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B8<mn»aDtciai to flirt. . forget. , ,, In *8eventy -eight, * iB<o 4 witotiiag blmae, tmA BOdr.tn IMA most uffoctionate and f#p<4 < wis she' a, down bv the sen, •• ft I* * crowd of m«i •bowed preference for mii* ••!!. CUM more we met at Home, nwr she had become quite potitd^ rlymli found hoc "not al> home," • •>, . her am lie mu always aw "J* 1 so live followed her through *1 «.n- Car< !«n of winning wealth or faint Id I could win her for my wife-- ,:("' But $he Is never twice the same, • „ 1 !.,£ TBioagJjalways tastefully arrayed, . i;. Ana always exquisitely gloved. ,» •Whoiar you ask, "this l'rotean inaldf, The onlygirl I tmr lotfed. V fommal <tf Education. -t * ^ ^ THE TRIALS OF POVERTY. 3*- " •«" . ' ^Mian fka^Un vztta. ^„ The doctor climbed wearilv up three ^iflhts of stairs, and groped along aidark W' hall. He was a well-kept, stylishly- §£. -dressed physician, and in view of the f|f . - WOcial scale by which the practice of S ̂ Medicine is regulated, it might well , liftve been thought strange that he fry *hould come up here at all. But he p^'?,'lWWMnd-hearted, after the manner of jr liis profession, and would sometimes ' fedtttmne to visit when he knew there M$t: * I**** no prospect of fees. . ' His knock was answered by a. thin -And care-worn woman, whose i face ll?*' showed the remains of beauty. ! The p|v j <dre88 of herself and her child, the two •fi. * vncarpeted floors, the scanty furniture, Jail told the same story of poverty. _ iff-. "Well, Mrs. De Benyou, how is'our invalid to-day?" < • • "leant see that he is any better, ;*•'•„ ^doctor. He is so weak and listless!" ' * "Did you get the chicken, the beef- 'Ml *ea, and the port-wine that I told you * <to get for him?" jjf"f " The woman hesitated, and for an in- (Stant halted between an evasion and a ||f . •direct falsehood. But the humiliating $ „ "Confession appeared in her face. _ "My good woman," pursued the phv- eician, kindly but firmly, "these things •re positively necessary for your hus band. He must have them--in one injj if not in another. Take this and ^pBIt them at once. I will sit with him 'While you are gone.* He put a bank note in her hand.: Her liee reddened, and the tears came to «®r eyes. "O, doctor 1*--not from yow.. . We tnre you so much already." „ ' . "It may save his life," was the oon- •incing reply. She put on her hat and ahawl, took her child by the hand, and •hastened down the stairs. The good doctor calculated that she •»ight be gone fifteen minutes. Be went into the inner room and sat 4Bnl talked with the invalid nearly that time. Trying to escape before the re- tern of the wife, he met her on the «Un, laden with bundles. He cut ahort her expressions of gratitude • with -assumed sternness. Tm in haste, Mrs. De Benyou, and must not stand here talking with ypu. I iiave left a prescription on the table; l*ut he really wants nourishment Jnore , titan drugs. Nourishment, madam, and medicine for a 'mind diseased,'which I •cannot minister to; these are what he needs. I will call again. Good-morn­ ing." The invalid sat propped by the pil­ lows. His face wan almost Byronic in ins tjeauty, but it bore the languor and "Weariness of long sickness. She un- "Wrapped the packages, placed them in liis sight, and burst into tears. "It's dreadfully humiliating, Stanley," «he sobbed, "but it's for you. I can't wee you suffer for these things." "Louise, it is hardly worth while try­ ing to prolong a life that is worse than •useless, both to me and to you." "I won't hear you talk that way, •"Stanley. You are not to blame for our ^poverty. By and by, when my ship -ecanes in, we will enjoy such happy tfinies together!" ""Yes," putin little Clara. "That will l>e when grandfather dies, won't it?" "Why, Clara--where, did you hear -that?" ^I've heard yon tell papa so many mes. Now, who is your grandfather, •«nd why don't he die? When he dies, afaall we have a nice house to live in?-- ••ad shall I hare a doll that will more 'its eves?" "You must not talk so, child. I hope grandfather will live many years; She paused abruptly, not wishing to in words the hope that was ever "with her. Three days later there was an un- visitor to these rooms. It was <ba postman with a letter for Mrs. De Henyou. A check for $50 was inclosed. ^ "From grandfather," was the only : Writing on the sheet in which it was l". folded. I Her eyes filled with tears again. She f,; «howed the letter and its inclosure to lier husband. i').: "O how did he know where we were?" <ahe cried. "I knew he would be kind If <*o me if he could be told how poor we P' ;are, and twenty times I have sat down It to write him, but my pride has always '•tood in the way. Stanley, I don't want lum to be kind to me, unless he can be kind to you, too! How did he tlndout where to write to me?" The invalid averted his face. "I am very glad his heart is warm to joa yet, Louise. When he dies, I think you will be well remembered." "Yes; I think so. Perhaps I ought ;»ot to speak this way of his death, but fiis money will rejoice me on your ac­ count, Stanley. What cannot I do for youthen?" If she had seen his face at that mo- ••oent, its far-away look might have 'tnade her doubt whether he would be <w>le to share the good things of life With her when her grandfather should %ave left it. _ B u t t o S t a n l e y D e B e n y o u , e x i s t e n c e *wd become an unendurable weariness, rnaere are cases where the will to keep living takes the place of all that phy- Miis cannot do, and this was utterly from this man. The good doctor's osis was correct ; he was suffering "the mind disease;" from the of heart, the disappointments, and wormwood of poverty to a IjjjlHlive spirit. That very night his drifted off on the unknown, untried Wftile his frantic wife with arms his neck besought him not to 'Imv. "U ia mnch better that I should go, (Nube^'he quietly said. "I have been phSng but a drag and a burden to you. aade a miserable failure of it, v; made you the sharer of my But there will be happier days when I am gone. Your grand- aay take you and the child home | if npt, he, will surel. his will whea he " Do people XfHrf̂ die of broken hearts T ] There is a common belief that they ~ never do, except in fiction. And yet, our good doctor, with his vast expe­ riences in human uffering, when he tame in the next morning was not only inexpressibly shocked to find his poor patient dead, but he was perfectly pre­ pared by the appearance and manner of Mrs. De Benyou to believe that she would immediately follow him. He found her sitting by the corpse, gazing upon the beautiful mask as one might gaze upon vacancy. She never heeded the prattle of her child. ' I thought it was grandfather who was going to die. Why did he let papa die ?" The physician tried to rouse the ab­ sorbed woman. She turned upon him almost fiercely. "Doctor, there is not one word you can say to console me. There can be no such thing as consolation. That man was mv idol; I sacrificed evervtliing for ' him, as I would again. This life of pov­ erty has been sweet to me because he shared it. With him I could endure all; v. ithout him, * I" will not try to live. Send this child to my grandfather. Stanley confessed to me that he gave you his address, and asked you to write. She will be an heiress when grandfather dies." The broken-hearted widow lay down by her dead, and in an hour she had joined him where there is no death. The doctor callld in the woman who occupied the next room, gave her some money andNsome directions, a&d went out to send a^telegram. ff. ' The double funeral was delayed three days for the grandfather to come. Nothing beittg heard from him, it took {>lace on the third day. Very few fol-owed the poor remains to the cemetery; and when all was over, the doctor was left alone with the sobbing child at the graves. A carnage was driven in with more speed than became the place, and a man jumi>ed out. He was tall, riphly dressed, wearing much jewelry, 'and earning a gold-headed cane. Gold- riiunHHl pye-glftKses dangled from a chain of the same material about his neck: a jet-black wig covered his head; his lalse teeth were of the whitest; wrinkles and crow's feet had been Care­ fully painted away from that expressive face. To fix this man's age within twenty-five years would be simply' im­ possible. The doctor readily divined who it was. "Is this Col. Goodspeed?" he asked. "Yes, yes; and- î* it possible that this is Dr. Bond?" * The doctor bowed^ .. , " WTiy, God ble&f Me, how unfor­ tunate this has been! I was away from home when your telegram arrived, and could get here no sooner. So thev aria both dead and buried ?*! "Yes." V "Well, well; a sad fate for my Isabel's only child. She was my sole kin. I would gladly have taken her home to me, but for that poor-devil husband of hers. Doctor, why will these wretched artists and authors insist upon sharing their miseries with women and children ? and why will women be such fools as to permit them to do it?" , "That is a deep question, Colonel." "I suppose so. Poor Louise! such a young slip of a thing when she mar­ ried that good-for-nothing painter. She'd have lived and died much hap­ pier in my house. What child is this?" "Mr. De Benyou's little Clara." "Why, God bless me! Is it possible? Come here and kiss your great-grand­ father. You'll come home with me, won't you ? Doctor, there is some con­ solation about this. I hope she'll have many years yet with me. I trust it will be long before I shall lav her by her poor mother. Come, enild, and jkiss me." ; "I won't!" Clara defiantly sobbed. "You're a wicked old man. You ought to have died yourself, and not let my poor papa and mamma die." f The Colonel took a pmch of ^nufi from a silver boxi - f "Disgusting temper the little thing has got; like that miserable painter, I suppose. Ridiculous things she says, too ! Doctor, can you take care of her a tew days, till she becomes reasonable ? Yes ? thank you much. Get into my car­ riage with her, and ride back with me to town. I can imagine what you nave done for these poor creatures; you shall tell me all about it, and--excuse th<* mention of business in such a place-- you shall have a cheek that will abun­ dantly compensate you. And as I've mentioned business, I may as well say that perhaps you had better look *th> a good young ladies' boarding-school for the child, as it may be some years be­ fore she learns the material advantages of pleasing her great-grandfather. Be­ sides, the fact is, doctor, I am on the eve of matrimony with a charming lady." "I should suppose, Colonel, from your conversation and appearance, that you had discovered the fountain of youth." "The men of our stock are notably long-lived; notably so,sir. The women die early." As they stepped from the carriage at the doctor's gate, a telegram was handed to the Colonel. He opened and read it. "Why, that's very good!" he re­ marked. "My agent informs me that he has invested a large sum in twenty- year bonds. When they mature, I hope I shall be able to find as good an in­ vestment for the money." And he fol­ lowed the doctor jauntily into the house. CHINESE SEA 8BUB. Universality of Motion. "In the universe," says M. Elisee Reclus, "everything is changing and everything is in motion, for motion it­ self is the first condition of vitality. The firm ground, long thought to be immovable, is subject to incessant mo­ tion; the very mountains rise and sink; not only do the winds and ocean-cur- rents circulate round the planet, but the continents themselves, with their summits and their valleys, are changing their places, and slowly traveling around the globe. In order to explain all these geological phenomena, it is no longer necessary to imagine alterations in the earth's axis, ruptures of the solid crust, or gigantic subterranean downfalls. This is not the move in which nature generally proceeds; she is more calm and more regular in her operations, and chary of her might, brings abeut changes of the grandest character without even the knowledge of the beings that she nourishes. She upheaves mountains and dries up seas without disturbing the flight of the gnat. Some revolution which appears to us to have been pro­ duced by a mighty cateclysm, has per­ haps taken thousands of years to ac* complish. Time is the earth's attribute. Year after year she leisurely renews her charming drapery of foliage and flowers; just as during the long lapse of ages, she reconstitutes her seas and her conti- Jienta, and moves them slowly over her •nrface."--Arkansaw Traveler.* What It Cunt* to Frfil a 'ft* an Ocean «te»m«r. The Ooeanic Steamship Compcny's office was, crowded yesterday forenoon, says the San Francisco Examiner, by Chinamen anxious to avail themselves of the reduced rate of passage by the Canadian Pacific Steamship Abyssinia. Two hundred and forty took passage by her, and sailed at 1*2 o'clock. "See the Abyssinia lot of Chinese?" asked the dispenser of hospitality at a neighboring lunch-bar. "Seem a queer lot. Give a great deal of trouble, most likely. That kind always do. * There are cripples and broken-down men of all kinds among them." "Have you had experience in that trade?" "Yes, for years. I have been em­ ployed in the Chinese trade quite a1 long time, but I have quit the sea. These fellows will have an armory with them. They are quarrelsome and dan­ gerous, and there are always sea-law- yers aboard to stir up trouble. They tell the ignorant coolies their rights, and if we were not prepared to fight at the drop of a hat it would be all up with us and the sliip. We generally manage to keep them under." " What does it cost to feed Chinese passengers?" "I brought over 1,500 of them one trip at an average cost of 4# cents a day per man. Yes, it was a little pinched, but they had enough. Up to 800 a fair average of the cost is 10 cents per head daily; above that the average lowers. I think the Pacific Mail figures on 12 cents, but that depends on circum- 8tftQC68 "What kind of food do they get?" "Chiefly rice. We take twenty-six different kinds of chows. We take white beans, brown beans, black beans, red beans, green beans--every kind of beans; orange peel, sauces, dried shrimps, dried fish, dried abalone, al though they get little of that. But the principal diet is rice. Five pounds of beef will go as far with a hundred Chinamen as with five white men. They take a big mess of rice and a small piece of fresh meat, which they lift, bite off a small morsel, and return to the dish. Then they pitch into the rice with their chopsticks and sample the sauces. They are fond of salt i>ork and salt meat. Fresh meat goes further. They should never get salted meat or pork." "Have you ever had trouble with Chinese passengers?" "Often. I remember once in the Peking we had 1,090 of them, and they kicked about their food. I went down to find out what the trouble was, and then brought down the chief officer. The rice was not cooked to their lik­ ing. " 4I will give you ten minutes to begin eating,' said the chief officer; 'after that the rice will be thrown overboard.' "We could not move. We were sur­ rounded. 'Time's up', said I, calling my boys to clear away. 'Over she goes.' The Chinamen looked sulky for a min­ ute or so, then sat down and ate the rice, and that was the last of it. We never have any trouble coming this wav till after we leave Yokohama. Up to the time he reaches Yokohama he is all swollen out with rice, cutting a very ridiculous figure with his spindle legs and overhanging stomach. After leaving Japan he is in good condition, and listens to the incendiary talk of the Chinese highbinder. If we backed down or weakened in any way it would be all up with us. Chinamen are a,hard crowd to handle on shinboard." 'You have only to give the Chinamen plenty to eat and you have no trouble," • said an attentive listener. "I was in Hong Kong when the Abyssinia came in three trips ago, and she had trouble about the food. She then sailed from Vic­ toria. The other vessels seldom .have any bother of that kind." \ _ "You think that 10 cents , per' day covers the oost. of the food supplied on shipboard to each Chinese.passenger?" "Yes. I do. It costs less, with care, when the numbers are large, than when there are few on board. There is little waste, I assure you. It is not, trade at $25 per head." " In their time cock in vogue. Of the The Fate or Panl Yerftzin. In the "Life of Prince Paul Yeritzin, a Russian Noble Under Catherine the Great," a dramatic acount is givjen of his fall from his high position. i The Yeritzins were Boyars of enor­ mous wealth and power. Paul held a high office in court. One night, glitter­ ing with jewels and orders, the young Prince, who was one of the handsomest men in Russia, danced in a quadrille opposite to the Empress. As she passed him in the dance, she fancied that his eyes scanned her gross, figure with covert amusement. After the quadrille she beckoned to him, and, with a smile, handed him her tiny ivory tablets, containing seven pages, one tor each day in the week. On the first was written, "The imperial ball-room, St. Petersburg." On t]fe last, "The mines, Siberia." He read it, his face gray as that of a corpse, bowed low, kissed her hand and withdrew, "taking," says the old chron­ icle, "his wife, the beautiful Marienka, Princess of Novgored, with him. He was heard to say, as they left the ball­ room. "My minutes are numbered, let us not lose one." Flight or resistance was impossible. The hold of Catherine on her victims was inexorable as death. Prince Yer­ itzin was forced to remain passive in his palace, while each day the power, the wealth, and the happiness that life had given him were stripped from him. First, he was degraded from all his offices at court; next, his estates were confiscated by the crown; his friends were forbidden to hold any communica­ tion with him; his very name, one of the noblest in Russia, was taken from him, and he was given that of a serf. Then his wife and children were driven out of the palace to herd with beggars. "On the last day," says the record, Paul Yeritzin, in rags atld barefoot, chained to a convict, bade an eternal farewell to his home and departed to the dark and icy north. He was seen of men no more."-- Youth's Compan­ ion. Some's Antique Roosters. The extreme antiquity of pedigree boasted by the domestic fowl has gone far to excite the favorable regard of Boston people in its behalf. It is sup­ posed to have originated in Eastern Asia, whence are derived, even to the present, many of the finest breeds. The primitive bird of five thousand years ago was, probably, something like what is known to-day as' the "Cochin"--a vari­ ety still common among the Chinese, who have always been great fanciers of poultry. The ancient Egyptians kept hens and are familiar with the principles of artifi­ cial incubation, for which purpose they employed ovens, heated by lamps to an even temperature of 100 degree#. The old Greeks ~ and Romans had ftaooas *v' f*; isli 'k f iV?" Str?/: IIP figMra^ fSOttuch w bantams Q*# raiaed, PIiny speaks, re- & as'adrawflah kind of hen that is «ttra little, and yet fruitful." Ift Rome the poultry did not lack re- speoland od&siaeratkm. No magistrate would open or close his doors before their pleasure was known, and upon their direction the imperial fasces were Advanced or contrariwise. Accounts are •extant, in languages long dead, of woolly hens, wliichare said to have for­ merly existed ; of hairy hens also, and of wingless and tailless fowls; of horned roosters and other barnyard curiosities. Unfortunately, however, like the dodo and the great auk, these are all extinct. --St. Louis- Globe-Democrat. t Child Labor in India. By the way, in every shop «we have visited the most costly articles were for the American market. In this shop we saw a score or mbre of men at work on friezes and entablatures for a Mr. . For­ rest, of New York. I would like that he should see this letter, for it would be a pleasure when he sips his wine and looks upon his elaborate sideboard of; teakwood to know that some of the most exquisite of its rich carvings was done by a father and son, the little fel­ low being only 7 years old. How his taper little fingers would handle the tiny chisel and how accurate was his eye when he wrought from the hard, meaningless wood a flower that almost had an odor, so soft were its petals. The child had inherited the talent of its father, as he had done from his parent, and so through a long line, perhaps far back to those people whose handicraft made the rich relics in marble and wood of four centuries ago. Here children follow the father's craft. It is deemed a sort of family disgrace for the children to permit the profession of their father to die out in their generation. A boy steps from his mother's arms, aye, from her very breast (for children are not weaned until four or five years old), into a companionship with the father and a partaker of his toil and a copier of his art. We have been in several small carpet-weavers' houses at Amritsir and Lahore and other places, and everywhere a large part of the weaving was done by little boys. Car­ pets are not woven with a shuttle, but each thread or yarn of the wool is put into the warp with deft fingers, the left hand opening the one for the right to insert the other. A piece of vara is run through and then cut off with a knife to make the even, velvety tuft. The weaver does not have a design be­ fore him, but another boy sits in front with the design and calls out the next color to be inserted in a sort of chant. The weaver repeats this as he runs tho color in. The first boy calls out for one or more who are on the other side of the web, aud thus dictates for them all. To one not understanding the thing the chant would be taken for a sort of re­ ligious exercise. In one shop in the Punjab there was no fixed design at all. There were four weavers on a rug, say ten by fifteen feet. They had a com­ mon idea in their heads, but each worked out his portion of the carpet simply with a free hand as he went. There were in the shops named above two beautiful fabrics being woven for i New York. There were two dictators and, I think, five weavers. They pro­ gress only a few inches a day. The manager, to my inqniry as to the cost of these, simply, replied: "They are very costly. That is what the Ameri­ cans want."--Carter HarrUori's letter. k Very Large Band. It is seldom that a foreigner sees any­ thing in this country which comes any­ where near the importance of what he has seen, in the same line, in, his own country. At the time of the dedication of the Clay Monument at Lexington, Ky., a large number of the then leading brass bands of the United States were on hand and participated in the cere­ monies. Among these were Dodworth's band of Philadelphia, Menter's of Cin­ cinnati, the Chicago Zouave band and that of the Milwaukee Light Guards. In the evening, after the regular cere­ monies were over, all of these got to­ gether with several hundred instruments and performed in concert. Among other selections they played the "Anvil Chorus," with real anvil accompaniment, and the music was grand. A little French jeweler of the place, afterward approached a native citizen, remarking: "You hear no museek in dees country. Go to France to hear museek. Ze Grand band of Paree have some forty- seven thousand instrumong, wiz seven hoondard littal drum, and forty-seven bass drum. Beside, five, six, seven great gun zat shoot wan hoondard pound powdare. Yen ze--ah--vat you call? --ze grand chorus ees reach zen ze big gun come in--boom! boom! r-r-r-ta! boom!" "Do they haul the band around the streets in Paris, and play her?" the native asked. "Haul him around ze street an'play? Certamong!" the Frenchman, almost in­ dignantly, replied. "Yes, but I should think it would break all the glass out of the windows." "Brek nothing, sare. Ze glass in ze window in ze princaepal street in Paree some sixteen, seventeen feet thick, begare." "All right, old man. That settles it. Your glass is safe," and the native strode away, somewhat stunned.--Arkansaw Traveler. The Change Ijt the Frog. L Nowhere in the animal kingdom is there so favorable an opportunity for peeping into nature's workshop as in the metamorphoses of the frog. This ani­ mal is a worm when it comes from, the egg, and remains such the first four'days of its life, having neither eyes, nor bars, nostrils, nor respiratory organs. It crawls. It breathes through its Bkin. After awhile a neck is grooved into the flesh. Its soft lips are hardened into if, hofny beak. The different organs one after another bud out; then a pair of branching gills, and last a long and lim­ ber tail. The worm lias become a1 fish. Three or four days more elapse, and the gills sink back into the body, while in their place others come, much more com­ plex, arranged iu vascular tufts, one hun­ dred and twelve in each. But they, too, have their day, and are absorbed, to­ gether with their framework of bone and cartilage, to be succeeded by an entirely different breathing apparatus, the initial of a second cartilated group of radical changes. Lungs are developed, the mouth widened, the horny beak con­ verted into rows of teeth, the stomach, the abdomen, the intestines prepared for the reception of animal food in place of ve­ getable ; four limbs, fully equipped with hip and sholder bones, with nerves Mid blood vessels, push out through the skin, while the tail, being now supplanted by them as a means of locomotion, is car­ ried away piecemeal by the absorbents, and the animal passes the balance of its days as an air-breathing fleT batrachian.--Church, Union, ' • , • • ' ' f* * , • ' » *' ^ 5 ' n-* ' " t ' ->"*»' ' •» ' Siaoe the high heel vaiptedi toe have had time to do their wont the chiropodist is rising to a money-making position. The women who ojserate in the public baths for ladled have more work than they can attend to, and are raising their fees according to the state of the pairs of feet whioh they are asked to attend to. The ordinary old-fash­ ioned treatment, requiring only the sharp knife and the pomice stone, is still a franc and a half. But for the opera­ tion known as "dehoofing" the foot, you may with extras, get from $2 to~$3. There are some French women who are able when the fine world is in Paris to make from $15 to $25 a day. The sea­ side season is even more lucrative be­ cause feet are so much in view on the sands of marine bathing places, where it is permissible to paddle about in salt water long after the teens have been cleared. Be it remembered that the high- heeled boot or shoe, by throwing the whole weight of the body on the tight- ened-up toes, deadens them and the rest of the foot, and brings the whole member, so far as the distribution of muscular force and nervous vitality go, into much the same state as a horse's hoof. The dehoofing process begins with a warm bran or potato-starch foot bath, followed by a quick plunge in cold water, after which there is a shampoo­ ing with eau de Cologne or something else to help a reaction. Then there is a gymnastic pulling out and moving up and down and from side to side of indi­ vidual toes, which reminds one of the piggjrwiggy game which nurses play with the pedal extremities of babies. The nurse, beginning with the great toe and going on with the four others, says: "Thispig went to market, and this pig staid at home, and ihis pig ate bread and better, and this pig ate none, and this pig cried, take me to mamma at home." The toes are manipulated and exercised separately, until each is limber and lively. The sole of the foot is also enlivened thus: The patient leans with both liunds on a pair of props, and places the foot on a broad horse-hair band which works from side to side; then comes more hand-rubbing, this time with glycerine, followed by friction with small brushes and instruments like drawing stumps. The nails are care­ fully attended to. All dead and hard skin is carefully removed, and finally the ankles and insteps are put into gymnastic training. At the end of, say, an hour, a pair of feet which have been martyrized with high heels and pointed toes feel equal to dancing, jumping, or taking a long walk. They also look shapely and quite young. One wonders why they should be hidden with shoes and stockings, and whether skilled chiropody will not lead to a revival of sandals.--New York Express ' J 1 ' m" »• Tipplers' Superstitions. 1 "Superstition among drink-mixers!" said the bar-tender. "Well, I should say so. Every man -I know has got some sort of an idea that certain things are unlucky in his business. Can't ac­ count for their opinions, only they are there and firmly fixed. An ancient sign of bad luck is to hoist an umbrella in a saloon. Perfectly senseless ? Of course it is, but there you are. I can show you half a dozen men in ten minutes, who are sound, "sensible men in every way, but they would consider it a deuced un­ lucky thing for a man to open out an umbrella in their saloon. It used to fill old John Stanton with terror. He wouldn't stay in the place, but he would offer up a few remarks in behalf of the man who did the trick, and then he would travel for the door. Never could get out of him why it was unlucky. He would not give it away--just said no­ body but a translated son of a gun would do it, and that it was a terrible hoodoo to work on a man's place. "Yes, sir; and you let a bar-keeper break a glass the first move he does on his watch, and he will take < and smash two more. Knows there's three bound to be broken, so he caves them in to have it over with. Some do 1't break the other two, and then th ;v are miser­ able all day, because something is goin>; to happen. I have seen a dealer turn his box upside down because a woman came into the faro room when the game was going on. and nothing would induct him to deal again that day. It was dead unlucky. In our business some days are unlucky for opening out a new house, and some are not. I wouldn't open a Friday, not for diamonds, not Saturday, either; and I ain't particu­ larly stuck on Monday. Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday are solid lucky days for opening a new place. Well, of course, there's nonsense in tha whole scheme, but you will find plenty of the boys who have settled down on some peculiar crank or other. "---Omaha- Republican. President Lincoln Wreathed. When President and Mrs. Lincoli first passed through Cincinnati on the& way to Washington, a kind-hearted old lady determined to show Mrs. Lincoln the courtesy due her rank, and so she made a magnificent wreath of flowers. This she suspended by a frail cord over one of the streets along the proposed route. One end of the cord she held in her hand while seated in a second- story window. In a second-story win­ dow on the opposite side of the street sat a friend, holding the other end. The plan was to drop the wreath in the lap of Mrs. Lincoln as her carriage came along. When that carriage came along, however, Lincoln was in the front part of it, standing up, occasionally bowing his head and waving his liana. His tall form touched the wreath, and it dropped over his head and around his neck. The crowd laughed and the kind lady who had planned to do honor to the wife of the man she so much revered, burst into a flood of tears. These tears were, however, wasted. It was a happy accident. A wreath, not of laurel, but of beautiful, fragrant flowers, had been made to deck shoulders which were to bear burdens heavier than had ever been borne by mortal man. Mr. Lin­ coln smiled at the happy accident, bowed to the involuntary donor, and so reconciled her that her tears were at once brushed away.--Prairie Farmer. One Way to Tell. *Ef a gentleman say: 'Come hyar, you black scamp, en' black mer boots, en' do hit quick, too,' I knows dat man's frum down souf, en' he gwine to gimme sompen, en' mos' likely aquartah." Thus a darkey "boy on a Mississippi steamboat was explaining his position as to sectional proclivities. He went on further to say: "Ef anuther gentleman say to me, 'My dear young cullud frien', will you be so kine ez to black my boot#?' dat man's from Greenlan's icy moun­ tains, er sommers in dat direction. En' mebbe he gwine ter gimme a John de Baptist'--dat's on cent--but mos' likely he gwineter jis'give thanks."--Arkan­ saw Travei«r. WMe. Wade one dar trolled to Toomha of Georgia» says the Hew York Commer­ cial Advertiser, and to all appearance used language which would compel Toombs to challenge himu Several friends went to Wade and begged Mm to desist, but the old man grew more and more violent, uhtil. Toombs indi­ cated his intention of calling Wade to account for the language he was using, when Wade quietly sat down, seemingly having accomplished his object. The Southern men looked at each other in surprise, and it was manifest to all that Wade had deliberately sought a quarrel with Toombs. That night a friend of the Southern Senator called on Mr. Wade to know if he would retract the offensive words he had used. "No, I won't take back a word," was Wade's emphatic reply. "Then," said the friend of Mr. Toombs, "it will be necessary for Sen­ ator Toombs to challenge you to mortal combat." "That is just what I want, and we might have got to the point without all this palaver," said Wade. "You surely cannot be in earnest, Mr. Wade," said the Southerner. "Why, of course I am. You see, sir, we Northern men don't like to fight. Now, I am opposed to the code, and so are my constituents; but you fellows have broken Sumner's head, and we must spunk up a little or you will break all our heads. The shortest way to end the matter is to kill off a few of you, and I have picked up old Toombs as my man; he will have to challenge me. Then of course, I will have the choice c>f weapons, and I will take my old rifle, and me if I don't bring him down at the first crack." When Toombs heard of what Wade said he replied: "I can't challenge him; if I do, he will kill ine." It appears that Toombs and Wade had been out together shooting with a rifle several times, and, while Toombs could shoot well with a pistol, he was a poor rifle­ shot. Wade was an old hunter and at a distance of a hundred yards could hit a dollar every shot. Mr. Wade afterward said to the writer: "If old Toombs had chal­ lenged me that time, as I expected he would, I would have made him put a patch on his coat the size of a dollar over his heart, and the old fellow would have got demoralized when he saw me drawing a bead on it, and missed me, while me if I wouldn't have cut the patch!" Not only did Toombs refuse to challenge Wade, but no Southern mem­ ber could ever be induced to send him a challenge, no matter wliat he might say. The Southern men, having tried in vain to head off Mr. Wade, appealed to the Northern allies to help them. One day Mr. Douglas rose in his seat and in­ terrupted Mr. Wade, who was speaking. Instantly the chamber became silent as death, and all eyes were turned in the direction of the two standing Senators. Every one expected to see Wade demol­ ished in a moment by the great Illinois Senator. "You, sir," continued Mr. Douglas in measured tones, "continually compli­ ment Southern men, who support this bill (Nebraska), but bitterly denounce Northern men who support it. Why is this? You say it is a moral wrong; you say it is a crime. If that be so, is it not as much a crime for a Southern man to support it as for a Northern man to do so ?" Mr. Wade--No, sir. I say not. Mr. Douglas--The Senator says not. Then he entertains a different code of morals from myself and Mr. Wade (interrupting Douglas, and pointing to him, with scorn marked on every lineament of his face)--Your code of morals! Your morals! My God, I hope so, sir! The giant was hit in the forehead,and after standing for a moment, with his face red as scarlet, dropped silently into his seat, while Mr. Wade proceeded with his speech as though nothing had occurred. • Taking Lofty Observations. , Of the present very limited number of high stations for making meteorolog­ ical observations, there are only two in Europe whiqji exceed 3,000 meters in height, being about 10,000 and 11,000 feet, respectively. Among those in this country is Pike's Peak,which has an altitude of 14,100 feet, exceeding thus, by more than 3,000 feet, any in Europe. These great heights are much more ac­ cessible on this continent than in Eu­ rope, there being five in America where 11,000 feet or more is reached by rail­ roads built for facilitating mining work; the highest of these in North America is Mount Lincoln in Colorado, the mining works on which are 14,297 feet above the sea, and here is a meteorological station conducted by Harvard College. Another station is placed part way up the mountain, at a height of 13,500 feet. In the Andes range in Peru, continuous meteorological observations are also carried on, the loftiest point for this purpose being 14,360 feet above the sea. --Buffaloo Commercial. Who's Boss? A gentleman living on Duffield street hired a man to clean the wood-shed. He took him into the building and showed him what there was to do. "I'll give you 60 cents to do the job," he said. The man looked it over and estimated the time it would take, and said he could not do it for less than a /lollar. "Nonsense," said the* capitalist sharply, "there's nothing to do but carry out a few handfuls of rubbish. I could do it in twenty minntee!" "No, you could not," said Mrs. Capi­ talist who at that moment appeared. "I cleaned it out myself the last time it was done and it took me three hours." "Say," asked the man with a sly twinkle in his eye, "who's boss." "Both of us are," answered the lady quietly. "Mr. has offered you 50 cents and I will give you 50 cents, as I know the value of the work, and you can begin at once." He earned his dollar. --Detroit Free Press. " . 1 Bat She Loved Him All the Same. A Newport clergyman tells thus of a recent marriage which he performed: "The parties were foreigners, both good looking and well dressed and appearing. The groom presented his license, and, this being correct in all particular, the clergyman began to read the service. The groom was befittingly solemn for the occasion, but on the face of the bride was a smile, which broke into laughter before the ceremony was half completed. The clergyman stopped and looked rather severe. The groom, too, was troubled, and saw that some explana­ tion was necessary. He looked at his bride helplessly a moment and then said: 'She understands not a word o' English or what you sayin'. She Por­ tuguese. But I think she lnv- me, all the sam*' f#he ceremony was com­ pleted;" I A mak genenfly loola shesffah aftsr the wool has been jwtyd otor his eye*. Canal fo noV open- to criticism.--Pu6k. So** ]Me think smoked beet comes from Pittsburgh cows. Puck. - A sctitob is not always a suit her, as many of you doubtless know.--Tm Epoch. No wouur feels like quoting poettv when there is a mouse in the looml** Hotel Mail. If you ask us i£ it's hot enough, o# sole reply shall be: Ge soak your head | where sweep the waves of turbid Gali­ lee.--Lincoln Journal. ,y I Science now claims that every | has a little soul. There are men who seem to have swapped souls with atonal. I -- M a r t h a ' s V i n e y a r d H e r a l d . - V Some one remarks that "the devil ^ soon gets into idle people." But if the | devil gets into them they surely cannot S be unoccupied.--Yorkers Statesman. | A Georgia man cured himself of dye- - pepsia by swallowing a mouthful of bran after each meal. This is a bran nerw 4 remedy, sure.--Burlington Free Press. » | A contemporary says there are 28,- " 3 000 shad eggs in a quart. This prob- f ably explains why they are not sold by S the dozen. -- Pittsburgh Chronicle* < Telegraph. ,, * ^ "Does Falsehood keep i hotelt* ' , j "What a strange question! Why do J you ask?" "Iheard someone remark/*^ what a fair front falsehood has."--De- 3 troit Free Press. Although it is not generally known to the world at large, there is an intense and bitter rivalry between Lima apt Boston. Each claims to be the bea^- head of the universe.--Puck. Blathebly--Just think, I am almost at the age when man suspects himself a fool. Jones--How's that? Blatherly-- 1 am 39. Jones--Why, I always had an idea that you were 40 long ago. --De* troit Free Press. "It was a great surprise to me whpi 1 my umbrella went off so suddenly," said McGinnis. "Why?" asked nis friend. " 'Cause I didn't know it was loaded," answered the ligptless man.!***- - Detroit Free Press, The editor of the Boston Courbtr < consoles himself with the following re­ flection: "It is not always the man who looks like a fool who is one." True enough, brother. You are not respofe* sible for your looks.--Areola Record. The sweetest of sweet girl graduatiii - bloom only for one season. The society belle fights for her place year after year, and knows so m&ny bald-headed old fellows she can keep in tow that she makes the way of the debutante diffi­ cult. Young Wife--Now tell me, candidly, hubby, don't my cooking taste as good as the stuff you get at a restaurant ? Hubby--Y-e-s, but you see, dearie, at the restaurant I can look at the bill of fare and find ottt what Fm eating.-- Siftings. Fathee--You have given up your po­ sition again, I see. Son--Yes,' father. "That's the third or fourth time this year you have left your position. I don't think you would stick to your business if you did nothing but sell fly­ paper.--Texas Siftings. CAWS AND EFFECT. Like to a cloud down crime the crows; The field waa soon upturned ;• « > Where'er 'twas sown, In bills or row*, ' * They ate the farmer's corn. " Voraciously they tore tlisra out-- *7^^" The seed and greening blade, And •while the work they went A deafening noise they made. A mad, mad man tho former was, A mad, mad man was he; j "I dreaded when I heard the e&wa,,. .- That the effect I'd see." mm-- '*# --Baton Courier. 1 Western Sod Shanties. To begin with, there is something for^»- bidding and repulsive about the veirt name of shanty. We associate it with a condition of dirt and dilapidation, al­ though there is no reason why a shanty should not be neat and clean both inside and out. The word is said to be derived fraih two Irish words meaning an old house; therefore, a shanty need not be small, dirty, or out of repair. In this country,' shanties are chiefly found in the West, and although they present no feature to gr^ify the artistic sense, they are better than they look. : The s^d shanty marks the crest of the a advancing wave of civilization, and it Is never built with a view to more than tem­ porary occupation, giving way in time to commodious and stylish dwellings orsub- stantial farm-houses with spacious barid and outbuildings. But, while it lasts, the sod shanty possesses qualities of more pratical im­ portance than mere beauty of form or color. It is warm in winter and cool in summer, and no other dwelling affords more secure protection against the storms which sweep across the country from the extreme north to the Gulf of Mexico. Most of these shanties are finished in- ' side in a style that renders them more than comfortable. Narrow boards are set against the inside of the walls and nailed to the floor, as well as to hori­ zontal strips built into the wall for that purpose. Thin, cheap cotton cloth or building paper is tacked on these strips all around the room, and wall-paper is then pasted on in the usual way. The roof is of boards or of earth sodded over. Thus, with ingenuity, taste, and a few hundred feet of pine boards, the enter- Erising settler and his wife will soon uild a comfortable, if not elegant, dwelling, to shelter them until the in­ creasing wealth of the settler warrants a change. ; But, at its worst, the sod shanty of the West is far superior to the Irishman's hovel, the Mexican adobe hut, or the "auld clay biggin" which sheltered Scc||v ^ land's plowman bard.--Golden Days. •' , • Blood Educations. Many of our most fatal diseases a|ft now known to be due to the feeding 0# bacteria upon the body. These bacteria sometimes find nothing that they can feed upon, and the proper way of coping with them, says Prof. E. Ray Lancaster, is by educating the white blood corpus­ cles to resist their attacks. The cor­ puscles can be gradually trained bf weak or small doses of poisonous maf­ ter, as of arsenic, to offer a high degree of resistance to doses that would have been fatal if given at first. This is the principle of preventive inoculation, which has proven remarkably successful in diseases of cattle and sheep, as well as in small-pox in man. It is believed that the white corpuscles can be trained to receive the most virulent poisons,and it is hoped that this training will be carried on so as to deal with a great number of diseases.-- Arkansaw Trav­ eler. *• ft _ > retired pianist, the retired ist and the retired minister Me pounders. j H f ^ ± ^ j f t