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New Tear's, Eye.
The old year's almost gone,
Sweetheart,
He will not see the dawn 5
The wind's weird orr thro the woodland creeps,
The patient earth in th' darkness sleeps;
Only the glow of onr hearth fire's l'ght—
Brightens the mirk o' the dreary night—
The old year's almost gone.
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Mneh hare we lost in the year,
Sweetheart,
Treasures precious and dear;
There were kindly deeds that we might have
done,
There were gentle hearts that v. e Aeft nnwon;
And fields where might hare growu giain of
worth
!Lie fallow under the troaen tnrf;
Much bare we lost in the year!
Whet have we won in the year,
Sweetheart,
Rich guerdon our hearts to chrer T
With p:iin was the pearl of patience boujSht.
Has failure clearer insight wrought?
Has earnest striving for noble ends
Gained ns the strength high purpose lends?
What have we won in the year?
What have we learned In the year.
Sweetheart,
Soul troth eternal and cU ar ?
That hoarded gold shall be reft, with pain,
That what we gave, alone in gain ;
That the kindly heart and the open hand
Are greater riches than house and land ?
What hare we learned in the year ?
The New Tear dnwneth clear,
Sweetheart.
Heaven rest the Oid Teat's bier !
Duller and duller the embers glow.
Deeper and brighter your d< ar eyes grow ;
Pray, love, for the weul of our ingle fair,
For the strength to do and tho grace to bear—
For love, than life more dear.
—.Mrs. E. M. Qilson.
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RECEIVING CALLS.
"I am sixteen," said Alexia Ardell,
resolutely, "and I was put into long
dresses last month, and I've a right to
come down into the parlor and see
company on New Year's day ! And I
am sure that papa would let me, if he
was here, and I will 1"
Alexia stood in the middle of the
floor, with her fluffy g* lden hair falling
over her eves, her cheeks glowing a
mild pink, and her whole personells
indicative of resolve and determina
tion in the extremest degree.
Mrs. Arclcll looked at her in despair
T!.e two Misses Scarlett, her daughters
by a former marriage, and Alexia's
net particularly beloved step-sisters,
sat as stiff and prim as two carved
marble images. "Alexia's temper" was
proverbial in the family, and these
very proper and precisely behaved
young women were wont to affect the
rr- at est dismay at its vehement gusts.
"Alexia," said Airs. Ardell solemnly,
'in your dear papa's absence it is my
doty to enforce his precepts, and ear
ly out his discipline. You are a great
dral too young to receive visitors on
> ew Year's Hay, like Yerena and Er
mengarde. You are to go back to
boarding-school to-morrow."
"But!" cried Alexia, in dismay, "my
holidays do not expire until Wednes
day."
"That is very true," said Mrs. Ar
r-ell, compressing her thin lips to a
mere slit; consequently, you can see
bow far you have abridged your own
period of recreation by your ungov
ernable will."
Alexia, forgetting all about the six
teen years, and the long dresses, burst
into loud weeping.
"Fray, Alexia, don't be so silly," said
Verena
"One would think," tartly spoke up
Ermengarde, "that you were a child
of ten years old. Of course, it Is all
for your own good—"
"Aly own fiddlesticks 1" irreverently
Interrupted Alexia, as she fled from the
apartment in floods of undignified
tears.
But numbers are certain to conquer,
in the long run ; and so Judge Ar
dell's daughter was packed remorsely
off to boarding school, and Mrs. Ar
dell's two girls returned to their con"
sulfations with the dressmaker for the
grand gala-day of the year.
Verena, a pallid blonde, with cold,
watery-blue eyes, and colorless flaxen
hair, was to wear blue damask, em
broidered around the skirt in palm
leaves of seed pearls.
Ermengarde, who had a little more
bloom, and ventured to call herself a
brunette, had chosen pink satin, with
cloudlike draperies of black lace ; while
the matron herself, no bad exemplifi
cation of the poet's idea of "fat, fair
and forty," was to wear ruby velvet,
riehly trimmed with point aplique lace
and a diamond cross, which, in the ab
sence of her husband, she had hired
from an accommodating jeweler for the
occasion.
While Alexia—poor, heart-broken
child, —was sent ruthlessly to the de
pot, where Miss Gardiner, the govern
ess, was telegraphed to meet her.
But Miss Gardiner, as it chanced,
did not receive the message in time, and
was not there ; and Mr. Herbert Hel
ulh n wax there!
Alexia knew him very well. !She
bad seen him once at her stepmother's,
lie owned a brown stone house, front-
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ing on the Central Park, and a place
near Lake George, called Ilelullyn Ilall.
He drove a pair of superb, high-step
ping horses, and owned a privato pic
ture-gallery; and Ermengarde Scarlett
had selected him as the special target
for the arrows of her hazel eyes, this
season.
Air. Helullvn recognized Alexia at
once.
"Miss Scarlett's little sister, isn't it?"
said he.
Alexia furtively whisked away her
tears, and answered:
"Yes."
"Is anything the matter ?" said Air.
Helullvn. "Can Ibe of service ? Prnv
command me, if—"
"If you could please take me home!"
said eager Alexia. "Very slyly indeed,
mind !—because l'v e been sent back to
boarding-school before the holidays are
out, just because Yerena, Ermengarde,
and mamma consider me too little to
see company on New Year's day."
"This is serious trouble indeed 1"
said Mr. Ilelullyn, laughing.
"Oh, it is, indeed 1" sighed Alexia. "I
am sixteen, you know, and I should so
like to be a young lady, like Verena
and Ermengarde! but you see," re
turning to the subject. "Miss Gardiner
is not here to receive me, and if you
would please take me back in your
carriage, 1 would creep in by the area
gate, and perhaps—perhaps, I shall be
'at home' on New Year's day, after
all—But," her large, dark eyes sudden
ly blazing into indignation, "you are
laughing at me!"
"Not laughing at you, Miss Ardell,"
he hastened to explain—"only with
vou 1"
"Mias Ardell!"
Alexia's heart leaped at this delic
ious tribute to her young ladyhood.
She felt prouder still when Mr. Helullvn
helped her into his carriage and they
drove away.
"Leave me at the corner of the
street, please," said Alexia. "It would
never do for mamma and the girls to
see me in your carriage ! And Ermen
garde would be so vexed !"
And so the little wild gipsy stole in at
the area-gate; and bribed the cook with
a kiss and a string of amber beads, not
to betxay her surreptitious re-entrance
into the family circle, while Mr. Ile
lullyn went home to wonder what there
was so facinating in Alexia Ardell's
round, dimpled face and liquid, dark
ayes.
"A child indeed !" he said to him
self. "She is a woman, and a danger
ously lovely woman, too—only she
doesn't know it! Eyes like pools of
deep garnet brown ; hair all glistening
like tangles of sunshine. Little Alex
ia, if you could only see yourself as
others see you, you might be tempted
to be vain !. 1 shall make a point of
calling at Judge Ardell's house on
New Year's day, and if Aiiss Alexia is
not there, I shall certainiv inquire for
her !"
The pink satin dress vindicated Aime.
Chaussa's fame as an artistic dress
maker ; the blue damask came home in
time to be tried on and pronounced
"perfect," on Saturday night ; and on
Monday, the Alise s Scarlett dressed
themselves with judicious care, and
many lavings with rose water and
cautious applications <>f pearl-cream
and blush-pink.
The drawing-rooms, decorated with
hot-house flowers, and illuminated, not
with vulgar gas, but with the white
lustre of many wax candles in myriad
branched candelabra, had been person
ally inspected by Mrs. Ardell before
she went to make her toilet, and the
little room at the back, where the
judge ordinarily kept his boots, and
overcoats, and Turkish pipes, had been
transformed into a smilax-garlanded
bower, where faint lights glowed
through shades of Nile-green glass, and
the most elegant and {esthetic refresh
ments weie arranged in deisonne en
amelled ware, trays of repoussee silver,
and baskets of Dresden China.
And, just at the time when Ermen
garde was saying to her sister "How
do I look, dear ?" and Verena was
twisting herself into the shape of a
letter S, to see the back of her false
pugs and plaitings in the mirror, little
Alexia was enthusiastically tossing
about the contents of an old cedar
chest in the store-room, which con
tained the long forgotten wardrobe of
the first Mrs. Judge Ardell.
"Oh," she cried, this is beautiful !"
and she unfolded a scented robe of
long China crape, crimped like the
shingly bars of the finest sea-sand, and
embroidered in fantastic figures of
scarlet silk. "I'll wear this. "
"But it's so odd and old-fashioned,
miss," said Louisa, the maid.
"That is the very charm of it!" pro
nounced Alexia "Oh, do make baste,
Louisa, with my hair ! Are you sure
you can do it like the plate in the fash
ion book 1"
Mrs. Ardell was arranging the folds
of the point lace over her shoulders,
when Miss Y ra la rushed up stairs.
"Mamma, Ermengarde!" she cried,
"who is the lady down stairs
MILLIIEIM, l'A., THURSDAY,DECEMBER 20, 1883.
"The lady down stairs !* repeated
both mother and daughter in amaze
ment*
"Receiving Mr. Ilelullyn in our
drawing-room Y cried breathless Ye
rena. "In the loveliest dead-white
dress, brocaded ia scarlet silk, and long
golden hair braided with antique Ro
man pearls."
"My dear," said Mrs. Ardell, "you
must be crazy J"
And botfl aiid Ermengarde hur
ried down stairs, just in time to see
the beautiful young intruder courtesy
a gracious greeting to two of the jwu
nesso doree of Now York.
"Ah !" said Alexia, with the utmost
self-possession, "hero is mamma now,
and my sisters. Don't move, Mr. He
lnllyn," site added in a lower tone,
"I'm quite safe now. Mamma won't
dare to scold me before company."
And Mrs. Ardell and the Misses Scar
lett. were farced to digest their rago
and mortification as best they could.
For Alexia outshone them as a real,
crimson-heart AI rose outshines the mil
liner's false presentiment -as the dia
araond outshines the wretched paste
ornament—and they knew it but too
well.
But success excuses everything, and
Mrs. Ardell could, not but perceive that
the quaint young beauty, in the an
tique dress, was suc
cess.
"Alexia," she cried, when there was
a temporary lull in the stream of call
ers, how dared you play us such a
trick ?"
"I did it for fun, mamma," said Al
exia. "And if you scold me, 1 shall
tell Mr. Ilelullyn. It was he that
brought me back from the depot, and
he is my friend. "
"I never heard nnvthing so insolent
in my life !" cried Ermengarde Scar
lett, turning pale with anger.
"She ought to be locked up for a
week on bread and water," said Ye
rena, passionately.
But Alexia only aflched her eyebrows
and smiled.
During that New Year's day the
child had bloomed out into a woman.
Alexia had discovered her own talis
man of power.
They could none of them ever scold
or tyrannise over her again. She had
no more fears of being sent back to
boarding-school.
But Aiiss Ermengarde Scarlett could
hardly conoeal her sjiite the next day
when Mr. Helullvn came to ask Al
exia out to drive, nor when bouquets
with cards attached, kept arriving for
Alexia.
"Mamma," she said, "what Is to bi
done ?"
"Nothing, that I can see," said Airs.
Ardell, drily. "The child can't help
being a beauty, I suppose."
"She will have to go everywhere
with us now," said Yerena, plaintively.
"1 tried my best to keep her back,"
sighed Mrs. Ardell; but she has pre
cipitated herself into society."
And pretty Alexia Ardell reigned
the belle of the season, and in the spring
Mr. Helnllyn asked her father for her
hand in marriage. The judge, honest
man, stared in amazement.
"I—l thought it was Ermengarde
you fancied !" said he. "I knew she
liked yon I"
"I am too much honored," said Mr.
Helnllyn, without changing a feature;
"but 1 have never aspired to that hon
or. It's Alexia, and Alexia only, that
I love 1"
"Oh 1" said the judge. "Well, suit
yourself—suit yourself!"
And so before she was quite seven
teen, Alexia Ardell was married, and
Ermengarde and Verena had the draw
ing-room all to themselves upon the
next New Year' day.
But they were not satisfied, after all.
Pome people never are satisfied.
Biting Horses.
A foreign journal avers that horses
ae successfully cured of this vice by
putting a piece of hard wood, an inch
and a half square, in the animal's
mouth, about the same length as an
ordinary snaflle bit. It may bo fast
ened by a thong of leather passed
through two holes in the ends of the
wood, and secured to the bridle. It
must be used in addition to the bit, but
in no way to impede the working of
the bit. Harey adopted the plan with
the zebra in the Zoo, which was a terri
ble brute at biting. Mr Rarey suc
ceeded, however, in taming and train -
ing him to * harness, and drove him
through the streets of London. Ani -
mals with this vice should be treated
kindly in the stable and not abused
with pitehfolk handles, whips, etc.
An apple, crust of bread, a piece of
beef, etc, and a kind pat, but firm,
watchful hand and eye, with the use
of the above wooden bit, will cure the
most inveterate biter. The fact that
he cannot shut his mouth or grip any
thing soon dawns upon him, and then
ho is conquered.
Thirty-eight different nationalities
are ruled by the czar of Russia.
A PAPcR FOR THE HOME CIRCLE.
CHILDREN'S COLUMN.
A Blossom Lost.
Oh, tell me, have you seen her,
My cunning, bright-eye I pet?
She ran away this morning;
I haven't found her yet.
I've called, and kept on oalllngt
She doesn't oome to me.
My darling little Blossom;
Oh, dear, where can she be?
You'll know her if yon see her,
Her hair's so soft and fine;
She's not a common kitten,
That little oat of mine.
Hark, now! 1 thought I heard her;
Why, there she is, you see!
You naughty, naughty kitten!
Come right straight hereto mel
Little Hum
Hum was a dear little humming
bird. Grandma found him one cold,
wet morning under the grape-vine by
the back porch. She brought him into
the warm sitting-room and gave him
some hot milk to drink.
Soon he opened his little bright eyes
and looked around, but he did not stir,
lie lay in grandma's hand as if dead>
and soon she put him in the bay
window among the flowers.
Then ho came to life pretty quick, I
can tell you. Alay put some sweet
ened water in a saucer under the big
geranium, and he soon began to sip it
just as be got the honey out of the
bright flowers—darting his little
tongue in and out so quickly we could
hardly see it.
He soon learned that we were his
friends, and was as happy as could be,
flitting about among grandma's flow
ers in the sunny window.
All through the cold winter he lived
there, and amused us with Lis quaint
little ways; but when spring came he
grew uneasy, and one day, when a
beautiful little green-and-gold hum
ming bird was flitting about in the
garden, we let him go free and they
went away together.
He liked the free life the best, for
we never saw him again, although we
watched among the flowers in the gar
den all through the long summer days.
•1 Cau and Will."
A writer in the Evangelist tells of a
boy who was wise enough to decline
the assistance which would have weak
ened him mentally and injured his
self-reliance. The story, which con
veys its moral, is as follows:
1 know a bov who was prepared to
enter the junior class of the New York
University. lie was studying trigo
nometry, and I gave him three exam
ples for his next lesson.
The following day he came into my
room to demonstrate his problems.
Two of them lie understood, but the
third—a very difficult one—he had not
performed. 1 said to him, "Shall I
help you?"
"No, sir! I can and will do it if you
give me time."
1 said, "I will give you all the time
you wish."
The next day he came into my room
to recite a lesson in the same study.
"Well, Simon, have you worked that
example?"
"No, sir," he answered; "but 1 can
and will do it, if you give me a little
more time."
"Certainly, you shall have ail the
time you desire."
1 always like these boys who are
determined to do their own work, for
they make our best scholars, and
men too. The third morning you
should have seen Simon enter my
room. I knew he had it, for his whole
face told the story of his success.
Yes, he had it, notwithstanding it
had cost him many hours of the sever
est mental labor.
Not only had he solved the problem,
but, what was of infinitely greater
importance to him, ho had begun to
develop mathematical powers, which f
under the inspiration of "I can and
will," lie lias continued to cultivate,
until to-day be is professor of mathe
matics in one of our largest colleges,
and one of the ablest mathematicians
of his years in our country.
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Millions for Defense.
An lowa paper is responsible for the
following, which evidently refers to
the Rev. 0. ('lute, of lowa City. He
must have been troubled with chick
en thieves last summer :
An lowa city clergyman has 153
hives of bees, which are arranged
around his hen house, and when he
hears a thief fooling round that estab
lishment in the darkness, he just lies
still and waits to hear a hive upset,
and then laughs at the sound of wild
yells gradually dying away in the dis
tance. — Practical Farmer.
Not Enough Line.
There are fish, scientific authorities
tell us, that live in the ocean, at a
depth of 2,000 feet below the surface.
There, we always knew there was some
reason why we never caught any fish.
We told the last skipper we fished with
that 800 feet of line wasn't enough.—
Hawkeye.
THE BPOOPEKDYKEB.
A ltnmpua ft n tar it About the Lou of a
Nwallnw-Tulled Coat.
"My dear," said Airs. Ppoopendyke,
backing away from her refreshment
table and regarding the effect with her
head very much on one side; "my
dear, what are you going to wear
when you make calls on now year's?"
"Clothes, I suppose, returned Mr.
Spoopendyke, looking up from his pa
per. "Why, has the fashion changed
recently about wearing clothes?" and
Mr. Spoopendyke regarded his wife
with an anxious look of inquiry.
"But you should wear your swallow
tail coat by all means," continued
Airs. Spoodendyke. "All the gentle
men wear swallowtail coats on new
year's day now.
"Well, If you think you are going to
strap me up in a two tined coat and
start me around this town looking like
the head waiter of a dollar-and-a-half
summer resort, you're just as badly left
as a one armed man at a church sup
per ! I may be dod gasted ass enough
to hop around to the various old hen
roosts, wishing the contents a happy
new year, but when you melt me into
a clothespin jacket it'll be when reason
no longer holds her seat in this dod
gasted brain !" with which application
of a trite quotation Air. Spoopendyke
settled himself back and contemplated
his wife with a lofty glance of supe
riority.
"Of course, if you don't want to,"
replied Mrs. Spoopendyke, soothingly,
"there won't be any great objection
raised to your business suit. Besides,
now that I think of it, the moths got
into your dress coat, and I don't think
it is fit to be seen," and she put a few
finishing touches on her table, and ad
mired it from another standpoint.
"Let's see it!" demanded Mr. Spoo
pendyke, springing from his chair and
making for his closet, closely followed
by his wife. "What's the matter with
it? What's the moth got to do with
it? Who put moths in it?" and Air.
Spoopendyke rummaged around and
tired his clothing in all directions in
his vain search for the particular gar
ment "Where is it?" he howled, scat
tering his wardrobe broadcast "Have
the measly moths eaten it :ill up?
Didn't they leave even a button hole?
Show me my coat! Bring out the
split in the tails I If there's nothing
else left, give me one last, fond glance
at the arm holes 1" and Air. Spoopen
dyke kicked his best trousers to the
ceiling, followed them with a vest,
which he supplemented with a pair of
boots. "Show me the great North
American moth fodder ! Fetch forth
unparalleled diet for the measly moth !
Are we a nation ?" yelled Air. Spoopen
dyke, jamming his thumb in the door
and hopping around the room with the
injured digit in his mouth. "Dod gast
the door 1" he howled, bringing it a
prodigious kick that bent his leg up
under him like a school girl's.
"Did you hurt yourself, dear?" asked
Mrs. Spoopendyke, dodging the flying
boots and clothing.
"Does it look BS if I'd hurt the door
any?" demanded Mr. Spoopendyke,
jamming his thumb in his armpit, and
bending double with the pain. "Does
that door give the impression of hav
ing smashed ihs thumb anywhere?
Why didn't the moths eat the door?
Iloist 'em out and give 'em a feed !"
And Mr. Spoopendyke taught the of
fending wicket by the knobs and
tugged until he was out of breath.
"Perhaps it isn't so bad after all,"
murmured Mrs. Spoopendyke, follow
ing him around the room in a fruitless
effort to catch up with him.
•Pr'haps it ain't !" roared Mr. Spoo
pendyke, holding his thumb out at
arms length. "Pr'aps you've got some
scheme for making it worse ! Oh, go
ahead 1 Don't mind me i Take the
thumb, friend, and do your worst 1"
And Mr. Spoopendyke dropped into
his chair and groaned with wrath.
"It's a good thing for this family that
I can control myself I" he howled. "If
I was like most men the lot on which
this house stands would be a good
place to build 1" with which solemn
prophecy Mr. Spoopendyke sprang to
his feet, kicked the chair into the ob
noxious closet and snorted aloud.
"I didn't mean your thumb, dear,"
explained Mrs. Spoopendyke. "I was
talking about the coat. May be the
coat isn't in such a bad condition as I
supposed it was at first."
"Think they left a pocket any
where?" inquired Mr. Spoopendyke,
with a grimace, half pain and half
anger. Or pr'aps you thing that since
the moths eat the coat I can wear the
moths! Bring them out! Hold
'em up while 1 climb into the sleeves !
That's your idea? That's the notion
that's been bothering you so long?"
"I don't know but what you can
wear the coat, anyway?" chirped Mrs.
Spoopendyke, loooking up cheerfully,
and opening the door of her closet,
where she had carefully hung the coat
after sponging it that very day. "You
oan look at it, anyhow," and she
Terms, SI.OO Per Year in Advance
brought It out, looking as new an J
fresh as when ho bought it."
"Then there's something you don't
know?'' he grumbled, eyeing his reju
venated garment with a critical eye.
"If all you don't know could only be
dumped in together, what an Idiot asy
lum it would make for some young
and growing territory. Taking you
all in all, you only want an air pump
and a glass side to be a dod gasted
vacuum. Gimme the coat," and Mr.
Spoopendyke grasped his garment, and
threw it over his wife's work basket
for safe keeping, and went to bed
wrapped in a cloud of growls.- Stan
ley Huntley.
Why January 1 Is New Year.
Every one knows that January 1 is
the beginning of the year, but not
every one knows why it is so. It
marks no natural division of time nor
any event in the world's history which
would give it Buch distinction. The
winter solstice—that is, the period
when the sun appears to reach its
greatest southern declension, or fur
thest point south of the equator, occurs
December 22, nine days before the new
year begins. The summer solstice,
another natural division of time,
occurs on June 22, a point nearly as
far removed from the new year as the
calendar permits. The natural divis
ions of time which suggest themselves
at once to the practical observer are
the winter and summer solstices and
the vernal and autumnal equinoxes,
periods at which the days anil nights
have equal length or their greatest
difference. These having been neglect
ed, the moon's phases would seem to
have been most likely to be fixed upon.
But imperial Ciesar, who in 46 B. C.
gave us our new year, governed by
caprice or reasons of the most tempo
rary duration, departed from the
former Boman system of reckoning the
year lrom the winter solstice and made
the commencement on January 1 for
no better reason than the desire to
inaugurate his reform with a new
moon.
The Cesarean system, devised by
the aid of Losigenes, constituted the
ordinary )ear of 365 days and the
j fourth or extraordinary year of 366.
The subdivision of the year into
months was similar to the present sys
tem. This division of time, though
imperfect, is still practiced in Russia.
| The error was in giving the year
365 1-4 days, which is too much by
about eleven minutes. Pope Gregory
XIII ordered October 5, 1582, to be
called the 15th, and that all centurial
years which are not multiples of 400
should not be leap years, which omis
sion of three leap years in every 400
years gives the civil year an average
length of 365 days, 5 hours, 49 minutes
and 12 seconds, which still exceeds tbe
true solar year by a fraction of a sec
' ond, which amounts to a day only in
| 3,866 years. The present, or Gregori
an, system is used by all Christendom,
except Russia. It was adopted by
England in 1752 and by France in
1564.
Prior to the reformation of the cal
endar by Julius Ca\sar, and many cen
turies afterward, the methods of divid
ing time were various, complicated and
imperfect. The moon was tho planet
which influenced and governed most
nations, and gave rise to universal
variance between the natural and civil
year. The religious feasts of the
Christian church are still regulated by
the moon. The Council of Nice pro
vided that Easter, the central point by
which all other days in the church cal
endar are fixed, should fall on the first
Sunday after the first full moon oc
curring on or after March 21. The
complex method of making these lunar
periods correspond with the civil year
is evidence enougti of the difficulty of
arranging any system for the computa
tion of time by the "inconstant moon."
Our week and month are not natural
divisions of time, though some in
genious efforts have been made to
trace some connection between natural
phenomena and the period of seven
days. •
Superstition About Hair.
The ideas of savages and of our
compatriots about the mysterious con
nection which is supposed to exist "be
tween the cut lock of hair and person
to whom it belonged," are shown to be
often identical. It seems that in Ire
land "it is held that human hair
should never be buried, because at the
resurrection the former owner of the
hair will come to seek itand that
it ought not to be lost, "lest some
bird should find it and carry it off,
causing the owner's head to ache all
the time the bird wits busy working
the hair into its nest." A somewhat
similar belief lies at the root of a cure
for whooping cough current in North
amptonshire and Devonshire. A hair
of the patient's head is placed between
two slices of buttered bread and given
to a dog. "The dog will get the
cough and the patient lose it,"
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Firelight Pictures.
The firelight flickers in the open grate,
And shadows flit along the wall,
Dull flumes shoot up, like hand of fate.
And somber gloom soeins over aIL
And as I sit and in fancy paint
Pictures in the firelight's glare,
I see some '.hero that make ms faint-
Recalling joys and deep despair.
Scenes of the happy long ago,
When life was young and hope was high,
When life's river ran with peaceful flow,
And heart ne'er sent to lips a sigh;
When love made all the earth look bright,
The future, heaven, indeed, on earth;
Each durkencd cloud tinged with a light,
E:\ch moment giving now joys a birth.
But Joys and love have faded now,
And smolder like the dying flame;
Griel marks are on my heated brow,
And happiness is but a name.
But when cold death has kissed my eyes,
And I am called from earth above
To God's bright home above the skies,
ril know the bliss of perfect love.
—J. William Van JVamee, M. D.
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HUMOROUS.
A young lady called her beau
"Honeysuckle," because he is always
hanging over the front railings.
Moliere, the French tenor, went ma<
over his own whistling. In this
country the neighbors generally do
that.
When a billy goat unceremoniously
butts a man down, it can be truthfully
said lie is "the power behind the
throne."
"O, ma!" exclaimed a littleggirtl t
glancing at the steam-gauge on a
stationary engine. "It's sixty o'clock.
I didn't know it ever got so late as
that."
A young colored man of Illinois is
said to have made a fortune of $150,-
000 within a year. We suspect he
served a few months as porter on a
Pullman palace car.
ON TIIK FRONTIER.
The son and heir we i' out
To lake the sun and air.
'Twas on the Indians' route:
They look Ibe son and hair.
"Yes, sir," said the detective, "I'll
look up his character. By the way:
Do you wish to ascertain that he's a
nice or bad person? I always like to
please my customers."
"And what is this animal called?'
asked the teacher of the class in
natural history, as he pointed to a
picture of a sloth. "And the class all
shouted at once: "A messenger boy!*'
When the doctor advised Brown to
take care of his health, Brown re
marked, with a feeble smile, that
really it was so poor that he didn't
think it was worth while taking care
of it.
The Empress of Russia has just
ordered a fur-lined, diamond-be
spangled cloak, at a cost of $43,000.
Of course, you will cut out this para
graph before you give the paper to
your wife to read.
When a man's wife comes in and see#
him, razor in hand, and with his face
all lather, and asks him: "Are you
shaving?" it's a provoking thing for
him to answer: "No, I'm blacking the
stove," but it is in human nature to so
reply.
One cannot be too careful of his
health, warm days. A tramp caught
cold and died the other day from
throwing away a lot of cold victuals.
He had worked himself into a high
state of perspiration begging the
victuals.
Salaries of New York School Teachers*
The salaries paid to principals and
teachers in the New York schools vary
according to the attendance of the pre
vious year, the length of service, etc.
A male principal receives from $2,250
to $3,000, depending on the average at
tendance ; a female principal of a
grammar school is paid from $1,200 to
$1,900, the salary of a primary school
principal being S2OO less ; these sal
aries also depend on the average at
tendance until the woman has been a
principal for fourteen years, when she
may, by a vote of the Board of Educa
tion, be given the maximum salary of
$1,750 or $1,900, regardless of the num
ber of pupils in her school. When a
girl is appointed a teacher she receives
S4OO the first year, to which SSO or
SIOO is added after that time. The av
erage salary of a primary school teach
er is S6OO, women only being allowed to
teach in tne primary schools and the
girls' grammar schools. In the latter the
average salary is $725. In the male
grammar schools the average salary of
a female teacher is SBOO, and of male
teachers $1,500. When a man is first
appointed a teacher he receives S7OO,
and the second year he usually receives
$1,200. Special teachers in German
and music receive $1.50 an hour, and
in drawing $2 an hour. The princi
pals of the evening schools are paid $ 1
a night, the men teachers $2.50, and
the woman teachers $2. Janitors re
ceive from SSOO to $1,500 a year, their
pay being graded according to the siz**
of their school buildings, the number
of stoves in them, etc.