An Age. ing, Tte chains undone, A trecbled sleep that dreams to peassiul waking, A haven won, A fire burnt out to the last dead ember, Lait black and oold; A flery Angust unto still September Yielding her gold. A dawn serene, the windy midnight over, The darkness past, Now, with no clouds or mists the day to cover he day at last, Thou hast thy prayed-for peace, oh soul, and quiet . From noise and strife, Now vearn for ever for the noise and riot That made thy lite. -—H. EB. Clarke. A Weird Faney. Ii the dead, lying under the grasses, Unseen linger near the bereft, Having knowledge and sense of what passes In the hearts and homes they have lait, What tear-drops, than sea-waters salter, Must fall when they see all the strite— When they see how we fail, how we falter, How we miss in the duties of lite. It the great, who go out with their thoes Badewed by a weeping world’s tears, Stand near and see how their places Are tilled, while the multitude cheers; If the parent, whose back is bent do With delving for riches and gold, Lands an ear to the wrangle and wor la About him, before he is cold; a The wite, who left weeping and som ow Behind her, bends down from above And behalds the tears dried on the ma. . ow, And the ayes newly burning with love; If the gracious and royal-souled mother, From the silence and hush of the tomb, Can hear the harsh voice of another, Slow -blighting the fruit of her womb; If the old hear their dearly forgotten Rejoioing that burdens are gone; If the young know how soon they're fore Rotten, While the mirth and the revel go on What sighing of sorrow and anguish Must sound through the chambers of spac What desolate spirits must languish In that mystic aad andesoribed place ! Then lite were a tarce with its burden, And death bat a terrible jest ! But they cannot. The grave gives its gnerden Of silence and beautiful rest. An Unexpected Meeting. It was a smal, onestory frame strue- ture, presenting some of the character. istics of a cabin and cottage, buiit only a little way in from the road, and ap- roached from it by a narrow wooden ridge, under which meandered, in temperate seasons, a gentle stream, but which, in the fervid vigor of the sum. mer and the rigor of the winter, was dry and silent. Jone down in 8 meadow behind this little sentry-box was a large farmhouse, with a colony of smaller buildings springing up about it, and back of those was & wood, rising precipitously] to the brow of a protecting hill. Iu summer-time his homestead of Farmer Gilman was a smiling, shady piace to look upon, as was, indeed, all the country in which nestied the ham- let of Fairbank, distant a couple of miles away; but now that the iron fet- ters of winter were on everything, it looked cold, cheerless and uninviting. It had been snowing all day—snow was everywhere. pasture lands, on the closely-shaven meadows, on last year's tillage; it crowned fences, and maintained a pre- carious existence on the roofs of houses; it rendered sightless gaps in broken roads, and lent a treacherous expansion to highways; it, in short, blotted ou the ordinary landmarks, and was on great, white, staring eyesore on the face of the landscape. Night had ceme on, and with it in- creased activity on the part of the storm. It was bitterly cold, too, and there was an edge on the air like a knife. It was a night to enjoy a teful meal and a comfortable fireside, and this was what May Sefton was prepar- ing for her father’s return in the little cottage by the roadside. The ample stove was aglow with the crackling wood-fire; the bright lamp- light illumined the neat, decorous little kitchen; the old easy-chair wore a look of expectation as it stood by the table that awaited the burden of the substan- tial supper, and the blue-eyed rose-bud herself was blithely singing snatches of a ditty, as if in defiance of the g.oom and storm without. For a dozen years and upward May Sefton had occupied this same abode with her father, and had been Lis sole companion and housekeeper. made his first appearance in Faiibank, sweet child of four or five years old, and carrving about him an air of sup- pressed suflering that silenced in- quiries, albeit that it somewhat excited curiosity. isfied and turned to sympatbs when it cently buried his partner, and that the golden-haired child he so tenderly cher- ished was motherless. George Sefton had not furnished Fair- bank with this information in so man words. to the tiine whereof we write, he had never opened hus lipson the subject of his antecedents. Abraham Gilman, or old Al e,as he was more universally called, uw distin- guish him from a younger 2 be, had once asked George, when they were working in the fields together, if he was not a widower like himself, whereat Abe's new employee had bent his head, and then maintained a silence so impres- sive that the fact was taken for granted, and never after discussed. As for Muy, if questioned on the sub ject, she could only tell of a big town and a large house, and a fine lady that used sometimes to kiss her, and who, one night, she was told by her father, had died and was buried away for ever- moer. “Six o'clock,” cries May, stopping her warbling to laugh up in the face of the old clock that chimed the hour. “Six o'clock,” she laughs, as she turns the fragrant rashers in the oven, and casts a searching glance at the table to gee that it contains ail her own home- made dainties. ‘ Father will be here J esGuilY. I wonder if Abe will— fush, you naughty thing,” she adds, under her breath, and pressing her hands to her rosy mouth, as she hearsa crunching sound drawing nigh. The soundgdraws nearer till it stops outside, wheff there is a scraping and stamping of feet, and then the door opens, and a fragrant, warm smell, and a bright gleam of light, and a smile of delicious youth and innocence stream out in the face of the night and salute the intruders. The first to enter is a man, tall, and glightly bent, with a thin, aged face, and a fair, long beard, plentifully leav- ened with gray hairs. He bends down, with an air not quite in keeping with his homely garb, and impresses a fer- vent kiss on the sweet, upturned face that greets him. He then steps aside with a courteous movement and dis- closes the figure of a robust youth, with a beardless face wreathed in smiles, half-diffident, half-assured, altogether guileless. “Come in, Abe,” says the little hostess, as he beams at her from the doorway. Smiling, Abe insinuates himself past her, without a word, merely rubbing the top of his frost-smitten nose by way of salutation. In or about this hour, Abe Gilman generally insinuated himself into the presence of May, and beguiled his even- ings in the company of her and her father. George Sefton had some books which greatly interested him, especially when read to him by the owner or his daughter, and he occasionally borrowed one, though frequently puzzlea by some of the words; for Abe was not mfch of a scholar, but he had a taste for litera- ture, and for May's sogiety, which was a sort of education in itself. “You haven't had supper, Abe,” said May, invitingly, to the visitor, with a peep at him that might have upset a more confident youth, “I'm just goin’ back to it,” said Abe, r FRED KURT VOLUME XIII. Hditor and r dy ( / lator. HALL, CO... PA. The Rattle of the Bones. How many bones in the buman face? Fourteen, when they're all in piace. How many bones in the buman head? Eight, my child, as I've often said. How many umes in the human ear? Three in each, and they help to hear. How mary bones in the humas spine ! Twenty-six, like a climbing vine. How gany bones in the human chest 7 Twenty-dour ribs, and two of the rest. HRMS: How many bones the shoulders bind ? Two in ssch—one belore, one behind. ; How many bones in the humawarm? { In each wrm one; two in each forenry { How many bones in the human wrist? { Eight in ench, if none sre missed. NUMBER 14. ’ apologetioally yer father promised to loan me ** Better stay for supper now, Abe, said George Sefton, in his quiet but | kindly way. “Don't require to be coaxed too much before you consent,” said May, with mook gravity, and a merry twinkle in her blue eye, that sent Abe into a con- '" a" table without further pariey. * Who went to Fairbank to-day?” in- quired May, when she had set the meal in full motion. ** Abe, my dar; he brought you your { paper,” answered her father, “1 was | chopping wood all day; much warmer work-——eh, Abe?” i “Yes sir,” returned { emphasis on the second word that left | no mistake as to his thorough agreement i with his friend's opinion. “1 never ' thought I'd get home. There wasn't a i | was keepin’ the stove warm in the store, There was a Iady that kem by the cars, and she wanted to start straight away | for Mansfield, an’ she offered ten dollars | to any one that'd take her, an’, by golly, sir, she couldn't to save her life git one that'd face it." **She was a trump,” laughed May, “and she'd face it herseif?" “Yes, by golly, she would that,” Abe; “but she had so many shawls, fan’ furs, an' wraps with her, that | | think she could have slep’ in the snow | for a week without being frozen.” said | field, such a night". said George Sefton; i ** but that was a stiff price.” “She may get some one,that'll take | her vet,” said May. * She may, and she mayn't," | grinning comfortably at the fire. | Jack Price was around, I don't think he'd { let so much money go. I think he'd { skin himself an’ that horse of his for the | whisky that ten dollars'd buy.” * I fear he'd run the risk of it, Abe,” said George, smiling. ** Poor Jack is a i rare fellow for his whisky.” “ Hush!" cried May, * this is a sleigh. coming now; I'm sure | heard the bells | Perhaps it's she. Look and see, Abe.” ““He couldn't see his finger outside, my dear,” said ber father, taking down his pipe off the mantle and filling it, whilst i Abe rose to peep out. i The tinkling sound advanced rapidly, | but it was dark as pitch, and sleet and i snow were traveling furiously with the { wind. | Abe couid see nothing from the door- i step, so he ran down to the wooden | bridge that spanned the frozen stream. { He could now discern the dark object | coming furiously toward him, but he { noticed, with anxiety, that it was in- elinirg aangerously near the side of the ror | on which was the little ravine. Onward came the snorting horse at tae top of his speed. but closer and closer to the brink of the highway. i Abe raised bis hands and voice in alarm to the driver, but his warning | was not heard, or heard too late, for the i next instant the horse and sleigh had | tumbled into the bed of frozen water. { The hoarse cry of a man in pain and a { stifled moan reached the ears of the horrified Abe, as he shouted out, | “* George! George!” | But George, who had heard the crash, i was on hand a moment after the acci- {dent with a lantern, end, taking the { situation in at a glance, first peleased the { furiously struggling horse, and then | lifted up the heavy sleigh that had com- | pletely turned over on the occupants. | Jack Price—for he it was—was so full i of whisky that, when he regained his | liberty, he scarce felt the pain of his proken arm and bruised and bloody i Ince. said Abe, | other traveler in his arms, and { troubled lor k had gathered on his brow. | village, Abe," he said, when Jack Price { and his vehicle were once more in run- | ning order; “‘and make all the haste | you can back with the doctor. "1 fear i this is a serious case.” who had come forward and was hold- { ing the lantern, as George clambered up | to the road with the unconscious bun- i dle in his arms. lowing her into the cottage. ever it is, is, I dread, badly hurt.” May drew the lounge close to the fire, and on it the insensible woman | laid. Abe did not exaggerate when { stated that the lady was well protected | from the weather. She was wrapped {and muffled up till her face was no longer visible, and May's first efforts | of this now unnecessary covering. | George Sefton was bending anxiously over the two women, watching for a | glimpse ot the stranger's face, { When it was revealed to him, ghastly | white, but still aggressively beautiful, | his breathing for a moment ceased, and eyes. | May, too, was startled at the sight of {the death-like face; but when she she was filled with terror. ** What is it, father?” she exclaimed. “Do you think, then, she's dead?” prostrate figure on the lounge, and rested on the innocent being kneeling at her side. ‘No, I don’t think she is,” he replied, at length, in a voice scarcely abuve a whisper. The scared expression in his face had stolen into his voice, and it was hushed and frightened. Tears welled up into May's eyes, and dropned on the cold hands she was dy, after a while, showed symp- toms of returning consciousness. Be yond her pallor and insensibility, she presented no outward sign of injifry. “1 don’t think she’s much hurt, father,” said May, leaning tenderly over pearls on her eyelashes: but noting. evidences of animation. He made no response to May's re- mark, but continued to stare straight y 3e . down at the pallid, beautiful face of the ad Suddenly a pair of eyes, larger and more liquid than May’s, but of the same azure hue, are opened out upon him, his weird, haggard countenance. banishes the pallor, and the hands that Then the red blood deserts the face again, and it becomes ten times more livid. The beautiful, liquid eyes droop abashed before the man’s gaze, and trav- erse searchingly the room, till they rest on May kneeling by her. “I'm not deceived, then,” she feebly mutters. Isthis—" Her voice broke the spell, or stupor that had seized George Sefton at the first glimpse of her, and, in a low and decisive tose, he said: “You mustn't speak just now, madam, till the doctor arrives, and we know what's the trouble. Prepare your bed for this lady, May,” he ded, mo- Honing the young girl to her room, vely. May had scarcely disappeared, when he was at the woman's side, whisper- ing excitedly in her ear: ** You mustn't let her known nothing. It’s better for her--it’s better for you. I don’t want to reproach you now. I don’t know what strange fatality bronght you to my cabin to-night; but whatever it was leave us—leave her in the peace and innocence that you have found her. Since the hour that you de- gerted her I've led her to believe you dead. I've striven to hide you and your sin from your child with the charitable mantle of the grave, and for that sole purpose I've since hidden my- self here. on't seek to undeceive her. Let her still think of you with re- Let her memory of you continue tobe a fragrant one.” The erring woman listened wiih closed eves and blanched cheeks to the man's passionate words, “May I kiss her? was all | tered, “Yes, if May entered, and George Sefton moved away, and flung himsell into a chair in a Iar corner ot the room, May resumed her watch by lady's side . taking the cold, slender hands once more in hers. She noticed that the lovely eyes, which were turned with in finite tenderness on her, were dimmed witli tears, and that the hands she | olasped pressed hers caressingly. The monotonous tick, tick, of the old i look was all that broke the silence of the room The lady closed her eyes, and May was beginning to think that she was go ing to sleep, when a sweet voice whis pered in her ear ** Kiss me, darling.” The young girl crept closer, and wind ing her arms round the woman's neck, wrapped the poor sou! in her chaste em- brace, Was it the instinct of love or pity? When George Sefton awoke from his painful reverie an hour later to admit Abe Gilman and the doctor, he found the two women asleep, the elder resting on the bosom of the vounger The girl was easily aroused, but the other awoke no more, The friends who came for the dead woman knew not the uphappy husband under his assumed name and altered ap- pearance, and May never learned that her mother had passed out of the sphere of sin and shame in her arms, Her father lived long enough to see her the happy wife of Abe Gilman, and then passed away, carrying his secret with him. gret |r. she fal i sae Diamond Thieves in New York, A New York letter says Iie atten tion of the public is attracted by the cent diamond thefts which have | curred among what are called ** gentle- men.” E. R. Stoutenburgh, who in- herited an income of $6,000, but has wasted his property, has just been sen- tenced to the penitentiary for two years, the crime being of this nature A dia. mond ring had been placed in his care, and he had an imitation {made of paste) substituted for the original stone, In another instance a gentieman took a diamond ring to a goldsmith for repair. He called for it in a few minutes, but found the stone removed and a paste imitation substituted. It is not now { considered safe to leave a ring for any such purpose, and hence in cases of pair the owners remain and watch work until it be finished his | the case among respectable people, we need not wonder at the attempts made such ! thieves, The dealers in precious stones deoline mentioning the names of their best cus- tomers, as this would expose them to the attempts of sneak thieves and burg- i The latter, however, havea very t= OCs on property oy professional jars. correct idea of the diamond owners, and such property may generally be con- sidered unsafe. This is shown by the fact that a leading performer who owned a iarge amount of jewelry locked it carefully in her trunk and then locked her room. The * flat” was also locked s0 that no one could enter, unless ad- mitted (except by the use of false keys), but when the lady returned she found that both her room aad trunk had been entered and property to the amount of { $3,000 taken away. The thieves evi- dently knew where the plunder lay, and had been on the wateh for an opportu- nity. Another case was that of Mrs. { Daniel Torrance, davghter of Commo- dore Vanderbilt, whose diamonds were carried off by a midnight thief in a sud- {den and mysterious manner, They were valued at $6,000, and have never been recovered. It is said that Joh Jacob Astor al- ways has a detective in his service, and his dwelling is never left unguarded. Hence he has never suffered from those depredations to which reference has been made. The detective who accom- panies Ms. Astor to all places where her diamonds are to be displayed is said {to be an elegantly dressed gentleman, who mingles quietly among the guests, the $80,000 worth of diamonds worn by his patroness. Speaking of the above- mentioned family, reference may be made to the changes in a rich man's aste. William Astor has just soid his racers, and has retired from the turf. sporting men, but has become weary of from such pursuits. A man must have a natural love of horses to adhere to equine amusements. Astor only ** took itup” as an imitator of Belmont and Bonner. The latter, however, have a well-known passion for such animals, which explains their lavish expendi- Bonner's outlay for taking care of 100 fine horses is not less than $20,000 ayear, When you add to this the in- terest on the estimated value of the ani This is a degree horsemanship. For thirty years Bonner America, and still he is like Oliver Absinthe. Absinthe as an exhilarant, the use of which originated in Paris, has now be- come quite common in England and | exported, is a mixture of the essence of {| wormwood (absinthium), sweet flag, apise seed, angelica root and aleohol. it as well a certain required taste. monly called butter of antimony, is an- j other adulterant, but this is denied. | The proportion of essence of wormwood | 100 quarts of alcohol. Its bitterness in- {the habitue is soon unable to take | deadly provoeative. On the nervous i system the influence is different that of alcohol. rather after the manner of nicotine, but | it is slower in taking effect than the al- cohol which accompanies it; conse- quently there is felt by the drinker, first, the exciting, relaxing influence of the alcohol, and afterward the con- stringing, suppressing influence of the wormwood. The drinker is left cold, tremulous, unsteady of movement and nauseated. If the dose be large these phenomena are exaggerated, and the voluntary muscles, bereft of the control of the will, are thrown into epileptiform convulsions, attended with unconscious- ness, and eventually the epilepsy be- comes confirmed with confirmed in. dulgence. The effect which the ab- sinthe exerts in a direct way on the stomach alone is highly pernicious. It controls tor mischief the natural power of the stomach to secrete digestive fluid; it interferes with the solvent power of that fluid itself, so that, taken in what is considered to be a moderate quantity—a wine-glassful or two in the course of the day—it soon establishes a permanent dyspepsia. — Manufacturer and Builder. A young architect rec "un v created a reputation by building for + ewly mar- ried couple a house in which the parlor had two firenlaces close together, go de- signed that the husband and wife could each build a fire in an individual man- ner without quarreling, and then could sit together at the same hearth, warmed by a mutual blaze, Their place is hence called “ Harmony Grove.’ Precious Stones are Guarded in Now York««FPerishabhle Pearls, How 18 a very curious phase of the business done by the diamond brokers here New York News, which involves the employment of an argus ayed personage as a guardian over the safety of the costly crystals. It is the practice, and the quite axtensive pra too, of renting sets of jewels for festive oceasion, in pretty much the same fashion as silver is rented to people Loo poor to own it and too proud to eat of vulgar china before The hired gems are handed over to the who gives an iron bound, steei- riveted, and otherwise securely-forti- fied receipt for them to the owner, and pays the rent, like that of a lodging- house, invariably in advance, The man who hands them not leave her far out of sight until! the Jewels are handed back to him, when her receipt is returned to her “OU! course we don’t suspect any lady would be mean enough to take advantage of us,” said one broker, with a solemn wink, ** but women are queer bodies, and dismonds are fine stones, Besides, we have to he clerk's salary anyhow, and he 1 earn it and have a Ler says the Live, sone Osseo, io hier does dllie y for nothing on his own account.’ The pledging of jewels aso affords, in an indirect way, emplovment for tl watehifulness of the broke: stances are common where ned forced an owner 10 pawn her entir eset ol JOWes OC wear them for some spe always arrange to de of a few dol agent of the broker means as light a penalty as it may be in one COMpany severs ies who at one time and another have been in a similar position in relation to the dismond broker, and the wearer of the borrowed gems is in perpetual fear esl Lhe agent shouid | overed under the disguise of her polit and ret of her difficuities become the stock of town gossip rity of malicious tongues Apropos of the renting of there is a story told which might rish a plot for a Parisian feuil An uptown b by no mous for his rigid adherence to the cox Was an extensive renter of dis He not assed out gems w i actually him, but made no seruple of turning as many pretty pennies bie, when. ever he could, by hiring valuables which had been left in pledge with him. A magnificent set of diamonds had been pawned with him for a Later the owner sold the stones outright giving him or have 2 supplied hy iit In. } IRS 8 clerk gx i In case she wishes Ri O00 hie Can y SO Al the expense fal titer is by no ars and the espionage ol The BOCs ere iad broker's SOU Tt, the sed and the Prone WEIR, ur. : eLonist, means fa. i ie FOREY, of business ORY i belonged to as DOSS] sum to him, ders t their imine Won places in the setti tions He offen coOmni vd, rented the pa i bi party. ¢ a Judge purions natu , and told some. indy LO woar who happens of diamonds detected SOME OI of the mock ones at one body e The somebody else chanced to be no friend of the wearer, and while the latter was boasting of her ornaments, and detailing the fictitious price of them, rem: rked with much ns. sumed interest “And did you really pay all for those stones, Mrs, X. 2 3¢ of It. Lint { inl ¢ . 1 o you ought t MW Arrests swindling vou so.” “Swindiing md them dirt cheap,” If were diamonds, it would tremendous price to pay i ¥ i tor Why, I have got they be: | it i for paste.” The reader can imagine what followed. the indignant lady bounced into the broker's office aflame with in. dignation and wrath at the fraud perpe- trated on her. There was another lady in the piace, but, without paying the slightest attention to her, the newcomer opened with a broadside at the diamond man. “* What false diamonds are you talk- ing about?’ asked the strange lady, awakening to sudden interest, while the dumbfounded broker tried vainly to edge in a word of pacification. : * Why, these." “Good gracious! Myownset, Do you mean to say, sir, that you have nt ny prop ry 10 a isa 0 Te stranger?" There was a triangu.ar fight now, the two ladies uniting on tne broker and then turning on each other, The matter was settled somehow, but it got wind all the game. Peopie jearned that the diamonds Mrs. X. wns in the habit of wearing were only hired ones, that Mrs. Y. had to pawn hers and wear paste, and that Broker Z. was a double dealer and had best be let severely alone in the business, “And it did him that much harm," said the diamond dealer, who told the story, it actually spoiled his renting business, and he had to give it up.” If the reader supposes that peopls who own diamonds keep them on their dressing-cases or throw them into a drawer when they go out, he or she had at once. Diamonds are taken care of after several fashions, all People who have more dollars’ worth of pre- rarely keep them about At one time a small safe their safety. than a hundred cious stones their houses. used to form a favorite ment in some houses. But the enter- rising burglar soon proved that he cnew more about safes than those who own them generally do. In fact, it was diminutive cold chisel with consider- could through his elaborate lock com- bination. Then the safe deposit vaults and the jewelry store safes were made the custodians of the mennced gems. Most expensive private diamond- safe de- When their gems places watched of safety, by The and the settings in order as well. When sends an order, and they are dispatched in the care of a trusted messenger ome ployed especially for that purpose. Sometimes these messengers are ems ployed by the jewel-owners as detec. tives. There is one stylish young con- fidential clerk at a leading jeweler's who does a great deal in this line. ** And an awful bore it has got to be,” he said, disgustedly. a dozen customers who wear from $25,000 to £50,000 worth of diamonds at a time, Every one is an old woman. When they make a call for their stones they n:ways ask permission for me to re- main until they are ready to be returned, Of course the firm grants it. Then the list to vap- put and compared with a written make sure that none of them hn orated or crumbled to dust, up in a big leather case, fasten around my neck with a Ye «( and strong Every time I go out with that chair on I expect to be kidnaped. 1 go to the receipt for them. says: . “*You will dine with us, please, and be ready at such and such o'clock. sir: I eat a good dinner, but the food might as well be poisoned, for even the ser- vants! know I'm given it because I'm wanted to watch the diamonds. 1 go to a ball or party, but there's no fun there for me. I ean only walk about and keep those diamonds in sight and hear pretty girlgask, ‘Who is that handsome gentleman, ma? The one with Mrg, A=" *‘He!oh! He's only “Well, there's some faint hope for you," observed the reporter I'he young man's face brightened as he asked—** What they won't be worth watching." The voung man shook his head with mournful gravity ‘No fear of that.” he said. “I'm willing to take all 1 can got, and not worry," An interesting episode was related to the News representative by a Broad way He had been for some years the custodian of the jewels of a well known local belle, Among them was a Las. year their fair owner died, after a lingert ing illness. The jewels, which had Iain for many weeks undisturbed in the sale, Wore tives Three of biggest pearls, worth a couple of thousand dollars, were found to have crumbled to dust Superstitions people at once the event to a supernatural cause, and the iit built a romance of sympathy between gems and their dead owner. The explanation is, however, a very simple one, Pearls are subject to natural flaws in the heart or an insidious dry rot, without sign of its existence ex- ternally, that grows and expands with time till the gem is a mere R falls to stows at the touch of a light finger, or even in contact with the air Ihe by tiie cure ji, to a sphere where royal gewgaws Lave beggar's baby or the bauble of a villag: 1001. I A551 Musie in England. London, where there are number of regular performances old establ i Are the conserts of the ished Philharmonic society union, and those of the Sacred Harmonic society at Exeter hall; the and other performances in Albert hall; the world-renowned ** popular" classi~ eal ooncerts given throughout the win. ter, on Mondays and Saturdays, at St. James; the weekly ballad concerts of Mr. Boosey: the Crystal palsce con certs, at whioh the cinssioal and popular music is heard: steady course of piano-forte recitals, to which the genius of Yon Bulow, Essipoff, and Charies Halle gives character; formances of various admirable choirs, like Mr. Henry Leslie's, Mr Hullah's, and the ** Bach ™ the crowd of Lie Inay London winter and spring in the provinoes petually, the Mr. Charles +) o4 1 4 3 CLOT iit fas Os fi ait farnby's, and finally be heard- : Ing Lhe Meanwhile music is stirring per. orchestra [socisty Halle's at Mane Ciioruses being Then there are the Dest best being . ‘ peal those of Yorkshire, great annual or triennial festivals at Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester, Norwich, Worcester and Leeds: and in all parts of the country music is striven tor in some fashion-—all say, the result of ple, rather than the outgrowth of any native instinct. And in this consists the most curious feature of music in Eng The English people ean admire and respect what they do not or rather what the y do not respond to with a heart-beat; they ean under. stand and enjoy scientifically what they can never fathom: but the result of this is extreme slowness: they must habituated anything good before they encourage it. Few compositions take an English audience by storm; few innovations are made welcome: but the fauit lies with the temperament, not the intellect, of the people. That touch of Tay a feel to } Lhe 2%) they must be reasoned with, and tanght w enjoy, That responsiveness which asks no motive, questions no result, i} thi is the spirit of musical knowledge as anxious for new sounds, new sensations, is pot an English trait. Does not this explain why the Philharmonic orchestra phons,” and the Harmonic society, at their audiences that an oratorio pes. formance should not be desecrated by intervals of operatic song? : At present, it seems to me, the taste of the people is with the mediocre ballads or Italian music; the judgment of the people with heavy classical and sacred music; the soul of the people—nowhere, musically speaking, since it is too rarely touched to be known and written down. This looks, perhaps, like an anomaly. If the people are not soul-responsive and appreciative, how does it happen that no continental cities are so full as Lon- ances from November to June? arly year after year? in the English character—constancey and art or science ; works which other and the English are generous enough in IAA 0 Chased by a Waterspout. William H. Hallock, who not a steamship of off the coast of Guatemala. spout of tremendous power suddenly appeared near the ship. In the midst of the consternation the captam ordered his course reversed and soon the steamer was driving along, with the waterspout in pursuit. Its crest was seeming to operate like an immense re- which came within reach. itself formed a sort of spiral cylinder, streaked with opaque parallel lines through its whele length, from the sur- sea upward. These lines evidently ascending columns of water, for afterward, when the upper and lower sections became detached, the accumulated volume of water overhead immediately began its de. scent within the body of ‘the gpout, as though it had been the valve of an immense syringe. The water thus released must have been and almost black and returned to the gea with a loud roar, all the other parts of the aerial structure gradually dissi- Perhaps the most singular of the seetion nearest the clouds, which and then turned upon itself in a perfect it was—awitched around squarely to When its finest condition times flew through in ightning several ing n spectacle not only terrible in the manifestation of power, but sublime and beautiful. An erring husband, who had hausted all explanations for late hours and had no apology ready. recently slipped into the house, about two o'clock, very softly, denuded himself gently, and began rocking the cradle by the bedside, as if he had heen awakened out of a sound sleep by infantile cries. He had rocked away for ten minutes, when Mary Jane, who had silently observed the whole maneuver, said, ** Come to bed, you fool! the baby ain't there.” Toronto Graphic, ex- ’ TIMELY TOPIUS, » In digging the Suez canal Egyptian years of age were made todo this It is perished under such inhuman treat. ment. It is proposed to build in certain dis. triets on the western frontier of Kan gas churches made of sods already exist, the are with sods, A chureh can be built, in size about 26x36, tor an outlay in money of only $10, and roofs covered one instance, A wall of sods, if prop. years. Roofs of shingles and floors of Germany, with a population ot 49,- nt- of Great 6,000,000 pupils; M.000,000 has S85.000 schools and schools and 3,000,000 pupils: France, with a population of 37,000,000, has 71,- with a population of 28 000,000, has 47,- Glucose manufacture is making an ex- Half a dozen establishments have heen planted within a month in Cyrus Me. others have, it is said, It is day, which is the equivalent of 300 tons of sugar. A bushel of corn, costing about forty cents, produces thirty while the three gallons of syrup can be sold at from thirty-five to forty cents a gauon One of the Irish parish priests to whom Mr. Redpath, the New York Tribune correspondent, sent a letter of inquiry concerning the distress caused by famfhe, says: “It would be impos- dreds and hundreds in my parish are in state. May God, in His merey, open wide to us the American heart. In it, under God, is our hope. A better day, I trust, is coming: snd when it the merry joyous laugh are again heard, believe me, though we forget everything] else year J880, we shall never, never forget Ameriea, who, by being the true * friend in reed.’ proved hers to be the friend indead.'™ Another priest writes: *‘ My house is actually besieged from early dawn till inte at night by hundreds of ragged, hungry-looking persons, most piteously craving and clamoring for re- i No amount of private charity, 1 fear, will be sufficient to meet the resent appalling distress.” Phyo itofessor Swing, the well-known this land, and 0 lands, and from England her. , is the tribute due from the fortu- nate the unfortunate in an era which declares all ‘men to be brethren. fie golf 0] outside help necessary, if the yellow fever in the South demanded an upris- ing in Northern charity, so the famine The utter failure ing for the children, and hence the and without covering. Before these repeated failures of crops there were thousands in this afflicted coun- try who were just on the edge of star- vation. In good times these had not enough food or clothing, and now that the erops have failed for three consecn- one that there must be great distress in A Story of Bismarek’s Yonth. When Prince Bismarck, then simply Herr von Bismarck-Schonhausen, was a student at Gottingen, he was known for nis boldness and undaunted courage. Freely abandoning himself to the rather life, he entered into them with the vigor matters. First in the * Kneipe,” the their fencing hall, he was but little seen in the college rooms listening to the of the learned professors. skill and prowess, there was hardly any gome enough to measure swords with him. But liath found a David in the person of a young Westphalian, who, offended at challenged him, although he was vainly dissuaded on all sides from a contest with the sturdy Pommeranian nob.e. Loan, Herr Biedewald, the gentleman in question, stood his ground with such skill that he, after wearving his adver- him a heavy blow, the signs of which are still discernible on the chancellor's face, Long years passed before the two antagonists again met, While the one had risen to the highest rank, the other devoted himself to the wellare of his representative of the | Andrew Jackson's Vow, Bhortly after the cecupation of Pensa. cols and the expulsion of the Spanish authorities from Florida by General chief of the party was a man gaunt, spare and wasted of The cashier having appeared, the chief introduced himself: “1 am An Immediate relief is required, and Here is my draft on the gov ernment, 1 desire to have it cashed, The oashier was appalled by this de- There was no suthority to any such } Request. ing the general and his staff to be seated, demand of the conqueror of Florida, and the subject was referred to them, It should be borne in mind that at country, He was looked upon as a dan- gerous and assuring military chiefiain who menaced the integrity and freedom of such institutions as the great nations] bank. The directors of the branch bank here were donbtiess somewhat per- vaded with this sentiment. Still the clining to advance the fund required by General Jackson, and the president was instructed to communicate this conclusion of the board. He did so with all the suavity usual on such oceasions. Then rising from his seat and advance ing to the counter, behind which the polite president stood, the old chief asked : “Do I understand you, sir, to say that this bank, having the money of the United States in its vaults, Tt to advance a sum sufficient to supply the immediate needs of 2,000 patriot ters Florida exposed to fevers and starva- tion?" With profound regret the rules must be observed, Whereupon, with flashing eye and that terrible aspect never to be forgot- ten by any one who ever beheld Old eral, rising high his gauntieted hand, brought it down with great force upon the ecunter, exclaiming, “By the Eternal! 1 will live to serve your rascally bank asl have the Spaniards in Florida, as equally enemies of the people and of liberty.” With this feagi! menace and vow he strode with his staff out of the bank. As he emerged from the bank, the gen- eral encountered two Irish-born citizens and merchants of New Orleans, who had heard of the order of the bank, and had hastened to join the general, with offers to cash his draft and furnish all that he needed for his army.—Daily Sales. The Chinese Theater, In the north of China every town and every large village boasts of its perma. nent theater, while the inhabitants of other villages, too small to be so forta- nate, find little difficulty in extemporiz- ing theaters of mat and bamboo on any chance arrival of an itinerant troop of actors. As long as the visit of these wandering players last, the people of Early each morning the roads from all the country round may be seen crowded with peo- ple, the poorer ones on toot, snd, if in the north of China, the wealthier classes on mules or in carts, all tending to the one point of attraction; the women gay in biue red or green silks, and the men in their best and brightest attire. If we follow this pieasure-secking crowd, we enter a theater built in the form of a piat form, generally, though not always, as wide as the buiiding. The platform is divided breadthwise bya wooden par- tition with two entrances, the front part forming the stage, and the rear portion serving the purposes of green room, property room and abode of the troupe. The body of the theater, answering to our pit and stalls. is without seats or partitions; while above ana encircling the whole are the boxes in which the women and principal subscribers have their places. If the distriet should be a very poor one the probability is that we find ourselves opposite a covered stage or an open piece of ground, in front of which the carts of the visitors full of their occupants, are arranged in a semi-circle, thus forming the walls of s truly Thespian theater, Within this enclosure stands a densely packed, good- natured, eager crowd, whose power of standing is only equaled by their power of unflagging enjoyment. No money is taken at the doors. The troupe is een- The per- until late in the evening. with short in- sr the Chinese are naturally quick of with whom they associate, and on the stage to assume the characters they wish to represent. The possession of these faculties is the more important, as the and * aside,” or as the Chinese literally translated means, ** ascen!,” ** descend,” and “turn the back and say." —Conlem- porary Review. Some Hunting Mishaps. Peter Urban, of Findlay, Ohio, treed a coon, and chopped the tree down. It his subsequent success in unification of his fatheriand. Herr Biedewnld's death oceurring a few days ago, has vividly recalled the interesting incidents of his epounter with the leading statesman, w hich also formed the subject of a popu. lar song, well known among Germans. — London Globe. What He Kuew of English. I heard a funny story of a little Bos- ton boy the other day, which I think hans never been in print, His father had amused himself by teaching the bright little fellow several words and phrases in a number of languages, so that he had quite a reputation as a linguist An Englishman of some note dined with the family one day, and the child was much interested in watching him and listening to his conversation. After dinner the guest took him on his knee, with the remark: “1 hear you know a great many languages; tell me how many you know;” “Ob know French and German and Italian and Spanish, and that is all. “But you know English?” ‘No! I don't know English,” he answered, with a very f.4 " positive shake of the head * Yes, you do, certainly,” persisted the English- man. *1tell you I do not!” replied the child, almost impatiently, and very emphatically. ‘My papa knows Eng- lish, I s'pose, but I only know two words in English!” *“ And what are they? “Ouse and ‘orse!” -- Boslon Transcript. Jimmie Yard, of Cealreville, N. J., was shooting crows. The accidental discharge of his gun closed his career. James Maxwell, twenty-eight years old. of Lenoxville, Pa., was found d in the woods, his head shot away, and his gun exploded. William Peddicord’s gun went off as he fell, while Llunting. and so did Peddi- cord’s right hand. He belongs in Har- rison, Ky. (George Thompson, a colored man of Orchard Hill, Ga., lost an arm while drawing one of the charges of his gun preparatory to going hunting. : Walter Johnson, of Fairgrove Town- ship, Mich., put seven inches of powder, shot and wadding in his gun, and when it went off the huntsman was killed. A stranger was found lying on his back on the flats near Philadelphia with his colar bone broken. While gunning for ducks he overloaded his piece with shot, and when he fired it the.recoil nearly broke liis neck. Six gallons of bear oll and a fund pelt are the net results of Robert Cher- ney’s personal difficulty with a bear. The wounds from the animal's teeth and claws did not prevent a left-handed blow with an axe that finished the bear. All that was found of the elegant trappings for hunting that belonged to Freeborn G. Wells, of Frankfort, Del., and with which he started in a skiff on a duck shooting trip was a hat through the crown of which a charge of shot had passed, and Wells is missing. i id How many bones in the palm of the hand ? Five in each, with many sband. How many bones in the fingers ten Twent y-eight, and by joints they bond. How meny bones in the human hip? One in each like a dish they dip. How many bones in the human thigh? One in each, and deep they lie. How many bones in the human knees? One in each, the kneepan, please. How many bones in the leg from the knee ! Two in each we can plainly ses. How many bones in the ankle strong? Seven in each, but none are long, How many bones in the ball of the foot? Five in each, as the palms were put. How many bones in the toes half a score? Twenty-eight, and there are no more. And now, altogether, these many bones fix, And they count in the body, two hundred and sir, And ‘sce we have, in the homan mouth Of uoper and under, thirty-two teeth. And now and thes bave s boee I should think That forms on & joint or to 81] up » chink. A sessmold bone or 8 worm can we eall, And noW we may test for we've told (hem ail, ~ Ind anepolis Bentinel. SU ————————— ITEMS OF INTEREST. Fngland paid $12,500,000 tor foreige eggs in 1879, M. de Lesseps never indulges in aleo- bolic beverages. The number of families living in New York city is213.467. He whose soul does not sing, need not try to sing with his throat. Sin has s great many tools; but a lie is the hanale which fits them All A hoarse shoo never brings nck to a foraging hen.— Wheeling Leader. The words of a governor's reprieve es Buna FARN, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD. Household ints, To Remove toe Smery or PAINT. — Hay, sprinkled with a little chloride of lime and left for an hour in a © room, will remove the smell of new paint, Urnazinsg Featuens, — To utilize feathers of ducks, chickens and tur. keys, generally thrown aside as refuse, trim the plumes from the stump, enclose them in atight bag, rub the whole as if washing clothes, and you will secure a perfectly uniform and light down, ex. cellent for quilting coverlets and not a few other purposes. To EXTRACT GREASE ¥oM SILxs, Parer axp WoorLex Goops.—To re. move grease spots from goods and pa. per, grate on them, very thick, French chalk (common chalk will answer, but is not so good as the French chalk). Cover the spots with brown paper and set on a moderately warm iron, and let it remain til] cold. Care gust be taken not to have the iron se hot as to scorch or change the color of the eloth, Ifthe grease does not sppesy to be out on re- moving the iron, grate on more chalk, heat the iron again and put it on. Re- peat the process till the grease is en- tirely out. To Crean MAnoGAxY axp Mamsix Fuonnirune —~No soap should ever be used for them; they should be washed in fair water and rabbed With a clean, soft cloth till dry. A little sweet ofl rubbed on ogtas lounlly gives them = fine polish, The furniture should be rubbed over with a cloth dipped in oil, then rubbed over with a clean eloth till it appears dry and polished. White spots on varnished furniture may be removed by rubbing them with a warm flannel dipped in spirits of - tine. Ink spots may be removed b rubbing them with a woolen ¢ dipped in oil of vitriol and water mixed, being careful not to touch spy part of the furniture thst is not spotted. As soon as the ink is extracted, rinse the spot with peariash water, and then with fair water. An American lately visited one of the | carry wait with them. Jeading otk aol duit farms 38 Hol | Dead business men tell no tales in the , and gives oliowing rest. | i Jumns.— Syracuse Sunday ing mecount of what he saw: advertising eo They use the same stahle at the farm | that they did in the fourteenth century. | They have little rings in the eeilin with cords passing through them, hits the ind fails wre. held up io | keep them from getlin ry. i stable was carpeted, a had iants and | . flowers in it. The floor of the stables The first musical instrument built on were of small bricks. At the back of the plan of an organ, with pipes and the stalls was a trough of masonry tubes, was constructed in 757. about eight inches wide. and nine inchs | poor has a fine collection of deep, with a ditch or reservoir of wales | cook and coins which be has - The announcement is now made that ' | gum arabic was discovered in the saucil- Along with the rest of the coun 5 census report from Alasks will be for- warded to Washington. st one end. As soon as the trench Was | j.en gathering d the last fifty-nine dirdied they turned In weet, and sll wat | years. ng during y carried oul to a cov val, whenee it | could be removed to the fields or wher- | Moh Shimate of Busis AY esos] ever they wanted it. The cows were as | op" "0 am) anywhere eise.— elas, if not Slenter, thu Jout horses. : All the fastening they have is a little cord around their necks, and they areso Does your machine sew ie , Mrs. gentle and quiet that they don't require | Smith?” Even sew, was Xiu ay anything stronger. They use brass milk | response of Mrs. Smith, as up pails, instead of wood or tin ones. The | her work for inspection. round cheeses that are sent to America| A slab of wood marks the grave of are made in wooden molds in the | Stonewall Jackson's mother, who was shape of two hemispheres or hall balls. | buried on an eminence 700 feet abovethe These are bellow and n fogether The | river at taawk's Nest, Virginia. cheese curd is first ronghiv pressed into | 7h. first friction matches were six shape and then placed in the molds; | jc) es long and five cents apiece. Con- the lower half of the molds is station- | gaeruhie prejudice was raised against art, while the upper past is jstaned 10 | their use by their occasional explosion. a kind of screw, working in a beam | jou in the grerhend; the upper par: is strtwed | Untied ates vas made 1p Phijadeiphin own tight, and *he chee | : a week. At the end of a week it is screwed | Ob January §, 1783, oy Me. isntart, down tighter and left for another week. | 1D¢ scent was wi At the ox of a third week the cheese is | crowd of spestatoa, among whom was exposed to the air, and the curing be- | Gener nl ington - lok Raa] gins. It takes three months foracheese | The proverb, * Every bul A, ba bila to be cured and a year before it is fit for | bidet,” is said to bave origin 8 in n the market. Everything was as sweet | superstition common smong soldiers and neat as any parior I ever saw; the | years back that their Ratio. Was stables and stalls for the horses were written on the bullet thal stretc covered with matting. You have no them dead. idea how clean everything was. He told her that be loved her Recipes. In tones so soit and mellow; y, | t she said she couldn't marry him, Potato Savrap.- Boil en} white But he'd asked another fellow. potatoes; mash fine; season highly with ( This is loap-year.) butter, pepper, salt, and a littie sweet | — Steubenville Herald. cream. Prepare asalad dressing as fol- | : Everything in nature induiges in lows: Mash perfectly smooth, with a | een ightning pi the little water, the hard-boiled yolks of No “Ht. rue a pias, : the thunder rolls, the three eggs; add haif a teas ful of ing Retin, a ap and the fields mustard, 8 whole teaspoonful of salt, a ‘smile. Even the buds shoot and the pour off Sheen: and keep 3 in a cool rivers run. place, Stir before using, and season to ted the taste with salt and pepper, Est hot | Daniel "Connell once met 4 conteltcl or cold. N. B.—One pound of water is ay | thing in you last pamphlet.” very nearly one pint (1.04). 1a Dh ou?” Pie Tit de- BreaD AND Burrer Puppmng.—Slice |) ghted ener A was it?" “A a stale toatl bajsiry Yeh Tather $hin, pound of butter.” crust and all, and butter lightiy on : He 3 . sides; butter » baking-dish rnd flour | The records of tie insurance CONC it lightly; lay asingie layer of the slices pa Arsen he rg Sports olin of bread all over the dish, sides and all; | al Tea eran] . th Sia 0 pros wash and pick one-half pound of cur vions whi great windi- rants, pick and stone half pound raisins, Lente en a wai Se healthy and slice very thin two Snes of Sitrob: i ‘ seattle : and mix thoroughly, and scatter thinly Pun aiaters of Glasgow got md ok aplumber and threw him out of the over the bread sad butter 3 then build it up this way: make a mixture of four iy a us of milk, am gae-nalf 8 iA hay window" But he goteven pound of sugar, and pour cold into the | e sisters. e dish which Lo bread, currants, eto. ; double time from the nine Jeli put the baking-dish in a pan of water, ' window until he struck the sidewalk.— and let it cook for three-quarters of an Norristown Herald. hour in a moderately heated oven. Eat ' ladies of Columbus, Ga., hot or cold. Hor X Buxs.~Take two cups of milk, three of sugar, two of butter, two eggs, half teaspoonful of soda. half a cup of expedition. arty was headed by hy a Witte nutmeg, and flour to make = in girl who was termed * Buffalo stiff enough to roll; let it riscover night; | Bill™ by her associates. in the morning roll out small, set them | A physician at Areata, Cal. had for close together in a pan, let them stand ' a patient agirl for whom heentertained and rise again, and bake in a moderate a high , as she was the daaghter oven. of an inf + friend. He could not (Food for Puwis, cure her, however, and she died with- A little corn fed daily is good, as it | out the exact nature of her disease be- keeps fowls warm and healthy, andasis | ing djsooered, Immediately on hear- the case with butchers’ SCs, will | ing of her desth he accused himself of « make them lay some eggs, but the latter | oh of medical skill, and committed will not be of the finest Ea The best | guicide. aE. egg producing food is claime y some | : pd? - e five A of bran with one of mid- | Ealere is shephetd's fold in the Kop. dlings, which in the morning should be | that the Jocal health officer, having wet up with scalding water, or, far bet- | } oq" certain complaints, went to the ter, with skimmilk, say about four sehool in question and found there two quarts of the mixture, taking pains t0 | \}biidren apparently suffering from star- have it rather dry, though all damp. If | vation wa a girl of fourteen, was the fowls don't incline to eat at first, | 002 upon removal to the workhouse, to sprinkle a little Indian meal over the | wo toh only thirty-five pounds, and ber top. Be careful not to mix more than |," «aid to have been in suck a rot- they will consume during the day, and | to state that it was 50 PEMOYe at night give them their shelled corn or | t}am all. There i boo in wheat Foreantugs weil scuttered: so Shit { the establishment. all will get some, Per e milk, | i scraps of meat bread, ete., often fed to Walla (WT) § he SE a pig would ve more profitably em- which WE Seaman Hib AE LUT. ployed in egg production. Hens should | FHA a ward fn the wor not be kept longer than three years. of 1877 0 Gene iy igre tun tho Onions, chopped fine and mixed with oki i t is pothick NG Indian mea., have a beneficial effect. he 0 the ase of th yy Meat is an essential tood for poultry, es- | ¢ a Tse of Rte neck ok there 5s 2 pecially in winter, when they cannot | SCIP fain this was Lanz up Bear high get Worms that ay be picked up 3a as a sign that they. would fase all summer. 1e habit of giving mu v food in short space of time is a bad one. the Sutin and strategy of that animal In their natural condition the process | While fighting. of picking up their food is a very slow | Two gushing Boston girls were walk- one. ing'one day in the suburbs of the Hub, when they stumbled on a little old-1ash- joned mile-stone, forgotten in the march of improvement. One of them stopped, and parting the grass discovered the half-effaced inscription, “I. m. from Boston,” upon which she’ exclaimed, ecstatically: ** Here is a grave, perhaps, of some young girl who wished it writ ten on her tom ow from Boston. How touching! so simplc ~ud so suffi- cient!” There are at t in Europe rinces and a aye having a Ee a er Emperor of Austria, Francis Joseph. In addition to histitle as em- peror, he is nine times king, once arch- uke, twice grand duke, eighteen times uke, four times ve, five times count prince, twice prince, and many times count and lord. His | visite make the fortune of phatogruph ‘ers. The of Portugal eighteen eldest son has twenty twenty-nine, selves with : party of mi he Great Lakes. : The last meas@rements of American resh water seas are thus given: The zreatest: length of Lake Superior is 335 miles; its greatest breadth, 160 miles; mean depth, 688 feet; elevation, 627 feet; area, 82,000 s uare miles. The greatest length of Lake Michigan is 300 miles; its greatest breadth, 108 miles; mean depth, 690 feet; elevation, 506 feet ; area, 20,000 square miles. The greatest length of Lake Huron is 200 miles; its greatest breadth, 169 miles; mean depth, 600 feet; elevation, 274 feet; area, 20,000 square miles. The greatest length of Lake Erie is 250 miles; its rotten breadth is 80 miles; its mean depth is 4 feet; elevation, 555 feet; area, 6,000 square miles. The greatest length of Lake Ontario is 180 miles; its great-st breadth, 65 miles; its mean depth is 500 feet; elevation, 261 feet; area, 6,000 square miles. The length of all five is 1.965 miles, covering an area upward of 185,000 square miles. | first De Kine and his youngest
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