Only a bad we call it, But its pale green leaflats fold Over the summer's beauty And antamn's treasured gold. Only a little brown acorn, But we shall find at length It eradled the forest monarch With all his mighty strength, Only » kind word spoken, Only a kind look given But they filled a life with beauty, And a soul was raised to heaven, Feorgie L. Health, Distance Lends Inchantment, The sails we see on the ocean, Areas white as white can be, But never one in the harbor As white as the sails al sea. And the alouds that crown the mountain With purple and gol de ight, Tarn to cold gray mist and vapor Ere we reach its height Stately and fair the vessel That comes not near our beach ; Stately and grand the mountain Whose height we may never reach, Oh, Distanca, thon dear enchantress, Siill ho'd in thy magie veil The glory of far-off mountains The gleam of the far-oll sail, THE YELLOW ROSE. Adele Taskell formed one of a group of girls who wero spending their sum mer at the seaside, in a romantic little port, made thoroaghly delightful by the combina ion of woodland and wild coast, Juland drives and shaded ram bles were as scoessiblo at choive as surl- bathing or the long ttcolls on the fine white beach, forever washed by the ex- hilarating waves. Adele was at this place under the care of her annt, and with her, under her own care, a younger sister just nearing the fourteenth birthday, aud ceasing to be the torment and delight of imme- dia‘e relatives as I'enfante terrible, only to cccupy the same distinetions of con- cern as ‘a bright little piece.” Georgie | Baskell was an irrepressible, mis- chievons, wonderfully observant and | wide-awake creature ; aud her calm and beautiful elder, Adele, whom she devoutly admired and loved, had never- theless no li_ht task in taking care of her. ! Georgia was often in disgrace, and sometimes in punishment, and her only relief at such moments was to write long letters of complaint to her! absent mother, In cone of these letters, | whose exaggerated tales of woe could only interest the maternal heart, there happened to be, one day in late July, a | bit of description incidentally given that throws upon the seaside life at the romantic port a significant glance of comprehension, sud shows how the perfect happiness of the place was utterly marred by one slight want, not taken into consideration by the mammas snd aunts in their choice of a summer seaside. “And really,” wrote Goaorgis, “I never knew that mon and boys could be of so much importance. Even bad boys would be welcome here; and as for Sam and Henry they would be petted to death by the girls. The night of the ball they had to send twelve miles for just a few; and such a set! Bat Miss Riley said, ‘ Oh, anybody for partners.’ | Olivia H—— has perfectly beautiful dresses—all from Paris—and not a soul | to dress for; for she says she won't dress for girls. “Last night there was a great excile- ment. Miss Riley said she heard that five young men had engaged rcoms for August in this hotel, and that rooms (on the second floor) were being fixed for them. You ought to have seea them. Yon ought to have seen Olivia *They won't come to-night, will they? she said; for she had nothing on but her plain black silk and a tarned down collar, But to-day she's dressed splen- didly—plum-color and salmon. I wish you could see her gown; it's lovely. They are coming in the stage to-night, and I do hope we will have some fun, and I want you, dear mamma, to write especially to Adeie—Dbecause she is aw- fully stupid about some things—that if there are picnics I am to go, and to tea parties, for I'm fourteen,” ete. The five young men came, others | were soon added to the number, and there was no more dullness that season. Drives, picnies, sails, rambles, every- thing that could be devised for lending | wiogs to the summer hours, found plen- {iful energy to prevent dreams from losing the * name of action.” All went merrily to mid-August. | In mid-August a keen observer might | have noticed in the little community— outwardly all gayety and suave amity — certain ominous signs threatening the general peace in the formation of cliques. In these cliques there were whisperings and mystery, as il in dis- affection or disapproval of each other, | Adele Haskell with her natural reserve | holding herself apart from personal con- | fidences, and i in the seaside | having in circle no intimate friend, was not quick | to ive this change in the daily life | of her companions. All the more when | the change suddenly became palpable | did she feel herself alone and harshly | shut ont from the sympathies of those | who at first had seemed anx >us to | establish with her the wost co. filing | friendship. Fortunately the rapid suc- cession of diversions gave her little time to brood over the cause of this coldness, which was confined to the girls, the young men having with ad- mirable tact equalized their attentions, | 80 that no one could feel the weight of masculine neglect, least of all the bean- tiful Adele, One of these considerate youths was, | however, unconsciously the source of | disaffection, and tha® nc other than Harvey Ellsworth, the favorite of the whole house, the manly beau-ideal of the younger girls, and the distingnished master of ceremonies in every plan de- vised by the slders, both of whom sub- mitted to his judgment and direction. “Js it not really ridiculous,” said Olivia H—~- to her half-dozen bosom friends, in that confidential hour when the gentlemen were not present, “the manner of Adele to Mr. Ellsworth? Bhe is so conscious, so affectedly shy —for there is not any real shyness about her. I believe she is actually in love with him. And it is so absurd, for any one can see that he never gives her a thought, I have watched him quite closely; and althongh he is polite, as he has to be, of course, he never cares to talk to her or to dance with her. He never gives her an admiring glance. And the other night about the music, he was almost rude to her; that is, rnde for him. Well, I never liked Adele particularly; 1 never could see the beauty people talk about. And now I like her less than ever, and I should think that Harvey Ellsworth would be positively disgusted.” “I have no doubt that he is dis- gusted,” said Matilda Ownes. “Of course he wouldn't like to show it And Adele acts as much as to say, in her jet way, ‘He is tiecretly in love with no.” Oh, I shonld just like to see her vanity dampened a little. Girls, let us have some fun; let us bring Adele Has- kell out,” “ How do you mean ‘bring her out?” “Why, let us make some plan to set her face to face with her folly, and give her remarkable serene dignity a good lesson.” “ What plan can we make ?” They were not long in finding one; for, given the mischievous intent, and there is always a scheme ready at hand to give the mischief expression. he plan was a bold one, and several days elapsed before it was thoroughly completed and ready for execution. It might have perished carelessly as it be- LUME XV. CO., 25, i SA ESE NTA NUMBER 21. made Adele appear to be more than aver appropriating the desirable Mr Ellsworth, | Daring these days the susceptible | little Georgie found herself very kindly { noticed by Olivia and Olivia's partionlar | friends, At last one morning Matilda i Ownes said to her : “(@Georgie, do you want to have some | fan, and help us with a plan of ours that will bean excellent joke ¥" Georgie deolared that she was ready for anything; she loved fan and she | loved jokes, Having been bound to secrecy, sho | was direoted to write at dictation a let | ter Matilda would compose, and to use in writing her extraordinary skill in im. itation, They produced the hand wri ing she was to copy, in slips from a game of * Consequences,” containing | sentences written one evening by Mr, | Ellsworth, “Whom is the letter to? asked Georgie, “That,” said Matilda, ‘‘ you are not to know. Then if any questions are asked when the joke comes off you can say truly that you are ignorant.” and hesitated. “I think | ought to know whom I am writing to,” she said. The girls overruled her objection, “You will know as soon as it is best,” they said. ‘‘ And you can trust us that it is written to the right person.” So Matilda dictated: “Forgive me if I address yon too hastily and too boldly. You are in all my thoughts every moment, and I feel that I cannot resist the opportunity that may never ocour again. May I see yon for a fow moments alone? If you will grant me this request—and 1 beg yon as you value the true devotion of my heart not to refuse—please wear to. night in your hair a yellow rose.” This letter had been carefully com posed, and it was dictated by Matilda from a manuscript approved by all the girls concerned 1n this practical joke. *‘ Now sign it,” said Olivia, “How shall I sign it?’ asked the child, who had succeeded by sharp gerutiny of the model in making the writing quite characteristic. “Why, *‘Harvey Ellsworth,’ of course. 'Tisa pity we could not get his signature for you to copy exactly, but you must make it from the letters yon have. There is a capital H to begin | with.” “ Oh, Matilda,” said Georgie, “I conld not sign a man's name, That would be wrong, I am sure. No one has a right to sign another man’s name. Why, that would belorgery.” She was quite de- cided. “ Well, it must be signed,” said Oliv- in, “orit will not be of any use. Of course no one would wear a rose for an anonymous lover. Come, don’t be ob- stinate, Georgie; we shall lose our whole joke.” “I will tell you what she can do,” said Matilda, who had some faint mis- giving of conscience herself on this point; she can sign it in initials—HE.’ That might be anybody; at least it might be any He, Come, child, don't hagzle; the whole affair is nothing but | a bit of fan. He! he! always comes after a good joke, you know, Georgie.” So Georgie, having found in the gcraps of **Consequonces” the proper capitals, signed “*'H. E.” with a modest flourish, and the note, after dne inspec- tion and admiration, was signed and saaled, ts Now please let me direct it," said | Goaorgie. *‘1'll promise not to tell.” “0h, we havea plan about the di- | rection,” Olivia said. * Now you have done your part nobly, and if there is ever anything we can do for your pleas- | ure, be sure to let us know.” #1 should like to see the fun,” said * And you need not tell me | who it is, for I know it is Miss Riley. And it's almost tbo bad, only I suppose a real old maid—a real flirting old maid, [ mean-—doesn’t mind whom she wears yellow roses for. She will just be won- dering why he doesn’t come up and ask her to take a drive or walk around the piazza by moonlight,” Success smiled upon the completion of the practical joke. When the 11 a. | 3. mail had arrived, and the customary | application for letters was made at the | hotel office, Mr. Ellsworth appeared | there, looking over his own budget, as { fortune would have it, quite alone. | Then Olivia came sauntering gracefully { along the corridor, aud coming near | him, paused. “Oh, Mr, Ellsworth," said she, “can | you reach that pen on the desk, and | will you just direct this little note? It | is only a line to Adele; I must send it to her room. Jast ‘Miss Adele Has kell,’ please.” And she turned to order | a bell-boy for the errand. | The ink of its address was hardly dry | when Adele received the note. There | was a picnic that day at Seven-miles | Falls, a drive home by early moonlight | snd high teaat 9. Immediately before | tea the toilets were made for the even- | ing, and a by-plot was contrived by | which Georgie Haskell was detained | from being present at the critical mo- | ment of the joke's dencument, When tea was nearly oves8he took her place at table, and glanced at Miss Riley; | there was the yellow rose in her hair! | Mr. Ellsworth, perfectly uncon] scious, was seated neariy opposite her. | Then Georgie looked cautiously at | Olivia; there was a yellow rose in her hair. All the girls, even Adele, had | yellow roses in their hair. Mr. Ells. | worth had a yellow ross in his button- | hole. Other gentlemen had similar | bontonnieres, Georgie was elightly bewildered; but | her keen appetite for supper after all | her open-air exercise assnaged her curi- | osity, and she contented herself to await the explanation of this compliea- tion of yellow roses until after she should have devoured her oysters and salad. The affair had taken place simply, bu: satisfactorily. The girls specially interested had hastenad to their tea. Adele came rather late. She wore an ivory-colored gown, with gold orna- ments; she looked very beautiful. In her dark hair, half hidden by the heavy braid, was a yellow rose-bud, She took her place not far from Olivia, On the table opposite Olivia was a basin of yellow roses. The young lady drew it toward her, after Adele entered, and said, in a nonchalant but distinctly au- dible voice, ‘‘ Yellow roses seem to be the fashion to-night.” With these words she took one from the vase, and stuck it jauntily in the braid of her hair, The girls near her did the same. Then Olivia ordered the basin to be passed around the table, so that all present might select a flower. At the instant that the sentence had passed Olivia's lips Adele flushed quickly. She did not raize her eyes immediately; but when she did she looked fully into Olivia's face, then at Matilda, whose half-suppressed laugh hid reached her. Then she dropped her eyes again without allowing them to transmit any expression of surprise, or anger, or suspicion. Buf the quick flush faded into a painful pallor. She looked for a few moments as if she were fainting; but no, her spirit rallied. She went on with her tea. She even, as the waiter, not noticing the bud in her hair, held the basin to her, took from ita gan but for one or two aggravating cir- rose, and placed it in her bodice, She loft the table when several others laft it, 80 as not to attract observation, and went to her own room. The plov had succeeded. She had been set face to face with her own folly When Georgie rushed to Matilda to hear “how the joke went off,” all Ma tilda said was, © Hush, don't you see her? and glanced toward Miss Riley. But when Georgie a few minutes later went to find her sister, whom missed from the parlor, she had diffi culty in bringing any answer to the locked door of the room sisters shared together. When Adele, after delay, opened it, there was no con- coaling the faot that her eyes were red with weeping. She had been shaken with some tampest of emo tion, “Oh, Addie !” oried the ohild, ** what is the matter? What has happened ?' She caught sight of two yellow roses —& bud and a flower—tossed on the floor, sha splendid, noble sister! what have they done to yon? Oh, I'll kill them every one; indeed I will,” eried Georgie, for Adele was the viotim of the plot. “And L'1l kill myself too,” oried Georgie. It was now Adele's tarn for exclama- tion. * Be still, be still my child; don't talk so wildly. Nothing has happened; no one has done anything to me. I was tired, and I eried. to-night!” And here Adele, seeing that Georgie was quite hushed, flung herself into an arm-chair, snd barying her face in her hands, went on weeping. Georgie stood pelectly still, as if pet. rifi ed—petrifled as to motion, but not petrified as to expressio . Across her feeling—sorrow, indignation, pity, and ment, resolve, her manner changed en- tirely; something of a womanly air took possession of her ohildishness, She came to Adele like a little mother. “Come, my dearest, you are tired out, and I must see you lying down to rest before I go downstairs, We children” — here the small head gave its habitual scornful toss—‘are to dance first; but you must be downstairs at 10. time, and I want you particularly, for my sake, to come down.” All the while she talked she was oa- ressing Adele, and between the caresses she unfastened her ornaments and un. She brought the robe de chambre, *‘For you are to be down at 10, so you cannot undress entirely, darling. = But just lie down on the silk to unfold and to spread on the bed. Adele ceased orying ; she was passive to Georgie's will. And Georgie having seen her sister quite in a restful atti. her, turned the lamp-light low, » “ then went out alone into the cool, sweet night air of the moon-lit piazza. piazza was one of the pleasure haunts of the midsummer nights; it made, an ornamented court yard, the complete circuit of the hotel. Georgio walked slowly along the piazza past two or three groups of girls, until she came to the angle that turned upon that portion of the portico which the gentlemen used after dinner and afte? tea for smoking. There were a few young men thera with their cigars. him the child went boldly. come with me a minule to the Blue Pa- vilion ? He could not refuse; indeed, he flung put the little hand gallantly upon his arm. the pavilion. Then she withdrew her held, took both of his hands in hers. “ Dear Mr. Ellsworth, a “Not to Adele “ Yes, to Adele. ful girl! Ellsworth ?”’ cerity, and even anxiety. “1 must tell you everything first,” to, but I must, Well, the girls wanted think of it! And so they wrote hers note, and pretended that you wrote it, bat in reality I did it, for I copy hand- writing. Bat oh, I never, never will copy anything again, for I believe it is breaking the Second Commandment—it is making a graven likeness, Oh, isn’t it, Mr. Ellsworth?" “Go on, my child,” said that gentle- man, with impatie: cs undisguised, ‘“ And we sent the note, saying that you adored her, and wanted to see her she must come down to tea to-night wearing a yellow rose.” * And did eho we it # And here G.orgie, petrified again— petrified this time in motion, speech, expression. There was something so intense in the way in which Liarvey Ellsworth asked this question, some- thing so like an electrical shock thrills ing Georgie in every nerve upon which Soft as that voice was, it rang like a violin string that gives the note and breaks in giving it; and his eyes shone like voints of fire—at least she thought they did, “Did she wear it?” Oh, Georgie, you wiil never be a child again after to-night, The terror, the responsibility, the mingled insight aud apprehension of this concentration of experience, forbid you ever to re- turn to the reckless innocence of fate, She paused one moment longer, She dropped his hands, and covering her eyes stood helplessly before him, Was it, then, to be either betrayal or desertion of Adele? One of these two miseries, “It is a secret,” ball sobbed the child, “A good man like you would never tell it. Yes, Mr. Ellsworth, she wore it. And now"—she changed the astitnde to one confiding and imploring —*“and now you must help me, She must not be disgraced, my darling, noble sister, and laughed at by &ll the honse ; and I-—my own hand did it.” She felt again something like an electrical shock, for she had looked up to his face; and the face of Harvey Ells- worth at that moment was in a rapture— a rapture of happiness. Her heart lightened as she went on. ‘You must pretend to Adele that you did write it ; she must never know that the girls made such a plan; she must think that she was mistaken ; for, oh! she has been crying dreadfully. You must send her another note, and say you are so glad she wore the rose,” “And I am so glad,” said Mr. Ells. worth. ‘¢ And then—for she did consent,” this Georgie said regretfully—‘‘since she did consent, you must walk around the piazza with her, and make up some- thing to comlort her,” ! said Mr. Ellsworth, me in the Blue pavilion,” his own hand, brought to her by her own QGeorgie—his message, with one —went downstairs just as musio in the parlor struck up jubi lantly, { loft her, | Ness, going to let me, dear Adele, spend my { life in thanking you for it ?" sensitive girl, to whom all expression i { | and wearied by pain and pain's misgiv- questions, The sweel face, agitated and tender, the hands that he clasped in his, trembling, asking that she loved him. He drew her near to him there | the solitude, in the shaded moonlight, in | ation, Florence, Adele, and you said ‘for. care to other, you hear, that I was very ill at Paris? They called it Roman fever, but it was the fever of fale, Adele. Many weeks it consumed me. Then myself, or when something beyond myself aroused ma to the fact of living | those unhappy as myself, lot me live,’ I thought; ‘but for me there is no joy in living.’ me to this place. 1 mus! tell you of it some time, darling. Bat again, and this time it is forever. Adele ~-my love.” i As little Georgie in her motherly | treatment of her sister had mingled ment. forever,” nouement the engagement was nounced of Harvey Ellsworth and Adele Haskell—*' 1 do declare that men are the most deceitful oreatures. two people had ever been anything to eaoh other, had actually been engaged, they say, and the engugement broken { could have seemed more indifferent { than thet Harvey Ellsworth has seemed; i how she can trust him or have any faith { in him I cannot imagine. He certainly i { not care for her.” i now,” said Matilda Owens, {it Harvey Ellsworth—on the ocean the breakers came in magnificently, and look, was spangled as if strewn with | golden roses—Harvey Ellsworth lying in the white sand at Adele's feet, with his lips seeking her hand again and again, and his eyes looking long ing to his heart of hearts, | Heaven has given me the woman of my life, the woman of my soul.”"—Ilarpsr's | Weekly, American History--Important Events. 1620, Rock. 1621. turkey. 1622, 1640, 1648, 1649. short hair, 1662, More witches hung in Salam. 1702, Haven, 1704. First Boston, 1705. Coffee is tasted. 1720. Tea 1s tried, but taxation makes it costly. 1721, Posteflice started. First Thanksgiving kept. First meeting-house built, First printing press. Witches first hung. newspaper printed at ty. Singing by note in the meeting- houses, which caused a great deal of trouble, 1740, Tinware manufactured. 17565. Av organ built but not allowed to be played in the meeting-house, lightning rod. 1760, First attempt at fashion. pear. 1765. Liberty talked of. using of stamped paper. 1770. Wooden clocks made. of it thrown into Boston harbor. 1774. The streets of lighted with oil-lamps. 1780, Umbrellas used by a few rich people, and much laughed at, 1792. Bilk worms raised, and in a fow houses silk carpets are seen, 1795-1800, Pantaloons take the place plates are used at breakfast and tea. 1807. A steamboat on the Hudson. houses, although some think showed more fire than religion. Sound. lantio. 1823, Gas fin Boston. Coal. pens take the place of qnills. Steel fronts. vegetable, 1832, A railroad built, tinder box. 1847. First paper money used, called shin-plasters, 1838, Envelopes first used. 1839. Daguerotypes are taken, 1844, First electric message sent, 1847. Sewing machines invented, 1868, Ocean cable laid, Only one message sent for about ten years. 1865, Abraham Lincoln assassinated, 1871. Chicago burned. 1876. Party in Philadelphia called the “Centennial.” 1881. Garfield assassinated. What is that which we wish for, and when obtained," we never know we have it ?—8leep. FORIY-TWO YEARS IN PRISON. Release of a ‘Dickens’ Here Whe Has Served Noe Terms tn a Pesltontinry, Charles Langheimer, the old German made famous in Dickens’ ** American Notes" us the subject of a pathetic de- seription of the effects of the solitary ago, and who appeared in Dickens’ eves as “a dejected, heart-broken criminal, whose life bas been eruelly tortured out service of his ninth term, since Dickens first saw him in that prison, and made straight for the house of his only daugh- ter. His trunk had preceded him, con- wondrous handiwork while in prison, sach as pictures, toys and various in. | geniously-construoted designs in wood, | His leave-taking from the prison offi cials was characteristic. To their civil “Good-bye, Charlie. When are vou dled up, threw back his head, and, with flashing eyes, showered upon them FACTS AND COMMENTS, Among raw products which paid daty | to the United Btates government last | YOAr wore : Bugsy vou en BOL 11,000,600 C00 . { i ‘olatloes | in 1,000,000 bey Bs 0 | Bar) 7,000, 000 ¢ : BE . 12,000,000 i | Viax i He mp & jule Within the past twenty years the beer business in the United Staves has in- creased enormously. In 1863 the num. ber of barrels made was 1,765,827, In 1881 the number of barrels had in- creased to 14,178,857, Of the whole | quantity produced in this country in { 1880, New York is credited with 83.97 per cent. The first official count of the popula. tion in the United States showed 3,929. Without additions by emigration this nomber would have increased to about 11,000,000 in 1880, Inasmuch as the census of the last-named period showed a population of 50,000,000, it may be fairly assumed that three-fourths the most violent torrent of billingsgate in German, This treatment, to men | terms, and accustomed to associate with | daily for the past two years and eight else, but from Charley Langheimer it | is merely taken as a4 matter of course, He will shortly celebrate his seventy- His last term was for three years for stealing money from a safe, but good behavior enabled him to come out, as it has always done before, bis time, The best part of forty-two | vears he has spent in the penitentiary. | His faculty for adapting his hands to almost any trade under the sun, and for decorating and painting in the most ar- & prestige out at the penitentiary such as is perhaps not enjoyed by any other | His clean, or- | his knack of converting the most for flower potsand plants, which he has sa above all, his gift for decorating the walls cause the penitentiary officials in bl after he goes away, to feel | variably, lonely without him, It generally hap- balore he is back again, Two strong points have been devel ed in Langheimer's character since him— of self and hatred of newspaper wen. The mere mention of the latter 163 is as a drop of scalding liquid on gue. His small, gray eyes gleam his gray beard bristles, his wrinkled, nervous face contorts, his whole frame quivers as he jumps from ride soutroilable rage, and brings his fist Charley says he will never go back to | This, however, is the same language ho has been using ever 00 his release from his first term | alter Dickens saw him in 1840. He has a great deal to say about the discipline f the priscn and his good treatment thi To, It isa known fact that Langheimer has been tried nomerous times for the puarp of seeing whether he would { himsell of his opportunities of es- | and be has on every occasion chances. The prison s have such confidence in him that there is not one of them but avers 0 § ed these chance a day before his time expired, » would walk back and deliver himself "p. — a Two Querr Deaths, A rooent issue of the Louisville (Ky.) | Commercial saves: About three weeks precinct, died in a very singular man. | w, His strength began failing on | Wednesday without apparent cause; | ity, aud by Monday following he had | absolutely dwindled away without hav. | ing felt sick or suffered the slightest When placed on | life. Sach a singular and unacconnta- | surprise aud wonder in the neighbor | Bat these | consternation | in a few days after] Downey's death, his daughter | Miss Sallie, who is about twenty-two | increased to slightest pain or sickness bas grown | weaker and thinner each day, till she is | but a skeleton of her former self, and | at our last acocunt was lying speechless | upon what has doubtless proved her | The physicians are 1 cause of nature of their very strange | malady, and, to add to the confusion | and mystery, the sick-bed of the young | ed by strange and unnatural noises— sometimes seeming like the roar of a chine, and again like many other things, continually changing, but hardiy ever ceasing. It has thrown the whole | the house where the young lady is sick, of these statements, Wealth in the United States Senate, The present Senate contains at least a The richest Next widower, who is reputed to be the pos- t is somewhat diffi law, Zach Chandler, with its well-lined The wife of Sena tor Hale is the only daughter of the late Senator Zach Chandler, Other very fornia, Mahone, of Virginia, and Sawyer, of Wisconsin, known to be worth more than a million each, Sewell, of New Jersey, is a railroad man and is very wealthy. Senator John Sherman, of Ohio, it is said, is worth more than $2 000,000, his property consisting inrgely of real estate in Washington, Among other senators who write their fortune with seven figures are Cameron, of Pennsylvania, Camden and Davis, of West Virginia, Brown, of Georgia, and Plumb, of Kansas. Senators Hill, of Oolorado, Gorman, of Maryland, Me- Pherson, of New Jersey, and Pendleton, of Ohio, are all worth more than $500,- 000, Many other senators are comforta- Lly fixed, possessing little hoards of from $50,000 to $100,000, Among those who have but little comparatively here below — that ig, not more than $100,000 apiece—are Morrill, of Vermont, Anthony, of Rhode Island, Rollins, of New Hampshire, Jones, of Nevada, Saunders, of Nebranka, and Allison, of of the increase has come from emigra. tion, According to Professor Young the 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000 candles, Papers that reproduce this item need not read the proof by copy. It will meke no difference whether the number of ciphers is half a dozen more or less, Nobody will ever find it out, and the man who takes a contract to supply the candles to test the accuracy of Mr. Young's statement will have his hands fullanyhow, especially if there should be a corner on tallow about that time, Jineinnati is getting to be a literary a8 well as an art center, Three valuable foreign books, worth at least §6.000, recently, but were detained by the authorities. The leaves of the books, which are large and bulky, with an- through the middle of the pages, leav- each volume. Into these holes were compactly placed a considerable guan- tity of valuable diamonds and jewelry, On the anthority of Lieutenant Dan. tion, the gold production of the Bibe- vian distriots is far more important than is generally supposed. The exiles, he 2 ¢8, are the most intelligent men in Biberia, and from them alone he learned anything worth knowing, which state. ment bears out the opinions of shrewd observers that Siberia is the store house of Russian brains which it would bo of wast benefit to the country to have at work in its building up and general civilization, There aro golden sands in the Geor. names, and a dredging boat is now en- The Chestatee is a gold-bearing stream, and the boat lifts one hundred tons of gravel and sand from its bottom in a day. One ton of this gravel yielded fifty cents a ton, which, however, is land-owners along the stream get ten per cent. as their share, The street trade of New York isa subject which has hitherto been over- looked by the statistician, probably be- cause of the difficully of obtaining re- liable figures concerning it. But taken in the aggregate, it forms a very impor- There are at least a dozen wholesale and hucksters who occupy the pave- ments—firms who sell goods manufao- tured especially for this class of custom- ers, Fruits, flowers, confectionery, photographs, cutlery, walking canes, oysters, periodicals, notions, cheap hosiery, cigars aud various other arti- clea contribute to make up the sum total of a street trade, amounting in the aggregate to hundreds of thousands of dollars. Stanley, the explaet, was on the 16th of January last, with his party of 236 men, mostly Zanzibarris, who, he says, are obedient, docile, brave and hard-working. They are also perfectly honest. Not one is in disgrace, and dar- ing the month preceding there had been no occasion for uttering an angry word. or weapon of any kind. Stanley main. tains a certain reticence about the exact nature of his work in Africa. He is the agent of companies which have invested large amounts of capital in opening up advantages which may accrue from the explorer's labora, In a few months we shall probably hear rather interesting and possibly startling news from the little camp on the Upper Congo. Bicyclers in Philadelphia and Balti. more, as well as those in New York, are having a fight for the privilege of riding in the parks and public drives. In a few American cities — Washington that horses soon get used tothe mounted wheelmen, and pay no more attention to them than to men on foot, or per- sons traveling by any other vehicle. It is said that there are more than three hundred thousgad bicycles in use in England, and that the opposition at first manifested toward them, on the ground that they would frighten horses, long ago died out. Since the opening of the elevated rail roads in New York the capaciiy of horses for getting used to things has been preity thoroughly tested, and has not proved inadequate, Horses that are frequently driven near the elevated roads do not so much as prick up their ears when the trains go thundering over their heads. Perhaps the short life of the objection to the elevated roads on the ground that the trains would fright. en horses i§ dune to the fast that the prejected roads were backed by so many million dollars that the objectors couldn't help themselves—an advantage which the average individual wheelman doesn’t enjoy. Among a thousand forms of benevo- lence, scarcely one gives a larger and quicker return for the money invested than that which affords to the poor children of great cities a breath of coun- try air. The noble bequest of §$500,- 000 left by Mr. Thomas Wilson, of Bal- timore, in 1879, “for the purpose of securing a summer retreat for sick chil- dren from the heat and unhealthfulness of the city” has been applied, after a carefal investigation and consultation with sanitary and medical experts, in the following manner, in the language of the secretary of the Wilson sanitarium: “Oar {ruses have purchased u tract of 100 acres, well watered and with considerable timber, a half-hour's ride by rail from the cen- ter of the city, and with an altitude of six hundred feet above tide water, The sea coast is no’ accessible and the bay Jowa,— Portland Argus, shores malarial. We propose to deal principally with children under two Foun of age, taking the mother with or infant, and, if necessary, one or two other children if they are too young to be left at home ; to keep them till re. stored to health, and then return them to their homes, The sanitarium will be open only during the summer months, probably about fifteen weeks ; the diseases those incident to bad weather, not chronic cases. We deal only with the poorer classes, and the institution will be free.” Man and Insects, ~The only nerves (worth mentioning) in the human body which are not under the control of the brain, are those of the heart and other internal organs; knows, we have not any voluntary power. But all our limbs and muscles are moved in accordance with impulses sent down from the brain, so that, for example, when I have made up my mind to send a telegram to a friend, m legs take me duly to the telegrap office, my hand writes the pope mes. sage, and my tongue undertakes the ne arrangements with the clerk. But in the insect's body there is no such regular subordination of all the parts composing the nervous system to a single central organ or head office. The largest knot of nerve matter, it is true, is generally to be found in the neighborhood of the sense and it receives direct nerve bundles from the eyes, antennsm, mouth snd other chief adjacent parts; but the wings and legs are moved by separate knots of nerve cells, connected by a sort of spinal eord with the head, but capable wasp's head and stick it on a needle in front of some sugar and water, the mouth will greedily begin to eat the sweet syrup, spparently unconscious of the fact that it has lost its stomach, out of the gullet at the other en fast as it is swallowed, Bo, too, if we decapitate that queer Mediterra- nean insect, the praying mantis, the headless body will stand oatehing flies with its outstretched arms, and fum- bling about for its mouth when it has caught one, evidently much surprised to missing. case with man, the insect, at least, is really a conscious automaton. It sees or smells food, and it is at once im- pelled by its nervous constitution to {eat it, It receives a sense-im ion is irresistibly attracted towsrd it, as Instinets of Elephants, It nature has not given intellect to these animals, it has given them an in- stinet very much akin to it. A man has only to hnt them in their learn how wonderfully. tanght them to choose able ground, whether { encamping, and to where their semble rocks or the dark foliage it is very difficult for distinguish them from st jects; while their feet are structed that not only over any kind of ground, w or soft, thorny or smooth, but emitting & sound. Bome of 1 once followed up & disturbing them was impossible; st last, when I did get wit'in shot of the forest, the elephants reurested by the opposite side to that bad proached, and after follow, soveral hours I {iA not one supposes soning powers possessed Sey , we should be and not i tr i eral times by other with chains, who wield as a drummer does the lash at the berds; but it was of no use, his dislike was inveterate, he got must, would take xcept from a pet female (he had two lashed alongside of him), aad oveneually disd st Shosydoung. Asa rule, elephants are timid, quiet and in- offensive; but when wo and i E : | to move its own limbs in unacoustomed | manners, Its whole life is governed for | by the stimulations it receives from out. | side. And so, though the world proba. | bly sppesrs much the same to the | beetle as to us, the nature of its life is | very different. It acts like a piece of | clockwork mechanism, wound up to | perform a certain number of fixed | movements, and incapable of ever going is designed. — Grant Alien, Dangers of Ignorance, | One cannot judge from the brief ae- | counts given what are the precise causes | believe that ignorance is prolific; that | many persons have only a vague knowl. | edge of the qnalitios of nitro-glycerine, | cannot recognize it when they see it, | and are not acquainted with the various { forms ip which it is Sombounded; or with the peeuliar dangers of handling it carelessly. Nitro glycerine itself is a dense, yellowish lignid, but in order to diminish the danger attending itsuse, | fine earth, ground mica, sawdust, or some similar powder, is saturated with it, and thus the various blasting paw- ders, known as dynamite, mica powder, dualin, rend-rock. e'e, are formed. These compounds can be transported with comparative safety. But the nitro-glycerine easily drains off from the powder and oozes from any crevice kept. Drops of it thus bedewing the edges of a box may easily be mistaken | for oil escaping, and if workmen igno- | rantly endeavor to nail the box tighter, |or to open it for examination, there | will be a disastrous explosion. Several | have occurred in past years in this way. | The victims knew, no doubt, that ni. | tro-glyocerine (or the compounds) may | be exploded by a blow (contact with i | fire is not needful) but they did not | suspect that the innocent-looking oil | was nitro-glycerine. Why should not | youth be taught in the schools some- | what of the practical dangers of these | substances which are coming into such | common use ? They would pursue the | study with interest, especially if there | were judicious experiments, A Mis- souri story is that a teacher confiscated | » small metal box which a pupil was | playing with in school hours, and, think- | break it open with a hammer. oung, their fury knows no They dread fire more than anything else; but one elephant belonging to the battery in Assam was an exception, and same elephant would do what I never knew any other to do, viz, whena beast’s neck was cut through, all but the vertebrs (itdid not matter whether the bert was a buffalo, a deer, or trunk a wrench the round the Lead, snd i it from have seen one or two e te | the railroad track as a danger signal, | and large bits of it bad to be out out of | the lady's cheek. Would it nct have { been well if she had known somewhat | of the aspect of torpedoes? Was it not ! more important to the journeyman | plumber who threw the lighted match | into the pan of camphene, mistaking it | for water, by which the great printing establishment in Franklin square was burned some twenty-eight years ago, to know camphene by sight than to have memotizad many of the matters prom- inent in a public school course? Sure. ly workmen, especially ‘‘raw hands,” in establishments where these things are used, should be eystematically instruct- ed in advance, and the courts are now enforcing this principle. — Popular Science Monthly. TA 528 Why the Bear Has a Stumpy Tail, The Objibaway Indians have the fol. lowing legend, told by a correspondent in the Ceutury: A fox was fishing one day in the depth ol winter through a hole in the ice, using his tail for bait, by which means he caught a great num- ber at first, but as the day went by he | was not so successful. His tail becom- | ing numbed, he did not perceive it get. | ting frozen in, By-and-bye, thinking he | had got a bite, he gave a smart pull and broke his tail off short, at which he began to weep. The Manitou coming slong asked him why he wept. The fox told him, and begged to have his tail restored. The Manitou told him he could have it back if he could dis- cover an animal as stupid as himself. The fox started for home, with the re. sult of his sport in his mouth. On the road he met a bear, who asked him how he had managed to catch so many fish. The fox told him it was the easiest thing in the world ; all he had todo was to use the sume means he had done, which the bear bogged to be tavght. The fox, nothing loath, took Brain on theice, cut a hole for Lim, and told him to put his tail through and not to pull it out uatil he called vo him, and then to take it out as quickly as possible, The fox waited until he saw it well frozen in, and shouted * Pull!” and snap went the tail. The fox’s tail was restored to him, but the bear lost his forever, and this is the reason the bear has a stumpy tail to this day, territories— have been taught to do so. Some foolish men teach their elephants to trample upon a dead body, eT by so doing ruin them for sport. An elephant, unless vicious by nature, will only do so at first with the rot- est relactance, but alter a time, if any- thing falls before it, it is apt to charge, and if it does not kneel down suddenly and throw the occupant cut of the how- dab, it gets the animal between its legs, snd plays a sort of football with it, throwing it backward and forward be- tween the frontand hind lags until itis of the consistency of a jelly. Men are occasionally thrown off the back of an elephant; what would their fate be mounted on a beast who had been taught such tricks? An elephant I by a rhinoceros. Nothing would induce her to enter a jungle where one of these animals was; very slightest scent of onc would send her flying. A splendid female muckna belonging to my department cared nothing for a tiger, wonld kick one out of her path without showing the slight- est signs of uneasiness, but if she met a pony nothing could hold her.—London Field. HEALTH BINTS. Children who drink tea and coffee are nervous and fretfal and lose their ap- tite for substantial food. They have or ability to resist disease and becoma stunted in growth.—Dr. Fuoote’s Health Monthly. The light of the sun is the great puri- mal and vegetable life—indispensable. It is cheap, the cheapest medicine known, and among the most reliable. Put cold feet in it, a “‘creeping » a sallow skin—the whole body, that it may imbibe electricity. A suggestion for hoarseness .worthy of trial is $he’ ss of Somman hosad radish pre in sugar—one nine 2 or sugar. A little of this mixture in the mouth, swallowed slow- ly, gives relief. The remedy (horse- radish) is not a new one, but, to us, the sague way of using it seems to be a new and good one. The Germantown Telegraph says that experience proves that hme-water and milk are not only food and medicine at an early period of life, but also at a later, when the functions of digestion and assimilation are feeble and easily . A stomach taxed by glat- tony, irritated by improper food, in- flamed by aleohol, enfeebled by disease, or otherwise unlitted for its duties—as is shown by the various symptoms at- tendant upon indigestion, dyspepsia, diarrhea, dysentery and fever—will re. sume its work, and do it energetically, on an exclusive diet of bread and milk and lime-water. A bowl of cow's milk may have four tablepconsfuls of lime- water added to it with good effect. A ——— I —————— Exchanging Horses. An amusing incident connected with the grand national steeplechase at Liverpool is goirg the roands of sport. ing circles. At one of the fences there was a tumble and a scrimmage, half a dozen horses coming to grief, In the hurry and confusion, Adams, the jockey, who started from the post upon Libera. tor, hastily remounted and home. While weighing in he remarked to Mr. Gregory, the weigher, that the old horse had not jam as he Gregory asked what old horse he meant, and he made answer that it was Libera- tor, of course; whereupon he was in- formed that the horse he had ridden in on was not Liberator, but Ignition. While the amazed Adams was admitting that he had mixed his horses, home came Liberator, ridden by the jockey who had s on Ignition. The occurrence resembled those mistakes so fre ! am se, that the rellas, with this di owner of the best article the swap, Cnlifornis......c. sossessss Connectiont. ... .o covssnsas TERS ERES FEAF ER SeNY Dakota. judisns. .... 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