Unwritten Poems,
There are poams unwritten and songs unsung
Bweeter than any that was ever heard;
Poems (hat will wait for angel tongue,
Songs that long for &' paradise bird;
Poems that rippled through lowliest lives,
Poems unnoted, and hidden away
Down in souls, where the beautiful thrives
Sweetly as flowers in the airs of May;
Poems that only the angels above us,
Looking down deep in our hearts may behold
Written on lives all in letters of gold.”
IMan’s Mortality,
Like a damask rose you seo,
Or like a blossom on a treo,
Or like the dainty flower in May,
Or lke the morning to the day,
Or like the sun, or like the shade;
Or like the gourd, which Jonah made;
Even such is man, whose thread is spun,
Drawn out and out, and so is done,
The rose withers, the blossom blasteth®
The flower frdes, the morning hasteth,
The sun sty, ‘he shadow fies,
The gourd consumes, the man--he dies.
Like th grass that's newly sprang,
Or like the tale that's new begun,
Or like the bind that's here to-day,
Or like the pearled dew in May,
Or like an hour, or like a span,
Or like the singing of the swan;
Even such is mat, who lives by breath,
Is here, now there, in lite and death,
The grass withers, the tale is ended,
The bird is flown, the dew’s ascended,
The hour is short, the span not long,
The swan’s near death, man’s life is done
Like to the bubble in the brook,
Or in a glass much like a look,
Or like the shuttle in weaver's hand,
Or like the writing on the sand,
Or like a thought, or like a dream,
Or hike the gliding of the stream;
Even such is man, who lives by breath,
1s here, now there, in life and death.
The bubble's cut, the look forgot,
The shuttle's flung, the writings blot,
The thought is past, the dream is gone,
The waters glide, man’s life is done
Like an arrow from a bow,
Or like a swift course of water flow,
Or like the time *twixt flood and ebb,
Or like the spider's tender web,
Or like a race, or like a goal,
Or lize the dealing of a dole;
Foren such is man, whose brittle state
Is always subject unto fate.
The arrow shot, the flood soon spent,
The time po time, the web soon rent,
The race soon run, the goal soon won,
The dole soon dealt, man's life soon done
Like to the lightning from the sky,
Or like a post that quick doth hie,
Or like a quaver in a s0ng,
Or like a journey three days’ long,
Or ike snow when summer's come,
Or like a pear, or like a plum;
Even such is man, who heaps up sorrow,
Lives but this day, and dies to-morrow.
The lightuing’s past, the post must go,
The song is short, the journey so,
The pear doth rot, the plum doth fall,
The snow dissolves, and so must all.
seripl.
a letter from Uncle Jeff! He's really
last.
made be has invested--ves, that's
word--invested in some-—someth
I doen't know what, but it will nearly
double Lis fortune!’
“Nearly double it! Oh, Nellis,”
cried Kate, dropping her aunt's dress
she was mending, “only think.
gre Lis only relations I"
“ T\ hat a selfish little thing you are,
Kate I” remarked Ellen Grashaw, throw-
ing herself cn a conch by her cousin in
her mother's boudoir, which she had
rather impetuonsly entered with her
good news.
d-
8 in
when one is poor 7 laughed Kate Wake-
fleld. * It is all very well for yon,
whose father is alive and well-to-do;
but Jack and I have only curselves to
look to. I have to turn and turn my
dresses un'il I'm quite ashamed.
there, but I'm not foolish enough to
Ab, me, Nellie! I do—do so wish was
viel !’ and ‘+ heelasped her hands on her
knee, and fixed her large gray eyes on
vacancy, as if she were filling the latter
she was.
coz!” said Ellen. “ You don't think at
ail about dear Uncle Teil himself-—only
Lis money I”
* Each of ns thinks of what most con-
cerns us or what we most want!”
torted Kate, ‘He may help poor Jack,
«ho only gets ninety pounds a year.
repeat yom are rich, or your father is.”
“He ...ot, Kate, You know it's as
much 8s mamma can do to keep us up
to our position in society.
be different pow, for dear Uncle
Jeff says, as he has no relations save
ourselves, he hopes we can manage to
let him Jive with us. He can see abont
our reuting a larger house on his arri-
val. Mamma is delighted, and she
says he will be sure to keep hiscarriage;
while, if we try to be amiable, he may
keep horses for us to ride. Only
imagine! will it not be grand? How
the people will wonder and envy.”
* What » lot of suitors you'll have,
Nellie! Who knows but that Sir Hugh
Stafford when he comes—as they say
he will next month—to reside for the
winter at Beechholm may not be one of
them!”
A bright flush rose to the consin's
cheek, though she exclaimed, ** What
nonsense, Kate!” for the fact was Ellen
Gaashaw was very pretty, and such a
union had not only entered her head,
but slso her mother's---one of those
worldly minded women who render
their lives wretched by a constant fight
to keep their heads higher than their
neighbor¥, and to make five hnndred a
year pass for a thousand, Mrs, Gra-
shaw, indeed, was already secretly busy
in devising means for new dresses 10
make Ellen look her best, and to give
one or two parties, ostensibly in the
baronet’s honor—really to * throw the
young people together.”
‘“ Papa,” proceeded Nellie, * used to
call Uncle Jeff the * fool of the family’
~ a mad speculator. I only wish in that
case papa had changed places with
him.”
“When will he be here, Nell? Does
he say?”
“ He starts the second mail after his
letter, therefore he will be here in a
fortnight. There's mamma calling!”
she added; springing up.
~ Mr. Grashaw was a tolerably well-to-
do merchant, who would have had a
bates beans at his banker's had not his
inclinations in regard to appearances
tended in the same die as his
wife's, Horace had to make a position
in the world and Nell to be settled.
The two other members of the family
were Kate and her brother Jack (em-
ployed in a bank). When they had been
leit orphans Mrs, Grashaw had con-
sented to receive them into the family,
as their keep would be a mere nothing,
considering one must have good din
ners because of the servants’ taitling;
while what Kate could pay out of her
small income of sixty pounds a year
(besides {making herself useful) aad
Jack out of his salary would go into her
own private purse and afford many
toilet luxuries. Besides she knew, as
Nell did too, that society, who was ig-
norant of any payment being made,
poor relations,
VOLUME XV,
Hditor
CENTRE
('ENTRE
HALL, CENTRE CO., PA.,
FEBRUARY
1882,
»*
at
3,
NUMBER 8.
| bad be¢n always going to make a for
tune, and who had at last in Australia
{ done so, He had gone there when Nell
[and Kate were children, so all they
| knew of him was that he was very kind
and was ever sending pleasant letters
{and handsome presents to his little
{nieces and nephews. When Nell
danced in ber joy from the room, Kate,
al work on her aunt's dress, thought of
| these presents, ad it is to be feared
i mentally commented on Uncle Jeff's
coming home in u very mercenary
{ fashion.
| %“Rupposing, as Jeok and 1 are or
{ phans, he were to adopt us¥ she pon
{ ders, ** At any rate, if he be so rich
{ he will hardly let his sister's children
remain 80 poor. If he does not
| something for Jack, I-11 shall
him I"
| Uncle Jeff! Before two days were
over everybody in Monkbonrne know
about him, of his immense wealth, and
{ how he was to live with the Grashaws,
! who were his only relations. Mr Gra
| shaw dropped into the estate agent's to
inquire easually what mansions or small
| 0 tates ware to let in the neighborhood
| Horace talked of Uncle Jeff at his lub
{ until the members were sick of Uncle
{Jeff. Mrs. Grashaw and the girls
| made visits and received them on pur-
| pose to let Monkbourne society know
all about him.
“ The train will be the 1:30, no donbt
{ that he'll arrive by,” remarked Mr,
| Grashaw on the day of Uncle Jeffs
| coming, as he contemplated the recher-
| che luncheon prepared. “I hope, my
{ love, there is nothing to make a hitch
| in his welcome ?”
{ it wasa moment of great excitement.
| Nellie flitted everywhere; Horace
| lounged about, assuming indifference;
| Kate sat at the drawing room window,
| regretting her bright, bonnie Jack, who
| was so worked he could not get a holi.
{ day. Suddenly, as a cab stopped at
the door, she sprang up and ran with
| the rest.
“He has come ! Uncle Jeff bas come!”
she exclaimed.
“ Gracious ! he must have
got up at dawn!” ejacnlated Mrs
| Grashaw. ** Where are Nell and Hor-
| ace?’
A fluttering bavy they proceeded into
' the hall to receive the lucky speculator,
{ The page had alieady thrown wide the
| door, and coming up the step they saw
ia tall, thin, gray-haired man, with
| stooped shoulders and a sad, careworn
| visage.
do
hate
Why
w #
* Welcome to England) Welcome
home, Jeff!” cried the merchant,
| wringing his hand, * Dear me, how
{ delighted I am! I congratul.te you,
{ brother!”
The welcomes and congratulations
x
LY
can't tell how merry we three people
will ba together ™
“1 don't doubt thal in my case, my
love,” answered Uncle Jeff, looking
into her bright face and grasping Jack's
hand,
“Then it's agread, uncle?
Jaok,
“ Heaven bless you, children, bow
can I say no?”
So it was settled. The Grashaws were
at first indignant, but later rejoloed in
the ground it gave them to break with
their poor relations, especially with
those ungrateful Wakefields
But there they were wrong. Grati
tude had been the cause, All the real
gifts and benefits Jack and Kate had
received from sny one had been from
Unelo Jeff, who bad never asked or
wanted a return.
in a fortnight the cottage Jack had
had his eve on received its tenants. It
was very small, but very pretty. From
morning to night Kate flitted about it,
seeing to this, then that, inventing
nice little surprises—into which Uncle
Joff heartily entered for “dear old
Jack's dinnertea” or high tea,” as
she laughingly termed it. Sha no
longer thought of turning her dresses
s0 often nor “sticking a new bow here
and a new bow there ;” but in her dark
stuf’ dresses she looked happier, hand.
somer, then she ever had at the
shaws',
“ It's quite like setting up
keeping for one's sell!" she
merrily
The cottage was situate at the other
side of the town to that wherein was
Grashaws’ house, so Kate rarely
met them: but she heard of them and
their doings from one or two of those
mutnal friends who, admiring the part
the brother and sister had played, Kept
up their acquaintance, From one of
these she learned how Bir Hugh Staf
ford had arrived at Beechholm from his
world-wonderings, and had been feted
accordingly by all elite of Monk-
bourne, the Grashaws among the num-
ber.
* There will be rare pulling caps for
the baronet among the mothers with
marriageable daughters |” laughed the
old lady, Kate's informant; ** aud entre
nous, my dear, your sunt, Mrs. Gra-
shaw, will not be behindhand.”
Kate, seated in the little parlor at
work, found subjects for long trains of
thought ont of this. She wondered if
Nellie wonld win the baronet ? She was
pretty enongh. Then would not aunt
hold her head high!
Her cogitations were arrested by the
sound of voices. Looking from the
window she saw that Unele Jeff had
halted at the gate, apparently to take
remarked
{ ira.
house
laughed
the
the
were echoed all around. They clustered
| about him like bees round honey. Hor
{ ace took his hat, Kate his walking-stick.
“Ah, George!” exclaimed Uncle Jeff,
{in a feeble voice, as he slightly waved
his bands, “let me sit down some.
where, please. I have much to tell
yeu!”
They had all got into the dining- |
iroom now. ° The softest chair was
| pushed forward hy Horace; Kate gave a
{ shake to the cashions; Ellen brought a
| foot stocl. Uncle Jeff dropped down
leave of a friend—a gentieman of
handsome,
“Uncle back and no tea!’ she ex- |
claimed, springing up. “Time flies
when one is thinking! Why, uncle is
bringing his friend in! If it's to tea,
Then the door opened, and Uncle
Jeff entered with the stranger, who Kate
saw had exceedingly fine brown eyes
“My darling,” said Uncle Jefl, “I
have met an old friend. Pardon me if
wearily.
{ “Oh, George!” he exclaimed, almost
| piteously, *‘ how can I ever tell yon—
how a hundred times 1 have wished |
that I had never written yon that let-
ter— much has happened since. Iam"
{| — the gray head dropped ou the with-
{ ered bands —** ruined!”
Had the listeners suddenly been con-
”"
* Benefactors, Uncle Jeff! Oh, pray,
gir, do not believe that,” smiled Kate,
blushing. ‘Ours is rather a mutual aid
society.”
“1 think I should like to join it,"
i fronted by the face of Medusa they
| could not have been more aghast — more
i silent. They were h.rrified—paralyzed. |
{ The first thought of Mr. Grashaw, in-
| grossly taken in,
| “What do you mean, Jeff?” demanded |
| the merchant,
“That the speculation in which I
| foolishly invested my all, George, was |
{ but a bubble. It burst a week before
| I started for home. It has ruined hun-
| dreds.”
* Home! I wonder if he thinks this |
iis his home?” reflected the merchant.
| * Circumstances alter cases.”
{ * Whatever will Monkbourne say?” |
| thought the wife. ‘We shall be a per-
To have a pauper
{ instead of a millionaire nn our hands!”
Horace and Nell looked at each other |
Iplessly
| Kate felt inclined to cry. Then she |
| filled a glass with water and handed it
i to Uncle Jeff.
i "How very officious that girl is!”
thought her aunt.
*“1 always said youn wera the idiot of
the family, Jeff,” remarked the mer.
{ chant, huffishly. “There, we may, I
| suppose, have luncheon; then you can
tell us about it.”
“Well?” inquired Jack Wakefield, |
{ eagerly, on Kate waylaying him as he !
| was creeping upstairs to change his
coat after returning from the office,
* has he come?”
“Yes, Jack, and, oh! it’s so terrible !
He isn't rich at all—he is a beggar. The
speculation was—was a bubble, he says,
and he Jigs been ruined.”
“Poor old Uncle Jeff 1” exclaimed
Jack, sympathetically.
“You dear—dear, darling boy!"
cried Kate, throwing her arms about
his neck; ** that's the first kind word
any one hus said for him here. Oh!
Jack--Jack, I fear Aunt and Uncle
Grashaw will make a great difference
to him”
“Why, he wouldn't have lost his
money if he could have helped it. |
Where is he ¥”’ {
And Jack, no longer thinking of his |
office coat, walked into the d.awing- |
room and warmly greeting the old man,
remarked, heartily:
* Welcome home, Uncle Jeff! Kute
has told me all. I'm so sorry, pon my
word 1 am; but never mind; better
luck next time.”
““ Heaven bless yon, my dear boy —
thank you,” rejoined Uncle Jeff, grate-
fully; for already he was awakening to
his position, And such a pleased, radi-
ant expression came over his features,
that, like a flash, an idea sprung np in
Mrs. Grashaw's head that Uncle Jeff
was pretending poverty to test their
affectic n,
But her husband soon negatived that,
There was no pretense; but hard, bona
fide, implacable ruin.
Monkbourne did laugh and sneer.
That might have been some excuse for
the Grashaws; but before a fortnight
wa: over Uncle Jeff found himself so
much in the way that, hurt, pained, he
announced his intention of leaving, and
no one asked him to remain.
That evening, however, Jack came
into his room on the third floor with
Kate, and the two made a proposition.
To let Uncle Jeff in his gret trouble go
and live alone was more than terrible to
these silly young people; it was im-
possible, Would Uncle Jeff like them
to put all their tiny incomes together
and take a little cottage just outside
the town und live in it? Kate would
be the most economical of housekeepers,
Uncle Jeff sat aghast,
“ And you would do this for me, my
children ?” he exclaimed. “You wonld
give up your fine life and the fine guests
here at George's to—to—"
““Be quite as happy elsewhere,”
said Kate, kissing him. “You mustn’t
| he
smiled the stranger, and those brown
dwelt very admiringly on the
“May 1?"
“1 fear it is impossible,” she re
“It's limited in number as in!
' Then she looked at Uncle
“I beg your pardon, Kate, but I for
My dear, this is
would now long have
another,” said the
“but for your uncle,
who, while] was in
Australia years ago, saved my life, at
“Whose place
filled by
“I never knew then,” laughed Uncle
Jeff, *that the young red garibaldi-
“ Neither did I for certain ; but next
* You'll stay, Sir Hugh, to tea?"
Kate had been overwhelmed upon
hearing who was Unele Jeff's friend.
Now sho felt ready to sink on the floor |
at the invitation given, especially when
the baronet aecepted it,
““ That is,” he added, turning to her, |
“if Miss Wakefield will not find me de
irop, but will accept me as an honorary
member of your society ?”
What was that in his voice, his man. |
ner, that put Kate at once at her ease
and made her quite sincere in saying
she should be delighted ? Whatever it
was she never felt less nervous in pre.
paring the evening meal, and never did
it gooff better. The conversation never |
flagged, and the baronet seemed as if
he had known them for years. Then
Jack came in, and the hours slipped
away, until nearly 10 o'clock, when Sir
Hugh took his leave, asking Jack to |
walk part of the way with him to smoke |
a cigar,
When Jack returned he was radiant. |
Sir Hugh had found out how he had |
been studying, and how he had passed
some examinations with eclat, and had
promised to procure him a place under
government,
“Oh, dear,” thought Kat:, smiling,
as she retired to rest. * What would
Anant Grashaw say?”
What would she, and what did she,
and what did all Monkbourne say, when |
it was known how constant a guest Sir
Hugh was at the cottage? Of course it
was as a patron. The baronet was gene-
rous and pitied Jeff—wanted to make |
him u return for that Australian affair. |
But Kate, thongh she culled herself |
silly, foolish, vain, could not help fan. |
eying that there was another reason for
Sir Hugh's coming ; and she was right.
One evening, when the barovet had had
them to dine at Beechholm, and she had
stepped on to the terrace, waiting for |
the gentlemen to come from the dining- |
room, he joined her alone. He was a |
man that dinner-dress became. Kate
thought particularly so this evening.
“Admiring the view, Miss Wakefield?”
he asked.
“Yes; it is worthy admiration!” she
smiled. *““Itis beautiful! How proud |
you must be to say, ‘I'm monarch of |
all Isnrvey!”
Abruptly he had drawn nearer, her
hand was imprisoned in his ; his brown
eyes were looking, it seemed, into her
very soul, as he said :
** Miss Wakefield—Kate—T have come
to you here to ask if you will share that
pride? Tf you, whom I so honor—yon,
the only woman I ever loved or can
love—will be my wife ?”
Then she learned how his fancy had
been won for the brother and sister on
learning Uncle Jeff's story of his return
home ; how he had been curious to see
them, and how he had loved Kate from
the very evening that he did.
“You will not refuse me, dear!” he
whispered, in conclusion.
Bbe lifted her eyes to his, and as he
drew her to his heart Kate, trem-
:
i
refuse, uncle; I will not hearof it! Youn
It was a great surprise and disap
pointment to most at Monkbourne, par
ticularly to Mrs, Grashaw, who, how
ever, was condescending envugh to for
give Kate, and let Nollie act as ohief | .
bridemaid. : i Phtiadelnhin. a il %: .
Years have passed ; children's happy | prookivn New York.
voices make musical the mir of Beech | go, Lilinois ,.,
holm, and rise up to Unele Jefl's cars, | Massachusetts
often summoning him to the window, | U5
He is still * poor, ruined Uncle Jeff ;” |
but he doesn’t feel so, for he declares
that Sir Hugh and Lady Stafford's
behavior toward him makes him ex
perience a sensation as if he were rather
conferring a favor than receiving one,
THE CITIES OF THE UNION,
List of the One Hundred Largest Cliles |
According to Population,
(lies 1880
« 1,306, 26% |
843.170
508. 185 |
863,859 |
N
Cleveland, (
Pittsburg, | 8 y
Buffalo, N« York . “han
| Washington, District of Columbia, ,
N¢ Ne Jersey, .
Lowwsville, Keoatucky
t Jersey City, New Jorsoy
" ; Detroit, Michigan .hs
In Hindoostan snake-charming i8 a | wiiwaukess Wisconsin
branch of a business that includes horse: | providence Rhode Island
breaking, rat catching, monkey train. | Albany, New York
ing and other occupations that must | Bochester, New York
give their adepts a peculiar insight into All Gheny, 3 1
the faculties and foibles of animal 18 | Bihmond Vie
tare. A tame snakeisonly a sideshow | New Haven, (x ah
of the Guruwalla, or traveling vermin. | Lowell, Massachusetts... ...
destroyer; or, so to say, a living diploma | ares op Fy gauge
of his mastership., He us. s a trained Katine ty, Miss i he
cobra as a business advertsement. | Cambridge, Massachusetts
Jugglers with dancing snakes are | Syracuse, New York
on every Bengal market place, but the | us, Uhio
grand masters of their craft exhibit
very different tricks. Lord Dalhousie’s |
guruwalla-en-chef nsed to call rats from
their holes in broad daylight, and had
a water snake that followed him like a
dog and could not be driven out of the
room as long as its master was present
He had ev idently established some hold i
on the affections of his strange pet, for |
he never failed to bring her back by a
single whistle after flinging her into
the middle of a pond where she could |
easily have escaped if her subjection | Atlanta,
had been an involuntary servitade. | H'oRYer
His favorite trick was to gel a lot of |
common black treesnakes (Chluber
dryas) and by a mere word make them
engage in mortal combat -snakes |
which but a minute before had lain
coiled together in a sluggish repose
from which no other human voice could
rouse them even for a moment. By a
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spire them with a panic that sent them | JH
darting out of the room, and ont of the
house if the doors were open; nor did
he trouble himself ou such occasions |?
to resapture them, for, alter a few hoars
munipulation, a batch of fresh eanght | pcm
iy New Jorsey
would serve his purpose as
sunkes nuns vivania
well.
The professional jugglers prefer the |
cobra only as the least expensive of all
sensational animals, for crocodiles and
pythons are equally tamable, The |
wardens of the sacred erccodile ponds
near Bepares keep their pets under
perfect control, and, as Captain God- |
win Buchanan assares us, through in- |
fluences which hunger is only a minor |
item. His opinions seem confirmed by
the statement of a famous Spanish
beast tamer, proprietor of a cockpit |
and pulque shop in Tampico, Mexico. |
The efflnent canal of Tampico Laguna |
is well stocked with alligators, whose |
services to the health police have made | 1,0
them a sort of public proteges. They |
live upon the offal of the slaughter |
houses and they are so well fed that!
they can afford to spare their two legged | :
fellow-citizens: they mind their own | Blmira
business and give bathers a wide berth. | Newport, Kentucl
But the cockpit landlord has a negro- | Foughkes
of-all-work who for a couple of coppers
will convoke the cavmans as a farmer
would summon his pigs-—nay,
without any andible signal, by merely
iin
arn, New York
ivoke Massachasetls
Augusta, Georgia
Au
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priagfield, Illinois. . .... ‘ « 1873
A census bulletin gives the popula
often | tion of the 100 principal! cities of the
{ United States in 1870 and 1880, which
going to the water's edge and |isas very interesting exhibit, The total
standing with uplifted hands till | increase in population in the decade |
the alligators throng around him in | Was, in round numbers, 12,000,000, snd |
He declines to divalge his of this 2,306,228 was in the 100 cities |
modus operandi but his employer is | specified. The total population in 1880 {
positive that he never feeds or touches | Was 50,100,000; of this 9,008,154 was in |
| the 100 principal cities. Thus we have
i almost twenty per cent. of the entire
| population in cities having 20,000 in
| habitants and upward. When it is con
The spring season is the most favor- | sidered that the wealth of a nation rests
able time for viewing Florida scenery. [upon its mineral and agricultural |
The magnolia then wears its regal | products chiefly, the census figures,
crown of creamy white—the queen of | showing the distribution of population,
flowering trees, The dogwood mingles | are startling, A large proportion of |
its snow-flake blossoms with the glisten. | the eity population is engaged in wa. |
ing green of bay-tree leaves. The holly, | rious industries, but the whole is de
with its clusters of varied hue, is the | pendent for support upon the labors of |
rival of the oleander, which exhibits all the tillers of the soil, and it is probably |
shades from deep oarmine to pearl | within bounds to say that not over
The myrtle droops its ringlets of pur- | thirty-three per cent.of the populatign of
ple here and there on the hillside and | the country are engaged in agrienltnral
by the stream, while towering over all | pursuits, Yet the latter constitute the
is the majestic pam, wearing its tuft | life of the nation. Strike them oul
and the nation wonld die; but strike
{ ont those who have crowded into the
cities, and the nation would still live.
iy
his pets.— Lippincoil,
Beauties of a Florida Forest,
on his head. Looking to the earth, its
surface is seen covered with plants and |
shrubs, whieh, in their radiant fresh. | Yet, in the face of these facts, the ten
ness, reflect all colors in a most deligut- | dency is to cities and from the country. |
ful confusion and fill the air with fra. | This is particularly true of young men,
grance., Spanish moss-—the prevalent | The disposition is to get away from
parasite of all the Gulf conntry —hangs | farm life, and this aecounts for the
pendent from the trees, or, imitating | greater proportionate increase of the
creeping ivies or grasping vines, fastens | population of cities as compared with |
itself in graceful festoons, swaying its | that of the country. As i! is, there are |
somber gray in funereal aspect amid | too many people in the cities and a de-
the variegated flowers and the verdant | ficiency of muscle in the conn ry.
raiment of the trees, | Itisalso to be remarked that nine-
This semi-tropical forest is the home | tenths of the poverty and crime of the
nation are in the cities, and it was npon
this phase, no doubt, the remark was
fonnded that God made the country and |
man the city.
If it were possible to change the enr
rent, and within the decade show a
song. The mocking-bird sings to its |
mate throughout the entire night, and |
scarcely rests by day. The red-bird is
almost as incessant in his carols, and |
ranks high as a musician. The cat-bird |
attempts to rival the mocking-bird as | greater proportionate increase in the
an imitator., There are many other | country than in the city, society would
warblers deserving mention, and the | be better, and the whols country would |
paroquet should be specially named as | be better. There is a field in this di.
one of the native birds wearing gay | rection for educational work that is
colors. But, beantiful in their feathers | broad and inviting. |
asare the birds on the trees, those in| The composition, too, of this city |
the water surpass them in the richness | population is worthy of analysis. Take, |
of their attire. The heron family—red, | for example, a few of the largest cities,
white and blue—and the gorgeous | and we have these exhibits :
curlew display costumes that give them
i
Male. Female. Native, Fy
a high valne in the markets, and these |
|
i
478.670
264.335
177,684
204,859 |
114,796
71,659 |
105,013
”'n
New York..... 000.514 615,785 727,629
wading birds are much hunted in the | Philadelphia.. 405,975 444,195 642,835
winter months for their long plumes. | Brookiyn,..... 272,248 204,415 384,569
i | Chicago LL 256.905 246,280 208 326
At this season they are very wild, but | Bev nse T0asR 100.571 M8 043
in the spring they are quite tame and | oipeinnati. “429 120.647 183,480
easy of approach. There are also hun- | st, 179,520 170,998 245,505
ters of other birds, but as the market It is thus seen that foreigners settle
for them is mostly at Jacksonville, — largely in the cities, mora than one- |
the headquarters of tourists from the | third of the whole being natives of
North—the forests of West Florida are | foreign lands, while in Chicago there |
seldom disturbed, except for the heron | gee 204,000 foreigners to 208,000 na- |
and curlew, whose feathers find a sale | tives. In all the cities named, except
among commercial travelers in any of | jy Chicago and Bt. Louis, there are!
the small towns, Lippincoil, moro females than males, The pre
ponderance of females over males in
the Eastern cities is quite marked. |
The Southern cities make a showing |
that has some features of interest, as |
contrasted with the North :
Male, Female. Native, For'n. |
Now Orleans, ...100,802 115,108 174.933 41,157 |
Richmond, Va,. 20483 84,117 60,260 3,540 |
Charleston, 8. CO. 22.585 27.300 46.084 8,950 |
Nashville,,..... 20,912 22.488 40,825 3,020 |
Atlanta. ..0.. v0 17,677 19,782 85,993 1,416 |
Savannah 13.936 16.778 27,716 2.9%
Mobile....... . 18,180 15943 26,105 2,987 |
Thus far it is seen foreigners have
not sought Southern cities, but it mut
be borne in mind that near half the
population of the places named are
colored. Here are the figures :
White,
158,867
85,765
coon 22,009
27,008
21,079
BAavannab..... ie ernneeeee 15,041 15,094
Mobile.,....e. +s Nenatunna . 16,885 12,240
— Qincinnati Gazette,
Hooks and Eyes for Russian Soldiers.
By an imperial order just issued con-
siderable changes are to be introduced
into the uniform of the Russian army.
Buttons aria. to be rigidly suppressed,
and their places supplied by hooks and
eyes, and two breast pockets are to be
worn in all cases for holding the re
serve cartridges on oceasions when the
troops are compelled, in going into ac-
tion, to leave their knapsacks behind.
Lhe officers’ uniforms are to be of sim-
ilar make, with the difference that they
are to be adjusted to the figure of the
waist and that buttons be allowed for
attacl ing their epaulets, In the case of
the dragoons the familiar kepi and
chako are to be replaced byan Astrakan
sap ornamented in front with a cockade
and the imperial eagle. The imperial
guard, on the other band, will retain its
present uniforms and caps, A writerin
the Invalide Russe exer that these
and other minor modifications have for
their chief object the simplifying of the —
work of supplying the army with cloth-| One evening, recently, Professor
ing, the uniforms under the new sys- | Williams, of Yale College, received 8
tem being more easily adapted to the | dispatch from the interior of China,
Colored,
57,617
27,832
27,276
16,387
16,330
New Orleans
Richmond. ...
Charleston,
Nashvillo...... RE
varying sizes and figures of the¥men,— | which had been sent the day before.
bling and happy, did not resist.
London Daily News, The distance is 19,000 miles,
SULENTIFIC NOTES,
over red
light,
Poor qualities of green tea are col
ored with tumeric, Prussian blue and
the hearing is normal.
regarded till a very late day by our
makes the distance of the sun from the
2435 000 miles,
boats on canals and rivers by conduet-
and ejecting it forcibly at the stern,
animals as follows: In the
eighteen pulsations per minute; the ox,
ten; the sheep, twelve; and ten
fourteen hundredths in man.
is
According to the Ewgineer some of
the best Amaorican cast-iron as used for
railway wheels will stand a
tensile stain of as much as 39,500 pounds
or 13.17 tons to the square inch.
J. Maoagno,
richer in grape sugar and poorer in
acid than those produced under natural
conditions,
MM. Deherain and Macquenne in a
paper read before the Academy of
sciences, Paris, show that certain elee-
trical discharges without sparks and of
The Journal of Science
statement that no beautiful or useful
orgenic species, animal or vegetable,
naturalized in any conuntry
without haman
ugly and the noisome contrive to ex-
tend their range in spite of man's effort
to the contrary
the land is dennded by the combined
action of the sea and rivers at the rate
of one fool in a thousand vears. He
great rivers were formed when the rain.
the post-pliccene age.
How greatly would human knowledge
be narrowed bad the microscope never
existed! This wonderful instrument
has not ouly revealed the magnitude
and importance of the unseen world
about us, and shown us muny hidden
marvels, but it has furnished a means
of studying disease whieh will never
t¢ be an inestimable boon,
preved upon by a variety of organisms,
producing diseases whose eanse would
aid. The koowledge thus gained has
in several instances led to the discovery
of methods of rendering the attacks of
the minute parasites comparatively
harmless, thus conquering oertain
dreaded maladies Observations of
this kind are only of very recent date,
ions diseases are pow believed to be
that M. Pasteur's plan of vaccination
may ere long be snocessfullr applied to
all ailments of this kind with the result
of greatly reducing their ravages. It
is hoped that these new ideas concern-
Truly
———
A Norwegian Table,
The Norwegians, writes a
spondent, are not epicures, not even
They have but little variety on their
tables ; the food is not always of good
quality ; and even if the original ma-
spoiled 1n the cooking. The Norwegian
manner of preparing and dressing
victuals I must emphasize as especially
bad, - Fish and potatoes may be called
the staple diet of the whole country.
Then at about
¢ o'clock comes breakfast. This meal
is usually preceded bya very small glass
cf brandy, flavored with caraway seeds.
Upon the table arf many small
dishes of cold ham, tongue, sausage,
gnchovies, sardines and several kinds of
cheese,
served upon a sideboard, to which
periodieal visits from the table are
made,
toes are brought in.
ously attacked, and
These are raven-
next the cold
erimes are nnblushingly perpetrated.
Beafsteaks and mutton chops are rarely
seen. Dinner is usually served at
2 o'clock. 1t consists of soup, fish,
meat and pudding ; thers is rarely any
fruit but a kind of pickled currant,
which is eaten with the meat, Good
are the popular drinks,
quette to say something (in Norsk, of
a good meal—how often a gastronomic
table benediction: * Gesegnete Mahl.
zeit,” (my the meal be blessed to you,)
which one hears all
Supper is ready at Sor 9. Like breakfast,
times with tea. The supper-table re.
the species of the genus cheese,
the Laplanders. The gentlemen take a
glass of hot toddy before retirihg for
aa——
The Animus of Work,
The world likes heartiness and earn-
estnoss, These will often compensate
for the lack of some other sterling qual-
ities of mind and heart,
tions. When a foreman of a factory
and drops a quick, earnest word here
and there, the workmen about him un-
consciously become imbued with like
earnestness, and he will by mere force
of example secure better results from
his employes, How oiten have we
known a farmer in the olden time, be-
fore mowing machines were invented,
to get” nearly double the amount of
work out of the same gang of men by
starting ont at the head of the swath
with cheery words and a gamey air,
bidding the boys to come on and see if
they could keep up with him.~ Chicago
Express.
Statistios show that women commit
suicide most frequently on Bunday,
TRACKING A MURDERER,
The Strange Story Told by an Actor, and
t How it was Verified,
| The Ohieago correspondent of the
| Courier. Jurnal ay not help but
| hear the story that follows, because he
| was waitiog for Florence, the actor, to
| vacate a barber chair, one day. *“ Do
| you know,” said Florence, confiden.
| tially, to the barber, * | never get intoa
| barber chair without thinking of Henry
{ Jumpertz, and resolving to write a
| barber story,” Gus had, in the mean
| time, provided Mr, Florence with
plenty of lather and taffy and seenred
passes for two to MceVieker's that even-
ing, when he continued his chatter:
“1 think it was in "59, 1 was on
| my way west from Detroit and ocenpied
a seat with a quiet, intelligent gentle-
man, that I somehow got interested in
after a while, but found it hard work
to draw out. Itriel to size him up,
| but couldn't make out whether he was
| n decent sort of a preacher, a well be.
| haved commercial traveler, or some
modest sort of a newspaper man-—I
| knew he wasn't an actor, or he would
| have commenced giving me ‘mummer’
| wind right off. The fellow knew so
much, confound it, I conldn’t mention
a subject but what he was *up'in. 1
| pever enjoyed a man's company sc much
in my life ; but there was no use, he
wouldn't ‘give up’ anything.
“We got into Chicago early in the
morning, and as we actors all used to
stop at the old Matteson house I in.
vited my fellow-traveler up there to get
| something warm, After we'd bad a
drink, ss we both needed a shave, we
started for the barber shop. He got
in ahead of me and got my regular
| barber's chair, so I took a paper and
| waited, Then I took my time and
went to chatting with Henry—that was
| his name, Henry Jumpertz—jast as 1
always do to the old boys that shave
me at the different places.”
“My quiet friend, who had given
| the name of Brown, courteously waited
for me until I was through, and I says
to him: * Say, Brown, Henry gives a
man a mighty good shave, don't he ¥
‘Yes,’ he replied, ‘he's a splendid
workman, he keeps sharp razors!’
“Of course I didn't pay any atten-
| tion to such a remark as that at the
time, When we got out into the office
Mr. Brown thanked me for the pless-
ure he had had in my company ; and,
just as he was ahout leaving me, said :
‘3r. Florence, to be frank with you, I
am a detective, I have been looking
for a murderer ; I have got him. Good
day, Mr. Florence.’
“1 bad some engagements farther
west and after I had played them I
| came back, went to the Matteson house,
as usnal, started in to get shaved,
looked around for Henry, conldn’t find
him, shouted to the ‘boss’ and asked
him where he was. ‘Why, didn't yon
know about Jumpertz? Well, well,
i well! Why Jumpertz was arrested for
| murder fifteen minutes after he shaved
you the last morning you were in here,
and the man who had his shave ahead
him.’
but found, on inquiry; that Jumpertz
his mistress,
murdering her, cutting her in pieces,
woking her in a barrel and shipping
wer East, I never heard what become
| of Jumpertz, but the whole business
kept running in my head ever since,
“Yes,” enid Florence, reflectively, as
he resigned his seat to your correspond
ent, “really am going to write a bar.
Scribner's.”
Of course all this was very interesting,
would bea good idea to verify it, as
remains to Troy, N. XY. This was nnder
the police administration of Soperin-
tendent C. P. Bradley. He was arrested
precisely as stated by Mr. Florence,
who will undoubtedly be glad to get
additional facts in onder to
third trial was
about
but on the
This case came
formed for another murderer then con-
an oath that, were he ecquitted, he
would spend half his fortune—he wasa
acquittal. Jumpertz's plea was that the
murder, he took this means of disposing
at least, suspicion Mr. William A.
Pinkerton, from whom I received the
facts in the matter,
he last saw Jumpertz during the war,
in Vicksburg, in 1862, where he was
then sergeant in a regiment belonging to
the regular army.
Ee ———
Stolen Bank Notes,
tional bunk note that when he chances
to offer it a bank it will not be seized
which the law recognizes
bills, duly engraved for or by the gov
ernment, and duly signed and stamped
by the register and treasurer of the
the counting room of the treasury and
the paying teller's desk at the bank, and
broadoast
over the country. All that was want.
president's and cashier's—sometimes
the bill passed on unprotested, for who
one of the thousands of bank officers
the government that is as far as its
Whether
“ (. Washington-Jones, president's”
signature in the corner is genuine or
not it cannot possibly deteimine, nor
should it be expected to investigate the
matter. Yet the banks keep ‘a list of
the luckless yet honest holder presents
it in the course of trade it is pounced
on and confiscated.— New York Herald.
Pensions.
The United States commissioner of
pensions has rendered a decision that
when a soldier was sound at the time
of his capture, and when released is
found to be suffering from disease inci-
dent to prison life, he is presumed to
duty, and is therefore entitled to a pen-
sion, Also, when a man was captured
in the line of duty, and there 1s evi-
dence that he has never been heard
from nor exchanged, he will be presumed
to be dead, and a pension will be grant-
e1 to his widow. :
EAE TIES
FOR THE LADIES,
Remarkable Types of Women,
The remarkeble types of Nihilist
women ave well known, Vera Busen-
liteh, whose shot § unrated terrorism,
was the most modest of her sex. In the
court room she blushed when she pe
ceived any one staring at her. Lay big.
ner, a charming lady and an accomp|
singer, got her eight years in the Sibe-
rian mines by sitting in the pusios and
playing the piano for weary try-
ing to drown the noise made by the
secret printing press in the next room.
Anna Lebedoff, a priest's daughter, in
the disguise of a wife of a switchman,
lived in a wateh-house on the railroad,
and was found on a box filled with
dynamite, chatting with the switchman,
Sophy Perovskays, the daughter of a
general and senator, who declined the
dignity of maid of honor to the empress
and entered the Nihilist rateruilys dug
the Mossow mine and directed iste
ozar's assassination, Bardin,
who was welcomed as a star in
the literary horizon, wrote & few poems
which, though gems of Russian liter
ature, were treasonable, and the singing
of them was & state crime,
Cuban Wemen.
I do not think there is a land in the
list of civilized countries that uces
women so generally comely as the
dsughter of Cubs is. Asa rule she
has 8 round figure, not I bat in.
clined to dumpling-shaps, Whatever
else she may be, she is never what
the Americans call “scrawny.” But
her fice, while seldom wanting in in-
telligence, is hardly ever vicious, A
sameness, a desert-like momotony of
expression, pervades the sex.
traits of individual character are rarely
indieated. If the reader has ever seen
s flock of ducklings on their way to
the nearest water he has a fair idea of
this little woman's gait and general
air, Her hair is often a “ to
her, and is sometimes of that blue-
black shade only possible with the
daughters of Southern Europe and their
descendants, though occasionslly the
Cuban girl varies the by
being a blonde, and, to be rather
fat. This lady is often a woman at
twelve, and the mother of a large fam.
ily at nineteen or twenty. So pretty in
her youth, in age she becomes either
lean and dried, or fat and unwieldy.
| Bhe fades early, and for want of
of chamcter is apt to lose control of
her husband, who, nevertheless, still
continues to need such control as badly
as any man of his times. But whatever
she may grow to seem, her eyes never
fade. To the last, through all vieissi-
tudes, they are big and blaek.—Book
on Cuba.
Fashion Notes.
Chip is no longer fashionable,
Oashmere and Indig shawls will be in
high favor,
The latest form of the poke bonnet is
| the ** London Witch.”
Sunflower yellow crops out in ribbons
‘and other millinery goods,
Dominos of moire, black, yellow, red
| and white are in high favor.
| The masculine style of dress for
{| women is going out of vogue.
| A pouf just below the back of the
| waist is on the newest drasses.
| Bieily and Turkey reds in bright raby-
| like shades will be much worn.
All shades of color are represented in
| the grounds of the new sateens.
:
| Quarter trains are more stylish than
| either short skirts or demi-trains,
Narrow bands or Greek fillets of
| silver ribbon are worn on the hair,
| New riding-habits have narrower and
| shorter skirts than those hitherto worn.
| Jasmine and white lilacs are mingled
| with orange blossoms in bridal wreaths,
| Small and large figures and flowers
| are equally fashionable in dress goods.
The prettiest of all the darned laces
| are those called Oriental or Mauresque.
Gilt nails, with flat square heads, are
| used to fasten cloth dresses instead of
| buttons.
| A hoop of coiled beads is used for
| gathering up the cashmere drapery of
| sesthetic costumes,
| Flowers as large as life, sometimes
larger, and in the most vivid colors,
| appear on the grounds of some of the
| new sateens.
| The largest importations of Cashmere
‘and India shawls made in this country
| have been put upon the market during
the past week.
Some of the new straw pokes are of
| immense size, with brims that flare up-
| ward over the forehead in the old Dun-
stable bonnet style.
| The new colors are copied from
nature's own tints 'n foliage and flowers,
and are by no means confined to sickly
greens and dirty yellows.
Black is the fashionaole color of the
| moment, and with the quantity of lace
worn transforms Parisian ladies almost
into Castilian dames of the sixteenth
century.
Some of the new sateens have grounds
| in all shades of color, white, and black,
| over which are flying flocks of large
| birds, carrier pigeons, falcons and
| swallows,
A novelty in ornaments for evening
wear is flowers of gold, silver or steel
| filagree. They are worn in the hair,
‘on the corsage, and looping the sash or
| skirt draperies,
Source of the Mississippi.
The new-found source of the Mis-
sissipyi is a sparkling little gem of a
| lake, situated above and beyond Lake
Itaska. It nestles among the pines of
‘an unfrequented and wild region of
| Minnesota, many miles from the nearest
| white settlement, and just on the divid-
| ing ridge which forms the great water-
{shed of North America. Within a few
{ miles of it can be found lakes and
streams whose waters are tributary to
{the Red river of the North and the
| Yellowstone, thus reaching the sea
| thousands of miles from the mouth of
| the mighty Mississippi, which flows in
{a trickling brook from Lake Glazier.
| This lake, discovered to be the source of
| the greatest river in the world by Oap-
| tain Willard Glazier on the 224 of July,
| 1881, is about a mile and a half
| greatest diameter, and would be nearly
{round in shape but for a single prom-
ontory, whose rocky shores give it in
outline the shape of a heart. The
waters of the lake are exceedingly
| clear and pure, coming from sprin
some being at the bottom, but the
three most prominent rise a few miles
back in low, wet land, and flow into
the lake in little rills. On the very
| point of the promontory is a
| whose waters are as cold as ice, and at
which Captain Glazier's weary party
slaked their thirst while exploring the
shores of the new lake. So lonely is
| the region around the lake that for
| this rough country, yet with a
of having added pil hing Josling
| gruphical knowledge,
‘and his party were
come into contact again
' low-creatures,—
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