SRR x THE MILLER'S SON. wit in is the birds sing sweeter to-day ? y is the sky so bright? Why is it that time flies fleeter to-day, Aud the moments are winged with de- light? All the day long She is thinking of one, None so handsome and strong The millers son. For he loves her, he loves her; and, whis- per it low, "Cwas only last nignt that he told her so! To what is her heart set dancing to-day, Hurk to that glad refrain! How oft inthe glass she's glancing to-day, And eugerly watching the laue Home, home agsin, All bix duties well done, Comes the noblest of men—- The miller's son! Oh! he's coming, he's coming, he's well on the way ; , And to morrow, to-morrow’s the wedding day. Why is it she lies there so cold, still and whit. ? ‘What is it has turned her glad noon into night ? Off into space The swift engine rushed With uw mighty leap! Then down, down down To kilt and drown: No moment of grace; But mangled snd erushed, Henp upon hesp! And the furem st one Was the millers son! i More bright grow her eyes and nore faint grows her breath ; she marries, she marries the bride grovm Death! And Stress of Weather. Of course it was very cold, weather. middle-aged but each of fine, seasonable So said the three they drew themselves up warm at their dining-room fires, waited gentlemen as for a tinal on by such feminine slaves as happened to exist for them in the shape of wives, daughters or housekeepers. What a hero a man must feel who sees his the heated, and regretful admiration in th tens laid in fender, his great surrounding countenances ! Arrived at the rails deprived of their natural worship : at ivy Way station, three men were just as ordinary, fortable-looking citizens as They yOu well meet with, strangers to each other, and chanced a } t the same hour to book thems:ives fi Paddington ; how could they tell all doing it cheerily, for ti what was going happen! There was a look of having outwitted look—on Mr. Dolman’s c he pocketed his ticket and his them before breakfast,” he himself, wiih a self-satisfied nod. compiacent somebody -—a newspaper. “I'll pin upon nuttered to Mr. Weaver secured neither p: Tinws nor a Telegray hi. but the 1 scientific journal. plied himself with Truik ; his and laughter usual requirement journey. Then these tl men got into he partment, obtaine for their feet, and occup before starting their sixtvr-miles journey in rolling rus, moved with each man, like a true wide his ne wspaper and possible sight of his fellow-travelers, An the dropped, and the I hour later Te W Spapers geatieraen are all en- ‘ forming their gaged in own private opinions as to the meaning of a fierce wind that has rise engaged in blowing sifted sugar through carriage windows, Mr. P deed, changed his seat, wlbury, in- having a clear ornamented like a he—the most spoke, sky! objection to being Christmas cake, At last genial of the three men “Never snow!’ “Huomph ! think it's getting thicl er 2’ inquired Mr. Dolman, *”. hi ‘ker, sir 7” broke in Mr. Weaver, solemnly. “There are evidences about us that the elements are preparing for a struggle—a great struggle, sir.” At ih s pronounced opinion from so saw such a Full of looked in neighbor, ily. “Good gracious! Cats and dogs, 1 dare say, in snow form I’” A great swirl of wind drove the snow hard against tle glass as he spoke, and, tor a min- ute or so the windows were blinded. Slower and slower moved the train, and finally stopped, “What now ?"’ cried Mr, Dolman, as he and Mr, Podbury thrust their heads amazement at his opposite Mr. Podbury laughed cheer- drew them in again, A guard plodding his wey along and bending to the temp- "est, showed the most remarkable in- stance of railway-official-forbesrance on record, for he waited to hear and an- swer the two heads out of one and the same window, “Why have you stopped, guard ?” asked the one, “Why don’t you go on, guard?" asked the other, “We're fast in a drift, sire, and can’t get no further.” At this astounding news the ques. tioners became mom ntarly dumb; the light died out, pr ach, window, The only one of the three who wore Mr. Weaver. mured to himself : “Most interesting! Wonderful I’? “What is, sir 77? testily inquired Mr, “Our stuck in Dolman. being snow “I have been engaged for some yoars in the study of the Glacial period, sir. As it was in the past it will undoubtedly be again, erie with a mild remark : around me of the evident near approach of the extraordinary cold phenomena we are led by the most learned of our men to expect.’ cried Mr. hate ** Every one to his taste,” Podbury, shivering, ‘I ice self.’ and drew pocket-flask, Mr. put out by some private, he out a well-filled Dolman, evidently SETIOUS Con SNOW Was Huneon- ly. The monly deep, and presently the getimg grr appeared again. “* No chance of moving, gentlemen, till Nearest And away he went. i oes walk 7?" Padbury. we can get some men to dig us out, station just one mile off,” the fellow think we can We stg and bear «110 dreadful Mr. pry! growled the m ralile Dolman, Her money's all tied 1 ’ ' {that’s one comfort. Young aver can’t m ducks and drakes of it! “Weaver, sir?" said the seientifie gentleman, with recalling himself from antediluvian dreams: Tom of the Engineers. is going to “That's my name—anl Weaver, he my ROT, married to-day. 1 was on my way He isa the to be present at the wadding, sir, and pretty young girl is Mary Dolman.” gracious ®’ cried Mr. Pod- bury, laughing heartily, “‘one on his way to assist, the other to prevent, and Ha!ba!ha! downright good fellow. “Hood both stopped by the snow ! I must say it's good 1" If Mr. Dolman could have roasted | Mr. Podbury and converted Mr. Weaver into a permanent glacial monument he wonld have done it, That he should in his storm-bound desperation have con- fided his hopes and their disappoint ment to the father of that young rascal, Weaver ! But the snow got worse and worse, They reached Reading toward nightfall, and there Mr, Dolman stopped, wildly | desirous to send off telegrams : one of reproach to his wicked niece, one to his home to siy he was not lost, As the wires were damaged by the storm he could not send either, He made his way to a hotel in the town, and went to bed, roughly desiring the chambermaid not to call him until the line was clear for him to get home. As the young woman did not know where he lived she wisely remarked that it might bea week or more: to which he sulkily re. plied he didn't care if it were ten, The girl looked a moment at the door as it closed, and then nodded her head know- ingly. ** 'E looks old, but there's no mistake in the symptoms. ‘E's bin and pro- posed to some one, and she won't have + him Pe Tinsley's Magazine, Children’s remarks are at times even more entertaining than their comieal queries and replies, A Brve Cow.—One of the two | children who were amusing themselves by coloring pictures, suddenly exclaim- ed: ** How stupid of you to paint that i cow blue I"! ** Oh, it’s blue with the cold I" quick- ly observed the other. ** Don’t you see Lit is winter, and the poor thing is mest frozen 1”? A Goob Time To Waite It Dowxs, A little girl on being told something her, that She would remember it the whole of life, and when would write it down.” | which greatly amused said ii | her she forgot it she VERY CONSIDERATE. had A gentleman On { ordering three of them to be drowned, a cat which had five Kittens, ‘Pa. do not throw Warm it first ; | his little boy said ; | them pre may catch cold.” into cold water, The fol- a little girl shows an OPINIONS OF OLD FOLKS, | lowing remark of opinion of her elders the reverse of flat- | tering : | "Oh dear,” tdoll, **} i thing in to her UNEASY she exclaimed never saw all grown such an life folks stupid for awhile #* ms Why don’t you act like and be still and was the delicate boy family were In contrast with this compliment which a little The hie suppes paid to 1S mother. discuss table the qualities N o- O Inake up a goon] wife, Artificial Dimples, 5 Ee 1 uriosily i Flor sGineh wal resem- piston, and was so sansdl that when handle drawn un the alr and it ing a slight Was WHR © X« huusted from the tule adhered to the flesh, raise protuberance Around this raised pos daintily tied a then took away his Fhe little wiint of rn the operator bit i seariet silk, and suction nmchine, t hat raised he sliced off with a wicked-look- I tried hard not to scream, but it was «0 un- expected that I had to. Then he bound up the arm, placing over the wound a was thus skin ing knife, bringing the blood, small silver object like an inverted cone, the point of which was rounded and pol- ihed, Thas little point was adiu ted 80 as to depress the exact centre of the cut, Then he told me to go away and not touch the spot till the next day. When I came at that time he dressed my arm agam, and this operation was repeated for five days, when the wound was healed, The silver cone was re- moved, and there, sure enough, beneath it was the prettiest dimple in the world | All 1 had to pay was £10, ; His Lordship Declined. ee Like many other profess’onal “wits, Sergeant Ballantine never takes a joke against himself kindly, On one ocea- sion be had a lady elient with the pecu- liar name of Tickle, for whom hé ap- peared before the late Baron Martin in a breach of promise case, A point of law arose, and Mr, Ballantine began an address to the Judge in these words: “Tickle, my client, my lord" Here he was interrupted by his lordship’s saying : “Tickle her yourself, my learned brother.” Everybody in the Court roared with laughter except Mr, Ballantine, who looked glam and was very grumpy throughout the day. Recent Legal Decisions. SALE TIONS, wachine sued the vende: The purchaser of a reaping | Hain ges i i WanraNTY REPRESENTA- | { io | The | defense was that there was ne warranty given, On the trial of the case—Neave vs, Arntz—the plaintiff proved that the defendant in the negotiations for the | that the reaper wus | one of the best machines made and of great efficiency, and he got a judgment. The defendant appealed to the Supreme Court of Wisconsin, Judge upon the warranty he had given, i sale represented which affirmed the judgment, Cassaday, in the opinion. said : “Undoubtedly any sertion or affirmation made selier tot tiations to quality of the article or the effic luring | eflect the sa resp Tier preh Ee the machine sold will be regu warranty i relied upon In chaser in buving., Here the negotiations were conducted by the seller in Person words employed were his While he denies giving a adinits using the (is proven, OWil. WHRTauly hie and these words were representations « this what it is." stituting a warranty denial is simply that the law is O00 DS LE ALS BE DeaLer—T11 Merchants sold liquors to a Lhe NDITIONAL ro 10 (2 0O0DS condition that the gods should remain for, wit might SHARES OF STOCK CERT Oy AT REDITORS, 151d i > IF WITH F'owen FACHING ( TORNEY A creditor of a A na I where the 10 Bryad pent and on the bank ANT, and the SOc Jiis SHATES IN execu i sherifl’s of transferred the & to issued touhim no new eertificate and pald in May Ares {4s certificate i him 20, 1968, the owner the sulseguent dividends, of the sl signed them to DD, giving Bhim a power of attorney to make the transfer, and he Di, in the following January, assigned the stock to 8, aud delivered to him the power of attorney. In August, 1869, N, went to the bank to make the Lransier, but met with a refusal, on the ground that by the Sheriff's sale the interest of the owner had passed (0 the purchaser, to whom a certificate had been He then brought suit against the bank for the value of the stock—8cott vs, the Pequonnock National Bank of Bridge- port, —in the United StatesCireuit Court, Southern District of New York, and recovered a judgment. Judge Shijnoan, in the opinion, said : ‘ln the absen.s of positive provisions of law or viles of evidence whereby tr ns ers of property made without notice to the pubic or without registry are declared fraudulent and void as again: t attaching creditors without notice, or whereby certain specitied acts are unde prevequisite the vesting of a new title, creditors take their debtors’ property subject to all honest und bona fide liens and equitable transfers, There is no statutory pro- vision or by-law here, and no fraud can be made out from the failure to transfer under the power of attorney. The delivery of the certifitate, and the assign. ment, and the power to transfer is a suit cient delivery at common law, , Tae tendency of modern decisions is to re. gard certificates of stock attached to an executed blank assignment and power "to transfer as approximating to negotia. issued, “= ble securities. though neither iu form | nor character negotiable,’ | CHATTEL MORTGAGES OWNERSHIP ~ KNOWLEDGE OF i { MORTOAGER, —A | mortgage ceita'n goods to B to secure a note, and there was included in the | ; 04 ce | property some goods of A's wife, which fact was known to RB, i the i i { i The mortgage of In an action to recover the value of these goods. contained usual covepants which the mortgagor refused Lo deliver up, he st wp as a defense that they could not be mortgaged by him, as he | was not the owner, and on the trial he | offered to prove that the title to them | was in his wife, This evidence was | the and Defendant | Harvey vs, Harvey | of Rhode | which affirmed the judgment, | Chief the | said ; the rejected as conflicting wilh venants of the plaintiff had judgment. appealed the case to the Island, The Opinion, con- | mortgage, the | supreme. Court Durfee, “For the sake of glad to hold that plaintiff was himself estopped by Justice, in wife we should be misconduct from elaiming that her husband eould not contradict the mort- | gage, but we do not see our way clear to do it, for the deed, though ineffectual 10 « onvey the wife's Lhe ; commitlied or contemplated against property, was vail bet ween purities, and the as committed partly with ill 4 Case W nen isey IcKRed-pnating and afler using one nposed of alcohol, business a lacquer o« he found that his disease was not so bad, he ler and ng frown He then put alcohol intoan is tried bLreath VAPOT aris iil and it. He did this for a in hi, n . relic verd of A few wis cured, and he morning, and was greatly the ecatarrhal trou months later he 5 DOW again His family finds that the vapor from aleoho pastor of the Lyons Farm church. also prevents colds, Fourteen Mistakes of Life. the mis tak es of life, and arrived at the conclu- son that there are fourteen of them. Most people would say, if they told the truth, that there was no limit to the mistakes of fife; that they were liie drops in the ocean or the sands of the shone 1, but it is well to be ac curate. Here, then, are fourteen great mistakes : It is preat a mistake to set up our own stundard of right and wrong, and judge people accordingly ; to weasure the enjoyment of others by our own: to expect uniformity of opin- fon in this world ; to look for judgment and experience in youth : to endeavor to monld all dispositions alike ; not to vield to immaterial trifles: to look for perfection (a our own actions ; to worry ourselves and others with what cannot be remedied ; not to allev ate all that needs alleviation as far as lies in our power ; not to make allowances for the infirmities of others 1 to consider ev rv thing impossible that we canot (er form ; to believe only what our nfl he minds can grasp: to expect to be able to understand eversthing. The greats est of mistakes is to live only for time, when any moment may launch us inte Somebody has condensed in num elemnity, — Drudge-Mothers and Lady-~ Daughters. Everyone blames the lady-daughter, and pities the The daughtet nice drudge-mother, the parlor, in clothes, and elegantly arranged hair, dawdling over a novel or chatting with Companions or friends, sits in Her mother is toiling in the kitchen, or fretting her ithe the same tumbling baby, worn «nl thin, Mie soul in the vain attempt to reduce pile of “mending.” and at time looking after the mother's face is hair askew, “till wears the old dress that she put on Baby has pulled her in such a hurry at half-past five in the woke her up tired ! tired when the baby from her weary sleep. She is always tired, She is on red on Sunday ; she and tired and goes 10 bed and gets get angry 58, She can if In 1 the saturday ; in IHOrning ; in the evening ; hard not to wther's face, there is will One adjusted casts mal developed pon Less i} al Peopie In nee for t They will A n, who ribed by Lim of Bomeo,™' and the wilder Hearing in existence of a 3 similar pearai ce (to a L.mdy kept at of Ma delay. capture of a specimen. A the wolnan ed men, in ap- the court red a reward for the man child of then herself When the little one attempted {to wander, the parents ealled her back with a “Kra-o," i been adopted as her name, the child are large, dark the nose is flattened. the the cheeks are fat and pouchlike, the lower lip only rather thicker than is uswal in Europeans ; but the peculiarity is the strong awd abundant hair. On the head it is black, thick, and straight, and grows over the forehead down to the heavy eyebrows, and is continued in whisker-dike locks down the cheeks, The rest of the face is covered with a fine, dark, downy hair, and the shouls ders and arms have a coving of har from an inch to an inch md a half long. There is, it is said, a slight lengthening of the lower vertebree, sug. gestive of the caudal protuberance, and also points in the muscular conforma- tion which will provoke discussion, Krao has already picked up a few words of English. She is said to be of a frank, affectionate disposition, and shows truly feminine delight in her clothes, jewelry and ribbons. The showman exhibits her as * the missing pink. Was caugh:, and with him NOW exhibi.ed., and a similar appearance allowed to be 18 ie, paintive ery of and amd Justrous: nostrils scarcely showing A A. BOR The New Jersey State Boand of Agri- enlture closed 3 twoulins' session in Trenton, The folowing officers were lected for the ensuing year : President, Thomas 1, Dud ey ; Secretary, P. T. Quinu; Executive Committee—T, H. Kinney, William 8. Taylor und Edward B k
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