Scottish Heather,
Tt seems a long, long time ago
That we two played at love together ;
Indeed, I've half forgotten whether
We meant it quite for play, you know.
I wonder why last winter's snow
Should cool that warmth
weather !
It seems a long, long time ago
That we two played at love together,
of summer
And yet—-my heart begins to glow
{It then was light as any feather)
Whene'er 1 see this Scottish heather,
And think of you, who loved it so}
It seems a long, long time ago.
Boston Transeripl,
Come for Thy Rights!
Come, honest manhood, not ashamed to toil,
Stand in the garb or cause that honors thee !
Come from the mill, the forge, or sterile
soil,
We crown theo
sovereign be!
Come from the ocean laden-—fish or pearls;
Come from the mines with all their precious
ore;
Come not as servant, serving moneyed churls,
But, in thy right, stand dignified before,
Thou feedest kings ; they tax thee in return ;
Thou clothest nobles, rich in courdly dress ;
Thou diggest coal for them to cheerful burn,
But savest little, each, thyself to bless,
Thou art content, pashed by unkindly hands,
Stand out, the rightful ruler of the lands!
king, thou shalt our
Come for thy rights, as constant as the sun!
Stand for thy cause in eloquence of deed !
Come with thy riches, when thy toil is done,
As plants give bloom to multiply their seed !
What though the rich and proud thy wages
take— >
Still strivest thou in faithfulness of soul,
Till by thy care the flelds a harvest make,
That give a welcome to the living whole:
Nor halting here, to moan with selfish sighs
That others take as freely as they choose,
Thou givest all to nations in supplies,
And rarely break’st thy serving to abuse;
Thou guard'st, thoy honorest here with high
repute ;
Thou plant’st the seed—art generous with the
fruit.
Earth bears no blighting ourse by thee
imposed ;
Thon art ber husband, toiling, royal wed!
She bears no malice, when in death deposed
Thou sleep’st at last within her silent bed ;
But kings and despots, ruling to devast,
Have wet her bosom deep with peasant
gore—
She keeps account, to settle by at last,
When kings sleep well, but sleep as kings
no more,
How can a death-dethroned
He lies a subject, hv
The peasant has no carna
And in the grave he iz a
He reaches forth in pleasure and in hope,
Nor dies debauched, a morbid misanthrope.
—% O. Merritt :
THE TABLES TURNED.
A large, old-fa
stone house, witl
lawn, extending down to a very pictur
esque portion of the Avon. Seated on
the lawn were three young ladies in
summer toilets with broad straw hats,
Two were at work: while the darkest,
prettiest, though smallest, was reading
aloud.
Suddenly, blended with the musical
dip of oars, the still, calm air was
king relent?
yhled in estate;
© SOW or rent,
king as great ;
HICAN.
wd, quaint gray
aor A | Jin 1
green, cose-cilpped
singing:
“When the lads of the vi
MOTT) . 3 .
“It's Tom! It's dear old Tom!”
cried the two girls who
alike. “ He'srowed up from Chesser-
mill. Come, Georgie Georgie
their cousin, appeared by
backward, and the tl
hastened down to the river.
Scarcely had they reached the ed
than a light skiff, in which sat a hand-
some young English Saxon of
five-and-twenty, shot from the shadow
of the willows to their very feet,
“ Here Lam, girls I" he cried, cheerily,
shipping his cars and casting the moor-
ing rope round a post placed on pur-
pose.
“ Yes, here you are, singing ¢
were dressed
Come,
ge
about
ging as much
out of tune as ever,” said Georgie,
roguishliy.
“ Now, please don’t begin your spar-
ring,” laughed Rosie, the youngest si
ter. “We are so glad you've C
Tom, whether in tune or not.
have something to tell you and so
thing for you to do.”
“Really? Prithee, fair
pound,” he rejoined, walking up the
lawn, a sister on either side of him,
though his eyes oftenest sought out
Georgie.
“ But first,” asked Lenore, the elder,
“how long are you going to stay here *”
« Whitehall has given mea week.
My luggage eomes by road.”
“Qapital! Now, let us sit down and
we will tell you.”
The girls sat in a kind of semi-circle;
while Tom laid his whole length before
them, his elbow on the grass, his cheek
on his hand.
“ Now,” he asked, “ what is the mat-
ter?”
“Well,” said Lenore, who by general
acclaim was nominated spokeswoman,
“you must know, Tom, that there is a
certain room in this old house papa has
just bought which is said to be
haunted.”
“ Nonsense,”
“But it is true.
us know when he bought the place,
but we soon heard it from the people
about here. He, however—as you—
says it's all nonsense.”
“ Being a sensible, practical man,”
interpolated Tom.
“ Ah: still he gives us full leave to
test it.”
“ And are you going to?”
Se
He,
We
sister, ex-
sleep there one night, Tom.”
“Want me I”
“ Yes ; so that you may infodm us,”
remarked Georgie, very gravely,
« whether there is a ghost or not.”
“ Really I feel exceedingly obliged
”
the joke. I am not anxious for a
ghostly acquaintance.”
“Oh, Tom!” exclaimed
with a glance that sent the blood to
her cousin's cheek. “I didn’t think
you were a coward I”
" «Coward! Come now, Georgie,
that's too bad,” he cried.
“Well, I think it cowardly,” re-
sponded the young lady, pursing her
pretty mouth. “I don’t believe in
ghosts any more than uncle does ; and
1 want to sleep there, only he will not
let me.”
«1 should think not,” said Tom,
with "quick approval. “ But
kind of ghost is it? What
story ?”’
“ Why, they say years and years ago
the heiress of this large estate—for it
was a large estate then—was one night
cruelly murdered in that room by her
cousin, who, on her death, inherited
the property ; ever since which period
"
Greorgie,
is the
the apartinent a visit regularly at 12
there was a tremor in her voice,
uously.
solutely pale!”
toss of the head.
frightened to face it!
jee!” with a little shrug.
if any man loved me and I found he
was a coward, I'd never, never marry
him!”
Perhaps it was er
was intentional, but Georgie's dark
eves rested on Tom as she spoke. :
"« There goes papa!” cried Rosie,
VOLUME XV.
Hditor
TERMS:
A A SE EMESIS Bs IS EN SU SN,
NUMBER 41.
instant starting up, as a tall
elderly man passed along the terrace in
front of the h “Let us tell him
fom has come,”
“ Let us all go to him,” said Tom,
They rose and the sisters went on
before: but Tom
to drop a little behind with his cousin
“Xa, Goorgie,” he said,
MALY 4 man who was
I hope you that fi
because you "might marry me il
not. 8 dear
I love vou!
gh Ch you would
only say you would by my wife!”
“Yet you will not face a prol
} Pom,” shie laughed.
Us,
gOmMenow managed
70h
wouldn't
coward,
ae,
meant
were fe
face all
istendom if
id
iu
vy. “Ghosts woul
1 am
§ il
SAUCHY,
“I'd like to have that proved,
not so certain,” rejoined,
as they came up to the
“ Well, Tom,"
son, * these stupid girls tell
want you to
room, tor our
she
rest,
ol Mr. Harri
iI me they
haunted
IS TeSpax table
exelaing
sleep in the
old house
enough to possess one.”
“So I hear, sir, and will
test its ghostly character, if you
no objection.
i the least, my boy, only ra
"
have no fire
g appear it
in which 1
that the moon is
Proviso
nO More Delieve
reaen ¢h \
green chiees
made of ¥
that
it was agread Tom should
not!
' said Georgie, “and
prove
‘1 shan't pa
irked Rosie, as the
war down the lor (
‘1 don’t think I shall much,” agreed
ad
very thou
1
to-night,”
Tom
WINK
Vv Saw dis
1g corridor,
Georgia, ’Y.
‘he next morning Tom's appearance
at the breakfast-table was anxiously
3 $4 a
When he came his expres-
ion was certair
wh ii,
did vou
hagt OF §
Oost Or at
expected,
: 1ly more serious.
J Mr. Harrison, “
om
what
Griles Scroggins
answered
ht once |
saw something; dead
tired that
have played
I would
had anot
“Sleep
girls, Georg
but
but half satisfied his
» has seen
Wert
SO
¢, when they
: Tr
bruptly,
worgie’s words, he car
and
pistol-case
+f wouldn't do!
‘he second night the same thing oc-
CLIT ly this time the specter had
and
fress, hut it
its
id
It van-
ed
ighed moaned
ands as in direst
not wait for
ished after a few
8 wrung
h
tom's advance,
moments.
“ It's curious, to
he meditated,
v + | p
tingon thesideof h
str
Then takine
EN Laing
examined
the candle he
apartment.
it w
with casemented windows
rison proj to tur:
rooin, when, he had lang
would have a happy time of it,
Tom could discover neither ghost nor
human. The door was locked
had left it; the windows securely fast-
ened.
carefnlly
POSE il
he ghosts
But
as he
“ It's confoundedly singular!”
peated, finally throwing himself on to
the bed.
The next morning he told exactly
what had occurred.
Mr. Harrison px
claring it was Tom's
that he was poking fun at them; but
the girls took it differently,
“There,”
de-
it,
imagination or
woh-pooh’d
cried the sisters, “ vou see,
Georgie, the place is haunted!”
For a second Georgie appeared de-
then exclaimed, with
sistency:
“1 don't
charming con-
I won't helieve there
uncle savs, Tom
and
has
been deluded!”
“ Well, Tom is going to give it an-
other trial,” laughed the young fellow.
“Oh. no, don't do that!” exclaimed
Georgie, quickly, * We've had enough
of it!”
“1 don’t rejoined Tom,
delighted at this involuntary interest,
if it comes a third time I'll
take it for a sign--"
“Of what?”
“That I have proved my courage,”
he whispered, *“and merited the re-
ward for facing a ghost.”
“There are no ghosts,
Georgie, blushing.
“ Then vou do not believe me?”
«I faney you were deceived.”
That night the sisters implored Tom
think so,
"
persisted
Georgie the bold disbeliever, even added
had been more
cared to confess,
markably quiet
for he had
himself,
But Tom was firm,
ghost appeared a third time.
“ But suppose she may not
again ?” suggested Georgie.
room until she does,
down as nervous bosh
delusion !”
| girls crept along to theirs.
i
That it was a woman's
no doubt : the loose
gravish ] flowed round it,
irooping from the waving arms, while
a gray mist apparently enveloped the
head.
t repeated the same evolutions as on
the previous
shadowy figure,
Lie
; WRN he
re could Ix
eres
occasion, only its moans
and tokens of grief were more earns
but, after all, this
destined to be materially
As the ghost's time for de
and behold, there
L x pressed .
Wiis
ghost
y last was taller, clothed entirely
white, and, standing behind the
, frantically waved its long arms
a hollow sepulchral moan,
the
this
§
However,
tod
wr, perceiving
tek it fled
smaller
ghostly
with a
toward the bed,
CX bade
i
it,
Tom, save me!
is a ghost and it's here! Save me
save me!”
But
Only
clan
ne!
1,
no Tom sprang to her rescue,
the taller pursued, exX-
aiming, in a very earthly voice
amid much earthly laughter:
“So, Miss Georgie, I've caught you,
have 1! The tahles are nicely turned,
upon my life
i
*
ghost
specter, plucking the gray gauze from
about her head, “is it you? Oh! what
does it mean ¥”
“Only that
1h
laughed
1'y a
Tom,
t 1 suspected the unsul
discovered the
“The second
wtantiality
of my visitor and employed the next
day in mi y examining my room,
which led to the discovery of a secret
1g panel, which conducted into’ a
another secret outlet
I then
Iady-
gh
Ig
st,
h
11d aly
ULTLY
slidis
passage that had
in the corridor near vour room,
ho was my
Spm edily divined who
ghost.”
«Oh, Tom,"
angrily, “it’s a
frighten me. I can scarcely stand. 1
really thought you a specter, Yes—I
ia 3
she murmured, half
shame }
own it
and"
‘1 have tested vours, who were 80
brave,”
“ Tom, can you forgive me?”
“If you will only reward
facin orgie.”
“Tom,” ughed, “this isn't a
ume to 3} meo and Juliet—nor
' she added, hearing
along the corridor, “do
Do, please I"
X me for
}
¥
tie post, Gat
ier
i
the toilets,
steps hastening
keep my secret, she
imploringly, as she fled through
the panel.
But the secret did creep out next day
ind the —a8 the tables were
t sworgie, who, trying to
t
{ been awfully fright
added,
a
angrily declared
ive her cousin:
did, for the first
intedd room was in
their day.
a —— SA IPI AE
+ hat
1.1
witling
weaaing
Cocoa and Chocolate,
bly few of
ir reader hil
HIT Feluaers, Wilt
a
beverages,
the
Yet its
of the in-
Ama-
[ other portions of
ask how
great
the
ul of the gods”
large bush,
een feet in height,
Very old
high. It
, tape r-poi leaves,
young are rosy and very
are small, fra-
» borne in clus.
vr ither
trees
has
nted
WOWers
+ branches,
e inches long,
size, and
long, blunt
elevated ribs
1 is, when ripe,
ahlimo
horities state that
"Oin fifty to one
ve never been able
ng fifty; the aver-
forty-five. These
«1 in a white, semi-
acid
h la
hat
'
pulp, a
pli}
r
nd i
i
what from
\ Wlmonds ; it
these seods the
late of commerce are prepared,
The fruit is, when ripe, gathered by
hand, and transversely by a
large knife; the mass of pulp and seed
is taken out, and is either left for a day
to slightly ferment or at once pu
into a “tipici” and pressed almost dry;
it is then dried for fr
in the sun, and is then ready for
market. A “tipici” is a tube of wick-
erwork, about eight feet long, with a
diameter of about ten inches; the top
is open, and at each end there is
loop; the tube filled with any sub-
stance to be pressed, hung upon a peg
SRO
is
broken
1 3
is
Olin one
is
lever, upon which a woman sits, is in-
erted in the lower loop, and the juice
runs out through the interstices,
is called “vinho da cacao,”
cocoa,” and is a most refreshing and
drink ; it is slightly aeid,
aromatic, and possesses a flavor especial-
ly its own. Unfortunately, it soon fer-
and can
freshness for only a single day ; by
however, fermentation
checked, but all the delicate aroma of
the wine is lost,
trip across the
the
or “wine of
delicious
ments,
boiling,
Atlantic
wine of cocoa in
This drink
and one can
mense quantity.
to
is
very
consume
healthy,
an
The juice is also boiled down into a
sauce which in color and taste
resembles Shaker apple-sauce ;
and a
which is used in making soap.
Garden.
- er —
Joke on the Doctor,
{lady recently deceased.
| her live so long,”
{ old oaken chest,
urally indignant; the
| contained in the quaintly-carved old
| chest.
|
key.
v
| the key to the docter,
SCIENTIFIC NOTES,
vessel now
Bucharest it is
what no other
has been equal to
I'he submarine
constructed at
will accompli sub
craft I'he
plan contemplates a vessel capable of
moving under water for twelve hours
without any renewal of air,
being
claimed
sh
Hirine
In Eur
ing rapidly in
pe electric rallways are grow
public estimation, not
only on the continent, but in Great
Britain, Already 100 miles of electric
transit are in ration, and
wery probability of the total mileage
0 there is
being considerably increased before the
end of the present year,
(ne hy one the More pr fous metals
tel in country,
and in some cases, as in nickel, the un
suspected supplies prove greater
volume than the previous yield of all
other countries combined. [he latest
if these that of vana
dium, which has been taken from an
Arizona mine in larger paying quan-
Known.
tities than eve
this
iil
are found deposi
in
discoveries is
in
ir befos
A commission of British scientists
i the
existence of earth tides, or oscillations
of the earth's crust corresponding to
those produced on the sea hy the
moon's attraction, A pendulum is so
susp nded that slightest motion
turns a mirror and causes the point of
light reflected by it upon a distant
screen to move very perceptibly, It
found that the pendulum is in con.
tinual change of position, for the
tion of the reflected light is incessant,
and so irregular that it is hardly possi-
ble to determine its me
the screen within five or
The North China Herald mentions a
novelty in the way of applied
which is said to exist
in China. T
of some medi
to be acouite, i blow it
into the room to | by means
of a tube through a hole previously
made (not a difficult thing in Chinese
houses with paper windows and
doors.) The inmates are anws-
thetized or at least deprived of the
power of speech and locomotion, and
their work.
proprietor being
mirglars,. He cannot
It said that
water absorbs this poison, { so for
this purpo
wealthy people
of walter al
men hsiang or hsiun hisany
cate or asp
its
18
i=
ian
\
BX Inches,
position on
science,
among thieves
prepara a composition
nt, supposed
thus
the thieves enter and do
In
robbed see the
vain does the
move limb or
is
Sid
A ——
HEALTH HINTS,
removed
without
used
Hard corns ean bx
means of & sharp
by p kn
pain, if the knife is expertly and
with ]
which not only makes it easier to re
move but als i
alcoho
the corn Kept saturated
SEnNsIive
ness, — Dr,
The foll
recomimee
Bay
parts; qu
few drops of oil of
perfumery may be add
rum before mixing.
diluted with rain wi
cellent dressing fi
made by adding
quince seed nt if water,
boiled down to one filtered hot
and allowed to cool
Whatever be the plan of treatment
decided upon, rest is the first principle
to inculcate in « Very severe headache,
which the busy and the
anxious mother cannot obtain so long
as they can manage to keep about, is
one of the first remedies for every |
headache and we should never cease
to use it. The brain, when excited, as
much needs quiet and repose as a frac-
tured limb or an inflamed eye, and it
is obvious that the chances of shorten
ing the seizure and arresting pain will
depend on our power to have this car
ried out effectually. It is a practical
lesson to be Kept steadily in view, in
that there may lurk behind a simple
headache of unknown
magnitude which may remain station-
ary if quietude can be maintained.
There is a point worth attending to in
the treatment of all headaches, See
that the head is elevated at night and
the pillow hard; for, if it be soft, the
head sinks and hot, which
with some is enough to provoke an
attack in the morning if sleep has been
long and heavy.
nee-seed jel
HL
is of
drams
pint,
Rest, man
some lesson
becomes
The Cats of Cairo,
Among the curiosities of Cairo is an |
amateur branch of the humane
ciety, for the especial benefit of poor
Puss. A curious legacy was some
years ago left by a wealthy burgher to
enlarge the permanent income of the
cadi, on condition of his nourishing
and cherishing all the unclaimed cats
in Cairo, Like most Mohammedans, he
must have shared the feeling which
made the Prophet cut off the wide
sleeve of his robe, sooner than disturb
a favorite cat which had fallen asleep
thereon. Consequently a large court-
Ki
benefit, and here the “nice, soft, furry
creatures” lie and bask in the sun, and
are fed at stated intervals, and alto- |
gether have a very good time of it, It
is a curious fact, however, that al-
though daily additions are made to this
large feline home, the inmates rarely |
amount to more than fifty, This (in
very remarkable problem. I suppose
that a candidate for the office of cadi
has to produce a medical certificate to
prove that he is not troubled with that
unconquerable aversion to dear old
Puss with which so many of the mas-
culine genus are alllicted.—Gentleman’s |
Magazine,
An Oriental Beauty.
Mrs. General Lew Wallace has been
permitted to see the greatest beauty of
Prince Feramorz's harem in Turkey
Two wonderfully ugly black eunuchs |
met the visitor at the fron gate of a
beautiful garden and conducted her to
peries. Iere she found the prince's |
latest aequisition, whom she thus de-
scribes in the Independent ;
Among the billowy cushions and vas
porous veilings rose the young face,
Oh! what a revelation of beauty! up-
lifted in a curious, questioning way to
see what manner of women these are
who come from the ends of the earth
with unveiled faces, and go about the
world alone, and have to think for |
themselves—poor things! The ex-
pression was that of a lovely child
waking from summer slumber in the
happiest humor, ready for play.
first of women while the angel was yet
unfallen. A perfect oval, the lips a
scarlet thread, and oh! those wonderful
Asiatic eyes!—lustrous, coal black, long
rather than round, beaming under
joined eyebrows.
HOW THE CZAR IS CROWNED, |
An Interesting Description of the Ceremony
at Kremlin, Moscow,
The Kremlin, with its high walls of
white stone, with battlements eut out
in the form of Tartar arrowhends, its
eighteen green towers and its five rose
colored gates, is quite a town in itself,
containing three cathedrals,
churches, a monastery, a nunnery and
three imperial palaces,
Let us speak first of the three most
venerable sanctuaries, the cathedrals of
Assumption, the Annunciation and the
Archangel St. Michael, grouped in a
single cluster like a sheal with golden
ears, inclosed by an iron railing that
shows upon the white walls its great,
black network.
The Assumption is the cathedral at
the Westminster Abbey of
Russia. Here the emperors are
crowned and here is preserved the
ancient throne of the czars in carved
wood, known as the throne of Wladi-
mir-Monomaque, The pillars, arches |
and walls of this church, which was
built from beginning to end by Italian
architects in 1475, are ornamented by
large Byzantine images of long-
bearded saints, whose heads are shown
upon, a background of gold. Those
holy personages in their purple gar.
ments look like a procession of Asiatic
potentates, silent and stern,
The iconostasus of the Assumption
is a dazzling wall of jewelry, a fabulous |
display of gold, of precious stones, of
pearls and diamonds, To this wonder-
ful wall are suspended miraculous
images of great antiquity-—virgins
with dark eves and brown skins that
belonged to grand dukes and were
brought from Novgorod, Pskof, Kiew
and Constantinople. Their halos are
constellated with precious stones that
twinkle like little stars and shine like
red sparks. Upon their garments and
dalmaties of gold, topazes, sapphires,
emeralds and rubies display marvelous
embroideries that interlace each other
like garlands of flowers. The miracul-
ous image of the virgin of Wiadi-
mir that orthodox piety attributes to
St. Luke wears a diamond necklace
valued at 200000 rubles. Emeralds
as large as nuts are set in the massive
golden crown of this Virgin.
to the iconostasus a canopy
covers the chair of the Patriarch, and
in front of it a velvet tent marks the
place of the emperor. Lamps of silver
and vermilion with flickering lights,
great wax candles with their
steady and soft jets, are not suflicient |
to awaken the obscurity that sleeps
under the somber vaults of the old
cathedral,
Ihe ceremonies of the coronation
take place in this church with a pomp |
and splendor that are peculiarly ori-
ental. Before the czar arrives the
high priests with the cross, assisted by
two deacons earrving the holy water
1 # basin of gold, sprinkle the passage
that the emperor about to take.
Then, arranging themselves upon the
steps that surround the imperial plat-
form surmounted by a canopy of erim-
son velvet with tassels and fringes of
gold, the grand dukes and
duchesses, all the members of
the imperial family, the dip-
lomatie the high dignitaries
of the empire, senators in red uniforms,
ministers bedizened with badges and
cordons, marshals in brilliant uniforms,
ladies of the court, and young ladies of
honor in the national costume, includ-
ing the kakochnik (a golden diadem
embroidered in gold or pearls), repre
sentatives of the merchants of all the
cities of the empire, most of them in
blue or black gowns fringed in gold,
deputations from Asiatic peoples allied |
to or subjects of the emperor, Chinese,
Mongolians, Tartars, Baskirs, Kal-
muks, Khirgees, Boukharas, Circas-
sians, Georgians, Mingrelians, Lap-
landers, Esquimaux, Persians, Tureo-
mans—a strange and wild mixture of
different races, half clad and armed,
some with bows or lances, others with
vatagans, with silver handles, or swords
with wooden hilts rudely carved,
This dazzling and picturesque pro-
cession advances, preceded by a platoon
seven
Rheims,
Close
and
i185
come
Corps,
cloth starred with silver, and by two
mounted heralds with gold embroidered
brocades, red velvet caps and maces,
The imperial arms, borne by high func.
tionaries, are placed at the left of the
throne upon a table with a cover of
gold, Grouped in front of the church
under the portal draped with velvet,
the clergy with crosses and mitres are
matics sparkling with gems. The
metropolitans, led by the metropolitan
of Kiew, holding censers await the ar- |
rival of the emperor,
At last the czar appears. He de |
Persian carpet, flowered with roses, is
placed. He wears the uniform of a
general of division, with red trousers,
and he walks under a large canopy that
puts over his head a flock of golden
eagles in a blue sky,
The metropolitan of Moscow pre-
metropolitan of Novgorod sprinkles
him with holy water. The princes of |
the church conduct the czar to the
Then the metropolitan of |
Moscow approaches his imperial |
majesty and presents him with the or-
czar reads aloud, standing with his |
hand upon the guard of his sword, |
After reading he receives the two
metropolitans of Kiew, who ascend |
the steps of the throne and bring him
the coronation mantle. The czar |
takes it from their hands and places it
upon his shoulders, Then he bows be-
fore the metropolitan of Moscow, who |
places his hands over him and recites
a prayer,
Finally, the czar arises majestic and
i
the imperial crowns sparkling with dia-
At this moment the |
empress advances and kneels before |
her august spouse, who, taking off his
crown, holds it an instant over the
her share in his omnipotence.
In the courtyard of the Kremlin the
cannons thunder. The three hundred
and the vaults of the old cathedral
of triumph.
The mass begins, The silver doors |
of the iconostasus are opened. The |
archbishops of Novgorod and of Kiew |
that all is ready for the annointment, |
The czar descends from the throne, |
The empress accompanies him to the |
door of the sanctuary, the threshold |
of which no woman can cross. The |
metropolitan of Moscow then dips in |
the vase that contains the holy oil the
golden branch that he holds in his |
hand, and anoints the temples, the eye- |
lids, the nostrils, the lips, the breast and |
the hands of the czar while uttering |
the words: “Behold the seal of the
Holy Ghost,” And after each holy
unction the metropolitan of Novgorod |
The ancient
czars for seven days used not to wash
the parts of their bodies that had thus
been annointed,
Conducted to the altar, the czar par- |
takes of the communion, while the
empress, still kneeling at the door of |
the ieconostasus, also the |
communion from the metropolitan of
Kiew, With the crown upon his head |
the new czar departs through the north |
portal, passes between a double row of
Cossacks, armed with lances, and of
Grenadiers with gilded helmets, and |
amid the applause of the populace en-
ters the cathedral of the Archangel,
St. Michael, where he kisses the holy |
images, after which he re-enters the |
ancient palace by the red staircase,
The repast of the coronation is given
The emperor and the |
empress, served by the marshals of the |
court, eat alone, The superior officers, |
headed by the chief marshal and es
corted by officers of the guard with?
drawn swords, bring ig the dishes that |
themetropolitan blesses one after the
other. When the czar wants to drink, |
the diplomatic corps retires, walking |
backward, and singers in gala cos- |
tume, with swords by their sides, ad- |
vance and execute, during the rest of |
the repast, different pieces of the old {
Russian repertoire.—Journal de Rome
receives
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Three Bears Killed and a Boy Saved,
Robert Lyon, of Cliff Glen, Ventura
county, Cal, communicates the follow
ing to the Ventura Signal: The tim- |
ber-clad hills at the head of the Ma
tiliia seem to be teeming with droves
of grizely bears, Last week nine were |
seen in one day near the ranch of Ra-
fael Ruiz, some of them monsters in
size; and on last Thursday Senor Ra-
mon Ortega shot three grizzlies, Ortega,
and his twelve-year-old boy were riding
for cattle, when one large grizzly and
two that were considerably smaller
came out of the brush and halted not
more than fifty yards from them. Or
tega jumped from his horse to get a
good shot, when his horse got fright
ened at the sight of so many bears and |
started and ran away about 100 yards,
when he stepped on his bridle and
stopped. Ortega took a good alm at
the big bear, and dropped it dead
at the first shot, He then
drew on one of the smaller
bears, and it too tumbled in its tracks,
never rising again, The other bear
then took to the brush, followed by a
savage dog. After assuring himself
that the two bears were dead, Mr.
back his horse. The boy started, but
before he got to the horse, his dog, |
closely pursued by a savage and angry
bear, overtook him, As soon as the |
bear saw the boy
paying no more attention to the dog,
and the boy was too frightencd to do
{ather to save him. Ortega seized his
rifle and fired just as the bear raised
on his haunches to strike the boy; the
bullet knocked the bear down, but he
raised and again rushed at the boy,
the blood streaming from a bullet-hole
the fear-paralyzed boy with bloodsot
eyes and foaming, open mouth,
a last cry “ He's got me, father!” the
and the desperate father sent a second
an almost human cry of agony the sav-
age brute fell backward
down the hill,
boy and found him uninjured. And
then the great hunter, who had killed
more grizzly bears than any man in
Southern California, thanked God for
the miraculous preservation of his
great peril to even lift his rifle. He
the brush was very dense at the bot.
tom of the ravine, and he thought he
adventure sufficient for one
day. . The largest of the two dead
It was all two strong horses could do
other, which was quite poor, would
weigh about 700 pounds. From Ra
mon, who wg in town this week, says
afterward got the wounded bear. One
of his friends tells us, in speaking of
ter, on the Sespe rancho, Ortega cap-
tured fifty-four bears with the lasso.
Effect of Music on Sheep,
the power of music is related by the
celebrated Haydn :
seek for coolness and fresh airion
of the lofty mountains which surrotind
the Lago Maggiore in
middle
ascent by daybreak, we stopped to con-
“One of our party, who was no bad
it out of his pocket,
play.
were following one
noise proceeded. They
flocked around the musician
tened with motionless attention.
on; but
begin
to move
the fluter
them
sooner did
than his innocent
returned to him, The
out of patience, pelted them with clods
passion, whistled, Sule and pelted
the poor creatures with stones,
as were hit by them began to march,
but the others still refused to stir,
our friend resumed the agreeable in-
strument,
“The tune he played was nothing
Milan. We were delighted with
in music.”
Last year Great Britain made nearly
2,700,000 tons of puddled iron, and im-
ported 90,000 tons besides.
FOR THE LADIES,
Superstitions About Love,
From the earliest times no event in
human life has been associated with a
Beginning with lovedivinations, these
are of every conceivable kind, the
anxious maiden apparently having left
no stone unturned in her anxiety to
ascertain her lot in the marriage state.
Some cut the common brake or fern
just above the root to ascertain the
initials of her future husband's name,
Again, nuts and apples are very favor.
ite love tests, The mode of procedure
If he loves me, pop and fly;
If he hates me, live and die,
Great is the dismay if the anxious
face of the inquirer gradually perceives
the nut, instead of making the hoped-
for pop, die and make no sign. One
means of divination is to throw a lady
bird into the air, repeating meanwhile
the subjoined couplet :
Fly away sast and fly away w
Show me where lives the one I like best.
Should this little insect chance to
fly in the direction of the house where
the loved one resides, it is regarded as
a favorable omen,
Another species of love divination
once observed consisted in obtaining
five bay-leaves, four of which the
anxious maiden pinned at the four
the middle. If she was fortunate
her in the course of the year.
Friday has been held a good day of
the week for love omens; and in Nor-
folk the following lines are repeated
on three Friday nights successively, as
on the last one it is believed that the
young lady will dream of her future
husband:
To-night, to-night is Friday night,
Lay me down in dirty white;
Dream who my husband is to be,
And lay my children by my side,
If I'm to live to be his bride,
In selecting the time for the mar-
riage ceremony precautions of every
kind have generally been taken to avoid
an unlucky month and day for the
knot to be tied. Indeed, the old Ro-
man notion that May marriages are un-
lucky survives to this day in England.
June is a highly popular month,
as an inaugpicious and evil day for the
commencement of any kind of enter-
prise, is generally avoided.
In days gone by Sunday appears to
riages. It is, above all things neces
sary that the sun should shine on the
bride, and it is deemed absolutely nec-
essary by very many that she should
weep on her wedding day, if it be only
a few tears; the omission of such an
act being considered ominous of her
future happiness,
In Sussex a brideon her return home
from church is often robbed of all her
pins about
women present, from the belief that
whoever possesses one of them will be
tably overtake the bride who keeps
toilet,
“ Flinging the stocking” was an old
marriage custom in England.
and the girls those of the bridegroom,
heads, endeavoring to
selves would soon be married, and
the young men,
supposed to guarrantee her future
prosperity in the marriage state.
Fashion Notes.
New silver bracelets are made in
exact imitation of the handcuffs worn
A pretty dress stuff for children’s
suits is a crape-finished serge in broken
Scottish plaids.
Carnations, marsh-mallows, poppies
and ox-eye daisies are the most fash-
jonable flowers for trimming fall round
Handsome “Roman” and “Egyp-
buckles, made in the United States, are
a prominent feature of milknery and
cloak garniture this season.
pers are cream white, pale blue, pale
rose, shrimp pink, mauve, ‘terra cotta,
blue, dark reds, dark blues,
The trimmings should
ribbons, velvet and
gray and black.
be embroidery,
The center parting of the hair is now
made as inconspicuous as possible, and
many ladies obliterate it altogether by
cross partings taken above the fore
parting at all,
Small capotes of white or tinted
satin, completely covered with soft
fluffy white ostrich tips, are worn.
They are very pretty and becoming to
youthful ladies. For their elders the
same fashion in black, bronze, brown,
lowed.
The European custom of carrying
infants on
adopted by American mothers; and the
of ribbon a fourth of a yard wide, with
ends that bang behind nearly to her
feet. The nurse's dress is of the color
used for lining the lace of the baby's
pillow.
Stuffed birds
varieties.
aquatic birds
instance,
Birds for millinery trimmings are
now stuffed softly, and when applied
hug the headdress very closely, Cer-
tain of the large birds, in the present
sea-gulls and ducks, for
for the garniture of a hat; and a bird
frequently completes the ornamenta-
tion, with drapery of velvet as the ob-
jective trimming.
Among the fabrics intended for
autumn wear are plain and striped Sic-
ilienne in such combinations as green,
with wood-colored and green stripes,
trimmed with bows in the same color,
Woolen and silk plaids are also to be
used. The goods are generally cut
| the purpose than broche
| cuffs for these costumes are of black or
| colored velvet, In the latter case ruby
{ or green is preferred.
| Cornflowers are becoming popular,
In millinery they will soon reign; in
| brocades and velvets they figure in
| abundance, while for ball dresses they
| form one of the prettiest powderings,
(as on a white tulle, where the blos-
| soms were outlined in pale blue silk,
| the leaves in green and the stalks in
{gold tinsel. Hosts of these aerial
| dresses are being prepared for youthful
| wearers. Flowers are p as art-
| lessly as possible on these cloud-like
| toilets,
Handsome and costly buttons area
| great feature of walking dresses and
| traveling costumes, and as they can be
| transferred from one dress to another
| they are really not extravagant bat.
| chases in theend. Tortolse-shell
tons, with crests or mon in
| gold, enameled buttons in Mauresque
{or Florentine styles, are effective and
{look well on bottle-green, Havana or
| prune-colored dresses. Wooden and
| horn buttors are also worn, and small
| round French gold buttons—* grelots ”
| —with rough surfaces, are pleatifully
‘used on bodices, cuffs an 3
Jet mosaic buttons, with monograms
| inlaid in jet on colored grounds and a
| jet border, are thoroughly elegant.
{
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A Peculiar Custom Among the Maoris,
Hon. G. W. Grifin, United States
{eonsul at Aukland, New Zealand,
recently read a very interesting and
| valuable paper before the St. Louis
| Historical society in relation to one of
| the peculiar customs of the Maoris, or
| aboriginal inhabitants of New Zealand.
It is of interest, from the fact that it
illustrated very forcibly a
phase of savagery which is fast
pearing before the march of civiliza-
tion, just as the early customs of the
red men of America are now little more
than traditions among the Indians
themselves,
“The law of mura is so complicated
in its nature, and subject to so many
refinements and so varied in its appli-
cations, that it would be about as difii-
| cult to tell what it is as to tell what it
{ is not,
| “The word mur, in itsliteral sense,
means to rob or to plunder, and for
| this reason Europeans have come to
| regard the term as a sort of legalized
| system of robbery. This view of the
| subject is, however, very far from
[being a just one. The law of muru
| is so broad and general in its applica-
{tion that no human being, whatéver
| may be his rank or condition in life, is
| exempt from its penalties or benefits.
| But in order to understand the practi-
{cal workings of the law, it must be
{borne in mind that the Maoris are
| communists, both in theory and prac-
| tice. They do not think it right for
one person to own more property
‘than another. For instance, if
a chief owns six pigs and another
(four, one must be taken from
the former and given to the latter,
that each may have the same number,
Indeed property changes hands so
| often that a man can’t tell a week or
| a month beforehand who will be the
| owner of his canoe, blanket or mat or
i
| even the hopse in which he lives. The
| great principle is to keep property in
circulation. The oftener it changes
| hands the better. A man's relations
have the first claim to it. His friends
and neighbors come next. No one,
however, would dare think of asserting
'a claim to the property of another,
| except in accordance with the strictest
principles of the law of murn, which
alone can determine the right of owner-
ship. Should a great misfortune
overtake a man, such as the death
of a favorite child, his relatives
are allowed, according to the law
‘of muru, to dispossess him of
all his personal property, and if
{need be, of the house in which he
{lives. He must suffer for his misfor-
| tune, but strictly speaking he does not
| regard the loss of all his earthly pos-
| sessions as a punishment. Indeed, on
{the contrary, he looks upon it asa
| great honor. He is blessed both by
men and gods; the greater the loss the
greater the honor. If everything he
| has in the world is taken from him, he
| is treated with the profoundest respect
and he becomes a man of some im-
portance in the community in which
he lives. If a man’s child should be
burnt to death and the accident
to be unavoidable, the father is at
‘once plundered to an extent highly
gratifying. Everything is taken from
him—his goods, clothing, spears, fish-
ing nets, mats, canvas, indeed, all
| his earthly provisions ; and in order to
favor him stili further he is severely
clubbed besides, He is usually left
upon the ground in a terribly bruised
and bleeding condition. It is, how-
| ever, against the law of mura to kill
‘him. He is also duly warned of the
| process of the law. It would never do
| to take him by surprise. A messenger
is dispatched to inform him of the near
‘approach of the officers of the law.
Sometimes he prepares to receive them
and a great feast is given in honor of
their arrival. He is always anxious to
know whether it isa great or little
muru. If he is told that it is a
great murn he is beside himself
with joy. Helis expected to defend
himself with a spear or club until he is
overpowered, but it is against the law
for him to strike the officers too hard.
As soon as the first blood is drawn he
must stop. Sometimes he makes a de-
termined resistance, and is terribly in
earnest, and the contest is exciting in
the extreme. One often admires his
courage. The contest is unequal. He
is battling with fate. Like Macbeth,
he knows that he is doomed; but un-
like Macbeth, he does not wish it
otherwise, for to be victorious would
| be against the law of mura.
Carp and Turtles,
Judge Bridewell, at Beauregard, had
seventy-five or eighty beautiful carp in
his pond, but as a big turtle was seen
in it, suspecting the fellow might be de-
predating on his young fish, the water
was drawn off and nearly half of his
{ carp was found to have been devoured.
| Rev. J. W. MeNeil found one carp in his
pond and that showed marks of vio-
i lence from the depredations of turtles.
| among the finny tribe. If the weather
| turns cool they stick their heads into
| the mud and a turtle comes along and
| eats them up.
The only remedy to keep these
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that point. { "
We have bulit a small block house
in which the Gatling gun is mounted
80 as to command all the veh
of our house, so that if we ever have
to fight we can do so with every ad-
vantage. Duringthe winter a N
is said, with the intention of
out the whole kabloonas ( whites),
as he came ani his
came and had a * big talk,
about for a couple of days and
took his departure
fight
The
| ponds already they
, out by this simple
| Stock Journal.
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