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
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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
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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
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* it PL AiiAt
it
nake
Pe
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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.