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I'liu goltluu liuhh of the morning lies O'ur smiling river and bending skips; While o'er the meadow the wot winds sigh, And bronths of fragrance blow fur and nigh, Anil the tide flows by. A boy BUnds under the oak tree tall, At the old ((ray gnlo by tho orchard wall; lie looks i.ir uwuy where the blue sea smiles, Wondering where lie the Fortunate Isles, And the tide (lows by. A youth mid a mniden pause and wait In the sunset light at '.ho old gray Kn-to ; They silently guze in ouch other's eyos And droain of the rapture of Paradise, And t!ie tide flows by. ISonido the into stands a careworn mun, 'Nouth a wintry moonlight, faint and wan; lie looks fur uwuy toward the cold, gray sea, With u nigh for the days that were once to be, And the tide flows by. An oi l man stands by the moss-grown gate, Sorrowing, weary and desolate; The stui light glcnms o'er a distant grave, And o'ver il soltly the yew trees wave, And the tide flows by. Through the old gray gute, toward the shining west, They Iihvb borno tho weary one to his rest; The new day breaks and tho shadows flee, Tho tide of tho river flows fust and free 1'ur out to sea! Susinc JV. Moullon. POLLY. C II Al'TI.K I. "Dick! you are t ho most provoking boy in the world! You've got no re spect fur your Bisters or anything on this earth. (live mo. my letter this instant, sir! I would not have such work man aging you, my young man, if mam ma had only left your hair long enough to pull." . Dick, rejoicing in a very elose crop, dodges under her arm as Tolly makes a grab at hi bristly In ad. With a "Don't you wish you couli get it?" and a delighted cackle at her grasping a handful of empty air instead of his auhurn locks, ho makes his os eape, lodging the letter with a skillful twitch oil a high bracket which holds a bust of Dickens. Tho boys in the byons lanitly had como mostly girls; in (act. Dirk repre sented tho single male off-shoot, and, like the had little boy of the newspapers, he wouldn't for any money have risked being born again for fear of coming a girl next time. j. Tj,f .... M'itli I'nti I (ttf vi i i . n r nn r " J""' i.w. ... ........ ... bid rubbish!" is Tolly's purling salute, and she proceeds to fish out from behind the plastor-of.. Paris coat-sleeve of Mr. Dickens the apple of discord. And her colorwhieh hud risen unbecomingly dur ing the scullle with Dick, tones down as sho reads it. Supposing .lob had received a kind letter of invitation from one of li is moth er's kind friends for the first time, too don't you think it would have riled even him, for a brown, smudgy paw, sticky willi molasses, to have seized it, jerking it out of his hands, when ho was in tho midst of opening it, without so much as "'by your leave," and toss it up to I he coiling? The subject of this visit h:ul been broached before; now eomes tho letter bringing matters to a focus. "Not only putting in the peg, but driving it home," says Kitty. " Actually names the time for you to 1 1.., 1... 1 ! I'uuie, i ciurii iv i mw.y , mm liihi. is nun t tlii most oily folks do. They will come and spend weeks with their coun try friends in July, and then tell one to be sure t wall when one goes to the city. Think of how Mrs. Aytoun treated the Dodson's. Kitty." " And you've nothing to do but pack ui) your trunk anil start,' Polly," says Mrs. Lyons, innocently. "Mercy on us, mamma! But pack my trunk and start! Unless I get in myself I don't see what there'll be lo pack it with. If I depend on my alpaca and blue poplin, I'll be leaning on a broken reed, I am sure; and I can toss nay few things in, and then there'll be room enough in the trunk for Tootems and Dot t play hide-and-seek. " Come, now, Tolly, I am sure you look 'nicely in your things. Ever so much nicer than tho Dodsou girls, who spend bo much." It is one of Mrs. Lyon's firm articles of belief that her girls look " nicer" than all other girls at all times'. Ii. fact, that as far as her girls are concerned, there is nothing for heart to desire. ". And actually," cries Tolly, " if I had my hands stuffed with money at this moment I wouldn't know what to get or how to make it. That eomes of living in tho country on. the road to nowhere. If I were papa I'd move to-morrow and not hide my talents under a napkin." "Tut, tut. Tolly! Don't quote Scrip ture in a fret," says Dick. "Always keep your temper, my child." "Mamma, will you please to make Dick behave!" seeing that he dodged all her efforts to box his ears. " Richard. my son!" , "Oh, you'll scrape through," says Kitty, taking up the thread of discourse where it was broken by tho skirmish with Dick. " We'll all help you out." " Dot, who was number four, and always dressed in the others' old clothes, gave up on the spot all right and title to any and everything new that sho might, could, would or should have that winter. The family conclave was not broken up till far into the night. Certain trips to the neighboring town were planned and- taken, amd many demands made upon the family purse. Hut at last Tolly's trunk was packed actually packed with "good clothes," and ther was nothing more to be done. It nr.. . ! mil ti. u rrllurii n or ut a ta rif IT. i nrl that Folly bundles herself up in a big shnwl for a farewell walk the evening preceding tlie eventiul day. Being December, there were no flowers to assist sentiment; no nothing much, except bare brown hills and leafless, gaunt trees. " Tho sheen were in the fold ; tho cows gone home;" even the birds gone to roost. But she would not be balked. "Til try my fortune," she said; and, looking around to see that no one is nera, she stops before a large tree. As ono of France's gifted writers had done oetore ner, sue takes a heavy stone and draws very near. " If I hit the tree," she says, " it shall be a sign that before the month is out I find a true love. If not then not." Like tho French philosopher, Rous seau, sue plumps tne tree, and expen ences the same feeling of relief and ex ultation. CHAPTER II. " Just to think! I'm really starting!" cries Tolly, ecstatically, bobbins ud and down before the squatty mirror to get a good look at her belongings. "Look out, Kitty, and see if the carriage is at the door." "Merciful heavens! what is the matter P" they cry, as a shriek from their nioiner reaches uiem, anu a contused sound of trampling feet. They rush down, and find poor Dick lying, white and still, on his mother's bed. " I knew it." gronned Mrs. Lyons. "I've always said he'd be killed by horses or guns, or be drowned! And now he'll believe his poor mother." Dick, who had insisted upon driving tho ponies, had gotten himself tangled up with tho reins under tlie horses1 heels, as a boy best knows how to do it. "Here is a broken arm." says John Gary, the doctor, " and lie is a good deal bruised ; but we'll get him around, I hope. Who will help mo with this arm? I want a steady hand no flinch ing." Mrs. Lyons was so weak she could barely stand, Tatsy trembling, and Kitty had cried till she could scarcely see. " Here, Dot. take these things up stairs;" and Tolly tosses off the spruce hat and gloves with an irrepressible sigh. Poor Dick stood the operation like a man. That dreadful stretching and pulling, and grating together of the roken bones. Tolly, like a woman, exactly, held the juivering limb firmly and gently, helped ill the last bandage, saw the color coni ng back to Dick's freckled face, and then nvca little sigh herself, and didn't know iow she got up stairs to her room. There slio was bidden to lie down, com xise herself, even take a nap. You Know ome people pin their faith to "taking laps." and would advise one to "take a 'inn" even though the house had just burned down. When they were all out, Polly takes off lier "good clothes," her new button oots, the new traveling-dress and all: jiutting on her old alapaca) for tears irtke ugly spots), slio cries all sorts oT ears tears of sorrow for Dick, of vexa inii with him; but most of all tears of Usappointment nnd pity for herself. Win ii she had wept out all her "little weeps," sho went down. John Cary was gone, saying he would return in the evening. JJe was a well-looking, well-to-do. bashful man of thirty, or thereabouts, and esteemed quite a "catch" in the neighborhood. Indeed, it was tin talk of tho neighborhood how those bold Dodson girls had thrown, themselves at his head. Tatsy and Kitty acknowledged in sor ow their unsuccessful efforts to attract more than a passing glance, and began nd vising Tolly, as soon as she came down, to "try her hand and air her new finery for his benefit." As Doctor Cary had left Dick feeling quite ennrortable, tlie Lyons family seemed in -lined to celebrate this uncom mon event of having an invalid in the houp with considerable energy. ' 1 ho younger members of the house hold, Tootems and Dot, crawled around the bed in a fever of curiosity to see " how Dick s arm was mended;" Kitty and Tatsy, having recovered from their fright, wanted to amuse the patient, and see him laugh, and Mrs. Lyons was mak ing some jelly and cake for "the poor dear." Only Tolly was as glum as an oyster. She knew well that a small imp was at work within her, but could not make up her mind to drive him out; so she sat with red eves and sulky face, gloomily knitting. She didn't laugh a bit over the girls jokes, and Uick didn t see any point to them either. " Oh, Dick, you just ought to have been looking when Tolly fainted. Doc tor John didn't even stop to look at her. Why, if it hadn't been for Tatsy and me, she'd have tumbled on the floor. He only said, ' Sprinkle her face,' and went on punching you about tho ribs." " He s a slow old coach, ' chimed in Tatsy. "Tolly hasn't made much of a start yet: I shouldn't wonder if a Dod son gets him yet. They are so persever- in tr ."ft "Oh, I'm dying of love for him," says Tolly, sarcastically; "and, of course, I shall cry my eyes out for him." Dick was dozing, but these words of Tolly's caught his ear, and he kept re peating them to himself. He could see her eyes were very red, and that she seemed very sad. Doctor Cary shook his. head when he found the family party assembled round Dick s bed and the boy with a high fever. "Too many nurses entirely. Who will take the responsibility of keeping him quiet? Miss Tolly, will you attend to the prescriptions?" Of course Tolly would, and she did her duty so well that Dick rapidly im proved. He could soon enjoy reading aloud, and delighted in having Doctor Cary sit with him and tell him the gal lant exploits of the Homeric heroes. He brought him Tennyson's " Idylls of the King," and read aloud to him many a quiet evening, while Tolly sat near, so berly working and listening. "Geraint" was one ol his favorites, who thrashed robbers! in armor bv the half dozen, as a boy would a walnut tree; and brave "Sir Launeelot," who tumbled knights over like so many ten pins. They had been reading "Elaine," the sad tale of the "Lily-maid of Astolat," who loved so well and loved in vain. It is often these rattling, rollicking boys who have the tenderest feelings, and at the conclusion Dick was quietly snuffling and bowling the tears out of his eyes with his knuckles. Tolly had slipped out to hide her own. "Doctor," says Dick, brokenly, "would you let a girl die because she was loving you soP" "Never, Dick, never! But I am not the slashing kind of fellow girls die over," says Doctor Cary, laughing rather sadly. " Doctor," said Dick, in a hoarse whis per, " one of 'em's doing it. She cries, and droops over her work just like the ' Lily Maid ' did ; and she's loving you. I heard her say so." "Oh, no, Dick, you are mistaken!" cries the doctor, blushing furiously. "Not a bit. I'll tell you who she is. It's my favorite one of 'em. It's Tolly, that's who it is ; and she can skate as well as a boy, and make good traps, and such taffy ! Doctor, would it hurt me to eat taffy now P" As I nave said, the doctor took in new ideas slowly, but when thoy once made an entrance into his head, they came to stay. h or the first time in his recollection sleep tailed to visit him at his usual hour. He lay tossing and tumbling, thinking. Tolly's pale lace an I wistful eyes haunt ed him, and Dick's tearful words: " One of 'em's doing it, she loves you so." It may have been that he loved Polly a long time unconsciously. At any rate, it seemed to him now that he had loved her a very long time. 1 Ie could stand it no longer. The beau tiful girl pining away for him. He sprang up and wrote her an offer of marriage in the dead of night. He handed i this letter to Tolly himself as he bade her " Good-bye " after his next visit, pre tendedly to Dick. Tolly took it quietly without opening it, thinking it to be a new prescription for Dick, who, with his arm in a sling, now roamed at large. She sauntered into the sitting-room where they all were. "Does Doctor John always direct theino you, Polly?" asked Kitty, open ing it. The next moment she screamed outright, "Patsy, come here! Dick, what do you think P Doctor John wants to marry our Polly. Did you ever in your born days?" The exdtementwas intense. "So there's to be a wedding in the Lyons lamuy at lastr " cries 1'atsy. "Mercy! the Dodsons will turn green with base envy. What luck! Tell us how you managed it. Tolly do. Oh. you clever Tolly !" And Mrs. Lyons came hurrying in, and smiled so blandly, and crowed so trium phantly over those "scheming Dodson jirls, that roily was nerlectly confused. She did not eet a chance to read her letter till it had been handed around the room. Even Dick tried to spell it out before she could lay hands on it. He considered he had more right to it than any one else, and chuckled quietly to himself at the unwonted success of his nianoeuver. " Why. Polly will scarcely have to sret any wedding clothes," cries one of the girls ; " the finery up stairs will come in exactly." There could certainly be no objection to the match, as Polly was eighteen, and Doctor John was -plenty old enough to take care of her. Polly preferred wait ing 'herself, but "the girls" would not hear of such a thing. So when Polly made another start to the city, it was on a little bridal tour, instead of beau-catch ing. CHAPTER III. What boy could ever hold his tongue when lie ought to, or keep a secretP "Tolly. I must tell you." savs Dick. after she had her bonnet on, ready to start. " Come off here it is a secret. I caught the doctor for you, miss; I told him how you were crying your eyes out about him, and how you were dying after him. I heard you say so. Oh, I managed this matter nicely. Now, thank me for it, miss." Tolly was stunned. If she did not care particularly about John Cary herself, she at least imagined him to be greatly in love with her. It was too cruel to destroy the pleasant illusion. And Uick stood hopping nrst on one leg, then on the other, waiting to be thanked. She could have boxed iiim. A moment more and the farewells were over, and Tolly and her husband were rolling side by side to the station. " Tolly, dear," says her husband. "we've been in such a stir and bustle. and and even our courtship in such confusion, that I'm glad we'll have a chance to get acquainted with each other. You 11 call me John, won't you. dear?" "Oh, yes." she answers, coldly. "Any thing will do." " And you 11 kiss me, now, won t vou. Tolly? Do you know you have never kissed me a single time yet?" "Some people are coming, and they will laugh to see us such geese," says Tolly, hurriedly, pulling her veil over her face. "You scarcely feel that you know me. do you, Tolly?" Sue was crying so she could not an swer, and Doctor John sighed rather sadly to himself. " I don't know much about women's ways, I am araid." "Not this year, nor the next one. either." Dick s words seemed prophetic. Tolly did not even get half way to the city. Doctor John had gone to the cooler to bring her a cup of water, and when next Tolly opened her eyes, she was lying on her own bed in her own room, dark ened, feeling very sore and weak and stiff. Doctor John, looking much older and anxious and wan, had his fingers on her wrist, counting her pulse. A railway accident, of course, had a terrible time of il getting but she found out what a kind, good, de voted husband she had in those weary, trying weeks of pain. When at lastj there came a day when she could again be daintily dressed in becoming ribbons, and when once more crimps and curls were a part of life, it was a great day for them. " We were married last year, Polly," says John, looking at her admiringly. "Here it is the middle of anew Janu ary. We've been man and wife five long weeks. Quite an old couple, aren't weP" Polly put her hand In his. "You have never kissed me yet, Polly." J "I'll do it now." And she put her arms around his neck. "He! he! what fun!" ame giggling from the half-open door, and Dick dashed off down stairs. Patsy and Kitty came rushing up to see what could the matter be, and as Kitty reported, " Pollj just up and kissed her husband as bold as a lion before tbera all," though her face was as pink as the rose on her breast, and John Cary was blushing like a girl. And though when Polly got well and strong enough Bhe gave Dick a good shaking, she thanked him all the same in the bottom of her heart, and they both petted and made much of the boy, till Patsy and Kitty declared he was on the high road to ruin. But John proving a good husband, Polly was right. Marrying a man is like eating mushrooms. If you die they were toadotools, if you live they were mushrooms. If a man Jieats you he is a toadstool; if not, be sure he is some kind of a mushroom, for which be thankful. The First Sewiifg Machine In India., In the days when the sewing machine was in its earliest infancy, a lady resid ing in inuia lmportea one, ana lor a long jvrjiu iLo liijaLciiuuB worKing ii m from the ken of her native tailor. This functionary was the very slowest of his end ot time drawling over hem and stitch One day his mistress came to him arm- laden with yards upon yards of some dress fabric. " Dirzie," says she, " how long will it take you to run those breadths together P" " Tree day, missis," replies Dirzie. " Missis, please, plenty too much work." "Three days! Non sense! Ihree hours, you mean. You are a very lazy man and I'll cut vour pay. Give me the stuff; I'll do.it my self." Then the lady retires to her boudoir, from the inmost penetralia of which a sharp ana continuous click and whirr reach the tailor's ears. He can't make out what the sound is, and he is much too lazv to speculate on it. iie continnes to "chew betel," and yawniugly to ply needle I .. - .... ana tnreaa. Alter an hour or two "Missis" comes back, and throw ing at Mr. Dirzie's feet the raw material now fashioned into a completed skirt says: "There! See! You wanted three days, you sleepy fellow, to finish this, and I have done it already." Astonished Dirzie turns over the drapery, examines tne seams, scrutinizes the stitch, and satisfies himself that all is prper and ac cording to tailors' rule. He is confound ed. It passes his understanding. There lies the work done and no mistake. But how? He springs up from the mat on which he has been squatting; he kicks over the little brass vessel which holds his drinking water; he scatters risht and left thread, needles, thimble; he stops not to put on his sandals or to adjust loosen ed turban and waistcloth. Scared and bewildered, he runs for very life into the bazaar, shouting as he goes along: "Shitan! shitan! (The evil one! the evil one !) xle do tailor business at item's house. I listen! I hear! He cry 4 Clock, cleek, cleek!' Two hour time he neber stop cry. Den! Plenty too much true dis word I tell. Ebery bit true. All work done finish! I not go back dat bungalow." And he never did. Cham bers' Journal. A Carious Family Dispute. A curious case, says a Paris paper, has just been decided at Fontainbieau, where a M.and Mme.Missiessy appeared in court to plead against each other for two of their daughters. It appears that this married couple have seven children five daughters and two sons and that the father had insisted on the three eld est daughters becoming nuns. The mother offered no resistance: but when it came to depriving her of her two re maining daughters, who were also dis patched to a convent in spite of her en treaties and delicate health, she appealed to tlie secular arm. The court endeav ored to shake the determination ot the husband, but he remained inflexible, de claring that a voice from above had called upon him to submit, and that his daughters should remain where they are. The court of Fontainbieau took a middle course, and decided that the two young ladies in question should bo re leased from the cloistered convent in which they have been imprisoned, and sent to the celebrated Convent of tho Oiseaux in Paris, which is not cloistered, and where they will be able to receive the visits of their parents. A Vegetable Cariosity. A remarkable freak of vegetation has appeared in the grounds of K. B. Tat man. at Worcester, in the shape of a potato vine which bears tomatoes. It appears to be a mixture of the two vege tables, and is accounted for by the fact that a strong tomato vine from chance sown seed grew in the same hill with tho potatoes, and the pollen of the two plants became mixed. I' lfortunately the vines were pulled up before the pe culiarity of the growth was noticed. Some of our agriculturists may derive a valuable suggestion from this. As both the potato and the tomato are of the Eolanacjo family, it is not impossible that ono should be fertilized by the other, and a remarkable economy of labor might Vie effected if careful and scientific cultivation should produce a plant which should bear good potatoes at the roots and good tomatoes on the tops. tyring Jfcld(MiM.) Union. TIMELY TOPICS. An international convention under the ausniepH of Mia 1-inrmriiiUinn. ..a the honorary presidency of the court of ri.unicis is to assemoio in isrusseis this year to discuss the latest advances in the knowledge of American ethnology, phil osonhv. historv. p-eoloirv nnl In f,,. f everything appertaining to America that is oi inieresi 10 mankind, jncw light is exnected tn he th covery of the North American continent and unnn itR nrimiti InhohUnniG I here are in Europe many students of American nisiory ana science, and this win be their third congress. The far-famed Alhambra is in dnnn-er The hill above Grenada, on which stands the palace of the ancient Moorish lti mm of Spain, has recently given Bigns of mtuiug uwuy, bo umi uiis spienaia monu ment of a memorable epoch in the history of E urope is in danger of complete ruin and downfall. It is also said that, tlio Alcabaya, a spacious and splendid struc ture at the base of the hill, which was formerly the residence of the Moorish nobility, is in danger of destruction from the same cause. The wall of this great Moorish palace is more than a mile in circuit, incloses thirty-five acres and is flanked by thirteen square towers. An effort to restore the palace was made hv Queen Isabella in 18C2, but the sums of money devoted to it were not sufficient to complete the work satisfactorily. What will be the largest ferrvboat in the world is now lieing constructed at San Francisco bv the Central Pacific Bail- road Company to ply between Martinez and Benicia. It is to be longer than the great Pacific steamship- City of Peking even, and has a greater breadth of benm than any vessel afloat. Its length is 424 feet, width 116 feet and wheels 30 feet in diameter, and it will bo propelled by sictini gciieraieu in eigni sieei Doners, each twenty-eight feet long. The boat is a double-ender and is steered by four rudders nt each end. The hold is di vided into eleven water-tight compart ments, which will make it impossible to sink her. iour tracks will be placed upon her decks, which will accommo date forty-eight freight cars or twenty- lour passenger coacnes. A child at Dover South Mills, Me., eigiu years oia, was horn without eyes He has evebrows and pvclida nf. tinlh. ing which, indicates the presence of eye nans, ana doctors say that he has noth- 1 .it . A ing wnaiever in ine nature oi an eve organism. The little fellow is an unusu ally bright boy. He has never been heard to utter a word of compiamt at his con dition, and he invariably rebukes his friends if they give expression to any pitying woras. mat ne appreciates, however, the misfortune that alilicts him lssnownoy tins iaci: ins little niece had a cataract Upon her eve. and he had heard fears expressed lest it should de stroy her sight. It was not long after this that his mother heard his voice in an adjoining room, and going quietly to tne aoor sue was surprised to hoar him praying to God that the little baby might not become blind. Paris recently celebrated the anniver sary ol the taking of the Bastile and evpn the staid Journal des Debats became elo quent over the event. 44 The taking of the i5astuo, it said, is not a mere mili tary act, a material fact. It is an image ; it is an emblem ; it is, so to speak, the in carnation of a great social revolution. So it has been regarded both by France and the universe. In history it will al ways signify the abolition of royal war rants, of condemnation without a hear ing, of personal and irresponsible govern ment." The Bastile, literally, 44 the building," was built by Charles the Fifth, in 1369, as a fort at the gate of St. An toine, Paris. Not long afterward it was used as a place of custody for state prisoners, and so continued until tlie 14th of July, 1789, when it wa attacked by the populace and razed to the ground. Its site is now marked by a lofty bronze mounment known as the Column in July, with reference to the month of which the Revolutionists did their work of destruction. At the top of the lieau tiful column is a gilded figure of Mer cury in flight. What Happened in Angnst. The month of August, although less crowded with battle anniversaries than Juno or July, has had an unusually large share of the world's greatest events. On the 3d Columbus sailed from l'alos, in 14U2, to discover a new world. The same day, twenty-seven years later, saw an exploit of almost equal daring the outset of Cortez's overland march upon i : ll.. ..I. i. -.. ii i .iifjirii. x lie -in gavt. mu nrsi diow lO English feudalism by tho overthrow of De Montfort's revolt against Henry III.. in 12ti5. On the 10th, the storming of the Tuileries, in 1792, consummated-the triumph of the French revolution. Tlie l-ilh crushed at one blow the dear-bought supremacy of Ixiuis XIV., by the de feat of Blenheim, in 1704. The 16th. 18th and 19th witnessed the great battles of V lonvuio and liravelotte, and the com plete surrounding of Metz, in H70. Tho 2(ith is doubly memorablo to France, as the anniversary of the greatest defeats and greatest victories the battle of Crecy in 1316, and tho commencement of .Napoleon s two days light beforo Dres den in 1813. On the 28th of August. 1631, Gustavus Adolphus defeated the Austrians, under Count Tilly, at Leipsie ; and on tho 31st. Hood evacuated Atlanta at the approach ot Gen, Sherman, in 1HM. jsut in addition to all these famous days, this eventful month has witnessed the execution of the Scottish patriot William Wallace (1305); the establish ment of the Reformed Church of Scot land (1560); the outbreak of the Seven Years' ar (1756), as well as three of the greatest battles, Minden, Zorndorf and Liegn it z (1758-00); tho birth of Sir Walter Scott U771); the liberation of the Christian slaves at Algiers by Lord hxmouths bombardment ot the place (1816) and (Jen. Wintield Scott's Mexican victories f Cherubusco and Saa Antonio Hope. I lay in grief, And Hope drew near to where I tossed alone Without relief, And paused a moment when sho hoard that moan; Then raised hor glowing eyes and met mine own. Never a word she said, Vet still I gazed and still was comlorted. Then bending low with wond'rous gra She laid her hand upon my eyes, Her cool hand on my burning face, And at hor touch bright visions rise, Fresh woods and streams and unimagiued skies. In softest tone She sang the song that has no close That deathless song which no one knows Save she alone j The song that leaves no memory, Tho song of endless victory And luture love; And as I listened to the voice above, I ielt as one returning from the dead. Slowly I rose and raised my drooping head. Ill the Ytar Hound. ITEMS OF INTEREST. A prowed thing A ship. The Home Sentinel says a postman is a man of letters. The best wire-pullers Telegraph re pairers. New York Express. 44 I'll take the starch out of you," as the perspiration said to the shirt collar. Messenger. According to an official return, seventy seven persons died of starvation in Lon don last year. Selling introductions to beauties is the last method of money-making introduced at the English fairs. An English paper tells of a black cat which decoyed birds for its eating by feeding them on bread crumbs. All should adopt this stirring motto during the heated term : Our temper : it must and shall be preserved. Ka?isas City Times. There have been constructed in the tanked States since the great crash in 1873, and within a periodol five years, 11,563 miles of railroad. A child remarked, after gazing ear nestly at a man wrho was bald, but had heavy whiskers, 44 His head was put on upside down, wasn't it?" The New Haven Register sees one ad vantage in warm weather. At no other season of the year can you spread the butter on the children's bread so evenly and so thinly. Geo. P. Rowell & Co., in the Ameri can Newspaper Directory for July, show that the whole number of newspapers in the United States has increased since January of the current year from 8,703 to 9,153. New papers abound in the Ter ritories. Suspensions have been fewer than in any corresponding period for several years. After the recent death of a Piute chief in Nevada, an admiring Indian concluded to kill his own souaw. so that she could accompany the chief to the happy hunt ing grounds; hut the woman did not wish to be sacrificed, and so made her es cape. 1 he Indian then seized a baby, buried it to the neck in the ground, and stood guard over it, intending to let it starve to death. After three days the child was rescued by white men. The Transatlantic circus had a lively day at Leesville, Ind. Some sharpers who accompany the show, failing in their attempt to swindle a resident with cards, snatched his money and hid in one of the tents. Soon afterward one of tliw women equestrians stole a watch from a man's pocket as she passed through the crowd. 'pi. n . A .I.- i in iwuui-ii lui'ii iiit-ti hum uit' leius n un their revolvers. The showmen retaliated by seizing three villagers, dragging them into a tent, and wrhipping them soundly with rawhides. This incensed the crowd. and a general fight ensued, in which four showmen and one villager were wounded with bullets. A Shark in Strange Waters. Two or three boating parties had a good deal of fun with a shark that strayed into me uanimoie nar nor a snon lime ago. lie was a regular man-eater oi tne Sout hern seas, and twice came near prov ing it before he got through with the boys. A picnic party saw him swimming up with liis back fin out of water, and now and then stopping to pick up stray bits by the way. 1 hey threw their lunch to him piece by piece, and watched him devour it with evident relish. He finally became so tame as to come nosing around the boat, and one of tho party attempted to harpoon him with a boat-hook. In doing so he lost his balance and fell overboard. Ho was soon dragged in by his companions, and not to soon, either. for just as his last leg was leaving the water the shark was at the spot and his great jaws were heard to snap at the holt. in the water which the retreating leg left. By this time the party had got enough of playing with shark, and, hav ing disposed of all their lunch, went on to picnic on memories of the big fish and hungry stomachs. Tho shark continued his way up the harbor, apparently on an exploring expedition, and another boat ing party oi boys and girls met him. Ouoooy was swinging his feet over the side of the boat in the water. The fish seized one of tho feet, snapped oft' a toe and lacerated others. That was enough of shark for that boating patry, and the terrified boys rowed the screaming girls into port without any further fishing ex perience. The shark was afterward seen v divers others who were swimming on the beaches, but they did not attract las attention, and be tried no issue with them. The last seen of the monster, so far out oi his latitude, lie was following a tug down the bay, and would probably tinil his way out to sea and hack home. Baltimore is punzlod about how this man-eater of the torrid latitudes hap pened to loio himself so far in .Northern waters.
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