ct WE TWO! wn A es, it was years and years y TH en life to us had no care or blight, That we watchad the white ships come and £20, As we sat together each summer night. We climbed the hillsides hand in hand, With not a shadow of ill in view, And drank from Nature's sweetest spring, Wa Twol My swain he was noble, brave and strong, With a love as boundiess as is the sea, And so I was all the world to him, And be, too, was all the world to me, Though clouds obscured the glorious blue, With joy within we Knew it not, We Twol Wemest when the breath of morn was sweet, In the shady lane where the robins sung; And one blessed morn we pledged our troth In a little nook where the bluebeils hung, Where the roses blushed as the winds swept Ys . And liilies bowed ‘neath their weight of dew, z ; We walked and talked till the sun was high, Wa Twol Ah, yes, it was years and years ago Since the wedding bells rang sweet and clear; And our bors aud girls aregone—all gone— | Some far away! some buried here! Now we sit with thin and whitened locks, And our days below we know are few, But we love with a deep unchanging love, We Twol / EER A PAIR OF LOYERS. | —————————— Bweet little Nettie Fay had two lov- | ors. A very dehghtful condition of | affairs, but a stale of things which | mu: 0 Nettie a great deal of trouble; | and a8 for the men, they rendered each other, as well as the girl of their hearts, | very misarable, 50 it wasn't so very nice after all, it had been years since Nettie had | been sssigned by their friends to War- ren Dormer, and she expected to marry | him, for Nettie was of a gentle, yielding | nuiure; but her step {father’s son, whom | she had never seen. Artaur Stevening, | came to quiet Bevingdean, and fell so | straightway and unmistakably in love | with Nettie, as to alter greatly the situ- | ation, for Nettle did give him encour. | agement, | One day a party of young people had | gone up to the oliff which over-looked the harbor, to see the great man-of-war | the Sultan, come in, and Nettie had | taken Arthur's arm, and laughingly | climbed the hill with the best of them, | though such a little thing. And being a bright, magical sight— | the white-capped, crisp, dancing waves, | the long. gleaming decks; the small, | active thronging figures of the seamen; —that and the splendid air was worth | elimbing the ascent for, they all agreed. | And then this impromptu basket. party spread their lunch upon a rock | among th: crisp green moss, and dis. oussed cold chicken and Italian cream, up amo :y the clouds as securely as if sunshine and safety lasted forever, Arthur Stevening had gone half-way down the cliff with his gun, and was banging away at the flying birds, when | a sudden gust of cold air, and the dark- | of the sun, reminded him that he | had foretold a stonin at sunrise, He was not used to the locality, and | was all unprepared for the suddenneces | with which the weather changed. A mist spread over the lanscape, the alr grew humid, there was a distant | grow! of thunder, and the next moment | a close flash of lightning. It waa followed by more vivid ones, | Sthouldering his gun, he turned to | retrace his steps. He had ascended » | few yards when he heard the distant | voices of the descending party. Some | thing in their tones—a ory of alarm or | eutreaty—made him hasten his foot | steps, when, suddenly round {he curve | of aronck came the flying figure of a girl, It was Nettie, who, bora with a terror | of lightaing, was running at full speed | down the mountain, her hat hanging by its biue ribbons down her back, her | sweet ayes wide with fright, her gold | Bair blown over her face, a wild-rose | color in the dimvled cheeks, stung by | the sharp, salt air, Arthar sprang forward and caught | her iu bis arms, and retreated with her under the shelter of an overhanging | rock. The drenched and frightened party rushed by him like a meteor, and he made no attempt to delay them. He could bardly trust his head to keep his feet in the dim and blinding light. Yet, through it all, he could feel Nettie's heart beating faintly against his breast, “Poor little darling!” oe murmured, seeing that she was quite senseless, She remained so until the storm be. gan to abate, She caught her breath, at last; and uttered a choking hittle cry, “Nettie, wake up! The storm is al most over. Nettie, don't you know where you are?” shaking her a little, She opened her eyes, and then stip- ped to her feet, shaking and clinging to him, Her broken and incoherent exclamation gave him some insight into the Joouliatity which all her other fricuds were aware of, her terror of lghtning—and the loveliness of her white cheeks and the sweetness of the tearinl eyes, made the task of reassur. fng her not diststeful. indeed, before | he kdew it, he had kissed the pretty lips, aud brought the burning binshes | to the young face, “Nettie, dear tittle Nettie, I couldn t | holp it. You see love you so, Tell | me that you don't care for that other | fellow!” At that moment there was 8 hurried step and "that other fellow” stood bo | fore them, To say that Mr. Warren Dormer was astonished, is but feebiy to slate the ease. Ha stood looking at his sweet. heart iu the armas of apother man in afer oly tound-oyed wonder, fe Lad been absent from Bevingdean for the Tast three weeks, and though © be Shad been ntroduesd to Arthur the -avening before his departure, he had never dreamed of him as a nival—or of ‘anybody else for that nm'ter. For two ears he bad considered N sttie neonrely "He Lind & nice fu ind handsome f@onntry house to male Nettie mistress of, sid there eould be uo doubt of that web honestly loved ber, : sri .t game for om, Newte” he seid, fn 4 rather emothered voles ‘They said you were up the oliff, and the storm" ? The poor fellow's voice faltered and broke, Nettie had hastily disengaged her- self, breathless and frightened. “When-—when did you come home, Warren?" she asked, instinctively trying to avoid a scene, But she was not quite successful, since Arthur Stevening still kept pos- session of her hand, and though evi- dently a little startled, looked from her to Warren Dormer unflinehingly. The painful silence that followed was broken by his voice, ‘It may as weel come out now as any time. You and I can hardly pretend to be friends since we are rivals, Mr. Dormer," “No,” returned the other, in the same smothered voice, moving uneasily, and not looking at Nettie, who, not hav- ing the least idea what she ought to do | under such circumstances, began to | cry. “You understand that I love Miss | on Arthur, “I—oh, I-—I1 cannot now!” sobbed Nettie, confessing more than it was pleasant for one of her hearers to hear, since her voice implied that a choice was not only possible, but imminent, ” home, And gathering her skirts from her | little feet, she literally ran away. The only thing they could learn of | Nettie for the next few days was that she had caught cold from her drenching in the storm, and could not leave the house, | The next was that Nettie whisked | to spend a fortmght with her aunt Bar- bara, in the next town, Arthur did not kpow what interview | she might have had with Warrsn Dor- | mer, but he was really not much afraid | of “that other fellow”-—not so nuuch as he would have been had he known Warren Dormer. Another week passed. At the end of that time, Nettie Fay was in receipt | { {wo letters—one from Artirar, one from Warren Dormer, With sorrow letters; but Nettie was sincerity itself, and at length wrote to both, explaining exactly the state of her feelings, The | task was a hard one, and her hand shook so as she folded the sheets, that she let the portiolio upon which they lay failjto the foor. She picked them up | hurriedly, placed them as quickly as pos- sent them to the post, When she reached home a tortnight later there was a lawn party, and her mother hurried her to her room; and Nettie came down from her chamber, girl had lost flesh and color, but had And there was Arthur Sievening. He was going to and fro with camp- chairs and cups of tea for the ladies, He would come to her side soon; but he passed, at last, with only a pale, | constrained look, and barely a civil | word, The next moment, Warren Dormer took the chair at her side, “I thought you would eome home to-day, Nettie.” : One glance at his cheerful face be- wildered her. Warren bent towards | ber, and affecting to look at her brace- | let, whispered: “I received your letter,” Nettie bent her head silently in re- sponse, : The silvery chat and tne music| around her seemed to make hor head reel, How strange she felt! The glance from Arthur chilled her heart, Her eyes dwelt in bewilderment on Warren's flushed face, He looked act. ually happy. “Warren,” called Mrs, Fay, will you go to the house and ask Lily for my shawl?” When Warren Dormer had gone sual, Nettie rose sad, walking down awn, stood looking in a rather for. lorn way at the tenuis players—really not seeing them at all, Saddenly there was a voice at her side, “1 think, Nosthie, yon might have roared me the pan of knowing that I) was an object of pain and dread to you, or very much the same thing.” As Nottie lifted her blue eyes in| pained surprise, Arthur Stevening was | dazing very gravely down upon her, i She could not imagine he could look | so stern, The color quite aied out of | her cheek. ! She gave a broken murmur—what | she said she did not know, i “Forgotten what you said!” he ex. | clamed, as if repeating her words. “I | cannot forget so eamly. And, then, 1 have them in black and white, you know,” with a painful smile, as he passed on in response to a merry oall —for Arthur was a favorite with the ladies, . Nottie could have thrown herself down on the grass, like a child, and cried in sorrow and despair, Was this captions treatment all the reward she was to get for confessing the truth so bravely? Her father’s displeasure, ber wother’s disappointment, Aunt Barbara scolding, but this was too much; the hot tears welled to her eyes, There were other gentlemen in the party, who thought Nettie pretty and attractive; but she listened to “May 1 eee up at ¢ight this even- ful, confident way, which bewildered Lier “He hopes to make me change my mind,” she thought, huctance, Bhe was not quite sure, as she glanced at Arthur's grave, averted face at the supper-table, that she would not take Warren after all, ont of pure forlorn- tess-—~it was so disheartening to miss the radiant smile, the tenderness she had unconsciously anticipated, But when her oid lover's straw-ool. ored beard brushed her cheek, she shiv. ered. : : don't Warrea—1 told youl” nw esr “Yes—that you loved me best,” “*No—that I love him best!” oried Newio, hysterically. “I can’t help 1t-— 0 * Poor Warren's eyes looked more like blue porcelain than ever as he stared at er, ‘You told me—" he un, « "Oh, what did I tell you?'’ eried Net- tie desperately, as she tore the letter he presented from his hand. She glanced over the sheet and turn- ed red, “I—1 put the letters in the wrong envelopes,” she falted. ‘“Then this was intended for Arthur?” asked Dormer, stiffening, Nellie nodded. In vain he called her flokle, a co- quette, a flirt. She only cried until he went away, Then she flung herself, face downward, upon the sofa, and the excitement and fatigue lulled her into drowsiness at last, She went to sleep, thinking this a it a very bright one, for Arthur Steven. mg was smiling over her, “Dear little Nellie!” he cried, know all; T got the wrong letter,” “You did!” she answered. Noed we say how happy they were, how soon they were married, and what | a long honeymoon their wedded Ife | was, all through Nettie having had the courage to choose rightly between her “Pair of Lovers?” ey i rs Trade in the Long Ago, The babits and customs of the people 40 years ago in the West were quite dif- terent from the style of this modern age, In the matter of clothing and house-furmshing the diffcrence was very great and co uently the assort- ments of the dry goods merchants have undergone a corresponding chaige since that early period. In this age of rapid transit and fast mails it does 1 it take long for Eastern fashions and » vles to become familiar in the West, nil there | is but little difference between tio well. | dressed lady of the East and tie stylish attired Western woman. Ths same similarity of clothing is also no’ iceable for men’s wear—fashions ast and West so closely correspond. Forty years ago the spinning wheel | was in vogue in almost every Western farm-house, and the women folks spun the wool from their home-clip fleeces, It was then taken to the nearest *‘full. ing mill,” carded and woven into cloth | for men’s wear and & sort of flannel or | linsey for women’s wear. For summer | clothing, garments made from flax were | worn, homespun and home-made, of a | Those who are familiar forty years ago will at once recall the flax clothing worn by men, whose usual | a —————— Beturned to his Wigwam, Edwin Forrest was once laid up with | an attack of rheumatic gout, which rendered him about as pleasant to come | in contact with as an Indian on the war- | A friend of his dropping in as | the eminent tragedian was seized with a terrific twinge, met with a decidedly | warm welcome, as regards unsaint-like expletives. Being rather a facetious individual the friend exclaimed: ‘‘Hello, governor! What are you before,” In his flercest manner, interspersed with deeptoned grunts and some pro- | fanity. Forrest growled: “Get out will you? I won’t see anybody. alone, confound you.” A little while after the snubbed friend might have been seen in conver- sation with a small specimen of a boot- black, whose stand was in front of the hotel where Forrest was stopping. The confab, accompanied by a series of pan- | tomimic gestures on the pa * of the gentlemen, which were clearly duphea- ted by the brght-witted shiner, lasted some fifteen minutes, when the boy, a | broad grin illuminating his expansive | countenance, started to ascend the hotel | stairs, receiving a parting injunction: | Let me | “Don’t you stop pounding until he! lets you in.” This admonition .was strictly carried out whereupon the ‘door was thrown ! violently open, and Forrest angrily de- | manded the cause of so much commo- tion. Striking an attitude a la Meta- mora, the tutored bootblack declaimed in a piping treble: “You sent for me. I havecon If you do not want me, I will go back to i “Pouncing upon the boy, Forrest growled out: “You young imp, you! fere take this,’ tossing him a quarter, as he added, “go tell that —'* {des ignating lus facetious friend by name | a few additional adjectives) ‘to come up I want to see him.” As the door closed upon the apt little bootblack a roar of laugter issued from Forrest's room, which seemed to havea beneficial effect upon his allment, for when his friend appeared he was in quite jovial frame of mind. EE The Great Pyramia, A late writer says: Now that Great Britain is in the field would it not be a | rubbish from the base of the Great ation, and try to discover those vast ecorrigors, halls, and temples, contain ing priceless curiosities and treasures eredited the Great Pyramid? This won. derful building, of such exquisite work. manship, was erected many years be. fore any of the other pyramids, which are only humble imitations, built by another uation, and also for other pur. poses; for neither King Cheops nor any- body else was ever interred beneath this mighty mass of stone, The smaller pyramids also exnibimgrither the nicety | of proportion nor the exactness of measurement, both of which eharacter- | the first pyramid, From internal evidence it seems to have been built | | about the year 2170 B. C., a short time | before the birth of Abraham, more than | 4,000 years ago. This—one of the ! wonders of the world in the days of | ancient Greeca-—is the only one of them { all still in ex’stence, | square acres of groubd. Its four sides face exactly north, south, east and west, It is situated in the geographical | centre of the land surface of the globe, | It was originally 485 feet high, and each tof ite sides measures 762 feet, It is | computed to contain 5,000,000 tons of | hewn stones beautifully fitted together {with a mere film of cement, And | these immense blocks of stone must | have been brought from quarries 500 | miles distant from the site of the build- ling, The present well-known Kiog and | Queen chambers, with the various pas- | sages, might also be thoroughly exam. | ined by means of the eléetrio or limo | hghts, The Astronomer Royal of Seot- | laud some years since closoly sad labor. | lously examined all that is at present | known of the interior of this enormous | building, He states that meastirements in the chambers, ete, show the exact { length of the cubit of the Bible— names | ly, twenty-five inches. This eubit was used in the building of Noah's Ark, | Solomon's Temple, ote. He also main. | tains that the pyramid shows the dis tanoo of the sun from the earth to be 91,840,000 miles, What an unseasonable dish is life ooation, without au wv a i Nos, 9, 10 and 11 were the favorite During the men and boys ing, which the smaller sizes of shoes in not | The overcoat of that period was very different from the mo- dern style and fit of this later date, The cloth was heavy and serviceable, homespun and fulled at the mill, leav- | It was | succeeding ones gradually tapering off. The liming of home made flannel or linsey. There | nor silk serges, nor fancy sleeve-linings, such as are used at the present day. Ordinary brown was were good enough al that time for sleeve linings, The gentlemen of that period wore The fancy suitings of cas simeres, worsteds and silk mixtures now the West. The intermediate grade be. tween the homespun and broadeloth was Kentucky jeans of a blue and also £4 th. The a Sunday and holiday suit of black broadcloth for coat and trousers and for vest, black satin. and square bosom, with high black silk neck-handkerchief, A high color fur beaver of similar shade and a pair of well-placked calfskin boots and behold the well-dressed man half a cen- tury ago, Do you not see him as your memory | travels backward, as with shining black from head to fool he seemed as grapd as an Emperor to your boyish eyes? And then for party dress or fine summer wear, a blue broadeloth coat | with high stiff collar swallow-{ail skirts and bright, brass buttons, The west and trousers of plain India nankin gold brown color and a ruffled shirt bosom. How stately and dignified as with hat in hand the gentieman of the ‘long ago’ appeared in the parlor, and with perfect ease of manner greeted the assembled guests, ‘The broadeloths which the merchant kept in that early period have given place to cassimeres and worsteds of modern date; the black satin for vests, the black silk cravats, the India nankins, the frill shirt-bosoms, have all | disappeared. The modern merchant sells shirts, ties, scarfs and clothing in country stores for Irish linens, ce arione Af the Yard Arm. st I was a boy in the United States Navy on the brig Somers in ‘42, when the three men were hung that were | three men hanging at the yard-arm and | haunted me all my life, it often comes up before me when I'm walking along | the street, I can never forget it, | knew Spencer, the midshipman well, | He was a wild, dare-devil sort of fellow, | about nineteen years of age, but good i natured and not maliciously inclined, ' 1 think the execution of . all the men | was a grave mistake, and in looking ‘back at it now l believe it was foul { murder. “We sailed from New York on the { 13th of September, ‘42, for the coast of | Arion but first began cruising in the | West Indies. In the latter part of No- | vember, before we reached St. Thomas, | Midshipman Spencer, who was the son of the Secretary of War, was suddenly seized one day, put in double irons and kept a prisoner in close confinement. Two other men, the boatswain’s mate, who was acting as boatswain and whose name wis Cromwell, and a seaman, who was captain of the main top, named Small, were arrested a day or two after ward, followed by the arrest of four others, All were put in double irons. We had no marine guard on board, The officers appeared to be foghtened to death about something apd the men | of Lire ship's company were afraid to be seen talking to each other, After Spen- cer's arrest it was nolsed around decks that he had formed a plot to seize the ship, along with a few of the ship's Lerew, and Lorn it into a piratical craft, | Among others he communicated his | plan to the purser’s stewart, who got a list the conspirators and told the whole story to Lieutenant Melntosh, the axecutive officer, |i number of the offi sors met in the | room called ina number of | “hiip's crew and examined them ————_ their accusers, were not told what the charges were in detail and were not granted any opportunity for explanation or defense. On the 1st of December, four days after Bpencer’s arrest, he along with Cromwell and Small, were told to get ready to die; that they were going to swing at the yard-arm at once, Spencer and the captain of the top acknowledged their guilt and were will- ing to dle; but the acting boatswain protested his innocence to the last, and Spencer declared, also, that he, Crom well, had nothing to do with the plot. ‘Call all hands to witness execution,’ said the first lieutenant, The ship’s com- pany sullenly ranged themselves on the quarter-deck and at other points, while the officers of the ship stood around with drawn and sharpened swords to cut down any one who faltered in ine thing was ready Spencer and his two colors were time the three men, with caps over their faces, were swung out on the yardarm, It was a horrible sight lcok at. All of the men died Commander Mackenzie At night funeral services were read by the light of bodies were put on the ‘tilting board’ and dropped overboard into the sea, It was a solemn scene, I assure you, and mind that can never be eradicated, In then set sall arnving thereon the 14th of December, “There was a good deal of excitement banging got nosed around and hun- All of the others arrested were dismissed from custody, Com- mander Mackenzie was court~-martialed about a month afterwards and the court He ¢ et, was a brutal martin anyhow. ministering the ‘cat’ for trivial offen- The friends of the executed men tried to have Mackenzie indicted New York for murder, but the decided that the civil law was not appli cable to his case.” » 3 mA —— 17,000 Mills to Bil A man one of the North River Pennsylvania Railroad piers, who was looking st a carriage marked to go to Norfolk, Virginia, said to a bystander: “The wood in those carriage wheels eame originally from Virginia in logs. Now it goes back as a finished product, “Why cannot the Virginia wood be worked up on ils native ground?” “Because no one has established the shope, Dut more singular things than tbat have bappened in the history of ecommerce, Oa October 14 for instance, the ship Adelaide arrived In New York, bringing a cargo of wheat, on 1855, paid the shipper a clean profit of 50 per cent,, the wheat then selling at $2 a Tne ship was at once loaded for Ban Francisco and among other things carried out were 1,500 barrels.of flour, Californians had to go 17,000 miles to mill in those days. “Another curiosity of commerce was noted in the early Australian trade, While the gold exsitement was high merchants in all parts of the world flooded the markets there with goods, A Glasgow manufacturer sent a quantity of hardware to the new gold fields, but when the ship reached the Australian again, HBepublies Ungratetul, The Mayor of Little Rock, in asome- what harrassed mental condition, sat in his office. He had just dismissed a del- egation of gentlemen who had come to assure him that they had voted for him, and that If he acted rightly toward them, he could always rely on their support. Then they asked him to con- tribute four kegs of beer to be taken down the river, where, under the cot- ton-wood trees, a host of revelers were soon to assemble, With great firmness the Mayor declined. Just after the delegation had gone, and before the Mayor had recovered from the effects shaped like the blade of a pruning knife cams in, sat down, raked the perspira- tion from his brow, flicked the gather. ed moisture from his fingers and said: ‘Well, how's the sliebang rockin’ ‘Pretty well,’ ‘Glad to hear it, Iam at your ser- ‘In what way?’ $ Gi a %4 _ 3 As a policeman.’ ‘1 already have 300 applications. » ‘Pretty good pile, ain't it? ‘Pretty fair shipment.’ *No chance for me, I reckon? ‘No chance for you.’ "Not the least bit?’ ‘Not a shadow,’ ‘Don’t know who I am, do you?’ ‘No.? ‘Got no idea?’ ‘None whatever,’ ‘Kain’t you guess?’ ‘Don’t think I can.’ ‘If I was to tell you, you'd git up, The Mayor looked at him. The man smiled. ‘Yes, sir, First Sargeant would be I don’t want to shock you, #0 He went out, About an hour later ‘Well, have you placed me yet?’ *No, don't remember you.’ ‘Haven't got a very good recollection, { have you?’ *Pretty fair.’ $ give you more never like to crowd a man.’ ‘He went out again, and after re- maining a couple of hours, returned. ‘Dud 1 stay long enough?’ ‘Hardly.’ ‘How long did you want sue to stay?’ ‘Indefinitely.’ ‘Oh, now, ti Say, this i Don’t you really kno ‘No, I don’t.’ ‘If 1 tell you I will immediately re- ceive my commission a rst Sargeant. ’ ‘Well, confound it, who are you?’ The man laughed agam. ‘Why,’ said Le, ‘lam John Pillit.’ ‘1 never heard of you.’ ‘What!’ ‘First time I ever heard you.’ *Well, I'liswear. Iam the man who caught the Dutchman that stole a dom- rooster Zz P Ku I ume, " wouldnt do. Bay, gone far enough. sho I am?’ al ke has of inicker from Colonel Farr. ‘No.’ ‘Well, I will w me now, don’t you?’ dad blamed,’ be diawled in astonishment. “1 have often hearn that republics are ungrateful but I never knowed it until now, Well that settles me. Hereafter 1 shall simply do my duty, and let fools try to distinguish Humph! Well, I will be be themselves 7 te ys % dad-blamed, i —————— Horses, that the consignment was put up at anction, and brought less than the freight charges, The man who bought it shipped it back to Glasgow, where he sold it at a profit, although a shade under wholesale prices. The G asgow purchaser at once reshipped it 10 Ans. tralia, and there, after having three fonnd the market ready and good having cleared ont the stock on hand daring the months required to make the round trip.”’ Tackie Him, A steamboat owner was explaining now he happened to change captains ou the Comet. Sad he: “] came down on her from Port Huron, and as we reached the aity I says to the caplain: “Batter drop in at the foot of Tuvard street, and let me off.’ “My first landing is the copper dock, three miles below,” he answers, “*But this is my boat and I want her to land where I said.’ | * ‘But I'm captain, sir, and she goes to the Bopper dook,’ “ Starboard,” says I to the man at the wheel. | * ‘Port,’ says the captain, “I rung the bell for the engineer to | slow down and the captain rung for him | to go ahead at fall speed.” | “Captain Comas, has the owner of a | steamship no rights?’ 1 asked, | “Lots of "em on shore, but none on { the water,’ says be. | #1 discharge you the moment we | land.’ | “Very well, but don’t got sassy, ime boy; I have twenty mmutes fo | serve yol." | “With that I starts to take the wheel and in five minutes I was in irons as a mutineer and I went ashore with the handeufls on,” * | “Rat you discharged him?" { “Oh, yes." “And is the captain any better?™ “Well, I dunno; I never dared tackle him!" A Tired Bran, —— [un that drawer," said a Salina street merchant of Detroit, is the best restor- The Chinese horse is small, weak, ili formed, without spirit and altogether undeserving of notice, The Persian horse is next in eslima- | tion, and deservedly so, to the Arabian, | The head is almost equally beautiful, the crupper superior; he is equal in speed, but far inferior in endurance. The whole frame is more developed | than in the Arabian, They never ex- ! peed fourteen and a half hands high, { yet, on the whole, are taller than the | Arabs, Turkestan is that part of south Tar. | tary northeast of the Caspian Sea, and | has been celebrated from early times for producing a pure and valuable breed of horses, They are said to be preferable even to the pure Persian for fervicee. They are standing srom 15 to 16 hands Ligh, swift and in- exhaustible under fatigne. Some of them have traveled 900 miles in eleven successive days, The Tartar and Kalmuck breed of horses is found in Tartary, comprising the immense plains of central Asia and a considerable part of European Russia, They are small and badly made, but re- markable for st and endurance, being capable of performing the longest and most rapid journey on the scantiost fare, i — i The Evolution of Cooking. i i ‘Erastus,’ said Mrs, Smith, the other morning, as she poured the coffes, ‘do you believe in evolution?’ ‘Certainly, my dear.’ ‘And isthe process of evolution to- ward perfection?’ ‘Always, my dear. But why do you ask those questions,’ ‘Because, I was looking thro that box of old family dianes recently, and 1 found that your father said your mother wasn’t as good a cook as his mother, and your grandfather on your father's mde, said his wife was not as good a cook as his mother; your great. grandfather on your father’s side, said ‘But, my dear, did I ever say that your cooking was not as good as my mother's?’ ‘Yes, you did; and now, Erastus, you've got to admit one of two things —pither your pet evolution theory is no father, nor your
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