Sst ss vest——— ————————— — A POETICAL WEDDING, | A romantic couple were united in| Ohio by the following poetioal cere | mony : ! MINISTER This wotean wilt thou have, And cherish her for life; Wit love sud comfort her, “i And seek no other wife? HE. This woman 1 will take That stands beside ne now I'll 80d har board and clothes, And have no other * from,” MINIRTER, And for your husband will You take this nice young man, Obey hiss feet wish, And Jove bli all you ean t BME, I love him all ¥ oan, Obey him all 1 chooss, And when I ask for funds He never must refuse, MINTETER, Then you are man and wife, And Bappy may you bel As many be your vears As dollars 5 my fee! A PRAYER IN HEL. BY @&. kL. WILSON he sarth and heavens p And mind and justice } Withio the dwdliivg Where, joy to joy, ourd » . * “8 KWAY, d fn feaway; The wicked pray, oh, sue . O soe that side! once Dread soul, thon ov Hab! ‘twas my shado i Ah no! nol ‘tis a devil! sie! Hold 1"tis the light of Hau d To make my shadow’ curse &f Ab, but my prayer was ae ButOh! this hate! myself Ye rocks and hills, » Fall down and out of sight! What hedl Why focus High t alt My God! the tight Brough the gate; Icannotgo! 1 must: t I wish not hoaven now To burn me up! Where men or & JRL oul iH Go back! fy back! ve men hE Past, Out of eternity se vast Most High Omnipotent, 1 pray Make dosd muy mind! avd dark wy day! I know Thee who Thou art, Great God; I knew Thee when the carth I trod! Thou mercy of the God, 1 hear 1 hear Thy tones © To thoss, Thy Of which the creed of In heart and hears, thoy Bweil ap. and in thy uw The sight of gu And place its tortura Oh! shut out heaven In And droen my soul in o Where come: not know Wor life; whers all is g MR. AND MRS. BONDURANT. BY BONNE HUERE. “1 think you will find a document under your plate that may interest yon," said Mrs. Bondurant, addressing her husband, as he took his seat at the breakfast table. The words were uttered with a look intended to express severe censure, with some pity and contempt, and rather more of the latter. The husband slowly turned over his plate, took up and read a grocer's bill —$50.34. On the margin were the words, “Check expected immediately.” “1 would sather not send this man a check just now,” said Mr. Bondurant. “Itis true I have a little more than that amount in the bank, but I shall needall I have and more also to-mor row to pay the costs of the suit I am conducting.” “This is about the answer I expected tn receive,” said his wife, “and 1 must tell you that your paltry excuses will not answer for the purpose. That bill must be paid at once.” “lt is scarcely worth while, Julia, to | speak so emphatically in regard to this matter,” said the husband. “I am do- ing a little business for these grocers, and although they do not owe me any- thing now, I can, I suppose, get them to wait a few days and in the mean time let us have what goods we need.” “They will do nothing of that sort,” said Mrs. Bondurant. “And if the bill is not paid before 3 o'clock to-day they will send it to my brother, Alfred, who will pay it and take an assignment of @ ciaim."” “Theu let him do so,” said Mr. Bon: durant, quietly breaking a piece of hard cracker into his coffee and at the same time deliberately watching the soften- ing process. “This is what they call bhard-tack, I believe. It is better for sailors than for us poor landsmen. They have more time to spend soaking it, unless when the rough weather comes on, and then I suppose they dispense with the ceremony of eating until the storm bas expended its fary.” “Your insinuations are intended to exasperate me,” said Mrs. Bondurant, “but I warn you, sir, that you are treading on treacherous ground.” “If the ground, madam, on which 1 am treading is composed of your feel- ings I would not exp et to find it un- sommonly delicate,” was the retort. “Are you willing, sir, to have my brother pay that grocer’s bill ?” “] . have easily arranged it in such a way that it wonld not have gone into his hands, but as I infer from what you say that the matter has been talked over between him and you and the grocer, and that he has agreed to take sn assignment of the bill if I do not pay it before 3 o'clock to-day, I shall allow the matter to be disposed of in that way, and give myself no further eoncern in regard to it at present.” “Then it seems you are willing to have my brother provide for your fam- ily? That is just what he told me it would come to when we were married, and in fact immediately after he first learned that you were visiting me. My father and mother also gave me the same warning. They told me more than fifty times that yon would never be worth a dollar in the world, and they would have to support us.” “ And you are sorry you did not take their advice?” “Bometimes I am, if I must tell you the truth. You know I could have married Rocky Billings, and I had other good offers. As for Rocky, he was al- most dying for me. His social stand- ing was not, it is true, quite equal to | yours, and he was not so good-looking, but he had more business capacity than { hutdred young lawyers like you. ith him for a husband I would never ave suffered the mortification of seeing t: grocer’s bill paid by my brother.” “Mr. Billings is still numarried, I believe,” waid the husband dryly. “What base insimnation are those | words intended to convey? You are now my husband, and I have no wish | to exchange you for Mr. Billings or any | one else, If I have made a bad bargain | it is right that I should suffer the con- | sequences of it, and I intend to do so | as patiently as I can.” “Whenever you wish to be released from the consequences, madam, sud the bargain that has led to them, please let me know,” said Mr. Bonduract; snd, without a word more or any woken o! affection, he pessed down the two flights of stairs that led to their hired apart- ments and was on his way to his office. But, before leaving the room in which he had breakfasted, he placed on the table a $10 bill, There was an inside history which this table-talk may suggest but does not explain. Julia Henderson was the daughter of a proud, ambitious family. who 8 little means that they were fond of displaying to the greatest ad- vantage. Their danghter Julia was a young lady of recognized beauty and more than ordinary attractions, and they had hoped that her marriage to such a man as they tvould select and approve would be of some benefit to them as well as to her, and lift them up considerably on the scale of worldly prosperity, * “Can it be possible, Julia, that yon are receiving the attentions of that young lawyer?” Mr. Henderson bad sai i “Well, no, father,” Julia answered; “pot in any other way than that I find him a pleasant companion. He calls and takes me out occasionally, in which J hope you see nothing wrong.” “I don’t like the way he looks at yen. ia. He evidently admires you, and admiration sometimes changes to love so easily that it is scarcely possible to say when or in what way the transition takes place. I understand heisa some- what able lawyer, but is very poor and is no doubt likely to remain so in a pro- fession that is crowded until there is no longer standing room left, You had better bave a talk with your brother VOLUME XIII. PA. ©) ly 1880. NUMBER 47. and hear his opinion in regard to this young lawyer before you allow him to all many times more,” A scornful and defiant look was the only answer this suggestion raised, and the next moment the young lady had left the room. “You see how that girl takes and sets,” said Mr. Hen to his wife, who had been a silent listener, “Yes, my dear,” said her mother, “and 1 am now satisfied that her feelings are more deeply interested in the young lawyer than any of us had supposed. But let Alfred talk with her, and he may be able to turn her thoughts away from young Bondurant and get her to en- courage the attentions of Mr. Billings. He is rather a low-bred young man, it is true, but he is making money rapid- ly, and his uncultivated manner need not alarm us—a few weeks spent in so- ciety will make tham all right.” “Perhaps 80," smd Mr. Henderson with a look that betrayed more skepti- olism than ecnfidence. “1 bad no thought of seriously en- couraging the attentions of Mr, Bondu- rant,” said Julia, the moment she began to feel the pressure of her brother's de- terminations to prevent the acquaint ance from proceeding any further. “But now, if you please, Master Alfred, I shall do exactly as I think best in re- gard to this matter.” From that time onward the young lady found employment for the whole of her life-willi—and she had a good deal-—in resisting the effort of her pa- rents and brothers to compel her to dis miss the vouue lawyer. , “1f you marry him we shall be ob- liged to support you both, no doubt,” was her brother's frequent and tantaliz- ing suggestion. “The youag fellow is no: making a dollar more than he needs for his own board and clothes, and he has actually Leen obliged to give up smoking, because he could not afford cigars; and was too proud to be seen using 8 pipe.” I'he young people had been married four years when the conversation oo- enrred in regard to the grocers bill Young Henderson had been making some money, a little of whieh he had found opportunities occasionally to give to his sister, and in every instance had reminded her that he was fulfilling his predictions. In fact he, and her parents also, had been continually reproaching her for her folly in marrying the poor lawyer. The unfortunate woman—for so Julia began to consider herself—bad no children now living. One little girl, born about eighteen months after their marris had lived nearly a year, and when its death and bunal came th feelings of the parents —of the father especially—had been wounded alwost beyond endurance by their being made to realize their inability to provide for the funeral expenses in a becoming mapper. “1 must take care of the dead also, as well as the living,” was her brother's un- feeling remark, made while the faneral preparations were in progress. The stern logie of long continued ex- perience bad fizally exhausted the spirit of the poor wife, and she gradually came to believe that what she had so often been told was true, and that she had made a great mistake in marrying the poor lawyer. This persuasion, hav- ing become a settled conviction, soon found expression in complaints and re- proaches which were not very patiently borne by the man who was conscious of doing all in his power to make his wife comfortable, and never spending a cent for any personal indulgence. Besides, the amount earn xd would have enabled them to live ina style of moderate com- fort, had not his wife's family euntin- aally urged her into expenditures be- vond what hier hussand could afford. The young lawyer had, however, at he falt 3 i which, when de- cided, 1 bring a thousand dol- lars. He had taken the case at his own risk and cost, and was to receive one- balf of the amount received, his client having expended his last dollar in the suit, and being unable to do anything more, Inthe meantime that over-as- siduous and agonizing brother-in-law, who was ready to pay the grocers bill and take an assignment of the claim, Lad an interest in defeating the suit and was actually inrnishing money for that purpose. But these legal and business compli- cations the discouraged and fault-find- ing wife did not know much about. She knew that the grocer’s bill and other bills were unpaid, and that the brother had already paid several of those bills and was holding the claims against her husband. “Well, Julia,” said Mr. Bondurant, | returning from his office on the evening of the day when he leit without saying | “Good-by;” “I hope you have been able to get up a plain dinner with the $10 I left on the table this morning.” “1 have not used the £10, nor any of it,” said his wife, handing the money back to him. “I have had a long and serious talk with brother Alfred to-day, and have come to a firm conclusion that under the circumstances it will be best for me to return to my father's house and remain there until you are able to provide for me and yourself also. For the present you have as much as you can do to take care of yourself, and my trother has promised to see that I sm arson | SITIO BTL HOE, and fow iow Mr. Bondurant regarded his wife for a few moments in bewildered amaze He was carefully holding the $10 bill which he had accepted from her, but without knowing why she had the bill on the table, and clasping his sometimes when trying to get a clear | view of some question that bothered | him, he looked at his wife for a few mo- | then said : “If our dear child had lived I snppose | you would not have left me.” “No, | presume not; she, no doubt, | would have kept us together. not have taken her from you, and I know you would not have gone to live with me at my father’s house. I have no thought, Alfred, of really leaving you, | but shall be true to my marriage vows, | soon as you are able to provide for me. | But for the present we must part. My | brother tells me that the claim you are | prosecuting will end in nothing, and | that ycu are not worth a dollar to-day, | and it is not likely you ever will be,” | “And if that is so, it would seem that | you are leaving me with the expectation of returning no more.” “That must depend, Mr. Bondurant,” said the wife, steeling herself to a cold and firm look, “ on the possible contin- gency of your being able, at some future time, to provide for me ina comfortable way, which, I am sorry to say, does not now appear very probable.” “Then good-by forever!” said the husband, rising and withdrawing frem the room, without taking any further notice of his wife; nor did he even look ack. The marriage, as a legal relation, re- mained undisturbed. Thehusband and wife, when meeting occasionally on the street or elsewhere, bestowed upon each other a bew of civil recognition, but without exchanging a word. In this way eight years had passed, At the end of five years Mrs. Bon- brother, had been both unable and un willing to do anything more for her, and for the last three years she had been supporting herself by performing the duties of secretary for an 1nsuran Why that situation had been her just at a time when she had no other means of support, and ats salary much larger than she had ex pected to receive, was a mystery abou which she had her own private suspi Qi, 1t was a cold morning in mid-winter, {the sidewalks were covered with sud the 10% Mrs. Bondurant, her way i Lie manly A fd { mpany., $ given to on wer office, had just passed the of one whom she had HeVer os ased » admire yes, love, for lus always remained in her heart. photograph, piece of jewelry, or other that he had left with ber had n looked at and handled again and again, and some of these he had often bathed with her tears On passing him this time she had ceived the usual look and bow, and » more. The poor woman gould owever, refrain from casting a back for an 1pstant nse of his receding form, and while Lie was doing so the treacherous ice, if intending some mischief, pe: iitted her to fall suddenly and at full 3 44] Every memento Le RITICIO8 81i¢ engin, “Are you hurt, my dear?” were the first words she heard, and her quick, pontaneous ADSWer was: Not much, I hope, darling hus band!” And as he lifted her into the carriage he had hailed and took a seat by her side, with his arm around her, she added, “How glad 1 am that you were there to assist me.” “Yes, dear, that was a slippery path” he said softly. “Which I hope I may never pass over again!” murmured the wife, earnestly “1 gained that suit,” said the hus- band, as the carriage was taking them to his home, which conld now be hers ]i80, “Yes, dear, I knew you gained it, and I was so glad! I have saved more than half my salary the last three years. You know, and so do I, that wost of that salary has come form youn.” The long embrace and fond kiss which each received ana returned was a mutual assurance that throu long separation their hearts had become nuited more firmly than ever “It was all my—all my fault,” was what the repentant and now happy wife wanted and endeavored to say, but she was stopped every time, “No, no, my dear!” her husband would answer. “These self -reproaches, coming from you, are painful to me, The bas done its work in its own way, and rst taught us, and forget the sorrows through which those lessons have been learned!” Dirty Old Pipes. Yes, it is true, as you remark, that Mr, Carlvie has been a diligent smoker of clay pipes for sixty years, and has done, notwithstanding a vast amonnt of ex- i Work, It would ill become to speak of him or his writings, exc pt with profound respect. But, my dear editor, is he a cheerful man? Has he been generally a happy man? Do his later works show a better hope, a more buoyant spirit, greater faith in man and in | lestiny, than tl i h His friends tell us that been a prey to indigestion ail | tnd that he is the farthest pos 1 being gay wl, His | able rance, entitled “NN After,’ spair, and as to his comments upor late war of seCessIon, 3 cellent § 3 vl AUDE OF LIES CRIY ; x 3 +3 ) sounded to me Ee the ory « was there anyt ever written by 8 great man wore pet verse ? Iam glad you approve of good dinners, I have the honor myself ol eal r 36 of them per annum, and leap years 366, I believe in a generously nourished 3 totally un-timulated life, At the sam time I have never been quite a testotal- er, not being able to live up to my best conception. It is the coming man wh will not drink wine, I am not he, as you know, : Goethe drank freely of the light wines of his country, as all the Germans do, but he was free from the taint of tobac- He had a particular dislike of it, Voltaire, temperate in all else (¢ xoept work), was a snuff taker, and had one of the prettiest snuff boxes in Europe, Both of them, I think, would have been better and happier if they had managed their bodily affairs a little better, Allow me, then, still to advise students, jour. nalists, and all who labor with the brain, to throw away their dirty old pipes, put their cigars into the stove, never buy any more, become absolute teetotalers (or as near as they can), take a good dinner in the middle of the day, and rest as many days in seven as they car afford, but always one, —James Par ton's letter to the Boston Herald. CO, A Woman's Tactles, When one woman is jealous of another, she rarely attacks her openly ; but she instinctively talks u great deal about her, and the general drift of her remarks un- der such circumstances must be familiar to every one whose acquaintanceship is not confined to the male sex. It is cer- tain that she will never admit her jeal- ousy but beyond that there is no say- ing what observations she may make about her enemy ; nor will she miss any opportunity of saying an unkind word of her, Bhe will generally contrive, however, that none of her weapons of attack shall be so damaging as her praise, She will allow that her enemy is beauti- ful—beantiful as a tigress—but she will affirm that she is wicked ; she will ad- her innocent, she also calls her silly; and if she praises her as true-hearted and trustworthy, she stigmatizes her as unsympathetic and uninteresting. If she begins by describing her as clever, she goes on to hint that she is an infidel, she abuses her for being too fat or too thin, or mentions some social failing. which ladies accuse each other their backs, such as inhospitality, idle- ness, having ‘‘odd people” to stay servants, and even telling lies ; but it is needless to multiply instances, Such accusations are all alike unkind and unjust, Professor and Bear, " He [the bear] had also observed me, and I did not venture to return to the boat, but went straight toward him, supposing that he would be frightened and run away, as I had always previous- ly seen polar bears do when a man ap- proached them. I had miscalculated; the bear came nearer, advancing slowly in a half circle, and we were soon so close together that I eould have tonched him with a stick. He stood somewhat higher up on a block of stone, hissing and tramping with his fore feet; I stood somewhat lower, crying ard hooting all I was able, and threw big stones at him with little apparent effect. At length a big stone hit one of his fore paws rest. ing on a stone, and the pain, or per- haps satisfied curiosity, induced the animal to retrea..—drctic Voyages - Nordenskijold. Taz hottest place on earth is Bahrin, on the Persian gulf, A TERRIBLE CRIME. A Tragedy Which Possesses All the Elements but None of the Mystery of the Charley Hoss Case, k the Landon 1h : Particulars of nn atrocious orime, mmitted a short time Ushed in the Englisl edad interest to those who made the Char ley Ross case a study ago, and pub papers, has espe confession as in the % in the of the murderer shows that in this, the Anu Fiean case, tho obj ot of 3 of money as ransom, William Marianas the Minister of confesses to murdering a schoolboy, Ma rius Bogaarat, son of a former Secretary g a retired Nie, plans oun i £ ti In ‘ had wri Dedongh, clerk to {veneral, now liv 10g murderer laid his OTS soduring + futher, asking for 745,000 or $30,000, for the surrender of how and where the ransom not clear, thi Migr had yw the murder was ACOOIN PLCS, TO hom he was devotedly antl gh wept bitterly while r an socoant of his motives and the tmstances under which the murder Md by the prisoner to had wrote y De even p he boy, he the letter re demanding the ransom on ertain date I'he letter was written o Cafe St. Hubert, from where he went to Williams Park, where Mr, Bo t resided. It was in the and Mrs, Bogasrat ha se and driven to Sehe ngh went to the Rbeinish n, and, having directed ti to the post | flice le He 461 d1841 ’ wef or HES » v Y } fund oobi - O clock tte i 1 was asi gh entered the vehicle, his face, I'o be sure,” the latter replied : ae} ¢ often met “* Now, your mami h you from sch id she not Of, then, inquired the lad replied DaJongh, seeing knew it she told me she would, turn, walt forus at a peasant's ] the Downs near the town.” e boy then fetche Permissi 41s wmoth Ad his sel asked Mi 0 leas 1 DedJongh i @é threw the boy on the grow I i { ors ord bought that morming “ Remain here,” Marcus, “ill I return with the money I have de from your father, Stop erving if you do not want to be kill y ie sad to mandaed YOur with his eos a rel killed the el . times in the breast, 3 / 1 8 very agitated state of mine n flend fled to Schevix 1s A Lhe Sea shore, alk , Alor having sword-stick 1 1 De . Downs, wi OIEsIGO, early the following ¢ 3 confronted F With with Liberated AS . Wis ed afterward « aft s avowal dd what mot { ble dead, “1 sav futher die in poverty. As for m could make my way in India, | a place in the same office where worked, h no better prospect he had, would be my me lot and vours? 1 wished to secure her a comfortable old age, and, when | heard, from a family who are acquainted with his cironmstances, that Mr. Bo. gam at was a very rich man, I was seized with a desire to constrain him to give me money by stealing away his only son I did not intend to kill the ¢l EXO pt uld possibly become my My only motive was my Nobody assisted me ¢ time or at the murder.” The case has created an unparalleled excitement in Holland. had for the wher s in caso he sh ROCUSET, He Wanted Only Five Minutes, A Western Judge gives an account of his first visit to the at-that-time semis barbarous mining regions of California. He had just been admitted to the barat his home, a small Eastern village, and his desire for fame and fortune led him Westward, arriving at the camp of his future home on the back of a broncho qualities) about sunset. As he ap- proached the camp he saw a group of men in excited conversation, and, going nearer, saw in the center a man and a rope. He knew at once what these meant, and, congratulating himself on s0 excellent an opportunity to make an impression which would give him a rode up to the crowd and asked what the man had done, and was informed wath two horses not his own, and they were debating as to whether they would shoot or hang him, right. your own hands? No, gentlemen, I Give the man the benefit of a trial in a court of law by a jury of his show you my dip—" cordin’ t' previ's calc’lation. suburbs o’ this heer camp.” ‘The Judge, to use his own expres- grasped the bridle reins, preparatory to noving, and remarked : “ Gentlemen, for your thank yon. to get out of town, but, if the girth iolds and this mule don’t buck, all I vant is five minutes.” Saying which, the Judge clapped the enormous rowels into the sides of the beast and adjourned sine die, courtesy 1 IX the early settiement of Illinois and Missouri two trappers wore going down: the Mississippi river to New Orleans oa a flatboat, Every well-regulated boat in those days carried plenty of whisky aboard. The trappers tapped a barrel with a gimlet and sucked the whisky through a straw. The Missou- rian “puked.” but the Illinois man, like his successors, being proof against so weak a beverage, kept his down, From that day Illinois men were called “Buck: ers” and Missourians “P OUR YOUNG FOLKS, Teddy's Coop, One day at the sitio window I beard such 8 bieady « The sounds of The pounding saw and a La f palls with a hammer | Ww: hatter of Ted a tnvessant ever they worked sd thing pleasant, @ the « | his playmate Pogether was & That 1 ge was i wl balily sone Bach gave the other an order As often as he was alue t have bean bullding { Babel pase of the lollere-- wen lunch was ready ugh the dust of the stalreny called, * Teddy.” Though u 1 wiore than ones At lasi, though, driven by hunger, I'he two little boys descended, And I asked if the work And the strife of tongues was ended, Then both made haste to tell Bn Pho secret of all thelr lor] A half-Bedged don ToTed Ly a A ragged, pl With bs { And they were | A coop f That day and the next in the sttie : hiatohed, Listes, Cloud Shapes and Vilas Pussies. “ Olouds ! who ever heard of finding un in the ¢ ? What in the world is Willie ta ig about 7" So spoke John, who brother, John was nearly 15 but Will was only 10. + Didn't we have lots of fun out of tha 1s 7” asked Will of Aunt Alice, “Yes, it was good sport, and John vould have enjoyed it, to, if he had een with us,” replied Aunt Alice. “* Well, I never heard the Like before, aid John, The three friends to whom the chil. dren are here introduced were at the Aunt Alice and Will was Will's big Years old, breakfast table, from their summer trip to Grandfather Burton's, in the country, Will had been telling John, who had remained in the city all the summer, about his adven tures on grandfather's farm and in the wide woods elose by the farm, “ We were real tired from running s ' pontinued Will, lawn, It was much one afternoon, ‘when we all went out on the where grandfather was sitting. shady and nm @, “ Please pass me another you know what #" interrupted John, pointing with his knife at a plate of cakes, “As I was going to say, tinued, ** we were resting in when grandfather told me to wl onds that were By and by grandfather I see a soldier with e hand,’ ‘Where ¥ said I, png d the road, * Up in the sky, he. And, sure enough, I saw a great white cloud almost exactly like the etre of Gen, Jackson in grandfather's ining room,” “ Was Lie marching “Yes, but his legs di ind shoved him alon s and t wfter a win a thing very muc " Will eon the shade look at the ) marching asked John, 6 the sol h like a Aunty here soon like a lady that wasn't all we saw, pun out what : dressed for a ball, I'he lady had a dress exactly like white satin, The sun was si won the dress it were covered with ted looked alo almost «i as if the sky-lady I saw a lion t was more like a New- r. but Ith elit it was a wie re i | ino ittered it the lion § thing that Besides, we saw » good many giants, and a few mountais Yi hanged looked Like a turkey . ranges,’ “ Aunty,” said John, who had bees slicing his wheat cakes into the shape of sats aad dogs them *dca't you res heard hon we we play * Ham. st’ at tlie South two winters gor” “Oh!” exclaimed Aunt Alice, *' you mean about Hamlet and Polonius and te whale” “ Who're Hamlet Wul “Don't vou know?" laughed John * Why, they're some of the great SBhaks- soare's man,’ “Who's Shakspeare?” asked Will wt a bit disturbed by John's laughter Aart Alice smiled, and explained that Shakspeare was the greatest writer ove mown, He lived in England's gress sity of Lond than 300 years ago when America was a wild conutry, Ue wrob. plays for.the theaters, and the theaters nowadays often use his plays because they are the best. One of his lays called ** Hamlet,” because a y named Hamlet is the heart and the play. Hamlet 1s in great ' the make-believe history says, and a foolish old man named Po- lonius thinks Hamlet like a child, One day Polonius went into a room where Hamlet was and began to to bh Hamlet was and, pointing at swallowing what v Booth Broad we and Polonius 7" said Hl ore 3 80 © 1 Lai i. window, vonder cloud that's almost in “By the mass, and "tis vas making fun of old Poloni- said —** Methinks it is like a weasel" ins It is backed (or has a back) like “Or like a whale," jus—* Very like a whale,” “that they had fun out of the clonds 30¢ years ago just as we had out in Lancas- “That's so,” said Will, ** and Hamlet was just making fun of old Polonius, wasn't he ?" Jie table, kept running in Willie's head, It was a clear day and he couldn't find any cloud. shapes, but every map in the geography that he was stuaying seemed to take on the shape of some animal. In the map of Europe he found several shapes and 80 with all the maps. Aud now let the children open their geographics and start on a jolly hunt for “ shispes,” Below are given some geography *‘ shape-puzzles,” which may be worked out by the children from any £00 l-siznl atlas. Take the map of the western hemi- acifie ocean shall be at the top and the Atlantic occan at the bottom, Now, wing part of the map looks like the head Tale the map of the eastern hemi- sphure, Let it remain in its ordinary What part of the map looks like the head of a man wlio appears to be trying to swallow a part of Asia? 1 tha map of North America, looked at from the southwess, what country re- sembles an old dunce-cap ? In the map of the United States: What lake loc like an alligator’s head, trying to swallow the town of Port Sani- Ine? What State bears some resem- blance to a lion, with his body in repose and his head erect? What State looks something like an arm-chair? What lake looks like a great hand, with tho fingers pointing westward ? In the map of South America, held with the Pacifie ocean upward, what country looks like a beaver? With the map held in the same position, what country looks like an ugly boy's head ? In the map of Europe, held with the Atlantio ocean upward, oan there be pen and hit his nose What country forms Mediterranean pirninist Alriea? wok, what country bis shoulders, é what country the only ove of Lis eps that ean be seen ¥ In the map of Europe what country is shaped like a boot? In the map of Europe what sea is down, what country looks like a battered % In the map of Asia, held upside down, With the map of Asia held upside tain peak ? How will the map of Australia have to Children Under the Snow. Far away up in the north, on the shores of that great frozen ocean lying beyond Europe and Asia, you may plain, just like an immense pear with the stalk upward. 1 should have been puzzled had I not seen a thin curl creeping from the top of it; but that let me into the secret. This queer-look- ing thing was a Bamoiede tent! I'he tent of a Bamoiede is almost as simple an affair as that of an Amb. All you have to do is to plant a dozen long poles in the ground, slanted so as to let their tops meet; oover this frame work with reindeer skins, leaving a hole at the top to let out the smoke; pile the suow high up around the lower part to keep off the wind-—the "house" is com- plete, But, outlandish as it looks, this little burrow is worth something in a red Russian frost, which freegzes the very breath on one’s mustache; sol go right ap to the door (which is simply a thick skin hanging over a hole in the side), lift it, and step a. The inside is certainly warm enough rather too warm, in fact, being almost a8 hot and choky as a bake-house. There is a fire burning in the middle, the smoke going anywhere to every- where; and beside it sat three things— one can hardly call them human figures —one a deal larger than the other two. There being no light but the glare of the fire, it is not easy for me to see where I am going; and the first thing 1 do is to stumble over something which seems like a skin bag, unusually ful But it is not—it is a child, wrapped or rather tied up in a huge cloak of deer skin, and rolling about the floor like a log. a man may go for days without seeing a human face except his own, people call upon each other without waiting to be introduced, and my sudden entrance does not seem to disturb my new friends in the least. They greet me gordially enough, and bid me welcome speak a little; and, seating myself on « shiost, 1 look about me. As my eves get used to the half-light, I see that the group by the fire consists of a woman and two little girls, mufiled in skins from head to foot. Papa is his reindeer, leaving mamma to mind the house and take care of the children. Funny Little things they are, with great round heads, and dark-brown skins, and shody had sat down upon them; t, queer as they look, they have learned to make themselves useful already, for they are hard at work stitching then wi clothes. They are not a bit shy, and in another minute I have them take out to show them, while they clap their hands and shout, * Pai, pai” which is their word for “good.” I'he tent is not a very large one, but every inch of its space has certainly been made the most of, bark shoes, and bits of harness; while into the folds of the them, are a perfect museum of things every sort— caps, pouches, fish- into the sheath. little brown face, while the round eyes stare wonderingly at me out of the folds of the skin. Meanwhile the lady of the house (or rather samp of terrifically strong cheese, made of reindeer mulk. The reindeer supplies the Samoiedes cheese; indeed, almost everything that or other. They eat reindeer meat, they drink reindeer milk; their fish-spears are tipped reindeer horn; skin; the needles wherewith they stitch them are of reindeer bone, and ¢he thread of reindeer sinew; and when they wish to move from place to place, t is the reindeer that draws them along the SBamoiede would be as badly off John Guy and Gen. Cas. In years gone by there dwelt in Washington John Guy, a character in his way, in counection with whom Col. Forney tells the following anecdote: Guy kept the National Hotel in Washington, and among his guests was Gen, Cass, then Senator from Michi gan. Guy dressed like Cass, and, though not as portly, his face, including the wart, was strangely similar. One day a Western friend of the house came in after a long ride, dusty and tired, and, walking up to the office, encountered Gen, Cass, who was quietly standing there. Mistaking him for Guy, he slapped him on the shoulder, and ex clamed, “Well, old fellow, here I am! The last time I hung my hat up in your shanty one of your clerks sent me to the fourth story ; but, now that I have got hold of you, I insist upon a lower room.” The General, a dignified personage, taken aback by this startling salute, coolly replied: “You have committed a mistake, sir; I am not Mr. Guy; I am Gen. Cass, of Michigan,” and angrily turned away, The Western man was shocked at the unconscious outrage he had committed; but before he had re- covered from his mortification Gen, Cass, who had passed around the office, confronted him again, when, a second time mistaking him for Guy, he faced him and said : * Here you are at last! I have just made a devil of a mistake; 1 met old Cass, and took him for yon, and I'm afraid the Michigander has gone off mad.” What Gen. Cass would have said may well be imagined, if the real Guy had not approached and res- cued the innocent offender from the twice-assailed and twice-angered states wan. Farnlug Her Own Living, Two large cities full of people are as- and intelligent Brooklyn girl has left her home and old associations with the intention of eaming her own living by hard work, This astonishment is so un- compliusentary to the spirit of young la dies in general that the particular lady in question may be regarded ss a prac indy, more than a rich man, should de. nothing is more than auy one oan explain, Thousands of ladies dready are devoting their time and means to worthy enterprises merely for the proceeds of her industry, itis nobody's business but her own, If more women who need fear no wolf at the door were to do likewise they would be the wiser of the wellto-do classes The merchant, even he ee Italian Postal Curiosities. The distribution of letters is, in fact, jan postal system, Except in large towns the postoffice does not professto in a very careless manner. man rarely takes the trouble to climb except just before Christmas, but con tents himself with leaving all the let ters for a house with a porter, whe de- livers them Whebgves ¢ happens to be going upstairs; if the porter is not in the ho letters go back into the bag until the next round is made, or sre even sometimes left st s shop near. misearry without such willful intention as the postman showed who was dis letters into a sewer grating thst he might get the sooner to his Christmas The excuse for non whisky, to goes into shop, factory or domestic service, and with her eamings makes ends meet, she will pale and dress badly ; manage, her money will go twice as far as before ly enjoyed. band does not earn as much as she may by extravagance. Not even for the sake of learning so much, to devote mouths the world has no immediate prospect of being regenerated by woman's knowl Herald. Will Education Yield Subsistence! An education, yes; but what sort of an education? A bricklayer's education, an artisan's, a farmer's, would, indeed, help him to earn a living. A college sducation would give Lim & social ad. vantage, but it would not, in itself, in. crease his chanoe of earning a living ; it would rather diminish it, For, as was cinted out in an interesting paper ly published in this magazine, our ileges do not, like the French and German universities, instruct a young man in the bread-winning pursuits ; the American colleges are, on the contrary, justitutions for general culture, I do not take np the question here of the amount and value of the canlture they The point for us to note is that the wer is worse off, as to his money pros too hard for the postman; but the remedy for that is obvious. It isonly fair to say that the postoffice does not recognize this haphazard distribution; but complaints only remedy the evil for a time, and somehow one's letters seem to mi more frequently after mak- fee to the post office to have a box of their own, into which all of their letters are put, and withdrawn by a messenger, The difficulties put in the way of cash- ing postoffice orders (and also, it may be added, of obtaining let ters) are most vexatious, You must roduce some ope to identify you who 18 known to the officials, it is easy otherwise a notarial certificate is re- uired, and that is only removing the CURE oF DIPHTHERIA. — When a mem ber of the family 1s attacked by this fearful disease, the best medical aid d. Indeed, even in apparently light cases, that appear to be nd what are called the sequence of the nently re- It will therefore be seen’ But in some cases a physician may be so far away as to ren- y impossi- three ble. For such, we say there are solution of chlorate potash, given in teaspoonful doses ev- ery hour. The French physicians rely largely on this. The second is chlerine- got, and to beg he is ashamed. the professions at least are futally over- The United States, with a { rowded. the German empire limits the number of its doctors, and we do not limit that of Very many of our physicians not get into practice at same with the profession of law. few, rad plete, for the many. The engineer ing, mining, and other scientific professions offer a somewhat chanee, and public life, almost neglected of young men from year to year, But upon none of these, save in favored and exceptional cases, as where a son sue- for immediate support, a certain social dignity. that has the better charoce of supporting himself ; it is the educated man that has, more frequently, to wait before he can pay his way, cate our sons, it is all the better reason their indépendence, but some aid during the years which they are likely to spend in waiting before they can achieve their position, It these years of waiting may become, with accomplishment, if not of money- making ; years of strengthened prepara- tion ; years that might introduce and years that cloud or spoil t.—7. M Coan, in Harper's Maogasine, Good Humor. Good humor is rightly reckoned a We all know sees the ridiculous points of things, and can turn an annoyance into an oe- cagion for laughter. It does a great Many homes and lives are dull because they are allowed to become too deeply impressed with a sense of the cares and responsibilities of life to recognize its the advent of a witty, humorons friend is like sunshine on a cloudy day. While it is always oppressive to hear persons constantly striving to say witty or funny things it is comfortable, seeing what a brightener a little fun is, to make an effort to make some at home. It is well to turn off an impatient question sometimes and to regard it from a humorous point of view, instead of being irritated about it. “Wife, what is the reason I never can ‘find a clean shirt?” exclaimed a good, but rather impatient, husband, after rummaging all through the wrong draw- er. His wife looked at him steadily for a moment, half inclined to be provoked ; then, with a comical look, she said, “I never guess conundrums; I give it up.” Then he laughed, and they both laughed, and she went and got his shirt, and he felt ashamed of himself and kissed her; and then she felt hap- py, and so what might have been an oc- casion for hard words and unkind feel- ings became just the contrary, all throngh the little vein of humor that cropped out to the surface. Some people have 8 peculiar faculty for giv- ing a humorous turn to things when they are reproved. It does just as well oftentimes to laugh things off as to scold them off, Laughter is better than gears. Let us have a little more of it at home.— Scottish dmerican, “ Isn't that your friend, Mme. 8. who is dancing there?” “ Yes.” “ That's a frightfully illlmade dress nhe has on.” “Yes; but if it wasn't it vw ouldn’s fit her” A minent uniformly effective. Prior to its use, he lost half his cases. The third rem- edy is sulphur. Dr. Field, of England, His prescription is, we believe, to mixa teaspoonful of the flour of sulphur in a wine-glass of water, and give it as a gargle. If the patient is unable to gar gle, blow some of the dry flon- through a quill upon the diseased pmits of the sulphur on a live coal, and let the pa- tient inhale its fumes; or, filling the room with the fumes, let him walk about and inhale them. The patient should always be kept werm, the bowels open, and the system well nourished with casily-digested food. Eccentricities of the Olden Time, Mr. J. Underwood, who died in 1733 left £6000 to his sister on con dition of being buried in the following manner: At the grave-side, six gentle men, who were appointed to follow him sung the last stanza of the twentieth Ode of the second Book of Horace No bell was tolled nor black worn; ne one was invited but these six gentle men; and no relation followed the painted green. and the deceased was buried with his clothes on. With him were buried three copies of Horace, Bentley's Mil A maiden lady who died in 1786 left will: “Item—I leave to my dear enter taining Jacko (8 monkey) £10 per av num during his natural life. Item— Te Shock and Tib (a lap-dog snd cat) £1 life; but should it happen that Shock died before Tib, or Tib before Shock, then, and in that case, the survivor to have the whole. About 1770, there was living in Lon: don a tradesman who had disposed ol eleven daughters in marriage, with each of whom he gave their weight in half pence as a fortune. The y ladies must have been bulky, for the lightest of them weighed £50, 2 shillings and eightpen Eloquence. Eloquence in a man is as diffionlt t4 define as fascination ina woman. It isan indescribable something which earriet as away captive, we know not why ot how. And itis almost infinite in vari: vty. Burke was, and is, considered one of the greatest, if not the greatest, of English orators; yet the House of Com- mons never adjourned after a speech of his to enable the members to regain their mental balance. The House of Commons did do that for Sheridan. None will deny to Webster first-class oratorical ability, yet he could never sweep an audience with him as did Clay. Burke and Webster will live forever in print; Sheridan and Clay in that fond tradition which is quite as imperishable, if not as isfactory. Sargent 8S. Prentiss was probably more eloquent than either Sheridan or Clay, yet he exists only as a dim and fading memory. It is doubtful whether the very highest order of eloquence can be preserved in any other way. The sub- tle spirit that pervades it and gives to it irresistible power evaporates in type. The body is there, but the soul has fled. Bo the grandest eloquence may be said to die with the breath that carries it to the ear, Domosthenes and Cicero—we read them with delight, but what must they have been to those who heard the words of living fire rusy from the speaker's lips. Tae stones used for lithographic purposes are a sort of calcareous slate found on the Danube, in Bavaria. Some of an icferior quality are obtained from England. The surface of the stone is polished with pumice stone. Upon the surface prepared the design is made with lithographic chalk and ink. The chalk is used in a mold, the ink is dis- solved by being rubbed like India ink in water, and is used ia 8 pen or camel's- hair peneil. Aud thonght of the one she had lost, : And said, as ber teardrops back she foreed, “| hate the wind ia the chimney.” Over the ehimney the night wind mag And ghanted a melody no one knew “Tis a airy trupet that just then blew, And we lear tha wil ia thro vm wy.” And chanted a m Jody no one knew; And the mas, as he sat cn his hearth below Said to himself, “It will surely snow, And fuel is deur, and wages low, And 11 stop the leak in the chimney,” Over the chimney the vight wind sang And chanted s melody Bo on. keew; But the post listened and smiled, jor be Was msn, and woman, and ¢ iid, sil thes, And be said, © li is God » own Larmony, This wied that sings in the chimuey,” ~ Brel Harte ALL SORTS, A Ommvamax has entered the Harvard Freshmen class, . (rorae Baxcrorr Orrexpacn mads much money from his operas, but died poor, Mus, Fronexce's costumes in the aghty Dollar are insured for §25,- A Pans had 67,000 customers one dey hie a, nd ck 250,000 worth Vexsost has four venerable ex-Gov. ernors bi each of whom is more than BO) years Waar is the difference between a fixed star and a meteor? One is a sun, the other a darter. nL a party is the woman - est show of real lace, Taz Rochester Herala saves that the man who has a corner in pork should be made to squeal. A Nevapa ball report says: * Mise Honor Ane Tal of iets fact, the eclatist lady present,” . Tus srop is a propounced fall. a On ew ive son a sweet thing in bees this year, iam Cle rai in & watch enterprise, ufactory. It begins with facilities for turning out six watches per day. W. W. Coroorax, of Washi ha given away $3,000,000 in pos wea tions and $1,000,000 in private charities, Hexey Warsace and Jane Wallace, his wife, have entered college at Wes- leyan University, Ct., as * Freshmel |” Srarx, with only 17,000,000 of inhab- itants, turns out B Feud twice as much wheat as does Italy, with 285,000,000 of TIES oval wig bus 1 YilY tas in twice 88 m money as Pe out, the institution being a safe and convenient by the people, Ax effort is on foot at Washi procure the assembling there of a world's convention to promote international ar. bitration, 3, 1583, the centennial of the acknowledgment of American in- dependence, « Evenynopy is looking at Rhode Isl- and,” remarks the editor of the Provi- dence Dispatch in the course of au edit orial on ** The Duty of the Hour.” This explains the recent advance in the price . PRorastiy has. inctenued 4 to such an extent in New York since the telephone was introduced that the has been forced to put don't swear each instrument, not only Weare £ : young and inexperienced attained by years of experience, mud shanty in ble that no ne else of the happen to able to digest, Two convicts have been di from the Ontario (Can.) prison, serving two years, because of undoubted were inpooent of the 1¥ may deadly, to have been killed by its blow, J ; } 2 B at Brownsville, Tex., on account luck at cards. He FE dependence relos; at a Prin : Uni ude. at tl . i States he served on the : § | : Hh 2 tilaik £ A man living in Wood Gulch was climbirg a fence, and while in the ac- noticed a crow a short d from bim jumping back and forth in an ex- cited manner. He k.pt quiet with a view of ascertaining the cause, which soon made itselt apparent. The crow was having an encounter with a la rattlesnake. The snake would strike repeatedly, but the crow would evade him every time, finally flew away, when the gentleman, on making an in vestigation, found that the snake's bead was picked to shreds and quite dead tekitat (Wyo. Ter.) Sentinel, . Ea
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