep I had been mowed in, and theft all there waa to it. except that I oouldn't more hand nor foot Two or three loads moat have been thrown on top of me, trod down, and clinched, so to speak. "Well, I tumbled around a bit and fpt my hands free and poked the grain •way from my face a little. I was in a earner, as I told you, under a brace, and this gave me a chance for my life, that and the crack which gaw me a breath of air in the hot, stifling place. Xwaa just as effectually emersed as W* the monks in olden times when Sh^grwere walled up in their living tombs, for no amount of strength aerved to lift the burden a particle. "By and by something fluttered at f«et and rose up and cackled. fit wma the white hen. 'J1 knew her and she knew me, but Hits you, she didn't want anything of ma nor my company. I could see that B«tshe oouldn't get out? Oh! but couldn't she? She cooked her impudently . to one side, I daintily to a tiny aperture >half as big as her head, and I aaw at a glanoe that she meant busi- The leas sense the more instinct ; I mm that the creature would get out not ase her for a carrier id thus establish eommunica- with the outside world? I couldn't ad be pitched out to deserve sneh treatment, and I ooul< jfet ^ ' . . ̂ «2 tort ft jUifcf boas my aeto book and. wrote something llkethis:-- ' Co*M to toy necne. I aai baited fathoms deep ia cafe aortfiwest comer at (to barn jest appease tbe hoaee My Mas asdnte is throat thnmgh the erack. Perhaps, you caa eeeit I am awwedin. fper relative, EMTD CNOBBSOIX. "I tied the note to the hen eeourely with a portion of the necktie, the rest fluttered from the barn, and biddy stepped forth, 'one foot up, the other foot down,'care fully, conscientiously, as a hen does, and by and by a faint rustling spoke hopefully of her pro­ gress to my waiting heart. Meanwhile, I was a prey to anxious thoughts, "Suppose she should never reach tho light, but perish in her perilous jour- fney, become hemmed in and unable to ^go any farther; suppose she should lose 'the letter in her passage--but a tri­ umphant cackle assured me that the white hen had reached the barn floor, and, blessed sight, a little later I saw her through the crack walking proudly toward the door with the letter plainly in view. "Just then two young ladies drove into the yard. Pretty? Well, I guess so. You don't often see handsomer girls than Janet Harding's. One was dressed in seal brown, the other in navy blue. ""'Do look at that hen!' cried Seal Brown. *1 do believe it's a billet-doux from your William. If it is, now, I'll olap my hands hard, just so, and 111 say, Oh, Billy; do send me one too.' " 'One, two; and will it take two to satisfy yon?' said Navy Blue, laughing at her sister's saucy face. I laughed too, and fell in love with her then and there. "They lured the hen toward them with a handful of corn. Seal Brown swooped down and loosened the letter and read it. "I saw all this through a crack in the barn, and heard them make merry over the distress of their city cousin. "Well, to make a long story short, the girls dug me out, for the men were in the meadow after more oats. It seems they were in a great hnrrv to get in the oats, and the hired man mowt, away. Probably the first fork­ ful covered me, and that was doubtless put on without looking. Nobody knew just how it came about. When I came to view I did the best and the only thing I could do--I laughed and the girls laughed. It wans a ludicrous intro­ duction to the family, but it served ita turn. I found the girls no less charm­ ing than pretty. Harry, a fine lad home from college; Mrs. Harding, a lady in every sense of the word, and Mr. Harding, shrewd, corpulent, and good-natured, and that is all." "All!" they all echoed; "there ought to be a wedding. ** "There is tobe a wedding," said the other, coolly. "Which, Navy Bine or Seal Brown?" "Navy Blue." "When are you to be married?" "Never, perhaps." "Why, I thought yon said there was to be a wedding?" "So I did. Navy Bine is to marry her William." "And you< are in a Brown fctudv still, ** said one slyly. Fred actually blushed. "Yes, the most puzzling study of my life, and the most interesting," and hj walked away. , „ . , . "Hard hit isn't he?" f The rest noddedt t - i , i • I - - Domestic Dashes. \ioai egg ought to be as good as it can be. Yet you don't want to get the kind that can't be beat Hash on toast has a better social standing than hash that sits down on the bed-rock plate. Employers of servants will be pleased to learn that there is a movement on foot to give mistresses at least three evenings in the week. It is understood that the inventor of selfrraiaing flour is engaged in perfect­ ing & self-raising servant-girl, warranted to raise herself at any given hour in the morning. A simple bnt effective spanking ap­ paratus, arranged so as to be easily at­ tached to any sewing-machine in tbe market, has been devised for use in large and growing households. It is possible to cook cabbage without any disagreeable odor. To unpleasant effects are experienced if it is cooked about cne mile from the house, in water strongly impregnated with chloride of lime. This is the only way. A neat pretty wall-pocket is made of a half-section, out vertically, of one of last season's theater hate. If you do not wish to out the hat it may be sup- plied with a plain wooden btwe, and will then make an excellent umbrell* stand.--Puck. - j-.. f ^ "tj- * * -r ; ~ - > » * ; » ' TWKttATVTBOWimr rvrioNs. Evert State In the Union has'a statute of HiwitittOM whereby the time for bringing a suit at law upon adebt 4a limited to a definite period. A aser- oh ant who had a book account which waa very old. against a lady, and aathe day after whioh he oould not bring suit statute of limitation wasap- ASerry Picture.' la his lecture on "Immigratfo® ^ !>r. Bemis gave a picture of the immigrant at the low level to which he haa now mostly fallen. On board a steamer of the Allan Line at her wharf in Balti­ more a large number of these people were gathered to their feed. This was pork and potatoes cooked together in a kettle with copious liquid accompani­ ment Gathered in groups on the deck about each kettle, the only knife in pos­ session of each group was used by the first man,, who cut off a slioe of pork and passed the knife to his neighbor. Making a cup of the meat by the aid of Ms palm and little finger, the next step was to secure a potato and place it on the thumb end of his hand. Then with the ladle he poured the soup over the potato and let it trinkle down to the meat By reversing his hand and eat­ ing from each end of it alternately he was able to eat meat, potato, and soup all in one process. The sight of a ship­ load of people engaged in this occupa­ tion must have been inspiring.--Buf­ falo Express. *» w .V Example and Precept. Friend--How are you getting itota these days, old fellow ? ; Author--Very poorly. Living l>e» tween the hand and the month. F.--I thought so from your appear­ ance. Why don't you give up writing and go into soma kind of business in which you can earn a comfortable liv­ ing? A.--I've often thought of doing to, bnt the hope of one day making a strike, as you business men call it, kaepa me at the pea However, my new book may bring me in something handsome. F.--You are writing a book then? JL. yea. F.--What's its title? A. --"How to Become Bieh."--Boston Courier. A REGOBDnro thermometer is the latest mechanical ouriosity. It has i olookwork attachment and records the stage of temperature at every hour Mod minute of the day for a period of eight day- proaching, made a demand upon her for the amount due him. To thia aha replied that she had a cross claim to off,set a part of his demand, bnt aa the papers were in another State, wonld require four ihonths to procure them. She then agreed to sign thia writing in the merchant's book: ;"I ex­ tend thia book-account four months from April 30, 1886." The money waa not paid, and when the merchant brought suit the lady pleaded the statute in bar of the action. She was unsuccessful The court held that she had expressly waived her claim to the protection of the statute by the writing she had signed, which meant if it meant any thing, that she acknowledged the claim. DAMAGES FOR DEFECTIVE ROADS. A gentleman asked a lady named Noyes to go driving with him and as he was known to be a safe and careful driver ordinarily, Mrs. Noyes accepted the invitation. There happened to be a defect in the roadway upon which they drove, and Mrs. Noyes was thrown out of the carriage, receiving a fracture of the bones of her arm. She there­ upon sued the town for damages and won her suit. It was found by the jury that the gentleman who drove was careless and that his negligence con­ tributed to the accident "But," said the court, "he was not Mrs. Noyes' agent and how could his negligence af­ fect her?" As between the town and the driver, the latter could not recover, but Mrs. Noyes was not negligent and he was not under her control. The law in England, until recently, was otherwise, but a late case has reversed former decisions on this point, and it now conforms to the doctrine above stated. BREACH OF CONTRACT. In 1884 the Western Union Tele­ graph Company made a contract with the proprietor of a fashionable hotel at Newport for permission to establish a telegraph office in the hotel with the express understanding tbat no other company should have a similar privi­ lege. While this contract waa in full force, the hotel proprietor entered into a contract with another company by which he allowed them to establish an office in the same building. Thereupon the Western Union began a suit in equity, praying tbat this company be restrained by injunction from operating their lines. The hotel proprietor's at­ torney told him to give himself no trouble, because a court of equity would never interfere when there was all adequate remedy at common law. But in this the attorney was wrong. The court did interfere and did restrain the invading company from operating its lines, and for this reason an injunc­ tion will be granted, where the damage occasioned by the breach of the con­ tract are not readily ascertainable in money, yet where the injury is a grev- ous or material one. Furthermore, when the construction of the contract is clear and the breach clear, it is not a question of damage, but the mere cir­ cumstance of the breach of contract af­ fords a sufficient ground for the court 4p interfere by injunction. V" I A COMPLICATED CASS. j The following are the facts in4%tae which came up for trial some time since. A gentleman, who for conve­ nience we will call A made a note pay­ able to B, by whom it was indorsed to C. The latter wrote upon the back of the note: "For value received, I hereby guarantee the payment of the within note," and indorsed it to D. The in­ dorsements were all made before the note fell due, and at the date of its maturity the maker was solvent The note was never paid, and 0 hear noth­ ing of it until he was sued by D. It appeared from the evidence that at the time the suit was brough A, the maker, was insolvent The court de­ cided that B was released from his ob­ ligations because the note had not been presented for payment at the proper time. The single question for consid­ eration was, therefore, could C escape by showing that D had been negligent and that A and B, both of whom were primarily responsible, had been dis­ charged by reason of such negligence. A divided court held, however, that C must pay the note. By his contract of guaranty he became absolutely liable, to pay in case the other parties, prior in point of time, failed to do so. A guarantor is usually a favorite in the courts, and this case was a surprise to many, who thought C should hare been released. Traces of the Moor In Xexlea. The Moorish blood has left ita traoea in the Spanish portion of the inhabit­ ants of Mexico. You note its presence in the large and lhnpid eye of many of the women of the upper "classes, in the oriental aspect of many a face, in man­ ners, in gestures, in a score of ways. A woman of the lower class, possibly of pure Indian descent, passes you with her mouth concealed by her rebozo held in her hand, a trace of the old Moorish concealment of woman's faces, »and imitated in past times by the lower class women here from their high-born mistresses. Old residents here relate that in times agone the aenoritas would carefully hide their mouths with their lace mantillas when a man passed. And then the Spanish race in Mexico built orientally. We have here the Moorish barred windows, the large ?atio, or court yard, whioh came from. 'ersia through Africa into Europe; the taste for interior gardens and fountains, and the enjoyment of a life that is out of doors while actually indoors. The Moors were splendid equestrians, and ao, also, were the Mexicans, and the very name of a horseman, "ginete," re­ calls an Arab tribe. Arabic words are in daily household and outdoor use. The covered entrance to the house, as you pass into the court yard, is called the "zaguan," which is Moorish. The doorknocker in an "al- daba," and Che roof an "dzotea." The pool in your garden is an "al- berca," and tbe fountain may be orna­ mented with "azuleioe" of tiles. In the kitchen and dining room you will find "jarras" or pitchers (the En­ glish jug,) "tazas" or cups, "cazulas* or pans, etc. On the dinner tablet, there may be "garbanzos" or peas, "san- dias" or watermelons, "limones" or lemons, "naranjas" or orangea, "aceite" or oil, and "azucar" thinly disguises our English sugar. The "sofa" in the parlor is Arabic, .and so is the "alfomhra" or carpet Your shoe is a "zapato" and its heel a "taeon." Two measures of weight and capacity, the "arroba" and the "quin­ tal" are entirely Moorish. In the country the "oceqnia" or irrigating ditch ia Arabic in name. In entering Mexico you most paas the "adtfana" wiiMfc* -survive al eya and sinul the high-born ladies. Til *mtnd us of fheparmane! t|§§ and thA durability o word. In another phase of I e of Mexico we diaoern tho trace! thrMoor. The "corridas de toroe," boll fights, were an importation fr Afrioa into Spain, and bull fighta t a national pastime. Apart from th tinted aspqpt, they afford a display Personal valor and high oourage. gtoal publio sport can equal in li «Wor, mov«ment, and spectacular eff the Spanish bull fight; I might Bay Moorish bull fight, more properly.- JRi Guernsey, in Boston Herald, Flash Times In "'Frisco." CoL Mike Brannigan, the celebrai guide and hackman of £1 Paso, T< is on a visit to this oity. Mr. Bran gan: "I have oome back to San Francii for tho purpose of seeing some of i old friends of the Argonaut days 1849, that ia, as ma^y of them aa i alive. I can tell you some interest things about early days in this city., owned and drove the first hack ti ever rnmbled over the streets of S> Fi-ancisco. In 1851 I got $50 a n: to drivo Catherine Hayes, the fam singer, and her mother, between tld Razette House and Tom Maguii J thefter^ which was then situated Washington Street, gomery and Kearny. * VVt? it * rU: mi winter We have now in and open for. ^ pec t ion, uai of a largrer stock -W.W'- A* BJLAOIC same sum from time for the several others at , ,, , no trip. Those wd We have an elegant line of Sll!" ™ M "T ald a""3 Bead sets »nd fine m as very many others, would wish „ .• . , §ee them again. I saw $1,200 paid . "a^8Gmentiere, Also a line a box in Maguire's theater on the op»>ck of black and colored, £>ilk ing night of Catherine Hayes' seas^lvetS and Morie Silk. A. Limerick, butcher at Sacrament ; , paid $1,800 for a box when she went 1 the Capital city to sing. Dollars 1 . " ^dT.^wmowhPRIE,1 -I'kta* steamers would arrive I have seemP anything desired gambler give a man an ounoe of dufne Ribbons and Buttons, (that is $16) far his place in the line of anxious people waiting th turn outside the old postofflce, was then at the corner of Bren Place and Clay Street Then would have to pay $12 a dozen for ing articles laundried, and men throw soiled underclothing away buy new articles rather than washing. "I remember when Lotta first appeared in this city. She play a banjo and dance j:gs at Melodeon, at the corner of and Clay streets, and got $6 I think that was in 1854 or l8l went to Virginia City in 1 made a hit Twenty-dollar gol were showered* on the stage for Her benefit My charges then as a hack driver were $50 a day and all expenses paid. I would like to Bee that state of things again, and we would have less complaints about capitalists and the like. Everybody was a capitalist in the old days, and if only a few of the wealthiest exist now I don't know why they ought to be blamed. We all had a chance to become millionaires, and if we did not if can't be helped, and there is no use repining;"--Ban Francisco Examiner. Liberal The people who cannot take a joke are many, but those who can see neither "hide nor hair" of it, to whom it is ab­ solutely invisible, are fortunately in the minority; but midway between the two are the stolidly literal people, who al­ ways "speak by the card," and take every statement for just what it ia worth on the surface. In short,- they aro al­ ways missing the point A gentleman was once illustrating, in a small company, the fact that the nrfnd diseased takes on odd modes of action, by the story of the lunatic who fancied that he lived in a palace and dined upon the choicest viands. In point of faot, he was confined in a hos­ pital, and his diet was restricted to gruel. "I dine every day upon the fat of the land," said the poor fellow, "and yet everything I eat tastes of gruel," When the story was finished, a sympa­ thetic lady who had quite missed its point, exclaimed: "Poor man! Too bad to feed him on gruel! Do you suppose that's the fare in all the hos­ pitals?" An over-worked farmer, of a vivid imagination aai nimble tonguo, one morning oalled back hurriedly to his wife, 8B he took his way to the field: "No, I can't go to town with you tos day, Jane, I've got one million bnshel- of potatoes to dig before night" "What can he mean?" speculated the literal wife, as she went about her work. "I'm sure we never have more'n forty bushels, and he couldn't dig 'em in a day to save his life." She was not quite equal to the ex­ traction of the grain of wheat contained in that bushel of hyperbolical chaff. Another farmer one day said, jocosely, to a neighbor: "Don't seem to pay to do the hayin'. Have to doit right over agin next year!" "But what would the cattle live on if you didn't do it?" inquired the more literal man. "Do? Let'em live on faith, same's the rest on us have too." "You depend upon it, you'd lose more'n you'd gain," said the other solemnly. "Critters have got to eat, and we've got to take care on 'em. Don't you turn your cattle adrift to shift for themselves, Eben; you won't gain nothin' by it."--Youth's Compan- The Chinese Hercbaat. Wherever a British flag is run up or a British governor introduces order into the oriental chaos' the Chinaman makes his appearance. He is a born trader, and well he knows tha^ there is no safer field for commercial enterprise than under the British flag. He is the universal middleman- - the Jew of the Eastern seas. He buys the native pro­ ducts, sago, gum, gold dust, anything and every thing which the Malay or Dyak have to sell, and BELLS thnm in exchange for Sheffield cutlery, Birming­ ham hardware, and Lancashire cotton. He will pay any tax which the Govern­ ment to whom he owes the safety of his business sees fit to impose. He is thrifty, penurious, and industrious. He lias two great vices. As the En­ glishman driukS, the Chinaman smokes, and his love of opium is the foundation of British finance in the far East. His other vice Is the taste for gambling, and in Sarawick, as in British North Borneo and in our other settlements, before the pressure of English sentiment at home became too strong, the second great source of revenue has been the profits of the Ciiinese gambling hells. --Pall Mall Gazette. ...jailor,' tha of/ hMvfiy Mhtad w « t h » Venetian Bopuhilo hi 1488»9, under the engineer Sorbolo. Thaatty of Braacia, whioh had given ita adhasfaa to tho Venetians, waa okwafar beaaiged br the Milanese, and every'devtoefor ita re­ lief seemed to be hopaleaa, aa the enemy had iutrenohed himself in quartern upon tha interveoin tains, and had a t ormidahl* flotilla in possession of Lake Gai&t the largeet of the Italian iakee, aoaoe thirty-five miles in length by about eight in width, and 320 feet above tha sea. To tend an army by land the Venetian* would be compelled to make a detour around the northern end of the lake, and then force their way through the mountains. But such was their well-known prowess upon the seas that to possess them­ selves of Lake Garda would be to throw dismay into the camp of their enemies, and open up an unobstructed route to the beleaguered city. The most learned and experienced engineers of Venice had discussed for many days, in the presence of the Senate, a variety of expedients for effecting the desired object, and the one finally adopted surpassed in lx>ld- ness anything of the kind that had ever before been attempted. It was noth­ ing less than to convey a formidable fleet of some thirty well-armed ships bodily over the mountains and launch it upon the lake, unobserved by the! enemy. Everything was in readinos^ by the middle of December. The command of the fleet was given to Pietrc Zeno, but the operations on land were in­ trusted entirely to Sorbolo. On reach­ ing the mouth of the Adige ample water was found, but BO swift was the current that six weeks were occupied in moving the first fleet fifty miles- And then the labor began of transport­ ing the ships across the country, the Boldiers and sailors of the expedition :§an j being ignorant up to this time of any jtsiia ! such intention, and regarding it now with incredulity. But Sorbolo's meas­ ures were carefully. matured, and he pet quietly to work to put them into operation. The platforms and cribs were put together and secured under the vessels as they rode at anchor, the oxen were attached to tw cables, and after another the largest of the the future, when you want <to buy a Vessels were hauled high and dry upon real tender piece of beef, do not be Ihe shore. It required 60t> oxen to raid to purchase a piece tbat has been iraw each of the larger galleys out of pt for two or three weeks. You will t&e water, but half the number were piing patterns, a great variety of medium low priced Dress Goods, in between Mo}"0 and figured styles. I also got 1 e Lave just received a fine ck of Kid G oves, embroidered gUlize&at THE average age of all the people of France is given at 32 years, 2 months, and 15 days; the average in the United States is only 24 years, 10 months, and 24 days.--Arkansato Traveler. jr. id it greatly superior to fresh beef, ispite the fact that it may not look lite so inviting before it is cooked. 1 not intend to give hotel business icrefcs away, as a usual thing, but I rould like to have people learn that ihey must not blame the provision dealer if, when they order their beef to be perfectly fresh, they fail to find it as tender as they expected when it is placed on the 'table."--Boston Herald. A Flower Farm in-the Alps. The United States Consul an Mar­ seilles has recently been the rounds of the princial districts in the Alps-Mari- times, where flowers are grown fdr the purposo of making scent, - such as grasse, Qeillans, etc., and has sent a very interesting report on the oubject to the Government One of the largest flower farraa visited was that of the Marquise de Kostaing, , at Seillans, about 2,000 feet above the level of the sea and twenty miles from the coast, upon the southern slope of the Alps- Maritimes. The soil is of a chalky nature and very poor, and up to 1881 the olive groves which covered the property yielded but a very small in­ come. Mme. de Bostaing, however, determined to see whether it could not be made to grow flowers, and, cutting down the oilva trees, - she had the ground trenched to a depth of over four feet, while arrangements were made for irrigating the five-and-twenty acres. In the autumn of 1881 she had planted 45,000 plants of violet and 140,000 feet of white jasimine, while in the Spring following the rest of the ground was planted with roses, jera- niums, jonquils, etc., and a laboratory built for making scent Tbe result was most satisfactory; for in the fourth year--that is to say, in 1885--the prop­ erty, which had before yielded an in­ come of £23, produced scent to the value of £863, leaving a net profit of £154. The nature of the soil was such that the preliminary outlay had been an exceptionally heavy one; while, as the interest on the capital ex­ pended is included in the above esti­ mates, and as, moreover, the flowers planted had not attained oomplete ma­ turity after four years' growth, it will be readily understood that the business can be made a very profitable on*-- 81 James Gasette. Why Dancing Is Dangerous* Do you remember in that wonderful book, "The Diary of a Woman," the man of the world says this to the wo* man he most respects: "I am going to tell you some horrible things, but we men have one maxim whichhas become an axiom; it is that a woman, however honest she may be, ceases to be so after a heated carnival, or even--you will shudder--after three or four hours of a cotillon. Then arises a physiological phenomenon which I confine myself to merely indicating to you; but in short, it is no longer § woman that we held in our arms, no longer a thinking and con- Boious being, It is no longer anything but--how shall I tell you?--a sensitive plant ready to droop and fade at the slightest touch." This is why, Dolly, I enoourage the minuet and disapprove of the cotillon.--Bab, in New York Star. Family Devotion Among Parsees. I was once present at the house of a Parsee merchant when their evening service took place, and to my great surprise it was the simple act of light­ ing their evening lamp. Jabt at sun- set the doors and windows are closed and the family assemble around the large hearth lamp. The mother re­ pairs to an inner chamber, lights her taper at a sacred light ever burning in most Parsee houses, mingles her breath with it by lightly blowing on it, then returns to the family room and lights each one of the seven wicks of the hearth lamp, while the family stand around and with hands orossed on their breasts murmur their evening prayer.--Mrs. Leonowens, in Wide­ awake. • Effects of Plant Parasites. Plants are injured by parasitic /ungi in various ways, according to Mr. A. B. Seymour. They are deprived ol nourishment; growth is abnormally ac­ celerated or retarded, causing distor­ tion ; not only are green parts affected, but roots, stems, buds, flowers, and fruit; leaves and fruit fall prematurely; decay is produced in ripe fruits before and after removal from the plant; and valuable plants receive injury from those of lew value by ordinary infeo- faon.--Arkatuutw Tv" sufficient to move them on the land. Their appearance on the shore, with their tall masts towering^ far above the trees of the forest, presented a re­ markable speotacle. The singular procession was soon in motion, how­ ever, marching slowly and steadily through the country, leveling a road before it as itcproceeded, and at the base of Mount Peneda, which rose ab­ ruptly in the way, and seemed to inter­ dict all further progress. Here ap­ peared to be an insurmountable ob­ stacle. Bnt Sorbolo's plans had taken it all in, and with a small party of his peasants and soldiers, armed with picks, spades, and axes, he proceeded to the bed of a small mountain torrent, and having diverted the stream, soon leveled a road to a less abrupt aoclivitv, and after a few days of needful rest the expedition were again cheerfully in motion, singing their songs of triumph aa they went The windlasses were now put into requisition, and the oxen driven around by another route. One mile only of this ascent was to be ac­ complished, and the men soon dis­ covered that there was nothing impos­ sible in the plans of Sorbolo. One by one the fleet were assembled upon the crest of the mountain, and now the perils of the descent were before them. The oxen were again employed in bringing tte vessels to the rocky verge whcnce the desqent was made, and from the base of which there were twelve more miles of level country to ba traversed. The windlas&s had now to be peculiarly braced, and their action reversed with great caution. One vessel only met with a disaster, but this was, BO complete that safety was in­ sured to all the rest From this time forth every man seemed to act as if the success of tbe undertaking depended solely upon him, and the orders of Sorbolo, which entered into every de­ tail, were implicitly respected and obeyed. Before the close of February every vessel floated quietly in the harbor of Torbole, less than three months having been consumed in the journey, half of which, it must be ob­ served, were ocoupied in encountering the adverse ourrents of the Adige.--F. L. Hag adorn, in harper's Magatine. ACUEAM, Bad Writing. There ia a growing tendency to en­ courage handsome and legible hand­ writing, and there was need for it; for among some of the older generation the handwriting has sometimes b&en a puz­ zle, and, in the following instance, capable of being construed according to the readers pleasure: During the war a quantity of personal property belonging to a resident of Washington was siezed and oonflacated by the United State6. For years the original owner made repeated attempts to'secure an order for ita restoration from the quarter master who had charge of it' Bnt he was obdurate, and insisted thai) it ' should be restored only through an act of Congress. Still the attorney for the j plaintiff persisted, and again he wrote j to Quartermaster General Meigs,for an order of restoration. This was about the seventh attempt, and the officer had grown impatient He wrote an exceedingly vigorous re­ ply, in which he emphatically refused to do as requested. The handwriting was frightful. The attorney saw his ohance. He hastened to his client, and, thrusting tbe letter at him, said, "I have suc­ ceeded at last Here is the order." The "order" was taken to the corral, where tho officer in charge recognized tbe signature and at onoe turned over tbe .property. When Gen. Meigs asked what had become of it, he was told that it had been restored on his order. He .sew the order, and, as he could not read it, he simply said, "I do not remember Bigning it"--The Argonaut. He Never Lost. "On your way to Monte Carlo, air, that delightful and exclusive home for all gamblers ?" "That is exactly whore I am going." "And you will play just a little, I *aTdo? nothing else air. It is my l)Q9iQ68B«" "Heavens, you don't mean to aay you make a business of it?" "Yes, sir. Twice a day regularly, and I never by any chance lose." "In that case I must beg you will ex­ plain your'system'to me." "Certainly, with pleaaur% the violin."--Trwffc. NAUGHT* but ntoo~l,< CoNonwwiOKAt civility--introducing • bill. "JAMI, you most giro your little lister half your cake." "I can't, ma, there's no half to it *--Detroit Free Press. IT is curious--an Indian aoquiraa pos­ itive value only when he is buried; end yet everybody is content to let him stay underground.--Puck. FRENCH and English fishermen are disputing about their rights off New­ foundland. Will there be a run upon the banks ? --Texas Siftings. "COME, now, Master Tommy! when mamma gives you a real nice pieoe of cake, what do yon say ?" Pleeae, mamma, give me some mora "--Judge. FOGG says he loves to go into society, for he always sees there so many foola that he returns home with quite a good opinion of himaelf.--Boston Tran­ script HUSBAND--I never saw a woman ao hard to please as you aro, my dear. Wife (calmly)--I am not so sure" about that, John. I married you, you know. --New York Sun. VISITOR--Your new house is very pretty; but you will have trouble to do anything with the garden, it's so small. Countrv Host--"Yes, it is small; feat, then, I shall put in folding beda.--- Puck. MR8. DE SMITH--Mrs. De Jones, don't you think that winter's a horrible dreary season? Mrs. De Jones (who ia the wife of a base-ball umpire)--No, indeed! Husband is so well during the winter.--Burlington Free Press. "DE SAPPY, ole fel, what are all these twusts we wead about in the pa­ pers?" "Must be some big cwedit scheme, Le Swaft" "Gwaoious, you don't say. I hope a spwing suit twnst will be started, doncherknow."--Pitts­ burg Chronicle. "YES," said a'North Pearl Street clerk to-day, "I was broken all up by an ice gorge right here last August It was an ice cream gorge my regular girl indulged in, and cost me $1.75. I was in a melting mood, and paid it" --Albany Journal. ; A NEW YORK man kissed liia wife, the other day, and the poor woman was so surprised that she went into spasms. There ought to be a law for­ bidding a husband to kiss his own wife without serving a thirty days' notice on her.--Areola Record. A 9-YEAR-OLD boy in a neighboring " town in this county was thus ad­ dressed one day by his mother, after t>ome visitors had left the house: "Why, how well you J>ebaved, my son, while tbe callers were in." Quoth the duti­ ful son: "I had to, mother; my pants were ripped.--St. Albans (FL) Mes­ senger. DR. LEWIS SWIFT, director of the Warner Observatory at Rochester, states that the comet of 1848 had a tail 200,000,000 miles long; It is such sta­ tistics as this that tend to reconcile a man who is prone to step on ladies' gowns to the length of the dressing- room trains of the period. They might be longer!*--New York Tribune. LITKRARY--Mrs. Sturtevant (on a visit to Boston, and addressing little James Henry Concord, 4 years old)--And when are you going to write a book, my little Bostonian ? J. H. C. (gravely)--I have not yet decided, probably not until something definite has been agreed upon in regard to an international copyright law."--Boston Courier. "I SAW you out with a half-dozen different girls during the last week, Fred," said a friend. "The first thing you know one of them will be suing 'you for breach of promise and getting $45,000 out of you." "By George!" replied Fred, "I wish I eould find the girl that could get that out of me. I'd marry her as soon aa she got it"--New York Sun. "Now THAT you are golng-to marry my daughter I would like to kaow some­ thing of your habits." "Very well, sir." "Do you amoke or chew?" "Never did either in my life." "Do you drink?" "No, sir. I don't drink 6t gamble or patronize horse-races or A swear or read trashy literature. And now, after the wedding, where would you adviae me to live?" "In Heavfto, my son."--Lincoln Journal. The Maternal lasltaet. "Oh, yes," said Mrs. Whaokem, aa they were discussing the funeral over the front gate, "hell marry again in­ side of six months. I know these wid­ owers. My second husband was a widower, and them, them poor--Billee, yon little wretch, if you try to ride that pig again I'll tear you limb from limb--children of Martha's H have to suffer. Don't care what you say, Mrs. Easy, and I don't care--Charley, come here this minute! 1 see you fire that rock at old Uncle Stowe; take that! and that! and that! Now, hush your crying this minute, or to bed you go right straight without any supper--I don't care how good-hearted and well- meanin' a woman may be, other wo­ men's children ain't what her own are to her, and she can't treat 'em aa kindly. Martha's children'll miss their mother, and--Anna Louise, you nasty little brat! db you want me to oome in there and kill you?--if I hadn't ao many of my own, Pd take some of 'em myself and give 'em a mother's love and care just the same as my own get-- Jim, you Jim! If that boy hasn't kin­ dled a fire on the entry floor; 111 just run in and break every bone in your earoass--don't go way Mrs. Easy, 111 be right back. La, me! that boy 11 k jll me yet; I beat him till my arm aches, and 111 bet he's in some new mischief already. No, as I was saying, a step­ mother doesn't have and can t have a mothor's feelings toward our ewa chil­ dren.--Burdette. A Short Semen for Beja. A boy who climbs a fence and stonec the servant girls in his neighbor's base­ ment not only exhibits nofrfuok but is paving the way for visits of another sort ia later life which may land him in the penitentiary. The youthful taste for smashing glass on the ely or defiling a neighbor'? door with mud, or injuring the weak and unprotected, is the germ which in due season unfolds into crim­ inality of a more serious character, and fills the prison or supplies tbe scaffold. If the parents are unable or unwilling to control these young ruffians, they should thank the polioe for arresting and tbe magistrate for punishing them. Th© time may come when they may be sorry that such benefactors did not inter­ pose oftener to shield their children from the results of their own folly. At any rate, the police and juslioea owe it to ^ the community that thia juvenile nuisance, by which property ia depre­ ciated and neighborhoods are terrorised, ahouldbepromptljmbated.--JMffenort ^ ..... ,