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THE BROOKLET.
By A. Asamux KeLLy.
Brooklet! wandering tothe river,
Singing low and sweet as ever,
Past the ferns and drooping grasses,
Sunny slopes and rocky passes,
What the song thou’ rtsinging ever,
“Wandering to the distant river?
Flowing on and on forever,
Seeking still the distant river,
What the song thou'rt always trill
All t ir with gladness filling?
‘hat the song thou'rt singing ever,
cing still the distant river?
ing.
Dream you summer lingers ever,
“Twixt vour flow and distant river?
Pream vou that the pretty flow'rs
er will court these sunny hours?
Brooklet! careless, laughing rover,
Soon the summer will be over!
"When the earth in coldness slumbers
Then will cease your happy numbers,
When the Ice Ring, _.s and hoary,
Snreads his frosty mantle o'er thee,
Then tl It cease thy joyous numbers,
Brooklet ! when the cold earth slumbers!
Sing thy SOng ns gay as aver,
t distant river
+s here, why should we borrow
Winter's chilling sorrow!
| £ let's not destroy it
t—let's then enjoy it!
s her
sm AA
Letter from ltaly.
BELLA.’ — ITS MANI-
NATURE AND
SANTA ANNA,
LA
FOLD BEAUTIES
ART—THE FETE OF
** FIRENZE
OF
RENCE, “Firenze la Bella,’ |
July 26, 1883. )
I wished to write to you long before,
and made the effort ; but my poor eyes,
much tried by dazzling Italian sunlight,
and without rest in this true ‘‘city of
flowers and flower of cities’'—s0 replete
it is with every sort of beauty to fas-
cinate and delight them—were not suf-
ficient for the task.
Thou it would be impossible to
become thoroughly acquainted with
Florence in so short a time, yet I have
seen more of the beauty and inexhausti-
ble richness of human art (which at-
tained its fulness here, its high-tide
mark which appears unattainable again),
than ng I had jpreviously seen
could have led me to dream of.
The richness in coloring and uncon-
scious grace in form and attitude which
distinguish the paintings of Ghirlandio,
Massaci , and Lippi, and their follow-
ers of the old Florentine school; the
heaven-sent glory of purity and true
devotion which Fra Angelico's
paintings the effect of the prayers and
yisions by which they must have been
yr
Va
+h
gh
anvthi
anythi
give
inspired ; the traces and remembrances
of the master spirit of Michael Angelo
which still seem to linger round the
honored eity which he cherished with
so deep a patriotism ; the stern simplic-
he grandeur, and the all-pervading,
jingly unconscious, grace of all its
buildings, endorsed with the di-
ft of taste, and so free from
stentations, and wearisome
of ornament,
uthern
bre 001
Wille
public |
vinest
the
heaping uj
with in
italy : ti
fertile hills
winding streams of the Amo
wonder f Ponte Vecchio,
among br which di
from any in
their remote windings close up to the
far looming Apeunines; the eternal
beauties of nature—mother and mis
tress of art—which afford their inspi-
ration and rest everywhere around the
city ; and also the fairy gardensand ave-
nues where nature herself hasbeen given
idle,
so often met
i-Oriental
of most
it; the
{with its
and sem
e tiful crown
encircles
unique
iges) vide it, and
elight distance are seen
£2
form by art : these are among the thou-
sand delights which Florence has given
me to eniov.
Besides thie Uffizi and Pitti galleries,
with their far most precious of all
lections of the jewels of painting, I
have been to the suppressed convent of
&t. Mark, where each of the numerous
cells has its fresco from the hand of
Fra Angelico, or one of his worthy
pupils. Quite half of them are from
his own hand, and besides these there
are three or four of his paintings, and
in the chapter-house his splendid great
master fresco of the Crucifix I saw
his room. that of San Antonio who
preached to the fishes (** O surdis
pou piscibus,”’ many preachers since)
and that of the martyr Savonarola,
with many relies of him, including the
crucifix, painted by Beato Angelico,
which he used to hold up in his hand
when he walked in the street, Of far
fess interest there is too the room
where Cosmo, ** padre della
& uncle of Lorenzo the Magnificent), used
20 live. In still another hall there is
an admirable fresco of the Last Supper,
by Ghirlandaio.
But at this rate "my 1'st will never
end,
with its marvellous doors, which I pass
every day and rarely without ste pping
to discover new beauties of design and
workmanship ; Santa Croce, with the
col-
ion
105k,
patrul "
+0, Machiavelli, Alfieri; Sta. Maria
Novella, Michael Angelo’'s favorite;
Santo Spirito; la Sautissima Annunzi-
ata: the Carmine, Badia, or San Mi.
<chele,and nine other ancient churches—
,many of them fit shrines for the glorions
master-pieces of the dawn of modern
.art—the suburban basilicas of San Mi-
niato and Fiesoli, as well as a Roman
amphitheatre at the last place ; the
Palazzo Vecchio ; the Buonoroto Gal-
Aery, placed in the house inhabited by
a —————
ee wo—_ A —— Th ——
jects of the greatest interest ; the Mer-
cato Vecchio, with its statue of Plenty ;
and hundreds of places and buildings,
associations, must be added to my list
among them the Loggie of Orcagna, of
the Bargello, and of the Mercato Nu-
ovo, and the dwellings of Dante, of
Machiavelli, and the countless Floren-
tine great,
Yesterday was the féte of Santa
Anna. and the anniversary of the ex-
pulsion of the tyrant Duke of Athens,
and. accordingly, for the five hundred
and fortieth time the flags of the city
companies were hung around the small
but beautifully adorned church of Or
San Michele, above the niches, each
adorned with the grand works of G an
di Bologna, Ghiberti and Donatello, at
the expense of the different guilds, and
surrounded by the arms of the company
which erected it. The interior of the
church was all strewn with orange
leaves, giving forth a very pleasant
odor : and Florentine patricians were
constantly entering to pay their devo-
tions.
Pa
— Bryn Mawr, HOME NEWS
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Floral.
Th e Season of Lilles.
It is now the season of lilies. Wesee
them everywhere from the car windows
as we whirl through the country. Like
a flame they appear in swamps and
meadows. To perfect their glorious
color the full heat of summer is re-
quired. They come with the golden
daisies, the St. Johnswort, the yellow-
topped aster, the evening primroses and
other glowing tints of July. The first
of these lilies to appear is the smaller
orange species, with flower erect, like
some precious cup of holy grail. It ie
the Philadelphian lily of botanists, and
grows in dry or sandy soil ; for that
matter, it is quite various in babit.
The perianth is spotted within with pur-
plish dots, and the whole height of the
plant is from two to three feet, Ere
this passes out of flower we will find in
wet meadows the yellow, or Canadian,
lily, There are from one to several
flowers to a plant, all of these gracefully
nodding, and spotted with brown.
Again, still later, comes the Turk's-cap
lily, Lilium superlum, perhaps the finest
The flowers are
umerous, and the plant may be
six or eight feet in height. These plants
are a magnificent sight in their native
lccation, and may easily be made to
grow in gardens. They have the sepals
or divisions of the flower strongly curled
backward or revolute,
of our wild species.
often n
The flower is a
yellower orange than the tiger lily of
the florists, and is spotted with purple
within.
It is, perhaps, unnecessary tosay that
the pond lilies, which gladden our city
streets in summer, not true lilies,
The family Ny , indeed, are
quite relationship, finding
their nearest aliles in magnolias, butter-
like. They attain their
highest expression in the famous Vie-
Jie
of which,
are
mnhoraceo
remote in
cups and the
of the Amazon , the leaves
floating on the water, will
support a child, It was from ex-
traordinary veining of these great leaves
that Paxton is said to have derived his
plan for constructing the roof of the
Crystal Palace in Sydenbam.
tor
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the
All the rafters, so to speak, are cu-
riously buttressed and supported, giving
the greatest strength with the least
material. The flowers of the Victoria
are among the most superb of natural
objects ; they are magnified and tran-
scendant pond-lilies, With all their
beauty, however, we doubt if they can
excel our own lovely and sweet-scented
flower,
The
objects
wild lillies, like many natural
notably sea-shells and marine
life of all sets), lose much of their beauty
in the prosaic environment of our homes,
1 hey ure ** lilies of the field,’ and there
we must £o to see them.
Rose 'nsects.
Monthly states that a good
1ermedy the which infest
the syringe both surfaces
with a solution of whale oil soap, using
one pound of the soap to one gallon of
water. Another remedy is kerosene
mixed with an equal quantity of milk,
a spoonful of the mixture being then
stirred in a gallon of water,
Vick's
for
rose,
insects
is to
Caution
if used too freely. It is advised to mix
a few drops in soap suds made from
goft soap and try its strength on weeds,
Scab on Sheep.
The only method of ridding the dis-
| eased sheep of the scab is to dip them
I into a liquid which will penetrate and
| soften the scabby portions, and even
| then it is of ten necessary to rub these
| places with something rough to open
| the scabs and let the liquid take effect,
| A sheep dip made of one ounce of sul-
phur and four ounces of tobacco to a
gallon of water has been found very ef-
fective, In the water, which should be
at the boiling point, steep tobacco stems
or leaves, and add the sulphur later;
then allow the liquid to cool down,
when the sheep may be immersed.
Standard Jersey Bulls.
The publication of records of tests
under which Jersey cows have produced
fourteen pounds or more ef butter in
seven days has resulted, by common con-
sent, in the adoption of a new standard
by which butter-producing cattle will
be hereafter judged. The production
of fourteen pounds or more in a week
has been quite generally accepted by
breeders as being enough to entitle a
cow to rank as a standard animal, but
it was not so easy to decide upon a scale
which should entitle a bull to a place in
the list of standard sires.
Some months ago a scale was pub-
lished under which any registered Jer-
sey bull would be standard, *‘the but-
ter tests of whose dam and sire’s dam
average at least fourteen pounds of
butter in seven days.’”’ Asthis require-
ment ruled out most of the best bulls,
it failed to meet the approval of Jersey
breeders. Such famous bulls as Ferlin-
nalti, Imported Tormentor, Sweepstakes
ineligible under the rule mentioned.
For a list of standard sires
Jersey Butter-Test
ing rules have been proposed.
in
he will be a sure producer of such cows
To be eligible for entry in any one of
the classes proposed a bull must be :
First—Sire of at least two standard
cows out of different dams.
Second—Son of a standard cow, and
bull.
Third--Son of a standard bull and
bull,
Fourth—Son of a standard bull and a
standard cow,
one will have given proof of power t
qualities,
two classes the bull must prove
one or either of his parents,
provides for young bulls which
A bull must be at
lefore he can have given of
his right to place in either of the first
three classes, — Thoroughbred Stock Jowr-
nal, Phila,
evidence
———
Mormons Balked of Their Prey.
United States Troops Protecting
Women from Forcible Deg-
radation.
In the spring of 1854 a party wus or-
ganized at Salt Lake City for the pur-
pose of crossing the plains to California,
a majority of its members being newly
enlisted recruits for the army, designed
to fill up a number of depleted com-
mands on the coast, It was at a time
when the Mormons were unusually
averse to the presence of Gentiles in
their midst, and during the winter
months, which the party spent in Salt
Lake City, many disturbances had oc-
curred and bitter fueds had been engen-
dered betwebn the Mormon residents
and the gradually increasing party. So
serious indeed had the situation become
that on one occasion early in the spring
the Mormons violently assaulted a de-
tached portion of the command and
seriously wounded several members of
the party, necessitating the comnmander,
Colonel Steptoe, to place the men under
arms and station double guards con-
stantly about their barracks to prevent
their being surprised and possibly mas-
sacred. When the snow cleared in the
spring the party moved upon the banks
of Beaver river to fatten up their stock
and prepare for the wearisome and
tedious journey to be taken across the
plains and mountains to the Golden
State. Their leaving the city did not
serve to lessen the hatred of the Mor-
mons, however, and the party still
found themselves submitted to every
class of indignity and forced to conduct
themselves most circumspectly to avoid
serious trouble. In the midst of all
this bad feeling a Mormon woman came
to the camp accompanied by her daugh-
ter, a voung woman almost grown.
She was admitted into the presence of
General Ingalls, then a captain, and
Colonel Steptoe, commander of the
party, being absent for some reason,
her conference was held with him,
Her story was one calculated to inspire
sympathy in the heart of almost any
one, and Captain Ingalls, without any
further questions of hesitancy, guaran-
teed her the desired protection. She
had married a Mormon gentleman in
the States and had not long been a resi-
dent of Utah, Her husband was not a
polygamist, however, and their married
life had been a happy one. About a
year previous he had died and lately
the leaders of the church had been
| making persistent efforts to induce her
to marry another man, one already pos-
ses-ed of a sufficient number of wives
Her daughter had also been ijmpor-
tuned to marry, to which both had en-
tered objection. The persistent efforts
of the Mormons to force them to do as
they dictated were akin to persecution,
and the mother and daughter deter-
mined upon flight us their only means
of immunity from further persecutions,
Captain Ingalls was fully aware of the
consequences of his action, but deter-
mined toafford them a safe conduct to
California, and accordingly provided
quarters for them.
Just before the train was to start on
its journey Westward, the Mormons
learned that two women, whose disap-
pearance had created quite a commo-
tion, and for whom search had been in-
stituted in every quarter, were with
the accursed Gentiles, who proposed to
Accordingly a
large party of their *‘ minute men,”
armed to the
teeth and fully equipped, and headed
by no less a personage than Brigham
Young himself, was hastily summoned
and marched to the camp on the Dear
The
Mormons outnumbered
ve 10 one,
and were fully armed
plined.
and well discl-
Only a few of the Gentile party
them
being civilians on their way across the
had suitable arms, a majority of
continent, and the troops were perfect-
The little party
was surrounded and every preparation
made for a fight, but they showed no
symptoms of weakening. All
could be avoided by surrendering the
women, but this would not
do. Brigham Young went to them-——
Ingalls did the When the
Mormon apostle made his demand for
ly raw, new recruits.
trouble
the officer
talking.
the surrender of the women the young
officer stoutly refused to give them up.
“You may this
out of existence,” said
can’t have these women.
them protection,
You
wipe little command
he, *‘but you
I have prom-
and they shall
rot force sufficient
r force than ours
but you will have the |
ised
have it. have §
pited States to
Lhe
Whenever you are ready to com-
1 The
and
whip before you are through with
t
100,
menc operations, open ure
men were ordered into line, the
Mormon escort withdrew with Brigham
t of their force, 1
tation
the
o the main body eY
hel
i
and concluded
And he
the party
consi
d a
let Ingalls take
did, too.
ed for
fornia safely.
WOoInen.,
Yat ar
AER
A day or
the
start the West, and reached Cali-
They were bothered and
bedeviled in every imaginable way by
the Mormons until they were across
the Sierras, but they were never molested
by an armed force. To make complete
whatever romance there may be about
the incident, it can be added that, after
the arrival of the party at San Francisco,
the younger of the two women
married to a young man who belonged
to the party.
Was
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How to Save One's Self From
Drowning.
W. H. Pottinger, of Hamilton, Onta-
rio, Can., an experienced swimmer, fur-
nishes the following few remarks upon
the vital importance of knowing how
to keep one's self afloat when suddenly
immersed in deep water: “When you
find yourself in deep water you will
sink first a few feet down, but if you
do not struggle you will eome quickly
to the surface again, which on reaching
immediately draw a full breath, throw
your head back, and this will have the
effect of placing you in a recumbent
position on the surface of the water.
Now, this is a most critical time for
those who don’t know what to do next,
Extend your arms at once on a level
with your shoulders, palms of hands
downward, so that the water cannot
penetrate them, and begin gently pad-
dling the water with the movement of
the hands frem the wrist only. Extend
your legs quietly and slowly in a line
with your body. If you raise your
arms or your legs above the surface of
the water you will sink, but if you have
the presence of mind not to do so, or
struggle about, you will never sink so
long us you keep paddling gently, with-
out exertion, with your hands, and so
you may float on until you are picked
up er until you are nuifibed by cold.”
ol MM ls A A
WILLIAM STarvorDd, who is ranked
as one of the leading tragedians of the
country, is claimed to have this season
one of the finest companies ever seen in
tragedy. The costumes, recently im-
ported from Paris, are very elaborate
and are exciting a great amount of
curiosity in New York city, where they
are now upon exhibition in the windows
of a prominent store upon Broadway.
————— A ———
—W. H. Vanderbilt has tipped the
college students who are serving as
walters at the Glen House in the White
mountains very heavily, During his
residence in the hotel he was pleased
with the reliant spirit and gentlemanly
conduct of the student waiters, and
when he left on Monday last he gave
the proprietor $3000 to be distributed
among the young men,
A Vermont Boy and a Bear,
Thomas Larnard, of Somerset,
set a trap for a black bear. One day
trap and found the bear had Leen there
it and departed. Evidently he had his
foot in it. The youngster was delighted
ing help, 80, cutting a club with his jack-
bruin sitting on his haunches, with one
of his legs almost cut off by the trap he
had been drawing,
bear could be,
the with
dodging dives,
and as ugly as a
But the boy went for
skillfully
and hitting it at
Finally, when the
stunned, he closed
animal
its
every opportunity,
bear was partially
with
its ear, and then cut
boy
his club,
it
ii,
its wind pipe. Ti
hurt
and he
3 neighbors she
was not at all in
counter, Can't see any
why hi wuld think he has
done anything remarkable,
—
The Cholera P
There is no brutality like
anic.
of
that
the panic-struck.
etta from cholera exceeded 100
drawn around the wretched town, with
orders to shoot any one found leaving
it. Consequently every one is afraid to
enter the place, which bas become a
fetid prison, and there are neither
suf-
ficient doctors, guardians of order, nor
medical comforts, The people die or
live uncared for, relatives are divided,
business stopped and for all any one
i's ”
knows the
At
bribe the pol
inhabitants may |
we SLArving.
the same time, any one who can
ice gets through, so that,
if cholera were contagious, it would be
conveyed in spite of the cruel restric-
tions. It is believed that the outbreak,
in the main. is local; and Lord Granville
ni
read an of
1 from Sir William Gull,
for
era
sys doy
AUR
hha 3 4 ’ 14 1 .
stating that he saw little ground
Ld
alarm, as severe epidemics of ch
were small JL
breaks
spring. All
ranean have j
us winter and
states of
the Mediter-
*h0
Lait
iline rues,
and the French and Italian papers in-
» cholera came fro
ville
true, might be so, the great
quite free of
Indian cities never being
cholera cases
—
The Safety Pin--!ts Antiquity.
"Pattee §
Taking i
a atartire
a starting ij
which tl
he common ‘‘safety pin’ as
int 1} aris $v
nt, Lhe Various types
" into
its fall are classified and
thor
Not a single part of the simple,
je
exemplitied
study .
ughly in this little
though not primitive, instrument but
has suffered strange
Now 1 catch
into a disk or diamond-shaped plate,
some
metamor-
phosis, he is flattened
now lengthened into a tube, now knob-
the bow
lengthened,
squared, rounded, decked with studs,
bed and put back to the bow |
is alternately shortened,
grain-work, braces, rings, plates, amber
beads, figures of
men,
ments |
bled,
birds and beasts and
tricked with hanging orna-
while the spring is found dou-
multiplied into coils, changed
into solid roll, or hinge, or magnified
into gigantic proportions in relation to
the other part of the brooch. The Ital-
fan groups, with either simple or two-
springed bow, me very distinct ; the
Hungaro-Scandipavian examples are
marked by their spiral catch and co}
spring ;: the Greeks characteristically
seized on the spring as the feature of
the fibula, and curled the wire into two
spirals, from the centres of which catch
and pin spring. The history of the
fibula can be traced for some 2000 years
starting from its first appearance about
ten centuries before Christ,
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Killed by Lightning,
The GChastly Discovery Made by a
Texas Ranchman in a Lonely
Spot.
A letter to the Galveston (Texas)
News from Lampasas, says : A carriage
containing the skeletons of three adults
and two children, sitting bolt upright
under a large tree, has been found near
a road in Llano county. The tree was
shattered by lightning. It is supposed
the occupants sought shelter under the
tree and the carriage was struck, the
bolt killing the inmates and the horses,
The weather-beaten appearance of, the
carriage and its trimmings indicate
that the event happened a year or two
ago.
In & small trunk was a letter address
ed to “James G, Chamberlain, London,
Eng.” The remains were found by a
ranchman driving cattle, and the dis-
covery was reported at once to the
authorities. The parties are supposed
to have been tourists, The spot where
they were found is very secluded and
| far from any habitation.
|
The So-called “Weaker
Vessels.”
In France women live an average of
A Chicago wholesale cloak house ad-
' vertised for a “female model with a
rty-six inch bust,” offering $5 a week,
| There were twenty-five applicants in
Mlle. Piccolo, a Parisian actress,
up a tree, until the police arrived.
California, sold her ticket for half price,
pet dog with her in the car.
In modern Egypt a young man is not
marriage, As a consequence not infre-
quently soon after marriage he makes
up his mind that he never wants 1o see
One ensrgetic woman did the work
Ind,
ich
She
into the saloon in wh her
a p in lieu of a club, and smashed
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Mary Bullock got a ridiculously heavy
whose railroad she was slightly burt.
jut a new trial has been granted on
she and her sisters, who ap-
peared as her witnesses, were 80 beau-
tiful that their charms of person had
deprived the jury of common sense.
The Poetry Of Women's Rights:
The right
The right
The
The ri;
The righ
others sleep
weep,
waich while
O er others woes U
to succor in distress,
when others curse $0 bless,
y love when others scors
to comfort all who mourn
to shed new joys on earth
i for] the soul nign w yrih,
lead the soul to Go
s path her Saviour trod
ys woman's rights G
crown her champion with success
bleed
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Types of Women.—A London paper
Engl women of
ish
claims that young
stronger than their
other European
United States,
in
country, or |
Well
any
com peers
+}
wie
n
bred American
type of loveliness; French ladies
are the best dressed in the world ; the
youthful frauleins of Germany have the
finest heads of hair ; girls
the brightest eve to be found anywhere;
3 )
t
L
0
the Spanish
and i enice and Florence may be
iis day, direct descendants of
old world blonde beauties still
fresh and fair upon the canvas of Ti-
tian.
those
When, however, all is said that
the foreigner demands,
young English ladies remain stouter of
limb, clearer of complexion, and alto-
gether more hearty than others else-
where,
courtesy to
Plain food, sound sleep, and
suitable clothing, exercise in the open
air, and the plentiful application of
soap and water, are the hygienic open
secrets for the preservation of health in
the human being ;: and the use of those
aids, helped by a climate favorable to
physical development and personal
have made young English
women what they are at their best.
beauty,
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Jottings.
Tie hay crop was a heavy one.
THE oats crep is a very bountiful
one.
Tur wheat crop will hardly equal the
late estimates,
Tix has been discovered in the Blue
tidge, Virginia, between Amberst and
Rockbridge counties,
Tur amount of railroad dividends
paid in this country in 1882 was $102,-
031,434, an increase over 1881 of $9,687, -
244.
A rarTY of Philadelphians spent
their midsummer vacation walking
from New York City to Saratoga via
the Catskills,
Tue gross earnings of all the railroads
in 1882 were: $770.256.716 ($67,066,-
511 more than 1881) ; of the same $202, -
140,775 were received from Passengers |
£506, 367,247 from freights. and $61,848, -
734 from miscellaneous sources.
Tir Record says: “If half the care
were taken to keep smuggled opium out
of the country that is used to keep a
few dozen Chinamen out, the health
and morals of the people would be im-
proved.”’ Right, friend Record— a good
point made, too,
Tur Arapahoes at Fort Washakie,
Wyoming territory, presented President
Arthur a very handsome pony for his
little daughter, and moccasins and
leggins for the members of his party.
The president thanked and congratu-
lated them on their fine appearance.
He was replied to in English, by one of
their number who had been educated
at the Carlisle school.
A ——- ———
A collector once wrote to General
Sherman for his autograph and a lock
of his hair, and received the following
reply : “The man who has been writing
my autographs has been discharged,
and as my orderly is bald, 1 cannot
comply with either of your requests.”