Happiness, Do you ask me, love, with fond caress, What seems to me perfect happiness ? A golden day, and a sapphire sky, And emerald earth, and yon and I Roaming through woodlands green together, immer weather, And sav "tis winter; outside the snow, And inside the five’s warm, cheerful glow; And we sit by it, cheek touching cheek, Silent sometimes, and sometimes we speak! So I find, in summer or winter weather, to be together Philadelphia Press Happiness moans Tie Country Children, I can see the happy children As they wander through the grassos Of the res 1 dowy pastures, Of the tanek 1 oan track them Iv the tre 1 can read 81 ha 1 forest Passes | as they wander glories py footsteps t stories asm ite plum tree blossoms ; ngs and tosses sumach hey are kings and nobles wander there together; r weather, 1 3 1 L.woodiand, ETHEL'S CHOICE. 3 . ye long sam tb 1 desmltory on, the tastefully bound little volume which is now slipp i could not tell exactly what she has been dreaming of. dreaming over her weeks at Newport; perhaps last night's party has engrossed her thonghts, At all events thinking has been pleasant occupation, for hier face is very bright and unclonded. What a charming niente” she mak ly im a hamm piliowed on soi hair, of tel brown, shining in slips in through th arbor. Very ch 10 a pair of dar} picture of “‘delce far ving back laxuriant- her beantifal head 3 shade the sunlight which oe thick foliage of the indeed, is she PELITIEY BEDE, same medin as the cwrer of the eves— a fall, well built fellow of twenty-four or five— 3 quickly into the arbor. how you frightened me! "” ox g SOITY. it u were here,and FP was £0 spxious to see you—" { you,” murmurs Miss But something in to have a chilling effect; 1 o VOLUME XV, Hditor and HALL, CENTR E CO. PA. Os TERMS: $2.00 19, 1882, in Advance. NUMBER 3. of impatience, Absurd I" This little outburst of seems to relieve her, und she proceeds to gather her parasol and the neglected novel, turns from the arbor and walks rapidly toward the house, It is a pretty little villa, rather addioted to vines and climbing roses, with a broad, inviting | veranda-—the very place for rt able performance of tl drama, “Love in a Cottage drama is now in progress, th persone being Martin Abbott | natured clder brother of { Ethelyn, and his sweet little wife wha, having married for love, lighted with the experiment, She it is at sight of her sister-in-law, comes quickly forvard to i“ vohewence a comic charming And this drmmatis 1 at a tha o Lass At LAs pretty Miss ) ae 3 the Who, 3 meet ! OQ . hel,” sho says, as she reaches her side, “Jack has just Then notie ing a little frown gatheri brow of her hearer. she adds, “Did YOu see nim, dear “Yes, I did,” is | factory reply. And wi manner Miss Abboit forward to greet the tall, distinguished individu who has followed her sister : leisurely pace, “ Colonel! Amb s@e you } “Thank yon,’ thus addressed, small hand which ed. “I have been waitin time for you. Mrs. were swwhere on t has been kindly enter { Ethel glances furtively at her sister, who stands in the fall light of the The little woman responds 1 1 Miss Ab? nsh and us, au 8 Toft o i} tii ¥ to steps &% 4 more id, I am very glad to says the gentlem bending low over th 8 31:1 tanid I8 80 Teadlly exiand =L a by a decided bl tt 1s annoyed. “ So you were not g come and find me!” arch smile, in ed qui her sister's discomfiture as Arnheld’s inthraliment; ceeds in both endeavors, The trio stroll toward the house. Ethel is in one of her brightest moo and makes herself very Certainly she has a gol for so doirg. Colon miration is an emphatic Besides being very ricl ¥i cratic, he is a connol r—his ar criticisms are very valualbde ; hi are marvels of beauty and swiftness ; the Arnhold diamonds are superb; and fan ALCL entertain: n opportur rnhold’s Fabia LI8SIC is } 0 018 DOrses i i : ng with sAppo | you,” 1s'the an- th a repressed energy commands attention. Then, y abrupt change of mauner: “Etbel, what is the matter? Why are you so cold 2” : “Iam very warm,” si bott, trying to evadirg renderes ever, by an emg escapes wit witl The ow ui 3 be , be funny, by way of the gmestion. Her effort is lamentable failore, how- shat ¢ “Pshaw I” which 1 more vigor than courtesy. g man rises and comes to the side of the bammock, looking down upon its burden with ¢yes which are Very express “Don't { me, Ethel,” he ¢8¥s in a low voice, which is just the unsteady, 8s if the speaker were suppressing a good deal of emotion, “You know perfectly well why I came Lere to-day.” x “a ve JU & ot § tr witl ieust Miss Abbott looks up with an air of great surprise—only for a moment, however, for with ail her faults she is not one whit untiuthfal, Then her eyes drop hastily, “Well,” she says, with a quick ecatch- ing of ker breath, “whatif 1 do? There is another pause, while the dark eyes grow darker with mingled sadness and, it must be confessed, in dignation, while the tremor of voice is more marked, as Jack speaks: “ What of 1t? Only this: The Arctic expedition expects to leave port to- morrow, and I go with it or not, as yon bid me. Yon kuow well enough that 1 love you, Ethel-—surely I need not tell you that again.” “It is of no use,” says Miss Ethel, after a moment's silence, with a little plaintive laugh. “No, Jack, we are both too poor; and. though I don’t like to confess it, I am too mercenary.” There is no reply, though Miss Ab- bott pauses for ome; the dark eyes rest upon her with an in. tensity whizh is not pleasant, and the young man’s grasp on the hammock tightens involuntarily. She goes cn hastily: “I know it does not sound well, but it is true. 1 want so many things— diamonds snd horses and Werth cos- tumes—in shot, everything money can buy.” . _ Certainly, Miss Abbott's confession 18 not very pretty, though the flash which follows it is. “ Bo you prefer marrying an income to marrying a man,” is the only com- ment vouchsafed by her auditor. * Heaven forgive you, Ethel, if you mean what yon say!” The band on the hammock is removed witha suddenness which causes the latter to sway violent. ly; aud Miss Abbott unreasonably loses her temper. “I think you forget yourself, Mr, Lindsay,” she says, hanghtily. * Pray, be more careful.” “I beg your pardon,” polite rejoinder; and the tends his hand to assist the young lady to descend. She takes it with averted eyes, and steps to the ground, drawing it quickly away a moment after, * Good-bye.” She has turncd to leave the arbor when the words are spoken. “ Good-bye,” she says coldly. Strange. ly enough she cannot muster courage to raise her eyes to his. The hand she gives is imprisoned tightly. “Won't you wish me bon voyage,” says the young man, with a faint at. tempt at a smile, “We never know what a day may bring forth,” she says, uttering a very solemn truth with a very common lightness, - * Still, if you desire it— bon voyage.” An uncomfortable silence — then, ““ Good-bye,” and Ethel is free to resume her reading, while the sound of rapid footsteps dies away in the distance, She does not avail herself of the op- portunity, however, but sits motionless on the little rustic bench, a rather in- explicable expression in her deep blue is the stifily offender ex i i i | } tion firmly established | No wonder Ethelyn Abbott is pleased with the marked attention which this aristocrat has sl her arrival at her brother's he And is not she pleased ? Watel as now that over the } had fAsgemoled dinner is ia She has | Colonel Arnhold's request, turning from the piano, while he ging for ‘one more song,” “Sing ‘Twickenham Ferry,"’ ests bott, boldly. “I hat Mr. y's favorite,” she adds, turning in explanation to the colonel “Mr. Lind Lr On By-the-by, rider, I saw down your avenue quite a say —ah, yes, him dash > Y : ray let us nave , el. " . To her sister's secret hel complies, sing Et colonel the ith ¢ ng to the remark Colonel Arshold makes. * Does not this sa pect sail with tion ? ness ensumg 0 ii] out into the She looks radiautly lovely, as she pauses for one moment in the frame by the open window. The gallant colonel hastens to her side, and Mrs. Abbott hears his low request and her bright reply : “A walk? with pleasure. glorious night.” It is a And a faint ripple of laughter is borne back on the breeze, as the two ercss the veranda and de- seend to the lawn, ARAN The mellow light of a summer moon is slanting through the foliage of the trees which border the avenue. Ethel is walking very slowly, and the conver sationis desnltory and not very interest. ing to a third party. . “I want to go to Jtaly this winter,” the colonel is Ig. Ah, Miss Ethelsn, what a delight it wonld be to take you throngh those wonderful gal- leries of art-—yon who are such an admirer | of its beauties.” And Ethel gives little | is Ra assenting murmurs, while the colonel continues in this strain and expatiates on the various attractions of Italy, | which he does at great length—in fact, just a little longer than his listener can | stand, for her patience is not her great- est virtue, “You are an animated guide-book, Colorel Arnhold.” The colonel panses aghast- only for | one moment, however; for of course | her speech was intended as a compli- ment, though rather brusquely deliv- ered. “My dear young lady, you are most kind,” he says, with a bland smile; and then the conversation becomes ox | tremely personal, they walk if possi- ble more slowly than ever, and the! colonel is speaking very earnestly. At length they pause under the shade | of a wide-spreading elm, just where the avenue comes to an abrupt turn. The | colonel is holding an unresisting hand. | “I will do all in my power to make | your life a happy one,” he says, and | then silently awaits his answer, Ethelyn’s head is bowed. Where is | the “yes” which she fancied she was so | ready to give? Once she looks up as if | to speak, but the words fail her. As a | second time she raises her head there is a sudden interruption. Around the bend of the avenue come two men, slowly and silently. “Only laborers,” says the colonel, reassuringly, as Ethel starts violently; but in another moment he leaves her truders, while she watches him in a half-dazed manner. There are foar men now on the broad path-— walking with steady, slow foot- steps—carrying something between them. Bhe presses forward with a strange, inexplicable curiosity; but Colonel Arnhold is instantly at her side. “Go back, my dear young lady,” he says, imperatively, though his voice is agitated and trembling ‘This is not a sight for your eyes—poor fellow— thrown from his horse, they tell me — quite dead, I fear.” The men are standing still for a moment, they have come ont of the shadow, and the moonlight is streaming down upon them in its fall radiance. Ethel leans forward, she only sees a white, white face, terribly still and the clear lght-then a 1 a cry fall of pain of remorse which and she is on her knees I holding the the intense nl quiet in \ rings from her, bitterness, full foals 18 too late; by the motionless cold lifeless hands, nervous strain grows harder to bear her shoulder, CU in her ears i nothing more she RUS, while she feel is o *® ® * Og¢tober wit play ghtly thi ted loaves It is a typi Nummer is id 1:41 aver, iy with the br hare falling rapidis 1 afternoon, the alr fresh and nite olear and dry, g brilliantly 1 y arbor Ww 1 iv, IRVINE & by Hx Wo on gentleman who carries with this (ne is a youn arm in a sling, tho ort t 4 < 18 in very good hes nd 18 a blooming 1 vita iris } wi ' i I'h ham moe) and 5) Reo nael herse ifn " i lon Huse herself with sling af, y fare Lie wish make me ze- yish to “ » 3 @ g. NO Means, my GOarest, hought that they were such insuperable objections to marrying poor man { Ethe is i be nd 1¢ wer ove worl "1 changed my mind,” Lyndsay laughs hear flow They Spend Their Money, Joa Howard writes from New Y Philadelphia 7imes In y spicuous window on Broadway stands a vered with in f i ork to * L table ¢ drawers wood © work in 3.1 #39 Dine satin. Price, 8250 the satin 85 s §1 0 to 85,000, were eas carf or shirt n greal ff the ww 1.’ ue Id watches carried « 1 sudy daws, ofboys now di 1 at ap watered . 1 we woker tole Salo ful old pawn! a recent twenty old-time initials and it prices that astonished thin i i 2 n dis pose i of over Seis with crests, ats-of arms Every eagerly canght up, ut in shape and quickly sold What next ? Well, what next? If the the women it 0 him Rin that lines man keep can't be very e knee breeches, si ver buckles wigs are in fashion. The test kind of ornament is now the 3 Everybody has to bave an old- fashioned clock, you know, and there 15 already a factory in Connectiont where they are turned out by the hundreds, with rusted chains and five-pound weights, and cases cracked as if with age. In all the great depots of treas- nre these clocks abound. Generally have high mahogany cases, some ng bafor i bap juain ) atyle e they 1a with ornamental figurings, others pet fectly plain. Some give the day of the month and the week, signs of tl moon 1 evening star, and mytholog- data as well. The works are as simple as A B C, the regular old style, wound up by pulling an endless ehain and hoisting the heavy iron weight, while the long pendnlnm slowly ticks and the ferocious bell literally out the honr. I told you I had e¢bain, and I've “of these clocks, too. Bome of these days I'll wear knoe breeches That will be funny. 16 " an clangs a fob one A Desperate Fight With Conviets, At Graham, Texas, the three Me- Donald boys, the murderers of a man to escape from jail, which resulted in their death and the death of a depn'y sheriff, besides the serious wonnding of About 10 o'clock in the morning the McDonald boys were led from the steel cage to the calaboose, and with Jim Boone and Jack Baldwin, the two other prisoners, 1 ties, One d +t eputy was testing the cage was empty, and the other Melton, steod in the doorway of a wooden cell opeving from the calaboose to the steel cage. He had a pistol in each hand, keeping in one hand to get a match from his In the struggle Melton was shot in the right hand. His cries brought | cage, but on entering the ealaboose he prisoners. The prisoners then made a | hole through the floor to the room be- low and, taking Melton with them, be- | their escape. A bloodhound | dv this time the | whole city was excited, +d the citizens | had gathered all together and followed | the fleeing prisoners. The latter placed | their hostage, Melton, behind them, | and threatened to shoot him dead if | they were nrea on. 1'hus the “murder- | ers proceeded some 300 yards, when | one citizen deliberately took aim and | firing wortally wounded one of the! fugitives, who fell, Depnty Melton seized the opportunity, broke loose, and ran. A general fusilade was now exchauged between the citiz:ns and the escaping prisoners, The latter en- trenched themselves in the weeds and stumps, and the battle raged for some time. When the shooting ceased the three McDonalds were dead, Mel- ton was shot three times, an old man named Wood wounded in the thigh, and a waiter named Joy had a bone of Lis leg shattered. Baldwin and Boone took no part in the shooting and were recaptured. Graham was a scene of terrible excitement during the bloody affray, SULENTIFIC NOTES, The number of metals now seven!v-saven fodine hus bea the treatment of d Sulphurous Cases, a8 8 poweriul ox ipht her ih, i : BOM nots, 1 élaotrig 114 iit ii HIE i! » 18 that of i i shaped unded ie without sacrifice of ec my, hat form of { ibrella, being rib | 3 whe i pure oel re I A @ hydrogen nm, oxygen and + Forbes and Dr, Yous: ff a rian ts Of axXporiments lig} git g have y ray of TONS gross imnohe d a fow wee 8, E gland, MM. Deherain and Maguenne, in paper before t Academy Noter shi t in it ad bs M0 Ww 53 Tis, certain ut SDArKS will sand, in a gors disposed prevalent theory of wind as erroneous, and believes the real { al x R 1% ’ ' Dh rents to be electricit 21 af tl d for the MIUTres ir 1 stud general y of geography thering insiruet in that scie Dr. Born, of when yi sivel + aslo cecupin operation, The second ho had ir operation ther to give the bo snd put him to bed. aad Dr. Quimby ealling when Was asleep administered the ch and performed the operation without awakening the boy. The third case was a boy of ten years suffering from an ab scess and the same course was pursued with equal success, Two important inferences may drawn from these cases, Dr. Quimby aid. Minor surgical operations may be done with perfect safety more pleasantly than in tl way ; and, secondly, skilled in the 1 + COED Was a ' \ » | 3 % tr ¥ i 10 lake ether y Dr. Quimby gad x \ reinsed § 1 AOTGIoTm ba and much he ordinary A person somi¢ what use of chloroform way enter a sleeping apartment and ad minister chloroform with evil inten- tions while a person is asleep, Hence the nse of this drog in the hands of a criminal may become an effective in- strument in the sccomplishment of his nefarious designs, — Medical Adeance. ER T——s Dangerous Encounter With a Whale. Mr. Joseph Ww. Mead, of Poughkeep- sie, is now on board the bark Hercules on a whaling voyage. His ship was off St. Helena on the 28th of October, 1881, from which place he writes: On the 6th of June last we raised whales and got them all in favorable positions, when we lowered and in a short time onr second mate struck one. In a few minutes after the whale caught the boat in the quarter and com pletely chewed it up. Mr, Lune, the chief mate, when he raw our signal from the ship, sent a boat and had the crew picked up, took the line and still had the whale fast, The third also camo np and went on the whale three times. The fourth time the whale caught and mashed his boat into fire- wood. The steerer was killed, but the rest of the crew were saved. In the meantime the boats did not dare to go near the wounded whale, but fired st it from a distance with guns, About this time we received help from a ship called ths Milton, which sent two boats to the rescue, for we were in a very weak condition, Before yon hardly think it possible, however, the Milton's boats were both mashed and their crews swimming in the water, They were soon rescued by our boats, The boats hung about the whale until dark, when we cut the line and let the huge monster go. The next morning, however, we saw him again and took another hold of him, and wubout o'clock in the afternoon we succeeded in dispatching him. It was the largest s our boats mate 4 years, and made us 150 barrels of oil, Its length was sixty feot and jaws nine- SE ———— An Elephant’s Ingenuity, The new elephant at the fair grounds is cansing Secretary Kalb more trouble and anxiety than a new baby, A nice, stout bracelet of the chain pattern was circled around the elephant's fore leg and clasped together with a thumb. serow, with a head an ivrch and a half in diameter. The chain was fastened to the center post and the thumbscrew carefully locked. After a few nights the elephant worked out the problem of that thumbscrew, and regularly every day when the keeper appeared in the morning the Sletnonl was free from shackles. The keeper could not under- stand it, und called for Mr. Kalb to ex- plain the mystery. The two consulted, examined and watched. It was ascer- tained that as soon as the chain was put around the animal's leg and locked, he deliberately put his other foot on the end of the chain near the post. That loosened it on the shackled foot. Then with his trunk he commenced to un- screw the thumserew or nut, and in a very few minutes he would be free and walking around his ocell.—8t JTouis Republican, URANKS AMONG ANIMALS, fustances of dirveat Sirauge Excitement Hehaviar, Causing ‘Insane animals? Why, eo rtainly, possessor of a fi collection o in New York said t or four d one that is as { a reporter, birds hat are ad asa March dane mye CInlias, Bi iB hare, ‘ he “In that one? the { rier asked, as a hen ran by with ongue hang the owner {in dry wea replied “All Her Her ougue to the left, but nalformation of y, “she's if you want to see a and t i | hat rid monstrosity i rbid proj hand, just walk through this cvop,” indicat vined number of a 1a ¢ i always has & n On Ya " i fine game I'he rep opened the gate and stepped in, the chickens retreating, with the inner house, a rooster hardly as pigeon, with high fash med face, ter } Was ized 3 al im," the owner said, * CTOWEr came near in The warning 1 within a foot A rush, wganer, ale trousers in in away with bef le red ¢ You blag 3 id as the reporier Bl re it coul 11 t iL puile § . | I0Or0e ali At Lhe won't IS OW Biz, bought him Wo ralses i to get rid of fight, but Uga, id chase a8 moat n Garden Key, caught several, » wind blowing too hard for them to rise; bat § long chase, diving, trying high wall, and turning its } into every possible if de. mented, and finally 18 rashed at a tin drain pipe aod got into it, and there | eanght But when I hauled it out, acted as if it was half dead, Spasms passing over its body, but it came to after I put it ina box. For a long time it seemed to go crazy when alarmed, and, in fact, has never gotten over it, Just walch it now.” Taking a small paper up and exploded it in front of the § drop d as if but ime to, and ran round in a most aim less way, twisting its neck nnd jumping into the air, That this was not done from fright altogether was evident from the fact that it was taken with the same and all times without the least provoeation. Mr. George Ord, of Philadelphia, tells of a similar case in a common rail. The bird had concealed itself in a drain near his house during i heavy rain storm, and was discovered by him the next morning. The bird wus placed in a small A Case, and he was amusing with when, in the act of pointing his finger tit, it suddenly sprang forward, ap parently much irritated, fell to the floor, | and, stretching out its feet and bending ts neck until the head nearly touched its back, became to all appearances life- wut my boat and thi Sad and body » gi as it it. it Curious bag, he blew 3 : TELA, BOON fits at BUY room on 3 14 : ditasell it 4 less, the bird, he took it up, butina few min FOR THE LADIES, Skivis Growling Sheriev: “ Ski nil ris ae growing i rcem as if they had now reached the extreme limit of moderation, It is certainly very convenient to have a skirt of medium length for dancing or walking, but it need not be shorn of all its grace for either of these beantifal exerel Nome innovator, presuma bly a Frenchman, has just introduced an odd arrangement of the short skirts, by making it the veriest trifle shorter in the middle of the back breadth than at the sides; this is done by the smallest extra forming of a little hollow in the center of the plaits attaching to the band I'he difference, it is said, must » slight as not to make the dress Ww he appear a bit shorter, but the effect to be produced 1% to keep it free from the boot-heels behind, and give a little cachet to the skirt, not otherwise pro- duced in an ordinary short, round skirt. " he iu Yeo } P tf, Halls ia Washington. Bo many of our lady readers expect their husbands will become members of Congress, senators or eabinet minis- i that they will thank us for printing formula prescribed in the etiquette Washington for first calls. The member's wife must first call ¢ senior member's wife and pre- sent her credentials, as it were, and the junior Mrs. Senator on the senior Mrs, Senate Ihe members’ wives all pay their duties first to the senators’ wives. The senators’ wives, as well as the mem. wives, must first call on the The respective rank of the cabinet ladies and senators’s wives ong been a matter of serious dis- ission. Practically it appears to be ttled by precedence being given to the cabinet, and this is probably due to the importance now given to cabinet positions, which in the earlier days of the government they did not possess, The wives of the justioes of the supreme bold their positions without dispute, and first calls are due them from everybody but the wives of the Vice-President. — Tvoy I § } rr. inet ladies, &n nt court President and Fashion Netes, train is oval T det ¢ latest form of and Sak} Leable. Ve iveteen dresses are beginning to come in fashion. drown is preferred to gray for brides’ traveling dresses, Many gathers and plaits take the lace of the ciinolet, Trains are again in favor for house nd « vening dresses Indian shawls are prettily he drapery of dresses, employed small bonnets of last winter are favorites the of this year, Moire stripes alternating with plush Biripes are Pi by § seen in rich goods. lsin sleeves are preferred 20 pufls ashionable young women, One wide border of far is more stylish i two or three Darrow ones, Lace the most fashionable of all ings for evening dresses, Han in Jet embroidered Jerseys pow form the armor basques of black suits chenille fringes curled, ) are used with great eflect in mantles of vigogue, Bicilienne or Togques made of smooth satin-like thers of pure white are exhibited for girls’ wear, They are extremely r and becoming. tilian breakfast eaps of gold Manila grass nettings are fastened to the bead by long gold- headed pins set with onyx stones, Shoalder-knots of white satin or watered «ilk ribbon, fastened by a rose or delicate spray of flowers, take the place of the floral opanlets worn last winter. r Clas i RI i For full evening dress, slippers match the darkest color in the traia or skirt of the robe, while the stockings mateh the lightest shade in the tablier or front breadth. Silk handkerchiefs, in every combina- tion of color and shade, are used in various ways as jabots, sailor collars, breakfast caps, and gypsy and creole kerchiefs. All trains, no matter how rich and heavy, are lined with white crinoline muslin, and protected and adorned with a balayeuse of lace or muslin and lace alone, General Garfield Left Handed, In 1879, after the Ohio Republican wrote to General Garfield, telling him that his style of speaking, particularly the using of his left hand, reminded us #0 foreibly of our editorial predecessor, Balueins Garfielde, that we were euri ous to know their relationship, if any, He replied as follows, from Washing- J. Nir : G. Crappock, Panis, Ky.—Dear In answer to yours of the 30th of May, I have to answer that Selpeius | He placed the bird there were canaries, in resolving to had produced the fit. On entering | sullen humor, and as soon as he point ed his finger at it its feathers became immediately ruffled, and it sprang for first instance. Mr. Ord adds: | time after as I was sl | reeds, I saw a rail rise a few feel { the batteau, “ Some- from { mediately fell. Its feet and neck were { cover I killed it.” ward a friend and himself were shoot- ing in the same place, and a rail was {a fit. He took it np and placed it in adds: ‘These facts go to prove that { the rail is subject to gusts of passion, | lepsy in its effects.” | Aged 128 Years, Brooks is possibly colored woman, if Tamah the oldest ing reamched the remarkable age of 123 years. Thomas Yancey. old,— Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution, same stock, though I have been unable to trace our exact relationship, which is distant. [ did not know that he was left banded, but 1 am the left-handedest man youn ever saw. Very truly yours, J. A. Garren, Selucins Garflelde (his name closed with an e) emigrated from New Eng- land to Kentucky, and became noted here as a lawyer or constitution maker, occasional preacher of the same church A., editor, and Democratic electoral debator. In 1867 he Territory, but since the war has twice grees from Washington Territory, he now being, we believe, located in Washington City. Kentuckian, Forbearance. The young are seldom forbearing, because they so little understand the frailties of poor human nature. Oh, if you oould only witness the terrible struggles passieg in the heart of that friend whose vivacity annoys you, whose fickleness provokes you, whose faults sometimes even make you blush. Oh, (perhaps on your account) you would indeed pity them. Love them! Make allowances for them | Never let them To believe himself to be any one to help him, almost | | 1 5. A maiden of advanced years and very eyes.” SUNDAY READING, m—— Holl the Pumpkin,’ oneday to pass by the open door room where his daughters and some voung friends were assembled, he thought, from what he overheard, that {they were making too free with the { characters of their neighbors; and after i children a lecture on the sinfalness of { scandal. They answered: * But, father, { what shall we talk about? We must {talk of something!" “If you can do nothing else,” replied he, “ get a pump- kin and roll it about; that will at least be innocent diversion.” A afterward an association of ministers met at his honse, and during the even- ing some disenssions on points of doe trinée were earnest, and their voices of losing their Christian temper, when his eldest daughter, overhearing them, procured a pumpkin, and entering the room, gave it to her father, and said: “ There, father, roll it about, rell it about.” The minister was obliged to explain to his brethren, and good | humor was instantly restored. Heliglous News and Notes, The Unitarians lost eight of their | ministers during last year, and some of them were men of mark and influence. A communion service, costing $3,000, and manufactured in England, has been received by St. Stephen's church at Lynn, Mass. Vanderbilt university, in Tenneesee, has nearly 650 students in attendance. Probably no other university in the Bouth approximates this number, There are now in the island of Mada- gasoar 882 schools with 48000 pupils; 1,142 churches, with 70,000 members, and 203,000 adberents of the Christian faith, The number of Jews in Jerusalem has lately increased greatly. Twenty vears ago there werecomparatively few, Now out of 44,000 people about 20,000 are Jews, As the result of his last five years’ work in China Dr. Nevins counts 100 villages which have become centers of Christian work, and in these are thirty urches. The Gospel of Bt. Luke has heen translated into Patagonian by the Rev. Theodore Bridges, who labored among the natives of that country for twenty- five years, i Al the recent rite of canonization in Rome the silver {rumpets which nsed to sound from the dome of Bt. Peter's as the pope elevated the host, were used for the first time since 1870. The Chureh of the First Identity, in Brooklyn, is Cou stiopal in order and doetrire, and differs only from other churches in that denomination in identifying the Anglo-Baxon race with the house of Israel. The purpose of the identifiers is to discover the lost tribes. Dr. Wild seems to be the founder of the movement, o WG Ow RACK The Sea Gall, Birds of the gull family frequent the shores of the ocean, but often wander to great distarces from the land; in fact, a traveler making his first vovage across the ocean is astonished to find members of the gull species following in the ship's wake a thousand or more miles from land, Gulls are incapable of diving, bat swim buvovantly but slowly. Their food consists principally of fish and erustacea. They also prey on young birds snd carrion ; indeed, on almost any kind of food except that of a vegetable nature. characteristics, among which may be mentioned the curvature at the end of the Lill, the length and pointed form of the wings, the web between the tees and the hind toe small and elevated. The black-backed gull may be dis tinguished by the dark slate color of ita back and wings, its deep black pri- | tary feathers tipped with white and its pale yellow legs and feet, Theaverage length of body is about thirty inches; wing twenty inches, with a breadth of with bill nearly three inches. The black-backed gull is of frequent occurrence on our New England coast in the autumn and winter months, and | in winter travels as far South as Flor- ida. i i i ! Bay of Fandy., Audubon describes its i breeding habits as follows: fissure. In Labrador it is formed of moss and seaweeds, carefully arranged, aud has & diameter of about two feet, being raised on the edges to the height of five or six inches, but seldom more than two inches thick in the cen WISE WORDS, Ea Men should be tried before they are The society of women is the element We may be as gocd as we please, if | we please to be good. Affection fides three limes as many virtnes as charity does sins. No one is so blind to his own faults the faults of ethers, The man who is not living aright is sour within; and the sour works cut. | He who lives aright is your sympathetic | and generous man, out » fault, for he The world iteslf shall not # In 1885, 1800, for there is no rhyme to let it Sle. But certainly fo sn end Vili van, In 1891, HUMOR OF THE DAY, | Lightning never strikes twice in | place. It isn't necessary. | Always ready to take a band in and dumb people. | versation— : to lose have and no men wishes | bald head. : There's only a have's difference be y a rabbit and those | & mule,— Rome Sentinel. i belong to a different species. whizh is lessened by the least flaw. Iu those countries where the morals | heart, It hus been well said that no man ever sauk under the burden of the day. to the burden of to-day that the weight | is more than a man ean bear. | too in tavern jnauy opesings 18 . I will be advisable for Suck ts hive | in white since a farmer has dis. | covered that the white grub eats off the roots just below the erown. Ce Fogg the | any fears of “When I was an infant, "said me, away from envy and proaches, and contentment and virtae scatter flowers along his path, Pennsylvania avenue in Washington, How Sponges Are Adnlterated, public demands cheap sponges; the re- | tail dealers know that every sponge | | they sell contains thirty to sixty per cent, | of foreign malter; and they sell them | at a price corresponding with the | amount of the adnlteration. So no one is defrauded, and why seek to discover the secreis of our trade ¥” These remarks were made recently by | a New York importer of sponges in an. swer to a reporter's guestion why they | was so much sand in his sponges. There | are only half a dozen large sponge importing houses in New York, and, dissatisfied with the answer to his in- | quiry, the reporter visited all the other houses. Being neither an article of food nor a drug the sponge does not! strictly come under thespecifications of | the adulteration act passed by the legis. | lature of the State at its last scssion. | The - substances used in *““loading" | sponges are sand, lime, marble dust and | s chemically prepared substance, of | which the ingredients ave kept secret. The reasons for this habit as given by | one importer are as follows: *“ It is an | old custom derived from the Greeks | The Mediterranean sponges have always | been received here filled with very fine | sand, and the fishers of sheep's wool sponges in Florida have followed the same practice. Certainly the purchaser is deceived, but it is his own faunit. He demands a first-ciass sponge, and is only | willing to pay what a second-class | sponge is wort, We of course satisfy | him by se'ling Lim the goods he requires | at a price equal to what he would have | paid for a sponge of an inferior quality, Bat Le forgets that he has purchased his goods by weight and has paid a price for common sand far above what be could get it for of a regular dealer in sand To slinstrate, I have a sponge here worth $2 50 a pound. A customer, a retail dealer, says be likes the sponge, bat it is too expensive, What shall I do? Lose the sale? Notat all. I show him azother box containing exat ty the same 1 i 81.75 a pound. He thinks he has made | & bargain and is satisfied. Tee truthis | he bas purchased fifty per cent. of! sponge and the same amount of sand, | his sponge really costing him $3050 a | pound, Who is to blame ? “Does not the sand or lime hurt the | i “ No, not mach, for it mostly comes | e a little, but that Is at the risk of the | purchaser, who aims at getting his | sponges at a reduced price, You have | very white. This is due to the fact that | Lime is equally deceptive in regard to | or especially in dressing other materials are added. The eggs ome three, and in no instance have I found wore. They are two and seven. eighth inches in length by two and one- eighth inches in breadth, broadly ovate, rough but not granulated, of a pale, earthy, greenish-gray color, irregularly blotched and spotted with brownish. black, dark umber and dull purple. The sea gull flies high and bas a ing the flercest gales with impunity; it is tyrannical toward weaker birds, but it is naturally very eowardl>. Its eggs are considered good eating and the vonng galls are killed and salted by the fishermen of Labrador and New- foundiand; but the old ones are very tough and too fishy in taste for food. — American Cmltivator. Bound to Have Her, About a year ago L. W. Morley, the owner of a large ranch in Qalifornia, saw in the album of a friend a picture that made his heart beat ‘* Hail Colum- bia” and several other tunes, the photograph was an unjust counter feit, lived in Bouth Dorchester, Canada, and that she was im poor cirenmstances, Mr, Morley wrote to Miss Rolph ex- plaining how he had been smitten by her charms from afar and asking her hand in marriage. great care is taken to have all the lime | shaken out. In this latter useit ia pos- | gible that the adulteration might come | drugs.” C—O adulteration of A Shipwrecked Crew's *ufferings. As Captain Sennders was about thirty | miles northeast of Rockport, Mass. with his schooner, fishing, he discov ered an open boat filled with men. | The latter were frozen purple and hardly able to speak, and thei lips and | faces were smeared with blocd. They | were lifted aboard the schooner, and | the story of their sufferings was told in | broken fragments. | The coasting schooner Aimon Bird, of Rocklsud, Me., Captain C. A. Pack: ard, was bound from Windsor, N. 8, | for Alexandria, Va.,, with a cargo of | plaster. On a Sunday night, when off | Boone Island, the gale tore off her top- | | mast, and the rigging became so thick- } .l i useless. On Monday morning the high | seas stove in her bulwarke, ripped up : { i { | There was little time to get food or | extra clothing, and by a strange mis- | | well enough to take her for a wife, {ally had bad endings, and that his | proposition carried with it prima facie | evidence of lack of balance on his part, | 1f Morley had been charmed by the | photograph he was delighted with | Miss Rolph's sense. Such logic and Latin in a love affair he had never so i | much as read about. He brought to | visited her at South Dorchester, and a | week ago took her to the Golden Gate | as Mrs. Morley and the mistress of the | Morley ranch. | Ambitious Youth: What is a good | preparation for becoming a poet? | Crawling through a threshing machine, but we give it as a ' sacred duty to humanity.— Boston Post. | The schooner sank, and the boat was | left oarless with its living freight in a | | violent gale and heavy sea. Thus they | | drifted about drenched with the icy | | spray of the waves, crowded together | for protection from the bitter cold, and | almost hopeless of resene, On Tues- | day their stock of food was nearly | gone, and they were beceming frozen. | crouched down for another night. Oa Wednesday they suffered terribly from hunger and cold. Two of the men be- came crazed and threw themselves about the boat in their delirium. To- ward night one of the men went to sleep in the bottom of the beat and died before morning. The two deliri- ous men also died. There were now three dead and five living men in the boat. The living, suffering the pangs of hunger, and hopeless of relief, held a consultation, the result of which was that they opened the veins in the neck of .one of their dead comrades, and wet their lips and throat with the still warm blood. On Thursday morning they were rescued by Captain Saunders, “You Bet” is the name of a postoffce in Montana, “ Hero is » sketch,” said the post Unto the editor A “Which 1 me off in sn idle hour, To pass the time away.” a ar a WAY, * With which 1 frequently toss me off Six pote in a dry Wives really ful about the truth to their hns- bands. “Why do you ever I come into the brusque man of his better half. **Itis only only my nerves, my she “which are so ve that I am startled by every thing I see.” ————————————————————— Why it is Called a “Jackknife,” as a ‘jock-te-leg,’ which barbarism either more por less than the term ** old Scotch for Nicholas. ih. How It Feels to be Hanged. Several gentlemen were speaking capital punishment at Little Rook, Ark., when Mr. J. L. McNeely, one in the most farmers in Polaski county, a “‘Gentlemen, so far as the punishm ing does not amount to an hung once pntil I was the feeling could 2» he oking. hen the waz, rbbers came to my search of money. As a precaution against such visitors I had given two watches and $600 in d to a trusts crippl room, and, without saying anything, put a rope around my neck and to pull. I told them if they were to me {o wait until 1 my crutch, so that I could walk to hanging place. They took me out o the gallery, and thro the rope a cross beam, asked me money. told them I had none. They drew me p. For a moment I experienced & slight choking sensation and then I be- came insensible. When 1 became conscious, after being taken down, I was sitting on the steps. The sensa- tions while regaining consciousness were very much like those experienced dering a nightmare.” In giving his name as one of the presidents of the Church of Faneral and Mourning Reform associs- tion, the Archbishop of Can romote the success of the movement, The society aims at cheapening, simpli- fying and Christianizing funeral cere- monisl to the discouragement of feast- ing and treating, and the entire disuse of crape, scarfs, plumes and mourning coaches, a Smith Wright, of Willsten, Vermont, annnally fattens 3,000 to 4 000 yr! 2,000 to 3,000 geese, and 1,500 to 2 300 ducks. He cullivates a farm > 500 acres, and manages a dairy of forty cows. One lot of his poultry last year brought him $16,800. is Butte county, California—a rich of the county. Heretofore it has supposed that the quartz ledges of forpia contained no silver. The Polar regions are ree extending over 2,411,875 square m the only inhabitants I Iceland and 10,000 in G A boy ; years old and weighs less pounds. an —- kansas
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