THE FIRST GRAY HAIR.
And thou hast come av last,
Thou baleful issue of the buried years
Sad fruitage of the past
Root-nurtured in a loam of hopes and fears!
{ bail thee, but 1 hate thee, lurking thers,
Thou first gray hair.
Of all the fleecy flock,
Thou art the one to loathe and to despise;
The ches }
The mou'd that on the ear
The mildew on the bloss
The
t within the sho
¢ harvest
of ths pe
first gray hair,
lies,
And thon the Judas art,
vhe tatter of old Time, who doth betray
The weary, worn-out heart
fre vet wo dar to of its decay:
Fhou art a bint of wreck beyond repair,
The first gray bair
area
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A Matutinal Episode.
As the sun lifted his big red face up
over the lake a lurid gleam from his
lusty eye fell directly across the sleep-
ng face of Mistress Bessie Melntosh,
aged 22, a bride of a year, resident of
Lake View. Opening her eyes in a
wild and startled manner she sat up
and looked around her. Her face,
framed by the ruffle of delicate lace
which encircled the tiny cap, expressed
wonder, doubt, distress, and finally,
ocvnfidence.
“Are vou there, Fred?
all rizht; I know now. Oh, 1 have had
snch a dream! And I woke with the
sun shining right in my face. Idreamed
I was married to ( Chawly, and
he bought me such a lovely white satin
dress. Isn't that an awfully bad sign?
What can be going to happen? And
he home d-dr-drunk one night,
and the next morning he had on a
golden armor, and the visor was studded
with diamonds, , how it did
blaze. and how magnificent he did look!
And I turned to admire him and tell
him how much 1 I-loved ini, when 1
saw lving at his feet a pair of bracelets,
each with a dozen bangles, and
bangle a great, immense
“Why, those are for you,
said, and, as I stopped to pick them up,
each diamond seemed a glittering
pent, which was reaching up to em
brace me. Then I woke, so frightened.
I am going to get right up and dress,
y ¢
", Dever can sleep again alter
Oh, yes. It's
ousin
came
and oh
ser
proceeded to put
wo dainty
might have ene mj
selves upon the
white hand
convriette,
the sea.
ranged to
3t must |
taken wi
chair m
drowsy, yawning way,
of her hasty conclusion
accustomed morning nap.
Sih, .
fully early
18 a soul
horrid dr
that dreams of
and jewels are
death of
of
Cha
bad luck al
£0 AZains * and tied and
tied the kerchi around her
she talked. long silence.
} in the
Pr rhaj had - better i
We car e an early breakfast if
wish, and then a ride through the park
before : the ait) }
i happening to Co
we had better foreg
added in a tearfu
voice, J ere Was no response fro:
the bed she concluded the oe upant had
fallen asleep. to the window
she parted the curtains and gave the
shade an npward push, which sent it to
the iop with a whack, much to her
astonishment, and thereby letting in a
flood of radiant sunshine. She looked
very lovely as stood there, her
slender figure enveloped in the sunny
glow. Her red-brown hair had been
eoiled on the very top of her head, and
the bangs had been deftly parted and
brushed back at the sides—the whole
lending a classio grace to the small
well poised head. She was not think-
ing of her personal appearance as she
stood there, nor of the fine sunrise at
which she seemed to be gazing,
“Oh, if he should find out,” she
thought, “it would spoil all. Only a
few more days and there would be no
secrets between us.” So, stepping upon
a chair and stretching her arm to its
greatest possible length, she grasped
the cord and drew the shade gently
down, and, closing the curtains, she
softly left the room. Left thus alone
“to sleep, perchance to dream,” Mr,
Frederic Mcintosh turned him upon his
uneasy pillow and sought repose. With
a slam of the blind he shut out the
amorous sunbeams that had lain so lov-
ingly upon Bessis's face, as if to
lighten and brighten her troubled sleep.
Cousin Charles had been a rejected
suitor of Bessie's, so he had believed,
upon the basis of consanguinity; yet Le
was not positive of this. He had gone
off to Dakota to grow up with the
country, they said. Twice in one weel
Bessie had dreamed of him wd had
been unusually excited each time
Bosh! What nonsense. Yet it wa
rather queer they had neve
heard from him. Come to think about
it, Bessie had met some people fron
Dakota at Wankesha. Could it be she
bad heard from him, was corresponding
with him, and was keeping the guilty
pecret? He remembered now that one
evening he came home unexpectedly
snd found her in her dressing room
writing, and she had hastily hidden the
sheet at Lis approach and thought he
had not noticed. Phew! What's in a
dream! Never was one yet worth the
sacrifice of a nap after sunrise. And
thus he tried to throw the subject from
his mind or to account for it all in »
reasonable and legitimate manner. But
all to no purpose. The imp of dark
ness was dancing jigs in the chamber:
of lus brain. Sleep bad forsaken the
portals of that quiet room, which wa
now haunted by an ogre from dream:
fand. So after vain efforts to court the
eoran to repent
to forego her
she yawned, “how aw
I don’t believe
in the house.
Don't yon knov
white wedding
lways followed by the
i be married or
nd what if C
He has had s
Evervthis
some
Te
WY
I Been
she
1
A 08
Tié%
“1s
kitchen
rise, Fre
ie
»s
’ 8:
th
CGomng
she
'
|
Irowsy god, he to
and dress,
Now, Mr. M. was nothing if not
lainty. Tempering the water to the
proper warmth by adding from wu
apanned pitcher which good near on
hair small quantities of hot wate
tuo 8
determmed arise
AO ]
with the
«1 ti
1
cle
tsotl over on ibs side and spr
its on the earpet,
in a ball he sen pinning
m the direction of a small plague on
mand Waa WALOD was
Cte
sho OW Cl
ornament" hv n
“symphony in black and white,” known
as Cousin Chawles, and done by
Bessie's own hand. This fortunately
missed fire, but a tiny vase containing
one or two red blossoms, which haa
been left upon a small writing table
directly under the picture, received the
full force of the discharge, and fell in
fragments upon the carpet. Stooping
to remove the effect of his bad marks-
manship his eye caught the upturned
basket, and what does he find there?
Numerous bits of torn and crumpled
paper, vw hich revealed the address, Mr.
(Charles Barron; an envelope contain-
ing a part of the address, as the writer
h
and had tried
h
head commencing,
again, I lotter
“Dear
]
‘hen a
ar C
carefy
basket he found no other
guilt, and up in a
package put them safely in
He finished his toilet care-
down bv the window
1
out. He was auickly
rupted by a rustle of st
and the quick pa
and Bessie
state of m .
“Oh, Fred, trere 18 a nmi
{oor A messenger. 1
be fros
’ 1
i GOV
lev.” Searching
of Bes
5510's
small
his pox ket
fully 8
3} 1"
nk it all
1.3
folding
he
it
inter
slippered feet,
came the room 11 a
wil i eX
senger
Lie
bits
of you
ins may no
ongrats will be received
CHARLES BARRON
i B
and we h
Well,
Onur ann ¥
keep it for o & 0
day. Butt 14
Now that you know it, Yo
me write the letter of congra tiol
ha e been ing, but nothing 1
think of pleases me. What's the mat
ter, Fred, vou look so queer?”
“That's the bell. Let us go down to
breakfast,” was all the
stricken man could say.
ns
CATH
iver
WER AW
Conscience
Fiying those Viags
[San Francisco Chronicle.)
“I see you have the Belgian
floating from the staff
street end of the hotel,” remarked a re-
porter to Manager Sedgwick at the
Palace Saturday.
“Yes, sir; that
flag
is honor of a dis-
tinguished guest, his excellency the
Belgian minister, who 1s visiting this
city and occupies apartments here.”
“And the stars and stripes are flying
from the after-staff the new Mont-
gomery street front.”
“That's Gen. Sherman's flag
it's for him.”
“You must keep a large quantity of
flags on band,” observed the reporter,
“for 1 have noticed that when you have
a titled guest from abroad you hoist
his national colors.”
“Yes, we have quite s» number of
flags, and when we have not the $ro]
one we generally find but little trouble
in borrowing one from the consn
representing the country from which
the guest may hail.”
“Do guests ever furnish you with
flags ?”
“No one ever has yet.”
“You had the flag of the Grand Mas.
ter of the Knights Templar up last
week ; was not that an importation ?”
“No, sir; I had that made for thie oo
easion; it is of bunting and cost £85,
I am having it laundried, and intend
yresenting it to Past Grand Commander
,
The reporter further learned thins the
custom of flying a flag from the hotel
standard has a two-fold significance
it is intended as a mark of respect to
the particular guest, and, moreover, is
a fluttering notice to the public that an
important personage from the country
designated by the flag is domiciled af
the hota.
ny aney matened Ont,
{Han Francisco Bulletin, }
A eapital anecdote is told of a ttle
fellow who, in tarning over the leaves
of a serap-book, came across the well
known picture of some chickens just
out of their shell, “My companion ex-
smined the picture earefully, and then,
with a grave. sagacious look at me,
slowly remarked, ‘They come out 'eos
they was afraid of being boiled,”
in
on
that is,
STMT
ta
A CURIOUS CLOCK.
Timepieces Which
Was Twelve Years in Building.
The C
0 A meric
v Prof. Wem
re, Md
ng been engaged 03
s 1 2
} YEArs
The base of the clock is
high, At the
of the planets
ments of the sun and
dial Olea
the latter revolving
every twenty-four hours
phases, the season, and
circling the
astronomical subjects ar
A large flag is carved n
each side of the dial, and
at the right a CRINNOY
a drum, also earved
dials is
are,
left
Below the
imseription,
noath which
and a soldier's cap.
Immediately above tle
clock a stage or platfam ex
the full width of the case On
treme ends the platform
forts, one surm
a sailor and the
a soldier. Betws
back of the
against a cet
figures of men,
18
of
rked by
stage of figures which FOI
fort at the right and disappear thre
the portals of the one on the left, 1
comes Brigham Young and
wives, who are HIPPOS od to be on
wedding tour. Next comes Gen. G
on horseback ; then a hand bearing
penknife which Prof. Wi
carved ont all the figures of the cl
then the figure of a man represent
manager who rendered mat!
pleasant for the professor at one 4
then the figures of Garfield an
Guitean as they appeared at ithe
ment of the aseassination: then
tean's deity, who carries a sign rend
“Cranks wanted;” then the Indian
chieftain. Capt. Jack, and finally the
historical vessel, the Mayflower. Only
one of these figures passes around af
each interval of five minutes,
also ma
one of
with
The clock is operated by two springs
twenty fect long and three inches wide
having a lifting power of 800 pounds.
safety Wall in Case of Fire.
{The Continent. ]
The latest invention for the protec.
tion of audiences is a “‘penetrable safety
an engineer at Kottbue, Germany,
plan is to make the interior walls in al
parts of the theatre of papier mache,
made after a certain method. Such a
wall will have the appearance of
massive stone, but by pressure upon
certain parts, where the words are to
be painted in lnminous letters, “To be
broken open in ease of fire,” access to
air, ;
A New Fastime,
{Chicago Tribune.)
has been invented, which is known as
the melon coutest. A large watermelon
guesses the nember of seeds init, Ata
recent contest held in Knoxville, Tenn,
1,704 guesses were received from four.
wen different states,
ENAKE-HANDLING.
Pythous and Cobras.
Chambers’ Journal]
Apropos of Dr,
ing snake ancedotes
spend yon i
Btradling's
ainda
med to revive i
s of vi ig, and
ut the officer was in the
igruiation, bound fast to
1] coil of the py
i and
HE 8 Led
h behind its head, « then t
Y COLI
lugtrations by
rencontres, ar
we mnst
gainst snakes,
Europeans wi
3
w
jarvelons that among
bite,
natives
legs 0
feet and
frequently
while the bare
leave them
fatally open to attack.
A Mateh Found for a Bosten Quix,
{Boston Courier.
Two Boston gentlemen while tramp-
ing through the White mountains
past summer, came across a lonely hut
among the hills from which the pros-
pect was particularly fine and extended.
[he proprietor of the establishment was
in his small garden, and the
began to quiz him. Sad
hoeing
travelers
one
You have an excellent view from
replied the farmer,
continued the first
speaker, winking to his companion, “on
a fair day you can seo almost to Eu-
rope ?”
“Kin see further 'n that,” returned
the man.
“How 80?" was asked in surprise.
“We don't think wothin’ of seein’ as
fur as the mane.”
The Bostonians had found
match,
air,”
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WHORE,
their
“Howie Rnives
[New York SBun.}
shape as the earlier one?”
“There is not much variation in the
shape of the real bowie. Many persons
eall almost any broad bladed Pe
knife a bowie knife. The real bowie
knife has a ‘clip’ point. There isn
knife which bas a spear point, and
which is similar to the bowie knife in
every other respect. Nine people out
of ten will tell you that it is a bowie
knife. Formerly bowie knives had
blades from ten to fifteen inches in
length, and were two inches broad, and
proportionately thick. Now the blades
are often made as short as five inches,
and rarely are longer than twelve
inches, A five-inch bowie blade is one
inch wide and a quarter of an inch
thick. The bowie knife has a single
edge. The point is shiarp and strong.
The ‘elip’ extends about one-third the
length of the blade, and gives the knife
a wicked appearance.”
HANDLING THE REINS.
of Whnt
About Driv
Horseman's Views
Women Xeed to Leayn
ing Horses
Males
hat
130
§ Esl
ried to leave the bn
} canght and crushed,
d the horse and
ve been lost.”
bably have beer
tell at a glance whether a
is a good driver?”
“Yes, almost 4
comes 8 lady dr
Did you notice
Well, th
. Now, there
; that big bay
y she held
lines ?
Iman
grass
ple
can send
save, oh save
friend
Many drinkers of thes
thi
tiv
{oot
in their wil
and
when c¢
IDET eit
fh a pink, acid
[he tree is
\T 1
Mexieo, but 1t can
bean
and thri
Shorthand by Machinery.
New Warld
anu iatiocally
viinder each time s
» machine can be fold
up and conveniently carried in a nes
small r
is struck
i¥
a field-glass,
is simplicity itself
of uniform
used to contain
gtem
sisting, as it does of dashes
length, which in combinations of one ¢
more pi five distinct positis
)» repre.
vowels and consonants in
By omitting the vowels
and writmg phonetically, as in ordinary
a speed exceeding that of
The =
soy d 3 in
iINAeg IR
the
nage
ined. The me
iracy of the instrument is
that a blir1 man can operate it
It
tem can be learned in less than one
third the time required to learn any
other system of shorthand.
The machine is called the “Steno
graph,” and is the invention of Mr. M.
M. Bartholomew, of Belleville, I11., who
had been writing Pitman's system of
shorthand for eleven years as an official
court reporter, when he hit upon the
idea two years ago.
Southern and Northern Girls,
{Boston Transcript. ]
“Perhaps,” remarked a southern girl
the other day, “it is because northern
men have not the deferential manners
towards women that southern men have
and perhaps it is because we still let
them think it's their privilege and honot
to seek ns; but anything like the bold
monopoly of men by northern girls 1
never saw. Some of them act as if they
did not eare whether a man existed or
not, and others of them elbow oae an
other to make him exist for herscl
alone.” We fear the languid-eyod, coo:
ing-mannered damsel had but small
chance amongst some of her brilliant
rivals, but as an adverse opinion is some
times wholesome, it is given for what ii
is worth.
An Arduous Business.
{(Hattors' Record.)
The hatter gets a dollar by making a
hat-brim straight. The following sea
son he geta another dollar for turning
the brim up. The next seeson ho gets
wnother dollar for turning the brim
down, Hat-making is an arduous bus
besa,
1
COCO red, e
Premorcrat,
OCIA
shen that
Times and other
and furnishes
for
Philadelphia
C harieston
erat,
KO
bn-
Times,
News
jer. and The Globe-Demoerat,
she reocives £14 per col
of the gay sh
£100 per week. Having
M 88 Me dmore
:
Murray's
season
has the
ONL « xclusive circles, and
xiract the very cream
h she writes up
She 1s the
whom she
“Ruhamah”
deal when
or parties
The Farliiamentary Whip.
[Croffu *: Lon Letty
“We are five members of parlisnment
here to-night,” handsome young
Blennerhassett, from across the table,
“and every one of us has a ‘whip’ in his
pocket commanding him to be present
in his seat at this very hour.”
Five members laughed. Gen. Haw-
ley asked what a “whip” looked like; he
had never seen one. Whereupon Mr.
Puelston drew ont an envelope an
passed it over the table with “I'l pre-
sent mine to yon." The recipient
thanked him, examined the instrument
of eastigation and passed it around
among she curious Americans who had
never seen one. A “‘whip” is sim-
ly a short note from a mem-
bor of hisparty to whom the
business is assigned, announcing
that a “most important measure” will
be before the house at 8 specified time,
and it is "absolutely necessary that yon
be present in your place.” All this is
underscored with four parallel lines,
making it look like a sheet of music all
ready for the notes to be written in.
That's a whip. Mr. Courtney pre-
sented his to Senator Windom, and
Mr. Gilling silenced my clamors by
obtaining one for me the next day. So
1 am not altogether whipless. Mr.
Courtney explained that the whip was
only for party uses; when the honse was
without a quorum, they rang a bell
which summoned members of all par-
ties far and near.
ald