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Take Courage.
Re brave, 0 heart, and /ear not earthly shame,
Cringe not to men, but make thyseli a narue.
Take up thy cross, and walk erect through life,
F ght for the truth, however fierce the 6tn/e.
Yield to no tolly, crush tliy tempting tin,
And hie I no murmur ol complaint within.
Bend niecklv down to sorrow's chastening rod
And chaie not at the wise decrees ot God.
S'av thy most selfish and presumptuous will;
Whate'er thy burden, bear it, and be still.
Lift thy sad, doubting eyes to God above,
Know that his name and nature both are
love.;
Lovo is the guardiau of the gate of heaven,
Through love alone thy name shall be for
given.
But it thou hatcsf, even in a thought,
Apparent virtues will avad thee naught.
Love God, thy maker; love thy fellow-men;
Love without etiut; thou shah not love in
vain.
Rouse thee, O heart! and do thy work in
faith;
Love is the conqueror over sin and death.
And when thou art free to seek the natire
skies
Thou shalt find love the light of paradise.
Ccuniess Corf~,h,
Saved by His Sister.
"Ahem, Lpander!" said Miss Cath
erine Southern wood, one morning, as
she poured out her brother's third cup
of coffee, while he drenched his last
buckwheat-cake with a sea of maple
syrup. "I was a-thinking, Lysander,
since you here set your heart on mar
rying that Jones girl" (Lysander
figuratively, pricked up his ears at this
announcement, for Miss Catherine had
been bitterly opposed to the idea of
her good-looking bachelor brother con
signing his heart and fortune to the
tender mercies of the "Jones girl")
"I was a-thinking," she went on, de
liberately, "that mebbe, seeing they're
so kind of pinched fur means, that i
might get Olympia to come and stay
awhile this fall, and help me about
the housework. There'll be a heap to
do, with the apple-butter to make, and
the like; and, besides, 1 need some
help in the kitchen. Cookin' is gettin'
to be hard work for mc now. But
there's one thing about it, Lysander/'
she continued, as her brother signified
his willing consent and gratitude--
"you must promise me that you won't
ask her to marry you while she is stay
ing here. It would be very improper,
you know."
Lysander promised, and went out
to harness the mare, as Miss Catherine
had decided to drive over at onee, and
bring Miss Jones back with her.
She smiled grimly as her brother
strode away, whistling.
"The shortest cut ain't alius the
nearest road home," she said, com
placently. "And tlvere's more ways of
kilfing a cat than feeding it to death
with beefsteak. There's II uld ah Bush
is worth a dozen of that girl! But, la!
Lysander is as bliud as a bat! Never
could see an inch before his nose!"
"Astonishing how Sister Catherine
has come around at last!" thought Mr.
Southernwood to himself. "At first
she couldn't bear the idee of me a
marrying Olympia Jones, and now she's
actually a-going to have her in the
house. But that's just like a woman!
Let 'em see you will have your own
way, and not be led around by the
nose, and they'll give right up and be
as mellow as a fall apple. But lam
glad Catherine thought of getting
Olympia here this fall. It'll be a help
fco 'em both, for the Joneses are poor-
But I don't care a rush for that! I'd
rather have a poor girl, anyhow, than
a fine lady, that didn't know how to
make up a feather-bed or fry a slap
fack. I like a woman that can bustle
around and see to things, even if she
don't have to do 'em herself—one that
:an make a pat of butter, or pick a
goose, or spin a hank of yarn, if need
be. And I like to see a woman look
neat," he weift on, as he curried the
iappled mare and rubbed her down
with a wisp of hay. "And Olympia
always looks as neat as a new pin
when 1 call there. Anyhow, Ido hope
she'll come!" he added, anxiously.
Of course Olympia would go! And
she ran quickly up stairs to pack up
her clothes.
"It's a mighty good chance for me,"
she thought, as she brushed her curls
before the little looking-glass; "and
['ll improve it, too! But I'll not help
with the house-work long," she added.
'Wait till I get to be mistress up there,
and see who'll do house-work then!"
Lysander's heart gave a jump as the
wagon hove in sight with its two oc
cupants, and visions of the blissful
weeks to come danced through his
mind. He was so embarrassed and
Dvercome with delight at the coquetish
smile Olympia bestowed on him that
he hardly had presence of mind
Bnough to let down the bars for them
to pass through.
"Now, Olympia," bustled Miss
Catherine, when they had laid off their
hate and shawls, "it's time we begun
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dinner. Lysander must Kev it at
twelve o'clock, precisely, or he thinks
he's killed. There's a couple of pul
lets in the coop, out in the chip-yard,"
she added, tying a clean check-apron
round her waist. "You may wring
their necks, and git em ready fur
roasting, while 1 start up a fire in the
cook-stove."
Olympia looked at her pink calico
dress, with its flounces and ruffles and
wondered if Miss Catherine would offer
her a check apron, too. Hut Miss
Catherine did no such thing, and
Olympia wrung the chickens' necks
and prepared them for the oven, with
rather a cross look shadowing her
pretty face.
"Oct 'em in the oven?" asked Miss
Catherine, sharply. "Then you kin
mix up a batch of biscuits while I
make the johnny-cake. Lysander alius
must hev two kinds of bread fur din
ner. or he can't eat," she explained..
"Humph!" thought Olympia. "lie
won't get two kinds of bread for din
ner when I'm the mistress here, I can
tell him!"
But she turned to the bread-tray
without a word.
By the time the biscuits were in the
oven the waist and front breadths of
Olympia's dress looked considerably
the worse for the morning's campaign.
Miss Catherine blew the dinner-horn
at the usual hour, and Lysander ap
peared punctally at twelve o'clock.
But for some reason or other dinner
was a half-hour later than usual, and
when it was finally dished and brought
to the table, the biscuits proved to be
underdone and the chickens roasted to
a crisp.
"Had bad luck with vour biscuits
9
didn't you, Catharine?" said her
brother, making a wry face at the yel
low streak of saleratus he found on
breaking open one of the leaden lumps;
but Miss Catherine smiled leniently.
"Olympia had bad luck with her
biscuits," she said: "but 1 think my
bread is as good as usual," and she
passed him square of light, golden
lined corn-bread more tempting than
pound-cake.
Lysander left his biscuit untasted,
but cast a glance of compassion at
Olympia.
"Accidents will happen," he said,
consolingly, though he could not help
noticing a sullen look on Miss Jones's
face in spite of the smile she flashed at
him. He noticed also the tumbled
curls and soiled, untidy dress.
"Have some cold mutton, Lysander,"
said his sister, "if you can't cat any of
the chicken. Olympia will learn how
to cook after awhile."
So it was Olympia who burned the
chickens!
Lysander linished his dinner in
silence, though he still made excuses
for all shortcomings.
Olympia changed her soiled dress
before tea-time, and was beaming with
smiles when Lysander took his seat at
the table. But the tea had a wishy
washy taste, the butter-dish was
smeared and untidy, and the apple
sauce was insipid and flavorless. The
biscuits were light and puffy this time
for Miss Catherine had made them her
self.
Lysander had a good disposition
but unpalatable food will disorder the
best-regulated liver and upset the tem
per of an angel, and Miss Catherine
soon discovered a fresh wrinkle over
her brother's nose.
One morning, Lysander strode into
the kitchen, where his sister was mix
ing light bread—for she could not
trust it to Olympia, who had already
spoiled two batches, which had to be
thrown to the pigs.
"Catherine," whispered Lysander,
hurriedly, "the minister's folks are
coming up the lane! Of course they'll
spend the day, and do, prav, Catherine,
cook the dinner yourself! Don't let
us be disgraced in their eyes!"
Miss Catherine saw her opportunity
and seized it
"Cook the dinner myself! Dear
me, Lysander, how kin IV" she asked.
"We must have turkey, of course, and
mashed potatoes, and pumpkin pies
and a steamed batter-pudding, with
lemon-sauce, and cabbage-salad! Be
sides, who will entertain the visitors
while I'm in the kitchen? Olympia?
"Olympia? Pshaw! She can't do
anything but giggle!" growled Lysan
der, savagely, much to his sister's
amusement.
"I'll tell you what Lysander," said
Miss Catherine, reflectively, "I must
have same help, and if you'll just
saddle the mare and lead her around
for Huldah Rush, I'm sure she'll
come."
And Lysander hlistened to do his
sister's bidding.
Dinner was on the table at precisely
twelve o'clock, and the Rev. Mr. Shep
herd and his family testified to the ex,
cellence of the richly-browned turkey,
juicy and unctious, the mashed pota
toes and gravy, the golden-hned pies,
and the yellow-batter pudding, with its
rich sauce- to say nothing of light,
ilakv rolls and fresh butter.
And when, after dinner, Lysander
stepped into the dining-room lor a
pitcher of water, lie could not help
observing the contrast between Hul
dah's sat in-smooth braids and snowy
neck ruffle, and Olympiad tawny rite
bons and browzv hair.
"Olympia," s;iid Miss Catherine, a
couple of weeks later, as she took a
folded paper from the bureau draw,
"here's a present I've got for von—a
new dress! It's basket cloth. And
there's some blue trimmings and silk
buttons for you. And and, Olyrupia,
1 shan't need you any louger, for my
brother is going to be married to-mor
row to Miss lluldah llusb, and she's a
powerful gnxl housekeeper you
know.
"Just what 1 thought," said Mrs.
Jones, when her daughter appeared
with her bundle of clothes. "You
alius was lazy and slovenly, an' alius
will be, I reckon."
••I'm sorry 1 went there now,"
grumbled Olympia. "It's all that
plagued old maid's fault, 1 know!"
And it was Miss Catherine's man
agement that saver! her brother from
that snare; but he never suspected it
of course. Ueh n W. c lark.
How to Obtain Government Land.
There are four principal methods of
acquiring land from the United states
government, namely, homesteading,
pre-emption, tree-culture and purchase.
The timber-culture act is liberal in
its provisions. Under it any person
may get a farm of 160 acres or less,
lie may do this, and also acquire title
to another 160 acres, under the home
stead or pre-emption law, but lie cannot
make use of both the homestead and
pre-emption methods, except in the
territories, nor can he use either of
those methods twice. If the tree-claim
contains the maximum entry of 160
acres, at least five acres must be plowed
within one year from date of entry; the
second year live acres must be culti
vated and another five acres plowed;
the third year the first five acres must
be planted in timber, seeds or cuttings,
and the second five acres cultivated;
the fourth year tfie second five acres
must be planted in timber, seeds or cut
tings, making at the end of the fourth
year ten acres thus planted. These
must be carefully cultivated and pro
tected for four years more, at the end
of which time, on making due proof
that at least 2700 trees were planted
upon each acre, and at the time of mak
ing proof at least 675 thrifty trees are
growing upon each acre, a patent for
the land may be obtained. Perfect
good faith must be observed. If the
trees, or any of them, are destroyed
one year they must bo replanted the
next. If grasshoppers or drouth de
stroy the trees, seeds or cuttings, for
one year or a term of years, the time
for planting is extended one year for
every year that they are so destroyed.
The land office fee for entry of 160
acres is sl4. Only western prairie or
treeless lands may be taken by this
method. The trees planted must be
those properly called timber trees, and
among these the cottonwood is recog"
nb.ed.
Origin of Ensilage.
Mr. L. B Muirhead, of Kilcreggan
writing to the North British Agricul
turalist upon the origin and practice
of ensilage says: ".Sauerkraut! Yes,
that's it. What is good for man is
good for beast. I'll try it anyhow.
So thought an old German farmer one
wet season eighty years ago; only,
instead of cabbage he used grass,
clover and vetches, omitted the pepper
corns, and used a pit in the ground in
stead of the family barrel or crook (ir
dene hagen). Some years after such
wcrds as 'salzfutter' (salted fodder),
'sauer-futter' (pickled fodder), and
'vieh-sost' (cattle salad), might be
heard among the farmers of Germany
and East I'russia, where the practice
first obtained a hold, thereafter being
carried by emigrants to America, and
gradually finding its way among the
Dutch and French nearer home.
About 1850 it came into notice in Scot
land. The ltev. John M. Wilson, at
that time an authority on things agri
cultural, gave so full an account of it
as to be well worthy reproduction."
Mr. Muirhead quotes the lengthy de
scription which answers to the method
of curing grasses now known as ensil
age. lief erring to Mr. Sola's recent
note on the word ensilage in the Illus
trated Neu % s, Mr. Muirhead says: "It
seems to be an Americanism, probably
a corruption of the German 'enisalzen/
to pickle, or the Spanish 'ensalada'
salted, from which the English word
salad is derived. Possibly salad pit for
the receptacle, pickling for the process,
and cow salad for fodder would be
more satisfactory."
MILLHEIM, PA., THURSDAY, MAY 24, 1883.
ftlntl.ilti of Kutrldc in Ihe Tutted States.
Germany, it is said, is Incoming se
riously alarmed at the constant increase
of suicides among all classes of her
population. In Berlin hardly a day
passes without one or more. With us
in the United States popular attention
is not so much directed to the subject,
lirgely, no doubt, liecause owing to
the incompleteness of our methods of
gathering and tabulating vital statis
tics, the subject is not brought before
us with such startling distinctness.
Hut it may well be asked whether
suicide is not increasing here, too, in a
way to justify the most secret appre
hension.
The New York Chronicle , for two
years past, has kept a record of suicides
*n the United States compiled from
the columns of the newspapers. These
data are necessarily very imperfect,
but they serve to give an idea of the
extent to which self-murder is resort
ed to in this country and of the rapidi
ty of its increase. For the year end
ing March, 1882, 817 suicides are re
corded, while for the eleven months
ending with February, 1888, there are
1606, an increase of nearly one hundred
per cent. The greatest number took
place in the summer months, 514; the
smallest in the winter, 280. This ac
cords with the view of Dr. John G.
Lee, coroner's physician of Philadel
phia, who explains the frequency of
suicide in tho spring and summer
months, by reference to the tluctiur
tions of the thermometer and barome
ter. As between tho sexes, nearly
four times as many men as women
committed suicide, the proportion
being 1217 to 849.
In point of nationality the lead is
taken by Americans with 603, Ger
mans coming next with 482, then
English with 142 and Irish with 127.
As to occupations one is surprised to
find that farmers are largely in the ma
jority, no less than 205 of them having
of their own accord shuttled off this
mortal coil, while the next greatest
number, that of merchants, foots up
only 80. Of journalists it is agreeable
to observe there are only four.
Married life seems to conduce to self
destruction, there being in the list 476
husbands and 178 wives as opposed to
296 bachelors and 121 maids. Ages
ranged from ten years to ninety-three,
the largest number, 165, coming
between twenty and thirty. Family
troubles head the list of causes, follow
ed by sickness, with 158; insanity 156,
dissipation 131. and business troubles
127. Other reasons assigned are of the
most whimsical nature. A North
Carolinian committed suicide because
his mule died, and an lllinoisian
because lie had lost his best boy and
his best cow*. A susceptible youth
drowned himself because his sweet
heart jilted him in poetry. Hut per
haps the most inconsequent ease of all
was that of the New Yorker who took
his life because he had a mortal fear of
death.
The methods employed show no less
diversity, though shooting seems to
have had the preference, being employ
ed in 484 cases, poisoning in 372,
hanging in 207, and drowning in 151.
The pistol was usually selected by
Americans and poison by Frenchmen.
One man took his departure by jump
ing into a furnace, and one cheerful
Californian blew himself to pieces
with giant powder. The largest pro
portion of suicides is accredited to Col
orado, where the ratio is one in 8000,
and the smallest to Mississippi, where
it is one in 380,000. The average of
suicides throughout the southern
states is small, owing, it is said, to the
large colored population with whom
self-murder is infrequent. In New
York one in every 36,000 committed
felo de se. Tho rate for the entire
country is 32 per 1,00(1,000, according
to the figures here cited, though in all
probability, it is really far greater.
At all events it is great enough to
cause serious concern to the philan
thropist and the legislator.
Arrangement of Booms.
Give your apartments expression,
character. Booms which mean noth.
Ing are cheerless, indeed. Study light
and shade, and the combination and
arrangement of drapery, furniture and
pictures. Allow nothing to look iso
lated, but let everything present the
air of sociability. Observe a room im
mediately after a number of people
have left it, and then, as you arrange
the furniture, disturb as little as possi
ble the relative positions of the chairs,
)ttomans and sofas. Place two or
"hree chairs in a conversational atti
tude in some cheery corner, an otto
man within easy distance of a sofa, a
•hair near your stand of stereoscopic
dews or engravings, and one where a
jood light will fall on the book which
mu may reach from the table near,
dake little studies of effect which
hall repay the more than usual ©b
A PAPER FOR THE HOME CIRCLE.
HEIA' MURDER
server, ami do not leave it possible for
one to make the criticism which ap
plies to many homes, even of wealth
find elegance, "Fine carpets, handsome
drapery, a few pictures, and elegant
furniture, but how dreary!" The
chilling atmosphere is felt at once, and
we cannot divest ourselves of the idea
that we must maintain a stiff and se
vere demeanor, to accord with the
spirit of the place. Make your homes,
then, so easy and cheerful that, if we
visit you, we may be joyous and unre
strained, and not feel ourselves out of
harmony with our surroundings.—[Art
Review,
Learning to Swim.
The greatest difficulty to the
beginner is to learn to keep the proper
position of the body after attaining it
This difficulty can onfy be overcome by
using the proper stroke after having
placed the body in the correct position.
In the use of the arms, the only
direction that can be given is to re
member that, when the arms are
thrust forward at the beginning of the
stroke, such positions of the elbows
and hands should be taken as will
make the least resistance to the water.
To accomplish this, the hands should
be placed palm to palm, and the elbows
made to come quite close together,
starting them from under the chest.
In making the effective part of the
stroke, our object is to get a forward
motion only. The arms' and hands
should be so placed as to produce the
greatest resistance upon the water.
To accomplish this, the palms of the
hands should be thrown outward, and
the plane of the direction of the stroke
of the arms made parallel to the sur
face of the water.
The most important and the most
often defective pdint in swimming is
the mode of using the legs. It would
be well for a begiiwier to observe the
swimming of a frt|g. for undoubtedly
the same method of using the legs
should be adopted by man as is display
ed in the model swinfcning of that am
phibian.
In analyzing the stroke of the frog,
we notice that there is no vertical
motion; the whole direction of tho
lorce is in a plane exactly horizontab
and is accomplished by virtually open
ing and closing the space between the
knees—offering the sole of the foot as
a resistance while kicking, and placing
the feet in a position of least resistance
while recovering.
In accomplishing the first of these
conditions—the opening and the clos
ing of the space between the knees—
the knees should be thrown out, and
the contraction of the legs made slow
ly, in order to cause as little resistance
as possible to the headway already
attained.
It will be l'ouml that, if we alternate
the stroke of the arms and legs by
giving propulsion with one while re
covering with the other, a more con
stant buoyancy will be attained, and.
for long swims, it will be found far less
fatiguing.— Popular Science Monthly.
Knowledge in a Nut-Shell.
A cubit is two feet.
A pace is three feet.
A fathom is six feet.
A palm is three inches.
A league is three miles.
There are 2750 languages.
A great cubit is eleven feet.
Two persons die every second.
Bran, twenty pounds per bushel.
Sound moves 743 miles per hour.
A square mile contains 640 acres.
A barrel of ice contains 600 pounds-
Slow rivers flow live miles per hour.
A barrel of pork weighs 200 pounds.
A barrel of flour weighs 106 pounds-
An acre contains 4840 square yards.
Oats, thirty-three pounds per bushel.
Barley, forty-eight pounds per bushel-
A lirkiu of butter weighs 56 pounds.
A hand (horse measure) is four
inches.
A span is ten and seven-eighth
inches.
A rifle ball moves 1000 miles per
hour.
A storm blows thirty-six miles per
hour.
A rapid river flows seven miles per
hour.
Buckwheat, fifty-two pounds per
bushel.
Electricity moves 228,000 miles per
hour.
A hurricane moves eighty miles per
hour.
Coarse salt, eighty-live pounds per
bushel.
A tub of butter weighs eighty-four
pounds.
The average human life is thirty-one
years.
Timothy seed, forty-five pounds per
bushel.
The first steamboat plied the Hudson
in 1807.
The first horse railroad was built in
1826-'27.
A day's journey is thirty-three and
one-eighth miles.
Terms, SIOO Per Year in Advance.
NITRO-GLYt'ERINE-
Icni? Singular Storle* Concerning
Tremendous .Explosive Force.
A gentleman well acquainted with
; the properties of nitro-glycerine says of
! this terrible explosive:
"1 have had a good deal to do with
| nitro-glycerine. J did some important
i government work, such us the making
of breakwaters, where the rock was
brought to me in large pieces, and we
had to blow it up, and used nitro-gly
cerine for that purpose. It is the mott
destructive thing you can conceive of.
! A little cartridge of it as thick as the
end of a musket barrel dropped to the
bottom of un oil well will shatter the
; most tremendous primitive rock. You
can take a piece of it half as big as your
htuid, and it will blow a rock as big as
S this room in which we are sitting all
]to flinders. 1 can tell you of a very
singular property about nitro-glycer
ine. On one occasion an ordinance
j was passed in a ceriain city where I
i was doing public work, imposing a
penalty of SSOO for bringing nitro-gly
; cerine within the city limits. I had to
i have it, so I told my foreman to put
that glycerine under my table, at which
I sat writing. As it is exploded by
concussion, you may imagine that for
• a few days I was a little skittish.
There was enough glycerine there con
cealed by that tablecloth to have blown
up half a dozen blocks of that city
* * f
People used to come into my room, sit
a few minutes and suddenly one or
more would put their hands to their
head and complain of headache. Not
being subject to headaches myself, I
could not understand it. 1 suppose
that from one-half to three-fourths of
all my visitors who sat with me more
than ten minutes would have those
headaches. One day a man came into
my office who had been blowing out
oil-wells in Pennsylvania. He sat
there fifteen minutes and suddenly
said, 'Why, I have a headache; yon
must have nitro-glycerine here.' *Oh.
no,' said I, with a smile. 'Yes,' said
he, 'this is a nitro glycerine headache-
I think I smell it, too.' He began to
sniff his nose. There is a very slight
odor, hardly perceptible, in the stuff,
aud it looks like a box of lard. With
this my visitor lifted the tablecloth
and said, 'Have you got it therer*
pointing to the boxes. 'Yes,' said J,
with a laugh, 'that is nitro-glycerine.'
'Well,' said he, 'it gives the headache
to a large proportion of people who sit
near it.' "
"Did you have anv accidents?" said
L
"No, I did not; but a fellow con
tractor, who was doing some work in
Canada,was driven out of that country
by an accident that happened to him
in a very simple way. He had been
using nitro-glycerine, and it is suppos
ed that some of it got spilled on the
tire of a wagon, which was left un
moved for some time. One day he
t
hitched a horse to the wagon and start
ed to drive it off, and then that small
amount of stuff adhering to the tire
blew up and really destroyed two
thirds of that little town. The people
around were killed, the hotel was
blown to pieces, two or three blocks
were devastated, and my associate was
i unable to do any contracting work in
i Canada. He hastily sold what he lell
1 there to a native, and crossed the river
l and came away, otherwise they would
l have sued him for all the damage done
to that to—n."
Shooting a Zebra
I had sighted a herd feeding and
coming toward me. These were the
first I had seen so very close, and more
beautiful, sleek, well-groomed looking
animals 1 never saw. It seemed
almost a pity to lay them low with the
bullet. The big stallion of the troop
| was coming tow ard me. I fired, he
threw up bis head and I missed; and
away they all went hclter skelter ?
clattering over the stony ground. I
jumped on the mare and galloped after
them as hard as I could go, then off
again, and as they were disappearing I
managed to hit the stallion behind.
On again, loading as I galloped; after
about six or seven minutes sighted
them again. The stallion by this time
was in the rear and bleeding. He
looked as if he were going to give in.
However, #fter pressing him a little
time, I closed up to him, and then at
that moment a mare darted out from
the herd and tried to make him return;
but the pace was too good and he left
and gradually edged away from the
troop. We were now going as hard
as ever we could. I got close up to
him, and placing the gun between the
ears of my mare fired. lie staggered;
I fired again, and he rolled over and
turned a complete somersault, landing
on his back, all his four legs quivering
in the air. The mare had to stop sud
denly short and throw herself back on
her haunohes, or she would have been
on the top of him. It was a most ex
citing gallop. The animal was quite
dead.— London Field.
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Hope and Despair.
All upon a summer sea
Sailing in an aigofy —.
Itelrtjcp, lutes and viols sounding,
While the ship o'er wavelets bounding.
Skims the surface of the sea.
•
All the masta are wreathed with
Jessamine and eglantine;
White lilies—ll ddoat roses
btrew the deck in scented posies,
And the cordage is a vine.
Sunlight gleams in golden meshes,
Wreaks the loam ui j>early tresses,
Through the intcilaco of flowers
Wreaks the loam in silver shower*
Ail adown the golden meshes.
• • * • •
Stealing down a gloomy river,
Where dull water grasses quiver,
From a bark come sounds of sorrow,
Never ccadng with the morrow-
Mournful bark upon the river.
Cypress, rosemary and rue,
Brunches from the somber yew,
On the deck are withered lying
While the night breeze sadly sighing,
Wafts the odor of the rue.
Sullen clouds obscure the moon,
Darkness cometh all 100 soon!
Black the clouds and black tbe river,
Black the bark and oh, the shiver
! As it sinks beneath the moon!
PUMGEST PARAGRAPHS.
A sound education can only be ob
tained from a music master.
"Come around next stewsday," said
j the hotel cook to the oysterman.
It is not exactly polite to refer to a
deceased person as your warm friend.
A Western man claims to have bur
ied twenty wives. lie is a grave-dig
ger, and they were not his own.
A rather cynical lady, somewhat of
afliit, says most men, like colds, are
very easily caught, difficult to get rid
I of.
A professor is lecturing on "After
Man-What V" We are not good on
conundrums and give it up, unless it
is his coat-tails.
When a woman chases a tramp out
of the back yard with a kettle of boil
ing water in her hand, can you speak
of her as being in hot pursuit!
The waiter inferred that the guest
had taken a little something before
supper from the mere fact of his or
dering "tied fraters and chork pops."
A man has invented a chair that can
be adjusted in 800 different positions,
and yet a man who suspected his wife
was going to ask him. about where he
was the night before, couldn't get into
; a position in that chair which seemed
comfortable. •
Conjugal affection depends largely
upon mutual confidence. "I make it
: a rule to tell my wife everything that
happens. In this w ay, we avoid any
i misunderstanding," said a wiseacre to
' a friend. Not to be outdone in gener
osity, the good friend replied: "Weli
sir, you are not so open and frank as 1
! aui, for 1 tell my wife a great many
| things that never happen."
An Astrologer Dead.
Andrew Jaquith, who died at the
St. James Hotel, Washington, D. C T
recently, was better known as Prof.
George Greggs, tkoastrologist. He had
an office where he received visits daily
from numbers of persons who sought
to know from hiiii something of the
future. Mr. Jaquith for a short time
was a dry-goods clerk in Boston, but
.from a child he had taken an interest
in what he called the "science of as
trology," and after having read much
! on the subject, he set h mself up about
eight or ten years ago as a "professor."
His reputation quickly grew, and he
made money. Tn 1878 he came to New
York and opened an office with even
greater success. Not only was he vis
ited by women and men who might be
expected to be credulous, but among
his patrons were bankers and brokers
and professional men, who sought his
assistance in their speculations. Some
of them are said to have paid him a
regular weekly salary and to have vis
ited him every day. His friends tell
wonderful stories of his predictions, one
of them having been, it is said, the as
sassination of Garliekl. The estimates
placed upon the value of his practice
vary, but SSO a day is considered not
extravagant, as his clients extended
throughout this country and parts of
England. He is said to have cast
20,000 horoscopes. For the past two
years Mr. Jaquith was in poor health,
and he told his friends that he .could
not possibly live until 1884. He went
to Washington some three weeks ago
and died of consumption
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Professor Thurston, of the Steven's
institute of technology at Hoboken,
laughs at the idea, recently promulgat
ed, that the obelisk in Central park is
a concrete structure which can be
easily reproduced in native materials-
He had a piece of its companion, the
Thames embankment obelisk, which
consists of silex, mica and beautiful
crystals of cethoclase feldspar—in fact,
t superior quantity of granite.