Compensation.
Oh, birds, that flit by ocean's rim,
And mrke your plaint to silen t sky;
Oh, waves, that lap horizons dim,
Ye shall be tranquil by.and-bye!
Oh, rose-tree, givingfpetals fair
In some lost garden lone to lie,
Weep not because your stems are bare;
They shall re blossom by-and.bye!
Oh, singer, "singing in the night;
Tarn not and curse the heavens and die
Your heritage i peace and light
You shall be richer by-and-bye!
w= Bdward King.
——————————— —"
VOLUME XIII.
Editor and
CENT
RE HALL,
CO., PA.
An Indian sage has called the mind & sen,
passed,
To teiwpt the gates that guard | » mystery
The summer isles that near the
With light sail he has visited, and cast
Anchor in sheltered coves, and found at las
| Rest in re-imaged heavens. Oh, might wo,
| Whom s more anxious thought has drives
forth,
Where winds and lifted waters clash and
4, 1880.
A
TORY,
Mtiageh wt se, and om purty sill, Hie
Toil is the price of rest, and it is worth
Tempest and shipwreck, to be onst on shore;
To gain now life's well worth tha loss of this,
NUMBER 43,
———————
The Broken Bars,
The broken bavs upon the footpath lie
That
brows
| drageed after it the well-nigh forgotter
| red cape, and at last mounting into ar
| empty chair said, with a sigh of satis
faction and in a very clear voice:
“1 want dinner, please.’
i Bonny glanoe
thought everybod
catching the eve
toward him he
| friendly smile.
ends noross the upland, o'er whose
At evening the home-returning cows
Ta long procession used to wander by.
A little maiden with a swn-like eye,
And quick light feet, toward the old farm.
house
Drove the slow herd, that still would pause
to browse,
Upon the sweet grass standing anklo-high.
him H
pleased, and
who ben
& BLY
1 round
vy looked
of a lady
3 x}
SHA Od
A
This lady was the first to speak W
{ him. She { eagerly over and
i said :
** May [ sit beside you. dear?
ia little boy once with yellow
yours."
Bonny never
| tears in hersolte
CTOSSU ¢
Nowall is changed; the bars are always down;
Notinkling bells come sounding o'er the hill hair like
Upon the lonely place the sun and stars :
tio
See nothing but the tall grass thin and brown;
And naught is heard save that the whip
poor-will
Flutes his sad notes above the broken bars,
—d. K. Haven, in Harper's Magat ive
yoticed 18
YES NOW.
“1 like your hair best
all timidly,
{ hair was very dark, and
| a splendid yellow flower,
| “But, please, I am so hungry!
I have dinner?"
Before the lady could answer, a stout
| gentleman came hurrying up.
»
half frankly. The
she wore
h
il
in
May
Weil, well, let's see about this,” he
| began in a rollicking tone.
little stra Su you came
hands, little
wy dinner, did you
head. ie
lond-voieed man,
Bonny dropped
{
i
THE UNINVITED GUEST.
“ Molly, pat the kettle on,
Molly, put the kettle on;
Mally, pat the kettle on
Well all take tea.’
¥
1118
rather afraid of the
Tous sang the cheerful wother of the but the lady, whom he Was Bot alral
Donald family, as she sat the kettle of | of sald, Teassuring.y , his is ! hie man
otatoes over the fire to boil for break- | who gives tni8 CARE ae ORG .
Bh The kettle was s tight fit for so | his house ™ he yoy good to you,
many potatoes, and Bonny, ‘ooking on | Re
with interest from his chair by the fire, |
remarkad:
“ Faull, mamma, ain't it?”
“ Yes, laddie, full as it can Lold—just
like our house"
‘““ How it spatters
mamma!”
« A nd our house spatters and boils over |
with us, too, wee one.”
Sure enough the Donald dozen did live
in such a small tenement that it was a
puzzle how they ever could all get packed
into it at once. i
But then early in the worning the
father went oat to his work; Alec foi-
lowed to the shop, Jenuie to the store,
Nickie to sell morning papers, some to
school and some to do errands, till
Bonny and the baby would be left alone
with the mother. Then shutting the
door after the last, she would say:
«Do you see how they all boil away,
Bonny?" and she would sing merrily as
she scrubbed, swept and cooked.
She did not sing so often after father
Donald fell one day and broke a leg.
Nor did she fill the kettle of polatoes as
full either after that. Mr. Donald lay
helpless, and worried about the place he |
feared he should lose.
“ Rut I've worked for the house till it
seems I could not work anywhere else.
1f they'd only promise to let me back
again when I'm ble, I'd bear the rest
with an easy min ." said the sick man,
getting fevered an flushed.
“Lad, I can't ba e you fret so," spoke
his wite, at last. She took down her |
bonnet and shawl. ** I'll go and ask the
master myself. Id a't believe he'll re-
fuse a woman, and vou such a faithful
hand. Bonny is so good hie won't be any
trouble to you, and I'll take the baby
along.”
So Bonny climbed up by the window,
and watched his mother and the baby
“hoil away ” like the rest.
‘Then Bonny pisyed by hiioself a long
while. it seemed to him. He built a
church tower with his blocks, like the
tower he could see shooting up above |
the low roofs. He changed the blocks
into street cars, and dragged them up
and down the window-siil. He thumbed
his torn picture book; he thumped
his rag doll. Getting tired of al
he flattened his dear soft nose
against the pane, watching the people
tramp, iramping one Ly one the hrick
sidewalks, and the carts, drays, car-|
riages, that clamp, clamped over the
stony street. He liked this, and crooned
over to himself contentediy tunes that
were no tunes, and words that he made
up as he went along.
But time went on, and still his mother
did not come. Bonny grew hungry, and
crept Gown to ask papa about it. Paps
was iving quiet and breathing heavily.
Bonny Lad fairly sung his] lather to
sleep.
It occurred to Bonny, as he tiptoed
back, that there could be no good rea- |
son why he should not go and find his |
mother. or eise Jennie, or Nickie, or |
Ted. Jennies old red cape hung in the
corner; quickly he threw it over his |
yellow head, and holding it fast under
3%
i
8
i
:
I simply: “lcame; I was hungry and I
came.”
hroat and said
The host cleared his tl
d Bonny'scuris:
heartily, while he pat
boils
and over,
for all that. A
| you we wiil; and upon my word,
{ and gentiemen, 1 her think ti
tropolis hotel onored to have
{ chance.”
Never, nevi
such a dinner ¢
lady who sat by
chicken, and helpe
the lavish dainties that the
sisting on ng brought for
taste.
i Hungry?
never 1 this
again.
His innocent li
told his new frie
asked him about k his
tired mother. the tenement that
was like the kettle that had all boiled
away, and the bi
it so full when gathered
| one thing neither the lady, nor her hus-
| band who filled Bonny's pocket with
pennies, nor the host, could succeed in
finding out from him.
This was where the lit
nged, Ww aiurn
t
Me-
he
18 Lie
r had Bonny
i he ate {
s.de cut up the
un chioose among
I
}
iil
i
i
him to
It seemed to Bonny that he
in world could be
art Iran over, and
1d, the lady, all
k father,
he
she
his sic
ittie
fs
it
long and
{14
about. What was his name?
| Laddie.” His father's name? * Oh,
John.” What kind of work Jdid his
father do? ** Oh, nothing; father is
sick!” He had no clear ideas associated
as they found by questioning.
That Nickie peddied papers, anc
Bonny would when he was bigger
was very pasitive about.
“We pn," suggested
“we'll try the
have Laddic standing by
they go past, and maybe he
this brother ot his from the lot.
The company sat for long
round the tables. Bonny kept
| listening and wondering, though ]
understood little of speeches and
toasts. Onee all eyes were turned to-
ward Bonny.
A gentleman rose s
and gentiemsan, I
health of the first gues
lis hotel, who, though uninvited, has
i given the patriarch of this place
the nost
Ye'll just
the door when
can pick out
h
en,
newsbhoy
3
time
™ rs
ie St1iL,
ic
i
i
al
“hidy -
it
atl
©
$1
184
3
v 2
i
“ue
“ Ladies
beg propose the
t of the Metropo-
said:
nd
ped to
we the
\ privilege of entertaining an angel un-
} awares.”
Bu: Bonny answered nothing to the
looks bent upon him. With one
| full of nuts and bonbons, the other In
his heavy pocket, and a Iace of perfect
seace, the little guest of t
hotel lay fast asleep in his chair.
He was rosily awake again by the
time the newsboys were crying their
evening papers.
“Come and watch for
coaxed the host; and witl
small, warm hand in his own he stepped
bischin with one hand, he lifted the | out on the broad granite slab in front ol
Jateh and stepped forth | the hotel.
He walked slowly and thoughtfully | «hat isn’t Nickie—nor
off in the direction he had seen bis | p,q Bonny kept saying at first. ‘Oh,
mother take, with short, nipping steps, | Nickie!” he shouted, suddenly, and
BO Ect tive chrhabrody’s. He, Niokiol he SuGULET. SuGCem y, bled
had not a doubt that he should come to | plunging forth Into Lhe street, Wm et
: \ against a Mall
gome member of his numerous family | 0 Gye =
4 Th, J [An OVErgrown
before long, but meanwhile he was | oo. jooked
ana
fo
that—nor
of
he
whose bundle
fatter than
cap,
much
}
A |
\
MUSCULAR MEN,
some Famous Feats of Strenuth,
the Greeks
crowned with laurels and
y | loaded down with wealth and honors
{1 When Egenetus, in the ninety-second
t | Olympiad, triumphant in games, entered
Agrigentum,
attended by an
af dmwn
i HOW ed ny
and waving dann
palm at both
Pall 8 He
flewithat ye
Among the sucoessful
athicte was
1
n the
his native home, he
three hundre
by two whi
the popu
¥
3
» Wi
escort of ad
, | chariots, « te
1 | horses 1
1 a 1h ¥
aoeering
Lie i
Pytl
fun:
1 Qlympio and
i sald to have
old ox upon his shouide $
ward kilied the nal with
of his fist, and the entire Carcass in
fone day! So was his
power {
hi break it
| and pressure of the veins,
meal for Milo was twenty pounds
meat, as much bread, and fifteen
{ of wine,
| Poliydamus,
hl and
said
nies
Our i
salt
In, miley
ant » blow
ale
great muse iar
ie would bind a cord round
swelling
An ordinary
»
i
i
8
ha
8 head ar by the
0
nt
pir
of Thessalin, was of
i
CO
prodigious strength,
alone and without
killed an enormous and
One day, it is reporde
a bull by its hind feet, and
{ animal escape d only by leaving
hoof in the grasp of the athlete.
Ihe Roman Emperor Maximinus was
ight feet in height, and
{ Milo, of Crotona, could
| powder the hardest
fingers and break th
| kick. His wife's bracelet served him as
a ring, and his every day repast was
i sixty pounds of meat and
{of Ww
:
i
* | lossal heig
it
WINS,
aged
i
selaedl
and
eT~
JAG
i}
int
|
IDLOR
ine,
While a prisoner in Germany, Ricl
accepted an invitation
with the son of his jatior
received t first blow, which
him stagger, but, recovering, Ww
11s fist ne killed his ant
Topham, alsoan Eng
n in 1710, was
ting strength. His armpit
ard 1 tO a
ng match
he
Ss
possessed of
wid
au
with him full of muscles and tu
He would take a bar of iron, with i!
two ends held in his hands, pia
I mide
| then bend the extremiti
| until they meet together, and ben
the iron straight again. Une
{ seeing a watchman asleep in hi
| earried both the man and his 8
| great distance, and put them on tl
| of a churchyard. Owing 0 don
5 Da
he commitied saioids
ile of the bar behind his neck, and
jes by main force
ii
sh
i trouties,
u
| prime of life.
I'he famous Scanderberg, King of Al-
bania, who was born in 1414, was a man
| of great stature, and his feals of sword
| exercise have never been equaled. Un
| one occasion, with a scimitar, he struck
| his antagonist such a blow that its force
| cleaved him to the waist, He is said to
| have cloven in two men who were clad
in armor i in hes Un
sion the brother and nephew of a co
win Bailaban, who had been convicted
| of cruelties toward the Albanians, were
| brought to him bound together. Trans-
| poried with rage, he eut them in two
| with one stroke ot his weapon.
Maurice, Count of Saxony, the
| of Fontenoy, inherited the phys
vigor of his father, and was ¢ peed
of
L
i
1 10 100%.
¥id
Lik
5
Ol
jor “grip,"of his h
ion, needing a cork
g i i into t
ape with nis fingers and open
a dozen bottles of wine with it.
time, when stopping at & bi
to have his horse shod. bh
number of new horseshoes, a
his hands snapped them in two as
eadily as if made of glass, much to
disgust of the smith.
if history is to be believed, Ph
of Crotona. could jump a distance ol
| fifty-six feet. The exercise 5 Prac.
tized at the Olympic games and formed
part of the course of the Pentathlon
Strutt, an English authority on ne
| and amusements, speaks of a Yorkish
jumper named Ireland, whose powers
| were marvelous. He was six fed
and at the age of eighteen leaped,
out the aid of a spring-board, over
horses ranged side by side. He cles
a cord extended fourteen feet from
| ground wih one bound, crushed with |
iis foot a u.adder suspended at a height |
| of sixteen feet; and on another occasion
he lightly cleared a large wagon, covered |
with an awning. [How is that for high?] |
Colonel Ironside, who lived in India
| early in this century, relates that he met
| in his travels an oid white-haired man
| who with one leap sprang over the back
of an enormous elephant flanked by six
| camels of the inrgest breed. A curious
! French work, published in Paris in
| 1745, entitled ** The Tracts Towards the i
| History of Wonders Performed at Fairs,”
nentioned an Englishman, who at the
| fair of St. Germain in 1734, leaped over
| forty peopie without touching one ol
on
pe EsImith
i shiop &
up a8
with
»
ploked
Lit
yilus
Wa
t hieh
LC AIER
with
ared |
the
{
}
i
A WOMAN'S STRANGE CAREER,
Living in the Woods as » Hunter snd
Claiming to Mave a Wite- The Varied
Attninments of Lacy Ann Lobdell,
A recent
from
letter to the New York Sun
Narrowsburg, N. , tolls
In 1855 Lucy Ann Lob
iter of a lumberman
¢, Delaware county, N
ving
y
Niater.
Her husband
marriage,
CUS LE
Khe was about twenty vears old
deserted her a year after
|
fi
wn
WWRY
willl
na
habe a few weeks
noes
nd In
3
ia
old ail ro
ermen of the
ware, then ite
derness, and uid
8 well as any ol them
Tt
ters a y
by
upper Dela
better than a wil
shoot, fish and raft
¥
i
{
better
Wis
| were
than
serted h
support Lier,
Care, put
\
few
he hushand de-
ing too Poor w |
baby in their |
nd adopted the
For eight years she |
Hive n the forests of Delaware and Sul
ivan countic N. Y., and those of Pike |
and Wayne in Pennsylvania. Occasion |
ally she came into the settlements to sell
ene and skips and buy ammunition and |
supplies. Atsuch tines she would senda |
of the proceeds of her gun and |
$ to her parents, She lived in cabins
d in the woods, In 1864 she
home, Her life ot exposure
y had made her a physics
found that her child had
placed in the Delaware county
poorhouse at Delhi during her absence.
bittered her against her parents
She resumed women's clothing, and for
her
Alter
yiaged i
: ptlire 8
ithe } i
s §
ortion
wreck.
een
(His ein
living on charity, her mind continua
dwelling on her wrongs.
appeared again. About that time a man,
giving the name of Joseph Lobdell, ap- |
peared in a village in the central part of |
Wayne county. He opened a singing
school, and played the violin for dunces
One of his young lady pupils fell in love
iy
.
hen she dis
married. The night before the wedding
day the discovery was made that Joseph
Lobdell was a woman--none other than
Lucy Ann Slater, “the Female Hunter
of Long Eddy.” A party of young men |
determined to tar and feather her and |
ide her on a rail. She was warned of |
the danger, and she fled from the village,
making her way to Delaware county, N.
Y. Asit in that she was gradu-
) insane, she was finally
by the poor authorities,
in the almshouse near Delhi,
spring of 1868 a prepossessing
y about twenty-six years of age
od from an Erie train at Lordvilie
She was without money, and
y travel further. She said that
the daughter of parents who
a place near Boston. Their
name was Perry. Dh
,
i
i had married
agrinst their wishes and g
City live with her husband, who was
i
wie Ji rsey
iy LO
a railroad employee. Her husband had
run away snd jeft her among strangers,
S! i i in pursuit of him, but,
} ne insufficient means, and falling ili,
been forced p at Lordvilie
be sent to her home in
husetts, or to have her parents
of her situation. and was taken
8 ous: Delhi. \ was
Wot Wf good eding
l poor iouse si
ring her illness by Lau
siater, strange affection grew
between them. A short time alter
new-comer, who went by her
iden name of! Marie Louise Perry, had
recovered her h she and Lucy Ann
the aimshouse together. They
y gone over two vears, and nothing
heard of them during that time,
Through singular occurrence they
were discovered summer of 1871,
iving under mosi pocaliar cireums-
slaris
14 | to 810
She refused
M ass
notid
wo
nn « x
it
A
hit
enti,
A
{l
tances
Lucy Ann daughter Mary,
who had been taken from the aimshouse
farmer, had HT
3 , accounts of
local papers,
references
"
:
Siater's
pled by a been
terrihie
: i
wi bys
pubis
rere accompanied with to
re strange habits of her mother. These
{ Monroe county, Pennsylvania. A
fow weeks afterward Poormaster Heller,
yf Jackson township, that county,
wppeared in Delaware county with a
and woman in charge. He said
appeared in the northern
man
5
man gave his name as the Rev. Joseph
Israel Lobdell. The woman claimed to
couple lived
When Lobdel
in caves in the
i's rifle fal ed to
snd the
woods.
lumber settlements. They
as vagrants in 1871, and
While
in the
were arrested
lodged in jail at Stroudsburg.
He Obtained a Situation,
{ by one of the most prominent railroad
| managers of the Western Btates, whieh,
| on my promise not to divalge the names
| of the parties, I am permitted to pubs
lishi. Said the manager
A few years ago | took cliarge of the
railroad in Texas, which at that
time was in a bad condition
eral months | was kept very
’
busy in
all my time had to he devoiled to The al
fairs of the road, During certain hours
i
i
my
no one
{OLlOW-
busy at
i
incident occurred I was
ith, eadaverous-look-
His home:
spun pants were tucked inside his dusty
though it had never seen a razor, and
his long, uncouth halr streamed out
from under a large sombrero down on
his broad wiry shoulders. He marched
up to my desk, and without
taking off his hat, said in a gruff, quick
tone:
**Is Smith in?
1 {i up in amazement and
1 § ww YY fe i 1 3
plied Yes, sir, that's my name
“ Wall then, cast your eye on that"
said Le, slapping a letter down |!
'
100K&
wiore
fie
picked it up and read it, and found
it to be a letter of introduction, saying
the bearer was a trustworthy man who
wanted work and asking that it be given
i
i i
As 1 finished the letter, hi
out. ** Weil, Smith, what
Can you give me a posish?"
I waited a moment and
“You appear ¥ quite a vard
young man, you want a position
Now, sir, you think you wouid
have stood tter chance of getting a
position if you were more polite in your
If you had knocked at the
}
door, and on beipg invited to enter, |
i
“
‘ve say?
then
wid
§ i
3
Qoy
i
x
fi hi
nd
i had of-
with & poli
asked if Mr. Smith was in, and
fered this asking
bow, * Will you have the kindness to
look over this letter? If you had done
so, young man, don't you think your
proposition would have been more
favorably received than your present
action?”
ty
eller,
and then turned and left. A
a I heard a knock at the door.
said “Come in." Again the same
young man entered. Stepping softly he
came to the desk, made a most elaborate
bow, and said: * Havel the honor of
Mr. Smith, the manager of
the and ee - raliroad I bowed
and sald, ** Yes, sir.”
He again bowed and handed me the
etter, asking me if I had leiare to look
over it
I took it, and again
looked up, saying:
moment
fr op
et
3
h 1
read it, and then
“This is a very
What
Quick as a flash came the
‘ You may go to im
He then turned and left with a laugh.
I saw there was something in the man,
I followed him, called him back, and
i He did his work
, and has since been promoted, until
yw occupies one of the most
and best-payving
; Leader
response
well
he 1
3e 5
TY i
I
in
Epon.
wILIOn my
eveland
a ——————
At the Table,
'
*
It is impossible to estimate properly
which is exerted
the atmosphere
f the family table. If it ist that
do's not come out of a room the
person who went in, mind
impress of what
whal greal resuils
from the meeting
he dining TOO,
conversation indulged in, and
habitually expressed
il-ordered table, is in
I have
% 3
the immense infiuenc
Ww
household by
rut
thie
t} ore
viere,
achieved
wffected it
he a
the
sentiments
A nest, wi
when
son
has better
their best,
manners
and have
sed upon a
in
1
{ indies who are
to him. To the inviting table,
to behave properly. At this
i
{ soiled collar,
martyr,
Lair and
with the sir of a
head of the house, if the
is not exactly to his mind, will |
it as a personal affront. It
really is worth while, and when philo- |
a matter of
The
dinner
resent
seeing the Passion Play.
| William H. Beaver, better known as
gine, was at Oberammergau lust sum.
mer and saw the passion play there,
Bing a meek and bashful man he was
| forced to procure a seat at the play in
| the following manner: Some managed
to get to the Oberammergau passion
play, Some did not. The Prawer did
| Taking
made trap at Murnau, the raliway ter
| minus, we were rolled over a well-made
road some fourteen miles, until
!
|
i
i
TIMELY TOPICE,
ms—
Miss Emma Colter made a balioon as-
i
was ahout two miles trom the earth
when the balloon csught fire, Fortun
ately the fire burned siowly, and enough
of the heated air was retained in the
balloon to give it some buoyancy, until
100 eet
of the earth, when it descended with
three miles this side of Oberammergau,
While stopping to water the horses a
portly person emerged from a little way-
Gaze's hotel, and had rooms engaged,
| If these had not been previously se-
{cured it w
i
i
oo a——-—
of Portugal, and recently persevering
raise the old cable at a point where it
The gen~
| lay of affection or ready cash, The portly
| person added that there was eight beds
| disengaged in his house, which was a
branch of Gage's. The drawer took one,
{ but determined to go on Wo Oberammer-
| gan and obtain, if possible,
| seat for the play. “No use,"
| portly person; *‘all taken two
“yo !
} =n}
{ Drawer
try,” meekly responded the
after so long an immersion, and cannot
be raised, but this cable has been sue.
SEArs ago.
Some of the cigarettes which are
smoked to so large an extent are said to
A physician had
very imperfect English, “and you ean
vide with me, as I have got to go up Ww
get two places that have been reserved
for Prince W—, who is in the house.”
We were soon on the way. The seat
question was now the problem, its so-
lution important. The Drawer
ightly perpit xed, hut soon soared to
the occasion. Taking from his pocket
f
:
as found to be strongly impregnated
with opium, while the wrapper, which
aforesaid and explained to him that it
was nn document of very many horse.
power. The Drawer supplemented this
brief oration with the frank and truly
American proposition, *‘1f you get a
dood seat for me I'll give you balf a
sovereign,” This was an unusual in-
We reached Oberammergau
and drove to the residence of the burgo-
master. While waiting to be ushered
into his office the
guide, philosopher and friend, in a
“By the way,
{ the elector
do you happen to know i
¢, or the elector
Hesse-Cassel has been her
of Brandenburg?” ,
* No, sir.”
“Ah! I'm very sorry
to have met them!"
“1'i] ask," ssid he.
“Oh, no matter;
: should so like
is
sotto voce: ** By the way, when we go
into the burgomaster's you may sav to
him that I am one of the electors of New
‘ork, traveling privately, and that 1
would feel greatly obliged if he could
give me sn good seat.”
took.
ly introduced as one of the
New York.
and grave
electors of
he had reserved for persons of distine-
tion. One was handed politely to the
Drawer. The Drawer
price for the same, executed a graceful
obeisance, and emanated
eRee. y
when booming of a cannon
nounced the commencement of the per-
formance, the Drawer found himself in
the very best places in the andi-
i next the prince. Its
an elector of New
the an
ne of
torinm, and seated
something be
York.
w
A Tale of a Syringe.
A Rockland young man until quite re-
cently was courting a fat giri al thie
North End and asd progressed very
favorably with his suit. Une evening
ast week he dressed up in his best
lothes, carefuily combed his hair, and
{i out to make his tri-weekly visit
stared
to his fair
parlor with fond expe tation in her
heart and a cold in her head, saperin
duced by the fluctuating weather. This
o
the tragedy.
the fat girl's father—who is worth many
thousand dollars in good, sensible bonds,
and as a consequence is an object of the
oung man's tender regard—had for
several nights previous been the vietim
of some unknown miscreant who had
yrepared a ghastly retribution for the
i ;
a big garden syringe with about a gal-
lon of ancient beef brine, seasoned with
was lving in ambush behind a box,
the hennery. The young man, who is
of white paper, whitened with arsenic,
two poisons combined being
without being aware of it, and which
Very few churches of America have
The
of some of the
St. Peter's
7.000; St.
cathedral, Paul's at
Florence eathedral, 24.300: Antwerp
stantinople, 23 000; St. John Lateran,
22.900; Notre Dame at Paris, 20.000;
Stephen's at
12600; St. Dominic's at
Bologna, 12. 00; St. Peter's at Bologna,
of Vienna, 11,000;
Venice, 7,000; Spurgeon’s
The Cliicago Journal of Commerce says
that bat few people comparatively have
any idea of the amount of timber used in
10 construction of a single railroad. It
yearly takes 200,000 acres of forests to
supply cross-ties for the railroads of the
United States, It takes 15 .000,000 ties
to supply the demand on our railroads,
gets thirty-five cents apiece, making in
the aggregate 85,250,000, In buliding a
new road the contractors figure on 2,700
to the mile, while it takes 300 ties to the
mile to keep a constructed road in repair.
Contractors, of course, buy pieces of
{
of road as possible, paying for the timoer
giving the proprietor of the land ten
cents for every tie got out. Theaverage
of a good piece of timber land is 300 ties
to the acre and tweive ties to the tree.
agency at Holyoke,
71,727,000 one-cent
i .
| § IT MUR Cara
postal
sent away
For the three months ending June 30,
number sent was 67,903,500. The
of the two-cent international
Last winter, when they
were introdnced, the contractors made
more than 6.000.000 at once, every one
supposing that they would all be
wanted soon. This judgment was cer-
York ordered 1,0.0,000and Philadelphia
But these orders
and the sale has
A
were nol repeated,
In » short time after
announced to the postmasters
are solid, tlie next gquarteriy
654,000, the next 210.000
only 54.500, This leaves
inereasing.
were :
1.031.500 w
OTL gave
{ast
——
The noticeable increase in the fre-
quency of duels in France has at last
Last year a project of law
measure this Gallic susceptibility. This
senate, and if it runs the gauntlet of the
i
after be treated as a misdemeanor, and
will be punished as such by a fine rang-
IS EE
The Wild Hog of India.
Those who have formed their conoep- |
tion of the pig exclusively up an the
tame pig of the civilized sty, have no
atequate idea of the tree wild pig of the
Indian jungle. Like the North Ameri-
ean Indian, the pig is debased by con
tact with civiliz=tion. He becomes
cowardly, weak, dirty, and a prey to an
inordinate thirst for swill, The distance
between the tame Indian of Saratoga,
who steals chickens and wallows
| drunken in the gutter, and she
| warrior of the Western plains, is not
| grester than that which separates the
despised pig of civilization from the
wild and fesriess quarry of the East
Indian pig-sticker. e latter pig,
whose spirit has never been broken with
pig~-yokes, and whose moral nature has
never been poisoned with swill, is one
of the bravest inhabitants of the jungle,
and has been known to attack and put
to rout the majestic elephant and the
ferocious tiger.
| The full name of the East Indian pig
| is Bus indicus, though Co one except 8
| punectili~us scientific person ever calls
| him by it. Among beginners in the art
lof pig-sticking he is sometimes mag-
| niloquently described as a wild boar—
though he is very often a wild sow;
| but pig-stickers of reputation uniformly
leall him » pig or a hog. Sus indicus
|often grows to the length of four feet
| and eight or ten inches, and reaches the
| height of three feet, or even forty inches,
| at the shoulier. When full grown his
| strength is enormous, and in speed he
| will sometimes rival the iastest Arshian
horse. He enters upon existence in 8
| striped state; subsequently he besomen
brown; when in the prime of life he
affects a dingy black color, and when
{0d he is gray and grizzled. At no period
ean he be honestly called a handsome
or a graceful animal, but his courage
and tenacity of life demand our respect,
In point of teeth the tame pig has
| sadly deteriorated. The wild of
India, which is the type of the barbaric
| pig of all ages, is armed with long semi-
| circular tusks. Those in the lower jaw
| sometimes attain the length of eight or
| nine inches. Theyfeurve outward and
upward, and the edges are kept sharp by
the pig's constant habit of scouring them
| against the tusks of the u jaw. The
swiftness and power with which he
uses those tusks Lo Carve an enemy are
| almost incredible. A hunting dog is
frequently cut nearly in two by a single
stroke of a boar's tusks, and horses and
men are occasionally killed by boars
which have become tired of on, Bhar
and which try to infuse a little variety
into the affair by hunting their enemies,
When wounded he is an exceedingly
dangerous beast to face on foot, uniess
the hun er is a lawless ruffian who is
capable of killing him with a rifle. One
can scarcely imagine an Englishman
20 lost to all sense of decency as to shoot
a fox, and next to that crime ranks, in
Anglo-Indian estimation, the loathsome
outrage of killing a pig by any process
except that of pig-sticking.— Harper's
Magazine.
HUMOROUS,
The latest book out is entitied “My
Ship at Sea.” Tt will evidently haves
hp ale,
“ Ah,” said a deat man who had a
scolding wife, “man wants but little
hear below!™
1t's a poor rule that won't work both
ways. Hartford has a cow thal is
afraid of women.
Might not the act of extinguishing a
fire in » bookstore, ithough no joke, be
called a piay upon words
You con deceive Jour
wife, young
Ny a 1, Ness,
i
the Sawer-colored range,
light aod darkness dimly
A with 2 proboscis is a :
tn eb ae Norrie:
town Herald welcomes it with s little
ery of ecstasy, and says that “the oid
sifle of Log was becoming Hopotsni
and the msthetic eye.”
“ What is the first thing to be done in
of the
The Terrible Octopus.
The ferocity of the octopus is nndeni-
ahle: but doubt has hitherto been cast
on the old stories which nt this
| unpleasant creature as ing in the
habit of seizing and swamping boats.
It is admitted by scientific naturalists,
that the hideous thing, known to an
ancient world as the polypus, and lo
modern boatmen as the cuttlefish or
squid, attains to a portentious size and
strength in the warmer seas, and is very |
powerful and even dangerous. Iis vn |
racity and the peculiar violence with |
which it attacks and rends its prey are |
well known to those persons who have |
seen it, weakened by captivity, and ren!
dered less eagerly ravenous by the abun. |
danoe of food ready to its thousand
hands. To speak by the card, these
number 960 in all, and are rather to be
called fingers than hasds. Bat what
fingers! Each is a powerful sucker that
expands and contracts with rapid
ever-climngeful motion, and there are 120
of them to each of the eight long. writh-
ing, restiess arms, With eyes fixed on
its adversary, and with parrot-like beak
advanced for the encounter, this most
unsightly of all living things inspires
awe by its loathliness not less than b
its actual power to harm. That it will
| turn and fasten upon a human being, if
{ fingered or menaced with capture, is a
well-established fact; and a recent oe-
| currence reported from Adelaide goes
far to revive the old belief that s poly-
pus will veature on attackieg the hull of
a host. A telegram from Port Elliot,
{published in the South Australian
papers, states that on the 20th of August
last, * Trooj er Bruce and a man named
Edward were out in the bay near Lip-
son's island, examining a piece of wreck-
i age, when their boat was encircled b
= few Wank. : Was,
ply. * good, 1 say
more.” That boy
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thinking less of that than of the sights | 5:4 hens, ” the great importance, to jay aside as far as
by the way. Two boys were racing
velocipedes. To Bonny: that was a |
splendid sight.
“I wist 1 had a wvelehorsipede,” he |
whispered, with a pensive air. i
On and on he plodded blissfully be- |
wildered, absorbed in these enchanting
visions, until he found himself beforea |
caterer’'s show window, tempting with |
crisp loaves of bread, daintly frosted |
cakes, and unspeakable cookies, tarts, |
jellies.
“ Oh my! oh my!” cried Bonny, be-
ginning at last to remember that he was |
nobody but a little hungry boy, “I'm
hungry--1'm so hungry!
While he stared with all his longing |
eyes. he heard these words spoken
loudly right by his side, * Come on,
then; we shall be sure of a good din- |
ner.”
Bonny turned around. Two men in |
tall black hats were striding by, and |
one, as he spoke, clapped the other on |
the shoulder. The irvitation was not
meant for Bonny at all. But that did |
not make any difference to him. He |
simply received the idea that if he fol- |
Jowed these two men he should get toa |
dinner. So he pressed sturdily after |
them. He had to walk fast, and some- |
times he almost Jost sight of them in the |
throng. But Bonny was so hungry by
this time that he was very much in ear-
nest. He did not stop te watch the peo-
ple, nor.to look into any more shop
windows. i
It was really not long before the tall
hats were geen turning up some low,
broad steps. The panting Bonny, tug-
ging after, followed unnoticed through
a wide door into a vast hall, all paved
with marble. Quite confused and out
of breath, Bonny suddenly stood still
Where hr ha lost sight of the two tall
hats and the wearers of them he did not
Astonished Nickie, who had not been
However, he could answer all
{in a very short in-
from the feast, and
Was there ever in the most agitated
enement that night?
breaking their loving, anxious
The stranger lady, promising Bonny
sh
You
When
Afterward she understood.
earnest
he had
If right, from the stand-
oint of his own interest. But then he
ad known nothing of the clean, crowded
waiting and her
haired Laddie-who reminded him of
kxowr.
+ Seems like another out-door,” the
chilé thought, looking up at the high
ceiling: ‘but where's the dinner?
There ie a dinner; 1 smell it; it smells
good. Seems to me I never did smell
so much dinner in all my life.”
By this time he also became aware of
a cheerful clatter of dishes and voices;
and lollowing the sound across the wide
hali, he pushed open a great door that
stood half ajar.
Sure enough, there before him lay
table after table, adorned with spotless
linen, and spread temptingly not only
with flowers and fruit but with plenty
eat.
How should little Bonny know that
this was the day when the grand new
Metropolis hotel first opened to the pub-
ic? How should he know that there
were all the mighty men of the city—
merchants. editors, ministers even—
with their wives, met together by invi-
tation to celebrate he dedication dinner?
You see they had not invited Bonny;
nobody expected him; so at first no-
body noticed him as he slipped noise-
lessly in.
Tie tables seemed so full of people that
Bonny had to walk up the room to find
a place. A queer hush fe.l on the clat-
ter and the people dropped their forks.
They watched this little figure with the
sunny hair, the happy face, thé shabby
him.— Ella
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Attempts on Queen Vietoria’s Life.
In 1840, on the tenth of June, a half-
witted lad named Oxford fired twice at
the queen as she was driving with
Prince Albert in Hyde park. The boy
was tried at the Old Bailey, and was
detained for some time as a lunatic. In
1845 John Francis fired at her majesty,
and some five weeks afterward a man
named Bean presented a pistol at her.
Ten years later, in 1852, a fellow named
Pate, formerly nu lieutenant inthe hus
gars, lay in
was driving out of the residenc
blow at her with
crushing her bonnet
He was transported. In February, 1872
her.
boy whose head had been turned with
reading sensational romances, drew ¢
pistol on her majesty as she was abou
to alight from her carriage at Bucking
ham palace.
year's hard
Atlantic Monthly.
ean
shoes, the tumbled check apron, that
In our own day we are familiar
| with many remarkable expositions of |
| strength and endurance. Dr. Winship, |
with tre aid of straps, lifted a weight
lof 3,500 pounds, and with the little |
finger of his right hand could raise his
| body a considerable distance from the
{ ground.
A Living Paper-Catter,
| An Indian rajab who was pleasantly
| disposed toward the English and had |
| learned their language after a fashion,
| frequently visited some years ago, as |
| the story runs, the viceroy of Calcutia,
| and on one occasion borrowed of the
| latter a copy of the Edinburg Review, |
which he happened to see lying on the
table. When he returned the magazine
the viceroy asked him if he had found
| anything interesting in it. “Oh! yes,” |
| he replied, ** many beautiful things, but i
|also many disconnected articles.” i
| “How so?” asked the viceroy. * See
| here,” answered the rajah, * this begins |
with ‘ Hunting the Orang-outang,’ does |
it not? And now turn over the page, |
and here you have the ‘ History of Mary |
Stuart.” The viceroy laughed.
perceived that the rajah had attempted |
to read the book through without cut- |
ting the leaves. He accordingly took |
from his table a beautiful ivory paper- |
cutter, explained its use to his visitor, |
and made him a present
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ei
of i The
rajah wag puzzled as to how the leaves |
of books could be printed before they |
were cut open, but this also was ex- |
lained to him. About a year alter this |
occurrence the viceroy saw a gay com- |
pany entering the court. and in the cen- |
ter of it the rajah seated on a young ele- i
phant. No sooner did the rajah see the
viceroy than he cried: *“ Do yon happen |
to have an uncut copy of the Edinturg |
Review? If so, please toss it to me.” |
The viceroy threw out the magazine. |
It was caught by the elephant, who |
placed it between his tusks, which |
had been wrought into elegant paper- |
cutters, even including carved handles, |
and quickly cut open the leaves, after |
which the knowing animal passed the |
Review back to the surprised viceroy. |
The rajah then dismounted, and seid to
the viceroy, as he pointed to the ele- |
phant: “ He is yours, I return you your
paper.cutter alive,”— Paper World.
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Clever Shepherd Dogs. |
The great sagagity aud intelligence o |
the sheep-dogs must have been noticed
by many. I have seen one of them run
over the backs ofthe sheep in a crowded
street to get at the further end of them,
|
|
|
slightest gignal from his waster.
The instinct of a well-trained sheep-
dog ie marveious, In the time of sheep-
shearing the dog will feteh any sheep
that is needed from the flock, and bring
it to the feet of the shepherds It will
do more—it will skillfully throw the
sheep on its back without injuring it,
and then look up at the shearer as much
as to say: ‘‘ Ready for the shears, sir.”
On the shearer taking hold of the sheep,
the dog scampers up the mountain-side
and brings down another,
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discovery was
made that the Rev. Joseph 1. Lobdell
was 8 woman. About that time the
jail
The Monroe county authorities
peared.
track of the
were thus placed on the
i
left the Delhi alms. |
to Delaware |
Delhi alms |
Then |
They were returned
try, living in cabins and caves in the
woods, and insisting that they were man |
wife. They went by the name of |
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Lobdell. In 1876 |
oe
vacrant. His wife, writing with a split |
stick, and using pokeberry juice for ink, |
obdell, in consequence |
of his ill health, which compelled her |
constant care.” The document was a
Joe was released and the
petition placed among the court files.
Soon after Joe was free the pair went to |
Damascus, Wayne county, opposite Nar- |
rowsburg, and bought a farm of a few !
acres. They lived there together until
a year and a half ago, when Joe disap-
peared. The remains of an unknown |
person were found in the woods of Sul- |
livan county, not far from the farm, |
some months afterward. They were |
yelieved to be those of the missing ** te- |
male hunter,’ and were buried as such. |
The wife remained on the farm. A few
was dressed in a tattered suit of men’s |
clothes, and was hopelessly insane. She |
It was |
finally decided to send her to an asylum. |
She was taken to the State asylum at
Ovid. |
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3
cm RII
A Change.
“ Adolphus, my dear,” said she, ** it's
nearly a year since you first began to
call”
“ Yes, 1 believe 80,” nervously.
“ And we've talked about books and
music every night.”
“Y.y-e-a, I think so,” more nervous
an belore
«“ Well, I—=I= Don’t you think a
hange would be agreeable?”
There was ** a change” in a few weeks
time. The pasior made it.— New Haven
Register.
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A Frog iu a Cow’s Throat,
The Scientific American has the fol-
lowing cow story all the way from Wis-
| consin: A cow died not long ago, after
a lingering illness, attended by a persist-
ent cough. After her death a veterinary
surgeon opened the windpipe to dis-
cover the cause of the irritation, and
found in the upper part of the lung a
live striped frog of ordinary size. The
surrounding portion of the lung was
much discolored.
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ui
possible all thoughts of the hard work
brooding over our work and exhausting |
by going it all over
our minds is one to be
avoided. There is nothing
takes energy
from one's more
insanity. Everybody knows thal food
a pleasantry which made a friend re-
mark. that he could not have his wife
and child pass the summer vacation
from him, as it zave him dys-
pepsin. The poor child who comes to
rrief at the table, and is sent away from
t with his dinner half eaten, and who
is to be pitied, and it is a wise plan to
this way
they will be punished for bad conduct
table. It follows, then, that
pleasant surprises in the way of pre-
paring favorite dishes, that good taste
too much painstaking in arranging all
the appointments of the table and din-
ing-room, rise above a mere ministering
to the animal existence, and affect the
fine issues of life, Good behavior and
o
mea
bread and butter.
which distributes
calls the blood from the brain, allowing
| as naturally and unvaryingly as
The happy laughter
heard more frequently at our tables.
No one should feel at liberty to say one
word which is not at least kind and
thoughtful, any more than he would
withhold a sufficient quantity of food.
These facts need more careful consider-
ation than they have usually received.
— New York Evening Post.
Words of Wisdom,
Impatience dries the blood sooner
than age or sorrow.
Hasty people drink the nectar of ex
stence scalding hot.
Love, faith, patience—the three essen-
tinis to a happy lite.
Pride hath two seasons—a forward
spring and an early fall.
Favors of every kind are doubled
when they are speedily conferred.
No denunciation is so eloquent as the
final influence of a good example.
A man’s character is like a fence—it
cannot be strengthened by whitewash
A noble part of every true life is to
learn how to undo what has been
wrongfuily done.
Preserve the privacy of vour house,
marriage state and heart from relatives
and all the world.
The noblest quality wherewith nature
has endowed woman, fcr the good of the
word, is maternal love,
The heart is a loom and it may weave
whatever it pleases. It may make life a
continual progress toward triumph.
The man who goes to church of a
Sunday is supposed to be a good man,
New York acknowledges 9,000 rum-
8 hops.
but a gambler is a better.— Marathon
Independent.
gir! by entering the house unexp ctedly
by the back way. This is the situation:
« g
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Eg
o the syringe: d is the young man lightly
the corner of the fence; eis the house
girl sittting by the piano and singing,
is the gathering darkness.
Gayly up the back yard the young
man comes. Silently in ambush
old man lies.
}
old man sees a figure stealthily draw-
Wit
waits the onslaught. The
is its dreadful “wh-s-s-h-p,”
ore the azure robe of night
| ked the fat girl off the piano
stool and curdled the old man's blood,
| followed the discharge, and when the
| neighbors rushed in they found the un-
| fortunate young man pawing madly
he ground, snd screaming
| Mexican words terrible to
| yell that t
{ around on {
| out awlu
{ hear, Ww
| the scene with the syringe
| looking like an animated figure escaped
{ from an allegory. Sympathizing arms
bore the young man into the house, after
their owners had stopped their nostrils
with cotton, snd it required the com-
bined efforts of the fat girl and eight
hours before he was able to fairly in-
quire if the meteor hit anybody else
when it struck. That night, beneath
whose thick branches the struggling
spade, and silently viewed a new made
grave. He had just buried the syringe.
— Rockland Courier.
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Old People
In Stockholm, N. Y., three persons
died within thirty-six hours whose ages
| amounted to 244 years: Mrs. Marin
ton, aged seventy-four: Abner uv. Ain-
ger, aged seventy-seven.
Mrs. Peter Skye, widow of Peter Skye,
the Tuscarora Indian who earried Gen-
eral Porter off the battlefield at Fort
Erie in 1812, diad on the reservation in
Genesee county a few days ago, aged
ninety-eight.,
Mrs. Catherine Tilton, widow of
Humphrey, lives near Harmony, N. J.,
and is in her ninety-fourin year. She
walks to and from ne old church at
Middletow a mile and a half distant
from her I. ase.
Mrs. Patience Hopping, aged ninety-
eight, lives at Leonardville, N, J. Her
general health is good and she knits and
sews with precision. She converses
fluently, has a good memory and unim-
paired mind,
In case of a fatal re-
The sending of a challenge will
prived of their political rights for five
the survivor, during the space of a year
But who knows whether this law
will be passed?
How te Cook Hominy.
Every cook will promise you she can
Instead, people live
cooked hominy. It
stead of standing out snowy and well
Having onoe
seen and tasted the former you will never
Try to pre-
yare it in this way: A quart of ground
pale a :
ny is a sufficient quantity to prepare
cover well
water: do not allow it to boil
rapidly, and if the fire is a sufficient one
It cannot be hurried, and here
is where many fail in its preservation.
on no account stir it.
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not too much, thus making your aimost
yerfeot dish sloppy. Do not salt it until
just before taking from the stove.
cooked in a double vessel, the outer one
containing boiling water, so much the
Such vessels save the care of constant
watching Care and experience must
always go together toward the making
of a pertectly cooked dish, and nothing
gives better satisfaction.
His Own Surgeon.
Taat General Sicsles is alive to-day is
due only to his great presence of mind.
When he fell on the field of Gettysburg
he fainted. Recovering consciousness,
but half-dazed, he found he was com
pletely away from the hope of immedi-
ate help, and that blood was gushing
from his leg in jets, showing that an
artery was severed. Painfully raising
himself until he found his handkerchief,
he tied it around the wound in such a
way as to stop the flow, and, in crder to
gecure additional tightness, ran his
sword handle under the handkerchief,
and with all his power twisted it around
and held it so until the surgeon came on
the battlefield. Like most persons, he
had read directions of what was neces-
sary to be done in such emergencies,
but, unlike most persons, he was cool
and collected enough to put his reading
into practice when the emergence came,
the tenacles of a large octopus an
| pulled over till it was half fall of water
| and in great dangar of being swamped
| The occupants escaped with the utmost
| difficulty.” — Losidon !
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Found by a Photograph.
| A poor woman had an only daughter
| who wandered from her and was by t
'as low as sin could bring her. er
| Scotch mother's heart yearned after her
| daughter, and she tried by al! means to
| discover her whereabouts, thst she
| might invite her home. All her efforts
| were for a time unsuccessful. At length
| she hit upon a rather strange expedient.
| Getting a number of her daughter's
photographs—taken from one in her
possession—she went with them to the
‘town and neighborhood where she
| thought it most likely her daughter
| would be found. Here she asked some
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| of the shopkeepers to put one of the
| portraits in their wind>ws and beneath
{each she wrote the words, * Come
{ home.” All promised to do what they
| could to assist her. The jphotograpbs
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| were put in the windows and people
| gathered round to look at the st
| words beneath the picture. At longs
| & pOOT Worn woman came, and pressing
| through the crowd ‘cooked at the photo-
| graph and read the words. None but
| herself could tell that she was the
son from whom it was taken, sin Baa
so marred and ruined her. She remem-
bered the Lappy days when in her in-
nocence she was fair and lovely, and
the thought of it and her home and her
| mother’s love in thus seeking her, broke
| he heart. She resolved to return and
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Letter of Jeflerson’s.
Mrs. Mary J. Holmes, who is now in
Cleveland, during recent visit to Paris
discovered ome of Thomas Jefferson's
letters in the manuscript department jof
the Bibleotheque Nationale. The letter
| was dated Annapolis, December 5, 1783,
land was written to M. de Marbois,
| secretary of the French legation at
| Philadephia. Mr. Jefferson's daughter
| was then st school in that go W fusing
of his daughter he said: ‘The plan o
reading which I have formed for her is
considerably different from what I think
would be most proper for her sex in any
other country than America I am
obliged in it to extend my views beyond
herself and consider her as possible at
the head of a family of her own. The
chances are that in marriage she will
draw a blockhead I calculate at about
fourteen to one, and of course that the
education of her family will probably
rest >n her own ideas and direction
without assistance.”
woven material these latter were
tuted for the primitive frin
the kilt was thus developed.
enough, the dress of the Scottish
jes those two stages
It seems odd now to remember that in
the time of Charles I. heavy fines were
levied on country gentlemen who pre-
terred dwelling in London to residing on
their country estates. A certain Mr.
Palmer, a Sussex squire, was made an
example of by the star chamber. He
wasa rich bachelor, and pleaded earn-
estly for leave to remain in London,
urging the not unreasonaole excuse that
his SOmBtEY house had been bnrned
down, but his judges fined him £1,600
and ordered him away.