Dolce far Niente.
When the violets are blowing
In the lea,
And the blooms are lightly snowing
From the tree!
When the bronklets all meander,
And sly Reynard scoops the gander,
While he seems to raise her dander
Awlal-lee
Then I like to
In a boat
Over the lake
Beside the shore,
And list in the brake
usis
And eat the can which 1
Vi PY p avai} ¢ 3
With a great deal of gusto and goatly relish
mg of the Reaper,
was rigl
2
¥
v
¢ &ana aaa
MY FRIEND HARRIS.
“There, Emily, I had nearly
ten it!” I exclaimed, as
the breakfast-tabl =]
an old friend to dine with u
ing. Let us have those duc
sent here
onokie's best style.
“ George, vou are the me
siderate man!” returned my wife, with
a rebuking smile and shake of the head.
* Where my heart
lowed,” 1 replied,
“You've got both; I've
myself Im
would y the
his was the of
g, and that jn
e
were
[tL In
Las gone n
i reseating
i
a AU
golf
gol
S140 since
Say i
3
Week
aver
her
i
t
3 s
roopin
3 a »
Our wedding «
yoursel
beside
r away from me,
} fact
“You are m
You
i
Lal
o
» was inde
I can't
X I
have told you of my
dear old friend, whom
1 .
» vears. I know
I was in a great
1 him @ near
1 » 3 -
1y or
%
hnrre
S11
passing
1
Fomily me h a kiss, a8 was her
won’, but At Jit Hy { my side
superintent ons in the kitchen,
and after change of my a 1
enteréd my parle
4
tire
wr, where I soon became
interested in the pages of a new book.
1 was ronsed therefrom by
of the front door bell
I rushed one
friend. Despite my novel dign
householder I had no thought
ing upon any ceremony with 1
Clasping both his hands
fairly dragged him into the
then thrust him into my es
“Yon must pardon my
so soon yesterday. Ihadan
engazement when I saw you
wan! how bald you have become ?
This final exclamation
occasioned by my visitor's removing
hat, for which he had hsd no previous
opportunity.
‘Care, dull care,” returned my friend,
ia a melancholy tone, and I then was
nearly guilty of a surprised remark on
the seediness of his attire. His linen,
which he had concealed as far as pos-
sible, was ragged and even dirty
Had Harris run through the large
fortune which he had inherited ? Some
mischance had evidently befallen him.
Mingled with my desire to offer him
sympathy were saddened reflections
upon the impression he was likely to
make upon my wife, an impression so
different from that 1 had pictured to
myself. I hastily strove to turn the
current of my thoughts by the remark:
“Well, I believe baldness improves
yon—you have a portentously intel-
lectnal aspect because of it. I have
another reason for being pleased with it,
I see more of you. But—come, tell me
about yourself.”
“ Not just now, please.
Lear you talk of yourself.”
I proceeded to oblige him, but was |
constantly disturbed in my narrative by |
singularities and even wulgarities of
manner on his part. How Harris had |
changed.
Poverty and presumable low associ- |
ations had evidently demoralized him. |
at
al
‘
arior,
¥
4
fst
as,
1 had rather
decent excuse for ridden myself of him. |
1 did not wish to present him to my
wife.
But before I could excogitate a plan
Emily came in.
I rose hastily, and stammered as I in-
troduced him.
“1 have heard so much of you, Mr.
Harris,” said she.
#1 can return the compliment, mad-
am,” he replied, seating himself upon
the edge of his chair. ‘Fine weather
we're having 1”
My wife glanced surprisedly at me,
and my friend, affecting ease, threw
himself back, so that his body and legs
made a straight line at an angle with
the floor.
ment I had lauded! Harris was un-
dounbtedly under the influence of some
lrug.
: “tall minute of silence succeeded,
and our guest again spoke, as to our re-
lief he assumed a more becoming posi-
tion. :
«T's a very long time since your hus-
band and myself were together,” he
FRED KURTZ, Editor and
VOLUME XI1V. C
>
A
ENTI HALL, CENTRE CQ. . PA, ’
THURSDAY, JUNE
a
wht)
23,
1881.
in Advance.
NUMBER 24.
FOR THE LADIES,
Dressing the Haly,
that should give tl
SEALY BULITE
ms property
Be ov
EIRUIY sv
i D vy
after 1 1 we
tuke vou five minutes”
> 3 fer 3
impossible !
ity justice.
me,” I demand-
. do such bi at
3 sketch
passed 1 allway with these fir
words.
I followed to give farewell
!
Fashion Fancles.
him a ed mull searfs are much worn.
{ hand, and then watched
imping gait until he passed ou
1 he wrasols are striking noveltic
,
shake of
| fashionable parasol Isvery large,
There i
BLOW
. tan-colored
ly beside me.
said she.
hen saw Emi
oor fellow I” / :
have judged such a| ibe ODelsk a novelty in
{ ‘ange po i * 1 answered, | SITAW nat:
“ Wonld vou believe hat man was All
once the ligh ial circle, a | gloves very
wit, the glass of fashion—almost onr Red abe
Admirable Crichton ?” ! and bonne
not, indeed,”
$
nds in summer dresses,
1
she replied, nd shirred corsage
Box-g laited ¢
in popul
The
Srown
8 grow
returned to
lighted a
ceeded to the mantelpiece to
ide me a h-rece
usually stood there,
where is it?’ she soon Cors
asked, with a startled look.
“Where's what? Cousin
present? Oh, upstairs, I suppose
replied.
“It was certainly on the mantelpiece
when we went to dinner,” she returned,
and then advanced to the center-table | 4) edge of the brim
beside which I was sitting, | nets is revived.
Afier a rapid glance thereon she com- |
menced turning over the books and |
other articles it held.
“ And where is my gold card-case, oe ‘
she now exclaimed. | There isa revival of black and white
“ Emily, you are too suspicions,” said | striped silks for parts of costumes and
I, more in response to her expression of | for underskirts.
face than of words. | Faney bracelets and necklaces and
But the two presents were still miss- | ping, mounted with insects and odd de
ing, when a week after I encounteredan | signs, are much worn.
old chum of both Harris and myself.
“ Poor Harris I” I exclaimed. “How |
he is changed! Have you seen him
lately 7”
“Been him? No!
He's in Paris, lucky as ever.
He informs |
me of his approaching marriage with | New serap bags are shaped like a
| the only daughter of his father’s former | great vase, and trimmed with acorns,
| business partner, a young lady whose | bows, and alls of many colois
| debut in society recently made a sensa- | Pale rose, blue, and cream white sa
| tion, and she is as amiable as accom- | side zephyr clo'hs will bs ag.in us d
plished, and as accomplished as beauti- | for inexpensive
| ful. What do you mean by poor Har- | resses.
ris? Why, he’s about to secure another |
CO air stripes, sofa pillows, mantel
4 1 y ‘ag ig | . 2 fle : .
Jortung equal to his own. Here's his | lambrequins, and tidies of blue satin,
| letter.
| worked in bright colors in silk and wool,
I stared at it and read with wonder, | suit anv kind of furniture.
but was wholly unable to respond to my Lie .
| friend's query Decorative needlework designs on
wr : : int | scarfs, piano covers, curtains, val-
| There was another in my mind which | table scarfs, pia 1 vers, curtains, val
| 1 propound to the reader: “ Who was | ances, tidies and mats is the favorit »
| my friend Harris?” | fancy wo:k of women of leisure for the
| y | summer,
Pretty and easy fancy work for sum-
the parlor, and 1
imily at once pro
place be-
iver which
has a tall,
a wide brim.
: tapering
Cl{Iar, . i
and
Plain black grenadine
black laces, will be much
silver a
“George, LO bouquet §
flowers are the fancy of
nt.
There is a decided
skirts fuller and their
bouflant.
The wearing of a
he passing
Tom's
I
Inom«
”
¥ LO make
draperies
endency t
more
lace around
and bon
frill of
1
of hats
Obelisk hats are trimmed profusely
around the crown with long, rich, heavy
| ostrich plumes,
”
Pale tinted mull muslins are as much
worn as white and and make
| more dressy toilets.
A 91 "hite jonanils a: 8 + Je ily VE
How could I?} White jonquils and stock gillyfl wers
I had a | are worn for corsage bouquets by ladies
in second or half mourni: g
cream,
and garden-party
The Toronto Globe truthfully asserts
that “4gnorance is not the mother of all
crime, nor is education a remedy fo
all.”
doylies, or linen or momie cloth strips
and squares, in outline designs, stitched
AN EMIGRANTS ROMANCE,
Paths With
us i
Some of the Persons Feund in
New Yerk A Girl
Ueenn te Marry Her
sitvden, whe
Urassed the Lovey
«Victuersque Uestumes,
and
¢ perhaps for
called
}
SevYoral days,
8 mont
le pal 18
Attimes, wi
3 11 v day, thers
sand ¢ I
Igranls
bag
Indian’s Tussle With Hot Soup,
ent, but tl
Ins
ey took 1 i
| 1d. 1 believe
they conl
iw where to go
women
aor on
back
Or Was
the woman who di wot wear the na
1H | tional gear. Nor was she clad in
m= 1 slose-fitting, coarse homespun like the
d Her head covered wit]
ain black bi her sack
skirt looked as t
bean P irehased here,
bu her hands
hea
with
bord al
lets, quilted in diamonds t
r
f
mmilted ors raat. Was i
and
might have
Hor | was
she was wet Pp
108, and
appearance,
y ini
hongh they
y : : }
| wantle-hanging WOO
¢ in utilizing lace and velvet
ose of decorating a fireplace wh i
1s of tatting in Macrame thread, fi Rha'e tena RI iy
large j
aid one of the
a from Hussaby,
her family's
her friends, and
We wouldn't let
aint P
WOINIs Over
near v of
with her, but
he needn't
y Crimes 1 ¢ 1
me 0 Nn
As the irl heard her
tioned she
looked up throug
Among the new designs for em
nantel lambrequins, i
satin with wild rose
ish in
laisies and golden wheat ; a bronze h
mod lace. | ot the speaker. Her features were very
Spangles enter very largely into the | finely chiseled, and her blue eyes were
decoration of table co and lambre | shadowed by the light curls that clus
quins, They are generally introduced | 4. 4 aver her forehead.
at the end of the long stitches in point | «gpa without her family, becouse
run embroidery, where they are caught | ran away from them. She'd ask
down with amber, crimson or steel them again and again to let her follow
beads. | Ralf Christiansen, but they wouldn't
Instead of ivory and pearl inlaid |. per We left Hussaby a few
desks, rosewood or ebony boxes, there |. xq a0 y, and the first thing wo knew
are rich satin and plush or velvet arti- | oy on tho steamer was under way Arne
eles, either ornamented with embossed popped up Among ns, She and Ralf
fignres, such birds, had been children together, and when
palms and animals, or with satin e grew up he wanted to marry her.
bossed subjects that are very effective. But old Biornsen is well-to-do as things
for halls are the go with us, and as Ralf hadn't a farm of
faience imitating Japanese lacquer | ji, wp Bjorngen wouldn't listen to his
and bronze. They a of a rich brown, proposal. So about two vears ago Ralf
like the metal, and ornament d with came out here to seek his fortune, He's
colored subjects of great minuteness | writing to Arne that he's been
and always Asiatic. The shades of | getting on nicely, and has been wanting
floral decoration are rich and soft, being | he rv to ont and marry him, and
blended from dark grounds to bright | she's answered all his letters, He sent
brick, salmon, and sombre moss tints, her the pretty clothes she’s got on now,
: . | She tells us that when we all began
olive cloth
d
point
water lilie
name men
h her tears
satin covered with rn
Vers
1
i
1
she
@
gO,
a8 metal neects,
mn h
ne
Decorations 0 new
as
Ass,
re
come
He and she eat in the parlor.
had been s tting there
He was happy.
After a silence of some minutes he | that he would be here in New York
asked if he might sing. She said he | waiting for her. But we've been here
might. Then he lifted up his voice | gince yesterday and he hasn't come, and
and began ‘‘Ever of thee I'm fondly | that's why poor Arne's crying so. I
dreaming,” and she forgetfully re-|think the place where he lives is called
marked to herself, ** Why don’t he wake | Towa. We came over because we heard
‘up and go home.” He heard it. He | he was getting along well. All the land
waked up. Hewent home. Hedid not | in our neighborhood is owned by a few
return. She now sits up seven nights | rich peasants, and we have to do day's
We heard
Who | that Ralf hadn't been here half a year
five mortal | wrote to him and told him she was
| Possibly it is better thus.
| knows ?— Steubenville Herald.
might as well come over, go to Towa,
and fel a farm, too,”
“Were von the
your village ¥ the
only ones
only ones fo leave
reporter asked
from Hussaby,” he
but a greal many people are
neighboring places, There's
As many as five
o left there this year, They
He wa, 1 hey
t paid well, they get letters from
over here saying that they are
nicely, getting land and
they don't see why they
low them and get along as
brought up to work, and
wealthy and strong. Why should
at 1 and be poor all ows
lives when we have a chance to get rich
'
Then, too
“The
rey lied; ©
leaving
Ljundy, for
hundred hay
have the
dan't fet
friends
aoming
i
stance,
i
BANC Trensons
On
we stay 10Mme
, the military laws ure
strict, and we want to es
{ Lose uy
The
Wis
report
g to
r had turned away, and
one of the officials when
announces the names of
friends are
“me
and the
nd Ler friends were hur-
toward Arne's curls
d, 2116 TR SO quickly. Behind
i
neg
faikin
the elerk who
the whom
called
vent
the emigrants for
out
mi later
the door.
3
1
r, while she sol!
arge,
» reporter was
Garden, he
and Arne in
from a Bw dish
heir way toward
They all
the best spirits, and the
me old Bj rasen hears from Arne
ill be the wife of Ralf Christiansen,
if
all
of
with the
over his
3 called to a dozen or more
0 were just entering. The
her to carry
thé women
their hi ads,
bundle,
her back.
nd her
the babe
reporter's talk
Carden was
O
p carried a
tied to
sash aroun
ash
i183 arms were
's neck. When
he burden on
and the
48 Won i
sacks and
tle be
l lac Kk
iH babe
1a br
and into
i G8
i PASSE
i
}
* A
ders,
wd
the
en
ral
| their wooden shoes clat
Like the Swedish
their heads with
iefs. The men had
» op
trimmed with
1
tall,
ry sis Pp.
IVEeTe d
§ 3
gercn
Deacon, ii ri
ans hata
us al
very man
advances,
’ 3 4% od
Yas that
DRACO Laer
i i Bi
sign
3 )
chests and
{ down on
ang ing to his chil.
. The
i be boug
YOArs
fine Ince as
t in Catharineberg. But
manufactories of lace
machine-made lace be-
Of course he and his
He had heard
he became poorer he
fannly 3
h
i
an
nk
80
started and
5
ANG ma
suppose
me over ke
did 1
AC rl hi re.
me of the trunks and
i the reporter some very delicate
vork., * It's very easy to get rich
vt i? he asked. * When
y heard people talk of America
said sO, i hope soon to be a
to Bolimen. I'ii buik
vin Catharineberg.”
When asked if he or any of his family
lied: “Why no!
pian here ¥' and
surprised when he
johemian was not a ani
He and his relatives
1 no hurry to get away from Cas-
tle Garden, had not thought
g to any particular place. They
from Europe expecting to make
rtm wherever the steamship
them. They had been very
much surprised when coming up the
bay ind that New York looked
larger than Catharineberg, “Most of
the Bohemians that come over here,”
{ the officials said, “ haven't any
idea about the country. They have been
making lace, blowing glass, or working
in woolen nills, They come over here
because they expect to get rich without
having to "work. Most of them lie
around the city a couple of months and
then they come here and apply for a
pass Rae home.”
Bat the most bes
found in a party ¢
first who have come to this country.
Their costumes wore curious that
even the officials stopped to look at
them. The men wore hats that looked
like beavers with half the crown cut off.
Tight fitting sacks, with flat brass bht.
fons, re ached down to the middle of the
chest, where they were met by close-fit-
ting breeches, with yellow stripes run-
ning down the sides. The striped skirts
of the women were shorter even than
those worn by the Bohemians, and the
long stockings were of bright red, mixed
with blue. Their shoes were of leather,
but had heavy wooden soles. Each
wore a stiff black bodice. Above it and
running half way down the arms was a
white shirt, open at the neck and with
puffed sleeves. The costume was
decorated with ribbons of various colors.
They looked around in amazement.
They told the reporter that they were
very much surprised not to have seen
any black people or Indians. They had
supposed that most of the inhabitants
were colored, and that the Indians
roamed through the streets of New York.
They came to America because they had
read about it, and had a vague idea that
they could live better here than in Fin-
land, They came from the northern
part of the country, and had been in
Castle Garden for two days. They had
| been surprised when it became dark.
| They said that at this time of the year
| the sun was always above the horizon
| in Finland; in December it disappeared,
Loris
opened
ble
ia
3 3
DACK
nuch
and they
HE 4
10
one «
ighted persons were
f Fipns, almost the
OQ
BO
of January, They seemed delighted
wight” here
their minds where to settle, but said
kind of work to make a living,
wanted, however, to get where
New York Sun,
They
it is
cool,
i ———
Senstors and Congressmen,
There are seventy-six members of the
United Btates Benate, fifty-nine of whom
are practicing lawyers. Of the 2093 mem
219 are lawyers. The President and
Vice-President of the United States are
both lawyers, and nearly all the govern.
ment departments, from highest to
lowest, are headed and directed by the
profe In the Benaie, es
pecially among Senators themselves,
each member's ability is guaged by his
rank as a lawyer. When the status of
an incoming Benator is under discussion
the remark is frequently heard: * He
is a fine lawyer, and will make a good
Naenator,” the general supposition being
that because a man is a legal light he
must, therefore, be “trimmed and
burning” for a first-class statesman.
W hy the people of this model republic
give such marked preference to the one
particular profession selecting their
legislators and rulers is a. conundrum
not yet satisfactorily answered--unless
it i persons bred to the law
naturally become expert Wire-y ullers,
nak frew HOW 0 Dep thoinclves,
same RiOnN,
1
i
i“
8 } eoausa
physician; in the House only four. To
bring the Nenate down to a fine point,
statistically, there are in that august
body eight merchants, two planters, two
farmers, one banker, one mine operator,
one editor, one doctor, one with no busi.
ness whatever, and all the rest are limbs
of the law,
Senator Hamlin is the oldest member
of the Benate, both as to vears and in
iting from his first
elect Anthony has been
longer in continuous service than any
other, He first took his seat in 1858,
snd has béen regularly re elected at the
end of each term. Mr. Hamlin, who is
now about seventy-one years of age, first
the Senate in 184K but he
subse juently resigned when elected
governor of Maine. He was, however,
re-elected to the Senate immediately
after being inaugurated as governor,
and afterwsrd again resigned to become
Vice President of the United States.
Blanche R. Brace, of Mississippi, whose
time has just expired, was the youngest
senator, being yet under forty. Ho was
1¢ last of his race in Congress, but is |
sonsoled by havi been called to the
t as register of
£
3¥
i
point of service, oon
a n. Senator
came nto
ng
aug
resent administration of
1@ treasury,
Senator Edmunds, of Vermont, isby
nany supposed to be the oldest Senator
yy reason of his appearance, but in fact
here are but few younger than he. He
is vet fifty-two, but his stoopis
posture and his hair and beard of sil-
very make him look much
older than he is, Senator Thorman, so
lately deposed, was ranked with Ed-
nds as the best lawyer in the body
politic, and in their respective parties
are usually accepted as authority upon
questions of management and policy.
Jesides the 219 lawy ers in the house,
there are twenty-five merchants, five
bankers, five capitalists, two inventors,
five manufacturers, two teachers, twelve
farmers, four physicians, one architect
builder, four editors, two ministers,
» stone-cutter, one Insurance agent,
millers and three owners and opera
of transportation lines. It will be
soen by this showing that the pulpit is
scantily represented than the
the reason, no doubt, that
poor and ministers too
wach in polities,
ber of the House is
etic seventy
ann jer
nnectiont,
X
1
{
not ir
os
3
whiteness,
he youngest is Mr.
Louis, who is twenty
iit. we Jate Fernando Wood was a
nber of the House longer than any
1is associates, and the next in poin
lengthy service is Judge Kelley, o
mnsylvania. Alexander Stephens, o
{ex-vice president of the Con-
federacy j 18 generally spoken of ag the
eldest member, but Mr. Waite was
ushered into this vale of tears about one
year ahead of him.— New York News,
ii x
t
:
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i
Georgia,
A Nevada Snake Story.
Probably there is no animal on earth
so intelligent
rattlesnake. A girl, four years
old, belonging to a farmer, was ran away
with in the mountains the other day
while her father got out of the wagon to
get a drink—at the spring. As she was
one of twelve daughters he hated to
spoil the set, aod so pushed on after
her, but with little hopes of overtaking
the frightened animal. Presently he
found the horse right on the edge of a
precipice unable to move an inch. One
end of a strap had canght around his
fet . the other end around a tree,
and held him tight. When the farmer
went to pull on the strap he jumped
about ten feet, for a rattlesnake was
holding the horse. It had wound his
tail around the horse's leg, its ncek was
turned three times around a sapling
and its teeth were fast in the wood, It
was feet long, for the farmer
measured it. A few pounds more strain
would have snapped the snake clear in
two, snake wasn't over five feet
long really, for when the farmer took
the strain off it came right back to its
natural size, for a snake 1s a very elastic
animal. The child wasn't frightened in
the least. This story must be true, be-
cause the farmer was there and saw it
all, and says it is true. He wanted four
copies of the paper- the Carson Appeal
if it published the item, to send to
his relatives in the East. We take the
liberty of extending the information to
his acquaintances in the other parts of
the country. Those who know him
best and admire him most will be glad
to hear that he is dcing so well out in
Novada.— Detroit Free Press,
i
itd}
Alig
a
$d
100K,
{welve
"wm
ina
Does Pleasure Pay!
With the words an English
society journal opens an article on the
current habits of good society in search
of pleasure. Tt NNDECESSATY to say
that pleasure, if it can be taken only as
many fashionable people take it, is not
worth the time and money that it costs,
No one enjovs this world’s diversions 20
little as those who pay most for their
fun and devote most time to it. At the
theater and opera the people who ap-
pear most pleased are those who sit in
the cheapest seats and wear the poorest
clothes, and elsewhere the rule is the
same. All else being equal, the man
who has the most money to spend ean
secure the most enjoyment in this
{ world : but one thing that thousands of
people seem to forget is that with all
| things with pleasing possibilities a com-
mon rule of the table holds good—it is
of no use to eat unless youn have an ap-
petite. The most forlorn diner-out in
New York is the man who eats several
dinners daily, and the most unhappy
man at the theater—the man who finds
fault with everything and enjoys noth-
| ing —is he who goes to tha theater every
| night. Pleasure is like dessert—very
| good to take after something substan-
| tial, but the most unsatisfactory of all
| things when taken as a steady diet
above
18
ee e—
Out of season—An empty spice-box.—
i
PROGRESS,
New luventions and Discoveries,
The present age may properly be
characterized as the golden age of in-
ventors and discoverers. So fully eon-
vineed is the commercial world of the
utility and value of scientific research,
that the investigator or inventor has not
long to wait for a golden harvest if he
has anything to offer which is new and
adapted to supply a want, The rapidi-
ty with which new devices are adopted
in business and domestic life is wonder,
ful. Five years ago not a single tele
phonie cirenit existed in the world
which eonld be used for practical or
business purposes ; now there are 165,.
000 instruments in use in the United
States alone, and there are only six or
eight eities of 10,000 inhabitants which
are without a telephone exchange, Prob-
ably more than five millions of people
in this country make daily use of the
telephone for business orvther purposes.
Thousands are hourly holding conversa.
tions between distant points, over single
wires, and by means and appliances
whelly unknown to science at the close
of General Grant's last term of office.
not a single investigator in the depart-
ment of electric lighting had carried its
results beyond the stage of experiment,
No actual practical business test had
been made, no effective dynamo-machine
had been constructed, or form of lamp
ed. Now, one inventor. dfs in
practical TErOwas byl lamps; distribu-
ted in part as follows: lights in
rolling mills ; 1,340 in cotton and other
ete; 300 lights in parks, docks, ete;
: you retired I
“Yes, paps,” I said, with » yawn :
Behind my fan, * for the horrid man
Hejust talked onsnd on.
The more | hinted the more he stayed;
1 know yon were wakeful, too,
And 1 told him so; but he would not go
And what could a poor girl do?”
* Ie was very late when you retired
“Yeu, papa 1” 1 frankly said,
“For the man, you ses, jusi talked to me,
Thongh I yawned til my eyes were rod |
Ax to count the strokes all through;
But—the stopid L-he just wouldn't see
And what could a poor girl dot»
“It was worse than late when you retired 1
“Wh I tell you, pa!” I cried,
“11 1 hinted onee to the tiresome dunce,
“Twas a hundred times beside |
Why, I even said you'd been in bed
For at least five hours [ knew;
Bat he tipped his chair, and still asst there
Bo what could a poor girl do 1”
“Why, paps!” 1 humbly plead,
“Don't thunder so ! there's a man below;
And he's sent you his card, and said
That the reason why be stayed all night
Was, that he wanted to sec you, too,
That he might ask for the band I gave
For what could & poor girl do 7?
HUMOR OF THE DAY,
The retired theater star is always an
ex-acting creature. Boston eript,
“Love lightens labor,” ss the man
said when saw his wife doing his
work for him,
When a man applies for a situation
as a policeman it is supposed he has a
taste for a club life,
: Ona ehild i fold that he zusb hs
TO a habit, replied,
“Papa, hadn't I better be mended 7”
Sore financial distress When you
| haven't got to buy oint-
ment fora w New York News,
A canal differs from most things in
one resp t-it is vs filled before it
| is opened.—Syracws: Fr Herald.
planters, Jones ult
| Bpeaking of corn
| he has a pair of new boots that he i
| put against the world. —Lookport Unde,
| Gate posts should be set out firmly.
| A great deal may hinge upon them as
lar,
parks are the
mines ;
ng. There are other devices, of per-
far béyond the ability of manufacturers
to supply.
Twenty vears ago the only available
was gunpowder,
and excavators, ¢
the precious metals or in eniting through |
nountains for railroad transit, felt the
need of some more effective and power- |
ful agents to tear the rock masses asun- |
on shipboard startled the world by the |
terrific nature of the explosions that it
was known that chemists had discovered
nitro-glveerine, an agent possessing a
force ten times greater than gunpowder, |
This substance has now almost entirely
displaced gunpowder in all great min-
g aud engineering works the world |
over, and it would be difficult to dis- |
pense with it as an article of every-day
use for many purposes. |
Nickel is a metal long known to chem-
ists and metallurgists, but it was re.
garded as exceedingly unpromising in |
its industrial applications, and treatad |
with neglect. It is less than a score of |
vears since one of its salts, the double |
sulphate, was prepared, and from its
solution the bath which made sible |
the deposition of the metal by the elec-
tric battery. This despised metal is
now of inestimable value, as it affords a
surface more beautiful and enduring |
than silver on implements and utensils
of the widest range.
The discovery by Bessemer of a cheap,
guick method of making steel is quite
recent, and yet we know that it has re-
volutionized track construction on rail- |
roads. No road with any considerable |
amcunt of trafic can aflord to use iron
rails; and, indeed, so important is this
discovery that it wonld be impossible to
pay dividends on most roads without an |
increase of traffic rates, if iron alone was
used, Steel, by the Bessemer method,
can be made as cheap as iron, and the |
difference in price is now inconsidera-
ble.
un agriculture the discovery of the
mineral food of plants led to the dis-
covery of vast beds of phosphatic rocks
in the ancient sea basins of Charles-
ton, 8. C,, and an industry was de-
veloped which is of great magnitude
and importance. We could greatly ex-
tend the list of important discoveries
and inventions which have been made
within the memory of most persons of |
adult age, all of which have given for
thnes to the parties interested in orig-
inating and developing them. The
slow appreciation of new discoveries in
a former age has passed away, and no
longer do the many decades of years
elapse before they are turned to practi-
cal account.
Henry discovered the electro-magnet
in 1819, and it was not until 1544 that
it was utilized in the construction of the
telegraph. Faraday discovered electro-
magnetic induction in 1831, but it was |
not until 1851 that a practical’ dynamo-
machine was made of small dimensions. |
Since 1850 the world has progressed
with giant strides in the practical Appl
cation of the results of scientific dis-
covery, and it is probable that no di.
munition of interest will be experienced
in the course of the centuries which are
to come.— Boston Jowrnal of Chemistry.
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American Children,
Children in America are regarded as
apt to act upon their own wall rather
than upon the will of their parents. It
did not appear to be so in any of the |
families Rich I had. opportunities of
observing; on the contrary, there was
manifest affectionate and intelligent |
obedience. At the same time it was |
apparent that young people were more |
sel{-acting than they are in England,
where we have a somewhat unwise do-
mestic paternalism, which encourages a
costly dependence. The result is that
many parents have to keep their chil-
dren at a period of life when children
should be prepared to keep their par |
ents, if need be. The American habit
of training their children to indepen- |
dence, which they interpret as meaning |
self-dependence, has much to be said in |
its favor, :
We have the Scriptural maxim: |
“Train up a child in the way it should |
go.” Young people in England among |
the middle class have quite reversed |
this. Their reading of the text is:
“Train up the parents in the way they
should go, that when they are old they |
shall not depart from it.”
Hence it is |
that we have so many young men whose
politics are conservative conceit, who |
despise the principles under which their |
fathers were enabled to achieve pros-!
perity, and who think their mission in
this world is to live upon the earnings |
of their relatives, making no honest!
exertions on their own behalf.— Co-op- |
erative Neus
Plain Dress,
Giaudy ornamentation and a profusion
of jewelry are out of place on a lady. |
She should be more ashamed of false |
jewelry than a plain, cheap dress. A
lady of maturer years, in a well-fitting
dark silk, real jewelry or none, and her
own hair—all the better if it is white—
is also dressed for a ball. True woman-
hood includes all the delicate refine-
ments that overflow in the perfect
glove, the well-fitting shoe, the pretty
stocking, the neat frills, the becoming
| bonnet, The American woman, to do
| her only justice, is a neat creature by
| instinet, and, if she occasionally gives
too much thought to dress, she is still
to be admired and commended for her
| daintiness,
“When yesterday I asked you, love,
one little word to say, your brother in-
terrupted us; so please say yes ter day.”
nested her husband not
a certain man who
“Why,” he exclaimed,
riend.”
A woman
to associate wi
& hard drinker,
An Irishman, who was found guilty
of stealing coffee, was asked by the mag-
istrate what he did with it. “Made tay
with it,” was the Hibernian's reply.
An exchange says that “the coming
girl is to be prettier than the kind we
now have.” Impossible ; there can be
Bo improvement upon the original arti-
* “My watch is a perfect treasure,” said
A the other day. *‘It never varies a sec~
ond.” “It must be like my thermome-
ter,” returned B. “That never varies
a particle.”
Wasn't it rough on Ella, just as she
ethereal her appetite was, to have the
cook bawl out: “Say, will ye have
pork and beans now, or wait till yer fel-
er's gone?”
“Which side of the street do you live
“Oh, either
If you go one way, it's on the
right side ; if you go the other way, it's
cross-examining a witness,
A fashion exchange says that “small
ostrich tips trim the new hats.” That's
The best runs for poultry are where
can
be had, but they must be large if fowls
have constant access to them or the
grass will soon cease to grow.
A lawyer's brief is very
And Mr, White is 0
A man is dry when he is green,
And when he's tight he's slack.
A fire is hot when it is coaled,
A lamp is heavy, though it's light ;
A shoe is bonght when it is 80
A man ean soe when out of sight.
A London servant girl is represented
as saying : “Hard weather, indeed, sir.
1 wish the Lord would take the weather
in his own hands again, instead of trust-
ing it to them Yankee probability men.
We might then get something fit to
live in"
A school teacher, discharged for using
the rod too freely, applied for employ-
ment in a dressmaker's establishment.
“Have you bad any experience in sew-
ing ?” asked the dressmaker. “No,” was
the reply, “but I have ath knowl-
edge of basting." —Somerville Journal,
A woman in the fourth ward has just
completed a bedquilt whieh illustrates
how fine a point economy may be car
ried to. It is made from the linen facings
composed entirely of the backs of
A sleeper is one who sleeps; a sleeper
is also a place where a sleeper can sleep;
and a sleeper is, too, a thing over which
runs the sleeper in which the sleeper
; so that the sleeper in the sleeper
sleeps while the sleeper runs on as well
as sometimes leaps off the track.— Wit
There are poople who claim that a
husband that stays out late at night has
no respect for the feelings of his wife.
Evidently there are people in the worid
who never saw said husband climbing
the rear stairs at 1:30 A. w. with his
boots in his hand and his heart in his
»
The teacher had grown eloguent in
picturing to his little pupils the bean-
e finally asked :
A lively little fourteen-year-old boy
with kicking boots, flourished his fist,
“Well, you may answer, ” said the teacher.
“Dead ones,” the little fellow shouted
Neo Experiment,
: yey Hon 3 died a aa :
youn ife an i , on
Thich the widow raved like a maniac
and exelaimed to the doctor who stood
by the bedside of the deceased: “Oh,
I'll not believe that my dear is
dead ; he could not die and leave me !
No, no! he's alive—I'm sure he's alive !
Tell ue, d , don’t you think so?’
“Madam,” replied the medical man,
with sch gravity, “I confess that it is
apply the galvanic battery.” “Oh, no,
I-et him rest in peace.”
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About the Alphabet.
The Sandwich Islands &lphabet has
twelve letters; the Burmese, nineteen;
the Italian, twenty; the Bengalese,
twenty-one; the Hebrew, Syrian, Chal-
ee and Samaritan, twenty-two each;
the French, twenty-three; the
twenty-four; the Latin, twenty-five;
the German, Dutch and English, twenty-
six each; the Spanish and Seclavonie,
twenty-seven each; the Arabic, twenty-
eight; the Persian and Cop'ie, thirty-
two; the Georgian, thirty-five; the Ar-
wenian, thirty-eight; the Russian, forty.
one; the Muscovite, forty-three, the
Sanserit and Japanese, 384 the Ethi-
opie and Tartarian, 202 .
Small balls of cut loosely strung-
are set between the Sieh luce floun-
ices of walking- iresces meant for water
nature.
| $n places.