Apotheosis, In olden days, when shepherds blithe, Beneath the boughs of beechon trees, Braved hoary Time's unerring scythe With oaten pipe and mellow glees ; When shepherd maids, with modest blush, Tripped dainty figures in the shade, While clear as carols of the thrush Thelr langhter silvery music made, Fach youth move gifted than the rest In valiant deed or "suasive word ; Each ma!d with nicher beauty blest Their comrades low-tuned heart-chords stirred, The staple tale was told around To music of the lowing kine, That some new deity waa tound-— That one so rare must be divine, Out on such fond simplicity Mot this the childish Age of Gold ! Of nobler stamps gods now must be Than in those days of reed and fol Still, T must head this olden lore— 0, what a tall for mortal pride !- And, humbled thus, a maid adore, The goddess I have deified. TERT ae SUMMER VISITORS. We-—that is, Mrs. Turtledove and nyself if a small house out of town—a cottage, wo stories in height and about ' lenin the rear and a grape-vine and a berry-tree In the front yard. We had wer owned any property before, and we couldn't help feeling a little proud f this, though, like Morleena Kenwigs, we had been taught that it® was *‘sin- vi] 2? ‘Come down and, pay us & visit,”’ ad said every one with whom ook hands, as we bade farewell to the Ly. strawberry answered: ‘We we fo time me, Toa t 3 shall be delighted.’ ch, the yne—wh clock in morning and returned to be sure, ow, We low-lying gre which our blue-looking neighbor, Mrs, Doldrum, informed was ‘“‘certain sure to fetch the ager some day,” and did not like to confess to each other that quinine was the sample commodity f the place; but really, it was beautiful, rog-pond and all. And now that straw- erry time had come, and we felt sure we should have a large harvest—at least ouch for tea three times -my wife 1 w the joys that farmers woes, too, for a big worm attacked our two cabbages, and of a wilt ature was oc- there were Sundays, you were a little afraid of the us +1 KI 1.” Their tng to the early pe 3. with its Indian and spider-legg airy comfort, ag parion i curtains a model always flowers in glasses on 1. and there was a bird i window, Peggy, the work, and my wife and ] wd whit airs, Was nere were + of Was bright in her white ts of ribbon 111 aiid rrowing plump, t a3 2 . whet all She w Ty 4 urtiedoy 3 looked well 1, I was thinking i 1 antisfaction as I opened the ite of my garden one night and almost inbled Mrs. Turtledove, who, with a glass dish in her hand, was bead- ng over the strawberry bed. Oh, Timon!” she exclaimed, Juted her. *‘do help me, please, ing to get enough ripe berries for \fter bragging so, I don’t want Miss Mittens to go back to the city and say didn’t have any. Miss Mittens ame down by the noon train, dear.” ‘Did she? said ! ‘“Ah. well, picased to see her, I'm sure.” ‘Yes. course, Timen.,”’ said my ife vary slowly. ‘And I hope there's k enoug! She says she’s going to ¢ on milk now she is in the cot Now we did not keep a cow, and we wl almost to go on our knees to Far- er Fish to induce him to spare us a art * He alw: by the Mrs. Fish slyes, We : nin plan ings witl over as I hie of n + 4 ’ nury. a (AAS train,” 51 Ser had to wched even . Te beir + Pe s DE could n fe allo, old fellow!” erfed a ind me. **Been chasing you ever since vou left the train. Any one would know vou had a pretty wife at home by he way you vwaiked, I've taken ad- witage of your ing invitation ind run down to stop awhile. How do vou do Mrs, Turtledove? 1 can see that farm life agrees with yon heeka.”’ pd i egRy H - YOoice gan, it the Fifth Avenue Hotel as a general tiring and was ous of the most particu- men about “his eating.’’ However, at least I could make him eleome, so I ushered him into the ase, spring overcat, slender umbrella, ai ind, leaving him in the parlor, went sud x-- Peggy had a way of making chow- «of the sardines in the process—and Mrs, Turtledove that the mall quantity of berries she had col- ted would be “plenty.’’ We were mather a merry party as we t down to tea that night. Mr, Mul- gan und Miss Mittens had discovered ah they had met before at Saratoga, ind were already very intimate, They complimented in chorus. How delightful to be country peo- ie isn’t 18? sadd Mr. Muolligan, “Indeed it 1s.” said Miss Mittens, Nature casting her most things at their feet, as one may say- flowers and fruit and—and breezes you know, [I fairly pined for the country, ey asginne «dese Mix, Turtledove, 1 thought 1'd dew myself on her charity for the suinmer, “Just as I felt,” said Mulligan. “Said 1; “There is Turtledove ready to welcome me with open arms. Why not go to him?'"* “I am going to be rural while I am here,” sand "Seis Mittens. ‘I don’t mean to drink tea or coffee, I mean to dive on milk and fruit bere,” “And 1,” said Mulligan—‘‘no cham @agoe for me when I can have milk,” J felt very glad indeed to hear that he dia not want champagne, “But oh, my dear,” sobbed Mrs, Tur- tledove, a little while after the meal was over, catching me in a quiet corner, “to think of our first strawberries, and you not to have even one tinty-tonty one, The one I tried to swallow choked me when I thought of that. milk while they stay?" I decléred that I did not mind about us milk at any price, did give in at last, and we gave him two shillings a quart. There was no petition in the neighborhood. “And I'll bring berries down from town to-morrow,’”’ I sald. “They country.” ‘“*Miss Mittens has the spare rooin, and Mr. Mulligan will have the hall bed-room,’’ said my wife, but I can’t Then we went back to entertain our and we were really getting on finely—what with the piano and duets when there cama g and scraping at the carriage steps. “Hallo, Turtledove! Folks fur you.” And out we rushed to find the garden full of Rev. Mr, Calliope and his Mrs. Miss and Master Calliope, Mr. Calliope was our pastor, and we ad him a remarkably hearty id riven i £4 a #3 63Y { 1 tha ‘a 11 $11 Calliope, Calliope 71 in- LAL, ‘As my congregation insiste ing me a vacation,” said Mr, Cal I saw they were, and I was wondering Ww they were that night, when Mrs, Calliope, who had been Kis ing my wife, remarked: “Bat the other friend here to sleep who mtoertainin y entertaining a came up us the ver man who ’ “Here he is! his wagon. gent lo. SCIIL ‘And if to ride him and there depot he thinks I'm this | hind thi g all day, for ere fifty an y cents greener than I bel” ‘I make no objection thin ‘only I am unable just at this moment to—I think I must have it in my watch pocket-I—can you lend me half a dollar, Mr, Turtledove”? [ could-—I did—and I took the long, hand that was offered t« me the next moment, and we! Mr. Bangs, the amateur spiritual dium, to my hearth and home 11 tots 110 0b je Lion tel $ itd VOICE, tighv ft § MSY SOY Of ‘I was impressed to co me, “Something f to “My dearfriends, yourself We au fruits of “Don’t put yoursel any trou! ope, *t + : yt ur account, We want (rive u« some milk, : t+} the and your delightfu we looked as though the been in § iad habit i mysterious apples and oranges Ho een a seemed I We put the Rev, lope and wife into our own room. Calliope sharedd Miss Mittens ment, and we induced Peggy to bolster on a lounge in the kitchen, Mr. Bangs reposed in her accustomed bed. As for young Calliope, we took ljberties him on account of his youth, and put him on the parlor sofa. And we-—oh! well, it didn’t matter for us, We went up into the loft—it was i 3 3 inichtily mighty, 49 Wilh bag. “And oh, Timon,’ Mrs, Turtledove, “I’ve put on the last » thought six pairs of sheets enough for two to go to house- And what a mercy it is when we were married.” I was off early next day. 1 made the ble and generous Mr. Fish for two gal- lons of milk a day, or oe. I worked mysell to death,’ said Peggy. “I'd rather have me flesh in the calico’ and so she departed. After that Mrs, Turtledove the kitchen, No one seen to Know it, or filled their water pitchers, or offered any assistance. I sat up all night to pare potatoesand turnips, lay the tire, and do all I could, beast of tended to, grew thinner every day, whereas our guests plumped up beautifully, Still, we were gaining the reputation of being that SOINe- thing. Our friends thought so much of us-—that was more, But, found that they were not as well pleased with each other, It began by Murs, Cal- liope wondering at the goings on of that Miss Mittens with Mr. Mulligan. Miss Mittens was astonished that should fancy Mr, Mull Was Mrs gan by a had Mulligan on re- gravely iuquired io Then Miss Then Mr, ( with Mr, wliope an argument HI whether I did not have a free-thinker argument waxed louder as Mittens who was High Church, tended with Mrs, Callicope, wl Methodist. I'hen young Calliope kissed M ten in the front and Mr. words with him about i last the Bang’s familiar spirit hunted hi and bezan to run on the walls, Li} 1 him go off cracks and jerks wrong in my house, 5 Mit- Mulli- t, and . ' ¥ ears garden, al ao'a 1 last forced | : § 101 ‘Adieu, my friend,” “We are going. J we must go. abou inations are 1001 tache!"’ Mr. h nim outs Lo leon 111. The sale of i if hastily carried out, greatly d reign diamo market, and still further values in precious stones, never of markable stability at the best, 1eclion will, to unsettl + Laying the Dust in Mines, A slight dampness, such as pre- vails in shallow mines at all times, is, in his words, sufficient to lay the dust basket, that we kept a herd of cows. Derries were 25 cents a basket in the market, they were not hulled. Bat the man always threw a basket in He always did, he the city, you know, you can’t have more'n a, preserve dish of strawberries They are. so beastly dear; ing vou can get a bowltul.” Did I tell you that Peggy was gone? She went the second morn- be maning by hiring me for two and iving ‘me a dozen to work for?” she wd said; “and thim doing nothing but ate all the day long, and me turned off me honest bed to slape on Spikes after puttin’ in me hard day, a dishes to wash till I do be going crazy.” I could not defend myself, I could only rouliss ber a silk dress if she would stay her menth out. ; “i'd have nobody left to put it on, If can either tanks The water brought into the galleries by or inch is considered sufficient at Standard colliery, The water not only purifies the air, bat robs it of the in- flammable coal dust which isso danger ous a factor in great explosions, mm the Prof. Virchow, great German the prevalent types of color among Ger- man children; and, after German fash. ion, he has done his task very thorough- ly, examining the color of the hair, eyes, and skin of nearly 7,000,000 pupils, or of four-fifths of all children of school age. Of course he must have had many assistants to help perform this feat; but he himself 18 responsible for the tabula. ted results, Of those examined 31 per cent, were blondes; 14.05 per cent. bru- nettes, and 54.15 per cent. of the mixed type. sib i ————— Unless the manure is old and well rotted it should not be aliowed to touch the roots of the fruit trees, but be spread upon the surface, stm —— Fiotures Not so Pleasing as Novelists and Poets Paint, Twelve miles out of London on North Kent Loop-line branch of the | Southeastern railway, lies & town which, to avoid personalities, we will designate | as Eldon, sie,” being mostly London men of busi- ness, tare mostly of a dingy cream color. | Their architecture is severely simple, No “gaudy abodes” offend the | The windows are guiltless of blinds, and therefore no | color mars the universal creain. the inevitable Venetian blind appears, clumsy and ugly, and below it the equally inevitable half-curtain of lace on muslin, white pine back of a dressing case, which, for some reasons known only to the British mind, is always placed there, The only redeeming features of these the profusion of flowers by they are surrounded, Well called garden of surely nowhere else abounds st and houses is which | Kent the | for wealth of verdure color. { which in Americ | by caieful cultu every be obtained oniy wild Oi hand, I Tol i in neatly Burip s regu of Lhis Onl ry arent PAVEeInens, wled, st he t i Li) week JOYE ad and resi- wo Fdon houses rably famili thei onveniences it aruia v ORI o and 1ECeSSArY Work ‘neland is still in the dark : worst thing perhaps, is the * range, butter amd , carefully and then i 18 ever { xeept a The principal business the Engl from 5 to 10 is eating. It savors of coarseness to our more refined American idea, but it is perhaps necessary to make up for the lack of any nounshing food | in the earlier part of the day. At dinner the piece de resistence was | usually, the far-famed *‘roast beef of old | England,’ which, to our unsopisticated Yankee taste, would be much improved by a little seasoning. The table { abundant in its way, and will satisfy hunger if one is not about such little refinements as napkins, { butter plates and side vegetables are not numerous, and ish is dishes, we {ter much if one plate was made to do pduty for all our eatables. To be sure, the sparemint, which was always boiled with the peas, rather took the taste out of the cauliflower; but, then, the beef gravy, with which our plate was all | beans, English people never mash the potatoes, but cut off each mouthful, so | glomeration. | We were shy at first of looking white strings on om soon discovered they were feared, fragments of the cook's apron, i but bits of shredded horseradish, The | grating process is evidently unknown in Britain, We often had cucumbers also, We knew they were cucumbers, because they had in no way changed their shape and color since leaving their native vines, Their glossy green coat was still on and we hesitated ot first when they were passed to us in this unfamiliar style. But the treatment was simple after all, We had only to take up toe silver knife which was offered with them, cut off an inch or two, carelully remove the rind, and then slice the re- mainder into our plate, if we could find the untidy beef, Hot, a8 we to do so, sence of individual butter plates at din- ner because no butter ever appeared on | an English dinper table, We should have liked a saltshaker, as we found it difficult to conform with the custom of dipping each mouthful of food into the little heap of salt on the edge of 1h plate. A A A STURGEON YARN. Royal Fish. The reef is more than tween Crab island and head. and is about two miles out No, little known it i8 BO but it is very long and wide, 1 facing the south, If I were to i I would say that it i old glacial moraine, formed of boulder that were pushed out and left ti a glacier that came down the Dead creek, Several years ago in taking soi rom Cumberland head, a tte the Vier ¥ valiev the ny graphic survey, reef, 3 ¢ 4 1 i} oted to sound abou ne over YE {eel of botton of swallowed the line as { attempling nis stomach irface until Was rescued, # $i# iL Of signi, bay until they sto allow ti ped for £ 4 $l thie wire 10 setlu ) 510 vl ¥ sturgeon caught on {- i I'he load of wire the fence was 80 great that ina tempting up again the sterns of the yaclits were submerged in the water ten feet and it was fully two before any headway whatever It was a sublime sight, $ whey rt WD BALE about hours was made, to Crab island was lashed to a sturgeon, and the sound of their tails It took two days to tow | to the mouth of the Au Sable, The suction occasion- ed by drawing the fish out of the water back its course and flowed southward | into lake Champlain, The water of the | lake was agitated from one end to the | other, down to the deepest bottom and | gingular results, The | cannon balls from the battle of Platts. dock; the Royal Savage rose to the ser- | vice, floated clear around Valcour island, | to the top in the channel off Cumber- | land head and finally took refage from | the commotion by crawling up on the | Plattsburg breakwater. Pieces of pot- | tery, stone, hatchets and gouges and | Indian bones and old horses’ teeth boils | ed up over the lake. When the tumult had subsided, it was found that the bulk of sturgeon taken out had lowered the lake two inches, notwithstandin the influx of the Richelien. 1 think may Safely consider it one of the largest catches of fish that has aeeurred on lake Champlain, Ss A You ug So raelt eo the presence u make earnest effort to coufer that eA TAPESTRY. art Wanderful Spedinens of the Wea. ver's Skill and Patience, pp — With the craze for screens, wall-bang- ngs, portieres and draperies of all sorts has been revived anew interest in apester woven and patented, is perhaps unnes the ference Helwe elie two-woven tapes v being essentially a mora ing dyed in a mass an wwurated with color, while painted tapestry blended and ones are as freely produced other sort of painting, the applied to the tapesiry clot won, In painted tapests cannever be applied qually in seme places penelral n ghers rest on the that li the 1eE, bot} SAry to explain Lis WOOIs ! sop 1d y is Hs Orin Lhe graduated nt i tp MPPo penglrale the fibres » which ds UY alone +f, and al {1 itiast i wimitied factory. When the colors, the the shuttie for er in which the nt to another is ate blending of onsideration, lad into reqnisi- irate rstood, Mi i to iy i ne MESALY one ~ yee ” 3 bE BFE powde r designs then brush charged } charcoal vit may 5 used o, 11 is 5 Are BT Eee 8 we dif of ordinary therwise, sharply int rbs much of amie no inl the st the ox quired i again potas deep, or « 1 us lad to waken tix the do on of u iS 0 y over it wate of t that is too sfactory, but wd, as 11 will fibre of the tapestry. those which areapplicable to tapestry work, bearing ir'mind that this sort of paint i to small and intridite work. The most effective painted @pestry is copied from models produced by the old tapestry weavers, These models may be procured in small cr i hi in designs select equ. nurtber of squares, and the draw. ing as vreh of the design as is contain. ed in oneofl 8 squares in the corves ponding sjuare of the canvas, Woven tapestry has been used foc nd sofas, for articles of dress, for carpets, and toall these uses and many more painted tapestry may be applied. But the desigh must be fitted for the purpose for whiah the decoration is igtended. For instance, wall-hangil Jor panel, which is to hang flat and pLgp, may be of the char acter of a pclae, while the deapery, whieh is broken by olds, musi necessa- rily be largely conventional in demen Angther point characteristic of old ta pestries is the elaborate border, which it is well to imitate. This border serves as asort of frame and adds in preserve ing the semblance of distasce in the central figure, Painted tapestry in effect and may be at decorations of any sort are admissi Good work, framed like sn oil painting, is in porlest Xuepi with taste, and the AE apphed ach & ana) fost in the. ning. Withal hifehly commends jtsel in fo old art and decoration. of chairs a evel in highly decorative used wherever
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