a Alligator Steak. LABOR py ug 5 A recent letter from Jacksonville, Fla., contains the following : Dropping n to a store where Florida curiosities are gators. He had about 100 little fellows from ten to twenty inches long, active and vicious as one might desire, which he was willing to dispose 6f at a good them, with a positive certainty that they will live but a very short time after being carried away. He said that alligators were. already becoming scarce, amd that their extinction now was only a question of time. as it was the destruction of the eggs and the capture of the young, taken in large numbers before maturity blown out and thenusold for curiosities. alligators you wanted in the immediate vicinity of Jacksonville, hut every year further in the interior. He said there was a great deal of lying about alligators, stories himself. It whole top of an alligator’s head off with a shotgun, sending a and said : twenty-foot ball through “Why,. F -bave killed alligator with this.” and more tender than chickens : particularly honor a guest they served very short time the hotels would all have are, When aroused or angry alliga give out a musk-like smell and sin he water of the could not see them. : marshes, where tread on them as he had done often. but he had no trouble in jump ing he and beating with his tail. but pose that alligators had so much strength in their jaws or that their teeth were so terrible. They grow new teeth year, and did not bite very hard. Alto- alligator is rather a good fellow to meet in a dark night, and it is a pity they are going out of existence, a For the Young. TheFox and the Cat. It happened one day that a cat met a fox in a wood, and as she thought he was smart and experienced, and had a good position in the world, she was in- clined to be very polite and attentive to him, and said: ** Good moming, good Mr. Fox, how are you ? how are you gettingeon 7 I hope these hard times do not affect you #’ The haughty fox joeked at the cat from head to foot, and fora long time hesitated ‘whether he should answer at all ; but at last he re- plied : ** You miserable lick-whisker ! you simpleton! you mouse-hunter! whatare you thinking of ? Do you know what you are doing when you venture te question me 7 What do you under- stand ? What can you pretend todo 7” “I can only do one thing ; I" understand but one art,” answered the cat modest. ly. “ And, pray, what is that?" in- quired the fox. ‘ When the dogs are after me, I can run up a tree and save myself.” “Is that all?” replied the fox, contemptuously. “1 am master of a thousand arts ; and besides these, Ihave a whole sack full of cunning tricks, I pity you! Come with me and I'll show you how te deceive the dogs.” At this moment a hunter with four dogs came by; the cat sprung nimbly up a tree, and concealed herself effectually among the * leaves and branches, from whence she called down to her companion. *‘Open your sack, friend fox.! open yonr sack!” but the dogs had already seized him, and held him fast. * Oh!" said the cat, ‘‘with all your arts, I see you're caught ; had you only known how to climb a tree, you would have saved your life.” Dear children, never boast. — Youth's Comp. The Wolf and the Lamb. One hot day in June, a wolf and a lamb came just at the same time to quench their thirst in the stream of a clear brook that ran dewn the side of a high hill, The welf stood on the high ground ; the lamb was on low ground a good way off from where the wolf stood, But the wolf did not wish to be at “Why do you spoil the nice drink ? You make it thick and black with the mud that yon stir up 1”? The poor Jamb was in a great fright, and said in a mild tone of voice, **Bir, { how can I spoil the drink? It flows { to yours : but I would not spoil your drink if I could.” *‘ Be all that as it may,’ said the | wolf, “you are no friend of mine; I { six months since—let me think, yes, just half a year since,” ln Then vou were not: told the truth, | sir,” said the meek lamb, “for at the time you name I was not born.” | “Then if it was not you, it was your | dam, and that is all one-—all sheep, | rams, ewes and lambs are bad—you shall die! 1 will sieze you and kill you at once,” The wolf then poor lamb. made a meal of the Scraps. i “Why do you carry your pocketbook in your band ¥’ asked a Philadelphia | husband of young wife, “Oh,” | was the quiet reply, ‘it is so light 1 am afraid it might jump out of my pocket,’ his Little Arthur has been to church. “How did you like the sérmon #7? asked “Pretty well,” responded eritic. | his sister. { the youthful *The beginning | was very good, and so was the end, but it had too much middle.” “I hope, sor, you will assist a poor { man whose house and everything that was in it, including me family, sor, was burned up two months ago last Thurs- | day, sor,” The merchant to whom this appeal philanthropic, is also very cautious, so ‘Have papers or | certificate to show that you lost any- thing by the fire?” “I did’have a | certificate, sor, signed by a notary pub- was addressed, while very { he asked : you any lic, to that effect, but it was burned up, | sor, in the house with me family and { the rist of me effects.” AN ACCUSING CONSCIENCE. —Shake- | sSpeare’s words ; “Suspicion Th were vividly thiel dot 180 an officer illustrated at a Freedmen's Mission school : Two little boys, after quarreling on | the playground, each brought a com- plaint to the teacher. “He struck me." “He said I stole his knife,” | other. said one, said the **1 said somebody stole it,” said the { first, *You meant me,’ replied the other. “Why, Charlie,” said the ‘teacher, “if Willie had told] me that {somebody { had stolen his kaife, it would not have | made angry, 1 thought he meant me." me should not have was the ready answer, greeted witha laugh from “Well, but you don’t steal,” the other boys, as they saw how he had given evidence against himself, A person with a sense of guilt’and an unquiet conscience is always [over-sen- sitive and suspicious. -—t Cullis, A clean record—The laundry bill, The best fire-escape—Not be around when the fire occurs. Some men who elaim to be self-made men are not very well done. Just so long as a4 woman retains her maiden name, her maiden aim is to change it, Diamonds should be washed regular- ly : but it is not necessary to hang them out on a line in the back yard, It is said that fashionable ladies won't go fishing this summer unless they can get silk worms for bait, Two things go off in a hurry—An arrow dismissed from a bow, and a beau dismissed by a belle. The electric light is so much superior to gas that it is a wonder politicians don’t dispense with the latter. It rather annoys a woman after she has had a child christened some romantic Indian name to learn that the name translated means “‘old boots.” A Detroit barber has the lockjaw, None of kis customers are willing that he should find the combination. A little bright-eyed boy, upon hearing bis father read the story of Joan of Are was greatly moved by her sad trials : but when the part was resched where she was about to be burned to death at the stake, the poor little fellow could not contain himself any longer, but sob- bingly clutched his parent's arm, and, with big tears running down his plumb little cheeks, cried, *‘But, pa~—papa, wh-e-re were the police 7 tn AI sss A father may turn his bagk on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may de- sert their wives, wives their husbinnds, through —1In 1862 the salt used in the U.S was 8,000,000 bbls,; three-fourths of which was manufactured in Michigan, Traveling in Morocco. A writer in the London Athenmum | says that the difficulties of Maroccan been exaggerated or of the travellers’s own making, The nest of envoys at | Tangier, engrossed with their petty rivalries and squabbles about nothing rarely see the Sultan, and they are un known te his advisers, unless we accept the Minister of Foreign Affairs, whom they keep on the coast for their private baiting, Tangier is, indeed an Oriental Pwupernickel, If; for example, the German Minister cannot eat the hay, he takes good care that his French colleague shall not enjoy the banquet. The Italian Envoy may have no taste fof antiquities, but he is not on that acegant inclined to look with cowmplaiSaice on his Spanish neighbors’ yearning after Roman eities and Phenigian tombs, Moreover, knowing well ‘that the popular ambassador is He“ who gives least trouble, thediplomatists are invari ably inclined to throw cold water on Any enterprise which might embroi! the country they represent with that of the marauders who have maltreated some over-zealous investigator, and to travel without an escort and a firman most parts of Maroceo considered to be simply courting the martyrs fate, while to travel with is almost as bad. Every village hates the sight of the “bashador’s’; cavalcade; .for the “mona,” or gratuitous supply of pro- visions which the wretched people must is in one bestow on all government travellers, isa tax which is not only frequently abused, but is 50 repugnat to every sense of jus- tice that men will often elect to dispense with the favor, and as right-minded a consequence of running tilt against the customs of the country, incur the and be scionably swindled in paying for what enmity of their escort, UNncon- a minute before they were offered as a gift, There are, of pre) udices of course, also religious 1 1 ¢ and local a fanactical, ignorant, "semi-barbarous people to over- come, ‘Saint houses’ are so numerous that one is never sure when sacred soil i8 being defiled and *“‘assouies.’ or dervishes, are not the kind of people for whose good beh r any would The illage sheiks have no desire to sce Hospit Morocco MUIZIONS and ev avio one care to become bail ROVEeInors and 2% (rds es strangers. pre in that cheap country food « ities il means en OSLS money, the hi, since rich Nor are they anxious for Sultan to hear of their wealt men in i *» Finally, t short-lived, and it Maroceo are fi 131 "n tribesmen se] are apt not to return, he are apt to consider every 3 escort of white-robed soldiers as only the abhored taxgatherers in disguise, and toact after their truenlent instincts. The Sultan occupies his time in march- | ing about the empire collecting his dues, with the aid of a plundering army of ruffianly for Morocco still an unconquered country. The Mauri of Berbers of our day, and though they spearsmen ; is the the Romans are have adopted, after a rough fashion, the faith of their Arab invaders, the Shereefian sovereigns have in many parts of ‘Mauritania’ no influence beyond the range of their guns. Bat Mr. Watson, armed with an introduction from the mulatto Shereef, had trouble whatever in reaching and re siding in the holy city of Wazan, hither- to supposed to be indescribably Islamic : and were prudent individual, equally well provided with recommen- dations and able to speak Arabie. to visit Mulai Edris, doubtless he also would return in safety. We are convine. ed, after some personal acquaintance with the supposed difficulties of Maroc- can travel, that if a good-natured, CALY- minded scholar, a physician by prefer. ence, could settle down in Mogador or still better in Morocco city, under of course, diplomatic protection—Ilearn the ways of the people and a little of their language, and gain the friendship of some of the more powerful Berber sheiks of the Atlas, he might add im mensely to our present vague acquain- tance with the geography of the Moorish empire, no sone nA A So Religious Sentiment, Supplication. Traveling, footsore, wenry, luns “To Thy Cross I cling ; Sob, and sigh, and dreary moan, All to Thee I bring. Can I come ? Ones I tracked the desert sand ; Fainting, famishing, burned ; ) iat was broken in my hand, en to Thee I turned. Thou wert near. When my heart was {n the flood Surgued with waves of woe, Through Thy Body, through Thy Blood, Asked I faith's reflow In Thy name. When the Hidu of Jar fall low or my en strife Will Thy, Crows, Immcrial glow! . On my fading life, , © : Saviour mine? Be a lamp in the chamber if you can- not be a star in the Keep your Me the i ii i. jt $ 4 be prompt and exact, and it will save you mugh trouble and care th 1ife and “ voli nd caap Hn ggh of you | When thou wishest to delight thyself, | think of the virtues of thos Wile five with thee ; for instance, the activity of | one and the modesty of another, the ; liberality of a third and some other good quality of the fourth, NEGLECT, —In all the great towns j and cities how many hundreds and thousands are dying of neglect ? Grant that the church of to-day, with its chapels and tract distributions, and its christian ebanties, and its mission schools is doing more then the church of yesterday ; is 1t doing anything like its duty ¥ We call ourselves followers of Christ. He went out into the highways and hedges ; preached in the streets and lanes, and the hillsides, mingled with publicans and sinners ; brought the harlots and drunkards about him ; left the ninety and nine in the fold to go in to the wilderness after the one that had strayed away : passed by all the homes of priests of Jerricho to be a guest of the half-heathen Zaccheus, When we gather in our msthetic churches, $100 to $1,000 a vear for fifty on sacred orations, and delectate ourselves with decorated and luxuriously warmed and carpeted and eushioned church, and are thrilled by the eloquence of a popular preacher, or exhilarated by the ousic of a skillfully cordial invitation to respectable sinners, trained choir, give a who belong to our and are able pay price christian church. set our for admission to and keep all others out, to and was Jost ¥—( are seek to save that which Tristian Un. - dinary. A hig interest hly comic the south France, |} of by the ( Sq just Correctional Tribunal. been tried Madame it widow of led Pointies, ortv-seven, a4 IArge Iai Chateau, with his GCCuITed to Ul confidence, It ns that it would be Madame wealth of daughter should accumulate fashion for themselves ther dore, CONCEIVE husbands fo both 1 : 4 ing Landsome achievement. found for widow, and but penniless marquis, M. de Lostangs They verly that Madame de Pointies accept. “§ of Toulouse, negot % ed him, and he signed bills fos in favor of Ponecignon, Unfort and the result francs after the marriage. 1 * the himself of nation, success, got literally intoxicated at al conducted with there again, The 60,000 francs bills became value- a the lady's house, and so himself ti he orders to show hi 7 ” (iF Pune 144 was » nog out, less, but, nothing daunted, the Poncig- nong found another nobleman, Baron Armanderie d’Arberat, for Mile, Olga, and cajoled her mother strained her parental authority to the utmost to force the young lady to take him. } Olga had her own she did*not like the Baron, and ran away to Marseilles with named Signourel. Then Poncignon and the Baron, with the full authority of the mother, who urged the Baron to take a virile resolution and show him. self worthy of her danghter, organized a capturing party such as was frequent in old times in Ireland, to take posses- sion of Mlle. Olga, and carry her bodily away from the seductive Signourel Five bravos were enlisted for this ser- vice; but Signourel and his faithful lady got wind of the project, and when they got to his house at Marseilles, Olga was out of the way. Madame de Paointies herself, hearing of the failure, came to Marseilles and fired a revolver at Bonafous, the landlord of Signourel and Olga. Olga has married Signourel, but the marriage will probably be dis. puted tor want of maternal consent Meanwhile, Baron d’Arberal and Pon- cignon are sentenced to a month’s im- prisonment for their attempt to carry off Mlle. Olga, and their two principal auxiliaries to twenty and fifteen days respectively. Five minor accomplices are fined sixteen francs each. The re- volver shot fired by Mme. de Pointies, which we must suppose the court did “0 that she 2 ut i Views, COOPET five francs fine, TL. ASAIN WAN An Irishman once received a doctor's bill. He looked it carefully over, and said he had no objections to pay for the medicines, but the visits he would return, is ns i Mi is Tribune says that It mentions that a herd of 1600 entirely cleared a piece of brush land, conssiting of 600 acres, in three years. So complete was the work that not a vestige of under. growth was left, D, UNUTTERE Waiting for words—as on the broad expanse, Of Heaven the formless vapors of night Expectant wait the prophecy of light, nterpreting their dumb significance; Or like a star that in the morning glance Bhrinks, as a folding blossom from the sight, Nor wakena till, upon the Western height, The shadows to their evening towers ad- VAD OE Bo, in my soul, a dream ineffable. Expectant of the sunshine or the shade, Doth oft upon the brink of twilight chill, Or at the dawn's pale stayed, n tears, that all the quivering eyelids fill And on the lips of silence fade Fashion Chat. f- Sunshades are the gayest possible af fairs this Spring. big, eccentric-looking handles, mostly They are large. have shape, and are covered with every sort and every of satin, brocaded, dotted, sprinkled with crescents ete. When made of some of these latter fabrics they are frequently quite plain, having merely a large bow to ihe sort silk and fastened a blue moon on a red ground, or some- thing equally conspicuous, n 0 further adornment in the way of lace or em- broidery is certainly needed. These par- asols, we will remark, generally match costume, and ladies materials for visiting and carriage dresses, frequently get an extra quant covered all the plain ottoman, merveillux, or pong parasols lace or embroidery trimmings is pul In a8 & not as a flounce, | AVErage, flowered LOLATG with point generally etly and emine hich will do nicely with a var. ely oO GIesses. = aliens, § 2 Ik, ng of that sort foulards, or anvtl newest shapes in and flat. more or less Jananese i anda and has been dubbed the © . vard. titisnot a vely by ans ape still holds The black, dark blue Delng al ence afford a 1s ww} 4 A inrge WW iit Fo § or one of white foulard. less expensive is desired and summer resort generally. This style of sunshade also does to wear it becoming, the he t v is always most reflection thrown over t fau of guipure, satin parasol, or a e the edge in a flounce, row of Spanish la set upon last arrangement face, and so would be chosen in prefer- is softer about ence, probably, by ladies, young or above all things. Among the more ela- borate parasols, little affairs that may cost twenty, thirty or forty dollars, the choice i8 unlimited, and there are ail sorts of beautiful things : for instance, a peacock feather parasol, lined with blue satin ; a crushed strawberry satin parasol, covered with white Spanish lace flounves, and thickly beaded with ottoman with large satin designs, having a broad puff of the brocade on the edge, and a deep flounce of Spanish guipure below it, and so on, and so on. The ‘“‘latest thing’ in hosiery is a particularly ugly thing, but at the same time such a totally new departure, and so utterly different from all styles hitherto brought out in stockings, that it commands attention. The hose are parti-colored, ecru and pale blue, pale shrimp and bright scarlet, ete., and the division is made, in harlequin fashion. right down the centre of the stocking from top to toe, One side of the foot, as exhibited by a low slipper, is therefore one color, the other side another. These stockings have embroidered clocks which are generally white. Far less conspicuous are stockings with very fine perpendicular pin stripes. These are now considered quite the ‘‘creme de la creme,” and besides being quiet and lady-like in appearance, give a very slim, clean look to large feet or stout limbs, Even lisle thread stockings are again shown with colored embroidered me- dallions on the instep. They are chiefly pretty with sateens, wash dresses, ete. The popularity with black stockings, a fashion which has come to us from England, as so many fashions do now-a-days, continues as great as ever, black always cracks off, and that in hot weather it is a fashion that becomes positively uncleanly, soiling the under. clothing and the bottom of white § | | | | i | i : a ford tie, a fine black lisle thread or a black silk stocking is the very Land- Nothing is so stylish nor so becoming to the fool. As a rule, a high dhoe i8 very ugly worn over a colored stocking. The ankles look thick and unwieldly at once, But with a slipper we should accord the preference to thin colored msockings by all means, except when certain dark toi- lets are worn. A number of new Louis XIV shoes, we may here notice, are made of black Arid of bo V4 ¥ are made black satin merveilleux, the foxings ing again of patent leather. These, | course, are to be worn with richer tumes, The toes of the new boots and shoes are a trifle broader than they have { been, though very much could still | done in this direction advantageously, { Fierce war has been waged for vears { against high pointed heels, and much | ink and paper consumed to prove how of COR Ix { ruinous they were to the shaps the the. whole how they brought on weakness of the { foot and to constitution - spinal troubles, eves, near-sightedness, ete, If some of this landable er Srey CTE were expended to induce women 16 re- ject narrow-toed and narrow-soied boots 0 r chaussure made wide and shoes and insist nw hel the oes to retain somewhat al position, no one could was misdirected, The present style of making t Shoes Is contrary to all commor extremely injurious to the foo coming and simply odious from view, point of Two sorts 3 4 i ¢ 1 » } ¢ é i: the community alone are benefited the shoemakers-- because I When oI the 100, more or less. has it atl all and nothing betwee but some Aannot bw long - i5¢ when fi AT Very and the Pea ve Loess are 4 space that could ¥ . 1 3 » iy " ¥ i it OF Properiy, eniargem: , hard and 110 and a varia HORS, RIK] A YarieLy HEV LAD High prov ge * affections are the the never-failing result heels nt deform the foot. the the il +3 118 proper shape across the Bh 1€ and has a good, broad so @ EY may or may not be iniur ie general health : but with that pha the question we have nothing wre. A proof of what we maintain high Wollea: CO. rench women wes brew] than American never have half so 1 French tes and soles 4 ore i vet iroa- muc ble with their feet, broad and do so. shoes an eps can make their ¥ . MLS, To get an American to do of shoemaker the same mav be se. | down wey a8 one the hopeless things. =. can’t, or they won't : rate, al any don’t, The only way Teason uring hem to woald sens bile be for women to nsist, in a body, upm tag ing their boots made the proper width, AV- and to decline to accept anvthi elue This o ig r bunions, sooner or later whe re no alternative, The profusion of flowers or TOWS every day larger, bo and will t attained most abundant proportions by to £2 up | and large broad trimmed straws are in At present, for a small bonnet order, { 10 be worn during the spring in mate #ETAa “or g x ave the time watering-places begi town, lor for a poke intended for the same | purpose, not so many flowers are need- | ed. The bonnets have in some instances | a big flower pompon, instead of a bunch of blossoms. These pompons are made | of a short full spray of some fine small | flower, white lilacs for example, which | spray has the the two ends turned under, forming a sort of ball of the delicate blossoms. This is rather novel, but it has no ** maison d'etre.” and is consequently not artistic, — Phila. Fo i ns AA AA 87 Hay is King, —— The statistics of the United States prove that it is among the foremost crops raised in this country, if not the very first. At the present time there are estimated to be, in the United States. 40,000,000 sheep, 40,000,000 cattle. and 20,000,000 horses. In two-thirds of the country these animals require to be fed from three to five months. and they will consume an aggregate of 90,000,000 tons, which, at $5 per ton, represents the enormous sum of $450,000,000. Is not bay, therefore, king ¥— Wesley Reoi- head, A curious prescription: A young physician who had Jong worshiped at a distance was one day suddenly called to attend her. He found her {suffering from no particular dangerous malsdy, but she wanted him to prescribe for her nevertheless ; 80 he took her hand and said impressively : “Well, I should prescribe should prescribe, that you —gel—married.” “Oh, goodness!" said the interestinglinvalid, “who would marry me, 1 wonder?’ “1 would,” acity of a six-foot pickerel. “You! exclaimed the maiden. “Yes” “Well, doctor, if that is the fearful you can go away Jand let we die in
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