rm
In the Lane.
They met in the lane by the pasture gate,
“A bird sang---aweetly a little bird sang).
~~ gh it was chance, but he knew it was
ate;
{On a swaying tree-top the bright bird sang
* 1 have something to tell you,” he gently said,
She blushed like a rose-leaf and bent her head,
While loudly the gay bird sang.
* Hark to the bird in the old oak tree!”
(“I love my love,” the wooing bird sang).
* He ix bolder than I, let him speak for me,
{** Now and forever,” the brave bird sang),
“1 hear his musio, but, Roy, I fear
Whea the snow blows into the waning year,
He'll forget the song he sang!”
Listen, love, to tha hopeful bird!"
(** Love me, I love thee,” the fond bind sang)
* Only in spring time his voice is heard,”
(* I will be true,” the bold bird sang.)
* Trust me, my darling!
year through!™
“True, true,” the sweet bird sang.
wtfelen Brine Grigg.
Eideola,
White winged birds in the sunset heavens,
White sailed ships an the sunsel soa;
But neither the birds that fly above us,
Nor ships, wherever their haven may be,
Are meant for me,
The bamboo lsughs at the zephyr's wooing,
Tossing the sheen of her sea-green hair;
While a jowvoicad lover leans to the lotus,
*1i:1 her tlushing cheek is yot more fair;
Bus eastward going, or westward blowing,
The wd that apaaks to blossom or tree
“Are damb to me,
I turn my face to the “maichlsss monntain.”
Quoenliest queen iu the world below;
Crowned as with crown of pure white lilios,
Flowers of the winter frost and snow,
The stars aud the clouds are in her secre,
Bat not on me,
w
Out from tha hush of the brooding twilight,
Rweet as the breath of the rose in sleep,
Soft as the flush of the summer sunset
Fading away an the purple deep,
Dawns in a dream the shore of the silent
Fashod by the waves of an infinite soa;
This is for ma
Shadowy sails that are set 10 seek ma,
Shadowy plutons that beat the air,
Shapes of baanty that rise to greet ma,
Are yo but phantoms, and yet so fair?
Breaking the bands of the dusk ssunder,
Tremulons stars in their mystery
Now shine for me!
Stars that illumine my soul serencly;
VOLUME XV.
NUMBER 19.
them go at cnce—but first bring me my
dressing-oase and jowel.oase. They
them now, before I go. I'll make no
difference, and then I've done with them
all forever—ungrateful set!”
Parker placed a gorgeous inlaid
dressing case and a massive brass-bound
coffer before her mistress and departed,
Lady Paulett drew the latter to her
with some diffioulty.
old woman lika me should ba rid of
some of these burdeus,” she said,
smiling grimly as she turned the key
and disclosed cass upon case of mo-
rocco and velvet snugly stowed away.
She turned them ont and laid them all
bright fire and eandle light.
Parker moanwhile stepped noiseless.
next room
“Let meses, Dora?
ost, She was to have my emeralds.
choice, Bah! he'll pawn them; what
else can one expoot?
doesn't matter,
possess,
bad thought
One feels those things when one is
Won lerfu] stars, nnknown to the skies
Wistiul and teader, vailing your splendor,
risions, oh, radiant aves?
ies on the shore of the silent,
Washed by the waves of an infinite sea,
Ye are the rea’—the livieg are phantoms
Fading from me!
—Fyom {he Japanese,
A ————————
THE OLD WORK-BOX.|
« I shall say no more; you may take |
your own way, all of you. I shall never |
interfere with you egain, for good or |
bad, so good-bye to you!" and Aunt}
Panlett hobbled off on ber ebony cruteh |
like the offended old fairy god- |
mother,
The family looked at one another |
with blank faces as the door clapped |
smartly after her. i
Aunt Puunlett was a woman of her
word, and if the said she would go back |
to her hasband's psopla, go she would |
undonbredly, and then, what would be- |
come of themall? |
From that dsy—twenty years ago—
when she, a ohildless widow, entered |
her sister's scambling, out-at-elbows |
household, to yesterday evening, she |
bad ruled them all with a rod of iron, |
by the might of a strong will and a long |
purse, i
Easy-going Mr. Hilton and his fair, |
stupid, good natured wife, who speat a |
placid existence doing wool work om |
the sofa, her ideas seemingly bounded |
by the requirements of the last annual |
baby, were mere ciphers in their own |
house, under her stern, yet wholesome |
SWAY.
1f Mr. Hilton, atter ona or two cut-
ting remarks from her ladyship, had |
sadly resigned his ancient and comfort. |
able fashion of spending the evening
in his greasy old dressing-gown and |
down-at-heel slippers—if the servants |
shook in their shoes at the sound of |
Lady Paulett’s bell, and a hint of “Aunt |
Arabella” quelled the wildest nursery |
riot—yet the handsome premium which |
was to start clever Jack on the road to |
glory as an engineer, the allowance |
which sent studious Pierce to college |
and saved bim from filling a stool in his |
father's office. Dora's pretty gowns |
and trinkets, Emily's singing lessons, |
and the new piano, the summer trip to |
the sea side, the winter pantomime and |
Christmas party—in brief, all the com- |
forts and luxuries of the family from |
the pony carriage to the last baby’s |
christening robe, came from the gen- |
erous hand of the same beneficent old
despot ; and now, now all were melt-
ing away before their astonished eyes
like summer snow, and Aunt Arabella
was off to spend the rest of her days
with the (George Pauletts—and why?
Because, forsooth, pretty Dora, in-
stead of carrying ont her aunt's inten-
tions and waiting till, in the fullness of
time, Spencer Paulett should return
from the sea, fall in love and marry her,
bad gone and engaged heiself to the
parish doctor's long-leggei Irish assist-
ant, with nothing in the world to offer
her but a8 warm Irish heart, a decent
share of brains under his shock of red
hair, and an income which he modestly
described as being on the wrong side
of his account book as yet.
There was an appalled silence, broken
only by the sound of the old lady's
crutch tapping off into the distance.
Mr, Hilton retired behind his news-
paper with the air of a man who had
much to say on the subject presently.
Mrs, Hilton sniffed feebly on her sofa.
The smallest Hilton but one sat under
the table sucking his thumb, sud
vaguely conscions of evil to come,
prepared for a wail. In a distant win-
dow Doras wept and wept impervious to
all her Cornelius’s vigorous whispers of
consolativn,
Pierce had withdrawn discreetly when
the storm broke, through the window
into the garden, where he was seen
walking up and down in dismayed
meditation ; and Jack, surreptitiously
shaking his fistat the unconscious back
of his would-be brother in-law, followed
Pierce. Meanwhile, up the staircase
and down the corridor went Aunt Ara
bella briskly enough despite her lame-
ness and her eighty years. She had two
little rooms in a remote corner of the
honse sacred from the intrusion of the
most audacious of Hiltons. She entered
the first of them, where a pale, meek
young femsle sat sewing.
* Parker ?”
“Yes, my lady.”
“] want my trunks, Find them at
onee and pack up everything that be-
longs to me.”
Long attendance on her imperious
mistress had deprived the gentle Parker
of the power of expressing any senti-
ment but that of meek acquiescence.
“Yes, my lady.”
“We go by the first train to-morrow,
80 be ready. And let some one take
two letters to the post for me to-night.”
“Yes, my lady.”
Lady Paulett seated on to the next
room, & bedroom furnished with a
magnificent erection of mahogany and
satin damask large enough to accom-
modate ten little old ladies like herself.
Lady Paulett seated herself in a tall
old arm chair by the fire, while Parker
lighted a large silver-branched candle-
stick and drew a table near to her.
« My writing desk, Parker, and you
may come for the letters in half an
h ar,’?
‘ Yes, my lady,” and while Parker
hurried off to rummage out her mis-
tress’ long-forgotten trav equip-
roents Lady Paulett, in her neat old-
fashioned hand, indited two short notes,
addressed the one to ** Mrs, George
Paulett, ¥astholm Hall, Wilmington,
Yorkshire;” the other to “ R. J. Black-
ett, Esq., Lincoln's Inn, London.”
She had finished before Parker reap-
peared, and after sitting thinking for
a few moments, drew from her desk a
folded . It was headed * Memo-
randa for my will, 1869,” and contained
young.
them,
Yes, here it is.”
“Pretty little gentle thing,
without my high spirits.
were to happen to me in my life |—and
what a dreary time I had had of it. I
overlook her.
diamonds.
on my wedding day, and I wore them
ing gown and slippers as a gentle 19
minder of bedtima. *Ah! it's lata,
Parker. Well, I've finished. No; go
and finish your packing and then coma.
What am I to do with this ?* This was
battered and shabby little thing.
piak sarcenet lining was frayed and
gone, disolosing the bare wood and
In ‘the com.
partments were odds and ends of mis
eallaneous rubbish. The pocket in the
lid bulged out with yellow scraps of
paper, old-fashioned patterns for mark-
10g letters tied with faded ribbons,
scraps from newspapers. ‘There were
curiously out silk winders ol cardboard
with silk of dim and long-forgotten
made hair chair, a string of amber
beads; pervading all a faint, sweet
small of roses
“I should like to have it put in my
No one will
care for it, and I cannot have it thrown
dren. I had better look it over and
burn all these poor littla treasures.”
steadily into the fire—old valentines on
huge square sheets of ooclored paper
wonderfully embossed and sealed with
tender mottoes in tinted wax, school
friends’ epistles crossed and recrossed
in colored inks. One she kept to the
last. “Cornelia Clarke, what a dear
sweet orveature she was! Dead and
bors, and I used to go with her to daao-
Why, here are the very garnet clasps 1
loaned her the night she came in early
to put up my hair in the new giraffe
We both wanted to look well
that night, I remember, How we joked
one another about Mrs. Lowder’s fine
house for the party, and I would put
to show how little I cared for any one
noticing me. (I knew very well how it
became me though.) After all, Mr,
Paunlett, the rich London merchant,
didn't come, only the sailor cousin,
Hugh Lowder. He had been in the
East and my Lord Byron's new poem
just then, and expected something ro-
mantic -a hero with a big black beard,
and stories of corsairs and veiled bean-
ties of the harem, and murdering despots
ages, poor man)."
a silk handkerchief.
“ Arabells, my god-daughter, must
was nothing he would not have done
for me or baby. He gave them to me
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eyes like my dear father's, taking no-
tice of
old!
his coffin.
And that very day he was put in
My poor little son!”
“It was a disappointment to find only
a big, blue-eyed north countryman, so
shy and awkward that the girls all
turned up their noses at him for a
partner till I tanght him the figures,
which he picked up in five minutes,
and then he wouldn't ask any one else
to dance with him.
““He came to call on us next day and
and Sophia some amber beads. Bhe
lost half of them and I saved the rest.
It wasn'é
good enongh, he said, yet it was work
all the rest, that dear little crystal ana
gold flask of attar roses, How it has
sconted everything I”
She went over the tiny box, tenderly
tonching the shabby old odds and ends,
and the rose scent seemed to rise and
fill the room. “And Josiah threw it in
the fire! said he hated the smell, and
would like to have thrown my little
box after it. He was angry, all because
wristbands. I had been stitching them
it away from her with a trembling hand
all I might be going to have some hap-
piness in this world when he was taken
from me. Sir Josiah never seemed to
the fever that killed him, It was
unkind of Josish, acd I think he
felt ashsmed of himsell afterward,
for he brought my fine new
If
that,
* When I came here and saw Jack in
his cradle he looked so like my boy 1
thought he was given back to me,
Dear, good, loving Jack! I never can
cast him off -1 must speak to Mr.
Blackett about that. Now. My dress
ing case? Ah! that must be Mrs,
George Paulett’s, her initials are the
same as mine. Sapphire necklace.
Cameo set. Pearl cross and earrings
for her three daughters. They're rich
enough to have as much jewelry of their
own as they want; and the rubies I
must keep for Spencer Panlett’s wife,
when he gets one.
“ Why, that's the end of my list ex-
cepting Cecilia, and there are Olivia,
Maria, Grace, the little boys and the
Well, I daresay I can find some remem-
brance of their auntie for each—not
that they'll ever remember me. Cecil
must bave my work-box. She has my
pretty taste in needlework (with a com-
placent glance at the patehwork and
tentstitch in which the golden threads
in Rath’s gleanings and Rebecca's ear-
rings still faintly glimmered). The
new crewel work isn't so bad. I could
have taught her something if 1 hadn't
been going away, Parker |”
Parker, a moving heap of brocades
and furs, gave a faint, inarticulate
reply:
“My work-box I”
Parker staggered off and returned
with a queer little Chinese box with an
inlaid landscape, a pagoda with two
Celestials walking in the skies above it
on the lid.
“You're dreaming, Parker! When
did you find this? I've not seen it
these ten years,”
Parker skurried away like a fright-
ened rabbit, to return this time with a
magnificent article—ebony and gold
without, gnilted satin, pearl and yet
more gold within. A turquoise studded
thimble, crystal smelling bottle in case
the fair worker should collapse under
her ardnous labors, a pearl framed mir-
ror by which she might refresh herself
by occasional glances, curious imple-
ments apparently constructed to sup-
port the largest possible amount of
gold chasing, withcut a point that
would pierce or a blade that would cut
among them; a receptacle for work,
satin lined, padded, perfumed and
empty, except for a half-made boy's
cap, with the rusty needle still sticking
in it.
“What was there to work for when he
was gone?” said the poor old lady,
looking at the morsel of discolored
cambrie. “What had I left in the
world to care for then? What have I
now, for that matter ?”
She began with nervous impatience
to open and close some of the cases al-
most at random. “1 would have put
them away forever, long, long ago, and
been a faithful nurse to my husband, if
he would have let me, all through those
last, long, weary years of his life; but
he never loved me well enough to wish
for me—he cared more for his old
}ousekeeper. ‘My lady is young and
should have her pleasure,” I heard her
say oace. He had married me for my
good looks, and was not to be defrauded
of his bargain, and I must dress and
visit and entertain in cur large, dull
and splendid house—weary, oh, so
weary of it all. He was proud of me,
in his way, and gave me all he promised
when he asked me to marry him. Mueh
good it was for me~father and mother
ead —sister Sophia married and gone
~—no one left to admire my splendor or
profit by my wealth.” Here entered
I was thizking
of Hugh Lowder. How handsome he
looked and how kind, when he came to
say good-bye before he went away to
sea again! He took my hand, sewing
and all (I could see the marks years
after, where I had pricked my finger
when I heard him cowe in), and he
said, oh! so tenderly, * Bella, have
you courage to marry a poor man, or
patience to wait till I come back a rich
one? and I had neither. God forgive
me, as he has punished me!” She held
the little box tightly in her hands, her
whole figure shaking with emotion.
“t God forgive me,” she cried again, and
sank forward on the table sobbing
among her diamonds.
There was a timid knock at the door,
but she could not hear it—then an
She rose from her chair, look-
ing strange and bewilderad as the door
softly opened and Dora stole in, Her
poor little face was all flashed and
swollen out of its prettiness by hard
crying, and her hair in a woe-begone
touzle.
‘* Auntie, I've come to may—please
forgive me if I was rude to you this
evening; and please don't leave us!
Cor—ecor—nelius and I are not g—going
to be engaged any more !”
Here came a bree:down and a burst
of stormy sobbing.
“Every one says—I'm s—sacrificing
the whole family in my selfishness, so
I've given him up, oh! oh! oh !—for-
ever?”
Lady Paule't made no sign—only
looked with a half-terrified air at her
niece, her old lips working nervously.
“But I won't marry any one else,
Never |? broke out Dora with sudden
energy. ‘I'll do anything else I can,
to please you, auntie. I can wait and
wait, and perhaps, he says, if some day
he comes back rich enough to please
you—"'
“You little fool I” broke in Aunt Ara-
bella in her own sharp tone ; then sud-
denly changing to a piteous shaky little
voice : “Why are you all so quick to
take up an old woman's hasty words?
I'm sure I've never been unkind to any
of you yet, Don't let him go, Dora.
Can't you trust your old auntie? ‘Rich
enough to please me,” Child! child!
to think that some day I might have
had to answer for two more spoiled
lives.”
Dora looked all wonderment.
“There! there! go to bed, and if the
others want to sacrifice you to their
own interests, never you mind them.
T'll let them know to-morrow what I
think of such wicked selfishness ?”
She gently pushed her amazed little
niece out and shut the door.
“Parker, are those letters gone ?”
“Yes, my lady.”
“Then let some one take two tele-
grams first thing to-morrow.”
“Yes, my lady.”
“And Parker! Have you finished
packing for to-night?”
“Yes, my lady.”
“Then put everything back in its
place directly. I'm not going.”
“Yes, my lady.”—Templs Bar,
An Australian bug introduced in
British Bouth Africa four years ago,
along with a plant for the botanical
gardens at Cape Town, has multiplied
go as to threaten all the vegetation.
They attack even the largest trees, and
many handsome oaks in the grounds of
the government house at Cape Town,
said to be » hundred years old, were re-
duced to such a state that they had to
be cut down. It is particularly hostile
to fruit trees, and on a single estate de-
stroyed 600 orange trees, thereby caus-
ing enormous Joss to the owner,
SCIENTIFIC NOTES,
A vein of hot water has been tapped
pear St. Etienne, France at a depth of
about 1,600 meters. This new geyser
sonds a volume of hot water and oar
bonie acid to a height of twenty-six
meters.
A Frenchman who had an imparme-
able stricture of the gullet was saved
from starvation by having mastigated
food introduced into the abdomen by a
syringe through an artificial opening in
the abdominal wall,
In a paper read by Dr, C. W, Siemens
before the English Royal society lately,
the ground was taken that all the heat
and energy sent from the sun find their
way back to the great solar ocenter,
which thus suffers no diminution of its
foroes.
A man, or one of the lower animals,
compelled to breathe for half an hoar
an atmosphere containing 1 779 of car
bonio acid, asorbs that gws in such
quantities that one-half the red blood
corpusoules combine with if, and be-
vome incapable of absorbing oxygen.
Whether American salt meat oan con-
vey trichinm® was a question lately dis
cussed in a paper by M, Colin and read
before the French adam of Sciences.
The conclusion arrived at was that the
meat in question, as now importsd into
Europe, might in very rare oases trans
mit trichinosis when the animal was
but recently killed, the pieces of meal
large, and the process of curing imper-
feotly conducted.
The ground in the Jura mountains is
in a state of movement, as is shown by
some ourious observations pointed out
by M. Girardot. Villages that were in-
visible to each other at the beginning
of the century, or even thirty or forty
years ago, are now visible. First the
roofs appeared, and then the upper
part of the walls. Buch is the case
with the villages of Doucler and
Marigny, near Lake Chalain. Im
portant changes have been noted even
within ten years.
The ventilation of the great Alpine
tnunels under Mount Cenis and the St
Gothard so as to free them quickly
irom the smoke of trains has been »
work of much difficulty. It has been
propossd to create a current of air by
the keeping of large fires ot one end,
but the expense has been found exces
sive. A French engineer, M. Pressel
attained by cooling the air at some
point in the tunnel by water, which
would give the difference in density ©
the atmosphere necessa y to cause a
draught. Cool mountain streams are
numerous in the Alps, and could be
readily applied to the parpose,
Whipping a Blloeh,
From a governing aspect the Biloch
is infinitely to be preferred to the
Afghan. Though physically inferior in
bulk and weight of body, he is the
Afghan's equal in courage and hi
superior in endurance and intelligence.
One especially good trait in Lis charac
ter is that he never sulks or bears
both. Here are illustrations in point.
I never remember having an Afghan
whipped in jail without the fellow
showing by his sullen looks and scowl-
ing face that he tore the stricker, if no!
myself, a grudge for it. Bat here, in
the Derah Ghazi Khan jail the punish-
ment over, the Biloch is as frank and
pleasant as he was before, One man,
[ remember, who was a bad ohare
ter, would not work. He was warned
that he would be whipped. He merely
laughed, and said: “That won't make
any difference, sahib,” He was shown a
wan being whippsd; he oaly looked
grave. Finally, he was whipped himsel!
He was taken out of his cell, stripped
naked, tied wrists and ankles to the tri-
angle, and given twenty or thirty—I
forget the exact number—strokes with
a ratan. Daring the operation he bit
at the wood, bit almost through his
tongue, but never either groaned or
winced. The punishment over, he
threw himsel! on the ground on his
face, when the usual skin of cold water
was dashed over him, and then the
commiserating water-carrier stood upon
the beaten rts to deaden the
pein Still e would not work.
saw him a day or two after in
his cell, looking happy aud un-
concerned, though he still must have
been very sore, and for days would not
be able to sit down. He was pleased
to see me. He seemed to have an idea
that not being in jail for any specific
and proved offense, it was not right to
give him hard labor, and so put him
on the level of a convicted felon. I re-
monstrated with him for his obstinacy,
to no effect.
One day I observed his splendid curls
shining with oil or ghee, I asked how
he had got it, He had saved it from
his food was the answer. I out his
ghee; still no effact, At last as his ex
ample was becoming infectious, I
warned him that if he did not work I
should have him transferred to the
Multan jail, whera I believed his Ab
salom-like hair would be cut short.
That threat frightened him—his ring
lets being the glory of the Biloch;
he said he would try to d
work. He made a pretense of
trying, and failing, was sent off to
Multan, where, I have no doubt, he ix
now, though prison-cropped, as smiling
and light-hearted a do-nothing as he
was here. Now, it is not in the Afghan
nature to behave as that Biloch did
and that Bilooh's case is typioal. Simi
larly circumstanced the Afghan would
have sulked, worked, fallen ill from
fretting, and some day after his release
perhaps killed the human instrument
who had beaten him. I have known
that happen in Bannu.— Blackwood,
A Burning Lake.
It is eaid that from one of the chief
naptha wells of Russia the liquid
shoots up as from a fountain, and has
formed a lake four miles long and one
and a quarter wide. Its depth is, how-
ever, only two feet, This enormous
surface of inflammable lignid recently
became ignited, and presented an im-
posing spectacle, the thick black clouds
of smoke being lighted up by the lurid
glare of the oentral column of flame,
which rose to a great height. The
smoke and heat were such ns to render
a nearer approach than one thousand
yards’ distance impracticable, Suitable
means for extinguishing the fire were
not at hand, and it was feared that the
conflagration would spread under-
ground in such a manner as to cause an
explosion. This supposition led many
inhabitants of the immediate vicinity
to remove to a safer distanca. The
quantity of naphtha on fire was esti
mated at four and » half million enbic
feet, The trees and buildings within
three miles’ distance were covered with
thick soot, and this unpleasant deposit
appeared on persons’ clothes, and even
on the food in the adjacent houses.
Not only was the naphtha itself burp
ing, but the earth which was saturated
with it was also on fire, and ten large
establishments, founded at great ex
pense for the development of the trade
in the article, wore destroyed.
According to the Canadian census
109,485 widows are monrning for their
lost spouses, and 50,803 widowers are
u the same distressing state,
FROM POVERTY TO, WEALTH,
Hew a Licutennnt Gevernsr Hreoame
Wenlitbyllicheos and Domestic Unhappl.
nos,
The divorce suit that has been insti.
tuted by Mes, Tabor, wife of the lieu
tenant governor of Oolorado, is another |
illustration that wealth does not always |
bring happiness with it. Mes, Tabor
asks for divorce and $50 000 alimony
per year, The faots are thus related
by the Cleveland Leader:
The unhappy couple were married at |
Aungasta, Me, in 1837, und their carcer
since that period has been marked by |
transitions from domestic felicity to the
most violent family jars; from absolute
poverty to princely wealth; from the
rude hovel of the frontier to the most
Inxurious homa that the purse of a mil
lionaire could ec mmand. In 1850 they
started for Pike's Peak in a parlor car
drawn by two oxen, taking all their
property with them, and after drifting
about the country for some years they
settled down in the place where Denver
pow stands. He searched in vain for
“pay gravel,” and while he was pros.
peoting she cooked bacon, made bread
and kept up the household expenses
by boarding miners, Finally Tabor
built a log hut and started a store and |
boarding-house combined, which was a |
general rendezvous for the miners, |
All the hard work of the establishment
fell upon Mrs. Tabor, Bhe was the
only woman within one hundred and
sixty miles, and she did the cooking
and washing for the miners, attended
to all their wants in the store, weighed
their gold dust on the only pair of
scales in the neighborhood, making
herself the waiter and drud, e of every
one, In the meantime the husband
yielded to the irresistible fever that
seldom lessens its grip upon one who
has once become its victim, and con.
tinned his search for gold, He moved
from prospect to prospect, from digging
to digging, always believing himsell.on
the biink of fortune, and while he
reveled in golden dreams the wile
diudged and toiled to procure for
herself aod her royal dreamer the
subatantials of life. In 1876 he began
to realize some of his grand expectations,
and he was soon known asa millionaire.
Tabor contined to prosper at a won-
derful rate, and is now considered one
of the wealthiest men in the State. His
wife's petition says he is worth §10,000,.
000, and has an income of §100,000 per |
month, He spent his means lavishly |
and surrounded his wife with every |
luxury that money conld buy; but, adds
the Leader:
She says that he grew hard hearted
in proportion as he became rich; that
he absented himself from home for]
weeks and mouths, and on one occasion |
he offered to give her a portion of his
large fortune if she hed 1 apply for a |
divorce. All he h~s to say is that he |
gave her $100,000 a few years ago, |
which she invested, and which now |
yields her $14,000 a year; that she |
ts a woman and he hopes she
will receive all the sympathy grow:
ing out of the case. Both sides of the |
story will only come out on trial. What |
is certain now is that their domestic |
happiness took wings the moment |
wealth rolled in upon them; that as |
soon as they ceased fighting with pov- |
orty they began fighting each other, |
Their happiest days were when they |
were poor, and as they now sit in the
midst of luxury and plenty it is prob. |
able that their memory holds no pleas.
anter period than when they sat to
gether behind the ox-team and were
being dragged ont into the Western
wilds to seek their fortune nearer to the
setting sun.
msn IO 555350
An Odd Fire Escape.
Passing Union eqnare the other day,
anys the New York correspondent of the
Detroit Free Press, 1 witnessed a trial |
of a new fire escape of a rather peculiar |
kind, It was an escape and a water |
tower in one. At first there was what |
seemed to be an enormons hoop-skir
lying on a truck. Attached to the
truck were cranks and levers, with fire. |
men at hand to work them. Ina few |
minutes the contrivance was elevated to |
a height of suxty or seventy feet from
the body of the truck, on which it then
stood like the skeleton of a lighthouse, |
In the center, asd running the full |
beighth was a tubular iron pole, which |
could bo extended or contracted on the |
telescope principle. This carried the
other parts up with it, as the cranks for |
raising it were turned. The other]
parts consisted merely of a number of |
hollow brass rings, about six feet in|
diameter, and attached to each other at
distances of something over a foot by |
light iron chains. Three lines |
of hose were introduced at the]
bottom and carried to the top|
as the iron pole in the center |
kept rising. When it was at full |
height, and the rings all out, three |
firsmen chmbed up inside, the rings |
answering as the rounds of a ladder, |
and soon had the neighborhood pretty |
well deluged with water. With the |
weight of the firemen at the top, the
tower swayed like a tall tree in aj
storm, and threatened at every moment |
tofall over. But it did not fall, and |
the men showing it off said that it
could pot, as the mechanism on the
truck kept it all right. It was curions
to see the strange thing lean over from
the street to the top floor of a building,
and receive a man who crawled oat and
descended by it, and then straighten
itself ap again. The action seemed like
that of an enormous serpent, with
most of its body elevated and swayed by
the play of the muscles. 1 should
hardly think a nervous person would be
willing to risk his neck on the thing
even to escape from a fire, but the fire
men who went up and down seemed to
feel as safoas a boy in an apple tree,
provided the owner of the apple tree
was not around.
Overheating Houses,
Viek's Floral Guide advises against
overheating plants, It says the tem-
perature of the room should not be
allowed to go above seventy degrees,
and sixty-five degrees would be better.
“(ive a little fresh air every day and
all the sunlight attainable. An effort
should be made to give moisture to the
atmosphere, for our own good as well
as for the life of the plants.” The ad-
vice here given in regard to tempera
ture, fresh air and sunlight is just as
essential to human beings as to plants.
Sensitive plants dry up and wither
away and die if the surroundings are
not favorable. So sensitive individuals
sioken, get headaches and depressed
foolings when the room is carelessly
allowed to be heated to seventy-six and
eighty degrees, when ventilation is
never thought of, and sunlight almost
wholly excluded. Especially in winter
do we find sickness from these causes,
for the overheating of farnaces and
stoves is not as readily borne as the
summer heat, and ventilation is pre-
vented not only by shut windows and
doors but by weather strips, aud the
sunlight is absent a larger portion of
the time than in summer. Therefore if
you find that no plants will live in your
own living rooms may it not be that it
is too great a tax upon your own consti-
tution to maintain existence in such a
DR. LAMSON'S CRIME,
An Account of the Case and Trial eof the
Amevican Hung is Lundan fur Polsoning
iis Brether«in-Law,
The following is an interesting so
count of the ease of Dr, Lamson, the
American hung recently in England for
murdering his brother-in-law, a young
student :
The trial of Dr, Lamson was one of
the canses celebres of modern English
criminal anpals, Lamson was an Ameri
can, the son of an Episcopal clergyman
well known in Paris, Florence and other
Earopesn cities, He studied medicine
at Paris, where he took his degree in
1870, and afterward became a licentiate
of the Elinbarg College of Physicians
and Surgeons, In the Franco-Prussian
war he served with an ambulance corps,
and in 1876 he was in charge of a Ber-
bian hospital at Bemendria, and daring
the war of 1877 78 was attached to a
hospital at Busharest, From these
services he brought back a number of
decorations, Frenoh bronze and iron
crosses, eto, and settled down to
practice in Hampshire. In April, 1881,
he visited the United States, spending
several months in this conntry, His
practice was not remunerative here,
aowever, as in the fall he had to pawn
his watch and surgical instruments. He
wad married, and in the event of bis
a lad of nineteen, affected with spinal
complaint —dying in his minority, a
sum of some £3000 would pass into
the possession of Mrs. Lamson and her
sister. Percy was at school at an
establishment at Wimbledon, called
Blenheim House, kept by a Mr. W. H.
Bedbrook, where his brother in-law
visited him every threes or four months.
Hs was in good health, although his
spinal trouble prevented him frem
going about, save in a wheeled
chair, He seemed to be
on affectionate terms with Dr, Lamson.
Late in November Dr. Lamson was
stopping at Nelson's hotel in Great
Portland street, London. He was out
of fands, his vill had been sent up to
him several times, but had not Ree
paid, and on the 26th he tried to bor-
row £5 from his landlord. Two days
later he attempted to got a check for
815 cashed at the American Exchange.
On Fiiday, December 2, he left the
hotel, leaving part of his luggage as se
curity for his uli, and told a medical
friend named Tallock that he was go-
ing to set out for Paris. Through him
Lamson obtained £12 10s cash on the
to Tullock that he had inadvertently
selected the wrong book, having
closed his acoount with the bank in
uestion, He went with his friend to
Wimbeldon, saying that, as there was a
bad boat on the line that night, he would
delay his departure for twenty-four
hours and visit his brother-in-law. As
told him that the boy was suffering and
Saturday, the 31, Tullock again met the
doctor, who told him that he was going
to see his wife at Chichester, as he had
missed the Paristrain. Lamson did see
his brother-in-law on Friday as he
claimed, but on Saturday, about 7
o'clock, he called at Blenheim House
snd saw Perey John in the presence of
Mr. Bedbrook, who produced some
Dr. Lamson mixed some
ground sugar with his wine, saying
that it destroyed the alcoholic effeo:;
capsules, telling Mr. Bedbrook that he
had remembered him while in New
York, and had brought him something
lasting less than un hose the dootor left,
sending back some money by a porter
from the railroad station, with the mes.
sage that he had forgotten to give it to
his brother i-law. Percy soon ocom-
felt just as he had when Lamson had
given him some quinine at Buanklin, Isle
of Wight. His pains become worse,
and though doctors were sent for at 9
he died at 11:30. The police were at
onoe informed, and suspicion was di-
rected to Lamsom, The latter ap-
peared at Scouand Yard on December
death while on his way to Italy for his
health, and bal returned, seeing his
name connected with the oase by the
papers, to remain in London till after
He was, however, at once
arrested, and the public prosecutor, St.
John Wontner, soon discovered several
unfavorable points besides those already
mentioned. It was found that Lamson
had bought two grains of aoconita No-
vember 24, in the form of a dry powder,
duced into the capsule, and that a vial
marked ** poison’* was in his possession
at thehotel. It was discovered at the
post mortem that John Peroy had died
upon the nervous centers, aconita beiog
such a poison, and it being possible to
administer a fatal dose in such a capsule
as that given him by Dr. Lamson. The
alkoloid taken from the stomacl of the
deceased had killed mice when they
were injeoted with it. A package of
powders prepared by Lamson at
Vectnor were analyzed, and, while
many contained only quinine,
in others there were found
fatal quantities of aconite. One pill
would nave kitled 100 persons, These
were the powders Dr. Lamson had sent
to his brother-in-law. Dr Lamson was
committed January 20 on a chmge of
willfal murder, He was found guilty
after a trial at the Central criminal
court in London, and sentenced to be
hanged April 4. Strong efforts were
made by Minister Lowell to obtain a
stay of execution for the condemned
man under instructions from President
Arthur, and a reprieve was granted.
The friends of Dr. Lamson then
presented many aflidavits setting forth
tho insanity of the prisoner. A peti-
tion containing the sworn depositions of
twenty doctors and friends, covering a
period of two years, were sent to Lam
son's counsel, but the efforts to obtain
a new trial proved uravailing. Lamson
wag thirty-five years old, of medium
height and spare build. The trial at-
tracted unusual interest, as cases of
aconite poisoning are not very numer-
ous, and there was a notable battle of
medical men over the evidence. Lam.
son was said to have made an unsuocoess-
ful attempt to poison his brother-in-law
previous to sailing for America. His
wife, who believed him to be 1noocent,
visited him almost daily.
Attorney-General Brewster wears raf.
fles on his shirts, in obedience to a vow
made to his sainted mother, who ex
acted the promise from him out of
respect for the memory of her venerated
father, who always wore ruflles on his
shirts,
Des Moines, Iowa, now claims the
largest distillery in the world, The
works cost $200,000, will employ 125
men, will consume 7,000 bushels of
oorn daily, and pay a government tax of
$15,000 a day. Tt will also feed 4,000
place.~Dr, Foote's Health Monthly.
cattle.
FOR THE LaDIES,
Kamps and Notes for Wemen,
A woman living at Cokesbury, Bouth
Carolina, has made over $1,500 in the
manufacture of feather fans,
Mrs, Garfield recently reosived asa
present from a Dresden artist a portrait
on porcelain of her late husband,
A Nevada yonug woman who is still
in her teeus has been divorced from
two husbsnds sud has married the
third.
There ave 533,620 women in Massa
ohnsetts unrepresented by husbands,
204,641 of whom are over twenty years
of age.
The hair of Johann BStranss’ wife
reaches to her ankles and weighs all of
five pounds. Bhe used on it nothing
but water of her native city, Cologne
The young Kate Shelly who saved an
Towa train near Doone, by her cours.
goous and heroie efforts a year or two
ago, is engaged to be married to the
conductor of the train she saved,
The latest caprice in Paris is the
wearing of huge collars and ouffs
crocheted of twine or linen thread.
They are worn over dark woolen dresses,
with a narrow white lace or liese rauche
above the collar around the neck and
below the cuffs around the wrists,
A widow in Japan who is willing to
think of matrimony wears her hair tied
and twisted around a long shell hairpin
placed horizontally across the back of
the head. Bat when a widow firmly
resolves never to change her name again
she outs off her hair short on her neck
and combs it back without any part.
The wife of Senator Mahone has won
in Washington the distinction of wear.
ing handsomer jewels than does any
other woman in official society. Her
diamonds used long ago to be a matter
of comment; and when she returned
from Europe lately her husband pre-
seuted her with additions to her jewel
case valued at $40,000,
Women are admitted to the bar on
ual terms with men in Kansas, Maine,
Michigan, Minnesota, North Carolinas,
Ohio, Wisconsin, Iowa and Illinois. By
an set of Congress, those who Lave been
for three years members of the bar of
supreme court.
Fashlon Fascles.
Block balayeuses appear in black
Long Directoire coats are fashionable
in Paris,
New guimpes are of ecru lace over
white satin,
Pink and brown together are stylish
for bonnets.
Sewing silk grenadine is the fashion.
able choice.
The Cabriolet hat will be worn in
midsummer,
Shepherd’s check is liked for moun-
tain dresses.
Pelerines are worn smaller than they
were last year,
Dresden china handles are attached
to dark parasols.
English ladies have adopted the mas-
culine pea jacket, |
Flemish lace of creamy tint trims
dark satin dressos,
Yellow flowers trim dark green and
black straw bonnets.
White suits for summer are of wool
Jersey gloves are worn outside the
Visites made of India cashmere
shawls are favorite wraps. .
White net embroidered is used for
neckties and chemisettes,
The handsomest silk embroidered
and bead embroidered designs are seen
in applique bands, to be sewed on as
trimmings of the handsomest silk cos-
tuwes. They sell at high prices.
The large red straw hats in porcupine
braids are being rapidly appropriated
by young girls of from eight to ten
years, foe favorite trimmings are os-
trich feathers or silk pompous of a
darker shade of red.
Long corsets are now almost uni-
versally worn, and over the hips of the
more expensive kinds are set narrow
V-sha pieces of india rubber web-
bing, which, though fitting the form
perfectly, give it uncommon ease.
A novel dress is made of scarlet sarah,
eut princesse shape, and completely
veiled with black chenille in diamond
openwork patterns. A soar! of the
chenille, bordered with a very wile
chenille fringe, is laid in transverse
folds across the skirt in front, and,
being caught up in the back with large
jot cinsps, falls in double-shawl points
over the back breadths,
The bonnet of most pronounced
originality brought out this season is
the *'London Witoh."” It is snimmense
turned-up scoop hat, brimless in the
back and short and flat at the sides, an
emphasized, exaggerated old style Dan-
stable. I: is vastly becoming to piquant
faces, I:is trimmed with large quun-
tities of flowers or feathers or ribbon,
at the option of the wearer.
Ia Paris, as a variety, young ladies
have adopted, toa limited extent, riding
habits of creamy white or pale buff in-
stead of dark cloth ones. The bodice
is a glove-fitting cuirass, lengthened
behind into cost lapels and fastened
and trimmed with buttons of carved
pearl. The neck is finished with a ruffle
of creamy lace; the sleeves are tight
and partly concealed under the long
gloves of soft deerskin slip over
them. The hat, of white felt, is a
tainesborough, lined with black or
dark velvet and decorated with a long
plume.
Ancient Barlals in China,
An Oriental writer has recently given
an interesting description of an ancient
burial in the Chinese empire. It was
the custom for the wealthy man to pro-
cure his coffin when he had reached the
age of forty. He would then have it
painted three times a year with a com-
position rosembling silicate paint or
enamel, which formed an exceedingly
hard coating. The process of making
this paint is now one of the lost arts of
China. If the owner of the coffin
lived longenough, the frequent paint.
ing—each coat being of consid
erable thiockness—caused it to as-
sume the ap ce of a sarcopha-
gus, with a foot or more in thiok-
ness of this hard stone-likeshell. After
death the veins and cavities of the per-
son's stomach were filled with quick-
silver for the purpose of preserving the
body. A piece of jude would then be
placed in each nostril and ear, and in
one hand, while a piece of bar silver
would be placed in the other hand.
The body thus prepared was placed on
a layer of quicksilver within the coffia,
the latter was sealed, and the whole
deposited in its final resting-place.
When some of these sarcophagi were
opened, after a la of centuries, the
bodies were found to be perfectly y pis.
served, but they quickly crumbled to
dust on being to the air.
WISE WORDS,
Prodery is as perfume (hat oonoeals
vitiated air,
Nothing overcomes passion more
than silence, :
Faith snd hope cure more diseases
than medicine,
It is not wise to reject benefits when
they may be refused.
Happiness is like the echo; it answers
you, but it does not come.
A man without secrecy is an open
letter fur every one to read,
Fortune has rarely condescended to
be the compauion of genias,
When duty seems to clash, “the moral
law alwsys has the right of way.”
Excess of Seremony is wlways the
companion of weak minds; it iss plant
that will never grow in a strong soil.
From the manner in whish praise and
blame sre dealt out in this world, an
honest man ought to c vet defamation.
In life it is diffienit to say who do
you the most mischief, enemies with
the worst intentions or fri with
the best,
When a man dies they who survive
him ask what property he has left be-
hind. The ungel who bends over the
dying man asks what good deeds he has
sent before him.
Unless a man can link his written
thoughts with the everlasting wants of
men, so that they shall draw from them
as from wells, there is no mors immor-
tality to the thoughts and of
the soul than to the muscles the
bones.
Nearly Kissed Themselves to Death,
Osculation is unquestionably a pleas.
ing pursuit. It has been racognized as
such from time immemorial, by gener-
ations unnumbered of lovers, posts and
even philosophers. There are doubt
less, at the present moment, in this snd
in other countries, many
swains who ask no better than to be
permitted to imprint “ ten thousand
kisses,” one after another, upon the
lips of the damse!s on whom they have
bestowed their affections, They may,
however, esteema themselves fortunate
rtunities in this direction
are somewhat limited, as the following
troe story will show : At an evening
party in Kelkheim, a few weeks ago,
the conversation happened to turn
kissing, and the question arose
many salutations of this olass could be
exchanged between two ardent lovers
within a oertain space of time. As
usual, opinions differed, and the discus-
sion waxed warm. Presently a flery
vouth offered to bet snybody present
the German equivalent of a ten-
note that he and his betrothed would
kiss ue auotber 10,000 times within
ten hours, provi they were permit-
ted to partake of oh ht refresh-
ment at intervals of half an hour during
the performance. His wager having
been scoepted and the money posted,
the affianced couple addressed them-
selves to the achievement of their con-
genial task. At the expiration of the
first hour their account stood credited
with two thousand kisses. Daring the
second they added another thousand,
and during the third seven hundred and
fifty to that number. Then, pitiful to
state, they both broke down. The
youth's lips were stricken with cramp,
and the maiden fainted away. Later
on in the evening she was compelled
to take to her bed with a sharp attack
of neuralgia. An even more distressing
result ensued from this surfeit of tender
endearment, for it led to the breaking
off, b* mutual con-ent, of a hopeful
matrimonial engagement. Young lovers
should keep th's sad tale in mind snd
mod: rate their transports, for, strange
as it may seem, Dan Capid himself may
be kissed to death.— London Telegraph
——
AnElephant j3’ory.
The elephant seemed to get tired
first, and jast as the first streak of
dawn began to show itself in the sky he
turned and walked leisurely away. For
a minute or two I heard him crashing
among the thickets. and then all was
quiet again, as if he'd gone right
AWAY.
* Now,” I thonght, * is my time to de
camp, too,” and down the tree I slipped
as nimbly as an acrobat. Bat I soor
found I had been reckening without my
host, for I had hardly touched the
ground when there came a crash Lik
fifty mad bulls charging through ar
many “glass-houses, and out from the
thicket, with his great white tusks
leveled at me like bayonets, came my
friend the elephant, who bad been on
the watch for me all the time,
Whether I should have ran or stood
my ground, and how I should have
fared in either case, can never be known
now, for jast at that moment my foot
slipped snd down I came, close to the
tree. The next moment there was a
crash as if two trains had run into essh
other, and I made sure that I was
knocked into a hundred pieces at least,
aud that it was all up with me.
1 soon became aware, however, that
I was still alive and sound, while a
shrill, frightened cry overbesd told me
plainly that it was the elephant who
had got the worst of it this time. I
scrambled to my feet gingerly enough,
stamping snd pounding like steam
hammers within arm's length of me,
and there I saw a sight which, scared as
I was, made me laugh till I could hard-
ly stand.
I had fallen just in time to escape the
blows of the elephant's tusks, which
had stuck themselves so deep into the
tree that he could not pull them out
sesin, and there he was, hard and fast,
like a ship run aground. The animal's
look of disgust and bewilderment at
finding himself in such a fix was as
good as a play to behold; bat just then
I was in no humor to stop and ad-
mire it, for I knew that he
might break loose yet, and that
if he did it would be all up with
me. My first impuise was to take to
my heels at once, but the next moment
I thought bétter of it, aud decided to
settle Mr. Elephant instead. I quickly
fickad up and reloaded mw gan, which
ad luckily escaped his notice, or he
wonld have trampled it to bits, and,
sorambling into the tree again, sent a
bullet into his forehesd, which did its
business, and left him standing bolt
upright in a very picturesque attitude
indeed.
Where the Storms Hide,
Near Wisconsin, in the Sunset moun-
tains, a cave has been discovered which
is one of the greatest wonders of Ari
zona Territory. It is of unknown pro-
portions, having never been explored
avd the phenomenon connected with it
that causes the wonder of beholders is
the fact that a strong current of air
rushes into the cave of sufficient force
to draw into the Piutonian depths all
light articles placed near the entrance.
The roaring of the winds into the cuvern
may be heard 200 yards away from the
opening.
Blessings ma 7 appear undethe shape
of pains, losses and disappointments,
but let him have patience and he will
sce them in their proper figure,
Hii
B :
will see Nineveh, Tabyion,
and the cities famibar to us