The Will.
Blame not the times in which we live,
Nor fortune frail and fugitive;
Blame not thy parents, nor the rale
Of vice or wrong once learned at school;
But blame thyself, oh, man !
Although both heaven and earth combined
To mold thy flesh and form thy mind,
Though every thought, word, action, will,
Was tramed by powers bevond thee, still
Thou art thyseli, oh, man !
And self to take our leave is (ree,
Feeling ite own saMoiancy;
In spite of solenoce, spite of fate,
The judge within thee, goon or late,
Will Kame but thee, oh, man !
Say not © I would, but could not— He
Should bear the blame who fashioned me
Call you mere change of motive choice 1”
Soorning such pleas, the inner voice
Cries, * Thine the deed, oh, man
J. A, Symonds
IIIS ON
In the Days of My Great-Grandmamma.
In the days of my great-grandmamma,
I've bean told,
There were persons of fmshion and taste,
The parties of Ranelagh goad.
were their heals,
And how high were their motives and ways?
They woved in propriety’s round like the
wheels
Of a warranted wateh, in the days
Of my great-grandmamma.
discern
The minute ebb and flow of har tides;
And a dowager's dress, though untrimmed,
served in turn
Three or tour generations of brides.
Like the family jewels, the family gown
Was reserved for their gala displays,
And a rufied old lady look'd placidly down
Upon ruffed young girls, in the days
Of my great-grandmamma.
Ob ! the men who lor these female paragons
sigh’d
Were unlike those who pester as now;
They spprosoh’d with a smile and a sink and
a slide,
And » minuet step and a bow,
They were laced and embroider'd and pow.
dend and ourl'd,
Like the men that we see in the plays;
And tis certain there's nothing so grand in
the world
Or so sweet as there was in the daya
Of my great-grandmamma.
— Thomas Hoynes Bayly.
SOPHIE'S ORDEAL.
“ White,” said Eleanor Kelsey, “with
broad, biue sashes, and torget-me-pots
in our hair. Every graduate to wear a
turquoise locket around her neck, and to
have six-buttoned white kid gloves,
stitched with pale blue on the backs.
Madam Luogene herseif showed me the
n
“Wen't it be exquisite?” said Fanny
Willoughby, clasping her plump hands.
The seven young girls who were that
day month to graduate fron Clarendon
Hall, were sitting, schoolgirl fashion,
under the bowery beeches on the lawn—
seven fair, human pearls, happily un-
conscious of all the pitfalls and trials of
the life that lay before them— seven half-
opened blossoms, basking in the sun-
shine of school life, whither, as yet, no
haunting shadow had followed them.
While on the shores of the calm river
below, the other children played and
shouted, careiul not to disturb the pri-
vacy of the * graduating class.”
“Bat,” said cautious Rosa Hillgrove,
“ will it be FYpensive?
“Not at all,” said Eleanor, loftily.
“Im ¢ will furnish them for a hun-
dred dollars each, as there are seven of
us. -And-—"
Just then, Sophie Seyton, who had
been absorbed in a letter which the
biue-ribboned parior-maid had brought
er, looked gravely up.
“Wait a minute, Eleanor,” said she.
“J am afraid I cannot afford so ex-
pensive a dress.”
“ W hat nonsense, Sophie!” called out
Miss Kesley. “You, the heiress, to
talk about not affording a paltry hun-
dred-dollar costume.”
“But I am ar heiress no longer,”
said Sophie, with a curious quiver in
ber voice. ** This letter is from my
guardian, Colonel Moody. It seems
something is wrong about some invest-
ments that have been made, and—and 1
am as poor as any factory-girl! I must
go out as governess, I suppose, or com-
panion, or something of that sort. 1
don't know that 1 can even stay here
long enough to graduate!”
She burst into tears, with her fair
face hidden in her hands.
For a second or two the other six
members of the graduating class sat
looking at one another in dire dismay.
Then Eleanor Kelsey sprang up and
threw her arms impetuously about
Sophie's drooping neck.
* You shall do nothing of the sort,
darling!” she cried. ** You shall come
and live always with me. I never had
a sister, and I shall treasure you with
the fondest affection.”
But Sophie shook her head.
* No, Eleanor,” she said; “I must go
home at once.”
And she went; and Mrs. Clarendon's
graduating class only numbered six that
year.
Colonel Moody was grim and uncom-
municative, The loss of the invest-
ments, he stoutly maintained, was no-
body's fault. No one could have fore-
seen the shrinkage of stock; no human
provision could have guarded against
the calamity. It was the fortune of
war, neither more nor less.
Sophie Seyton went to her aunt, a
Mrs. Medbury Moore, who had always
declared that she loved her darling
niece as it she were her own child.
*‘ Dear aunt,” she said, “ you will at
least give me a home!”
“I'm very sorry, my dear,” said Mrs.
Medbury Moore, * but your uncle has
been unfortunate in business, and we
ure compelled to retrench in every pos-
sible way. An additional member of
our family, ust at this time, would be
an absolute impossibility.”
“But what shall 1 do? appealed poor
Sophie.
“Oh, get a situation somewhere, m
dear,” said Mrs. Medbury Moore, smil-
ing sweetly. “Any girl who has re-
ceived so expensive an education as
yoursought to be independent of the
world.”
“Shall I advertise?” said Sophie.
“My dear, I really know nothing of
the way people do such things,” said
Mrs. Medbury Moore, beginning to
grow impatient.
So Sophie advertised, but apparently
no one wanted either a governess or a
“well-qualified ladies’ companion.”
Her little stock of money began to
dwindle. Her earnings failed her. Not
one of her relatives eared to assume the
burden of her support. No one else
took the responsibility of advising her.
One day she timidly entered the plate-
glass doors of a mammoth fancy store,
and asked for the proprietor.
“ Miss Seyton, isn’t it?” gaid Mr.
Makemoney, who had sold many a bil
of goods to the heiress. “Pray, what
Sai 140 for you this evening, Miss Sey-
r
* Perhaps,” hesitated poor, shrinking
Sophie, “ you can help me to a situation.
It there should bea vacancy among your
lady clerks —"
“ How—ha!” said Mr. Makemoney,
feeling of his lank cheek, promt
“ra any experience in the busi-
nes
1 im
“Oh, then, the idea is qnite imprac-
ticable,” said Mr. Makemoney. * We
don’t take apprentices here.”
And he civilly bowed Miss Seyton
out of his little sanctum.
Sophie applied at a neighboring em-
porium for fine silk embroidery. She
worked a week at a child’s cashmere
cloak, and was paid- fifty cents!
“But this is very little,” said Sophie,
piteously, regarding the silver piece.
“Qur usual rates,” said the fore-
woman, frigidly. “If you are not
suited with them, you need not come
again. We have plenty of hands.”
Miss Seyton crept home in the frozen,
winter twilight, erying softly behind
her veil as she went. And, Yes eyes
being blurred with tears,she did not
gee an evil-omened pieee of orange peel
on the pavement, but slipped and fell,
; her ankle, and losing con-
sciousness, through the intensity of the
ain.
p When she came to her senses she lay
in a little white bed, No. 619, of a great
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NUMBER 39.
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| white-capped nurse bending over her-
a woman whom she
| former days asa gay young girl,
| vague wonder.
jo You fell, my dear, and broke your
{ log,” said Nurse Eudora. *‘It was no
{ convenient for your Aunt Moore to ret
| ceive you, so they brought you here. -
| recognised you at once, and requested
| permission to nurse you."
i “And why are you here? persisted
| Sophie, still only half-conscious.
“For two reasons,” said Narse Eu
dora, sprinkling scented water over the
little white pillow. *'One is, that it
Was necessary for me to ean mj living
| in some way; another was that | could
| do some good to my suffering feliow
creatures bere,"
she recovered she also assumed the
took the name of Nurse Sophie.
“As a hospital nurse,"
herself, ** I can at least be sure of a good
home, a small salary, and the privilege
of being of some use in the world."
Sophie became one of the most popu-
i
nDUrses.
strong, her self- possession perfec
perturbable.
chilling her nerves; and it came to pass
that whenever Doctor Oxley, the head
surgeon, needed an especially self-reliant
* Send for Nurse Sophie.
One day there was a terrible accident
brought in.
run away, the carriage was all splint
out of him.
with a very pale face.
“To all intents and purposes, my dear,
the physician answered, “he is a dead
man already.”
nurse, in a low tone.
“ Every one knows him, I believe,”
said Doctor Oxley.
aire, Colonel Moody.
reprieve now."
And Doctor Ox
nurse to keep Ler solitary vigil at the
bedside of the man who was slowly,
slowly slipping out of time into eternity.
At midnight he roused up as from a
dream.
“Am I dying?" he asked.
The doctor answered :
a Yes”
“ How much time have I left?”
was the answer.
“Send for my lawyer,” he said.
am in the full possession of my senses.
I tell you I cannot die until I have
made my peace with heaven!”
1 can call the chaplain in a minute,”
suggested Doctor Oxley.
“1 tel! you I want my lawyer,” per-
sisted Colonel Moody.
The lawyer was roused out of his
midnight siumbers, and came at once;
and there, in the hospital ward, Abra-
ham Moody made his will, leaving all
1"
“1 have defrauded her cruelly,” he
said.
myself, and let her think it was lost in
mining speculations.
unjust steward, but it is not yet too late
to make some sort of reparation.”
tor, turning to the nurse. *‘ Surely thst
must be some relation of yours?”
muslin eap that overshadowed her face.
“You? Sophie Seyton?" said he.
fore 1 die, ‘I forgive you!’
And Sophie forgave him, freely
and fully; and when the day broke
dimly in the east, the chained spirit was
set free.
People could hardly eredit their own
senses when they heard that Miss Sey-
ton was an heiress again.
Mrs. Medbury Moore was taken with
a violent access of affection for her
“dear niece,” but Sophie had learned
the lesson of discernment.
“1 have passed through an ordeal,”
she says, “and 1 hope it has left me
wiser and more merciful toward my
suffering fellow-creatures! But, at the
same time, it has taught me to beware
of friends like Aunt Medbury Moore!”
Feeding on One's Self,
When the human body suffers from a
lack of food, it practically feeds upon
itself and absorbs its own substance as
food. Every one knows that certain
animals normally exhibit this process
of feeding upon themselves under certain
conditions. The humps of the camel or
those of the Indian cattle visibly de-
crease and many disappear sitogether, if
the animals are starved. A superfluous
store of fat, in other words. is made use
of under the exigency of hunger. So it
is also with the bears and other animals
which hibernate or sleep through the
winter's cold. The bear, which in
autumn retires to winter quartersin a
well-favored condition, comes forth in
spring lean and meager. His fats have
been absorbed in his nutrition, and the
succeeding summer will lay the founda-
tion of new stores of stable food to be
utilized during the next winter. With
man, we repeat, the phenomena of
starvation are essentially similar. In
the starving man the fats of the body
are the first substances to disappear.
The fats lose weight to the extent of
ninety three per cent. ; nextin order the
blood suffers; then the internal organs,
such as liver and spleen, suffer; the
muscles, bones, and nervous system be-
ing the last to lose weight. In due time,
also, the heat of the body decreases to
such an extent that ultimately death in a
case of starvation is really a case of
death from loss of heat. When the
temperature falls to about thirty degrees
Fahrenheit, death ensues, This decrease
raises from want of bodily fuel or food;
but the immediate eause of the fatal
ending of such a case is decrease of tem-
persture. It is likewise a curious fact
that the application of external warmth
is even more effectual in reviving ani-
mals dying of sturvation than a supply
of food. In exhausting diseasesin man,
in which the phenomena are strikingly
like, and, indeed, thorougly analogous
to those of starvation, the same facts are
observed.—Chambers’ Journal.
*¢ Winter Resorts.”
Got the funniest leter the other day
from Lee & Shepard, of Boston. Wrote
tnem to send us a hand-book of winter
resorts, didn't care whose or what it
was, so it filled the bill. In reply re-
ceived a package of books about the
size of a Sunday-school library with the
following letter from the great publish-
ers:
Your request for a book of ** Winter
Resorts” is received, and we send you a
few to select from. Being a litle doubt
ful as to what constitutes a winter re
sort from the fact that different people
seek different places at that time, we
have given you a wide range to select
from. We send Farrar’s “Moosehead and
Rangely Lakes” for the reason that the
Penobscot Indians consider them a good
winter resort. The *‘Guide to the
W hite Mountains,” because the United
States signal service considers them one
of their best winter resorts, and have a
nice place fitted up for that purpose in
Mount Washington. * Adritt in the
Ice Fields” we send you because the
olar bears and some of the Esquimaux
ndians reso: t there every winter. New
England is always a good winter resort,
Boston especially when east winds are
prevalent.— Burdette, in Burlington
Hawkeye.
and smooth.
i
i
FOR THE FAIR SEX,
—-——
A Lost Wite's Heturn.
The wite of Antone Weber, of Pitts.
Every effort to find her
and she was given up for dead,
On a recent Monday the deputy
woman at the poor farm, who soon con-
was the missing
wite of Weber, and begged to be taken
The records
was picked up in the
eight years ago. She
that she
ahout
show
streets
Her mind for a jong
+
where she lived,
entirely sane, has been taken home and
lives happily with her husband.
News and Notes for Women,
Lady Cropper, one of the most beau
girl from San Francisco, Her mother
was called the handsomest woman in
Ohio.
The Baroness Roger de Launay ven.
tured to ascend the Righi of the Alps
without a guide. She slipped over a
which she expired two hours later,
The number of female students at the
Imperial academy ol painting, at St,
Petersburg, this season, is thirty-five, of
Knowing when a style is becom-
continue it, despite the changing fash.
ions.
Miss Hilda Montabla, the young Eng-
the Princess Louise, and who recently
N
ment to commemorate her goodness,
Dean, died lately in St. Louis.
thirty-seven years old, and had been |
married twenty years. She was
mother of twenty-one children, of whom |
airs of twins, two |
sets of triplets, a four were born at
one birth. Ten ot her children are liv
ing.
Female barbers are gaining consider
able custom at Washington. All are!
colored and the entire custom comes |
from their own race. ;
Miss Rosa Bonheur, the painter, hav-
ess which have served her as models at
her country residence, has presented |
them to the Jardin des Plantes.
— |
Fashion's Variety in tutumn and Wine |
ter Dress, i
Dressmakers and modistes are making
elaborate preparations for the winter
fashions, says a New York paper. The |
custom of adhering exclusively to one |
style of dress has been abandoned for |
some years past. Thereare set fashions,
it is true, but these can be so varied as
to satisfy all tastes. Many ladies plan
their toilets to suit their own pa ticular
styles. If possessed of a certain amount
of taste, these Iadies generally prove
uniformity and monotony is avoided,
Bonnets, dresses, and even mufls are to
be larger than those used isst year.
Heavy fabrics, such as brocades with
designs of large flowers and *velours de
Genes,” are among the winter goods. |
Fur is to be much
more lavishly employed than it was last
The large bonnets are to have a
great variety of May-bugs in all sizes
placed among the trimmings.
Dresses continue to be narrow. Wide
sleeves gathered at the top will be
much worn. As is usually the case,
new combinations will be combined
with old ones. Jackets are to retain
their hold on public favor; the favorite
style is the Louis XIV. One of the
latest of these is belted on the waist,
and falls over a skirt which is drawn
tightly over the hips by means of a
crossed scarf. The lower border of the
skirt is plaited. This suit is of stri: ed
woolen goods in the new shade called
“gris de mer.” Another style of
autumn wear consists of a tight-fitting
Spencer waist, and a plaited skirt of
piaid woulen goods in very light
shades, blending well into each other.
The scarf, which is taken across the
hips, is fastened by means of thick
woolen cordings. These scarfs will be
much worn. Plaid materials tor autumn
wear are preferred with dark green
and brown groundings. These are
made in three ways. One has a plaited
skirt of Scotch goods, with a blouse
waist of plain Pie or bronze green
serge, and a hood lined with Scotch
plaid. The second way is to have
scarfs over the Beoteh plaid skirt and
a jacket waist of plain cachemire or
very fine cloth. The third way is to
have the whole suit of plain serge,
crossed by a plaid sash. The basque,
collar and cuffs are of plaid goods.
A suit for autumn wear is made in the
following manner: The polonaise is
something quite new. It buttonsup the
side by means of elegant green and gold
buttons, which are the colors of the suit.
The dark green veivet collar is trimmed
with fine golden galloon. The leg-of-
mutton sleeves have a jockey over each
shouider. They are very full and long,
and are drawn in at the wrist under a
green velvet cuff embroidered with gold
iike the collar. This polonaise is very
simple and very handsome.
Another new suit is of vigogne in the
color, ealled “vin de Champagne,” and
tire-colored Surah. The vigogne skirt is
covered with pointed plaitings, from
under each of these fails a narrow Surah
plaiting. The small tunicis open in
front and draped in the back. Over the
back drapery are loops of satin ribbon
with a buckle in the center. The
vigogne coat has the fronts out in the
neck in a large square, with a mousse-
line de "Inde chemisette underneath.
It is crossed over the breast and rounded
on the ends of the basque. The fire-
colored belt closes by means of a buckle.
From a seam under the arm falls n square
basquein “‘paysanne” shape. The waist
s trimmed with Surah cordings and
ined with the same. The Amazon hat
is lined with black velvet and covered
with white feathers. This style of toi-
let will be in vogue for evening and
theater dresses during the winter.
Taxation in England.
_Bome of the features of taxation in
England are peculiar. If anybody leaves
you $500 you will have to pay $10, and
if he dies without a will, you will then
pay $15 to get this £500, The govern-
ment fee on a $50,000 legacy is $1,000,and
$1,500 if there is no will, and if the leg-
acy be $1,000,000, then the queen's fee is
$77,600, or without a will more than
$100,000. If you study and become a
barrister, the admission costs you $250,
or as much as you are likely to earn the
first year. If you graduate in medicine
you pay 850. If you become a mere
notary public to administer oaths, it
costs you $150. When you execute a
lease to rent your house for anything over
$150 a year, you pay about seventy
cents. If you want arms and crest on
your carriage, you pay $11, and if you
get these arms “granted” to you, and in
a measure fully recognized, you have
to pay $50 license. One carriage is taxed
$11 a year. Your dog costs $1.26a
ar. For a license to carry & gun, you
pay $4. The tax on every male ger-
vant 250. y
Tale of a Refractory Goal,
at the West End, but you can't make
the people who saw a colored gentle.
man try to lead a goat through that dis
triet the other day believe it
the didn't want to go, and the
colored gentieman, who was about ten
feet ahead of the animal, pulled vigor
ously on the rope.
whole strength on
goal
it when the goat
80 suddenly that the colored gentleman
didn't have time to recover his balanod
and went down, and as the goat ran
past him and kept running he was
dragged along, clawing wildly, until his
head collided with a lamp-post, and
Was Very angry and ran for the goat to
ing him the goa! contrived to hit him
just under the hip pocket, and the citi
gen disappeared down the
ike a shot just as the colored gentleman
over the goat, whieh
come to ahalt, A pumber of people had
a notion to turn and go the other way,
ple's feet that upset and
The man
seven were
climb out, and got his head and shoul.
@ goat made
him and he had to
And then the goat
went up a
goat went
the owner
his belt he
another rush at
dodge down again
assaulted his owner, who
and then the
man, and as
the rope Lo
another
tied
powder. Fortunately for him
his belt broke and he sprang to his feet
off towar! Harvard college
yelling fire, and the goat suddenly
jumped into an open window, scared a
nting fit and upset a
able on which stood a dish of hot
water. He got most of the water upon
himself, and made more frantic by pain
jumpe d out of the window again, butted
bulldog and stove in three of the
canine's ribs, and then disappeared down
the street, amid a cloud of dust just as a
policeman came around to shoot him.
And the man down the coal-hole came
and in his language and offered §75 to
him whom 0
Boston Post,
How the Pyramids Were Bulll.
The pyramids: are the tombs of the
Perfectly adjusted
of the horizon,
» the
inal points they
dest,
i. The Pyramid of Khuia—
Pyramid ot Khafra—height, 447.5 feet;
breadth. 600.75 feet. 3. Pyramid of
Menkara—height 208 feet; breadth,
853.78 feet. The construction of these
enormous masses has long been an in-
later generations
have succeeded in solving the problem.
As soon as the king mounted the
throne, hie gave orders to a8 nobleman,
the master of all the buildings of his
land, to plan the tomb and cut
I'he kernel of the future edifice was
raised on the limestone soil of the des
ert, in the form of a small pyramid
built in steps, of which the weli-con
structed and finished interior formed
; dwelling, with lis
lying on the rocky
the stone
stone sarcophagus
floor.
A second covering was added, stone
by stone, on the outside of the kernel a
third to this second, and to this even a
fourth ;: and the mass of the giant build.
ing grew greater the longer the king en-
foyed existence. And then, at last, when
the area of the pyramid further, a cas.
ing of hard stone, polished like giass,
and fitted accurately into the angles of
the steps, covered the vast mass ol the
sepulchire, presenting a gigantic triangle
on each of its four faces,
More than seventy such pyramids
onee rose on the margin of the desert,
each telling of a king of whom it was
at once the tomb snd monument. Had
chires of the Pharaohs been destroyed
almost to the foundation, and had the
names of the builders of these which
still stand been accurately preserved, it
would have been easy for the inquirer
to prove and make clear by calculation
what was originally and of necessity
the proportion hetween the masses of
the pyramids and the years of the reigns
of their respective builders.
5 -
About Leeches.
They live trom fifty to one hundred
years, and are sometimes even older
than that. Most of thie leeches used by
medical men of this country are brough!
from Northern and Northwestern Eu-
rope, where they abound in the swamp
lands in greal numbers. They are im-
yorted to this country by Dr White,who
lives in Rhode Island,and who has great
purging ponds, where he prepares the
disgusting little creatures for the mar-
ket, Cleveland dealers get their sup
plies from him and. from wholesale
houses in New York city. There are
two or three dealers in this city who
wholesale them. They sell during
a single year to the mail drug
stores and the physicians throughout
the city not less than 2,000 lecehes.
They bring a price of about $1 per
dozen, and are easily and cheaply kept
in supply. The American leech is found
in parts of Mississippi and Pennsyl-
vania, but for bleeding purposes are con-
sidered worthless, the foreign, or rather
the Swedish leech being the best and
consequently the highest priced. At
Bordeaux, France, is sn immense piece
of swamp land, where the leeches are
captured by the million. Here there
are large numbers of aged and infirm
horses ana cattle, brought thither from
the surrounding cities, These ani-
mals are driven into the swamps,
the leeches fasten themselves on
the beasts in great numbers, the
animals again reach dry land, and
the leeches are gathered from their
bodies, packed in rich, black earth, and
shipped to this country. Not less than
20,000 horses were engaged in this won-
derful business during ast year alone.
The leech itself is a queer creature. It
takes an entire year for it to digest a
meal, and if properly taken care of it
will live wonderful long with nothing
to eat. But they are verv delicate,
nevertheless, and are often aflicted with
diseases peculiar to the leech. Among
these afflictions is a fatal skin disease,
which often carries off large numbers
before its ravages can be stopped—
Cleveland Press.
Shellac,
Shel.ne, the product of an insee)
principally obtained in India, is de.
posited on the twigs of trees to protec
its eggs, and, later, to feed the iarym.
From the deposit (known as 2-seed)
shellac and coloring matter (lac-dye)
are manufactured. The officers of the
forest department of India have recently
discovered that by applying the luc-seed
o different trees, or by transplanting the
trees bearing the deposit, the insect can
be farmed, and the supply thereby in-
creased indefinitely in a given locality.
The lnc-industry is thus being spread in
India. A few years since $1,000,000
worth ot lac was annually exported
The amount sent abroad now amounts
yearly to three-quarters of a million
sterling.
EE ee
A child at Connersville, Ind., three
years old, that has had a supposed case
of nasal ecatarrh for a year, developed a
locust pod about an inch and a quarter
long in its nose the other day, and is now
sured. Some child had stuck it in for
|
“MILLIONS IN IT)”
| Mark Twain on the Gold-Bearing
Waters=How He Worked the Calistoga
Springs and What lle Kuows About
a Wendertul Gold«Bearing Wind
Mark T'waln writes to the New York
Evening Fost in reference to the recent
acoount from California about goid in
solution in the Calistoga springs, and
about the proprietor Laving ** extracted
£1,060 in gold of the utmost fineness
| the past fortnight by a process known
{only to himself, * This,” Mark says,
* will surprise many ofl your readers,
but it does not surprise me, for I once
owned those springs myself, What does
surprise me, however, is the falling-ofl
in the rictiiness of the water, In my
time the yield was a dollar a dipperful,
| [ am not saying this to injure the prop-
| erty, in case a sale is contemplated ; I
am only saying it in the interest of his-
| tory. It may be that this hotel proprie-
| tor's process is an inferior one—yes, that
may be the fault, Mine was to take my
| uncie—1 had an extra uncle at that time,
leaving kim un my bands—and Hill him
sive the water a chance to settle well,
then insert Lim in an exhausted receiver,
which had the effect of sucking the gold
iout through his pores, 1 have taken
| more than eleven thousand dollars out
of that old man in a day and a half, 1
should have held on to those springs but
| for the badness of the roads and the
diffionity of getting the gold to market,
I consider that gold-yielding water in
more remarkable than the gold-bearing
air of Catgut canon, up there toward the
{ head of the auriferous range. This air—
| or this wind—for it is a kind of a trade
{ wind which blows steadily down
| through six bundred miles of rich
| quartz croppings during an hour and
| & quarter every day except Sundays,'is
| heavily charged with exquisitely Bbne
i and impalpable gold, Nothing precipi
tates and solidifies this gold so readily
| a8 contact with human tesh heated by
| passion. The time that William Abra-
| hams was disappointed in love, he used
| to step out doors when that wind was
| blowing and come in again and begin
{to sigh, and his brother Andover J.
| would extract over a doliar and a hall
| out of every sigh he sighed, right along.
| And the time that Jolin Harbison and
Aleck Norton quarreled about Harbi
son's dog, they stood there swearing at
{each other all they knew how and
| what they didn't know about swearing
| they couldn't learn from you and me, not
| by a good deal—and at the end of every
| three or four minutes they had to stop
{and make a dividend—il they didn't
{ their jaws would clog up so that they
| couldn't get the big nine syliabled ones
| ont at all-—-and when the wind was done
blowing they cleared up just a litle over
| sixteen hundred dollars apiece. 1 know
| these facts to be absolutely true, because
I got them from a man whose mother I
knew personally. [did not suppose a
person could buy a water privilege at
Cslistoga now at any price; but several
good losations along the course of the
Catgut canon gold-bearing trade wind
are for sale. They are going to be
stocked for the New York market,”
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Briek’s Lunch Can,
Someboay got at Mr. Brick's lunch
and as he can’t endure that vegetable he
got the notion that he never could get
the taste out of the ean, and so he threw
it away. Mr. Brick
master on a train and he had the can
made for him and his address put upon
it.
day he threw the can away he found
that one of the neighbor's children had
picked it up and returned it, He appre
ciated the kindness of the child, but took
the can and chucked it into another
neighbor's garden, In half an hour that
neighbor sent it home. Then he deter-
mined to get rid of it anyhow, and he
took it to the depot the next day and
threw it into the freight yard.
Then he went into the depot for a
minute, and on returning to his oar
found some one had picked up the can
and left it for him. Quite exasperated,
he chucked into an empty oar that was
just being hauled away toward Chicago,
and he didn't see il again until the next
day, when it arrived in an express pack-
age on which he had to pny seventy-five
cents. Then he tore around prodig-
ously, and tied it to a dog's tail and the
lucky move, for half an hour later the
dog's owner brought the can back and
tried to thrash Mr. Brick for abusing
Then Brick was thoroughly aroused,
and he took the can and sunk itoff a
his car there stood something done up in
a paper that he knew to be his can, an
he kicked it sixty feet into the air, and
able bird in the cage.
turning it. Then Brick took the can
home, and at night filled it with dyna-
mite snd exploded it. The people in
the neighborhood, who were violently
nurled from their beds by the shock,
were quite indignant, and when they
to tar and feather Brick, and he had to
pay a heap for repairing the windows
wrecked. And to add to his horror he
found he had taken, instead of the can
he detested, a new one, and he was about
wild, and concluded that he never
should get rid of the thing.
day he induced some one to borrow it,
and he has never seen it since.
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How to Preserve a Carriage.
A prominent carriage manufacturer of
Nottingham, England, Mr. Starey, pub-
lishes a series of ** Useful Hints for the
Proper Preservation of a Carriage,”
from which we quote: A carriage
should be kept in an airy, dry coach-
house, with a moderate amount of light,
otherwise the colors will be destroyed.
There should be no communication be.
tween the stables and the conch-house,
kept as far away as Possivle. Ammonia
cracks varnish and fades the colors both
of painting and lining.
be put away dirty. In washing a car-
riage keep out of the sun and have the
1 3
leather. I i
apply (where practicable) with a hose or
syringe, taking care that the water is
the lining.
attainable, use for the body a large soft
sponge. This, when saturated, squeeze
of the water the dirt will soften and
harmlessly run off, then finish with a
soft chamois leather and oil-silk hand-
kerchief.
the underworks snd wheels, except that
when the mud is well soaked, a soft mop,
head, may be used. Neverusea “spoke
brush,” which, in conjunction with the
grit from the road, acts like sandpaper
com.» effectually removing all gloss.
Never allow water to dry itself on the
carriage, as it invariably leaves stains.
Be careful to grease the bearings of the
fore-carriage so as to allow it to turn
freely. Exam!ne a carriage occasionally,
and whenever a bolt or slip appears to
be getting loose, tighten it up with a
wrench and always have little repairs
done at once. Nover draw out or back
a carriage into a coach-house with the
horses attached, as more accidents occur
from this than any other cause. Headed
carriages should never stand with the
head down, and aprons of every kind
should be frequently unfolded or they
will soon spoil
California vintage this year is esti-
mated at from 11,000,000 to 14,000,000
ons,
In a Lion's Jaws,
Three English officers and a lot of na-
had made a raid upon a village in India
day one of the pair was killed, but the
other escaped to the jungie, When st
three officers got upon an viephant and
proceeded toward the heart ol the jungle
10 rouse the royal fugitive a second time,
They found him standing under a large
bush, with his face directly toward
them. He allowed them to approach
within range of his spring, when he
elephant's trunk,
without avail and the elephant managed
to shake his troublesome visitor off, but
was so frightened that he became un-
| controllable, and when the lion made
another spring at him, rushed in head.
| long fear out into the clearing. The
| officers therefore, had to give up all
iden of forcing the elephant to face the
lion again, but ore of them, Captain
Woodhouse, took the desperate resolu-
tion of proceeding on foct in quest of the
game; and finally seeing im,
| through the bushes, the only effect of
which was to make the lion retire still
deeper into the brake.
his companions, the two lieutenants,
now took the elephant, intending to
proceed around the jungle, so as lo dis.
cover the route the lion had taken on the
other side. But Captain Woodhouse
| relonded his rifle, and alone followed the
tracks through the thicket. Finally,
Lieutenant Delamain joined him.
Proceeding cautiously, after a few
| steps the lieutenant saw the lion and
instantly fired, which enraged the beast
speed.
Havana: and knew that if he tried to
get into a better position for firing,
Ihe would put himself directly is the
way of the charge, so decided to stand
still, trusting that the lion would pass
close by him, unaware, when he couid
perhaps shoot to advantage. But he was
deceived. The furious animal saw him,
{and flew at him wita a dreadful roar,
In an instant the rifle was broken and
thrown out of the captain's hand, his
left arm at the same moment being
seized by the claws, and his right by the
teeth of Lis antagonist. At this desper-
ate juncture, Lieutenant Delamain ran
up and discharged his piece full at the
jon. This caused both beast and man
to fall to the ground together, while the
to reload his gun. The lion now began
to crunch the captain's arm; but as the
[ brave man, notwithstanding the pain
which this horrid process eaused, had
the cool, determined resolution to lie
still, the lordly savage let the arm drop
out of his mouth, and quietly placed
himself in a crouching posture, with
both his paws upon the thigh of his
fallen foe. While things were in this
unteward position, the eaptain unthink-
ingly raised his hand to support his
head, which had got placed ill at ease
in his full.
Ineerated second time, and
artm a
higher up.
Captain Woodhouse, who saw al once
| the imprudence of oiirting. and to the
motionless attitude which this lesson
taught him to keep thereafter he un-
doubted ly owed his life.
But while death was close upon him
power of the most mighty enemy which
a man can meet in the forest, and was
closing his eyes to a world on the point
| of vanishing forever, he heard the wei-
come sound of feet approaching. But
the lieutenants were in the wrong di-
rection. Aware that if his friends fired,
voice: “To the other side! To
other side” Hearing the voice, they
for the ficst time saw the horrible posi-
whose coolness
started up a little, quivered, the massive
lay dead, close beside his intended vic-
{ tim .~8t. Nickolas.
Stitching on a Butlen,
He had never tried it before, but he
was naturally a self-reliant man, and
| felt confident of his ability to do it.
Moreover, his wife had gone to the
country. Therefore, carefully selecting
needle and stoutest thread, he resolutely
sot. himself to the wask. He carefully
or worked itself against the glittering
steel and refused to be persuaded. How
ever, the thread suddenly bolted through
{the eye to the extent of an inch, and.
| fearing to loose this advantage, he
quickly drew the ends together and
| united them with a knot about the size
of a buckshot. The button was a
the back of his shirt anyhow.
passed the needle gently upward through
the linen, he felt a mingled pity and dis-
dain for men bungling over such easy
piace, he said to himself that if ever he
married a second time it should be for
some nobler reason than a dread of sew-
ling on buttons. The first downward
| thrust had the same happy result, and,
his thumb, he came up again with all
| inspires. Perhaps the point of the
| needle did not enter to the bone, but it
| seemed to him that it did, and his com-
| phatic. But he was very ingenious,
and next time would hold the button by
| one edge and come up through the hole
| nearest the other,
| of suiting itselt as to holes, and it chose
{the one where the thumb was,
the needle got sulky. It didn’t care
| about holes, anyhow, if it was going to
| be abused for them, and the bution
might have been an unperforated disk
{for all the apertures which that needie
infinite poking and
came through
without
It always
| cover,
prodding.
when it was wanted. Still he per-
severed, and it was not until he finally
discovered that he had stitched over the
{ edge of the button, and had sewn it on
the wrong side of he shirt, that he
| utterly broke down.
55
A Curious Cabinet Crisis,
| There has been a queer cabinet crisis
in the Hawaiian kingdom, the immedi-
| ate cause of which was the appointment
| of an unpopular minister of foreign re-
| J]ations. This official, one Celsus Crsar
| Moreno, who is described as “a foreign
| account, wns threatened by the popu-
[ lace with a coat of tar and feathers, is
| in favor of Chinese trade and emigra-
| tion. Bat, for other reasons, he has
made himself personally obnoxious to
the people, who seriously discussed the
| dethironement of King Kalakaua and the
| selection of Queen Emma as their sov-
| ereign. The entire Hawaiian army was
! ordered to guard the royal palace, and
| revolution was at one time imminent.
| but the king wisely changed his mind,
dismissed his favorite foreigner, and re-
| stored order by a single blow. His
| course brings peace to the Hawaiian
kingdom, which, as that political fiction
is chiefly supported by thrifty American
traders and planters, is good for Ameri-
! oan interests in the Pacific,
RELIGIOUS NEWN AND NOTES,
A Preshywrian theologioal seminary
has been established at Tokio, Japan.
| Harvard colege has had 14,963 gradu.
| ntes, of whom 2,344 were ordained as
| pastors of churches,
| Thirty-seven natives of New Zealand
| have been admitted to the ministry of
| the Episcopal ehureh,
{ The number of Congregational
| churches in Indians is thirty-six, and
the nggesate membership of those
| churches 1,800,
Conies of the New Testament in
Japanese have been placed in the schools
| of Yokohama by order of the authorities
of that city.
It is said that the value of the offerings
at & recent heathen festival in India
amounted to $1,000,000, most of which
came from poor people,
Dr. J. A. Warne and wile, of Phils.
delphis, recently made over to the
| American Baptist missionary union
{ property valued at $40,000,
Princess Eugenie, sister of the queen
| of Sweden, is actively engaged in enlist.
| ing the Swedish women in behalf of the
| conversion of the Laplavders.
St. James’ church, Philadelphia, loses
|its assistant minister, the Rev. Charles
| Morrison, who becomes associate rector
| of the American church in Paris.
The Methodist Episcopal mission in
{ Raly reports 430 members and
| probationers—in all 700,
| twelve native missionaries at work.
{ Of the home missionaries of the Pres.
| byterian church, who numbered 1,151
| last year, 546, or nearly one-half, are
| laboring west of the Mississippi river.
The Rev. Dr, Marshall, a prominent
{ minister of the United Preshyterian
| church of Scotland, died recently at
| Conpar- Angus. He received his degree
| of doctor of divinity from the University
| of the City of New York in 1865,
| ‘Mie Chicago Interior is urging the
| Presbyterians of the Northwest to bestir
| theraselves and raise the $100,000 for the
| theological! seminary which is pecessar
| to secure another $100,000 offered condi.
| tionally by Mr. Cyrus H, McCormick.
| The Methodist Central German con-
| ference reports 1,075 probationers, 11,515
| members, 92 local preachers, and
| churches, There was a gain of 155
| members and a loss of two churches.
{Toe amount raised for missions was
| $6,885,
The bishops of the Methodist Epis-
| copal church have issued an urgent ap
| peal to the denomination to come for-
| ward and save the Metropolitan church
i at Washington. It cost $225,000, and
| there is now outstanding a bonded debt
| of £30,000 and a floating debt of $10,000.
| The Germany and Switzeriand Meth.
| odist Episcopal conference has reccnt
| held its twenty-fifth session, with
| Bishop Merrill presiding. Letters from
| there report an increase in members and
| collections, with good prospects in gen-
eral. Bishop Merrill preached on dSun-
| pay to a congregation numbering over
1,200 persons.
| There are eighteen Presbyterian Son-
| day-schols which have over 1,000
| scholars, and three with more than
| 2,000, The latter are those of University
| Place church, New York city, 2,166;
| Bethany church, Philadelphia, 2,114,
| and Second church, St. Louis, 2,060,
The Presbyterian board of home mis-
| sions, under its contract with the United
| States government, is preparing to os-
{tablish boarding schools among ihe
| Western Shoshones, the Uintah snd
| White River Utes, the Pueblos, Navajos
| and Moquis Indians.
The seventy-third general conference
of the New church (Swedenborgian) in
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England has been held in London.
ward of 100 ministers and delegates were
present. The Rev. C. Giles, fraternal
' messenger from the church in the Uni.
ted States, was received.
The average salary of Congregational
| ministers in Connecticut has stead-
{ily increasing during the last twenty
| years. From $812 in the year 1861, it
a reached $1,300 in 1880. But sine
1574, when it reached $1,460, it has
| grown less, though probably the shrink.
age is no greater than Las been noticed
| in the incomes of other people.
A few days ago there were ten mis.
| sionaries of the American board in San
| Francisco on their way to China and
| Japan, who had just arrived from the
| East. Two, on their way back from
| China, were also in the city, making
| twelve missionaries of the board. One
| Baptist, two Presbyterian, and two of
| the Episcopal church, were also on their
way to the far East, making seventeen
| missionaries on their way to and from
| their labors among the heathen.
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Adopted by a Queen.
In Naples the papers tell a very pretty
story of the queen of Italy. It appears
tuat as she was driving to the royal
| wood of Licalo the coachman mistook
the road, and one of the gentlemen asked
a countryman the way. The man, see-
| ing the fine varriage and horses, and the
servants’ livery, and all the gay com~
| pany, thought Liat he was being fooled.
““ As if you did not know I" he said, with
a big grin. The queen laughed, and as-
sured him that they were lost. Then
| only did the countryman condescend to
point out the way, after which he
| waiked off as if fearing to be laughed
at again.
“(Give him twenty francs for his
trouble,” said the queen to one of her
escort, who, going after the countryman,
gaid tohim: * Here, my man, is a little
| present from the queen of Italy, who
thanks you.”
“The queen!” cried the countryman,
returning to the carriage. * Forgive
me that I did not know thee. But I
| hud never seen thee before, Thou art
| as beautiful as a May rose. God bless
| thee.” And the carriage drove off.
Now the countryman, who had once
| seen the queen, wanted to see her pretty
| face again, and the following day he
presented himself at the palace.
“1 know her, you know,” he added,
mysteriously. “I spoke to her yester-
| day. and 1 want to speak to ker again.”
Thinking he had to do with a mad-
| man, the porter was about to have the
| poor fellow arrested, whem the very
{ gentleman who had given him the
| twenty francs, appeared, and, recogniz-
ing the man, told him to wait. He
informed the queen of his presence.
| “ Bring him here, by all means,” was
| rhe answer.
When the man was, for the second
time, before the queen, he said: * Yes,
| is thou. Ithought I had seen a fairy.
Thou art just an angel. I did not tell
thee yesterday {that I have two little
ones without a mother. Wilt thou be
their mother?”
“That I will,” said the q een,
“Then there's the twent Irancs thou
west me yesterday. Ith: 1k thee, but
want no money.” Andht vent away,
crying and smiling like ach d.
The queen has adopted the two little
ones, and they are in an institution
| under her special patronage.
Queen Victoria’s Escape.
Queon Victoria narrowly escaped an
accident during her recent journey to
| Balmoral. At a station called Solihull,
not far from Birmingham, a signalman
was overtaken by violent hemorrht ¢,
which so weakened him as to in: ei.
tate him from attending to hi. auties.
"Lhe poor feliow, however, had presence
of mind enough to place his lamp on the
line with the danger color facing the
engine, the driver of which was thus
warned to reduce the speed of the train.
The signalman was afterward found
ying exhausted nearhis post.
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From a single potato vine planted by
David Brown, of Pricetown, Fa., the
product was 637 fine potatoes.
soon srm————
COMPULSORY PRAYER,
An Adventure of Tom Wood! the [Cone
federate Soout.
* Well, now, ‘ell us, old friend, when
scouting inside of the enemy's lines, did
anybody ever detect you as a Confeder-
ate spy?”
“Never. But 1 was mighty near
being caught up once, and the only wry
I escaped was by being mistook for my
brother Jim.” Here the smile on his
face spread into a grin, snd the
old man chuckled as his mind went back
to the serio-comical adventure. Tom
Wood, or * Uncle Tommy,” as he was
known in General Lee's camp, had never
beer with the army in Flanders, but he
hed learned their habits all the same,
and was perhaps as wicked a hunter as
ever shouldered a rifle,
“But I'll tell you about how I liked to
have been caught. It was late in De.
cember, and it occurred to me that I
would take my Christmas frolic by
making a little scout out to my home in
Randolph county. We were camped at
the Warm Springs, and had nothing to
do in camp and 1 felt lonesome like. As
Christmas draw on, [ got to thinking
about my old woman and the childre:
at home; they were away inside the
lines of the enemy, and 1 thought that
Christmas would be more like Christmas
to them if I could unexpectedly drop
down an ong them. So 1shouidered my
old gun, and away I went, out torough
in Africa, near the
oS frizzed hair is fo
ued or. en os Blders
In n Hungarian shanty in Fayetle
county, Pa., a birtn, s destli and a mar-
riage occurred all at the :
yi william for women
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band oo invented that will 46
ol len women.
out;
saw no Felerals; slipped aroun
pickets; saw my family, and after en.
joying myself for a season, started back.
“Of course 1 kept out of the way of ail
the settlements and stuck to the moun.
tains. I stopped at nobody's house un-
less I knew them to be true blue South.
erners. One night 1 eam: to the
Greenbrier, and just as dark came on a
heavy sleet set in. 1 was cold, tired and
hungry, and the only house where I
could find shelter was the home of old
Billy Johuson, whom I knew to be the
most ultra union man in all that region.
I had no al acquaintance
him, and didn’t think that he had ever
seen me, 30 I concluded to risk myself
under his roof that night anyway. It
was my purpose to give him s fictitious
name, for I felt Fy sure that if he
discovered that I was Tom Wood, the
jebel scott, I would not live to see day.
light. ustering up oCcoOUrage, An
helped along by the wet and cold, 1
sought refuge under Johnson's roof, and
was hospitably received. While sitting
by the fire warming myself, Johnson
kept looking into my face very earnestly,
when all at once he arose from his seat,
approached, and standing directly in
front, of me, says: ‘Ain't your name
* Here was a poser, and T thought 1
was caught. I knew that if he recog
nized me it would do no good to lie about
it, so I owned up and said that was my
name. ‘Well, said he, * this is Brother
Jimmy Wood, ain't it? This relieved
me. You see he mistook me for
Jim, and seeing how it was, 1 humored
the mistake, though Jim is a blasted
sight uglier man nor me. But I wasn't
standing on looks then; the circum-
stances didn't admit of it. * Well,
really,’ says he, * Brother Wood, 1 am
glad to see you. I ain't seen you since
the camp-meeting on the hill, nigh onto
twenty years ago.’ And he took my
handand shook it like he was giad to
see me. Butl could hardly keep from
laughing in Lis face at being taken for A
class Jeader. You see, Jim is a Metho-
dist and a leader in the church, and so is
Johnson, and that's vow Le called me
‘Brother Wood." And then he sot
down and talked over old times and
the camp-meeting in the hills, and as)
the old man was willing to do
the talking, I was willing for him to
o it.
“] got along very well until we sot
up to supper, when Johnson called on
me wo say grace, I had done many a
hard day's work; had been on many s&
long scout; have been in some mighty
hot fights; but I tell you honestly, boys.
the hardest and hotiest work [I ever
done was to get out that blessing in a
genteel way. But this was no time for
flinching, and 1 got through with hh.
Everything moved on smothly, unmil
bed-time came around. Brother John.
son put the Bible on the stand, snuffed
the candle and asked me to lead in fam-
HY worst, 1 had broken the ice by
ing the blessing at the supper taole,
so | read a chapter in the book, and
kneeling d wn offered up the first prayer
of my life By jings, it was a good one.
[ didn’t forget to pray for the restoration
of the Union and the destruction of its
enemies. Maybe it was answered. I
had a good night's rest, and when I left
in the morning felt better than I ever
did inmy lite. In fact, boys, 1 believe
it does as man good to pray a little once
in a while, even if he is forced to it. |
mean to do more of it hereatter. But
that is the way I escaped, by being mis
took for my brother Jim."
And the grin broadened again on the
old scouts face, and the chuckie sounded
louder and deeper as he mused on his
adventure.— Caplasn Moffel, sn Phaladel-
phia Tomes.
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Throwing His Family to the Wolves.
Sel f-preser vation is said to be the first
law of nature, yet there are ciroum-
stances in which this law shouid be
infringed, and the safety of others take
precedence of the longing to preserve
one's life from the danger which
threatens it. No one, for instance, can
read, without a feeling of indignation,
the subjoined incident, related by a
Russian contemporary. A peasent, re-
siding near Moscow, was traveling
through a deserted part of the coun
in a conveyance containing himself, h
wife and four children, when the party
was pursued by a flock of howling,
famishing wolves. The peasant urged
the horses along at full speed, but in
spite of all the wolves gained every
minute on the travelers. A horrible
death seemed imminent, wien the
father devised a plan for personally
escaping from the danger. He took his
youngest child in his arms and deliber-
ately threw it to the pursuers. This
averted the danger for a brief time, but
fol-
lowing the i
prey. Successively the other three chil-
dren were thrown to them and de-
voured, which enabled the man and his
wife to reach a neighboring village in
safety. The poor mother, who had in
vain implored her husband nos to sacri-
fice in this barbarous fashion the lives
of her little ones, denounced the unnat-
ural parent to the authorities. The
case has just been heard, and the father
abated, on the theory that he had the
right to sacrifice his children since his
own life was at stake. The law of his
country may absolve him, but every
parent will condemn him.
numbered 97.864 men, |
4,602 were killed or died from
while 17,580 expired in the hospitals
disease. Piedmont sent
_ introduced i
mint. Two pieces of metal ex
alike will similarly affect two equally
strong currents electricity, Ii two
such currents flow through two con-
nected coils of wire, esch of which con-
tains as good coin, the balance of the
currents is not disturbed, as
are duplicates of each other. But if
either coin a suspected coin be su
either the balance of the
. or it will be destroyed,
an index will indicate the disturbance
and detect the covntertfeit.
Eating Lemons.
A good deal has been said through the
papers ely about the healthfulness of
iemons. latest advice as to how to
use them so they will do the most good
runs as follows: Most people know the
benefit of lemonade before breakfast,
but few know how it is more than
doubled by taking another at night, also.
The way to get the better of a bilious
system without blue pills or quinine is
to take the juice of one, two or three
lemons, as the appetite craves, in as
much ice water as makes it pleasant to
drink, without sugar, before going to
bed. In the m on rising, or at
least half an hour before breakfast, take
the juice of one lemon in a goblet of
water, ‘This will clear the system of
humors and bile, with mild efficacy,
without any of the w: effects of
ater. People
calomel or congress Ww
should not irritate ‘he stomach by eat-
ing lemons clear; the powerfu. acid of
theju which is almost corrosive, in-
fallibly produces ation after a
on ePon cue thro. 1
ots ns b
does its fali without
Answers Easily Misupderstood.
The inundation of 1771, which swept
away a great part of the old Tyne
bridge, Newcastle, England, was long
remembered, and alluded to as ‘‘the
flood.” On one occasion Mr. Adam
Thompson was put into the witness-
box at the assizes. The counsel asking
his name received for answer:
“ Adam, sir—Adam Thompson.”
“Where do you live?”
“ At Paradise, sir.”
(Paradise is a village about a mile and
a half west of Newcastle.)
* And how long have you dwelt in
Paradise?" continued the barrister.
* Ever since the flood!” was the reply,
made in all simplicity, and with no in-
tention to raise a laugh.
It is needless to say that the judge
asked for an explanation.
A butterfly, when apprehen ding and
ger, never lights on a n tree or
shrub, but flies into a clump of dead
leaves, where it so adjusts its on
harm, and the stoma clear of
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oun the system .
a twig as to look exactly like a :
leaf, and defies by its foes