LOVE IN A CO1TAUE, They may talk of love in a cottage, And bowers ot trellised vine— Of natures bewitchingly simple, And milkmaids half divine; They may talk of the pleasure of sleeping In the shades of a spreading tree, And a walk in the fields at morning, By the side of a footstep free! But give me a sly flirtation By the light of a chandelier— With music to play in the pauses, And nobody very near; Or a seaton a silken sofa, With a glass of pure old wine, And mamma too blind to discover The small white hand in mine, Your love in a cottage is hungry, Your vine is a nest for flies — Your milkmaid shocks the Graces, And simplicity talks of pies! You lie down to your shady slumber And wake with a bug in your ear, And your damsel that walks in the ing 1s shod like a mountaineer, HOT h- True love is at home on a carpet, And mightily likes hi And true love has an eye for a dinner, And starves beneath shady trees, His wing is the fan ofa lady, His fool's an Invisible thing, And his arrow is tipped with a jewel, Aud shot from a silver string. 8 CillSfe— A FEENCH DIAMOND ROBBERY. paliniest day The yet It was in the Second Empire, Crimea were not laurels won at Magenta were st dant and fresh; Sedan, witl ter humiliation and tragic misty future, undreamt of disastrous train consequences, loomed in amid almost fabulous luxury and incred frivolity which paved the final ten It was The P and a brilliant audience had assembled way for ble fiasco. mid- Winter. at its an evening in arisian season was heig at the Theatre Francais to witness { performance of Jules Sandeau’s delight- a in was ful play, “Mille. de la which of Dest filled by the great Regnier and that of Helene by Madeleine the zenith of her fame, radi youth, beauty and those f the outcome y the role then Brohan, f innate talent and ment, which rendered this one of actresses of 1 Ti and beautify the most cha: we Emp il; the wrapped in his favorite abstraction, which celebrated nod, w wach, yet impartial ligh history, seems to have signified so very little, uniforms were in attend with decorations showered by a grateful : and these gallant warrior picuous by reason of the som! was a solitary, black civilian, in ordinary evening dress. t of subsequent veracious Several officers in glittering lanes Ts AAnCe, sp ti upon then pon them sovereizn among s CONS eness of his att re, humble, coated the inevitabie speck of red at his tonhole, In a box almost immediately opposit that occupied by their imperial j ties was a young and exceedingly hand. some Russian lady, the Countess Ivan- off, concerning whose manifold graces and fascinations world Paris elected to interest 1sider- ably at this period. tha The beauty and the wit Northern enchantress were the of every mascu magnificent diamonds th admiration of all feminine beholder 3, The Countess was accompani her husband, a fine man of disti prepossessing appearance, nguished who looked an embodied refutation of the celebratad Napoleonic aphorism, though no amount of *“‘scratching” could unearth the Cossack element under. neath his refined, polished exterior. The curtain fell on the first act. The The Emperor and Empress withdrew during the enir'acte. as ever them Count Ivanoff, apparently in no- wise disturbed by the fact that the golden youth in the stalls were bringing a small battery of opera glasses to bear upon the dazzling charms of his beauti- ful wife, with a brazen persistency which we chivalrous Britishers like to flatter ourselves is the monopoly of foreigners, The Countess leant back in her luxuriant fauwlewil, fanning herself dreamily, serenely indifferent to the interest she was exciting. light of her curtain-shaded box, the to form a sort of luminous halo around gold-brown hair, and two som, flashed and twinkled like twin planets in her little shell tinted ears, The Count had not been gone five minutes when there was a gentle knock at the door, and, in answer to the Countess’ “Eatrez,” the ourreuse ap- peared and said deferentially: “Pardon, Madam la Comtesse; a gen. Heman charged with a message from Her Majesty the Empress waits in the corridor, and desires to know if madame will have the goodness to receive him,’’ “Certainlyl Enter, I beg of you, monsieur,” replied the Countess, in a low, suave voice, which was not the least of her many attractions, bowing graciously as she recognized the distin. guished civilian she had already noticed in close proximity to the Emperor in vig lmperial box. The visitor advanced a few steps, and still standing in deep shadow, said with grave dignity: “I trust my intrusion may be par- doned. I am desirsd by Her Majesty to ask a favor of Mme. la Comtesse, and, at the same time, to beg that she will have the goodness to excuse a somewhat unusual request.” ‘The obligation will be mine if I can { fulfil even the least of her Majesty's wishes,” answered the Countess, grace- | fully. “The is 1 the | gentleman, in a tone of well-bred ease, | “An argument has arisen concerning | the size of the diamond’s in your ear- | rings and those of Ww. The Empress begs that you will intrust your pendant | few moments, as the only sutisfactory | method of d his,” explained Cass the Countess one of 3 to her care for a sposing ot the vexed ques- it | stant her Majesty gives it back into my | keeping.” | “With tl {the C | detaching the precious jev {tion, 1 will myself return the in- @ greatest Countess, witl siting it, without tretched palm of for, 1 mtd he only lef two me at ITCASS Se onds od." ‘Nevertheless, wd he} hae Yar here, ar has taken se my earring, SP bt were $9 LSAeelively, agreed the with & grim smile: ‘4 It the last degres iid Depend upon it, you a th ef, got up rate copy of the distinguished- is to taken it. Hn- npre 38 Wot have been the victim of a8 an accu looking D H gD v $84 Hampossible! ¥ ' cried the Countess, in her turn. “The affair is absolutely as I tell you. It was Monsieur D veritable Monsieur D who came into this box and took away my diamonds, Only wait a little, and be will bring it back intact.” {| **To wail a | chances of its recovery, { will go and inquire of D i - the 1 56€ OPH mite, little is to lessen the In any case, | if 1 can get at him, whether he has been seized | with a sudden attack of kleptomia, because the idea of the Empress having sent him roaming about the theatre, | borrowing a lady's jewels, I regard as preposterous. Ah, these Parisian filous! You do not know what scientific | geniuses they are in their way.” | With this the Count departed, and {the second act was nearly at an end before he returned, In the meantime the Countess per- | ceived that she was an object of interest {to the occupants of the imperial box, { and notably to the “double” of her late aristocratic-looking visitor, who, she could still solemnly declare, had stood before her in the flesh, “I was right,” whispered the Count, i re-entering and bending over his wife's chair; “De knows nothing of your | earring, and, needless to say, the Em- | press never sent him or any one else upon such an errand. I have put the matter imto the hands of the police, and they will do all that is possible to re- cover it.” “Really! How very droll!” remarked the Countess, with calm nonchalanes— for she belonged to that order of im- passive statuesque women who remain mistress of themselves though any quantity of “‘china fall;” “I will take out the other earring, or people may fancy 1 am trying to set the fashion of wearing an odd one;” and she handed the fellow to the purloined jewel to her husband, The play came to an end, as even that most excellent feast of reason, a good French play well acted, must do, sooner or later, in company with all things mundane. The Countess was duly commiserated all declared, behind her back, that they would never have been guilty of the imbecility of trusting so valuable a possession to the tender mercies of however fascinating a stranger: but nothing more was heard of the stolen jewel until the following day at noon, when Count Ivanoff received a note rrom DD to the effect that, as he could not help considering himself partly responsible for the loss of the diamond which had disappeared through the agency of his counterpart, he had taken an early opportunity of viewing the Chief of the Police, who assured him he had good reason to be- Heve as far as Brussels, Early in was about to start for her early drive the afternoon The frozen snow lay deep wil ground, and her sledge, h ‘kK Russian horses jing merrily an C 1m bowe and ringh her maid might y remaining earring done, INS ¥ » IWILDHR hed the sey ¥ 5 "1 a Tience, aug band, “However, for ond tin of asking, we will ie go and inquire,” “The coachman turned and drove as directed to the Police, at which the had lodged his com- piaint the night before, After a what Co Count protracted delay the unt re- of sute face, “The pol amusement upon bis handsome hir- we know nothing of Your said, drawing the fur rug up to his chin as the impatient horses sped away merrily over the frozen snow; “it was the wrong man they had got hold of at Brussels. Your second earring been netted by another member of the light-fingered fraternity, and upon my honor I think he is the more accom- plished artist of the two." And from that unlucky day to this the Countess Ivanoff’s celebrated dia- mond earrings knew her pretty ears no more, Careless Use of Matches, A table, in the interest of the insur. ance companies, has been prepared, presenting the annual loss in the United States resulting from the careless use of matches, A record of 153 noteworthy fires caused in this way during the year ending with June, 1883 showed a property loss of $411,540 and an insurance loss of 211.685, These sums were believed to represent only about three-fifths of the actual loss by match fires, which was estimated at fully $700,000 annually, the loss from matches alone is greater than the annual loss by fire of twenty- one States and Territories, and is about equal to the fire losses of M isaissippi or North Carolina, or of Oregon, If the comparison be made in another way, it wii be found to be equal to the aggregato fire loss of eight States and Territories, “Ann you Boing to the funeral thus afternoon, Mrs, Flip?" asked one lady of another on Broadway, “Well, yes, if my husband don't bring home mati neo tickets,” replied the latter, The total length of the Panama Canal is seventy-four kilometres, from the Atlantic to its mouth in the Pacific, at the islands Naos and Flamenco, It is divided into twelve sections, the ion | i { | important of which are those of Colon, Gorgona, Obispo, Emperado, Culebra | and Paraiso, These united sections employ daily thirty steam excavators, ! n 8 bi | forty locomotives and 800 tip wagons, The grand cutting, about The force employed upon work is upward of ten thousand men, and the excavation up to the 15th October to more than 2.500.000 cubic metres, During these | of the bad season amounted to This figure { amounted the | i about months 300,000 metres per month, which commences in December, and next year mostly all the ts chinery will be at vations will amoun per month, The working force will i augmented, and 15060 1 comes he A chain is hind fins, and he ground by the to one of the Sawdust is sprinkled | when a large order is is blood-stained as The show me the 10 in mid-air, her sharpens his knife, and in he the blood dyeing The and was manager whi 1 copper, seconds has severed t the body, en resh sawdust a crimson hue 11s thrown on to the table, ut like a frog long after the it. The fiz in order to re- i soiled in the if ff, scalded cut i do nol require 80 jong p 18 the scale, up, and 1 sepa. rately, as they COOK as the other paris of | With steady aim ane : { butcher runs his knife roun | rim of the | means separtes the shell, and a turt al entrails g turtie’s bel seems Lo consist are then taken Painter's far ' sent le id § out. shell | The pigs at Messrs, m in | Essex have all the offal to them, is 3 and the turtie-fed swine are said to be finest in the The back, { the shell of which is ofteu half an inch | in thickness, is then taken off, Both | back and belly shells are then scalded | with steaming hot water, and the scale | peels off readily enough after a few minute's scaking, leaving a framework of bone, What is known as the calipee is the white portion of the flesh which { comes from the belly: the calipash is { black in color, and is taken from the back, Only about a quart of the fa- mous green fat is found in a dozen tur- tles, It is only present at certain sea- sons of the year, and is found in the turtle’s flank. This will of course, ac- count for tho long price which is asked for the delicacy by the dealers. The back and belly are then chopped up criss-cross fashion and placed in one of the stew-pans, where they boil gently for about three hours, Besides this what is known as the chicken meat, re. sembling veal in color, is also added, We have now the fins boiling separately in one pan, and the back and belly simmering in another, Both are taken off the fire, steamed, and both are placed in the same stewpot, Marjoram, thyme, parsley, and sometimes onions, are added to this stock, which is now allowed to boil for some seven hours more, The liquid is then strained off, filtered,’ cla iied, and put into shallow pans to cool. The green fat is of course dealt with separately and is sold alone, The chicken meat is allowed to get cold and it then can be stamped into dainty cutlets, The fins are also served in a separate dish, This is the process of manufacture. No evidence of conger eels or of any foreign body is to be the county. found, The invalid soup is the abso. utely pure, end differs from the other only in the absence of herbs of any srt. In view of the controversy which is now going on (it may be as well to point out that Sir Henry Thompson's contention is that conger eel forms the best stock for the soup, and he by no means accuses the purveyors of selling an adulterated article), we have given this short description of our visit which may prove interesting, The tur- ties used by Messrs, Painter come from the West Indian Islands by the mail steamers, being collected and forwarded to London by their agents at Southamp- ton. The turtle is of course found off the coast of America, Africa, aud India but the vo age from West Indies They are placed the now and then an occassional bath and a food, On arrival in England the ordinary railway van, in which they travel iI not antly, A SOTTespon i West Indies % § 1 1681 IOW dent ea ax Ww he | 8 ne Wi nd when 1 Of the st and what in ¢ be calipash and cali; S00 pounds would It the impor is a curd fac t of dri largely every ous ascertain the 1303t HOR BPPEAr i probably includ “Dried Fish,” this is of course COT Pos d of meat, ome ordinary fish, but probably usually of beef and veal, these generally recommend warehousemen who sell da manufac Alter Forty Years, In January last Howard Blackmore and Thomas Welch astray from a £1 Burgeo got sucester fishing schooner on of Newfo jected to terrible suffer. Bank, southwest indland. They were subj ings, and Welch died. Blackburn held his hands around ¢ i the oars uniil thes t wi roze in a curved position, and thus was two days, until he habitation of Francis at Little River. Lichman f him nntil he was able to the story, which It at- nearly able to row came to the Lichman, took care i to return home and tell was published in Gloucester, tracted the attention of Mr. William Litchman, of Marblehead, He was a native of Little River, which place he left when a boy, with his father, walk- through the woods to the coast, living on game and sleeping In camps of boughs. In the spring his father shipped for a fishing trip on the schooner Mechanic, of Marblehead, leaving the boy with a Mr, Bennett, On returning from the trip Mr. Lichman took his son on board the schooner, and they ame to Marblehead, where William entered the employ of Jonathan B. Mason, His father went to Gloucestsr and re- mained there until 1838, when he disap- peared. William married at manhood, and changed the spelling of his name to Litchman, For many years he sup- posed that he had no relatives, until 1874, on the death of Mr, Mason, his former employer, a letter was discov. ered among his effects from Mr. Lich. man, his father, written in 1842, and dated at his howe, in Franklin, La., in. quiring for his son. The father now being dead, Mr. Litchman supposed again that he bad no relatives except his wile and children, one of whom is the Hon, Charles H. Litchman, the eloquent labor advocate, who now holds a position with the Railroad Commission by appointment of Governor Butler, On writing to Fran- cis Litchman, at Little River, N, F., an answer was sent which has just been received, showing most conclu- sively that he and William are brothers, fcc a ~The new hospital at Austin, Texas, will cost $10,000, #3 iis Fistols that Kill A Chicago dealer in guns and fire arte lold a reporter that the sale of the serviceable kind of pistole—that will “kill a man every time’ —is continually increasing. The “bull dog” revolver, such as Garfleld was shot with, is the most popular, Just after Garfleld’s as. agsination a Pittsburg dealer was oblig- and salesmen department, and even then ed to send all Lis clerks into this 1 not weet the demands of his custo- mers. The American manufacturers, IROTeOYer, were to supply the abnormal and the coul unable demand for these weapons, English sources of roud 130td production were soon exhausted. structiveness of the 6d 1 The awful de “bull dog’ was its chief nnenda- Men pra tics that Lime, project iuded his class of 1, $60 and at th ey cently Sn ress, viLAE I DAS been assailed ch, is the most inland town river, on which a distance of about Hanoi, the French, The f thes i he 3 of the right citadel be ing stream. {The upied by a num- containing altogether It is some of villages, that have fallen into the hands of the French. A road which starts from the river passes through these villages, Pursuing this highway, the invaders first entounter the ramparts of earth. works. Then the road turns, curving around the fortress until it passes the north gate of the citadel. The all of earthworks is separated from the regu. lar ramparts by a bank or causeway about 1,400 feet wide, on which other hamlets have been built. Between the encircling road and the citadel were eight barracks, where the Annamite troops were garrisoned, The citadel of Sontay, which the French have not yet captured, has the form of a quadrilateral, each one of its sides being about 2,000 feet long. It is built of bricks and masonry, with bas- tions in the middle of each side, It is fortress on the Cormontaigne plan, and was erected towards the close of the last century by French engineers, It has four gates corresponding to the four points of the compass, the princi. pal ones being the south gate, looking to the Red river, and the north gate, facing the interior of the country. In the centre of the citadel is a pagoda, at the left is the house of the governor. general, at the right that of the man darin wbo dispenses justice, and at each angle is a military post, Between these are the administrative bureaux, the prison, and the rice magazines, The most populous of the villages surround. ing the citadel are those situated be- tween it and the river, already referrea to. 3 & headquarters town stands on the river, ile from Yaa the the or = villages intervening space is occ ber of about 18,000 inhabitants, 3 these doubtless already co “Tear prisoner has a vory smooth oonntenance,” said the jade to the sheriff, “Yous,” said the sheriff “he was ironed just before he was brought in.”
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