He Played Before He Looked, A youth went forth to serenade The lady whom he loved the best, And passed benéath the mansion’s shade Whore erst his ocharmor used to reat. He warbled till the morning light Use dancing o'er the hilltops’ rim; But no fair maiden blessed his sight, And all seemed dark and drear to him, With heart aglow and eyes ablaze He drew much nearer than before, When, to his horror and amage, He saw ** To Let” upon the door. He Kept His Word. She stood in the spelling class, A maiden sweet and fair, With a tender light in her ayes and a bright Soft gleam on her yellow hair, “Caress,” the preceptor callad, And as no one answered she while, “Did you give it, sin, to mo ¥ * Not then, my child, but I will," He said, and a titter broke From the scholars all There were small To take and absorb a joke none 0 Then the pretty speller turned From & pink 10 a scarlet rose, And the teacher thought, as he gravely taught, * How charming and sweet sho grows But years glide hy, aud now, by rumors heard, ith prophetic car, happy bells 1 hear; For the taoher kept his word Impelled —-Bosion Transeripl, Queer Matrimonial Experience, L The Millbank neighborhood isa prey to excitement. One of the prettiest and most popular belles of tue country finds herself married without having intend- ad to marry anybody. This startling event occurrad under the foliowing ciroumstances—the queer- ast of all incidents in the chapter of ae- eidents. A picnic party at “Annandale,” the residence of Judge Anvan, our popular county official. A beautiful autumn day inspired every heart, and a pietur- esque grove near the ransion had been selected as the scene of the festivities. Nothing could be more sttractive than the spoctacle presented. The youths and maidens under the bridliant foliage; hampers of edibles were already uncovered under antumn sunshine lit ap gay scarfs and earls and laces. Miss Bel Annan—for she was a belle gaged in her customary smusement of flirting. She was a lovely blonde, and devoted to the occupation. No one had ever sucoeeded in flirting with her. At twenty-five, if you could believe her THE FRED KURTZ, Editor VOLUME XV, | are manied, and there is an end {of it! This view was generally accepted ; | but was Mr. Leftwiok a duly empow { oved magistrate ? He had been elected, { but had received no certificate, What white. He did not eat, which is a bad | was the law governing the case? sign. Finally, in a fit of desperation, Judge Annan was not appealed to. It ho joined a party of fox-hunters and i really was too delicate a question for rode recklessly : in swimming a stream {his decision under the ciroum- he was thoroughly chilled, and in con | stances. But other gentlemen learned sequence three days afterward he was lin the law were consulted; and they | seised with a fever, agreed almost unavimously that Mr A fover is a very bad thing to have | Leftwick had been an sotual magistrate; | Mr, Hay got ap one night when his at the popular vote had made him such, tendant friend was dozing, and wrote and any formal certificate of election | a note which he add essed to Miss Bel | was unnecessary, The parties were Annan, married, This reached her on the | When Miss Bel Aunan awoke slowly and, with a little flatter at | to the consciousness that this was the she read what follows: { general sentiment, she began to ory, ‘1 bave been thinking, thinking, and then grew sullen and angry. it thinking, here in the dreary night, | was an outrage! —it was a wild absurd. ' about what has happened to us; and fity! Married! and to Edward Hay! the resnlt of it that { ought to { She would never see his face again. negleot no means of showing you that { He bad been guilty of the basest de- I am not the contemptible person you | ception. He bad known that Mr. Left- | must think mae. ; { wick was really A magistrate, and “1 therefore write down, as well as | meant to entrap her into a hateful I can-—my head seems a little feverish most ohearful temperament, and the gayest fox hunter inthe country. Now he had lost his good spirits and went abont moping. He grew thin and next day, her heart, is union with him. Yes, hateful! Bhe this, Itis to be shown to people, detested the sight of him. If he over and produced in court if necessary: | presumed to approach her, sae would “Jam not your husband, and you tell him her opinion of him, and forbid | are not my wife. : | his ever appearing again in her pres- «I never meant to say | anoe, vou to be my weddad wife. Mr. Hay did not seem desiroms of |° +] do not wish to be your husband, inflicting his society upon his young and assert that I was deceived into tak- { wife, Th» picnic party had speedily ing part in a mock ceremony which as { broken up in the midst of general dis- | long as I live shall have in my eves no may, and Mr. Edward Hay bad simply | legal significance whatever, { bowed low, without so much as a smile, : > “Epwarp Hay.” | and departed. ; This was written on the first page of | Scon an incident occurred w hich a sheet of note paper. On the second | brought home to Miss Annan, or Mis. portion of the sheet, aud wholly de- { Hay, the terrors of matrimony. Judge | tached, were these words : , { Annan was absent holding court, and “Oh, how 1 love you, Bal! It near. { the young lady was in the drawing. ly breaks me down t> think that Iam { room at Annandale, when a loud knock | go; leava vou. I am not well, | was heard at the front door and a vis- other, bat hope to be soon, 1f we conld | itor entered. The young lady looked only go back to old times before that | at him and bowed slightly; his appear- | cursed picnio—1 can't help using the ance was not prepossessing. He was! word, You liked me a little, I think, ene of a class of petty attorneysof whom | and you might have—well, all that is the illustrious Guitean is an example, over. 1 suppose I shall never see you { “I have called to see you about a again—certainly for mMiny Years. {claim 1 have on your husband, Mrs. | You will then, no doubt, be married to Hay," said this ornament of his pro- | some good fellow, and there will be an ¢ fession. end of me. You shall be free ! The youug lady started slightly, but from all annovance., 1 give vou a proof | only greoted the words with a haughty of that in the first part of . this note, | stare. which yoncan show people. They will Po Sorry to trouble yon, but business | geathat I am not, and never have been, { is business, I am counsel for plaintiff tin Smith vs. Hay. It is too slow to that I took going to nak HOC so bait. your husband.” The unlucky lover signed his name statement, she wus heart-whole and im- | proceed against real estate, and 1am pervious, i told you have bauk stocks.” Her foeman on this occasion wasa| The young lady colored. This gross fine young fellow called by his intimates | business intrusion was hateful to her. again, but as he forgot to add the period at the end of his sentence, the siguature his read, “ Your husband, Edward Hay." iid Ned Hay. He was very much in love with Miss Bel Annan, and everybody was aware of it. ment of the sallies of the young couple who were equally gay. ried I” said a satirical voice behind them. And, turning ronmnd Mr. Hay sawa friend of his, Mr. with a grim expression. has been a candidate and the fates The election had taken place on the day before, and the returns indicated that his opponent had been elecied bya clear majority. for seemed have married you to celebrate this fes- tive occasion.” Mr. Hay looked at his fair companion and smiled. “Isn't it a pity!” be # Yes—it really is too bad!” said | Miss Bel, with a dangerous glance. “Jt would be such a noveliy.-a wedding ut a pienie,” said Mr. Hay. “ If agreeable,” said Mr. Leitwick, “I will perform the ceremony for the general enjoyment. At a country pienic the extravagant is the order of the day. The proposi- tion of Mr. Leftwick had been over- beard by some of Lis ‘‘strayed revel- ers.” They gathered around the group, besieged Miss Annan and Mr. Hay-- convinead the latter promptly. Then the former after a while; and it was an- nounced to the company In genera that Mr Edward Hay and Miss Isabel Annan were now about to be married. Iu ten minutes the whole gay com- pany had gahered beneath the cak; some wild flowers wera improvised into a wreath for the bride, and she presented herself, leaning on Mr. Hay's arm and modestly holding down her head—noth- ing could be better. Mr. Leltwick, with deep solamnity, performed his functions to the best of his Memory. “ If anybody can allege aught why this marriage should not take place,” said Mr. Leftwick, “let him speak or for ever a'ter hold his peace.” No one spoke, “Do you, Edward Hay, take this handsome young person for yoar wed- ded wife?’ “ With plegsure—I certainly do, eaid Mr. Hay. © Aud do you, Isabel Ancan, take this unfortunate victim of your charms for your wedded husband ?” ¢aid Mr Left wick. Yes,” said Miss Bel Annan, looking down with the appropriate air of timidity. “Then,” said Mr. Leftwick, solemn. ly, “by vir'ue of the authority vested in me—or which should have been vested in me—as a magistrate of this ¢ouanty, I pronounce you Edward Hay and yon Isabel Annan to be man and wife! : Salute your bride!” Mr Hay seemed willing, but Miss Bel promptly declined. She was blushing a little—the whole affair scemed so very real. A few minutes afterward her blushes had suddenly disappeared. | An old farmer riding by had called out: “Mr Leftwick, I congratulate you!” “ Congratulate me 7” “Yon are elected a magistrate. The Russell precinct was not heard from last vight, but the returns are now in. Yon aro elected by bhirty-five majority.” “Elecied |” exclaimed Mr. Leftwick, “ Certainly, you are elecled.” “Well, then,” ssid Mr. Leftwick, desperately, ¢ I've celebrated the event by performimyz a marriage ceremony!” The gay revelers stood looking at each other in wild amazement, and Miss Bel Aunan was visibly trembling. That jyouug lady was now Hay! i Mrs. II, No socner had the incident at the pic- nic become generally koown than it ercated the wildest excitement. Every teatable buzzed with it; every friend meeting a friend asked what would be the result. Were the young people really married or was it only a mock ceremony, having no actual signifi- cance? The Millbank neighborhood was turned upside down. The question was simply—Had Mr. Leftwick authority to marry anybody on the day of the picnie? If he had that sutherity the parties were married, for they had consented and he had pronounced them man and wife. Ft was useless to urge that the affair was intended as a jest. When a duly empowered magistrate is called upon by two people to marry them; when {ley formally take each other as hus bend and wife, and he pronounces Miss Bel Acnan, who had read the note throughout, with a deep blush in her cheeks, suddenly burst out laugh. ing. 1t was rather hysierical, but she was plainly amused at something, She allowed the hand holding the sheet of note paper to sink in her lap, and fix. ing her upon the floor, mur- mured: yur hasband, Edward Hay!” sighed and said in { She had a nice little amount of stock in { her own right—the gilt of an uncle. * You are aware that your personality | | is liable to execution for your husband's ! debts, ' said the legal gentleman, | The young lady rose to her feet and | swept superbly from the room. As she | { disappeared upstairs she said to a ser- { vant: “‘ Show this person to the door.” And the person in question tock his | game low dilapidated hat and went away. ¢ Poor, dear fellow! Three days afterzard Miss Bel An-| and I a i pan, as we may as well continae to call rse him | ber, saw un advertisement in the connty | paper which made her color a little, It and personal | estate of Mr. Edward Hay would be ex | posed for sale on the first of the ensuing She remained silent for a few moments looking at the advertisement; then she began to sob, ana said: “1 sm so sorry I” Ou the same eveniug she received a | eves Then she the tone; He is sick; and t ught to be taere tonn Edward Hay rose suddenly from his bed and abruptly left the country. Ten days afterward bis property wus sold and his attorney transmitted the proceeds to the young man in Paris, He ramained there three months, went to Rome and stayed six—then he took 8 run to Rassia, and came home, via England and Scotland, to New York. It was quite a pleasant evening in autumn when he reached the Millbank neighborhood again. As he had no home of his own he had written to a friend that he was coming to see him, and having gotten out of the train he set off on foot in the direction of his lriend's house. The pathway which he followed wound across green fields, and passed within a few Lundred yards of Judge Annan’s. Seeing this, a fact which be { had probably lost sight of, Mr. Edward Hay made a detour to avoid the house This led him into & picturesque glen, which he followed. All at once he emerged into the very grove where they had held the picnic, and there at {oot of the oak where he and Misa Ansa had been married sat—Miss Top RICK tained these words: “ | trust yon have never supposed that I had any agency in the affair of the picnic or that anything eould induce me to tske advantage of it in any man- per. But I know you will acquit me of that. There is only one course. As we seem really to be married, sa divor necessary—but a divorce case occa sions scandal, and tbat I know would wonnd you. Need I say that I would not wonad you for the world ?—that is not much to say. 1 have, therefore, arrrnged everything to spare you pain My estate will be disposed of, and I shall remain away for some years. Then the law declares you free agsin—on the plea of desertion—and there will be no more ANNOFANCEe Your friend, no mors, Epwanp Hax." Miss Bel Annan read this letter over twice before she observed a postscript on the second page : “1 heard of the visii yon were sub. jected to by that wretched creature. If { had been present—bnut this is un necessary. He will not presame to sonoy you again; I can promise you that.” As a matter of fact, Mr. Edward Hay had horsewhipped the counsel for plain: tiff in Smith vs. Gray. He had then ad- vertised his property and made all his arrangements to leave the country. “Hom, hum!” muttered Jadge Annan, reading thenotice en his return from coart. ** That is really a pity. There is no necessity for selling his property. Tho estate is an excellent cne and will pay all claims ten times over. Poor fellow, 1 always liked him!” Miss Belle Aunan, who was present, sniffed slightly snd murmured. “Bo did I, papa !™ i “Well, I suppose there is no help for it. To be candid, my dear, I always | wished you to marry Edward, His | father was a very dear friend of mise, and I like the young fellow himself. If | 1t had not been for that unlucky affair | at the picnie yon might have married him some day.” “Never, papa,” “ Well, my dear, of conrse you know best. You really are married, I am afraid; but you can count on Edward | Hay. He is much too honorable to take advantage of you—and then he | : Ay may wish to marry some one else.” | married by a minister “Marry some one el:te? He can- not I” exclaimed Miss I’el Annan, The young fellow stopped and stood still, trembling a little und looking at her. She was leaning on a hnge root, with one hand covering her eyes, and eobhbing. ¢ Ba} 1” The words seemed to escap efrom him | uneonseiously as he hastened to her. And then came another word from the | apparently as much the result impulse: | “Edward!” arms a moment afterward, there seemed | to be very little explanation, were natural, however, cnmstances, and were soon mude. she had not the least objection to being reader pleases, said smiling, as she leaned her head upon his shoulder: «I will give your estate back to yon as 1 bought it, my dear. The property of a wife belongs to—her husband!" This charming young person had in- and, as only a year had elapsed since he had decerted her, she was still his wile, and their possessions were, therefore, in common, The occasion Hay said to his wife, ae she blushed | HALL, CENTRE i Glass Houses, Perhaps not one builder or contractor in ten, if told that the common grades of gl ss made at the glass factories in this city have a erushing strength nearly four times as great as that credited by experienced engineers to the strongest quality of granite, would accept the statement as true. Yet it is a fact, and being so, the query as to why glass has not received more attention from arehi tects as a structural material naturally suggests itself, A reporter had a talk with several prominent glass manu facturers on the subject, and in answer to an interrogatory as to whether blooks of glass could be made in lengths and sizes and so as to be utilized in strunotion of a building in place of stone, they sald it could be d Baid one of these gentlemen : “ This question has been considered oy myself & number of times, and, al. though I do not want to advocate the absolute abolition of brick and stone, | yot in the erection of art galleries, memorial buildings, ete, a structure composed of blocks of glass in prismatic colors would be a unique, beautiful and lasting strnoture, With the numerous inventions which have come into use of late years in connection with the pro dnetion of glass, the cost has been gradually going down, while :he qual ity of the fabric is steadily becoming better, “One objection which would be raised to the durability of a glass house, in the literal sense of the words, might be that the blocks would not take a bind, or adhere together with com- mon mortar. This objection ean be readily set aside by the use of a good cement, and when completed the struo. ture will stand for ages, barring extra ordinary accidents. As to the cest of a glass house, it can be kept down to a small percentage above the price of our ent granite. In building with stone you have to pay the stone masons, and when it comes to elaborate examples of carving in Corinthian pillars, collars, capitals, ete, why the work is rather costly as compared with glass, when the latter can be molded ino any shape or form, and the work plished in much less timo, vinced that the time will come when we will see such a building erected Scarcely a day passes but what the sphere of glass as an article of use be comes widened. In parts of German) and on ope line in England glass ties are being used on railroads, and thus far have given satisfaction, combining all of the requisites of wooden ties with the virtne of being susceptible to usage at least twenty-five per cent. longer than wood. Then by the Bastra process glass articles are now being made for common use which can be thrown on the floor and will rebound like a rub. ber ball. Progress is also being made toward rendering glass, which has ever betn characterized as the brittle fobrio, ductile, and to-day threads of be mad» that can be tied in knots and woven into cloth. Were one disposed to give play to fancy and fas it into fact, a house sutirely composed of glass could be built with walls aud roof and floors fashioned {rom melted sand. Carpets of glass could cover the floors. The most vl ra msthete on glass chairs or reclin couches, arrayed in glass g ing and drinking from glass d such acne conld realize that the age of glass bad come. Yet nearly all of this fifty years ago would have been classed with the then impossible telephone and electric light, and this statement would | have likely found its way in the ‘Cata- logue Expurgatores.’”— Pittsburg Dis paich. suitable annealed the eon ane, peoom ' Riass Can Ku rments, eat HUBS, sc — Moonshiners, A writer in the been visiting the moonshiners of the South, and has sneceeded in putting their side of the question just as they look at it. The **moonshiner,” that is the manufacturer of illicit whisky, who make it chiefly at night, 1 order to avoid the vigilance of the United States excise officers, is usually a small farmer, to whom his “still” is no more than a oider mill to a Northern man, Like bis fathers and grandfathers he has always made whisky. ** It don't do any body any harm,” said one of them to the writer, “Isabout all th» way we have of makin’ any money in this wooden country, It don't go into the general trade of the couniry enough to amonnt to anything," which, if we may believe what is said about its merits, 1s deeply to be regretted; the liquor is if the tux were actually collected upon it all, it of the country. What they most fear is disturbance from Atlantic Monthly has and commerce and improvements gen Asone old man expressed it: to change. It's a goin’ to be most | everlastin'ly improved, ye see; I'm too old. But the old ways isa comin’ to an end. of acres of this land. roads built direc'ly, hither an’ yan, | moren'll do anybody any good. They'll ent off the woods for fuel an’ quarries up hyur, they say. And they'll be mean, dirty little towns laid out all about. | a little healthy whisky, as we've always | done, they'll be forty times as much ar’ lie. I reckon they'll be some fine and they'll put up big scientific locks | break into "em. { “They ain't never ben a lock on to a | door in these mountains. Bat they's goin’ to be the allfiredest improvements | about hyur, an’ I s'pose our people'll live. women hyur, 1 reckon, from them big | 1 J ( 0,, PA. FOR THE LADIES, Ald tar the Complexion, American ladies will pick up their ears at the information that serkvs is a plant much in use among the women of Eastern Europe in order to enhance and retain their charms. Its properties have been known to Tuorkish women ever since the introduction of coffee into Europe, It said to be a little herb which grows at the foot of the mountains of Lebanon. A spoonful of it in a breakfast enpfal of boiling water forms a delicions infusion, which may | bo drank with milk and sugar like ordinary tea but is far more pleasant to the taste, Its great recommendation to the fair sex is that it has the virtue of retarding the ravages of age on all those who drink it daily. Der, Paul Lucas, physician to Louis XIV, mentions it in his travels. He relates that, having been called upon to attend the widow of Hassan Pasha, he was surprised to her waited upon by two young women apparently twenty-five or thirty years of age whereas he knew that it was oustomary for her to be waited upon by old women only. On expressing his sur prise, he was told that both those ladies were over sixty vears of age, and that they owed their vouthful appearance to the abundance of serkys tes which they drank. Dr Lueas immediately asked for some of the plant, and took it with him to France. It is supposed that he made a present of it to Ninon de 'Eveclos, and that it was the myste- vious secrot of her extraordinarily vouthful appearance when old. There is a great van of this article in Paris just now, for the doctors have discos ered that it purifies the blood and thus skin fair and transparent youth, makes thas About it was reintroduced into Paris by a French dootor who had traveled in the East, In Turkey, where it costs but little, it is often mixed with the water of the bath. Taken, however, inn the same wanner as tea, twice a day, its are said to It costs one dol: lar an ounce. but a thimbleful is enough for a breakfast cupfal of the infusion London Hour, is Beg of preserves the in wa flesh firm CAriv It also 1 . Aree Years ago t Le certain, New York Fashion Notes. v Aa} Seoteh gi solid colors nglams ¢ome In ( * ) 5 SCIENTIFIC NOTES, Next to the diamond the ruby is one of the most remarkable stones for the exhibition of phosphorescence under electricity, A road locomotive for war purposes was lately tried in Germany before Count Moltke, It weighed twenty eight and three quarter tons and drew easily torty tons weight of guns mounted on their carringes fully equipped. Its maximum traction power is 1560 tons, and its of maintenance is about fifty cents an hour. cost The effect of lightning on trees rear a telegraph wire is thus described by a French savant. The line under obser vation runs east and west, Of the pop- lars bordering the road, those on the north side suffered most, those on the other side being rarely struck, Eighty out of 500 trees were destroyed, The instances multiplied with increased el. evation, and in the platean at the high. est point of land, reached the maxi mum, The injury was mostly oppo- site and under the level of the wires | It is supposed that while the wire is strongly electrified by induction, the lightning does not strike it, bat strikes the neighboring poplars directly, which, wet with rain, afford an easier passage for the electrie fluid to the ground. The impression that the northeastern coast of the American continent is slowly nsing — the estimate of the rate of emergeney in progress being over a foot, and perhaps as much as three foet, in a century—has recently been contro verted by eminent scientific authori ties, including Dr. Mitehel, of the coast survey, who states that the salt marshes are still, as they were in the time of the early explorers, at ordinary high water level, and that the rceks on our coast, long notorions as dangerous to navigation, have not risen since they were first discovered. Dut east. ward of longitude sixty-four degrees thirteen minutes, and especially in Newfoundland, great changes present themselves, the depth appearing to be io greater than formerly. I'he most exiensive application of electricity to engineering ever made will be the plan of Mr. Maxim, of New York, for the basin around the eity of Mexico, to do which a company bas Leen formed, the funds raised, and the contract signed. The plan, in brief, is FASHION IN DEFORMITY, vail Among Diflerent Nations, variety upon nature, While the natural white. ness of the surface of the teeth is al ways admired by us and by most people, sider greatly adds to their beauty. White teeth are looked upon with per. ect disgust by the Dayaks of the neighborhood of Sarawak. In addition to staining the teeth, filiog the surface in some way or other is always resorted to. The nearly universal custom in front surface of the incisors, and offen the canine teeth, hollowing out the sur face, sometimes so deeply as to pene trate the pulp cavity, The cutting edges are also worn down to & level line with pumice stone. Auother and less common, though more elaborate fashion, is to point the teeth, and file out notches from the anterior surface of each side of the upper part of the crown, so as to leave a lozenge-shaped the parts from which the surface is re- moved, an ornamental pattern is pro- duced. In Boroe a still more elab- orate process is adopted, the front sur face of each of the teeth is drilled near its center with a small round hole, and into this a plug of brass with a round or star shuped knob is fixed. This is always kept bright and polished by the action of the lip over it, and is sup posed to gives highly attractive appear- sauce when the teeth are displayed, The Javan practice appears also to prevail in fashionable circles in the neighboring parts of the mainland of Asia. The Bismese envoy who visited this country in “1880 had his upper in eisor teeth filled, and ove of his suite bad them pointed. Perhaps the strange custom, so fre. quently adopted by the natives of Aus- cifie, of knocking out one or more of bere, but it is usually associated with mere fashion, try it constitutes part of the rites by which the youth are initiated into man- hood, and in the Sandwich Islands it is to establish on the western slove of the | performed as a propitiatory sacrifice to NUMBER 10. FACTS AND COMMENTS. The author of “There is a Happy | Land * is still living in Edinburgh, but happy land” is very near to him now. This hymn has been translated into more languages than any other, | betause it is simple, direct and essil | comprehended by even aero] | minds, a SOAR EI | * The ocenpation of the male la | tion of Nevada is chiefly mining in sil- | ver ore The silver is, however, so | largely associated with lead that nine- | tenths of the medioal cases repo | from that locality are of lead son- {ing. It takes the forms of { par | alysis, palsy and wrist drop. { The Turkish superstition thet when | the mosque of Bt, Bophia, at Constanti. | pople, falls in ruins the Tuarkish em- | pire will be destroyed, is vivified jost | now by finding thst an examination of the venerable straectnre shows that it is | linble to collapse at any moment. The | fall of this mosque, in the present shaky | condition of affairs in Turkey. might | have a tremendous effect npon the fate | of the empire The entire French eoast is about to | be lighted by eleotricity, which, as far back as 1875, wa: employed in the lighthouses near Havre, It is now thought that the development of the new svstem warrants its general nse on | thea French coast. Forty-two light | houses are to be provided with electric lights, and with steam trampets { r fog | signals, at a first cost of about $1,500, | 000, apd ansnoual expenditure of about $60,000 for maintenance, The public schools of the State of New York were last year attended by | 1,021,282 children —a snaller number by 10,000 than was recorded in 1880 Of the 30 826 teachers employed, 23 157 ‘were women, The average annual salary of each teacher was $375.06—the | whole awownt expended in salaries | being $7.776.560522 The State has { 11,248 school districts, and 11,504 school-houses, The total smount ex- pended upon the schools last year was | $10,808 802.40, r. Hall, the distinguished Presby- torian clergyman of New York, recently gave thé young women under his pas | toral charge some sound advice relative to courtship and matrimony. The doctor Bridemaids short jue lace, Many wear man ray id, a number of water wheels rufficient to develop rome 20,000 hors Law spr is reported as sayicg of the wedding: “ Da not let it be too expensive ; there The projection forward of the front is great folly in spending baif the npper teeth, which we think unbecom- double-breasted, power, aud make them drive dynamo- | ing, is admired by some races, and Very i Quins scarfs in the favor. Wreaths of white ox-eved daisies, mbined with crimson hedge and arranged to lie flat, are worn in the with L back, are in high IRIRCE, roses 1 i UFRIUS AER are AEA lish Duanstable an is form } AL velveteea suits, frequently made draped cords aR jue, ®Ha kirt or other part ed pearl beads used in y are large, of irregular bapes, and have facets The same kind of beads ng lass, with iridescent Mita, RNA In Jet, ke stufls are to be used for Among these are the close. ludia and China th plain aud embroidered, 0a we thin French crapa like the bat Crape-li millinery, iv Crapes, l as black erape used for monrning, Fay 3 and the fragile crepe lisse. woven Japaness, bu well ih irs, A favorite French style of trimming a round skirt place three tiny, gather 1 ruffles around the bottom of tl bove them is set a yard This is 10 the dress, then ab aoeen, flonnee about half a narrow ruffles matching the bottom of the dress, The edge of the papniers or tunic, aud sometimes the bottom of the basque, is trimmed with the little ruffles, which very small, An uncommonly artistic and beauti ful reception dress, recently made in New York, has a court traiz of royal blue velvet, with a broad bouillonns held with hoops and ends of the same ma- terinl faced with satin. The petticoat, { of palest blue satin, silver merguerites and rosebuds, and | the Henri 11. bodice, of royal blue vel vet, has a Medici collar and pufis over { the tops of the slashed sleeves, made of | the silver and pale blue broeade. those around “ rimming 10Creases, Madeira-work done on the dress goods, fand used pavels, borders, or as scantily gathered flounces, This i: done on the richest velvets, on satin, | silk, ceshmere and nun's veiling. There | is also an mmoreasing faney for flonnces | and these are now more often gathere: than plaited; rows of shirring in wide | clusters are not used so much as they were in the summer, but a single row { of puthers holding the flonnece very full | is seen on various fabrics Wide striped satins in pale colors, alternating with those of gold or silver | moire, are favorite materials for even: ing dresses for young ladies. The | dresses thus composed are made with- out the admixture of any other fabric; they have short skirts, and are bunched ws i i | hips, a Wattean style being aimed in | the entire costume, shepherdess boots 0 | ornamented with bows, and silver and gold clasps made in the shape of shep- herdess crooks. electric machines of high electro-mo- tive power. The current from these machines is to be conducted asbont twenty miles to a set of electric motors placed on the margin of the lake, and driving pumps, which will require about 7,000 horse power to work them. The water has to be raised about forty feet to clear the ridge, but once raised it has an nnint rrupted sil toward the Pacifie of several tho rand feet, so that water is made to keep The whole apparatus Mr. Maxim calls an The plan will, it is succeed, und thus relieve inundations that have damaged it so much for several cen- tunes, the descending up the work, copsiitntes what eleotrie siphon.’ Is Lie ved, Mexico from the A Woman's Ingenuity. Elizabeth Lloyd King, alias Kate Stoddard, who well known | murderess of Charles Goodrieh, brother of the Hon. W. W. Goodrich, and is now confined in the Auburn Biate con. viet asylum, being denied the use of writing material, recently invented new way of composing a letter. She was allowed books and magazines a Bible and a Testament, and althongh not permitted to bave Scissors, had needle and some thread. Taking the fiyleaf of u book she stitched upon it single letters, and bits of words that would compose sentences, and neatly made up out of fragments of print the following letter: Mu NR is as the Pavey, Couxseron aT Law Please excuse this print and paper, for 1 not ail wed 10 use my writing July. 1 would to consult y as I can. Will yo l Evizaners Lis Convict m, New York. been : TA inv oase call here! Aevl WOTHE RYRACUSY i ‘ill you picase Mr. Counselor Pavey the s to direct it. Ploaso int I have not been se g materials sioce last July, spectially, aburn State Convict Asylum, N. Y. TWANDARD ga ue by giving to above note? 1 do not X00 this allowed to Re 01 wi wow { | afterward sewed on the reverse side of the ecard: Mr. D. C. Pavey, Editor of the Syracuse Vandard, Standard office, Syracuse, New York. It must have required many weeks to have pieced out the letter. The capi tals were used only in proper places, and great care was tuken as to puncing tion. The whole of the first letter was in brevier type, and most of the sec oud, and the words were nearly all a printed page, evidently with a needle, and then sewed on with white thread The word King seems to have been cut ont of a Bible printed in agate. The stitches were taken with snch that would be | upturned edges i part to be tO oause any in handling. wore neatly hammed. delivered to a visitor to mail, bat it was ap | has preserved it as a curiosity. Bon ————————— Boring the Ears, A good deal has been recently writ- ten on the subject of boring the ears wfor the sake of the eyes,” eays the | London Tancel. It is always easy to among the negro women of Senegal it is increased by artificial means em- ployed in ohiidbood. All these modifications of form of comparatively external and flexible parts are, however, trivial in their effects upon the | ody to those to be spoken of next, which induce parms- nent structural alterations both upon the bony framowork and upon the important organs within, Whatever might be the case with regard to the hair, the ears, the nose and lips, or even the teeth, it might have been thought that the actual shape of the head, as determined by the solid skull, would not bave been considered a sub- ject to be modified eccordiag to the fashion of the time and place. Sach, however, far from being the case, The custom of arti. cially changing the form of the head is one of the most uneient and widespread with being confined, a8 many suppose to an obscure tribe of Indians on the northwest const of Ameriea, but is found under various modifications at widely-different parts of the earth's surface, and among people who can have bad no intercourse with each other. 1t appears, in fact, to have orig- inuted independently in many quarters, from some nstaral impulse common to the human race. When it once became an established custom in any tribe, it was almost inevitable that it should continue, until put an end to by the de- struction either of the tribe itself, or of its peculiar institutions, through the intervention of some saperior foree; for a standard of excellence in form, is by all who did not wish their children to run the risk of the social degradation whioh would follow the neglect of such a custom. * Failure properly to mold the cranium of Ler offspring gives to the Chinese matron the reputation of a lazy and undutiful mother, and subjects the neglected children to the ridicule of fashion.” A traveler, who mentiuns that he occasionally saw Chinooks with heads of the ordinary shape, sickness or any influence or rise to any dignity in old ns slaves. Ot tire ancient notices of the custom of purposely altering the form of the head, the most explicit is that of Hip- pocrates, who, in his treatise * De Aeris, Aquis et Loois,” written about 400 B. O., says, speaking of the people “I will pass cover the smaller differ treat of suchas are great eitber from nature or custom; and first, concerning There is no other race of men which have heads in the least resembling theirs. At first, usage was the principal cause of the opeiates with usage. They think those the most noble who have the lcngest heads. It is thus with regard to the they fashion it with their hands, and 8 and other contrivances whereby the money you have amassed for rainy days | in a foolishly costly display. Let me tell you, a wedding should be as open | us the day ; there should be plenty of | witnesses ; an honest man wants pub- | licity ; he is proud of the step he is { about to take, and no true woman, | heedfnl of right and of her own peace of mind, should ever be induced to be wedded privately ; if there is a cause for secrecy, there is a cause for doubt.” A decision has been rendered by a New York judge that will interest mem- | bers of secret benevolent societies. Action was brought sgsinst a lodge of Odd Fellows by one of its members to recover © sick benefits,” to which he claimed to be entitled. The plaintiff had joined the lodge years ago when its by-laws provided that in case of sick | ness every member should receive a specified sum weekly * doring his sickness or disability.” Another see- | tion empowered the lodge to alter or | amend the by-laws whenever deemed | expedient. After the plaintiff had been | taken sick, and while he was in receipt | of the weekly sum allowed him, a by- | law was passed reducing the amount of | | the payments from $4 to $1 a week. | The judge decided that the lodge is | bound to continue paying the plaintiff | the full awount to which he was en | titled when he b came sick. The right | of the lodge to change its by-laws is | not denied. But the court decides that | whatever sum any member is entitled to | when he is taken sick must be treated | as a fixed amount, which esntot subse- | quently be reduced during the contin | nance of the sickness. Mr. Bennett has made the suggestion, | in connection with the vovage and loss 5 g i & tk t x i ig f fae §atteraiict fe E The feeble, therefore, to danger during this i & § | of he Jeannette, that all faturefexpedi- tions into the Arctic seas be undertaken from the northern part of Siberia as a | basis of operations, Tbe journey by | | jund to the mouth of the Lena is long | | and wearisome, bat still it can be made | | without great danger or discomfort, | ana it practically saves months of per | ilous voyaging through the ficldsoflice | It is not quite easy to see what there 1s {to be gained by sailing toward the porth pole, but #0 long as men sre | possessed with the desire to discover | whatever is undiscoverable they may better start from the lace where the | remnant of the Jeannette’s crew landed | after heating about in the ice for over | two years than to start as they dd, from {San Francisco. The extremes of | weather reported by Lieatenant Dan- enhower ure less severe than at similar latitudes to the north of this continent, | and this fact may be se: down as a con- | tribution to scientific knowledge, The | average depth of the sass shown by { the soundings of the Jeannette, is very | moderate, hardly exceeding that of the | Baltic, and the nction of the tides is, as might be expected, extremely shght Some people conj cture from this that | the Arctic sea is a very narrow body of water with a continent to the north. Tn a leclureon the ‘Chinese at Home" E. B. Drew, commissioner of Chinese | imperial waritime customs, says: ¢ The | chief characteristic of the Chinese, as & | nation, is industry. Their working day begins at dawn and lasts till sunset. | Schools open at sunrise and do not | close till 5 ». M., there being but ove | short recess during the day. The em- 'paror and his court ¥iso soon after mid- A — A ——— | find excuses for any practice which | The old judge smiled, and looked | furtively at his dwnghter. Bhe was | under her orange flowers: biting her lip. i “I merely hazarded the supposition,” | said the judge, refolding his newspa- | per. ‘You are aware that his name | has been frequently connected with his | Our country began the present cen- cousin, Miss Hamilton.” | tury with a population of 5,308,000; 1t | Miss Bel Anuan made no raply. Bhe | y.q now 50,155,000, The increase has was looking with contracted brows at|peen nine-fold in eighty years. The the carpet, and masticating a lace hand- | growth in the last decade was over kerchief, which was suffering from her | ¢hirty per cent. This rate if continued | white teeth. Miss Hamilton was a very | wil] ‘give us 65,000,000 in 1890, and | handsome young person, and her name | g4 000,000 in 1900 —a growth from had often been associated with Mr. | 5308 600 to 84,000,000 in the round Hay's. Did he care for her? It would | sontury, and it will enable the teu- be shameful! Had he not told her, Bel | year-old children of to-day, when they Annan, a hundred times. Tuen she | gall have reached middle age, to lock colored, remembering some very juter- | upon a population of 100,000,000, and esting scenes between herself and the | (,¢ time they shall have reached three young man. . : | score and ten, to look upon a popula “ There's no help for it,” repeated | tion of 237,000,000. These are stagger- your husband!” —J, Ksten Cooke. a ——————————————— Concerning Population, the judge, * but I am really sorry the | ing figures. 1t is hardly conceivable young fellow is going to leave us. There | {jut our present rate of growth will be will be one advantage, nevertheless — | maintained for sixty years to come, for you will be free again. Two years’ | sven if emigrants should continue to desertion dissolves the marriage tie. | some to our shores in such armies as Then both you foolish people will be | now, it would be necessary for us to free—and he can marty Miss Hamilton. | take measures to repel them. There they'll be the deuce to pay among our young men. That's what they call this country ’ll soon be improvin’ like the deuce, but I shan't live to see much of it, I reckon.” The * informer” is known among them as the “reformer,” which is an unconscious pronunciation of the name- and they account for his zeal in pur, suing them by the fact that ** the re- former gots halt.” A Yesper-Bell of Nature, Not so very long ago we ialked about the campanero or bell-bird of South America, and now hers is news con. corning u useful little ecusin of his in Australia, He is not much larger than a snow-bunting, but he has a pleasant note, not unlike the sound of a distant About sunset the bell: birds begin their tinkling, and for a while the whole forest echoes with the silvery tones—a sort of Angelus or ves- er-bell of nature in the wild bush, ushing the woods for evening Until then that will be impossible, as 1 | are few children, if any, now living fear you are legally, my dear, Mrs. | g10 will be willing to see 200,000,000 Edward Hay !” souls packed together in the country. The time will come when we shall I. cease to court more population, and Everybody could see that Edward |shall say it is enough.— St. Louis Re. ———— them to be such—then the two persons Hay was in an unhappy fe of mind. | publican, er, ay doh their musical sweetness theso notes are a sure sign that water is near, and the weary traveler in that thirsty Jand is glad enough to hear the bell- bird calling to rest and refreshment af- i y { ministers to vanity, That that counter. | Good Wr . | minist 3 houy ittax irritation set up by boring the ear and erical form of the heed is destroyed, | night and court audiences are given ength, : aph ' between D5 aud 8 o'clock in the mora- and it is made to increase in I | ing. Aft r sunset very few people are If you desire to write for the press, | wearing a ring muy, during the few | and to be whut is termed a “good | javs following the operation, have some | writer,” there are two all-important | offact on the eves, supposing these or- | things that yon must look after. One gans to be the seat of any low form of | of these is u plain and easy style, clear- | {n dammation, is just possible; but that ly within the comprehension of all dis- permanent good should be done by | posed to read after you; and the other wearing rings in the ears after they 15 a themo calculated to interest every: | Lave ceased to irritate, is inconceivable. | body as near as it is possible for every- | The test for motive in the recourse to | body to be interested. The first of | {}js device would therefore be these attainments may bs most easily willingness on the part of the applicant | secured by a careful study of modern | for this form of “treatment” to allow writers, sach for instance as Irving, | the healing process to be delayed (say) Hawthorne and Dickens; the other | by wearing a rough ring dipped in some must come through a knowledge of irritating application, in short, 80 pre human nature and the exercise of good | nared as to act like a seton! This, in. corumon sense, Without an association | j.ed might do good, but in such a case of these two things no person can be- | probably recourse to a few blisters be- come a good, or, in other words, a pop | hind the ears would be better. It is ular writer, We have in mind several | junsense to suppose the wearing of ear men of our immediate acquaintance, | rings can be of any service to the eyes who write smoothly and beautifally; but | y,iess they irritate, and if they i who, lacking the second requisite, are | pirate, the process by which the result rot at all liked as writers. On the | gitributed to them is obtained is oircui- other hand, we can place our finger | tous, and, from a sargical point of view, upon men whese judgment, so far as re- | awkward in the extreme. Science can- lates to what would please the | not prostitute truth to fashion even in people, is almost entirely perfect, but | go ymall a matter as the wearing of ear- who, when they undertake to put their | ying, badly and round thdir periods sorough- | The perfection of conversation is not ly that no person cares to read after | to play a regular sonata, but, like the them for any great length of time,-- | Alolian harp, to await the inspiration of ter a hot day’s tramp,—8t. Nicholas, thoughts in words, put in their words so | Printers’ Ciroular. the passing brecze, this constitution was the result of force; | in the streets, the Chinese, like domes- nat urally, 8O that nsage had nothing | is no day ¢ responding to Seadets and to do with it.’ | only a few holidays in the year. Busily Here, Hippocrates appears to have | .q they toil these people are never in a satisfied himself upon a poiut whish 1 | hurry, are never nervous and are Bt tecest, and | given to worrying, but are steady, still not cleared up--the possibility of | cheerful and sober. They rarely quar- ly-produced deformity. Some facts | plows, seem to show that snoh wn occurrence | nulling, some calling of hard names may take place occasionally, but thereis | gud then the bystauders will quietly an immense body of evidence against its | separate the combatants. It 1s not being habitual. | physical timidity, but a sensitive con- Herodotus also alludes to the £.me | ;oiousness of the disgrace of fighting, onstom, ns do, at later dates, Strabo, | that keeps them from engaving in Pliny, Pomponius, Mela and others, | brawls That they are not co Is is though assigning different localities to | well proven by the fact that they sub- the nations or tribes to which they | mit without flinching to the most severe refer, and also indicating variations of | surgical operations withont ever using form in their peculiar eranial character- | gp msthetics. They maintain that it is istics. | very injurious to health to be nervous, TT | an ger.” There will be a little queue | to worry or to give way to Yesterday the wife of one of our] friends returning home, rang at her own At the close of the year 1880 there door. Nobody coming, she rang again, | were 98.671 miles of railroad in the gill nobody. Finally, at a louder, | United States. The Railway Age states longer ring, the valet concluded to! that the rack laid in 1881 was about show himseli. ¢ said the lady. “1 beg pardon, | mileage ever constrocted in any one year madame,” said the valet, tranguilly, «pnt I beard only the third ring."— | & and they are most exposed to ticular that of 2 inngs, for the langs exposed sotion of 2 gs YEE pus ing them outside the fies Daring the service a pa hangry wolves bad gut roand chureh doors, and when these were out, ' by famine to sn andacity, made a desperate ouslaught upon the crowd. According to an eye- witness an indescribable panic ensned. Mn and women alike, mercy of the famished wolve:, : ouly man who displayed aiy presence of mind was sacri-tan, who com- trived to clamber into the paipit, sad thence imitated the barking of s Sof so effectively that the invsders toul kilted turee of mangied five more so horribly to recover at published in the Spanish papers. Meas- ee ncoali he rae Ta in the day, as y C188 t e Peninsula—by the local authorities for the extirpation of wolves thro (u: the districts at present infested those canning nd sanguinary nivora.— London Telegraph. Le Figaro, { published by women. | Cy
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