At Sixty
Twenty years or more have rolled
Since a student, wan and sad,
Felt that he was growing old
Little here to make him glad;
But I'm younger now than then.
I have shouldered heavy weights,
Tasted manhood’s pungent care,
Braved the world—its joys and hates
And of pleasure had my share;
Bat I am younger now than then.
True, my locks are getting gray,
And thin, but that's no sign;
Life with me is in its May,
Not a flower can [ resign;
So I'm younger now than then.
Tweuty-vears ! and what care 1
Be it twenty summers more !
The soul itself can never die,
But grows brighter ever more;
And I'll be younger then than now,
“ Strike While the Iron’ Hot."
Strike while the iron’s hot!
Strike—and with a will;
He is no skillful smith
Who lets the iron chill.
ore the iron hardens, strike,
Shape it to what shape you like,
To the sgythe or knlie or sword,
Yo slay or heal or mow the swand
Strike while the ivon's hot,
Strike with hand and heart;
Quickly turn the bar,
And smite on every part
Bring the sledge down with a swing
Till it makes the anvil ring.
So great master workmen wrought,
So struck the iron while "twas hot,
So, when the time is ripe
To act, or think, or say,
The precious moment seize
Before it pass sway.
Shapen the sotion to your ends,
As the smith the iron bends;
et the word and let the thought
Promptly into deed be wrought.
Strike while the iron’s hot,
Or do not strike at sll;
Strokes the cold bar will break,
Not fashion, when they fail.
If you're slow in arm and brain,
Al your iabor will be vain;
The quick of head and quick of hand
May rise from serving to command.
—~Jokn Francis Walle
THE TURN OF AN ACCIDENT.
It was six o'clock of a crisp October
ing from his sound night's sleep. sprang
out of bed with the alert readiness of a
man who knows the value of the first
hours of the day. [t was a tavern bed
from which Le jumped; home and its
cares were many miles away; buta long
ride lay betore him, and he washed and
dressed briskly, ss one in haste, hum-
ming a cheerful air meanwhile, as be.
came a man who felt himself in good
spirits, and had ample reason for doing
80. For. be it known, this year had
roved the best for farmers since John
been his own master. Harvests
had been large, prices high, and John,
ket, carried a sense of freedom and iib-
“— a mortgage which had pressed as
heavily on his conscience as did the
burden of Christian on his shoulders.
The burden was lifted now: and, fur.
ther than th.t, John carried in his fat
rea wallet two hundred dollars, over
and above, toward the expenses of the
next year. He had never been so * fore-
a joyful one, i
collar now.’ he muttered to himself as |
he brushed his thick brown hair.
should be a fool indeed it I put it in
Again . No more mortgages for me! |
hen, his toilet completed, he ran |
downstairs, two steps at a time.
Farmer-like, his first visit was to his
howses. They were munching their |
corn satisfactorily: and after a look or |
awo, and a pat, John returned to the
inn, where a jangling bell announced |
breakfast. It wassmokingon the table
—a substantial meal of the kind univer- |
sal in taverns thirty years ago: and |
John Boyd, whose appetite was of the
kind proverbially said to accompany a
good conscience, was doing it ample
The wallet was gone!
In the suddenness of the shock, John
felt himself pale, and then Ausd pain-
fully, as he confusedly tried to remem-
ber if he had taken out the wallet, and
when. Under his pillow—that was it.
He recollected distinctly, or so itseemed,
putting it there, for security's sake,
when he went to bed the night before. |
With a muttered excuse, he left the
of his room stood open, and a maid- |
servant was putting fresh sheets on the |
bed, the soiled linen lying in a heap on |
the floor.
Toward this heap John hurried and |
began turning it over.
the maid.
John straightened himself up to an-
swer. He had not noticed the maid be-
fore, though she lind waited upon table
at supper. Now he observed that she |
was young and rather pretty—fair, with
a trim, slender figure, beautiful glossy
hair, neatly dressed and braided. and a
phir of sweet, apprehensive blue eyes. |
Te. voice was soft, too; and she had a
shy, modest manner which suggested |
an idea of refinement. il these facts
Farmer Boyd absorbed in a flash, and |
instinctively noting, weighing, estimat-
ing, by that wonderfully rapid process
of which the human miud is capable,
while yet his thoughts were full of his |
money and his loss.
‘Yes. I am looking for my wallet, |
which I left under my pillow. Did you
find it?
The girl's face blanched to a deadly
whiteness, and her eyes dilated as with |
sudden terror.
‘No, sir,’ she said, her voice trem-
bling and sinking away as she spoke. |
*I didn’t see any wallet.
John looked at her distrustfully; but
there was something in the pale face |
which disarmed icion.
‘I'd like to search the bed,’ he went
on. ‘It may have slipped under the
mattress.’
Together they turned the mattress,
but no wallet was visible.
* That off horse of yourn has got his
shoe loose somehow,’ announced Mr. |
Nash, the landlord, at the door. ‘I |
thought I'd better tell you, so’s you |
could stop to the blacksmith's as you
pass, and get him to put in a couple of
nails. Why, what's the matter?’
John explained.
The landlord looked very grave. He
whistled softly to himself Jor a minute,
with his eyes fixed on the tumbled bed-
ding; then he went to the stair head
and called his wife. Presently they
came in together, the landlady’s face
very red and troubled.
* Such a thing never happened in my
house hefore,” she protested. ‘But
there's only one person been in your
room since you came besides yourself,
and she's the person you must reckon
with,’ pointing to the maid, who, with
white cheeks and downcast eyes, leaned
against the wall as if awaiting ser-
tence.
**Oh, indeed, indeed I didn’t take it!
I never saw any wallet,” she said; but
her voice was drowned in Mrs. Nash's
louder tones.
‘And 7% who e€lse took it, do you
suppose ho else had the chance?
Answer me that. It serves me just
right for taking in a girl with no recom-
mend—a girl I didn’t know nothing
about, not so much as her name, or
where she come from, or who her folks
are. Five weeks to-morrow, that’s all
the time she’s been in the house, sir;
but this is the end of it. It's the last
time I'll ever have a help I don’t know
all the long and short of, so you needn’t
feel airaid to stop with us again—no, nor
none of your friends, either; and as for
her, out she packs this day.’
‘ Id better go for the constable, hadn’t
JP—if you're sure it was under the
Jillow you put it,’ suggested the land-
‘Oh, don’t, please; please don’t,’
pleaded the girl, weeping violently.
‘Give the gentleman his wallet back,
then, and perhaps he’ll let you off.’
*1 can’t. I haven't got it. I never
gaw it. Oh, please believe me. Don’t
to ja
The landlady only answered
VOLUME XIII
poor girl wept in silence, saying no
| more.
| John had held his peace during this
| altercation, sharply eyeing the parties
{ concerned in it meanwhile, The Nashes
| he knew something about. They were
tof good reputation as far as he was
{aware. The maid was a stranger to
them, as to him: but spite of the cir
cumstances, and her manner, which was
hardly less suspicious, he could not
| bring himself to believe her guilty. He
| was not a hasty man, and he was a just
| perate judgments; and after a few min-
| utes’ reflection he made up his mind
| what to do.
i *1 can't swear that I put the wallet
said. ‘I'm pretty sure that I did, but
{my thoughts about it are confused
{ somehow, and it may be that I left it at
{ Bolton, where I slept on Tuesday. 1
i
i
{ count. So don'tery like that "—-address-
{ing himself to the girl. ‘I'll tell you
i what I'll do.
| the day, will you? —to Mr. Nash—* and
Pa Ny 4 « 3 » 3
if vou'll lend me a saddle I'll ride back
| to Bolton and make inquiry there, If 1
{ find the money, well and good; if 1
i don't, it'll be time enough to talk fur.
! ther about it to-morrow.’
* I'm sure itis very good of you to take
so much trouble,’ declared the landlady.
{ * But whether or no, the girl don't stay
here, I'll have no suspected thief in
i my house.’
| “There'll be nothing to suspect her of
iif I find the wallet,’ rejoined John,
fdryly. ‘Don’t give the poor thing a
| bad name till you know that she de-
i serves it." Then he left the room, un-
| mindful of thé look of gratitude which
the girl, who had dropped her apron,
and gazed after him till he was out of
| sight.
His reflections were not agreeable as
| he retraced his footsteps over the dusty
highway traveled but yesterday with so
light a heart. The loss of his money
meant a great deal to John Boyd. The
pressure of anxiety seemed to settle
is shoulders, as he thought
Miles seemed
heart, and what with dust, heat and the
continual effort to clear his mental con-
fusion as to where and when he last
had seen his wallet, the young farmer
was fagged and dispirited enough before
noon was fairly come,
He stopped to dine at a little tavern
attached to a toll-gate, and with some
vague hope that the money might have
been picked up ont!
mentioned his
shook his head.
‘ Bolton's your only chance,’ he said.
‘If twas on the road you dropped it,
there's no likelihood that you'll ever
hear of it again. The dust's eight
1088,
The toll-keeper
been three big droves of sheep and one
of bullocks along since yesterday, so il
your wallet was a-lying there, they must
oughly. Itis buried deep enough, you
may be sure, unless, which is just as
Your chance
is a slim one, I reckon.’
Cold comfort this; John was
De.
spondingly he rode through the after-
noon, scanning the way as he went; for,
despite the toli-keeper, a faint hope still
lingered in his heart, though the track,
but
presented a
from which Bolton was dimly visible,
when a moving object far ahead caught
As he did so
It was in this position that a
object, a patch of red not over an
square, in the dust beneath, caught
his quick eye. His heart gave a little
but
all the same he dismounted to examine.
Already a random hoof-stroke had
huried the red patch from sight, but
John recollected the spot, and stooping,
visible. His fingers recognized a solid
substance. Trembling with excitement,
he continued to dig; another second the
uncovered for one passing moment that
‘And some folks say there ain't no
halfaloud. Then— for Johp Boyd's re-
said a few words
on his horse, he took the backward
exonerate the poor girl. who, as he now
have passed a painful day under the
stigma of undeserved suspicion.
The heat was yielding to evening
with his best endeavor, it was after
that was evident, for lights were burn-
cheerfulness when they
heard of the recovery of the wallet.
‘There, what did I tell you? cried
the husband. ‘Haven't I ben a-saying
this scare would turn out all for noth-
ing? And you wouldn't listen to a
word, but just kept on to that poor
thing inside there, and she’s nothing to
blame all the time. I declare, it's too
bad the way women act to each other—
and folks calling them ** the softer sex!”
A man would be ashamed to be so hard.
Well, do tell! and so the money was
a-lying there in the dust all the time!
Well. I'm mighty elad, for your sake
and ours tro. Go right in, sir, and wife
'11 give you some supper. I'll see to the
horse.’
Mrs. Nash waited on the meal in
grim silence. She seemed only half re
joiced at the denouement.
‘ 1t's mighty queer,’ she remarked, as
she set the last dish on the table. ‘I
don’t feel as if we'd got to the bottom of
it yet. Why didn’t Lucy deny more
positive?’
‘But she did,’ said John, between
two mouthfuls; ‘she said she hadn't
got it.’
‘Why, course she said as much as
that. You didn’t expect her {0 say that
she had got it, did you? rejoined the
landlady, with a fine scorn. ‘But she
didn’t speak up violent and bold, as
you'd expect an innocent girl would.’
‘But she was innocent all the time,
you know.’
‘I ain’t so over sure about that,’ re-
lied Mrs. Nash, with a shake of her
ead. ‘It’s a queer business.’
Hurrying out to the barn next morn-
ing in the best of spirits, a low sighin
sob called John’s attention to a bench
outside the kitchen door, where sat a
figure crumpled up into a forlorn little
eap, in which he recognized the pretty
maid of the day before. She wore her
bonnet, and a bundle lay beside her.
Her face was hidden on her arms,
which were crossed on the back of the
bench.
‘W hy, what's the matter?’ said John,
turning back.
The girl looked up with a start. ‘I
beg your pardon,’ she faltered. ‘I'm
just going. I .didn’t mean to stay so
send me ,’ she urged. 5
a
ound {expression of disgust. And
ng.
' ?P Where?
*
{ ‘Idon't know where,’
ijectedly. ‘I'd try for another piace,
foniy there doesn't seem much chance
jof getting one without any recom.
mend.’
‘Do you mean to say that they are
{ sending you away from here?
i ‘Yes. .
* But, in the name of goodness, why?
‘1 don’ know. Mrs, Nash says she
t don’t like to have servants about who
i are suspected of stealing. The blue
eyes filled again as she spoke, and she
i nd her face,
‘By George! I never heard of such
injustice in my life," shouted John
| * Now, Lucy, if that's your name, you
i just sit still where you are. Don't stir
{ or move till I come back. I'!l see Mrs,
Nash, I'll put things right.’
To out things right seems easy enough
{to a : trong, hearty man, with justice
i and argument on his side, but that is
| because he does not ealoulate properly
on those queer hitches and crotehets of
{ human nature, especially woman nature,
| witich have no relation to justice and
fair dealing, and are unaffected by ar-
gument Mrs, Nash proved impervious
{to John's choicest appeals. Her mind
| was made up; she * didn’t wart to bear
i no more on the subject ;’ finally, her
| temper rising, what business was it of
| his, she demanded, what help she kept,
| or if she kept any help at all? He'd got
| his BOCK ROk back; accounts were
i squared between them; there was no
| further call, so far as she could see, why
he should meddle with her concerns,
| The upshot of the interview was that
| John flew out of the kitchen with his
| face us red as fire, tackled his horses,
threw valise and feed-bag into the
| wagon, flung the amount of his reckon-
ing on the table, and addressing Luoy,
| who, pale and terrified, stood, bundle in
{ hand, prepared for flight, called out:
‘Now, then, my good girl, you've lost
| one place by my fault, and I'm blamed
if | don't offer you another. Will you
jump into my wagon and go home with
me? My old woman's been talking this
long piece back of getting a smart girl
| to help along when she’s laid up with
i the rheumatics; 8» you're just the one
| we want She'll treat you fairly
| enough, I'll be bound, and you shall
have whatever vou were getting here,
Journal you'll be
| well used, not turned out of doors for
{ nothing, I'll engage to that; it isn’t the
way up in are parts,’ with a vindictive
look at the Ly. who stood rigidly
| planted in the doorway. ‘We don't set
up to be extra Christians, but there's a
little honesty and decency left among
us, which is more than ean be said for
all places. Well, what do yousay? Yes
or no. There'smy hand on it if it's
yes.’
He held out his broad palm.
tated, but for a moment only.
Ces, I will,'she said. * I've nowhere
| else to go, and you seem kind.’
Another moment and they were driv-
ing off together down the maple-shaded
road, whose yellow and crimson boughs
danced overhead against ‘October's
bright blue weather." There were peace
{ and calming in the fresh stillness of the
| early day. Gradually a little color stole
into Lucy's pale cheeks, and John's hot
mood gave piace to wonted good humor
| and cheer.
{| ‘You've had no breakfast, I'll bet,’ he
| said, with a smile. ‘And no more have
I was so mad with that woman that
| I couldn't swallow a mouthful, but now
begin to feel sharp enough. We'll
| stop at the next tavern. oouthwick,
isn't it? Five miles and a halt. Can
| you hold out till then?’
| *Oh, yes, indeed,’ with a grateful look
out of the biue eyes.
{| John's tone grew more and more
| friendly. .
| ‘We'll have something hot and hearty
there,” he said. ‘You iook pale,
| guess you didn't sleep any too much ast
night,
‘Oh, I couldn't sleep at all.
Nash told me that I must go the first
felt so
Lucy
hesi
{ thing in the morning, and
badly’
p ‘Ishouldn’t think you would want to
| stay with a woman like that.”
‘But it's so dreadful to have nowhere
{to go to. And besides—' She stopped
| abruptly, with a look like terror in Pe
| eyes.
| ‘Have you no friends, then?" asked
| John.
{ *No." The tone was very reserved;
| but reserve could hardly fail to melt
i
| under so sunshiny a presence ss John
| Boyd's, and before the long day's ride
| was done he had won from her the main
| facts of her story.
Lucey Dill was her name, Her mother
| had married for the second time when
| Lucy was twelve years old, and three
| years ago, when the girl was barely
| fifteen, had died, leaving her to the
| protection of her stepfather.
‘ She didn’t know what sort of a man
{ he was,’ said Lucy. ‘And he wasn't
{ that kind of man when sh: was alive,
| I was too young to notice much, and
{ mother always put herself between him
iand me when things went wrong.
i After she died it was dreadful. Elkins
~that's his son—came home tu live.
He never lived there before, and—and
he—
* Wanted to marry you?
‘Yes; and his father said I must,
But I was afraid of him —of them both.
And people began to come to the house
—bad people, not good—and I began to
suspect things.’
‘ What kind of things?
It was not easy to get an answer to
this question. In fact, the terrified and
inexperienced girl had hardly dared to
formulate her own fears: but John
gathered the idea that coining or other
unlawful practices were going on, and
Lucy, only half comprehending, had un-
derstood enough to startle and frighten
her into making her escape. She had
*
and her great dread was of being dis-
covered and forced to go back.
reassured her as well as he could.
‘You'll be just as safe at the farm as
if you were in an iron safe,’ he pro-
tested.
But, spite of his assurances, the lurk-
ing terror never left Lucy's eyes, though
weeks sped safely by and nothing oc-
curred to alarm her. Every sudden
noise made her start; the sight of a
roses to paleness. Except for this fear-
fulness, she proved an excellent * help’
in all ways, quick, neat-fingered, sweet-
tempered. Old Barbara wondered how
ever the farm had got on without her,
and John in his secret heart wondered
also. It never should be without her
again—on that he was firmly resolved.
‘ Lucy,’ he said one day, three months
after/she became his inmate, ‘I'm tired
of seeing you jump and quiver and scut-
tle upstairs whenever the peddler or the
ragman comes along. It's bad for you,
and it worries me almost to death.
Now, there's just one way that'll make
all sate, and set your mind at ease, and
that is, that you just marry me out of
hand, and give me the right to
protect you. Once my wife, I shouldn't
care if your stepfather and all the
gang came after you; let them lay a
finger on you at their peri!, while I'm
alive and have the right to interfere.
Will you, Lucey? It’s the best thing to
be done, trust my word for it. I don’t
mean to pretend that I'm doing it for
your sake entirely,” added John, with
a broad smile, * for I ain't. I want you
for my own sake the worst way, but
both ways it will be a gain; so, unless
you have something 'against me, say
* Yes,” Lucy, and we'll have the parson
over to-morrow, and make all safe.
Will you, Lucy?
‘Oh, how could I have anything
against you? replied Lucy, with the
sweetest blush.
‘Well, declared John, a moment
after, as he raised his head from his
first long lover's kiss, ‘ now I forgive
Mrs. Nash !"— Harper's Bazar.
The wool clip of 1879 in the United
States amounted to 233,560,000 pounds
the largest ever shorn in the country.
“BULLS AND BEARS.
ehange,
A New Y
Sar says
PA.
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| RELIGIOUS NEWS AND NOTES,
The Jewish Messenger referring to the
{coming conference at Madrid forthe
nited States in behalf of oppressed
gpectacies to be witnessed daily in this
the great money center to its western
termination sat Trinity charch, and hav.
that historic edifice, I *‘drifted in"
to see the sight Presenting myself at
the main entrance I was politely
formed that none but the initiated conld
enter there, and directed to a
entrance, on Wall street, which
to a gallery over the ‘‘arena.”
which the public can look with
safety upon the struggle going
below. And such a struggle!
first blush the scene conveys to the
mind the impression that such a tumult
couid only be raised by turning into the
**arena " two or three hundred lunatics
of the most violent type. The voeifera-
tion and uproar was deafening. A few
jammed together in one surging mass,
Yet it was composed of several centers,
around which the satelites of
were frantieally moving, gesticulating
and yelling at the top of the voice, In
a jargon unintelligible in the gallery
Most of the Presbyterian congrega-
ms in the city report an encouraging
| increase to the number of communicant
This seems to be the result
of renewed geal and spiritual interest
| flowing from the action of the Presbyte
| ries a yoar ago.~— Philadelphia Star,
The centennial anniversary of the Prot-
| estant Episcopal diocese of New Jersey
will occur in 1883, It is the favorite
| design of the bishop and leading men in
| the diocese to have all the outstanding
{ church debts paid by that time, Tothis
end a committee has been appointed to
The Golden Rule, of Boston, in an
article on the mistakes of young preach.
mon ones, The first is “unnecessary
loudness,” of which it says that “more
'oudness adds no power to the thoughts
or the words uttered.” Another is “too
much of an effort to be earnest,” and
they are reminded that “self-possession,
calmness strike doeper.” A thir
orice.” Sermons written with reference
happen to be anything of that
there) of each individual was thrown
into the contest, while the quiet looking
gentleman who occupied n position on
the rostrum at the end of the ** arena."
ocpasionly glancing from the paper he
was reading, looked not unlike a keeper
of an asylum, who feit conscious of the
1
to silence, while his assistants, who oc.
cupied other positions around
“awena,” serenely surveying the scene,
looked as if they held a reserve of
straight waisteoat appliances to accom.
plish the same end. Whilst looking
with amazement at this exhibition
of the power of the love of gain upon
the minds of men, 1 observed two or
three individuals who had just entered
At the annual session of the South
Kansas Methodist conference twenty
seven ministers were admitted on trial.
Bishop Stevens, of the Reformed
reports that the
movement is spreading among the ne.
of South Carolina. There are
now 1.200 communicants in seventeen
There are also six mis.
The bishop has just or.
dained three deacons.
A Bible and prayer union is about to
its headquarters at Washington, on the
First, each member to read one
God's blessing upon the word read:
§
indicated that their daily paroxysm
was over, or had not yet begun, They
advanced upon the excited centers, and
with a deliberation which had the ap-
pearance of being part of a programme,
on the outar edge of the circles, and
tossed them far over the heads of the
orazy crowd. [I expected to see that in-
dignity, as in my ignorance | supposed
it to be, instantly resented.
thing happened, and the
whom it had been practiced went
on with he game before them
as 3 if nothing unusual had occurred,
men
upon
in search of their crushed beavers.
i
proceedings going on below. He looked
at me with surprise and answered :
nor any one else; you may get a gen
eral idea of their doings, but it is im-
possible to explain what bulls and bears
and say every day. They do not
fully comprehend it themselves, and
take the chances of a
issue.”
to the crowd below was intensified ; the
Qo
day morning tor all the members, The
prayer union in England has grown from
fifty to 9.000 members in four years.
The Church association, established
the doctrines, prineiples,
and order of the United Churches of
England and Iveland, and to counter-
act the efforts now being made to pre-
vent her teaching on essential points of
the Christian faith, and assimilate her
services to those of the Church
Home," reports its receipts for the past
year at $32 440, and the expenditures at
827,045.
President Patton, of Howard Univer.
sity, Washington, relates how his
father, the inate
preached a sermon with a single hearer
for a congregation. A severe show»
storm kept nearly every one at home,
the
service except the singing, with no au-
dience but the sexton and one stranger
in the front gallery. A few days'after-
ward the stranger called on the pastor,
of
toward the gallery, pointing to
spectators and yelling with frantic ges.
tures. Amidst the babel of voices 1
caught the words: * Putout that cigar!”
and turning round saw a man with a
lighted Havana in his mouth. He was
evidently enjoying the scene, uncon-
scious of the direction and cause of the
official tock him by the arm and put him
and his cigar out of the gallery.
Remenyi and the Backwoods Yielin,
The Iowa City (Ia.) Republican of a
recent date says: An amusing scene
took place on the train from the Weston
He
and was
rmany years a useful member,
soon united with the church
fc
Tricks of Little Elephants,
The large elephants, after being made
to stand on their hind legs and eleva
their trunks, were aliowed to go back
to a small shed, partitioned off In one
aged respectfully four and six years.
was witnessed
Not far west
evening, and
writer hereof.
City a great,
fellow lumbered into the smeking-car
bearing in his arms an ancient and badly
damaged violin case. He seated him-
self just in front of a weather-beaten in-
dividual fully as unique as himself, but
evidently some forty years older,
by
of
"
ne
lively curiosity and then asked what he
had *‘thar.” * A fiddle,” replied the
youth with the red nose and watery
eyes. Forthwith the old man besought
Lim to play a few tunes,
The youth declined, however, on the
theory that it was “agin the rules to
fiddle on the keers." Just at this mo-
ment Conductor, Ackley came through
the car, and the old fellow appealed to
him to know if the youth could be per-
mitted to do a litte fiddling. There was
a twinkle in Ackley's eve as he remem-
bered that he had Remenyi in the rear
car, and he at once replied: ** Yes, sir;
1
10." With this warm encouragement
the young man at once brought forth
from its case a wheezy old violin with
an American eagle painted in red on the
back.
He began to tune up. and Conductor
Ackley passed on through the train un-
til he came to Remenyi in the palace
car. He told the great musician that
smoking car—in fact he had never heard
Remenyi to go forward and hear him.
and shouts of laughter greeted the musi-
of the ** Arkansaw Traveler,” with vari-
The young man nccepted this as a
of encouragement and sawed
Remenyi,
joined heartily in the general
When the young man had fin-
jshed the “*Arkansaw Traveler,” the old
man just behind him took the violin,
saying: “I hain’t played any fur forty
year, I married me a wife and she
wouldn't have it, but I reckon 1 kin
scrape a catgut yet.” A fresh sally of
laughter broke forth as the old man
“tuk the fiddle " and began scraping on
it“ Jump Jim Crow.”
It was an agonizing piece of melody,
and kept the audience In a fever of
laughter. When the old man finished,
Remenyi asked tor the violin, and it
was passed over to him. The train had
just stopped at a small station, and the
rumble of the car wheels was stilled
into quiet. Remenyi drew the bow, and
the grins still on the faces of the pas-
gengers began to melt away with mar-
velous rapidity. Immediately there
fell upon their astonished ears the open-
ing notes of a beautiful fantssin, whose
sweet witchery would charm the dull-
est, 4
The wheezy old violin seemed to re-
joice under the hand of its first master,
and gave forth such music as iv never
did before and never will again. The
gaping, astonished crowd listened till
Remenyi stopped, and then broke in
with rapturous applause and besought
him to continue. But no—he held up
the bow in gleeful derision, and ex-
claimed, vehemently: “Can't play
with that—only three hairs on it—no,
no, no!” He handed the violin back to
the youth, who thrust it into the case
and left the car at once, vowing that he
would never play another tune.
;
keepers took up a large dinner bell and
and, eatching the bell by his trunk, be-
away to give his attention to Venus, |
when Don began to tire of his work and |
presently had almost
ped, when the keeper slipped up
and struck him across the nose with his
stick. Atthis Don gave a how! and
began to ring the bell furiously, grow-
and
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held out his hand to take the bell. But
would not give it up, and ke
harder than ever, as though ¢
that since they had wanted him to ring
it so rauch he would give them enough
of it, nor did he cease until the keeper
walked up and forcibly wrenched it
from him.
Then the keeper took Venus down to
a place where a double cable was
stretched across the stable, about a foot
from the ground, ¢ was commanded
to get on there and walk across, which
she did, moving very slowly and per.
forming the feat without a single slip.
Next Don was called up and commanded
to go through the same performance,
This little elephant got upon the rope
and began to walk, when the keeper
turned his back away. Suddenly, when
Don had got about one-third of the dis-
tance, he looked around and seeing the
keeper not looking he quickly slipped
his hind feet off the rope on to the
ground and thus propelied himself
quickly to the end and hurriedly disap-
peared into his shed. This sly trick
created grest merriment among the
on-Jookers. It was found, however,
that this trick had been taught him by
the keeper himself, who is preparing
Don for a clown's part, whose business
is to burlesque things. The keeper had
purposely turned his back away, as that
is the signal for Don to go through his
trick of deception. Mu. Craven, the
trainer, suys the elephant has more in-
tellect than any other living animal, and
believes they can be taught to appear on
the stage, taking parts in a deama the
same a8 individuals.—Phila Times.
II
pt ringing
Lawyers Under Peter,
Peter the Great, of Russia, was a mon
arch of large views but invincible preju-
dices. He loved his country, and longed
to see it take a higher place in European
history. He saw clearly that progress
could be made only by the introduction
of new industries A by skillful train.
ing in mechanical labor,
Fo forward this end he visited in dis-
guise the older nations of Europe, made
himself thoroughly acquainted with
their forms of industry, and worked asa
common mechanic at various trades.
He sent, also, numerous young men
of promise to great cities in other coun-
tries, to ncquire skill in the mechanical
arts, and to become teachers of their
countrymen,
But, while honoring all well.
trained mechanics, he had a rooted
contempt for lawyers. It puszled
him to understand how they oc-
cupied high positions in England and
France. They multiplied quarrels, he
said, and fattened on the life-blood of
others. Vexed st the high esteem in
which they were held elsewhere, he
vented his wrath in the memorable
threat :
“I am thankful I have only two
lawyers in my empire. When I return
I mean to execute one of them,"
Is 558
An American gamin ‘weakens when
pressed too hard by labor, but let a min-
strel show come in town, and you can
serenely bet that he won't grow weary
until he has either beat his way into
the hall or been flung downstairs and
crippled. —Fulton Times,
0
SDAY, APRIL 29,
THE_IRISH FAMINE,
| Mad Scenes of Distress-The Starving
Little Ones.
Rev, George H. Hepworth, one of the
| committee appointed to distribute the
| Herald relief fund among the starving
| people of Ireland, says in a communion.
tion from Dublin: Very many schools
| had become almost empty because the
children were so constantly hungry and
so nearly naked that attendance was an
impossibility, One entreating letter
| #.ys that many of the children attend.
ing the Milltown schools, in Galway,
| are ina most pitiable state, being almost
| without clothing to cover their naked-
{ ness, while their pale faces and shivering
{ bodies tell a story of suffering from
| ood and exposure, The stoutest heart
| would be moved to pity at the sight of
| boys and girls sitting on the roadside
| half way to the school, In some cases,
| 300 nearly worn out to get there, they
{ erawled back to their Liomes only to
learn when they ask for something to
eat that there is nothing in the house
and that they must still go hungry.
On one ooeasion 1 entered a poor col-
lier's hut and found it empty. The only
| bedstead consisted of some boards
| laid on two boxes, The bed was a
pile ot straw. The bed covering was a
single, torn, wornout blanket, which
had to do service for a family of
four. 1 looked into the dinner pot and
saw nothing; into the men: sack and
found it empty. I laid a piece of silver
on the table and left. When the mother
returned and found the money she broke
into a flood of tears, and in the midst of
her sobs she hugged her children wildly
and cried out: "God has sent it to save
us! ™m Itis|
(God has sent it to save us!
a comfort to me to feel that God really
did send it through the medium of some
| sympathetic American heart. The other
| day a priest wrote tome that he entered
{a house in his parish and feund the
{ children sitting side by side in front
lof the smoldering turf in the fire. |
place, who had not iasted food |
| for fifty hours. He gave one of the
| boys a shilling to get some meal, but the
| poor little fellow refused to go because
| > was 80 neaply naked. Unfortunately
{ these are not remarkably exceptional
cases, No matter how prudently we
{spend our funds the famine will at
| times strike at a family and drive them
| to the very verge of the grave before we
lean find thew out and relieve their
wants. God be thanked that you are
| giving your sympathy and money for
these helpless children. Their parents
have for two years spent all their pit-
tance of income to buy the coarsest
food. To purchase a new garment
means si aply impossibility. The peo-
| pie in the distressed districts are insuch
a deplorable condition that very many
| schools have an average attendance of
jonly half the usual number of pupils,
| and the reason is tha! they have nothing
| to eat and nothing to wear.
I have a letter before me which de-
| claves that, to the personal knowledge
of the writer, the decrease in the at.
tendance at his schoo} is paused by the
utter inability of the parents to procure
| breakfast for their children. He adds
{ that it is quite disheartening to see the
isnd condition of these little ones.
| Those who once were rosy and blithe
| some are now pale, cold and listless,
| their garments so thin and worn that
i they hardly hang even in tatters on
their backs. A poor man who lives
| within pistol of the school
was, with his wie and eight
{ehildren, obliged to go to bed
| supperiess last Saturday night. He
| had no breakfast on the following morn-
ing until he was relieved by the parish
priest. ** When I take my lunch at the
| schoolhouse.” hie continues, ** little ones
| throng around me like famished dogs
| watching for a morsel. Many a time
{have 1 been so moved by their wan,
| hungry-looking faces that { have given
them what I had provided for myself,
{and gone hungry in their stead.” I take
| these extracts from a pile of letters, all
lof which are in the same tenor. We
| have this week received other letters
i
shot
that their faces are already beginning
{to brighten and that the ring of old
A ———————
How Mules Came into Fashion,
Few of the farmers of this country are
aware what a depth of gratitude they
Previous to 1783 there were very few,
| prejudice farmers against them as unfit
wrk upon
| to compete with horses in
Consequently there
| the road or farm.
crease the stock; but Washington be-
came convinced that the introduction of
mules generally among the Southern
{ planters would prove to them a great
blessing, as they are less liable to dis.
ease, and longer lived, and work upon
shorter feed, and are much less jiable to
| be injured than horses by careless ser-
Ivants. As soon as it became known
abroad that the illustrious Washington
desired to stock his Mount Vernon es-
tate with mules, the King of Spain sent
him a jack and two jennets from the
royal stables,and Lafayette sent another
jack and jennets from the island of
Malta. The first was a gray color, six-
teen hands high, heavily made and of
sluggish nature. He was named the
Royal Gift. The other was calied
the Knight of Malta; he was about as
high, lithe and fiery, even ferocious.
The two sets of animals gave him the
most favorable opportunity dof making
improvements by cross breeding, the
result of which was the favorite jack,
Compound, because he partook ef the
best points in both originals. The gen-
eral bred his brooded mares to these
jacks, even taken those from his family
coach, for that purpose, and such pro-
duced superb mules that the country
was all agog to breed some of the sort,
and they soon became quite common.
This was the origin of improved mules
in the United States, and though over
seventy years ago, there are now some
of the third and fourth generations of
Knight of Malta and Royal Gift to be
found in Virginia, and the great benefits
arising from their introduction to the
country are to be seen upon every culti-
vated nere in the Southern States.
Woodford ( Ky.) Sun.
EE ———————
Napoleon.
“1 was educated,” he said, “at a
military school. Everyone said of me,
“That child will never be good for any-
thing but geometry.’ I had chosen a
liltle corner of the school grounds where
I would sit and dream at my case, for 1
have always liked reverie. When my
companions tried to usurp possession of
this corner, I defended it with all my
might. 1 already »new by instinoet that
my will was to override that of others,
and that what pleased me was to belon
tome. I was not liked at school. It
takes time to make one's self liked ; and
even when I had nothing to do, | always
felt vaguely that I had no time to lose.
I entered the service, and soon grew
tired of garrison work. I began to read
novels, and they interested me deeply.
I even tried to write some. 1 often let
myself dream, in order that I might
afterward measure my dreams by the
compass of my reason. I threw myself
into an ideal world, and endeavored to
find out in what precise points it dif
tered from the actual word in which I
lived. I have slways liked analysis.
and if I were to be seriously in love, I
should analyze my love bit by bit.
conquered, rather than studied, history.
I did not care te retain, and did not re-
tain, anything that could not give me
a new idea; I disdained all that was
useless, but took possession of certain
results which pleased me." —Mme. De
Remusat.
1880,
| TIMELY TOPICS.
From a paltry seventy-five cents’
worth of iron ore may be developed, it
is said, $5.60 worth of bar iron, #10
worth of horseshoes, $180 worth of
table knives, 86,800 worth of fine
need les, $90,480 worth of shirt buttons,
$200,000 worth of watch springs,
000 worth of hair springs, or $2,500,000
pallet arbors (used “ watches.)
A statistician, curiously and closely
inquiring, declares the result of his in.
vestigation as to the products of the
United States to be that the agrienl-
tural products of one year amount to
nearly ns much in value as the products
of the mines since 1849. In plain words,
or rather figures, he suws up $1,504.
000,000 as the total value of the agri-
cultural production of leading staples in
1877, whereas, the estimated yield of all
the mines during twenty-seven years—
that is, 1849-76-—was $1,617,000,000,
The Germantown Telg says that
since the law to prevent the spread of
dontagious diseases among the eattie of
New Jersey was passed by the legisin-
ture of that State, little has been heard
of the pleuro-pneumonis which at one
time was quite prevaient there, The
report of the State treasurer states that
the gross sum paid last year in the
proper enforcement of the law was
-
expense the balance. Eighty head of
affected cattle were killed, for which
$954 were paid by the State,
in the person of a thirteen year-old boy
whose heart is on the right and his
liver on the left side of his body. The
boy, when confined in the house, be.
comes very nervous and restive, and
often falls ns in a faint. On this ac
count he cannot be sent to school. Ap-
plication to books at home produces
the same results, and any sudden ex-
citement, either from fright or labor,
will cause these fainting spells. The
boy spends most of his time out doors
hunting in the woods and fields for
squirrels and birds, and has become
very expert in the use of the gun. He
never sufferin
ing the least tired sitting down and
resting. The boy's general health is
very good, but be has not the vitality
usually found in boys of his age.
Some Italian physicians have been in-
vestigating the peculiar condition of the
miners who worked in the St. Gothard
tunnel. They have discovered that the
labor in remote galleries engendered in
the intestines of the workmen animal
cule resembling trichinme “The gene.
ral appearance of the St. Gothard
miners,” says the London T¥mes, * par-
tieularly those of them—and they are
in the majority—affected by the malady
in question, 18 described as deplors-
bie in the extreme. Their faces are yel-
low, their features drawn, eyes half
closed, lips aiicolored. the skin is
humid snd the gait diffienit. If they
eat with appetite they cannot digest, and
when wine is taken it is invariably re-
ected. Let a man be as strong as he
may, three or four months’ work in the
tunnel ser ously injures his health, and
at the end of & year, or a little more, be
is a confirmed invalid.” The investi.
gators have given the worm the name of
anemia awnkylostonia, and the malady
arising from its presence is said to be
epidemic in Egypt and Brazil.
According te the report of the board
of trustees of the celebrated Greenwood
cemetery, Brooklyn, for 1879, there were
231 lois sold last year, making a grand
total of 23,076. There were 5,132 burials,
making an aggregate of 199.547. The
gross receipts amounted to $452,207.96,
The gross disbursements, including in.
vestments—which aggregated $371,000
—gmounted to $446,008 98. The general
fund forthe improvement and permanent
care of the cemetery is now $565,201.31,
an increase during the yearof $13,479.15.
and 196 monuments and 482 headstones
were erected. The report says: The
interment in Greenwood, in a private
lot, of a favorite dog, elicited much com.
ment, and was the oceasion of many re-
monstrances, addressed to the trustees,
ments in the future,
spected, and the board accordingly
passed a resolution prohibiting hereafter
all interments of brute animals in the
cemetery.
been educated in America with the view
of sending him as a Baptist missionary
to Burmah, lectured recently in Balti-
more. Speaking of the deplorable con-
dition of women in the East, owing
mainly to peculiar religious teachings.
he said : Girls in China are believed to
have no souls, and to kill them is not
murder, and therefore not to be pun.
ished. Where parents are too poor to
support the girl children they are dis-
posed of in the following manner: At reg-
ular intervals an appointed officer goes
through and collects from poor parents
all the girl children they cannot care for,
when they are about eight days old. He
has two Be baskets attached to the
ends of a bamboo pole and slung
over his shoulder. Six infants are
placed in each basket, and he carries
them to some neighboring village and
exposes them for sale. Mothers who
desire to raise wives jor their sons buy
such as they may select. The others are
taken to the government asylum, of
which there are many ail through the
country. If there is room they are
taken in, if not they are drowned.
A Pitiab le Tale.
The following verdict was recently
retvrned by a coroner's jury in Ken-
mare, Ireland: ** We find that the de-
ceased, Denis Sullivan, died suddenly
in the market house, Kenmare, trom
natural causes; and we farther find,
after the most painstaking investiga.
tion. that his death resulted from des-
titation and insufficiency of food.” The
Kerry Sentinel says: The immediate
circumstances attending this poor man's
death reveal a truly sad story. All
who know the prostrate condition of our
people this trying year of famine know
that they suffer from a scarcity of fuel
as well as from a scarcity of ford. The
year was unsuited, in a great. measure,
to the saving of turf, and, even in more
pro itious years the price charged b
landlords for turbary is often so high
that poor people who have not con
stant employment cannot manage to
purchase the bog. In this pressing
crisis the Marquis of Lansdowne,
who owns vast estates around Ken-
mare, gave not astick or a chip to aflord
firing te the poor, and, it appears,
actually keeps a sort of 8 [van Ce rberus
in the shape of a wood bailiff to pre-
serve the rotten branches of trees and
bits of thorn from being taken home to
the fireless hearths of the poor. For
entering upon some part of the Marquis
of Lansdowne's propert , and picking
bits of whitethorn for ring, the wife
of this poor man was brought to court
and fined. The inhumanity of the
act is best demonstrated from the
fact that the bailiff who prose.
cuted swore the value of the sticks
to be but one penny. For this mon-
strous crime, this terrible injustice to
the most noble Marquis of Lansdowne,
the poor woman was fined in, between
costs and compensation, the sum of 3s.
1d. The fine not being paid she was to
have been arrested and cast into jail,
when the poor man rose up from that
bed where hevget and want had pros-
trated him, and went in search of an
official of the Lansdowne office whe
owed him the amount; and it was while
engaged on this me'anchely mission
that death overtook him.
NUMBER 17.
A Double Brain,
The human body is, in the main,
double. It has two eyes, $300 2th SW
nostrils, two lungs, ive ) , wo
. wo same
arms, two le
nerves issue from the two sides of the
spinal column, the spinal
column is itseli double t
Ope advantage of this
ship of the body is, that
member is destroyed, the other
its place, It is also & fam
we incline to Uke the side. more
an the left, , 8 8 consequence,
mem bers and organs of jhe stght side
emi fully developed, become
specially expert $
Now en balay 10 the -cles of
double orgab , and not 0 Sh
CiARE 0. Bingie
tearm (heShrat downs fia "point of
junction, As a consequence, it seems
probable that if one brain could be
safely removed, all mental acts could
be equally performed by the other:
and doubtless it is owing to this, that
tai
estroyed without an ap
of intellect, ;
To some extent, however, so far at
least as physical and’
ment are concerned, the two brains
adopt the principle of division of labor,
each presiding over oneside of the body;
but, singularly enough, each over
te side, .
his is due to the fact that the nerves
of sensation and motion cross before
passing out of the cranium. Hence,
when the left side of the body is pama-
lyzed, we know that it is the right bmin
which is injured, and vice versa.
Further, in using the right side of the
body i it is not only more
ousiy developed, but the left
more fully developed, so that
| culty of using the left hand in adult life
| does not depend whol y on the less de-
| veloped hand, but also on the less dev
velo brain. © ®
It is a mistake thus to develop one
| hand at the expense of the other. We
| might justas well d velop both alike.
| We conld thus often divide labor be
J My ans: ih
| might w eq 7
| where the work .is ordinarily wholly
| done by one. Fouths' Companion.
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| It is an erroneous ides
| ness and luxury, the feasts
{and the general style of li
{ancient Romans have never
| celled in modern times, been
! written about all countries and waters
| being searched for delieacies for the
Roman, wiles, but a Spyies that was
[enjoyed only DY princes patricians
| in those days is now at the command of
| everybody in comfortable circumstances
lin the world's great cities. Under the
{reign of Tiberius, a great talk was
| caused by the payment of a sum egual
| to $250 for an unusually large specimen
| of a certain fine sea fish by either the
| viceroy or the son of the viceroy of
Eespt. But in 1791, at the balls given
| by Potemkin, in St. Petersburg, there
{was always served a fish soup that
{cost 1,000 roubles, in a silver wessel
weighing rh pounds. In he ey
! middie ages there was great § or
! living in the realm of the caliphs. The
{ son of Gabryl, the body cianvol
| Harounai-Raschid, took hif meals in
| summer in a room cooled by snow, in
winter in a greenhouse, and am
{ Sighs re Touated fowl that liad Ges
| fed on almonds an pomegranate juice,
| In medimval Europe the cloisters were
| the centers of luxurious living. In
France the culinary art was well de-
veloped in the fourteenth century, and
it had made great advance in the fif-
teenth. Sweetmeats were the chiel
delicacies in those days, and the great
attraction of a feast was a k,
pheasant or swan in skin and
and with gilded beak. Poscocks, which
were always b bit on amid flourish
ri
tary
uets
ot the
ex-
of trumpets and the hand
the guests, were the a howl
the sixteenth or seventeenth oen .
| when they were gradually erowded out
| by the turkeys and pheasants. In Eng-
land, at the end of the fourteenth cén-
tury, the ordinary meal of a man of
good standing consisted of three courses,
of seven. five or six dishes respectively;
lon festive occasions the number of
dishes was in to eleven, nine
{and twelve.
ms — ITAA
A Plea for the Sunflower.
According to M. Grunert, of Lithe-
| ania, the sunflower is there universally
| cultivated in fields, gardens and borders,
| and every part of the plant is turned to
| practical account. A hundred pounds
lof seeds yield forty pounds of oil,
scarcely inferior to Prov oil, and the
ressed residue forms a wholesome
or cattle, as niso do the leaves and the
green stalks, cut up small, all being
rly eaten. The fresh flowers, when
a little short of full bloom, furnish a
dish for the table which bears favorable
comparison with the artichoke. The
contain a large quantity of honey, »
80 prove an attraction to . The
sa are a valuablé food for poultry, or
supply fine groats of a delicate almond
flavor; ground into flour, pastry and
cakes can be made from them: roasted.
they supply a pleasant drink. and boiled
in alum and water they yield a blue
coloring matter. The carefully-dried
leaf is used as tobacco. The seed recep-
tacles are made into blotting-paper, and
the inner part of the stalk into a fine
writing-paper; the woody portions are
consumed as fuel. and from the resulting
ash valuable potash fk obtained. Ex-
perience has shown that large plantations
of them in swampy places are a protec
tion inst intermittent fever; farther,
that they will grow anywhere. and in
any soil with littie or no attention. The
best seed is obtained from the Crimea. —
London
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Hand in Hand at the Golden Gates.
A touching incident occurred in the
deaths of the aged people, Mr. and Mrs,
Dickson, at Oskaloosa, Ia., last week.
For convenience in attendance during
their illness they were placed in separate
bedrooms. The heads of the beds were
laced against a thin partition, which
fring an open door permitted the two
old people to converse though not able
to see each other. The night before the
husband died his wife heard him groan-
ing and was very anxious to be with
hia, but was unable to arise. Soon she
was informed that he was dying, and in
order to be near him the beds were moved
so 8s to bring them parallel with the
artition. the heads opposite the door.
his done the fond wife reached out her
haad, gra her husband by the hand,
and held it during his last moments.
Thus death found them, as fifty-one
years | efore the Apriage ceremony left
them, joined hand in d. It was a
simple and affectionate token of the
love of a Jong life, and the day follow-
ing the wife, too, folded her arms in the
sleep of death,
Sr it —— bi
Wabash, Indiana, has walked in ad-
vance of many larger and older towns
by introducing the electric light in its
streets. Four electric 'amps of 3.000
candle power each went into commission
recently. The lamps, suspended mid-
way of the iron fi on the court-
house, which towers two hundred fect
above the business of the town,
were furnished with electricity by a
No. 5 generator driven by a seven-horse
power engine. ol
the machinery was to light one mile in
diameter from the court-house, and be
equal to a gas-burner 2,680 feet from
the light. The council placed n.en at.
different parts of the city to observe,
and they reported ac , At
Arbana, five miles north, the t was
said to be beautiful, The Detroit Fr
Press says the test has given general
satisfaction gi tater)
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A cat recently died in Philadelphia in
her twenty-fourth year. 5
She comes to me in dreams,
Just as of old;
17757 # With form ct tragile grace,
The sweet remembered face; *
Even her garments fold
1s just the same—
In dreams she comes to me,
Only in dears.
Bae comes to me in dreams,
i
— A. A. Hollowdl, in the Boston Journal.
iy ur ;
Jai! birds are confined in guilt cages.
Boston Transcript: :
Phénsant brown is one of the most
. home Putting a
olin line. —New York News, oy
Thejewei for a frilled bosom ¢
re rh A ng
on
An ansl has been
of "covery in which
has been for thirty
gets of animal decomposition are
to be still present. dhiars
At the late Demidofl sale, IY
Inrge landscape known as “The Wind
mills™ was ed down to M. de
ph pig as I jess
outfit wi r a much
sum.—Aow York News,
It is stated that France now calls into
action the enormous amount of 1,100 000
horsepower, représenting the effort of
no Jess than 14,000,000 men—that is, in
jon actually greater than
of the whole
country.
Ch has 8 policeman who can
s joao Baeib. German, French,
Polish Welsh ianguages. He can
club a man in five different langu
in Jess Sime Hubs . OE in
to a com
Latin.— Rome Sealine,
When you see a mother of a ton-year-
old boy or rapid progress in the
direction of the river with a good stout
bean pole in her hand, you will not be
far out of the bo should you conclude
she is ing ey She is going on
ne Ly voyage—provided she can
ind the boy.
The Anstralasian Wesleyan Methodist
church veports 26,705 members, excin-
and of twenty-nine in Samos,
crease in Australia and
was only 288, :
The following re the dates at which
has vd in previous
yoy 3 183, July Jo; 1808,
4 a 1: i844, Jure :
454840, Koo, August ns 350,
ugust 18 and August 30: 1860, June
Fong A July 4; 1868. July 27; 1872,
June 10; 1876, August 15.
* said the political speaker,
t of ingenpous eloquence, “1
: ere was a jarge
number of his neighbors present, and
the terrific ogtburst of .applisuse which
followed this remark Shtirely Bpect the
point which the orator was about to in-
troduve.— Rockland Courier.
In building or choosing
live in, take pa thst the Kitchen Pp
roomy and ty of sunlight
dark Kitchen is op edly and 8
cramped ; the labor of
housekeeping one thialf. Tet thekitchen
be supplied with ali modern conveni-
ences, even if the parior suffers in con-
sequence.
Mr. A the retiring traffic mana-
ger of the English Midland railway. has
occupied his Ice ov tenty gi Sears,
at a salary of a‘year He
takes a seat al She board worth Shout
$4,000 a year, and is presented w
honorarium of $50,000. His family is
to receive a service of plate, and his por-
trait is to be painted.
Tucker, a lunatic. assailed Wood with
s butcher knife st Sandusky, Obio.
Wood was unarmed, but he threw the
madman on the floor and clutched his
throat. Tucker struck again and again
with the long blade, and Wood choked
with all his might. The fight lasted
half an hour, and ended in the death ot
both men—ene from stabbing, and the
other from ehoking.
Sawdust is not a very marketaba
commodity. If we except the manu-
fac ure ot dolls, there are few uses to
which that article can be put. Mr.
Grossman, of Petersburg, Va., has been
ted a patent which may put saw-
ust to a useful purpose. He intends to
make railroad ties, fence posts, paving
and building blocks, ete., out of sawdust.
“This artificial wood, itis
made fire and water 4
it. It will
J
1 August 14;
a house to
and no in-
take a high
polish and than
ord
wed and allow of nails being driven
into it. The process is said to be simple
and cheap.
: Hand-Organs.
There is only one hand-organ manu-
facturer in this country—thank good-
ness—and his name is Taylor. His
menufactory is in New York, where he
turns out one or two organs a week and
repairs broken down and wheezy old
instruments. Mr. Taylor says the popu-
lar taste for hand-organ music just now
seems to run to light and comic rather
than serious and sentimental airs. For
styles just now, the principal choices
seem to be selections from the * Pirates
of Penzance,’ Ed. Harrigan’s airs, * The
Jumping Jack’ airs from ‘Fatinitza,’
and a variety of jigs, reels and waltzes.
The music of the ‘Pirates’ is weak,
viewed from the hand-or stand-
point. It lacks taking airs, melodies
such as ‘Pinafore’ was rich in things
that everybody gets to know and that
the children sing. He had a great rush
on ‘Pinnfore ’ airs last season, but now
they are never called for. There are
some serious tunes that hang on well.
‘Silver Threads Among the Gold' is
one of them, and the "Sweet By-and-
Bye" will always be good in the West
and through Connecticut. Seme of
Moody and Sankey's tunes are good to
in the rural Sjgirieis, Jar.