a s——" — A Short and Long Poem. My wife is small, And I am tall; And whenever she looks at me, you soe— For I am tall, And she is small-— he must always “turn up her nose’’ at me. When down 1 gaze On ber, she says: “I must always look up to you, for wee Of form am 1.” “That's true,'” I sigh, And youalwaysturn up your nose at mel" Her face is fair, And bright her hair, A nd her eves areas brown as brown can be; Iled as the rose Her lips; her nose— ©ut she always turns up that nose at me. Last year I met This pert young pet, And a falry forsooth, she reemed to be I cried : “How fair!” And 1 declare That she turned up herda inty nose at me, Her hips 1 kissed— Who could resist? “Little kitten, my puss and wee wife be Her eyes 80 brown Looked shyly down And she didn’t turn up her nose at me! eh ———-———— ISTER OF CH THE NS RITY. The orchiz but a rising s Mos impreg +) v Lilt n’'s beat rays Su Tha 2 ty HIUTO walled from 1 n terraces alo Mustapha. s143 } $¥: } +} IT equals; Lose ald ] 1 i always found ber more than Ki flor father fier father, wit Nv iL one of the two horsemer wer, at the time filled an st in the colony. He was a His wife, a lovely Americ New Orleans, had bequea g1 portant po Widower, girl from ed to her ners and &..1 oF # LO i h il rato character the Creoles of that latitude. Theother, determined person, who had pressed his horse forward so as to be at her side, was her affianced hus- baud, Mr. Raoul de L—, of the richest colonists of th ry, who, after sowing his wild oats in Paris, had ome to the conquered country, in the guise of a hardy pioneer, to build up a fortune on the ruins of the one he had dissipated, had crowned his florts, and, at that time, he was the rincipal purveyor to the army, and had reputation of being one of the few integrity was above reproach, He had succeeded In winning the love of Miss Genevieve, The banns had al- roi yi ¢ igh spirits tha the looking one count Success i’ h fie whose ceremony, set for the following was to take plage in Algiers, wWeeK, the cathedral of the crowd. The greater part hurried to the road of the Jarden d’essai, over which the coursers were to pass. Miss panions to follow, aud the three set off, at a slow pace, In order to avoid run- along afoot. As she passed, every eye i i i { i i ing Amazon. + Vanity, the great feminine weakness, sould not allow Miss Genevieve to re- main insensible to the mute homage tendered on every side, As she was viding along, a smile of triumph on her fips, she was thunderstruck on hear- ing in pure French this exclamation: What a pretty girl. What a divine mistress she would be!” Stung to the quick by this brutal re- mark, the young girl turned to the side whence it had come, Raising ber rid- dmg whip, she was about to chastise the insolent person who had uttered the words, but let it fall abruptly without inflicting the intended blow, and rode off at a gallop. Raoul, who had heard and seen all, soon overtook her, and the viders disappeared in a cloud of dust aaised by the horses’ feet, - * * * » Algiers has assumed a holiday ap- wearance, The brilliantly colored lan- terns, swinging from every arch be- tween Bab-Azoun and Deb-el-Oued, dlluminate the streets, making them Bight as day. In the Government “ square a military band is discoursing sweet musle, a grateful relief after the sing song of the mnuezzin, chanting to the four points of the compass from the roof of the grand mosque. At the right hand corner, facing the sea, stands the Cafe de la Perle, where the better class of citizens are accustomed to meet, Just as the last notes of **I1 Tro- vatore’’ are dying away, Raoul appear- ed in the saloon, Casting a searching look about the place, he walked straight to a round table where three Arabs were silently sipping an iced beverage. “Pardon me, lieutenant,” said he, addressing himself to one of the three, ‘“‘was it not you who said at the races a while ago ‘what a pretty girll what a divine mistress she would be?” In reply to this question, put in a very low tone of voice, one of the natives, an imposing looking Arab, with a turban on his head and attired i in the red spencer of an officer of spahis, ; of the Legion of Honor spark- the cros ling on his and said: Yas v « " breast, arose it was I.’ woinan stised you t the sight 388 you wear th checked What she would not do I wiil, of wear- you as of snatched off the sensation Genevieve * 44 was nearly crazed Say i on after this ntered a convent to become a nun, and when, at the piration of her novitiate, she prono ced her final vows, the heartfelt ithy of all went out to her, the caid, he fell into disgrace exil we smalah of Laghouat, - ® * y by. The booming can- hing flame and thunder Sabastopol, whose heroic ance is daily growing feebler. A long | train of ambulances, freighted wounded or sick soldiers, is descending | the heights which overlook the devasta- | ted plains of Inkerman. It comes toa | halt on the inhospitable shores of the Bay of Kamiesch, What a painful em- | barking in the offing of the harbor. pat Five years ge i Del upon resist with | and chilled by the mist, the poor souls are assisted up the side of a steamer, which awaits their arrival to convey them to the hospital at Constantinople, They are hoisted up the ladders as well as possible by the sailors, now and then bruised against the netting or drenched by the surf. For two days they steam across the Black sea, be- neath a wild sky, and, amid the roar of the tempests, many a suffering soldier breathes his last, and is consigned to a watery grave in the briny deep, The reverse side of a medal gained in times of war is not always pleasant to con- template, At last they glide into the calmer waters of the Bosphorus, regaining their wonted spirits as nature seems to pre sent a more smiling face. At dusk, in rough wagons drawn by oxen, they are jolted up the abrupt slopes of Pera, Military nurses await them at the doors of the hospital, and the weak, fainting soldiers are carried to beds where, too often, nightmare and insomnia are ren- dered more frightful by the groans and death rattle of the dying. Quiet seems to prevail in this long, whitewashed hall, dimly lighted by the ¥ flickering flames of the night lamps, only when, like guardian angels, hover- ing over the sufferer’s couch, the Sisters of Charity with their great white, wing- like bonnets, move noiselessly from one bed to another, on their mission of mercy, To the dying come tender memories of their native land, an inexpressible consolation in their last moments; to the living a future prospect of a return to thelr distant homes is opened as they gaze upon the placid features of these holy daughters of mercy. How many owe their moral as well as their physical resurrection to the ten- der care of Sister Theresa. An inde- fatigable nurse, she glides quietly from bed to bed, her calm, sweet fuce re- sembling some hieratic figure, Of a chaste and severe style of beauty, purified by worldly sorrow, she seems one of those Druidesses of ancient Gaul, 80 great is the respect she inspires, as she moves about the hospital with her rosary dangling from her waist, No trouble is too great for her, and when | the hot south wind makes the wounded { and sick pant like thirsty beasts, she is | seen nt trees, with a care as tender as that of a mother, bathing the wounds of prisoners upon whose flesh worms are the #* » » # ¥ w All day the inuously. TI ospital, calling or Theresa, quired: **What news, sister?” “It has been a bad day, major,” lied sl “When the bods 0 3 | tated, ) I had blown of Simoon con- 1 irgeon ister suffers the i dusk Sister i iy + i} . y Girectedd her s m. As she gots iviliza~- ipire, A r scholars will titive exams ba apprehend tl if test will i . i vers} Y lity to describ eanin i or g of novel th to study foreign countries, 200 a Each will 2 and $50 their travel- Each will follow a par- working up things he about, Monthly re- month ing expenses, ticular bent i 2 st merce, habits, morality, industries, ar- maments, political institutions, will be forwarded to Pekin, At pr eu .y the Chinese ment in such departments to be studied to the most advantage, and those who done best will get ennobled. of the America sends abroad, there rises just tion of the world. AI AI ss A Room lined with Amber, Most smokers are proud to own a real amber mouthpiece, What would they say to a room 75 or 100 feet square, lined on all sides with amber clear to the lofty ceiling? That is what we saw at Tsarskoe Selo, an {imperial summer palace near St, Petersburg. The preci- ous fossil-gum was cut and dove-tailed 80 a8 to make beautiful figures of cupids, fruits and flowers. The whole is in the highest state of polish. It reflects the light not only from its surface, but from its depths, and is lovely to look upon, even if one did not think of the treasure expended in procuring all that rare product of nature. We made a weary round of a hundred rooms all gilded and upholstered magnificently, and full of art objects from every part of the globe, but saw nothing that spoke so eloquently of boundless wealth and luxury as that amber-lined ceiling.” Do not pasture a meadow in the spring. PHARAOH'S HOUSE. Ruins of a Palace Referred to by the Prophet Jeremiah, Another very curious and interesting discovery has been made in the loneliest and dreariest corner of the delta plain of lower Egypt. In the land where previous explorers have found only the monuments of an extinct faith and the graves of a dead nation. Mr. Flinders Petrie has lighted upon the ruins of a royal palace, The fortunate finder of vast amount called Tell which historians have long with the Pelusiac Daphnm of the Greeks and the Tahpanhes of the Bible. Here he has discovered the ruins of that very palace to which, as recorded in the Book of the Johanan, the son of Kercah, by all the captains and the remnants dethroned of the Hel OB DRO . of Zedekiah, then : in Babylon. This fligl princesses took place about during the reign of Ua-ab-Ra, Hebrews called Hophri Pharaoh To the receiv I1ASS 4 } Zedek i , he asgigned this mer alley which the Bible calls **P’haraoh’ ers of Although this part ol Id half ich no traveler when tl '@ a rich pastor the i mMarsi erness over wh Fiedd £1 “ i Oy Int and recesses in The sink * with the ut, at led with broken P Malergs The water ran throu hen into the more broken pots yas in is and i I placed one in YW, less, g Ww. I potsi with fish bones, In other chambers were found ine bers of early Greek vases, ranging fron 500 B, C, B. C., some ve ry l painted with harpies, sphinxes, dancers and the like; nearly all, however, were broven. but some can be mended, A sword bandle, some scale armor, bronze rings, amulets, beads, seals, and es pecially two rings, engraved with the titles of a priest of Amn, have been found and many small tablets with in- scriptions, Mr. Petrie has looked diligently for among unhewn to Gi) i ¥ iit the brick work, and some the surface, but to identify them posi- tively, would, of course, be impossible, Egyp- tian inscriptions say that Nebuchad- nezzar did come to Tahpanbes, and spread out his pavilion on that very ey, but they say that he was defeated, conquered, and the truth is hard to de- termine, The philosopher spends in becoming a man the time which the ambitious man spends in becoming a personage. 80 vital a necessity to all living men is truth, that the vilest traitor feels amazed and wronged--feels the pillars of the world shaken-—when treason recolls on himself, If those who are the enemies of In- nocent amusement had the direction of the world they would take away the spring and youth; the former from the year and the latter from life, The warm sunshine and the gentle zephyr may meet the glacier which has bid defiance to the howling ; 80 the volce kindness will touch the heart which Bo severity could subdue. Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another, FASHION NOTES. ————— ~— Autumn mantles are made very { long, mostly In the redingote shape, with { cape or hood, or both, The materials are mohair or light cloth, sometimes trimmed with braid or galloon, but oltener with no trimming at all, -Then we have this autumn the Tenebreuse capote of dark-colored tulle, with vell to match, 18 slight peaked in front, and just laid bazk; dark bine and brown are favor- ite colors, and the dark tulle looks es- pecially well over fair golden hair, ~What are to be next winter the fashionable has yet to favorite talked of both in and Joulanger hat, aud has really very much the appear- a General’s hat, very little to lady’s head. It of black velvet, with a high cluster of ide, much of aitét ao iL A -"The white starched collar has com- pletely disappeared from female tollets dresses are yw trimmed round tl ruches and fril- silk, etamine or embroidered gold thread IES Are com ’ 114 i 16 Hngs or pain bands of and Of led dou beads of tla ig, ’ } SOI08 i these mit others are quillings inked-out silk {i fF a raays alderans more rn i years, The j have been | iain tints yrought out in additional inl every 1 80 Dany lescribe ' i a MiXea Col LO « them. of nore expensive class seem tterns would wrrowed from the Medic! sy aud the Tudor in Eng 1 Medicis, it the taste this for 101 veivels Lhe and. 80 Calle W Las « tones are « year ti some Lime Deux 8 parti the soft beauly of the co tern standing out in bold relief Narrow satin hoes form checks and stripes and plalds in many tions on some of the newest while in many the patterns are bord- ered with frise, and the pile is of dif- heights, The Velours Tudor recall the old symbol of that Roval House, the drawbridge, to be seen on iv : ian they he back. Velours 1iariy noliceabie ty Ora, ae combina- velvels, 3 Ww r i f vg ’ ierens ie at St. James’ places, ~=This is the time of year when fresh and handsome tea gowns are in re- quest, Some of the handsomest cently imported from Paris merit de scription. One of two shades of rich fitted the figure closely. The coloring the darker shade was deep and dis- tinet, the light as bright as the most beautiful tone of peach, but with a pink tinge therein, This light coloring | in at the side with handsome ornaments carried across in | match the silk, and having | bead gold intermixed, side of this gown a double fold of the light shade thus fringed had been car- | ried down diagonally, while the front | was veiled in soft lace, one side of the skirt, which was long | and flowing. A brown and gold inch. wide striped velvet and satin had been used for another tea gown. which had a front drapery of gold silk lace; this also appeared as a soft gathered panel at the side; a square Louis X1V pocket on the left hip. But perhaps the handsomest was a plain flowing mouse. green plush tea gown; the back plain but gathered full at the back of the waist, handsome jet ornaments hoeping the fullness in its place, and dividing it into four portions. These ornaments appeared again on the shoulders, where the sleeve was brought up in a high point, It opened diagonally at the waist, to show some cream silk plaits; the cream silk front of the bodice, also plaited, and the plush draped sideways over it fastening beneath a jet orna- ment. The sleeve was cut slantwise, so that it fell deep outside the arm, and had soft folds of cream silk at the edge. HORSE NOTES, ~The new half-mile track at Balti more has become very popular, ~The chute at Louisville was not used at all during the last meeting, ~TLady Barefoot and Lady Thistle are being driven as a team at New York. ~There will be more horses at Orleans next winter than there before, — Huggins, the trainer, says that { Eollan could hold The Bard for a mile {| with the latter at his best. — Billy Walker has purchased of F. B. Harper the 3.year-old King Bar | colt Brac-a-Ban for $1500, ~(reorge Oyster is proving himself a consistent performer. His owner Just refused a big offer for him. ~Elkwood, Eurus, Fole, the four largest winners of the get of Eolus, are out of mares of different blood. ~The Sire Bros., of New York, { have purchased from C. E. Bennett, of Jackson, Mich, the bay gelding Feet- steps, by Fisk's Mambvrino Chief, dam by Magna Charta. New were ever has $1 all ail ~Jaceland has been in by turfmen, Appleby & fered $15,000 for hi Brothers were greal demand Johuson of- the Dwyer 16Yy could m, and toid that $1 v - IX egotati iis have been tween Messrs, Honig and 2-year-olds ler Lo ran I) a . a 1a AC, ing mee! in ab shail § ng circuit will be in Birmingham, 4 ah, Macon and Atlant g. H. MM, Hove ‘ Q ul vy § r : an Horn is campaigning him, >. (x. Moser, Parkville sd from Joseph Bowler, Green- t, 1. I, the chestnut mare Mid- letown Mad, 2.424, by Middletown, dam Lady Horr, by Mambrino Farm, has Pilot. > ¥v £3 yeariin vid + BBARO!T ased f a je Shs was the al ¥ H ’s ire, by L the black mae Nul Aillbnon, dam ( imported Bustle, by was the dam of Helmet, by I.» Mariposa (s the m of Boulevard, Dliss, Swif win), by Jack Malo Valerian { ter f the Highlands, Boatman by ‘andal; * 5 MO DAT ¥ “1 Hes, Variella and dam of Belle and Bram- J... by by Bon- 3 the brown A 1863, by dam DBidelight. by Gaslight, by Levia- Nellie Ransom the dam rncilflf and Frederick the Great), Ethel Sprague (dam of Cridge and Bsbeock), Vandalite {one of the best racers of the day and the dam of Hiawassa and Housatonic), (dam of Moonshine and Harry and Emperor, by Enquirer. leton), Jennie b Brown Dick @ Scotland. Vesperiigh Hacold, ol ne, mare Childe Glenic ea, than, She Mm out viuced e of Fe +3 Lamar) ~Pierre Lorillard says he has no no- tion of returning to the turf at present. should he éver return it wouid be on different principles. He would keép about a dozsn Ursi-class mares that came from the dam of winners and had shown high form on the tarf them- selves, and send to England and bay a stallion of the Lord Clhfton or Hermit stock, Of his racing stable he says: “1 should keep that dowa to small pro. pay expenses, I would go in for the big 2 and 3.year-old stakes, 1 have found that the only way to do is to keep your good colts *‘dark,” enter them in big stakes, and back them well, and, if they win, sell them im- mediately, because their form is ‘ex : Moreover, they will bring more money then than later when they get ponalized and may be defeated, and their prestige is gone,’ He says Katrine was the highest tried mare he ever owned, and that Falsetto, Iroquis and Katrine were the best hor- ses he ever owned. In the spring of 1885 seven horses were tried at Ranco- cas good enough to beat the world. They were Pontiac, Emperor, Katrine, Wanda, Cyclops, Savanae and Dew- drop--all first class. But misfortune came. The first day at Sheepshead pay they were In great form. Emperor and Heva won their races, and Pon- tine won the Suburban. Then all his horses took the epidemic, and the mag- nificent racing team couldn't win a sel. ling race, Cyclops came near dying, and Katrine was never again horse.[,