CENTRE SO TTY FO THE SETTING SUN. Pown, down, thou goest, sinking nightly rest, Crowning distant mountain tops with a gold and silver crest, Parting back thy fiery beams through the woodland’s density, to thy | Mrs, Larkins and Miss Wynward were | gone, so that there was no ons in the and his two daughters—maiden ladies | open box-wagon, and stopped iv for a lookest back of thee, The timid, lonely cow-boy pauses, frighted and alarmed, To see in tar-off windows fires burning, yet unharmed, sinkest down, Casting on the pale full moon a trustfai frown, As it thou feared’st to intrust keeping of the earth, thou unto another day ciously give birth. stern dis- feobler And leave 1 lence ang rOWS, wearied repose world to sweet si- A TERRA THE CHEST OF DRAWERS, ried! And without e blossoms at the back; and there the gourd-shell, lying in the grass and the cleanly- appl | was | beside the sweep; i gage on the old farm, We couldn't have made more money than that if we'd kept a house full of boarders, as | Polly wanted to do; but I don’t mean | Polly to be at the beck and call of a | dozen fine ladies, and work her roses | ticking away in its corner; and the old “Pa,” cried Miss Etheldreda Eldred, | lovely piece of workmanship!” | “Quite medieval! sighed | mengarde, ‘‘We must have | Revolutionary relic in our | room, pa!” The protessor stared around him. this drawing- And the report of Abel Jones’ good luck spread far and wide through all the country side. Mrs. Hopper, the “Abigail Ann” of Mrs. Bubbles legend- ary reminiscences, heard the great news and drove down from Plum Hill to in- “If it's true as yon've found five hundred dollars,” said she, dolefully, as all the heirs should divide equally, “Bat it ain’t true,” said Mrs, Bubble. “Oh,” said Mrs. Hopper, *‘I told | my dear,” said he. “That's just like “Don’t pa!” said Miss you There's as poverty itselt | Mary, I never could have believed it of you!" Pretty Mary Bubbles brown eyes away at a step-ladder, when the pro- fessor's bald vague fear. “En?” said Abel, looking very hand- “Not that exsotly, neither,” said Mrs, | Bubble, laughing. And then she related the precise cir- cumstances of the case, Mrs. Hopper drew a long breath. “I wish 1 hadn't chose ‘The Death said she, **The cord | den, mother,” said she. ** "Squire Lar- kins was there, and Miss Jennie Wyn- be now or endure the suspense, necktie, “Same to you, sir!” said Abel, “] wish.” said the professor, ‘‘to in- certificate, all legal and right—see, mother! And as for being poor, why, that ho is an industrious, kitchen of the house yonder, My “No price at all’ sir,” said Abel. “It ain't for sale.” “If a liberal remuneration, sir, would neck, “if you'll forgive me for disobey- ing you this once, I never, never will do it again!” So Mrs. Bubble—although, to use her “Not for sale,” peated Abel, good-humoredly re- “An old family relic, eh?” remarked and should forgave sented bright-eyed that Abel Mary, Jones ¢on- set iane, there to commence the conflict of life. “Though I'm quite sure,” said Mrs, Bubble, *‘that he never will earn his *Exaetly,” said Abel. And ne went on hammering and whistling the tune of “Robin Adair,” while the professor made his way back £0030 berry bushes and black currants, Half an hour afterward Mary, the pretty first canse all Abel Jones’ rom adventures, ran into the shop. of wii antic have married some least have cleared the mortgage off the old place.” But Abel and Mary were happy. Where Youth and Love are sitting in life's sunshine, old Crassus is one too mauy. for him! “We shall get along,” said Abel. “Of course we shall get along!” said Mary. And thus matters stood, when Mrs, flounced white muslin, stopped at the Bubble farmhouse to drink a glass of milk and eat some of Mrs. Bubble's cherry short-cake. “I hope the bride is well,” said Mrs. Larkins, laughing. “*Tol’able, thank you,” said Mrs, Bubble, ‘She's gone up to Deacon Faraday's to get their recipe for makin’ soft-soap. Abel's well, thankee, He's in the shop, now, at work, Hi hammer is sort company for ms when 1 t I don't deny as he's a young man enough, if he wasn't poor as Job's turkey! And with Mary's face, and her te boardiog-school, she'd ought to aon better,” “What beautiful old chests of draw- ers!” cried Miss Wynward, ecstatically, “What lovely brass ornaments! And what picturesque claw legs! “Oh, yes,’ said Mrs, Larkins, “It 1s over a hundred years old, Eyerybody has heard of Mrs, Bubbic’s antique chest of drawers!’ too, * BY oO sit here alone, decent as Arn Al months now, but Abel's smile of wel- come was no less bright than it had been in the days of the honeymoon, “Bless me, Polly!” said he, *‘‘What 18 the matter? You look half scared to death!” “And no wonder," said Mary. ‘There have been burglars at the house, Mothers chest of drawers is gone! “What!” shouted Abel, “And these wers left under one of the volumes of ‘Barnes’ Notes on the ' breath. Marry, displaying five in the palm of her of lessly added ten-dollar bills hand. “Upon—my—word!” said Abel, “It's the old fellow with the bald head, P ily, he spectacles, you may I thought he looked dealer.” Abel! gepe pend 1:1 Ike Aan 1 and Mary "I've ished,” got another one nearly fin- said Abel. to Mr, Hartington, Bat I'll 14 ik said Mrs, Bubble, one at all, ago.” “Sold it!” kins. “] aidn’t want to sell it,” said Mrs, Bubble, looking imploringly over the edge of her spectacic glasses, “It was given to me, yon know, ma'am, when my father's estate was settied up, and the old [armtoor was divided, My brother John's wife she wanted ‘Tne Death of Jonathan,” in a gilt frame, “It ain't the old 1 sold the old one a month echoed Mrs. ‘Squire Lar- she: “* ‘Sophiar, you can take the old chist © draw’s. ““And smong one's relations? So says 1: Ann.’ Jonathay,” and I took tke chist o draw’s., And Abel he fixed it up dread- ful nice, with a little sand paper and mother will number one there.” So that when Mrs, Babble came home from the sewing society Abel was just setting up a pew chest of drawers, and Mary eagerly related to her the tale of the burglary, for so she still persisted in eslling it. “Well, 1 whether its two that's never or care number never!” said Mrs Babble, five, I'm glad Idido't take “The Death eh of Jonathan’! himself, And he set diligently to work to mau- nfactare still other duplicates of the “‘ohist 0" draw’s,” staining them a dark rich brown, and beating out odd, sheli- to complete the illusion, And when the cariosity hunter where it required letters and samples of patchwork and paver paiterns in, five dollars for it, it seemed a wicked ik Aud John's hardly believe heard tell of it, she: *+ ‘Sophiar, don’t you s'pose you could sell “The Death of Jonathan” for the same money?’ wife, she couldn't her ears when she wasn't a bit sorry for her, for she always was a graspin’ thing, But after it had gone away in Doctor Holloway's wagon, I began to miss it, and 1 fairly sot down and cried. And Abel, he says: ‘ “ ‘Cheer up, mother,’ says he, ‘I'll make you another one like 12 “And #6 he did, And there it is,” said Mrs. Bubble, with honest pride, ““gnd you'd never know but what it was the same old ohist o' draw's, He's darkened it down, ’iled 1t up, and turned out claw legs, and beat out a set of old brasses to cover the keyholes, until yon never would know the differ. ence. And I'm just as well satistied as E was before.” 80 Mrs, Bubble put on her things step, ready to drive a bargain, “Any old farpiture or antiques to the hunter would blaundly in- quire, “Not a stiak!’ said Abel; and then, after a minute's i he would add: smashed my best set of china, I never | “Aud served you right for your greed and rapacity!” said Abel Jones, so voce, to Mary, who, in the next room, was helping him to varnish set of 1 {iO i“ “Hush -sh-sh!” whispered Mary, While old Mrs, Babble smiled and rcmarked, sagely, that *‘nobody never knew exactly how things was goin’ to | turn out “Bat,” she added, wiping her spec- tacle-glasses, ‘‘that chist o' draw's cer- tainly did bring me good luck, It's paid off the last of the old mortgage, and Iaid in a stock o' real black walnut for Abel to work with, and got a new navy-blue cashmere for Mary, And if that ain’t luck I don't know what is,” ft A Bit of Morse Talk. “1 suppose,” said a well-known horse dealer to a Boston reporter, *‘that for | carriage hosses, there's in' finer'n Foglish ‘Cleveland We have in this couutry, though they're scarce and gen'ally called coach hosses, They are called as they are ‘cause of their bay color and points, au average of 16 to 17 hands high. The first one 1 ever saw I see in Canadas, an imported one, 3 $1 nol bays,’ biack They are high steppers, have small heads an’ arching necks, au’ are of good style an’ appearance, Their trotting action is from the shoulder, and a pair of 'em ’ill rattle off a heavy barouche in fine shape, I tell you. A good pair would bring from $2,000 to £4,000; but you can’t get many of ‘em ‘cause they're not to be had, Have ti right kind, matched up close, and they would bring almost any price such fellows as Vanderbilt: would bn ‘em.” “Some people say that the French cosching stallions that are being brought to this country have of the Percheron or cart-horse strain in Do you think so?” “No, | don't, There n bred horse than a genuine French ing stallion, apd I beliove Dahiman, New Y man ™ 16 iy too much them. | is no better ng in a OTROS, yrought over this year ing stallions, besides They was mostly of ACLOTA He ILA, yhiman bought government, for they are th 0 be had. teen mares, know, as o very best He also brought over thir. They are such hosses, you you'd to look at on the high knee action an’ lots of style, what the French people like, They was all blood hoeses; every one that handles hossas knows what they ara, When I was in New York I see stop which Dahliman sold to Vanderbilt, He was 8 33-year-old, 16 hands high, gentile as a Kkitjen, and as fine a horse for his age as I ever saw in my life, Good don't amount to much, how. ever, if ybu haven't got good mares. A good many people don’t seem to bear that in mind.” “How about lighter blooded stock?” “Well, somes of the finest 15 to 15.8 hand high . hosses for such vehicles as T.carts, dog-carts, phmions, eto., come | from Kentucky, They are better than the blood, That'll tell, every time, Some very fair ones of this class, cob. come from Maine, Everybody build of hoss if he has good They are an easy kept hoss, wears better than these long-legged, loose -made hosses, They are just the kind for four-in-hands, in fact they are good anywhere; fine, gen- eral-purpose hosses, They are worth from 8800 to 82,500 a pair, according to For a lady's phmton you want a hoss a little smaller, action. Morgan build, A fast hoss that is too just tinkered ap, [ can’t say, up and down, you know, as it's old; bat there is, You can look for yourselves, There ain't no date on it, 1 don’t care whether 1 sell it or not, If you like it, pay what you think is right; if youn don't, why there ain't no harm done!” So that po less than seven editions of the chest of drawers were sold before the season was over, They became the fashion. a little different from his neighbors, And some of them have never yet ceased looking for hidden treasures, old papers or outlawed wills among the pigeon-holes and compartments. And when the season ended and the city boarders went back to their briok- and-mortar wildernosses, Abel brought “Three hundred and sixty-five dol lars, mother,” said he, ‘Enough to purpose.” “Too small?” “Yes, a ood many fast hosses are You occasionally find very fas! fast one 14} hands high, you'll find ten a hand higher, They hain’t got the foot bigger hows. Good looks is a mighty important consideration in a lady's phmton hoss, A lady is sure to want a hoss with a long mane an’ tail, archin’ nook, silky coat, eto,, an’ such hosses is rare, Maine is a good place to look for ‘em, and they'll bring from $300 to $600 apiece.” “How about trotting horses?” “Well, a man needn't pay so much oan go better'n 80, If he's satisfied with one that will trot in the neighbor. hood of 2.45, he can get one for $100 or less, When you get below 2.20 there ain't no regular price; it's regulated by the customer, Of course you know some of the fastest of ‘em nave bronght enormous prioes—ns high as $50,000," The Metal Nickel. The metal nickel has been made fa- miliar to nearly every ons by its ex- tensive use in plating metallic surfaces, in which it Las largely replaced the more expensive and less durable silver. In its pure metallic form it is not very uses to which it is much better adapted It is safe to say that its importance 1n the arts is now very generally recog- be vastly multiplied, It is not many years since nickel was first separated from its impurities in commercial quan- tities and utilized in its pure state without alloy or contamination by sul- phur, arsenic or other elements with natural state. As to its geographical parts of the world; but only in a few been be worked with commercial success, The recent discoveries in New Caledo- nia (an island lying east of and near economical This locality is to bring it into heretofore unknown, n8es the world, The only in the Uuaited States sively mined is at Lancaster (Gap, Pa. This is the well known mine of Joseph Wharton, of Philadelphia, He is now the only producer of metallie nickel in the United States, The ors from this nine contains in bulk from one and a half to two per cent, of nickel. It is worked into a commercial stale at Mr. Wharton's extensive works at Camden, N. J. The important deposits of nicke recently found in Nevada are now at- tracting attention. These deposits are said to be rich in oxides of nickel and cobalt, The gradeof this ore is claimed to be as high as sixteen per cent, nickel, or nickel apd eobalt, Nickel is now worked so as to be ductile and malleable, his is to be viewed as a new material, a new gift to the industrial arts, with an unknown number applications before it. Its most extensive nt present is in the arts of plating, and iu the production of German silver, For ge there has been a large demand, hich is no doubt destined to be great- r increased as its adyantages and economy are better understood. In the last twenty years it has varied in price from 81 to 84 per pound, The price in Eagland 1853 was quoted (in a me- morial to Congress seventy per pound. In the form of anodes for plating, it occmmaads a much higher price, From 1876 to 1882 the price wus on the averags upward of 81.40 per pound for large contracts, [he production from the Gap mine to 1883 estimated at about 4,000 000 if mines in Nevada turn the importAtion of s country will not be neces- place of use W ly sr ill esnts + wy bi ete. , } is poan is. out as nickel to thi SArY. tt “We expected -—-— Mile, Lax. rewards recor nal Society of | Bens ITH of virtue vonferred a Antoinette nant” of the Polish army, ex-Frane Tireur” of the w Mile. Lix, whose home is v8, 18 at present visiting fries is AT The story of this remarkable roads like a roman forty-five years old. he daughter of an ax. et Charles X {i of Louis XVIII. She was born in Colmar. Having lost her mother, she was brought up like a boy of pe 18 ’ 4] AD St her eighth year in boy's clothes, At the age of 12 she rode on horseback, and fencing was her fayorite exercise, Mlle. Lix, at the age of 17, having a good education and knowing Eaglish and German, was summoned to Poland by the Countess l.———, who entrusted The war of iandependence, which he energetic stances: A friend of Count L., General the leader of the patriots, about to be surprised, with the whole detachment, by the Rassians, this, dressed hersell in man's clothes, and rode on horseback to inform the general, but she arrived fight. The courageous governess then age, and placing herself at the head of This splen- did sction gained for her the rank of nized Mlle, Lix, carried her away and nursed her during six weeks, Mlle, de Wolowski promised to keep Lieutenany Tony's secret, and as the young woman Russians, and saved her life only by a brother's name, Mle, Lix, having been taken baok to the frontier, rejoined the her residence in that city attended a course of the medical lectures, When cholera was raging in the north, Daur ing the whole duration of the epidemic Mile. Lix attended the poor people suffering with the cholera, and as a re- ward for her devotion the government entrusted her with the post oToe at La- marche, in Vosges, where. as soon ws she arrived, she established a free in- dustrial school for poor girls, The war of 1870.71 broke oul. Again dressed in man's apparel Mlle, Lix en- listed, and as a lieutenant in a company of sharpshooters from the Vosges she took part in the battle of Bourgonoe- Nompatelize. M, Lasaey, one of the how *Lientenant Tory” who were dspersing, *“Btand firm, comrades,” she sad, ‘it is with in the battle, Mlle. lax nursed the After her company had been united with the vice. In that capacity she was present For six years she was employed in she won the esteem and affectign of all, result of the camgaign of 1870, gave up her employment, and with gov- ernment aid she was established mn a tobacco shop at Bordesux, the proceeds from which provide for ber modest wants, Mlle, Lix walks with diffienity with the aid of crutches, ress. WY ANI A —— co — Choice of Occupation, Parents often complain that their sons have been to school all their Jives, have no choice of occapation, or that they choose to be acconntants or clerks, These complaints are invariably unrea- mable; for how can one choose at all or wisely when he knows so little? I confidently believe that the develop- manual! elements in school will .prevent those serious errors in the choice of a vocation which too often wreck the fondest nopes, It is not as- sumed that every boy who manual training school is to be a me- chanie; his training leaves him free, No pupils were ever more unprejudiced, better prepared to look below the sur- face, less the victims of a false gentil. ity, Some find that they have no taste for manual arts, and will turn into oth paths-—law, medic or enters a er 10 literature, (ireat facility in the acquisition and the so of language scoom panied by a lack of mechanical interest ower, When such a bias is discoy- the lad should nnquestionably to his grammar and rather than to the laboratory or draug ing room. On the other band, decid aptitude for handicraft 1s not quently coupled with a strong aversion for abstracts and the- There can be a is often either or i unfitness luvestigations. aliould be spent in the shop, and less in and recitation room. Bome patural skill the lecture who develop both and through the polytechnic school into professional life, as engineers and sci Others will find their great ness, as highest happiness, in the posit into they will readily when they leave school, All will gain intel- leotually by their experience in contact with things, The grand result will be an increasing interest in manufscturing pursuits, more intelligent mechanics, more successful manufacturers, better lawyers, more skillful physicians, and more useinl citizens, oulasts, + aein sl 18630 1008 which step AEs Two Noted Raliway Dogs, 1 = v 4 av v : hers 13 a famous traveling dog in wn as “Rallway Jack, greater part of » + ~ry 5 rH ; 41 1g excursions over the rs Lins and a few over and extremely syn know hb mthe ago, when he lost a leg, they OOK Was mun were all great pains 10 con- Atter Jack got out »d his travels, and quite . » English papers had an ac- mnt of the attentions paid him by the Prince and Princess of Wales, who met him at a railroad junction waiting for a train, There is another dog, a pure Scotch as long known as Jack, and leads a similar life, thongh more useful. He “railway servants’ orphan fund,” and in this service brings in, on an average, over $10 a week. This amounts to enough, in the course of a year, to this honorable canvass railways, being “employed” by & char itable society, He has visited a great number of the chief cities in England and Wales, and has twice channel to France. This usefnl dog has a plated medal on lowing inscription: “I am Help, the railway dog of Kogland, and traveling agent for the orphans of railway men who are killed on duty. No. 308 City road, London, where sub- soriptions will be thankfully received and acknowledged.” circuit of the train under the eye of He does not perform silently exhibits his First and last, he makes his appeal to the majority of British travel. ers, After this we have no excuse for saying that dogs are only f as tar gets for a stone. any tricks, but End of the Aet, The Wilhelm Theatre, Berlin, is built on part of a garden, At the end of each act the audiece go into the garden until a ball rings to give notice of the next. The second act of ““Trovatore’ 18 compressed 1mto twelve minutes, and a recent visitor says that the audience evidently expected more of it, for no A notice, **End of the Act,” rose oul of the stage, and in two Each time the entire audience went out in Jess than two minutes and refilled the house in less than three. The eat. ing and drinking was not done hastily at & bar, but leisurely done at tables, The waiter in a few seconds would cover a table with a cloth, knives and forks, plates, &c.. and people had a series of little meals between the acts, while the others walked about until the bell rang. Distrust is poison to friendship, Principle is a passion for truth. Punishment is lame but it comes, sro Vir Mats bagnitrie, The ravages of the woman suffrage privileges, which hitherto have been con- sidered a just basis for his claim 0 over the fair sex, have not hitherto revealed themselves as trespassing proud distinction of being the only work of creation able Wo Light a mateh on his person, and ji was with a sad shock that the fact was brought home to a reporter that the trousers of men must hereafter divide with woman has made breeches her envy for 6,000 As he sat in front of an Olive street, Louls, residence, he was about ww light a cigar, when the match was rudely blown out. jefore he had tume to hight apother, the fair form by his mde arose and lightly pirouetting on one foot lowered her arm quickly. The next moment there was & flash, and the girlish hand ex- tended a lighted msteh to ber companion with the remark: ‘‘l know it was awfully rude to blow out your light, but the [ our society compel me to.” church society?” rues ol certainly nol. it is st, r “Yor ‘Why, or iE our own the Blipper and g Nociety, About a of t met they could do to ad. woman's rights, and, noankers had BpCREers naQ Mawch-lightin ith ago a partly r what adie 1 np Ae VO COonsIG vance the cause of BEVeral aspiring been dissuaded from going out t ure, they AY. We Mir lines decided to org pr are leaner in our f of the best » nu society us Lave are not afraid any gentleman We have teach Louis, and some of that we with ( x pert to us we gramme are this will go through ike Ciasg 10 Cais expected 10 wear dress, £0 Llhst perfect ease when called Ig Renlieman Wilh Shige In wWhal we fined, We just t ir slipper or down on or ractioe pro- We our al to supply There is at is pot d the sole bending be- & enica, ractice r } tt 8 ¥ we may De ipon lights, carn Up War A ana young th reane urn shoe firike col tha LE #L ur match eRCOoTt npany npal is aware. us can do it ss graceful an pick up a sicians have r ig 10 esse Of nn DEVETR ’ vi ry Aoi commence Yes, won resi ing Sway carnage. may depend ! On is yi HATE and we CEXpect soon 1 f & bun 11 thal Lhe to-day are slow Tellers thal BIWAVS } DAYE 8 jred,’ - Romeo ana Juliet In these realistic days, even tunate jovers of Verona are st hl dlar ¥ “Homeo and Juliet” 1s that it f two innocents loving each ther, yet by untoward fate kept asunder, owing 0 the riveiry of their respeclive families. What, however, facts? Bomeo who 1s asiways fancying himsell in love, he passion is eternal, bject varies. He bas been pestering all his friends about his adoration tor & certain Rossline. No sooner does he soe she reg Rosaline in his heart. m better than with for the & ism TN C3 8. } the are iLienan, Tuliet t Wil aces el he gels i % been and for bis own 1 told that she 18 ster, he auld other y ried ther, before speak. reir fi mounced Kin rds Ul I'he wall of pre afow w th por er. Kiss each scales 3, and finds ning the moon of Romeo feels that his lines have facile wave. They vow eternal and Juliet makes an appoint y marry him for the next day. She Mn z HIE id Capuiel’s gardes Juliet on a balcony infore her love. { the sends her nurse, a friar Homeo Juliet's room. ed hour, nessages 10 and at early morning ber adorer by They meet, and at once induc to marry them In the evemng climbs up by a ladder into Then comes the news that she is to Paris. Romeo kilis Tybalt Juliet declines to marry two week, and by a mischance lovers commit suicide. oe in a brawl, men io One the LWO “ --_ A Genuine Freeze Out. Another effect of the curious San Fran- cisco chimate is of considershle interest to strangers, as it makes mine out of every The traveler from New York, or even Canada, coming here at this season does not bring Before geiting to plans and deserts, and is nearly baked. He smiles if a San Franciscan happens 10 be along and talks of overcoats, and, if ithe down when he sits up and watches hum wipe the perspiration off has talk about ooid winds and flannels. I: must be confessed that along the Arizons or Utah desert, with the thermom- {eter boiling in the shade, the easterner has & night to feel angry with the San Franciscan's talk, and even until Osak- land, only three miles from the city, is resched, his incredulity seems justified; | but now it 1s different. Mark the change | that a short three miles bnngs. Mark | how a paltry balf-dollar will draw that | self-confident easterner up, will chill and turn blue his erstwhile smiling hips. The | keen wind sweeps across the bay, and by | the time the ferry lands at Market Sireet, San Fraocisco, climate has got in ils | work, and the easterner goes to bed shav. | ening, while one of fhe porters goes oul and gets him a *“back-warmer” and some winter clothing. Wealthy people here go away in the summer to get warm, instead of cool, and about the first of every June the furs and flancels are packed away, while paterfamilias buys his ticket for Los Angeles and other bot resorts. s— A ——— From experiments made on goats, M., | Panl Bert infers that the sugar of milk is produced Ly the may secretion of the superabundant sugar formed b the organisms after parturition, wt most probably in the liver,
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