I — HE The Descent of Proserpine. No amaranth buds, no balm I bear, No philter for a soul forlorn, No charm to scatter thro’ this alr, Then why coma round me ye that mourn? I cannot help you, sorrow worn. Look not on me, nor cal me queen, Nor at my feet a gift implore, For | bave never worshipped been ; simple child the name 1 bore, Perseplione ; "tis heard no more. LH id) mother! wake the golden air somo remembrance of thy child, Aud thou in sunhight sittest there ; Imt me not wholly be exiled, Hut call my name by wood and wild. And on the margin of the sea, By the sea pink and lavender, Let Foho hear it in her eave, And tell it to the winds that stir "ie murmurous in labyrinths of fir, Upon the mountain side ; and thon, Cares, tha flower [ love dispose Into a garland for thy brow, Narcissus, that his image knows, Crocus, and Enoa'’s constant re ye, A BAD EXPERIMENT. lay came to never done any- was nice | ly eves, With a ure, 1 to man’s admiration determined that o something grand wil wever, now h her r subject was ready to het the visitors at Conway was Vass Sheller- orrespon ir, for the woman, hs been all 1m i home, AW this ent and in as shattered wre Now he w ¢l even so mu eally thankful for Cla: and battled with himself t AS i 0 Keep the greater Lunger in his heart, » summer night they were at Conway (srove miight was peculiarly mellow How was of you,” said ellerton,’” to become my friend. You me in love with life and I e it 80." wish I had become said Clara, 1 you had. Do von know how blessed my life?! ts sitting a portico noble it ve made © iA «l : hat Then | risnd before,” t have I'should like to do much more for ** she said, with the simple direct which was so irresistable to Sheller- she £18. Piis kindled, and 1 rough the most exquisite agony, felt what § blood © went He life might have been for him this refreshing cup could have been wld to his thirsty lips. He that moment calized the place and passion of 0 Ch love, we ultimate companionship, the timulus to work, and work’s grandest eaults, His face was blanched ain, Mr. Shellerton,” Clara said earnest- v, “*will you tell me something?’’ ‘Whatever you may choose to ask. ** Absolutely the truth?’’ ‘The truth from my very soul,” *‘Do you really care for me?’ Shellerton could not for a otoprehend Clara's motive in asking sum this question, and he was silent, His heart beat violently, and he vearned disclosure would grieve her, me that you are afraid to answer?" Steller on fell on his knees beside her, loved their religion when they went singing to their deaths, I could burn at the stake for you. I love you with all the strength of a heart that has over known love before, Bat, Clara, my salut, my an, my life, while I have a0 right to ask you to be more than a { i i ly to rest?" | “Wherever you 4 you, Hara, do you mean | saying?’ Sheilerton eried. { possible you can mean this.” | “Can you think I would say it with- i out meaning it?" Ab “You are mistaking | go 1 will be It is uly lor sympa- tl iV, “No. I have said it, and you must { lieve me or not.” And if ever Clara Fitzgerald came { near lovi { ment, | “1 do belie he said. | my angel, how can it be?” | They sat in the shimmering light for half an hour without a being spoken, for Shellerton was | tating upon his untold bliss, [hat night, after her | was § and Clara had locked the hall door after | back to the parlor and 1801 y recollection of her x 1 ey mMoon- word 11 is pel) ¥ Rone, him, she went enjoyed inter { w with Sh id produced a The next we itt gral ¢Kk was a Souther: y IL 48 she 010 noi: ing Clara was h sned it and read one | swved in YO I was a lips 1 could never felt y felt genuine but after kn of your love, intolerable torme new life for you it worse than death, 0 night that new life with the poison of di tion, and return to and drown months of di me. sting VLE ssipa- the haunts of vice every vestige of the few vine happiness you vouch- safed Your de eived “VAsSS SHELLERTON.Y miserable hovel near Conway Grove there sits a blear-eyed man with unshaven face and unkempt locks, A poor hulk of humanity who never smiles, and daily calls down the imprecat ions of Heaven upon the woman who took away his life, At Conway Grove there is 4a woman In a Eid anon a teardrop falls upon her work as she recalls the man who was the victim of her cruel blow, -- Sacrifice. and criticise in others some kind of self-indulgence. The man who risks his own life to save another from the sinking vessel or the burning involve <nergies to a philanthropic enterprise, he who habitually sacrifice his ease and an aged parent or to cheer the sick-bed of a wife or friend, awakens sympathy and approval from all, a --— “ Sadden resolutions, like the sudden rise of the mercury in the barometer, SKATING SOLDIERS. Profit in Norway Winters orf K Norway, durl considerable part i of the year, is coversfl with snow; and | her winters which other countries | are of short duration, extend to five or six months, and in the most northern | parts to a much longer period, 11 | §1 During | beaten roads, for the purpose at least of traveling: and when fresh snow happens to fall, even the communications by means of them is stopped till the sledg ing is able to be continued by means of machine. which, beg dragged by along the road, restores the former track, by clearing away the snow | in part apd flattening and leveling the | The thinness, however, of horses the population, an immense extent of it in many places imp roads open by these tural, then, that the N devise some mode by wl generally far wi bi1y nut, by marching a very great ed with from depth of pursuit of cavalry | the other hand they the 1 iunmns and harass them incessantly on woth sides of the road, without incur ringsany danger to themselves, Cannon produced little effect directed | against them, dispersed as they were at the distance of 200 or 300 paces, and their movements were so rapid that at the very instant you would expect to see them a second time they had already disappeared to appear again in a quarter where vou were not in the least aware of them. The real soldiers, shown long { ohere Mo t1 superiority singular agility, and e snow were safe from or infant on : § 1 atiack wemy's © on shot superiority of the skating | however, was chiefly when the enemy halted after : march. Whatever precautions stant danger from troops which had no occasion for path or road, and traversed Even in those where the ice is too feebls to bear a man, parts the the skiclober glided motion, No corps, therefore, could be an enemy, and to perform, in fact the functions of a courier, Their provisions amd baggage were transported on light wooden sledges (skiekjelke), which one strap passed over the right shoulder, These were also extremely serviceable in conveying such as might have been severely wounded, The Norwegian skielobere were, on many occasions, ex- tremely servicable in preserving the communecation between distant corps in surprising small detachments of ‘the enemy, and harassing their march, whether when advancing or retreating. Many lastances are related of the astonishing speed with which the skiel- obere have fokwarded intelligence from one part of the dountry to another, One in particular has been recorded, When the Swedish monarch, Charles XII. vas shot during the slege of hald, in Norway, and ' INESsengers were toered 1 on sks to Drouthoelio, distance o wre than 400 En and they reached that hours before a ame time, and who had greatest may tl nay, evel BT al any effectual 0 It ¢ i i twelve the Nome idea difficulty, making pus formed of possibility, impression be the ius by her impassable mountains are consider ed, and the unshaken spirit which has always animated every class of habitants their independ lence, In intended the year 1719, who Drontheim, or Tydel, which len, froin A company ere, under Major We rozen to death ountain Lhe n Norway. o_o Canal to Help Odessa JIE pt iestion ast of the southern hich has hith I. There railway along Crimea 0 Yalta, would be very « necessity of making 17 tunnels uj The estimate of expense wal at first 60,- but it was reduced Lie 0 Deen alt Gi80 also q sx} SOUL a Tivai, The to 42.000 rubles, ground that it of paying line, but it boon to the large pr numerous visitors favored strip of coast and the enjoyment of It is opposed on t wld hardly ever be a would be a great oprietors and to the frequent this in search of health who scenery. Ee ————————— Goethe and Byron A dime edition of “Faust” ced, would, no doubt, be gratified to see such a proof of popularity. One of the pret. “Faust is the idea of the It is briefly expressed, immortality, It eternal sunset, several tragedies, but only two of pumbeér were prefaced by dedications, and both of these were inscribed to the great German poet, The first was “‘Sar- “To thedllustrious Goethe-—a stran- literary vassal to his liege lord-—the first of existing writers who has created the literature of his own country and illus trated that of Europe. The next was “Werner,” which is inscribed thus: “To the illustrious Goethe, by one of his humblest admirers, this tragedy is dedicated.”’ Byron's exalted opinions are verified by the volce of posterity, as uttered in the above-mentioned dime edition, By- ron himself desired the good opinion of the American public, and be mentions in one of his letters with much satisfac. tion that a friend told him he had seen a copy of his poems in Albany, a ——— The great difference between virtue and vice is this: For virtue you have a price to receive; for vice you have a vrice 0 vay. THE FPASHION IN CIGAILS, A Dealer Tells of Many Odd Notions Held by those who Smoke. For want sought a secluded cigar store to dash off two or agraphs, While he was preparin a well-known comedian, who 13 noted almost as much 1 18 sn propensities as he 1s his funny on the stage, came in, and, of a betler place 4 reporter Dowerny three nook in ih sire VAT al & nis WaKing for why he didn’t same brand, 1 do,” re : v % aria y } always give him the plied the man ng out beliind the a handfu the brown beaull front of him. “Take'em pushing the “These are Soke Then away, wroffered profier the Zi somet Bive selecting sed © SAW me a -~ Woman, At no period of the world’s history has the influence of woman both direct- or indirecly been so fully acknowl edged as to-day. The open college doors and the invitation to woman to a wider iv, yb the sex any womanly charm, as croakers fore. told. When the history of the last quar- ter of the nineteenth century is written, the historian will write over against the names of many women the word illus. It cannot fail of record that a aroused the people in the great contest which ended in knocking the shackles from six millions It was left to the voice of another woman to arouse the dormant energies of the nation to the wrongs of the Indian, and to outline the reform inaugurated, In literature she has exerted most health- ful influences, while in politics as wives of Presidents and statesmen, the enno- bling influences have been so marked and positive as to call out a Nation's thanks and gratitude, ful sign of the times is that these re- forms will not go backward-—that hu- manity will have itssympathies enlarged, and that the rights of every class will ke more sacredly protected, A sis In America, jce-water is the first thing a waiter places before you al breakfast, lunch and dinner, and thou sands nse 1t as thelr first course, as if their stomachs were intended as refrig- erators tor the food following, This absurd hab't ruins the constitution and digestion of thousan and probably does more harm than all ths aleoholic liquors condemned by the temperance fanatics. If American women would drink a pint of harmless claret in place of tes-water there would be leas anwmin and invalidism among them , fewer pale faces and fragile forms, fo $ Oi 3 SIAVEeS, ——— HORSE NOTES. | —Sunday racing is found Yo pay wel at New Orleans. ~The jockey Stoval will ride for Car | roll & Co., this season. — David L., record 2.245, is only 14} i hands high and wel - Winter betting is England, Here, in America, ino LK gis but TOO pounds, played i it is grow- The pacing stallion Cehannet will be used in the stud 2.17 i 800. ~ Harry Johnson and Frank Herdice are In Canada attending the ice trotiing | meeting. HE 8a (Gabe Post, is now owne Morristown, N. J. x hased the gr. of Cleveland 1 ow . YALA 51) ¥. Marshall, m. Lettic $5000. 1861, Woodburn last 1 —£’, J. Ham} Yo * by M; ne ~—James Murp Haggin last se: some of Ed, pes this Year. I. ¥ Oo horse, is a | Mrs. G. 1. Easton, N. » M. wn si Loriliar Ramsay Europe illard to *A8 SLock . as endeavor to farm, v fr 3 yr 2 AES wi BOTEe eneral Abe Rey frirdd HBaiora, 1 died on February 2, a deep interest in and al one Blackwood. in Turkish baths to know that Wood, 7, does not go in 1 t all. Pleniy of exer. t runs with Southd n close to trim, a1 over night wi breakfast in morning prepare for a at short notice. The ¢ fort of an English ey's life 1s ilia- strated by the fact that wool bags in- vested 3 in the greyhound his fancy for caurs- English jock Furkish cise and freque: 14s Kee pills the fox-hout a couple of 11 rae a neas tify gt Coleraine to g ing. Columbia, dam of Abbotisford died at Woodburn ou January 7. She was a bay, foaled in 1869, by Young Jolumbus (sire of Commodore Vander record, 2.25). The following 8a list of her produce: 1870, by, ¢., by Virgo Hambletonian; 1871, b, f, (dead was fast), by Virgo Hambletonian; 1872, b Abbottsford (record, 2.19}) by Woodford Mambrino; 1873, b. c. (died at year old), by Belmont; 1874. b. c., by Tomahawk; 1875, barren; 1876, b, f. Dido (pacing record 2.231.) by Scott's Hiatoga; 1879, gr. f., by Young Norman (by a Norman draught horse) 1880, blk. f. Abbess (sold 1880), by Wedgewood; 1882, foal died. — William Disston, of Philadelphia, has purchased the followmaz brood | mares and fillies from the Fairlawn | farm: Arbela, b. m., foaled 1879, sired | by Startle dam Amy Harris, by Colonel | Windeld; in foal to Alectn, Helena Medium, b. m., foaled 1881, sired hy {| Happy Medium, dam Helen M: Gregor, | by Rattler; in foal to Alecto. Mineciska, |b, m., foaled 1881, sired by Belmont, | dam Lady Denton, by Billy Denton; ip { foal to Happy Medium. Glitter, b. m., | fonled 1882, sired by Happy Medium, {dam Brightness, by Almont, price | $1500, Mabel Medium, b. f., foaled | 1885, sired by Happy Medinm, dam Blanche Star (dam of Annie S., 2.20% { Almont Star, 2.32), by Conklin% | American Star; price $1250, «Tim Gore has already been backed to win the Kentucky Derby for enough money to make the bookmakers e alarm, Jim Gore is by Hindoo, dam Katie, by Phaeton. He was sold at Major Clark's sale last spring as Ezekiel to A. J. McCampbell, of Lou- isville, for $3000. He started six times, winning three, viz: May 27, at Latonia, the Harold Stakes, beating Duke of Bourbon, Laredo, Duhme and five others in 1.03, Duke of Bourbon and Duhme conceding him eight pounds; at St. Louis, the Carriage Builders’ Stakes, beating Jennie Treacy, Keple, Couucilor, Pendennis and Petite, in L184, and at Chicago, the Kenwood Stakes, beating Right. away, Carey. Poteen and eleven others, in Lod is some objection te Jim Gore—he is bad-tempered ame A or vi ia © liable to sulk.
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