Fate,
1 hon in the sunlight,
And 1 in the shade;
Bat, oh! by the sunlight
The shadow is made,
Thine be the gladnoss
And mine be the gloom,
Fog love, though thy triumph
I= only my doem,
In silence and shadow,
Through weal and through iil,
My fate is too love
And to follow thee still.
Unsenn and unknown
Wili { oling to thy heart,
For tetters Lave bound me
Phat death cannot part!
pt A A A
Muste in the Night,
When stars pursue their solemn flight
Olt in the middle of tho night
A strain of mnsic visits mo,
Huashed in a moment silvery
Such rich and ins as make
\
The very son! aol &ilene
With loaging tor t
k
Of summer gardons, sweet with mad
Or lovers in the distant da
dowring the blissful Burden out,
The breaking jov, a Jon!
ng
Or revelarseail flown
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with w'
And in a madness hall divine,
Beating the broken tune about
Or else the rule and rolling notes
That leave some stroll
Ming sailors’ throats,
Hoarse with the salt spray, it may be,
Of many a mile of rushing sea;
Or some high-minded dreamer stravs
Late through the sol itary ways,
Nor heeds te listening night nor me
Or bow, how wheuoe those tones be heand,
Hearing, the slumbering soul is stirred,
As when a swiltly passing light
Starties the shadows into fight,
While one remembrance saddenly
Thrills through the melting melody
A sfrain of music in the night,
Out of The darkness bursts the song,
Into the darkness moves along;
Only a chord of memory jars,
Oaly an old wound burns its soars,
As the wild sweetness of the strain
Smites the heart with passionate pain,
And vanishes smong the stars.
— Harri. Prescoll Spafford
A Slice of Bread and Butter.
= Dorothy—Dorothy Walde!" eried
Miss lorinda Cross (“cross by name
and cress by nature"the chiidren—
neighborhood declared her), as she
po mced upon the huge loaf of bread
which she had taken from the oven
and nut into the big stone crock only
half an bour ago, just before she
turned her straight-up-and-down back
on the kitchen, to stalk to the garret
after “that idle hussy, Molly "—the
maid-of-all-work—" who had been]
twice as longz as she ought to have
been mtking the beds there.”
I said the huge loaf. 1 should have
said half the huge loaf, for only that
proportion of the newly baked bread
remained.
““Dor-o-thy Wal-doo-0o!" again
cried Miss Cross, in an ascending
scale, with an ominous tremoio on the
last note.
“Yes, aunt,” replied a sweet, fresh
voice; and a pretty young girl came in
from the garden, with a basket of
cherry-red currants in her hand.
A tiny thing she was, with round,
dimpled, rosy face, innocent child-like
blue-gray eyes, and fair hair, some
short tresses of which had escaped from
the braid into which they had been
bound. and were making a delightful
use of their freedom by curling in the
most charming manner about the low
frank brow and little pink-tipped ears.
About *‘sweet sixteen,” a stranger
would have pronounced her; but
dolly, as her youthful companions, |
much to the disgust of her aunt Lor-
inda, called her, was older than that |
by a year and a hall.
An orphan at the age o
en,
{ twelve, she |
relative she knew, her mother's elder |
sister—a woman hard in speech and |
manners, and anything but soft in|
heart. This nmiden lady soured ir |
revoeably on hier twenty-fourth birth- |
day. which stiould have also been her |
wedding day; but at the very moment |
she was fastening the orange blossoms |
in her hair, had come the news that
her betrothed had eloped with the |
irl-friend she had chosen for her
ridemaid. Lorinda tore the bridal}
wreath into frag vents, and sca tered
it to the winds; never mentioned the
false pair from that hour, banished for-
ever all the womanly grace and tender- |
ness she had ever possessed (truth to
tell, she had never possessed much), and
became the hardest worker of her sex |
that ever worked upon a farm. Ina
man's boots, coat and hat, early and |
late, hot or cold, wet or dry, with set |
mouth, lowering brow and silent lips, |
she toiled side by side with her sturdy |
old father, until the day he was struck
down by the pitiless sun, and died a
few hours after —died just in time to
be saved the pang of hearing that his
youngest and favorite daughter was
ying at the point of death, widowed
and] friendless, mm a faraway city.
Lorinda buried her father—if she wept |
for him, none saw her—promoted a
man who had been long in Bis employe
ment to the position she used herself
to occupy, and started for her sister's |
badside. When she returned to Fern-
ville again. she brought dear little
fair-haired, soft-eyed Dorothy with her,
and some of her neighbors fancied
that sincethat time she had been a shade |
ess stern: but if she had been, it was
so slight a shade that it was almost im-
ssible to perceive it. True, she did
ess out-of-door work, and devoted part
of the time thus saved to teaching her
niece to sew and cook and churn, and
other like accomplishments; but never
were the lessons accompanied by an
approving smile or kindly word, much
Jess a joving kiss. Even to the gentle,
winning child, Lorinda Cross remained
a cold, stern woman. But Dorothy,
God bless her! was so sunny in dispo-
sition that the ster ways and dark
face of her aunt could not cloud her
young life. And though shut out from
that inflexible woman's heart, she found
the doors of all other hearts open to
her. The dogs, the cats, the hens, the
chickens, the horses, the cows, the
calves, the very geese, ragarded her!
with adoration. The farm laborers
blessed her pretty face whenever she
eame among them; and as for Molly—
oor hard-worked Molly!—she would
ave kissed the ground the little feet
trod upon.
What wonder, then, that Dan Howell,
the young surveyor, who lived half a
mile away, in the old stone coti.re, and
whom she had known from the r-ry
first day of her arrival in Fernviue
(when lie, then a tall, bright-eyed boy
of fifteen, passing her aunt’s gate, and
seeing the sad-looking little girl, in her
black dress, standing by it, silently
offered her the prettiest white rabbit
she had ever seen—a rabbit he had been
coaxinz Abner Brown for a month past
to sell him, and which now he parted
with, without another thought, atsight
of those lovely tearful eyes and that
sweet wistful face)— what wonder, I
sav, that he * Jaonght of her by day,
and dreamed of her by night?”
But to go back. Dorothy came smil-
ing into the kitchen, her lips and cheeks
as red as the currants she carried; but
the smile faded away when she met her
aunt’s irate gaze.
“Did you cut this loaf, and then
leave it Lere in this hot room to dry to
a chip?” demanded Miss Cross; and
then she added, emphatically, without
waiting for an answer: ‘‘ But of course
you dil. No one else would have dared
to do it. And how dared you, knowing
that I never allow bread to be cat in
my house until it is at least » day old?”
“I am very sorry, aunt,” began
Dolly; * but he looked so hungry!”
«+Jle!’” screamed her aunt, regard-
jng her with a look of horror. * You
gave it away, then! And to a “he!”
A tramp, I've no doubt, who will come
back some night, rob the house, and
murder us all.”
« Please. aunt,” entreated the young
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indeed he wasn't; but a hand- | Inspected it curiously
fellow with golden
tramp,
| SOme young
| hair"
“A wig," snarled Miss Cross.
“And the most beautiful blue eves,
| Dolly went on, ** ever saw in
life. And he wasn't near the}
I And he didn't ask for anything, Oh, do
ster, aunt, wh you all about
it. I wasonmy knees in the path, piek-
up some currants had let fall
wien [ saw him, through the hole in
the hedge Rrawnio’s oalf made the other
day. coming slowly up the lane—""
* If you had been looking at what you |
¢ ong
{inn adjoining city,
address, written in a plain legal hand
“Who can it be from?’ wondered
Dolly and then one ned it, to find
question but partially answered
sheet of paper and a smaller en
velope wire inelosed A paper coa
tained, same hand h had
#8 we
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fii my
House
@
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in the whic!
addressed the letter, these lines
{ ** Miss Dororny WarLno
“ ear Madam We send you the ao.
w tnd Va companying check in compliance with
were doing, you wouldn't have seen | ders received to that effect fvom fi
him." said her grim listene iowt in ua hi sa fobs thi;
ay H 4 he grim tener w +. |olient in Europe whose interests in this
¢ Qial 10, OF ™ se Sala | YR »
Dells. “or | me. of course, SAIL | country we represent. Please acknowl
OLY, ord ouidn't bave looked at edge receipt }
| him so intently. And, oh, Aw yo - “wy :
dda. 1 wa y And, oh, Aunt L« Your obedient servants,
{rindda, it was just like looging at a pio ‘FIND & PROVE
tare! i 3, " : so
at , : 2. ay “January 1, 1880,
Stuff" said Miss Cross. : wy lL!
“ He was so handsome, and so dusty,
and so shabby, poor fellow! And
see
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he | W idest extent, “* A check!” sho ex-
sat down under the old tree, took a | Claimed, and with trembling fingers
|orust of bread out of his pocket and | tore open the second envelope, which
| began to eat it as though he was | Was also addressed to her, but in a dif-
| very. very hungry. That went to my | ‘erent, more elegant hand; and sure
f heart.” = il * {enouzh there was a cheek—a check for
“ Rubbish I" said her aunt. a thousand dollars, payable to the order
“And I got up softly, and ran into the of Miss Dorothy Waldo. And on a
house and cut a slice—" slip of paper which had kept it com-
A slice! Great grief I interrupted pany were these words: “In payment
Aunt Lorinda. “A piece big enough for | for a silce— A very iarge -of bread
the breakfast of a whale family.” | and butter,” And that's all the young
“And 1 buttered it." : | girl ever knew about it.
* You buttered it?" Y. 3
“Yes, aunt; | only took the butter |Jo¥ and astonishment. The next
that was left in the dish.” | thought of Dan. Perhaps he had not
*“ Half a pound! You started yet. How could gel
{ butter for a week.” him through the deep snow? Sieigh-
“And I ran out again, and into the | bells again. Farmer Boers coming
| lane, as fast as 1 could,” continued | Pack without the wood. She ran out
| Dorothy, apparently undismayed by | int) the ane. “Oh, do take me with
this threat, * for fear 1 might lose cou- you!" she cried, to the great surprise oi
rage; and stopping suddenly before | the honest old fellow. “1 must
him, I put the tread in his hand, and Dan—Mr. Howell, I mean. I must sce
said, “lam sorry for you! and | Dim us soon as possible.” . 3
| turned to run away, when he seized my | Jump right in, my dear,” saic
hand, and kissed it" (Miss Lorinda
Cross became rigid as marble), ** an
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old man, “and I'll have yeu at the cot-
| tage in a jifly."”
Away they went, the gray mare mak-
ing excellent time—for her ; and as they
neared the house, Dolly caught sight of
{| Dan just leaving it
“Dan! Dan!" she called, her ar
young voice ringing on the clear air,
i and madly waved her crimson shawl
Dan turned, ssw the bright flag and
her sweet face
bounding over the snow in time
ceive her in his arms j
from the sled.
“You couldn't—no, not if you guessed
forever,” she said, half crying and ha
langhing—'* you couldn't guess wh
brought me here this morning.”
“ Whatever it was, heaven bless it
thousand times!" i her lover.
‘It is—leap-year, you know, Dan."
“ Yes, now I think of it But it
can't be possible you have come here to
propose to me?"
" “Yery
Dolly, slowly and deiiber )
Daniel Howell, wi:l you marry me?
“Mr. Daniel Howell's" only reply
was to fold her in so close an embrace
that, being the tiniest of maidens, she
almost disappeared from view.
** And has Miss Cross—" he began,
when the pretty blushing face, sll dim-
pled with smiles, was again raised to his
own.
“No, she has not,” interrupted
Dolly. * She knows nothing about
But it's all right, Dan,” carefully tuck.
ing something with her dainty iert hand
—Dan held the right—into the breast
pocket of his overcoat. * You may
come and see Aunt Lorinda ns soon as
you choose. You didn’t know it, Dan
dear, but you've got a thousand dol-
ars. "— Harper's Basar.
.
country. Tell me your name little one.
i * Dorothy
repeated; ‘1 shall never
forget it;' and he raised his hat and
went away. Dear aunt, had you been
in my place, would you not have done
as I did?” :
“1? cried Aunt Lorinda—*"1 carry
meals to strange men on the public
highway? I let a foreigner who calle
my country ‘al
hand? No. inde
kissed my hand.”
“ Perhaps not,”
i, Cit
Waldo,’
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“low it, and came
to re-
she jumped
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y country’ kiss my
never would have
said Dolly, with a
momentary twinkle in her eyes; and
then she added, pleadingiy, ** But don't
be angry any longer, aunt. [I'll make
another loafof bread right away."
“But that won't bring back what |
vou've wasted,” said her inflexible rel.
ative. “A pretty wife you'd befor aman
who hasn't a dolla all hisowvn, giv-
ing away bread by the loaf and butter
by thie pound " (Miss Cross had retained |
at least one womanly trait—a slight |
tendency to exaggeration) *‘ to all the
thieves and tramps who happen to come
along.”
“Qh, aunt!” exclaimed her niece;
looked like a prince.”
*“ A prince!"—with a sort ot scom.
“Your head is turned by that trashy |
poetry you read. A prince! A lil
story—in shabby clothes, and n
a crust! A disguised burgiar, in my
opinion. But burglar or no burgiar,”
she continued, it must be confessed
with sou irrelevancy, ‘“‘you shall |
never marry a man who hasn’t a dollar |
to call his own, with my consent, and |
if ever you marry without my consent,
you make a iiar of your mother in her
grave,”
“ Aunt, I have told you again and |
again,” said Dorothy, tirmly but gently,
“that I never wouid. I have not for- |
gotten my mother's last commands.”
“Then don't be encouraging tha
Daniel Howell to meet you every tack |
and turn; and if you must have some |
one to walk home from church with
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A Tremendous Spider Story.
A correspondent writes from Plain
The following facts transpired on the
farm of an honest od farmer, about
| two miles from the town of Plainview.
Last Monda“ .norning or entering his
barn the farmer found,
prise, his pet bulidog and oid eat and her
kittens suspended from the
in his barn. On examination he found
| them to be suspended there by a cord
{about the size ol! common wrapping
and he is away so much, that when he | cord, the fiber of which much resembled
is at tome I feel as though— 1 meun, | silk, but proved, however, to be a spi-
I wouldn't like to hurt his feelings.” | der's web. At first he thought the kit-
“Bah!” retorted the grim maiden, | tens, which were on the hay just above
“Men have no feelings. Aad as for | the beams, had accidently dropped into
knowing him a Jong time, I think |
you've known him quite long enough.” | instinct of her maternal nature, endeav-
* But if he had the thousand dollars, | oring to rescue them had herself be-
come entangled. As to the situation of
the bulldog, he thought he had been
| trying to get at the cat while in Ler
“That would be in his favor, cer- | trouble, and had himself to succumb to
But he hasn't, and never will |
have, with that old father and mother | ward came to the conclusion that they
depending upon him. A thousand dol- | had been picked up by the spiders ns
lars, indeed! Where would he get it? | they went about seeking whom they
The sooner you forget Daniel Howell, | might devour. ; .
and the sooner Daniel Howell puts you |
out of his head, the better.” | of his neighbcrs to witness the marvel-
“There’s no need for vou to talk so | ousscene,but imagine his surprise when,
loud, aunt,” said the little girl, indig- | on his return, he found a sucking colt
nantly; and then, startled by the look | ascending to the web, having been en-
of malicious triumph on her auut’s face, | circled by two different fibers, one just
Dorothy looked around, just in time to | before his hind, and te other just be-
receive a farewell bow from Daniel | hind his fore legs, he was being drawn
Howell as he turned from the door | up by the spiders.
“He heard me,” said Miss Cross. | been drawn up five or six feet, a spider,
“I'm glad he did; "twill save trouble.” | apparently well versed in physiology,
h. Aunt Lorinda, how can you be | came down one of the fibers and began
so cruel?” said poor Dolly, bursting in | boring for the spinal cord, just between
to tears. {the atlas and the axis, as I have seen
* small ones do with flies, but the farmer
was unwilling to sacrifice the colt for
the benefit of scientific investigation,
and so he waa rescued. :
The spiders were then taken from the
dove-cote, of which they had taken pos-
session, and killed, One
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has a thousand doilars in the bank.”
** But, aunt, I've known Dan so long,
A year and a half passed away, dur-
ing which, owing to his frequent ab-
sences and Miss Lorinda’s watchful
care, Dolly and her lover had met but
three or four times, “It's hard,” said
the young man, on the last of these oc-
“to know that I cannot ask
your aunt for your hand because I have
not a thousand dollars of my own, when
I know that there is plenty of room and
love and everything for you at the old
stone cottage. Oh, Dolly, if you would
but brave her anger, how gladly I'd
make you my wife this moment!”
“Pan,” interrupted the girl, with
dewy eyes, it isn’t her anger—though
I feel that it would be most ungrateful
weighed one half a pound.
a dark brown color, with a light stripe
down their backs, strong, active and
ferocious. Several men of good repute
in this section are willing to testify to
the above facts.
A Que
en as a Circus Rider,
live at the Hotel Vouiliemont, in Paris,
in the Rue Boissy d’Anglais, a life of
perfect seclusion. The king cares only
for two things—Ifirst. his crown, which
he still fondly hopes to regain, and sec-
ondly, his consort, whom he worships
and whose every whim and caprice he
humors and obeys. He himself cares
little or nothing about horses, but as
the queen, like her sister, the Empress
of Austria, adores horseflesh, his majesty
is ever ready to give any price for the
best cattle. The life of these royal ex-
iles is tedious and monotonous enough.
The king spends his days, when he is
not with the queen, reading or dictating
to his secretaries, fondly imagining that
he is really the head of a party, and
that the few Italian noblemen who
gather round him care more for the suc-
cess of his cause than for the pecuniary
assistance he may afford them. His
majesty will sometimes dictate or write
far into the night, walking up and down
the room in a feverish state of excite
ment, and at length, when rosy-fingered
dawn begins to spread her palms in the
sky, going to bed to dream of a triumph-
ant, return to the throne of his father
Bomba. The queen has nothing to
occupy her time but her toilet and her
horses. She will have her hair dressed
four times a day to kill time, and keeps
five maids, although she does not re-
ceive and goes nowhere save to her
sister's, the Duchess d’Alencon. Her
great pleasure, however, is riding, and
she is even a finer horsewoman than the
Empress of Austria. During the bad
weather her majesty went every day to
the circus or hippodrome, and latterly
has actually been taking lessons Low to
do circus tricks on horseback, a servant
throwing balls to her, which she
catches, goir g at a gallop and leaning
back so that her head almost touches
the horse's tail. The poor king stands
by admiring and ever at hand to see
that his beloved consort, whom he
worships as a goddess, meets with no
harm.
my mother made for me on her death-
bed. And if it had not been for that
promise, Dan, you must remember, 1
should have been the inmate ot an or-
phan asylum, and we would never have
Adding, the sunshine coming
back again, ** Don’t you see how much
worse things could have been?”
““You are right, my darling, as you
always are,” said Dan; “but think—it
may be years before I have ‘thebond.’”
‘1 ean wait, Dan. Yes"—with a
mischievous little laugh—*1 can wait
until I am as old as Aunt Lorinda”
* God forbid, love!” hesaid, catching
her in his arms and kissing her sweet
lips. * And now good-bye; I am going
away again to-morrow, to be goue I can-
not tell you how long. Oh, Dolly,
heaven speed the time when a little wife
shall be waiting with the old father and
mother at the stone cottage to welcome
me home!”
She raised herself on tiptoe, clasped
his face between her two tiny hands,
gazed into his eyes with a wealth of
tenderness In her own, and said: ** Who
knows? Good fortune may at this very
moment be on its way to us.”
And the very next day, Januar, 3,
1880, as Dorothy, with a crimson shawl
thrown over her head, was out in the
garden scattering erumbs on the snow
or the sparrows, she heard the jingle
of sleigh-bells. and Farmer Beers came
down the lane with a sled-load of wood.
« Mornin’, Miss Dorothy,” he called, as
he reined up at the back gate. *‘ Here's
a letter for you. They thought it
might be important, at the office, and
80, knowin’ how keerful I be, and that
1 was comin’ this way, they asked me
to feteh it to you.” And the old man
tossed the letter over the hedge, into the
girl's outstretched hands and drove off.
“A letter for me!” said Dolly, in tones
of the greatest amazement. ** Why, I
never received a letter before in ali my
lite!” Then she turned it about. and
girl, ‘‘ don’t be so angry. He wasn’t a
RELIGIOUS NEWS AND NOTES,
There are 138 Protestant churches in
i Italy
Nine new Presbyterian churches were
ened last year in Manitoba
Much attention is given in Paris to
religious meetings tor children
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Kansas has a chorch which cost ten
ars. It has wails and roof of sod,
converted Mormons have
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Gig
Several
joined a (
{UILy
Th
eecie
Presbyterians of Prussia have
i #8 thelr moderator a av
Count Arnim Boitsenburg
There are fourteen hundre | millions
cople in the world, and a thousand
| millions have not yet been touched by
| Christianity,
1 Methodists are the strongest Prot-
estant denowination in Nebraska, hav
{ ing a membership of 8.039; the Baptists
| come next with 5.000; Lutherans, 4,000;
| Presbyterian, 3,673: Episcopal, 3.340;
{ Congregational, 3,000; Christian, 3,530.
i he Catholic population is over 10,000,
t der
§
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The inerease of Roman Catholic popu
lation in the United States in the last
that of priests Linas been 3,754; that of
churches and chapels 4 022. The num-
her of communicants in that church in
the United sates is reported at 6 500,-
O00
Bishop Stevens, of the Reformed Epis-
copal church, reports that the move.
ment is spreading among the negroes of
South Carolina. There are now 1.200
communicants in seventeen congrega-
There are also six missionaries
has just ordained three
tions.
The bisho
deacons.
p
Inthe Congregational house at Boston
there are 20,000 volumes and 100,000
manvscripts pertaining to the history
and theology of Congregatiopalism., It
perhaps is not generally known that this
buildings stands on the spot where th
first stone house in Boston was built 817
YEArs ago.
Among the statistics of work accom-
plished by foreign missions during the
past century are these: Converts from
heathenism, 1,500,000; languages into
which the Bible |} been transiated,
06 + « of the Bible circulated, 14%,.
000,000; barbarous languages endowed
with a grammar and literature, 70.
ins
COD
tirave Robbing.
The recent robberies of the grave have
brought up some curious an
the state of affairs which existed about
fifty years bo
Was a regular tra 50 skil
the robbers, that
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dotes of
w lien
ie
{y-snatehing
fui Welt
ey requircd but if
teen minutes to deaw a body from the
grave. No trace was | eir work
Une of men. Burke, being in
{
cuurel ond vy, heard that passage of
Ao,
tv
eit of Lh
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of Lacs
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3
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Scripture read which describes how Ha
gael killed the king by smothering him
with a wet cloth, This method struck
Burke as sure and safe from detection,
and by it he committed many murders
for the sake of the profit he reaped from
the sale of the dead bodies. The devil
be found even text of
Seripture by to find
him.
When Burke's murders were
caver the Eng public wer
FUG, 8 i ined §
with a the oldest
ti
behind a
wlio want
can
those
dis-
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i Une of the
festations of this craze was the queer de.
vices of dying persons to protect their
bodies from the resurrectionists. In
Buckinghamshire, a Major Buckhouse,
an ola Fast Indian officer, was buried
by his own orders in front of his own
house, on asolid pyramid of flint, twelve
| feet square at the base, in which he was
| placed upright, a drawn sword in his
nand,
pane, HAN.
night ten feet deep in a level
field, the ground being plowed up at
Once to remove ali chance of discov ry.
Another country gentleman's coffin was
swung to the branches of an oak tree
in front of his hall door. Another was
potato
still another cased in lead and hungto a
beam of his own barn.
The terror extended even this
country, and precautions against grave
robbery were more common fifly years
ago than now, when there
danger.
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£4
is
building, in the upper room of which
the body of a former owner, by Lis own
request, remained for twenty years un-
| buried, the lower apartment being fur-
nished and occupied by his wife and
children as an arbor.
says: When you walk abroad, you
there is not a running brook in all the
listen in vain to hear the croaking of
toads here.
thickest undergrowth of
bushes without fear of disturbing some
i snake in his lair; for since creation’s
| dawn no serpent has ever yet found its
| way into this earthly paradise. So
| very quiet is it that the report of the
| guns a
| yesterday the departure of the Bac.
| chante, fell pleasantly on our ears. But
| species of tailless cats, forlorn looking
| as melodiously of nights as auy of their
Northern kindred who rejoice in the
ossession of caudal appendages; and
| hear n watch dog that must be b ying
| at the moon, since thieves and tramps
| are unknown in these happy isles
| There is very little poverty in Ber.
| muda—no abject poverty, as indeed how
| should there be in a land where the soil
| is so fertile as to yield easily threecrops
| annually? It is hard for one reared in
New England to imagine a vegetable
garden that will yield something for the
table every day in the year, but such are
the gardens here. The chief products
raised for exportation are onions, pota-
toes, tomatoes and arrowroot. Our
table has been well supplied, however,
with other fresh and delicious vege-
tables—aweet potatoes of pale color, but
very fine flavor, beets sweet and tender,
reen peas large and luscious, crisp cab-
wage, cauliflower and lettuce. The poor
Bermudian has an inexhaustible fish
pond in the blue Atlantic, and his howe,
wherever it may be, cannot be a long
walk from the shore, since the island is
so narrow and indented that it is
scarcely possible to find a locality that
would be more than a mile fromthe
ocean.
mI O55
fn One Lifetime.
Some one Las recently written: I am
not an old man; yet in material things
I have seen the creation ot anew world.
I am contemporary with the railroad,
the telegraph, the steamship, the photo-
graph, the sewing machine, the steam
plow, the friction match, gaslight,
chloroform, nitro-glycerine, the moni-
tor, the caloric engine, the California
gold discoveries, the oil well discoveries,
utta perenn, canned fruits, the electric
ight, the telephone, ete. These are
some of the footprints of material pro-
gress of the present generation. Do you
think the moral world will remain the
game as before? That society will re-
main unaffected by these changes? If
ou do, let me call your attention to the
act that the same generation has seen
the abolition of slavery on a grand scale,
the ascendancy of republican America,
the opening of China and Japan, the in-
stitution of world’s fairs, and the agita-
tion for the freedom of women, And
the ma eh is steadily on, wiih nccelerat-
ing motion. What is its meaning?
Where will it end?
Emigrants’ Costumes,
rive, suys n New York paper, is the
| people of the old world
costumes that formerly gave such a pie-
and marked each people disiinctively,
are disappearing. From Germany, Hol.
| land, England, Sweden and Ireland come
now about thesame general style of gar.
ments, varied simply in cut and color,
all bearing a close resembiance to the
| genera! fashion of raiment worn here,
Yet, oceasionally, one still encounters
| groups from countries more remote or
{ further in the rear of universal progress
toward assimilation who are well
| worthy of attention and remark. A
| party of leelandic men, six in number,
{arrived here not long ago, whose garb
| would have heen a prize lor a side
| show. Their pantaloons of dark gray
frieze extended up to their armpits,
| Their vests and coats just met the upper
edge of the pantaloons, and from each
i
{its wearer a pair of the funniest, most
ridiculous and diminutive tails itis pos.
sible to imagine. Big silver buttons
{ that had been bequeat'ed from father to
ison for many generations studded the
| garments. The handsomest men's cos-
tumes worn by any emigrants are those
wom by the Tyrolese, consisting ol
long stockings, velvet knee-breeches,
| embroiders d vests, short cloaks, cone
i shaped hats adorned with feathers, ete,
Tt is a dress that has been familiarized
| throughout the country by the many
| bands of Tyrolean singers who have
| *yodel-ed” all over the land, and one
| which, by its beauty, deserves to be re-
tained. The women from the same coun-
try lave brightly-striped petticoats,
| sometimes with strips of gold or silver
ince that make a very bright and pleas.
ing show. AImost aiwayvs both men
and women have finely developed, hand.
some forms, which their costume dis
pinys the best advantage. Their
faces are generally very good—the
women citen very pretty— and of ail
emigrants they are among the cleanest
and neatest.
The gayest-plumaged emigrant birds
are the Finlanders, They wear mostly
homespun materials, but gaudy with
bright colors
{to
Generally they come in
colonies of forty or fifty persons, and
when such a band arrives they seem 0
br en all their surroundings. The
women's dresses are very fancy
bathing suits of red, whiteand blue
Laif tints or shades, but
nounoed ~and their {gear
consists of snowy white frilled mob
The tondness for color whiich dis.
tinguiehes them is shown even in the
dress of the men, who wear bind-
ings of brilliant contrasting tints, On
their heads the men wear colored eaps
kni of wool like of
Brittany. Finland are brought
heresiung conveniently in leathiern Dags
on their mothers’ backs, in just the same
fashion that an Indian squaw carries
her pappoose. They seem to be a seri.
ous, sedate sort ol babies, weighted
down by the depression that must assail
a baby's mind when it finds itself slung
about like a package in that extraordin-
ary way. The last colony of Finlanders
that came here, only a few weeks ago,
all seemed well-to-do, and brought with
hem from their home a sufficient quan.
ity of dried meat, dried fish and oher
edibles to last them until they reached
their destination in Minnesota,
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“Snowing” in Arkansas,
Billy Arlington, the lecturer, now in
this State, has had considerable tiv. le
with the mayors of small towns, Ar
lington's opinion is that he should not
| be compelled to pay heavily for a light
privilege, but the mayors think that be
should. Several days ago he visited a
town whose entire popuistion could be
grouped into a photographer's tent, ard
when he called upon the mayor to settie
the matter of license he found that gen-
tleman disposed to charge him as heavily
as though he had come there to take
“ What sort of a show have you got?”
asked the mayor.
“It's no show,
“Is it trained P”
| * It's a speech.”
“Ah, I thought it was a sort of edu-
cated hog. What sort of a speech?"
“It's not altogether a speech. It is
t's an lecture,
“Our law says ¢harge right and lef
for them sort of things. Entertainment,
Got a lot of these here paper
| lanterns, haven't you?”
“ No: nothing of that kind."
“Pon't stand on your
| reckon?"
“ No."
“Do you ring bells?”
“No.”
“One
| ain't it?"
| “No: Itell you it's a humorous lec-
| ture,”
“Sort of a patent medicine arrange-
| ment?
“No medicine.”
“ Do you sharpen kniy es?”
** Nothing of that kind."
“ [ reckon then you sell Some sort of
{ ointment. A feller came along here
| some time ago; got us all in a house
lot's see,
I
head,
i
of these here dumb shows,
| cine.”
“If Henry Ward Beecher were to
come here you wouldn't charge him,
| would you?”
“ You bet we would, and we'd put it
| on him an inch thick.
| 810 and you may sell your rat pizen or
make your speech."
The money was paid, and at night,
just before the lecture began, an oflicer
approached Arlington and said :
“ Say, Cap, you can’t beat an enlight-
encd community this way. Pay your
license or I'll hop you over to jail.’
turing, sir.”
“ Who got the money?"
“The mayor.”
“Why, the mayor's gone fishing.
Did you pay it to that chap you weve
taiking to this afternoon—that red nose
feller?”
“ Yes.”
“Well he's got no more to do with
running this town than you huve. Give
me 825 or I'll jump you to jail.”
Counting a deaf man aod a hotel
keeper, who had come in free, the sale
of sents amounted to $4.60. The money
was paid, and in the future the man
who sticks up Billy Arlington's name in
that town will be sued for forgery.—
Little Rock Gazelle.
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Tho * Great Hurricane.”
The most terrible wind storms d noo
occur in this latitvde., What is known
Barbadoes October 10, 1780, engulfed an
English fleet anchored before St. Lucia,
ravaged that island, where six thou-
sana lives were lost, traveled to Mar-
tinique, where it sunk a French fleet of
forty ships, earrying four thousand sol.
diers, devastated St. Domingo, St. Vin-
cent, St. Eustache and Porto Rico, and
gunk many vessels sailing in the track
of the cyclone. Nine thousand per-
sons perished at Martinique and a
thousand at St. Pierre. At Port Royal
1.400 houses were blown down, and
1,600 sick and wounded were buried
beneath the walls of the hospital,
Great aa has been the suffering and loss
of iife from ternadoes in this country,
they cannot be compared to this truly
great hurricane of a century ago.
ni TIO
A minister in one of his visits met a
boy and asked him what o'clock it was.
* About twelve, sir,” was the reply
“Well,” remarked the minister, *
thought it was more.” ‘‘ It's never any
mere here,” said the boy: ** when it
gets to be twelve it just begins at one
again.”
i ————————
Lies go by telegraph; the truth comes
in by mail three hours late.— Poayune.
| STEALING FROM THE COINAGE.
prands tn Gold and Silver Pleces- Many
Silver Colne in Clirenlation with Holes
Punched tn Than-Devices of Swine
diers and Counterfelteors,
Secretary Sherman some time ago drew
attention to the large amount of defaced
coins in circulation, and the subject was
| practioally brought to the notice of a
| Tribune reporter recently. He tendered
a hill to the eashier at the Sinelair house
and received in change a silver dollar,
half-doliar and quarter, Each one of
these had a hole punched through it, the
one in the silver dollar being large
enough to allow the reporter's pencil to
be passed through. Now the occasional
appearance of any of the smaller gold
coins with a hole through them excites
no suspicion, as they are frequently used
on bangles and wateh chains, but few
people ever think of making ornaments
out of such coins as dimes and quarters,
or the ponderous silver pieces of larger
{ value, And if these were used for such
a purpose it would not account for the
loss of from ten to fifteen per cent, of the
metal in the shape of an unsightly hole,
When people want to make an ornament
of the coin, a jeweler drills in it a hole
just large enough to attach a thin wire
{ving to it. In each of the three coins
alluded to nearly one-tenth of the metal
was missing, and the holes had not been
is remilled at the edges. Then it takes
a first-class expert to recognize it."
** But is not platinum too dear for
such a purpose?’
“Nothing else would make up the
weight. They gain by this about $16
out of n $20 piece. It is a first-clnss
piece of work, and 1 could pass them
anywhere," New York Tribune.
Killing Four Panthers in Two Hours, |
Panthers must be quite abundant in
Oregon, judging from the fjollowing
story, which we find in the Butler Oreck
Enterprise, of that State, A few days
ago Mr. Haugh, who lives near Scott's
mills, swarted for Beaver lake to get
TIMELY TOPICS,
Hitherto when a professional diver
went under water a tube has supplied
him with sir, But a Mr. Fleuss has
patented a process by which an experi-
enced diver can remain under water for
hours, having within his helmet and
dress a supply of compressed pajgen
gas, diluted with nitrogen, whieh i»
naturally present in his Jungsand in the
diving dress when be sssumes it.
exha'ed carbonic acid t
into contact with eaustie soda, the
dendly gas is transformed into simple
carbonate of soda. (tis
numerous experiments and tests have
some cedar timber. He had along a
large-bored rifle, a little rat-terrier and |
a rather large dog of part Newfoundland |
breed. After leaving the main road and |
getting on an almost blind road he saw |
a panther cross the road ahead of him, |
He stopped the team, tied them to a |
small tree and followed the do i
, who |
succeeded in treeing the panther ina |
very short time, It was on a large oak |
tree, about thirty feet from the ground, |
and growling savagely. Mr. Haugh fell
back a short distance, in order to get a |
rest shot, fired and his game fell dead to |
the ground, having made a final leap |
which brought him about fifteen or |
twenty feet from the tree. On going |
back to the wagon the children i
out another panther, back on the road |
neatly bored, but punched out
| ** Of course it has been punched out,” |
| observed the cashier. “There is no |
doubt somebody buys them up for that 1
purpose, and makes quite a good thing
out of it. It's a regular nuisance.”
“ Has it increased of late?" i
“To the best of my belief it is increas. |
ing every day. I receive at this desk |
from seventy-five to 100 per diem, and |
there must be more taken at the other |
cashiers’ desks, because the payments |
made there are in Iarger amounts, as a |
rule. I have pieces offered with the en- |
tire center punched out, and which, like |
the Japanese coins made to thread on a |
string, were more of a ring than a coin, |
Of course, ifn good customer offers |
them we cannot very well refuse them,
but they are of no use to us except for |
change. We get rid of most of them in |
that wav, and the rest we sell to brokers |
at a discount of from ten to fifteen per
wn t., forthe banks refuse them."
The reporter afterward made inquiries |
at various places where silver coins
were received largely, At Daniell's and |
several other stores on Broadway. and
at various restaurants and bar-rooms,
the same story was told of the incon |
venience arising from this wholesale |
mutilation of coin The cashier at |
Nash & Crook's said: ** If the Tribune |
could draw attention to the matter in :
such & way as to induce people to stop
taking these coins the whole commer
inl community would be grateful.
don't know how much we receive here,
but itisa We uscd to en- |
deavor to pass them out again. but now
we don't take that trouble. We simply
separate it; from the silver we send
to the bank, and sell it to & brokerat a
depreciation. It has largely increasad
ately, and somebody must be making a
profit out of it. If everybody could be
induced to refuse it the thing would
quickly stop.”
The cashier of the restaurant in the
Tribune building said: ** 1 havea good
deal of it, but | manage to pay it out to
the soda water man, or the butcher or |
those poopie, I offer itin change, wo,
and if a gentleman refuses it 1 immedi.
ately give him one without a hole ia.
Yes, there are so many of these punched |
coins in circulation now that people are |
getting down on it, and they won't have |
it if they can avoid it.” !
W. H. Sweeney, of Sweeney Broth-
ers, Nassan street, who do an extensive
business as coin brokers, said: ** There |
is certainly a large amount of coin now
in circulation which is mutilated in |
this way, and it is very likely that per-
sons are punching the coins for profit, |
but there is another reason to account |
for the recent increase. [he govern.
ment is drawing silver coin from cireu- |
iation, and all the coirs it receives ae |
unmutilated ; therefore, from a scarcity
of sliver coins these mutilated ones are |
generally acoepted.”
Here, vou see, a customer sends us |
£3,000 of silver, and out of that $67 is
mutimmted. That is abou: the way it |
runs. The percentage was not formerly |
$0 great as that by any means. We re-
ceive this mutilated coinage at a depre-
ciation, and there are one or two He- |
brews to whom we are able to sell it.
They are the only men who will buy it. |
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If we had to melt it down it would not |
pay more than seventy-five cents on the |
dollar.”
“ Are the gold coins much tampered
with” i
“ Not in the way you mean. Nobody |
would receive a gola coin with a hole in |
it unless at a depreciation, and this
stops the practice. But there is askill= |
fully filled twenty-dollar [piece now in |
circulation. We get them occaisonally. |
Except that they are a little thicker
than the ordinary pieces no one would |
recognize them as counterfeit. Some of |
the five-doliar gold coins have been |
filled, too, but in a different way, and |
these will not ring.” |
“1s there much ‘sweating’ of gold |
“No; very little. I have been getting |
gold coin from the bank, and it is all |
new, this year's coinage. The old gold |
has been withdrawn from the market, |
and it is depreciated in value two per
cent. The trouble we have is with
hills, in which there is a great scarcity.
People will not have coin to any amount
it is so inconvenient to carry about.
may say that there are not so many
filled gold coins as six months ago.
Out of a bag of 81,000 we would then
get a dozen orso; but I think the fellows
doing this kind of business have been
J. F. Tandy, the coinage expert at the
gub-treasury, whose duty is to scrutinize
all coin the government receives, gives
gome interesting information in regard
to coinage frauds in general, but as to
the method of stealing a portion by
| punching a hole in it he had little to
say. “I have no doubt it is done toa
| large extent.” he said, ** but I get none
| of it here, They know that the govern-
| ment will not receive it. Now here is
an package from Messrs, Colgate ol
| £9,000; $3,000 of that was in silver, and
| 810 of it was mutilated and had to be
returned. But not a single one of these
| pieces had a hole in it. The one difi-
| cu ty we hav with thesiiver coinage is
| that it has no fixed weight, as in other
| countries. The gold coins have, how-
lever. A new double-eagle, for instance,
| weighs 516 grains, and the minimum
weight at which they are received is
| one-half of one per cent. less. All gold
| coins are received at that much under
their standard weight, Now some of
| the new gold coins hava been brought
down to just this minimum artificially,
as one might say. The difference be-
| tween the legal and standard weight is
| to allow the legitimate wear, and these
| swindlers bring down the new coins
| to this attrition. They shake them
up in a buckskin bag or in|
gand, . and wear them down
in that way. Then they burn the bag
and go get the gold that has been rab-
bed off the coins. Anothér way they
have with 85 pieces is to bore holes
from the edge into the coin, and after
taking out the gold they insert copper
wire. They make up the weight accu-
rately in this way, but the coins will
mint that will not ring because they
producing a $10 gold piece, “that wou
ber of these about. The mode of opera-
hore out the 'gold until only a mere
not ring. But this is no great detri-
are flawed.”
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tion is to take one face of the coin off,
shell is left. It is then filled with pla-
over which they had passed. On ap- |
proaching it to get a shot it darted into
the brush, followed by the two dogs,
who succeeded in treeing tl at one with-
out any difficulty. On following the
limb ofa fir iree about twenty-five or |
thirty feet from the ground, Getting a |
rest on the side of s tree some distance
away, he shot thisone. At the erack of
the gun the panther jumped from the
tree and was followed by the dogs. On
following them it was found dead abou,
100 yards from whore it was shot, On
approaching the ranch where Mr. 8.
Huelet once embarked in the cattle
business be found that the little dog had |
it
This one was shot |
dead. Before Mr. Haugh had time to |
jond he heard the big dog barking at |
something shout 200 yards off down the |
a very large female, She was growling |
much that she formed the most sava
picture he hd ever seen, It was difii- |
cult to get a good shot, but on firing she
came down and toe hmb on which she
was with her. As she ran off the dogs
followed her, and on coming up with
them he saw her on a stump Ag
r.
was struck it only succeeded in making
her growi and lash her tail fiercer than
ever. On looking for a buliet Mr.
Haueh found that he had only half a
a successful shot or Jose his game. His |
patching was all gone us well, so tearirg |
off part of the lining of his coat, he put
it round the bullet and rammed it home.
Taking a careful aim he fired. This
time he saw the huge beast tumble to
the ground,to be seized by. the dogs.
She seized the big dog by the scalp with
the scalp nearly off when death put an |
end to her straggies. The last one, |
on being measured, was over mine feet |
long from tip to tip. All the panthers |
only about two-thirds grown. They
were all killed within two hours.
Tasked by a Wild Bear |
The tule lands of San Joaquin valley, |
and as a consequence the farmers can-
not work, but devote their time to hunt. |
ing wild hogs. which have been driven |
to the hills by the overflow. W. H. |
Tredway, late of Reno, bul now a ran- |
cher down there, was the vietim of an |
adventure recently. He
went out in company with, his son Syl+
vester to Jook after some poison he had |
fixed for coyotes. When two miles from
home they scared up a wild bosr, which
m- |
provising a lasso out of his saddle rope, |
Mr. Tredway caught the beast over his |
mouth, which infuriated his lordship,
and he charged.
Before they could get out of the way |
was the first victim, and was badly |
were nearly six inches long. To rescue |
Tredway jumped to the!
rushed upon hum, |
ground, when the ho, shed 1
gain his balance
of the knee joint, making a frighttul |
wound. Mr. Tredway mounted his |
horse and started for home. He had |
not gone far when he became faint from
the loss of blood, and had to dismount |
and lie by the roadside while Sylvester |
went for 8 wagon. He was soon con-
veyed to the house, where he is now
laid up tor repairs under a doctor's care’
A Morning Star of Memory.
The Chicago Times relates a sad but
beautiful incident of woman's devotion.
In the fashionable west division of the
city there lived a young couple who
were engaged to be married, but ere the |
ceremony had been performed the gen- |
tiemnan was taken down with that most |
joathsome of diseases, smallpox, and
was conveyed to the pest-house. Thither
the yoang lady followed, and there she
pursed him back to life but not to one |
of its greatest blessings. The case de-
veloped into the dreadiul type known
as “confluent,” and when the young
lover arose from his couch he realized |
the doom of desolation entailed upon |
says the Times, while the warm sun is
waking into vernal beauty park and
boulevard, and while the shade trees
are throwing out their umbrageous love-
liness, a stalwart man, erect and stately
still, although destitute of vision and
with a face scarred by that fell malady,
may be seen walking slowly amid the
beauties of the summer time, and by his
siden young girl, upon whom he leans for
guidance, and who isto him ** the morn-
ing star of memory" that cannot fade or
faint, or die until the last dread sum-
mons make even such sublime devotion
vain to preserve a life that must be,
without such solace, worthloss and deso-
late bevond expression.
I
Whitewashed Babies.
A missionary stationed at one of the
South Sea islands determined to give
his residence a coat of whitewash. To
obtain this in the ahsence of lime, coral
was reduced to powder by burning.
The natives watched the process ©
burning with interest, believing that
the coral was being cooked for them to
eat. Next morning they beheld the
missionary's cottage glittering in the
rising sun white ns snow. They danced,
they sang, they screamed with jov. The
whole island was in commotion. White-
wash became the rage. Happy was the
coquette who could enhance her charms
by a daub of the white brush. Conten-
tions arose. One party urged their su-
erior ronk; another obtained posses-
sion of the brush, and valiantly held it
against all comers; a third tried to up-
sct the tub to obtain some of the pre-
cious cosmetic. To quiet the hubbub,
more whitewssh was made, and in a
week not a hut, a domestic utensil, a
war-club or a garment but was as white
as snow; not an inhabitant but had a
skin painted with grotesque figures; not
a pig that was not whitened, and even
mothers might be seen in every direc-
tion caperin joyously, and yelling with
delight at the superior beauty o their
woitewashed babies.—Chambers' Ji
our-
ne —————TI I ———
{ Cremation is just now strongly urged
by its advocates as the only certain pro-
ment, for many are turned out of the
“ Now here is a coin,” said Mr. Tand
deceive anybody. There is quite a num-
then, with a brace and center-bit, to
tinum, and the other face being added,
tection for the dead.
conclusively proved that Mr. Fleuss's
system is attended with no ineon-
venience, and the expense is one-dinlf
that of the old method. Mr, Fleuss is
only twenty-eight. His process has
been brought out since the Tay bridge
.
The gold and silver minirg fever is
not altogether confined to the United
has just broken out afresh in
New Zealand, and to a degree which
indicates the dawning of a new ers upon
that country. The mineral resources of
the islands have, all at once, been
brought to light to an enormous extent;
cosl fields have been opened; and gold
siiver and copper mines are revealing
wealth to an extraordinary extent. The
discoveries are noi so much new; it is
g sttention both ia the
colony and in Great Britain.
———
The German emigration is startling t
the authorities of the empire. It is just
published that neariy 34.000 emigrants
left the four ports of Bremen, Hamburg,
Stettin and Antwerp for America dur-
ing the past year. But a small portion
This report does
not include the Germans who left Brit
ish and French ports, who may be
roughly stated at 10,000 persons. The
new German army bill, it is feared, wil
bring the emigration up to the propor
tions of that time succeeding the Franco-
German war, when it averaged 115,000
per annum.
The important branch of American
commerce with India is almost entire
controlled by the cities of New Yor
and Boston. The former has now the
h she did not pos-
sess in times past. There are now 109
ships and barks bound to New York
from various ports in India and Chioa,
and twenty-five ships and barks to Bos-
ton. All these have valuable cargoes.
In 1877 Boston bad sixty East India-
men to arrive, bringing over 1,000,000
baskets and bags of sugars. Boston has
latterly taken quite a start in the ocean
steam trade, pew steam line has re-
cently been started between Boston snd
The steamers are 2,500 tons
register.
It is not generally known that panes
of glass can be cut under water with
ease to almost any haps by means of a
pair of scissors. Two things, however,
are pecessary for success: First, the
glass must be kept quite level in the
water while the scissors are applied:
and sconndly, to avoid risk, it is better
tn perform the cutting by cropping off
small pieces at the corners and a
the edges, thus reducing the form grad-
ually to that required—for if any attempt
be made to cut the gisssat ones 10 a
proper shape, as one would cut a card-
board, it will most likely fracture where
it is not wanted. The softer giasses cut
best: and the scissors need not be very
sharp. When the operation goes on
well the glass breaks away from the
scissors in small pieces in as traight
Concerning Lizards,
A discussion on the hereditary trans-
recent meeting of the society of biology,
have mentioned as a remarkable fact,
that a single tail, which he had caused
to be amputated from a salamander,
was replaced by two tails, which sub-
sequently grew out. This is by wo
West Indies, where [ occasionally no-
ticed lizards with two tails. Theoriginal
one is replaced by another, slways, 1
believe, of inferior length, with a second
shorier one growing from its base.
The common lizards of the West In-
dies are extremely fond of music. Ina
the open window of a room in which
music is played, coming nearer and
nearer. with heads elevated, intently
listening. In s somewhat rare .
entitled * Barbadoes and other Poems,”
Liabit is thus referred to:
Gay sounds are heard within the lighted halls;
{he charmed zephyr pauses as be flies,
And mingles with his strains the softest sighs;
The awakened lizard loaves bis bushy bed,
Climbs to the lattice and erects his head.
A lizard, so engaged, had its tail ncci-
dentally cut off by the sudden closing of
the window on the sill of which it was
stationed. This curlailed lizard, how-
ever.continued to visit the spot,charmed
with the music. After a short time it
was noticed that the lost appendage was
gradually replaced by two. This oc-
curred at the house ot a friend in Bar-
badoes.— Thomas Bland, in Science News.
An Incentive.
Judicious praise i= an incentive to el-
fort. Praise yourchildrenifthey deserve
it, and don't be afraid it will make them
conceited ; merited compliments serve
rather to make persons satisfied with
themselves, and agreeable to others,
than vain and overbearing. If your
child is pretty let her know you thin}
s0. Many a girl has been made timid
and self-distrustful for life because her
warents thought it their duty to convince
po that she was plain and unattractive.
As a rule, those who have the greatest
gifts and talents are not the ones who
are the best satisfied with themselves.
They absolutely need encouragement
from their inferiors to buoy them up. A
well-timed compliment does them good.
It makes sensitive people wretched to
have their defects pointed out and com-
mented on, with no allusion to t.ueir re-
deeming virtues. Astor men, they never
make efforts which they think will end
in failure; make a man think he can do
what he undertakes, and he exerts all
his powers, and will frequently come off
victorious in spite of many obstacles,
and in face of al discouragements. If
blame is needed, don't restrein it; but if
you can conscientiously praise a well-
meaning effort, do it. There is no
knowing what good you will accom-
plish.
Pleasant Home Conversation.
Children hunger perpetually for new
ideas. They will learn with pleasure
from the lips of parents what they
deem it drudgery to study in books;
anda even ifthey have the misfortune to
be deprived of many educational advan-
tages, they will grow up intelligent if
they enjoy in childhood the privilege
of listening daily to conve on of in-
telligent people. We sometimes see
parents, who are the life of every com-
pany which they enter, dull, silent, and
uninteresting at home among their chil-
dren. If they have not mental activity
and mental stores for both, let them
first use what they have in their own
household. A silent house is a du
place from which they will escape if
they can. How much useful informa-
tion, on the other hand, is often given
in plensant family conversation, and
what unconscious, but excellent men-
tal training in lively social argument.
Cultivate to the utmost the graces of
Eyes alone extond a greeting.
Ah, the rogus! her mother taught her
That the other way was shorter!
Longest road and brightest weather, *
Coming home trom chureh together.
Autumn days were swest and mellow
Astumo grain was ripe and yellow;
Oh, the moonlit hours lor roving!
Oh, the litle * Yes" so loving!
Blushing Jenny, handsome Willie—
She as fair as any lily— ;
Wedded in the golden weather,
Coming home Irom church
(George Cooper, in Baldwin's Monthly.
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ITEMS OF INTEREST.
recklessness in
is feed-
£
A woman's idea of
crossing a field in which a cow
ing.
If you want fo compliment & tenor
singer, eall bim high-toned .~~Corry
When two dentists are partners they
rarely guarrel; they pull together. —
Griswold,
othing is wholly bad. Even a dark
Thom g its bright side. ~Balem
Bunbeam
Somebody earned 83,000 by embroid-
ering the blue silk panels for a New
York drawing-room.
Kerosene will soften boots or shoes
which have been hardened by water an
render them ns pliable ns new.
Benjamin Franklin, Henry Wilson
and Charles Sumner Murray are triplets
born in Boston twenty our years ago.
Ther ahout 1.000 applications for ap-
pointment on the Boston slic force
now on file at the commissioner's office
« Music by the quire,” as the fellow
remarked when be boeght twenty-four
sheets of the same. — M7 I
It is expected that coal mines worked
by modern machinery will soon be
opened in the provinee of Nganhiong,
ina.
John: Yes, if she warbles, * Tell me
the Old, Olid Story” every time you
visit her, you have a sure case, snd
should pop al once,
A whale doesn’t look so very big
when you remember aoe of the pisca-
torial achievements of many An na.
teur trout oston Transeriyd.
One little hornet on the nest—
A shining late vilyain—
Josephus gave the nest a kick
And then there was a
Out of three hundred and fitty colleges
in this country about seventy have es-
tablished Young Men's HEEO-
ciations.
The young Emperor of China is al.
lowed to smash $500 mirrors when he
feels fanny, instead ef being greeted with
a shingle serenade, well laid on.—Delroit
Free ress.
* Silence is golden.” :
any one been at these preserves?
(Dead silence.) * Have you touched
them, Jimmy?” Jimmy: * Pa never
‘lows me io talk at dinner.”
1f those who are the enemies of inno-
cent amusements had the direction of
the world would take away spring
and th; the former from year,
e latter from human life.
Dr. Peck, of Indianapolis, has supu-
tated the legs of a young girl on account
of Sammy Hi ma piodutd by a
© ve am .
rents fg: to prolibit thiz p.
under all circumstances.
It has been quite a general balief that
extremely cold winters exert a Pome
ful effect in reducing the num of
insects. but observationsduring the last
two years show that coid produces
or no result as an insect-destroyer
The total cost of the Gothard tunnel,
the most gigantie work of the kind in
the world, wiil not exceed $10.000.000.
It has been very costly of human life as
well as money, no less than 150 work-
men having been killed and 400 disabled
during its construction i
Sir Hugh Aller, the ontreal
shipowner and cap t, started in
life as a dry-goods clerk, with a capital
of $100. He is mow reputed to be
worth from ten to fifteen millions, an,
besides his shipping intercsts, iscon-
nected with almost every manufactu -
ing and industrial enterprise in the
province. He is seventy years of
age.
Joshua Halbert, of Crawiord county,
0., altho running close into a cen-
tury of ia. Bad beta contined to his bed
through fc rheumatism
than twenty , but in all that period
has retained his cheerfulness and socia-
bility in a remariable Gegres. win
he was yo © Was very i
reat ung He killed eleven bears in
ge winter of 1816
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Words of Wisdom.
Nothing is so near to love as pity.
To be able to please is already a great
advance to persuading.
To keep your own secret is wisdom;
to expect others to keep it is foliws
A of the perfection of this life
is to believe ourselves far from perfec
tion.
Never does a man
character so vividly asin
portraying anothers.
A weak mind is like a microscope,
which magnifies trifling things, but can-
not receive great ones.
Love of truth shows itself in discov-
ering and appreciating what is
wherewith it may exist.
It is our own loss il we do not, in the
end, gather something from what seews
the dark providences which overtakes
us.
He who is false to the present quty
breaks a thread in the loom, and wili
see the effect when the weaving of a life-
time is unraveled.
A man should never he ash
own he has been in the wrong, which is
but saying in other words that he 13
wiser to-day than he was yesterday.
There is something charming in na-
ture and rural life It is so matural, so
pure, so unatioyed by the maneuvering,
the hypocrisy, the turmoil of social rx-
isten"e.
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A Deep Well.
The Continental Diamond Borin
company, limited, have lately complet
for the government of Mecklenburg-
Schwerin a bore hole of exce
depth. and the execution of which is of
particular interest from the rapidity
with which it has heen completed. The
boring which was made forsale, ia
situated at Probst Jesar. near Lntitheen,
and it was commenced on the sixth of
Juy of year, with an opening
twelve inches in diameter. Tlie first
art of the bore had to ba through a
iluvial bed consisting mainiyof drift-
sand and coarse andefor sinking
through this Kobrich's systery was
adopted, the diameter of tie bore being
maintained at twelve inches. total
depth sunk on this system wos 321 feet
eight inches, the sinking oecu
thirty-four days of twenty four
each, of which thirty-one days were
spent in actual g, and three days
in surdry works.
Below the diluvium the gypsum
rock were reached, and this
the boring was carried on with dia
monds, the commencement beinz made
on A t 25, 1879, with a hole ten and
ai inches in diameter. tii a
depth of 1.670 feet had
however, no firm CO
Jeined on which to rest ia
ence annoyance was
from Ee in of masses of san
the infalls being so 2
times, when the borin
conversation. §
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