LITILE BROWN HANDS" They = wther tha delic ve sm. waads, And build tiny castles of sand; Thev pick up the beautiful! sea-sholl— Fairy barks that have drifted to land They wave {rom the tall, rocking tree-tops, \W here the oriole’s hammock nest swings, And at night-time are folded in slumber By a song that a fond mother sings, Those who toll bravely are strongest; The humble and poor becomes groat] And from thoss brown-handed children Shall mighty rulers ot state, roy row The pen of the author and statesman, The noble and wise of our land— The sword and chisel and palette, Shall be held in the little brown hand, -_— ll a ha JIOW SNOOKS GOT OUT OF IT. “If vou will take my advice,” said Mr. Willing, making a last noble but knife the top of his finger. ‘you won't fo to the Brownrig's ball.” “And why not?” asked his companion, urritably., «‘Weil, 1 really wouldn't, you know." said Mr. Wilding, giving up his struggle with the impossible and laying the re fractory paper-kuife npon the table, “for a variety of reasons, Girls play the very hief with you, and you know what trouble it gave me to get you out of your last scrape. There are four Brownrig girls, aren't there? And they are all pretty.” «1 don't see what that’s got to do with it,” said Soooks, sulkily., “There's safety in a multitude, I cannot marry them all, can 1?" “Happily not. Though, if the laws of your land did not forbid it, 1 am in- clined to think you might try to accom- plish even that. Still, be advised, n OM absence of the Brownrig’s ‘small and early,’ Papa Brownrig, when incensed, is not nice, and you know you are de- cidedly esprit with Miss Kate,” “No, I am not,” said Snooks, with decision, ‘not a bit of it, Though 1 allow she is a handsome girl, and has lovely eyes. Hasn't she, now?” “I don’t know, As a rule I never took into a woman's eyes. I consider it a rudeness as well said Wilding, earnestly, telling his lie with out a blush. “Never mind her eyes. as belize ” ball, at leasttry and forget that she has any eyes at all. If you don’t you will propose to her to a moral certainty.” “One would think I was a raw school boy,” said young Snocoks, wrathfully. “Do you think I can’t look at a woman without committing myself ? Dol look like a fool?” Whatever Mr. Wilding thought that moment he kept to himself, Before he spoke next he and his conscience had agreed to dissemble, “My dear fellow, don’t let us even hint at such a thing,” he said, amiably. “] only meant you were slightly —very slightly—susceptible, and that Miss at power, and that—I give up this ball if I— “Are you going?’ broke in Snooks, impatiently. positively would *s about twelve.” “Then 1 shall look in with you,” said Soooks, defiantly. “Fact is, the fellow wants {0 spoon her himself, and he don’t see the force of belong cut ont,” said he to himself, of Wilding's stairs, Beyond all question the Brownrig's ball was a decided sucoess, were filled to overflowing, the staircases were choked, the heat was intolerable, Sir Thomas and Lady Higgins had ae- tually put in an appearance after all, and the supper, if uneatable, was, I assure you, very expensive. No pains was what the mistress of the house Brownrigs looked as charming as any one could desire, There were four of them. Kate, the second daughter—Snooks’ eyes, And they were lovely; large “shlack as sloes,” said her fond, slightly oppressive mother and of the languid, melting order, Then there was Hetty, the eldest nose in the world, A pure Greek fea- ture, perfect in every respect, ignorant of colds in the head, that made long to tell her (only she would have blushed, they were all nicely brought pend age. Then bosom of her family—-who, if she had had cerlainly a prettier mouth than either. bud of a mouth, that pouted and laughed alternately, and did consider- able « xecution, And, finally, there was Lily. A tall, chin, and a good deal of determination all around, Kate's eyes were larger, darker, and ot his thousands) more melting than ever that night, Her dress, if slightly bizarre, was intensely becoming. Snooks, for the first half hour, kept tions, declined to notice her reproach. ful glances and languishing eillades, and for reward was wretched, Finally, being driven into a corner during a fatal set of Lanciers, he met her eyes, saw and was conquered, She wonld dance the next set with him? Yes (coldly). And the next? Yes (more gently). Aud the uinth—and he could see she is disengaued for 1t—Yes (this time quite warmly). Au hour later the deed was done. Home capital champagne, a dark ave- nue ([ believe there were some Chinese fauterns there originally, but a kind wind had blown them out), and a soft Little hand slipped into his, did the work, and Miss Kate promised, bashiully, but with un uninistakable willingness, to be the fnture Mrs, Saooks, hether it avas Snooks or the property pertaining { saveth not, When, however, her betrothed had | found what he hsd done, and remem- | bered his former words, and all the | awfalness of parental wrath, his heart | failed him. He went, as he usually did | \@aen in sorry case, in search of Wild- | ing; and having discoverad him, took | door confronted him with a rather pale | face. **85 tho eyes were too many for yon,” | said Mr, Wilding, calmly, after a deltb { before him. | be." “That's the sort of thing any fellow “I told you how it would “I didn’t think yon would have “‘Mother will be pleased,” quoted his “So, bye the bye, will be your father, They both regard nothing so highly as birth. I suppose Miss Brownorig can lay claim to some decent breed- ing?” “The old chap is a corn chandler, you koow that; at least he used to be,” said Snooks with a Leavy groan, “Oh, indeed! Did a very charming business, toc, I make no doubt. Leads up to quite a train of ideas. Corn, wheat, staff of life, quaint old mill and rustio bridge in the distance; miller sit- ting on it. I wonder,” dreamily, *‘if Brownrig ever wore a white hat? And if so—why? Don't all speak at once. Well, well, she is very pretty. Buch eyes, you know. [I really congratulate you, my dear fellow.” “Wildiug,” desperately, *‘‘can’t you do something? [—1 don't know how it happened, it was through the cham pague, [ suppose; and of course yon know she is pretty; but I don’t want to marry «ny ons,and I know the governor wouldn't hear of it.” “*He will have to hear of 1t now, “He would go ont of his mind if such a .thing were ever hinted to him,” declared Snooks wildly. *“Try to help me out of it, Wilding, can’t you?” “I don’t see what there is to do, ex- cept marry her, I only hope Lady Snooks and Miss Cornenandler will get And you should think of beanty, you kuow; doubtless it her will with the customary shillwg."” “1 suppose I had better ent my throat and put an end to it,” said Snooks, dis mally, and then—overcome, no doubt, by the melancholly of this suggestion he breaks down and gives way to tears, “1 say, don’t do that, yon know,” exclaimed Wilding, indigoantly. “Weeping all over the place won't im- prove matters, and will only make you look a worse fool than nature intended when you go out of the room. Look here,” aogrily, “if you are going to keep up this hideous boohooing I'll leave the room and yon, too, to your fate. They will hear you in the next bouse if yon don't moderate your grief.” As the nearest house was a quarter of mile off this was severe, the next town,” said Mr, Snooks, was (quite too far gone for shame, ‘There is just one chance for you, and only 3 said “1 have an idea, and you must either follow it-—or go to the altar.” “T’ll follow anything,” eagerly. “What is it?” “You have proposed to Miss Katie,” solemnly. “Now go and propose to the other three,” As Wilding gave vent to this idea he turned abruptly on his heel and left the room. “I'll do it,” said Snooks, valiantly drying his eyes and giving his breast a who one Wilding, slowly. (Going into the hall he saw Hetty a tall and lanky youth, Not daring to and ssked Hetty to dance, since was the scene of her sister's hap- piness, Hetty's conduct, her head upon his shoulder, and he felt he was by all the laws of senti- tound to kiss her, looked lovely in the pale moonlight, so 1 dare say he did not find the fulfilling of this law difficult, After that he had some more cham- Georgie, who also consented to be his, Heo crossed the room, and ths time, and was on the very point of to dance on the plea that sho waa tired, With questionable taste he pressed the mat. ter and begged her to give him one, just ons, At this she told him frankly that she did not admire his style of spot he delivered himself of the ornate speech that had already done dut three times that night, forget wha i was, but [ know that it wound up with the declaration that he adored her and wanted to marry her, “It is extremely good of you, ['m sure,” said the young Miss Brownrig, calmly, “But, uncivil as I fear it must sound, I don't want to marry you," “Pon't you, by Jove!” smd Bnooks, hastily, “Well, that is awful ki—no, nol” pulling himself up with a start; “I don’t mean that, you know; I mean it’s awful horrid, youn know. In fact” warming to his work through sheer gratitude, ‘you have made me miser- able forever; you have broken my *‘Dear mn, how shocking!” said Miss | Lily, frivalously, “Let us hope tbat | time will mend it 1'm not very sure | that you did not speak the truth at I really believe it is kind my refusing you. And now, Mr, Snooks, | if 1 were you I should go and say good | night to mamma, because yon have been having a good deal of papa’s cham- pagne and it is trying to the constitn- | tion.” Bnooks took the hint, bade farewell to Mrs, Brownrig, who, to his heated im- | agination, appeared to regard him al- | ready wita a moist and motherly eye, | and taking Wilding's arm drew him out of the house. *‘Well ?” said the latter interroga- | tively. “f don't know whether it is well or tli,” returned he, gloomily. ‘‘But { followed your advice and proposed to 'em all,” “Aud they accepted you?” “Phe most of "em, But Lily, the youngest, she—" “Always said she was a sensible srl,” put in Mr, Wilding, sotto voice. “Did you?” with much surprise, “Well, she refused me; sort of said she wouldn't have me at any price, 85> you seo you were wrong!” “1 always knew she was one of the most intelligent girls I ever met,” Mr. Wilding repeated, in a tone so difficult that his companion for ons had suflicient senss to refrain from demanding an €x- pisustion, The next morning, as Katie Brownrig turned the angle of the hall that led to ter father's sanctum (whither a sense of | filial duty beckoned her) she almost ran into the arms of her three sisters, all converging toward the same spot from different directions, Simultaneously they entered Mr. Brownrig's stady (He ealled it & library; but that word is too often profaved for me to profane it, so I shall draw the line at study.) But | to return. Mise Lily, being the young- | est, was of course the first to raise her voice, “I had a proposal last night, papa, and I have come to tell yon about it,” said she in a tons replete with tri- umph, It mind of the yonth to outdo its el Bat "on this GOCASION only” tho refused to be They each and sll betrayed inward satisfaction, and then Have Way to speech. “No!” they said in a breath. They did not mean to doubt or be impolite; they only meant surprise, ““The curate,” said Hetty, in a com posed but plainly contemptnous whis- per, It was a stage whisper, is so aweoetl 0 the lors, ders outdone, a smile of “Old Major Sterne, said Miss Georgio, promptly, “Porkaps Henry Bimms,” suggested Katie, with some sympathy. Then turning to her fathew she said, with a conscious blush, “It is very strange, papa, but I, too, had a proposal last night,” “And so had [1” ex and Hetty in a breath. “Eu?” said papa, | spectacles, He was fat and pudgy, with esndy hair sod a flabby nose, He was a powerful man, too, and one unpless ant to come to open quarrel with, Pro- posals in the Brownrig family were fow and far between-—in faol enriowities— and so much lnck as the girls described falling into one day, “One at a time; what it used to be,” he said, addressi: Katie, (If he said breadth, it i have been especially true, as bis mother waa to be WARE A aimed Georgie nshing up his overpowered him, my breath is or ® Delleved if she always de- er, clared he lean May I baby 3 ver? “Mr. Boooks," with down cast eyes and a timid smile, She tock up the corner of a cherry colored bow that adorned her gown, and fell to ad- miring it through what she fondly thought waa bashfniness. “Tmpossible!” exclaimed angrily, ‘What a disgraceful untruth!” cried Hetty rudely, ‘Mr. Boooks proposed to me last night and 1 sceepled him.” “What is that you say? Oh, I am said she Georgie, me,” said Georgie, putting her hands to ber head with a dramatio | gesture, “Or isit a dream that he asked me to marry him, and that I, too, said | ‘yes? ” «1 geldom visit the clouds,” sald Lily, with a short but bitter laugh; ‘and 1 certainly know he made me a noble offer of his hand and heart, both which treas- “Where?” demanded the other three, as though witn one mouth, “In the laurel ayenue!” At this they all groaved alond. «Perfidous monster!” said Hetty, from her heart, “Am I to understand,” began Mr, Brownrig, with snppressed but evident | “that this——this unmitigated scoundrel asked you all to marry him “If we speak the truth, yes,” replied the girls dismally, “He was drnuk,” said papa, savagely. | ‘f can't believa it,” said Katie, who | wns dissolved in tears—in fact, "like | Niobe all tears” —~by this time, “Noth | it, His language was perfect and so | thoroughly from the-—heart” “Ho addressed me in a most honor- able, upright and Christian fashion,” | said Hetty, “I'm sure he meant every | word he said,” She was thinking uneasily of that kiss in the moonlight. Could any one | have seen her? as old Major Sterne anywhere about at the moment? “1 certainly considered Lis manner strange, not a bit like what one reads,’ said Georgie, honestly, ‘*but I thought of the title and the property, and said yes directly,” “I thought him tho greatest muff 1 ever spoke to,” broke in Miss Lily with decision, “I refused him without a moment's hesitation, and told him to go home, I'm sure it was welllIdid, I dare say if he bad stayed here much longer, he would have proposed to ma- ma next, and afterward to the upper housemaid, I agree with you, papa, the champsgne was too much for Rim 2 #l..1 think he is fond of me,” said Katie, in a low and trembling tone, Her fingers are not now playlng with * Don’t be a goose, Katie,” seid the | youngest Miss Brownrig, kindly but scornfully; ‘you don’t suppose any of us wonld marry him now after the way he has behaved. Do have some hitle pride.” “Perhaps he is mad,” said Hetty vaguely, Just at this moment a8 a salve to her wounded vanity she would | huve been glad to believe him so. “Ne, my deary,” declared Lily, ing.” “He said something, paps, about call- ing to-day at 4 o'clock,” said Katie very faintly, “Then I shall sit here till 4,” returned Mr. Brownrig in an awful tone. “I get up and go out snd find that young | man, sid give him such a horse-whipping as I warrant you he never got before in his life,” “Don’t be too hard on him, papa,” entreated Katie weakly. “I shan't, my dear, but my whip will,” said papa, grimly. So he waited until 5; he waited until 5380, and then he took up a certain heavy gold-knobbed whip that lay stretched on the wmable as though in readiness, aud sallied forth in search of Bnooks' rooms, And he found them, and Bnooks too—in bed, suffering from a severe catarrh, cauglit, I presums, in the laurel avenue, And man knows what he did to Suooks. But at least he gave him au increased desire for his bed, because for a fortnight afterward ho never stirred out of it, When Mr, Wilding heard of all this, [ regret to say he gave way io nosy mirth in the privacy of bis own chsm bers, and was sotually caught by his warherwoman—who peeped through the keylole—performing a wild dauoe the middle of the Hoor no iu AN LR a aOR A Fighter Talks. At West Indian fighter, re He can ut ' the late meeling he brave, He has Wel | dian n painted, titres ViIDes, a —— An Ancient Relic, At a torical Soclety, menting « len: held in Nash Thruston presented gun. It 1s pr the State, see Hise ille, Ger id flint-lock gun in It is about six feet in length Bh TADS | bably the oldest and hnndsomely ornamented with brass mountings. The end or the long barrel, where it has rested against worn away with usage. The le i the wall, Is tters and gures, “H. M., 1741," are deeply cut in the brass mounting, its antiquity and showing that it is at least 143 years oid. in use when Daniel Boone was born, and was an old gun at the time of defeat by the Indians before the Revo- venfying t was doubtless Braddock’s lution. The gun was presented to Gen, Thruston by the chief ordina of the federal army at 1865, He selected it out of 19,000 cap- tured and condemned 1 ficer Nashville in i we of arms stored in a most interesting veteran of the lot. It was reported to have been captured in a skirmish at Lavergne, Tennessce, m 1862. The initials, “H. M.,"” in mono- gram on the stock, may enable some of our readers to identify it. Its early history would doubtless give it addi- onm— A ———— The Suez Canal. The question whether the present Suez Canal shall be enlarged, or a sec- ond and parallel canal be cut, will come up for decision betore the International | appointed to consider the subject, The Commission, work to make estimates and reports upon all the plans proposed for improv. ing the transportation across the The engineers have com- reports, The meeting of the Commis- sion is now called to take action upon the work of the engineers and to decide npon the best plan to recommend to the shareholders at their meeting in July. It is reported that the engineers nearly all favor an enlargement of the present canal as the best and cheapest means of meeting the demands of shippers, and it is said that the great majority of the Jommission have been converted to the same view, and will recommend the en- enlargement plan, A Novelty in Muraer, A novel and dangerous mode of com- mitting secret murder by poisoning wa disclosed recently in the posthumous papers of a deceased physician in Paris, eminence in his profession, had obtained high repute as a toxicological expert. Three years azo the wife of M. Ver neuil, to give the name of the inventor of this new asquatofana, died inthe con gostive stage of what was regarded by her medical attendants as an obstinate case of malarial fever, The symptoms were unique in some particulars, The cold stage of the paroxysm was not ac- companied by the muscular tremors, but these were slow, creeping, torpid and simultaneous, with apparent wan- dering of the senses, while, in the fever that followed, the temperature to an extraordinary height, and her delirium the patient recited in measured rose in accents, without variation in tone, a totally disconnected and incoherent suc- cession of words, as if reading from a dictionary The perspiration that suc ceeded this climax and closed the daly attack was cold, and with a claminy accom- panied by a grayish pallor, pur- ¥ i 1 3 frie x 13 “ LY lw “ plish tioge of the lips and deadly ex- haustion. These significant facts were regarded, however, by the physicians in t for this daring scientific i had the hardihood vid to bring in $14 BErs 3 LALO] prac t Ys 3 4) Wons in the phen which rapidly, wpped the vital energies of the patient, and ended fatally on the twenty-eighth day. Net a passing zephyr of suspicion was excited, from a Yerneuil, he It now appears left by Dr. practise of his profession, written wil £4311 statement that in the he had stumbled upon the fac die acid in its purest form, given as a remedy in malarial » i 1 - » f& sroduces, when administered Ww h 3 ¢] ng f tea or coff } OT 1688 ot water, the vhatever in y confession he whit and guidance , he Ix of his with nevolently gee ils perpe- evil presence nparting on A A Afrioan Anta. The bashikonal ants must be a terri- ble vlagu ie piague. night armies miles long. gorilla fly before Jack man runs for his life It is re- lated by a traveler that as he was going up ope of the mouths of Zambesi, he saw a whole village suddenly deserted by the inhabitants, who fled with all they could carry off, a proceeding which, and day, in The elephant and them; the } a0 soon as the ants are seen. the as there was no foe in sight, rather puz- zled him, till he found they were fleeing from the ants. When these ants enter a hut, they clear it of every living thing in & few minutes. Huge cockroaches, centipedes, mice and rats are instantly devoured. than a minute, and in another minute A leopard, dog. or deer 18 soon despatched and de- voured, for they kill by their numbers, They are quite half an inch long, and one variety is so strong that it will bite pieces clean out of the flesh. They possess, however, one meritorious qual- its bones are picked. destruc- tion in houses, In addition to these which al itching that lasts for hours, varied at intervals by certain sharp stabs of pain; the sloway, or nest-building flies, not quite #0 big as a bee, which cling to a man in the water, and assail the natives with such ferocity that if a cance by chance touch one of their nests the men in- stantly dive overboard, Buon: Aloigia, lot us leave the avenue and stroll along the margm of the river.” “Not any, Evaogeline; no for me” (Adolphus Henares. Y oremost among the Hindoo temples Denares, known among Europeans as the Golden Tem- s, where in India, is what is } Bislsesharnath or the presiding deity of Denares worship- i The building itself proved to be an inferior one, he Hive, uy yell, crowned with a gilded mean surroundings, al intention of Runjit native, to gold, combination of circumstances Lie origin- have covered this roof pure but by some was finally used instead, The from this temple, which are very great, go to the two widowsof a native worthy who went by the nawe Punda, There 1s reservoir in the building of a which I should say measures three feet half iished visitors are cach way He An , And I8 ut « inches deep, Disting os. Among the LW man pi JULY stuf- a stone idol with rice, mother in America ng infant with par- ith a tooth- pick to hand when he had finished his repast. fan these idols, put ti pro- 4 ow 4 - vem even he wrath of the hard ta make ¥ ry A314 10 make progress The principal form of v i) Are Td walle Ys a in Aarowing Veo LHOwWers yus shrines which are gtream of Gan- a good ands of the diff £3 ¢ * it PL AiiAt it nake Pe I I ines, and each worsh ITT ipper is wi to omit any one lest the of- ended deity visit soe awful punish- him for The were ent the sl four j and fairly lined with gods. Handsome peacocks were walking dain- tily along on the shivala roofs. There were innumerable bells which would struck carelessly by the passing worshippers, so that there was a cone tinual clangor. Not that this feature was needed for the creation of noise, since the people were either yeling or mumbling. A true Hindoo either talks or else plays on the tom-tom ail the | time he is not asleep, vy 1 v 10} mn upon igut. streets from foet wide, be Co An Ancient Rese Bush A standard rose, said to have been planted by Charlemagne, is one of the | great curiosities of the ancient city of Hildesheim, in Hanover. This rose bush is gnarled and rugged, as becomes its extreme age, and in some places the | principal stem 1s about as thick as a man’s body. It grows at the eastern side of the apse of the cathedral, and this year the venerable and venerated object has put forth several new and thrifty shoots, Fears have been enter- | tained for a long time past that, after jis life of 1,000 years, the plant was losing its vitality. But now it is ap- | parently taking a new lease of life, and | there is much rejoicing in Hildesheim | at the fact, The person who takes | charge of the ancient rose bush is in. | structed never to give away a culling, and its flowers, which are pronounced | the very sweetest of their Kind, are | also jealously guarded from sandal | hands. — wud Farnitare. At the recent sale of Baron d'Iviy’s collection of furniture in Paris a suite ot Louis XVI. furniture (fifteen pieces) covered with Gobelins fetched §17,200, a tapestry screen went for $2800, a writ. ing-table of satin-wood, profusely or namented in the Louis XV. style, brought $7500; a pair of bronze can- delabra, $12,700 ; a pair of carved ebony cabinets, $0400, The sale amounted to about $210,000.
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