-y SOMEBODY. I —————— Bomebody’s coming into the world, Somebody's leaving it, somebody weeps; Bomebod y’s bark on life's stream is whirled, Somebody gayly glides over the deeps. Somebody somewliere is lnughing to-night, Somebody's sioging while somebody sighs | i 4 Somebody somewhere is quafiing the bright Fruit of the grape—while somebody dies, Somebody's heart is bursting with joy, Somebody's starving somewhere alone, Somebody's praying for somebody’s boy Somebody suffers and maketh no moan. Somebody's hand is lifted on high— Somebody's heart is riven in twain; Somebody somewhere hears somebody cry - i And the river flows smoothly again, y Somebody's dirge is sung by the waves, Somebody nevermore sorrow will know; Somebody Dame Forune's floklenoss braves-— i Somebody's soul’s as pure as the snow; | Somebody's heart's as black as the night, © | Somebody's eyes are cio-ed—‘neath the | sod; Somebody's soul wastoo weak for the flight, And so it soared npward—to God? AR —————————— THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGERS. Miss Lydia Davidson was evjoymng | her cup of tea in her ocomTortable little | house in Ravensbourne que Saturday afternoon, when her friend Miss New- | man was announced, Toe lady was | well known for the fervor and energy | which she infused into her conduct of what inferior minds may regard as the minor events of iife; also for a severity in her attire that may be described by one wishing to deal mildly with it as | “‘gentiewomnnlike,"” She euterad with even more than her wonted hasteaod dash, and cried: “How do yoa do, Lydia, I am most thankful to tind you at howe. I have come with a definite purpose, as talking | over a thing is better than writing a dog.n notes, Very strange and start- ling events sre happening here, aud 1 have amved at the copclusion that it is | my duty to lay them before you and | other friends, in order to “see what can be done,” ‘Dear! dear!’ murmured Miss David son, in vague alarm; ‘yon don't mean it! Tell me all about 1f, dear Jane,’ ‘1 will tell you as much as I at present know," returned her friend. “Well, to begiu with, When I was comiug down from London early last spring, & gentle man and a lady were in the some car. rage with me, I took them for a honeys | moon couple, and felt sorry (oconstraiu their tete-a-tete. They made me most uncomfortable with all the private ana confidential things they had to say; and they kept poring over a little book | with their heads - together—poetry, or some rubbish or other, I suppose. I've | no patience with that sort of thing ave you?" _ Miss Davidson, was, however, roman tic, aad could not get up a show or in digtation in time to respohd to her friend’s glance; so she only look a little foolish and abashed, ‘And for six months,” Miss Newman | continued, ‘have they been coming, regularly twice a week— Monday and | Thursday. And they may havé done it for mx years, foraaght I know, because 1t is only since I have been at my new lodgings, opposite the Bull, that I have noticed them carefully, They arrive early, —about 10 o'clock-—have some | refreshment, 1 fancy, for they always | stop in the hotel a while; then, they €rive or walk out, not always together ~but often take different roads; stay out—ohl ul 4 orb, or 8, and some times they have a quanty of | ©, those nice/dres-baskets and ti ay } like luggage—and then, after their din- ner, off they go toward the milway station.’ ‘Really! cried Miss Davidson, in as- tonishment. ‘And their appearsance? | Do they look like" ‘Gentle people?’ put in Miss Newman, ‘Yes, decidedly, Lhat is a pomt on which I am never deceived. The lady dresses exquisitely and most becoming- ly. They're not young, nor, of course, very old. He 18 8 handsome man with a military air. Infact, I am prett sure he is an officer, for I saw so mu of the military when I lived at Dover, and then, (lowering her vice) ‘I heard so many sad things about garrison doings that I begin to feel anxious The Bull is such 8 respectable hotel it would be quite ‘a misfortune for the town if—if anything nnpleasant ware to come out,” eeoncl Miss Newman, foroed by the vagueness of her subject into, for once, being herself vague, Dear mel What you say quite startles me,” said Miss Davidson. ‘If anything like that happens a hundred miles away, or even in London, it isnot so bad; but here! It's a shook to me! I must comment on it to Eiiza,” she ad- ded, us that funotio entered, bent most unamisbly on juserrupting the conferende, ; TH fimsh my tea,” said Miss New. man, putting her ers firmly on the sancer, ‘It's an e t oup —most re: Prenbing: Lydia. Had it not been for the softening mn- finence of the morsel of gossip, long brewing hostilities might now have ripened in fleren strife between Eliza and her mistress’ but Miss Davidson's questions about the strang. ers claimed the maid's at. hontai ar he hadn't heard nothing abou t-ways, nothing but a stray word or two. But she'd soon fathom it, she would. She had no opinion of people as came and went, and no oue knew whenoe tor whither,’ Dignity prevented Miss Newman's joiving in the conversation bet foe Eliza was taking patt in 1t; but she was glad in heart that that foraible person should be set on the trac ‘Ill tell you whist 1 think ab | he excisimed Miss Davidson, # little later, ‘T think, dear Sush the SOME Very distinguish, and that the lady-<she ms bona him, aed that. be Fate Bi i gd. ‘have. been, you #0 dp) know what he thinks, But don’t send bimto talk about 44 to ‘me, for it's not a subject I should go into with a young man, unless it was one of the clergy. I am off now to see the curate about it, Oar rector resents inquiry, Ido believe, for I can’t get anything out of hun. (hod by, Lydia.’ ‘Goud by dear, Ut not ring for Elza TH let you out. Lydia had searchly settled herself gain after performing this little at- tention when Eliza appeared, cloaked and bouneted, at the sitting room door, remarking, ‘I've been out a little while, ma'am, After what you said, just now, my duty was plain; and I went around to Ball at once, know- ing #% sou'd not he wanting me.’ ‘O,dear me, Eiza’' returned the doet’e mistress, ‘I gaiteforgot that your ulece, Mary, is barmaid at the Ball, And hd you see the land-lady? And cau #he explain about the stravgers? sider the suspicious conduct of the visi- tors io that hotel opposite, and to de. termine what steps should be taken in their regard. I have my own notion as to what should be done; but I will put that aside until 1 have received your suggestions, There may be no dis. graceful discoveries; but that remains to be proved. My watch warns me,” concluded Miss Newman in a different tona, compelled regretfully to excise some telling sentences, *‘that if they come back in a fly, and they somelimes do so, they should be here in six min- no time to waste, therefore, what is to be done,” “I must confess, I only came to look at thew,” sad Mrs, Farmer, after a pause, ‘I havn't any idea what to do,” said neveral vbioes. ‘Would it be of any use to speak to Mrs, Weston, of the howl? timidly ‘Of course, ma'am, [saw Mr: Wes ton,’ retnrued Elza, energetically, ‘It's | could'nt get I said to her as possible: ‘Will you tell me, nothink out of her. oivil as fies as comes here twice a week, a Mondays and Thursdays?” But she only the names of any of my parties, not oven to the gentiemen from the Bavens- bourne Record. but I'll make some excuse to be there events,’ and with that liza withdrew to her own domain, leaving her tress to spend the rest of the evening heard of morganatic marriages the'r results, : Miss Davidson ‘rim, burried into a vacant place next | to her, und, after burying her lace for undertone: “Have you seen your | brother to-day? - What does he think?" *“No, dear, no; he’s not coming; but Aud the good lady tried with e Miss | Newman forebore further remark till | Mr. Miniver Weekly ascended the pul- | Toen she betrayed a I'nging to | Bat | Lydia resolutely turned the crown of ber bounet toward her friend fearful might again be ‘Woe unto the world because of Or,” con- | rely Eaoglish, has it. ‘Woe world because of scandals,” “There!” whispered Miss Newman, to. the some good with him. TI never I told him he must do | He'll preach about | hem." “Jane, dear Jane, don't!” gasped | and Mr. Weekly | were op- | “Mrs. Farmer,” oried Mise Newman, | the ‘eongrégation streamed out | “One word, I | “Good morping, Miss Newman; I'm so | responded pretty | “Iv'é 80 many i You know you asked | Mrs, Farmer Strangar's visit t5 Havens. | “What!” said the matter-of-fact Miss ! just now to beg you me ifo-morrow afternoon My windows commend the pearance on Mondays; and ng your sister-in-law too, 1. am going to ask Miss n, I want Yo caton ‘bye, 1 am glad yon that it is a matter to nght.” And Miss Newman took care that the in most cases found themselves in asked Miss Smith, “That has been tried. You ‘And what is the suggestion, Miss make?” Miss Brown inquired. “That we should club together to employ a detective!’ answered the with decision, ‘We must make sure of our facts, I find on 1wu- quiry, that the cost of a regnlar detec- ex-policeman who has been employed nos exceed two guineas a day. In certain the residences, ocoupations, (if any), and much of the past history of ‘We must not get ourselves into any scrape by prying,’ said Mrs, Barton, “If there is money wanted, ought to have had some of our men- women are such poor and needy crea- tures.” But the discussion was suddenly stopped by a ory from Miss Newman ‘*Why, she’s very elegant looking,” “There's nothing more aris- tooratio than a hooked nose; but she must be 85 if she’s a day. What a lovely silk she has on!” “Bless mel!” said Mrs, and he's a good 55 jut there's an air about him; and as for her, she might be a duchess, Look at the magnificent mantle she has on!” The couple who were handed them a telegram, *I’U run across to the postoffice and Miss Newman, rushing out, Several pairs of eyes were turned from the window to follow the host. **Mrs. Varner, is there anything the matter?” wulaimed Miss Davidson in pale and troubled fuce. *Yes--no,’ stammered the little woman, ‘I—1—don't feel quite well, I'm going home,’ and she hurried from the room. Bomething like a shriek rose at the bad just taken Miss Newman's vacant piace at the window. ‘Why, Farmer! she exclaimed, but Mrs. Far. ‘Postoflise won't tell!’ gasped Miss Newman, coming back in a very ex. rales,’ ‘Mra. Farmer has gone away,’ said or leaving a message for you, Miss Newman,’ ‘I think I can explain,” Miss Brown ery from two or three others, look, look, they're going!’ dently in a flurry, were the landlady, a waiter, and the mysterious stranger, A fly then whisked round from the yard and pulled up with » jerk, The stran- gers took their places in it, and a housemaid come runnivg down with some wraps, the lady's umbrella, and other small things in ner hands, ‘There's an np-train to London in sight. minutes,” said Miss Newman, watch and time table in haod., ‘They're to give them the alarm, Some one is on their track, and a confederate has given them notice,’ ‘Is Miss Davidson here?’ cried Eliza, rushing in, the corner of her shaw] filled with what seemed to be bundles of letters, and an open telegram in her band. ‘Bead that!’ she exultautly ex. claimed, at the same time giving her mistress the message, Obediently Miss Davidson took the te m and read: ‘From Muss Isaacs, Duke street, Pad. dington, . To the Iaay or gentleman, Na. 8 sitting room, Ball Hotel, Ravens. bourne. Return immediately. Prom. isos on fire,’ ‘Héavens,’ oried Miss Davidson, pi. ously. ‘Gracions,’ exclaimed Miss Brown: and a chorus of voices, ‘Dear we,’ ‘Oh,’ and ‘Ab.’ ‘And now read that, reiterated Eliza, as she handed the following eirenlar to CORLL Gani Lied to their visits, of whioh the nobility and gentry have so justly complained, with regard to those of less experienced and considerate wardrobe purchasers, As a specimen of the letters they are econtivuslly receiving, Mr. and Mrs. Abrams subjoin the following: ‘Lin'y Be has just had great pleast ve in recommending her friend, the Du vhess of C—, to request Mrs, Abrams to call upon her: Lady Bo having always found Mrs. Abrams’ utmost liberality and puuctuality, ‘Appointments may be made for | or on Monday,’ i i i Second Hand Tobaooo, ‘Just see them go for them! I sup- | much as we do our Havanas,” | Two gentlemen, one of them a repor. | ter, had just cast their halt smoked | mark was ealled out by seeing a couple {of gamins | stumps, | “Kojoy them? Well, I guess not, Do you imagine that they smoke all | the old ‘buts’ they manage to scoop in aronnd the city?” | “I pever gave ita thought, but don't | see what else they want them for.” | teil you that these old stumps, which ! railway waiting-rooms, and public pla- | ces generally, as well as from the gut- { ters, are manufactured into cigars and | tobacoo, but I am informed that such 1s the case, and this ‘second hand, busi- { ness is becoming quite an industry. | Why a dealer was explaining the pro- j cess to me the other day. Of course { you don’t see any large concerns en. | gaged in the business, The trade is carried on 10 obscure shops and tene- | ment houses, and hence few people out | side of those engaged in it have any | idea of its extent. There are proba- | business right here in Boston, | “The process of travsforming the | filthy acoumnulations of gutters and | enspidors into bright, finely flavored smoking tobacco is thus explained: The old cigar stumps, after the charred sre | cut off, are soaked in a solution of am- | monia and some other chemical which | takes nearly all the nicotine ont of the | tobaceo and removes sll trace of smoke avd creosote, The mass of pulpy to bacto is then pressed into sliced by a cutting after | which 1t 1s given a bath in some kind of a bleaching solution which removes nearly all the properties of which the weed is possessed when it comes {rom the plantation, Itis now taken to the roof in trays and left to dry in the sun, | When thoronghly dry it is esr-faliy ta. ken up in the trays and emrried below, where it is passed under dn atomizer, by whieh it is dampened with paration of glyeerine sod some flavor. | ing extract, alter which it is in shape to be mada into cigarettes or put up in | packages as smoking tobasoo, | business is said to be perfectly legis mate, as the manuisciurers compl | with the revenne laws and the tobacco | thus pays a double fax.” “It is a good thing that those who | smoke this second hand tobacco, do not realize what it is, or ils nse might be lessened.” | ““Idon't know about that. Those who ought to know say that the cigar. | ottes are far Jess harmful than many of those put up in more sitractive shape, | and that it would be a good thing for | the youth of the country if all cigar. | oltes were made of second hand tobao- | #0 prepared by this process.” sa AAs ow nacriine machine, BR DY Cuarlons Ancient Marriage Yow, One of these standing pillars of stone | ("The Stones of Stennes,” in the Ork- | tic history, Through the upper part | summed the sacrificial victim was tied; | uses, Hither many & pair of love sick { swains resorted, and by joining hands | through this magic ring plighted their | troths for ever—a pledge of love which | was to them as sacred as a marriage i vow. The Boottish Bociety of Auli. | quarians gives the following explana {tion of \he ceremony: ‘When the { parties had agreed to marry they re paired to the Temple of the Moon, where the woman, in presence of the man, fell down on her knees and prayed | the Woden (for such was the name of | the god whom they addressed on this | ooasion) that he would enable her to perform all the promises and obligations clio had made, and was to make, 10 the yong man présat; after which the both went to the Temple of tie ng where the man prayed. in hike manner before the woman, They then went to the stone of Odin; and the man being on one side and the woman on the other, they took hold of edch other's right hand through the hole in it, and three swore to be constant to each other,” Oreadians paid great respect to this stone of Odin, ow when visiting it were in the habit of depositing some present in the shape of bread and cheesa, or a rag. It was believed that if a young child was passed through this hole it would never shake with the palsy in old age. Gloseng. by.the Chinese to be possessed wonderful wedicinal vir. tues, sspecially in the way of miracy.- lously prolonging thelife of the dying, possibly of the root This is su arising from the resem to the body The Stars, Venus is morning star during the month, She is slowly approaching the sun, and her superior conjunction, which does net occur until May. But she is still yery beautiful in the morn- ing sky, as any one may see who commands a view of the southeastern heavens, and makes an observation au hour before sunrise. {| ury aunais of the month by her econ- junction with Mercury on the 24th, the sparkling not detgud atmospheric desire 8 glimpse of | planet, who, however, will to show his face unless | Although Venus and Mercury, as we (see them at conjunction, are appar- {in reality far apart. Venus is ap- proaching the sun snd moving east. | ward, being, when in conjunction with | Mercury, Mercury is receding from the sun junction, at the same distance the gun. The former 18 approaching | superior conjunction, the latier is very | near western elongation; and yet thev seem, as viewed from the earth, to be i projected on the sky side by msde, Japiter is morning star throughout { the mouth. Although thus ranked in astronomical olussification, he will be near enough to opposition to be a su- visible neariy the entire night. He now makes his appearance above the { horizon at 9 o'clock in the evening in the northeast, and on moonless nights shines forth with exceeding splendor. He remains slmost stationary during the whole month, moving a little far- for the same reasons that the stars are, that is, by the earth's eastward motion in her orbit, when January closes, he comes looming majestically above the horizon shortly before 7 o'clock. No lover of the stars can help feeling the imposing presence of this Lar of the planetary host. Uranus is morning star. He pursues least contribution to planetary records. | He is Jeaving the neighborhood of the sun, and consequently drawing near to the earth. He makes slow progress among the stars, for it takes him seven years to pass through a zodiseal con- stellation, Neplune is evening star, He pur- snes his snail-lke course just now far sway from any of his brother plane He is thirteen years in passing through a constellation, and therefore il is easy 10 keep the rum of hus place iu heavens, Baturn Lilies baL He is second to Ji in brilianey =od size, and moves serenely on his oslestial path with nothing noteworthy to record con. cerning his progr When Jupiter rises in the early part of the month, Saturn is pearly on the wmerndian, and when Jupiter bas reached the z:mith, Saturn 1» sinking below the western horizon, Nothing sew has transpired in regard to this fascinating planet, but we have faith that something | worth knowing will be revealed con is ev ipiter ening star, before the 27th of September ushers { helion, | pew year holds two full moons in her | bountiful hand, The moon fulls on ithe Ist, 20 minutes after midnight; | and also, on the 30th, 19 minutes after 111 o'clock in the morning. On the | 4th, the moon is in conjunction with | Japiter, and on the 6th with Uranus, { Venus, and on the 14th to Mercury. | Of the 16th she is at her nearest point { to Mars, aod as this is the day of her | eliange it shows how near Mars fs to { the sun. Those who watch the course { of the moon wil find it easy to keep in mind the relative position of the planets, On the 24th the moon ‘s in conjune- | ion with Neptune, snd on the 26th with Saturn, Bhe thus completes her circuit, and at the same time gives the {order of suoession of the plancts, {| drawing hear to the morning stars Ja- | piter, Uranus, Venus and Mercury, aud her ponderous sphere near the evening { stars, Mars, Neptune and Sacurn, { There are compensations in things celestial as well as terrestrial, One of these is the full-orbed winter moon as she ‘runs high” in the heavens and pours over the ice-bound earth a flood of silvery light that makes the winter nights beautiful as a dream, isan sss Madagasoar's Tepography, Madagascar consists of a central plateau or highlands rising from 4.000 feel to 5,000 feet above the lowlands of the coast, and from this plateau rise occasional volcanic cones, the highest, Ankaratra, being 8,950 feet above the sea. The volcAnoes extend rrom' the northern extremity of the island to the twentieth paralled of south latitude, South of this appear granite rocks, at Jeast as far as twenty-two degrees south latitude. At higher latitudes than this the rocks of the interior are practically unknown to Enro To the north of the volcano district of Ankaratra A Gay Ula Bow, Senne. Among the most Interested and active | students at the University of Vermont, | at Burlington, this term, is an old man { with white hair and wrinkled face but | erect and active as any freshman, An | aiterview with a student revealed many | interesting incls concerning his aged classmate, “Why, is it possible yon bhuven’t | heard of him?” was the reply 10 the | reporter's faquiry. “That's the Rev. | Mr, Wilder; he's a rara avis, I ean tell { you; just back to finish his course, {| which was interrupted in 1831. He was i a member of the class of . but was { obliged to leave the University on ac. count of some trouvle in his fat er's family.” **He must he seventy-five years of | ager” “Seventy-five! Well 1 should say he was, He has just passed hiselghiy-third birthday: but he euts up like sixiy.” | “What degree is this youthful sty- dent working for?" **I think he has not arrived af a defi. | nite conclusion a8 to that; be is pros- | pecting as it were, He visits the room { of nearly every Profess r in the Uni- versity at :atervals, and makes it mighty mteresting for them. He feels { young but he has all the conceit of his | years, and while in the normal attitude of a pupil he occasionally assumes the roll of instructor, As a consequence i the Professors are often placed in em- | barrassing situations, But the old gen- | tlemen means all right; he is thoronghly good at heart, and they know it would grieve him to interfere wilh him, so | rather than hurt his feelings they sub- | mit quietly, and then most of the time he is as dutiful as could be “desired, { and pays the strictest attention to the { study in hand. He is as enthusiastic {over his work as the most ambitious { boy could be, and never tires of talking Wp) a i about it. “Where are his people, or hasn’t he any friends?”’ { **Oh, yes he has children married and | living in Charlotte, and he has a sister | living in Connecticut, who has attained { a very high social position. Mr. Wilder hae lived for a nnmber of years at Char. lotte, but last fall he announced his | intention of coming te the University i to complete his course. His wife, who { I think is his third, then went to Cali. fornia on account of her bealth, I un. derstand he has had a great deal of sickness and trouble in his family, After his wife went West Mr, Wilder cane here apd engaged rooms and | board, and has been here ever since, 1e is conscientious and all that, but he armless fun than any boy in the Universit He is sure tw be present at every enterlainment that | comes along, and if there are any games he is foremost and the most enthusiastic participant, The voung folks take pains to see that he has every opportunity for { enjoying bunself and he does it, too. Why, the other night he took in two socials running, and came out the next day as spry as a bird, At one of them they played drop the handkerchief, and he was the liveliest player in the games. Then, too, he very frequently visits the | rink, There is to be a grand march at | the rink to-night, 1°71 warrant you he'll | be there, and if you want to see him | skategjust drop around.” Ti hil Y A can stand more 1 The Cemming Roy al Visiter. Prince Albert Victor, eldest son of | the Prince of Wales, was 21 years of age on January Sth 1885. His attain | ment of his majority were celebrated, | after which he will visit on this conti- ‘pent and acquaint himself in sowe | measure with the United States and | Canada. | Queen Victoria, his worthy grand- | mother, continues to be in good health, | generally speaking, and may live many | years yet, even long enough to survive | the Prince of Wales, who is said to be possessed of the belief that he will never | bs King of Great Britain and Ireland. His heir, and failing the Prince of | Wales, the heir to the crown, 1s the { young prince 10 be with us shortly, who, whether his grim apprehension will prove true or not, will almost cer- tainly become the ruler of an empire comprising a population considerably | exceeding three millions ot souls, { Albert Victor has been carsfully educated and given considerable expe- | rience in the navy. He isa quiet and | studious young fellow with a strong bias toward the cultivation of learning. The observant reader will votice that his countenance, while marked with the characteristics of the Guelph family, at the same time strongly resembles the more refined lineaments of his amiable mother, the Princess Alexandra of Den- mark, After his holiday on this side of the Atlantic, Prince Victor will stady law at the Middle Temple, London. Origin of the Amulet, ss— of theamulet: “The legend of the amuse let is weil known by all women In the Orient. Many years ago Genghic Khan, the great Tartar warrior, overran Per- sia. The Shah's harem was captured at Teheran; compristhg some 300 or 400 beautiful odalisques. These beczme at large and inc ves he could not istingwish his Persian from bis Tartar wives. In order to be able to do so, he resorted to tne
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