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On the Shore.
The punctual tide draws up the bay;
With ripple ol wave and hiss of spray,
And the great rod flower
Of the lighthouse tower
Blooms on the headland lai away.
Petal by fetal its fiery rose
Out of the darkness buds and grows;
A dazzling shape
On the dim, tar cape,
A beckoning shnpe as it comes and goes.
A moment ol bloom, and then it dies
On the windy cape 'twixtthe sen and skies.
The fog laughs low
To fee it go,
And the white waves watch it with cruel eves.
Then suddenly out of the mist oloud dun,
As touched and wooed by unseen sun,
Again into sight
Bursts the rose of light,
And opens its petals one by one.
Ah, the storm may be wild and the sea be
strong,
And uiun is weak and datkness long;
But while blossoms the flower
On ihe lighthouse tower, •
There is s* ill place for a smile and a song.
My Feast ia Tokio.
HOW AN AMERICAN PARTOOK OF A
JAPANESE DELICACY.
"Would you like to join me in a
feast of boiled eels?" asked my Japan
ese friend. "It is said that this month
the unagi is a fit morsel for the gods."
"Unagi?" I replied, with a some
what dubious shake of the head; "I
never was very fond of those marine
snakes."
"Probably you have never tasted
them prepared by my countrymen," he
slyly returned, "I remember once eat
ing some at Deimonico's (shuddering).
They were soft, flavorless morsels, in
closed m a quivering jelly. Come
along with me and partake of a dish
the taste of which will be pleasantly
remembered long after you return to
America. You, who are half a Japan
ese, ought not any longer to remain
ignorant of one of our chief deli
cacies."
Summoning a jin-riki-sha, we
squeezed into it in the economical
fashion, and after a brief ride turned
into the Okiyo-koyemacki (street) and
alighted at the entrance to Maroki's
establishment-a two-storied building,
the lower apartment of which was
furnished with grated, prison-like win
dows. In the entrance were the pro
prietor and his wife, who, as we paid
our jin-riki-sha man, prostrated them
selves, bowed their heads on the boards
and murmured: "Thousand welcomes
to our humble place;" then, rising,
awaited our pleasure.
We slipped off our clogs and fol
lowed our hostess up a broad ladder to
the floor above, which was divided by
sliding screens of paper into a number
of apartments. Here we were greeted
by a score of chubby-faced, cherry
lipped, neatly-dressed attendants, who
knelt and welcomed us with profound
bows. We entered a neat little matted
room, about ten feet by twelve, the
6ole adornment of which were two
hanging pictures representing Ebisu
and Dai-koku—gods of luck. Placing
cushions on the floor, she invited us to
seat ourselves upon them, prostrated
herself, bowed gravely and retired. In
a few moments a black-eyed
with her hair polisheJ like ebony, and
decorated with a single gold pin, en
tered with a box containing live char
coal for the pipe, and after depositing
the apparatus on the floor between us,
knelt, bowed, sat upon her heels,
glanced modestly downward and await,
ed our order. My friend, who was
what we term rather "airy," being a
small official in the foreign office,
glanced patronizingly at the girl and
said: "Bring us some trifles with which
to amuse ourselves; then serve the
broiled eels as fast as we require them.
Mind, we don't want fish that have
been cooked an hour. My guest is a
gentleman who appreciates hot food.
What wine have you on tap?"
The waitress, in spite of her droop
ing lashes and humble pose, was slyly
watching me out of the corners of her
eyes and laughing to herself at his af
fectation of importance. She knelt
near us, and, filling two tiny cups with
the wine, proffered them to us, mur
muring, "The wine is served." As I
sipped the liquor I glanced at the pret
ty waitress, who was sitting on her
heels, holding the bottle in her hand
ready to replenish our cups. When
we had emptied them the waitress re
moved them, and quickly returned
with some trays containing square,
black lacquered boxes, bearing the
signs of the bouse and a number*
Placing one before each of us, she re
moved the tightly-fitting lids and re
vealed the contents, which were sec
tions of nicely browned, broiled, split
eels, skewered together, that gave out
a most appetizing odor.
* The girl smiled as she watched ray
looks, and replenishing my saucer with
shoyu placed it near me, murmuring,
"I think you will find the unagi very
pleasing to your taste." I took my
fifcosstio& la my rtebt hand, inserted
Lite flUillheiitt Journal.
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VOL. LVII.
the points In the ffsh, broke off a mor
sel and ate. Ye gods! It was deli
cious! rich, tender, delicately flavored
and boneless! 1 drew my box toward
me, nodded approvingly at the attend
ant, and enjoyed the delectable food.
The smiling girl brought in box af
ter box, the contents of each being
nicer than the last. "llow do you
contrive to render the skins of the fish
so tender?" I asked the girl. "I do
not know," she answered, glancing
timidly at the mats. "The cooks never
putmit us to learn their secrets. If
you would like to visit the kitchen,
they will no doubt explain everything
to you."
"Now for the bill," said mv compan
ion, refilling his pipe. "Altogether,
you have given us a very tolerable
meal." In a few moments she came
back, carrying a small, scoop-like tray,
in which was placed a slip of paper
containing the reckoning. This she
pushed along the mat toward him;
then she bowed and remained with her
face close to the floor, while he minute
ly scrutinized the document. Taking
his purse from his sleeve, he dropped
some paper money into the tray, and
remarked in a low tone: "You may
keep the change" (ten cents).
His munificence almost overpowered
the waitress, who bowed repeatedly
and gratefully murmured, "Your gen
erosity resembles that of a foreigner.
Any one can see that you have trav
eled." After we had smoked awhile
we rose, quitted the room, and, de
scending the ladder-like stairway, the
steps of which were polished as smooth
as glass, slipped on our foot-coverings
and entered the kitchen. On the hard
earthen floor were rows of little char
coal furnaces, provided with iron roils
that served as rests for the skewered
eels.
Maroki, whose only failing was a
weakness for bowing and politely
sucking in his breath between his
speeches, led the way, and was exceed
ingly attentive. Pointing to a range
of tubs containing fine specimens of
anguilla tenuirostrii, he remarked:
"These were caught this morning;
they were the most expensive fish in
in the Nippon Bashi market. Are
they not worth looking at?"
"How do you contrive to so com
pletely extract their bones?" I de
manded. "Our cooks cannot accom
plish the feat." Motioning a lightly
clad servant to approach him he said:
"Some customers -have just come in.
Prepare an eel in the presence of these
gentlemen."
The man, who evidently took great
pride in his work, selected a vigorously
squirming fish, struck its head smartly
on a wooden block placed upon the
floor, and, kneeling by it grasped the
creature's neck, inserted a knife in the
left side of the vertebrae and dexter
ously ran it down to the tail; then rap
idly applied his instrument to the oth
er side of the backbone, and repeated
the process, leaving the eel split open.
Holding up the head, to which was at
tached the vertebra and lateral bones
inclosing the intestines, he bowed and
said, "There is not a splinter left in the
fish."
"That is so," proudly remarked the
proprietor; "I only employ the most
skillful men and cooks." The opera
tor washed down the block, chopped
the flattened eel into three-inch
lengths, and shouted to a cook who ad
vanced and removed it on a dish.
The next process was a mysterious
one, and was performed behind a
screen, from whence the platter of eels
was presently handed out to one of the
broilers. My opinion is that the fish
had simply been plunged into boiling
water to make the skin tender. We
advanced to a range and saw a cook
skewering the pieces of eel on long
bamboo spants. Then he placed them
on the rods over the glowing coals, and
when one side was browned, dexter
ously picked them up with a pair of
iron chopsticks and turned them. Af
ter they were thoroughly cooked he
seized the fish with the same instru
ment and plunged it into a vessel con
taining old shoyu, which was as thick
as dark molasses. The steaming unagi
were then drained, placed,in a lacquer
box, and sent upstairs to the custom
er.
"We never prepaae our eels until
they are ordered," remarked the pro
prietor. No matter how busy we may
be, I will not have the fish killed be
forehand."
"What do you do with the bones?"
I asked.
"We boil them down into a delicious
jelly, such as that with which you are
served. Nothing is wasted in this es
tablishment. We think of the seven
virtues."
Another Japanese fashion of cook"
ing the eel is to take it alive and put
it, writhing, on a red-hot gridiron.
When the eel is dead, or in other
words, roasted alive, the skin, which,
after the roasting, contains all the oil,
is stripped off, leaving the white fle§h
tender and dry. But it is barbarouf
cookery.— Edaxird dreey.
A Cannoneer's Bide.
Captain 11. T. Owen, an ex-Confed
erate, writes: The most conspicuous
act of reckless courage 1 ever saw dis
played on any battle-field during oui
great civil war occurred at the second
battle of Manassas, August 30, 1862.
It was performed by a Federal artiller
ist in the presence of both armies, ami
was witnessed ly at least a thousand
men, many of whom are still li\ing
and can readily recall the incident when
reminded of the circumstances. Just
as Hood's men charged down the hiJ)
near the Henry house upon the first
Federal line, and it became evident
that he would capture the battery sta
tioned there, a Federal artilleryman
determined to save one of the cannon,
if possible, and to do so he had to take
it up the ditch in front of the Confed
erates for half a mile. The ditch was
four feet wide and as many deep, and
could not be crossed with the cannon.
How he got his horses hitched, or
whether they had really ever been
taken from the piece, I never have
known, but the first I saw of him he
was coming up our front in a sweep
ing gallop from the cloud of smoke,
and Hood's men were firing at him.
As soon as he escaped from that vol
ley he came in front of our brigade
and under range of our muskets on
the left, and as he swept by a file
tire was opened upon him. Our line
was approaching the ditch rapidly at a
double quick, and the line between us
and the ditch was getting narrower
each second, but the artilleryman
seemed determined to save his gun
from capture, and he flew along his
course at a tremendous rate of speed.
He had four large gray or white horses
to the cannon, and they came up the
valley in splendid style. The man sat
erect and kept his team well in hand
while his whip seemed to play upon
the flanks of the leaders, and all four
horses appeared to leap together in
regular time. The ground was very
dry, and a cloud of dust rolled out
from under the horses' feet and froru
the wheels of the cannon as they came
thundering along.
Three regiments of our brigade had
already fired at him as he rushed
along their front, and as he approach
ed the left of another 1 ran down the
rear rank shouting to the men:
"Shoot at the horses ! Let the man
alone and shoot at the horses! You
are firing too high!"
At this I saw a noted marksman in
Company F drop on one knee and
sight along tho barrel of his musket
and fire ; but on came the man, and
the gallop of his team was unbroken.
Ramming in another cartridge the
marksman was ready again in a min
ute, and just as the cannoneer swept
across he front, within a hundred
yards, he kneeled down, and taking de
liberate aim at the foremost horse
fired again ; but on went the team un
harmed as before. Thus lie passed
along tho whole front of our regi
ment and then along on our right, and
escaped around the head of the ditch
and across the field and up the hill be
yond. As far off as we could see him
his team was still going at a gallop;
but when out of range on the hill be
yond the ditch he turned in his saddle
and, taking off his hat, waved it
over his head several times, and some
of the Confederates cheered him.
At least five hundred men fired at
that Yankee gunner, and 1 have often
wondered if he escaped death in the
subsequent battles of the war, and
lives to tell of the fearful gauntlet he
run along the front of a whole brigade
of Confederates firing at him.
An Unalterable Face.
There is said to be a man in Belle
vue hospital, New York, with a face
that never alters its expression in the
slightest degree. Something is the
matter with the nerves and mus
cles so that they do not work at all.
Not the faintest smile nor the sugges
tion of a frown ever varies the stolid
monotony of his countenance. The
features are regular and rather hand
some, there being no distortion, or any
outward evidence of the affection other
than the strange immobility. His
name is Henry Stube, but he is called
"Masky," because his face is like a
mask, behind which he laughs and
weeps unseen. He has worn this mask
of his for two years. He acquired it
after a neuralgic cold. He is being
treated with electricity chiefly, and the
physicians think he will recover. In
the meantime he parts his lips with his
hand for the introduction of food and
water, and when he sleeps his eyelids
are held shut by a slight bandage.
His imperfect talking is done without
moving his lips, and when he speaks
or listens,the impassiveness of his fax;e
looks singular, indeed. There is some
thing uncanny about it, and, after the
idea has once got into your mind, you
can hardly regard this fa/v? as any
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MILLHEIM, PA., THURSDAY, MAY 17, 1883.
(Ir Hitv* n Prlntlna !•••■ nnd Try* to
ltim It, With IH.n.trnn. Itoults.
Spoopenilyko came home one night
bringing a small bundle in his arms.
"IFs a printing press, on which I ex
pert to do all my own printing here
after," he said.
"(Hi, but isn't that lovely!" fluttered
Mrs. Spoopendyke, dropping the stork
and rushing to her husband's side, "and
can't we do the loveliest things with it!
It is the kind that the Herald and Sun
and all those papers are printed with.
"Oh, yes, Mrs. Spoopendyke,"
growled her husband, "you've hit it ex
actly. This is th(j very kind. I got Mr.
Bennett to kindly try it on, so as to get
it the same size as the Iff raid is print
ed on."
"And will you print papers with
yours like Mr. Bennett and the other
editors?" continued Mrs. Spoopendyke
timidly.
"Oh, but won't I, though?" yelled
her husband. "It.iieeded a dod gasted
female idiot to think of that, you've
struck the proper plan. Think you
can print 50x00 show bills with a 3x4
press? Well, I tell ye that ve can't.
Can ye get it into your measly head
that this is a card press, and can only
print a card three inches by four
inches?"
"Well," said Mrs. Spoopendyke, "1
suppose you can print visiting cards on
it?"
"Yes, Mrs. Spoopendyke, 1 can," said
her husband, in a softer tone, and he
grew in a much better humor as he
proceeded to show his wife the press
and exhibit his dexterity in the use of
the type and the press.
At last he got his worthy helpmeet's
name set up in type, and proceeded to
put the chase on the press with a grand
flourish. But in an evil hour he had
forgotten to key it up, and at a touch
the whole business went to pi, and at
the next fell in a confused mass all
over tho carpet.
"Why, what makes it do that," said
Mrs. Spoopendyke, laughing.
"What makes it do what, Mrs. S. ?"
sneered her husband as he hit his head
on a corner of a table in a mad dive
after the type. "What d'ye s'pose
makes it do it! What makes anything
do anything? If I had your talent for
asking idiotic questions I'd get a glass
of beer and a three-inch paper collar,
and live out as a prosecuting attorney.'
By this time the worthy gentleman
had got the name set up and securely
fastened, and was printing with great
gusto; but he had, unfortunately, set
the types in wrong order, and the first
eight perfumed visiting cards came
out like the following:
.cki/tliicpoopS .ATJ/
When Mrs. Spoopendyke saw It she
set up a little scream, "Oh, isn't that
funny, though ? What makes it wrong
side up ?"
"Funny!" howled her husband, with
horrid derision as he grasped the situ
ation. "It's a perfect thunderbolt of
fun. It's the most delicious humorous
thing of the century. All you need is
an advertisement of liver pills on the
cover, and a joke about a goat on the
first page, to be a comic almanac.
With your appreciation of humor, all
you need is a broad grin and S3OOO
worth of stolen diamonds, to be the
leading comedienne of the American
boards. Can't you see the measly
type's turned wrong? They have only
got to be turned round the other way.''
After half an hour of diligent labor
the types were again in position, se
curely keyed up, and put on the press.
"When the final arrangements were
completed, Mr. Spoopendyke turned
round to wink at the baby and incau
tiously left his thumb over the edge of
the press. As iuck would have it,
Mrs. Spoopendyke, in her anxiety to
show her husband how well she under
stood and appreciated the press,brought
the lever down and the press closed on
that gentleman's thumb, making him
jump four feet high, and utter an ex
clamation that would have made the
second lieutenant of a company of
pirates blush. "Dod gast the measly
printing press/' he shrieked, as he
smashed the base burner with it, and
then he threw it in the alley. "Haven't
ye got any sense scarcely ? Why didn't
you go on with the entertainment?
The measly thing only got as far as
the bone. Why don't ye finish the
chapter?" and Mr. Spoopendyke
danced up stairs, five at a time, with a
parting injunction to his wife to hire
out for a slaughter-house.
"Well," said Mrs. Spoopendyke, as
she picked up the baby, and put a
pitcher of water where her husband
would be sure to fall over it when he
went down-stairs in the morning,"if we
hive so much trouble in printing one
word, I wonder how Mr. Bennett gets
along with a whole newspaper to print."
—Stanley Huntley.
There are fifty-three cigarette facto
ries in Havana, which collectively pro
duce 18,000,000 cigarettes a d^y,
A PAPER FOR THE HOME CIRCLE.
SPOOPENDYKE.
THE FAMILY DOLTOIt.
To prevent hair from falling out, try
first wetting the head at night with
salt and water. Mild sage tea is also
excellent. If these remedies do not
effect a speedy cure, try this: (let a
little bottle of brandy, and put in all
the salt that it will absorb; wet the
head with this two or three times a
day.
If the arnica with which bruised
limbs arc bathed is heated, its good ef
fects are perceptible much earlier than
if it is applied while cold. If arnica is
to be taken as a remedy, as so many
physicians recommend, in cases of se
vere sprains, it should be prepared
with water in this proportion: a tear
spoonful of arnica in a goblet two
thirds full of water, and of this a tea
spoonful is to be taken once an hour or
once in two hours, as the severity of
the case determines.
A new remedy for headache has been
found by Dr. Haley, an Australian phy
sician, who says that for some years
past he has found minimum doses of
iodide of potassium of great service in
frontal headache; that is, a heavy, dull
headache, situated over the brow, and
accompanied by languor, chilliness and
a feeling of general discomfort, with
distaste for food, whicli sometimes ap
proaches to nausea, can be completely
removed by a two-grain dose dissolved
in half a wineglass of water, and this
quietly sipped, the whole quantity
being taken in about ten minutes. In
many cases, he adds, the effect of these
small doses has been simply wonderful
as, for instance, a person who a
quarter of an hour before was feeling
most miserable, and refused all food,
wishing only for quietness, would now
take a good meal and resume his wont
ed cheerfulness. If this cure of Dr.
Haley's is in reality a practical one, he
will merit for the discovery the grati
tude of suffering millions.
The Jew's-llarp.
The origin of the Jew's-harp Is lost
in the long lapse of time, and bat
hardly ever attracted sufficient notice
as a musical instrument to be worth
the inquiries of musical antiquaries.
In Germany it is called "Maul Har
monica;" in Denmark, "Mund harpe;'*
in Sweden "Mungiga;" in France,
"Guinbarde;" in Italy, "Tromba," and
in the Highlands, "Tromp." The
Greeks of Smyrna call it, in imitation
of Its sound, "Biambo." In the Neth
erlands and Tyrol it has for a long
time been the delight of the peasants,
the laborers, and their families, and at
present it seems to be in exception
al jjfreat favor in America, where an
Englishman has in Troy established a
factory of these vibrating instruments;
and so brisk has the business been that
another factory has been started re
cently where the coinmon-plaoe Jew's
harps are turned out in hundreds of
thousands.
The first noted performance on this
simple instrument is mentioned in the
memoirs of Mme. de Genlis, in which
is described the astonishing power on
the Jew's-harp of a poor German
soldier named Kock, in the service of
Frederick the Great.
However, it was reserved for a Ger
man herdsman and laborer of the name
of Eulenstein to acquire an almost
European reputation as a player on
the Jews-harp. After ten years' close
application and study, he surmounted
a host of difficulties, and attained a
perfect mastery over this intractable
instrument.
Mr. Eulenstein appeared with great
est success at concerts, first in Paris, in
January, 1826, and later on in London,
in June, 1826, where he executed with
"grace and expression the most charm
ing Italian, French, and German airs
to the great admiration of amateurs
and 'professionals' alike." He used at
the concerts to play duets with Mr-
Stockhausen on the pedal harp, the
latter accompanying him pianissimo,
and touching the chords lightly, so that
Mr. Eulenstein's part in the duets
could be perfectly heard.— Music
and Drama.
Not 80 Green as He Looked.
A green-looking granger, travelling
with a wagon, took in a number of boys
in an eastern town very neatly recent
ly. He would allow a rope to be tied
around each wrist, and holding an ap
ple in each hand, bet that while two
bystanders pulled the rope in opposite
directions he could bite first one apple
and then the other. He won every
bet with apparent ease, much to the
surprise of those who did not under
stand a very simple principle in dyna
mics. He was naturally stout, but the
trick lay in the fact that the man pull
ing on his right of course assisted him
materially in pulling against the man
on the left, and vice versa. It was
two against one every time; but the
mountaineer was always one of the
two,
Terms, SIOO Per Year in Advance
Description of m Burled Ship.
In 1823 there was exhibited in Lon
don an ancient vessel which had been
ting up at Malham, a short distance
from the present navigable river of
the Hot her, at the west end of tne Isle
of Oxney, and about two miles from
llolverden and New Enden, the site of
the ancient city of Anderida. The
spot where this old vessel was found
was an old branch of the Rother, Kent
county, the channel of which was di
verted by high winds in the reign of
Edward I, and therefore it is thought
this vessel was buried at the time of
that disaster. Others have supposed
her to have one of the fleet abandoned
by the Danes after their defeat by Al
fred the Great.
The vessel was sixty-three feet eight
inches long and fifteen feet broad, and
when discovered her upper part was
buried ten feet, to which add nine feet
her hight from bottom to top, and
you have an accumulation of nineteen
feet of sand and mud upon the river
since she was stranded. She was single
masted, round-stemed, flat-floored and
without a keel. There were two cabins
in her stern, the after one decked over,
with a hatchway for entrance; the
other, adjoining it, was covered with
a caboose, which fell in on being ex
posed and the sand taken from under
it. There was also a short deck for
ward with an inclosure beneath it, but
the midship part was entirely open,
ller bulwarks and washboards mani
fested she had been a sea vessel. Her
beams, which were much stronger than
would be required for a vessel for in
land navigation, prove that our fore
fathers knew how to apportion a due
strength to the stress upon timber, her
timbers being three times as deep as
broad. Her timbers and plank were
remarkably sound and hard, and in
many parts quite black. She was
calked with moss. The method of
steering her was quite singular. She
had rubber bands which yoked the
rudder, and by an alternate motion of
the ropes, which were fastened to the
back of the rudder, it was made to re
volve on the pinions as a center of mo
tion, the breadth of the rudder being
the leverage.
The rudder was broad, and hence
the vessel easier to steer. By this it
would seeui that in her time the tiller
had not been invented. There was a
curious windlass on the after-deck f
which showed they had not much idea
of getting rid of friction, and at her
forepart there had evidently been an
other fixed from side to side. Her
planks were very broad and of a close,
hard texture, and thought by some to
be oak, by others chestnut. The wreck
of a small boat was discovered near the
stern of the vessel, but her iron fasten
ings being in a very corroded state, she
could only be removed piecemeal; be
tween the edges of plank were layers
of hair.
In the vessel were found a large
flint and steel, which, though very
much worn, still elicited sparks ; part
of the blade of a sword, with a hollow
ball or hilt of yellow metal attached to
it; four vases ; several bricks of a red
and yellow color ; the corroded remains
of two locks, etc. In the cabin, or
cook-room, was found a leathern ink
bottle, curiously ma rked, but similar
in shape to those still used by school
boys ; part of a brass cock ; a sounding
lead; several shoes and sandals of cu
rious shape; several bricks and frag
ments of tiles bound together with
iron ; a small glass bottle ; a small
whetstone; several hooks; an oak board,
eighteen inches long and twelve broad,
with curious lines cut in it; and a cir
cular wooden board, of oak, perforated
with about twenty-eight holes, which
was most probably a calendar by
which the progress of the lunar month
was marked. Of mortal remains there
were a man's skull, the hip-bones*
ribs, and other parts of the
skeleton of an adult, part of
the skeleton of a child, parts of the
skeleton of a dog, supposed to be a
greyhound, parts of two skulls, with
the horns of sheep or goats, the breast
bone of a goose, and several bones of
larger animals.— Bear-Admiral George
H. Preble.
Cute Work.
A detective employed by the United
States express company to trace the
robbery of a package at Comerstown,
0., saw the mark of teeth upon the
pasteboard box. "The man is a one
armed man," said he. "He held the
box in his teeth while he untied the
string." He made the acquaintance
of Charles Bassett, the one-armed man
of the town, employed him as a de
tective, traveled with him, talked
about the difference in people's teeth,
got him to make an indentation of his
own in wax, had a plaster cast made
which fitted the marks of the teeth in
the package and arrested Bassett It
was a "cute" piece of work.
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YEItY ANCIENT.
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Jealousy.
Thoy stood upon the wido veranda, and
Before Le left her side 1 saw him turn
And take for her, from out the vine-hung am,
A crimson rose, and with a deferent band
He placed it in the sift hair's silky strand.
Then in my soul did a fierce longing burn,
And a new madness, swift, and keen, and
stern,
Arose and held me in it strong command.
And then—Oh, blessed then!—l saw I-.er take
A white rose from the white breast where il
slept,
And, with a proud but timid courage, lift
It to her lip*. For joy I could have wept—
For joy hath tears. The white rose was my
lit! —Carl All Perry.
PUNGENT PAUURAPHS. ,
Should oarsmen wear scull caps?
To preserve cherries—Keep the small
boys off.
Stare-way—The entrance around a
church door after services.
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The Moss Pointers (Miss.) place
eggs instead of dime 3 in the contribu
tion box. They are entered in the
church books as lay offerings.
This bit of conversation, which we
find in an exchange, is both timely and
expressive: "I think this ice-creara
tasts a little cowy," said he. "Mine
tastes bully," said she.
How is it," asked the landlady,
"that you never complain of anything
but the butter, Mr. Jones?" Mr.
Jones: "Well, that is a big enough
contract for one man!"
A ni e iittle maiden named Plummer,
Fell in love with a grocery diummer,
And the taffy he gave
She concluded to save,
So she canned it. (It lasted all summer.)
A religious exchange tells a story of
a cornet player employed by a Baptist
church, who lost his position by play,
ing the well-known melody, "Pull for
the shore," at the baptism of a number
of converts.
It is said that when one is drowning
all that he ever said, thought, felt, or
did, passes before him ii a swift pano
rama; and that the bad memories
crowd the gootf into the background.
One need not drown in order to have
the experience. Only become a candi
date for office.
Doing a heavy business—The stone
yard. Doing a light business—The gas
works. Doing a safe business—The
bank vaults. Doing a grave business
—The cemetery company. Doing a
medium business—The spiritualists.
Doing a rattling business —The tin
shop. Doing a fine business The
judges. Doing a funny business—The
humorists.'
Whistling.
Capt Burton tells us how the Arabs
dislike to hear a person whistle, called
by them "el sifr." .Some maintain
that the whistler's mouth is not to be
purified for forty d?ys, while, accord
ing to the explanation of others,
Satan touching a man's body causes
him to produce what they consider an
offensive sound. The natives of the
Tonga islands, Polynesia, hold it to be
wrong to whistle, as this act is thought
to be disrespectful to God. In Iceland
the villagers have the same objection
to whistling, and so far do they carry
their superstitious dread of it that "if
one swings about him a stick, whip,
wand, or aught that makes a whistling
sound, he scares from him the Holy
Ghost," while other Icelanders who
consider themselves free from supersti
tions, cautiously give the advice: "Do
it not; for who knoweth what is in the
air?" In some districts of North Ger
many the villagers say that if one
whistles in the evening it makes the
angels weep. Speaking, however, of
ladies in connection with whistling,
it is a widespread superstition that it
is at all times unlucky for them to
whistle, which, according to one legend,
originated in the circumstance that,
while the nails for our Lord's cross
were being forged, a woman stood by
and whistled. Curiously enough,
however, one very seldom hears any of
the fair sex indulging in this recrea
tion, although there is no reason, as it
has often been pointed out, why they
should not whistld with as much facili
ty as the opposite sex. One cause, per
haps, of the absence of this custom
among women may be, in a measure,
due to the distortion to the features
which it occasions. Thus we know
how Minerva cast away, with an im
precation, the pipe, which afterward
proved so fatal to Marsyas, when she
beheld in the water the disfigurement
of her face caused by her musical per
formance. There are numerous in
stances on record, nevertheless, of
ladies whistling at public entertain
ments, and charming their audience
with the graceful ease with 'which they
performed such airs as "The Blue Bells
of Scotland" or "The Mocking Bird."
Indeed, not many years ago, at a grand
provincial concert, two sisters excited
much admiration by the clever and ar
tistic way in which they whistled a
fluet. — Gentleman's Magazine,